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he answer to the question "What is irrealism?" can probably be answered, if not fully, then at least most concisely, by a consideration of the physical laws that underlie the objects and events depicted in the irreal story or piece of art. In a realistic story (and we will be focusing on literature here) we expect all the objects and creatures in the story to manifest themselves in a way consistent with the laws of physics as we currently understand them. Thus, in a story that typifies literary realism such as Ernest Hemingway might have written, we expect all the facets of the story's universe to operate as they do in our own: we certainly would not expect, for example, that Robert Jordan, the protagonist in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, would turn into an insect such as Gregor Samsa did in Franz Kafka's irreal story "The Metamorphosis." Nor, given the extent to which Hemingway works to establish with the reader that his story takes place in a real time and place–e.g., in Spain during the Spanish Civil War–could we ever accept such a transformation in his novel.(Footnote 1)
This doesn't mean, however, that irrealism is therefore simply a story or piece of art where something non-realistic happens. First of all, something that is seen to be impossible in our historical epoch could become quite possible and realistic–thanks to technological and scientific advances–in some future epoch. This is what "hard" science fiction relies on, such that a transformation from human to insect might be presented as being due to some future scientific development in, let's say, genetic engineering. It would be portrayed, in other words, as a possible future reality, not an irreality.
On the opposite side of the spectrum from science fiction is the fantastic literature and art of peoples and cultures that are or were pre-modern. These forms include legends, myths, and certain folk tales, all of which were assumed by the people telling and listening to them to be–more or less, in someplace or at sometime–true. These people, if they had heard Kafka's story read aloud to them, would most likely assume that the transformation resulted from a spell somebody had placed on him, even though no such spell, or metaphysical world in which such spells happen, is ever described in the story. Believing, as traditional peoples did and do, that such spells were possible, the story would not challenge their sense of reality, and thus for them the irreality of the story–which flows from an irresolvable clash between the "real" and the "unreal"–would be lost.
Though magical realism, a very contemporary genre, also utilizes legend, folk tale and myth, it can be differentiated from these traditional forms in that neither the writer nor the reader of this genre believes that the events being depicted actually happened or likely could happen. Thus it reflects, in the context of the physics of the story, a "willing suspension of disbelief" on the part of contemporary readers, grounded as they are in an empirical, scientific world-view; if they didn't suspend their disbelief they would never be able to get past the thought: "this event is impossible, therefore the whole story is ridiculous" when, for example, in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, "a delicate wind of light" slowly lifts Remedios the Beauty higher and higher into the air until "not even the highest-flying birds of memory could reach her." The demand on the reader to suspend their judgment as to what is possible is also utilized in various other contemporary genres, such as fantasy (e.g., we don't believe that there is such a thing as a Hobbit, nor that certain rings have special powers), contemporary fairy tales (ditto that a wolf would dress up as the grandmother in Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves"), and, of course, the irreal (what happened to Gregor Samsa).
But what is it, it might be asked, that distinguishes irrealism from these other contemporary genres of literature and art that also ask us to accept the impossibility of their physics? One of the key differences is that, in these other genres, there is an internal consistency to the "impossible" physics of the story; that is, once the reader understands and accepts this alternative physics, he or she can assume that the story and the world it describes will be consistent with it. And, to facilitate this transition, this alternative physics is generally based on some pre-modern physics or the other that is already familiar to the reader, such as the belief in ghosts that Henry James utilized in The Turn of the Screw. Thus the author, as soon as he or she has established this alternative set of physical laws, will remain as faithful to them as the realist author is to contemporary physics. In fact, if this alternative physics stops working in the course of the story the author must explain why this is so (as in certain fairy tales where an explanation would have to be offered if, at some point in the story, the carpet didn't fly).
In an irreal story, however, not only is the physics underlying the story impossible, as it is in these other genres, but it is also fundamentally and essentially unpredictable (in that it is not based on any traditional or scientific conception of physics) and unexplained. In a story like "Metamorphosis" there is no physical law, even a fantastic one such as a spell or a curse, which is put forward to explain Gregor Samsa's transformation. It is simply an absurdity that has happened, an absurdity that places itself between him and his goals in life. And while a viable story flows out of this absurdity, in the sense that the characters in the story deal with its implications in a compelling way, his transformation is never incorporated into one of the conventional alternative physics nor, for that matter, is any other theory offered as to why it has happened. The tension the transformation creates, then, is never resolved into a physics that might allow for it to happen via a curse or a spell, or as the functioning of some advanced technology. Put in fictional terms, there is no reason, no motive for the strange events occurring in the story nor is there any protagonist—such as a wizard, scientist, god, or practical joker—making them happen.
And, in this way, the physics of an irreal story can be said to resemble that of a dream, where events also tend to be unpredictable and unexplained. It is largely for this reason that irreal fiction is often considered to be dream-like in nature, which is a justifiable description so long as we remember that the irreal work is not the relating of a dream that we might have had but, rather, theevoking of aspects of the dream-state within a work of art. Indeed, it can be argued that much of the emotional resonance that we experience in an irreal work flows from this: we all dream, after all, and often it is our dreams that both most strongly challenge our sense of reality and also present us with our most emotionally charged moments, sometimes doing both at the same moment (e.g., when we wake up from a nightmare and aren't certain at first whether what we just dreamed actually happened or not).
Any attempt, however, to singularly interpret the events and characters in a irreal story as if they were actually a part of a dream–in other words, symbolically and very probably within a psychoanalytic framework(2)— moves us into another category of non-realistic art that is often confused with irrealism, one which includes allegory, satire, and symbolism. The physics of the world underlying these genres is such that they are understood by the reader to be directly shaped by or derived from the thoughts of the author or protagonist. Thus, "Metamorphosis" might be interpreted as an allegory in which, for example, Gregor Samsa's transformation "symbolizes" his feelings of inadequacy; or his having had a nervous breakdown; or society's treatment of the mentally ill. In each case it would be understood that the author has altered the physics of the fictional world in order to better express a particular point or theme that, once the reader understands the particular conceit, is readily graspable. The author is seen and understood in these genres, then, as a kind of illusionist in the sense of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest, who has conjured a strange world into existence, in this case so the author can use the story's strange physics to reflect and symbolize (albeit in exaggerated and/or distorted forms) the author's "take" on various people, ways of thinking, and historical events of the real world. This is why we, in readingCat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, don't think of the substance "ice-nine" as being Vonnegut's prediction of a possible technological development, but rather a literary construct he is using to show human folly. In the same vein, few would attribute any more meaning to Jonathan Swift's creation of the Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians in Gulliver's Travels than the author's desire to give us, via the dichotomies created by these creatures' extreme size disparity in relationship to Gulliver, a new perspective on ourselves. An example of this would be when the King of Brobdingnag (standing 72 feet tall) hears about the intrigues of European politics and describes Europeans as "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."
Indeed, it is not surprising that a reader already familiar with such literature will, when confronted with the physics of an irreal story, attempt to reduce it to such a symbolic or satirical scheme. But for a story to succeed as irreal, this attempt on the part of the reader must ultimately be frustrated, which is where some of the technical skill of writing irreal fiction comes in: the events, characters, and physics of the story must be such that they cannot be satisfactorily reduced to one such interpretation.(3) In a word, there can be no agent, whether it be human or some other consciousness, or the unconscious, that is seen to be causing the unusual events. Wouldn't it, indeed, be a tremendous disappointment if we learned, at the end of Kafka's The Trial, that some malevolent government official had been "behind it all." Or that everything we'd been reading had all been a practical joke on the part of Joseph K.'s co-workers? Or that it had all been a nightmare that he'd been having, a nightmare of the Freudian kind in which the court was a manifestation of his father and his murder a manifestation of his castration anxiety?
The reader of a successfully written irreal work will be confronted with a piece of literature that cannot simply be translated as a fantasy or a satire, or as a symbolist work of one sort or the other. Thus cut off from their familiar mooring in the possible, or the conventionally (and ultimately explainable) impossible, they will be left alone, so to speak, with the absurd. Thus a tension is created in the work, one that the physics of the work will not allow to be resolved (as, indeed, the tensions and anxieties it is reflecting are not resolvable). And it is this irresolvable tension that helps to explain why it is possible to describe works such as Kafka wrote as being, to quote Shimon Sandbank, "so many pointers to an unknown meaning." That there is a considerable amount of anxiety being expressed in Metamorphosis is certain, and that it could point in any one of the directions mentioned above is certainly possible, as is the fact that it doesn't point in some other directions (it really couldn't be taken, for example, as being a statement about war). And yet to reduce it to one or the other of the interpretations is impossible, since there is no explanation for the event that triggers the story. For these same reasons it is also impossible to singularly interpret Kafka's The Trial as–to take the most common examples–symbolizing his anxiety about his relationship with his father, the situation of Jews in early 20th century Europe, or the impersonal nature of large bureaucracies.
If the reader of an irreal story is thereby left with an underlying but palpable anxiety, then the irreal story or piece of art has successfully established the foundation for its unique form of storytelling and representation. And, in so doing, the impossible and unexplainable physics of the irreal has laid the foundation for an art form that can directly communicate, by feeling rather than articulation, the uncertainties inherent in human existence or, to put it another way (and there are many ways to put it), the irreconcilability between human aspiration and human reality.
(1) The use of physics to distinguish different genres of fiction was inspired by Darko Suvin's Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, Yale University Press, 1979, pp. 18-20. Back to the text
(2) Upon hearing mention of the "dream-state," adherents of psychoanalytic theory, especially Sigmund Freud's, might be tempted to find the "motive" for what is happening, as well as, in a certain sense, the true protagonist, in the unconscious mind of the writer or narrator of the story. Thus, the strange events are the writer's and/or narrator's various repressed desires and unresolved traumas (since, as Freud wrote, dreams are the "royal road to the unconscious") manifesting themselves in symbolic form. By the proper application of psychoanalytic theory we could, according to this approach, resolve the irreconcilability between the real and the unreal because nothing is "real" in the first place, as it is all a manifestation of the unconscious. Back to the text
(3) But, to establish this tension in the first place, it is necessary to establish a reality to be undermined, which can place limitations on how experimental the narrative of an irreal work can be. In a work like Finnegan's Wake, where the reader is not certain what is what, who is speaking, or what the situation is in the first place, it would be hard to establish an irreality. On the other hand, a piece like "semantical studies" by the Czech writer Jiri Valoch can establish an irreality because it manages to establish a reality, extremely minimal though it may be, that is then undermined. Back to the text
Do we allow our personal, unanswered questions about the gospel fell our tree of testimony or grow it? Just how much are we willing to risk or obsess on a question when weighty matters are at stake? Deciding what matters is one of the first steps to leaving Babylon and becoming a Zion person.
About twenty years ago, I had a gospel question that vexed me. Despite my best efforts, I could not make sense of it. After pondering, praying and fasting, I still suffered with the question. The experience taught me that in the delay there are blessings, if we will allow them. The first blessing that I experienced was the question's forcing me to a point where I had to decide once and for all if the question really mattered. Was the root system of my testimony so flimsy that this issue could topple my tree of belief? After a little deliberation, I decided that my roots of testimony ran deeper than that, and I concluded that I would not let the issue matter. It could wait. What I didn't understand at the time was that by setting aside my demand for an answer I opened the door for the answer to come.
The Purpose of Delay
The Lord never asks us to travel a road without some prior preparation. Faith builds upon faith as the Holy Ghost spoon-feeds us one precept at a time. Questions are often planted by the Spirit as invitations to learn the next concept. A quick survey of the scriptures reveals the Lord's use of questions to prod righteous people to stretch and to learn. But we can stop the process and fell our tree of testimony by becoming frustrated with the process or getting stuck on a challenging question. When the answer is not immediately forthcoming that does not mean that a satisfactory answer does not exist. Perhaps the Lord's delay serves as a test of faith or a motivator to search the scriptures and prophets for answers to this and other questions. Often, in the process of seeking an answer we stumble upon a potpourri of truth.


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Most of the time, I stay away from the blog when I'm feeling the bruises of bombardment... but every now and then I just have to 'let it out' regardless of the consequences. It isn't always easy to turn your problems in to ten-point articles. Keeping them on the inside does nothing but intensify the hurt. Reality gets in the way of easy blog material because sometimes the 'real stuff' isn't always as pretty.
So here I am tonight... after everyone is snug in bed... when I should be paying the bills and getting the paperwork on my desk in order (or grading Math, or cleaning my purse out, or folding laundry, or figuring out how to get that awful smell out of the front-loading washer)...
I stare at the screen, but I can't write. Something is stuck. All the blog posts in my head (most of them happen to come to me in the shower for some reason - maybe because I'm ALONE?) have been really whiny lately.
I've been filled up with lists of whiny questions; things like:
-Why does my 11 year old have to suffer in pain and worry that she has cancer in her spine?
-Why am I having a baby so late in life when I hardly have the energy to handle the three that I already have?
-Why does there always seem to be three or four extra days in a pay period when the money has already run out?
-Why do I have an aversion to cooking dinner when we have 40$ in the account and can't afford to eat out?
-Why is it so hard for all of us to get our chores done and get out of our pajamas?
-Why have I only been on one date in the past 4 years with my husband?
-Why do my best attempts at "getting school done" always get pushed aside for doctor visits, medication, and grumpy mornings with two tweenage kids going through puberty?
-Why am I the only one in the house who knows how to change a toilet paper roll?
-Why does the baby have to write on everything with Sharpies?
-Why do I have to go to the store every day to buy 2 gallons of milk?
-Why aren't there enough hours in the day to actually get the house clean, school done, the baby taken care of, meals cooked, planning finished, paperwork filed, and the checkbook reconciled?
-Is it even possible that I can be burned out on homeschool this year when it isn't even a week in to October yet?
These type of questions aren't easy to answer.
They require grace and forgiveness; vulnerability that grates at your soul like sandpaper. Everyone laid bare... everyone in need of forgiveness (even yourself).
They require honesty.
And as you know, change is not always easy when things feel broken. It hurts bad.
Sometimes it takes looking past the homeschool curriculum and the xrays and the mechanical pencil that started WWIII before the kids even cracked their 'prayer journals' open for school. There's something deeper that isn't right. Something quiet and hidden inside. Something hollow.
But if we ease out of our shell and take a good look at the reality behind the veneer, we can address the pain and the hurt - put the pieces back together. We can pony up with a heavenly posse to tackle the attitude issues that are keeping real healing from happening. That's what I'm doing tonight. I stayed up to clean off my desk, sure... that was the original self-programmed "I CAN DO THIS" reason... but I knew God was calling me on the carpet when I sat down and couldn't find more words in my head besides, "Why, Lord?"
"That's what I wanted you to ask, Heather." He whispers as I stare over at my dusty Bible and consider picking up my own prayer journal that is quite a few days overdue.
The tears come because I was finally quiet enough to listen. I recognize His voice. And then the 'admitting that things are broken inside' and that 'I can't do it all'... (the thing He's been watching and waiting for)... it happens quietly - when I'm finally alone.
"Be still, child." That's what ADD is like for a grown up and her 'Big Daddy' in the sky (I'm sure he considers medicating me often). "Just let me minister to you."
I figure that God is not too small to answer big questions. I know he has the answers. So I'm going to ask them and He's going to whisper to me from those neglected pages about things that will make me better. Maybe my circumstances won't magically change, maybe our medical issues won't instantly disappear, and maybe the bank account will stay empty... but all of that will be miraculously OK when I am filled.
I know this. He's done it before. Funny how that first step hurts so much and then there's peace... and you laugh at yourself for being so stupid to wait this long for the filling up again. "Yes, Lord, Yes... I'm just empty. That's why everything is broken. I'm spent. Please fill me again."
I always forget that my questions and problems are not too trivial or too big for Him. And that's what gets me in these messes to begin with. I'm so glad that I didn't shy away from letting my fingers talk to this blank page tonight. I may regret posting this tomorrow (I always do when I get 'too REAL'), but I know there's probably someone else out there that needed to hear it or He wouldn't have prompted me to be so brutally honest with the entire internet.
He's waiting for you, too.
"Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain on the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
I am the vine and you are the branches.
If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." ~ Jesus (John 15: 4-5)

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I've been working on QServ for about 7 years but I don't post about it much anywhere. Since Cube 2 hasn't had much activity lately, I figured i'd release a bunch of stuff. So here's another stupid post about my server mod. You might also find some new content of mine on quadropolis. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy the mode
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The Zoad In The Road Series
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 2, 2009 (message contributor)
Summary: Have you come to a "Cross" road in your life? Have you decided to make a decision to take up your cross and follow Jesus? Not to decide is to decide. Which path will you choose?
OPEN: This begins a series which we're calling "Dr. Seuss and God". Dr. Seuss (actually Theodor Seuss Geisel) dedicated himself to writing simple, entertaining and thoughtful poems that used basic words children would understand. But every once in a while, Dr. Seuss would introduce what some people would consider nonsense words – like in his poem about the Zoad in the Road. But apparently, even this apparent non-sense word was deeply researched. Apparently, "Zoad" came from a Greek word that meant "stair step" or "ladder"… indicating a device people would use to get somewhere.
With that insight, consider Dr. Seuss' poem: "The Zoad In The Road":
Did I ever tell you about the young Zoad?
Who came to a sign at the fork of the road?
He looked one way and the other way too -
the Zoad had to make up his mind what to do.
Well, the Zoad scratched his head, and his chin, and his pants.
And he said to himself, "I'll be taking a chance.
If I go to Place One, that place may be hot
So how will I know if I like it or not.
On the other hand, though, I'll feel such a fool
If I go to Place Two and find it's too cool
In that case I may catch a chill and turn blue.
So Place One may be best and not Place Two.
Play safe," cried the Zoad, "I'll play safe, I'm no dunce.
I'll simply start off to both places at once."
And that's how the Zoad who would not take a chance
Went no place at all with a split in his pants.
APPLY: The poor Zoad couldn't make up his mind which way to go.
So, he decided to not really MAKE a decision.
Instead, he tried to take BOTH roads at the same time.
He didn't want to make a decision, so - in his indecision - he actually made a decision
Because he wouldn't take a chance… he "went no place at all with a split in his pants."
Have you ever had trouble making a decision?
I have!
But if the decision is important enough… I eventually I make a choice.
In the Bible, God is constantly telling His people to make a decision
In Joshua 24:15 Joshua challenged the Israelites to"… choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve... But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."
A couple hundred years later, on Mount Carmel Elijah went before the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him…." 1Kings 18:21
Make up your mind!
Make a choice.
Make a decision.
Why? Because to decide not to decide… is to decide.
In today's text, we find Jeremiah telling the people of Israel to make a decision:
"Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls."
Just like the Zoad, God tells His people – you're at a crossroads.
Make a decision.
Decide which road you're going to choose because Eternity hangs on the choice you make.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus echoes Jeremiah's words.
"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." (Matthew 7:13-14)
There are 2 roads (He says) and you have a choice.
One road is wide and easy to travel- and lots of people choose this road
The other is narrow. It leads to life, but few seem to choose that path.
But Jesus says: Make a choice.
Make a decision.
Choose your road.
Now some people - like the Zoad - try to compromise.
The narrow road is too… (pause) narrow.
In fact the world has a phrase for that. They call this path "narrow-minded" because it's intolerant. It's too strict. A little of Jesus is a good thing, but it's possible to be too moral. Too straight laced. Too pure. So, Loosen up, we're told. Don't be so serious. Mix a little worldliness in with your faith.
Take the broad way… in fact the world has a word for this too!
They call it "broadmindedness".
It's tolerant.
It's accepting
ILLUS: Three years ago, the Barna research group took a survey of people in their 20 and 30's.
They found that compared with those over age 40 this group was:
• twice as likely to have viewed sexually explicit movies or videos…
• 2.5 times more likely have slept with someone they weren't married to;
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Since the bulk of this week's Final Four coverage will center on the Kentucky-Louisville rivalry and the Calipari-Pitino rivalry and relationship, I figured I may as well get in on the act.
First, let's look at the series history between these two schools, which isn't as extensive as you might assume.
The History of the Kentucky-Louisville Rivalry
The two rivals played nine times between 1913 and 1922, with Kentucky winning seven of those matchups. For the next 60 years though, the teams met just three times, none of which came in the regular season.
According to an extensive writeup of the series on Big Blue History, Adolph Rupp's arrival in 1930 played a key role in what amounted to a suspension of the series. In Rupp's view, a focus on local rivalries worked in stark contrast to his vision of solidifying UK as a national fixture in the college basketball world.
Interestingly enough, the next game between the two schools came in March of 1948 as part of the United States Olympic Trials. Essentially the plan was to invite the top collegiate and independent teams to compete in a tournament, at the end of which the best players from the finalists would be merged along with other top players from participating teams to form the U.S. Olympic Team.
The next three meetings between Kentucky and Louisville all came in the NCAA Tournament, including an Elite Eight matchup in 1983, which was also known as the "Dream Game." The Cardinals won that game to advance to the Final Four, while Kentucky still held a 9-4 series edge.
Following that matchup, there was substantial pressure to establish a season series between the Cards and Cats, to the point where state legislators were reportedly ready to step in. The two teams started their annual meetings in November of 1983, and the fourth (and most recent) NCAA Tournament matchup came the following March, when Kentucky defeated Louisville by five points in the Sweet Sixteen.
Since the renewal of the annual meeting between the Wildcats and Cardinals, Kentucky has won 20 of the 31 meetings. Over that span, the longest winning streak for Kentucky has been four games from 1990-1993, while the Cardinals have never won more than two straight meetings, which they have done four times since 1983, most recently from 2008-2009.
Overall, Kentucky leads the all-time series 29-14, and leads the modern series 20-11. (To see a game-by-game breakdown of the series, click here.)
In all, the schools have met four times in the NCAA Tournament, with each team winning twice, and Saturday's meeting will be the first of those matchups to take place in the Final Four.
If you look at margin of victory, Kentucky's largest was 34 points, which the Wildcats achieved twice – once in the matchup as part of the Olympic Trials mentioned above and the other in December of 1986. For Louisville, its largest margin of victory was 22 points on New Year's Eve in 1988.
Ten games have been decided by five points or less with Kentucky holding a 7-3 edge in those contests, while if you look at games decided by three points or less, the series is tied 3-3.
In terms of recent history, John Calipari and the Wildcats have won all three meetings since he took the helm. As for Rick Pitino, he was 6-2 against Louisville as the coach of Kentucky, but he is only 4-7 versus Kentucky as the coach of Louisville.
That's probably a good segue to the coaching matchup, where things are even at eight wins each.


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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Paperback | Aug 2017 | Wild Dingo Press | 9780987381309 | 280pp | 234x153mm | GEN | AUD$24.95, NZD$29.99
*Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2020*
*Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2018*
*Shortlisted for The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award 2018*
*Shortlisted for the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature*
An extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader deep into the heart of a family caught in the maelstrom of post-revolutionary chaos and brutality that sweeps across an ancient land and its people.
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is really an embodiment of Iranian life in constant oscillation, struggle, and play between four opposing poles: life and death; politics and religion. The sorrow residing in the depths of our joy is the product of a life between these four poles.
'The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a fantastical tale set in post-revolutionary Iran that concentrates on a family's tragedies, loves, and losses. It's a work of magical realism with plenty to unpack...Nods to poetry and literature make the parables of The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree engaging, tantalizing, and memorable.' — Foreword Reviews'From a people smuggler's boat to the shortlist for the Stella Prize' — Sydney Morning Herald
'If ever there was a book that needs to be read more than once, this is it.' — ArtsHub
'This novel is an exciting development in Australian publishing.' — ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
'Living in the 21st Century is not for the faint hearted, so it's no surprise that writers of literary fiction are looking clear-eyed at schisms of times past and the capacity of humans for brutality. Stylistically similar to Eka Kurniawan's acclaimed Beauty is a Wound, this novel is set in the aftermath of Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979. Many scenes, most memorably Azar's handling of Beeta's fate, blend heavy darkness with allegorical flights of imagination, marking the author as an assured fabulist. She brings to colourful life an extended family replete with beauty, humour, and tragedy" — WritingWA


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Long Beach police blocked off Doyle Street on Friday as crews filmed a scene from the show "City on a Hill." The series was produced by Ben Affleck and Chuck MacLean, and is scheduled to air in the summer.
Set in Boston in the early '90s amidst racial and economic tensions, the show follows an unlikely alliance between a district attorney, played by Aldis Hodge, and a corrupt FBI agent, played by Kevin Bacon.
Crew members arrived at around 1:30 a.m. Friday morning, said James Moore, a location assistant and Long Beach native, to set up props for the shoot. Palm trees were planted and vintage cars and a jet ski were parked on the street to replicate Miami in the '90s.
Friday morning's snow left white blankets on the ground, which crewmembers removed with a leaf blower, Moore said. The interior of the house was completely redone as well, Moore said.
"To make it look like Miami, we were blowing snow off the plants with leaf blowers and beaming lights down on the plants out front hoping that the snow would go away, and it did, so things are going okay," Moore said on Friday.
While Kevin Bacon did not act in the scene, Moore said he would shoot a scene on the Meadowbrook Parkway later that day. Other locations included Park Avenue and the Sands in Lido Beach.
Most of the shoot took place in the house, at 18 Doyle St., and the backyard. Joyce Coletti, a real estate broker at Douglas Elliman in Long Beach, who helped secure the location for the set, said the house is on the market for $689,000.
"[The crew] reached out to me — they scouted the neighborhood and they found this to be the most perfect home for this specific T.V. show," Coletti said on Friday.
She said it took a little bit of persuading the homeowners — Steven and Carol Rothman — because they did not want to inconvenience their neighbors.
Moore said the crews were only shooting in Long Beach that day, but did not rule out Long Beach as a location option for future episode shoots.
"I think the show is going to be really good," Moore said. "I actually think it will get great reviews. There's a lot of great people working on this."
Moore said that shooting in Long Beach, where he has lived for about five years, was "the coolest thing."
"It's just cool to finally get the best of both of my New York worlds together," he said.


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The development of The Darkside Chronicles as an on-rails shooter was decided because Kawata considered it the best way to retell the scenarios that could not be included in the previous game.[1] With this title, he wanted to put a much bigger emphasis on horror, employing a camera system that will try to convey a sense of actually being in the game.[2][3] To research realistic camera shaking in hectic situations, one of the team members went out in town for a day to make motion tests with a camcorder.[4] Another important aspect to create the game's atmosphere was achieving high-quality graphics, which cavia used all their resources for.[1] Kawata was very satisfied with the result and went on to say that the only thing really setting the visuals apart from next-generation consoles is the lack of HD display.[1] He also mentioned that there is a plethora of attractive content to use for more games in the Chronicles series and the decision of their development would largely depend on cavia's future involvement.[1]
As the game's development began before the production of Degeneration and because of the different timeframe, Kawata ruled out connections to the CG film and Resident Evil 5, though he hinted at the appearance of new characters and the exploration of the Birkins' and the Ashfords' family ties.[1]
- Main article: BIOHAZARD THE DARKSIDE CHRONICLES ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
For the music of The Darkside Chronicles, series veterans Shusaku Uchiyama and Takeshi Miura have been brought back to compose and arrange tracks for the retelling of the games they originally worked on, with Uchiyama being responsible for Resident Evil 2 and Miura in charge of Code: Veronica.[5][6] Part of the soundtrack has been recorded with a group of over 40 musicians known as the Tokyo Chamber Music Association and a chorus of 30 singers.[5] The orchestral arrangements were done by game and anime composer Yoshihisa Hirano who is also highly experienced with classical music.[5]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Capcom Europe, RE The Darkside Chronicles Q&A
- ↑ Hatfield, Daemon. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Preview. IGN. Retrieved on 2009-03-13.
- ↑ Resident Evil / The Darkside Chronicles: Talking Evil, The Presence of Horror
- ↑ VideoGamer, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles Interview
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Resident Evil / The Darkside Chronicles: Talking Evil, The Importance of the Orchestra
- ↑ Resident Evil / The Darkside Chronicles: Talking Evil, Veronica's Darkness


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If you've been following my regular Friday posts, you're well aware that my family recently purchased our first car and have been taking Sunday family adventures to celebrate the new purchase as well as summer in Portland. This past weekend we headed to Umpqua National Forest for a lovely 2 day camping trip. If Sasquatch is real, THIS is where he/she resides. Good thing that I'm quite the skeptic when it comes to the supernatural.
|It was surreal to watch the clouds roll through the top of the trees.
For this camping trip, we rented a historic cabin that sits atop a narrow forested ridge between Fairview Peak and Grouse Mountain. The cabin was once a guard station and it as well as the surrounding buildings were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1934 to provide fire protection to the Bohemia Mining district.
|Cabin view from the driveway.
|There are several outbuildings around the cabin. One of them would be this creepy horse stable that Aria insisted on visiting several times throughout our trip.
|Be careful not to get lost. There are tons of trails and old roads and I could see that it might be fairly easy to lose track from whence you came.
|My favorite girl wearing my favorite shirt from the Measure while she explores the abandoned mines.
|A closer view of the crumbling building. You have to watch your step while you're exploring the area, plenty of broken glass and rusty nails to be found.
|Rusty old mining equipment lays forgotten in the middle of the Oregon wilderness.
|Burnt and torn apart tracks lead to a collapsed mine. We kept Aria out of this rubble and asked that she stick to the rock piles that offered more safe exploration.
|Just a small sampling of the treasures we found. Aria also found some some bullet shells and really old rusty nails. Yeah...parenting WIN! hahaha...oh dear.
As we headed out in the wee hours of the morning, we were able to catch an amazing view of the sunrise in the mountains. In the backseat, Aria was whispering, "Goodbye cabin, I love you. I'll miss you."
|Yeah...we didn't get nearly enough time in this beautiful spot. We'll be back. We'll be back.


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Associate Professor of Chemistry
Jing Hao joined the biology and chemistry department in 2014 as an assistant professor of chemistry. She arrived from the Department of Simmons Cancer Center and Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she was a postdoctoral research associate for a year. Previously, she was a research mentor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Dallas (2009-12) while earning her PhD in chemistry at that institution (2012). She also held teaching assistant positions at the school from 2008 to 2010.
In addition to her doctorate, Hao holds a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from West China School of Pharmacy at Sichuan University in China (2008).
Academic Background
BS, Pharmacy, West China School of Pharmacy, Sichuan University (2008)
PhD, Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas (2012)


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- Cruz now blaming Trump for Chicago. This is bullshit. #TrumpRally
- Cruz and Rubio, using Chicago to try and make points. Speak up and tell these hoodlums to go home. Lost any chance of my vote.
- Ted Cruz is talking to the press about the Chicago Trump event fiasco. First he blamed protesters, then blamed Trump, then blamed Obama.
- Cruz is a bullshitter and I used to like this guy. Never trust a lawyer. #TrumpRally #Chicago
- OK, #Cruz just went full-squish He's promoting himself instead of condemning #Chicago cocksuckers. Shame on you. #TrumpRally
- I'm not saying this Chicago rally is Trump's Reichstag fire, but I'm also not saying Ted Cruz isn't the zodiac killer. I'm not saying lots.
- No, it's really bad there, too. What anti-Trump crap! I blame the media for the what's happening in Chicago, & Cruz.
- Rubio and Cruz just blamed Chicago violence on Obama.
- Ted Cruz raises Obama amid Trump Chicago fallout, saying for 7 years he has used moments of crisis to divide us. (And in doing so ...)
- Cruz wastes no time to take advantage of the Chicago Protest. Bringing in physical violence on people of the faith
- BREAKING: Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz blame President Obama for unrest at Trump Chicago rally.
- LOL Cruz sticking it to Trump for Chicago rally violence. Snake and back stabber, but right on this one thing! #Maddow
- Wow, Cruz trying to blame the Chicago incident on trumps campaign staff...
- Ted Cruz blames Chicago mess on President Obama, and 7 years of diving America based on race.
- This #littlerubio #Rubio n wussy #Cruz too chicken to do a rally in Chicago wat a couple of wussy boys #AlwaysTrump #Trump2016
- Ted Cruz: America is better than this. #chicago #trumprally #kellyfile
Friday, March 11, 2016
#Cruz now blaming Trump for Chicago This is bullshit I used to like this guy. Never trust a lawyer. #TrumpRally #Chicago
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"It is perhaps natural to feel a suspicion towards artificial sweeteners. Nothing should be tasty without doing you any harm – that spoils the righeousness of self-denial, the good feeling that spurs you on to a diet consisting entirely of celery sticks and uncooked tomato! But it isn't just a dose of good old disbelief that has made aspartame the MMR of the chemical world: aspartame's is a tale of dark conspiracy."
"How silly of you to think that Nutrasweet replaced sugar — it didn't. It increased the craving for sugar and the percentage of people overweight also has increased." —- Paul A. Stitt
"It's an addictive, excitoneurotoxic, carcinogenic, genetically engineered drug and adjuvant that damages the mitochondria…..They know its a killer and do nothing."— Dr. Betty Martini
[E951. Highly addictive killer. The psychopaths dream product. Covertly kill off the useless eaters while raising the income of your junk food poisons, while it makes you fatter! How they must laugh at this scam. It is obvious Aspartame isn't just a sweetener as you find it in sugar sweetened drinks also.]
In 1991, the National Institutes of Health listed 167 symptoms and reasons to avoid the use of aspartame , but today it is a multi-million dollar business that contributes to the degeneration of the human population, as well as the deliberate suppression of overall intelligence, short-term memory and the added contribution as a carcinogenic environmental co-factor. The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control continue to receive a stream of complaints from the population about aspartane. It is the only chemical warfare weapon available in mass quantities (should keep the cone-heads happy) on the grocery shelf and promoted in the media. It has also been indicated that women with an intolerance for phenylalinine, one of the compoents of aspartame, may give birth to infants with as much as a 15% drop in intelligence level if they habitually consume products containing this dangerous substance.
Did you know that Aspartame was banned by the FDA twice? How is this product legal now?
The bittersweet argument over whether Aspartame is safe or not has been going on for a long time. On one side we have medical evidence that suggests we should avoid using it and on the other side we lean on the FDA's approval that suggests it is safe. Since generally that seems to be the factor that many continue to hold trust based upon, I thought we could look into the Aspartame story to find out how it came to be accepted as safe by the FDA. You would think that something so widely used and so well accepted would have quite the pristine story leading to its acceptance. I imagine one will discover otherwise after reading this post.
Did you know that Aspartame has been proven to cause brain damage by leaving traces of Methanol in the blood? It makes you wonder why Aspartame has been approved as "safe" and is found in thousands of food products. Currently more than 90 countries have given the artificial sweetener the "OK" to be used in foods.
Woodrow C. Monte, Ph.D., R.D. – Director of the Food Science and Nutrition Laboratory Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona 85287 – Published in Journal of Applied Nutrition, Volume 36, Number 1, 1984
Many health-conscious people believe that avoiding aspartame, found in over 5000 products under brand names such as Equal and NutraSweet, can improve their quality of life. The history of this synthetic sweetener's approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including a long record of consumer complaints and the agency's demonstrated insensitivity to public concern, suggests they're right.
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