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So far I have to say I'm really enjoying this series.
Spoiler for Ep. 2:
I do like the Touma character, though I think they could tone him down a notch. Just a bit too much pathos there at the end over Index's situation
As for him surviving that fall and knocking out the other guy with one punch, I see it as just your standard action hero schtick. How many times have you seen <insert action movie star here> take enough punishment to kill a normal person 5 times over, then get up and punch somebody's lights out?
|2008-10-14, 06:10
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I haven't been seeing any of those lately... Thought they've all but died out? Or maybe I've just been really good with my picks ?
|2008-10-14, 06:49
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|2008-10-14, 12:24
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|2008-10-14, 12:30
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"with you, happiness"
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Human lives on through forgetting things, that's why we survive (Imagine if you couldn't forget -insert bad tragedy here- and keep recalling it every night)
Back to topic, great first episode, in love with Index.
|2008-10-14, 13:32
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Butler mitai~
but, the guys is just too damn awesome to be turned onto the green side
Stiyl would probably be the 2nd most cool guy here, if not for his "OMGWTF?!" causing him to lose his confidence. He could have easily avoided Touma's punch like the first one if he kept his cool .
that's a pretty lame cover up for Touma's character, imo. In a good way .
|2008-10-15, 02:14
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Seems official website updated with episode three (they should update the notice at the top...)...
Here's our guest for next week~
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|2008-10-15, 07:51
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Somehow I found out
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 34
Ep 2
Why do shounen action series tend to be so ridiculously shallow and inane? I mean, they spend the majority of the episode fighting and talking at each other (I rue to call it "dialogue" since they weren't so much communicating as they were spouting words at each other and the audience). BFD. *Yawn* Wake me up when the characters aren't completely one-dimensional or the fight scenes don't resemble the ones from Shakugan no Shana that no one was interested in anyway.
|2008-10-15, 09:28
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I mean, I know that you have the tendency to go a bit overboard when feel like dissing, but this time I'd say you're simply factually off. I for one have to say that I can remember no show in this season with higher production values - and Shakugan no Shana's fighting scenes were probably among the most popular and watched (and downloaded) shows of their respective seasons. So that's not too bad in my book
In a nutshell, Index is no shounen action. Treating it as such is oversimplifying things tremensously.
|2008-10-15, 09:53
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I mean, in most other stories, people who can perform magic are usually the ones considered to be above the average human, this is the first time the role has been switched
And if they altered the brain to allow the development of psychic powers, they lose the ability to perform magic... Something about it not being able to use the 'system'.
|2008-10-15, 18:41
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Somehow I found out
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Age: 34
An anime doesn't have to resemble DBZ or Naruto to be a shounen action series. Claymore, My-HiME and Idolm@ster Xenoglossia are all shounen action, the difference is that they're good shounen action because they actually bother adding a past, a set of motivations, and an intricate web of relationships to their characters. That's what makes their stories so involving... you actually come to care about what's going to happen to these characters. How can I bring myself to care about this lot:
Touma: "I have no idea what's going on around me but I'm just hot-headed enough to not back down."
Index: Two personalities, one a happy loli, the other a robotic loli with a library in her head.
Komoe: Moe-blob psuedo-loli.
Stiyl: Has fire magic powers and crap. Same evil smile on his face for the entire episode.
When they weren't fighting, the other half of the episode was spent with them talking about the rules of the universe. It was basically a lecture to the audience. I'm not interested in that crap, I don't watch anime to get lengthy lectures about the magic systems of a fictional universe. Yes, they had to explain things, but couldn't they have figured out a more interesting way to do so than have two people, two very boring characters, no less, stand there and talk?
I can only assume that this gets better once it gets out of its "set up" phase, because it can't get much more boring than that. I don't know why people are going nuts for it, though, since the episode can be easily split into long-winded explanations of the rules and a lengthy fight sequence which is all flash and just about zero in the way of genuine drama and suspense. Between this and the popularity of Shakugan no Shana, it makes me think you can just about forgo characterization and storytelling and still quell the audience with well-animated flashes of fire. Yes, popular anime are often crap. Don't worry, this doesn't keep me up at night anymore.
|2008-10-16, 02:03
|Link #380
I think Sorrow's managed to nail my issues with this series.
While I sat through episode 2, my brain just turned off and to amuse myself, I replaced the script they used with what I would have written had I been in charge. The way my version and the version shown to us diverged were starkly different with most of the differences coming from giving Stiyl some motivation that we can at least sympathize with even if we don't necessarily agree with it.
For example, that whole scene where Stiyl explains how important Index was could have been rewritten to say something along the lines of "she contains all the big important secrets and we cannot trust you to guard her because there are more powerful organizations that seek to get their hands on her. For the good of this world, we're taking her into our care because you have little understanding in the forces you're up against..." and so on. Bam. Clear motivation. Dialogue that's less pointless than the one that we got instead. And a revelation about more sinister elements lurking out in the whole wide world.
Is this motivation particularly deep? Heck no! But by giving us even this much insight into the character's mindset, we can glean a whole lot more about his personality, making him feel real. Had they given us even that much, I could see the story become much more compelling than it has been so far, but until then, this is an exemplary result of shallow writing.
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Acting Special Services Manager Wayne Merritt's proposed, $46.3 million budget that would increase spending 2.96 percent over 2013 during New Castle County Council's latest budget hearing held Monday. But what got the attention of council on the eighth floor of the City/County Building was the department's proposal to add 12 unfunded positions in addition to 23 current positions that were still vacant. That would increase the authorized workforce of the Department of Special Services' sewer fund to 209.5.
Merritt's budget proposal was a follow up to New Castle County Executive Tom Gordon's overall budget address in March, when he proposed adding 19 positions within the $250.9 million budget -- a 3.24 percent spending increase compared to 2013. Gordon had said most of those new hires would work in the construction and maintenance sector to repair deteriorating buildings and facilities crucial to maintaining New Castle County's quality of life and ability to attract businesses to upstate Delaware.
Merritt said New Castle County had spent $100 million in sewer upgrades to Brandywine Hundred and it would continue to make upgrades throughout the county.
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Councilman Jea Street (D-Wilmington South) asked how much the 12 positions would cost. The operating budget would pay $150,000 for 30 percent of these positions' salaries but 70 percent of their salaries would come from the capital budget, Special Services officials said.
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"I'm confused," Street said. "Something's wrong with this sales pitch."
Jonathan Husband, of Special Services, said the total cost for the new positions would be $515,000. But Husband said the county would actually save money in the long term, to the tune of 20 percent, by using in-house staff for construction projects instead of bidding them out. For instance, $800,000 of in house work would turn into a $1 million project using outside work, he said.
But Street was not buying it. As he put it, the county would end up spending more money to supposedly save money.
"I don't understand the math or the logic," he said. "Maybe it's just me."
Councilmen John Cartier (D-Holly Oak) and Timothy Sheldon (D-Pike Creek) said they understood where Husband was coming from in terms of the work that the county had to do to ensure its sewer system was in compliance with federal regulations.
"We're not getting enough done and we're contracting it out," Sheldon said.
But Councilwoman Janet Kilpatrick noticed that there were 23 vacancies within the Department of Special Services' sewer fund.
"If we did fill the vacancies we would be able to get more done," she said. "I don't know where the justification comes for 12 more positions."
Street also expressed concern with the county dipping into its reserve to the tune of $4 million to hire additional people.
"The more we talk, the worse it seems," Street added. "We've been able to do all this wonderful work without the 23 and the 12. So, now the math and the logic are really confusing."
Councilman Penrose Hollins (D-Wilmington North) expressed concern with the sustainability of adding personnel costs, the county's largest expense.
But Councilman William Powers (D-Townsend) said New Castle County still had the cheapest sewer rates in the state. And there was work that needed to be done to repair aging infrastructure and thereby avoid fines, he said.
"Once your sewer backs up, everybody will be complaining," Powers said.
Councilwoman Lisa Diller (D-Newark) said she understood the need for infrastructure improvements. But she didn't see how more people could be hired without more money in the county coffers.
Husband said the money would come from $105 million in the capital budget.
"The money will be spent anyway," he said. "We're saying we can do it cheaper [in house]."
Councilman George Smiley (D-New Castle) responded that he had a $30,000 limit on his credit card. That did not mean he was going to max it out, he said.
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Mobile tracking, analytics and cloud technologies offer industrial mining companies new opportunities for efficiency and safety. This demonstration uses real-time device data (OT) which is aggregated with context data (IT) and applied to industry-specific analytics models to create a real-time, holistic view of mining operations. This information is then delivered in real time via mobile devices to the people who need to take action, from mine pit to plant to port.
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Working together, car owners and dealers can keep vehicles maintained and on the road with very little downtime. With the help of IoT, owners are notified that a maintenance session is needed. The car diagnostic is simultaneously sent to the dealer's portal via Accenture Connected Platform-as-a-Service. Then when the owner arrives, the dealer has already received the diagnostic, determined the repair requirements, the workflow is in place and the parts are on hand.
This demonstration showcases tools from the field force of the future in use today! Featuring analytics, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and wearables such as heads-up displays and DAQRI helmets, this demonstration shows how smart operating procedures, digital work instructions and over-the-shoulder coaching can help improve field force performance. Experience multiple uses cases which show the potential for field force operating costs reductions of as much as 30 percent.
Experience some of the best iOS apps developed by Accenture Digital. Delivered with a design-led process, a focus on the user, and careful attention to context, these mobile apps are geared to solve real-world problems and enhance day-to-day activities. The business goal? Drive impact such as new revenue streams, efficiency in process and/or different methods of engagement. A featured app is the in-market "RIOgaleão App," which uses beacons to guide passengers at Rio airport.
Wondering how adding next generation capabilities such as virtual assistants, augmented reality, collaboration, and predictive machine learning might create a powerful, secure and innovative machine learning solution? See this suite of mobile apps which showcases new solutions for the enterprise that are underpinned by one of the world's most popular mobility platforms - Android™, along with one of the most scalable cloud platforms - Google Cloud Platform.
Experience the future of retail fuel payments today. Drivers are notified fuel is low and receive navigation to nearest filling stations. Once at a station, a mobile app identifies the pump number automatically and provides easy payment options. Drivers receive targeted offers and loyalty points are automatically added to the transaction. Want to know more? See the "ultimate mobile companion for motorists" as developed for Shell by MOBGEN, now part of Accenture Digital.
Smart Device Commerce is an innovative IoT platform that automatically detects device faults and seamlessly orders components and/or repair services. See Smart Devices in action as a connected fridge recognizes a temperature drop, schedules a repair, and orders the predicted parts while the owner tracks the status.
How can Communications Service Providers become insights-driven enterprises by embracing analytics at scale across all parts of their business? How can they deliver compelling, hyper-personalized omni-channel experiences to the evolving liquid customer and enterprise? We will discuss three supportive elements for the Liquid Customer, and more specifically—personalization, omni-channel experience, and development offerings. We will explain the CMT differentiated transformation that synchronizes the practice transformation, showcase the data-driven analytics platforms, and reveal client outcomes.
The digitization of everything has led to customers having overwhelming choice in everything they do, while many companies have lost the personalization that customers appreciate in their off-line world. Join us to discuss the concept we refer to as the "Customer Genome" – a way for companies to build a living profile of the customer's unique preferences, passions and needs while forming a foundation for a future when personalization platforms can architect previously unimagined experiences.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Computing are coming into the mainstream. And, advances in Natural Language Processing coupled with big data and cloud technologies are unleashing tremendous potential to automate and augment decision making. Join us for a discussion on AI as we share our experiences, particularly in the industrial and automotive sectors, and share our key learnings and challenges.
As we rapidly approach 7 trillion connected devices, the network is becoming pervasive – what we call "Network ++." In this workshop, we will explore how CSPs are also becoming pervasive, beginning with technology transformation from a hardware-based network to a digital network platform using software. We will show how this transformation offers flexibility to debut more services that deliver new revenue streams, major opportunities for operational improvement, vendor diversity and reductions in operational costs.
The digital video value chain is being disrupted and the industry has to rethink the way it serves customers and makes money. The subscription-advertising business model is under threat from "digital natives" (Netflix, YouTube and Amazon) whose competitive advantage isn't "content" but rather an operating model that is designed to be data-centric. In this workshop, we will focus on the strategic priority of becoming a data-driven business and the benefits this approach brings.
Transparency often prevents "funnel breakdown" for digital programs. When investments are on the line and goals driving end-to-end conversion are at stake, it's important to prevent funnel breakdown. During MWC 2017, see an awesome digital "cockpit" developed for a wireless service provider to help them stay on target.
Today's apps are transformational. The app is more than just a pretty UI, it's a powerful set of capabilities that are changing the way people work. This workshop discusses the latest technologies that are behind the mobile app, such as virtual assistants, machine learning, augmented reality and collaboration - and how they can be used to solve today's business challenges. We'll share examples and demos developed by Accenture and Google that bring these to life.
Network service providers are continually looking for ways to reduce field worker costs. See how Accenture Mobility is working with clients, trialing a number of approaches to improve field worker efficiency leveraging crowdsourcing, drone-based control centers, field force analytics, Artificial Intelligence, augmented reality/mixed reality, wearable technology and more. Get a taste of how these efforts are paying off.
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Migration to the cloud is fraught with challenges and drives major changes to the operating model of any company including those in the Communications & Media industries. In this workshop, we will share real-life case studies and discuss how to chart and execute a journey to cloud, how to take a structured holistic approach to assess a company's readiness for this journey, and how to shape the new operating model that will deliver the right business outcomes.
Mobile apps, omni-channel strategies, microservices, IoT and the need to integrate third parties - both cloud service providers and leading enterprises - make the API Service Broker a key component of a Communications Service Provider Multi-Speed strategy. How can a CSP make the right decisions on API strategy in a fast-moving market with vendors offering traditional packaged applications, cloud services/SaaS and hybrid models?
Customers in the digital world have markedly different expectations than those in the past. Improving customer experience through personalization and digital customer service options leveraging Omni-Channel Customer Engagement solutions will help unlock the value by growing revenue while reducing costs.
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Digital disruption is impacting every industry, from banking to health care to retail and everything in between. Digital engagement and the consumption-driven business models are fueling this disruption. "Mobile First" is fast becoming "Anything First." Successful companies can better meet this demand with a new, real concept — industry-standard Open APIs. Join a conversation with the Accenture Mobile Apps team to see why this new approach is more than smoke and mirrors.
The shift from circuit-switched to full IP services has completely changed the Communications Service Providers' business, driving new opportunities for transformation into integrated digital service providers. Join this workshop to hear how operations support systems are a key enabler of the new business goals within the service and resource functional domains. The workshop will also include a Machine Learning Predictive Assurance demonstration—an approach for applying artificial intelligence to a CSP customer's trouble ticket predictions.
Platform-based business models are driving the most profound global macroeconomic change since the Industrial Revolution. In today's IoT world, the most ground-breaking products and services are based on platforms. In this workshop, we'll take a look at how platform-based business models fundamentally change how companies operate and the recommendations for how our clients can get started with their own programs.
As technology becomes cheaper and more accessible, smartphones are becoming the global leveller…connecting all societal demographics. This workshop focuses on "digital for good" initiatives and focuses specifically on Happytap — a product developed by Accenture in partnership with micro-finance enabler Good Return. This digital "piggy bank" encourages people to forego non-essential purchases like that extra glass of wine or unnecessary article of clothing. Instead, they can lend this redirected non-missed spend to someone in need.
Platform companies cannot run their business operations in the traditional, linear way. Today, new technologies as well as innovative approaches enable more insight and automation throughout a company's operations, such as robotic process automation, analytics and artificial intelligence. For traditional businesses, however, implementing these technologies and approaches has a profound transformational impact. This workshop will help better understand intelligent automation through use cases and pragmatic discussions on what these new technologies and approaches can deliver.
As many as 61 percent of Communications Service Providers (CSPs) believe that cyberattacks are a black box and you can never know how or when they will affect your company. Security spending is staggering and increasing and yet that's not enough to outmaneuver cyber attackers. You have to out innovate them! In this workshop we will explore case studies that solve security challenges at speed and scale and showcase a Digital Identity demo.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has opened a multitude of new opportunities for companies to enhance operational efficiency, unlock new business models and drive greater growth. In this interactive workshop, we will discuss a spectrum of available IoT solutions and the business value delivered by each. Each workshop will explore client examples and best practices to provide a high-level blueprint for developing and implementing IoT solutions that help drive business results.
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Accenture IoT testing solutions can provide one-stop solutions for end-to-end testing for IoT implementations. The demo includes testing for an IoT device embedded application, IoT cloud, an industry vertical backend and a mobile application using a single testing console. The test libraries included in the demo tests end-to-end functionality, IoT security (SecOps) and interoperability of sensors using multiple protocols triggered via specialized test beds.
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The Characters:
Charles and Holly - Leaders of the youth group, Holly's entire contribution to the plot is providing Charles a sperm dump.
Melissa - Charles' anti-social daughter. Yep, put him in charge of more kids.
Panic - Kleptomaniac gang member who loves his dog. He turns into a giant tick...
Tyler - Nerd kid who is scared of being left alone. (Isn't the woods peaceful Tyler? No crowds...)
Kelly - Introvert Asian girl who hates fish.
Rome and Dee Dee - The horny kids on this trip.
Sir and Jerry - Two marijuana growers intent on protecting their crop. Both become tick meals.
Jarvis - Marijuana grower whose herbal steroid mutates the ticks. Becomes a human breeding ground and pops.
The Ticks - Softball sized ticks with a hallucinogenic toxin.
The Plot:
The premise is bad, I'll admit, but you have to love the sight of a softball-sized tick scuttling across the floor. Add to this a group of dysfunctional teenagers and two demented marijuana growers and you've got a plot! The special effects aren't so special but they're gooey; for some reason mutated ticks are covered in slime.
A group of inner city youths is participating in a program where they are taken into the woods and given access to hatchets and fire. Great idea! Generation X doesn't get a chance to regress though, they are soon beset by horror of horrors: Jerry and "Sir." Through a complicated course of events only one of the kids is killed and a forest fire kills the ticks. Except one, attached to the bottom of their van...
Things I Learned From This Movie:
Calming music does not belong in scenes involving tire blowouts.
Kids always carry flash paper.
Tick pods are full of maple syrup.
If something is burrowing under the skin of your chest don't shoot at it you moron.
Herbal steroids will cause massive mutations in wood ticks, um, because they have wood in their name...
Being stabbed in the knee does little to impede movement.
Never send a brain-damaged idiot to fetch the van.
Anabolic steroids are painkillers.
Giant ticks will explode spectacularly if touched by flame.
Stuff To Watch For:
7 mins - I've been looking at this machine for about 2 minutes and still have no idea what it's intent is.
25 mins - This slow "pan up the wall" scene is painfull.
36 mins - Hey Panic! Did you say, "Brutus?" Would he move? (you'll have to watch the movie)
45 mins - Nobody is freaking out that this dead dog's body is jumping around?
62 mins - Flame retardant Christmas tree ad...
70 mins - It's supposedly night but that is definately sunlight.
84 mins - I'm sorry? The van magically moved closer? And how did Tyler get into the driver's seat so fast?
85 mins - Who left a trail of gas to the propane tank?
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Panic: "See, they call me 'Panic' cause I never do."
Charles: "And poor Kelly, a prisoner of her own troubled mind. In the end, I fear this group will not successfully bond, despite their common antagonist."
Vet: "A wood tick!"
Charles: "Ticks do not get this big."
Vet: "It's a tick. Severely altered, but a tick all the same."
Jerry: "Yeah, they bite like a son of a bitch."
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Reply #1.
Posted on January 23, 1999, 02:55:22 AM by Kislev
I usually hate B movies, but I love picking on them. And I love watching them try to save the movie by some gratuitues blood, gore,or sex.
This has some fabulous blood and gore. I love the way Jarvis' body is crawling with ticks under his skin.
I also love the way the tick burst through Panic's body.
Blood and gore.
Reply #2.
Posted on January 23, 1999, 02:55:22 AM by email@example.com
I'm a pretty reasonable guy, and I'll watch about any movie at least three or four times... but I tempted to say this about "Ticks": Don't waste your time, especially not your money, on this movie.
Reply #3.
Posted on March 04, 1999, 10:47:06 AM by firstname.lastname@example.com
The guy who plays Oz on Buffy, Seth Green, stars in this. I couldn't believe that. It's amazing how folks can go from working on something as 'B' as Ticks, and then move into the big time. (He also played 'Scott Evil' in Austin Powers.)
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Posted on March 26, 1999, 10:58:58 AM by email@example.com
This movie not only stars Seth Green of Buffy and Austin Powers fame. Panic is also the guy who played Carlton on The Fresh Prince of Bel Aire. Anyway, I had no idea that steriods and THC had the similar effect of growing ticks to immense proportions. Still a good bad movie even though I still wonder how the tick that came out of Panic managed to be bigger than Panic's body. (did I come out then grow another 2 feet around)?
Reply #5.
Posted on May 14, 1999, 07:32:39 AM by
This movie is pretty cool(because of the gore and the ticks!).Don`t watch it if you are looking for great actors!
Reply #6.
Posted on May 30, 1999, 09:20:28 PM by email@example.com
I think the fact that "Carlton" plays the "gangsta" makes this movie that much funnier. I sat through the movie just so I could make jokes like, "Hey, Carlton, where's your Tom Jones tapes?" The best line was when Panic and Tyler are talking at the beginning and he's like "well, I'll just have my dog rip your throat out." and the dog isn't scary at all, he looks more cute than scary.
Reply #7.
Posted on September 01, 1999, 01:45:08 PM by Warren H.
I was watching this movie, happily wasting away an afternoon, when all of a sudden, Robert Ginty jumped out! (he plays sir) No! Nooooooooo! Robert Ginty was the Exterminator! I had Exterminator flashbacks and began convulsing! I barely got to the STOP button in time. Robert Ginty is the Devil Spawn!
Reply #8.
Posted on February 03, 2000, 01:46:50 PM by Paul H.
I love b-movies full of stupid people so this qualifies as something I should like. However, I HATE, HATE Angst ridden teenagers. So I'm torn when watching this movie. I wanted to like it, and it was good in parts, but I HATE, HATE angst ridden teenagers. And this movie is full of them. And here is the worst part: They all don't die. Some of them actually get away to go on and lead somewhat less angst ridden but now mentally scared lives.. They should make a Ticks 2 where I beat them all with a baseball bat.
2 green globs -inspite of the teenagers not really trying to reform their lives at some stupid camp which isn't really trying to reform angst ridden teenages lives.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Stocks ended a big volume week with gains and a dose of stability. The next week's rush of consumer news, plus testimony from Janet Yellen and earnings from Cisco Systems Inc., will help determine whether that recovery is for real.
After a tough January, the worst month in over a year, stocks spent the first week of February in see-saw trade. Ultimately the bulls won out, and by Friday, some strategists were saying the correction was behind us.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.81% snapped a two-week losing streak to finish up 0.6%. Along the way, it posted three days of triple-digit moves, including Monday's 326-point loss. The S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.76% broke a three-week losing streak, finishing the week up 0.8%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.90% answered two weeks of losses by closing the week up 0.5%.
Volume was tremendous, at least by recent weak standards. For NYSE-listed stocks, average daily volume of 4 billion resulted in the largest average weekly volume since May 2012. For Nasdaq-listed stocks, it was the biggest volume week since October 2011.
Positive sentiment—or simply bargain-hunting—won the day. Investors appeared to look on the brighter side of the Friday jobs report, focusing on the slight decline in the unemployment rate and higher labor force participation rate rather than the top-line jobs number, causing some analysts to maintain the recent correction in stock prices has run its course. But as of Friday evening, most MarketWatch readers participating in a poll said the late-week comeback was a dead-cat bounce.
Even with last week's gains, the Dow is down 4.7% since the beginning of the year, with the S&P 500 off 2.8%, and the Nasdaq is down 1.2%. Declines off the recent highs don't meet a common definition of a correction, that is, a 10% fall from a near-by peak. But they're the kind of healthy pause many like to see.
"Humans tend to get hung up on round numbers; hence the call for a 10% correct," said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG. "But in reality, 10% corrections are somewhat infrequent, whereas corrections of 5% to 8% are quite normal."
While the recent emerging-markets situation may have spooked stocks into an adjustment, earnings season has gone pretty well considering the amount of fretting about company fundamentals from investors.
Both earnings growth and revenue improved in the past week, according to John Butters, senior earnings analyst at FactSet. The blended earnings growth rate rose to 8.1% from the 7.8% rate in the previous week, up from the projected rate of 6.3% at the start of the year. The improvement came from consumer discretionary companies and the insurance industry last week. Similarly, the blended revenue growth rate is at 0.8%, whereas expectations at the start of the year were growth of 0.3%, with technology and health-care firms leading growth, according to FactSet data.
If earnings as a whole were disappointing this season, there would have done much more damage. Greenhaus characterized the recent pullback in stocks as a "normal correction" unless some large negative catalyst sparks another selloff.
What's also healthy about the recent pullback is that it's reconditioning investors to get used to such adjustments following 2013's 30% market gain, said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial.
What will follow is an adjustment period, but don't expect stocks to return to their previous highs anytime soon. Recovery will be slow, McMillan said, noting it will likely be "weeks to months" before we see a return to previous highs.
For the week ending Feb. 5, investors pulled a record weekly amount out of U.S. stock funds with about 95% coming out of exchange-traded funds, according to Citi Research.
It's those outflows that indicate a bottoming in the market correction from January highs, according to a recent note from Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Consumer staples earnings, Yellen in focus
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In the consumer staples sector: CVS Caremark Corp. CVS, -1.09% and Reynolds American Inc. US:RAI report Tuesday; Lorillard Inc. US:LO Whole Foods Market Inc. US:WFM , Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. US:DPS , and Mondelez International Inc. MDLZ, -0.73% report Wednesday; PepsiCo Inc. PEP, -0.42% , Molson Coors Brewing Co. TAP, +0.40% , and Kraft Foods Group Inc. US:KRFT report Thursday; and J.M. Smucker Co. SJM, +0.10% and Campbell Soup Co. CPB, -0.23% report Friday.
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While the S&P 500 consumer discretionary sector is more indicative of the spending habits of primarily affluent consumers, consumer staples earnings will show the other side of the picture, Commonwealth's McMillan said.
The consumer discretionary sector was also the best performing on the S&P 500 last week, rising 1.9%, following strong earnings from Walt Disney Co. DIS, +0.23% , Michael Kors Holding Ltd. KORS, -0.35% , and MarketWatch parent News Corp NWSA, +1.10%
"Staples stick to the broader part of the population," McMillan said. "That's a huge part of spending that's more indicative of how the majority of the population is faring income-wise."
Also, on Thursday, January retail sales data will be released, with expectations running low because of harsher-than-usual winter weather that affected much of the country. Hand in hand with that consumer data, the University of Michigan on Friday releases its preliminary consumer sentiment index for February.
Other notable earnings next week include: Hasbro Inc. HAS, +1.18% , CBS Corp. CBS, -0.02% , Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. REGN, -1.41% IntercontinentalExchange Group Inc. ICE, -0.14% TripAdvisor Inc. TRIP, -2.77% MetLife Inc. MET, -0.92% American International Group Inc. AIG, -0.52% and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. US:HOT
Also, this week, Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen will give her first semi-annual monetary policy report to Congress, first to the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, and then to the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday. For her predecessor Ben Bernanke, those testimonies have tended to give stocks a boost.
BTIG's Greenhaus doesn't expect any sea-change from Yellen's first testimony before Congress as Fed chief, saying it is likely she will stick to the script of the current policy.
Commonwealth's McMillan is certain Congress will use the occasion to test Yellen, but the new Fed chief will keep to the institutional commitment to keep tapering.
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Jon Bartlett returns as head coach of the Boston College High School football team this year after a two-year hiatus from the sidelines.
BOSTON – BC High kicked off football practice this week, and look who's back on the sidelines – head coach Jon Bartlett.
Bartlett, the school's athletic director, guided the Eagles from 2008-2011, winning two EMass Super Bowls and compiling a 33-12 record.
When he stepped down after the 2011 campaign, he said he wanted to devote more time to his AD and teaching jobs. Now he's back, taking over a program that went 10-11 during his two-season hiatus.
The Eagles, who host Marshfield in the Sept. 5 opener, will be looking to re-establish a winning culture under Bartlett's cool, composed coaching style, which focuses on the fundamentals.
After two years, Coach hasn't skipped a beat.
"Every year is the same," Bartlett noted Tuesday, the second day of tryouts. "We just have to have a strong work ethic and work on improving as a team."
Joe Gaff, who succeeded Bartlett as head coach, has returned to his defensive coordinator gig. In fact, Gaff was instrumental in bringing his old boss back.
"Coach Gaff talked to me in the early spring about coming back to work with him and the rest of the staff," said Bartlett. "It was very easy because of the relationship I have with (Gaff) and the entire staff. (Gaff) presented the option of coming back to me, and for him to do that, I think that says a lot about him."
"It's just great having a friend back," remarked Gaff. "We work so well together, on and off the field. It gives me more time to concentrate and prepare for defense … and it's an easy adjustment for the kids – that's the best part."
The Eagles' disappointing 2012 season (4-6) was sabotaged by injuries. Last year was much better. BC High returns a core of veteran leaders from that 6-5 club that lost to Catholic Conference rival Xaverian, 11-9, in overtime in the Division 1 South semifinals. Xaverian went on to become the Div. 1 state runner-up, while the Eagles finished on a high note by beating Catholic Memorial for a ninth straight year on Thanksgiving.
The coaching staff has named five senior captains this season, an increase from last year's two.
"We have leadership at every position," noted receiver Scott Gosnell of Hanover, one of the captains. "We have different captains at different positions, and each brings a different personality to the field … That's going to help us be a good example for the younger kids."
"With five captains instead of two," explained returning quarterback Sean Holleran of Quincy, "we'll get to lean on each other for support. That's a good thing."
Holleran added: "We're going into this year with more experience, so we're definitely a lot more comfortable."
Bartlett and staff use a calm, steady approach to try to turn such experience into postseason success – and it has already resonated with team leaders.
"Our team's message is to come out and work hard every day," said Gosnell. "(This year) one of our goals is to do a lot of the little things right."
Another captain, two-way player Christian Dallas, said, "Winning is always on our minds, but we're going to take it one game at a time."
Life in the Catholic Conference is never easy. Xaverian is ranked No. 1 in ESPNBoston.com's statewide preseason top 25 poll, but BC High is always in the mix.
"First and foremost, we want to be working hard and improving as a team on a day-to-day basis," Bartlett said of his approach to Stage 2 of his coaching career. "Sure, there's a bigger-picture goal of being one of the top teams in the state, but I think we need to make sure the bigger task at hand is being a mentally and physically tough team every day. We want to be the most mentally and physically tough team in the state."
The pairing of Bartlett and Gaff was effective last time, and the Eagles are eager to try it again.
"Coach Bart is a great coach," said Holleran. "Everyone's excited to have him back, and we're excited because we still get Coach Gaff's insight on defense."
Another captain, offensive lineman/middle linebacker Nick Locken of Quincy, said, "Bartlett's offensive mind with Gaff's defense is a great combo. I can't wait to play for them."
Bartlett, too, is excited about the reunion.
"There's no better feeling than the relationship you form with these kids," he said. "Playing the game and trying to win a state championship, those are all things you want to do as a coach. But just being here at practice with the players and coaches – that's what I missed most."
He added: "I always thought at some point I'd get back into coaching. I just didn't know it would be this soon. I'm thrilled to be back."
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One, Little Two, Little Three, Little Indian Cookies
I love this time of year! It's a cookie maker's dream. Holiday after holiday of cute cookie themes right in a row! We've marked Halloween off of the list, so now it's on to Thanksgiving. I have planned a week of fun cookies that are perfect for your upcoming feast. I decided to start with the Indians {Native Americans, American Indians} because they're my favorite to make.
I used a bunny cutter to make both versions of this cookie. I chopped off one ear for boys and then added it to another bunny face to make girls.
After baking, you're ready to decorate.
To make these you will need:
- Brown/tan piping and flood icing
- Black piping and flood icing
- Medium fleshtone piping and flood icing
- White piping and flood icing
- Red twenty-second icing
- Black candy beads
I begin by outlining and filling the headband. This helps me to orient the rest of the face.
Next, outline and fill the face and drop candy beads into the wet icing for eyes.
After the face has dried a bit, outline the feather and fill, on section at a time. Use a toothpick to drag the red into the white a bit, wait for the first side to dry a bit, then, do the second side
The next day, add the finishing details.
When the cookie is dry, you'll have cute little Indian boys.
For the record, this was my ONLY set of bald Indians. I don't know WHY I thought that was a good idea. They really are much cuter with hair. Hindsight, right?
Anyway, the girls are just as easy to make, and if you aren't feeling feathers you can make things that much easier and leave them off. Between the headband and the braids, people will get the point.
The major difference between girls and boys are hair. As a matter of fact, these girls could be boy Indians.
See? Girls or boys. Either way, easy and cute.
Oh yeah…and if you don't have the funky green bunny cutter I do, no worries. Any bunny face cutter will work.
I really wish I would have begun posting Thanksgiving ideas LAST week, but for some reason, I thought I had more time than I do.
Does that ever happen to you? It seems like this year is just FLYING by! As usual I'm a little late to the party, but I AM DEFINITELY there!
PS- The Pilgrims have not been forgotten, my good friend Karen covered those. If you wanna see them, hop on over to her blog, Karen's Cookies! You will love what you see!
More to come, so keep coming back. Here's to a good week!


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DETROIT — Two Michigan mixed martial arts promoters say they were shocked to learn that one of their fighters who supposedly died in a car wreck last month is very much alive, if not exactly well.
After all, it was less than two weeks ago that Christos Piliafas and Scott DiPonio helped raise more than $1,000 at a benefit event in Traverse City for 25-year-old Charles Rowan's family.
Rowan, his girlfriend Rosalinda Martinez and their friend Michael Bowman were charged Friday with holding up a gun shop 100 miles away in Gladwin County. Each is charged with armed robbery and assault with intent to murder and has requested a court-appointed attorney.
Piliafas, who is a pro fighter and a promoter, says he is angry about being duped by the amateur heavyweight.


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I haven't used the timelapse app on my phone in about a year, but recently re downloaded it. (iPhone 5S iOS 8.4)
Almost all the videos I make have some level of static distortion (I'm not sure how to describe it). Here's a particularly bad example
Is there a solution to avoid this in the future? Thanks.


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The full line-up of candidates for the forthcoming European elections has been revealed - with the ousted former Lincolnshire leader heading the list of candidates for a new anti-EU party.
Nine parties will vie for votes for the East Midlands seats in the European Parliament on May 22 including 'An independence from Europe' - a new party set up by West Midlands MEP Mike Nattrass, UKIP's former deputy leader.
That party is putting forward five candidates for the May ballot, including Chris Pain, his mother Val Pain and Boston eurosceptic Carl Mason.
Coun Pain was kicked out of UKIP by party bosses in a move that split the party locally after its success in last May's county council elections and cost it its position as official opposition at County Hall.
He told The Standard that the party's candidates are people who are dissatisfied with Nigel Farage's leadership and feels that UKIP could be heading for a pact with the Conservatives.
He did not comment on whether he thinks the appearance of his party on the ballot paper will anger UKIP, but said he feel his new party offers a clear choice to get out of the EU as well as a host of other policies.
Locally he is lobbying for extra cash to fix the county's roads and wants to see the M11 extended through Lincolnshire, taking it from Cambridge to the Humber.
He said: "We are looking for two seats. I think the Liberal vote is going to go away.
"We have got a full programme in 26 policy areas."
He was a long standing member of UKIP while his mum Val has also been standing in elections since 2005.
He added: "People can call me but I have always called a spade a spade and never told anybody anything different to what I believe to get votes."
UKIP is widely predicted to do well in May, with party leader Nigel Farage predicting a 'political' earthquake predicting a political 'earthquake' when he spoke in Wyberton last year. The party took the headlines when it scooped five of Boston's seven seats at last year's county council elections but it remains to be seen if An Independence From Europe or the eurosceptic 'Harmony Party' will split their vote in this regional ballot.
The region has five seats in the European Parliament, currently held by Bill Newton-Dunn (Lib Dem), Emma McClarkin (Con), Roger Helmer (UKIP), Derek Clark (UKIP) and Glenis Willmott (Lab). Derek Clark is standing down at this election.
The ballot works with each party putting forward a list of candidates in order, with seats given to parties out in proportion to the votes they won, starting from the top of the list. Eg 20 per cent of the vote earns one seat, handed to the person at the top of that party's list.
The parliament is the directly elected part of the European Union, working with the European Commission – one appointed 'commissioner' from each country headed by Jose Manuel Barroso – and the European Council, which is the heads of state/Government for each country led by President Herman Van Rompuy and foreign minister Catherine Ashton.
The candidate list in full and in order:
*An Independence From Europe: 1- Chris Pain, 2- Val Pain, 3- Alan Jesson, 4- John Beaver, 5- Carl Mason
*British National Party: 1- Catherine Duffy, 2- Robert West, 3- Bob Brindley, 4- Geoffrey Dickens, 5- Paul Hilliard
*Conservative Party: 1- Emma McClarkin, 2- Andrew Lewer, 3- Rupert Matthews, 4- Stephen Castens, 5- Brendan Clarke-Smith
*English Democrats: 1- Kevin Sills, 2- David Wickham, 3- John Dowie, 4- Oliver Healey, 5- Terry Spencer
*Green Party: 1- Kat Boettge, 2- Sue Mallender, 3- Richard Mallender, 4- Peter Allen, 5- Simon Hales
*Harmony Party: 1- Steve Ward
*Labour Party: 1- Glenis Willmott, 2- Rory Palmer, 3- Linda Woodings, 4- Khalid Hadadi, 5- Nick Brooks
*Liberal Democrats: 1- Bill Newton-Dunn, 2- Issan Ul-Haque Ghazni, 3- Phil Knowles, 4- George Smid, 5- Deborah Newton-Cook
*UK Independence Party (UKIP): 1- Roger Helmer, 2- Margot Parker, 3-Jonathan Bullock, 4- Nigel Wickens, 5- Barry Mahoney.


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- Straits Times,27 Nov 1960.
Of course what turned out in the subsequent decades proved this piece of social engineering misguided. The Singapore economy boomed and rose as one of the Asian Tigers chalking up breath-taking double digit growth year after year in a one-off transformation. Not only did Singapore acquire the resources to accommodate a larger population, it ended up facing a labor force bottle neck due to its population control policy and ended up importing foreigners primarily from Malaysia to fill the gap.
How and why did this mistake occur? The govt based its population plan on what happened it the past with the economy. Despite selling us the notion that they were men with foresight, great planning and helicopter views that steered the Singapore economy from the 3rd world to the 1st in one generation, they were riding on a wave they themselves did not foresee and based their population planning on the anemic economic performance of the past. You see you can always make the conclusions you want depending on the assumptions you chose to make.
Today they tell that there are blue skies ahead, the global demand will keep rising and Singapore economy can keep expanding to fill the demand. So they propose an extreme population growth policy based primarily on importing foreigners and converting some of them to citizens and PRs. The rate at which they choose to grow the population is much faster than the replacement rate - by a factor of 5. They want to convert many to PRs and citizens. Now they assume there will always be enough jobs, there will be enough infrastructure expansion to accommodate the people, inflation which is high now will not get worse. But what they are doing is putting a lot of risk on Singaporeans with this plan. With the financial crisis just behind us, we see inherent weakness in the big economies - Europe is indebted and aging, US is heavily indebted and must cut spending, China facing a mountain of restructuring in the coming years. If global aggregate demand falls, we will suddenly see our artificially enlarged population competing harder for fewer jobs as the ability of our economy to support this enlarge population falls.
Singaporeans already see the clear and present danger of such a policy in the past decade. It has caused a sharp rise in our cost of living, it caused our income gap to balloon as the foreign influx caused a wealth transfer from the employed to businesses that used them, we are also familiar with the effects of overcrowding in public spaces and public transport. Few Singaporeans believe that continuing a high foreign influx will improve their lives but the govt is driven by other interests other than that of ordinary Singaporeans. It has a power structure constructed to benefit those who form part of the elites and a network of GLCs, many of which are monopolies, that will benefit greatly from a larger population. Singaporeans cannot afford not be awake at this late hour and allow the PAP govt to execute what is proposed in the white paper. The PAP will do anything to achieve its political goal to benefit those who form its power-elite structure.
"Of course, they ask good questions. How can you be sure? More population, but quality of life remains the same or even better?"
"Actually, the answer is yes," he emphasised. "It's possible."
- Minister Khaw's reaction to the white paper[Link].
Minister Khaw slipped when he was asked if such a population growth plan would improve the lives of Singaporeans ...he said that that improving Singagporeans' lives was "possible". If the Singapore govt has been putting the interest of Singaporeans ahead of everything else, the singular purpose of the population plan should be to ensure that Singaporeans have a better quality of life - that should be the only goal of the plan not the goal of 5% GDP growth in the white paper. However, bettering Singaporeans' lives is just a possibility assuming that our infrastructure can keep up with the population expansion. Infrastructure has not even caught up with the influx of the last decade ..it is dangerous to assume there will be no severe strain as we push the population density to even higher levels - today we are already at the highest living density in the world and the PAP govt wants to push this even further.
No other developed country tries to grow its economy by importing people even though fertility rates have generally fallen in these countries because of the deep negative effects of doing so. If our competitors are not doing it, why do we have to do this in order to compete and grow? What is increasingly clear to Singaporeans is the PAP govt is willing to use this brute force method to create growth which the white paper stated as a goal of 5% GDP to ensure businesses including its network of GLCs can grow profits. Without fully addressing the income gap, the beneficiaries of this growth will be the small % at the top of our income distribution. We have already seen first hand the deleterious effects of this type of GDP growth on Singaporeans in the last decade and nothing will change because the goal of the PAP remains the same.


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by John Calvin (compiled by John H. Kromminga)
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For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. —Ezekiel 2:4, 5
We may learn from this place, that although the impious furiously endeavor to reject the doctrine of God, yet they obtain no other end than the more complete manifestation of their own wickedness. Hence also we may learn that God's doctrine is precious to himself, and that he cannot bear us to despise it.
The wicked then can never escape punishment when they treat with contempt the divine teaching, for it is as if they trampled upon inestimable treasure. Those who are left without the law and the prophets shall not escape God's hand, because their conscience is sufficient to take away all excuse (Rom. 2:12).
But when God invites men to himself, and approaches near them, and offers himself to them in a peculiar manner as their Father and Teacher, if they reject so remarkable a benefit, truly their ingratitude is worthy of the utmost severity.
For as often as God raises up prophets for us and faithful ministers of his doctrine, let this which has just been said come into our minds; unless we embrace such a benefit, we at length shall know that a prophet has been among us, because God will exact fearful vengeance for the contempt of his great loving-kindness. —Commentaries
John Calvin was the premier theologian of the Reformation, but also a pious and godly Christian pastor who endeavored throughout his life to point men and women to Christ. We are grateful to Reformation Heritage Books for permission to use John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart as our daily devotional for 2013 on the OPC Web site. You can currently obtain a printed copy of that book from Reformation Heritage Books.
Dr. Joel Beeke, who is editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, has this to say:
"Calvin shows us the piety of a Reformed theologian who speaks from the heart. Having tasted the goodness and grace of God in Jesus Christ, he pursued piety by seeking to know and do God's will every day. He communed with Christ, practicing repentance, self-denial, and cross-bearing. Moreover, his theology worked itself out in heart-felt, Christ-honoring piety. The selections of this devotional bear this out, and hopefully will be used by God to direct pious hearts in our own day."
These devotional readings from John Calvin were compiled by John H. Kromminga. Be sure to read his "Introduction" to John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart.
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Bioenergy can reduce greenhouse gas emissions because the carbon released can be recaptured during plant growth. But it may take decades for emissions from bioenergy to be absorbed, and converting carbon-rich ecosystems to bioenergy production could outweigh any climate benefits.
Bioenergy can be produced from a variety of feedstocks:
- Wood: logs and stumps from plantations or forests
- Oil and fats: crops (rapeseed, sunflower, palm oil, soy, jatropha, etc.), waste oils, animal fats
- Sugar and starch crops: sugarcane, sugar beet, corn, etc.
- Residues: harvesting and processing residues from agriculture (stalks, husks, etc.) and forestry (crowns, bark, sawdust, etc.)
- Waste: manure, municipal solid waste
- Algae
Bioenergy FAQs: László Máthé, Bioenergy Coordinator at WWF International, answers some frequently asked questions about bioenergy.


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Twenty-two authors from 16 countries, four days of sharing and comparing different cultures, ideas, ways of thinking. From May 19-22, join the Venice literary festival Incroci di Civiltà (Crossroads of Civilizations), where writers from all over the world talk of their works, cultures and experiences with scholars, journalists and everyday readers.
Incroci di Civiltà, promoted by the Comune di Venezia, the Assessorato alla Produzione Culturale and Venice University, is preparing for its third year. Writing is the starting point for discussing the most urgent topics of contemporary life -- all within the global perspective that typifies Venetian history and culture.
Among the authors: Héctor Habad, Vikram Seth, Marcello Fois, Tiziano Scarpa, Zhu Wen, Fariba Vafi, and Hoda Barakat.
Moleskine has created a limited edition notebook, customized both on the cover and on the paper band; it will be given to all the writers and the festival guests.