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The Museum continued to enhance its national and international profile by delivering and participating in a diverse range of outreach programs and activities.
Travelling exhibitions
Number of exhibitions at venues, 2001–10
Number of exhibitions
|1 at 4 venues
|5 at 6 venues
|6 at 9 venues
|5 at 9 venues
|8 at 28 venues
|9 at 28 venues
|9 at 26 venues
|11 at 32 venues
|9 at 17 venues (two venues hosting more than one exhibition)
International travelling exhibitions
This year saw the Museum reach out to an international audience with the display of Papunya Painting: Out of the Australian Desert at Beijing's National Art Museum of China (10 June – 26 August 2010). The exhibition signified the Museum's status as a producer of world-class exhibitions.
The exhibition, which was originally shown at the Museum in 2007, was selected by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) to form part of the program for the Year of Australian Culture in China, Imagine Australia. Museum staff worked with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and NAMOC to translate both the exhibition text and the catalogue into Chinese. The exhibition, which was opened by the Governor-General on 10 June and remained on display until the end of August 2010, tells the story of the artists and supporters of the Papunya Tula art movement between 1974 and 1981. The exhibition has generated a high level of interest within China with 50,000 visitors in the first three weeks.
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed with NAMOC, putting in place arrangements for reciprocal travelling exhibitions between Australia and the People's Republic of China. The Museum will host a return exhibition from NAMOC in late 2011, as part of the Year of Chinese Culture in Australia.
The tour of Papunya Painting to China was supported by the Australian Government through the Australia International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts under its National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program.
For the first time, the Museum toured a display to the South Pacific with League of Legends, a photographic history of rugby league. It travelled to Australia's High Commission in Port Moresby and the Museum of Samoa in Apia and was visited by 1453 people.
"Papunya Painting has generated a high level of interest within China with 50,000 visitors in the first three weeks."
National travelling exhibitions
Engaging national audiences, as outlined in the Strategic Plan 2007–10, has been an important priority for the Museum. Travelling exhibitions are one way of achieving this goal. The Museum aims to tour exhibitions to all Australian states and territories within a two-year period. In 2009–10, eight exhibitions travelled to a total of 14 different venues (with two venues hosting more than one exhibition) across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Of these venues, eight were in metropolitan venues and six in regional areas, and the Museum's exhibitions attracted more than 111,935 visitors.
The following travelling exhibitions were supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach (NCITO) Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians: Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route, From Little Things Big Things Grow: Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920–1970, Symbols of Australia and Papunya Painting: Out of the Australian Desert.
The following exhibitions toured in 2009–10:
A Different Time: The Expedition Photographs of Herbert Basedow 1903–1928
Herbert Basedow was an anthropologist, geologist and medical doctor who used photography to document his expeditions into central and northern Australia in the early decades of the twentieth century. This exhibition drew on the Museum's rich collection of over 2250 negatives and lantern slides taken by Basedow. These revealing, sometimes confronting, images provide a fascinating historical record of the people and places he encountered, and life in remote Australia in the early 1900s. Having been on display in the Gallery of First Australians Focus Gallery, the exhibition embarked on a three-year tour travelling to Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Venues in South Australia, Queensland, and New South Wales will host the exhibition in 2010–11.
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons 2008
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons 2009
Behind the Lines is a popular annual exhibition featuring works by Australia's leading political cartoonists. The 2008 exhibition finished its tour at the State Library of Queensland in August 2009, while Behind the Lines 2009 visited Sydney and Perth after it was displayed at the Museum in Canberra. The exhibition will travel to the Northern Territory in late 2010. A catalogue featuring all the cartoons was published by National Museum of Australia Press to accompany the 2009 exhibition.
From Little Things Big Things Grow: Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920–1970
From Little Things Big Things Grow highlights the struggle for Indigenous civil rights in the period from 1920 to 1970. This exhibition commenced its tour in Melbourne in June 2010 and will travel to venues across Australia throughout 2010–11.
League of Legends: 100 Years of Rugby League in Australia
This exhibition was developed in conjunction with the Centenary of Rugby League Committee to celebrate the centenary of rugby league in Australia. The exhibition completed its major tour closing at the National Sports Museum in Melbourne in August 2009.
Ned Kelly banner display
This banner display is based on the Ned Kelly: Fact and Fiction touring exhibition and commenced touring to community museums and schools in April 2009.
Symbols of Australia
Drawn from the National Museum's collection, this exhibition explores the kangaroo, flag, wattle and other symbols, which represent Australians and their nation. Symbols of Australia was developed as a travelling exhibition and toured to Western Australia and New South Wales in 2010. Symbols of Australia will tour extensively across Australia until 2012.
Still Steaming: Commemorating 130 Years of the Paddle Steamer Enterprise banner display
Launched in 1878, the PS Enterprise worked on the great rivers of south-eastern Australia for more than 100 years before becoming part of the collection at the National Museum of Australia. This exhibition examined the history of paddle steamers on the River Murray, highlighted through the story of PS Enterprise, and finished its tour in Echuca in July 2009.
Travelling exhibitions program
Exhibition and Visitation
A Different Time: The Expedition Photographs of Herbert Basedow: 1903-1928
|Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, WA
|25 Sept - 29 Nov 2009
|Northern Territory Library, NT
|29 Mar – 2 May 2010
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons 2008
|The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia, WA
|29 Jun – 21 Aug 2009
|Northern Territory Library, NT
|14 Sep – 9 Oct 2009
|State Library of Queensland, Qld
|21 Nov 2009 – 14 Mar 2010
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons 2009
|Riverside Theatres, Parramatta, NSW
|15 Feb – 15 Mar 2010
|The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia, WA
|24 Jun – 20 Aug 2010
From Little Things Big Things Grow
|Melbourne Museum, Vic
|7 Jun – 7 Nov 2010
League of Legends: 100 Years of Rugby League in Australia
26,869 (not including Samoa)
|National Sports Museum, Vic
|4 Apr – 2 Aug 2009
|Australian High Commission, PNG
|8 Mar – 9 Apr 2010
|Museum of Samoa
|14 Jun – 30 Jul 2010
Ned Kelly banner display
|Kyneton Museum, Vic
|12 Jun – 17 Aug 2009
|Geelong Grammar, Vic
|20 Aug – 4 Nov 2009
|National Alpine Museum, Vic
|28 Dec 2009 – 9 Mar 2010
|Public Records Office, Vic
|19 Mar – 28 May 2010
Symbols of Australia
|Wanneroo Cultural Centre, WA
|26 Mar – 20 May 2010
|Albury Library and Museum, NSW
|10 Jun – 8 Aug 2010
Still Steaming: Commemorating 130 Years of the Paddle Steamer Enterprise
|Port of Echuca, Vic
|23 Apr – 9 Jun 2009
Papunya Painting: Out of the Australian Desert
|National Art Museum of China, Beijing
|10 Jun – 26 Aug 2010
Reaching a national schools audience
In 2009–10 more school students visited the Museum than in any other financial year since opening in 2001 and several new facilitated programs were offered to visiting schools in the reporting period.
In addition, the Museum continued to deliver a range of outreach programs to primary and secondary schools around Australia. It also continued to make a significant contribution to the development of the Australian Government's national curriculum initiative, especially in the subject area of history, and provided further digital resources for schools as part of the Australian Government's education revolution.
Contribution to the development of a national history curriculum and the digital education revolution
During 2009–10, the Australian Government furthered the development of the Australian Curriculum, beginning with mathematics, English, the sciences and history, and more recently, the arts, geography and Languages other than English (LOTE). The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), which is tasked with organising and delivering the new curriculum, sought feedback from interested parties on various drafts of each subject.
The Museum continued to play an important role among cultural institutions in relation to the draft history curriculum, providing significant feedback to ACARA under the auspices of the Museums Australia Education National Network.
The Museum also continued to contribute significantly to the provision of digital teaching and learning content for schools as part of the Australian Government's education revolution. Working in partnership with Education Services Australia (ESA), the Museum supplied 200 new digital resources to ESA's digital resources repository for Australian schools. These resources included 10 units of work on a variety of events, issues and people in Australian history, which will act as exemplars for teachers as they begin to implement the national history curriculum.
Major curriculum resource developments
The Museum completed significant curriculum resources for schools in the reporting period and began to produce several others, continuing one of its major goals of being a provider of quality outreach materials for Australian classrooms.
First Australians: Plenty Stories Indigenous primary school series
Work was completed on the Museum's major primary school curriculum resource, First Australians: Plenty Stories, a series of 18 year 3–6 books that explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories through the Museum's collections, facilitated by new and existing relationships with Indigenous communities. The student books are supported by two teacher resource books and two poster sets. Produced in conjunction with leading Australian educational school publisher, Pearson Education, the series was launched at the Museum in April 2010. The year 5–6 series has been short-listed for best primary school resource in the 2010 Australian newspaper's Excellence in Education awards.
National History Curriculum textbook series
The Museum entered into an agreement with Pearson Australia to write four chapters of its forthcoming National History Curriculum textbook series for secondary schools. Each chapter will feature Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history from different time periods in Australian history and will draw on the Museum collection where possible. This resource will ensure that the Museum's content, and teaching and learning strategies, will make a significant contribution to the implementation of the new national history curriculum in schools.
Australian History Mysteries website
The Museum's major Australian history curriculum resource for secondary schools, Australian History Mysteries, has recently been transformed into a website — www.australianhistorymysteries.info — with more than three hours of video clips. Originally published as three resource kits, the new website contains all 15 Australian History Mysteries case studies from the three resource kits as well as a number of multimedia interactive modules.
The Australian History Mysteries website is designed to stimulate students' interest in, and engagement with, aspects of their history and heritage, and to develop the skills needed in pursuing historical studies. Each case study contains a wide range of primary and secondary source evidence, including museum objects, national archival collections and historic sites, and is relevant to the new national history curriculum with its emphasis on inquiry learning and historical skills development.
Studies of Society and Environment magazine
The Museum produced a further three units of work for the nationally distributed classroom curriculum magazine Studies of Society and Environment (distributed free of charge to all Australian secondary schools three times a year by Ryebuck Media Pty Ltd). This year units covered themes relevant to the curriculum from the Museum's exhibitions Voyages of the Pacific Ancestors: Vaka Moana, From Little Things Big Things Grow and Water: H2O=Life. Each unit of work is also available on the Museum's website.
Web-based school projects and partnerships
In 2009–10 the delivery of teaching and learning programs and projects over the internet remained a strong focus for the Museum.
Working with regional and remote schools
The long-standing and much respected Snapshots of Remote Communities web-based outreach program continued in the reporting period. Snapshots is an outreach program for regional and remote primary schools that encourages students to photograph and write about their communities. The photographs are subsequently exhibited in the local community, at a state institution and on the Museum's website. With the completion of the current partnership with two Western Australian regional museums in Albany and Kalgoorlie, and 12 primary schools from these regions, the Museum's Snapshots website will showcase these photographic exhibitions.
"Snapshots is an outreach program for regional and remote primary schools that encourages students to photograph and write about their communities."
Partnerships: Centre for Learning Innovation
For a second year the Museum worked closely with the New South Wales Department of Education and Training's Centre for Learning Innovation, which produces learning resources and is a leader in the use of technology in schools. In the reporting period the partnership expanded to include the Museum's involvement with one of the centre's Australia-wide digital storytelling competitions.
The theme of the competition was 'migration' and students who entered were encouraged to use a specifically designed and produced digital education resource that utilised content from the Museum's Australian Journeys permanent gallery as preparation for their entry. The competition produced several commendable winning entries and the Museum benefited through increased exposure for this gallery.
National outreach competitions
National schools political cartooning competition
In association with its annual Behind the Lines political cartooning exhibition, the Museum continued to run its popular and anticipated national cartooning competition for Australian schools. 'Drawing the lines' attracted over 500 entries from primary and secondary students from more than 60 schools, covering a range of issues including asylum seekers, climate change and the environment, terrorism and international relations.
Prizes were awarded to the winning student cartoonists by the Canberra Times cartoonist David Pope at a ceremony held at the Museum in December 2009. First prize in the primary school category was won by Yvette Moulton, Holy Family Primary School, Indooroopilly, Queensland. Two first prizes were awarded to secondary students: one to Dahna Knight, Toormina High School, New South Wales, in the year 7–9 category, and the other to Jonathan Mo, Cherrybrook Technology High School, New South Wales, in the year 10–12 category.
The Museum will hold another political cartooning competition in 2010 and intends to integrate the contest with social media services Flickr, Facebook and Twitter to expand its reach.
Supporting student history competition: National History Challenge
The Museum again contributed to the sponsorship of the History Teachers' Association of Australia annual history competition for primary and secondary students through its special category on museum displays. The theme of the 2009 competition was 'Triumph over adversity' and the winning entry by year 5–6 primary school student, Emily Doi, from Princes Street Primary School in Tasmania, was a sophisticated and empathetic display about the experience of a Japanese war bride. The display was exhibited in the Museum's Hall throughout January 2010.
Professional development for teachers
Evaluation continues to indicate that efforts to provide teaching strategies and curriculum resources through a comprehensive teacher professional development program have a positive impact on teaching in Australian classrooms. Professional development workshops for teachers, held at the Museum and at conferences around Australia, attracted over 500 participants in 2009–10.
Education staff delivered workshops and made presentations at a variety of conferences, including the Victorian and Australian history teacher conferences. In addition, through the National Capital Educational Tourism Project's outreach program, the Museum presented at several regional and capital city professional development sessions for teachers.
Several teacher previews focusing on the Museum's temporary exhibitions program were also conducted, mainly with teachers from schools in Canberra, helping to continue to build a strong network of committed teachers across the Australian Capital Territory.


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In small classes, you will enjoy vibrant discussion, personal attention, and close working relationships with the English faculty, a community of scholars and writers dedicated to teaching. Special areas of study include Native American literature, the literature of war, medieval literature, women's and gender studies, comics and graphic novels, Holocaust literature, postcolonial and francophone studies, and creative and technical writing. We are
always evolving, and so will you.
In the process of reading, writing about, and discussing great works, you will develop the skills of analysis, collaboration, critical reasoning, and written and oral communication. These are skills many employers now prefer to specific career preparation, especially with the growing global market and the rise of the internet. Moreover, these tools prepare you to be a conversant citizen of the world, and a connoisseur of literature.
The skills you will gain provide an outstanding foundation for graduate study or professional careers in teaching, journalism, publishing, and professional writing, as well as administration, business, government, and social services.
Why study literature and writing at UMA?
Learning to read and write literary analysis is excellent training for critical thinking in general. This includes newspapers and periodicals, web sites, political speeches, advertisements, corporate and business publications, and so on. In addition, the skills that you develop working with the written word transfer to non-textual works as well. If you can analyze a play or create a poem, for example, you can analyze or create a film, a television show, a music video, a concert or theater performance, a work of art, a graphic novel, an interactive web site. Learning to read and write in these very broad senses are basic life skills, applicable to virtually any college discipline or career.
Beyond that, literature (both reading it and creating it) pays great rewards in its own right. Careful, diligent, and committed students of literature live their lives broadly. Your education will provide multiple perspectives by placing you outside your own realm of experience. This is precisely what imaginative literature does. In walking in somebody else's shoes for the duration of a poem, story, or play you will return to your own life with a larger experience of the world.
Our English majors have opportunities to present original scholarly work at our Annual Undergraduate English Conference each spring, as well as share creative work at our Plunkett Festival.
The English program at UMA is full of professors who are dedicated to the success and development of their students. Working with these faculty members has allowed me to explore my interests and discover new and exciting topics.
– Kim Carter, '17
The English program is comprised of an amazing faculty, professors who have inspired, taught, and pushed me to becoming the writer I am today.
– Charlotte MacDonald, '17
Careers You Can Seek
Our B.A. degree in English can serve as a foundation for many diverse career paths. The selected list below offers a few options that may be available to you.
Market research analysis
Bookstore manager
Retail buyer
Special events marketer
Advertising copywriter
Corporate librarian
Human resources manager
Web content developer/writer
Production assistant
Copy editor
Personnel director
Internet publisher
Technical writer/editor*
Travel writer
* Graduate-level study is generally required for these occupations.
Public relations
Legal assistant
Grant writer
Museum collections
NGO organizer
K-12 teacher
Literacy volunteer coordinator
Development officer
Program administrator
College Professor*
Curriculum Developer*
Adult Education Director*
* Graduate-level study is generally required for these occupations.
Skills You'll Acquire
English majors develop a wide variety of skills that are applicable to literally any field of study or career path, and many employers seek English majors for this very reason. In particular, English majors also excel at understanding, evaluating, and synthesizing various points of view, a must in a global, multicultural world.
Persuading and arguing
Giving directions and explaining processes
Analyzing and evaluating
Developing style
Developing a sense of appropriate purpose, voice, and audience
Summarizing information
Writing concisely
Proofreading for clarity and consistency
Using grammar with proficiency
Presenting information
Designing documents
Defining a problem, issue, or topic
Finding and using resources
Synthesizing information from various sources
Evaluating and incorporating the work of others
Synthesizing sources into a coherent whole
Comparing information
Developing and testing hypotheses
Analyzing different points of view
Relating to people from different backgrounds and cultures
Immersing oneself in different and various time periods
Interpreting and evaluating the beliefs of others
Understanding audiences and anticipating their expectations
Developing a sense of authorial voice and purpose
Reading and reviewing each others' work
Discussing various points of view and interpretation
Defending one's own position
Learning Outcomes
The English faculty delivering the Bachelor of Arts in English degree at the University of Maine at Augusta is committed to the development and enhancement of our students' skills, abilities, and competencies and anticipates the following outcomes:
- think critically about oral, written, and visual texts
- write well developed expository, persuasive, and critical essays
- design documents to meet the needs of readers
- edit documents effectively
- understand and evaluate the rhetorical strategies writers use to achieve their purposes
- understand the components of poetry, fictions, and drama
- have knowledge of works from different periods and genres within the evolving canon of English language texts, including but not limited to texts of women, ethnic and racial minorities, Anglophone authors, and lesbian and gay authors
- understand the historical contexts of literature
- understand various critical and theoretical approaches to texts
- synthesize knowledge and practice through performances, presentations, projects, essays and research papers
- locate, evaluate and properly cite primary source material, literary criticism, theory, and other scholarly texts
Sample Curriculum
During their first year, students typically take ENG 101: College Writing, designed to prepare students for a variety of academic writing. This is followed by ENG 102: Introduction to Literature, which introduces fundamentals of literary analysis through close reading of poetry, short fiction, and drama. These two courses show students writing as a process, introduce research methods, and model critical reading skills.
ENG 101: College Writing
ENG 102W: Introduction to Literature
In their second year, students should take a sequence of literature surveys (British literature I and II or American literature I and II.). These classes build on close reading skills and literary analysis, as well as introduce theoretical lenses for examining literature in a particular historical framework.
Students may also take upper-level ENG courses, such as a required Cultural Diversity Elective, or begin to focus on a concentration.
ENG 202W Survey of British Literature 1 or ENG 250W: Survey of American Literature 1
ENG 203W: Survey of British Literature II or ENG 251W: Survey of American Literature II
Students should take ENG 300W: Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism after completing at least one survey sequence. This course deepens the conversation of literary theory and criticism, and literary research techniques. ENG 301W: History of the English language is also recommended in students' third year, as it covers the development of English and its rise as an international world language.
Students may continue to choose upper-level English courses to satisfy requirements, or focus on a concentration.
ENG 300W: Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory
ENG 301W: History of the English Language
ENG 3XXs: Upper Levels
In their fourth year, students may continue with upper-level courses for a concentration in cultural studies or writing, or complete upper-level English courses that coincide with specific interests, including Native-American Literature, Graphic Storytelling, or Shakespeare. During their final spring semester students must complete ENG 499: Senior Seminar. This capstone class gives English majors the opportunity to engage in rigorous research and discussion, culminating in a senior seminar paper. Students also plan and participate in our annual Undergraduate English Conference.
ENG 3XX or 4XX upper-level electives for BA in English OR
ENG 3XX or 4XX upper-level concentrations for Cultural Studies or Writing
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By Robin Bayley
There were lots of reasons not to do it. I had a comfortable life, a nice place to live, lots of friends and a good job. Also, I didn't know exactly what I was looking for, or where it might be. But for as long as I can remember, I just knew that following in my great grandfather's footsteps around the Americas was something I had to do.
As a child, my grandmother regaled me with the most wonderful tales of her father's adventures. She told of his wild jungle journeys, gunfights, hidden bags of silver in a mango orchard and a daring escape from the Mexican Revolution with the help of bandits. It was this last story that particularly captivated me. Why did he have to leave Mexico in such a hurry? Why would he have been killed if he'd stayed? What, I wondered, had he left behind?
I started on the old Cunard pier in New York harbour, where my great grandfather, Arthur "Arturo" Greenhalgh, first stepped on to the continent of America. It had taken me six hours to fly to JFK. Arturo had to endure twelve storm-tossed days to reach this point. His ship was buffeted by forty foot waves, so high that at times the ship's propeller came out of the water. He suffered badly from seasickness and didn't eat for the best part of the week. I felt a bit queasy as I had over done it on the complementary drinks they'd served on the flight.
Arturo's onward journey also conjured romantic images of a travel era long-passed. He took another steamer, through the Caribbean, to the Mexican port of Veracruz, caught a train to Mexico City, a horse-drawn carriage to Guadalajara and travelled on by horseback and even by sedan chair, before he arrived at his destination in western Mexico. The exact location of the mango orchard where he had left his bags of silver was a mystery. All I knew was that it was close to a small village near a small town, about five days' riding from Guadalajara. It wasn't a lot to go on.
I confess that it was irrational even trying to track down the mango orchard, but this was not a quest built on logic. At the end of the Cunard pier was a piece of graffiti that I took to heart: Throw your shit away and start living. I had to leave the mentality of my London media job behind. My guides were intuition and serendipity and I hoped to have some fun along the way.
Before I began my search in Mexico I felt I had to get my Spanish up to scratch, so I spent a few months in the famed language schools of Antigua, Guatemala. From there, I followed the best bit of travel advice I was ever given: you can't get lost if you don't have a map. I didn't have a map and I went wherever it felt right for me to go. I flew to Colombia to meet a history professor who, I was told, would be able to help me focus my search in Mexico. When he wasn't there, I went on a road trip with a man called Pedro and his family. We met witches, were attacked by bandits, encountered shamans and guerrilla fighters. I was having way too much fun to bother with the details of renewing my visa and was told I would be deported from the country. Having deportado de Colombia stamped in my passport would have meant I'd not be allowed into Mexico; my whole quest was in jeopardy. Pedro organised for a group of beautiful, scantily-clad women to accompany me to the visa office to plea my case. Beauty won the day.
When finally I felt it was the right time to go to Mexico, Pedro left me at the "world's most dangerous border crossing" on the frontier with Venezuela, where I spent a night paralysed with a bad back, in a brothel with a dead body. Really.
I doubled back to where my great grandfather had begun his Mexican adventures, in Veracruz, and then followed his route as closely as I could, hoping that I would get lucky; that fate would deliver me to where I needed to be. Along the way I had a gun pulled on me by a bald-headed Tasmanian devil, was offered advice by an ex-Nazi diamond trader and even found myself judging a village beauty pageant. For some reason, because, or perhaps despite of these and other encounters, I felt I was heading the right way.
A month into the Mexican leg of my journey, I found the Small Town close to the small village, near to where the mango orchard had been. A week after that, I found the Small Village. There, I discovered the real treasure that my great grandfather had left behind: a secret family, now numbering over three hundred people. I also found out that not only had he narrowly escaped from the Revolution, he'd also played a part in starting it.
I'll never fully understand why I felt so compelled to give up my home and career to follow what must have seen to many, as a whim. I'm just glad that I listened to my intuition; that threw my shit away and started living.
About the Author
Robin Bayley had a successful career in children's television, when one morning he decided to leave his job and sell his apartment to travel and follow his muse. As well as uncovering the story told in The Mango Orchard, he has written many articles and articles and is currently working on the screenplay for a feature film he has been commissioned to write. The Mango Orchard has been published in several languages and has just been released in North America.


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This is the best TANK! game ever created. In the fantastically 80's vein of classic arcade games...TANK! is simple, fun and satisfying. Play someone else on your iPhone and relive all the fun that old skool video games used to be.
This is a two player game only, so be sure to be social or bring a friend.
*Friends Not Included
Reviewed by: Chris Kapzynski
Date of Review: September 25th 2010
"This game is amazing! It brings back so many good memories of the days when chewing Bazooka gum for the comics and drinking Dr. Pepper when the world still believed in glass bottles while battle some friends at some good ole' fashion 8 bit action. A must have! Siskal and Ebert gave it two thumbs up and Rolling Stone Magazine rated it the #1 game of the year! So what are ya whatin' for...Get Tank'd!
Reviewed by: Playing with myself
Date of Review: September 24th 2010
"The controls are kinda awkward. But the idea is really cute. They have one obstacle level stage. So changing it up would be pretty nice. It's like the original game or the on one the wii. It's worth the dollar though.
Reviewed by: gamerguy80
Date of Review: September 23th 2010
"Just bought/downloaded yesterday and have played it a bunch of times. I love it is a 2 player game and played it many times with my daughter. She thinks it is a bit simplistic, but I think that is the charm-takes me back. Took a bit of getting used to the controller as it is a bit small for my fat little fingers, but my daughter had no problems. I did get used to it. A fun game to play and would love to see more levels or an option for different obstacles, but please keep it old school. Worth my 99 cents just to play a game at the same time with someone."
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Our main conference (and AGM) takes place each October of each year.
We also host a biennial Postgraduate Conference.
Arrangements for hosting the PSAI Annual Conference
Our annual conference is the highlight of the year for the Political Studies Association of Ireland, and it is right to acknowledge from the outset the valuable and valued contribution which the host department and conference convenor makes to the work and standing of the PSAI. The purpose of this note is to make explicit the financial arrangements between the PSAI and the convenors of the Association's annual conferences. It is intended to serve as a background note for those departments considering hosting future conferences. A separate note on the academic and administrative elements involved in convening the conference is also available, written by previous organisers.
The starting point for such consideration must be that the conference is explicitly intended to be self-financing – at least cost neutral and preferably capable of generating modest revenue for the Association. This is something which needs to be clear in all the arrangements around the conference – so, for instance, the registration form should state that cheques are to be made out to the 'Political Studies Association of Ireland'. Whatever venue is being used needs to know from the outset that the conference bill will be paid on the PSAI chequebook at the end of the conference. And, all revenue arising from the conference should be handed over by the convenor to the PSAI Treasurer or President at the end of the conference.
A key element of the ultimate price of the conference to attendees will inevitably be the location in which it is held. Some host departments prefer to hold the conference on campus, others choose to use a nearby hotel. From the Association's perspective, either option is fine, and the decision is entirely one for the host department. Each has its advantages and disadvantages, though it is generally the case that the costs will be lower on campus. If a hotel is being used, the convenor will want to get quotes from at least 3 or 4 alternatives before reaching a decision.
It is crucial to realise that in no circumstances should a convenor have anything whatever to do with booking bedrooms for attendees. The PSAI will absolutely refuse to make good any losses which the host department incurs in such a situation. (It is, though, helpful if the convenor can put together some information for attendees on local hotels/guesthouses, in order that individuals can make their own arrangements.) The convenor may be able to negotiate with the venue a discount rate for accommodation if individuals book a room before a certain date, but should certainly not reserve or pre-book any bedrooms themselves on behalf of potential or actual attendees. The management of the venue in which the conference is held must be made absolutely clear as to who exactly is empowered to authorise expenditure on behalf of the conference – this must be a small group of people from the host department and the PSAI committee (agreed in advance on both sides). The PSAI will not be responsible for any expenses incurred by anyone outside this small and explicitly agreed group of people.
The PSAI accepts all financial liabilities (other than those mentioned above) arising from the conference, and in return is due in full from the host department all income produced by the conference. However, the Association does expect to be regularly consulted by the convenor as decisions with a financial implication are under consideration. The convenor should communicate freely with the PSAI President and Treasurer as a matter of routine, and it has in the past been found to be useful if the convenor (or his or her representative) is able to attend meetings of the PSAI committee in the year leading up to each conference.
Other factors which will contribute to the global cost of the conference include: provision for teas/coffees during conference breaks; the hire of any audio-visual equipment thought necessary; the booking of sufficient rooms of sufficient size in which to hold all conference sessions (this will depend in part on how many concurrent panels are planned); the conference dinner which takes place on the final evening of each conference; possibly the travel expenses of any keynote plenary speaker; perhaps a number of students to help with the administrative arrangements during the conference itself; a limited amount of advertising (the PSAI committee will ensure that the Call For Papers is widely circulated, and some useful free advertising can be arranged through the websites of other political studies associations, but previous organisers have found it useful to pay to advertise on selected commercial websites); and so on. Even a number of costs which are small in themselves – such as printing the conference programme, postage, name badges, and so on – can add up to a sizeable extra element of the total conference cost. Once a reasonable estimate can be made by the convenor of the total conference cost, it is then essential that the individual registration price is set at a level which is likely to at least recoup that expenditure.
On the revenue side, a number of considerations are worth bearing in mind. The Call For Papers should emphasise that panels will be held on topics which extend well beyond Irish politics. The more panels which can be accommodated on other disciplinary specialisms, the broader the potential pool of speakers (and thus, attendees) is. The lower the registration price can be held, the more attractive the conference will be to potential attendees (particularly postgraduate students), and thus the higher the registration revenue will be. At an early stage, convenors will want to give some thought as to how to raise revenue through both (cash and in-kind goods) sponsorship (from sources such as the local council, Chamber of Commerce, tourist board, publishers, local suppliers of goods or services likely to be of interest to attendees, and so on) and commercial exhibitors (predominantly national/international publishers of academic books and journals).
It will often be the case that the host department is prepared to pay for some form of reception for conference attendees. In addition, there is generally a book launch held during the conference, and the PSAI has a form which book authors can use to apply for PSAI funding for such events.
The conference registration form should always be worded in such a way as to offer a range of rates – member, student member, and non-members. The differential between the member and non-member rates should always be sufficiently high as to encourage non-members to simultaneously join the Association. (In the past, it has sometimes been the case that 80% of those attending the conference have not been PSAI members; in the future, this figure needs to be radically reduced in order to boost PSAI membership levels.) The student member rate should always involve a substantial reduction on the member rate. The registration form should explicitly state a date beyond which registration fees will not be refunded to those unable at the last minute to get to the conference. Clearly, the earlier the academic programme is finalised and the earlier the registration forms are circulated, the earlier the convenor will have a clear sense of how many people are likely to be attending the conference, and thus of the likely revenue generated.
The PSAI committee thanks in advance those individuals and departments which are willing to consider hosting the annual conference, and reiterates that the Association's President and Treasurer are always available to discuss the financial, academic and administrative issues which need to be considered.


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Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina took a jab at her opponent GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
Fiorina was asked about Trump's popularity and if he was "emblematic" of the anger in the country. Fiorina acknowledged the presence of anger, but dismissed Trump as a serious candidate.
"[L]ook, I don't exactly think Esquire is an authority, but there is no doubt — Donald Trump is an extremely divisive candidate," Fiorina said. "That's why he cannot win. That is why he cannot be our nominee. But honestly, Donald Trump reminds me of the Kim Kardashian of politics. They're both famous for being famous and the media plays along."
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The Shamrock Golf Course became the first public golf course in Burlington more than six decades ago, but was forced to shut down in November 2011 due to financial trouble.
When a group of investors couldn't find the money to reopen the course, it grew to be an eyesore to the surrounding neighborhood.
So, the neighbors decided to do something about it. They formed an alliance, raised money and even used their own lawnmowers to clean-up the course.
The course, complete with new golf carts, will reopen September 6.


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A chart on Friday about nominees for the top Emmy Awards misidentified, in some editions, the character played by Jim Parsons on ''The Big Bang Theory.'' Mr. Parsons, who has been nominated for the award for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series, plays Sheldon, not Leonard. The chart also misspelled the name of the fictional town in Indiana that is the setting for ''Parks and Recreation,'' whose star, Amy Poehler, has been nominated for the Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series. It is Pawnee, not Pawnie.


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The NCAA Tournament's not even a week young and your bracket's already decimated. You owe someone $10 and the last remains of crusted face paint cling to your peach fuzz. The only people who care about your office pool anymore are the jerks who made their picks based on how cute the mascots are, or if a school name has a nice ring to it.
In other words, your bracket's fucked, and here are nine reasons why.
1. Mercer
Although David has since met his maker, he still had time to kick the shit out of Goliath and burn your bracket to ashes. Usually the death of Duke means the birth of an angel, but as the angel floated up to heaven the little cherub ripped up your bracket with it's razor-sharp halo. Meanwhile, Mercer danced at your loss, civilization's gain, and their right to lose to Tennessee in the next round.
What song was in this young dancer's head? Probably Bittersweet Symphony, because that's what it was for all of us.
Coach K mourns your bracket, while also knowing he'll have 19 more chances at this. (via sbnation)
2. Warren Buffett
That man and his temporary tattoos and his $1 billion prize put us all in our heads. Now no one's touching $1 billion. No one's even getting a whiff. No one's even having sexual fantasies involving $1 billion. Our sexual fantasies involving cash are topping out at $100 million or so, which is pathetic and we should all talk to our shrinks about that.
3. Wichita State Deciding Streaking Is Bad
Wichita State fucked up your bracket by deciding that streaking is wrong, whether it be in terms of wins or naked running. We saw neither against Kentucky. The only good thing to come out of this is that you learned that Wichita is a state, and it's weird that you didn't know that.
4. The Vietnam War
If we never went in the first place, your bracket would be a lot different, a lot less cynical and jaded. But now your own bracket doesn't trust opinions of authority or even itself, so how can there be confidence in this year's picks, or any year for that matter? Gone are the days when we knew which teams were purely evil and purely good. Now it's all shades of dystopian gray.
5. Dayton Double Stun Gun
Dayton owns a Taser and it's using it over and over on your bracket. They zapped Ohio State right in the chest, which hurt you, but then they made Syracuse's back give out from the electric shock of a tase to the basketballs, which messed you up, man. Messed you up good.
The police are angry at Dayton for all their fucked up brackets.
6. Stanford and Kansas
They both fucked up the brackets. One by winning, the other by losing. Kansas is supposed to have all that talent, but since all those guys know they're going to the NBA in a couple of months they thought they could have some fun, take a crow bar to your bracket, and not try. Stay tuned to see how much the Trees can fuck up your bracket the way they fuck up your view of your neighbor's bedroom window, you perv.
7. The Situation In Crimea
If there was nothing but peace, your bracket would be perfect. PUTINNNNN!!
He doesn't give a fuck about fucking up your bracket.
8. Fucking Harvard
Harvard had an upset in them. Some of us saw that. Then they lost the next game. Some of us saw that, too, but not both. Harvard screwed up your bracket in some way, and you have every right to hold that, and the fact that they didn't accept you even though you had incredible grades and worked your ass off in high school, against them for the rest of your life.
9. And now a list of everything else that shot your bracket through the heart and pissed on it's grave.
-It's still really cold out — hard to make good decisions.
-Bull sharks. Maybe you were thinking about them when you made your bracket, and you got distracted with fear.
-Every year you want Gonzaga to go on a run of upsets but like those first few months with Marissa, when everything was breathless and passionate and you never wanted to leave the bedroom except to go to the bathroom or eat some macaroni and cheese, those days are gone.
- Creighton's 30 point loss to a school that rhymes with Sailor. Sailors ruin everything.
- That earthquake in L.A. One word: AFTERSHOCKS. They create one bad dribble and your whole bracket crumbles.
- Daylight Savings Time. We're not used to this extra daylight. The whole thing should be banned.
-Villanova is Latin for "New Farmhouse," but in NCAAtin it means "New Fuckup For Your Bracket." In English, UConn means "University of Connecticut," but in NCAAtin in means "I Will Help New Fuckup For Your Bracket Fuck Up Your Bracket."
- Shrimp. You were eating them recently and one was just covered in shrimp shit. You scraped it off but it's all you could think about. Two days later you filled out your bracket. Shit, especially shrimp shit, lingers in the mind.
- Raleigh, North Carolina. It's a town of upsets. Sure a higher seed took Mercer down, but we were already living in upsetville — a Hoosier-type squad was getting out of there no matter what. Now it's Tennessee. Can they fuck up your bracket in a new town?
Regardless of how terrible your bracket is always remember to Make Love Not War. SEE YA NEXT WEEK. We'll see how awful things have gotten for you.


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When a group of scientists recently embarked upon a groundbreaking expedition to the Chagos Archipelago, I began to think about a fact one hears a lot in the marine conservation space: that we know more about the moon than about the oceans.
While certainly clicheed it's poignantly true. Two thirds of our planet is covered by ocean but only 1/10 of the sea floor has been explored; we know significantly less about it than the surface of the moon, over 220,000 miles away. The same applies when compared with what we know about our terrestrial habitats. 1.5 million land species have been identified, while only 275,000 marine species have been and yet it is estimated that coral reefs alone may harbour in excess of 1 million lifeforms. Just imagine the possibilities for discovery.
What is so concerning is that the oceans remain almost completely unprotected from man's exploitation and misuse. This is the result of a combination of factors, from the complexity of issues like overfishing to the difficulty of visually demonstrating the ocean's degradation to the global public. Crucially, our limited understanding of marine ecosystems and the threats to them has been a barrier to their protection, a phenomenon in our world that seems to shy away from a precautionary approach to resource management, let alone conservation. The result is that little over 1 percent of the oceans are fully protected. While even on land we still need greater protection of our natural resources, with 12 percent of land protected, terrestrial habitats benefit from far greater security than do our marine ones.
That is why marine biologists across the world are so excited about a major research expedition that just took place in the Chagos marine reserve in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). The trip was facilitated by the Foreign Office, world class NGOs like the Zoological Soceity of London and institutions like the Bertarelli Foundation whose visionary and timely funding helped to create this world-class marine reserve. The 12 person scientific team had an important mission, to prioritise long-term monitoring programmes for the area and establish the best and most resource-efficient methods to monitor and manage marine protected areas (MPA).
As the first full scientific expedition since the no-take MPA was established in April 2010 this work plays a crucial role assisting BIOT in understanding and managing the world's largest fully no-take MPA, maintaining this extraordinarily rich area of marine and terrestrial biodiversity. This is not only pivotal in better understanding the value of the Chagos marine reserve but of marine biodiversity across the globe.
The waters around the Chagos islands are by far the richest marine ecosystem under UK jurisdiction with 49 percent of the most undisturbed reefs in the Indian Ocean and home to the world's largest living coral atoll -- the Great Chagos Bank -- with a remarkable diversity of over 220 coral species (almost half the recorded species of the entire Indian Ocean) and over 1,000 species of fish. They are comparable in global importance to the Great Barrier Reef and Galapagos Islands.
Yet to date, only 3 percent of Chagos has been fully explored, making it a place where groundbreaking scientific discoveries have every possibility of being made. Already we know that the Chagos is home to at least 10 endemic species including brain coral, one of the world's 10 most evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered species, while a previous expedition identified an immense area of seagrass and a large stand of mangroves, neither of which were previously known. Both these are critical habitats for carbon capture and storage, having a significant role in climate change mitigation and adaption.
As well as conducting a species inventory of the Chagos, that hopes to identify many new species, the trip's research objectives were as diverse as the biodiversity they studied. The implications of this much needed science will be an improved understanding of climate change, as well as ecosystem degradation and its possibility for recovery. No small achievement.
If we are to value biodiversity -- whether emotionally, culturally, politically, economically or otherwise, we must also understand what it is that we are valuing. It is refreshing and reassuring to see projects like these making the most of what little protection we have afforded our oceans to date, to continue making discoveries -- identifying new species tucked away in the folds of a coral reef to helping man appreciate our impact on the planet and its ability to recover and even flourish, if we allow it too.
To read the fascinating blog from the expedition visit Chagos-trust.org.


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How did you get involved with the film?
The director Jeff Wadlow had given the script to Todd Garner, who's a producer I work with a lot, and we thought it would be a great departure for me and something different. When I looked at the script, which was on the Black List (a collection of acclaimed yet unproduced scripts), I saw great potential in it and thought it could be a lot of fun.
There's a lot of action in the movie – how did you find that?
I've always loved doing physical stuff in my movies, but this was by far the most demanding. We had a great stunt team and that helps in getting you prepared – I was down there a month early to train and work on choreographing the fight scenes. It was intense and I was sore before we even started rolling film, but when you prepare like that, you know that you're going to be able to really go for it and feel confident.
Was there anyone in particular that really helped you out with the fight stuff?
Yeah, the stunt coordinators Steve Ritzi (Jack Reacher, Looper) and Alan D'Antoni (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Breaking Bad) were fantastic. They had worked with a lot of stunt teams in the past but these guys were by far the best, and always safe. It felt great and it just went flawlessly, it was a lot of fun. Jenn A. Harris, Zulay Henao's stunt double was fantastic, too.
The film has some great actors, but is there anyone you'd like to work with that you haven't already?
There are tons of people out there, but we were so fortunate to get the guys we got in our movie, I love them all. Leonard Earl Howze was amazing – I loved him so much I put him in my TV show (Kevin Can Wait). Rob Riggle and Kim Coates were just fantastic, as was Andy Garcia. We were blessed to have these people in our movie and they did not disappoint.
With every film comes criticism, but who is your greatest critic? Whose opinion do you care most about?
It's weird, of course you want everybody to love it, but I've been doing it for a while now and I know that it's just not possible. The more somebody else is enjoying it the more you're going away from somebody else's sensibility, so it's always about casting that net out there and trying to find the largest audience you can.
Who do you run potential projects by before deciding on them?
I have a bunch of buddies I trust who will watch things for me and sometimes I'll bring it to other directors to look at. They'll give their input and they've been great – it's good to have a crew of people that you believe represent a lot of the people in this world. For me, it's about relatability and people seeing themselves in the characters that I play.
Who helped you out early on in your career?
Will Smith was a massive influence on my career and he helped me when I didn't have anything – he gave me a huge shot. And then Adam Sandler just took over and gave me opportunities to be in my own movies and do my own thing. He was the main drive in all of it and he's my greatest friend to this day – he's just such a loyal guy and always so great to work with. When I get to work with these people that I respect, I try to be a sponge and soak up what they do, how they deal with people and there's nobody better than Sandler. It's nice to see that there are good people like that.
Who were your heroes growing up?
My family and my dad – you strive after that and they're the ones who shaped me. They were supportive in everything I wanted to do and helped me along the way. I'm obviously a massive influence on my co-stars' lives too, I think that goes without saying – we all feel that, so we can move on, we don't need to address it.
They say you should never meet your heroes – have you ever found that not to be true?
There are people I've looked up to and respected and it's gone both ways. You might meet somewhere and you think, "Oh man, they're not as great as I thought" and it takes the air out of you a bit. I can't name names! But I know some guys where the opposite has been true. There's a UFC middleweight champion called Chris Weidman. He was just such a nice kid from Long Island and I said, "I want to meet that guy," because he seemed like such a good person. When I met him he was better than I could have imagined – just a really nice guy and that's always good.
Who is the kindest celebrity that you've ever met?
Henry Winkler and Jerry Stiller are brilliant. They are the definition of kindness and it's how they conduct their lives – they're just great people.
Which celeb is the biggest practical joker that you've encountered?
Once you can have fun on a set and you're comfortable with everybody, they can relax and you get the best work from them. They feel they can try things out and are less nervous, so I like loosening it up a bit. I'm not a Matt Damon – he does a lot of pranks – but if you get me, you're going to get it back. I'm like Liam Neeson, "I will find you…"
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Here is presenting Aamir Khan's look for young Mahaveer Phogat the role he is playing in Dangal. Aamir Khan will sport different age group of Mahaveer in the film. From young wrestler to father of two young woman wrestlers.
Large portion of Dangal shoot is completed. Shooting of Dangal will again commence in two days time. Aamir Khan will be seen in young Mahaveer in the next schedule.
Dangal is on schedule for release on Christmas 2016. It is easily one of the biggest film of the year. Film will take hurricane start and set to take box office by storm.
Aamir Khan young Mahaveer Look from Dangal -2 days to go before I shoot for young Mahaveer.... @avigowariker pic.twitter.com/RkdmQAV5c0— Aamir Khan (@aamir_khan) June 13, 2016


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How ADFS v2 Helps Microsoft IT to Manage Application Access
Wonderful Episode! Thank you for sharing.
In the last minutes of the show, you identified a complex application having their own STS federated with the main Identity Provider STS. Is the "private" STS a private instance of ADFS2.0 or is it a custom implementation?
This question is coming from an ISV perspective. We want to embrace the claims model and "outsource" identity to an STS. But 1) the client may need us to provide the STS because they don't have one, 2) they may want us to use an existing STS (political struggle ensues to get our required claims from their IT), 3) they may want us to federate our STS with their IP-STS. Can ADFS2.0 be used as a private STS for an ISV application simliar to the scenerio you described? It seems SharePoint 2010 took this approach with their own SharePoint STS.
Can you provide some insight into how an ISV installing software into the clients environment should approach this problem? (or suggest another place to post this question.) Thanks for your consideration.


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The first look of Soundarya Rajinikanth's dedication to her beloved father, Sultan the Warrior was unveiled on Sunday. Soundarya, the 23 year old daughter of the Superstar, and her Ocher studios are producing the 3D animated film at a cost of Rs 40 crores on a lavish scale in association with Reliance Adlabs. AR Rahman will provide the music, Thotta Tharani takes care of art and the film will be released in 12 different languages of the world including Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and English, by end of 2008.
Soundarya says: "As a proud daughter of Superstar Rajini, my beloved Appa, I'm very much proud to say that it is the first of its kind in the filmdom of South East Asia. Sultan is actually Appa's story idea. It's not something you have heard before and is not rooted in any old epic. I did the screenplay and the film is a daughter's gift to her father." She added that whatever one expects from a Superstar film will be there in Sultan, the warrior in an animated form with his famous style and punch lines, along with new elements.
Latha Rajinikanth, wife of the Superstar and Chairman of Ocher Studios also attended the press meet and says: "It is going to be a film that will make India and Tamil Nadu proud. It will be a pleasant experience to all the viewers."


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Conveniently located less than 6 miles from the NEC and Birmingham Airport, the Quality Hotel Birmingham Airport/NEC is a 2-minute walk from Acocks Green Train Station. It offers free parking and free Wi-Fi throughout. Each elegant room offers free Wi-Fi access, a TV, work desk, and tea/coffee making facilities. The private bathrooms have a shower or bath and a hairdryer. A seasonal menu specialising in steaks, local lamb and fresh fish dishes is served at the restaurant. The bar is stocked with real ales and beers and a good wine list. The Bullring Shopping Centre is located just 3 train stops away from the Quality Hotel. There are 7 golf courses within a 10-mile radius of the property, as well as other local attractions.
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Villy Custom (?) Bicycles
"Custom" is such an enticing way to describe bicycles these days, to the point that what defines "custom" is becoming watered down. Call me a curmudgeon purist, but I always associated "custom" bikes with handcrafted frames not only painted to your individual aesthetic tastes, but also built with measurements spec'ed out solely to your body. I thought a bike built around your biology is what REALLY defined a custom bike.
Enter companies like Villy Customs, who sell you bikes, cruisers to be specific, that are built to your liking by choosing color options on nearly every paintable piece of their bikes. Through a process on their website you are able to pick frame styles, racks, fenders and a couple other options, then also able to pick the colors as well. To the right of your selections you can see your selections by price adding up to a total purchase. Admittedly, there is certainly an element of customization to this process, but I can't help but feel this paints a grey area between stock and custom. Again, I'm probably just being a self-righteous purist, but I do so in defense of my frame-building buddies.
Let's be fair though. These are bikes for riders more likely to purchase Dwell magazine than the Rivendell reader.
So, if cruisers are your thing and you're dying to have every piece of your bike a different color, or the same for that matter, then you have a fun way of designing such a monstrosity through Villy Customs.
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Ditto for other faux-custom bike brands such as Republic Bikes (owned by Urban Outfitters), State Bicycle Co. (an Urban Velo advertiser), Big Shot (another Urban Velo advertiser) and others…
I, too, choose Rivendell Reader over Dwell. Yet we must also be careful not to become elitists. In a country where bikes have less than 3% mode share, the main goal (for now) is to get people on bikes — even if that means getting them on "monstrosities".
fashion over function. Whatever, as long as you ride, I don't care!
It lets the buyer customize his or her bike in ways they would never be able to pull off on their own. Throw on some skinny tires, a straight bar and it would be all the rage. Just saying.
I certainly don't mean to villanize these sorts of companies, but rather just express my discomfort with selling "custom" bikes. I'd hate to see this somewhat manipulative form of appeal devalue the custom work of independent frame builders. With that said, I fully realize some of these "custom" companies advertise with Urban Velo and I certainly don't think they are harming bike culture or scaring away people from riding. The more the merrier. I just thought it pertinent to draw the "custom" line a little more pronounced.
P.S. – I choose Dwell over Rivendell reader (but that's probably because I just bought a house and don't need a new bike).
i think the real difference is the choice of how we use the words.
custom is simply, not stock. so lots of people 'customize' their bicycles even building up from a stock frame. however, what you are calling custom is more a 'handbuilt custom' or a 'sized custom'. i think the world has lots of room for all sorts of different 'custom' bikes. i agree with jorge that we mustn't become elists just because what some refer to as custom isn't what someone else refers to.
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I figure anyone that has the money and knowledge of bikes to order a custom spec'd frame from an independent fabricator will know what the difference is. Not to devalidate the point of stating that a frame builder deserves the title of custom much more. It's just that the people buying a colorful cruiser for $500 aren't the target market for a builder that would charge way more for the product. The one's who want body specific geometry and all the bells and whistles know better.
Biking should be fun, not a contest to see whose way of doing it is "better." Get a bike, ride it, and don't worry about how other people do it.
This is off the peg with custom colors
When I think "custom" i think bespoke, not customizable.
Oh well, tasteless beach cruisers that won't get ridden are somehow less depressing than tasteless "fixies" that won't be ridden.
In the guitar world, there's a company called Carvin that lets musicians "build" their own guitar off of a list of components. Whenever I see one of these "custom" bicycle companies that's what I picture. Instead I get a chance to decide the color of my handlebar grips.
I know Rivendell has this option, but ~$3k for a bicycle is out of my reach. I await the $1000 build-a-bike.
I can understand the anger about calling them custom. But i am happy to see anyone on any kind of bike. Dont be a snob
Language is important. "Custom" vs. "Hand Built." Kind of like folks on the internet using the word "community" all the time. A group of anonymous typists on a forum does not make a "community."
I have visited Villy Customs in person. If you saw these cool cruisers, I bet you wouldn't judge on their use of "custom." You would just want to take a cruise on one.
I'm an old fashioned biker, custom means hand built frame, with or without lugs … I agree with some people here, getting people on a bike is good. For the record my next bike will be a RENOVO PANDURBAN … definitely this can be called a custom bicycle
I just ran across this topic and found this a most interesting subject.
My thoughts on custom bikes, is any style of bicycle that has been changed from the original manufacturers model. Whether it's as insignificant as an aftermarket water bottle or a buttload of accessories, new tires and a special paint job, the bike has been customized and may or may not stand out as an individual bike in a crowd.
When I think of custom built, then I'm thinking a one off hand built frame that suits it's owner's riding preferences. It may or may not stand out in a herd of bikes but it should definitely be a handbuilt frame at the very minimum.
Swapping out parts or completely building up a bike from various store bought or scanvenged parts may be custom but not custom built. Some people refer to these as frankenbikes or freak bikes. Yes to frankenbikes, but no to the freak bike term.
Freak bikes or FreakBikes are full on custom built bicycles or owner accessorized/modified bicycles whose main purpose is to gather as many wow factors from all who cross their paths. A FreakBike is generally ridden at a slow leisurely cruise and is not intended for speed, although there have been a few exceptions.
I represent the FreakBike Community (yes, community, lol), I build the strange and sometimes quirky bikes known as FreakBikes. I've built slammed to the ground stretched cruisers, bicycle sidehacks for jousting, tallbikes, choppers and many other styles. All of the bikes are rideable and serve the purpose for which they are built, for fun and recreation.
Our group, and others like it, have discussed "custom" more times than I can remember. The debate "as to what is a custom" may never be completely defined and will always leave each of us thinking our definition is right. To make matters worse, FreakBikers also contend with the term "Kustom" and what it's definition truely is.
Kustom to me, is a handbuilt bicycle or heavily moddified bike that no matter how hard you look, you'll never see another one like it.
As a group of FreakBikers, we've come to realize that our bikes represent all three of these terms, "custom', "custom built", and "Kustom".
I think most of us would agree that any bicycle is a good bicycle as long as it gets us off the couch and out in the great outdoors. I personally love all style of bikes and look forward to whatever any company or individual graces us with. The bicycle hobby/sport can only grow and develope if all bicyclists do their honor and respect each other.
I believe that everyone always tries to make their bike show a little of their personality. Whether it is in the form of different tires, a new seat or as I prefer …… something that puts a smile on someone's face while I ride by enjoying the fact that I can get out and ride at my own pace.
Thanks to all,
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised support for a permanent UN police squad and African peacekeeping as he vowed a peaceful rise for the Asian power.
Paying his first-ever visit to the United Nations, Xi on Monday took a new step to address criticism that China has not taken responsiblity commensurate with its growing size.
Xi said that China, which has recently shed its reluctance to join UN defence efforts, would "take the lead" in setting up an 8000-troop "permanent peacekeeping police squad" that could be deployed at short notice.
Xi also announced US$100 million (NZ$156 million) in funding to the African Union to support a similar rapid reaction force, as well as a broader 10-year, US$1 billion UN-China "peace and development fund."
China's economy has soared in the past 15 years to become the world's second largest, and the world's most populous nation has sought to be treated as a major global power.
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Xi on Saturday promised US$2 billion in development assistance for poor nations and a day earlier, on a state visit to Washington, promised more aggressive efforts to battle climate change.