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Guillaume de Chassy: Silences
It's not at first clear just what this piano-clarinet-bass formation is up to. The helpfully titled "Birth of a Trio" provides clues. It shows just how much this music shares with jazzimprovisation, first of all; and empathy, the musicians listening closely to each other, as for example when de Chassy's piano sidles up to Thomas Savy's soaring clarinet. "Trio" also demonstrates what's classical about the record: its language and grammar. Savy's clarinet is pure Mozart, clean and free of vibrato or the blues.
Most tracks here adapt classical compositions. The record begins, for example, with an aggressive and mechanical sounding piano-bass pulse in the opening of "Du côté de chez Poulenc (Part I)," in striking contrast to the lovely Poulenc melody "Les chemins de l'amour," played by Savy. In a second take (Part II), the melody is played sensitively by each of the trio members in turn, with arco bass by Arnault Cuisiner and bass clarinet by Savy.
The inclusion of two Shostakovich piano preludes, meanwhile, might recall pianist Keith Jarrett's tackling of the same material on Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues op. 87 (ECM, 1992). Jarrett played those numbers straight. De Chassy's trio does something more than that, and more than merely transcribing solo piano numbers for different instrumentation. And yet, the musicians don't go as far as keyboardist Uri Caine has done on his series of records, his big jazz group rather rambunctiously playing symphonic numbers as though they wished they were really a symphony orchestra, as on the fine Gustav Mahler in Toblach (Winter & Winter, 1999). De Chassy is freer than Jarrett, but substantially more restrained than Caine in his approach to the classical repertoire.
The musical atmosphere of Silences may not be surprising, coming as it does from a classically trained pianist. On the other hand, de Chassy has spent the better part of the last decade in a rigorous and systematic exploration of the sources of beauty in popular song, whether Rodgers and Hart, Pink Floyd or French wartime chansons. The only explicit acknowledgement here of the lessons learned during that quest for beauty is the lush reading of the theme song to Raymond Bernard's 1945 film Adieu Chérie.
And it's just enough: "Adieu Chérie" echoes faintly in the vaguely jazz harmony de Chassy deploys underneath Savy's thoroughly classical clarinet toward the close of "Silences (Part II)," and at other moments as well.
A departure in many ways, Silences is nevertheless of a piece with de Chassy's earlier work: it's disciplined, restrained, beautifuland, in its subtle way, hugely inventive.
Track Listing: Du côté de chez Poulenc (Part I); Du côté de chez Chostakovich (Part I); Birth of a Trio; Du côté de chez Poulenc (Part II); Majeur; Du côté de chez Prokofiev; Silences (Part I); Silences (Part II); Du côté de chez Schubert; Adieu Chérie; Du côté de chez Chostakovich (Part II); Silences (Part III).
Personnel: Guillaume de Chassy: piano; Thomas Savy: clarinets; Arnault Cuisinier: double bass.
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- Silences by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
- Songs From The Last Century by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
- Faraway So Close by Budd Kopman
- Faraway So Close by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
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Curious what you count as a nursing session...
Just a full feed?
Those times DC pops on and off?
Even just a quick sip?
As DD gets older and more distracted, I'm just not sure if I should count the sessions that lasted 2 mins, or even 30 seconds, those "attempts" as nursing as a feeding. I'll get asked "how often does your DD nurse?" and I'm just not sure how to answer.

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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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from November 14, 2012 (x) to December 30, 2017
Saturday, November 7, 2015
It's My Park at Astoria Park
at Park House
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
This It's My Park season, join the Astoria Park Alliance Park Stewards, in collaboration with New York Cares volunteers, to help care for Astoria Park.
Category: Volunteer, It's My Park
Tai Chi Chuan
at Perkins Visitors Center (in Wave Hill), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Quiet like a mountain, moving like a river, Tai Chi is a sequence of gentle movements based on images found in nature. In this beginner-level class,Irving Yee, a member of…
Category: Fitness, Seniors
Family Art Project: Papermaking in Autumn Color
at Wave Hill House (in Wave Hill), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Join visiting artist and papermaking expert Randy Brozen to make richly colored paper using red, orange and yellow pulp. Use a simple process to fashion your handmade…
Category: Arts & Crafts, Nature, Best for Kids, Fall Foliage
Crafts Workshop: Garden Art with Invasive Plants
at Wave Hill House (in Wave Hill), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Turn invasive plants like bittersweet and honeysuckle into beautiful pieces of garden art with rustic furniture artist and landscape architect David Hughes. Listen to a short…
Category: Arts & Crafts, Seniors
Buck's Hollow Tree Planting
at Buck's Hollow (in Richmond Parkway ), Staten Island
10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Eight years ago, the city launched MillionTreesNYC with an ambitious goal: to plant and care for one million new trees across the city. The benefits to be gained were clear: improved…
Category: Nature, Volunteer
Discovery Walk for Families
at Charles A. Dana Discovery Center (in Central Park), Manhattan
10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Bring your family for a guided walk in the park and take part in hands-on exploration. Learn about what makes Central Park a sanctuary for plants, animals, and humans alike. Borrow a…
Category: Nature, Best for Kids, Tours
Pumpkin Smash at the Red Hook Farm
at Red Hook Community Farm, Brooklyn
10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
You smash them - and the NYC Compost Project hosted by Brooklyn Botanic Garden will turn them into compost for City parks and green spaces. Bring pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns and gourds…
Category: Education, Nature, Best for Kids, Halloween
NYC Compost Project: Pumpkin Smash 2015
at Sunnyside Greenmarket (in Torsney Playground), Queens
10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Bring Pumpkins, Jack-o-Lanterns, and Gourds for a Smashing Good Time! You smash them-and NYC Compost Project will turn them into compost for City parks and green spaces.
Category: Education, Nature, Halloween
Autumn Mushroom Walk with Expert Mycologist Paul Sadowski
at Payson Center (in Inwood Hill Park), Manhattan
10:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Join Paul Sadowski at Payson Center as he presents a short visual presentation showing Autumn mushrooms common to Inwood Hill Park.
Category: Education, Nature, Tours, Talks, Hiking
Behind the Scenes tour of Lego Dyckman
at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (in Dyckman House Museum), Manhattan
10:30 a.m.–11:15 a.m.
Join the master builder of this over 3,000 piece Lego® creation, Don Rice, for a sneak peek under the roof of Manhattan's oldest farmhouse!
Category: Best for Kids
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Motorola Xoom tablet crowned best CES gadget
Motorola Mobility's Xoom tablet computer powered by new ''Honeycomb'' software from Google was crowned the best gadget at the giant Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Along with being declared the top creation at the dazzling gadget extravaganza, Xoom was also honoured yesterday as the best of the scores of tablets introduced here as fresh competitors in a market dominated by Apple iPads.
Motorola also scored a victory with its Atrix smartphone designed to work with high-speed 4G wireless networks and which can be used in a dock to power a laptop. Atrix won the top spot in a smartphone category at the official Best of CES awards.
"We took big risks and they paid off," said Motorola Mobility chief software engineer Seang Chau. "We didn't know if people would get it; but obviously they got it." US telecom maker Motorola Mobility jumped into the bustling tablet computer market Wednesday when chief executive Sanjay Jha unveiled Xoom at CES.
Motorola Mobility's hotly awaited tablet computer, the "Xoom," will be available in the first quarter of the year, Jha said. With a 10.1-inch (25.6-centimeter) screen, the Xoom is about the same size as Apple's iPad, which hit stores in April and has other leading technology companies around the world scrambling to catch up.
Xoom will be a fierce competitor in the marketplace because Google built Honeycomb software specifically to power tablet computers, according to Jha. "This is really the next generation of tablets," Motorola Mobility device team head Alain Mutricy said as he held a Xoom in one hand at the awards ceremony.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Previews
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Preview
Adam Sessler previews 'Batman: Arkham Asylum,' telling us about how plot integrates seamlessly with the elegant gameplay, and how this might just be the game that makes superhero properties worth playing.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Direct-Feed Beyond The Demo!
We got a chance at getting more Direct-Feed from Batman: Arkham Asylum behind the released demo so we grabbed a bit more footage of The Dark Knight's gotham outing.
Batman: Arkham Asylum Preview
Adam Sessler gets an early look at 'Batman: Arkham Asylum' from Rocksteady Studios and Eidos in this hands on preview. Find out what he thinks of the game, its look and gameplay mechanics, along with his thoughts on its place in the Batman canon.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Comic-Con 09 Director Interview
Rocksteady Studios' Game Director Sefton Hill previews the gameplay features, backstory and all things Dark Knight in Batman: Arkham Asylum at Comic-Con 09.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Preview
The inmates have taken over the asylum, and there are a lot of them here in 'Batman: Arkham Asylum.' Morgan Webb discusses those villains, playing the game as The Joker, and the combat system in 'Arkham' in this game preview.
Summer Games Preview
X-Play takes a look at the hottest games to hit consoles this summer including Fight Night Round 4 , Dark Void, Wii Sports Resort, Battlefield 1943, Batman Arkham Asylum and Madden NFL 10. Plus, check out the coolest downloadable content like Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection, Gears of War 2: Dark Corners, Fallout 3: Point Lookout and Shadow Complex.
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GDC 09: Hands On With Batman: Arkham Asylum
In this X-Play Hands On, Adam gives his impressions of the new multiplatform game 'Batman: Arkham Asylum' including thoughts on the storyline, character designs and gameplay modes.
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First Look: Batman: Arkham Asylum Trailer
In this First Look, check out the new trailer for the multiplatform game 'Batman: Arkham Asylum' available in late 2009.
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The Big Ones Preview
In this The Big Ones preview, Morgan takes a look at some of '09 most highly anticipated titles including 'Ghostbusters: The Video Game', 'Alpha Protocol', 'Tekken 6' and 'Batman: Arkham Asylum.'
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X-Play's 2009 Preview Show: A-B
X-Play previews the games that should be on your "must get" list for 2009, from A to Z(ombie). This segment features 'Alpha Protocol', 'Alan Wake', 'Batman: Arkham Asylum', and 'Bionic Commando'
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28 days ago, I began something called DietBet.com. I wagered $20 that I could lose 4% of my body weight in four weeks — in my case, about six pounds.
I had kept off all the weight I lost while preparing for my fitness DVDs … until about mid-December. Then it all came crashing back on and I was back practically to square one (although my measurements were still smaller). So I jumped on DietBet as a chance to get the numbers back down again.
Well … that didn't happen. A mini family crisis, a good friend dying, and a raging sinus infection left me feeling more sorry for myself than empowered. I lost a whopping two pounds. My $20 will be split by everyone who reached their 4% target. And you know what? I'm fine with that.
Life happens and sometimes you just have to work with what you've got. I needed to be with my family, I needed to support my husband (who lost a close friend), and I needed to rest and recover from my illness.
On the plus side, being sick with the sinus infection has broken my sugar dependency that had crept back in. I only ate soup and a bunch of liquids, which has allowed me now to reboot with a clean slate. Back to the heavy doses of veggies and fruits and lean protein from "The Smarter Science of Slim" plan.
The other plus side is it looks as if the majority of people who took part in Roni's DietBet have made their goal. Her community board was very active throughout the 28 days and people were really chiming in and supporting each other. They're so excited that they're planning to do another DietBet challenge starting on February 1st and, yes, if you'd like, you can join too.
The idea behind DietBet is that you get peer support, some friendly competition, and a financial incentive all rolled into one. While I don't think this approach is a fit for everyone, I do think it can be a good incentive for those looking to jump start a weight loss program.
Remember, though, losing 4% body fat in four weeks can be great at the beginning of a weight loss kick, but people signing up to do this again and again might find themselves falling behind. Eventually your body is going to slow down its weight loss, so keep that in mind.
Have you tried the DietBet site yet? Do you think it's a good idea or a bad one? I'd love to hear your thoughts as I know there is a little controversy here.
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Legal challenge for New Zealand shechitah ban
New Zealand's small Jewish community has begun mounting a legal case against the nation's centre-right government in a bid to overturn a ban on the kosher slaughter of meat.
Community spokesperson David Zwartz said that attempts to convince Agriculture Minister David Carter to reverse the ban on shechitah had failed, prompting Jewish leaders to engage a leading Auckland-based law firm.
"Draft proceedings are currently being reviewed by a QC and a final decision will be made following receipt of his advice," Mr Zwartz said.
Mr Carter announced the ban in late May, over-ruling advice from the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee to exempt shechitah from a new Animal Welfare Slaughter Code.
It means New Zealand's 7,000 Jews have no access to kosher chickens. However, kosher meat can be imported from Australia.
"The minister is firm in his resolve to preserve his position, which does not give the Jewish community a secure, continuous supply of kosher meat," Mr Zwartz added. "This is disappointing and has meant turning to progress the work on a legal action."
The legal case is likely to focus on the ban's apparent violation of New Zealand's Bill of Rights, which protects the right for a person to practise their religion, and its possible breach of the Animal Welfare Act, which contains provisions for religious rights.
The impending legal battle - which some believe could be a test case - threatens to be embarrassing for Prime Minister John Key, whose mother was a Jewish refugee who escaped Austria on the eve of the Holocaust.
The development comes just weeks after the European Parliament voted in favour of new regulations requiring kosher meat to be labelled "meat from slaughter without stunning".


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Mother's Day, for some, is an opportunity to show their mothers how much they truly love them. For others, it's just another holiday spent rushing to the pharmacy to buy a card the day of. But for everyone, it's a reminder of just how important mothers are. Perhaps because of their inherent nature as loving caregivers, game developers have taken advantage of mothers as a storytelling device for decades.
Video game moms have taken bullets for their offspring, abandoned them during a zombie outbreak, and sent them off to wander an unsafe world full of deadly monsters (in fact, this last one has happened in more than a couple JRPGs). Mothers in games run the gamut from obsessively protective to criminally negligent. Regardless of their role as evil harpy or expendable plot device; generally when a mother is presented in a game, she's bound to evoke some strong emotions.
One not particularly subtle way to evoke these emotions is to simply martyr someone's mother. Heroes in games—much like those in comic books—seem unable to maintain a healthy relationship with their moms. Sometimes this is due to a long separation like, say, a kidnapping or murder. In these cases, mothers are used to further character development or build backstory without much explanation. Indeed, if someone murdered your character's mother, it makes sense that he's tearing apart the world to find her killer; what more do you need to know? In Dragon Quest V, once the hero finds out his mother is trapped in the demon world, he doesn't fret or hesitate to battle through hell itself to find her.
Annette Birkin's obsessive work within the Umbrella Corporation dragged her daughter Sherry into the ongoing nightmare of the Resident Evil series. We saw much of how this shaped Sherry's personality in Resident Evil 2—the neglected daughter of two obsessed biologists—and will likely get a better idea of how this shaped her as an adult in the upcoming Resident Evil 6.
Another example we've seen fully develop is Lara Croft. The disappearance of Croft's mother, Amelia (though she isn't mentioned until the fifth game of the series) undoubtedly shapes Lara's choices in life. The fact that Amelia Croft disappeared after touching an ancient cursed artifact means it's probably not a coincidence that Lara has dedicated her life to hunting such things. In instances like this, characters in games are defined by their mothers' actions; shaped by their decisions.
Sometimes these decisions can be base and purely evil. Video games have rolled out some seriously dastardly mothers. The Queen from Ico has often been cited as one of the worst mothers in games. Partway through the game the main character Ico finds out that the girl he met—who is being held captive in a castle—is actually being held by her mother, the Queen, so she may drain her duaghter's life force an extend her own life. For most people, their mother is a saint; which is why making a mother an evil character evokes such strong response. A better example than Silent Hill could not be hoped for.
Entire books could be written about the mothers in the Silent Hill series. Nearly every game features a repugnant mother figure. More than once, the series has made a return to the stomach-turning story of the first game in which a mother, Dahlia Gillespie burned her daughter alive in order to summon a deity. Though it's a survival horror game and terrifying to its core, this revelation early on in the first game is every bit as mortifying as the sight of a Pyramid Head. In Silent Hill 2, you meet tortured Angela Orosco, who was raped and abused by her father while her mother turned a blind eye. Despite this, she is on a disorienting hunt for her mother through most of the game; admitting toward the end of the game that her life has been a living hell, something her mother always insisted was Angela's fault.
The devilish masterminds at Konami realized they had struck a psychological horror goldmine after how mortified people were at the actions of Dahlia Gillespie. We are supposed to be able to trust our mothers and the thought of a mother betraying that trust is truly horrifying. Scarier still is a mother violating that trust to such an unspoken degree. Subsequent Silent Hill installments have exploited that fear to make the games all the more surreal and upsetting.
Luckily not all video game mothers are as horrible as those in the Silent Hill games. At the end of Metroid II: Return of Samus, bounty hunter Samas Aran displays her innate motherly instincts when she is unable to kill a recently hatched Metroid who imprints on her. Though she had just spent the entire game implementing a one-woman genocide of the entire Metroid species; the image of the helpless, motherless creature was too much for her, and she chose to let it live. At the end of the next game, the grateful Metroid—now much larger—sacrifices itself to save its perceived mother.
Developers realized early on the power of including motherhood in their games. Mothers certainly feel familiar in RPGs, but they also find a place in any variety of game ranging from fighting games to whatever the hell you would call Katamari Damacy. And as long as game developers continue being born to women, mothers will continue to appear in their myriad forms in our favorite games. And without moms driving their kids to the local game store, we wouldn't have a new generation of gamers to appreciate them. So I don't know about you, but I'm taking the opportunity this Mother's Day to thank my mom (shout out to the lovely Susan Deesing!) for buying me games as a kid and not burning me alive in some cult ritual.


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H120/H140 hardware support: What's happened to misticriver.net?
It was my main info resource for my iRiver H130 and H140 player/recorders, at least on a hardware level. The last several days I can't hit them. They come up in Google searches but the links don't work:
I've seen this before, but they came back to life. I sent an email to the webmaster a few days ago. Anybody know anything? If they are gone it will be a big loss! :eek:
Yes, I know. Jeff, the owner of the site submitted a thread less than a week ago that he was pulling the plug, and apparently he has done so. This was mainly because of iRiver's current crop of lackluster players. I will miss the site myself, because i was a long time active member.
Ugh! Any access to MisticRiver Info?
Since you know him... Do you think there will be any access to the information compiled on MR? It really is (was) the only resource for us H3xx users, especially for maintenance and upgrades. I just jumped on to check what hard drive I need to replace as mine has finally bit the dust, and Ugh! No Mistic River. A sad loss...
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|Ground Zeros a prequel for MGS5?!; What is Kojima's plan
|Tweet Topic Started: Sep 2 2012, 03:07:50 AM (9,069 Views)
|Sep 2 2012, 03:07:50 AM Post #1
Hi-Tech Soldier
|So I read on the metal gear wikia that Ground Zeros will act as a prequel to MGS5. So what is MGS5? To me it screams a remake of Metal Gear. Is there any more info? I know Kojima was going to talk about the future of the franchise at pax prime. What do you guys think?
|Solid Snake The Great
|Sep 2 2012, 03:10:49 AM Post #2
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|Already been discussing it in the GZ Announced thread. Pretty much all GZ news has been discussed there. Have a read of the last ten or so pages and you'll be all caught up dude.
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|Sep 2 2012, 04:07:47 AM Post #3
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|It's possible, but I don't see why Ground Zeroes wouldn't be numbered despite being a whole new game, while a remake/reimagination of MG/MG2 would be numbered. It's possible Kojima just meant that the trailer was the prologue segment of the game and that the rest of the game is the main game / MGS5? ala Tanker Chapter/Virtuous Mission to the Plant Chapter / Op: Snake Eater in MGS2 & 3. Maybe a translation error or something?
|Sep 2 2012, 04:09:07 AM Post #4
Light Infantry
That's what I was thinking.
|Sep 2 2012, 08:38:43 PM Post #5
Light Infantry
IMHO, I think ground zeroes its the begining of a revamp of the series, some sort of experiment to see if the sandbox style fits with the stealth gameplay of the saga, and after this we will se a complete revamp of the first two MG using this new approach, making them truly fit into the canon of the MGS saga with their own numbered games in it, that, I think fits perfectly with the idea of infiltrating an entire nation fortress (Outer Heaven and zanzibar land).
I dont expect any major development of the plot in this one aside the star of an open confrontation between zero and big boss and perhaps the creation of the AIs.
|Sep 4 2012, 04:34:22 AM Post #6
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|i wouldn't be suprised if MGS5 was a remake of MG1 and MG2
|Sep 4 2012, 03:40:42 PM Post #7
Light Infantry
|If MGS5 does end up being a remake of MG1 and 2, it will make my life. Loved those games as a kid and have always wanted to play them in a more modern MGS fashion. Although the originals are still awesome, I would love remakes!
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|Sep 4 2012, 05:09:14 PM Post #8
Heavily-Armed Trooper
i attend to the theory that GZ is a prequel/prologue to MGS5, taking place right after PW
and that MGS5 will be a remake of both MG1 and MG2
|Solid Snake The Great
|Sep 4 2012, 05:27:55 PM Post #9
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|MGS5 won't be a remake of MG1 and MG2. They'll just call them Metal Gear 1: *insert subtitle here* and Metal Gear 2: *either Solid Snake or another subtitle*. MGS5 should be a stand alone game, and besides, GZ isn't going to cover 20 years between 1975 and 1995.
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|Sep 4 2012, 05:29:16 PM Post #10
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well i could see it be in the late 80s and the rise of outer heaven
but people been wanting a remake of mg1 and mg2... so mgs5 being a remake of those 2 games is not far-fetched
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|Sep 4 2012, 05:32:36 PM Post #11
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Metal Gear 1 and 2 already have names. There would be no point renaming them MGS5 because they've already been published and released. It's like when movies are remade they usually keep the old name, or add a subtitle to differentiate between the two iterations.
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|Sep 5 2012, 04:11:54 AM Post #12
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I agree with you somewhat. But it has been long speculated that if those games were to be remade that they would be combined into one game instead of being two separate games (like the tanker and plant chapters of mgs2... but much longer and in different proportions). That and the inevitable story revamp could (theoretically) constitute a new title. But if it was up to me I would combine both games into one and simply title it "Metal Gear". Simple and it gets the message across. But that's just me. Anyway, it is a possibility.
|Sep 5 2012, 06:21:31 AM Post #13
Cynical Optimist
If they were to remake MG / MG2 they would be in one game, most likely, and the game would be called something like "Metal Gear Solid: Origins" or something like that, not Metal Gear Solid 5. I also doubt if the games will ever be strictly remade, but I could see them being totally reimagined to fit in with the series. They'll keep the fundamental parts of the plot in place, but change and increase a lot of it. Also the environments of Zanzibar Land and Outer Heaven would be completely changed and so would several gameplay elements. So really it would be a completely different game to the originals, and I think this would be the best way to go about it. There's simply not enough content in both the games for them to simply prop up the environment and characters to 3D and give the characters voice acting while keeping everything else the same (gameplay, boss fights).
I've been thinking anyway, if I'm wrong about what I said above, MGS5 is probably gonna be a game on The Boss, since Kojima has twice expressed interest in doing that. After MGS4 was released he wanted his team to do it, but they wouldn't do it without him, and I swear I read in a mag link someone put on here the other day that he said something about it again. It seems as if Kojima doesn't want to have another numbered MGS featuring Big Boss, otherwise why not just make GZ MGS5? Even if the gameplay is going to be open world and stuff, it's fundamentally still a MGS stealth game..
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|Sep 5 2012, 09:23:36 AM Post #14
Light Infantry
|It looks like the with this game, the game will lead to MG1 and MG2 for sure. Which is just sad.
|Sep 5 2012, 09:38:36 AM Post #15
Cynical Optimist
Kojima stated that MGS:GZ will be a "beginning" in the series, not an end. Take of that what you will.
|Sep 5 2012, 11:04:13 AM Post #16
We have arrived.
|I think some of you are forgetting that the game that turns out to be MGS5 might not be necessarily called MGS5, like how Peace Walker was initially titled and labelled as it but then had the number taken out of the title, and was then obviously ignored as what Kojima saw as MGS5 since he has said that he is still to make it.
|Sep 5 2012, 04:06:47 PM Post #17
Hi-Tech Soldier
IF MGS5 is a game with the boss in world war 2 then how could Ground Zeros lead into it. It takes place thirty sum years later and over ten years after the boss died. That doesn't make any sense.
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|Sep 5 2012, 04:18:10 PM Post #18
Timmy Timmy Turner, he be wishing for a burner, to kill err'body walkin'
|MGS5 better motherfuckin be the remake.
|Sep 5 2012, 04:26:48 PM Post #19
Jail Guard
MGS3 was a prequel to MGS2. Could be that events in Ground Zeroes will be made clearer by taking part in earlier events, much in the same way as MGS3 sets up the Patriots (before MGS4 smashed that whole thing to bits).
As interesting as that would be I doubt that will actually be the case but you never know.
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|Sep 5 2012, 04:29:04 PM Post #20
As They Burn....Add More Gasoline. :)
If MGS5 is about the Boss... Im sure as hell not buying that shit!!!!!!
MGS5 could be another BB game "1 LAST GAME" before MG... which I don't know why GZ can't be that
MGS5 could be Snake's orgins before MG, MG/MG2 all together in one game.
MGS5 could be after MGS4 just that something happens in GZ to pulled the trigger for the events in MGS5.. maybe another threat will happen if Zero died with his plans... Dumb idea but it's a something to think about.
This will be another series in the MGS series... there's BB series & there's SS series & now Raiden's series!
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CC Sabathia was absolutely brilliant last night against the Angels and led the Yanks to a game one victory. It's always important to get the first game victory to get the momentum in your direction so hopefully this is a good sign for success in this series. The next we'll see of Sabathia will be in game four when he makes his second appearance on three days rest. It'll be interesting to see how that all goes down but for now on, back to Sabathia's brilliance.
He went 8 innings giving up four hits, one walk and one run while striking out seven. He was probably the best I've seen him in a while now. And that is saying something because he is definitely in the Cy Young considerations. He was great.
The offense was able to get a few breaks since the usually really good Angels defense made three errors which cost them dearly. THe one that probably hurt them the most was the one where Matsui hit a pop up right in between Chone Figgins and Eric Aybar and it just dropped without either one trying to catch it. The Angels really had a tough game last night but the Yankees did their part in making sure the Angels offense didn't get very far. That was why CC was so important last night. It is all going to go down to pitching. Like I said in my last post.
On the offensive side of things, there wasn't any one person that had a terrific game. They did their job without doing anything huge. No homers, which was due to the fact that the wind was blowing strongly into the f ield, and they just got on base and scored runs as simply as it gets. Simple baseball. Not too exciting but it was still a great game. A big win for the Yanks and the momentum is definitely going their direction to start this series.
Tonight, AJ Burnett goes against Joe Saunders. For Yankee fans, the biggest question is this: which AJ Burnett will show up?
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The "no mistake" Angels disappeared yesterday. I think the Yankees should have taken CC out after seven dominant innings, because it is easier to pitch on three days' rest with 96 pitches thrown, rather than 113.
The Yankees do owe the Angels a big "thank you" for the game yesterday. Yes, CC pitched well, but the Angels fielding allowed the runs to score.


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Great wardrobe checklist for a woman in her 20s.
A woman in her twenties goes through so much – finishing college, a new job, meeting the man of her dreams and so much more. Her clothing should be young, but at the same time business oriented, sexy but demure, casual yet sophisticated and it should go with her lifestyle. With this in mind, there are so many wardrobe essentials a woman in her twenties should have. Here are the absolute must-haves for this woman in the time of her life…
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"[The groundbreaking of the Hamilton Canal project] is a historic day for Lowell and its future. This is a transformational project that will take Lowell into the 21st century, much like the mills took us into the 19th century."- Former State Sen. Steve Panagiotakos
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The Hamilton Canal Project is the City's most recent undertaking. This ambitious project will transform 15 acres of vacant, underutilized land into a vibrant, mixed-use community. Phase I groundbreaking occurred in November 2009 and was completed in the Spring of 2011. View our most recent Commercial & Residential Development Summary Report for other current projects.
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Who was the best player in Major League Baseball history?
After that question, I am sure that you want to skip the rest of my article and go right to the comments section to defend Babe Ruth, Willie Mays or whoever else you might think was the best ever.
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The two men I have already mentioned are probably on the top of almost everyone's list, but the list is not just made up of two players. There are several other men who deserve to be in the conversation. Maybe your opinion will still be the same, but at least we will have a bigger list to argue over.
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Caney Fork hints/tips
What exactly should I do to maximize my fishing on the fly rod when my dad and I are floating the river? I caught a brown with an EHC, and got another raise, but nothing else was interested. My dad got a rainbow on a black zebra midge, missed two, and no more after that. What should we have in our flyboxes that are a MUST for the Caney Fork? He got a BPS gift card and we're gonna stock up on flies. We have 3 different color midges (black, cream, chocolate), I think olive or copper BHPT (will these produce?), and a few other odd assortments like mosquitos and gnats. How exactly are the BH flies supposed to be sunken? I know they will do it automatically but what stops them from catching bottom? I need anything your hands are willing to type out. Keep the terminology simple, I'm still trying to learn! Thank you!
I get a decent amount of action on scuds. Try any scud size 12-18. The larger the fly the larger the fish that will likely take it. I also had a lot of response to a wooly bugger (olive, but I'm certain other colors woul work a well). I've been wanting to try a clouser minnow and see if I could get a big brown to strike. The Canehy is teaming with trout from what I've seen. Go with larger flies (subsurface) to catch the big ones. You may want to try a dry with a dropper of some sort. Honestly I would try just about anything that runs below the surface if I wanted to catch a lot of fish. 90% of what a trout eats is below the surface, brown and fuzzy and about an inch long. Bright colors work as well. I've had a lot of luck so far on size 16 Orange Scuds and also the same in White. Just my opinion, but I think you'll catch the most by fishing buggers and scuds as droppers with a nice float fly for back up. If you fish the smaller midges, your chances of landing a large trout are smaller than if you fish something bigger, say around a size 12-14.
Disclaimer: All of this advice may be bad.
I've got size 8 and 10 wooly buggers in brown and black, but have NO clue how to fish them properly. I know stripping line, but how much should I strip per pull and when should I stop stripping and cast the fly back out, what length of fly line should be left from the last eyelet on the rod?
And when we were floating over the shoals where there were fishermen, fish were EVERYWHERE. They were all saying that they'd caught one or two, and I giggled inside because I saw where they all were.
And what exactly should I tie on? EHC with a wooly bugger, or what? I need specifics, not necessarily on what exactly to use but moreso than I'm getting.
I've heard from the TWRA guys that the larger trout have moved down to happy hollow and beyond. I still did o.k. below the dam though.
Haha well they're dead wrong... All those fish my dad and I caught were just a mile or two below the dam. He caught the last two around the last bend before Happy Hollow comes into sight, where the river meets up with another part of the river. If you didn't understand that, imagine you're floating straight downstream, HH comes into sight, and to your left there is another river that joins up also flowing downstream. Get it?
Got it. I usually alternate my stipping unless I see that a fish is after the fly and then I speed it up a bit (the trout thinks it's trying to get away). You want the fly to look as thought it's feeding...Stop, go, go more, stop etc...If it's a dry fly, that may not work, but it works good on wet flies. I usually cast the line again once I have about 6ft of float line left on the end of my rod. I figure those last 6ft aren't going to make a difference and it saves me an extra cast, which save my arm some use throughout the day. If you are fishing a dry fly, you basically want to just let it drift. You can move it a touch now and again, unless you are fishing a dropper and then it will move a lot as you retrieve line to bring in your wet fly.
Okay here is my fly box as of current. Left to right, top to bottom.
First row:
2 black zebra midges
1 chocolate zebra midge
1 cream zebra midge
3 copper BHPT
1 tan EHC (black EHC currently on rod)
Next 3 unknown (I believe one is an Adams, unsure)
Second row:
1 beat up midge (found it, alone)
1 unknown fly
2 blue wing olives (I think)
1 black gnat
2 mosquitos
1 "rainbow trout"
Next row starting with orange:
1 orange streamer assortment fly
1 grasshopper
1 black BH wooly bugger
1 brown BH wooly bugger
1 dragonfly nymph
1 "mini bugger leech"
1 smaller black wooly bugger
1 olive scud
1 orange scud
1 tan scud
Last row:
2 nymphs from assortment pack
Last 3 are the ancient "crap" flies
Good looking box. I would fish the big buggers in pools, especially pools that are fed by a water fall of any size. THe big boys wait just below where the water is falling and eat like crazy. Generally speaking, the larger the fly, the larger the fish that will take it. Smaller fish will strike at bigger flies as well, but you up your chances of landing a hog with one IMO. As far as your wet flies, a trout on the caney will take any of those, I believe. Find a nice slow pool in a bend of the river, just where the fast water ends, stop just down stream, toss your big wooly bugger into the fast water (upstream), let it carry it into the pool and start retrieving. It will look like the bugger is swimming down stream and feeding. Just a thought.
Also, get yourself a couple of clouser minnows. The big hogs like those too.
You asked for it, so I'm gonna give it to you straight and simple. Leave everything but the fly rod and fly stuff at home I speak from experience. As long as still have the other rods to fall back on when things get slow, you will never become proficient with the fly.
Oh yeah, I would start with the fly at the top left, and fish it 24/7 for at least the first year. After that, you may move on to the next fly in the box
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The following open letter has been sent to Allan Wright, Leader of the Administration Group and to Roddy Burns, Chief Executive of Moray Council in response to the proposed cuts to the public library service:
CILIPS Council are deeply concerned by the decision of Moray Council to close so many libraries after dismissing the advice of its own officials, public protest and the Equalities Impact Assessment which highlighted that the closure would disadvantage communities affected.
CILIP in Scotland is the professional body for library and information professionals. We hold that a good public library service is essential to the well being of communities, providing a positive experience for local people and demonstrating the value a local authority places on its community. Our views are supported by evidence based research carried out by the Scottish Government which concluded that participation in culture is significantly linked to good health and life satisfaction. For example, those who visited a library were almost 20% more likely to report good health than those who had not visited a library in the previous 12 months (i).
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In addition, it is CILIPS's view that libraries are vital to improving literacy in Scotland. Over a quarter of adults living in Scotland has issues with literacy (vi) and libraries tackle this by providing adult learning and promoting access to reading at a community level. Local authorities have a statutory duty under the s.163(2) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and supplementary library and local government legislation to secure the provision of adequate library facilities for all persons resident in their area.
In conclusion, It is CILIPS's view that the closures will diminish the service in such a way that it may well fail to meet the requirement of an adequate strategic network delivering core provision. The cuts will be significant and damaging, impacting on the ability of the service to continue delivering innovative work with partners to attain key policy goals such as employability, digital participation, lifelong learning and health promotion.
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i. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/publications/2013/08/9956
ii. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0040/00404183.pdf
iii. http://www.publications.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digital/strategy/
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Hozan Alan Senauke
You Dont Wake Up Alone
Alan Senauke: In the run up to the Burma elections Jack Kornfield and I worked on a letter to Obama and Clinton. It was signed by around 150 Buddhist teachers. Of course, it didn't cost them anything, but at least we had taken a small symbolic action. We said where we stood. Basically we were asking them not to see these as legitimate elections and, as they did, to call for the release of all political prisoners. It was astonishing to me how immediately people responded.
Climate change, of course, is not a typical issue. To take a proper position on state repression in Burma, you are not really risking anything. To take a position on climate change—if you really think it through—means giving up certain kinds of privileges you might well identify as quality of life. That could involve hard choices.
Ecobuddhism: Many Europeans consider America retrogressive on climate. Unlike the EU, it has made no legal commitment to remedies, and its per capita emissions are the highest in the world. And this stance isn't so much a quality of life issue, as the maintenance of institutionalized gas-guzzling and the throwaway society. Fossil fuel corporations like Exxon Mobil are as wealthy as some European countries, and have enormous political influence.
AS: Industrialized power is completely interwoven with militarism. It's no longer solely a question of oil. America is the dominant military force, and it is through that force that we guarantee our oil flow. Most of it is no longer produced here—it comes from the Middle East, Nigeria, Mexico, Canada. Has our military become an oil industry protection force? Well, it's always been seen as the protector of our way of life. If our way of life hinges on petroleum products, then that's the interest it is serving.
EB: The U.S. midterms (November 2010) seemed like "the best elections money could buy", bringing about 50 climate-change deniers into the House of Representatives. And this resulted from a wave of corporate funding authorized by a new decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. Why was there no substantive response to that judgement?
AS: It was one of the more stunning things that happened here. And there was no response.
EB: What does one do, as a Buddhist meditator, seeing these power structures and extravagant manipulation—media lock-down, absence of real public discourse? Are we looking at powerlessness?
AS: Well we are. That's right. Of course, there are a number of piecemeal responses that I could have, or had. That's what many people have tried to do. At the same time, I have no surprise when things fall apart. That's one of the things meditation prepares you for. One can bear the unbearable. Not accept it, but be able to bear it. One is able to understand that things fall apart—there are causes and conditions that evolve according to their own dynamic—and one has responsibility to that. Each of us has our own responsibility to live as we think is appropriate.
What is most difficult in America is to organize any movement starting from that sense of responsibility. The degree of media control, educational control, social control and flat-out police and military control, does define our lives. With some exceptions, we in America have a pathetic history of building social movements. The civil rights movement was transformative in so many ways, yet it fell apart in the face of repression. The women's movement had a powerful gender analysis, but it lacked a resilient political analysis. It was co-opted, compartmentalized and even acquired a certain flavour of white supremacy. The techniques of controlling opinion are very sophisticated now. We are looking at high tech manipulation that didn't even exist 30 or 40 years ago.
EB: Advertising directly by-passes conscious filters and moves imagery straight into the unconscious mind, where it becomes a compulsion. These techniques were developed after the second world war by Freud's nephew Bernays and his followers. And now we are living with a hugely increased social engineering capacity of the major corporations. It's quite a task just to be mindful of it.
AS: The tensions mitigating against the building of coherent progressive movements in the U.S. have been there since De Tocqueville's time, the 1840's. I don't see any. So the question is not "what does a Buddhist meditator do", rather "what does somebody in this country do?"
In a lot of ways what passes as "the American left" is just powerless. I have seen this coming for some time. There was a movement, it really de-stabilized this country, but it was co-opted by a combination of opinion-making and consumerism in the wider society.
In Democracy in America (1835), De Tocqueville (above)
examined why America was so different from aristocratic
Europe. America was already a society where hard work &
money-making was the dominant ethic, commoners did not
defer to elites, and what he described as crass individualism
& market capitalism had taken root to an extraordinary degree.
Now it seems that technology is in control and has its own momentum. Once you have created something, there are imperatives to use it. As Chekhov said, "if there's a gun hanging over the mantle in the first act, it's going to be used by the third act". We have seen this with ballistic missile programs from the 1950s on. Each new development demanded yet another level of technology: bombs, missiles, delivery systems, surveillance—until they got to a place of mutual assured destruction.
Actually, you can make a case that it "worked"—in a bi-polar world. But we don't have that world anymore. We have so many nuclear-armed powers that some are not going to play by the "rules." The Russians and Americans observed certain "conventions of conflict", since over-stepping the line would invite retaliation. In the 1980s, they could assert that mutually-assured destruction brought so-called "peace". But technology does not stay in the box. Other states acquire it--and they don't or can't play by rules.
EB: Such "hyper-developments" seem to reflect, partly, our brain's neuro-plasticity. The more we develop some behaviour, the more neurological pathways are laid down that amplify it further. Human social evolution becomes both rapid and potentially pathological.
AS: That makes sense. In many ways, something similar is embedded in the Zen tradition. The entire discussion—going back to Chinese Buddhism—of the relative and absolute is getting at some of the same questions. Certainly the koan literature, again going back to the Chan tradition, plays with those ideas constantly. In a general sense, it promotes the value of Big Mind as the true human expression, while recognizing the force of the left-brain—that the undifferentiated can only be expressed in terms of what is being differentiated. That is the only way: it exists in relationship, but in balance.
EB: Neurological psychology indicates that our left hemisphere, the source of both language and technology, seems to behave somewhat like an ambitious regional bureaucrat. On the other hand, our right hemisphere is "silent", though it is essential for intuition, gestalt thinking and empathic relationship. Now at the level of society, some years ago Joel Bakan asked a group of psychiatrists to subject corporate behaviour ("the corporation as a person") to standard diagnostic criteria. And they found the type profile of a psychopath! Is this a root of our global ecological crisis? We have evidently created the dominant institution of our age in the image of a psychopath.
AS: That really dovetails with some of my work, and also what David Loy has been writing about the corporation as a mechanism that facilitates ultimate cognitive dissonance and separation. A psychologist would call it a splitting-off of personal morality and work morality. In A Buddhist History of the West, David goes into detail about the development of corporations. Of course, like everything else, we are seeing an accelerating development that outpaces our ability to rein it in.
EB: Naomi Klein points out that where societies have imploded around the world, multi-national corporations have a documented interest and role in it—because they can asset strip the country and use its resources. She called it "disaster capitalism".
AS: I have absolutely no doubts about that. No question at all.
EB: So isn't climate change an extreme form of "disaster capitalism"?
AS: I think it is, completely. But I do think that originally our courts here were dealing with pre-industrial America, where they observed industrialisation, but not at the intensity or level we have it now. Although there may be some relevance in the U.S. Supreme Court's recent discourse, it doesn't pertain to the situation now. So I don't agree with them, and I don't think it's wise. I mean, are they looking at the rest of the world?
I spoke to one of my teachers, Harada Roshi who is a wonderful Rinzai teacher, about Japanese Buddhism's attitude to 20th century wars. One posits those guys as "enlightened Zen masters"--which I am dubious about. What kind of enlightenment allows for the killing of Chinese or Russian prisoners as if they were merely objects?
I don't think they can claim "there are no beings" as the Diamond Sutra would, because the Sutra continues,"that is why we take care of all beings". Harada Roshi said to me, "You have to look at the culture in which they were living—it was pre-modern, or just on the crux of modern Japan, and very isolated. So they couldn't see outside the reality of their own society, and that allowed them to participate in nationalistic militarism."
In some sense, even though we like to think it's a big globalized world, the Supreme Court did not see outside the bounds of their own small American culture. But as Buddhists, that is exactly what we have to do. The first step on the Eightfold Path is Right View—the view of interconnection. Sometimes view is narrow and close, like my view of the light on the digital recorder. If my view is a bit larger, I take in the four of us in this room. And it can extend ever more widely. Right View is seeing what is in front of you, sometimes in a focussed way--but if that is our only mode, we don't experience Right View.
Bill Devall was an editor of Arne Naess' work. He was a Zen man who recently passed away—ostensibly my student, though I should have been more his student. He taught sociology at Humboldt State University, and he was an activist. I remember a really charged interaction we had before he died. He said, "The Christians are talking about climate change and the Buddhists aren't talking about climate change. Why don't you talk about climate change?" I said, "I would, but I need help. I'm not so educated on it. Why don't you do it?" Bill got really mad and walked away.
He was really an inspiration. I think of him often. This beautiful staff of his was given to me after he died. There is a kind of vine wound around the top. Bill had the intellectual and zen chops to do this. You guys have the intellectual and Buddhist chops to work on this. I think it's really important. But I want to ask you a question. What has dropped off the map is the question of population control. It's gone. It's completely connected, don't you think? It was a burning issue 25 years ago. It's gone, and in America, it's become political dynamite.
EB: It's totally connected. Worldwatch Institute and others are trying to bring it back front and centre. The population problem is acute. One thinks of Rwanda, Egypt, Nigeria, Iran, India, Indonesia…more people, more consumption of fossil fuels, more destruction of habitat, more degradation of ecosystems. In a world of finite resources and climate crisis, we cannot disguise the likely outcome: a massive population crash.
AS: That's what I meant by "things falling apart". It could happen. And that is part of the unbearable that we may have to witness. In fact, it is already happening.
EB: Undoubtedly: In 2010 we saw Pakistan, China and Australia flooded, an unprecedented heatwave in Russia that destroyed 40% of its wheat crop—all in the hottest year since records began. This is not something to do with our children or grandchildren. It's happening right now.
AS: How is global warming showing up now in local weather where you are?
EB: As everywhere, the amount of moisture in the atmosphere due to higher sea-surface temperatures is generating more rain, more snow, and more powerful windstorms coming in from the ocean.
AS: That is happening in America, but we are in denial.
EB: Well, we would say a policy of cognitive dissonance exists in the media and politics. We have a combination of a psychopathic corporate charter with fossil fuel profits—the biggest in commercial history. It's lethal. The capacity to change is here: renewable energy is robust, viable, and already overtaking nuclear power. It doesn't generate either carbon emissions or toxic waste. But it's a threat Big Carbon won't tolerate. A rigged energy market allows them billions in taxpayer subsidies. So they socially engineer "the best government money can buy".
AS: Or buy up the technology. They have done that many times in the twentieth century. They bought up the transportation in all the cities of the U.S., including Berkeley. There's a long street called Key-Route that was a transit route all through Berkeley. The automobile and oil companies bought it out. Same thing happened in Los Angeles. It's hard to believe now, but LA used to have an extensive system of public transportation.
EB: Where does all this intersect with Buddhism and meditation? Here is an individual practitioner, concerned with waking up. What do you wake up to?
AS: The thing is, nobody wakes up alone. One of our problems is that humans want to cling to any wisdom as an answer. I see this all the time. I'm talking to people all week in sesshin who want you to give them the answer to my suffering.
I've been thinking for a long time, that these teachings are medicine. And medicine is not food. If you take too much medicine, it's poisonous. If you think medicine is food, you are going to have a big problem. Medicine exists to bring you into balance, right?
The Buddha lived in an environment where everything was highly socially determined, as exemplified by the caste system, which still pertains. Your place in society was determined by your birth, and you were bound to it for your entire life. The Buddha's insight was to provide an antidote to that. The true Brahmin for him was one who acts in an enlightened fashion, not who is born into a high caste. You can bring forth this realization though your actions and intentions. He was injecting an ethos of individuals taking responsibility for their own lives.
We have to ask about our own cultural setting. Here and now, there is an astonishingly individualistic ideology—which is a delusion. We have a mass society, but we are sold a bill of goods about individualism.
I have some concerns about what I call "Burger King Buddhism". Burger King's motto is "Have it your way". Every customer gets to choose the hamburger they want. Actually they are all pretty much the same. One has ketchup, one has mayonnaise, there's not a lot of difference. You can't even get a veggie burger. You can do it your way, unless you choose a way that doesn't involve killing a cow.
Engaged Buddhism, and socially engaged Buddhism, recognize that the Buddha's teachings constantly need to be fit to the circumstances of society. He was very tuned to his society and he gave a remedy for the society he saw. Chinese Buddhism did a similar thing. Japanese Buddhism did a similar thing. Now to the extent that those were organized religions, there have almost always been problematical aspects.
So far Engaged Buddhism hasn't had those problems because it's really marginal. Fifteen years ago when I was working with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, our magazine Turning Wheel was the whole ball-game. If you wanted to read about Engaged Buddhism you read Turning Wheel. Now you can read about it in Buddhadharma and other magazines.
There are very few bookstores now with real depth in their selection. There are very few bookstores—you have to go to Amazon.com The old Buddhist bookstores around Berkeley have gone, and there is a lot of good material you can't get. As happened to the left in the 1980s, radical social thinking has been co-opted. But there are some of us who know each other, and we are not ready to give up.
In Aitkin Roshi's book Zen Master Raven – Sayings and Doings of a Wise Bird, someone asks "What is the meaning of right view?" And Raven says, "We are all in it together." I think that is exactly on the mark. You don't wake up alone.
Hozan Alan Senauke is vice-abbot of Berkeley Zen Center in California. He lives at BZC with his wife, Laurie, and their two children. Since 1991 Alan has worked with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, where he presently serves as Senior Advisor. He continues to work as a socially engaged Buddhist activist, most recently founding the Clear View Project, developing Buddhist-based resources for relief and social change. In another realm, Alan has been a performer of American traditional music for more than forty years.


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