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Nail Anatomy 101
The nail is the plate that grows at the back (near the tip or the terminal phalanges) of your fingers and toes. It is the same as the claw of an animal. It is a translucent, keratinous structure that contains epithelial cells. Those cells advance when new cells are added at the bottom part of the nail, thus making it longer. Meanwhile, keratin (protein) is responsible for making it tough and hard. The nail is purposely placed at the fingertips to protect them and aids in thermo regulation.
Parts of a Nail
Nail root- It is formed by the actively growing tissues called "matrix". It is situated at the nail sinus. Nail Bed- The layer of skin underneath the nail plate is the nail bed. It consists of blood vessels and nerves responsible for delivering nutrients to the nails, making it grow longer. It slides upward whenever there are new cells emerging from the bottom of the plate. Nail Plate- The nail plate extends from the proximal nail fold and extends on the sides of lateral nail folds or the paronychium. The nail plate is made up of keratinized squamous cells that are loosely attached to the germinal matrix but strongly bound to the sterile matrix. Too many fancy terms here eh? Don't worry. We have a simpler explanation of these terms below.
Proximal and Lateral Nail Fold- sides of the nails
Distal edge- the cutting edge of the nail/ anterior margin
Eponychium or Cuticle – It is the hardened outermost layer of the skin.
Lunula – It is the known as the half-moon shaped arc from the proximal to distal part of the nail. Lunula is located at the distal part of the germinal matrix. It is whiter compared to the rest of the nail plate because it is loosely attached to the nail bed, which contains the blood vessel that gives that pinkish colour.
Hyponychium- It is the epithelium part of the nail bed.
Nail Functions
The main function of a fingernail is to protect the fingertip or distal phalanx. The fingertip is prone to injuries because it is made up of soft tissues, making it prone to damage. It serves as an additional thermo regulator for the body's defence against cold temperature. It also complements the sensitivity of the fingertip in terms of touching or feeling an object. Lastly, it contributes to a stronger hand grip. Your toenails also protect the tip of your toes.
Long Long Nails
Like a tree, the nails grow from the roots where lunula is located. The group of cells formed from the roots are added at the bottom of the nail. The nail bed then slides upward and pushes the old cells towards the tip. The reason why both lunula and the tip of your nail are white is because they are loosely attached to the nail bed. When there's lack of blood vessels and blood circulation, the nail becomes white. That is also why corpses have pale to white nails. There is no circulation blood present.
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JAMA published an article on health professionals interactions with the pharmaceutical and medical device industries today and it is already making some of the news talk show circles. After discussing recent congressional hearings, and lawsuits against the pharmaceutical industry crossing ethical boundaries, the article focuses on the role of academic medical centers (AMC) and the need for larger reform from the physician side of the interaction. They state that AMCs are influential to the surrounding community and that training physicians learn their practice patterns there and should be free of biased influence.
The authors note there are guidelines but they are not in complete agreement nor are they stringent or enforced. So they call for more rigorous guidelines such as 1) NO GIFTS, MEALS, TRAVEL, OR CME regardless of amount; 2) vouchers for low-income patients instead of samples; 3) exclusion of health care professionals from formulary committees if they have any financial relationship with industry; 4) elimination of Speaker's Bureaus; and 5) funneling travel through a central office at the AMC.
In the effort of full disclosure I have received money from a drug company in 2004 to give a talk on pain control in Las Vegas. I did it once, and determined I would not do that again. There was no undue pressure, but I just came home feeling obligated to the drug company. And I hate the excuse I hear from some docs of "Everybody else does it so I'll just do it a little bit."
Luckily, the palliative medicine field is not inundated with drug reps and device companies, but I have a feeling that may change in the future. Last year at the AAHPM talk a lunch symposium was held touting the benefits of Palladone (long acting hydromorphone), which has since been withdrawn from the market (07/05). Many people I spoke with at the Assembly were dismayed at such a blatant 'detailing.' Should organizations like AAHPM and NHPCO join JAMA in proclaiming no more gifts? No Free Lunch?
I think so. I am too proud to take someone's free pen, when I can buy my own.


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Morocco Human Rights
Lessons from Bahrain – Morocco police beat Pro-independence Protests in front of British MPs
Morocco police beat Sahrawi protesters as British MPs visit: NGO
17 February, 2014 – Al Akhbar
Plainclothes Moroccan police violently broke up a peaceful pro-independence protest in the Western Sahara city of Laayoune after a visit by a British MP, a prominent Moroccan rights group said Monday.
About 100 activists, including women, gathered on Saturday evening in the neighborhood of Maatallah, despite police efforts to block the protest, according to Hamoud Iguilid from the Moroccan Association of Human Rights (AMDH).
"All the citizens who tried to protest were attacked by the police, and especially plainclothes police," he told AFP, speaking by phone from Laayoune, adding that he had not been informed of any serious injuries.
The protesters were demanding the release of political prisoners and an extension of the UN peacekeeping force's mandate to include human rights monitoring.
They were attacked after a car carrying British MP Jeremy Corbyn and a member of the AMDH had left the area, Iguilid said.
Corbyn chairs a British parliamentary group dedicated to raising concerns about Western Sahara, and he was visiting the region with a delegation of British politicians and a rights campaigner.
Moroccan authorities could not immediately be reached for comment.
The deputy regional director of Human Rights Watch, Eric Goldstein, who was in Laayoune at the time, confirmed that more than 100 uniformed and plainclothes police had tried to prevent the protest.
"Twice as I tried to approach, plainclothes officers turned me back 'for my own protection,'" Goldstein said, adding that the governor of Laayoune later accused the visiting British delegation of trying to incite the protesters to riot.
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A. Savage shares the brilliant 'Ladies From Houston'
Jack Whatley
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Tue 10th Oct 2017 12.00 BST
Andrew Savage may be better known to you as the lead singer of the mercurial Parquet Courts. With his band they delivered an urgent and accessible brand of lo-fi punk tinged garage. He's now branched out on his own, under the moniker A. Savage, and shared new track 'Ladies From Houston' from his upcoming album, due out on Friday. Quite frankly, it's brilliant.
The track is 7 minutes long, which doesn't sound too much like Parquet Courts' famous ferocity, but Savage uses every single minute to deliver a soulful and smooth new sound. Still permeated by his sardonic and utterly New York vocal, the new song marks Savage as being the socially wry lyricist whom was sometimes slept on with Parquet Courts.
A story unfolds in front of you with 'Ladies From Houston' and is easily listenable at every turn, offering warmth, tangible emotions and a narrator that feels as comfortable, natural and organic as a childhood climbing tree.
"I wrote Ladies From Houston after going to a small gathering of friends," Savage writes in a press statement. "We were at the house of our friend's father, who had just died, and he had just finished selling off most of his dad's possessions so he could sell the house. Some stuff we broke. But a collection of erotica and photographs remained, and we all began sorting through it. This investigation set off a string of stories that went on late into the night. We all learned something about everyone else. The words are based on the stories told that night."


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Jessica Everett is a Clinical Instructor of Internal Medicine and a genetic counselor in the Cancer Genetics Clinic at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. She also provides genetic counseling as part of multi-disciplinary teams in endocrine oncology, cutaneous oncology, and pancreatic cancer clinics. She currently works on the Michigan Oncology Sequencing Project, an NHGRI/NCI funded Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research project exploring clinical implementation of whole genome/exome sequencing for targeted oncology treatment. Ms. Everett's research interests include clinical applications of genetic and genomic technologies, and the evolving role of genetic counselors in providing comprehensive care. She participates in education of health professional trainees including genetic counseling graduate students, medical students, and hematology/oncology fellows. Ms. Everett is also active in the National Society of Genetic Counselors, and has served as co-chair of the Familial Cancer Special Interest Group.
Ms. Everett completed her M.S. in Medical Genetics at the University of Cincinnati in 1999, and certification with the American Board of Genetic Counseling in 2002.
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Here is a Year-In-Review to help me be more funny and concise (Resolution #1).
Honestly, I don't know that I made any resolutions last year, but I'm sure they would've been to sell our house and lose weight. We were lucky enough to sell the house in May and somehow I dropped the rest of my baby weight from Baby Bee this year just in time to get knocked up and fat again in 2009. Hence, my resolutions for 2009 are: (1) lose more weight, (2) get pregnant, and (3) try not to gain 800 pounds with said fetus.
Yes! Sissy had 3 of 3 in February! This year was more the Year of the Wedding than the Year of the Baby with my friends, though.
Luckily, no. Mr. Bee had some work collegues pass away, but not any super close friends or relatives.
5. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Less stress? It was looking good, but now I think I'm going to keep working so that changes things a bit.
How about less trivial arguments with Mr. Bee? That would be nice!
While technically not a "country," I'm totally going to count going to New Jersey for Sissy's 3 of 3′s birth. Everything there is just…different.
I'm gonna go with Baby Bee's first birthday party. A lot of planning went in to that and I think it went off well.
- Baby Bee recognizing all her letters by 19ish months. I gotta take some credit for that craziness!
- purchasing my first ever (nice) new appliances! Fancy fridges and washer/dryers are awesome!
Did you forget the Traumatic Toe Incident of 2008?! Totally crippling.
Anyone who voted for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
Anyone who voted in support of Proposition 8 in California. For shame, people. For shame.
Viva La Vida by Coldplay, even though it's totally a rip-off.
i. happier or sadder? Do I have to be either? I think I'm about the same, honestly.
iii. richer or poorer? 'bout the same?
Spent time with my husband. Only one more month of him working away from home.
Yikes. "Hate" is a pretty strong word. I gotta say no. Tempting, but no.
American Idol for the Wii. Okay, others may not think that me screaming in to a microphone and waking my baby from a deep coma nap is a "great musical discovery", but Paula Abdul said I was amazing. 'Cause, you know, she's a very discerning judge of talent. She wouldn't just say that to any body, would she?
I also discovered Julia Nunes this year on YouTube. Totally fab.
25. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you (optional)?
I turned a whopping 29 in 2008 and is it bad that I totally don't remember what I did? I think I did brunch…wait no! Melting Pot! Super yums!
Being independently wealthy and magically having all stress zapped away. Get working on that, will ya?
I think my style is like if Charlotte from S&TC wasn't rich and had to wear mom jeans to hold her gut in.
I have a serious "tv crush" (as I like to call it) on Denny Duquette from Grey's Anatomy (otherwise known as Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Did you know that Morgan hails from Seattle? Yeah, just about shat myself when I found that out.
Besides the general election, Prop 8 in California and the insanity revolving around an anti-religion sign posted at our state capitol building for the holidays. Even got a death threat with that last one!
My pre-pregnancy body and my friends when motherhood trumped socializing.
Definitely all my new blog and mom group friends. Also, even though it is not a "new" person, I have started a new friendship with one of Mr. Bee's longtime friends (which is cool and weird and deserves a post devoted to it).
Being a mom has taught me love, patience, selflessness, discipline, strength (physical and mental strength) and, above all, how to be just plain silly!
34. What quote sums up your year?


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Home General Dan's Beauty Shop Shutters In Plaza
Dan's Beauty Shop Shutters In Plaza
Paul Litner, outside of Dan's Beauty Supply, formerly on Middle Neck Road in the Plaza.
Truly, it is the end of an era in downtown Great Neck Plaza, the heart of the community's business and shopping district. Dan's State of the Art Beauty closed it's doors for the last time on New Year's Eve. The highly popular shop, owned by Paul Litner for 38 years, finished its long run as Litner retired.
Litner, a deceivingly young 83-years-old, built his already missed business from a wholesale beauty supply store he purchased in 1976, to a full-service specialty retail boutique offering cosmetics, beauty supplies, fragrances, skin and hair care products and many coveted gift items.
"Of all the experiences I've had at Dan's Beauty, the wonderful people I've met over the years have meant the most," Litner told the Great Neck Record. "Seeing customers enjoy shopping at the store and then sharing their experiences with their own children years later has been especially rewarding."
Litner relished serving generations of families. "I've seen teenagers shop at the store, get married and have children, and then come back with their own teenagers to shop. The shopping experience has carried over from generation to generation."
One of the truly memorable experiences for Litner has been meeting customers during his travels. "I was in Hong Kong many years ago and there I was walking on Nathan Road in front of the Peninsula Hotel when a customer ran over to me and said, 'I know who you are…I buy my nail polish and cosmetics at Dan's.'"
In addition to the customers at Dan's Beauty, the dedication of longtime manager Silvia Zeller has been a true anchor behind the store's success, according to Litner. "Silvia has been with me for more than 20 years and her warm, personalized attention and passionate service to customers has played an instrumental role at Dans Beauty," he said.
In addition to being a longtime store owner in the Plaza, Litner has also been a longstanding advocate of the Great Neck business community and he is a former member of the Business Improvement District (BID). His contribution to the Great Neck community has not gone unnoticed. In 2011, Litner received a Robert E. Freedman Retailer of the Year Award from the Great Neck Chamber of Commerce for his dedication to customized service and bringing a "New York" caliber shopping experience to the town.
Looking ahead to 2015 and beyond, traveling will play an important role in Litner's plans as he looks forward to spending more time taking trips with his wife, Judy. He also looks forward to spending more time enjoying his friends and family, which include his children and seven grandchildren.
(Rachel Litner contributed to the story.)
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Batman Rebirth Graphic Novels
Batman / The Flash The Button HC
Written by Joshua Williamson and Tom King
Art by Jason Fabok and Howard Porter
Cover Art by Mikel Janin
The explosive storyline from BATMAN #21-22 and THE FLASH #21-22 is collected in a new Deluxe Edition hardcover! The Dark Knight and the Fastest Man Alive, the two greatest detectives on any world, unite to explore the mystery behind a certain blood-stained smiley button
embedded in the Batcave wall. What starts as a simple investigation turns deadly when the secrets of the button prove irresistible to an unwelcome third party - and it's not who anyone suspects! It's a mystery woven through time, and the ticking clock starts here! This deluxe edition of the hardcover features a special lenticular cover.


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Miriallia loves 633 subjects and owns 286 loved fanlistings.
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I've just updated Wonderland with a new fanlisting for the characters 0-M category, the one of Ogami Rei from the manga Code:Breaker! *--* I'm very excited, really! I can't wait to write something about him and start the shrine!
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Q: Meteor cannot read property 'click' of undefined I'm having an issue where in production only (not development) I get hundreds of cannot read property 'click' of undefined with 3-30 on each click, and a few cannot read property 'submit' of undefined.  This very well may not be an issue with Meteor but with my code, so I'm just looking for any ideas why this may be happening or how I can debug it.  All my events are either in Template.events or Template.rendered.  It happens on every page and no matter where I click.

A: There are a couple of things that can cause this.
The first is that in production mode latency is a lot higher. So if you've automatically assumed that when a template is rendered the data is ready you could get all sorts of undefined as the object's are null for a very short time when meteor initally loads.
You could check your code to see if you've used any findOne or find. You need to ensure that the result of your query is properly handled in the case that there aren't any results, for that initial load. i.e
var data = myCollection.findOne(...);

if(data) {
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}

or
var data = myCollection.find(...);

if(data.count()>0) {
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}

The other thing that might cause it are atmosphere packages that you're using that might not be mapped correctly.
To check this have a look at your network tab in the chrome inspector:

Look through for files whos extensions don't match their content (js & css files).
If a file is a .js file it might have HTML content (Meteor doesn't serve up 404 errors, instead giving them html whichever path is called, so no explicit errors are given).
If this is the case figure out which file it is and map it correctly. (You might be calling click to a plugin that didn't load correctly). In production mode files are minified and the package paths change so this might also be it.

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"Hybrid Modernism" Churches in South India
Alexandra Christina July 23, 2018 architecture, art, Colors, Decor, Design, Interior Design, miscellanea, modern, Sculpture, Space, style
Photographers Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche display a photo series called "Postcolonial Epiphany" depicting colorful churches of South India in Zephyr Gallery, Mannheim, Germany.
The modernist architecture reveals a combination of both eastern and western influences. The building projects in Chandigarh during the 1950s were greatly Inspired by Le Corbusier, mid-century modern architect and designer. His style carried over into contemporary architecture and is reflected in the buildings of local architects today.
The western influence is evident in many of the cinemas and churches in South India with bold elements of futurism and even surrealism in the architectural design.
The facades of the buildings are adorned with daring art deco patterns, eye-catching chromaticity and striking architectural ornamentation.
"We find a culturally influenced re-interpretation and appropriation of modern construction style that is not only characterized by the hybridism described above, but also by a markedly set-like impression on the part of the architecture itself," explains the Zephyr team.
"The architectural style is a testimony of the desire of a nation that had been colonized for a long time by the british empire to shake off the yoke and create a unique architectural language of their own."
The buildings in their extravagant and even flamboyant designs are nearly impossible to miss and demonstrate the impact western culture on South Indian architecture. "Haubitz + Zoche allow us with these series to reflect upon the complexity of changes that have come about India in postcolonial times."
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Richard Branson's Virgin Group is backing Hyperloop One with an undisclosed investment into technology that could one day transport people from London to Edinburgh in 50 minutes.
The rebranded Virgin Hyperloop One aims to move people and cargo in vehicles that travel in tubes at speeds of up to 670mph.
According to the company, Hyperloop vehicles will accelerate gradually via electric propulsion through a low-pressure tube. The vehicle then floats above the track using magnetic levitation and travels at high-speed over long distances due to ultra-low aerodynamic drag.
In a blog post on the Virgin Group website, Branson said: "We're incredibly excited about the technology behind Virgin Hyperloop One and the way it could transform passengers' lives.
In July 2017 the company said it had successfully completed phase 1 tests of its technology at the company's DevLoop site outside Las Vegas. The vehicle reportedly coasted above the first portion of the track for 5.3 seconds and reached nearly 2Gs of acceleration while achieving the target speed of 70mph.
As part of the deal, the Hyperloop One team will remain in control of all engineering and development, product and system design, business development, and strategy.
"Now we're adding the ability to tap into the strength of a company with 53 million customers, excellent management, and a track record for delighting customers in a multitude of industries, especially transportation," the company said.
Brunel would have been proud. He nearly got it with his atmospheric railway. A bigger tube and he'd have got there first. No worries about immature material technology. Disgruntled rats with no leather seal to eat! In fact first human accidentally propelled to 80mph with his atmospheric railway.
Both previous posts mention the 19th Century atmospheric railways, one in Surrey and the Brunel experiment in South Devon but both had design flaws and consequently, the idea was discarded. Hyperloop, which is an American design by Tesla, is different and works on a principal similar to the system of transferring money by vacuum tube, still used in certain big stores. If the test system in Nevada reaches the projected speeds without any problems, and then a prototype passenger-carrying hyperloop is a success then I would agree that perhaps a system could be constructed in the UK – with private sector money.


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A Tale of Coincidence? My Story.... The concluding part!!!
Hey Dolls, I hope your day went well?
Have you subscribed to my YouTube Channel yet? Please do, so you don't miss a video when I post.
So today is not about YouTube, but a conclusion of the gist I started some days ago. I know some of you are itching for what happened next.
Anyhoo, where did I stop?
" Hello good evening. I hope your day went well? Please there is something I would like to discuss with you. Can you add me on whatsapp so we could chat? Here is my number ( insert my number). Thanks and have a lovely evening.
I logged out of Facebook and carried on with other things.
It wasn't up to 5mins when I received a whatsapp notification. She had sent 3 messages at once.
So I'll be typing as me, and she would be "the other Chloe" !!!
Me- Ok, so my name is Doyin Ubani and I am a Makeup Artist.
Me- I logged into Facebook today after almost a year, and I noticed you have an account with the same business name as mine, so I wanted to clarify.
The other Chloe- same as yours? I don't understand. When did you start answering Chloe?
Me- My business name is Chloe's Makeover and I registered that name with Corporate Affairs Commission as far back as 2009. So I wanted to ask if you did a proper search before taking up the name.
The other Chloe- My dear I don't know you and I don't care if your name is fatally know is that I used my name for my business.
The other Chloe- did you see any of your pictures there? Or is it now one person that bears that name. I don't understand.
Me- Don't get me wrong, it's just so there is no confusion.
The other Chloe- Is this the first time you are seeing different businesses using the same name. You are sounding like I stole the name.
Me- No please, that's not what I mean. All I am saying is this; We both have the same business name, don't you think it will confuse people? Imagine if you direct someone to your business page on Facebook and the person stumbles on mine or vice versa.
Me- Let me ask you... Are you a makeup artist? Do you provide makeup services?
Me- Ok so have you registered the name yet?
The other Chloe- So how come each time I click on search for Chloe's Makeover, all I see is just mine? If we were more than one it will appear. Please check your name carefully again.
Me- This is weird really. I can show you a screenshot.
Me- My business name was registered with CAC since 2009, there is no way CAC will register a name twice.
The other Chloe- Let me see it.
After she sees the screenshot we continued the conversation.
The other Chloe- So how come it's just mine that shows on Facebook search?
Me- That's why I said it's weird, cos I was really surprised today. Are you on any other social media?
The other Chloe- I don't know you, whoever you are there's nothing I can do about it. Chloe is my real name, I used it for my business. So I don't know what you want me to do.
Me- I don't know you either, but for the sake of our businesses , it's not right that 2 people should have the same business name, in the same industry. Chloe's Makeover is my brand, registered with CAC since 2009.
The other Chloe- I am thinking of adding my daughter's name so when I change it to that it will be easier for you. But as for Chloe, I am not doing anything about it.
Me- But you said you have registered Chloe's Makeover with CAC.
The other Chloe- Yes, but I had another idea recently to include my daughter. So when that is finalized our names will be changed hopefully.
Me- That's fine then. I was going to table the matter to the Makeup Artist Guild Of Nigeria, and call the attention of my contact in Corporate Affairs Commission, because it's not proper for them to register the same name twice. Thanks for your time, have a lovely night.
I screen grabbed the entire chat, and blocked her.
So now I am thinking...Did I do the right thing by confronting her? Should I have just allowed the issue to slide? Did I actually make her feel like she stole the name?
I was just defending my brand, Doyin Ubani is my real name Yes, but I am already associated with Chloe's Makeover to the extent that some of my colleagues call me Chloe. But this lady was so bent on possessing the name CHLOE... like duh????
It's not just about the name, it's about branding!!!
I know she hasn't registered that name, or any other name for that matter so why should I let it slide? What she doesn't realize is that I am even doing her a favour now, because when she wants to register her business name she will be told Chloe's Makeover is already taken. So she better add her daughter's name fast and do a proper search. After all Chloe is my daughters' English name.
The reason I screen grabbed our chat is for future purposes, I would need evidence, you know, just incase of anything. I have seen where a makeup artist had to change her business name, she changed her logo, her website/ blog name, email, all her social media handles, infact everything associate with her old brand just because a couple of other makeup artists had words/ phrases associated with her own brand.
The truth is, I don't plan to take the matter anywhere, at least not yet, all I want is for her to do the proper thing. If she wants to run a business and be serious about it, she should do a search and register her business name. I have brought it to her attention, she should apply wisdom.
The sky is big enough for everyone to fly.
So there goes my story... A tale of name coincidence.
Dolapo, if you are reading this, now I can understand how you felt!!!
Thanks everyone for reading. Don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel. I already have requests on videos to do, so that's coming up soon.
oh well! you were matured in the conversation and right in defending your brand.
I hope she does more research and do the needful at least so she can have a brand of her own.
I should go and register my brand name oh, before someone takes it.
Yes dear, it's necessary to do the needful to avoid stories that touch in the future.


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Cross-Talk #2: Pedagogy — Introduction
By Anthony George Morey
Jul 24, '17 2:46 PM EST
|ˈpedəˌɡäjē|
noun (plural pedagogies) the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept: the relationship between applied linguistics and language pedagogy | subject-based pedagogies.
Pedagogy, a term that has become common jargon for the cloaking of actions within the architectural circle of deans, chairs, and directors; a means to imply some sense of credibility or respectability to the whims and desires of their philosophical declarations.
As we find ourselves surrounded by pedagogical frameworks that are supported by empty philosophies and by misconstrued levels of respect for so-called leaders of the field, we sit idly by while they are ripping ideas, concepts, and techniques from naïve apprentices who unknowingly and undeservingly give them away for free, summer after summer.
The urging question arises: how then can pedagogy, or it's implied historical potency and auratic pull, progress in a system that allows its leaders to tear any contemporary idea from its pool of pupils if only to delay their own diminishing relevancy or role in architecture's rhizomatic germination while simultaneously facilitating their personal hurried—often undeserved—rise to faux starchedemics.
What becomes of a system when those who lead it waste no thought to compensate or pay their underlings that make, do not make themselves, and much worse, profess the complete opposite? With these players—chairs, deans, and directors—being traded like sports stars, changing their views with the new jerseys they don, proclaiming the relevancy of their new institution's views and yet continuously turning a blind eye to the system's explicit failure as a sustainable safe haven for pupils to explore, what are we to expect but the perpetuation of the state in which we find ourselves today? It should come as no surprise that we can no longer debate or declare positions as it is impossible to declare positions on positions we have appropriated with zero consequence, capable to throw away with even less consideration.
Pupils walk away from such a system with their techniques stolen, an insurmountable level of debt, and an inability to participate in the profession as fully recognized members
Pupils walk away from such a system with their techniques stolen, an insurmountable level of debt, and an inability to participate in the profession as fully recognized members before completing a gauntlet of exams that tie them to the deadlocked system for years to come.
There exists a fine line between the pedagogical stance of a school and that of the body of work of its leaders. Today, that line is blurred more than ever before. Institutions once prided themselves on holding a collection of ideas, stances, and provocations as a key to their survival and continued growth. Those were places of solace, where certain concepts, trajectories, philosophies, and tendencies were used as a means of exploration of one's self, as a means of producing a collection of tools to be used in the discipline. Instead, now, institutions are a place of faux stances, self-fulfilling philosophies used as empty solidifiers of objectively obsolete observations.
Our institutions are riddled with programs within programs, within programs, all aimed at exploiting the chaotic nature of the discipline they manifest within, producing a freshly accessible pool of untapped resources for those that lead them, instead of producing an accessible pool of untapped resources for those who are educated at them.
Today's architectural pedagogical framework is incapable of taking on the discipline that has erupted from it.
Today's architectural pedagogical framework is incapable of taking on the discipline that has erupted from it. The concept of autonomy has been misconstrued into the idea of insularity. We then have fostered educational frameworks that reinforce an isolated and non-polemical standpoint.
We have academic programs that are completely disconnected from the practice, vice-versa a practice with no texts close enough to have any effect, and voices in charge that no longer understand the tools at hand. We have allowed ourselves to believe that routes of discovery could pose as origins in their own right, allowed desires and intuition to become disciplinary genres. The concept of contemporary criticism does not imply constant breakages from all, nor does it imply a sense of tabula rasa at a daily rate, rather the criticality needed in today's environment depends on a subversion of known meanings and on the production of knowledge itself. It calls for an active negation, an active cross breeding, not from the exterior, but from the interior.
How can the generations of the future learn to declare, position, and understand their role within the discipline if the hallways they walk to discover its elements have lost their depth, made the means to achieve a self-positioning unreachable or more frightfully, have lost knowledge of their own declarations, positions, and roles?
Architecture may be disseminated through its pedagogical implementations but those means must also be understood, taught themselves and revitalized for contemporary issues and environments in which our discipline exists.
With social media, websites, and endless means of display mushrooming, and with new disciplines erupting from such instable debris, moments of breakthrough are possible.
The current modes of architectural production, dissemination, and public engagement have begun to display miniscule cracks in this impenetrable wall of pedagogues attempting to solidify power. With social media, websites, and endless means of display mushrooming, and with new disciplines erupting from such instable debris, moments of breakthrough are possible.
What is pedagogy today? It is nothing short of a curated social media race for followers, likes, and comments that reaffirm a certain self-importance and existence; something that has shifted more rapidly from juries, hallways, and critical projects and that has now become a set of endless reposting aimed at producing an energy that is utterly vacant in the hallways it once aimed to represent.
In the end, what is pedagogy? It seems to have shifted from institutions, ideas, and theory to people, and yet, is it the right group of people? Where is pedagogy? Is it toward the people on the right side of the academic wall?
This Cross-Talk series implores a selection of six contributors spanning those within pedagogy, those who study pedagogy, those who create it, and those who are a product of it. The interest of Cross-Talk is not to theorize the pedagogy of yesterday, or its changes through the years, or the decades and the simultaneous shifting of endless chairs, deans, and programs that have erupted from it, but instead to begin to understand what is at stake in the practice of pedagogy, not its multitude of methods.
Cross-Talk is a new recurring series on Archinect that endeavors to bring architectural polemics and debate up-to-date and up-to-speed with the pace of cultural production today. Each installation will feature four responses by four writers to a single topic. For this week's iteration, the topic is 'pedagogy'.
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Anthony George Morey
Anthony Morey is a Los Angeles based designer, curator, educator, and lecturer of experimental methods of art, design and architectural biases. Morey concentrates in the formulation and fostering of new modes of disciplinary engagement, public dissemination, and cultural cultivation. Morey is the ...
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Anthony, can you clarify some of these claims by providing specific examples? Also, I'm curious to know where you are getting your information.... stolen techniques, insurmountable levels of debt, and students that are unable to participate in the profession. Is this your personal experience? I've been teaching for almost a decade now. Year after year I find that students are happy to conceive of and develop new design strategies and techniques together with their instructors, making a contribution to the broader discourse within which they are developing their personal interests and skills. I've also found that students are pretty creative and resourceful at finding ways to "participate in the profession," taking full advantage of both the general nature of an architectural education and the specificity of the post-professional "programs" that you seem troubled by.
Regarding pedagogy, I see a tremendous amount of work being done to develop new formats for teaching design and new modes of communication between our institutions, with the profession, and with the general public. For example, Practice Sessions at Michigan, summer design studios in New York City for Syracuse students, interdisciplinary workshops at UI-C, the Baumer Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ohio State, UCLA's Suprastudio, and a handful of others. All of these initiatives not only impact and challenge conventions surrounding traditional teaching methods, but also strive to bridge the gap between academia and practice, engaging professionals in unconventional and unprecedented ways. What programs are you claiming to be completely disconnected from practice?
Who are these Deans, chairs and directors that you think are hijacking their institutions for personal gain? And who among them have changed their value systems so flagrantly after shifting schools? I just don't see it. To name a few... Michael Speaks has maintained his commitment to intelligence, building performance, and engaging the market, Monica Ponce de Leon to building design and construction technology, and Jonathan Massey to architecture's ability to perform socially. If anything, the nature of the shifting role of the academic leader has moved them further away from controlling curriculum and course content. The keys have been handed over to faculty committees, which I find to have stronger governance than decades ago when the directions of schools were more commonly positioned in relation the the particular ideology of the figure head. I've found a welcomed growing divide between the individual tendencies and predilections of academic leaders and the curricular goals pursued within their schools. At what specific schools is this problematic for you?
With a forum as popular as Archinect, I would encourage you to validate your claims by providing evidence before projecting such hostility towards institutions that have given both of us (and just about everyone we call colleagues) such tremendous opportunity and personal freedom. Without specificity and clarity, this piece reads like a rant from a disgruntled graduate student.
Jul 25, 17 12:15 pm
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ryanbacha
The architectural academies of old generated inside their walls self-referential pedagogies. God forbid the layman being able to understand anything you said in this article. It could be a good thing that some written texts be left to a like or dislike. If architects spoke with simple terms and were understandable, the audience on the other side of the wall might click "like". Then again, that might be a stretch, since most architects have never worked in their medium of study. Architecture is a theoretical and virtual craft. The occasional walk on a job site doesn't fully fill the gap between construing about building and the actual tangible act of making a building. Hence, most likes are not going to come from the contractors or engineers. So, maybe it's a good thing that layman and their heuristic judgments can be made with a simple click.
James Cargill
Wow something I actually agree with on Archinect. I'll tell you what generates out of this sort of empty pedagogy: a distrust for discourse. The rhetoric of OOO or messy speculative sketches or body image and structures of power in architecture does absolutely nothing for graduating students, and only serves to satisfy the power competition among faculty. Whether you like it or not, it is a fact that society quantifies the value of an idea or project in dollars. Contemporary architects are paid so little despite massive student debt for a master's degree because at this moment architecture does not contribute anything of value to society, just empty words and useless pretension. We need to stop telling the world how to think about buildings, and start listening.
You realize he was trying to be polite by not singling any one person or school out, right? What is the economic success rate of students from any of the programs you mentioned? How much are interns being compensated by any of the members of Possible Mediums?
Kyle,
Thank you for the feedback, comments, and personal opinion.
Without wanting to give in and falter with excuses, let me sketch out, again, the ideas behind the forum of Cross Talk and the aim of the series, which desires to push, extend, and attempt to understand the possibility of exploring critical topics in Architecture—in this era of proliferated social media relevance that extends beyond the walls of academic institutions or their grasp.
However, although provocation becomes an immediate way to solicit reactions—successful at that, evidently—Cross Talk in no way aims to incite a defense mechanism, anger, or provide the platform for any implication of personal attacks to be made, unless productive and within courteous dimensions. This series on Archinect merely acts as a match strike. The format of Cross Talk is to allow for quick, emotion packed, and off the cuff conversations; it is in no way a directed attack.
If you return to the first iteration of the Cross Talk series and follow a few lines in, you will find that the series' introduction itself is based on the notion of agonism and that the aim, theatricality, and approach to the topics were meant to foster conversation. (I have copied the pertinent section below for ease of reading)
"For the first installment of Cross-Talk, four writers will delve into the topic of "agonism"—or the political theory popularized in recent years by Chantal Mouffe that stresses the positive aspects of conflict. Eschewing consensus-driven politics, agonism embraces struggle as an integral component in the formation of discourse. Here, democracy is understood as a process of respectful conflict, in which the other is accepted as foundationally different rather than forced to conform. How can this theory be adapted to architecture? Should it be?"
Does that mean that any disrespect is given or implied? Absolutely not. Does that mean I am attacking anyone specifically? No. Yet am I attempting to call out one or two members of the discipline? Again, no. Am I saying that the dedication and focus of Monica's and Michael's work is not appreciated or flawed? Ultimately, no!
All Cross Talk means to evoke is a necessary re-examination of the status quo, to have such work conversed about in—how you put it—a public forum. Archinect reaches corners of the world that you, I, or any collection of individuals possibly could not. As such, Archinect gives us an opportunity to bring these contemporary issues and themes to the forefront. It would be a disservice to our discipline to merely allow it to cover the newest awards, events, and utopian projections of where we stand—the "good times."
I am incredibly appreciative of what the discipline has given me, all those that have helped me and all those that are a part of it at large. Without them I would not be here today, none of us would be. It is only through this appreciation that such a project like Cross Talk grows, it grows from an urge to find new ways to explore, connect, and disseminate contemporary issues and themes.
This iteration focused on Pedagogy, is a pure call to attention to a topic that is extremely current, relevant, and provocative to our discipline and one that—I know—you find yourself right in the center of.
It is one that many here may not directly be a part of because of their geographic location, their inability to attend individual workshops or any combination of a number of reasons.
Does that mean that I am "projecting hostility"? Absolutely not.
In the same manner in which Instagram allows for insurmountable jumps to be taken in logic, reason, and "fact," Cross Talk attempts to do the same with text.
When was the last time you were provoked to take a good while out of your busy schedule to respond to the newest refresh feed on Instagram in the manner just reflected?
Again, without apologizing or seeing the need to verify my polemic introduction with accumulated data or "relevant sources," I want to make sure that what is reflected in my introduction is an attempt to open up a conversation that is current at the Dean, Chair, and Director level of universities and that can be expanded to the students they command; to allow the audience to expand and gain previously unheard voices, pertinent ones. The goal of this series is to allow for individuals to create stances, positions, and talk—the operative word in Cross Talk being talk.
If the initial introduction agitated, good; then maybe through agitation we can begin to understand our current position and start talking, constructively?!
Should that not be allowed?
Is such questioning not the main ingredient of any change?
Did SCI-Arc not start from such?
Did Gropius not demand the same?
If feathers have to be ruffled for progress, so be it. Has our discipline not had a long, extensive and productive history of such attempts?
Cross Talk attempts, maybe abruptly, I will admit, to understand a new medium of communication and find one or many ways through its possibilities and implications as a critical tool.
As you mentioned, this is a public forum aimed at productive conversation, not an opportunity for personal attacks or to spread insulting comments directed at anyone specifically, and such behavior is expected not only from the authors on this platform but from anyone that is talking back, no matter their standing or tenure.
Through conversation, heated, passionate, or any other variation, respect should be given, and if I am to understand your rebuttal, you feel the same.
A colleague.
Jul 25, 17 4:41 pm
Marc Miller
Based on the range of the polemic, I assume you are aware pedagogy is not some mystical term or jargon, well at least not in the humanities, a branch of learning that architecture long tried to ally itself with. As a noun it is seen as a form of branding, often in a negative sense.But as something that is actually deployed, it is quite a valuable thing. To be redundant, it's a position regarding what should be taught, and how it should be taught. It's a way of identifying initiatives and alignments that benefit individuals, programs, departments, and institutions. Pedagogy is the thing that makes students excited about what they learned. This is not to say that it is not abused as a term, but in a period when there is only more expectation for accreditation through accountability it takes on a number of burdens.
Briefly, it eases the burden of describing what happens in a program to those on the outside. And by that, I mean other departments and provosts, and national accreditation boards that certify the institution (NAAB requires this, but only as a part of larger expectations being placed on institutions). And to get back to the institution itself, as architecture programs are having a harder time operating autonomously within institutions, it's the ability to structure a pedagogical approach to architecture that creates funding partnerships that is helping keep them afloat.
In many respects, this is also about the matter of debt you bring up. But eliminating pedagogy will not eliminate debt. Instead, a radical rethinking of how architectural knowledge without the burdens of Deans, Chairs, dining services, maintenance staffs and deferred maintenance will accomplish that. But once that is effectively deployed it will be the sign of a new pedagogical approach to disseminating architectural knowledge. Perhaps this is the role of social media and the online mini-degree/certificate, breaking through to make specific components of architecture accessible now, all the while progressively expanding as an opportunity arises.
But what I'm really curious about is rhizomatic germination (which I am not clear if you support or not) present in architecture and you position regarding it. This germination is manifested in the application of pedagogies and not just the term. I also question the notion that it (being pedagogy) has a historical potency. Again, it's not the noun that matters, but the verb. The prime example would be the pedagogical legacy of the Beaux Arts or the Bauhaus- both how which fell suspect to the pedagogical approach of Terry Eagleton and other post modern scholars (note- an external agent that was identified as a pedagogical ally).
But this has never been a stable practice, despite our nostalgic beliefs. Recall that the earliest debates about the direction practice should take revolved around the then newly codified methods of perspectival drawing versus plan geometry. Therefore the roots of your rhizome are far longer than what they appear, and it is only within the last 100 years that we have seen a significant increase in nodes of thinking.
So again, I refer to social media- but with caution. If a student can create their own journey, their own pedagogical trajectory online by just watching videos, is this any better? Or is it a matter of deferring to the learned scholars of the discipline (you call them starchedemics- was Carl Sagan a starchedemic?), and being mindful of their actions and ideologies that are the proper route. In some respects, this appears to be the path you would prefer when you mention the places of solace.
There's another way of looking at these places too. They haven't gone away, but are propagating themselves across institutions everywhere by increasing enrollment and pushing out the brand/pedagogy. It's just that the real meat of the education was so covered, we can't see it unless we look very close.
thank you for an interesting start.
Jul 26, 17 1:38 am
drinks_at_avec
As someone who recently returned to acquire a one year masters after practicing architecture for 15 years. I was shocked at how petty, political and disconnected from the reality of practice AND education architecture school could be. For instance, there was an incredibly talented practitioner who walked away from his practice after a disagreement about concrete with a client. My colleague said that he would come into the office depressed, watch porn and go home. He was making low six figures at the school but stopped paying his rent. He one day turned to one of the two people working for him and said that the practice was theirs. My colleague had him evicted after he refused to pay for this desk space. This school has a top ten business and law school. This prof could have leveraged these resources and made these challenges a teachable moment in order to better the profession and the school. How to write better contracts? How to persuade recalcitrant clients? Instead he has withdrawn and become a recluse making $250k a year. Meanwhile poorer, younger faculty want to push him out... Learning is really important and something I love. Many students leave school with too much debt to take any chances practicing architecture. Also, many faculty have community college-like relationships with large offices and do little more that train their students to work there. It is NOT university-level engagement. Rethinking practice is...
I am very curious to see what the Free School does. Peter Zellner is doing something quite interesting.
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(Renton, WA) -- Former USC and current Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll says he's saddened by the situation that's developed for Steve Sarkisian, a former Carroll assistant who was fired as USC's coach. The school announced the firing yesterday, a day after Sarkisian was placed on indefinite leave of absence. Carroll says while he's heartbroken by the situation, he sees this as an opportunity for Sarkisian to "get right and get well." ESPN quoted a source as saying Sarkisian was intoxicated during team meetings Sunday, prior to the leave of absence being announced.


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Apple says it's "investigating" an issue with its podcast data showing sharp and unexpected declines in listenership —but with no corresponding drop in actual listeners.
Ad-sponsored podcasts are dependent on accurate data as a way of justifying investments. It's unknown, though, if any podcasts have temporarily lost financial backing.
Podcasters are especially dependent on accurate data from Apple. While shows can be distributed through a variety of platforms, iTunes is still a primary hub that podcasters rarely ignore. The term "podcast" in fact originates from Apple since it's a portmanteau of "iPod" and "broadcast." Podcasts allowed owners of iPods and other early MP3 players to get around the lack of internet streaming and/or FM radio on those devices.


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Q: What does association between an actor and a use case which is an extension form another use case mean?
Does the above diagram mean that general Actor can perform UseCase1 which may include UseCase2, but Actor2 can only perform UseCase2. Or, it means that an Actor has to be Actor 2 to perform extended UseCase2?
What does it mean and what the diagram should be to have another meaning?

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general Actor can perform UseCase1 which may include UseCase2

yes, even it is more clear to say UseCase2 can be inserted in UseCase1, to not confuse include with an include relationship between UCs

Actor2 can only perform UseCase2

no, because actor2 inherits actor, actor2 can also activate usecase1

Actor has to be Actor 2 to perform extended UseCase2

no, Actor can perform UseCase2 through the extension point independently of actor2 or the fact actor2 exists (in the model point of view)


Wedding favors are a kind gesture to show your guests that you appreciate them coming to share in your special day. Although these are typically small items with little to no expectations in terms of quality, we don't want our kind gesture to go to waste on items that will end up in the trash by the end of the night. Having attended hundreds of weddings, we've shared some of our favorite wedding favors below!
Despite a few people who may have to refrain due to food allergies, edible favors are always appreciated and many times consumed before the night is over. When speeches go too long, or after a few songs on the dance floor, a tasty treat can be the pick-me-up that puts some pep back in your guests' step.
It's hard to go wrong with cookies or chocolate, but if you would rather choose an item that makes more sense for your wedding, try picking something that fits with your décor or menu. If your main dish or appetizer employed the use of a delicious olive oil, give your guests mini bottles of olive oil attached with a short message and recipe they can use at home. Syrup, mini champagne bottles, or cocktail kits are also fantastic choices.
As the bride and groom, wedding photos are a must have, but often times our guests who had a great time would also like a few pictures to remember all the fun they had. Since it's unlikely that photos of every single guest will be captured by the photographer, one option is to set up a photobooth with prints. As a favor, give your guests magnetic sleeves they can use to frame their photo strips. 9 out of 10 times these will end up on the fridge or somewhere visible for years to come, regardless of how close they were with the bride and groom.
Want the satisfaction of actually seeing your favors being used? Then give your guests something that will come in handy during the wedding. In last week's blog we talked about giving lighters as a favor to assist in your sparkler-lit grand exit. Whether your wedding involves sparklers or not, there are plenty of details that make your wedding unique that can provide the perfect opportunity for accompanying favors.
Are you having a beachfront wedding? Sunglasses or a parasol would make excellent gifts while ensuring all your guests can actually see the wedding without being blinded by the sun. How about an outdoor Fall or Winter wedding? A blanket or gloves will keep everyone warm, focused, and praising your thoughtfulness.
No matter how amazing or useful you think your wedding favors are, there will still be many that go unused or lay forgotten at the end of the night. Instead of taking a risk on favors that may or may not be a success, make certain that your wedding favor budget is going towards a good cause with a donation in honor of your guests.
Select a charity that hits close to home to you and your spouse, a local charity, or consider providing a list and allowing your guests to choose for themselves. Your guests may not have something physical to take home, but they will leave with the satisfaction and gratitude of knowing their donation is helping make a difference. Also, zero chance of wasted favors!
Our wedding days are one of the most special days of our lives, so it's only natural that we would want something physical to remember it by. However, when it comes to our guests, the thing they will keep and cherish the longest is the fun memories they made during the wedding.
Focus on making the night as fun, memorable, and comfortable as possible for your guests, and no matter what favors you choose, they will always remember the sincere effort you put into making your wedding an incredible experience for everyone!


I really enjoyed Ready Player One, and I'm starting there because I feel like I wasn't supposed to enjoy this movie. It's cheesy and somewhat predictable, but it's also full of that wonder Spielberg seems to have trademarked early in his career. It's that type of wide-eyed, childlike sense of awe that he not only offers the audience but which his children heroes often feel themselves. You see it in E.T. and Jurassic Park as well as in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Ready Player One was full of that wide-eyed quality, inhabiting a virtual world that felt just as appealing as it should be. It's the type of world you want to run around in and explore, and even if we know the Oasis is all virtual, the fun aspect of this world transcended the more grim, Black Mirror-ish aspects.
The story takes place in 2045 among the "stacks," a slum-like neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. This is where our hero, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) lives with his aunt and uncle, and it sets up the bleaker details of the world which so many people are eager to escape.
They find their salvation in the Oasis. In a bit of a clunky expository narration, Wade tells us that people come to the Oasis to do whatever they want (you can climb Mount Everest with Batman, for example), but they stay because you can be whatever you want. Wade's avatar is a tatted up version of himself, but other people play not only as different genders but as different species entirely. If you possess a sharper eye than I do, many of these avatars will resemble characters from existing movies and video games. The movie is loaded with such easter eggs I'm sure I missed, which is fitting because the story concerns the search for three easter eggs within the Oasis, placed there by the creator, Halliday (Spielberg favorite Mark Rylance).
Wade tells us all this information directly, and it's easy to forgive the thick blast of narration because the quicker we're caught up, the better. The search for these easter eggs has been ongoing for years, but no one has found any of the three 'keys' which will grant the eventual winner complete control of the Oasis, not unlike Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
This quest for the hidden clues within the Oasis includes a search inside Halliday's own mind, making the Willy Wonka-esque character something like Charles Foster Kane and the eventual easter eggs his "rosebud." In fact, the movie is quite clear about this, referencing the famous Macguffin several times throughout the journey.
Ready Player One is loaded with these kinds of references. One of the best sequences of the film, a somewhat terrifying one considering the PG-13 rating, takes place inside the Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. An important third act avatar is the titular character from Brad Bird's The Iron Giant, and we even briefly interact with the t-rex from Jurassic Park.
There might be a broader point here about the nature of sampling from other works and making composite realities of existing property, in a sense remixing the real world into something more spectacular, but the movie mostly just enjoys itself. The Oasis looks like a hell of a lot of fun, but you can easily picture this as the world of a Black Mirror episode if handled a little differently.
Again, I adored this movie, more than I expected to considering I knew nothing about it going in, but the sense of awe obstructs any kind of look at the disturbing foundation beneath this world. Wade lives in a trailer stacked precariously upon other trailers. Later in this movie his aunt and uncle will be assassinated as their particular stack is blown up by a not so secret corporation doing secret work on the side to protect an investment.
There is some dark sh*t in this world, but we don't really dive into it. This should feel like the environment we see in Children of Men, and it certainly looks that way at first, but the characters here aren't imbued with the kind of deep despair like in that movie. We're told that people are desperate to escape their real world, to be entirely different people, but we never feel that desire. Sure, I found the Oasis to be appealing but only for its own spectacle and not for what it stands in contrast to.
One example of all of this is the relationship between Wade and Samantha (Olivia Cooke). They meet as avatars in the Oasis, and pretty quickly Wade falls in love with her. Well I should say he falls in love with Art3mis, Samantha's avatar. She's somewhat famous, so he knows about her from the start, and soon they develop a virtual romance. When he falls in too deep and reveals to her his first name, she rebuffs him, saying that you just don't do that and that he's falling in love with a projection of who she wants to be. In other words he's falling in love with a facebook profile.
So this is good, there is some real commentary here. Samantha is right. She says something to Wade like, 'you wouldn't like the real me,' and Wade's friend, H, reminds him that "she" could really be some middle-aged man who is using him. The point is that the Oasis is far from real, and he shouldn't be seduced by it.
But eventually he meets Samantha. She could be anywhere in the world, but it just so happens she lives in the same city as he does, and guess what, she's attractive. How is it that in a virtual world where nearly everyone plays as an avatar very different from their own real appearance, these two lovebirds play as avatars that pretty closely resemble themselves?
To be fair, I enjoyed this romantic subplot but only for those subjective reasons that make some people fall in love with country music while others loathe it. From a storytelling perspective this subplot feels unnecessary but certainly expected for a movie such as this.
The main thing I had trouble with was Samantha's shame over a birth mark covering her right eye. She hides it when she meets Wade, and this visible insecurity works in contrast to her absolute confidence in the Oasis, and I get that this is the point. Still, she's a pretty kickass character who at one point asks Wade if he's ready to join the "rebellion." So she's this badass rebel, but she still has to be ashamed of a birth mark like she is the Elephant Man, and it felt a little backwards that her character perhaps sought Wade's validation of her appearance.
Getting past that the movie is great. She's great, he's great, all the side characters are great. It's a fun movie that acknowledges a certain darkness in this dark world but doesn't bother to dive into it. Maybe Spielberg thought that would be a bummer for a movie as concerned with spectacle as this one, like it might be a betrayal to the audience to dive into wish fulfillment and then to pull the rug out from under us and show the depravity of where our world might be headed.
If you enjoyed this movie you might enjoy the films this one most reminded me of, an animated 2013 film called The Congress, 2012's Wreck-It Ralph, Citizen Kane and the HBO show Westworld. The Congress is a more spiritually draining, thoughtful look at what becomes of us when we increasingly rely on cultivated avatars to represent our being while Wreck-It Ralph and Westworld are more fantastical, entertaining depictions of this kind of virtual, theme park world.


A quick one-shot of sorts, Elephantmen #63 teases plenty about the future, while offering a quick, easily-wrapped up story in its own right.
The main story itself isn't the most interesting here; indeed, it's more about exploring some of the background of Elephantmen and generally fleshing the story out. Still, that doesn't mean it's not enjoyable. In fact, these quick open-and-shut side arcs are a great way to wind down and seque between larger arcs.
Still, that doesn't mean its not relevant either. By the end of the issue, Richard Starkings offers enough to make the plot feel connected to the greater whole. Yet, on the other hand, a quick one-shot doesn't offer the same sort of suspense or revelations that some of the bigger arcs have. It's certainly enjoyable, but it's not of the highlights of the series.
Visually, this issue opens up a few new environments, giving Alex Medellin a chance to explore and experiment. The pencils, as usual, are crisp and clear with plenty of definition. Likewise, the new locations add some fresh color, including near-blinding amounts of white. Still, it makes the issue much more appealing to look at and offers a nice escape from the drab environments found in most issues.
All in all, this is a nice little break and a welcome one at that, but I'm more than happy to jump right back in to the main developments.


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