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This recipe has a little bit of history. I got it from my friend Trish at least a year ago (probably more like two), and she raved about how good it was. Unfortunately, my family seems to consist of picky eaters and I was fairly convinced they'd never eat this. So Trish, my wonderful, beautiful, goddess of a friend, Trish, brought me some of this twice when she made it for her family because she knew I lusted after it, but was hesitant on making it for my family. Seriously, that's a true friend, no? Finally, last month, with my brother living with us, I had hope that there'd be at least one other person in the house who would eat it, so I could justify making it. Totally and completely unexpectedly, it turns out everyone in the house liked it. Yes! Total win all around. Thank you, Trish, I love you.
As a note about this recipe, it's actually pretty easy to make, so don't be overwhelmed. It's not any more difficult than regular lasagna and goes together quicker in some ways, I think.
1. In large skillet saute onion in oil and 2 TBS butter until tender.
2. Stir in broth and clam juice, bring to boil. *This is my first change in the recipe. I didn't use clam juice because I didn't want to buy it. What I did is substitute an extra 4 oz of chicken broth plus 4 oz of white wine. You could do 8 oz of broth or 8 oz of wine if you wanted. This recipe is forgiving that way.
3. Add the seafood and 1/8 tsp pepper; return to boil.
4. Reduce heat, simmer, uncovered for 4-5 minutes. Drain, reserve cooking liquid, set seafood mixture aside.
5. In a saucepan, melt the remaining butter; stir in flour until smooth.
6. Combine milk and reserved cooking liquid, gradually add to the saucepan.
7. Add salt & remaining pepper. Bring to boil. Cook and stir for 2 mins or until thickened.
8. Remove from the heat, stir in cream and 1/4 cup of Parmesan Cheese. Stir 3/4 cup of the white sauce in to the seafood mixture.
9. Spread 1/2 cup white sauce on the bottom of a greased 13in x 9in x 2in baking dish. Top with 3 noodles, spread half of the seafood and some sauce. **the original recipe doesn't call for mozzarella but Trish mentioned she used it, so I guessed and decided to put it in both the layers and on top. I sprinkled about 1/4 cup of mozzarella on each layer.
11. Bake uncovered at 350 for 35-49 mins. Let stand 15 minutes before cutting. No seriously. Let it stand or you will have a big ol' mess on your hands. It needs to set for 15 minutes (especially if you add the mozzarella) so it doesn't fall apart too much.
***Trish said she has since tried no boil noodles and they work. I didn't mind using the cooked lasagna noodles, cooked to just al dente, but I'm also not a fan of the taste of the no boil noodles.
You could easily halve this recipe and make it in a smaller, 9×9 pan, if you're cooking for just a couple people because a whole pan does make a lot. However, I must say I think I liked it even better reheated the next day.
I'm also pretty sure I used Parmesan in the layers, just a little, but I can't remember. I think cheese is something that you can always add more of with lasagna!
One thing I was thinking, while I was making this, was that the creamy seafood sauce would make a great filling/topping for a seafood burrito. There was this Mexican restaurant growing up that made the most delicious seafood burrito with a white sauce. I've never found anyplace since that makes them, but I think the seafood sauce for this lasagna would be fantastic for that (and yes, I will try that eventually).
Awww Angie you made my day! I am so happy that you all enjoyed it. Make sure you let me know how other people like it, if some of your readers make it.
Dude, I see your picky eaters and raise by 1 kid. My family will actually eat both seafood and lasagna, so this will probably go over well. NOM!


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Russell: Latifi is the most prepared rookie F1 has ever had
Nicholas Latifi will be in a class of his own when the Canadian makes his Formula 1 race debut with Williams at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 15 March.
Despite driving for the last-placed team of 2019, and barring any driver switches during the course of the campaign, the only newcomer on the 2020 F1 starting grid already looks a winner of sorts.
"He is rookie of the year, right?" joked deputy team principal Claire Williams.
The Montreal-born, Toronto-based, Iranian-Canadian has graduated from Formula Two, where he was runner-up last season, but the 24-year-old already has years of F1 experience.
Reserve driver for Williams last year, he has taken part in 11 free practice sessions and tested in the past for Renault and now-defunct Force India, a team reborn as Canadian-owned Racing Point.
There were also some private sessions in Mercedes Formula 1 machinery.
"He's probably the most prepared rookie F1 has ever had, almost," commented teammate and 2018 F2 champion George Russell, a Mercedes-backed driver who had also driven plenty of F1 cars before he arrived in 2019.
"He's incredibly prepared. And he's going to be a tough driver to beat, so he's going to keep me on my toes. I'll be pushing. On paper, he's a rookie, but the reality is he's not, and he's definitely going to be tough to beat. So I'm ready for the challenge and looking forward to the battle."
Latifi spent more than four years in GP2/Formula Two, unlike Russell who breezed to the title at the first attempt in a field that included current McLaren driver Lando Norris and Red Bull's Alexander Albon.
Last year the wealthy businessman's son won four races, finished second three times and had one third. It was no surprise when he replaced departed Pole Robert Kubica at Williams.
"The fact that I'm the only rookie, it doesn't really change much for me to be honest," said Latifi, who races with a U.S. licence and the number six in a nod to Toronto's telephone area codes of 416 or 647.
"I have raced against quite a lot of the other guys on the grid, probably over half the grid, so from that sense it's not all new to me. It's not like jumping into something unknown. The fact that I'm the only rookie is just what it is. I definitely feel as well prepared as I could be."
Latifi is a known quantity through testing but just how good he will be in race conditions and compared to his highly-rated teammate remains to be seen. Together they are the least experienced line-up of any team.
"We know he (Russell) is going to be quick so he's going to be a great benchmark for me," said the Canadian. "I know George is one of the best on the grid so I'm looking forward to see how I fare against that."
Once-dominant Williams scored just one point last year, and only seven in 2018, but have raised hopes of recovery with more competitive times in testing.
Claire Williams told reporters at the first test that the team understood Latifi as a driver but "until we get to the first few races we're not going to truly understand where he is from a competitive stance.
"He's got the right ingredients outside the cockpit certainly, we've seen that. He demonstrated them over the course of last year, he's technically very capable, he's driven and committed as much as George is," added the deputy team boss.
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Giorgio Armani cancels upcoming shows in Milan, Paris
4 January 2022, 10:55 am ·1-min read
Italian designer Giorgio Armani at the One Night Only series in Dubai on October 26, 2021
Italian fashion house Giorgio Armani said Tuesday it would cancel its upcoming January shows in Milan and Paris due to rising Covid cases in Europe.
"This decision was made with great regret and following careful reflection in light of the worsening epidemiological situation," said the Milan-based group led by 87-year-old Giorgio Armani.
Armani is the first major Italian fashion label to cancel its upcoming shows this year due to the new wave of infections, as it did at the outset of the pandemic in February 2020 that hit Italy hard.
In May last year, Giorgio Armani announced the resumption of fashion shows with live audiences. That followed a year in which the fashion industry relied on "virtual" shows -- online presentations of catwalk shows without audiences, or short films publicising the new collections.
The fashion house said the men's Emporio Armani and Giorgio Armani shows for Fall/Winter 2022/23 during Milan Fashion Week this month will not go forward.
Also cancelled is the women's Giorgio Armani Prive women's show during the Paris Haute Couture week from January 24 to 27.
Contacted by AFP, the group said it had no plans for the moment to replace the shows with digital presentations.
Men's Fashion Week in Milan, scheduled from January 14 to 18, had initially planned for 23 physical shows and the participation of 47 brands, including Ermenegildo Zegna, Fendi, Dolce & Gabbana and Prada.
Italy, like other countries around the world, is seeing a sharp rise in cases driven by the new Omicrom variant. On Monday, it reported over 68,000 new cases and 140 new Covid-related deaths.


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Student Films Spotlighted at Annual Festival
June 2, 2016 Eli StillmanFeatured, News
Photos by Hannah Jones
Documentaries, mockumentaries, animation and stop-motion all occupied the screen at the Varsity Theater on Tuesday night. The Southern Oregon Student Film Festival showcased 21 films, out of the 42 submitted, that were entirely student produced. Sympathetic sighs and audible laughter throughout the room of the downtown arthouse theater signified that the audience rode an emotional rollercoaster with hoots that spawned from awkward shorts to pin drop silence that stung, as the crowd watched a woman be coerced to just "undo a few more buttons," through a camcorder lens.
Whether the run time was 30 seconds or 15 minutes, every piece evoked audience emotion.
During the two hours broken up only by interludes and one intermission, young filmmakers got a chance to see their works of art played on the big screen and in front of a crowd. The event was put on by Andrew Gay's Comm 399 class, Film festival production and programming. In cahoots with the SOU film club, of which Gay is also the advisor, the evening was fueled by months of student preparation and organization.
"Last year I was so nervous," said one of the program organizers, Chloe Welch. The senior who is graduating with high accolades in the communication department, helped put on the event last year as her capstone project. She praised the teamwork of the film club and the Comm class, "Everyone was split into teams and worked together to make tonight great."
The student film festival mirrors the town in which it's located. Ashland has been a growing hotspot for professional filmmaking. It's been consistently voted in the top five towns to live in and work as a filmmaker by Moviemaker magazine and has been a backdrop to a number of commercials and feature films alike.
Gay, an independent filmmaker and second year professor at SOU, hopes to connect the ambitious students with the Rogue Valley's growing niche in the movie business.
"When I came here, I found that there were many talented students and there needed to be a community for them to connect and be involved," Gay said at the end of the night. There's been multiple attempts at creating film clubs at SOU but all have fizzled out until now. The professor believes that a sustainable and competitive group is what's important for film culture to keep advancing, "We want people to look at the films and appreciate their peers, but think, I can do better."
Just like top tier festivals, directly following the viewing of the films, all the directors were asked to come to the front of the theater for the audience to ask questions about their productions. Timid and well-dressed, the young film-makers filed to the front and passed around the microphone to explain where their sense of direction came from creating the visual art.
Following the event was an awards ceremony and refreshments just down the road at the Ashland Elks lodge. In the second story building, students, faculty, and community members alike were invited to commingle and discuss which films were their favorite over nachos and coffee.
Also, at the afterparty was a guest of honor, Tim Williams. The executive director of the Oregon Governor's Office of Film & Television spoke to the students and praised their work that was displayed earlier in the evening. In a nutshell, the job entails bringing film projects into the state and overseeing their production. Williams gave his approval of the developing scene in Southern Oregon. "What's going on here is fantastic," he said, "it echos the diversity that's going around the state in the film industry."
Mig Windows accepts award for Not A Bench
Awards were handed out for best documentary short, best narrative short and audience choice award. Also, this was the inaugural year for the Jimmy Dix Award, an award that commemorates the life of the actor in Mig Windows film, Not a bench. Dix was an SOU student involved with acting before passing away from illness in 2015. His final performance was praised by the crowd as Not A Bench took home the audience choice award. Windows posted a picture of the trophy on the deceased actors Facebook wall later that night with the caption, "Look dude we won!!"
After awards were all received and the speeches were made, the evening began to come to a close. The attendance at this year's festival was nearly double that of last and viewers spectated that the level of production was raised as well. With the student film club sustaining more members and creating a competitive, but supportive, culture there's no telling how great festivals in the future will be.
aiff, Ashland Oregon, film, SOU
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Another early deficit, another loss for Thrashers
Chris Vivlamore, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It has become a pattern and it is a disturbing one.
Thrashers coach John Anderson goes so far as to call it an embarrassment.
The Thrashers fell behind early in yet another game, this time by two goals -- twice -- en route to a 4-3 overtime loss to division rival Tampa Bay Sunday at Philips Arena. The Thrashers forced overtime with three third-period goals to salvage a point.
But it was the first two periods that were cause for concern.
"I think the term should be 'embarrassed' after the first two periods," Anderson said. "That's more the term that comes to mind. You get dejected because it's like you wasted two periods. It's a game that we had to have. It was a must-win for us. We talked about this. It didn't look like it was a must-win."
Steve Stamkos scored the game-winner in overtime, converting a pass from Martin St. Louis after a Thrashers turnover. St. Louis took control of the puck while Zach Bogosian and Ron Hainsey were caught behind the net. St. Louis took the puck to the side of the net and passed across the goal mouth to Stamkos, who banged in his 15th goal of the season.
"There is nothing you can say," Thrashers goaltender Ondrej Pavelec said. "He had the puck behind the net. They fight and they kept the puck and they scored a goal. I thought he was going to shoot it, but he made a great pass."
Pavelec stopped 36 of 40 shots and was helped by a little iron.Tampa Bay hit the goal posts with four shots. So it could have been worse.
"Pavs deserves 98 percent of the credit for the point we did get," Hainsey said. "He kept it to within two or one [goals] instead of five or six, which it easily could have been."
After a scoreless first period, Tampa Bay took a 2-0 lead on second-period goals by Stephane Veilleux and Ryan Malone.
The Thrashers (10-7-3) are now 3-7-3 when their opponent scores first. They are also 1-7-3 when trailing after two periods.
"What can I tell you?" Anderson said of another early deficit. "You saw it. Has it changed? No. We've tried different things. At some point, our guys have to take it on their shoulders, on themselves, and say we have to get going in the first period. Or we are just going to be chasing all year."
The Thrashers did come charging back. Tobias Enstrom made it 2-1 with his third goal of the season at the 5:29 mark of the third period, beating Tampa Bay goaltender Antero Niittymaki.
Tampa Bay's Kurtis Foster answered four minutes later with a power-play goal to put the Lightning up by two goals again. His goal came with nine seconds remaining in an interference penalty to Todd White. Pavelec lost his stick on the play.
But there, the Thrashers dug in. With less than five minutes to play, Slava Kozlov scored and less than two minutes later, Evander Kane scored to tie the game.
The flurry salvaged the one point in the standings, after Stamkos' game-winner.
"That's the only good thing about it," Bogosian said. "We put ourselves in a hole again. We just can't do that."
Playing their third game in four days, the Thrashers ended a five-game homestand with a 2-1-2 record, the three losses coming in the last three games. Eight of the Thrashers' 10 losses this season have been by one goal.
Niittymaki, who stopped 28 of 31 shots, improved to 14-0 lifetime against the Thrashers.
With a 4-5-2 home record, the Thrashers (23 points) fell two points behind the second-place Tampa Bay (9-5-7, 25 points) in the Southeast Division. The Thrashers also fell to ninth place in the Eastern Conference, a point behind Boston.
"Too many rushes against, too many chances to good players, too many pucks on our net, too much time in our zone," Hainsey said of the issues against Tampa Bay. "When you do that, eventually bad things are going to happen."
Bad things are happening to the Thrashers, early and often.


Another great day at Allentown Campmeeting Wednesday. We went to the Original Oyster House for lunch with the Brimms and Dikemans and had a great time. We had to ride with them since we have no wheels and the Dikemans treated us all to a terrific meal. We loved the fellowship and we sure appreciate their kindness and friendship.
All the services were good and the preaching was encouraging. Odie has a run down of the services below.
Enjoying the pictures! I would really like to be in the campmeeting but I'm in panic mode with the jobs I need to get done. Tell anybody you think I might know Howdy!! Lol!


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Philippe Sandler (born 10 February 1997) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for NEC Nijmegen.

Club career
Born in Amsterdam, Sandler began his senior career with PEC Zwolle in the 2016–17 season, having previously played youth football for Ajax.

In January 2018 it was announced that Sandler would leave PEC Zwolle to join English club Manchester City in the summer of 2018, for a transfer fee reported to be between €2.5 and 3 million. The transfer went through on 31 July 2018. Sandler requested the number 34 shirt in tribute to former Ajax teammate Abdelhak Nouri, who collapsed and suffered brain damage, ending his career.

Sandler made his City debut on 6 January 2019, coming on as a substitute in a 7–0 win over Rotherham United in the FA Cup.

Sandler was loaned to Anderlecht for the 2019–20 season, joining up with Anderlecht player-manager, former City teammate Vincent Kompany.

In the 2020–21 season, Sandler underwent surgery for an ankle injury which left him out of the City first team squad for almost the entire season. He was however able to play in some of the final Academy team games of the season.

On 31 August 2021 he moved on loan to French club Troyes. After two appearances, the loan was ended on 25 January 2022.

He signed for Feyenoord on 1 February 2022, signing a contract until the end of the season with the option to extend for another year. He made his debut for the club on 8 May in a 2–2 draw against PSV. On 27 May 2022, Feyenoord confirmed that the club would not be using the option to extend his contract for another year.

On 11 August 2022, Sandler signed a three-year contract with NEC Nijmegen. He scored his first goal in the Eredivisie on 23 October, deep into overtime to secure a 3–3 home draw against Go Ahead Eagles.

International career
Sandler has represented the Netherlands at under-20 level. He is eligible to play for the Netherlands, South Africa, and United States having been born in Amsterdam to a South African father and American mother.

Personal life
Sandler's father is Jewish.

Career statistics

Honours
Feyenoord
 UEFA Europa Conference League runner-up: 2021–22

References

Living people
1997 births
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Dutch people of American descent
Dutch people of South African descent
Dutch people of Jewish descent
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Anyway, the rules are pretty similar to other contests. This is round 14 so please know that ALL rounds will count EQUALLY toward the final standings, and NO rounds will be omitted from the final total.
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The winner of the Alice in Chains round is. . .
Congrats on your first Artistry win Aggy!!!
Congrats Agri, Matthias and Rex!
Congrats to Aggy, Matthias and Rex!
Great round everyone. I'm not disappointed at all not to win this one: after all, I entered a nearly two year old parody into a competition with new writes. Everyone did a bang-up job on the songs they chose which, given that AiC is my favorite band, really made my week.
I am curious though, Matt and Dave, which AiC song of mine would you have entered instead of "Wood"?
Personally I love "Stickman", great idea, great execution, and the reason I did "Sickman" for this round.


SPANISH DIARY A Swiss 'miliciano's' war diary of the Aragon Front and Barcelona's 'May Days' by EDI GMÜR (with commentary by Marianne Enckell of the Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme, CIRA. Translated from the French by Paul Sharkey).
In December 1936 Swiss greengrocer and communist sympathizer Edi Gmür and three friends left Zurich for Spain in a rented car. In Barcelona they joined the "German centurie" of the Deutsche Anarcho -Syndikalisten Gruppe (Die Gruppe DAS) of the International Group of the Durruti Column, thereby escaping incorporation into the Comintern-controlled International Brigades. Gmür was one of 800 Swiss volunteers who fought in Spain in the libertarian militia columns or the International Brigades. This is his war diary of the period from December 1936 until the sabotaged Spanish Revolution finally collapsed in August 1937.


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Charles Cameron is the regular guest-blogger at Zenpundit, and has also posted at Small Wars Journal, All Things Counterterrorism, for the Chicago Boyz Afghanistan 2050 roundtable and elsewhere. Charles read Theology at Christ Church, Oxford, under AE Harvey, and was at one time a Principal Researcher with Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies and the Senior Analyst with the Arlington Institute:
In a Time of Religious Arousal
by Charles Cameron
We live in times of considerable religious arousal – witness the Manhattan mosque and cultural center controversy, the on-again, off-again Florida Quran burning, last week's Glenn Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial,Hindutva violence against Muslims in India, Muslim violence against Christians, the wars ongoing or drawing to an end in Afghanistan and Iraq, the threat of an Israeli or American attack on Iran, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and peace process… In each of these instances, religious arousal has a role to play.
It would require considerable care, research, and craftsmanship to produce a nuanced and appropriately balanced view of human nature, the current state of the world, American, European and Islamic popular, polite and political opinions, the global admixture of peoples and approaches that characterize Islam, the history of violence, religious and otherwise, the braiding in different times and places of religion with politics, the roots of violence, the roots of peace and its meanings both as a state of cessation of conflict and as a state of contemplative calm…
Such a presentation would require at least a book-length treatment, and cannot be trotted out every time some new spark emerges from the ancient fires… but perhaps I can lay out some of my own considerations about the topic here, in somewhat condensed form.
The teachings of Jesus appear to have been directed towards an audience that included regular folk: fishermen, members of an occupying military force, radical zealots, a tax-collector, a physician, a prostitute, religious scholars… a fair cross-section of human kind…
Every religion of any real "size" will have followers who are intellectuals, fearful followers, angry and reactive followers, contemplative followers – followers who are skilled in the various businesses of crime prevention, defense, contemplation, literature, the sex trade, theft, medicine, art, bargaining, diplomacy, music, architecture, investigativejournalism, yellow journalism, inspirational writing, poetry…
It will of necessity address, and over time retain traces, of all their concerns.
Every religion of any real "size" will also have begun in a particular time, place and cultural setting, and will carry considerable parts of that setting with it, although it may also contain elements of a more profound or elevated spirit…
Every religion and scripture will, I suggest, promise a garden / paradise / city which is both attainable "outside" life, in a "there" which is hard to put into words, and "within" us, a similarly difficult concept to verbalize, in the moment, here. It will also contain what I call "landmines in the garden" – verses or narratives that offer sanction to what we today might regard as abhorrent violence against the innocent "other".
Thus in Numbers 25 in the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Bible, the Lord offers to Phineas / Pinchas a "covenant of priesthood", because he recognized that his Lord did not appreciate an Israelite and a woman of the Midianitescopulating, and skewered the pair of them in flagrante through their conjoined parts with his spear — without first seeking the approval of the High Priest.
This story gave rise to the notion of the "Phineas Priest" action, in which a "lone wolf" kills on behalf of [a version of the Christian] God.
One of the most radical Christian Identity theorists is Richard Kelly Hoskins, who in 1990 invented the notion of the "Phineas Priest," built around the concept of the biblical Phinehas, who used a spear to slay an Israelite and a Midianite who had lain together. Phineas Priests believe themselves modern day Phinehases, with a self-appointed mission to strike out in the most violent and ruthless way against race mixers, abortionists, homosexuals, Jews, and other perceived enemies.
Hoskins expounded the idea in his 1990 book, Vigilantes of Christendom: The Story of the Phineas Priesthood, citing both Robin Hood (!) and John Wilkes Booth as examples…
It seems highly probable that Byron de la Beckwith, killer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, considered himself a Phineas Priest, see Reed Massengill, Portrait of a Racist: The Man who Killed Medgar Evers, pp 303-305. Similarly, it appears that Rev. Paul Hill, convicted of abortion clinic murders, was considered by his friends, and may have considered himself, a Phineas Priest. Likewise Yigal Amir, assassin of Yitzak Rabin, seems to have had the Phineas story in mind when deciding, without rabbinic support, to go ahead and kill the Israeli PM.
For an example of a recent meeting of rabbis — in Jerusalem's Ramada Renaissance hotel– to promote the permissibility under halachic law of the killing of goyim / gentiles, see this article by Max Blumenthal and the accompanying video:
Individuals, small sects or powerful movements will on occasion seize on these "landmine" texts within a religious tradition, and use them to justify acts of violence, large and small.
The Crusades, for instance, did this on behalf of Christianity and against Islam, notwithstanding which St Francis was able to approach Saladdin's nephew, the Sultan Malik al-Kamil, across the battle lines, coming in peace, discussing matters of devotion, and departing in peace. The Islam of al-Andalus was for centuries, in comparison to the Christendom of its time, a model of scholarship and tolerance – though not without aspects of the pre-eminence of Islam, dhimmi status for People of the Book, the jizya, etc.
Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God and currently our finest analyst of religious terrorism, recently co-edited a book on Buddhist Warfare (obligatory, cautionary note: Juergensmeyer and I are both contributors to Michael W Wilson and Natalie Zimmerman's book, A Kingdom at Any Cost: Right-wing Visions of Apocalypse in America). The world of Zen has been rattled by controversy regarding the support of leading roshis for the Japanese imperial war effort — and there are apocalyptic references to a future war between Buddhists and the mleccha (presumably Islam) in the text ofwhat the Dalai Lama has termed an "initiation for world peace" — the Kalachakra tantra.
Alexander Berzin, who has translated for the Dalai Lama on numerous occasions when this teaching was given, comments:
A careful examination of the Buddhist texts, however, particularlyThe Kalachakra Tantraliterature, reveals both external and internal levels of battle that could easily be called "holy wars." An unbiased study of Islam reveals the same. In both religions, leaders may exploit the external dimensions of holy war for political, economic, or personal gain, by using it to rouse their troops to battle. Historical examples regarding Islam are well known; but one must not be rosy-eyed about Buddhism and think that it has been immune to this phenomenon. Nevertheless, in both religions, the main emphasis is on the internal spiritual battle against one's own ignorance and destructive ways.
Any and all religions can be used to justify internal struggle, external violence, external peace-making and inner peace: the question is how these various threads are interwoven in individual cultures and histories, and in our own times.
That is, I'd suggest, a matter for legitimate dispute – but not one with an easy one sentence or even single paragraph answer.
In my view, the most powerful response to the current global "jihadist" movement will come not from advocates of democracy (whether backed up or not by military force or threat of force) who will naturally appear to be interfering in affairs between the soul and its God that do not concern them – but from people within the jihadists' own religious tradition.
Noman Benotman, one-time leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and colleague of bin Laden and Zawahiri, wrote an open letter to bin Laden dated 10 September 2010 / 1 Shawwal 1431 AH, which the Quilliam Foundation just released under the title "Al-Qaeda: Your Armed Struggle is Over".
Benotman's letter opens with an invocationfrom Qur'an57:16:
Is it not time for believers to humble their hearts to the remembrance of God and the Truth that has been revealed.
The text of Benotman's message is only four pages long, and I recommend reading the whole of it – but have selected this single passage as representative of his critique:
What has the 11th September brought to the world except mass killings, occupations, destruction, hatred of Muslims, humiliation of Islam, and a tighter grip on the lives of ordinary Muslims by the authoritarian regimes that control Arab and Muslim states? I warned you then, in summer 2000, of how your actions would bring US forces into the Middle East and into Afghanistan, leading to mass unrest and loss of life. You believed I was wrong. Time has proved me right
Benotman closes:
In urging you to halt your violence and re-consider your aims and strategy, I believe I am merely expressing the views of the vast majority of Muslims who wish to see their religion regain the respect it has lost and who long to carry the name of "Muslim" with pride.
For those who are concerned at the influence of Anwar al-Awlaki on English-speaking youth, there's a detailed 130-page critique of his approach to global jihad from a strict Salafist perspective available on the web:
On the topic of suicide bombing / martyrdom operations viewed from an Islamic perspective, I'd suggest reading the Ihsanic Intelligence "Hijacked Caravan":
And for a glimpse of the wider possibilities offered within the Islamic world, Bassam Tibi's brief summary in his book, The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder is worth considering:
To me religious belief in Islam is, as Sufi Muslims put it, "love of God," not a political ideology of hatred. … In my heart, therefore, I am a Sufi, but in my mind I subscribe to 'aql/"reason", and in this I follow the Islamic rationalism of Ibn Rushd/Averroes. Moreover, I read Islamic scripture, as any other, in the light of history, a practice I learned from the work of the great Islamic philosopher of history IbnKhaldun. The Islamic source most pertinent to the intellectual framework of this book is the ideal of al-madina al-fadila/"the perfect state", as outlined in the great thought of the Islamic political philosopher al-Farabi.
Irani and Funk's "Rituals of Reconciliation: Arab-Islamic Perspectives" indicates something of what an Islamic approach to truth and reconciliation might look like:
No doubt there's a great deal more that onemight say, but that must suffice for now.
Charles Cameron.
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11 Responses to "Guest Post: Charles Cameron on In a Time of Religious Arousal"
I've been wondering, for some years, where the radical, racist right came up with " Phineas Priesthood". It's been floating out there for decades since, at least, the murder of radio talk show host Alan Berg by neo-Nazis, and you answered it.
Charles Cameron Says:
Heh: I have been working up a more detailed account of "Phineas: ancient and modern" to post here for some while now — it's in two parts, each about 2,500 words long in its present draft, and includes Maccabean and Mormon instances of the story as well as those that I've recounted briefly here…
One of these days.
Charles, you are out of my ken with the Maccabeans – I'll have to wait until you bring the draft out into the light of day. 🙂
Remembering 9/11 | Crossroads Arabia Says:
[…] are addressed, Hindu and Buddhist extremism only briefly. I think the article worth your attention. In a Time of Religious Arousal Charles […]
Bryan Alexander Says:
Charles, did you see Eric Rankin's analysis about the role of Eden in science fiction?http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/sf/SF_Eden_Complex.htm
J. Scott Says:
Charles, Excellent post. I'm currently reading Islamic Imperialism, so your post provides a welcomed balance. Your paragraph that ends with "but from people within the jihadists' own religious tradition" is exactly right, however many would differ on "how" to change the attitudes "within." I believe much violence in the name of religion can be attributed to a sense of desperation on the part of the believer. Zen and I have exchanged an email on this topic, but I believe it worth restating that most religious believers aspire to virtue which is supported by a code of morality (the code of the Jewish/Christian/Islamic traditions are similar in the macro). The 20th Century brought the rise of moral relativism, where man displaced the deity and became a "god" unto himself; and thus found himself lacking a supernatural anchor for his definition of right and wrong—for virtue. The West embraced the state, by and large, and displaced religion as an arbiter of virtue and morality. (I'll email you an essay by Theodore Dalrymple published in the WSJ recently where he took on the phenomena of sentimentality…) In many parts of the Islamic world religion has not been displaced, they see the moral implications of the Western "way," as it were, in our exports; namely media, and recoil. Most want simply to be left alone (as in Afghanistan), but others, lacking opportunities/access to a modern life, see jihad as the only viable alternative, and (Bonus!) it is sanctioned by their holy writings. The jihadis are in a do-loop fed by religion, pride, (disgust?) and global media princes who care only about ratings—essentially, virtue be damned. I would humbly submit that West could do worse than rediscover cultural virtue. We've built magnificent machines and luxuries, but man, as the writer of Ecclesiastes aptly pointed out, remains unchanged.
BTW, my comments were not meant as a justification for violence in the name of religion, but rather an possible explanation.
A quick thanks to Bryan and Scott — both of you have sent me scurrying off in new directions!
Conflict: Addendum « coyote blue Says:
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Jane Sampson Says:
There's an endless number of gullible goyim dying for Israel.
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The Digital Antiquarian
A history of computer entertainment and digital culture by Jimmy Maher
A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 7: Winners and Losers
Hillary Clinton plays with her Game Boy on Air Force One in 1993. While history hasn't recorded with certainty what game she was playing, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts it was Tetris.
Atari had high hopes for the superlative implementation of Tetris they released for the Nintendo Entertainment System on May 17, 1989, and its initial performance fulfilled all of them, more than justifying their ambitious opening production run of 300,000 cartridges. Indeed, in the first month alone, fueled by positive press and even more positive word of mouth, the Tengen Tetris burned through half of that stock, with sales increasing week over week. Atari clearly had the beginnings of a massive hit on their hands — but not if Nintendo could prevent it.
Nintendo requested that Judge Fern Smith, whose San Francisco courtroom would be the home of most of the legal proceedings in the war between them and Atari, issue a preliminary injunction barring Atari from continuing to sell Tetris until the questions surrounding the rights to it had been fully resolved. Judge Smith agreed to allow the two sides to argue their cases for or against such an injunction beginning on June 15. In the scant few weeks allowed to them, the two companies' legal teams scrambled to collect documents and depositions in the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. Nikoli Belikov, Alexey Pajitnov, and the other Russians associated with ELORG thus got to enjoy the novel experience of being interviewed by opposing teams of American lawyers.
The current proceedings were not a full trial on the issue of the rights to the NES Tetris; that wasn't expected to begin for months, and could then take more months to bring to a final verdict. This preliminary hearing dealt only with the question of whether Atari should be allowed to continue to sell their Tetris over the course of all those months. If Judge Smith thought it likely that Atari would prevail at the full trial, she could give them permission to do so. If she thought the opposite, she could order the Tengen Tetris pulled from the market for the interim.
When in-court arguments began, Atari pressed two separate lines of defense against Nintendo's charge that the Tetris rights they claimed to own were ill-gotten. They hoped at least one of them would stick.
One line of defense accepted for the sake of argument the definition of "computer systems" as "PC computers which consist of a processor, monitor, disk drive(s), keyboard, and operation system" which was found in the revised contract Robert Stein had signed with ELORG the previous February. The NES did in fact — or at any rate potentially could — meet this definition, Atari argued. For proof, they looked to the console's Japanese incarnation. There it was known, conveniently for Atari's purposes, as the Nintendo Famicom, short for "Family Computer." As that name would imply, Nintendo's long-term goal had always been to turn the platform into more than just a game console. As far back as 1984, they had started selling an add-on kit called Family BASIC, an implementation of the BASIC programming language which came complete with a keyboard for typing in code. From 1986 on, it had been possible to purchase a disk system for the Famicom, which could be used for saving one's BASIC programs as well as running commercial software sold on this alternative media. Thus a Famicom could be configured in such a way as to tick most of the boxes in the revised contract's definition of a computer system. Should Judge Smith need more evidence, Atari pointed out that just the previous year Nintendo of Japan had introduced the Family Computer Communications Network System, a modem allowing Nintendo owners to take their machines online — albeit, in keeping with Nintendo's walled-garden philosophy, only to access Nintendo's own network. Once online, a Famicom could be used to play games with others, but could also be used to access a whole range of other information and services, from an encyclopedia to stock reports, from a travel agency to mail-order retail kiosks.
Sure, these things had only happened in Japan to date, but the North American NES was at bottom the same machine as the Japanese Famicom. All signs pointed to the NES as well being given capabilities that moved it from the category of game console to that of full-fledged home computer. For evidence of that, one needed look no further than Nintendo's most recent annual report, where plans for a North American version of a Nintendo-branded online service featured prominently: "By employing the Nintendo Entertainment System as a domestic communications terminal, utilizing regular telephone lines, and the establishing of a large-scale network which to this point has been inconceivable, we plan to provide a vital supply of information for the domestic lifestyle in the fields of entertainment, finance, securities, and health management, to mention but a few." "In court," said an Atari spokesman, "Nintendo went to great lengths to say that the NES was a toy and its cartridges were the equivalent of Barbie's arms and legs, but at the same time they were signing up AT&T to use the machine for stock reports. There is a Nintendo computer network in Japan and one planned for the United States. Sounds like a computer to me."
If Judge Smith was in doubt how seriously Nintendo's more grandiose schemes should be taken, she needed only ask the Software Publishers Association. The American software industry lived in terror of this potential Nintendo network, as it did of all of Nintendo's much-rumored plans to use their game console as a Trojan Horse for bringing the walled-garden model of a software marketplace to applications other than games. If and when brought to fruition, such plans might force the entire industry to kowtow to the whims of this one foreign company. Thus the SPA's support of Atari's efforts to break into Nintendo's extant walled garden of videogames by force, before it was too late.
In response to Atari's claim that the NES effectively was a computer system, Nintendo noted that the contract which they claimed gave them rather than Atari the rights to make Tetris for the NES had been signed between ELORG and Nintendo of America, not Nintendo of Japan; the version of Tetris available for the Famicom in Japan was made by Henk Rogers's Bullet-Proof Software, and its legitimacy wasn't an issue to be decided in Judge Smith's courtroom. Whatever its technical similarities to the Famicom, the North American NES was a separate product, and none of the Japanese accessories which could be construed as turning the Famicom into a "real" computer were available for the NES. If such accessories should become available in the future, the argument might be revisited, but right now the court should deal only in actualities, not hypotheticals.
For their other line of defense, Atari fielded the assertion that the revisions made to the original contract with Robert Stein had been made in bad faith, and that Stein had in fact been tricked into signing the contract. The Russians had originally intended, Atari argued, to license all of the rights to Stein and be done with it before they realized what a big seller the game had the potential to become. When they saw the opportunity to make more money through a deal with Nintendo, they had tried to pull a fast one to duck out of the first agreement. Stein himself testified to all of this in his deposition. Atari's Dan Van Elderen, who had recently replaced Randy Broweleit at the head of the Tengen subsidiary, claimed the Russians "knew they had sold all those rights until they figured out, counseled by Henk Rogers and Nintendo, that there was a loophole. They realized they could have gotten a lot more money, so they double-dealt us all." "Something went on between the Russian author and Nintendo," said Atari's president Hideyuki Nakajima in a deposition that might have come across better had he shown Alexey Pajitnov the respect of learning his name. "Nintendo knew we had the license, and it urged us to go forward with the game. Nintendo only cared once we filed the antitrust suit against them. They went after us. Howard Lincoln and Arakawa wanted to stop us. It was revenge."
Nintendo yielded no ground to this argument either. They trotted out depositions from Alexey Pajitnov, Alexander Alexinko, Nikoli Belikov, and others at ELORG, all testifying that they had always understood the contract with Stein as covering only full-fledged personal computers, and had created the revised version merely to clarify what had always been the case. Furthermore, Stein had been given ample time to review this clarified version of the contract, and had signed it of his own free will.
As anyone who has followed the long and winding story of the Tetris negotiations to this point must acknowledge, neither side was presenting anything close to the unvarnished truth. Nevertheless, Judge Smith, who wasn't privy to the inside details of the case in the way that we are today, had a hard time getting past the presence of a signed contract clearly stating that the rights Stein had licensed applied only to personal computers — which she judged that the NES, whatever it might become in the future, wasn't as of June of 1989. On June 21, she handed the devastating news to Atari: they must immediately cease manufacturing and selling the Tengen Tetris, unless and until their right to do so was affirmed by the trial which was to follow later in the year. In the meantime, all unsold copies were to be recalled from the retail pipeline and locked away in a warehouse under the supervision of the court.
In a telling sign of which way the winds were blowing, Judge Smith issued no injunction against Nintendo releasing their own NES version of Tetris while both sides prepared for the full trial. But, perhaps wary of attracting her ire when she seemed to be favoring their side, Nintendo opted to hold their version in abeyance as well. Whose Tetris would make it permanently onto store shelves would be decided by a trial which was scheduled to begin in November. Until then, Tetris on the NES would remain in a tense state of stasis.
As the trial date drew near, Nintendo flew Nikoli Belikov to California to become their most important witness. The excitement of a free trip to the Soviet Union's vision of a Mirror World was rather dampened by the rest of his circumstances. The pressure from Robert Maxwell's allies inside the Kremlin hadn't eased. Belikov faced the prospect of losing his career or possibly even his freedom if things went badly in that San Francisco courtroom. "Before my departure, I was invited into the State Committee for Computer Technology," he remembers, "and they said, if you lose this lawsuit a special commission will be created who will look into how many millions of dollars the Soviet state has lost due to your reckless actions." Belikov had known his fair share of bureaucratic scuffles during his day, but he had never felt so exposed as he did now. He joked darkly with his new Nintendo friends that if things went south he might just have to defect.
He needn't have worried; Nintendo's confidence that Judge Smith was leaning in their direction proved well-founded. The first day of the trial — November 13, 1989 — was a dream for Nintendo and a nightmare for Atari. Judge Smith came into the courtroom that morning only briefly, to announce that, having reviewed the evidence that had already been submitted, she saw no need to hear from witnesses or otherwise go through the motions of a full trial. She announced a summary judgment declaring Nintendo to be entirely in the right, Atari entirely in the wrong. The former was free to release their NES version of Tetris at their convenience, while the latter was to destroy their warehoused copies of the game forthwith. After months of preparation and buildup, the "trial" was over well before lunchtime. Atari announced that they would appeal the summary judgment, as you do in such circumstances, but soon decided that doing so would just mean more lawyers' fees down the drain.
So, the judgment was allowed to stand, and the remaining copies of the Tengen Tetris were destroyed. Thanks to their relative scarcity as well as their sheer quality as the best implementation of Tetris ever to grace the NES, those copies which were sold during the one month the game spent on the market have become collectors' items today, fetching prices of $100 or more.
For the Nintendo/ELORG camp, it was all over but the celebrations. "It made both Mr. Arakawa and I feel wonderful, just great" says Howard Lincoln. "There was jubilation," says Henk Rogers. Rogers took Belikov out on the town. "I remember he turned up the stereo. We were breaking all the laws," says Belikov. "He was speeding around San Francisco on the hilly streets. I was, honestly speaking, still in shock. Everything was happening in slow motion. The joy came a lot later. The fear started to go. I could go… I could go back!"
When Belikov did go back to Moscow, the money that came flowing the Russians' way thanks to the deals he had made was finally enough to quiet the storm that had been battering at ELORG's doors for so long. Robert Maxwell came to ascribe his friend Mikhail Gorbachev's failure to deliver on his promise to oust "the Japanese company" to his need to placate certain factions within the Kremlin in order to maintain his grip on the General Secretary post: "He said other people in the government felt strongly that it should go the other way, so we stopped." After threatening to create an international political scandal out of the issue, Maxwell allowed cooler heads to prevail in the end, washing his hands of the whole matter in that way that only the very rich are generally empowered to do. "You take your lumps along the way," he said with a shrug. As big a deal as Tetris was in the realm of videogames, it was small potatoes in the context of his overall business empire.
And so, not without a whiff of anticlimax, the final questions about who was the rightful owner of Tetris in each of its incarnations were definitively resolved. ELORG, Bullet-Proof, and Nintendo were the winners, the new order they had sculpted in February and March of 1989 having been given the stamp of approval of an American court. Atari, Stein's Andromeda Software, and Mirrorsoft were the losers. Somewhere in between was Spectrum Holobyte, who had managed — as much due to circumstance as conscious choice — to sit out the conflict as something of a neutral party, and was rewarded by being allowed to continue enjoying the strong sales of the North American personal-computer version of Tetris. Those sales, which would ultimately total several hundred thousand, might not have been a patch on the numbers the NES version would soon be racking up, but they suited a small computer-game publisher like Spectrum Holobyte just fine.
Nintendo's NES Tetris was inferior to Tengen's, but was good enough to get the job done.
As for the right and wrong of it all… well, the ethical waters surrounding Tetris had been muddy virtually from the moment Robert Stein had seen Vadim Gerasimov's implementation of the game running on a computer in Budapest and tried to buy it from his Hungarian programmers without acknowledging where it had actually come from. Still, whomever we decide to label as the heroes and villains of this twisted tale, and in whatever ethical light we choose to see the other aspects of Atari's war against Nintendo, it's hard not to feel that Atari got a raw deal when it came to Tetris. They licensed the rights in good faith and created a superlative version of the game, only to be forced to pay for the sins of others. But all's fair in love and (business) war. "It was revenge," says Howard Lincoln of spoiling Atari's plans and spiriting away what would go on to become the most popular videogame in history. "And you know how sweet revenge can be." I'm not sure I do, actually — but I have a feeling that Howard Lincoln does.
Nintendo's NES Tetris hit the market within days of the summary judgment, hoping to capitalize on whatever was left of the Christmas rush. The game would spend a year on the NES top-ten chart and sell at least 6 million copies over the course of its unusually long commercial lifetime. Yet, just as Lincoln, Arakawa, and Rogers had all suspected, and despite all the drama that had surrounded its release, this version of Tetris didn't turn out to be the one that mattered most.
The Nintendo Game Boy had arrived in North American stores near the end of the summer of 1989, just in time to create a major headache for the teachers of all those members of Generation Nintendo who headed back to school with the gadgets in their backpacks. Game Boy would go on to become Nintendo's second massive success story. In fact, it would become even more massive a success story than the first, selling almost 120 million units — roughly twice the total worldwide sales of the NES and Famicom lines — over the course of more than a decade in production.
For the first handful of those years, every single one of the millions upon millions of Game Boys that were sold in North America and Europe included a copy of Tetris. It was thus the Game Boy that spread Tetris absolutely everywhere, making it popular on a scale that no videogame had ever managed before nor has ever quite managed since. The irony in this is rich. While everyone's attention had been focused on the grand legal showdown between Nintendo and Atari, the handheld Tetris, the rights to which had never been seriously disputed by anyone since Henk Rogers had picked them up on his first visit to Moscow, was the Tetris which ultimately proved to be the most important by far.
The Nintendo Game Boy Tetris, by far the most successful and historically important version of all.
In discussing such a divine synergy as that enjoyed by the Game Boy and Tetris, it's impossible to state precisely which half of the equation got more out of the deal. Still, the preponderance of the evidence would seem to indicate that Tetris gave at least as much as it got. In the process, it did nothing less than identify a whole new potential market for videogames.
Nintendo of America's success to date had been predicated on knowing exactly who constituted the natural market for their games, and targeting that market with pinpoint precision. Nintendo Power, the lifeline that linked the Nintendo executive suites to the youthful Generation Nintendo, looked not at all different from other magazines aimed at teens and preteens, full of exclamation points and eye-popping splashes of color plastered across every page. A closer look at the contents only cemented the impression: alongside articles about the games themselves were profiles of teen pop stars like Debbie Gibson and earnest admonitions not to let playing Nintendo supersede doing homework. While a story might occasionally surface, in Nintendo Power or for that matter in a newspaper, about a sheepish parent who had somehow picked up a Super Mario Bros. obsession, such anecdotes were amusing for the very reason that they were such an exception to the demographic rule.
But as the Game Boy's sales only continued to increase following a launch that had been explosive beyond even Nintendo's dearest hopes, the company's customer surveys began to reveal a curious piece of information: many, many adults were playing with the Game Boys they had bought for their children as much or more than said children were. The adults in question were largely well-educated professionals who would never have dreamed of darkening the doors of an arcade or picking up an NES controller. Yet here they were, playing Game Boy. And, it didn't take much further probing to reveal, the game they were almost universally playing was Tetris.
Surprised by this development but far from averse to it, Nintendo began aiming some of their marketing fusillade at adults. Game Boy advertisements were soon appearing in in-flight magazines, targeted explicitly at the business travelers leafing through their pages:
If you're reading this ad, you're very bored. You've mastered the safety instructions in every language, and the flight attendant won't give you any more almonds. Now what? Game Boy won't ask you for your dessert, and fits just as neatly into the mouth of that screaming child beside you as it does into your briefcase.
The cleverest of all the new advertisements neatly reversed the typical family's videogame supply chain to suit the changing times: "This Father's Day, treat Dad like a kid!"
Many of the Game Boys sold via such advertisements were literally never used to play any other game than Tetris. Reports had it that some players, concerned over a tendency the cartridge had to fall out of its slot as it aged, actually glued it into place — thus cementing permanently, as it were, the link between Game Boy and Tetris. This state of affairs wasn't entirely ideal in Nintendo's view — they sold the Game Boy cheap in the expectation of making a lot more money off the game cartridges they would later sell for it, a plan which a Game Boy that was used for nothing other than playing Tetris rather nullified — but Game Boy sales on the whole were so absurdly strong that there was little room to really complain.
Careful readers will note that I described the combination of the Game Boy and Tetris as "identifying a whole new potential market for videogames" rather than creating one in any sustained sense. For years after millions of adults went Tetris crazy, game makers — including the usually astute Nintendo — were remarkably slow to follow up this success. Many students of gaming history date the true beginning of the modern market for casual games to the release of Bejeweled in 2001. Yet if you ask these same students about the first casual game, full stop, the majority will point back to Tetris. Not coincidentally, Bejeweled and its many descendants all inhabit a subgenre broadly known as the "matching game," which has Tetris as its forefather. When writing A Casual Revolution, his book on the phenomenon of casual games, Jesper Juul interviewed dozens of casual players. One of the constants of these interviews emerges when the players are asked about their experience of playing games before discovering modern casual-game portals like Big Fish Games. As often as not, Tetris is the first thing to spring into their minds. This indicates not simply that many of these casual gamers once played Tetris, but that they also identify it as something broadly like the games they enjoy today. Tetris gave them a glimpse of something circa 1990 that the games industry never fully managed to deliver to them again until the following decade.
Eager like all Tetris publishers to use the game's origins in the Mirror World for marketing purposes, Nintendo did a fair amount of outreach in the Soviet Union. Here Howard Lincoln visits a Russian summer camp, where he passes out free Game Boys.
Juul published his book in 2010, when countless millions were still playing Tetris on the so-called "feature phones" of the time. For all the anecdotes from Tetris's heyday about playing it on work PCs in office cubicles, it was always the collision between the game and a mobile device — whether Game Boy, feature phone, or smartphone — that really brought the magic. It may have taken Tetris five years to make the journey from Alexey Pajitnov's clunky Elektronika 60 terminal to the svelte little Game Boy, but once it arrived on mobile it was clear that this was where the game would truly thrive. A great casual game can be played obsessively or sporadically with equal success, and thus really comes into its own when combined with a portable gadget of some stripe and a player with a little — or perhaps sometimes a lot — of time to kill. Game designer Frank Lantz:
Tetris might be the ur-casual game. If you think of casual games as the PopCap-style match-3 puzzle games, Tetris is the blueprint for that, and yet it is possible to play Tetris in drunken binges. You are addicted to this activity, this repetitious thing you can't walk away from for hours. When you finally put it down, you are groggy and have a headache. Or it is possible to play Tetris when you are standing in the line at the DMV and you think, "Okay, I am bored, I've got five minutes to fill and I will play some Tetris." It is still Tetris in either sense.
Tetris, in other words, molds itself to your life rather than the other way around. Rather than gaming as lifestyle, it's gaming as lifestyle accessory. It turns out that, contrary to almost every one of the games industry's pre-millennial instincts, there's even more money to be made in the latter than the former. Tetris, the urtext of the casual game, had sold an estimated 170 million physical copies and 425 million digital copies by 2016, earning nearly $1 billion in the process. By most meaningful measures, it is indeed the most popular videogame in history. A game that somehow managed to become iconic without containing any actual icons — no characters, no story, no essential style or look — it must also be, in light of the market it did so much to identify, at the very least in the conversation for the title of most important videogame of all time.
In 1993, Tetris became the first videogame to be played in space when cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov took his Game Boy with him into orbit. This well-publicized event was as close as the Russians ever came to achieving their hopes for a grand promotional partnership between Nintendo and the Soviet space program.
(Sources: the books Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World by David Sheff, The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized the World by Dan Ackerman, and A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players by Jesper Juul; the BBC television documentary From Russia with Love; Nintendo Power of July/August 1989, September/October 1989, and November/December 1989; The New York Times of June 22 1989 and December 21 1989.)
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Celebs react to midterms with cheers, tears and calls for Beto O'Rourke to run for president
Many celebs celebrated the Democrats flipping the House and the unprecedented wave of female candidates who won their elections.
Celebs react to midterms with cheers, tears and calls for Beto O'Rourke to run for president Many celebs celebrated the Democrats flipping the House and the unprecedented wave of female candidates who won their elections. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/11/07/election-results-celebrities-call-beto-orourke-run-president/1917490002/
Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY Published 9:35 a.m. ET Nov. 7, 2018 | Updated 11:31 a.m. ET Nov. 7, 2018
Beto O'Rourke assures supporters during his concession speech that the loss doesn't change the way he feels about Texas or the country.(Photo: GETTY)
Tuesday's midterm elections inspired hope in some celebrities and sparked frustration for others, with many famous names focusing on the close Senate race that saw Beto O'Rourke lose to Ted Cruz in Texas.
Alyssa Milano also commented on O'Rourke's loss – by advocating for him to run for president in 2020.
"Beto lost?" she wrote. "That's ok. Now he can run for President."
Beto lost? That's ok. Now he can run for President.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) November 7, 2018
Olivia Wilde, Josh Gad and Busy Philipps also jumped on the #Beto2020 train, with Philipps adding Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum to her dream ticket.
Looks like Dems will take the house! Do not let all of the other noise tonight deflate you. We finally have a check on the President. Tonight is a win for democracy. Oh and...#Beto2020
— Josh Gad (@joshgad) November 7, 2018
Beto 2020. Let's do this.
— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) November 7, 2018
Beto/Gillum 2020.
— Busy Philipps (@BusyPhilipps) November 7, 2018
Singer Sara Bareilles, meanwhile, admitted she was disheartened to see Cruz win, but she noted how close the race was for a decidedly red state.
"This breaks my damn heart," the singer wrote. "TEXAS you showed up so big hearted for @BetoORourke!! You are amazing and I see you. This was a close race for a reason."
This breaks my damn heart. TEXAS you showed up so big hearted for @BetoORourke!! You are amazing and I see you. This was a close race for a reason. https://t.co/QLh9Ah01ws
— Sara Bareilles (@SaraBareilles) November 7, 2018
In addition to his O'Rourke tweet, "Frozen" star and Florida native Gad also had sharp words for voters in his home state, who elected Republican Ron DeSantis governor over Democrat Andrew Gillum, the first African-American candidate for the state's highest office.
"Great night, but to my home state of FL, you turned your backs on the students of Parkland, you turned your back on those who offered hope and you elected two men who literally do not believe in climate change which is essentially like signing your state's death sentence. Why?" he wrote, referring to DeSantis and Rick Scott, the former Republican governor who won the state's Senate race, although incumbent Bill Nelson has yet to concede pending a recount.
Great night, but to my home state of FL, you turned your backs on the students of Parkland, you turned your back on those who offered hope and you elected two men who literally do not believe in climate change which is essentially like signing your state's death sentence. Why?
Other celebrities, however, had a positive take on the election and cheered on the Democrats taking back the House of Representatives and the unprecedented wave of women elected.
John Legend praised Democrats for their victories and gave a shout out to Florida voters for passing the state's Amendment 4, which restores voting rights to residents with prior convictions.
"People worked so hard around the country," he wrote. "Many voted who had never voted in the midterms. That was due to organizing and tenacity. I'm grateful for everyone's sacrifice. Flipping the house despite all the gerrymandering was no small feat ... The House has so much power to hold the president accountable. I look forward to some real oversight."
Flipping the house despite all the gerrymandering was no small feat. Despite it being expected by the polls, this is still a BFD. The House has so much power to hold the president accountable. I look forward to some real oversight
— John Legend (@johnlegend) November 7, 2018
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tessa Thompson, Mia Farrow and John Cusack cheered the female candidates who won their races.
"So many historic firsts tonight," Thompson tweeted. "So many women making history. So much work to be done – so many exciting humans to do it."
"100 women elected to house of reps - most ever in history" Cusack added.
So many historic firsts tonight. So many women making history. So much work to be done— so many exciting humans to do it.
— Tessa Thompson (@TessaThompson_x) November 7, 2018
100 women elected to house of reps - most ever in history :)
— John Cusack (@johncusack) November 7, 2018
Not sure but i think 100 women have been elected to the House
— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) November 7, 2018
So far 100 women elected to Congress. For the first time.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal (@mgyllenhaal) November 7, 2018
Billy Eichner congratulated Colorado governor-elect Jared Polis, writing, "Wow!! Congratulations @jaredpolis of Colorado who just became the first openly gay man to be elected Governor in US History!!"
Wow!! Congratulations @jaredpolis of Colorado who just became the first openly gay man to be elected Governor in US History!!! 🌈🌈🌈
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) November 7, 2018
"Late Late Show" host James Corden also praised Polis for his groundbreaking victory, calling it a "massive" win.
This is incredible! Massive. Congratulations Jared Polis. You did it! https://t.co/dFpOxjHahe
— James Corden (@JKCorden) November 7, 2018
Meanwhile, Hollywood conservatives like Stacy Dash ("Clueless") celebrated Republicans' wins on Twitter.
💥💥💥💥 https://t.co/AkPwWfxaiJ
— Stacey Dash (@staceydash) November 7, 2018
Democrats took control of the House in Tuesday's midterms, ending the GOP's unified government rule, while Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate.
Ready, set, history: All the firsts who won Nov. 6
New Mexico Gov. elect Michelle Lujan-Grisham greets supporters following her acceptance speech in Albuquerque, N.M. Grisham was elected New Mexico's first Latina governor and also became the first Democratic Latina governor in the country. Juan Antonio Labreche, AP
Democrat house candidate Sharice Davids reacts before speaking to supporters at a victory party in Olathe, Kan., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Davids defeated Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder to win the Kansas' 3rd Congressional District seat. Colin E. Braley, AP
In this file photo taken on Sept. 30, 2018 Native American candidate Deb Haaland who is running for Congress in New Mexico's 1st congressional district seat for the upcoming midterm elections, speaks in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Democrat candidates Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland broke new ground on November 6, 2018, becoming the first Native American women elected to Congress, US networks projected. Haaland, 57, of New Mexico, beat Janice Arnold-Jones, a Republican, and Lloyd Princeton, a Libertarian. Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images
Ilhan Omar speaks at an election night party on Nov. 6, 2018, in Minneapolis. Omar is one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks to her supporters during her election night party in the Queens Borough of New York on Nov. 6, 2018. 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New Yorks 14th Congressional district won Tuesdays election, defeating Republican Anthony Pappas and becomes the youngest woman elected to Congress. Don Emmert, AFP/Getty Images
Congressional candidate Rashida Tlaib, left, and Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones speak during the Michigan Get Out The Vote Rally by the Michigan Democratic Party on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018 at Cass Tech High School in Detroit. Tlaib is one of two Muslim women, both Democrats, to be elected to Congress. Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press via USA TODAY Network
United States Congresswoman-Elect Ayanna Pressley addresses the audience at the Massachusetts Democrats Election Night Rally at the Fairmont Hotel in Boston, Mass., on Nov. 6, 2018. Cj Gunther, EPA-EFE
Democratic Colorado Governor-elect Jared Polis arrives onstage with running mate Dianne Primavera on Nov. 6, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. Polis defeated incumbent Republican Walker Stapleton to become the first openly gay man elected Governor in the country. Rick T. Wilking, Getty Images
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Sherlock - Series 1 and 2
Sherlock Holmes can tell a software designer by his tie and an airline pilot by his thumb. He has a unique analytical brain and, unlike anyone else in the world, he staves off boredom by solving crimes. When a chance encounter brings soldier John Watson into Sherlock's life, it's apparent the two men couldn't be more different, but Sherlock's intellect coupled with John's pragmatism soon forge an unbreakable alliance.
Sherlock and Watson return… Embroiled in the complex plans of the dangerous and desirable Irene Adler, Sherlock needs every one of his remarkable skills to survive, and an invitation to the wilds of Dartmoor brings our terrified heroes face to face with the supernatural. Meanwhile Sherlock's nemesis, Moriarty, is out there in the shadows and is determined to bring Sherlock down – whatever the cost.
Pilot – Sherlock – A study in pink
Unlocking Sherlock – The Making Of
New perspective for Sherlock
This Sherlock series from BBC its a very interesting perspective. It takes place in a new world environment with interesting features, good stories and intriguing acting. The first two seasons are amazing.
01/06/18 by Blacksimos
Hi, there are czech subtitles? Thx for answer...
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best version of sherlock
this is the best incarnation of sherlock by FAR. great cast and plot
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Received the Blu Ray in excellent condition and in time for Christmas would recommend this site
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Excellent modernized TV series, both entertaining and interesting!
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Sherlocked
An absolute excellent price for an incredible series. BBC did an excellent re imagining of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Novels. I highly recommend this to anyone to be honest, even those completley unfamiliar with Sherlock Holmes the character and the novels. In all honesty it's crept up to the top of my favourite tv series list.
05/12/13 by timsdeece
Awesome revamp of a classic character, Cumberbatch is excellent.
19/11/13 by Ry
Series you ought to watch at least once in your life. Astonishing actors, great script. This is one of the best series I've ever seen.
28/01/13 by Arolf
Sherlock - Blue Ray Series 1 & 2
"Sherlock" is everything an update to the classic tales penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle should be. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman immediately become Holmes and Watson, with Cumberbatch's portrayal of the super sleuth's arrogance and idiosyncrasies stealing the show from the word go. If some of the tales have a bit of a familiar ring, they should, as the episodes borrow from and very loosely "adapt" at least some elements from the original tales. While some may find the updated version loses some of the charm of the stories, the only real criticism I have is that each series is a mere three feature length episodes long. While perhaps not the faithful adaptation that Jeremy Britt's amazing version of the consulting detective was, "Sherlock" is a fantastic ride and well worth the investment.
23/01/13 by The Great Riki
This BBC program is amazing! I love Sherlock Holmes and the films with Robert Downey jr. and Jude Laware brilliant! Sherlock is set in 21st century London and Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) plays his part perfectly to do Sherlock justice. Martin Freeman (Watson) is the perfect sidekick and makes me laugh with his facial expressions. Definitely one to watch. Highly recommended.
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Q: How to display only the appointments that the current logged in user has made instead of fetching up all the appointments from the database in Django This the views.py file.
How can i display the appointments made by the current logged in user?
def user(request):
    client = Client.objects.all()
    appointments = Appointment.objects.all()

    context = {'appointments': appointments, 'client': client,
               }

    return render(request, 'users/user.html', context)

Here is my Models.py. I need to display the appointments by a user when they are logged in to their profile.
class Appointment(models.Model):
    CATEGORY = (
        ('Plumbing', 'Plumbing'),
        ('Electrical', 'Electrical'),
        ('Cleaning', 'Cleaning'),
    )
    STATUS = (
        ('Pending', 'Pending'),
        ('Delivered', 'Delivered'),
    )

    user = models.ForeignKey(Client, null=True, on_delete=models.SET_NULL)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200, null=True)
    worker = models.ForeignKey(Worker, null=True, on_delete=models.SET_NULL)
    category = models.CharField(max_length=200, null=True, choices=CATEGORY)
    task_date = models.DateField(_("Task Date"), blank=True, null=True)
    task_location = models.CharField(max_length=200, null=True)
    date_created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, null=True)
    status = models.CharField(max_length=200, null=True, choices=STATUS)
    budget = models.FloatField(null=True)
    task_description = models.CharField(max_length=1000, null=True)
    task_image = models.ImageField(
        null=True, blank=True, help_text='Optional.')

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.user)

A: instead of using all() in your query use filter()
all() gives you all the entries in the table.
do something like this:
appointments = Appointment.objects.filter(user = request.user)

the left side "user" inside the filter must be a column in the Appointment model/table. you can pass multiple parameters inside the filter.

A: Yea it worked. but i had to create a one to one relatioship between appointment and User

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Mak Pak Shee (1916- ?)
Posted on August 25, 2020 June 14, 2021 by contributed by: Robert Fikes
Mak Pak Shee
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One of the most prominent government ministers in Singapore in the 1950s was Mak Pak Shee whose "very dark" skin tone did not seem to retard his other careers as doctor and businessman. Often said to have been of part Chinese, part Indian ancestry, it was not generally known that his father was an African sailor and his mother was Cantonese. Little has been reported about his family life. He had a brother and at least three sons. He was known to have been fluent in several languages including English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindustani, and had studied in India to practice as a homeopathic physician upon returning to Singapore.
In the era when Singapore was a British possession, Mak, a Muslim, stepped into politics at the grassroots level in 1949 when he got involved in local housing improvement, becoming chairman of the Siang Lim Park Residents' Association and president of the Singapore Attap Dwellers Association (SADA). Years later he admitted to a reporter that wooden houses with attap (palm) roofs were in his words "veritable death traps" and urged construction of "properly zoned quarter-brick housing with asbestos or zinc roofs for kampong dwellers." On two occasions after major fires raised hundreds of traditional huts, he helped to restore residences.
Mak Pak Shee (Left) after Singapore Elections, 1959
A member of the Labour Party, after four attempts he won a seat in Singapore's Parliament in 1955 representing the less prosperous Geylang planning area, a predominantly native Malay enclave that featured a red-light district. Mak was reputed to be a "fixer" who adeptly skirted the edges of legality. In the crown colony's First Legislative Assembly headed by Chief Minister David Marshall, he outmaneuvered party contenders to be picked Assistant Minister of Labour and Welfare in the Labour Front cabinet.
With the onset of self-governance and the ascendance of Lee Kuan Yew and the People's Action Party (PAP) in 1959, Mak exited the political scene. The old-style ex-politician-cum fixer now found success as a businessman. In the 1960s he managed Pak Hoong Medical Enterprise which sold chemical products and Chinese medicinal preparations. His most publicized venture was announced in 1972 when as director of a new Hong Kong-Singapore company he welcomed 2,000 guests at the opening of the posh Oriental Lotus Restaurant and Night Club, with a staff of 110, at the Hotel Malaysia. There is no further record of Mak after that point.
20th Century (1900-1999), Gender - Men, STEM - Physicians, Asia - India, Asia - China, Asia - Malaysia, Asia - Singapore, Occupation-Business Owner, Occupation - Politician, Political Leader-Minister, Asia-Hong Kong
Fikes, R. (2020, August 25). Mak Pak Shee (1916- ?). BlackPast.org. https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/mak-pak-shee-1916/
Olivia Ho, "Fascinating Look at the African Diaspora in Singapore" https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/fascinating-look-at-the-african-diaspora-in-singapore; Akshita Nanda, "Ayer Hitam at M1 Singapore Fringe Festival Explores Local History of African Diaspora," The Straits Times (December 17, 2018), https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/ayer-hitam-at-m1-singapore-fringe-festival-explores-local-history-of-african-diaspora; various articles on the political career of Mak Pak Shee from 1949 to 1959 in database of newspapers, https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/; Ng Yi-Sheng, "Ayer Hitam: A Black History of Singapore," script performed January 17-20, 2019 in Singapore; Sivadas s/o Sankaran document Acct. No. 1681/08, reel 7, in Singapore National Archives.
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