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Lucetry B. Dalton, a clinical psychologist with McLaren Health System, was selected by a public online vote as the winner of the Oakland County Executive's Elite 40 Under 40 Class of 2018.
The announcement was made Wednesday night at Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson's State of the County address held at the Flagstar Strand Theatre in Pontiac. As the winner, Dalton was given the honor of introducing Patterson to the crowd of about 800.
"It was a very surreal feeling," Dalton said. "I feel very blessed and humbled to receive this honor, not only because it validates the hard work that I have put in my entire life, but it is also a positive reflection of the city that bred me. Pontiac is one of those cities that is underprivileged and often looked down upon."
At 28, Dalton is the youngest Elite 40 winner. The 2017 winner, Brooke Wilson Vitale, was 29. Dalton is a Pontiac resident who received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her master's and doctorate from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is employed by McLaren Health System in Flint. A graduate of Pontiac Northern High School, Dalton mentors, counsels and tutors minority youths from low income areas.
"I am a proud product of Pontiac, born, raised and educated there, and I still remain active in several hometown organizations," Dalton said. "I want everyone to know that, despite its shortcomings, great opportunities and even greater people come from this city when given the chance."
Patterson praised Dalton's commitment to her hometown.
"She has tremendous passion for Pontiac," Patterson said. "She is obviously a high achiever, and at such a young age. I see great things in her future and for Pontiac. Pontiac should be proud of her."
About 220 applications and nominations were reviewed by a panel of judges, looking for the top 40 young professionals and thought leaders who live or work in Oakland County. The 40 honorees have achieved excellence in their field and contributed to the quality of life in their communities. Of that group, the three candidates who scored the highest are placed before the public vote to determine a 2018 winner. This is the seventh year of the Elite 40 program.
"We are fortunate to have so many talented and passionate leaders who are committed to improving their professions and their communities every day," Patterson said. "This is an outstanding class and they are wonderful ambassadors for Oakland County. Our future is in good hands."
These are members of the 2018 Oakland County Executive's Elite 40 Under 40 class. Ages listed for each class member are as of Jan. 1:
Katie Albano, 24, Artist/Dutton Farm Employment Program
Alexander A. Ayar, 36, Attorney – McDonald Hopkins
Ryan G. Beale, 38, CEO/Founder, Therapy Live
Janelle Kristen Best, 29, Executive Director, Clarkston Area Chamber of Commerce
Cheryl Boodram, 36, Marketing and Development Manager, Chief Financial Credit Union
Sommer K. Brock, 38, Development Director, Cranbrook Schools Horizons-Upward Bound
Adam Burns, 34, Teacher, Troy Athens High School
Grace Cai, 38, Founder/Executive Director, Michigan Youth Empowerment Foundation
Alex A. Calderone, 36, Managing Director, Calderone Advisory Group, LLC
Dr. Lucetry B. Dalton, 28, Clinical Health Psychology Fellow, McLaren Healthcare System
Aurelia Gooden, 34, Engineer, General Motors Warren Technical Center
Mat Ishbia, 37, President/CEO, United Shore – United Wholesale Mortgage
Dr. Carmine Jabri, 37, President/CEO E.M.M.A. International Consulting Group
Chris Jackson, 28, Site Coordinator – Community Liaison, Accent Pontiac
Sam Logan Khaleghi, 34, Creative Director, Kyyba Films & SLK Media Group
Ann Marie LaFlamme, 30, News Anchor, WXYZ-TV
Claire Lannoye-Hall, 34, Curator of Education, Detroit Zoological Society
Shimon G. Levy, 32, Founding Principal, Northland Capital
Ky Lindberg, 36, Director – Detroit Metro, Read to a Child Inc.
Mike Losey, 33, Natural Resources Manager, Springfield Township
Jennifer Lucarelli, 35, Chair and Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences,
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Brad Lukas, 33, Director – Emergency Services, Beaumont Health
Greg Martin, 38, Executive Director, DRAW (Disaster Relief At Work)
Jennifer Meier, 38, Owner, Green Hippo Gifts
Kyle Nieporte, 31, Administrative Manager, Surgical Services, St. Joseph Mercy Oakland
Katherine M. Pacynski, 29, Patent Attorney, The Dobrusin Law Firm, P.C.
Sarah Pazur, 37, Principal, FlexTech High School
Randall J. Peck, 34, Partner, Warner Norcross & Judd LLP
Shantha Kumari Rajendran, 36, Staff Engineer-Systems Lead, Panasonic Automotive
Scott Reynolds, 26, Project Architect, Auger Klein Aller Architects Inc.
Aaron Rzeznik, 30, Owner/Head Brewer, Drafting Table Brewing Co.
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Sarah G. Thomas, 24, Owner, New Heights Assisted Living
Tara Tomcsik-Husak, 37, Executive Director, Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
Dr. Sara Whedon, 33, Owner/Chiropractor, A Place to Grow Chiropratic
Maria Willett, 26, Chief Assistant to the Mayor, City of Rochester Hills
Dr. Alexandra Williamson, 35, Owner/Optometrist, Michigan Eye and Contact Lens PLLC
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Bring the Island beach experience home with you without taking up too much space in your car or suitcase. This miniature capsule contains real seaglass found on Vineyard beaches. Beach glass is created when broken glass from bottles or jars is tumbled by salt or fresh water against sand, rocks and other elements.
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A 1942 British propaganda poster.
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In 1942, Abram Games became an Official War Artist producing public information and propaganda posters for the British War Office. His designs from this period have become iconic images that evoke the social history of their time.
'Use Spades - Not Ships' was part of the 'Dig for Victory' campaign during World War II. The poster was designed to encourage British soldiers to cultivate the land that surrounded their quarters. The aim of the campaign was to make the country as self sufficient as possible as merchant ships were being sunk with a great loss of life.
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JavaFX 8: Combining Language Features, Part 2
In this example, the file is attempted to be read, and the contents are placed in the
Dragboard and system clipboard. This means that if you drop the file outside of the application and onto an editor, the contents of the file will be pasted into the editor, as shown below:
If instead you want to move the file to another directory within the application, you define the visuals that occur when the source is dragged over the target in the
onDragEntered() method. In our sample, I set the text to be bolder and add an underline to illustrate the directory as a viable target (see the screen shot below).
Here's the code:
public void onDragEntered(DragEvent event, Text target) { // entered the target region System.out.println("onDragEntered"); if (event.getGestureSource() != target && event.getDragboard().hasString()) { // Highlight the potential drop target target.setUnderline(true); target.setStroke(Color.BLACK); } event.consume(); }
This code has two checks: First, that the item isn't being dragged over itself. Second, that the
Dragboard contains something, which indicates that a drag-and-drop operation has actually begun. Next, let's skip to the chase and examine, in sections, what happens when the source (a file) is dropped onto the target (a directory):
public void onDragDropped(DragEvent event, Text target) { System.out.println("onDragDropped"); // Get data from the dragboard Dragboard db = event.getDragboard(); boolean success = false; if (db.hasString()) { // Do the file move here Text source = (Text)event.getGestureSource(); HeaderList sourceList = getParentHeaderList(source); HeaderList targetList = getParentHeaderList(target); String sourcePath = ... String targetPath = ...
First, since the target
Node is given as a parameter, the source
Node is obtained from the
DragEvent object; now we have both. Next, we get the lists that each
Text Node belongs to in order to get their file paths. Let's continue:
Files.move( Paths.get(sourcePath), Paths.get(targetPath), ATOMIC_MOVE); // Update the source list ... populateList(path, dirname, sourceList); } // Inform the source that the drag/drop is complete event.setDropCompleted(success); event.consume(); }
The source file is moved to the target directory via one line of code, thanks to the Java
Files object, and the source file's list is updated to show its new contents (minus the file moved). Finally, the drag-and-drop operation is marked as complete via the call to
setDropCompleted, after which the
onDragDone is called on the source
private void onDragDone(DragEvent event, Text source) { Dragboard db = event.getDragboard(); db.clear(); event.consume(); }
As a result, the code simply clears the
Dragboard (including the system clipboard) for neatness.
Displaying File Contents
Continuing with our exploration of what's new in JavaFX 8, I added a little more functionally to this version of the File Manager: the ability to open files in the JavaFX application. Currently, this is a simple operation, one that I will extend in one of the next blogs in this series. For now, a when a file is clicked, a check is made to see if it's an HTML file. If so, a JavaFX HTMLEditor object is created and placed within its own Scene-graph to be displayed within a separate window with the file's contents. This control was enhanced in JavaFX 8, and not only does it render HTML5 quite nicely, but it allows you to edit the HTML as well (shown in the screen shot below).
Here's the code (skipping the non-essential portions):
private void onTextClicked(MouseEvent me, HeaderList list) { // Get the file contents ... // Open in a new Stage/Scene graph with a TextFlow control Group grp = new Group(); Node node; if ( sourcePath.endsWith("html") ) { HTMLEditor html = new HTMLEditor(); html.setHtmlText(fileContents); node = html; } else { TextFlow txtFlow = new TextFlow(new Text(fileContents)); node = txtFlow; } grp.getChildren().add(node); Scene scene = new Scene(grp, 640, 480); Stage editStg = new Stage(); editStg.setScene(scene); editStg.show(); editStg.centerOnScreen(); }
You can see that if the file isn't an HTML, it's opened via the new
TextFlow control (shown below), which is used to render rich text displays (something we'll explore in more detail going forward).
Stay tuned, because in the next installment in the series we'll explore more involved
TextFlow implementations, and we still need to implement the custom
FileSystem to be able to manage remote files via FTP.
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Madeline comes from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, where for 10 years she worked for the Certification Bureau. In that position she was the Program Manager for the Nurse Aide Registry, and the Training Coordinator. She is well versed in the statutes and regulations that govern not only CNAs and HHAs, but certified health care facilities.


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Fox's Charles Gasparino Admits He Was Kicked Out of Sun Valley
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Charles Gasparino, the surly bull market bruiser of Fox Business News, managed to get kicked out of this summer's dullest event. But he doesn't care: the whole thing "wasn't worth going to" anyway.
In the above interview with Fox's Melissa Francis, Gasparino today said he got kicked out of the billionaire bonding session because he "inadvertently" walked into a private party, and then defended the honor of his diminutive female producer against marauding security.
i was so "seemingly tipsy" i did that exact workout after the incident in 90 degree heat @PaulCaf @jktrotter @samfbiddle @MelissaAFrancis— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) July 14, 2014
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Securing employment can be a tricky thing when you're just starting out. It takes experience to land a job, but if you haven't yet had one, then how are you supposed to catch a break?
Launching today to the Melbourne market (with Sydney in testing phase), Weploy is a new recruitment platform allowing users to apply for short-term positions (they've already secured employment opportunities from companies like VICE Australia, RMIT University and General Assembly) using psychometric testing, instead of the traditional CV.
Weploy was founded by serial entrepreneurs Nick La and Vince Luong (who, between them, have previously founded a restaurant, hospitality recruitment platform, bathroom vanity company and Scandinavian e-commerce business and more). They themselves have struggled to hire reliable temporary staff.
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"Having run businesses before Weploy, Vince and I both experienced issues with staffing and recruitment frequently, despite operating in separate industries," Nick explains. "We got talking about our frustrations one night over drinks and it dawned on us that the problem was not unique to us, but impacts people across different industries and countries. [We] realised if we bought technology into the mix, we could solve the problem globally."
Following detailed discussion about their ideas for the potential platform, Nick and Vince's next step was to tap into their networks to understand the viability of their burgeoning idea. When the feedback was positive, they set about fundraising.
"Weploy has received AUD$1 million in seed funding," Nick explains. "We initially secured AUD$400,000, however we grew and met our milestones so quickly that our investor [agtech mogul Van Leong] was impressed and re-invested an additional late-seed amount of AUD$600,000."
It didn't take long for their investor to identify with the Weploy product.
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Safeguarding against employment discrimination was of particular importance to the Weploy team.
"[To say it means] a lot is an understatement," Nick explains. "Myself, Vince, [Head of Growth] Tony [Wu] and most of our team have all faced some kind of discrimination growing up, as well as in the workplace. To be able to create a platform which removes the stigma embedded in the recruitment industry, and help people get jobs they love without being held back by their name or cultural background, is something we're deeply passionate about."
The platform is also just as committed to gathering reliable employers as employees, to help a supportive two-way recruitment process, also setting compensation for "Weployees" at 10 per cent above the market rate.
To be able to create a platform which removes the stigma embedded in the recruitment industry, and help people get jobs they love without being held back by their name or cultural background, is something we're deeply passionate about.
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"Weployees" are also classified as staff, as opposed to contractors, and receive working insurance and superannuation – another aspect setting Weploy apart from other recruitment providers.
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You can do a passable job with poor tools, but as it becomes possible to buy better kit, choose wisely. It is cheaper in the long run to buy a good knife, saucepan, etc. to start with that will last a lifetime than to economise on tools that never worked right to start with, were difficult to use, and had to be replaced in a year or two anyway. Tools can be bought from Harrods, from the pound shop, online or at the car boot. The key to getting the right stuff is to know what you are looking for.
Cooks' knife
The first tool, and the most used, is a cook's knife. You can spend anywhere from £2 to £150, the difference in price being in the quality of the steel, production values and kudos. Quality steel will keep it's edge longer, but all cooks knives will need sharpening from time to time.
You want a knife with a 6 to 8″ (150 – 200mm) blade, and a riveted handle, or one that is one piece with the blade. The knife should not flex when you try to bend it, or it will annoyingly choose it's own path when cutting harder things. It should feel good to hold.
Your knife needs to have a convex blade, so that you can rock it up and down through the food while applying pressure near the tip with the fingers of the other hand, in that manner that you see chefs on the tele doing at blinding speed. We go slower than that, but it's the same principle, and that's how to reduce herbs to dust. As you get more practice, you get faster.
There are two other basic knife techniques. With the bridge, you hold the food between your thumb and fingers, and cut down through the gap between them. Good for hard foods, like parsnips, squash, potatoes, chunking hard cheese…
In slicing fine the knife blade uses the knuckles and nails of the hand that is holding the food as a guide, and the hold shifts along the item as you slice on. Tuck your fingertips in.
The main thing with sharp knives is not to have any bit of you under the sharp edge. Decent knives need to be treated with respect. I remember yeas ago grabbing some cutlery out of the washing-up water, and coming up all red and bloody because I'd squeezed the sharp edge of my new knife. Since then, I store them separate from the general run of knives and forks, and they don't go in the cutlery drainer either.
Paring knife
A smaller version of the cooks' knife, with a blade around 3″ (75mm) long, for use where the larger one would be unwieldy.
There's no point having a good knife if you can't keep it sharp. There are all sorts of patent sharpeners on the market, and if you buy one that you can keep stable on the worktop as you draw the blade through it, it will do a good job.
The classic tool for this job, however, is the steel – it looks like a long knife, except the 'blade' is a round file. The key to using a steel is to know the angle of the edge of your knife, and applying the steel to the blade at that same constant angle, drawing it firmly across the side of the blade from base to tip, first one side, then the other, and repeat. A steel must be made of good-quality steel. There are some aluminium ones on the market, cheap as chips, and about as much use.
The patent sharpener gives you no choice of angle, which can be a good thing, and has, usually, two sets of grinding wheels to sharpen both sides at once. Both methods require a steady hand.
Bread knife
This is the one you don't sharpen. Get one that is reasonably stiff, and has scalloped serrations. Think of the bread knife as a small saw – it's useful for cutting cardboard boxes too, but that won't help its edge. Nothing else will cut even slices of fresh bread. Don't try to sharpen it.
As an old-fashioned sort, I prefer wooden boards. Teak will last a lifetime, but beech will work too. If you cut onto glass or melamine, you will quickly blunt your knife. Worktops are the worst surface to chop on, they will get damaged, and there's no way to fit them in the sink.
These days, people use plastic. I had my mother's old teak board, and a plastic one, on the boat before we moved on board. Returning to the boat after a month or so, I discovered the plastic one with black mould in all the little grooves, next to the sweet-looking teak one. That put me off plastic, but hey, each to their own.
I'v got three boards right now, one dedicated to raw meat and fish, one for veg etc, and one which is never used for garlic or onions. I bought that after I got fed up with garlic flavoured fruit salad.
Thicker is better, an inch/25mm or more, as they are less likely to warp and split. About 12″ x 18″ (300 x 400mm) is a good size. Small boards are annoying, when the bits of food fall off them. Big ones are hard to keep clean.
Ideally, a frying pan and three saucepans. 2 litres to 5 litres (4 to 8 pints) in volume. An enormous pan (2 gallons (9 litres) or more) is good if you are brewing, preserving, or feeding the five thousand. If every pan has a lid, that will extend their usefulness. If everything including the handles can stand able to stand the heat of the oven it will save on washing up and ovenware.
Heavy based stainless steel is a good low maintenance every-day option. Cast iron makes a good griddle, skillet or casserole, if you keep it well seasoned, in this manner: heat the pan up, empty, till really hot, then rub with oil on a paper towel, allow to cool: and repeat 3 times to start with, once in a while thereafter, and after soaking and scouring. Enamel works, if of a reasonable quality. Cheap enamel chips easily. Quality enamel is expensive. Both of these options are heavy.
Aluminium was a popular material for cooking pans, being cheap, light, and a good conductor of heat. Then they found that aluminium salts that leached from the pan particularly when used to cook acid foods, tomatoes, fruits and such, were implicated in Senile Dementia, and since then it has understandably lost popularity. I wonder what the health implications of degrading non-stick coatings might turn out to be.
Personally, I don't use aluminium or non-stick in my kitchen.
Copper pans and kettles were common in years gone by, and polished up they look lovely, hanging from a rack. But because verdigris – the green 'rust' of copper – is poisonous, they were always tinned inside. This coating wore out with use, and I'm glad I'm not a poor Victorian housewife, having to find the money to send the pans for re-tinning at the platers, or risk poisoning the family.
for mixing, containing and serving. A big one, a middle-sized one and a small one. Think Goldilocks, and always have one that's just right. Or use your saucepan…
A big one for sifting, separating and draining, a small one for tea and to catch lemon pips. Stainless steel is best. As a young wife, my mother put her new plastic colander into the oven to keep the rice warm. She had a university degree, worked in political and economic planning, and rice with plastic sauce.
Measuring jug – I like the glass kind, that hold ½ a litre / 1 pint
Measuring spoons – I still haven't got my set!
Scales – If you are getting serious about your cooking
Hand Blender – a simple one with a motor of over 250 watts will be used more than any other electrical gadget, and can cost as little as £10. They don't take much space, either. The top of the range ones have whisks and choppers.
Rotary whisk – If you haven't got an electric one, then one of these may be retro, but it does the job. Two four-bladed interlinked beaters, run by gears which are turned by a dog-leg handle. Look for good solid engineering.
Pepper grinder – with a ceramic grinding mechanism, which will last much longer. A few pounds will buy a black topped glass one from a certain Swedish furniture store, if you can stand the journey, and the long walk round. A good place for lots of other kitchen essentials, just such a mission to shop in.
- Wooden Spoon – for stirring up sweet stuff.
- Wooden Spatula – stirry stick for savouries. One of the most used minor tools
- Rubber spatula – if you can find a flexible one, it will increase yields and ease washing up
- Balloon whisk – mixing and whipping
- Metal fish slice – a flexible blade is good
- Rock and Roll potato peeler – sturdy handle, fine articulated blade – slung either way
- Pastry brush – for gently anointing. A new paintbrush is just as good. Wash it first
- Rolling pin – a cylinder, no handles, 30 – 45 cm (12 – 15″)of wood, glass or resin. Bear in mind your work space.
- Ladle – for transferring liquids. Or use a mug ;
- Slotted spoon – for fishing out solids, leaving the liquid behind
- Potato masher – made of metal, an oval horizontal working part with wiggly holes is my preferred pattern
- Tin opener – a good one will last longer.
- Small funnel – to get the oil back in the bottle… oven chips just aren't the same
- Scissors – opening packets, trimming herbs
- Box grater – stainless steel, sturdy and stable. Check the slicing side – can you flex it? If so don't buy it
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- Cake tin – loose base, 20 – 26 cm (8 – 10″)
- Bun tin – for fairy cakes, muffins, Yorkshire pud and tiny pies
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Apple Dumplings are one of my favorite Fall foods. I consider it a Fall food because up until the last couple of years, I had no idea how to make them, and would only have them in the Fall at the local Festival. My sister, Missy, was given a recipe from a friend and we've been making them on a regular basis ever since.They are so easy. You can't mess this up.
To make Apple Dumplings, you will need:
1 (16 ounce) can refrigerated flaky biscuit dough
4 apples - peeled, cored and halved {We use Granny Smith but sometimes Gala}
1 cup white sugar
1 cup water {We use Mtn. Dew instead}
1/2 cup butter, melted
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
After you gather your ingredients, peel and core your apples. I don't have an apple corer so I just cut them in half or into 1/4s and slice out the core with a regular knife. Then preheat your oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
{I forgot to peel the apples until I started wrapping them up for the photos and had to go back and peel them.}
Get yourself a piece of wax paper and sprinkle it with flour. Lay your biscuit down, sprinkle on some more flour and roll it out with a rolling pin.
It should look something like this.
Now lay your peeled apple on top and fold the biscuit around the apple.
Sorta like this.
Now lay them folded side down onto a very buttered baking dish.
Combine sugar, water {or Mtn. Dew}, melted butter, vanilla and cinnamon.
Now pour the mixture all over the biscuit covered apples. Spoon it from the pan onto the apples several more times until they are smothered in it.
Now just bake those babies about 35-40 minutes until they are golden brown and serve them up with some French Vanilla ice cream.
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In response to the introduction to my 20-part critical review (posted in this discussion forum at http://www.wagnerheim.com) of "Finding and Ending" (Oxford University Press, 2004), an interpretation of Wagner's Ring authored by Dr. Philip Kitcher (John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia Univ.) and Dr. Richard Schacht (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Univ. of Illinois), Dr. Philip Kitcher stated the following in an email he sent to me with permission to post it in the http://www.wagnerheim.com discussion forum (which I posted there on 7/27/2016):
Please note: The following remarks express the views of Philip Kitcher; they do not necessarily accord with those of Richard Schacht.
I have some sympathy with Paul Heise's complaints about the treatment of Siegfried in "Finding an Ending" (FE). To suppose that Siegfried is a shallow figure, not suited for the rich musical and dramatic world Wagner had created is hardly an ideal interpretation. Yet that judgment is not simply a product of our interpretation of the Ring. It accords with the experiences of thousands of Ring-goers, as well as the directors and dramaturges who wrestle with the problem of how to make Siegfried alive and sympathetic to a contemporary audience. Siegfried simply strikes almost everyone as a brainless cad (to borrow a quaint but lovely term from Wendy Doniger).
Heise strives to solve the problem by offering an allegorical reading. His "solution" quickly descends into obscurity. I am simply baffled by claims that Siegfried is Wotan reborn without knowledge of his identity or that Brünnhilde is his unconscious mind – and I have no clue as to how any rigorous interpreter would find evidence for these assertions. To my mind, Heise reacts to the problem by making things up ad hoc, in much the way Freud's fiercest critics suppose that he "interpreted" the dreams and remarks of his patients. Better, to my mind, a clear – if suboptimal – response to the problem of Siegfried than the dark pseudo-profundities to which Heise is driven.
In e-mail correspondence, Heise has suggested that all would become clear if I read his book. Perhaps. But I doubt it. In the time I've been able to devote to his work on Wagner, the murk only gets denser the more I read. I'm not encouraged to plod on in hopes of enlightenment. Possibly other readers have had better luck.
But the problem of Siegfried is a serious one. It has bothered me since we finished FE, and I've tried to work my way to a better dramatic interpretation of the character. Interested readers can find a short account of my solution-in-progress in an essay I wrote for the Opera Book of Opera North's rightly acclaimed production of the Ring. It's under the title "Making Sense of Siegfried." Anyone who would like to read it, and who doesn't have access to the Opera Book, can obtain a word doc copy, by writing to me at e email@example.com e . (Some people have found the approach promising. Others, like Doniger, still think of Siegfried as a brainless cad.)
Dr. Kitcher states in his response to my interpretation of Wagner's "Ring" above that though he concurs with me that his original interpretation of Siegfried in "Finding and Ending" is inadequate, that my allegorical justification of the character Siegfried "quickly descends into obscurity." He offers the following specific examples: "I am simply baffled by claims that Siegfried is Wotan reborn without knowledge of his identity or that Bruennhilde is his unconscious mind - and I have no clue as to how any rigorous interpreter would find any evidence for these assertions." Dr. Kitcher suggests that I react to the problem of how to make sense of Siegfried "by making things up ad hoc," and disparages what he calls "the dark pseudo-profundities to which Heise is driven." He added, in response to my suggestion (actually first made to him by email in 2011) that he can find the answers to his questions by reading my online book on Wagner's Ring posted here at http://www.wagnerheim.com, that he doubts his problem grasping my interpretation would be cleared up by actually reading it, saying: "In the time I've been able to devote to his work on Wagner, the murk only gets denser the more I read. I'm not encouraged to plod on in hopes of enlightenment. Possibly other readers have had better luck."
Other readers have, indeed, had better luck. Over the years I have received dozens of testimonials to the originality and persuasiveness of my evolving interpretation of Wagner's "Ring" and his other canonical operas and music-dramas, from "The Flying Dutchman" through "Parsifal," several of which have been written by Dr. Roger Scruton (I posted his three distinct critical responses to my online book on Wagner's "Ring" here in this discussion forum). Several visitors to, and members of, the discussion forum at http://www.wagnerheim.com have read either all or large portions of my online book on Wagner's "Ring" with understanding and appreciation. A good example is Wolram's response, which you can read in the discussion forum at http://www.wagnerheim.com by clicking on page 2 of the forum in the archive.
However, it dawned on me that Dr. Kitcher in his brief critical response above has isolated for criticism two of my primary propositions which are central to my overall interpretation of Wagner's "Ring," which are not only two of the first discoveries I made after embarking on my interpretation of the "Ring" in the early 70's, but two propositions for which I have provided the most cogent and comprehensive evidence in my book. Since Dr. Kitcher and other skeptics are unlikely ever to read my entire 900-plus page online book in search of my carefully delineated answers to his questions, I thought it would be very helpful if I isolated those specific passages from Wagner's "Ring" (music and words) which most persuasively make my case for these two controversial propositions, in a much briefer essay (which you are reading now, Part A), and then expand my argument to include those incidents and passages from Wagner's other canonical operas and music-dramas, relevant passages from Wagner's writings and recorded remarks, and relevant passages from Ludwig Feuerbach's four books known to have influenced Wagner in creating his "Ring," which provide corroboration for my answers to these two questions. Let me add that there is little or nothing in my interpretation which is self-evident: it is all the product of a very close reading and attentive analysis of the evidence. Had what I have to say been self-evident to most members of Wagner's audience I wouldn't be proposing it as a new interpretation. There is no one smoking gun, but rather, dozens of smoking guns which need to be grasped in their totality.
There is something else I must clear up before proceeding. I am going to be providing, below, the documentary evidence to support my assertions that Siegfried is Wotan reborn minus consciousness of his true identity, and that Bruennhilde is Siegfried's unconscious mind (who knows for Siegfried what he doesn't know, as she says herself in S.3.3). However, these two questions are ultimately one question, because I also state that Bruennhilde is Wotan's unconscious mind. So both of these questions can actually be contracted, in a sense, into one: is Bruennhilde Wotan's unconscious mind and Siegfried's unconscious mind? The point I am making is that evidence in support of either proposition is also evidence in support of both, so, though I will be detailing below my evidence in support of either my proposition that Siegfried is Wotan reborn minus consciousness of his true identity, or my proposition that Bruennhilde is Siegfried's unconscious mind, I will ultimately show how evidence in support of either proposition is also evidence in support of both. For it is by virtue of Wotan's planting the seed of his unbearable knowledge of who he is and of his corrupt history in Bruennhilde, the womb of his wishes, in his V.2.2 confession to her, that he can be reborn as Siegfried, the hero who does not know who he is and who doesn't experience Wotan's fear of the end, because Bruennhilde knows this forbidden knowledge for Siegfried, thus protecting him from suffering the wounds of consciousness and foresight.
Though I have drawn the evidence for my two propositions for my discussion in Part A of my response (see below) almost entirely just from the "Ring" libretto and music, in order to demonstrate that I need not reference outside sources to make my case, and though in Part B of my response I will then reach out beyond the "Ring" libretto and music to reference other relevant documentary evidence to make my case, I will state here, as a sort of preamble, that in that outside documentary evidence there are some particularly dramatic examples which prove that Wagner did indeed construe his characters according to my two propositions. Though there is not, so far as I know, any definitive evidence that Wagner read any of Schopenhauer's writings prior to late summer and early fall of 1854, prior, in other words, to his completing the "Ring" libretto, nonetheless Schopenhauer in his essay on "Madness" from "The World as Will and Representation" described madness as caused by a desperate need to repress self-knowledge, which the conscious mind so abhors that it can't tolerate it, into the unconscious mind, and its replacement with a more tolerable but illusory substitute, which is precisely how I describe Wotan's confession of this hoard of knowledge - which he told Bruennhilde he couldn't bear to speak to himself aloud, without losing the grip sustaining his will - to Bruennhilde, but which Bruennhilde persuaded him to confess to her on the basis that she is his will. Wotan's response to her was that in speaking to her he would only be speaking to himself, words which he said would thus remain forever unspoken.
Feuerbach, Wagner's other primary philosophic mentor (who we know did have a huge impact on Wagner's libretto, especially in view of the fact that Wagner described the influence of four of Feuerbach's books on him prior to his completion of the "Ring" libretto), construed religious belief as the product of man's collective dreaming, man's unconscious process of imagination, involuntary myth-making during the childhood of man, noting that this process must have been unconscious because, had man been conscious of inventing the gods, man could not have believed in their true existence. Wagner echoed Feuerbach's notion in a number of passages from his writings.
Furthermore, as a model for Bruennhilde as Wotan's and Siegfried's unconscious mind, Wagner in his "A Communication to my Friends" from 1851 (right when he was completing the "Ring" libretto) described Elsa as Lohengrin's unconscious mind, the involuntary part of Lohengrin, and stated that Lohengrin's conscious mind finds its redemption in his unconscious mind Elsa, echoing precisely my reading of Wotan's confession to Bruennhilde of his divine "Noth," with the following exception. Wagner praised Elsa's breach of faith in Lohengrin, her insistence that he share with her the secret knowledge of his true identity, and stated that her breach made Wagner a true revolutionary.
In other words, Wagner stated that Elsa's insistence on learning from Lohengrin the secret of his identity so that she could help him protect this secret in order to save him from suffering some unknown anguish, or "Noth," which Elsa supposed the revelation of this secret would bring down upon him, somehow inspired Wagner to make the historic transition from romantic German operas, of which "Lohengrin" was the last, to his revolutionary music-dramas, in which, as Wagner stated, the relationship of his music to his libretto text would be organic rather than mechanical. The point here is that what Lohengrin refused, to share with Elsa the forbidden knowledge of his private "Noth," his true identity and origin, Wotan accepted. Wotan concurred with Bruennhilde's plea to hear his confession of his divine "Noth," which we might describe as the religious mysteries. Feuerbach noted that since mankind involuntarily and collectively dreamed the gods into existence, it is man's duty to explode this mystery, to become conscious of the fact that man himself invented the gods. And Wagner makes that the centerpiece of Wotan's confession to Bruennhilde, which Wagner described as the most important scene in the "Ring." Allegorically speaking, the reason that Lohengrin is the last of Wagner's traditional German Romantic operas, in which, as he says, the music relates to the words, the drama, only mechanically, is because Lohengrin refuses to grant Elsa the privilege of love, refuses to share with her the secret of his identity and origin. The reason the "Ring" is the first of Wagner's four revolutionary music-dramas, in which music and words become one in a perfect loving union, is that Wotan acquiesces to Bruennhilde's plea for him to confide his divine "Noth" to her. So Bruennhilde is Wotan's unconscious mind, and his music, whereas his confession of his corrupt history and his true, loathsome identity is the drama which can only be redeemed by dipping itself in redemptive music, in which it can become timeless and mythic and regain its innocence, in Wotan reborn as the artist-hero Siegfried.
And here is the crucial distinction between Elsa and Bruennhilde, the revolutionary distinction. Elsa only offered to share with Lohengrin the knowledge of his true identity and origin, in order to share with him the burden of protecting his secret, so she could save him from some indefinite harm she imagined would come of its being made public. But since Wagner in 1851, just as he was completing the "Ring" libretto, described Elsa as Lohengrin's unconscious mind, in which his conscious ego can find redemption, in Bruennhilde Wagner took the revolutionary step, because, by virtue of confessing all that he loathes about himself and fears about the gods' predestined end to Bruennhilde, Wotan can repress his knowledge of his true, loathsome (as he describes it) identity and corrupt history in her, his unconscious mind and the womb of his wishes, in order to be reborn minus conscious knowledge of his true identity and history, which Bruennhilde now knows for him. Thus Siegfried tells Fafner that "I still don't know who I am," but Bruennhilde tells Siegfried "Your own self I am if you love me in my bliss, (Motif #87, the Fate Motif), what you don't know I know for you."
As for the burden of my argument for my case that Bruennhilde is both Wotan's and Siegfried's unconscious mind, you will find it in the remainder of Part A. As for my other proposition that Siegfried is Wotan reborn minus consciousness of his true identity, again, you will find the burden of my answer in the document which follows, but I can anticipate here by noting that Wagner wrote to King Ludwig II that Wotan lives on in Siegfried as the artist lives on in his work of art, in which the original artist remains hidden from view, something which Wagner stated Erda (Mother Nature, who knows all that was, is, and will be, which Wotan sinned against in stealing Alberich's Ring) did not know.
Here, then, is my answer to Dr. Kitcher's two questions, an essay approximately 200 pages in length:
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(In the growing light of the dawning day a castle with glittering battlements can be seen standing on a rocky summit in the background; between it and the front of the stage a deep valley must be imagined, with the river rhine flowing through it. Wotan and Fricka asleep. The castle is now fully visible. Fricka wakes up: her eye falls on the castle.)
Fricka: (alarmed) Wotan, husband! Awake!
Wotan: (still dreaming) (#19:) The happy hall of delight is guarded by door and gate (:#19). (#20b?:) Manhood's honor (:#20b?), (#20c?:) boundless might redound to endless renown (:#20c?)!
Fricka: (shaking him) Awake from the blissful deception of dreams! [[ #21 embryo: ]] Husband, wake up and reflect (:#21 embryo)!
Wotan: (Waking and raising himself a little: his gaze is at once arrested by the sight of the castle) [[ #20a: ]] The everlasting work is ended (:#20a)! (…) On mountain peak the gods' abode; resplendent shines the proud-standing hall! As in my dream I conceived it, just as my will decreed it, [[ #20b: ]] sturdy and fair (:#20b) [[ #20c: ]] it stands on show (:#20c), [[ #20d: ]] august and glorious building (:#20d)!
Fasolt: (#21:) Gentle slumber sealed your eyes (:#21): we both, unsleeping, built the stronghold. [[ #26b: ]] Never tiring of mighty toil, we stowed the heavy stones away … (:#26b). (pointing to the castle: #20a modulation?) There it stands, what we hewed (#20a modulation?); shimmering brightly the day shines upon it (#20a modulation?): move in now, to pay us our due.
The first evidence in Wagner's "Ring" for what will become a very sophisticated allegorical representation of the unconscious mind is found here in the transition from Scene One to Scene Two of "Rhinegold," in both the motival music and the words. We see here that Alberich's Ring Motif #19 transforms musically into the first segment of the Valhalla Motif #20a, as if Alberich's Ring of power musically gives birth to Valhalla. In my interpretation I construe Alberich's forging of his Ring of power as Wagner's metaphor for man's acquisition of his uniquely human consciousness, man's reflective, symbolic mind. But, sticking with what is self-evident from the libretto of the "Ring," Alberich's Ring is a Ring of earthly power, and Valhalla is the "Ring"'s version of the gods' heavenly home, their divine realm. We find here a musical, or subliminal, transformation from earthly power to heavenly power. The religiously faithful, particularly in Christianity, construe what is earthly as a creation of divinity, of that which supernaturally transcends nature, but Wagner here musically depicts, more accurately, an evolution from the earthly to the spiritual.
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I just wanted to justify the reason why I have been so long away from Deviantart and why I havent been uploading any face painting.
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The last few times that I have tried to paint something on myself I have ended up really angry or depressed because I feel like I'm not good enough anymore because my paints are shit, so that extremly got on my nerves!
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Nicole by Nicole Miller Jumpsuit; JC PenneyThink you're beyond your romper years? Think again.
Sure, we see trendy girls (in their early 20s) running around in itsy bitsy ones; but you're a mom, you want a little more coverage, right?
Well, luckily rompers are getting classier and are perfect for moms of any age. Here's why -- the romper is all connected so you don't have to worry about plumber's crack, like with low-rise pants, or flashing the crowd while squatting in a skirt or dress.
Plus, they're still trendy and cheaper than ever.
I love this Nicole by Nicole Miller Jumpsuit ($29.99). It has cute cap sleeves and ruffles along the scoop neckline. Plus, since it gives more coverage up top, you can wear it with heels and not look too hoochie.
See what other rompers make my under $30 list.
Derek Heart Floral Challis Romper; Kohl's
Colorblock Ruffle Jumper; Urban Outfitters
Next up, the Derek Heart Floral Challis Romper ($19.99). The scalloped bust and hem are flirty and the floral print is uber-femme and charming. I picture this with cute, strappy, flat sandals.
If you're nervous about taking the romper plunge, try the Lucca Couture Ruffle Jumper ($19.99). The two-tone outfit makes it look like two separate pieces -- a camisole and shorts. No one will know it's a romper but you. Try it with ballet flats or wedges.
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The desktop wasn't listed as an Eee but as the "Digital Home System EP20". However, it's hard to conclude that the 'EP' in the model number isn't short for 'Eee PC' - especially when the box is listed as running "Eee PC Linux OS".
Asus is probably just not ready to go fully public on the desktop, its specs and branding yet.
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Put water, oil, and honey in your crockpot or other slow cooker
Rub the spice mixture into each piece of meat, using your hands if you like to get the meat nicely coated
Add the meat to the cooker and stir gently
Cook on low for 6-8 hours until the meat falls off the bones or starts falling apart
Transfer meat to another dish with slotted spoon
Strain the fat off the remaining liquid and place the liquid in a saucepan big enough to hold the meat
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November 13, 2007
OCIE Expands Use of Trade Blotters
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Staff examiners at the Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations are moving into data-crunching mode. OCIE is beginning to standardize its analysis of information in trading blotters in its examinations of investment companies and investment advisers. This is driven by the recognition that the trade blotter "provides staff with a wealth of information," said Gene Gohlke, associate director of OCIE.
OCIE staff have been getting and analyzing trade blotter data for the last five years. What's new is that there's now a "basic set of analysis criteria" across the entire examination program, available through OCIE's internal Web site, "so there could be increased use of the information among staff," Gohlke told Traders Magazine. Previously, all staff examiners did not have access to the same methodologies and could choose to analyze trading blotters in different ways.
What Gohlke called the "electronic file" or "electronic download" is vital in the inspection process. "We run a variety of tests against that electronic file-looking for patterns [and] for trades that seem aberrant," he told attendees at a recent Investment Company Institute conference in New York. OCIE now has at least a dozen basic "standardized routines" it runs on the electronic file to analyze trading information.
One of OCIE's current tests focuses on cross-trading activity among the clients of an investment adviser or among funds within a group. Gohlke said examiners use the blotter to search for patterns such as whether certain funds are typically buyers in cross trades, and whether those funds usually realize a loss when the positions are disposed of down the road. The concern is that some funds may be "dumping securities" or selling securities well above market prices.
A blotter test OCIE added in the last year revolves around an adviser's most profitable trades during the inspection period. Examiners look at the 10 most profitable positions within each investment style, and map the initial trades to public announcements by those issuers. If six or seven trades were put on right before a significant announcement, Gohlke said, that may suggest "significant information coming into the firm." In those cases, examiners will investigate how, by whom and under what circumstances the investment decision was made to determine if "inappropriate action" occurred.
Another OCIE test focuses on commission rates. OCIE staff look at all the trades placed for an adviser's clients during a yearlong period. After ranking the brokers by their average commission rate, they look for those with rates "significantly above" the others, and examine why those brokers were paid more on average, according to Gohlke. He noted that there may be reasons for a higher rate, such as bundled research arrangements or client referral relationships. But in some cases, those differences may require more disclosure to clients and perhaps some "remedial action."
OCIE staff also use the blotter to flush out "portfolio pumping" and "window dressing," Gohlke said. The former refers to efforts to jack up fund performance right before a reporting date, while the latter refers to alterations in a portfolio's composition or strategy just before a reporting date. The SEC has long considered both deceptive practices that compromise market integrity.
Gohlke noted that investment advisers may want to consider running tests on their portfolios in advance of OCIE examinations to assess trading practices and identify behavior that might warrant further attention. "That would be really a great solution, but we don't see it very often," he said. He added that OCIE will consider weaving a discussion of various tests into regional meetings and seminars for compliance officers.


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There are a lot of ways to make tiny mittens. This is how I do it. This pattern is essentially in alpha phase–I would love feedback from test knitters.
Other students of knitting history can weigh in, but I've been thinking about this pattern a lot lately. I originally developed it at the end of 2009 to make a pair of plain red mittens for my Molly doll.
My guess is that 2-needle mittens would have been a lot more common for handmade items in Molly's era, but I hate seams and hate seams on small items even more. read more…
This post started life as a comment on All Over Albany back in 2013. I pasted into a blog post, then abandoned it in my drafts for five years.
The thing is, it's all still true. Though I don't go to Price Chopper as much as I used to, I still go there. People still complain about it. Why?
Here's what I wrote:
I am completely baffled as to why everyone on this site hates Price Chopper so much. Maybe it's because I'm from Syracuse, where out of multiple options, the Chopper has the best prices. You know, where the regular people who can't afford to shop at Wegmans every week go.
Maybe it's because in my Capital Region moves, I keep ending up near the nicer stores: from the Guilderland one near Crossgates, then Westgate, and now I live near Slingerlands, which was pretty terrible during renovations.
I mean, I do a little shopping everywhere. I get my quinoa at Trader Joe's unless it's on sale at Honest Weight, where I'm a member. I stock up on sodium-laden frozen dinners at Walmart and buy three pounds of butter at a time at BJ's. I go to Fresh Market… well, pretty much only for the peanut butter malt balls if I'm already in that area of town, and that's about it.
And yet I still — STILL! — will turn to the Chopper if I have a pantry to restock. The things that I buy are consistently cheaper there, especially if I play sale schedule games and pack some coupons. Is it because I don't buy meat? Am I just dazzled by discount games? What am I missing?
I'll be turning in my AOA bylines, commenter account, and spot at the next birthday party now.


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StarFirst Combi Plans is launched by collaboration of Star Health Insurance & IndiaFirst Life Insurance, which is a joint-venture between Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank, Legal & General (UK). Let's find out few of the key features of this new combo insurance plan below. Although it will take some time to share the StarFirst Combi Plans review, as this is a new product.
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The Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit (NRSBU) oversees the Nelson Regional Sewerage Scheme, which is jointly owned by the Nelson City and Tasman District Councils, managing the current treatment facilities and network.
Accidental and overflow discharge, Coastal Pipeline Route and pump stations at Wakatu Industrial Estate
Resource consent is sought for discharge permits to discharge to land, Coastal Marine Area (Waimea Estuary) and Air from accidental wastewater overflow from four pump stations located on the edge of Waimea Inlet, and from the pipework or pipeline fittings that make up the infrastructure of the Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit network. Read more.
Presentation by Senior Environmental Consultant Dr. Rob Lieffering (4.4MB PDF) exploring project objectives, resource consents overview, regulatory framework, assessment of environmental effects and sensitive sites.
Effects of treated wastewater on Waimea Inlet, Monitoring Programme and Results (1.1MB PDF)
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Posted 14 July 2017
The Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit (NRSBU) is trialling the use of wind powered mixers in one of its treatment ponds at Bell Island.
Read the full article about "Wind put to use at Bell Island"...
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Emerging Organic Contaminants (EOCs) have been defined as synthetic or naturally-occurring chemicals or any microorganisms not commonly monitored in the environment, but which have the potential to enter the environment and cause known or suspected adverse ecological and (or) human health effects (Stewart et al. 2016). Municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent is recognised as a major source of EOCs into the environment. The Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit (NRSBU) contracted the Cawthron Institute and Northcott Research Consultants Limited (by subcontract) to analyse a suite of EOCs in the effluent from the Bell Island WWTP.
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Posted 29 June 2012
An independent energy audit of the region's sewerage treatment plant at Bell Island has come back with impressive results.
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E3 - Hands-On: Batman: Arkham Asylum
Without a doubt, one of the games I most wanted to play at E3 this year was Batman: Arkham Asylum. It seems to have a lot going for it. Paul Dini, who has written copious Batman comics and was a major player in Batman: The Animated Series is the writer for the game. Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, and Arleen Sorkin are back as the voices of Batman, Joker, and Harley Quinn, respectively. To top it off, the game is uninhibited by a movie or tv license, and promises to feature a huge variety of Batman's greatest villains. With all this in its corner, my hopes were high as I picked up the PlayStation 3 controller at Eidos's booth and settled into the Cape and Cowl.
Well, all my hopes and expectations were not reached; they were surpassed. For the first time ever, a video game seems to have captured what it is to be Batman. The gameplay features have been talked about, and trailers shown, for months, but in isolated portions. The freeflow combat, where Batman takes on several enemies, turning from one to the next, was listed as one type of play. The detective mode, allowing him to size up a situation and find innovative ways to a solution was shown as another. The stealth movement, both on the ground and through the high rafters of Arkham was yet another piece of the puzzle. What hasn't been shown, however, is how these three things constantly fuse together seamlessly. Just as Batman will use detective skills, stealth, and brute force in a single situation in the comics, movies, and tv shows, he finally does in this game.
The controls are very intuitive. After only a few minutes of playing, I was deftly maneuvering through the hallways and rooms of Arkham, fighting along the way. The first level takes you through a very natural tutorial to give you the basics, but the game really shines when you start combining aspects of controls later on. Most fight sequences will be against medium to large groups of enemies. Pointing the left thumbstick at an enemy while pressing the attack button does your basic attack, and switching from enemy to enemy isn't just encouraged, it's necessary. Counter moves and regular hits successfully strung together unlock advanced moves that really show off Batman's martial arts skills, allowing him to easily take down entire groups of enemies in mere seconds. As the game progresses, these standard enemies gain various weapons that will require different tactics, though, so you can't always just jump right into the fray.
The batarang is Batman's long range weapon, used for stunning and knocking down opponents. After hitting them with a batarang, you can move in for the takedown, choking them until they pass out. Stealth takedowns are achieved by sneaking up on an enemy from behind, and with a single button press, Batman will take them out with nary a sound.
Assistance comes from two likely sources. When Batman needs help identifying enemies and learning their weaknesses, he consults Oracle, who feeds full bios to him. Commissioner Gordon is also watching the madness and gives tips when he can to guide the Caped Crusader on his way.
One sequence early in the game showed off how using all three aspects of Batman's arsenal can be both essential and really fun. I first ran into a room, only to be greeted by 5 gun-toting thugs who shot me down in a heartbeat. My next try had me taking a different approach. First, I snuck in through an air duct. I clung to the ceilings, using my grappling hook to move between several gargoyles that jutted out from the tops of the walls. I isolated one enemy as he patrolled, hanging upside-down from a gargoyle, snatching him up as he passed below me, choking him out, then stringing him up. I quickly moved across the room, again traversing only the ceiling, and the other enemies found their companion. When they did, they called everyone over to examine him, and talked naturally about how they were starting to get worried. A quick look at the detective mode showed increased nervousness in the villains, making them clumsier and less aware of their surroundings. As they moved to patrol again, I picked off the straggler, swooping down from behind him and taking him out in a single blow before darting back to the ceiling with the grappling gun. With the commotion, the remaining 3 turned to see their fallen friend, and freaked out even more. A well placed Batarang knocked one down, and before they could turn to see where it came from, I was already gone. "He just…disappeared!" one inmate said with a quiver in his voice. Now down to two, they split up slightly, but this time stayed closer together, talking about this tactic as one to encourage their prolonged survival and freedom. I dropped from the ceiling, climbing into a vent in a room-within-the-room until I could watch them through the exit. When their backs were turned to one another, I dropped between them, using Batman's quick, fluid combat to move from one to the other. Now both stunned and on the ground, a final attack on each ensured they wouldn't be getting up and the room was cleared.
If this sequence sounds like something out of a comic or a movie, that's because it's exactly how it played. The Eidos representative with me said he'd seen the room done 10 times at that point, and each time it was done a completely different way. The freedom to act and react as Batman is nothing short of incredible, and made me anxious to play more of the game.
PlayStation 3 owners will get a free same-day DLC pack that unlocks the Joker as a playable character in challenge rooms, which vary from a simple "take out these three guys in hand-to-hand combat" to "defeat 10 enemies with various weapons." The Joker has unique moves and abilities, and while his controls are the same, the things he does are completely different. From his gaseous flower to his electrifying joybuzzer, the classic tricks are all there. He even laughed maniacally while bashing a guard's head into the ground, bloodying him up for the kill. It's not groundbreaking stuff, but it's a nice little extra for PS3 gamers. When asked if any other characters or unique costumes would be unlockable or downloadable in the game, the rep responded, "we're not talking about that yet."
Overall, this was a great gaming experience. The game was recently delayed from June to Late August, but I was assured this was done to make sure the best game possible could be released. I for one will be counting the days until I can play more of the game. In fact, if I have any free time during the rest of the show, I'll be making a beeline straight back to Batman: Arkham Asylum.


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Original Title: Die for me (Revenants #1)
Norwegian Title: Våk over meg
Written by: Amy Plum
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Written for: YA
Pages: 344
Publisher: Atom
Publisher: Atom
Published: May 10, 2011
Published in Norway: September 23, 2011 (I think...)
My copy: 2011 (Paperback)
Norwegian Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Norwegian Publisher: Cappelen Damm
I read it: Septemer 18 - September 23, 2011
Source: Bought
Source: Bought
Challenge(s): 100 Books in a Year & Summer Romance Reading Challenge
Back of the Book
My life had always been blissfully, wonderfully normal. But it only took one moment to change everything.
Suddenly, my sister Georgia and I were orphans. We put our lives into storage and moved to Paris to live with our grandparents. And I knew my shattered heart, my shattered life, would never feel normal again. Then I met Vincent.
Mysterious, sexy and unnervingly charming, Vincent Delacroix appeared out of nowhere and swept me off my feet. Just like that, I was in danger of losing my heart all over again.
Of course, nothing is ever that easy. Because Vincent is no normal human. He has a terrifying destiny, one that puts his life at risk every day. He also has enemies … immortal, murderous enemies who are determined to destroy him and all of his kind.
While I'm fighting to piece together the remnants of my life, can I risk putting my heart – as well as my life and my family's – in jeopardy for a chance at love?
A stunning novel of life, death and the lengths we go to for love.
Grief is hard to handle ...
The sisters Kate and Georgia movies from USA to France to live with their grandparents after losing their parents in a horrible car accident. The grandparents lives in Paris, known as the most romantic place on earth but that doesn't make Kate feel any better. She is in heavy grief and spends the days in the bedroom while Georgia escapes her own grief by going out to party with friends. After a lot of nagging by Georgia and her grandparents to leave the house a few hours a day to try to make her life go back to "normal". Eventually Kate goes out of the house a few hours each day to spend the time at a cafe to sit alone and read a book. At least she is out of the house. That's when she discovers a few guys. She is especially curious about one of them. And she feels that he got an eye on her as well, but she's not sure. She thinks he is hot and mysterious. But who is he?
It's been a lot of hype about this book in the book blog world. Many of them has been writing about how fantastic this book is. It makes me curious and sceptical at the same start. I got the book in the beginning of June but I've been waiting to read it. 'Cause I almost didn't dare to open a book that has a gorgeous cover and a book that already gotten so many positive reviews. So I just had it on my shelf and I was just looking at it from time to time before it was time to read it. I was scared to open the book 'cause I was nervous about having too high hopes. So, after a lot of hesitation I finally managed to open the book and start reading it. Before I knew it I had read many pages, about halfway through and the pages kept just flying away. I was really enjoying the book 'cause it had suspense, action and romance. The book has a little bit of everything. And even though I was very sceptical about that the setting is in Paris (the most romantic place in the world) and I was afraid that that would make it a little too typical, but I must admit that I got pleasantly surprised that I didn't experienced the story or the setting as typical at all, even though it all took place in Paris. The book is like fresh air in the paranormal romance-genre. It's not about vampires, werewolves, zombies or other creatures we've been reading about lately. This is about creatures I haven't read about before and I like it. It's something new. But I don't want to say too much about what they are 'cause I don't want to spoil anything.
This is a short review of Die for me. The reason is I'm terrified to spoil too much. You just have to read the book yourself. This is not typical paranormal romance that we are used to read. It has something new and exciting which made me very happy. To us who read a lot of fantasy probably is getting tired of the same things from that genre. But this book is luckily a little different. It stands out in a way and I'm glad to see that. It's still about a girl who falls for this mysterious guy type of thing but there are other things in the story that is refreshing. I'm glad to see that 'cause there are a lot of fantasy books out there that are a little too similar. So, I'm glad I finally have read this Die for me and that it has given the genre some fresh air. And I really want to read the next book in the series. And to be honest I haven't understood this team thing. I've never been a part of a team but right now I surprise myself by saying: TEAM VINCENT!
Die for me is for you who likes fantasy and that wants to read something new in this genre instead of listening/reading to the same song over and over again!
Highlights: Finally new and different creatures.
Downhill: I wish the book had more pages and there's so much more I want to know. Can't wait for the next book!