![]() ![]() As he works through the statements, Jon discovers that some of them suggest disturbing connections with each other – and with the Institute itself.Īt first, most episodes consist of Jon reading and recording a statement from the archive, or occasionally recording someone else giving a new statement after each statement, Jon adds his own commentary, noting any further investigation his assistants have been able to do, how much of the statement he believes, and any other implications it may have. It’s up to Jon to record them properly, and follow up on any interesting ones, with the help of his assistants, Tim, Sasha, and Martin. Countless statements from people who have come to the Institute over the years to report alleged supernatural experiences lie in hopeless disorder. Unfortunately, his predecessor Gertrude Robinson left the archive in a complete mess. ![]() Jonathan Sims is the newly appointed archivist of the Magnus Institute, an academic organisation in London dedicated to research into the paranormal. ![]() The Magnus Archives is a horror podcast written and performed by Jonathan Sims (of The Mechanisms fame) with a supporting cast and occasional guests. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Will Harry be more than just a pawn!įinally returned to the world Harry unmasks the fantastic purpose of Demonreach Island. He must contend with how can you kill an immortal being of immense power and what game is being played. The schemes of Mab are twisted and elusive, and Harry is ordered to kill Meave, the Winter Lady. ![]() Can Harry control the predator within or will Winter’s lust for death and destroy control Harry? As the Winter Knight Harry has access to great power. Harry must heal quickly or be replaced as the Winter Knight. Mab's rehabilitation techniques could be considered unique constantly trying to kill Harry Mab is merciless and devote of compassion. In the Heart of Winters domain 'Artcis Tor' Harry recovers from his injuries after Mab returns him for the edge of death. ![]() ![]() ![]() He uses an anatomically correct medical dummy named Pin (it’s a contraction of Pinocchio) to teach them about the facts of life, though Ursula has worked out that the voice is really that of her father using ventriloquism. ![]() ![]() Fifteen years earlier, seven-year-old Leon (Jacob Tierney) and five-year-old Ursula (Michelle Anderson) live in the house with their clean-freak mother (Bronwen Mantel) and cold, emotionally detached doctor father (Terry O’Quinn, late of The Stepfather (1987)). ![]() One of the spots a motionless figure in the window that causes him to panic when it suddenly blinks. Pin… was another adaptation, based on a novel by Andrew Neiderman (whose 1990 novel The Devil’s Advocate would be brought to the screen by director Taylor Hackford in 1997), a twisted psycho-sexual thriller featuring one of the most dysfunctional families in film.Ī group of young boys egg each other on to look through the windows of the sort of spooky old mansion that has a fearsome reputation in small towns. Among his previous writing credit, he’d penned television films The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974), Where Have All the People Gone (1974) and Red Alert (1977) and for the big screen he’d adapted Jay Anson’s blockbuster The Amityville Horror in 1979. Sandor Stern had been a prolific writer and some time director of television when he turned his hand to this, his debut feature film. ![]() ![]() ![]() As she builds a pro-feminist history of "Woman" in the Cite by revising the anti-feminist tradition, Christine concomitantly instructs her female audience in the ways they can remember and practice this new history. So Christine fashions an artificial memory system within the text that provides a means for women to develop an ethical memory practice, thereby disproving the anti-feminist tradition of women's vice and inconstancy. Since medieval rhetoric viewed memory as the path to ethical knowledge and wisdom, the individual memory had to be trained in order to be fully functional in ethical pursuits. Although ethical memory is vital to Christine de Pizan's rhetorical agenda, the fact that it is deeply embedded within the text of Le Livre de la Cite des Dames (The Book of the City of Ladies) has been little explored. ![]() ![]() Ideas Podcast: “Bambi” isn’t about what you think it’s about Bambi: The lonely destiny of outsiders ![]() With captivating drawings by award-winning artist Alenka Sottler, The Original Bambi captures the emotional impact and rich meanings of a celebrated story. Jack Zipes’s introduction traces the history of the book’s reception and explores the tensions that Salten experienced in his own life-as a hunter who also loved animals, and as an Austrian Jew who sought acceptance in Viennese society even as he faced persecution. Life in the forest is dangerous and precarious, and Bambi learns important lessons about survival as he grows to become a strong, heroic stag. ![]() Originally published in 1923, Salten’s story is more somber than the adaptations that followed it. ![]() This masterful new translation gives contemporary readers a fresh perspective on this moving allegorical tale and provides important details about its creator. For decades, readers’ images of Bambi have been shaped by the 1942 Walt Disney film-an idealized look at a fawn who represents nature’s innocence-which was based on a 1928 English translation of a novel by the Austrian Jewish writer Felix Salten. Most of us think we know the story of Bambi -but do we? The Original Bambi is an all-new, illustrated translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() It models human industry on nature’s processes viewing materials as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms. “Cradle to Cradle design (also referred to as Cradle to Cradle, C2C, cradle 2 cradle, or regenerative design) is a biomimetic approach to the design of products and systems. Wikipedia explains cradle to cradle as such: ![]() In response to the dominant model of manufacturing which uses the cheapest goods and designed for the dump (planned obsolesce model), cradle to cradle design is a new way to think about how we make the things for our life.Ĭradle to cradle manufacturing takes the whole lifecycle of an item into account, including sourcing and end-of-life disposal. By Guest Contributor 0 What is Cradle to Cradle Manufacturing?Ĭradle to cradle manufacturing is a style of building things that keeps the future in mind. ![]() ![]() How does this play out in a relationship? What we are attempting to do is protect our beliefs. Then, believing we are right and they are wrong, we think that we have the right to impose our beliefs on them. When people do things we don’t like, or when we’re not getting our way, we think they are wrong. We attempt to control and manipulate others because we believe that if they would change their behavior we would be happy and so would they. What is this need we have to control? Why do we feel it is necessary? All are attempts to control another’s behavior. ![]() The above description from James Redfield’s book,The Celestine Prophecy, defines four ways that people are in relationship with one another. And poor me’s make us feel guilty and responsible for them. Aloof people attract attention (and energy) to themselves by acting reserved or withdrawing. Interrogators steal it by judging and questioning. All humans, because of their upbringing, tend toward one of the four “control dramas”: intimidators steal energy from others by threat. The sixth insight states that childhood dramas block our ability to fully experience the mystical. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Celestine Prophecy’s 4 Control Dramas ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As more and more characters discovered their Edian abilities, the book really lost me. One in which people can turn into animals, and instead of the turmoil being between Protestants and Catholics, it is between the Edians (those who can turn into animals) and the Verities (those against magic). ![]() My Lady Jane is a fantastical approach to retelling the history of Lady Jane Grey and Edward VI. Review: Cute and clever, but I couldn’t shake the odd feeling I got while reading this. My copy came from: I purchased the Kindle version from Amazon. Jane is about to become the Queen of England. But those trifling problems aren’t for Jane to worry about. ![]() In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history-because sometimes history needs a little help.Īt sixteen, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. Official Synopsis from Goodreads: The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Was Watt suggesting that his faith in the Second Coming should temper the government’s conservation efforts? In response to the ensuing uproar, he maintained that his personal Pentecostal belief in a possibly imminent end of the world would have no bearing on official policy.īut his critics had doubts. Whatever it is, we have to manage with a skill to leave the resources for future generations.” “That is the delicate balance the secretary of the Interior must have,” the secretary affirmed, “to be steward for the natural resources for this generation as well as future generations.” But then he continued: “I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns. Watt was asked whether he was committed to “save some of our resources … for our children?” The affair became public back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan’s newly minted Interior secretary, James Watt - once known for suing the department he went on to lead - was testifying before a House committee. Consider the intimate relationship between fundamentalist expectations of Jesus’ return and market-driven disregard for the environment. ![]() (Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Ĭhristian theology and global politics can make strange bedfellows. Many believe the book prophesies an imminent end of the world. ![]() A 16th century biblical illustration depicting the "Whore of Babylon" from the Book of Revelation. ![]() |