Utopia is the fifth studio album by industrial metal band Gothminister, released on 17 May 2013 on the label AFM Records. It is their first album following the signing with AFM in December 2012.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Bjørn Alexander Brem.
Reception
The album got a mixed review by Ulf Kubanke for the website laut.de while Eric May of the New Noise Magazine gave it a rather positive review.
The game, taking place in the future, on a new planet, is open-ended.
It is the player's task to colonize the new planet, manage the colony and raise the quality of life for the citizen in order to reach utopia.
Initially the player has a few colonists with a lot to do. The player needs to build everything from scratch. Building takes time and free colonists, in addition to money. Buildings under construction are depicted by scaffold.
However certain buildings require personnel (hospitals, labs, mines, factories, shipyards ...) and therefore the player has to engage in population management. The player also has to micromanage features such as tax rate, birth rate and trade.
Utopia, titled Dreamland in the UK and US, is a Logie Award winning Australian television comedy series by Working Dog Productions which premiered on ABC1 on 13 August 2014. The eight-part series follows the working lives of a team in the Nation Building Authority, a newly created government organisation. The Authority is responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, from announcement to unveiling. The series explores the collision between bureaucracy and grand ambitions. The second series aired in 2015, beginning with the first episode on 19 August 2015.
Background
Utopia is written and produced by three of the founding members of Working Dog Productions: Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner. It is produced by Michael Hirsh, directed by Sitch who also stars as one of the main characters Tony, and casting managed by Jane Kennedy. When casting, Sitch wanted to have actors that possessed a certain acting style, that appeared as if nothing absurd was going on. Sitch described the series as being about "the currency of grand dreams". He described that the idea of the "Nation Building Authority" was to portray it as one of those things that got set up in a bit of a mad rush and that under all the grand dreams there was a white elephant waiting to appear.Utopia continues on the satirical themes of other Working Dog works such as Frontline and The Hollowmen. Sitch also noted that the series was more observational than satirical and that it depicted how organisations may or may not function. When creating the show, Gleisner said the production team spoke to people who worked with government authorities and had experienced for themselves the daily unpredictabilities of working in these environments.
Doubt characterises a status in which the mind remains suspended between two contradictory propositions and unable to assent to either of them Doubt on an emotional level is indecision between belief and disbelief. Doubt involves uncertainty, distrust or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, a motive, or a decision. Doubt questions a notion of a perceived "reality", and may involve delaying or rejecting relevant action out of concerns for mistakes or faults or appropriateness.
(compare paradox).
Definition
The concept of doubt as a suspense between two contradictory propositions covers a range of phenomena: on a level of the mind it involves reasoning, examination of facts and evidence and on an emotional level believing and disbelief.
In premodern theology doubt was "the voice of an uncertain conscience" and important to realize, because when in doubt "the safer way is not to act at all".
Impact on society
Doubt sometimes tends to call on reason. Doubt may encourage people to hesitate before acting, and/or to apply more rigorous methods. Doubt may have particular importance as leading towards disbelief or non-acceptance.
Doubt(-ダウト-,Dauto), also known as Rabbit Doubt(ラビット·ダウト,Rabitto Dauto), is a shōnen horror manga written and illustrated by Yoshiki Tonogai. The series focuses on the "Rabbit Doubt" cell phone game, with rules similar to Mafia. The players must find the wolf, or killer, amongst their group of rabbits as they are picked off one-by-one. Six players of this game find themselves trapped in a building with one of the group already dead; to avoid the same fate, the remaining five must play a real-life game of "Rabbit Doubt" and find the wolf (liar)hiding among them.
The manga was first serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan on July 12, 2007 and ended its run on February 12, 2009. Square Enix also released the first volume on December 22, 2007 and released the fourth and final volume on February 12, 2009. The series has continued with a sequel, titled Judge(ジャッジ,Jajji).
Plot
Doubt revolves around a fictional cell phone game called "Rabbit Doubt", in which the players are rabbits in a colony; one of these players is randomly chosen to act as a wolf infiltrating the group. Each round, the rabbits guess which is the wolf as the rabbits are eaten one-by-one until only the wolf is left.
"Doubt" is a song by American recording artist Mary J. Blige. It was written by Blige along with English musician Sam Romans for her thirteenth studio album The London Sessions (2014), while production was helmed by Romans and American record producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. Released as the album's fourth single, the ballad has since reached the top ten on Billboard's Adult R&B Songs chart.
However, Graeme notes, “there are good reasons to doubt that the new Syria will resemble this gumdrops-and-ponies utopia.” Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s leader is Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, who formerly led ...
Early yesterday morning, Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad fled Syria for Russia... [Read. How Russia could maintain a foothold in Syria] ... Unfortunately, there are good reasons to doubt that the new Syria will resemble this gumdrops-and-ponies utopia ... .
This prediction having now, to a certain extent, come to pass is no justification for ushering in a new system where each government has four months in which to institute utopia or it’s out on its ear.
Illustration. Doug Chayka ... While Heather admitted there were trade-offs — the Portuguese bureaucracy can feel archaic, and being away from her two college-age kids is difficult — she said she never doubts her decision. “No place is a utopia ... Tags. ... ....
A rare phenomenon in Africa no doubt, ... It is, therefore, doubtful whether the demise of the ANC misruled majoritarianism would lead to a new utopia instead of further decay and un-governmentalism.
A rare phenomenon in Africa no doubt, ... It is, therefore, doubtful whether the demise of the ANC misruled majoritarianism would lead to a new utopia instead of further decay and un-governmentalism.
Yet one of the oldest works of fiction is “Utopia,” written by Thomas Moore and published in 1516. It’s no doubt that many people huddled around a fire with a stiff glass of mead to ...
VeronicaFerrari Imagining ‘Fragile Utopias’ ...Without imposing them as imperative ideals, these representations are doubtful possibilities, which, according to curator Éric de Chassey, are the only possible utopias in today’s world.
The company said its signature gatherers are professionals who have worked on other statewide campaigns ... RELATED ... Related Articles. Business. ... Business . ... Business . ... Silicon Valley billionaires’ Solano County utopia plan. Big promises, deep doubts.
‘Did not know Carnival Row had been cancelled, but abrupt tying off of all storylines at the end of season 2 leaves no doubt about it, really. Shame, I really liked it.’ Utopia. Utopia was an American remake of a 2013 British series (Picture.
Wanted... No one knows what that means ... Yes, our leader has purchased thousands of acres of farmland between Austin and Bastrop where he is planning on building a “utopia". There, his staff (and no doubt students) can both live and work in new homes ... .
Editor’s Note... v ... v ... They will no doubt invoke “history and tradition” to justify this project, but their eyes are ultimately on a future utopia where conservative political power cannot be meaningfully challenged at the ballot box or in court.
Workers install roofing materials on the new gazebo in Utopia. The new gazebo is part of a renovation of Utopia’s town square. The holiday open house on Utopia’s Main Street will be held Dec ... No doubt ...
The Silicon Valley investors who want to build a YIMBY utopia in Solano County, between Napa’s vineyards and the state capital, Sacramento, are no doubt aware of the area’s allure to members of the techsodus.
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