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This weekend, a price war will break out across the Sunday tabloid market as all the red-tops, the Sunday Mirror, the Daily Star Sunday and the People, drop their cover prices to just 50p to compete against the launch of the Sun's new Sunday edition.
The Sun: Sunday editon launch sparks cover price cuts among rivals
The price war will take place in selected tabloid heartland areas for Trinity Mirror titles the Sunday Mirror and the People, including London, the South-East and the Midlands.
The Sunday Mirror cover price will be cut from £1 to 50p in the Carlton (London), Meridian (south coast) and Central (Midlands) regions. Its fellow Trinity Mirror sister title, the People, will be reduced from £1 to 50p in the same regions. The publisher's Sunday Mail title in Scotland and the Tay region will also be price cut, from £1.30 to 50p.
Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell group will also reduce the price of the Daily Star's Saturday edition from £1.10 to £1, and the Daily Star Sunday will directly compete with Murdoch's new launch, dropping its cover price from £1 to 50p. The Northern & Shell price cut is expected across the UK.
A Northern & Shell spokesman said: "Will be planning an appropriate response for this Sunday."
On Tuesday (21February), Media Week reported that The Sun on Sunday was set to debut with a promotional cover price of 50p, in an attempt to draw in new and lapsed Sunday tabloid readers who had disengaged with the market following the demise of the News of the World in July after a series of phone-hacking allegations, ending a 168-year history.
The price of The Sun's Saturday edition has also been cut from 60p to 50p this weekend.
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Posted - 01/31/2008 : 8:10:46 PM
I'm modeling the Boston & Maine's Eastern Route in HO standard gauge in my 207-year-old house's attic. The attic has its pluses and minuses - plenty of space, just up the stairs and finished, but the combination of the sloping ceiling and a 36" minimum radius meant I could only do an around-the-walls plan. Also, it can get a bit hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
The layout incorporates my Rowley MA modules, presently the only finished scenery, in the rural northern half of the attic. The southeast corner is where I'm building my compressed version of West Lynn, MA including the General Electric River works and the West Lynn creamery.
This photo shows the mainline curve passing the future creamery (spur under the file) and the Saugus Branch (long staging tracks) coming in from the left. I'm spiking rail on the branch, building the switch comes next. The flying plywood is actually pretty rigid with the flange below and the backdrop partially installed, it will get better when I bring the backdrop around to the left edge of the photo.
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Posted - 06/19/2013 : 07:55:41 AM
Thanks, Robert, I've seen plaster/putty/spackle lift when the substrate flexes or expands/contracts, and don't want to lose my investment in carving. The diesel is an EMD BL-2, a bastardized F-3 rushed into production about 1949 to compete with Alco's RS-2. Not many were sold, and few were as long-lived as the GP-7s which replaced them in EMD's catalog.
In pursuit of completeness, the last couple of evenings went to building the H-arm:
To the Rix parts, I added a cable termination box (.125 square styrene tube with .060 channel for the wire hoods) and a work platform (Plastruct 3/64 angle brackets, .020 wire rail w/ .010x.018 flat brass braces) for signal maintainers. Now that I've built it, I'm sure to find the slides I took 20+ years ago.
I also added a few tall grass bunches, I will do more based on the picture.
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Posted - 06/18/2013 : 8:11:04 PM
James, Really nice stonework, and a good idea to use the wire to give it some grip.
Just wondering what sort of diesel is that, and from what era?
Posted - 06/16/2013 : 6:37:55 PM
A discussion in another thread got me thinking about how I model; I tend to get a project to a certain point, then work on something else. For a change, I'm going to finish the High St. scene as best I can. This hasn't kept me from making progress elsewhere this weekend, but most of the effort went here:
The house is a temporary view-block, not what goes there in the long run. This needs more diverse grass, the H-arm (left) where the open wire changed to cable and telltales.
Posted - 06/13/2013 : 8:58:07 PM
Looks good to me, James! That "No Loitering" work is a nice touch, and one not seen in most places.
I need to file that idea away.... [:-idea]
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Posted - 06/13/2013 : 8:30:17 PM
The last couple of days' hobby time has been focused on the south side of the High St. cut:
I couldn't recall seeing this style of 'no loitering' done commercially, though it wouldn't surprise me if it was to be found somewhere in a German or UK catalog. If I'd had more than 15" to do, it might have been worth making a mold. But I decided I could probably manage it in wood putty.
The other night I made the base wall.
Last night I applied a 1/16" layer of wood putty to the top. While it was still wet I carved the nubbly tops with a hobby knife. This could probably be done with 'leather hard' plaster, provided you made the whole wall in one go, to avoid issues getting new plaster to stick to old.
The dilute black latex wash reveals that a lot of finish work is needed before final painting & mortar-line carving. So I'd better take advantage of the rainy evening and get upstairs.
Posted - 06/11/2013 : 07:56:37 AM
A good deal of progress on the High St. scene, working both in the evening and before I leave for work:
I wanted the stone rougher than I can get by scribing styrene, and proud of the concrete/steel above, so I wrapped aluminum screen wire around the lower abutments.
Here's wood putty applied to one side of the cut, and part of it painted/carved.
Here's the finished carving from the west side.
And the east side. Still needs some touch up and a weathering wash.
If anyone tries this, DO NOT USE semi-gloss latex paint. The film is too strong, so it is prone to peeling when you scribe it. Working on the Merrimack St. retaining walls, I got the same amount of carving to this stage in half the time using flat black latex.
Posted - 06/07/2013 : 11:47:36 AM
I've seen that used on Harsco's work and it looked great to me, but I must agree with James. I haven't tried the 'rattle can' spray paints on models yet, but will give it a shot. I know that George Sellios uses Rustoleum for a lot of his buildings, which surprised me, but he gets away with it. Not sure if because it was just for his back ground buildings, but I figured if he can get away with it, I sure could give it a try and see what happens! It's worth experimenting with.
Posted - 06/07/2013 : 10:45:28 AM
Next time, try a paint-on texture paint like this stuff:
Dab it on, rather than brush it, so you don't get brushstrokes. Let it dry thoroughly (and if you don't like the effect, before it's dry you can wipe it off with a damp cloth.)
Posted - 06/07/2013 : 07:58:02 AM
Thanks, Joe. Here's last night's progress:
Apropos of my question about Elliot Moore's use of rattle-can texture paint for concrete, what I found at Amesbury Industrial Supply (an excellent reason not to drive to the big box stores in Seabrook) was Rustoleum Multicolor Textured 223524 Desert Bisque. I like the color, it doesn't attack .040 styrene, but boy is it thick: I completely lost the rather deep scribed joints in the sidewalk.
This is my first experiment with rattle-cans for model work, and I'm not a convert - no control over how much paint, not sure exactly where the nozzle is pointing till you push the button. Still, I managed to mask/paint three wood-putty concrete retaining walls & abutments this morning, in situ.
Posted - 06/05/2013 : 09:49:32 AM
Nice looking bridge. Styrene is such a nice material to work with. I look forward to seeing your progress.
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Posted - 06/05/2013 : 07:56:16 AM
Thanks, Mike. I brush-painted a couple of Athearn blue-box GP-9s in McGinnis blue, and added a Hobbytown drive to one back in my High School years. I should figure out where they are one of these days.
Last night's progress included re-cutting rail gaps (not photogenic), a try to improve the color of my fake fur marsh grass for Little River (not dry yet) and adding concrete sidewalks to the High St. overpass.
I scribed joint lines in .040 styrene and glued it to the parapets. I used a pencil to make a guideline so the sidewalk curves to match the road. The west (longer) side doesn't have its curb yet.
This test shot is for comparison with a prototype photo from 1949. Close enough to be recognizable, but not exact...
[edit: fixed a typo]
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Posted - 06/02/2013 : 11:17:45 AM
Hi James, I'm just catching up on your recent developments trackside. Love the idea of the cows out in their pasture doing what cows do best! Ha! I also love the McGinnis Bluebird scheme on the GP9's. I had two locomotives painted in these colours a long time ago and they remain two of my favourite locomotives. Looks like Athearn did a really nice job on them! I also really like that roadway underpass. I'm looking forward to seeing it completed on your layout! [:-apple][:-apple]
Posted - 06/02/2013 : 08:35:47 AM
Another "so a search will find it" post: My Overland 3899 HO brass model of the B&M's C-100 - C-137 cabooses came with wheels that intermittently shorted against the sideframes - not bad enough to bother my DC locos, but unhappy-making for DCC. The problem was the axles were too short (or the holes in the sideframes too big). Reboxx 33-1-0.995 replacement wheels cured the short and made it roll beautifully. My trackwork is OK for .088 width wheels.
Posted - 05/21/2013 : 8:40:19 PM
This is how the ~80 year old concrete has looked for most of my life:
I've been thinking about the Rustoleum "American Stone" that Elliot Moore (ETinBH) showed, with a light overcoat or wash of a more sandy color. Assuming I can find it, and I'm not otherwise too annoyed at RPM/Rustoleum, and that the assembled wisdom doesn't advise me against using it on a styrene base?
I need a little surface roughness, but maybe about 200 grit, not 60 grit. I might be able to get the effect by simply airbrushing it from too far away, with too much air pressure, but that's chancy.
Posted - 05/21/2013 : 07:33:15 AM
The High St. overpass dates to the 1920s, when an earlier gauntlet-track 'arch' was widened to 3 tracks and made strong enough to carry a trolley line.
I have tree-free pictures (which I could have taken in the '70s, but didn't), but they're copyright the Walker Transportation Collection.
I had to compress both the width and the depth, so there's space for longitudinal girders but no room for water lines etc. I used half a package of .015 x .100 getting to this point last night.
My first try at marsh grass didn't have enough green, though I like the texture and color variation. I'll try applying more when I see a good drying day in the forecast.
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The current date range of 1910-20 has to be wrong.
HMS York wasn't even launched until July 1928, and the fitting out that the ship has clearly received here wasn't completed until 1930.
Interesting. Most of these date ranges are worked out by what else is in the same film can. In this case it seems to be mostly WW1 footage.
But your research is quite correct. So is this from the 1930s or is it not the HMS York? Any ideas?
Comparing the ship in the clip against the second picture on the attached page, it perfectly matches HMS York, so I think we can be confident of that ID.
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I have a book "Al-Fiqh al-Islami According to the Hanafi Madhhab" by Sh Mohammad Akram Nadwi. In it, purifying a hide is discussed and it states "scholars agree that tanning purifies the hide and the fur of any dead animal. However, they disagree on whether tanning can purify the hide of a pig. Abu Yusuf holds that it can. Considering this view, boots, shoes, belts or anything else made of tanned pig's hide are allowed."


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Once the marketer has tended to the trees with respect to remarketing efforts, attention should be turned to the forest, in the form of a contact strategy for this valuable target audience. The timing and frequency of offers post purchase or inquiry will influence the ultimate return that the segment will yield over time. Testing, sometimes best accomplished in the form of an experimental design exercise, will help reveal the optimal strategy for repeated contacts. While previous business contact files are fertile targets for remarketing efforts, and are hard to over-harvest, a sound contact strategy will guarantee maximal yields.
Many marketers have found their previous business contacts to be the cornerstone of their further efforts, creating economies that can help subsidize prospecting. Responders to prospecting efforts, after all, turn into the non-converters and buyers who fuel future remarketing efforts.
In many ways, the probability for future overall success will be enhanced by creating a marketing scheme that features targeting, offer, and messaging strategies that are most effective for attracting further attention from those with whom the marketer has had some form of relationship in the past. Those names are like investable assets, and it is up to us to maximize the yield from them.
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Transformers 2007
looks promising.
*well except for the whole Bumblebee is a muscle car thing.Have you the brain worms?!
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Nochyu mokraya ptitsa nikogda ne letaet.
A wet bird never flies at night. -unknown [old Russian proverb]
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They've taken the storyline in some interesting more adultish directions in recent years. I guess some of us that grew up on Transformers have grown up some...
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Jazz was my favorite as a kid.
and if you do a transformers search on youtube, you can see some of the commericals/sneak peaks for the movie. (although some have said the footage is not from the movies)No matter what happens, someone will find a way to take it too seriously.
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June 11th 2006, 12:15 AM #6
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My son is going to be ecstatic!
If I have a mystical experience, an experience that's so overwhelming that I know now that there's a God, the cognitive fallout from that is irrelevant. The fact that that experience can be explained by psychologists in numerous ways is irrelevant to the fact that I now know.
June 11th 2006, 04:20 PM #7
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Dropping a few Eschatology Bombs, or "Let's think before we endorse another way."
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I am a happy hobbit now
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June 11th 2006, 08:38 PM #10
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Originally posted by Hamster
As well as maybe the financial incentive for bringing him back?
I hope he shows up. I always prefer Transformers with him in the picture, though there were some interesting storylines in the comicbooks where individual Autobots(Ratchet?) stood up heroically in his place against evil...
June 12th 2006, 09:22 AM #11
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A Transformers Movie for 'grown-up' fan-boys?...All is right with the world.
I may have to start a thread of covers from my "Transformers" comic book (Marvel, Dreamwave, etc) collection. Anyone into the recent books by IDW?
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Originally posted by Hamster
This proves that there was no "Historical Christ" and all the miracles attributed to him him were based off of earlier mytholgical characters such as Optimus Prime and Superman."Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis
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How could we have been misguided for so long!?
January 6th 2007, 03:48 AM #14
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I find it interesting how they decided to tie it into the mars rover incident
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*blinks* I didn't even know they were making one!! I'm excited. I used to love them when I was a little girl, playing with them instead of Barbie...
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My article from yesterday's Daily Monitor, about a nice trend (for once!).
WHEN Ms Monica Arac de Nyeko won the Caine Prize for literature a few weeks ago, she was the first Ugandan to receive such prestigious international literary recognition of late.
Ms Hilda Twongyeirwe, the co-ordinator of the Uganda Women Writers' Association (Femrite), was happy for Ms Arac, but her happiness stopped at a certain point.
"When someone has won an award, it is an inspiration," said Ms Twongyeirwe. "It makes us say to the other writers, 'When is your piece coming out?"
Since its inception in 1996, Femrite has encouraged Ugandan women to tell their stories. "These girls who have won are working very hard," said Ms Twongyeirwe. "And there are stories in Uganda to tell."
In the past, says Ms Jackie Budesta Batanda, another recognised Ugandan writer who was short-listed for the Macmillan Award, "Uganda as a literary voice didn't have the same impact as Zimbabwe, Nigeria or South Africa."
According to Makerere literature scholar Susan Kiguli, "Before there was a sense there was good writing but not great writing. People cling onto one name - Chinua Achebe.
But we've been able to put Ugandan writing back in the limelight. We're establishing ourselves in the world as writers worth our salt."
Ms Arac is evidence of that as is Ms Batanda and a handful of other names, all worth their salt. The thing that's changed, however, is not just the recognition, but who is getting recognised. For once, the women are at the head of the pack and the men are limping behind, manuscripts in hand.
"The men are too busy running after money, politics and drinking beer in bars in the evening," said Mr Austin Ejiet, a published writer, newspaper columnist and former literature teacher at Makerere. "The ladies were clever when they started Femrite to articulate women's writing and have work published. They got a lot of money and support."
Ms Twongyeirwe, however, does not attribute it to the money and the support as much as the hard work and dedication the women of Femrite have given to their craft.
"Femrite began another phase of writing in which the women's voice came boldly on the scene," said Dr Kiguli, who is a former chairperson of Femrite. "Women were not going to be in margins."
Mr Ejiet said he knows lots of men with manuscripts sitting in their desk drawers, waiting to be published. "Men don't have the equivalent of Femrite. Even if they did, I don't think men would come every Monday [when Femrite meets]. They would rather go to a bar."
The manuscripts Mr Ejiet referred to are waiting in the offices of Mr Alex Bangirana of Fountain Publishers, located on the campus of Makerere University.
"The challenge is the market," he said. "We get manuscripts but we don't sell great quantities of those we have published. We print 2,000, sell over time, but it's not in one or two or even three months."
Mr Ejiet said Fountain rushes to do orders for the Ministry of Education and the forthcoming Commonwealth Summit before literature because they sell many more copies than literary books. Mr Bangirana confirmed this. "Do we have the money to buy the books? Money goes to school fees," he said.
However, everyone agrees that part of the problem is that schools are not using Ugandan fiction books as part of their curriculum. "Now the Ugandan education system needs to read their own," said Dr Kiguli. "Kids will be excited to know it's not only Shakespeare who has written - dead and male and white."
Ms Arac, however, disagrees that people are not reading Ugandan literature. She thinks the problem is that there isn't enough information about the books getting to the people who are hungry to read them. "It's easy to say people are not reading," she said. "But I think people are keen to see literature which reflects them.
Students are thrilled about books. 'This sounds like someone I know,' they say. People want to read good literature but also about themselves."
Ms Arac said it would be great if thousands of books got bought but added that despite all that, people are buying and reading.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Ugandan Women Writers Shine, But Where Are the Men
Posted by Scarlett Lion at 10:28 AM
Labels: Local Media, My Two Shillings, Original Reporting
7 comments:
- Iwaya said...
We blog. A lot.
- August 7, 2007 at 5:19 PM
- Iwaya said...
Has the writer of this article even ever tried to read some of the writers they tout as representative and good in this country? what sort of writer is Eijet to quote? has anyone actually tried to read his frigid and turgid poetry? My God!
- August 7, 2007 at 5:30 PM
- Baz said...
You are wrong on so many points, Lion.
I'll be back to explain why this evening. I hope this post isn't buried by then. - August 8, 2007 at 9:36 AM
- Baz said...
Scarlet Lion, thank you for waiting. Here is my response to your post:
Your article started off suspicious. You said my friend Monica was "the first Ugandan to receive such prestigious international literary recognition of late". But just a couple of years ago Doreen Baingana received a Commonwealth prize. Your article therefore started off sounding as if you either did not really know your material, or were willing to shoehorn facts into spaces they didn't fit just so that you can make your agenda.
After reading the article, I am still not sure which of the two it is. Are you ignorant, or unscrupulous?
Because you seem to be working hard to make the word "writers" exclude men.
Jackee (isn't that how she spells her name?) speaks of Ugandan stories that need telling, and mentions Uganda's literary voice. How do you make this sound as if this quote excludes all the guys who she used to write with here before she left Kampala?
I don't believe that that is what she said, because she was right here with us – men and women – all writing, a voice in unison, without discrimination.
"For once the women are at the head of the pack and the men are limping behind" is a patently ludicrous statement. It implies that for a long time all the piles of books that were written in Uganda were authored by men, and that even though women tried to break into this strict and rigid club, they were not been permitted to. Perhaps by institutionalised sexism.
This is just not true. Uganda has never been a literary powerhouse, male-dominated or otherwise. And don't cite the Okot P'Bitek days. The authors from those days can be counted off one hand. That doesn't count as a pack.
If we have a rising number of Ugandans writing literary fiction today, it is not a renaissance. It is a beginning. This is not an old pack changing leadership. It is a new pack.
And it is not even an all-female pack. Who told you that women are the only ones writing? Ejiet? Ejiet is talking through his ass. There are scores and scores of young male writers who spend whole nights at keyboards if they can, and, if they can't, they stay awake scratching on notebooks with ballpens. These men are as sincere, keen and driven as Ms Batanda and Ms Arac De Nyeko (Not "Ms Arac" by the way) ever were. I know this because I know them.
The reason you have not heard of them is probably because they have not been published by Femrite. The reason they have not been published by Femrite is they are not women.
But what other avenues do they have? Fountain? Fountain is a business, not a charity. It doesn't get grants to publish books that don't have a market. You spoke to Alex, and he told you.
You have more published literary work by women because the people who publish literary work publish women, not because men don't write. You can draw out the logic and see: Femrite doesn't prove your argument, it destroys it.
Femrite, bless them, are just trying to do what they think is right. It is their company and they can publish who they want. And reject whichever gender they don't want. But for all the stuff they have published (some of it good, some of it crap) the fact remains that every Ugandan author who has achieved significant recognition over the past several years has published outside Uganda.
Baingana and Moses Isegawa are the best examples, Arac De Nyeko also illustrates this.
But even if you use "international literary recognition" as the measure of whether one gender is writing or not, you still have a problem: Over the past few years we have had our Baingana and our De Nyeko. But you also have Moses Isegawa… - August 8, 2007 at 3:37 PM
- Scarlett Lion said...
Baz, I think people hate when I do this, but I think you're comment deserves it's own post...
- August 10, 2007 at 12:29 PM
- Mel said...
Scarlett Lion! I read that article in monitor and it got me thinking....so I was idle one day and decided to google ugandan writers and look who I found! I believe his works are far superior to any women writers, including that cane woman who won it because she wrote about homosexuals! Check him out http://www.geocities.com/dilmandila/shortstories.html
- March 29, 2008 at 2:11 PM
- ubu said...
am i the only one who cares to mention the great writer moses isegawa? abysinnia chronicles, snakepit? both highly recommended!
- April 10, 2008 at 8:18 AM