![]() MTV was the exclusive broadcaster of the series in the United States. The extended fully remastered soundtrack Eye Spy: Declassified, Freedom of Information Act was re-released in 2010 as high quality MP3s with new artwork by Peter Chung and a previously unreleased third volume of music.Ī soundtrack is also available for the 2005 live-action film, composed by Graeme Revell. A CD entitled Æon Flux: Music from the Animated Series was included as a bonus with certain editions of the 2005 series compilation DVD that included 11 songs from the show with dialogue snippets featuring Æon and Trevor in-between the songs as standalone tracks. The album includes two discs worth of material from the series and also from the defunct original (1995) PC and PlayStation videogame project. The initials "AF" were used on song titles and in the credits to replace the words "Æon Flux" due to the lack of licensing permissions from MTV. The music was later compiled on an album titled Eye Spy, Ears Only Confidential. Peter Stone (of Xorcist) served as assistant sound editor for the original MTV series. The music and sound design for the original television series was created by Drew Neumann. It would not be until the beginning of Season 3 that dialogue would be used much more extensively. Instead, the sound track employs a variety of sound effects, including sounds such as laughter, grunts, and sighs. With the exceptions of the exclamation "No!" in the pilot and the single spoken word plop in the episode "Leisure", all of the short episodes are completely devoid of intelligible speech. In the featurette Investigation: The History of Æon Flux (included on the 2005 DVD release), Peter Chung says the visual style was also influenced by the animated series Rugrats Chung had worked on Rugrats prior to Æon Flux and had been extremely frustrated by the limitations of the characters. In "Ether Drift Theory", Æon is suspended indefinitely in an inanimate state, but remains technically alive.) StyleĬhung describes the style of the show as "academic": "I was interested in experimenting with visual narrative, telling a story without dialogue and also trying to create a style of telling a story with animation that wasn't influenced by the usual kinds of things that you see." Graphic violence and sexuality, including fetishism and domination, are frequently depicted in Æon Flux. (In the episode "Chronophasia", Æon is apparently killed repeatedly by a monstrous baby, but the reality of these events is ambiguous. ![]() One of the half-hour episodes, "A Last Time for Everything", ends with the original Æon being killed and replaced by an identical clone. Often her death is caused by fate, while other times she dies due to her own incompetence. According to the commentary by Peter Chung in the 2005 DVD release, she dies in every short episode after the initial six-part pilot because he never intended to make more episodes and felt the best solution was to have her keep dying by contrast, she only "dies" once in the half-hour series. One peculiarity of the early shorts is the violent death of Æon Flux, which occurs in each installment. Aeon Flux is therefore notable as one of the very few American adult animated series to be a drama rather than a comedy. Chung intended the cartoon to be a reaction to heroic Hollywood action films, not as a spoof, but rather as a way to make the audience wonder about the wider context of these action heroes and evoke thought. ![]() Peter Chung, the creator, says the main character's name "started out just being the name of the cartoon and then eventually it stuck, so that's her name." The character Aeon Flux was not meant to be part of the series, but MTV pushed to keep her in it, despite Aeon dying at the end of the first batch of shorts. Some authors consider the title a reference to the Gnostic notion of an Æon, seeing the influence in the use of a demiurge in one episode, and that the relationship between the main characters parallels the Valentinian notion of a syzygy. In the same episode, an upper house of parliament is also mentioned by the character Gildemere. Although Bregna is shown to be repressive, in the first full-length episode, "Utopia or Deuteranopia?", Clavius, the president deposed by Goodchild, is described by a questioning journalist as having been democratically elected. Monica represents a dynamic anarchist society, while Bregna embodies a police state-referred to on one occasion as a republic by Goodchild. Her mission is to infiltrate the strongholds of the neighboring country of Bregna, which is led by her sometimes-nemesis and sometimes-lover Trevor Goodchild. The title character is a tall, leather-clad secret agent from the nation of Monica, skilled in assassination and acrobatics. Æon Flux is set in a bizarre, dystopian future world. ![]()
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Urania: muse of astrology and astronomy.Erato: muse of lyrical art or lyrical poetry. ![]() The nine muses had the following names and attributes: For example, according to the Greek historian of S.II Pausanias, first the muses were three: Aedea (song and voice), Meletea (meditation) and Mnemea (memory).Īlthough the number of Greek muses may vary depending on the source and the authors, it has generally come to the acceptance that there are nine, born (according to the myth) of nine consecutive nights of love between Zeus and Mnemósine, one of The titanides. The scholars of that time classified the muses as the greatest source of inspiration that existed, had great value to society and illuminated the creation in the various branches of art, music, science, poetry, among others.Īt first there was no consensus about the exact number of muses. See Calliopea for an alternative spelling and quotation from Ovid’s Fasti.įirst-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.The Greek muses, According to Greek mythology, are the feminine divinities that inspired the philosophers and poets, reason why they preside over the arts and the sciences.Īccording to this belief the muses were deities but with less power than the goddesses.( Greek mythology ) The Muse Calliope, goddess and muse of epic poetry, or of poetry in general.( Ecclesiastical ) IPA ( key): /kalˈli.o.pe/, Ĭalliopē f sg ( genitive Calliopēs) first declension.( Classical ) IPA ( key): /kalˈli.o.peː/,.Latin Alternative forms įrom Ancient Greek Καλλιόπη ( Kalliópē ). ( Greek mythology ) Calliope, the Muse of eloquence and epic or heroic poetry.Italian Raffigurazione di Calliope – Depiction of Calliope Etymology įrom Latin Calliopē, from Ancient Greek Καλλιόπη ( Kalliópē ). 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You need to find all of them for an achievement ' Testrollsterstone' While you're in the churchyard go behind the church and interact with a stone Troll. But it's still not connected, since the Mother tree is asleep. Go up to the Waytree on the left side and run around to scare all the ravens - the tree will wake up. Go to the church entrance and lock pick the lock on the gate using the hairpin Search through the nests and I the farthest one you'll find a hair pin In the location 'Trollhilde's bridge' go to the left of the cabin and climb the ladders to the raven nests. However some ravens are sitting high up, so you need to find something to throw at them. Go in and run around to scare the ravens. You will see the tree door on the right side is now open. Get frightened by a giant many-eyed tree.Īfter you spoke to the Tree of Many, go back to the portal clearing. Use it to pry open the door in the left tree. There you will find a tiny collectable - old fishing lure. Go towards the shore and to the big stone on the right. ![]() ![]() Prior studies used various definitions of SCA, including top memory performers defined using cross-sectional data, successful cognitive ager and memory maintainers defined using longitudinal data, and superager defined by generational comparison (older adults vs. This heterogeneity is remarkably observed in cognitive aging: compared with steady cognitive changes in normal aging, accelerated cognitive decline is usually a characteristic of pathological cognitive aging in the form of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and eventually dementia on the other end of the spectrum, older adults maintaining superior cognitive performance compared with their peers are commonly referred to as exhibiting successful cognitive aging (SCA). The way we age is mainly decided by the quality of early-life development, the degree of middle-life maintenance, and the pace of late-life degeneration therefore, aging heterogeneity is substantially influenced by various factors in lifespan experiences. This study clarifies the important rankings of behavioral characteristics of cognitive aging, and the relationship that ECR has a long-lasting effect on LLA and finally on cognition, providing efficient guidance for older adults to improve their cognitive function and new evidence to explain the heterogeneity of cognitive aging. Results of this large-sample community-based study suggest it is important for older adults to have an abundant ECR for SCA, and to keep a high level of LLA to prevent cognitive impairment. ![]() By SEM analyses, we firstly found that LLA partially mediated the relationship between ECR and cognition and further multi-group SEM analyses showed ECR played a more direct role in the SCA group than in the MCI group: in the SCA group, only the direct effect of ECR on cognition was significant, and in the MCI group, direct effects between ECR, LLA and cognition were all significant. The level of education, age, mental activity, and occupational attainment were the top four important factors that explained 31.6% of cognitive variability. We found that abundant early-life cognitive reserve (ECR, including the level of education and occupational attainment) and reduced late-life leisure activity (LLA, including mental, physical, and social activities) were distinct characteristics of SCA and MCI, respectively. Analyses of variance, regression models with the Shapley value algorithm, and structural equation model (SEM) analyses were conducted to determine specific influencing factors and to evaluate their relative importance and interacting relationships in altering cognitive performance. ![]() MethodsĪ group of community-dwelling older adults ( N = 1347, aged 70-88 years) in Beijing was recruited in this cross-sectional study, and a sub-cohort was further divided into successful cognitive aging (SCA, N = 154), mild cognitive impairment (MCI, N = 256), and cognitively normal control (CNC, N = 173) groups. However, multi-domain behavioral factors that characterize the difference between successful and pathological cognitive aging are not clear yet. The identification of factors that specifically influence pathological and successful cognitive aging is a prerequisite for implementing disease prevention and promoting successful aging. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Apple continues to lower the bar for the average expected IQ of its users, being able to make the OS behave in an intelligent way with fewer silly animations and more advanced functionality is important. If there’s even one thing on the list above you’d like to be able to customise (and I’ve only listed about a quarter of the features), TinkerTool makes it free and easy to have OS X behave the way you want your OS to behave, not Tim Cook. TinkerTool is free so there’s no downside here. 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