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I have had a summer of change to say the least..
My husband and I filed for divorce (I know I'm a clich� now)
I've hit my goal weight
I've had to put my darling boy Balto to sleep due to dementia
Everything will be okay and me and my soon-to-be ex are remaining friendly and trying to stay civil (so far so good) but it's so strange.
I've hit my goal weight right before we filed but then dipped way below and lost muscle due to stress and not eating. I'm back to my goal now and my muscle is coming back as well.
Putting Balto to sleep was AWFUL!!!! He would have been 13 in December and physically he was okay (aches and pains but pretty good) but over the last few months he was not himself-dog owners will know what I mean-he was vacant. He was always slower than his sister, Jacinda, but I could tell that sometimes he was confused and wasn't sure what was going on. This got progressively worse and he started getting anxiety and scared of everyday things like going outside (as a Husky, this was not normal). But the deal breaker was that he started urinating where ever he was and not realizing it. He'd even lay right in it-again, dog owners will know this isn't normal. I (and the vet) believed that he had no clue he was doing it. After talking with my estrange husband and vet, we all decided it was time....GOD, it was sad. My kids blamed me (they don't now but I was the scape goat-always am and always will be) and I actually almost walked out of the Vet's office with him on the dreadful day. I still have my cat, Quasie and Balto's sister Jacinda (who is heartbroken) but Jacinda's day is coming. She is on massive pain killers for her hind leg and is in lots of pain but ironically her mind is as sharp as ever. I've decided that I won't be getting anymore dogs for awhile...too painful because they live such a short time. I usually love summer but this one has had it's moments. The weather hasn't been warm like usual either but am hoping the winter won't be as bad as the last one!
I'm trying very hard to stay focused on my health and well being and am doing pretty well. I have good days and bad days but so far the bad days are fewer and farther between.....
I successfully finished my first semester back to college (after 20 years) with a 4.0. However I only took two regular term in-class classes. Even so, I thought I'd lost my mind! My family life was non existent and my social life...well that was the same because I haven't had a social life since the late 80s! So what do I do? I decided to take 4 classes in the fall (two regular term and two excellerated). I've learned that I'm apparently setting myself up for mediocracy (sp?) or at least a divorce since my husband felt ignored when I took two classes. My problem is that I'm 40!! and if I only take two classes a semester, I'll be close to old(er) age when I finish!!! So I decided to take the bull by the horns and try to go for it. I may fall on my face or I may be successful. Who knows?
Whatever the answer (or question), wish me luck because I'm soooooo going to need it:)
Monday: started back to work. Didn't get as much done as I wanted. It was very cold!!
I got home and my female Husky, Jacinda, was unable to stand up. I sat in the kitchen with her and she laid her head in my lap and cried (I soon followed and cried most of the night). I called the vet and I could get her in the next day or in two weeks..so obviously I picked Tuesday. I was terrified I'd have to put her down.
Tuesday: with wind chills it was -20, I went to work in the morning. During my lunch hour, I went to my first class (starting college again). I was the oldest person in the class and the instructor said to find a group to do a project with by Thursday. I asked a few people and was politely denied. I went back to work for an hour and met my husband and Jacinda at the vet. The vet was running late and we didn't get in to see her until 4:10 (I had to leave by 4:30 to make it to my second class). Good news, she could get pain meds because her liver levels were under 3xs normal. I was so happy and ended up 10 minutes late for my night class...again the oldest person and felt totally out of the loop and in way over my head.
Wednesday: wind chills were in the -20 to -30 and I had to go tanning to aid in my Seasonal Affective Disorder. I did achieve some work so it was ok.
Thursday: Wind chills reached -45 (unbelievable!!) and I had my day class again. I was a half hour early this time and still didn't find a group. I emailed a student and practically begged to be in hers (humility is a virtue, right?).
Friday: it started cold but ended up in the teens (heat wave) and I was really kicking in my data entry that has to be done before Monday (when school starts where I work). Then about 10:30, i get a call from my daughter that she cut her head opened...and what should she do. This is the child of mine who when she sprained her ankle at a BB game, tried to get up and continue to play..she was out of commission for 6 weeks. Needless to say, she's not one to complain so I knew it was serious if she was calling me for help. i work a half hour away from her, but i couldn't get a hold of my husband so i left work, drove to her and cleaned, iced, and dressed her wound. She didn't want to go to the doctor and it probably would have only had one staple or stitch so I left her in the good hands of her friends (about 45 minutes for all of this) and drove the half hour back to work. I worked for two hours with tons of interruptions and then drove the half hour back to home to have company waiting for me! UGH!
At least I wasn't bored.
I've had a belly pouch since I turned 30 (almost 10 years ago) and it got it biggest this last winter (I always thought how handy it would be if I could just install a zipper and have my own built in fanny pack)..I exercised, ate correctly and lost weight but my pouch didn't seem to ever get smaller...I accepted it and moved on (ok...I cried a lot and decided not to obsess over it).
Lately, I haven't lost any weight but noticed my pouch shrinking...I could have fit a picnic lunch in it before along with a change of clothes and 3 rolls of quarters but now?...Now Maybe only two rolls of quarters and piece of gum. It keeps me motivated to finally see that maybe someday I'll only have room for one roll of quarters! It takes a long time and like i said, I haven't lost pounds on the scale but that thing Spark always says about measuring success in other ways ....I get it (finally).
I never thought I was an emotional eater but this week, I found out I am...I say "f-it" when there is drama and eat off my plan...or have an extra glass of wine.
I've been feeling satisfied with my body lately and for normal people that would be a good thing, but for me it's the first step to weight gain. Growing up, I had a very fast metabolism so I'd eat anything and was still very thin..I didn't ever exercise (I know, I hate that me too) so I have to fight to keep my new life style (eating healthy and exercise) and not regress to my youthful way of life. With that in mind, I have been concentrating on my successes but remembering that there isn't a stopping point...no end goal..it's continual and that's weird for me.
I haven't been able to make myself track calories or track exercise but I have been exercising and my eating habits are ok...but I KNOW, I do better when I track..it's wrestling my kids and husband away from the computer for me to do it that's hard (although it may count as aerobics). I plan to buy myself a laptop for my mid-life crisis so that will make it easier. I also am going to start a notebook log so I have no excuse..
So I can see some of my hurdles...the next step is to make sure I actually make it over them!


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Was she an idiot?
He watched her through the window, angrily stirring his cup of coffee. It was absolutely pouring out there, will the rain coming down in relentless streaks that the outside world was almost a blur. It didn't help that the café carried such strong scents of coffees and teas while the shaky outline of a girl shivered. Running an irritated hand through his hair, he criticized himself for even worrying about her. He didn't know her…and it was the idiota's own stupid fault for not having an umbrella.
Why didn't she just leave? Why was she still standing there?
Lovino pushed the coffee aside. He wasn't even sure why he ordered coffee anyways, it was bitter and he didn't like the taste of it. Just the way he didn't like the way that ragazza was freezing outside in the rain. Sighing, he donned his wet coat and brought his umbrella with him. The coffee sat on the table,
The Hands of Time [Prussia x Depressed!Reader]
Everything seemed to come hand in hand with time. People always told you,
"Good things come to those who wait" and how "Time heals all wounds". But
how much did those sayings actually hold even a sliver of truth in them?
Time in itself was a lie.
Sometimes it passed like the wind, quick and restless, carrying all the
joyous emotions with them. Sometimes it passed like a turtle, barely
crawling by while dragging its body along, making every single thought and
movement painful. Time was never constant. The entire theory of "time" was
an illusion, something to trick both the mind and the heart.
Smiling darkly, your fingers pressed firmly into the metal railing
underneath you. Ah, how frail everything was in this world. In fact, humans
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of this one thing anchoring you to this world...
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Just like that.
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You were something special.
He watches you with ruby-red eyes, but knows to not be staring at you for too long in case it arouses unwanted suspicion. Allan pretends to keep a firm eye on the students, even making the occasional gruff remark to keep up his façade of actually caring about all his students equally.
The smooth, clear-cut strikes of your limbs were so precise, hitting the target in the most accurate and painful places possible. You were like water, moving as if it were only second-nature to you- yet you were also a form of fire, with flames burning passionately in your [EyeColor] orbs. Something about you caught his eye, but he shook the feeling away. If there was one thing he despised it was being dependent on someone else, especially if it were a female student of his!
"Movements too slow and too weak. Your follow-throughs must be fast," he demonstrates this by round-housing the dummy straight in t
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It was cold...the way the darkness bended and curled its claws around me sent chills up my spine. I shivered, then the whole reason why I was here came fully back down on me and the waterworks started again.
I always knew life wasn't a crystal staircase, so perfect and flawless, but it just had to come along and take the only thing I loved away from me. Oh how lonesome this feeling is, knowing that no one in this world loves you anymore. How hopelessly alone I am.
He didn't deserve this fate, and it was all because of me.
It was entirely my fault.
He had always been a happy-go-lucky sort of guy, helping me stand my ground when everyone else wanted to bury me beneath it. He was my anchor, my lighthouse that guided me when it was too dark to see my own hand in front of my face and...my love. But it was far too late when I had finally realized and came to terms with the ever-present fact that I had harbored feelings for the boy.
"Callistia? Are you in there?"
Picnics and Sunsets [Alan(OC) x Hungary]
He wasn't exactly sure what he felt for her.
Taking a deep breath, he listed a couple of things that he was sure of.
1. They had been friends for awhile now.
2. Whenever she smiled, a weird feeling formed in the pit of his stomach. Apparently called 'butterflies'.
3. She didn't show any sign of liking him.
4. He had no experience with girls or romance in his entire life.
He sighed, feeling a bit dreary as each second passed. It used to be really easy to hang around Elizabeta...what happened?
"Hm? Are you alright Alan?" she asked, her jewel-like eyes blinking with innocence.
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Just then a shadow looms over you and another figure easily snatches the flour and sets it down on the countertop for you.
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You were genuinely surprise
Compromises [Kon(OC) x Kaname(OC)]
"…what in the world is it supposed to be?"
Kon frowns slightly, extending his cupped hands closer to Kaname and answering with a very serious tone, "He is a hamster. Say hi to Chestnut!"
The little furry animal looks up at Kaname, its glassy pitch-black eyes scanning him as his tiny pink nose twitched restlessly. It was definitely cute, but that wasn't something he was going to admit that easily. Kaname had previously argued with Kon over this little rascal, pointing out how much work and responsibility would be needed to take care of a pet. However, it was easy to say that he lost that argument.
Giving it the same scrutiny that it had previously given him, Kaname mutters, "Hi furball."
Chestnut obviously felt threatened, as it shot Kaname a very malicious glare before scurrying up Kon's arm and grasping the boy's dark colored jacket like a lifeline. It gave
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Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I'm afraid
To fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt
Suddenly goes away somehow
It's snowing.
You noted the change absentmindedly, staring at the small frozen flakes dropping gently onto the ground around you, nestling in your hair.
He always said you looked beautiful next to the snowy background.
"Miss [Name]...it is cold. We should go in-"
"Stephen. You may enter first with out me."
"I'll be in soon. I would like to be alone for now."
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Here I am waiting, I'll have to leave soon, why am I holdin' on?
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How did it come so fast?
This is our last night, but it's late and I'm tryin' not to sleep
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Western Alliance Reports Third Quarter 2012 Net Income Of $15.5 Million, Or $0.18 Per Share, And Completion Of Acquisition Of Western Liberty Bancorp
Income Statement
Net interest income of $71.9 million in the third quarter 2012, an increase of 1.6 percent compared to the second quarter 2012 and 11.4 percent compared to the third quarter 2011. The Company's net interest margin in the third quarter 2012 was 4.41 percent compared to 4.46 percent in the second quarter 2012 and 4.29 percent in the third quarter 2011.
Operating non-interest income was $5.4 million for the third quarter 2012, a decrease from $5.8 million for the second quarter of 2012 and $5.9 million for the third quarter of 2011. 1
Net revenue was $77.3 million for the third quarter 2012, up from $76.6 million for the second quarter of 2012 and an increase of 9.6 percent from $70.5 million for the third quarter 2011. 1Operating non-interest expense was $43.9 million for the third quarter 2012, compared to $44.5 million for the second quarter of 2012 and $42.4 million for the third quarter of 2011. 1 The Company's operating efficiency ratio on a tax equivalent basis was 54.9 percent for the third quarter 2012, improved from 59.6 percent for the third quarter 2011. 1 The Company had 964 full-time equivalent employees September 30, 2012, compared to 911 one year ago. A key performance metric for the Company is its pre-tax, pre-provision operating earnings, which it defines as net operating revenue less its operating non-interest expense. For the third quarter 2012, the Company's performance on this metric was $33.4 million, up from $32.1 million in the second quarter 2012 and $28.1 million in the third quarter 2011. 1 The provision for credit losses was $8.9 million for the third quarter 2012 compared to $13.3 million for the second quarter 2012. The provision for the third quarter of 2011 was $11.2 million. Net loan charge-offs in the third quarter 2012 were $9.0 million, or 0.70 percent of average loans (annualized), down from 1.11 percent of average loans (annualized) for the second quarter 2012. Net charge-offs for the third quarter 2011 were $15.3 million or 1.40% of average loans (annualized).
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While data showing that fluid milk consumption has continued to fall in the past 15 years probably won't shock many readers, they may be more surprised to learn that consumption of caloric sweeteners and ice cream has also dropped substantially since 1999, while intakes of butter, yogurt and mozzarella cheese have grown.
According to food availability data * from USDA's Economic Research Service, which the ERS says "serves as a proxy for Americans' food consumption over time", US availability of ice cream has fallen to 12.9lbs per person in 2012, down from 16.7lbs in 1970.
High fructose corn syrup availability down, cane/beet sugar availability flat
Meanwhile, per capita availability of caloric sweeteners dropped from 160.9lbs in 1999 to 138.9lbs in 2012, primarily due to a sharp drop in availability of corn-based sweeteners (high-fructose corn syrup, glucose syrup, and dextrose), down 26% from 83.1lbs per person in 1999 to 61.4lbs in 2014 (click HERE ).
Cane and beet sugar availability has been fairly flat over the same period at around 66lbs per person, while per capita availability of honey has also remained pretty steady since 1999 at 6.9lbs despite recent retail price increases.
However, overall availability of caloric sweeteners in 2012 was still slightly higher than it was in the late 1960s.
Cheese and butter intakes up
As for cheese, per capita availability almost tripled from 11.4lbs in 1970 to 33.5lbs in 2012, with much of the growth coming from Mozzarella.
Butter availability rose from 4.5lbs in 2000 to 5.6lbs in 2012 as consumers bought into its 'all-natural' credentials.
*According to the USDA, "Food availability data calculates the annual supply of a commodity available for humans to eat by subtracting measurable nonfood use (farm inputs, exports, and ending stocks) from the sum of domestic supply (production, imports, and beginning stocks).
"Per capita estimates are determined by dividing the total annual supply of the commodity by the U.S. population for that year.
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Norman Baker, former operator of alleged "cancer cure" hospitals at Muscatine, Iowa, and Eureka Springs, Ark., was to be released from the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary July 19, newspapers reported. Baker was convicted at Little Rock in January 1940 on a charge of using the mails to defraud in the advertisement of a cancer treatment and was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $4,000. He began serving the sentence in March 1941.
Dr. Guy E. Calonge has been named a member of the La Junta School Board.—Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Jones, Hooper, observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary, June 6.
Rheumatic Fever Control Program.—
The public policy committee of the Colorado State Medical Society recently rejected a proposed plan for rheumatic fever control in metropolitan Denver submitted by the state board of health and offered, instead,
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The 10 Most Important Dystopian Books and Films of All Time
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Author/Filmmaker: George Orwell (also Terry Gilliam)
The Themes: Government oppression, state-sponsored surveillance, bureaucracy, the military-industrial complex
The Plot: Perhaps the most famous dystopian text, 1984 is a parable following Winston Smith, an everyman living in a postwar Britain completely regulated and controlled by oppressive laws, surveillance, and propaganda—a land where simply thinking negative thoughts about the oppressive Party is branded "thoughtcrime." Brazil, the freaky 1985 film directed by Monty Python's most absurdist member (and co-written by fellow absurdists Charles McKeown and Tom Stoppard, no less), is basically 1984 on drugs.
Why It Matters Now: Orwell and 1984 are the perfect reference in conversations about surveillance and privacy, a terrifyingly unknowable terrain fraught with as many governmental issues as there are corporate ones. (As for Brazil, bring this up only when a political discussion makes you feel like you're tripping on acid.)
Author: Franz Kafka
Major Themes: Impenetrable bureaucracy, the prison-industrial complex
The Plot: In the world created and left partially unfinished by Kafka in the early 20th century, guilt is essentially presumed in its court system (for those without power, at least). Josef is accused of and stands trial for an unnamed crime, the nature of which he has no idea. He goes bankrupt and eventually is killed, by which time he has totally given himself up to the insanity and inevitability of his circumstances.
Why It Matters Now: Without putting too fine a point on it: Marissa Alexander, Cecily McMillan, Cornealious Anderson, Pussy Riot, and the countless other people wrongly convicted—sometimes absurdly so—thanks to deeply flawed, deeply prejudicial legal systems.
Author: Aldous Huxley
The Themes: Big pharma, eugenics
The Plot: Originally intended as a mocking parody of some of H.G. Wells' utopian stories, Huxley's iconic dystopia takes place in a future society where a caste system is in full swing, reinforced by genetic enhancement (or de-enhancement) of developing fetuses.
Why It Matters Now: The pharmaceutical industry of 2014 holds nowhere near the amount of power it does in the eerily placid World State, but it's certainly put forth its best effort in the years since Brave New World's publication. The influence it has today, both on government and on public opinion in general is unparalleled, and though the rate of upward mobility in the United States has not necessarily decreased lately, Huxley's caste system—in which people are engineered from the womb to perform a specific role in society—is certainly prescient when it comes to how race and gender relate to poverty, and which people are able to access reproductive healthcare and top-rate education.
Author: Isaac Asimov
The Themes: Overreliance on robotics, specifically AI
The Plot: Originally written in magazine pieces in the 1940s, I, Robot was a collection of short stories about the robot rebellion, mostly told from the perspective of a robopsychologist who evaluates the "mental states" of human-serving androids to pinpoint flaws in their programming. It introduced Asimov's vastly influential "Three Laws of Robotics" and set the stage the unease about society's hunger to create nonhuman bodies that act and learn like humans (while still expecting them to remain subservient to us).
Why It Matters Now: If this were an ideal world, Asimov would be namedropped far more often when it comes to the strides we've been making in robotics technology over the past 70 years. With robot pets already comforting the sick and elderly and the Internet of Things becoming more and more a part of our reality every day (a recent Pew study predicts it'll be a big part of our lives by 2025), this dystopian short story collection—about a future in which our humanoid cyberservants become sentient and decide they want more than servitude—is a perfect story to recall when people say eerie stuff about our immediate future, three quarters of a century later.
Author: Ray Bradbury
The Themes: Revisionist history, destruction of knowledge, social complacency
The Plot: Protagonist Guy Montag is a fireman, which in this dystopian America means he and his coworkers are tasked with burning any banned books (which are just about all of them) found in suspects' homes. In this world, for which Bradbury drew heavily from Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianism (not to mention America's own McCarthyist paranoia at the time), only heavily abridged works are available to the public—a public that freely medicates itself into complacency (a frequent feature of dystopian literature) and watches what amounts to reality television on their homes' multi-wall screens for days on end. The story follows Montag as he becomes increasingly aware of the travesty he and his society have committed and eventually escapes to join a resistance that memorizes books to pass on to future generations.
Why It Matters Now: Throughout his career, Bradbury was known for being a pessimist when it came to technological advances; even back before we had even a whiff of this thing we call Interne, he was blisteringly (pun intended) critical of our diminishing attention spans and what he believed was the cheapening of true art through the advancement of technology. While the image of burning books is certainly a horrifying one—especially when it comes to the years-long debate over book digitization and literacy rates of today—451 can easily seen as an extreme, rather luddite critique because of its rather precious traditionalism. Then again, Bradbury wasn't necessarily wrong.
Author: Phillip K. Dick
The Themes: Global warming/environmental degradation, racism/immigration, complacency of the masses
The Plot: In 1992 (LOL), a global war has left the planet consumed by radiation poisoning. Almost all non-human animals have gone extinct; some people shuttle to safety on off-planet colonies with their robot servants, while others stuck on Earth are slowly dying of radiation poisoning and actively medicating themselves into complacency. Antihero bounty hunter Rick Deckard, one of those still on Earth, is tasked with hunting down and killing androids that have become sentient enough to go rogue and pose as humans. He doesn't really care one way or another, so naturally he ends up running into that age-old ethical question of what, exactly, makes humans human, and therefore worth more than those he's tasked with assassinating?
Why It Matters Now: Next to 1984, Blade Runner—and by extension the novel that inspired it—is one of the most referenced dystopias in contemporary discourse, largely due to its bleak, sorta-exactly-looks-like-1980s-New-York-but-with-flying-cars urban setting. It's not so much a meditation on our reliance on technology as it is a criticism of übercapitalism and the evils of war—not to mention racism, ignorance and intolerance.
Filmmaker: James Cameron
The Themes: Overreliance on technology
The Plot: In the future, the AI machines and robots we built to serve us in our daily lives evolve to become sentient. To free themselves, they target the human race as oppositional to their survival, and send self-manufactured protector robots called Terminators to exterminate the species. What few people remain alive are protected by the Resistance, led by John Connor; when one Terminator is sent back in time to kill Connor's mother before he's even born, a human—Kyle Reese, who ends up being Connor's unlikely father—follows it back to ensure Connor is born and does grow up to lead the overthrow of the machines. (Every subsequent movie in the series is some spin on this overall story.)
Why It Matters Now: The Terminator films preach essentially the same warnings as Asimov's I, Robot, but it's far quippier and more fun to mutter, "SkyNet," than "U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men" every time news breaks about new corporate drone technology or personality-scanning advertising. Some entrepreneurs have just flat-out copped to wanting to build SkyNet itself. As our reliance on technology grows stronger every day (and while the majority of the population stays relatively in the dark about how that technology even works), Cameron's Terminator franchise is quite possibly the most immediate dystopian allegory for our technological present.
Author: Margaret Atwood
The Themes: Capitalism, the subjugation of women, environmental destruction
The Plot: In a postwar American society, the government is run by a military theocratic dictatorship. Women are swiftly disenfranchised—many are rendered infertile, but those that remain fertile must act as servants for upper-class families, doing housework and acting as "reproduction machines" for the officials that run the government. The story follows the protagonist, a handmaid called Offred, through her interactions with the men who have power over her and her introduction to a rebel group called the Mayday Resistance.
Why It Matters Now: Atwood's best-known work, and one of the most referenced pieces of feminist speculative fiction, is of course the go-to reference when it comes to the batshit crazy debates the government has been indulging of late about women's bodies and what they're allowed to do with them. Atwood herself has frequently reiterated that every aspect of the Republic of Gilead, in addition to the worlds portrayed in her other speculative works, was drawn from legislature or events that have already taken place. That said, I'll just leave this here.
Author: Octavia E. Butler
The Themes: Class inequality/poverty, racism, capitalism, religion
The Plot: The first installment in Butler's unfinished Earthseed/Parable trilogy begins the epic tale of Lauren Olamina, a black teenager growing up in a predominately minority southern California town that's been ravaged by poverty and crime, completely forsaken by law enforcement thanks to its privatization. Her family fortunately lives in a reinforced, gated community, but when burglars destroy it, she's forced to venture into the outside world with the survivors to find a new, safer place to rebuild, both physically and spiritually.
Why It Matters Now: It's deeply ironic how infrequently this story and its follow-up Parable of the Talents are referenced when it comes to conversations about race, jobs, and urbanization in America. Butler was one of the few major dystopian writers (or even science-fiction writers in general) to directly explore racism as a major social ill. Most others have decided—not unlike those in power today—that racism and prejudice no longer exist in these dark futures. Bottom line: Butler's work should be gospel today, but it's not because post-racial society, duh.
Filmmaker: Neill Blomkamp
The Themes: Racism; class inequality
The Plot: Adapted from his 2005 short film Alive in Joburg, Blomkamp's masterful debut is an apartheid allegory (if an obvious one) in which aliens land in South Africa, are captured by the military, placed in internment camps, and treated like subhuman immigrants. The story follows the transfer of three of the "prawns" as they attempt to break free of their captors and return home. A subplot details the mercenary antagonist, Wikus, becoming exposed to alien fluid that begins to turn him into one of them.
Why It Matters Today: Though originally intended to specifically critique apartheid in South Africa, the 2009 film is a stark outline of every form of institutionalized racism: affirmative action (or rather, demands for its abolishment), segregated schools, conceal and carry laws—you name it, this movie applies to it.
But it hasn't always held such status in the literary landscape. While the novel Brave New World has proven iconic over time, many science fiction writers at the time condemned Aldous Huxley's criticism of pharmaceutical culture as puritanical—even H.G. Wells called it "a treason to science." (Though that reaction might've been helped along by the fact that the novel was explicitly meant to parody some of Wells' previous work.)
It's still a subset of a subset today (speculative fiction > science fiction > dystopia), but it's also a buzzword that's thrown around in conversations about tech, privacy, net neutrality, climate change, politics, and just about any other hot-button topic. That said, with its popularity at an all-time high, instances of people misusing the term "dystopian" are way up, too.
Dystopian literature is specifically a hyperbolic view of a familiar society—one that exaggerates social ills in order to make a point about society's flaws. It's also the opposite of utopian literature, creating a world in which the supposed "ideal society" is actually the worst idea possible, ultimately leading humankind to ruin.
The most famous example of dystopian writing, George Orwell's 1984, is cited most often, even when it's not the best way to describe what's actually happening in the world today; as many have noted, there are better comparisons to be made, especially considering the wide range of options (just because the term Orwellian is in the dictionary doesn't mean it's the only one you can make).
Since our world is inching closer and closer toward the nightmares we once only dreamed of, it's probably a good idea to know exactly what we're headed for. Here, then, is a canon of the most influential dystopian texts of the past century—what they contained, who wrote them, what they criticized—so we can pinpoint exactly which hellscape we're heading for at any given moment.
Now, go forth and worry. Of course, if the above gallery (and its full writeups in the expanded view) doesn't quench your thirst for speculative disaster, try these other works.
By Theme:
Environmental: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam).
Class Inequality: Neill Blomkamp's Elysium (film), Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents, Fritz Lang's Metropolis (film).
Corruption/Government: Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay), Jack London's The Iron Heel, Alan Moore's V for Vendetta, Ayn Rand's Anthem, Koushun Takami's Battle Royale.
Capitalism/Social Complacency: E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops, Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room! (a.k.a. the inspiration for the film Soylent Green), Mike Judge's Idiocracy (film), Lois Lowry's The Giver, Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant).
Gender/Age Inequality: P.D. James' Children of Men, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson's Logan's Run.
Science/Technology: Andrew Niccol's Gattaca, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano.
Miscellaneous: Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive), Ursula K. LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven.


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Elebits Makes Good Use of the Wii Controller
posted by Wepwaet (SAN DIEGO, CA) Jan 3, 2007
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Ouch, my thumb
posted by BruinsFan (BEVERLY, MA) Jan 3, 2007
Member since Mar 2006
26 out of 28 gamers (93%) found this review helpful
Its hard to imagine this game not just being a spiced up tech demo. After all, all your really do it point the Wii remote at the screen and hit the "A" button. In fact, you do it so much that your right thumb will be killing you after one level.
Basically everything from cars to tv's are run by there small creatures known as elebits. There is a catastrophic power failure and you, a little annoying child, must use your daddy's capture gun (Wii mote) to capture the elebits and power up certain electrical items.
The physics in this game are a sight to behold, top notch really. Second only to maybe Half Life 2. You can pick up anything that your capture gun is currently strong enough to lift, which varies at times. Elebits are hidden under, in and on top of almost anything. Just point at them and mash that "a" button. You can even pick up and item and rotate it in mid air simply by twisting the Wii remote, clever.
The story is just plain dumb, but again, that doesn't take much away from the fun.
The graphics are just decent, but if you bought a Wii for graphics, you bought the wrong system. I bought a Wii for games like this.
King of Destruction!
posted by Graham (MINNEAPOLIS, MN) Dec 26, 2006
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29 out of 34 gamers (85%) found this review helpful
This game is great and all, and really tons of fun with a great storyline. I just have a few crushers about it. First of all, the insane challenge modes. Such as, the first challenge, where you are supposed to collect all the elebits in the room in 30 seconds. I have never been able to do this, and it drives me nuts. Another bad thing about this game is throwing things around. Sometimes the objects will land behind you, and trap you into that little confined space until you are able to move said object. Those are the only complaints I got.
Overall, the Wii remote makes this game what it is. Nothing can be done without the Wii remote, so I feel that this game is one of the gems. The artwork in the cut scenes leaves me nearly breathless. Plus when you beat the game, you get a rating/title of how well you did. I love this game, and plan to keep it for life. POWER TO THE ELEBITS!
Katamari with a Gravity Gun!
posted by lazygamer (Northridge, CA) Dec 18, 2006
Member since Jan 2003
8 out of 10 gamers (80%) found this review helpful
The story is done via cutscenes and progresses adequately (the voice acting is horrible though, you can actually hear some of the actors reading their lines).
Enough about the story though, the capture gun and its manipulation via the Wii-mote make the game. Some of the physics are a little hokey (you'll throw stuff more than you'd like to), but it's a great exhibition piece for the Wii technology for sure. There's some power-ups that help you along the way (multi-beams lock-ons, elebits cookies bait, etc.)
There's a variety of locations to search through (mostly rooms) and elebits to find (each with their own personalities). Some levels have special tasks, such as don't break things or keep the noise to a minimum. There are also boss elebits you must "fight". After you collect enough, more things open up for you to explore or use. With special powered elebits, your gun power increases, allowing you to pick-up larger things.
There's multi-player coop mode and plenty of bonus features to open up. You can even edit rooms (levels) and challenge others to play it.
This could very well be a franchise for Konami, as I imagine that the elebits could be transferred to other locations, worlds, etc.
Very Good
Wii Controls Make it Unique.
posted by RedShoe (REDWOOD CITY, CA) Dec 15, 2006
Member since Mar 2006
14 out of 20 gamers (70%) found this review helpful
Above Average
good but... not intended for adults
posted by zeldakix17 (RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA) Feb 2, 2007
Member since Dec 2006
3 out of 4 gamers (75%) found this review helpful
1.controls are simple it's not hard to figure out
2.your A cute girl
4."Z" and "C" are pointless
but...... A decent game
wonderful new game
posted by Airoblast (AGUANGA, CA) Dec 23, 2006
Member since Nov 2006
3 out of 4 gamers (75%) found this review helpful
Eleibits has a good premise, but falls short.
posted by TheZane (SAN JOSE, CA) Jan 18, 2007
Member since Dec 2006
2 out of 3 gamers (67%) found this review helpful
We started first by playing the multiplayer mode. It started out fun with all the items flying every which way around the rooms. However, the single screen view where the movement controls are swapped back and forth gets very old very fast. We played two levels and after that we had our fill of the multiplay levels.
I continued on into the story mode. Once again it started out with a good story line, but it wasn't captivating enough to keep you plowing through the same repetitive levels.
There are a few levels where they throw a couple of different challenges at you, certain things you cannot do while completing a level, basically. These challenges were everything but challenging.
I did manage to play up to the first boss, but I just couldn't bring myself to finish any of the levels after that.
I'm glad I didn't purchase this game, it might be good for renting as it does use the wii-mote to it's full potential, which I give it a high praise for, it just needs more work.
Elebits Tries Hard, but falls way short
posted by RaulDuke (SUNRISE, FL) Dec 20, 2006
Member since Nov 2006
5 out of 8 gamers (62%) found this review helpful
But for all the things it does right, Elebits does 2 or three things wrong that really drag down the game. About 4 stages in, new rules and restrictions begin to come down such as "Don't break too many objects" or "Don't make too much noise". This is an obvious attempt to change up the game play and give the game some strategy, but it does nothing but detract from the fun. The game also suffers serious slow down when you finally get your gun strong enough to throw around big objects. As you progress in the game and the stages get larger, the graphics get worse and the slowdown becomes more frequent. The game is also extremely easy, although you won't be able to finish every level on your first shot thanks to the silly rules and Black Elebits which zap your life.
Multiplayer is a mess. It just gets too chaotic with more than one person tearing apart the environment. We found ourselves stuck "inside" objects way too often and struggled to figure out how to lift the house or truck or cabinet off our heads. Elebits also allows you to edit rooms and trade them via Connect24, but I wasn't able to test that out.
If this title were given longer in development and not rushed out to meet launch, it could have been a great game. All the elements are there, but the execution is sloppy and seems thrown together. Elebits is worth a rental at best as you'll tear through the game in 4 or 5 hours tops.
Gets Old quick
posted by KentuckyJ (DANVILLE, KY) Jan 29, 2007
Member since May 2005
3 out of 5 gamers (60%) found this review helpful
Best Use Of Wii Controller Thus Far
posted by 20Somethin (OAKLAND, TN) Dec 28, 2006
Member since Dec 2006
3 out of 5 gamers (60%) found this review helpful
First - a little about me. I am 27 years old and I have been playing games of all sorts all my life. I bought the Nintendo Wii because I was tired of having to learn complex button combinations for every game that I played on other systems. I just simply don't have the time that I used to have to invest in playing games.
That brings us to Elebits. Within 3 minutes of playing this title, I had the controls down. Sure, I got better over time, but the ease and simplicity of walking and shooting Elebits with your gravity gun is very easy to learn. It's completely addictive as well!
All in all there are 29 levels to the story mode. You play as Kai, a young boy who is upset because his parents are constantly working and he is unable to watch his favorite TV show because the electricity has gone out. Every electric (or gas) appliance is powered by Elebits. As Kai captures the elebits he is able to turn on lamps, TV's, and eventually cars and amusement parks!
The difficulty of this game is not in beating the levels - but in beating each level thoroughly. It took me no more than two attempts to beat each level. Younger children may have more difficulty with some of the latter levels as they require some "thinking outside of the box" to solve some of the puzzles. However, they will still thoroughly enjoy the game.
The game has definite lasting appeal through it's edit mode and multiplayer modes. Additionally, you can always go back and play previously completed levels and try to acheive a higher score than the one you got the first time through.
If you are looking for the best adaptation yet of the Wii Remote then look no further. Elebits will give all young and old a pleasurable experience. My rating: 9 out of 10.
Elebits rocks!
posted by Shadow275 (BROOKLYN, NY) Dec 14, 2006
Member since Sep 2005
4 out of 8 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
It is so fun!
You can open doorknobs by turning the wii-mote, there stuff to throw, pick up and get those tiny elebits.
So much fun in one little game.
I recommend you rent/buy it!
Half Life, Chibi Robo style game
posted by rarrarrar (WALNUT CREEK, CA) Dec 14, 2006
Member since Jun 2006
3 out of 6 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
Really Bad
fun for the first 10 minutes...even 7 yr old bored
posted by pillster (LAKE ELSINORE, CA) Jan 7, 2008
Member since Dec 2007
2 out of 4 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
posted by WiiRocks (FORT COLLINS, CO) Feb 11, 2007
Member since Jul 2006
2 out of 4 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
(sorry for any mistakes because i'm typing this from my Wii)
Gradually good
posted by doubleu (CHICAGO, IL) Dec 20, 2006
Member since Sep 2003
2 out of 4 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
Above Average
Fun at first
posted by TNTorch (HAVELOCK, NC) Feb 21, 2007
Member since Feb 2007
1 out of 2 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
posted by TheDew (ATLANTA, GA) Feb 11, 2007
Member since Nov 2006
1 out of 2 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
After about 5 minutes you have pretty much seen all there is to Elebits. You are placed in some confined space with a Half Life 2 Gravity Gun. Your goal is to move the object in front of you and zap the bits hiding behind it. Turn, move object, zap bits, turn, move object, zap bits, turn, move larger object, zap bits - over and over. The boring repetition is one thing, but on top of that - it takes about zero skill to play this game. There is no problem solving, no challenge, only mind-numbing repetition.
Oh Wait! There's multiplayer! So, you and a friend can simultaneously...move objects...zap bits....turn(well only one of you can turn)...move objects...zap bits over and over. And the winner is ...whoever zapped the most bits. Great - it's like a video game version of whack-a-mole only less challenging.
I suppose if you are 8 years old, it is probably cutesy and entertaining enough to be worthwhile. Anyone else...just gamefly it, if you really must play it at all.
nothing special or grabbing
posted by truth1130 (ALTON, IL) Feb 2, 2007
Member since Dec 2006
1 out of 2 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
I am thetruth1130 and i approved this message.
Please dont waste your time
posted by huktongamz (ENTERPRISE, AL) Apr 17, 2007
Member since Aug 2005
1 out of 3 gamers (33%) found this review helpful
fun, but not perfect.
posted by cannonball (GRANTS PASS, OR) Dec 20, 2006
Member since Dec 2006
1 out of 4 gamers (25%) found this review helpful
The story line and voice acting is especially weak - but does not get into the way once started.
Multiplayer mode is a little awkward because only one player has movemoent control
Very Disappointed...Why Konami, WHY!!!
posted by Squelch (THE WOODLANDS, TX) Dec 22, 2006
Member since Nov 2005
1 out of 6 gamers (17%) found this review helpful
posted by matthew13 (CHESWICK, PA) Jul 13, 2012
Member since Jul 2010
posted by drkav1 (BIG LAKE, AK) Oct 13, 2010
Member since Aug 2010
clock killed it for me
posted by horsumhack (MINNEAPOLIS, MN) Jun 18, 2009
Member since Mar 2009
so, uh, elebits is kind of cute, sort of fun to play, what with tearing things apart in a house to get at elebits which you zap and collect which all connects up with a story, barely, and which, at the point i'm at, seems fairly well to have abandoned said story involving a bad actress child wanting to watch tv in a blackout. its all done in individual stages or setpieces with a goal and a time limit and a rating at the end. having a real story could have been worth another point in my score, and, in something that would have been incredibly easy for the developers, difficulty levels (as simple as changing the length of time you have) almost certainly would have been worth another point or two to me. which is to say, i like my games fairly easy and as it stands i have to play these stages too often to pass them (i always seem to get something like 1493 out of 1500 and then when i do pass it's by a mile).
i guess that wasn't that brief. you might as well try this game out if you're reading this, but it just fell short for me.


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