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Minecraft 1.7.1 Launches Friday
Subject: General Tech | October 24, 2013 - 07:23 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Minecraft
These new high-end videocards are fast! How about Minecraft in windowed mode?
The latest version of the voxel-based sandbox (and dirtbox, and stonebox) game will be launch Friday morning for us North Americans. While several of the features might be paradoxical if you think about it, "Less ocean, more awesome" vs "Fishing!", this is an absolutely gigantic release. Most importantly, they have overhauled their world generation code and completely rewrote their networking systems.
If you currently run a server, be sure to make a pit-stop at version 1.6.4 before upgrading to 1.7.1. The release highlights for 1.6.4 contain:
This update fixes world generation bugs that would appear in 1.7. It is recommended that you use this version and load up important areas of your world before heading into Minecraft 1.7 ((Emphasis mine))
I would follow this advice very carefully. (But what do I know?)
The update also adds several new blocks: stained glass, packed ice, red sand, podzol, new types of wood, and so forth. Stained glass, in particular, was once an April Fool's 2013 joke (like Block of Coal or, to some extent, horses) which made its way into the game proper. This should hopefully address some of the more bland designs caused by the limitations of glass.
Minecraft 1.7.1 will drop Friday at 15:00 CEST. Because PC Perspective is a North American company, this translates to 9am EDT and 6am PDT.
Can't Wait for Far Cry 3? Like Minecraft? Read On.
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | October 17, 2012 - 03:35 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Minecraft, far cry 3, crossover
Ubisoft crafted an olive branch for their PC gaming fans, and Mojang's fans too…
Far Cry 3 might be coming to North America in early December but Ubisoft thinks you might need something to tide you over until then. Of course, Assassin's Creed III could have held us over if it were launching alongside its console brethren but - oh never mind. I guess I should cut Ubisoft some slack. They probably did not have a whole lot of Olive planks for the Olive branches. I mean they probably had to spend four on the crafting table alone and then there was that creeper so Ubisoft totally needed that wood sword.
Lost? Oh! Where are my manners?
In an effort to promote the release of Far Cry 3 for the PC - a simultaneous release with the other platforms - Ubisoft created a Minecraft mod team. The order: create a map in Minecraft themed like Far Cry 3.
Get my agent! I want to star in an Indie PC cross-over mod too! One with pigs!
Machine for Pigs? I'm having a hard time remembering that… but if you say it is popular…
The team consists of Michael Lambert with Axel Janssen and Yohann Delcourt providing texture work. Michael, known as Sacr3 to the Minecraft community, made a name for himself with his large city build, Novax. He replied to a comment on his World Trade Center video three months ago when confronted about his activity:
I'm working on something big right now, i'll get back to this map once i'm done my other project.
I would say so.
So I buried the lead long enough - what is the mod about? The environment is themed and textured based on the aesthetic of the game. Accompanying the custom map are a new set of weapons and tools with themes rooted in the game. You will be able to find Vaas, Citra, and the protagonist Jason all in Minecraft style along with 50 Easter Eggs. If anything it is an interesting tactic to draw brand recognition especially with such a PC-centric strategy. I am guessing Ubisoft knows where their brand has been tarnished most and especially wants to recover it with the Far Cry property. Well done Ubisoft.
The mod is expected to be released on October 26 at their official Far Cry website.
Minecraft DOTA: Because FP DOTA needs more awesome?
Subject: General Tech | April 16, 2012 - 12:49 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Minecraft, DOTA
Defense of the Ancients, originally a mod for Blizzard-based games which inspired games like League of Legends and DOTA2, comes to Minecraft. Unlike other variants, it is from a first-person perspective rather than top-down -- and it's in Minecraft without needing client-side mods.
If you are a PC gamer -- firstly, welcome home -- but also you are probably will aware of something called a "mod community".
Minecraft lends itself well to mod developers. Minecraft for the PC allows for their community to edit much of the game to customize it to their likings. Even without editing the core game client itself, there is a large amount of customization possible from within the game -- including, apparently, developing a fully functional DOTA game type.
I cannot possibly describe how epic this is…
The game type of DOTA is quite simple in concept: kill AI to get money, use money to buy items, use items to kill the enemy team and their base.
Normally played from a top-down perspective, Minecraft DOTA is played from a first person perspective. One or two towers are placed in each of your team's three lanes out to the jungle. In order to kill an enemy, you must destroy all five of their towers which is a feat requiring at least two people to accomplish. Once all five towers are destroyed, you can destroy their nexus (which requires three attackers) and win.
Check out the latest build at MineCraftForum.net.
"Lego spelunking!" LEGO Minecraft available for pre-order
Subject: General Tech | February 18, 2012 - 01:22 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Minecraft, Lego
Most of the success of Minecraft can be attributed to that little part of your brain which desires to be creative while at play. Prior to Minecraft, other toys such as LEGO clung on to that yearning for their successes. A mash-up between the old and the new is a natural stage in the evolution of Minecraft. LEGO and Mojang announced a LEGO-themed Minecraft set.
Who knows, maybe we will eventually get LEGO Minecraft the videogame and complete the circle.
Recent events would lead you to believe that Mojang has enough money -- and you are correct. The Minecraft LEGO set was created from LEGO's CUUSOO program. If a CUUSOO product is selected to become a part of LEGO's portfolio, it can collect 1% of total net sales of the product. According to the official LEGO press release, Mojang will donate the royalties they collect from this LEGO product to charity.
If you desire to explore blocky caves in real life then head on down to the Jynx website and submit your order. The set is expected to be available sometime in the summer. Also, check out the LEGO CUUSOO project to submit or vote upon other potential products.
Minecraft: Soon with more ways to get messed with!
Subject: General Tech | July 29, 2011 - 02:35 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Minecraft
Minecraft, the insanely popular videogame from independent developer Mojang, follows in the PC gaming history of providing customers with constant free content updates along with the usual bug-fix patches. Many developers have been swayed recently by the thought of micro-transactions and have to some extent pushed their customers toward paying for whatever content was not on the disk, and sometimes even paying extra for that too. Notch, the most high-profile member of Mojang, has been teasing about possible additions to be made in upcoming patches: the possibility of boss fights and a screenshot of an enigmatic new mob.
I wonder if the bosses will have derpy eyes too.
One thing that has become a common view about Minecraft is that it will kill you and aggravate you in many annoying ways unless you are very careful (and often when you are). The creeper is often considered annoying by Minecraft players due to its ability to spawn or move into difficult to deal with spots, be even more difficult to deal with when there, and cause demolish your creations when there. Many players got frustrated enough to the point of disabling the mob or its destructive capabilities altogether. A development screenshot posted by Notch on his Google+ a new experimental mob doing what many fear could be the new creeper: hold a block! Where did (s)he get the block? What will (s)he do with it? Could the game itself grief you? No other details are available yet but it certainly puts players off ease for the possibilities… but not necessarily in a bad way.
See this? This is someone's nightmare.
(Image from Notch, Mojang)
Mojang has wanted to lead Minecraft more towards a more typical game model as an alternative to a tool for creation without much else to do thereafter. Due to an admiration of another Minecraft-like game, Terraria, Notch has mentioned the desire to add boss battles to the game. The catch is that, like Terraria, you would have the ability to create the terms for the boss battle rather than be guided to a game designer's creation until you either quit playing or overcome it and move past it. I should also say that there have been plenty of additions to Minecraft that have been planned or worked on in the past that ultimately get scrapped so there is no guarantee that anything in this news story will end up in the game proper.
Minecraft hits 1.7 release. Minecraft players hit TNT, not die.
Subject: General Tech | July 1, 2011 - 01:34 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Minecraft
Videogames are not necessarily a medium about consuming. One advantage of videogames is that they are inherently a platform for creativity. You often see creativity happen haphazardly in terms of strategies and the "water-cooler moments" where an event happens and you just cannot help but discuss it. A second layer of creativity is when videogames support third-party content: you are allowed to modify the game as you desire and create your own game based around the other game. The third layer of creativity is when the game itself is mostly a platform for creativity. Minecraft falls under the vein of a "Spore", a "Farmville", or a "Lego" where the player is less interested in accomplishing an objective than they are channeling their creativity. Now players of Minecraft have more options to express themselves as it advanced to version 1.7; or just end up piston around.
I've got a baaaaahahahahhhhhd feeling about this.
(Screenshot taken from Modacity Minecraft Server)
Changes for this version involve the addition of Pistons which allow you to move blocks, items, players, and mobs. There are two types of pistons: regular pistons which can push items, and slime-upgraded pistons which can push and pull items. Some possible usages include more inventive traps, flood gates, triggered stairs, and so forth. Another addition is that TNT must be lit on fire or triggered with a redstone circuit to allow players to remove potentially misplaced TNT by punching it. Fences can now also be stacked which is useful for those attempting to use them artistically or who just want a really tall fence. The last major change was the addition of shears to trim trees and sheep.
Check out these changes in action with Minecraft's official 1.7 update video.
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Since then attempts have been made to relate military occupations with civilian employment. Recently, steps have been taken to increase the skill level for numerous positions so their skills may be on par with their civilian counterparts. There are two reasons for this change: first, there is a need to stem the unemployment rate among veterans returning to civilian life; second, the US is facing an increasing need to fill positions, and they are doing it increasingly with foreign workers.
Even with these changes, there remaining one last stumbling block for this transition. That is the civilian process of licensing and certifying certain occupations in the US. Take these two situations: shouldn't a soldier driving a truck in a convoy across Afghanistan or Iraq be able to drive a truck across our country to deliver goods to market? Or a Navy corpsman capable of administering medical aid to personnel in combat, be qualified to work as an EMT in an ambulance at home?
Steps have recently been put in place to overcome this block. The recently enacted Veteran Skills to Jobs Act of 2012 now requires federal agencies that issue licenses to consider any veteran trained in the same field to have received instruction enough to meet federal requirements. This means that the various federal agencies, which issue between 80 to 100 licenses relevant to military training, can now issue veterans qualifying licenses without the veteran having to re-qualify on the civilian side.
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Additionally, efforts have been made on the private sector as well to assist qualified veterans to make the transition. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters began working with the DoD to establish a pilot program for qualifying veterans. The focus is on industries critically short of trained applicants, including trucking, health care, supply and logistics, automotive repair and airplane mechanics.
Frank DiGiovanni, DoD's Director of Training Readiness and Strategy, is encouraged by this new relationship between the military and civilian occupations. To have veterans first trained in the military and then use educational assistance moneys to "re-qualify" them - all out of the tax payer's purse - seems a waste. Therefore, streamlining the skill level and removing the restrictions associated with licensing between military and civilian occupations should satisfy both the unemployment rate among veterans and fill the increasing gaps in our skilled labor force.
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The dress is perfection. Firstly, it's unusual in comparisons to the dresses that are being put on for the festive season. This has an elegant but girly rather than sensual edge to it. The 50s cut with the wide petticoat skirt makes for a tiny waist and skinnier and longer looking legs, so it adds height and reduces a few pounds. That's a massive plus. The other aspect that I absolutely love is the simple, yet stunning top. No specific girly pattern of sequins, which I always find a bit too much, high closed neckline for lots of elegance, but then you see the back of the dress and it's just like BOOM! You just don't expect that at all with this dress and that's what I love.
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Winter is all about layering as always. No one wants to look twice their size, right? So I'd stock up on some cosy tights, biker boots (no good wearing pretty heels when the ground is all frozen and slippery), a cute pattern jumper and a furry coat. Sticking to maroon/oxblood/burgundy colours and black & gold is definitely a good idea this season!
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I've been blogging for 2 years this month, actually! I've been absolutely loving it. Of course it's sometimes a rollercoaster ride when people don't comment or seem to like what I'm writing about – I do write with my readers in mind. I want them to find what I'm sharing interesting or provocative, etc. I've made some great friends along the way of blogging as well and I've found a community that I think gets me and my passions and my urge of oversharing a lot more than most of the people in my 'real life'. That gives me a sense of belonging
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One national organization wants to fight high teen pregnancy rates in the United States by recommending that pediatricians prescribe or provide the morning-after pill before a young person might need it.The American Academy of Pediatrics, an organization of 60,000 pediatricians and specialists, endorsed the idea as a way to reduce unintended pregnancies in adolescents.As part of the Cherokee County Public Health Department, Clinical Coordinator Cheryl Hill sees women every day - some as young as 13 - who receive some sort of contraception from their clinic."We teach abstinence, number one, especially to our adolescent clients, that that's 100 percent effective to prevent pregnancy, prevent STDs," she said. "But there are some cases they choose not to pursue abstinence, and they want to continue with the birth control."The American Academy of Pediatrics released an online policy statement Monday stating that recommend pediatricians give advance prescriptions or actual emergency contraception products to teenagers under the age of 17 before they are needed.They said, in part, "Adolescents are more likely to use emergency contraception if it has been prescribed in advance of need. The aim of this updated policy statement is to... encourage routine counseling and advance emergency-contraception prescription as one part of a public health strategy to reduce teen pregnancy.""They're not telling them this is something that you have to do. I mean, but it is something that I think that they should think about," Hill said. It's a decision Doreen Hague, the Director of Tyler's Pregnancy Resource Center, doesn't agree with."What we're telling these girls is go ahead, you can live your lifestyle the way you want," Hague said. "You can have sex. We'll make sure you don't get pregnant, or if you do, we'll take all the responsibility away from you."Hague encourages abstinence until marriage, saying many young pregnant women she sees are lacking strong father figures.And Hill says it's imperative that parents get involved in educating their children about sex."Seventy-nine out of every 1,000 births in Cherokee County are from a teenage parent," said Hill. "I would want my child to be informed. You don't want them to be in that situation, you don't want to think about your child engaging in sexual activity, but you want them to be prepared if they're in that place."Currently, young women over the age of 17 and young men over the age of 18 can obtain the morning-after pill without a prescription.To read the American Academy of Pediatrics' policy statement, click here.
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Regarding statements from other media about Jake's dad kicking him in a hole, Jackson confirms the father was at work when the child was reported missing. He also says there is no 8 year old in the family. There is a 9 year old. This is consistent with what law enforcement working on this case have told KLTV.
Regarding Sabrina's alleged confession, Jackson said Sabrina did have conversations with law enforcement before he became involved with the case so he cannot say what was said between the mother and officials because he does not know.
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Piles of storm debris lining streets across Jackson County will soon disappear. The county is preparing to pick up the debris on Wednesday. Residents said the pickup will help restore order in their communities after Hurricane Isaac left them in chaos.
Martha Bond lives in Helena. She said Isaac flooded her home and drenched a lot of her personal items.
"Couches and chairs, bedding, just an assortment of things," Bond said.
Bond has been working since the storm to get all the damaged stuff out of her home and on the front lawn for it to go.
"It is a reminder of what happened, but it is also a health hazard because I am sure that mold is sitting there growing."
Starting Wednesday, road crews will begin removing Bond's rubble as well as other piles of smelly debris from at least 600 homes in the unincorporated area of the county.
"We are asking that all residents place their storm debris out by the roadway, and then we will be picking it up with county personal and county equipment. FEMA will pay 75 percent of the cost of collecting all that debris," Supervisor John McKay said.
Only electronics, large appliances, vegetative and construction debris will be picked up.
"We hope to get all in this first time, but we are likely to have to do a second run," Supervisor Barry Cumbest said.
Cumbest represents many of the rural communities that Isaac hit hard.
"Helena area flooded real bad, Orange Grove, East Moss Point, they were all flooded bad," Cumbest said.
He said his constituents have a whole lot to throw away. In fact, the county is expecting to collect at least 30,000 cubic yards of storm debris.
"We didn't realize it was going to be this much. The flooding caught us off guard. Of course, you never know what a storm is going to bring until it gets here," said Cumbest.
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By Severina Aequitas
At the present time, literary criticism tends to be directed mostly to works that society perceives as holding great social and literary significance. These works have changed the way people look at art or literature, either by sparking controversy or through their considerable popularity. The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling has done just this, but has yet to be accepted as a serious literary work. It has received much acclaim as an outstanding piece of children's literature, but the novels contain much more than a simple tale about a boy wizard. Rowling follows in some very old traditions of literature, and by applying German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's theories about the cruelty of life and the inherent Apollonian and Dionysian qualities in all forms of art, and French philosopher and critic Jacques Derrida's theories of the pharmakon and the pharmakos, one begins to see how the Harry Potter series deserves to be regarded as a significant piece of literature. Furthermore, instead of using the entire Harry Potter series for this undertaking, I've chosen to use just one text from it, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and demonstrate how it draws on those sources.
Nietzsche and the Theory of Apollonian and Dionysian Qualities
Nietzsche felt that every work of art, whether it is music or drama or writing, contained two aspects: the Apollonian and the Dionysian. The Apollonian aspect is that of order and laws, which can constitute the illusion that things are in control even if in reality they are not. The Dionysian aspect is about the "cruelty of life" or not being able to ever escape one's fate; and also that of escaping to an alternate state of being, usually a temporary one. These themes run quite strong in Order of the Phoenix with Harry unwilling to accept his destiny. Nietzsche notices in Greek tragedies that the heroes show "tremendous distrust of the titanic forces of nature: Moira [destiny], mercilessly enthroned beyond the knowable world," 1 and uses Oedipus as an example of one who learns of what his future holds for him, tries to run away from his fate, but unknowingly runs closer towards it.
Harry is in a similar situation. Not only was his being born a wizard kept secret from him until he turned eleven, but, like Oedipus, a prophecy was made that would affect his entire life; in Harry's case, the prophecy stated that a child would be born who would vanquish Lord Voldemort. When Voldemort unintentionally turns Harry into the prophecy's fulfillment, Harry constantly questions, both internally and to those closest to him, why he must be the "Chosen One". When the wizard newspaper, The Daily Prophet, continually writes stories implying that Harry's motives in saying Voldemort has returned are to garner himself more fame, he bursts out: "I didn't ask—I didn't want—Voldemort killed my parents! I got famous because he murdered my family but couldn't kill me! Who wants to be famous for that? Don't they think I'd rather it'd never [happened?]—"2
Harry's feelings of unhappiness continue throughout the text, and after Sirius Black dies, his feelings intensify to the point that he wishes he wasn't himself: "He could not stand being Harry anymore….He had never felt more trapped inside his own head and body, never wished so intensely that he could be somebody—anybody—else." 3 Eventually he becomes so frustrated with his life that he doesn't see the point in living anymore, yelling at Dumbledore "I DON'T CARE! I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE—" 4 Dumbledore helps Harry see why he must accept his destiny, and even though Harry feels a sense of isolation because of it, it also seems to give him a sense of motivation and purpose that most fifteen-year-old boys don't have yet:
An invisible barrier separated him from the rest of the world. He was—he had always been—a marked man. It was just that he had never really understood what that meant…. And yet sitting here on the edge of the lake, with the terrible weight of grief dragging at him […] he could not muster any great sense of fear. […] The grounds around him were full of laughing people, and even though he felt as distant from them as though he belonged to a different race, it was still very hard to believe as he sat there that his life must include, or end in, murder….5
Harry has transitioned from wanting to avoid his destiny to realizing and accepting that he must face and vanquish Voldemort. He overcomes "the cruelty of life," moving into an acceptance of his fate.
The Dionysian quality of wanting to escape to an alternative reality not only affects Harry, but the reader as well. When staying with the Dursleys, Harry is unable to use magic and readers empathize with his frustration. When members of the Order come to take him to Sirius's house, they use their broomsticks to fly there, and the effect on Harry is intoxicating, "He felt as though his heart was going to explode with pleasure; he was flying again, flying away from Privet Drive as he'd been fantasizing about all summer, he was going home…. For a few glorious moments, all his problems seemed to recede into nothing."6 For many readers, they feel a similar effect whilst reading the Harry Potter novels. The reader is aware that the books are fiction and such a magical world cannot exist, but they create a retreat, away from the realities they deal with in their life:
Despite the high intensity with which these dream realities exist for us, we still have the residual sensation that they are illusions […] the essence of Dionysiac rapture, whose closest analogy is furnished by physical intoxication […] the individual forgets himself completely.7
This is evidenced by the record-breaking numbers of books sold on their first day of release, showing how many people enjoy escaping into Harry Potter's world, and that these Dionysian qualities exist both within and outside of Rowling's books.
In Order of the Phoenix, there is a great emphasis on the Apollonian aspects (order and law) of the magical world. Wizards have all the same forms of government that Muggles (or non-wizarding folk) have, most notably a Ministry of Magic (and Minister of Magic, whose function is like that of a President or Prime Minister) that forms the central place of government over various aspects of wizarding life and a Wizengamot that oversees all judicial aspects of the laws. In the beginning of the text, Harry is forced to use magic to ward off Dementors, and breaks one of the laws that forbid underage wizards to use magic. Because of this, he must go to a hearing to determine whether he should be reprimanded because of this, and at the hearing the charges mentioned show the extent to which the wizarding community has developed their laws:
The charges against the accused are as follows: That he did knowingly, deliberately, and in full awareness of the illegality of his actions, having received a previous written warning from the Ministry of Magic on a similar charge, produced a Patronus Charm in a Muggle-inhabited area, in the presence of a Muggle, on August the second at twenty-three minutes past nine, which constitutes an offense under Paragraph C of the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery, 1875, and also under section thirteen of the International Confederation of Wizards' Statute of Secrecy.8
The Wizarding society depends on laws to try to prevent chaos and also to stop wizards like Voldemort from gaining too much power. The Ministry's big mistake is refusing to believe Voldemort has returned, which would force them into actions they are unwilling to make. Hence Fudge's displeasure when Harry is re-admitted to Hogwarts after being acquitted in the misuse of magic charge. Indignant, Fudge places Dolores Umbridge in Hogwarts as a tool of the Ministry to exert force at the school, something that had never before happened. Hogwarts typically operates outside of the limitations of the Ministry, and has its own sets of rules, again reflecting the Apollonian aspects of their society.
Derrida and the Pharmakos/Pharmakon
Jacques Derrida's theories concerning the pharmakon and the pharmakos apply to the Harry Potter series as well. The pharmakon translates to the dual meaning of being both a remedy and a poison. This can pertain to when Voldemort first tried to kill Harry:
Voldemort himself would 'mark him his equal.' And so he did, Harry. […] He gave you the scar that has proved both blessing and curse. […] In marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far—something that […] your parents […never] achieved.9
The very thing meant to kill Harry—the Avada Kedavra curse—made him stronger than he would have been otherwise. Derrida believes that words should show all possible meanings, and the words Rowling chose, "Avada Kedavra," have interesting origins. The original Aramaic that became "Abracadabra," it translates as "let the thing be destroyed." It was originally used to cure illness, but Rowling changed it to a killing curse for any living thing. Again, this has interesting connotations concerning the remedy/poison duality of the pharmakon.
Another idea that intrigued Derrida was that of the pharmakos in ancient Greece, The word pharmakos means "wizard, magician, poisoner." Derrida says:
The character of the pharmakos has been compared to the scapegoat […] the pharmakos represents evil both introjected and projected. Beneficial insofar as he cures—and for that, venerated and cared for—harmful insofar as he incarnates the powers of evil – and for that, feared and treated with caution.10
In the Harry Potter series, wizards live outside of Muggle society because of the persecution they endured. The Dursleys are an excellent example of this prejudice, secretly fearing anything magical, but trying to demonstrate their superiority over it: " 'Ministry of Magic?' bellowed Uncle Vernon. 'People like you in government? Oh, this explains everything, everything, no wonder the country's going to the dogs.' " 11 The Dursleys show their fear of wizards at the end of the novel as well, when members of the Order confront them about their treatment of Harry:
Uncle Vernon turned a deeper shade of puce and glared at Mr. Weasley, but chose not to say anything, partly, perhaps, because the Dursleys were outnumbered two to one. Aunt Petunia looked both frightened and embarrassed. She kept glancing around, as though terrified somebody she knew would see her in such company. Dudley, meanwhile, seemed to be trying to look small and insignificant, a feat at which he was failing extravagantly.12
Muggles aren't the only ones who persecute those who are different from them, though. In the magical world, wizards single out many for being different, and the hypocrisy of the wizards' prejudice is shown in how they sometimes treat Muggles too. Mr. Weasley tells Harry about this, telling him that "Muggle-baiting might strike some wizards as funny, but it's an expression of something much deeper and nastier." 13 Wizards also mistreat house-elves, werewolves, centaurs, and other various creatures: "Hermione was talking very earnestly to Lupin about her view of elf rights. 'I mean, it's the same kind of nonsense as werewolf segregation, isn't it? It all stems from this horrible thing wizards have of thinking they're superior to other creatures….' " 14 Derrida says that in the case of the Greeks this keeping of the outside out and the inside in was a way to keep their self-identity intact, but he disapproves of that. With the prejudice shown towards the wizards by Muggles, and by the wizards to other creatures, the series shows that even though the magical world might look better than our own, it has to deal with the same problems as any society.
The Harry Potter series has been tested against some very influential methods of literary criticism and is able to stand on its own as a significant piece of literature that deserves to be taken seriously by the literary-critical community. The works mentioned here have had an enormous impact on what literature is, and the Harry Potter series follows in that tradition, by continuing to challenge present-day notions of what should be considered "Literature." Literary criticism allows us to look closer at ourselves through the novels, and the popularity of the Harry Potter series has shone to be one of those that have hit a chord with our society and ourselves.
1. Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy," 422.
2. Rowling, Order of the Phoenix, 74.
3. Ibid., 822.
4. Ibid., 824.
5. Ibid., 855–56.
6. Ibid., 55–56.
7. Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy," 420.
8. Rowling, Order of the Phoenix, 140.
9. Ibid., 842.
10. Derrida, "Plato's Pharmacy," 130–33.
11. Rowling, Order of the Phoenix, 29.
12. Ibid., 868.
13. Ibid., 153.
14. Ibid., 170–71.
Derrida, Jacques. "Plato's Pharmacy." Tel Quel 32–33 (1968).
Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Birth of Tragedy." In The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, 2nd ed., edited by David Richter. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998.
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. New York: Scholastic Press, Arthur A. Levine Books, 2003.


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In news that should surprise no Aston Villa supporter, the Villa hemorrhaged even more cash in the latest financial reporting of Reform Acquisitions, Aston Villa's holding company. Thanks to decreased spending in the summer transfer market from 2008 to 2009, Villa's losses were from £46.1m in 2009 to £37.5m. Thanks to the continued investment, or some might say benevolence of Randy Lerner the club is in no danger, but in the medium term Villa will have to stop the bleeding to comply with the new Financial Fair Play rules.
Despite the continued losses, the clubs financial picture is not all that bad. When Randy Lerner took over the club was in a somewhat similar financial situation that Everton finds itself in now. They were ran by Chairman Doug Ellis, who like Bill Kenwright was not independently wealthy on the scale of an Arab Sheik or Oligarch, and did not have a vast personal fortune to underwrite a football club. The analogy falls apart in that Everton has David Moyes as manager and Villa had George O'Leary and Villa finished the 2005-2006 season in 16 th place.
Randy Lerner bought the club right before the 2006-2007 season for a paltry £60m. He essentially was buying a blank slate. The team unquestionably needed investment, but this was a club that was the biggest club in England's second largest city, with a following and tradition that would be the envy of all but a hand-full of clubs in England. His plan was and is that by fielding a more competitive club, and using his experience and knowledge to better market the club, to increase revenue and run the club in a sustainable way.
Much has been made about Lerner's £200m investment. Rest assured this money has been part of a plan, part of an investment. Surely if he sold the club today it would sell for considerably more than £60m. The first XI, is probably worth £100m alone. The only way to ensure interest from fans, to pack Villa Park, sell luxury boxes, and increase sponsorship, and overall turnover is to field a competitive team. In Sport Marketing it is the height of folly to market winning because nobody can guarantee results, but you can market hope. In the O'Leary Era there was no hope. This year notwithstanding Villa has been a club in the ascendancy, and that hope has energized the fan-base and helped the club's turnover to double in the Lerner.
In the short, to medium term the club still has issues to negotiate. The wage bill is currently at an unsustainable 80% of turnover which is clearly unsustainable. According to the Guardian article Lerner wants to get it back into the 60% range. Hopefully the club can offload Steven Ireland, Stephen Warnock, and perhaps Emile Heskey and Stiliyan Petrov in the summer. Nigel-Reo Coker, Habib Baye, Brad Friedel, Luke Young, Isiah Osbourne, Robert Pires are all out of contract. That should help get closer to the desired wage bill without impacting the club on the field as Martin O'Neil's dead weight belatedly follows him out the door. With the club only needing to add a goalkeeper,and a couple of defenders in the summer the wage bill should be lower next year. With the specter of Ashley Young leaving as well, that could help finance those moves.
FxPro who had signed a record sponsorship deal with the club as their shirt sponsor, has opted out of the three year deal. They are expected to stay on with Fulham as they have an advertisement on the roof of one of the stands at Craven Cottage which is visible from Heathrow. Surely the SNAFU with Nike, and the resulting delay of the sale of Villa jerseys adorned with the FxPro logo could not have helped matters. One of the perks of shirt sponsorship is having thousands of people who wear their club's jersey advertising for your company. Villa will be looking for a new sponsor that will at least match what FxPro was paying. Let's hope it's a cool logo like this on next year's kit. I hope it's a beer company. I'll let Kirsten and Aaron decide on an ideal candidate as their knowledge of beer dwarfs mine.
Birmingham is the second largest city in England. The only other club in city limits is Small Heath, with Wolverhampton and West Bromwich Albion also nearby. But as some newer, particularly American fans may not realize is that Birmingham is not nearly as affluent an area as London. During the Victorian Era, when under the leadership of George Ramsay Villa dominated the Football League, and Birmingham England's industrial center. The city has been hit hard by the recession, and over the decades as England has moved to a post-industrial economy. Attendance has been strong, but there are empty seats at mid-week and cup fixtures, and if you frequent the club website you know the club is aggressive in packaging and discounting tickets. Even with Villa Park full, Tottenham can still generate more match-day revenue since they play in London and can charge more per ticket just like the Yankees can charge higher ticket prices than the Tigers. This should improve as the economy improves, but the club also is hoping that a strong campaign next year will cause supporters to dig a little deeper into their pockets.
I toyed with the idea of writing a post just on the NFL Labor situation and how this and how it could effect the club. To really do it right I would have had to hook up my old hard drive from college, dig up old briefs, and do additional research. Kristi Dosh, who unlike me is an actual lawyer and professional writer did a better job than I could in summarizing the possible outcomes of the impending lockout. The only thing I'll add to her piece is that if this goes to court expect the NFL to lose. Whether its litigation with the players like the McNeil v NFL or Mackey v NFL, or even with Raiders owner Al Davis the NFL is worse than Derby County in anti-trust cases. If this is settled at the negotiating table, expect the NFLPA to fold. This is the union that won free-agency in the Mackey case in 1975, only to give it back at the table in exchange for enhanced benefits.
Relating this back to Association Football, as Villains we should all hope that a deal is struck soon, or that the NFL plays without a deal. Unlike the EPL, the NFL prints money, and all but the worst run franchises, or franchises that play in antiquated stadia turn profits. The only reason a lockout looms is that the owners want to make more money, and they think they can break the union. It's impossible to say that Randy Lerner is taking his profits from the Cleveland Browns to subsidize Aston Villa, clearly his largest asset no longer producing revenue can't be positive for Villa in any way. Even in a work stoppage, owners will still be receiving their lucrative network TV revenue, so this should not be a catastrophe. Still as Villains the sooner this ends the better. Part of me believes that its possible that the January spending spree was done at least in part due to the uncertain NFL labor climate.
The club has also invested significantly in the academy. As this is the most cost effective way of building a squad, the more young players coming through, they make less initially than veterans and don't require fees. If they don't stick with Villa they can be sold off as well. In all the club is still in decent shape financially as the money invested has been part of long-term a plan.


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My clients keep asking me if oil and gasoline prices are going to continue to rise. Will they ever go back down? In the long run, oil and gas prices will continue to go up and Americans must prepare themselves to spend a higher percentage of their household budgets in the future on gasoline, heating oil and food (more about food in another issue of this newsletter). Oil and gas prices are being driven by two LONG-TERM INVESTING TRENDS.
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Posted May 16, 2008
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My clients keep asking me when oil prices will stop going up. What do I tell them? OIL PRICES WILL KEEP GOING UP! As I have mentioned before in the FOXHALL GLOBAL OUTLOOK there are many factors causing oil to go up. First is supply and demand. While we Americans continue to complain about prices, we still consumed more gasoline last year than we did the previous year. China and India are now the second and third largest auto markets in the world and they are consuming record amounts of new gasoline.
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Since 1945, the average bear market has lasted about two years and knocked the S&P 500-stock index down 36 percent. Now is not the time to drink the "BUY AND HOLD" investment strategy Kool-Aid. Be conservative, limit your risk -- and sleep well knowing your investment principal is not going to continue to decline.
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Stock Market Update: The Summer Doldrums
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One of the characteristics of the summer doldrums is that the stock market tends to go up and down during this period in a side-ways pattern. That is what we are seeing right now.
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Long Term Investment Trend: The Declining U.s. Dollar--How Will It Impact My Investment Portfolio?
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I believe the single greatest threat to investors over the next five to ten years is the loss of buying power or loss of purchasing power from inflation, which is another way of saying the U.S. dollar, is losing value.
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Great "like-real" food
By Andrea Pediatric Speech Therapist
from Concord, CA
Comments about New Sprouts® Munch It! My very own play food:
Great price for the amount of pieces you get. Kids love the real look of the cereal and mac n cheese. The variety of the food is nice. I use it for speech evals for my under 3s (early intervention) and my kids already getting therapy.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Perfect for imaginative play!
By kasi622
from Auburn, NY
love this
By Reen
from Chicago IL
Really kid friendly - perfecttly sized and so cute
These are great!
By Jo
from Chicago
It's lots of fun!
Love this set!
By Daily Mothering
from USA
This is the perfect food set for toddlers and young children. I reviewed this product on my blog and was quite impressed. The pieces are all large and look pretty realistic. My son loves the bowls of mac 'n cheese and cereal, and the muffin is so neat because you can take the top off and remove the blueberry bunch. All around a great set and my almost 2 year old plays with it daily!
High Quality Play Food!
By Cher @ Mom and More
from Chicago, IL
My kids (5, 4, and 1) all of the sudden are super into their play kitchen. Their play food unfortunately though was from a giant set and honestly it was cheap. Some of the plastic food is crushed, ripped, or just old looking. The play food was not meant to last and after a few times I really should have thrown it away.The Sprouts Munch It! My Very Own PLay Food set is not only high quality but it is food that we don't already have. From the adorable bowls of mac n' cheese and cereal to the carrot, blueberry muffin, hot dog, grilled cheese, and juice box, the set is really neat! You can tell right away that this play food is high quality because it is firmer and thicker than the traditional (or cheap) play food. My kids had a blast playing with play food that they actually eat and their favorite was probably the bowls with spoons. I love the blueberry muffin with the little blueberries inside! This is definitely a great set for any child who loves to pretend-kitchen and wants some new play food. We will be using ours I'm sure almost daily!
Our Favorite Play Food Set!
By Shelly
from Harrisburg, PA
We got this set for our 3 yr old grand daughter who has a play kitchen and was needing some play food and kitchen accessories. It comes nicely packaged in a gift-giving box and all of the pieces are durable and well-made. Our Little G was already familiar with the food pieces in this set so she was super excited to name off the correct name for each item.Her favorite pieces from the set is the sandwich and the banana. She plays with this set for hours at a time in her play kitchen making nanny and pappy all kinds of play gourmet meals :)
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By Kristen
from Ohio
We are happy with this new set. I thought it was neat mix of foods. Our little guy loves it too! This was actually his first set of food. It was so cute because he loves Cheerios. In this set there is a bowl of pretend cereal. He grabbed it up and shouted "cereal" and promptly tried to take a bite. When he realized it was plastic he says, "cereal broke". It was very cute! Once he realized it was food to PLAY with he jumped right in! Of course his older sisters had to join in as well.As always, I am very pleased with our items and service from Learning Resources. Make sure you keep them in mind for all your educational toys and games!
Great fun! Superb quality.
By Muse Reviews
from Southern USA
Learning Resources has, for a long while, been one of our favorite companies for high-quality, well-constructed items for both play and education. They've added a brand new line to their creative play/imaginative play assortment: The New Sprouts line!We received sent the New Sprouts Munch It! My Very Own Play Food set a few weeks ago. Our little 5-year-old is always cooking up yummy foods in her mini kitchen. These realistic-looking foods and utensils add huge amounts of color and realism to her epicurean array!These play foods are made of a durable yet soft (i.e., no sharp edges) plastic, with superb attention to tiny detail!Not only does the New Sprouts Munch It! set encourage imaginative kitchen-themed play, it also boosts vocabulary and understanding of mealtime routines for little ones. (And notice that the selection of foods includes healthy options, allowing your child to create a well-balanced "pretend" meal or snack anytime of the day!)Note: I received the above product at no cost from Learning Resources in exchange for my honest review.
Very realistic looking!
By Stay At Home Mommy
from Connecticut
My almost 2 year old daughter loves this set! We previously purhased the Healthy Foods Play Set to complement her play kitchen and like this set a lot more! The foods that come with this Sprouts set are softer and very durable. It is also very realistic looking, where my daughter immediately recognized most of the foods. They are small enough for her little hands to hold onto and but too tiny. This set is excellent to help foster my daughter's imagination and vocabulary expansion! I would highly recommend this set.


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