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I applied online. The process took a week – interviewed at Bridgepoint Education in August 2014.Interview Details
Applied online, received a call the next day wanting to schedule a phone interview. Completed first and second phone interview within two days. I had done research on the company and realized that the reviews on working there weren't the best and also that the stock price had dropped pretty significantly. I asked the recruiter about this and she said that the company was restructuring. While i understand that, it seemed a little fishy. The position turned out to be a lot more cold-call sales than I was interested in and I'm pretty sure that's the reason they didn't want to move forward with me.Interview Questions
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I applied in-person. The process took 2 days – interviewed at Bridgepoint Education in August 2010.Interview Details
Easy,I had a 1:1 interview with a manager and then a group interview with two managers. Interview's were the same day. Very relaxed. Received a call back the following day. Started the following Monday.
The hiring process has changed since then. There is more red tape, candidates will be filtered through their talent acquisition team and interviewed by both these reps and a manager or two of the hiring department. Could be up to 2/3 interviews max. Also included background checks- strict on college background specifically. If you say you graduated and never did, HR will catch it and release you immediately. Be honest, if you are a few credits short from graduation, be upfront about it.Interview Questions
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks – interviewed at Bridgepoint Education in January 2011.Interview Details
They were launching a site for their subsidiary, Ashford University, in Denver, CO. When I came to the facility for my interview I had step over cables and construction when I arrived. There was no signage so it took a while to find the office. When I did find the office I had to walk down hallways to find the hiring managers.Interview Questions
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week – interviewed at Bridgepoint Education.Interview Details
Initial contact was a Phone screen. I then had an in person interview which lasted about two and a half hours.There were two individual interviews, one by the director of product delivery and one by the products supervisor. Each were about an hour. I had a skills test after that and then was presented an offer.Interview Questions
Negotiation Detailsnot flexible on benefits and PTO. Ask for more money. Trying to get reasonable increases as an employee is difficult, if not impossible.Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceAverage Interview
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I applied through a staffing agency – interviewed at Bridgepoint Education.Interview Details
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks – interviewed at Bridgepoint Education in June 2010.Interview Details
The hiring process was pleasant and professional. I interviewed with a phone screen interview and then one in person interview at the Corporate office in Poway. I was offered the job at the in person interview.Interview Questions
Negotiation DetailsThe hiring range was $38,000-$43,000 if I recall. I was offered $38,000 and I countered with $42,000 based on my previous sales experience, the interviewer went to get it approved with her supervisor and came back and offered me the job within 15 minutes. I am not sure if all interviewees are offered the job at the 1:1 interview, but I did ask for the job, as I feel that you should ALWAYS do if you do in fact want the job.Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceAverage Interview
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I applied online. The process took 2 days – interviewed at Bridgepoint Education.Interview Details
The recruiter called me for quick phone screening and then two days later they called me to come in for in person interview. I was interviewed by two people, it lasted about 45 minutes. The next day they called me again to come in for the second interview to meet with their executives the interview lasted for about an hour and half.Interview Questions
Negotiation DetailsStill waiting for an offer.Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceAverage Interview
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I applied online – interviewed at Bridgepoint Education.Interview Details
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I applied online. The process took a week – interviewed at Bridgepoint Education in October 2012.Interview Details
Pretty standard process for applying for the job. Found the listing for the job online and sent them a resume. Next step was a phone interview. After that I went in for an interview in person. The interview was with three people and was pretty standard except for the questions from one of the interviewers. Upon reflecting on it afterwords, I think he was trying to gauge my problem solving abilities. The first odd question was how I could get my resume on one page without changing the font size. Well I have always thought that the best resume was one page, but I can't seem to make mine fit anymore. After talking about adding columns etc, his idea was to use the back of the page. To me that is not solving the problem, but just saving a piece of paper. It is still technically two pages, but just one sheet of paper. Anyway the next one was even better. He said, "Simple question, how many pay phones are in New York?". No mention at all about how would you find out this information or anything, just how many. Keep in mind this position was for a $10/hr intern. I was so taken aback I simply said I don't know. I think he was looking for me to tell him how I would go about finding out this information, but to me that is a really stupid way to test problem solving. Needless to say I didn't get the job.......thank goodness.Interview Questions
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I applied online – interviewed at Bridgepoint Education.Interview Details
Let me start by saying that this was the most unprofessional experience I have had. The first red flag (besides the poor reviews of the HR and recruiting department on here) was when the recruiter called me while I was driving and asked me if I had a few minutes. I said I was driving and would be home in 15 min to call her back. She disregarded that and just continued on with asking me several questions for about 5 minutes even though I said it was not a good time. At the end of it, she set up the actual phone interview for the following day. The day after that, I was in the office for an interview. This was the only plus. The office was great and I really enjoyed the two hiring managers I met with. However, I was told by the recruiter I was interviewing with one hiring manager so I had no idea who the other was - another strike for the recruiter.Interview Questions
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I received a request to fill out a reference check form within a few hours of my interview and was told to reach out to all of my references so they can expect the call, which I did. By end of day, the recruiter called me with an offer because "the hiring managers were so impressed with the interview."
And then things went downhill really quick. She gave me the terms of the offer and I asked if it were possible to negotiate for a small amount more. ( I was already taking a big salary cut.) She said she would get back to me. For the next week I got no response to any of my emails or calls. Finally, three days before my expected start date, she calls me and says that they could not match my request and they had "taken my request into consideration and offered the role to someone else."
Moral of the story, don't expect professionalism and salary negotiations are a deal breaker.Declined OfferNegative Experience
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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent collection from some of the best talent in the genre
Millions of years hence, the Sun has grown old, bloated and red and is about to go out. In these dying days humanity, now capable of great feats of magic, shares the much-changed Earth with hostile races such as the deodands and pelgranes. This is the vivid setting of Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, four books (now usually published in one volume) which now stand as one...
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Whislt I would certainly recommend this intruiging collection to any appreciator of Vance (those who haven't read the originals should buy them in preference). I can't agree with some of the more adulatory reviews here. What struck me most about these rather variable in quality stories was how most of the writers fail at a pretty elementary level to fully comprehend the...
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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent collection from some of the best talent in the genre,
A. Whitehead "Werthead" (Colchester, Essex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Millions of years hence, the Sun has grown old, bloated and red and is about to go out. In these dying days humanity, now capable of great feats of magic, shares the much-changed Earth with hostile races such as the deodands and pelgranes. This is the vivid setting of Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, four books (now usually published in one volume) which now stand as one of the cornerstones of modern fantasy.
Songs of the Dying Earth is an all-star 'tribute album' by some of the biggest names in modern SF and Fantasy, featuring twenty-three stories set in the Dying Earth setting. Some of the authors employ existing characters (Cugel makes several appearances and is central in Kage Baker's The Green Bird, whilst Rhialto plays a strong supporting role in Glen Cook's The Good Magician), whilst most create their own characters to explore various stories and ideas. Robert Silverberg's entry deals with a peculiar form of maudlin depression brought about by the imminent end of eternity, whilst Matthew Hughes' Grolion of Almery is a crazy mash-up of the Dying Earth and Cthulu with a bit of Little Shop of Horrors chucked in for good measure. Some of the stories are extremely funny, others are tragic or very dark in tone.
One thing that stands out about the collection is its very high quality. The weakest stories in the collection are the ones where the writer tries to evoke Vance's language and fails - 'Caulk the Witch-Chaser' by Liz Williams and Jeff VanderMeer's 'Final Quest of the Wizard Sarnod' are notable examples - but even they successfully capture some of the setting's tone and feel. The strongest stories in the collection, most notably Dan Simmons' novella 'The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz' and Tad Williams' 'Lamentably Comic Tragedy', not only get the language right but feature their own memorable characters and explore interesting concepts in a well-developed manner.
Given the number of major star names on display, it's frequently the lesser-known authors who impress the most. Matt Hughes, Paula Volsky and Terry Dowling are not authors I'd encountered previously, but their stories are excellent. The old hands do rise to the occasion though, with Simmons and Tad Williams on top form, Walter Jon Williams delivering a knock-out tale and Tanith Lee writing the best story about a snail you'll ever read. George RR Martin, in only his second non-Song-of-Ice-and-Fire-related piece of fiction written in over 15 years, also delivers a dark and rather horrific story that invokes his background as a horror writer.
The collection is rounded off by a nice piece by Neil Gaiman. The collection has an interesting on-going subplot about the Sun reaching the end of its life, and in the final story we finally get to see what happens when it goes out. The results are unexpected, to say the least.
Songs of the Dying Earth (****�) is an exceptionally strong collection, a rich and sumptuous banquet of tales from the end of time. The weak links here are not enough to dilute the impact of the best stories in the collection, and the best stories are thought-provoking, memorable and sharply funny.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Took me back to the original stories,
Many years ago, when I was still a moody teenager, I was browsing in a local used book store. I read a lot in those days – still do, but sadly not as much as when I was a teen, as life has a habit of interrupting like it never did when I was a kid. I enjoyed mostly horror and fantasy, with the occasional foray into science fiction. Sci-fi hadn't caught my attention as much as the other two genres, though I did enjoy Ray Bradbury's stories, and the Dune series.
I wasn't looking for anything in particular, I just had nothing better to do on that particular day. Nothing had caught my fancy on any of the many shelves, so I turned my attention to the cheapest of the cheap books, piled in wooden boxes set on the floor. And there it was – Jack Vance's The Dying Earth. At the time, I'd never heard of Jack Vance, didn't know what he wrote, didn't know if he was any good. But the title had caught my attention. In the midst of my depressing and negative teenage angst, the Earth dying had a certain appeal to me. I paid a few coins for the dog-eared paperback and ambled off home.
Hours later, bleary eyed and yawning, I read the final page and closed the cover. Although tired, with a slight headache from reading for too long in poor light, I was ecstatically happy and grinning like a loon. What I had just read, just experienced, was, for me, nothing short of amazing. Pure brilliance. That world, under it's fading red sun. Those people, in their crumbling cities. The magicians, sorcerers, thaumaturges, with their spells. Spells so vast many years were needed to memorise just one. The creatures, the demons, the created beings. And the stories! Oh, what imagination, what creative genius! I fell asleep a very happy teenager. And when I awoke the next morning, I turned straight to page one and read it all again.
Songs Of The Dying Earth – an anthology of short stories by 21 notable authors, and edited by George R. R. Martin, was put together as a tribute to Jack Vance and the fabulous world he created.
Each of the stories is lovingly crafted, trying – and succeeding – to capture the essence of the original tales. Some use characters and places created by Vance, others use their own original people and cities in the style of Vance. Each one is a thoroughly enjoyable read but, in my opinion, there are two that are weaker than the others. It seemed to me that they were trying too hard to emulate Jack Vance – most notably the unique language that he uses. That's not to say they're not good short stories though, as they are.
Reading this anthology transported me back to my youth, to the joy, wonder and amazement I experienced when I first read Jack Vance's work. It was almost as if I was back in the bed of my teenage years, curled up under the covers, desperately reading as fast as I could, trying to reach the final page before the dying batteries in my torch finally gave out.
If you haven't already read The Dying Earth by Jack Vance then I implore you – buy it as soon as you can and lose yourself in it's magnificence. And once you have done so, make sure you get your own copy of Songs Of The Dying Earth and travel back to Mr. Vance's masterpiece.
Trust me, it's worth every penny. Go get it. Now.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Worthy Honour to Vance's World,
Brian Hamilton "brianhamilton14" (Scotland, UK) - See all my reviews
I am a huge fan of Jack Vance and have always felt that his Tales of the Dying Earth novels have been scandalously overlooked. I have read and re-read the struggles and adventures of Cudgel the Clever so many times he feels like an old friend (not one you would alone with the silverware however).
Songs of the Dying Earth are stories set in this most wondrous of worlds created by Vance and each stands on its own merits. It has been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and writers on offer here have captured the baroque, melancholy and brilliant world imagined by Vance all those years ago.
There is no filler here, all of the stories are well rendered, some interlink and all pay homage to, and sometimes, expand Vance's world.
I urge the reader to absorb Vance's original work before reading this, the experience is much enriched.
An absolutely essential book and one that pays homage to a man who is, in my mind, a master of the genre.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Worthy tribute,
Mark Poles (Cornwall, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Jack Vance's Dying Earth setting is one of my favourite of all fantasy settings. It's an Earth so far in the future that the Sun is pale and red and ready to sputter and die at any moment, all of which tends to lend the characters who inhabit the world a certain inevitable melancholy. Add to this peculiar setting Vance's own eccentric turn of phrase and you get a truly glorious fantasy sequence.
Influential too, and not just in fantasy literature. The D&D magic system was based on that in the Dying Earth and Cugel the Clever, the cunning and amoral anti-hero of 'The Eyes of the Overworld' and 'Cugel's Saga' has been identified by Gary Gygax as the model for the D&D thief class.
Vance is still with us, but he's in his nineties now. It's nice that this tribute anthology was published now and not too late for him to see.
And what an impressive anthology. I don't know who it was who assembled the authors (22 in all) who each contributed a Dying Earth short story, but there are some very good writers here (including genuine A-listers like George R R Martin, Robert Silverberg and Neil Gaiman).
Some of the authors have used existing Dying Earth characters. Some (but not all) have attempted to write in something approaching Vance's style - a tough challenge for any fantasy author I would imagine. They all, without exception, manage to capture that strange end of days melancholy that is such an important part of the original stories.
Incidentally, if you haven't read The Dying Earth, read Vance's stories first, even if you are tempted to read a short story here by your favourite author. Trust me, you will get so much more out of reading in that order.
I won't review each of the 22 short stories, but I would like to pick out my personal favourites.
Mike Resnick's 'Inescapable' is a fable of unrequited lust featuring one of Vance's best creations from the first Dying Earth book.
Kage Baker's 'The Green Bird' sees Cugel once again attempting to devise a cunning plan to acquire a magical treasure. As is ever the case, Cugel turns out to be much less clever than he thinks he is.
Glen Cook's 'The Good Magician' takes us back to the competitive group of archmages we met in Vance's 'Rhialto the Marvellous'.
Byron Tetrick's 'The Collegeum of Mauge' sees a young man searching for the father he has never met, and brings back a couple of Vance's best characters.
George R.R. Martin's 'A Night at the Tarn House' is one of those collection-of-weird-and-wonderful-characters-take shelter-at-a-strange-inn kind of stories. It reminded me a lot of Neil Gaiman's 'Worlds' End'. Which brings me on to...
Neil Gaiman's 'An Invocation of Incuriosity', in which East Grinstead's finest gets the honour of finally killing the Sun.
All in all, a great collection of fantasy writing. But do read the Vance works first.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A new opportunity to visit Jack Vance's Dying Earth,
R. F. Stevens "richard23491" (Ickenham UK) - See all my reviews
This anthology of twenty-two original new stories is written by top quality authors as tributes to the weird and wonderful Dying Earth created by the late Jack Vance.
George R R Martin and Gardner Dozois are co-editors of the anthology with Martin contributing one of the stories. Dean Koontz leads off with an interesting introduction, and Jack Vance himself offers a page of appreciation to all those who wanted to add another tale to his magical world of the future.
Each of the twenty-two stories has a preface introducing its author and outlining its relevance in the fading times of the Dying Earth, and finishes with an appropriate afterword from its author. Some of the tales are stronger than others, some offer a much more accurate emulation of the unique Vance style than others, but all are well worth while reading, all strongly evoke the memories of Vance's unique future vision, and the anthology would be weaker without them.
But best of all as a long-time fan of Jack Vance with almost a complete collection of his works, I thoroughly enjoyed being able to re-visit old `friends' and their adventures (or perhaps with Cugel, mishaps) in brand-new stories. Now I feel the overpowering urge to revisit all of Vance's books again...
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent Anthology,
Michael S. Friedli "Vance-Fan Deluxe" - See all my reviews
Songs of the Dying Earth is a magnificent anthology of 22 tales authored by established writers in expressed tribute to Jack Vance's remote future Dying Earth ("DE"). Jack Vance is widely lauded as that rare writer's writer, and his unique style reaches near inimitability, so that replication is a very tall order indeed. Yet to be able to write Vancian is no sole criterion for evaluating an homage, (though if an obvious attempt is made to "sound" like Vance it is fair game for assessment). Some authors stick to their own voice, thus their tribute to Vance's DE can be adjudged on factors, such as faithfulness to Vance's DE conceptions and themes, or contributing advancements to his fantasy creations.
Seven entries are absolutely outstanding and alone make this book WORTH BUYING, so that among all 22 entries, 7 are BEST, 11 are really quite GOOD, 3 are MIXED, and 1 is WEAK. Reviews given below describe these BEST, sequenced solely by chapter order, followed by brief comments on selected GOOD, followed last by the 3 MIXED & 1 WEAK and reasons thereof.
Story 3 by Terry Dowling. Wins "Most Faithful" Award for conscientious employment of many DE allusions, all lending to the story's DE ambience and authenticity. It offers wonderful Vance-like names (Eunepheos, Sarimance), and hosts a fantastical spell competition that is marvelously visualized. The ending is suitably ironic.
Story 6 by Walter Jon Williams. The writing is stylistically quite Vancian. Great sounding neologisms, a hard-to-imitate talent Vance was renown for. Delightful throw-away digressions, something again Vance's prolific imagination was famed for. Colorful Vancian characters, all with creative Vancesque names (even Twest the donkey). Dialogue echoes the Vance quality of urbane, archaic politeness. The protagonist is a young man who wins the day against impossible odds - a quintessential Vancian scheme. The story contains many a wry note. Nicely integrates elements (memrils, sandestins) from Rhilato. Makes advancement to madlings of DE (story's caricaturizing Hegadil).
Story 9 by Kage Baker. It is a great risk to undertake a new Cugel story without it devolving into a presumptuous hack job, but this story succeeds most decisively. A near seamless Vance-emulation, capturing style, voice, plot-pacing, characters (Dickens-like), names and neologisms, tone and nuance, and that ineffable Vance "presence". The story even includes that frequent Vance device of arriving at a solution but hiding specifics from readers until it unfolds in the story. For any Vance-fan pining for more on Cugel, this is the story. A most remarkable homage.
Story 14 by John C. Wright. Aside from having the best Afterword, this story is a most worthy capstone sequel to Guyal of Sfere. Poetically written passages. Occasional wry notes. Names sound authentically Vancesque. The story is a treasure trove of DE allusions (Magnatz, IOUN stones, Archveult, forest-gleft, oast), but furthermore provides tribute nods outside of DE, as Ska (Lyonesse), ahulph and Anomus [Anome] (Durdane), Sacerdotes from Aerlith (Dragon Masters), Pnumekin (Tschai), and even Effectuator. Presents a most imaginative futurian "mechanics" of the Curator's magical staff/baton. This story (as others) may send readers to the dictionary, but it finds a place for one of Jack's evident favorite unusual word: nuncupatory. A tremendous tribute story.
Story 16 by Elizabeth Hand. An elegant and jeweled prose befitting of DE but clearly in the author's own voice. It is a female-centric revenge tale of witches, even hosting a Twk-woman. While bountifully offering throw-away digressions of exotic things (as Vance), the tale showcases wonderful creations such as the sentient prism ship "like a rainbow bubble" that unfolds petals to fly. Contains many delightful neologisms (gysart, tusked maskelons, sleepy gorgosaurs), as well as uncommon words ("ustulating spell"). Contributes advancement of DE's basilisks.
Story 17 by Bryon Tetrick. A praiseworthy intermezzo toward a further Saga that will involve Iucounu the Laughing Magician. This school tale concludes with provocatively brilliant potential. True to his Afterword that words in Vancian writing are so important, he proffers wonderful names (The Mombac Ambit), neologisms ("dymphny and telanxis"), and unusual words (smaragdine, pruritus). He liberally alludes to Vance's lexical creations (deobado, poincture, pervulsion, pandalects, fermine [fermin], audarium [audiarium]).
Story 21 by George R. R. Martin. The darkness of this ingenious tale, where nothing is what it seems to be, is quite in keeping with DE. The story's multiple viewpoints evoke Vance's Lyonesse fantasy. The intriguing colorful characters are credibly Vance-like, and given wonderful DE names & sobriquets (Molloqos the Melancholy, Lirianne, Rocallo the Redoubtable). The Cloak of Fearful Mien is amusingly novel, as is the useful Cazoul's Indenture. Makes interesting advancement about Twk-men. The last sentence of this story is a sharp ironic riot.
Some highlights about the GOOD stories: Story 7 by Paula Volsky has an entertaining storyline that advances comical insights about pelgranes. Story 10 by Phyllis Eisenstein takes the novel approach of the domestication of Turjan and T'sain (now with daughter Rianna), with a flowing plotline and wonderful contributions about Twk-men. Story 12 by Lucius Shepard adds fun footnotes conveying a Vancesque feel, though the violence is slightly more graphic than one finds with Vance, and Cugel appears a shade more evil. Advances an imaginative contribution about DE's fearsome gids. Story 13 by Tad Williams is the best-titled, and also provides best contribution about deodands. The cleverly wrought dilemma the protagonists lands into could truly have been devised by Vance, and the ending is amusingly just. "Rhinocratic Oath" is a jocular homage to Vance's Spell of the Macroid Toe. Story 18 by Tanith Lee is nicely reminiscent of a child's fable, albeit replete now with DE allusions. Its ending is packed with surprises. Some names sound gauche (Slannt, Cleensz, Plodge, Glak) whereas others are superb (the demon Cardamoq, the Palace of Phurn). Likewise, "ultra-mage" and "Unputdownable Tome" sound horrid, but creative "Locative Sulfulsion" is elegantly evocative of DE.
Story 4 by Liz Williams is a mix of good and weak aspects. One might argue her use (and overuse) of the word "pervulsion" -- a word coined by Vance-- is in an incorrect context. "Falling Water" in homage to Vance's famously intriguing Land of the Falling Wall (cited in praise by Lyn Carter) is laughably lame, sounding more like an old Indian name for a water-fall. But she contrives interesting witch creatures believably of the DE, and ends the story on a worthy plot twist.
Story 8 by Jeff Vandermeer is another mix of good and weak. This surreal story is more an homage to H. P. Lovecraft, particularly his dreamland fantasy The Dream-Quest for Unknown Kadath. The plot is plodding. The story wins the "Lame Spell Name" Award for "Flying Travel", "Forgetting the Past for a Time", "Fascination of Detail", his clumsy rendition "Revolving Until Force Destroys" in place of DE's Phandaal's Gyrator, and (at one final point) the co-opting of Excellent Prismatic Spray into "Prismatic Spring" (yet through it's description, the same spell). Placename "Place of Mushrooms and Silence" helps nothing, and subworld "Underhind" seems too close to Vance's demon Underherd.
Story 19 by Dan Simmons is also a mix of good and weak. It is one thing to pay homage by alluding to Vance's creations, but it is another to grab everything Vance ever created in DE, one crammed upon the other. It is showoffy. Nor is it credible (or faithful) that deodands and pelgranes ever spontaneously work in concert with Man. The narrative is his own style of mundane prose, but dialogue attempts unevenly a Vancian sound, and when tried is stilted, or when not is either bland or crassly vernacular. Better that he invent his own character than morph Derwe Coreme into an Amazon ("Myrmazon") war maven. Yet his character Mauz Meriwolt (snout whiskered, tailed, 3-fingered hands) is almost ludicrously Disneyesque, (its squeaky-voice sister is named Mindriwolt, no less). (Perhaps at story's end there is a farcical allusion to Fantasia? Thus most inappropriate.) All secondary characters are rendered flat. Names can be daft (Tinkler, a past great-mage) or annoyingly exotic (KirdriK, with the artificial crutch of two capital "K"). Plot development occurs with all too much convenience, and clunky conversations explain things unjustified to know. His use of ideas from DE seems especially utilitarian. (Incidentally, the rainbow has six colors; Sir Newton's "perceived" indigo is in modern science non-existent.) The ending, given the novella length of this longest tale, is disappointing. Yet he writes the second best Afterword, especially in addressing Vance's style.
Story 20 by Howard Waldrop. The Abyss Award. It is objectionable not to stay faithful to the DE conception of magic, but instead impose that old saw of antipodes: "science and [technology]" versus "magics and superstitions". The brilliance of DE is to supersede that dichotomy. Vance, in his DE, conceives the inconceivable. The vastly hyper-uber-super-ultra-science (enough prefixes?) of the remote future is exactly this magic of those far distant aeons. DE's genius of magic is to subsume science, (even Vance's later evolved sandestin-based concept). Indeed, the story's tale-tell reference to "Irishman of old", a ridiculous allusion that would be so far in the past that even all the land-masses would have shifted not once but many times, reveals Waldrop has not fully conceived how remote in the far future the DE is meant to be. The described paltry contents in the Museum of Man are unimaginative and mere stock SciFi. Naming a character "Rogol Domedonfors Jr."(!) seems lazily derivative. Mention of commonplace "corn" is uninspired. His simile "The darkened Sun rose lumpy as a cracked egg" sounds hacky, (contrast with the opening paragraph of Dan Simmons, story 19). The tone of the story has an aspect of an elitist, and a cynic. To put it in Waldrop's words, "an idiot screamed and belly-flopped" and "another moron dashed himself into the mud-pit." On the positive side, the story is short.
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Great writers paying homage to a great book! What more can you ask for? Gave it 4 stars as not all stories will be to everyone's taste but something in there for most SF fans.
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Yes I'm an avid Game of Thrones fan and have all of the books which my husband has now read. I haven't yet but instead wanted something different from George R R Martin, hence this choice. I will review again once I've read it. Delivery was fast and suitable packaging.
5.0 out of 5 stars better than it had any right to be.,
As a life long fan (mine not his) of Jack Vance I shied away from this book for many reasons. Finally deciding that impersonation is the sincerest form of flattery and thus assured of the contributors intentions I found that each and every one of these were swept away within the first few pages like transient blemishes on a dying sun to reveal a glimpse of its former radiance. Sure there are some missteps along the way but the greatest compliment I can give is that I can imagine some of the stories as being penned by the Master himself and for those that fall shy of this exalted standard then I would imagine that he enjoyed reading them as much as I.
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At Auschwitz: 400,000 survived selection, 905,000 did not. The names of 230,000 survivors are known. Almost all of the Auschwitz records were destroyed by the retreating Germans. The names of the survivors that are known are primarily from records of other camps which included information that the prisoner originally came from Auschwitz.
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- According to the terms of CommonWealth's Series D preferred shares, the removal of the entire CommonWealth Board without cause as proposed by Related/Corvex would be a fundamental change that permits CommonWealth's series D preferred shares to be converted into common shares at an exchange ratio which would dilute existing common shares.
- Equally important as these financial defaults, if the Related/Corvex consent solicitation succeeds, we believe CommonWealth's day to day business would suffer. In 2013, CommonWealth executed over 370 leases for approximately 5.2 million square feet of leasable space, and CommonWealth is on a similar pace for 2014. While CommonWealth is without a Board, we fully expect that competing landlords and some tenants would attempt to exploit the uncertainties which would result from removal of the entire Board at the expense of CommonWealth and its shareholders.
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With everything else going on around Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin, we've rather lost track of that pesky John Doe investigation into the shenanigans in Walker's last job, as Milwaukee county commissioner. Well, a putatively non-aligned defense attorney yeah, right named Paul Bucher decided to throw long, asking the state Department of Justice to take over the case and to investigate the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office's handling of the Joe Doe case. Bucher and a wagonload of Wisconsin conservatives also are up in arms about the fact that it has been reported that employees at the DA's office had signed petitions asking that Walker be recalled. (Hey, who'd know better, right?) Well, Wisconsin Attorney General has told Bucher to go whistle up a fish....
"Our office receives many letters from many people and we do our best to respond to all of them," Dana Brueck, a Justice Department spokeswoman, wrote in an email to the Journal Sentinel. "Among other things, our response to Mr. Bucher will inform him that we simply don't have the legal authority to take John Doe investigations away from elected District Attorneys."
Meanwhile, the Democratic primary to produce a candidate to run against Walker in the June recall election got very interesting this week when the state's major unions lined up behind former Dane County commissioner Kathleen Falk and against Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, whom Walker defeated two years ago. As a mayor, Barrett's wrestled with his own public-employee unions to the point where Walker's people regularly argue that whatever success Barrett has had as mayor has been helped by Walker's own union-busting. This is not altogether true, but it makes for a helluva TV ad. In an election that owes its very existence to a massive reaction by organized labor against a sitting governor, Falk can make things very difficult for Barrett who, today, released the first TV ad of the recall campaign, a call to end what Barrett calls " the civil war" is Wisconsin by giving Walker the heave-ho. I don't think a tough primary is altogether a bad thing in this context, since the issue of worker's rights is going to be front and center throughout.
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Las Vegas hosts World Premier of the short film 'The Mind Game'
Published on Mon, Dec 30, 2013 (8:41 p.m.)Wise Rabbit Films & Emerald Motion Pictures
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December 26th, 2013
For Immediate Release
Las Vegas, NV - Wise Rabbit Films and Emerald Motion Pictures are excited to announce the World Premier of their short film "The Mind Game". They would be honored to have you join them for this exciting evening.
Saturday, January 4th, 2014 @ 6:00pm
The Sci Fi Center
600 East Sahara Avenue Suite 12
Centered around one woman's struggle between following her instinct and following the law, "The Mind Game" is an intense, dark, and gritty film that will have you on the edge of your seat.
"The Mind Game" brings some of Hollywood's brightest rising talent to the screen with gut wrenching performances.
Stephanie Czajkowski - Stephanie is an LA based actor who has appeared in network and cable TV shows including Criminal Minds, Southland, Shameless and even cult favorite I Didn't Know I was Pregnant. Originally from Wisconsin, Stephanie received her BFA in Drama from NYU before heading for the West Coast.
Ashley Atwood - A few of her credits include: Film: The Bronx Bull, Suicide Notes, Eviction, The Art of Killing Bigfoot, Texas Triangle. TV: EXCUSED, Attack of the Show, My Generation, Lone Star, Friday Night Lights. Theatre: RENT, CATS, A Chorus Line, Talley's Folly, Moon Over Buffalo.
Mykayla Sohn - Mykayla Sohn began acting at the age of 5. In 2012, she was nominated for best supporting actress the short, LAST SHOT, at the 168 Film Festival. In the summer of 2012 she landed a part as a recurring costar in a new TV comedy series on NBC called GUYS WITH KIDS, where she plays Violet, the daughter of actress Jamie Lynn Sigler and actor Zach Cregger.
David Mingrino - David Mingrino was born and raised in NY and has been on stage in over 80 productions. He recently completed the feature film THE HAUNTED MAZE…which is scheduled for release in Oct of this year…he had a short film JOVE show at Cannes Short film corner.
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- 1/2 teaspoon(s) poppy seeds
- 1/2 tablespoon(s) Dijon or honey mustard
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- 1. Use a serrated knife to cut the entire block of 12 rolls in half, keeping in one piece. Lay the bottom of rolls in a 9X13 inch baking pan. Place ham and cheese on bottoms of rolls, and then add top part of rolls. Mix remaining ingredients together and cook on stove until well blended. Pour sauce over on top of rolls. Refrigerate at least 2 hours (covered) or overnight.
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When it was first released last year, Batman: Arkham City did more than turn a few heads. It defined exactly what a comic book-oriented game was supposed to be. Featuring a larger environment than the original Batman: Arkham Asylum, breathtaking amounts of stuff to do within the prison-like city, awesome gameplay ranging from gliding to fighting enemies on the ground, and plenty of unique story twists, it set the standard for games that will follow in the years to come. And with that, WB Games was probably wondering, "Why let Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC owners have all the fun?"
At one point in time, you couldn't go wrong with Mario Tennis. When it was first released on the Nintendo 64, it was a simple little party favorite, packing hours of addictive gameplay, especially if you brought along friends. The game fared even better on the GameCube with Mario Power Tennis, featuring more great multiplayer options, as well as better graphics and court offerings. But on the 3DS, Mario Tennis Open feels like it takes a stumble for the worse. The core gameplay is still in the game, along with many offerings for single and multiplayer offerings, but it just feels like something is off in the serve.
Sometimes a project is so big that it just can't be kept secret. Call of Duty: Black Ops II leaked out weeks before its official TV ad hit the airwaves; Assassins Creed III was rumored long before its official unveiling; and so on. The same could be said for Microsoft's mystery press event, which happened earlier today, as several people thought that it would be all about a tablet. And indeed it was, as Steve Ballmer and company officially unveiled the Surface. However, despite the lack of surprise in announcement, there was still plenty to be shocked – and enthused – about.
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is set to unleash fear on villains starting tomorrow across a multitude of platforms. Obviously, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are prime choices, but by no means should you discount the handheld versions, mainly PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS. WB Games invited us to check out a demo of the upcoming 3DS game, and we came away pretty happy with the results.
Early this year, Bioware's Mass Effect saga came to five year run. Rest aside the ending; the series is one of the most complete trilogies in video game history. There are two aspects that Mass Effect nails perfectly. The series was first to interweave choices all the way through the third and final installment captivating fans from start to finish. However, you can't tell a great story if you forget to create the atmosphere for your game to breath in. The music in the game really doses shape Commander Shepard with it having one of the best scores in gaming, but do people notice? Do people look at soundtracks as a whole or as background noise?
The Electronic Entertainment Expo showcased a lot of great games a couple of weeks ago. Some we knew about for months now, and are highly anticipating for a fall/winter/2013 release. Others, however, managed to sneak up on us, coming out of nowhere and surprising us with a great deal of inventiveness. Among them was a new creation from Zen Studios, the team behind the Zen Pinball and Pinball FX 2 games. And no, it's not a pinball game. Get this – it's a musical kung fu action game. Take that, The Last Dragon!
Nintendo's 3DS system got off to a bad start when it released last year, with a mostly lackluster launch line-up and lack of features for the system. But now, finally, it seems to have gained its footing with some stellar game releases, including The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land, amongst others. And while its showing at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo wasn't the greatest, there are still some great games to look forward to.
What may work well on the mobile scene doesn't always translate to console success. True, there are those cases where a game's crossover appeal is better than expected, like when Angry Birds made its debut as a PS Mini last year, but for the most part, they're two separate markets, and some games don't transition well between them. Take Babel Rising, for instance. With some more effort, Ubisoft could've made this a roaring beast on Xbox Live Arcade. Instead, it's more like a whimpering kitty.
Inversion arrived last week with very little fanfare. Perhaps it was the fact that it was released during E3, and that Namco Bandai had bigger projects to focus on. Or maybe it was just one of those games that the company is hoping will be a "sleeper" hit, relying more on word-of-mouth than a multi-million dollar ad campaign. Regardless, it's here, and while it definitely has some key moments with its gravity-shifting tactics, its quality never really rises above that of a SyFy made-for-TV movie. That's not to say some won't be entertained, but it could've been so much more.
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I can already hear dozens of folks screaming at Konami now. "What did you do with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker?! Why wasn't it included?" And by that I mean I'm referring to Metal Gear Solid HD Collection on the PlayStation Vita, a package that only comes with two of the three ingredients that the original PS3 and Xbox 360 releases had. Those two games, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, are certainly enough by their own merits, but you know folks are going to complain about the lack of Peace Walker. But is it really that much of a deal breaker? No.
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I've been a big fan of Virtua Tennis for years, getting my start back on the Sega Dreamcast with several spirited multiplayer sessions and eventually moving on to other platforms to see what they have to offer. Most recently, the series hit its stride on the PlayStation Vita with a modified version of Virtua Tennis 4, and though not all the modes were to my liking, the core gameplay and various other options delivered service with a smile. So, tell me, why couldn't Sega do the same thing with its iPad port of the game?
Last year's DiRT 3, I think, was the pinnacle for Codemasters' long-running rally racing series, as it simply got everything just right. The feel of the cars, the variety of the tracks, the sheer thrill of flying off a jump and landing for a first place finish…everything just clicked. So with that, the team was probably wondering…"So what next?" We get that answer today with the release of DiRT Showdown, a not-so-routine sequel where you're taking part in a racing festival, competing in fun – and quite destructive – racing events.
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The idea behind E3 was to showcase the latest and brightest games of 2012, but there are always a few games that disappoint us. Some games on our list made serious changes to their formula, and not for the better. Other games took center stage at E3 when they shouldn't have. There were many games at E3, but here is our top five list of disappointments.
Ubisoft had a huge set-up on the E3 show floor this week, with a number of major sequels available for play, as well as two new Wii U titles coming out in time for the system's launch later this year. But one of its hidden gems, tucked away in a behind-closed-doors section in its offices, was The Avengers: Battle For Earth. Based on the popular Marvel franchise of the same name, this game demonstrated some proper use of Kinect motions when it came to controlling some of your favorite superheroes and villains. So, of course, we were eager to give it a test drive.
When Virtua Fighter 5 initially released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 a few years back, it entertained long-time fans of Sega AM2's brawling series, though some missing features – namely online play on the PS3 – left them being somewhat uneven. But the company finally resolved those differences this past week with the release of Final Showdown, a long-awaited follow-up that fixes some (but not all) of the mistakes, thus making it a smoother fighting experience. And cheaper, too.
The free-to-play market had a huge showing at E3 and was showcased at Sony's Online Entertainment booth. Recently SOE converted all of its most popular MMOs into the model, giving new life to D.C Universe while reintroducing fans to the PlanetSide series.
Jesper Kyd has been working his music composing magic in a number of projects over the years. Fans will immediately recognize his work from the Assassin's Creed series, as well as entries in the Hitman series and the original Borderlands. But now he's stepping his game up with Death, producing an epic new soundtrack for Darksiders II, which releases this August. We had a chance to chat with him about the upcoming game, as well as what else he's working on.
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A man that drives a Ferrari parked in a handicapped spot. A prankster pulls a pee prank on him for this. Chaos and hilarity ensues. (WARNING: light language)
A man that drives a Ferrari parked in a handicapped spot. A prankster pulls a pee prank on him for this. Chaos and hilarity ensues. (WARNING: light language)
Remember that infamous 'Devil Baby' strolling around New York City in a carriage and just freaking people out on the streets? Or how about when a bunch of coffee shop goers witnessed a telekinetic meltdown? It was all in good fun, of course, but now the guys who brought you these viral video stunts are back with another one for the ages. A fortune teller who can pop her eyes out? A cursed ouija board? A third surprise you weren't expecting? Watch what happens!
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Well, turns out it was all a hoax perpetuated by that merry prankster Jimmy Kimmel.
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Music in Schools
Our Music in Schools program exists to provide students with access to quality music education with conservatorium tutors during school hours at their school.
Our professionally qualified and dedicated tutors provide one on one, small group, and ensemble tuition, in response to the particular needs of the school community.