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garry stewart: dance evolution in the age of robotics

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Louis-Philippe Demers, Garry Stewart Louis-Philippe Demers, Garry Stewart
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Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) will premiere a new work, Devolution, at the 2006 Adelaide Festival. For his seventh full-length work for the company and following his collaboration with acclaimed photographer Lois Greenfield on Held (RT59,p30), Artistic Director Garry Stewart is working with Canadian lighting and machine designer Louis-Philippe Demers and UK filmmaker Gina Czarnecki. Demers has worked with artists as diverse as Robert Lepage, Stelarc and Cirque du Soleil and has undertaken residencies with ZKM and EMAF in Germany and VIA, EXIT and Lille2004 in France. Czarnecki has been creating screen work that challenges the parameters of representing the human form since 1998, her most recent film being the award-winning Nascent in collaboration with Stewart and ADT.

Devolution places dancers and robots together onstage and will realise another chapter in Stewart’s pursuit of extreme parameters for choreographic invention.

You have gathered an impressive group of collaborators together for Devolution and have developed a real skill for this during your time at ADT. How did you meet your key collaborator on this project, robotics artist Louis-Philippe Demers?

I met Louis-Philippe through Julieanne Pearce who was the Director of ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) at the time. I had asked her if she could recommend any artists working in new media that she thought I might be interested in, so she forwarded me some videos of his work along with the work of some other international artists. Louis-Philippe’s work immediately grabbed me. That was about 3 years ago. I contacted him via email around that time and suggested that we might look at the idea of working together. It wasn’t until around 18 months later that I contacted him again with a serious proposal. I didn’t want to rush into working with him but wanted to wait until I had gestated exactly the right idea to put forward to him.

What is it about dance—and your dance in particular—that attracted Demers to this work?

I know Louis-Philippe is very interested in dance and very aware of the work of the major choreographers, but I don’t think I can adequately answer this question for him. This is the first time he has collaborated with a dance company in his capacity as a roboticist. Over the past year or so we have met up a number of times overseas while ADT has been on tour. He saw the company perform Held in Monaco, Birdbrain in London and The Age of Unbeauty in Belgium. I remember he was particularly taken with ...Unbeauty. I think the expressionistic darkness of the work appealed to his sensibilities. Louis-Philippe is also a lighting and set designer and was teaching design at the Hoschule attached to ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is doing the lighting design for Devolution as well.

The question of the ‘anthropomorphic potential of robotic machines’ is at least as old as science fiction—what does dance bring to this theme in Devolution?

I don’t think that this is the only thing that we are exploring in Devolution, however anthropomorphism is an obvious parameter in working with robotics, particularly when robots are operating in communion with humans. It’s unavoidable really. In Devolution we are acknowledging the robots as machines and in doing so we are also exploring the mechanical, machine-like function of the human body. This, as well as the zoomorphic potential of bodies. By distorting the body away from an upright pedestrian orientation and challenging the Cartesian view of the body, I’ve been trying to posit humans as animals, which of course we are.

There is also something very creature-like about Louis-Philippe’s previous robotic work, so it really provided the cue for me to head in this direction. I’ve been working with the dancers on exploring choreographic relationships that respond to ecosystem processes: territoriality, parasitism, predation, symbiosis, senescence, birth, death and growth, which has included a series of discussions with a local biologist, Steve Griffiths.

As performing entities, the robots are given equal status to the human bodies in the work, albeit with some major operational differences. I haven’t tried to conceptually separate robots and humans as different ‘species’ but have been interested in the collision and confluence of the two. Let’s see what happens when we collide these operating systems—that sort of thing. It’s as much an experiment in morphology and function as anything else.

I’ve also been working with dramaturg Anne Thompson and she has drawn my attention to the writings of Paul Virilio on speed and technology. Given the insistence of velocity in my work this has been interesting in terms of understanding this element in choreography.

You have an interest in technology and the body which extends to training technologies for your dancers and their super-human quality in performance. Where does this come from? And was robotic prosthetics a logical next step?

The interest in technology is, in part, a by-product of my need to reappraise my choreography on an ongoing basis. I suppose it’s not really about the ‘technology’ per se which seems to have become common parlance in the arts for anything new and innovative. It could be macramé really. The collision of my working method with that of another artist forces me to renegotiate the assumptions upon which I habitually operate. I’m not someone who can do the same thing year in year out, so it’s important for me to regularly veer onto the edge of something mysterious and slightly unknown. As an artist I’m quite self-critical and I never feel that I’ve fully ‘arrived’ anywhere. However, I think this is a necessary state for me.

Also, collaborations offer the opportunity to work with some really fantastic people. I’ve been really very lucky with both Lois Greenfield and Louis-Philippe and have learnt so much from both of them, each in very different ways. For Devolution I am also working with Gina Czarnecki. Already, Gina’s work for Devolution is extraordinary. It continues along the same trajectory as the film we did together last year, Nascent.

Czarnecki's work provides the key to the representation of the biological body. In a powerful oscillation between micro and macro worlds, she painstakingly treats the raw footage of dancers frame by frame in post-production so that it begins to resemble a DNA strand, or the spinal column or cell division, yet at the same time reads as bodies. Her work takes months to achieve and is as detailed as fine tapestry.

In regard to working with prosthetics, I’m not sure if it was a ‘logical’ step for me but—and I’ll be a bit Jungian here—I think there was some fundamental necessity for my work to move into this new arena at this point, and the project synchronistically provided the appropriate means. For me, Held was the most extreme example in a cycle of works that I had made for ADT up to that point. They were primarily occupied with manufacturing a vocabulary constituted from the assemblage of a number of extreme physical forms. Devolution eschews this to a large degree, and although there is a pursuit of the ‘extreme’ it is not simply through ‘heroic’, aerial virtuosity. If anything, the prosthetics have forced my work to remain planted on the ground. The forceful dynamism that characterizes my previous work is still there, but delivered through an energetic body that is often rooted to the spot.

Australian Dance Theatre, Devolution, concept & direction Garry Stewart, choreography Garry Stewart & ADT dancers, robots & lighting design Louis-Philippe Demers, video Gina Czarnecki, costume design Georg Meyer-Wiel, composer Darrin Verhagen; Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide Festival, March 1-8

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It would be so easy to take her—to pull Shey down to the floor and tear her panties off so he could bury his cock deep inside her, but he knew it would compromise this rare connection between them.
“As a gentleman, I am required to honor the parameters of our scene, no matter how much I wish to do otherwise.”
Shey groaned with unsated desire.
Her desperate cry almost broke his resolve. “Slave, I believe it’s time you felt the bite of my whip.”
The girl suddenly tensed, her burning desire instantly transforming into fearful excitement. “How do I do this? I mean…how…do you want me?”
Brad growled lustfully, “I want you to turn around. Lean against the frame of the door so your ass is displayed for whipping.”
She turned around and nervously felt for the frame with her fingers.
“Pull your thong down to your knees, girl.”
Shey made a charming sight as she wiggled the garment down, exposing a hint of her red pussy as she bent over to lean against the doorframe. She arched her back, her long, wavy copper hair cascading down it as she gripped the cold metal with white knuckles.
“I could stare at you for hours…”
“Thank you, Master.”
“While I may take pleasure in looking at you, I enjoy the whip far too much to remain idle for long. Keep your legs together and lean further forward. I’m about to pinken that pretty ass of yours.”
She giggled nervously as she followed his instructions.
Brad unfurled the whip and snapped it, grinning when he saw her flinch. “Are you feeling brave, my young slave?”
She held her head up higher and said loudly, “I am, Master.”
“Courageous enough to take the bite of my whip?”
She hesitated for only a second before answering, “I believe so.”
He chuckled. “An honest answer. I appreciate that.”
Brad warmed up his arm and cracked the whip next to her ear, relishing when she cried out in surprise.
“Are you aware the room is completely soundproof? No one will hear you when you scream.” She shuddered where she stood. “Color, slave?”
“Still green, Master.”
“Remember to call out your safeword at any point. There’s no shame in honoring your limit.”
Shey nodded, but he could see she was shaking as she waited for the first stroke.
“You must relax, if you want to feel the brilliance of my instrument.” She stopped shaking for a moment, but her fear took over again, and she began shivering even more.
Brad approached her then, making low noises the way he used to when he calmed horses as a boy. Shey responded the same way a filly would, pausing and then turning slightly to his voice as her body began to visibly relax.
“There is no reason to fear my whip. Tonight I will simply teach you its unique character.”
She nodded, laughing at herself. “I trust you.”
“Good.” He pulled back her hair to expose her delicate ear and whispered, “It’s okay to fear. It is a natural response to something new and potentially harmful. The key is to transform your fear into expectation.”
“Yes…” she agreed, panting as he kissed her on the earlobe, before leaving a trail of light kisses down her neck.
“Remember my intent as you wait for the first stroke.”
“What is your intent, Master?” she asked nervously as he moved away.
“To please you, slave.”

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Averroes (1126–1198), a Muslim philosopher who discussed the omnipotence paradox.[1]

The omnipotence paradox is a family of related paradoxes addressing the question of what is possible for an omnipotent being to do. The paradox states that if the being can perform such actions, then it can limit its own ability to perform actions and hence it cannot perform all actions, yet, on the other hand, if it cannot limit its own actions, then that is something it cannot do.

One version of the omnipotence paradox is the so-called paradox of the stone: "Could an omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that even that being could not lift it?" If so, then it seems that the being could cease to be omnipotent; if not, it seems that the being was not omnipotent to begin with.[2]

A common modern version of the omnipotence paradox is expressed in the question: "Can an omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that it cannot lift it?" This question generates a dilemma. The being can either create a stone which it cannot lift, or it cannot create a stone which it cannot lift. If the being can create a stone that it cannot lift, then it seems that it can cease to be omnipotent. If the being cannot create a stone which it cannot lift, then it seems it is already not omnipotent.

The problem is similar to another classic paradox, the irresistible force paradox: What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? One response to this paradox is that if a force is irresistible, then by definition there is no truly immovable object; conversely, if an immovable object were to exist, then no force could be defined as being truly irresistible. But this way out is not possible in the omnipotence case, because the purpose is to ask if the being's omnipotence makes its own omnipotence impossible.

J.L. Cowan attempts to resolve the paradox in "The Paradox of Omnipotence Revisited." He proposes the following:

  1. Either God can create a stone which he cannot lift, or he cannot create a stone which he cannot lift.
  2. If God can create a stone which he cannot lift, then he is not omnipotent (since he cannot lift the stone in question).
  3. If God cannot create a stone which he cannot lift, then he is not omnipotent (since he cannot create the stone in question).
  4. Therefore God is not omnipotent.

Types of omnipotence

Peter Geach describes and rejects four levels of omnipotence. He also defines and defends a lesser notion of the "almightiness" of God.

  1. Y is absolutely omnipotent means that Y "can do everything absolutely. Everything that can be expressed in a string of words even if it can be shown to be self-contradictory," Y "is not bound in action, as we are in thought by the laws of logic."[3] This position is advanced by Descartes. It has the theological advantage of making God prior to the laws of logic, but the theological disadvantage of making God's promises suspect. On this account, the omnipotence paradox is a genuine paradox, but genuine paradoxes might nonetheless be so.
  2. Y is omnipotent means "Y can do X" is true if and only if X is a logically consistent description of a state of affairs. This position was once advocated by Thomas Aquinas.[4] This definition of omnipotence solves some of the paradoxes associated with omnipotence, but some modern formulations of the paradox still work against this definition. Let X = "to make something that its maker cannot lift". As Mavrodes points out there is nothing logically contradictory about this; a man could, for example, make a boat which he could not lift.[5] It would be strange if humans could accomplish this feat, but an omnipotent being could not. Additionally, this definition has problems when X is morally or physically untenable for a being like God.
  3. Y is omnipotent means "Y can do X" is true if and only if "Y does X" is logically consistent. Here the idea is to exclude actions which would be inconsistent for Y to do but might be consistent for others. Again sometimes it looks as if Aquinas takes this position.[6] Here Mavrodes' worry about X= "to make something its maker cannot lift" will no longer be a problem because "God does X" is not logically consistent. However, this account may still have problems with moral issues like X = "tells a lie" or temporal issues like X = "brings it about that Rome was never founded."[3]
  4. Y is omnipotent means whenever "Y will bring about X" is logically possible, then "Y can bring about X" is true. This sense, also does not allow the paradox of omnipotence to arise, and unlike definition #3 avoids any temporal worries about whether or not an omnipotent being could change the past. However, Geach criticizes even this sense of omnipotence as misunderstanding the nature of God's promises.[3]
  5. Y is almighty means that Y is not just more powerful than any creature; no creature can compete with Y in power, even unsuccessfully.[3] In this account nothing like the omnipotence paradox arises, but perhaps that is because God is not taken to be in any sense omnipotent. On the other hand, Anselm of Canterbury seems to think that almightiness is one of the things that makes God count as omnipotent.[7]

The question, though, is whether these are really all just distinctions without a difference, at least a difference with respect to whether it really makes sense to say that a being is omnipotent, or all-powerful. It may sound good, particularly because it has been said so often, over so many centuries, but could there actually be a power of this sort?

The notion of omnipotence can also be applied to an entity in different ways. An essentially omnipotent being is an entity that is necessarily omnipotent. In contrast, an accidentally omnipotent being is an entity that can be omnipotent for a temporary period of time, and then becomes non-omnipotent. The omnipotence paradox can be applied differently to each type of being.[8]

Some Philosophers, such as René Descartes, argue that God is absolutely omnipotent.[9] In addition, some philosophers have considered the assumption that a being is either omnipotent or non-omnipotent to be a false dilemma, as it neglects the possibility of varying degrees of omnipotence.[10] Some modern approaches to the problem have involved semantic debates over whether language—and therefore philosophy—can meaningfully address the concept of omnipotence itself.[11]

Theist response

One common response points out that this question makes implicit assertions that are inconsistent and self-contradictory. The phrase omnipotent being implicitly states that the phrase "a stone too heavy for him to lift" is meaningless.

Thomas Aquinas asserts that the paradox arises from a misunderstanding of omnipotence. He maintains that inherent contradictions and logical impossibilities does not fall under the omnipotence of God.[12] J. L Cowan sees this paradox as a reason to reject the concept of absolute omnipotence,[13] while others, such as Descartes, argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem.[9]

Asking God to create a stone which he cannot lift requires creating two things—an ability, and also a weakness: The ability to create the stone and the inability or weakness of not being able to lift it. The paradox essentially implies that God would no longer be omnipotent because He has a weakness, when the definition of omnipotence is not having a weakness .

If God can do absolutely anything, then God can remove His own omnipotence. If God can remove His own omnipotence, then God can create an enormous stone, remove His own omnipotence, then not be able to lift the stone. This preserves the belief that God is omnipotent because God can create a stone that He couldn't lift it. Therefore in this theory God would not be omnipotent while not being able to lift the stone.

One can attempt to resolve the paradox by asserting a kind of omnipotence that does not demand that a being must be able to do all things at all times. According to this line of reasoning, the being can create a stone which it cannot lift at the moment of creation. Being omnipotent, however, the being can always alter the stone (or itself) later so that it can lift it. Therefore the being is still, perhaps, in some sense omnipotent.

This is roughly the view espoused by Matthew Harrison Brady, a character in the 1955 play Inherit the Wind loosely based upon William Jennings Bryan. In the climactic scene of the 1960 movie version, Brady argues, "Natural law was born in the mind of the Creator. He can change it — cancel it — use it as he pleases!" But this solution merely pushes the problem back a step; one may ask whether an omnipotent being can create a stone so immutable that the being itself cannot later alter it. But a similar response can be offered to respond to this and any further steps.

In a 1955 article published in the philosophy journal Mind, J. L. Mackie attempted to resolve the paradox by distinguishing between first-order omnipotence (unlimited power to act) and second-order omnipotence (unlimited power to determine what powers to act things shall have).[14] An omnipotent being with both first and second-order omnipotence at a particular time might restrict its own power to act and, henceforth, cease to be omnipotent in either sense. There has been considerable philosophical dispute since Mackie, as to the best way to formulate the paradox of omnipotence in formal logic.[15]

Another common response to the omnipotence paradox is to try to define omnipotence to mean something weaker than absolute omnipotence, such as definition 3 or 4 above. The paradox can be resolved by simply stipulating that omnipotence does not require the being to have abilities which are logically impossible, but only to be able to do anything which conforms to the laws of logic. A good example of a modern defender of this line of reasoning is George Mavrodes.[5] Essentially Mavrodes argues that it is no limitation on a being's omnipotence to say that it cannot make a round square. Such a "task" is inherently nonsense. But not so, making a stone bigger than you can lift.

If a being is accidentally omnipotent, then it can resolve the paradox by creating a stone which it cannot lift and thereby becoming non-omnipotent. Unlike essentially omnipotent entities, it is possible for an accidentally omnipotent being to be non-omnipotent. This raises the question, however, of whether or not the being was ever truly omnipotent, or just capable of great power.[8] On the other hand, the ability to voluntarily give up great power is often thought of as central to the notion of the Christian Incarnation.[16]

If a being is essentially omnipotent, then it can also resolve the paradox (as long as we take omnipotence not to require absolute omnipotence). The omnipotent being is essentially omnipotent, and therefore it is impossible for it to be non-omnipotent. Further, the omnipotent being cannot do what is logically impossible. The creation of a stone which the omnipotent being cannot lift would be an impossibility. The omnipotent being cannot create such a stone, but nevertheless retains its omnipotence. This solution works even with definition 2, as long as we also know the being is essentially omnipotent rather than accidentally so. However, a reduction of ones' own power is possible for non-omnipotent beings, so one would have the paradoxical situation that non-omnipotent beings can do something which an essentially omnipotent being can not accomplish.

This was essentially the position taken by Augustine of Hippo in his The City of God:

For He is called omnipotent on account of His doing what He wills, not on account of His suffering what He wills not; for if that should befall Him, He would by no means be omnipotent. Wherefore, He cannot do some things for the very reason that He is omnipotent.[17]

Thus Augustine argued that God could not do anything or create any situation that would in effect make God not God.

Some philosophers maintain that the paradox can be resolved if the definition of omnipotence includes Descartes' view that an omnipotent being can do the logically impossible. In this scenario, the omnipotent being could create a stone which it cannot lift, but could also then lift the stone anyway. Presumably, such a being could also make the sum 2 + 2 = 5 become mathematically possible or create a square triangle. This attempt to resolve the paradox is problematic in that the definition itself forgoes logical consistency. The paradox may be solved, but at the expense of making the logic a paraconsistent logic. This might not seem like a problem if one is already committed to dialetheism or some other form of logical transcendence.

Others[who?] have argued that (alluding to C.S. Lewis' argument; see scholastic definition of omnipotence), that when talking about omnipotence, referencing "a rock so heavy that God cannot lift it" is nonsense just as much as referencing "a square circle." So asking "Can God create a rock so heavy that even he cannot lift it?" is just as much nonsense as asking "Can God draw a square circle?" Therefore the question (and therefore the perceived paradox) is meaningless.

Language and omnipotence

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is often interpreted as arguing that language is not up to the task of describing the kind of power an omnipotent being would have. In his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus he stays generally within the realm of logical positivism, until claim 6.4, but at 6.41 and following the succeeding propositions argue that ethics and several other issues are "transcendental" subjects which we cannot examine with language. Wittgenstein also mentions the will, life after death, and God; arguing that "When the answer cannot be put into words, neither can the question be put into words".[18]

Wittgenstein's work makes the omnipotence paradox a problem in semantics, the study of how symbols are given meaning. (The retort "That's only semantics" is a way of saying that a statement only concerns the definitions of words, instead of anything important in the physical world.) According to the Tractatus, then, even attempting to formulate the omnipotence paradox is futile, since language cannot refer to the entities the paradox considers. The final proposition of the Tractatus gives Wittgenstein's dictum for these circumstances: "What we cannot speak of, we must pass over in silence."[19] Wittgenstein's approach to these problems is influential among other 20th century religious thinkers such as D. Z. Phillips.[20]

But in his later years, Wittgenstein wrote works which are often interpreted as conflicting with his positions in the Tractatus,[21] and indeed the later Wittgenstein is mainly seen as the leading critic of the early Wittgenstein.

Gödel's incompleteness theorems offers a mathematical response to the omnipotence paradox. The set of things that an omnipotent being can do is defined as 'all actions'. The paradox then attempts to address something outside of the set leading to a situation where the set is attempting to be consistent, complete and self referential at the same time. Gödel's incompleteness theorems states that this is the problem, not the paradox. If the paradox is logically redundant, there is no need to address it.

Other versions of the paradox

In the 6th century, Pseudo-Dionysius claims that a version of the omnipotence paradox constituted the dispute between St. Paul and Elmyas the Magician mentioned in Acts 13:8, but it is phrased in terms of a debate as to whether or not God can "deny himself" ala 2 Tim 2:13.[22] In the 11th century, St. Anselm argues that there are many things that God cannot do, but that nonetheless he counts as Omnipotent.[23]

A triangle on the Euclidean plane with sides, angles and vertices labeled; the sum α + β + γ must equal 180 degrees.

Thomas Aquinas advanced a version of the omnipotence paradox by asking whether God could create a triangle with internal angles that did not add up to 180 degrees. As Aquinas put it in Summa contra Gentiles:

Since the principles of certain sciences, such as logic, geometry and arithmetic are taken only from the formal principles of things, on which the essence of the thing depends, it follows that God could not make things contrary to these principles. For example, that a genus was not predicable of the species, or that lines drawn from the centre to the circumference were not equal, or that a triangle did not have three angles equal to two right angles.[24]

This can be done on a sphere, and not on a flat surface. The later invention of non-Euclidean geometry does not resolve this question; for one might as well ask, "If given the axioms of Riemannian geometry, can an omnipotent being create a triangle whose angles do not add up to more than 180 degrees?" In either case, the real question is whether or not an omnipotent being would have the ability to evade the consequences which follow logically from a system of axioms that the being created.

A version of the paradox can also be seen in non-theological contexts. A similar problem occurs when accessing legislative or parliamentary sovereignty, which holds a specific legal institution to be omnipotent in legal power, and in particular such an institution's ability to regulate itself.[25]

In a sense, the classic statement of the omnipotence paradox — a rock so heavy that its omnipotent creator cannot lift it — is grounded in Aristotelian science. After all, if one considers the stone's position relative to the sun around which the planet orbits, one could hold that the stone is constantly being lifted -- strained though that interpretation would be in the present context. Modern physics indicates that the choice of phrasing about lifting stones should relate to acceleration; however, this does not in itself of course invalidate the fundamental concept of the generalized omnipotence paradox. However, one could easily modify the classic statement as follows: "An omnipotent being creates a universe which follows the laws of Aristotelian physics. Within this universe, can the omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that the being cannot lift it?"

Ethan Allen's Reason addresses the topics of original sin, theodicy and several others in classic Enlightenment fashion.[26] In Chapter 3, section IV, he notes that "omnipotence itself" could not exempt animal life from mortality, since change and death are defining attributes of such life. He argues, "the one cannot be without the other, any more than there could be a compact number of mountains without valleys, or that I could exist and not exist at the same time, or that God should effect any other contradiction in nature." Labeled by his friends a Deist, Allen accepted the notion of a divine being, though throughout Reason he argues that even a divine being must be circumscribed by logic.

In Principles of Philosophy, Descartes tried refuting the existence of atoms with a variation of this argument, claiming God could not create things so indivisible that he could not divide them.

See also

  1. Averroës, Tahafut al-Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence) trans. Simon Van Der Bergh, Luzac & Company 1969, sections 529–536
  2. Savage, C. Wade. "The Paradox of the Stone" Philosophical Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1967), pp. 74–79 doi:10.2307/2182966
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Geach, P. T. "Omnipotence" 1973 in Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 63–75
  4. Aquinas, Thomas Summa Theologica Book 1 Question 25 article 3
  5. 5.0 5.1 Mavrodes, George. "Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence" first published 1963 now in The Power of God: readings on Omnipotence and Evil. Linwood Urban and Douglass Walton eds. Oxford University Press 1978 pp. 131–34
  6. Aquinas Summa Theologica Book 1 Question 25 article 4 response #3
  7. Anselm of Canterbury Proslogion Chap VII in The Power of God: readings on Omnipotence and Evil. Linwood Urban and Douglass Walton eds. Oxford University Press 1978 pp. 35–36
  8. 8.0 8.1 Hoffman, Joshua, Rosenkrantz, Gary. "Omnipotence" The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2002 Edition). Edward N. Zalta (ed.). (Accessed on 19 April 2006)
  9. 9.0 9.1 Descartes, Rene, 1641. Meditations on First Philosophy. Cottingham, J., trans., 1996. Cambridge University Press. Latin original. Alternative English title: Metaphysical Meditations. Includes six Objections and Replies. A second edition published the following year, includes an additional ‘’Objection and Reply’’ and a Letter to Dinet
  10. Haeckel, Ernst. The Riddle of the Universe. Harper and Brothers, 1900.
  11. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (6.41 and following)
  13. Cowan, J. L. "The Paradox of Omnipotence" first published 1962, in The Power of God: readings on Omnipotence and Evil. Linwood Urban and Douglass Walton eds. Oxford University Press 1978 pp. 144–52
  14. Mackie, J. L., "Evil and Omnipotence." Mind LXIV, No, 254 (April 1955).
  15. The Power of God: Readings on Omnipotence and Evil. Linwood Urban and Douglass Walton eds. Oxford University Press 1978. Keene and Mayo disagree p. 145, Savage provides 3 formalizations p. 138–41, Cowan has a different strategy p. 147, and Walton uses a whole separate strategy p. 153–63
  16. Gore, Charles, "A Kenotic Theory of Incarnation" first published 1891, in The Power of God: readings on Omnipotence and Evil. Linwood Urban and Douglass Walton eds. Oxford University Press 1978 pp. 165–68
  17. City of God, Book 5, Chapter 10
  18. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. proposition 6.5
  19. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. proposition 7
  20. D. Z. Phillips "Philosophy, Theology and the Reality of God" in Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings. William Rowe and William Wainwright eds. 3rd ed. 1998 Oxford University Press
  21. Hacker, P.M.S. Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy. 1996 Blackwell
  22. Pseudo-Dionysius, "Divine Names" 893B in Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works. trans Colm Luibheid Paulist Press. 1987. ISBN 0-8091-2838-1
  23. Anselm of Canterbury Proslogion Chap. VII, in The Power of God: readings on Omnipotence and Evil. Linwood Urban and Douglass Walton eds. Oxford University Press 1978 pp. 35–36
  24. "Cum principia quarundam scientiarum, ut logicae, geometriae et arithmeticae, sumantur ex solis principiis formalibus rerum, ex quibus essentia rei dependet, sequitur quod contraria horum principiorum Deus facere non possit: sicut quod genus non sit praedicabile de specie; vel quod lineae ductae a centro ad circumferentiam non sint aequales; aut quod triangulus rectilineus non habeat tres angulos aequales duobus rectis". Aquinas, T. Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 2, Section 25. trans. Edward Buckner
  25. Suber, P. (1990) The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Law, Logic, Omnipotence, and Change. Peter Lang Publishing
  26. Allen, Ethan. Reason: The Only Oracle of Man. J.P. Mendum, Cornill; 1854. Originally published 1784. (Accessed on 19 April 2006)

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Thomas Cooke Middleton (1842–1923) was born into a Quaker family on March 30, 1842 in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. At the age of twelve, he was baptized into the Roman Catholic faith with his mother and five sisters.[1] He became a novice in the Order of St. Augustine in Tolentine, Italy in 1858 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1864.

In 1865, he returned to the United States and served Villanova College as a teacher, prefect of studies, archivist, Secretary and Socius of the Province, and, from 1865 to 1923, the college’s first librarian. He was the tenth president of Villanova College, from 1876 to 1878, as well as first president of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, an organization he helped to found in 1884.

Fr. Middleton wrote many essays on local Catholic history and the Order of Saint Augustine, including his Historical Sketch of the Augustinian Monastery, College, and Mission of St. Thomas of Villanova, Delaware County, PA: During the first half century of their existence, 1842-1892, which was published on the college’s fiftieth anniversary in 1893.[2] Other documents by Father Middleton are viewable in Villanova University’s Digital Library, including an article in the Catholica Collection on Keating Rawson, entitled “An Old-Time Catholic Pioneer of Lansingburgh, N.Y." Correspondence with Maria Daly Shea, who contributed many historical records to the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia,[3] is viewable in the library’s Lloyd Collection.

Fr. Middleton died at Villanova, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1923 at the age of eighty-one. He is buried in the Augustinian Community Cemetery on the grounds of Villanova University. Today, Middleton Hall, on Villanova's campus is named in his honor.

  1. Gallagher, Dennis, O.S.A., and Laura Hutelmyer. “Featuring Villanova University’s librarians from the past.” Compass 2:4, May 2006.
  2. “Thomas Cooke Middleton, O.S.A.” Villanova University Archives.
  3. Griffin, Martin I. J. “Mrs. Maria Daly Shea.” Philadelphia Catholic Standard and Times. April 10, 1911. Newspaper clipping. Lloyd Collection, Villanova University Digital Library

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  1. Preheat oven to 375F.
  2. Mix sugar, eggs, and pumpkin in a bowl.
  3. Sift flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking soda in another bowl. Combine the flour and pumpkin mixtures.
  4. Grease a rimmed baking sheet with oil and line with greased wax paper. Extend paper over sides of baking sheet. Pour batter in rectangular shape on wax paper and sprinkle with pecans. Bake for 15 minutes.
  5. For filling, beat cream cheese, vanilla, margarine, and powdered sugar until smooth and creamy.
  6. Sprinkle a clean dishtowel with powdered sugar; flip cooked batter face down on towel. Remove wax paper. Roll loosely and let set until cooled. Unroll cake. Spread with filling. Roll again (without the dishtowel). Wrap in aluminum foil and freeze. Unwrap and slice while frozen.

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  • Glycemic Load 14
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  • Fat 17g
  • Saturated Fat 6g
  • Polyunsaturated Fat 2.5g
  • Monounsaturated Fat 6g
  • Cholesterol 80mg
  • Sodium 470mg
  • Potassium 130mg
  • Carbohydrate 43g
  • Fiber 2g
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Wesker Project test subject number 12. Recognized as possessing exceptional intelligence and leadership, Alex was tasked with continuing Spencer's research into immortality. After announcing the success of the experiments, Alex disappeared along with the entirety of the research and results.

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07 April 2008

NetBeans6.1+EJB3+Struts [PART 4]

You will have something like this (note that the code is folded)

Now Right click the BookCRUDAction and select Enterprise Resources->Call Enterprise Bean.

Click on MyApp-ejb, select BookFacade and click OK.

The following method will be implemented for you:

private BookFacadeLocal lookupBookFacade()

This way you will be able to access your bean from MyApp-war.

Now, open struts-config.xml from Configuration Files directory and insert these lines:

*(somehow i couldnt post these lines in blogger, dunno why...)*

These lines will tie the methods from the Action to struts-config mappings.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Tutorial Tuesday: Placemat Purse!

So yes, I'm super late posting this.
In fact it probably won't even be Tuesday by the time it is up.
But today has been a working day, I've been getting all of your holiday orders out.
It has been keeping me crazy busy!
But hopefully you will all get your orders in time for Christmas.

OK, onto today's tutorial.
This one is courtesy of Executive Homemaker.
I love this idea because it's quick, easy, and still super cute.

You just have to find the perfect placemat
and in no time at all you have an adorable purse or bag!
The tutorial can be found right here.

Melissa G. said...

Those bags are so cute! I"m really going to have to try that!

I entered a photo contest on Facebook and we're in 2nd place! I really need my blogging friends help to make it to 1st! Only two days left to vote and we can vote once a day.

Can you help us? Use the link to vote for Christmas Cookies submitted by Melissa Gill...

Thank you so so much!

Karin said...

Rosie- I'm so glad Becca featured you because I have LOVED checking out your blog and great links! Your jewelry is just amazing!
I love these purses, too. My S-I-L made me a diaperbag using two placemats (then matching napkins as the insert for extra pockets:). So much to craft, so little time... :)

Split Rock Ranch said...

What a great idea! I see placemats that I love but don't really use them so next time I think I'll snag a beautiful placemat and turn it into a beautiful handbag.

Visiting from SITS today.

Happy Holidays!


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Sunday, 9 May 2010

RHSV Lecture - How I became a local historian

Where: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne
When: Tuesday 11 May
Time: 5.45pm following the RHSV AGM at 5.00pm
Cost: Free - members; $5.50 Non-members

Weston Bate talks about how he came to write local history and his passion for researching the experiences of ordinary people and projects involving and supporting local communities in historical research, discussion and conservation.

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Sorry, But You Can’t Have Guns Because They Frighten Josh Marshall

Over at TPM, Josh Marshall wrote a humiliating, unmanly screed about how guns frighten him. It’s actually kind of pathetic.

I’ve been thinking of writing some version of this post since the days immediately after the Newtown shootings. It overlaps with but is distinct from the division between people who are pro-gun or anti-gun or pro-gun control or anti-gun control. Before you even get to these political positions, you start with a more basic difference of identity and experience: gun people and non-gun people.

So let me introduce myself. I’m a non-gun person. And I think I’m speaking for a lot of people.

…Well, I want to be part of this debate too. I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. And I have my own set of rights not to have gun culture run roughshod over me.

…I’ve never owned a gun. I’ve never shot a gun. (I’m not including the bb guns I shot a few times as a kid.) Once about ten years ago, my friend John Judis and I were talking and decided it would probably be educational for us as reporters and just fun to go to a firing range and do some shooting. For whatever reason it never happened.

…More than this, I come from a culture where guns are not so much feared as alien, as I said. I don’t own one. I don’t think many people I know have one. It would scare me to have one in my home for a lot of reasons. Not least of which because I have two wonderful beyond belief little boys and accidents happen and I know that firearms in the home are most likely to kill their owners or their families. People have accidents. They get depressed. They get angry.

In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and don’t want to be around them.

…That frightens me. I don’t want to have those in my home. I don’t particularly want to be around people who are carrying. Cops, I don’t mind. They’re trained, under an organized system and supposed to use them for a specific purpose. But do I want to have people carrying firearms out and about where I live my life – at the store, the restaurant, at my kid’s playground? No, the whole idea is alien and frankly scary. Because remember, guns are extremely efficient tools for killing people and people get weird and do stupid things.

…But even if it was possible that we could be just as safe with everyone armed as no one armed, I’d still want no one armed. Not at my coffee shop or on the highway or wherever. Because I don’t want to carry a gun. And I don’t want to be around armed people.

…I wrote back at more length. But at this point I was already starting to see red. I don’t pretend that AA is representative. But it captured a mentality that does seem pervasive among many more determined gun rights advocates – basically that us non-gun people need to be held down as it were and made to learn that it’s okay being around people carrying loaded weapons.

Well, I don’t want to learn. That doesn’t work where I live – geographically or metaphorically.

So, to the non-crazy gun owners (who I know make up the vast majority of gun owners), I’ve put out my experience and my take. Now I’m ready to talk.

Sorry, but you’ll need to give up your 2nd Amendment Rights because Josh Marshall wets himself every time he looks at a gun. So, if there are people who are scared of what someone might say, do we have to get rid of the First Amendment? How many of our Constitutional Rights are supposed to go away because they make liberals uncomfortable? Oh, and what a sacrifice it is for Josh Marshall to sa, “Get rid of those guns” when he would probably break into tears if he had to pick one up.

Isn’t it intriguing how often conservatives have to put up with things that offend them. Don’t like gay marriage? Too bad. Sick of liberalism being pushed in schools? Oh, well. Would you like to read a newspaper or watch television without having liberal values forced upon you? You’ve out of luck, buddy. But the moment some liberal is afraid, upset, or offended, the whole world is supposed to stop until he feels better.

Well, not this time because according to the Constitution of the United States, this is a country that will always have “gun people” — and thank God we do.

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Post Election, Obama Admin. Signs On To UN Arms Treaty

(The Hill) The Obama administration defied a majority of the Senate on Tuesday by voting to approve a United Nations treaty on the trade of small arms and other conventional weapons.

The treaty, overwhelmingly approved by the U.N., requires countries to create internal mechanisms to ensure that their arms exports aren’t likely to be used to harm civilians or violate human rights laws.

The treaty stalled last summer after the Obama administration withheld its support ahead of the November elections. Since then, the administration has sought additional language protecting hunting and self-defense rights to help placate gun-rights advocates while pushing hard for the treaty to take effect.

Is anyone particularly surprised that Obama did one thing pre-election and takes a contradictory stance post-election?

Anyway, the treaty would require a 2/3rds vote to pass the Senate, and there is now possible way that 66 Senators will vote for it. Senator James Inhofe has already said it’s a non-starter. I can’t imagine Harry Reid even bothering to bring it to the Senate floor, instead simply allowing it to languish in committee.

Now, is the treaty really that bad? Not in its draft form, as I previously discussed. Yet, there are still issues that interfere with existing US law and 2nd Amendment Rights, not to mention sovereignty. Furthermore, quite a few of the nations who voted for the treaty will be the first to break it, caring little for international law. We do have to consider that the treaty is, like so many others, yet another way to shift more power into the hands of the United Nations (an organization full of graft, misconduct, wastefulness, dictators, murderers, and various other bad people).

Administration officials hailed passage of the treaty, which Secretary of State John Kerry said would strengthen global security while protecting the rights of countries to conduct “legitimate” arms trade.

When Liberals start yammering on about protecting rights, it’s time to, as we say in the South, cover your butt, because they’re looking to screw you.

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Torre, Bronx-bound in 2010, blames Proctor for injury

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Game 39: The Start of Something Big

Known for his high workloads with the Yanks (102.1 IP in ’06, yikes), Scott Proctor had Tommy John surgery last week after battling elbow issues for parts of the last two seasons. Now, his longtime manager Joe Torre says that Proctor’s stupidity is to blame. “There’s playing hurt, and then there’s playing stupid,” Torre said. “It doesn’t have anything to do with someone’s intelligence. If you can endure pain and still are able to do what you do, that’s one thing. If you’re willing to play, which means you certainly are brave, but you can’t be the player that you need to be, then it’s not very smart to do for your own health, and you’re not helping the team either.”

Now, I understand that Joe is trying to say that Proctor should have spoken up about when he needed a break, but it’s not like the guy forced his way into 166 games in a two year span. Joe is usually an excellent communicator, but some things are better left unsaid.

In other Joe Torre news, The Post reports that the 2010 preliminary schedule features a trip to the Bronx by Torre and the Dodgers. It would be the Dodgers’ first visit to the Bronx since the 1981 World Series and Torre’s first since his uncomfortable departure in 2007. Derek Jeter told the Murdoch-owned tabloid that it would be “awkward” to play against Torre.

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  • El Generalissimo

    Ahh Torre once again blaming someone else for his screw ups, gotta love him!

  • Lanny

    Blaming Torre for the injuries to average arms like Proctor and Sturtze is a little much. I don’t see Rivera getting injured or anything. Does Torre now get credit for that? I didn’t see Stanton or Nelson get hurt or people complain about overuse. You can’t kill Torre for injuries to arms like Proctor and Karsay and Sturtze and all the other average arms.

    • Hobbes

      Wow, did you ever watch the seasons when Torre killed Proctor? It was like a bad joke how much he used him. What is Proctor going to say, please don’t play me? Every reliever says they can play no matter what, Mariano said it the other night. It is up to the manager to decide how much is too much.

      • Zack

        “The right-hander has been hurt about a month, but kept it from manager Joe Torre and the training staff. He has allowed 14 runs — 11 earned — over 8 2-3 innings over his last 11 appearances.”
        “After some more prodding, Proctor came clean with Torre. An injured player cannot be optioned to the minors.”

        So everything Torre said was true, and this article was from last year

      • kingshaffy

        Actually it was me and my brother’s running joke…lean against the couch, pull your hat down and say “GET UP PROCTOR”. I can’t tell you how many times we thought that Torre was trying to kill him. He used him when the game was tied, up 1, up 9, down 9. I’ve never seen anything like it. Go look at the stats. No one has ever come close to the abuse Torre heaped on Proctor in 2006. 102 innings as a reliever is ridiculous.

        Torre’s comments make it even more his fault as he should have used discretion. I can’t believe he’s ripping him now. He’s such a douche and I couldn’t be happier that he’s gone.

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    • andrew

      Well, the difference is quite simply that Mariano, Stanton, or Nelson were never used as much as Karsay, Quantrill, Sturtze or Proctor. Who knows, if Mariano, Stanton or Nelson topped 80 games or 90 IP, maybe they would be in the discussion right now as guys Torre ruined, but the reality is, as much as those guys were worked, Karsay, Quantrill, Sturtze and Proctor were worked even harder.

      • Zack

        mariano had over 90 IP in 1996

    • jsbrendog

      ps: i picked the yrs they had the most appearances 2 yrs in a row with the yankees under torre

      jeff nelson 96-97:
      150 games 153 IP

      Mike Stanton 01-02:
      155 games 158 and a third IP

      Proctor 06-07:
      166 games 188 2/3 IP
      AND he only had 26 games and 44 IP the yr before.

      • jsbrendog

        78 appearances in 02 over 80 IP
        Then injured all of 03

        86 games 95 innings in 04.

        Nelson NEVER had 78 appearances in a season HIS ENTIRE CAREER

        Stanton did it once while with the yankees in his last yr with theteam and then for the mets later.

        so lanny = epic fail

        • FL Yank

          You really didn’t need all those bullets to point out the epicness of the failitude that is Lanny. It’s already so painfully obvious that I had to create/butcher two different words.

        • andrew

          Thank you. That’s basically what i said above but was too lazy to actually type out all the numbers.

    • Moshe Mandel

      The difference is that those other guys had pretty defined roles, whereas he used Proctor indiscriminately. Starter knocked out in the third? Bring in Scottie for two or three. Game going to extras, bring in Scottie. Bases loaded nobody out in the 7th? Bring in Scottie. This led to insane overuse in the most meaningless of situations. He only used the guys you listed in very specific situations.

      • Zack

        Extra innings is meaningless situation?

  • Aunt Becca-Optimist Prime

    Man I want a ticket to those games

  • LiveFromNewYork

    When did JT turn into such a whiny blameball? He overworked the crap out of Proctor and everyone knows it.

  • Conan

    I suppose it was Proctor’s fault, too, for pitching Weaver in the 12th inning of the 2003 World Series with Mo still in the pen.

    • Aunt Becca-Optimist Prime

      Dude, you remember that series?

      My memory for 2003 stops after Boone’s shot.

      • Conan

        Of course I remember. Yanks haven’t been back since – thanks to Torre’s blundering managing in the 2004 ALCS. Maybe that was that stupid Proctor’s fault, too.

  • Tank the Frank (formerly just “Frank”)

    Forget Torre and Proctor. I never wanted to see Manny again!

    • Conan

      Amen, brother.

    • Tank the Frank (formerly just “Frank”)

      Then again, a post-PED, out of shape Manny, one year older? Maybe we could see AJ and CC pumping fastballs by him? As with Ortiz… better late than never.

  • E-ROC

    Check out the days of rest for Scott Proctor in the 2006 and 2007 seasons on baseball reference. That helps put the abuse in perspective.

    • Conan

      42 out of 83 appearances, multiple innings. Brutal.

      • Zack

        So one minute fans hate one inning relievers, hate 6 inning pitchers, hate 100 pitch counts; then a guy gets hurt and we look back 3 years and say he had too many 1+ innings games

    • CapitalT

      And that doens’t even get to the days where Joe would get Proctor warmed up only to not bring him in

  • mustang

    The further Torre gets away from NY the more I realize how much of an ass he is.
    Come on now it wasn’t only Proctor can we list the number of guys he did this too?

  • Moshe Mandel

    Joe, i guess it was Quantrill’s fault too. And Sturtzes. And Karsay’s. And Gordon’s.

    • mustang

      Yes, of course it was because they managed themselves. They said please, please put me until my arm falls off and I can’t pitch anymore.

      • Zack

        So if Jeter has a sore hamstring, doesnt speak up, Girardi gives him the sign to steal 2nd and he pulls it then it’s Girardi’s fault?

        • mustang

          Oh please, Torre did it to how many guys?
          It’s basically Torre covering his ass because with Proctor its so damn obvious.
          Why even bring it up if Torre did nothing wrong?

          • Zack

            “Why even bring it up if Torre did nothing wrong?”
            Yeah because Torre goes to the media and just talks without getting asked questions. IF he said ‘no comment’ you guys would call him a coward.

            Look at the article i posted from ESPN earlier. Proctor ADMITTED he was HIDING an injury last year.

  • r.w.g.

    Honestly.. the more I look back on it, we should have canned the guy after 2003 or 2004.

    What an asshole.

    • kingshaffy

      After ’04 definitely. He was in a coma the entire ALCS.

  • mustang

    I have no problems with the way Torre used some of these guys. Like Lanny said they were ” average arms” and maybe the way Torre use them was all they were good for. But to now play St. Joe and blame the player come on.

  • Kevin M.

    To ruin a guy’s career and then kick sand in his face while he’s down is just disgusting. Even if it WAS Proctor’s fault (and it definitely was not) has some decency for the guy who’s about to have his elbow replaced. Don Torre….classy till the end.

    • Zack

      ruin his career? so every pitch who gets TJ can blame their manager for the injury?

  • Jeremy

    It’s not like Proctor blamed Torre for his injury, right?

    Such arrogance.

  • Zack

    “but it’s not like the guy forced his way into 166 games in a two year span.”

    -i think that number is wrong, wasnt proctor in LA for 31 games in 2007?

    • Conan

      He also pitched 52 for the Yanks prior to the trade.

      • Zack

        right so Yankees used him 131 in 2 years, not 166

  • Pete c.

    Wow, Joe Torre;stand-up guy.

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Saturday, 30 January 2016

Coming Together

Reunion is the first scenario for River of Heaven: Science-Fiction Roleplaying in the 28th Century, the near Transhuman Space Opera RPG published by D101 Games. Designed for four to six players, it is an introductory adventure that can be used as a one-off scenario, a convention scenario, or as the starting point for a campaign. They take the roles of crewmembers serving aboard the interstellar stepship, the Cape Verde, a vessel owned by House Harper-Yung, one of the ruling families on Jericho. Of course like any stepship, all interstellar piloting and navigation functions are carried out by a Pilot’s Guild provided Stepdaughter, who is literally plugged into the ship.

As Reunion opens, the crewmembers are waking up from Vitrification, the means of cryopreserving both passengers and crew for the long, typically years’ long, voyages between star systems. This is typically an unpleasant experience, those put under usually suffering from nausea, disorientation, and even temporary sleep sickness. Fortunately, the crew are trained to overcome these symptoms and quickly realise that something is amiss… First, the medical team that would usually be on hand to help revive them is not present. Second, they are in zero-g—which means that the ship is not accelerating. So where is the medical team and what has happened to the rest of the crew? Further, what is going on with the Cape Verde?

The truth of the matter is that the Cape Verde has been attacked and boarded. To say more would be to spoil the scenario, but the player character crew members need to find out by whom and why as well as what has happened to the rest of the crew. In doing so, they not only get to explore their stepship from nose to tail, they may also discover a deep, dark secret at the heart of River of Heaven. The player characters are free to pursue the plot in Reunion however they like, though much of the plot will proceed unless they intervene. There will certainly be locations aboard the Cape Verde that the player characters will want to visit—the bridge being an obvious example—and the scenario does include certain encounters to that end. For the most part, the scenario and its plot are location based, but this will diminish as the actions of the player character crew members impinge upon the plot.

To support this set-up and plot, Reunion includes descriptions of, and deckplans for, the Cape Verde, plus the vessels used by the scenario’s adversaries. Also given are the stats and write-ups for the NPCs, both the crew members of the Cape Verde and of the adversary vessels. Last of all are the character sheets for the six pre-generated player characters.

Physically, Reunion is slightly underwhelming as the deckplans for the various spaceships and starships feel just a little too basic. The deckplans do break the book’s text as otherwise there are no illustrations. In places, Reunion could also do with another edit.

Reunion is a scenario in which the player characters really do need to be proactive in pursuing the mystery at its heart. If they prevaricate, there is every chance that they will find themselves adrift and potentially be unable to get back to civilisation. This is not so much of an issue in a one-shot or convention scenario, but in one intended as the start of a campaign…? Other than this, Reunion is a solidly done scenario with potential for some good action and revelations at the heart of the setting for River of Heaven.


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