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Happy autumn equinox!
This Christoph Niemann New Yorker cover is a year old...It made a huge impression on me. It's such a sweet ode to urban fall.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Happy Fall!
Happy autumn equinox!
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- ArtCritic said...
New Yorker covers are exceptional for the most part, and the magazine deserves credit for being one of the few major weekly publications still using cover illustration. However, they seldom venture beyond their same small stable of artists. What's the deal?
- Irene Gallo said...
Well, for that you'll have to ask Francoise Mouly.
I got to see an exhibit at the Rockwell museum last year showing paintings from 80 years of The New Yorker, including the very first Eustace. It was a fantastic show....The tone of the magazine seems very consistent even throughout decades.
There is an interesting thread on Drawger.com showing one artist's cover rejects: http://www.drawger.com/rag/?cat_id=51
Once I played Rom, I did not know how to get strong, someone told me that you must have Rom Gold. He gave me some Runes of Magic Gold, he said that I could buy Rom Gold, but I did not have money, then I played it all my spare time. From then on, I got some Runes of Magic money, if I did not continue to play it, I can sell cheap Runes of Magic Gold to anyone who want.
Later my friends told me that if I want to play the game better I should go to earn the Perfect World Gold, so I was very quickly risen to thirty levels, and then I started to play the game alone.I go to Buy Perfect World Gold to treat myself in this game. However she was also very sad when I was hurt, she was sorry about this to me and I did not complain her at last. I was very happy and we went to earn the Perfect World Silver to equip us to become strong. Today I play the game again and I can get a lot of Perfect World money for her, I take her to upgrade and then add her experience. I have a lot of cheap Perfect World Gold and I want to give her in the game, i can have a lot of pw gold if my skills of playing the game well.


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This was such a monster of a project, I'm worried this post doesn't do it justice. But for the sake of sanity, I'll stick to the initial concept/cover design here... you'll have to buy the magazine to see the interiors. (Which I highly recommend doing, by the way... last time I checked Amazon was selling the thing for like $16.50, which for 624 heavily-illustrated pages is nothing short of crazy.)
I was pretty excited when Jacob Covey emailed me to ask if I might be interested in re-designing the venerable Comics Journal for its upcoming relaunch as an annual (rather than monthly) publication. Then I found out it was going to be 600-something pages. But by that point it was too late to say no! (I'm kidding... mostly.)
Since this issue was to be something of a change in format, my initial impulse was to do something expansive, that related more to the Journal generally--or even comics criticism generally--than to any specific content-related story. To get away from the idea of a "cover story." I had a cover concept in mind that I *almost* sent but didn't, but I'm not going to share that idea here because I will absolutely use is on something, someday... (If anyone has a book on Wally Wood they're putting together? Call me.)
BUT, the issue in question was to be very R. Crumb-centric: a 50-page interview with the man, plus a 100+ page critical roundtable on his recently released Book of Genesis Illustrated, and another article on Crumb in the '60s besides. So obviously Crumb is a major selling point for this issue, and since he's just about the biggest-name "alt"-cartoonist out there, it seemed crazy to use anything but Crumb on the cover. So, starting from that foundation, here's the pitch I sent to Gary Groth and the other editors of the Journal, with a few added notes in italics to clarify some things that might otherwise be unclear):
Some thoughts on TCJ...
It sounds like the fact that the ads are already in [ads had been sold for the issue before they decided on the format change, and so the advertisers submitted their ads in the same size/proportions/etc as previous issues.] is probably going to limit us to keeping the same size/shape as the previous issue.
If we COULD change formats, I had been planning to suggest something a little less magazine-y and more bookish; something closer to 6.25" x 8.5", not unlike that issue of L'eprouvette that Kirsty was kind enough to send over. I think it's enough of a shift from what's come before, and it would accommodate the sketchbooks and comic reprints perfectly. If there's any way to adjust the ads or make them fit in a new size, that's the size I'd recommend.
BUT, if we CAN'T change the dimensions of the book, we're left with the problem of how to differentiate the new, bigger, annual Journal from the old, smaller, monthly magazine. I know cost is an issue but if we're stuck in the same size, I think switching from softcover to hardcover is a pretty solid way to signal the shift, and hopefully bring a little extra attention to the relaunch. If that's not an option, then hopefully the designs below will do enough good work to differentiate the new format on their own.
I think these are relatively self-explainatory--big pretty Crumb art, tough to argue with, right? The only real formal conceit is to basically shunt all of what would normally be the magazine cover copy onto the spine, which serves a few purposes: (1) it highlights the thickness of the book, just how much is in there; (2) it totally separates the art from the words, which I think has a nice, subtle resonance for a book that is, after all, writing about art, and (3) it reflects the shift from a magazine-style scenario, where everything's displayed cover-out because nothing has a spine, to a bookshelf scenario, where the majority of the time the book is going to be displayed spine-out on a shelf.
(And of course the current spine copy is not final; we can highlight whatever stories you want to highlight.)
I'm envisioning it printing as 3 colors--black, orange, and white--on a brown kraft paper, so that the texture of the paper really comes through and gives it a nice tactile sense. I think the same basic idea would work as either a softcover or a wrapped-board hardcover.
I quite like the Sodom and Gomorrah image, myself--it has a nice, "hide your children, Comics are coming!" vibe to it, and it's probably the best single drawing in Genesis, for my money--but since that one kind of needs to wrap around, I'm also including a second option, in case we wind up needing to print an ad on the back cover (which would be a shame)...
I should note: the comps above were made at 6.25" x 8.5", but either would work fine at 7.5" x 9.25" as well... here's the Sodom & Gomorrah one resized:
SKETCHBOOKS / McBOING BOING:
The other big open question, of course, it how to treat the reprints and sketchbooks. As Gary and I talked about, I don't really like the idea of printing them as separate booklets shrink-wrapped together. [Which was an idea that had been floated by the Fantagraphics folks.] The shrink wrap keeps people from browsing in the store, and then once you've got it home it's not really part of the same magazine any more... the "text" goes on your bookshelf and the "comic" probably goes in a box somewhere. Which isn't the end of the world, I suppose, but if you're publishing it as one product it should stay one product, right?
So, I don't see any reason we can't reprint the McBoing Boing [Gerald McBoing Boing is the name of the comic being reprinted] stuff within the body of the magazine.... my preference would be to set it off by printing those signatures on a different paper stock (ideally something like that nice newsprint-y stock DC's been using for their Kirby reprints), but if that turns out to be a difficulty for the printer, we could certainly achieve a similar effect using a very light 5th color to "yellow" the relevant pages slightly, thus setting them off from the rest of the book at a glance. (It's worth mentioning: the reprints and sketchbook pages would fit pretty perfectly in the 6.25" x 8.5" size (which is why I was suggesting it), but of course we can make them work in the other size if need be).
The sketchbook stuff: I still haven't seen the Dixon or Woodring sketchbooks, but I'm told they're not dissimilar to the Hensley stuff, format-wise. We could certainly use a third paper stock there, something a little heavier and extra toothy, that would feel like sketchbook paper... Or again, we could set them off with a 5th color on the same paper as the rest of the book.
Hopefully we'll be able to get the ads/format issues sorted within the next few days so that I can get started on the interiors. Let me know what you think of all this, and thanks again for getting me involved in this.
So... thoughts?
So. They dug my cover idea and I reformatted it to a size that was the same proportions as previous journals but slightly smaller. Then came the interiors, and taking you through that process would probably take 600 pages! Suffice it to say, budget and space concerns caused me to scale down a few of my loftier aspirations, (as is only fair), but overall I'm pretty happy with how the book came out. (Or, how the design came out--I haven't seen the printed book yet, fingers crossed it'll look great.)
One last thing to point out, which is the lettering on the spine: I felt like mixing Crumb's artwork with hard-edged computer typography would do it a disservice, so I set it in Yoter, then printed out that type at something like 400% size in a very light blue, and traced that with my trusty Sharpie markers. I then scanned that in and placed it in the file, and hopefully that gives it the feeling of being hand-drawn, but with the even-handedness of typography. (Plus it provides a bridge to the typeset interiors, which use Yoter for headlines and such.)
Anyway, here's the final cover with approved copy from the TCJ folks:

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First we have this happy-looking lion, with hypodermic needles poking from his mane:
Next we have this equally chipper peacock, with more syringes sticking out:
I personally find these kind of strange. I mean, they look like something from a children's book written by heroin junkies. Or ads for a REALLY off-Broadway "Lion King" production:
Scar: "Hey Simba, you want to share needles?"
Simba: "No, Uncle! The future king of Pride Rock knows better! Kids, remember to never share needles!"
I have NO CLUE what the artist was trying to say:
"Order our vaccines: They'll be delivered by friendly animals with uncapped needles pointing in random directions!"
"Our vaccines are super-hygienic. At least, as hygienic as they can be after being glued to wild animals."
"We take your health seriously. Our advertising, not-so-much."
"This was failed 1969 album cover artwork, and we bought the rights."
"Our ads make more sense after you've self-injected the syringe."
"Cute animals! Sharp objects! Bring the whole family!"
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Senate Bill No. 455
(By Senators Klempa, Yost and Kessler (Mr. President))
[Introduced January 30, 2012; referred to the Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §22-11-7b of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to allowing an affected water intake owner to waive the one-half mile zone requirement contained in water quality standards established by the Department of Environmental Protection.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §22-11-7b of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
§22-11-7b. Water quality standards; implementation of antidegradation procedures; waiver of one-half mile zone requirement.
(a) All authority to promulgate rules and implement water quality standards vested in the Environmental Quality Board is hereby transferred from the Environmental Quality Board to the Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection as of the effective date of the amendment and reenactment of this section during the 2005 regular session of the Legislature: Provided, That the legislative rule containing the state's water quality standards shall remain in force and effect as if promulgated by the Department of Environmental Protection until the secretary amends the rule in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code. Any proceedings, including notices of proposed rulemaking pending before the Environmental Quality Board, and any other functions, actions or authority transferred to the secretary shall continue in effect as actions of the secretary.
(b) All meetings with the secretary or any employee of the department and any interested party which are convened for the purpose of making a decision or deliberating toward a decision as to the form and substance of the rule governing water quality standards or variances thereto shall be held in accordance with the provisions of article nine-a, chapter six of this code. When the secretary is considering the form and substance of the rule governing water quality standards, the following are not meetings pursuant to article nine-a, chapter six of this code: (i) Consultations between the department's employees or its consultants, contractors or agents; (ii) consultations with other state or federal agencies and the department's employees or its consultants, contractors or agents; or (iii) consultations between the secretary, the department's employees or its consultants, contractors or agents with any interested party for the purpose of collecting facts and explaining state and federal requirements relating to a site specific change or variance.
(c) In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the secretary shall promulgate legislative rules in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code setting standards of water quality applicable to both the surface waters and groundwaters of this state. Standards of quality with respect to surface waters shall protect the public health and welfare, wildlife, fish and aquatic life and the present and prospective future uses of the water for domestic, agricultural, industrial, recreational, scenic and other legitimate beneficial uses thereof. The water quality standards of the secretary may not specify the design of equipment, type of construction or particular method which a person shall use to reduce the discharge of a pollutant.
(d) The secretary shall establish the antidegradation implementation procedures as required by 40 C.F.R. 131.12(a) which apply to regulated activities that have the potential to affect water quality. The secretary shall propose for legislative approval, pursuant to article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of the code, legislative rules to establish implementation procedures which include specifics of the review depending upon the existing uses of the water body segment that would be affected, the level of protection or "tier" assigned to the applicable water body segment, the nature of the activity and the extent to which existing water quality would be degraded. Any final classification determination of a water as a Tier 2.5 water (Water of Special Concern) does not become effective until that determination is approved by the Legislature through the legislative rulemaking process as provided for in article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of the code.
(e) All remining variances shall be applied for and considered by the secretary and any variance granted shall be consistent with 33 U.S.C. Section 1311(p) of the Federal Water Control Act. At a minimum, when considering an application for a remining variance the secretary shall consider the data and information submitted by the applicant for the variance; and comments received at a public comment period and public hearing. The secretary may not grant a variance without requiring the applicant to improve the instream water quality as much as is reasonably possible by applying best available technology economically achievable using best professional judgment. Any such requirement will be included as a permit condition. The secretary may not grant a variance without a demonstration by the applicant that the coal remining operation will result in the potential for improved instream water quality as a result of the remining operation. The secretary may not grant a variance where he or she determines that degradation of the instream water quality will result from the remining operation.
(f) The one-half mile zone requirement contained in §7.2.a.2, series two, title forty-seven of the West Virginia Code of State Rules, is not applicable to any stream segment upstream from the intake of a public water supply (Water Use Category A) if the affected water intake owner waives the benefit of the rule in a writing provided to the department. To remain effective, the waiver must be renewed by the downstream water intake owner for each permit renewal of an affected upstream discharger. Any waiver under this subsection may be revoked by the owner of an affected intake upon the provision of written notice to the department. Upon receipt of the notice of revocation, the department shall modify any upstream permit to impose requirements in accordance with the one-half mile zone requirement.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow affected water intake owners to waive the one-half mile zone requirement contained in water quality standards established by the Department of Environmental Protection.
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- "The Prime Minister's first, foolish thought was that Rufus Scrimgeour looked rather like an old lion. There were streaks of grey in his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows, he had keen yellowish eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, loping grace even though he walked with a slight limp. There was an immediate impression of shrewdness and toughness; the Prime Minister thought he understood why the wizarding community preferred Scrimgeour to Fudge in these dangerous times."
- —The Prime Minister's thoughts on Rufus Scrimgeour.[src]
Minister Rufus Scrimgeour (d. 1 August, 1997) originally joined the Ministry of Magic as an Auror, where he became a hardened veteran, spending most of his life fighting Dark Wizards. Eventually he rose to become Head of the Auror Office. During the Second Wizarding War, Scrimgeour was appointed to succeed Cornelius Fudge as Minister for Magic. While he appeared to provide a much tougher and resolute stance against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters, he made the same mistake of creating the appearance of safety and security, while in truth Scrimgeour's efforts were waning in progress in the war. This policy ultimately cost Scrimgeour his life, as it left the Ministry open to infiltration by the Death Eaters, who used several high-ranking Ministry officials, all of whom had been subverted to their control, to launch a successful coup and bring the Ministry under Voldemort's control. Voldemort, wanting the location of Harry Potter, captured and brutally tortured Scrimgeour, though when Scrimgeour refused to talk, Voldemort killed him.
Early lifeEdit
- Horace Slughorn: "Now, you, Cormac. I happen to know you see a lot of your Uncle Tiberius, because he has a rather splendid picture of the two of you hunting Nogtails in, I think, Norfolk?"
- Cormac McLaggen: "Oh, yeah, that was fun, that was. We went with Bertie Higgs and Rufus Scrimgeour; this was before he became Minister, obviously —"
- Horace Slughorn: "Ah, you know Bertie and Rufus too? Now tell me…"
- — Horace Slughorn hosting a small luncheon at the Hogwarts Express with his Slug Club.[src]
Scrimgeour was born somewhere in the British Isles, most likely in Scotland,[7] into the wizarding Scrimgeour family. He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he would finish his education earning at least five N.E.W.T.s, with nothing under the Exceeds Expectations mark.[8]
Sometime after his seventeenth birthday, Scrimgeour joined the Ministry of Magic, and completed a stringent series of character and aptitude tests to join the Auror Office.[9]
At some point before he became Minister, Scrimgeour joined Bertie Higgs, Tiberius and Cormac McLaggen to hunt recreationally for Nogtails in Norfolk.[10]
Head of the Auror OfficeEdit
- Remus Lupin: "What were you saying about Scrimgeour?"
- Nymphadora Tonks: "Oh… yeah… well, we need to be a bit more careful, he's been asking Kingsley and me funny questions…"
- — Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks at 12 Grimmauld Place, in 1995.[src]
Eventually, after serving as an Auror for some time and having fought Dark wizards for most of his working life, Scrimgeour rose to the post of Head of the Auror Office, which he occupied at least in the early-to-mid-1990s.[2] In this capacity, Scrimgeour worked alongside John Dawlish, Proudfoot, Savage, Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and Gawain Robards.
When he was the Head of the Auror Office, he often questioned Tonks and Shacklebolt about Sirius Black, as they were in charge of the investigation of his whereabouts after his escape from Azkaban.[2]
Minister for MagicEdit
- "These are dark times, there is no denying. Our world has, perhaps, faced no greater threat than it does today. But I say this to our citizenry: we, ever your servants, will continue to defend your liberty and repel the forces that seek to take it from you! Your Ministry… remains… strong!"
- —Scrimgeour makes a speech on the situation of wizarding world.[src]
In the fortnight following the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and the Ministry's acknowledgement of Lord Voldemort's return in June of 1996,[3] Minister Cornelius Fudge was, as The Quibbler went on to report, "chased from his office".[11] The previous year, the Ministry under Fudge had denied any evidence of Voldemort's return and branded Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter liars for saying the opposite. As a result, when Voldemort finally stepped into the open and declared open war on both Britain's wizarding and Muggle communities, Fudge left office in disgrace and was replaced by the ostensibly more proactive Scrimgeour.[3] Gawain Robards replaced Scrimgeour as Head of the Auror Office.[12]
- Rufus Scrimgeour: "Some would say it's your duty to be used by the Ministry!"
- Harry Potter: "Yeah, and others might say it's your duty to check people really are Death Eaters before you chuck them in prison. You're doing what Barty Crouch did. You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got the Chosen One working for you!"
- — Harry Potter argues with Scrimgeour on Christmas Day, 1996.[src]
Scrimgeour, though seemingly more capable than Fudge, decided to prioritise appearances over truth in his battle against Voldemort. Apparently, Scrimgeour distrusted Albus Dumbledore in a similar way to Fudge before him, as he assigned Auror John Dawlish to follow Dumbledore during his frequent departures from Hogwarts, resulting in the Auror being jinxed by Dumbledore.[13] He ordered the arrest of Stan Shunpike, a conductor on the Knight Bus, to give the impression that the Ministry was actively seeking and arresting Death Eaters, even though it was apparent to Harry that Shunpike was innocent and merely foolish.[14]
He also quarrelled with Albus Dumbledore over the use of Harry Potter, the alleged "Chosen One", as a mascot for the Ministry to "boost morale".[13]
On Christmas Day 1996, which Harry spent at The Burrow in Devon, Scrimgeour came to visit him, accompanied by Percy Weasley, whom he used as a pretext. Scrimgeour took Harry for a walk around the garden, during which he tried to get answers out of Harry about what Dumbledore was doing, and suggested that the Ministry would be grateful if Harry was to visibly align himself with them. Harry, revolted by the Ministry's hypocrisy, refused further assistance, saying that the new Ministry was as bad in its own way as the old one.[12]
After Dumbledore's death atop the Astronomy Tower, in the summer of 1997, Scrimgeour and a delegation of Ministry officials came for a short stay at Hogwarts Castle, so that they could attend Dumbledore's funeral. Scrimgeour was seated in the front row, with Minerva McGonagall, looking "grave and dignified". After the service, Scrimgeour once more tried to convince Harry Potter to openly support the Ministry's endeavours, and Harry once again refused.[15]
Scrimgeour spoke to Harry once more at the Burrow on 31 July, a month after Dumbledore's death, to release the contents of the late wizard's will to Harry, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger, interrupting Harry's birthday party.[5]
Scrimgeour appeared to have aged considerably as a result of working to retain control of the wizarding community, which was in a state of open warfare. He had delayed releasing Dumbledore's personal bequests for thirty-one days, under the Decree for Justifiable Confiscation, in order to inspect the items. Scrimgeour bombarded the trio with questions, attempting to discern Dumbledore's intentions, and was highly suspicious of the gifts he had left them: the Deluminator for Ron, a Golden Snitch for Harry, and an original copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard for Hermione. Scrimgeour refused to give Harry Dumbledore's final bequest, Godric Gryffindor's Sword, believing it to be an historical artefact and public property, which Dumbledore therefore had no right to dispose of as he saw fit.[5]
When Harry criticised Scrimgeour for wasting his time scrutinising Dumbledore's things, and for covering up the recent escape of dozens of Death Eaters from Azkaban, the two came close to a duel, in spite of Scrimgeour's claim that he in fact sought to work together, in order to fight Voldemort. The arrival of Arthur and Molly Weasley forced Scrimgeour to regain composure and then depart.[5] Scrimgeour correctly guessed that there might be something hidden inside the Golden Snitch, although he never found out what, as Dumbledore had ensured that the Snitch would only open "at the close".
- "The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming."
- —Kingsley Shacklebolt's Patronus reported Scrimgeour's death and the Death Eater coup at William Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding.[src]
The following day, 1 August, 1997, the Death Eaters staged a successful coup on the Ministry, as they now had agents loyal to them surrounding the Minister, and as such were able to make a successful attempt on his life.[1] Pius Thicknesse, the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and several other high-ranking Ministry officials had all been placed under the Imperius Curse.[16] Scrimgeour was captured and brutally tortured by Voldemort for information on Harry's whereabouts, but Scrimgeour, having "put up quite a fight" in his final moments, refused to talk despite knowing where he was. The official line to Scrimgeour's murder was that he resigned, and Thicknesse was appointed as a puppet Minister.[17]
Harry, Ron, and Hermione came to respect Scrimgeour after learning of his sacrifice. It is assumed that after Lord Voldemort's defeat Scrimgeour's assassination was exposed, but the subject is unclear.[17]
Physical appearanceEdit
Scrimgeour was a man with a certain rangy loping grace; he walked with a slight limp, and looked rather like an old lion with grey streaks in his mane of tawny hair and bushy eyebrows. He had keen yellowish eyes and wore wire-rimmed spectacles.[3] He sometimes used a walking stick.[15] With time, the stresses of the failing conflict reached him, and when last seen he appeared badly-shaven, scraggy, and grim.[1]
Personality and traitsEdit
- Rufus Scrimgeour: "Remembered you're not at school, have you? Remembered that I am not Dumbledore, who forgave your insolence and insubordination? You may wear that scar like a crown, Potter, but it is not up to a seventeen-year-old boy to tell me how to do my job! It's time you learned some respect!"
- Harry Potter: "It's time you earned it."
- — Scrimgeour after discussing Albus Dumbledore's will with Harry, Ron and Hermione[src]
Scrimgeour was, according to Dumbledore, a "man of action", having fought against Dark Wizards throughout his career as an Auror and climbed ambitiously through the Ministry.[18] He gave an impression of shrewd toughness and was more decisive and forceful than his predecessor, Cornelius Fudge.[3] Scrimgeour did not underestimate Voldemort[18] and cared a great deal about the Ministry's reputation, though at the expense of justice; he even allowed the arrest of innocent people - such as Stanley Shunpike - to give the impression that the Ministry was doing something, not unlike Bartemius Crouch Sr..[12] He tried unsuccessfully at various times to convince Harry to work for the Ministry as a "mascot" to improve morale: once during the Christmas holidays,[12] and another time after Dumbledore's funeral.[15] Like Snape, he thought of Harry as arrogant and conceited, and disliked him for it.[5] In the end however, Scrimgeour proved his bravery and strength of character when he refused, under torture, to tell Voldemort of Harry's whereabouts.[1]
Magical abilities and skillsEdit
- Duelling: Rufus Scrimgeour fought many Dark Wizards during his career as an Auror which displayed his considerable duelling abilities.[18] Scrimgeour was also noted to have put up a valiant fight against Lord Voldemort,[17] though it is unknown if this meant duelling prowess or resilience to torture, although it is likely both.
Rufus is a Latin name meaning "red". It was a Roman cognomen as well as the nickname of King William II of England, who had the reputation for being an effective soldier but a ruthless and unpopular ruler. Scrimgeour is a Scottish surname that is believed to probably mean "skirmish", from the French escrimeur, meaning "swordsman". His name therefore loosely translates to "Red Skirmish" or "Red Swordsman".[19]
Behind the scenesEdit
- Bill Nighy portrayed Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.[20]
- Nighy was originally cast for the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince;[21] however, Scrimgeour was cut from that film.
- Although it is likely Scrimgeour was raised in Scotland, Nighy played the character with a Welsh accent.
- In the film, Scrimgeour does not sport a mane-like beard, and he doesn't seem to be as tough and ruthless as he is in the book.
- Due to his being cut in Half-Blood Prince, Scrimgeour's relationship with Dumbledore is not mentioned in the film, and Harry's relationship with him is less antagonistic.
- Luna Lovegood once mentioned to Harry Potter that Scrimgeour was a vampire, a story her father was supposed to publish in the magazine The Quibbler. The authenticity of this claim is quite questionable, as The Quibbler has a reputation for publishing unlikely and outrageous stories. Interestingly, Bill Nighy also played Viktor, a vampire in the Underworld series.
- It is possible that he is related to Brutus Scrimgeour, the author of the book The Beaters' Bible, and a reviewer of the book Quidditch Through the Ages.
- Scrimgeour shares the same given name as his predecessor's nephew.
- Although stated in the book Scrimgeour sports glasses, in the film he does not — even though Nighy himself does.
- In the film adaptations, Scrimgeour's negative personality aspects never come to light in the way and to the extent they do in the book.
- Scrimgeour's anti-Death Eater propaganda, particularly the Ministry's attitude towards Stan Shunpike, is similar to Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist ideas during the Second Red Scare in the 1950s.
- In the books, Scrimgeour protects Harry's whereabouts when the Ministry has fallen. This shows his protection of Harry, though arguing with him many times in the books.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Mentioned as "Minister for Magic")
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game) (Voice only)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Chapter 8 (The Wedding)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 7 (The Ministry of Magic)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 1 (The Other Minister)
- ↑ Quidditch Through the Ages - (Praise for Quidditch Through the Ages)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Chapter 7 (The Will of Albus Dumbledore)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 3 (Will and Won't)
- ↑ In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Bill Nighy depicts Scrimgeour with a noticeable Scottish accent. Scrimgeour is a Scottish surname.
- ↑ In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 29 (Careers Advice), Minerva McGonagall establishes that Aurors require a minimum of five N.E.W.T.s, and nothing under 'Exceeds Expectations' in order to be elegible for training to join the Auror Office.
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 29 (Careers Advice)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 7 (The Slug Club)
- ↑ J. K. Rowling's Official Site - Rumours!
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 16 (A Very Frosty Christmas)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 17 (A Sluggish Memory)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 11 (Hermione's Helping Hand)
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 30 (The White Tomb)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Chapter 1 (The Dark Lord Ascending)
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Chapter 11 (The Bribe)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 4 (Horace Slughorn)
- ↑ HPL: Rufus Scrimgeour
- ↑ "Bill Nighy as Rufus Scrimgeour for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" at The Leaky Cauldron
- ↑ "Up close: David Yates"


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Police and other law enforcers in the US are increasingly turning to 'Minority Report' style "pre-crime" strategies to fight crimes by predicting them before they take place.
A report out today from the AFP notes that "predictive analytics" software, computer algorithms that predict where and when patterns of crimes will occur, has been adopted by police departments from Santa Cruz, California, to Memphis, Tennessee.
Law enforcement agencies in Washington D.C. are already using a software database developed by the University of Pennsylvania that they claim can predict when crimes will be committed and who will commit them, before they actually happen.
Officials in some areas claim to have seen up to a 30 percent drop in serious crime since adopting the technology.
The technology sifts through a database of thousands of crimes and uses algorithms and different variables, such as geographical location, criminal records and ages of previous offenders, to come up with predictions of where, when, and how a crime could possibly be committed and by who.
The program operates without any direct evidence that a crime will be committed, it simply takes datasets and computes possibilities.
The AFP report quotes Colleen McCue, a behavioral scientist who is working with The Department of Homeland Security on pre-crime programs. McCue says that "People are creatures of habit," comparing criminals to shoppers.
"When you go shopping you go to a place where they have the things you're looking for… the criminal wants to go where he will be successful also." McCue says.
The report also cites comments from Mark Cleverly, an IBM predictive crime analytic expert.
"It's not saying a crime will occur at a particular time and place, no one can do that. But it can say you can expect a wave of vehicle thefts based one everything we know." Cleverly notes, adding that he believes the technology can improve privacy.
"You can pinpoint the record of who has access to information, you have a solid history of what's going on, so if someone is using the system for ill you have an audit trail," he said.
Cleverly adds that the technology should not be compared to that envisaged by Philip K. Dick in 'The Minority Report'. "It was a great film and great short story, but it's science fiction and will remain science fiction. That's not what this is about." Cleverly said.
However, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a law professor at the University of the District of Columbia, warns that the technology may represent a threat to constitutional protections on "unreasonable" searches.
"To stop you and frisk you and search you, a police officer needs reasonable suspicion, so my question is how will this affect reasonable suspicion?" he said.
"How do you cross-examine a computer?" Ferguson said, noting that any court cases brought from "evidence" based on the algorithm software would face legal gray areas.
The technology is also being combined with surveillance cameras, which are being rolled out in major cities across the country.
"Manufacturers BRS Labs said it has installed the cameras at tourist attractions, government buildings and military bases in the U.S. In its latest project BRS Labs is to install its devices on the transport system in San Francisco, which includes buses, trams and subways," reported the Daily Mail last month.
The cameras are programmed with a list of behaviors considered "normal". Anything that deviates from usual activity is classified as suspicious and guards are immediately alerted via text message or a phone call.
Equipped with the ability to track up to 150 suspects at a time, the cameras build up a "memory" of suspicious behavior to determine what constitutes potential criminal activity.
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Other forms of pre-crime technology in use or under development include neurological brain scanners that can read people's intentions before they act, thus detecting whether or not a person has "hostile intent".
Pre-crime technology is also being rolled out in airports and other public venues in order to identify suspect travelers and single them out for interrogations. This face-scanning system "successfully discriminates between truth and lies in about two-thirds of cases," which equates to little more accuracy than chance alone, making it even less reliable than the notorious polygraph test, which has been widely discredited and is habitually inaccurate.
As we have previously documented, the Department of Homeland Security's FAST program is based around similar technology that professes to detect "malintent" by means of pre-crime interrogations and physiological scans.
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As surveillance cameras become more sophisticated, the temptation to use pre-crime technology is likely to intersect with the rollout of so-called "smart" street lighting systems that double as "homeland security" spying hubs.
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In 2001, New York State became the first state to ban the use of hand-held cellular telephones by drivers. Several other states and cities have followed suit, including New Jersey and Washington DC. Chicago banned hand-held cell phone use last month, as did the Connecticut Legislature earlier this month.
Despite their growing popularity, the effectiveness of these laws is open to question. Publicity and enforcement of the New York State ban produced a drop in the proportion of drivers using cell phones from 2.3 percent to 1.1 percent. But a study published in Injury Prevention found that the rate of cell phone use rebounded to 2.1 percent in 2003 after the initial publicity subsided.
That study focused on several small to medium size upstate communities. The rate of cell phone use by drivers in New York City appears not to have been measured. Nationally, however, a 2004 survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that eight percent of all motorists were using cell phones at any given time while driving, up from four percent in 2000. Casual observation suggests that New York City drivers at least match the national average. With the continued proliferation of cell phones and increasing functionality of the phones, the number of drivers using phone is likely to continue to grow.
Is cell phone use by drivers a threat to public safety? Published studies have been used to argue both sides of this question. A February 2005 University of Utah study found that young people tested in driving simulators were 18 percent slower in hitting their brakes than drivers who did not use cell phones. Cell phone users suffered from "inattention blindness" – while your eyes may be looking at something, you may fail to see it, or you may fail to see it in time to avoid a collision.
A widely-cited 1997 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the risk of collision when using a cell phone was four times higher than the risk when a cell phone was not being used.
But other studies minimize the actual danger of cell phone use. The University of North Carolina Safety Research office review of State Trooper crash reports (in pdf format) found that cell phones appeared to play a role in only 0.16 percent of crashes. In 2003, Delaware police reviewed 1300 accidents in Delaware and found only four in which motorists were distracted by a cell phone.
Self-reported behavior is notoriously unreliable, however. Accidents are likely to have a number of contributing factors, and what motorist wants to believe that their own actions were key factors?
If government policy is based on the statistical studies of crash risk, then New York State should indeed ban handheld cell phone use by motorists. It should also ban motorists' hands-free cell phone use, based on University of Utah studies that found that using a hands-free or hand-held phone makes no difference to the level of motorist distraction. About 20 percent of cell phone owners have hands-free devices.
But more than a ban is needed. The history of seat belt laws demonstrates that vigorous public education and enforcement programs are needed to change the public's behavior. Seat belts have long been proven to be an extremely effective way to reduce injuries from motor vehicle collisions. Yet for years, many people refused to buckle up. But with a extensive educational program and highly publicized enforcement, restraint usage rose dramatically. According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) surveys seat belt restraint use increased from 58 percent in 1994 to 80 percent in 2004.
Since the Buckle Up New York Campaign was initiated in May 1999, seat belt use in New York State has risen from 74.2 percent of motorists to 88.3 percent in 2001, though the rate slipped to 85 percent in 2004.
Whether a similar educational and enforcement campaign for the cell phone ban prevents enough injuries to be worth the cost needs further investigation. But there seems to be little question that without such a campaign, laws to ban motorists from using cell phones don't do much good.
Bruce Schaller is head of Schaller Consulting, which provides research and analysis about transportation, and is also a Visiting Scholar at the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University.Â


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Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866) was Tocqueville's companion on his famous trip to America in 1831 in order to observe the American prison system. Along the way they observed and collected material which would later produce Tocqueville's book Democracy in America (1835, 1840) and Beaumont's book Marie on slavery.


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In the 'Whispers' episode of BBC Radio Four's Digital Human programme, Aleks Krotoski explores how rumours spread both online and in the physical world.
As an example, she looked at how two people were able to spread a rumour that a tiger was running loose in London during the 2011 riots.
Hope untrue!! RT @Twiggy_Garcia: #LondonRiots hearing reports that london zoo was broken into and a large amount of animals have escaped.
— Carm(s) (@CarmKaya) August 8, 2011
Aleks claims we are now in a world of misinformation. For organisations, this means they now have to pay attention to any misinformation or rumours about their products and services, an activity that is often called 'reputation management'.
Seven minutes into the radio show, Nicholas DiFonzo of the Rochester Institute of Technology states groups believe rumours typically because there is a lack of information from official channels, they don't trust official channels, or because their friends believe it. People use rumours to figure things out.
This means if there is a gap in information, then rumours may fill that gap. For this reason, it's important organisations publish their Help files or equivalent on the web, so that there isn't any uncertainty over what your product can and cannot do. If you don't, whatever Google serves as an alternative source of information will fill in the gap.
Where people might not trust the official marketing content, they are more likely to trust the technical, instructional information. It's seen as more 'truthy'.
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I-Team: Couple charged with pot closes business unexpectedly
An Omaha couple charged with growing pot in their home shut down their tanning salon unexpectedly, angering customers.
KETV NewsWatch 7's I-Team learned Larry and Michelle Christiansen own Xotic Tan and Swimwear near 156th and Harrison streets, which suddenly closed.
Doug Borisch said he paid $100 for a 10-session tanning package at the salon. He only used two sessions before he learned the business closed its doors.
"Came back one day and there's a notice on the door stating that they were temporarily closed due to illness in the family and would reopen soon," Borisch said.
Borisch said he tried calling the business but didn't have any luck.
"All it does is ring, ring, ring with no answer," Borisch.
The I-Team had no luck contacting the business and neither did Jim Hegarty with the Better Business Bureau.
"We're going to work very hard to try to contact the owners of this firm to see if we can work out some terms that would be reasonable for clients that might be in this situation," said Hegarty.
Borisch said his credit card company will stop payments to Xotic Tan and Swimwear, but he won't get reimbursed for weeks.
Larry Christiansen's attorney confirmed the Christiansen's were owners of the salon. The landlord said the two handed the keys in last week.
In November, search warrants showed the couple was allegedly growing marijuana in two Omaha homes. In those homes, and a third home, investigators found 420 marijuana plants, 58 pounds of marijuana already harvested and $146,000 in cash.


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I used to work with an event agency and after a year i decided to quit.. couldn't go through the stress of doing things last minute and working late nights.. sometimes without any sleep at all..
As my passion has always been on cars and motorsports, i am quite fortunate enough to land on my current job.. i've always HATE to do sales but this job requires me to sell also.. not much as mostly i have to PR with the car dealers and they will sell our company's product to the customers..
My current office is a car workshop! and what else is better than waking up, coming to work and get greeted in the morning by all those SUPERCARS.. plus every morning i get to hear them 'roaring'..
It is too early to tell how long i will be working here BUT coz of my passion for cars, i've never once dreaded to go to work or even to the car dealers.. which is a good sign, hahaha!
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Hunt, gather, cook – The Game Bird Food Festival returns for 2017
The Game Bird Food Festival is back on for 2017, giving hunters the opportunity to have their freshly harvested wild duck professionally cooked in a restaurant.
The game bird hunting season began on Saturday (6 May) with thousands of Fish & Game licence holders taking advantage of Opening Weekend to bag the makings of a duck dinner.
The food festival is a Fish & Game initiative to promote the variety and quality of wild harvested game and has attracted restaurants around the country.
Right: Game bird Food Festival dish in The Old Vicarage Cafe, Restaurant & Bar Halswell Christchurch is a pan roasted North Canterbury Quail, smoked celeriac, roast baby beetroot, heritage carrots, broccolini, toasted almonds, roast baby turnips, red currant rosemary jus.
Fish & Game's communications manager Don Rood says the festival gives hunters a way of treating their family and friends to a game dinner.
"Successful hunters can take their bag into a participating restaurant, where a chef will cook and serve it," he says.
Don Rood says game meat is a healthy option and hunters look forward to the opening of the season so they can re-stock their freezers.
"Game birds are terrific free range food and provide lean, tasty meat because they have grown up in the wild without chemical additives.
Restaurants taking part in the festival are keen supporters of the idea of cooking a meal their guests have foraged for themselves.
"It is encouraging to see that some restaurants are taking this a step further by using other local ingredients in the dish", Don Rood says.
Left: Game bird Food Festival dish in the Regent of Rotorua Restaurant & Wine Bar is a roast duck on savoy cabbage, pear potato, pink grapefruit sauce, and blueberry jelly. Local ingredients guaranteed.
The game bird hunting season runs from May 6 to August 27, with hunters who have a 2017 Fish & Game licence able to pursue ducks, pheasant and quail.
"Hunting is ingrained into the New Zealand way of life and through the generations, people have taken pride in their ability to put game they have harvested on the family table.
"That tradition continues today, with a lively interest in foraging and gathering free range food and the game bird hunting season is very much a part of that," Don Rood says.
He says this weekend is shaping up to be good for duck hunting, with rain and wind forecast over large parts of the country.
If hunters are successful, they can take their bag into a participating restaurant, as long as they meet a few conditions.
"Hunters must ensure their birds are well prepared – plucked, cleaned and oven ready. Select the very best, top condition ducks from your bag and avoid any with shot damage," Don Rood says.
"A bit of extra time and care devoted to preparing the birds will be rewarded by the chefs who want only the best ingredients to work with. Make sure your reputation as a hunter is equal to the challenge of having these top chefs prepare your dish to perfection," Don Rood says.
The birds can only be cooked and served to the hunter and their guests. Further details of the Game Bird Food Festival and participating restaurants can be found at www.gamebirdfoodfestival.co.nz.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Rick St. Hilaire on his blog
The First Circuit Court of Appeals on February 27, 2013 decided in favor of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) and Harvard's museums in the case of Rubin v. Iran.
The case involves victims of a 1997 Iranian-backed terrorist bombing who seek to satisfy a multi-million dollar default court judgment awarded to them in 2003. Since 2005 the Rubin plaintiffs have argued that approximately 2000 reliefs, sculptures, and other archaeological objects located at the MFA and Harvard are the property of Iran that can be seized. The cultural institutions have been contesting that claim, and yesterday the First Circuit agreed.
The appeals court decision extended its sympathies to the the plaintiffs, saying "we are mindful of the incident that gave rise to the judgment here and the difficulty the plaintiffs are having collecting on that judgment …." But the justices upheld "the general rule … that foreign sovereign property in the United States is immune from attachment and execution" because of the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act (FSIA). 28 U.S.C. § 1609.
The appeals court acknowledged that the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) "carves out a narrow exception to that rule, applicable only to 'blocked assets,'" but wrote that "the plaintiffs have failed to demonstrate that any of the antiquities in the Museums' possession fall within that exception."
The MFA and Harvard argued in the lower federal district court that Iran does not own the cultural objects. Even if they were owned by Iran, the MFA and Harvard maintained that the FSIA makes the objects immune from attachment...
The ruling:
United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit, No. 11-2144
JENNY RUBIN, ET AL., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, ET AL.,Defendants, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, ET AL., Trustees, Appellees.
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS [Hon. George A. O'Toole, U.S. District Judge] Before Howard, Stahl, and Lipez, Circuit Judges.
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The New York Times Needs A Real Taste of Toronto
Last month The New York Times covered the TDot in a column called 36 Hours in Toronto. The author Danny Lee covered a few bases in downtown and Leslieville then seemed to find all the hipster haunts, like Oddfellows, Sweaty Betty's and Communist's Daughter, too. If you're from New York are you really going to come here for hipster leftovers? Is it just me or can everyone just get over this hipster bullshit already, I mean is that a way to describe a restaurant? You are what you eat right? Not what you sit next to.


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"Nothing" (何も無い, Nani mo nai) is chapter 582 of the original Naruto manga.
Kabuto attacked the Uchiha brothers with his Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation technique, causing the cave formations to attack them. Having used his Susanoo to protect Sasuke, Itachi was incapacitated between the rocks. As Kabuto retrieved a talisman from his snake, he attempted to rewrite Itachi's mind. Sasuke created a ring of Amaterasu flames to prevent Kabuto from taking any further action. Commending Sasuke's strategy, Kabuto told him nonetheless that they were not capable of defeating him. Continuing to brag about his accomplishments, he states that of anyone currently alive, he had come the closest to the Sage of the Six Paths and that compared to him, the Uchiha were nothing. This prompts Sasuke to lash out at him, but he was stopped by a fully-regenerated Itachi. Itachi told Kabuto that he reminded him of his former self though the two of them were very different. He then told him that because he did not understand his own limitations, the value of comrades and who he really was, he was doomed to fail as he did when he was alive. With this, Kabuto retorted that they were the ones that knew nothing about him and that for his whole life, he had tried to find who he really was. Kabuto also had a flashback to his earliest memory of being found by Nonō and Urushi. He then stated that for his whole life, he had nothing.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 8 seconds Hello. My name is Melissa Sloman, and I'm a clinical scientist. The animation you're about to see is using a cake based analogy to describe the location of DNA in the cell, how we get from DNA to protein, and what happens when there's a mutation. Each cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes within its nucleus. Chromosomes consist of tightly compacted DNA. A gene is a segment of DNA containing the code used to synthesise a protein. The human genome contains approximately 20,000 genes. The nucleus of the cell is like a library. Chromosomes in the nucleus are like the recipe books within the library.
Skip to 0 minutes and 52 seconds Each recipe book contains the instructions for making many different cakes, just as a chromosome contains many genes that encode many different proteins.
Skip to 1 minute and 4 seconds Each recipe, or gene, contains information about the ingredients and utensils that are needed to make the cake, or protein. The exons of the gene are the ingredients needed to make the cake, and the introns are the potentials that are needed to make the cake, but don't form part of the actual cake. A mutation is a change in a DNA sequence. The DNA sequence is made up of a mixture of four letters, or nucleotides– A, C, G, and T. The effect of the mutation depends on the type of mutation. The cake recipe states that the cake should be decorated with jam, cream, and icing sugar.
Skip to 1 minute and 44 seconds A point mutation results in a change in the code, so that the instructions now say to decorate with ham instead of jam. This is the type of mutation identified in Jack and Dan, who you met in week one and week two. A deletion of part of the code means that some of the instructions have been removed, and now just say to decorate with icing sugar. This is the type of mutation identified in Tom, who has a deletion one amino acid. Some deletions cause the recipe to be completely changed by deleting a letter, or letters within a word.
Skip to 2 minutes and 22 seconds The result of the letters are shifted along to fill the gap, and the result is an illegible recipe, and no cake is made. This type of mutation is called a frame shift mutation. A nonsense mutation means that the protein doesn't get made, and it's equivalent to putting the flour and sugar into the bowl, only to find you have no eggs, so it goes into the bin.
Skip to 2 minutes and 49 seconds We hope you've enjoyed the animation, which has shown you the location of DNA in the cell, how we get from DNA to protein, and the different types of mutations potentially leading to genetic disorders.
How do genetic variants cause disease?
This video uses a cake-baking analogy to describe the location of DNA in the cell, how we get from DNA to protein and what happens when there is a mutation.
When a variation in the DNA causes a disease, such as monogenic diabetes, it is called a mutation. The result of a mutation is generally either an alteration in the structure of the protein produced, or no functional protein product at all. The table below describes the main types of genetic mutation that cause monogenic disease, including the change in the DNA (shown in red in the DNA sequence) and how that DNA change affects the protein produced.
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Executive pay has spiralled out of control because nearly half of remuneration committee members are either serving or former company bosses, according to a report by the High Pay Centre.
Nine current FTSE 100 chief executives, including Smith Group's Philip Bowman, Kingfisher's Ian Cheshire, Diageo's Paul Welsh and Centrica's Sam Laidlaw sit on the remuneration committees of fellow blue chip companies.
The committees, which set chief executives' pay, succumb to "group-think" because they are dominated by a "closed shop" of highly paid current and former directors who benefit personally from rising pay levels, the campaign group said.
The average pay of a FTSE 100 boss now stands at £4.2m, according the employment research group IDS. On Friday, it emerged that the former Reckitt Benckiser chief executive Bart Becht, who stepped down in September, had been paid £12.1m last year in cash and shares. The company behind Cillit Bang and Vanish paid him cash and shares worth £203m in six years, and he could still be in line for staggered payouts worth £45m in future years.
Over 46% of people sitting on pay committees are or have been lead company executives, according to the centre's research, which is published on Monday.
"Through the common process of benchmarking, current executives may have an indirect financial interest in increasing pay in other companies," the report states.
Laidlaw, whose package at Centrica was worth a potential £4.3m last year, sits on the HSBC Holdings' remuneration committee. Walsh, who was paid £4.4m by Diageo and has amassed a £13.4m pension pot over a decade in the post, sits on the Unilever remuneration committee. Cheshire, whose last published package was worth £4.2m, sits on the board of the pubs group Whitbread.
Some 33% of FTSE 100 companies have a current company chief executive or executive chairman on their pay committees. The vast majority come either from business or financial intermediation such as banking and investment.
Of the 366 non-executive directors who sit on pay committees, only 37 – or 10% – are not from these professions. The centre found two from the BBC, 20 who were from the civil service or politics, three lawyers, seven accountants, four academics and one film producer.
The committees are also male dominated. In the 96 FTSE 100 companies surveyed by the centre, 45% have all male committees, while there are just 59 women – 16% of the total – sitting on pay committees at blue chip companies.
Most boards seek to pay above the median average, the report says, and increasingly make awards in the upper quartile of the pay scale for performance-related awards. This results in wage inflation.
"It takes a very brave remuneration committee to seek to pay its executives below the median," the report states. "It is seen as the equivalent of admitting they are mediocre or not up to the job."
At Barclays, chief executive Bob Diamond is in line for a £17m payday, and the bank is proposing to pay his £5.7m tax bill incurred when he relocated from the US to the UK to run the company last year.
The business secretary, Vince Cable, is hoping to use shareholder votes to reign in spiralling pay. A consultative paper suggests a number of reforms, including making a vote on a firm's future pay policy binding, with at least 75% of shareholders required to give their approval, and a binding vote when directors who leave collect more than a year's salary.
Cable also wants listed firms to publish a single figure for an executive's total remuneration each year, and to clearly illustrate how awards relate to performance.
Fund manager Fidelity says boards should be required to secure shareholder approval for "annual variable compensation" - bonuses and incentive plans – before payment. Resolutions failing to win 75% approval would have to be redrafted and put to a new vote.
• This article was amended on 2 April 2012. The High Pay Commission is now known as the High Pay Centre