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My Top 3 Games of 2012
By ManiacalMech 1 Comments
At this point and time, it has been more than a week since 2013 became a reality. The apocalypse was a no-show, and the future still took place. A lot of good games came out last year that I really enjoyed, but I did not play enough games that came out this year to make a top 10 list because I was playing other games in general that had caught my fancy. Games like Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, League of Legends, Fruit Ninja... the list goes on. BUT! I did happen to play a couple games that came out this year that I really liked. Without further ado, let's get cracking.
#3: XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Are strategy games fun? Personally, I would say that actively playing RTS games, building units and ordering them to kill dudes isn't fun, but the part where you win most certainly is. So what makes XCOM: Enemy Unknown any different or any more entertaining than most RTS/strategy games?
The freeflowing, yet turn based combat and being able to control a squad of (hopefully personalized) soldiers to fight ALIENS on homeworld Earth defies any other game's sense of fun I've seen yet. It's a unique feeling, being able to customize one of your own soldiers to your exact liking, and then to have him die on the battlefield, because you FUCKED UP moving him behind that bench that seemed like good cover at the time before those fucking Mutons showed up. Well, either that, or the Random Number Generator decided that a Muton's 30% chance to hit was enough to reduce that soldier from 10 to 0 health in one hit. It really is incredible, the sense of stress and enjoyment you feel while playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown. You realize that your mortality is all too real, and that any wrong move can wipe your dudes out in an instant. It's a roller coaster of a ride, and damn if I like to think that I feel control of it every so often.
And when you're not getting wrecked by alien forces out on the battlefield, you're back at HQ (which for me, was in North America) researching that dead alien's insides, upgrading your guns, and selling all those weird "alien surgeries" to the Gray Market. God knows what use those guys have for it. And when you aren't doing that shit, you're talking to the Council, a group of silhouetted dudes in business suits who represent their countries that monitor the decisions you make as the leader of the XCOM initiative. I personally love the Council spokesperson's voice as he says: "CO-MANDERR, WE TRUST THAT YOU WILL BE DISCREET ABOUT THIS MATTER".
You had me at "Fire Emblem with guns and aliens". What's not to love?
#2: The Walking Dead
I feel that Telltale's latest "adventure game" defies any sense of the normal adventure game to be consider an adventure game. Adventure game.
I say this because of its mainly cinematic feel. Aside from the small action sequences that take place with you accomplishing life threatening feats, and making tough decisions, The Walking Dead feels mostly like an interactive movie. And honestly, I feel like this is the next step that adventure games should take in their evolution. 2-D walking planes and puzzles have run their course. It's time for something innovative.
Enough opinions. Time for why I liked this game so much. Time for further opinions.
Perhaps this wasn't as much as an interactive movie as much as say... Asura's Wrath was. But who's to say that's worse for the game? Some have complained about the action sequences in certain episodes of this series, but at the end of the day, these sequences establish the line between this being a video game and this being an interactive movie. So is that worse for the material itself? I would say no. I would say that these sequences (for example, let's say the part where Lee has the shotgun in Episode 4) added to the stress you felt when trying to survive through the zombie apocalypse. Trying to get the cursor right on lots of zombies to shoot them one after another ended up creating a stressful environment. And in my opinion, I felt that worked for the game's mood.
Regardless, this was still the greatest story telling experience of 2012. The Walking Dead's narrative is told through the recent misadventures of one Lee Everett, a man trying to stick it out in the zombie apocalypse. Lee has to make due with the skin of his teeth, with the friends he discovers, and the decisions he has to make in order to keep Clementine safe. It is very much true that your decisions influence the game's future. As I played, I realized how my decisions were more along the lines of "trying to stay alive", rather than "picking my friend's side" or something similar along those lines. I'm probably a bad friend to have in a zombie apocalypse.
This game is also the best Swing Pushing Simulator of 2012. That's worth something in it's own merit.
#1: Hotline Miami
Come now, people. I created a blog post about this in my own time. The idea that this couldn't be #1 on my list would be completely false.
It's just... it's just so good. The fast as hell reactions, the proper zone of mind you need to be in to play, the intensely disturbing atmosphere created out of thin air, the best video game soundtrack of the year... It's just all too good to not rate as my favorite game of 2012.
It requires you to not fuck up, and in order to not fuck up in some levels, you may have to try them over and over again a dozen times or more. But man, when you don't fuck up, when you throw the pipe at the dude and then smash the back of his skull in against the carpet... It's a tremendous sense of relief and accomplishment rivaling that of only XCOM. But the difference between this game and XCOM is that the results aren't randomly generated. It's all you, all the time. You are the one to react in the blink of an eye, to make the decision to go loud in a room to take all the mobsters out. XCOM isn't all you, there is chance to it. Hotline Miami IS. And that's why it is pure unadulterated magic carnage.
That's why Hotline Miami is the best game of 2012 for me. Every reason why you succeeded in every single level of that game is because you did every thing yourself manually. By the blood, sweat, and the rage induced adrenalin pumping through your body, you took out every single Russian mobster in Miami. And damn, if it didn't feel like the most incredible, twisted, depraved thing you've ever done.
What's left then? Where do we go from here? Did somebody say... Hotline Miami 2?


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|November 4, 2006 03:00 PM EST
Let's face it, WS-BPEL 1.1 was not a great standard, and left so much out that many end users and vendors found it useless. In response, the vendors put a ton of proprietary extensions in their BPEL 1.1-based products, thus diluting its value to the point of "Why bother?" This was a dirty little secret in the world of SOA. Considering that BPEL 2.0 is on the horizon, I think it's time we began to talk about what's really there, how you can fix it, and what you need to do to get from point A to point B.
What's most frustrating about the issues here is that orchestration is indeed a core feature of SOA...the configuration component that makes orchestration that part of the architecture providing agility. Orchestration, at least the notion, is a necessity if you are building an SOA. It's the layer that creates business solutions from the vast array of services and information flows found in new and existing systems. Orchestration is a god-like control mechanism that's able to put our SOA to work, as well as provide a point of control. Orchestration layers allow you to change the way your business functions, as needed, to define or redefine any business process on-the-fly. This provides the business with the flexibility and agility needed, and is the core value of SOA.
While I've been ranting and raving about this for some time, Dave Chappell does a much better job of explaining the limitations (from his blog www.davidchappell.com/blog/2005_11_01_weblog).
"Promoting BPEL's portability helps significantly in the first of these goals, since customers like the idea of not being locked in to a single vendor. But actually making customers successful has typically required extending BPEL in proprietary ways, which works against the language's promised portability. While BPEL purists might argue that all of these extensions should be provided via programming language-neutral web services interfaces, this isn't what's actually happening in the products."
With huge investments in BPEL by the larger SOA players out there, the dirty little secret is that BPEL 1.1 never really worked as advertised, and the amount of custom and proprietary extensions required to make the technology useful meant that the money, time, and effort was pretty much wasted if "standards and portability" were the goals.
The hype behind the standard, and the larger vendors supporting it, has really pushed the notion of BPEL in the last few years. However, those who have had to build solutions using the base 1.1 technology have run into many roadblocks, and thus the vendors have responded with their own unique extensions and toolsets. Are we employing a standard that's living and breathing, allowing us to protect our investment in our work, or just an instance of a vendor's tool? This is now a key question to answer.
Enter WS-BPEL 2.0, and another opportunity for vendors to get BPEL right. You can find the draft specification on the OASIS site (http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/wsbpel-specification-draft.pdf), which I read, and discovered that this spec was much improved, but many issues still remain. For instance, there are considerable differences in WS-BPEL 2.0 compared to its previous 1.1 version. The major differences include syntax changes to the language, the inclusion of new features including parallel for-each, and modifications to the semantics of existing constructions, such as compensation handling. There are a few more, and I urge you to read both the 1.1 and 2.0 specs before diving into BPEL, or assessing how deep you're in already.
What if I already implemented orchestrations using BPEL 1.1, what do I do now? In short, you purchased Beta and the world is moving to VHS. I thought that this article by BEA's Alexandre Alves (http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/155617_1.htm) did a good job of summing things up.
"For all but the simplest business processes, migration from BPEL 1.1 to BPEL 2.0 is not an easy task. Some of the syntactic changes can be automated as shown [in the Alexandre Alves article], however the semantic differences, especially when dealing with links, messaging, compensation handling, and data manipulation, will demand a comprehensive and time-consuming process."
What bothers me most about this issue is not the fact that the standard, at least in some respects, is letting SOA down, but that orchestration is such a powerful need within SOAs, and there are few other alternatives that offer a better approach, standardized or not. Thus, end users who are tasked with building solutions using emerging SOA standards such as BPEL should begin to lean on their vendors now, as well as get more involved with their respective standards organizations.
I suspect the BPEL sales guys will get some angry calls around Christmastime from their users, perhaps more so considering the use of many proprietary extensions to get around the limitations of BPEL 1.1. Not a good way to start a standard. I guess that's why my old boss told me never to buy products until release 3.0.
|Ron Ten-Hove 12/20/06 01:00:32 PM EST
There is no such thing as WS-BPEL 1.1. There is a rather poor proprietary specification, called BPEL4WS 1.1, which was submitted to the OASIS WS-BPEL technical committee (I am a member of that committee). BPEL4WS 1.1 was a starting point; given its many limitations and ambiguities, backwards compatibility was never a realistic option. Also, backwards compatibility of a public standard with a proprietary specification is rather absurd, unless that specification enjoys "de facto" standard status, which certainly isn't the case for BPEL4WS 1.1.
The members of the WS-BPEL TC at OASIS put together a lot of experience in the world of business process and workflow automation. A lot of work was put into making WS-BPEL better defined that BPEL4WS, to ensure portability of process definitions, and no need to resort to vendor extensions to perform tasks beyond the "hello world" level of complexity. In the process, many features of BPEL4WS were revised or replaced, in order to make the language more useful. Alexandre Alves was absolutely correct when he observed that conversion from BPEL4WS 1.1 would be challenging.
There is no doubt many applications running in a services-based environment will feature orchestration; we see this already with the use of BPEL4WS 1.X and other proprietary process languages in production environments, today. In fact, there are those who claim that the very definition of ESB must include orchestration.
|Fred Holahan 11/13/06 04:15:39 PM EST
You really need to develop some new material. This column is just a warmed over quacking of the two posts you made at InfoWorld back in September: http://weblog.infoworld.com/realworldsoa/archives/2006/09/wsbpel_20_not_... and http://weblog.infoworld.com/realworldsoa/archives/2006/09/more_on_the_bp....
Incidentally, citing Dave Chappell's year-old blog post doesn't help your credibility. Chappell's assertion that "BPEL executable processes are likely to be of limited use" has already been proven wrong by numerous real world SOA applications that use BPEL for core orchestration.
BPEL is an open spec that is about to become a standard; it has no "dirty little secrets". While it's true that vendors have implemented extensions to make BPEL suitable for enterprise use, the same can be said for many (if not all) successful standards. Oracle extended SQL with PL/SQL, and Sybase did so with Stored Procedures, each of which is non-portable. Do those extensions render SQL itself worthless? Let me help you here … the correct answer is "no". The essential value of any standard is knowledge portability. SOA Web Services Journal readers who made the investment to learn SQL will understand the enormous value of that investment, and the type of payback they can expect for the investment in learning BPEL.
With regard to migrating from BPEL 1.1 to 2.0, I will only say that we at Active Endpoints have made this migration automatic. You can open any 1.1 compliant process definition in the ActiveBPEL Designer and save it as a 2.0 process definition; all syntactic and semantic migration is handled automatically. The Designer is available for free download at http://www.active-endpoints.com/active-bpel-designer.htm.
Dave, you represent yourself as objective voice in the industry dialog surrounding BPEL. I find no such objectivity in your comments. The IT community deserves to have a complete, objective picture of BPEL as this critical standard reaches mainstream adoption. I'd suggest that you get on board to that reality.
Fred Holahan
|Steve Hoffman 11/06/06 08:51:56 AM EST
Still spreadin' the FUD, eh, Dave?
Please elaborate on your claim that "the dirty little secret is that BPEL 1.1 never really worked as advertised". Is there a specific functionality that the spec describes but implementations don't, or can't, support?
And what about those "alternatives that offer a better approach"?
It sure would be nice to see a little constructive criticism. Otherwise, you're bound to dismissed as just another counter-productive "naysayer".
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Caldwell Edwards
Caldwell Edwards (January 8, 1841 – July 23, 1922) was a U.S. Representative from Montana.
Born in Sag Harbor, New York, Edwards was educated in the district schools. He worked as a salesman and bookkeeper in dry-goods stores for several years. He moved to Bozeman, Montana, in 1864 and became engaged in agricultural pursuits. He served as member of the Montana House of Representatives from 1901 to 1905.
Edwards was elected as a Populist to the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901 - March 4, 1903). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1902. At the expiration of his term Edwards returned to his ranch. He died in Sag Harbor, New York, July 23, 1922. He was interred in Oakland Cemetery.
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(aka: (Not) mussels and chorizo) It's a quick French Fridays with Dorie post this week. Many of you know that I was quite ill last weekend and I am still only eating very plain food. So the thought of Mussels and Chorizo (page 316) didn't exactly thrill me. In fact, it didn't really thrill me […]
French Fridays with Dorie: Nutella tartine (redux)
How excited was I to see Dorie's Nutella Tartine (p 414-415) listed as this week's French Fridays with Dorie recipe? Pretty excited that's for sure! Apart from the fact that I have already made it and absolutely loved it, I just happened to have a gorgeous loaf of white bread on hand from this week's […]
French Fridays with Dorie: Gorgonzola apple quiche
Another super simple French Fridays with Dorie. This week. Not that I am complaining, mind you 😉 A Gorgonzola apple quiche (p 157) – the perfect combination of sweet and salty and savoury with a buttery crust (yes, I made it from scratch!). The dough does need to rest for 3+ hours in the fridge […]
French Fridays with Dorie: Broth-braised potatoes
This Friday's French Fridays with Dorie will be short and sweet. Broth Braised potatoes (page 358) is what I generally do when I boil new potatoes anyway – instead of using plain water, these potatoes are boiled in a broth, enhanced with garlic, lemon zest, bay leaves, rosemary, sage and thyme. A couple of simple […]
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Brisket With Burgundy Orange Sauce
|Onion soup mix
|1 Ounce (1 Envelope)
|Burgundy wine
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|2 Tablespoon
|Dried basil
|1 Tablespoon
|Dried thyme
|2 Teaspoon
|Orange marmalade
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Grated orange peel
|1 1⁄2 Teaspoon
|2 Teaspoon
|4 Clove (20 gm), minced
|Freshly ground black pepper
|1⁄2 Teaspoon (To Taste)
|Beef brisket
|4 Pound, trimmed of as much fat as possible
|1 Pound, cleaned; if large, cut into halves or quarters
Preheat the oven to 300°F.
Stir together the soup mix, wine, water, and flour until blended in a roaster into which the brisket fits comfortably.
Stir in the basil, thyme, marmalade, orange peel, sugar, garlic, and pepper.
Add the brisket, spooning some of the sauce over the top.
Cover and bake for 4 hours, basting every hour until tender when pierced with a fork.
If the sauce bubbles rapidly, reduce the oven heat to 275°F.
Remove from the oven and place the brisket on a sheet of heavy foil.
Pour the sauce into a bowl, cover, and refrigerate.
When the brisket is cool, wrap in foil and refrigerate.The brisket and sauce mav be refrigerated separatelv overnight.
To carve, remove any solidified fat from the sauce and discard.
Slice the brisket thinly against the grain.
Overlap brisket slices in a shallow ovenproof dish that is just large enough to hold them.
Pour the sauce over the meat.The brisket may be refrigerated, covered, up to 2 days or frozen.
Defrost in the refrigerator overnight.
Bring to room temperature before reheating.
To reheat, preheat the oven to 325° or 350°F.
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Slowly, slowly, like a fish-feasted skull floating up from the ocean's depths
Your features are being revealed.
So far your face shows just hints of light and dark:
A bright line here, a shadowy… something… there.
But no sparks of recognition yet;
We cannot know which patches are cratered plains, or
Which pixels are mountains' jagged peaks,
Those secrets are still yours to keep a while longer.
And so, we wait; your blurry disc triggering memories
Of pre-Mariner Mars in the old timers from JPL,
Staring at iPads in packed Pasadenan bars,
Having waited all their lives for these science fiction days to dawn,
While impatient armchair astronauts – Photoshop sharp-shooters
And GIMP Gandalfs – leap gleefully on each new LORRI frame,
Saving them to hard drives before spending a coffee-fuelled night
Teasing features from their hazy dots and lines.
Soon we will Know You; soon we will swoon to pin-sharp views
Of – what? Tritonian black smoker plumes?
A lemon sorbet swirl of ice around your chocolate pole?
Methane clouds casting rolling shadows on craters
Wide enough to put Copernicus to shame?
(c) Stuart Atkinson 2015
Image courtesy of Bjorn Jonsson
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At Marathon Monument9 04 2015
I have climbed a mountain of troubles to get here;
Hopscotched fearlessly between crumbling craters,
Survived dust storms, suffered amnesia and arthritis to reach
This picture perfect place and now you would betray me?
I roll in triumph over the rock-strewn finishing line
Of history's first off-Earth marathon and the medal
You would hang around my neck with a Judas kiss
Is the threat of being turned off?
No! I will rage against you,
Just as I rage against the rising of the tau!
Leave me be, free to prowl the planet until my weary wheels
Can turn no more; gulping down each glorious sunset;
Devouring each delicious dusty Van Gogh sunrise;
Washing my gritty eyes with splashes of ice cold starlight
As bony Phobos dashes, witch-swift, through the night
And Deimos a lonely, stony Sputnik, follows forlornly behind.
Just bide your time. One sol Mars itself will murder me,
As he has tried to ever since I landed here
All those years ago, and I will rove
No more. The light will finally dim, and beneath
Barsoom's mournful moons the gentle winds
Of Ares will sing to me as I fall asleep,
To wake, perhaps a century later, in the Great
Museum of Mars, brushed and dusted clean,
Gleaming, surrounded by reed-thin, milk-white
Martian children – tall, elegant aliens stalking the halls,
Ignoring the shepherding calls of their teachers
As they rush around, "plucky Beagle 2" found
In Gallery 3 – opposite me,
Reunited with my sister, Spirit at last,
Walls of glass keeping us safe from sticky,
Souvenir-picking hands.
One distant sol, standing proudly side by side
For the first time since our awful separation at JPL
We will be worshipped and adored
By "rover huggers" from a dozen worlds and moons –
And you would end me so soon?
I still have fossilised waves of cinnamon sand to forge!
Slippery slopes to climb! Paradigm-shifting and
Textbook-rewriting discoveries to make!
Far to the south, blurred and dimmed by distance,
Impossibly far away (as Endeavour was once, remember?)
Hunch-backed Bopolu calls to me now –
A sunken soufflé of sediment and stone
Crying out to be roamed and explored –
With all these wonders ahead, and more,
I beg you: do not turn your backs on me
Nor make Marathon Monument my tombstone.
(c) Stuart Atkinson 2015
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Blood Eclipse27 02 2015
Damn you, Sun and Moon.
Why did you have to align at that precise time,
On that exact date to make Luna's fleeting shadow
Fall there? For the sake of just a short delay
Could you not have plunged Leeds into darkness, or Dundee?
Why not somewhere, anywhere else? Somewhere nearer to me?
Or even faraway Orkney? But no;
Fate (and orbital mechanics, I suppose) chose
The Faroes to receive your chaste Brief Encounter kiss,
So I'll give it a miss, thank you.
I'll stay at home, reading breathless Tweets on my phone,
And watch you two meet above the park just across my street,
With Brian Cox tossing his hair on the TV.
Rather that, rather miss the total eclipse
Than a rucksack pilgrimage to a place that finds joy
In cetacean ethnic cleansing; where flashing knives
And new Moon scythes flense the flesh from creatures
With hearts a hundred times the size of their murderers';
Where wave-leaping lives full of love and song are cut short
By savages with hooks, hacking, hacking, laughing
As blood fountains into their tourist-brochure-blue sky
And turns the water into filthy wine.
How could I stand there on a golden beach,
Bathed in the beauty of Totality and the glory
Of the Diamond Ring knowing that on some future day
Screams echoing from crumbling cliffs
To shingle shore would be ignored as giggling children,
Paddling gleefully through the gore, pink wellies shining bright
In the sunlight, trailed their tiny hands through the bloody water,
Proud parents looking on, agreeing the Grind had been "A grand day out"…
© Stuart Atkinson 2015
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End of An Age1 02 2015
Savour these days, relish them,
Roll them around your curious minds
Like the last precious taste of your favourite wine
And sip them slowly, for they will not come again.
At least not in our lifetimes;
These Golden Days are the fading rays
Of our race's First Space Age, for when this year is done
We will finally have seen all Sol's classic worlds,
Walked the planetary path from Mercury to Pluto
To stand on the Kuiper cliff's crumbling edge
And stare out into the abyss beyond,
Knowing there will be nowhere else to go
For The First Time until we punch through the Oort's
Icy wall and push out to the stars themselves.
Even then it will be centuries, perhaps,
Before we see the strange new worlds and moons
Of those other suns; before we marvel at the sight
Of their Atlantics and Everests bathed in alien light.
We have been spoiled of late,
Taken miracles and wonders in our stride.
In my fleeting half century I have seen
Our solar system's greatest secrets revealed –
On Titan, the dried blood stains of foul and fetid lakes;
An impossible Death Star moon skating silently
Around looming Saturn's glittering rings;
Iapetus' Stegosaur spine, slopes airbrushed black and white
By Nature's and Time's patient hands.
Flying by asteroids and satellites
Has become common to us as one amazing place after another
Has been ticked off Mankind's "Must See" vacation list.
So easy now to take for granted the thrill of gazing down
From high above Mercury's poles and spying splashed-comet ice
Glinting far below, or watching the Sun rise behind mighty
Caloris Basin's bulls-eye peaks.
Through SOHO's sentinel eyes we've spied
Countless sublime comets sweeping around the Sun,
Flaring phosphorous bright before fading away,
Their phantoms fleeing into the endless night.
And albatross-winged Rosetta has led me, crunching and crumping my way
Across the boulder-strewn icy plains of one comet
(With a double-barrelled Russian name I still cannot pronounce)
Before I bounced with Philae over its cratered, pitted face…
My greatest joy? An easy choice.
For almost a dozen years I've roamed John Carter's Mars,
Walking proudly beside my beloved Opportunity
As she roved its rusty landscape, standing on craters'
Crumbling edges, crossing deserts of cinnamon sand.
Since her landing, my hand has rested on her back every sol,
As her weary wheels turned and turned and turned,
Churning up the ancient fines,
The Evening Star of Earth burning lantern-bright
In her purple Gothic twilight,
New horizons falling like dominoes as she drove
Across the Red Mars I fell in love with as a child,
Long before Robinson brought its wild and noble lands
So vividly to life for everyone else with his terraforming tales…
All these things I have seen and more
But now – The Barren Years loom.
With Chapter One of our restless race's fearful
Walk through space's dark forest almost complete
There is nowhere left to see for the first time,
No magic "What the **** is THAT?" moments lie ahead
To Tweet or blog or post or Google + about.
Instead, an Interlude, adventure put on pause,
Mankind making a cup of tea in the adverts between
Don't Miss episodes of exploration.
What next Giant Leap
Will fill our sleep with dreams of greatness?
The first bootprints on Mars you say?
Ha! That is still, as it has always been,
"At least 30 years away".
The first landing on Europa then?
When will Musk, ignoring Monolith Makers' advice,
Melt through that enigmatic moon's Eton Mess ice
To look for life hiding in the slush below?
The first touchdown on Enceladus' snow?
Perhaps… perhaps Chinese cameras will return those Turner-hued views
Of its geysers' plumes glowing softly in the sky one day…
But all an age away, an age,
If they happen at all; if our civilisation does not fall,
Its science smothered beneath blood-soaked black banners,
Its head hacked off and held aloft by ignorance and hate,
Sightless eyes left staring sadly at the stars
It now will never reach…
One thing is certain.
In years to come, when Terra's flag unfurls
On worlds whirling around other stars,
When Earth's satellite-saturated sky
Is spattered with points of light
Explorers and colonists call "Home"
They will envy us for living at this time,
Wish that they had been alive
When Voyagers took flight us on their glorious Grand Tour,
When Aldrin was "too busy" to take pictures
Of Armstrong bouncing across the Moon
And twin Vikings landed on Barsoom…
How they'll envy our first glimpses
Of Ganymede's frozen coffee plains,
Of Ceres' strange white spot and all the other wonders
We see in our glossy magazines.
Standing on mountain peaks light years away
They'll shake their helmeted heads in disbelief,
Trying to imagine how it felt to soar above Titan's
Hoarfrost-shored lakes with our smartphones,
Wondering how we could sit on juddering buses and planes
Roving fabulous Mars on our tablets without even batting an eye…
So, savour these days, relish them.
For us, they will not come again.
© Stuart Atkinson 2015
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Look sunwards, ancient, lonely one
And you will see a tiny golden light
Shining in the stygian night, for
A fragile glass and metal butterfly
Speeds towards you – an Ambassador
From the warm and water-soaked Third World
Comes to make First Contact, to end your exile
In the Kuiper Belt and finally touch your mysterious face.
When Tombaugh found you Terra was a world in mourning.
Man's heart, tattered, terrified and torn after the War
To End All Wars, was just daring to fill with hope again;
From fields stained a thousand shades of burgundy
By the blood of a million men our tired eyes
And weary minds were turning to the sky once more,
Seeking new worlds whirling around the Sun –
And eventually we found one.
A young Kansan owl, tall in tweed suit and tie was your discoverer.
Flicking patiently between a pair of photographic plates
Taken days apart, his wise, farm boy's eyes
Searched silently for any sign of movement 'twixt the two –
And suddenly there you were, a cosmic flea leaping from A to B!
Something real this time; not the fantastic
Fork-scraped chaos of cross-hatched canals
Scarring Barsoom's beautiful face Lowell
Insisted he saw from the same place 35 years before,
But something much, much more –
Another world! Another Copernican orb
Circling our chandalier star!
Having been found lurking on the Solar System's edge,
Christened "Pluto" in honour of the Underworld's
Most regal ruler, you gave up your secrets but slowly.
Charon, hiding shyly in your feeble glare,
Was the first of your companions to be revealed;
Four more have emerged from your shadow since.
But even to Hubble's COSTAR-monocle eye
You are merely a minute, mottled disc.
Tantalising traces of light and dark are painted on your face –
Hints, perhaps, of mighty mountains, craters and plains
Just waiting to be found and named,
But for now blurred by distance into a pizza of pixels…
You proudly bore the title "planet" for 75
Of Earth's years – immortalised in poetry, stories and songs,
Your name even stolen by a floppy-eared Disney dog –
Before that quarrelsome quango came along
And staged their coup, demoting you
In one fell swoop from noble god to banished dwarf.
No matter. A world is still a world by any other name,
And soon yours will be on everybody's lips.
As mankind gazes upon your face for the first time,
And as a pinch of Tombaugh's ashes dashes past,
En-route to the stars, the first portraits of your icy valleys
And hills will be reTweeted and Shared ten thousand times,
Each one igniting flames of curiosity in a generation's mind
Like nothing ever seen before. A Plutonian atlas, written overnight,
Will show your canyons and craters, labelled with names honouring,
We hope, those who have brought us to
This historic moment in time: if no lofty ice-capped peak
Is christened "Mount Berney" the Gods will be angry indeed.
Until then, have patience, poor frozen, lonely one.
We will be with you soon.
© Stuart Atkinson 2015
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Looking Back23 11 2014
Having abandoned Philae to its fate
Rosetta moves away, impatient to see
The comet in all its charred-charcoal glory
Once again: tumbling,
Tumbling through the dark,
A misshapen hole cut out of the stars
Until the Sun's phosphorous spark
Bursts over its pole, bathing its peaks
In a brutal light which sweeps
Across its landscape like a tide;
Craters, cliffs and dusty plains,
Emerging one by one again
From beneath the black waves
Of the Void's eternal night.
Looking at it hanging there in space,
Its ragged face rolling slowly in and out of view
No-one could call this hunch-backed Quasimodo comet
Beautiful – except, perhaps, the geologists,
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With undisguised lust,
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Body in the dark, trembling fingertips
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Wishing they had seen it long ago,
When it was still young,
Seduced by the Sun for the first time,
Shaking out its silvery tresses
As it swept gracefully around the star…
…so old now, so old, a withered crone of ice and stone,
Slowly falling apart…
© Stuart Atkinson 2014
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Philae Dreams16 11 2014
Dwarfed beneath Sun-smothering cliffs,
Draped in shadows foul and thick as squid ink,
Pressed on all sides by ice hard as iron,
Philae now sleeps;
Dreaming of a lost Agilkian sky afire with Van Gogh stars,
Thick as pollen blown on a summer's breeze:
A heaven strewn with a million gems
And jewels, and drifting slowly through
Them – Venus-bright Rosetta,
A lantern glowing in the Stygian night,
Swooping around the comet like an eagle
On outstretched silicon wings…
This is not where I should have been,
Philae whispers in the dark, trapped
In its Alcatraz cell of tar-black ice.
They told me I would see wonders
When I fell out of the sky: glittering jets
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Reached up to touch the Milky Way..!
They lied.
But I saw Agilkia, I saw it! Philae rages in its sleep;
Rushing up towards me: a flat, dusty plain,
A Promised Land perfect for my needs –
Why did it reject me?
Why push me away, banishing me to this wretched place?
Why bury me in this frigid, dusty tomb
Where El Capitan cliffs loom,
So dark the smallest candle flame would be blinding..?
I should be bathing in beauty, Philae sighs,
Not exiled in this cometary quarry,
This cruel and melancholy wasteland;
I should have lived out my Mayfly days in the Sun,
Feeling its golden rays kissing my face
As I gazed at snowflake fountains airbrushing the sky,
Not cowering in this charcoal-walled cave
Chosen by Fate to be my grave…
One day I will wake, Philae promises itself,
Its on-standby heart briefly fluttering like a bird
At the thought of it; and when I peer out from
This suddenly Sun-drenched hole oh, they'll see what I can do…
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The Old Dairy
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Cottage / 1 bedrooms / sleeps 2
Availability Your dates are available
Cottage / 1 bedrooms / sleeps 2
|Key Info
The Old Dairy is a charming and luxurious Grade II listed cottage, located in the peaceful rural village of Cleeve Prior. The cottage is next to the village green and is close to the village pub and the church of St Andrew, the origins of which date back to the 12th century. Cleeve Prior is less than 10 miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare, and is on the northern fringes of the Cotswolds, making the cottage perfectly located for exploring the entire Heart of England region.
Built in the 18th century and, as the name suggests, originally a dairy, the cottage boasts a wealth of character features, not least of which is the beautiful stone cheese press in the bedroom. The many other character features include oak beams, exposed Cotswold stone walls, flagstone floors and a wood burning stove. Complementing the period features, the cottage has modern facilities, including wireless internet access, a TV and DVD player, and a well equipped kitchen. A stable door from the living room opens onto steps down to a large, tranquil garden area, with a summerhouse. The Old Dairy is the perfect location for a couple looking for a relaxing break in the heart of England.
The cottage sleeps two people, in one bedroom, with a luxurious bathroom and a separate cloakroom.
The Old Dairy has two off street parking spaces, quietly located off the village green. A path leads to external stone steps up to the front door, which enters the cottage onto a half way landing between the ground and first floors. The Old Dairy is an "upside down" cottage and the stairs lead up to:
•Kitchen: A well equipped kitchen, containing a four ring gas hob, grill, gas oven, dishwasher, microwave, kettle, toaster, fridge with freezer compartment and washer dryer;
•Living room: A beautiful room, in the eaves of the cottage, with exposed oak timbers, exposed stone walls and a cosy wood burning stove. The living room contains a large sofa, a dining table with seating for up to four, and a TV with DVD player. A stable door from the living room leads out to stone steps to the garden;
•Cloakroom: Contains a toilet and a wash basin.
Returning to the front door, the stairs lead down to:
•Bedroom: A breathtaking room, full of character, including flagstone floors, oak beams and an original stone cheese press, dating back to the cottage's role as the local dairy. The room contains a king size bed. A door from the bedroom leads out to the garden;
•Bathroom: The traditional, yet contemporary bathroom, with flagstone floors and wooden panelling, contains a bath with overhead shower, toilet and wash basin.
The peaceful, mature garden is to the rear of the cottage, with a mixture of lawn, patio area and flower beds. There is a summer house, an outdoor table and four chairs, as well as a barbecue. The cottage garden is a private area within the owner's large garden and guests are invited to use all of this garden, including a delightful orchard.
Key Features
Arrival and departure days:
Standard arrival days at The Old Dairy are Fridays and Mondays, with standard holiday durations being:
•three night weekends commencing on a Friday;
•four day mid-week breaks commencing on a Monday;
•week long breaks commencing on either a Friday or a Monday.
Arrival and departure days are flexible, however – please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Security deposits:
Security deposits are not required (please note that guests are still liable for any damage or additional cleaning required as a result of their actions).
The maximum occupancy of the property is two guests. Please consult us prior to booking if you intend to have more than this number of guests at the property at any point during your stay, as additional charges may apply.
Regrettably, pets are not accepted.
Bed linen and towels:
Bed linen and towels are provided for guests.
Arrival and departure times:
Arrival time is after 3pm and departure time is by 10am.
If your arrival will be delayed beyond 9pm on the start date of your rental period, you must contact the owner, or you may not be able to get into the property.
Bed sizes and configurations:
The bed in The Old Dairy is a king size bed.
•Main bathroom: Bath with overhead shower, basin, toilet, plus underfloor heating and a heated towel rail;
•Upstairs cloakroom: Basin and toilet.
Heating, fuel and logs:
The property has a gas fired central heating system.
Electricity and gas are included in the rental price. An initial supply of logs, firelighters and kindling are provided for the wood burning stove and further supplies can be purchased locally.
Services provided:
The property has free wireless internet access and a TV with DVD player.
There is no telephone available, however, mobile phone reception is generally OK.
The property has two off street parking spaces.
Where a letting exceeds seven nights, a mid-stay bed and towel change are included in the price. Additional housekeeping services may be available on request.
Child friendly facilities:
The Old Dairy does not accept children, however, guests with one baby are welcome. A travel cot (without linen) and high chair are provided.
Initial consumables:
A small quantity of initial consumables is provided for your convenience (eg. tea, coffee, sugar, dishwasher tablets, washing up liquid, soap, toilet rolls, etc), however, you should not expect the quantity of these provisions to be sufficient for the duration of your stay.
Accessibility, health and safety:
This is an old, Grade II listed property and has many character features, including low beams and external stone steps to the front and back doors (with handrails), which may be slippery when wet and could pose difficulty to guests with limited mobility, or carrying babies, both in terms of their general movement and their ability to quickly exit the house in the event of an emergency.
The smoke and CO detectors operate on a sound only basis and, therefore, those who have serious impairment of hearing may not be able to hear the alarm systems and could be at risk.
No smoking is permitted throughout the property.
In order to provide you with as much detail of our properties as possible, we sometimes use wide angle photography, which can make certain rooms, or spaces, appear larger than they actually are. Wherever possible, we try to include a floorplan, with detailed dimensions of rooms and areas. If you have any queries regarding the size of any rooms or spaces, please do not hesitate to contact us.
|Sleeps up to 2, 1 bedrooms
|Will consider
|Long term lets (over 1 month)
|Car advised
|Nearest Amenities
|3 km
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Birmingham 50 km, Nearest railway: Honeybourne 8 km
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Log fire, Internet access, DVD player
|Central heating, TV, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster
|Clothes dryer, Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|1 bedroom, 1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms
|Double beds (1), Cots (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 2
|Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair
|Private garden, BBQ
|Parking, Suitable for people with restricted mobility, Not suitable for wheelchair users
The Worcestershire region
Cleeve Prior
Cleeve Prior is a beautiful village located between Evesham and Stratford-upon-Avon, on the Worcestershire/Warwickshire border, close to the east bank of the River Avon and the northern edge of The Cotswolds. The name cleeve comes from the Saxon word for cliff and the prior was a medieval monastery which was destroyed during the Reformation.
The use of local blue lias stone and local detailing through all building types and periods gives the village a strong character and local identity. Its early origins are as a farming community, within a wider area of Saxon and Medieval settlement. The continuing significance of agriculture throughout Cleeve Prior's development is clearly illustrated in the presence of numerous farm buildings and farmhouses from the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. These are present throughout the village and are a significant element of its character and special interest.
Cleeve Prior benefits from an excellent local pub, the Kings Arms, a village hall and the local Church of St Andrew, the origins of which date back to the 12th century.
Shakespeare Country
Shakespeare Country is a loosely defined region, centred on the world famous town of Stratford-upon-Avon, home of William Shakespeare. The region is located in the centre of England, also known as the "Heart of England", and is well connected by road, rail and air. It lies just two hours from London and there are direct train services from London Marylebone to Stratford-upon-Avon.
With magnificent castles, glorious gardens, stately homes and a historic palace, Shakespeare Country offers everything you need for a relaxing short break or a longer holiday. Visit historic Warwick and Kenilworth with their magnificent castles, enjoy regency Royal Leamington Spa and step back in time in Stratford-upon-Avon, or delve a little deeper into Shakespeare Country and you will discover some delightful smaller towns and villages.
Shakespeare Country and the neighbouring Cotswolds are also home to some of England's most enchanting gardens, from almost every period of English garden history. From landscaped to cottage, exotic to herbal, these gardens are a delight to explore.
The Cotswolds
The Cotswolds are a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes called the "Heart of England". The name Cotswold means "sheep enclosure in rolling hillsides".
The Cotswolds are characterised by attractive small towns and villages, built of the underlying Cotswold stone (a yellow oolitic limestone). In the Middle Ages the wool trade made the Cotswolds prosperous and some of this money was put into the building of churches, leaving the area with a number of large handsome Cotswold stone "wool churches". The area remains affluent, which has encouraged the establishment of many high quality pubs, restaurants and antique shops.
Cotswold towns include Bourton-on-the-Water, Broadway, Burford, Chipping Norton, Cirencester, Moreton-in-Marsh, Northleach, Stow-on-the-Wold, Stroud and Winchcombe. The town of Chipping Campden is notable for being the home of the Arts and Crafts movement, founded by William Morris at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. William Morris lived occasionally in Broadway Tower, a folly, now part of a country park. Chipping Campden is also known for the annual Cotswold Olimpick Games, a celebration of sports and games dating back to the early 17th century.
Food and drink
Cleeve Prior is fortunate to retain a traditional village pub, The Kings Arms, which is at the heart of village life and provides high quality food and drink. The menu is diverse and seasonal, with locally sourced food, cooked to perfection. The staff and locals are friendly and make everyone feel comfortable. With its range of draught bitters and wide wine selection, The Kings Arms is definitely a local favourite.
There are many excellent places to eat and drink in the wider Shakespeare Country and North Cotswolds area, with the major towns of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Royal Leamington Spa, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water, Moreton-in-Marsh, Chipping Campden, Broadway, Burford and Chipping Norton containing a wide variety of tea shops, pubs and restaurants, catering for most tastes and budgets. There are also many traditional pubs located in the lovely villages throughout Shakespeare Country and the North Cotswolds.
The list below is a very small sample to give you a flavour for the wide range of attractions and activities that are available in and around Shakespeare Country and the North Cotswolds. Tourist Information centres are located in all the main towns.
- Blenheim Palace
- Warwick Castle
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Hidcote
- Cheltenham race course
- Cotswold Farm Park
- Batsford Arboretum
- Broadway Tower Country Park
- Snowshill Manor & Garden
- Oxford
Activities available in the area include walking, cycling, horse riding, golf and swimming.
Further food & drink and activities information is available on the Character Cottages website.
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