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One Hot Summer Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 Rosemary Ashton
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While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory, 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points. For ordinary people, and also for the rich, famous, and powerful, the months from May to August turned out to be a summer of consequence.
Ashton mines Victorian letters and gossip, diaries, court records, newspapers, and other contemporary sources to uncover historically crucial moments in the lives of three protagonists—Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Disraeli. She also introduces others who gained renown in the headlines of the day, among them George Eliot, Karl Marx, William Thackeray, and Edward Bulwer Lytton. Ashton reveals invisible threads of connection among Londoners at every social level in 1858, bringing the celebrated city and its citizens vibrantly to life.
"Superbly researched . . . argues that the year was a crucial one in the lives of the three great Victorians: Dickens, Disreali and Darwin."—Paula Byrne, Times
"Rosemary Ashton's new book charts four boiling hot months in 1858 when the sewage of London went awry and . . . can often feel much closer to how people actually lived and breathed than grander, more panoramic narratives."—Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
"England was changing in that smelliest of summers, and Ashton gives us a finely scented snapshot of it all."—Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
"[The Great Stink] is a terrific subject for Ms. Ashton . . . She excels at unearthing and explaining the daily distractions of the nose-holding populace over the course of the summer: horse races, art shows, murder and divorce trials . . . Her detailed atomic record produces thought-provoking coincidences and reminds us of figures who deserve to be better known . . . In short: This book does not stink. Far from it."—Alexandra Mullen, Wall Street Journal
"A wide-ranging narrative, written with [Ashton's] customary flair."—John Bugg, TLS
"Not just another book about the Victorians, but one that could just as easily have been written by them. Turning its pages is like opening a window on to their world."—Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Guardian
"The book's real strength is its description of London quivering between modernity and the dark ages . . . There is plenty to enjoy in this panorama of Victorians in their heyday."—The Economist
"Finding space for clubland quarrels alongside state affairs and scientific advances, her lively study is elegantly executed, informative and entertaining."—Anne Somerset, Literary Review
"A wondrous, illuminating and evocative saga . . . Ashton has delved with comprehensive skill into the now-digitised copies of the newspapers of the day to discover the far from fake facts."—Gerald Isaaman, Islington Tribune
"[Ashton] is the best at navigating the hidden rapids of life, politics, art and popular culture."
—Judith Flanders, "Best History Books 2017", History Today
"The new celebrity cult developed by the popular press collided with the revolting state of the Thames, in that hot summer. Rosemary Ashton's brilliant description of the result is a 'must-read', whatever this summer brings."—Liza Picard, author of Victorian London
"Rosemary Ashton's evocative and intriguing portrait of public, private and political tensions in the long hot summer of 1858 delivers fascinating insights into the interconnected lives of her subjects."—Lee Jackson, author of Dirty Old London
"History-writing too often confines itself to great events set in motion by great people. In One Hot Summer Rosemary Ashton has produced history-writing of the most important kind, as she explores what happens in between those great events, and great people, and connects previously unconnected subjects and ideas. It reads as easily as fiction, as excitingly as a thriller. It is history as it should be written, but so rarely is."—Judith Flanders, author of The Victorian City
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Colin and Jack being adorable. They were cracking each other up!
Colin and Hayden working on their flag projects. It was serious work!
Colin and Ryan working on their flags...you can tell that Colin was floating the room? ;-)
Here is the group shot! From left; Anders, Jack, Greyson, Colin, Ryan (holding Woody in back) and Hayden. Colin loves his friends!
This last picture cracks me up, although it is unfortunately a fuzzy shot. Colin, Jack, Ryan and Hayden all have birthdays within the same month and they were having a great time singing happy birthday to themselves and blowing out the "candles" on a toy cake. This is going to sound so funny, but I grew up with a group of very popular and handsome boys who also shared birthdays around each other. They had a group party every year, which was always a GIANT bash at our local country club pool. I swear this event got bigger every year. They called themselves "The Bad Bad Birthday Boys" (hello 1988!) and for some reason I still remember those parties like it was yesterday...probably because I thought they were all so "hot". ;-) Anyway, when I first saw this picture, I thought about that memory. It looks like we have our own set of bad birthday boys!
On Saturday, it poured down rain all day, which really put a damper on my original fun ideas. We decided to make a trip to the Asian market for dumplings and shopping, which was a blast as always. Colin LOVES that place!! He adores the seafood section to the point that I am worried about what he will do when he realizes that those lobsters and crabs are actually for eating! HA! Afterwards, we hit our first fireworks stand with Colin and he thought it was pretty awesome. We purchased a ton of sparklers and poppers. Colin came home and promptly threw every single popper that we bought in the backyard. It was so much fun to watch...he was throwing them down and stomping on them forever! Jer supervised, although Colin got the hang of it immediately. That night, we lit his first sparkler, which he looooved. It was a wonderful day!
I wanted to attend the fireworks show that evening, but it sadly got rained out. Sunday was the 4th and we got up bright and early to begin prep. I made stuffed strawberries to take to the lunch BBQ we were attending at our friend Dave's house and watermelon-cucumber salad to take to our evening party at Kimberly's parents house. Colin had a great time at Dave's house...we swam, ate, and Colin played endlessly with Dave's daughter. We were late leaving there and missed dinner at our other party, but we had a GREAT time regardless! We were in plenty of time to swim with all of our best friends AND we got to set off small fireworks in their cul-de-sac. I was very shocked to see that Colin loved the fireworks! With all the noise, I was certain that he would turn and go back inside, but he thought it was awesome. Nathan was setting them off and Colin kept trying to "help" him do it! He did hold his ears several times, but never got too scared and really enjoyed himself. After one pretty awesome round, a police car pulled up. OOPS! Colin and his buddy Jack were thrilled with the arrival and went out to see the officer and check out the car. I am pretty sure that their adorable faces are the only reason that we did not get a ticket. ;-) That ended the show and we hit the road soon afterwards. Colin passed out in the car and did not even stir when I carried him to his bed. What a perfect day!
Colin eating a very American spread at Dave's house...ribs, corn and watermelon! :-)
watching the fireworks with Jer and Kimberly's dad, Dave
Colin "helping" Nate set off the fireworks!
Colin and Daddy with our favorite little man, Pierce
Group shot of the girls and some of the kiddos...Lindsey, Eren and Jack, Kayrene and Ryan, me and Colin, Kim, Hayden and Piercy J!
The firework that brought the police! ;-) You know it's not a party until the police show up!We woke up on Monday and headed straight over to the rainforest water park for swimming with the whole gang. Jack's actual birthday was that day, and all the families got together there for a picnic and swim. We virtually collapsed when we got home...it was a busy and wonderful holiday weekend!! The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays and I feel so blessed that we got to celebrate with so many of our wonderful friends!


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Where to Eat in Memphis: 7 Delicious Spots in the Cooper-Young District
Whenever people come to Memphis, most of them just want to eat barbecue non-stop, or maybe hit a few of the places that have been featured on various Food Network shows. And I'm proud to show off some of our local smoked pork and soul food restaurants. But when real food lovers come to town, I take them directly to the Cooper-Young District, located conveniently near the airport, downtown, and our major universities.
It's our local artsy neighborhood, full of bicycles, creative house paint, and, most importantly, an ever-changing landscape of locally-owned restaurants that buck the trends of fast food and veer away from stereotypical dishes associated with the South, while still celebrating our regional ingredients and culinary traditions.
Even though Memphis is definitely a driving city, Cooper-Young is very walkable and safe for pedestrians and cyclists alike. That's why I like bringing visitors there so much: I go in without a plan and say, "Look, we're going to park here beside the church, and then walk around for a bit until we figure out what we all want to eat. If we can't decide right away, we're hopping in this place and having a cocktail to talk about it further." I've had great success with this strategy and always try to hit at least two places on a single visit.
Some online guides extend the definition of Cooper-Young way into Overton Park and the University of Memphis area; for the purposes of this post, I stuck to those restaurants within one block of the iconic intersection of Cooper Street and Young Avenue. Click through the slideshow to take a look at where—and what—to eat in this great Midtown Memphis neighborhood, or jump directly to the list below!
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Hanging On, or How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Life
March 3, 2009
The Great Depression of the 1930s did not just affect financiers and farmers; it also gutted the middle class. It is instructive to ponder first-hand accounts of that era of "hanging on."
Knowledgeable correspondent M.B. recently forwarded an extremely timely and cogent essay on a first-hand account of the Great Depression from the point of view of a once-middle class family.
Before we get to that: I have finally plowed through the voluminous and exciting correspondence received in February, and have posted 12 thought-provoking readers' comments on everything from pimping the War on Drugs to narco-dollars for beginners to the Sierra snow surveys: reader comments 3/3/09. (There is also a very wonderful poem from Verona Y., "Arctic Terns," in the updated Readers Journal.)
M.B.'s essay Hanging On, or How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Life covers a book of the same title by Edmund G. Love: Hanging On, Or, How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Life (out of print but available used).
Here are the first few paragraphs of the essay; I think you'll find the entire piece most informative and even provocative in light of the global Depressionw e are now entering:
Though there are many short accounts and (e.g., Studs Terkel's Hard Times), novels (e.g., Grapes of Wrath), movies and historical analyses of how various populations (e.g., migrant workers, Okies, etc.), I've seen few interesting, in-depth accounts of how middle class and upper middle class Americans in particular experienced the 1930s depression.
So Edmund G. Love's 1972 autobiographical novel, Hanging On, Or, How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Life was particularly intriguing to me when I found it at a local used bookstore, and his story struck me as an especially timely one given current events. Though the book certainly includes much more then just the depression, relating, for instance, the author's college experience, it is in large part a discussion of how nation's economic circumstances impacted the author and his friends and family and how they responded to these challenges.
(Love published several other books including Subways are for Sleeping and The Situation in Flushing. Some of these titles are currently sold by the Wayne State University Press. Others titles do not appear to be sold currently but are available used on Amazon. Hanging On was originally published by William Morrow & Company, NY, and was reprinted in 1988 by Great Lakes Books, the imprint of Wayne State University Press.)
Certainly there are many differences, in ways both good and bad, between the 1930s and today, a point made by numerous bloggers and many others in recent weeks and months. Still, even given these differences I believe there are good general lessons which can be learned from how others have dealt with severe economic challenges and dislocations, both in our own nation and elsewhere in the world (e.g., Iceland, pre-collapse Soviet Union, Argentina).
Love, a resident at the time of Flint, MI, a city then of 156,000 people, was young, college aged (he turned 17 in 1929) and upper middle class. At least in theory, the author's father, who owned a coal and lumberyard, was worth $1 million though the author notes that he later realized "[m]ost of his fortune was on paper and mighty flimsy paper at that" (p. 13). (One million dollars in 1930 was equivalent to about 10 million in 2007 depending on how computes this value e.g., based on the consumer price index, gross domestic product or relative purchasing power. See the historical value calculators.
The author's family had a nice house, housekeeper and maid and several cars. Love notes that his family and most of his neighbors had moved to Flint from more rural areas of Michigan in the past decade to work in trades such as plumbing or in the city's auto industry. Housing boomed -- according to the author his father's lumberyard had 20 or 30 contractors as clients in the late 20s (96)—and with the housing industry so too did sales for many other goods, such as (what were then) new types of household appliances including electric refrigerators, toasters and radios. "Prosperity touched everyone. It was a poor man who couldn't make money in Flint," writes the author.
For instance, Love notes that some of his friends families had second homes and he himself received a new car for his 18th birthday.
One of the undercurrents of this book, in my view, was how long it took the author and many others to realize just how drastically their circumstances had changed and that the depression was not going away anytime soon. Though Love notes that some historians later would divide the depression into different phases (depression, recovery), for him there was little to distinguish these years and when the depression finally did end, it did so fairly suddenly.
As the author explains, the depression, at least at its worst, did not happen overnight and the author was not greatly impacted in the early stages. For instance, in September 1929 between graduating high school and starting college the author attended a military school in Missouri for a year. He notes that between semesters some classmates could not afford to return. His father lost most of his money in the Oct 1929 crash, ended up in debt, had to mortgage the lumberyard and came close to bankruptcy (46). However, the author, away at military school was largely unaware of this. Several of the authors' friends fathers also had lost big in the stock market and many people were worried about slow 1930 model car sales.
His family and others families started to cut spending (47). Still, though people were careful, they were still largely optimistic at that time hoping "[t]hings would be better in the spring when people started building houses again. The situation was only temporary" (48).
By June 1930, with the depression 8 months old, "[t]he panic had subsided and the wreckage had been cleared away. Most people could look about them and see just about where they stood." Though the spring had passed "[t]here was an air of puzzlement but the optimism was there, too" with many still expressing the belief that " 'prosperity is just around the corner.' "
As the author explains (48-49) this idea: "would be repeated and repeated. When the fall had some and gone, people talked about the upturn that would come the next spring. The next spring people would say that the upturn would come in the summer, and so on. The thing is that people really believed this. They had a blind faith in it, and because they did, they set up a pattern of living called 'hanging on.'
If you were in a business, you kept the business going any way you could until the upturn came and things got better. If you had a job, you hung onto it any way you could. You took less money and worked longer hours. Sooner or later things would return to normal. If you were laid off from your job, you hung around close by, so that you'd be able to go back to work[…] This was where the optimism came in. No one that I knew ever thought things would stay bad forever. The silver lining was there somewhere, and it was bound to turn up."
From the author's perspective and observation, 1930 was bad only in comparison to 1929. People felt pessimistic because most certainly were worse off than they had been a year ago. The author's father, who employed 25 people, still had enough business in 1930 to keep 12 coal trucks going and was able to give the author a summer job without displacing anyone. However, the author does note that when people left (e.g., to join the military or get married) they were not replaced. In Flint and elsewhere people still were living off accumulated savings and the auto companies, preparing for the 1931 model year, still offered solid employment. The author's fathers' lumberyard still had coal and lumber stocks and could both sell and purchase on credit. For instance, many people purchased their winter coal supply that year on credit.
The author and his family were able to save enough to afford the author's first semester at the University of Michigan in the Fall of 1930 where he enrolled as a sophomore (after the one year at the military academy). The college still was "closer in spirit to the twenties than it was to the thirties" since the "real pinch" of the depression had yet to be felt.
But by Labor Day (Sept. 1930) the nation started to experience the "real depths" of the depression. The author's father started to get calls from his creditors and customers no longer were paying their accounts. By this time, "[t]he fat on which people had been living all summer was gone." It was at this point, as 1931 model car sales ground to a halt, that mass layoffs began in Flint's auto factories (76) Prices dropped (e.g., 8 gallons of gas selling for $1, cigarettes for 10 cents a pack). Prices for the coal sold by his father's lumberyard also dropped but, unfortunately, their costs for purchasing this coal did not. Businesses in Flint not selling necessities- clothing stores, furniture stores - started to close down and were boarded up. His father had to start dismissing employees because he could not afford to pay his bills since his customers could no longer pay theirs. Coal deliveries to the lumberyard had to be paid upfront in cash or the suppliers would take the shipment back. "It was a grim and desperate time," the author writes.
Please go to Hanging On, or How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Life to read the rest of the essay.
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Should a Christian tithe ?
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Tithing was an obligatory legal discipline in the O. T. (Gen. 14: 20, Lev. 27: 31; Nu. 18: 24-28: Dt. 12: 6; Neh. 10: 37; Am. 4: 4; Mal. 3: 8-10; Lk. 18: 12). Those who were not tithing were robbing God (Mal. 3:8). That which was legalistic tithing in the O. T. is a part of Christian stewardship in the N. T. According to the N. T. all are only gifts of God and so are accountable to God for all of one's possessions. A Christian who titles, but does not use one-tenth according to the will of God is not a true Christian. The trusteeship principle taught by Mahatma Gandhi is a Christian idea.
Did Jesus want us to tithe ? He did not tell the Pharisees to stop tithing. What he told them is applicable to us Christians also: "Woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God; these you ought to have done, it without neglecting the others" (Lk. 11:42). The emphasis is on justice and the love of God. Christian tithing must be as part of these two Christian traits. As Christ says, 'these you ought to have done.' He is recommending tithing. Even if the verse is interpreted other way round, still He says that we should not neglect tithing. Love of God and justice to fellowmen must be our main concern. Again, when Jesus said, "Render unto Caesar the thing that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's " (Mt. 22:21), the Jews must have understood it as the need to give tithe, first-fruits etc. unto God. We know that everything we have is God's and we tithe as an expression of our gratitude for His multifarious gifts to us. The advantage of setting apart one-tenth for charity is that we will always have a fund to give to the needy without any heartache. Christian giving should not be out of compulsion, but out of the joy of giving. (Read II Cor. 8 & 9). The one verse that Jesus said that is not read in the gospels, but only in the Acts is, "It is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35). The idea is that happiness is more in giving than in receiving. If tithing is a legalism in the O.T. it is a dynamic joy in the N. T. If the Jew felt satisfied after having given the tithe, first-fruits etc., the Christian feels that he has not given as much as he should. The widow who offered all her living in the two mites that she offered in the treasury in the temple was praised by the Lord as she did not keep back anything for herself, but offered all what she had. Christ is not looking for the amount or quantity of giving, but the quality of giving. "God so loved the world that He gave......" We love our children and we give them as much as we can. "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" (Lk. 12: 34). It also means where your heart is, there your treasure will also be. We will give to the poor and the needy with as much joy as we give to the children if our hearts are with the Lord and the poor.
The answer then is that the least a Christian should do must be tithing. As John Wesly said, "work as hard as you can, earn as much as you can, use as little as you can, and give as much as you can." This is what the parents do for the children and we must do the same for the Church, the poor, the hungry, the sick, and the jobless.


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Today Valve releases the first in a series of videos covering the E3 demo for Portal 2. In the first portion we meet Wheatley, the personality sphere that's cuddlier than a companion cube, if that's even possible.
While Crecente briefly touched on Wheatley's first appearance during his Portal 2 preview during E3, I had no idea how charming the personality sphere with the British accent actually was until now.
As much as I enjoyed the solitude of the original game, I really like the idea of having an inept little comic-relief character tagging along for the sequel; a human voice from the most unlikely of sources.
"I think she likes you!"
Not by a long shot, Wheatley.
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The Planes. A person could spend his life travelling them, and when he died there would still be so much left to explore. Chances are the place he once started from doesn't exist anymore, or has changed into something completely different.
Such is the nature of the Planes, shifting, changing, bubbling with the creative energy of the Universe, the raw material from which the worlds you and I live in are made.
But there are some berks out there who want to do more than that. They may be going solo, in groups or part of a larger organ of exploration. Some are famous across the planes for their bold attitude and less than mad sense of dare as they travel the deeps of Pandemonium, or the floating metallic cubes of Acheron. The Guild of Planewalkers, Naturally, a substantial amount of these bold adventurers have short-lived and easily-forgotten careers, but who can honestly say no to a life spent charting the unknown and possibly lethal?
You are, or will, become a part of this Guild. The How and Whys are up to you. Perhaps you were a simple mercenary doing the every odd job that came your way until you found yourself a natural part of the guild, or maybe you joined them up with a goal in mind; be it to see all of the planes before you die, or all of its treasures...
I am looking to about 4 to 6 players, but I will mostly let anyone joins who feel that they're up for it. We will be playing official modules, although slightly altered to fit in with the group and with how we're playing. I hope that each and every one at least posts twice a week, and for this reason I implement the (...) system, a means of letting me and the others know that you don't feel you can contribute much to the game, simply by posting (...) or something to that effect (if you do not wish to clutter the game, a simple PM to me, or an IM if you see me, will be good enough).
Race and class restrictions will be fairly loose, although I want you to run any ideas by me. I would prefer it if we can keep out of the evil spectrum, although again that is up for debate. A good idea can make me change my mind.
Also, taking a leaf out of Idran's book, we will be running the game through Pathfinder, as it has cleared up and fixed some parts of D&D 3.5. Naturally, anything not included in the Pathfinder core books will be dealt with using those of 3.5. If you have a sheet for it, or want to make one yourself, go ahead and do so, otherwise get in touch with me and we'll get one for you. I'd like for everyone interested to post here and we'll see to getting things rolling.
Also, if there's anyone who want to play a Primer (i.e. a person not from the Planes), I could set you/you all up with a 'pre-launch' adventure that'll get you thrown into Sigil and to where the action is.


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The Face of Judaism in America is Changing
"The face of the Jewish community is changing," explained the TV announcer.
I had to smile. She was right. The two people she interviews are examples of that change. Award winning journalist Simone Weichselbaum comes from a family that has both German Jewish and Jamaican roots. She grew up in the thick of two communities, easily weaving these identities together. Families like hers are increasingly common and it is a change in the Jewish world. Conversion is increasingly common as well. Some are drawn by marriage, others like African American Rabbi Capers Funnye, who decades ago found his way to Judaism, are drawn for theological reasons. Conversion is changing the face of the Jewish community.
But the announcer was also wrong. Her guests are both dark skinned. And there have always been dark skinned Jewish faces. There were Jews in Ethiopia long before there were Jews in Poland. There were Jews in India long before there were Jews in Spain. Dark faces abound.
But for most of us this is still new and maybe even news.
I work as the Rabbi-in-Residence at Be'chol Lashon an organization that advocates for and celebrates the racial and ethnic diversity of the Jewish community. Much of the work is exhilarating. I interact with dedicated and inspiring Jews, whose backgrounds are different than my own but whose passion is infectious. At other times it can be discouraging. Sometimes my conversations remind me of what I've heard tell of the early days of the gay rights movement. Take for example my conversation with rabbi of a modest congregation in a strongly Jewish city. Asking him to lend support to our effort, he demurred explaining that this was not an issue in his community. "There are no Jews of Color in our congregation. If there were I would know," he explained with confidence. I wanted to ask him if he thought his predecessor twenty years ago had known about the gays and lesbians in the congregation.
Not a direct parallel? Maybe not, given that visible minorities are in theory visible.
The assumption that we would see the diversity if it was there does not entirely hold. Take Dr. Levy, who has always been a reliable member of the Shabbat morning Torah study but hasn't brought her grandchildren along because she is not sure that they or their Vietnamese father would be entirely welcome. Or maybe the weekly Torah reader who joined the community when he moved cross-country has never really talked about his African American father who married his mother and raised him from age two. He is not quite sure how people would react. Or maybe it is cousin Syd and his equally white partner who show up at Sarah's bat mitzvah with their beautiful Chinese daughter in tow.
Change is happening, but it should not be so surprising. Diversity is part of broad collective reality of Jewish life and has always been. More than ever it is also the general American reality. Increasingly it is also becoming an open part of the contemporary Jewish reality in the United States.
The Reform movement is rightfully proud that as a movement it has been at the forefront of social change and fairness, when it comes to LGBT issues. Though there were bumps along the way, many straight allies played important roles in opening door and creating spaces in classrooms, youth groups, and sanctuaries. People learned about inclusion through sermons, curriculum, and informal conversations. And while there is still much work to be done, I take heart in the changes that have occurred.
This can be a model as we work to make our congregations, schools, camps and institutions welcoming and inclusive places from Jews of all ethnic and racial backgrounds too. We need to be prophets of the possible. And diversity is not just possible it is inevitable and positive. Whether we see it or not, the announcer was right, the face of the Jewish community is changing. The historic diversity of our people is increasingly becoming—through adoption, intermarriage and conversion—part of the American Jewish narrative. How we adapt to this change is entirely up to us.
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Bishop Benenoch announced to his congregation during a service on Saturday September 15th 2012 that he was divorcing his wife, Esther Benenoch and there was no going back because it was an instruction from God. Well, apparently God has instructed himself otherwise because he has withdrawn his divorce petition. See the public notice he posted on his Facebook page after the cut...
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On Saturday the 15th of September last year, I announced my decision to file for a divorce to end my marriage to my wife, Esther. I wish to inform you my friends that Esther and I have decided to seek prayer solution to the challenges of our relationship.
We are no more pursuing the divorce option at this time. I therefore have since withdrawn my divorce petition from the court.
I thank you for your support, your concern and your prayers. I urge you to continue to keep us both in your prayers. Once again, thank you and God bless you.


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6 Nick Heidfeld Shows Us What NOT To Do While Demonstrating The BMW Sauber F1 Car
BMW thought it would be a good idea to bring out the new Sauber F1 car for a bit of fun at the BMW plant in Munich. Why not halt ze making of ze Bimmers for a few minutes and give the 5,000 or so workers a little entertainment? Well, we can think of a reason. BMW's driver Nick Heidfeld zooms down the strasse and does a donut for the crowd yesterday without incident. Apparently pleased with himself, he guns that big engine and heads down the street for an encore. This is where things start to fall apart. Literally. Overcome with the joy of a well executed donut, Heidfeld loses track of where the barrier is. Oops. At least he missed the medical car. Thankfully, someone made a video of it because the official F1 press release was typically mum about the incident. We tell ya, Bernie's yet to find a problem he can't ignore.


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Snapshots from the Tamale Festival in San Antonio
Last weekend I found myself in a room full of tamales, an enviable position, to say the least, especially for someone who loves corn and fatty pork. And these weren't just any tamales—these were the best homemade tamales from all over San Antonio, Texas. The competition was stiff. The setting: the third annual Tamales! festival, with entries falling into one of four categories: meat, vegetarian, dessert, and wildcard.
All in all, I must have tasted something like 40 different kinds of tamales that afternoon, a gut-busting endeavor if there ever was one.
Come December, San Antonio gets a little tamale-crazy. Though they're eaten year-round, corn husks litter the floors of home kitchens during the holiday season. My cab drivers, the staff in my hotel, just about everyone here, had something to say about tamales. This, without my ever having solicited their opinion. (Secret family recipes; tamales gone wrong—that sort of thing.) It was something to see, the sense of community surrounding this one foodstuff.
So what makes a tamale great? One of the festival judges told me, first and foremost, that it's a great masa dough (the corn and fat dough which is wrapped in husks, then steamed.) What about the fillings? Well, in some parts of Mexico, tamales are made without any whatsoever. Just the masa and its wrapper. The masa is key.
The festival takes place every year at the Pearl complex, which is a sort of utopian hub of restaurants and culinary talent in San Antonio, and home to the CIA's newest campus.
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Douglas Ingram rose through the ranks at Allergan over the past 20 years, during a period of extremely strong growth for the company. Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company originally based in Irvine, California, that makes products in a range of categories, including ophthalmology, dermatology, neuroscience, and urologics, among others. Ingram ultimately became president in 2013, as Allergan needed to make changes to keep pace with a dynamic pharmaceuticals market.
In response, Ingram launched a transformation effort that was ambitious in both timing (just six months to develop and implement) and scope (virtually everything was on the table for consideration). The company's goal was to restructure in order to accelerate earnings growth beyond its historical rate of 15%, so that it could deliver greater value for shareholders. Just as the company launched the transformation, it faced another challenge—a hostile takeover attempt—that redoubled the company's sense of urgency.
In response and in partnership with BCG, Allergan cut low-ROI activities and restructured quickly, reduced costs by more than $500 million, and increased its earnings growth rate from 15% to more than 20%. Shareholders and analysts approved, increasing the company's overall market value by some $20 billion. As a result of these changes, Allergan's management was able to avoid the hostile takeover and pursue a deal with a different acquirer—Actavis—on better terms.


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The best thing to be said about the U.S. women's performances at the Grand Prix Final is Ashley Wagner won a silver medal, just the second for a U.S. woman at the event since 2003.
And Wagner did it by living up to that old axiom, "No guts, no glory."
However, the state of women's figure skating worldwide is so riddled with inconsistency that Wagner earned the medal despite two hard falls while finishing fourth in Saturday's free skate at the 2014 Olympic rink in Sochi, Russia.
That was where the guts came in.
Two-time world champion Mao Asada of Japan, the easy (14.87-point margin) and absolutely deserving winner, took the third Grand Prix Final gold of her career with a free skate that had just three clean triple jumps. Generous free skate judges gave her a total score of 196.80, best in the world this season.
Her compatriot, Akiko Suzuki, fell twice in the free skate and wound finished less than a point behind Wagner overall.
Christina Gao of the United States, who made the six-skater final as first alternate because of an injury withdrawal, was dead last in both programs – almost 19 points from fifth place. She fell once in the free skate.
U.S. ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White won their fourth straight Grand Prix Final title. They took both the short and free dances to beat Canadian rivals Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the reigning Olympic champions, by 3.56 points.
But what happened in Sochi seemed of less consequence than what reigning Olympic champion Kim Yuna of South Korea accomplished in Saturday's short program at her comeback competition in Dortmund, Germany.
Kim, who had not competed since the 2011 worlds, rolled up 72.27 points, fourth highest score ever – topped only by three she had posted in 2009 and 2010, with a best of 78.50 from the Olympics. She reacted with little emotion (video) after a clean program that included a triple lutz - triple toe loop combination.
Wagner had been the leading qualifier for the final after winning both her Grand Prix events this fall, one with the season's previous world-leading score (190.63). She had a personal best score while placing second to Asada by a whisker in Friday's short program.
"It has been a long season, and I knew a down competition was going to happen sooner or later," she said.
She went down hard on her rump on the second planned triple jump of her program, a salchow.
But the reigning U.S. champion bounced right up and nailed three more triple jumps (one with a wrong takeoff edge) before falling heavily on her stomach and left hip on the double axel that followed a triple loop.
"When I fall, I fall hard," Wagner said.
Once again, despite wincing, she barely missed a beat, stayed in the character of her program (Delilah, from Camille Saint-Saens opera, "Samson and Delilah") and hit a rock-solid triple flip near the end of the four-minute skate.
"I'm really proud of myself (that) I was able to pull myself together after a fall like that," Wagner said. "Going into the next jump, you're pretty much terrified that you're going to do it again.
"I knew I could either give the competition away at that point or continue to fight."
Wagner said she expected to be sore the next few days, which include more than 24 hours of travel back to Los Angeles. Wagner said the team doctor told her she had a hip pointer.
"I don't know what that is, but I can tell you it hurts," Wagner said.
(A hip pointer is a bruise of the hip bones that often implicates stomach muscles.)
"I'll be fine by nationals (the end of January)," Wagner insisted.
Wagner withdrew from Sunday's exhibition because of what an International Skating Union release called injuries to her left hip and right knee. U.S. Figure Skating spokesperson Renee Felton said the knee also was bruised.
This was Wagner's second appearance at a Grand Prix final, having finished 4th in 2009. Alissa Czisny, the 2010 winner, had been the only other U.S. woman to make the podium since Sasha Cohen took second in 2003.
"Looking at everything I have accomplished this season, this is a bonus," Wagner said.


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Fancy a stroll around the observation deck of the tallest building in the world?
Normally, doing so would involve a flight to Dubai, an expensive hotel room and a struggle through traffic under blazing sunshine. But now you can take it all in from the comfort of your own living room.
Google has launched a new project capturing a
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The images taken by Google allow users to navigate through the building, using Street View technology, which the company generally uses to map cities. Users can explore the structure from the opulent basement entrance hall to the highest occupied apartment in the world on the building's 163rd floor.
To compile the images,
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and battled 40 mph winds at the top of the building's spire, 828 meters (2,716 feet) above ground level.
The pictures will be the first time Street View has been used in the Middle East, and the first collection of images to feature a skyscraper.
The Burj Khalifa is the tallest man-made structure in the world. Modeled on principles of classical Islamic architecture. The building took six years and more than 22 million man-hours to erect.
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Bene Tleilax, or the Tleilaxu as they were more commonly called, were a group of secretive, genetically altered humans who inhabited Tleilax, the sole planet of the star Thalim.
The customs and ethics of the Bene Tleilax led to widespread revulsion by the other cultures of the Known Universe, a reaction that did little to quench the Tleilaxu's hunger to subjugate their rivals.
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- 1.13 The Day of Kralizec
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During the Butlerian Jihad
Around the years of the Butlerian Jihad, Tlulax was an Unallied planet. The Tlulaxa worked as merchants and slavers. Tlulaxa scientists were noted geneticists and cloners and the planet was known for its organ farms. During the war, due to the heightened demand, slaves were taken as organ reservoirs. This was revealed by Vorian Atreides, and public opinion had been inflamed against the genetic researchers; outraged mobs destroyed the organ farms and most of the Tlulaxa went into hiding, hated by the League.
The Corrino Empire
Ten thousand years later, during the time near the end of Corrino Empire, the Tleilax had re-established themselves, and had curried positions of favor with the Imperial House. The Master Researcher Hidar Fen Ajidica, presented a plan to synthesize melange to Emperor Elrood Corrino IX, and persuaded him to allow the Tleilax to conquer Ix from House Vernius.
Though the Tleilax tried in vain to completely synthesize spice, delusions of grandeur came into the thoughts of Ajidica, as he came close to mimicking melange with amal, or as he called it, Ajidimal. Ajidica envisioned the advent of Tleilaxu hegemony throughout the Known Universe, and sent out colony ships of Enhanced Face Dancers, to prepare "the way" for his ascendancy. Project Amal, as the doomed venture came to be known, fell apart; as Ix was re-conquered by House Vernius, Ajidica died from an overdose on Amal, and the Enhanced Face Dancers were lost contact with.
The Atreides Empire
After Paul Atreides ascended the Golden Lion Throne, the Tleilaxu tried in vain to create a rival Kwisatz Haderach, to challenge Paul's rule. From Thalidei, on Tleilax, gholas named Thallo were grown, and the first was awakened. After just a short time, Thallo, used his prescient ability to discern that he was a failed attempt to create a super-being. Distraught, Thallo attempted to mass kill the citizens of Thalidei with nerve gas, but was instead killed by Marie Fenring, the assassin-trained daughter of Hasimir Fenring and Margot Fenring.
The Tleilaxu then participated directly in the plot to destroy the royal family with the gift to Paul Atreides of Hayt, the ghola of Duncan Idaho. When Chani died giving birth to the twins, Leto II and Ghanima Atreides, the Face Dancer Scytale was then killed by the Emperor, with the help of his new-born son.
The Scattering
Under Leto II, the Tleilaxu chafed just as all of the old power brokers struggled against his complete authortarian rule. Near the end of his reign, the Tleilaxu participated in a direct assassination attempt against him in the festival city of On, formerly Arrakeen. They also engineered his eventual fiancee' and love, Hwi Noree; from the cells of his old friend, Malky; before the God Emperor's death on Dune.
When Leto died, and the Famine Times began, the Tleilaxu, just as the rest of humanity, spread throughout the cosmos in The Scattering, in an attempt to find hospitable worlds. Centuries into the Scattering, some of the female Tleilaxu, all of whom had been reduced to Axlotl Tanks, revolted against their male keepers. These same females merged with Scattering-oriented Fish Speakers and Scattering-oriented Bene Gesserit, and formed the ultra-hostile Honored Matres.
The Return
During the Return of the Honored Matres in to the Old Imperium, the Honored Matres, seeking revenge against all Tleilaxu males, attacked and decimated Tleilax; and the only known Tleilaxu Master survivor was the most junior Master Scytale. However, his possession of numerous individuals' genetic material (including that of many Tleilaxu) made it possible for him to recreate his culture. Additionally, the successful spread of the Tleilaxu that were sent out during The Scattering, made it possible that others survived in uncharted space, undiscovered by the Honored Matres; when they returned to Known Space, they were known as the Lost Tleilaxu.
The Matres also killed the elder Tleilaxu Master, Tylwyth Waff, as he was on Rakis when they attacked the planet with ultra-destructive Obliterator weapons. This caused wide-spread revulsion amongst the surviving Tleilaxu, as they considered the sandworms of Dune to contain an essence of the God Emperor, their Prophet.
Erasmus, Khrone, and the Enhanced Face Dancers
Separately, the Enhanced Face Dancers that were sent out by Ajidica millenia earlier were "found" by Omnius and Erasmus of the re-born Thinking Machine Empire. Erasmus, especially of the two, further changed the Dancers in three main ways.
First, he put in their genetic make-up a strong desire to be able to return and find their way back easily to Synchrony, capital of the Machine Empire. Second, he further improved their mimicking ability, such that they simply could not be detected by any means, except by the Whistling language of a Tleilaxu Master. Third, Erasmus, believing the ability to mimick and then having to kill the person their mimicking to be "evil", Erasmus installed a genetic "kill switch" at the base of each Enhanced Dancers cerebellum, as a "safety" back-up to protect Machine interests.
After these changes had been made, Erasmus sent the Enhanced Face Dancers, under their leader Khrone, back into human-space.
Burah and the Enhanced Face Dancers
Concurrently, as the Lost Tleilaxu returned into the Old Imperium, their remaining Tleilaxu council, led by the Elder Burah, came upon, and then thought themselves the masters of the Enhanced Face Dancers; but did not know that they were secretly under Machine control. As Burah sent out the Enhanced Dancers into the worlds of human-kind with the expressed intent of taking over key leadership positions amongst humanity; for a time the Enhanced Dancers pretended to be led by the old surviving Tleilaxu council. Khrone, who as a Dancer, himself feigned obeisance to the Tleilaxu Elders, but waited for the moment to rid himself of his Lost Tleilaxu leaders..
When the Face Dancers replaced the leadership of the Administrator branch of the Guild, the Honored Matres, the Bene Gesserit, CHOAM, and key leaders throughout humanity reached a point appointed by Erasmus; Khrone and the Enhanced Dancers rose up and killed the Tleilaxu Eldership, including Burah, replaced them with Enhanced Dancers, and kept only the Scribe Uxtal alive.
1st & 2nd Decade Aboard the Ithaca
At the same, and only known to his fellow escapees, the Tleilaxu Master Scytale, was aboard the no-ship, the Ithaca when Sheeana, Miles Teg, and Duncan Idaho spirited the vessel away from Chapterhouse. As was mentioned before, Scytale had the cells of various important humans contained in a nullentropy tube, that could create gholas. Sheeana and Idaho took control of the cells of the tube, in exchange for Scytale being allowed to create a ghola of himself as he was dying of cellular degeneration. The ghola replacement of Scytale did not have his memories awakened, until just after the elder Scytale died.
The Ithaca, in it's journeys, came across a planet where Enhanced Face Dancers controlled the entire world -- the Planet of the Handlers. The Handlers kept Futars, half-man/half-feline beings that were specially sped to hunt down and kill Honored Matres. On this planet, unknown to the crew of the ship, the ghola of Thufir Hawat and the Jewish Rabbi were killed, and replaced by Enhanced Face Dancers.
3rd Decade Aboard the Ithaca
Over the course of the next 6 years, the Dancers on the ship were went completely undetected, and caused sabotage. When Sheeana began to suspect that the Outside Enemy of the ship were Thinking Machines, she decided to create gholas of Xavier Harkonnen and Serena Butler. The Dancers on the ship killed both gholas, and were able to defray the blame off of themselves.
After 26 years of the ship having journeyed throughout Known Space, the Dancers secretly destroyed food systems, water purifiers, and finally placed mines around the no-ship's hull. As tensions increased on the ship, one of the Dancers was killed by the ship's sandworms; and the other sabotaged the engines and signaled the Thinking Machines. Even though the Dancer was killed by Alia, the ship was still taken by force to Synchrony, as the day of Kralizec approached.
Uxtal and Waff
At the same time, Uxtal was commissioned by Khrone, and Uxtal reluctantly agreed to create gholas of the great Tleilaxu Master Tylwyth Waff. As his brothers were systematically killed by the Matre leader Hellica, the last ghola of Waff had his memories awakened only partially and imperfectly.
When Murbella and the Valkyries of the New Sisterhood attacked Bandalong, Uxtal did not escape, and became trapped by a slig, and eaten alive. Waff wandered the wreckage, and stumbled upon Guild representatives who had transported the Sisterhood. Waff promised the Guild Navigator Edrik new sources of spice if he would transport him off the world, which he did.
Seaworms and Return to Dune
This led to what is considered by many to be the greatest creation by the Tleilaxu, the Seaworm. Seaworms are genetically altered sandworms which thrive, instead of imploding, in water. Waff created the seaworms after 3 years and planted them into the oceans of Buzzell, where they dominated the eco-system of the world. The seaworms, when cut open, produced a rich super-potent cache of melange, called Ultraspice.
Once this success happened, Waff began what he considered his life's work -- restoring genetically-armored sandworms to Rakis. Waff took the altered sandworms back to Rakis, and released them into the fused soil of the Dune planet, and tracked them with monitors.
Changelings in the Imperium
The Enhanced Face Dancers were active and replaced human leadership all over the Imperium as the Thinking Machines attacked human-kind. They were on the worlds that were devastated first by the Machine Fleet and the Omnius Scourge attacked human-kind. As the Machines advanced; the Dancers, mimicking humans, promoted abject submission to the Machine invaders.
The Dancers were also involved in the shipyard production areas where Starships were being produced for human-kind in the upcoming final battles and war. The Dancers sabotaged the construction of ships, slowing production; and the ships that did make it were of inferior quality, and turned out not to work when needed. The Dancers also sabotaged production of the Obliterator weapon, depriving the human fleet a valuable weapon as they prepared for a last-ditch effort in the heart of the Old Imperium.
The Day of Kralizec
The great day at the end of the age occurred. Above the skies of Chapterhouse and Junction human-mind made a last ditch stand against the advancing Machine fleet. Enhanced Face Dancers ensured that none of human-kind's weapons, and many of the ships malfunctioned, when the first wave of Thinking Machine ships entered the fray. It was only the intervention of the Oracle of Time which destroyed the first Machine wave.
As the Ithaca crew was lead to the heart of Synchrony, the Cathedral, the Dancers acted as bodyguards and sentinels for the Thinking Machine leaders. Scytale remained behind on the ship with Sheeana and Leto II, and released nerve gas into Synchrony, and killed many of the Machine-led Enhanced Dancers.
As the day went on, Paul and Paolo dueled and the battle proved to be inconclusive. When Paul self-healed himself after the near-fatal duel, he proclaimed that Duncan Idaho was the long-awaited super-being, or Ultimate Kwisatz Haderach. The Oracle then appeared, declared that what Paul had said was true, and then summarily banished Omnius to an alternate universe.
Khrone then spoke that the time of Face Dancer hegemony had arrived. He declared that since machines and humans had battled themselves to near-destruction; and that Face Dancers now occupied most of the positions of authority in the Old Imperium, that Face Dancers would now take their rightful place.
Erasmus then activated the Tachyon net, and in a scope of a few minutes, activated the "kill switch" in each and every Enhanced Face Dancer in the galaxies. Hundreds of millions of Enhanced Dancers died instantly throughout the cosmos, ending their threat forever.
The new proclaimed Evermind/super-being, Duncan Idaho, caused peace to happen between humanity and machine. Erasmus bonded with Idaho, died, and went into Idaho's Other Memory. Duncan then gave Synchrony to the Thinking Machines, to the Bene Gesserit, and to the Tleilaxu; for the three jointly administer in the new age.
Waff on the planet Arrakis was at first saddened as the sandworms that he had placed on the surface of Rakis, ended up dead, and could not adapt to the new conditions of the planet. This quickly turned to joy as rumblings from deep with in the surface quickly showed to be worms that had survived the over 40 years since the Matre attack. Waff gave his degenerating body to the worms as food, as he declared the return of his Prophet.
The Tleilaxu were an inherently isolationist culture that was dominated by a strict hierarchy and an overriding religious zeal. They had long focused their efforts on genetics, and the pursuit of spiritual elevation through physical refinement.
Originally trade also formed an important part of their culture. However, following revelations of their organ harvesting methods during the Butlerian Jihad they became collectively scorned and despised. This, coupled with active persecution against them, caused their trading connections to be dramatically reduced, and led to a significant change in their overall attitude to the wider universe. ==References and notes==
Tleilaxu merchants grew a long braid; the braid symbolizes prosperity -- a merchant must cut his braid if he were to experience an unsuccessful year. Tleilaxu also sharpened their teeth.
The Tleilaxu were separated into several different classes, each of which had a distinct physical appearance and role within their society. The main groups were:
- Tleilaxu Masters: Physically they looked similar to small humans, most often with small close-set eyes and a set of small pointed teeth.
- Face Dancers: The warrior and worker class, who were capable of adapting their physical appearance to a specific task at hand. Their doppelganger ability was also used to perform espionage against other groups. This group also included Enhanced Face Dancers created by Hidar Fen Ajidica and improved upon by Erasmus.
- Axlotl Tanks: Little more than incubation vessels, this class bred all Tleilaxu, as well as other beings (such as gholas). It is believed these were what remain of the female sex of the Tleilaxu.
The Tleilaxu followed a strict and fervent spiritual ideology that derived itself from both the Zensunni and the Zensufi theologies. As with most cultures within the Known Universe, their faith was monotheistic. While they did not place significant importance on the Giant Sandworm, they did credit great importance to Leto Atreides II, who they saw as "God's Messenger".
The details of their religion remained largely hidden until the arrival of the Honored Matres, at which point the leadership of the Bene Gesserit, one of their great rivals, discovered some key posits of their faith.
List of Known Tleilaxu by Class
Tleilaxu Masters
Ambassadors and Envoys
- Duro Nunepi, Ambassador to Leto II
- Wose
- Ledden Pook
Face Dancers
Traders, Scientists, and Scribes
Tleilaxu Ranks
In addition to their biological classes, Tleilaxu society and structure was strictly organized by rank.
- Mahai or Abdl: the Master of Masters, leader of the Tleilaxu
- Masheikh: rulers chosen from the Master class
- Khasadar: guards and combat-ready personnel
- Domel: domestic servants and low-level personnel
Behind the Scenes
The true reason for the revulsion of the Bene Tleilax was not cataloged by Frank Herbert. The organ harvesting plot was outlined by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson in their Legends of Dune prequel novels.


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Islamic influenced art and imagery has cropped up in games from Journey to Prince of Persia, but now a couple of game developers are out to prove that despite its conspicuous rarity in the medium, Islamic art lends itself brilliantly to game design.
This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK.
Islamic art can be subject to restrictions that should hobble most video games. Under Islam's strictest tenets it must be aniconic, so any depiction of nature – humans, animals, trees, etc. – is considered a sin against God. As a result its artwork traditionally took the form of attractive shapes, intricate patterns, and complex geometry designed to inspire the human mind.
"It sounds like a huge and difficult restraint, that they can't depict humans," says Hamish Todd, creator of the Islamic-art inspired puzzle game Music of the Spheres. "But actually something really nice came out of this in that it pushed the culture in the direction of incredible mathematical sophistication."
Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, Iran. Flickr: American_Rugbier
This is evident across a range of Islamic art forms, such as calligraphy, painting, architecture, and ceramics. "In all of them geometry and patterns are important," says Mahdi Bahrami, an Iranian game designer currently working on geometry puzzler Engare. "They seek to portray the meaning and essence of things, rather than just their physical form."
Over time the taboos binding Islamic artists have been stretched and reinterpreted, leading to art that does depict people and nature. But strict adherence in the ancient world forced the vast majority of artists to express their feelings through abstract mathematics. The link to video games might appear tenuous at first. But both Todd and Bahrami believe that the spirit of Islamic art can be an effective model for game design. "After hundreds of years those abstract shapes still seem interesting, beautiful, and mathematically meaningful," says Bahrami. "Maybe we can design games in the same way."
Launch trailer for Music of the Spheres
Todd's Music of the Spheres is a laid back puzzle game that asks you to make sense of complex patterns via simple shooting and rhythm mechanics. While its puzzles can leave you scratching your head, they are designed for contemplation rather than frustration. This is informed by the nature of Islamic art.
"You've got this lovely pattern and you sit and look at it for a long time," Todd says of both Islamic art and good video game puzzle design. "You eventually realise that there's something surprising or special there. Almost by definition puzzle solutions are surprising, very much like the mathematics in Islamic art."
Todd is now working with Bahrami to make Engare. The game was inspired by a geometry question once put to Bahrami's high school class, which made even the mathematically indifferent strive after the solution.
"[Engare] is a puzzle game asking questions about the movement of objects. In each level a specific shape is shown to the player and they are asked to find a point on moving objects which moves the same as the shape given to them," says Bahrami. "It's easy to play but hard to explain."
Engare teaser trailer
It sounds complicated, but the goal is not to be obtuse. Islamic art is about expressing something, and needn't be challenging. "It's about showing you a lovely pattern, or sharing something you didn't think could happen with lines or certain shapes. That's the relationship between Islamic art and puzzle design," says Todd. "With Engare, Mahdi has found a way of bringing together a mechanic that is easy to express and leads very swiftly to some good level design, and it lines up really well with this theme of Islamic art and its lovely patterns."
The games industry in the Middle East is growing rapidly. In 2012 Iran alone boasted more than 95 active studios. Yet we still see very few games explicitly influenced by this culture. There are a number of reasons for this; if we take Iran as an example, the stressful political climate in the country can make it difficult for developers to reflect what is going on around them due to the danger of agitating the government. Although more people than ever have access to the resources necessary to make a game, publishing remains a huge obstacle. It's not only a risk; trade sanctions keep major western publishers out.
The result is that many Middle Eastern developers bypass their native culture in favour of established Western design. These are, after all, the games they grew up playing. "It's hard to break away from your influences. It's easier to make a game like other games," says Todd. "Especially when you need to make money."
Another image of the Sheikh Lotfallah Mosque, because it's incredible. Flickr: DavidStanleyTravel
Their political isolation may also mean that many developers fail to recognise the value their culture could offer the medium. Bahrami believes leaving Iran for a year to study in the Netherlands was invaluable to his perspective. "[It] helped me to be able to understand the difference between cultures. If you stay at the same place you were born and grew up it can be difficult to distinguish the difference between your culture and the rest of the world."
There is another side to this: no rule dictates that Western developers should not display Islamic influences in their games. It is, however, exceedingly rare. Again, there are many potential reasons for this. Bahrami believes that some of the blame can be placed on the media for only ever focusing on the negative aspects of a troubled region. "The media in the West doesn't usually show the right picture of the Middle East, and that's the reason most developers and artists in the West are not familiar with Islamic art."
Some Western-developed games have caused controversy by, often inadvertently, featuring Islamic elements. In 2008 Sony had to delay the release of LittleBigPlanet so that a song featuring lines of the Qur'an could be removed. In 2012, a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 map was taken down and altered to remove a quote from Muslim prophet Muhammad that featured on a painting in a bathroom. Outside of Islam, the Church of England threatened Sony with legal action in 2007 over the use of Manchester Cathedral as a setting in Resistance: Fall of Man.
Manchester Cathedral in Resistance: Fall of Man
While these controversies were relatively small and were each swiftly resolved, religion as a hot-button issue may cause Western developers to view them as cautionary tales. Even a fairly lowkey release like Music of the Spheres quickly attracted derogatory comments about Islam and 9/11 on its Steam Greenlight page.
Both Bahrami and Todd hope this would not be enough to deter Western game developers from engaging with other cultures. If sufficient care and respect is exercised, problems should not arise. Todd is not at all religious, but his passion for Islamic art ensured he treated it respectfully. "I've got to be aware of my privilege when making a game that involves things from other people's cultures," he says. "I have a responsibility to be respectful."
This is, of course, only considering the influence of Islamic art in video games in the most literal sense. While the physical art itself is geometry or architecture, the spirit of this work can reach much further, and might offer guidance for one of the more significant problems faced by the games industry today.
"The problem people have been thinking about for a while is, how do we make video games that can move you towards deeper considerations?" says Todd. "Islamic art has a sense of trying to inspire you to think about higher things. There are very few games that you could describe as sublime.
"It's hard when you're making a new art form," says Todd. "It's really hard to truly inspire someone and to make something that talks to them in the deepest possible way about the deepest things in the world."
This is exactly the intention of Islamic art. It's necessary here to draw a distinction between the aesthetic of Islamic art and its spirit. The Prince of Persia games are one of the few 'major' titles to prominently feature Islamic art in the form of temples and decorative artwork, but its focus on combat and acrobatics means you're unlikely to say it embodies the spirit of contemplation and deep thinking.
Prince of Persia image that shows combat on a backdrop of Islamic art
Music of the Spheres on the other hand uses the aesthetics to evoke this spirit through the ponderance and surprises of its puzzles. Perhaps a better-known example is Journey. It features a character in an outfit similar to a Muslim hijab, architecture inspired by temples and mosques, and shades of patterns and geometry in the abstract diagrams that offer glimpses of the game's backstory. It uses these, and other aspects of its game design, to invite you to think on topics such as life, death, and the afterlife.
Image from Journey
The rules of this ancient art form have been subject to reinterpretation for centuries. At a stretch this spirit could be taken as a metaphor for game design: code and maths, patterns and shapes coming together to offer far more than the sum of those parts.
For Bahrami, though, the aim is simpler. "I just want to focus on making something interesting," he says. "I hope it inspires others to make games influenced by different cultures, different sciences, different arts. That would be good."
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