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Last week I was invited by Simon Roberts to talk at WCIT2010, on a panel with Tom Steinberg (Mysociety), and Adam Greenfield (Urbanscale/Nokia). Simon had suggested that I try and link street/geography of India with local innovation and soft services. With the spiked interest in "emerging markets", I thought it might be a good idea to present a view from 'Ground Zero'. My talk was titled 'My Elastic City: Designing for India's Immaterial Urbanism', and here's the presentation: (minus all the sound and music and videos as Slideshare is not very kind with multimedia and keynote. But, hopefully the more 'entertaining' video of the talk will be online soon.) And here's a longer overview, for those interested. I started by showing a glimpse of 'Yellow Chair Stories'; my point was to emphasize on the those 'physical blog spaces' where the digital and the physical communities converge for a bit, and then disappear again. While augmented reality apps, and urban games have taken the digital urban experience to a whole new level, I am interested in how the convergence of the two occurs at the street level, in India.
"590 million Indians, or 40% of the population will live in cities by 2030"
This data is now common knowledge, our cities are overflowing and will only continue to do so. As Jon and I discussed this further, some key questions came up: While population growth will have a huge impact on the urban physical infrastructure, what about the soft infrastructure? What about the immaterial stuff, the data that enters our skins, rushing past us into flows of networks that we cant ever put our fingers on? Who is designing for it, and how are we going to go about it? Reinterpreting David Rusk's definition of an 'Elastic City' from 1993, we thought that in 2010, our Elastic City would be one that "utilisies this immateriality to continually stretch collective urban imagination, and create experiential services to reconnect residents to their cities in new ways."
But this nature of 'elasticity' will vary depending on the context, so for the 15 mins or so that I had, my focus was India. Diving into urban India, I showed how cities appear on Google maps. Mostly bare and dry and boring. I showed a map of the city of Ahmedabad (image above), which has no street names, and also an example of how addresses of places are usually around local landmarks. If those landmarks moved or disappeared, everyone in that area would need to reappropriate their addresses. But whats actually happening on the streets? I took the audience to India's urban centres, presenting images and *sounds* of street life. (which worked for a 9am session, woke them up!) Through examples of the 'paan-wallah, rickshaw-wallah, robot-wallah, temporary TV stall-wallh and many more, the presentation showed how the street entrepreneur who sells you a service, also passes on valuable information about rental property, stock markets, bollywood, horoscopes and cricket. (Wallah/Wallih is the suffix given to anyone selling a service or wares, usually a street vendor/entrepreneur) Information that may not be 'efficient' or 'personal' but highly valuable, as they form the stories, the human lifeline of urban society. (yes, mobile phones in India have done the efficient, useful and personal/sharing bit well)
Essentially each of these informal hubs operating at street level become 'network nodes' in the city, sharing and exchanging information with the residents. And more importantly, these network nodes are 'mobile', so they move about the city, selling their wares, and in the process, collecting and distributing bits of data in a transient manner. A map that would normally look 'boring' suddenly becomes a lot more compelling, as we begin to populate it with all these 'network nodes' that operate within the city. Ultimately any technology planner or visionary needs to consider this sort of a map as an alternate blueprint while designing soft services or 'apps' in India. Perhaps a tweeting flourmill may not be the answer, as it misses out on the essence of the 'street'. We suggest that in India, one could consider the 'Street as Facebook', facing the same challenges of privacy, but open source by its very nature. And its about time we start designing meaningful, desirable services around these networks and infrastructures, rather then bombarding people with 'sms jokes' services.


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A History Worthy of a Landmark
Fire. Earthquake. Financial ruin. The drama at The Empress Theatre certainly has not been confined to the stage.
Built in 1911 in the Beaux Arts style, the Empress' appearance today has been shaped mainly by her rich history and changing fortunes. Today, only the exterior remains in the original style. The theatre's interior layout dates from a much later 1930 Fox West Coast renovation (after a ruinous fire that took with it her upper balcony), while the magnificent Skouras ceiling and scroll-work arrived during a 1952 renovation. She stands tall today as an excellent example of early twentieth century theatre design, more than worthy of her landmark status.
Within this section, you'll find a chronicle of the Empress Theatre's fascinating history, replete with the story of her rise and fall — and rise again saga. Her history is also Vallejo's history, and her restoration is a story of perseverance and the power of citizen activism combined with a generous dose of corporate good citizenship.
Today, the magnificently restored Empress — Vallejo's Landmark #17– reigns over Virginia Street just as she has in the past — a royal reminder of Vallejo's pride in its past and its hope for the future.

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I have an astigmatism too...!
Bat, sent you a mail.
Btw, if we take pics you're going to have to blur out my face... :p
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I have an astigmatism too...!
Bat, sent you a mail.
Btw, if we take pics you're going to have to blur out my face... :p
I'm on the bad eyesight train too, lol! Astigmatism in one eye, and keratoconus in the other. But I've already had surgery on the one with keratoconus, so i have a teeny little lens in my eye to hold up my cornea. And the other one's okay with lenses. Sucks that neither lenses or glasses work for you, though :(
Haha - no problem :) we can think of creative pics to take.
Wow, Mango. Seems like lots of people have issues. Wonder if its another thing we can blame on PUFAs... ;)
That's a great idea! I love it :D
Haha, why not? Damn PUFAs! I really wanted something to blame when I was diagnosed with it, just because they kept telling me it had to be genetic, and absolutely no one in my family had it. But I'm okay with it now, at least I can see, and we caught it before I would've had to get a cornea transplant. All about perspective :p
You should just run away and meet them, Ci!
Actually, there are success stories on here about people's eyesight improving when they "went primal". Refined foods could be to blame for anything :p
[QUOTE=ombat;1231003]Haha - no problem :) we can think of creative pics to take. [/QUOTE]
"How far along are you?" comparison pics? ;)
Lol, good idea Ci. We'll just post a cat on top of Ombat and we'll be all set...
Double post, so here's a pic of Johnny Cash instead.
[QUOTE=CiKi90;1231035]Or you can swap faces! Post your face over each others', that way it will look confusing.
ohh I've been meaning to ask you ombat -- are you taking a break from exercise or do you just not feel like using the COY thingy anymore? just wonderiiiin =)[/QUOTE]
I know you're asking Ombat, but I've been shocking lately. I feel good right now though, so I want to set myself new goals when I get back to London. I'm coming to the conclusion that short term goals would work better for me...
Yes, lets just take pictures of our bellies :) or post a cat over my face. Or both.
Ci, I'm sorry I've been neglecting it! I've been meaning to post an update for a while now. When I've been living at home in Tacoma (which seems to be never) I've been glued to my pull up bar and am seeing some awesome muscle definition starting to show up! Otherwise I just do the same ol body weight, jumping squats, etc. with no real regimen. Some days I've been too tired to do anything at all and I know that taking a nap will be more beneficial to me than exercising. I' ve also been doing a ton of walking in the past month which is unusual for me. Overall my body feels tighter / firmer which is awesome. Don't look much different though.
Ha, well after this holiday my body definitely looks different...!
[QUOTE=CiKi90;1231043]shocking? what do you mean?
Yeah, I've just been working out a lot with no real goals except "super fit forever." And, to be honest, I work out a lot because I've been stressed a lot and I've been eating some shit foods. Working out kind of takes the edge off of both of those things.
What kind of short-term goals were you thinking? Strength-related, ability related?[/QUOTE]
Lol, "shocking" is just a word I use when I'm displeased with myself :p
I think I need to set activity related goals. Like, I'm going to sprint every day next week. Or, I'm going to do 30 burpees a day for the next week. Plus mixing it up and doing exercise I feel like doing. I need to push myself to stick to things...


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Beauty Adventures: Shaping up with Marie France Bodyline
Working a hectic lifestyle is no excuse for compromising a fitness regime. However, if you have a calendar that will put to shame a real life social butterfly, it is quite forgivable why you won't have the energy to swing by the gym or even run by the beach.
And since we can relate to how exhausting it is to have a busy schedule, we try to sort other means by which we can stay slim and fit. One of the things we've tried a couple of weeks ago was the latest offer from Marie France Bodyline.
The renowned slimming centre has a program called CLS Body System that promises to be an innovative programme that allows reduction of fatty deposits, an enhanced silhouette and total body rejuvenation. While these words slowly registered to our minds, as we're imagining our svelte figures rocking the classic LBD, we decided to mark our calendars for an hour session and drive off to Al Wasl Road.
Prepping up
Before the whole therapy began, we were warmly welcomed for a quick consultation and short orientation about the programme. Apparently, CLS Body System involves two approaches: (1) the Derma-Vascular Focus that uses suction power to stimulate the lymphatic system, facilitate detoxification of waste products and improve blood circulation to reduce cellulite, and (2) the Thermo-Ray Therapy that uses infra-red rays to deeply penetrate and stimulate metabolism and blood circulation.
Lying on the table
Although the brief knowledge gave us a better understanding of the programme, there was nothing more helpful than being on the table and experiencing it first hand. As Panchang, our lovely therapist, made us feel at ease while she was fixing the state-of-the-art equipment to be used, we tried to forget the potential discomfort that those pieces of technology might cause us and instead focused on how shapely our tummy and front thighs will appear afterwards.
After a few moments whereby the specific suction rollers were mobilized to sculpt and contour our silhouette, we cannot believe how comforting (even ticklish) the process was. There was nothing uneasy at all, though we appreciated the warning of a possibility. We've been told after the session that the continuous movement of the suction heads actually allows the skin folds to be rolled to produce a "palpating and rolling" massage, and that the push-pull manipulation is utilised to breakdown fleshy deposits and cellullite by re-vascularising fat cells.
After around twenty minutes of the initial treatment, Panchang moved on to conduct the Infra-red therapy. This part of the session was quite soothing as the warmth of the infrared rays induces a sense of well-being and relaxation. It was a pure pleasurable experience that infuses warm rays that deeply penetrates into the entire muscle tissues, thereby stimulating metabolism and blood circulation. It not only melts away the fatty tissues but also all of our stress and tension.
And when we thought the session was over, we were treated for hand wax, upper back and head massage, plus an Intense Fat Burner Wrap. The latter put our tummy and thighs to be enveloped, for another fifteen minutes, with plastic folds that we believed will further add to the slender contour that we're aiming.
Checking out from the session
While we're dressing up after the therapy, we were wondering what would have been if we continue on doing it for another five or six sessions. With just an hour spared from our busy calendars, we didn't see dramatic changes but we certainly felt firming of our thighs and tummies.
More importantly, we felt relaxed and more confident after the treatment. Yes, it will be hard to tell if we turned into a "bodylicious" figure from one session but we can say that the CLS Body System has the trick to providing a rejuvenating and relaxing treatment. And the technology behind it does really aid in fat burning, detoxification and reducing stress and tension.
We know that we will need to squeeze into our busy calendars the succeeding sessions of CLS Body System to perfect a sculptured silhouette, but looking at its effect the first time we tried it, we believe that the time and effort will be all worth it.
Not to mention that it is actually budget friendly – Marie France Bodyline has an ongoing promotion until the end of November wherein customers can enjoy one CLS Body System and one Intense Fat Burner Wrap for only AED 450, which normally costs AED 950. So, don't be amazed if you find that our planners are now filled with red marks for Marie France Bodyline sessions. Who wouldn't want one, right?


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I'm back in the world of the living! It was a great time in Charleston. I'm on the ground for today and tomorrow and then Thursday I'm off to Minnesota to give the mental illness talk.
Gonna be sort of a light day today. I'm exhausted (and have three days worth of news to catch up on). But here's some morning happiness:


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Originally from Milan, the 83-year-old artist inspired many during his long and creative career based in New York City. While some may not recognize Vignelli's face, his work has become part of the city's image.
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Vignelli's son, Luca, publicly shared that his father was seriously ill earlier this month, reports The Wall Street Journal. In response, admirers of Vignelli sent numerous letters and art pieces to the designer's home, as well as creating the Twitter hashtag #dearmassimo. Luca said his father was touched by the emotional outpouring he received during his last days.
Massimo Vignelli's breadth and variety of work follows his own belief that a true designer should be able to create anything, regardless of size and usage. His impressive portfolio of iconic work and the many designers he inspired serve as enduring vestiges of Vignelli's passion and ingenuity.
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Nearly 20 years after a Hasidic Jewish boy riding across the Brooklyn Bridge was killed by a Muslim fighting jihad, a British soldier was hacked to death and beheaded on the streets of London by Muslims fighting jihad.
Thanks to the happenstance of a passer-by with a video recorder, the world heard almost immediately from one of the two London suspects, Michael Adebolajo. His hands red with blood, Adebolajo confessed to the murder he had just committed in Koranically correct terms of revenge, presumably for Britain's efforts against jihad in Iraq and Afghanistan. We also know that cries of "Allahu Akbar" ("Allah is great") punctuated the knifing and meat-cleavering of the victim.
But if "Allahu Akbar" is the historic cry of Muslims engaged in jihad, it is also the contemporary trigger for Western denial that jihad exists. "We will defeat violent extremism by standing together," British Prime Minister David Cameron stated, gravely opaque. How? "Above all by challenging the poisonous narrative of extremism on which this violence feeds," he said, definitely not referring to the verses of the Koran that inspire jihad.
Islam, the prime minister was saying, has nothing to do with this murder in the streets. Furthermore, global jihad is not under way, and no caliphate in which Jews and Christians will defer to Islamic law as "dhimmi" is on the horizon.
Flash back almost two decades to March 1994, one year after the first attack on the World Trade Center, and shortly after an Israeli doctor, Baruch Goldstein, massacred 29 Muslims in a mosque in Hebron. Goldstein's act was uniformly denounced by Israeli and Jewish authorities, but it nonetheless engendered calls for jihad from Islamic authorities around the world. It was at this point in New York City that 16-year-old Ari Halberstam was shot and killed on the Brooklyn Bridge by Rashid Baz, a Muslim.
Nonetheless, in an earlier iteration of jihad-denial, discussion of the Brooklyn Bridge case actually focused on "road rage." What we were looking at, of course, was an act of jihad — among the first of many thousands leading up to the recent London attack.
This became clear during Baz's murder trial. According to testimony presented by the defense, Baz thought of himself as "an Arab soldier crusader" — what we now know as a "mujahid," or jihadist. Such was the testimony of Baz's own psychiatrist, Dr. Douglas Anderson.
Before Baz, a Palestinian Arab from Lebanon, went on his Brooklyn Bridge jihad, Anderson testified that Baz visited a local Palestinian friend, Musaffaq Askar, who, according to The New York Times, told Baz that he personally was eager to "make jihad" after the Goldstein attack.
Together, the two men went to the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, which would become notorious for its extremism. There, according to Anderson's testimony, the imam railed against Jews, calling them racists and fascists like the Nazis. Meanwhile, terror groups such as Hamas urged revenge.
Within days, heavily armed and ready, Baz would pursue and open fire on the van carrying the Hasidic boys — as identifiable as "infidels" by their religious garb as the British soldier was this week in an army charity T-shirt. Baz, however, would be convicted only of second-degree murder — not terrorism. Ari's family would spearhead a successful effort to see the murder case re-classified in 2000 as terrorism.
Equally important, however, this terror attack was also jihad. Indeed, 10 days after the 1994 van attack in New York, Hamas made Baz the child-killer a "mujahid" (holy warrior) and "Ibn Islam" (son of Islam) — a role model for others.
It still is jihad. Last week in New York, 16 Palestinians (14 of them in the U.S. illegally) were charged in a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling case, raising the possibility that authorities may have cracked a new jihad financing ring. As New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly put it, "Similar schemes have been used in the past to help fund terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah."
Hamas, a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Iran's Hezbollah ("Party of Allah") are indeed terrorist organizations, but they are also avowedly jihadist.
Nineteen years later, we seem to be looking anew at the jihad terror cell that killed Ari Halberstam. No wonder Kelly last week declared the Halberstam case "open."
There is much more to investigate — but this time with our eyes open to jihad, please.
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Winds from Hurricane Isaac snapped some of the mooring lines securing a cargo vessel near the Hale Boggs Bridge in St. Charles Parish, prompting the Coast Guard to send out a pair of tug boats Tuesday evening to see about corralling the ship, according to a Guard spokeswoman. Lt. Xiaobin Tuo said the tugs decided it was too dangerous during the storm to approach the ship, which, despite some broken lines, is still held in place by a set of mooring buoys.
Tuo said the Coast Guard received a report about the ship at roughly 9:55 p.m. So far, she said, there have been no reports of any damage to the ship or any surrounding infrastructure.


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Through our relationship wth modern and agile publisher WINTRUP we represent the catalogues of two outstanding artists - BOY and Agnes Obel.
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The music publishing company have a strong involvement in many areas of the music business. From the traditional Radio/TV, Advertising/Film and proactive song-pitching for artists to the newest technologies involving music placement. WINTRUP also continue their involvement with the live-scene (tour promoters, agents, clubs and merchandisers)
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Over the past few days I've seen a lot of statuses and tweets about summer being over. Apparently winter's on its way (back in London especially) and I've even seen people counting down to Christmas. Yip, you read that right – stop wishing away time man! Sometimes it's important to just enjoy the present. Whether you're mourning the passing of Summer 2012, reliving the memories made by clicking through countless photos of drunken July nights and August afternoons or simply gearing up for these next few autumnal months, let's all do it listening to and watching the lovely sounds and visuals of Lana Del Rey's SUMMERTIME SADNESS. The video is directed by Spencer Susser & Kyle Newman and stars Jaime King alongside Del Rey.
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The lead works just fine if you're not wearing winter gloves. The opening is just a little too small to use your trigger finger to stop the dog. My hands and gloves are not that large. It's good for the 10 year old girls who walk him in the afternoon.
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Deptford Power Station
|Deptford Power Station
Deptford West Power Station
Viewed from the east in July 1973
Location of Deptford Power Station in Greater London
|Greater London
|51°28′57″N 0°01′13″W / 51.4824°N 0.0203°WCoordinates: 51°28′57″N 0°01′13″W / 51.4824°N 0.0203°W
|Commission date
|1891 (Depford East)
1929 (Deptford West)
|Decommission date
|1983 (Deptford West)
|London Electric Supply Corporation 1891-1925, London Power Company 1925-48, British Electricity Authority 1948-54, Central Electricity Authority 1954-57, CEGB 1957-83
|Thermal power station
|Primary fuel
|Power generation
|Nameplate capacity
|158 MW (Deptford West)
|grid reference TQ374778
Deptford Power Station was a coal-fired power station on the south bank of the River Thames at Deptford, south east London and is regarded as the first modern high-voltage power station in the world.[1]
Deptford East[edit]
The first station was designed in 1887 by Sebastian de Ferranti for the London Electric Supply Corporation and installed with two 1,250 hp Hick, Hargreaves reciprocating steam engines. It was located at the Stowage, a site to the west of the mouth of Deptford Creek once used by the East India Company. Built on an unprecedented scale and pioneering the use of high voltage (10,000V) AC current, generating 800 kilowatts. The station was intended as a large scale plant to supply central London. The need to lay distribution cables across the streets of numerous local authorities stirred up a Board of Trade Inquiry, and concerns about the wisdom of concentrating so much generating capacity at a single site. The company also lost customers due to early teething troubles and the station was eventually opened in 1891 on a smaller scale than envisaged. However it was still the world's largest power station at the time. The original building, known as Deptford East, remained in use until 1957.[2]
Deptford West[edit]
A new Deptford West station was built on a former dry dock site and opened in 1929 by the London Power Company. Designed by Leonard Pearce, it had a single large concrete chimney at the northern, riverside end. In 1948 the LPC was nationalised under the Electricity Act 1947. In 1953 the station was extended following the same design, the new section having a similar chimney at each end. This section was known as Deptford West HP* (High Pressure). Generation ceased on 31 October 1983; the station had a generating capacity of 158 MW.[3] The power station was demolished in 1991 and in 1992 the site was redeveloped for housing. The large coaling jetty in the Thames survives. A nearby park developed from a derelict site has been named Ferranti Park.
Coal supply[edit]
Coal was brought by sea from North East England or South Wales. The LPC and its nationalised successors had its own fleet of coastal colliers for this service, such as the 2,268 GRT SS Francis Fladgate built in 1933 and 2,904 GRT SS Oliver Bury built in 1945.[4]
- ^ Ferranti Timeline – Museum of Science and Industry (Accessed 22-02-2012)
- ^ "Ferranti's Deptford Power Station". CEGB. HISTELEC NEWS. Archived from the original on 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
- ^ Mr. Redmond (16 January 1984). "Coal-fired Power Stations". Hansard. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
- ^ Anderson, James B (2008). Sommerville, Iain, ed. "Ships built by the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd: arranged by date of launch". Welcome to Burntisland. Iain Sommerville. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
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- 'Ferranti's Deptford Power Station' - South Western Electricity History Society
- Deptford East 1882 alternator
|Preceded by
Forth Banks Power Station
|Largest Power Station in the UK
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2014 PIIRS Global Seminars
Islam, Empire and Energy: Azerbaijan and the Modern World
Baku, Azerbaijan, June 9 - July 18, 2014
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Coordinating Institution
Khazar University
Neftchilar Campus
11 Mahsati Street
Baku, Azerbaijan
June 9-22, 2014 (2-weeks)
Downtown Campus
122 Bashir Safaroglu Street
Baku, Azerbaijan
June 23-July 18, 2014 (4-weeks)
Saturday, June 7: Arrive Baku, Azerbaijan
Monday, June 9, through Friday, July 18: Classes and excursions in Baku and environs
Saturday, July 19: Depart Baku, Azerbaijan
Passports and Visas
A passport, valid for 6 months after departure from Baku, is required. To apply for or renew a passport, please consult: http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html.
Students may also apply for a passport through the post office in Palmer Square.
A visa is required for U.S. citizens to enter Azerbaijan. Information regarding visas for U.S. citizens and non-U.S. citizens will be available from the seminar administrator.
Housing and Meals
Students will share double rooms at a hotel in Baku. Information will be available from the seminar administrator.
Breakfast is included with the hotel stay, but all other meals will be at the students' expense.


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Stephen Tatum's recent publications include essays on Willa Cather and on the Banana Republic catalogs. He is completing a manuscript on the artist Frederic Remington's writings, and is beginning a book-length study of Native American fiction from the early twentieth century to the present.
1. See Don Kunz's discussion for a classification of the various kinds of "distance" posed by the novel. Ultimately, Kunz stresses how the narrator's eventual realization of an "aesthetic distance" leads to the "acquistion of a knowable and valuable self" (99). Rather than recuperating the text as a progressive drama of individual regeneration, my own discussion, by contrast, interrogates this key word in the novel so as to reveal the contradictions resulting from an effort to resolve esthetically what can be called the pardox of desire. What can be restored in the process is how the novel critiques such conclusions by dramatizing how the relations between sexes in the novel reveal the imprint of, not an escape from, the dominant culture's general ideology.
2. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, being becomes problematic because the subject is "split" both during its mirror-phase and its entry in the symbolic order of language (see Ecrits). While the mirror-phase produces a split between the "I" which sees and the "I" which is seen as Other in the mirror, the subject's entry into language occasions a further splitting, that between the "I" which speaks and the "I" which appears in the discourse. This particular gap is marked in Winter in the Blood, for instance, by the telling sentence, "I was as distant from myself as a hawk from the moon" (2). A fundamental bind occurs with this entry into language: on the one hand, access to the symbolic order of language allows one to articulate needs as demands; on the other hand, according to Lacan, the division between the self which speaks and the self which appears as conscious subject in the discourse allows the unconscious to emerge. With the unconscious defined not as a universal human "given," as in the Jungian collective unconscious, but rather as a construct of "repressed and pre-linguistic signifiers" (Belsey, Critical Practice 64), we must confront the fact that language necessarily fails to articulate the human subject's unconscious needs. And we confront the further fact that the human subject cannot be regarded as a coherent, non-contradictory entity if only because it can never be a master of its psyche, a point that the dreamwork recorded in chapter sixteen of Winter in the Blood dramatically illustrates. There the promptings of the narrator's unconscious appear as a set of bizarre and somewhat grotesque images which elude the narrator's inner censor and trouble his conscious efforts to evade the conflicts they signify.
3. This problem of narrativity is explicitly dramatized in Welch's novel The Death of Jim Loney. In this text Loney realizes that "he couldn't connect the different parts of his life, or the various people who had entered and left it. Sometimes he felt like an amnesiac searching for the one event, the one person or moment, that would bring everything back and he would see the order in his life. But without the amnesiac's clean slate, all the people and events were as hopelessly tangled as a bird's nest in his mind . . ." (20-21). See also Kathleen Sands' helpful discussion of Winter in the Blood, which links the episodic nature of the narrative to the novel's theme of alienation.
4. Here I am employing Garrett Stewart's phrase as advanced in his discussion of Virginia Woolf's style for presenting death scenes in her fiction (217-18).
5. As Peter Beidler says in his preface to the special American Indian Quarterly number on Winter in the Blood, most critics agree that the narrator does grow and achieve some wisdom (95). In addition to Kunz's conclusion (quoted in note one above), A. Lavonne Ruoff suggests that Welch's "I" is "renewed through his verbalization and revelation," able...


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Context Compensation, whether through workers' compensation or through
litigation, has been associated with poor outcome after surgery; however,
this association has not been examined by meta-analysis.
Objective To investigate the association between compensation status and outcome
after surgery.
Data Sources We searched MEDLINE (1966-2003), EMBASE (1980-2003), CINAHL, the Cochrane
Controlled Trials Register, and reference lists of retrieved articles and
textbooks, and we contacted experts in the field.
Study Selection The review included any trial of surgical intervention in which compensation
status was reported and results were compared according to that status. No
restrictions were placed on study design, language, or publication date. Studies
were selected by 2 unblinded independent reviewers.
Data Extraction Two reviewers independently extracted data on study type, study quality,
surgical procedure, outcome, country of origin, length and completeness of
follow-up, and compensation type.
Data Synthesis Two hundred eleven studies satisfied the inclusion criteria. Of these,
175 stated that the presence of compensation (workers' compensation
with or without litigation) was associated with a worse outcome, 35 found
no difference or did not describe a difference, and 1 described a benefit
associated with compensation. A meta-analysis of 129 studies with available
data (n = 20 498 patients) revealed the summary odds ratio for an unsatisfactory
outcome in compensated patients to be 3.79 (95% confidence interval, 3.28-4.37
by random-effects model). Grouping studies by country, procedure, length of
follow-up, completeness of follow-up, study type, and type of compensation
showed the association to be consistent for all subgroups.
Conclusions Compensation status is associated with poor outcome after surgery. This
effect is significant, clinically important, and consistent. Because data
were obtained from observational studies and were not homogeneous, the summary
effect should be interpreted with caution. Compensation status should be considered
a potential confounder in all studies of surgical intervention. Determination
of the mechanism for this association requires further study.
See http://www.jama.com for Appendix of references to the studies included in the meta-analysis.
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Responding in the Legislative Yuan to questions from ruling Kuomintang Legislaor Lai Shyh-bao about his opinions on the prize, Jiang said he admires Yin, chairman of the Ruentex Group, who donated NT$3 billion (US$98.8 million) to set up the Tang Prize in 2012.
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Dennis E. Nix, 81, of Amarillo, formerly of Lamesa, died Friday, June 11, 2004.
Memorial services were at 2 p.m. Monday in First United Methodist Church in Lamesa. Arrangements were by Branon Funeral Home.
Mr. Nix was born March 31, 1923, in Lamesa to Olin and Irene Nix. He married Adren Holder on Dec. 6, 1946. Mr. Nix owned Nix Motor Co. for 22 years. Afterward, he farmed and ranched in Gaines County. During World War II, he served as a Merchant Marine. He was a longtime member of First United Methodist Church.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, J.D. Nix of Lamesa and Olin Nix of Sudan.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Denise Hampton of Amarillo and Barbara Cargill of Tulsa, Okla.; two granddaughters, Claire and Ann Hampton; two grandsons, Kevin and Christopher Cargill; two sisters, Hazel Braswell of Lamesa and Ernestine Carmichael of Andrews; and a brother, Garland Nix of Lamesa.
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Ravens ML
Ravens TT O 20.5 (-145)
Playoffs- 6-3
Not quite sure of my play on the game so far, I am locked in and rolling with:
Atlanta +3 1H- I am still capping this game, been tough. Getting 4 points at home is very enticing, however Young Running Qb's have gashed Atlanta this year- RG3 injured vs Falcons (1 rush, 7 yards). In Atlanta's other gms vs young running QBs (Newton 2 gms; Wilson 1 gm): 26 rushes for 269 yards
I think Atlanta hangs close if not has the lead by Halftime, would not shock me if SF pulls away in 2H. Still Capping.
NFL Playoffs- 4-1
Atlanta -2.5 (hook)- I have adopted Seattle as my other team as my Eagles blow billygoats. Been a huge fan of Russell Wilson since his days as a Frosh at NCST. However I am going the other side. I do think Seattle secondary matches up well today against ATL. I am factoring a few things in here, I think the travel is a bit much for Seattle and the pass rush is absent its best DL. Matt Ryan gets the monkey off his back.
Houston +10- Joe Public is going to make this line higher come game time as they will watch their Seattle tickets burn in the early game. I talked to a book today who told me he can count on 1 hand the # of bets on Houston, overwhelming amount on NE. Vegas is not this dumb, they overinflated this line by at least 5 pts here. Seriously making a 13 win team a double digit dog??? C'mon man...Don't be afraid to sprinkle a little ML action here on Texans. Last time NE played Houston, Texans were on its 3rd straight road game , take the pts...
GL Fellas
NBA YTD- 7-7 (A big FU to Miami for collapsing the 2h last night)
SA/ Memphis O 188
LAL +6 ( Lets see if they F#ck me again #mostelikely)
Charlotte +8
Small Card, but really like:
Miami -3 BIG
Bowls- 14-12-2
Been an interesting year to say the least, last Game Oklahoma folded like a cheap tent..Johnny Football is that damn good. On to tonight...
Alabama -9.5- I have thought this through time and time again, I did lots of overthinking in my Kst/Oregon analysis, and switched, did that earlier with this game. NOT going to happen again, bottom line I think this comes down in the 2H when Bama capitalizes on some mistakes by the Irish, Too much speed on Bama and Saban has been there done that in this game. I like what Brian Kelly has done this year with the Program, however I see a 28-13 type game...
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OKC/Tor O 196.5
Char/ Det O 194
Rough week last week, lost a few picks by hook and a point,
This weekend start it off , rolling with:
GB -7 (hook)
GB -7.5- Have em at both lines. I know this is a square bet, however this game falls into my hat trick of angles- Revenge, In-Division, Dome team in cold weather on grass. Do you really think GB is going to loose this game at home in the playoffs? My answer is no, I have GB locked in a few teasers from Ville and Stanford , so that is at -2, which I am really comfortable with. Well I am betting on Aaron Rodgers and against that stiff Christian Ponder.
Cinncy +4.5- I was a huge believer in Texans beginning of the year, after watching several games, especially the last 1/2 dozen, I have lost faith, and I think the team is questioning themselves. If it was not for a Jim Schwartz bozo mistake, I think they loose 4 of last 6 and only beat a Shitty Tenn. team handly. I will take the points with Cinny who is trying to also REVENGE a playoff loss last year.
Cinncy 11.5 and GB -.5- Not a huge teaser guy, but is sweet.
Tor -7
Hou/Milw O 214
Bowls- 14-11-2
Solid night indeed last night 2-1 and doubled down on the under, so in the green
Tonight, Rolling with:
Oklahoma +3.5 (hook)
Small Card, Rolling with 1 play- SA +1
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Meet Harry Mearing. He has handcuffs, a handgun and a uniform. He patrols Northwood, a neighborhood in the Frankford section of the the lower Northeast. But he's no city cop.
He's Northwood's very own armed security patrolman, possibly the first in a Philadelphia residential area. Each homeowner that seeks his protection pays Mearing $40 a month to look after a home and keep an eye out for suspicious activity.
Mearing is part of a national trend as neighborhoods across the country have hired private guards in the face of budget cuts to local police departments.
"I don't enforce vehicle code; I don't write tickets; I don't do arrests. I can detain, but only in certain situations," Mearing said. "This is more of an observe-and-report. [I] see something go down and immediately call 9-1-1."


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Tomak's 20,000-square-foot shop floor is home to a variety of mills and lathes as well as Swiss-type turning machines; turn-mills; wire and sinker EDMs; honing, lapping and other finishing equipment; and inspection and testing equipment.
Tomak's Fadal VMC 6030 machines a fixture that will be used to hold aircraft engine parts for fast-hole EDM. CAMWorks with VoluMill not only provides efficient tool paths, but also enables the company to verify programs to avoid clearance issues and other problems before machining begins.
Mr. Branham says one software feature he finds especially valuable is the ability to draw and add custom tooling to the CAM system's library. At the beginning of this process, the programmer starts with a 2D sketch and uses the revolve boss/base feature to create a solid model.
Conventional tool paths often contain sharp, 90-degree corners that can cause spikes in radial tool load.
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Bob McDonnell: Ralph Reed's Guerrilla Warrior
With all the attention being paid to Bob McDonnell and the master's thesis he wrote while attending Pat Robertson's Regent University, it's no surprise that he is working hard to distance himself from his own right-wing views by stating that the thesis was written twenty years ago and that he doesn't necessarily hold such views today.
But it should be remembered that it was because of those views that he even won elected office in the first place, thanks to the backing of Robertson's Christian Coalition.
Shortly after he graduated from Regent, McDonnell ran for a seat in Virginia's House of Delegates and it was through its success at getting candiates like McDonnell elected that Robertson's nascent Christian Coalition grew into a political powerhouse.
Following McDonnell's election in 1991, CC Executive Director Ralph Reed forcefully declared: "Bob McDonnell is going to Richmond because of Christian and pro-family voters. Period. End of story."
Even more telling is the fact that it was McDonnell's victory that gave rise to Reed's infamous "guerrilla warfare" analogy:
Robertson Organization Gets Credit for Beach Election Outcome
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Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, buoyed by a show of political muscle in Virginia's General Assembly elections last week, will welcome Vice President Dan Quayle at its "Road to Victory" conference on Friday.
The conference "will change the direction of American politics," Robertson said in a letter to supporters last month. "We will discuss strategy for turning out over 20 million pro-family voters in 1992."
The coalition, employing grassroots tactics learned in Robertson's unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988, is being given some of the credit for the victories of Republican candidates in Virginia Beach races Nov. 5.
Republicans won seven of nine races in the city, ousting two incumbents and taking two open seats. Although the coalition doesn't endorse candidates or parties, it pushes a "pro-family" agenda that many GOP candidates follow, said Ralph E. Reed Jr., executive director of the organization.
According to Reed, the coalition's work was responsible for the victory of Republican Robert F. McDonnell, a Virginia Beach prosecutor and graduate of Robertson's Regent University, over 20-year incumbent Democrat Glenn B. McClanan in the 84th House of Delegates district.
Reed agreed that the coalition tilted the playing field. "I want to be invisible," he said. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night."
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"There's a few of us that were on the tip of the spear, but it takes the whole team to make it work," he said Tuesday before hundreds of WestWind employees and guests gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
"And you people are a big chunk of that," Thorsness said. "Our freedom is stronger because of people like you."
It was a sentiment shared by retired Army CW4 and pilot Mike Durant.
"The soldiers, as great as they are, cannot do it on their own," he said. "They rely heavily on the things that we do here as a community."
These are men with rare perspective on the meaning of freedom. Thorsness, a fighter pilot whose awards include the Congressional Medal of Honor, spent six years in North Vietnamese prisoner of war camps. And Durant was piloting a Blackhawk helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 when he was shot down and held prisoner for 11 days.
Both men now live in the Huntsville area, and it was an honor to have them help officially open the company's 63,000-square-foot Aircraft Modification & Integration Center, said Roger Messick, WestWind's chief operating officer.
The center, also known simply as "The Hangar," is big enough and has the equipment to handle almost every aspect of upgrading and modifying any Army or other aircraft. It was built primarily to help the company keep pace with customers in the growing Army aviation programs headquartered at Redstone Arsenal.
The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command, which handles the service's burgeoning foreign military sales, is also now on the arsenal, and a lot of those sales are of aircraft, Messick said.
"Every one of those helicopters is going to need to be customized for that country," he said. "Special mission equipment, radios - all those systems that are going to be specific to one country's needs. And we think we're going to do a lot of those completions in that hangar over the next several years."
Having WestWind's hangar facility on Huntsville International Airport instead of the arsenal will allow Army officials to avoid some of the security restrictions that must be overcome when meeting with foreign nationals.
"Being able to come here and see the work right here at Huntsville airport is very important to them," Messick said.
One of The Hangar's less obvious features was the highlight of the grand opening ceremonies. Thorsness and Durant unveiled plaques that will be mounted in the building as the perpetual "Alabama Wall of Honor," naming the men and women from the state who have fallen in the War on Terror.
"It was important to us to make this event draw attention to those people who are serving to protect us," Messick said. "A lot of our work force here are veterans. We have a lot of family members that are serving in-country right now.
"That's the core of our business, supporting Army aviation, and we wanted to make sure we gave some respect and honor to the people who are serving," he said. "It's why we come to work."


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Remembered today for his Gothic masterpiece, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824) played a pivotal role in the development of Romantic national fiction in Ireland in the early-nineteenth century. A Church of Ireland clergyman, Maturin was profoundly shaped by the conflict of loyalties inherent to his Irish Anglican identity. Born shortly before Ireland's brief parliamentary independence beginning in 1782 – a period known as Grattan's parliament, named for the leading patriot spokesman, Henry Grattan – Maturin was firmly attached to the idea of an independent Ireland. Despite his Protestant mindset and firm support of Anglican ascendancy in Ireland, his fictional works continuously register his …
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Jason Aldean, one of country music's top rising stars, is set to perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 13, in Penn State York's Pullo Family Performing Arts Center. Aldean, best known for his Top 20 singles "Hicktown" and "Why," now number one on country charts, almost gave up on the music business in the summer of 2003 when he was dropped from his record company's roster and his songwriting contract was about to expire. A few months later, Aldean signed with Broken Bow Records and his luck changed. The Georgia native's first recording hit the shelves in July and his country music career has skyrocketed. Tickets, which cost $36 and $27, can be purchased by calling (717) 505-8900 or (866) 468-7619 or at ticketweb.com. Check out other performances at Penn State York's Pullo Family Perforinmg Arts Center by visiting www.pullocenter.yk.psu.edu.


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text: Whistle Down the Wind is based on a 1961 British film, starring Hayley Mills, which was, itself, based on a book by Hayley's mother, Mary Haley Bell. It tells of a group of English north-country farm children who believe the stranger hiding in their barn may be Jesus. This photograph shows Marcus Lovett as the Man. It was Hayley's father and Mary Haley Bell's husband, film star John Mills, who suggested the subject to Andrew Lloyd Webber. He and his wife saw an amateur production in Edinburgh and told Lloyd Webber he should see it, as it worked well as a musical. Lloyd Webber said he couldn't go as his wife was expecting a baby. 'You can always have another baby', Mills told him. 'But it's your last chance to see the show. It finishes tomorrow.' Lloyd Webber flew to Scotland, saw the show and immediately signed up the rights.


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A Des Moines dentist whose staff reported that she reused gloves on patients has agreed to pay a $2,500 fine.
The Des Moines Register says documents show Dr. Rebecca Westra recently agreed to pay the fine to settle administrative charges filed by the Iowa Dental Board. The board said her staff complained to the state in 2012 about "poor infection-control protocols."
The board's allegations say Westra would wash and reuse gloves and would reuse disposable chair covers. Inspectors also say she failed to keep records of staff vaccinations and didn't properly store dental instruments.
Westra's lawyer, Kevin Driscoll, says Westra disputes the allegations but also says she decided to settle the matter so "she could continue to devote her time and attention to the care of her patients."


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Effective Thursday, October 10, 2013. Due to the government shutdown and uncertainty facing the federal government, the Industrial Security Awareness Council of Central Maryland (ISAC-MD) has decided that the upcoming Cybersecurity Symposium will not take place as scheduled October 16-17, 2013 at the BWI Marriott. We recognize there is still need and a value to host a cybersecurity event though with our anticipated attendance being dramatically impacted by the current government shutdown, we were forced to make this difficult decision. The ISAC-MD and National Conference Services, Inc. (NCSI) thank you for your continued support in collaborating with fellow security and cyber professionals from the government, academia, and industry to ensure national security.
NCSI will automatically cancel all registrations. Credit cards will not be charged. No further action is necessary to cancel registrations. Registrants should contact the hotel directly to cancel a hotel reservation.
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Yea, cacao powder is quite amazing. I love the stuff.
My recent discovery is that sunny side up eggs with the egg yolk very runny is far superior in taste then an omelet that has the yolk cooked heavily. Not really an uncommon discovery but it was new to me. After I cook my eggs I throw some veggies in the pan just to warm them up and then toss them on the eggs with some avocado and salsa... BEST BREAKFAST EVER!!! A few cherries on the side goes well with it too


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Does the seasoning look thinner?
I've had so much advice to avoid acidic foods (and if tomatoes qualify so would something with OJ) in seasoned cast iron that I usually switch to enamelled or stainless for those types of dishes. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the carbon came off and wound up in your food.
Doubt it's harmful to you. If it thins the layer too much it may cut the nonstick-ness. Can't say on the second recipe.
ETA: I've seen factory season jobs that came off in little specks, darkening food. Eventually that stops with use and a good metal spatula.


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For a man so embedded in the fabric of Chelsea, Roberto Di Matteo appears to be relishing putting his own stamp on the club. And it all comes down to a positive attitude.
He was the right man in the right place when he took over from André Villas-Boas last season and did not even emerge as a serious contender for the full-time job of manager until winning the Champions League.
Yet having done what so many of his predecessors failed to do in fulfilling one of the ambitions of Roman Abramovich, his club's impatient owner, he is well on


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What power did the emperor have or not have after WWII when the US helped restructure?
they were freed from Japanese control
What happened to overseas territories when America occupied Japan?
successful post WWII industrialization, educated and skilled work force, money available for investment, and restrictions on imports
List four reasons why Japan had a successful economic recovery
Communist guidebook, contained quotes from Mao
What was the "Little Red Book" and what did it contain?
rid capitalism, bring in communism
What was the Cultural Revolution trying to push out and bring in?
modernize them
What was Deng trying to do in the four modernizations to science, industry, agriculture, and Japan's defense?
got land but they had to pay a certain amount to government then the rest was profit
What did families do in the Responsibilty System?
communism says everyone is equal, confucianism says man is head of household
What's the problem with communism and confucianism?
Tianamen Square Massacre
What was it called when college students were forcefully attacked by the Chinese government for routing for democratic changes?
US says its independent, China says it's theirs
Why is Taiwan a source of conflict between the US and China?
US and USSR
Who agreed that Korea should be independent after WWII and sent troops to occupy the peninsula? (two nations)
agreement to stop fighting and yes
What is an armistice and did one get signed after the Korean War?
they can hit South Korea, our ally
If North Korea can't hit us with their nuclear technology, why are we worried?


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Let no one accuse Funcom of a lack of determination. Despite a troubled launch and doom and gloom surrounding its mature fantasy MMORPG Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures, the Norwegian developer has soldiered on with a raft of improvements and updates since the turn of the year. But none are as important as the game's first expansion: Rise of the Godslayer, which brings adventurers to the eastern Asia-inspired Empire of Khitai. At gamescom last month we sat down with game director and executive producer Craig Morrison to get more detail on what new challenges Rise of the Godslayer will bring, and how it will impact what's gone before.
VideoGamer.com: One thing I noticed in your press release for the expansion is you say players will "embark on the most savage, sexy and brutal Conan adventure yet". Why is it sexy?
Craig Morrison: We have a very mature setting for the game. The writers and the designers, we very much focus on getting them to embrace that. The mature setting isn't just about blood, violence and sex. It's about being able to tell adult stories and mature storytelling that's complex and with consequences. Sex is as much a part of that as the violence is. For example, you have things even in the live game with Tarantia Commons that we put out recently, there's a whole series of quest lines based around the prostitutes in Tarantia Commons, and their story. It's getting the writers to embrace the M rating we have with the game and be able to tell an adult story.
For many people those oriental style weapons and new armours, that's what gamers consider sexy in many ways as well. You've got the real appeal of being able to feel cool with the new armours and get to look much better. The artists have really outdone themselves this time with some of the armour sets that they've created.
VideoGamer.com: Is it your intention with Conan to engage the player on an emotional level?
CM: Oh for sure. We're very proud of our storytelling. The setting is one thing but the storytelling is one of the things our writers and designers are very, very good at, using that mature setting to set the story in Conan apart. What we've done is there are two layers to the story in the expansion. The top layer is the evil that threatens Khitai and getting to the bottom of the mystery, finding out how this relates to Conan, how it relates to his kingdom now? What is the evil that is threatening Khitai? But then there are these ethnic and clan-based disputes, these faction systems that are fighting with each other.
With the storytelling we've taken an interesting approach where when you're talking there is no good and evil. Howard's world was morally ambiguous. It's all about shades of grey. To take some examples, in one of the play group regions there is a sect, the Priests of Yacosha [check], and when the player meets them they're obviously very honourable, benevolent priests. They take care of their community. They are clearly honourable characters, but their goal and their mission is to destroy Conan, because he killed their god. And so the player has this strange, I can see that these are good people but they are asking me to betray my loyalty to my king. Taking that dynamic and allowing the player to not... when they see a dialogue option it's not going to be like you see in some games where, okay, that's the good option and that's the evil option. You're not going to be sure. They might make decisions that they then come to regret later on. That's a great gameplay mechanic, that when a player gets to a later quest and something happens and they're like, oh crap, I'm responsible for that. I didn't really mean it. That wasn't what I thought would happen.
We've got all these very interesting characters and factions throughout the game. There's another faction the player can meet through the game where the faction has the rightful heir to the Empire that's being denied taking power. So they have the valid claim. If you're going on good and evil, these people would be the right people. Theirs is the valid claim. But they're also an incredibly despicable group of people. They believe in human sacrifice. They're a very dark faction. And so again the player is left with this ambiguity of, I'm not sure what the right choice is. These people have a valid claim to power but should I help them? Do my morals allow me to help them, or should I look to the other factions?
So in the storytelling elements there are some cool interesting storyline hooks, even through to the player themselves. Players who play through our game finish their Destiny Quest. They understand that the player has been granted immortality by Ancient Atlanteans. The player is effectively immortal. That also, rather than just being a gameplay mechanic, because in an MMO players get to respawn, it's not just a device we use to explain why, actually in the expansion it ties into the gameplay. Taking the title, Rise of the Godlslayer, if you're immortal, are you a god? What constitutes being a god? That's a question a lot of the characters in the expansion ask the player. You have this power and responsibility of being an immortal, does that make you more of a god than the king that you follow? Conan is mortal. His power comes from his great survivability and his ability to avoid death, but he could die. He is a mortal character, but you serve him. So you've got these strains directly relating to the character. The writers have done a great job of being able to incorporate that into the storylines. For those players who really enjoy diving into the story and learning about the land, there's a very interesting story to be told throughout Khitai.
It's not something that MMOs always do so well, and I'm sure there are many players who skip through - yeah, okay, give me my choice, I want to pick my reward. But we don't let that stop us putting an interesting story in anyway. We wanted the story to be much more coherent this time around. In the original game Conan's kingdom is at war with various factions. There are lots of individual little stories but it wasn't very focused on an overall story arc. Whereas in Khitai there will be this overall story arc, but what's happening in Khitai and the player finding their own path. These are level 80 players who have played the game. We don't want to hand hold them. You don't arrive in Khitai and you set forth, you go, right, I'm on this path - this is the good path or I've chosen the evil path and I'm going through. You don't have that. Across the 10 play fields with the two factions on each, you can think of it as a zigzag path, or any path the player chooses to take, because they will be able to make these choices in every play field region they come to. You and I, we might both get to the end and we might both get to discover the evil that's behind what's happening in Khitai, but we'll have taken very different paths to get there and maybe have different events happening depending on what choices we've made with the different factions and who we've chosen to side with. Have we gone against our loyalty to Conan and sided with the Priests of Yacoshia? There are also factions in Khitai that recognise the evil that's threatening it and actually welcome Conan's presence in their kingdom, because they think maybe they'll overthrow the Empire and get rid of the evil.
It is sometimes hard, because the MMO players, they expect the reward mechanics of going through and doing quests. But I never see any harm in having the depth of the story there, because I do also believe there are lots of players who do enjoy it and like to have a much more meaningful story based experience as they go through.


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The chronic delays and crippling bureaucracy faced by people who want to adopt will be swept away by the Government, in a significant response to a campaign by The Times.
Ministers have accepted that far too many suitable adopters are being turned away or are spending months providing irrelevant information that reveals little about their potential as parents.
An expert panel will develop the new system and assessment form by next March. It will be based on judging an applicant's "capacity to care" and will come into force later next year, it was announced.
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'Walter Mitty' stars slowly, ends wonderfully
'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" shouldn't be any good at all.
It's a remake of a 1947 film that wasn't screaming to be remade, even if the idea of doing just that has been kicking around Hollywood since the mid-1990s. With a reported budget of almost $100 million, it seemed like the classic case of money masking a lack of imagination.
For much of its first half, during which visuals replace vision, "Walter Mitty" stumbles down a rabbit hole of technological triumph. But then something unexpected happens: it turns into a sweetly engaging blockbuster. That may be its biggest special effect of all.
Mitty (Ben Stiller) is decidedly old-school, working as a photo negative archivist at a dying Life magazine. He spends his days with few friends and pining silently for a co-worker, single-mom Cheryl (Kristen Wiig). In between, he experiences vivid daydreams where he accomplishes heroic feats.
He gets to make those dreams reality after Life is taken over by a group of corporate drones -- fronted by the heartless Ted Hendricks (Adam Scott). They plan to turn the legendary publication into a website, but they want the magazine to go out with a bang, publishing its final issue with a memorable cover shot by Sean O'Connell (Sean Penn).
But no one can find the photo negative. So Mitty takes it upon himself to track down O'Connell.
This is when "Walter Mitty," literally, starts to soar as Mitty the man wings his way to Greenland, Iceland and Afghanistan, the last places where O'Connell was thought to have been. It's here that "Mitty" relies less on annoying CGI and more on the simple but breathtaking beauty of natural landscapes.


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In a recent My View column Don Ellingson wrote; "In conclusion, majority should decide if we pray, where we pray and what we pray." He seems to forget we are a democratic republic where though majority rules, it is not allowed to trample on the rights of the minority.
In addition, the rule of majority means the majority of all the people, not just those present at the time. Our electoral process is a good example of the minority dictating to the majority. It is the majority of people voting not the majority of people who are deciding the elections. The last congressional election had almost two million more Democratic votes cast than Republican votes and yet, we now have a Republican run U.S. House of Representatives.
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""Straight Edge XXS" is the 2nd vinyl album by Finland's Uton released in a limited edition of 500 copies. It comes in a gorgeous full-colour collage sleeve assembled by Hirvonen himself. While Uton's last Dekorder album "Alitaju Ylimina" are hazy lo-fi drone masterpieces for the most part, this is a completely diffferent affair. Recorded straight to tape within one month, right after returning from a 6-month trip to India, these songs (if you could call them songs) are completely out-of-this-world; very short and crazed sketch-like pieces sounding like a Nonesuch Explorer LP of long lost field recordings from an as yet unexplored continent. It is pure ecstatic expression channelized through Psychedelia, Free Jazz, Noise and rural ancient Folk Music from all over the world in a completely naked, predominantly acoustic setting." (label info)
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FX sets 'Lights Out,' 'Archer' premiere dates
"Sons of Anarchy" wraps up its third season tonight, "Terriers" concludes its first (and hopefully not only) tomorrow, and "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "The League" are close to finishing their respective seasons, as well. ("The League" on Dec. 9, "Sunny" on Dec. 16.) So FX is gearing up for its next wave of programming, announcing January premiere dates for its new boxing drama "Lights Out" and its returning animated spy comedy "Archer."
"Lights Out" is about an aging former heavyweight champ (Holt McCallany) struggling for both a direction and a way to pay the bills after some bad investments - as written by former "In Treatment" showrunner Warren Leight, it's like the plot of "Rocky V" only, you know, good. (I saw the pilot before summer press tour and liked it a lot.) It debuts Tuesday, January 11 at 10 p.m.
"Archer," starring H. Jon Benjamin as the world's cockiest secret agent in the world's most dysfunctional spy agency - and featuring a terrific supporting cast including Aisha Tyler, Jessica Walter and Chris Parnell - will be back Thursdays at 10 starting on January 27. I enjoyed that show a lot last year, and the premiere is very funny.
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VIP Access™ Hotel
We carefully hand-picked this hotel based on its dedication to service and excellent guest reviews.
Orbitz Platinum members receive free room upgrades and Platinum and Gold members get other perks upon availability at check-in.See details
San Giuliano Park is within 2 miles (3 km) of Antony Hotel while other popular attractions such as Forte Bazzera are within 3 miles (5 km). This 114-room, 4.5-star hotel has a restaurant, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. It's adjacent to the airport and also close to Forte Marghera and Municipal Tower of Mestre.
Enjoy a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, or relax with a drink at the bar/lounge. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with room service, or get a quick energy boost at the coffee shop/café. For your convenience, breakfast is available for a fee.
All of Antony Hotel's 114 rooms are recently renovated and have an array of amenities, including minibars, safes, and phones. Guests can expect free WiFi and 32-inch TVs with satellite channels. Beds are dressed in premium bedding and down comforters, and bathrooms offer rainfall showers, hair dryers, and free toiletries. Desks are also included.
Property features
Antony Hotel features free WiFi in public areas, a meeting room, and a business center. There's free parking, and an airport shuttle (available on request) for EUR 5 per person one-way. The 24-hour front desk has multilingual staff ready to assist with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this luxury hotel include coffee/tea in a common area, a computer station, and an arcade/game room.
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Free parking
- Onsite dining
- Business center
Antony HotelVia Orlanda 182 Mestre VE 30173
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The hotel offers a restaurant as well as a café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy breakfast each morning (surcharge). A computer station is located on site and WiFi is complimentary.
This 4.5-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center, limo/town car service, and a meeting room. Event facilities measure 484 sq feet (45 sq meters). This Mestre hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, concierge services, and a garden. For a surcharge, the property provides shuttle service to the airport, the cruise terminal, and Venezia Piazzale Roma. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Antony Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop or café
- Arcade/game room
- Multilingual staff
- Express check-in
- 24-hour front desk
- Express check-out
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Elevator/lift
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Concierge services
- Casino shuttle (surcharge)
- Theme park shuttle (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Total number of rooms - 114
- Number of floors - 6
- Picnic area
- Restaurant
- Train station pickup (surcharge)
- Free self parking
- Conference space size (feet) - 484
- Free long-term parking
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Cruise terminal shuttle (surcharge)
- Free WiFi
- Computer station
- Limo or Town Car service available
- One meeting room
- Porter/bellhop
- Conference space size (meters) - 45
- Year Built 1990
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Garden
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Arcade/game room
- Playground on site
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free long-term parking, Free self parking, Free RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Bidet
- Rainfall showerhead
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
- Television
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Soundproofed rooms
- Free toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Room service (limited hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Down comforter
- Desk
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
La Laguna - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves breakfast and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Reservations are required.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
- Playground on site
To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets stay free
- Dogs and cats only
- 1 per room (up to 11 lb)
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Pets allowed (no fees)
No rollaway/extra beds available
- A tax is imposed by the city and will be collected at the property. This tax does not apply to residents of Venice City and children under 10 years of age. Further exemptions may apply to patients and their companions, and people staying in the city for specific purposes/duties, subject to the submission of proper documents to the property. A 30 percent reduction applies from 1-31 January.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: EUR 10 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 5 per person (one-way)
Hotel Name
- Antony Hotel
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- Antony Mestre
- Hotel Antony
- Antony Hotel Province Of Venice/Mestre, Italy
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All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport. Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. This property offers transfers from the cruise terminal, airport, and train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 24 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Up to 2 children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. In accordance with national/local laws, air conditioning may be restricted to certain hours from 05 02 to 30 04. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.