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Four things we learnt from PC Connects London's State of Play track
January 30th 2018, 15:40 GMT
The State of Play track opened up the inaugural PC Connects London on January 22nd and bringing together a number of speakers who brought us up to speed with the biggest trends affecting the PC games market right now.
We have collected four of the biggest points made during these sessions - how to get people to care about your game as an indie, what you need to know to run a Kickstarter campaign in 2018, how to transition from premium to free-to-play and why things on Steam aren't as bad as we have been lead to believe.
These weren't the only talks at the show, and we will be posting videos of all of the talks from the show at a later point.
We'll be doing similar round-ups for Digital Discovery, PC Games University and the Making Of in the coming weeks.
Click here to view the list »
1 How to make people aware of your game as a small studio
Our first talk of the State of Play track came from Unreal Engine evangelist Sjoerd De Jong, who spoke about surviving as a small studio in the current games market.
De Jong took us behind the scenes of how he marketed The Solus Project, which launched in 2016, with no budget.
"The image we wanted to portray was: 'We are professional, but money poor – we really need your help' - that was the overall thing we wanted to get in there," he explained.
"We needed people's help because we didn't need help. I can't pay someone to talk about me and my game so I need someone to feel like they want to help me to talk about my game. That's the thing - if you think about who you want to help in general and why, you tend to want to help people who are new to something or those who are weaker and more vulnerable. But on the other hand, if you are professionals and really know what you're doing, you don't think that people need help - they probably know what they're doing and you should just leave them by. They'll be fine.
"In everything we did, we tried to combine the two - we are professional and know what we're doing, but we really need help."
In addition to the above, the studio had a different approach to press outreach.
"Obviously we reached out to major press outlets - the standard stuff," he said.
"We went for niche audiences - but what does that mean? For us it meant we went for marketing and channels that were less saturated. Everyone will email Rock Paper Shotgun, and you should email them. But perhaps you should email the Italian game publications and the Greek ones. Find all those regions in the world and start emailing them."
And when The Solus Project was actually out, De Jong and co looked at who was playing and enjoying the game, and changed it to acknowledge the fanbase.
"We saw that girls like the game - so we decided to acknowledge that and change the game and add a very clear male-female selection window at the beginning," De Jong said.
"We changed the voice actor and had to re-record all the voice acting with a female voice. We wanted to make it very clear at the beginning of the game that you could choose how you wanted to play the game. It made a difference because acknowledged that group and said: 'We know you are there, we appreciate you and we are changing the game just for you.' It was already planned, it just wasn't in the first release because we wanted to the game out in a functional state first - that was our highest priority.
"The same was true with Russians - they liked the game. I have some theories about why it has done well there, but we changed the game to make the first character the player encounters Russian. All that required was painting a Russian flag on his spacesuit and calling him Yuri. This is stupid. But it's not about what you did, it's about the communication with the fans and acknowledging them."
2 You need to show more for a crowdfunding campaign in 2018
Thomas Bidaux of Ico Partners was kind enough to take us behind the scenes on how video games crowdfunding was doing in recent years. Some topline figures from the man himself are here, but he also went into the changing demands when it comes to launching a crowdfunding push - specifically when in a production timeline developers should be announcing their campaigns.
"In 2012, you can launch a Kickstarter during the concept phase. That's when you could do your crowdfunding campaign," he said.
"By 2014, you can no longer do a Kickstarter during the concept phase; you need to have a few visuals and be in the pre-production phase.
"In 2016, things are really different; the quality of the campaign, the production value and what people show is much higher and you need to be showing the visuals - it's essential to have that.
"Now it's even more than that - you need something that people can play and something that's visually pleasing. I do not think it's going to move any further for video games but it's something that people don't consider because they remember older campaigns from five years ago and assume that things are still the same. It's not. You need something more."
This is the evolution of the possible window for a video game crowdfunding campaign during the project lifecycle over the past 6 years.
It changes the role of the funding of campaigns, and it moves certain games to go to Early Access directly.
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3 What Edge Case Games learnt from moving to free-to-play
In May 2016, Edge Case Games brought its title Fractured Space from a premium business model to being free-to-play. At the show, James Brooksby shared what he and his team would do differently the next time around.
At the start, I said there was a big focus on the core design; there was potentially too much of a focus on that and we could have ramped that down and spent a bit more thinking about the metagame. Even if you have a great core experience, there are other really important pillars to what you need to basically get your players in and spending and playing all the time. If people get into the game they love it but they have to get into the game and they have to stay. We could have taken a bit of a hit on our core game experience and spent that effort elsewhere.
Less complex game mode
With a simpler game in itself, we would have had to do less of what we've had to do a lot of over this period of time which is explaining the game so that when they come in they understand it. That's all about the tutorial, that first user experience. This is probably one of the biggest ones for anyone who is thinking about going from that world, taking a team to a real live game over a long period of time.
You work a lot slower as a development team when you have a live game you need to support and you have new features you want to put in and you have to support previous features. Expect to work slower.
Recruit experts
We'd definitely bring in more experts earlier, even though we were doing some of that, there's more we could have learnt moving from our previous model of development. Bring in people who have done this.
Be prepared for a bigger UI team than what you might be used to
All this chopping and changing that you do will have an impact on your UI - most of this is in the UI as well.
Not to be so generous
We could have been a little bit less generous at times; more generous at others. It was quite some time before we had any decent metrics. We did a free weekend early on on Steam and we really had no data coming out of that - an enormous amount of people that we could have learnt through but didn't learn much about them apart from the fact they're gone and we don't know why. We knew at that point we weren't explaining the game. We assumed that most people would understand the game - the lack of a decent first-time user experience or tutorial meant that in those early days we weren't learning nearly as much as we should have been moving into this new space.
Take your time with your monetisation
One thing all of us are is potentially cash constrained - a lot of the things we did early on in terms of introducing our gacha mechanic, our loot drops, is that we rushed these and put them in very quickly. We thought this was great and might make us some money - yes, it might, but maybe just wait a little bit until you have refined it. That's where we took our biggest review score hit was when we put in the gacha system and it wasn't quite right and we hadn't really thought about some of the ramifications. Really think about these things when you're going to put them in.
4 Things on Steam aren't as bad as you think (but they're still pretty bad)
Closing off the State of Play sessions was Mike Rose of No More Robots who was explaining to us why things aren't *quite* as bleak on Steam as we have been lead to believe.
Rose opened up by showing us how Steam looks at this point in time. In 2017, the average indie game sold 500 copies media and 3,700 mean, generating $2,000 in median revenue, $18,000 mean.
In its first month on sale, the average price for these games was $7 (median) and $8.30 (mean).
For January 2018, this had all degraded, with 100 copies sold (median) and 600 (mean), making $280 in revenue (median, $2,500 mean). Meanwhile in its first month on sale, the median price was $5 ($6 mean).
But, there's a catch.
"When you're looking at the numbers, you have to remember they are skewed by absolute shite," Rose said.
He's referring to asset flipping games or low-effort games that are there to make a quick buck. In order to see what the market is actually like.
In order to do this, Rose removed what he referred to as 'trash games' from the mix, so this is a subjective measure, but gives a more realistic impression of the landscape than we had before.
A brand new indie game in 2018 sells 1,000 copies (median, 4,500 mean) generating $10,000 in revenue (median, $27,000 mean). Meanwhile, its average price is $10 (median, $12 mean).
All of this is to say that PC games are sell badly, and even if you have a high quality product, you are looking likely to sell around 1,000 in the first month on sale.
Price is a point that Rose circled back on.
"You'll notice the average price is a lot higher now," he said.
"Again, most of the shit games will sell for low amounts of money. But also, price for me is quite a big thing. Because of the skewed numbers, people have started to misappropriate that people aren't paying money for games anymore. I think that's absolute rubbish. Actually a lot of people - and this is a lot harder to prove - are looking down the list of new games on Steam and are seeing the higher price ones and are thinking: 'Maybe this isn't shit' and are looking at them."
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Q: This problem has two answers, which one is correct?
Let $BC=a,AC=b,$ and $ AB=c$.
Now, In between $\triangle BCE$ and $\triangle ADC$,
$\angle ADC=\angle BEC=90 ^{\circ}$
$\angle ACB=\angle BCA$ [$\because$ They are common angles]
$remaining\angle EBC=remaining\angle DAC$
So the triangles are similar.
So $\frac{AC}{BC}=\frac{CD}{CE}=\frac{b}{a}$
$\therefore \frac{CD}{CE}=\frac{b}{a}$
Again, from the extension of Pythagoras's theorem we get,
$c^2=a^2 +b^2-2b\cdot CD$......(i)
$c^2=a^2+b^2-2a\cdot CE$.......(ii)
Now from (i) and (ii) we get,
$b\cdot CD =a\cdot CE$
$\frac{CD}{CE}=\frac{a}{b}$
But we previously saw otherwise, $\frac{CD}{CE}=\frac{b}{a}$
so which one of the answers is correct?

A: You probably made a mistake when applying the extension of Pythagoras's theorem.
From the law of cosines,
$$c^2=a^2+b^2-2ab\cos\angle C$$
By substituting $CD=AC\cos\angle C=b\cos\angle C$, we get
$$c^2=a^2+b^2-2a\cdot CD......(1)$$
By substituting $CE=BC\cos\angle C=a\cos\angle C$, we get
$$c^2=a^2+b^2-2b\cdot CE......(2)$$
From $(1)$ and $(2)$, we get
\begin{align}
a\cdot CD &=b\cdot CE \\
\frac{CD}{CE} &= \frac{b}{a}
\end{align}
which is the same result obtained by using similar triangles.

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ECHO reveals Game of Thrones' Rose Leslie as the voice of En in new character trailer
It has just been announced that Rose is voicing the protagonist of the game ECHO, coming to PC on September 19th and a bit later on PS4 ! A trailer of the third-person sci-fi-inspired action game where you can see Rose at work can be found below.
The developers of ECHO have announced that Rose Leslie, also known as Game of Thrones' Ygritte, will provide the voice for the game's protagonist. A new trailer introduces ECHO's characters, including protagonist En, who is voiced by the actress.
Rose Leslie provides the voice of En, alongside Nick Boulton, who worked as a voice actor on Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, as well as the Mass Effect series. While En is human, Boulton plays London, a sentient spaceship that takes an immediate dislike to En, in her role as passenger.
The game develops as En and London find a bizarre structure – The Palace – deep in space. En quickly discovers that The Palace is studying her, creating copies to use against her that learn from the way you play the game. A stealthy approach, for example, will see En's copies learn to sneak around, while a more aggressive approach will see your enemies respond in kind.
You can see the new trailer, which shows En getting to grips with The Palace and talking with London, and features Leslie and Boulton's dialogue. Be warned, however, Leslie might not sound quite like you remember her from Game of Thrones, having shed her wildling accent for something altogether more civilised. (source)
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Indie Game Studio 'Ultra Ultra' also talked about casting Rose as the voice of their new game's protagonist on their Facebook page and said some lovely things about her :
Yes, Rose Leslie voices ECHO's protagonist En! Ever since our very first trailer people have been calling us out on this, which has been great – We wanted Rose for the part precisely because of her distinct voice. She is of course known for her roles in Game of Thrones, Luther and most recently The Good Fight. It's been an absolute pleasure to work with her on bringing this character to life. Rose's energy and uncanny ability to be at once vulnerable and bulletproof really fit the character, and we couldn't be more thrilled with the result.
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Rose Leslie to voice Red Riding Hood in Roald Dahl's 'Revolting Rhymes'
BRITISH COMEDY GUIDE – BBC One has announced an animated version of Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes.
The two part series, which will be shown on TV this Christmas, will feature an all-star cast, including David Walliams and Rob Brydon.
Revolting Rhymes, written in 1982 by Roald Dahl, is a collection of six witty rhymes which retell classic fairy tales with playful twists and surprising endings. Animation studio Magic Light Pictures has now animated five of these for the BBC.
The chosen stories are Little Red Riding Hood, Snow-White, Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella.
Walliams and Brydon will play various roles in the show, including voicing the Ugly Sisters, as well as Jack's Mother and the King respectively. Meanwhile Friday Night Dinner star Tamsin Greig will lend her voice to the roles of the Babysitter and Miss Maclahose.
Other stars include Bertie Carvel, who plays both the Magic Mirror and the Prince; Gemma Chan as Snow White; Rose Leslie as Red Riding Hood; Isaac Hempstead Wright as Jack; and Bel Powley as Cindy. (source)
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Rose voiced young Gertrude Bell in « Letters from Baghdad »
The 60th BFI London Film Festival is underway and it has appeared that Rose is involved in a movie screened this year, « Letters from Baghdad », a documentary about the life of Gertrude Bell directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum. Bell was a pioneering English writer, archaeologist, diplomat and spy whose travels through the Arabian desert gave her local knowledge unparalleled by her British peers. Recruited by British Military Intelligence after World War I, she played a significant – often unrecognised – role in British imperial policy-making in the Middle East, notably Iraq. (source)
Rose voiced the young Gertrude and Tilda Swinton the old Gertrude.
A first screening was planned yesterday (October 9) and a second one will take place today. You can learn more about the movie here.
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News : 'Sticky Notes', 'Carmilla', 'Game of Thrones' teaser
Some news about two projects Rose is involved in : « Sticky Notes », an upcoming movie she filmed in 2014 [more informations] ; and « Carmilla », an audiobook which was released last October. [more informations]
About « Sticky Notes » : « Carnaby has boarded world rights to comedy-drama Sticky Notes starring Ray Liotta, Rose Leslie, Justin Bartha and Gina Rodriguez. […] In post-production with delivery expected later this year, Sticky Notes explores the story of Athena (Leslie), a struggling dancer trying to make it in LA, whose father Jack (Liotta) interrupts her lonely existence when he asks her to move home to Florida to care for him after breaking the news that he has cancer. Carnaby will screen the film at EFM. » (European Film Market, 11-19 Feb 2016). [source]
About « Carmilla » : « People's Choice Award-winning actor David Tennant and Screen Actors Guild Awards-nominated actress Rose Leslie are nominated, along with a full cast, for their performance of an audio adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's classic gothic novella Carmilla, in the "Original Work" category at the 2016 Audies Awards. » (The Audie Awards are awards recognizing distinction in audiobooks). You can see the full list of finalists here. [source]
Also, some fun fact : if you have seen the latest « Game of Thrones » season 6 teaser, you may have noticed Ygritte's face next to Jon's. You can watch it here !
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Q: Searching at frontend vs backend in NodeJS I am developing a web application using NodeJS & SailsJS frameworks. Now I am going to develop searching functionality. There are around 5000 records from which I want to search on one attribute.
I know I can search it using mogodb query. What if I get all the records in javascript at frontend and search from it? What is good way to search? At backend using db query or at fronend using javascript searching?

A: If you search in the frontend then you have to load the entire dataset into the frontend and keep it synchronised for every query. This is not a good idea.
Use database queries - that is what they are designed for, and you only need to transfer the results.

A: It's all about your app and users expectations on it. You definitely shouldn't use client-side search if you have:

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*Short-living data which couldn't be cached (like list of users who are online).

*Huge dataset which a) couldn't be cached or b) wouldn't be cached (most visitors woudn't use search). But the size limit depends on the app.

*Complex computation intensive search (like full-text search).

In other cases it can work. And searching even millions of data records could run under 100 ms, what is faster than common network delay required to receive a response from server.
Advantages of client search:

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*fast: no network latency.

*powerful queries: query can use all JS capabilities with engine optimization advantages.

Disadvantages:

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*load full dataset (critical on huge amounts of data).

*require synchronization strategy: full reload, partial updates, CRDT, etc.

A: Do it in backend only using db query, which is good practice.It will reduce execution time.
Should not do this kind of check in client side as you have to send the whole database to client and loop through the records several times to fetch the desired records.


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If you watched the Blues' reunion/work from home conference call Wednesday evening, you were in for a fun time of just some guys shooting the breeze and doing something that a lot of hockey players are loathe to do: show their personalities.
One way that the guys - and most teams - show their personalities is through whatever jam they decide to make the official locker room victory song. Most of the time these are fun and quirky and from recent memory. Not so for the Blues. Oh no.
Apparently the collective personality of this team is a teenager from 1985, which is appropriate, because few of us have seen Stranger Things than the Blues winning the Stanley Cup (sorry, I haven't left my house in a month and bad jokes are a coping mechanism). "Gloria," last year's victory song, was released in March 1982. It absolutely permeated everything in St. Louis and even remotely related to hockey for the first half of 2019. It was unavoidable, and really, it's the kind of earworm that you might not mind hearing. It's everything great about the early half of the 1980s - it's bubbly yet with a dark underbelly (what the hell is Gloria running from, anyway?), it's got a shit-ton of synth, and it's got a vocalist that can blow you away and blow your speakers.
The Blues new win song is pure mid-1980s excess and part of a trend that saw a lot of 80s stars try to have a recording career.
Vince Dunn revealed during the chat that the team's new song is Eddie Murphy's oft forgotten but still weirdly catchy 1985 track "Party All The Time." Produced by Rick James, it inexplicably hit number two on the charts, driven by Murphy's popularity as an actor.
The only player on the Blues who was alive when this came out was Jay Bouwmeester. He was about two years old, so I'm not sure what a big Eddie Murphy fan he was at the time, though I'm sure he discovered this song much later on like many did.
It's not a super happy song - Murphy's girlfriend keeps wanting to go out and mess around on him despite his best efforts - but there are worse songs from Murphy's tenure as a singer to go with.
I think we can all be very thankful the Blues picked "Party All The Time" which is, despite everyone's best efforts (or because of?) a classic instead of a different Murphy track:


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Лудвиг II (; * 3 април 1439, Вайблинген, † 3 ноември 1457, Урах) е от 1450 до 1457 г. граф на Вюртемберг-Урах, граф на Монбеляр.

Биография
Той е първият син на граф Лудвиг I (1412 – 1450) и Мехтхилд фон Пфалц (1419 – 1482), родена пфалцграфиня при Рейн, дъщеря на курфюрст Лудвиг III от Пфалц.

След ранната смърт на баща му на 23 септември 1450 г. Лудвиг и брат му Еберхард V са под опекунството на чичо им Улрих V (1413 – 1480). Майка му се омъжва на 10 август 1452 г. втори път за Албрехт VI (1418 – 1463), ерцхерцог на Австрия и става ерцхерцогиня на Австрия.

Лудвиг II е обявен за пълнолетен на 13 октомври 1453 г. и поема управлението на 14 години. Той е болен от епилепсия и умира на 18 години през 1457 г.

Източници
 Das Haus Württemberg – ein biographisches Lexikon, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-17-013605-4
 Christoph Friedrich von Stälin: Württembergische Geschichte, Stuttgart 1856, Reprint ISBN 3-88851-301-4, S. 432 ff.
 Museum für Epilepsie und Geschichte der Epilepsie

Графове на Вюртемберг
Графове на Монбеляр
Вюртемберги
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A HOUSE that was for many years home to one of Henley's best-known pub landlords is on the market with Philip Booth Esq estate agents.
Dave Beck and his wife Joan ran the former Rose and Crown in New Street, which benefited from a prime position opposite the Kenton Theatre.
During intervals, theatregoers and performers would cross the road to enjoy a drink.
Visiting celebrities included Diana Dors, Ingrid Pitt and a young David Essex, who the Becks offered to put up for the duration of his show's run at the theatre in the mid-Sixties.
The couple's son Ken, now 72, recalls: "I got up for breakfast one morning and my dad said, 'We've got a pop star staying with us.' He stayed with us for a couple of weeks. I think he was about 18 or 19 at the time."
As well as stars who were passing through, the pub's clientele included the actors Robert Morley, Richard Todd and Russell Hunter.
Today, there are no pubs in New Street but at one time there were three.
Ken said: "There was the Horse and Groom on the same side towards the top, then the Rose and Crown, and then down on the left, which you wouldn't believe because it looks like a small house now, was the Red Cross."
Dave and Joan ran the pub until the early Eighties, by which time they were nearing retirement age.
Back in 1968 their retirement planning had included the purchase of 1 Belle Vue Road, off St Andrew's Road, which they then rented out to long-term tenants.
Ken said: "Because they were in a pub, it meant that when they retired their home would go, so they bought the house on the basis that they'd have somewhere to move into. When they left the pub the house was vacant and they moved in."
Despite having worked hard all his life, Dave wasn't ready to retire just yet.
Ken said: "He was talking about going back to Stuart Turner, where he had worked in the Fifties, and then somebody said, 'Well, I want a gardener.' And so he started gardening and he looked after lots of people's gardens."
Having encountered many famous faces as the landlord of the Rose and Crown, Dave now found himself working for the Radio 1 DJ Steve Wright, who at the time lived just up the hill from him in St Andrew's Road.
And his connections to the showbusiness world deepened further when he was hired as the gardener and estate manager of Peel Fold in Mill Lane, which was then home to Beatrice Lillie, the multi-award-winning star of stage and screen.
By chance, this later led to a friendship with the Queen's cousin, Lady Pamela Hicks.
Ken said: "What happened was when Beatrice Lillie died in January 1989 they had to get the house cleared. My dad was in charge of organising it and they found this safe which was locked.
"They didn't know what was going to be in this safe but they needed someone who could be a witness when it was opened.
"My dad didn't know Lady Pamela at that stage but I think she knew the people who ran Peel Fold, so she came along to witness the safe being opened.
"Because it took them a while to open the safe, she and my dad just sat and chatted for quite a while. They got on well together and after my mum passed away they went out a couple of times."
Joan died in 2003 aged 82 but Dave continued to live at 1 Belle Vue Road until October last year when, shortly after celebrating his 100th birthday in July, he moved into the Chilterns Court care centre in York Road.
It was there that he died peacefully on May 1, leaving his three children — Ken, his older sister Pam and younger brother Clive — six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Ken remembers his parents enjoying a happy retirement together in Belle Vue Road.
Dave eventually gave up his gardening jobs in his early seventies but continued to garden at home. Ken said: "They always used to have fruit and veg growing. My dad didn't do so much of it in the pub because he didn't have the garden or the time, but I remember before we moved to the pub he had an allotment locally which I think has now been developed into houses.
"I remember going down there with my sister and complaining because he was carting loads of manure around for his plot. But he loved gardening, that was one of his loves. Gardening, singing and talking were the main three.
"My parents loved being retired. They went out a lot and they went to Cape Cod on holiday. That was because one of the people who used to live at Peel Fold was American and so she asked them out there on holiday. They used to play Scrabble a lot and they'd go to the rugby club. Dad was a keen rugby man.
"He also became a staunch member of St Margaret's Church in Harpsden and sang in the choir.
"After they moved to the house he went there every Sunday. At the end when he couldn't manage — because he walked when he could — the people from the church would give him a lift."
Being situated in one of Henley's most sought-after neighbourhoods, the family home is on the market with a guide price of £1 million.
The house, which dates from the early 1900s, is detached with three upstairs bedrooms, two of which are doubles. There is a family bathroom on the first floor and an outside toilet on the ground floor, which has a sitting room with both a front and rear aspect, with a glazed picture window and door opening on to the back garden.
Also off the front entrance hall is the dining room, which leads through to the kitchen, which has a range of wall and base units, a walk-in pantry and an under-stairs storage cupboard.
At the rear of the kitchen is a scullery with a wash hand basin and a cupboard over, a floor-standing gas-fired boiler and a sliding door that opens on to the sun room at the back of the house.
Ken thinks the new owners would almost certainly want to have some work done on the property before moving in.
He said: "I think it's going for a fair price but then they've got to extend it and modernise it to live in it. I mean, my parents moved in in the early Eighties. It was decorated and they extended it slightly and changed things around a bit — but for the last 30 years it has not been touched. There's quite a lot of work needs doing, hence the price, because obviously Belle Vue Road is a sought-after road. So I think it's a good buy for somebody who has got the money to develop it."
Ken thinks there is considerable scope to extend the property. He said: "When you look at the house you've got a carport to the left and you could convert that into a garage and then put something over the top. Plus you've got room to extend at the back, so you could almost double the size of the house, easily."
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Adelynrood Retreat Center sits on a beautiful property in the small town of Byfield, Massachusetts, just 5 miles south of the coastal community of Newburyport, MA. In addition to the option of food and lodging at Adelynrood, there are many other options in the surrounding area, an easy drive over rural/suburban roads from Adelynrood.
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There are a few other small lodgings in Newburyport that can be found on line.
In addition to your commercial lodging options, there are many Airbnb and VRBO properties for rent in the greater Newburyport area. These offer the opportunity to have more of a local experience and are generally less costly than commercial lodging. Options range from renting a room in someone's home to renting an entire home, alone or shared with others. Prices vary widely depending on the property being rented. To view options, log onto Airbnb.com or VRBO.com and enter the dates and location (Newburyport) to see what is available.


News that former Hollywood flames Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have reunited once again has left a shattered and fragile Angelina Jolie seeking help, The National Enquirer claims.
According to the publication's explosive report, a sombre and depressed Jolie has been spotted leaving a psychotherapist's office, sparking many to believe the star is seeking help following her heartbreaking split from Brad.
The insider adds, 'She's seeing a therapist to cope with anxiety and tension.
Jolie, who is raising her six children - Maddox, 16, Pax, 14, Zahara, 13, Shiloh, 11 and Vivienne and Knox, 9 - as a single mother, has had the increasing pressures of her lifestyle crumble down, leaving her broken and alone.
Sources further reveal to the publication that the 42-year-old actress is 'humiliated' by Brad's betrayal.
As well as seeking therapy, Angelina has found solace from Jennifer Aniston's ex-husband Justin Theroux, with the two enjoying a dinner at a New York restaurant together.
Angelina has not yet responded to The National Enquirer's claims.


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Walgreens Boots Alliance is one of four employers that will participate in a pilot program designed to help high-school students and graduates from the city's poorer areas find jobs, keep them and get on a path to economic stability.
Beyond the Diploma, announced today, was created by Skills for Chicagoland's Future, a Chicago-based workforce-development nonprofit. The program's goal is to recruit and place 1,125 young people in career-track jobs in its first two years and keep them in those jobs.
Skills for Chicagoland's Future created the program to address the fact that retention rates for young people it places lag 5 percent to 7 percent behind adult hires.
Beyond the Diploma has two parts: one for high-school students 16 to 19 and one for high-school graduates ages 18 to 24. Skills recruiters will work with Chicago Public Schools high schools to help students with job readiness and connect them with part-time and summer jobs.
As part of the pilot, Walgreens plans to hire 20 to 25 high-school graduates this spring for part-time and full-time customer-associate roles at retail locations. In addition to paying their wages, Walgreens will cover the participants' tuition at City Colleges. Their class schedules will be created to accommodate their work schedules at Walgreens.
Photo by Skills for Chicagoland's FutureWalgreens' employees interview Skills candidates at a job fair. Walgreens and the other companies involved in Beyond the Diploma have hired 350 employees through Skills.
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First performance:	Munich (Royal Court Theatre), 21 June 1868.
First UK performance: London (Drury Lane), 30 May 1882.
First performance in Scotland:	Edinburgh (Royal Lyceum Theatre), 15 September 1894.
Scottish Opera premiere:	Glasgow (Theatre Royal), 15 December 1976.
In the middle of composing The Ring, Wagner broke off to produce Tristan, and after that effort he decided to produce a light comedy before returning to The Ring. Meistersinger developed into a far larger work than he seems to have intended, and though it is certainly a comedy, it is a piece of great humanity, perhaps the most three-dimensional of all his works. Unusually for opera, many of the situations arising in Die Meistersinger are occasions when singing is an entirely natural activity, whether the opening scene in church, or the subsequent trials and rehearsals of new songs, or the final song contest itself.
The opera is located in sixteenth century Nuremberg, where the guilds of master craftsmen also take pride in their abilities as singers and poets. Walther, a young knight visiting the town, attends a church service, where he is attracted to Eva, the goldsmith's daughter. He discovers that her hand is to be the prize in the approaching song contest, and resolves to enter. His main rivals are both middle-aged masters. Sachs is a cobbler, a leading member of the Mastersingers, and an upholder of the traditional virtues of the guilds, while also being open-minded enough to accept innovations. Beckmesser, the Town Clerk, is both more unscrupulous and far less talented and imaginative. Walther's initial efforts at composition are derided by Beckmesser and the other masters, but Sachs observes a latent talent in the youth, and also recognises that Eva favours this young knight. He nobly gives up his own claim, and the final contest rests between Walther and Beckmesser. The clerk steals the song lyric which he finds in Sachs' workshop, not knowing it is Walther's composition, but at the contest his grotesque attempt to improvise a melody makes him a laughing stock. In a petulant outburst he confesses that the dreadful verses are actually by Sachs, who then reveals the author to be Walther, whose performance makes him a clear winner of the contest and of Eva.


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Historical Vignette 116 - Engineers in Russia
310th Engineers Supply Depot Group,
Archangel, Russia. no date.
With the passing of the living history of the First World War, many of its significant events will fade from memory. Despite this loss, some still can name a few of the American experiences in this war, such as Belleau Wood or the "The Lost Battalion." There was, however, one theater in which American soldiers and engineers served and fought that was forgotten long ago, even though it influenced the later events of the Cold War.
Shortly before the end of World War I, American and other Allied troops were deployed to Russia. Ostensibly, their mission was to protect donated war supplies in northern Russia and Siberia from German troops, to help Russia remain in the war, and to assist Allied prisoners of war in a chaotic, revolutionary Russia. In reality, the mission was never clear to American troops; even at the highest levels there was confusion. Secretary of War Newton Baker handed Maj. Gen. William S. Graves, commander of the American troops in Siberia, his orders with the words: "This contains the policy of the United States in Russia which you are to follow. Watch your step; you will be walking on eggs loaded with dynamite. God bless you and good-bye."
Accompanying the soldiers when they landed at Archangel, northern Russia, on August 2, 1918, and at Vladivostok, Siberia, on August 16, 1918, were Army engineers. In the case of northern Russia, the engineers were from the 310th Engineer Battalion. They served a crucial role in what became known as the Russian Expedition.
In the vast spaces of northern Russia and Siberia, railroads were critical, and Army engineers repaired and maintained them. They also constructed defensive fortifications, often using unique designs adapted to the bitter winter weather. In northern Russia, for example, engineers of the 310th constructed 316 log blockhouses and 273 machine gun emplacements. They also had to maintain equipment that was never meant to function in such harsh winters. Of course, they were also required to do battle in these same brutal conditions as fighting escalated between the Bolsheviks and supporters of the provisional government.
After World War I ended in November of 1918, the justification for maintaining a presence in Russia weakened and shifted. Ultimately, the lack of mission and domestic pressure led to the withdrawal of the 5,000 American soldiers in northern Russia in June of 1919. The following April, the 7,950 Americans in Siberia went home. When this obscure and little understood operation ended, it faded in American memory. Crucially, however, the Russians never forgot that American troops once fought on their soil. The experience, for them, very much influenced the direction the Cold War took in the aftermath of World War II.
Blockhouse on Vologda Railway, Russia. no date. Drafting Room, Archangel, Russia. no date.
The Office of History has in its collection a scrapbook of photos taken of the 310th Engineers while in Russia and a collection from William M. Black of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Siberia. This page presents some of those images that illustrate the conditions in Russia.


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Mesothelioma Advocate Succumbs to Illness
An advocate battling for a cure to mesothelioma has died – though his cause has not.
Our Boston mesothelioma lawyers were saddened to hear of the passing of Larry Davis, a Florida runner who raised tens of thousands of dollars for mesothelioma research, and always ended his e-mails with the phrase, "Believe in a Cure – believe in yourself."
Sadly, this disease is not discriminatory. Given that its root cause is airborne exposure to asbestos, which used to be contained in thousands of everyday products in regular use by average Americans, its reach appears to know almost no bounds. It's estimated that about 3,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with mesothelioma every single year.
Although research is ongoing, a diagnosis is currently akin to a death sentence. It becomes not if, but rather when.
If the companies that produced these products – which ranged from shipbuilding material to insulation, automobile parts and textiles – didn't know the damage that was being caused, this would be a terrible tragedy.
The fact of the matter is, though, that most of these manufacturers were aware of the danger in which they were placing their workers and consumers, and yet they allowed greed to fuel their continued production anyway – and that's an outrage.
While the disease has claimed a number of famous individuals (Steve McQueen, Warren Zevon and Merlin Olsen, among them), Larry Davis was not famous in the traditional sense of the word. But he did make quite a name for himself, particularly in his last years as he fought tirelessly for a cure.
According to the Sun-Sentinel, Davis was 61-years-old when he was diagnosed with mesothelioma. Doctors at the time gave him six months to live.
That was six years ago.
Given the aggressive nature of this disease, it's practically miraculous he survived as long as he did.
In the years following his diagnosis, he raised close to $80,000 during his 8K races in Boca Raton, called Miles for Meso. Additionally, he competed in races and even triathlon throughout the country, at each one making it a point to raise awareness about the disease and the fight for a cure.
He competed in one triathlon prior to his fifth abdominal surgery since his diagnosis. His wife was an eight-time finisher of the Boston Marathon, and he traveled here with her in April to watch her compete one last time.
Davis was one who beat most odds. Most patients live about 18 months after they're diagnosed. Those who are Davis' age have only a seven percent chance of living another five years.
What's more, Davis' father had died of mesothelioma as well.
A scholarship has been established in his name through the Runner's Edge Foundation, which will be awarded on a yearly basis to a high school senior devoted to community.
While the cure was not found in his lifetime, we could all be served by following in his tracks.
If you or a loved one is diagnosed with mesothelioma in New England, call for a free and confidential appointment at (617) 777-7777.
Larry Davis waged relentless race for mesothelioma cure, By Craig Davis, Staff Writer, Sun-Sentinel
Retired Diesel Mechanics at Particular Risk of Mesothelioma in Boston, June 28, 2012, Boston Mesothelioma Lawyers Blog
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Updated: July 19, 2012 9:09 am


Are you a student at Edinburgh Uni? Ever wanted to know more about the history and archaeology of Arthurs Seat? With a bit of GIS training thrown in to boot? We're running two courses that offer all of this, the first from 15th to the 19th April, and the second from 27th to 31st May. For more information and to get involved contact us. Places are limited and will be offered on a first come first serve basis.


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'Decolonize your bookshelf': University Hour speaker challenges readers
Home Newsroom 2021 March 'Decolonize your bookshelf': University Hour speaker challenges readers
New York Times best-selling author Dhonielle Clayton gave a University Hour presentation at Eastern Connecticut State University on March 10 about the "radical" power of children's books and the imperative of providing children with more inclusive literature. Clayton is also the chief operating officer of the non-profit organization We Need Diverse Books, which advocates for changing the publishing industry to produce more storytelling that reflects the lives of all young people.
Clayton insisted that the debate surrounding children's literature is indeed radical, as she has been on the receiving end of numerous death threats and hate mail over the course of her advocacy. She said that children's literature has a responsibility to truth-telling and to telling stories from all perspectives.
Clayton referred to the truths of prejudice and systemic racism and how these biases have even been written into stories for children. "The books we give young people help them to navigate these truths," she said, adding that books have the power to tell people what to think and reinforce the status quo.
Clayton said that books became a place of power and refuge for her early in her life. "I found all kinds of truths," she said. "Books showed me that friendships are precious and rare; that girls have strength." Yet, as a Black woman, she still wonders, "How different would I be if as a child there were more stories with 'me' in them?"
Clayton shared research by the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that revealed the diversity of books published in 2018. Of the 3,134 new books, 1 percent were about Native Americans; 5 percent about Latinx characters; 7 percent about Asian Americans; and 10 percent were about African Americans. That same year, 27 percent of books starred animal/other characters and 50 percent were about White characters.
As an ancient human tradition, stories have the power to shape the impressions we have of ourselves and others, said Clayton. "What happens when you can't find yourself in stories, or when the stories you're in are scary or inauthentic?" In her experience with children's books, she recalled several tropes and stereotypes: "Black girls are never princesses; Black boys are only athletes; Black girls are never love interests."
Clayton said that children's literature has a responsibility to grow the imaginations of all children. "It's good to see yourself reimagined… I deserve a swooning love story!... What's the big deal about 'Black Panther?'" she said of the 2018 blockbuster superhero movie. "It's the first time I've ever seen a cast of characters who look like me save the world."
Conversely, she said it's also damaging when stories about people of color are overwhelmingly in the context of pain — slavery, poverty, discrimination. "These are important stories, but not the only ones."
Clayton called for readers to decolonize their bookshelves. "Are all of your books with marginalized people about tough positions? Are all of your books about native peoples set in the past? Or is there anything fun and contemporary?"
She also cautioned readers to prioritize own-voice authors as opposed to cross-cultural writing. While it may be a step in the right direction, Clayton said that attempting to write from other people's perspectives is not that same as other people writing from their own perspective.
Just as the #WeNeedDiverseBooks movement is about exposing children to more inclusive books, it's also focused on changing the publishing industry to empower writers from diverse backgrounds.
In her call to decolonize bookshelves, Clayton charged readers to challenge the "classics" and to make room for new books and different voices. "I always get the most hate mail when I talk about 'To Kill a Mocking Bird,'" she said, referring to the beloved 1960 novel by Harper Lee.
She's been assigned to read this book four times over the course of her schooling — from middle school through higher education. "But I've only been assigned Langston Hughes once," she said, and listed several other classic-worthy one-off reading assignments by non-White authors. "I'm not saying to get rid of the 'classics.' Curation is not cancellation."
Speaking to the crowd of mostly English and education majors, Clayton concluded, "I think stories and books are how we make sense of the world and this weird, messy human experience. As scholars, writers and educators, we've been given the most wonderful privilege to work with stories. If the book is one of our greatest instruments, we must tell the truth and be inclusive, otherwise we're creating one type of narrative."
Dhonielle Clayton is a New York Times bestselling author of "The Belles" series, the co-author of the "Tiny Pretty Things" duology, a Netflix original series, and the author of the forthcoming middle grade fantasy series "The Marvellers." She taught secondary school for several years and is a former elementary and middle school librarian. She is chief operating officer of the non-profit We Need Diverse Books, and owner of CAKE Literary.
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There are myriad reasons that Ted Cruz picking Carly Fiorina as his running mate is absurd, but Stephen Colbert focused on the most essential one last night: Ted Cruz is nowhere close to winning the Republican nomination, so Ted Cruz is nowhere close to needing a running mate. "I'm still reeling from yesterday's big news out of the Cruz campaign," Colbert said. "First, that there is still a Cruz campaign." Later, he compared Cruz's move to picking a vice captain on the Titanic—a nice riff on the rearranging-the-deck-chairs cliché.
Colbert certainly wasn't out of line. Cruz is 400 delegates behind the apricot demagogue who leads the Republican race, and he now needs to get more delegates than there are delegates available to win the nomination on the first ballot in Cleveland. The Republican primary circus has turned into a house party that won't end—you know, when the guy who wasn't invited but found out about it somehow and the guy who ate all your snacks are the only ones left and they just won't leave.


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GOP Congressmen Launch 'Foreign Agent' Probe Over NRDC's China Program
The environmental group, which has sued the Trump administration over its climate policy rollbacks, also works on clean energy and pollution issues in China.
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Rep. Rob Bishop, a Utah Republican, informed NRDC he would use his congressional committee to investigate the environmental non-profit. NRDC works in several countries to reduce pollution, fossil fuel use and carbon emissions that affect lives around the world. Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Getty
Republican leaders of the House Natural Resources Committee have launched a probe into what they describe as potential "undue influence" by the government of China over a leading U.S.-based environmental group.
Their target is the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an organization with 1.3 million members that works internationally to promote and defend environmental law. NRDC, which has sued the Trump administration repeatedly over its efforts to roll back environmental protections, has worked in China for many years to promote clean energy and a retreat from reliance on fossil fuels.
The letter announcing the inquiry marked an extraordinary escalation in rhetoric by Republican opponents of climate action on Capitol Hill, recalling in miniature the campaign of the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who wreaked havoc in the 1950s with allegations that communist sympathizers had infiltrated academic institutions, the film industry and even the U.S. military.
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), the committee chairman, and Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), chair of its oversight and investigations panel, requested that NRDC by next week turn over documentation of any payments it has received from Chinese officials. They also asked for documentation of NRDC's registration as a "foreign agent," or an explanation of why the environmental group should not be registered as required by law for those who lobby on behalf of a foreign government.
"The Committee is concerned about the NRDC's role in aiding China's perception management efforts with respect to pollution control and its international standing on environmental issues in ways that may be detrimental to the United States," the lawmakers said in the letter, dated June 5. "The NRDC's relationship with China has many of the criteria identified by U.S. intelligence agencies and law enforcement as putting an entity at risk of being influenced or coerced by foreign interests."
There have been no committee votes to endorse such an investigation, but House rules give leeway to chairs to act on behalf of committees. For the House Natural Resources Committee, two members is considered a quorum for calling witnesses.
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A House Natural Resources Committee spokeswoman did not respond to InsideClimate News' question on how the swipe at NRDC differed from "red-baiting" of the past. She also declined to respond to a query about whether the committee had received any specific information from the U.S. intelligence agencies to prompt the inquiry. And she would not address how NRDC's work differed from that of numerous private companies and academic institutions in the United States that have developed partnerships with China to promote clean energy. "The letter and corresponding footnotes speak for itself," she replied in an email.
The lawmakers' letter cited visits by NRDC officials to meet with Chinese officials, as well as NRDC blog posts like a 2016 essay by NRDC President Rhea Suh, "What I Saw in China Will Help Change the World," as evidence of NRDC's work "to promote the image of China as a global environmental leader."
NRDC: Reducing Pollution for a Livable World Is in the National Interest
NRDC responded in a statement that the values that propel its work to promote environmental protection are home-grown and necessarily lead it to work to reduce pollution from China, the nation with the largest population and carbon footprint.
"NRDC seeks environmental solutions that are grounded in sound science, U.S. law and the public interest," said Bob Deans, NRDC's director of strategic engagement. "We work on behalf of every American to protect our people against dangerous pollution and leave our children a livable world. Those are American values, American goals, and advancing them is manifestly in our national interest, as we have consistently demonstrated for nearly 50 years.
"As the most populous country on Earth, China has much to do with the kind of world the next generation will inherit, in our country and around the world," he said. Deans said NRDC looks forward to discussing its work in China with Bishop and the committee.
Many Energy Companies Partner with China
NRDC has not been alone in working with the Chinese government on clean energy and climate change.
Over the past decade, a number of U.S. companies—including energy companies Southern Company, KBR, Peabody Energy and Duke Energy—established partnerships with Chinese companies to advance carbon capture and other clean energy technologies. There also have been a number of partnerships between Chinese institutions and U.S. universities like Stanford, Harvard and Tufts.
The U.S. government also has a U.S.-China Renewable Energy Partnership and a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center. Greenpeace and World Resources Institute are among the environmental groups that also have China programs.
NRDC as a Different Case?
In their letter, Bishop and Westerman sought to portray NRDC as a different case. While Greenpeace has been critical of Chinese government practices, on fishing, for example, the lawmakers said, NRDC "generally refrains from criticizing Chinese officials."
In fact, NRDC does not provide unalloyed praise for China on its webpage about its program in that country, and instead describes the central conundrum that has forced the group's focus on Beijing.
"China pumps out more climate change pollution than any other nation, but it also invests more in clean energy than anywhere else in the world," NRDC's website says. "Its cities have some of the dirtiest air and largest urban populations on earth, yet China has made a serious commitment to turning those cities into healthier places to live. The more the country uses its enormous reach to push for sustainable options, the more its residents—and the entire planet—will benefit."
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Anglo Pacific pledges donation to support the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal
International Shipping Company Anglo Pacific has announced that it will donate £1 for every box it ships in January and February to support those affected by the Australian bushfires.
The money will be donated to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal.
Managing Director Jason Diggs said, "From our inception in 1978, Australia has played an integral part in both our makeup in staffing and as our key core destination; so much so that our brand name itself reflects our close association with the region".
As Australia's bushfires continue to blaze, the flames have already left over 11 million acres of land scorched and forced tens of thousands from their homes.
The Appeal supports thousands of people in evacuation centres across Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia affected by the bushfires. The Red Cross is working with communities to offer essential crisis assistance and psychological care assisting evacuees with everything from emergency accommodation to locating missing loved ones.


As always, C & I had a blast at the lake this weekend. It is so nice to escape from the craziness and the to-do list to a place of nothing. Nothing is planned, nothing has to get done, no where you have to be. It really allowed me to unwind before having to start school again. We spent the lake hanging out, boating, and spending time outside.
My favorite part about the cabin are the mornings. You wake up, get your cup of coffee and stare out onto the stillness of the lake. The beauty is captivating.
wow what a great escape! beautiful photos of you and your love..that dog is adorable! following you now..kisses!
Heather you always look so adorable!! Looks like such a fun weekend!


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Black Mirror's Universe Coalesces
In the sci-fi anthology series's fourth season, a unifying theme pulls the show together in unprecedented fashion.
The biggest accomplishment of the fourth season of Black Mirror, set to be released Friday on Netflix, is that for the first time the dystopian speculative anthology series takes its manifold anxieties about humanity's future and smooshes them together into a single thematic tube. Past episodes have tackled vigilante justice and reality television, social-media shaming and pickup artistry, internet surveillance and war, all warped slightly by fictional, but plausible, technology. But tech itself isn't Black Mirror's Big Bad. We are: a species prone to grandiose dreams of easier lives, embracing dubious, untested ways to get there. The show is a series of disturbing parables about how ill-equipped we are to deal with the quick and thoughtless ways we're changing the world.
There have been hints in the past that Black Mirror is more than just unconnected vignettes, and that the dramatically divergent worlds of the show somehow exist in the same universe. The fourth season, without spoiling it, makes this supposition absolute. The neon, authoritarian prison of "15 Million Merits" belongs in the same fictional milieu as the more naturalistic (but no less terrifying) "Shut Up and Dance." The pastel-colored, dopamine-twitchy Insta-world of "Nosedive" is related to the brutal, revenge-fantasy theme park of "White Bear." Charlie Brooker, the former video-game journalist and satirist who created Black Mirror, doesn't suggest how these links might make sense, or why his slightly futuristic landscape doesn't seem to be plagued by any of the other pressing issues humankind is currently wrestling with, like climate change or overpopulation or poverty. Black Mirror is a kind of simulation, a test environment to explore the many, many ways we could doom ourselves.
The Complex Humanity of Black Mirror
The six new episodes of the show have a unifying theme (with the exception of "Metalhead," a tense, maddening thriller shot in black and white that's the shortest episode of the bunch at 42 minutes). They're concerned with digital consciousness—what it means to connect our brains directly to the cloud. "Crocodile" explores the ramifications of this in a similar fashion to the first-season episode "The Entire History of You." "Arkangel" imagines a new technology that affords parents greater insight into what their kids are experiencing. Other episodes consider a phenomenon the show has mulled before: the ability to copy a human soul, turning cloned consciousnesses into digital slaves. Our Siris, our selves.
What can it mean, this sudden coalescence of disparate dystopian concerns into a single form? In execution, the fourth series is remarkably patchy, even with the abundance of resources and talent that arrived with Black Mirror's move (after its second season) from the British network Channel 4 to Netflix. As a body of work it's more interesting than satisfying, although "USS Callister," the standout episode, is spectacular, while "Hang the DJ" has the kind of winning optimism that made Season 3's Emmy-winning "San Junipero" such a hit. The cast and crew involved this time around range from Jodie Foster (who directed "Arkangel") to Jesse Plemons to Andrea Riseborough to David Slade. But the problem now is the writing. Some episodes ("Crocodile") sacrifice plausibility and character development for tenuous moralizing that ultimately makes no sense. Others ("Arkangel") are predictable at best and sometimes tediously bleak.
It's not uncommon for Black Mirror episodes to feel like they begin and end with a clever idea—something that starts as a neat trick or a devious twist but fails to go much further. Season 3's "Playtest," which used the generic framework of horror to imagine the potential disaster of an immersive video game, never found its way beyond anything more than a concept, ending with a clunky thud. "Black Museum," the final episode of the new season, doesn't disappoint in its conclusion, but it takes such a roundabout way of getting there that you wonder what it's all been in the service of. Without giving too much away, the narrative is an excuse to revisit Black Mirror's greatest hits, via a grisly museum in a rural southwestern corner of America. The exhibits are artifacts from notorious crimes of the recent past; most nod back to previous chapters of the show's history.
The episode's frame is a wink to audience members who love finding Easter eggs hidden in the show's crevices (Season 3 employed hashtags and news items glimpsed on some characters' devices to suggest that different episodes were coexisting on the same timeline). But it also feels like a missed opportunity. "Black Museum" is structured around three different stories told by a museum curator to a visiting tourist. As in the episode "White Christmas," the different stories are all linked, and they converge at the end in surprising fashion. But it's frustrating to see all these nods to previous stories when the show doesn't ultimately dig into them. Why acknowledge that the Black Mirror universe exists at all if you're not going to do anything with it to expand its cautionary vision?
The show's confluence around the question of digital consciousness feels similarly futile. It's fascinating to see all these threads come together, but it would be even more so if they formed something of substance. "Black Museum" feels akin to the series's fascination with the song "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)"—a phenomenon to be noted, but not one that has an obvious interpretation. It's a common feature rather than a statement. Otherwise, Black Mirror's most reliable trait would be the assertion that everyone in the future lives in vast, glass-walled mansions in nondescript isolated locations.
When the show's at its most ingenious, as "USS Callister" testifies, there's not much that's better. It can spark everything from subtle, shivery suspicions about inanimate devices to profound fear and despair about the reality that we're already living in. And its worldbuilding is its biggest strength, which is why it would be so gratifying to see the show's other ambitions expand. The locale of "Crocodile," for example, is chilly, meticulous, and carefully constructed, making the episode's weak characterization even more maddening. Black Mirror is equipped with extravagant imagination when it comes to the human race. How can it not have a better sense that the things we're actually capable of doing are terrifying enough?