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TODAY'S Easy Ride will be to visit the Gotts Park Café (within the clubhouse of the golf club but open to everyone).
We will use quiet streets and cycle paths and pass along the canal towpath, through the Granary Wharf Canal Basin, past the Bridgewater Place tower, around the Tetley Gallery and through Holbeck Moor and Armley to Gotts Park. Then returning through the new path in the park and along the canal towpath.
Starting and finishing at The Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow (LS1 3AA), as always we will be friendly and helpful, cycling steadily, no rush.
We will use quiet streets and cycle paths. No special sports clothes or equipment needed!
See the route here (www.plotaroute.com/route/664708).
Everyone welcome!
Saturday, 11 August, 2018
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Sanateen Wana Hayyil
This lilting song is from the wonderful CD "Ma B'tisaloosh Leh" produced in Cairo by California dancer and instructor Leyla Lanty and featuring the wonderful voice of Khalil Abboud. More info about the CD is included on Leyla's website; for a review by the editor of this website, click here.
Two years have passed
And I have tried to restore our love
The tears in my eyes are calling you
You are the cause of my pain
Yet still I call you my love
I have endured one year and two
In this lonely struggle
Where has your passion and your love gone?
How have you forgotten the old days
If you could leave your anger for one day
Sleep would return and lead me to dreams
Two years have passed and my tears still call you
You have forgotten the promise of our hearts
And denied the existence of our love
Your beauty is beyond my sight
But I find you wherever I go
Wana Wana Aamil Eih
This lively pop song, recorded by Hisham Abbas, features a gorgeous acapella lead-in which grabbed me the first time I heard it. And the clean bright sound of Hisham Abbas voice always makes me happy!
What can I do?
It is out of my hands
There is love inside me singing with yearning and desire
I live only in my dream
A wish to see you
A hope to find you
To draw my name around your heart
And dream you will search for me
What can I do?
In the long dark night
when you alone are the moon?
What can I do amidst such confusion?
When the fire of love burns
And I desire a journey to you
Alone on the sea of love
I long to sail upon your shore
What can I do?
Each night has sung its song for me
With visions of you
When my heart was seething with pain
I dream to see you draw my name around you
And you will search for me
What can I do?
What can I do?


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Ryan joined the John Ross Music team in 2017 and currently resides in Hood River, OR with his wife Ruth. In addition to Jazz Standards and Pop tunes, Ryan is a huge fan of bluegrass and performs regularly around the Gorge and PDX areas with a few different bands and as a solo artist. He plays a number of instruments (guitar, vocals, bass, drums) and teaches lessons to weekly students in the Hood River area. Prior to moving to Hood River he toured with a few national bands and did recording studio work. Ryan also worked a number of weddings each of the last 3 years using the John Ross Music model where he performed live and also was the DJ/MC for the evening. Ryan and his wife love the outdoors including camping, biking, wind-surfing and skiing.
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Nov 3, 2011
Banned List Update 6
So, what happened while this little blog didn't get updated? We rebranded our Peasant tournaments to Budget, and have been playing Pauper events for the last few months as an experiment. Our conclusion was that it is not quite as varied as Peasant, and certainly doesn't offer the same amount of build-around-me cards as Peasant. Starting this month we will be running Peasant events again. Playing Pauper did offer a few insights though.
One of our players pointed out (a while ago) that the Thopter Foundry + Sword of the Meek combo, while seemingly beatable, kept other control decks in check. Playing Pauper reinforced that impression, as that format has a wider range of control decks than our Peasant metagame had, while still having a lot of agressive decks. There doesn't seem to be a playable control deck that can handle both the early onslaught of the various aggressive decks as well as the inevitability of that combo. Once we knew we wanted to kill the combo, the question remained which one of the pieces we had to ban.
This is where our second insight helped us, namely that Affinity isn't a problem in Pauper. The artifact lands have been banned not once, but twice in the, I mean our little history of Peasant. The last few years of Magic have really enriched the metagame with numerous good cards and archetypes, as well as answers to decks that previously seemed unbeatable. When first we unbanned the artifact lands because of this, eventually a gross list incorporating the Thopter Foundry + Sword of the Meek combo proved to be so much better than anything else that we could bring to the table, that we couldn't think of any solution other than banning the artifact lands again. Our first reaction was to ban Sword of the Meek, but than we asked ourselves, is there a deck that wants to play Thopter Foundry without the Sword? We figured that, without artifact land in the equation, there is no such deck. Then we asked ourselves, do we want to bring back artifact lands? After all, affinity is, as I said before, not a problem in Pauper, and certainly not more explosive than the various infect decks that prompted us to ban Invigorate.
Once we decided it was okay to bring back artifact land, we knew Thopter Foundry was the card to ban. Of course, that meant Cranial Plating also had to go. In the end I think we have a list that more closely resembles the Pauper banned list, adjusted for Peasant concerns. I hope you will enjoy the changes to the banned list and the certain changes to the metagame it entails. Have fun!
To see the full list of banned cards, click here.
PS. In an effort to clean up the rules section, I stopped chronicling changes to the banned list. I hope you can appreciate it.
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right decisions in my opinion. Great to see you back in the peasant world!ReplyDelete
However, for the german readers out there: Our Peasant Tournament in Ingolstadt in two days will be ruled with the old banned list, because people prepared themself with the old list.
Nevertheless, after that tournament we immediately apply our banned list to the Groningen banned list as usual.
Ah, sorry about that. Should have known about the upcoming Peasant tournament in Ingolstadt! I'll edit the dates to let the banned list start on the 7th of November so as to not cause any confusion.ReplyDelete
- CatulloNovember 27, 2011 at 6:05 AM
Glad to see posting on this blog once again!ReplyDelete
I love the big work you've been doing and despite I'm from Italy it's two years i'm following you, never getting bored. Well done!
- AnonymousDecember 9, 2011 at 11:43 AM
are the new decklists already available? :DReplyDelete
would be great to see them here
- AnonymousDecember 21, 2011 at 1:39 AM
I'd like to see some lists, too.
Thanks for the comments, apparently I have more followers than I knew. I've put up a small update of our last tournament.ReplyDelete


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If I were a dictator...
If a whole company are gamesters play must cease, for there is nothing to be won. When all nations are traders there is nothing to be gained by trade, and it will stop first where it is brought to the greatest perfection. - SAMUEL JOHNSON.
I have no wish to be a dictator. The value of a political system is that it expresses the wishes of the people who maintain it, for good or evil. The value of democracy is that it is based on the freedom of the individual will so far as that is compatible with majority rule, the alternative to the often regrettable will of the majority being the still more regrettable will of the minority. It often happens, indeed, that the majority abdicates to the minority, as in the case of the partition of Ireland and the hanging up of changes generally because a minority is strongly opposed to the wishes of the major portion of the electorate. But in amusing myself with setting down what I would do if dictator, I do not disclaim a wish to persuade someone here and there that what I would do compulsorily might be and should be done by a free and intelligent electorate voluntarily.
For as things are it is idle to deny or belittle the glaring position that the basic industries of the country are in a state of collapse, with every prospect that the position will become worse instead of better unless fundamental changes are made.
The annual reviews of agriculture and the coal, cotton, and metallurgical trades would be deplorable reading if we did not feel that things will only become better by becoming worse and so forcing on the changes that should long since have been made voluntarily. In this world, and with human nature as it is, great changes are not made merely because they are desirable, but only because at last they have become necessary, and even then the Reaction does its best to preserve some evil feature of the old way of doing things. In matters of taste and fashion a mere hint is enough to set men and especially women off on the new tack; but in public affairs men cling to the old ways with all the logic and all the practical convenience equally against them.
Success of Collective Control.
Nothing is clearer than the success of public control of public business. There is, for example, only one conspicuously successful railway in the world at the present moment, and that is the State-owned railway system of Canada, which was as much of a failure under private enterprise as coal and cotton are now. The private banks of the belligerent countries during the early days of the war had all but pulled the blinds down till the State came to the rescue with its credit. The private munitions factories could not turn out shells fast enough, even at grossly inflated prices, till the State experts filled the breach, and not only taught them better technical methods, but showed by their own practice in the national factories that munitions could be produced more quickly and cheaply and of a better quality, while the employees were paid better wages.
The tale could be carried much further; but the cases were cited as they came to light, and I must pay my readers the compliment of assuming that they have not forgotten.
We are a nation of shopkeepers, and the shopkeeper, wholesale or retail, is in a sheltered industry which may jog along almost irrespective of what is happening in the productive field, short of a general strike and the stoppage of all ability to pay for the shopkeeper's wares. The pipe that feeds a motor engine with petrol is a small part of the mechanism. But let it he clogged or otherwise stopped, and how soon the car will come to a stand! All the elaborate mechanism is there; but for want of the tiny trickle of life-giving spirit it is inert, dead.
The Trickle of Exports.
It is so with our few staple industries. The exports are a relatively small part of British trade - from a seventh to an eighth of the total home market, meaning by home market the national income from goods, services, and investments. In 1928 exports were only £723,000,000, as compared with close on £1,197,000,000 of imports. The value of British exports do not meet, by 1oo millions, the expenses of government. That the home market and the domestic life of the nation should be subordinated to the retention of this dear-bought moiety is our present mistaken policy, based on the illusion that we cannot do without it.
Bleeding of the Basic Industry.
I turn to a really indispensable trade. The small market towns dotted at intervals of a few miles throughout the country depend upon agriculture. And agriculture and the population which lives by it are both dwindling steadily and even rapidly. The November hirings again absorbed a smaller number of men; the men not engaged hived off to the large centres; and they will inevitably be followed by a drop in the small-town populations. In the town where I write, in spite of relatively heavy expenditure on publicly-owned housing schemes, the population fell from 2152 in 1921 to 1939 in 1928, or fully 10 per cent. in seven years. Obviously such a process cannot be allowed to go on indefinitely, although those most responsible in the various localities do not seem to realise that the position is at all serious, and profess to regard all reference to it and suggested remedy for it as 'irrelevant' and superfluous. The same fatalistic contentment was doubtless shown by the public men of vanished Babylon, Thebes, Tyre, and Carthage, as if the growth and decay of cities were a matter of mere fortuity beyond the help or hindrance of man.
First Things First.
Were I dictator one of the first things I should attack is the retrogression from agriculture to the pastoral stage represented in the substitution of sheep for crops and the laying down of arable land to grass. It is said that we cannot blame the farmer; that he finds cattle and corn unprofitable, and turns to sheep and poultry because there is more money in these, with less trouble and a lower wage-bill. As, however, the lower wage-bill means turning men off the land, clearly the State has an interest and a duty in the matter. With unemployment as the great problem in Britain as in America, a Government cannot allow its territory to be depleted of population and its resources to be wasted in the maintenance of able-bodied men in idleness.
Britain is too small a country to be wasted on sheep-feeding, still less on deer, which are crowding out even sheep. The corn lands of Scotland are the best in the temperate zones, producing, in 1928, 21.2 cwts. of wheat to the acre, as compared with 17.2 for England and Wales, and 23 and 24 bushels of oats and of wheat for Canada, and 16 bushels of winter wheat for the United States. Taking the bushel at 56 lbs., this gives only a little more than half the weight for Canada and a little over a third of the weight for America. And as the Canadian and American grain has to cross thousands of miles of land and sea before it reaches the ports of the United Kingdom,* it may well be asked: How is it able to compete successfully with British-grown cereals? *(On 31st December, 1929, grain freights were quoted: River Plate to United Kingdom up-river ports, 15/9 per ton; Gulf to U.K., 2/6 per quarter (that is, 12/6 per ton); North Pacific Coast to U.K. and Continent, 24/6 per ton; San Francisco to U.K. and Continent, 25s. Since the Commonwealth Line was sacrificed to enable the Shipping Ring to pay inflated dividends, Australian rates are not quoted. The report adds, with the usual vagueness: 'Australia quotes a few orders for grain; but rates weak on liberal tonnage supplies.')
For one thing, there is less of a rent burden. Then there is a small or non-existent manure-bill, freight rates are very low, and the crops are marketed in bulk. On the other hand, labour costs are higher in Canada and the United States. Anyhow, the proof that Canada and the States can out-compete British cereals is that they do it.
The truth is, agriculture is a sweated industry all over the world, and whatever tended to improve conditions here would tend to improve them in all countries from which supplies were derived, unless and until a time came when we should be able to do without cereals from these countries entirely. Rural depopulation is going on in the States as well as in Britain, and a great contributory cause is low prices. There is probably systematic over-production of foodstuffs.
Control of Imports.
If I were dictator I should institute control of agriculture from top to bottom, in the interests alike of the rural population and the nation.
A first step would be the nationalization of the railways and the complete readjustment of freight rates. Side by side with this I would strictly limit the issue of motor licences for road transport, much of which is entirely uneconomical. As I have repeatedly pointed out, a locomotive engine will pull 6o loaded trucks on rails, with three men in charge. The same traffic on the road would require 6o motors, 6o trucks, and at least 120 men in charge, while the roads would suffer much more than the rails.
As it is, motor licences are given as a matter of course and in the interests of trade and revenue, no account being taken of the subsidy of £40,000,000 a-year given to road transport by the British public in the form of taxation for road maintenance.
Railway Nationalization.
The nationalization of the railways would effect many savings in duplicated staffs and directorates, but the help it would give to agriculture would be in the reduction of freight rates to the home user and their increase to the foreign importer. At present the preference to the latter is as four to one against the home user, he having to pay the higher rate because the foreigner has to have the lower. If the foreign importer had to pay the home rate his produce would be automatically and quite fairly and naturally excluded, A Government Department would very properly impose a flat mileage rate to all comers.
The exclusion of artificially cheapened produce - foreign produce which does not pay its passage - would go far to help the British farmer. But an equalization so far of the conditions of competition would not of itself be enough.
Complaint is made of the difference between the price paid to the farmer for say potatoes and the price charged in the retail shop. This is often a question of marketing. It is not uncommon for produce to pass through several sets of hands between the field and the shop. One consignment of potatoes was traced through six firms of distributors, the potatoes being repeatedly re-sacked. After they had been from Forfarshire to Aberdeen city, they travelled, as seed, via Glasgow back to the district from which they came. If each of the handlers added even a small moiety of profit it would be no wonder if the price were at least doubled. The public is itself to blame for the existence of so many middle-men by neglecting to deal with the producer direct.
If I were dictator, regardless of public opinion and independent of a sectional vote, I should give farmers six weeks in which to get together for co-operative marketing, failure to comply being penalised. All blacklegs profit by the co-operation of those who do co-operate, and all should be compelled to contribute to the result by which they benefit.
With Government control of imports, the amount and bulk of consignments could he regulated. Dumping could be regulated or checked altogether. The price could be regulated. And given a living price, the farmer would be encouraged once again, as in war-time, to keep the plough going, to break up the 2 million acres that have lapsed to grass since 1918, and to employ more and more labour.
But would such encouragement be enough? We may be sure that, as in war-time, it would not. Control meant higher farming, and it must mean that again. For even war prices did not provide sufficient stimulus to speed the plough, and there had to be pains and penalties for bad farming. The problem is to raise immensely our food production, since the home market is more and more the only market that is being left to us.
What We Produce and What We Buy.
In 1928 we produced only six million quarters of wheat, and we consumed 35 millions; so that the production needs to be increased five-fold. We produced six million quarters of barley, and imported four million quarters. So that the production of barley has to be nearly doubled. Of oats we produced 21 million quarters, and imported three millions, and in 1929 the import figure was considerably exceeded. So that here again a 14 per cent. increase is needed. I do not know that maize has ever been or could be grown in Britain; but we imported 10 million quarters of it in 1928. Doubtless it has substitutes, and if we could grow other feeding stuffs in sufficient quantity we need not import so much maize. It is a heating grain, and is held responsible for the widespread prevalence in Italy of the disease of malnutrition called pollagra.
There are many other crops in which, with all our facilities of soil, climate, and proximity to great markets, we are lamentably deficient.
Inspection, advice, and discipline would be as necessary and salutary under control as they are in proving in Ireland, where the visits of the inspector are welcomed and his expert counsel readily followed. No class of men do their best; no broad class of men know how to do the best. The best of us can do with advice.
I have said that agriculture needs control - that is, compulsory organization - from top to bottom. The need of control is shown by the hostility of many farmers to any form of organization, advice, or interference. One would think their industry was successfully expanding the area of cultivation, increasing the number of persons employed, and providing these workers with a high standard of life. The facts being all the other way, it behoves the nation to say: 'The land of Britain is in the last resort our land, and we have an interest in seeing that as much is got out of it as possible. From this standpoint everything is as different as possible from what it ought to be.'
But any week one pleases, farmers will be found objecting to something proposed in the interest of the nation and the consumer, though it is the consumer who gives agriculture or any other business its sole value. A Liberal M.P. has recently started a Potato Marketing Board in order to deal with the price-collapse in this branch of food production. Mr. Blindell, the founder, proposed that the Board should have representatives of the consumers and the agricultural workers, as well as farmers, and should work, in concert with the Food Council, to stabilise prices.
The National Union of Farmers (English) denounces all these proposals. They say the Food Council is no friend of theirs, and that they do not want prices stabilised. They say that the years when prices are high recoup the grower for the years when prices are low, without offering any hint of when the prices are to be high, Anything rather than regulation or the removal of grievances. Not to have a grievance would in itself apparently be a grievance.
Overproduction Due to Lack of Organization.
As regards potatoes, the position is that farmers never know exactly what acreage is to be sown. The year 1929 saw an increase of 591,000 tons, and 1928 had increased by 691,000 on the previous year. The consequences have been glut and unremunerative prices. In the absence of any organization or agreement, the probability is that 1930 will see a scarcity, since there is no means of finding out what acreage is likely to be planted, and farmers will shy off from an unprofitable crop.
It is the same with turnips - a glut one year, a famine the next, and this not merely because turnips are a ticklish crop, but because there is no arrangement as to the quantity to be sown. It is true that turnips are not grown for sale as other crops are, but chiefly to be used on the farm. Sales do go on, however, and one has seen truck loads of turnips being carried on the railways from centres where there was a glut, owing to extensive sowing, to parts where there was a scarcity from the opposite cause, while ploughing in of the excessive and useless fodder represented a sad waste of labour, land, and seed.
Overproduction of food is like no other production in respect that food is perishable; and consequently central organization, both of home production and foreign importation, can alone prevent excess, waste, and unremunerative prices. Apples rotting in Kent and apples from Canada and America selling briskly are the proofs of unfair freights and no organization. If farmers have not had enough of this, the public has.
Beggars Cannot be Choosers.
If the rural districts could retain their population, and deal with the consequences of bad housing, sanitation, and low standards of life they would have a better claim to be allowed to mismanage their business; but as it is they slough their problems on the large centres - unemployed people, the feeble-minded, the diseased, accidents due to happy-go-lucky methods, and an immense burden of litigation. The county courts are kept going with rustic civil cases and rustic crimes out of all proportion to the numbers of the rural population. The ailing folk of the city must wait for a bed and treatment in their own hospitals; but cases from the country are forwarded as a matter of course and are accepted because humanity forbids their being returned untreated.
Farming a Business.
It is said by apologists that farming is 'not a business, but a way of living.' That is precisely what is amiss with farming. The farmer is not typically a business man. Struggling with weather, obstinate folk, and obstinate beasts, his hallmark is stolidity; and he is excused from keeping account-books because of his assumed dislike to, and probable incapacity for, book-keeping and his assumed disregard of whether his business is paying or not.
If I were dictator, then, I should control imports, stabilise prices, insist upon high farming and the maximum employment of labour compatible with remunerative business, and I should vest the Food Council with powers to enforce its findings. The business of the Food Council is not to be specially the friend of the farmer, but of the nation.
Grow Bigger or/and Bust.
I deal with this matter at special length, not merely because it is neglected in the policy of statesmen and the advocacy of publicists, but because it is in itself all-important to Britain. She is on the absolutely wrong road at present because her public men have the utterly unfounded idea (1) that she cannot feed her people with home-grown food, and (2) that she can go on depending indefinitely upon export trade. It is an essential feature of capitalism that its expansion means its ultimate extinction, since it obviously cannot expand except by equipping the nations of the earth to become their own producers. We send them money, machines, managers.
An Agricultural-Fiscal Decalogue.
So far, then, we have:
1. Set up a system of import control by a Government Department, whose officials would buy supplies from abroad in lessening quantities, liberating them on the market as wanted and at prices enabling the home producers to live and live well. This would be protection without tariffs, without speculative profits to Cartels, and without the trouble of collecting duties. If supplies were cheap from countries with low standards, the cheapness would be used, not to lower home prices, but would be State profits which would accrue to the nation.
2. We have nationalised the railways, equalised freights, improved the entire railway system in the interests of safety, efficiency, and the comfort and convenience of the travelling public. This, not as an expedient forced upon us, but as the best way of managing the service.
3. We have, unfortunately only on paper, restricted the issue of motor licences. The saving of the roads from heavy commercial traffic would mean that more labour and material could be expended upon the neglected third-class roads upon which agricultural traffic is mostly carried.
4. If I were dictator I should reduce the hours in all sheltered industries at once. After all the mechanical inventions and improvements that have taken place, a working day of eight hours is too long. As many shifts as you please, but none to work more than seven hours for a start. Russia is forging ahead with a seven-hour day at present. In competitive industries arrangements could be made with continental nations to reduce the labour day. Such international arrangements are the aim of the Washington Convention and the business of the International Labour Office.
5. An embargo upon the investment of money abroad was sound in war-time, and it would be sound now. At present one-third to one-half of the investments passing through the Stock Exchange represent British capital abstracted from the British pool and suicidally invested abroad to enable the cheap labour of Poles, Hindoos, and Chinese to be used to lower British standards and destroy British trade.
6. Nationalization of the land upon its present assessed value, the present holder to be given interest-paying scrip. Landlords no longer give improvements or repairs, and roads, drainage, tree-planting, and the provision of houses have long since become public concerns. As the landlords, thus pauperised, say land is a costly luxury, they ought to be glad to have 3 per cent. on the assessable value. Improvements in the countryside would then be improvements of the nation's own property.
7. A thoroughgoing policy of afforestation associated with small holdings and country crafts.
8. Electrification to be carried out in all directions, not through companies, but by direct labour under expert public servants, the amenity of the landscape to be conserved as against cheapness.
9. Recruiting for the army, navy, and air force to be stopped, as many men would be wanted for constructive work. There are millions of trained soldiers in the country who could be mobilised at once if need were. And there need be no need.
10. Slum clearances to be carried out as rapidly as new houses can be built for the transplanted population, labour being drafted from the mining and other distressed areas to do work and save doles.
The Great Contradiction.
These ten commandments of reconstruction are but a beginning. They are all not merely feasible, but changes that follow established precedents and cry aloud to be made. The organisation of labour is the State's most primary and important concern. To neglect it is both crime and folly. To attempt to find employment by the capitalist methods that have created and are still creating unemployment is to stereotype obvious mismanagement, is an abandonment of principle, and a shutting of eyes to all the signs of the times - not merely of the immediate hour, but the whole stream of tendency of the last fifty years, which is for the great industries to go abroad, the work being carried on where the products are required. The more that capitalism succeeds in its object of making profits the sooner it will fail as a social method, which it has never pretended to be anyhow. America with its 4,000,000 of unemployed, and much working of short time as an admitted result of capitalist 'prosperity' proves that capitalism is the Great Contradiction of history.
The moderate proposals here made should not require draconian powers or methods for their enforcement. The United States Farm Board is attempting, with some success, despite the opposition of the wheat speculators, to help the basic industry in the direction of organising marketing and eliminating middlemen, among other aims; and most of the main products of the soil are the subject of compulsory regulation, from eggs in Ireland, sugar in Cuba, to hemp and sizal in Manilla, with proposed compulsory co-operation among wheat-growers in Alberta. And the State railways of Canada carry Canadian wheat at about a fourth of the rates imposed in Britain. Other countries turn more and more to the control which Britain possessed and abandoned, although, on the undisputed claim of its authors, it saved the country £400,000,000 during the short period of its operation.
Draconian powers are here assumed chiefly because Labour in office has for the moment dropped its proposals for control through an Imports Board, apparently in deference to the opposition of vested interests. If this is not the case the best way to allay suspicion and meet the needs of agriculture is to revive in a Bill the proposals advocated during the General Election.
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"I still don't really get what bein' "strong" means, but I'm gonna start by not lying to myself. No more being scared of everyone, hiding my hobbies, staying away from people... Anytime, anyplace, I'm gonna bust right through as my own self! That's the way to deal with that "other me" in the TV world."
—Kanji Tatsumi, Persona 4
Persona 4 is a game that comes from a series with a reputation for breaking the boundaries of what is expected of video games. The series belongs to the fabled type of game that you may feel they just don't make any more. The kind with heart and an ambition that can go beyond the technology and budget for the project, one that has a definite identity which it wears proudly.
Luckily for the people who may check the game out based on the fantastic flair and style that it flaunts with wild abandon, they are fortunate to be entering in a series that is growing so steadily in its cult audience that it is now near to entering that so coveted gaming mainstream, right alongside Final Fantasy.
This entry in the series, in particular, was a major win for its publisher, Atlus. The welcoming energy of the characters and the game's mechanics, mixed with the dark and slightly seedy themes, create a game that could not help to appeal to a Western audience.
There was a fifth Persona game that was released earlier this year – and you can borrow it as well if you would like, here - and while I enjoyed it thoroughly, I have to say that its predecessor wore the mechanics of the game better. In general, I loved the characters from the fourth game more than I felt like I bonded to the ones in the fifth entry in the series. Not that it's exactly fair to compare any game to one that has characters like Chie and Kanji in it.
If you still haven't had a chance to play this game, in spite of it being the sort of thing that hits your sweet spot of character-driven gameplay with a major focus on dungeon crawling and student life simulation (and what a niche that is!), then I would be remiss if I didn't insist on trying it. This game has so many mechanics and contains the trappings of oh so many genres – including some that don't actually exist, but this game series, much like the Yakuza series, creates and makes work – that not only is it worthy of multiple play-throughs, it is absolutely necessary to play through this already long game more than once to experience almost everything that it has to offer. I would have to really wrack my mind to think of a better game to spend the cold months to come playing, perhaps with the exception of something such as XCOM 2 or Undertale.
So the short answer is that if you haven't played a Persona or a Shin Megami Tensei game before, not only it is not necessary to play any of the previous games before this one (because there is no connecting story between all but the two versions of the second games, Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment), but this is the best introduction to the series that I could imagine.
Beyond the mechanics of the game, which boasts dungeon crawling, a student life simulation, unforgiving boss battles, a wholly unique methodology of fusing "personas" in order to make a consistently strong source of power, and fishing - just to name the highlights - the game is renowned for its absolutely lovable and at times heart-wrenching teenaged outcasts whose darkest secrets threaten to literally devour them.
In the game, the protagonist must live with his uncle and his absolutely adorable shy cousin for a year in a backwaters town where it rains frequently. Not long after moving in, a corpse is discovered hanging from a TV antennae not far from the high school, and shortly thereafter the school becomes abuzz with the eerie local legend known as the Midnight Channel. From that point on, the protagonist's world becomes focused on doing what he can to discover the dark secrets of the Midnight Channel.
That's not to say that his social, school, and financial life are things that he should ignore. In spite of the need to discover what is causing the Midnight Channel, every mechanic in the game ties together, making it so that the work the protagonist puts into his daily life translates into how well he can search the dungeons created by the Midnight Channel and rescue the lost souls who have been imprisoned there.
Of course, whether the protagonist perseveres in protecting his new friends and home is entirely up to you, from the speed at which you traverse the game's dungeons, who you choose to befriend, and what skills and potential side work or hobbies you pick up along the way, as well as if you decide to make your school life and grades an integral part of your protagonist's life. As the appeal of the game seems to be – it's all up to you and your choices.
What I really love about the game series is how much lore and a deep love for all sorts of interesting and nerdy philosophical, psychological, and metaphorical concepts are ever so gently touched on in a respectful way. Jungian symbolism is prevalent through much of the series, the idea of rebirth is a topic visited frequently, and of course one cannot forget the series' abiding love of the archetypes of tarot. This is one game series that proves the point that something doesn't need to be boring to be smart.
If you're interested in trying out the Persona game series or if you're only interested in the fourth entry in the series, the ACPL has you covered, with both the original Playstation 2 edition available as well as the superior Playstation Vita edition available to borrow. Again, the library also has copies of the sequel (for the Playstation 3 and 4), which I may make a blurb about in the future. It's actually really good as well, it just falls short of the heights that the re-master of its predecessor rose to.
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Year: 1988
Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, percussion, strings.
Duration: 14 min.
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First performance: by Richard Mills, Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra — 5 Nov 88. Cremorne Theatre, Queensland Cultural Centre, Brisbane
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Maria, the last of the real-life von Trapp children, dead
The last of the real-life von Trapp children on whom The Sound of Music was based is dead. She was 99.
Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina von Trapp - the last of the real-life Von Trapp children whose flight from Nazi-occupied Austria with their parents was dramatised in the stage musical and film The Sound of Music - has died. She was 99.
Maria von Trapp was the third eldest of Captain Georg von Trapp's children. Ironically, she outlived her siblings despite poor health for much of her early life.
A family friend said she died in her sleep at her home in Vermont, in the eastern United States. The Trapp family have been based in Vermont since their now famous emigration to the US on the eve of World War II.
In the stage musical and film versions of the Trapp family's story, Maria's name was changed to Louisa. She was played in the film adaptation by actress Heather Menzies Urich.
As the film depicted, Captain Georg von Trapp had seven children with his first wife, Agathe Whitehead. They were Rupert, Agathe, Maria, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna and Martina.
In the stage and film adaptations, their names were changed to Friederich, Liesl, Louisa, Curt, Brigitta, Marta and Gretl.
After Whitehead's death, Maria Kutschera (played in the film by Julie Andrews) was seconded from a nearby convent to tutor the children. She and von Trapp were later married and had three more children, Rosemarie, Eleonore and Johannes.
Speaking to the Austrian Times newspaper, family friend Marianne Dorfer confirmed the death.
"It was a surprise that she was the one in the family to live the longest because, ever since she was a child, she suffered from a weak heart," Dorfer said.
"It was the fact that she suffered from this that her father decided to hire Maria Kutschera to teach her and her brothers and sisters.
"That of course then led to one of the most remarkable musical partnerships of the last century."
At 99, the younger Maria von Trapp was the last surviving child of Captain von Trapp's children from his first marriage.
All three of his younger children, from his second marriage, are still alive.
Although the fictionalised account of their lives differed from actual history, it is true that the family performed as a musical group and toured. They left Austria in 1938 to tour and elected not to return.
In 1942 they settled on a farm in the US state of Vermont.
Michael Idato is entertainment editor-at-large of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


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A quadriplegic who sexually abused a six-year-old boy from his wheelchair has been spared a five-year jail term because prison could not cope with his condition.
Paralysed Andrew Blair, 71, has to steer his motorised wheelchair with his tongue and needs constant assistance in his day-to-day life.Woman gives birth to brother's baby to avoid adoption costs
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Given his disability, Judge Roger Hetherington admitted the incident happened 'in a way that's hard to imagine' but said it 'undoubtedly occurred'.
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Blair, of Fareham, Hampshire, suffers from congenital cerebral palsy and epilepsy, Portsmouth Crown Court heard.
He denied sexual activity with a child, but was convicted at a retrial of one charge – and cleared of 16 other counts.
Amanda Kelly, prosecuting, said the boy told police of an automatic 'magic door' that led into Blair's bungalow, that enabled him to get enter.
The offence he was convicted of happened in the early 2000s in West Sussex.
The judge said: 'On the jury's verdicts it's a mystery as to how a child came to be in that position.
'I'm not prepared to find that you deliberately cultivated him with a view toward doing something sexual toward him. However, I'm satisfied that there was a significant disparity in age.'Disabled grandfather attacked with hammers by masked men who mistake him for someone else
He added: 'This case is highly unusual and that's because you are and have been since birth someone who has suffered from cerebral palsy, and you have been in a wheelchair.
'You operate your wheelchair using your tongue and you have very little other mobility.'
The court heard Blair grew up in a children's home from the age of six, after he was abused as a child.
Sarah Jones, mitigating, said: 'This was an unholy combination of factors that led to a single instance occurring.'
Judge Hetherington sentenced Blair, who sat in his wheelchair in the public gallery in court, to a two-year sentence suspended for two years, with 12 months of supervision.
He must also sign the sex offenders' register for 10 years, and a sexual harm prevention order which limits his contact with children for 10 years.


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Some students at the University of Rhode Island have learned the hard way where not to park on campus after they return to find a parking ticket wedged beneath their windshield wiper.
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"The whole idea behind it was to get people to do the right thing and register their car and buy a permit and it's really been successful this year," he said, "we have a lot of people doing that. We gave them the tickets, they've taken, advantage, they've bought the permits, they've done the right things and now all they have to do is park in their designated lot."
The university also issues a $20 fine for failure to display a permit. Paradise said that displaying a permit is the only means the university has to identify who has a registered permit and that faculty, staff and students are all required to display a permit. Parking services asks that if you don't receive your permit, to contact URI Parking and Transportation Services and let them know.
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"You don't see the tow trucks here as much as you used to. I think people are compliant with the citations and rightly so," Paradise said. "It's just kind of to keep people honest and doing the right thing. It is working."
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The 46th NCSM annual conference this year is in New Orleans, April 7-9, "Jazzed Up Mathematics Leadership." Several sessions are focused on Common Core State Standards and Emerging Leaders. The strand descriptions can be found main conference page. The conference is a great opportunity to enlarge your network of resources and tools to support your work. I hope you are planning to attend and will also attend the Eastern 1 Regional Caucus during the conference. It is a great opportunity to meet and network with leaders in your region.
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In September, NYSAMS, the NYS Association of Mathematics Supervisors, hosted the Sixth Annual Hall of Fame for Mathematics Educators in Tarrytown, NY. The honorees were Dr. Elliott Bird, Dr. Alice Artzt and Maxine Leonescu. Nominations are open for the NYS Mathematics Educators Hall of Fame which will be held in Albany, NY on September 17, 2014. Nomination forms are available on nysams.org.
In October, I attended the NCSM Fall Leadership conference in Baltimore, Maryland, "Digging Deeper: Leadership Tools for the Common Core Era." The sessions focused on Algebraic thinking across grades K-5; NCSM's Great Tasks, K-5 and 6-12; and NCSM's Situations project. The Fall 2014 Leadership Conferences will be held in Indianapolis, IN, Richmond, VA and Houston TX.
The Association Of Teachers of Mathematics in New England, ATMNE, hosted their annual conference on October 24 and 25 in Killington, Vermont. ATMNE is a consortium of organizations of mathematics teachers from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. In the exhibit hall, I hosted an NCSM table and generated a lot of interest in all of the NCSM on-line and print resources.
I attended The Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State, AMTNYS, hosted their 63rd Annual Conference in Buffalo, New York, November 7-9, and the NYSAMS annual Breakfast meeting on November 8.
Affiliates: Congratulations to the New York State Association of Mathematics Supervisors, President Juanita Maltese, and the Vermont Math Leadership Council, President Tracy Watterson, . Does your math association want to be an affiliate with NCSM? NCSM invites state, regional and provincial mathematics leadership organizations that meet the criteria (listed on the website) to become an affiliate of NCSM? We hope that you will consider this opportunity to work more closely with NCSM and to gain benefit from the association.
There are many regional and state conferences in the next few months in the Eastern 1 Region. Events in our region, including a link to more information, are listed in the calendar section of this page. If your event is not included, please contact me and we will have it listed.
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I've been an empath for as long as I can remember. I always put myself into other people's shoes and had the ability to feel how and what they are feeling. Sometimes I think I felt it too much. I catch myself holding back for fear of hurting another person's feelings or attempting to stop something from happening because I don't want anyone else to feel hurt or sad. I would help anyone I could if they asked and I had a very difficult time saying no. I never wanted to offend or upset anyone so if someone asked me for a favor, I obliged 99% of the time. I attempted to see the good in everyone and I trust people for who they were. "Oh, so and so wouldn't do that. They wouldn't say something like that, no!" only to eventually realize what monsters are hiding underneath a person's friendly personality. An empath is a narcissist's biggest and best target. We fall easily for their love bombing, their sad stories, and their lies; we put ourselves in their shoes and have great empathy for the trauma they have supposedly endured. It can be difficult for us to believe that they would do anything to hurt us.
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The day that Robert proposed to me was one of the happiest days of my life but I knew one person wouldn't be happy; my mother. My mother and I have always been close, as close as best friends could be. She didn't like Robert. She didn't like how cocky and all knowing he always was. I remember many times when we would all go out to dinner and they would get into a heated argument because no matter what the subject was, Robert was always the expert and if you didn't agree with him, he would become angry and he made sure to always have the last word regardless of what the conversation was about..
When I told my mother that we were engaged, she cried. These were not happy tears; she didn't like the person he was. She didn't like his personality and the fact that he was having a difficult time keeping a job. She was worried about our future. Eventually, she accepted it, she knew that I loved him and she saw how loving he was to me, and she also knew it was pointless to try to stop it. I was a grown adult and was able to make my own decisions.
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From the beginning, Robert had told me that he had never loved another woman until me. He had dated, lots, but he never said the "L" word to anyone and he never ever wanted to get married but now that he found me, the woman of his dreams, marriage and a family is all that he wanted.
I fell for it, hook, line, and sinker.
That Thanksgiving, Robert and I went to his sister's house so that I could meet her and her family. She had two teenage sons that he was pretty close to. I was nervous but excited to meet them. After the introductions were done and we sat down to chit chat, Robert announced to them that we were engaged and he showed them my ring. I will never forget his sister's response,
"Are you SURE this time??"
I heard it. It bothered me but I tried to just blow it off and not dwell on it too much. Whatever happened in his past, is his past, and I am part of his future.
A few weeks later, I was Christmas shopping with his sister and while talking about her oldest son, she said, "He's just like his uncle, always hopping from girl, to girl, to girl".
Approximately 4 months after becoming engaged, I was pregnant. Even though I was an adult, I was still terrified to tell my mother and my grandmother because we were not married and he did not have a steady income. I bought a card for my mother congratulating her on becoming a grandparent, with a long handwritten note in it explaining how happy I was to be having a baby and that this baby was going to bring us closer as a family. I told her not to worry about money because Robert was going to get a good job, his family was going to help out as much as they could and everything that was needed for the baby would be taken care of.
I always wanted to be a mother and my dream was finally coming true. I had a little human being growing inside of me that was part of me and part of the man of my dreams. Robert showered me with love, affection, and compliments. Everything just seemed to be falling into place, and he had me exactly where he wanted me.
Our first Christmas together, I was excited to buy him gifts. I have always loved giving gifts to people I care about because it always made me feel good. He opened the gifts and had tears in his eyes. He said that no one had ever cared enough to buy him gifts like that.
While making Christmas cookies that year, he talked about how he had never made Christmas cookies before or hung up Christmas lights because his mother never bothered to do any of those things with him as a child. This broke my heart knowing that he had never done these simple things that most of us take for granted, and how horrible of a childhood he must have had.
Robert's cousin was in prison at the time. He and his cousin were very close, they grew up together and were best friends. Without going into too many details, his cousin was in prison for 7 years and the story I got was that his cousin took the rap for something they both had done. Robert felt so guilty about it and he owed his cousin his life, was what he said.
He and his cousin wrote letters back and forth pretty regularly for awhile. One day, I ran upstairs to get something and I saw a letter that Robert had written to his cousin in an unsealed envelope. My curiosity got the best of me. It wasn't that I was suspicious of anything at the time, I was just curious as to what kinds of things they were talking about in their letters.
"She's pregnant and I'm stuck like Chuck now, so I have to marry her".
He then went on to talk about how much he disliked my "fat, stinky, bitch mom". I just lost it. I was so shocked, how or why would he say those things? He is STUCK with me because I'm pregnant, even though we were trying to get pregnant?? Talking horribly about my own mother who has never done anything wrong to him or me?
Once I confronted him about the letter and he saw the tears, he immediately apologized and said it was just him trying to 'talk tough' with his cousin and that was just how they were. He never meant those things and he just loves me soooo much. He ripped the letter up and wrote him a new one, letting me read it before he put it in the mailbox.
For a brief time, we stayed with his mother so that he could work for his brother in law. He had to pay child support a specific amount of money by a certain date to avoid jail time for not paying. His mother is very.. vocal. She yells a lot, which is something I am not used to, and we wound up only staying there for a week or so because it was stressing me out that she was always yelling at him. While we were staying at her house and he was at work, I was looking through some old photo albums in his mom's living room. I found one from when he was younger throughout his teenage years. I came across some photos of his ex girlfriend, his son's mother in fact. She was very young. On the back of the photo was some writing, in his handwriting he had written her name with his last name, saying that he couldn't wait to be married. I found another photo of his daughter's mom, showing off a ring on her ring finger, where his mother had written the word, "engaged?" on the front (it was an old polaroid photo).
Never thought about getting married, huh? I confronted him about the photos. He denied that they ever spoke about getting married and that the handwriting on the photos were not his, they were the girl's - obviously I knew his handwriting well enough to know that was not the truth but I just let it go, feeling that it wasn't worth arguing about.
Not long after that, on my birthday actually (a year after this story began), Robert was heading to work (another new job) and was pulled over and arrested. It was nothing serious and he only spent a weekend in jail. He had some boxes of things at my house and he needed me to find something out of it, a phone number or something. I honestly don't remember what it was since it was so long ago. He had cleaned out his car recently and had just stuffed everything into a box, hoping to eventually get rid of the car. I was searching through the junk and found a couple of letters he had written to his ex girlfriend, the one prior to me. In the letter, he was apologizing to her, telling her how much he loved her and wanted them to be together forever.
Never told anyone he loved them before.. Right?......
So many red flags in such a small amount of time. I should have known better but these red flags were just the beginning. I had no idea what kind of sociopathic narcissistic monster I was marrying.
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Left-wing hero Michael Wolff -- author of the error-ridden, incendiary Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House -- has been pummeled by fact-checkers over the past several days. The beating showed no signs of stopping on Wednesday's episode of The View, as Meghan McCain served up a robust helping of scathing scrutiny.
The show's lone conservative further questioned the veracity of the lurid anti-Trump publication, saying:
"You know, Michael, your credibility is being questioned. Trump said the book is full of lies…"
Wolff arrogantly interrupted Meghan, injecting:
"Let's remember who my credibility is being questioned by."
McCain pushed forward:
"Let me finish. The New York Times' Maggie Haberman, New York Times' John Martin, David Brooks, CNN's Alisyn Camerota, [former British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, Tom Barrack, Kate Walsh, Anna Wintour, all denying quotes."
The list could've stopped there, already being sufficient to discredit Wolff's gossipfest alleging a troubled White House and an incompetent President. However, McCain wasn't close to done:
"'Washington Post reporter Mark Berman was in the Four Seasons at the same time as Ivanka Trump;' you admitted to mixing up Mark with Mike Berman. 'Trump needed the Constitution explained to him;' his advisors say [Sam] Nunberg has fabricated stories in the past. This goes on and on. The age of the White House communications director. There are a lot of factual errors in here. So [what] I want to know from you is, what do you say to people?"
Wolff paused to apologize to the Berman brothers.
For Meghan -- daughter of John McCain -- the inaccuracies of the book struck a personal chord, as she explained:
"I read your book, and I think this hits a special place for me because my family has been the subject of a book like this -- Game Change. And Game Change was written...a lot of disgruntled staffers...it's the disgruntled staffers who aren't loyal to their principal that give interviews like this. So I'm curious: when you talk about staff...you didn't talk to his cabinet. Did you ever interview Jared and Ivanka? And how can I trust some of these quotes when -- again -- Tony Blair, Tom Barack, Kate Walsh, Anna Wintour...all these people are denying these stories and quotes attributed to them?"
Wolff claimed he gleaned inflammatory information from an off-the-record dinner at his house. Furthermore, he dismissed the NYT's excoriation of his failed attempts at factual reporting with an allegation of simple journalistic jealousy:
"When you write a book like this...I mean, the New York Times is going into a bit of apoplexy about this, because...I kind of scooped them."
Riiight. So, The Times is jealous because he beat them to the punch of writing a book filled with stories and quotes that are denied by those to which they're attributed?
Meghan wouldn't relent, and the video is glorious to watch.
Wolff maintained that the book wasn't personal. "There is no 'I' in this book; I don't appear in this book," he said. It seems that, along with the author, another thing that doesn't appear in the book...is the truth.