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Tribute to Robert Duyf an artist and a friend
26 février 2016 Artistesgaelle
Robert Duff is a Dutch artist best known for his works as a painter.
At Domaine du Meunier, it is also possible to get an overview on his many talents.
In Amsterdam late 90s, Robert Duyf lived near Coen and soon became a friend. It is therefore natural to find some of his work at the Domaine du Meunier.
Molding of a roof ornamentation
When Coen and Ariane arrived in Mortagne, they had to restore the house of the Parias family before the rental of the apartments and guest rooms is possible. Work had therefore started in 2004 including restoration of facades. In the attic of the house, between many objects, a zinc palm leaf was found. On old postcards the house of Parias family appeared, so it was possible to know where this decorative element came from : it was an ornamentation that belonged on the corners of the mansard roof.
In order to restore the house to its original appearance, Robert Duyf made a palm leaf mold of silicone and then make 4 fiberglass molding out of it. After that he painted the palm leaf to look like zinc before they were repositioned in the corners of the roof.
Zinc palm leaf and the mold
Moldings of palm leaves on the angle of the mansard roof. On the right, the angle of the house was destroyed during the Second World War. It was remade later and more briefly and we can see the ridge and zinc gutter have no ornementation unlike the other side.
The Siegel models
In a very different field, Robert Duyf worked on the restoration of three mannequins from 30s. The painted parget mannequins of the famous brand Siegel (Siegel–stockman today) were discovered in 2001by Ariane in faded window of a woolshop in Cosne-sur-Loire. This shop was about to close and the owner agreed to sell them. The three mannequins left Cosne-sur-Loire in a red truck to be restored by Robert Duyf (parget and paint) and from 2004 onwerds took place in the dining room, the lounge and the Salle Parias Frères of Domaine du Meunier.
Mannequins Siegel restored by Robert Duyf
Blue chandelier of Robert Duyf in the Salle Parias Frères
Blue chandelier and self-portrait
It is also in the Salle Parias Frères where you can discover two other works of Robert Duyf, a self-portrait from 1997 and a chandelier from the same period. This large blue chandelier, created for a party with friends in the garage of a car collector in Amsterdam, consists of painted rebars with led-lighting. This chandelier decorated for several years the Supperclub, an Amsterdam night club, before come illuminating the collection of pinball machines in Mortagne.
Self-portrait of Robert Duyf who left us in 2012
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In a letter to members of Congress, the groups — the National Consumers League (www.nclnet.org), the National Association of Consumer Advocates (www.naca.org), Public Citizen (www.citizen.org), Consumer Action (www.consumer-action.org), ACORN (www.acorn.org), Consumers for Auto Safety and Reliability (www.carconsumers.com), and the Alliance for Justice (www.afj.org) — argued that the EFCA (H.R. 800, S. 1041 in the 110th Congress) legislation that passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 2007 but failed to pass in the Senate, and is broadly supported by labor unions, is good for both consumers and workers.
In their letter to Congress, the consumer groups argued that EFCA will help restore fairness to workers by giving them a path to union organizing, helping secure contracts in reasonable timeframes, and toughening penalties of companies who violate worker rights.
The Employee Free Choice Act will restore the right of workers to join together to get better health care, job security, and benefits – and an opportunity to pursue their dreams. We firmly believe the Employee Free Choice Act is good for consumers, for workers, and for American society. When workers – who are also consumers - enjoy the benefits of a unionized workforce, their standard of living rises and they can participate more fully in what our economic system has to offer.
The current crisis in our financial markets shows what happens when corporate greed is allowed to go unchecked - and consumers and workers unfortunately pay the price. The Employee Free Choice Act will help level the playing field for America's workers by giving them a fair and direct path to form unions. Consumer groups ask for your support for this important legislation.
(1) Giving workers a fair and direct path to form unions through majority sign-up. EFCA would require an employer to recognize its employees' union when a majority has signed union authorization cards. Under current law, management can refuse to recognize a union even when 100 percent of employees have signed authorization cards. After a majority of workers have signed cards, an employer can still call for a separate election. Under the current system, then, the employer gets to decide whether a separate election is necessary.
(2) Helping employees secure a contract with their employer in a reasonable period of time. Under current law, anti-union employers often drag workers through lengthy negotiations by delaying bargaining sessions, withholding relevant information, and putting forth bogus proposals. Even though these tactics are illegal, there are no effective deterrents to prevent "surface bargaining." The Employee Free Choice Act will strengthen workers' ability to achieve a first contract within a reasonable period of time.
(3) Toughening penalties against employers who violate their workers' rights. Too many unscrupulous employers get away with breaking labor laws because the current penalties are too weak. The Employee Free Choice Act would increase penalties against employers who illegally fire or retaliate against pro-union workers.


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Richard Kurt Felix Roffhack (* 19. September 1872 in Saargemünd; † 13. Dezember 1938 in Bremen) war ein deutscher Verwaltungsjurist und Manager.

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Richard Roffhack studierte Rechtswissenschaften. In Tübingen wurde er 1893 Mitglied des Corps Suevia. Nach Abschluss des Studiums trat er in den höheren Justizdienst ein, wo er zuletzt als Assessor in Berlin tätig war. 1903 ging er als Regierungsrat und Senatssyndikus nach Bremen. Dort wurde er 1918 Vorstandsvorsitzender der Bremer Straßenbahn AG. Die Position hatte er bis zu seinem Tode inne. Weiterhin war er Mitglied des Aufsichtsrates der Norddeutschen Waggonfabrik AG in Bremen sowie der Werbezentrale Lloyd-Berlin-Bremen AG.

Literatur
 Roffhack, Richard, Kurt, Felix. In: Robert Volz: Reichshandbuch der deutschen Gesellschaft. Das Handbuch der Persönlichkeiten in Wort und Bild. Band 2: L–Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, , S. 1547.

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Broissia est une commune française située dans le département du Jura, en région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

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Communes limitrophes

Urbanisme

Typologie
Broissia est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Bourg-en-Bresse, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des forêts et milieux semi-naturels (50,9 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (50,9 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
forêts (50,9 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (24,4 %), prairies (20,5 %), terres arables (4,2 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Toponymie

Histoire

Politique et administration

Démographie

Galerie de photos

Économie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments
 Ruines de donjon (XVe s), au Châtelard ;
 Chapelle Saint-Oyen (XVIe s) ;
 Moulin de Licornas, au hameau de Villechantria ;
 Tilleul ancien, sur la place du village ;
 Croix de chemin (4) ;
 Lavoir ;
 Fontaines (3) ;
 Mairie-école (XIXe s) ;
 Pont à 5 arches, sur le Suran, sortie de Broissia.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes du Jura
 Anciennes communes du Jura

Liens externes

 Broissia sur le site de l'Institut géographique national

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Shavuot: The Festival of Weeks
The book of Ruth is read on Shavuot
Shavuot – the Festival of Weeks — is the second of the three major festivals with both historical and agricultural significance (the other two are Passover and Sukkot). Agriculturally, it commemorates the time when the first fruits were harvested and brought to the Temple, and is known as Hag ha-Bikkurim (the Festival of the First Fruits). Historically, it celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, and is also known as Hag Matan Torateinu (the Festival of the Giving of Our Torah). Shavuot is celebrated for one day in Israel – the 6th day of the month of Sivan; and two days in the Diaspora – the 6th and 7th days of Sivan.
The period from Passover to Shavuot is a time of great anticipation. We count each of the days from the second day of Passover to the day before Shavuot, 49 days or seven full weeks, hence the name of the festival. The counting reminds us of the important connection between Passover and Shavuot: Passover freed us physically from bondage, but the giving of the Torah on Shavuot redeemed us spiritually from our bondage to idolatry and immorality.
It is noteworthy that the holiday is called the time of the giving of the Torah, rather than the time of the receiving of the Torah. The sages point out that we are constantly in the process of receiving the Torah, that we receive it every day, but it was first given at this time. Thus it is the giving, not the receiving, that makes this holiday significant.
The book of Ruth is read on Shavuot, and it is customary to stay up the entire first night of Shavuot and study Torah, then pray as early as possible in the morning. It is also customary to eat a dairy meal at least once during Shavuot. There are varying opinions as to why this is done. Some say it is a reminder of the promise regarding the land of Israel, a land flowing with "milk and honey." Others say it is because our ancestors had just received the Torah (and the dietary laws therein), and did not have both meat and dairy dishes available.
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Different fates for Alqunun and al-Araibi
Tackling Thai policy on refugees
Sébastien Moretti
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While effective in Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun's case, public mobilisation and international condemnation could push the Thai government to reaffirm its sovereignty over its borders through stricter immigration laws, Sébastien Moretti writes.
Events surrounding Saudi Arabian teenager Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun and Australia-based Bahraini refugee and footballer Hakeem al-Araibi have attracted significant global attention over the past weeks.
While Rahaf Alqunun claimed asylum and seems to have been denied access to Thai territory, Hakeem al-Araibi – who Australia has recognised as a refugee – was arrested upon arrival at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport after Interpol mistakenly issued a red notice warrant.
Ms Alqunun has since been resettled in Canada, whereas Hakeem al-Araibi remains detained in Thailand and awaits his next hearing after formally refusing Bahrain's extradition request in court last Monday.
The two cases have put Thailand's immigration policy under the global spotlight and have attracted significant criticism to the Thai Kingdom over its alleged "harsh treatment" of refugees and asylum seekers.
Little effort, however, has been made to understand Thai authorities' approach to refugees and asylum seekers.
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Much less attention has been given by media to the fact that Thailand formally committed to end the detention of refugee and asylum-seeking children – an initiative that followed the September 2016 Leaders' Summit on Refugees and that the UN's High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) described as a "positive example of Thailand's humanitarian approach to refugees and asylum seekers".
Amongst other pledges made in 2016, Thailand declared that it would develop an effective screening mechanism to distinguish those who are in need of protection from others who are not, and "strengthen the implementation of the principle of non-refoulement".
Despite the fact that it is not party to the 1951 Convention, Thai authorities have committed to respect the prohibition of non-refoulement on many occasions.
While details of what happened at the airport remain largely unclear, from the outset, Thai authorities have been accused of actively seeking to return both Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun and Hakeem al-Araibi to their countries of origin.
Media and NGOs were quick to denounce Thailand's poor track record when it comes to refugee protection, the fact that it regularly sends back refugees to their country of origin, and the fact that it prioritises its economic interests with countries such as Bahrain or Saudi Arabia over the protection of refugees.
However, while Thailand maintains a strong rhetoric when it comes to immigration – partially as an attempt to dissuade potential asylum seekers – the severity of the law is often mitigated by informal practices that seek to satisfy international human rights norms by ensuring de facto protection to refugees and asylum seekers.
More on this: The Brief: Is Australia changing tack on offshore detention?
Under Thai law, people cannot claim asylum upon arrival. Nevertheless, asylum seekers in Thailand are not necessarily returned systematically to their countries of origin. Rather, they are typically referred to the UNHCR.
In such cases, they are considered de jure as irregular migrants within the territory of Thailand, while their presence is de facto largely tolerated. Should they possess a UNHCR registration card, they are, in principle, protected against arrest, detention, and a forced return to their country of origin.
While this process is far from ideal and is certainly not implemented as regularly as it should be, their informal arrangement with the UNHCR seeks to reconcile Thailand's concerns over sovereignty and border control with a guarantee to a certain degree of international protection to those who need it.
Thai authorities were taken aback by the level of media attention garnered in the case of Rahaf Alqunun. Media were quick to declare her a refugee while Western social media championed her as a new icon in Saudi Arabia's fight for women's rights. Some say that it is thanks to this sudden international outcry that Alqunun was not returned to Saudi Arabia.
While Alqunun's referral to the UNHCR was nothing particularly noteworthy, the speed at which the UNHCR recognised her as a refugee and at which she was resettled was certainly exceptional.
This decision is likely to set a precedent. While the UNHCR's refugee status determination process in Thailand typically takes several months and resettlement – for those deemed eligible – takes years, in this case, it took no longer than a few days.
From the viewpoint of Thailand, however, this pressure may have been perceived as a new challenge to its sovereignty as the country was urged by international public opinion to accept Alqunun or to release al-Araibi with a complete disregard for its own legislation and processes.
More on this: The impacts of Australia's funding cuts on refugees in Indonesia
While the Head of Immigration Police in Thailand tried to deflect criticism by saying that the country would take a new approach and "follow international norms", he also made it clear that the Thai government would not cave in from pressure when it came to such issues.
Less exposed to media attention until now, Hakeem al-Araibi's case has become an opportunity for Thailand to reaffirm its sovereignty over immigration issues and to make clear to the international community that the Kingdom will be dealing with migration issues on its own terms and in line with its domestic laws.
The fact that Thailand considered Barhain's extradition request for al-Araib in the first place does not necessarily mean that he will be returned to Bahrain.
On one hand, the court may consider the actions of al-Araibi as an exception to what would normally count as a political offence under the Thai Extradition Act. Al-Araibi could then be returned to Australia with the appearances of sovereignty intact.
In another scenario, the court may find al-Araibi as extraditable. While this would strongly confirm the so-called draconian policies of the Thai government with regard to refugees, it is unlikely that the decision would be enforced.
Al-Araibi's case has already caused significant embarrassment to Thailand and could be solved quickly and discretely by handing him over to Australian authorities.
Keeping up appearances in matters of sovereignty – especially with respect to immigration policies – is extremely important for Southeast Asian states. Recent research highlights the paradox between strong law enforcement rhetoric and actual practices in the region that are more moderate.
While public mobilisation around issues concerning refugees and asylum seekers is welcome, extreme media exposure of specific cases may backfire. It could spur Thai authorities to adopt a tougher stance to demonstrate full and unswerving control of their borders.
Dr Sébastien Moretti is Senior Fellow at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and is Migration Programme Coordinator at the International Federation of the Red Cross.
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Six Arts of Ancient China
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During the Zhou Dynasty (1046 – 256 BC), students were required to master the six arts (liù yì – 六艺 – in Chinese), which included rituals(礼), music(乐), archery(射), charioteering(御), writing(书) and mathematics(数). The six arts emphasized comprehensive development in all subject area, and attempted to educate students to be well-rounded, which parallels the Western concept of the Renaissance man. Men who excelled in these six arts were thought to have reached the state of perfection.
RITUALS(礼)
Ritual is an extraordinarily important cornerstone in Chinese culture. Without rituals, the 5,000-year-old country would never exist. In ancient China, there were officers in charge of rituals for every aspect of life, like marriage, funerals, and sacrifice. Chinese people started to live with a sense of ritual thousands of years ago and nothing can remove it from Chinese culture.
MUSIC(乐)
Music was not just a melody or a pastime for entertainment in ancient China. It was a symbol of great manners and a well-educated person. To learn music, one should have high aesthetic standards. Confucius himself studied from three different people to learn courtesy, music and how to play music. A famous saying of Confucius on music education is: "To educate somebody, you should start from poems, emphasize ceremonies and finish with music." In other words, one cannot expect to become educated without learning music.
Music was also an indispensable part of Chinese culture. People play music in every ritual to express feelings and emotions. Also, there was a special position for a music officer in the court.
ARCHERY(射)
Archery was not only a way to protect the kingdom or to kill enemies, but was also a good sport. China measured its force of strength as much as literature. A real gentleman should not only be well-educated but also should be strong and demonstrate great archery skills. A good archer was highly admired in ancient China not only among the nobility but also among ordinary people. The ancient emperors took archery classes as a required course and it was a tradition to hold a big hunting ceremony every year.
CHARIOTEERING(御)
The chariot had an important place in war, in hunting and in the parades that expressed the power of the nobles in ancient times. To become a charioteer is also an excellent form of training that requires the combined use of intellect and physical strength.
WRITING(书)
Writing usually included handwriting, reading, drawing and composition. There have been so many great calligraphers throughout the history of China and Chinese greatly valued handwriting. There's a saying that your handwriting reflects your alter ego. Especially in ancient China, it was necessary for an emperor to write beautifully. There were many emperors in China who were not only calligraphers, but also poets.
Having the ability to compose poems is the skill of an educated person. Chinese ancient poetry is a precious heritage for every Chinese and to the whole world.
MATHEMATICS(数)
In ancient times, mathematics was a useful method to make predictions. Ancient Chinese used mathematics to develop astronomy, to predict the weather and applied knowledge to real life. The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art was the earliest Chinese math book. The ancient Chinese also developed the abacus to benefit daily living and this invention is one of China's material cultural heritages.
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Bristolians call for end to bus de-regulation
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"Public transport not private profit" read one of the placards at a demonstration in Bristol held on Saturday 24 November on College Green outside the Council House. The demonstration drew passengers, bus drivers, and others, and was covered in detail by local paper the Bristol Post.
Protest organiser Frankie Langeland, who decided to put together the rally after she was left feeding her baby at a bus stop because the bus back from her nursery didn't turn up, said she wanted to turn the protest into a continuing campaign. Scores of angry bus passengers, politicians and transport campaigners braved heavy rain to call for better bus services.
Around 150 people heard speaker after speaker call for an end to the deregulated and de-facto monopoly of Bristol's buses under private company First Bus.
There was widespread support for the idea that West of England metro mayor Tim Bowles use new powers to create a new franchise system for the region's buses. This would mean publicly elected officials would be able to say when and where buses run – and that could lead to more routes around the city, not just the highly profitable routes that First run.
The mayor is yet to be persuaded, preferring the notion of a regional transport authority.
Bristol's lamentable bus service has been the butt of jokes for decades, as any Bristolian will tell you. Now the bus-travelling public is starting to demand involvement in dealing with the challenges of running a successful transport system in a hilly city with lots of potential bottlenecks – starting with the principle of public service.
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Wow! According to TMZ, entertainment mogul Nick Cannon is the one who decided to end his marriage with diva Mariah Carey and he reportedly did so out of concern for his twins.
TMZ reports that Nick made it clear that he's deeply concerned about Mariah's emotional state and is ending the marriage because he believes the environment is toxic for his kids. Nick believes his kids have already shown signs of emotional upset from living with Mariah. Sources say Nick's plan is simple: he just wants to create an environment separate from Mariah that gives the kids a safe haven from the "chaos" that is going on at her house.
Nick is also reportedly telling his people that he's deeply concerned about Mariah's mental health and believes the people surrounding her are sycophants that only care about getting paid and not much else. It's also been said that Nick is taking a "passive" role in the divorce so that they can just hurry up and end things as peacefully as possible.


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Bewilderment: A Novel
Publication Date: November 1st, 2022
W. W. Norton & Company
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Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory.
The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin's emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother's brain…
With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son's ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers's most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?
Richard Powers is the author of thirteen novels, including The Overstory and Orfeo, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Praise for Bewilderment: A Novel
Richard Powers is one of our country's greatest living writers. He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent.
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Extraordinary.…Powers's insightful, often poetic prose draws us at once more deeply toward the infinitude of the imagination and more vigorously toward the urgencies of the real and familiar stakes rattling our persons and our planet.
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Volume 4 - A New Journey
Chapter 1478 - Firmament Flower Queen
MGA: Chapter 1478 - Firmament Flower Queen
"Everyone, everyone, please listen to me."
"Truly, I have only passed by here. I have no malice at all. Let's talk it out, okay?"
Holding the Demon Sealing Sword that was filled with the blood of the Ancient Era's Organism and with a smile on his face, Chu Feng tried to speak to the enormous monster.
"Aooouuu~~~"
The enormous monster's reply to Chu Feng was a snarl and spraying out a faint green light wave from its mouth.
Seeing that, Chu Feng immediately jumped away and began to dodge toward the distance. That light wave ended up landing on the place that he had previously stood.
"Boom~~~~"
In an instant, gales sprung up everywhere and black soil exploded all over. An enormous crater measuring several tens of thousands of meters in diameter appeared at the region where Chu Feng had previously been standing. No, that was not a crater, it was a valley.
A single light wave from this enormous monster actually created a valley. Furthermore, the soil in this Ancient Era's Remnant was completely different from the soil outside. It was as hard as metal and impossible to be moved by ordinary people. Yet, this enormous monster's attack created a crater the size of a valley.
From this, one could imagine how devastating this attack would be and how many living things would be killed if it were to be unleashed outside of the Ancient Era's Remnants.
Having reached this level of cultivation, to have the power to destroy the world was no joke. It was something that one could actually accomplish.
"Damn it, this thing doesn't understand human speech," Chu Feng realized that the situation was extremely bad. He turned around and began to flee.
He had already discovered that although these Ancient Era's Organisms were very powerful and possessed a certain amount of intelligence, they did not have any human nature at all.
In other words, they were much more similar to ferocious beasts. Even though they possessed great power and abilities, they only knew about hunting, eating and killing. They possessed no intention to contest for the rights to rule the world.
However, upon further thought, Chu Feng was able to understand that too. If these Ancient Era's Organisms were to possess the intelligence that humans and monstrous beasts possessed and were capable of cooperating with one another, the Cyanwood Mountain would have long since tried to exploit them. How could they possibly have decided to trap them here like this? After all, they possessed a very strong battle power that was many times stronger than that of some of their elders.
However, this was not important. The important matter was that Chu Feng was no match for these Ancient Era's Organisms right now. As such, he had to find a way to escape.
"Ji, ji, ji, ji~~~~"
At the time when Chu Feng was putting forth all of his energy to escape, strange sounds could be heard from behind him.
Those sounds were like the crying of birds, and yet also sounded like a bunch of demons. Just hearing the sound would cause one's hair to stand on end and shiver.
Chu Feng turned his head around to look. Upon seeing the scene behind him, his eyes immediately shrank and his brows became tightly creased together.
Behind him was that enormous monster, and behind that enormous monster were purple gaseous flames.
The eerie and frightening sound was coming from those purple gaseous flames. Chu Feng was able to sense how frightening those purple gaseous flames were. It was a Martial Emperor-level existence.
"Wuuaaaooo~~~"
Before Chu Feng could react, the purple gaseous flames caught up to the enormous monster. In an instant, the enormous monster started to wail desperately like a wild animal.
However, that wailing lasted only an instant. Chu Feng saw with his own eyes that by the time the purple colored gaseous flames arrived before him, the enormous monster formed by forty-seven Ancient Era's Organisms was turned into a thick pile of bones.
Not only was there not a single trace of flesh or blood, even the remaining bones were all ruptured, and forcibly shattered.
Savage. This was true savageness, true cruelty. In an instant, the forty-seven Ancient Era's Organisms had been devoured. From this, it could be seen how frightening the purple gaseous flames before Chu Feng were.
"I'm doomed now. There's actually a Martial Emperor-level monster in the Ancient Era's Remnants; could it be that I, Chu Feng, will die here?" At this moment, Chu Feng also started to feel apprehensive.
However, he was unwilling to accept death like this. He felt that these purple gaseous flames were extraordinary. Even if it was an Ancient Era's Organism, it must possess some sort of human nature. Thus, he decided that he should try communicating with it.
"Chu Feng, why would you be here?" Suddenly, a voice was heard from those purple gaseous flames.
"You… you know me?" Chu Feng was overwhelmed with shock. This person actually knew his name.
"You cannot continue onward. This place is too dangerous," An advising voice sounded from the purple gaseous flames. Furthermore, to Chu Feng's surprise, this voice was actually extremely gentle.
"Who are you?" Chu Feng managed to tell that the opposing party did not have any malice toward him. Thus, he wanted to find out exactly who this person was. He clearly did not recognize someone of this level in his memories.
"I…" The purple gaseous flames started to hesitate and became quiet. As for Chu Feng, he was quietly observing this change. He did not try to urge, because he knew that the purple gaseous flames were hesitating as to whether or not to reveal their true appearance before Chu Feng.
"Fine. After all, I would have to meet you sooner or later." The purple gaseous flames started to spin. Like a purple vortex, they rapidly grew smaller. In the end, a girl in the prime of her youth appeared before Chu Feng.
This girl was wearing very simple and unadorned clothing. Her appearance was also very ordinary. However, her skin was extremely good; it was white like jade and awfully exquisite.
"Yao'er, why would it be you?" Chu Feng uttered a cry of alarm.
Chu Feng was able to recognize this girl instantly. This girl's name was Yao'er. She was the girl who Chu Feng had encountered when doing his mission in the Firmament Medicinal Garden. At that time, she was being bullied and Chu Feng had saved her.
Later on, that girl had even brought Chu Feng to a place filled with Firmament Medicinal Herbs and helped Chu Feng to finish his mission with extraordinary results. It was also there that Chu Feng encountered Jiang Furong.
As for that girl, she was the same girl before Chu Feng right now, Yao'er.
However, never would Chu Feng have thought that the garden watcher who was bullied by ordinary disciples, that kindhearted girl who remained silent, would actually possess Martial Emperor-level strength. This truly came as an enormous shock to him. In fact, he found this to be somewhat unbelievable.
"Chu Feng, you… you actually still remember me?" Seeing that Chu Feng still remembered her, a joyous expression appeared on Yao'er's face.
"Of course I do. Yao'er, exactly what's going on? The power that you've displayed earlier, where did that come from?" Chu Feng grabbed onto Yao'er's shoulder. He appeared to be very emotional.
"I…" Yao'er started to stammer. After some time, she said, "I'm sorry, I am not human."
"You're not human? Then what are you?!!!" Chu Feng asked.
"I am a Natural Oddity. I was born in the Ancient Era and only managed to mature after several tens of thousands of years of nurture."
"It was ten thousand years ago that I woke up. As for them… they addressed me as the Firmament Flower Queen."
"Back then, the Firmament Adamantine Metal that you and that girl called Bai Ruochen obtained in the Firmament Medicine Garden's underground was actually not hidden underground. Nor is it formed by absorbing Firmament Energy from Firmament Medicinal Herbs."
"Those were actually my housing, my shell. They were a portion of my shell that remained when I was formed," Yao'er said.
"......" Hearing those words, Chu Feng came to a sudden realization. However, he also became even more speechless.
It turned out that the person before him was not a little girl. Instead, she was an old monster. An old monster born in the Ancient Era that had matured after several tens of thousands of years of nurture. Furthermore, it had been ten thousand years since she had reached maturity.
In fact, even the… Firmament Adamantine Metals that were capable of being used to craft Imperial Armaments that he and Bai Ruochen had obtained had merely been her shell.
It was no wonder, no wonder that Chu Feng felt such viciousness from Yao'er's body but also felt a hint of familiarity. It turned out that it was actually the Firmament Energy.
The two strongest martial skills that Chu Feng possessed, the Earthen Taboo: Firmament Slash and the Earthen Taboo: Firmament Shield, both required the beckoning of Firmament Energy to be used. Thus, Chu Feng was very familiar with Firmament Energy.
Yet, he would never have thought that the little girl Yao'er would actually be the Firmament Flower Queen, a matured Natural Oddity, a Martial Emperor existence that stood at the peak of the Holy Land of Martialism.
"Yao'er, I do not understand. With your strength, why would you conceal yourself in the Firmament Medicinal Garden, be a garden watcher and accept the bullying and humiliation from those disciples?" Chu Feng asked. This was the thing that he was the most confused by.
A grand Martial Emperor should be an existence that stood at the apex of the Holy Land of Martialism. Even in a power like the Cyanwood Mountain, she should be an extraordinary existence that was worshipped and respected by all the people.
Yet, Yao'er's conduct went against common sense. That was the reason why Chu Feng was confused.


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-Reworked ALL Path of Building Links due to a change pointed out by @Isomorphicsm that allowed the build to drop 6-9 points on the tree!
-Added Bossing and Experimental variants that focus around damage alone and can be pushed to around 16mil+ Note: This was created for my own needs so may not be ethical for majority of players!
-Finished Path of Building Section and added 4 somewhat different Trees and setups!
Let me start by saying I love Spectre builds. The versatility and amount of ways they can be played is just amazing.
For this build I am using primarily a combo of 2x Cannibal Fire-eaters and 2x Solar Guards. This provides a good mix of damage and clear speed. The damage output of upto 21mil Shaper is based on 4x Cannibal Fire-eaters and a pretty crazy amount of gear combos but the build can easily be done on just a few chaos to start.
I've had a focus each league where I've tried to push the damage out to numbers that personally I have not seen before! This is that build in many different forms!
Because Vaal Haste and Shock only last so long! However bosses without Phases should be dead well before then!
Where does Shock come from?
Shock comes from the crafted Suffix "Shock nearby enemies for 4 seconds when you focus". This provides a massive damage buff to our minions for 4 seconds!
This suffix, as far as I know, is only craft-able on rings!
New to Summoners or this build?
If you are new to Summoners, Spectres, are doing this as a league start or even stumbled across this build, I would highly recommend building the HP Stacking version first then transitioning into the Damage variant!
As a Summoner we are usually passive point starved!
If you want to Help Alira and gain some resistances but this can be found on gear very easily having mostly rare items!
This section focuses solely on budget gear only. Nothing that will cost more than a few chaos total to gear up!
Any rare chest with life and resists will work just fine as well!
High attack speed rare base or anything for that matter will work just fine and can provide you with useful stats like Dexterity etc if needed!
Can be used in place of a rare - provides nice amount of life and a very high amount of life recovery that pairs amazingly with a nice life flask!
All in all maybe 4-6 Chaos!
There isnt really too much to budget gear, just fill out the blanks with gear that will allow you to at least cap your resistances at 75% or get close! This is just a guide for how I ran the build as a league start!
Mid Range Gear - in progress!
End-Game Gear - in progress!
Using Storm Brand here to apply this to mobs and bosses, works amazingly!
Vaal Haste + Zealotry provide a massive damage increase and movement speed increase for you and your minions!
Anger will eventually be your third Aura. This needs to be linked with Generosity. See below!
If you want to use Generosity, this will give you more damage and ensure Anger does not effect you! If you use Anger without Generosity, your Elemental Equilibrium will have a negative effect on your minions damage!
Flesh Offering for boosting that minion damage!
If you want to be more defensive and you have Mistress of Sacrifice Ascendancy, you can slot in Bone Offering instead for some Block Chance!
You do not require 2x Unset Rings as these can easily be put into the links above.
For example if you want to drop the Minion Life from the Animate Guardian or even the Animate Guardian all together!
These Gems can be placed into either the Weapon or Shield!
Personally I prefer CWDT as Level 7 and Immortal Call as Level 9. If I am above say 6.5k-7k HP I usually up this a level or two. Personal preference here really!
If you are new to Summoners, Spectres, are doing this as a league start or even stumbled across this build, I would highly recommend building the HP Stacking version first then transitioning into the Damage variant as you gain more currency and items!
NOTE: Shock has been disabled on all PoBs below however when you shock an enemy using the Ring Suffix "Shock nearby enemies for 4 seconds when you focus", minions are dealing 20% MORE damage.
PoB does not calculate this correctly.
HP sitting around 6.2k HP - Dropped Necromantic Aegis as Storm Brand is more than enough to keep Frenzy Charges up on bosses with Victario's Charity alone.
This means you are providing the frenzy charges for your minions! *Pointed out by @Isomorphicsm - thanks!
Currently at 6.7k HP with 12mil+ Shaper DPS. Stun immune due to picking up Unwavering Stance on the tree.
Any questions about this or any of the interactions please dont hesitate to ask!
Currently this is what I am aiming to build by end-game. Should reach around 14-16mil Shaper with 6k Life. Of course I am going to try it out!
Commander of Darkness is great if you are running haste or any other auras especially for the elemental resistances!
If you are able to fit Anger into your build, make sure you link it with generosity otherwise your skill that applies Elemental Equilibrium will have a negative effect! This will also provide your other Auras with a damage buff as they will no longer be affecting you!
It all depends on your playstyle. Mistress of Sacrifice first is also a good choice due to providing you with Flesh Offering buffs early on!
How am I reaching the 21Mil damage numbers?
A combination of quite a fair few gear, jewel and gem combinations!
Rare Wand: You can now roll 95% increased minion damage. Combo that with Minion attack and cast speed increased to offer even more damage.
Victario's Charity: along with Necromantic Aegis everytime your minions hit a target they have a chance to gain a frenzy charge. Generally this has 100% uptime.
The Devouring Diadem: Ontop of allowing 3 Auras linked with Generosity due to the reduced mana reservation and nodes on the tree this helmet became best in slot. Now add in 40% Spectre Damage Enchantment from Uber Lab. Godlike. I haven't even started on the benefits of Feast of Flesh.
Gloves: Corrupted with Elemental Weakness level 12 on hit. This means everytime our character hits an enemy with a spell, this third curse is applied to every minion.
Amulet: Corrupted with You can apply an additional curse. Allows you to inflict 3 curses on every enemy you hit with Storm Brand.
Belt: Corrupted with Zealotry has 17% increased Aura Effect. Anything above 17% was not showing any change in DPS for my build.
Aspect of the Avian: A very strong Aura for any minion build.
Conqueror's Efficiency: Corrupted with 1% Reduced Mana Reserved this allows for a total of 3% Reduced Mana Reserved.
Rare Jewels: Combined with damage and reduced mana jewels, this allows 3 auras to be on at once. Even though our reserved mana will be 0, the helmet The Devouring Diadem helps out in this regard by providing us with Eldritch Battery.
Minions deal x to x Fire Damage on Jewels: This allows your Animate Guardian to attack with Combustion. Each hit or two should be enough to ignite the enemy providing in more damage (will also provide this with its own section for visibility.
Shock Nearby Enemies for x Seconds whilst you are Focused: Crafted on a ring, each time you activate this, the enemy is then shocked by any incoming damage. I assume this is global shock for all damage (please correct me if this is not the case). Having the enemy shocked provides a HUGE damage increase.
The rest of the build is a work in progress!
I have another Build Guide which I will probably keep separate to this guide as it is more focused around a combo of party and solo play.
It provides a fairly fast mapper utilizing Phantasms with the Soulwrest Staff whilst still doing at least 4mil+ Shaper DPS with 3x Cannibal Fire-eaters for Single Target and a decent HP pool!
Dodge and Spell Dodge was one of the variants I was going to do next along with Max Block/Spell Block. Wanted to see if it was possible to build this using the right side of the tree without losing too much damage and minimal loss to HP.
Man you're a monster, trying this right now as my first spectre build!
FYI I highly recommend going for the HP Stacking version to begin with then transitioning into more damage as you gain currency and gear as the HP is quite low and might take some getting used to!
Would love to hear what you think of it! Any questions do let me know!
Have added a Phase Acrobatics Tree! Quite similar to just travelling over to Phase Acro but have put a bit more points into the right side to help out with the Dex requirement of the build more!
Makes it way easier to gear and life+damage is very similar!
5 mirror tier jewels with bugged Bloodgrip which gives you 15 more spell damage on minion, and 3 perfect corrupted items (glove, belt, amulet).
We could talk about the investment later probably. Hope you can get all the gears done by the end of this league.
In addition, you are using animated guardian if I remember correctly. Your AG has around 31k life. Fine, I assume your AG has 40k life with geared on, which means it will get killed very often by AOE, shaper beam, etc. AG with 1.5k+ life regeneration without consecrated buff is far from enough to keep it healthy.
Btw, you have literally 0 block/dodge or life/energy leech. Daidem is fine choice for survive, but still your character is way too fragile since 5 sec cd on feast of flesh.
And since you are using storm to proc EE, then you don't need necro ageis for generating frenzy charges anymore.
Sigh, honestly your POB made me speechless.
Thanks for the pickup. I added that 15% more for allies onto Bloodgrip when Zealotry was not calculated in PoB and clearly didnt pick up on it so have changed everything over. Regardless 21mil is still very high.
I don't see how those jewels are mirror tier?
Are they OP? Yes, but thats the point to get to 21mil. If you take out the damage mod, you are still doing what, 16mil. You could probably change them around if you wanted to and still get pretty high numbers.
I mean I have pointed out multiple times that 5.6k HP is not high at all and I have focused around damage alone for that tree to see what the Cannibal Fire-eaters can reach. I even specified to start off with the HP Stacking tree and transition into more damage if you want to?
If I do not require Necro Aegis, how would my minions receive frenzy charges? Clearly I am unaware how I would generate frenzy charges for my minions with Storm Brand and EE alone.
Aside from the jewels, the rest of the gear really isnt that unreachable. Last league I had 7 1% reduced mana jewels in my build with a combination of rare and uniques. Actually sold a few very similar to the Foul Sight Jewel I have equipped in the PoBs last league which is why I ran with it.
No need to be rude about it mate. Provided many different ways to play this build, with and without insane numbers. All I wanted to do here was share my build/s with the community and generate some feedback or changes which I can put into the build.


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Emily Blunt stopped by The Late Show on Tuesday night to talk about her new movie, Mary Poppins Returns. However, the star had something else to discuss: Stephen Colbert's adorable running style.
Blunt did have one question though which she couldn't ascertain just from watching his nightly sprint. "Are you legitimately quick?" she asked? Colbert cracked up laughing, putting his leg on the desk and quickly dissuading her of the idea. "The men in my family are not known for their long shanks," he explained. Colbert quickly the subject. Blunt did accomplish one thing, though, everyone will be paying much closer attention to Colbert's on-stage dash from now on.


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Genevieve Barr (born 12 December 1985) is an English actress best known for the role Amelia in the BBC award-winning series The Silence.
Further credits include roles playing psychopathic Lisa in Shameless, BAFTA award-winning The Fades, ITV's True Love alongside Jane Horrocks, Call the Midwife, ITV's Liar and BBC's four parter Press.
Genevieve was born deaf into a hearing family with no hereditary record of deafness, and has three younger siblings. She was fitted with hearing aids aged four and attended mainstream education at Harrogate Ladies' College, studied English and History at Edinburgh University, before graduating in 2008. A talented sports-woman, she played rounders for England at 15, was a high-board diver competing in national competitions, captained the Edinburgh University lacrosse team, before going on to play for Scotland. Upon completion of her degree, Genevieve enrolled in the Teach First graduate scheme and was teaching in a secondary school in Bermondsey before commencing her acting career. In 2016, Genevieve married her long-term partner, Alex. She lives in Crouch End, London.
In 2012, after The Silence came out, Genevieve went on to roles in Shameless and BBC3's award-winning drama The Fades. That was the first time Genevieve and Jack Thorne worked together before they were reunited with Thorne's hit play The Solid Life of Sugar Water. In 2013, Genevieve starred alongside Jane Horrocks in episode 4 of ITV's True Love, directed by Dominic Savage and played a Victorian prostitute in the BBC production Murder on the Victorian Railway.
In 2014, Genevieve played June Dillon in the season 4 finale - a deaf woman who relied solely on sign language coming to terms with childbirth and the prospects of raising a deaf child. In 2016 after a long stint of theatre work, Genevieve returned to television with ITV's hit show LIAR which has now been commissioned for a second season. In this, Genevieve was reunited with Harry and Jack Williams of The Missing fame, the writers of the show, who gave Genevieve her first acting job. In 2017, Genevieve played the role of Features Editor, Charlotte, in BBC's Press alongside Charlotte Riley. In 2018, we saw the release of 'Been So Long' in cinemas and on Netflix. Genevieve played Artemis in the film which starred Michaela Coel and Arinze Kene and was directed by BAFTA winning director, Tinge Khrishnan.
Genevieve can also be seen in the Maltesers advert, part of a huge international campaign celebrating diversity. This was the first advert to ever be aired solely in British Sign Language with captions.
Genevieve's first stint in theatre was working with actor-director Adrian Dunbar on an international tour of Brian Friel's Translations. A few years later she was reunited with Jack Thorne on the theatre production, 'The Solid Life of Sugar Water'. Co-produced by Graeae, the disability-led theatre company and Theatre Plymouth Royal, it won five star reviews at the Edinburgh Festival in 2015 and went onto the National Theatre in London at the culmination of a successful tour. Further credits have included 'Unreachable' at the Royal Court and she is signed up for two new productions in 2018.
^ a b c Dehn, Georgia Genevieve Barr interview: the deaf star of the new BBC thriller The Silence, 24 June 2010, www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
^ Press Packs: The Silence: Genevieve Barr (Amelia), 7 July 2010, www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
^ Lee, Adrian (13 September 2011). "Deafness won't stop me being a TV star".


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World News in Brief
So You Think You Can Broker Bilateral Peace Agreements?
President George Bush recently wrapped up a seven-nation tour of the Middle East where he traveled to push for a peace between Palestine and Israel and to rally Arab states against the Iranian regime. In Riyadh, Bush joined in a traditional Saudi sword dance with Prince Salman Abdul Aziz in order to show American "tribal" solidarity with the Arab cause. Bush's sword dance routine received tepid scores from the judges and studio audiences alike, but it remains unclear at this point whether the wooden performance was bad enough to elicit a re-air on Fox's End-of-Season Outtakes special.
Boeing and British Airways Have an Awkward Roll in the Hay
Last week, a British Airways flight inbound from Beijing was forced to crash land after the aircraft lost its electronics and avionics systems a few thousand yards short of a Heathrow runway. Fortunately, the plane's fast-acting pilots were able to maneuver the craft skillfully to avoid car traffic and to prevent passenger injury upon touchdown, but the incident has raised questions over Boeing and Rolls Royce manufacturing standards. Since the incident, several passengers from the Chinese flight have solicited British Airways, telling company executives that if they are in the market for shoddy planes and faulty engines, they should be sending more of their resources to China—not away from it.
Searching for Relevance
Last Friday at his home in Reykjavik, former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer died at the age of 64 of kidney failure. Equally famous for his extreme paranoia, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism as he was for being the only American-born world chess champion, Fischer was an enigmatic figure quick to incite controversy in a Cold War America wary of Eastern Europe and anti-establishment ideologues. Even so, MGM's recently-announced decision to make a sequel to the 1993 cult hit Searching for Bobby Fischer reflects how Fischer's flag has since faded: set for a December 2008 release, the film's working title is Trying to Remember Why Anyone Cared About Bobby Fischer in the First Place.
Primary Draws Candidates' Attention, Republicans Challenge Campus Left
Toledo Visits Campus, Speaks on Latin American Democracy


Last month I was able to share my childhood memories of Hampton Court Palace with you through the latest Ravensburger Puzzle. Today I'm showcasing the latest in their Historic Royal Palaces series with the lovely Tower of London 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle. The Tower of London really is a truly iconic landmark of our capital city, and somewhere I've been lucky enough to visit a few times.
You can't cease to be impressed with the Tower of London, it's seen bloodshed, fire and countless wars and is still standing, these days surrounded by soaring skyscrapers. But it's still there, a testament to our past heritage. Steeped in history it's somewhere I'll be exploring with Monkey when he's a little older, I'm sure he'll be as amazed by the Crown Jewels as I was the first time I saw them.
This Ravensburger puzzle has the quality you would expect from the brand and the photographic images work really well to represent the historic palace itself. Famed for the Beefeaters that defend the Tower of London, the Guardsmen that keep guard of the Crown Jewels and the Ravens that protect us all, these are also represented in this 1000 piece puzzle.
Being a bit of a Tudor fan, I've always been fascinated by Traitors Gate and you get quite a sense of what prisoners must have felt as they arrived there by boat, to walk up the steps into the imposing Palace, their prison.
There's lots of detail in this puzzle, and as always it's given rise to a few conversations with my son. Always a good thing as far as I'm concerned. The puzzle has plenty to keep a jigsaw puzzle fan busy, and it's been a really interesting puzzle to complete.
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Paul Di Filippo Reviews Fighters of Fear, Edited by Mike Ashley
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Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories, edited by Mike Ashley (Talos 978-1945863523, $29.99, 624pp, hardcover) January 2020
It is a simple and undeniable fact that the past will in many ways always overpower and outweigh the present. It's a matter involving sheer numbers and mass. The present is a tiny moving window of some quantum of time in which our consciousness lives. To be generous, let's denominate "the present" to be whatever the current year is, giving it a full twelve months of existence. Obviously, the past is all the eons that have come before, an almost infinitely greater span than the prior and next few months.
Culturally speaking, the productions of the past occupy a similar position of dominance, serving as the deep substrata for the thin scrim of the present. Sure, the year 2020 might see the publication of one or two thousand works of fantastika which, by their sparkly newness, attract our attention. But 2019—the immediate past—delivered just as many (which are now no longer "present") as did 2018, and 2017, and so on, back to the era where there were maybe only one hundred new SF books a year, or the era that saw only one rare new SF work every decade. No matter: cumulatively, all the fantastika published up to "the present" hugely outweighs the little, un-time-tested crop from 2020.
The same of course is true of paintings, movies, TV shows, music, sporting contests, and any other aspect of culture.
Some people deny any worth to the past, choosing to focus exclusively on only contemporary things and ignore or slight the vast accomplishments of history. Others traffic exclusively in nostalgia, dismissing the present. It's always seemed good to me, as a reader, to split my time between the newly born and the elderly stuff. Unless of course you're a blinkered victim of "presentism" and deny that any older work can possess merit and entertainment value.
But the sheer volume of past fantastika can dissuade even a curious reader, and so that's why we have knowledgeable curators, those who can sift the past, apply Sturgeon's Law, and emerge with treasures. One of the best in this field is Mike Ashley. He's been doing a series of excellent theme anthologies lately under the umbrella of British Library Science Fiction Classics. His newest is outside that framework, but just as spectacular, and with a winning, always alluring theme: adventures of investigators or champions who specialize in paranormal events. There are famous authors and forgotten ones here, but all of them are worth your attention.
At over six hundred pages, this is a Mammoth Book of… in all but name.
Ashley's typically concise and illuminating introduction lays out his remit and his conception of this subgenre, a thesis which he will further explore in the rich story introductions, which also offer lots of biographical detail on the writers. Then we are off and running, the stories arranged in chronological order of publication. And it's typical of Ashley's forensic skills that he gives us four stories that precede the one which most other critics use to mark the beginning of the mode.
"Green Tea", by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, kicks us off in high gear with the tale of a man who disorders the "spiritual fluids" in his brain's anatomy, with subsequent hallucinatory episodes. In "The Shining Pyramid", Arthur Machen shows an ancient rural ritual involving an abducted girl who, surprisingly, cannot and should not be rescued. Many of these stories are not all wrapped up neatly and predictably at the end. Arabella Kenealy conjures up "The Haunted Child", whose titular creature is at once repugnant and pitiful. "The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel", by L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace, is a rarity so far: a tale with no actual supernatural basis. The others all involve real spectral uncanniness.
"Most studies of the occult detective start with Flaxman Low, with some good reason, because here we have an individual who specializes in the study of strange phenomena from which he has developed a profound knowledge of the supernatural." And so we are introduced to the hero of "The Story of Yand Manor House", by E. & H. Heron, as he confronts an invisible but tangible terror. "Low pushed out his hands with a mad longing to touch a table, a chair, anything but this clammy, swelling softness that thrust itself upon him from every side, baffling him and filling his grasp."
"The Tapping on the Wainscott", by Allan Upward, gives us a classic spook who will not rest until injustice is remedied. Robert W. Chambers offers an immortal infatuation that spans the centuries in "Samaris", while "The Whistling Room", by William Hope Hodgson, delivers an unforgettable image: "The floor in the middle of the huge, empty room, was puckered upward in the center into a strange soft-looking mound, parted at the top into an ever-changing hole, that pulsated to that great, gentle hooning." A ghostly doppelganger stalks the pages of "The Woman with the Crooked Nose", by Victor Rousseau, while Max Rittenberg's "The Sorcerer of Arjuzanx" gives us our first real malevolent villain: "Osper Camargo was a dangerous man. The problem in hand was: how far did his powers in the realm of the supernormal extend?"
"The Ivory Statue", by Sax Rohmer, is notable for introducing the trope of a sidekick for the occult sleuth. This time it is the mysterious daughter of Moris Klaw, a seductive woman named Isis. The husband-and-wife team of Claude & Alice Askew show us, in "The Stranger", an element of feminism, as a young woman must sacrifice to marriage all the secret pagan joys she has known as a virgin. In "The Swaying Vision", Jessie Douglas Kerruish depicts a modern haunted house of a unique sort: it only became haunted by ostensibly ancient terrors a few months before the current occupants moved in! At this juncture, I should remark that so many of these tales are architecture-centric that the primeval role of a domicile in the mental and physical lives of humanity is highlighted in a greater way than even domestic fiction can produce.
F. Tennyson Jesse was a female writer, as were a big proportion of the other contributors to this volume, illustrating the centrality of women authors in this mode. Her detective, Solange Fontaine, is also female, and thrusts herself into a creepy mental hospital to solve a baffling case. Another human evildoer is at the heart of "The Villa on the Borderive Road", by Rose Champion de Crespigny. A woman is being driven mad by a phantom hand, and only Norton Vyse can figure out how. The by-now-familiar trope involving the psychic residue from bodily excretions informs Ella Scrymsour's "The Room of Fear". A bit of humor accompanies "The Seven Fires", by Philippa Forest, as we see a chambermaid's accidental cleaning rituals bringing in their wake bouts of spontaneous combustion.
In line with her realworld beliefs in the transmigration of souls and other psychic doings, Dion Fortune recounts a body swap in the wryly titled "The Subletting of the Mansion". Editor Ashley reveals that Seabury Quinn's series starring Jules de Grandin retains the honor of being the longest set of adventures in this genre. Reading "The Jest of Warburg Tantavul", a lurid, captivating exercise in incest and beyond-the-grave revenge, one sees how Quinn racked up such a compelling run. More somber and tragic is "The Soldier", by A.M. Burrage, wherein a martial specter is shown to arise from carnal betrayals. Another evildoer in the form of a sorcerer named Rathin Memory plagues an innocent young woman in Sydney Horler's "The Horror of the Height". Almost a novella, "The Mystery of Iniquity" by L. Adams Beck, gives us a battle between investigator James Livingstone and a psychically powerful woman turned to paths of damnation by her own father.
"The Thought-Monster", by Amelia Reynold Long, shows us the fatal folly of dabbling in existential exercises, as a man unwittingly conjures up a deadly tulpa-type entity. What possible motive could a ghost have for stealing shoes and boots and other leather items only? Henry S. Whitehead discloses a very good answer in "The Shut Room". Meanwhile, Gordon MacCreagh, in "Dr. Muncing, Exorcist", has to deal with a seance-conducting housewife whose foolish hobby brings a new evil into the world. His victory is incomplete. A church features not one but two ghosts in "The Case of the Haunted Cathedral". Margery Lawrence ingeniously weaves their fates together. Manly Wade Wellman introduces us to John Thunstone, who has to contend with an entire aboriginal race of malicious creatures in "The Shonokins".
What could be the cause of a spiritual malaise that only manifest when it snows? The answer involves surprising pathos in "The Dead of Winter Apparition", by Joseph Payne Brennan. Brennan also amusingly nominates himself as the Watson sidekick in all these tales of Lucius Leffing. The vast majority of our tales have occurred in the UK and the USA, but with "The Garden of Paris", by Eric Williams, we journey to France, where Monsieur Delacroix of the UNO must unravel the mystery of screams in the Paris night which occur but once a month.
Our final two authors are heirs to all that has preceded them, being still with us and productive, carrying the tradition of occult sleuth forward into the twenty-first century. Mark Valentine gifts us with "St. Michael and All Angels", wherein our second haunted church harbors not human spirits, but something more bestial. And finally in Jessica Amanda Salmonson's "Jeremiah", a Christmas exorcism goes awry when ghost and victim change places.
Because many of these stories appeared not in the pulps but in the "slicks" of their day, the prose in all of them is accomplished and inviting. Despite what some might regard as juvenile trappings—supernatural monsters are the stuff of nurseries and dime novels, right?—the themes of the stories are very complex and mature: love and hate, revenge and forgiveness, ambition and despair: all the emotions and events that you might find in a great Russian novel are explored. The various investigators run the gamut: from cerebral and almost effete, to brawny brawlers. And we traverse venues from high society to low. All in all, these selections, curated so wisely and creatively by Mike Ashley, are a deep tranche through a century or more of many sociopolitical, cultural and interpersonal matters.
Not only do these wildly heterogeneous yet companionable stories still provide scads of thrills and sheer entertainment, but they also illuminate such modern phenomena as The X-Files and Ghostbusters, Hellboy, and the Shadow Police novels of Paul Cornell. Read them to savor the roots of a timeless field.
Paul Di Filippo has been writing professionally for over thirty years, and has published almost that number of books. He lives in Providence RI, with his mate of an even greater number of years, Deborah Newton.
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Preparations are now well under way for a liquefied natural gas plant to handle Mozambique's massive offshore gas deposits. The Instituto Nacional de Petróleo has proposed a bill to modify the Petroleum Law of 2001. The draft law respects existing contracts and is intended to govern regulations for the new LNG plant, as well as the issuing of new exploration and production licences. There is no date yet for a new round of bidding but it will probably take place in the middle of next year. The LNG plant, which is to be built at Palluna, could have as many as ten trains.
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