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NOTE: A version of this article was originally posted on a now-defunct gaming website that I previously worked for. Some of the references might be a bit dated. Rather than have something I worked hard on disappear from the internet, I have decided to post it on here.
Remember the HUGE controversy that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas spawned a few years ago? Despite the "Hot Coffee Mod" being only unlockable by way of a cheating device, many an anti-videogame lobbyist threw up an amazing fuss over the game citing it as the downfall of our civilization amongst other things. Let's face it, was all the fuss really worth it? Only a few folks could even access the section, so was it really that bad? What about all of the controversy that has recently started up for the new iteration of the Medal of Honor franchise? Being able to play as the Taliban has opened a can of worms that many folks are drawing battle fines for. It's okay to fight against Nazis and Viet Kong though, as they are old news.
Both examples make me chuckle, as there are tons of games out there with far more objectionable content that would make these people freak out like crazy if they only knew about them. Hell, if you look at a game like Pokémon just right, one could argue that it is simply an animal fighting simulator, and in this post-Michael Vick world, that's the last thing kid's need (sarcasm). Another example is the growing H-games category, including awful games that depict things such as rape of digital characters. These are even sold in the U.S. generally by digital distribution, and nobody bats an eyelash.
The main subject of this article is another game series; one that would outrage many folks if it weren't for that fact that these people that get on anti gaming bandwagons do no research and only get mad about what is popular. Part of me sort of hopes at least one stuffy suit in an offiece finds out about the series so it gets more popular. Called "Megaten" for short by many of its fans, the Shin Megami Tensei games have been alive and kicking since the Famicom (NES) days way back in the late eighties. Many do not know this, as the series was completely unheard of in the west until Persona, a spin-off game for the PlayStation rolled stateside with heavy edits in place. But why was this the case? Why was this game series seen as "un-releasbale" for so long? and why is the game more controversial than most other games out there? I have listed a few, but not all, reasons that I feel truly illustrate this point.
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Anti-Government / Anti-Authority Overtones
One of the first factors that I would like to bring up, as to why this series used to be quite sensitive and still would anger pundits and folks like Tipper Gore, is it's general consistency in the "authority is bad" department. Games and movies alike have been lumped together in the assumption that all they do is create juvenile delinquents. The cornerstone of this belief, especially games like GTA, is that they promote a lack of family values, starting with a lack of respect for elders. This scenario pops up in just about all Megaten games.
Let's face it, if a demon invasion were to happen in your town, the local government would probably come across as jerks trying to handle it. Martial law, food rations, curfews and other inconveniences would surely occur. Problem is that in most games where this happens there is an ulterior motive for this, one that does not involve the well being of the people.
This exact scenario happens in the Nintendo DS game Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. An outbreak of demons causes the Japanese Self Defense Force to seal in Tokyo keeping anything from entering or leaving the city. The main characters find out by way of a computer program acting as a "Death Clock" that everyone there is to die in exactly one week. The assumption is that the SDF is going to nuke Tokyo wiping the infestation off the map. The main characters fear the worst, as SDF soldiers are realized as anonymous inhuman soldiers within the game. This sentiment is made worse by the fact that many times within the game, soldiers and government officials stand by while all manner of atrocity occurs, letting religious cults seem the ones to trust in the situation.
"We don't have to listen to you adults!"
Many games in the main series revolve around a post-apocalyptic backdrop for all the demon wrangling. This is usually caused by a total mismanagement of a small situation by a few world powers, and BOOM, end of the world. If the government wasn't the cause of the calamity, they usually stand benign and allow all kinds of bad stuff to happen.
Another spinoff of the series, Persona, shows how corrupt and untrustworthy the governments can be in these games. For Example, one of the main antagonists of the game is a huge multi-national company called SEBEC. These guys specialize in looking like any other electrical company from the outside, but actually exist as some kind of militarized pseudo government that rises up to control the world once all hell breaks loose. Pretty soon you are fighting SEBEC agents and soldiers along with the popular demon characters.
Don't you hate when you forget to wear pants?
Gore and Sexual Imagery, Especially in Spinoff Material
Most anime and Manga fans are pretty lucky to have adaptations of or spinoff material from their favorite videogames, as these items can be a huge marketing push for the company producing the game. This success has been seen with Final Fantasy VII and its spinoff materials including the widely popular Advent Children movie. The Megaten series is no stranger to this as there have been a number of anime and manga publications out there for years. Problem is that most of these go overboard with the "adult" tone. While a lot of the Megaten games are full of dark imagery, they never really cross the line into the pornographic side of gore, nudity, cursing, and other hallmarks of mature media. This hasn't stopped the writers of these movies and books from making their stuff basically all pornographic.
One example of this that immediately comes to my mind is the near ancient OVA (Original Video Animation or Direct to Video) movie Digital Devil Saga: Megami Tensei. The movie came out right as the game series began to be somewhat popular, but is actually based on the original novel that the game originated from. What follows is 45 minutes of gratuitous nudity, tentacle …..uh….situations, and gore. By the end of the movie you end up pretty desensitized to what is happening and you very well could fall asleep, that's what I did at least. There are a lot of goofy situations like the main character creating a virtual reality version of his teacher in order for a demon named Loki to have sex with in the virtual realm. As you can see, pretty off-base stuff.
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A lot of the manga is equally off-base including the sole Western released manga (as far as I know) Kahn, which takes place storyline-wise after an obscure spin-off game made many years ago. Much like the later Persona games, the action takes place entirely in a school that gets infested with demons. On any given page the reader is blessed with beheaded students, blood sprays and even a lesbian girl-on-demon girl sex scene. I totally remember that in the games! (oh wait…) All joking aside it seems that anyone who wants to shell out some extra cash on some Megaten side stories will have to watch out, as your basically buying porn. Bloody weird porn with demon sex in it.
The games themselves are still fairly violent and risqué, but are a lot more subtle about it. One of the more "out in the open" things found in some of the games are the designs for some of the demons themselves. Had this series been released in any other decade there would be many a digital bikini getting drawn onto pixilated characters as there are some pretty scandalous things in the game, such as:
and…no comment on the next one:
Good to see he can still fight like that!
Skewed Religious Overtones
Much like how western folks get random kanji tattooed on themselves that are supposed to mean "strength" but actually says "Kitchen", the Japanese have always been fascinated with western religious imagery and mythology, especially for works of fiction, and slightly mis-used them. If you are an anime fan and have seen a show called Neon Genesis Evangelion, you know exactly what I'm talking about in this regard.
This topic is actually one of the more controversial aspects of this series, and help lead to the games being dubbed "un-releasable" back in the good old days due to heavy censorship. On the surface the Megaten games take the age old RPG cliché of "the bad guy is an evil religion / deity / priest etc." motif and attaches actual religions to it. Instead of a fictitious god with a generic name like "the nature spirit" we have YHVH. "YHVH?" "What does that mean?" YHVH, which is also called the tetragrammaton, is the actual perceived "name" for what many of us call God. This acronym can also have syllables added to it to read as Yahweh or Jehovah depending on what religion you come from.
In the game Shin Megami Tensei II YHVH is the main bad guy, a point that would utterly anger most religious types. His motivations in the game are that the world has become so unreasonably bad that he has decided to destroy it and begin anew. This leads to a difficult choice for the gamer: does one listen to their God who wants to destroy the earth, fight against him and join with Satan, or decide that their all idiots and do your own thing. Not only does this fly in the face in just about every Christian concept there is, but it promotes anti-authoritarian values to the highest degree. Did I mention that the main character in Shin Megami Tensei II is the Messiah? Yeah talk about daddy issues!
The "real ending" of this game is one where you chose to kill God himself, to which he gives a speech along the lines of "As long as humanity is too weak to look for their own answers, their weakness will create a belief in me that brings me back to life again and again and again! MWAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!". You walk outside and Satan himself is there acting all cool like the Fonze saying "hey man, good job!"
Don't take my word for it: Here is a bit of one of the endings of Shin Megami Tensei II for reference –
The religious imagery does not end there, as you fight enemies such as a crucified man who looks to be of the Jesus persuasion, bondage clad sado-masochistic angels, demons named after archangels and saints and so on. It would be a safe bet that if the wrong person witnessed various parts of these games, there would be a crap-storm. The Jesus thing is a big problem as labeling a fictitious character as the "messiah" or a reincarnation of Jesus pretty much makes everyone angry. This is especially true when you have a character in a game that looks exactly like the Western depiction of Jesus that is evil and is a false messiah like Takaya in Persona 3.
Didn't know Jesus was packing
The problem with this is that anytime one makes a reference to an actual deity in a game, TV show, or movie that doesn't paint it exactly in the best regard, the followers of said church are probably going to get mad. Two examples of this that I can think of off the top of my head are the Danish Cartoon debacle and the protests over the popular Kevin Smith movie Dogma. Both situations ended up garnering death threats and angry mobs, and in the case of the cartoons, promised violence. Imagine if you will, those folks finding out about these games!
Kids handling guns
After the Columbine tragedy, depictions of school children doing any harm to each other (or themselves for that matter) are generally frowned upon in the U.S. and much of the western world. Why else would a ten year old movie such as Battle Royale never get released legitimately here despite honors, awards, and wide appeal? It's because most folks are scared that they will get blamed when the next series of schoolyard violence opens up. Color me surprised when the trailer for Persona 3 opened up and showed what looked to be a group of kids shooting themselves in the head with small caliber pistols. "surely they'll edit that out" I said, remembering the unnecessary edits done to previous Persona games. These were edits that went so far as to change people's Races or remove entire chunks of storyline. It's a different era I guess, because said guns are definitely in the game.
Hitler's short-lived "cool" phase
The following is a small list of "hot button issues" that any Megaten game tries to push the envelope on, but weren't big enough for their own section.
Occultism – The series is full of depictions of Satanic, pagan, and other rituals including sacrifices, blood orgies, and other items that would make many frown upon the game.
Anti-Semitism – The main storyline of the first half of Persona 2 revolves around a clan of Neo-Nazis trying to resurrect Hitler to take over the world. They succeed and you have to fight Hitler. This would get the game outright banned in some countries such as Germany.
Cannibalism- In the game Digital Devil Saga the main characters are all demons, and gain powers from other demons by way of eating them. When Serph and company devour other demons, they gain magic points, but only if this attack actually kills the demon in question.
Homosexuality – Rather than dancing around the issue of homosexuality in games, (much like the character Birdo in the Mario series) The Megaten games have always presented it in an honest adult manner. Usually there is a random character in the game that turns out to be a cross-dresser or openly gay. Take for instance Kanji Tatsumi in persona 4, and his problems with his own sexuality and it's perceived "un-manliness" (yeah that's a word now).
So there you have it, the most controversial game series out there should be the Megaten series, yet a very small amount of folks have actually played it. I bet by reading this at least one reader has become shocked and outraged about the series, which is my intention. If we are to believe that "controversy sells", what better way to promote a game that I enjoy than to use it to anger "stuffy" folks. All kidding aside, most themes in these games make GTA look tame by comparison due to the tone it uses. Other games revel in the immaturity of the gore, sex, and drugs they use, yet the Megaten series does it in an intelligent adult manner.
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Author Stephen K.Posted on March 5, 2017 March 5, 2017 Categories anime, Uncategorized, Video GamesTags controversy, Persona, Religion, role playing games, Role-playing, RPG, Shin Megami Tensei, SMT5 Comments on Megaten Games Should Be More Controversial Than They Are
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Q: How do I avoid eqnarray? We have been told to avoid eqnarray and use align instead.
The output of eqnarray here:
\newcommand{\Prob}{\operatorname{\mathbb{P}}}
\newcommand{\tp}{\operatorname{tp}}
\newcommand{\fp}{\operatorname{fp}}
\newcommand{\fn}{\operatorname{fn}}
\newcommand{\tn}{\operatorname{tn}}
\newcommand{\Act}{\operatorname{Actual}}
\newcommand{\Pre}{\operatorname{Predicted}}
\newcommand{\Ar}{\operatorname{Accuracy}}
\newcommand{\Ps}{\operatorname{Precision}}
\newcommand{\Rc}{\operatorname{Recall}}

\begin{eqnarray*}
  \Ar =& \Prob(\Act=\Pre)  &= \frac{\tp+\tn}{N} \\
  \Rc =& \Prob(\Pre=1|\Act=1)  &= \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fn} \\
  \Ps =& \Prob(\Act=1|\Pre=1)  &= \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fp}
\end{eqnarray*}

is imperfect:

but I cannot get even that with either align or alignat...

A: \documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\begin{eqnarray*}
foo &=& bar &=& baz \\
foobar &=& barquux &=& bazzot
\end{eqnarray*}
\end{document}

produces
! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr.

the standard eqnarray only takes two &
Using
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}

\begin{alignat*}{3}
foo &= bar &&= baz \\
foobar &= barquux &&= bazzot
\end{alignat*}
\end{document}

produces

With the updated example, made into a complete document, the results are

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts}
\begin{document}

\newcommand{\Prob}{\operatorname{\mathbb{P}}}
\newcommand{\tp}{\operatorname{tp}}
\newcommand{\fp}{\operatorname{fp}}
\newcommand{\fn}{\operatorname{fn}}
\newcommand{\tn}{\operatorname{tn}}
\newcommand{\Act}{\operatorname{Actual}}
\newcommand{\Pre}{\operatorname{Predicted}}
\newcommand{\Ar}{\operatorname{Accuracy}}
\newcommand{\Ps}{\operatorname{Precision}}
\newcommand{\Rc}{\operatorname{Recall}}

\begin{eqnarray*}
  \Ar =& \Prob(\Act=\Pre)  &= \frac{\tp+\tn}{N} \\
  \Rc =& \Prob(\Pre=1|\Act=1)  &= \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fn} \\
  \Ps =& \Prob(\Act=1|\Pre=1)  &= \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fp}
\end{eqnarray*}

\begin{alignat*}{3}
  \Ar &= \Prob(\Act=\Pre)  &&= \frac{\tp+\tn}{N} \\
  \Rc &= \Prob(\Pre=1|\Act=1)  &&= \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fn} \\
  \Ps &= \Prob(\Act=1|\Pre=1)  &&= \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fp}
\end{alignat*}

\end{document}

Note how align gives the = on the longest entry just the space normally given to = and just adds space as necessary to align. eqalign always pads the central column with additional space causing asymmetric  spacing around = on all rows.

A: For your updated example code, I actually suggest that you use an array environment, with the value of \arraystretch increased to mimic a displaymath setting.
Two additional suggestions: (i) for the "conditioning operator", use \mid instead of | -- you'll get much better spacing; (ii) most of the items you've declared as math operators are, as far as I can tell, simple text strings; I would use \textrm instead of \operatorname in the definitions of \tp, \fp, etc.
The following screenshot shows the outputs of the array and eqnarray* environments:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts}
\DeclareMathOperator{\Prob}{\mathbb{P}}
\newcommand{\tp}{\textnormal{tp}}
\newcommand{\fp}{\textnormal{fp}}
\newcommand{\fn}{\textnormal{fn}}
\newcommand{\tn}{\textnormal{tn}}
\newcommand{\Act}{\textnormal{Actual}}
\newcommand{\Pre}{\textnormal{Predicted}}
\newcommand{\Ar}{\textnormal{Accuracy}}
\newcommand{\Ps}{\textnormal{Precision}}
\newcommand{\Rc}{\textnormal{Recall}}
\begin{document}
Output of \texttt{array}
\[
\renewcommand\arraystretch{2}
\begin{array}{r @{{}={}} c @{{}={}} l} % "{}={}" is inserted in the intercolumn spaces
  \Ar & \Prob(\Act=\Pre)          & \dfrac{\tp+\tn}{N} \\
  \Rc & \Prob(\Pre=1\mid \Act=1)  & \dfrac{\tp}{\tp+\fn} \\
  \Ps & \Prob(\Act=1\mid \Pre=1)  & \dfrac{\tp}{\tp+\fp} \\
\end{array}
\]

\bigskip
Output of \texttt{eqnarray*}
\begin{eqnarray*}
  \Ar =& \Prob(\Act=\Pre)          &= \frac{\tp+\tn}{N} \\
  \Rc =& \Prob(\Pre=1\mid \Act=1)  &= \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fn} \\
  \Ps =& \Prob(\Act=1\mid \Pre=1)  &= \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fp}
\end{eqnarray*}

\end{document}

A: Here is an application of a macro I showed in Aligning equations with left and right comment (you find there explanations).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}

\newcommand{\Prob}{\operatorname{\mathbb{P}}}
\newcommand{\tp}{\mathrm{tp}}
\newcommand{\fp}{\mathrm{fp}}
\newcommand{\fn}{\mathrm{fn}}
\newcommand{\tn}{\mathrm{tn}}
\newcommand{\Act}{\mathrm{Actual}}
\newcommand{\Pre}{\mathrm{Predicted}}
\newcommand{\Ar}{\mathrm{Accuracy}}
\newcommand{\Ps}{\mathrm{Precision}}
\newcommand{\Rc}{\mathrm{Recall}}

% the magic trick, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/209732/4427
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\Cen}[2]{%
  \ifmeasuring@
    #2%
  \else
    \makebox[\ifcase\expandafter #1\maxcolumn@widths\fi]{$\displaystyle#2$}%
  \fi
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{alignat}{2}
  \Ar ={}& \Cen{2}{\Prob(\Act=\Pre)}        &&= \frac{\tp+\tn}{N} \\
  \Rc ={}& \Cen{2}{\Prob(\Pre=1\mid\Act=1)} &&= \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fn} \\
  \Ps ={}& \Cen{2}{\Prob(\Act=1\mid\Pre=1)} &&= \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fp}
\end{alignat}

\end{document}

We need two groups of left-right columns, with no space between them, so I use alignat (the alignat* version will not print numbers). In the column we want centered, which is the second, I enclose the material as the second argument to \Cen (the first argument is the column number). We need &&= because the last column must be left aligned.

Note that the only real operator name is \Prob, the other symbols are just variables, so they should be defined with \mathrm. Note also \mid instead of |, which gives a better spacing.
Whether to center the second column is a judgment question; in my document I'd simply use gather or align to put the three equations flush left.
\begin{gather}
  \Ar = \Prob(\Act=\Pre) = \frac{\tp+\tn}{N} \\
  \Rc = \Prob(\Pre=1\mid\Act=1) = \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fn} \\
  \Ps = \Prob(\Act=1\mid\Pre=1) = \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fp}
\end{gather}

\begin{align}
&  \Ar = \Prob(\Act=\Pre) = \frac{\tp+\tn}{N} \\
&  \Rc = \Prob(\Pre=1\mid\Act=1) = \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fn} \\
&  \Ps = \Prob(\Act=1\mid\Pre=1) = \frac{\tp}{\tp+\fp}
\end{align}

A: You can centre the middle column with the makebox or the eqparbox packages. The eqparbox commands use a tag that makes all boxes that use that tag have width equal to the largest width of boxes; by default, their contents is centred in the box.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{makebox}

\usepackage{eqparbox}
\begin{document}

\begin{alignat*}{3}
foo &= \makebox*{$ barquux $} {$ bar $}&&= baz \\
foobar &= barquux &&= bazzot
\end{alignat*}

\begin{alignat*}{3}
foo &= \eqmakebox[Col]{$ bar$} &&= baz \\
foobar &= \eqmakebox[Col]{$ barquux $} &&= bazzot
\end{alignat*}

\end{document}

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A Doctor's Note Might Get You Off The Hook For Possessing CBD With THC In Kansas
KCUR | By Stephen Koranda
Published July 11, 2019 at 12:45 PM CDT
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CBD without the THC that gets people high has been legal in Kansas for about a year. CBD oil with significant amounts of THC is still illegal to sell, but a new law offers people with a doctor's note some measure of possible legal protection.
TOPEKA — A new Kansas law provides some protection for people possessing CBD oil containing limited amounts of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
But it's not full-on legalization, meaning the oil could still result in legal trouble even for people with documents confirming it's for medical purposes.
CBD oil without THC is already legal in Kansas. CBD is made from the same plant that marijuana comes from, but the plants are bred with relatively small amounts of the psychoactive compounds.
The new law lets patients and their parents in Kansas have CBD oil containing up to 5 percent THC to treat certain conditions — if they have a physician's note.
The new statute that took effect July 1 is aimed at helping people treat debilitating conditions such as seizures. Parents of children with those conditions asked lawmakers to approve the change.
Republican Rep. Mark Schreiber took on the issue after meeting a family with two daughters who had microcephaly, a condition where the brain does not develop fully. The parents wanted to use the oil to treat seizures and other complications.
The new law is named after their daughters, Claire and Lola. Claire died last year.
"These are families that really love their kids and they see them suffer through these seizures," Schreiber said in an interview. "They want to be able to try this."
The legislation doesn't fully legalize the oil containing THC, nor does it allow any sort of production or distribution of the product in Kansas. The oil would need to be obtained in another state and carry verification that it was tested by a third-party laboratory.
That was partially a political necessity. Schreiber based the strategy on a similar law in Alabama. A proposal to fully legalize the oil with THC could open the debate to broader arguments about marijuana legalization, which might have stoked opposition to the change.
"That would be a big, big debate," he said. "It kind of circumvented that whole discussion and possible delay."
Schreiber's strategy worked. But the way the law is written leaves the door open to legal complications for anyone who possesses the oil containing THC.
The law does offer people an affirmative defense for possession.
"An affirmative defense doesn't prevent you from being arrested, and it doesn't prevent you from being charged," said Jennifer Roth, legislative committee co-chair of the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
So there's no legal immunity for someone using the oil, even if they have a letter from a physician.
But it does give them the foundation for an affirmative defense during trial.
The law leaves wide discretion to police and local prosecutors, who could choose not to pursue charges if someone has the letter.
"Perhaps that person would say 'OK, we're not going to file charges on you,'" Roth said. "But none of that's required by the law."
The law is clearer on another point. Possessing or using the oil cannot be used as a reason to initiate child removal proceedings or child protective actions.
Still, Republican Rep. Eric Smith, a sheriff's deputy, said if he pulled someone over with the oil and a letter, they'd go to jail.
"It does nothing for me as a law enforcement officer out on the side of the road," Smith said during debate over the legislation in May. "I seize it and I arrest you. That letter doesn't mean anything."
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Monday: a physio session to get me limber. Then I centred myself to do some reflecting on Jose's dismissal. Was it karma or just a sequence of poor results? Or are those false alternatives? Do we delude ourselves that there is always a defining moment?
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I was frightened by a mouse today. A diary is a confessional and I am glad to confess this paura. It was not the thing you feel when the man next to you takes a bullet and his last sound is a word you cannot hear and you will never forget. But it was a fright. Mice do this to me, not rats. Rats turn to fight, teeth bared, eyes glaring defiance. I learned how to club a rat before I was ten. But who goes mano-a-mano with a mouse? They leap in a grey blur and skitter from sight and the air fills with a silent terror. It is good to write these things and set down the open truth. But there are people who turn their envy into bile and take any chance to belittle my work. So I shall tear out and destroy this page tomorrow.
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Charles André Mare (1885–1932), or André-Charles Mare, was a French painter and textile designer, and co-founder of the Company of French Art (la Compagnie des Arts Français) in 1919. He was a designer of colorful textiles, and was one of the founders of the Art Deco movement.

As a soldier in the French Army in World War I, Mare led the development of military camouflage, painting artillery using Cubism techniques to deceive the eye. His ink and watercolour painting Le canon de 280 camouflé (The Camouflaged 280 Gun) shows the close interplay of abstract art and military application at that time. He authored the book Cubisme et Camouflage, 1914–1918.

Mare sketched and painted scenes based on his experiences in World War I. His works include: American Troops Marching Through the Arch of Triumph, 1930, and The Funeral of Marshal Foch, 1931.

After the war Mare combined his talents with the skills of architect Louis Sue and became a leader in the Art Deco movement. He designed pavilions, textiles and furnishings for the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925. and interiors of residences and the French ocean liners. A common feature of his work was the stylized rose, in garlands or bouquets.

Early life
Mare was born in Argentan, in Normandy. His childhood friends included the painter Fernand Léger. The young Mare had a passion for drawing, and decided to go to Paris to study art and design. In 1904, he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts, and also took courses at the Académie Julian. In 1906, he showed his paintings and designs at the Salon des indépendants. In the following years, he participated in the Salon d'Automne, where he showed works along with those of his friends Roger de La Fresnaye, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Maurice Marinot and Marcel Duchamp. His designs in 1911 included very elaborate and stylized floral patterns for textiles, breaking away from traditional and Art Nouveau models. Guillaume Apollinaire commented on his skill in designing furniture.

At the 1912 Salon d'Automne he and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Marie Laurencin, Fernand Léger and Roger de La Fresnaye collaborated in the design of the La Maison Cubiste, an architectural installation designed to display cubist paintings. Mare designed the colorful wallpaper, which featured stylized roses and floral patterns, along with upholstery, furniture and carpets with similar motifs. It was a distinct break from traditional decor, and became a prototype for Art Deco interior design. The installation attracted considerable attention, and some scandal, in the press.

War and camouflage

During the First World War, Mare worked on camouflage for the French army, in a section of camoufleurs created by Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola and directed by his friend Dunoyer de Segonzac. He also worked for the British and Italian armies with his friend Fernand Léger and other painters including Forain, Charles Camoin, Charles Dufresne, Villon, and Marcoussis; and with the sculptors Henri Bouchard and Charles Despiau—and with stage designers from the theatre.

Mare applied the principles of disruptive coloration camouflage using forms derived from Cubism: bands of colour juxtaposed to prevent the eye from recognizing the shape of a gun barrel, for example. Colours are chosen to overlap with those of the surrounding landscape. At that time, Mare painted ten of his many watercolour sketchbooks in Cubist style. His sketched designs include hollow camouflaged armoured trees for use as observation posts.

In 1916 Mare was badly wounded by shrapnel from a shell on the front in Picardy while helping to set up an observation post.

On 10 August 1916 Mare was awarded the Military Cross by King George V of the United Kingdom.

Art Deco
At the end of the War, Mare returned quickly to his artistic work. In 1919, he was commissioned, along with Louis Süe and Gustave Louis Jaulmes, to design the decorations for the Champs-Élysées and the Arc-de-Triomphe to celebrate the first Bastille Day after the war. In 1919 he also joined with Lous Süe to create the Compagnie des Arts Française, an interior design firm. He began producing designs for wallpapers, upholstery and other fabrics with his signature designs of baskets and wreaths of roses.

Mare and Süe worked together for eight years, making some fifty different architectural ensembles, including interiors for the French Embassies in Warsaw and Washington, for the house of perfume manufacturer Jean Patou, and the grand salon of the ocean liner Ile-de-France. They were also invited by the composer Maurice Ravel to design sets and costumes for his new ballet, L'Heure Espanol, at the Paris Opera. In 1926, André Mare was made a knight of the French Legion of Honour for his services to the decorative arts.

In 1921, Mare and Süe published a manifesto called Architectures, with illustrations by artists including Paul Vera, Roger de La Fresnaye, Marie Laurencin, and Charles Dufresne, and text by Paul Valéry. They declared that their objective was to create ensembles which were "serious, logical, and welcoming." The Dining Room for Paul Girod (1920–21), (now in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris) was typical of the Mare and Süe Art Deco style; it featured exquisite craftsmanship and extremely expensive materials; the walls were covered with rosewood and mahogany, and the lighting fixtures were set in a ceiling decorated with gold leaf. On the upper portion of the walls, Bas-reliefs in gilded stucco by Paul Vera illustrated "Summer" and "Autumn". The room also featured a fountain and faucets with sculptural decoration of gilded bronze.

However, in his later years, his health, damaged during the war, began to fail. In 1927 André Mare decided to leave the Compagnie des Arts Français for health reasons, and instead devoted himself exclusively to painting. In 1930, he painted a large panel: The Funeral of Marshal Foch with landscapes inspired by his native Normandy.

In November 1932, he died of tuberculosis, a result of serious mustard gas poisoning in the war. He is buried in the small cemetery of Lignerits in the Auge.

In October–November 1933, a large body of his works was shown in the 23rd exhibition of the Société Normande de Peinture Moderne in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.

Selected works in French museums
 La Dactylo (1922), oil on canvas, .
 Intérieur de l'abbatiale à Bernay, oil on canvas, Musée des beaux-arts de Bernay.
 Satan. Esquisse de chevaux dans une écurie (1926), oil on canvas, Musée des beaux-arts de Bernay.
 Le Jockey (1928), oil on canvas, Musée des beaux-arts de Bernay.
 Vue de Caen. Le Port St-Jean et St-Pierre (1931), oil on canvas, Musée des beaux-arts de Bernay.
 Le Haras du Pin (1924), oil on canvas, Musée d'art moderne de Troyes.
 L'Étalon (1928), oil on canvas, Musée d'art moderne de Troyes.
 Carnets de guerre, (1914–1918), watercolour notebooks, Archives nationales (France).
 Salle à manger Art Déco, (1920–1921), furniture, textiles and at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

Bibliography

 Léger, Fernand, Lettres à Charlotte et André Mare (1906–1932), correspondance présentée par Tristan Rondeau et préfacée par Michel Onfray. Textes d'introduction de Laurence Graffin, Jean-Christophe Orticoni, Yves Chevrefils Desbiolles et Benoît Noël, Sainte-Marguerite-des-Loges, Éditions BVR, 2019
Mare, A. Cubisme et Camouflage, 1914–1918. Musee municipal des Beaux-Arts, Bernay, 1998.  (in French)
 Mare, A. et Sue, L. André Mare et la Compagnie des Arts Français. L'Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg, 1971. (in French)
 Duncan, Alistair, Art déco, Thames and Hudson, London (1988),  (in French)

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To paraphrase Dr. Seuss' moral from The Lorax, unless we—conscious and conscientious and caring and compassionate—humans do something to change it, this situation won't change.


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The Commonwealth of New Island
Welcome to the official website of The Commonwealth of New Island. Here are articles and stories about New Island and info on how to build your own dream place on the island. Click on the Pages links for more information about this odd island-nation. Enjoy!
Announcing The Hum
"The Hum" - a full-length young-adult magical-realism novel
will be released at some point in 2021.
The Beatty Ruins - where Roselin discovers the secret behind the Hum
Twenty years before the story begins, brilliant Islander archaeology student Roselin Bell discovers an ancient library in the Beatty Ruins (above) on New Island's northwestern coast. She and two other students find 88 books and 34 scrolls wonderfully preserved in a tomb-like room under an ancient tower.
She is drawn to a certain thin book in the library, that explains, after years of research, the secrets behind the Hum. The Hum is a pleasant, sometimes melodic, sometimes very deep, often healing sound that Islanders have heard ever since their ancestors arrived in 1799.
Roselin further learns that The Hum is where matter and energy intersect among the tiniest subatomic particles throughout the Universe. Her knowledge of this leads to unfortunate consequences.
In 1964, fifteen-year-old Gordy Broome is in shock over the possible self-inflicted loss of his mother. He passes out in his bed, and suddenly finds himself on a raft, which seems to know where it is going. It takes him from his hometown in Southern California, below South America, then east to the south Indian Ocean. A storm wrecks the raft, and he wakes up, barely alive, on the shore of an unknown island.
Back then the Russians controlled the Island, and Gordy is immediately captured by a Soviet navy shore patrol, interrogated as a possible spy for the Americans, and put in a holding cell. Two civilian food service workers recognize that he can hear The Hum! They also see Hum energy in his eyes, and realize that Roselin will definitely want to meet him. They have to get him out.
Thus begins the narrative - Gordy learns about Hum energy, about Love, and the people and culture of New Island.
More later...
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About New Island
New Island is...
> a 12,600-square-mile art project,
> a fictional island-nation consisting of a road map,
> many many pictures of the island's landscape,
> a history and detailed geography,
> documentation including a 200-page color guidebook,
> plat maps and deeds describing owner's claims on the island and
> artifacts such as postage stamps, coins, and a national flag.
This is also an interactive art project – real people can claim a building site on New Island, build a dream house or retreat, and thus own a part of this island-nation.
How it came to be:
With an increasing desire to be someplace else, Lee Mothes began to visualize the island in 1995. Lee wanted a place with a lot of beaches, an agreeable climate, and friendly, English-speaking locals. He found an ideal site west of Australia after researching the geography, climate and history of the south Indian Ocean. Once the site was chosen, He was then able to write the island's history, and create a detailed road map. Lee then wrote a guide book, produced coins, a flag, and then more maps, many landscape paintings, a few stories about local events and about a visitor named Alan Faramond.
People have found delight in the fact that they can create what they want here - an unleashing of creativity that can be very liberating!
Where it is, and what it is:
New Island from 450 miles up.
The Commonwealth of New Island is situated in the southern Indian Ocean some 950 miles west of Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia. Known more commonly as New Island, the island stretches 140 miles north to south and about 90 miles east to west, with a total land area of some 12,600 square miles, including its offshore islands.
Here is where it is!
The official New Island travel map.
New Island's climate is blessed with sea breezes and seasons similar to those of California or South Africa. The land-forms are old and have weathered long enough to create sandy shorelines, varied high-country, bird-filled marshlands, and fertile hillsides and valleys.
New Islanders are primarily of English, Scottish and Irish origin, with some Russian and Japanese influence in the island's history. The locals have rediscovered ways of living with each other and with nature that go back thousands of years. Mostly emerging from shipwrecks, they arose to provide well for themselves with their gardens, farms and creative ventures; and they have learned to find a relaxed sense of joy. Their cities and towns provide modern amenities, including running water and electricity, but have a peculiar old-world look to them.
Everyone on the island has an equal say through local representation; regulatory government is minimal. Because of their long isolation, New Islanders have learned to protect the island's forests, rivers, and wetlands. The island's residents have their quirks, oddities, and unusual points-of-view; while they willingly help each other, live sustainably, and sometimes find joy.
A typical New Island landscape, on the eastern coast at Wave Point.
Contemplating What If...
New Island is based on a "What if" premise, based on the real-world history and politics of what did occur in that part of the Indian Ocean:
What if there was one more island out there, situated in the southern Indian Ocean about 950 miles west of Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia? Suppose it was rather large, with varied climate zones, an ancient geography, and capable of supporting a self-sustaining human population of several thousand.
Given the region's actual climate, history, and surrounding geography, what animals, birds, plants and sea-life would be found there? And who might live there?
Every place has a history, and where people are involved, some kind of a culture. New Island is no different. The real history of this part of the world would determine what might have occurred on an island situated here.
An early nautical map, originally from the Russian explorer Fabian von Bellingshausen.
There could have been a long-lost paleo-culture that left ruins and riddles. There could havebeen two ships loaded with petty-crime convicts and supplies that wrecked on the island's southeast shore in 1799. At least one ship could have been predominantly filled with women on their way from England to the penal colonies of Australia. A large bamboo raft bearing nineteen Japanese fishing families could have, over three years' time, found its way from Kyushu, Japan, to the island's eastern shore in 1807.
There could have been an arrangement, in 1820, with the Russian government and the island's residents, to allow the island's culture to develop on its own, and meanwhile keep the British navy, as well as other European powers, at bay. The Russians, and later the American CIA, could have conspired to remove the island from nearly every map of the region. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the islanders could have negotiated their independence with a hoard of gold salvaged from a Spanish ship burned in 1830.
These what-ifs and could-haves make up the Commonwealth of New Island today. The place-names in the maps and guidebook, the historical artifacts and documents, and the landscape of the island are all the result of what could or might have occurred from the Late Jurassic period to this day.
New Island wants to be explored...
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The Official New Island Guidebook and road map
200 pages of history, cultural background, color pictures and maps. The book and the road map (the same map Alan is using!) tell the complete story of this little-known island. Now available by contacting me at mothesart@gmail.com. $35. for both, plus shipping.
New Island Owners' Page
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Aidy Bryant recalls 'humiliating' photo shoot with 'SNL' co-stars
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November 9, 2017 | 1:43pm	| Updated November 9, 2017 | 7:14pm
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"Saturday Night Live" star Aidy Bryant may feel comfortable in her own skin today, but it wasn't always that way.
In a recent interview with The Cut, the comedian, 30, opened up about a "humiliating" experience at a photo shoot during her early days at "SNL" with co-stars Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong.
"The other girls had racks of clothes to chose from and were wearing these thousand-dollar dresses, and I had two sacks or like one matronly mother-of-the-bride dress," Bryant, who joined the cast of NBC's late-night sketch comedy show in 2012, said.
"Those were the first times where I was like, 'Something is different here and this isn't fair,' " she continued. "This is a f–ked-up situation, and it's purely because of my body. Not because I'm less funny — it's my body. It's the only reason that I'm treated differently right now. And it lit a f–king fire in me."
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Currently in the process of working on her own line with stylist Remy Pearce, Bryant shared her objective at Studio 8H was never to become an advocate for positive body image.
"I didn't try to get on 'SNL' to be a body-positivity activist, but apparently just being there makes you one," she said. "It's this weird kind of thing, where you're like, 'I guess I kind of am.' It's literally just not what I came here to do."
Bryant does recognize, however, the importance of being a relatable figure to the masses.
"It sounds so corny now, but representation does f–king matter. And I remember how as a child I was obsessed with Rosie O'Donnell even though that wasn't exactly what I wanted to do, but I was like, 'Oh my god, someone who's a little bit like me on TV,' " she said.
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Cronus Partners is pleased to announce today's successful Aerospace and Manufacturing Forum. The event, one in a series of events covering the sector, was held today in Connecticut at The Society Room of Hartford. Co-hosted with the Connecticut DECD – Department of Economic and Community Development, the forum attracted a wide audience of aerospace and manufacturing companies, as well as government agencies and firms in the banking and legal community affiliated with the industry.
The speakers included: Cronus Partners Managing Partner Jeffrey Rubin on the state of the financial markets in the sector; DECD Commissioner Catherine Smith; Pratt & Whitney Vice President of Quality Jill Albertelli on #QualityisCool: Promoting Compliant Practices in the Supply Chain; and ICF International Principal Peter Zimm on the Aerospace Market Outlook.


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