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Press Start: 'Doom' shakes up the shooter formula
"Doom" is unlike any major first-person shooter I've played in the past several years.
There is no down-sights aiming.
Health doesn't regenerate but must instead be replenished with health packs.
There is no reload button.
Everything about "Doom" harks back to the shooters of old, where fast, frantic play was necessary to win and hanging back and shooting from cover spelled certain death.
And boy, is it a lot of fun.
It didn't take me long to get accustomed to the playstyle necessary to succeed in "Doom." Everything about the game's design pushed me to constantly run, strafe, jump and dodge while shooting to take out enemies in arena-style combat. From the moment the heavy metal soundtrack kicked in and I learned how to perform a glory kill—an over-the-top-violent melee kill you can execute on stunned enemies—I knew I was in for a game full of chaotic, in-your-face encounters.
The insane and gory combat mirrors the ridiculous story, most of which I ignored. Basically, you play as a space marine on Mars trying to repel a demonic invasion and take a few trips to Hell itself to stop it. "Doom" doesn't take itself seriously, which makes what could have been a cringe-worthy, gritty tone into something far-fetched and hilarious. It works surprisingly well.
"Doom's" arsenal is fun to play with. While I primarily stuck with the double-barreled super shotgun that could literally blast enemies apart at close range, I had fun experimenting with rocket launchers, plasma rifles and machine guns. Unlockable upgrades and modifiers made trying new weapons even better. Whenever I ran out of ammo in a certain gun, I knew I had a worthy backup waiting for me.
The enemy types are just as varied as the guns. I faced everything from giant, bloated monstrosities to horned Minotaur types to floating, one-eyed creatures. Each one had unique attack patterns, which made facing several different types of demons at once a challenging and satisfying thrill.
"Doom" even makes grabbing collectibles fun, which is a rare accomplishment for any game. It can be annoying to constantly pause the game to check my map and make sure I didn't miss any goodies, but I had a blast scouring every corner of each level looking for hidden secrets, upgrades, Easter eggs and collectibles.
As great as I found single player, the competitive multiplayer mode left me unsatisfied. Unlike most arena shooters that start players out with the same weapons and gear, "Doom" allows players to customize their loadouts, leading to what feels like unbalanced matches. It felt more like "Call of Duty" and other modern first-person shooters in that regard. I wish id Software had kept the playstyle true to the single-player mode instead.
There's still plenty to do after beating the campaign if multiplayer isn't your jam, though. SnapMaps is an easy-to-use yet versatile mode that allows players to create their own maps, game modes and stories for others to play and enjoy. After some quick tutorials, I was building my own levels complete with enemies and simple scripts. I imagine budding game developers will get a kick out of creating some truly impressive SnapMaps.
"Doom" is a callback to the original first-person shooters the original "Doom" of 1993 helped shape and immortalize, and it's a treat. Fast, frantic gameplay pushes players to continuously move and get up close and personal with the demonic invaders instead of hang back and shoot from cover. While the violence is intense, it's all part of "Doom's" ridiculous and somehow endearing tone. The multiplayer didn't do much for me, but SnapMaps are a great way for players to share their creativity.
Final score: 8.5/10
"Doom" was reviewed on the Xbox One with a digital copy provided by the publisher's PR agency, fortyseven communications.
Video game columnist Jake Magee has been with GazetteXtra since 2014. His opinion is not necessarily that of Gazette management. Let him know what you think by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com, leaving a comment below, or following @jakemmagee on Twitter.


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Instructions to the days of the weekIn this game you will practice the order between the days of the week, the names of the weekdays in English as well as how the days of week name are spelled. There are ten different levels. In the first five levels, you have to choose among three days of the week, while in the last five levels must write the names yourself. You need to answer all questions correct to clear the round. If you happen to guess the wrong weekday on a question, you may continue once you find the right day, but you will not get knowledge points for that round.
Which day of the week is missing?Here you will get every weekday listed in order: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. One of these days is removed and you have to figure out which day it is. To make it a little harder, the list starts at a random day of the week in every question.
Which day of the week comes between?You get two days of the week and must tell the name of the weekday that comes between these two days.
Other levelsAt these levels, you get questions where you have to tell which day comes before, after, or two days after a certain day of the week.
Calculation of knowledge pointsEach completed level results in 1 knowledge point. The maximum number of points (10 knowledge points) is achieved when you complete all 10 levels. You'll get a bronze medal when you complete a level 2 times and a silver medal after 5 completed rounds. A gold medal will be received after 10 completed rounds. In Days of the week, the maximum number of collectable gold medals is 10. You only earn knowledge points for levels that has not been cleared before. A cleared level has a green background above. Even when you have completed a level, you can continue practicing at that level, but it gives you no more knowledge points.
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By playing the game the student practices Days of the week, Spelling.
The game with id 220 was created by Helpfulgames on 2013-03-28 00:00.
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Judaism Without Walls
By Jared David Berezin
Why am I an unaffiliated Jew? In many ways, I should want to join a congregation. I'm in my early 30s. I've had a bar mitzvah. I've traveled to Israel. I enjoy celebrating Jewish holidays, including Shabbat. Passover is my favorite time of the year, and my wife and I love hosting our annual interfaith-humanist-vegan seder with friends of many faiths. The central question of why I am not a member of a synagogue, and why I have no desire to join one, spawns more questions:
Many of us have read articles about shifting demographics, aging congregations, low service attendance and the increasing number of unaffiliated Jews. Many of these articles pit affiliation and unaffiliation against one another as competitors, with blame often irrationally ascribed to young Jews, especially those who fall in love with someone of another faith. These articles resemble conversations I've had over the years with older affiliated Jews, in which being young, Jewish and unaffiliated was treated as a temporary illness that would cure itself once the patient got married (to another Jew) or had children. What is often missing from these discussions is the spiritual value of being unaffiliated, and how creating Jewish moments outside of a synagogue can be meaningful and fulfilling.
Re-Discovering Judaism
My childhood experiences in a Reform synagogue convinced me that religion was something you learned and performed, whereas spirituality was something you felt and experienced in the secular world. The first crack in this logic occurred in college when I read the "Song of Songs." Then I attended a few events sponsored by the campus Hillel group, enrolled in a Hebrew language course and delved into Kafka's works. I began to associate Judaism not just with coldness and formality, but with intellectual curiosity and growth.
Years later I participated in a Birthright trip to Israel where music, nature, spontaneity, adventure, politics and Judaism intertwined. Judaism became bigger, complicated and more interesting. I was living at the time with my girlfriend (now my wife) who was raised Christian but has an aversion to all organized religion and rituals that tend to suppress individuality. So when I got home from Israel and was suddenly very excited about Judaism it freaked her out a little bit. But she could see that I was inspired, and so we began celebrating Shabbat together on Friday nights. We'd put out the challah, grape juice and candles, and I'd recite the prayers in Hebrew and English. But it all felt just as cold and empty as the rituals from my childhood; none of the vibrancy that I felt in Israel was there.
Shul Shopping
I began to wonder whether the missing ingredient was community. I drew up a list of about 15 Reform and Renewal congregations in the Boston area and visited one every Friday night. I mumbled along with the prayers and songs, but it wasn't inspiring. The predictability of the services, together with the congregation's passive reliance on their rabbis felt all too familiar. Although this familiarity provided sentimental comfort and a sense of belonging for me, since my girlfriend was not raised Jewish, nothing was familiar to her, and she didn't share the sense of comfort that I felt for the objects, rituals and language. Going to these various congregations with an interfaith partner was immensely valuable for me, because it caused me to ask myself these questions:
After attending dozens of synagogues both familiar and alternative, I was frustrated with myself for not feeling satisfied. I asked a rabbi whom I had been meeting with if I should just pick a synagogue, stay for a while and hope that it eventually felt right. His memorable response: "Keep looking. When it comes to religion you should never settle; you should be inspired."
My girlfriend encouraged me to try one more place, and to our surprise it seemed perfect for us. The community lived within its means, renting rather than owning a space, which lessened the financial burden on the congregants. There was spontaneous conversation and dancing during services. The rabbi was explicitly welcoming of every type of person, a strong supporter of lay participation and able to connect Jewish teachings and rituals to the reality we live in. We became members and joined the shul band, and a year later I was asked to join the board.
Although the congregation's practices were very alternative and free-spirited, it turned out that the key decision-makers in the community were just as obsessed with preserving their own way of doing things as I had found at the more formal synagogues. Deviations from their norm were considered inappropriate and without value. It pained me to hear board members refer to non-members (and even new members) as "outsiders." During one meeting, several board members decided that the purpose of services should always be to satisfy the congregants who have been there the longest, rather than engaging with younger generations. I soon felt like a distant member of a community built for others' needs. I resigned from the board several months later and the following year we did not renew our membership.
Finding a Meaningful Practice
Being unaffiliated does not prevent someone from being Jewish. It took me a while, however, to understand that being unaffiliated also does not prevent someone from having meaningful Jewish experiences. My wife and I are finding inspiration by celebrating Jewish holidays in our own way, tweaking traditions and developing new ones that have emotional and intellectual meaning for us. Some work, some don't. In addition to our annual seder we've started a Yom Kippur tradition with a fellow interfaith couple: a day of fasting, focused conversation, meditation and a nature walk. I've also officiated my maternal grandparents' funerals. These experiences require self-reliance and effort, and that's in large part what makes them so special.
As much as we enjoy our Jewish life outside synagogue walls, there are many things that congregations provide that a couple like us simply cannot: a place for communal prayer, access to rabbis steeped in knowledge and a support network. There is a beautiful timelessness in large groups of people gathering together in a single space.
While I'm not planning to join a congregation—my needs have changed—many Jews and interfaith families desire to find a community that fits their needs. For congregations looking to grow, rather than speak only to those already in the building (those who already understand the coded behavior and language, those who share the same expectations of a service experience), rabbis and their congregants could look around and notice who is not in the seats. Cultivating a community of explicit (rather than implicit) inclusiveness requires open, honest conversations among rabbis and congregants about their community's core mission, the unintended consequences of existing cultural norms and the potential for change. Here are some questions that I think about, and that I hope unaffiliated and affiliated readers can ponder and help me better understand:
I'm Finally Dating Again Post-Divorce… But He's Not Jewish
By Stacey Zisook Robinson
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I'm dating. Again. Post-divorce, post 50, I'm dating. I suppose it's fitting—I didn't do much dating during the prime dating years of adolescence and young adulthood. My teens and 20s (and if we're being really honest, most of my 30s) were relatively unscathed by the trials and tribulations of this particular social lubricant.
Not by choice, mind you. I wanted to date. Would have loved to dive into the dating pool. I envied my friends who wept and wailed and crowed with delight, sometimes all in the same conversation. I was just weird enough and insecure enough to assume that no one would ever actually want to date me, so I remained everyone's confidante and confessor. I gave awesome advice and my ears grew muscles with the constant stream of listening that they did.
By the time I was dating, it was less "dating" and more a series of negotiations over a meal or three to determine relationship status. I mean, come on: Who dated at my age? Who did small talk and boundaries? Time was ticking; let's get a move on. In or out, whaddya say?
My criteria read something like an EEOC banner: any and all applicants accepted, regardless of race, color or religion. I probably would have given pause at political leanings; that is (still) a deal-breaker. But all the other stuff? Not a whit did I care. I fell in love, deeply, passionately, forever and for always with someone's soul.
It was probably no surprise to anyone that when I finally found The One, he was not Jewish. It was a huge surprise to me when I called my rabbi—the man who had been my rabbi throughout most of my childhood and young adulthood—and he refused to marry us.
"What?" I cried—literally cried—into the phone. How could that be? Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that my rabbi (whom I'd not seen in more than 20 years, but who's counting, right?) would refuse. "Mazel tov," he said, kindly and with finality. "I wish you luck." And he hung up the phone.
It took a while, but I found a rabbi, apparently the one rabbi in Chicago who performed mixed marriage ceremonies. On a magical day in May, there was a chuppah and a glass and a rabbi, and my somewhat befuddled bridegroom who wasn't Jewish.
Nine months and a day later—exactly nine months and a day—we had our son. But as time went on, I watched as my world, my marriage, fell apart. I forgot that if you have a relationship based upon need (because really, who on earth could ever love me; need was almost as good, right?), when the need goes away, what's left to hold all the pieces together?
And so my husband became my ex-husband, and I jumped back into the (non)dating pool. I wound up with a handful of relationships to call my own. Though now there was a difference: These were all Jewish men.
It's not that I had refused to go the Jewish route when I was younger. This was no misplaced rebellion from God or my parents. Had some Jewish man, in need of fixing or just plain in need, offered, I'd have been all over that. I'd have loved that. Maybe it was timing or luck. Maybe it was my subconscious. Regardless, I'd never dated within the tribe before.
At some point in my more desperate attempts to find healing with the ex of note, however, I had found, much to my surprise, God. And with God, synagogue and Torah and community and services and committees and temple politics and devotion and Talmud and chanting and teaching and… OK, I'll make this easy: I found my Judaism. I felt as if I had finally come home. Outside of being a mother to my son, being a devoted, mindful Reform Jew was the central fact of my life, and I was determined to make "Jewish" central to my dating criteria from now on.
So, of course, when I least expected it, there it was—love. Again. Dating. Again—no, not again. For the first time. Actual dating. The I'll-pick-you-up-and-we'll-go-to-dinner-and-then-I'll-take-you-home kind of a date. The I'll-call-you-in-a-few-days-and-we'll-make-plans-for-another-day kind of date, because we don't have to do everything right now; later is also good, because there will be a later.
And now here I am, dating. He's kind and funny and smart. He loves me, which is awesome, since I love him. We met in junior high and we found each other again in a hailstorm of good timing and strange coincidence. He likes pizza and the Cubs, has a cat named Einstein, and he's not Jewish.
Dammit, he's not Jewish. And it never, ever mattered to me before. But I found God, and Judaism, and mindful devotion—shouldn't it matter?
"I don't know about him," I said to my son, now 17. We were talking just after I'd come home from a date—not the first one, not even the second or third, but right at that tipping point of figuring out where it all fit, having no idea if I was doing it right at all, since I'd never actually done this before. "He's not Jewish. That feels kinda weird."
My son, filled with that heady mix of cynicism and ennui that pervades every 17-year-old, said, "Mom, you just want someone who believes what you believe."
"No," I replied, with a growing sense of wonder, "not that. I want someone who thinks like I think. Someone who's willing to dive in and learn and argue and discuss and discover. He's devoted to his faith and to what his faith calls him to do—serve those in need, fix what's broken in the world. How is that different from what I want?"
And yet.
I wonder sometimes if I am betraying my faith, my people. He and I, we talk about it from time to time. He comes to synagogue with me on occasion. I go to church every once in a while with him. I think we are both a bit smugly sure, in a most loving way, that each of us is right about the whole God thing, and we kindly indulge the other in their misplaced faith.
There's a chance that God smiles indulgently at the both of us, too.
But we dive and struggle and wrestle with faith, with God, with love and our imperfections—not to change the other, or to prove our rightness. We wrestle because it is part of the thing we share: devotion and faith.
We are completely together, differently. That is, ever and always, enough.
This article was reprinted with permission from Kveller.com, a fast-growing, award-winning website for parents raising Jewish and interfaith kids. Follow Kveller on Facebook and sign up for their newsletters here.
Stacey Zisook Robinson is a single mom. She sings whenever she can. She writes, even when she can't. She worked in Corporate America for a long time. Now she works at her writing and looks for God and grace, meaning, connection, and a perfect cup of coffee, not necessarily in that order. Stacey has been published in several magazines and anthologies. Her book, Dancing in the Palm of God's Hand, has just been published by Hadasah Word Press. She recently launched a Poet in Residence program designed to work with both adults and kids in a Jewish setting to explore the connection between poetry and prayer as a way to build a bridge to a deepened Jewish identity and faith. She blogs athttp://staceyzrobinson.blogspot.com, and her website can be found at www.stumblingtowardsmeaning.com.


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Unanswered: Showing all dates regardless of data
My managers are lazy people. We have a time and attendance report that is generated from our ERP system's data that currently shows each day an employee worked, their clock in and clock out times for a selected date range. They want me to change it so it shows dates that the employee did not work as well. I can't seem to figure this out. The table I am getting the info from has a record for each day that the employee was present and clocked in. It does not store a record for days when the employee was not present.
So basically the report currently looks like this:
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Notice that it doesn't show a blank for the 14th, which was when Joe was absent. Basically they would like a line there that would show 12/14/05 and then blanks for the time in and time out fields.
Any ideas?? I've been pulling my hair out trying to get this there, but I can't seem to make it show all of the days in the range regardless of it that employee was present for that day.
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if {tblWorkOrders.DateCreated} - Previous({tblWorkOrders.DateCreated}) <> 1 then Previous({tblWorkOrders.DateCreated}) + 1
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Psychoanalytic discourse (Winnicott's "good enough" mother, the devouring mother, etc.) haunt the Western imaginary, wherein parodies of our socio-cultural schism (virgin/whore) are attenuated by iconic representations of gender (Madonna, Gaga). Here I explore with writer Janice Lee the fine line between these mythic representations, the work of mourning and lived generational narratives. We also consider contemporary memes, such as the "feral feminism" of The Hunger Games, eating disorders, infertility and other symptoms of cultural malaise, and the damaging myth of a woman who has (or does, as an extenuation of capitalist production values) it all. Rage on. —Virginia Konchan
My Mother Would Be a Falconress
My mother would be a falconress,
And I, her gay falcon treading her wrist,
would fly to bring back
from the blue of the sky to her, bleeding, a prize…
I tear at her wrist with my beak to draw blood,
and her eye holds me, anguisht, terrifying…
Yet it would have been beautiful, if she would have carried me,
always, in a little hood with the bells ringing,
at her wrist, and her riding
to the great falcon hunt, and me
flying up to the curb of my heart from her heart…
—Robert Duncan
Virginia Konchan: In your book, Daughter, rendering a judgment on the world, or even seeing what we are and experience, boils down to the problem of language, representation and reification; a symptom of being "unmothered" or losing the mother (how do we know we exist if the mother, in language acquisition and in the mirror stage, doesn't speak to us, or act as a stable determinant or image from which we derive our own speech, self-image and, later, identity?).
The wonderful synesthesia of Daughter (as one reviewer put it: in Daughter, "splayed" is a color; "competence" is interchangeable with "space") attenuates the tension—rather than attempting to resolve it—of the stigmatized, iconicized "mother," both historical and real.
Mother and child become interchangeable and the narrator (mother/master signifier) is as malleable as the created subjects themselves. In Daughter, the choice to forget seems a more survivable fate than the pain of remembrance and lived trauma—of the mother's abandonment, death, or our own societal scapegoating and sacrificial murder of the mother in order to have a voice, and survive.
I think, laughingly, of Freud and Kristeva, who saw repression and subject-formation as a process, and whose best metaphor was that of work. But for Freud, the work of mourning had less to with transcendence through language than finding adequate substitutes for the primary love-object, the mother, who is gone forever. The subject's ego, decathected from the primary love-object, has two choices according to Freud: wait in a state of Proustian dread, anticipating the mother's return, or reattach to another object/subject, repressing the memory of the love-object completely or fetishizing its material (photography), or immaterial (the voice) remains…
Can you speak to the trope of loss, and the choice (conscious or not) to forget or remember, repress or live out the mourning for what the mother (before necromantic capitalism and eco-devastation) signifies: comfort, security, unconditional love for/by the other?
Janice Lee: For me, it is loss that colors everything, even pervades and intensifies the cloud hovering over any illusion of choice at all. Forgetting and remembering become compulsive; repression becomes desire; dreaming becomes routine.
Perhaps there is an inherent cannibalism that, inevitably, like a cycle of eternal return, dictates the process of grief. The following, from Elissa Marder's book, The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, resonates with me:
In "Mourning and Melancholia," Freud argues that normal mourning is a form of psychic work in which the self detaches from the world and retreats into itself so that it can, slowly and painfully, disengage the energy it has invested in a love object that no longer exists in order to be able to reclaim that lost energy for itself. In melancholia, however, the psyche refuses to accept the reality of the loss and takes the lost object into the psyche instead. In another text entitled "Mourning or Melancholia: Introjection versus Incorporation," Abraham and Török modify Freud's description by suggesting that mourning always entails taking the lost object into the self in one way or another. For them, however, in successful mourning, the process they call "introjection," the departed object is successfully consumed: it is fully "ingested," "digested" and "metabolized" until it ultimately becomes assimilated into the self. The lost object is successfully mourned when it becomes an integral part of the "me" who mourns.
Whatever residue remains (photos, trinkets, ashes), these only speak to the pastness of the person (the mother in the past); a strange testimony that calls to attention the complications of what no longer exists, but now strangely dictates a new sort of future. I hold on to objects, not necessarily because I miss my mother, which is also true, but to continue to feel relevant as a daughter.
VK: Do you feel our grief for the mother to be laced with both our own mourning and loss, as well as our helplessness in global, cosmic and very local, in our own narratives and cities—watching women of all genders, races and classes struggle for human rights, dignity and survival—suffering?
JL: For me, the grief is innately personal. And, as the maternal function is so often seen as resisting codification and containment, so is the daughter's. If there is another version of the mother that is her past, is there not also another version of the daughter, floating in the ether and haunting both physical mother and daughter, waiting for some imminent version of a release/arrival—not unlike her first entry into the world?
It is perhaps a much more existential crisis. As a daughter, I remain tethered to an excavatory trauma of being born as someone already with and without a past, already anticipating the trauma of my mother's death. That is, the umbilical cord is more than just a metaphor, and the past is more than just history.
The Korean poet, Kim Hyesoon, writes:
Yes, poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times. My body is full of graves. A sepulcher is dug up, and a young girl comes out of it with her dusty hands in tears. A lady who is a young girl and an old girl at the same time feels the presence of the young girl. I feel that the 15-year-old me and the 50-year-old me come out of the sepulcher through an illegal excavation. Time is not a straight line, but just a flat hell, like a desert. I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.
The crisis is one of narrative, too. How to proceed outwards from one center, one relationship, one vortex that also sucks inwards, which erases as it simultaneously creates.
VK: I'm struck by how discussions of the mother are, perhaps, the only psychoanalytic or narrative trope wherein sense can only be made in reference to the personal and personal grief; from Barthes' Camera Lucida to Meghan O'Rourke's The Long Goodbye and other writers' grief memoirs; our relationship to our own mothers, ourselves, socially: in terms of biological determinism, limited opportunities to enter political representation and positions of power and influence, despite rhetoric to the contrary, as discussed recently in The Atlantic and documentaries such as Miss Representation and forums such as VIDA's The Count) and, more intimately, identity. How do we differentiate from the mother while acknowledging our need for nurturing and love?
The metaphor of genealogical and personal excavation is so apt (and the effort to see the body—ours or our mothers'—as serving more than a reproductive function or a sexual commodity; to inhabit the body, ours and that of the other). Without trying to sound retrograde, I often wonder whether the architecture of our buildings, landscapes, stories and poems (the serially experienced lyric line, the Aristotelian arc, the epiphanic finale, and the modernist skyscraper and other phallic monstrosities) aren't the key to the "bigger better faster" disease of capitalist, post-Fordist production; an inability to be satiated or entertain the legitimacy of an Eastern (occupying the present moment) or traditionally feminine (interpolated by, and sensitive to, one's co-constitution with the other) perspective. I wonder if our inability to know what is "enough"—that is, the illimitable disease of the free market, or the corporate state whose government is in the pocket of corporations, producing skirted environmental protocols, tax shelters, Wall-Street bail-outs—is related to our experience of rejection by the mother, or lack of satiation in our formative years (the root of our sense of security, and ability to acquire what we need and sense of deservingness to survive).
What do you think of the "meet your meat" trope that informs Carol Adams' work about feminism and Western meat production, and/or the reduction of the female (and male!) subject to body parts rather than a syncretic whole, or person? I'm thinking of Ariana Reines' sublime The Cow, in which the mother is both the lost signifier and a murdered lump of meat—here from the book jacket: "The cow is a body in the way that texts are bodied—'Are you so intelligent your body doesn't have you in it'—but not in the way that allows the text to become desensitized, depersonalized, sterilized. Instead this text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. The Cow is a mother, a lover, and a murdered lump of meat."
JL: A memory: When my mother was disconnected and officially pronounced dead, my dad had a psychogenic non-epileptic seizure, collapsed on the ground and started kicking and smashing his head on the floor. I was sent down with my dad to the emergency room. When I was able to return upstairs, what I remember is that one of my mom's friends handed me a bag. "Your mother's purse." As everyone slowly shuffled out through the double doors, I lingered behind. I had been sent down to ER so quickly, I hadn't had a chance to really say goodbye. I wanted to see her face again. But in those moments I had been downstairs, everything had changed. Her face had already turned a light shade of yellow, darkness starting to permeate around her eyes. She looked dead, and that was a strange realization, to see that on a face.
VK: The Athenian state instituted a "ban on memory" after civil war had concluded, taking a collective oath "not to recall misfortunes of the past." The form of forgetting practiced by the Athenian citizens in author Nicole Loraux's account had a name: Alaston penthos—a mourning that refuses to be carried out, a memory devoted to not forgetting. In the Odyssey eklesis, the "call to forget," scores Greek drama and Greek tragedy, whose purpose was to set a memorial (textual) boundary between the enemies of Greek polis and the Greek citizens.
When the coryphaeus implores Electra to forget her anger against her mother and stepfather for the murder of her father, Agamemnon, she refuses, responding "ou lathe m'orga" ("I do not forget my anger," and "my anger does not forget me"). "Tragedy borrows the notion from the most ancient poetic tradition, and particularly from epic, which from the first word of the Iliad names this active affect [anger as mourning] menis," says Loraux. "If it were not for Achilles…I would say that we have here a female figure of memory, which the cities try to confine within anti- (or ante-) politics." I am driven to (re)member (recall, praise, piece together and invent) the mother, such as in this poem, while also knowing the drive to Lethe-ean oblivion is not just personal but aesthetic; the call to waken signaling self-consciousness, technological futurity, culture.
Of Thee I Sing
Take your musicality. I knew nothing of your musicality.
Take your mutilation, which came before your mutilation
of yourself. You were dragged to the underworld, Dantean,
Miltonesque, to remember who I really was—brutish,
degenerate. How you did not flinch. How you were,
in all your ways, from waking to sleeping, like a man.
Trapeze artist, Crazy Jane: did you even exist outside
of my metaphoric definition of you? A separate identity—
treason. I called you killer. If you lay down with Father,
I did not want to know. How your body was found face
down in the snow, or in the lake, face up, glowering,
a wasted corpse. White Goddess. Queen Bee.
You were born to serve, to die a sparrow's death.
Take your place, mother, in the martyr's order
of things. Do not ask me to remember your name.
The importance placed on mastery of loss (and our culture's trend of refusing mastery, and the mother) has roots deep in psychoanalytic theory, specifically in the work of Freud, Melanie Klein and Lacan. It is at the site and through the event of this primary loss that the subject is constituted, for Freud, who describes the loss of the object as a two-step process: First, the breast is lost, followed by the primary love object, the mother herself. In Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Freud explains that the breast becomes a lost object just at the time when the child is able to form a total idea of the person to whom the organ giving him satisfaction belongs.
Modernism rejects the illusion of mastery. For the Greeks, locating the golden ratio between form and appearance (pure objectivity, in logic, or pure objecthood, in art) was key.
How can we remember the mother and the feminine (in Eastern religion in the image of time, as circular and labyrinthine) while recognizing the desire to master ourselves, our bodies and our chosen fields, as the opposing tide to being without striving (creating, with intentionality)?
JL: "The novel started out as a kernel of an idea. I knew I wanted to do something about the lack of an archetype for the 'daughter' figure."
This was my response to an interview question that asked me about my initial intentions for writing Daughter. Daughter was released shortly after the death of my mother, and I was asked often about the connection. In reality, the entire book was composed before my mother's death, during a period of good health. But it's also a lie to say that the book had nothing to do with my mother's death.
Jacques Derrida writes:
The trauma remains traumatizing and incurable because it comes from the future. For the virtual can also traumatize. Trauma takes place when one is wounded by a wound that has not yet taken place, in an effective fashion, in a way other than by the sign of its announcement. Its temporalization proceeds from the to-come.
This might allude to an actual traumatic event that is yet to come, a cord that connects one's birth to another's death, or rather, to a series of to-come realizations that instead cohere an ongoing and simultaneous process.
How do we reconcile and understand a relationship that is erected at the moment at which we rip and spill out of her body, the violence behind the arrival, manifested in the screams of pain and then the cries of joy and relief, the violence that dictates a new sort of identity for the mother? She is no longer the person she used to be, but is something utterly out of the reach of memory and articulation for the daughter who has entered the world for the first time, and comes to know her mother only as this person, with no recollection of any other version.
[I]f I'm a ghost, but believe I'm speaking with my own voice, it's precisely because I believe it's my own voice that I allow it to be taken over by another's voice. Not just any other voice, but that of my own ghosts. So ghosts do exist. And it's the ghosts who will answer you. Perhaps they already have.
—Jacques Derrida (Ghost Dance, Film dir. by Ken McMullen, 1983)
Is this a strange way of repeating the process of parasitism that begins before birth in the womb? Derrida goes further:
I speak of mourning as the attempt, always doomed to fail…to incorporate, interiorize, introject, subjectivize the other in me. Even before the death of the other, the inscription in me of her…mortality constitutes me. I mourn, therefore, I am, I am—dead with the death of the other, my relation to myself is first of all plunged into mourning, a mourning that is moreover impossible.
It is my insistence that keeps the relationship intact in any form at all. In a dream, she protests to my family: We never eat together anymore. I think of this as her own denial that she is dead—an insistence on being in our lives the way that she used to. But these are my dreams and not hers. This then becomes a languid conversation, a merging of that space and this one, an atmosphere that is all at once too familiar and impossible to make out. Freud's vision of the unheimlich is most relevant in that space between birth and death. As certain memories are destabilized, the way I recall an identity changes—like looking through a hole in the wall from a particular angle, moving away and coming back, looking through the opening again and seeing something else, something different, but all too familiar as it has already seeped into my brain.
Janice Lee is the author of Kerotakis, Daughter and Damnation (a book-length meditation on the films of Béla Tarr). She currently teaches at CalArts and can be found online here.


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Media Backtalk: Howard Kurtz on the Media
Robert Gibbs Interview: Howard - Thanks for the revealing sit-down with Robert Gibbs on Reliable Sources yesterday. Although Obama continues to get idolatrous coverage to previous presidents, he and Gibbs complain constantly about the media. My question: do you think they are actually that thin-skinned or is the whining just a ploy to continue to get even more loving coverage?
Howard Kurtz: "Idalatrous" is a little strong; Obama got kicked around quite a bit during the months when he coldn't seem to get health care or anything else passed. I don't think that Robert Gibbs and his colleagues are especially thin-skinned compared to the other administrations I've covered. Maybe they were spoiled by the campaign. But the president in particular keeps rapping the 24/7 news cycle and cable chatter. I was able to get Gibbs to acknowledge that they are willing participants in the media culture that they enjoy critiquing. And, of course, the press makes a useful foil for any president.
Sean Hannity flap: Howard: I love your Sunday show but why did you give the flap over Sean Hannity getting sent home from Cincinnati such short shrift yesterday? The cable news talker/reader is much more of an activist than the main network anchors. A discussion as to why it was proper (or not) for Fox to pull Hannity out at the last second seems to me exactly the sort of item your show should be covering because, frankly, on TV there is no other forum to have a reasonable discussion of this issue.
Howard Kurtz: Thanks. It was one of those weeks when we were packed with good material. My White House sitdown with Robert Gibbs took up half the program, and I'd also committed to having Kitty Kelley on to talk about her Oprah biography. I do wish we could have given the Hannity situation more time, in that it was so unusual for Fox News executives (or any network executives) to order a star host to return to HQ and cancel a planned show before a Tea Party crowd.
Kagan Story: Howard,I could see how the White House would want to push back at anything untrue on Kagan, but haven't they just made Kagan's sexuality a much bigger issue by pushing back as hard as they did over it?
Howard Kurtz: That's a fair question. Certainly one blogger's take on Elena Kagan's sexual orientation, even after it was posted on the CBS News website, got far more attention because of the strong White House pushback. I don't know whether there was a political strategy involved, such as a determination not to let something administration officials regard as untrue take root in the media. I do know that they were angry -- as you can tell from Anita Dunn's quotes -- and felt that CBS should be held accountable. It didn't help that CBS executives spent the day defending the Ben Domenech posting until finally deciding to delete it from the website.
Robert Gibbs: I enjoyed your interview with Robert Gibbs, but you seemed to be interrupting him quite a bit. Not in a rude way mind you, but in a 'hurry it along' way. But how come you didn't discuss the recent meeting he had with members of the Press Core who are, according to Politico, "angry" with him?
Howard Kurtz: I was moving him along at times because I had 15 minutes and a slew of topics I wanted to get to. Also, as a host you develop a sense of when the guest is just repeating things he's said before and you want to steer away from that. I generally let Gibbs finish his answers but my main goal was to have the interview be more of a conversation, which is what developed. I talked to several White House correspondents before the interview, and while they have complaints and frustrations, I didn't detect a great deal of anger at Gibbs or the White House press operation.
Fox News: I watched your Sunday CNN program and was suprised you did not address the Coburn criticism of Fox, and the Coburn/O'Reilly interview in which O'Reilly denied all charges though proof was late documented of Fox folks making the specific claim that people would go to jail due to HCR.
Howard Kurtz: Hey, I've only got 60 minutes, folks, minus commercials. Again, much of our time was devoted to the newsmaker interviews with Gibbs and Kitty Kelley. But I watched Sen. Coburn's appearance on the Factor, and it seemed to me he backed off somewhat on his criticism of Fox. I did find it interesting that Gibbs criticized what he called Fox's "slant" when I asked him if the White House campaign against the network was over in the wake of the president granting an interview to Bret Baier. I thought Gibbs would say something like we've made our point and are ready to move on. I guess Fox still gets under the collective White House skin.
Gay Supreme: Why is this even an issue? The people who won't like Obama's choice, whoever that is, on political/ideological grounds, would be the same people who would care about sexual orientation. And it's not like this person would be the first gay Supreme Court Justice anyway.
Howard Kurtz: It's a journalistic issue because you shouldn't be declaring the solicitor general of the United States to be gay unless you can prove that's true. I don't see why it's relevant in any event, especially in light of the fact that Elena Kagan hasn't yet become a Supreme Court nominee. Personally, I don't know anything about her sexual orientation and I don't care. But it is an undeniable fact that if Obama were to nominate an openly gay person to the high court, that would be a significant part of the story - as it was when the first black and female justices were named - and some conservatives would oppose a nominee on those grounds alone.
Kitty Kelley: How much credibility does Kitty Kelley have? I ask this as a serious and open question: I have heard people attack and defend her. What are your thoughts on how reliable something she writes is?
Howard Kurtz: I haven't read every one of her books. But on the Oprah book, she does have a lot of on-the-record sources, perhaps as a response to earlier criticism about her heavy reliance on unnamed people. She is a celebrity biographer who writes gossipy books, but she has also assembled a wealth of information about Oprah Winfrey. I did ask her why she felt the need to delve into the speculation about Oprah's relationship with Gayle King.
Obama and the media: Howard, I'm a big fan of the president but feel he is at fault for not being more open with the media, including holding more press conferences, which I think should be seen as a mandatory part of the president's schedule. In my opinion, this president would be well served by press conferences as the public would get an ongoing view of his intellect, grasp of issues, and moderate temperament and views. I think he has little, if any, respect for the press corps (admittedly there may be some justification for that). What do you feel is his attitude toward the press?
Howard Kurtz: My sense is that the president respects the mainstream media but has little patience for cable food-fight shows, inflammatory bloggers or conservative radio talk show hosts (he has criticized Rush, Glenn and Sean by name several times). But any president is going to do what's in his self-interest, and he clearly decided after the news conference last July - the one in which his final answer, about Skip Gates, set off a huge flap - that such events are not ideal for getting his message out. He much prefers one-on-one interviews. I asked Gibbs about this, and he cited two instances in recent months in which Obama took up to eight questions. These are mini-pressers at best, and there haven't been many of those, either. I do think a president has an obligation to regularly meet with the press corps, and since Obama is quite good at it, his recent reluctance is puzzling.
Kelley and others of her ilk: It seems as though the most "shocking" revelations in these kinds of books are released through the usual media outlets to drum up publicity...but it also seems as though those would be the kinds of things for which one would buy the book. Do those advance disclosures actually help sales, or are they inevitable-so-you-might-as-well-control-the-message?
Howard Kurtz: I think they help sell books, and I also think it's something the author can't control. Reporters and reviewers get the books and focus on what they find most newsworthy or provocative. I did that when I got the Oprah book last Monday, posting an item about, for instance, Erica Jong saying Oprah had refused to cooperate with a New Yorker profile because, she told Jong, she didn't need a honky publication to canonize her.
Kagan: Had the White House not responded, this Kagan story probably would have died in the liberal blogosphere and on Media Matters. Who else in the media would have picked it up?! I don't mean to blame the victim here, but I don't think this would have been a story had the WH not responded so vociferously. Now more people probably think she's gay (not that there's anything wrong with that), and the White House thinks that being called gay is a "false charge" with debunking. I'm sure Kagan's probably mad, and I'm sure a lot of liberals are too. Dumb dumb, dumb. Everybody wins!
Howard Kurtz: Elena Kagan has been very supportive of gay rights, but she may well have felt that she didn't want media outlets reporting and repeating that she is a lesbian if that's not the case. There are human factors as well as political factors in such matters.
Kitty Kelley: Any word who'll be her next biography subject?
Howard Kurtz: She didn't share that with me. I feel safe in saying it will be somebody famous.
Bad-mouthing the Tea Party: The MSM can't write enough bad things about this group, including a number of biased Post columnists (Dionne today). Yet, to the Post's credit it published the findings from Dem pollsters Caddell and Schoen last week that said opposition to the health-care bill has grown, independents continue to gravitate to the Republicans and the Tea Party "has grown stronger" despite efforts to "demonize" it. According to them, 1/3 of "self-identified Democrats say they support the Tea Party movement." Among independents, they report more are closer to the Tea Party than they are to Obama. With all this, why does the press (including Post columnists) continue to insist the Tea Party is some group of fringies?
Howard Kurtz: Columnists aren't "biased"; they are paid for their opinions. E.J. is a liberal commentator who sees the Tea Party as part of the far right; that's his take. The Post's news coverage has tried to assemble a fair picture of the movement. We were all helped by the CBS/New York Times poll last week that found the movement to be whiter, older and more conservative than the population at large, and nearly two-thirds getting their news from Fox News. I don't think we should dismiss it as a fringe movement, though it may, like any movement, attracts its share of extremists.
David Addington: Mr. Kurtz, why are there no articles in the media about David Addington ? He was one of the most important figures in the Bush administration in the legal aspects of the war on terror and prisoners and he has simply vanished. Why ?
Howard Kurtz: If he's "simply vanished" -- and I assume you don't mean literally -- why would he still be newsworthy during the Obama administration? Obviously articles about Bush's war on terror should take note of his role, but Bush left office nearly a year and a half ago. By contrast, there's been no shortage of attention paid to Dick Cheney, who remains relevant because he's made himself part of the continuing debate.
Tea Parties 24/7: Is it a valid criticism of the media that they have bombarded us with reports of a few thousand disgruntled people wearing funny costumes and waving bizarre signs since Obama took office, while minimizing literal millions marching around the world in 2003 to oppose the invasion of Iraq? Why would that be? Is it that the behavior of the tea partiers is better entertainment, or that it validates the corporate media's distrust of middle America, or something else?
Howard Kurtz: We might be slightly overcovering the Tea Party, but it is a new and genuinely interesting feature of American politics. But I don't think the media "minimized" the 2003 demonstrations against the Iraq war. Journalists did many things wrong during the runup to war, including a failure to aggressively press the administration for facts and a downplaying of opposition voices, but I don't feel that we dismissed the protests.
CBS & bloggers: Howard, somehow I think that the WH's feelings are not CBS management's biggest problem. Many news outlets have experienced layoffs, reduction in bureaus, etc., etc. Given the upheaval in the industry, there must literally [be] dozens (or hundreds or thousands) of underemployed writers/reporters with serious journalistic credentials available to blog for a major news network. Why would you even bother to hire someone whose background includes numerous charges of sloppy work? Ginning up controversy may be necessary to run a network, but it certainly isn't sufficient. I have increasingly little sympathy for an industry that seems completely dedicated to undermining its major asset -- trustworthiness.
Howard Kurtz: CBS didn't "hire" Ben Domenech; he is one of a number of conservatives and liberals whose opinions are reprinted on CBSNews.com's opinion section. I'm all for reaching out for diverse views; that's part of what my online column is about. But in this case no one at CBS questioned whether Domenech had the slightest bit of evidence for his assertion about Kagan, or why it was relevant.
More on Kagan: I graduated from Harvard Law School, and heard the rumors about Kagan all three years I was there. She never commented on them. But I think you're wrong to assume that only conservatives are interested in this question. Many of the gay activists at Harvard who believed that Kagan was gay resented what they viewed as her silence on her status. I'm sure that the same resentment would also surface on the left if she were nominated for the SCOTUS.
Howard Kurtz: I don't assume only conservatives are interested. In fact, Ben Domenech's point in that column reprinted by CBS was that Obama would please his base by naming the first openly gay justice. That is undoubtedly true. It would be hailed by many as a milestone. But if you're going to assert that, it would help to know whether the person you're writing about is in fact openly gay. Reporting on rumors isn't responsible journalism.
unauthorized biography: I find the concept of the unauthorized biography kind of fascinating, as is the idea of specializing in it. If someone were threatening such a biography of me (uh, and they're not -- I'm not that interesting) I'd seriously consider cooperating. Just to have a little input. Do you think Kitty Kelley would drop the idea if the famous person in question agreed to cooperate? Or is that just never going to happen?
Howard Kurtz: Drop the idea? No. I'm sure Kelley would have loved to have Oprah's cooperation. Just because the subject of your book cooperates doesn't make it an authorized bio; you can still go out and interview plenty of other sources and write it the way you think it should be written. For instance, Obama offered some cooperation to David Remnick, but in no way is his prodigiously researched book an authorized biography.
Obama Press Conferences: Didn't the TV networks start to complain about the frequency of pressers early in Obama's presidency? Fox, I believe, stopped showing them. And didn't the press complain that his answers were too long? Shouldn't the media be happier about the new strategy given these complaints -- where the networks can schedule them into their planned programming and interviewers can interrupt and follow up at will? Or is this just one of those subjects that the media will complain no matter what? In fact, what exactly do you think would be the ideal media strategy for the president in the eyes of the media? (Meaning if you got a wish from a genie that would make all present and future presidents follow your proscribed approach, what would it be?)
Howard Kurtz: Network executives complained, as I reported at the time, about the frequency of Obama's PRIME-TIME news conferences, because preempting their entertainment programming was costing them millions. There's an easy solution to that: hold the pressers in the daytime, when they're generally covered by the cable news networks and the big broadcast guys don't have to pull their lucrative shows. Under the previous two presidents, prime-time sessions were quite rare.
Tea Party demographics: Howard, I was hoping for your take on this. I trend pretty liberal, and don't agree with a lot (if any) of the Tea Party positions. Having said that, I've never really been comfortable with the caricatures presented on TV and in print. Every portrayal I've seen has been dismissive, presenting the Tea Party members as ill-informed, poorly-educated (all those misspelled signs), etc.Now comes the NY Times poll which indicates that TP members/supporters are better educated and more successful than the general population. Almost immediately the narrative has gone from "look at those uneducated losers" to "they're all a bunch of faux populists, since they're so well educated and have so much money".I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and I don't think all you media people have a meeting every Tuesday to decide what the message will be, but even so, this is pretty weird. It almost feels like most of the media want to portray the TP unfavorably...and when the first reason proved to be inaccurate, they moved to Plan B. I honestly have seen very little objective reporting on the TP phenomenon. It's either been fawning (Fox) or sneering (everybody else). Even the straight pieces always have quotes from idiots and pictures of loonies, so no matter how objective the reporting appears, the TP members are portrayed unfavorably...even if the tone of the piece is straightforward. And the opinion pieces are consistently anti-TP.Do you think that the media establishment, like the political establishment, sees the TP as a threat, and is reacting to marginalize it? I realize that "The Media" isn't a monolith, but let's be honest with ourselves...every entity has an entrenched power structure.Would appreciate your thoughts...thanks.
Howard Kurtz: It's interesting that most members of a group vociferously complaining about taxes and big government is actually doing pretty well (and not proposing to cut Social Security or Medicare, which are becoming the big budget-busters, or defense). There's a broad swath between fawning and sneering, and that's where I think the news coverage should be.
After KK who's next for you to interview? : Howard. I've always taken you for a serious, that is not entertainment/sports type of guy. With the Kitty Kelly interview are you trying to line up a job on Entertainment Tonight. I mean with a newspaper columnist, interviewing a "celebrity biographer" about her book about a TV personality, do you wonder why many people think that the media is all horse race stories?
Howard Kurtz: When you're doing an hour of television each week, I don't think there's anything wrong with leavening the mix a bit with sports, entertainment or culture segments. In fact, some of those (Tiger's troubles; Letterman's scandal; the Leno-Conan debacle) turned out to be big news stories. Beyond that, Oprah Winfrey is a major cultural figure: a titan of talk, a billionaire, a self-made woman who also owns a magazine, a production company and a fledgling cable network. A book about her -- and particularly Kitty Kelley's contention that most TV shows wouldn't book her for fear of offending Oprah -- is certainly worthy of an interview. Thanks for the chat, folks.


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9 May 2017 - Janet Bird
Thousands of Debenhams customers have had their data compromised in a cyber attack.
As a result of the breach last week, the retailer confirmed 26,000 Debenhams Flowers shoppers had their data "accessed or stolen".
Debenhams has now suspended its flower website, which is operated by Ecomnova.
The company was anxious to stress that customers of Debenhams.com have not been affected by the security breach and said that as soon as it became clear there had been a cyber attack, it had taken immediate steps to protect customers.
Debenhams said all those affected by the breach had been contacted and it has also notified the Information Commissioner's Office. The company is working with Ecomnova and cyber security experts to investigate the incident.
Debenhams Chief Executive Sergio Bucher apologised to all those affected.
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