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Bells Tolling in Europe: Reflections On The Harvard World Model UN Conference, Rome
By The Cinnamon Roll July 1, 2016 September 30, 2017
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One Saturday evening, I heard bells tolling in the streets of Florence, Italy, just outside the Piazza della Repubblica. A pale blue sky, tinged with pink and orange, hung high above the narrow streets, flanked on both sides by tall, storied buildings. All around me, people continued their shopping, but some passers-by were making their way to church. I imagined the same scene had played out evening after evening in past centuries, and would carry on endlessly....
By Soon Hao Jing
One Saturday evening, I heard bells tolling in the streets of Florence, Italy, just outside the Piazza della Repubblica. A pale blue sky, tinged with pink and orange, hung high above the narrow streets, flanked on both sides by tall, storied buildings. All around me, people continued their shopping, but some passers-by were making their way to church. I imagined the same scene had played out evening after evening in past centuries, and would carry on endlessly….
I had set foot on the tarmac of Fiumicino Airport, Rome, the previous morning, after flying 10,000km from Singapore via Doha. Fortuitously, I completed all my midterms before this trip, and managed to wrangle a deadline extension for an essay before setting out for my trip.
Together with a score of NUS (and USP) schoolmates, we arrived in Italy to attend one of the world’s largest international youth conferences. Harvard and Sapienza Universities put up the 25th edition of Harvard World Model United Nations in Rome from 14 to 18 March, drawing over 2500 university students from all continents. Together, we took on the role of diplomats and political leaders in debating solutions to international crises and negotiating agreements between different states.
I think few participants were under the illusion that our debates and make-believe politicking would actually solve real life international problems (I discussed the European refugee crisis as a representative of the United Kingdom.)
But at least it would help us better understand the issues affecting the international community. Coming to Europe in person to debate and explore issues would also give me different, more direct insights into my topic, which was Europe-centric. I think I ended up with glimpses into a more varied kaleidoscope of events but my first and strongest impression was that everything in Europe was headed downwards.
In his opening address to the conference participants, Italian premier Matteo Renzi struck a defiant tone against the right-wing, xenophobic, demagogic populism spreading in the West, accusing unnamed politicians of capitalising on such fear for political benefit (while boasting that he himself paid scant regard to his own poll numbers), and spoke out against terrorism, saying the West would not give in to fear. Memorably, he said that for every euro spent on security and counterterrorism, one euro should be spent on promoting culture and the arts.
Yet what I saw in Florence were armoured vehicles parked right outside its main cathedral (topped by that iconic red-brick Duomo), red-bereted paratroopers standing guard outside with sleek, long guns. In Rome, soldiers stood guard outside every subway station entrance, and some stood on the platforms too – one of them reminded my friends and I to watch out for pickpockets.
Italy, if not Europe, was on high alert – the week that the NUS team were in Italy, two bomb blasts ripped through Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. To think some of our delegation had wanted to pay quick visits to Istanbul before the conference. Shortly after the conference, Brussels was hit; one of our team members had just passed through Brussels airport a day or two earlier on her way back to her exchange university. These incidents brought home how close the threat of terrorism really was to the lives of Europeans.
During the committee debates on the European refugee crisis, every country stepped aside when it came to assuming more responsibilities, taking in more refugees. Of course I did as well, since I faithfully stuck to the UK’s policy on refugees and the fact that it had secured a legal exemption for itself from taking in refugees currently stuck on Greek islands. All the representatives in my committee agreed to was to splash a few hundred million euros on funding NGOs to care for refugees. But otherwise, the committee was the definition of disunity.
Some fellow delegates declared their countries should reinstate border controls and end freedom of movement to stop terrorists from sneaking in together with huddled masses of war refugees. Poland’s representative even declared, in the final hour of debate, that Poland would quit the EU so it could not be compelled to take in refugees. (It amused me that this representative, acting as ‘Poland,’ had beaten the UK to exiting the EU, and I wondered at the time whether he wasn’t giving vent to some fantasies, given he was studying at Greenwich, London.)
Even the only positive outcome we clinched was technically a negative one – we rejected a proposal that was passed, around the same time in real life, by EU leaders and Turkey, stating that the EU would pay Turkey to take care of refugees, in return for less of them coming over to the EU’s shores. At least we rejected it for legitimate reasons – is Turkey actually a safe country that also respects human rights.
Yet it was telling that European leaders would agree to what mere students like us would not accept – basically bribe an authoritarian government so that Europe would see less of Syrian refugees, no matter how Turkey achieved that. (You can Google news of what Turkey has done to Syrians trying to cross its border.)
In between bouts of debate, the members of my committee spent time chatting and I enjoyed some personal conversations too. Some were fraught with concern – like a Greek law and business student considering seeking her future outside her home country, or a Belgian shaking her head at the many fault lines dividing her city Brussels when I asked why it had produced the radicalised Paris attackers. Yet some were decidedly more tranquil – descriptions of Finnish saunas, enjoying a Baltic cruise en route to Stockholm, or catching cheap flights, buses or trains that allowed one to commute across EU borders with ease, without border controls.
On 29 April, at a lecture delivered by Singaporean ambassador-at-large Bilahari Kausikan, I asked for his assessment of the European Union and the future of its human rights advocacy. He described his view of the future EU as a ‘humbled’ and ‘shrunken’ one. Now even a humanitarian crisis involving well over a million refugees and migrants scattered across Europe can only play second fiddle next to the recent Brexit referendum result, which has placed the EU’s integrity and future under an existential threat.
Thinking back on the sound of Florence’s tolling church bells, they no longer remind me of some kind of picturesque Renaissance past preserved in European modernity, but a darker period from which Europe tried to walk away at the end of the last world war.
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Album Review – Striker / Play To Win (2018)
Posted on September 28, 2018 by Gustavo Scuderi
Blending classic Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Power Metal and 80’s Hair Metal, one of the biggest exponents of contemporary Canadian metal music strikes once again with a brand new album, always playing to win.
Champions in blending classic Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Power Metal and 80’s Hair Metal, Canadian shredders Striker are back with another good album titled Play To Win, the sixth in their undisputed career and a follow-up to their two previous award nominated winning albums, their 2017 breathtaking self-titled opus Striker (nominated for a JUNO award, winner of an Edmonton Music Award and Western Canadian Award) and the WCMA + EMA award winning album Stand In The Fire, released in 2016. That means this Edmonton-based squad comprised of frontman Dan Cleary, guitarists Tim Brown and Chris Segger, bassist William Wallace and drummer Adam Brown has been on an absolute roll in the past few years, not only delivering first-class metal for our total delight, but also spreading their music live across Europe and North America with bands like Sonata Arctica, Dark Tranquility and Warbringer, along with festival appearances at 70,000 Tons of Metal and Bang Your Head Festival, proving why they’re already considered one of the biggest exponents in contemporary Canadian Heavy Metal.
Mixed and Mastered by Hendrik Udd at Hendrik Udd Recording Studios, and featuring not only an old school artwork by Elvis Amaral (HipnoFX Audiovisual), but also the fantastic Randy Black (Annihilator, Primal Fear, Destruction) as a session drummer, who by the way also recorded the album Stand in the Fire with the band, Play To Win will please all fans of traditional metal and rock, keeping the name of Striker relevant and strong in the scene. “Play to Win: if you want to win you have to play the game. Find the rules and break them. This is our 6th album and 3rd independent release. If we followed the rules and listened to the industry people we’d have gone absolutely nowhere. Play To Win is about listening to yourself, following your own path, and playing that 5th ace hidden in your sleeve. This album is designed to light a fire under your ass and get you moving, and we made sure to get the most modern, ear melting sounds possible. It’s all about where metal is going, not where it has been, and this is our soundtrack to success,” commented Tim about the album.
And Tim and Chris begin slashing and shredding their strings from the very first second in the opening tune Heart of Lies, where the band delivers their usual ass-kicking fusion of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock, with Dan declaiming the song’s chorus beautifully (“Another victim to a heart of lies / Can’t see the truth behind those venom eyes / Another victim to a heart of lies / On deaf ears will fall the eagle’s cry”). Then leaning towards pure 80’s Hard Rock and Glam Metal, in special the crisp and passionate vocal lines by Dan, we have Position of Power, with William and Randy maintaining a solid and rumbling background throughout the entire song; followed by Head First, a good song that gets a bit too commercial at times, but that obviously brings Striker’s old school punch, sounding very rhythmic, groovy and melodic. In addition, Tim and Chris are once again on fire with their riffs and solos, making it a highly recommended addition to your road trip playlist.
Blending the music by Iron Maiden with Motley Crüe, Stratovarius and Van Halen, which in the end resulted in sheer awesomeness, Striker offer us the thrilling On The Run, showcasing a brilliant vocal performance by Dan while William keeps extracting that metallic sound we all love form his bass, whereas The Front is another classic song by Striker, also feeling as it was taken from an 80’s Hair Metal album. It’s a bit too smooth compared to the sonic massacre from their previous albums, but the crisp sound of the guitars and the precise beats by Randy make it very enjoyable and fun. The title-track Play To Win, a mid-tempo feast of rockin’ sounds, sounds even more inspired by the golden years of Hard Rock than ever, with the guitar riffs and solos by both Tim and Chris getting sharper and groovier, and albeit its lyrics are extremely cheesy, the message the band wanted to send is there (and that’s what really matters in the end). Then despite the excellent vocals by Dan, its tuneful guitar solos and a pleasant vibe, the power ballad Standing Alone never really takes off, getting way too mellow compared to what Striker are capable of doing.
Back to a heavier and more epic sonority, those talented Canadian metallers fire an electrified Heavy Metal and Hard Rock tune entitled Summoner, inspired by many classics by Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and other behemoths from the NWOBHM, also presenting the best guitar work of the entire album in my opinion. In Heavy Is The Heart the band shows how to do a proper power ballad, bringing passion to the musicality without forgetting the always needed dosages of electricity and rage, again presenting an inspired Dan leading his bandmates from start to finish. However, the closing tune Hands Of Time is another generic song that sounds and feels extremely soft if you’re a longtime fan of Striker, lacking the same potency and kick from their already classic tunes. Put differently, it’s far from being a bad song, but as we all got used to a lot heavier riffs and faster beats by Striker it’s hard to truly relish it.
As a huge fan of their self-titled album released last year, which I personally considered one of the best metal albums of 2017, I felt slightly disappointed with the final result in Play To Win. Nothing to worry about, though, as I guess I’m being too harsh on the guys from Striker, almost “demanding” that they had released another Heavy Metal masterpiece instead of actually enjoying their new album. There’s still a lot of top-of-the-line music to savor in Play To Win, available from their official website as a digital download or as a special edition CD, as well as from iTunes and Amazon, and you can also follow the band on Facebook, subscribe to their YouTube channel and listen to more of their music on Spotify (if you don’t do all that already). Striker are a band that keeps winning no matter what with each and every release (despite singing in their previous album that they were “born to lose”), and the flame of Canadian metal will remain alive and vibrant while we have those skillful metalheads from Edmonton among us, always playing to win.
Best moments of the album: Heart of Lies, On The Run and Summoner.
Worst moments of the album: Standing Alone and Hands Of Time.
Released in 2018 Record Breaking Records
1. Heart of Lies 4:04
2. Position of Power 3:41
3. Head First 4:02
4. On The Run 3:52
5. The Front 4:02
6. Play To Win 3:49
7. Standing Alone 4:56
8. Summoner 4:04
9. Heavy Is The Heart 4:54
10. Hands Of Time 3:47
Dan Cleary – lead vocals
Tim Brown – lead and rhythm guitar
Chris Segger – lead and rhythm guitar
William Wallace – bass
Adam Brown – drums
Guest musician
Randy Black – drums (session)
Lindsay Robinson, John Kennedy and Nathan Schadeck – gang vocals
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Nowadays, Huck Finn is as a lightning rod for racial issues, which explains why so many schools have banned the book over the years. But in the late 18th century, when Mark Twain published it, the novel was more controversial as a critique of childhood in America. In the Times, Year in Reading alum Parul Sehgal reads Huck Finn’s America, a new book by Andrew Levy that sheds light on the context of the era. You could also read our founder C. Max Magee on reading Huck Finn as a child.
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Sublime Text is being developed again after a year dormant
by Owen Williams — in Apps
Sublime Text is one of the most popular text editors for developers out there, but over the last year concerns mounted that the project was dead as development of the next version stalled completely.
This week, though, the app has come back to life with the release of a new update for Sublime Text 3. The release today brings a number of major bug fixes, introduces a new sublime-syntax and speeds up file loading.
The team has also open sourced many of the core packages of the project for the first time, and incorporates community provided improvements. Sublime Text also has a new team member, Will Bond, who looked after package manager as part of the community.
Sublime Text 3 has been under development since at least early 2013, but went inactive for months on end a number of times over the years — the last beta build was released in March 2015.
Threads on Reddit and Hacker News consistently asked if Sublime was dead, with the team saying in 2014 that, “We are not stopping development of Sublime,” but the team is “effectively a one man band.”
While Sublime was dormant new text editors emerged based on modern Web technology, including GitHub’s open-source Atom editor and the Adobe-created open-source alternative Brackets.
Sublime Text is my Web development editor of choice, so it’s great to see the project active again.
➤ Sublime Text 3 build 3103 [SublimeHQ]
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Riverdale, Jane the Virgin Spinoffs Among CW Pilot Orders
Posted by Miranda Siwak | Jan 24, 2019 | Comic Books, Coming Soon, Series | 0
After The CW already greenlit a Batwoman pilot starring Ruby Rose, following her entrance to the Arrowverse in Elseworlds, the network just announced four new pilots ordered for next season. These new pilots include spinoff pilots of Riverdale and Jane the Virgin, as well as new shows based on the Nancy Drew book series and a reboot of The Lost Boys.
While Riverdale and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina focus on the mysterious, dark, and supernatural takes from the Archie Comics, the new Katy Keene pilot follows four characters from the comics in New York City. Helmed by Riverdale EP Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the new Riverdale spinoff is a musical drama as aspiring fashionista Katy Keene and her pals try to make it in New York City to the Great White Way.
The #Riverdale universe expands! Thrilled to be bringing the adventures of Katy Keene and her New York pals to life! Extra-thrilled to be doing this with my pal Michael Grassi @thatthingofwhen! ❤️🧨💥💎💋💃🏻👠👛🧵👨🏻💻 pic.twitter.com/NsM82bv1AE
— RobertoAguirreSacasa (@WriterRAS) January 24, 2019
In addition, the network officially ordered a Jane anthology spinoff, as previously announced. Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez is attached to executive produce the new show, titled Jane the Novelas, alongside Jane creator Jennie Snyder Urman.
The official logline describes the series as, “A telenovela anthology series in the tradition of Jane the Virgin, where each season is based on a different fictional novel ‘written by’ Jane Villanueva and narrated by the author herself. The first installment takes place at a Napa Valley Vineyard, where family secrets (and family members) don’t stay buried for long.”
We got good news from the CW! Jane will be birthing a SPIN OFF!!!!! Jane The Novelas!!! @CWJaneTheVirgin @TheCW pic.twitter.com/faKvD3eAZf
— Gina Rodriguez (@HereIsGina) January 24, 2019
Rodriguez tweeted an image on set in her fake pregnancy belly, beaming beside her TV son Mateo. Considering where last season left off, the baby bump certainly comes as a surprise. Is it a flashback? A flash-forward? A new development for the Villaneuva family? And what about the futuristic-looking set in the background? It is a telenovela, so anything is possible…
In addition to the spinoffs, the network also announced two more new pilot orders they picked up. An untitled drama brings the iconic adventures and mysteries of the beloved Nancy Drew book series to life from creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl, Marvel’s Runaways, The O.C., Dynasty).
The series’ official logline reads, “Set in the summer after her high school graduation, 18-year-old Nancy Drew thought she’d be leaving her hometown for college, but when a family tragedy holds her back another year, she finds herself embroiled in a ghostly murder investigation—and along the way, uncovers secrets that run deeper than she ever imagined.”
The Lost Boys series, from Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas, reboots the 1987 horror comedy flick. The reboot follows two brothers who move to sunny, seaside Santa Carla with their mother—and find themselves in deep in an underworld of vampires.
h/t Deadline
Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW
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Miranda Siwak is an editorial assistant at Adventure Publishing Group, where she writes for the Pop Insider and the Toy Insider, and also contributes to The Toy Book. When she’s not covering the latest news and trends, she can usually be found reading a good book, searching for her next DIY project, fangirling over boy bands, or keeping up with all of her favorite must-watch TV (and likely tweeting out all of her thoughts on it). Follow along with all of her adventures on Twitter and Instagram @MirandaSiwak.
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Dhaka to Chittagong Air Ticket Price and Flights Schedule
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Are you wanted to go Dhaka to Chittagong by air? This post will be helpful to you, where we have shared Dhaka to Chittagong air ticket price, flights schedule and others.
Chittagong is the second largest and important city in Bangladesh after Dhaka, which is also called the commercial capital of Bangladesh. The largest sea post of the country is located in Chittagong city. Besides, Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar beach are the popular tourist destination of traveler. So many foreign tourists also have to travel on this route.
Communication between Dhaka and Chittagong
The distance from Dhaka to Chittagong is about 265 kilometers and the communication between these two cities is also very important. Every day, lots of people travel on this route for business, jobs, education, and other different needs. Now, the Dhaka-Chittagong route is one of the busiest routes in Bangladesh.
There is communication between two cities by train, bus and air. It’s supposed to take three to five hours to travel on this route. But in reality, it takes an average of 8-10 hours due to jam. Because the number of cars, buses and trucks is increasing rapidly, the roads of four lanes can’t be too much role. On the hand, it’s difficult to get a train ticket due to the pressure of passengers.
However, it is a matter of great joy that with the change of time, a new dimension has been added to Dhaka Chittagong travel. As well as trains and buses, the airway has started to become very popular for this route. Many passengers are now excited to travel airplane avoiding the road path.
For the regular passengers of Dhaka-Chittagong route, the airway is like a lot of blessings. There is no alternative to travel in a very fast and with a safe and comfortable journey. Anyone can reach Dhaka by road in just 40-50 minutes on the way to the road where it takes so long!
Dhaka to Chittagong Air Ticket Price
In 1972, Biman Bangladesh Airlines was started its journey by operating flight Dhaka-Chittagong route. But the airline did not achieve such popularity due to the lack of air shortage, technical problems and high Dhaka to Chittagong air ticket price. After long time in 2005, some private-owned airlines were established in Bangladesh.
At present, NovoAir, Regent Airways and the US Bangla Airlines are operating the flights on international and domestic destinations. These airlines especially focus on the operation of the domestic flights. They operate with the smaller size aircraft and able to increase flight numbers faster for that.
At the same time, the quality of passenger services and on-time flight management has been able to keep well enough. Due to the good service, the national airlines started naturally becoming popular and the passenger numbers are increasing day by day. As a result, the airlines increase the number of destinations and reduce the air ticket fare relatively.
Name of Airlines
Minimum Fare **
Maximum Fare
Biman Bangladesh Airlines 2,500 8,000
US-Bangla Airlines 2,500 9,200
Regent Airways 2,500 8,700
Novoair 2,500 7,800
** Minimum Fare is mentioned under discounted/offer price, which isn’t fixed and can be changed any time.
We have tried that you get an idea about Dhaka to Chittagong air ticket price. This information has been taken from the airline’s website. Any change or modification of flight fare depends on the respective airlines.
Dhaka to Chittagong Flights
Currently, the airway is considered as one of the most important routes along with bus and train. Due to traffic jam, fast and comfortable travel, etc. many travelers are now more enthusiastic towards the air. The reasons for the demand are causing ticket concessions too many times. Due to the needs of passengers, every aircraft have their maximum number of flights.
Now, there are four airways in Bangladesh and all of the airways operate Dhaka to Chittagong Flights. Note that this flight number is variable and this number is entirely dependent on the airline’s decision. Here, we have mentioned an average number of Dhaka to Chittagong flights in a day for your convenience. For example, Bangladesh Biman Airlines operates three flights on this route in a day and sometimes it rises to seven flights.
Number of Flights
Biman Bangladesh Airlines 3-7
US-Bangla Airlines 3-6
Regent Airways 7-8
Novoair 5-6
Keep in mind that, Dhaka to Chittagong Flights schedule of airlines is changed rapidly. If you want to know the specific flight schedule, you can visit the related airline’s website. We have given the all airline websites address here.
How to buy an air ticket
You can buy a ticket from preferred airline’s website for Dhaka to Chittagong fight or any routes. Advance tickets are more convenient, where you can get some discount on the rental. Besides, passengers can also choose their favorite seats.
There are many travel agencies across the country, where are available various domestic and international flight tickets. We have given the airline’s website below, where a passenger can buy a flight ticket and know the updated flight schedule of any route.
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Baggage Rules for Domestic Flights
An Economy class passenger will be able to carry 20 KG checked luggage along with 7 KG of cabin baggage. On the hand, a business class passenger can carry 30 KG checked luggage along with 7 KG cabin luggage. For any extra luggage beyond this limit, additional charges will be applicable. If you want to know more about this fee, please contact your specific airlines.
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9 Easter Eggs to Look for in the Stranger Things Halloween Horror Nights Maze
We're still facing months of waiting until Stranger Things Season 3 premieres on Netflix, but that doesn't mean you can't spend Halloween immersing yourself in Netflix's spookiest show! And how better to get in the spirit than with the official Universal Studios Stranger Things Halloween Horror Nights Maze?
Constructed by Halloween Horror Nights executive producer John Murdy (with the help of Stranger Things executive producers Matt and Ross Duffer and Shawn Levy) the Stranger Things mazes in Hollywood, Orlando and Singapore take you through the fictional town of Hawkins, including iconic locations like the Byers household, the Hawkins National Laboratory and even the Upside Down. While you're there, be on the lookout for these Stranger Things easter eggs hidden throughout the maze. Some of them will take a sharp eye to catch, while others will... ahem... pop out at you.
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The clocks are set to 11:11. While creating the maze, Netflix reps walked through the nearly finished product and realized that the clocks weren't set on any particular time. They made the cool suggestion that the clocks all be set to 11:11 in honor of the show's most famous character, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown).
Listen for Will's (Noah Schnapp) message from the Upside Down. Once you're inside the Byers house, you'll be dropped right into the iconic living room scene, complete with Joyce's (Winona Ryder) alphabet wall and Christmas lights. If you pay attention to the lights, you'll notice they'll spell out R-U-N... which is exactly what you should do.
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A ton of '80s treats await. Not only did the maze creators match the exact wallpaper and furniture from the series, they also made sure to get even the smallest details right. The newspapers covering the windows of the Byers home are actual headlines from the '80s, and the classroom even has a VHS player.
Keep an eye on the walls. In much the same way that the walls of the Byers home can and do house the hungry Demogorgon, the walls of the maze have monsters lurking inside. Thanks to a creative use of spandex, walls that might seem solid on moment will reach out to grab you the next, just like in the show.
Watch out for Barb (Shannon Purser)! What, you thought you could go through an entire Stranger Things maze without Barb? Sadly, not even the magic of Halloween Horror Nights could save Barb from her gruesome fate, so be prepared to be confronted with your favorite character's seriously gross remains. Just be sure you don't step on her!
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Will's desk is a treasure trove of callbacks. In addition to the sketches on Will's desk that are ripped straight out of Season 1, there's also a trophy for Math and Science on there that's a direct replica from the series, and a boombox that's playing "Should I Stay or Should I Go."
Look up inside the Upside Down. The portion of the maze in the Upside Down is a work of art, especially considering it all had to be put together practically when most of it is CGI in the show. If you look up once you're there, you'll notice that strands of fiber optic lights have been wrapped in little bits of cotton and fans have been positioned to make them sway back and forth. This effect is to simulate the spores floating around in the air of the Upside Down.
Check the walls of the classroom! Though the classroom scene at the end of the maze will have an epic showdown taking up most of your attention, be sure to take a minute to appreciate all the class projects that appear on the walls. The Rube Goldberg machine on the right, for instance, is straight out of the Season 1 finale of Stranger Things.
There's a mix of real and fake characters! You'll experience all the characters you love from the show inside the maze, but there's a mix of audio recordings, sculpted figures and maze actors bringing them to life. Joyce, Nancy, Sheriff Hopper, Dr. Brenner and Will all have actors portraying them in the maze, while Eleven, Dustin and Barb are sculpted. As for the Demogorgon, there are 10 of them wandering around, so look out! The entire cast's audio will also be featured in the maze, so keep your ears open for their dialogue!
Halloween Horror Nights begins Friday, Sept. 14 in Hollywood and Orlando and on Friday, Sept. 28 in Singapore.
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Deformation Monitoring Tracks Moving Magma and Faults
Ground deformation measurements provide an important indicator about what is happening beneath a volcano. As magma accumulates in an underground reservoir before an eruption, the ground surface typically swells (named inflation). Likewise, as magma leaves the reservoir, potentially to erupt, the ground above the reservoir subsides (named deflation). Volcanoes also deform due to stresses that can result in movement on faults during earthquakes.
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) scientists have developed and tested many techniques for measuring volcano deformation since HVO's founding in 1912. The resulting data have been used to better understand and forecast volcanic activity. GPS, tilt, and InSAR (satellite radar) are the primary methods used today to track ground movement.
GPS sites record ground motion in 3 dimensions
Global Positioning System (GPS) technology was first tested by HVO in the late 1980s. Equipment is both deployed periodically to measure established benchmarks and installed permanently at fixed sites. There are hundreds of GPS benchmarks on the Island of Hawai‘i and dozens on the Island of Maui. More than 60 permanent GPS stations transmit data continuously to HVO and track motion of these sites to within less than a centimeter (less than half an inch). Permanent stations are located mostly on Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, but also Hualālai, Mauna Kea and Haleakalā volcanoes.
GPS measurements can be used to estimate the location and amount of magma accumulating beneath the surface. For example, Mauna Loa Volcano has experienced multiple episodes of inflation since its 1984 eruption, and it has been well documented since the mid-1990's. These data have helped HVO scientists to better understand magma movement and storage beneath the volcano. Additionally, today's GPS networks record data in real time and detect rapid changes associated with magma moving towards the surface in the hours to days before an eruption.
GPS instruments also track a wide range of activity on Hawaiian volcanoes, some of which would not otherwise be known. For example, it has long been known that the south flank of Kīlauea is moving seaward at a rate of several centimeters (a few inches) per year. This motion is continuous, but GPS monitoring has also detected discrete episodes of accelerated motion about every 2 years. Known as a slow earthquake, the motion takes place over 2-3 days and would be equivalent to a ~M5.5 earthquake if it were to occur all at once.
Tiltmeters record precise changes in ground slope
As early as 1913, HVO scientists recognized that ground tilt associated with volcanic activity could be measured, and they designed unique pendulum-type instruments to track long-term changes in the ground slope over time. Precise measurement of ground tilt began in 1956, when HVO scientists developed a network of water-tube tiltmeters. Although modern electronic tiltmeters are more precise and provide continuous data, HVO scientists still measure one water-tube tiltmeter at the summit of Kīlauea to continue the decades-old record—the longest deformation record for any volcano.
Today, ground tilt is continuously recorded with electronic tiltmeters installed in drill holes about 3–5 meters (10–16 feet) beneath the ground surface—a location that insulates the instruments from the effects of environmental (temperature and wind) and cultural noise. About 20 tiltmeters are installed on Kīlauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes, mostly near their summits and along their rift zones. Rapid changes in tilt are usually detected in the hours to days before an intrusion or eruption. Tilt has also been used to identify subtle deflation-inflation (DI) events at Kīlauea, which occur on a regular basis because of pressure changes in the magma storage region about 1.5 km (1 mile) beneath the east margin of Halema‘uma‘u crater.
InSAR provides a snapshot of volcano deformation from air and space
Interferometric Aperture Radar (InSAR) uses radar images of the ground that are collected by airplanes or orbiting satellites to make maps of ground deformation. The Group on Earth Observations' "Supersite" initiative identified Hawai‘i as a critical site for regular monitoring, so more satellite InSAR data are available for Kīlauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes than for any other volcano on Earth. Because InSAR detects deformation over broad areas, it is an excellent tool for mapping both large- and small-scale changes.
On Mauna Loa, InSAR helps scientists detect subtle shifts in the deformation style of the volcano. Starting in mid-2014, inflation began at the volcano's summit and along its Southwest Rift Zone (SWRZ). In late 2015, however, InSAR data showed inflation occurring only beneath the upper SWRZ. This change was apparent in GPS data, but the details of the shift were better observed with the broad view provided by InSAR.
InSAR also helps track ground movement associated with sudden volcanic events. In March 2011, Kīlauea's normal activity was interrupted by the 4.5-day-long Kamoamoa fissure eruption west of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō on the East Rift Zone. InSAR data from several satellites captured deflation of the summit and expansion of the East Rift Zone, indicating that magma had drained from beneath the summit to feed the new eruptive fissure. Careful analysis of the deformation allowed scientists at NASA and HVO to develop a model for the magma pathway below ground.
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Temporal analysis of the developing Chlamydia psittaci inclusion by use of fluorescence and electron microscopy.
Title Temporal analysis of the developing Chlamydia psittaci inclusion by use of fluorescence and electron microscopy.
Authors Rockey, DD, Fischer, ER, Hackstadt, T
Journal Infection and immunity
Pagination 4269-78
Date Published 1996 Oct
Keywords Fluorescence, Microscopy
The chlamydiae are obligate intracellular parasites that develop and multiply within a vacuole (termed an inclusion) that does not fuse with lysosomes. Inclusion morphology varies dramatically among the different chlamydiae, particularly within the species Chlamydia psittaci. Some strains develop within a single vacuole, while the mature inclusion of other strains consists of several distinct lobes, each filled with chlamydial developmental forms. The development of this lobed structure was investigated in HeLa cells infected with the guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis (GPIC) strain of C. psittaci. We employed two recently described probes for the chlamydial inclusion to study the development of these unique lobed structures. The novel probes were an antiserum directed at a protein localized to the GPIC inclusion membrane (anti-IncA) and the fluorescent sphingolipid (N-[7-(4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-)]) aminocaproyl sphingosine (NBD-ceramide). Lobed inclusions developed in cells infected at very low multiplicities of infection, suggesting that the structure is not a function of infection by more than one elementary body (EB). Double-label fluorescent-antibody analysis with anti-IncA and an antibody directed at a chlamydial outer membrane protein showed that, prior to 18 h postinfection (p.i.), the inclusion membrane and the chlamydial membrane were tightly associated. After 18 to 20 h p.i., the lobes began to expand and fill with developmental forms and the inclusion membrane and chlamydial membrane became distinct. At times from 8 to 48 h p.i., GPIC inclusions were shown to receive fluorescent derivatives of NBD-ceramide and to be localized to the perinuclear region of the host cell. Labeled lectins with affinity for carbohydrate moieties localized to the Golgi apparatus showed that the lobes of mature inclusions surround the Golgi apparatus. Labeling with NBD-ceramide and the Golgi apparatus-specific lectins therefore demonstrated a functional and physical association of the inclusion with the Golgi apparatus throughout the developmental cycle. Collectively, these results lead to a model for the development of the lobed chlamydial inclusion. We propose that the lobed structure is a result of division of inclusions occurring in parallel with the multiplication of reticulate bodies (RB) early in the developmental cycle. The division of inclusions slows or stops in mid-cycle, and dividing RB accumulate within the enlarging lobes. The RB then differentiate to EBs, the inclusion and cell are lysed, and EBs are freed to infect another cell.
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Global Warming: A Critique of the Anthropogenic Model and its Consequences
Norman R. Paterson Consulting Geophysicist 121 Louisa St. E. Thornbury, ON, Canada, N0H 2P0 Email: npaterson@bell.net SUMMARY According to popular belief, recent global warming has been caused largely by greenhouse gases, primarily CO2, accruing in the atmosphere, and man is responsible for most of the ~120 ppm increase in CO2 over the last 100 years. This article cites a number of recent peer-reviewed scientific papers, and finds that contrary arguments by a growing body of scientists are generally supported by better empirical data than those that favour the anthropogenic warming hypothesis. These arguments invoke the effects of solar irradiance and oceanatmosphere interactions, both of which have been shown to have warming effects at least as great as those claimed for CO2, and to be based on sound, well-understood scientific theory. Furthermore, the global warming models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and others have in some cases been shown to be incorrect and contrary to current temperature statistics. For these and other reasons, the CO2-driven, anthropogenic warming hypothesis is regarded by many as suspect and lacking in empirical evidence. The difficulty of refuting this popular hypothesis is exacerbated by the IPCCs United Nations mandate to advise governments on the severity of man-made global warming, a mandate that they have followed faithfully, encouraging the emergence of a large body of funded research that supports their view. This presents a problem for global society, as the human-caused warming scenario diverts attention from other, at least equally serious environmental impacts of our industrial society. Recently, however, there appears to be a tilting of public opinion away from global warming alarmism, which may fundamentally affect the direction of the climate change debate. SOMMAIRE Selon la croyance populaire, le rchauffement climatique actuel aurait t caus en grande partie par des gaz effet de serre, principalement le CO2 saccumulant dans l'atmosphre et, cest l'homme qui serait lorigine de laugmentation de ~ 120 ppm de la teneur en CO2 au cours du dernier sicle. Dans le prsent article on cite un certain nombre darticles scientifiques comit de lecture, et on conclut que des arguments contraires prsents par un nombre croissant de scientifiques, sont gnralement soutenus par de meilleures donnes empiriques que celles qui favorisent lhypothse dun rchauffement anthropognique . partir dune thorie scientifique bien fonde, ces arguments montrent que les effets du rayonnement solaire et des interactions ocan-atmosphre ont un effet climatique de rchauffement au moins aussi important que celui imput au CO2. En outre, il a t dmontr que les modles de rchauffement de la plante utiliss par le Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur les changements climatiques (GIEC) et d'autres sont, dans certains cas avrs errons et en contradiction avec les statistiques actuelles sur la temprature. Pour ces raisons et d'autres, nombreux sont ceux qui considrent que lhypothse dun rchauffement climatique anthropognique par le CO2 est sujette caution et manque de preuves empiriques. noter quil est dautant plus difficile de rfuter cette hypothse populaire que lOrganisation des Nations Unies a confi au GIEC le mandat de conseiller les gouvernements sur la gravit du rchauffement climatique anthropognique, mandat dont il sacquitte avec application, ce qui favorise l'mergence d'un important volume de recherches finances, qui tendent confirmer leur point de vue. Cela pose un problme pour lhumanit entire, en ce que le scnario dun rchauffement climatique anthropognique dtourne l'attention dautres problmes de notre socit industriel qui ont des rpercussions au moins aussi graves sur l'environnement. Rcemment, cependant, il semble y avoir un basculement de l'opinion publique qui tend remettre en question l'alarmisme ambiant sur le rchauffement climatique plantaire, ce qui pourrait affecter fondamentalement le sens du dbat sur le changement climatique. INTRODUCTION The term global warming is commonly used by the media to mean anthropogenic global warming; that is, warming caused by human activity. In this article, the writer has chosen to prefix global warming, where appropriate, by the terms anthropogenic or humancaused in order to avoid confusion. We are led today by our media, governments, schools and some scientific authorities to believe that, through his CO2 emissions, man is entirely, or almost entirely, responsible for the modest, modulated rise in glob-
al temperature of about 0.7 C that has taken place over the past 100 years. We are told, and many sincere people believe, that if we continue on this path, the planet will experience escalating temperature and dangerous sealevel rise before the end of this century. Over the past 20 years or so, this has become so much a part of our belief system, that to challenge it is to be labelled a denier and put in the same category as a member of the Flat Earth Society. Yet, even a cursory review of the peer-reviewed scientific literature will show that the popular anthropogenic global warming dogma is being questioned by hundreds of respected scientists. Furthermore, emerging evidence points directly to other natural phenomena as probably having greater effects on global temperatures than can be attributed to human-caused CO2 emissions. The disproportionate scientific weighting attributed to the anthropogenic warming interpretation, and the general public perception of its validity, could be a serious problem for society, as the human-caused global warming belief is diverting our attention from other, more serious anthropogenic effects such as pollution and depletion of our water resources, contamination of our food and living space from chemicals, and diminishing conventional energy resources. PROBLEMS WITH THE ANTHROPOGENIC MODEL The fact that the world has undergone cycles of warming and cooling has been known for a very long time, but the question as to mans influence on climate did not become a hot debate until after the mid-twentieth century, when Revelle and Seuss (1957) first drew attention to the possible effect of greenhouses gases (particularly CO2) on the earths temperature. Subsequent studies pointed to the increase in atmospheric CO2 from roughly 0.025% to 0.037%, or 50%, over the past 100 years. Much was made of the apparent but crude covariance of atmospheric CO2 and global temperature, and the conclusion was drawn that mans escalating carbon emissions are responsible for the late 20th century temperature rise. Anxiety was rapidly raised among environmentalists, and also attracted
many scientists who found ready funding for studies aimed at better understanding the problem. However, scientists soon encountered three important difficulties: i) To this date, no satisfactory explanation is forthcoming as to how CO2 at less than 0. 04% of atmospheric concentration can make a major contribution to the greenhouse effect, especially as the relationship between increasing CO2 and increasing temperature is a diminishing logarithmic one (Gerlich and Tscheuschner 2009); ii) Geological records show unequivocally that past temperature increases have always preceded, not followed, increases in CO2; i.e. the warming could potentially cause the CO2 increase, but not the reverse. Studies (e.g. Petit et al. 1999) have shown that over the past 400 000 years of cyclical variations, temperature rose from glacial values about 800 years before CO2 concentration increased. A probable explanation is that solar warming, over a long period of time, causes the oceans to outgas CO2, whereas cooling results in more CO2 entering solution, as discussed by Stott et al. (2007). Averaged over a still longer period of geological time, it has been shown (Shaviv and Veizer 2003) that there is no correlation between CO2 and temperature; for example, levels of CO2 were more than twice present day values at 180 Ma, at a time when temperature was several degrees cooler; iii) Other serious mistakes in analysis were made by some scientists over the years. Perhaps the worst of these (see Montford 2010 for a thorough discussion) was the publication of the Hockey Stick Curve (Fig. 1), a 1000-year record of past temperature which purported to show that The 20th century is likely the warmest century in the Northern Hemisphere, and the 1990s was the warmest decade, with 1998 as the warmest year in the last 1000 years (Mann et al. 1999). This conclusion was adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its 2001 report and also by Al Gore
in the movie An Inconvenient Truth. Subsequently, Mann et al.s work has been challenged by several scientists (though to be fair, it is also supported by some). For example, McIntyre and McKitrick (2003) amended Manns graph, using all available data and better quality control (Fig. 1), and showed that the 20th century is not exceptionally warm when compared with that of the 15th century. However, the IPCC has continued to report a steady increase in global temperature in the face of clear evidence that average temperature has remained roughly level globally, positive in the northern hemisphere and negative in the southern hemisphere, since about 2002 (Archibald 2006; Fig. 2). WHAT CAUSES WARMING? It is likely that the cyclical warming and cooling of the earth results from a number of different causes, none of which, taken alone, is dominant enough to be entirely responsible. The more important ones are solar changes (including both irradiance and magnetic field effects), atmosphereocean interaction (including both multidecadal climatic oscillations and unforced internal variability), and greenhouse gases. All of these factors have been discussed by IPCC, but the first two have been dismissed as negligible in comparison with the greenhouse-gas effect and mans contribution to it through anthropogenic CO2. It is claimed (e.g. Revelle and Suess 1957) that the particular infrared absorption bands of CO2 provide it with a special ability to absorb and reradiate the suns longer wavelength radiation, causing warming of the troposphere and an increase in high-altitude (cirrus) cloud, further amplifying the heating process. Detailed arguments against this conclusion can be found in Spencer et al. (2007) and Gerlich and Tscheuschner (2009). These scientists point out (among other arguments, which include the logarithmic decrease in absorptive power of CO2 at increasing concentrations), that clouds have poor ability to emit radiation and that the transfer of heat from the atmosphere to a warmer body (the earth) defies the Second Law of Ther-
Figure 1. Temperature change over last six centuries according to Mann et al. (1999), and recalculated by McIntyre and McKitrick (2003).
Figure 2: Lower tropospheric temperature from 1979 to 2006, as measured by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites. The peak in 1998 coincides with an El Nio maximum. Compiled by Archibald (2006); data from UAH MSU, http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.2. modynamics. They argue that the Plank and Stefan-Boltzman equations used in calculations of radiative heat transfer cannot be applied to gases in the atmosphere because of the highly complex multi-body nature of the problem. Veizer (2005) explains that, to play a significant role, CO2 requires an amplifier, in this case water vapour. He concludes that water vapour plays the dominant role in global warming and that solar effects are the driver, rather than CO2. A comprehensive critique of the greenhouse gas theory is provided by Hutton (2009). It is firmly established that the
sun is the primary heat source for the global climate system, and that the atmosphere and oceans modify and redirect the suns heat. According to Veizer (2005), cosmic rays from outer space cause clouds to form in the troposphere; these clouds shield the earth and provide a cooling effect. Solar radiation, on the other hand, produces a thermal energy flux which, combined with the solar magnetic field, acts as a shield against cosmic rays and thereby leads to global warming. Figures 3 and 4 illustrate both the cooling by cosmic rays (cosmic ray flux, or CRF) and warming by solar irradiation (total solar irradiance, or TSI) in the long term (500 Ma) and short term (50 years), respectively. CRF shows an excellent negative correlation with temperature, apart from a short period around 250 Ma (Fig. 3). In contrast, the reconstructed, oxygen isotope-based temperature curve illustrates a lack of correlation with CO2 except for a period around 350 Ma. Other studies have highlighted the overriding effect of solar radiation on global heating. Soon (2005) studied solar irradiance as a possible agent for medium-term variations in Arctic temperatures over the past 135 years, and found a close correlation in both decadal (510 years) and multi-decadal (4080 years) changes (Fig. 5). As to the control on this variation, the indirect effect of solar irradiance on cloud cover undoubtedly results in modulations of the suns direct warming of the earth. Veizer (2005) estimated that the heat reflected by cloud cover is about 78 watts/m2, compared to an insolation effect of 342 watts/m2, a modulation of more than 25%. This contrasts with an IPCC estimate of 1.46 watts/m2, or about 0.5% of TSI, for the radiative effect of anthropogenic CO2 accumulated in the modern industrial era (IPCC 2001). Veizer concludes: A change of cloud cover of a few percent can therefore have a large impact on the planetary energy balance. In addition to solar insolation effects, the intensity of the Earths magnetic field (which deflects the charged particles that constitute cosmic rays) and associated sun-spot maxima are correlated with historic periods of global warming such as the Medieval
Figure 3. CO2, cosmic ray flux (CRF) and temperature, observed and reconstructed (see text), over the last 500 million years, from Shaviv and Veizer (2003).
Figure 4. Annual variability of tropospheric temperature, compared to variations in total solar insolation (TSI) and cosmic ray flux (CRF), after Veizer (2005). TSI is plotted right-way-up and CRF is upside down; both curves show good correlation with temperature over the past 50 years. Climate Optimum (Fig. 6), and typically occur mid-way between ice ages (Veizer 2005). Solar magnetic minima have accompanied global cooling, such as occurred during the Little Ice Age between 1350 and 1850 A.D. A proxy for sunspot activity prior to the start of telescope observations in 1610 can be reconstructed from the abundance of cosmogenic 10Be in ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland (Miletsky et al. 2004). Global temperature oscillations have been evident in both geo-
logic and recent times, with periods varying from a few years (mostly solar and lunar driven) up to 120 million years (galactic and orbital influences) (Plimer 2009). In addition, ocean atmosphere interactions are implicated in the control of some shorter-period climatic oscillations. For example, McLean et al. (2009) have studied the El Nio Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a tropical Pacific oceanatmosphere phenomenon, and compared the index of intensity (the Southern Oscillation Index, or SOI) with global tropospheric temperature anomalies (GTTA) for the 19602009 period (Fig. 7). McLean et al. (2009) concluded that Change in SOI accounts for 72% of the variance in GTTA for the 29-year long record, and 68% for the 50-year record. They found the same or stronger correlation between SOI and mean global temperature, in which SOI accounted for as much as 81% of the variance in the tropics (Fig. 8). A delay of 5 to 7 months was deduced between the SOI maximum and the associated temperature anomaly. Volcanic influences on temperature are also evident (Figs. 7, 8), probably caused by the injection of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere, where it is converted into sulphate aerosols that reflect incoming solar radiation (McLean et al. 2009). The GTTA nearly always falls in the year or two following major eruptions. Both solar irradiation and oceanatmosphere oscillations have therefore been demonstrated to have effects on global temperature of at least the same order of magnitude as the CO2 greenhouse gas hypothesis, and these alternative mechanisms are supported by well-documented empirical data. Nevertheless, the CO2 hypothesis, the theoretical basis for which is being increasingly challenged, remains the popular explanation for global warming in the public domain. THE CONTROVERSY The main factors that have led to heated scientific controversy regarding the cause of the mild late 20th century global warming can be summarized as follows: i) A surge of media coverage and consequent public interest and anxiety, magnified by productions
Figure 5. Arctic TSI vs. surface-air temperature, 18752000, after Soon (2005).
Figure 6. Sunspot numbers, actual and reconstructed (see text), 800 to 2000 A.D., after Veizer (2005). MCO is the Medieval Climate Optimum; O, W, S, M and D are sunspot minima, and correlate with historic cooling periods. such as Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth. ii) Fear and concern on the part of environmentalists, who were already aware of many other harmful aspects of industrial, commercial and other human activities. Environmentalists, including NGOs such as Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund, exploited the open disagreements that existed among scientists as to the scale of the warming and its impacts, disagreements that inevitably arose because climate science is complex and empirical data were in short supply until recently. iii) The IPCC was formed in 1988 by two organizations of the United Nations, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, to assess...the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of humaninduced climate change (http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings//se ssion21/doc18.pdf). IPCCs mandate appears to take for granted that man is responsible for at least a significant part of the current global warming. Because of its
political nature, the number of subscribing countries (currently 130), and the fact that it carries out no research of its own, defining a scientifically meaningful IPCC consensus has become an almost impossible task. Nevertheless, IPCC has faithfully followed its guidelines in each of its four Assessment Reports, concluding in its fourth report (IPCC 2007) that Most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic GHG increases and it is likely that there is a discernible human-induced warming averaged over each continent (except Antarctica). (authors italics). Hidden behind this bold statement are many dissenting opinions by scientists whose views do not appear in the reports. In fact, it is difficult to find in the IPCC lists of authors and reviewers, any prominent independent scientists such as those whose opinions are referred to in this article. This bias has led to serious criticism of the IPCC process. The criticism culminated recently in a study by the Inter-Academy Council (IAC), which recommended, among other changes, that The IPCC should encourage Review Editors to exercise their authority to ensure that reviewers comments are adequately considered by the authors and that genuine controversies are adequately reflected in the report (Inter-Academy Council 2010). The one-sided nature of the IPCC reports, and the errors that IPCC has since acknowledged, have cast considerable doubt on the validity of the IPCCs main conclusions. For example, and as mentioned earlier also, claims by IPCC and others that 1998 was the warmest year on record ignore the data from 1500 and earlier, and also fail to point out that 1998 was the year of strongest ocean/atmospheric effect, known as El Nio. Other errors in its climate models, such as the predicted meltdown of the Himalayan glaciers (Guardian, March 10, 2010), and the large number of grey (i.e. not peer-reviewed) literature
quently argued elsewhere (e.g. IPCC). It is rather a plea for some reflection in our clamour for oversimplified beliefs and solutions in the face of the climate conundrum. Many scientists have been heartened in recent years by the support that has been growing around the world for a new look at the causes of global warming. Articles against anthropogenic causes or offering different explanations appear to this writer to outnumber those in support. Figure 7. SOI (Southern Oscillation Index) and GTTA (global tropospheric temperature anomalies) from 1960 to 2009, showing periods of volcanic activity, after McLean et al. (2009). The SOI used in the calculations is the standardized anomaly of the seasonal mean sea level pressure between Tahiti and Darwin, divided by the standard deviation of the difference, multiplied by 10. DISCUSSION The following examines various scenarios of climate change policy and other events that may develop over the next 5 to 10 years: i) The pressure of new science, new data, more publications and more frustration with bad policymaking within a large group of mainstream scientists may in due course have the effect of improving policy making on climate change issues, despite the momentum built up by institutions and governments that have currently spent tens of billions of dollars in support of the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis. Such an outcome was already apparent after the 2010 Copenhagen Conference, at which governments had failed to commit themselves to emissions limitation targets that would have seriously damaged their economies. The lack of commitment may perhaps have been fuelled by skepticism as to IPCCs procedures (see InterAcademy Council 2010), or precipitated by Climategate, the reported scandal at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, which suggested that senior scientific staff were deliberately concealing evidence that cast doubt on anthropogenic warming. (Later, three separate review panels, one a committee of the British parliament and the other two comprising invited senior climate scientists, exonerated CRU of fraud, but the panels were almost unanimous in recommending more openness in IPCCs investigative and reporting procedures.) Change in public climate poli-
Figure 8. SOI (delayed 5 months) and tropical tropospheric temperature anomalies (Tropical TTA), with temperature data removed during periods of volcanic activity, after McLean et al. (2009). sources that IPCC cites, have now become widely known in the public domain. iv) Politics also plays an important part in the controversy, and a high value is placed on political correctness. The situation is worsened because, very often, a scientific reputation or a career is at stake. Scientists, like most people, are also reluctant to abandon a belief that they have held for a long time, and many scientists have worked in organisations that accepted anthropogenic global warming as a starting point in their research programs. Such persons may have found, and even published, evidence that supports the idea of dangerous human-caused warming. It is doubly hard for such people to convince themselves that there is newer and better evidence that proves the older hypothesis to be wrong. This problem is exemplified by the following quotation from Veizer (2005), in an article in which he presents the case for solar emissions being responsible for much of global warming: Personally, this last decade has been a trying period due to the years of internal struggle between what I wanted to believe and where the empirical record and its logic were leading me. This article is not a comprehensive review of the alternatives, partly because of space limitations, but also because the case for the alternative has been elo-
cy could be triggered by the increasing number of independently-minded scientists, some in senior government roles, who are making their views regarding the weakness of the anthropogenic warming hypothesis known to politicians and the media. For example, Canada Free Press (2010) cites the case of Dr. Ferenc Miskolczi, a renowned astrophysicist who was dropped as a consultant by NASA for publishing a substantive theoretical criticism of the greenhouse gas hypothesis. Another example is Prof. Harold Lewiss letter of resignation from the American Physical Society (APS) (Daily Telegraph 2010). In this letter, Professor Lewis condemns the process adopted by APS to paint over objections by members to the societys public statement on Climate Change, which included the word incontrovertible to describe the evidence for dangerous anthropogenic global warming. The likely outcome of a science-driven rethinking of human-caused climate warming is that sufficient doubt will be raised, that new carbon emission treaties and plans for carbon credit trading will be put on hold indefinitely, and established systems discontinued. ii) Recently a number of books have been published (e.g. Leroux 2010; Rapp 2010) that question the validity of computer modelling of climate phenomena, including global warming. They point to the fact that climate changes are not the result of hazard or chaos (Leroux 2010) but a complex combination of atmospheric, oceanographic and extra-terrestrial events, none of which can be measured accurately enough to support computer-based predictions. Their conclusions cast doubt on whether greenhouse gases have any direct link with global warming and whether, indeed, global temperature is a meaningful parameter considering the vast differences in the climatic conditions of Earths geographic and atmospheric regions. An increasing number of scientists consider that the issue is not so much one of hypothetical
risks of dangerous human-caused warming, but rather about the known, and often deadly, risks associated with ongoing natural climate events and hazards. They urge the adoption of national climate policies that are based upon the known and particular climate hazards of the necessarily local (not global) geography of each nation state. By their very nature, strategies that can cope with the dangers and vagaries of natural climate change will readily cope with human-caused change also, should it ever become manifest. This approach is discussed in recent books by Carter (2010) and Brunner and Lynch (2010). iii) The major danger posed by current policies that are aimed at CO2 reduction is that they divert efforts and funds that might achieve much more urgent and realizable environmental goals. In addition, antiCO2 measures manifest themselves, in the short term, in costly energy alternatives and CO2 remission or sequestration programs. Energy conservation and market efficiencies will, in the longer run, dictate the use of alternative energy sources such as geothermal. In the meantime, policy makers would be wise to continue regulating the reduction of known harmful emissions of compounds and particulates, and put into place appropriate incentives for both industry and homeowners to reduce real pollution. But this can and should be done without incurring the huge expense involved in the CO2 reduction programs now under consideration. iv) Changes in public policy are not taking place in time to prevent some jurisdictions from enacting carbon emissions legislation, e.g. European nations and New Zealand. Elsewhere, some states in the USA and some provinces in Canada are contemplating severe emissions limits, with the intention of punishing offenders by levying a tax that would be credited to companies adhering to their emission limits. Some programs such as Cap and Trade (Ontario) and Emission Trading Scheme (Aus-
tralia) appear close to enactment, though recently (May, 2010) the Prime Minister of Australia bowed to pressure from the public and the scientific community and put the Australian program on hold. v) Regarding the path of global temperature in the near future, historical data (e.g. Khandekar et al. 2005) suggest that average global temperature will probably continue to rise and fall, due to natural effects, on a cycle of about 1200 1500 years and with a departure from mean of about 0.5 deg C. If this is the case, the warming seen in the late 20th century may resume intermittently for up to the next 300 years. In the shorter term, we can perhaps expect a cooling over the next 520 years because of a weak Solar Cycle 24 (Archibald 2006) and the generally quiet nature of the sun, although an active El Nio (McLean et al. 2009) and lower cosmic ray activity could both act to counter this. It is also possible that the peak of warming attained near the end of the 20th century will prove to correspond to the apex of the millennial solar cycle, in which case the short-term cooling expected in the next few years will extend thereafter into the next cold phase, equivalent to the Little Ice Age. FALLOUT Some of the wisest words on the subject of global warming were uttered by Pope Benedict XVI (quoted by Plimer 2009): It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of sustaining the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances. One positive outcome of the rise and fall of human-caused global warming furor may be the rejection of post-modern science in favour of a revival of the traditional scientific culture which defers strictly to empirical facts and experiments rather than com-
puter models, and encourages the questioning of accepted theory by thinking outside the box. Nearly all the great scientific breakthroughs and truths in history have been won by the relentless application of empirical methodology in an atmosphere of lateral thinking. Skepticism is an essential element in the search for scientific truth. As explained by Nield (2010): Those who pay scant attention to history often find themselves denying a revolutionary idea because how can so many people have been so wrong for so long and The number of people who believe something has no bearing on its rightness. In 1954 the famous Canadian geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson abandoned his belief that continents formed from volcanic island arcs, in favour of the theory of continental drift, earlier espoused by Alfred Wegener. Wilsons enthusiasm for the new hypothesis was such that he became known, in some circles, as the Father of Continental Drift; his reputation suffered not at all. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author acknowledges reviews by Andrew D. Miall and Bob Carter, and some valuable suggestions from Geoscience Canada editor Reginald Wilson. Norman Paterson is a Professional Engineer and Consulting Geophysicist with 60 years experience in Mineral and Environmental Geophysics. He obtained his Ph. D in Geophysics at the University of Toronto in 1955, and was elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada in 1977. His work has taken him to 43 countries, where he has done pioneering work on groundwater exploration and management, as well as mineral and hydrocarbon exploration. He was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in 2002. REFERENCES
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Pagan Min
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Gang Min
King Min
Glorious Leader Min
King of Kyrat
High intelligence
Total control over the Rakyat militia
Killing people (especially with his pen).
Eating ravioli with crab.
Taking joy in pink fashion.
Install Ajay as his heir (succeeded or failed).
Rule Kyrat by eliminating the Golden Path (failed, if betrayed).
Leave Kyrat in Ajay's hands (succeeded, if betrayed).
Affably Evil Tyrant
“ You and I are gonna tear s**t up! „
~ Pagan Min to Ajay Ghale, after his own arrival.
“ Our great and glorious leader who has risked his life and limb to bring Kyrat out of the past. He sacrifices everything for his adopted homeland and loves its people like his own children. May Pagan's light shine upon you all „
~ Pagan Min
Pagan "Gang" Min is the main antagonist of the 2014 video game Far Cry 4. He is the self-appointed leader over a region named Kyrat, located in the Himalayan Mountains. He rules with an iron fist, terrorizing the people with his militia and trafficking drugs. Under his leadership, the resistance group The Golden Path formed to oppose his tyrannical leadership.
He was voiced by Troy Baker.
Son of a mid-level drug boss in the Golden Triangle, Pagan Min was born in Hong Kong originally named Gang Min by his parents. His father was a small fish in a big pond and even as a young man, Pagan was as ambitious as he was flamboyant. This peacocking is what drove a wedge between father and son. Pagan worked for his father but hated him. He was frustrated as a lieutenant and saw his father as a dinosaur. After his father’s unfortunate passing winch Pagan played a role in, Pagan inherited his small piece of the pie. He then left his old identity behind and adopted the moniker “Pagan”, naming himself after an old Burmese king who had murdered his family to take control. Pagan quickly started carving himself more of the pie he believed he deserved: he built considerable assets, a small private army and started angering his allies in the heroin trade. He didn't fit in and It was only a matter of time before the old guard decided to have him killed.
This is when his eyes fell on Kyrat, a small failed state with multiple warring factions in the wake of the collapse of its monarchy. He managed to escape China and allied himself with the Royalists, propping up a distant heir to the throne. After a few bloody months, Pagan and the united Royalists took the palace by storm, but Pagan betrayed the Royalists by murdering the heir in the palace and seizing the throne for himself. He then started a purge off anyone who didn't fall in line, executing his opposition. This betrayal formed the Golden Path, a small resistance movement dedicated to overthrowing Pagan which was lead by Mohan Ghale.
The rebellion was met with little success against Pagan's well trained and well armed mercenaries. During the course of these events, Mohan Ghale developed an increasingly strained relationship with his wife, Ishwari. Ishwari wanted to fight alongside the Golden Path rebels, but Mohan did not feel this was appropriate for a woman. In response to her insisting, Mohan sent her to Pagan's palace as a spy, Hoping that the source being so close to the truth would sufficiently horrify Ishwari to make her withdraw any further attempts to help with the rebellion. However, Mohan's actions backfired when not only did Ishwari excel as a spy, but she simultaneously began an affair with Pagan Min. Attempts to reconcile Pagan and Mohan failed.
The affair culminated when Ishwari had her second child with Pagan, a daughter named Lakshmana. Mohan killed Lakshmana, for reasons unknown, and Ishwari soon after murdered him and fled with Ajay to the United States. This caused Pagan to isolate himself in the Royal Palace and is cited by many as the reason for his current behavior.
Pagan is introduced to the player when, Ajay Ghale, son of Mohan and Ishwari, returns to Kyrat to return his mother's ashes to Lakshmana. Pagan Min learned of Ajay's passage via the border with India, and gave orders for Ajay's bus to be intercepted. The operation is botched, as the soldiers tasked with stopping the bus open fire on the bus when the driver shoots the squad commander. Immediately subsequent to these events, Pagan arrives via helicopter. Pagan becomes angry with the apparent leader of the soldiers because his mission was to stop and capture Ajay, not shoot the bus. He stabs the soldier in the neck with his pen, killing him. After this, Pagan has a bag placed over Ajay's head and he, along with Darpan, is brought to Paul "De Pleur" Harmon's compound. Ajay, De Pleur, Darpan, and Pagan are sat down at a dinner table where Pagan explains himself to Ajay. However, Darpan is caught texting Sabal for help, which leads to De Pleur and Pagan leaving Ajay to himself. After these events, Ajay then has the choice to either escape the compound and meet up with the Golden Path rebels, or wait near the table for Pagan to return, triggering an alternate ending. Pagan frequently interacts with Ajay via radio during the events of the game. Throughout the game, Pagan's interactions with Ajay reveal an ambivalent attitude towards him, in spite of Ajay supporting the Golden Path. After storming the Royal Palace, Ajay is presented with the choice to either kill Pagan where he sits or spare his life and spread his mother's ashes in Lakshmana, as he originally intended. If the player spares Pagan and spreads Ishwari's ashes in the Lakshmana Memorial, Pagan will leave peacefully via his helicopter, leaving Kyrat in Ajay's hands. Or the player can kill Pagan as he attempts to leave Kyrat via shooting the helicopter where the game ends with credits. If this ending is chosen - after travelling through Pagan's Royal Fortress, there will be a crash site where the helicopter landed, (just beside the road leading up to Pagan's palace) with Pagan's body laying beside it. You have the option to loot his body and retrieve a pen, a pin, and 250,000 money.
Personality and Traits
Pagan Min is known for his flamboyant dress, eccentric violence, and generally unconcerned approach even to highly climactic events. His attitude towards Ajay Ghale, despite Ajay working with the Golden Path and making an attempt on his life, is strangely ambivalent. In fact, over the course of Far Cry 4, Pagan has several opportunities where he could easily have taken Ajay's life, but chose not to. Pagan himself claims that he wants to change Kyrat and bring the nation into a glorious future in the ashes of the old society. Whether or not there is a single slice of truth in that, as he seems to only take care of his own needs, is unknown, even though Ishwari Ghale may or may not have had a positive influence on him. Pagan's rule of Kyrat is very much characteristic of a tyrannical and ruthless dictator, reminiscent of the totalitarian and oppressive personality cults surrounding historical communist dictators such as Mao Zedong, Kim Il-Sung, and Joseph Stalin. He controls all media in Kyrat, which he floods with propaganda for his rule and regime.
However, the events of Far Cry 4 reveals that Pagan Min has become a recluse in his royal palace, passing off the burden of leadership to his lieutenants Yuma Lau, Noore Najjar, and Paul "De Pleur" Harmon. Yuma in particular has become resentful of Pagan, lamenting that he has become weak compared to the ruthlessness of his younger self. Yuma blames Ishwari Ghale for this change in Pagan's disposition, suggesting that Pagan falling in love with Ishwari caused Pagan to temper the former strength and ruthlessness which Yuma was initially drawn to.
Far Cry 4 Trailer
Far Cry Villains Discussion - E3 2014
Far Cry 4 - Who is Pagan Min Trailer
He shares some slight similarities with the James Bond villain Raoul Silva from Skyfall, being blonde-haired, flamboyant, psychotic, manipulative and ruthless.
The original Pagan Min was the ninth king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma and ruled in the 19th century, though he killed his brothers to gain the throne, not his father (as the developers mistakenly claim here. ). The name "Pagan" or "Bagan" also refers to a kingdom and the capital city of that kingdom that existed in modern-day Burma between the 9th and 13th centuries.
He is shown to have a liking towards fashion since he was angered when the blood had stained his shoes in the intro.
He follows Kanye West on Twitter.
A 9 inch figurine of Min will be made available through Uplay.[1]
According to the Kyrat Edition trailer, his palace is near to a place called the Royal Fortress and is named the Royal Palace. There is a family grave in the Palace Garden, which is revealed to be the Lakshmana Memorial.
He is the only antagonist in the series who is directly or indirectly related to the Protagonist.
Ironically, despite being the primary antagonist he bears no ill will towards the protagonist, Ajay, and even styles Ajay as his heir, as can be inferred from the dinner table conversation.
According to the Official Far Cry 4 website issued by Ubisoft, his original name was Gang Min before he changed it.
Pagan Min will periodically call Ajay to comment on his progress. Lampshades include criticizing the Crab Rangoon meal that Ajay ignored (and had the chef/chef's family executed), meat pockets for all the raw meat Ajay stores as bait (and foreshadows Pagan Min looking forward to Ajay usurping him), all the hundreds of candles scattered around Kyrat that stay lit during a civil war for some strange reason (Min has them all banned as opposed to hiring people to blow them out daily), his body double Eric (after Ajay murders him), and the destruction of a solid gold statue.
Pagan Min has a body double, Eric, who has been surgically altered to look like Pagan Min and show up for most of his public appointments, including the money portraits and a solid gold statue. Eric is from Melbourne, Australia, and according to Pagan, is not even Asian, but has the correct cheek bones to pose as his double.
Shooting Pagan Min at the dining table prevents the player from returning Ishwari's ashes to the Lakshmana Memorial, even if Ajay makes the trek back. However, he can loot Pagan Min's corpse, which is in a different position than how Ajay left it.
It is possible to shoot down Pagan's helicopter after refusing to shoot him at the dining table. If the helicopter is shot down after exiting Lakshmana's memorial, it will award the player with the same achievement as if he or she had initially killed him. The post-credits dialogue with either Amita or Sabal will reflect this choice, implying that this choice is a legitimate variation of the ending choices. If the player revisits the Royal Palace afterward, he or she will find the helicopter's wreckage, as well as Pagan's corpse which has several unique items to be looted.
Looting Pagan Min's corpse yields Lapel Pin #2 and Pagan's Pen. The Lapel Pin #2 is one of the only copies in existence, and it has Pagan Min's real face with Pagan dead, this pin becomes extremely valuable. Pagan's Pen is revealed to be the knife that he used to stab the guard at the beginning of the game, which was dedicated to Ishwari and doubles as a pen. For some reason, you never get his phone.
Pagan's voice actor, Troy Baker, is a prominent voice actor who is known for such roles as Joel in The Last of Us, Booker DeWitt in BioShock Infinite, The Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins, Talion in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Kanji Tatsumi in Persona 4, and Jack Mitchell in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare among many others.
Pagan Min wears his iconic sequin paisley pink suit in tribute of his mother (Mentioned by one of the developers) most likely because his mother wore something pink with the same similar design all the time and it reminds Pagan of her.
Troy Baker based his voice acting portrayal on Christoph Waltz' academy winner portrayal of Col. Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds.
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"RUN AWAY!"
— King Arthur giving out advanced tactics
After the success of Monty Python's Flying Circus in the UK and US, the six Ambassadors of Anarchy got the right to make films. This 1975 effort was their second go-round (after 1971's And Now for Something Completely Different, which featured redone versions of several sketches from Circus) and one of their most famous and oft-quoted.
A complete skewering of the Arthurian legend, it tells the story of King Arthur and his attempt to build a court at Camelot (which is, of course, a silly place). Once he assembles his crew (off-screen, mostly), he has a vision of God (or a reasonable drawing of same by Terry Gilliam based on a famous cricket player ), informing him that to cement his name in immortality, he must seek the Holy Grail—the cup used at the Last Supper of Christ, and which caught his blood after the crucifixion. After a long and roundabout search which leads them to the far corners of the Kingdom and past idiosyncratic knights, the world's oldest harem, and a very nasty rabbit, they discover the Grail is supposedly located in a very old castle, which has fallen into the hands of those heathen enemies—the French.
Those nasty taunting bastards.
Full of random quips, hilarious stand-alone scenes, and the type of comedic anarchy and anticlimax that practically defines British comedy even to this day, the movie was a low-budget success story and has become a Cult Classic over time. It also reveals Michael Palin's versatility, as he plays something like 10 roles over the course of the film. He's not alone, of course; the majority of people and about 80% of the lines are from the Pythonites, leading to some interesting blocking and directing decisions. (Watch Lancelot's helmet.)
Or, if you want to be "artsy" about it, see Eric Idle's Broadway adaptation, Spamalot!.
Just a side note—because Terry Jones is, in fact, an Arthurian scholar, this happens to be not just the funniest but the most accurate film adaptation of Malory's Le Morte D Arthur ever made. Though it is not to be confused with the original myths or other tellings of King Arthur and the Holy Grail. Some of the humor, in fact, is derived from typical Pythonian spins on events and characterizations from the original tales. It also meant that Jones knew how to caricature a story already muddied by Pop Culture Osmosis.
Trope Namer for Only a Flesh Wound, And There Was Much Rejoicing, Killer Rabbit, Holy Hand Grenade, With This Herring and, indirectly, Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer, Lady Not-Appearing-in-This-Game and The Knights Who Say "Squee!".
Bring out your tropes!
Abnormal Ammo:
The cow and large wooden rabbit the French fling at the English knights. Catapulting real animals—which the French also do—was a legitimate strategy in sieges, but they were usually dead animals meant to spread disease, not living livestock. Oh, and it was an attack strategy—the animals flung into a besieged castle—as defenders had more trouble getting rid of the corpses without letting the attackers in.
Frenchman: Fetchez la vache!
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, ultimately used to defeat the Killer Rabbit.
Absurdly Sharp Blade: King Arthur can cut through the Black Knight's armor and limbs with ease; for the arms in particular, his sword doesn't even seem to go through, and a strike on the shoulder is enough to make the limb fall off. Justified, as he's using Excalibur.
Ac CENT Upon The Wrong Syl LA Ble: The Knights of the Round Table, whose shows are formidABLE, but many times are given rhymes that are quite unsingABLE.
Affectionate Parody: Terry Jones is an Arthurian scholar and knew a lot of the source material.
All Part of the Show: According to the DVD commentary, a screening at the Cannes Film Festival was interrupted by a bomb threat. Because it happened during the opening credits, the audience thought it was just another gag about the credits being interrupted.
All Women Are Lustful: Castle Anthrax, where the many vile temptresses threaten to take Galahad's purity, despite the fact that he doesn't mind.
Almost Dead Guy: Subverted constantly.
The "plague victim" who protests that he is not dead. However, both his "caretaker" and the cart bearer eventually have had enough of his whining and kill him anyway.
The Running Gag of people getting shot, stabbed, or otherwise injured, and people mourning over them as if they are giving a Final Speech, only for them to protest that they are "getting better".
Aluminum Christmas Trees:
Launching/dropping dead animals and other nasty things was a real tactic in siege warfare.note There are some hints—though by no means conclusive evidence—that The Black Death of the 1340s spread that way during a siege of the Crimean city of Caffa (now Feodosia) when besiegers threw cadavers at the besieged Terry Jones, who happens to be a historian, pointed this out when he was refused permission to film at castles owned by the National Trust because the events in the film were "inconsistent with the fabric of the building".
Those guys in the monks' robes who walk around chanting in Latin and hitting themselves in the face with boards? They were called flagellants , and compared to what some of the historical flagellant sects did to themselves, their behavior is extremely mild. That's also a real Latin chant , dated to at least the 13th century.
A stone model of a castle, done in medieval times? There is one ◊ at the Ubeda Archeological Museum in Spain.
There really were French-speaking people in England during most of the Middle Ages, though not in King Arthur's time.
Anarcho-syndicalism is a real political philosophy, and though this particular variant only applies to capitalist society, the basic ideas had older precursors: actual ancient Germans lived in a society closely resembling anarchist ideals. In fact, a lot of historical monarchies were elective to some degree, so people did vote for kings (although Arthur and the peasant woman arguing about it fits that historical tension anyway).
The "Killer Rabbit" is inspired by real medieval religious art, which often illustrated the sin of cowardice by depicting a knight fleeing from a rabbit.
The Holy Hand Grenade: an anachronistic gag? According to the opening credits, the movie's set in 932 AD, at which point hand grenades had already existed for the better part of two centuries , just in a different part of Europe (and of course the triggering pin hadn't been invented yet).
In medieval times, the word "knight" actually was pronounced more like "kuniggit", similar to the German word knecht.
An animated sequence shows naked men blowing trumpets with their anuses. This is actually something seen in quite a few medieval manuscripts for some weird reason.
Amusing Injuries: The Black Knight's limbs being lopped off with absolutely no pain or reaction in his duel with King Arthur.
Black Knight: You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!
Anachronism Stew:
The leader of the French soldiers hears chainsaw and buzzsaw noises coming from the forest when Arthur and his knights are building the Trojan rabbit.
The modern-day police officers coming to arrest Arthur and his mob at the end of the movie.
Arthur notes that "That rabbit's dynamite." Dynamite wouldn't be invented for another millennium.
Another subtle one is the conversation on swallows; the knowledge that swallows (or any birds at all) migrated was not known to Europeans until the 19th Century. Until then, it was believed they simply lived underwater or became mice.
Modern police officers show up to investigate a murder and eventually to arrest King Arthur's army.
The Holy Hand Grenade.
Anarchy Is Chaos: Intentionally averted when King Arthur comes across an anarcho-syndicalist commune of literal mud farmers. They are decidedly non-violent, particularly when compared to Arthur himself.
And There Was Much Rejoicing: The Trope Namer, after they were forced to eat Sir Robin's minstrels. Yaaay.
Arbitrary Mission Restriction: The film Parodies this trope when the Knights Who Say "Ni" demand that Arthur cut down the mightiest tree in the forest—with a herring. Of course, it overlaps with With A Herring, since the tool is not only arbitrarily specific, but also totally inadequate to the task.
Ascended Extra: Sir Bedevere is a fairly minor character of Arthurian legend, but in this movie he's one of Arthur's three continuous companions.
Author Existence Failure: In-universe (sort of) and played for laughs, as the characters are only saved from the Legendary Black Beast of AAAAAAARRRRGGGHH! when the animator suffers a fatal heart attack and the cartoon peril is no more.
Anti-Climax:
The surprise ending to the British attack on the French castle. The reason why they didn't go through with the whole fight is because they ran out of money and time and couldn't film the whole thing. So they just said "Everyone went to jail". Some people consider it a cop-out. It could also be a bust, too!
Including Eric Idle's daughter. From the documentary Monty Python: Almost the Truth:
Eric Idle: I ended the Holy Grail because we didn't have an end for that either. I said, "Why don't we have the police arrest them, put their hand over the camera." My daughter hates me for that! She says, "It's the shittiest ending of a movie ever! I hate you, Dad!"
The Death of the Legendary Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh is another example. There is no fight, just a Chase Scene. The monster disappears when the animator has a heart attack.
Apocalyptic Log: The message carved by Joseph of Aramathea giving the Grail's location.
Arranged Marriage: Prince Herbert's father wants him to marry a princess because her father owns the biggest tracts of open land in Britain, never mind Herbert's objections. Sir Lancelot comes to rescue Herbert because he thinks he's a Damsel in Distress.
Artistic License History: A man announcing himself as the "King of the Britons" and "Defeater of the Saxons" would never have concluded with "Sovereign of all England". The reason a Briton would have been fighting the Saxons in the first place would be to prevent the establishment of "England", which means "Land of the Anglo-Saxons".
As Himself: As part of one of the many fourth-wall-breaking jokes, Terry Gilliam is briefly seen as "the animator of the movie"—himself—suffering a fatal heart attack.
As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The "Swedish subtitles" during the opening credits are just English spelled with a Funetik Aksent and a liberal use of the Pūnct'uatìon Sh'akër. The foreign letter ø they use isn't even Swedish (but from the Dano-Norwegian alphabet).
Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!
Arthur's Battlecry quickly breaks down into a rather disorderly call for retreat: "Run Awaaay!", when the French counterattack by launching a farm animal at the attackers.
The tactic used against the killer rabbit is initially to Zerg Rush it. When it effortlessly kills several of them, Arthur calls a retreat.
Badass Adorable: The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog is an ordinary fluffy white rabbit that rips your throat out with ease.
Bait-and-Switch Credits: The credits start with Swedish subtitles, turn into a pitch for Swedish tourism, then an anecdote about a woman being bit by a møøse. The credits people are fired, before one more møøse subtitle comes in, after which the new directors are fired. The credits continue with møøse positions added in, which results in the directors being fired again. Finally, the last few credits are shown with bright flashing lights, crediting llamas several times, all set to Mexican mariachi music. See them all here .
The Bard: Sir Robin's minstrels, one of whom sings "Brave Sir Robin Ran Away ".
Bedsheet Ladder: Prince Herbert's escape attempt involves one, but it doesn't turn out well when his dad cuts the sheet and he falls from the tower.
Bewitched Amphibians: One of the peasants in the witch-burning scene claims that the accused turned him into a newt.
Peasant: She turned me into a newt!
Bedevere: A newt?
[beat]
Peasant: I got better.
Bilingual Bonus: Subverted when the French knights start to speak French, but have to repeat themselves in English because one of them doesn't understand French.
Frenchman #1 C'est un lapin!
Frenchman #2 Hmm?
Frenchman #1 It's a rabbit!
Frenchman #2 Ah, un lapin!
Frenchman #1 Allons-y!
Frenchman #1 Let's go!
Frenchman #2 Ah, allons-y!
Black Knight: King Arthur encounters one guarding a tiny bridge over a tiny river. He turns out to be far less fearsome than he makes himself out to be, against Arthur himself anyway.
Bloody Hilarious: King Arthur's duel with the Black Knight is absurdly gruesome, but, this being Monty Python, it's played for laughs as the man refuses to admit that Arthur is completely trashing him.
Blowing a Raspberry: The French Knight, each time he confronts King Arthur and his knights, tends to end his insults with a loud, wet raspberry.
Boomstick: Wielded by Tim the Enchanter in his first scene right before the confrontation with the Rabbit of Caerbannog. He uses it to cue thunderstrikes and Blow Stuff Up purely for dramatic effect.
In one scene, (cut from the original theatrical version, but reinstated for TV and video) Dingo turns and talks to the audience, before being admonished by various cast members who aren't involved in the scene.
"GET ON WITH IT!!"
"Look! There's the old man from Scene 24!"
Patsy: [referring to Camelot] "It's only a model"note SHHH!!!!.
Policeman: [to the camera] "That's it, sonny." [pushes camera aside] *crash* [film cuts off]
Brick Joke:
The swallow joke ("African or European?") comes up at least twice after the initial scene. The narrator goes on about how many swallows'-flights away Arthur and Bedevere are from Galahad and Lancelot, and the counter-question that allows Arthur to pass the Bridge of Death is a clarification on which species of swallow. Bedevere is also introduced with a coconut tied to a bird, though it's a dove instead of a swallow.
The above joke went even further in the script, but the final Brick Joke had to be cut because of the movie's low budget. The Pythons originally wanted the movie to end with an epic payoff for the "swallows with coconuts" joke, where Arthur's army would have stormed the Castle Aaaaargh and been aided at the last minute by a flock of swallows dropping coconuts on the French knights. Naturally, they didn't have enough cash to pull that off, and ended the movie with the cops arresting everyone instead.
After Lancelot "saves" him from Castle Anthrax, Galahad accuses Lancelot of being gay, which he denies. Subsequently, we see Lancelot rush to a castle to rescue a "damsel" who turns out to be the very effeminate Prince Herbert—who already had an escape plan. So not-gay, ostentatiously-hyper-masculine Lancelot ends up answering the personal ad of a young feminine guy who isn't at all interested in marrying a girl with huge... tracts of land.
The Book of Armaments, as read by Brother Maynard, expressly forbids counting 5. Unfortunately, Arthur keeps getting 3 and 5 mixed up, and technically does count 5.
The murder of the historian, and the ending.
Early in the film some peasants comment that Arthur must be a king as he passes them by, citing that he's the only one not covered in shit. At the end of the film, the French drop shit on Arthur.
The credits is a subtle example: all of the credits guys were sacked at the beginning of the film, so there are no end credits.
Brown Note: The Knights Who Say "Ni", a word that apparently drains the life out of whoever it is said to, or something. Later King Arthur uses the word himself. Then it's revealed that the word "it" has a similar effect on the Knights themselves.
Burn the Witch!: The villagers seek permission to burn an accused witch from Sir Bedevere, but he's not convinced she is a witch until they establish that she weighs the same as a duck, and therefore must float, which means she's made of wood, which burns--just like witches.
Canon Foreigner: Of all the named knights of the Round Table, only Sir Robin is created for the film. You'll also be hard-pressed to find any mention of Patsy, Castle Anthrax, killer rabbits, Tim the Enchanter, or Knights who say Ni in the original literature (though as for Sir-Not-Appearing-In-This-Film, who knows?)
Casting Gag: Robin's traveling minstrel is the film's music supervisor, Neil Ines.
Catchphrase: King Arthur's "Oh, shut up!", "Jesus Christ!", and "Run away!"
Celibate Hero: Sir Galahad, though he's just about to give up on it when Sir Lancelot shows up to "save" him.
Lancelot: We were in the nick of time! You were in great peril.
Galahad: I don't think I was.
Lancelot: Yes you were, you were in terrible peril!
Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Lancelot: No, it's too perilous.
Galahad: It's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can!
Lancelot: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on!
Galahad: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
Lancelot: No. It's unhealthy.
Galahad: ...Bet you're gay.
Lancelot: Am not!
Chandelier Swing: Parodied when Sir Lancelot attempts one, but gets stuck and has to ask for someone to give him a push.
Character Name and the Noun Phrase: Well, creator name, but the principle is the same.
Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Inverted. The French are constantly getting the drop on the English knights.
Chekhov's Gag: Several; the debate about swallows is foremost. It comes back for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it shot at the beginning of the witch-burning scene, when Sir Bedevere is apparently attempting to see if a bird can fly with a coconut tied to its legs, and again near the finale, when Arthur's experience with the subject gives him an edge over the Bridgekeeper.
Chekhov's Gun:
Halfway through the film, a historian appears to summarize the next part of the plot and is murdered. Later, Arthur, Sir Bedevere, and Sir Lancelot are stopped on their quest and arrested for his murder.
Arthur's overheard information about swallows and coconuts. Used to launch someone off a bridge.
The Chosen One: Subverted and discussed. When King Arthur gives his Lady Of the Lake speech, an anarcho-syndicalist peasant doesn't see what's so special about being chosen.
Dennis the Mud Farmer: Strange women layin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!
Rule of Funny applies here, since in the legends the Lady of the Lake gave Excalibur to Arthur when he was already king. He became king by drawing a sword from a stone (sometimes Excalibur, sometimes a different one), which the film doesn't mention.
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Almost every character in the film counts as this, with the exception of the Historian, his Wife, and the Police, whose presence only reinforces the theory that the main characters are merely away with the fairies.
The Coconut Effect: Parodied with a literal use of Coconut Superpowers; all of the knights mime riding horses, while their serfs follow behind them with two empty halves of coconuts, clapping them together. Subverted by the knight who kills off the Historian - the only knight in the movie to actually mount a horse.
Coconut Superpowers: A literal use, caused by the movie having No Budget.
The horses are just the serfs following their knight, clapping two halves of a coconut together.
When the knights are hurled from the Bridge of Death, the actor is just crouched down, and then standing up real fast before the camera cuts to a shot of the "knight" flying through the air.
Combat Pragmatist: Despite how absurd the film is, the fight between the Green and Black Knights is actually very close to how a fight would have gone in the Middle Ages. The fighters use not only the blades of their swords, but also the pommel and cross guard. Kicks and punches are thrown and the knights attack the other while they are down.
Commune: Dennis the peasant informs Arthur that he refuses to acknowledge him as king, since Dennis didn't get to vote for him, and getting made king by having received a sword from "some watery tart" (i.e. the Lady of the Lake) is no basis for government. He then goes into a far more detailed explanation of how their governance works, to Arthur's annoyance (eventually culminating in him grabbing Dennis). This is later stated on the DVD commentary by John Cleese as a parody of radical leftists living in the UK at the time.
Cool and Unusual Punishment:
The Knights of Ni and King Arthur using the Brown Note "Ni!" to hurt people.
Apparently the punishment for lighting the "Grail-shaped" beacon at the Castle Anthrax is for the offender to be tied to a bed and spanked. And after the spanking, the oral sex!
Corpsing: During the "Burn the Witch" scene, a scythe-wielding peasant (Eric Idle) bites into his scythe to keep himself from cracking up.
Credits Gag
The opening credits are underscored by bogus "Swedish" subtitles, with liberal reference to møøse for Caption Humor.
Literally everything in the final segment of the opening credits is some sort of reference to llamas.
Mass firings, which carries on into the end credits, or lack thereof.
The disclaimer that no characters are based on real people is signed by Richard M. Nixon.
Crashing Through the Harem: Sir Galahad fights his way through a forest in a storm until he finds Castle Anthrax, which has a Grail-shaped beacon overhead. He bangs on the door, and when it opens he falls inside. He meets several young women, one of whom tells him that the castle contains eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between the ages of 16 and 19½. As Sir Galahad escapes from two naughty female doctors, he enters a room filled with the aforementioned eight score young women. Just as he decides to stay, Sir Lancelot arrives to "rescue" him and get him to continue the Grail quest. Sir Galahad then proceeds to call him gay.
Crosscast Role: In a rarity for Monty Python, there's only one example of crossdressing in the whole film: the very minor character of Dennis' mother, who is played by Terry Jones. Even the Pythons comment on this on the DVD commentary, and surmise that, since they could afford an actual cast for the first time, they just naturally hired real women to play the women in the film. Indeed Connie Booth (Cleese's then wife) is cast as the supposed witch, while Carol Cleveland is the main woman in Castle Anthrax.
Cryptic Conversation: Scene 24, wherein the old man who later turns out to be the Bridgekeeper explains (but only with prophetic vagueness) how they are to find the Grail.
Damsel in Distress: The Prince in the swamp castle is (obviously) actually a Distressed Dude, but it's worth mentioning as it is deliberately played as a Parody of a Damsel in Distress. Lancelot, in fact, thinks it is the latter, and is distinctly nonplussed when he realizes the truth.
Dark Age Europe: It takes place in the Dark Ages in England... with Frenchmen present, for some reason. Common tropes for the setting are everywhere, such as World Shapes:
Bedevere: And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.
One can pretend it is just a very early vanguard of William The Conqueror.
Death by Looking Up: The only person killed when the "Trojan Rabbit" is launched is one of the servants, who stands still, looking up at it.
Death of a Thousand Cuts: Lancelot tries, without success, to take out the French castle using this technique. The marks in the castle's masonry from John Cleese's blade remain to this very day.
Defied Trope: The King of Swamp Castle is not having any musical numbers if he can help it. (Unfortunately for him, he can't stop a Crowd Song.)
Department of Redundancy Department:
A very wordy set of instructions is given to use the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
Brother Maynard: Three is the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four thou shalt not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
This sounds exactly like an oral tradition (where repetition helped cement things in memory) that got transcribed exactly when it got written down. See above about Terry Jones being a history geek.
Parts of the Book of Armaments bear an uncanny resemblance to the Athanasian Creed, which affirms the Christian doctrine of the Trinity in agonizing detail note presumably written very carefully to avoid schisms in the Church and to prevent People's Front of Judaea vs Judaean People's Front vs Popular Front situations. To quote just a tiny section:
"...and yet they are not three eternals; but one eternal. As also there are not three uncreated; nor three infinites, but one uncreated; and one infinite. So likewise the Father is Almighty; the Son Almighty; and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not three Almighties; but one Almighty. So the Father is God; the Son is God; and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods; but one God..."
Derailed for Details: In the opening scene, King Arthur's attempt to summon the Lord of the local castle derails into a discussion of how exactly King Arthur acquired a coconut shell in Medieval England, and ends with an argument over the migratory patterns of swallows. This even turns up later in a Brick Joke.
Deranged Animation: The various intercut scenes, like with the Black Beast of AAAAAAARRRRGGGHH!, are animated in Terry Gilliam's signature deranged style.
The Blu-ray extras contain even more examples, newly restored, that didn't make it into the final film.
Determinator: Deconstructed, figuratively and literally, by the Black Knight scene. Cleese even said he based it on a school lesson in never surrendering that Cleese found rather ridiculous (as it was about a Greco-Roman wrestler who died in the ring rather than lose the match). If all your limbs are cut off then, no matter how determined you are, you can't continue fighting.
Deus ex Machina: Played for Laughs when the Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh is stopped by the animator having a heart attack.
Diabolus ex Machina: The ending where Arthur's army is arrested by modern-day police.
Didn't Think This Through: The complete failure of the Trojan Rabbit plan: It's an obvious rehash of the classic Trojan Horse, except that Bedevere forgot to include the part where anybody is inside the rabbit. He doesn't even realize the mistake until the rabbit is already inside the castle and Arthur asks him what the next step is.
Bedevere: Now, we wait until nightfall, and then, Lancelot, Galahad, and I leap out of the rabbit—
Arthur: Who leaps out of the rabbit?
Bedevere: Er, Lancelot... Galahad... and, oh...
Dispense with the Pleasantries: God to King Arthur.
God: Arthur! Arthur, King of the Britons! Oh, don't grovel! If there's one thing I can't stand, it's people groveling.
Arthur: Sorry—
God: And don't apologize. Every time I try to talk to someone it's "sorry this" and "forgive me that" and "I'm not worthy". What are you doing now!?
Arthur: I'm averting my eyes, oh Lord.
God: Well, don't. It's like those miserable Psalms—they're so depressing. Now knock it off!
Distressed Dude: The Swamp Prince is in need of rescuing. Lancelot thinks he's a Damsel in Distress, and the situation is deliberately played as a Parody of that trope.
Dope Slap:
After Sir Bedevere fails with the Giant Wooden Rabbit idea, he comes up with a Giant Wooden Badger idea and king Arthur slaps him on the side of his helmet.
Prince Herbert and his father are standing next to an open window talking.
Father: One day, lad, all this will be yours. [gestures toward the window]
Herbert: What, the curtains?
Father: [hits him on the back of the head] No, not the curtain, lad!
Double Entendre: The Swamp King has a famous euphemism for large breasts.
Swamp King: She's rich, she's beautiful, she's got huuuuge... [suggestive gesture] tracts of land.
Double Take: The French soldier performs an exaggerated one when he sees the Trojan Rabbit in the distance.
The Dulcinea Effect: Subverted by Lancelot's attempt to rescue the Prince.
Lancelot: O Fair One, behold your humble servant Sir Lancelot of Camelot. I have come in answer to your mess-(notices that he's talking to a man) oh, I'm terribly sorry!
The Dung Ages: Played for Laughs, of course:
The corpse collector is able to identify Arthur as a king because "he hasn't got shit all over him", never mind the crown on his head.
Dennis and his mother are mud farmers.
Dwindling Party: Thanks in no small part to the Bridge of Death, where the knights get launched into a pit of despair for failing the questions of the bridgekeeper. By the end of the scene, only Arthur and Bedevere are left.
Dying Clue: With his dying breath, Joseph of Aramathea carves a message on a cave wall.
King Arthur: If he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh!", he'd just say it!
Sir Galahad: Perhaps he was dictating.
King Arthur: Oh, shut up.
The whole gag is subverted when the Castle is revealed to be named "Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh!".
Dynamic Entry: Sir Lancelot does this in "The Tale Of Sir Lancelot". After running at the entrance of the castle (in various repeated clips) he storms the front door, kills pretty much everyone and then attempts a Dynamic Exit. Except he fails and needs a push.
Early-Bird Cameo:
Sir Bors appears much earlier than his famous death scene; he's one of the helmeted knights who help Lancelot "rescue" Galahad from Castle Anthrax. He's not named in that scene, but you can tell it's him since he has the same heraldry.
Tim the Enchanter and the army summoned to fight the French appear during the fourth-wall breaking scene in Castle Anthrax.
Everyone: Yes, get on with it!
Eat Dirt, Cheap: Parodied. The Constitutional Peasants are seen gathering dirt and filth in the same way one would harvest crops.
Eat the Dog: Robin's minstrels have to be eaten during a particularly desperate winter. And There Was Much Rejoicing. (Yaaaaay.)
Episode Discussion Scene: There's a scene that has a historian begin to deliver a short lecture explaining the historical context of the plot, until the trope was subverted when one of the story's knights killed the historian in the middle of a sentence.
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The historian's name is given as 'A Famous Historian' but when his wife calls out to him she says Frank.
Everyone Join the Party: At the end, hundreds of soldiers show up literally out of nowhere.
Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Sir Bedevere discovers that while his plan was tactically sound, he has missed an important step in its preparation:
King Arthur: [after watching the French roll the Trojan Rabbit into their fortress] What happens next?
Bedevere: Well, now, uh, Lancelot, Galahad, and I wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French by surprise—not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!
King Arthur: [glancing over at Lancelot and Galahad, still standing nearby]... Who leaps out?
Bedevere: [hesitantly] Uh, Lancelot, Galahad, and I, uh, leap out of the rabbit, uh, and, uh... [looks at the other knights, who are facepalming] I—look, if we built this large wooden badger...
Eye Scream: The Green Knight gets the Black Knight's sword through the eye-slot of his helmet. Cue High-Pressure Blood.
Face Palm: Upon recognizing a glaring flaw in the Trojan Rabbit plan, most of the other knights do this in the background.
Fake-Out Opening: On the special edition DVD, the movie begins with the completely unrelated film Dentist on the Job. Shortly into the movie, a projectionist is heard changing reels before finally beginning the real movie.
Fake Shemp: Used in many, many scenes, including an actual one-legged man (named Richard Burton, no less—despite not being that other guy) playing the Black Knight in part of his scene, the French taunter being played in long shots by (as per behind-the-scenes footage) a man whose thick Scottish accent was dubbed by Cleese, a stand-in with a black-and-white helmet playing Sir Lancelot while Cleese plays Tim the Enchanter, and Brother Maynard reading an inscription about the Castle of Aaaaaaaargh to Arthur's Knights, including a Sir Robin we don't recognise trying to hide behind his shield.
Fantasy-Forbidding Father: In this case, Break-Into-Musical-Numbers-Forbidding Father.
Fear Is the Appropriate Response: Arthur and his remaining knights run away when the evil bunny kills some of them off.
Feelies: At least one edition of the DVD has instructions on the back to use the DVD case to play along with the chanting monks. By holding it firmly in both hands and smashing it into your face...
Feels No Pain: The Black Knight is apparently completely immune, and even oblivious, to the pain and blood loss from his severed limbs.
Fetch Quest: The Knights who say "Ni" send the protagonists on a quest for a shrubbery for no apparent reason.
King Arthur: O, Knights of Ni. We have brought you your shrubbery. May we go now?
Film the Hand: The last shot in the movie is a policeman blocking the camera.
Finders Rulers: Arthur's claim to royalty lies in him possessing Excalibur.
Flat Joy: Whenever the narrator says "And There Was Much Rejoicing", it's followed by the characters giving out an unenthusiastic "Yaaaaaay" and some waving of flags.
Focal Length: The shot of Lancelot running toward the swamp castle is extended into Parody by zooming in and out... and repeating footage.
Flynning: Averted, surprisingly, in one of the few Hollywood "knights in armor" tropes that's not parodied. The fight between the Green and Black Knights is very aggressive and ruthless (with the combatants not only using the blades but hitting each other with the crossguards and pommels, kicking, punching, and hitting the other guy while he's down) which is actually a much more accurate portrayal of what a real-life sword fight would have been like.
French Jerk: The French castle is full of them, particularly the one played by John Cleese, who does nothing but spew insults at King Arthur.
Funny Background Event: Pay close attention to now-empty scales during the end of Bedevere's introduction scene after the 'witch' has been carried off. The side that had the duck is hanging significantly lower than the side that had the 'witch'.
Funny Foreigner: The French castle guard.
Frenchman: I'm French! Why do you zink I have zis outrrrrageous accent, you silly king-a?!
Frenchman: I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Fun with Subtitles: The opening credits start with an As Long as It Sounds Foreign "Swedish" subtitle that merely uses the Pūnct'uatìon Sh'akër on all the letters, but then quickly turns into a bizarre story about møøses and toothbrushes.
Gag Boobs: Conversed by the King of the Swamp Castle. Herbert's bride-to-be has huge... tracts of land.
Gag Sub: The opening credits have bogus "Swedish" subtitles, and the DVD release includes a complete set of bogus subtitles for the entire film. The latter is entirely composed of lines from William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 2. It's labeled on the DVD as being "For People Who Did Not Like The Film".
Gainax Ending: Also could qualify as a Played for Laughs Downer Ending, as Arthur gets arrested by (modern-day) police officers in connection with a trans-temporal murder committed by an entirely different person earlier in the film. The climactic battle with the French never happens.
Genericist Government: Rather deliberately subverted, where King Arthur claims to be a king, and the peasant blithely demands to know what kind of government he offers, and how it is an improvement over the anarcho-syndicalist model already practiced by the local peasantry (which he insists on describing in detail). The conversation ends with the peasant complaining about "being repressed" when King Arthur attempts to shut him up in annoyance.
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: The Dreaded Black Beast of Aaaaargh is never mentioned before or after its appearance and has nothing to do with anything (despite sharing its name with a few other set pieces), although it's probably not from space. It wouldn't be the first Monty Python alien in a historical parody.
Girl in the Tower: Parodied. For one thing, it's a man, and it only gets worse from there.
God: Shows up, crudely animated and cranky, to give the Knights a sacred quest. Turns out not to be a fan of grovelling or of depressing religious psalms.
Groin Attack: The Black Knight does it to the Green Knight while fighting him, as Arthur and company look on.
The Guards Must Be Crazy: The Swamp Castle guards watch their prisoner blatantly write a request for help, grab a bow, and then shoot it out a window. They do nothing because their orders did not include stopping him from doing so.
Hair-Raising Hare: The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, who kills three of the Knights of the Round Table.
Hand Signals:
Arthur uses some to direct his knights after arriving at the castle with the insulting French guards.
The chief of the Knights Who Say Ni holds up a hand to stop his fellow Knights from saying Ni to King Arthur and his party.
The enchanter Tim holds up a hand to stop King Arthur's party as they approach the Cave of Caerbannog.
Brother Maynard points to his assistants to signal them to retrieve the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
Having a Blast: Tim the Enchanter randomly shoots off fireballs and uses elaborate hand gestures that cause massive explosions in his opening scene. We never see him do it again, but at least he made a good first impression.
Heaven Above: The movie crudely depicts God as a giant Sky Face who rips open a cloud to start a conversation with King Arthur, taking the association of the heavens with Heaven to a comical extreme.
High-Pressure Blood
King Arthur's duel with the Black Knight; every time the knight loses a limb, he spurts absurd amounts of blood for a second or two.
The scene with the Killer Rabbit, wherein the rabbit bites off a few heads, does the same thing.
Historical In-Joke: Alfred, King of the English, actually built a stronghold in a swamp, for his guerilla war against the Danish invaders.
Hoist by His Own Petard:
The bridge-keeper attempts to invoke three questions before letting them cross (which are either very easy—if you aren't indecisive—or awfully hard trick questions or trivia). If they fail (either by not knowing one of the answers or simply being indecisive), they are hurled down a fiery crevice. When Arthur gets his turn, specifically when he gets to the third question (about the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow), Arthur asks for clarification as to whether he meant an unladen African swallow or an unladen European swallow. The bridgekeeper then admits he doesn't know, with predictable results.
The Knights of the Round Table, when the French taunters catapult their own Trojan Rabbit back at them.
Holy Hand Grenade: The Trope Namer. "Bless this oh Lord thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch." It's a holy weapon meant to smite evil.
Hollywood Apocrypha: Brother Maynard reads from the Book of Armaments.
Hollywood Tactics: Played for comedy. Arthur and his knights charge heedlessly at the walls of a castle on foot, without siege implements or any other apparent plan on getting into the castle. Only Lancelot manages to actually reach the wall, and he simply chops at it with his sword before retreating.
Hollywood Torches: Big, flaming torches are used as easy props in a few interior scenes.
Hurricane of Euphemisms: The anarcho-syndicalist peasant uses different synonyms each time he argues against Arthur's Lady of the Lake speech.
The Idol's Blessing: King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table are literally blessed by God himself to find the Holy Grail and cement their names in legends.
I'm a Humanitarian: Robin's minstrels, in a pun on Galaxy Minstrels .
Narrator: And they were forced to eat Robin's minstrels... And There Was Much Rejoicing.
Knights: Yaaaaay.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The three knights impaled to a tree with a lance by the three-headed knight.
Implausible Deniability:
When the Black Knight is getting his arse handed to him by King Arthur, he insists that "it's just a flesh wound".
When Bedevere reacts with (understandable) disbelief to the peasant's claim that a witch turned him into a newt, despite him standing right there in full human form, the peasant meekly adds, "...I got better."
Impossible Task: "You must chop down the mightiest tree in the forest... wiiiiiiiiith... a herring!"
Improbable Aiming Skills:
The Black Knight throwing his sword right through the eye-slot of the Green Knight's helmet.
Prince Herbert fires an arrow with a message tied to it out of the window, and it travels a considerable distance before striking Lancelot's servant square in the chest.
Incessant Music Madness: Sir Robin eventually loses his temper with his minstrels, though it has more to do with their derogatory lyrics than the quality of their singing.
Informed Ability: The minstrels initially gush about Sir Robin's bravery, but after he flees from combat with the three-headed giant, it turns into servile snarking.
Inherently Funny Words:
Ni!
Shrubbery.
"A newt?" (As opposed to, say, a cat.)
Møøse. Majestic perhaps, but very funny.
Insane Troll Logic: Bedevere's faultless chain of reasoning leading to the conviction of the witch: If a woman weighs the same amount as a duck then she's made of wood because both ducks and wood float, and because both wood and witches burn, she must be a witch! In true Monty Python fashion, it works! Also, one of the tracks on the soundtrack album is an alleged philosophy professor analyzing the very thing. He concludes that sex is better than logic.
In the same scene, one of the peasants suggests building a bridge out of the woman to test if she's made of wood. Bedevere shoots down that idea... by pointing out that bridges can also be made from stone.
Insistent Terminology: Overlapping with Sarcasm Mode, the repeated use of the word "brave" to describe Sir Robin during the minstrels' song veers into this territory.
Intermission: Parodied. The "intermission" is ninety percent of the way through the movie and very brief.
Invisible Backup Band: Every time Herbert makes an (almost always abortive) attempt to start singing, a band begins to play, before it's all shut down by his father.
"I Want" Song: Defied. The lord of Swamp Castle keeps stopping his son, Prince Herbert, from breaking out into one at several points. It is first, in a later scene, where Herbert turns it into a Crowd Song that he is able to drown out his father's attempts to stop it.
Swamp King: And that is what you're going to get, lad! The strongest castle in all of these isles!
Hebert: But I don't want any of that! I'd rather...
Swamp King: Rather what?!
Hebert: I'd rather... just... sing! (music starts swelling up)
Swamp King: Stop that! Stop that! (music grinds to a hold) You're not going into a song while I'm here!
Jerkass Has a Point: Dennis is annoying as hell, but he's correct that 1) in real-world terms Arthur's claim to be ruler is Insane Troll Logic, 2) Arthur has not been given legitimacy by the people he seeks to rule, and 3) Arthur immediately begins attacking and insulting him the instant he points out 1 and 2, thereby proving that "violence is inherent in the system".
Just a Stupid Accent: John Cleese's taunting Frenchman hangs a lampshade. It's further played with when one of the French knights does speak French (or uses commonly-known French words), and the other Frenchmen don't understand a word.
Frenchman #1: C'est un cadeau!
Frenchman #2: Huh?
Frenchman #1: It's a present!
Frenchman #2: Oh! Oui, un cadeau!
Frenchman #1: Oui! Oui! Allons-y!
Frenchman #2: What?
Frenchman #1: Let's go.
Frenchman #2: Oh!
Kick Them While They Are Down: After Arthur cuts his arms off, the Black Knight kicks Arthur as he prays. When he won't let up, Arthur cuts off both of his legs, too.
Killed Mid-Sentence: "It's the legendary Black Beast of— (gets eaten) AAAAARRRRRRGGGHHH!"
Killer Rabbit: The Trope Namer, who the Knights run into in their quest for the Holy Grail, and rapidly lives up to its name.
King Arthur: As the movie is a parody of the Arthurian mythos, King Arthur is, predictably, the main character.
Kinky Spanking: The women in Castle Anthrax try to get Sir Galahad to spank them for luring him in. Unfortunately for Galahad, Sir Lancelot thinks it's "too perilous".
Lady Land: Castle Anthrax is populated entirely by "young blondes and brunettes, all between the ages of 16 and 19-and-a-half." They are doctors, you know, so you must obey them when they undress you.
Leeroy Jenkins: Sir Lancelot. He storms a castle to save what he thinks is a princess, killing a lot of innocent people as he does it, only to find he's gotten everything completely wrong. When the innocent people in the castle rightly want his head for it, Lancelot kills a few more of them before he's stopped.
Left the Background Music On: Prince Herbert tries to start a musical number several times. His father interrupts him every time, except for the last one, when an assembled crowd starts it.
Letting the Air Out of the Band:
Every time Herbert's father shuts down his attempts to start singing, the Invisible Backup Band deflates.
Each time the credits stop to inform the viewer that someone has been sacked, the background music deflates before starting up again.
A Light in the Distance: Castle Anthrax's Grail-shaped beacon is what leads Galahad through the storm.
Lighter and Softer: The Trojan Horse is adapted to the Trojan Rabbit. When that fails, it is suggested that they re-adapt it into the Trojan Badger.
Literal Disarming: King Arthur cuts off both of the Black Knight's arms and both of his legs, and the Black Knight still refuses to surrender.
Black Knight: Alright, let's call it a draw.
King Arthur: Come, Patsy!
Black Knight: Oh, oh, I see... Running away?! You yellow bastard! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!
Literal-Minded: Prince Herbert's guards are so literal in their interpretation of their orders that they allow Herbert to engineer his rescue because in the process he never does anything they were told to keep him from doing.
Logical Fallacies: The ignorance of the people of the era is Played for Laughs in the witch scene, where they fall for a classic Association Fallacy.
Lord Error-Prone: Lancelot when he's Storming the Castle. He thinks he's rescuing a Damsel in Distress by slaying her captors, when he's really killing innocent wedding guests and saving a whiny young man from an arranged marriage.
Lovable Coward: Sir Robin, the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot, who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor, and who had nearly stood up against the Chicken of Bristol, and who had personally wet himself at the battle of Badon Hill:
Minstrels: Brave Sir Robin ran away
Sir Robin: No!
Minstrels: Bravely ran away, away
Sir Robin: I didn't!
Minstrels: When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled
Minstrels: Yes Brave Sir Robin turned about
Minstrels: And gallantly he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet
Sir Robin: I never did!
Minstrels: He beat a very brave retreat
Sir Robin: All lies!
Minstrels: Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!
Sir Robin: I never!
The Low Middle Ages: Note that in the DVD commentary, the Pythons admit that Anachronism Stew is at work: It is said to be set in Dark Ages Britain, but the costumes are based on fashions from the 1300s, not to mention the castles.
Lyrical Dissonance: The song "Brave Sir Robin Ran Away" is a jaunty tune about all of the Body Horror that Sir Robin is allegedly not afraid of. Sir Robin finally stops it when the minstrels get too graphic.
Minstrels: He was not in the least bit scared
To be mashed into a pulp
Or to have his eyes gouged out
And his elbows broken
To have his kneecaps split
And his body burned away
And his limbs all hacked and mangled
Brave Sir Robin.
His head smashed in
And his heart cut out
And his liver removed
And his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped
And his bottom burnt off
And his pen—
Sir Robin: That's—that's enough music for now, lads...
Made of Plasticine: How easily King Arthur hacks off the Black Knight's limbs. With the arms in particular, it looks as though a mere tap on the shoulder is enough to detach a limb.
Major Injury Underreaction: The Black Knight each time Arthur removes a limb (all four of them), as well as Lancelot's faithful squire Concorde upon getting shot in the chest. ("Message for you, sir!")
MacGuffin Location: "Camelot! Camelot! Camelot! It's only a model. Shh!"
"Well, on second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place."
Medieval Morons: Both used (the witch scene) and subverted (the anarcho-syndicalist commune).
Medium Awareness: Prince Herbert's father when the prince is about to start singing. He's aware of the invisible back up band.
Medium Blending: As with virtually all of their work, the movie frequently switches from live-action to Terry Gilliam's Deranged Animation, particularly for transitions between scenes, though it crops up elsewhere as well, such as with the Black Beast of Aaaaaaaarrrrrgh.
Miles Gloriosus: "Brave" Sir Robin, who has a troupe of troubadours to follow him about and sing his praises. Unfortunately, he runs away at the first sign of danger, and they incorporate his cowardice into their song.
Minsky Pickup: The Camelot song begins this way, naturally.
Miscarriage of Justice: Fridge Logic shows that the police were in the wrong to cart off Arthur and his men as the murderers of A Famous Historian. The knight who killed him rode a real horse.
Misplaced Wildlife: Infamously, coconuts in medieval England. Extensively discussed, but never actually justified: Arthur claims that he and his men found them, but he doesn't especially care how they got to England, only exasperatedly suggesting that perhaps Swallows Did It.
Mission from God: The knights seek the Holy Grail because God told them to do so.
Mistaken for Gay:
Galahad accuses Lancelot of this since the latter rescues the former from "almost certain temptation" from a castle full of virgin women.
Galahad: Bet you're gay!
Lancelot: ...No, I'm not.
In Spamalot!, Lancelot really is gay.
In the screenplay on the DVD, the other knights look knowingly at Lancelot.
Moment Killer: An epically funny one when Sir Lancelot shows up at Castle Anthrax to save Sir Galahad from almost certain temptation.
Monster Munch: Sirs Bors, Gawain, and Ector, three Red Shirts who show up after the Time Skip following the Knights of Ni scene, exist entirely to be killed by the Killer Rabbit.
Mood Whiplash: Parodied (like everything else) when King Arthur and Sir Bedevere finally reach the castle where the Holy Grail is kept. The scene even has majestic music playing, until...
King Arthur: Our quest is at an end! God be praised! (he and Sir Bedevere kneel) Almighty God, we thank Thee that Thou hast vouchsafed to us the most holy- (a sheep is flung at them) JESUS CHRIST!! (sheep lands on them)
French Guard: Hello, stuffy English Kniggit and Monsieur Arthur King who has the brain of a duck, you know! So we French persons art with you a second time!
Moving the Goalposts: The Knights Who Say "Ni" do this to King Arthur and Sir Bedevere. After they get the Knights a shrubbery, the Knights demand another shrubbery, and to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring. Arthur and Bedevere are only saved thanks to Arthur accidentally exploiting the Knights' Weaksauce Weakness to the word "it".
Multiple Head Case: The three-headed giant whose heads bicker amongst themselves, which ultimately allows Robin to escape while they are distracted.
Mythology Gag:
Sir Bedevere is the first knight to follow Arthur. The character of Bedevere (Welsh: Bedwyr) appeared in Arthurian legend before Lancelot, Galahad and the rest (except Sir Robin who is new).
Sir Bedevere is also the last of Arthur's knights to remain. In Malory's Le Morte D Arthur he is the last knight alive after the final battle where Arthur is mortally wounded.
Sir Robin was mentioned to have wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill. This battle was apparently a real event which Arthur became associated with. It frequently comes up in discussions about the historical basis for the Arthur legends.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Not Castle AAAAaaaaaargh (although it clearly was intended to evoke this trope), but Castle Anthrax. Maybe there really was more peril there for Lancelot to rescue Galahad from than just losing his chastity...
Never Say That Again: Ni!
Turned around on the knights, later. They are drained of their will by the word "it".
Oddly enough, the knight says it at the top of the scene with no harm done. He hits himself with it for damage during the fadeout.
No Ending: Due to a combination of writer's block, No Budget and everyone getting fed up with the film's Troubled Production. Arthur and his knights prepare to storm the French castle, and are then promptly arrested by the police for the murder of a historian killed by a random knight halfway through the film.
Noodle Implements: Bedevere claims to have some theories on how sheep's bladders can be used to prevent earthquakes. Then again, he is quite the Cloud Cuckoolander.
No Party Like a Donner Party: The minstrels are used as food to get through winter.
Narrator: In the frozen land of Nador, they were forced to eat Robin's minstrels . And there was much rejoicing.
The Noun Who Verbed: The Knights Who Say "Ni" use the word as their greatest weapon. They later change their name to something along the lines of "The Knights Who Say 'Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptangya Zoooooooom Boing Ni'", however, King Arthur, who can't pronounce this, proceeds to call them "The Knights Who 'Til Recently Said 'Ni'".
Off with His Head!: The knight Bors has his head bitten off by the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
Oh, Crap!: It seems as though all will be well when the King of Swamp Castle is walking with Lancelot to have a drink, when one of the guests recognizes Lancelot.
Guest: There he is!
King: Oh, bloody hell.
Ominous Fog: The fellowship encounters heavy fog in the woods which creeps them out.
Ominous Latin Chanting: The flagellant monks recite what are Catholic prayers, while hitting themselves on the head with wooden planks.
Only a Flesh Wound: The Trope Namer—but subverted. King Arthur chops the Black Knight's sword arm off to end the fight quickly and thus avoid having to kill him. When the knight insists on fighting one-armed, he chops off the other one, then one leg, then the other. At this point, the knight is clearly bleeding out and will probably die, but he trash-talks Arthur as if nothing had happened at all.
Only Sane Man: Arthur. He's not necessarily brilliant, but he's a capable and smart leader, a good sword fighter, confident, assertive, and the only one without a severe emotional problem of some sort. (And he hasn't got shit all over him)
Only Six Faces: The vast majority of roles are played by the Pythonites with appropriate costume changes. The fellow playing the "Famous Historian" also plays the old man added to the cartload of dead.
Only Smart People May Pass: Parodied in the Bridge of Death scene. The old man guarding it asks three questions; the first two are harmless, but the third one can be either another harmless one or a tricky piece of trivia nobody is assumed to know off-hand. Get any of them wrong or show hesitation and you're launched into the abyss below. This goes for the bridge keeper as well.
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping:
John Cleese's faux-French accent slips into his British one momentarily during the French Taunting scene .
Cleese inverts this during his scenes as Tim the Enchanter, whose accent suddenly becomes much thicker between his first meeting with the knights and the scenes at the Cave of Caerbannog.
Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: The Black Knight sequence; every limb lopped off results in a spray of High-Pressure Blood.
Overly Literal Transcription: Discussed while seeing the carved message from Joseph of Aramathea: "He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the holy grail in the Castle of Aaauuuggghhh..."
Bedevere: What is that?
Brother Maynard: He must have died while carving it.
Lancelot: Oh, come on!
Brother Maynard: Well, that's what it says.
King Arthur: Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't have bothered to carve "Aaaauuuggghhhh". He would just say it.
Brother Maynard: Well, that's what's carved in the rock.
Sir Galahad: Perhaps it was dictating.
Overly Long Gag:
It takes an inordinately long time and many patient repetitions for the King of Swamp Castle to get his guards to understand that he wants them to stay in the room and not let Prince Herbert leave. And just when the King thinks they've got it, the guards start to follow him out of the room (i.e., the exact opposite of what the King told them to do), and he has to explain his orders yet again.
The sequence of Lancelot charging toward the gate of Swamp Castle, played over and over again.
Painful Rhyme: invokedThe "Camelot" song is built around these, and it's even lampshaded:
We're Knights of the Round Table, our shows are for-mid-able
But many times, we're given rhymes that are quite un-sing-able...
Painting the Medium: Done literally with the title card in Sir Lancelot's segment as an animated cartoonist is painting the title card itself.
The Pig Pen: The villagers compared to Arthur, since "...he hasn't got shit all over him."
Poirot Speak: The whispering among the Frenchmen is full of this. When they are about to Drop the Cow, the order is whispered in Franglais: "Fetchez la vache!". Later when they bring in the Trojan Rabbit, they cannot understand each other in French and have to switch to English: "C'est un lapin, lapin de bois. Quoi? Un cadeau. What? A present. Oh, un cadeau."
Prayer of Malice: Parodied; the heroes pray for God not only to defeat their enemies, but to "blow them to tiny bits, in Thy Mercy".
Prophet Eyes: The old hag has whited out eyes as she gives out her prophecy.
Precision F-Strike: The script originally called for Sir Galahad to tell Tim the Enchanter to "fuck off" during the Killer Rabbit scene. He instead says "Get stuffed." due to a censorship request. Still, "shit" has been said a few brief times.
The Presents Were Never from Santa: Dennis pours scorn on the Lady of the Lake myth:
Dennis the Mud Farmer: Listen, strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
Public Domain Artifact: The Holy Grail is the object of the heroes' quest, given to them by God.
Red Shirt: Bors, Gawain and Ector. They appear suddenly and without barely any introduction before The Rabbit of Caerbannog and they are promptly dispatched.
Remember the New Guy?: Sirs Gawain, Ector and Bors show up with no explanation whatsoever, and nobody seems to notice. Though they do appear after a year-long Time Skip. Brother Maynar shows up in the background at the same time, but it's easy not to notice him until the Holy Hand Grenade scene.
Repeat to Confirm: Parodied when the King of Swamp Castle gives commands to a guard, and the guard repeats them back wrong. The two of them spend the next two minutes going back-and-forth with the king trying to get the guard to get the orders right.
Rewriting Reality: The knights escape a cartoon monster when the animator dies of a heart attack.
Riddle Me This:
Parodied by The Bridge Keeper:
Bridge Keeper: What is your name?
Lancelot: My name is Sir Lancelot of Camelot.
Bridge Keeper: What is your quest?
Lancelot: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridge Keeper: What is your favourite colour?
Lancelot: Blue.
Bridge Keeper: Right, off you go.
Sir Robin wasn't so lucky. Same questions until the third.
Bridge Keeper: What is the capital of Assyria?
Robin: Wh- I don't know that! [tossed into the chasm below]
Sir Galahad got the favourite colour question, but still managed to get it wrong. What's funny is that it doesn't sound all that implausible — he was answering the same questions as his predecessor with the same answers, and accidentally said his favourite colour too instead of his own.
King Arthur gets another atypical question, and yet he survives because...
Bridge Keeper: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Arthur: What do you mean, an African or European swallow?
Bridge Keeper: Huh, uh, I don't know that... [tossed into the chasm below]
Rope Bridge: Subverted, in that it doesn't break. Graham Chapman got so drunk, he was absolutely terrified this would happen, so a stunt double strutted across the bridge in his place. You might notice how strangely determined the guy looks when doing this.
Rule of Funny: The plot is just a loose framework around which the Python crew string a series of humorous situations.
Rule of Three:
The counting of the Holy Hand Grenade. "Five is right out."
Subverted with the story about constructing the swamp castles. The third castle in the swamp fared even worse than the first two, but the fourth one stayed up.
Arthur constantly confuses "five" for "three".
Arthur: How many did we lose?
Lancelot: Gawain.
Galahad: Ector.
Arthur: and Bors, that's five...
Galahad: Three, sir.
Arthur: Three, three.
At the Bridge of Death, adventurers must answer three questions in order to cross the bridge.
Running Gag:
Swallows and coconuts come up way too often in this movie, as do people not quite dying, and the number three.
Every time Arthur prays, he gets hit with something.
Arthur keeps getting 3 and 5 mixed up.
Scales of Justice: In a scene a suspected witch is put on the scales to see if she weighs the same as a duck (and therefore floats, is made of wood, is flammable, and hence a witch), but the scales are obviously unbalanced.
Scare Chord: Like everything else by Monty Python, the Knights Who Say Ni scene plays this for laughs:
Knight Who Says Ni: We want... (beat) a shrubbery!
[cue a very loud, screeching chord]
Scooby Stack: The French knights stack up against the wall by the entrance to their castle before stepping out to investigate the Trojan Rabbit.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: When brave Sir Robin encounters a three-headed giant, he chickens out. His minstrel keeps singing about it, much to his annoyance. Listen to the Tale of how Brave Sir Robin ran away .
Sir Robin's minstrel: Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away away.
When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about and gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet, he beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the brave Sir Robin.
Seinfeldian Conversation: Lots of it, especially the argument about coconuts that defeats Arthur's attempt to enlist the master of the castle at the beginning of the film.
"Shaggy Dog" Story: The whole movie is this it turns out, since it ends with everyone being arrested, so that the quest for the Grail is never fulfilled and the whole journey was for nothing.
Shout-Out:
The Trojan Rabbit (Trojan Horse) and Lancelot's squire Concorde (the jet) (or possibly a reference to John Cleese's Dennis Moore character from the TV show), among others.
Also, Lancelot thanks the Bridgekeeper as he passes the Bridge of Death by saying "Thank you. Thankyouverymuch," in the same vein as Elvis Presley.
The flagellation, the witch burning scene, and the mock-Swedish subtitles are all shout-outs to The Seventh Seal.
Shown Their Work: Terry Jones is an Arthurian scholar and added details not commonly seen in different King Arthur adaptations such as Lancelot being a total berserker in combat.
Despite the absurdity of the subsequent "duel", the fight between the Black Knight and Green Knight is actually much closer to how real-life sword fights went than Hollywood usually portrays them, it's less an honorable duel and more a violent brawl that happens to feature swords and ends the moment someone is hit in a vulnerable area.
Siege Engines:
The French knights presumably used some kind of catapult to fling the cow and giant rabbit.
Several are seen amongst Arthur's army at the end of the movie, probably to be used against the Castle Argh.
Sky Face: God's face appears in the sky to send King Arthur and his knights on a quest.
Smoke Out: There's a Smoke In when Tim the Enchanter teleports from a distant mountaintop.
Someday This Will Come in Handy: The conversation about swallows Arthur overhears at the beginning of the film comes in handy much, much later.
Bedevere: How do you know so much about swallows?
Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know?
Somewhere, a Mammalogist Is Crying: Tim the Enchanter refers to the Killer Rabbit as a "bad-tempered rodent". Rabbits are not rodents!
Sophisticated as Hell
The Holy Hand Grenade instructions, as read by Brother Maynard:
Brother Maynard: ...who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
Dennis the anarcho-syndicalist peasant defies Arthur's authority:
Dennis the Mud Farmer: You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Stealth Pun:
The ending, where everyone gets arrested instead of finishing the story. It's a cop-out.
Describing a woman as having "huge tracts of land" accompanied by hand gestures indicating she has a large chest. The potential bride is described as having property, which, given the era, she would not have owned outright, but would have made up her dowry, to go to her husband upon marriage. Thus she was literally "well-endowed." It today's language a woman is "well-endowed" if she has a large chest.
On the Special Edition DVD, the film opens with a clip from the 1961 British film Dentist On the Job; the off-screen projectionist realizes his mistake and switches over to the film proper. On the surface, this is just standard Python humor, but the joke comes from the film's American title: Get On With It.
The Stinger: An aversion—a black screen and two minutes and forty seconds of repetitive organ music. On the old CBS FOX Video VHS releases in the late 80s/early 90s, the organ music was shortened and played out against the standard warning screens which bookended VHS tapes.
Stone Wall: Parodied with the Black Knight. He has all his limbs chopped off, yet still boasts that he's invincible, and that it's Only a Flesh Wound.
Stop Worshipping Me: God is visibly annoyed with Arthur's and the Knights' slavish reverence, and bluntly snaps at them to knock it off more than once.
Storming the Castle:
The French castle is attacked three times: Arthur's knights attempt to storm it early on, Lancelot later attacks the castle by himself, and finally, Arthur's army charges it again at the climax.
Lancelot storms Castle Anthrax to save Galahad from "almost certain temptation", and Swamp Castle to save the distressed... prince.
Stuff Blowing Up: Tim the Enchanter interrupts the knights mid-sentence for no purpose but pyrotechnics.
Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Galahad arrives at Castle Anthrax and demands the Grail, Zoot acts as if she has no idea what he's talking about, but when he mentions seeing a vision of it in the sky, she suddenly exclaims, "Oh, I just remembered, our castle's beacon is grail-shaped." Considering a) there's a punishment set in place specifically for turning on the beacon (because they keep having trouble like this over it) and b) the maidens in the castle clearly wanting to lure young men into their bedrooms, it's pretty obvious Zoot knew all along what Galahad was talking about, that the beacon was turned on to trick travelers, and Zoot's exclamation was both this trope and a bit of Blatant Lies.
That Makes Me Feel Angry: When the Black Knight refuses to join Arthur, he mildly states, "You make me sad," but doesn't appear to be particularly upset until the Black Knight also refuses to let him pass.
That Poor Cat: Exaggerated, in that the cat is occasionally deliberately abused (in one scene, it's being swung by its tail at a post). The cat is on-screen every time someone makes it complain. (No, it's not a real cat.)
That Was the Last Entry: Parodied when the group encounters a stone wall on which a victim of a monster attack has been carving entries onto. It ends, "He who is valiant, and might of spirit, may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of Arrrgh". The knights argue whether the castle is actually named Arrrgh or if the author died while writing it and wrote down his death rattle while doing so. Someone suggests he was dictating it. It's the first one.
These Questions Three...: Named for the Troll Bridge scene, which didn't just parody this, it zig zagged it. The first two questions are constant: "What is your name?" and "What is your quest?" After that, he'll often ask "What is your favourite colour?" but he's just as likely to throw curveballs like "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?", or "What is the capital of Assyria?"
Throwing Your Sword Always Works: The Black Knight kills the Green Knight by throwing his sword through his helm's eye slot.
Time Passes Montage: The seasons-passing segment. Subverted in that the seasons are deliberately mixed up by the end.
Trojan Horse: It's a straight homage to the original, except that it's a Trojan Rabbit... and they forget to put anyone inside of it.
Troll Bridge: The Bridge of Death, which nobody can cross without answering three questions asked by the Bridgekeeper. Get a question wrong or fail to answer confidently and immediately, and the unfortunate adventurer is cast into the chasm.
The Trope Formerly Known as X: When the Knights Who Say "Ni" become the Knights Who Say "Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke P'tang Zoom-Boing Rlrlrlrl" (Ni!), Arthur finds himself unable to remember this and resorts to calling them the Knights Who Til Recently Said "Ni".
Trope Overdosed: Yes and no. Given that this movie was the Trope Namer for many of the listed tropes on this page, Monty Python And The Holy Grail is only trope-overdosed in retrospect. Back when the movie premiered (in 1975), it was just 91 minutes of (often ground-breaking) weirdness.
Trust Me, I'm a Doctor: Both Doctor Piglet and Doctor Winston try to assure Sir Galahad that they are doctors during his stay at Castle Anthrax. They've had "basic medical training".
Unexplained Recovery:
The peasant's claim that he "got better" after being turned into a newt by the alleged witch comes across as pretty unconvincing, although it's just as likely that the peasant was lying about getting cursed in the first place.
Despite an unpleasant "splat" sound effect after falling out of the tower, Prince Herbert shows up at his wedding none the worse for wear. He does intend to explain this recovery (in song, of course), but, sadly, we don't get to hear the best part.
Unstoppable Rage: Lancelot when he's Storming the Castle. He later admits to the king of Swamp Castle that it's a bit of problem of his, as he never really knows when to stop, or when not to start.
Unusual Euphemism: The Swamp King wants Herbert to marry a woman so he can inherit her father's property, but the son is unwilling. He tries to convince him with a couple of reasons, ending off with the fact that she has "huge... tracts of land," with a gesture that is less suggestive of real estate and more suggestive of womanly curves.
Unwanted Rescue: Sir Lancelot "rescues" Galahad from Castle Anthrax, where he is in "awful peril" from "eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between the ages of 16 and 19½." Naturally, Galahad protests.
Vague Age: The girls of Castle Anthrax are "all between the ages of 16 and 19½".
Verbal Tic:
The Knights Who Say "Ni" have a habit of spouting the word off like punctuation, even when they're not using its Brown Note capabilities.
King Arthur has a tendency to say "five" when he actually means "three".
Verbal Weakness: The Knights Who Say Ni "cannot hear" some words, but the only one shown in the movie is the word "it".
Visible Boom Mic: During the scene with Tim introducing the Knights to the Rabbit.
Vow of Celibacy: Sir Galahad is known as "Sir Galahad the Pure", but the many women at Castle Anthrax eventually convince him to forget it.
Galahad: I am sworn to chastity!
Woman: Back to your bed at once!
He's rescued (very unhappily) by Lancelot before actually violating it though.
Wandering Minstrel: Brave, brave Sir Robin's got a bunch of them following him around.
Weaksauce Weakness: The Knights Who Say "Ni" are weakened by hearing the word "it", much the same as what "ni" does to ordinary humans.
Weapons-Grade Vocabulary:
The word "Ni", soon revealed to be usable by ordinary humans and not just The Knights Who Say "Ni".
Turned around on the Knights, later. They are weakened by hearing the word "it". Oddly enough, the lead Knight says it near the beginning of the scene with no harm done, but then hits himself with it for damage during the fadeout.
What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog is initially dismissed as non-threatening until it shows its fangs and easily dispatches several knights.
Arthur: That rabbit's dynamite!
When Props Attack: In the frames where it attacks people, the Killer Rabbit is quite obviously a cuddly toy.
White Bunny: The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, which is definitely of the deceptively gentle-looking variety.
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog is defeated with a hand grenade once it is established that the rabbit can kill the knights easily in close-quarters combat.
World Shapes: Bedevere delivers an Orphaned Punch Line that suggests there is proof that the world is banana-shaped.
Your Mom: This famous oft-quoted insult:
French Knight: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal-food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
You Look Familiar: Carol Cleveland plays Zoot when Galahad enters the Castle Anthrax. Later he bumps in to her again, thinking she is Zoot, but she explains she is actually Dingo, Zoot's twin sister.
You Shall Not Pass!: The sole purpose of the Black Knight, who says nothing aside from "None shall pass!" and, when Arthur insists upon passing, "Then you shall die."
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288) A 38 year old caucasian man is seen in the office during a routine follow up visit. His past medical history is significant for testicular non-seminomatous germ cell tumor diagnosed 9 months ago and was treated with radical orchiectomy of left testicle and chemotherapy. He completed chemotherapy 6 months ago and achieved a complete response. His tumor markers and imaging studies 3 months after completion of therapy were normal. He complains of decreased sexual drive and energy. He denies smoking tobacco or alcohol. He uses Marijuana on a daily basis but quit 2 months ago. His family history is unremarkable. Physical examination shows absent left testicle. Rest of the physical is normal. Serum alpha-fetoprotein is normal. Beta HCG is elevated at 15U/L ( Normal < 5 U/L) . A chest X-ray , CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis are normal. His routine laboratory investigations including complete blood count are within normal limits. Which of the following is most likely reason for his elevated Beta-HCG?
A) Recurrent tumor
B) Marijuana Use
C) Hypogonadism
D) Chemotherapy effect
E) Hyperthyroidism
Filed under: Uncategorized, USMLE Test Prep | Tagged: Archer endocrinology, Archer oncology, ARCHER UROLOGY, internal medicine board review, serum testosterone, STEP 3 ONCOLOGY, usmle step 3 endocrinology, USMLE STEP 3 ONCOLOGY, usmle step 3 urology |
Marwan Belal Nassar, on December 28, 2011 at 2:57 am said:
arooj saleem, on December 28, 2011 at 3:39 am said:
Jacquelyn, on December 28, 2011 at 4:11 am said:
poonam, on December 28, 2011 at 4:13 pm said:
Dr mohamed farouk, on December 31, 2011 at 12:27 pm said:
manuelchiky, on January 3, 2012 at 4:58 pm said:
A…….. β-HCG is an excellent tumor marker for the monitoring of germ cell tumors.
Marijuana use? No, he stop marijuana 2 month ago and stil if he si using marijuana, how we can test marijuana with bHCG, even false positive. No I do not think so….false positive b HCG we can see in IgA deficiency (up to 30% of the IgA deficient sera analysed lead to a false positive pregnancy test), but no marijuana.
Robin, on January 10, 2012 at 2:24 am said:
Tan, on April 28, 2012 at 7:28 pm said:
Slight increase in HCG is due to Hypogonadism after treatment of testicular cancer. Slightly increased hCG concentrations have occasionally been misinterpreted to indicate a relapse, leading to inappropriate chemotherapy.
usmlegalaxy, on April 29, 2012 at 12:30 am said:
Fidel Obu, on March 25, 2014 at 12:22 pm said:
In pts like this, elevated hCG could be due to tumor relapse, hypogonadism or marijuana use.
If the pt uses marijuana make them abstain form it for a while and retest, hcg should be low after abstaining.
Hypogonadism causes a falsely elevated hcg because in hypogonadism (due to chemo and orchiectomy) testostrone is low and LH is high. LH cross-reacts with the substance used to test for hcg so since LH is high, titer shows high hcg too. To r/o hypogonadism out, if you give pt testosterone treatment the hcg will normalize because LH should normalize too. If it does not happen, then the cause of elevated hcg is tumor relapse
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"In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet." That’s the old story everyone knows. But now a new story is in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet—and of two brothers on an adventure to end all adventures. First published in 1971, this novel marked the debut of Sir Terry Pratchett. Years later, Sir Terry revised the work. This edition includes the updated text, his original illustrations, and the short story that is the forerunner to The Carpet People.
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Guest Speaker: Robert Massoud – Monday, May 7th – Comox United Church, 250 Beach Ave, Comox
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Palestinian-born and Canadian-raised Robert Massoud, who hails from Toronto, is the founder of Zatoun fair trade products from Palestine. Moussad will be visiting Vancouver Island in May, engaging Canadians to learn more and empathize with Palestinians and their struggle for a just peace for Israel/Palestine. A non-profit, volunteer-run organization founded in 2004, Zatoun is North America’s oldest remaining seller of Palestinian fair trade olive oil. Locally, Zatoun products are distributed through World Community’s fair trade sales program.
Zatoun builds bridges between Palestine and North America using fair trade olive oil as a symbol of light, hope and peace, and also as a life-giving substance which binds us together in the human experience of eating and sharing. More practically, it provides Palestinian farmers with means of livelihood under difficult conditions.
According to Massoud, “A critical way to save human life on the planet is to rescue international law and global governance from impotence and irrelevance. The best place to begin is a true and just peace in Israel-Palestine. Insisting on applying international law and an end to coddling and protecting Israel’s actions in the UN will help bring back leadership and moral authority to set a healthy agenda for the planet. No guarantee - just a good place to start.”
Zatoun also initiated a worldwide project called Trees for Life – Planting Peace in Palestine, to plant 10,000 olive trees every year in Palestine. Zatoun is also a major supporter of Project Hope providing “art as therapy” to help heal many thousands of children living in refugee camps in Palestine. Since 2004, Zatoun has contributed almost $450,000 to these two projects.
The May 7th talk is co-sponsored by the Comox United Church’s Social Justice & Outreach Committee Mid-Islanders for Justice & Peace in the Middle East, and World Community. Zatoun products will be for sale, and will be featured in complimentary samplings of hors d’oeuvres, along with fair trade coffee/teas. The event is open to the public and admission is by donation. FMI: 250-331-9391.
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why humans won’t become obsolete unless we choose to make them that way
We are not running out of jobs humans can do as computers take on more and more responsibilities. We're just choosing not to create new jobs and educate workers.
by: Greg Fish on 11.06.2016
By this point, it takes living under a rock not to know that machines are on a steady march of taking away people’s jobs. Entire careers are headed for the dustbin of history once again. That in itself is nothing new. Innovation is the reason why you don’t see a lot of squires, or hear your local blacksmith slam your swords with large hammers at midday anymore, or get your news from the paperboy on the street corner, or get up to the banging of a knocker-up on your window when you need to get ready for work. But in all those cases, there was something else for the people to do, a factory in which to work, or an office in which modernized versions of their old job awaited. Automation today means no human is necessary to do the job at all and without a rapid reeducation, there’s nowhere for people to go. Or is there?
First and foremost, I would really like to put a persistent, yet annoying myth to rest right now. AI is not magical and will never be able to completely and totally replace all humans. Today’s impressive systems essentially use really straightforward probabilistic math to handle things the way we would, just a lot faster and with more attention to detail in a huge data set. Claims that in so many years, robots will be thinking for themselves and come up with new industries, or create some sort of cross-disciplinary super-science far beyond human comprehension usually come from people who have never dealt with actual AI code, or put together probabilistic systems. We’re just dealing with math, not some eldritch creature that has intrinsic motivations, and despite the attention-grabbing headlines, humans are very much in control of it.
It’s also absolutely groan-inducing when people worried about automation tell me that programmers are making themselves obsolete because AI would be able to write its own code to solve common problems. Maybe after 30 or so years of trying, we could finally get somewhat decent machine generated code. That’s great, we can just focus on more important things. The idea of programmers now being unnecessary is like saying that because we can now use calculus to solve complex problems, we no longer need mathematicians, or that because we can now sequence DNA faster than ever and perform the kinds of deep dives into datasets that used to take years in hours, we don’t need any more geneticists. Machines, for all their prowess, are just our tools, and they still need someone to know how to use them properly.
But wait, cry the Singularity adherents and those influenced by them, what if one day we can make a super-AI? And what if one day I conquer the Moon and call myself the first lunar emperor? And what if one day, I was abducted by aliens? And what if one day we discovered how to reverse gravity? There is no scientific law that the ability to ask a what if question with some really debatable, sketchy ideas as to what an answer might look like, means that the question is realistic, much less would ever become a real situation with which we’d have to deal. Doubly so when it comes to the favorite answer of many transhumanists to the question of how they plan to build an AI able to push humanity into obsolescence: “a lot of smart people are working on it.” A lot of smart people also built the Titanic and the Ford Pinto. Maybe you’re mistaken to outsource evidence for your assertions to unnamed geniuses if that’s your comeback to a question about concrete implementations.
Which brings us back to the question of what we should do with humans in the unenviable position of having their job made obsolete by code. We know there are other things we could be doing, but because our leaders are stuck in the past, often to the detriment of those they lead, and using outrage to their inaction to create scapegoats in a culture war because they can’t think of a solution, we’ve basically sent millions of people to wait until we have an actual job for them. This is a sad state of affairs to put it mildly, so sad that it has become one of the centerpieces for arguments in favor of the oft floated utopian idea of a Universal Basic Income. Because AI is destroying capitalism as we know it, we should do something to help the casualties of this creative destruction to buy some time until we figure out some long term solution so we can pay for those permanently obsolesced not to starve to death.
Now, it’s hard to argue with the idea that we shouldn’t help people who’ve been left by the wayside by a massive paradigm shift to the post-industrial economy. And I actually agree that some form of UBI could help people out of poverty better than micromanaged, punishing assistance programs built to knock the feet form under those just starting to climb out of poverty on a slow and steady track so they don’t get too much help in the interest of some bizarre idea of fairness that views starvation and lack of proper healthcare as a proper punishment for both laziness and misfortune. However, simply giving people enough money to survive and sighing deeply is a disservice to everyone involved in the long term. Having machines do repetitive jobs, or jobs that couldn’t provide a good standard of living anyway just leaves more people to be trained how to do the jobs of the future.
We can invest more in science and engineering, use our extra time and extra tax revenue from streamlining the economy to research new medicine, study nature, send more humans into space and explore the solar system with ever more complex robots. We can shift to a knowledge driven economy instead of a consumption driven one, where the end goal is accumulating knowledge for the sake of turning it into something useful. Technology and know-how used in particle accelerators has been used to treat cancer with a very high degree of precision, for example. We need an economic model emphasizing that kind of cross-disciplinary, curiosity-driven science, not today’s myopic, hyper-specialized accounting-driven paper pushing. But we refuse to change things because the change-averse and the STEM illiterate are often in charge and they simply cannot understand how to do things differently. And there’s only one thing we can do about that: refuse to vote for them.
Any time you hear candidates for office say that they will create new jobs in whatever capacity they’re trying to fill, if there’s no mention of automation or improving access to education and job training, that candidate is full of crap. They need to either be educated that this is the only way to prevent having permanent out-of-work demographics without engaging in a race to the bottom on both wages and environmental regulation with nations where slavery is still kind of a thing and human rights aren’t, or lose to a candidate able to understand this. We won’t be able to stop the march of automation, it’s simply too profitable to halt. But instead of worrying about the coming of a future AI-driven dystopia, we need to be worrying about learning how we can harness automation to our benefit in areas other than mass produced consumables because machines have that covered. We need to move on.
And should anyone waxing nostalgic tell you that all we need to succeed in a mostly automated globalized world is to “work hard and pull yourself up by your bootstraps” should be directed to the nearest museum as an exhibit and given some bootstraps to satisfy their footwear accessory fetish. We’ve been working hard for centuries and in the process, invented something that will always work ten times harder and a thousand times more precisely because it lacks the limits of short term memory, physical exhaustion, job anxiety, or cognitive overload when dealing with a torrent of new data, and was built to counter those exact shortcomings of a human worker. More hard work is not the answer. Now it’s time for us to work smart instead.
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List of GMTV programmes
Program (American spelling) or programme (British spelling) may refer to:
Radio program, a segment of content intended for broadcast on radio
Television program, a segment of content intended for broadcast on television
Program management, the process of managing several related projects, as in business or science
a plan for Time management
a part of Planning
Twelve-step program, a set of guiding principles for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems
Program (machine), a technical setting stored in the memory of a machine or piece of hardware to be executed, including computers.
Computer program
Program – a synthesizer setting stored in memory, also called a patch
Programme (booklet), a printed leaflet for patrons of a live event such as a theatre, concert or sports performance
Program music, a type of art music that attempts to render musically an extra-musical narrative
"Program", an instrumental song by Linkin Park from LP Underground Eleven
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The following details are for the programmes that GMTV (Good Morning Television) broadcast on ITV.
GMTV was the former breakfast television franchise for the UK's ITV network. It began broadcasting on Friday 1 January 1993 and finished on Friday 3 September 2010, replaced by ITV Breakfast.
GMTV
GMTV is the original brand for GMTV's weekday breakfast magazine programme from 6:00 am. It included national and international news stories, regional news, weather, interviews, cookery and health features, human-interest and showbiz stories, and competitions. In spring 1993, shortly after the channel's launch, a separate news-focused programme was introduced between 6:00 am and 7:00 am, which in early 1994 became The Reuters News Hour. The main 6:00 - 9:00 am. programme remained named "GMTV" but as part of the show's new look for the millennium, this main programme later became GMTV Today.
On 3 January 2000, GMTV relaunched and changed the names of each of their programmes. This now meant that the programme GMTV did not exist. This was then split up into The Newshour and GMTV Today. This titling for the programmes remained until January 2009 when GMTV relaunched. First Presenters
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Programs, Paulson
Broke and drunk on lemonade;
her idea to go away
When they arrive dressed in pride
they'll wash them down in flashing lights
Weight escapes in stereo,
soldiers cracking random codes
He'll find he's so lost and in her eyes
won't let him compromise
Coming just to get along,
smiling but the love is gone
She finally gets her balance back,
she swears it was an act
Of all the ways it could have gone,
cake and white and carry-on,
she'll put an end to this four-year stand
cause she can't love a violent man
It's in her kiss, you won't admit it
I know that after this
we'll never dance again,
so dance all night
When I took your hand did I misunderstand?
The plates begin to slip away and matching edges start to scrape
The floors collapse from underneath and plaster walls evaporate
The programs run and take away the center of our gravity;
the bonds we made were never meant to break
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LONDON, July 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Stenn, a leading provider of cross-border trade finance, closed a $200 million receivables securitisation programme with Natixis to expand its capital markets programme. This programme significantly augments previous capital programmes launched by Stenn....
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The Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Ghana, Dr Albert Touna Mama, has advised the government to pay critical attention to issues that can send the country back to a bailout programme with the fund.
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Two lodge report over allegedly non-existent degree programme
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General : 60 UMS students have participated in ASEAN mobility programme
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Why Was The My Xbox One Is Favourite Console Of This Generation And Features
By Author: Manoj Varma
I haven't written it for a long time; however, there is no time like now... I was actually prompted to provide insights into the current state of the Xbox and the future direction of the brand through the characteristics of the reader.
What makes me very annoyed is the overall consensus on most of the content. I mean people talk about Xbox, just as no one is playing games on the game! This is a failure, because no one likes the shooter again? !
To be honest, I sometimes don't even know what the consensus is. If we judge good music through the content of the chart, I think we will return to the before the plastic trend is in trouble...
Processing patterns and terrible artificial intelligence - and a lack of speed - make gran turism an empty single-player experience. This, slightly better but abandoned Drive club is Sony's only first-party effort, but they are rarely summoned. (They are also rarely referred to as PS4 Pro ads:
"Play 4L on PS4 Pro" and so on. The console may let the TV enter 4K mode in the game, you get higher resolution than HD, but in fact there are very few 4K... and definitely will not claim to be biased in game advertising, no doubt, Microsoft Some mistakes have been made, some of which are wrong. But there are also many positive factors. Now I have the Xbox One X, and the true 4K is truly flawless;
I like the controller, the great trigger rumble and the buttons, and it feels great. I like Major Nelson, a very professional host, and this week's Xbox and Inside Xbox shows are not fully discussed and not fully understood to understand the game, coming and going. Backward compatibility and game passes are obvious, even in the consensus, it seems to be given.
In addition, third-party support is really excellent, far exceeding the advantages of Switch. I personally feel that I really like the console and experience. According to estimates I have seen, there are about 40 million Xbox One users, but sometimes, as we have done, the wave of consensus across the media does not seem to be the case.
Yes, I like driving and shooting games... Does this make me wonder? Really, I like all the games. Consensus seems to indicate that the Xbox experience is not for anyone, but in reality, this may never be. So, if you are an Xbox fan like me and have had a great time, let us thank the game, maybe start talking out loud now.
So Crackdown 3 came out this week, and surprisingly, no one will get terrible comments.
Although I must admit, I never expected the story to be very lame, and multiplayer games would be disappointing. I played the game for a few hours myself because I was a loyal Xbox fan and had a game pass, and the multiplayer game did look as bad as the description. Yes, you read it right, I think I am a big fan of Xbox.
I mean I have all the consoles, at least until the end of the Xbox 360 era, they think they are my preferred console makers - to the point where I have never bothered to get the PlayStation 3.
I certainly own a PlayStation 4, as if I didn't, then the entire generation is just a third-party game. We all know that the problem started, but after appointing Phil Spencer, he seems to have a very good understanding and passion for the game. I don't think anyone expected that Xbox One would basically let the whole generation sit down. .
I think Phil will turn things around and we will see significant progress in the first party's exclusive and marketing, but there is actually no change.
It is speculated that everything is saving for the Xbox One, but basically giving up the Xbox One is shameful for me. Especially when some of the scraps we throw are garbage like Crackdown 3. But Microsoft is having a bigger problem, and I don't just mean the reliability of some of the new developers they bought recently.
The first Xbox ranked second in PlayStation 2, second in the same generation, Xbox 360 ranked first in this generation, and it is clear that Xbox One will last until the end - despite three years of leadership The advantage is on the Switch.
This is not a good record, but many people may find it surprising because gamers in the US and the UK assume that the Xbox 360 is the dominant console for that generation.
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24 Hour Fitness Grows Northern California Presence with New Club In Milpitas
New Club to Offer Invigorating Workouts in a Contemporary Environment
MILPITAS, CA - May 12, 2018
This Spring, 24 Hour Fitness will open its doors to the diverse, family-friendly community of Milpitas. The new club will offer a welcoming atmosphere, energetic group classes, and talented team of fitness professionals who are excited to help you achieve your fitness goals. The company is continuing to expand its reach, with the Milpitas club representing the 64th club in Northern California. Located on the Southern tip of the Bay Area peninsula, the expansive new club is the perfect complement to the active, outdoor lifestyle its residents enjoy.
The club’s grand opening event is scheduled for Saturday, May 12, 2018, 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., 24 Hour Fitness®
Milpitas, located at 719 E. Calaveras Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035. The community is invited to this free celebration, which includes club tours, prize drawings, group training demonstrations, innovative GX24® studio classes and more.
The city of Milpitas was incorporated in 1954, the same year Ford opened their nearby manufacturing plant, drawing residents and jobs. Now, the progressive and affluent community features an educated workforce, diverse population, high-quality schools, 31 community parks, and an affordable housing market. Milpitas is often referred to as the “Crossroads of Silicon Valley,” since most of its land is situated between major highways. Its desirable location offers close proximity to the high-tech industry, with many of its residents working for some of the world’s top technology companies.
“We’re very excited to bring our team of passionate fitness professionals and team members to Milpitas,” said Kelsey Borraga, General Manager. “Many of the residents here work in Silicon Valley, and our convenient locations and hours provide an accessible way for them to achieve their fitness goals at any time of day. Our new club will offer exciting studio classes such as cycling, barre, and Pilates, and our 24GO® app will allow our members to track their fitness progress both inside and outside of the club.”
The modern new 47,378 square foot club features quality amenities, including:
GX24®, Cycle Classes, Zumba®, BodyPump®, POP Pilates, RPM® and bootybarre® included with membership
Hundreds of digital studio classes available on demand, for times when you want to take a class on your own or with friends
Personal and small group training programs, designed to elevate performance and motivation*
Rows of cardio and strength machines, plus free weights for every level of fitness
Dedicated zones for TRX® resistance training, core work, stretching, functional and sports-specific workouts
Multi-functional Olympic Training rig, used by athletes and fitness enthusiasts for both high-intensity training and Olympic lifting
Indoor lap pool for swim workouts and aqua classes
Whirlpool, steam room and sauna for relaxation and recovery
Spacious locker rooms with private showers
Pro shop for convenient access to nutritional products, snacks and workout gear
Towel Service
*Additional fees apply
24 Hour Fitness offers a network of more than 420 locations nationwide, as well as signature content and programming including:
24GO™ on-demand workouts, including discounted access to Daily Burn®, streamed to any device, anytime
Fit:Perks® Rewards program, featuring exclusive sweepstakes, deals and VIP passes
Innovative24GO® app with class finder, XCapture fitness tracking and compatibility with leading fitness apps and wearables
24Life® digital magazine, packed with ideas and lifestyle advice from world-class experts and celebrities on how to think, eat, move and recover better
24 Day Smart Start™ program, created in partnership with top health and fitness coaches to help you maximize your membership and your results
To experience the new gym, download a free guest pass from http://www.24hourfitness.com/Milpitas.
About 24 Hour Fitness
As an industry leader for more than 30 years, 24 Hour Fitness changes lives every day through fitness. Conveniently located clubs, furnished with a wide variety of strength, cardio and functional training equipment, are the perfect environment for fitness professionals to deliver dynamic personal and group training programs. GX24® and cycle studios feature a popular array of live studio classes included with membership. A multitude of additional offerings engage and inspire every member to lead a full and healthy life both inside and outside of the club. Opening new clubs on average at the brisk pace of one every few weeks, 24 Hour Fitness is headquartered in San Ramon, CA and serves nearly 4 million members in over 420 clubs nationwide.
To learn more about us and to find the club nearest you, visit www.24hourfitness.com.
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Roger Federer wins the Australian..
Roger Federer wins the Australian Open
AUSTRALIAN OPENRoger Federer
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Roger Federer has further cemented himself as one of the greatest athletes in history, winning a record 20th Grand Slam tennis title.
The 36-year-old defeated Croatian Marin Cilic in a see-sawing five-set match, 6-2 6-7 (7-5) 6-3 3-6 6-1, to claim his sixth Australian Open, joining Novak Djokovic and Roy Emerson as the only other men to do so.
The Swiss maestro broke down in tears as he raised the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup, thanking his family, his support team and fans around the world.
“I’m so happy. It’s unbelievable.
“The fairytale continues for us, for me. After the great year I had last year, it’s incredible.”
Federer is closing in on Rafael Nadal’s world-number-one ranking as well as Serena Williams’ open-era record of 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
Alan Jones speaks with Aussie tennis legend Lleyton Hewitt for a full wrap of the match and the tournament.
The Channel 7 commentator says Federer is looking as good as ever.
“It’s incredible you know, we’re the same age.
“The way he’s gone about it for so long now. He’s moving as well as ever and that was an epic final.”
Click PLAY below for Lleyton’s full Australian Open wrap
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— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) January 28, 2018
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Hot reads for Montreal's hot weeks, from Adam Gopnik to Julie Delporte
Planning a summer getaway? Save some room in the car for these Montreal-related books.
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Published on: July 4, 2019 | Last Updated: July 4, 2019 2:24 PM EDT
New Yorker writer and former Montrealer Adam Gopnik applies his familiar rigour and wit to A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism. Brigitte Lacombe
It’s a tradition that has survived everything modern life and technology can throw at it: When summer rolls around, people reach for a book. Reading, it would seem, is the perfect activity for that very specific state in which heat-induced lassitude and mental engagement overlap. There’s even a small sub-genre of books about reading books in the summer.
Here, then, are some suggestions for filling the seasonal reading need. There’s no particular genre bias at play, the reasoning being that a good book is a good book no matter the weather. Included are a couple of titles already covered in this space but long enough ago that a friendly reminder won’t go amiss, as well as a couple still unread by this reviewer but worthy of a flyer based on reputation. Most are available electronically, but as always this reviewer recommends the format that you won’t mind seeing splashed with the occasional bit of water or lotion.
Adam Gopnik’s A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism (Basic Books, 249 pages, $36.50) arrives in what feels like the nick of time. A corrective has been needed for the slow but steady demonization of small-l liberalism and the traditions it embodies, and former Montrealer Gopnik has applied the rigour and wit familiar to fans of his New Yorker pieces and essay collections to the task. Early on, he nails what makes liberalism such a soft target for absolutists at both ends of the spectrum: “The world is an imperfect place, and liberals are imperfect actors within it.” Focusing on major figures in the l-word’s evolution — he’s especially illuminating on John Stuart Mill and his critically undervalued wife, Harriet Taylor — Gopnik humanizes what could have been a dry polemic, and leaves crucial space for the thought that the pendulum may yet swing back from its current authoritarian-friendly position. “Liberalism,” he writes, “is realistic about the huge task of remaking worlds. But it is romantic about the possibility of making marginally happier endings for as many as possible within this one.”
Mark Abley’s The Organist has a worth beyond its immense literary value. Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette files
Mark Abley’s The Organist: Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind (University of Regina Press, 312 pages, $24.95) has been echoing in this reviewer’s head ever since first reading late last year. In the intervening months, it has achieved across-the-board critical raves and word-of-mouth success; this is one of those rare and heartening cases of a book and its ideal readership finding each other. At a time when unprecedented numbers of people are dealing with caring for their parents, and with grieving their loss, books like this memoir of the author’s relationship with his musician father have a bona fide utility beyond their literary value. Abley is no sentimentalist: his often difficult father gets nothing like a free ride. But he ends up with an indelible testament to honesty being the best form of love and respect.
Self-portrait by Ebony Flowers. Drawn & Quarterly
Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers (Drawn & Quarterly, 180 pages, $24.95) charts one African-American woman’s youth and coming of age through a series of short stories and vignettes, all having something to do with hair. Graphic lit is a form ideally suited to the story Hot Comb tells: Flowers is able to pack her frames with the kind of detail that brings a narrative fully alive, while her deceptively naive drawing style belies the psychological depth of her character portraits, pulling you in by stages until you feel yourself a participant in these women’s travails.
Self-portrait by Julie Delporte. Drawn & Quarterly
Occupying a similar but different space in the comics Venn diagram is This Woman’s Work by Julie Delporte (Drawn & Quarterly, 256 pages, $29.95). Named for the Kate Bush song, this impressionistic work is essentially a meditation on how women who create are faced with the reality that they will still be expected to do everything traditionally demanded of women as well. Delporte’s chosen medium — her palette looks to this admittedly untrained eye to be drawn from a set of Laurentien coloured pencils — communicates both vulnerability and a guarded optimism, and her writing is razor-sharp.
Mikella Nicol is a master of millennial tension. Véhicule Press
If it’s true that the young inhabit their own world, then novels about urban youth can feel like dispatches from a foreign country even when they’re set in your own neighbourhood. Mikella Nicol’s Aphelia (Véhicule Press, 160 pages, $18.95, translated by Lesley Trites), a cause célèbre on its original 2017 French publication, follows the ups and downs — mostly downs — of a 20-something graveyard-shift worker at a call centre during a summer heat wave as she attempts to recover from the messy end of a volatile relationship. If you’ve found your views on millennials piqued and enriched by Geneviève Pettersen and Guillaume Morissette, Nicol looks like the natural next thing.
Also in the realm of potential crossover, Eric Dupont’s Giller-shortlisted family epic Songs for the Cold of Heart (QC Fiction, 608 pages, $27.95) has some distance to go before its profile in English starts approaching its stature as a modern classic of Québécois literature. What better time than the dog days, then, to start catching up? Peter McCambridge’s translation is eminently readable. There’s really no reason to put it off any longer.
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Young readers, and all seekers of comic relief, should investigate Elise Gravel’s laugh-per-page The Worst Book Ever, a meta exercise in creating exactly what its title claims.
A trio of recent books across the crime and thriller spectrum — Ann Lambert’s The Birds That Stay, Denis Coupal’s Blindshot and Catherine McKenzie’s I’ll Never Tell — evince a local tradition in rude health. Slightly outside that zone, but likely to appeal to the same readers, is Colleen Curran’s uncategorizable cottage-country caper Out for Stars.
Former Montreal Gazette contributor Bindu Suresh makes her literary debut with 26 Knots, a set of “interlocking love stories” that also functions as an elliptic cross-Canada travelogue.
Sylvain Neuvel tweaks his customary sci-fi approach for the short but trenchant U.K.-set The Test, a cautionary tale of what the worst implications of Brexit may yet mean.
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Home Democracy in a Divided Australia
Democracy in a Divided Australia
Connor Court
History;
Social & political philosophy;
Australia has a new political, cultural, and economic elite. The class divides of yesteryear have been replaced new divisions between Inners and Outers. This divide is ripping apart our political parties, national debate, and social fabric.
Inners are highly educated inner-city progressive cosmopolitans who value change, diversity, and self-actualisation. Inners, despite being a minority, dominate politics on both sides, the bureaucracy, universities, civil society, corporates, and the media. They have created a society ruled by educated elites - that is, ruled by themselves.
Outers are the instinctive traditionalists who value stability, safety, and unity. Outers are politically, culturally, and economically marginalised in today's graduate-dominated knowledge society era. Their voice is muzzled in public debate, driving disillusionment with the major parties, and record levels of frustration, disengagement, and pessimism.
In an era of global political upheaval, Democracy in a Divided Australia is the first empirically grounded investigation of Australia's political tribes, the capture of policymaking by a new elite, and charting of a path forward in a divided nation built on the five pillars of Liberal Populism Egalitarianism, Localism, Freedom, Dignity and Unity.
By: Matthew Lesh
Imprint: Connor Court
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 16mm
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Matthew Lesh has expertly chronicled the rising influence and increasing detachment of Australia's policymaking elite from those they seek to govern. Democracy in a Divided Australia should be compulsory reading in political science courses at our universities. - Senator James Paterson Democracy in a Divided Australia is a fascinating and persuasive work. Matthew Lesh uses a wide array of evidence to show how Australia's new divides are challenging our democracy, unity and wellbeing. The issues identified are very real and troubling. - The Hon Dr David Kemp, former federal minister & author of Electoral Behaviour in Australia: a Study of Three Decades (1978). A brilliant book. If you want to understand why Australia is more polarised than ever, and what to do about it, read Democracy in a Divided Australia. Its aim is to build a more cohesive country, where tribalism gives way to the soaring human desire for greater freedom to decide what happens in our communities, families and personal lives. - Janet Albrechtsen, Columnist, The Australian
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Inside a 'body farm': Studying decomposed bodies to better solve crimes
By: Jace Larson
About an hour north of Tampa, Florida is a plain field, surrounded by a fence. It may look like ordinary land, but the fenced-in area is a burial lot for bodies donated in the name of science.
The area is known as a body farm, an outdoor research facility where scientists study how a body decomposes in hopes to use that research to better solve crimes.
Erin Kimmerle, an associate processor at the University of South Florida, is in charge of the body farm in Land O’ Lakes, Florida.
Kimmerle and her team study the donated bodies to learn more on how bodies break down, both under the sun and underground.
Abigail Kenney's husband, who was killed in a car crash, was the first body to be buried at the farm. For her, the place brings her comfort.
“I know I might not be the norm, but I have been given such comfort and how everything happened," Kenney says of the research farm.
By donating his body, Kenney says she feels her husband, who was a school principal, is continuing to be an educator even after his death.
Thanks to the donated bodies, Kimmerle and her team have found just how fast temperature and humidity speed up decomposition. What takes years in a dry air climate can take weeks in areas like Florida.
Researchers learn a valuable lesson about scavengers--how drastically they move bodies, something that could be key to a criminal investigation.
"The vultures will completely turn a body 180 degrees, separate the arms and legs into a sort of spread position, Kimmerle explains.
"It might look like somebody was dumped there in a haphazard way or maybe staged even."
Kimmerle says she discovered a heavy bird sitting on a rib cage can even break bones and collapse a chest cavity.
“The number of injuries can speak to how heinous and atrocious the crime is considered to be, which will determine whether or not it becomes a death penalty case," Kimmerle says.
Kimmerle’s team recently solved a murder case. By using what they learned about how bodies decompose, they created a facial reconstruction image. Someone was able to recognize the victim as a woman named Jane Weaver. It was later determined Weaver’s boyfriend had fatally shot her before dumping her body.
"I mean, our lab has done over 350 cases for law enforcement," Kimmerle says.
The Florida body farm is one of eight around the country. Each farm studies different climates--from high in the arid climate of western Colorado to strong humid heat in Florida—in hopes of helping to solve crimes and bring families closure.
"We have the strong belief that for every missing person, there's a family missing them,” Kimmerle says.
And for Kenney, it's comforting to know there's more than her husband's memory that is living on.
"He's had so much impact on other people beyond his death," she says.
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The United Kingdom was the patriarch, the Empire that reigned when America was born and that from which America was spawned. Having existed in earnest since 1707, the pact that originally started with England and Scotland's combined kingdoms today includes Northern Ireland and Wales. In many ways the fountainhead of the U.K., England, showed America what being a world power is really all about. TheUnited Kingdom's history is deep, spanning back thousands of years and including stories of great treasures, untouchable kingdoms and intrepid heros. It's a magical land that will always hold a dear place in our hearts as the place in which we found our wanderlust. We hope you find yours in the U.K. as well.
The United Kingdom is a bit enigmatic, as it's technically a country, yet four countries, that really don't want to be a part of one another.
Formally called "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", the UK is made up of the four countries of Scotland, Wales, England, and Northern Ireland. Each of these countries have their own history, own capitals, and own historic landmarks that tell the story of each land and its people.
London - The capital of England, and the United Kingdom, London remains one of the most heavily visited cities in the world. It's big, yet small. Fast, yet slow. Old, yet young. London is all things, and remains one of our favorite cities in the world.
Edinburgh - The formal capital and largest city in Scotland, Edinburgh is a UNESCO World Heritage site that traces her roots back more than 10,000 years. Culture in the British Isles seemingly sprang from Scotland, and Edinburgh seems evidentiary of this with her myriad castles, ancient towns, stories, and legends that reach back into the fabric of pre-history.
Manchester - The second-largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, Manchester is often forgotten about in comparison to its more famous neighbors to the north and south. Yet, with three million residents, some of the best parks and pubs in England, and a rich history all its own, Manchester is a must-visit destination.
Belfast - The capital of Northern Ireland, Belfast has long been a cultural cornerstone of art and music in the United Kingdom. It's the city of story-tellers, both through the written word and through the symbolism of creative arts, and there's a certain romanticism about the city that makes it a place any true lover of European culture should visit.
Glasgow - Glasgow is Edinburgh's rougher older brother, a stalwart of Scottish culture and a city that feels somehow older than Europe and the rest of Scotland. Glasgow is real, and it's fun, but don't come here expecting Edinburgh. They're as different as day and night.
Cardiff - One of the most overlooked destinations in the United Kingdom, Cardiff is the beautiful Welsh capital located just west of the border with England. Full of castles, pubs, parks, and green, open spaces, Cardiff feels like something in a storybook.
Birmingham - While Manchester is the second-largest metropolitan area in the U.K., Birmingham is the second-largest city, trailing only London. Birmingham is an important player in arts and culture throughout the U.K., and has one of the best symphony orchestras in the U.K.
Bath - Bath is the small, quaint, village-city in western England that everyone thinks of when they're reading Shakespeare. It has much of that original charm of Shakespearean England, and Bath has both the architecture and history to attract visitors on its own accord.
Aberdeen - Scotland's third most-populous city, Aberdeen is perhaps the lone gateway city to the Scottish highlands. The history here is deep and rich, and Aberdeen is another great location to find beautiful old cathedrals, towers, castles, and homes from a time gone by.
Swansea - Swansea is a beautiful, coastal town in western Wales that's famous as the home of the great Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. It's an incredibly scenic location, especially along the Mumbles Pier and coastal areas that inspired Thomas much of his young adult life.
Big Ben - The iconic clock tower in central London, and a harbinger of the city for more than 100 years.
Westminster Abbey - London's famous Abbey and the location of coronations for centuries, Westminster Abbey is one of the first places to visit in London.
Roman Baths - Located halfway between London and Cardiff, the wonderful, small city of Bath is the location of the former Roman Baths of England, and today is one of the most charming locations in the entire United Kingdom.
Stonehenge - The mysterious location about which so little is known, Stonehenge remains one of the most visited landmarks throughout the world.
Hadrian's Wall - Hadrian's original wall that established the limits of the Roman Empire. A must-see for history lovers in the U.K.
Cliffs of Dover - The stunning cliffs written about for centuries, and in many ways symbolic of the beauty of the United Kingdom.
Loch Ness - Site of one of the most intriguing sightings of mythical lore, no one knows for sure what really lurks in Loch Ness. However, regardless of whether or not you spot "Nessy" on your visit, it's one of the places in Scotland you simply must see.
Scottish Highlands - The rolling lands in northern Scotland, and some of the most photographed land in the world.
St. Andrews - The birthplace of Golf, St. Andrews is as discussed in U.K. lore as any other, and today remains the one place coveted by golfers everywhere.
Edinburgh Castle - Edinburgh's beautiful castle, and the site of financial power in Scotland.
It's impossible to see all there is to see in the United Kingdom without months to do so, but the highlights are worth the effort. Begin by starting south, in London, and explore England and Wales going northward. Finish with Scotland and the Highlands with an optional jaunt to Northern Ireland. Cities are England, unless otherwise marked.
Depending on the length of your trip, and taking geographic proximity into account, the following are our recommended priorities:
4 days: London
7 days, add: Bath and Stonehenge
9 days, add: Cardiff (Wales) and Swansea (Wales) or Gloucester (at this point, skip to *** if staying under two weeks)
10 - 12 days, add: Stratford-Upon-Avon (especially Shakespeare fans), Cambridge, and/or Sheffield
12 - 14 days, add: Liverpool
*** 14 - 17 days, add: Edinburgh, with day trip to Glasgow (via rail, or regional flight from Wales or England)
19 days, add: Dumfries and Galloway
22 - 23 days, add: Inverness, Loch Ness, and Highlands. Consider St. Andrews.
More: Consider adding return trip to Edinburgh or Glasgow for easy flight to Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Language: English, but several languages are recognized including Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish and Welsh.
Currency: Pound Sterling (GBP). GBP is currently 0.8 for 1 USD, but this has been in massive fluctuation since Brexit was announced in the summer of 2016. The Pound has been as low as ~0.6 for 1 USD in recent years, and continues to move up and down depending upon the most recent news. Make sure to check this prior to your trip to the UK, as it's a number that could move quickly and severely in either direction, depending on what news is available.
Power Adapter: In the United Kingdom the power sockets are of type G. The standard voltage is 230 V and the standard frequency is 50 Hz.
Emergency Number: 101
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Recently, we had a friend ask us for a few tips on London transportation. Thinking that many might have the same question, I decided to make a post about it! London is incredibly easy to navigate, thanks to many forms of transportation including black cabs, trains, direct shuttles and the famous London Underground (also called the “Tube”). If you’re flying into London, you’ll arrive via one… Read More
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Deadly blast at Java gas pipeline
Explosion kills workers trying to plug a massive leak of volcanic mud.
The blast hit workers trying to stem a leak
of volcanic mud caused by a drilling accident
Witnesses said flames from the pipeline were rising several hundred metres into the air.
The pipeline runs close to where the authorities have been trying to plug a leak of hot volcanic mud caused by an oil drilling accident in May.
Volcanic mud has engulfed several
villages, displacing thousands of people
Police said cracks began to appear in the ground a few hours before the pipeline exploded.
Rescue officials said that most of those believed killed by the explosion were military and other government personnel involved in trying to stop the mud flow.
Basuki Hadimulyono, head of the national team for mud flow, said: "So far, there are seven bodies that we have been able to get to up until the early hours of Thursday, one of them cannot be identified after being burned beyond recognition."
The mud, flowing out of the ground at a rate of 50,000 cubic metres a day, has swamped several villages and caused a an environmental disaster, displacing more than 10,000 people.
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The Joy of OOP Manga
Posted on February 8, 2011 by Daniella Orihuela-Gruber
As I said in my New Year’s “resolution” post, I’ve been enamored with reading manga from years ago that I missed when it came out. Last year I bought (or was given) and read a lot of now out-of-print manga. Luckily I’ve been able to keep up with that New Year’s goal so far this year and out-of-print manga was a seriously significant chunk of the best material I read all year.
Here’s some of the OOP manga I’ve re-discovered, just for reference: Beck, Planetes, Princess Knight (the Kodansha bilingual version), Emma, Club 9, SOS, Nextworld, Walkin’ Butterfly, Eagle, Banana Fish, Two Flowers for the Dragon, Sugar Sugar Rune, The Queen’s Knight.
In my previous post about choosing a favorite manga, a lot of readers remarked that they couldn’t really love manga that they’d first read after the initial print run the same way as manga they picked out as it first came out in bookstores. Ironic, considering how manga often comes out in the United States and abroad much, much later than it’s Japanese print run. What does that mean for titles like Tezuka manga that embody a completely different zeitgeist that the time an English edition is produced?
But I’m getting off-topic here.
Reading manga that I missed the first time around has a different kind of thrill for me. There’s always a little bit of disappointment in knowing that the new (older) manga that you’ve just gotten into is out-of-print, but that’s definitely replaced by joy when you find the next volume you’re looking for and get to continue on with the series. There’s definitely the thrill of the chase before that, when I looking for hard-to-find gems, usually in someone’s ill-kept manga shelf or $5 bins under tables in a convention’s dealer’s hall. I’ve surprised more than a few people with the amount of manga I carry around after such a search, but it feels so good to get a volume of manga for close to cover price or lower when it’s going on eBay for over $100! Perhaps I just love a good deal.
Then there’s another aspect of older manga I love, discovering a lens into another time period. Club 9 is one such manga. It’s over the top in a lot of ways: curvaceous girls, thick accents, big spending and hostess clubs. It’s a manga that celebrates the ostentatious-ness of Japan’s bubble economy perfectly. Sure, it’s not the most flattering portrayal of women out there, but for all the bubbly, not bright personalities there’s a sweetness to the ladies and something of a sweetness from the men who pay to drink with them. In the end, it’s a manga that’s big, loud and enjoying itself just as much as its subjects do.
At the same time, some of the manga I’ve bought is much more contemporary. Sugar Sugar Rune is not that that old. Emma, although it’s set in Victorian-era England, is not that old either. But they’re technically out-of-print because their publishers are now non-existent. Actually, I picked up a lot of CMX titles right after their collapse, but I haven’t gotten to read quite a few of them because I couldn’t always get first volumes.
But truly, the joy is in discovering something you saw on the shelves a long time ago and never got the chance to read. Stuff like Beck, Planetes, Eagle and Banana Fish were all on the shelves during my beginning years as a manga fan, but I missed them because I didn’t realize they were awesome or because I didn’t have enough money at the time. It’s great to pick up a title that’s been staring you down on the shelves for a long time. It just makes you think: How did I miss this before?!
Have you fallen in love with out-of-print manga and which ones have you read so far?
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39 Responses to The Joy of OOP Manga
Reika says:
I adore all the OOP titles! Please Save My Earth is one title that my friends laugh at me when I tell them stories of how I scrounge through random comic shops looking for missing volumes in my collection.
I’m doing that with Emma at the moment. I refuse to pay the crazy prices they’re charging at Amazon or eBay when I know there’s still some store out there somewhere that’s selling them for retail price.
Every single OOP manga? I think there must be a few that truly do suck…
Good luck finding Emma. I managed to get a full set right after CMX crashed out of sheer luck and trawling ever single bookstore, dealer’s room vendor and online venue I could. o_o I feel so lucky!
Okay, most of the Viz OOP manga, anyway…
Yeah, yeah! Viz has some manga in their back catalog that they need to bring back. (Please Save My Earth included because I want to read it!)
Dirk Deppey says:
I’m genuinely depressed that Paradise Kiss, the series that opened my eyes to the power of manga, is now out of print.
It should not be out of print. I don’t know why TP doesn’t re-release it because it was certainly popular back in the day. Probably licensing troubles.
Angela Eastman says:
There’s a lot of stuff I don’t understand about TP. Like how they let Kodocha go out of print right before FUNimation released the anime.
The company is full of weird little mysteries, but so do all of the manga publishers, I think.
Sorry, this is kind of a hard comment for me to answer. I’m sure you understand.
Of course. I wasn’t posing a question, really; it’s just a regular gripe of mine.
I know you weren’t. ^_^ But I haven’t heard of one company run without any idiosyncrasies at all.
There’s a ton of OOP CMX titles dear to my heart, most of which I acquired from my LCS, which opened a couple of years ago with an enthusiastic but utterly misguided manga section featuring a full set of CMX shoujo titles, most of which sat unbought until I came along and scooped them up; I got nearly-complete runs of Moon Child, Eroica and Swan from them, among others. My big online OOP buy of last year was a set of remaindered but mint-condition Tramps Like Us, which is the only josei romance in English with I unreservedly love. And I have hundreds of dollars worth of OOP BL manga; in particular, I’d like to thank Jason Thompson again for sending me Embracing Love during his manga giveaway rather than eBaying it for $$$$ like he should have.
Oooh! That’s pretty cool. My LCS sells some CMX titles in these weird packs. I’ve yet to pick one up, but I probably should… They also have a lot of OOP titles, but it can be a little hit & miss picking up the volumes you want. It seems like except for a few titles the employees like themselves, they don’t bother much with their manga selection. Which is a shame because my LCS down by my mom’s has such a great OOP selection & current selection.
I’m glad I got Moon Child, Eroica and Swan (just managed to get Eroica this weekend!) when I could. Swan was a big favorite, so I always got the next volume ASAP!
Tramps Like Us is so awesome! I’m glad you got a full set. :3
I don’t like OOP manga. It’s too hard to track down, and sometimes too expensive. Boo OOP manga!
Was a pain to track down all 5 reasonably priced volumes of Paradise Kiss last year. Right now I’m trying to piece together a complete Fumi Yoshinaga collection, and I’m a little worried some of her early books will be hard to find once I’m able to get them.
A good resource for finding used/remaindered books is http://www.bookfinder.com; for manga, the safest way is to get the ISBN off Amazon or Wikipedia and search for that, since some sellers aren’t clear on the “numbered volumes in a series” concept.
DeBT says:
Tom Spurgeon’s preferred method of book-hunting is using http://www.abebooks.com. Just to let you know.
Sweet! Thanks for the tip!
Just dropping in to point out that Bookfinder searches Abebooks, and about 50 other rare-book-dealer networks and retail sites (domestic & foreign), simultaneously, from one website. I have no stake in Bookfinder; I just buy a lot of used/rare books and my considered opinion, after using their search for 7+ years, is that they’re the bee’s knees. Hence the evangelism. 🙂
Nooooooooo! Don’t say that! You just haven’t learned how to shop for OOP manga yet!!!
Of course for something like the MMF, it’s really hard to shop for OOP on the cheap. But seriously, it’s a joy when you find something tucked between the shelves of your LCS for cover price that’s $100+ online or in the $5 box at a convention. But you do have to be persistent & keep looking everywhere.
That being said, the only manga I’ve pursued online is the first two volumes of the Kodansha bilingual edition of Princess Knight. I paid $50 for both of them, including shipping. I’ve attempted to finish Basara online, but it’s too expensive! (I’m missing ONE VOLUME!!! Augh!!) I guess I’m just not a good shopper online in that manner, but seriously, you can find good OOP for cheap! You just have to LOOK!!!
I’m working on 3 OOP series right now: Marmalade Boy, Kodocha and Gals!. I recently got the first 3 Gals! when a comic store near me was having a huge manga sale. Marmalade Boy and Kodocha I’ll find randomly at used book stores. I keep meaning to make a giant order on Alibris.com, too…
I remember actually considering Kodocha when it was in print; I borrowed some from a friend’s sister, but she stopped collecting it because she figured out she could read the manga in the store -_-; Marmalade Boy I ignored, and now I curse myself for doing that.
Oh man, I have a few Marmalade Boy volumes, I think. Why didn’t I continue with that series?
Best of luck to you! I hope you get to finish all of them. :3 I think my big thing right now is Basara. I’m missing volume 19, which is one of the most out of print, of course. It’s going for $100+ on eBay!!! ;_;
It looks like Urasawa’s Monster is going out of print (several volumes already appear to be OOP from looking at Amazon). I didn’t ‘discover’ Urasawa until 20th Century Boys was published here so I have been slowly picking up Monster and only have the first three volumes.
Hopefully Viz decides to publish the series in some sort of omnibus like they did with Dragon Ball or I will be one of the people cursing that I didn’t buy something when it was in print.
I’m so glad I got into Monster before it stopped printing! Good luck finding it. (And I hope Viz publishes an omnibus format for that series too. It would be fantastic.)
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Lexie C. says:
Ahahaha yeah…I’m really glad that when Basara, Red River, From Far Away and a whole slew of others were originally coming out I had a well-paying job and could afford to buy them monthly. If they came out now I’d be dying. As is I’m trying to search out the volumes of X I’m missing, Fushigi Yugi, Murder Princess, Saint Tail and Card Captor Sakura.
Though I was so excited! A couple months back I found the second volume to ‘Just a Girl’ and two volumes of New Vampire Miyu at the thrift store! I was like GIVE ME NOW!
That’s awesome! If you have an extra volume 19 of Basara, let me buy it off you! 😀
Red River and From Far Away I collected sort of towards the tail end of their print run. It took me awhile to get me really invested in those series, but I’m super glad I did. ^_^
A few weeks ago I found Banana Fish 1 and Flowers and Bees 1 for like half off cover price. It was excellent. :3
LG says:
OOP manga makes me so sad! I hate falling in love with manga I get from the library and then, when I later get the urge to try and buy the volumes so I can own them myself, learning that the volumes are monumentally expensive. Actually, I’m kind of afraid to look through the comments on this post – I’d rather not know if a series I love that I read via the library is now OOP. I start worrying that even the library copies will disappear or that they’ll all be horribly mutilated by people who just want a pretty little panel to tack up on their wall.
NO DON’T BE SAD! Don’t give up! Like I said to a previous commenter, you just have to start looking in the right places. Lots of comic book stores have old manga on their shelves because they gave up on bringing in new stock when the old didn’t sell, so scour your local stores! You may be surprised at what you can get for cover price. If you’re luck enough to have a Kinokuniya in your area, look through their stock too. They often have such a vast plethora of titles, the ones you’re looking for might be there. If you go to conventions, look, look, look! Lots of vendors will have discount boxes of old, poorly selling manga that they hope to get rid of by deeply discounting it. (The less they have to ship home, the better.) And if there’s a series that you KNOW you want, don’t buy it in order! Just grab any volume you see and hope you find the rest of them at another booth. And never EVER give up! EVERRRRR!
bahamut says:
I have a somewhat frustrating experience with Planetes, which I decided to get about two years ago. I loved the anime so I decided to read the manga, which I also loved. The only problem was the copy of vol.4 part 1 that I got had several pages missing (the first few pages of each chapter, to be exact). I thought it was an isolated incident so I exchanged it (on Amazon) and the same exact pages were missing. Then I checked different vendors on Amazon and asked if they could check those pages for me before I decided to buy it from them. Most of them were quite helpful and actually checked for me, but they all had the same problem. However, I do know that there are some complete copies out there because I asked around on a message board or two, and there were people with all the pages. I’m still trying to track down a good copy of that one volume :
At Midtown Comics in NY, they always have gems that time forgot in their bargain section. I recently got several volumes of Lupin III for 3 bucks each. I love the look of it. It’s from the 70’s, but it doesn’t really look like other manga from the time period. It’s more of a loose doodly style, but it works. I also got the first and only volume (in English) of Twin Signal from Media Blasters (they’ve been out of the game for ages). It’s a real oddity. They brought over the omnibus (I forget the Japanese name for it), so it contains the first 2 or so volumes of it, but the height and width are about 50% smaller than a regular manga volume. It’s a silly early 90’s shonen manga. I LOVE that super 90’s art style and I wish more 90s shonen could be licensed (I’m still hoping for Violinist of Hameln). I was aware of both the Lupin and Twin Signal manga when they were being released, but I ignored them, and I wouldn’t have paid full price for them. But as bargain bin purchases, they’re fun little diversions that don’t really require a series long commitment. Good times.
I have a rather long “to read” list, so I’m worried about when I finally decided to start series like Banana Fish if I’ll find all the volumes. So much manga, so little shelf space!
Awwww, that sucks! Thanks for telling me about it though, because I’m very very slowly catching up with Planetes myself.
If I lived in NYC, I’d totally hit up Midtown, but that’s an expensive way to buy manga, you know?
Oh yea, Midtown always sells at full MSRP (as does Kinokuniya a few blocks away). I usually just browse, but sometimes I give in to temptation. Internet shopping is the way to go, though.
Good luck with Planetes. It seems like there was one print run or something that had that problem. It wasn’t all of them.
No, I meant, getting a plane ticket from LA to NYC would be an expensive way to buy manga. ^_^
I’m making my way through Planetes slowly, but surely. It’s a good book, so I’ll stick with it. :3
Chargone says:
if you had, that’d probably count as an idiosyncrasy in it’s own right.
two would be a different story.
But I don’t think it’d be very wise for me to go blabbing what I know. To be honest though, I work from home most of the time, so I don’t know anything that juicy like potential licenses and the rest is kind of boring.
Zoe Alexander says:
I have to admit, I get a small thrill browsing the Amazon Marketplace, looking for deals on OOP manga. (And since I don’t care much about condition, I’ve gotten some really fantastic deals.) I’ve made it kind of a goal this year to collect every CLAMP title ever released in English, except for X since it’s too long and unfinished. So far I’ve bought Shirahime-Syo, Legal Drug, Suki: A Like Story (which is now my favorite CLAMP series), Miyuki-chan in Wonderland, CLAMP School Detectives, Duklyon Clamp School Defenders, and most of Angelic Layer. Add those to the series I bought new (plus Chobits and Wish, which were given to me by a friend), all I need now to complete my CLAMP collection is the last volume of Angelic Layer, Tokyo Babylon, RG Veda, and Man of Many Faces. (Oh, and Kobato., but that’s new. I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.)
I also have my eye out for a reasonably priced Vol. 1 of Name of the Flower, and I would love to collect Tramps Like Us and Marmalade Boy one of these days…
Wow! You’re like a pro at finding OOP manga. :3
If you find any good deals on Name of the Flower vol. 1, let me know!
Franzeska says:
I mostly read in Japanese, but a lot of things are still out of print (not shounen so much, but josei titles and older shoujo from smaller publishers go in and out of print all the time). Finding that one seller on Amazon Japan willing to sell Fire! for a reasonable price and ship overseas was the best feeling ever.
I buy a lot of older things I’d heard about when I started reading manga in English but never thought I’d have a chance to read. Even if they’re dated–even if they turn out not to be that great–it’s worth it just to finally get my hands on them. It’s like the satisfaction of finally buying yourself that toy your parents said you “didn’t really need” when you were 5.
When I was first reading manga, there was usually more of a gap between when titles came out in Japan and when they were translated into English. So not only was that 15 years ago, but a lot of those series were already a decade old at the time. Liking those styles, I sometimes find 70’s manga more accessible than 00’s manga. There’s less of a gap in aesthetic. (Plus, of course, many of the early series chosen for translation were chosen specifically to appeal to a certain taste profile that doesn’t at all match the average English-speaking manga fan today.)
One thing I love about older manga is how well some of it fits into aesthetics you see in English-language media too. Bastard!! is the perfect encapsulation of 1980s metal and D&D-inspired fantasy schlock. Crying Freeman (and basically everything else by either of its creators) is a more serious version of every oily muscleman-filled 1980s hollywood action movie. From Eroica with Love is riffing off of campy 60s spy-fi, among other things. (It’s no wonder so many Man From U.N.C.L.E. fans like it!) A lot of older shoujo reminds me of Mercedes Lackey and every other teen angst-obsessed fantasy novelist I loved when I was 13.
Of course, there are people who don’t like anything older in other media too, but I find it kind of perplexing how many people won’t read old manga but love 19thC literature or decades-old tv shows.
Yeah, there’s so much out of print in Japanese that we don’t even realize! But just like publishing companies in the states, Japanese manga pubs can’t afford to keep EVERYTHING in print!
The former tastes of the U.S. manga market seem so much more interesting to me than some of the current tastes (no doubt that there are some great titles coming out nowadays though.) I almost wish I had been smart enough to buy some of that manga while it was still in print, but my manga tastes were so different 10 years ago when I first started. (Not to mention, I had no money of my own.)
There’s some great 1990’s stuff too! Eagle, Club 9 and Banana Fish fit best into those 90’s business power people and gang life aesthetics. Club 9, like I mentioned in the post is definitely a product of Japan’s economic bubble and you don’t see the same enthusiasm for money and good times in manga nowadays.
People who can’t stand older media are missing out. There’s a different level of appreciation for new media when you’ve watched old movies or read old manga. It still amazes me how far CGI has come from the home-made special effects of the past. The visual qualities of movies and tv have improved so much. It’s crazy!
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Samsung 837 Reinvents Retail in New York’s Meatpacking District
3,832 miles away from where it just unveiled the new Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung has opened a new digital experience store in the heart of New York’s Meatpacking district. Its North American retail flagship hosted the 2016 Unpacked event on Sunday ahead of opening its doors on Monday to its new six-story home with a housewarming event that featured food by chef April Bloomfield of The Spotted Pig fame and a performance by Florence and the Machine.
Located just across the street from the Standard Hotel and the High Line and near the new Whitney Museum location in downtown Manhattan, the goal is to reinvent retail and refresh the Samsung brand, and put rivals Apple and Microsoft on notice with their NYC-based flagship stores.
[Samsung 837 store New York Meatpacking] Samsung 837, which reflects its address at 837 Washington Street and takes its naming cue from Urban Outfitters, expands on the brand’s recently-closed Galaxy Studio NYC experience on Prince Street in Soho. The 837 opening is being promoted on Twitterand Snapchat and beyond as a one-of-a-kind digital playground and cultural experience center. For its opening week, the 37,000 square foot space is offering free workshops and events, including Oscars-nominated movie screenings and an Oscars viewing party with DJ this Sunday, plus other events to keep bringing consumers through its doors.
While the Oscars party is already full, watch for album launch parties or join the runners club that will meet at the store on Saturday mornings before taking off along the High Line and west side with expert runners on hand—everyone wearing a loaner Samsung Gear S2 smart watch. There’s also a play area for kids, a hub for customer service queries and smartphone and tablet repairs—but no cash registers or tablets to purchase products, because there are none to buy, just try.
As noted in its launch press release, “the living lab and digital playground featuring numerous installations and touchpoints comprise three floors and include, a one-of-kind digital screen, auditorium seating for performances and special events, a Gallery featuring curated content experiences, a broadcast studio, and much more. The state-of-the-art building is a creative expression of Samsung’s brand and will serve as home for the marketing center of excellence, executive briefing center and a new customer care center designed to offer one-on-one service to Samsung owners.”
It’s more than just slick experiential marketing with staffers dressed by Rag & Bone; as its website notes, “Doing things differently is our thing, which is why we’re not calling ourselves a ‘store’ or a ‘showroom.'”
“We set out to build a marketing center of excellence,” stated Gregory Lee, President and CEO of Samsung Electronics North America of the New York space, where upper floor offices and a design studio also serve as a base for the teams led by US chief marketing officer Marc Mathieu and chief creative officer Jesse Coulter. “We immediately thought of New York City, where the best marketing happens and where people have a finger on the pulse of culture,” Lee added. “As a result, we have and will continue to attract top talent from around the world.”
[Samsung 837 New York virtual reality tunnel]
As noted in its teaser video, the new space aims to become a haven where inspiration and creativity collide to create an immersive experience center with state-of-the art attractions—all the better to showcase virtual reality and what’s possible with its Gear 360 VR device.
Complete with a three-story digital screen theater (called “The Screen”), gallery space, virtual reality tunnel, music studio and more, Samsung 837 combines culture, art, passion and life under one roof. The Meatpacking location brings culture and tech together with high-end neighbors in the fashion, media, technology and hospitality spaces, including Scoop, Jeffrey, Diane Von Furstenberg, Warby Parker and Puma.
“The Screen” features 96 55-inch panels that can be programmed in unison or in segments to form the world’s largest interactive display. AsMashable notes, Samsung has “created custom content for The Screen but it can pull in livestreams from other sources too.” In front, “an open air theater can seat about 75 people” for live events.
Gilt alum H.L. Ray has been lining up brand partnerships as it programs the new space with events and other cultural happenings, along with food—a café run in partnership with Smorgasburg, the Williamsburg-born foodie marketplace that arose from the Brooklyn Flea, and Stand Coffee.
What it won’t bring to the space: product, as the goal isn’t to sell items but the Samsung lifestyle. Samsung US has no doubt seen what happened after it introduced products to its Soho space, which opened for the holiday season in late 2014 with a children’s play space and a design bar for visitors (including kids) to create t-shirts, mugs and tote bags—not to mention giveaways galore, viewing parties and stations to try its Gear VR, wearable tech, Milk music studio and other cutting-edge products, all an iPhone’s throw from the Soho Apple store. There was even a loan program for free, letting people take home phones and smart watches for 21 days.
As Fast Company notes in its pre-opening tour,
Instead of endless product shelves, the space, which is named for its address, 837, features a three-story digital screen composed of 96 of Samsung’s 55-inch visual displays; a 90-seat theater; a portable demo kitchen; an art gallery; a multimedia studio; and a café. In it, Samsung will host events like film screenings, book launches, DJ sets, and, already on the schedule, an Oscars viewing party for Galaxy owners. “We didn’t want it to be a store,” (store manager Zach) Overton says. “We didn’t want it to be about pushing products in people’s faces.” Instead, he calls the building an “immersive cultural center.”
The goal of the space, FastCo adds, is to place “Samsung products at the heart of passions like cooking, film, art, music, and fitness (every art exhibit, for instance, will include Samsung devices). And it allows customers to do the number one thing that they say they like to do in brick-and-mortar stores, which is try out products. ‘People go to a retail store to see, touch, and feel,’ Byron Carlock, the head of PwC’s real estate practice in the US, said in a report about the future of retail. ‘It’s a place to buy, a place to stimulate, and a place to create new possibilities in the eyes of the shopper.'”
The New York Post‘s Jennifer Gould Kiel also toured the technology “social hub,” noting that the futuristic retail space includes “the world’s largest mobile screen, a virtual reality tunnel, an editing bay, kitchen, a children’s playroom and a DJ studio. There’s also an event space for cultural and community events and workshops.”
The physical brand presence makes sense not only as a tourist destination but as a place to own showrooming; after all, the “percentage of purchases consumers make in physical stores is steadily decreasing,” as Fast Company points out. “But even as physical stores handle fewer transactions, they remain important to brands (so important that even e-commerce companies like Warby Parker and Amazon have expanded to brick-and-mortar locations). Physical stores introduce people to new products, allow people to try before they buy, and help create relationships with customers.”
In short, don’t call the space, which soft-launched with the Unpacked 2014 New York press event as one of three Samsung global experience centers with Beijing and Berlin, a store. Samsung is inviting consumers to check out its latest devices at carriers’ US stores too, including participating AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and U.S. Cellular locations across the US starting February 26 and at Samsung Experience Shops located in Best Buy stores across the country starting February 24.
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Q&A: PopSugar’s Lisa Sugar on Expansion, Partnerships and What Sets Brands Apart
Plus, her new book about her business journey
By Emma Bazilian
In 2005, Lisa Sugar started blogging about celebrities as a side project while working as a media planner at Goodby, Silverstein and Partners in San Francisco. Eleven years later, her blog, PopSugar, has expanded into a massive lifestyle media company with numerous content verticals, international sites and an ecommerce division.
Sugar shares the story behind her company's growth and some of the lessons she learned along the way in her new book, Power Your Happy: Work Hard, Play Nice, and Build Your Dream Life, due out Sept. 20. Adweek spoke with Sugar about running a content company, the importance of standing out and who else in the business world is doing it right.
Adweek: What made you decide to write a book in the first place?
Lisa Sugar: We've been always giving advice in a variety of areas, whether it's fashion and beauty or fitness, but career is one that [the audience] keeps coming back for. So I felt now I've had 10 years of wisdom and expertise of growing the company, it was a good time to share our story about what we did to build PopSugar as well as practical advice that you could take away whether you were someone in college trying to figure all this stuff out, in your late 20s about to make a career change, or a mom coming back to work. We felt the book kind of could talk to all those types of audiences.
When you first decided to go out on your own and make PopSugar into a full-time career, what's one piece of advice you wish someone had given you?
Picking one thing out would be really hard, but persistence is one thing—just not giving up whether one person came to the site that day or a hundred people came to the site that day, and to keep on trying to figure out what it was that people were relating to and how to get creative about bringing people back. As the company grew, another important thing was learning the right time to let go and take on different responsibilities. I obviously loved writing every day, but a few years in, when we'd hired an amazing team, I needed to let go and let them do stuff so I could start helping with other parts of the company.
You mention in the book that when you launched PopSugar, there were already a ton of celebrity sites on the internet. How does a new content brand set itself apart in a crowded market like that?
I think the bottom line is knowing what your voice is and sticking with that from day one. We really wanted to be a fun, safe place online where we were making your life better. We were giving you advice of the day, things you needed to know, practical tips, fun stuff, everything from celebrity and entertainment but also to fitness and fashion. And I think that because we've always given that to readers in a really digestible, real, easy voice, we just know what PopSugar is and how our audience wants to read our content. So for us, it is that voice [that sets us apart] and I think for brands who are continuing to stand out it's the same thing—they've created their own voice and vision, and they stick with it.
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Are there any particular brands that you think are doing a really good job of maintaining a singular voice?
I think SoulCycle does an incredible job of it. I think the brand hit 10 years this year, but I feel like they've exploded so much in the past three or four years. I love listening to each instructor, because they really go back to the brand's core values. I think Everlane has also done an amazing job with their voice and visuals and social media.
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ME Bank looks to internet banking upgrade after major tech overhaul
Ruth LiewReporter
Industry super fund ME Bank intends to revamp its internet banking platform in the next stage of technology upgrades, after completing a $90 million overhaul of its ageing IT systems.
ME, which services industry fund members, will use the technology upgrades to launch new products faster and more efficiently into the market, according to Mark Gay, chief information officer. The bank had no plans to cut its staff numbers despite the increased efficiency expected from the $90 million tech rebuild, which spanned over five years.
"The next step is replacing our internet banking platform," Mr Gay said, acknowledging that the group's internet banking site "leaves a bit to be desired".
ME Bank CIO Mark Gay wants to use technology upgrades to launch new products faster and more efficiently into the market. Jesse Marlow
"Our cost will continue to grow next year; [but] we have no intention to reduce our workforce," he said.
ME, which services 340,000 customers, took on 25 vendors and over 700 personnel to write over 1 million lines of code during the five-year project. The bank built and integrated seven software systems, introduced a new business process automation system called Pega and core banking software called T24 from Swiss vendor Temenos.
At the core of the bank's strategy is to be more competitive, and to improve customers' interaction and experience with the group.
"We can process more applications for the same effort and easily absorb higher volumes as we grow," said Jamie McPhee, chief executive of ME.
"The time it now takes to open a deposit or transaction account has been cut from five days to five minutes; the time to get conditional approval on a home loan from three days to three minutes."
Mr McPhee added that one of the biggest outcomes of the tech transformation is the ability to offer new competitive variable home loans. "Our old technology restricted us to one variable home loan product. Transformation means we can offer new variable rate home loans priced competitively."
ME Bank CEO Jamie McPhee said one of the biggest outcomes of the tech transformation is the ability to offer new competitive variable home loans. Jesse Marlow
Up to 70 per cent of the bank's loan approvals have come from fixed rate loans, compared with their 15 to 20 per cent share in the broader market.
ME now processes around 50 per cent of the group's mortgages through its systems, with everything previously having been handled manually.
The bank is aiming to grow its customer base to 400,000 over the next year, Mr Gay said. "We are a smaller bank and a little bit more nimble as a result; we can now launch products much faster to market," he said of the tech overhaul.
The upgrade comes as ME prepares to expand aggressively in home lending. Mr McPhee previously said the bank was aiming to roughly double the rate of growth in customer numbers to 20 per cent a year over the next three years.
It comes despite regulators imposing a 10 per cent-a-year speed limit on investor credit growth, though Mr McPhee said the bank had pared back its ambitions slightly after the introduction of the cap.
Ruth Liew writes on business specialising in Insurance, wealth management and financial services. Ruth is based in our Sydney newsroom. Connect with Ruth on Twitter.
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Home Agencies by Location East Anglia Essex Colchester
Recruitment Agencies in Colchester
Including: Health Care (10 agencies), Industrial (8), Social Care (6), Catering and Hospitality (6), Administration (6), Engineering (5), Driving (5), IT (4), Construction (4), Accounting & Finance (3), Manufacturing / Production (3), Education (2), Retail (1)
We have 27 Recruitment Agencies based in Colchester and an additional 100+ agencies that recruit in the area.
With just over 121,000 inhabitants, Colchester's population has soared in recent years and this is expected to rise further in the future. Located in Essex, this picturesque town comprises of areas such as Tiptree, Peldon and West Mersea. Because of its growing population, Colchester is filled with employment opportunities, and recruitment agencies are scattered throughout the town, all providing expert knowledge to help with the process of hiring staff to jobs in a number of sectors.
Recruitment in Colchester
Colchester's recruitment agencies - offering permanent and temporary roles - are well spread through the town and are serviced by Colchester and Colchester Town train stations, as well as the A134. The agencies have vacancies from employers throughout the town and some neighbouring areas of East Anglia. The common theme is one that sees recruitment agencies hiring for multiple sectors including Engineering, Catering & Hospitality and Healthcare.
Economic overview and salaries
For candidates in Colchester, the median salary stands at almost £20,000. However, when only full-time salaries are taken into account, the median salary rises to nearly £25,000. Employment in the town is generally very high. Of 100,500 who are economically active, 98,000 are in work. Not only does this represent over 83.3% of Colchester's overall population, but that figure rises further when just those registered for employment are considered.
Key industries and employers
According to the Office for National Statistics, human health and social work activities accounts for over 13% of Colchester's workforce, which is also higher than the national average. This is unsurprising given the town is home to Colchester University Hospital NHS Foundation. Employers are advertising Healthcare Assistant and Pharmacy vacancies amongst other related jobs.
The Automotive industry is another major employer in Colchester - thanks in part to Ford Retail Group, which has its head office in the town. In addition, the Retail Sector is a popular employer in the town - boosted by Store Assistant roles which are often available at the many stores based in the Culver Square Retail Park. These include Gap, H&M, and Pandora.
Athena Recruiting Services Ltd
Industries covered: Administration, Automotive, Catering and Hospitality, Creative / Design, Call Centre / Customer Service, Industrial, Marketing, Media, Sales, FMCG
Athena Recruiting Services Ltd is a Leading and Award Winning Recruitment Agency based in Essex Offering a bespoke, tailored service to fit your business needs in the recruitment of temporary / and permanent staff within Hospitality / Catering , Sales / Commercial and Industrial. Athena has been Awarded Top 3 Best rated Agency in 2016, .2017, .2018
Coverage East Anglia, Essex,South East,South West
Barn N, East Gorse Farm, Salmons Lane, Colchester, Essex, CO6 1RZ
Better Healthcare Services
Industries covered: Health Care, Social Care
145 High Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1PG
Essential Selection
Industries covered: Automotive, Sales
North Colchester Business Centre, Colchester, Essex, CO4 9AD
GBN Kiloforce Ltd
Industries covered: Agriculture, Catering and Hospitality, Driving, Electronics, Engineering, Industrial, Manufacturing / Production
125 High Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1SZ
Holistic Recruiters
Industries covered: Health Care, Industrial, Social Care
Weston Business Centr, Colchester, Essex, CO2 8JX
LSA Recruitment Ltd
Industries covered: Financial Services, Personnel / HR, Marketing, Sales
The Colchester Centre, Colchester, Essex, CO2 8JX
Red River People
Industries covered: Agriculture, Biotechnology, Food & Drink
C11 The Seedbed Centre, Colchester, Essex, CO4 9HT
3D Personnel Ltd
Industries covered: Construction
Suite 12 The Causeway, Colchester, Essex, CO6 4EJ
Asprey Medical Services
Industries covered: Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Suite 14, Colchester Business Centre, Colchester, Essex, CO1 2JS
Esca Recruitment
Industries covered: Construction, Electronics, Engineering
Wanta Driver Ltd
Industries covered: Driving
26, Collingwood Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 9AU
Catering Elite
Industries covered: Catering and Hospitality
Weston Business Centre Hawkins Road, Colchester, Essex, CO2 8JX
Pyramid Recruitment Services Ltd
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Administration, Automotive, Catering and Hospitality, Construction, Call Centre / Customer Service, Engineering, Facilities Management, Food & Drink, Insurance, IT, Legal, Manufacturing / Production, Marketing, Property, Purchasing, Sales, Sport, Recreation & Leisure
Top Job Recruitment
Industries covered: Administration, Catering and Hospitality, Driving, Industrial, Marketing, Sales, Security
10 Church Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1NF
Origin Legal
Industries covered: Legal
The Studio, Lodge Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5NE
TAC Healthcare Services
46 Axial Dr, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5RY
1Stop Healthcare
3 - 4 Cadman House Off, Peartree Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 0NW Plus 1 additional office location
Just Recruitment
Industries covered: Accounting & Finance, Creative / Design, Call Centre / Customer Service, Engineering, Financial Services, Personnel / HR, Industrial, Insurance, IT, Legal, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, Shipping
Tavern House, Station Road, Colchester, Essex, CO7 7RS Plus 3 additional office locations
Industries covered: IT
1st Floor, Fairfax House, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1RJ Plus 3 additional office locations
Swanstaff Recruitment
Industries covered: Driving, Health Care, Industrial
846 The Crescent, Colchester Business Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 9YQ Plus 6 additional office locations
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From brands to the ballot box—defying hackers and trolls
by Andrea Coville and Joe Trippi | Nov 2, 2018 | Analysis, Public Relations
It seems that not a week goes by without an announcement by some large institution that its data has been compromised. Most know about hacks at major megabrands like eBay, Equifax, Target and Uber. Perhaps less known are cybersecurity attacks at major institutions of higher education, where hackers seek to capture sensitive academic and research data. But the challenges from hackers and trolls don’t stop there. Today they even target our political and election process.
The upcoming mid-term elections in particular pose an especially juicy target for hackers who want to disrupt our democracy, defame candidates, tinker with vote counts, or just create chaos.
All of the major presidential candidates were cyberattacked in 2016, and Donald Trump’s campaign website sustained 500,000 attacks per day, by one account. With mid-terms imminent, Facebook says it has created a war room to battle fake news, foreign interference, spam, “efforts to prevent people from voting,” and out-of-bounds content.
While House and Senate races may not attract the same level of hacker interest as the presidential elections, no campaign is safe.
Protecting your candidate or cause
As with any brand, today any political candidate is vulnerable. Last October, U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama saw his Twitter following nearly double to 47,000 in less than a week in what’s been dubbed “a Russian bot farce.” Many of the followers had Russian names, used Cyrillic characters, and used photos of famous singers.
By the end of the campaign, bots following Moore were tweeting more than 40,000 times per minute, attacking Moore’s alleged sexual misconduct victims, and flooding news sites with negative comments tagged with #fakeyearbook—a reference to Roy’s defense.
The chaos put both sides under a cloud. Trippi & Associates worked for Moore’s opponent, Democrat Doug Jones. Our response was flagging the issue for the press in the first place, proving our side had nothing to do with the debacle, and arguing successfully that a troll farm supporting Moore had broken the Twitter user agreement and terms of service. Moore ultimately won the race and is now a U.S. Senator.
Change behavior first
Political campaigns can learn from the lessons learned by major brands and academic institutions: Practice good habits, get good technology, and prepare themselves for the likelihood their defenses won’t be bulletproof. Nobody’s are.
Behavior is as important as technology, and it’s easier to fix before Nov. 6. If careless or unaware employees are growing security vulnerabilities for businesses, imagine trying to enforce cyber vigilance in the heat of a fast-breaking election campaign. Presented with seductive links, the tendency is to click and cross one’s fingers.
But whether you run a business or campaign, you can plant basic knowledge in workers and dramatically enhance their awareness without undue effort. Make messages simple, big and bold.
The advice is the same for the campaign worker as it is for any employee.
Protecting both the brand and the ballot box
From this experience and similar attacks, we’ve learned several key lessons for effectively protecting candidates’ reputations:
Create a social media army. We often counsel brands to invest in building an online community that can speak in support of the brand in times of crisis. For Jones, we had built, organized and energized an army of real-life supporters who could flood the zone with an authentic social media response to the bot invasion and other attacks.
Practice rapid response. For brands, we often work with them to go through simulations where sensitive data is compromised. In the Jones campaign, their army was ready because we had planned and practiced.
Take fake news seriously. It’s tempting to laugh off fake news and focus on more substantive issues, but unfortunately, setting the record straight won’t happen by itself. You have to call out fake news and reaffirm your brand.
Real beats fake every time. When you go out in the world and tell the unvarnished truth, falsity is exposed for what it is. Tell constituents and the media, “Here is what actually is happening. Here is the true news.”
Go dark if necessary. If a hacker has successfully penetrated your servers, shut them down. If someone has taken over your social media accounts, shut those down, too. While your IT team or social media platform is addressing the problem, get on the phones or out in the community to continue your work.
Don’t scrimp. While campaign budgets are always tight, include cyber security, crisis planning, training, and practice in your campaign budget.
Clearly, in this new world of elections, campaigns need to defend their operations and reputations more aggressively than ever and in entirely new ways. Despite time and resource restrictions, campaigns don’t have to be helpless in the face of cyberattacks, fake news and other mischief.
Even if you’re not working a campaign, most of these lessons apply. Whether you run a business, nonprofit, government agency or higher education institution, stay vigilant, encrypt everything, fight back—and always tell the truth.
Andrea “Andy” Coville is CEO of Brodeur Partners, a communications agency with a deep background in IT security and brand management.
Joe Trippi has been at the forefront of movement politics for 30 years and is a partner at TNR Campaigns, a political strategy and creative agency.
Andrea Coville and Joe Trippi
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The Clarion Call, Vol. 4: FAIRYTALE RIOT
About The Clarion Call series
Meet the Authors of Vol. 3
Jon Garett is co-creator of The Adventures of Seamus Tripp and author of Willy Wise’s Garden. He is a founding member of the Agorist Writers’ Workshop and partner in Very Good Books. He lives and writes in Minnesota with his inspirations: three cats, a parakeet and his wife. He spends his non-writing time hiking and camping and hoping that through his literary enterprises he can entertain and inform a new audience about the world of voluntarism.
A lover of the convergence between art and the written word, Genesis Mickel is co-creator of the Agorist Writers’ Workshop. She hopes the project inspires and sparks a thousand flames of liberty in an audience ready for a new, yet timeless, message of freedom. Her first loves include her talented muse of a husband and the sunshine of her life – her toddler daughter, as well as enjoying backyard forays into nature, birdwatching, and hobby farming, presently including several chickens, several thousand honeybees, and plenty of dreams to do more.
John M. Olsen reads and writes fantasy, science-fiction, steampunk, and horror as the mood strikes, and his short fiction is part of several anthologies. His first novel is out with more on the way. He loves to create things, whether writing novels or short stories or working in his secret lair equipped with dangerous power tools. In all cases, he applies engineering principles and processes to the task at hand, often in unpredictable ways. He lives near the Oquirrh Mountains in Utah with his lovely wife and a variable number of mostly grown children and a constantly changing subset of extended family. https://johnmolsen.blogspot.com/ JohnMOlsenWriting@gmail.com
Allen Baird, PhD is a writer, trainer and speaker from Northern Ireland. Along with his wife Dawn, he runs Sensei, a communications consultancy. Allen’s first published book was a work of faction called The First Jedi. He’s currently looking to collaborate with an American publisher on The Adventures of Alice the Entrepreneur, a series of short stories for children promoting a free market and the spirit of independence. Allen’s Twitter name is @thesensei.
Christa Conklin is the home educator of her two children. She received the 2016 Oregon Christian Writers Cascade Award for Unpublished Speculative Fiction. Her journey to becoming a published novelist can be followed on social media and through her website http://www.christaconklin.com/ Christa graduated from Rutgers College with degrees in Music Performance and Communication. She studied in France, received her Masters Degree from Monmouth University, performed in Alice Tully Hall, and once took first place in a solo women’s kayak river race. She worked for the New York Philharmonic and Young Audiences New Jersey bringing artists, students, and teachers together to create in theaters, studios, and classrooms. As a musician, Christa treasures her audience. As a writer, she cherishes her readers and thanks you.
Bokerah Brumley is a speculative fiction writer making stuff up on a trampoline in West Texas. She lives on ten permaculture acres with five home-educated children and one husband. In her imaginary spare time, she also serves as the blue-haired President of the Cisco Writers Club. In 2016, she was awarded first place in the FenCon Short Story Contest, third place in the Southern Writers Magazine Short Story Contest, fifth place in the Children’s/Young Adult category for the 85th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, and selected as a 2016 Pitch Slam! finalist. More recently, she accepted novel contracts with Clean Reads Press and Liberty Island Media. She also moonlights as an acquisitions editor for The Crossover Alliance.
D.A. Schneider is the author of the best selling novel Ghost Hunter Z. Connect with Schneider on Twitter @derekschndr2
Matthew Tanous is a software developer and anarcho-capitalist working in his spare time on ways to spread the world of liberty, both through the written word to educate and inspire, as well as discussing technology designed to assist in circumventing unjust state edicts and help people to truly be free through the Facebook page Coding Anarchy. Connect with Matt on Twitter @CodingAnarchy
Jakob Morris- I’m just a man trying to be a not so starving artist/writer. I’ve grown up with all kinds of hobbies from video games, to tabletop roleplaying games, to comics. I’ve always been drawn to fantasy and science fiction, (and lengthy economic tomes,) and I would hide in the back of my school library with a book that would take me away on an adventure. Now I use my time spent in the creative field to create stories in the mediums I have enjoyed all my life. If you would like to keep abreast of what I am working on in the future you can follow me on my twitter or minds account. Twitter: @Artemis_Vale Minds: @Gregor_Mortem
Ronel Janse van Vuuren is the author of New Adult, Young Adult and children’s fiction filled with mythology and folklore. In 2016 she won Fiction Writer of the Year for her Afrikaans stories on the writing platform INK: Skryf in Afrikaans. In 2017 her stories were published in anthologies such as Inkspraak and Cinderella: Reimagined. Ronel can be found arguing with her characters, researching folklore for her newest story or playing with her Rottweilers when she’s not actually writing. You can find out more about her and her writing on her blog Ronel the Mythmaker (https://ronelthemythmaker.wordpress.com/).
NB Williams has a problem sticking to one subject. She’s written across platforms and genres, with work appearing in the Huffington Post, Center for Digital Ethics, DaCunha, and other magazines. She’s the author of supernatural suspense novella Salt in the Blood and twisted short story collection Bent as well as best-selling nonfiction title One Size Does Not Fit All: Stress Management. Her current project is a viking-centered novel you can preview at www.nbwilliamsbooks.com. She lives in a shipping container home in the beautiful Texas Hill Country with her husband, two dogs, and ten hives of bees, although the bees must stay outside. In her spare time, she tweets about writing @williamsbnikki and helps writers find their voices at www.gottabeewriting.com.
Blake Smith doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up. In the meantime, she’s a fantasy and historical fiction author, horse mom, and cat magnet, in between playing polo, gardening, and pretending to cook. She resides in Connecticut. Find her books on Amazon, or get announcements through the Facebook group Books by Blake Smith.
Heather Biedermann is a librarian by day and a crime-fighting author by night. A Viking at heart, Heather travels the world looking for adventure and has often been said to be up to some sort of shenanigans. She advises you to avoid her home state of Minnesota as there are only two seasons: Winter Season and Giant Mosquito Season. Nevertheless, Heather is made of tough Nordic stock, and lives there with her giant of a husband and two naughty cats.
Lela Markham is an Alaska novelist raised in a house of books who told stories almost as soon as she could talk. If you write them down, it’s not considered lying. When she’s not writing speculative fiction or rabble-rousing on liberty issues on her blog, she can often be found wandering through the woods in search of dragons … uh, er, bears … in the company of her adventuresome husband and two fearless offspring and assorted, occasionally terrified, friends.
After seventeen years as a service writer in the family auto repair business, G.R. Lyons walked away from steady employment to pursue a passion for writing fiction. Focusing on libertarian themes woven through a fictional world that combines science fiction, fantasy, and the paranormal, Lyons’s Shifting Isles series continues to grow, with thirteen novels currently self-published and at least twenty more planned. When not writing, Lyons can be found buried beneath the endless TBR pile. www.grlyonsauthor.com
Need a Griffin for hire? Visit Talonfire’s website at http://talonfire.com/. His stories come from Bob Miller, whose byline has appeared in Starlog, Comics Scene, Animation Magazine, and the online Animation World and Animation Scoop. Bob has been involved in animation for over two decades as a writer, character animator, special effects animator and storyboard artist, with two Emmy Awards for his storyboard work on The Simpsons. His website is http://wrmilleronline.com/. Talonfire, Griffin for Hire is © 2017 W.R. Miller.
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You’ll be on your feet reliving your favourite soul anthems: Respect, Ain’t Nobody, Knock On Wood, Midnight Hour, You’re My First My Last My Everything, Best Of My Love, River Deep Mountain High, Ain’t No Stopping Us Now, Beat It, I Feel Good, Three Times a Lady, Get Down On It, and more.
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Everything Scottish – Guest Post from Nancy Lee Badger, author of Heaven-sent Highlander
Posted by WWMB in Featuring...., guest post
book feature, guest post, Nancy Lee Badger, romance, series, time travel
There are many time-travel stories about a modern day heroine or hero ending up in the past. I call these historical romances, and while I enjoy the romantic and historical elements, I always think: Ew, who would want to give up modern conveniences for drafty old castles, food of questionable quality, and, most of all, lack of reasonable plumbing.
How about when the heroine or hero comes from the past to end up in contemporary times? Now that is the time travel story I can get into. The Warriors in Bronze series, presents just those types of stories.
Nancy Lee Badger is back at Whiskey With My Book to talk about her newest Warriors in Bronze release, Heaven-sent Highlander.
Years ago, when I moved from snowbound New Hampshire to sunny North Carolina, I wrote lots of books. In fact, Heaven-sent Highlander is my 26th published novel and I am so glad to share the news with y’all today.
Last year, after Soul Mate Publishing said ‘yes’ to my manuscript for Heaven-sent Warrior, I kept writing. Heaven-sent Highlander has a Scottish Highlander out of his time and a heroine who is a full Fae from the Isle of Skye. My Warriors in Bronze series will include a third book, which is nearly ready to send to my publisher. A love for everything Scottish gets me writing. More ideas come from touring the nearby North Carolina Museum of Art. I also love animals and have included two horses and a Samoyed dog as secondary characters. Why not? This is the second book in the series and will soon be followed by Heaven-sent Flame.
About Heaven-sent Highlander
At an American museum, surrounded by Auguste Rodin’s bronze statues, a Scottish Fae beauty is at a crossroads. Now that Gwendolyn’s friends are engaged, and the demon they fought vanquished, should she return home? After committing a terrible act, she could not explain to her cousin why she had appeared on his doorstep.
Alexander awoke in darkness inside a bronze statue, remembering how the green of Scotland’s Culloden field had turned red with blood that day in 1746. Had he died before awakening nude and sightless in front of strangers in present-day Raleigh, North Carolina? The mystery of how was overshadowed by why. Told that another warrior awoke when a demon threatened to take over the world, had a second demon escaped Hell? When the demon appears and demands Gwen join him, Alex must use all his new skills, weapons, and Heaven-sent powers to keep her and the world safe.
Excerpt from Heaven-sent Highlander
A tap on the outside of his tomb sent a blast of energy tearing through the Highlander. From the sudden screams of the females, he assumed the Frenchman felt it as well. It was very painful, and his limbs convulsed.
The next moment, air was plentiful, the stone beneath his back gritty, and the scent of something both delicious and sensual forced his nostrils to flare. When he snapped open his eyes, to see the people who had freed him from his dark home, he saw nothing.
“Be this nightfall?” he whispered, finding his throat in desperate need of ale, or whisky. He pushed to sit up with nearly useless limbs. Several large hands grasped him beneath his shoulders and helped him to his feet. He stood as still as his numb legs could manage and blinked. Still nothing. He rubbed his hands over his chest and sides. Recalling a brief memory of a cannon blast, he said, louder, “Do ye see any wounds?”
Still nothing, until a whisper of air and a delicious scent told him at least one of the strangers had stepped closer.
“Sam,” a female voice said, “he is naked.”
Really? They can see all of me, yet I see nothing? Did they know he was as helpless as a newborn bairn? Should he share his feebleness, or would that give them cause to dispatch him without a second thought?
He straightened his shoulders, and their hands fell away. He staggered but kept upright and spread his feet, angling for more control of his limbs. A deep breath was invigorating, but where did the scent originate? Whatever or whoever it was, it filled his lungs with hope and sustenance.
His stomach growled, and the female closest to him laughed. “We should have saved some chicken wings for the lad.”
When delicate fingers stroked his arm, he gasped.
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Nancy Lee Badger grew up in Huntington on New York’s Long Island, where school field trips to lofty museums were the norm. After attending Plymouth State, in New Hampshire, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education and met and married her college sweetheart. They raised two handsome sons in Rumney, New Hampshire, where Nancy volunteered as an EMT and firefighter while working full-time. When the children had left the nest, and shoveling show became a chore, she retired from her satisfying job as a 9-1-1 Emergency Medical Dispatcher and moved with her husband to North Carolina, where she writes full-time.
Nancy is a member of Romance Writers of America, Heart of Carolina Romance Writers, Fantasy-Futuristic & Paranormal Romance Writers, and the Triangle Association of Freelancers. She loves to travel and attend Scottish Highland Games and is never far from her laptop. She finds story ideas in the most unusual places. Connect with her here:
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Bridges Burning by Marina Landry – Feature with Excerpt
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About Bridges Burning
Earther Ana Silvan is looking forward to working at the new prison and leaving the farming life behind.
For generations, natives of Earth have been forced to export large quantities of food to Unity, the spacecolony their ancestors built to guarantee the survival of the human race. Realizing Earth has begun to heal, the UPG military corporation has built a prison on Earth to hold and hide the Freestanders fighting to end its oppressive reign over the citizens of Unity.
Ana soon realizes the rebels are not the real criminals in the prison.
Bearing fresh scars, Hart James leads his fellow Freestanders to escape the UPG prison. When he discovers Ana’s role in his freedom and the extraordinary sacrifices she made, Hart pledges to support her efforts to oust the UPG troops from Earth.
Together, Ana and Hart struggle to overcome personal tragedies, accept the passion igniting between them, and provide justice for the citizens of a new Earth. Through their tests of courage, they forge an unbreakable bond of love.
Excerpt from Bridges Burning
No, this is too fantastic, too unbelievable. I must be going mad. She noticed the smell of fermentale. Insanity! No one was given the luxury of water in this hell, much less fermentale.
But the odor became more powerful, the more she tried to deny its existence. The sour smell of fermentale, combined with the stench of the Solitaire pit, seemed to swirl around her face.
The nightmare! The smells in her nightmare. The cold, the blackness, the powerlessness and despair. The smell. The dream, it was real. It was happening to her at that moment.
The narrow hatch opened above her head, just as she had dreamt it. She was too terrified to scream.
She stood paralyzed as Hart’s face came into view. A hoarse rattle erupted from her throat, but still she could not scream. Hart’s arms reached down for her, grasping, groping. It’s my nightmare. It’s madness.
The fermentale brought pain; she felt it rack her body. Humiliation swept over her as Hart’s hand grabbed for her. He is only saving me from Resin so he can use me himself.
“Ana! Give me your hand. It is me, Hart.”
Hart. Yes, Hart’s come to pull me out of this hole. Hart. The one who had pushed her against the wall in rage to hurt her — but who had not. The one who had chased her ruthlessly through the forest to prevent her from reporting his escape — but who carried her back to spare her from the pain in her ankle. The one who kept her emotions in turmoil, who made her feel childish and anxious — but who always had confidence in her, always accepted her. The one who pulled her body against his, hard and hot in his lust for her — but who never forced her, never berated her, never hurt her.
Never hurt her. Never.
She raised her trembling hand to his… and touched love. His grasp charged her with strength and courage. His whispered reassurances poured warmth and safety flowing over her. This is Hart; this is real. This is love.
He grabbed her other wrist and lifted her out of the madness.
He sat her on the ground and fell to his knees beside her.
“Ana, my love. Are you alright?” He rubbed his hands over her body as if to be sure she was unharmed.
She clung to him desperately, absorbing the warmth and strength from his body. This is real. “Oh, Hart. I love you. I love you.”
Gently, he grabbed her shoulders and pressed her back so he could look directly into her eyes. With a tender smile, he said, “And I love you. I have loved you very much… for a very long time.”
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Marina Landry has loved to write stories that intrigue and entertain readers since elementary school. The written word became her favorite medium for reminding others that love and trust exist, and, despite challenges, there is a place each of us fit perfectly in the universe. Her heartwarming, emotionally intense, character-driven stories of love and courage have gained attention in both the romance and science fiction communities.
Marina has taught language arts and mathematics in south Louisiana for 19 years. She speaks on the craft of writing and teaches all levels of writers online. Though her formal education has not followed a typical path nor timeline, she has Masters Degrees in Education of the Academically Gifted, Secondary Mathematics Education, and Adult Education.
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Aftermath: Hathe Book Three by Mary Brock Jones – Feature with Excerpt and Giveaway
28 Thursday Jun 2018
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Recently, Mary Brock Jones contacted me and wanted to know if I would like to review her new book in the Hathe series – Aftermath. I really would, but I have a long list of other books to review. But here’s the thing. I had already purchased books 1 and 2 of the series. I hadn’t read them yet, but there they were, waiting for me on my Kindle!
So I took that as a sign that I must to read the series! Actually, it was very easy to convince myself. 🙂 So, yes, there will be a review of Aftermath later this summer.
Surely I am not the only one who has a few unread books on their e-reader? Are you collecting a series before diving in? Can’t resist the Bookbub deals? Are new releases impossible to ignore? Lately, have you read a gem that you forgot you had? Comment at the end of this post. Feel free to comment on other subjects too, like maybe about the new book Hathe!. On Monday at 7:00am Iowa time, I will draw two random winners who will receive a box set of Toil and Strife: Hathe Book One and Two. Thanks to Mary Brock Jones who has kindly provided these books!
Now, enjoy reading about the latest book in the Hathe series – Aftermath.
About Aftermath
War or Peace. It doesn’t matter. There is always an enemy.
Jacquel des Trurains, acclaimed hero of the resistance, has been charged with overseeing the restoration of Hathe after the Terran occupation.
But it won’t be easy. Years of oppression have left their mark on every dirtsider who stayed behind. And what of the Hathians who fled to the moon? The greed of a few for the sparkling jewel of the colonial worlds could destroy everything when they return.
So, Jacquel’s bosses decide he needs some help, and they send him Rheia asn Postrova. Rheia spent the war embroiled in twisted diplomatic games to protect the secrets of Hathe from the Terrans. Now she’s been sent to teach a stubborn man how to play nice with his fellow Hathians.
Together, they must find a way to heal their home.
But Rheia has secrets of her own, and Jacquel soon discovers that diplomacy is just a subtler war with a wiser enemy.
Excerpt from Aftermath
Jacquel des Trurains brought his flyer down in the courtyard of his home. He had raced down those steps and climbed that far wall, played in this courtyard with his friends. Childhood memories, lost in some half-remembered time before the war. He peered through his viz screen, trying to make the past match the present, but failed.
Whatever it was that had made this place home no longer lived here. Gone, waiting to be restored like everything else on Hathe.
What did he expect? Five years of abandonment. Five years living under Terran rule since any had set foot here. The fake radiation signals had kept the Terrans out of the City, but not even Resistance tricks could stop the erosions of time.
“Let me go in first,” he’d told his superior. “The parents don’t need to see the worst of it.”
“No, but better than some unknown cleaning crew.”
Now, Jacquel wasn’t so sure. He opened the flyer’s hatch but couldn’t move. Not yet.
Weeds grew through the pavers, a wild vine sprawled over the upper colonnade roof and the air was filled with the skittering sounds of small animals frightened by his flyer, while a drunken mass of greenery over the entrance door warned of a buzzers’ nest.
At last, something he could fix. He threw himself down the steps, grabbed a broken bract from the hanging creepers and knocked down the old nest.
“My home now,” he said to the abandoned greenery. “My home.”
If he repeated it often enough, he might just believe it.
Up the steps and slam a hand against the door control on the massive front doors. A sickening pause, as if the house system needed to be shocked into life again, then the door opened to his palm print, still swinging smoothly on command. Inside was almost as he remembered, but overlaid with the stale whiff of emptiness. He coughed as a cloud of dust hit his face, scuffed up by his first step in the door. His step-mama was due to arrive in two days, back from her refuge on Mathe. She mustn’t see this. He called up central control and ordered a crew of cleaning bots.
“Please complete details of work required,” said the automated form.
“I’ve only just walked in the door.”
“Full analysis of most urgent work required before the order can be processed.”
Stupid anachronism. “Fine then. I’ll get back to you.”
He kicked at the rug, releasing another cloud of dust, then turned and flung wide the big doors, the front reception windows, any window within reach, letting in the sun and free air of Hathe.
“Make it better.”
There was a falafaux flowering in the garden and the faint scent of it whispered through the windows. He drew in a deep breath of the outside air and, for the first time, began to feel at home.
“Right. No point putting it off,” he said, his voice battering against the answering silence of the house.
He was a professional. This was a mission, a job that must be completed and in proper order. He made himself look at walls and structures, scanning and recording physical details, rather than memories and heartaches.
The main house systems had kept working throughout the long silence. There was dust, stale air, but no damage or water entry, no signs in here of the wildlife living in the garden. He checked each room, counting down his list. Reception rooms, main hall, living and dining areas, the great kitchen, staff quarters, his parents’ bedroom and offices. The staff quarters and kitchen would need to be restored before he let Manny, their old housekeeper, see them again. She would either read him a huge lecture or burst into tears, and neither could he bear.
Lastly, he came to a door at the end of a hallway. His own quarters. He stopped, laid a hand on the familiar whorls etched into the surface, then palmed the lock and pushed the door open. He could do this.
The outer room looked as if he’d just left. An antique book of poetry lay open beside his favorite chair, a sweater draped carelessly over the back of it, and his collection of book cubes on Alliance history sprawled untidily over the shelves above his desk. A drawer sat partly open and a broken stylus hung drunkenly over the lip. The room of a history student, forced to leave hurriedly.
He’d thought himself so clever when he’d put together the montage. He pushed open the bedroom door and saw the same carefully contrived scenario, untouched since the day he’d left. He pulled the bed covering straight, lined up the rare Antoni light on the bedside table with its opposite on the far side and set all to rights in the carefully ordered tidiness that he preferred in his private rooms. Only when the last piece was resting in its proper place did he approach the painting on the far wall. An interactive collage by asn Lucino, so expensive that surely even the Terrans would leave it untouched if they braved the radiation signals protecting this place. His fingers traced a whirl in the upper left corner, pushed a flower just so, then tapped on the lower frame panel. Beside it, a space appeared in the wall. A small cavity no wider than a hand’s breadth.
He pulled out the pack of info slivers and cubes and counted each one. All present; all still there. His personal files, research notes, and the cube of precious holo-vids. His family, his first day at school, a holiday on Phoebus. Then he reached right to the back, and his hand clenched tight around one more cube. He pulled it out and set it on the table beside his bed. Then touched it and stood back as the holo-image sprang to life.
Three figures, caught forever in perfect miniature. Two young men and a woman, standing on a hilltop in an eerie half-light. He and his two best friends, Bendin and Marthe asn Castre, on the night of their graduation, the miniature faces alive with the excitement and expectation of that day.
Bendin was at the front as always, big, strong and tall with shoulders already showing the promise of size to come. Head high and filled with the magic of his personality. Jacquel looked at his own figure, slightly back and to one side. Sun and moon, they’d been dubbed by the public, thanks mostly to Bendin’s golden hair and his own silver gilt. Bendin, the laughing golden god of them all, and Jacquel, the slimmer echo at his side. But not sad, never that. He was laughing in this holo-pic; they all were. His figure looked across at his friends, and he saw exasperation mingling in with the laughter. That wasn’t unusual in those days either.
Between them stood Marthe—so tiny, so vital, her dark hair touched with a shimmer of sunlight and wearing a smile that sat halfway between anger and glee. Now he understood the look on his figure’s face: he’d been caught in another of the asn Castre twins’ feuds. Something about a banged foot and Bendin teasing Marthe; but also a protective hand Bendin had shot out to his twin and the strength in the arm that pulled her up to the final summit.
Where were they now, those bright youths of yesterday? Those three laughing faces?
Jacquel couldn’t stop the twist of his mouth. Not here, and no longer laughing. Bendin’s grave lay far from here, a hasty wartime resting place. Plans were in place to rebury him with full honors in the memorial avenue of the main city cemetery. As for Marthe? Heartsick and hiding, her doctors and family all desperately trying to get her to fight back. Fight for her own life and that of her half-Terran child.
Only he had survived unscathed.
“I’m sorry,” he whispered to Bendin, and to all the other bright-eyed youths who could not come home. “I couldn’t protect her, and I couldn’t save you…but I did protect Hathe. We won our freedom back. Isn’t that enough?”
Suddenly the images were too much. He crashed the cube and slammed the holo to the floor. The three youthful images sprawled on the mat, lying drunkenly to one side.
Still they laughed up at him.
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Mary Brock Jones lives in Auckland, New Zealand but loves nothing more than to escape into the other worlds in her head, writing science fiction and historical romances. Sedate office worker by day; frantic scribbler by night.
Her parents introduced her to libraries and gave her a farm to play on, where trees became rocket ships and rocky outcrops were ancient fortresses. She grew up writing, filling pages of notebooks and filling her head with stories but took a number of detours on the pathway to her dream job. Four grown sons, more than one house renovated and various jobs later, her wish came true.
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Congressman wants feds to scratch proposed parking fee hike at Sandy Hook
Justin Auciello
Sandy Hook's Gunnison Beach. (Photo: 3twenty6 via Flickr Creative Commons)
A Jersey Shore congressman is requesting that the National Park Service withdraw its proposal to hike parking and camping fees at Sandy Hook.
The daily vehicle rate would increase from $15 to $20, according to the National Park Service. The fee for seniors or those with access passes would remain the same.
“I am requesting that the National Park Service and Gateway National Recreation Area withdraw its proposal to increase fees,” Rep. Frank Pallone Jr said in a release. “I believe the park service can find a way forward that doesn’t place the burden on New Jersey families and which keeps access to one of our state’s most prized assets affordable to everyone.”
If approved, it would be the first parking fee increase at Sandy Hook since 2012 and the fifth since the establishment of fees in 1983. It also impacts Jacob Riis Park in Gateway National Recreation Area’s unit in New York City.
In a release, the National Park Service says that the fee increase “is not a step the park takes lightly.”
“This fee increase will help Gateway maintain the services that visitors expect and deserve: clean restroom and shower facilities and keeping visitors safe and resources protected. We are also able to use this money to do things like renovate the Ryan Visitor Center at Floyd Bennett Field and to add a web-cam to the Sandy Hook Lighthouse,” the release said.
But Pallone said there must be a balance.
“Sandy Hook is a treasure along the New Jersey shore that should remain affordable for anyone who wants to visit, regardless of his or her economic situation. I want to see the park continue to encourage tourism, create recreational opportunities and serve as an economic driver for the local economy,” he said in a release. “My concern is that these proposed fee increases will make it less likely that many in our community will be able to enjoy all Sandy Hook has to offer.”
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By: WifeWithAPurpose August 23, 2018
Alt Right, Art, Education, Guest Post, Videos, White Culture, White People
Discover the ART-Right: Creativity in Furtherance of Reclaiming and Preserving America for Americans, the Traditional Family, and Conserving European Heritage
By Mina Therese
The last three novels I read for enjoyment were well-written, had compelling plots, and held my interest til the end. What bothered me though was that each one had a gay character. The homosexual character was not the main character, and there was no explicit sex (I actually don’t read anything overly explicit, that’s just not my thing) but the gay chum was present and universally accepted and not introduced until I was heavily invested in the story. With self-proclaimed homosexuals making up only about 3% of the population, why would three fluffy summer reads each have a gay character?
The answer is, of course, to normalize perversion.
Also notable were the not-so-subtle SJW undercurrents in one of these novels. Included were a “diverse” set of characters, a descendant of a maltreated refugee, and miscegenation. (SPOILER ALERT: PLOT POINT REVEALED AHEAD.) I like to read science fiction and thought I’d enjoy a fantastical tale of a lady mathematician who falls for an alien fella. One doesn’t learn until about two-thirds of the way in that this tall, strong, smart, and handsome E.T. is on the lam after destroying a wall built on his homeworld to prevent one group of inhabitants from fighting—and breeding—with another group. Hit me over the head with a brick with your homo-open-borders agenda, SJW novelist!
Many easily-accessible modes and genres of creative expression are dominated by the shrieking hordes of cultural Marxist, anti-White, pro-degeneracy zealots. What to do?
Here are just a few creative trailblazers in various forms of pro-White, dissident-right, pro-tradition art.
White Art Collective
I stumbled upon the White Art Collective on Gab. This website points discerning consumers of creative alternative content to hard-right, pro-White independent content creators as well as providing articles, music videos, movie reviews, and thoughtful insight into our modern societal catastrophe.
In addition to being a place to curate, cultivate, and consume alternative art, White Art Collective is also helping artists partner with other creators and patrons for collaboration, funding, and resources to continue their work.
Most exciting to me was learning that this organization is hoping to organize an annual art festival! Do check out the website.
The Mamas and the Pepes
Another gem found on Gab, the Mamas & the Pepes, bill themselves as a “dissident duo” and record parodies of recognizable tunes and original songs. No karaoke tracks for these two, those are self-played instruments you hear on these tracks. (Although they confess to using a drum machine on occasion.)
The songs are short and sweet. While most are silly, some juxtapose snarky lyrics with horrifying images of Islamic and domestic terrorism, targeted murders of police, hate crime hoaxes, and degeneracy. An original titled Pride & Privilege is a serious lament exposing the fallacy of “white privilege” and the accompanying slideshow features poor and working class whites, often forgotten in the pervasive mainstream narrative.
As time went on, the duo took their music more seriously and a noticeable uptick in quality of recording (and songwriting) is evident in their later songs. Their first digital album is available at BandCamp, but also check out the slideshows on their GabTV channel.
Shannon Montague
Fine artist, crochet creator, second amendment activist (former Executive Vice President for Gun Rights Across America), alt-millennial mother, homemaker, and homeschooler.
Shannon is busy! In her own words, “I’ve created art pieces on all sides of all spectrums, including but not limited to political cartoons, band art for the Mamas and the Pepes and a Jewish Pepe for a Circumcision documentary. I sketch and doodle, make digital cartoons, crochet frog hats, but mostly I paint on repurposed items. The items I paint are mostly Dia de los Muertos themed. However, I live very close to Mexico in West Texas, and it doesn’t seem so random with that added knowledge. I also write in my spare time, but I haven’t tried to publish anything yet.” SPARE TIME you say, Shannon?
She also homeschools her three children. She told me, “The number one reason we chose to homeschool is because I could. Why not offer my children the best education they can have? When I homeschool my children, they are receiving one on one attention for every subject. They also get extras like engineering and ecology lessons and unlimited field trips. My daughter is learning to play the mandolin this year. There are no politics in my classroom.” But you can bet there is plenty of creative expression in her home. “My children are always drawing or painting, but right now their main focus is engineering items from scraps. Today, we made a boat.”
Find West Texas Artist, Shannon Montague at:
https://www.facebook.com/ShannonMontagueArt
https://gab.ai/ShannonMontague
There are alternatives to the mainstream—seek out and support the art that supports you, your family, your nation, and your goals.
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Hawaii heat wave continues to break June temperature records
HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii heat wave has continued to set record high temperatures through June, officials said.
Temperatures this week matched or exceeded previous records, news organizations reported Wednesday.
Temperatures in Honolulu are expected to reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) Thursday, National Weather Service forecasters said.
The weather service recorded a high of 91 degrees Fahrenheit (33 Celsius) in Honolulu Tuesday, breaking the record of 90 for the date in 1995.
Record high temperatures of 90 and higher have also continued this week on Maui.
Since May 16, Maui has seen 18 record-setting or record-tying high temperature days, including 96 degrees Fahrenheit (36 Celsius) on May 26 at the Kahului Airport, officials said.
Sensors at the airport were inspected last week because of the number of records. There were no abnormalities, but the sensors were replaced anyway, said weather service meteorologist Melissa Dye.
During May, officials said 27 records were either set or matched in Honolulu, Kahului, Hilo, and Lihue.
The heat has benefited some island businesses.
David Yamashiro, co-founder and partner of Ululani’s Hawaiian Shave Ice, estimated business was up about 15% during the heat streak and lines were out the doors.
“It’s been great,” Yamashiro said. “Business has definitely been booming in all shops. That’s pretty indicative it’s weather-related.”
A1 Refrigeration, Air Conditioning & Sheetmetal in Kahului is “super busy right now,” said owner Michael Saito.
“This past month, yeah, people been calling,” Saito said. “They didn’t even look at the price.”
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8 Big Predictions for Platforms in 2018
By Alex Moazed on January 8, 2018
It’s that time of year again. Last year we made 7 predictions for 2017. By our count we went 7 for 7. So with 2018 primed to be a big year for platforms, here are our 8 predictions for platform businesses in 2018.
1. No mainstream blockchain breakthrough, but several more cryptocurrencies explode in value
The Bitcoin and blockchain hype train rolls on. Much like AR and VR a year ago, Bitcoin is getting its moment in the media spotlight This year Bitcoin peaked just shy of $20,000 before cratering back to earth. But it still ended the year up 16x over its value on January 1, 2017, when it just topped $1,000. We aren’t predicting where it will end up this time next year – truthfully, nobody knows.
So far, most of Bitcoin’s, and the blockchain’s value is speculative. Despite a massive influx of investment and speculative cash this year, they still have no proven mainstream applications. Expect that to continue for 2018. While blockchain technology remains promising, there are still a host of challenges left to solve before it’s ready for prime time. It’s still at least a couple years away.
2. Major tech unicorns start to go public
Last year produced a solid pipeline of tech IPOs, but 2018 should be even bigger. This year should see the first wave of the mega-unicorn platform startups going public.
While Uber is likely still more than a year away – not withstanding its cultural and legal problems, the company still has to figure out a path to profitability – Airbnb and Lyft look like contenders to go public. Other outside contenders include Slack and Pinterest. Airbnb, reportedly already profitable, is our pick for this year, but expect at least two major platform startups to hit public markets in the next twelve months.
3. IoT gains traction with machine manufacturers
The Internet of Things hype cycle has come and gone over the last few years with little to show for it in terms of mainstream success. Yet in the background, investment and enthusiasm has been building for IoT in the industrial sector. Though GE has struggled and failed to achieve its goal of becoming a modern monopoly around the Internet of Things, many other companies have been experimenting successfully.
We expect 2018 to be the year where many of these smaller investments start to pay off. Early platform players will emerge this year in this area.
While it may take a few years for the winners to emerge, the Industrial Internet of Things will start to take practical shape in 2018.
4. Large US platform companies take cues from China and start experimenting with more financial services
In China, Alibaba’s spinoff company, Ant Financial, has sparked a revolution in financial services. In a country that has lacked for consumer investment options, Ant and Alibaba rival Tencent have built large financial services platforms on top of their payment platforms.
Platforms in the U.S., both blessed with and challenged a much more robust financial services sector, have looked at their Chinese counterparts with envy. But slowly, this gap has started to narrow. Amazon, for example, has successfully been lending to merchants on its marketplace.
Over the next year, expect to see more of the major platforms experiment with offering financial products. The potential here is massive, and many banks aren’t exactly popular with consumers. While progress will be much slower than it was in China, for the major U.S. platforms it’s too big to ignore.
5. Walmart continues its success due to Jet.com and its renewed platform approach
One of the biggest platform stories of the last year was Walmart’s newfound success. After years of failing in its efforts to combat Amazon, Walmart gained ground. Its acquisition of Jet.com has paid off handsomely as Walmart has begun to win back digital customers and merchants to its marketplace as well as to Jet’s.
This stark reversal will continue in 2018, as Walmart truly emerges as the second dominant player behind Amazon for ecommerce marketplaces. As we wrote at the time, Walmart’s acquisition of Jet was an expensive price to pay for second place, but it’s a move that will prove well worth the investment.
6. Alexa continues to explode, but competition increases
This is the first of our predictions that continue from last year. After multiple failed attempts at building development platforms, we predicted that Alexa would be a big success. And in 2017, it was. Over the last year, Alexa has gone from a voice service on a handful of niche devices to a platform present on a growing number of hardware devices – many of them not made by Amazon – and supported by a large developer ecosystem.
Alexa’s success will continue in 2018, as it has become a centerpiece of Amazon’s future growth. However, given the promise of voice as a new interface, all the major platforms will continue to pour investment into their own voice development platforms. So far Google is the largest competitor, but expect to see more in 2018 from Facebook, Microsoft and others, such as Baidu in China. For now, Alexa remains the dominant number one in voice, but by the end of the year we expect a clear challenger to emerge.
7. Modern monopolies face more political scrutiny
This was another of our predictions from last year – that platforms would become hot-button political topics. And boy did they ever. From fake news to Uber’s legal troubles, Google’s antitrust case in the EU, and the occasional presidential rant about Amazon, platforms were never far from the media and political spotlight.
And this issue isn’t going anywhere soon. Given platforms growing economic dominance, the unresolved challenge of how they should be handled politically will gather more attention this year. So far, these discussions have resulted in a lot of opinion pieces but little actual legislation. In 2018, that will likely start to change, as governments grapple with the economic and political implications of the growth of modern monopolies.
8. More linear players engage in platform innovation by either building or buying
Last year we predicted that more linear enterprises would look at platform startups as big acquisition targets. And 2017 saw a host of major platform acquisitions, including IKEA buying Taskrabbit, Caterpillar acquiring Yard Club and Wyndham Hotels buying Love Home Swap. Verizon also finally bought Yahoo, which includes platforms like Tumblr. Other enterprises have taken a build approach, such as Klockner, a German metals company that announced at its recent Capital Markets Day its plans to launch a marketplace in 2018.
In 2018, we will see this trend continue in a big way, as more large enterprises come under pressure from platform businesses. Those who don’t launch platforms, like Grainger in 2017, will continue to struggle. While those that embrace platform innovation like Walmart will see much greater success.
All in all, 2018 will be a major year for platform businesses. Check this space for the latest major platform news!
Originally appeared on Inc.
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ST ALBANS, ENGLAND - MARCH 13: of Arsenal during a training session at London Colney on March 13, 2015 in St Albans, England. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
Ozil,Welbeck,Cazorla,Koscielny,Chambers and Coquelin Expected Return Date From Injury
Like every season,Arsenal is suffering from several injuries and some are for the players from the starting Xl, such as Ozil and Cazorla.
Here we will provide you with the latest injury updates and their return date.
Ozil is suffering from an Inflammation in his knee since before Chelsea’s match almost three weeks ago and played just 10 minutes against West Brom. However, he is expected to return against Watford next week.
Welbeck is suffering from an injury he picked up against Chelsea last month, groin strain, and was expected to be out for 3-4 weeks. So he should be able to play against Watford. However, with Sanchez fit, Welbeck doesn’t have a lot of chances to start.
Santi Cazorla
Cazorla is suffering from achilles since almost a year. He isn’t expected to play this year, however he should be fit to by January 2018.
Like Santi Cazorla, Koscielny is suffering from an achilles injury. But his case is minor and didn’t require a surgery. He was almost fit before Brighton’s match, but Wenger didn’t want to risk him and preferred to play Holding instead.
Koscielny is already fit and can play.
Calum Chambers
He is suffering from a hip injury again. He picked up the injury in his first official match this season and may feature against Norwich City.
Francis Coquelin
since 4 Weeks Coquelin got injured and picked up a hamstring strain injury. He is still not fit and may need two more weeks. He is expected to be back by Everton’s match on the 22nd of October, but may not start until 24th of October in the EFL match against Norwich City as well.
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James Patterson is a world-renowned mystery writer that has dominated the New York Times Bestseller list for decades. In fact, he holds the New York Times AND Guinness records for most best-selling, hardcover, fiction titles by a single author, an astonishing accomplishment of 76! Patterson is possible best known for his Alex Cross series, which has held the top selling detective series for the past ten years. His books have sold approximately 300 million copies worldwide and he is the first author to achieve ten million eBook sales. There have been nine files - seven made for TV movies and three major motion pictures that were adapted from Patterson novels. Unlike many of his counterparts, Patterson is a fan of collaboration and works with several ghostwriters and co-authors to keep the mysteries coming for his demanding readers. While he has received his share of criticism for this practice, it hasn't mattered to his devoted following and as he continues to top the charts with each new release. In addition to adult novels, Patterson has recently become the bestselling author for the young adult and middle grade categories.
Patterson is also well known for his philanthropy. The James Patterson Teach Education Scholarship has been established to support the next generation of teachers at 19 different universities across the country. Patterson co-hosts a webcast with Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade. ONE ON ONE: Fundamentals with Dwyane Wade and James Patterson highlights the importance of reading for success in life. He also has a website dedicated to helping parents and educators ignite the reading spark in students. The website has specific book recommendations aimed towards the child's ability. ReadKiddoRead.com also features book reviews, messages from James, a Facebook community, and contributions from other authors and celebrities that believe in the power of reading.
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KONPA (COMPAS)
Creole “Kwéyòl” Language
KONPA (KOMPA, COMPAS)
The infectious rhythm of Haiti’s national dance music is known as KONPA (Con Pah, Kompa). The relentless KONPA dance beat knows no language barrier. Whether the KONPA artist sings in Spanish, English, French or in native Creole language, the rhythmic mix of grooves and textures from around the world when blended together truly represents WORLD BEAT music.
In KONPA music there is a strong dose of the Dominican Republic’s national dance music Meringue, (the Dominican Republic and Haiti share the island of Hispaniola). There is also an element of Haiti’s dance-till-you-drop carnival music, Rara, the hypnotic drums of Haitian voodoo rituals, the Quadrilles and Contra dances from Haiti’s French colonisers and Funk from soul era, which was dominated by James Brown, for good measure.
Music from Dominica
Cadence-Lypso
Calypso in Dominica
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Chennai 3: rubbish recycling
Walking along in Mylapore the other day, I came across an arresting sight - a toddler lying down as if asleep in a rubbish recycling cart.
The boy's mother was sifting among roadside rubbish for anything that she could salvage and recycle or sell on for a few rupees. She had her own cycle-with-trailer. By the time I had got her OK to take some photos, her son - Puray, as I heard it - was well and truly awake.
Puray seemed quite content in his resting place, and his mother - Sandiya is what I think she said - was clearly a well organised and enterprising kabari wali (to use the Hindi term for those who trade small-scale in waste). And India can teach the West an awful lot about recycling.
Chennai 3: Bamboo Chick
This is not 'chick' as in Dixie Chicks, nor as in Quick Chick noodles, nor indeed as in Parisian 'chic'.
Sumathi and Lakshmi are working out in the open on their regular pitch on Chennai's TTK Road using slender bamboo stems to make chick, window blinds or sun screens (and occasionally mats and table placings) which are light, durable and flexible.
The making process uses a lot of stone weights to keep the bamboo taut and to ensure that the strands remain level. This video gives a sense of the intricacy of the craft -
Chick is fashionable. Big balcony blinds can be - and I'm going by online prices here, I'm sure it's a lot cheaper to buy bespoke on TTK Road - about 20 rupees per square foot. Window blinds go for up to 70 rupees (about $1) a square foot.
Sumathi and Lakshmi are part of a small army of vendors and craft workers whose workplace is on the Chennai streets.
I sought their permission to take photos, which was happily given. I didn't buy any chick, but their boss, the man (yes, the sexual division of labour is alive and well here) to the left of one of the pictures posted here, negotiated a modest recompense.
And I trust that at least some of that reached the women who do the work.
Chennai 3: Eyes of Madras 2.0
I've just landed up back in Chennai - for a third year (hence 'Chennai 3') I'm spending a semester teaching at the Asian College of Journalism. I'll meet the class for the first time on Monday. Meanwhile, just a five minute stroll from where I'm staying, I came across the annual exhibition of the Chennai Photowalk (look them up on Facebook), a group of enthusiastic photographers who every couple of weeks go out for a group wander to find things/people/cityscapes to photograph in this wonderfully photogenic city.
This photography exhibition was happy for visitors to photograph the impressive array of exhibits - the photo above (and just to emphasise, I can claim no creative credit for this image - Sethu Raman was the photographer) was my favourite.
I did manage to get a group photo of at least some of those exhibiting. I was assured that to join the Chennai Photowalk group you didn't have to be a top talent, high end photographer ... indeed you didn't even have to have a camera. So, what's not to like about it - I've signed up to the Facebook group and watch this space to see what transpires at their walks.
Many of the photographs make use of humour - a few made me laugh out loud. And in a city where water is ever present, the exhibition was drenched with monsoon rains, sandy beaches and froth-topped waves. Here's a few of my favourites (and again, all credit to exhibitors of the Chennai Photowalk group whose names feature below the mounted photographs).
If you are in Chennai, the closing day of the exhibition is tomorrow (Sunday - 27th January)
"I'm a mango"
It's funny how some things recur across the generations. Like mangoes. OK - bear with me ...
Fully twenty-five years ago, when I was new as a BBC correspondent in Delhi and seeking to impress my colleagues with my Hindi, I declared: मैं आम हूं (me aam hoo). The response was smirks, giggles and at least in one case derisive laughter. I had intended to say that I was an ordinary guy - not someone from a privileged background. Instead I had declared: I'm a mango!
OK, so fast forward ... my daughter, a really good linguist, has started Hindi lessons. Well, her first proper Hindi lesson was yesterday - though she is already fairly OK in the language. This evening she asked me to give her a quick run down on Indian politics as we enter what will be an election year there.
I mentioned the Aam Admi Party
आम आदमी पार्टी - the insurgent anti-corruption party which won a startling landslide victory in local elections in Delhi a few years back. Aam Admi means 'common man' - a phrase made famous by the cartoonist R.K, Laxman. But as we have discovered. Aam also has another meaning -
"Um, the 'mango man' party? Really?" my daughter enquired.
It seems we have more in common than I thought.
My Back Story
I've been thinking a lot about my mother this week. She would have been ninety last Saturday. Sadly, she died in August 2000. This is my parents' wedding at Gildersome Baptist Church on 18th July 1953. All four of my grandparents are present - Joseph and Ethel Whitehead are (discounting the child in arms) the fourth and fifth from the left at the back while Elizabeth and Thomas Graham are on the far right. My father's two brothers (and their wives) and my mother's three sisters (one of whom married my father's twin brother) are all there. So are my two oldest cousins. I think I can name almost everyone - but I really should have double checked with my father, who died a couple of years ago.
I've blogged about my father, Arthur Whitehead - but not so much about my mother. Time to make amends. Margaret Graham was born in Glasgow - her father was a Protestant from Belfast (his mother was a Catholic, which explains why they eventually moved out ) who served his apprenticeship in the Harland and Wolff shipyards, then moved over to Glasgow where he worked as a boilermaker in the Govan shipyards.
My mother was brought up in a close in Ibrox, a short stroll from the Rangers football ground - she and her friends used to sneak in when the gates opened and catch the last few minutes of the game.
When my mother was about nine, her father got a job as, I think, a foreman in a steel stockholding plant near Gildersome, and the Graham family all moved to West Yorkshire. Their home was on Grove View at the centre of Gildersome. My mother went to Morley Grammar School and worked as a telephonist before meeting and marrying my father. Her parents and two youngest sisters eventually emigrated to South Africa and her father (who I never met) died there.
Just by coincidence - or is it? - I have over the last few days been looking through some of the family papers and photos my father left - quite a few of which are in fact my mother's. Some of the letters feel too intimate for a third party to read. Among them is a Valentine card my father sent before they married. She also kept a lot of my letters - from college, from India when I worked there, all sorts of stuff which I never imagined might survive.
There's also a few of my mother's pocket diaries from the 1950s, including her entries at the time of my birth. It's both wonderful and slightly unsettling to read about how I came into the world. I was born on June 23rd - here's what she wrote on that day and the days either side:
'To go in Mo[rley] Hall [[maternity home]] 10am if not taken before. A[rthur] took me. Dr McNaughton came - started injections 2.15pm. Pains started about 3.30pm. Had injections. A came 7-8pm. Pains wore off + started at midnight. Went into Labour Ward 1am - nothing to eat all day. Dr Mc called twice + called to see A. A came 7-8pm the waters started to break. Baby born app 11.30pm. 8lb 2ozs. Dr McNaughton arrived about 5 mins after birth + gave 2 stitches.
Sun 24: A + Mam came 2.30-3.30pm + A at 7-8pm. Baby doing fine - Andrew. Dr McN called in morning. Nellie came to window about 6.15pm + brought flowers.'
Also among her papers I came across this portrait photo - I don't recall seeing it before. It's undated, but I imagine it may have been taken for her twenty-first birthday.
A New Year's Ramble ... to Rinkoffs
My New Year ramble has become an annual custom - this time (new camera in hand) there was a touch less serendipity about the route. I wanted to walk along Jubilee Street in Stepney, and visit one of the last surviving Jewish institutions in the old East End.
The walk began at Aldgate tube station and took me along Commercial Road, the distinctly shabby main road heading east towards Canary Wharf. There are a few old mansion blocks still lining the street, but most of the businesses are given over to wholesale garment shops - and the cheap end of the business. Almost all are South Asian-run, but it's a continuation of what was the defining industry of the Jewish East End. Coincidence perhaps, but a curious and heartwarming one.
There's still a synagogue on Commercial Road - one of, I think, only three surviving in the East End where once were were 150 or more. The Congregation of Jacob dates back to 1903 though this building was consecrated only in 1921. It has an imposing frontage and by all accounts the interior is even more splendid - but this morning it was firmly shut.
Jubilee Street runs from Commercial Road several hundred yards north to Whitechapel Road, and at the northern end is Rinkoff Bakeries. I'd never been there before. I'll certainly be going again. I had a coffee and a smoked salmon and cream cheese beigel. Excellent! And I brought back pastries for the family.
The baking is done on the premises, and it's been run by the same family ever since 1911. Hyman Rinkoff came to London from Kiev and his bakery was intially in Old Montague Street - that's Whitechapel. Rinkoffs moved to Jubilee Street in the 1970s.
Ray Rinkoff - Hyman's grandson - now runs the business. He was himself a baker; his daughter works there as a baker; his wife runs 'walk, talk, bake' strolls through the East End. Tasty!
The place does good business. There are a few tables - both inside and out (and even on a nippy January morning most of the outside tables were taken) - and a steady stream of customers ... tourists, 'pilgrims', but mainly locals who want a take away cake, beigel or coffee.
That's Ray above, with a model of himself in his days as a master baker. He trades a lot on tradition, but there's quality in the mix too. I had never heard of Rinkoffs until I started thinking about this walk - if you haven't been, do go!
Jubilee Street has been knocked around a lot. There's only a short stretch towards the north end that looks a little as it would have done a century ago, when this area was overwhelmingly Jewish.
The street has a special place in the history of the East End - it was the epicentre of of the once formidable anarchist movement in this part of London.
The Jubilee Street Club was established in 1906 and for eight years was both a social and educational centre. Rudolf Rocker was closely associated with the club, and such anarchist luminaries as Kropotkin and Malatesta spoke here. I once interviewed Nellie Dick (born Naomi Ploschansky) who as a young woman was active in the Jubilee Street Club and helped to organise a 'Modern School' here.
There's a wonderful account of this and other London anarchist clubs, including a rather grainy photograph, in this research paper by the historian Jonathan Moses. It's worth a read. The old club building was demolished many decades ago and Jarman House, with its distinctive sky blue balconies, now stands on the site.
A little to the east lies Stepney Green, a wonderfully peaceful and historic spot. Rudolf Rocker and his family - including his younger son Fermin, an artist - once lived in a top floor flat here. By chance a few year ago, I had the opportunity to visit that same flat in Dunstan House when my friend Bill Schwarz was putting up here. Fermin's drawing of the building graced the cover of his memoir of his East End childhood, and you can see how little it has changed.
Just to the south is the church of St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney - one of the few London churches which is genuinely medieval. In origin it is Anglo-Saxon and houses a tenth century rood, a representation of the crucifixion (the photo is from the church's website), which is believed to be a remnant of the church that St Dunstan himself may have founded here.
And as so often with old London churches, its memorials are testament to the human cost of Britain's Imperial ambitions.
Just east of the church and its grounds, there's the sort of street that I just love - Durham Row, tiny post-war bungalows on one side, and (at a guess) mid-nineteenth century buildings on the other, several of which seem once to have been shops. And above one of these one-time shop windows, it's just possible to make out an inscription: E, Andrews, FLORIST.
Another couple of hundred yards, and I reached the Regent's Canal - the end of my walk. Thanks for making the journey with me.
And as I looked back, there was the City looming over the East End, looking almost enticing ... from a distance.
'We do not want another Ireland in S. Africa'
To start the year, let's stop the war. This is a wonderful Walter Crane designed image from a handbill issued by the Stop the War Committee - the Boer War, of course - set up in 1899 by the campaigning journalist, W.T. Stead. The angel of peace is shown beseeching British soldier and armed Boer farmer to put down their weapons.
The campaign brought together prominent religious figures (John Clifford was a prominent Baptist and a pioneer of passive resistance) and popular novelists (Silas Hocking was a Liberal and Methodist who wrote dozens of novels, among which Her Benny was a bestseller). It was largely free of conventional political personalities - and indeed the language of the leaflet is much more religious and humanitarian than political.
'The Boers are the Dutch of South Africa', it asserts, 'white men, and Protestant Christians like ourselves' - a sentiment which immediately implies that the Committee does not seek to represent women, non-Protestants or people of colour. Even 120 years ago, that immediately excluded perhaps two-thirds of the British population.
The Stop the War Committee distributed millions of handbills, on trains and elsewhere - though of course vanishingly few have survived. It was regarded as pro-Boer, which was a damning epithet amid the khaki patriotism engendered by the war campaign.
'We do not want another Ireland in S. Africa', the leaflet asserts. Hallelujah!
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Pixel 2 Series Has The Best Cameras In The Industry: Google
By Dominik Bosnjak October 04, 2017, 11:04am
Google on Wednesday unveiled its latest flagship series, officially debuting the Pixel 2 lineup that's meant to succeed the 2016 Pixel smartphones. The two handsets both boast high-end specs but are radically different in terms of design, seemingly being aimed at different demographics. Still, all consumers Google is targeting with the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL appear to have one thing in common - they aren't willing to buy a 2017 smartphone without a high-end camera. While some critics may argue Google cut a number of corners by opting against following the latest industry practices and equipping the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL with single-sensor modules instead of dual camera ones, the imaging capabilities of the two devices seem to be the very pinnacle of what the mobile segment is currently capable of offering as far as single-lens setups are concerned.
Just like it was the case last year, Google decided to focus on functionality and versatility with the camera setups found on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL instead of placing a large emphasis on the resolution of their sensors. Both devices are hence shipping with 12.2-megapixel primary cameras which may not seem like a high number in a vacuum but should still deliver a high-quality performance, with the sensors mounted behind the lenses having a pixel size of 1.4µm. A larger sensor is capable of gathering more light in a given period of time than a smaller one and seeing how the lenses mounted on the rear plates of both devices have an aperture of f/1.8, it's likely that the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL will be more than capable of performing in low-light conditions or when shooting action scenes that you're trying to "freeze" with high shutter speeds. This possibility is given more credence by the fact that the primary camera of the Pixel 2 series now features optical image stabilization (OIS) support and should be extremely capable at reducing the shakiness of your photographs regardless of the circumstances. Last year's Pixel devices only had electronic image stabilization (EIS) and Google's imaging software still managed to produce results that some were touting as the best in the mobile industry, and the inclusion of OIS into the Pixel 2 lineup should additionally reinforce the image quality of the two devices, especially since EIS is still part of the new package(s).
The primary cameras of the Pixel 2 series also come with phase detection autofocus (PDAF) and laser detection autofocus support, Google confirmed. The sensors of the newly announced smartphones are backed by a dual-LED (dual tone) flash unit and a redesigned Camera app which now boasts even more presets and automation mechanisms, including a new Portrait Mode and augmented reality (AR) stickers that users are able to apply to their images in real time before shooting them.
The top bezels of the Pixel 2 and Pixel XL 2 accommodate 8-megapixel sensors mounted behind lenses with an aperture of f/2.4. The secondary camera of the newly revealed devices seems mostly identical to the one found on the 2016 models with one notable exception - OIS support. All advantages of OIS mentioned in the context of the main camera of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL also apply to their front-facing modules. While major original equipment manufacturers are now slowly phasing out single-lens cameras from their premium offerings, the HTC U11 still proved that one can deliver a high-quality imaging experience with just one sensor and Google is apparently adamant to do the same with the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. In fact, it possibly already did, with DxOMark awarding it a score of 98, by far its highest ever.
One final noteworthy detail related to the imaging capabilities of the new devices pertains to a special incentive Google is bundling with every single unit - unlimited Google Drive storage. Seeing how the two smartphones lack a microSD card slot and are more than capable of recording 4K videos, storage space could prove to be scarce, which is why Google is now mimicking the offer originally introduced alongside the 2016 Pixel devices - every single photo and video recorded with your new flagship can be uploaded to Google Drive at no cost and with no compression, allowing you to focus on your mobile photography instead of worrying about internal memory management. While the company's offer of unlimited Google Drive storage for photos taken with the Pixel 2 devices is of the lifelong variety, videos can be uploaded to Google Drive without limitations by the end of 2020, Alphabet's subsidiary confirmed.
October 04, 2017, 11:04am
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Dominik Bosnjak
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Dominik started at AndroidHeadlines in 2016. He’s approaching his first full decade in the media industry, with his background being primarily in technology, gaming, and entertainment. These days, his focus is more on the political side of the tech game, as well as data privacy issues, with him looking at both of those through the prism of Android. Contact him at [email protected]
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Allo v5.0 prepares to give personalized sticker packs based on selfies and adds support for Chrome Custom Tabs [APK Teardown + Download]
Cody Toombs
APK Teardown
The Allo v5.0 update is rolling out to chatters around the world. In terms of features you can touch and play with today, the only addition appears to be support for Chrome Custom Tabs. Taking a look at a teardown shows there's a new, personalized, custom-generated sticker pack in the works. As usual, we've got a download link at the bottom for those of you that aren't willing to wait for this to roll out normally.
[Shrug, Facepalm] For The First Time Ever, Android Supports More Emoji Than iOS Does
Martim Lobao
For a long, long time, emoji support on Android has been playing catch-up with iOS — sometimes lagging behind by as much as several years. In many cases, characters sent from another device (such as an iPhone) wouldn't display at all on Android, leaving a lot of information lost in translation. Even the few characters that did render were often depicted differently: if you've been on Android since the days of Jelly Bean, you probably remember those peculiar little monochrome Bugdroids that Google used in lieu of smiley faces.
A lot has changed since then: emoji on Android have gained some color, they more closely match the samples from the Unicode Standard, and they've grown to include several hundred different characters.
[Update: Expired] Deal Alert: Grab This Battery-Free, Well-Reviewed Spigen Selfie Stick For Only $4 After $6 Off Coupon
Bertel King, Jr.
2016/04/06 12:34pm PDT Apr 6, 2016
Artem wanted someone on the team to write up a deal alert in which we point our readers toward a selfie stick. After a contentious debate in which no one else agreed that we should do this, here I am.
ZTE Announces The Blade S7 For All You Selfie Lovers Out There
ZTE has just announced the newest entry to its Blade lineup, the Blade S7. The S7 will go on sale in Thailand and other countries across the Asia Pacific soon afterwards, and is squarely targeted at the selfie-loving segment of the population, with ZTE dubbing it its "most powerful selfie smartphone to date."
Jacky Zhang, CEO of ZTE Mobile Devices in the Asia Pacific, claims ZTE wanted to create a device "that takes the selfie experience to a new level," and they have arguably delivered on that promise. The Blade S7 features a 13-megapixel front-facing camera with a flash and phase detection autofocus, which can be used to take full advantage of the 14 different "beautification" options available.
LG Announces The V10 With Dual Front-Facing Cameras, Manual Video Capture, And Secondary Display (Updated With Carrier Info)
2015/10/01 11:00am PDT Oct 1, 2015
Update 1: 2015/10/01 11:01am PDT
We learned at today's presentation that the V10 will be available from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon at a yet-unspecified date. Check out our full hands-on post here.
Mere hours ago we saw LG's new V10 phone leaked courtesy of @evleaks, and now LG has made it official.
The V10, which will be shown off at an event in NYC tomorrow, has the hallmark characteristics we've seen leaked and hinted before - a dual front-facing camera setup and a secondary display along the top of the device.
The dual front shooters, LG says, are for 120-degree selfies (or "standard" 80-degree selfies if you wish), capturing wide-angle photos with minimal distortion.
Google Camera v3.0 Sneak Peek - Part 1: Smart Burst, Creations, and Animated GIFs [APK Teardown]
2015/09/14 9:20am PDT Sep 14, 2015
We're just two weeks away from the anticipated launch date for Android 6.0, up to two Nexus phones, and possibly many other surprises. As we all know, secrets are rarely well-kept as the clock counts down on big new products, and that means bits and pieces occasionally escape. We've got an early look at the resources belonging to Google Camera v3.0, which we expect to see included with the upcoming Nexus handsets and rolling out to the Play Store.
Disclaimer: Teardowns are necessarily speculative and usually based on incomplete evidence. It's possible that the guesses made here are totally and completely wrong.
Hands-On With The Blu Selfie: Dual 13MP Cameras And A Great Form Factor Go A Long Way
While smartphone enthusiasts typically care deeply about every spec inside the phones they buy, there's one feature that nearly every smartphone owner wants: a good camera. In fact, on several occasions, I've had friends and family ask which phone they should buy based around that one qualification: which phone has the best camera? Needless to say, a good shooter is a pretty big deal in the smartphone world.
With a name like Selfie, to say that Blu's newest handset is all about the camera experience would be pretty accurate. Not only does it have a 13 MP rear shooter, but also a 13 MP front camera with flash.
Samsung Announces Galaxy E5 And Galaxy E7 Smartphones For The Indian Market
2015/01/06 9:05am PDT Jan 6, 2015
Time waits for no man, and Samsung is similarly inclined - it's not letting a little thing like the biggest technology conference in the world stop it from announcing phones for markets on the other side of the planet. Thus we have the Galaxy E5 and Galaxy E7, a mid-range, photo-focused take on Samsung's formula and its plus-sized and slightly higher-end brother, respectively. Both of them should be coming to India sometime in the near future.
The Galaxy E5 is a pretty standard take on Samsung hardware. While it isn't exactly high-end, users will appreciate a few extra touches, notably the 5-inch Super AMOLED screen (resolution unspecified) and a front-facing 5MP "selfie cam" with a 120-degree wide-angle lens.
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HTC Officially Unveils The Desire EYE And Its Selfielicious 13MP Front-Facing Camera
2014/10/08 1:30pm PDT Oct 8, 2014
Today at its big Double Exposure New York event, HTC officially unveiled the leaked Desire EYE. What sets this phone apart from others isn't impressive specs or phenomenal build quality. Oh no, it's the giant 13MP front-facing camera. With a matching camera on the back, this phone wants your selfies to look just as impressive as the photos you take of other people. There's even dual LED flash on both sides as well.
As fun as this concept and selfies in general are to mock, let's acknowledge for a moment that it's not unreasonable to expect front-facing shots to look as crisp as images captured with the rear shooter.
Several Leaks Of The 'HTC Desire Eye' Show A Big 13MP Front-Facing Camera Complete With LED Flash
2014/10/05 6:15am PDT Oct 5, 2014
HTC is set to unveil some new hardware at a New York City event on Wednesday. The company itself has already given us some clues to a GoPro-style sports camera (including a couple of unintended product images), and a few less reliable sources claim there will be a phone with a 13-megapixel Duo camera. This weekend the Twitter leak account @Upleaks showed some images of an alleged "HTC Desire Eye," a phone that embraces the selfie craze (ugh) in a big way.
Disclaimer: No matter the confidence level, there's always a chance product updates, features, and some or all details will be changed or cancelled altogether.
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First Motorola X Press Images Hit The Web [Updated: White And Profile]
The leakiest and one of the most mysterious phones in recent history just got a little less mysterious as @evleaks dropped the first official press renders onto our sleepy heads late Friday night. The OS is close to stock (it's Android 4.2.2 for now, but we fully expect 4.3 soon after its release), the cameras are where they're supposed to be, the on-screen buttons make us happy, and overall, it's not such a bad-looker for a mid-spec, affordable device.
Leaked Video Shows Moto X With Always-On Voice Commands, Camera Gestures, And More [Updated]
Google+ user Дима Прокопенко has just given us a tantalizing, more complete look at the Moto X, posting a Rogers "Tech Experts" demo video that shows off some of the hotly-anticipated device's unique features.
Before we get to features, it's worth noting that the video indicates a Rogers launch "in August," as an exclusive for the Canadian carrier.
The video also shows off the Moto X's always-on voice commands, allowing users to query Google Search with their voice regardless of whether they're in the search app.
Motorola CEO: Moto X Phone Coming By October, Built In Texas, And It's The First In A New Product Line [Update: Possible Summer Release]
2013/05/29 5:28pm PDT May 29, 2013
The conferences put on by AllThingsD tend to be a bit sedate - Walt Mossberg gets on stage with some Very Important People and picks their brain in front of a live audience. Not so with tonight's interview of Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside and Research & Development head Regina Dugan. At the D11 stage, Woodside let loose with a flurry of information about the company's plans for the remainder of the year, starting with the much-rumored X Phone.
Evleaks Leaks AT&T Version Of Unannounced Motorola Phone, And You'll Want To See The Model Name
David Ruddock
2013/05/02 2:42pm PDT May 2, 2013
Intrepid leakster @evleaks has just dropped a few images of a black-boxed Motorola device that appears to be headed for AT&T. It's worth noting that this is the first Motorola product we've seen badged up for an American carrier since the RAZR HD / RAZR M last summer, quite a long time ago.
It's also a phone we've seen before. At least, it seems to be. Vietnamese blog Tinhte leaked a device with the codename "XT912A" (XT is Moto's typical device prefix for "DROID" branded devices), and it's pretty clear the two are one in the same in most respects, at least based on what we see in these photos.
[Editorial] Stop Making Crap Up And Then Whining About It
Eric Ravenscraft
Let's take a trip down memory lane, shall we? The year was 2012, the Galaxy S III and the HTC One X were still new, and some jerk on the internet suggested that maybe it's cool if people started appreciating their amazing phones instead of complaining about how their device wasn't revolutionary.
In the time since then, certain segments of the tech community have opted to go in the other direction.
Motorola Design Chief Promises 'Just Right' Size Android Phones In 2H 2013, Shooting For Cross-Carrier Branding
Ever since the WSJ dropped a hint about the mythical 'X Phone' back in December, the rumors have not stopped flowing. Which is great because, according to Motorola's CFO, the 18 months of product pipeline that Google acquired weren't exactly wow-ing anyone. However, according to Moto's design chief Jim Wicks, the next generation of hardware will be fantastic.
The handsets have been in the works for the last eight months (so since around August, for those counting), and will target the segments of the market that's looking for a "just right" screen size.
Motorola And Google Are Working On An 'X Phone' According To WSJ Rumor That Kind Of States The Obvious
2012/12/21 2:35pm PDT Dec 21, 2012
Hey, so, this is crazy, but Google bought a smartphone company (Motorola), and now they're working on a smartphone together. Shocker. Snarkiness aside, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that, according to its sources, Motorola and Google are working on making a flagship phone specifically to compete with the iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy line. It is internally known as the 'X Phone,' and will allegedly be released in 2013.
At this point, if Motorola and Google weren't working on a high-end phone for 2013, I'd be worried.
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News Bytes: ‘Wonder Park’s BO Track, ‘Legend of Vox Machina’ Smashes Crowdfund Goals, Arnold 5.3 Enters Public Beta & More
Animation du Monde Crowns Abidjan Winners, Heads to Ghana
VIEW Adds Peter Ramsey, Siobhan Reddy, Sergio Pablos & More Speakers
News Bytes: ‘Miracle Tunes’ in Greece, Getting Wild in ‘Planet Zoo,’ the Perfect Con Bag & More
News Bytes: Extended ‘Lion King’ Spot, ‘BoJack’ Artists Unionize, Rotten Tomatoes Animated Essentials & More
The Legend of Vox Machina
Tom Hatten Dies: Former ‘Popeye and Friends’ Host Was 92
News of the former actor, announcer and KTLA host was shared by the Los Angeles TV station on Saturday. Hatten joined the station as an announcer in 1952. He went on to host the children’s show Popeye and Friends from 1976 to 1988, and KTLA’s Family Film Festival from 1978 to 1992.
Sunny Days for Dingle Animation as Native Son John Rice Returns with Festival
After seeking his toon fortunes in Los Angeles, the Kerry-born artist discusses his career, inspirations, and homecoming with Animation Dingle — kicking off its seventh edition next weekend.
“We thought that there could be something you know, if you were to do it properly and focus on animation. We didn’t know what the colleges are doing and they didn’t know what the industry was doing. That’s kind of where it started. It started off with maybe 25 people. Now there’s 700 people. Student tickets go overnight, pretty much. A student described it on Twitter the other day as a ‘Glastonbury for animation … I think you have to be kind of niche these days when you’re in a festival. We borrow a bit from Sundance in that the harder it is to get to, the harder it is to leave. It’s small and perfectly formed and we just take over Dingle.” — John Rice.
Cape Town International Animation Festival and Comic Con to Partner in 2020
The two events will form a brand new fandom event, Comic Con Cape Town. The alliance was announced during the 8th CTIAF, which was held March 8-10 welcoming international luminaries including Oscar winners Aron Warner and Peter Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse).
“The year-on-year growth of the festival has happened thanks to the loyal support of our sponsors, partners and the industry. The news of the partnership With Comic Con is immensely exciting as we take the next step of growth into the future. The presence of Comic Con in Cape Town will have a huge impact on pop-culture enthusiasts in the City.” — Dianne Makings, festival director.
Introducing Arnold 5.3 with Arnold GPU in Public Beta
Autodesk has moved the highly anticipated release into the next phase, providing artists with a first taste of GPU rendering for a set number of features which will add speed and interactivity to everything from look development to lighting. New features include: Major improvements to quality and performance for adaptive sampling, helping to reduce render times without jeopardizing final image quality. Improved version of Randomwalk SSS mode for more realistic shading. Enhanced usability for Standard Surface, giving users more control Improvements to the Operator framework, including a new Include operator and more artist-friendly way to apply them. Better sampling of Skydome lights, reducing direct illumination noise. And updates to support for MaterialX, allowing users to save a shading network as a MaterialX look.
Critical Role’s ‘Vox Machina’ Animated Series Finds $7.5 Million in Kickstarter Loot
The Legend of Vox Machina, inspired by the popular table-top gaming entertainment brand Critical Role, scored 10 times its funding goal in less than two weeks (having met the goal within a mere 40 minutes of the campaign launch).
“It’s beyond our wildest expectations. We hoped we might be able to raise maybe enough to make a two-part introductory pilot. It very quickly became apparent that fans had other plans for us. We’re over the moon with the results but have to figure out how many episodes we can make now.” — Sam Riegel, voiceover director and Critical Role cast member.
Box Office: ‘Captain Marvel’ Conquers Again; ‘Wonder Park’ Opens at No. 2
Paramount Animation’s Wonder Park failed to top box office power puncher Captain Marvel, which brought in $69 million for a first place finish in its second weekend. However, the imaginary amusement park adventure came in ahead of industry expectations and scored second place ahead of all other new releases, picking up $16 million from 3,800+ locations — the family flick will need to stay strong to make good on its near $100 million production costs, however.
Tom Hatten
Related Topics:Animation Dingle, Aron Warner, Captain Marvel, Critical Role, CTIAF, Dianne Makings, Family Film Festival, featured, John Rice, KTLA, Paramount Animation, Peter Ramsey, Popeye and Friends, Sam Riegel, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Legend of Vox Machina, Tom Hatten, Wonder Park
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***This story originally appeared in the August ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 292)*** Lino DiSalvo,...
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Remastered Classics Return to Theaters for ‘Peanuts’ 50th Anniversary
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Michael Lachance Named Family & Animation EVP for Miramax
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Intersections: Fan Studies in Conversation in Japan Symposium
Sophia University Yotsuya Campus – Building no. 2, Room 1702
7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554 JAPAN
As an academic field, fan/fandom studies is robust and well-established – with its current state covered by comprehensive surveys such as Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, 2nd Edition and A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, new research appearing in the Journal of Fandom Studies, teaching in programs like the Fandom, Cult Studies, and Subculture Studies minor at DePaul University, as well as various individual classes, and the Fan Studies Network connecting scholars around the world. And, as the field evolves and expands, certain conversations develop and certain questions are asked. For example, one of the chapters in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies is “The Unbearable Whiteness of Fandom and Fan Studies” (although the author acknowledges, in a note, that “there is work, however, on the practices of media fandom outside of Europe and the United States that focuses on fans who would in the United States be understood as people of color, such as, for example, work on fandoms in Asia” – perhaps largely negating the hyperbolic title). One kind of conversation that is crucial to the continuing development of fan studies is one that acknowledges global perspectives on fans and fandom, and builds connections between scholars in different countries and with different approaches.
And it is to facilitate just these kinds of conversations that the Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture is hosting a one-day symposium entitled Intersections: Fan Studies in Conversation in Japan. Organized by leading fan studies scholars Lori Morimoto, Nele Noppe, and Patrick W. Galbraith. It will be be free, open to the public, and conducted entirely in English. The Symposium will serve “as a step in the direction of greater contact between scholars based in the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan, who all focus on media and fan cultures, but in diverse ways. The goal is not only to encourage conversation and collaboration across dividing lines, but also to critically assess some of the assumptions and blind spots in fan studies today.” Several of the talks will directly address anime/manga and anime/manga fans and fandom.Symposium Schedule
9:30: Doors Open
9:50: Opening Remarks
Voices from the United Kingdom and the United States
Spatial Transmedia, Participatory Cultures and the Global Theme Park.
Rebecca Williams, University of South Wales
“Theme parks have often been devalued and those who visit them characterized as cultural dupes, passive consumers or children. Parks such as Disneyland and Walt Disney World have been discussed in terms of their ideological representations of national identities and nationhood, or the cultural imperialist discourses inherent in opening parks in France or Asia. However, this presentation argues that we must pay attention to the fact that, even in the face of their apparent artificiality, theme parks are meaningful to people. The presentation further argues that theme parks are a key site for transmediality and convergence culture, allowing visitors to inhabit the hyperdiegesis of narrative worlds and offering opportunities for synergy between films and rides. They also present opportunities for participatory culture since, in the online knowledge networks formed amongst theme park fans, participants create and share content, information and advice, operating as active knowledge communities. Offering an introduction to the idea of theme parks as a site for ‘spatial transmedia,’ the presentation seeks to open avenues for discussion of key concepts in studies of media convergence beyond the Western examples explored here, and to begin to better understand how global theme park spaces may challenge and complicate these.”
The Power Lives On: Empty Nostalgia, Transnational Production Flows and Anniversary Branding in the Power Rangers Television Franchise.
Ross Garner, Cardiff University
“This presentation focuses on Power Rangers Super Megaforce and material produced to coincide with the silver jubilee of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers in 2018 with regards to its uses and encodings of nostalgia. Rather than representing West-originating properties, though, these examples are drawn from Japan’s long-running Super Sentai franchise and permit investigating how discourses of nostalgia are constructed through an East Asian-originating property that is reappropriated and localized for Western viewers. By combining analysis of industrial trade press material, institutional discourses, the textual strategies used across transmedia franchising and licensing iterations and paratextual material, the presentation argues that these construct discourses of what I call ’empty nostalgia.’ An intentionally loaded term, empty nostalgia captures the discourse’s commercial underpinnings, objections to the Power Rangers franchise amongst Western parents and, crucially, the program’s transnational production circumstances. Rather than being solely reducible to prevailing socio-historical circumstances or broad changes impacting nationally-specific television cultures, this presentation argues that empty nostalgia is constructed as a result of multiple institutional layers of power, including transnational flows of production, licensing, distribution and marketing.”
Fan Remix Remixed: The Evolving Aesthetics and Practices of Cosplay Music Videos
Louisa Stein (Middlebury College)
“This presentation examines the transcultural intersections at work in fan remix, specifically in the evolving remix form of cosplay music videos (CMVs). I consider the processes of transcultural flow, engagement and transformation at work in fan authorship, and examine the transformative work of young fans creating gender-bending cosplay music videos for anime series such as Yuri!!! on Ice and Black Butler. I bring together Japanese theories of otaku and English-language traditions of fan studies to look at how these fans, through their performance of the characters in cosplay music videos, extend anime series by weaving together the distinct but interrelated traditions of vidding, cosplay, anime music videos and fan films. In their ongoing release of videos, these fan authors intertwine the narrative seriality of particular anime series with serial narratives of their own lives, drawing on a dynamic mix of remix traditions and aesthetics. In so doing, they embody, recreate, repeat and transform key emotional moments and images, reiterating small narratives that, in their repetition, affectively bind together larger networks of youth community and self-authorship. “
The Pop Culture Classroom
Paul Booth (DePaul University)
“In 2015 I wrote that, “Fandom is the future” because “new generations of fans will become future teachers, thinkers, and responsible media citizens.” For over a decade, I have been teaching students about fandom and the ways that it can be facilitated in their own life. In this presentation, I want to broaden the topic to explore how fandom can be applied outside of the immediate fan studies classroom. Why teach fandom? What does fandom bring to the classroom (and what does the classroom bring to fandom)? And why is fandom so important today? I want to explore some of the main themes I have discussed with students about teaching fans, and offer some insights about how teaching fandom can facilitate pedagogy across the disciplines. Indeed, media fandom is so important today, the attributes of media fandom – active engagement, emotional connection, creativity – are crossing over into other areas of life as well: politicians garnering support via social media, civic projects enabled through grassroots participation, local communities participating in social events and, as I describe in this talk, the classroom. I teach about fandom because it offers a way of looking at the world that can be applied long after the doors of the classroom have shut. I teach fandom because I believe we need to help students build the type of critical self-evaluation and reflection that can happen in fan communities – the type of fan discussion that can change the conversation, or engage issues of diversity. I also believe that fandom can be messy, nasty and filled with hateful speech; so students must also learn where this speech is coming from, and why, and how to safely and appropriately combat it. Teaching fandom is not just about showing students how to appreciate media in a deeper way. It is about discovering ways fandom itself can change our perceptions of the world.”
12:10 – 13:00: Discussion (led by Lori Morimoto)
13:00 – 14:30: Lunch break
Voices from Japan
Audience Studies and Fan Studies: Bridging the Gap.
Julian Pimienta (Nagoya University)
Fans Visiting the Locations of Creative Fiction: The Mediatization of Tourism in Contemporary Japan.
Jin Nakamura (Japan University of Economics)
“Recent years have seen a boom in interest concerning tourism related to manga, anime and games, but many works of creative fiction take actually existing places as locations to construct their virtual reality. It has been noted that many fans visit these actually existing places, which are taken as extensions of their respective works of creative fiction. Indeed, this is part of the range of activities by which fans can enjoy their favorite works. There are a number of different activities associated with ‘fan pilgrimage,’ from the popular commemorative photographs of merchandise, figurines and dolls related to a given work taken in location to cosplay, which requires more preparation. This presentation explores some of the ways that fans encounter, experience and enjoy actual locations that are taken as extensions of works of creative fiction.”
Weak Ties Among Intimate Strangers: Female Fandom of 2.5-Dimensional Theatrical Performances.
Akiko Sugawa-Shimada (Yokohama National University)
“In recent years, the term ‘2.5-dimensional’ (nitengo jigen, hereafter 2.5D) has gained much attention within popular culture studies. This fan-led term primarily means cultural products (cultural practice in reality = the three dimensional) based on manga, anime, games and light novels (fiction = the two dimensional). However, if it is defined not only as the cultural products per se but also as fans’ engagement developed through their deep commitment to character-oriented consumption of popular culture, 2.5D can serve as a means to detect a wider cultural phenomenon. This presentation focuses on female fandom of 2.5D theatrical performances, an emerging subgenre in the Japanese theatrical stage performances and musicals. Female fans of 2.5D theatrical performances often construct and expand their fan networks through communication on Twitter, offline meetings and trading. Their diversity in age, places of residence, nationalities, familial backgrounds, marital status and ethnicities is enabled by their strong sense of connection based on preferences (favorite characters, actors and narratives). As suggested in recent work on weak but rigid connections among young people, female fans of 2.5D performance are ‘intimate strangers,’ who are seeking a sense of being connected through sharing similar preferences. Taking up the examples of Musical Prince of Tennis, Yowamushi Pedal the Stage and Token Ranbu, this presentation examines some of the potentials of what I call ‘communities of preferences,’ specifically intergenerational and intercultural understandings.”
Are Dedicated Manga Readers “Fans?” On Japanese Shōjo Manga Culture and its Social Reception.
Yukari Fujimoto (Meiji University)
“In many countries around the world, particularly the Anglophone world, comics are considered to be a form of fan culture. Such is not the case in Japan, however, where manga make up close to 40 percent of print publications. Given the scale of a print media market that is second only to the United States, it is fair to say that manga is part of the mass media culture of Japan. In this context, the existence of manga fans and their impact on society at large is different from the Anglophone world. To demonstrate this point, this presentation focuses on manga for girls and women, which make up about half of the robust market in Japan. Considering the formation of this culture and its social impact, the presentation highlights the fact that changes in postwar Japanese society often overlap with changes in the values of women, which always appear first in shōjo manga. Over the years, shōjo manga revitalized a form of popular theater, gave birth to cute culture and ushered in the new industry of ‘fancy goods.’ Such was the influence of shōjo manga that one could generally determine the lifestyle and life course of women based on the magazines that they read. Being a fan here means something different than what is typically assumed in fan studies in the Anglophone world, as well as ‘otaku’ studies in Japan. This presentation aims to clarify that difference.”
Discussion (led by Nele Noppe)
Archiving Fan Cultures and Fan Activities
Kaichirō Morikawa (Meiji University)
“There are certain difficulties in conducting research on fan cultures and fan activities in Japan. The individuals known as “otaku” tend to refrain from becoming subjects of research. Limiting interviewees to individuals and groups that are exceptional may grossly diminish the scope of a given study. However, the steepest obstacle is met when the researcher endeavors to study the past, whether the objective is historical research as such or to observe the present from historical perspectives. An accessible archive of materials is essential, not only to perform such studies, but also to establish the credibility and continuity of fan studies in academia. This presentation provides an overview of several ongoing projects in Japan that are committed to archiving materials, mainly manga, anime, videogames, tokusatsu and related fan cultures and activities. Although most of these projects originated as private endeavors, recent years have seen an increase in institutional and governmental attention and support. The presentation will discuss the scope of such support as well as their complexities.”
18:40 – 19:00: Discussion (led by Patrick W. Galbraith)
19:05: Closing Remarks
19:30: Doors Close
anime fans, conference, conferences, Patrick Galbraith
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NEWS: Rosario + Vampire's Inagaki Directs First Love Monster Anime at Studio DEEN
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 12:11 pm
And my expectation has been lowered now. I just hope they at least put effort into the animation when a PV is out.
Thespacemaster
Both Anime were bad adaptations...this is not good for the fans who were hoping for a decent adaptation.
Animechic420
Location: A Cave Filled With Riches
Wait. Kanade personality bothers me. He acts more like an asshole that thinks he can get away with anything just because he's 10. He doesn't behave like a 10 year old at all.
Something tells me they'll have him do perverted things with Kaho despite his age.
Gezmoyassine
Thespacemaster wrote:
Rosario+Vampire wasn't a bad adaptation..Not to me at least..
Rosario+Vampire was amazing...I love inner-moka from the anime a lot more than the manga inner-moka.He did a fantastic job with her.Heck she's even more beautiful than Ikeda's own creation...Don't get me wrong i love the manga but with the anime it's like they gave us two versions of the same universe.Which isn't a bad thing..Personally i'm hoping for Capu3...To each his own i guess
TooLazyToComeUpWithaName
I forgot this shit was getting an anime. At least it's from DEEN, so it's not like a good studio will be wasting their resources.
MischievousMelody
Again, just hoping that the anime is better than the manga.
unitmikey
The manga is complete guilty pleasure because of the character art mixed with a trash story (from the volume I read), but yikes, this anime isn't sounding very good. This may just be "guilty" instead of "guilty pleasure".
Even if it is guilty, I'll still have fun watching it just because of the premise of the story.
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Features::
Allowed to play up
Is ‘live art’ the perfect medium for intergenerational arts projects? Liz O’Neill explains how children can help adults embrace the fun of experimental performance.
It’s a mistake in the arts to always feel like you have to be in control. It’s limiting, for individual and collective experience and for the advancement of new practices. And that applies to audiences just as much as it does for people with responsibility for entire artistic programmes.
In 2012 my own organisation, Z-arts, was faced with the dilemmas that a complete rebrand brings – asking ourselves what would we be and what would we be known for. Opportunities lay ahead, but also great potential to make terminal errors, as we chased a vision for a contemporary, family-specific venue.
Adults, in all walks of life, are programmed to be rational, but sometimes it helps to unlearn what we think we know
With a now-or-never mindset, and a mischievous sense of wanting to challenge perception, one of the things we did was to partner with hÅb/Word of Warning to produce Haphazard, a free day of ‘live art’ programmed to bring artists, adults, young people and children together. We invited artists and audiences to join a discussion and two key points were made.
First, we found that some adults had allowed themselves to enjoy experimental performances more because they were with children. It was the younger audience members who had simply embraced what they were seeing, without considering it strange, embarrassing or even art.
Adults, by virtue of being in the company of children, also shared a perceived permission to dispense with a need to read the work and just got lost in the fun of it all.
Second, the artists were able to respond to a new audience, which helped them see their own work in a new light.
Lois Keidan, from the Live Art Development Agency (LADA), says: “Live art is a way of thinking about what art can be, how and where it can be made, who it can be made by and for, and what it can be made about. As such, it is a research lab for our culture.” That perspective, as an artist or as someone supporting artists to make new and challenging work, should be an intoxicating prospect.
LADA and Sibylle Peters from the Theatre of Research in Germany hold an admirable line when it comes to best practice in the research and development of work that engages both adults and children. It sounds simple, but is challenging in reality: to make both adults and children integral in the development and enjoyment of new work.
In suggesting a solution to the challenge, we return to our theme of loosening our traditional senses of control, giving children and young people an equal role.
Adults, in all walks of life, are programmed to be rational, but sometimes it helps to unlearn what we think we know. Tamsin Drury from Word of Warning recalls one Haphazard performance, saying: “We showed a piece that was rooted in Dadaism. Various analogies could be drawn from an art history perspective, but in its simplest reading, it was three people with coloured buckets on their heads walking endlessly in patterns. It completely mesmerised the smaller members of the audience.”
Doesn’t this also apply, as an analogy, to the way organisations tend to work? Sometimes we are struggling to find the people or influence that can support artists eager to test ideas with coloured buckets on their heads. It isn’t a question of one or the other, of silly or serious, but of deciding who is best to decide.
It can sometimes be an easy choice to work with people who have endless years of experience in their chosen field, but do those years of learned habits, assumptions and principles really liberate us? The answer perhaps is that we should decide together with those we aim to please and return to the well-worn adage that without risk there can be no reward.
With all this in mind, it’s so pleasing to see Playing Up being launched at Tate Modern, an intergenerational three-day ‘play-in’, followed by a symposium to discuss intergenerational live art.
It is important that it takes place now – to bring to the heart of the UK arts industry what Theatre of Research, Live Art DK in Denmark and, to some degree our Haphazard artists and audiences, have come to understand.
Among the differences in approach, Sibylle Peters notes the stark distinctions in positive funding decisions and principles of arts education in Germany as the UK struggles to keep a progressive pace. Yet it is the ‘unedited’, direct feedback of children and their stronger sense of possibility she sees as major benefits in sharing arts experience with children.
As she puts it: “Kids are explorers of the everyday. For them to light a match can be something extraordinary that needs focus and time and creates an experience. The same is true for everyone who practises live art. For us, kids are perfect accomplices and, in return, live art can provide something that is essential to all of us.”
For Tamsin and me, watching grown-ups lose themselves in live art as a result of the company they keep, rather than inhibited by their sense of inner seriousness, gave us great encouragement to continue with Haphazard. But as a sector, we should be encouraged to take the next step and count intergenerational practice – from start to finish and top to bottom – as essential to our futures. The Playing Up event and symposium feel like a landmark step in doing so.
Liz O’Neill is Artistic Director of Z-arts.
www.zarts.org
Playing Up is to be held on 1 to 4 April at Tate Modern, London.
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'The problem is that everybody hates it': insights from qualitative research
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Four ways the Durham Commission can create a lasting legacy
04 Jul 2019 Feature
As the Commission gets ready to publish its recommendations on creativity and education, Joe Hallgarten puts forward four ideas he'd like to see included.
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Artistic excellence and effective governance are key to the success of major public cultural programmes, writes Nigel Hinds.
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Best VPN Services For Every Situation
The Best VPNs To Protect Your Privacy, Whoever And Wherever You Are
Joel Balsam
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Whether you're simply browsing the internet (the government's ISP betrayal decision), visiting a dating site you thought was safe or sharing nude pics with your partner, you just can't ignore the need to protect your internet privacy anymore.
Fortunately, there are options, although there isn't a one-size-fits-all strategy. They do all begin with choosing a safe and secure password, though, as the easiest way for someone to hack your personal information is to simply guess your weak password!
The unanimous choice if you really want to be a ghost online is to download the free Tor browser used by privacy advocates and Dark Web criminals. Tor anonymizes your IP address, so no hacker nor government can track your online activity. The problem with Tor is that it's not very fast (especially for watching videos), you can't use it to for torrenting and it can sometimes be blocked.
Another option for cyber security is to scramble your search history to throw prospective hackers, ad companies and governments off your trail. But services that do that are more of a Band-Aid fix.
The most popular and convenient option for protecting your online privacy is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service, which encrypts your browsing and shields you from creeping eyes.
But finding the right VPN for you isn't easy. There are tons of options and they come with a wide variety of features and at different price points (sadly, the free ones tend to be a get what you pay for type of thing). Picking one can be a headache, so let this list guide you.
Best VPNs For...
1 Gaming
2 Netflix And Streaming
4 Torrenting
5 Remote Browsing
6 Global Travel
8 Voice Chats
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Basic - $9.95/month, 1-year $5/month. Premium - $12.95/month, 1-year $6.67/month
Golden Frog-owned VyprVPN has eSports competitors in mind with high speeds and a commitment to blocking DDoS attacks, but it can do so much more. With more than 200,000 IP addresses to choose from, a built-in NAT Firewall to keep your privacy on lock, unlimited data usage and a three-day free trial, this VPN is great for gamers.
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$10.95/month, $8.95/six months, 2 years $2.95/month
Many VPNs claim to be the fastest — but in speed tests, PureVPN often comes away as the winner. The Hong Kong-based service has specialized gaming servers that run at lightning fast speeds (which you can see before you click) and come with protection from DDoS attacks. However, despite its speed, PureVPN doesn't match up as well with some other services based on privacy and price. For instance, you need to pay extra for a NAT Firewall.
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2. Netflix and Streaming
If you go abroad, you might be shocked to find that your favorite Netflix show isn't available outside the States. In fact, some countries get a really sad catalog (ask an expat in Hong Kong about this). Being able to stream Netflix, Hulu and BBC iPlayer is a major reason people get VPNs, but media companies are cracking down and blocking more VPN services by the day. Unfortunately, a Netflix VPN service that works today might not tomorrow, so keep that in mind and take advantage of free trials to see if your preferred streaming service works. You might also want to make sure the VPN works with devices like Chromecast, Roku or Apple TV before you get it.
$12.95/month, 6 months $9.99/month, 1-year $8.32/month
ExpressVPN operates in 94 countries and has over 145 cities to choose from, which makes it one of the most robust and popular VPN operators. It also cares about you watching the newest season of your favorite Netflix show. ExpressVPN is fast enough for HD streaming and has made it their business to combat Netflix's VPN crackdown. However, despite giving you pretty much all the security bells and whistles you could ever ask for, ExpressVPN is on the pricey side.
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You'll easily be able to watch the next season of Stranger Things with Buffered when it comes out, but if you want to watch, say, a Bollywood movie, this VPN can't help you as it only works for U.S. Netflix. Buffered is also great for your Apple TV or AirPort Extreme, although it may take a little techy router maneuvering to get it going on either of those.
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$12.99/month, 6 months $8.99/month, 1-year $5.99/month, Lifetime $109.99
Hotspot Shield used to get Netflix on its free version, but now you need to pay if you want to stream House of Cards. Still, Hotspot Shield is a decent option despite having fewer servers than the others. It's quite fast, has malware protection and you can get a great deal on a lifetime subscription. But before you jump on the lifetime deal, keep in mind that Netflix may end up blocking it one day.
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3. School
From USC to Duke to NYU to Michigan to Harvard, there's a good chance you're using a campus email to get onto your school's VPN. However, as students know, school VPNs can be super restrictive on what they allow you to do online. Schools have been known to block porn sites, torrenting, online games and even Facebook to keep your eyes on your studies. Sadly, bypassing VPN restrictions can be tough because schools can locate popular IP addresses and block them. One way to get through this is to use your phone data with a personal hotspot to your computer, but that can get costly. Otherwise, you'll need to use some lesser-known VPNs.
Free up to 500MB, $9.99/month, 1-year $4.17/month
This Canadian VPN has been making waves lately, but it's still relatively lesser known than the others so it might not be blocked by your school just yet. The best part about Tunnelbear for students is it's budget friendly price — free. However, you'll only get 500MB a month for the free service. To get unlimited you'll need to pay up.
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$6.95/month, 6 months $5.99/month, 1-year $3.33/month
With over 3,000 servers in 25 countries, Private Internet Access (PIA) makes evading school VPN blocks possible. Plus, it's got a really competitive price, especially yearly.
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4. Torrenting
While torrenting might not be legal, what you download might very well be piracy. Still, I'm not gonna tell you what you can and can't do, except that you if you're going to download or upload torrents, you'd better protect yourself.
This is the VPN you want if you upload torrents and remain anonymous. TorGuard doesn't keep any logs of your activity whatsoever, lets you pay anonymously with cryptocurrencies like BitCoin and allows BitTorrent and P2P traffic on all its 1600+ servers. For more details, check out TorGuard's interview with Torrentfreak.
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Free up to 2GB, $4.99/month up to 75GB, $9.99/month unlimited
A "no logging, ever" policy is a good start and its high speeds is a good finish for any torrent user. Hide.me's premium unlimited plan also offers five simultaneous connections, which is helpful. If you want to make sure it's right for you, having the first 2GB free is another great feature.
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5. Remote Browsing
Chances are your local coffee shop is packed with people glued to their laptops. And chances are many of these people are susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack, which could lead to anything from taking over your webcam to stealing your password info. If you're going to work from a public place like a cafe, airport or Wi-Fi hotspot in a park, you need a good VPN, period. And if you do online banking from your phone, a VPN app would be a good idea as well.
$10/month, 3 months $8.99/month, 1-year $6.46/month
It's not cheap, but IPVanish is one of the top VPN services around. It has a whopping 40,000+ IPs on 700+ servers in 60+ countries and is great on security with a no logs policy. IPVanish will work on your browser or smartphone — and if the price is bothering you, you can test it out with the 7-day trial for free.
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6. Global Travel
Yes, the U.S. is bad for internet privacy, but many countries are worse. If you do some traveling, you're going to want a VPN with experience fighting government's spying agencies. You might also want one that has a large number of servers in the country if your job requires it. Here are some options for VPNs in China, Canada, Australia, Russia, the United Kingdom and India.
China, Japan, India:
ExpressVPN has been doing battle with The Great Firewall of China for years and it's become a trusted service in the country. It also has a great reputation in Japan and India.
Canada, U.K:
With over 60 standard VPN servers in Canada and the U.K. as well as over 260 in the U.S, this popular VPN is a great option for both Brits and Canucks.
Over 40 Australian servers make IPVanish a safe bet Down Under.
The Russian Federation has become synonymous with nefarious online activity, so when you're there you're definitely going to want to protect yourself. Hide My Ass has servers in virtually every country on the planet with over 1,000,000 IP addresses. Chew on that Kremlin!
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If you want a VPN to visit porn sites or do some online dating you don't want anybody to know about, aforementioned VPNs like VyprVPN, NordVPN, IPVanish and ExpressVPN will do you well. But if you're not into one of those for one reason or another, these two are terrific alternatives.
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VPNArea
Relatively new on the scene, Bulgaria-based VPNArea is getting a ton of praise for its no logs policy and the fact that it's hosted out of Switzerland. Essentially, like cash from corrupt politicians, your privacy will be safely in the vault.
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Avast SecureLine
$59.99/year
If you care about online privacy, there's a good chance you have antivirus software. And if you're cheap, you probably have Avast SecureLine's free antivirus. SecureLine VPN comes with Avast, although for a price, and does a solid job at keeping your online activities safe.
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8. Voice Chats
Believe it or not, voice chatting software like Skype isn't permitted in every country; Saudi Arabia being one of them. If you happen to be in a country where VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is restricted and have a business call to make (or a long distance partner to keep up with), you're going to need a quality VPN.
$8.99/month, 1-year $5.99/month, $3.49/month
SaferVPN is based in Israel, so it knows about Skype blocks in the region. This VPN is a great option due to its competitive speeds, ease of use and cheap price if you commit for over a year. Iffy? You can try SaferVPN free for 24 hours.
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November 3, 2017 | in Dispatches, News, Weekly Roundup | by Julia Sherwood, Madeline Jones, and Tiffany Tsao
The most important literary news from the US, Australia, and the Czech Republic.
In addition to our usual roundup this week of the latest and most exciting prizes and competitions, our Editor-at-Large in the USA, Madeline Jones, shares some important news about sexual harassment in the nation’s media and publishing industry; Editor-at-Large Tiffany Tsao draws our attention to the online harassment of an Indigenous poet, just over a week before the start of Australia’s first Indigenous literature festival; Editor-at-Large Julia Sherwood fills us in on the most exciting new works being released in Czech Republic, and pens a short obituary for a legendary and fearless translator who rubbed shoulders with some of the mid-century’s greatest authors and defied the Czech Soviet authorities. We hope you find this week’s news informative, and we express our solidarity with all women around the world who are standing up to abuse.
Madeline Jones, Editor-at-Large, reporting from the USA:
The American publishing and media industries have been rocked by an outpouring of sexual harassment and assault accusations against powerful men who have used their standing and infl-uence—and in some cases millions of dollars—to silence women’s complaints. The New York Times and The New Yorker reported the first stories implicating Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in a number of harassment and assault charges on October 5th, which sparked a revolution. Over fifty women have since come forward with complaints about Weinstein’s behavior, he has been fired from his own company, and Hachette Book Group promptly shut down Weinstein Books. The hashtag #metoo sprung up in the wake of these first accusations, demonstrating the sweeping extent of harassment across all areas of work and life, and a list started circulating among women in journalism and media called “Shitty Media Men” where women shared specific names of male perpetrators who had made unwanted advances or offered quid pro quos and who are still employed at prominent magazines and newspapers.
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Ex-AdRoll Marketing Director Cat Prestipino Resurfaces As Employment Hero’s First CMO
Sydney-founded cloud-based HR, payroll and benefits platform Employment Hero has announced the appointment of Cat Prestipino as its first chief marketing officer.
Prestipino was most recently the marketing director for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region at AdRoll, before being made redundant late last year as part of the company’s restructure, having launched its new focus in February.
She has also held senior marketing roles at IgnitionOne, Exponential and Tribal Fusion.
Employment Hero founder and CEO Ben Thompson said: “We are extremely excited to have Cat joining the Employment Hero team. Cat brings with her a wealth of knowledge about scaling marketing departments and working with small businesses.
“She is a highly-skilled marketer, full of energy and dedicated to showing the real business impact marketing can have. As a start-up, that’s an exciting combination to have onboard.
Commenting on her appointment, Prestipino said: “I am excited to work for an Aussie start-up. Australia has some awesome start-ups and its always exciting to be in a HQ.
“The Employment Hero team are some of the most passionate and innovative people I’ve had the pleasure of working with and I can’t wait to be the megaphone that amplifies what they’re doing.”
Prestipino’s appointment comes off the back of an $8 million Series B funding raise for Employment Hero, which was co-led by SEEK and OneVentures, with participation from AirTree Ventures and AMP.
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Audiences Are Still Loyal To Brands That Consistently Deliver: Pedestrian.TV Co-Founder
By Hannah Edensor
Pedestrian.TV has spent the past decade bursting out of the woodwork and into the mainstream media landscape, gathering hoards of loyal followers in the process. According to co-founder Chris Wirasinha, Pedestrian’s audience is “significantly bigger than any other Australian youth focused publishing brand”, so B&T caught up with Wirasinha to chat about what it takes to make it as a modern media brand.
It comes ahead of Wirasinha’s appearance at PRIA’s national conference where he joins an impressive line-up of speakers including the global chairman of Ogilvy PR Christopher Graves to talk about communication innovation. The conference is in Sydney on the 14 November and you can find out more information here.
Wirasinha co-founded Pedestrian when he was 22 and has helped lead it to becoming Australia’s largest youth focused publishing brand. Over the past 10 years Pedestrian has grown from two people working out of a bedroom to a staff of 42 across offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Why is Pedestrian.TV successful? What’s the key ingredient that helped when you launched and keeps you pertinent now?
When we first launched in 2005 there was just myself and my co-founder Oscar Martin and the ingredients that kept us going was hustling and saying yes to almost everything.
What keeps us pertinent now over 11 years later is the brilliant team that we’ve been privileged enough to work with who still embody that entrepreneurial drive that we had on day one.
How does Pedestrian stay relevant when audiences tend to be less brand-loyal than they used to be?
I don’t think it’s fair to say that audiences are fickle and less brand loyal than they were previously. Audiences have more choices than they’ve ever had before however they will keep gravitating to brands that are consistent and authentic in their product and deliver on their promises.
Consistency across output is something that we’re very focused on across Pedestrian whether across our editorial content or our desire to over-deliver for our clients.
When it comes to advertisers, how do you continue to offer appropriate client solutions to help reach your audiences?
Pedestrian’s audience is huge and significantly bigger than any other Australian youth focused publishing brand. Our job now is helping brands leverage our audience to best connect with our audience. We don’t just want to deliver an advertising solution for our clients but rather help them create a piece of culture that will entertain and at times educate our audience.
Brands have a huge opportunity to not just badge and attach themselves around content and culture but to actually be the ones creating it.
What’s the hardest lesson you’ve learned since launching the media brand?
The biggest learning curve has been the new personal and management challenges that we have to take on at all the different levels of the business.
Managing a start-up based out of your house is very different to a small team or a team of 45. You need to keep adapting, learning and you’ll definitely make mistakes along the way.
What does the future of content look like?
Content at the moment is very much shaped by the social media platforms and search engines that it’s distributed through. Content will naturally flow to the platforms with the greatest audience and how that content looks will be dictated by what those platforms want to achieve.
We’re seeing a huge push towards video and also the growth of live platforms which align with Facebook’s broader business ambitions. If you look further in the future this push will ultimately take content directly on to our body through wearables, projected/broadcast throughout our homes through better connected homes and devices and ultimately also start to bridge the divide between real and virtual worlds.
What does the future of advertising look like?
The future of advertising will become more participatory and give consumers the opportunity to step inside the brand. Advertisers will be looking at digital worlds and VR to allow people to trial and experience products and worlds so that they can get closer to a product without having to go to physical retail locations.
An evolved version of the current channel mix (likely sans physical magazines and newspapers) will continue to play a part in driving awareness but stay tuned for virtual flagship stores, emulated events and even completely digital branded worlds.
What is crucial for founders of new media platforms to know in this day and age?
Modern media brands are disaggregated. It’s no longer an option to simply focus on your website. Your content strategy needs to be specific for each individual channel that you’re looking to engage your audience across. The way content looks, feels and sounds is different across each platform.
What do you know now that you wish you knew upon starting Pedestrian?
Our initial insight in February 2005 was that there wasn’t anywhere to watch niche video content all about the things that we loved. So our solution was to create a media brand. Meanwhile in the very same month 12,000kms away in California, three people had a similar insight and launched YouTube.
That being said we’ve been very fortunate and built a brand which is truly loved and so it’s not like we’re beating ourselves up about it!
What’s the best bit of advice you have for anyone working in media or marketing today?
The best staff we have aren’t the ones who wait for promotions, opportunities or to be told what to do. They’re the ones who see an area that they can help and are proactive to take on that responsibility.
Ultimately they often find themselves the ones whose career outgrow others simply because when it comes time to take on bigger responsibilities they’re the ones already doing things beyond their roles and so the rewards naturally gravitate to them.
To hear more from the Pedestrian co-founder on how brands can be most effective in working with new media platforms and how to excel in creating and spreading content, register for PRIA’S National Conference on Innovation Communication.
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China destroys tonnes of ivory in landmark move
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-25618687
Image caption The ivory was destroyed in Dongguan city, southern Guangdong province, in China
China has for the first time destroyed a large quantity of confiscated ivory, in a public event described by conservation groups as a landmark move.
Just over six tonnes of carvings, ornaments and tusks amassed over the years were fed into crushing machines.
State media say the move aims "to discourage illegal ivory trade, protect wildlife and raise public awareness".
Conservationists say demand for ivory, where China is seen as the biggest market, is fuelling poaching in Africa.
The Chinese use ivory in traditional crafts and carvings are prized as status symbols, correspondents say.
John Scanlon, secretary-general of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), said this was the first time China has chosen to crush ivory it had previously seized.
"It's an occasion when China can send and is sending a very powerful message both domestically to the Chinese people and internationally, that it is not prepared to tolerate the illegal trade in elephant ivory," he told Reuters news agency.
The event in Dongguan city, Guangdong province, which had media, diplomats and conservationists in attendance, was broadcast on state television.
Some of the powder from the crushed ivory is to be disposed, with others sent to a museum and preserved, state media said.
Cites banned the trade in ivory in 1989. But poaching has increased across sub-Saharan Africa in recent years, with criminal gangs slaughtering elephants for ivory markets in Asia.
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Number of UK women farmers grows
By Fiona Trott BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20490789
Image caption Rosie Dunn has been farming for 20 years
The work is hard, the hours are long and for some, this year has been a financial disaster. Farming as a career choice might seem unpopular, but figures obtained by the BBC suggest that more women are becoming farmers than ever before.
It is feeding time at North Carlton Farm and Rosie Dunn is separating some hay. The calves love it and they also love the attention from the stranger in the clean boots.
"Not a lot of farmers would have you around at the moment," she explains, "what with all the mud, it's really hectic because the livestock are being moved."
This year has been a wash out and they are currently placing bets on whether it will snow. It is the last thing they need, but more and more women like Rosie are choosing farming as a career.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest that there are 23,000 female farmers in the UK. There are 119,000 men, but nine or 10 years ago there were virtually no women farmers.
And 2012 has seen a sharp increase with the number of women rising by 6,000, and the number of men dropping by 5,000.
'Grumpy male farmer'
The president of the National Farmers Union, Peter Kendall, says changes in both technology and attitudes have made farming a more open field.
"A lot of it is computer-controlled technology now and the idea of you having to work with a pitchfork or lug big bales of straw around has gone. If you go back 20 years there was a real public perception of grumpy old men leaning on a gate, chewing on a bit of straw," he says.
The men would say, 'Can you drive that love?' and it really fired me up
Rosie Dunn, Farmer
"Now, I could take you to three farms that are run by lady farmers and often they make me look a fool, they make a much better job than I do of it."
Rosie Dunn was just starting out when those images of the "grumpy male farmer" were fresh in people's minds. Her career adviser at school suggested she become a secretary or a nurse but farming was her ambition. She started doing summer jobs at farms and by the age of 19 she was taken on full time.
She recalls how other farmers regarded her as a novice and a novelty. "The men would say, 'Can you drive that love?' and it really fired me up. I said, 'Yes I can drive this tractor thank you very much.' I was really determined to do it."
Driving tractors or weighing livestock is demanding but Rosie says: "I'm physically fit and I want to do it. You'd probably get some other women saying it's not good for your health but I've never been afraid of hard work."
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After 20 years, Rosie is well known at the livestock auction in York. In a packed room, a two-month-old calf is being patted on the rear to make it turn in front the bidders. Here, the male farmers still outnumber the women by three to one.
One of them says he thinks that more women entering the industry is a good thing. "It's about time they did some work so us men can put our feet up!"
Image caption The number of women studying agriculture has doubled at one college
A few others believe women are "better organisers" and can help their husbands improve the business, while another believes it is only fair that women should "have a go" at it. Nobody mentions women making a success of farming in their own right, but that is also changing.
Some colleges across the UK are seeing more women study farming with no previous experience at all.
Helen Martin, a lecturer at Bishop Burton College in East Yorkshire, says the number of female entrants onto her agriculture course has almost doubled in the past two years and many come from cities.
She believes the increase is because women appear to be more interested in where their food comes from. "They're becoming increasingly aware of what they can be involved in, from the day the animal's born to seeing it on the table," she says.
The National Farmers Union says food production is just one area of farming that is becoming more popular with women.
Mr Kendall believes modern farming has brought a more diverse range of jobs to the industry.
"We need agronomists and experts in animal nutrition - even at the NFU we have some brilliantly-talented ladies advising farmers," he says.
Women are making an impression in the boardroom too. Sarah Dawson chairs the NFU's horticulture and potatoes board and the National Federation of Young Farmers has recently appointed Milly Wastie as its chairperson.
Times may be hard in the farming industry but for women, it is getting easier and with more women being seen in high-profile positions, the numbers are likely to grow even more.
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Why Nigeria wants to remove police roadblocks
By Amina Yuguda BBC World News Komla Dumor award winner
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41403334
Image caption Police say the move is intended to reduce time wasted at roadblocks and ease business
Nigeria's police chief Ibrahim Idris has ordered the immediate removal of all police roadblocks across the country.
Many Nigerians will welcome the news because these roadblocks are often little more than excuses to demand bribes from both ordinary travellers and those transporting goods.
The police statement, however, said the move was intended to reduce time wasted at roadblocks and ease business.
What happens at a roadblock?
Meeting a policeman on the road can be an exhausting experience.
The Ak47 slung casually across his shoulder does little to reassure you about your safety.
More than likely he - and it is invariably a man - would ask you to identify yourself and provide a driving licence.
Then he would ask to check the boot of your car. Next he would verify that you have everything required by law - a fire extinguisher in each car, a warning triangle (C-caution), insurance, roadworthiness certificate and other documentation.
Any omission would lead to the choice of accompanying him to the police station, or an offer to "help you settle it" then and there, (pay a bribe to let you go).
Even if you are up to date on everything, that doesn't mean you can proceed with your journey.
The officer would subtly ask if you have "anything for the boys", or point out how hot the weather is (so he needs money for a drink).
This is not a rare occurrence, it is so common that Nigerian comedians often make fun of the police for soliciting bribes.
What not to do at a checkpoint
Receiving calls at a checkpoint can cause further delays.
Security forces generally take offence at people making calls in front of them.
Things could become worse if you try to film proceedings.
They do not take lightly to attempts to record them.
In 2013 police sergeant Chris Omeleze was sacked after a man filmed him trying to collect a bribe at the Lagos international airport. The victim posted the video on YouTube and it soon went viral.
Media captionThe video received thousands of hits online, as Tomi Oladipo reports
How do you know which is an official roadblock?
There is no clear-cut way to distinguish between a real roadblock and a basic shake-down.
You will most likely see a barrel with the Nigeria police colours - blue, yellow and green - in the middle of the road.
At night a wobbling torch could be the only indicator of a police checkpoint ahead.
If you are unlucky it could also be armed robbers.
While some roadblocks are set up in order to catch criminals, others are merely a money-making scheme for corrupt police officers.
These often spring up at night and weekends.
The police chief has now ordered officers to wear uniforms with their name tags and service numbers visible. So a quick search on the police website could help you identify them and make a report.
Media captionWho is policing Nigeria's police?
How much is a bribe?
Nigeria's Bureau of Statistics (NBS) 2017 corruption survey said that 32% of adults who had come into contact with public officials had been asked for a bribe.
The NBS says a total of 82 million naira ($230,000; £170,000) was paid in bribes to public officials in Nigeria in the previous 12-month period. This equates to an average of one bribe per person per year.
Image caption Truck- and taxi-drivers are worst hit by demands for bribes
A typical bribe from motorists would be 20 naira (five cents; four pence).
Worst hit are taxis and trucks transporting goods.
These groups are less likely to challenge authority and are often pressed for time, so they would rather pay a bribe.
A 2013 Transparency International global corruption barometer said that 92% of respondents in Nigeria felt the police were corrupt or extremely corrupt.
Will the roadblock ban succeed?
This is not the first attempt to rid Nigeria's streets of roadblocks.
In 2012, then police chief Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar made a similar order and more than 3,500 checkpoints were cleared out.
However, they have since found their way back.
This fresh order is another attempt to improve the image of the police.
According to the statement, special "x-squad" teams have been deployed throughout the country to arrest, investigate and discipline any police officer violating the directive.
Every police department must now seek the permission of the inspector general of police to mount roadblocks.
This is just one of the measures that Inspector General Idris has introduced to try and improve the generally negative public image of his force.
But it will take a long time, and concrete evidence of change, before most Nigerians agree with the slogan proudly posted on most police stations: "The police is your friend".
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Steve Clarke: Scotland head coach says side have 'grown a little bit'
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Scotland have "grown a little bit" in the past week, despite losing to Belgium in Euro 2020 qualifying, says new national head coach Steve Clarke.
Clarke's side lost 3-0 to the world's highest-ranked side in Brussels on Tuesday after a narrow 2-1 Hampden win over Cyprus on Saturday.
The former Kilmarnock manager replaced Alex McLeish last month after he was sacked following defeat in Kazakhstan and a below-par victory in San Marino.
"They want to get better," said Clarke.
"I think we have shown with the work we have done in this camp that there have been improvements, but there has to be more. We have to be better with the ball when we have it.
"We have things to work on but the overall feeling I have is that we have grown a little bit as a squad of players already and in the next camp we should grow again.
"It's two vital home qualifiers [Russia and Belgium] against the two favourites to come out of the group. We have to be ready for that."
Belgium inflict Clarke's first Scotland defeat
Who was your man of the match?
'I told them to believe in the way of playing'
Clarke highlighted the fine margins that steered a dominant Belgium to victory in Brussels to leave Scotland fourth in qualifying Group I.
Romelu Lukaku's headed opener came after Scotland switched off just moments before half-time, while replays showed Kevin de Bruyne was offside in the build-up to Lukaku's prodded second.
By the time De Bruyne slammed home a third at the death, Clarke had also witnessed Scotland centre-half Scott McKenna denied by Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois after a rampaging run.
"We didn't deserve to lose the third goal at the end," said the Scotland head coach. "I could say the second goal was offside, and conceding the first right on half-time was a big blow.
"I thought we did well to recover from that. I told them to believe in the way of playing that we had. I told them not to panic if it went 2-0. I said 'if it goes 2-0 and we get the chance for 2-1 it would be a nervy finish for them'.
"Unfortunately we fluffed our lines a little bit with a big chance for 2-1. It's probably unfortunate it fell to big Scott and the second chance fell to James [Forrest], who couldn't quite get it out of his feet."
Shortly before kick-off, it emerged that captain Andy Robertson would be missing due to a hamstring injury, with the inclusion of debutant Greg Taylor one of five changes made by Clarke.
"He didn't surprise me," he said of the Kilmarnock left-back. "I've worked with Greg for 18 months and I knew he was ready. I thought his performance was excellent from start to finish.
"It was a big ask for him but I know his temperament and his character. He showed everyone tonight he was deserving of the start he got."
Steve Clarke greets Greg Taylor at full-time
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Shutdown or not, tax-filing season nears: Here's what you need to know
Despite thousands of furloughed IRS employees, the tax-filing season is nearing. Here's what you need to know to get them done.
Shutdown or not, tax-filing season nears: Here's what you need to know Despite thousands of furloughed IRS employees, the tax-filing season is nearing. Here's what you need to know to get them done. Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/2019/01/20/tips-filing-2019-income-taxes-while-government-shutdown/2570505002/
Russ Wiles, Arizona Republic Published 6:00 a.m. MT Jan. 20, 2019 | Updated 11:02 a.m. MT Jan. 20, 2019
The income tax season starts Jan. 28, with or without the government shutdown. Dealing with the IRS can be challenging. Online services through irs.gov, including free filing, are your best bet.
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Benjamin Franklin was correct: The two sure things in life are death and taxes — and the government shutdown apparently won't affect the latter.
The Internal Revenue Service has thousands of employees out on furlough, but the agency said it still intends to open the income-tax filing season Jan. 28, pretty much on schedule.
It plans to recall a significant portion of its workforce in coming days and vowed to process refunds in a timely manner. Still, only about 57 percent of IRS employees are expected to be working and some functions like audits have stopped.
Here are some tips about the upcoming filing season:
Deadline the same
There's a big push to go mobile this tax season, but many of you are actually gonna need an accountant. It's totally fine, you just have to gear up to be completely honest. Preferably - you want a Certified Public Accountant or an Enrolled Agent. Just know that not all CPA's do taxes, some just do accounting work. Video provided by TheStreet Newslook
April 15 remains the date to submit personal tax returns for most of the nation. The exceptions are a couple places with local holidays during which government offices are closed — residents of Maine and Massachusetts have until April 16 and those in the District of Columbia can file as late as April 17.
People needing more time can request and receive an automatic six-month extension, postponing the regular filing deadline until Oct. 15, by submitting IRS Form 4868. However, taxpayers taking this route still are required to make timely payments of any estimated tax liability by April 15.
If you can't pay everything by then, it's still better to file on time to avoid a late-filing penalty, which can be much higher than the penalty for paying late.
Plenty of information online
Tax season is upon us and Mara Montalbano (@maramontalbano) has some tips to make filing less painful. Buzz60
The irs.gov website has been operating — and even providing a few updates — during the government shutdown that began before Christmas. This remains a good place to get answers to questions, including a summary of key tax-reform changes that will apply for the preparation of 2018 returns.
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To review, some of the important federal changes for individual taxpayers include new and generally lower tax rates, a substantial increase in the standard deduction (to $12,000 for singles and $24,000 for married couples), elimination of what had been a $4,050 personal exemption, changes to the child tax credit, elimination of a few deductions and a new $10,000 annual cap on state and local tax deductions.
The Taxpayer Advocate Service, a federal IRS-watchdog group, also lists a summary of tax-law changes at irs.gov/taxpayer-advocate.
Free tax software still available
Individuals with modest incomes can file their returns electronically for free, and this service is operational for the current tax season. It involves a partnership between the IRS and software providers such as TurboTax, H&R Block and TaxSlayer.
It's available at no cost to people who earned less than $66,000 last year. Some, but not all, providers also offer free state tax returns, and other policies vary.
The no-cost option must be pursued through irs.gov — taxpayers access it by going to www.irs.gov/freefile.
People with income above $66,000 can't use free tax-preparation software but can utilize Free File Fillable Forms at irs.gov, available starting Jan. 28. The irs.gov website also is the place to download tax forms or read instructional booklets such as Publication 17, which provides a broad overview for individuals.
Retrieving tax information
Now's the time to gather tax documents so you can file your return on a timely basis. That includes Forms W-2 listing pay information. These documents should show up in mailboxes or by email by the end of January.
If you're missing one, contact your employer. If you moved in recent months, that business might not have your current address, so check on that.
MORE: These are the most important tax forms and documents you need for filing
People who haven't received a W-2 by the end of February may call the IRS at 1-800-829-1040 to request a substitute. The IRS then is supposed to send a letter to the employer asking for the W-2 on the taxpayer's behalf.
If you are missing tax documents or want to find information from past years, irs.gov can help. For example, you can order several types of tax transcripts or summaries for free at https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript.
One common type shows information as listed on your tax return and any forms and schedules as filed. You also can order photocopies of past returns for a modest fee. It's unclear whether the shutdown will slow some of these services.
IRS help in short supply
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If you must contact the IRS to get an answer or resolve a problem, plan on it taking a while and prepare to be frustrated. Even before the government shutdown, the agency had customer-service woes.
IRS offices are closed during the shutdown. When they reopen, the IRS will require appointments for in-person service — and office visits have dropped since this policy was adopted in 2014, said the Taxpayer Advocate Service.
MORE: 10 tax forms you need to know before you file
As for phone service, the IRS last year routed most calls to automated responses. In general, taxpayers who managed to reach a real person in 2018 waited five minutes on average, which marked an improvement of about 90 seconds over the previous year, the Taxpayer Advocate Service said.
Yet the IRS answered only 49 percent of the calls from people seeking help with more-complex installment agreements or balance-due problems. These callers who got through waited 29 minutes on average.
The IRS has restricted the ability of its employees to answer questions. Telephone representatives generally answer basic tax questions only, and a Taxpayer Advocate Service inquiry found that some couldn't do even that.
In fairness, the IRS' customer-service problems largely reflect inadequate funding from Congress, the group said.
Arizona tax-filing information
It's pretty much business as usual for the Arizona Department of Revenue, which isn't directly affected by the federal shutdown. The agency expects to have online and paper forms available by Jan. 28, the same date federal filing begins.
However, there is one potential snag, which involves the interconnection between Arizona and federal tax returns. The starting point for a taxpayer to complete an Arizona return is that person's federal adjusted gross income.
When federal changes are made, as with tax reform in late 2017, the Arizona legislature must adopt or "conform" to these changes if the Arizona starting points are to be kept the same.
That hasn't happened yet.
Still, the Department of Revenue has prepared state tax forms for 2018 assuming Arizona law will indeed conform to the latest federal changes. If Arizona doesn't conform, state law provides protection to taxpayers who need to file an amended return. This protection includes additional time to file and relief from related interest or penalties.
As with the IRS, the Department of Revenue encourages taxpayers to file electronically. For tax year 2017, refunds on e-filed state returns were processed in eight days, compared with 21 days on paper returns.
Reach Wiles at russ.wiles@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8616.
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Northwestern Ontario - 4th Edition
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New to this edition, we have divided the index into Map and Adventure sections to make it easier to use than ever. You will find page numbers and map coordinates for each activity and location, plus important numbers, distance charts and an advertiser list for easy referencing.
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With such expansive swaths of undeveloped wilderness, Northwestern Ontario is prime wildlife habitat, with moose, deer, wolves, black bear, beaver, otters and more found in abundance. Quetico Provincial Park and Sleeping Giant Park in particular are known for their unique wildlife viewing opportunities. In our newest northern Ontario mapbook you will find dozens of detailed listings for the best places to view wildlife in the region, complete with tips, specific species to look for and more!
From Ignace to Geraldton to Sioux Narrows and beyond, Northwestern Ontario enjoys long winters and heavy snowfalls that make it a winter recreation playground. From downhill skiing and snowboarding to cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, there is no shortage of adventure to be had in the wintertime. In the latest edition of our Northwestern Ontario Backroad Mapbook you will find dozens of detailed winter adventure listings, allowing you to make the most out of this unique region no matter the season!
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We are passionate about serving our community and bringing hope to the broken. Believers Chapel Church partners every other month with different organizations. Our vision is to continue partnering with great organizations and exposing our church community to the privilege and responsibility of serving our city.
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This past May, a few Syracuse area friends met to discuss a shared desire to make a difference in Syracuse and Onondaga County. One of these friends mentioned a Facebook program called Returning the Favor and an episode featuring Luke Mickelson. Luke, after realizing that there were children sleeping on the floor in his town, decided he needed to do something and from that decision Sleep In Heavenly Peace (SHP) was born. After watching the program the next time they got together it was unanimous - let's do this in Syracuse. By the end of July the group was officially the first SHP chapter in New York State.
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Ventura is a beach town along the original Pacific Coast Highway (U.S. 101). The inhabited portion of Ventura County also includes numerous towns including Oxnard, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks and Santa Paula. Aside from Ventura and its beaches, the area is a mix of agriculture, small industry, and residential areas.
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Oxnard is set along the coast in a broad, mainly agricultural plain dotted with subdivisions. The city is the area’s industrial center, with Procter & Gamble and food processor Sysco among others operating plants in the area. There is a small high tech industry, and shipping and import-export companies are tied to a small port and naval facility just south of town.
While most of the area is prosperous and attractive, Oxnard has some gritty areas largely absent in the nearby towns. Thousand Oaks is a mostly residential and family oriented community in the valley 20 miles inland, and has been a leader among the region in controlled growth practice.
The Cost of Living Index is high and rising but the area has the lowest crime rates in the state and a high level of educational attainment. The location is isolated by mountains and long freeway drives- Los Angeles is too far for a practical commute but some may commute to its northern areas in or near the San Fernando Valley. Public transportation facilities are lacking for an area its size. The coast and Channel Islands (“America’s Galapagos”) offer plenty of recreational opportunities. While costs are rising, the rest of the package is complete and on the upswing, hence the high ranking.
The east-west running valley is flat to gently rolling with a gradual slope toward the coast. The inhabited area is bounded by two coastal ranges rising 4,000 feet. The mountains are dry and covered with oaks at lower elevations and some coniferous trees at higher ones. The climate is coastal Mediterranean with a winter rainy season and summer dry season. Clear, sunny days are the rule in summer, with occasional incursions of coastal low clouds called “fog” locally. Excessive heat is rare but may occur, especially inland.
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The Craziest Museums That Would Only Exist in America
Because where else would you find a place with 20,000 different salt and pepper shakers?
By Brian Murray, Jr.
From the Museum of Death to the SPAM Museum, it's no wonder these one-of-a-kind, wacky places exist in America...land of the free and home of the brave some pretty weird museums.
The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss
springfieldmuseums.org
Location: Springfield, Massachusetts
Yes, there is now a museum for Dr. Seuss lovers EVERYWHERE! This children's museum, dedicated to Ted Geisel, the famous illustrator who published under the pen name Dr. Seuss, is fun for the whole family. Kids will be able to climb on statues of well-known characters, like Horton from Horton Hears a Who! and Thing 1 and Thing 2 from The Cat in The Hat. Guests will even be able to see personal belongings of Geisel's in a room designed like his actual childhood bedroom.
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The Mustard Museum
mustardmuseum.com
Location: Middleton, Wisconsin
When the Boston Red Sox lost the World Series in 1986, super fan Barry Levenson wandered a 24-hour grocery store questioning the meaning of life. As he passed the mustards, he heard a voice say, "If you collect us, they will come." So he quit his job and opened the museum. And that is how this place came to be.
Chasing Rainbows — The Dolly Parton Museum
dollywood.com
Location: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Dolly Parton has her own theme park that she named after herself, so it's no surprise there's a museum of all things Dolly as well.
Museum of the Weird
museumoftheweird.com
Monsters, zombies, mummies, and shrunken heads are just a few of the weird things you'll find in this boutique museum. They don't give too much information away on their website, and from all the mixed reviews, it's best you just go see for yourself.
Oz Museum
ozmuseum.com
Location: Wamego, Kansas
There's no place like the Oz Museum. With over 2,000 artifacts of all things Wizard of Oz dating back to 1900, any fan of the book or movie should pay a visit.
Potato Museum
idahopotatomuseum.com
Location: Blackfoot, Idaho
Calling all carb lovers! Anyone who is interested enough in knowing the complete history of the potato should look no further than the potato capital of the world.
The Barbed Wire Museum
barbwiremuseum.com
Location: McLean, Texas
There are over 2,000 different types of barbed wire and more than 450 patents. This place will inform you of all the barbed wire and fencing tools you could imagine.
Hobo Museum
hobo.com
Location: Britt, Iowa
The Chief Theater in Britt, Iowa was bought by the Hobo Foundation. It's now filled with some crazy, cool stuff from hobos all around the world: books, music, crafts, you name it!
SPAM Museum
spam.com
Location: Austin, Minnesota
SPAM is made up of six ingredients: pork with ham, salt, water, potato starch, sugar, and sodium nitrate. Those who actually like the canned meat, introduced in 1937, can learn all about it and its special place in American cuisine.
Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum
roadsideamerica.com
Location: Gatlinburg, Tennessee
20,000 pairs of unique salt and pepper shakers line the walls in this museum — and there's a gift shop that sells duplicates! Owner Andrea Ludden is currently writing her book about "definitive anthropological study" of the shakers, so be on the lookout!
Museum of Death
museumofdeath.net
Location: Hollywood, California and New Orleans, Louisiana
Serial murderer artwork; photos from actual murders such as the Charles Manson crime scenes and the Black Dahlia; a video display that includes the Heaven's Gate Cult recruiting tape, and various autopsies, you might have to find the nearest exit. It's no wonder there isn't a time limit on the self-guided tour. They don't expect you to stay long.
National Museum of Roller Skating
rollerskatingmuseum.com
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Ready for a rollin' good time? You won't believe how much of a history roller skating has. See the development in skates over the centuries and learn the about the amazing impact it has had on the entire world.
Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia
burlingamepezmuseum.com
Location: Burlingame, California
And you thought you had the biggest Pez collection in your childhood bedroom. This place is filled with every Pez candy dispenser ever sold (over 1,000!), along with a plethora of Pez memorabilia.
Museum of Sex
museumofsex.com
This museum most likely isn't on the family itinerary for your next trip to the Big Apple. Take a walk through the various exhibits. Some are even interactive, like "Jump For Joy: The Bouncy Castle of Breasts."
UFO Museum
roswellufomuseum.com
Location: Roswell, New Mexico
Founded by Lt. Walter Haut, this UFO museum is a nonprofit hub of information regarding the phenomena of UFO and the sighting of one in 1947. It's no joke. They take it very seriously.
Neon Museum
neonmuseum.org
Ever wonder what they do with those massive Las Vegas light-up signs when the casino goes kaput? Found 'em! This museum collects and preserves the iconic signs. You're only able to visit through a guided tour unless you rent it out for a wedding or private event.
Banana Museum
internationalbananamuseum.com
Location: Mecca, California
This sh*t really is B-A-N-A-N-A-S. The Banana Museum is overflowing with banana-inspired knickknacks to be awed by. Anything and everything you could possibly imagine ... this place has it!
National Museum of Funeral History
nmfh.org
Location: Houston, Texas
Not one of the most uplifting places to visit, the Museum of Funeral History has the largest collection of authentic, historical funeral service items. Learn about coffins, caskets, and hearses, oh my!
Crochet Museum
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Location: Joshua Tree, California
Very strange but so awesome all at the same time, this one-hour fotomat booth houses the world famous crochet museum. The owner, a woman named Sheri who doesn't even know how to crochet — but has taken a lesson — wants to thank all the old ladies who made the pieces in her collection. When you make a pitstop here, make sure you meet the "museum curator," Bunny, a crocheted bunny that's really an alligator. (We're not kidding.)
muttermuseum.org
This museum of medical history is filled with creepy body parts, anatomical specimens, and skulls. The collection includes a cancerous tumor that was removed from President Grover Cleveland's mouth.
The Hammer Museum
hammermuseum.org
Location: Haines, Alaska
Yep, you read that correctly. Solely dedicated to preserving the history of the hammer, this museum sure won't take up a lot of your day.
The Mmuseumm
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Offering a display of objects and art exhibits that change every three months, the mmuseumm is one of New York's hidden gems. At night, when the "museum" is closed, you can peer into the small window on the door and still check out the 20-square-foot freight elevator-turned-museum.
Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum
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Location: Fort Mitchell, Kentucky
For those who are scared or freaked-out by dolls, this one's not for you. Over 800 figures and more photographs and playbills than you can imagine, the Vent Haven Ventriloquist museum is the only one in the world. If you don't have trip planned to Fort Mitchell in the near future, don't worry — you can take a virtual tour.
Museum of Bad Art
museumofbadart.org
Location: Somerville, Brookline, and South Weymouth, Massachusetts
Also known as MoBA, the art in the museum's collection is honestly not as bad as you'd expect. Half the fun is figuring out what the artist was trying to draw ... right?
Toilet Seat Museum
In Alamo Heights, TX, sits 90-year-old Barney who has over 1,300 toilet seats hung in his garage. He can tell you the story behind each one of them if you've got the time.
The Most Thrilling Roller Coasters in the World
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Calling from Nigeria
Just got two emails from Nigeria.
The one below is from a football agent, as what he claimed, said that he has a group of players ready to ply their trade here.
And following that, a player also wrote in and said he's played in number of tournaments in Nigerian and aboard.
So any clubs or whosoever are keen (or ready to take them in), please let me know and I will forward the emails to you guys..
Classifed as: foreign teams, FTS, Public education
druryfire Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 05:59:00 GMT+8
Dear Pohui
I'm Adam, English, played in numerous youth tournements. Please send this note onto any club, therefore they can send me money for a flight over of which i will miss due to unforeseen circumstances.
But i will pay the money back when i'm next at an ATM machine.
Don't be taken in by these guys Pohui
Pohui Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 06:32:00 GMT+8
Hi "Druryfire"...
These things happened before and I just wanna posted their emails as a form of "public education"..thanks
Midas Touche Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 16:58:00 GMT+8
could be the next Ali Dia..heehee
Linkin_Obsessed Wednesday, 4 March 2009 at 15:36:00 GMT+8
LOL. The fact that it's NIGERIAN should already alert you to the fact that this is very likely a scam. :D
Let's concentrate on our own talent here, no?
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The Famous 75 Second Greek Challenge
Kenneth Berding — May 23, 2018
Can you chant by memory through all of beginning Greek grammar in 75 seconds?[1] Everyone in my Greek classes can do it in 90 seconds, but successfully chanting through Greek grammar in 75 seconds is difficult—even harrowing: alphabet, article, noun endings, indicative verb endings, general verb forms, participles, infinitives, imperatives, contract forms, and forms of eimi … all in 75 seconds or less! Anyone who survives this public ordeal receives a button displaying these words: I SURVIVED BERDING’S 75 SECOND GREEK CHALLENGE. This year seven students received the coveted buttons, and you can watch a montage of the famous 75 second Greek challenge to see it for yourself. Many thanks to Jorden Harber for the video. The successful students in order of appearance are: Jorden Harber, Jonathan Yu, Drew Botts, Masaki Ito, Josh Swigart, Alex Worthington, and Isaac Baumheckel.
[1] Note that these students learned these forms by singing. See Kenneth Berding's, Sing and Learn New Testament Greek (Zondervan).
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Kenneth Berding is author of various books, some academic (such as Polycarp and Paul), some semi-academic (such as What Are Spiritual Gifts? Rethinking the Conventional View), others for-the-classroom (such as Sing and Learn New Testament Greek or The Apostolic Fathers: A Narrative Introduction), and still others for-the-church (such as Walking in the Spirit or Bible Revival: Recommitting Ourselves to One Book). He has published articles in such journals as the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vigiliae Christianae, New Testament Studies, and Journal of Early Christian Studies. He is the director of Bible Fluency: Sing It, See It, Study It (biblefluency.com). Before coming to Talbot, Dr. Berding was a church planter in the Middle East and taught at Nyack College just north of New York City. He has a heart for God and ministry, has written many worship songs, and has served as a worship pastor in local church ministry.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific to Provide Antibody Publication Data on its Website
Researchers can view published data on antibodies directly on the website to help better understand antibody performance
CARLSBAD, Calif., July 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced it has signed an agreement with BenchSci to utilize its proprietary machine learning platform to mine antibody data published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The data and associated application information will be displayed on product-specific webpages to help scientists make informed decisions about the optimal antibodies to use in their experiments.
Prior to the availability of the platform on Thermo Fisher's site, researchers were forced to rely on scientific search engines, sift through numerous papers, then tab back and forth between the published studies and product websites. The process could take hours or even days but is now significantly reduced to minutes by extracting key information and figures from open- and closed-access papers.
An image gallery on Thermo Fisher's relevant antibody product pages will incorporate data generated by BenchSci's platform so visitors on the website can review both internal product development data and figures from peer-reviewed journals in one location. Additional published figures covering more antibodies will be added over time.
Poor antibody specificity or application performance can significantly hinder the ability to obtain good results, which can cause critical research delays. Choosing wrong or underperforming antibodies result in a lack of reproducibility, wasted time and wasted resources. Researchers need antibodies that bind to the right target and work in their applications every time.
"Data is absolutely critical to ensuring that scientists can make high confidence decisions about what antibody reagent is likely to be most appropriate for their application of interest," said Dara Wright, vice president and general manager of protein and cell analysis, Thermo Fisher Scientific. "Far too much time and money is wasted on the use of antibodies which don't meet expectations. This new capability, coupled with our internal validation initiatives, is a meaningful step forward."
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of more than $20 billion and approximately 70,000 employees globally. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity. Through our premier brands - Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services - we offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive services. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.
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Home » More bull from the “world’s bulliest economic pulpit”: What Janet Yellen means to the dollar
More bull from the “world’s bulliest economic pulpit”: What Janet Yellen means to the dollar
January 10, 2014 Birch Gold Economy
The Senate has confirmed President Obama’s nomination of Janet Yellen for next Chair of the Federal Reserve. She makes history on two counts. She is, of course, the first woman to lead the Fed, which is a significant milestone that we should all applaud.
But our enthusiasm for this first piece of history must be tapered once we account for the second: Yellen received the lowest level of support ever in a confirmation vote for Fed Chair, with only 56 senators in support of her. In that regard she absolutely trounces Ben Bernanke’s previously-held record for lack of support, when only 70 senators voted in favor of his second term. Which makes us wonder: What other ignoble highlights of Bernanke’s career she might eclipse when she takes the helm on February 1?
Without really meaning to, Michael Hirsh of the National Journal has painted a terrifying picture of Yellen on her views, life, agenda and career history. He was trying to show her human side and deep compassion for the unemployed and underprivileged, making the case that she will likely try to use her extensive experience and brilliant mind to help their plight. However, the free marketers among us who read between the lines will see an activist incoming Fed Chair, one who is intent on intervening in the markets in new, radical and creative ways, with all the gusto, determination and moral fortitude of an economic Florence Nightingale. That is, she will compassionately accommodate, ease, and nurture our ailing markets with only the very best of intentions.
Where do we begin…
Hirsh’s piece paints a picture of a new kind of Fed Chair, one who will actively lobby Congress for higher minimum wage laws and policies to combat “income inequality”. We should expect to see Yellen insinuate herself in all sorts of policy and political discussions well beyond the purview of the Fed, and that is a truly scary prospect for the future. As Hirsh put it, she now has “the world’s bulliest economic pulpit”, and politicians will listen.
Yellen’s staunch views on higher minimum wages are especially troubling and contradictory for one who wants to, and needs to, mark her time at the Fed with improving employment figures. How will we see more jobs if she purposefully makes it more expensive to hire people? Well, inflation, of course! Pump the system full of money to hire more people… which increases costs… which increases prices… which erodes everyone’s purchasing power… which leads to more income inequality… which leads to yet another call for higher wages. Where does this end??! The fact that she might become an activist to exacerbate and shorten this maddening cycle is a big concern for the dollar.
But to the dovish Janet Yellen, inflation is far from a serious concern. According to Hirsh’s sources “close to her”, we are getting yet another Fed Chair who feels our economic woes are due to lack of regulation. The reality is the market has its own organic methods of regulation – cleansing by bankruptcy, by failure. But the Fed has been circumventing that process at every turn, instead dumping money by the helicopter-full onto all the bad actors, wondering why the mistakes seem to linger. (Gosh… we wonder why.) The latest regulatory overhaul that Congress has come up with, the Volcker Rule, is so full of holes, critics call it regulatory Swiss cheese. The current regulatory landscape is such that only the banking fat cats (who write the labyrinthine laws) have the legal resources to understand them and then properly circumvent them. This is part of regulatory capture and it’s why banks will continue to be too big to fail, and will indeed only get bigger. The little guys, the up-and-coming finance guys, the ones with the forward-thinking ideas, can’t afford big enough legal departments to gain a foothold. So everything stagnates while the rich get richer.
What does all of this mean for you and your savings? Janet Yellen is another unabashed disciple of John Maynard Keynes, which is terrible news for the markets on the road ahead. It means our leaders in Washington and at the Fed have learned nothing and will admit no failures as they continue to listen to all the wrong people. It reinforces what we share with you every week, that we are headed for more exaggerated booms and busts, that the dollar will continue its decline. Where will your investments end up as the chips fall? As the dollar gets more dangerous, physical gold becomes safer and safer. Protect your portfolio with gold today.
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Phoenix adds Corel to range
Phoenix Distribution has been appointed a key local Corel distribution partner. The company has already made the full range of Corel products available to its resellers and retail partners, and will be looking to grow the footprint of the brand in South Africa and throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Corel revolutionised the graphic design industry when it introduced CorelDRAW in 1989. Today, the company has a comprehensive range of award-winning graphics and productivity software, as well as a broad portfolio of photo, video and DVD software.
“The Corel range is a solid addition to our comprehensive portfolio of multimedia products, and we are proud to have been added to the company’s network of partners. Corel has a community of more than 100 million active users in over 75 countries, many of those in Africa, and we will be utilising our knowledge of the market to widen Corel’s reach,” says Simon Campbell-Young, CEO of Phoenix Distribution.
Its most famous product, CorelDraw, is a suite of graphic and website design software products, boasting a content-rich environment and professional graphic design, photo editing and website design capabilities. Comprehensive tools provide endless opportunities to deliver on any creative brief. Features in the newest version include an enhanced content organiser, new creative options for refining vector objects and improved master layers.
Other products include Digital Painting, a virtual art studio, Painter Essentials 4, creative home art software for photo-painting, drawing and painting, and CorelCAD, for 2D and 3D design. The Corel range also includes professional video-editing tools, MotionStudio 3D, offering 3D effects, 3D graphics, compositing and particle systems in one complete package, and many more.
Campbell-Young adds that the Corel range is a great addition to the best-of-breed solutions the company offers. “We pride ourselves on offering the best solutions to our customers, and our partnership with Corel will only enhance our existing offering. Corel products provide a variety of solutions making it simple for consumers and professionals get creative.”
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E. Timothy Lightfield Ph.D., enjoyed a thirty-year career in higher education as professor, researcher, chief academic officer, campus provost and president.
Dr. Lightfield has been honored with the CEO Award of Distinction, National Executive Officer of the Year and Community College President of the Year and with the Resolution of Merit from the Illinois General Assembly.
Dr. Lightfield has authored scholarly publications in sociology and higher education including the Community and Junior College Journal, Educational Record, American Sociologist, Social Forces, Community College Review and Journal of College Student Personnel.
Dr. Lightfield lives in Ponte Vedra, Florida, with his wife, Deborah, an artist and retired teacher.
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Anti-Vaxxers Think They Debunked Vaccines With This Meme, Instead, 19 People Point Out Everything That’s Wrong With It
Karolina Wv
The CDC has reported that measles cases have reached over 1,000 in the U.S as anti-vaxxers continue to spread misinformation through rallies aimed at vulnerable communities and, of course, Internet memes.
A common tactic of the group, someone decided to share a visualization of how many vaccines were required by the age of two with a photo of a doll stuck with vaccine needles. The meme was posted to the Facebook group Natural Cures Not Medicine who then asked: “Do you really think this is safe?” The photo may have been well received by their page, but not by the rest of the Internet who were quick to answer the question and they were not the answers they were looking for.
Someone posted this meme to an anti-vaxxer Facebook group
And someone was quick to answer – just not with the response they expected
According to the Center for Disease Control before the age of two, a child should receive vaccines for Chickenpox (varicella), Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis ( DTaP vaccine), Haemophilus influenzae (Hib), Hepatitis A (HepA), Hepatitis B (HepB), Influenza, Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR vaccine), Meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MenACWY), Polio (IPV), Rotavirus (RV), Pneumococcal Vaccines (PCV13 and PPSV23).
But they weren’t the only ones, the rest of the Internet jumped in to destroy the post
The CDC has identified the rise of vaccine misinformation as the main impetus behind the New York outbreaks in particular. “Some organizations are deliberately targeting these communities with inaccurate and misleading information about vaccines,” the CDC said in a statement. The outbreaks in New York City and New York State are among the largest and longest lasting since measles was eliminated in 2000.
CP 1 month ago
The anti-vaxxers have had a down-voting spree on this page. Well, it is the only thing they can do because it is hard to debate without facts on your side.
Lisa Chambers 1 month ago
Whist they enjoy their good health and polio free lives from vaccinations.
Exquisite Spam 1 month ago
Doesn't stop the president.
Carrie de Luka 1 month ago
The US president.
Foxxy 1 month ago (edited)
Most of the time anti-vaxxers don’t think logically and won’t believe anyone who speaks sense.
Molly E 1 month ago
Thank you. Your not making fun of them, but just saying that they are wrong.
Aunt Messy 1 month ago
And stupid. And wilfully ignorant.
Rebecca Owens 1 month ago
People need to just stop sending hate, and start teaching. I have a good friend who's anti-vax, and there's nothing wrong with that. But I do wish that there was some way to show people where they'd listen that would help teach people that EVERYONE is safer when more people are vaccinated. Except WITHOUT the hate that appears whenever this conversation starts.
elfin 1 month ago
It seems to me that a lot of anti-vaxxers are proud of their stand, probably because they have accomplished little else to be proud of. It makes the feel special.
Dogloverz17 1 month ago
Actually, in my experience they feel proud, because they feel they have discovered something that should be shared. They usually think that since they haven't had a disease they connect it with not having vaccines. They feel that they should share, because they think that it would be the same for everyone. They have reasons, they just might not be reasonable.
I'm 12 and live with a nurse who belives in vaccinations. IM ALIVE
Flame Phoenix 1 month ago
I'm also 12 and live with loving parents who believe in vaccinations. I'M ALSO ALIVE
Rebecca Owens 1 month ago (edited)
I'm also 12 and have had vaccinations because MY PARENTS CARE. I'M ALIVE TOO. What care have you given your kids, anti-vax parents? Actually... no. Anti-vax just sounds so hateful. How about... Oh! I know! Pro-DEATH?
PyroKitty 1 month ago
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Just saying 1 month ago
I'm 43, my parents vaccinated me, and I am alive too. So are my children who are 12 and 9 and also vaccinated.
Janine B. 1 month ago
@Rachael Marrast - And you are like saying: "Wohoo, my kids are not vaccinated and didn't get any of those diseases." True. But just because everyone else is vaccinated and not because your kids are strong and healthy. You benefit from something you're against. You should be thankful there are more reasonable people than anti-vaxxers in this world. I am 41 and vaccinated against most of these diseases. When I was 31 I had to take immunosuppressants for a while, so being vaccinated didn't help me anymore. I caught pertussis and measles within a year. Because of persons who didn't vaccinate their children. It was no fun I can tell you and I could have easily infected your kids or other persons with no protection without even knowing I was infected myself. And believe me, I was really, really, really ill like I've never been before. So please be reasonable and think about vaccinating your children at least against some of those terrible and potentially deadly diseases. Thank you.
Sharon Palmer 1 month ago
I am now taking immunosuppressants for life (arthritis). So my vaccinations are also now ineffective too, although when my daughter had chickenpox at the start of the year I managed to not catch it. So anti vaxxers are potentially endangering me. My child has Down Syndrome and their immunity is, in the majority very poor. (My daughters was worryingly low even for a Downs child) Before these children are old enough for their vaccinations these idiots are potentially threatening their wellbeing too. They are also putting extra risk in the already fraught position of cancer patients and anyone else who's immune system is compromised They just don't think beyond their own little crusade that doesn't just play roulette with their own flesh and bloods lives, but people like us too. If their children do catch one of these easily preventable diseases will they trust modern medicine to try and save their lives and treat their (possibly) lifelong effects?
Eric Lambrecht 3 weeks ago
@Rachael Unless it affects other people. Say you have a child and your child is a serial killer. Would you tell the police that "they should stop getting into your bussiness" or to "butt out?" Because those children basically ARE serial killers- spreading disease everywhere they go
@Sharon Palmer, wow, that should change people's minds.
Rachael Marrast 1 month ago
First of all, I never said I had kids. Second, I never said if I did have kids, if they were vaccinated or not because its no ones business what I do with my children.
Hi Molly, I'm 45, myself, my siblings, my children and all my nieces and nephews - we're all vaccinated and all very much alive too!
Your a total B*TCH rachael Marrast. F*ck off. thx- the world of medicine
@Beth Arriago - I am not "arguing" with a child. I used a metaphor rebutting her comment. If shes as smart as you say, than she would have gotten that. Clearly you did not. I never stated my stance on vaccinations. I never said I was for or against them, yet you jump the gun because you could not see through my comment and just made a biased decision on who you think I am. I never once mentioned Autism so Im not sure where that came from. :/ You have a blessed day!
I know kids who are older than you who have not have vaccines ever and are alive. How is that? That's like saying I smoked cigarettes and didn't get cancer so cigarettes are not bad for you.
Beth Arriaga 1 month ago
You are arguing with a 12 year old. She is aware, intelligent me using the Internet for something besides games and socializing. She did not encourage smoking, which is scientifically proven.... Oh why I am wasting my time. She's way more intelligent and empathetic than you'll ever be. Btw, having an Autistic child is not a bad thing. It's just a thing NOT CAUSED BY vaccines.
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22 Adorable Photos From The Twitter Page #PossumEveryHour That May Make You See These Creatures Differently
Animals, Funny1 month ago
Ilona Baliūnaitė
When people hear the word possum many words probably come to mind – scavengers, creepy, dirty. – but adorable is usually not among them. Well, the Twitter page #PossumEveryHour might have unintentionally changed all that, by encouraging people to share photos of their pet marsupials with the internet, and it really shows the critters in a new light. Released every hour, the photos showcase the animals, not as nocturnal trash burglars, but instead cuddled up in towels, wearing party hats, lounging in mini-beds and perched on their owners – and it may make you question everything you ever thought about them.
The page was created by Twitter user @thunderysteak who said the viral page was an experiment that ‘got out of hand.’ “The PossumEveryHour page was simply an experiment to see what Microsoft Flow is capable of,” she told Bored Panda, “If I had known how popular it would get, I would build it completely different from how it’s built right now. To be honest, when I built it and let the bot loose, it only had 4 followers and I completely forgot about it for two months. I realized that it was still running, and I went to shut it down until I saw it already gained over 750 followers.” Turns out there are lots of possum lovers out there.
Possums aren’t the most loved animals, some see them as ugly, other’s hate them for their characteristics
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Possums get a really bad rap, but why? Some people like to cite the fact that they are dirty and carry rabies, but this is actually extremely rare. All mammals can get rabies but because of these animals low body temperature, it is very difficult for the virus to survive. Another complaint is that they knock over trash and spread it about – the truth is it’s the opposite. Possums are very clean and are ‘opportunistic scavengers’ who clean up after others. They not only clean up your trash but eat unwanted visitors such as cockroaches, crickets, beetles, rats, mice, and snakes. They even clean up animal remains.
But despite the public hate on possums, these photos are changing people’s minds one pic at a time
Despite having rat-like features, possums are marsupials – “pouched mammals” like kangaroos or koalas. They are distinct in North America because they hold the title as the only North American marsupial. In total there are over 65 species of opossums, however, the Didelphis virginiana or the Virginia opossum is the only one native to North America.
Thundery Stake refers to the animal as ‘possum’ on her page which is an acceptable spelling in North America along, however, in the rest of the world ‘possums’ and ‘opossums’ are two different animals, “Mostly that people think there’s only one type of possums. If you ever look at the responses of where the account posted an Australian possum, people won’t even know what kind of animal it is or that it isn’t a possum,” she said. The Australian possum is still a marsupial but looks like a cross between a squirrel and a chinchilla and belongs to a different mammalian order.
The average lifespan of this animal is only 1 to 2 years because of predators. Despite having 50 sharp looking teeth, these animals are not aggressive. We all know the famous phrase playing possum (playing dead), the response these animals have to a predator. Well, don’t give these little guys an Oscar just yet, this is an involuntary response, in which they fall into a comatose-like state and cannot control how long it lasts.
PossumsEveryHour was inspired by a different animal page @hourlyFox. As a website developer, the creator of the possum page wanted to copy the page’s functions. So why possums? Since I visit a discussion board where people discuss the terribleterribleterrible webcomic where the main character called Clem is a possum, I already had several pictures of possums on hand.
The creator said that while she is no expert on the animal she encourages the message her page has sent and has learned about them in the process. “Please be nice to possums and don’t harras them. If you see one yourself, you can take a picture from afar without flash but don’t corner them and poke them with a stick or something similar, please.”
As cute as these possum pics are – the account pinned an important PSA about how these creatures shouldn’t be kept as pets
Image credits: PossumEveryHour
Along with a detailed manifesto on why these creatures aren’t meant for domestication
In the possum briefing, acquired from the National Opossum Society, they explain that these animals are very high maintenance and require a very particular diet that, if not followed, can lead to metabolic bone disease, the breakdown of their internal organs or obesity. Females are very prone to urinary tract or genital tract infections. Unlike with dogs or cats, if your opossum gets sick it is very difficult to find a vet specialist who knows how to treat them. The NOS explains that even if you have the resources to say raise an orphan possum the ethical thing to do is to then release it back into the wild.
One of the members of the society even shared their heartbreaking story in the PSA to drive the point home. The contributor said they had rescued an orphan opossum, after the mom had been hit by a car, and thought she could help it using her wildlife experience. Instead, she goes on to say it was the most, “heartbreaking, stressful, confusing and selfish mistakes I have made in my whole life.”
Lots of people in the comments were happy to see possums finally getting some public love
For fans of the page, the developer said she plans on continuing the possum party, ” I’d be crazy not to. If I stopped suddenly, I’d disappoint a lot of people.”
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G.L.T. 1 month ago
BoredPanda: Can you please edit the page so that it says "opposums" instead of "possums"? They are two different animals and all of the pictures here are of Opposums as the PSA correctly states. Maybe you can add a note that the Twitter page is a misnomer so your readers can learn this common mistake.
Luna 1 month ago
the person who made the twitter acc made the mistake too(i actually didn't know that, so thanks!)
Natasha Forchione 1 month ago
What is difference??? I didn't know this.
Peko 1 month ago
They're different animals. Also possums live in Australia and opossums in the Americas.
Katrina Leitkowski 1 month ago
The American is the possum and the Australian is named after it... They are both called possums...
Alley Gater 1 month ago
Yes the opposum and possum was bugging the crap of me !!
tuzdayschild 1 month ago (edited)
Possum is just so much more fun to say. Adding the "o" lessens the fun factor.
Felix Feline 1 month ago
In the USA, the "o" can be silent or spoken. In the UK, the "o" is almost always pronounced.
Here in Australia we have possums. Usa has opossums. We would *always* say the O. They are very different animals.
Tahani 1 month ago
They are adorable!! Cannot understand why anyone would hate them or call them ugly!!
Danielle Renee 1 month ago
i don't know why people dislike them, i think they're adorable. they visit my yard for leftovers from the colony cats most nights and about ever 6 months there are little ones. i love it!
Hehe! Same here. And sometimes I put a chicken carcass outside for the resident opossums.
#PossumEveryHour,
cute possum photos,
opossum photos,
opossums,
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Iran, US fan the flames of conflict over nuclear deal
By Matthew Lee Associated Press,June 18, 2019, 5:32 a.m.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (center) during a ceremony at Imam Airport in Tehran on Tuesday. (Iranian Presidency/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — In a test of resolve and credibility for the United States and Iran, the two adversaries have taken steps sure to further inflame tensions in the Mideast and draw them closer to a flashpoint.
Iran announced it was breaking compliance with the international agreement that keeps it from making nuclear weapons and the Trump administration followed by ordering 1,000 more troops to the Middle East.
The Pentagon said Monday that the deployment includes security forces and troops for additional surveillance and intelligence-gathering. It represents an escalation of American military might aimed at deterring Iran and calming allies worried about the safety of strategic shipping lanes.
Iran soon could start enriching uranium to a step away from weapons-grade levels. That’s a challenge to President Donald Trump’s assurances to allies that the U.S. withdrawal from the deal last year made the world a safer place.
Iran’s president said that while ‘‘we do not wage war with any nation,’’ the entire country ‘‘is unanimous in confronting’’ U.S. pressures. ‘‘The end of this battle will see victory of the Iranian nation,’’ Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday.
Iran said it would not abide by a limit on uranium stockpiles established under the 2015 agreement, which was intended to restrict the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in exchange for an easing of international sanctions.
After Trump withdrew from the deal signed by President Barack Obama, he reinstated stiff economic sanctions, leaving the European and other partners in the accord struggling to keep Iran on board.
The U.S. now finds itself in the awkward position of demanding that Iran comply with a deal that Trump derides as the worst in history.
‘‘We continue to call on the Iranian regime not to obtain a nuclear weapon, to abide by their commitments to the international community,’’ State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said.
The U.S. accuses Iran of attacking two tankers near the Persian Gulf; the Iranians deny responsibility. With details murky and no one owning up to the attacks, the Pentagon released new photos intended to bolster its case.
In announcing the new deployment, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said the forces are ‘‘for defensive purposes to address air, naval, and ground-based threats’’ in the Mideast.
‘‘The United States does not seek conflict with Iran,’’ Shanahan said, describing the move as intended ‘‘to ensure the safety and welfare of our military personnel working throughout the region and to protect our national interests.’’
He said the U.S. will continue to adjust troop levels as needed.
Russia urged restraint by all parties and worries that the additional American forces could ‘‘bring in extra tensions,’’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Some supporters of the multinational nuclear deal blamed the Trump administration for Iran’s provocative announcements, saying they were predictable given the renewed U.S. pressure.
‘‘While Iran’s frustration with Trump’s reckless and irresponsible pressure campaign is understandable, we strongly urge Iran to remain in compliance with the nuclear deal,’’ the Arms Control Association said in a statement. ‘‘It remains in Iran’s interests to abide by the limits of the agreement.’’
Iran has shown no willingness to negotiate another deal and has pledged not enter into talks with the United States while the administration keeps up the pressure with sanctions.
Administration officials are struggling with whether to press the remaining parties to the deal, including Britain, France and Germany, to demand that Iran stay in compliance. They must also consider whether such a stance would essentially concede that the restrictions imposed during the Obama administration are better than none.
Under the deal, Iran can keep a stockpile of no more than 660 pounds (300 kilograms) of low-enriched uranium. Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for Iran’s atomic agency, said it would pass that limit June 27.
A senior U.S. official said the U.S. is most concerned about any violation of the deal that would reduce the time Iran would need to produce a nuclear weapon. The deal aimed to keep that ‘‘breakout time’’ at one year.
The official said certain violations would not necessarily reduce that time. But other violations, such as enriching uranium to 20%, should be addressed immediately if they occur, said the official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to meet this week with the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, a leading deal proponent.
Pompeo, a leading critic of the deal while he was in Congress, has said Iranian compliance is not really an issue because the administration sees the agreement as fundamentally flawed.
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28 places to party before you die
Talia Avakian
The island of Pag in Croatia is known for throwing some of the craziest pool parties around.
Facebook/Papaya club @ Zrce beach
Some of the world's most stunning destinations are also home to incredible nightlife for travelers to explore.
From iconic clubs to world-renowned festivals, these places give travelers the chance to experience the party of a lifetime.
We've put together 28 party destinations to cross off your bucket list, from the wild pool celebrations in Pag, Croatia, to the trance scene in Goa, India.
Get ready to get your party on.
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS: Whether you're looking to dance the night away to electro beats or catch live bands, you'll find it in Amsterdam. The city is home to dance clubs, bars, and casual clubs, and it also hosts one of the world's biggest electronic music showcases—the Amsterdam Dance Event.
Facebook/Amsterdam Dance Event
AUSTIN, TEXAS: Austin is full of young musicians and artists that flock to the city's many bars. Start on Sixth Street and make your way west for an epic bar crawl mixed with great live music.
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BALI, INDONESIA: Bali's Kuta Beach may be known for its prime surfing spots, but it's also home to wild late-night parties, busy streets, and beach raves that draw in thousands of backpackers and locals. Plus, you can party on a budget here, since cheap drinks are their specialty.
Facebook/Pyramid
BARCELONA, SPAIN: In Barcelona, it's easy to party on a small budget at spots like Espit Chupitos, where their quirky shots are all only two euros each. Party through the night at the city's many clubs before hitting the beach, where crowds continue the party onto the sands.
Facebook/Opium Barcelona
BELGRADE, SERBIA: Head to Belgrade's eclectic Skadarlija district to explore its many bars or dance the night away at one of the city's river clubs, where you'll be treated to incredible views of the Sava and Danube Rivers.
Facebook/Terassa
BERLIN, GERMANY: Famous for its incredible nightlife scene, Berlin is home to both underground techno clubs and rock and alternative venues that host events late into the night. No matter what time you arrive, you can find a party happening here.
Flickr/Montecruz Foto
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: Copenhagen is home to Europe's wild Distortion festival, which celebrates the city's underground music and art scene and includes huge street parties, music, and a never-ending supply of Danish beer for five days.
Facebook/DISTORTION
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Dubai offers everything from upscale cocktail bars and booming clubs to casual joints for grabbing a drink. It also hosts an epic New Year's Eve party at the Meydan Racecourse that goes until 5 p.m. the next day.
Facebook/Nasimi Beach
GOA, INDIA: Goa has an exciting EDM party scene that has even led to the creation of its own style of music called Goa trance. Here, parties can last for days on the city's streets and beaches. Goa is known for hosting some of the world's largest silent discos.
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IBIZA, SPAIN: This Mediterranean destination is known for its raucous nightlife, with top DJs performing at the island's hottest clubs. Dance the night away at spots like Privilege, which is the world's largest nightclub, or at Amnesia, which is famous for its foam parties.
David Ramos/Getty Images
ISTANBUL, TURKEY: Istanbul is known for the wild shenanigans that take place in its famous Taksim Square. It is home to one of the world's most diverse populations, where Americans, Europeans, Middle Easterners, and Asians travel to experience some of the world's hottest nightclubs.
Facebook/Reina
KOH PHANGAN, THAILAND: Thailand's Full Moon Party takes places across several locations throughout the year, but Koh Phangan is hailed as one of the most memorable. Once a month — when there's a full moon — partiers converge on the small Thai island to drink, dance, and jump the famed rope of fire.
Flickr / Joe Strump
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Nicknamed Sin City, Las Vegas hosts some of the best pool parties during the day and bustling clubs where you can party for hours on end at night.
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MARBELLA, SPAIN: In Marbella, Puerto Banus is where the rich and famous go to play. The resort town hosts an endless supply of restaurants, bars, and clubs that host crazy parties like the champagne spray parties at Ocean Club.
Facebook/Nikki Beach Marbella
MIAMI, FLORIDA: In Miami, electronic music lovers will enjoy the city's many festivals, like Ultra, in addition to mega nightclubs like LIV and Story. Those in search of enjoying incredible food with local music should also check out the venues that line Calle Ocho.
MUNICH, GERMANY: Oktoberfest is a can't-miss celebration. The festival attracts more than 6 million people from around the world and hosts incredible beer and German food. The festival usually takes place in late September to early October, when you'll see thousands indulging in pints of German beer while wearing a traditional Dirndl or Lederhosen.
Reuters/Leonhard Foeger
MYKONOS, GREECE: This small Greek island is home to larger-than-life parties that start on the beach in the mid-afternoon and go until the next morning. Head to Super Paradise Beach, one of the best places to party, or try one of the many clubs and bars around the island.
Facebook/Super Paradise (official)
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA: New Orleans' music scene is a vibrant mix of brass bands, zydeco beats, and upbeat bounce music. Head to Frenchmen Street for top-notch live music, dance to funk and brass bands at the Maple Leaf, or go all-out at Mardi Gras.
AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
NEW YORK, NEW YORK: New York's late night clubs and 24-hour restaurants have earned it the nickname "the city that never sleeps", and you won't have to either while you're here. The city is bursting with energy all day long, and it's public transportation makes partying a cinch.
Facebook/TAO Downtown
NISSI BEACH, CYPRUS: For the ideal summer party getaway, head to Nissi beach in Cyprus, where you'll find weekly foam parties, beach parties, and famous DJs spinning beats. Plus, you’ll be treated to crystal clear waters while you enjoy the scene.
Facebook/Nissi Bay Beach Bar
PAG, CROATIA: For wet and wild pool parties through the day, head to Pag in Croatia. The hotspot for pool and beach parties is also budget-friendly, making it the perfect place to party guilt-free.
PARIS, FRANCE: Artists like Daft Punk helped pave the way for French house music, which still floods the streets of Paris today. Head to places like Rex Club, La Locomotive, Social Club, and Le Rouge to party to French house beats late into the night.
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REYKJAVIK, ICELAND: Reykjavik's nightlife scene ranges from '80s music and trance to goth and punk tunes. The city has the tradition of "runtur", where you cruise from bar to bar throughout the night, and it also hosts the Secret Solstice Festival, where you can party to top musicians under three days of continuous sunshine.
Facebook/Secret Solstice Festival
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL: Besides hosting Brazil's largest Carnival celebration, Rio de Janeiro is also home to live music venues and a bustling underground music scene. Check out huge music festivals like Rock in Rio or enjoy the extravagant floats and costumes you'll see during the Sambadrome parade.
Flickr/Leandro Neumann Ciuffo
SAINT TROPEZ, FRANCE: A popular destination for wealthy travelers, Saint Tropez is home to parties that often take place on private yachts and beaches, or at bars that overlook the Mediterranean Sea.
Facebook/Nikki Beach Saint Tropez
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL: Unofficially dubbed "the city that never sleeps" for its vibrant nightlife scene, Tel Aviv hosts bustling beach parties and a huge club scene where you'll find around-the-clock partying.
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TOKYO, JAPAN: In Tokyo, you can start the night off with karaoke before heading to the city's futuristic-style clubs. The whirlwind of neon lights, packed clubs, late-night spots, and scandalous fetish shows have made this city one of the wildest party destinations.
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WHISTLER, CANADA: Whistler may be known for its amazing skiing and snowboarding terrain, but it also has some epic après-ski parties. Hit the slopes before sipping cocktails in posh lounges and going clubbing with international DJs.
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Securitisation vol rebounds 7% till Q3 after 20% fall in H1
PTI Last Updated: January 11, 2018 | 19:12 IST
Mumbai, Jan 11 (PTI)A sign that GST blues are abating, securitisation of non-priority sector loans jumped 7 per cent in the first three quarters of the current fiscal at Rs 59,000 crore, boosted by a full 120 per cent surge in transactions in the December quarter.
This strong growth was driven by demand for non-priority sector lending assets and low-base effect of the third quarter of last fiscal, which was affected by the note-ban, says a report by Crisil.
This is significant as the volume had shrunk 20 per cent in the first half of this fiscal year due to the uncertainty over the applicability of goods and services tax (GST) on securitisation transactions but sprung up once clarity emerged in the third quarter, noted the report.
"A jump in non-PSL loans bolstered the overall securitisation volume by 7 per cent at Rs 59,000 crore. This was possible as there was a massive 120 per cent surge in the third quarter," Crisil said in the report.
During the reporting period, Q3 especially saw demand for retail credit, demand from mutual funds, and yield hunt by corporate treasuries cranking up the demand for non-PSL assets. For large originators, non-PSL asset-backed pass-through certificates (PTCs) fetched 7.5-8 per cent coupons or 100-150 basis points more than for PSL asset-backed instruments, while for smaller originators, PTC yields are upwards of 10 per cent.
"Consequently, non-PSL transactions now contribute to around 45 per cent of the overall market volume, way above the historical 25 per cent and mortgage receivables (home loans of higher ticket sizes do not qualify as PSL) remained the preferred non-PSL asset class," the report said.
The agency estimates mortgage receivables account for 70 per cent of the overall non-PSL volume. Receivables from car and two-wheeler loans, consumer and commercial vehicle loans also drew interest from public sector banks, mutual funds and corporate treasuries.
"The dynamics of the securitisation market are changing and demand for non-PSL assets will be the driver of growth going forward. This is healthy, and we expect the momentum to continue in the fourth quarter. With participation by MFs and corporate treasuries rising, newer asset classes and multi-tranche structures are growing," said the report.
PSL securitisation, which traditionally accounted for around 75 per cent of volume, shrunk to 55 per cent due to increasing preference for priority sector lending certificates, which grew to Rs 1.26 trillion in the first nine months from Rs 49,500 crore for the whole of FY17. PTI BEN DSK DSK
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Otsuka Encourages Start-Ups to Spark the Next Generation of Innovation and Collaboration in Mental Health Care
February 28, 2018 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In celebration of the vibrant startup community in Austin, TX, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. (Otsuka) brought together innovators and startups in a live Pitch Event to spark the next generation of innovation in mental health care. Held at Elevate by Psych Congress, a gathering of up-and-coming leaders in mental health care, the event featured some of the most groundbreaking technologies in the mental health marketplace.
Six entrepreneurs presented compelling pitches about their investment-ready companies and technologies to an audience of health care experts, providers, and investors. Not only did the pitches showcase the latest thinking in digital and patient engagement approaches, U.S. Psych Congress awarded the winner $5,000 to support the ongoing development of their technology platform.
“At Otsuka, we are proud of our commitment to developing innovative solutions. At the heart of this work is addressing mental health disorders and supporting patients and caregivers,” said Andrew Wright, vice president of Digital Medicine for Otsuka. “We are thrilled to support this Pitch Event and Elevate by Psych Congress. By convening some of the best entrepreneurs in technology and mental health, and giving them an opportunity to engage directly with the leading experts in the field, we can spark new conversations and road-test new ideas.”
The pitch companies showcased technologies that address unmet needs in the mental health community. These included technologies that impact medication adherence, solutions that address mental health literacy and the need for understanding side effects and medication regimes, innovations that address early detection and the promotion of wellness and services that have bridged the gap in education and self-advocacy.
The winner of the 2018 Pitch Event at Elevate by Psych Congress was NeuroFlow, a Philadelphia-based and veteran-founded creator of technology to supports individuals with mental illness. Through the capture of real-time and secure patient-generated data, including biometrics, questionnaires and journaling, NeuroFlow’s technology platform supports patients with their treatments via monitoring, positive reinforcement, and targeted guidance. By helping to improve treatment retention and protocol adherence, NeuroFlow promotes better health outcomes for patients and business growth for providers. They are fully launching their platform the first week of March after a successful beta phase with over two-dozen clinics around the country that specialize in CBT, mindfulness and exposure therapies.
“The support of Otsuka and Psych Congress is exciting to everyone at NeuroFlow,” said Christopher Molaro, CEO, and Co-Founder of NeuroFlow. “The fact Psych Congress attendees chose NeuroFlow is validation to the value of our technology and to our belief that technology can play an important role in understanding and supporting those with mental illness and thank Otsuka for their support in that journey.”
About Otsuka
Otsuka is a global healthcare company with the corporate philosophy: “Otsuka-people creating new products for better health worldwide.” Otsuka researches, develops, manufactures and markets innovative products, with a focus on pharmaceutical products for the treatment of diseases and nutraceutical products for the maintenance of everyday health.
In pharmaceuticals, Otsuka is a leader in the challenging area of mental health and also has research programs on several under-addressed diseases including tuberculosis, a significant global public health issue. These commitments illustrate how Otsuka is a “big venture” company at heart, applying a youthful spirit of creativity in everything it does.
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. is an indirect subsidiary of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The Otsuka group of companies employed 45,000 people worldwide and had consolidated sales of approximately US $11 billion in 2016.
All Otsuka stories start by taking the road less traveled. Learn more at https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en.
About NeuroFlow
NeuroFlow helps mental health patients feel better faster. We offer secure, real-time technology that optimizes mental wellness and performance through effective monitoring, positive reinforcement, and targeted guidance.
We enhance and accelerate engagement by demonstrating tangible progress through patient-generated data including biometrics, questionnaires, and journaling. By improving retention and protocol adherence, we promote better health outcomes for patients and business growth for providers. Learn more at http://www.neuroflowsolution.com.
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Melanie Deck
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008 | Building A Value Based Business And Achieving True Happiness, With Maura Sweeney
How to follow your dreams and make them come true
Maura Sweeney and Manuj Aggarwal discuss the most damaging mistakes that every entrepreneur or professional should avoid and help them understand how to follow their dreams and make them come true.
Learn how to figure your mistakes and how to keep it from derailing you!
The mistake that needlessly creates a lot of mental stress and anxiety for entrepreneurs or professionals and how to banish it from your life forever.
How to find something that interests you, something that resonates your inner self.
Specific tools entrepreneurs or professionals are most likely to overpay for with building a value-based business and achieving true happiness
A critical mistake every new entrepreneur or professional rushes into and needs to slow down a little bit (before they run off a cliff).
A specific fear that holds most entrepreneurs or professionals back and how to quickly get over it.
The #1 thing most entrepreneurs or professionals refuse to face and just bury their head in the sand, try to ignore, and hope it just goes away.
About Maura Sweeney
Education - B.A. Boston College (magna cum laude) in Political Science and Spanish Literature. Worked for the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). Attended Seton Hall University School of Law - left halfway through the program because she couldn't stand the idea of a future in law! Since then, she has educated herself in a variety of subjects that she is most passionate about!
Experience - 2+ years as an Operations Manager at a high end, national, boutique Executive Search Agency.Nearly a decade at two national corporations where she was a decorated manager in the telecom industry. Home Schooling Mom. Co-Owner in a computer rep firm with her husband. A former publisher of children's books and now author, podcaster, frequent media guest and international speaker.
Accomplishment - Chairman's Award for Branch Manager of the Year at a national corporation. Successfully launching and developing a new branch for a national corporation in a "mature" and fixed market. Successful track record of developing and promoting staff, developing leading managers at corporate. Created herself as an internationally recognized "Ambassador of Happiness" at age 50!
Link to Maura’s Website: http://maura4u.com/
Link to Maura's Books: https://www.amazon.com/Maura-Sweeney/e/B00A07TYK0
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The Beach Blog
Byron Bay Introduction
Byron Bay Accommodation
Map of Hinterland
Map of Beaches
Map of Byron Bay
Best Australian Beaches
World Beaches
Ocean Scenes
Byron Bay Market
Local Towns and Villages
Byron Bay Hinterland
Byron Bay Beaches are...Spectacular!!
You will discover that Byron Bay Beaches are some of the most beautiful in the world with white sand that stretches for miles.
The sand is very fine and powder-like and among the best in the world.
Best of all, if you head out of town, most of the beaches are deserted..
© Cape Byron from Brunswick
© Tallow Beach
How would you like a beach all to yourself ?
Given the number of Byron Bay beaches, that is very likely.
The reason there are so many is mainly due to the Rocky outcrop of Cape Byron Headland.
© Cape Byron from Belongil
Australian beaches are mostly ocean beaches. One of the disadvantages with this is when there is an on-shore wind blowing it can make going to the beach very unpleasant indeed. So even though it may be a beautiful sunny day, if there is a strong on-shore wind it's normally best to give the beach a miss. We rarely have that problem with Byron Bay beaches.
There is always somewhere sheltered to stretch out and catch some rays.
So if there is a strong northerly
blowing making Main Beach seem
more like the Sahara
desert on a bad day
© Belongil Beach
We just
head on round to
Cosy Corner where
we're as snug
as a bug on a rug.
© Cosy Corner
Or if it's a strong southerly
or Easterly - it's a safe bet
that the Pass is the
place to head
© The Pass
Belongil Beach is the closest dog friendly beach to the centre of town.
Discover all of Byrons Dog Friendly Beaches
Get to know all the Byron Bay beaches so you'll always know where to head.
List of Byron Bay Beaches with a brief description
For a more detailed look at some of the more popular beaches, as well as pictures of the best Byron Bay Beaches - click on their names.
Lies directly in front of the town of Byron Bay, and continues southward (actually eastward) to Clarkes Beach. The Surf Club overlooks Main Beach and is patrolled by Surf Lifesavers in summer. From here you can snorkel out to the Tassie II, a wreck off the coast.
Clarkes Beach
Lies between Main Beach and The Pass, where the bay starts to curve around. Clarkes Beach faces north and so is idyllic most of the year, except for when the northerlies blow when it's best to head round to Cosy Corner. An extra surf-lifesaving team patrols Clarks beach in summer. It's normally a large flat area of sand, so is good for ball games and families.
The Pass
The Pass lies a the far end of Main and Clarkes Beach and is a gap between Fisherman's Lookout and the headland. It is one of the most popular surf breaks on the north coast.Dive boats and sometimes kayaks launch from here though, so care must be taken. Fisherman's Lookout is a wooden platform which you can climb for a view around to Wategos and watch the skill of the surfers below. Popular with parents taking children to frolic in the shallows and don't forget about the café up in the trees and there are a couple of barbecues up under the trees near the showers.
Belongil Beach
Starting at Byron Bay north - the rock wall and car park next to the Beach hotel and Byron Bay Swimming pool - and running up to Belongil Creek and beyond, Belongil is dog-friendly from the car park up to Manfred Street. Belongil Creek is home a colony of rare Little Terns, and it's important not to disturb them in any way. The wreck of the SS Wollongbar lies just north of the rock wall at and it is a great place for snorkelling when the sea is calm. Parts of Belongil beach further up toward the Creek are 'clothes optional'. It's a 1 km walk along the Beach from the Beach Hotel to Belongil, with it's holiday houses, cafes and accommodation
The Wreck
The wreck of the SS Wollongbar has created a surf break just off Belongil Beach near the rock wall and Main Beach car park at the end of Jonson Street. You can normally see part of the wreck sticking up out of the water.
Wategos Beach
Just over a small headland from Clarkes, and sometimes accessible by the beach depending on the tides, Watego's is a sheltered north-facing beach very popular all the year round. There are free electric barbecues and picnic tables overlooking the beach. Long rolling northerly swells make Watego's Beach ideal for malibus and longboards. On Sunday mornings you’ll often see the Byron Longboarding Club in the picnic area. Whales and dolphins often pass close off shore.Access is via Lighthouse Road and turn left into Brooke Drive.
Little Wategos Beach
At the end of the Cape, Little Watego's is a tiny stretch of beach that sometimes almost disappears. It is a great rock fishing spot. Inaccessible by car (you have to walk over the path from Watego's or down from the lighthouse. Little Watego's is overlooked by the lighthouse and if you’re lucky you’ll be there when the conditions are perfect for a secluded swim and sunbake at Australia’s most easterly beach.
Tucked under the south side of Cape Byron, Cosy Corner is a great sheltered spot when the northerlies are blowing. Now protected by the Arakwal National Park, the beach is accessible further down Tallow Beach Road, where you pay a National Parks fee of $6 to park your car. Beware of the surf here, as you get strong rips. From here you can see the hang-gliders circling the lighthouse and you may even have some coming in to land quietly beside you on the sand.
Tallow Beach
Runs south from Cosy Corner all the way down to Broken Head. It’s great for long, uninterrupted walks, beach fishing. spotting birds, beach and surfing – though swimmers should take care as it can be dangerous. Watching the full moon rise from anywhere on Tallow Beach is pretty special.The surf here is choppy and erratic, so beware. Tallow Beach is accessible by walking south from Cosy Corner, or from several small car parks off Alcorn Street in Suffolk Park, and is dog-friendly for several kilometres. Access through Suffolk Park, via Clifford Street, off Broken Head Road just south of Byron Bay.
Broken Head
At the southernmost end of Tallow Beach, Broken Head is another good surf spot. There are walking tracks up around the rocky headland where you can sit and watch the birds roosting or look out for whales.
Byron Bay Beaches South of Broken Head
Is just south of the Headland and is a beautiful beach surrounded by shady Pandanus and National Park, it's a popular gay hangout and often clothing optional beach.
Brays Beach and Whites Beach are beautiful little beaches, set amongst the rocky headlands south of Broken Head and Kings Beach. If you want even more secluded 'clothing optional' swimming and sunbathing, head this way and be prepared for some bush scrambling to get there. Bring some food and water and if you get there early, you might even get yourself a cave for the day.
Beaches near Byron Bay
As well as the Byron Bay Beaches, we've included some north of the town.
Tyagarah Beach
Access is via Grays Lane, just north of Byron Bay, turn off the Pacific Highway for airfield and drive through the National Park, Tyagarah is a remote beach, parts of which are designated 'clothes optional'. It's mostly a gravel road in to the beach, and if you see a number of cars parked in an area along the road, you've most likely stumbled upon the Tyagarah Tea Tree Lakes, where you can swim in the very clean, tea stained black freshwater, very refreshing after being in the ocean. It's clothes optional here too.
Cabarita is north of Byron Bay, and is situated on the coast road. It is a small township with a long ocean beach. Norries Headland makes for a long right hand point break. Great fishing from the beach, or in the estuary formed by Lake Cudgen. This area is very popular for parents with young children as the water is around 1m deep and excellent for boating, canoeing and fishing.
New Brighton, South Golden Beach and Ocean Shores
Located in the north of the shire. These beaches can be reached by road off the Pacific Highway. Turn off the highway for north Ocean Shores and Ocean Shores.
20km north of Byron Bay, on the mouth of the Brunswick River, Brunswick has both ocean beaches and river activities. There is a small sheltered beach near the groyne which is great for small children. When the tide's out the river becomes a popular sandy playground. The ocean beach south of the groyne is a dog-friendly beach and is patrolled by Surf Lifesavers in summer. Fishing off the groyne is popular too.
© Clarkes Beach at sunset with the mountains in the distance
This page has included all the Byron Bay Beaches, but as well as all these stunning Byron Bay Beaches, there are many more both north and south of Byron Bay, such as the beaches of Lennox Head and all the beaches further south down to Ballina, where you get stunning ocean and river beaches.
Have a look under the pages written for these towns for more info on the extent of Byron Bay Beaches.
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Last year, Davis threw six no-hitters, and cracked seven home runs. This year she added another no-hitter to her resume and has an earned-run average below 0.5.
She is one of the most dominating pitchers in the state and carries a .446 batting average, hitting two home runs and driven in 20.
And she is only a sophomore.
"As a coach, Lexi is the kind of person you want to have," said Pirates head coach Lael Rorie. "She is a great player and does anything that I ask of her."
"I try to push her to make her better, but she is a great person to have on my team and I think anyone would want to coach her. She sets a great example, too."
Davis started playing softball at age 8, and by the time she was 12 she knew she wanted to be a pitcher. At 13, Davis was competing on 18-and-under leagues and doing well.
"Before I go out there I get pumped up, turn on my music and get into a zone," said Davis. "My mindset changes and I try to be as fierce as I can be."
"I love being one of the team leaders. All of us have grown up together and I know they have my back."
Her teammates help make the plays behind her, but it is Davis who dominates her opponents on offense and defense.
Davis spends most of her practice time working on pitching mechanics but also finds time to take swings at the plate.
"Hitting, to me, is relaxing. It is fun to be at the plate, just me against the pitcher," Davis said. "Hitting is something that I love to do, but pitching is different. I love taking the mound, and get so locked in to what I am doing nothing else seems to matter."
Davis was so focused during her first no-hitter last season that she was unaware of the feat until after the game.
"It is not something I think about during a game. It is so hard, and there are so many things that a batter can do to get a hit that I don't worry about it. It is much more important to me to win the game than not give up any hits," Davis said.
With only the one loss - 9-8 to Ardrey Kell, which the Pirates led 6-0 at one point - Davis and Porter Ridge have been drawing a lot of attention.
For her part, Davis said she is thrilled with the awards and accolades and is happy people notice the work she and her teammates put in.
"All athletes should take it to heart that people are always watching what you do and how you do it," she said.
"People notice who you hang out with, how you treat people and whether you keep your grades up. I try to be as kind as I can to everybody and figure if people see me doing it the right way."
Rorie said she knows Davis is a special talent, and looks forward to finishing this year and the next two as her coach.
"She is a great leader, a hard worker and a great teammate," Rorie said. "Lexi is a great kid, she gets good grades, works hard and stays our of trouble. Her stats on the field speak for themselves, and off the field she leads by examples."
For now, Davis says she is content to lead the Pirates for the next two years and help win as many games as possible.
"Knowing people are watching and paying attention to what I am doing and what we are doing is a great feeling," Davis said.
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"Public art" by Charlotte painter Sharon Dowell is now on display at Gallery@LOOM located downtown at 120 Academy Street. LOOM will hold an art reception for Dowell’s exhibit 7 - 9 p.m. on August 11. Dowell will be there to discuss her work. Children’s art activities will take place next door.
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Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/choosing-chicagos-next-schools-ceo-michael-milkie-greg-richmond/)
Choosing Chicago’s next schools CEO: Michael Milkie, Greg Richmond
By Catalyst Chicago | March 25, 2011
Catalyst Chicago is asking readers to submit names of candidates they believe would be a good pick to run the Chicago Public Schools. In the coming weeks, we’ll post short profiles of these candidates, and others who might be in the running. We’re inviting other readers to share their views in our “Comments” section below.
Michael Milkie, superintendent and CEO of Noble Street Charter Network
Experience: Michael Milkie taught math for eight years at Wells High School in Chicago. In 1999, he opened the first Noble Street Charter School High School. As superintendent and CEO of Noble Street Charter School Network, Milkie currently oversees 10 high schools and next year will open a middle school.
Why he’s a good choice: Noble Street officials boast their high schools that have been around long enough to have juniors are among the top ten open-enrollment schools in the city (they exclude selective enrollment, military high schools and most magnet schools, which have a similar admission process as charters). The charter’s students must abide by a strict discipline code that forbids tardiness, requires uniforms and imposes fines for misbehavior. Some observers, and parents, believe this tough approach is needed in high schools. The reader who nominated Milkie wrote “He started, grew and ran the best HS system in Chicago in Noble network schools. We need that sort of leadership for all Chicago schools.”
Milkie also knows how to raise money. Each year he brings in millions in private donations. One of his schools is named after the Bulls franchise and another after one of Chicago’s most prominent and wealthy families, the Pritzkers. Both the Bulls and two of the Pritzker Foundations gave substantial grants to Noble Street last year. Noble Street also received a $10 million federal grant to aid in expansion.
Why Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel might select him—or not: Milkie would immediately sound the alarm among critics who contend that his high schools are successful because their strict discipline serves to push students out, as well as those who are generally skeptical of charter schools, including the teachers union. Milkie would also have to make the leap from running a $30 million network of 10 schools to a $5 billion school system with 600- plus schools.
Milkie is a member of Emanuel’s transition team, and as a candidate, Emanuel visited a Noble Street campus. If Emanuel chose him, it could signal a desire to focus efforts on fix the district’s long-failing neighborhood high schools.
Greg Richmond, President and CEO, National Association of Charter School Authorizers
Experience: Greg Richmond spent a decade in Chicago Public Schools, where he was responsible for establishing charter schools; prior to that, he was a committee staffer in the Illinois State Senate. Under former CEO Paul Vallas, Richmond sent out requests for proposals to community organizations and educators to start charter schools and he created a loan fund for charter schools to access. He worked with former CEO Arne Duncan to launch Chicago’s Renaissance 2010 initiative. In 2005, he became president and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, an organization for which he served as a founding board member. The association is a membership organization that strengthens the professional practices of the agencies that oversee charter schools.
Why he’s a good choice: Richmond is a friend of charter schools, but he also believes in holding them to strict standards. He is seen as an advocate of charter school accountability and quality and thus has been critical of states and districts that provide lax oversight. Richmond also has worked on legislative issues in Springfield and community issues when he worked for CPS.
Why Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel might select him—or not: The person who recommended Richmond notes that he would probably be seen as too tied to charter schools. Indeed, people might worry that Chicago is about to turn into New Orleans, where charter schools outnumber traditional schools. But Emanuel supports charter schools, and Richmond is nationally recognized for being a strong diplomatic voice on charter school issues. He also knows CPS.
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Terry Mazany, interim CEO Chicago Public Schools
Robert Runcie, Chief Area Officer
Timothy Knowles, University of Chicago, Urban Education Institute
John White, New York City Schools Deputy Chancellor
Jose Torres, Elgin School Superintendent
Jo Anderson, Jr. , senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
Andres Alonso, CEO, Baltimore City Schools
Yvonne Brandon,superintendent, Richmond, Va., public schools
Donald Feinstein,executive director, Academy for Urban School Leadership
Diane Ravitch, education historian and author
Michelle Rhee, former chancellor, Washington, D.C. Public Schools
Peter Gorman, superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Barbara Eason-Watkins, former CPS chief education officer
Who is your pick? Take our survey.
Mayor moves Ruiz from School Board to Park Board
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pulling Chicago School Board Vice President Jesse Ruiz from the School Board. Ruiz is the only Latino on the seven-member body, even though nearly half of CPS students are Latinos.
Superintendents elsewhere caught up in SUPES
Dozens of superintendents and other high-level district officials from across the country consulted for SUPES in the crooked deal that got former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett in trouble. And in some cases — from St. Louis and Huntsville, Ala., to Baltimore and Prince George’s counties in Maryland — those officials work at districts that have also had SUPES contracts.
With CEO pick, Rahm goes back to the Daley way
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s first two picks to lead CPS were educators from outside Chicago. Now he’s turning to a trusted ally and respected “Mr. Fix-It” with no experience in education.
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New approach to FOI enforcement begins to bite
The Scottish Information Commissioner, responsible for issuing decisions on Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, is increasingly using additional powers to take tough action against failures by public authorities.
The Commissioner’s Annual Report, published today, reveals that the Commissioner used the power to issue Enforcement Notices for the first time last year, issuing six Enforcement Notices against public authorities during 2016/17.
Enforcement Notices compel authorities to take steps to comply with FOI law. They are a strong power for the Commissioner, and are used as a last resort only when working with the authority and taking other enforcement steps have not worked.
The Commissioner also recorded 320 “interventions” against public authorities. “Interventions” are action taken by the Commissioner’s staff to address issues in public authorities’ FOI practice. Though most of the Commissioner’s interventions addressed one-off or minor issues, 15 concerned serious, consistent and ongoing failures to comply with FOI law and guidance.
Acting Commissioner, Margaret Keyse, said:
“We monitor authorities’ FOI practice and take steps to improve that practice where it’s not good enough.
The Commissioner has always issued decisions on appeals brought by requesters who are unhappy with how their information request has been handled. We continue to do that. What’s new is the more proactive work we’re doing on interventions, and our first ever use of the power to issue Enforcement Notices.
Our first action is always to alert authorities to any concerns and to offer advice. Most will quickly resolve any issues. But where authorities don’t, or can’t, respond, we have to intervene, using the Commissioner’s strong enforcement powers, because it is our responsibility to protect the public’s legal right to information.”
The 2016/17 Annual Report also shows that:
Public awareness of the right to ask for information remains at its highest ever level, 85%.
Public authorities reported receiving 74,213 information requests across the year.
The Commissioner received 425 appeals in 2016/17 from people who were unhappy with how a public authority had handled their request for information.
The Commissioner’s full Annual Report and Accounts for 2016/17 can be read at: www.itspublicknowledge.info/AnnualReports
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Classy Clio in control
‘You’ll be fine. Just relax, nothing will go wrong. I’m here anyway.” John, my instructor, was coaxing me to just let go and take a jump into the unknown – well, sort of.
Actually, he was trying to get me to do something almost against my instincts. I have driven a different new car nearly every week for the past 36 years. They have come in all shapes and sizes and in recent years, the technology has leapt ahead.
On the road to a possible autonomous driving future, more and more systems have been invented to both enhance safety and take away some of the drudgery of driving, particularly the daily commute or long motorway journeys.
Of course these developments came first to the premium cars such as Volvo, Mercedes, Audi and BMW and when as motoring correspondents we first encountered them and could sit back as our cars kept to the lane by itself, stayed a certain distance from the car in front and automatically slowed down, stopped and then took off again without us touching a pedal, we were usually surrounded by a lot of high-end metal.
Ten days ago in Portugal it was very different and that was making me nervous. We were testing these systems in a pretty small car – the latest version of the Renault Clio – and there was little between us and the road.
But it worked, and, although for the first minute the very French John had to remind me not to use the brake or throttle, he soon calmed me.
Very quickly I was happy for the little automatic Clio to take the lead from the car in front and the road markings so that steering, braking and accelerating were happening without my involvement. Yet, if I needed to take back control – and you are prompted to keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times – it was there in a millisecond.
The advantages for the safety and reduction in stress for the regular commuter were obvious. And it is claimed that the system called the Highway & Traffic Jam Companion (HTJC) is unique to the versatile city car segment.
The all-new Clio also includes a 360° camera and active emergency braking to cope with the detection of cyclists and pedestrians, which are both firsts in the Renault range.
The group says that as part of its objective to make autonomous technologies broadly affordable, it will market 15 vehicles equipped with such technologies by the end of its ‘Drive the Future’ strategic plan. New Clio is the first vehicle to do so.
The all-new Clio – which from the outside, despite being lower and a bit more aggressive, looks remarkably like the last model – is the fifth generation of the automotive icon having sold some 15 million units since it was launched in 1990 and has become Groupe Renault’s best-selling model worldwide.
It is France’s favourite car and has been top of the B segment in Europe since 2013. Clio sales have increased each year between 2012 and 2018.
If the outside seems much the same, the interior of the new Clio is a massive improvement on the last generation and was exceedingly comfortable for some quite long test drives, even though the two of us on board shared height and bulk. He had the former, I had the latter.
The 9.3″ infotainment and navigation screen which dominates the console was very tasty. There’s good storage and luggage space.
It probably still doesn’t have the driving brio of the Ford Fiesta but it’s coming close. There is definitely a much better feeling of class about the whole enterprise and puts it up to the VW Polo and the Hyundais.
Much to the ire of Paddy Magee, the normally jovial Renault boss in Ireland, prices are a bit up in the air at the moment because of the Government not yet being decided on the new tax system on emissions, which are being changed as a result of better testing regimes.
French sources told me that the HTJC system is likely to cost an extra €1,600 or so as it has to be mated to the automatic gearbox.
We are not good in this country at paying extra for safety equipment but I think this one is worthwhile if you do a lot of driving, especially motorway commuting.
The main engines in the new Clio will be some peppy petrol units, the 100bhp, a very powerful 1.3 number with an automatic box, impressed a lot and I liked it – but my co-driver didn’t. There is also a mild-hybrid coming with a 1.6 engine.
The new Clio comes in October in good time for 201 plates. It definitely will be more expensive than the present €17,500, and with good options like the HTJC system, automatic box and more powerful engines, will put the Clio very quickly into the early €20k and more.
There is a lot of competition in that area. I am not the biggest fan of Renault by any means, however I have always had a soft spot for the Clio as the descendant of a much-loved Renault 4 which I owned many decades ago before it fell apart from rust. Even further back was the Renault Dauphine, which I crashed into a holly tree aged 10 and on my father’s knee.
Of course, Clio became infamous for those Nicole ads but can be forgiven for that bit of Gallic “charm”.
It is good that Renault has a five-year warranty, which should be the industry standard.
In the UK, they are reckoning that the new Clio entry price will be £14,500. In a normal year, about 2,000 would be sold here but there is so much uncertainty out there, together with all the climate change stuff and the increase in small crossovers/SUVs, that figure could be over optimistic.
Paddy Magee was speculating that, if all the poor portents combined, the market could shrink by 60pc next year – which would be disastrous for the Government’s tax take, as well as putting many people out of business. Customers and sellers need certainty.
I was really pleased that I did the HTJC test. Anything to challenge the senses is good and it’s rewarding that such technologies have not just trickled down but have advanced in a torrent.
Well done, Renault.
€16,650 - €21,550
An accomplished, fun and affordable little car. The super-mini of choice for keen drivers.
The Ibiza is a great all round supermini. Visually appealing, practical, well equipped and all at an affordable price.
High on style and quality. The i20 is a genuine competitor for the VW Polo and Ford Fiesta.
The Citroën C3 brings an exceptional amount of colour and fun to the small car market at a fraction of the price of premium rivals
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Donald Trump's New Years Resolution: Stop being a misogynistic, narcissistic, a******e with the morals of a skunk on ketamine and the IQ of a carpet....Lose a few pounds.
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"A request from Canada, Mister President. . . they want to know when you're gonna get started on their wall!"
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Polish PM on Manchester Attack: ‘Europe, Rise from Your Knees or You’ll Be Crying over Your Children Every Day’
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The prime minister of Poland has launched a blistering attack on the “political elites” of Europe in the wake of the Manchester terror attack, warning the continent must put in place “strong politicians” willing to tackle the threat or risk “crying over your children”.
Pozwoliłam sobie dodać angielskie napisy do przemówienia pani premier @BeataSzydlo. Bardzo proszę o RT! pic.twitter.com/1RJlP2FmzW
— Olga (@olgalengyel) May 24, 2017
Speaking in the Polish Parliament on Wednesday, Beata Szydło seized the moment to launch an excoriating attack on European Union leaders following the Manchester attack which, among others, claimed the lives of a Polish couple, leaving their two daughters as orphans.
“We are not going to take part in the madness of the Brussels elite,” she railed. “We want to help people, not the political elites.
“Where are you headed Europe?” she demanded. “Rise from your knees and from your lethargy or you will be crying over your children every day.
“If you can’t see this – if you can’t see that terrorism currently has the potential to hurt every country in Europe, and you think that Poland should not defend itself, you are going hand in hand with those who point this weapon against Europe, against all of us.
“It needs to be said clearly and directly: This is an attack on Europe, on our culture, on our traditions.”
Addressing the people of Europe, she asked: “Do we want politicians who claim we have to get used to the attacks, and who describe terrorist attacks as incidents, or do we want strong politicians who can see the danger and can fight against it efficiently?”
Szydło’s Government is currently locked in a battle with Brussels over Commission plans for every member state who is signed up to the Common European Asylum System to take in a quota of migrants from Greece and Italy as a solidarity measure.
The previous Polish Government agreed in 2015 to take in 4,500-5,000 migrants, the commitment increased by the EU to 6,200, but Szydło’s administration reversed that decision upon taking power and has promised instead to give aid to people in refugee camps in the Middle East.
Brussels has responded by issuing threats of sanctions if no migrants are taken by June. The same threat has been made to Hungary, which also has yet to take any migrants in under the quota system.
Although the Commission has not made clear what sanctions would be applied, politicians in other member states have called for Poland and Hungary to have their EU funding withheld until they participate in the programme.
But Poland’s Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak is defiant, insisting that taking the migrants would be “much worse” than any sanctions the EU could lay down.
“We mustn’t forget the terror attacks that have taken place in Western Europe, and how — in the bigger EU countries — these are unfortunately now a fact of life,” he said earlier this month.
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Howseman Agriculture, Lincolnshire
With 30 years’ experience in irrigated potato and vegetable production, Andrew’s business supplies and installs drip/trickle irrigation services for these enterprises.
The contracting business comes after he identified a requirement from growers to initially hire equipment for a season to reduce costs and avoid a capital investment of several thousands of pounds to set up the service, without the specialist knowledge required.
The business, which has seen major growth in the last few years, now supplies equipment and carries out the whole installation and commissioning of the systems and the team works closely with growers throughout the whole season through to harvest, removal and storage for the following year.
Andrew is now responsible for about 283 hectares (700 acres) of potato cropping in Lincolnshire and works closely with his customers to help them understand costings and benefits and offers a comprehensive planning system alongside the practical delivery.
The target market for drip irrigation is primarily potato growers with any other root vegetable crop a close second. Demand for irrigation on potatoes is heavy for both quality and yield in and around Lincolnshire and with a better awareness and understanding of water wastage from growers, the cost of water and fears over irrigation restrictions and new licensing rules – there is a large market area to target.
Andrew keeps a close eye on labour-saving techniques and, with a hands-on knowledge, he and his team are constantly evolving systems of work and updating and manufacturing better equipment to support operations.
This along with experience and attention to details are core to the business growth, says Andrew.
Retaining customers is vital and Andrew will undertake his own quality digs at harvest to prove to customers he is interested and concerned their results are also mutually important. As testament to his service, a good percentage of new work comes from recommendations.
The judges said about Andrew: Andrew as incredibly enthusiastic about the product and the services he provides. He offers the complete package, from growing to harvest and has identified and developed an idea to offer a greater range, with further opportunities ahead. Andrew always strives to excel his service with customers and as a result has a strong, loyal base of farmers who he works collaboratively at every given stage.
On winning, Andrew said: “This is fantastic. Innovation in agriculture is only set to grow and we hope there is more to come from us in the future. It has been a brilliant night.”
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January Real Bride | Marissa | Married October 7th 2017
High School sweethearts, a proposal on the beach, and a fairytale wedding… sounds divine! Read about how this came to be Marissa and Jared’s love story.
Marissa and Jared met as teenagers at the home of a mutual friend, Karissa. The couple spent their first date at an annual community event, Palmer Days. “…classic hangout before we went back to school. That’s where we held hands for the first time and had our first kiss. Swoon!”
Fast forward to 2018, Marissa and Jared are happily married and Karissa served as the Maid of Honor in the wedding! After 15 years of friendship, and being responsible for bringing the bride and groom together, I’d say the honor sounds well deserved!
After 12 years of devotion Jared popped the question in an incredibly romantic way. I'll let Marissa tell the story:
“Complete shock and surprise, absolute ugly crying, and the best day of my life! We had just spent 9+ hours, in the car, en route from Pennsylvania to the Outer Banks, North Carolina. Needless to say, I looked a mess in yoga pants, a sweatshirt and pony tail. However, that’s just how Jared wanted it to be. The real me. We were supposed to go for a walk on the beach because it was my first trip to OBX. I couldn’t have been more impatient and kept asking Jared to take me on a walk. Finally, it was time for that walk. I filled up our cups with a drink to take with us. We headed out the back door and the rest almost feels like a blur. We walked from the pool deck, down the wooden walkway to the sand dune. We got to the top of the sand dune and I’m asking which way to walk. Jared was there before so I wanted him to decide the way we went. Next thing I know he’s saying my name...I turn around and he’s on one knee. Instant water works and ugly crying!!! Jared asked me to marry him and I said of course yes! I remember being in complete shock but the happiest girl in the world at the same time! BEST. DAY. EVER.”
Finding the Gown
Marissa was introduced to Christina’s as a bridesmaid in 2016. When it was her turn to find her dream gown, she knew exactly where she wanted to go!
For her big day, Marissa chose an ivory strapless gown with a fit and flare “mermaid” silhouette. The dress features a fully beaded bodice, belted at the waist, with a voluminous tulle skirt and cathedral length train. She decided on a single layer veil with a scalloped beaded trim to mirror the beading detail on the gown. To compliment, she wears matching scalloped crystal headpiece, necklace, and bracelet. Finally, she completes her look with a sentimental accessory; an heirloom ring.
“I could not have made a more perfect decision when I said YES to the most beautiful Essense of Australia dress at Christina's Bridal! I knew from the moment I put it on, this was MY dress, as it fit perfectly. On our wedding day I received so many compliments about the beading on the bodice, glimmering belt, and princess-worthy train”
“I wore a ring of my grandmothers that was converted from a tie tack into a beautiful ring.”
On Saturday October 7th, 2017, Marissa and Jared gathered with friends and family for an outdoor ceremony at the Riverview Country Club in Easton, PA.
When it came time to exchange I Dos, Marissa couldn’t help but get a little weak in the knees. “The nerves and emotions kicked in hard! He was standing at the alter looking so handsome and all I wanted to do was melt.” Vows were exchanged through tears of joy and our love birds were officially wed!
After the ceremony photographer, Lauren Fletcher, whisked the couple away for a photo interlude with the wedding party, to capture the treasured memories of their special day.
"I've always admired Lauren's work and knew from the start that I wanted her as our photographer."
Jared, was tasked with choosing the colors for the event, which would set the tone for the day. He chose a gorgeous deep forest green as the foundation of a beautiful fall color palette. Shades of gold and cream were chosen as accents to complete the romantic feel the couple was looking for.
Of all the memories made, among Marissa’s favorite moments were the first dances. She and Jared shared theirs to Heaven by Jason Aldean. She recalls all the first dances as being “Filled with emotion and tears of pure joy.”
After dancing the night away, celebrating their love, Marissa and Jared took off on their honeymoon to Aruba for a little rest and relaxation. The two already can’t wait to go back!
“It was everything I dreamed of and more.”
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Kennel Block Blues #1
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Posted By Tom Bevis on Feb 9, 2016
Kennel Block Blues, the Weirdest Prison Drama You Didn’t Know You Wanted
The cover for Kennel BlockBlues #1, February 2016.
Okay, imagine The Shawshank Redemption, except instead of the titular prison, it’s Jackson animal shelter. You with me so far? Alright. And instead of Andy Defresne as played by Tim Robbins, we follow a scrappy Boston terrier named Oliver, and instead of being locked up in the slammer after being convicted of murdering his philandering wife, he’s locked up after he accidentally escapes his home and loving family. Are you on board so far? Good, because that’s the basic premise of Kennel Block Blues, the newest offering from the folks over at Boom! Studios. Kennel Block Blues is a weird mix-em-up mashing together Shawshank Redemption with 101 Dalmatians with a little Bugs Bunny added in for good measure. It’s a batshit insane combo that probably ought to not work, except it somehow — almost inexplicably — does. For the most part, anyway.
Just to give you a quick primer: the story opens as Oliver arrives at Jackson, in the process making friends with a burly pitbul named Cosmo. Oliver seems to be coping well enough in his new digs, with the one exception that he bursts into song every time he’s nervous, a habit he says he picked up from watching Saturday morning cartoons with his family. In short time, Oliver is tossed in the middle of a pending feud with The Cats, the gang that controls the inside, and his roommate, a tough-as-nails chihuahua named Sugar. I can’t believe how ridiculous this sounds when I write it out like this, but trust me, once you get your wheels moving, it’s a lot less obtuse.
A variant cover for Kennel BlockBlues #1, February 2016.
The first few pages are a little rough around the edges; the book doesn’t really pick up until halfway through, but once you finish it, you’ll be glad you had. The artwork, bleeding in and out of the bright-hued pastel tints of common cartoons and the rugged dirtiness of contemporary comics, is immediately satisfying. The juxtaposition set between the two is at times startling but always a small wonder to look at. The true pleasure in this established duality, though, is the character designs and how they compare and contrast from each presentation. While Oliver mainly stays the same, in the course of one panel the characters will shift from rabid-eyed canine monsters brandishing shivs to pot-bellied cartoon mutts in overalls waving paintbrushes, depending on whether Oliver his hiding behind his song to shield him from his rough new reality. Artist Daniel Bayliss doesn’t have this concept fully fleshed out, nor does he have its application down to a science, but it is one of the most interesting works-in-progress I’ve seen lately from similar comics.
While the initial strangeness of the premise is enough to get anyone to walk through the door, it’s the intrigue of the plot that’ll keep people in the room. The animal and pet puns scattered throughout the first issue are so blatant and uninteresting that they’re groan-inducing, but once you move past them, you’ll be able to have a lot of fun with the story as it unfolds. The characters all immediately stand out, recognizable against a typical prison motif but made interesting by the choices taken to cast them as animals. Writer Ryan Ferrier (his name, itself, just one consonant away from an animal pun) takes great care to ensure that his characters are accurately represented by the pets they are portrayed as. The weakest part of the comic, by far — the part where the reader’s eyes will wander and get bored — are Oliver’s song. The song escapes all musical rhyme and reason. There’s no immediate cadence to sing along and most of the time, the damn thing doesn’t even rhyme. If you keep your eyes trained on the artistic shifts throughout these bouts, though, you should be okay.
Author: Tom Bevis
Tom Bevis is a ne'er-do-well residing in Southern California where he frequently neglects the variable San Diego climate to spend hours pondering over his PS4 collection struggling to decide what to play. He has recently taken over as lead writer of the indie comic Feral Boy and Gilgamesh, the back catalog of which you can read at feralboyandgilgamesh.com. He also hates writing about himself in the third person.
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The British Journal of Psychiatry
Effective treatment of perinata...
Effective treatment of perinatal depression for women in debt and lacking financial empowerment in a low-income country
Study area, participants and sampling
Data ascertainment
Psychiatric disorder and depression severity
Others potential moderators of treatment effect
Depression at follow-up
Multivariate analysis
ANCOVAR analyses for the moderators, debt and empowerment
Changes in debt and empowerment
Debt, financial empowerment and outcome of the intervention
Main findings
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British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 201, Issue 6
December 2012 , pp. 451-457
Atif Rahman (a1), Siham Sikander (a2), Abid Malik (a3), Ikhlaque Ahmed (a2), Barbara Tomenson (a4) and Francis Creed (a4)
Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Human Development Research Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan
Human Development Research Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan, and School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
School of Community Based Medicine, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Copyright: © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2012
Royal College of Psychiatrists, This paper accords with the Wellcome Trust Open Access policy and is governed by the licence available athttp://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Wellcome%20Trust%20licence.pdf
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.112.109207
FIG. 1 Flow diagram of cluster randomised controlled trial.
FIG. 2 Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression Score at baseline, 6 months and at follow-up for intervention and control groups, split by debt v. no debt.
FIG. 3 Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score at baseline, 6 months and at follow-up for intervention and control groups, split by women empowered v. not empowered.
Poverty may moderate the effect of treatment of depression in low-income countries.
To assess poverty and lack of empowerment as moderators of a cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)-based intervention for perinatal depression in rural Pakistan.
Using secondary analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial (trial registration: ISRCTN65316374) we identified predictors of depression at 1-year follow-up and moderators of the intervention (n=791).
Predictors of follow-up depression included household debt, the participant not being empowered to manage household finance and the interaction terms for these variables with the trial arm. Effect sizes for women with and without household debt were 0.80 and 0.55 respectively. The effect size for women in debt and not empowered financially was 0.94 compared with 0.50 for women with neither of these factors.
Our findings demonstrate the importance of household debt and lack of financial empowerment of women as important maintaining factors of depression in low-income countries and our locally developed intervention tackled these problems successfully.
In low- and middle-income countries, perinatal depression is a major public health problem, affecting up to a quarter of all pregnant women in rural Pakistan. 1–3 In addition to its effects on the mother's well-being, perinatal depression is associated with adverse outcomes of pregnancy 4 and adverse effects on the infant including delayed growth 5 and poor health and development. 6 Relevant effective interventions are being developed 1,7 but their effectiveness in low- and middle-income countries may be limited by factors that maintain persistent depression, such as poverty, lack of social support and women's lack of financial independence from their husbands. 8,9
Poverty and mental ill health interact in a negative cycle and this is relevant to postnatal depression in low- and middle-income countries. 8,10 Poverty alleviation interventions do not appear to improve mental health but mental health interventions may be associated with improved economic outcomes, although more high-quality research is needed. 11 The identification of moderators can specify for whom, or under what conditions, the treatment works, to guide the design of future randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and to advance our understanding of the nature of clinical disorders. To date the moderators of treatment of postnatal depression have been studied little. 12 In particular, it is not known whether psychological interventions can reduce depression in women who are very poor and financially dependent on their husbands, or whether these factors limit the effectiveness of the intervention. 9
In a recent RCT (trial registration: ISRCTN65316374) we tested an intervention, ‘The Thinking Healthy Programme’, which was based on culturally adapted cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) principles but also involved the husband and family in supporting the woman with depression during therapy. 1 The intervention was delivered by local community health workers; these workers were women who were influential and resourceful, and could help the women with depression and their families to mobilise community resources to overcome psychosocial difficulties through problem-solving. 13 Qualitative evaluations demonstrated that the problem-solving approach in the hands of these resourceful women was useful in addressing some of the socioeconomic risk factors at a practical level, for example, assisting women in obtaining small loans from government microcredit schemes. Through an agenda of effective child-rearing, the intervention also gently challenged gender stereotype and encouraged fathers to play an active role in supporting the mother in child care and interaction. The trial was effective in treating depression (effect size 0.66) but had additional benefits on maternal support, family relationships and infants’ health. 1 These benefits are compatible with the underlying theory of our approach, which regards the child as the centre of the intervention with the mother and father working together with the ‘lady health worker’ (LHW) to achieve child health. The present study was aimed at identifying the moderators of treatment outcome, on the basis that if a treatment has its effects by influencing a particular process this finding establishes the importance of the process in maintaining the disorder and may lead to further refinements of the intervention in a future trial. Specifically, we wished to determine whether poverty, debt or any of the other social variables associated with persistent depression (lack of financial empowerment, lack of social support) moderated the effect of treatment. We wished also to assess whether the intervention reduced the proportion of women with household debt and increased the proportion who were financially empowered.
This study used data from a cluster, randomised, community-based trial of a psychological intervention for perinatal depression in two rural subdistricts (Gujar Khan and Kallar Syedan) of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, between 2004 and 2007. The details of the methods and the main results of this trial have been reported elsewhere. 1 In a cluster randomised trial (Fig. 1), 40 union councils (an administrative unit consisting of 5–10 villages and a population of about 20 000) were randomised into an equal number of treatment and control clusters. A total of 3898 women in their third trimester of pregnancy were identified by obtaining official lists from 250 government-employed LHWs, who routinely collect data on new pregnancies. All married women aged 17–40 years in their third trimester of pregnancy, who had depression, were considered for inclusion in the study (Fig. 1). Women with a diagnosed medical condition, pregnancy-related illness, significant physical or intellectual disability, postpartum or other form of psychosis and severe depression were excluded. We obtained informed verbal and written consent from the participants. Ethical approval for the study was granted by committees of the University of Manchester, UK, and the Institute of Psychiatry, Rawalpindi.
Assessments were carried out at all time points by two trained and experienced clinicians (A.M. and S.S.) using a structured clinical instrument for DSM-IV diagnosis of major depressive episode (SCID) 14 and the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) 15 to assess severity. The former was used to assess the inclusion criteria for the study and whether depressive disorder was still present at follow-up. 1 The HRSD was used to assess the severity of depression at these times. Both of these semi-structured interviews have been used repeatedly in cross-cultural, epidemiological and treatment studies of pre- and postnatal depression. All interviews were carried out in Urdu after translation, back-translation and cultural adaptation of the interview schedule using an established procedure. 16 Interrater reliability was established prior to the study when both interviewers independently assessed 20 women (10 had clinical depression) and agreed on the diagnosis of 9 (κ = 0.90). The interviewers were masked to the allocation status of the union councils and, therefore, the arm of the trial to which each of the women had been randomised. This masking was maintained because the interviewers had no contact with the team that did the randomisation, and throughout the duration of the study they had no contact with the LHWs or any other health personnel in the study area. Mothers were asked not to tell the interviewers anything about their meetings with the LHWs. The HRSD has a maximum score of 57; the mean baseline score in this sample was 14.6 (s.d. = 14.1).
Social support. This was measured with the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), 17 a brief instrument that addresses subjective assessment of social support. The scale consists of 12 items; each is scored on a seven-point scale. Four questions each ask about the source of social support: family, friends, significant other. Thus, for the family support scale the scores range from 4 to 28, with higher scores indicating greater support; the mean score in this sample was 16.3 (s.d. = 6.8). The MSPSS has been locally validated and shown to have satisfactory internal reliability, factorial validity, and test and retest reliability. 18 In addition, we assessed whether intense social support from family members for 40 days after the birth (chilla) was satisfactory.
Sociodemographic variables. Age, education, employment, family structure and composition were assessed at baseline by the same interviewers using a specially designed Personal Information Questionnaire. Education was categorised into no formal education, 1–6 years, 7–10 years and 11 or more years of formal education. Family structure was categorised into nuclear family (parents and children only) or extended family (three generations living in the same home).
Mothers’ nutritional status. Maternal body mass index (BMI) was measured as an indicator of nutritional status.
Socioeconomic status. Our study used several sources of information to determine the socioeconomic status of our participants because of the difficulty of measuring this variable in south Asia. 19 At baseline we asked LHWs, who lived in the same locality and had intimate knowledge of the families participating in our study, to rate the household on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (least poor) to 5 (poorest). Participants were asked whether their family was in debt and this was verified by asking the LHW, who was generally aware of the nature of the loan, for example, to buy a tractor or to purchase healthcare for a family member. This assessment was repeated at 1-year follow-up. We also asked the participants about the family's monthly income at baseline only.
Financial empowerment. Maternal financial empowerment within the household was measured at baseline by asking the women whether they were given a lump-sum amount of money for day-to-day household expenses, and whether they could take independent decisions about its use. Mothers who answered ‘yes’ to both questions were classified as financially empowered within the household. Called ‘kharcha’, this is a culturally valid concept indicating a degree of empowerment within the household even if the women were not earning. This assessment was repeated at 6 months after baseline.
All analyses were carried out with SPSS for Windows, version 16. The first analysis (data not shown) included all the participants in the trial for whom complete data were available at 1-year follow-up (n = 791). These initial univariable analyses were performed to identify baseline variables associated with HRSD scores at follow-up and used t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) or correlation as appropriate. We then performed multiple regression analyses with follow-up HRSD score as the dependent variable. The independent variables were: baseline HRSD, arm of trial (intervention or control), the participant's age, BMI, duration of formal education, family structure (nuclear or joint), socioeconomic status rated by the LHW, empowerment (whether the woman was empowered to manage household finances or not), and debt (yes/no).
In further regression analyses we entered in turn each of the following interaction terms: arm × age, arm × BMI, arm × debt (at baseline) and arm × empowerment (at baseline) to identify which of these interaction terms were significant predictors of follow-up HRSD score.
We used two-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVAR) to test for the effects of treatment arm, being in debt or not, and the interaction term arm × debt on the follow-up HRSD score. We adjusted for baseline HRSD, mother's age, BMI, years of education, family structure, and socioeconomic status rated by the LHW. This analysis was repeated for financial empowerment instead of debt.
We performed further analyses to examine how debt and financial empowerment fit into the more established risk factors for depression in this population (poverty, having numerous children, an uneducated husband and lack of a confidant or friend).
In order to examine the predictors of empowerment and freedom from debt at follow-up we performed logistic regression analysis with each of these variables as the dependent variable. The following variables were included as independent variables in model 1, which included only baseline variables: mother's age, BMI, duration of formal education, arm of trial, HRSD score, family support (MSPSS family score), financial empowerment and debt. In model 2 of the analysis with debt at 12 months follow-up as the dependent variable, the following measures made at 6 months were included: HRSD score, family support (MSPSS family score), reported relationship with husband and financial empowerment. For the analysis with financial empowerment at follow-up as the dependent variable, being in debt at 6 months was included instead of financial empowerment as an independent variable.
The recruitment to the trial has been described in detail elsewhere. 1 Out of 3898 women in the last trimester of pregnancy, 3518 consented to baseline screening with the SCID and 903 eligible women had a DSM-IV major depressive episode and consented to join the trial. These women received the intervention or enhanced routine care according to the union council in which they lived and they were followed up for 1 year postnatally. This study is concerned with 791 women who completed the 1-year follow-up with complete data; details of the sample are shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1 Description of the sample: sociodemographic data
(n = 791)
Age, years: mean (s.d.) 26.8 (4.9)
Trial arm, n (%)
Intervention arm 407 (51.5)
Control arm 384 (48.5)
Financially empowered, n (%) 415 (2.5)
Family size, n (%)
Prima gravida 136 (17.2)
One child only 173 (21.9)
Two or more children 482 (60.9)
Education, n (%)
No formal education 325 (41.1)
1–6 years 242 (30.6)
7–10 years 199 (25.2)
>11 years 25 (3.2)
Extended family structure, n (%) 461 (58.3)
SES rated by lady health worker
Poorest 172 (21.7)
Poor 233 (29.5)
Intermediate 308 (38.9)
Relatively well-off 78 (9.9)
In debt, n (%) 441 (55.8)
SES, socioeconomic status.
All women were married and living with their husbands; only 2.6% were employed outside the home. Just over half (52.5%) were empowered to manage household finances. The mean family monthly income for the four socioeconomic groups shown in Table 1, were 4690 rupees (s.d. = 8272), 2421 (s.d. = 4651), 1506 (s.d. = 2747) and 985 (s.d. = 2096) for the relatively well-off, intermediate, poor and poorest categories respectively. These approximate to US$470, 242, 150 and 98 per month. Just over half (55%) of participants stated that their family were in debt and the proportions were: 9.9%, 38.9%, 29.5% and 21.7% for the relatively well-off, intermediate, poor and poorest categories respectively.
At follow-up, 111/407 (27.3%) participants in the intervention arm remained depressed compared with 226/384 (58.9%) of those in the control arm. 1 Mean follow-up HRSD scores, adjusted for baseline values, were 5.4 (95% CI 4.7–6.1) in the intervention arm and 10.8 (95% CI 10.1–11.5) in the control arm (P<0.001, effect size 0.72).
Mean follow-up HRSD scores, adjusted for baseline values, were 8.9 (95% CI 8.2–9.6) and 6.9 (95% CI 6.1–7.7) for women with and without household debt respectively (P<0.001). Corresponding results for women not financially empowered and empowered were 9.4 (95% CI 8.6–10.2) and 6.7 (95% CI 6.0–7.4) (P<0.001).
In multiple regression with follow-up HRSD score as the dependent variable, and adjusting for treatment arm, the following baseline variables predicted a high follow-up score: high baseline HRSD score, low BMI, older age, woman not empowered financially, and presence of household debt (Table 2). The MSPSS score (indicating low support) was omitted from these analyses as it was so highly correlated with financial empowerment (MSPSS score for empowered women 51.3 (95% CI 49.9–52.8) and not empowered 38.8 (95% CI 37.3–40.3)).
TABLE 2 Multiple regression analysis with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score at follow-up as dependent variable (n = 791) including arm × debt interaction term as an independent variable in model 2
s.e.
Baseline Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score 0.296 0.061 <0.001 0.297 0.061 <0.001
Arm of trial –5.33 0.493 <0.001 –5.193 0.495 <0.001
Financially empowered –2.519 0.503 <0.001 –2.482 0.501 <0.001
Body mass index –0.155 0.062 0.012 –0.168 0.062 0.007
Age 0.164 0.054 0.002 0.164 0.054 0.002
Years education –0.116 0.295 0.69 –0.173 0.295 0.56
Extended family structure –0.658 0.534 0.22 –0.629 0.532 0.24
Low socioeconomic status rated by lady health worker 0.400 0.244 0.10 0.375 0.243 0.12
In debt 1.610 0.526 0.002 1.647 0.525 0.002
Arm × debt –0.592 0.248 0.017
The addition to the multiple regression analysis of possible moderator variables showed that the interaction terms arm × age (P = 0.52) and arm × BMI (P = 0.34) and arm × socioeconomic status (P = 0.54) were not significant predictors. However, the interaction terms for debt and mother empowered financially were significant (P = 0.017 and P = 0.045 respectively).
Figure 2 shows that the reduction of HRSD score was very similar in the intervention arm for those women with and without household debt at baseline (mean adjusted HRSD scores at follow-up 5.8 (95% CI 4.9–6.7) and 5.1 (95% CI 4.1–6.2) respectively). For the control arm, however, the women without household debt had a lower mean adjusted HRSD scores at follow-up (9.0, 95% CI 7.9–10.0) than those with household debt (12.1, 95% CI 11.2–13.1). The effect sizes for the intervention for women with and without household debt were 0.80 and 0.55 respectively.
Figure 3 shows that the reduction of HRSD score was similar in the intervention arm for those women who were and were not financially empowered at baseline (mean adjusted HRSD scores at follow-up 4.68 (95% CI 3.7–5.6) and 6.35 (95% CI 5.4–7.3) respectively). For the control arm the women who were financially empowered had a lower mean follow-up HRSD score (mean 9.0, 95% CI 8.0–9.9) than those who were not empowered (mean 12.67, 95% CI 11.64–13.7). The effect sizes for women not empowered and empowered were 0.81 and 0.61 respectively.
For 235 women who were both in debt at baseline and not empowered financially, the follow-up HRSD score, adjusted for baseline value, was 13.6 (SEM = 0.68) in the control group and 6.9 (SEM = 0.64) in the intervention arm. The effect size was 0.936. For 347 women with either household debt or not financially empowered (not both) the effect size was 0.808. For 209 women empowered and not in debt the effect size was 0.50.
Of the 441 women who were in debt at baseline, a significantly higher proportion in the intervention group –79/233 (33.9%) –were no longer in debt at follow-up compared with 49/208 (23.6%) of the control group (P = 0.017). Of the 387 women who reported not being financially empowered at baseline, 40.3% (81/201) in the intervention group and 29.0% (54/186) in the control group reported being financially empowered at 6 months (P = 0.020).
Inclusion of these change scores in the multiple regression made no difference to the statistical significance of the arm of the trial indicating that changes in debt or empowerment did not mediate the effect of the intervention (Table 3).
TABLE 3 Multiple regression analysis with Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score at follow-up as dependent variable (n =791) including change in debt and change in financial empowerment as independent variables
Baseline Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score 0.296 0.061 <0.001
Arm of trial –4.915 0.497 <0.001
Financially empowered –0.416 0.631 0.510
Body mass index –0.116 0.062 0.064
Age 0.159 0.054 0.003
Years of education –0.049 0.066 0.456
Extended family structure –0.766 0.530 0.149
Low socioeconomic status rated by lady health worker 0.279 0.243 0.251
In debt –0.945 0.943 0.316
Change in debt 0.583 0.182 0.001
Change in empowerment –0.875 0.183 <0.001
In addition to the variables shown in Table 2 as predictors of higher depression score at follow-up (older age, being in debt, not being empowered financially and high BMI), MSPSS score indicating low family support and unsatisfactory chilla (intense social support from family members for 40 days after the birth) were additional predictors. Number of young children, a husband with very little formal education, socioeconomic status assessed by the LHW and social support from outside of the family were not predictors of depression score at follow-up when included in this multiple regression analysis.
In logistic regression analyses adjusting for age, years of education, BMI, depression score and family support (model 1 in Table 4) the intervention arm of the trial was associated directly with a reduced likelihood of being in debt at follow-up (B = 0.73, 95% CI 0.53–0.99). The arm of the trial was also associated with an increased likelihood of the woman being financially empowered (B = 1.93, 95% CI 1.40–2.66) (model 1 in Table 5). Neither of these results could be explained by baseline depression severity, support from family or duration of education (model 1 in Tables 4 and 5).
When 6-month follow-up assessments were added to the logistic regression (model 2) it is clear that debt at follow-up was associated with baseline debt, few years of education, BMI, HRSD score at 6 months and mother not financially empowered at 6 months (Table 4).
TABLE 4 Logistic regression analysis with debt at 12 months follow-up as dependent variable (n = 784) a
Arm of trial –0.314 0.159 0.049 –0.019 0.173 0.912
Baseline Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score –0.009 0.020 0.630 –0.032 0.021 0.123
Years of education –0.054 0.021 0.009 –0.048 0.021 0.023
Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, family baseline –0.002 0.013 0.876 0.008 0.014 0.535
Financially empowered –0.154 0.175 0.380 0.102 0.192 0.596
In debt 1.616 0.163 <0.001 1.593 0.167 <0.001
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score at 6 months 0.050 0.015 0.001
Financially empowered at 6 months –0.494 0.192 0.010
Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, family at 6 months –0.016 0.017 0.337
Relationship with husband 0.009 0.091 0.920
a. Model 1 includes baseline variables only. Model 2 includes variables also measured at 6 months.
Corresponding analysis for financial empowerment at follow-up (model 2 in Table 5) showed that this was associated with financial empowerment at baseline, low 6-month HRSD score, high family support scores at 6 months and good relationship with husband. Physical violence from the husband was associated with a lack of empowerment at follow-up but this did not add significantly to the model when the relationship with the husband was included. The same applied to the relationship with the mother-in-law (details available from the authors on request). We conclude from these analyses that the intervention had a greater direct effect on empowerment than on debt reduction. Furthermore, the beneficial effect of the intervention on empowerment and debt reduction were part of a range of improvements, which also included depression reduction and increased social support.
The main new finding of this study indicates that our intervention, based on CBT principles but involving the family and using LHWs as ‘agents of change’, was effective even for women who reported being in debt and/or not empowered financially. The latter two variables were moderators of treatment and the effect sizes show that improvement in depression was greater for those women who reported household debt and/or not being financially empowered. Second, the intervention was associated with a reduction of households in debt and an increase in women reporting that they were financially empowered but neither of these factors mediated the effect of the intervention on depression.
TABLE 5 Logistic regression analysis with mother financially empowered at follow-up as dependent variable (n = 784) a
Arm of trial 0.657 0.165 <0.001 0.207 0.185 0.263
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score at 6 months –0.061 0.015 <0.001
In debt at 6 months –0.333 0.196 0.090
Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, family at 6 months 0.081 0.017 <0.001
a. Model 1 includes baseline variables only and Model 2 includes variables also measured at 6 months.
Before considering the results further it is necessary to recognise the strengths and limitations of the study. The results come from data collected in a large RCT, which was based on a population-based sample of women with clinical depression during the last trimester of pregnancy. The intervention and control groups were similar on a wide range of sociodemographic characteristics and the intervention was effective in reducing depression. 1 The findings of the current study must be regarded as exploratory, however, as we did not have an a priori hypothesis with regard to moderators, 20,21 although our study was based on the predictors of persistent depression arising from our previous study in a similar sample. 8 In our analysis we did us a specific test of the interaction between baseline factors and interventions. 21 We did not, however, have any test of reliability and validity for our measures of debt and empowerment. Our assessment instruments have been validated in this population. 22
It has been suggested that identification of moderators should be undertaken whenever possible as this can specify for whom, or under what conditions, the treatment works, to guide the design of future RCTs and to advance our understanding of the nature of clinical disorders. 20,23 Kraemer et al stated that ‘if a treatment has its effects by influencing a particular process this finding establishes the importance of the process in maintaining the disorder’. 20 Our finding that reducing household debt and increasing the financial empowerment of women are associated with improved depression demonstrates the importance of these factors in maintaining depression. Moreover, we found that these factors, together with low family support and unsatisfactory chilla, were more strongly associated with follow-up depression score than those in our previous study (number of young children, a husband with very little formal education, low socioeconomic status and general social support), emphasising the importance of identifying these crucial aspects of the women's environment (debt, empowerment, family support) when treating their depression. The data presented here focus on the moderating effect of household debt and financial empowerment, as the other variables we considered as possible mediators did not fulfilled the requirements of mediators. 20
The main findings are important as nearly all studies of depression in low-income countries find debt or poverty to be associated with depression so it has been suggested that depression and poverty can interact in a vicious circle. 24 More recently it has been observed in a qualitative study of women in India that women's financial empowerment and mental health are ‘inextricably linked’. 9 Our intervention appears to be a way of breaking the vicious circle of depression with debt or lack of empowerment. It is noteworthy that, although low socioeconomic status was associated with a high depression scores at follow-up, it was debt that was a moderator of outcome, hence debt may be more amenable to change than poverty. Although only having a few years of formal education predicted debt at follow-up, this was not so for empowerment, which is a strength of the approach taken by the LHWs in the intervention arm.
Our intervention, the ‘Thinking Healthy Programme’, was developed to provide a culturally appropriate, feasible and evidence-based psychological intervention for women living in very poor communities in rural Pakistan. It was delivered by ordinary female community health workers to overcome the lack of trained specialist therapists in low-income settings. We believe the community health workers were effective as therapists partly because they could readily engage with the local women, but also because they understood fully their social stressors. This meant they could use problem-solving effectively as part of the therapy to address these stressors.
The improvement in financial empowerment can be seen as a direct effect of the intervention, even though it was not a specific focus of the intervention. The intervention focused on the mother's care of herself, including her diet and appearance; it aimed to boost self-esteem. Another specific focus was the modification of family behaviour where it was important for child healthcare. This involved engaging the father as well as the mother. These aspects of the intervention might well have encouraged empowerment of the women, even though this was not a specific aim. Reduction of debt was rather less directly associated with the intervention. It probably arose as a result of the LHWs’ freedom to seek solutions to the problems faced by many families as part of a child-focused agenda. Thus, debt would have been highlighted as a major problem in approximately half of the families and this could have led to the LHW gently encouraging mothers and families to take small steps to better themselves financially. Future interventions for depression in women in low- and middle-income countries might usefully incorporate this element of problem-solving in addition to the cognitive and behavioural aspects of a CBT-like intervention.
The fact that the intervention was associated with the household coming out of debt is immensely important in a low-income setting such as rural Pakistan, where debt can have disastrous effects on a family. In this setting household debt may result from a catastrophic health problem in a family member 25 but the intervention was associated also with infants having fewer episodes of diarrhoeal illness and higher rates of immunisation so the benefits of our intervention go beyond improvement in the mothers’ mental health. An intervention targeting maternal mental health may have economic benefits for the household.
We strongly advocate the case for including mental health interventions, especially those targeting women and children, in programmes of poverty alleviation. Similarly, the use of local non-specialist workers to deliver therapies may be a very effective strategy to deliver psychological interventions in poor communities.
The study was funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK, through a career development fellowship in tropical medicine awarded to A.R. The fellowship was awarded through the Wellcome Trust Tropical Centre at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and hosted by the University of Manchester and the Institute of Psychiatry, Rawalpindi.
We would like to thank the Human Development Research Foundation, Islamabad, for logistic assistance; the Ministry of Health, Government of Punjab, for their permission to do this study; Fareed Minhas at Rawalpindi for his unflinching support and encouragement; and Zaeem Haq for assistance with the development of training materials and supervision of the lady health workers.
1 Rahman, A, Malik, A, Sikander, S, Roberts, C, Creed, F. Cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention by community health workers for mothers with depression and their infants in rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2008; 372: 902–9.
2 Patel, V, Rodrigues, M, DeSouza, N. Gender, poverty, and postnatal depression: a study of mothers in Goa, India. Am J Psychiatry 2002; 159: 43–7.
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4 Grote, NK, Bridge, JA, Gavin, AR, Melville, JL, Iyengar, S, Katon, WJ. A meta-analysis of depression during pregnancy and the risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, and intrauterine growth restriction. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2010; 67: 1012–24.
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Accusing Adam Schiff of 'Criminalizing Routine Reporting,' Groups Call for Stripping CIA-Backed Provision From Intelligence Legislation
"Schiff is clearly the resistance to the resistance, and he should drop this provision from his bill."
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Rep. Adam Schiff, (D-Calif.), walks up the House steps for the final vote of the week on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
A CIA-backed provision for a bill that could have dire effects on the freedom of the press is quietly making its way through Congress, despite the protestations of civil rights groups to Rep. Adam Schiff, the powerful California Democrat who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, to strip the rule.
"Adam Schiff is once again putting the interests of the intelligence agencies in concealing their misdeeds ahead of protecting the rights of ordinary Americans," said Daniel Schuman, policy director for Demand Progress, in a statement Thursday.
In the statement, Schuman also accused Schiff of "criminalizing routine reporting by the press on national security issues and undermining congressional oversight in his Intelligence Authorization bill."
Demand Progress was one of 30 groups that signed an open letter (pdf) on July 8 to congressional leaders of both parties calling for the provision to be stripped from the bill.
"This provision is an extremely broad expansion of felony criminal penalties, and delegates authority as to when those penalties apply to the executive branch," reads the letter. "It would be significantly damaging to transparency, oversight, and accountability, and should be removed from the Intelligence Authorization Act."
"Schiff's expansion of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act beyond all reason will effectively muzzle reporting on torture, mass surveillance, and other crimes against the American people—all at the request of the CIA."
—Daniel Schuman, Demand Progress
Section 305 of the Intelligence Authorization Act (pdf), which prohibits disclosure of the identity of agents currently in the field or who have been in the field in the last five years, would be tweaked under the new law to encompass the identities of a far larger number of agents, contractors, and sources—many of whom live and work domestically.
The effect of the law could be massive, Emily Manna, a policy analyst for Open the Government, told Yahoo News in an email.
"This language is almost unbelievably broad, drastically expanding felony criminal penalties for the disclosure of [many categories] of information about the intelligence agencies, even if those disclosures might be in the best interest of the government and the country," wrote Manna. "There would likely be a significant chilling effect on journalists and government whistleblowers."
Supporters of the law's expansion cite WikiLeaks, the online clearinghouse for secure information, as the reason for needing further protections. It's an argument that's likely to have an effect on Schiff, who has spent much of the past two years railing against the site for its perceived involvement in the election of President Donald Trump.
Schiff, one of the favorite guests of MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show," has cultivated an image of a hero to the so-called liberal "resistance" to Trump since 2017, something that Demand Progress' Schuman took aim at in his statement.
"Schiff's expansion of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act beyond all reason will effectively muzzle reporting on torture, mass surveillance, and other crimes against the American people—all at the request of the CIA," said Schuman. "Schiff is clearly the resistance to the resistance, and he should drop this provision from his bill."
As The New York Times reported, the law's expansion "also comes at a time when defense lawyers at the military commissions system at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are trying to identify eyewitnesses from the CIA black sites whom they could potentially call to testify about their clients’ treatment, including in the case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other detainees accused of aiding the Sept. 11 attacks."
Using the law to protect those and other CIA agents could act as deterrent to an accountable intelligence service, Katherine Hawkins, an investigator for the Project on Government Oversight, told Yahoo News.
"There's ongoing efforts to prevent CIA evidence from entering courts," said Hawkins. "I do think it would be used as justification for why CIA officers can't be prosecuted. I think that would have a bad effect on accountability."
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HBO Planning Adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"
ByChristopher Rosen
HBO is just about to launch the much-anticipated Game of Thrones series based on the George R.R. Martin series of the same name, but it doesn't appear that the network is finished dipping its toes in the fantasy waters. They'll team up with Tom Hanks' Playtone production company and author Neil Gaiman to bring American Gods to the small screen.
Gaiman will work with Robert Richardson, who you may know as the famous cinematographer on such films as JFK, Shutter Island and Inglourious Basterds. The pair will co-write the script for Gods, which will follow closely to Gaiman's source book about two warring factions of, well, gods.
[via Deadline]
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Blog Money MattersGuides How the ECB Announcement Affects Exchange Rates
GuidesMoney Matters
How the ECB Announcement Affects Exchange Rates
by CurrencyFair January 22, 2015 October 5, 2018
Written by CurrencyFair January 22, 2015 October 5, 2018
How the ECB January Announcement Affects Currency Exchange Rates
Today the European Central Bank (ECB) announced €60bn/month of quantitative easing until September 2016. This amounts to over €1 trillion.
What Does Quantitative Easing Mean for International Currencies?
The ECB President, Mario Draghi said that the decision was taken to counter two unfavourable factors – weak inflation and weak growth. The BBC confirmed, “Earlier this month, figures showed the eurozone was suffering deflation, creating the danger that growth would stall as businesses and consumers shut their wallets, as they waited for prices to fall.”
How Quantitative Easing Works
Not All Economists Like Quantitative Easing
As Roger Bootle of Capital Economics told BBC’s World Service Business Report, “I am not the greatest fan of quantitative easing – I don’t think it’s going to cure the European malaise. The point is, there is not much else in the locker.” Whilst there was initial movement on the euro when the announcement was made, it remained relatively stable. There was certainly no currency tsunami as some pundits predicted. In fact, several commentators predicted international currency volatility based on the ECB’s actions. Indeed, Hans-Werner Sinn (President of Germany’s Ifo Institute for Economic Research) told CNBC: “There was so much capital flight in anticipation of the QE to Switzerland, that the Swiss Central Bank was unable to stem the tide, and there will be more effects of that sort.” (For more information, see: What Happened To The Swiss Franc (CHF)?) The ECB’s actions could have major implications for other currencies. The Financial Times even suggested the actions were likely to stoke global currency wars: “Switzerland highlights the futility of currency wars. Others will counter the ECB’s moves. The BoJ is still struggling to convince investors it will achieve its inflation goal — and Japanese carmakers’ biggest exporting rivals are German. Bank of England hawks who wanted to raise interest rates are in retreat. Denmark and Canada have cut interest rates this week; India did last week.” Please note: CurrencyFair remains unaffected by the market movements, as all our customers’ funds are segregated and secure. You can find out more about how we ensure your peace of mind here.
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Burning Coal Theatre's Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue Makes War Tragically Beautiful
Raleigh -- ( Thu., Jan. 10, 2013 - Sun., Jan. 20, 2013 )
Burning Coal Theatre Company: Elliott: A Soldier's Fugue
$10 -- Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School , 919/834-4001 , http://www.burningcoal.org/
By Andrea McKerlie Luke
January 11, 2013 - Raleigh, NC:
Opening weekend for Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Wait ‘Til You See This series production of Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue invited audiences to take a deep look into the life of a soldier. This play, a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2007 and the prequel to a 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner, was written by Quiara Alegría Hudes, who, as the New York Times claims, “combines a lyrical ear with a sophisticated sense of structure.” Elliot is a deeply moving look at war over the course of three generations, but without ever evoking specifics about the politics behind each war.
The story is very personal, delving into the lives of Elliot, his father, and his grandfather when they were soldiers. This production makes use of Burning Coal’s unique space to present the play in the round, with the audience seated in rows along each wall. The actors use the corners of the stage and are often very isolated from each other; in fact, they do not interact at all until at least thirty minutes into the show.
The cast of four was extremely effective, conveying a wide range of emotions that go along with the course of a soldier’s time at war. Elliot, played by Ramon Orlando Perez, transitions from an eager, arrogant boy who loved watching the Phillies and going out with his girlfriend, Stephanie, to a tortured man injured at war who yearns to hear some affirmation from his father. Perez captures this transition particularly well, well enough to cause audience discomfort to see how upset he becomes. Eric Morales, who plays “Pop,” also presented exceptional depth of character at this show; the fun-loving, vulgar man who has intimate relations with his nurse later becomes silent and withdrawn about his war experience.
Hudes’ music background plays into her writing of this play; the fugue mentioned in the title references a musical style exemplified by Johann Sebastian Bach. A fugue consists of one single subject which is then played by many different voices entering at different times, almost like a canon or round, but much more complex and calculated.
The fugue is referenced by “Grandpop,” played by Raúl Granados, who is a flute player that brings his flute along to war to help the soldiers cope with their situation. Granados brings lyricism as he explains how he remembers not the battles he fought, but what music he played there. Hudes has written him as a tender character with less of the anger found in Elliot and Pops, and Granados meets the challenge beautifully. Carly Prentis Jones, who plays Ginny, shines brightly during this production. Ginny is a passionate lover and wife, a loving nurse, and a supportive and sympathetic mother. She is the most omniscient of the characters, serving in many different roles that she is able to vary deftly.
The play itself is also a fugue: The main subject is, of course, Elliot, and his family all deliver lines that help convey his story, sometimes simultaneously, which causes an air of total chaos. However, different subjects break off and expand, so that, piece by piece, each character’s life is divulged. The sophisticated structure can be very difficult to understand in some of the more interwoven scenes, but the chaos that ensues adds to the meaning of the play itself. The contrast between single actors narrating their own scene and multiple characters invisibly contributing to other characters’ scenes is beautiful and expertly directed.
Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue is an emotional ride, capturing a large slice of the human experience, a journey from boy to man to soldier. Each character’s life echoes the last, one layering over the other, into a complex fugue that resonates throughout all audiences.
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Hercule Poirot with David Suchet
All of you Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie’s Belgian private detective) fans are more than likely already aware of David Suchet’s wonderful portrayal of the rather prim, always correct detective. For those of you very few people who have not yet experienced any of the Agatha Christie’s Poirot delightful shows, you will be glad to know that you have many hours of entertainment to look forward to.
The setting is London in the 1930s. The scenery is perfect. I love the outside shots of the London streets: the architectural detailing is exactly how I imagine it must have been back then. As a lover of art deco, I love seeing the “modern” furniture, the clothes, and cars.
The long running British series starred four regulars: David Suchet as Poirot, Hugh Fraser as Capt. Hastings (his not-so-astute side kick), Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp, and Poirot’s very capable, always correct secretary Miss Lemon was played by Pauline Moran. All of them “became” the characters they portrayed for this series. (I have since seen two of the actors in other projects, and was surprised to see one of them playing the evil villain!)
What a treat it is to watch these shows… from Poirot’s penguin-like walk to Poirot trimming his waxed moustache. The attention to detail really pays off for the viewer. Miss Lemon’s bobby pin curls, Capt. Hastings’ car fetish, and even Inspector Japp’s overcoat… the detailing is perfect. It’s all a treat to watch! And, the friendship between Inspector Japp and Poirot goes so much farther than the predictable rivalry that “modern day” shows depict.
This Poirot series is as cozy as you can find. I truly believe that Agatha Christie would have been very happy with this series… no gore, plenty of humor, great ambiance, quirky characters (Poirot being the quirkiest! – a model for today’s “Monk” character) and no need for “adult” situations. Poirot is able to solve all of the cases with the use of his “little gray cells” so that Inspector Japp is able to close the cases, and retain his dignity.
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Edie Dykeman says
I love David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. I think for most fans, he will be the ultimate model for Poirot. I recently read that he was continuing to make new shows. That’s definitely good news for us fans. I also like Hugh Frasier. Whoever cast the show did a great job in choosing these actors.
Yes, Edie, the casting is superb. Something I noticed in the last few Poirot shows, though…. Inspector Japp, Captain Hastings, and Miss Lemon are missing!
Where have Captain Hastings-Miss Lemon- Inspector Japp gone from the Poirot series? Are they paying David Suchet that much money they cannot put them in? I do not watch the new series now. It is rubbish without them.
I haven’t watched the latest Poirot shows in a while, but I remember when I watched them the last time, I was very disappointed that those three characters were no longer with the show. I really don’t know why they decided not to include the three of them… I think that they added so much character to the show. What a shame!
The books that they have been adapting for the latest movies do not include Inspector Japp, Captain Hastings or Miss Lemon. I am very fond of all three of them myself but I am glad that they are not changing the stories in order to fit them in anyway. They make enough changes as it is.
This is one of my favourite shows as were the books, I watch all repeats and never get tired of them
Does anyone know of a website that tells where the shows were filmed? I would love to find out the location of some of the buildings especially the one episode with the “Art Deco” style hotel.
I look forward to future shows.
Can you imagine a tour of those locations?
That would be great to know, Susan. I love those Art Deco buildings!
You can usually get a good idea by Googling the episode name, it’s quite amusing, so often the locations are in a totally different part of the country from where the story is set.
Since the other 3 characters have been left out, I have found a change in the sense that it just is no longer the same, its almost boring without them. Who’s great idea was that? Well it doesn’t much matter as I no longer watch Poirot, since those have been taken out. I think a lot of other people feel the same as I do. Still I suppose someone must not give a d–n about those who watch the series, as long as they get their way with the production.
I also very much miss the characters of Captain Hastings, Miss Lemon, and Chief Inspector Japp–and think it would be a mistake not to bring them back in the new series. David Suchet is a masterful Poirot, no question about it. However, without his trusted friends he is a rather odd, isolated figure–rather than a lovable eccentric. The secondary characters provide a social niche for Poirot (and for them) that renders the great detective more human and more endearing–much in the same way that Sherlock Holmes is more humanized by his relationships with Dr. Watson, Mrs. Hudson, and Inspector Lestrade. Please bring Poirot’s “family” back to the series–along with their London digs! That setting has become almost as recognizable as 221b Baker Street!
Hi Jill,
I have been a little “under the weather” the past two weeks, so haven’t done much more than post comments… I’m sorry that I didn’t respond to any of your VERY insightful comments about some of the TV and Movies entries that are posted on the site.
My husband actually pointed out to me that your comments covered a lot of things that I had talked about with him (actually, “to him” would probably be more accurate!) when we watched the shows together. He said that he would have thought I had written your comments, if he didn’t know better! (Great minds… and all that!!!)
You have a great point saying that Poirot appears more like a “lovable eccentric” with Hastings, Lemon, and Japp around… instead of a “rather odd, isolated figure.”
Denys says
I so dearly miss Captn. Hastings and Miss Lemon from recent episodes but looking around the website has produced no explanation.
However it is refreshing to find your site which has many comments with a similar affinity.
Lets hope we finally receive an explanation rather than be left only with our imagination.
Earlofthercs says
Pat already answered the question as to why Hastings, Japp and Miss Lemon are missing from the latest episodes:
The New Episodes are adapted from Poirot stories that didn’t feature those characters originally. (Although some of the earlier episodes were also adapted from stories where Hastings didn’t appear and he was added into the shows. He actually is in fewer than half of the Poirot stories/books. If I remember correctly!)
As to why Christie decided to change her Poirot formula as she went, (she actually changed settings and supporting characters often, though not as often as she did in her Miss Marple stories, where Marple was forever travelling) I can’t tell you.
I read somewhere that Christie got tired of her character (Poirot) but she had the similar public reaction that Sir Conan Doyle had when he tired of Sherlock Holmes. The public loved those characters, so the authors continued to write them into their mysteries.
edw L says
What kind of auto does Hastings drive?
At one point, a Lagonda.
Edw L,
I think Hastings drove a Lagonda…
Does anyone know the episode where Poirot after many years meets up with his long lost love who is now married to someone else and has a son? What is the name of the episode?
Chris, so sorry no one replied to your question. If you didn’t find your answer, Poirot meets the love of his life again in the story “The Chocolate Box” We also learn of Poirot’s early career and why he always has tiny flowers in his lapel.
Thanks so much, Betty.
I still watch Poirot but it is very inconsistent to just leave out 3 characters that have been in his life so long with no explanation-regardless of whether the latest filmed stories contained them or not!! Very bad idea on behalf of ITV.
Rob, Donna has the reason Hastings, Japp, and Lemon are left out of the television episodes of Poirot just below my comment… (Thanks, Donna!)
Hastings and Miss Lemon were dropped by Agatha Christie at some point, in the original stories and novels. If I remember correctly, Hastings got married and stopped assisting Poirot. He reappeared in the final Poirot novel, “Curtain”. Christie, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Holmes, got tired of her little Belgian detective, wrote Poirot’s last mystery, put it in a safe for years that turned into decades while she continued to write Poirot stories due to popular demand, and I believe “Curtain” was published just before Christie’s death. So the character she wanted to bump off lived nearly as long as she did! 🙂 The Miss Lemon character in the stories is very different from the TV character – she’s a very efficient secretarial machine with no emotion and no imagination. I suppose that didn’t translate well to the screen so the series writers reimagined her!
Thank you, Donna, for the explanation.
At one point, Ariadne Oliver (believed by many to be a pastiche of Agatha Christie herself) says she can’t imagine why she made her detective a Finn and a vegetarian to boot.
It still doesn’t explain why they can’t be added in. Many books are adapted to the screen and sometimes they have characters that weren’t even in the book, or they change the plot or the endings. The movies were so much better with the four characters; they ‘played off each other’ as it were. Now it’s like Poirot is a loner and doesn’t have any real friends. For those referencing Holmes, remember that he always had a friend in Watson. How good would those movies be without him?
I totally agree with you, JoAnne. Now that they are making Miss Marple episodes featuring her in Tommy and Tuppence mysteries, ETC, you would think we could get an Inspector Japp or Capt. Hastings thrown into Poirot’s episodes. You make a fantastic point about Hercule appearing to be a real loner in the new television episodes.
Just to update you, the LAST FOUR EVER Poirot films are on UK commercial TV at the moment, with ‘Curtain’ being shown last, this coming Wednesday. An era comes to an end. It seems to me that TV needs to seek out some new cozy detectives as the newer generation all seem too bleak. My vote would be for Mrs. Pargeter or the Fethering mysteries.
Joppy, I heard that David Suchet was retiring his Poirot after this last season. I’m looking forward to watching them when they finally arrive here. (Lucky you!)
Suchet has also written a book on his career as Poirot and gives insights on the making of the films, I intend to treat myself for Christmas.
Please let us know if it’s a good read, Joppy.
I, too, have loved both the books and David Suchet’s Poirot. If he had green eyes he would be absolutely perfect! Without reading any of the books, my husband commented on the feline quality in Suchet’s portrayal, and how many times did Christie compare Poirot to a cat with shining green eyes! The later works are much darker, and I have to admit I prefer the earlier works with his delightful sidekicks.
I totally agree that new characters for cozy mysteries are needed, and second the suggestion for Mrs. Pargeter. Another strong contender is another Simon Brett creation, the Feathering mysteries with Carole and Jude. Plus, how about Francis Pettigrew the very English lawyer by Cyril Hare?
Linda, you have some great ideas for Poirot replacements. (Cyril Haree’s Francis Pettigrew is one of my daughter’s very favorite sleuths.)
David Suchet is on twitter, too! I follow him and he posts some lovely comments. He seems like a very kind person, a true gentleman. I have mixed feelings about Curtain – having read the book and knowing how it ends (no spoilers), and also knowing that it’s the last of the Suchet episodes, I really want to see it but then again, I don’t!
I hear you, Donna!
I’ve just finished reading David Suchet’s book, “Poirot and Me”, and here are my thoughts. Suchet covers the approaches made to him initially, and his thoughts on taking the character on, how he ‘evolved’ the little man, with his list of 93 points of character, and how and why the series grew as it did, with the earlier inclusion of Hastings, Lemon and Japp in stories they didn’t originally appear, as well as explaining why they didn’t appear so regularly in later series.
He covers the films chronologically as they were made, always wondering if there would be a next series, giving little insights into the actors and writers involved as well as sometimes explaining why certain stories had changes made to plot or motive. We occassionally get comments on the various actors in previous Poirot incarnations.
Well worth the read, and I hope I have whetted your appetite without giving away spoilers.
The last series is over now, here in the UK, but I will warn fans that The Labours of Hercules has been drastically changed from the set of stories.
Joppy, thanks for the Poirot and Me endorsement, as well as the warning about The Labours of Hercules television episode.
Apulia says
I just discovered the Poirot series with David Suchet. I am loving it! I also wanted to know why Hastings and Miss Lemon were absent in the later episodes. Now, I have my answer. Thank you. Still, I miss them. They were great companions to M. Poirot.
Apulia, I think it’s too bad, since so many liberties are now being taken with Agatha Christie’s mysteries by the production team, that they don’t pretend that Hastings and Miss Lemon are in the novels they are now producing.
Rho says
I just read all of the Phryne Fisher mysteries and am watching the Australian TV productions on Acorn TV on my computer. They are very stylish–love the clothes and cars–and the TV shows are less racy than the content of the books, although the books aren’t too bad. Don’t know if they are “cosies” but I didn’t get bored reading all of them.
Rho, I have Kerry Greenwood’s Phrynne Fisher on the Cozy-Mystery site, but I think they are (as you say) a little “racy” to be considered strictly Cozy…
Just a reminder—The “last” season of Poirot starts tonight (7/27/14) on our local (Houston, TX) PBS channel on Masterpiece Mystery. I do not know in what other areas it may air tonight.
joan from maryland says
Thursday night had a special program on WETA (DC) “Being Poirot” celebrating 25 years of David Suchet as this famous detective. Last night MPT (Maryland Public Television ) had it on. I found it interesting and if you are interested check your stations. This season will have the last of the 70 productions of novels and short stories.
Joan from Maryland, thank you for telling us about this show. I just looked it up, and found the following show times on my local PBS. Hopefully they will be the same everywhere:
7:00 PM (Central) Being Poirot (PBS) Sunday – August 10, 2014
12:30 AM (Central) Being Poirot (PBS) Tuesday – August 12, 2014
9:30 PM (Central) Being Poirot (PBS) Thursday – August 14, 2014
(The show was produced in 2013, and I sort of have that déjà vu feeling that some of us might have watched it last year.)
Thanks, again, Joan from Maryland!
Marblex says
Out of 70 films there were only 4 stinkers. That’s a great record. Stories that did not stray afar from the original material were exceptional. Sumptuous and lush settings, beautiful wardrobe, good casting for the most part. The rewrite of Cards on the Table is imho the absolute dregs. Skip it. Other forgettable entries: Appointment With Death (horrid rewrite); Taken at the Flood (rewritten so as to miss the point of the title completely; terrible overacting). Standout excellence: Five Little Pigs (despite some liberties taken; still don’t understand Carla’s renaming); Death on the Nile (would be perfect but for the perversion of the Allertons –not in the original, to say the least); After the Funeral (liberal condensation, but well done; amazing performance by Monica Dolan); Sad Cypress (condensed and silly denouement but great acting by Elizabeth Walsh and Diana Quick; Evil Under the Sun (Lionel not Linda?); Mrs. McGinty’s Dead; Cat Among the Pigeons (liberal rewrite but story essence well preserved); Curtain (just about perfect). I still favor Finney’s Poirot but Suchet’s is almost as good.
Marblex, I guess all of us have different favorites …
Stash Empress says
I’m with everyone else — Suchet just *is* Poirot — and I LOVED Miss Lemon & hate that she’s gone from the later episodes. Love Hastings too, for that matter, but any character can be a straight man — only Miss Lemon can be Miss Lemon though!
In which episode is Hercule overcome with joy at coming face-to-face with Chief Inspector Japp, that he goes to kiss him on the cheek. I love that scene, and can’t remember the name of the episode. Thank you.
Jane, I’m not sure either unfortunately, though I do recall the scene you’re describing! Hopefully someone else will be able to answer your question.
You may be thinking of Lord Edgeware Dies or The Big Four. In both, Poirot and Japp meet again after a period apart.
I am sorry—I meant The Murder of Roger Ackroyd rather than Lord Edgeware Dies.
One thing I love is watching an hour Poirot and then the movie.
Triangle at Rhodes became Evil Under the Sun and The Plymouth Express became The Mystery on the Blue Train.
Patrick, it certainly is interesting to see how slightly different formats and different casts/producers handle the same material differently!
Katherine Burrell says
I loved all the Poirot movies with David Suchet. I wish a channel would bring them all back to tv. They used to air on E every Sunday afternoon and I saw every one of them but I’d love to see them again. Please bring them back.
Katherine, I’d love to see them get back on cable as well! I could definitely keep watching them over and over again.
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ACTION: Notice of application.
DATES: Registered bulk manufacturers of the affected basic classes, and applicants therefore, may file written comments on or objections to the issuance of the proposed registration on or before August 22, 2018. Such persons may also file a written request for a hearing on the application on or before August 22, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to: Drug Enforcement Administration, Attention: DEA Federal Register Representative/DRW, 8701 Morrissette Drive, Springfield, Virginia 22152. All requests for hearing must be sent to: Drug Enforcement Administration, Attn: Administrator, 8701 Morrissette Drive, Springfield, Virginia 22152. All request for hearing should also be sent to: (1) Drug Enforcement Administration, Attn: Hearing Clerk/LJ, 8701 Morrissette Drive, Springfield, Virginia 22152; and (2) Drug Enforcement Administration, Attn: DEA Federal Register Representative/DRW, 8701 Morrissette Drive, Springfield, Virginia 22152.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Attorney General has delegated his authority under the Controlled Substances Act to the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 28 CFR 0.100(b). Authority to exercise all necessary functions with respect to the promulgation and implementation of 21 CFR part 1301, incident to the registration of manufacturers, distributors, dispensers, importers, and exporters of controlled substances (other than final orders in connection with suspension, denial, or revocation of registration) has been redelegated to the Assistant Administrator of the DEA Diversion Control Division ("Assistant Administrator") pursuant to section 7 of 28 CFR part 0, appendix to subpart R.
In accordance with 21 CFR 1301.34(a), this is notice that on June 21, 2018, Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC, 3159 Staley Road, Grand Island, New York 14072-2028 applied to be registered as an importer of the following basic class of controlled substance:
Drug Code
Remifentanil 9739 II
The company plans to import the listed controlled substance for narcotic material for bulk manufacture.
Dated: July 12, 2018.
John J. Martin,
Assistant Administrator.
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Artichoke : The Making of a Design Magazine
Architecture / Art / Design Event / Design Feature / Design News / Interior / Typography
The twelve year history of Artichoke magazine is presented with the help of the “Artichoke Seat sculpture” by Toby Horrocks, twelve Artichoke favourites by selected contributors, a digital display and a selected Artichoke archive
The latest exhibition at the Design Institute of Australia’s Design Gallery in Melbourne has just opened, detailing the history of Artichoke magazine – the influential Australian design magazine officially endorsed by the Design Institute of Australia.
Artichoke magazine commenced as an experimental publication twelve years ago and has since grown into one of the leading design magazines in Australia. It contains interesting articles and opinions on a diverse range of design subjects including interior architecture and design, product, textile and graphic design. The exhibition tracks Artichoke‘s progress from humble beginnings to its current position as an engaging quarterly magazine, widely regarded as one of Australia’s most respected design titles.
Cameron Bruhn and Joanne Cys (past editor of Artichoke magazine and past president of the DIA respectively) officially opened the exhibition
Speaking at the exhibition opening, Cameron Bruhn, Editorial Director of Architecture Media, said that ‘’For twelve years the pages of Artichoke magazine have recorded the achievements of Australian design professionals. ‘Endorsed as the official magazine of the Design Institute of Australia, it is a collaborative partnership with the design community. ‘Artichoke is a forum for design ideas and takes design thinking to a broad public audience. ‘Each issue has its own particular character, but as a suite they have one voice – a dialogue about design excellence and innovation.’
Design Gallery / Level 1, 175 Collins Street, Melbourne
Feb 23 to Mar 10, 2011
Mon to Fri, 10am – 4pm / Admission is free
A Selective History
In late 1998, with Sydney Design 99 – an important national design event – approaching fast, the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) was keen for a new publication that would reach out to the design community – the next generation of earlier communications like DIAlogue and DIAgram.
Artichoke’s genesis was a brainstorming session. Controversial and provocative, its name comes from a colloquial term for designers. Or so one story goes. Intriguing, catchy and nothing to do with food, the name caught on and Artichoke was born.
geoff fitzpatrick
Edited by Geoff Fitzpatrick, a national councillor of the DIA, designed by Cornwell Design under the creative eye of Steven Cornwell and published by Ian Close of Architecture Media, the newsletter drew its inspiration and content from the diverse membership of the DIA. Geoff brought a depth of knowledge, experience and involvement with the DIA that few could match.
Steven was enthusiastic and passionate about graphic design and design generally, and Ian was experienced in successful commercial publishing of design titles. Together they guided Artichoke’s editorial and creative direction.
The first issue of Artichoke magazine landing on DIA members’ desks was different. A wrapped pack of loose cards that could be shuffled, arranged and read in any order – it was a different experience for anyone who picked it up. You could read it from the back, start in the middle or select cards at random. The second issue was conventionally bound but with scissor marks suggesting you could cut it out. And perhaps you needed to – its pages came in all orientations.
And so it went.
Dramatic, bold and definitely unconventional in appearance, the publication attracted attention. Its content ranged across the gamut of design – interiors, exhibitions, product, sculpture, furniture, jewellery, graphics and more. Some loved it. There were reports of favourable reviews in the English Creative Review and that local media notables were after their personal copies. Some loved it less, describing it as “undergraduate” and advocating for a professionally edited, textbased publication. It was great fun to make but it was also intensely demanding. Gradually the practicalities of producing a labourintensive quarterly communication prevailed. The format evolved with more defined sections and regular contributors. But the edgy, unexpected graphics remained a continuing feature, even if scaled back.
However, making a publication and distributing it to a growing membership costs. To grow and evolve, Artichoke needed a firmer commercial basis and, potentially, full-time staffing. Up to that time, publication relied significantly on contributions from the original group and some, initially in-kind, support from suppliers, with the costs underwritten by Architecture Media.
So, after thirteen issues, Artichoke the second generation (series 02) came into being. Launched in November 2002, it remained engaging, diverse, and thought provoking, retaining the values embedded in the earlier issues. The launch invitation described it as: a new element, a quality publication, grown from the essence of the original, with features of substance, collaboration essential, a combination of design disciplines, bound to create a reaction, essential for those passionate about creativity.
Less unconventional in format, more suited to an extended distribution through bookshops and newsagencies, and, importantly, more appealing to a broader range of advertisers, Artichoke magazine could now reach out to a wider reading audience. Still endorsed as the DIA’s national publication, Artichoke the magazine had evolved.
David Robertson, national president of the DIA at the time, welcomed readers to the “first publicly available issue of what ’til now has been the private voice of the professional design industry,” saying that in Artichoke we explore the layers of design and expose “those shared values and beliefs that bind the design community.”
Geoff Fitzpatrick, who had taken up the role of consulting editor, wrote: “Artichoke has design at its core and presents expert, informed opinion and commentary on all of design’s diverse aspects – by designers who are practitioners, educators and observers.” Shortly after, The Financial Review Magazine described Artichoke as a quarterly that “promises to take both design professional and general reader seriously.” And in 2006, the AFR’s Boss magazine described it as “Too cool,” listing it as one of “50 Hot Ideas.”
The current series has had various people holding the editorial reins, each one giving the magazine an individual touch but always recognizing the strength and importance of collaboration, referred to in that 2002 invitation, and the shared values underpinning the original. Some of these underpinnings are reflected in the series of pictorial pieces run in the magazine in 2007–2008, each presenting a value statement shared by Artichoke and the practice depicted.
cameron bruhn – previous editor for Artichoke mag and current editorial director for architecture media group
Along the way Artichoke has contributed through other initiatives to the advancement and recognition of good design – as a founding partner of the Australian Interior Design Awards program, through the Artichoke Night School series of design talks and other offerings like the Artichoke Student Prize.
But Artichoke magazine’s place would not be possible without the support of the members of the profession and the broader design community – the practitioners, academics, commentators and others who support the magazine in so many ways – and the suppliers who advertise in its pages.
The publication has always drawn from the profession it serves. Without the work of the designers who create the work, the skill of the photographers who capture it, the thoughtful words from contributors and the creative graphics that pull each issue together, Artichoke would be far less rich. It is truly a powerful collaboration.
Currently, Artichoke magazine takes Australian design to countries like Bahrain, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, the USA, Vietnam and beyond.
After thirteen issues of the initial series and thirty-four issues of the magazine series, with more to come, Artichoke has established itself as a major voice, which indeed takes the design professional and the general reader seriously – talking about, challenging and communicating a passion for design excellence.
Cardboard sculpture Artichoke Seating by Toby Horrocks
Toby Horrocks of Freefold Furniture has previously interpreted Architecture Mediafour design titles for the recent Design Media in Australia exhibition at the Gallery of Australian Design, Canberra, using corrugated fibreboard fabricated by Visy. The cardboard pieces interlocked at right angles to create threedimensional forms with refined and deliberate edges and undulating shapes. The installations began as a computer-modelled arch – a basic architectural figure – that was stretched, twisted, squashed and pulled to create an abstract icon representing each magazine.
The Artichoke seat represented the magazine by alluding to a bench seat and table, its organic form a visual pun on the word “artichoke.”
Artichoke favourites – 12 x key contributors to Artichoke magazine over the last twelve years were asked to nominate their favourite article, theme, writer or photographer.
1. Sharrin Rees / Photographer
2. Lynn Churchill / Writer Senior Lecturer / Curtin University Director, RAD Architecture
3. Steven Cornwell / Cornwell Design
4. Rob Backhouse / Managing Director, Hassell
5. Geoff Fitzpatrick / National Strategy Director, Design Institute of Australia
6. Ryan Russell / Designer Russell & George
7. Dianna Snape / Photographer
8. Janine Wurfel / Graphic Designer Qube Konstrukt
9. Joanne Cys LFDIA / Associate Professor, University of South Australia / Immediate Past President, Design Institute of Australia
10. Marcus Baumgart / Writer Designer, Williams Boag Architects
11. Penny Craswell / Current Editor, Artichoke
12. Kirsten Stanisich / Writer Director, SJB Interiors
Artichoke graphic design
In 2002, Architecture Media approached Qube Konstrukt to design a newsstand version of Artichoke.
Originally a newsletter for the Design Institute of Australia, the initial brief involved creating a new identity, masthead and a template that had longevity. For the initial design we referenced an art journal aesthetic to reflect the magazine’s diverse content. The clean back cover and patterned varnish emphasise this journal feel.
Once the identity of the magazine had been established Qube Konstrukt began giving the projects more personality by adding handcrafted titles. For each issue we consider how the nature and aesthetic of the theme can be communicated through the typography. Now in its seventh year of publication the studio has constantly refined and renewed the template
Artichoke magazine magazine is published by Architecture Media — the publishers of Architecture Australia, Landscape Architecture Australia, Artichoke, Houses, Architectural Product News and Selector
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Some of the most well-known architects and designers, in Milan for the Salone, gathered at the Bulgari Hotel to celebrate the launch of the New York Times T Magazine spring design issue – “on taste and beauty”
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During the Salone, Paola Lenti again presented her new collections for indoors and outdoors in the fascinating industrial location in via Orobia 15 under the Elmenti theme
Elementi is the common denominator of the creative interplays and intertwining, which originated through the cooperation betweem Paola Lenti and other important industrial entities.
“Stealing Design” @ Salone Milan 2013
“The Salone is a breeding ground for people who copy our products”
Leading designers and manufacturers discuss the phenomenon of copying and how they are responding.
Dedece celebrates Alex Popov Q & A @ dedece
The third in the series of ” Vola Q & A Celebrates ” was held at dedece Sydney on Wed 13th March, 2013
The previous renowned Australian architects celebrated by Vola and dedece were Glen Murcutt and Kerry Hill. This time it was Alex Popovs’ turn to be roundly honoured
Hot Design Talents @ Milan Design Week 2011
To co-incide with Milan Design Week, Italy’s Rolling Stone magazine engaged “contemporary design experts” Alice Rawsthorn…
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“This is my first outdoor collection and it has taken some time to get here:…
The 2011 AGNSW Archibald, Sulman, Wynne and Packing Room Prizes
Now in its 90th year, the Archibald Prize is one of Australia’s oldest and most…
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