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Everyone must be vigilant about their health and wellbeing due to the increase in the number of illnesses that prevail today. People have become more cautious about who they meet and how they conduct their daily lives since the pandemic. They tried to keep life as normal as possible. Humans are designed to interact with each other. Falling ill could lead to loneliness, isolation, and depression. Healthy eating habits, exercise and avoiding unhealthy lifestyles can all help to maintain your health. Wellness, on the other hand, focuses on creating positive environments that inspire and lift spirits. To maintain mental health, it is important to choose the right social gatherings. Healthcare and medical are both important components in improving the quality of life.
You can only take control of your health and well-being by choosing the right measures to maintain physical and mental well-being. While some of these steps may be beneficial in the future, they must be done early on in life. For example, smoking can cause lung cancer and heart disease. Exercising too much in any sport or outdoors activity, such as running, swimming, or cycling can be dangerous. Your body should only take on as much stress as it can handle. Your body’s health and wellbeing includes protecting it from sexually transmitted diseases like the Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV). It’s better to be safe than sorry.
Talking about mental health and wellness should be done often. Many people suffer from internal disorders and have difficulty expressing their feelings because of the environment in which they live. Mental, physical, and emotional well-being are the three essential dimensions to a healthy and happy life. These three areas are often overlooked or not considered enough. People often take their health for granted and go to hospitals regularly to get medicine. It will be better for their health if they adopt simple and preventive measures to their daily lives. Wellbeing and health go hand-in-hand. To stay healthy, one must have the mental strength to motivate themselves to reach the fitness goals they set.
To live a happy and fulfilled life, it is important to take advantage of what time and energy they have to make the most of their remaining years. For a healthy and happy life, you must take care of your body and mind with nutrition, exercise, relaxation, and sleep. Rich food sources like meat, grains, and nuts can provide good nutrition. Even during stressful work days, the body requires rest. A power nap lasting more than 30 minutes can help the brain function better. Yoga can increase flexibility and help you feel connected to your life. People who read less often are more likely to develop memory loss diseases like Alzheimer’s. Thus, it is all about creating a safe space for healthy living.
In simple terms, health and wellness is about taking care of your needs, environment, mental, physical, and spiritual health. This can be done by meditating, getting in touch with all the negative aspects, and removing them from your life to create a happier, cleaner lifestyle. Spending time with loved ones and friends can boost energy and provide structure for anyone who feels lost or depressed. Try to find time for yourself, even if work is your main focus. It is possible to improve your health and wellbeing over time. If you take the necessary steps early in life, it will be easier in the long-term. This is the reality of life. It shouldn’t be taken lightly. Each person’s body limits should be respected. Balance is the key to mental, spiritual, and physical well-being.

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Another example of why we claim HuffPost is the Internet's #1 largest* inciter of hatred.
(*It is the #1 most widely-read, advertiser-supported "news" site in the world.)
Here was HuffPost's front page at 5:00pm on Friday, July 20:
Note the copy by the arrow: "Gun Lobby Counts On Short Attention Span: How You Can Help." A "news" story with this strange theme was also positioned just beneath that screaming headline:
We went to the story page, and found out that this "news" story was written by one of HuffPost's most notorious, malicious smear-merchants, Dan Froomkin, whom it claims is its "Senior Washington Correspondent."
So upon what evidence did HuffPost (Froomkin) base that shocking allegation --- that the "Gun Lobby Counts On Short Attention Span"?
Did the "gun lobby" do or say something since the Colorado massacre that would give rise to such a shocking allegation? Not unless you consider something in this statement --- the only one that the NRA issued --- to constitute a secret message:
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and the community," an NRA spokesman told the Examiner. "NRA will not have any further comment until all the facts are known."Did you see anything in there that would indicate the "Gun Lobby Counts On Short Attention Span"? Neither did we.
Turns out this "news" story is based on nothing but an empty accusation by a gun-control activist --- issued while the victims' bodies in Colorado were still warm:
The message here should be clear, said Kristen Rand, legislative director for the Violence Policy Center, a group opposed to gun violence. "You put a military level of firepower in the hands of civilians, and this is the natural result," she said. "The lesson that other countries have learned is that you have to restrict access to these instruments that allow people to inflict so much injury and death so quickly." [...]Really? And upon what evidence does Rand base that shocking allegation? Nothing. Yet HuffPost ran this empty, inflammatory accusation as if it were a fact-based situation.
"The gun lobby is very effective at saying that 'Now is not the time to exploit these events for political purposes,'" Rand said. "Their goal is to delay so that the pressure comes off of policy makers, the immediacy fades and everyone turns their attention to something else."
There is nothing more in the article that would give any credibility whatsoever to the inflammatory, baseless "news" headline that Arianna and/or her minions put at the top of HuffPost's front page, hours after the massacre.
Is this the first time HuffPost ran such an irresponsible, inflammatory, false "news" headline, mere hours after a tragedy?
No. It is the latest of dozens of examples that we at HUFF-WATCH have documented, in which Arianna (as Editor-In-Chief) has written or signed off on "news" articles that incite hatred against the U.S. military, Israel and Jews, the Tea Party and conservative individuals and organizations --- based on a false, unprovable or decontextualized accusations.
It's also not the first time HuffPost has maliciously employed provable falsehoods in order to smear the NRA, in particular. In the above example, HuffPost published a screaming headline accusation that Gov. Palin favors letting those "on (the) no-fly list buy guns." Just one problem: as we documented in this expose', HuffPost's own article and source material prove Palin never said that.
In another example, HuffPost enabled Froomkin to maliciously libel the U.S. military, then to escalate his attacks --- even though they knew, or should have known that his accusations had been (or were being) debunked:
HuffPost falsely smears the U.S. military (again)Then, after the January 2011 massacre in Tucson, HuffPost conveyed the insinuation that Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and/or conservative activists were responsible for Jared Laughner's insanity --- even though the evidence pointed towards the radical left. We documented HuffPost's malicious, inflammatory bias and allegations in regards to the Tucson massacre in the following pieces:
HuffPost published a screaming front-page headline (right) of a screed by Froomkin that accused the U.S. military of committing "collateral murder." HuffPost ignored the fact that the libel had been debunked by other blogs, and even by a show that it religiously covers, "The Colbert Report." Instead of issuing a retraction, HuffPost dug in its heels, and even enabled Froomkin to write a libel-filled follow-up screed, "U.S. Troops Gun Down Iraqi Civilians," which it (again) disguised as a "news" story.
HuffPost uses Rep. Giffords as a political prop to falsely accuse conservatives, Sarah Palin of inciting shooterThen Arianna penned a blog article that used the legacy of a little girl who was killed in the Tucson massacre as a platform atop which to transform this tragedy into a discussion of poverty in America, using what she knew (or should have known) are deceptive statistics:
Arianna's continuing jihad against the reality of the AZ shootings
Want a real laugh, Part 1?
Arianna publicly claimed she prohibited conspiracy theories. Yes, really:
"[At HuffPost] there are guidelines that have to be followed -- and they include a prohibition on conspiracy theories or inflammatory claims."
"For context, it's good to remember that Glenn Beck didn't come out of nowhere. He's the latest example of what the great historian Richard Hofstadter called "the paranoid style in American politics," which he defined as angry minds that traffic in "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy," and that see "the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms... always manning the barricades of civilization."
Want a real laugh, part 2?
Froomkin is one of Harvard University's "journalism accountability" watchdogs. From Froomkin's bio at HuffPost:
"Froomkin is also Deputy Editor of NiemanWatchdog.org, a website from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University devoted to encouraging accountability journalism."Does Harvard also have Charles Manson editing a website on sober, peaceful conflict resolution? How about Michael Moore editing one on healthful diets?
If you believe HuffPost should start living up to its repeated claims of nonpartisanship, particularly in its coverage of national tragedies, we urge you to do three things:
(1) Make your voice known to HuffPost's senior management here.
(2) Consider writing or calling one or more of HuffPost's top advertisers, to let them know your thoughts on what their ad dollars are enabling.
An easy way to approach this is to scan our easy-to-use directory and find one or two corporations that you are a customer of, or have stock in. Your concerns will automatically be given considerably more weight. Also, request a follow-up after they've had a chance to review the evidence; don't let them off the hook, or sweep this under the rug.
(3) Forward the link to this story along to others who support responsible journalism --- particularly journalists!!!

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This is a wonderful book, for anyone who is in the dessert, or has ever been in the dessert away from God. Wondering "Why? What has happened? God are you still there?"
This book is an encouragement, and it is as refreshing as a cold glass of water on a hot day! This books talks about the Israelites that left Egypt after being in slavery headed to the "promise land" only to wander about the dessert for 40 years. At the end only 2 spies (which comes to about 1 per a million) who thought they could enter the promise land.
This is a great read and if you have not found this book yet, I would take the time to do so! This would also be a great book to do a bible study with and hear from a group of women their perspective on the different chapters, the verses highlighted in this book, and their experiences with following God.
I for one am so glad that I had the opportunity to read this book!
"I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord. Be strong, and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the Lord"

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In a city which has not yet recovered from aftermaths of the war, the only way to survive the pressure of criminal investigations and endless trials is to continue active fight for decent life.
Tamara Mearakishvili, a civil activist from Akhalgori, began her fight with very clear demands – to improve living conditions in her native district. Everyone who tried to silence her received an opposite effect: each time the criticism became stronger. Having received strong support from Georgians as well as Ossetians, Tamara turned her insecurity into her strength.
Not afraid to speak out about the problems, she became the voice of the discontent locals. Tamara continues her legal fight with Tskhinvali authorities and does not intend to leave her home.
“The decision was made as a result of pressure from the authorities and was intended to punish and teach me a lesson.” This is how Tamara Mearakishvili responds to the recent ruling of the Supreme Court of South Ossetia, which de facto separated from Georgia as a result of the armed conflict of 1990-92.
Having examined the prosecutor’s appeal, the court dismissed the defendant’s charges on libel, but sent the episode with the “illegal acquisition” of the passport for reinvestigation.
Tamara, whose criminal prosecution has been going on for two and a half years, is stunned.
“How can it be? Your courts ruled for three times that the person was innocent, that there were no signs of a crime, and then another court said that they had made the wrong decision … It was not just one court or two… three courts declared it! ” Tamara said.
According to the activist, the last decision was a signal: they want to expel her from Akhalgori.
“All the facts indicate that this [lawsuit] is linked to my civic activity. This is not a domestic conflict between the locals. All agencies, institutions, and personally Anatoly Bibilov – the man who has the highest legitimacy in South Ossetia – are fighting against me.”
Tamara, like many women living in a frozen conflict zone, is on the front line. According to her, women often take the lead when it comes to solving some problems, because they know that men have to answer for their decisions differently. In addition, there is still some kind of respect towards women, which is shown in relation to her as well.
“There is an Ossetian saying – a dog does not bark at woman. I often recall it and tell it to those who treat me with aggression.”
Tamara Mearakishvili believes that it is easier and safer for women to talk about problems than for men. Photo: Facebook / Tamara Mearakishvili
The women are generally the most active and critical. It was proved at the meeting with de facto president Anatoly Bibilov in late December, where the issues related to “border” were discussed. Authorities in Tskhinvali decided to close the crossing points in September 2019 after the developments in the villages Tsnelisi-Chorchana. De facto authorities accused the Georgian side of establishing a police checkpoint.
“At least 20 people spoke at the meeting, out of which only two were men, if I am not mistaken. All the rest were the women. ”
The checkpoint was opened on January 24, 2020, but only temporarily. Elderly residents of Akhlgory were allowed to leave the town for the first time in 140 days,
Tamara said that at a “very tough meeting” with Bibilov in December, she was just an “ordinary resident” of the district.
“I didn’t bring anyone there, I didn’t dictate the text to anyone, and I did not force anyone to do anything. But, people still grabbed microphone from each other.”
“The fact that I am a woman, gives me some advantages in my struggle. Otherwise I could have been dead already of at least beaten many times. When I was arrested and taken to police station, they wanted me to confess of what I did not do, and they told me directly: if you were a man, we would break your bones so you would confess to everything”.
In addition to challenges in her everyday life, Tamara also faces problems on social network. She said that there were cases when some of the locals were “judged” only because they liked or reposted Tamara’s statuses on social networks.
Moreover, she has been bullied by Internet trolls. As she said, these fake accounts are linked to de facto president’s administration. She believes that one of these trolls, who spoke on the network about the “fifth column” and “political prostitution”, is a member of the Bibilov’s administration.
“I am very attentive. If someone writes something about me, I immediately check their friend lists. And when I checked his friends, the first person in his list was Anatoly Bibilov”.
Tamara believes that she is not persecuted because of her ethnicity. She does not see the signs of gender based discrimination either. And even though the rights of women in a region with strong patriarchal traditions are violated to a greater extent than of men, for example, “the women leadership is not tolerated here”, it is the women who take the lead in times of crisis.
The criminal prosecution against Tamara Mearakishvili continues for more than two and half years. Photo: Facebook / Tamara Mearakishvili
Mearakishvili became a well-known civic activist in 2014 – when she began to speak out about the problems in Akhalgori district. She criticized de facto authorities and cooperated with independent journalists.
The criminal prosecution, as she said, certainly made her life more difficult, but at the same time “increased the demand” for her.
“More and more people are contacting me, sending me requests for friendship, offering help and support. Of course, this situation attracted more people’s attention, which made me more protected than ever. And I think from now on I will get even more support. ”
Tamara, who has gained confidence in both – Georgian and Ossetian communities, believes that it is all about her honesty: “When you are honest, when don’t lie and when you have no political ambitions, people sincerely trust you.”
“For example, I received calls and text messages from people in Tskhinvali expressing support and telling me that I was protected. I can say that these were the calls from MPs. I will not specify, because recently there have been cases when some MPs were beaten or intimidated …”
But, in fact Tamara has a double challenge. Due to a criminal case, she is banned to move freely and because of the closed checkpoint, hypothetically, she is not able to leave Akhalgori.
“Today, I feel uncomfortable that it all started with complaints about domestic problems and grew into an international scandal. Due to the fact that we do not have water, and I wrote about this, they can expel me from my own town. That’s where we ended up.”

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South Eastern Regional College (SERC) is one of the largest educations and training providers in Northern Ireland. This project provided state of the art facilities, in a signature building, representative of SERC’s status as ‘Centre of Excellence’ in both performing arts and technology innovations. The building also addresses the shortfall that existed in student services.
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The first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final between Arsenal and Liverpool scheduled for Thursday 6 January 2022 has been postponed following a formal request by Liverpool due to a severe outbreak of COVID infections amongst their management and playing staff.
The EFL has been in regular dialogue with the Club over the past 48 hours in an attempt to understand whether the tie could proceed but significant developments over this period have resulted in the Club reporting an ever-increasing number of COVID cases.
Having now fully reviewed the circumstances involved, the League has accepted Liverpool’s request after determining, albeit reluctantly, that a postponement was the only option as the Club looks to mitigate against the further risk of infection amongst its squad and staff alongside ensuring public health was protected by not travelling from Liverpool to London.
As a result of the postponement the order of the ties has now changed with the first of the two-legs to take place at Anfield on 13 January 2022 at 7.45pm. The rearranged game (now the 2nd leg) is scheduled to be played at the Emirates on 20 January 2022 at 7.45pm.


text: I first read this book when I was in high school and had never been to Japan. Davidson, an American professor participates in a teacher exchange and moves with her husband to Japan on several occasions for extended periods of time. During her visits, she truly makes an effort to immerse herself in Japanese culture, and dedicates herself to learning the language, as well as Japanese traditions - and is committed to getting to know the real Japanese. I recently decided to re-read this book - partially after my truly negative experience with Dave Barry's book. I worried that the years that had passed since I first read the book would affect my view of it. But, all it did was make me better appreciate Davidson's ability to honestly report her experiences and to better understand how the Japanese are so different from Americans. Davidson has a love affair with Japan, but she is realistic. She knows she cannot move there permanently for a number of reasons, but she still makes an effort to incorporate the best parts of Japan into her life. Rather than write off the Japanese as weird or different, she really digs to understand why. The results are fascinating. I particularly enjoyed her observations about the Japanese education system - the pressure on mothers to produce perfect children, and the ever-mounting pressure on children to study to the point of exhaustion, just so they can later get all-consuming jobs. Davidson is meticulous in her observations and study of Japanese traditions, their interactions with each other and with foreigners. My husband has done a lot of work with a Japanese client over the past several years, and I think for him reading this book would be invaluable to understanding the people he interacts with on a daily basis - and for recognizing when and why their motives and behaviors are so different from the ones we assume of others in the United States. About the second half of this book focuses more on Davidson's personal life - her personal struggles with reconciling her need to be in the United States with her desire to be in Japan. I did not find this as compelling as the first half, but by the time she got to it, I trusted her opinions and thoughts a bit more than I would have if she'd started out focused on herself from the beginning. While this book can't possibly answer every question about the Japanese, and is clearly dated in many ways with Japan's ever-changing youth culture, I still found it immensely intriguing and worthy of lengthy discussion.

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Under the Freedom of Information Act, you can obtain government records, but usually you have to pay for them. But the law limits the fees that can be charged certain types of requesters, including “educational institutions.” On Friday, in Sack v. U.S. Dept. of Defense, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that this means students seeking to use FOIA are eligible for reduced fees as well.
The court rejected the Obama administration’s argument that only teachers, not students, can take advantage of this provision. The statute itself draws no such distinction, but the administration argued that the courts should interpret the statute that way, because it is so interpreted in guidance from the White House Office of Management and Budget. The administration should have recognized the weakness of its position. It is settled law that “courts owe no particular deference to” an agency’s “interpretation of FOIA” limiting fee waivers (See Cause of Action v. FTC (2015), since FOIA applies “government wide” against virtually all agencies, rather than delegating authority to a particular agency to enforce it. (See Al-Fayed v. CIA (2001).) Perhaps it expected courts would give it the blind deference it has been getting from judges in certain other kinds of cases.
When President Obama took office, media organizations foolishly gave Obama transparency awards based on his rhetoric in favor of open government. But Obama soon proved far less transparent than Bush, especially in the Justice Department. In March 2014, the Associated Press reported that “more often than ever, the administration censored government files or outright denied access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.” Things got even worse in 2015. The Wall Street Journal concluded that this is “the least transparent administration.” New York Times editor Jill Abramson admitted that the Obama administration is the most secretive ever. The Huffington Post reported that the “White House denies more FOIA requests than ever” these days.
One of the worst offenders has been the IRS, represented in litigation by Justice Department lawyers. A recent Sixth Circuit ruling described how “the IRS still has not complied with” a court order more than a year earlier that it produce records to conservative non-profits targeted by the IRS, after “findings” that it “used political criteria” to target them, “took four times as long to process” their “applications as other applications” and served them “with crushing demands for what the [IRS] Inspector general called ‘unnecessary information.’” Much of the media responded with a yawn to IRS targeting of conservative and libertarian non-profits, a few of them falsely claiming that it was justified by the statutory language governing 501(c)(4) groups (debunked here). Some liberal journalists also falsely implied that liberal groups were singled out in a similar way (debunked here).
The IRS’s discrimination against non-liberal groups is nothing new, and has occurred under prior presidents (such as FDR, whose son says that he was likely the president who began the practice of using the IRS against a president’s political enemies). President Kennedy’s use of “IRS agents” against his enemies has been celebrated by liberal columnists like the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank. As the Cato Institute’s Gene Healy notes,
In a November 2011 column, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank offered “A Machiavellian model for Obama” in Jack Kennedy’s “kneecapping” and “mob-style threats” against steel-company executives who’d dared to raise prices. . . . Milbank observed that “the price increase was rolled back” only after “subpoenas flew [and] FBI agents marched into steel executives’ offices”: “Sometimes, that’s how it must be. Can Obama understand that?”


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Let's turn now to the very first cells that swam all alone in the primordial soup. Those cells figured out a way to get together, and that led to the explosion of complex plants and animals we see on Earth today. It's a process scientists would like to know more about.
And as NPR's Joe Palca tells us, a new study sheds light on that.
JOE PALCA: This is a story that starts a long time ago.
JOHN KOSCHWANEZ: It's believed life started around four billion years ago, and the first evidence of multicellularity is a little over two billion years ago.
PALCA: John Koschwanez is a researcher at Harvard. He's investigating how those first cells joined together.
KOSCHWANEZ: We can't take a time machine back two billion years ago to find out exactly what happened, but instead we can do a couple things in the lab.
PALCA: One of those things is to see if there any benefit for cells that are normally loners to gather their pals and form a clump. Koschwanez tried this with yeast. A single yeast cell has a problem. It can get energy from sugar, but it spills lot, so it doesn't make the most efficient use of the sugar around it. But if the yeast clump together into a group, instead of spilling the sugar on the floor, as it were, they're all spilling it on their neighbors.
KOSCHWANEZ: So in essence all the cells within the clump of cells are feeding each other.
PALCA: So Koschwanez tried growing loners and clumpers in conditions where sugar was scarce.
KOSCHWANEZ: And we compared the single cells against a group of cells.
PALCA: Sure enough, as Koschwanez reports in the journal Plos Biology, the clumpers beat the loners hands-down. So if in the course of evolutionary time a group of yeast cells did happen to clump together, they would probably stick around and thrive.
Rick Grosberg is a biologist at the University of California Davis. He says the new study shows you don't need some unique and strange event two billion years ago to encourage cells to form into groups.
RICK GROSBERG: The conditions that really promote group formation in organisms as simple as yeast are very simple conditions. There's nothing complicated or surprising or special about them. They must have been very general conditions.
PALCA: Now there is multicellularity, and then there is multicellularity. Nicole King is at the University of California, Berkeley.
NICOLE KING: There are simple forms of multicellularity, in which cells typically are living on their own but they can come together under certain environmental conditions.
PALCA: But King thinks more interesting is the kind where different cells take on different tasks within a single organism. In the case of humans, that would mean heart cells or brain cells or something specialized like that.
KING: That's the kind of multicellularity that most of us think about, and know and love.
PALCA: And how that happened is really complicated. In her work, King studies tiny single-celled organisms called choanoflagellates. These are organisms that have already begun to develop special bits, like a kind of tail for swimming around on a collar of tentacles to grab bacteria for dinner.
KING: All of them are single-celled, but the exciting thing is that some of them can form little multi-celled colonies as well.
PALCA: Inside the colonies, individual cells can start to take on these specialized functions, like swimming or digesting. King doesn't know precisely how that happens, but she does know one thing. If you compare the genomes of these tiny single-celled creatures with the genomes of some of the first true animals, they look remarkably similar.
KING: So we in fact think that a cell that looked like a choanoflagellate was probably the ancestor of animals.
PALCA: In other words, we all have some pretty humble origins.
Joe Palca, NPR News, Washington.
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Of course I am repeating what has already been shown and explained during the last 5 years and before when the reference books about Bohemian glass were published in Germany and in the USA, by the Passau Glass Museum and by Robert and Deborah Truitt in two volumes in 1995 and 1997.
Seems that the knowledge about Czech glass has an ebb and flow as people come and go, through the normal attrition of life. Newcomers are not aware as much with the content and availability of information, that long term collectors have.
With Anton Ruckl and Sons, it is not a problem showing their existence and that they were producers in Czechoslovakia since 1843, but rather the huge change they made with the type of hot furnace glass for decorative purposes, instead of for business or any other market usage. Much needs to be documented, and as with the other post 1920 glass companies, this material is limited but not without merit.
An effort was made before the end of the WWII occupation by the Germans to erase and destroy as much of the available company archives as they could. Instigating an ignorance of their long term glass work and experienced decorative production. My feeling is that this was not totally satisfactory in it's result as they were forced to continue glass fabrication but on a much simpler scale of large utilitarian glass vessels, and eventually, resumed their cut glass crystal exports under the Borske Sklo label at the Nizbor plant. I wonder if today they regret what they felt they had to do to help them survive the unknown.
I think some of us would be highly gratified if they had kept and hidden some of their decor patterns, shapes and number of pieces.
We do have several paper documents which gives us a glimpse of the large and varied type of glass they designed and exported. Some are easy enough to find again on the resale market, as they were unique, the other pieces, are what other collectors have been forced to do, assemble a large enough glass collection, to sort what has the best glass profile to have been produced by the same firm.
In 2015, with the needed permission of several sources, I published a website called rucklczglass(.)com, to share the progress and the discoveries I made about Ruckl and other Czech glass such as Kralik.
My method was a personal one, especially when you start such a project with little support and help, as I prefer to work without a group's consensus behind me. This way, the inevitable changes were made, the site increased it's content, I would say with the same degree of accuracy as other sites have for this Czech glass period, 50 to 100%. Be it date, maker, mark and style.
Image one is one of the Ruckl glass groupings exhibits in Novy Bor in 2012, These pieces belonged to the Ruckl family, and were usually on display in their reception office area. They represent the decor 'shimmy pfau' in a satin finish and a mix of Tango color spatters.
Image two is a catalog page of shapes and decors, the first 2 lines are smaller perfume bottles dating about 1928.
Image three is a catalog page of small electric boudoir lamps, with two sizes displayed. The decors cover the wide range of hot furnace glass production and the hand painted enameled compositions dating about 1928.
Image four is a large wall poster published by the Novy Bor Museum for the Tango Sklo Exhibits, it contains much of what is available as documentation to this day, about A. Ruckl and Sons, during the Czech era 1920-40. I tried to get my own copy of this poster, especially for the top part that shows a variety of vases, lidded boxes and jars, pieces that were never shown before or after.
My next posts will show series of Ruckl glass pieces which are attributed using the information provided by these important documents.


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Internationally bestselling author Emma Donoghue's first children's book follows the domestic adventures of a large, rumbustious, multicultural family. The Lotterys, as they call themselves, are headed up by a lesbian couple and a gay couple who joined forces to create a family, won a lottery jackpot and moved into a Victorian Gothic mansion in Toronto, where their enormous brood is home-schooled. It all seems perfectly normal to nine-year-old Sumac until their hitherto obscure grandfather Grumps comes to stay, upending the Lotterys’ already chaotic family life.


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We are half-way through our Farmer’s Market season, which runs May through September. At the beginning of the summer, I decided to purchase unfamiliar-to-us foods each week to help add some variety to our diet and maybe even give me some motivation to cook.
While the novelty of cooking unfamiliar foods has eventually worn out, I’m excited that we have continued to try new-to-us foods when we come across something like perrins (pictured above), which we found last week. Other foods that aren’t a regular part of our diet are well on their way to becoming so because I’ve tried to include them more regularly.
Trying to regularly incorporate new foods is taking some getting used to. I’m far less likely to cook foods that I don’t like, and it’s even tougher for me to try to model eating foods that none of us are used to.
The Farmer’s Market has become far more than a place to buy some local produce. This street affair has transformed into a venue for discovery. This started with food, but soon I was noticing all the other things the girls were taking in and learning about our community.
Discoveries Made at the Farmer’s Market
1. We like most of, if not all, the foods we try. Greysen and Moon will taste anything from the market. We sample foods from other cultures like falafel and samosas, as well as fruits and vegetables that aren’t a regular part of our diet, such as beets, kale, cauliflower (I’m not a fan), and chard.
2. The Farmer’s Market is downtown and amid offices, the library, and the courthouse. We walk around town occasionally otherwise, but not as regularly as during our weekly trips to the market. Greysen is connecting this weekly event to the broader context of our town.
3. Our town – our community – consists of people big and small.
4. The Farmer’s Market is a place to connect with our friends and enjoy the spirit of summer.
5. Discovery can happen, even within a familiar routine. I enjoy creating play provocations for the girls and taking them to new places, in part because of the sense of wonder that happens when they encounter something new for the first time. The Farmer’s Market is helping me appreciate the more subtle discoveries that happen in the everyday things we do, the places we go, and the people we see.

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Journalist Dinesh Giri, 30 of Belbari Municipality-1, working at Khabar.com has been attacked with a sharp weapon on the night of June 2.
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Defying political odds and mathematical calculations, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) is back in action with a new budget--one that seeks to balance the budget in a mere ten years.
In case you need a refresher, Ryan’s last plan sought to balance the budget over 30 years by taking an axe to the federal budget and converting Medicare into a “premium support” voucher program that would shift increasing costs to seniors.
The plan sought to balance the budget on the backs of the poor, with 62% of its cuts coming from low-income programs like Medicaid, food stamps, and Pell Grants.
So, what’s the difference between the last budget and the new incarnation? That’s where things get a little hazy. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy says the new budget is “not going to be that much different, except for the fact that it will balance in 10 years.” But economists say that balancing the budget in ten years would be nearly impossible without imposing even greater spending cuts to Medicare, Social Security, or the Defense budget.
And even though Ryan’s budgets have so little chance of becoming the law, House Republicans have already passed them twice. Will they go for a third time?
On Wednesday’s NOW with Alex Wagner, Alex and the panel evaluated Ryan’s plan and took it to task.

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MacIvor Thompson on Woloch, 'A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s'
Nancy Woloch. A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s. Politics and Society in Modern America Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. vii + 337 pp. $39.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-00259-0; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-691-17616-1.
Reviewed by Lauren MacIvor Thompson (Kennesaw State University) Published on H-SHGAPE (March, 2017) Commissioned by Jay W. Driskell
One of feminism’s greatest challenges has been the problem of navigating arguments of equality and equivalence. Are women exactly equal to men, and therefore deserve no special protections? Or does women’s status in society merit particular legislation designed to compensate? As Nancy Woloch phrases it in her introduction to A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s: “Does classification by sex invariably stigmatize those so classified and increase disadvantage? Alternatively, does gender-neutral law run the risk of denying difference, increasing inequality, and requiring conformity to standards set by men?” (p. 3).
While the battle over reproductive rights has brought these issues to the fore for much of the general public in recent decades, the dichotomy, as Woloch argues, has also rested at the heart of protective labor legislation for over a century. She tracks how the advent of protective labor laws beginning in the Progressive Era served as both the “entering wedge” for developing modern labor standards for all employees and the bellwether for the larger legal status of women (p. 1). The book’s eight chapters explain a century of the narrative history of protective labor laws, beginning with the origin of the Progressive rationales for protective laws, and ending with cogent analysis of the modern clashes over pregnancy and maternity leave law, overtime, and Title VII. By focusing on key cases to illustrate her broader points, Woloch deftly guides the reader through the morass of twentieth-century labor legislation.
In the first chapter, we are introduced to the key champion of protective labor legislation, reformer Florence Kelley. Founded in 1989 under Kelley’s direction as general secretary, the National Consumers’ League (NCL) became the organization that most definitively shaped protective laws for the first half of the twentieth century. Through a network of local chapters, the NCL’s singular focus on challenging “unregulated capitalism” (their motto was “Investigate, agitate, legislate”) proved incredibly successful in convincing state legislatures to pass laws governing maximum hours for both children and women workers, their wages, and the safety conditions of their workplaces (p. 11). Here, Woloch deftly exposes the arguments for feminine difference that rested at the heart of these state campaigns. Women’s physical weakness and potential for pregnancy and motherhood necessitated special legislation; their bodily vulnerability exceeded that of men.
This advocacy served a dual purpose. By playing on sympathies for women and children, the NCL and other labor organizations hoped to set legal precedents that would ultimately come to protect all workers—the “entering wedge” strategy. Yet as Woloch observes, “The ‘entering wedge’ strategy and the ‘sexual difference’ rationale clashed.... ‘Entering wedge’ drew on women workers’ commonality with male workers; ‘difference’ in contrast, referred to special needs. If protective laws compensated for gender-linked disabilities or disadvantages, circumstantial or innate, as reformers argued, their extension to men (logically) was unnecessary if not counterproductive” (p. 21). Woloch argues that the sexual difference argument seemed “an opportunity not a liability” at first (p. 22). It was only later in the twentieth century that a majority of feminists would point out that protective laws had a detrimental effect on sex equality.
Courts became an uncertain battleground for testing the limits of the new protective laws, and Woloch presents valuable analyses of key cases, including Ritchie v. People (1895), Lochner v. New York (1905), and Muller v. Oregon (1908), in her succeeding chapters. She notes the mutability of the decisions, explaining that “contests were close; many courts were divided; and as the pendulum swung back and forth, each case reshaped the ground rules for future cases.” As freedom of contract was pitted against questions of sex discrimination, above all, “the legal system imposed a discussion of gender” (p. 53).
Chapter 3, whose title “A Class by Herself” echoes the language of the opinion, centers the Muller decision as one that represented the apogee of contemporary thinking on working women. The case dealt with Curt Muller, the owner of a Portland laundry who challenged state laws barring women and children from working more than ten hours a day. Both the brief presented by the state defense lawyer Louis Brandeis and the Supreme Court opinion emphasized women’s “special physical organization,” her “child-bearing and maternal functions,” and the “need to prevent laxity of moral fibre which follows physical debility” as justification for upholding the state law (p. 75). The court held that women’s sexual differences and the role of motherhood mandated state intervention and protective legislation.
Woloch notes that for many Americans, the Muller decision seemed “benevolent, humanitarian, and public spirited” (p. 76), even as some feminists castigated the outcome for its forced paternalism. Chapter 5 examines just how fractious these debates became, as feminist organizations like the National Woman’s Party clashed with Kelley and the NCL over the social cost of protective labor legislation for women. As Woloch describes, “Each faction had justifiable suspicion—that classification by sex could impose injury or that blanket equality could have unequal ramifications” (p. 133).
The ramifications of the Great Depression and the Second World War would further transform the struggle between labor and gender. Woloch shows how the New Deal represented one of the most concrete achievements of the “entering wedge” strategy. With the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and many states’ approval of minimum wage laws for both men and women, the original goal of improving workers’ rights in general seemed well on its way. By the beginning of the 1960s, the case for single-sex protective laws disappeared as the passage of broader federal legislation established the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s Title VII section that barred discrimination in employment on the basis of sex as well as race and created the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC).
Given these circumstances, Woloch argues, “Single-sex protective laws were thus the first casualties of the new feminism. Once central to the women’s movement, they became obstacles on the path to equal rights” (p. 192). She notes that it was not the EEOC that struck down protective legislation, but women who sued in court under Title VII. By the 1970s, most states had repealed or curtailed their maximum hours laws, and other state courts had ruled that protective legislation was superseded by Title VII. With these changes, “the fabric of single-sex protective laws that had recently blanketed the states had been shredded” (p. 219). Moreover, feminist agitation for the Equal Rights Amendment continued the process of nullifying decades of single-sex protective labor legislation, even as the “entering wedge” strategy continued to have important ramifications. The rights of workers—both male and female—expanded as the FSLA began to cover nearly 90 percent of employees nationally (p. 230). Additionally, the establishment of a new federal agency—the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)—finally added federal oversight to general workplace regulations.
She concludes her study with a review of the legal status of pregnant workers, the emergence of family leave legislation, and the ramification of proposed fetal protection policies. Using the Supreme Court’s ruling in UAW v. Johnson Controls (1991), Woloch asserts that single-sex protective legislation was dealt a definitive blow. The automobile battery manufacturer in 1982 had established an exclusionary policy for “fertile” women on its assembly line, since its product used lead, a toxic substance. The company required that women wishing to work in the assembly line provide a certificate of sterilization from their physician. The United Auto Workers union sued on behalf of six women and one man in 1984, charging sex discrimination and violation of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. Citing Muller v. Oregon, the court ultimately held Johnson Controls’ policy violated Title VII, with Justice Harry A. Blackmun writing, “Fertile men, but not fertile women, are given a choice as to whether they wish to risk their reproductive health for a particular job.... Concern for a women’s existing or potential offspring historically has been the excuse for denying women equal employment opportunities.... It is no more appropriate for the court than it is for individual employers to decide whether a woman’s reproductive role is more important to herself and her family than her economic role” (pp. 255-256). Woloch smartly notes that the Johnson Controls decision was “more a last step in the history of protective laws than a first step toward health rights in the workplace” for all workers (p. 258).
A Class by Herself is a valuable synthesis for understanding the complexities wrought by the intersections of gender, law, labor, and medicine. Today’s labor legislation continues to bear the “double imprint” of both rights for all workers and “a tradition of gendered law that abridge[s] citizenship [and] impede[s] equality” (p. 262). We need look no further than the recent decision of the court on Whole Women’s Health vs. Hellerstedt (2016), overturning a Texas law that attempted to regulate abortion clinics’ policies and dramatically reduce procedures in the name of protecting women’s health. The respondents’ brief argued that “abortion complications present ... a real concern. Abortion can entail hemorrhage, infection, uterine perforation, anesthesia complications, incomplete abortion, and embolism, some of which can lead to hysterectomy or death” in its defense of maintaining the ambulatory surgery and admitting physician requirements for abortion providers’ offices. The court maintained, however, that these kinds of laws “vastly increase the obstacles confronting women seeking abortions in Texas, without providing any benefit to women’s health capable of withstanding any meaningful scrutiny.” Inherent in this language of the opinion is the long history of protective labor legislation described in the book.
As we face the next generation of challenges to women’s rights—both within labor and reproduction (and in their intersections)—Woloch’s work is essential reading. Moreover, the book’s concise summaries invite further scholarship from legal historians, as well as historians of medicine, science, and gender, to unpack the still-unknown details behind so many of the court decisions, legislative efforts, workers’ experiences, and reform advocacy. We, as historians, can ask for no better gift than the brilliant departure point that Woloch has given us.
. Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, 136 S. Ct. 2292 (2016), https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/15-274_p8k0.pdf.
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Citation: Lauren MacIvor Thompson. Review of Woloch, Nancy, A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s. H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews. March, 2017. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=48240This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.


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‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Has Officially Been Renewed for Season 2!
In what was perhaps the least shocking announcement of Disney’s earnings call today, CEO Bob Iger announced that Percy Jackson and the Olympians has been renewed for a second season on Disney+.
As part of the announcement, Iger revealed that the series, which was produced by Disney Branded Television and 20th Television, had been streamed for over 111 million hours across Disney+ and Hulu.
Divided by the season’s runtime, that number translates to roughly 20.6 million total views.
In addition to being a hit with fans, the series was also a critical darling. It currently holds 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
A Huge Success For Disney+
The success of Percy Jackson gives Disney its first real non-Star Wars or Marvel streaming hit.
Adapted from the Rick Riordan book series, Percy Jackson was seen as an important series in Disney’s overall streaming strategy.
The goal, according to 20th Telvision’s Karey Burke, was to “have the show live alongside the worlds created by our sister studios at Lucasfilm and Marvel. We really wanted to spare no expense to make sure that this series felt as big and imaginative.”
The New Season Will Follow Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
Season 1 of Percy Jackson roughly followed the plot of the first book in the series, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.
It was expected that the second season would then follow the second book, Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters. Following today’s announcement, Riordan confirmed that Season 2 will follow the book.
“I can’t wait to bring the next season of #PercyJackson to Disney+! Raise anchors. Hoist the mainsail. All hands on deck, demigods. We’re heading for the Sea of Monsters!” he wrote.
Prior to today’s announcement, Riordan had revealed that the Percy Jackson team had already been laying out a potential plot for the show’s second season.

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WASHINGTON -- Democrats face a crucial question as an Iraq war-spending bill begins moving through the House: Can Congress continue to fault U.S. policy from a distance, or must lawmakers take hold of it and risk owning the outcome?
The new Democratic majority has followed the politically safer course of nonbinding resolutions and a Senate proposal to revisit the 2002 war authorization. But with action needed on a $93.4 billion Iraq-spending request, harping from the sidelines may no longer be enough to satisfy independent voters who looked to Democrats in the 2006 elections to effect real change.
The package includes $5.6 billion to help sustain a planned increase of at least 21,500 U.S. troops in Iraq, a commitment many in Congress opposed. About $14 billion would help replenish worn equipment, and, recognizing the strain on troops cycled in and out of Iraq, the Pentagon wants $3.6 billion to create two Army combat brigades and three Marine battalions to ease the load. "The rapid cycle is not sustainable," budget officials say.
In the wake of their election losses in November, Republicans have their own divisions over the president's policy. But Democrats face greater pressure, and the debate exposes internal politics and warring personalities, especially in the House.
After proposing restrictions on the funds, the bill's manager, Rep. John Murtha (D., Pa.), has been pummeled by Republicans and fellow Democrats eager to bring him down a peg or two. His friendship with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and past rivalry with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) adds spice to the story. And fearing the entire bill could collapse, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D., Wis.) has sanctioned the drafting of waivers to the Murtha-backed provisions that would restore more flexibility to the administration.
"They want to end the war, but they want to fund the war," said Mr. Murtha, frustrated by his party's reluctance to exert its power over spending.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the Democratic caucus chairman, is cautious about crossing this line and argues any conditions on funding should focus on the Iraq government, not U.S. forces. "Congress has the job of oversight and holding the administration accountable, but the war is owned and managed from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," the Illinois Democrat said.
"Congress will fund our troops...as long as they're in harms way," said Ms. Pelosi yesterday. She has asked Mr. Murtha to speak to the full caucus this evening, and the 74-year-old lawmaker symbolizes how much the politics of the antiwar debate has changed since the Vietnam War, in which he fought in the 1960s.
Vietnam was a bigger, bloodier war than Iraq, but the burden was spread among many more, including draftees who served typically one-year tours. Iraq is the first prolonged test of the all-volunteer military, with a much smaller universe of soldiers and Marines bearing the burden and serving multiple tours.
That has fundamentally changed the debate, ushering in the likes of Mr. Murtha, a longtime Pentagon supporter who has come to fear that Mr. Bush's policy is wreaking havoc with the military. He said he believes the war is sacrificing not just troops but the military's long-term readiness. More than a year ago, he leapt the chasm between criticizing the war and offering a plan for early withdrawal.
Mr. Murtha predicts a full-fledged Iraq-spending debate won't come until Congress deals with the 2008 Pentagon budget this summer. And the timing of the supplemental spending bill now is a problem, both for the military and lawmakers.
Hoping to quell sectarian violence, the administration will focus the new troops on a set of mixed Shiite and Sunni neighborhoods accounting for about a third of Baghdad's population. But the Army is so short of combat-ready units, it will take until May to complete the "surge" of five brigades.
This makes it dicey for lawmakers to intercede in the midst of deployments; on the other hand, the continued shortage of personnel will make it harder for the administration to maintain the higher levels after May. The White House has been vague about how it will do this. The president asked for money only through Sept. 30, after which none is requested in his 2008 budget, even though military planners assume more time is required for the added troops to be effective.
Mr. Murtha recommends providing ample money for the military, but attaching restrictions that effectively create a cap allowing deployment of three or four brigades, not five. The bill would go beyond the president's request by adding money to build up strategic reserve units at home and require Marine and Army chiefs to certify in advance that any unit deployed be "fully mission capable" with personnel and equipment.
Most controversial, he would add provisions to make it harder for the administration to stretch personnel either by extending combat tours for units already in Iraq or sending them back faster to the war zone. The ban on extending tours would immediately affect the Army's plan to have 20 brigades in Iraq by May, and the problem would recur in June and July.
Republicans and the White House have attacked the limitations as a "slow-bleed" strategy that will endanger units in Iraq. "It's not me that bleeds the troops," Mr. Murtha said. "It's the president who is bleeding the military by overdeploying them."
He remains opposed to allowing the administration to waive the requirement, but appears resigned to see amendments that would weaken the bill added in the Appropriations Committee next week by fellow Democrats. "They can always offer amendments," he said.
Write to David Rogers at firstname.lastname@example.orgPrinted in The Wall Street Journal, page A8


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FAA students prep for national competition
LAKE GENEVA — Members of the Badger High School FFA Chapter have been selected to compete in an FFA career development event in October at the 86th National FFA Convention & Expo.
Badger FFA members will travel to Louisville, Ky., to vie for national honors in the area of veterinary science. Students Chandler Carlson, Miranda Hall, Rebecca Kamps and Taylor Kundert will compete in the event.
Veterinary science is one of 25 national career development events. Participants will be tested in a written exam as well as in breed, equipment and parasite identification. Members also must demonstrate hands-on skills in clinical and handling/restraining practices.
Candice Olson and Larry Plapp serve as advisers for the Badger FFA chapter.


text: While it’s easy to call true tears a great series now that it’s complete (and I do think that it is), it wasn’t always that way, especially in the beginning. If not for the third episode completely changing my mind about it, I almost dropped this show because nothing in the story really stood out to me in the first two episodes. But from that third episode on, the writers did a masterful job of weaving in the plot twists at key moments - mostly at the end of episodes to guarantee that we’d eagerly anticipate the following week. And as a friend pointed out to me, true tears proves that it’s possible to do a romance series with multiple girls without the need for supernatural occurrences or murderous intent. On the other hand, the one thing I have been impressed about from the very beginning though is how consistently good the animation quality has been and how incredible the soundtrack is. I’ve had the soundtrack on my playlist for the past month (unheard of for me), and it’s going to be hard for another series to top it by the time I consider the bests of the year. In any case, this production quality combines with the great writing to make a series that has been a joy to watch, and true tears ends up as probably my favorite of the shows that aired this past winter season.


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North Hopkins students will return to classes on Monday. Elementary students are invited to meet the teacher and bring supplies this Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m.
Tira volunteer firefighters have been fighting grass fires during the past couple of weeks. I'm sure the hot and dry weather is not helping the situation.
I'm sorry to report that there is no Tira News this week. Everyone must be staying home under the A/C. I hope to have a lot next week.
Courtney Loper and P.K. Harlin are playing on the Hopkins County Debs Dixie Softball Team. The team went to Coldspring, Texas, on the 16th to play in the state tournament. Annette Loper
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Before writing about Shin Megami Tensei 4: Apocalypse, I tried to go refresh myself on what I wrote about Shin Megami Tensei 4. Turns out, I didn’t write anything. Or if I did, I somehow failed to post it. (I really should check my old laptop to see if I have any unposted stuff still on there). What I remember of that game, which I played more than five years ago, was that it was very ambitious and engrossing but had some balance issues and a chore of an ending. My thoughts are more vague than specific. Shin Megami Tensei 4: Apocalypse is something of sequel/expansion to that game, and while it fits inelegantly with the previous game storywise, it irons out some of the gameplay flaws.
As far as the battle system goes, Apocalypse continues to refine and perfect the press turn system that was first used in Nocturne and refined through the Digital Devil Saga games through SMT4, with similar systems also found in plenty of the spin-offs. It is a good system. Hitting a enemies weak point gives the player’s party another turn. Unfortunately, the enemies can do the same. So it is a game all about finding and exploiting weaknesses. It also has the Smirk mechanic from 4, where occasionally critical hits or hitting weaknesses powers up the next hit, guaranteeing a critical hit or giving certain attacks new properties. It makes for a battle system that is prone to big swings in momentum, where good play can almost make it impossible for enemies to git hits in, but a bad matchup for the hero might result in a quick, helpless game over. However, the game allows the player to retry after a loss and is generally pretty friendly in ways that this series almost never is. It is hard to describe just how good this game feels.
One mechanic that never works as well as this series wants it to is demon conversations. To recruit new demons, you have to talk to them in during battles. In order to keep the conversations from being repetitive, the game somewhat randomizes the monsters’ responses. There is no good way for this system to work. If all the same kinds of monsters respond the same way each time, the system is pointless and easily exploitable. If they don’t respond the same way, the whole thing is arbitrary. I know that demon conversations are a favorite of some players; I think they are a great idea that hasn’t worked yet. Luckily, Apocalypse smooths things out by giving the player experience from the conversations, meaning that the attempt no longer wastes opportunity to level up. I don’t recall if this was how it was in SMT4, but I know it wasn’t in Strange Journey.
Also, demon fusion is still great. It might even be too easy and intuitive now, but that isn’t a real complaint. It is always fun.
Where the game kind of falters is in the story. Apocalypse is very ‘anime,’ in a way that is incongruous with SMT4, which as already pretty anime. While the battle party consists of demons, the adventuring party is filled with teens and pre-teens. Including a pre-teen girl that spends half the game calling the protagonist master. It is uncomfortable. It isn’t that they are bad characters necessarily, but at no point did I find them really engaging. I wanted to see more of the world, but I didn’t care at all about the characters or their struggles.
There is also a simplifying of themes. People with a better grasp of Japanese politics that I noted some uncomfortable undertones to the previous game. This game replaces the philosophical tragedy of the previous games with childish nonsense. It comes down to the power of friendship. SMT4 was already a step back for the series along those lines, this game feels like a leap further down the road. It wouldn’t be that big a deal, except for this game’s plot is shoved into the back third of the original SMT4. So the new characters and stuff need to mix with the previous stuff and they really don’t.
The more Shin Megami Tensei games I play, the less special they feel. This is the first time that one of them felt so pedestrian. I liked the game. I played it for nearly fifty hours, I enjoyed the vast majority of my time with the game. But it really didn’t feel special. Maybe that is because it is so similar to SMT4. I don’t know. Shin Megami Tensei 4 Apocalypse is a very well made jrpg, but while I appreciate it on a mechanical level, it didn’t really engage me.