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Day 4 of Heliogenna – Demeter and other agricultural deities
This is a good day to honor all agricultural deities.
I have this story in my head that the day before Solstice Zeus goes to Demeter and tells her to snap out of it. He tells her that she knows her daughter will return to her in the spring, so she should quit making every0ne miserable and cold. He tells her to go visit her daughter and check out for herself that she is beloved and well-treated. While she is there, she needs to command Helios in his name that he needs to quite tarrying so long in the Underworld and start spending more time in the lands above. He tells her that because she has slacked off on her care of the mortals, Helios has felt he could do the same. Demeter slowly makes the trip below passing all the terrors and ugliness of the trip to find her daughter as queen and very happy despite some dismal circumstances…like missing the sky and such (not so much Helios because he's always hanging around.) She delivers Zeus' message in time for solstice and so the sun starts his return. The next day Persephone honors her mother. The next 3 days are days of celebration and thanks given by Hades for his wife and her mother. Demeter visits for a time but eventually returns to start preparing the earth for her daughter's return.
The below piece is one that I wrote last year to commemorate this event that I see in my head but haven't actually written out.
Solstice Plea to Demeter
By the command of Zeus,
we live within the pattern of creation.
By the command of Zeus,
we are given blessings and trials
By the command of Zeus,
a drama, a change.
All that happens, happens
because Zeus wills it to be so.
I bow to you, Father Zeus,
And praise your works.
Hestia, Lady of the Hearth, Keeper of the Flame
Where ever you are the Gods have a home
For you are the center of all
Giving warmth and comfort,
Uniting those that are estranged,
Bring peace to troubled hearts.
Demeter, tonight is the longest night of the year
A time when spring seems so very far away.
Helios has been taking his cue from you.
He has been tarrying longer and longer
In his visits with Persephone and Hades.
Tonight we ask you to bring him back to us.
Reconcile with your daughter.
Make your peace with her husband.
Remember the pomegranate,
While it is a the cause of her departure,
It also symbolizes her return.
Sooth your troubled heart.
See for yourself how she fares.
While there, send back Helios.
Send back the light so that warmth can follow.
Give us a beacon of hope
as we await Kore's return.
We thank you Mother,
For answering our plea yet again.
With the sun's happy return
We will gather with loved ones.
Giving and receiving hospitality
Of friend, family and stranger alike.
Sharing food, drink, laughter and gifts.
We shall celebrate your reconciliation.
We will toast Helios' return.
We look forward to the return of the light
For it heralds spring and warmth once again.
Demeter and Persephone,
Mother and Daughter
Queen above and Queen below
All that lives, dies.
And in turn, is born again.
All pass through their realms,
Even Helios, the sun.
For they compose the Dance of Life,
Never ending and ever changing.
Each day, each season moves the dance
Flowing seamlessly one into another.
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall.
Life balances death.
Activity balances rest.
Growth balances fallowness.
Hestia, Lady of the Hearth, Keeper of the Flame
Where ever you are the Gods have a home
For you are the spiritual center of all.
Thank you for the warmth and comfort.
Thank you for uniting the estranged.
Thank you for giving peace to the troubled heart.
By your agency, the light will return.
Zeus, by your command
a daughter's hand was given
And a mother mourned.
By your command,
a compromise was achieved.
By your command,
Winter, spring, summer, fall.
All that happens, happens
because Zeus wills it to be so.
I bow to you, Father Zeus,
And praise your works.
May the returning light warm your heart!


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It's another scorching hot summer day, although it's wonderful to see the blue sky again and watch the curtain dancing with the gentle breeze through the open window.
Summer is my favorite season, but honestly I am not sure how we are going to survive this coming summer without air conditioning. But it seems we have 2 options here, either a total meltdown of our nuclear power plants, or living like fish swimming around in their own sweat. Yuk!
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So Lola had "Camping Day" two weeks ago and they have been learning about bugs and such. She has really liked it and so I knew she would love "Camping Day."
We failed to remember "Texas Day" and were the only ones who didn't participate in western wear… so I made her look festive for "Camping Day." I cut up one of Clay's old flannels for hair ties.
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Long time lurker, first time poster. This could be huge, Huntington bulding looking for the same Tax credit as the May Company building for a mixed use rehab. I'm not sure how to post links but it is in today's Crain's Cleveland.
So is it either this or the May Co building? If so, which one would you prefer? [/quoteif I remember right, it only goes toward one project in the entire state, so neither may get it.To answer your question though, I would prefer Huntington. It's such an enormous building that could get passed up for years considering the amount that would have to go into it. Look at the price tag. $231 million! This is what it may take to entice a developer. May, being on The soon to be renovated/repurposed PS, and smaller in scale may be more feasible without the assistance. But, as I said, neither may be awarded...
Quick question I thought the address in the story was 925 Euclid Ave.
Cant they just use the massive parking garage across the street that has an underground tunnel connecting to the building?
So is it either this or the May Co building? If so, which one would you prefer?
Quote from: DM4 on September 09, 2014, 07:26:06 PMCant they just use the massive parking garage across the street that has an underground tunnel connecting to the building?I'm sure they would if they could. Parking costs a lot of money. Why would a developer want to get rid of so much valuable rentable SF if the parking wasn't necessary for the project?
Taking that building off of the market for office use takes a big chunk of square footage of vacant office space out of the market for downtown... and as KJP stated in another thread, we could very well be seeing a new office building soon based strictly off of the moves the downtown market has made. Hopefully, IF the Huntington doesn't make the cut for the state funds, the owner and developer are able to secure the needed funding for the project to move forward.
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Sassy: Can my rest be over, mom?
Me: That's fine, but you are going to have to play quietly in your bedroom.
Sassy: Why?
Me: Because your sister is still sleeping, and I need to take a shower before work.
Sassy: But, I fink I'm a dirty birdy too, mom.
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Back to How To.... | How to Make a Pot Hanger
Most gardeners have more pots than they have space for on their patio or deck. This pot hanger securely holds pots that are not too big and lets you hang them on the wall. You will need the following:
1"X3"X10" piece
1"X 3.5"X7 1/4" piece
Two woodscrews
Jig saw or scroll saw
Take the 1X3 1/2X7 !/4 piece and draw a line 3 1/8 inches from the bottom. Using a protractor, draw a line from the corner of the bottom to the line you just drew at an 80 degree angle. Also, mark a line 3 1/4 inches from the top of the wooden piece.
Mark a line 15/16 from the left edge of the piece all the way from the top to bottom of the piece.
Now draw an oblong shape that is 3 3/16 inch long and starts at the top of the 80 degree line and ends at the 3 1/4 inch mark. It should look like this.
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I am plagued by mice. In my previous establishment in the country I had mice. This was to be expected, after all you don't live in the country and not expect the little blighters to run around alllllllll over your kitchen, leaving their little packets for you to find in the most unlikely and upsetting places. It involves a great deal of disinfecting, shuddering and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.
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Charles dickens, required to write hard times in twenty sections to be published over a period of five months, filled the novel with his own philosophy and symb. Discuss how charles dickens uses victorian london to show the differences between the rich and the poor members of the society what message is the novelis write my essay now this is good example of dickens trying to tell us moral messages. How charles dickens invented christmas its message of redemption, compassion and charity he firmly believed you see the moral worth of society in how it treats its children, says kubicki. Dickens' message in a christmas carol a christmas carol is a compelling tale of greed, love and charity it is the story of an old man called ebenezer scrooge who hates.
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A christmas carol in prose, being a ghost-story of christmas, commonly known as a christmas carol, is a novella by charles dickens, first published in london by chapman & hall in 1843 the first edition was illustrated by john leech. Charles dickens was a prolific novelist as well as a journalist dedicated to social reform in this lesson although highly moral in tone, a christmas carol helped to make the holiday a more child-centered, secular celebration. Free a christmas carol papers, essays he uses the christmas carol to portray this message charles dickens felt strongly about the working conditions comparing the moral of shane and a christmas carol - comparing the moral of jack schaefer's shane and a christmas carol by.
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On September 6th reigning National Champions Sale Harriers will compete in Birmingham against the best U13 and U15 teams from all over Great Britain in a bid to retain their National title. Over 200 clubs took part in the regional rounds and now just the top eight will contest the final. Sale, as Northern champions – a title they've won eight times in the last nine years, will represent the North of England and are the only team to have made the final every year since the league started in 2004. Although we've won all the Northern league matches by comfortable margins, the actual standard within each event has been very high with our athletes competing against many County champions from Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester. This fierce competition has resulted in a host of PB's, the highlight being Shane Connell recording a UK joint No.1 in the high jump and the girl's U15 team breaking the league record for the 4 x 300m relay. Competing against the Scottish and Welsh Champions will give many of our young athletes a first taste of international competition and will be a great experience for them.
Competing at this level requires a cool head and as judging will be meticulous, care must be taken if we are to avoid disqualification and maximize points. From observation of previous finals we've identified a number of potential pitfalls:-
If athletes are unsure of any of the above points, they need to discuss them with their coaches or team managers well before the event. Sale Harriers can retain its National title if all athletes keep a cool head and adopt a discipline and professional approach.
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Major eikaiwa school operator Nova recently announced the opening of two bilingual daycare centers. The first "Super Bilingual Hoiku, Nova Kids²" center opened in Gifu prefecture at the end of January. A second will open in Nagoya on March 10. The centers, for kids aged 2-6, offer two hours of English conversation a day with foreign language instructors. The registration fee is ¥50,000 and the monthly rate for daycare is ¥99,300 for five hours a day, Monday to Friday, about three times the monthly rate for a standard full-time daycare facility. Until the end of March, Nova is offering 50% off the registration fee at both centers, a free "Nova Usagi," its popular pink rabbit character, and a free sample lesson.
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One of the easiest ways for a person to get into the sky is Tandem Jump. Here is what Wikipedia says about it:
"Tandem skydiving or tandem parachuting refers to a type of skydiving where a student skydiver is connected via a harness to a tandem instructor. The instructor guides the student through the whole jump from exit through freefall, piloting the canopy, and landing. The student needs only minimal instruction before making a tandem jump. This is one of three commonly used training methods for beginning skydivers; the others being static line and Accelerated Freefall (known as Progressive Freefall in Canada)."
The jump is made using canopy, which is wing-type canopy capable to land two people safely, having a horisontal speed of 12m/s. People who have decided to make such a jump are named "Tandem passengers" by the members of our DropZone. "Tandem passengers" receive a lot of attention and provided with the safest possible equipment. The risk of getting trauma during the jump is very low, the landing is so soft that even people having back, leg, and arm injuries are capableof handling it without any problems.
As soon as you have chosen the date for jump and booked the time by calling us, the only thing remaining is to get to the airfield. When at DropZone you shall:
- sign the form that you want to make a jump, and doing it by your own will;
- pay for the jump;
- listen to 20min instruction on the jump;
- get special clothing, glasses, and helmet provided by our staff.
After completing all these steps you will be put the harness on, that will be connected to your instructor later in the plane. Then it will take you about 30min and some emotions to handle untill you are on the 3000m height.
That is the exact point where you have to leave the plane. But do not worry, whole process(starting from the exit, then free fall, and later the landing) is controlled by your instyructor, who is constantly with you.
The freefall part will take 40 seconds of unforgettable feelings. After the canopy is open the instructor can allow you to take control of it for a while, or just let you enjoy the world under your feet.
It will take only few minutes to land under the canopy but you will never forget it.
Depending on your will and financial capabilities your entire jump starting may be recorded from the moment you sign the documents till the moment when you receive the certificate. Later the footage is compiled into 5-10min movie, that can become an important part of the family or your personal archive.
Here are the booking form, document list, and contacts for arranging the jump.
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General Santos City is yet again going to be a venue of a HUGE concert! Special thanks to Denville Music & Production and Record Breaker Events Managements, Lagao Gymnasium will never be a dull place after all!
Here comes not just one but six world-class Music artists to perform for the SOCSKSARGEN crowd! They are nothing but great individual artists in their own right and they were put together and became a huge hit for the local and international crowd. Thanks God for ASAP for giving them a weekly stint, making me paste my lazy eyes in front of the boob tube on Sunday afternoons. They are one of the reasons why I watch ASAP XV and here's an ASAP XV-inspired reasons why you should not missed them:
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All star music artists in one stage seldom happen here in the City of the Generals. That alone is simply irresistible. It is once-in-a-lifetime they say. Nina belting her greatest hits, Juris melting the hearts of the romantics, Aiza, inspiring the listening audience with her cool voice, Duncan giving everyone a dancing groove, Richard serenading the ladies and of course Sitti enjoying her bossa beat. Oh, what a treat.
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Astonishing production numbers that is way better than watching them on TV should never be missed. Nothing is comparable in watching the group perform live and in flesh. Watching them sweat it out, as they dance or do a move maybe is priceless.
Phenomenal repertoire that would not only make the crowd go WOW but sing and dance along as well. You cannot have that in Videoke Bars right? Would you like to hear them sing their famous singles live? We would surely drool over Aiza'z rendition of "Perhaps Love", Nina's "Make You Mine", Juris' "I love you, goodbye", Richard Poon's "Kahit maputi na ang buhok ko", Sitti Navarro's "Para sa Akin" and Duncan doing hits from South Border. Expect different genres of music that night. From Soul to RnB to Bossa to Blues. These exceptional artists will be doing their different takes on the pieces they will be performing that night and it will definitely be a fun watch.
Xtremely exciting fact that all of them are no longer GENSAN Virgins. Duncan already had a taste of General Santos way back when his band South Border had a concert at Anchor Driving Range; together with Chin, Juris which was still part of MYMP also did a concert for the Generals already; Sitti Navarro and Richard Poon already had an intimate concert here in General Santos, Sitti performed at Phela Convention Center, while Paseo del Sol for the latter; Aiza Seguerra had her album tour at KCC Mall while Nina made the Generals love her more on her recent concert at Taps and Kokay (former Anchor Driving Range). Isn't it nice to see them once again on our soils, entertaining us one more time? A big plus is, they are TOGETHER. It sure is.
Voices. voices. voices. Hearing these voices to die for LIVE is an ultimate experience for music fans everywhere. The voices of Duncan, Aiza, Juris, Sitti, Richard and Nina. Hear them live or forever be glum.
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Hello, i need help to figure if i need to download drivers to my computer. i have wiped the hard drive and im going to install windows 7 ultimate edition on it, but i dont know if i need to download anything for it like drivers, or anything else i dont know about. It's a dell dimension 3000 with a celeron processor.
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Unlikely. WIn7 installer is mostly driver-complete, with newer arriving quickly via optional Windows Updates when you enable hardware auto-updating: Automatically get recommended drivers and updates for your hardware
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I would not change out any driver given by installer/updates unless performance problems point to the driver.
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interest in reporting the area's problems. There is plenty to report upon: how have people been surviving since the sole route, the Thall-Parachinar road, was closed in 2007? Why did the authorities fail to protect a private convoy of 25 loaded trucks which were looted and set on fire in the presence of security forces on their way to Upper Kurram? What action has been taken to rehabilitate the people who fled Parachinar after scores of their sect were killed three years ago? Many such questions need urgent media attention, but for different reasons this is not forthcoming.
failure to notice the problem, the media started identifying the tribesmen with the terrorists' cause. Glimpses of this shared vision — that the tribespeople are somehow different from and entirely unlike other Pakistanis — are seen everywhere.
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PARACHINAR: The Turi and Bangash tribal elders here Thursday complained of acute shortage of commodities, medicines and fuel due to the continued closure of the main road in Kurram Agency. http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=recommend&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fconnect%2Fxd_proxy.php%3Fversion%3D3%23cb%3Dff715b7d%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.thenews.com.pk%252Ff352a53828%26relation%3Dparent.parent%26transport%3Dpostmessage&font=arial&href=http%3A%2F%2Fthenews.com.pk%2FTodaysPrintDetail.aspx%3FID%3D51750%26Cat%3D7%26dt%3D6%2F10%2F2011&layout=standard&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&show_faces=false&width=400
Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Yousaf Turi and Shabbir Bangash said the residents were leading a miserable life due to the closure of the Thall-Parachinar Road.
They added the security forces had also stopped escorting the passengers and food convoys between Peshawar and Parachinar. They said the residents having jobs or other engagements in rest of the country had been stranded due to the insecure conditions on the main road.
They also criticised the government for not recovering the 32 kidnapped passengers who were in the captivity of the militants two months after the incident.
The Turi and Bangash elders said the government and the human rights organisations were making efforts to recover the Pakistanis who were made hostage by the Somali pirates but no efforts were being made to rescue the residents of Kurram Agency.
They lamented that the only available route through Afghanistan was also closed by the security forces. "We are living like prisoners and no steps are being taken to facilitate us," Yousaf Turi said, adding that even life-saving drugs were not available in the local markets.
They asked the federal government and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor to take decisive steps for the reopening of the roads in Kurram Agency forthwith and end the people's miseries.
June 7, 2011
>Kidnapped passengers untraced even after 73 daysPosted by parachinar616 under Kurram Agency
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Monday, June 06, 2011
PARACHINAR: Thirty-two passengers who were kidnapped by armed militants from the Baggan area in Kurram Agency on March 25 couldn't be recovered even 73 days after the incident, tribal sources said on Sunday.
The passengers were on their way to Parachinar when unidentified persons kidnapped them. The sources said the security forces and a and tribal jirga that brokered the February 2011 peace agreement between the warring tribes in Kurram Agency were unsuccessful in securing the safe recovery of the hostages.
Local residents said the families of the kidnapped persons were passing through mental torture as no steps were being taken for the recovery of their near and dear ones. They lamented that several passengers were abducted and killed after the reopening of the Thall-Parachinar Road following the Islamabad agreement.
June 7, 2011
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June 5, 2011
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June 4, 2011
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The Invisible Car
The result was "The Invisible Car," which was shown at the 2009 Barrie Film Festival Short Film Showcase, where it won Best in Simcoe County, Audience Choice Award, and Least Visible Car Award. I made that last one myself, out of paper mache, but I takes what I can gets.
Here it is.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Grand Schlep Auto
George Carlin used to say that there were things people just didn't admit. People will readily admit to being bad at math, or clumsy, but nobody admitted they had a lousy sense of humour, or were a bad driver. In the spirit of the late Mr. Carlin, may I say:
I'm a bad driver.
I remember mentally preparing myself for that first G2 test I took years ago. After reading and re-reading the point sheet, I realized that the initial score was so high, and the demerits you received were so low, you'd have to literally break every rule in the book to get low enough to fail. The only other way was an automatic fail, which you got if you broke the law.E asy, I thought. I mean, it's not like I was going to drive through any reds, right?
Humility, thy name is stale flashing yellow arrow.
Forget the old meanings. It is as if they never were.
This was the start of an illustrious career of not driving. As a person who is interested in projecting the fragile illusion of confidence in lieu of the real thing, I make a point of habit to avoid doing things I kind of fail at. To my mind, this means I spend more time doing things I am awesome at, which means there is more awesome in this world, less fail, and you all can sleep soundly at night with the knowledge that nobody is going to come careering through a stale flashing yellow arrow and ruin your Thursday afternoon.
Unfortunately for me, the things I am good at do not always coincide with the things I am negative good at. This leads to exchanges like this:
"Okay, so I've had a few. Can you take my car and drive it a block?"
"Um. Maybe. Or I could bake up some nice cannoli. I'm awesome at baking cannoli"
"Yeah, um. The car needs to be moved so people can get out."
"I know. I'm working on it. Some nice cannoli will sober you right up."
You laugh, but it will.
If I am bad at driving, let it be said that I am triple-bad at driving in videogames. This is because my own driving is fuelled by adrenaline – the sincere, earnest physiological terror of ruining anyone's Thursday afternoon. Driving in videogames takes my already subpar motor skills and removes the white-knuckle terror of not wanting to die for realsies. And as we all know, when you remove the white-knuckle terror, you remove the fun.
So I pitched an article to The Escapist on Grand Theft Auto 4, which was accepted. Now, I had watched my fair share of Grand Theft Auto 4. I had read my fair share about Grand Theft Auto 4, and I had even played my fair share of Grand Theft Auto 4. What I hadn't done was play my fair share of Grand Theft Auto 4 Without Exploding In Like Ten Seconds.
The last Grand Theft Auto game I exhibited a mastery over was Grand Theft Auto 2, known colloquially as "The Last Grand Theft Auto They Made Before They Started Making The Good Ones." It's this little rinky-dink top down games, where the cars look like Hot Wheels and the people look like little ants. It's basically Pac-Man, which is good for me, because I am awesome at Pac-Man. This is a helpful yardstick. For years, I had been gauging my effectiveness at things based solely on how much they were, or were not like Pac-Man.
Oh, hello photorealistic replica of New York City. You're nothing like Pac-Man.
Borrowing King's trusty Xbox360, I sat down over the last few days to play through the game proper. It was a mixed bag. While the game is supposed to be rife with moral and ethical tensions concerning the possibility of free will in a corrupt world, my playthrough was rife with the moral and ethical tensions of whether the place I needed to go was in walking distance.
Shooting missions were no sweat. Whack a guy? I can whack a guy. Whack like ten guys? I can swing that. But if one of those guys makes it out the back, and hops a car, then all bets are off. It usually plays out like this:
I run to another car and hop in.
I notice ten better cars I could have stolen, but it's TOO LATE NOW ISN'T IT.
I follow in hot pursuit.
By hot, I clearly mean "Hit enough things until I am on fire."
Bail out. Roll. Get hit a little bit by another car.
Steal that car. Serves it right. Crash that car into a bike.
Oh yeah! Bikes!
Get out. Steal the bike.
Drive for two seconds before colliding with the slightest thing and flying like a million feet.
Oh yeah. Bikes.
Steal another car. Third time is clearly a charm.
All right, now my third car is on fire. WHAT is the DEAL with this FIRE?
But wait, isn't that the guy I'm chasing?
Go up on a rail. Bail out. Burning car flips in a terrible arc, landing on the guy I'm chasing. It explodes. His car explodes. He explodes. EVERYTHING EXPLODES.
Am I alive? Is anyone alive? Can you even call this "living?"
Every cop ever arrives, drawn to the all-consuming plume of fire of my serial failure.
Cheese it.
The upside of all this is that I constantly feel like James Bond. Like an inept, kind-of-bad-at-his-job James Bond. So, nothing like James Bond at all, I guess. More like Maxwell Smart. All this has given me insight into all those action movie guys, walking away calmly while an enormous explosion erupts behind them. Sure, they look cool. Sure, they seem composed.
Really, they're thinking "The apartment's only seven blocks away, and my car's on fire. I guess I'll walk."
- Rook
Escapist #225: Electric Soul
Escapist #223: M is for Massive
Escapist #222: Dude Looks Like a Lady
Friday, October 9, 2009
Gotta Crush 'Em All
What a time to be alive! If history has taught me anything, it's that those poor folks in the past got a raw deal. Nowadays, crime is down, we've pretty much got the black plague licked, and we get to keep all our teeth! Yes, truly, it's a wonderful time to be a living breathing whatever.
Unless you're a furry little varmint, of course.
The Supreme Count in America has recently begun hearing an animal cruelty case, concerning not the actual act of cruelty, but its depiction and distribution as video. The case revolves around Robert Stevens, a man who was convicted and sentenced to over three years in prison for making what he calls "educational videos" of the dos and don't of dogs fighting, which include footage of dogs viciously mauling each other and tearing into other animals such as wild boars. How this is "educational" is obvious: It educates us to STAY THE HECK AWAY FROM THOSE DOGS.
What makes this case so peculiar is that Stevens' videos were snagged not for anything specific to them, but because they fell into a range of products made illegal by a statute in congress which was meant for something else altogether - to counter the growing culture of "crush videos" found online.
Not this. But close.
If you're one of the many people who have yet to hear about crush videos, this can be your little choose-your-own-adventure moment right here. Do you really want to know another way that people are depraved and disgusting on the internet? You know, just to round off your growing despair in humanity? Or would you rather just have a nice day today – maybe go for a walk, see the autumn colors, enjoy your life. If so, I suggest leaving now. I don't want to ruin your day, and things are about to get hinky.
Are they gone? Okay. Now it's just me and the perverts. A crush video is like the meeting of Rule #34, and Looney Tunes. Specifically, it is the depiction of nice-looking-ladies killing nice-looking-animals with their nice-looking-feet. This of course is confusing to that percentage of the population that has a fetish for nice-looking-ladies doing anything at all. Why not playing video games, or having an ice cream fight, or wrestling in a giant vat of spaghetti? You know. Normal stuff.
For the brave of heart, I've found a crush video online and will link it here, even at the threat of my own safety and liberty.
Huh. That wasn't so bad. The U. S. Supreme Court seems to agree – discussion of what could and could not be in these videos ranged wildly, since the current statute protects any video depicting animal harm that has "religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or artistic value." Thus bullfighting is in, due to Spain's rich cultural heritage of killing angry cows after psyching them out a bunch. Scientists are free to video their horrible experiments involving manimals, then hide them deep within their underground laboratories because the world is not ready to know. The 'religions' angle is an interesting one as well: By this criterion, I could videotape my sacrificing a goat to Mammon, but not to my neighbor Barry. As if that'll get him to stop asking, right?
Barry demands blooood.
Because here's the tricky spot: You know what else has no "religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or artistic value?" Ninety-five percent of the Internet. For the occasional beacon of civilized, rational discourse, there's a lot of just… stuff. This isn't necessarily an indictment of value: Yes, in the best of all possible worlds, the Internet is a communal project designed to index and resource the whole of human culture. But until that happens, it's a handy place to keep our .jpgs of cats saying funny words.
You can see the wispy chemtrails of the logic: Don't post videos of animal killing, unless it has "value," by which we mean all the normal kinds of animal cruelty like huntin', fishin' and goat-sacrificin.' Those have precedent, and are okay. Put simply: Sure, have your fun. But just don't be weird about it.
Many justices on the court jumped at the chance to gnaw on this bone, taking their time to outline the vacuity of the statute through a series of fanciful hypotheticals. The transcript is here, and Dahlia Lithwick presents a breakdown over at Slate. Questions ranged from the innocent to the forcefully absurd: Who decides if something has artistic merit? Is there a difference between cockfighting, dog fighting and bull fighting? What about hunting out of season? What about dressing up like a Roman and killing a lion out of "historical value?" What about people-fighting? What about people-fighting to the death in a gladiatorial pit and aired live to screaming fans via pay-per-view in a dystopian future in which Violence. Is All. We. KNOW.
Let's hope so. For all our sakes.
This is not a joke. This is Justice Alito, testing the bounds on which a government is allowed to censor and censure depiction. And It raises some interesting questions: If our mediated age marries content to its representative fact, how prepared are we to chase after the one and not the other? Yes, it may be easier to crack down on these disgusting videos rather than track down the people actually doing the stomping – but to what end? Is our responsibility towards policing an image, a way of looking at ourselves… or are we truly interested that people behave decently, even to the least of us? Is this about enforcing decency, or the appearance of decency? Last I checked, there is a great word for people who do their best to look decent while behaving despicably.
That word is "hypocrite."
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Escapist #220: Katamari Absurdity
I'm thrilled that gaming culture magazine The Escapist has published another of my articles, which you can read right here. Everyone I ran the idea through was professional, and a pleasure to work with.
To those finding their way here from The Escapist, welcome! I'd leave out a tray of cookies, but you're likely a million miles away. Thanks a lot, THE INTERNET.
This could have been you.
How we Precede Procedure
In an earlier post I mentioned that metaplay – or, the playing of game on several levels – doesn't necessarily correspond to other avenues of play. And nowhere do I find that happens more than with Pokémon. There's something about playing a game you've played over and over, a familiarity that gets in under your skin. When I say that there isn't one metagame, but several, things can be divided up in different ways. Today I'll be going over the first of a couple.
The Metaprocedural: processing how we process.
One of our earliest mental skill sets is metacongnition, or "thinking about thinking." This little gem of an abstract thought, long thought to be the sole prize of homo sapiens, is actually widespread – recently it's been confirmed in rats.
Not like this. But close.
Following from an understanding of the process of thoughts comes an understanding sequence and causality, known as metaprocedure.
Like it or lump it, most play consists of repetition – its part of its reflexive charm, and speaks to us at our most compulsive. In this fashion, the 'language' of gaming is something we can absorb through play. Some of it is kinesthetic, and some is memorization, but every game contains some sum of internalization.
A game like Pokémon, then, is a smorgasbord of data. Underpinning the tried-and-true JRPG play schematic is a Swiss-army-knife of weaknesses, strengths and immunities. With seventeen elemental types to choose from and mix, the game shakes out as a hyperkinetic paper-rock-scissors. This of course sometimes leads to inanity: For example, "dragon" is a type. And it's weak to… "dragon." Huh.
Oh Jormundgandr, baby child, that's your tail.
But with a few tweaks, this has been the model since time immemorial. So it isn't just that you may enter these games with an understanding of the basic procedure of RPGs – the very cipher of combat may come pre-cracked. There is something meditative about playing a game where you have to learn absolutely nothing. Of course, peering deeps into the mechanical guts of such models does have its drawbacks. Yes, all the points of data make a beautiful line – but, taken to its conclusion, it draws you away into something purely mechanical.
From this point of view, each Pokémon is just a bundle of stats. Played as a numbers game, every variable can be controlled through methodical process – but in so doing, story disappears, and the game begins to take on an entirely different character. Yes, you could catch one Pokémon, name it, and let it be your very best friend. Or you could catch 20, release the ones with low stats, take the top few, breed them, release the ones with low stats, grind up numbers to learn certain move sets, breed those guys, release the ones with low stats, trade that final guy from one game to another to double its experience rate…
There is something satisfying about this approach, but push too deep, and suddenly it feels.. somehow unsavory. Narrative disappears, until it isn't so much a game as it is math.
Of course, this isn't necessarily something lamentable. Because, as everyone knows:
You're absolutely right, terrible clipart girl. Math IS fun.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Free Thing of the Week - CANABALT
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream
You schlep forth, in true RPG fashion, armed only with your hopes, your dreams, and a dude in a little red ball. You force this dude to fight against other dudes – progressively bigger and badder dudes – sometimes besting them by using moves, but other times simply by hitting them until they stop moving. Ultimately you best the baddest dude yet. Congratulations! Now you're a bad enough dude to rescue the president!
After your victory, you're treated to a speech about why you were able to climb to such monumental heights. It's explained that your power is powered by the most powerful power of all – the power of love. Not the love between a man and a woman, or indeed, like the love between a man and a fine Cuban cigar. No, the love between a man and the vicious critters he's trained to fight. Nowhere is it mentioned that hitting your opponents until they stopped moving might also have been a deciding factor. Your victory, you are told, is all about the love.
Yes, this is the plot of every Pokémon game, but to be fair, it's also the plot of roughly every shonen fighting manga ever conceived. All you have to do is replace the little red balls with tremendous swords or tremendous hair or even tremendous flavours, and you're set. Considered in a vacuum, Pokémon is just another iteration of the same game people have been sleepwalking through over and over. This doesn't make it bad. This makes it perfectly fine – just nothing to blog home about.
The rub, of course, is that it doesn't exist in a vacuum. So, Pokémon may be an average game. But it is an excellent metagame.
A while back, I had mentioned I would be looking at the various ways in which games fold back upon themselves, or draw from some essential element of play. It strikes me that Pokémon is a perfect place to start, if only because a decade's worth of popularity has transformed it from a simple game into a play phenomenon in its own right … a huking juggernaut of funtimes.
I'm interested in the ways in which our attitudes about games and gaming directly impact how we might navigate a game like Pokémon, and the ways in which these various styles of play intersect. Within a game so widely played, fueled by merchandizing blitzes, major promotional events, and a robust tournament scene, there may not be one sphere of metaplay, but several.
To wit: Pokémon is large. It contains multitudes.
- Rook


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John Brady Kiesling received a message over the weekend from a diplomat friend seeking advice on the struggle shared by hundreds at the State Department: How to defy President Donald Trump.
Kiesling, who lives in Greece, knows about standing up to the White House. Years ago, he'd been in the same spot, becoming one of a handful of officials who quit the Bush administration to protest the Iraq War. These days, government personnel are seeking his counsel and that of other high-profile dissenters as they struggle to respond to Trump policies they believe are unethical, dangerous and maybe even unconstitutional.
Kiesling's advice is that it's too early to quit – he urges anxious bureaucrats to carry on working, even as they close their social media accounts, switch to encrypted messaging and start plotting.
"Only if you stay professional can you get away with being totally Machiavellian about subverting the presidency," Kiesling said with a laugh, in a phone interview from his home in Athens.
There's no headcount of dissidents within the government, but the signs of rebellion are there. State Department employees already have issued a rare dissent cable expressing widespread opposition to Trump's immigration order. That's one early signal, Kiesling said, that this bureaucratic class will be willing to stand up to the White House in a way that Iraq War-era diplomats did not.
Kiesling has been back in the spotlight since reports emerged last month of government workers crying at their desks in anguish or creating rogue Twitter accounts to thwart Trump administration edicts. He's been quoted in The New Yorker and on NPR about opposition tactics; his Facebook postings read like a how-to manual for dissidents.
Kiesling's advice to uneasy government employees is stay put for now, discreetly look for allies and wait for the White House to cross the line into illegal or unethical conduct. President Richard Nixon's downfall, he noted, was brought about by "the paranoid search for enemies" and subsequent cover-up.
"There is no U.S. policy unless it's on paper. Anything that's on paper should be shared with relevant members of Congress at this stage," Kiesling said. "If it's an unspoken policy then it's probably illegal to follow."
He also advises building alliances across agencies and setting institutional rather than personal red lines. And if an employee simply can't go on and reaches the decision to resign, Kiesling said, then he or she should stay a bit longer to conduct even bolder acts of opposition because there's no longer a concern about getting fired.
"If you have reached your personal red line, that is not a license to quit," Kiesling said. "That is a license to be brave."
White House spokesman Sean Spicer has made it clear that dissent is not welcome, saying that anxious bureaucrats should "either get with the program or they can go." That warning sent chills among diplomats, who have long-established channels to voice dissent and protections in place for those who use them.
The American Foreign Service Association, a professional group that gives a prize every year for constructive dissent, has faced criticism from some members for not speaking more forcefully against the Trump administration's jabs at career diplomats. Last week, the association sent out an advisory that noted legal protections for dissent but also cautioned that even a temporary walkout would be considered a strike, which could result in firings. A spokesman for the association declined to speak on the record.
Kiesling is among a small cadre of former officials whose acts of rebellion are now being studied by a burgeoning resistance movement within the administration. He and his Iraq-era peers are the most recent examples, but diplomats and defense professionals are passing around the lessons learned from earlier cases, too.
There's Ann Wright, who's said in interviews that she received more than 400 emails from colleagues who quietly supported her decision to resign from the State Department over the Iraq War and the Patriot Act's "unnecessary curtailment of civil liberties." Matthew Hoh, a Marine captain-turned-diplomat, in 2009 became the first U.S. official known to resign over the war in Afghanistan.
Another case study is George Kenney, the first of four State Department officials to resign over U.S. policies during ethnic cleansing in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Even farther back were four resignations of senior officials during the Vietnam War.
As with the other dissidents, Kiesling's reasons for stepping down are echoed in today's concerns over Trump.
He warned in his 2003 resignation letter about the perils of "such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic manipulation of American opinion." The line referred to the bogus prewar intelligence on Iraq, but it's just as apt for the Trump's record of lies, half-truths and exaggerations on matters large and small.
Another line in the resignation letter sounds timely after a week in which Trump reportedly feuded with the leaders of Australia and Mexico and infuriated Arab allies with the visa bans.
"We have begun to dismantle the largest and most effective web of international relationships the world has ever known. Our current course will bring instability and danger, not security," Kiesling warned the Bush government.
Kiesling thinks dissidents can prevail in thwarting the policies they find most egregious – an optimism that's based on the diplomats' professionalism, he said, as well as the Trump inner circle's inexperience.
"The difference with the Iraq War is that we all just watched in slow-motion suspense while the administration pretended war wasn't inevitable. We were in denial up until the last minute, so we were the slowly boiling frogs," Kiesling said. "This time, a blast of heat has woken everybody up."
Hannah Allam: 202-383-6186, @HannahAllam