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Many thanks to all of you who came The Atrium in Cardiff on Saturday 2nd April and made it such a fantastic day. We were pleasantly surprised not only with the great turn-out but the good number of new and local faces who bought lots of new ideas and discussions with them – such as the potential for Welsh language hyperlocal sites with Huw Marshall and Rhys Wynne and the citizen activism discussion with Mark Parker.
There were also discussions kick-started by some more familiar faces, such as working with the BBC with Philip John and 'I'm a Hyperlocal Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!' with Hannah Waldram. And there was quite a bit from the talk about local team – Karen Strunks started the day talking about her 4am project, Clare White led a very fruitful discussion on hyperlocals using Facebook, I ran a workshop session based on Postcode Stories and William Perrin ended the day discussing the future of hyperlocal.
Cardiff gets Hyperlocal – Sophie Patterson of The Atrium wrote a round-up of the day, with a good introduction to terms like 'hyperlocal' and 'unconference' for newcommers.
Notes from #TAL11 – Hannah Waldram's notes and thoughts from the day and the sessions she attended, which included hyperlocals working with Rightmoveplaces.co.uk and the Postcode Stories workshop session (short film above).
Talk About Local 2011: Community Activism in a Hyperlocal Context – Suzanne Kavanagh's post with lots of handy hints on the session 'which provided some thought-provoking insights into what makes an activist and how community activism relates to the role of a hyperlocal blogger or journalist.' Suzanne wrote a similarly informative post about 'Doing' local news from the ground up.
Talk about Facebook: tips from the hyperlocals – Clare White rounds-up her popular Facebook session and has since introduced the talk about local guide to Facebook.
Reflections from Ally Tibbitt on the day and the Facebook and community development sessions he attended.
Postcode Stories have written about the workshop session.
So there we have it – another TAL Unconference and Unawards is over. Please comment if I've missed any good links out. As Clare has said, there are plenty of ways to keep the conversations of the day going so be sure to do so if you were inspired into wanting to take action. The talk about local team thoroughly enjoyed the day and going by the posts attendees have written, everyone else did to0, which is why we're hoping to be back with another one sometime soon – watch this space!


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Topic: How would you reboot Castlevania?
Author Topic: How would you reboot Castlevania? (Read 1586 times)
Zydalc
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How would you reboot Castlevania?
As much the title says, does anyone have any ideas how to reboot Castlevania?
Fore example, I think Migami Games's "Wallachia Reign of Dracula" might be shaping up to be a nice template for a Castlevania reboot which I would ditch IGA's story completely and I would simply merge the historical Vlad Tepes with the original character from Bram Stoker's Novel as in he's the same character described in the novel while ditching the 1924 play high collar cape and tuxedo to make way of having him clad in all black well kinda like this:
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As in Dracula from Bram Stoker's novel got his vampirism from black magic and alchemy from the scholomance where he might have been more likely the Tenth Scholar who was chosen by the Devil to ride the Dragon (well hence his name) and control the elements as well.
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Re: How would you reboot Castlevania?
After seeing how they nailed the atmosphere of the original games, I'd give it to the Smash Bros Ultimate developers.
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Dracula got his name because his Father Vlad II was a member of the Order of the Dragon 'Dracul'. Dracula means Son of the Dragon. And that's putting aside the Church propaganda spin; Son of the Devil. But that would still be interesting for Dracula's character in CV none-the-less
In terms of Castlevania I'd bring the series back to basics: Classicvania style. None of the gimmicks we saw in the IGAvanias. And no mention of any of the IGAvania games, characters, elements, etc. either. I would wipe the slate clean and start anew (this includes all the Japanese influences as well since CV is European-themed). The play-style of Super Castlevania 4 would be a good entry point for a reboot (8 directional attacking and whip swinging). And while I wouldn't have a game of it, there would be a cut-scene prologue telling us how Dracula came to be the king of Vampires from the once mortal warrior/autocrat of Wallachia; Vlad III. Of how he was assassinated during a battle and would later-on rise from his grave as the Vampire King leaving behind an empty grave. Kinda like it is in real life though the vampire bit isn't there, again, in real life.
The Belmonts would still have their supernatural abilities via the mystical properties of their bloodline. Only they can use the whip as was the case even before the IGA games. It would not be strictly males wielding the vampirekiller as it was with the IGA games. And the whip itself would not be an instrument of alchemical concoction but rather a divine holy relic that the Belmont family had been blessed with. I'd also bring back the hammer horror campy Halloween feel to the series as that was what it started with.
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Quote from: X on October 13, 2019, 11:37:22 AM
And while I wouldn't have a game of it, there would be a cut-scene prologue telling us how Dracula came to be the king of Vampires from the once mortal warrior/autocrat of Wallachia; Vlad III. Of how he was assassinated during a battle and would later-on rise from his grave as the Vampire King leaving behind an empty grave. Kinda like it is in real life though the vampire bit isn't there, again, in real life.
Well I also knew about Dracula's actual name origins but I was pointing out that the 10th scholar of the Scholomance that the Devil collects as his due also fits his name since he's been taught to ride the Dragon as well hence becoming Solomonari.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholomance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonari
I guess it's possible that he may have been killed by a Belmont during when Dracula was mortal as Vlad III but he has a risen from the dead as a Extremely Powerful Vampire due to the black magic and alchemy he learned at the scholomance and now envisions that Vampires "deserve to be the dominant race of the earth" hence he envisions where a Vampire Nobility/Aristocracy rule the world and Human Mortals as a whole reduced to no more than "commoners" or cattle.
Of course keep in mind this is also the same character from Bram Stoker's novel of course but I'm trying to figure how Death and Castlevania comes out of this especially I like the idea of a sentient castle tied to Dracula's power and able to command legions of Demons and I'm trying to find how Death or Azazel the Angel of Death comes to his side as well.
Of course as for Carmilla I'm thinking of also using the same character exactly as she's portrayed from the book in contrary in her In Name Only renditions of her character from the series but I would rather not have her antagonistic but rather I would have it that the entire Karnstein Bloodline are Vampires as well which means either the Mother from the carriage wreck from the beginning of the book or Carmilla's father Count Karnstein could serve as better antagonists.
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I'm in the back-to-basics camp too: return to the pre-IGA era-- Castlevania's very foundations--- and start fresh from there. But after playing Grimoire of Souls, I wouldn't mind them simultaneously continuing the original timeline. Or... would it be too confusing/unwieldy to have more than one continuity going?
About combat: I've noticed the mainline Belmonts are always confined to wielding the Vampire Killer, so I'd like a future 3-D title to be more like Devil May Cry or Ninja Gaiden. The whip can be the default all-around weapon, but as the game goes on, let the player find a small handful (about 4-6) of named unique weapons to tackle different enemies and situations.
Well CV does have its sub-weapons: Axe, Boomerang/Cross, Holy water, Dagger, Stopwatch. These could be expanded to fill the role of more prominent secondary weapons like we saw in Ninja Gaiden. And maybe they could be upgradable too like it was in CV64/LoD.
Of course another thing too is go to a similar route like the Bloodstained games like for example the first game in the series is done in a SNES style which is getting to point A to point B with a Belmont which they meet other characters along the way to recruit like in Dracula's Curse or Curse of the Moon and of course the sequel though is a full blown metrovania done in the same engine as Ritual of the Night starring a Vampire protagonist who can't use the Belmont sub-weapons like the Crosses, Holy Water due to her being susceptible to it but she can use Vampiric raw powers though and magic/spells pretty much.
And of course unlike Curse of the Moon/Ritual of the Night or any IGAvanias though, it'll instead have the same gothic horror atmosphere as Super Castlevania 4, the Lecarde Chronicles and of course the recent Blasphemous game. Anyways the reason why I've picked the SNES like graphics for the first game is because I don't think NES style can capture gothic horror atmosphere.
Of course the characters themselves and the artstyle would be less anime and more realistic approach that is.
Of course also because I've also longed for a game where you play as a Vampire where you face mortal vampire hunters along the way using Holy weapons against you like throwing Holy Water at you or using crosses and such especially villagers fearing you of course.
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I wouldn't mind mixing the game engine of Touhou Luna Nights with play style and art design of Lecarde Chronicles (1), Castlevania Chronicles, Castlevania Rebirth, etc. in 9~10 stages stage-based structure for main game with several hidden dungeons/scenario unlocked upon finished the main game. Also wouldn't mind seeing "FM Synthesizer-like" music return to its rightful throne like it once did in Castlevania Rebirth.
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I would begin with SCIV as a starting point. My reasons being that SCIV is my favorite game in the series, a sequel in its style has never been made, and the formula has room for iteration and improvement.
For improvements on the formula, I would focus first on restoring the difficulty balance of the game while retaining the free form controls.
The dark, gothic horror atmosphere of the Castlevania games has always been a huge part of its appeal for me, so I would ensure to keep a fitting atmosphere throughout.
I would keep the Stoker Dracula as the primary villain, but I would mix his character with the historical Dracula. I think the world that Vlad Tepes lived in makes for a great origin story setting for the Stoker Dracula. Dracula was a brilliant man, who mastered every discipline he attempted to conquer, and was considered a master alchemist. What drove him down the path to Scholomance? This is what I would want to see as a long time fan of the legendary character.
I would also like to play as Dracula! The iconic lord of the vampire himself, give him a lead playable role in one of the games. I would love to play through a set of dangerous trials within Scholomance that test the worthiness of an aspiring vampire lord candidate.
I would make one game that's like a traditional Castlevania- you play as a vampire hunter that fights through the countryside and into Dracula's castle. But I would also make a game that takes place in Scholomance and you play as Dracula, so you can see the experience from the opposite point of view.
I would have a set of "regular" levels, but I would also create a lot of optional sub-levels that test some specific skill. Maybe you are forced to fight a buffed up version of a previous boss, or two of the previous boss at the same time, or perhaps you are given a short but difficult platforming obstacle course.
and I could go on forever...
I will be answering this question in the form of a playable demo soon.
Quote from: VladOfWallachia on October 15, 2019, 07:04:19 AM
But I would also make a game that takes place in Scholomance and you play as Dracula, so you can see the experience from the opposite point of view.
I think that would rather work best as a flashback cutscene than a game than anything else.
Of course Dracula also happened to be 10th scholar that the Devil picked as his due of course to ride the Dragon and control the elements hence ironically fits his name.
Of course there's this comic coming out which serves as a nice prequel as well not to mention Matthias Corvinus what IGA's Castlevania Dracula is based on (Mathias Cronqvist) also enrolled at the scholomance as well.
https://www.comixology.com/Dracula-Son-of-the-Dragon-comiXology-Originals/digital-comic/812466
https://dailydead.com/exclusive-comixology-originals-to-release-new-graphic-novel-dracula-son-of-the-dragon-on-october-23rd-check-out-new-preview-pages/
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Maybe they'll explain it in the book but I don't get why Matthias Corvinus was at that school. That, and he and Vlad did not become friends until during Vlad's six year imprisonment at Corvinus' castle. They should also mention the Bathory connection as that was near the end of Vlad's reign as well. The book looks interesting so I definitely want to see how it will all pan out.
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Favorite Game: Castlevania: The DraculaX Chronicles (PSP)
I would honestly like a minimalist 3D action game. You are Simon Belmont come to slay Dracula. No dialogue, no story beyond the absolute basics. Just badass combat and platforming, all the staple monsters, and a kick ass Dracula fight at the end. Also do it on the epic sword and sorcery art style of the classic game covers.
Now, I have ideas I would prefer, but they are less of a reboot and more reimagining/sequel to the original timeline.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13104670/1/Castlevania-Birth-of-the-Dragon
Dracula was not always a monster. He was once a man named Mathias Cronqvist. A flawed, conflicted, genius of a man. How did the educated, aristocratic, crusader who piously served the church become a vampire, and eventually the Dark Lord himself, the opposing force to God? From a very young age terrors and tragedy shaped the man into the king of all evil. This is his story.
That is what's known as a 'soft reboot'. It does its own thing but is still in some ways connected to the series. They did this with J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek.
Quote from: Zydalc on October 19, 2019, 12:04:19 AM
Thanks for informing me about that comic! I'm excited to read through it once it's released.
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The closest I can imagine is just making a Classicvania with a very simple story. I think they were already burned by the Lords of Shadow reboot, which despite having the best selling entry in the franchise, its two followups were some of the worst selling at release. Mirror of Fate might remain the worst selling Castlevania game ever released on a portable, and the sales for the series on such platforms was usually quite strong.


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Strongly interacting fermions and phases of the casimir effect
Antonino Flachi
With the intent of exploring how the interplay between boundary effects and chiral symmetry breaking may alter the thermodynamical behavior of a system of strongly interacting fermions, we study the Casimir effect for the setup of two parallel layers using a four-fermion effective field theory at zero density. This system reveals a number of interesting features. While for infinitely large separation (no boundaries), chiral symmetry is broken or restored via a second order phase transition, in the opposite case of small (and, in general, finite) separation the transition becomes first order, rendering effects of finite size, for the present setup, similar to those of a chemical potential. Appropriately moving on the separation-temperature plane, it is possible to generate a peculiar behavior in the temperature dependence of the thermodynamic potential and of the condensate, compensating thermal with geometrical variations. A behavior similar to what we find here has been predicted to occur in bilayer graphene. Chiral symmetry breaking induces different phases (massless and massive) in the Casimir force separated by critical lines.
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Flachi, A. (2013). Strongly interacting fermions and phases of the casimir effect. Physical review letters, 110(6), [060401]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.060401
Strongly interacting fermions and phases of the casimir effect. / Flachi, Antonino.
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Flachi, A 2013, 'Strongly interacting fermions and phases of the casimir effect', Physical review letters, vol. 110, no. 6, 060401. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.060401
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En economia, el cost marginal és la variació en el cost total a conseqüència de variar la quantitat produïda en una unitat, és a dir, l'increment del cost total que suposa la producció addicional d'una unitat d'un bé determinat. Matemàticament, la funció del cost marginal  és expressada com la derivada de la funció del cost total  respecte la quantitat :

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Crivello Joseph G. 1907- and Frances M. Crivello -1912
Written by Paula Crivello
My parents, Joseph G. and Frances M. Crivello, were born in 1907 and 1912, respectively, in Pittsburg, California. Their parents immigrated around the turn of the century from small fishing villages in Sicily to join the growing Italian fishing community in Monterey. When I think about the Monterey world in which they each grew up, I picture dirt roads and empty lots. My mother remembered that the first electric light in her home was a single bulb that hung down on a wire. Wharf #1 had not yet been built and Spaghetti Hill had hardly a home on it. Cannery Row, was a run down, industrial area of battered, canneries, old buildings and very, very stinky!
My mother was the first of two girls and the fourth child of eight of Caterina and Anthony Russo. Her sister Jenny was the youngest and a dear and lifelong paisana. Her brothers Biff, Lee, Shedo, Alley, Mickey and Flash were fun-loving and made the home lively. She started school speaking no English, but quickly learned. She liked school and was proud to have made it to her freshman year in high school before she had to leave to help her mother at home. And no wonder! Her mother had her hands full mending nets for her husband while also washing and ironing and cooking three meals a day for a family of ten, as well as any and all guests. My grandmother's table was always full. She could make five loaves of bread with just one egg or soup for all with just a single bone. As youngsters, my cousins Betty Lucido and Frances Russo loved to come to lunch because they never knew who might sit around the table for pasta or soup!
Mom and Dad in the fifties.
My father's upbringing was dramatically different. He grew up with his father and younger brother Paul. While his father fished, my father was left to his own defenses. He loved playing baseball or kick-the-can in the street with the neighborhood kids Sterling Bruno, Sal Davigo and Joe Ferrante, who became his lifelong pals. Baseball became his lifelong obsession! Although he was a good student, my father left school in the eighth grade to go to work fishing. My mother often wondered aloud how his upbringing could have possibly prepared him to become such a family man. I believe I know. Numerous times while growing up, at a wedding or funeral, my father would take me by the hand and introduce me to a very old woman I didn't know. Then he would say, "Do you know how many times I had dinner at her house?" A tear would almost begin to form in his eyes. I've always thought that when his friends were called to dinner from playing kick-the-can in the street, their mothers invited my dad in too. I believe that is where he saw what family life looked like.
My parents were married in 1932. Shortly thereafter they purchased their first boat, the Sea Lion with my father's dear Uncle Marco Lucido. Dad and Uncle Marco skippered this boat with his nephews as crew until it was confiscated by the Navy to patrol the California Coast around WWII. My father and Marco handed over the Sea Lion, as other boat owners did as well, with dismay but determined to do the right thing. It was returned in March, 1945, extremely beaten up and unseaworthy.
My father's brand new commission—the New Crivello arriving first to San Francisco before coming to Monterey.
In 1937, now with one child, Marie, and Catherine on the way, my dad commissioned a brand new purse seiner, 75' long, named the New Crivello. It was the thrill of his young career and a huge but grounded leap toward his future on the sea. However, life has a funny way of twisting one's well-laid and hopeful plans. Two weeks after receiving the new flagship, the New Crivello, hit the rocks off Pacific Grove. The brand-new purse seiner might have been saved if the towboat skipper had raised the boat onto floats before dragging it to dry dock. This something the towboat skipper learned from watching the New Crivello break apart against the crashing surf.
Certainly, a shock and a heartbreak for my dad, the loss of the New Crivello did not deter him. He was young and hopeful and the fish were still biting! He paid off every penny of his debt. He then coordinated with partners and a Tacoma, Washington, boat builder to build three sister ships: the Endeavor, the Sea Boy and the C. R. Martinolich. My father loved fishing, and he was enterprising. He couldn't imagine doing anything else. My mother, a wonderful storyteller, described the exhilaration of the height of the sardine industry with relish. "It was fun," she would explain though my father worked tirelessly, and she worked hard while now raising four children and a stint in the canneries. As She described..."When the men were home, they were pulling in fish as fast as they could unload them. When the men went up or down the coast of California to fish, the women pulled together chattering over back fences and on telephones. One husband might call his wife, but all of us would spread the news of the phone call and the day's big catch. When the men returned home, all the families headed to the beach for parties of pasta boiling over open fires and sea urchins pulled right off of the rocks. The Depression didn't hurt us much because pasta was cheap and fish was plentiful."
The Sea Boy: Uncle Marco Lucido with young brother John next to him. My dad is in the white shirt standing on top of the nets wearing his familiar fisherman's cap.
Fishing was equally thrilling for my siblings. They were very proud of my dad and awed by the big boats he commanded. John, the third in line, was five when my father owned a share of the Sea Boy. At every opportunity, he walked down to the wharf by himself, jumped onto a skiff and rowed himself onto the Sea Boy anchored in the bay. He tells the story of how he was running from the bow to the stern one day, when all of a sudden he found himself in my father's arms! Apparently, my father was below deck and knew the hatch was open. Hearing my brother's running steps, he quickly prepared to catch the youngster as he fell through the hatch. John remembers his amazement at how my dad maneuvered the large power skiffs to set the nets which surrounded the sardines and scooped them up. A huge boom lowered tons of fish into the hold. No wonder then, today John is an engineer!
The fourth in line, Anthony, while a student at San Jose State, went salmon fishing with my dad one summer in Alaska. In addition to fishing the coast of California, my dad spent 25 summers fishing in Alaska. When Anthony, just happened to hit one of those rare boon seasons in Alaska! When Anthony, who later became a CPA, suffered from horrid seasickness, my dad advised him to handle it by counting the dollars he was hauling in with every fish!
Late in the forties or early fifties things changed. The fish seemed to be disappearing. I asked my mom if the bay had been overfished. She responded, "It couldn't be. It had to be something else because it happened so fast. One day they were here, and the next day they were gone." She believed it was not only the loss of fish which hampered the industry, but the effects of World War II. The boats that remained continued to fish the bay and still do today. My father didn't stop fishing until he was too old to go out into the cold.
A richer childhood couldn't have been had. Though his own house had been relatively quiet, my dad welcomed children, grandchildren, grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles and lifelong friends. Every Sunday morning without fail, I was awakened by the smell of onions simmering on the stove as my parents together prepared spaghetti sauce and chicken or roast beef for our big family dinner after church. We had holiday gatherings of 20 or more. The feast included homemade ravioli, prime rib and cannoli. My mother made Christmas cookies at the level of an art form—chocolate balls, biscotti, sesame, butterhorns and snowballs. If someone they knew was serving in the military or away at college, that person received a shoebox full of Mom's cookies and Dad's home-cured salmon. She brought soup to the sick and hosted many a lonely neighbor. My parents volunteered at church, and Dad knocked on doors for the local politician running for office. He often spoke for those who didn't speak English needing a banker, doctor or lawyer. Best of all, they were a team. They loved each other and each one of us.
A family photo in the early 1980's: Marie, Catherine, John, Anthony and Paula with Mom and Dad.
My fishing family, like the others, were hard working, honorable people whose priorities were well intact: Faith, family, friends and neighbors, hard work, good food, a good home and time to relish in the joy of life. My father, especially, was so very fortunate to have spent his working life in Monterey doing the thing he loved most at the very time that the industry was flourishing. My parents were able to share these times with an entire community of friends and family. Theirs was a special moment in history--the glory days, Monterey's golden epoch. Monterey gave them the most beautiful and bountiful place these lovely people might call home. They, in turn, enriched Monterey with generations of good, hard-working families. The fishing families developed the wharf into a lively tourist attraction of restaurants and shops. They helped to turn Cannery Row from a stinky sardine enterprise into a literary and historical landmark and home to our wonderful Monterey Aquarium. They built homes and helped Monterey prosper into the dynamic city that it is today. Fishing families contributed uniquely to Monterey's history and made it come alive more colorfully than the shimmering sardines themselves.
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The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin (Author), John Woolman (Author), William Penn (Author), Plato (Author), Epictetus (Author), Marcus Aurelius (Author), Francis Bacon (Author), John Milton (Author), Thomas Browne (Author), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), Robert Burns (Author), Saint Augustine (Author), Thomas à Kempis (Author), Aeschylus (Author), Sophocles (Author), Euripides (Author), Aristophanes (Author), Marcus Tullius Cicero (Author), Pliny the Younger (Author), Adam Smith (Author), Charles Darwin (Author), Plutarch (Author), Virgil (Author), Miguel de Cervantes (Author), John Bunyan (Author), Izaak Walton (Author), Aesop (Author), Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Jacob Grimm (Author), Hans Christian Andersen (Author), John Dryden (Author), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Author), David Garrick (Author), Oliver Goldsmith (Author), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author), Robert Browning (Author), George Gordon Byron (Author), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author), Christopher Marlowe (Author), Dante Alighieri (Author), Alessandro Manzoni (Author), Homer (Author), Richard Henry Dana (Author), Edmund Burke (Author), John Stuart Mill (Author), Thomas Carlyle (Author), Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Author), Pierre Corneille (Author), Jean Racine (Author), Molière (Author), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Author), Friedrich von Schiller (Author), Philip Sidney (Author), Ben Jonson (Author), Abraham Cowley (Author), Richard Steele (Author), Jonathan Swift (Author), Daniel Defoe (Author), Samuel Johnson (Author), Sydney Smith (Author), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author), William Hazlitt (Author), Leigh Hunt (Author), Charles Lamb (Author), Thomas De Quincey (Author), Thomas Babington Macaulay (Author), William Makepeace Thackeray (Author), John Ruskin (Author), Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Edgar Alan Poe (Author), Henry David Thoreau (Author), James Russell Lowell (Author), Michael Faraday (Author), Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (Author), Simon Newcomb (Author), Archibald Geikie (Author), Benvenuto Cellini (Author), Michel de Montaigne (Author), Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (Author), Ernest Renan (Author), Immanuel Kant (Author), Giuseppe Mazzini (Author), Herodotus (Author), Tacitus (Author), Francis Drake (Author), Philip Nichols (Author), Francis Pretty (Author), Walter Bigges (Author), Edward Haies (Author), Walter Raleigh (Author), René Descartes (Author), Voltaire (Author), Jean Jacques Rousseau (Author), Thomas Hobbes (Author), Jean Froissart (Author), Thomas Malory (Author), William Henry Harrison (Author), Niccolò Machiavelli (Author), William Roper (Author), Thomas More (Author), Martin Luther (Author), John Locke (Author), George Berkeley (Author), Hippocrates (Author), Ambroise Paré (Author), William Harvey (Author), Oliver Wendell Holmes (Author), Joseph Lister (Author), Louis Pasteur (Author), William Shakespeare (Author), Thomas Dekker (Author), Francis Beaumont (Author), John Fletcher (Author), John Webster (Author), Philip Massinger (Author), Blaise Pascal (Author), Charles W. Eliot (Author), William A. Neilson (Author), Henry Fielding (Author), Laurence Sterne (Author), Jane Austen (Author), Walter Scott (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), George Eliot (Author), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author), Washington Irving (Author), Bret Harte (Author), Mark Twain (Author), Edward Everett Hale (Author), Henry James (Author), Victor Hugo (Author), Honoré Balzac (Author), George Sand (Author), Alfred de Musset (Author), Alphonse Daudet (Author), Gottfried Keller (Author), Guy de Maupassant (Author), Theodor Storm (Author), Theodor Fontane (Author), Leo Tolstoy (Author), Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author), Ivan Turgenev (Author), Juan Valera (Author), Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Author), Alexander L. Kielland (Author)
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The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature Francis Drake
by Francis Drake (Author), Philip Nichols (Author), Francis Pretty (Author), Walter Bigges (Author), Edward Haies (Author), Walter Raleigh (Author), René Descartes (Author), Voltaire (Author), Jean Jacques Rousseau (Author), Thomas Hobbes (Author), Jean Froissart (Author), Thomas Malory (Author), William Henry Harrison (Author), Niccolò Machiavelli (Author), William Roper (Author), Thomas More (Author), Martin Luther (Author), John Locke (Author), George Berkeley (Author), Hippocrates (Author), Ambroise Paré (Author), William Harvey (Author), Oliver Wendell Holmes (Author), Joseph Lister (Author), Louis Pasteur (Author), William Shakespeare (Author), Thomas Dekker (Author), Francis Beaumont (Author), John Fletcher (Author), John Webster (Author), Philip Massinger (Author), Blaise Pascal (Author), Charles W. Eliot (Author), William A. Neilson (Author), Henry Fielding (Author), Laurence Sterne (Author), Jane Austen (Author), Walter Scott (Author), Charles Dickens (Author), George Eliot (Author), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author), Washington Irving (Author), Bret Harte (Author), Mark Twain (Author), Edward Everett Hale (Author), Henry James (Author), Victor Hugo (Author), Honoré Balzac (Author), George Sand (Author), Alfred de Musset (Author), Alphonse Daudet (Author), Gottfried Keller (Author), Guy de Maupassant (Author), Theodor Storm (Author), Theodor Fontane (Author), Leo Tolstoy (Author), Fyodor Dostoevsky (Author), Ivan Turgenev (Author), Juan Valera (Author), Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Author), Alexander L. Kielland (Author), Benjamin Franklin (Author), John Woolman (Author), William Penn (Author), Plato (Author), Epictetus (Author), Marcus Aurelius (Author), Francis Bacon (Author), John Milton (Author), Thomas Browne (Author), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), Robert Burns (Author), Saint Augustine (Author), Thomas à Kempis (Author), Aeschylus (Author), Sophocles (Author), Euripides (Author), Aristophanes (Author), Marcus Tullius Cicero (Author), Pliny the Younger (Author), Adam Smith (Author), Charles Darwin (Author), Plutarch (Author), Virgil (Author), Miguel de Cervantes (Author), John Bunyan (Author), Izaak Walton (Author), Aesop (Author), Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Jacob Grimm (Author), Hans Christian Andersen (Author), John Dryden (Author), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Author), David Garrick (Author), Oliver Goldsmith (Author), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Author), Robert Browning (Author), George Gordon Byron (Author), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Author), Christopher Marlowe (Author), Dante Alighieri (Author), Alessandro Manzoni (Author), Homer (Author), Richard Henry Dana (Author), Edmund Burke (Author), John Stuart Mill (Author), Thomas Carlyle (Author), Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Author), Pierre Corneille (Author), Jean Racine (Author), Molière (Author), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Author), Friedrich von Schiller (Author), Philip Sidney (Author), Ben Jonson (Author), Abraham Cowley (Author), Richard Steele (Author), Jonathan Swift (Author), Daniel Defoe (Author), Samuel Johnson (Author), Sydney Smith (Author), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author), William Hazlitt (Author), Leigh Hunt (Author), Charles Lamb (Author), Thomas De Quincey (Author), Thomas Babington Macaulay (Author), William Makepeace Thackeray (Author), John Ruskin (Author), Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Edgar Alan Poe (Author), Henry David Thoreau (Author), James Russell Lowell (Author), Michael Faraday (Author), Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (Author), Simon Newcomb (Author), Archibald Geikie (Author), Benvenuto Cellini (Author), Michel de Montaigne (Author), Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (Author), Ernest Renan (Author), Immanuel Kant (Author), Giuseppe Mazzini (Author), Herodotus (Author), Tacitus (Author)
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The power of putting theory into practice
Chrissie Tiller implores those working in participatory and social arts practice to embrace critical reflection.
Mark Storor's Baa Baa Baltic event for Heart of Glass
I was recently invited to Ottawa to a conference bravely entitled 'The Art of Changing the World'. In one of the sessions we were asked to write down a piece of theory we felt had informed our practice. There was a sense of resistance in the room. "I'm not an academic" and "I make art, not write about it" were heard. But, in the end, we all wrote something down, placed it in the hat and picked out someone else's contribution.
Unless we engage in critical reflection, we are in danger of doing little more than ameliorating the effects of austerity and neoliberalism
The one I opened read 'Land as Pedagogy'. Unnerved by not understanding the reference (we were in a university after all), I quickly Googled the writer. It was then I discovered the wonderful work of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and her concept of 'rebellious transformation'.
The responsibility of theory
Although Land as Pedagogy is about reclaiming the space of indigenous learning, as Simpson begins to speak about valuing different ways of knowing, establishing mutual respect, ensuring reciprocity, creating agency and insisting on informed consent, she seems to be addressing everything we should be seeking for in participatory/social arts practice.
Not the kind of arts practice that brings about neat solutions such as social inclusion, consensus or cohesion, but art that is brave enough to challenge inequity, promote social justice and create a space where dissonance and rebellious transformation are actively encouraged.
What I also loved about Simpson's piece was her insistence that theory, within the Nishnaabeg culture she is from, is not seen as an academic or intellectual pursuit but something "contextual and relational", and "intimate and personal": something that holds each individual responsible "for finding and generating meaning within their own lives".
We speak increasingly about building learning institutions and learning communities in the arts in the UK. And, in terms of participatory/social arts, there are few organisations that do not have a community engagement co-ordinator or director of participation dedicated to outreach and learning.
But even if we have moved on from the model of 'hand-wringing practitioners easily satisfied with the feeling of doing good' that Claire Bishop, Professor of Contemporary Art at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, condemns so fiercely, there is still a sense that empathy, goodwill and general niceness are considered some of the top skills for those working in participatory contexts. Where, I wonder, is the place for critical reflection?
Sharing power
This is why I was so excited to be commissioned by Arts Council England's Creative People and Places (CPP) programme, which focuses on areas of low arts engagement, to write a think-piece about power as part of its evaluation process. It was also daunting. There is a lot of material out there about the programme. It is, as many have pointed out, a centrally commissioned, top-down initiative.
As such, it might be expected to struggle to move beyond what Sherry Arnstein groups together as 'Degrees of Tokenism' in her Ladder of Participation. But once I had come across artist Corita Kent's artwork Power Up and engaged with her insistence on research and questioning as part of the creative process, I felt I had found a way of working with CPP teams that might both draw out their learning and provoke critical thinking.
The questions that inform the final piece are a response to Kent's 10 Rules for the Art School. They look at the possibility of really sharing power (and in doing so, being prepared to give it up, as one CPP director noted), at the nature of our own privilege and cultural capital and the challenges these might present in creating true reciprocity or meaningful participation. They touch on the ethics of social art practice, the values that drive us and ask where the crossovers might be in wanting real social change and engaging with the politics of social justice and activism.
CPP teams, critical friends, artists and participants were invited to respond to the questions within the context of their own programmes. Not everyone engaged, but those who did were appreciative of the space it gave them to reflect on the complex journeys they have been on as organisations.
Their responses are honest, pragmatic and offer valuable insight into how, by moving beyond the assumptions they might have made at the beginning of the programme, most had managed to reach a place of trust and mutual respect. Partly by being with people and listening to them, but also by beginning to commission artists with radical practice to create work that actively confronts some of the devastating social impacts inequality is having on their communities.
Facing the questions
The structure of the think-piece allowed me space to share some of the important theory around this work. From bell hooks' thoughts on how "the dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid" choosing "safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity", to aboriginal artist Lilla Watson's warning that "if you have come to help me, you are wasting your time" and Tara Yosso's work on the cultural capital held by communities we label as disadvantaged.
My time in Ottawa, the days I spent at the Platforma Festival in Newcastle and Sound Connections' Social Justice conference, have made it clear that we can no longer ignore the fierce and urgent questions facing our world. The debate around the need to move towards cultural democracy, to develop the civic role of the arts is growing.
But unless we engage in critical reflection, we are in danger of doing little more than ameliorating the effects of austerity and neoliberalism. 'Power Up', someone commented, is a pop artwork, a verb, an outcome and a call to action. I'd like to think it might also be an awakening.
Chrissie Tiller is a creative consultant and practitioner.
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Read Chrissie Tiller's think-piece 'Power Up', which explores some of the challenges of sharing power unearthed in the CPP programme, on www.creativepeopleplaces.org.uk.
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Section 40 of the Wildlife Acts 1976 to 2012 prohibits the cutting, grubbing, burning or destruction of vegetation, with certain strict exemptions, from 1 March to 31 August during the nesting and breeding season for birds and wildlife. Vegetation such as hedgerows and scrub is important as wildlife habitat and needs to be managed in the interests of both farming and biodiversity and therefore a review of the current legislation was initiated to ensure that it remains both effective and balanced.
A number of stakeholders had been seeking an opportunity to input their views on the operation of Section 40 of the Acts and in November 2014 the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht announced a consultation process which provided that opportunity. The 188 submissions received are published below. In summary, 105 submissions were from members of the public, 44 from representative bodies , 28 from other government bodies/local authorities, 8 from elected representatives and 5 from businesses/consultancies.
The Minister has established a Working Group, consisting of officials from the Department, to consider the submissions received and to report back to her with a range of proposals. The outcome of the review is expected in the near future.
It should be noted that any changes proposed to the closed period or other provisions in Section 40 of the Wildlife Acts would require amending legislation.


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Lisa Richardson Mobley
Thomas Oliver Mobley
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Tom was adopted by Allen and Olive Mobley in Miami, Florida in 1961. His parents soon decided to move to Greenville and Tom was raised in this community. Allen was a small business owner. Olive was a stay-at-home mom for most of Tom's and his also adopted brother's youth. Dedication to community involvement was prevalent during Tom's childhood.
Tom was educated in the public schools at Mitchell Road Elementary and Greenville Middle School. He graduated from Wade Hampton High School in 1979. As a teenager, he worked in many different capacities at the Family Mart, a local grocery store. Although Tom was a member of the high school tennis team, he worked a lot of hours and, until this day, is a much better grocery shopper than Lisa.
In the autumn of 1979, Tom entered The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. It was the only school to which he applied and happened to be the school that his Dad suggested he attend. Tom was the first person in his family to go to college and his family was proud. He graduated first in his class in Political Science in 1983.
Tom thought that his family's work ethic and community service would be a natural fit for the legal profession. He enrolled in the School of Law and, while a student in Columbia, South Carolina, Tom continued to work at the Family Mart in Columbia and Greenville. He also worked at a general practice law firm in Columbia. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1986.
After law school, Tom accepted a position with the Honorable William Howard Ballenger. Clerking for a State Circuit Judge is a job limited in duration, so the invitation to the Greenville County Solicitor's Office in 1988 was a great way to move on and gain valuable courtroom experience. When Mobley Law Firm was founded on May 20, 1991, Tom had spent a little more than two years prosecuting mostly drug related crimes.
Mobley Law Firm opened for business in a house adjacent to the current site with the kind permission of James R. Mann, former member of the United States House of Representatives. Mr. Mann's generosity allowed Tom to get his feet wet in private practice while avoiding much of the normal expense.
Over the years, Tom's focus continued to narrow. Always busy in Family Court, it was certainly his primary area of practice when Lisa joined him at Mobley Law Firm in 1997. Since that time, almost 100% of the work done at Mobley Law Firm has involved Family Court matters. Today, Tom is proud of what Mobley Law Firm has become and he looks forward to many more years of helping families in need.
Tom has devoted much of his time to his children, coaching T-ball, coach's pitch, baseball and soccer at the Cleveland Street YMCA. He also coached soccer at CESA. He has spent many Thursday afternoons helping out at swim meets and served on the Board of Directors at Stone Lake Community Pool. Tom has also chaperoned many field trips over the years, including a couple of times each to the Barrier Islands and Washington, D.C. Currently, he is big supporter of CESA soccer and also an enthusiastic Cheer Dad. He is a member of the Colonel Elias Earle Historic District Association.
Tom is a proud supporter of Safe Harbor, Carolina Ballet Theatre, Arts Alive and Stone Academy, The Peace Center, WNCW, The Greenville Drive, Judson YMCA, Meals on Wheels and Friends of Soccer. He regularly volunteers his time at Upstate Mediation Center.
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An international conference to be held at the University of Leeds, 28-29 June 2012, under the auspices of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the School of English.
The aim of this international conference, held in celebration of the tercentenary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's birth, is twofold: (1) to reassess the impact that Britain had on Rousseau's life and writing; and (2) to examine the reception of Rousseau's works in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present day.
It is well known that Rousseau spent a number of months in England in 1766-67, a stay dominated by his stormy relationship with David Hume. What is less well known is the extent to which Rousseau, even before then, was steeped in British culture, including its literature, its philosophy and its politics. Exactly how Rousseau engaged with British culture and the effect it had on his own intellectual development and output will be a key focus of this conference. The conference will also allow scholars to explore systematically the many ways in which Rousseau has been read, understood, appropriated and challenged by British writers, philosophers and political theorists from the eighteenth century to the present day.
Proposals for 20-minute papers in English should include a title and an abstract of 300-500 words and should be sent by 30 September 2011 to the conference organisers, Professor Russell Goulbourne ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) and Dr David Higgins ([email protected]ds.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]>).