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Huntington Beach's oldest ballet company proudly opens its 37th season with a refreshingly diverse selection of classical and contemporary works, blending world-famous pieces with original compositions. Featuring appearances by Ballet West Guest Artists Christopher Sellars and Alex MacFarlan, this program also includes spirited performances by the 2013 summer workshop ensembles from the company's home studio, the Orange County Dance Center. Come celebrate the many exhilarating facets of dance!

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Fredi Gonzalez stated that Paul Maholm's wrist injury is likely not bad enough to force a disabled list stint, but with how poor he has thrown over the past 16 starts (5.38 ERA) I expect the Braves to put him on the DL and either recall Alex Wood or have Brandon Beachy make his season debut next Thursday against the Mets.
My reasoning for wanting Wood over Beachy at this particular moment is the performance of each in the minors this year. Beachy has not shown anywhere near the command we are accustomed to over the past few years at triple-A and until he shows that he is more-or-less the same pitcher he always has been then it makes sense to let him work out the kinks in triple-A rather than in the majors. If the team were thrust into a position where they had to make Beachy work them out in the majors then I would be an advocate of Beachy taking this start on Thursday. That is not the situation they are in though. One of their best prospects has shown that he can get major league hitters out and that he can dominate lineups in the minors, which makes him deserving of at least a few starts until we are certain Beachy is Beachy.
What I have seen out of Wood since he came up to the majors has caused me to be an even bigger believer in the lefty than I was when he was in the minors. His changeup has looked like the best pitch of any of the Braves starters this year and his command has been better than expected. Things will change once he hits the rotation, as his average miles per hour on his pitches will drop 1-3 on each pitch which does have negative effects on performance. It will also be interesting to see how he attacks hitters multiple times through the lineup, but his curveball looks efficient enough to be able to keep hitters from waiting on his fastball on each pitch.
One thing I have noticed in dissecting Wood is how much weak contact he forces as well. I did not expect a 60% ground ball rate, even if it is only a 22 inning small sample. In his professional career, he has allowed only two home runs 136.2 innings pitched. Being able to strike many batters out while getting a lot of ground balls and allowing home runs at a minuscule rate is about as optimal as it can get from a pitcher. Again, this may not be what occurs as a starter in the majors but at this point and in the Braves particular situation he deserves a shot to see if he can continue to be as dominant as he has been in every role or level the Braves have put him in.
I would not be surprised to see Wood be the team's best starting pitcher going forward if he were to make Thursday's start, and I am a big believer in Mike Minor and Julio Teheran. Wood may not have the command that either Teheran or Minor possess, but his ability to keep the ball in the ballpark and strikeout batters is better than both of the Braves' current top two. I think Frank Wren and the rest of the Braves front office has been as impressed with Wood as I am and I think if they decide to move past Paul Maholm at least temporarily, they will decide to put Wood in the rotation.


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SourceIts taken me a while to allow myself back into the gaming world. Having spent about 5 years as a freelance games reviewer for The Independent I lost my enthusiasm for the gaming industry in general somewhere between writing copy for the banal Mary Kate and Ashley: Mystery Mall (0.5 Stars) and the unending line of Marvel vs Capcom beat-em-ups. Dont get me wrong, I know I was privileged to have held such a job for so long, and from such a young age, but come on, what would you do if you were confronted with a game like this?
So, after a few years of steering clear of all new consoles and closing my eyes to the shiny new games that came out, in the last year I finally gave in to temptation and embraced the world of next gen consoles; namely the Nintedo Wii and, very recently, the PlayStation 3. And funnily enough Ive now found that I have less friends, less time on my hands and less money. Monetary and social-life issues aside, it must be said that Ive not regretted a moment of owning either of these two machines.
The Wii has undoubtedly changed the way we think about gaming. Although motion sensor games were far from new when it was released, it was the fact it got people playing games in a far more natural way: swinging golf-clubs and tennis racquets, firing off arrows and even cooking up a stir-fry.
There is, of course, an inherent danger as these games become more physical, and that is the risk of injury. In fact this very fate befell one of Altogether Digitals developers quite recently, as he attempted to smash the world record for the hammer event in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. Thankfully he has since made a full recovery, and has even gone on to break the offending world record.
And the future only looks more exciting for the Wii, with the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed game already getting the gaming world chomping at the bit.
In contrast, the PlayStation 3 has had a relatively muted existence so far. Like the Wii, the PS3 has motion sensor with its wireless six-axis controller, but this is yet to be successfully utilised in any of its new titles. It is the highest powered games console in the world, with more processors than you can shake a stick at and a graphics card that makes real-life look bland, and this has resulted in some very good games: Call of Duty 4 and Assassins Creed particularly worthy of note.
However, these games dont push any boundaries - players go through the usual motions of running, jumping, firing, and figuring out puzzles as they did on the PS2 games, just with far superior graphics. Compare this to a game like Super Mario Galaxy and youd be forgiven for wondering how Sony are justifying the £350 price tag theyve slapped on their latest gaming beast.
The answer, however, may lie in longevity. Although many of the new Wii games are genre defining, can the motion sensor action really make up for the Wiis lack of processing power on a permanent basis? And how many more games can companies invent that will allow users to play in new and innovative ways? The PS3, on the other hand, has yet to be fully exploited in terms of the power it offers, with Sonys President of Worldwide Studios Phil Harrison claiming some time ago that nobody will ever use 100 percent of its capability.
Admittedly we will probably be enthused for many months to come with the graphically wondrous but unashamedly unoriginal revamps of old favourites like Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto, but I truly believe we are yet to see the best of the PlayStation 3. Besides, at least you can buy them easily at RRP in most highstreet shops.


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The smile was big across Shalika Smith's face Wednesday morning as she signed her national letter of intent to play basketball next year at Western Kentucky University. And as her family, friends, teammates and school staff congratulated her for reaching a big milestone in her life, the Glasgow High School senior took time to take it all in.
All the lifting of weights, the miles run, the hours of practice, they were all worth it now. The hard work had all finally paid off for the Lady Scottie senior standout as she had reached a long-time goal by signing to play Division I college basketball.
"Over the summer I talked to all of the coaches at Western and they were great people to talk to," said Smith. "However, I seriously considered going to Murray State, Georgetown and Morehead State. They were also all friendly and nice to talk to.
"But when I had a chance to see the Lady Toppers in action and get introduced to the coaches, I felt a real connection with them. They were all really nice and I bonded with the girls."
"As a coach, you're happy for your players to have this opportunity," said Glasgow coach Justin Stinson. "Our players are like a part of our family. You've seen them work hard to get to this point and they're so deserving. In Shalika's case, a chance to play Division I basketball, that's a huge accomplishment and we're thrilled for her.
"There is no doubt Shalika has Division I ability; however, she's earned it. She has worked incredibly hard, gotten in shape and has improved her game. All of the credit goes to Shalika. She has God-given ability, but she's worked hard and has earned the right to get to this point of her career."
And the career has been pretty impressive. Smith has led the Lady Scotties to an 84-34 record over four years, to the program's first regional title, in 2012, and to the team's single-season record in wins at 28.
For her career, Smith has scored 1,083 points and has grabbed 850 rebounds. She has also been very solid from the floor, shooting 54.7 percent, the best in school history. Last year as a junior, she averaged 14.5 points and 8.3 rebounds a contest, while shooting a blistering 67.9 percent from the field. Her effort earned her a spot on the prestigious Kentucky Junior All-Star Team.
And those numbers certainly brought Smith to the attention of Western Kentucky University coach Michelle Clark-Heard.
In addition to Smith, the Lady Toppers signed three other players during Wednesday's early signing period. Joining Smith in the class of 2018 were Ivy Brown of Hodgenville, Javieonna Norris of Chicago Heights, Ill, and Tashia Brown of Lake Park, Ga.
"The excitement and progress we are making towards winning championships and being a team that can advance in the NCAA Tournament was seen by these players and they bought into the family we are building here at WKU," said Clark-Heard in a release. "I am excited to officially welcome these players into our WKU family.
"Shalika Smith is an energetic, pure post player. She is high energy all the time and has a great competitive drive. She is a tremendous rebounder and will bring great intensity to practice every day as our depth at the post position works to get better and compete for playing time on the court."
Smith is believed to be the first Lady Scottie to sign a Division I women's basketball letter of intent.
Two other former Lady Scotties, Alicia Polson and Lisa Witty, were walk-ons at Division 1 programs. Polson played at WKU and later earned an athletic scholarship. Witty tried basketball at Vanderbilt University, but later transferred to the University of Louisville and competed in track.
Several other former Lady Scotties, including present GHS assistant athletic director Becky Kingery, played college basketball at other levels.
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"I am still getting myself physically and mentally ready to play next year (in college). I need to work on finishing shots and playing through contact," Smith said. "I am a bit nervous, but it is an excited nervous feeling to get to play with a group of girls that will make myself stronger, and the team as a whole."
Smith said she realizes she has a lot of people to thank for supporting her and helping her reach such a milestone in her life.
"I would like to first thank God for blessing me with this talent and skill," Smith said, "and to my coaches for pushing me to (reach) the best of my abilities. I want to thank my friends and family for being my motivators and being there for me every step of the way."


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It has been an interesting week to say the least. That there is religious opposition to a Mormon candidate is no surprise. That they are organized is something we have long suspected and now confirmed. That they fail to realize the disaster a second Obama term would represent for the nation and religion is distressing.
The political ill-wisdom of such a stance is astonishing, but there are many that can discuss and document that fact better than I. But I find myself distressed by this confirmation of long standing suspicion on much deeper levels. This represents a very skewed vision of what religion, and particularly Christianity, is all about.
Christianity has roots in Judaism, so it has an ethical/moral element – but it is more. All theistic religions are a place where natural man encounters supernature – let's call this, for lack of a better term, a spiritual element. Somewhere in this mix there is an emotional/psychological element. This is the least distinct of the elements that compose religion, and is readily and easily confused with the spiritual element – but that is a discussion for another time. Finally, there is a doctrinal element – a statement of beliefs. It is this final element that divides Mormons and other expressions of faith in Christ as well as many of us inside the more traditional folds of Christianity such as Catholics and Protestants – and it is only that element.
The people that are so opposed to a Mormon candidate on religious grounds are placing the doctrinal element of faith above the other three – at the expense of meaningful religion. In the original comments that sparked this firestorm, it was made plain they place doctrine ahead of ethics:
"Do we want a candidate who is a good, moral person, or one who is a born-again follower of the Lord Jesus Christ?"
The placement of the doctrinal element ahead of the spiritual element is evidenced by the fact that they are sowing disunity amongst believers. Surely any person that has touched the supernature, regardless of how they understand it, must know that their understanding is insufficient simply because it is supernature. Can we ever sufficiently understand something that is, definitionally, beyond our reality? The humility born of this acknowledgement of insufficient understanding is the unifying factor between Presbyterian and Episcopalian, Protestant and Catholic,…Mormon and creedal Christian.
That they place the doctrinal element above the emotional/psychological element is evident in their willingness to suffer a second Obama term rather than have a Mormon candidate. The emotional unrest in this nation is palpable. You can feel it in conversations at the workplace if you have one – at the grocery store if you don't. The Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street craziness are both signs that the nation is deeply upset about what is happening. People feel as if they are on unstable ground and they want something to change. They all make it clear that Obama is a the root of the unease. At the very least they look to the office for the stability they desire, and right now they clearly are not getting it.
And so this group opposed to Romney, and Huntsman if he mattered, on religious grounds have reduced their own faith to a specific set of doctrinal specifications, and little or nothing else. That's a skewed religion indeed. Such a faith is not winsome, nor terribly meaningful. And worse yet, such a faith does not help the individual become a better person, rather it seeks only for an individual to identify with the religion. Religion, reduced purely to a matter of identity is little more than label. Thus, somehow, weirdly, a teddy bear becomes an object of some sacred import. What was once a power that changed the world and around which our calendar revolves is now nothing more than a brand for selling gee-gaws.
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Opposition to Google Books settlement grows
With just five days left until the Sept. 4 deadline for individual authors to opt out of the 334-page class-action settlement negotiated by the Authors Guild with Google Books in October 2008 with respect to the distribution of digital rights to all books in print on the World Wide Web, significant opposition to the agreement has now emerged. (see Google Book Search Settlement Notice to Rights-holders - Books & Inserts Registry)
A coincident deadline for all major stakeholders and other affected parties to the settlement also arrives on Friday. That is the last day to file written objections or amicus briefs for or against the agreement to the U.S. Federal District Court Judge Denny Chin in New York City. The Court is expected to announce its decision and establish procedures to enforce it at a "Fairness Hearing" to be held on Oct. 7.
The Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access, a daylong seminar examining the far-ranging implications of the settlement for librarians, academic scholars, copyright law specialists, and privacy advocates was scheduled for Friday at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Information. Even as the conference took place, however, several developments with a direct bearing on the settlement have arisen in recent days.
Last Thursday, representatives of Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo -- all corporate rivals of Google -- announced plans to join the Open Book Alliance -- a coalition of nonprofit groups, individuals and library associations in filing briefs objecting to the proposed class-action settlement, which would give Google near exclusive rights to commercially distribute millions of books in digital form (including all copyrighted books not currently in print), unless individual authors or copyright holders specifically opt out of the deal in writing.
Another corporate giant, Sony, which earlier this month launched two new versions of its E-book technology (the leading rival to Amazon's Kindle), indicated that it would file friend-of-the-court papers in support of the settlement. Sony announced a partnership with Google in March that will benefit its line of digital readers by scraping their proprietary e-book format in favor of the Google-friendly e-Pub standard, a publishing industry sponsored digital reader format developed by HarperCollins and Random House which, unlike Amazon's Kindle format, allows e-books to be accessed and shared across a broad variety of platforms, from traditional desktop computers to smartphones and other mobile devices.
This past week, copyright negotiators for the European Union announced that they would also oppose the terms of the settlement negotiated between Authors Guild of the United States and Google concerning the digital distribution of books no longer in print and the fee structure for publishers and authors of books originally published in their member nations. In this New York Times article, their specific objections are outlined.
Earlier this month, the Poets & Writers Magazine reported (Authors Guild Clashes With Agency Over Google Settlement) that a dispute had broken out between the Author's Guild, which negotiated the deal on behalf of writers, and William Morris Endeavor, one of the nation's largest and most respected literary agencies, with many leading authors among its clients. According to a memo obtained by the New York Times last month, William Morris Endeavor was advising all of the authors it represented to opt of the settlement, which would provide Google a 37 percent share of all revenue produced, leaving authors and publishers to split the remaining 63 percent.
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20 years ago: March 9, 1991 - East Union High baseball coach Darrell Hardcastle used all 19 of his players en route to an 11-1 romp over visiting Edison High yesterday. The bench supplied six of the Lancers' 10 hits and scored five runs. Mike Costa pitched the first six innings, allowing just one run on seven hits to earn the win. Eric Simoni, Clint Colwell and Brian Bettencourt each had a pair of hits for EU. Simoni scored three times.
Seventy years ago, on March 14, 1941, Manteca's high school baseball squad will open its 1941 season here this afternoon when it tangles with the first squad that Escalon High has sent out in the last seven years to contest other teams. Coach Larry Siemering gives the probable players to start on his powerful nine as follows: catcher, Nick Baturin; pitcher, Lou Bronzan; first base, John Poulos; second base, "Murph" Theiler; shortstop, James Miniaci; third base, Jack Liebhart; left field, Fredrick Hubbard; center, Willard Rieger; and either Bob Bordenave or Orange in right field.
20 years ago: March 5, 1991 - Manteca High held its annual winter social Monday night, awarding athletes in each sport with plaques of recognition. MHS Athletic Director Walker Vick presented the MHS/VOL Scholar Athlete awards to the Buffaloes who had maintained a grade point average of over 3.7 while participating in varsity athletics. Two-sport participants included Erin Lathrop (volleyball and basketball), Sue Nunes (tennis and basketball) and Peter Smith (football and wrestling). In baseball, James Harvey and Paul Gutierrez were named co-MVP's. In girls soccer, Jenna Asprey was named MVP; Vince Elliott received the award for wrestling ...
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20 years ago: February 23, 1991 - The Manteca High baseball team exploded for six runs in the top of the seventh inning to win its season opener at Franklin High in Stockton 6-1 on Friday. The big hit was a bases-loaded double by Bobby Magnuson, which drove in three runs. He had another double to lead the Buffalo hitters. Coach Jack Thomson praised Buff starting pitcher Jared Murillo, who pitched four innings, struck out six and walked only one.
Eighty years ago, on February 20, 1931, Manteca High School dropped a hotly-contested game to the Oakdale High cagers by the score of 19-17. This contest decided the San Joaquin-Stanislaus C.I.F. championship. Harold Reeves, veteran guard for the Buffaloes, proved a star by looping several difficult shots and outwitting the Mustangs. He was Buffalo high point man with nine markers. Too much credit cannot be given Coach Aubrey Laws who, during his first year of basketball coaching at Manteca HIgh, molded a team from green players and shoved them to the top. This was the first time in ...
10 years ago: February 24, 2001 - East Union High senior Sergio Lopez wrestled his way into the semi-finals of the Sac-Joaquin Section tournament on Friday, being the only local prep wrestler to advance. Lopez, at the 127-pound weight class, won both of his matches on 6-1 and 5-1 decisions. He will face an opponent from Golden Sierra High on Saturday.
Seventy years ago, on February 7, 1941, Manteca High hit the winning stride in the Manteca High School gym. The Buffaloes defeated Ceres High, who had previously overpowered the local quintet, the local varsity winning their game, 35 to 33 in an exicting overtime tussle. In the extra three minutes, "Sleepy" Poulos sank a nice field basket to put the game on ice 35 to 33. High-point man for the Buffalo squad, Ken Drury, had seven buckets for a total of 14 points and Glen Bale was next with 10 points.
1991: EU cruises by Buffs in VOL basketball
Seventy years ago, on February 7, 1941, Manteca High hit the winning stride in the Manteca High School gym. The Buffaloes defeated Ceres High, who had previously overpowered the local quintet, the local varsity winning their game 35 to 33 in an exciting overtime tussle. In the extra three minutes, "Sleepy" Poulos sank a nice field basket to put the game on ice, 35 to 33. High point man for the Buffalo squad, Ken Drury, had seven buckets for a total of 14 points, and Glen Bale was next with 10 points.
20 years ago: January 26, 1991 - Underdog Manteca High stayed right with its highly-regarded neighbors from East Union High Friday night, but couldn't overcome seven three-pointers by the Lancers, finally going down 58-50 in a boys' basketball matchup at Winter Gym. EU stayed atop the VOL standings with a perfect 3-0 record to go with their overall mark of 18-3. Meanwhile, the Buffaloes who stayed perfect in the sense that they dropped to 0-3 in the league and 7-13 on the season. Armando Avina and Eric Simoni led all scorers with 17 points apiece for Coach Bill Stricker's ...
Seventy years ago, on January 28, 1941, for the first time to date in this year's basketball season, the Manteca High cagers won a game played on the local high school floor. In a return practice tilt with Ripon High, the Buffaloes avenged the defeat they suffered at the hands of the Indians by giving the over-confident Ripon outfit a 46 to 27 smearing in just one more "wild" game which featured the beautiful field shooting of Glen Bale and Jim Poulos and sure sucker shots of small but tricky and fast Ken Drury. Starring for the Buffaloes were ...
Eighty years ago, on January 16, 1931, Manteca High now leads the C.I.F. league as a result of a victory taken from the Ceres High Bulldogs on the Manteca court. The Bulldogs were trounced to the score of 31 to 13. The Buffaloes piled up a 10-point lead before the Bulldogs could get going. This lead was never overtaken, although the score at the half was 13 to 10. Enrico Bianchi was the high scorer for Manteca with 10 points.
Thirty years ago, on January 15, 1981, speculation about who would become the new varsity football coach at East Union High School ended when the Manteca Unified School District approved the appointment of Jim C. Brown. The 42 year-old Brown, a long-time assistant coach under Walker Vick at Manteca High, will succeed Vern Gebhardt, who resigned last November.
Forty years ago, on January 8, 1971, Frank Teicheira of Manteca, playing football for Oregon Technical Institute, was honored by being named an all-Evergreen Conference fullback. The 5-7, 195-pound player was also selected as a member of the 12-school district team. The Owls honored him by selecting him most valuable player and as most outstanding back. Last year, Teicheira was named as an all-conference linebacker.
Twenty years ago, on July 2, 1994, the Manteca Babe Ruth 13 year-old all-stars came alive to capture the District 1 championship at Ripon High on Saturday. Coach Ron Kackley's boys exploded for 10 early runs en route to a14-10 victory over Modesto. The win qualifies the local squad for the Central California State Tournament which starts in Lompoc on July 13. Troy Vick and Rich Rocha each had three hits, including one double apiece, to pace the Manteca attack. Rocha drove in four runs.
Ninety years ago, on June 8, 1924, the Manteca High baseball team was defeated by a score of 13 to 4 by Sacramento High in the semi-finals for the Northern California interscholastic baseball championship. The defeat was quite a blow to the local aggregation as it invaded the northern field with high hopes of winning. In defeating Benicia High a few days previous, the local boys proved they were championship material.
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If there was ever a mythology that seemed tailor-made for a horror film franchise, it's the one Clive Barker created in his novella The Hellbound Heart. Barker must have thought so as well, as the film version, Hellraiser, marked his directing debut. Hellbound: Hellraiser II pushed beyond the original story, and despite a few problems it managed to recognize, and capitalize on, the promise contained in Barker's original piece.
Then came Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, and the wheels began to come off. As the series progressed to the fourth, fifth, and sixth films (and more after that, although I haven't cared to keep track at this point), this rich and promising mythology got bent, scraped and bruised by a succession of hacks who turned in one direct-to-video disaster after another. It seemed that everyone who was getting money to make a Hellraiser movie was missing the point; they kept trying to turn Pinhead into some avenging, crusading demon out to punish the sinful. What they didn't see was that, in the beginning, the Cenobites (yes, there are more of them than just Pinhead) viewed the pain and suffering they provided as a gift, a reward, a pleasure reserved for those determined enough to call them.
Hollywood seems to have forgotten that. Thankfully, BOOM! Studios has not.
In 2011, BOOM! put writer Christopher Monfette together with Clive Barker and gave them a new venue to explore the Hellraiser mythos – a new, ongoing comic book series. They were joined by artist Leonardo Manco, and together the trio sought to tell a story that would incorporate elements from the original novella and the creatively successful entries of the film series – i.e., the first two movies – while creating something new that would continue to fulfill that mythology's potential.
That initial series went 20 issues before it was replaced by a mini-series called Hellraiser: The Road Below (written by Brandon Seifert with art by Haemi Jang), which was followed by a new series called Hellraiser: The Dark Watch (Seifert with artist Tom Garcia) that is still going strong. Throughout these changes the story continues to follow threads laid out in those early works.
I'm not one to get into a lot of spoilers so I'm not going to spell out the plot here, but there are a few things worth touching on. In the first issues of BOOM!'s first series, we get a truer characterization of Pinhead – he's a high priest of Hell, and he's obtained his position because he absolutely believes in the truth and integrity of what he does. It's not as simple as punishing evil-doers; he views the gifts he provides as too pure, too holy to be bestowed on just anyone. He's not satisfied with the victims he has access to and he's grown bored with his role, and that boredom leads him to Hell's highest ranks where he demands new opportunities.
Change he wants, and change he gets, but just what those changes are I'll leave for you to discover. Suffice to say his demands bring him back in contact with the one human who ever managed to intrigue him: young Kirsty Cotton, who survived her first encounters with the Cenobites but was forever transformed by them. What happens next has caused rejoicing in some fans and pure outrage in others, and it seems to be one of those creative decisions (made, I should point out, with Barker's complete involvement and approval) for which there is no middle ground.
It's a daring direction to take, and I applaud the creators for taking the chance, and for really running with it. How it will ultimately play out is anybody's guess, but hopefully they'll continue to figure out smart ways to carve up the status quo. For me, it's enough to have a property that at least understands the dark heart of the Hellraiser story, and is unafraid to explore it fully. If you're expecting to read about a Pinhead who is basically a hellbound superhero, you might want to turn your attention elsewhere. If you're looking for something a little more challenging and more in line with Barker's nasty original vision, then you've come to the right place.
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Emperor penguins rotate through giant huddle for warmth (Wired)
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The plastic recycling rate that jumped 50 percent (Earth 911)
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Great surprise! I saw the video before I bought the clock. It's better and scarier in person than the video! It's perfect for an indoor display. Mine is going on the mantle! July 28, 2014
Animated Haunted Clock I purchased the clock even after reading the negative reviews and am pleased that I did. It is a very sturdy piece and was constructed well, despite the loud rattling noise of the ghoul when it's operating. I do wish it had more phrases. It only has one. The kiddos (especially the smaller ones) seemed to love it and it added a nice touch as a centerpiece for the fireplace. June 13, 2014
DIsappointed! Loud Mechanics Pretty disappointed with item. The haunted mirror from this company that was sold last year was 10x better. This does work as it should. Words do light up on click as described. Clock hands do spin around with ease, and the audio is exactly as it should be. The problem is that when the goul comes out... it is extremely loud. As he is bobbing back and forth, it sounds like someone is actually knocking on my front door, or that one of my children is slamming a toy on the ground. It almost masks out the man's voice unless you have it turned completely up as loud as it can go. And even at that, you can still hear the loud clicking and banging. It is also made of a very thin plastic. You almost can see through the plastic design that goes across the top of clock, and the backing behind the pendulum, is dark brown painted cardboard box. Honestly, it has the lines like a cardboard box to prove it. GOING BACK. August 21, 2013
Great for a few laughs I got this item because animatronics looked interesting and this clock had some attitude and it does. The skeleton guy coming out of the click is a real nice touch. Can see these getting a few good laughs this season. I mainly got this clock for cool factor without much expectations it will last past this season. Unfortunately this item does suffer from the cheap plastic factor that many of these itemssuffer from. I just wish for prices they charge can improve the quality of their items. The inside parts of clock are literally made with cardboard. Gradin roads items and concepts are really great but their atrocious quality has prevented me from purchasing many of their other items. September 20, 2013
This clock is a hoot! When I first tried this clock out it didn't work correctly. I Thought the front opened but it didn't or at least very little, so I put (new) batteries in and it worked! Like Americanplum said, there is a lot going on here. I also own a lot of animated props, dozens, and this one is really cool. Yes there is some mechanical noise but i think I can take care of some of that by using some strategically placed felt pads (the self stick kind for mounting under things) as I have done in the past with other noisy props as the plastic bangs together. Sure its plastic, but it does look like wood from a distance and in the dark like all Halloween props should be, you are not looking if its real or not, your guest will be wowed by the animation. I might have to get another one and put in storage!!! August 29, 2013
Try Me you love it I love this clock it is very entertaining. The "Try Me" button on the front of the clock allows you to set the clock to activate only when you want it to. Having multiple animated displays in close proximity can create a kind of feedback loop where one triggers the others and they all continue going off at the same time never shutting off and it can get really noisy. So l like the button a lot. The reaper is a little clucky banging against the back of the clock when it retracts causing the clock to rock a little, something you don't hear when you watch the demonstration video. But other than that I love the Haunted Clock it makes a great addition to my Halloween party displays. November 19, 2013
Best Halloween purchase to date! Great animation. Clear distinct sound. Realistic looking.. Well worth the price! July 30, 2013
Animated Haunted Clock Overall the clock is pretty good. The yellow pendulum is kind of odd. I am going to paint it to look "older". Black with some bronze accents. Then will put some spider webs in that area to add to the "creepiness". Like the way the clock face opens, but the when the Grim Reaper talks it make a lot of noise which could be improved. Also what he says is kind of "cheesy". Could be a little more creepy. For the price maybe instead of plastic it could have been resin to look more like real wood. Once I paint the pendulum and add accents and put it in the right setting it will be pretty good. Again, a little overpriced because of the plastic and noise. September 11, 2013
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wall mountable?
I was wondering if the back of the clock allows for wall mounting?
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Answer:Thank you for your interest in Grandin Road. The Animated Haunted Clock is not designed for wall mounting.
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Answer:There are two holes on the back that allow the clock to be wall mounted.
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Is it really a clock?
Does this actually work as a cuckoo clock? Or is it just a prop?
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Kicking Off the Email Evolution Conference
Yesterday Adam and I flew in for the Email Experience Council's Email Evolution Conference. It is the first year of the conference and hosted in San Diego. Although flights to the West Coast are always long, the flight went off without a hitch and we arrived sometime around 5.
Soon after we arrived, DJ and I joined the conference sponsored harbor cruise. Nice event with good food. We had a good time mingling with the email marketing elite and gurus. Nothing too notable there but a nice start to the event.
Yesterday there were some pre-conference workshops that DJ and Andrea participated in. DJ also did the latest rendition of BrontoFire with Chad White of the EEC. I haven't seen the tape yet but I'm sure it's good.
Today the conference starts in earnest with a keynote in about a hour. In addition to networking and getting some industry insights, tomorrow I am moderating a panel discussing building blocks to an effective email marketing campaign. Casey Kohner of Trek Bicycles and Bill McCloskey of Email Data Source are participating. I am looking forward to it and will have more to insights on the conference to post then.
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Lamar State College-Port Arthur's basketball program has taken another step forward with the unveiling of a new scoreboard system that will feature video and audio capabilities.
The Seahawks, who are ranked No. 23 in the nation in the most recent NJCAA Division I men's basketball poll, will feature the new system during the upcoming Seahawks New Year's Tournament to be held at the Carl Parker Center on the campus of Lamar State.
"The Carl Parker Center is a state-of-the-art facility that already offers so many things to the campus and the community," Athletic Director Scott Street said. "The addition of our new scoreboard system elevates our facility to among the best in the nation for junior college basketball."
The new system, which features boards at each end of the basketball court, will allow fans to keep up with individual scoring and fouls for players who are currently on the floor. A video board will feature pre-recorded introductions of players, advertising opportunities or clips that encourage the home crowd to get excited for the Seahawks. The installation also includes new shot clocks and a string of LED lights surrounding the backboard to indicate the end of a period or the expiration of time on the shot clock.
The men's basketball program came to life during the 2004-05 season and has grown by bounds over the past eight seasons. Three banners hang inside the gym lauding the 2010-11 program that won the NJCAA Region XIV Tournament and advanced to the NJCAA National Tournament, and the 2011-12 team that won the school's first-ever regular-season championship.
This year's squad, the ninth in Lamar State's history, is 11-1 for the season and 3-1 in conference play. The Seahawks, who are led by three players ranked among the top Division I athletes in the nation, return to the court for a New Year's Eve game against Lone Star College-Cy Fair at 6 p.m. Earlier in the day, Mineral Area College from Missouri and Seward County Community College from Kansas tips off at 4 p.m.
The two-day affair continues on New Year's Day with a 2 p.m. game between Mineral Area and Lone Star-Cy Fair and a 4 p.m. finale' between Lamar State and Seward County.


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'Valences' in the sense of 'different aspects of' or 'flavours of' or, if we're honest, in the sense of 'bits and pieces that have occurred to me at odd moments about'. Valences of the Dialectic is a great wodge of book, two thirds of a thousand pages long, made up of many previously published essays, reviews and introductions to other philosophers. Written especially for this collection are the first section 'The Three Names of the Dialectic' [available online as a pdf] and the last 'The Valences of History'—one of the best things here, actually. In between we have various things: a long, dense two-part section on Hegel ('II. Hegel Without Aufhebung'), a rag-bag of essays ('III. Commentaries') on Derrida, Deleuze, Lukács and Sartre, a selection of shorter and sometimes entry-level essays on things like Commodification, Ideology, Lenin and the like ('IV. Entries'), and four essays and a hundred pages on politics, globalisation and Utopia ('V. Politics').
There's a lot here, and much of it is stimulating and rewarding. 'Our only rule,' we're told at the beginning, 'will be a strict avoidance of the old pseudo-Hegelian caricature of the thesis/antithesis/synthesis; while our only presupposition will be the assumption that any opposition can be the starting point for a dialectic in its own right' [19]. And indeed Jameson's various dialectics are supple and dextrous enough to generate a great many new perspectives. I liked his attempt to de-transcendentalize (as it were) Hegel in a way that isn't just materializing Hegel: 'Absolute Spirit is not a concept of a phenomenon one can analyze, let alone understand; but it is [rather] a formal moment that can be grasped only as ideology or method' [106]. And I liked the deliberate 'immobilization' of dialectal process that Jameson undertakes; a denial (in part) that dialectical motion is in any sense 'a progress' or a passage from a to b to c—his way of freeing Hegel's dialectic from vulgarisation as a particular sort of linear narrative. (On the other hand, later in the book, coming at the same matter via Ricoeur's Time and Narrative, FJ declares himself 'at least postmodern enough to be willing to defend the proposition that everything is narrative' [484]; but he means something particular by 'narrative' here—and anyway, one of the joys of immersing oneself in dialectical philosophy is that contradiction is always a symptom of productive negation, not conceptual muddle). The engagement with 'materialism' is also very promising, refusing to take this Marxist bedrock for granted to the point of asserting 'the concept of matter as such is an incoherent one' [7]. And from time to time the writing rises to a kind of pomo-poetry, a hectic elevation—like this passage from near the end, which has already been excerpted and quoted by several reviews and Theory blogs:
We have indeed secreted a human age out of ourselves as spiders secrete their webs: an immense, all-encompassing ceiling … which shuts down visibility on all sides even as it absorbs all the formerly natural elements in its habitat, transmuting them into its own man-made substance. Yet within this horizon of immanence we wander as alien as tribal people, or as visitors from outer space, admiring its unimaginably complex and fragile filigree and recoiling from its bottomless potholes, lounging against a rainwall of exotic and artificial plants or else agonising among poisonous colours and lethal stems we were not taught to avoid. The world of the human age is an aesthetic pretext for grinding terror or pathological ecstasy, and in its cosmos, all of it drawn from the very fibres of our own being and at one with every post-natural cell more alien to us than nature itself, we continue murmuring Kant's old questions – What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? – under a starry heaven no more responsive than a mirror or a spaceship, not understanding that they require the adjunct of an ugly and bureaucratic representational qualification: what can I know in this system? What should I do in this world completely invented by me? What can I hope for alone in an altogether human age? [608]But this sort of thing, I have to say, is the exception rather than the rule.
So, yes, the style. The book is made out of strings of these great, chuntering Jamesonian sentences, a style which we Jamesonophiles have come to love and loathe in equal measure, in which conditional 'might's, 'may be said's and 'could be thought's frame a series of ringing assertions about what is always the case, what we must do ('we must be able to imagine the world without the object form' [258]) and what the absolute horizons of thought and action are. Benjamin Kunkel's fluent and largely positive LRB review of the volume ('Into the Big Tent' LRB 22 April 2010, 12-16] makes this point about Jameson's style, via a comparison with the other, son-less James ('not often in American writing since Henry James can there have been a mind displaying at once such tentativeness and force'). That's right, I'd say; although we can be more specific and say that the prose of Valences reads like late James, not least in the way it calls to mind
A degree of repetition is inevitable, I suppose, in a book made up of previously published essays and reviews all of which treat the same broad topic. But Valences goes beyond inadvertency in this regard. In his reading of Hegel's Logics FJ lays before us the heartsinking notion that a philosophical work, though it appears at first glance 'turgid and laborious', may actually best be read not 'as an attempt to expound some idea which the reader then attempts ... to grasp' but rather 'like a piece of music, and its text a score, which we must ourselves mentally perform and even orchestrate' [80]. Valences, in other words, is a book in which FJ has not only not attempted to smooth out the repetitions and superfluousnesses, but in which he has actively pursued them, as quasi-Wagnerian motifs and themes. I daresay I'm not the only reader who finds this strategy tiresome, and worse—self-indulgent, even self-deluding.
Anyway, I've no desire to tilt at the creaking windmill of The Jamesonian Style. It is what it is, and I've been reading FJ long enough to have grown rather fond of his succession of huge spooling sentences, interpenetrated by numerous holey-space-style parentheses and subordinate clauses. Indeed, in what after reading this volume I'm almost obliged to call a dialectical move, Jameson's style is becoming simultaneously more arthritically cumbersome and more chirpy (one chapter is called 'It's Dialectical!'). The long periods cluttered with technical-philosophical German or superfine distinctions about modes of negativity are all present and correct, but, like raisins in the batter, here also are references to tins of peas, black holes in space and dancing tables. And there's a kind of dialecticism of critical approach that is almost droll. Chapter 2, 'Hegel and Reification', quotes many drily unengaging sections from one of Hegel's lesser-known productions, the 'Logic' chapter of Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse (1817). These quotations are sufficient to convey to the reader how tedious and often opaque Hegel's Encyclopedia can be; but Jameson goes out of his way to spin a series of souped-up, even ecstatic interpretive riffs from them (it's Beethoven! It's a Modernist novel! It's Dante! It's 'supremely active at the very heart of what seems to be sheerly empirical' and so on). This is rather endearing.
And nobody could deny that FJ embraces the dialectical mode in this book wholeheartedly. No matter how common-sensical a notion might appear to be, he is prepared to assert its antithesis. Sometimes this works brilliantly: a chapter on 'Utopia as Replication' addresses the phenomenon of Wal-Mart from the standard left-wing point of view ('a new Wal-Mart drives local businesses under and reduces available jobs; Wal-Mart's own jobs scarcely pay a living wage, offer no benefits or health insurance, the company is anti-Union, hires illegal immigrants ... promotes sweat-shops and child labor outside the country ... exercises a reign of terror over its own suppliers, destroys whole ecologies abroad and whole communities here in the US, it locks its own employees in at night etc etc' [420]). As Jameson drily notes, this is 'unappetizing'; but he immediately undertakes a dialectical reading—'this business operation, who capacity to reduce inflation and to hold down or even lower prices and to make life affordable for the poorest Americans is also the very source of their poverty and the prime mover in the dissolution of the American small town'—as a way of thinking through the antithetical revolutionary potential of this phenomenon: 'the ultimate in democracy as well as in efficiency ... as admirable as the Prussian state or the great movement of instituteurs in the late nineteenth-century French lay education, or even the dreams of a streamlined Soviet system. New desires are encouraged and satisfied as richly as the theoreticians of the 1960s (and also Marx himself) predicted'. In sum, it is the very success of Wal-Mart as a Capitalist entity that dissolves Capitalism:
Wal-Mart is then not an aberration or an exception, but rather the purest expression of that dynamic of capitalism which devours itself, which abolishes the market by means of the market itself. [421]This is very neat indeed, although Jameson slightly undermines the rhetorical impact with a whiff of smugness at his own cleverness ('I trust that this proposal will be even more scandalous than Lenin's celebration of monopoly...'); and the dialectical antithesis smacks rather more of wishful thinking than the hard-to-deny commercial reality of the thesis.
More, once committed to this strategy, FJ finds himself endorsing to some odd and even offensive positions. '"Big Government" should be a positive slogan,' he tells us; '"bureaucracy" itself needs to be rescued from its stereotypes and reinvoked' [382], to which we might want to reply, in Spongebob Squarepant's chirpy words, 'good luck with that!' Less forgivably he tells his readers that 'Stalinism was a success and fulfilled its historic mission, socially as well as economically' [397] (really? Mightn't we say the same thing about Hitlerism, on its own terms?). Or, again, quoting (oddly) 'editors of the Economist' as corroborating authorities, he praises one-party States in Africa as constituting 'a useful path towards rapid industrialisation'. Events over the last month make this indulgence of African dictatorships look particularly wrongheaded, I'd say.
Jameson can hardly be blamed, in a book published in 2009, for not knowing about the radical changes currently sweeping across North Africa, of course; except that much of Valences is given over to deeper analyses of the contemporary state of the world (the project is nothing less than a reading of 'late capitalism of the world system today and the place of Marxism within it' 404); and we might be forgiven for thinking that, if these analyses had any explanatory power then things like the current upheavals would be at least foreshadowed.
But Valences is a work of political and cultural analysis that is very much bang not up to date. Partly this is because some of the pieces reprinted here date from the early 1990s; but then again, many were written in the noughties, and the book itself was published (after all) at the end of 2009; so it's not as if FJ was not given the chance to revise in the face of more recent events. Yet Jameson's political frames of reference are, broadly, twofold: 1968, and the surrounding political and cultural climate of late 1960s quasi-Utopian engagement on the one hand; and the bugbears of 'Reagan and Thatcher' on the other ('what began to be visible with Reagan and Thatcher...' [357]; 'the crudest forms of ideology seem to have returned in Reaganism and Thatcherism' [285]; injustice reached a 'paroxysm in the Reagan years...' [391]). The reader looks in vain for any reference to Blair, Sarkozy, Merkel, or even to George W. Bush. There is a difference between living with an awareness of history and living in the past, after all. It's one thing to make positive noises about 'the recent anti-World Bank and anti-WTO demonstrations' in an essay published in 1998; it's another to republish the same essay in 2009 and leave the word 'recent' unrevised. Things have happened between 1998 and today (you may have noticed) that render assertions that 'Yugoslavia and Iraq' represent 'two countries that might currently seem to be outside that orbit [of Western imperialist domination]' peculiarly mole-eyed. Would it have killed Jameson to blue-pencil that paragraph when the proofs arrived on his desk in 2009? ('Currently'? Really?)
It's at this level—a core one—of engagement with contemporary politics, history and ideology that Valences is most disappointing, I think. There's a veritable angelic disco happening on the heads of some of the book's pins—the consonance between Aristotle's 'kata' and Mallarmé's 'selon', for instance [477f.]; or the fundamentally anti-dialectical nature of Hegel's Verstand [75-101]. But there's very little, or nothing at all, on Counter-terrorism, Climate Change, or the Credit Crunch. There is, to be fair, a lengthy (but not especially productive) engagement with 'globalisation' [435-72], and from time to time FJ will step away from teasing out 'the conceptual stalemates of the aporetic' [530] to pronounce on more practical matters. For example he considers it 'scandalous' that right-wing governments 'lower taxes so rich people can keep more of their money' [285]. So do I, as it happens. But I'm not sure this level of analysis is really dialectical enough to merit inclusion here.
Another way of saying this is to mention one of the (Republican) elephants in Jameson's 'Dialectics' room. Francis Fukuyama's End of History is also, of course, an interrogation of Hegel; the German is praised in that book as 'the first historicist philosopher—that is, a philosopher who believed in the essential historical relativity of truth. Hegel maintained that all human consciousness was limited by the particular social and cultural conditions of man's surrounding environment—or as we say by 'the times'. Past thought, whether of ordinary people or great philosophers and scientists, was not true absolutely or "objectively" but only relative to the historical or cultural horizon in which that person lived.' [End of History, 62] Of course, Fukuyama has a much narrower understanding of 'the dialectic' as a historical process (basically: Hegel's master-slave dialectic projected onto the big screen of the C20th Cold War), and of course FJ is orthogonal to FF in terms of political allegiance; but that doesn't mean that his argument can be simply ignored, or treated as merely beneath contempt. (John Quiggin, of Crooked Timber—no neocon he—has a lot of time for the Fukuyama thesis, for instance).
Fukuyama steps into Jameson's argument hardly at all, and when he does it is only to be sent away with a wave of the hand. 'But is it certain,' FJ asks, rhetorically-questioning in a rather clumsy way, 'that all of human history has been, as Fukuyama and others believe, a tortuous progression towards the American consumer as a climax?' [444] This isn't as witheringly dismissive as it needs to be, not because FJ's reservoirs of scorn are dry as far as the neocon ideology is concerned, but because the terms of abuse are weirdly complicit with FJ's own project—after all, what is Jameson's multivalent dialectic if not 'tortuous'? Or more specifically: the main argumentative burden of FJ's long, mazy, complex first three chapters is precisely that the 'progression' so blithely imputed by many to Hegel's version of the dialectic is much more 'tortuous' than has previously been thought, to the point indeed of racking the notion of narrative progress entirely to a standstill.
But although FJ addresses 'the dialectic' from many angles, he doesn't attempt any synthetic or coherence overall thesis (specifically disavows such an approach, indeed). Up to a point I can see the theoretical justification for this, although it makes the book rather frayed-at-the-edges and the experience of reading increasingly frsutrating: 'a coherent thesis' needn't be 'a totalising thesis', after all. (And anyway, in the Lukacs chapter FJ makes an interesting defence of 'totalisation'). Worse, Jameson doesn't always follow the implications of his own approach all the way down the rabbit hole. This, I think, was the valence of this volume that surprised me the most; a sense of Jameson rather laboriously chugging around points an earlier version of himself might have lanced directly.
I'll give an example of what I mean. In the final chapter he quotes Althusser ('ce que l'art nous donne à voir, nous done donc dans la forme du "voir", du "percevoir" et du "sentire" ... c'est l'ideologie ...') and adds:
This view endows art with a cognitive and constructional function consistent with its own specific mode of existence (and not imported from philosophy); and it suggests a useful way of grasping the nature of the operation of emplotment, now understood as the production of aporias, their demonstration before us (as one might demonstrate a new machine and put it through its paces), and thereby the modified status of their being (which the enigmatic word "catharsis" also seeks to convey). In other language, art's business is to produce contradictions, and to make them visible. The formulation of Lévi-Strauss, that of imaginary solutions to real contradictions—or closer to home, "real toads in imaginary gardens" (Marianne Moore)—is satisfactory[.] [531]The first sentence, quoted there, isn't quite as diffusely baffling as it may appear, quoted out of context (it picks up on the earlier discussion of ideology, 'emplotment' and the complexities of Aristotelian catharsis); but the next two—though, obviously, more clearly expressed—seem to me to miss a trick. Jameson's point hovers somewhere between on the one hand a rather banal notion of art as a kind of ideological 'thought experiment', or perhaps as a mode of 18th/19th-century 'Sensibility' whereby our empathy with the suffering of fictional characters opens us to an awareness of injustice and the possibility of change (this is the basis of FJ's reading of 'catharsis')—and on the other something stranger and more suggestive, a kind of conceptual actualization that takes place in imaginary (or 'ideological') lives. There is, after all, an important difference between the Lévi-Strauss and the Marianne Moore; the latter's "real toads in imaginary gardens" is a much more radical notion than the former's "imaginary toads in real gardens", not least because the garden is precisely where we find ourselves. I'm not sure that FJ follows this thought through.
I was disappointed, too, that there's so little actual analysis of Marx here. The one chapter that looks like it might address Marxian dialectics directly ('Marx's Purloined Letter') is in fact a reprinted review of Derrida'a Specters of Marx, and is much more to do with deconstruction than with Karl (in another sense, of course, Marx is immanent in the whole project; but I'd have liked some specific engagement with Marx himself nonetheless). I'm not sure I agree with FJ that 'globalisation' carries at its heart a dystopian 'fear of multiplicity and overpopulation' [427]: I'd say the motor is not the fear of sheer populousness, but the older demons of fear of the Other, largely still racially (or 'culturally') conceived. And I wondered at the blithe I-know-what-the-future-holds confidence with which he claims that 'other languages will never come to equal English in its global function, even if they were systematically tried out' [443]. From time to time I flat disagreed with assertions. 'There is a way in which time and memory constitute alternate codes or conceptual languages for the same reality' [483]. (Indeed there is 'a way' in which this is true. Sadly it is 'a stupid way'). But, taken as a whole, this is a more rewarding read than the last FJ microwave-oven-sized collection of previously published essays, articles and reviews, Archaeologies of the Future. That book had an interesting thesis about 'utopia' (rehearsed again here in Valences), but packed it about with a great deal of expanded polystyrene. The texture of Valences is denser throughout: and some of it—the two Sartre chapters, for instance, or the first Hegel one—left me feeling like I'd just had an Indian Head Massage from Edward Scissorhands. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.