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In this age the world is known as Ultimum Casum. It has ended before, and is likely to end again, but not as long as there is a story to tell. A millennium ago science and magic were one, and at the apex of civilization the mortals of the world had advanced to near godly levels, but as we all know with great power comes great responsibility. The world was unified, but in peace it had become stagnant, there was suffering where there should be nothing but harmony, there was ambition where there should be nothing but equality. The world was fraying at its seams, and the Gods saw this but did not know how it could be stopped.
The world fractured, each and every person in a position of power believing they could take the whole for themselves, and each one of them wrong. Monstrosities were created, atrocities were committed. The world shook with the thunder of war, and when the storm of war had finally abated the Sun had set on an age, and a new one was soon to begin.
For the entirety of the war the Gods had sat by, as they had in ages past, and watched as ruin befell their creations, and when the world was ready to begin again they decided that this time they would shape it more clearly. Left to their own devices mortals would always strive against each other, even when they had the resources to live happily, it was some broken part of their nature that eternal beings could not understand or rectify. Since they could not quell competition, they decided it must be limited in some way.
They gathered the survivors and broken remnants of the world into twelve cities, one for each god, and they created great domes of energy over the cities to protect them from the foul creatures and dark forces they had once again let loose on the world. At the center of each city was a Tower of Heaven, which reached up to the domes peak, the sentient Towers acted as conduits of the Gods will. From each city a leader was chosen, and these twelve leaders became known as the High Council. From this council the Panarch was chosen, the Panarch was leader of the greatest city and so ruled all others, and was chosen not by the council, but by the Towers of Heaven.
This became the new game among the mighty, the greater your city the greater your power and wealth. It fed their need for competition while benefiting the world, but it was not enough for all. The world was still a place of chaos, human emotions ran rampant, influencing all of their decisions. The Gods realized that they could not keep the world in balance because they did not understand mortal drives, and so they gave their powers over to those who did.
They created the Library and the amorphous Sentinels that guard it. The Library, like the Towers, was sentient, but it existed outside of the ordered universe, and it was responsible for something entirely different than the Towers of Heaven. The Library created what are simply called the Books, each book represents an aspect of the material world, such as life and death, or fate. All of the Books lie dormant within the Library, but when the right person is chosen, the Book activates and manifests itself before them in the material world. They do not gain control of their aspect, they become it. Armed with the knowledge that they had left the world on autopilot, the Gods receded into the void, content to wait, and a new age began.
The Outside & The Abyss
The territory outside of the domed cities is vast and varied, but all of it is dangerous, Im leaving the landscape largely up to the imagination. Creatures created as beasts of war live amongst the ruins of the old world cities and the dark forests. A large portion of the plants are lethal and quite hostile, their alchemical components only useable after special treatments have been applied, old world machines and traps are still active, ending many would be travellers. Even water often needs purification.
The most dangerous aspect of the Outside is the Abyss, you can think of the Abyss as a layer of existence reflecting our own, it was once known as the Astral Plane, where souls would often wait before leaving this world, but it was corrupted by the accumulation of death and hatred and now is home to dark things spawned from nightmares. If you sleep unguarded in the Outside, you open yourselves to them, they can invade your mind and conquer your soul, possessing you like a puppet and converting you into an abomination. However, there are several ways to protect yourself from them. A mage can erect a barrier around your mind, or you can burn Nightshade incense (though few know why that works). There are also several types of potions which can shield ones mind with varying potencies. The most powerful protection from demonic intrusion is the full moon, when it shines overhead most mortals are untouchable. In the reverse none dare travel during the new moon and early phases, as demonic entities seem invigorated and only the most powerful of protections can shield you.
The Cities
As you should know by now there are twelve major cities. Each city is built around a Tower of Heaven, and each tower is upwards of 3,000 ft. The domes surrounding the cities are translucent, only noticeable by a faint rippling in the air, and near one-hundred miles in diameter, allowing for a population of over one million with ample space for farmland. The domes also filter weather, keeping the worst of storms out of the city while maintaining a temperate climate. The domes also keep constant track of everything that goes on within the city, translating it back to the towers for analysis, this includes but is not limited to detecting mortality rates, birth rates, leading causes of death and average lifespan. With this information the towers determine that citys ranking, every year the cities rankings are reevaluated, and if necessary a new Panarch is chosen.
The buildings closest to the tower are usually the tallest and most densely populated, they are modern structures like one would expect to see in Manhattan, electrically powered vehicles travel down paved streets, zeppelin cruise lazily through the air as well as the occasional military or police vessel. Styles of dress and other societal norms vary from city to city, with some appearing in sleek futuristic garb and others in medieval-style attire. There are various factions vying for authority within each city, sometimes these struggles turn violent, but more often it is political maneuvering. These factions are as varied as the cities themselves, some are corporations, others bureaucratic in nature, there are private security, public security, and military forces, as well as groups of citizens simply coming together with common interests.
The city governments vary in structure and performance, but each one is officially headed by a High Councilor. It doesnt matter how the High Councilor is chosen, in some cities they are democratically elected, in others the position is hereditary, and in some the previous High Councilor can choose his successor, but regardless of how they are selected, they are bound to their office in the citys Tower. If they become corrupted in their purpose the tower will reject them, wiping their minds clean in the interest of protecting the secrets within the Tower. This only extends to the High Councilors, and so it is not unheard of for a High Councilor to be a glorified puppet, good in nature but useless in practice. The real authorities within the cities are usually less open, influencing political policy and public opinion from the side lines.
Transportation between the cities is handled in one of several ways. First there is the outside, you can travel in vehicles or on foot from one city to the other. Then there are the buses, armed government convoys from one friendly city to the other. Third, there is teleportation, an experimental and highly regulated magic which requires pre-constructed focus points at both the point of origin and the end point. Finally you have the Tunnels, where extremely fast and extremely expensive subterranean trains carry the elite from city to city, while these tunnels are inspected by the city governments they are mostly maintained and secured by private enterprises.
The Economy
When a city is ranked the reward for higher is not merely prestige, there is a material factor as well. The Tower provides each city with a rare and precious metal called phlebotinum. Phlebotinum is an extremely lightweight and durable metal with a high melting point that makes it both hard to work with and extremely resistant to heat, but it is one of the rarest elements in the known world with no examples found occurring naturally. Every few years, however, based on the given citys rank more phlebotinum is manifested within that citys Tower. The rarity and usefulness of this material has led to it being the grounds of an objective currency, every credit you possess or will possess has a quantity of phlebotinum backing it in the Tower of your city. When trade occurs between cities, the purchasing city owes a fraction of their phlebotinum reserves to the selling city, and while demanding immediate transfer is rare, it can occur. More often than not the phlebotinum never leaves the Tower, and becomes insurance in future deals.
The Tech
Tech is post-modern. The more advanced technologies vary from city to city, each one holding jealously to its secret discoveries. I am allowing creative leeway with many of the technologies as long as they remain realistic. Magic does not solve all of sciences problems and vice versa. Firearms and vehicles are similar to ours today. Cars are usually powered by hydrogen generators, or electricity, some high class vehicles have mana batteries which are powered by magic, but if this became widespread it would become problematic (see The Magic).
Firearms are mainly ballistic and function primarily like modern weapons, but there are next gen weapons available such as mounted Railguns and Laser weaponry, that said there are also magically enhanced firearms with a variety of features difficult to reproduce in typical weapons. The most common way to magically enhance a weapon is with arcane ammunition, they have a variety of different magical ammunitions ranging from anti-personnel combustion rounds to armor-penetrating allomancer rounds. I do not require your magical technology to have a basis in one of the listed schools, since there are quite a few unlisted, as long as you keep it realistic.
Aerial vehicles do exist, the most popular are helicopters and zeppelins, but these are confined to the city limits. There are also vessels known as Gravity Hawks, which are held aloft by gravitation and travel through combustion-based thrusters.
Swords, shields, and other medieval style weaponry are still common place. It may not seem like they would be able to withstand projectile weapons enhanced with magic, but they are also enhanced with various forms of magic. There are anti-material swords which literally push atoms out of the way of their blade and advanced shields which diffuse energy across the surface equally rather than take direct impact force.
Finally there are implants and prosthesis. There are a wide variety of implants, from neural implants that overclock your reaction time in short bursts, to sub-dermal reinforcements which strengthen bone structure. Of course you can also forgo keeping organic components and have cybernetic prosthetics, arms, legs, eyes, and in some cases internal organs, some people reduce themselves to 40% organic components and more. As long as you run it by me with a decent explanation of how it works, and it doesnt seem like too much, then I will probably go with it. Just remember, this shit is expensive.
The Magic
"Magic, the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will"
-Aleister Crowley
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
-Aleister Crowley
While magic can be used for positive or negative purposes, magic is neither good nor evil, and there are no schools of magic which are widely considered good or evil. Magic, much like Oxygen or Nitrogen, is in the air. Everyone is born with a natural magical capacity (though many are impractically small), when you breath magic is trapped in your mana pool, when your mana pool is at its capacity you simply breath out the magic you breath in. Much like an athlete, a skilled mage can gauge the limits of his mana pool. Like with oxygen, an areas concentration of magic can shift, either becoming depleted or oversaturated. When an area is depleted of magic a mages mana pool does not restore itself naturally and magic is less effective in that area (this can be explained if you wish). When an area is oversaturated it creates what is called mana burn. Mana burn is a condition in which your body begins absorbing too much magic, your blood oxygen levels decrease, you become light-headed, experience an unpleasant burning sensation all throughout your body, and if your exposure is prolonged you risk death. Various hypotheses attempt to explain how magic naturally replenishes itself in an environment, but no firm conclusions have been reached.
There are various schools of magic, each with its own purposes and limitations. If you are interested in creating a school not covered here, PM me or post it in the OOC, there are NUMEROUS different types of magic I didnt have the patience to get into. So let your imagination run wild, as long as it makes sense.
I do not have a problem with multiclassing, but keep it realistic. These are sciences that take lifetimes to truly master, if you want an example look at the real world, having a mage who has mastered technomancy and neuromancy at the age of thirty-five is like having a master neurosurgeon and marine engineer.
The Schools
Technomancy- Technomancers are one of the highest paid and most sought after mages in the twelve cities. A technomancer can assess and understand various technologies and then magically operate, reproduce, or reconstruct them. More advanced technomancers can effect and understand more advanced technologies. They are extremely helpful when researching old world technology, and their ability to quickly learn how to operate various techs makes them extremely adaptable and opens a wide variety of jobs to them.
Photomancy- Photomancers manipulate light, they can shift it around themselves or objects to make them invisible, concentrate it into heat-based beams, create simple orbs of light, diffuse it to reduce temperatures, and even create bright flashes to blind enemies. One of their most impressive talents is the ability to block photons, essentially creating darkness, it takes a lot of skill to shape this ability into anything more than simple domes. Because of all the factors involved in photon manipulation it is a very complex skill of magic, make a simple mistake and your spell of invisibility will render you blind as well.
Neuromancy- One of the more controversial schools of magic, neuromancers can interpret and manipulate your brain waves. These abilities are respectively called empathy and illusion, and both are required to be a good neuromancer. This ability is incredibly complex, and if you make changes too drastic they become unbelievable and are more easily resisted, the smaller the change in someones perception the more likely it is to succeed.
Vitomancy- The common term for a vitomancer is a healer, their most common role is that of a surgeon, manipulating and repairing flesh and bone. They do have other abilities however, the more advanced vitomancers can make cosmetic changes to a person, be it something as simple as changing their nose or something advanced as reinforcing or changing parts of their bone structure. A vitomancer can change almost any part of your body, changing it to his will. This is not; however, a practical combat tactic as the simplest of changes require time and subtlety to apply. That said, there is a subschool of vitomancy which is colloquially referred to as Rending. A Render can inflict simple physical damage on enemies, doing something complex like rupturing all of their blood vessels would take an impractical amount of time and focus, but a good render can cause wounds similar to those inflicted by melee weapons.
Animation & Enervation- These two schools are intensely intertwined, but considered entirely different art forms to their practitioners. Animation, commonly called Pyromancy, is the elevation of energy. Heat is produced from elevated energy, which is why animators are often called pyromancers, because they manipulate heat, concentrating energy to increase the temperature of an object to the point of combustion is quite difficult, so they are most effective when provided with a natural source of heat to draw off of. They are not as effective in cold environments. Enervation, often called Cryomancy, is the exact opposite. They diffuse energy, slowing atoms to the point of freezing, they do not have the luxury of having convenient sources of cold to draw off of, but there job is also easier.
Necromancy- A necromancer manipulates the inherent energy of the soul. Typically the involved soul is their own. The amount of energy a necromancer can manipulate from their souls is directly proportionate to their mana pool, so while the soul contains vast stores of convertible energy, they are limited in how much they can use just like any other mage. The most well-known use for necromancy is animation an ability that involves temporarily resurrecting a corpse, or activating a machine, with your own soul. A necromancer can also focus and attack others with their own soul energy, while this causes no physical damage, the pain inflicted is considered to be debilitating, powerful necromancers can often incapacitate others with such an attack.
Gravitation- Gravitors possess a limited form of gravity manipulation in which they focus gravity on a certain area, the gravity-well created has a range of effect directly proportional to the strength of the caster. Essentially what they are doing is changing the direction in which gravity pulls nearby objects and people. Powerful gravitors can create two, or even three separate points, essentially causing levitation between them, and chaos all around them. Gravitors can even achieve a limited form of flight by using a gravity-well to throw themselves upwards then releasing the magic and creating another gravity-well farther through the air, essentially allowing them to float along a chain of gravity manipulation. They can also negate gravity in limited zones, but this is essentially useless in personal flight as it provides you with no control or means of direction.
Allomancy- Also known as enchanting, amalgamancy is the integration of magic with a physical medium. An allomancer, or amalgam, essentially primes an item, which another mage can imbue with an effect. That is, however, not the only use for allomancy. Allomancers can also reinforce or fuse items with other materials, for example an allomancer with a pair of long iron daggers could blend the metals to make an iron short-sword, or an allomancer with a steel blade could reinforce it with a diamond. Allomancers can also remove impurities from a material, strengthening whatever metals they work with. They are highly sought after in industrial positions and are usually high end private metalworkers.
Aeromancy- Aeromancers can use their magic to manipulate air, they can condense atmospheric particles until they are dense enough to inflict damage, they can create small-scale vacuums, and they can create lightning bolts by positioning naturally occurring ions in the air, though the last is a very delicate practice since lightning is so hard to control. They can also fly for short durations, but the energy required to shift enough air to move an adult humanoid through the air for any extended period is ridiculous, so they usually use this ability to cushion fall-impacts instead.
Floramancy- Floramancers are very similar to vitomancers, but they effect plants instead of flesh. While plant structures can be simpler than a mortals, they are still complex, and so there is a limit to what a floramancer can achieve in a limited time, but do expect them to manipulate and extend roots, and grow plants at an accelerated pace. They are highly sought after for agricultural research where they alter the properties of plants to make them more suitable to varied environments, or create a larger yield, or produce a better quality crop, they have quite a few available uses.
Acoustimancy- Acoustimancers manipulate sound and vibrations. They can silence entire rooms by stretching sound waves so thin that they are imperceptible to human ears or amplify sounds so that even a small fly flying across the room can sound as if an airplane was landing in the room. Acoustimancy can also be used to change the sound itself instead of just amplifying it, some Acoustimancers can create high pitched yet deafening screams out of the air, most often for crowd control purposes, while others can create the opposite by deepening the bass of the sounds in the air to create chaos and confusion. Master Acoustimancers can make their voices sound like anything from the roar of a lion to the voice of a beautiful maiden so it is not rare to find Acoustimancy heavily used in espionage though this skill takes a lifetime to master due to the finesse of the art. Another less conventional use is to strip sounds down to their primal state as vibrations to recreate the effects of an earthquake around the caster or even blast enemies away. (Credit to Minnesota Nice)
The Unusual Magics
Thaumaturgy- The Thaumaturgists are a religious order, their unusual magic not explained by or effectively researched by science remains largely shrouded in mystery. Some of their abilities include divining the location of nearby objects and people, erecting barriers with a variety of different effects including magic negation, they can fortify their strength, speed, and other attributes. It is even rumored they can transmute objects, and possess the ability of foresight. Thaumaturgy is not something that can be learned or taught to anyone, only those born with what Thaumaturgists call the spark can learn. What most dont know is that Thaumaturgists are chosen by the Towers of Heaven, from which they derive their unnatural powers.
Each city has a Circle which is comprised of Thaumaturgists, they are responsible for watching, protecting, and maintaining each city's Tower, and will give their lives to fulfill that obligation.
Alchemy- Alchemy is the science of achieving desired effects through the manipulation and combination of natural materials, such as plant and animal parts or minerals. Alchemists can reproduce some of the effects of magic, but not even close to all of them, but alchemy is useful for many things magic isnt directly useful for.
Abyssal Contracts- An Abyssal Contract is formed between one of the Greater Demons of the Abyss, and a mortal. The price is your soul, the reward is a supernatural ability proportional in strength to the value of your soul. The contracted is known as an Infernal, because this is considered a hellish magic by most scientists. Infernals can avoid detection by Thaumaturgists, and their special abilities cannot be negated by one, thus Necromancers are more often employed as government security for their ability to detect souls, and the lack thereof.
A Contract can only be made outside of the confines of one of the Cities, otherwise the Dome would prevent contact being made with the Demon. The Demon can be summoned with a ritual, the ritual doesnt consist of anything as cliché as blood or pentagrams, but a circle is drawn in white sand, and a special alchemical hallucinogen must be consumed to make contact.
The Books
The Dream-VIII Stanza
The Wanderer was alone as heretofore,
The beings which surrounded him were gone,
Or were at war with him; he was a mark
For blight and desolation, compassed round
With Hatred and Contention; Pain was mixed
In all which was served up to him, until,
Like to the Pontic monarch of old days,
He fed on poisons, and they had no power,
But were a kind of nutriment; he lived
Through that which had been death to many men,
And made him friends of mountains; with the stars
And the quick Spirit of the Universe
He held his dialogues: and they did teach
To him the magic of their mysteries;
To him the book of Night was opened wide,
And voices from the deep abyss revealed
A marvel and a secret. -Be it so.
-Lord Byron
I Met a Seer
I met a seer.
He held in his hands
The book of wisdom.
"Sir," I addressed him,
"Let me read."
"Child -- " he began.
"Sir," I said,
"Think not that I am a child,
For already I know much
Of that which you hold.
Aye, much."
He smiled.
Then he opened the book
And held it before me. --
Strange that I should have grown so suddenly blind.
-Stephen Crane
As I've mentioned above, the Books represent aspects of our world. When someone is chosen by the Library, a book manifests itself before them in the material world, if they open the book they are bound to it, if they deny it they may resume their lives without any further hindrance. Those who accept the call of the Book are known as Aspects. Most of us will initially think of them as something akin to demigods, but that is not accurate. They do not have a sphere of influence which they control, like a deity, instead they become an anthropomorphic personification of their Aspect, more like the Angel of Death and less like Hades.
Most people do not know of the Books, there are very few direct references to them in lore, but people do have legends of their wielders. Some of the most widely spread legends surround the Seer and the Wanderer, but it is hard to determine if there is any facts behind them. There are, however, some groups and entities that are aware of the existence of the Aspects, and some of them actively seek to gain the power of their books, whether for selfish purposes or the Greater Good.
In theory, there should be an infinite number of Books within the Library, but no one has ever been there so it is up to debate. The Library exists only in the void and it is inconceivable for even the most powerful mages to reach its doors. Aspects as powerful as Life, Death, and Fate will be off limits. Due to their nature Aspects that important are beyond containment and regulation, if you were to chain one his Calling would warp time and space through your chains, this obviously makes them too OP.
The Aspects-(Credit to Cerianis)
The job of an Aspect is to balance the aspect they represent in the mortal realm, if an Aspect uses their abilities too much, they will unbalance their element as a whole and the book will return to dormancy. Each Aspect has an uncontrollable aura as a side effect of wielding a book, each Aspects aura is relevant to their field, for example the Aspect of War causes conflict wherever he goes, and the Aspect of Peace resolves conflicts. There will, however, always be a balance. For every conflict War creates, Peace is somewhere resolving one and vice versa. When the Aspects lose that balance then their book will return to dormancy.
Due to their very nature, an Aspect is bound to take on the traits of his field. The Aspect of War would be an excellent tactician and commander, but he would also take on the physical effects, he would be ruthless, hardened, solitary, etc. This also makes it easier for them to learn new skills related to their aspect, magical or otherwise. Socially, aspects tend to look like loners or drifters, they dont tend to stay in one place too long since the balance will call them elsewhere. Aspects can also start to lose a mortal perspective of the world since they become immortal, it was deemed necessary to make them so, finding new people generation after generation who were able to take up the mantle would have been much more difficult, and the balance would have suffered.
The Races
When this world was created there was only one race, and it wasnt humans. No one knows whether that original race still lives or it was forgotten to time like so many others. Many of the races that exist today were designed for some sort of combat advantage, when the wars came to their respective ends they were simply integrated in the next society that was forged from the ashes. Some have faded all together because they lacked a viable gene pool, or the ability to reproduce, others became blended with the more populous races. Quite a few, however, retain their distinct differences in appearance, longevity, temperament, and cultural norms.
If you would like to create a race, remember that nothing is unbeatable, I encourage creativity as long as it does not become unrealistic within the setting. (i.e. a race of cute sentient ponies) You can derive inspiration from wherever you like, but make it your own, and make it fit. Most typical fantasy races apply. I wont go into a detailed explanation of humans, elves, orcs, and dwarves unless I really need to, just dont assume there is any natural animosity or malevolence inherent in any of the races.
Valatir: The Valatir are a race of winged people, they usually have narrow frames and are more than six feet in height, they tend to live just past one-hundred on average though the oldest have brushed the one-hundred and forties, and they excel at vitomancy. Long before the war the Valatir were a peaceful and dignified people, often reserving their intellect for higher studies and sciences. In the course of their existence their diligence contributed vast sums of knowledge to the pre-war world, but it was all in vain.
During the War the Valatirs aerial advantage over ground troops was viciously exploited, they were forced to fight in some of the most hazardous environments and their loss of life was catastrophic to their race. A scant few thousand survived the war, in our world they would have been considered an endangered species. They might have blended with other races and faded into the lore of the world, but they didnt, and their survival corrupted their once benevolent nature. Forced to fight to keep their people in tact the Valatir evolved into an isolated people, often keeping their families clean with arranged marriages, always at war with genetic variance. Eventually what started as necessity to protect their people became force of habit, and despite the fact that they are no longer in any danger of extinction, they still recede from most other races with contempt.
Chimera: Chimeras are amalgamations of man and animal, they were made using a now highly restricted branch of vitomancy blended with genetic engineering. Chimeras have various different aesthetic and physical enhancements depending on what manner of animal they were amalgamated with, each different one having its own pros and cons which factored into their unique military purposes.
For example, there are a variety of highly poisonous jelly fish chimeras which can apply neurotoxins and hemotoxins through little retractable needles in their fingers, and shark chimeras that can see the electromagnetic fields produced by people and machines. Originally the changes were irreversible; however, since the war some have adapted the ability to retract their animal features leaving them near human in appearance for extended periods of time.
Asura: The Asura are a misunderstood people of unknown origins. Recovered historical texts make vague references to their existence before the last Great War, but nothing concrete has been found regarding their history within society. That coupled with their appearance leaves them widely subject to prejudice by the other races, despite the fact that they are fully integrated in modern society. Asura average life spans are between those of humans and valatir, falling around the nineties, their skin pigmentation ranges from a greyish blue to a light violet hue, they have enlarged canines which sometimes protrude from their mouth, sharply pointed ears longer and more expressive than those of an elf, and their four-fingered hands end in retractable claws. Their eyes can either be pitch black or milky white, though it is not clear what causes the difference, especially since they are blind.
The Asura see with a form of acoustimantic sonar which allows them to discern in high detail the shape and position of objects based on the nature of manipulated soundwaves. There are also modern cybernetic implants which aid their sonar; while attempts have been made to implant biosynthetic retinal implants, their highly complex brain lacks an obvious route for a synthetic optic nerve to be placed. This has actually befuddled many scientists and sparked lengthy debate in the scientific community as to why they have eyes at all. Multiple hypotheses attempt to explain this, but the most popular imply that the Asura were a poorly constructed synthetic species, Asura community leaders respond to this by asking scientists to produce a properly constructed synthetic species. No comment has been made on the part of the scientific community regarding this request. (Credit to Helter Skelter)
The Plot
The Hynebrook family holds a festival every year, to celebrate their victory in the Prianthan Civil War of 1,006 U.C. and the ascension of their bloodline to the throne. During this week of celebration the Annual Prianthan Entertainment Awards are also held. The awards ceremony is the grandest, most glamorous, red carpet event amongst the twelve cities, and even Queen Celes Hynebrook herself will be in attendance. No matter where you are, even if you arent watching it, it is likely being viewed on a monitor nearby.
This years ceremony has garnered particular attention, because at the last minute Queen Celes decided that she wanted to read off the names of the winning celebrities herself, but just before she could announce the winning film for this years Most Dramatic Introduction award, and let me assure you the competition had been intense, the Tower of Heaven standing high above Prianths skyline in the background erupted in flames.
~Now that you know how this is starting, I dont want you to feel that your characters are bound to do anything regarding this story event. Rather than everyone being a direct part in the events unfolding, Id rather focus this RP on the interactions between characters in a rapidly changing world. The plot is still very much on the table, open to change and adaptation as needed, so very little is set in stone so far.
The Map
The Map will be updated throughout the course of the RP as new Cities and Locations are added.
The One Rule
-Courtesy, Quality, Creativity.
The CS
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text: Twelve Orange County Sheriff's Explorers spent January 15, 16, and 17 in Chandler, Arizona competing in the 2010 Chandler Law Enforcement Explorer Tactical Competition. Post Coordinator Sergeant Dan Daniels (Reserve Bureau) and Post Advisors Deputy Courtney Todoroff (Theo Lacy Division), and Deputy Gregg Surrell (Lamoreaux Justice Center) accompanied the Explorers on their journey. All of the Explorers' registration fees and lodging were paid for by private donations or funds from Explorers working paid events. The Sheriff's team competed against over 500 explorers from Explorer Posts throughout the nation. Due to the excellent tactical training they received from S.W.A.T. Deputies Mike Perez and Shane Millhollan, Explorer Post 449 took a first place trophy in Tactical Scouting, a third place trophy in the Incident Command System and a fourth place trophy in the Multi Level Assault. Please join in congratulating the following Explorers, who proudly and very capably represented our department:


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This part includes the white handle, door latch and 2 switches. This part is a simple on/off mechanism that prohibits the dishwasher from operating when the door is open.
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This part includes the black handle, latch and 2 switches. This part is a simple on/off mechanism that prohibits the dishwasher from operating when the door is open.
This bisque door latch with the switches is a simple on/off mechanism that prohibits the dishwasher from operating when the door is open. Please NOTE: The bisque handle is no longer available separately. Only available with this assembly.
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Level of DifficultyEasy
Time to do repair:15 - 30 mins
ToolsNutdriver, Pliers, Screw drivers
CustomerEdward from Colonia NJ
This repair was straight forward and easy..... Once you remove the inside panel of the door the latch becomes exposed and can be removed. (For safety shut the power of at the circuit breaker for this appliance.)Once the power is off the only problem I encountered was the electrical connection for the latch were stuck on. You will need to use one or two pliers to pull the connections apart. Once apart install the new latch, and replace all screws in the order you removed them. This repair will take between 15 and 30 minutes depending on your ability to make home repairs.
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Time to do repair:30 - 60 mins
ToolsScrew drivers
CustomerGlenn from Arlington VA
Not bad at all. Took inside door panel off. Removed broken part. A little tricky to remove/replace the electric nodes. Decided to use the old ones rather than using the new ones that came with the part. Just easier than removing wires. Put door back together with new handle in place. Good to go...
CustomerGary from Walkersville MD
You need to unscrew the inside door liner with a Torx screwdriver; once the door is unscrewed, you can pry it up and prop it up so you can get to the latch assembly (there are several wired connections you can't unhook easily - but you don't need to so it doesn't really matter). Oh yeah, you might want to make sure the power is turned off at the breaker. The latch assembly pulls right out but I could not get the power plugs to come loose from the prongs, so I just used the switches that were on the old switch; simply pry the little clips holding them off and remove the little switches. If you didn't turn the power off, make sure you don't touch the plugs. Put the latch back in place; make sure the old handle isn't still in the handle area; I didn't check and it was still there; I put it all back together and it didn't work. Took it apart, took broken handle out. Redid; worked great.
Level of DifficultyA Bit Difficult
CustomerSandra from Sherman TX
The door was open when the latch broke or we would not have been able to get into the dishwasher to repair it. We had to purchase a star-shaped screwdriver. Lowe's had one for about $7. After switching off the breaker, we removed the inner door panel to access the latch. The old latch was very difficult to remove, but finally came free with perseverance, two pairs of pliers and a lot of elbow grease. The new latch plugged right in with no problem. We replaced the door panel, turned the breaker back on and the dishwasher worked just like new.
Level of DifficultyReally easy
Time to do repair:Less than 15 mins
CustomerGregory from Long Beach CA
First shut off the power to the dishwasher at the circuit breaker. Removed the torq screws on the inner door. Disconnected the old part and hooked up the new part. Took longer to unscrew and screw the door back on then to replace the part. Works like new.
CustomerDan from Newcastle CA
Well, first I took the screws off of the door. Inside the door was the latch. It was broken. I decided to put a new latch in there. But the interesting part is what we did while we waited for the new part to come. Since the latch was broken, I set it to the closed position by poking it with a screwdriver. Then I tucked the broken latch down inside the door out of the way. So essentially the dishwasher thought that the door was always closed. This would work fine for a while, except after a few days it would stop working. I think that the dishwasher might have thought that noone was taking the clean dishes out, and it decided that they must be pretty clean after about 20 wash cycles. I dont know for sure because it wasnt really talking. It might have been upset with me for tricking it, I'm not sure. But anyway, we had to put a towel on the floor cuz the door would leak a little bit without a proper latch. Also, we would have to unplug it when it stopped working. This would reset it and it would think that it was in a brand new home, washing dishes for a new family. It would happily do this until, once again, the door thingy. Maybe it felt as if, becuase we never took the dishes out, that we did not appreciate its efforts to clean our dishes. Or, maybe, it thought that we were on vacation. We did consider getting a new dishwasher, but, its has been a good dishwaher, except that the latch is on the 3rd redesign that I am aware of. The latest redesign uses a rotating mechanism that is more gentle than the previous snapping mechanism. While, we were waiting for the new part I had a birthday. I got ballons and a card, and we went out to dinner. The hose on the dishwasher I have always thought is a little thin, but its hasnt leaked yet. So the new latch mechanism is better. The first redesign made the parts stonger but it still put a lot of strain on the latch because of the snapping action. Rotation is much better, it may even utilize a cam-over geometry, Im not sure. But we did get some new dishes too in the meantime. I dont know if that made any difference. Cus ya know the impact energy can impart a much higher strain, possibly exceeding the yield strength, whereas the cam-over geometry can be limted and precicely controlled. Then I when I got the new latch, I put it in the door the way it is supposed to go. Then I put the screws on.
CustomerAdam from Richmond VA
Removed cover. Took out the old handle/switch assembly and related broken plastic pieces about the door enclosure. The new handle/switch assembly has a steel rod in place of the cheap plastic pivots. Removed connectors to limit switches. Put new assembly in place of the old one. Screwed the cover back on. Washed dried chilli encrusted bowls. They got clean.
CustomerMatthew from East Haven CT
After shutting off the power to the unit I removed the torx head screws that hold the inner panel to the door. Next I disconnected the two plugs that attach to the microswitches on the handle. I then installed the new assembly and attached the two plugs to it. Then re-installed the inner panel. Done!
CustomerLou from Fairport NY
First I turned off the power to the dishwasher. Then I removed the 11 screws form the inside of the door panel. The inside door panel will lift up for easy access to the latch assembly. Remove the latch assy. I purchased the latch assembly with the switches. You will need a needle nose pliers to remove the 4 wires. Install the wires on the new switches and put the new latch assy in place. Set the inside panel back on the outside panel and install the screws. Turn the power back on and you're done. Took about 15 minutes start to finish. Probably saved around $200. Piece of cake!
CustomerJohn from Oshkosh WI
had to take the inner cover off the dishwasher door. replacing the broken part was very easy after that.
ToolsPliers, Screw drivers
CustomerGary from Indianapolis IN
Simple job - removed screws from inside of dishwasher door, lift out inner door and remove old latch assembly, pulled wires from latch assembly (had to pry apart with screw driver), attached wires to new assembly and placed new asembly in door, replaced innner door making sure screw holes lined up with latch assembly holes, reattached inner door with screws. Latch works like new. The whole process took around 15-20 minutes.
CustomerRalph from Appleton WI
Parts arrived quickly. Diagram and part numbers are confusing which caused a second order for the correct part-the handle attached to the switch assembly as one unit. It costs less than the sans handle assembly. Installation quick and easy-remove door panel screws-set panal aside. No need to remove soap dispencer connection as there is enough wireing slack to get the panel out of the way. Remove wire clips from micro switches-note location of each pigtail and remove broken handle/assembly. Install new assembly and put all back together.
CustomerVincent from Salt Lake City UT
Took the hex screws out that hold the inside cover on the door of the dishwasher. It exposes the latch assembly. (OH YEAH, TURN THE POWER OFF. UNPLUG, OF POSSIBLE, TURN FUSE BOX SWITCH OFF..CAN"T BELIEVE I FORGOT AND GOT I NICE LITTLE JOLT) Undo the two wire leads attached to the latch assembly. Put the new assembly in (Now it comes fully assembled) attach the wire leads, screw it back in and it's done. Piece of cake. Even the cust service rep was aware of this part..."oh yeah THAT piece". Guess they've had tons of problems with this part. But the price was right and install was absolutely no problem. I'll buy here again.
Customerdoris from harrisonville MO
I took the screws out of the door and un pluged ths brooken latch pluged in the new one replaced the door screws.
ToolsNutdriver, Socket set
CustomerKen from Kuna ID
Power to the dishwasher was turned off from the fuse box. The dishwasher door was disassembled by removing the screws. The broken latch assembly was removed and the wires connected to it was also disconnected. The new latch assembly was put in place and the electrical wires were attached to the new assembly. The dishwasher door was then reassembled and it's all done. To about 5 minutes total to do it.


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Al and Tipper Gore to separate after 40 years of marriage
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Al Gore, former Vice President to Bill Clinton and environmental advocate, and his wife Tipper are separating after 40 years of marriage, according to an e-mail circulated today by the former couple, which stated,
"We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate.
"This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration. We ask for respect for our privacy and that of our family, and we do not intend to comment further."
The couple met at a high school graduation dance and were married on May 19, 1970.
Born Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson, Tipper is known as a professional photographer and for her work with the Parents Music Resource Center. The Gores have four adult children: Karenna, Kristin, Sarah and Albert III.
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shirleylayne | Jun 30, 2010, 07:23 PM EDT
Another one bites the dust, so they can't discuss any further. Shucks, don't want to know anyway.
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murphy66 | Jun 02, 2010, 10:40 AM EDT
He outgrew her, literally.
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Spike Lee videobombs Reggie Miller in his return to MSG for Pacers-Knicks
On the night in which Reggie Miller made his return to Madison Square Garden to do Game 2 of the Pacers-Knicks series for TNT, we were given one more classic moment involving Miller and Spike Lee -- even though Reggie had no knowledge of his involvement in said moment.
On the 18th anniversary of Miller scoring eight points in less than nine seconds to lead Indiana over New York in a playoff game at MSG, Lee videobombed Miller while he was doing an on-camera hit. Love the smirk at the end, which worked because the Knicks also won handily to tie the series.
That short-but-sweet moment came hours after Miller tweeted this:
Since its the anniversary of the 8pts, maybe I walk by Spike tonight and give him the choke sign for old times sake...jk jk, I'm an ANGEL..
— Reggie Miller (@ReggieMillerTNT) May 7, 2013
The fact that the series will automatically be coming back to New York for Game 5 means Miller could have one last chance to do so.


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text: Please distribute (Apologies for multiple posting) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - CALL FOR PAPERS evomusart 2013 2nd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Musi= c, Sound, Art and Design=20 11-13 April 2012, Vienna, Austria Part of evo* 2013 evo*: http://www.evostar.org evomusart: http://www.evostar.org/2012/call-for-contributions/evomusart/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of= evolutionary and biologically inspired music, sound, art and design, evomu= sart has become an evo* conference with independent proceedings. Thus, evom= usart 2013 is the eleventh European Event and the second International Conf= erence on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Desi= gn. The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic= systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a= growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such as:= visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound synth= esis; architecture; video; poetry; design; and other creative tasks. The main goal of evomusart 2013 is to bring together researchers who are us= ing biologically inspired computer techniques for artistic tasks, providing= the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area. The event will be held from 11-13 April, 2012 in Vienna, Austria as part of= the evo* event. Submissions will be rigorously reviewed for scientific and artistic merit. = Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters at the event and inc= luded in the evomusart proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in a dedic= ated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The acceptance= rate at evomusart 2012 was 34.9% for papers accepted for oral presentation= , or 46.5% for oral and poster presentation combined. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Topics of interest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Submissions should concern the use of biologically inspired computer techni= ques -- e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Artificial Neural N= etworks, Swarm Intelligence, other artificial intelligence techniques -- in= the generation, analysis and interpretation of art, music, design, archite= cture and other artistic fields. Topics of interest include, but are not li= mited to: -- Generation - Biologically Inspired Design and Art -- Systems that create drawings, im= ages, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs, webpages, buildings, e= tc.; - Biologically Inspired Sound and Music -- Systems that create musical pie= ces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, etc.; - Robotic-Based Evolutionary Art and Music; - Other related artificial intelligence or generative techniques in the fi= elds of Computer Music, Computer Art, etc.; -- Theory - Computational Aesthetics, Experimental Aesthetics; Emotional Response, S= urprise, Novelty; - Representation techniques; - Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of w= eaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification; - Validation methodologies; - Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas; - New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically in= spired computation; -- Computer Aided Creativity and computational creativity - Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to promote th= e creativity of a human user; - New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle; - Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically inspi= red art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these approaches; the= resulting artifacts; - Collaborative distributed artificial art environments; -- Automation - Techniques for automatic fitness assignment; - Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used i= n conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce novel object= s; - Systems that resort to biologically inspired computation to perform the = analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic= object. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Submission: 30 November 2011 Conference: 11-13 April 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Additional information and submission details ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Submit your manuscript, at most 12 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format (= instructions downloadable from http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontp= age/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html) no later than November 30, 2011 to sit= e http://myreview.csregistry.org/evomusart12 The reviewing process will be double-blind; please omit information about t= he authors in the submitted paper. 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Edmund Morris (writer)
Edmund Morris (born May 27, 1940) is an American writer best known for his biographies of United States Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
Life and career
Morris was born in Nairobi, Kenya, the son of South African parents May (Dowling) and Eric Edmund Morris, an airline pilot.1 He received his early, British-influenced education in Kenya and then studied music, art, and literature at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. Dropping out of college in 1961, he worked in the retail advertising department of a menswear store in Durban. Most of the brochures and advertisements he designed and wrote were for the Zulu market, and he later claimed that this early training in "making words move merchandise" was invaluable to the formation of his literary style.2 Moving to Britain in 1964, he abandoned dreams of becoming a concert pianist and was employed as a copywriter in the London office of Foote, Cone & Belding, an American advertising agency. In 1966 he married Sylvia Jukes, an English teacher, and emigrated with her to the United States two years later.3
Morris's first book, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, was published when he was thirty-nine. The first volume of what would eventually become a trilogy on the life of the 26th president, it won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for biography.4
In 1981 Ronald Reagan became President of the United States and was impressed by a reading of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Senator Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon and Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin urged Reagan aides to appoint Morris as the president's official biographer. Morris met with Reagan on several occasions in 1981-1983, but was reluctant to put aside work on Theodore Rex, the second volume of his life of Roosevelt.5 However, in 1985 Morris recognized that Reagan had become a figure of high historical importance, and signed a $3 million contract with Random House to write his authorized biography. He reached a private agreement with the president and first lady that granted him regular interviews with them and their children, as well as unlimited access to the White House, by means of a pass that made him a non-governmental observer of the administration. This "fly-on-the-wall" privilege was made doubly unusual by Reagan's willingness to let Morris write his biography without any editorial control.6
Morris spent the next fourteen years researching and writing the story of Reagan's life in Washington D.C. and Santa Monica, California. He continued to see the former president in retirement, and worked extensively in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, enjoying special access to Reagan's personal papers. His manuscript, prepared under conditions of great secrecy, was edited by Robert Loomis, executive editor at Random House.7 The biography's long gestation was the result of a radical change in narrative method, caused by Morris's frustration with what he has described as Reagan's lack of "curiosity about himself."8 Morris confided this frustration in 1989 to a group of fellow scholars at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. His remarks were leaked to the press and gave rise to rumors that Morris did not understand his subject.9
In 1999 Morris published Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. The book caused an international sensation because it was presented, without explanation or apology, as a work of nonfiction by an imaginary author.10 Although the story of Reagan's life was authentic and documented with 153 pages of notes, the parallel "story" of its author, one "Arthur Edmund Morris" born in Chicago in 1912, enraged many critics and readers who had been expecting a conventional presidential biography.11 Dutch rose quickly to No. 2 on the New York Times Best Seller list. But despite a minority of favorable reviews, and the endorsements of three of Reagan's children,12 reactions to it were generally so negative that it soon fell off the list.13
Morris explained in many interviews that his book's unique narrative form -- a memoir written by a close observer of whom Reagan is never really aware -- was a literary device reflecting the essentially thespian nature of his subject. Reagan, he said, was an enigma to anyone who sought to explain him by orthodox means. Widely beloved, the man had no close friends; seemingly passive and gentle, he yet exerted unstoppable force; although his id was formidable, he had no personal vanity. "He was truly one of the strangest men who's ever lived," Morris told Lesley Stahl on CBS's 60 Minutes. "Nobody around him understood him. I, every person I interviewed, almost without exception, eventually would say, 'You know, I could never really figure him out.'"14
Morris said that literary comprehension came when he stopped trying to separate Reagan the performer ("I've got the biggest theatre in the world right here," the president once joked in the Oval Office)15 from the performance itself. Like most born actors, "Dutch" came alive only on stage. His biographer therefore had to be, in effect, his audience -- right from the time when "Arthur Edmund Morris" first became aware of "Dutch" Reagan in the early 1920s, through to the actual acquaintance of author and subject half a century later. Morris believed that any reader willing to join him in watching The Ronald Reagan Story [his original title for the book] would yield to it as a drama true in every biographical detail.16
Theodore Rex, which followed Dutch in 2002, was in contrast a straight account of Theodore Roosevelt's Presidency (1901-1909). Morris pointed out that "TR" was a subject so self-explanatory as to obviate any authorial intrusion into the narrative. The book, published by Random House, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography in 2002. Three years later Morris published Beethoven: The Universal Composer, a short biography that sought to convey in plain prose the essence of great music. Colonel Roosevelt, the final book in Morris's Theodore Roosevelt trilogy, came out in 2010. City Journal called it "one of the best biographies in modern literature".17
In October, 2012 Morris published This Living Hand and Other Essays, an autobiographical collection of pieces on literature, music, and the presidency. Random House simultaneously announced that his next book would be a biography of Thomas Edison.
Edmund Morris has written extensively on travel and the arts for such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Harper's Magazine. He lives in New York City and Kent, Connecticut with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris.3
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. 1979. ISBN 0-375-75678-7.
- Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. New York: Random House. 1999. ISBN 0-394-55508-2.
- Theodore Rex. New York: Random House. 2001. ISBN 978-0-394-55509-6.
- Beethoven: The Universal Composer. New York: Atlas Books/HarperCollins. 2005. ISBN 0-06-075974-7.
- Colonel Roosevelt. New York: Random House. 2010. ISBN 978-0-375-50487-7.
- This Living Hand and Other Essays. New York: Random House. 2012. ISBN 978-0-8129-9312-7.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
"Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country." --Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A biography which aspires to scholarship should make a significant contribution to the understanding of the effects of character on events, as well as they way in which behavior reflects reality. Judged by such standards, Morris's book leaves a good deal to be desired." – Miles F. Shore, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XI:2 (Autumn 1980), 294.
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
"As you read on — and such is the force and fascination of Morris's narrative that you can't help reading on – you begin to see the benefits of his highly unorthodox technique, which turns out to be a conjoining of imagination and reality.... To judge from the book's extensive notes, it in no way distorts the record of Mr. Reagan's life, only the viewpoint from which it is told. It's difficult to approve the technique in theory; in less skilled hands it will doubtless prove a disaster. But it certainly succeeds in this case." – Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times, 30 September 1999
"Mr. Morris has produced a book that is anything but scholarly and substantial. He has produced a bizarre, monstrously self-absorbed book – a Ragtime-esque 'memoir' featuring a self-annotating narrator out of a Philp Roth novel and childlike hero out of Being There. Even worse, this loony hodgepodge of fact and fiction is being sold not as a novel, but as 'the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, 2 October 1999.
"A reader who surrends to Morris's self-indulgent blend of scholarship and imagnation will be led through a riveting story to a transcendent conclusion with a surprise twist.... Dutch never fails to evoke the power and mystery of its subject." – Steven R. Weisman, New York Times Book Review, 10 October 1999
Theodore Rex
"As a literary work on Theodore Roosevelt, it is unlikely ever to be surpassed. It is one of the great histories of the American presidency, worthy of being on a shelf alongside Henry Adams's volumes on Jefferson and Madison, and the younger Arthur Schlesinger's volumes on Franklin Roosevelt." --Ernest R. May, The Times Literary Supplement
"Superb . . . The new book is every bit as detailed and imaginatively written as its 1979 predecessor.... What distinguishes Theodore Rex is, if anything, not the copious research (there are 180 pages of notes) but rather its deeply novelistic construction, the numerous writerly touches, and the acts of emotional sympathy.... Add to this some beautiful smaller touches, and you end up with a biography that's as good as fiction." —Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Magazine
Beethoven: the Universal Composer
"Since Morris is famous only for his lives of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, his profound knowledge of Beethoven and his music comes as a surprise. His book is full of unexpected insights and makes sense of the sometimes bewildering contrast between the music and the man." –Alexander Chancellor, The Guardian, 16 March 2007.
"Morris has the ability to impart genuine aesthetic and technical information to his audience without devolving into jargon.... The works that give Beethoven his 'universal status' ... deserve a critic with the vast reserves of feeling, fancy, and intelligence that Morris brings to the task." –Tim Page, The Washington Post, 18 December 2005.
"In the main, Mr. Morris succeeds in the tricky balancing act of engaging the full range of musical readers.... But there are moments, I confess, when [he] is boring, when the music lover/biographer is both too technical and too impressionistic at the same time." –Carl Rollyson, The New York Sun, 28 September 2005.
Colonel Roosevelt
"With Colonel Roosevelt, [Edmund Morris's] magnum opus is complete. And it deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject. Mr. Morris has addressed the toughest and most frustrating part of Roosevelt's life with the same care and precision he brought to the two earlier installments. And if this story of a lifetime is his own life's work, he has every reason to feel immensely proud." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"The eternally restless Roosevelt, who always wanted to be 'in the arena,' makes the third volume of Edmund Morris's epic biography as entertaining and energetic as its predecessors.... And, as before, Morris builds his story around some marvelous set pieces.... It is probably impossible to write a bad book about Theodore Roosevelt. Morris has written a great one." --John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times
This Living Hand
"[Morris] writes with originality and surprise every time, whether about presidents (not just Roosevelt and Reagan, but also Jefferson, Madison, Clinton, Obama), Nadine Gordimer, his wife, classical music (he is a man possessed by Beethoven), or the art of biography.... The collection's first entry and earliest piece, "The Bumstitch," a lament for the rarest of fruits ... is, to me, the best. It is effortless, hasty, tasty, autobiographical, strange, surprising, twisting, graceful, rich, beautiful, haunting, and devastating." –Jimmy So, The Daily Beast, 22 October 2012
- ^ Wilson Company, H.W (1990). Current biography yearbook.
- ^ Edmund Morris, This Living Hand and Other Essays (Random House, 2012), 9-12, 90-91.
- ^ a b CSPAN-Q&A Television interview Nov. 21, 2010, 1 hr interview with host Brian Lamb, discussing all his works. (Transcript and video both available at CSPAN website); Morris, This Living Hand, 356-357.
- ^ "1980 Pulitzer Prizes". Retrieved 7 August 2012.; National Book Award List of winners of the National Book Award in Biography, hardback, http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1980.html.
- ^ Edmund Morris, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (Random House, 1999), xiii-xvi, xix; This Living Hand, 445-446.
- ^ Morris, This Living Hand, 446-448.
- ^ Edmund Morris, "Life and Letters," The New Yorker, 16 January 1995, and "A Celebration of Reagan," The New Yorker, 16 February 1998; "Where the written word reigns". Duke Magazine 93 (3). May–June 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-13.; Morris, This Living Hand, 452-453.
- ^ Morris, This Living Hand, 449.
- ^ "Publisher's Note" in paperback edition of Edmund Morris, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (Modern Library, New York, 2000), viii; Morris, This Living Hand, 460.
- ^ "Doreen Carvajal, "Writer as Character in Reagan Biography," The New York Times, 18 September 1999; Newsweek, 27 September 1999.
- ^ See, e.g., Maureen Dowd, "Forrest Gump Biography," The New York Times, 22 September 1999; Michiko Kakutani, "A Biographer Who Claims a License to Blur Reality," The New York Times, 2 October 1999; "Publisher's Note" to Dutch, xi-xiv.
- ^ See, e.g., Patti Davis, "Finally Seeing My Father -- Through Edmund's Eyes," The Washington Post, 10 October 1999, and Ron Reagan, "Reflections," The New Yorker, 18 October 1999.
- ^ "Publisher's Note" to Dutch, xi-xiv.
- ^ Stahl, Lesley (interviewer) (June 9, 2004) Morris: "Reagan Still A Mystery." CBS News.com
- ^ Morris, This Living Hand, 352
- ^ "Publisher's Note" to Dutch; see also "The Ivo Pogorelich of Presidential Biography," in Morris, This Living Hand, 442-475.
- ^ Cole, Ryan L. "The Last Word on Teddy." City-journal.org
External links
- Booknotes interview with Morris on Dutch, December 5, 1999.
- In Depth interview with Morris, October 6, 2002
- C-SPAN Q&A interview with Morris, November 21, 2010
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The Oldsmobile 442 arose from an internal competition between the Oldsmobile and Pontiac divisions of General Motors. Originally, the muscle car was developed in response to the unexpected success of the Pontiac Tempest GTO in 1964.
Since the 1964 model year was more than halfway done by the time the Oldsmobile 442 was ready, the car became the B09 Police Apprehender Pursuit option for the F-85 and the Cutlass. The name, "442" referenced the model's four-barrel carburetor, manual four-speed transmission and dual exhaust.
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