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Wafd Party is one of Egypt's oldest liberal parties and is expected to play a significant role in the upcoming elections. With deposed President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party officially disbanded, Wafd has emerged as an influential player in the political arena. The party commands the largest network that any political party in Egypt possesses today, covering major cities in twenty-four out of twenty-six Egyptian governorates.
With a distinguished group of top Egyptian businessmen on its membership list, Al-Wafd stands out as one of the few established parties that do not face the same financial constraints that have historically challenged many of the country's political parties. The party also enjoys a very strong presence in the media, thanks to its famous daily newspaper, its Internet portal, and a professional, well-equipped media department. Additionally, Wafd's current leader Al-Sayed Al-Badawi is owner of Al-Hayat, one of Egypt's top five television channels. Such are luxuries that very few Egyptian parties possess.
Wafd's history dates back to the beginning of party life under the monarchy, making it the oldest among existing Egyptian political parties. The name of the party is Arabic for "The Delegation," and it references Saad Zaghloul's attempt in 1919 to lead a popular delegation to the post-World War I Paris Peace Conference to demand independence for Egypt against the will of British occupation authorities. Threatened by the immense popular support that Zaghloul was able to garner for his mission, British authorities exiled the Egyptian nationalist leader along with members of the prospective delegation to Malta. This move instigated a mass uprising, which led to the 1919 Revolution.
The uprising forced the British authorities to allow Zaghloul and his companions to return to Egypt and to lead a delegation on behalf of the country at the Paris Conference. In Paris, however, Zaghloul and his partners met little luck moving Egypt's case for independence forward. The failure of the delegation prompted the eruption of popular anger against British rule, and occupation authorities responded by sending Zaghloul back into exile. As was the case the first time they tried to exile Zaghloul, British authorities were forced to backtrack on the decision due to tremendous popular pressure.
After returning from his second exile in 1923, Zaghloul and his companions transformed their Paris delegation into a political party carrying the name Wafd (The Delegation). Shortly thereafter, King Fuad I declared Egypt a constitutional monarchy and issued a new constitution that paved the way for forming Egypt's first elected parliament after British recognition of the country's independence. Under the Zaghloul's leadership, Wafd Party contested the 1924 election, winning a majority of the seats in parliament. Zaghloul became Egypt's first prime minister under the new constitution, and Al-Wafd Party effectively became one of the cornerstones of the tripartite arrangement that governed Egypt until the 1952 Revolution: the palace, British authority, and Wafd.
Months after the 1952 Revolution, Wafd was disbanded along with all other political parties by orders of Egypt's new military rulers, who dissolved all political parties and organizations upon assuming power, sparing only the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) though not for long. In 1978, when President Anwar Sadat allowed the formation of political parties, Al-Wafd was resurrected under the name of the "New Wafd Party".
The New Wafd, now known simply as Wafd, claims to embrace the same principles of the old party. It describes itself as a centrist party that calls for democracy, freedom of speech, and independence of the judiciary. Wafdist media prides itself on the fact that the party was the first to elect Copts to its high-ranking positions. They also note that the party took the initiative to develop and defend the famous crescent and cross emblem, which came to signify unity between Muslims and Copts—a major concern now in Egypt in light of the increasing visibility of Christian-Muslim tensions in the last few years. As Wafd's founder, Zaghloul is often credited for crystallizing in the memory of Egypt's political community the famous statement, "religion is for God and the nation is for all," which contemporary defenders of secularism in Egypt still invoke. For many observers, Wafd's history obligates its current leaders to defend secular principles against rising political Islamist trends. Thus, the party has faced internal strife every time its leaders have tried to pragmatically form coalitions with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
Wafd's uneasy relationship with the MB goes back to the 1940s. The palace had decided to support the Brotherhood as a means for counterbalancing Al-Wafd, which had tense relations with the palace throughout the 1930s and 1940s. By the end of the 1940s, competition between the two groups intensified as the MB began challenging Al-Wafd's long-standing dominance inside the political arena.
The 1952 Revolution brought that rivalry to an end—at least temporarily—as Egypt's new military rulers disbanded all political parties, including Wafd. While the Free Officers initially spared the Muslim Brotherhood from that decision and allowed it to operate for a while, Gamal Abdel Nasser eventually banned the Muslim Brotherhood in 1954 as relations between the two soured.
The Muslim Brotherhood and Wafd returned to the political scene following President Anwar Sadat's decision to transform Egypt's one-party system into a limited multi-party one. Sadat allowed MB leaders to resume their work in the 1970s, and thus the MB was resurrected after a more-than-two-decades absence. Under Mubarak, the Brotherhood was generally allowed to participate in political life without an official legal status, though the degree to which the Mubarak regime tolerated the group's activism varied over time. It was only after the January 25 Revolution that the Brotherhood was able to establish a licensed political party, namely the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). After its initial attempt to regroup faced state-imposed hurdles, Wafd was finally able to reestablish itself as an official party through a 1984 court order.
In the lead-up to the 1984 parliamentary elections, the Muslim Brotherhood and Wafd formed an electoral coalition in an attempt to counterbalance the dominance of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP). The two groups managed to win fifty-eight seats in the 458-member parliament. Soon after, relations between the Brotherhood and Al-Wafd soured and their cooperation became limited. Wafdists claim that the Brotherhood reneged on its promise to ensure that any Brotherhood members elected through Al-Wafd's list would caucus with the party's bloc in parliament.
During Mubarak's last decade in office, Al-Wafd and other licensed opposition parties were repeatedly accused of striking deals with the Mubarak regime at the expense of the Muslim Brotherhood. Some contend that the former regime used to rig certain electoral races in favor of Al-Wafd candidates in order to undermine the Brotherhood's standing among opposition forces. Interestingly, Al-Wafd officials have charged that the MB agreed to a "deal" with the Mubarak regime in the 2005 parliamentary elections, contending that the regime allowed the Brotherhood to win eighty-eight seats in order to undermine and threaten liberal opposition groups that disagree with the MB's Islamist agenda.
Relations between the Brotherhood and Al-Wafd saw relative improvement after the election of Al-Sayed Al-Badawi as chair of the latter party in 2010. Cooperation between the two groups became more visible that same year. This was to the dismay of many Wafdists who view their party's cooperation with an Islamist group like the Brotherhood as a violation of the party's secular principles. For example, in 2010 Al-Wafd's official Sameh Makram Ebeid, a member of a prominent Wafdist family, resigned from the party on grounds that Al-Badawi's attempts to enhance cooperation with the MB at the time were undermining Al-Wafd's long-standing secular identity. Ebeid claimed that Al-Badawi tried to appease the Brotherhood by removing from the Al-Wafd's publications the "crescent and cross" emblem, widely seen as the symbol of Muslim-Christian unity in Egypt. Al-Wafd's unsuccessful attempt to form an electoral coalition with the MB in the lead-up to the 2011/2012 parliamentary elections revived similar concerns among its members and prompted internal divisions and some defections.
Before the Revolution
Despite its rich history, Al-Wafd Party was not thought of as a major political player before the January 25 Revolution. It frequently adopted stances that supported Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP), and is said to have struck deals with the regime in exchange for a few parliamentary seats.
Former Al-Wafd leader Noaman Gomaa was a presidential candidate in the 2005 election, which many viewed as little more than window dressing for an autocratic regime. When a majority of other parties decided to boycott the elections, Gomaa's candidacy came across as selling out. Al-Wafd, the story went, was giving credibility to the elections in exchange for a handful of parliamentary seats.
In the 2005 elections, wherein the MB won eighty-eight parliamentary seats, Al-Wafd only won six. In the presidential election of the same year, Gomaa finished third after Mubarak and Ayman Nour of the then-newly formed Ghad Party. A former Wafdist, Nour had left the party four years earlier due to disagreements with Gomaa. Nour's campaign was widely seen as credible and courageous, whereas observers did not take Gomaa's campaign seriously.
In the 2010 parliamentary elections, Al-Wafd was once again accused of underhanded dealings with the NDP, which ended up dominating the vote through widespread fraud. Most opposition parties, including Al-Wafd, were initially poised to boycott the 2010 elections, but Al-Wafd broke ranks and began fielding candidates. Soon afterward, the MB and others followed suit. Al-Wafd was thus accused of sabotaging the prospective boycott. Many prominent figures were calling on parties to boycott the poll in order pressure the Mubarak regime into allowing independent candidates who were not handpicked by the NDP a fair chance at getting their names on the ballot in the 2011 presidential election. The party's decision to participate, therefore, angered many young political activists who demonstrated in front of the party's headquarters, causing the party a great deal of embarrassment.
In December 2010, less than two months ahead of the January 25 Revolution, Al-Wafd leader Al-Sayed Al-Badawi decided that the party would withdraw from the parliamentary elections. Al-Wafd had already won two seats in the first round,but Al-Badawi said that his party was going to boycott the run-offs in protest of what he described as electoral fraud.He added that Al-Wafd"wants to stand by the people and not by a deceitful parliament." Many of the party's candidates who qualified for the run-off races disregarded Al-Badawi's directive to boycott the poll and participated anyway.
At the time, Ahmed Ezz, the NDP whip widely blamed for orchestrating the electoral fraud,denounced the decision. Some say that immense pressure from the party's youth forced Al-Badawi to make this decision.
Al-Badawi was elected leader of Al-Wafd Party earlier in 2010 after Fouad Badrawi, grandson of founder Fouad Serag Al-Din, surprisingly decided not to run for the party's top leadership post.
Earlier in 2006, severe disputes broke out when Al-Wafd leader Gomaa sacked his second-in-command Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour over the latter's presumed failure to coordinate the party's parliamentary campaign in 2005. When Abdel Nour and his supporters began calling for a "change of leadership," the party's Political Bureau revoked Gomaa's decision to fire Abdel Nour. Al-Wafd Party's Supreme Council subsequently dismissed Gomaa and appointed Mahmoud Abaza as interim leader.
A legal battle ensued, with Gomaa filing a complaint to the prosecutor general against his "illegitimate sacking," saying only the party's General Assembly was entitled to relieve him of his post. To his chagrin, the General Assembly did just that, appointing Mostafa Al-Taweel as interim leader this time.
The strife within the party reached an unexpected climax when Gomaa and his supporters broke into the party's headquarters and opened fire on the rival faction. Nearly twenty-three people were injured in the subsequent battle. Gomaa was arrested in the aftermath of this incident.
After assuming leadership of Al-Wafd, Al-Badawi was able to bring key public figures into the party, including actress Samira Ahmed and poet Ahmed Fouad Negm. Al-Badawi, who made his fortune in the pharmaceutical business, alienated the liberal media when he bought the newspaper Al-Dostour and immediately sacked its editor, Ibrahim Eissa, who was one of the most outspoken critics of the Mubarak regime. In the wake of this incident, prominent Wafidist members resigned. They included Ahmad Fouad Negm. At the time, critics accused Al-Badawi of doing the "dirty work" of the Mubarak regime.
Similar accusations were leveled against Al-Badawi during the eighteen-day uprising that ultimately resulted in Mubarak's ouster. Al-Badawi's TV station, Al-Hayat, was criticized for siding against the protesters who led the revolution during its early days. Al-Wafd was also criticized for meeting with then-Vice President Omar Suleiman, along with other opposition groups, during the first week of protests in order to negotiate reforms that could mitigate public outrage.
Al-Badawi claims that he approved Al-Wafd youth's participation in the "March of Millions" and other protests during the week that preceded Mubarak's overthrow. Yet the Revolution's Youth Coalition, an alliance of some of the Mubarak era's most eminent opposition groups, has openly questioned Al-Wafd's conspicuous absence in the first weeks of the revolution.
The Revolution's Youth Coalition's criticism came after Al-Badawi denounced the 8 July 2011 sit-in, in which dozens of groups took part. Al-Badawi claimed that the sit-in participants had played no role in the January 25 Revolution.
Party Structure
Despite the recurring divisions within its ranks, Al-Wafd prides itself on the strength of its internal structure. The party is run by a Supreme Council which includes fifty members, all elected by the General Assembly, and is said to be the highest decision making body in the party. The party has branches in twenty-four out of twenty-six Egyptian governorates.
Parliamentary Elections
Al-Wafd was initially slated to contest the parliamentary elections through the Democratic Alliance for Egypt, an electoral coalition formed in mid-June 2011 that includes the MB's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). In October 2011, Al-Wafd officially withdrew from the alliance, citing disagreements over the selection of candidates.
Prior to Al-Wafd's defection from the Democracy Alliance for Egypt, a spokesman for the latter said that the Alliance's aim was "to establish a parliament that is representative of all political forces in society and that would lead to the creation of a national unity government." Critics of the Alliance were not convinced. Some pointed out that a merger of the Al-Wafd and the Brotherhood—the two most experienced political groups in the country—was an attempt to dominate the next parliament.
Fielding 570 candidates in the upcoming elections, Al-Wafd will compete for over eighty percent of the available seats in parliament. Through forty-six lists, the party is contesting all 332 party list seats available in the 508-member lower house, and will present ninety-six candidates (out of a possible 166) for single-winner races in the same chamber. For the 270-member lower house, Al-Wafd will present candidates for 120 (out of a possible 130) party list seats, and will contest twenty-two single-winner races (out of a possible sixty). Party officials claim that Copts and women represent 6.5 and ten percent of their candidate rosters, respectively.
The legal framework governing the elections gives SCAF the right to appoint ten of the 508 members of the lower house, and eighty of the 270 members of the upper house
Party leader Al-Sayed Al-Badawi disclosed to the media that Al-Wafd's candidate lists are free of ex-NDP members, except for four individuals who were once affiliated with the former ruling party. The disclosure came after many observers had accused Al-Wafd of fielding former ruling party candidates on their electoral lists.
Relationship with Other Political Parties
The only remaining tie between Al-Wafd and the Democratic Alliance (including the FJP) is the "Code of Honor" that thirty-four parties of the Alliance had signed. The Democratic Alliance is currently composed of eleven parties.
"Our alliance with the FJP was supposed to be electoral as well as political ...The electoral agreement is called off, but we still have the Code of Honor in common. It is an agreement on a general consensus over the form of the country as a civil modern state, and on its constitution," Wafdist official Sherif Taher told Jadaliyya/Ahram Online.
Many Wafdists figures had publicly criticized their leaders' decision to wage an alliance with the Brotherhood on grounds that the move made Al-Wafd subservient to a rival organization and compromised the party's long-standing commitment to secular principles, which the Brotherhood opposes. Al-Wafd's officials, however, hold that they left the Democratic Alliance primarily because there was insufficient room in the joint candidate list for the party to field all the candidates it had recruited. It is noteworthy, nonetheless, that Wafdist Wahid Abdel Meguid, the Coordinator of the Democratic Alliance, kept his position in the coalition despite the withdrawal of his party. Abdel Meguid is running in the upcoming elections on one of the Alliance's electoral lists in Cairo.
After leaving the Democratic Alliance, there has been some speculation in the media to the effect that Al-Wafd would join the Egyptian Bloc electoral coalition led by secular-leaning forces, but this never happened.
Stances on Salient Issues
Form of Government
Al-Wafd believes in a parliamentary democracy, in which the power of the parliament exceeds that of the head of state. The party's golden age was all rooted in parliamentary democracy dynamics prior to the Revolution of 1952.
Social Justice
Like all parties, Al-Wafd proclaims a commitment to policies that promote social justice, including state-sponsored health care and greater workers' rights.
Economic Policy
Al-Wafd supports a market economy, stable prices, and increased foreign investments. The party opposes monopolistic business practices. Al-Wafd's leader Al-Badawi is famous for being a successful businessman, like many of the party's prominent members.
Religion and State
Since the 1920s, the party has embraced the slogan "religion is for God and nation is for all." Al-Wafd believes in the separation between religion and state, and has historically advocated for national unity (between Muslims and Copts). Its short-lived alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood's party, therefore, seemed perplexing for many observers.
Military Trials
Like most political forces, Al-Wafd Party says it opposes the trial of civilian suspects in military courts. The party, however, boycotted the Tahrir Square demonstration of 9 September 2011, which voiced strong opposition to military trials of civilians.
Strike Law and Labor Movements
Al-Wafd objects to the law banning labor strikes and sit-ins. Deputy Prime Minister Ali Al-Selmy, who is a member of Al-Wafd, said on at least one occasion that the law has to be amended. The law remains in effect until this day. The party, moreover, did not back this position with a lot of action on the ground, and refrained from joining many activities organized in opposition to this law.
International Monitoring of Elections
Al-Badawi said on at least one occasion that he opposes international monitoring of Egypt's electionsbecause he considers it a form of foreign interference in the country's internal affairs.
Foreign Relations
In the past, Al-Wafd has been a vocal critic of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Recently, its party chair Al-Badawi has said that the United States is an obstacle to Arab-Israeli peace due to its bias toward the Israeli side and its blind commitment to protecting Tel Aviv's interests. Al-Badawi has hinted before that annulment of the Camp David Peace Accords is fair game if Israel fails to deliver on its obligations as mandated by the agreement.
Media Image and Controversies
Al-Wafd's alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood—the Democratic Alliance for Egyptthat once included over forty parties—was perhaps its most controversial decision since the January 25 Revolution. The FJP's insistence on the implementation of Sharia runs against much of what the liberal Al-Wafd professes to stand for. Ex-parliamentarian Mostafa Al-Guindi and others suspended their membership in Al-Wafd in protest of their party's partnership with the Brotherhood.
Key Figures
Al-Sayed Al-Badawi
Al-Sayed Al-Badawi has served as Al-Wafd Party's leader since 2010. A shrewd businessman who graduated with a pharmacy degree from Alexandria University, Al-Badawi is also the head of Al-Hayat Television Network and chairman of the board of Sigma, a major pharmaceutical company. His success in securing a TV license from the state prior to the January 25 Revolution raised many questions at the time, as it was believed that the Mubarak regime handed out such licenses only to loyal individuals that it trusts. Al-Badawi first joined Al-Wafd in 1983 and became secretary general of the party in 2000.
Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour
Mounir Fakhri Abdel Nour is the party's Secretary General. He served as minister of tourism in the interim cabinet of Ahmed Shafiq and kept this same post under the government of Essam Sharaf. Abdel Nour is also a successful businessman and former owner of Vitrac, a major food company. He opposed party leader Noaman Gomaa during the acrimonious power struggle of 2006. Abdel Nour was one of the few Wafdist candidates who complied with the party's decision to withdraw from the run-off races during the fraud-ridden parliamentary elections in 2010.
Fouad Badrawi
Fouad Badrawi is the grandson of Fouad Serag El-Din, who brought Al-Wafd back to life in the late 1970s after decades of suspension under the rule of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. His unexpected decision not to run for party chair in 2010 paved the way for Al-Badawi to take over that post. He is now one of the party's several high-ranking secretaries.
Mostafa Al-Guindi
Mostafa Al-Guindi is a businessman and former parliamentarian who joined Al-Wafd in 2010. He suspended his membership in Al-Wafd in protest of his party's alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, saying that Al-Wafd was wrong to associate itself with a religious-leaning group. He was one of the organizers of the post-revolution visits to Nile Basin countries by an Egyptian popular delegation.
Fact Box
Founding: 1978
Membership: Exact figures are unavailable, but Sherif Taher, a Supreme Council member, claims that membership is in the "hundreds of thousands."
Political Orientation: Liberal
Alliances: Joined and subsequently withdrew from the Democratic Alliance for Egypt


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WASHINGTON — Struggling to find the votes to pass a sweeping immigration overhaul, House Republicans are narrowing on a slimmed down bill to stem the crisis of separating immigrant families at the border.
But even that more modest measure hit uncertainty Monday. President Donald Trump rejected one top idea — adding more immigration judges — insisting it would only lead to graft even though supporters say the step could help expedite the logjam of claims that can prolong detentions.
With Congress wavering on the next moves, it's uncertain if lawmakers will be able to swiftly act on any bills to address the border crisis despite an outpouring of public concern over reports of immigrant children being separated from their parents.
"We want a system where, when people come in illegally, they have to go out," Trump said Monday during an event at the White House. "A nice simple system that works."
House Republicans were set to meet Tuesday behind closed doors to map out their options for taking action before lawmakers leave town at the end of the week for the Fourth of July holiday recess. Votes may be scheduled for Wednesday. But with Trump's on-again, off-again support, the outlook for passage of the broader immigration overhaul was dimming.
"The president is the fuel that propels this rocket off the pad," said Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina, chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee. "If that's not there, no matter how good the framework is, it's going to be challenging."
• Pentagon says it will build temporary camps for immigrants at 2 military bases
• Trump tweets, hard-right voters hamper GOP immigration push
• Democratic lawmakers tour border facility, call it "a prison"
Still, many Republicans are eager to address the border crisis and distance themselves from the Trump administration's policy that has resulted in more than 2,300 migrant children being separated from their parents.
Even though the president signed an executive order last week reversing the situation, lawmakers heading into a midterm election year want to be able to show constiuents back home they voted to end it. Some 500 minors have been reunited so far, officials said.
"I don't know why we wouldn't vote for a bill that keeps families together," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.
Senate Republicans have proposed legislation that would lift rules that prevent children from being held longer than 20 days in custody. It would add 200 immigration judges to more quickly process the claims.
But Trump has repeatedly dismissed the need for more judges, and did so again Monday.
"You know what it leads? It leads to graft," Trump said. "It leads to a lot of other things."
Meanwhile, senators soldiered on trying to broker a compromise. Late Monday, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was meeting with a top Democrat on immigration issues, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who has drafted an alternative approach.
With the Senate's narrow 51-seate GOP majority, a compromise with Democrats would likely be needed to reach the 60-vote threshold usually required to advance legislation. But resolution seemed difficult.
House Republicans were considering a similar approach to the family separations as the Senate, but it remained a work in progress Monday.
Meanwhile, a broad Republican immigration bill is also expected to be voted on in the House this week, though revisions are being made and timing is uncertain.
The legislation would provide $25 billion for Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico and give immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children a chance at eventually becoming citizens. It also would end the 20-day cap on custody so minors could be held with their parents without being separated, though critics say that would make for lengthy detentions.
Changes were being made to the bill to secure more support, including the addition of a provision that would require employees to verify the legal status of their workers and another that would address immigrants working in the agricultural industry.
Republicans were considering even more changes after a 75-minute conference call over the weekend. Among them, a provision to block the parents of "Dreamers," the young immigrants in the country illegally since childhood, from being allowed to gain eventual citizenship. It was unclear if it would be added to the emerging GOP bill.
The broad overhaul is the product of weeks of bargaining between party conservatives and moderates. Even so, the two GOP factions have been unable to resolve their final differences and vote-counters have yet to round up a majority. Republicans are getting no help from Democrats, who uniformly oppose the legislation.
And Trump has given mixed signals on the bill — first telling Republicans he was "1,000 percent" in favor of it, then suggesting they should quit wasting their time, since the legislation would be blocked by Senate Democrats.
Republicans, though, who control Congress, are worried about leaving town for the weeklong recess without addressing immigration issues, particularly the family separations at the border.
Rep. Mark Meadows, the leader of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, told Fox on Monday that Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., was working on legislation to "keep those families together." She is the fourth-ranking Republican in House GOP leadership and faces a potentially competitive re-election bid this fall.

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creamy fettuccine with prosciutto
- 200g fettuccine
- 1 cup (250ml) pouring cream
- 2 egg yolks
- sea salt and cracked black pepper
- 6 slices prosciutto, torn
- finely grated parmesan, to serve
- Cook the pasta in a saucepan of salted boiling water for 10–12 minutes or until al dente. Drain and return to pan.
- Whisk together the cream, egg yolks, salt and pepper, add to pan and cook, stirring, over low heat for 1–2 minutes or until thickened.
- Top with prosciutto and parmesan to serve. Serves 2.


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One of the world's most visionary performing artists, MICHAEL MOSCHEN, juggler without compare, has revolutionized this ancient circus art and turned it into a mesmerizing form of theatre. Critically acclaimed by such leading media as the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times who have called his work "genius," "exhilarating virtuoso entertainment" and "flawless purity." Incorporating the rich beauty of art, science, physics and mathematics this MacArthur Fellow has, for the first time, added unique audience participation to a show of creative, fantastic and impossible feats of manipulation and illusion. |
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Tuesday 28 June 2011
Cyclevision 2011
Eventually I decided I would go, and make the most of it. I do it for the fun. It doesn't really matter if I perform less well than usual because I'm never in contention for any prizes anyway.
Harry also decided to ride there on Friday, so we went together. However, because I had a meeting to go to on Monday morning I decided I must come back early, missing Sunday's events. That left only Friday and Saturday.
Friday's event was a one hour time trial, held on the same 2.8 km long high speed test track as Cyclevision had used at the 2002 and 2003 events which I also took part in. Therefore it was a chance to see if I could go faster than back then. Due to having a much faster bike, I was sure I would do so, and so it turned out. However, my speed wasn't particularly impressive. Perhaps 130 km of "warm up" is just too much.
Anyway, here's the video I made going to, during and after the race. Apart from the race itself, there's quite a bit showing the cycle paths I came home on afterwards:
There are many other reports, videos, photos of the event. You can find them on the ligfiets.net website.
Many thanks to all those involved in organising this excellent event.
Grotere kaart weergeven
The last part of the video shows most of the first third of my route home. It is (more or less) as shown on this map.
Read my review of the Sinner Mango Velomobile.
5 comments:
- Slow Factory said...
The race reminds me of the pod race in "Star Wars - The Phantom Menace", as all of the vehicles have different designs.
- 28 June 2011 at 05:04
- Cottenham Cyclist said...
I can't get that Big Audio Dynamite track out of my head now. Fantastic! ... "Come on every beat box, la la la" ... :-)
- 28 June 2011 at 11:35
- Neil said...
The speed difference is amazing to watch. Both when you overtake some of the slower unfaired riders and the faster velombiles.
But even tired you managed to overtake another velomobile.
Some of those faired two wheelers look scary. - 28 June 2011 at 18:10
- David Hembrow said...
Neil: I'm really not quick. The quick people there would beat me on much lesser bikes.
The faired two-wheelers are specialized racing machines. They're not safe for use on the street as side-winds are dangerous. There is also usually nowhere to carry any luggage.
Similar things go for the racing hoods and other adaptions for improved aerodynamics on some of the other velomobiles. In many cases these also make them unsuitable for use off a track - especially when you can't look around. Also some are a bit close to the ground to get over speed-bumps.
As Todd says, not two bikes are identical in these races. It's a lot of fun. - 28 June 2011 at 18:23
I was there, but I missed most of the races. Spent most of my time just socializing at the campsite.
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Welcome to OpenSPIM
The Idea
OpenSPIM is an Open Access platform for applying and enhancing Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM).
We hope that OpenSPIM in its radical openness will demonstrate that the benefits brought to science by the Open Source approach apply equally well to hardware.
SPIM principle
The SPIM technology offers fast, optically-sectioning, minimally-invasive 3D acquisition of fluorescing specimen over time. It achieves that by focusing a thin laser light-sheet into the specimen, taking two-dimensional images of the illuminated slice with a perpendicularly positioned detector (CCD camera). Three-dimensional stacks are obtained by moving the specimen orthogonal to the light-sheet between consecutive images. By mounting the sample in a rigid medium, e.g. agarose, and hanging it into the sample chamber in front of the detection lens, it is possible to rotate the sample and collect 3d stacks from multiple angles (views).
OpenSPIM is a platform to build, adapt and enhance SPIM technology. It is designed to be as accessible as possible:
- Detailed, easy-to-follow build instructions
- Off-the-shelf components and 3D-printed parts
- Modular and extensible design
- Completely open blueprints
- Completely Open Source
The build instructions are intended to allow scientists without prior knowledge in building optical systems to make their own OpenSPIM set-up. If a 3D printer is not readily available, the parts are designed to be easily machined by any competent work shop. The set-up is small enough to fit inside a suitcase. The software is built on top of the Open Source projects µManager and Fiji.
OpenSPIM is designed to be maximally cost-effective allowing anyone to build an entry level system and further tweak it for the specific imaging needs. Parallel set-ups (SPIM farms) can be realized to enable medium throughput, long-term, time-lapse imaging.
OpenSPIM aims to creates a powerful synergy between Open Software and Open Hardware that can serve as a nucleus for further development of the SPIM technology.
SPIM application
SPIM promises to revolutionize several fields of biological research, in particular developmental and cell biology, by allowing imaging of large samples with high resolution over extended periods of time. SPIM has been used in a spectacular fashion to record the development of embryos of model organisms such as Drosophila and zebra fish with cellular resolution throughout the developing specimen (the so-called in toto imaging). The ability of SPIM to deliver high signal-to-noise 3D images of large specimen from different angles in an extended time-lapse is currently hard to achieve with any other microscopy technology. Since monitoring biological systems with high resolution over time is the goal of essentially all fields of biological inquiry, SPIM technology is imminently useful to biologists.
Partners and funding
Building your own OpenSPIM
- Table of Parts
- Step by step assembly
- How to install the Micro-Manager software with SPIM support.
- How to operate OpenSPIM including sample preparation, calibration and data processing.
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OpenSPIM data
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MAMED EMBO course
Marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii stained with Sytox-green imaged with OpenSPIM from 7 angles. Walk through fused and deconvolved data (15 iterations on default settings). Staining, OpenSPIM assembly and imaging done by Mette Handberg-Thorsager, processing by Pavel Tomancak.
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Histone-YFP from gastrulation to beginning of muscle contraction from ventral, lateral and dorsal view
Expression pattern of Csp-sGFP recorded with OpenSPIM
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Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, and can involve travel by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, airplane, or other means, with or without luggage, and can be one way or round trip.
edit- Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
- Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah
- The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sightseeing."
- Daniel J. Boorstin. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, 3.2, 1961.
- Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.
- Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits (2006).
- If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.
- Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw (2010).
- Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.
- Richard Francis Burton, "Narrative of a Trip to Harar" (11 June 1855)
- I depart,
Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by
When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.- Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 1.
- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
- G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles (1909), Ch. 31 The Riddle of the Ivy.
- They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.
- G. K. Chesterton, The Poet and the Lunatics (1929), Ch. 3 The Shadow of the Shark.
- The traveller sees what he sees, the tripper sees what he has come to see.
- G. K. Chesterton, Autobiography (1936), Ch. 15 The Incomplete Traveller.
- Now often quoted with 'tourist' instead of 'tripper'.
- After 1870, sending a family member across the ocean to work became a possibility open to all save the very poorest of European households. ...The production and trade globalization of the late 1800s was fueled by one hundred million people leaving their continent of origin to live and work elsewhere. Never before or since have we seen such a rapid proportional redistribution of humanity around the globe.
- J. Bradford DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century (2022)
- Travelling can hardly be without a continual current of disappointment, if the main object is not the enlargement of one's general life, so as to make even weariness and annoyances enter into the sum of benefit.
- George Eliot, March 1860 on her first Trip to Italy [1]
- In travelling
I shape myself betimes to idleness
And take fools' pleasure.- George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy (1868), Book I.
- Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series (1841), Ch. 12 Art
- I have been a stranger in a strange land.
- Exodus, II. 22.
- It is not enough to simply visit a country, for that does not mean successful travelling, nor imply that one has seen the land. The aim of the traveller should be to be at the right time at the right place. Spring is apt to be cold and dreary in Japan. There are many days of mist and rain, yet the wanderer who can control his steps makes a big mistake in losing the joys of the cherry season.
- Gertrude Adams Fisher, A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan. 1906. p. 26.
- Go far—too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;—
One meal a week will serve you, and one suit,
Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain,
The poorer and the baser you appear,
The more you look through still.- John Fletcher, The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed (c. 1611; published 1647), Act IV, scene 5, line 199.
- Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
- Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Travelling. Maxim IV.
- Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm…She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.
- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition, 2003.
- Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.
- A wise traveler never despises his own country.
- Carlo Goldoni, Pamela (c. 1750), I. 16.
- The soul of the journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
- William Hazlitt, "On Going a Journey," Table Talk, 1822.
- The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- Samuel Johnson, Letter to Hester Thrale, 21 September 1773.
- Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known.
- Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1773).
- As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in travelling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
- Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1778).
- Though they carry nothing forth with them, yet in all their journey they lack nothing. For wheresoever they come, they be at home.
- Sir Thomas More. "Of Their Journeying or Travelling Abroad," Utopia, bk. 2.
- A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not: but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place...
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1778) as quoted in Contradictory Quotations, Longman Group Ltd., 1983, p. 198.
- * Say, (O Muhammad), "Travel through the land and observe how He began creation. Then God will produce the final creation. Indeed Allah, over all things, is competent."
- Quran 29:20
- Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels.
- Socrates. In Seneca the Younger. "On Travel as a Cure for Discontent," Moral Letters to Lucilius.
- When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 4, line 17.
- And in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which he vents
In mangled forms.- William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 7, line 38.
- The sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act IV, scene 1, line 17.
- Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country.
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act IV, scene 1, line 33.
- Travell'd gallants,
That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.- William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act I, scene 3, line 19.
- I spake of most disastr'us chances,
* * * *
Of being taken by the insolent foe
And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence
And portance in my travellers' history;
Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven,
It was my hint to speak—such was the process;—
And of the cannibals that each other eat.- William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 3, line 134.
- Travel has always served to inspire me, as it has many writers, as it apparently did my alter ego; yet the farther we proceeded down the Mekong, the more I came to realize that there was a blighted sameness to the world and its various cultures. Strip away their trappings and you found that every tribe was moved by the same passions, and this was true not only in the present but also, I suspected, in ages past. Erase from your mind the images of the kings and exotic courtesans and maniacal monks that people the legends of Southeast Asia, and look to a patch of ground away from the temples and palaces of Angkor Wat—there you will find the average planetary citizen, a child eating the Khmer equivalent of a Happy Meal and longing for the invention of television.
- Lucius Shepard, Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life (2009), in Nick Gevers and Jay Lake (eds.), Other Earths (p. 227)
- All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end.
- Lucius Shepard, Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life (2009), in Nick Gevers and Jay Lake (eds.), Other Earths (p. 295)
- To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson. "El Dorado," Virginibus Puerisque (1881).
- I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
- Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (c. 1738), Dialogue II.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- Publius Syrus. Moral Sayings.
- Some people feel more alive when they travel and visit unfamiliar places or foreign countries because at those times sense perception – experiencing – takes up more of heir consciousness than thinking. They become more present. Others remain completely possessed by the voice in the head even then. Their perceptions and experiences are distorted by instant judgments. They haven't really gone anywhere. Only their body is traveling, while they remain where they have always been: in their head. p. 144
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad Ch. LXII (Conclusion).
- Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
- Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (1653-1655), Part I, Chapter I.
- The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
- Xun Zi quoted in: Errick A. Ford (2010) Iron Sharpens Iron: Wisdom of the Ages, p. 48.
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edit- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 809-11.
- The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.
- Amos Bronson Alcott, Table-Talk, Traveling.
- Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
- Amos Bronson Alcott, Table-Talk, Traveling.
- Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
- Francis Bacon, Of Travel.
- He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.
- Fernando Cortez; reported in Prescott, Conquest of Mexico, Book V, Chapter III.
- One who journeying
Along a way he knows not, having crossed
A place of drear extent, before him sees
A river rushing swiftly toward the deep,
And all its tossing current white with foam,
And stops and turns, and measures back his way.- Homer, The Iliad, Book V, line 749. Bryant's translation.
- Cœlum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.
Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque
Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est.- They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.
- Horace, Epistles, I. 11. 27.
- I am fevered with the sunset,
I am fretful with the bay,
For the wander-thirst is on me
And my soul is in Cathay.- Richard Hovey, A Sea Gypsy.
- The wonders of each region view,
From frozen Lapland to Peru.- Soame Jenkyns, Epistle to Lord Lovelace. Suggested Johnson's lines.
- The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- Samuel Johnson, Piozzi's Johnsoniana. 154.
- Let observation with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.- Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes.
- Follow the Romany Patteran
Sheer to the Austral light,
Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind,
Sweeping the sea floors white.- Rudyard Kipling, The Gypsy Trail.
- Down to Gehenna or up to the throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.- Rudyard Kipling, The Winners.
- The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.
- Louis XV, while looking at Mme. de Pompadour's funeral.
- Better sit still where born, I say,
Wed one sweet woman and love her well,
Love and be loved in the old East way,
Drink sweet waters, and dream in a spell,
Than to wander in search of the Blessed Isles,
And to sail the thousands of watery miles
In search of love, and find you at last
On the edge of the world, and a curs'd outcast.- Joaquin Miller, Pace Implora.
- We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands
Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands:
We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl,
We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.- Francis Quarles, Divine Emblems, Book II, II.
- Qui veut voyager loin ménage sa monture.
- He who will travel far spares his steed.
- Jean Racine, Plaideurs, I. 1.
- Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day's journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.- Christina G. Rossetti, Up-Hill.
- Zählt der Pilger Meilen,
Wenn er zum fernen Gnadenbilde wallt?- Does the pilgrim count the miles
When he travels to some distant shrine? - Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein's Tod, IV. 11.
- Does the pilgrim count the miles
- Nusquam est, qui ubique est.
- He who is everywhere is nowhere.
- Seneca the Younger, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, II.
- I think it was Jekyll who used to say that the further he went west, the more convinced he felt that the wise men came from the east.
- Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, Volume I.
- 'Tis nothing when a fancied scene's in view
To skip from Covent Garden to Peru.- Richard Steele, prologue to Ambrose Phillip's Distressed Mother.
- I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "'Tis all barren!"
- Laurence Sterne, Sentimental Journey, In the Street, Calais.
- When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side…. O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, El Dorado.
- 'Tis a mad world (my masters) and in sadnes
I travail'd madly in these dayes of madnes.- John Taylor, Wandering to see the Wonders of the West (1649). The syntax of "a mad world (my masters)" may be an allusion to and/or acknowledgement of Nicolas Breton's 1603 tract "A Mad World, my Masters".
- Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.
- Alfred Tennyson, paraphrasing Johnson. See Locker-Lampson's Recollections of a tour with Tennyson, in Memoirs of Tennyson by his son, II. 73. See also Criticism by Byron in his Diary, Jan. 9, 1821. "Let observation with observant view, / Observe mankind from China to Peru." Goldsmith's paraphrase. Caroline Spurgeon—Works of Dr. Johnson. (1898). De Quincey quotes it from some writer, according to Dr. Birkbeck Hill—Boswell. I. 194. Coleridge quotes it, Lecture VI, on Shakespeare and Milton.
- For always roaming with a hungry heart,
Much have I seen and known.- Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses.
- All human race from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.- Thomas Warton, The Universal Love of Pleasure.
- The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon,"
And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved
From wild America to Bosphor's waters,
And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines
Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me,
And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue,
And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul,
Sitting amid their ruins.- Nathaniel Parker Willis, Florence Gray, line 46.


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Analog IC Design
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IIT Madras, , Prof. Nagendra Krishnapura
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Negative feedback systems and stability : Negative feedback amplifier using an integrator, Frequency and time domain behavior, Loop gain and its implications; Negative feedback amplifier realization - Finite DC gain; increasing DC gain; Effect of multiple poles; Negative feedback systems with multiple poles and zeros in the forward path - Stability analysis using Nyquist criterion; Nyquist criterion; Loop gain-Bode plot and time domain interpretation; Significance of 60 degree phase margin.
Opamp at the block level: Frequency compensation : Concept of the opamp for realizing negative feedback circuits; Realizing a multi stage opamp-frequency compensation-miller opamp - Realizing a multi stage opamp- feedforward compensated opamp - Opamp as a general block; unity gain compensation; nonidealities-swing limits, slew rate, off set; dc negative feedback around opamps.
Opamp amplifiers : Amplifiers using Miller compensated opamp; Effect of input capacitance; gain bandwidth product - Transimpedence amplifier; lead-lag compensation; inverting and noninverting amplifiers-CMRR and its importance.
Components available on an IC : IC components and their models.
Single ended opamp design : Realizing a single stage opamp-diff pair; small signal ac analysis; Single stage opamp-mismatch and noise; Single stage opamp-telescopic cascode - Replica biasing a cascode; Single stage opamp-folded cascode; Two stage miller compensated opamp.
Fully differential opamp design : Fully differential opamps; Differential and common mode half circuits; common mode feedback; Fully differential miller compensated opamp-common mode feedback loop and its stability - Fully differential single stage opamp; Fully differential telescopic cascode opamp; Fully differential feedforward compensated opamp.
Phase locked loop : Frequency multiplier-Phase locked loop; Lock range limitations; type ll loop; Jitter & Phase noise; Leesons model of phase noise of VCOs - Continuous time approximation; PLL transfer functions; Reference feedthrough spurs; LC oscillators.
Reference voltage and current generators : Bandgap reference; Bandgap reference; Constant current and constant gm bias generators.
Continuous time filters : Active RC filters using integrators.
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By Saibal Chakraborty, Rajiv Gupta, Heiner Himmelreich, and Robert Tevelson
Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) are joining the mainstream, and they're coming to a shared-services center near you. In many cases, they bring big promises of disruption in the form of dramatically improved efficiency and effectiveness and great reductions in human effort. A compelling proposition—if it actually happens.
To be sure, many of the applications are innovative. Some companies, for instance, now use AI to transform the way they conduct early-round job interviews.
Candidates who might previously have been summoned to a potential employer's office now use their smartphones to video themselves answering questions. The AI platform compares each applicant's responses—down to tone of voice and facial expression—with those of successful employees, allowing the company to tie up fewer recruiters and devote less time to candidate screening while quite likely delivering better results.
Across such functions as HR, IT, and finance and accounting (F&A), solution providers are singing a similar refrain: let's apply a new technology to a traditional process and do it faster, better, and cheaper. More disruptive yet, providers are applying these technologies to processes meant to deal with such genuine business problems as how to assess the credit worthiness of loan seekers. But is this next generation of shared services really living up to its billing? In a recent study, The Boston Consulting Group determined that in many cases, companies are not seeing the results that they'd expected. What's holding up the payoff? Often, the finger can be pointed at a common set of challenges—obstacles that with the right planning and foresight could be overcome.
In our study, we looked at 49 use cases: real-world applications of such technologies as AI and machine learning, RPA, natural-language processing, and big data and analytics (BDAA) in shared services that focus on HR, IT, and F&A.
It's easy to understand the excitement these technologies generate. AI and sophisticated analytics, for example, are being incorporated into a host of applications such as intelligent incident management, attrition risk prediction, collections management, and training-curriculum design. And in some cases, these technologies are breaking new ground. One company in our study was able to teach an AI tool to identify the cause—and potential resolution—of IT incidents by "feeding" it data on past incidents and resolutions. Another company used RPA to automate the new-hire setup process: software bots—all operating around the clock—pull data from Excel files to create employee IDs, allocate workspace, update distribution lists, and create 90 different types of documents, including confidentiality agreements, employment contracts, and relocation forms.
The benefits of such next-generation processes are not trivial—or theoretical. In the incident management example, the AI tool reduced the manual effort required for troubleshooting problems in a complex IT architecture. In the new-hire setup example, RPA reduced turnaround time by more than 90%, simultaneously improving accuracy. Whereas 70% of documents were error free before the company deployed its new process, nearly 100% have been error free since the bots were unleashed.
Indeed, in some of the cases we examined, the distinctions between the before and after pictures were quite compelling. (See Exhibit 1.) At one large global company, the HR department's limited capacity for answering queries from its more than 60,000 employees had led to widespread dissatisfaction. Upon close inspection, the company discovered that some 80% of employees' queries were related to four themes. By automating its HR help desk—digitizing its HR handbook, creating an online knowledge base, and deploying chatbots and natural-language processing—the company was able to respond to most queries in real time, routing only nonaddressable queries to HR staff. Transaction costs decreased by 65%.
Overall, in nearly a quarter of the cases we examined, productivity improved by 40% or more. For a similar number, turnaround time was reduced by 70% or more.
But we also found that, in many cases, benefits either did not materialize to the degree companies expected or were achieved only with a significant—and surprising—amount of effort. Consider two examples from our study.
A large bank had attempted to apply RPA to its new-hire performance audits. As this was a simple, rules-based activity, the company expected to reduce processing time by more than 50%. But to work, the RPA tool needed to draw data from three different sources: email, a data warehouse, and an enterprise resource planning system. Complicating matters further, the data in the email was unstructured, and the data in the warehouse was of poor quality. For instance, an offer date might be later than a joining date. Significant manual intervention was needed before the data was suitable for RPA. And every few months, when assessment questions or metrics changed, the bank would have to take the RPA tool offline and reconfigure it. In the end, the productivity gain—not even 20%—was far less than the bank had anticipated.
A top logistics and shipping company decided to employ RPA and AI to streamline its process for providing and tracking user access to IT infrastructure (including files, servers, and applications). The idea was to create a self-service environment in which employees could complete an online form to request access and an automated system would vet requests, manage approvals, and monitor use. But the anticipated benefit—a 35% to 45% reduction in turnaround time—was offset by substantial implementation challenges. In order to train the AI tool, the company had to migrate a large archive of unstructured, paper-based requests to a data warehouse and to employ a high degree of change management for training 240,000 employees to use the new system.
Companies are largely on their own as they plan for and deploy next-generation shared services. Many applications are not yet widely used, and the efficacy of many remains unproven. (See Exhibit 2.) So there is little in the way of lessons learned and best practices to provide guidance. And standards—which have driven previous generations of shared services—have yet to emerge.
Given such uncertainty and unpredictability, how can companies ensure the best outcomes? Our study sheds light on where—and how—companies should focus.
Finding that the same handful of implementation challenges appeared time and again, we identified six common problems that, sooner or later, dampen an application's payoff.
Use of the Application in a Vacuum Rather Than as One Element of a Digital Strategy. Many companies embrace a new application without crafting—and meeting—a clear set of requirements for making it work. Consider, for example, the intelligent processing of nonstandardized invoices. In theory, such an application should automate accounts payable, helping companies realize significant productivity improvements and ROI—generally on the order of 30% and 60%, respectively. In practice, however, many companies fail to achieve such returns because they haven't laid the proper groundwork. For example, they may still be using paper-based invoices—scanning them and editing them manually—or doing other things that make automation difficult. Without a wider digital strategy that ensures that invoices are in a form that works well with automation, companies are unlikely to realize the full benefits that AI and RPA solutions can bring.
Limited Understanding of How Next-Generation Solutions Do—or Do Not—Fit Within a Company's Unique Environment. Traditional solutions have been "around the block" and then some, with standardized systems deployed—and proven—on a global scale. Most companies generally know what a particular solution can do for them, and provider selection tends to boil down to price, the ability to customize a few industry-specific processes, and the provider's promises of ongoing improvement. But when it comes to solutions based on newer technologies, such as RPA, AI, and BDAA, there is much more variation and uncertainty. The relative immaturity of many applications, along with the lack of standards, can lead many companies to rely too heavily on a provider's claims and assurances—a problem that frequently leads to unrealistic expectations.
Inconsistent or Changing Workflow, Formats, and Input. RPA systems do a great job of following rules for automating processes and extracting information from standardized documents. But each time processes or document formats change, the rules change and companies have to recode the RPA tool. These systems also run into trouble when input quality is poor or when formats are inconsistent. Meanwhile, country- or region-specific workflows, which account for local practices and regulatory issues, can ratchet up the costs and time required to implement RPA-based solutions.
Lack of Data for Machine Learning, Cognitive Processing, and BDAA. Most AI and BDAA tools need to process large volumes of data before they can do their job. For instance, in order to "learn" how to spot the potential for a system crash, an AI tool needs to sift through performance data from earlier crashes to identify patterns that signal trouble. The necessary data is rarely available in a readily consumable format, and companies often expend considerable time and effort in locating and restructuring it. This work can delay the implementation—and payoff—of a new application.
Systems Integration Challenges. In complex IT environments that run multiple types of servers and applications, it can be difficult to integrate new AI and RPA systems. Companies need to apply considerable testing, expertise, and resources to tie everything together.
Limited In-House Ability to Manage the Solutions. Many organizations lack the personnel required to evaluate, implement, and maintain solutions that use technologies such as RPA and AI. Many have difficulties adapting to the changes their new tools require. To get the biggest bang from next-generation shared services, companies often find that they need to reconfigure their workforce and ways of working. The inability to do this—or at least, to do it well—is an impediment to success.
The good news is that companies can take steps to tackle and beat back the challenges. A savvy—and ultimately successful—approach to next-generation shared services embraces several imperatives.
Develop a clear and comprehensive business case for next-generation solutions. Before implementing a new solution, a company must identify all the requirements for making that solution work. It needs to understand the effort, resources, and costs necessary to meet those requirements and factor them into the business case for adopting the solution. This calculus is different for every business, which is precisely why every company has to work it out—and get it right.
Consider once more the invoice-processing example. Some companies' invoices are already in a consistent digital form that allows for automating the process from the outset. But other companies may need to integrate multiple solutions—such as optical character recognition to read handwritten invoices and AI to detect different types of aberrations—before they can automate the process. These extra steps affect the cost—and the business case—for the intelligent processing application. Indeed, once they have adjusted the business case, some companies may no longer be able to justify the investment, particularly when the shared-services center is already in a low-cost location.
Craft a well-designed provider strategy that creates and engages partners in success. In today's yet-to-mature application landscape—in which standards are elusive, many providers lack long track records, and different products are optimized for different environments—it's difficult for companies to home in on the right solution. But the following guidelines can help:
Keep in mind, too, that collaboration with a provider does not—or at least, should not—end with solution implementation. RPA-based solutions may need reconfiguration as legacy environments, workflows, regulations, and contract terms change. AI solutions, meanwhile, require continuous tweaking that optimizes their ability to learn. Companies must ensure that their providers can—and will—provide support over the medium term. A carefully crafted contract that emphasizes and incentivizes ongoing collaboration is a must.
Consider how processes and data architecture should be reengineered. The most successful applications in our study share a key characteristic: they were implemented as part of an integrated transformation program. In these instances, companies didn't simply plug in a new tool. They also reengineered processes and data architecture in ways that helped the new tool do its job. For example, some companies redesigned their data environment so that AI solutions could more easily access relevant datasets. The idea is to think holistically and understand how all the necessary pieces—the solution and related resources and processes—fit together best.
Retrain the workforce. Leading providers of IT services have recognized that those who implement, use, and manage technologies such as AI and RPA require new skills. To develop the requisite capabilities, providers have set up large-scale training programs. Shared-services organizations that plan to use next-generation solutions should consider following suit. They can start by identifying new job roles, assessing current employees, and pinpointing retraining needs. Developing new capabilities has an upside that goes beyond managing next-generation solutions. When companies have the skills in-house, they can challenge providers' approaches to product design and pricing—and get better results and value.
Don't rule out outsourcing—or the strategic role it can play. Automated and intelligent shared services don't spell the end of outsourcing. Indeed, for back-office processes that lack sufficient scale, outsourcing makes a lot of sense. Outsourcing can also provide the manual support that may be needed while new solutions are being brought online. An AI-based solution, for example, may need many months of data training before it works with little or no manual intervention. An AI application implemented at one financial services company could, even after six months, automate only 30% of the jobs it was fed. Indeed, it took two years to reach 90%. It is important to note, however, that as the new shared services mature and automation increases, outsourcing models will likely change, and payment will be based less on head count and more on outcomes.
The digital era has sparked no shortage of high-profile disruption in how we work, learn, and live. But it is also having a less visible, behind-the-scenes impact. Emerging technologies such as RPA, AI, and BDAA are changing and automating the way companies perform traditional back-office processes and infusing them with intelligence. Businesses are starting to benefit—but not to the level that is possible. With the right strategy—engaging with the right providers, designing the right processes, identifying the right uses and business cases—companies can close that gap and realize the full potential of next-generation shared services.
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Cuttings are a way of removing part of a plant in order to obtain a new one.
It is important to start with a healthy parent plant, i.e. one without any insect pests or diseases. Once rooted, the cutting will grow into a lovely, healthy plant itself.
Another advantage of this technique is that it preserves some characteristics that may be lost when trying to grow a new plant from seed, such as the colour of a hybrid's flowers.
How successful you are with this technique will depend on both the quality of the cutting and on how well you care for it afterward.
Stem cuttings
The length of a stem cutting varies depending on the type of plant. As a rule, take 2 to 4 nodes or a piece 5 to 15 cm long. It is best to use a very sharp, disinfected knife to avoid crushing the base of the cutting and to reduce the risk of contamination. When removing the cutting, cut just below a node or a leaf scar. There is no need to make a diagonal cut, as the larger wound will often only increase the risk of rot. Then remove the leaves from the base of the cutting to obtain a bare stem about 2 to 6 cm long. To increase your chances of success, use a rooting powder containing growth hormones.
During the cutting process, the leaves continue to lose moisture by transpiration, while the lack of roots limits the ability to absorb water. The water balance is disrupted and the cutting can dry out quickly. Removing some of the leaves is one way of preventing cuttings from wilting. Another method is to cover the container and the cutting with a clear plastic bag, to make a sort of mini-greenhouse. Poke a few holes in the plastic or leave it unsealed in a few spots to avoid excess moisture build-up, which would create condensation inside the bag.
All these steps apply for most plants. Cacti, except for tropical species, and succulents are the exceptions to the rule. For these plants, the cutting must be allowed to dry out before it is placed in soil, to allow the wound to heal completely. Otherwise, you will have problems with rot. It may take a few days to a few weeks for the scar to form, depending on the size of the cutting. Sprinkling the wound with powdered charcoal will reduce the risk of fungal infection. Finally, this type of cutting must not be covered in plastic.
- Cut below a node.
- Remove the leaf from the bottom node of the cutting.
- Dip the base of the cutting in rooting hormone powder.
- Fill a pot with a rooting mix. Poke holes in the mix with a pencil and insert your cuttings in the holes.
- Cover the cuttings with a clear plastic bag so that they won't wilt.
Cutting medium
Just a glass of water is enough for plants that root easily. This is not the best method, though, because the roots will be fragile and poorly adapted to growing in soil, increasingly the likelihood of transplant shock. It is a good method for plants that you intend to grow hydroponically. If you do try it, make sure that none of the leaves are submerged, or they will rot.
Packaged rooting mixes or peat-based potting mixes are suitable for most cuttings. If you would rather make your own mix, use perlite, vermiculite, coarse sand or peat moss. One, two or a combination of several of these elements usually gives good results. Fill the container to within a few centimetres of the top, then level and gently tamp down the mix. It will be difficult to water if it is too full. Stand the cuttings in the mix and gently firm it around them. For the first watering, you can immerse the base of the container in water for a few minutes.
The cuttings require sunlight in order to root. Put them in a bright spot, but not in direct sunlight, or they will dry up and wilt. Various factors, including the plant species and soil temperature, will affect how long it takes for roots to form on the cuttings. The ideal temperature is 25 to 27°C. It usually takes about three to four weeks for plants that root easily. Woody cuttings, like flowering maples and citrus, often take over a month to root properly. Once they are well rooted, transfer the cuttings to small pots 8 to 12 cm in diameter. You can put several cuttings together in one pot. To reduce transplant shock, keep the ball of rooting mix (peat moss, vermiculite, etc.) around the young plants' roots.
Leaf cuttings
Leaf cuttings have all the same advantages as stem cuttings. This is an easy way to propagate succulents. Just remove a healthy, well-developed leaf from the parent plant and let it dry for 24 to 48 hours for the wound to heal. Then insert the base of the leaf in a well-drained medium like sand- or perlite-based potting mix.
Some other plants, like African violets and peperomias, can also be propagated from cuttings by rooting a leaf and its leaf stalk in vermiculite, perlite or a 50-50 mix of the two.
Divide the plantlets once they appear and transplant them into moist peat-based mix.
Rex begonias can be propagated in two ways.
The first is to cut incisions in the leaf veins and then lay the leaf on a bed of moist peat moss. Hold it down with "U" shaped pins.
The second method involves cutting the leaf into wedges. Make incisions in one or two main veins at the base of each wedge.
Then stand these leaf wedges up in peat-based mix so that the vein incisions are in contact with the medium. Keep the mix moist until the cuttings form roots. Plantlets will appear within a few weeks.
No matter which method you use, once the cutting is well rooted, transfer it to a pot and care for it as you would an adult plant of the same species.
Examples of indoor plants that are appropriate for cuttings:
Stem cutting
- Aeschynanthus
- Aglaonema
- Begonia
- Cissus
- Coleus
- Columnea
- Cordyline
- Crassula
- Dieffenbachia
- Dracaena
- Euphorbia
- Fittonia
- Fuchsia
- Gynura
- Hedera
- Hibiscus
- Hoya
- Kalanchoe
- Maranta
- Monstera
- Pelargonium
- Peperomia
- Philodendron
- Pilea
- Plectranthus
- Schlumbergera (Christmas cactus)
- Scindapsus
- Sedum
- Senecio rowleyanus
- Setcreasea
- Solenostemon
- Syngonium
- Tradescantia
Leaf cutting
- Begonia rex-cultorum
- Crassula
- Kalanchoe
- Peperomia
- Sansevieria trifasciata
- Sedum
Woody cutting (hormones)
- Abutilon
- Citrus
- Codiaeum
- Dracaena
- Ficus
- Fuchsia
- Hibiscus
- Hoya
- Maranta
- Nerium oleander
- Pelargonium
- Rhododendron
- Schefflera
Succulent plant
- Crassula
- Euphorbia
- Kalanchoe
- Sansevieria trifasciata
- Schlumbergera
- Sedum
- Senecio rowleyanus
Propagation in water provided
- Aglaonema
- Cissus
- Coleus
- Dieffenbachia
- Hedera
- Philodendron
- Pilea
- Plectranthus
- Scindapsus
- Setcreasea
- Solenostemon
- Syngonium
- Tradescantia
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The '%s' conversion matches a string of non-whitespace characters. It skips and discards initial whitespace, but stops when it encounters more whitespace after having read something.
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News Anchor Tries to Eat World's Hottest Pie
You might recognize a few of these faces from last week, when we showed the man on the right, Karl Stefanovic, pranking his co-anchor from Australia 'Today' on the air. He's back, and this time he's trying to eat the world's hottest pie.
If this confuses you, in Australia they make delicious savory pies, so it's not like he's eating a fiery strawberry-rhubarb pie or something. Although, the sugar would probably help with the burn, considering the sweat that breaks out all over his face, the fact that he can't finish it, AND that it actually makes him feel sick. Nice try though, Karl.


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Fig. #C1ab: The comparison of shape of a discoidal UFO type K3 with discoidal Magnocraft type K3 of the first generation. In order to facilitate this comparison, the Magnocraft shown on the web page magnocraft.htm is here slanted to obtain approximately the same orientation as the UFO vehicle has. (Click on a given photo or drawing to see it enlarged.) Fig. #C1a (left): A starship type K3 popularly known as a UFO vehicle. The UFO photograph shown here was selected from a sequence of four colour pictures taken by Augusto Arranda near Yungay, Peru, in March 1967 - see the book [1Fig.P1] and [2P2] by Ronald D. Story (editor): "The Encyclopedia of UFOs", New English Library, London 1980, ISBN 0-450-04118-2, page 39. The entire sequence of Arranda photographs presents two UFOs type K3 captured in the various stages of their decoupling and flying in opposite directions (before these photographs were taken both vehicles flown coupled into a spherical flying complex shown e.g. in "Fig. #C2c"). Both vehicles fly in the throbbing mode of operation, thus their hulk and shape are clearly visible. The geometrical analysis shows the striking similarities of these K3 type UFOs to the Magnocraft type K3 - see the right part of this Figure. The outline of this UFO reminds us of an inverted saucer, the base of which is positioned perpendicular to the Earth's magnetic field force lines. In the centre of this vehicle the topside convex is clearly distinguishable (in the Magnocraft this central part it houses the crew cabin and the central propulsion compartment where the main propulsor is located). The UFO also possesses a lens shaped flange that fastens around the vehicle's base. In the Magnocraft type K3 this flange houses n=8 side propulsors. Fig. #C1b (right): The appearance of the smallest Magnocraft type K3 illustrated in the same position as the UFO from "Fig. C1a (left)". Please notice that the above illustration is also discussed on "Fig. #11ab" and "Fig. #12" from the totaliztic web page tapanui.htm and also on "Fig. #9ab" of the web page propulsion.htm, where the reader can learn further details about both vehicles illustrated here. * * *
Notice that you can see the enlargement
of each illustration from this web site. For this, it suffices to click
on this illustration. Furthermore, most of the internet browsers that you may
use, including the popular "Internet Explorer",
allow also to download each illustration
to your own computer, where it can be looked at, reduced or enlarged to the
size that you may want, or printed with your own graphical software.
If one wishes to shift a given Figure (i.e. a photograph or a drawing) - means if one wishes to move this Figure into another part of the screen where e.g. a description of it is located, and when simultaneously one wishes to reduce or reconfigure the separate window in which this illustration is to appear, then one needs to do as follows: (1) click on this illustration to make it appear in another new window, (2) make sure that this new window is set for capability to be reconfigured and shifting along the screen (for this one needs to have a look at the middle square out of the three squares present in the top-right corner of the screen - this middle square should contain inside just a single screen-icon, so if there are two such screen-icons inside of it, then one needs to click on them to turn them into a single screen-icon), (3) the "downsize" or "reconfigure" this another new window (with a given illustration) through "grabbing" its right-bottom corner with the mouse and then dragging this corner upwards-left to receive the required size and configuration of this different new window (notice that since this new window is downsized or reconfigured, then it is to stay this way for all next Figures being clicked - unless one enlarges or reconfigures the window again), and then (4) drag this another new window with the Figure that one wishes to relocate, to the area of the web page where one wishes to look at it e.g. because there is a description related to it (to move the new window with a Figure, one needs to just grab it with the mouse by the blue stripe on the top of it and then drag it to the required place). Notice also that if one scrolls (with scroll-bars) the text of a page when one reads it, this another window (with the illustration) is going to disappear. In order to return it into the new position on the screen, one needs to click on its "icon" (i.e. on the "program's button" from the taskbar) in the lowest part of the screen.
It is confirmed on a huge body of evidence
that UFOs are also able to create all the
arrangements, which were theoretically
deduced for the Magnocrafts and described
in subsection F3 from volume 3 of monograph
[1/4], while illustrated in "Fig. #5abcdef" from
the web page
The most frequently observed arrangement
of UFOs is the spherical flying complex - shown
below in "Fig. #C2". In numerous photographs
of such complexes not only both vehicles are
visible, but also the double flange which fastens
the complex around its central (horizontal)
plane of symmetry can be distinguished - for
the appearance of this flange see also "Fig. #C1abc"
and "Fig. #K1abc" from the totaliztic web page
(i.e. Figure P26 from monograph [1/4]).


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The art of Burano is a congruence of sculpture, painting, delicate lace and effervescent hues against a canvas of colourful homes on the maze of narrow streets that have existed for centuries. Burano on Bay is a journey from art to architecture and ultimately, a triumph of design. Its roots are firmly planted in the soil of Bay Street, but its heart beats to the glory of authentic Italian artistry.
Burano will consist of a 48 story tower rising above a 3 storey podium containing mixed use retail as well as the historically preserved Addison on Bay. The entrance plaza on Grenville is where Burano's personality emerges to the interplay of light and art off a three story glass lobby and pedestrian space that will be the pride of the neighbourhood.
Located at the corner of Bay and College against the backdrop of Toronto's fast-paced financial district, Burano will offer a tribute to the more cerebral pursuits – the art and culture of the old world ensconced in modern architecture with deep respect to a clear past.
The unique design of Burano results from the collaberation among Peter Clewes of architectsAlliance, Janet Rosenberg from Janet Rosenberg and Associates Landscape Architects and interior designer Alessandro Munge. architectsAlliance is responsible for many of Toronto's most sought after loft developments including Spire, Pier 27 and the Four Seasons Private Residences.
12° /11 storeys inspired by the collective creativity of its neighborhood. The AGO, OCAD The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. 12° challenges its contemporaries with forward thinking architecture. Intimate in size hut awesome in energy, a boutique building , home to a select few who share a contemporary design aesthetic. ollective creativity of its neighborhood.The amenities at 12° are designed for smart, stylish urbanites, by the ultimate urban designers, Munge Leung. A fully equipped fitness studio to work off the day's stress. A beautifully curated private dining room and catering kitchen, for hosting intimate dinner parties. A private lounge to sit back and toast the end of another day. And, the piece de resistance - a rooftop pool and cabana lounge, with front row views of kaleidoscopic skycapes and the city lights.
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THE SEAGULL, the first of Anton Chekhov's four most acclaimed full-length plays, began it initial run in 1896 and has been considered a major masterpiece of modern literature since. Set at a family lake house outside of Moscow, the play centers around celebrated actress Irina Arkadina's visit to her aspiring playwright son with her successful novelist lover in tow. This visit ignites love, unrequited passions, and jealousies among the characters and illustrates their missed connections and what it means to be an artist.
THE SEAGULL features a cast of 13 including Andrea Tate, Jessamyn Arnstein, Patrick Beckstead, Tyler McAuliffe, Christine Burke, Doug Friedlander, Bernie Martinez, Leticia Mattson, Hugh McManigal, Jecca Perlmutter, Jennifer Skutley, Tim Viramontes, and Travis Winterstein. Michael Perlmutter directs with Leslie Nichols producing and Megan Brister Stage Managing.


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As well as being the all-around entertainer we all know and love from the telly, Count Arthur Strong is also a lifelong fan of astronomy, since having been given a microscope, or whatever it is they use, for Christmas when he was a small precocious baby. In fact, it's said the first word he spoke was 'Uranus'. In this, his brand-new show, he seamlessly combines the very best showbiz entertainment you'll currently find, in the world, possibly? as he wrestles with some of the big questions that other all-around entertainers shy away from. Such as:
Are we alone in the universe?
Is there life on Mars bars?
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Don't lose this shopping list.
'Do not miss this not to be missed type of thing! If I wasn't in the show I'd definitely be in the audience watching myself intently. Laughing and learning in equal measure. Thoroughly happy to pay the admission fee and definitely not asking for a refund. Also not rustling sweet wrappers and fiddling with my sodding telephone with a gormless expression on my face. See you there!'.