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Going into Inception was kind of a gamble for me as my friends and colleagues apparently know me better than I thought. I've been hearing this is the "one to check out" since the day it arrived in theaters this past summer and while my friends have once again proven spot-on with their understanding of the kind of fiction I enjoy, it is always worrisome when so much hype comes my way. I have to make a very conscious effort not to get swept up in it, as that is the sure-fire way to become disappointed with any project (however ambitious).
That said I was able to suppress my tendency to become the ultimate Inception fan boy until its home-disc release then quickly snatched up the Blu-ray with reservations on picking up a Leo DeCaprio T-shirt and matching coffee mug. To cut the chase, I enjoyed this film quite a bit but perhaps not quite to the levels my buddies assumed I would and the reason for this stems from the fact that some of its finest conceptual moments have been done before in various mediums. However, we'll get to all that. For now, let us get to the nuts and bolts of the picture.
Inception tells the tale of Dom Cobb (Leonardo DeCaprio), an Extractor (a man who enters people's dreams to gather information). With a team of dream-experts consisting of Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Ariadne (Ellen Page), Eames (Tom Hardy), and Yusuf (Dileep Rao), Cobb is hired by Saito (Ken Watanabe) to implant an idea (a unproven process called Inception) into the brain of Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy).
If this sounds a bit muddled to you, then perhaps steering very clear of this picture will be your best bet. For all of its intricate explanations, Inception is a venerable swirl of intense sequences that demands multiple viewings if any coherency is to be established.
I liken the initial viewing experience to the first time I went though the original Matrix (another Warner Brothers piece with similar themes): The line between reality and the construct is quite hazy and the laws separating them aren't quite clearly understood despite plenty of exposition attempting to force-feed them to you.
I suppose in the interest of the average viewer's sanity, Christopher Nolan was forced to integrate a technique that I personally am not too fond of here in that when the situation demands it, suddenly the rules established earlier on are said not to apply "in this situation", hence upping the level of danger to the characters involved. Again though, given the complexity of the material here, it is far more forgivable than if used in a more-linear piece.
And speaking of linearity, I will continue to summarize the plot without giving away any real spoilers. Cobb could well be the ultimate mind thief except for one minor annoyance: The appearance of Mal (Marion Cotillard) who tends to turn up in Cobb's dreams and jobs, botching them out of spite. Additionally we learn that Cobb is a proud daddy in the real world and that motivation to be reunited with his kids is the catalyst for his agreeing to such a risky assignment.
In fact, so delicate is the act of incepting a persuasive motivation that it demands Cobb and company to enter into a dream within a dream within a dream! Each depth of the subconscious mind said to be far riskier, more unstable, and (what I found to be coolest of all) operating in its own relative speed.
The film is pretty stunning, visually, right from the onset with undeniable attention paid in the merging of gritty, moody dialog sequences with larger-than-life mind-bending effects. Direction is spectacular here as well with camera moves and angles that dazzle continually. Hans Zimmer's score is spot-on as well. Truly from a technical standpoint, the piece is a stunner.
The 2.5-hour runtime happens quickly and efficiently thanks to roller coaster pacing and a bit of disconnected editing work.
In all, if having gotten this far in my review and aren't sure exactly how I feel about the piece, that's a pretty accurate observation. Parts of this one are brilliant but unlike 1998's The Matrix or the 2005 novel Human Interface (both of which present some very similar mind-bending concepts), portions of Inception (especially the twist at the end) leave a flavor of forced existentialism. There is potential for greatness here in every single moment of the picture but appreciation for it all takes time to settle in much in the same way one doesn't guzzle a bottle of fine wine.
I suppose in conclusion the goal of science fiction cinema is to entertain and there is little doubt that Inception delivers in this regard. It is certainly thought provoking, unique and technically impeccable. I will conclude this review with a quote from the film that best describes the experience as a whole: "Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize how things are actually strange."
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PAT Flaherty is the new chief executive of Somerset County Council.
He has been acting CEO for six months and has worked in a rage of roles at County Hall.
Staff were informed of the appointment by council leader Cllr John Osman yesterday (Wednesday).
Mr Osman added: "Pat has impressed us all leading the council through the biggest disaster this council has faced with the major flooding, and taking a personal lead in achieving a balanced budget in the tightest of financial times over the past six months.
"I have always looked to promote talent from within wherever appropriate."
Mr Flaherty said he was "excited and proud", adding: "I am ambitious for our council, for our staff and for our residents. I want the best we can provide and I will work hard on behalf of everyone to achieve that.
"We have huge opportunities over the coming years and we need to aim high."
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Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, Special Consultant to the Director of the Princeton Atelier and Lecturer with the rank of Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts
Looking to provide her students opportunities to engage in real-life work with professional artists across various art fields, Ms. Morrison created the Princeton Atelier at Princeton University in 1993. The program convenes guest artists to develop some aspect of a professional project in the company of students. Ms. Morrison directed the program until 2006 when she became emerita and Consultant to the Atelier.
Her nine major novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, Paradise, Love and A Mercy have received extensive critical acclaim. She received the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for Song of Solomon and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Beloved. In 2006 Beloved was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as the best work of American fiction published in the last quarter-century. Her books of essays include Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination; the edited collection Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality; and the co-edited collection Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case.
In fall 2006, Ms. Morrison was the guest curator at the Musée du Louvre in its "Grand Invité" program where she curated a month-long series of events across the arts on the theme of "The Foreigner's Home."
Ms. Morrison's lyrics include the song cycles "Honey and Rue," commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Kathleen Battle, with music by Andre Previn; "Four Songs" with music by Mr. Previn, premiered by Sylvia McNair; "Sweet Talk" written for Jessye Norman with music by Richard Danielpour; and "Woman.Life.Song" commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Jessye Norman with music by Judith Weir.
She also wrote the libretto for the opera "Margaret Garner" with music by Richard Danielpour. After premieres in Detroit, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia, "Margaret Garner" opened at New York City Opera in September 2007.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs traded wide receiver Jon Baldwin to the San Francisco 49ers on Monday for wide receiver A.J. Jenkins in a swap of disappointing first-round picks.
Baldwin was the 26th overall choice of the Chiefs in 2011, but he's had a tumultuous career right from the start. Baldwin broke his thumb his rookie season when he got into a fight with a teammate, and then struggled to adapt to three head coaches in his first three seasons.
He's also had trouble dropping passes throughout training camp under new Chiefs coach Andy Reid, including one when he was wide open in last Friday night's preseason loss to San Francisco.
That drop alone apparently was not enough to dissuade the 49ers from making the deal.
"We are pleased to add Jonathan to our team and look forward to incorporating him into our offense," 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement. "Both players have been presented a great opportunity for a new beginning with their respective teams."
Jenkins was the 30th overall pick of the 49ers last year, but may have had a more perplexing rookie season than Baldwin. He appeared in three games but did not make a catch, even though he was healthy throughout his team's NFC championship season.
It's the second significant deal between the Chiefs and 49ers this year. Kansas City acquired quarterback Alex Smith from San Francisco for a pair of draft picks during the offseason.
"We felt like this trade was beneficial for all parties involved," said Chiefs general manager John Dorsey, who was hired to replace the fired Scott Pioli in January.
Dorsey and Reid clearly weren't enamored of Baldwin after breaking down video shortly upon their arrival. One of their major acquisitions in free agency was Donnie Avery, a wide receiver who was expected to compete with Baldwin for the job opposite Dwayne Bowe.
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RALEIGH — Police have arrested one man an charged him with shooting two others outside Bodi nightclub on South West Street in Raleigh early Friday.
Hany Mousa Shehadeh, 35, of Rocky Mount was struck in the face, and Keshon Oneil Johnson, 23, of Charlotte, in the wrist, police spokesman Jim Sughrue said.
Neither man was believed to have life-threatening injuries, police reported. Both were taken to WakeMed in Raleigh for treatment.
Michael Adolphe Cadet, 29, of Raleigh, is booked on a variety of charges, including assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicting serious injury, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and discharging a weapon into occupied property.
We think we have a good understanding of what happened, Capt. Randy Munn said.
The men were shot outside Bodi nightclub at 310 S. West St. about 3:15 a.m.
A woman phoned 911 to report that she needed an officer because somebodys been shot. The woman, whose name was not released, started sobbing before asking the dispatcher to hurry up. Please hurry up.
The caller explained that the victim, apparently Shehadeh, had been shot while sitting in a car parked outside the club.
Someone managed to get Shehadeh out of the car and into a Range Rover that drove him to a hospital.
Both victims were transported to the hospital in private vehicles, Sughrue said.
Investigators searched a black Camaro parked outside the nightclub, but Sughrue said he did not know whether or how it was connected to the shootings.
Bodi sits on a short, dead-end block of South West Street south of West Martin Street near the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks.
The clubs Facebook page said a bus would be available Thursday night to bring students from St. Augustines and Shaw universities and said there would be no cover charge to get in.
The evening was billed as the Back to School Extravaganza, with a posting that said, 2night its the back to school bash! Ladies night out. Everyone FREE all night, groups of 4 will receive a bottle of champagne.
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"All of the benefits and advantages on why customers wanted a fabric in their data center, the next logical step is to extend those to the WAN -- a WAN fabric that is capable of virtualizing with a platform, with southbound and northbound API's that allows programmability of the network ," says Ray Mota, founder of ACG Research.
NCS consists of three platforms -- NCS 6000, NCS 4000 and NCS 2000 -- that can be managed as one.
NCS 6000, which is shipping now, is capable of 5Tbps per slot and 1.2Pbps per system capabilities, Cisco says. It supports IP/MPLS routing, as well as single, back-to-back, and multi-chassis configurations.
NCS 4000, which will ship in the first half of 2014, supports 400Gbps per slot and 6.4Terabits per system and is available in single, back-to-back, and multi-chassis configurations. It also supports optical transport network, wavelength division multiplexing, SONET and Ethernet applications, and multi-chassis configurations.
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This is our second edition of this "work in progress" for an upcoming nationally published book. For now enjoy a portfolio of 101 western wildflower images created by photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter over the past 15 years while they have traveled on our public lands. These series have been made in the deserts of the Southwestern USA, the mountains of California and Colorado and in Rob and Nita's "backyard" in the coastal hills north of San Francisco.
Rob, an internationally awarded nature and environmental photographer, has focused on capturing the essence of the land, as well as, intimate portraits of individual plants and flowers.
Nita, an internationally recognized people photographer, has joined Rob in the field to photograph flowers while they are still attached to the plant using natural light only.
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I agree with anonymous on his comment. Micro-devolution, including loss of information, occurs through mutation (always harmful), and natural variation through genetic sorting of created information already in the genome occurs, but micro-evolution through beneficial mutation adding new information does NOT occur. Let's not accept a mechanism that does not exist. Belief in micro-evolution IS the basis of the Neo-Darwinian macro-evolution fantasy.


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MACON, Ga. – Coming off his fourth top 10 performance of the year at the Atlantic Sun Championship, freshman Edward Figueroa (Naples, Fla./St. John Neumann) has been named the A-Sun Freshman of the Year, announced by the league office on Wednesday.
The second FGCU player in the last three years to be named A-Sun Freshman of the Year, Figueroa was also one of two freshmen to earn All-Conference honors as a second team selection.
I'm extremely happy and proud of Edward for both of his A-Sun accolades," said head coach Brent Jensen, who has recruited three A-Sun All-Freshmen team choices over his three years, all of whom return in 2013-14. "Edward is a great representative of our team and athletic department. He worked very hard this season and has played some solid and steady golf in a very tough conference against some great competition. I hope he gets a chance to continue his great season later this month with a trip to NCAA Regionals."
Figueroa was FGCU's low-man in six of the nine events he played in, missing two tournaments due to playing in the PGA Tour's Puerto Rico Open. Currently ranked No. 169 in the Golfstat Cup race, Figueroa's team-leading 73.2 stroke average featured a counting score in all 27 rounds played, making him just the fifth player in program history with a perfect 100 percent counting score campaign. He has a team-best six top 20s, culminating with a tie for sixth overall at the A-Sun Championship, and also leads the Eagles with seven-under par rounds.
In just his third collegiate event in the fall at the Cobra/PUMA Invitational hosted by Xavier, Figueroa etched his name into the FGCU record books with the best 54-hole score in program history. As if an opening round two-under par 70 wasn't impressive enough, he followed with a six-under 66 in round two and a final round eight-under 64, which equaled the lowest round in FGCU history. Figueroa's score of 16-under 200 was four strokes better than the program 54-hole record set on a pair of occasions, as he took home medalist honors at the ensuing A-Sun Player of the Week award.
Atlantic Sun Postseason Awards
Golfer of the Year: Sean Dale, UNF
Freshman of the Year: Edward Figueroa, FGCU
Coach of the Year: Scott Schroeder, UNF
All-Conference First Team
Jimmy Beck (So.), Kennesaw State
Sean Dale (Sr.), UNF
MJ Maguire (So.), UNF
Kevin Phelan (Sr.), UNF
Hans Reimers (Jr.), Mercer
All-Conference Second Team
Edward Figueroa (Fr.), FGCU
Peder Lunde Hermansson (Sr.), Kennesaw State
Adrian Meronk (Fr.), ETSU
Joey Petronio (So.), UNF
Rhys Pugh (So.), ETSU
Trey Rule (So.), Mercer
*-A tie resulted in a six-member second team
A-Sun All-Freshmen Team
Edward Figueroa, FGCU
Jeffrey Heinicka, Mercer
Gudmundur Kristjansson, ETSU
Adrian Meronk, ETSU
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A woman fired a bullet into a man's chest while a uniformed police officer was standing only feet away.
It happened just after midnight Tuesday in the parking lot of the Kay Lyn Kourt Motel in Richland, Stewart County.
"I saw that with my own eyes. I'm not talking about something somebody told me, I saw it with my own eyes. And she shot him in front of the police. And I said, 'Wow, that crazy woman!' The way she was waving that gun around, she could have shot the police- anybody that was around," said motel guest, John Baldwin.
Witnesses said Tiffany Bullard was in a jealous rage, furious that she discovered her ex-boyfriend, Brett Moody, was with another woman. Bullard was armed with a .380 pistol tucked into the back of her pants and ready to start shooting, according to the victim's friends.
An unidentified friend of the victim said he was sitting outside the motel room when Bullard arrived and demanded to be let inside. When the man said he didn't have a key, she began shooting wildly in the direction of the window, striking the glass at least once.
Several people called 911 to report a disturbance and police arrived a short time later, unaware that they were about to confront a woman who was armed and had already discharged her weapon.
According to witnesses, Moody came outside to meet the officers, and while they were still asking questions and attempting to find out what was happening, Bullard retrieved her concealed pistol and shot Moody in the torso with police standing only feet away.
Police immediately drew their guns and Bullard complied with orders to discard hers. Moody is currently in the hospital, expected to survive, but Richland Police Chief, Robbie Wells, is very disappointed with the outcome of this incident.
"It's very possible that there wouldn't even be a victim right now had we know that a gun was involved," said Wells.
Based on statements he received from 911 callers, Chief Wells believes dispatchers neglected to relay vital information.
"[A witness] ran and started calling 911, and he was told the first time that he needed to call the sheriff's office and not 911. Well, he calls 911 again and tells them, 'look, get an officer down here, she's shooting at us, we need an officer now.' But that never got communicated to my officers," said Wells.
With Moody currently in the hospital, Chief Wells said Bullard could have been a second victim, and perhaps one of his officers could have been killed or injured as well.
"He could have stepped out of the car thinking he's dealing with an argument, and she could have shot him," said Wells.
The mayor of Richland, along with Stewart County Commissioners and Chief Wells will be reviewing 911 tapes to get to the bottom of exactly what went wrong. Tiffany Bullard currently remains in jail, charged with aggravated assault.
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A taxi cab driver in Mesa is in custody for allegedly telling two women he'd waive their fare in exchange for sexual favors.
Mesa police announced Wednesday that 43-year-old Eric Vincent is being held on suspicion of sexual abuse and solicitation of prostitution.
Police say they received a complaint on Feb. 22 from a woman who claimed her cabbie told her she wouldn't have to pay for her trip if she performed sexual acts for him.
The woman says she declined and paid her fare.
The next day, police learned that a second woman had told Discount Cab Company that one of their drivers had made a similar offer.
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The Dublin County Board last night released a statement saying that under-21 and senior footballer Shane Carthy was being treated for depression.
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Critique: Alexandra Lange & Mark Lamster
Lunch with the Critics: Supertall
July 27, 2011, through January 2012 at the Skyscraper Museum in New York. Click image to enlarge. [Images courtesy of the Skyscraper Museum]
In the latest installment of Lunch with the Critics, our intrepid interlocutors travel to Lower Manhattan to view the exhibition
at the Skyscraper Museum. After touring the show, they walked north to the Winter Garden in Battery Park City, where they sat down to compose this dialogue in the shadow of New York City's rising entry into the supertall field, One World Trade Center.
Mark Lamster
: Let me kick us off here by saying what a shame it is that the Skyscraper Museum, our city's only full-time architecture museum, seems to be so beneath the collective radar here in New York — an irony given the subject matter. At $5 for an adult admission, it's one of the best deals in town, and its new show,
, is worth a visit. Certainly it's timely. The skyscraper,
that typology put to premature rest after 9/11
, is back with us to stay. The last decade has been the most prolific era of skyscraper building in history.
Alexandra Lange
: So prolific that the exhibition has to define its terms very carefully and numerically: buildings built between 2001 and 2016, taller than the Empire State Building, 100 stories plus. That adds up to 48 projects worldwide, displayed in a wall-size grid as you enter the one-room museum. The grid is dizzying — I immediately thought,
Is there going to be a quiz?
— but it does allow you to pick out the dominant visual paradigms for this generation of skyscrapers. Neoclassicism: symmetry, stacked volumes, shreds of masonry cladding, spires. Or spirals: asymmetry, bundles or twists or ripples, shiny. Murphy Jahn's
Nanjing Tower
(2013) epitomizes the latter type: its concept model is an acrylic obelisk that might as well be a
Tiffany & Co. sports trophy
: I guess great minds think alike, as I was also there trying to form some system of classification for these towers, and the most creative new ones all seem to fall into the curvy pylon genre. You liked the Nanjing Tower; I was impressed by several others in this vein: Gensler's torquing
Shanghai Tower
with its central garden atrium, KPF's
Chongqing ITCC
, SOM's
Seoul Light DMC Tower
, and Wilkinson Eyre's
Ghangzhou IFC
, unusual for its external "diagrid" columns, engineered by Arup. Several of these buildings go beyond the banal pancake-stack of floorplates typical of the form. The good news: I noted only two historicist designs: one for
, another for
Left: Murphy/Jahn, Nanjing Tower. Center: Kohn Pedersen Fox, Chongqing International Trade and Commerce Center. Right: Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Guangzhou International Finance Centre.
: Oh no, I'm not saying I
the Nanjing Tower. I just thought that model, prominently placed, summed up the type and the design ambitions for these skyscrapers. I found it almost impossible to tell most of them apart, and the exhibit's lack of strong graphics didn't help. One reason they all look so alike is that they are almost all designed (with associated local architects) by the firms you list above. One imagines a closet of such sculptures in their offices, ready to be brought out and shined up for each prospective client. It also points to the problem for a critic trying to say something about this show, and these towers. How can one evaluate them as anything but sculpture? I've never been to any of these cities except Mumbai. It's great that they aren't dumbly contextual, but obviously one hopes that they might acknowledge their diverse contexts — somehow — on the ground. But it is hard to see how that's possible. So many are towers in parks (or
three towers plus a mall in a park
); very few seem to be located within anything like a street grid. The
1880s Chicago skyscrapers
shown on the opening timeline look smaller and darker every day in comparison.
: It's a show about the typology, so I was not so bothered by the lack of focus on contextualism. In any case, the buildings are primarily in business districts, and these are ever more interchangeable, gratis the school of international modernism put forth by the handful of firms that build these towers. And yes, it is a handful. In the words of curator Carol Willis, "If you're going to spend $3 billion on a building, you want someone who's done it before." The irony is that these supertall buildings are designed to be iconic, memorable signs for the cities that build them, but their similarity works against that desire, and instead we seem to be creating placeless modern places that look great in ads for luxury automobiles. Given the typological conceit of the show, however, I wish there were a little more focus on the new technologies that are making skyscrapers (although, admittedly, not most supertalls) more sustainable. One of the Big Ideas of the show is that the new supertower is a mixed-use vertical city, but there isn't much focus on what that really means from the perspective of the individual. It is very much, then, a structures show. A highlight, for me, and worth the price of admission, was the video of
structural engineer Bill Baker
explaining how supertalls actually manage to combat the physical forces acting against them.
: I think some discussion of the context is absolutely necessary in order to understand what living supertall does really mean, as you say, from the perspective of the individual, whether that individual is inside or outside the tower. J. G. Ballard published
High Rise
in 1975! While many of these projects are unbuilt, there are some that have been around long enough for sociological study. That's of greater interest to me; but even if that is outside the scope of this exhibition, it's an omission not to have a
more highlighted discussion of sustainability and engineering
. There is that video of Bill Baker, and there are a variety of structural diagrams, but none of that information is bolded curatorially and there are no explanatory graphics proprietary to the show that might help the visitor understand why these towers are made the way they are. What strikes you, walking around, are the big models and renderings, or the photographs indistinguishable from renderings — and these are sales tools. I wanted there to be more of a take, more of an argument. Carol Willis could have re-applied her reasoning from
Form Follows Finance
to the 21st-century cityscape.
Comparison of the Skyscraper Museum's 2007 and 2011 Supertall Surveys.
: I think it would have benefitted from a day-in-the-life case study of one of these towers. As it is, the arguments of
Form Follows Finance
don't necessarily apply here, as the form of these buildings cannot be explained by purely economic imperative: their height is exaggerated beyond what would optimize a return on investment (and I believe this point is attended to in the introductory panels). For that matter, one of the more interesting panels, toward the rear of the show, notes that the true scale measure of the office tower is not its height but its floor area. Of course it's a lot easier to sell an exhibit on the world's tallest buildings rather than on the buildings that achieve the greatest square footage. Willis sneaks this point in there, and more credit to her for doing so, as it almost runs counter to the raison d'etre of the show.
: I think more discussion of how the supertalls fall outside the realm of ordinary finance would have been beneficial — but I guess I missed that in the introduction. Their economic irrationality could bring us back to Louis Sullivan's ur-definition of the skyscraper — "
It must be tall, every inch of it tall
." That 1896 essay is quoted in the exhibit's fascinating visual timeline of tallness, which starts with the pyramids and makes a full geographic circle back to the Middle East.
Rob Walker
called my attention to a recent post on the blog Sunday Magazine, which highlights "the most interesting articles from 100 years ago this weekend," in which Ernest Flagg, architect of the
Singer Building
(then the tallest building in the world), asks "
Are American Cities Going Mad Architecturally?
" His diagnosis? "The trouble is that we have not yet applied to high buildings the same truthful, simple, and artistic treatment which ages of experience have taught us to use in monumental buildings of moderate height." If the show proves anything, it is that we can't really talk about the skylines of individual cities anymore. The dialogue, or lack thereof, is between the spires poking up around the globe.
: It is disturbing how indistinct skylines have become. To return to the point about the TV car commercial, I'm always trying to identify the modern urban backdrops in which these things are shot (is that ...
?), but they are intentionally cut to create the appearance of some indistinguishable place — a sanitized, streamlined and luxurious modern future, available for $299 a month and 0% APR. As for historic quotes, let me turn to Frank Lloyd Wright, who actually makes the same point about structural and artistic honesty in his classic essay, "Is the Skyscraper Doomed? Yes!," which I would posit as the
sine qua non
skyscraper crank literature
. Here's a bit from that piece, with Wright in full dyspeptic flower: "To some of our people, exaggeration will always mean greatness — because they know no better grandeur. To such, the skyscrapers will be the great monuments marking the spot where pride once stood to say progress is necessarily commercial. Twentieth Century gravestones!" He wrote that in 1936. Twenty years later, he presented the world his own mile-high tower, the
. Which is to say, there is a certain and undeniable grandeur to exaggeration, and — whatever the show's faults — you'll find it at
Editors' Note
On October 12 and October 19, as part of the
month-long architecture and design festival Archtober
, Carol Wills, director and curator of the Skyscraper Museum, will lead
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The ending of Vander Caballero's Papo & Yo can be troubling. The game speaks in absolute terms, and doesn't seem to offer the possibility of redemption. The game's metaphors are removed, the reality of Monster's identity as an abusive father is made explicit, and it becomes clear that you can't save him. I reached out to Papo & Yo creator, Vander Caballero to discuss the game's distressing final act. To understand the ending as it is now, you have to know how the ending once was. It turns out, Papo & Yo used to end quite differently – with a boss fight. "I thought, 'This is wrong, this feels wrong. You don't give closure to people this way,'" Caballero said. It took ten years of therapy for him to deal with his fears and be ready to tell the story, but nothing he learned in therapy came anywhere close to a boss fight. He knew something needed to change. "If I had followed the traditional structure of ending a game, I couldn't give closure to people," Caballero said. "One day, I went to work, I worked for one week straight, and I did the ending. What I did is I took all my psychoanalytic learnings, and I put them in one by one." The new ending conveys a different sort of message: self-empowerment through removing the lens of fantasy.Quico, the game's hero, spends the game searching for a cure to his friend Monster's addiction to frogs. A girl tells Quico there is a Shaman that can cure Monster, and the two set off to find it, aided by Quico's robot friend, Lula. Monster's addiction continues to increase as a danger to Quico and the girl and, at the end of the game, Quico is alone. Monster has eaten the girl, and Lula has to stay behind so that Quico can take Monster to the Shaman. Monster stays behind as Quico forges ahead to the Shaman, and ahead of him lie four statues: One of Monster eating the girl, one of Monster chasing Quico, one of Monster with a frog, and one of Quico rocket-jumping with the help of Lula. When Quico pulls the levers attached to these statues, they transform into Quico's father attacking the girl, Quico's father pulling out his belt while Quico cowers, Quico's father with a bottle of whiskey, and Quico playing with a toy version of Lula, respectively. Quico attempts to run to the top of a central tower, where the Shaman is supposedly located, but the tower spirals down and Quico makes no vertical progress. A flame appears once the tower has completely sunk to tell Quico the hard truth: There is no Shaman, and there is no cure. Quico must let Monster go. Quico then completes three "mini-levels" where he confronts reality. The metaphors of Papo & Yo shift into literal truths. In the first level, Quico drops a bottle of whiskey through a pipe while standing atop a far-off platform. When the bottle comes out the other side, it's a frog. Why did we need to see whiskey bottles turned into frogs? Wasn't it obvious that's what was going on? Caballero pointed out Papo & Yo takes place in the mind of a child, and a child who is the victim of abuse rarely sees his abuser's actions as such. They can't see the truth. Sometimes things need to be shown explicitly before healing can begin.
Nature vs. nurture: how our culture shapes our behaviors
This is common in abusive relationships, be it alcohol abuse, sexual, physical, emotional, or verbal. The person who is abused being made to believe that the abuse is not something to take seriously; that it is not damaging. This distortion of reality can be due to the abuser's mental conditioning of their victim, the victim's lack of understanding what is happening, or even, as it is in Papo & Yo, a son's love for the man who should love him back. But none of these reflect reality. Ray Rodriguez, a Certified Health Education Specialist who specializes in abuse prevention and education, knows what it's like for a victim of abuse to not recognize negative behavior for what it is. He told the Penny Arcade Report that such beliefs are often grounded in the culture a victim is surrounded by. "Nowadays, you're a 'fucking pussy' if you get offended at language. If someone hasn't hit you, beat you, or made you bleed. And then, the question is, 'What did you do to provoke it?' We victim-blame like crazy," Rodriguez said. "As soon as someone opens their mouth, 20 more people start victimizing them. It's almost like that's the expected behavior. We've made it more difficult for people who've been victims of violence to step forward." Rodriguez explained that abuse, be it physical, emotional, sexual or otherwise, often starts with language and the breaking down of a victim's sense of self worth. The mind of an abuser is one that tests methodically. "If I call someone a bitch today, nine times out of ten, I'll find people who are still offended by that. But one time I'll find someone who says 'Yeah it's okay, it's just a word.' So I'm going to call her bitch again. I'll call her bitch a third time, and that time three other people hear that. So now there are five people calling her a bitch, now there are ten," he explained. "Then I'm going to see what other words I can get away with. I'm going to up the ante. I'm going to call her a whore. I'm going to say things that aren't true at all, but there's other people around me. There's 20 people listening," he said. "What does it do to her, hearing the message repeatedly? Now I've created a culture by which this person is less than human, everyone feels obligated to continue the behavior, and most important, I'm gonna feel empowered." While Rodriguez may be speaking of male-on-female abuse and violence, the pattern of control and abuse is repeated across most unhealthy relationships, including the father-son relationship portrayed in Papo & Yo. Children are uniquely vulnerable to abuse, due to the level of control parents hold over their lives. In abusive relationships, power and control are a common theme. The Power and Control Wheel, also known as the Duluth Model, shows ways in which an abuser will exercise control over a victim in order to maintain power. Two years prior to the Duluth Model, psychiatrist Lenore Walker detailed a Cycle of Abuse that originally included the phases "Tensions Building," "Incident," "Reconciliation" and "Calm." Many therapists and counselors now use the terms "Build Up," "Act Out," "Justification," and "Pretend Normal" in their place, respectively. In conjunction, these models can be used to understand repetitive abuse, and help victims – or even those who victimize – recognize the negative behavior and distorted thinking that occurs in an abusive relationship. The models were originally conceived specifically to address male-on-female domestic abuse, but Rodriguez said the patterns of an abuser are similar across different offenses. The biggest thing is to see the abuse for what it is and confront it. When that happens, progress is made. "There have to be ways to build empathy. This game sounds like it will help build empathy, I think." If an abuser works to create a world where their abuse is normal and inescapable, it's important to show the victim, especially children, that the abusive behavior is neither okay nor their fault. The ending of Papo & Yo removes the game's metaphor, and allows Quico to see that he must escape his father.
Building empathy by confronting reality
"The ending is about confronting reality, about taking off the cover from what is terrible," Caballero said of Papo & Yo. It was a design Caballero mulled over for a long time, but ultimately he's glad he chose the route he did. "I would have felt really terrible leaving it in the space of fiction," he told the Penny Arcade Report. "When you throw the bottles of whiskey to Monster and he starts getting drunk, you're far away. The distance is so you can see that Monster is a fucking addict. There's nothing you can do. You're impotent. The only thing you can do is give him more alcohol, more alcohol, til he gets drunk and falls down. Then, you take the lever, and when you push him out it's like you are throwing him away from home." The next mini-level has Quico tossing doll versions of the girl Quico has been following to Monster. She screams and tries to run, but Monster will catch her again and again. Each time he consumes her, a bridge builds upon itself, until Quico can safely place the girl onto the bridge and she can escape. This time, when Monster chases her, he tumbles to a bed below, where he falls asleep. "What I was trying to do there was make people realize that you've been playing this really cruel fantasy. It's really cruel to see these kids getting hurt by this monster. You need the distance in order to cope with this. You have to put on another person to cope with this hard reality." In other words, Quico takes our place as the player of a game, one we are not meant to enjoy. In the final mini-level, Monster is asleep on his bed. Quico pushes a lever, which turns the bed into a walking centipede-like creature. The centipede teeters over the edge of a swirling abyss, struggling to stay up, but as it does so, tips Monster off. Monster slides into the vortex and disappears, never to be seen again. "The end is you kind of closing it down, in a way that has you realize the same way I realized my father was an alcoholic, and there was nothing I could do with it," Caballero said. "I heard these beautiful words from therapist: 'When someone wants to hit bottom, there's nothing you can do to stop them.' When someone is self-destructive or destructive of others and you want to stop them, there's nothing you can do. They're looking for something there. They're getting something out of that destruction, and if you stay with them, you're gonna get destroyed. So the only thing you can do is let them go, and it is the most painful thing you can do in your life." Rodriguez echoed Caballero's statements as he told me, "You have to recognize the problem, you have to get the abuser to recognize it's a problem, or they need to be enlightened on their own. There need to be resources for his change so people can support him, but they can't do it for him."
Alcohol as numbing agent
I asked Rodriguez how alcohol factors into abuse. "Alcohol, because of its sedative effect, changes the way we perceive our world. Sedative means we're numb; we don't feel. Like Novocaine," Rodriguez said. He explained that numbness as something both literal and mental. Someone who is intoxicated can fall down a flight of stairs and laugh because they're not feeling pain, but they can also, as was the case with Caballero's father, harm a loved one without recognizing the pain they cause. "You know what the DSM is?" Caballero asked me. "You know that in that book, every year, we get diagnoses for more and more diseases? So suddenly the definition of disease in terms of medical terms is… I don't think the greatest one. For me what is more important when it comes to this is that when you're not hurting others, go for it. The problem is when you have responsibility towards other people and your behavior starts affecting them. That's where I'll personally trace the line of dysfunctional behavior." "The moment that the person is not able to be empathic to the pain he's causing to others," Caballero said. "When the pain takes over empathy. When a father needs to drink or take drugs or whatever it is to calm his pain and the pain takes over the caring he should have for his son or his family. That is the line for me." Rodriguez identified another effect of alcohol, a hypnotic effect. "The hypnotic effect means that we start doing things that people tell us to do. So if people that are violent get drunk and their self-talk is 'This is acceptable, to get violent and drunk,' they're gonna get drunk and violent. I hear people say 'Alcohol makes me happy.' No it doesn't. It enhances the mood you were in because of hypnotic effect. If I start drinking when I'm happy, I get happier. If I start drinking when I'm angry, I get angrier." Rodriguez wants to see more social structures in place to help victims and those who have victimized. If the biggest problem is that people feel like their stories can't be told, we need to find a way to make the stories that are told more powerful, more important. My concern about the game's ending was shared; Caballero himself didn't seem to realize what he had done until after the game was released. "I'm starting to understand what I actually did; how people are taking it and perceiving it," Caballero told the Penny Arcade Report. "The whole point, why I was so vocal about alcoholism, is because that's the way you fight it. The reason that there's alcoholism and abuse in families is because kids cannot talk about it. People don't talk about it. You wouldn't believe the amount of emails I get from people thanking me, that because of Papo & Yo, now they have the courage to talk about it more." I asked Rodriguez why it's important to talk about the issue, and what he says to people who think talking doesn't solve anything. "Talking's the only thing we have," he told me. "Talking is how we communicate in our culture. It's how we give ideas. Negative talk holds things in place, positive talk influences change. Talking leads to empathy, empathy leads to change. Words have power. Let's use the words we have." Caballero used his own vocabulary, that of video game design, to reach people and let them know that they're not alone, and the abuse they may be suffering isn't okay. If victims of abuse struggle with seeing their situation clearly, playing a game where a character strips away his own fantasies and confronts the reality of their abuser in empowering. That's a revelation that wouldn't have been achieved through a boss fight. If you or a loved one is at risk of abuse, please contact The National Domestic Violence Hotline or your local crisis services and shelters.


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Percy's parents are Molly Weasley and Arthur Weasley. He has two older brothers - Bill and Charlie - and four younger siblings - Fred, George, Ron and Ginny. Percy marries a woman called Audrey and has two daughters, Molly and Lucy.[2]
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