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Prisoners of the Sun
Prisoners of the Sun (Le Temple du Soleil) |
Cover of the English edition
Date | 1949 |
Series | The Adventures of Tintin |
Publisher | Casterman |
Creative team | |
Creator | Hergé |
Original publication | |
Published in | Tintin magazine |
Date of publication | 26 September 1946 – 22 April 1948 |
Language | French |
Translation | |
Publisher | Methuen |
Date | 1962 |
Translator |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | The Seven Crystal Balls (1948) |
Followed by | Land of Black Gold (1950) |
Prisoners of the Sun (French: Le Temple du Soleil) is the fourteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in the newly established Tintin magazine from September 1946 to April 1948. Completing an arc begun in The Seven Crystal Balls, the story tells of young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and friend Captain Haddock as they continue their efforts to rescue the kidnapped Professor Calculus by travelling through Andean villages, mountains, and rain forests, before finding a hidden Inca civilisation.
Prisoners of the Sun was a commercial success and was published in book form by Casterman the year following its conclusion. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with Land of Black Gold, while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. The two-part adventure was adapted into the 1969 film, Tintin and the Temple of the Sun by Belvision Studios, the first feature-length animated Tintin film. Prisoners of the Sun has also been adapted into two episodes of the 1990s television series The Adventures of Tintin, a video game, and a 2001 musical stage production.
- The synopsis continues a plot begun in The Seven Crystal Balls.
Young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and friend Captain Haddock arrive in Callao, Peru. There, they plan to intercept the arrival of the Pachacamac, a ship carrying their friend Professor Calculus, who is being held by kidnappers. Tintin boards the ship and learns from Chiquito, the former assistant of General Alcazar and one of the abductors, that Calculus is to be executed for wearing a bracelet belonging to the mummified Incan king Rascar Capac.
Tintin barely escapes the ship with his life, and he and Haddock alert the authorities; but the abductors evade the police and take Calculus to the Andes mountains. Tintin and Haddock pursue them to the mountain town of Jauga, where they board a train that is sabotaged in an attempt to kill them. When they attempt to investigate the whereabouts of Calculus, the local Indios prove to be peculiarly tight-lipped. But then Tintin befriends a young Quechua boy named Zorrino after saving him from Spaniard bullies. A mysterious man observes this act of kindness and gives Tintin a medallion, telling him that it will save him from danger. Zorrino informs Tintin that Calculus is taken to the Temple of the Sun, which lies deep within the Andes, and offers to take them there.[1]
After many hardships - including being pursued by four Indios who try their best to leave them stranded or dead - Tintin, Haddock, and Zorrino reach the Temple of the Sun, finding it to be a surviving outpost of the Inca civilisation. They are brought before the Prince of the Sun, flanked by Chiquito and Huascar, the mysterious man Tintin encountered in Jauga. Zorrino is saved from harm when Tintin gives him Huascar's medallion, but Tintin and Haddock are sentenced to death by the Inca prince for their sacrilegious intrusion. The prince tells them they may choose the hour that Pachacamac, the Sun god, will set alight the pyre on which they will be executed.[2]
Tintin and Haddock end up on the same pyre as Calculus. Tintin has, however, chosen the hour of their death to coincide with a solar eclipse, and with a little play-acting, the terrified Incas believe that Tintin can command the Sun. The Inca prince implores Tintin to make the Sun show its light again. At Tintin's command, the Sun returns, and the three are quickly set free. Afterwards, the Prince of the Sun tells them that the seven crystal balls used on the Sanders-Hardiman expedition members, who had excavated Rascar Capac's tomb, contained a "mystic liquid" obtained from coca that plunged them into a deep sleep. Each time the Inca high priest cast his spell over seven wax figures of the explorers, he could use them as he willed as punishment for their sacrilege. Tintin convinces the Inca prince that the explorers wished only to make known to the world the splendours of their civilisation. The Inca prince orders Chiquito to destroy the wax figures and at that moment in Europe the seven explorers awaken. After swearing an oath to keep the temple's existence a secret, Tintin, Haddock and Calculus head home, while Zorrino remains with the Inca, having accepted an offer to live among them.[3]
Amidst the German occupation of Belgium during World War II, Hergé had accepted a position working for Le Soir, the largest circulation French language daily newspaper in the country. Confiscated from its original owners, the German authorities permitted Le Soir to reopen under the directorship of Belgian editor Raymond de Becker, although it remained firmly under Nazi control, supporting the German war effort and espousing anti-Semitism.[4] Joining Le Soir on 15 October 1940, Hergé was aided by old friend Paul Jamin and the cartoonist Jacques Van Melkebeke.[5] Some Belgians were upset that Hergé was willing to work for a newspaper controlled by the then occupying Nazi administration,[6] although he was heavily impressed by the size of Le Soir's readership, which reached 600,000.[7] Faced with the reality of Nazi oversight, Hergé abandoned the overt political themes that had pervaded much of his earlier work, instead adopting a policy of neutrality.[8] Without the need to satirise political types, entertainment producer and author Harry Thompson observed that "Hergé was now concentrating more on plot and on developing a new style of character comedy. The public reacted positively."[9]
As with two previous stories, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure, Hergé developed the idea of a twofold story arc, resulting in the two-part The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun.[10] Hergé planned for the former story to outline a mystery, while the latter would see his characters undertake an expedition to solve it.[10] His use of an ancient mummy's curse around which the narrative revolved was inspired by tales of a curse of the pharaohs which had been unearthed during the archaeologist Howard Carter's 1922 discovery of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb. This was not the first time that Hergé had been inspired by this tabloid story, having previously done so when authoring Cigars of the Pharaoh.[11]
The story began serialisation in Le Soir under the title of Les Sept Boules de Cristal on 16 December 1943.[12] It was, however, interrupted on 2 September 1944,[13] as Brussels was liberated from German occupation by the Allied forces on 3 September, upon which Le Soir immediately ceased publication.[14] Hergé had been forced to abandon the story after 152 strips, equivalent to fifty pages of the later published book volume.[15] The story had been left hanging after the scene in which Tintin leaves the hospital after seeing the seven members of the expedition enduring a simultaneous fit.[15] Three days later the entire staff were fired and a new editorial team introduced.[14] In October 1945, Hergé was approached by Raymond Leblanc, a former member of a conservative Resistance group, the National Royalist Movement (MNR), and his associates André Sinave and Albert Debaty. The trio were planning on launching a weekly magazine for children. Leblanc, who had fond childhood memories of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, thought Hergé would be ideal for it.[16] Hergé agreed, and Leblanc obtained clearance papers for him, allowing him to work.[17]
Hergé had adopted the idea of a person abducted into a lost Incan city from Gaston Leroux's 1912 novel, The Bride of the Sun,[18] in which the idea of a solar eclipse also appeared.[19] In turn, the idea of European explorers discovering a lost city had been found in both H. Rider Haggard's She: A History of Adventure (1887) and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916).[20] His use of the eclipse may also have been influenced by accounts claiming that Christopher Columbus subdued a revolt of indigenous groups in Jamaica in 1503 using knowledge of a solar eclipse that had been predicted by Giovanni Muller's 1474 calendar.[14]
Hergé's principal source of information about the Andes was Charles Wiener's 1880 book Pérou et Bolivie ("Peru and Bolivia"), which contained 1,100 engravings from which Hergé could base his own illustrations.[21] In this way, small details about Andean costume and material culture were accurately copied.[22] Part of the ceremonial costume worn by the Incan priest was based upon a colour painting of Mexican Aztecs produced by Else Bostelmann for the National Geographic Society which Hergé had a copy of in his files.[23] He ensured that his depiction of the Peruvian trains was accurate by basing them upon examples found in a two-volume picture encyclopedia of railways published by Librarie Hachette in 1927.[23]
Hergé sent his assistant, Edgar P. Jacobs, to the Cinquantenaire Museum to study its collections of Incan material,[22] and also used Jacobs as a model for several of the poses that characters adopt in the story.[22] He had a striped poncho specially made, which he then asked Jacobs to model.[22] Hergé later concluded that the scene in which Tintin hoodwinked the Inca with his knowledge of the sun was implausible, suggesting that solar worshipers with a keen knowledge of astronomy like the Inca would have been well aware of the sun and its eclipses.[24]
Prisoners of the Sun was the first of The Adventures of Tintin to be serialised in its entirety in the new Tintin magazine.[25] On the magazine's launch day of 26 September 1946, readers who had been without Tintin for two years now received two pages per week in full colour under the title La Temple du Soleil (The Temple of the Sun).[26] It began on what is now page 50 of the previous book The Seven Crystal Balls and included two pages outlining the crystal ball mystery, presented as if it were a press cutting.[27] With Jacobs, Hergé completed the cover of the first issue and finished off The Seven Crystal Balls prior to embarking on Prisoners of the Sun,[28] although Hergé included both under the title of The Temple of the Sun.[29] To lessen his workload, a portion of the two pages of Hergé's strip was an explanatory block of text about Inca society, titled "Qui étaient les Incas?" ("Who were the Incas?"). Covering issues such as geography, history, and religion, each block was signed in Tintin's name.[30]
In May 1947, the collaboration between Hergé and Jacobs ended after an argument. Hergé had been jealous of the immediate success of Jacobs' Blake and Mortimer series, and had turned down Jacobs' request that he be credited as co-creator of the new Adventures of Tintin.[31]
On 17 June 1947, serialisation of the story paused after Hergé disappeared. Doctors diagnosed him as suffering from a mental breakdown as a result of overwork, and to recover he spent time in retreat at the Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-Scourmont.[32] In a letter to his wife Germaine, Hergé wrote, "Life has spoilt me ... I no longer draw like I breathe, as I used to not so long ago. Tintin is no longer me ... my Boy Scout spirit has been badly damaged."[33] He followed this with a holiday to Gland on Lake Geneva, Switzerland with Germaine.[34] Editors of Tintin magazine posted a sarcastic notice in the magazine stating that "Our friend Hergé is in need of a rest. Oh, don't worry, he's fine. But in refusing to marshal his forces to bring you a new episode of The Temple of the Sun each week, our friend is a little over-worked."[35] He disappeared again in early 1948, this time for six weeks, again to Gland, but according to biographer Pierre Assouline he was accompanied by a young, married woman, with whom he was having an extra-marital affair.[36] Angered by his absence, the editorial board decided to command other artists and writers to continue the story, a threat which made Hergé return to work.[37]
While writing Prisoners of the Sun, Hergé decided that he wanted to move to Argentina, and focused his attention on completing all outstanding commissions so that he could focus on his emigration.[38] He enlisted the aid of Van Melkebeke, Guy Dessicy, and Frans Jageneau to help finish Prisoners; they gathered at his home on the Avenue Delleur and produced many of the backgrounds within the story.[39] He also employed his friend Bernard Heuvelmans to help devise the ending of the story; he paid Heuvelmans 43,000 Belgian francs for doing so.[40] Ultimately, Hergé changed his mind about moving to Argentina for reasons that remain unknown.[41] Serialisation of Prisoners of the Sun culminated on 22 April 1948.[42] As with previous adventures, the title had also been serialised in the French Catholic newspaper Cœurs Vaillants, from 30 November 1947.[13]
After the story arc finished serialisation, the publishing company Casterman divided it into two volumes, Les Sept Boules de Cristal and Le Temple du Soleil, which they released in 1948 and 1949 respectively.[13] To fit into the 62-page format, a number of scenes were deleted from the story's publication in book form. These included a scene in which Tintin chases away a cat aboard the Pachacamac, Haddock drawing a picture of Tintin on a wall, Haddock chewing coca provided by Zorrino, Tintin shooting a jaguar, and Haddock discovering gold nuggets under the Temple of the Sun but being unable to take them back with him.[43] British Tintin expert Michael Farr noted that none of these scenes were "integral to the narrative", and that their removal improved its structure.[44] The reformatting also led to an error in the depiction of the solar eclipse. In the original magazine serialisation, Hergé had depicted the moon moving across the sun in the correct direction for the Southern Hemisphere;[45] for the book publication, the drawings had been altered, with the moon now moving in the incorrect direction.[46]
The book was banned by the Peruvian authorities because, in the map of South America contained within it, a region whose ownership was disputed by Peru and Ecuador was shown as being part of the latter country.[20]
Critical analysis[edit]
Michael Farr described both The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun as "classic middle-period Tintin", commenting on their "surprisingly well-balanced narrative" and the fact that they exhibited scant evidence of Hergé's turbulent personal life.[47] He felt that the inclusion of paranormal elements to the story did nothing to make the narrative less convincing, and observes Hergé's recurring depiction of his character's disturbing dreams.[48] Farr opined that the Inca costumes were drawn with "a care and flamboyance that would do great credit to a major opera house production", while the Andean landscapes were "worthy of a Cecil B. DeMille film spectacular".[22] Hergé biographer Benoît Peeters noted that Prisoner of the Sun was one of the Adventures to have "most caught the imagination", something that he attributed to its "exceptional setting or the strength of the plot".[49]
Harry Thompson noted that, like Red Rackham's Treasure, Prisoners of the Sun was "an epic journey conditioned by the suspense of not knowing what will happen at the end"; although he thought that, unlike Red Rackham's Treasure, it "successfully transfers the fear of its unknown adversaries from the first part of the adventure into the second".[50] He also thought that, despite all the tribulations Hergé faced while creating it, "the pacing, the retention of suspense right to the end, and the fine balance of humour and drama" do not betray the story's troubled development.[50]
Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier believed that the two-story arc represents "one more leap forward in Hergé's graphic and narrative skills" as a result of the transition to full colour double pages as the initial means of publication. They thought that this improvement was particularly evident in the scenes of the trek through the Andes in Prisoners of the Sun.[46] They stated that with Prisoners of the Sun, the story had switched into "Hitchcockian thriller mode", a similar technique that Hergé had adopted into a number of previous adventures.[46] They described the character of Zorrino as "basically a Peruvian version" of Chang Chong-Chen, a character introduced to the series in The Blue Lotus.[20] They described the story as "a philosophical parable, perhaps a hidden reflection of Hergé's spiritual yearnings"; in this way anticipating the themes that he would make use of in Tintin in Tibet.[51] Ultimately, they awarded both halves of the story arc five out of five.[51]
Literary critic Tom McCarthy identified elements within the story that he believed reflected recurring themes within The Adventures of Tintin. He thought that the appearance of Rascar Capac's jewels reflected Hergé's use of jewellery as a theme throughout the series,[52] and that the scene in which Tintin commands the sun god to do his bidding reflects a wider theme throughout the series in which "sacred authority" manifests through voice.[53] The scene in which Haddock causes an avalanche of snow by sneezing reflected what McCarthy considered a wider theme of the danger of sound,[54] while Zorrino's decision to stay among the Inca was interpreted as a reflection of a wider theme of adoption.[55] Commenting on the execution scene, McCarthy believed that it represented Haddock being "sacrificed on the altar of his own illegitimacy", a concept that he felt had been echoed throughout the series.[56]
In his psychoanalytical study of the Adventures of Tintin, the literary critic Jean-Marie Apostolidès believed that The Seven Crystal Balls–Prisoners of the Sun arc reflects a confrontation between civilisations, and between the sacred and the secular.[57] He described the Quechuan society depicted by Hergé as a "totalitarian theocracy", noting that the Tintin of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo would have approved of such a political system.[58] He then drew comparisons between the Incan Prince of the Sun and the Syldavian King Muskar XII in King Ottokar's Sceptre, noting that in both the monarch is threatened by losing a treasured cultural artefact to foreigners.[58] Apostolidès also believed that the eclipse scene reflects a change in the power relations between the sacrificed (Tintin) and the sacrificer (the Inca prince).[59] Commenting on Tintin's dream sequence in which he dreams of Calculus, Haddock, and the Thompsons, Apostolidès believed that it reflected a "latent homosexual desire", comparing it with the dream sequence in The Crab with the Golden Claws.[60]
In 1969, the animation company Belvision Studios, which had produced the 1956–57 television series Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, released its first feature-length animated film, Tintin and the Temple of the Sun, adapted from the Seven Crystal Balls-Prisoners of the Sun story arc.[61] Produced by Raymond Leblanc and directed by Eddie Lateste, it was written by Lateste, the cartoonist Greg, Jos Marissen, and Laszló Molnár.[61] Music was by François Rauber and Zorrino's song was composed by Jacques Brel.[61]
In 1991, a second animated series based upon The Adventures of Tintin was produced, this time as a collaboration between the French studio Ellipse and the Canadian animation company Nelvana. Prisoners of the Sun was the twelfth story to be adapted and was divided into two thirty-minute episodes. Directed by Stéphane Bernasconi, the series has been praised for being "generally faithful" to the original comics, to the extent that the animation was directly adopted from Hergé's original panels.[62]
In 1997, the French company Infogrames released a video game based on The Seven Crystal Balls-Prisoners of the Sun story arc, titled Prisoners of the Sun.[63]
In 2001, The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun were adapted into a theatrical musical, Kuifje – De Zonnetempel (Tintin – The Temple of the Sun), which premiered in Dutch at the Stadsschouwburg in Antwerp, the Netherlands, on 15 September. Adapted for the stage by Seth Gaaikema and Frank Van Laecke, the production was directed by Dirk de Caluwé and included music by Dirk Brossé, featuring Tom Van Landuyt in the role of Tintin. Didier Van Cauwelaert adapted the musical into French, and it then premiered a year later in Charleroi as Tintin – Le Temple du Soleil. From there, the production was scheduled for Paris in 2003 but was cancelled.[64][65] It returned for a brief run in Antwerp on 18 October 2007.[66]
- ^ Hergé 1962, p. 1–20.
- ^ Hergé 1962, p. 21–50.
- ^ Hergé 1962, p. 51–62.
- ^ Assouline 2009, pp. 70–71; Peeters 2012, pp. 116–118.
- ^ Assouline 2009, p. 72; Peeters 2012, pp. 120–121.
- ^ Goddin 2009, p. 73; Assouline 2009, p. 72.
- ^ Assouline 2009, p. 73; Peeters 2012, p. 121.
- ^ Thompson 1991, p. 99; Farr 2001, p. 95.
- ^ Thompson 1991, p. 99.
- ^ a b Thompson 1991, p. 124.
- ^ Farr 2001, p. 115; Lofficier & Lofficier 2002, p. 57.
- ^ Thompson 1991, p. 124; Farr 2001, p. 118; Lofficier & Lofficier 2002, p. 55; Assouline 2009, pp. 98–99.
- ^ a b c Lofficier & Lofficier 2002, p. 55.
- ^ a b c Farr 2001, p. 116.
- ^ a b Farr 2001, p. 118.
- ^ Assouline 2009, p. 109; Peeters 2012, pp. 164–165.
- ^ Assouline 2009, p. 110.
- ^ Farr 2001, p. 121; Lofficier & Lofficier 2002, p. 57; Assouline 2009, p. 125.
- ^ Goddin 2009, p. 133.
- ^ a b c Lofficier & Lofficier 2002, p. 57.
- ^ Thompson 1991, p. 136; Farr 2001, p. 121; Assouline 2009, p. 125.
- ^ a b c d e Farr 2001, p. 121.
- ^ a b c Farr 2001, p. 124.
- ^ Thompson 1991, p. 136; Farr 2001, p. 116.
- ^ Peeters 1989, p. 82; Assouline 2009, p. 124; Goddin 2009, p. 161; Peeters 2012, p. 174.
- ^ Lofficier & Lofficier 2002, p. 55; Goddin 2009, p. 158.
- ^ Peeters 1989, p. 82; Assouline 2009, p. 124; Peeters 2012, p. 174; Goddin 2009, p. 158, 161.
- ^ Goddin 2009, p. 158, 161.
- ^ Thompson 1991, p. 131.
- ^ Peeters 1989, p. 82; Farr 2001, p. 123; Assouline 2009, p. 130; Peeters 2012, p. 186.
- ^ Assouline 2009, pp. 126–127.
- ^ Assouline 2009, pp. 127–129.
- ^ Goddin 2009, p. 168, 170.
- ^ Peeters 2012, p. 184.
- ^ Thompson 1991, pp. 132–133; Peeters 2012, p. 180.
- ^ Thompson 1991, p. 133; Assouline 2009, pp. 129, 134.
- ^ Thompson 1991, p. 133.
- ^ Assouline 2009, p. 131; Goddin 2009, p. 178, 183.
- ^ Assouline 2009, p. 133.
- ^ Assouline 2009, pp. 133–134; Peeters 2012, pp. 186–187.
- ^ Assouline 2009, p. 134.
- ^ Thompson 1991, p. 134; Farr 2001, p. 123; Goddin 2009, p. 181.
- ^ Thompson 1991, p. 135; Farr 2001, p. 123; Lofficier & Lofficier 2002, pp. 57–58.
- ^ Farr 2001, p. 123.
- ^ Goddin 2009, p. 179.
- ^ a b c Lofficier & Lofficier 2002, p. 58.
- ^ Farr 2001, p. 115.
- ^ Farr 2001, p. 116, 124.
- ^ Peeters 1989, p. 83.
- ^ a b Thompson 1991, p. 134.
- ^ a b Lofficier & Lofficier 2002, p. 59.
- ^ McCarthy 2006, p. 97.
- ^ McCarthy 2006, p. 52.
- ^ McCarthy 2006, p. 101.
- ^ McCarthy 2006, p. 69.
- ^ McCarthy 2006, p. 132.
- ^ Apostolidès 2010, p. 154.
- ^ a b Apostolidès 2010, p. 156.
- ^ Apostolidès 2010, p. 175.
- ^ Apostolidès 2010, p. 169.
- ^ a b c Lofficier & Lofficier 2002, p. 89.
- ^ Lofficier & Lofficier 2002, p. 90.
- ^ GameFAQs 1997.
- ^ Tintinologist.org 2005.
- ^ Antwerp Gazette 30 August 2001.
- ^ Antwerp Gazette 19 August 2007.
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- Assouline, Pierre (2009) [1996]. Hergé, the Man Who Created Tintin. Charles Ruas (translator). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539759-8.
- Farr, Michael (2001). Tintin: The Complete Companion. London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-5522-0.
- Goddin, Philippe (2009). The Art of Hergé, Inventor of Tintin: Volume 2: 1937-1949. Michael Farr (translator). San Francisco: Last Gasp. ISBN 978-0-86719-724-2.
- Hergé (1962) [1949]. Prisoners of the Sun. Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper and Michael Turner (translators). London: Egmont. ISBN 978-1-4352-6039-9.
- Lofficier, Jean-Marc; Lofficier, Randy (2002). The Pocket Essential Tintin. Harpenden, Hertfordshire: Pocket Essentials. ISBN 978-1-904048-17-6.
- McCarthy, Tom (2006). Tintin and the Secret of Literature. London: Granta. ISBN 978-1-86207-831-4.
- Peeters, Benoît (1989). Tintin and the World of Hergé. London: Methuen Children's Books. ISBN 978-0-416-14882-4.
- Peeters, Benoît (2012) [2002]. Hergé: Son of Tintin. Tina A. Kover (translator). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0454-7.
- Thompson, Harry (1991). Tintin: Hergé and his Creation. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-52393-3.
- "Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun". GameFAQs.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2010. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- "Kuifje – De Zonnetempel (De Musical) / Tintin – Le Temple du Soleil – Le Spectacle Musical". Tintinologist.org. 2005. Archived from the original on 11 June 2007. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- "Musical Kuifje binnen 2 weken in Antwerpen" [Musical Tintin Within 2 weeks in Antwerp]. Gazet Van Antwerpen (in Dutch). 30 August 2001. Archived from the original on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- "'Kuifje — De Zonnetempel' dit najaar ook in Antwerpen" ['Tintin — The Temple of the Sun' This Autumn in Antwerp]. Gazet Van Antwerpen (in Dutch). 19 August 2007. Archived from the original on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
External links[edit]
- Prisoners of the Sun at the Official Tintin Website
- Prisoners of the Sun at Tintinologist.org


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I just can't get over how fucking salty it is of Spock to be like "tell McCoy he should have wished me good luck" as he's fucking dying. Like i hope i reach that level of idgaf sass. I'm dying, but that bitch back talked so w my dying breath i say fuck you
But to add some angst on, Bones did say good luck, but as we all know he said it when Spock couldn't hear him. And you can see Bones' heart breaking when he realises Spock may well die believing that Bones doesn't give enough of a shit to say two little words
BUT does Bones tell him then? "I did wish you luck, Spock. And I wish it all the more now." FUCK NO Bones won't be out done in this passive agressive war


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Top Teachers: Stephen Worfolk
By Patty Kruszewski, Citizen Managing Editor 02/18/11
Stephen Worfolk happened upon his career calling on a basketball court, while coaching a team at St. Mary's Church.
"Even though we lost a lot of games my first year, I truly enjoyed teaching the kids how to play," he said. "It was then I realized I would like to try my hand at teaching."
Although he now "coaches" a classroom full of third-graders at Jackson Davis E.S., the challenges are similar in some respects.
"A large group of students come to you each year on different levels academically, emotionally and physically," he said. "Trying to meet each student's needs and creating a classroom environment where each can grow can be very challenging."
Sometimes the students, like his basketball players, need physical help and encouragement. In September, for instance, when training begins for the mile or half-mile running test in P.E., many can barely run a lap around the track. But Worfolk makes sure that the students exercise each day and run a mile at least three times a week.
Worfolk notes that one of his favorite days of the school year is the spring running test, when students who ran with difficulty in September find they can now go the distance without stopping. "It's incredibly rewarding," said Worfolk. "It is so neat to see students get excited about conquering a challenge they might have hated in the beginning of the year."
A parent who observed this transformation comments, "Some kids never have – and may never again have – the opportunity or the encouragement that he provides. The physical progress for many of the kids is very inspirational."
Parents also admire Worfolk's "relentless" energy and concern for his students, and note that while strict, "he has a huge heart."
To his students' delight, he makes a point of attending their extracurricular activities and sports throughout the year. And to the delight of parents, he compiles an end-of-year show featuring photos from extracurricular events as well as from in-school activities.
Worfolk's interest in the children as individuals, say parents, has a tremendous effect on students' motivation and enthusiasm when it comes to school.
When it comes to enthusiasm for his students and for his colleagues, it's hard to match Worfolk, as well.
One of his more rewarding teaching experiences involved a student who came into his class reading far below grade level.
Worfolk said the student was "incredibly hard-working," but required help from many teachers beside himself due to being so far behind.
"I was proud to be a part," he said, "of this amazing group of teachers . . . who helped this student with her reading to the point where she could read proudly to the rest of the class."
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Richmond OB-GYN, an obstetrics and gynecology provider of Bon Secours Richmond Health System, will open a new office at Bon Secours Heart and Vascular Institute building in Henrico County. The building, which serves as an extension of Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital, is located in Reynolds Crossing at Forest and Glenside Avenues. The practice opened for patients March 21.
Alice Hirata, M.D., joined the Bon Secours Medical Group and is now part of the physician team at Richmond OB-GYN, where she will help to establish a midwifery practice at St. Mary's Hospital. > Read more.
Sports Backers, Markel announce partnership for half marathon
Sports Backers announced recently a new three-year partnership with Markel, making the Innsbrook-based insurance provider the new title sponsor of the Markel Richmond Half Marathon. The race, now in its 10th year, is part of the Anthem Richmond Marathon weekend Nov. 11, which also features the VCU Health 8k.
Known as 'American's Friendliest Marathon' and celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2017, the Anthem Richmond Marathon and companion races annually draw participants from all 50 states and dozens of countries around the world. > Read more.
Local, state races beginning to take shape
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Candidates for several local and state races are emerging, as both the Henrico Republican and Democratic parties finalize their nominating processes.
In Henrico, a number of candidates are expected to pursue the Brookland District seat on the Board of Supervisors during a special election in November. (The seat opened when longtime Republican board member Dick Glover died at 82 in February). The winner of that election will serve the remainder of Glover's term, which expires at the end of 2019. > Read more.
'Hello Kitty Truck' rolls into Short Pump Saturday
By Amelia Heymann, Capital News Service 03/24/2017 Features
MAR. 23, 12 P.M. – Hello Kitty fans, rejoice. On Saturday, the Hello Kitty Cafe Truck, described as "a mobile vehicle of cuteness," will make its first visit to the region.
The truck will be at Short Pump Town Center, 11800 W. Broad St., from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. The vehicle will be near the mall's main entrance by Crate & Barrel and Pottery Barn.
The Hello Kitty Cafe Truck has been traveling nationwide since its debut at the 2014 Hello Kitty Con, a convention for fans of the iconic character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio. > Read more.
Villa's Flagler Housing wins national NAEH award
St. Joseph's Villa's Flagler Housing & Homeless Services was one of three entities to earn the National Alliance to End Homelessness' Champion of Change Award. The awards were presented Nov. 17 during a ceremony at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
NAEH annually recognizes proven programs and significant achievements in ending child and family homelessness.
Flagler completed its transition from an on-campus shelter to the community-based model of rapid rehousing in 2013, and it was one of the nation's first rapid re-housing service providers to be certified by NAEH. > Read more.
RIR's Christmas tree lighting rescheduled for Dec. 12
Richmond International Raceway's 13th annual Community Christmas tree lighting has been rescheduled from Dec. 6 to Monday, Dec. 12, at 6:30 p.m., due to inclement weather expected on the original date.
Entertainment Dec. 12 will be provided by the Laburnum Elementary School choir and the Henrico High School Mighty Marching Warriors band. Tree decorations crafted by students from Laburnum Elementary School and L. Douglas Wilder Middle School will be on display. Hot chocolate and cookies will be supplied by the Henrico High School football boosters. > Read more.
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CAT Theatre and When There's A Will director Ann Davis recently announced the cast for the dark comedy which will be performed May 26 through June 3.
The play centers around a family gathering commanded by the matriarch, Dolores, to address their unhappiness with Grandmother's hold on the clan's inheritance and her unreasonable demands on her family.
Pat Walker will play the part of Dolores Whitmore, with Graham and Florine Whitmore played by Brent Deekens and Brandy Samberg, respectively. > Read more.
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The title of this article is actually the name of a book written by Martha Stout (which I highly recommend by the way). I thought it would also be an appropriate title for this hub because it aptly implies that you are probably a lot closer to a sociopath right at this very moment than you may realize.
In fact Martha Stout believes that 4% of the US population maybe sociopaths indicating that if you know a few hundred people then it's highly likely that you know a small handful of sociopaths and given that sociopathic tendencies are often of a covert nature, it's also highly likely that you don't even realize who those people are.
Statistically the numbers seems shocking. However, the term 'sociopath' has become a fairly universal one within the personality disorder niche of psychology and one that is now not officially used or recognized any more. A psychopath and a sociopath are now essentially the same thing though the official diagnosis of someone considered to be a full-blown psychopath has now been labelled 'Antisocial Personality Disorder'.
The term 'sociopath' could therefore be used generically and could refer to a number of personality disorders or the combination of a few, such as Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) or Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) which explains why the statistics may be so high. All of these disorders possess similar traits therefore it's not uncommon for some people to be diagnosed with, or be believed to have, one or more personality disorder. The was an attempt to narrow this down in the American Psychiatric Association DSM-5 which is officially used to diagnose personality disorders, in order to result in a more accurate diagnosis and to prevent personality disorders from overlapping with each other. The aim was to be able to diagnose an individual with having just one of the disorders without having to consider the possibility they may have several.
Would You Know If Your Daughter Was A Sociopath?
According to these statistics I think it's pretty safe to say that everybody probably knows a sociopath or two. However, how would you recognize them? How would you pick them out from the rest of the crowd? You can't. Sociopaths are born with an invisible secret that only they know about and that they can use expertly to their advantage throughout life to get what they want without anyone having a clue as to what's really going on. The only person who might have any kind of suspicion on the matter would most likely be her boyfriend or husband who may be being abused without even realizing it.
For now, imagine you only know 100 people. The chances are that 4 of those people are sociopaths. 4 out of every 100 of your Facebook friends are probably sociopaths! Would you even know if your own daughter was one of those 4 inflicted people? How would you be able to tell?
The reason I ask about your daughter and not your son is because there is already a major bias in society of the man being the abuser and the woman being the victim in a typical case. However, many women are also sociopaths and the true statistics regarding abuse are now starting to come out of the closet. In actual fact, male victims of domestic violence wrongly suffer from gender bias despite research showing the opposite.
A study of 11,000 men and women aged 18-28 at the Harvard Medical School and US Center for Disease Control showed that 24% of heterosexual relationships involved abuse. Half of them had experienced reciprocal violence (each partner assaulting each other) and of the other half, women were responsible for over 70% of the non-reciprocal violence, the women were the ones who struck first. In addition a study which was part of the National Family Violence Legislative Resource Center shows that there is more abuse/violence in lesbian relationships that there is in heterosexual ones. Statistical research clearly shows that women are more abusive than men and that 70% of single-partner abuse/domestic violence is committed by women.
Recognizing Sociopathic Abuse & The Damage It Causes
In the case of your daughter (metaphorically speaking, of course) you would need to take a look at her life-partner/husband/boyfriend. That's assuming she has one and has been with him for a few years or more. Ask yourself the following questions:
Has he distanced himself from you and your family and/or friends over the years?
Does he sometimes seem ignorant or weary of you and unwilling to get too close?
Does he seem stressed out (long-term) or like he wants to say something to you but can't?
Does he look worn out, tired, anxious and/or uptight?
Does your daughter accuse him of abuse, lies or cheating?
Does he appear to have no money, no value, no car, unable to take family on holiday and unwilling to go out to work?
Can you remember a time when he used to seem happier, talk more and communicate with your more?
Does your daughter regularly complain that she's had enough of his accusations?
Would he rather be on his own than go out with your daughter and her friends/family yet he previously used to?
If the answer to the above questions are yes then there's a good chance that your daughter may have subject him to secret (covert) sociopathic abuse. Of course, you need to do much deeper digging than that to find out the reality, sociopaths are experts at fooling everybody around them and using people without them even realizing it and a true diagnosis is not something which is easily done.
Sociopathic women usually pick out a nice guy, someone who's quiet but friendly, open minded and honest and someone that doesn't like to say no to people. Over time they subtly suggest that he may have mental problems and eventually, after years of subtle abuse, openly tries to convince him that he's sick in the head and paranoid for making accusations or that he needs to see a shrink. This is, plain and simple, mental abuse which is used to cover up and get away with the fact that she is the one committing the abuse.
Sociopathic women are usually very charismatic people that have everyone, including their own friends and family, fooled into believing that they are the 'good girl' of the family, the one that would never do anything to hurt anyone yet they commonly have secret one-night stands, secret affairs (sometimes with family) and they use shock tactics to make people think that they'd simply had too much to drink and have them cover up their lies. Every time there is an attempt to do something about it, literally everything is twisted back around onto the true victim and the sociopath plays the victim successfully manipulating their family and friends into hiding their twisted secrets.
Note: Sociopathy/Psychopathy should not be confused with malignant narcissism/NPD.
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Are you saying that sociopaths are basically abusers? Are there other characteristics that would classify them as a sociopath? I thought a psychopath and or a sociopath had much more severe mental problems. I suppose there could be levels or degrees of the illness. Interesting that you said sociopaths are born with a secret that only they know about. Does this mean a sociopath knows they are mental? I know a few people that fit your description but they honestly think their behavior is normal or deny even having the behavior. Thanks for the informative hub.
Thanks for the info. Scary to know so many are out there.
THIS is a really a very detailed hub on the differences of Sociopaths and Psychopaths. THE TWO DIFFERENT irritants in our day to day life is very common . But doesn't come out as the loved ones doesn't want it to be known by the public about their closed one being so abusive or adamant on getting their things done. A fantastic article, at least by reading this those suffering will get a solace that they are not alone. i liked your writing.voted up. and useful
Thanks Venzkhvam, I find the statistics shocking. This is a more widepsread problem than people seem to realize. If you mention the word 'sociopath' people begin to assume that you must be talking about a violent murderer or rapist when generally that's not really how it works.
I believe our society is breeding more and more sociopaths. I don't know if they are born with this as in genetic or if it can be a result of abusive behaviors or if they just develop the disorder as they age. Very interesting Hub though!
Thanks for the comment Naomi's Banner. A lot of people argue that it's genetic because of EEG's showing that certain parts of the brain that deal with empathy, conscience, etc don't seem to be functional.
However, I personally believe this works a lot like the conscious and subconscious mind - they feed each other. Therefore upbringing on abuse over generations within a family is inevitable going to result in those genetic changes taking place anyway.
It's well known within the psychology community that sociopaths have suffered abuse, often sexual child abuse, from a young age or have basically been brought up on abuse believing it to be normal.
Sparkster, From what I've heard and read, in a good number of cases it is not believed to be genetic. Nurturing in the first three or so years of life can determine which parts of the brain will develop. It's a time when brain connections must form, and if nurturing doesn't lead to some connections forming then the brain cells eventually die off. An infant or young child not nurtured in a way that would encourage the development of the parts of the brain associated with empathy (etc.) would, of course, have brain development that reflected that.
Anyone interested in learning more about brain connections are formed through nurturing should do a search like, "effects of maternal nurturing on brain development".
After many years working with those we fondly refer to as sociopaths, they do tend to be manipulative, highly aggressive, very charismatic, often reckless with the money of others. Males tend to be macho types who are also type A personality who could use some cross cultural awareness.
Why, you might ask, aren't these people thrown in jail?
We don't do that in this or any other part of the world I am aware of to those who run Fortune 500 Companies. These top CEO's exhibit the same characteristics as a good sociopath who never goes to jail. He/she is just to clever. Two of my good friends, one a judge, the other an FBI agent took over any room they walked into. Both were brilliant poker players. I had them take the old MMPI several years back, Both resembled the sociopath profile, and if you believe the test, were willing to act on urges society views as opposed to good order.
As Patty so brilliantly pointed out, sometimes labels aren't always helpful. Many addicts and alcoholics change their moods from day to day and even every hour. They can't help it, or in some cases they want to fool someone. Most alcoholics are bright, insightful, generous and helpful, when sober. On the MMPI, they will almost always resemble the sociopath or shy, introverted, and passive aggressive personality. Did someone say so what? Goodnight
Lisa HW, in theory I completely agree with you (and of course the research that indicates this). A perfect example would be a sociopathic family where upbringing clearly has effect on people within that family over generations. However, this in itself causes genetic alterations over time which gives researchers a reason to believe that the problem may genetic when in reality those genetic changes were actually caused by the psychology in the first place. Some believe it's genetic and some believe the opposite. Neither can be proven.
Thanks for sharing this information. It gets really old, seeing people that are able or willing to hurt others, do so. Basically, innocent people are being hurt those large problems, and they can live out much or all of their lives this way. It is so sad. Education on it all is a beginning. Often, I think those that don't know what exactly is going on, sometimes have a gut feeling, like they know something isn't right about someone. Its good to listen to these vibes, they could potentially protect us, and save us so much grief.
I am so glad you put up warning signs, on these hubs... it could hypothetically be any of us, and would we be brave enough or strong enough to go get help, if need be? That would be a good thing.... much better than hurting others, and hoping no one notices and just takes the abuse in their lives. Again, a great hub, thank you very much.
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I Found Your Site whilst I was Doing-The-Rounds, around the Righteous Handful of Sites Exposing Moral-Imbeciles, like the 1 You've highlighted is pitted against You
Although, so far I've sadly been met by several hypocritical keyboard-hardmen & Infantile-Girls territorially suffering from delusions of grandeur (You couldn't make it up )
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She derives sadistic, (ie Infantile) Narcissistic pleasure from Unspeakable-cruelty & imagines Herself to be clever by Lying-Pathologically & can fool the Legal-system …
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I Saw-Through Her & Stood-Up to Her & Genuinely Cared about Her, as I Uber-Empathically harrowingly Saw in Her what She Would have been had She not been born with what She called a broken brain & had She not suffered on-top of That … However, She Informed Me that Her EVERY Action was A Deliberately-Selfish & ENORMOUSLY premeditated Choice
She had Me arrested & I've to appear in Court for the TERRIBLE CRIME of Typing The TRUTH on MY Facebook Page (ie Slander & breach of Confidence) which She'd Doctored from a Post I'd placed on My old Facebook profile from 4 Months Earlier, having TYPED nothing about Her in 3 Months by that juncture …
I'd actually phoned the Police 1 Month before She had, as She'd been in My House when I was out working for a Local Charity (I'd no Idea She'd made a copy of My Key) … However, She lied fearlessly & pathologically to The Police & being Female played the Ted Bundy pity-card with the Gullible Male officers … (She REALLY Did a number on Them …)
Whereas, A Month Earlier when I'd had-enough & Called the Police & was HONEST :- Being Male, I was Told, by a Female police officer & I Quote, We'll wait until She kills Someone 'Then' We'll arrest Her … :-
Here's the off-shore expose' which I BRAVELY Predicted could get Me arrested, 2 Days before I found Myself locked in a prison cell in Glasgow, in the Middle of the Night, whilst the Malignant Sociopath (& co) cackled in the distance, delighting in having perverted the justice system to continue trying to cause Me PTSD in the vain hope I'll be the 7th Man to commit suicide because of Them …
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This is going to short. I believe, really there was a sociopath in my life. He was an employer. With in a short period of time we became friends. I was young and did not know anything about such disorders. Not knowing, he involved me in a life game from a book games people play. In this game there is a set up for role reversal. This went on for ten years. Which goes along with what I went through and the book. For ten years my life just went by not knowing at the end, I would have nothing to show for all the hard work that I did. This left me broke and with out employment. I was black balled by him, He even stole my wallet, broke in to my bank and e-mails. He lied to people all around me setting up for my down fall. It has been three years after I left the company and the area. This was the most horrible thing to experience. He had me fooled that we were friends and I became close with is whole family. I am middle aged and have nothing to show for my life. I still can't find good employment. I read the book sociopaths next door good book. This is very short but I believe the experience will be on my mind for every moment for the rest of my life.
I am glad you brought this to light. Many men who have been abused in some manner would never admit it. Seeing this is confirmation that those men who have been abused in some manner are not just imagining things or showing their weakness. As a one time medical transport driver I met many kinds of people during 15 years and I can attest to women being just as sociopathic as men, if not much more. One little guy came out of his house one day with a black eye, broken nose and broken arm. His big bruiser of a wife would never let him get a word in during their trip to the doctor. One day, she got out and remained with me while she went in to get a prescription. I looked at him and he looked at me, all I said was, "Dude, are you alright?" And he teared up and said, "Please, help me..."
I knew his wife was a brute but this was way over the top. She beat him up and then threw him down a flight of stairs. He was not a big fella and she was very heavy and big for a woman. I was transporting the guy's mother at the time as well so after dropping him them off as I promised him I would go tell her what was really going on. She was a sick woman but when she found out her son was being treated like that she handled it and got him the help he needed. I can't tell you how awful his plea for help made me feel. If a woman asked me for that sort of help, well, I would have handled her husband or boyfriend by giving him the beating of his life. I was raised being told to protect the weak and mistreated, to stand up for those who could not stand up for themselves. How do you stand up for a guy against his woman? What can a man do in that situation?
For ages we have heard the stories about the quiet guy next door who just went off and beat his wife or even killed her. I wonder how many of those cases were a result of the woman abusing her husband for a long time before he finally lost it? I have even heard women in the back of my van talk about how they were going to get rid of their man. They literally would get him in trouble, get him arrested and then move on with their lives like nothing was wrong! This sort of nonsense speaks of the lack of accountability of women as a whole. Great work here, Sparkster, glad to be following you!
I am in a marriage wherein I'm the victim of sociopathic abuse. The signs listed above are dead-on accurate.
You are so completely wrong and obviously you have personal motives behind your lies. You have insulted victims all over the world with your lies and fallacies. Get your facts straight and stop misleading people.
Oh and you delete my comment when I point it out. Really? I am going to report you to hub pages.


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Buying petrol rivals home loan repayments as the biggest financial stress facing Australians, a survey has found.
An online poll in July conducted by mortgage broker Loan Market Group found 28 per cent of respondents said petrol prices hurt their personal finances the most.
Concerns about fuel prices was just behind those hurting from higher home loan interest rates with 30 per cent claiming meeting mortgage payments was their toughest financial hurdle.
Credit cards caused the most financial grief to 20 per cent of respondents, while 17 per cent pointed to increased grocery bills.
A fortunate five per cent of respondents said they were not hurting financially.
Loan Market Group Chief Executive Jennifer Nielsen said the results showed the impact of fuel prices on household budgets.
Unleaded petrol cost more than $1.60 a litre in most Australian cities and towns last month, although prices have fallen slightly.
"For fuel prices to rival repaying a home loan as a major financial consideration shows just how much the cost of petrol has factored into Australian household budgets," Ms Nielsen said.
"Thankfully, prices have come down with the global price of oil dropping in recent weeks, but the steep cost of petrol is now firmly in the Australian financial psyche."
Ms Nielsen said the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to leave official rates on hold this month at 7.25 per cent was a relief as consumers continued to battle difficult economic conditions.
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Episode 51 - Web Deploy and the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles
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In this episode, Nathan Totten—Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure—talks to Steve about using the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles to quickly and easily deploy one or more websites across multiple Web Role instances using Web Deploy. When using this accelerator with Web Deploy, deployments only take about 30 seconds and are durably stored in Windows Azure storage.
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You guys do a great show - I (we) really enjoy it, and it is obvoius you all have a good time doing it.
Just a correction - Wade's video was done in 1994, so he was probably 15. That makes it pre-Claw. lol
Keep up the good work!
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Okay, so maybe I was slightly off when I said Wade was in his twenties.
Thanks for sharing the video!
This is a pretty cool, but aren't you charged for having this WAAWR application constantly deployed? It seems like a waste of a compute instance for something that won't be used all that often.
Edit: I watched a little bit further, and I think I have a better understanding of this. Does (or could) the WAAWR web application share the same web role instance with all the websites that it manages and deploys?
@cbae:Right, you'll pay the entire time, but the idea is that this makes it easier to put lots of websites into the same web role but easily deploy and change them individually.
This is what Ive been looking for.
Sucked how it took ages every time you had to deploy a role in Azure
Still have issues around setting up DNS for all the websites. Any pointers?
Hi is it possible to set up the Web Roll Accelerator to run over HTTPS, given that the Portal can create and destroy sites I'd want to protect the logon to HTTPS.
Similarly the deployment of web sites where we supply the Remote Desktop credentials, does this require securing?
@JimSkim You can run the accelerator over HTTPS. You would just configure SSL like any regular web role. You may want to put the admin portal on a port other than 443 though otherwise you will not be able to use a different cert for any host sites on the accelerator. The other option is to use a cert with multiple domains.
You should also use SSL when doing webdeploy to secure your credentials as well. This should work by default.
@ntotten:Thanks for the quick response, I'm fairly new to Azure, I'll go and watch Episode 15, should that pretty much cover it?
Can you elaborate or do a session on SSL? How would be upload a cert that can secure multiple websites? How do we create an appropriate wildcard cert?
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Sales competence model defined in terms of knowledge, abilities, skills, mindset, and motivators.
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Salespeople who have expert knowledge of the market and industry that they operate in, find it easier to build important contacts and recognise worthwhile opportunities. It helps them establish credibility, communicate value, and develop trust.
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Ability to persuade depends on understanding. Knowing how a customer's business works helps salespeople position the value they offer and acquire trusted advisor status.
4. Company Understanding - Knowledge
Those who know their company's goals, objectives, strategy, needs, strengths, and weaknesses understand the capabilities and resources available to address the market.
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In addition to general customer communications via letter and email, many salespeople must prepare their own quotations and proposals. The increasingly important personal marketing and digital selling techniques rely heavily on writing skills.
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Complete understanding of the value provided by the products or services represented is an aspect of a salesperson's knowledge that shouldn't be taken for granted. Equally important is ability to communicate the value effectively.
Aspects 1 through 6 of the competency model are explored and evaluated in the Sales knowledge Assessment.
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If marketing activities don't generate enough leads and enquiries, salespeople must be able to find their own. Effective and efficient prospecting can make all the difference when business is hard to come by.
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Networking is an alternative means of finding new sales prospects. It depends on having a favourable relationship with a wide range of business contacts in the industry and related industries.
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Doing things right is a waste of time if people don't first choose the right things to do. Qualification has a substantial impact on success.
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Forethought, planning, and preparation precede success. Making good use of the time available and paying attention to detail are also important aspects of sales competence.
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Using a system or method that has proved effective elsewhere provides a benchmark for measuring progress and a common language for communicating internally. Frameworks and checklists help sellers avoid mistakes and develop better methods.
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Good communication skills are a foundation stone of success. Many aspects of sales competency depend on the salesperson's ability to discover information that isn't publicly available, shift another person's perspective, and make a convincing presentation.
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Buying objections thrown up by customers can delay or stall business that otherwise could be concluded. Salespeople need ability to turn objections around.
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Some elements of negotiation are important throughout a sale however the final negotiation often brings out different behaviours, tactics, and ploys. Sales people need formal negotiation abilities.
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The price of Kuwaiti crude oil barrel rose USD 3.43 reaching USD 45.97 pb on Tuesday, compared to USD 42.54 per barrel on Friday, according to Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC).
Crude oil prices rose by about three percent in international markets yesterday, with expectations that the seven-month low oil prices would finally come to an end.
Meanwhile, contracts of Brent crude oil rose by USD 1.76 pb (about 3.32 percent), reaching USD 54.75 pb upon settlement. Moreover, prices of American light crude contracts rose USD 1.33 pb (about 2.76 percent), reaching USD 49.57 pb upon settlement.


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CRS Scholarships Presentation
The Annual CRS Scholarships Presentation took place on 20 June. For more information, go to our Events page using the menu above or by clicking on this link: Events.
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An asylum seeker family in Canberra has been receiving support from Canberra Refugee Support and some of its members for the last couple of years.
At the end of a recent family/CRS members outing, the family concerned gave a cash donation of $250 dollars to CRS. The family indicated that they had kept careful records of every financial contribution ever received from CRS and that they wished to contribute to CRS by paying back 'every cent' received.
The church attended by the family encourages tithing 10% of earnings to the church, but the family has decided, for the moment, to tithe 5% to the church and 5% to CRS.
The CRS members receiving the donation indicated that such a substantial contribution was not necessary, especially given the family's continuing fragile economic circumstances. Nevertheless, the donation was insisted upon – and has been gratefully received by CRS.
All who know about this have been greatly touched, and we wanted to share the story with the wider membership.
Asylum Insight provides facts and analysis on Australian asylum policy with an international angle. Information about the refugee status determination process in Australia is available here.
Screening of Constance on the Edge
The Committee will host a screening of the acclaimed Australian movie Constance on the Edge.
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DINER MISCHIEF: In the classic teddy bear verses Massachusetts story, Boston's favorite talking bear fights the power to prove he's a person in Ted 2. Ted (Seth MacFarlane) may have settled down with a new wife, but he's still up to mischief with his best friend John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg), which involves assaulting a fat guy (Craig Ricci Shaynak) with cereal. The only problem: He's a blind guy in a polo shirt. Oops.
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I have only just discovered this blog. What a fascinating and insightful post!
As a complete layman (who had read all the monologues) I became increasingly disillusioned with Flexcit over the course of last year, but nevertheless I continued to worry that anything other than Flexcit would be a disaster for the UK. My opinions on Brexit hardened considerably after the referendum (due to the behaviour of Remainers and their clear intent to sabotage, dilute, ignore, or overturn the decision) and this made Flexcit even less appealing to me. It is therefore good to know that there are potentially other solutions; ones that won't leave us vulnerable to being coerced into rejoining the EU at a later date.
I shall be closely following this blog from now on.RepliesI hope to provide some more detail in future blogs, but I did write a blog on Con 4 Lib which provides an outline of my thinking: http://con4lib.com/clean-brexit-we-may-need-a-transitional-arrangement-but-the-eea-is-not-the-answer/
I can also recommend reading Roland Smith who has just written a blog post on May's speech: https://medium.com/@WhiteWednesday/what-mrs-may-said-99c7a7b78def#.tj94o2tx6


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The Temecula Valley girls soccer team has raced out to a 13-1-1 record while outscoring its opponents 68-2. And thanks to striker Nicole Robertsonâs dad, Shell, who videotapes nearly all of the Golden Bears matches and sends me the highlights, Iâve had the opportunity to watch nearly all 68 of those goals.
While the Golden Bears are usually the ones firing off shots at the goal, I gave it my best shot at firing off questions for coach Amber Young.
Here's some of the question and answer exchange between coach Young and I that was used for the Wednesday Blitz show at hsgametime.pe.com.
Q: What has been the keys to the great start by your team?
A: "This team has jelled early, chemistry is really good."
Q: So there's a good blend of returning players as well as underclassmen?
A: "I have lots of talented players who are unselfish and excited about others scoring."
Q: Freshman Christine Maurer has burst onto the scene and already has 20 goals this season. Did you expect that?
A: "She's a good, talented player for sure ⦠but her work ethic and attitude is what really has impressed her teammates."
Q: Has there been a difference in play compared to last season?
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Q: Southwestern League play kicks off next week. How do you see league shaping up?
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MD HEAT: A 25k or 50k all-trail running and hiking challenge and after party in Patapsco Park outside of Baltimore, MD. H.E.A.T.: High Endurance Adventure Test
Goal: To FINISH (run, hike, walk, crawl) and have a GREAT time afterwards. Timing is secondary. The PARTY after is your prize!
Volunteers: See Volunteer signup page. Will pay in BBQ and Beer
Join the Facebook Group for discussion, news, trail info! http://www.facebook.com/groups/mdheatrace/
25k (16 miles) all trail. No loops. The 50k option is two loops. One long trail on varying terrain, mostly forest shaded. Everything from rock scrambling uphills to single track downhills, to mountain bike havens and as few fireroads as possible in order to get you back on lovable dirt enlightenment. Elevation gain is estimated at 2000 ft. The trails are very technical and challenging. A great course to hike, run, or both. Its really an adventure and a beautiful park. You won't know you are 8 miles outside Baltimore. 3+ Aid Stations with plenty of water and some food. Course markings and detailed maps are planned to be included.
Unlimited Kegs (until we run out anyway), pulled pork, burgers, hotdogs, Vegan offering. Horseshoes, Music, and Games. Race winners get bragging rights. We are renting three of the Patapsco Avalon Shelters, which have bathrooms nearby, a cold river for swimming on a scorching day, a pit for bbq, and plenty of space to enjoy ourselves.
Please do not park at Startline. All runners, attendees, spectators must shuttle in from the exterior parking lot, or we might not have our race next year!
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There is an ultra 50k option. It will be two 16 mile loops (same loop), with fewer aid stations during the beginning and a 9 hour cut-off time (we will be flexible within reason). Aid would be @ miles 8, 16, 24 and 28 - meaning you need to self-sustain for 8 miles at a time. Start time is 7am. This means getting to the parking lot and boarding the bus extra early!
Clothing or towels or personal items will not be watched. Put your stuff in a bag, start a pile, and it should be fine. Spectators, visitors, family, etc can come. They need to park in the same lot and take the bus in. The bus runs all day long. There is NO early packet pickup. Participant checkin is race day, before the race. Volunteers, if you dont know where to go, checkin at the same runner registration desk.
NEW: All participants need one hour of volunteer park work. To ease your fears, we are making it very easy for this to be fulfilled (honor system, any outdoor, anywhere, pre-planned vol events). See the link.
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A freebie / goody table will replace goody bags (which were wasteful). Stuff from the likes of REI and yummy runner food companies will fill the table near registration in the morning.
Shirts can optionally be purchased when you register online. We are attempting to make the event cheaper for those who do not need a shirt for every race… however, we think that our shirts are unique and high quality (I run test them and only get athletic gear).
This is a not-for-profit race that benefits two major causes:
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Hugh Tracey began studying African music in 1921, when he arrived from Devonshire, England in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to farm tobacco with his older brother Leonard who had been allotted land as a serviceman wounded in the First World War.
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