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Torsten Amelung
Managing Director
Dan Edgerton
Head of Hedging and Portfolio Risk
Aviv Handler
Managing Director
ETR Advisory
Aviv Handler, Managing Director, ETR ADVISORY
Aviv is the Managing Director of ETR Advisory, a niche consultancy which provides advice and services to the energy and commodity markets in the understanding, preparation and implementation of European Energy and Commodity Market Regulations. He focuses focus on all streams of regulation including EMIR, REMIT, MiFiD II and CRD IV as well as applicable rules across the globe. He has domain expertise in compliance (REMIT, EMIR, MiFiD, Basel II/III, CAD, CRD IV),credit risk, commodity and energy trading (gas, power, oil), with extensive knowledge of regulation , credit, risk and ETRM systems and well as financial messaging
Paul Hallas
Brexit Project Manager
Lawrence Haar
Senior Lecturer, Department of Accounting & Finance
Clemens Mann
Head Risk Management
Peter Styles
Chairman of the Electricity Committee
Since 2000 Peter has been a Board Member of the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET) and Chairman of the Electricity Committee of EFET. Since 2010 he has been an Honorary Associate at Dundee University,where he is attached to the Global Faculty. His career in the 1980s and 1990s encompassed project work in upstream oil and gas, power plant development, the management of a gas pipeline business and the establishment of the first and largest pan-European energy trading business.
PANEL: Electricity trading market overview
Moderator: Peter Styles, Chairman of the Electricity Committee, EFET
Alberto Pototschnig
Henrik Specht
Director Risk Analysis and Deputy CRO
Matt Wieckowski
Case Handler, DG Comp
Elisa Scarpa
Head of Market Analysis, Structuring & Pricing
Tobias Sperr
Director Hedging & Business Development
Guido Pasternack
Head of Political Affairs
Danila Bochkarev
Senior Fellow, Energy Security
Joaquín Narro
Managing Director
Federica Strumia
Head of Risk Analysis & Control
André Jäger
Senior Vice President, Product Management
André Jäger has worked for Openlink since 2004, starting as an Endur product consultant out of our Berlin office. Mr. Jäger currently serves as Head of Energy & Commodities in the Product Management Team responsible for Openlink's Endur and Rightangle solutions.
Since joining Openlink in 2004, Mr. Jäger has been involved in numerous European and International Implementations, transitioning from a consultant to become a local product manager responsible for Central European Sales Support.
In 2013, Mr. Jäger took on his current role as Head of Energy & Commodities Product Management. His responsibilities include managing and overseeing Openlink's Energy & Commodities Product Management Team. In addition to his Product Management responsibilities, since 2015, he is heading the Berlin office.
Mr. Jäger holds a Master of Science in Management from Stevens Institute of Technology and Diplom-Ingenieur (Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen) degree from the Technische Universität Berlin.
Joseph Mikael
Financial and Credit Risk Modelling Project Manager
Joseph is Head of Financial and Counterparty Risk Modelling at EDF and responsible for the application of artificial intelligence in energy market risk management.
Previously Joseph has worked as a Quantitative Analyst at Dexia and at Thomson Reuters.
Jon Stamp
Independent Consultant
Jon Stamp is an independent consultant specialising in Energy Risk Management. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer and has broad experience of the energy industry. He began his career in Generation, moved to wholesale trading, origination and latterly has worked in retail energy supply. Jon has worked extensively across the UK, US and European energy markets. A senior energy executive, until March 2017 he was Director of Retail Energy Management for npower, now part of the Innogy Group, responsible for risk management across the entire retail portfolio and leading the wholesale team across Europe. He is now working with a broad range of participants in the market advising on all aspects of the commercial management of risk in the energy industry.
Jens Gobel
Head of Power and Emissions Trading
Jens Gobel started his career at Enron Capital & Trading in the Continental European Power desk in London in 1998. Eventually Jens served in various roles in Origination, Trading and Principal Investments at Enron's offices in London, Houston and Frankfurt. In 2002 he joined Statkraft Markets in Germany as Head of Structuring and eventually assumed more commercial responsibility as Head of Origination for Western Europe, managing director of Statkraft's Hungarian affiliate and "Prokurist" for Statkraft Markets GmbH.
In 2008 he joined the Leadership Team of Shell Energy Trading where he was responsible for Power Trading Development. After the merger with Shell Energy Europe Jens became Head of Structured Trading Power at the merged entity Shell Energy Europe. He also served on the Board of the Shell UK Pension trust company and served on its Investment Committee.
Since July 2013 Jens has been with eni Trading And Shipping in London and currently serves as Head of Power and Emissions Trading. Since June 2015 Jens has also been a Deputy Chairman on the EEX Exchange Council.
Akexander MacDonald
Alexander McDonald has been CEO of European Venues and Intermediaries Association ("EVIA"), previously known as the Wholesale Market Brokers Association ("WMBA") and the London Energy Brokers Association ("LEBA") since 2009. The trade association promotes and enhances the value and competitiveness of wholesale markets trading venues, platforms and arranging intermediaries.
Prior to joining WMBA, Alex has spent his career as Managing Director in the Treasury and Trading divisions of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, before moving into Fund Management where he worked for Bluecrest, Olea and BSAM as either Portfolio Manager or Principle. He holds an MA from Cambridge University in Geophysics/Geochemistry.
Ignacio Zumalave
Head of Electricity Operation for Iberia
Master industrial engineer and master engineer in industrial organization. Expert in day ahead and balancing markets and renewables integration with more than 10 years' experience.
Francisco Goncalves
Regulatory Affairs
Gazprom Marketing & Trading
Francisco has worked for the EU Commission, ENI, South Stream pipeline project and Gazprom Marketing & Trading. His expertise covers electricity, carbon and gas markets across Europe – including Italy, France, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands and UK. Francisco has been involved in pushing for reforming the ETS, particularly regarding overlapping policies.
Peter Helles
Head, European Energy Research and Commodity Quantitative Research
Peter Helles is a commodity strategy with Bank of America Merrill Lynch's research department, based in London. His focus is on energy commodities including oil, natural gas and thermal coal fundamental analysis, as well as systematic quantitative investment strategies in commodities. He contributes to Research publications such as the Global Energy Weekly, the Commodity Strategist, Energy Strategist and Commodity Portfolio Monthly. Helles holds a Bachelor (hons) degree in Finance and Economics from Massey University, New Zealand, and a Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Adrian Coleridge
Head of Regulatory Strategy and Global Risk
Dario Ghazi
Head of Trading and Pricing
Isupply Energy
Dario is Head of Trading & Pricing at iSupplyEnergy where he is responsible for growing the Downstream trading operations function including: Power and Natural Gas residential demand hedging, Processes & Tools to improve hedging activities, Origination and continuously innovate a competitive retail Pricing Strategy. Previously Dario held positions of Structured Trading Manager and Head of Trading & Analytics at Petronas, and before that worked as Quantitative Analyst at Centrica's Asset Trading desk.
Irfana Malik
Group Risk Officer
Liliya van Hal
Head of Business Engineering


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Sep 13 2017
There are footballing reasons to start Philippe Coutinho against Sevilla on Wednesday, with the player having played 30 minutes for Brazil twice over the recent worldwide break and while perhaps not ready to go the full 90 minutes at least ready to play 60 should Jürgen Klopp decide to start him.
Jurgen Klopp will be desperate for his side to put Saturday's 5-0 mauling away to Manchester City behind them, as they look to lay down a marker against Sevilla - the team likely to be the main rivals for qualification to the last 16.
Liverpool boss Klopp is missing several key names going into Wednesday night's clash.
" Phil is a fantastic player, and hopefully we can use him as quickly as possible."
Then I would expect to see Coutinho starting against Burnley in the Premier League on Saturday, when his invention and guile would be very useful to unlock the door against opponents who will come to Anfield intent on defending.
Klopp confirmed the fact that it's Coutinho's back injury that has prevented him from getting first team action at Liverpool.
Liverpool will face Spanish outfit Seville in their next Champions League match.
The German coach will guide his side back to Champions League action for the first time since the 2014/15 season - where they crashed out in the group stages in disappointing fashion.
Liverpool owe Sevilla after the a crushing defeat against them in the 2016 Europa League final and I'm sure Klopp will be reminding his players of that match in the Anfield dressing room tomorrow night.
The news of his illness comes just hours after he told of his excitement at the prospect of the clash with Sevilla, who beat Liverpool in the Europa League final a year ago.
"Mohamed Salah missed Liverpool's training session on Tuesday afternoon due to illness", a statement from Liverpool website read.
Senegal worldwide Sadio Mane is likely to start for Liverpool after being sent off for his collision with Man City keeper Ederson.
They lack a Virgil van Dijk, dare I say, but I have been told in recent days that Southampton will not sell their Dutch defender to Liverpool under any circumstances, so they should have at least tried to get someone else in who could have done a job.
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On Day 2 of our printing workshop we tried monotypes.
We spread water-soluble printing color on a acrylic glass board using a brayer.
By using the eraser of a pencil we drew our pattern in the fresh paint.
For the print we simply had to lay a piece of paper onto the surface without much pressure.
After one print you have to spread the paint again and draw something new, that is why it is called monotype ;-)
The children got some experience how thick the paint should be for good results and how detailed a picture can be.
I assume we might come back to this technique when it comes to making christmas cards ;-)
Thursday, July 23, 2015
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The ninth round of the Lucas Oil Motocross championship was wet and muddy. The Yamalube Star Racing Yamaha riders thrived in the mud; all three finishing in the top five. Rookie, Aaron Plessinger, really stood out with his speed and control in the slippery conditions. He went 5-4 and got his first podium of the season. Webb was 2nd and 1st, which earned him his second overall win in a row. Martin went 9-3, which placed him fifth overall.


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Tony Bell: Diary of a Gossip: Week Six Coventry (with a bit of Norwich)
"The truth about Chris Myles and the best legs in showbiz"
"The truth about Chris Myles and the best legs in showbiz"
Two blogs ago I wrote about living with the Abbess in Coventry – not the Cathedral you understand, and not the real Abbess, but a terrace with a camp bed, and the cross-dressing icon, Councillor Kennedy, formerly known as Chris Myles. I'd like to move on to Norwich now, but I can't yet because I left a bit of my heart behind with Chris, (as well as a Pilates DVD and a rainbow sock from Help the Aged).
I know I complained about his banana fetish in the last blog, about his sightseeing fetish two blogs before that, and about his fig fetish the blog before that, but you know it's only because I love him. He's my oldest Propeller mate. Since 1997, we've been everywhere together. He's rescued me from Mexican gangsters, Philipino lady boys, the Watermill river, and incurable "foot in mouth" disease. We are the last remaining 'founders' of the company, (which means we were in the first show, 'Henry V', also meant to be the last show – where did it all go right?) But while I took two years out to be tactless and unemployed, Chris has never missed a performance in thirteen years. So far he has done approximately 1,123 of them.
On February 12th 2007 he would have missed "The Taming of the Shrew" at the Old Vic, because Rachel was having their second child. He was given the night off to watch his wife do all the work, and cry at the end, but the show was cancelled. In a remarkably intuitive act of grace, the cleverly named Grace came out at 7:39, so her showbiz father would have made it back for his first entrance. However, as fate would have it, Simon Scardifeld and I had the lurgy that night anyway, and Simon was playing the shrew, and therefore indispensable.
I know Petruchio is also the lead, but it's not called 'Petruchio, the Shrew Tamer,' is it? That would be silly. And besides, when he wrote it, Shakespeare was far too experienced to choose a dodgy title. "A Comedy of Errors," on the other hand – but that was his first try, that's why it's all a bit rhymy isn't it? Yesterday, in Norwich, a punter said to me, "I loved both plays but Richard felt like it was really modern, not Shakespeare at all, whereas Comedy seemed really Shakespearean, did you rewrite Richard?" "No, we just cut an hour out of it, and 'Comedy' is all rhyming couplets, which is probably why it sounds more verse driven," is what I said, as his friend talked about making the last bus.
I do a disservice to the two founders, as well as Dougie who played Petruchio, when I say we cancelled because of Simon. Chris and I were obviously indispensable too, and it is really hard to understudy three people at once, at two hours notice. So the only Propeller show ever to be cancelled, was, er, cancelled, mainly so that we could help Chris maintain his one hundred per cent attendance record. Usually of course, the understudy system means the show must go on. For three days after Grace's birth, Jon Trenchard did a brilliantly aggressive job understudying Kate while Simon recovered from a more serious man flu than mine, and last week Wayne Cater stretched his comic muscles as Dromio of Syracuse when Richard Frame damaged a nerve in his foot in "Richard," cutting Chris' stomach open and taking out a pound of sausages. It didn't happen then actually, though Chris' stomach is quite stubborn, it happened jumping off the gurney. Richard does a lot of jumpy type things in both shows, so it could have been the cumulative effect, or perhaps Dougie really stamped on his foot instead of pretending during their servant-master double act, which does seem to have a very unusual physical vocabulary, drawn more from the world of "Commedia Del Boy" than "Commedia dell arte."
But back to Chris, and our long and loving history with Propeller. We didn't have much stage time together in Henry V. Chris was a very alluring Alice, who mainly scrubbed the back of an equally alluring nighty-clad Jimmy Tucker in a bathtub with a loofer on the Watermill river. Later I carried a less alluring shorts-clad Jimmy Tucker through the audience crying "Kill the boys and the luggage!" in my best Pakistani-Welsh. Some nights I banged Jimmy's head on the roof, sometimes on the concrete floor, sometimes I accidentally pulled his shorts off, but I was always in a very distressed emotional state so I didn't really know what I was doing.
Next up was the first version of "Comedy," and again we had no scenes together. I was Egeon, the father, far too young of course, but mature beyond my years. Egeon, is the tragic part in an otherwise rip-roaring farce, which means if, like me, you need audience laughter to feel okay about yourself, you're in a bit of hole. Chris was the Goldsmith, who is a man, so that was a stretch for him too. I don't think anyone connected with our once in a lifetime tour of the Far East of Asia will mind me saying that riding through the Sri Lankan waters on the back of an orphaned elephant was a tad more exhilarating than explaining to the Duke of Ephesus in fine iambic detail how I tied my babies onto a "small, spare mast, such as seafaring men provide for storms." The "Comedy" and "Henry" double bill put us on the map, but this version of "Comedy" is better. There, I've said it. Shoot me down in flames, all ye nostalgia junkies.
We're nearly at the millennium, but we have the original Twelfth Night to talk about first. This was the first time Chris revealed his truly remarkable showbiz legs. He played Maria in a pair of fishnet stockings, and even Feste, whose only love lay in a flower strewn "sad cypress" grave, fancied him. I mean her. Which one did I fancy, Maria or Chris? They were as one, perfect bum and perfect legs, stilletoing across my eye line every night for four brief weeks. We had some lovely scenes together, all of us, Toby, Andrew, Maria et al, all ganging up against Richard Clothier. Nothing changes.
Then followed the embryo of "Richard III," "Rose Rage," memorable for many reasons, but here are the ones I think of first. Rotting entrails on a Sunday afternoon at the Haymarket, Piccadilly, the day after the fridges broke down, and all the butchers offal, the literally raw material for Ed and Michael's abattoir metaphor, smelt 'offal'. Chris and I cycling home on our bikes after a night in Century, the actor's West End club, saying goodbye as he went left and I went right - right into the back of a windscreen of a parked car. I locked the incapacitated bike to the nearest lamp post, walked into the police station, reported the damage, walked into Casualty, got a few staples in my head, and a telling off, and jumped onto the night bus home. It was packed, but plenty of people gave up their seat. Funny that. Now at this point I'd like to issue one of those "Don't try this at home" warnings. You see, Chris was completely sober and got home safe and sound, but I didn't on account of the fact that I have a very, very low alcohol tolerance. I can become quite incoherent during post show talkbacks while nursing half a glass of lager, I just have to sniff it, or is it that I have too many ideas running round my head all trying to get to my mouth? I don't know, but whatever, don't drink and cycle, kids. There, done now. In case you are wondering, the bike was a right off but I got a new one, the windscreen was a write off, not the car, but I paid for it, and the next day I was a more authentic Jack Cade, with a stapled, bloodied face. A true leader of the rebellion, or a bit of an idiot, you decide.
I said these are the moments of the "Rose Rage" tour I remember first. They aren't. This is what I think of first when I think of "Rose Rage." All of us sitting in the deserted Green Room of Theatre Clywd watching the television on September 11th, and wondering whether we should finish the tech or just go home. In the event we played to twelve people that night and acting out our 2001 interpretation of Shakespeare's 1593 interpretation of the War of the Roses seemed both resonant and futile at the same time. None more so when Talbot said: "Who in a moment even with the earth, shall lay your stately and air-braving towers."
The Dream was next, and since we played Quince and Bottom, it was a time when the Myles and Bell, (or Bell and Myles – we haven't worked out the billing yet) double act was truly forged. This meant in practice that I gave Chris notes on comic timing every single night for eleven months, and Chris listened with grace and inordinate patience. I wouldn't have, I would have clubbed me with a large stick. But Chris is Chris, unbelievably sanguine and ego just the right side of selfless. And I am me. I like to think the years have made me more easy going, less of a control freak. They have haven't they Chris? I know I went on about the bananas, but that was 'tongue in cheek,' honest.
The real truth is, Chris makes me think of Brian Clough quite a lot, not least because he supports Derby County, Clough's first love, and I support Nottingham Forest, Clough's second love. Derby is now managed by Nigel Clough, Brian's son, an unassuming lad, with a lot of skill and intelligence, not unlike Chris. In the eighties when Nigel was a young centre forward for Forest, knocking on the door of the full England squad, his father who was also his manager and referred to his son as "the number nine," was interviewed on Match of the Day. This is what he said about Nigel: "He's not a big lad. He's not all that quick. He's not flashy, but he can pass, and he can shoot. And he has a heart as big as a bucket." I'd like to say that about Chris. There. I've said it.


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The people of Fugar in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State were thrown into turmoil on Saturday, June 27, 2015, when a trigger happy police officer, attached to a traditional ruler, shot dead two women during the burial of a former headmaster, Hon. James Oshioriamhe Etu. Other mourners at the occasion took to their heels following the gunshots which hit Sandra Emaku and Aishitu Aliyu, both of them nursing mothers.
Sunday Vanguard learnt that trouble started when the children of the deceased were dancing as part of the funeral. One of the traditional rulers (names withheld) who graced the occasion stood up to leave. As if drunk, one of the police officers attached to the monarch started shooting sporadically with one hand. The two women fell to the bullets of the officer.
While Sandra was a relation of the deceased headmaster, Aishatu, who is not from that community, came to mourn with her friend, Christiana Adams, a daughter of the deceased. The burial ceremony ended abruptly.
Angry youths attacked the police officer but the intervention of the Chairman of the LGA, Mr Emmanuel Momoh; John Akigbe; and other leaders in the area saved him, even as he was disarmed immediately by the members of a vigilante group at the burial. Edo State Police Commissioner described the incident as accidental discharge, saying however that the suspect had been arrested and will face the law accordingly.
Sporadic shooting
The Coordinator of the Vigilante Group in Etsako Central, Mr Samson Oseghemwen, who witnessed the incident, narrated how it happened to Sunday Vanguard. His words: "That day, I went there as a member of the age group of one of the sons of the father that died. While we were there, a traditional ruler came with so many people and there were some mobile policemen who escorted them to the place.
The police men were shooting sporadically.. When the monarch was about leaving, one of the policemen was holding the gun with one hand and the thing slipped off his shoulder. Before he could control the gun, two people had been shot dead. There was pandemonium and people started running in all directions. My men and I tried to protect the police man from mob attack otherwise they would have killed him. His gun, magazines were taken away from him and his identity card torn from his uniform, it was me who found them and returned them to the Divisional Police Officer in Fugar".
Asked what could have led to the shooting by the police officer, he said, "I don't think it was intentional but it was a kind of overzealous police man who wanted to please his master by shooting indiscriminately in a crowded place and holding the gun with only one hand and he was not strong enough to do so.
"The family of one of the deceased persons is still waiting for the corpse to be released for burial. The police said the case has been handed over to the state CID and that they need permission from Benin before burial can take place, but the one that died almost instantly was taken to Ogbona UBTH, she died there. I was the one that said they should remove the corpse because the UBTH in our area here refused to put the diseased in the mortuary. We conveyed the corpse back to Fugar General Hospital mortuary and, about two or three days later, her family came to remove it for burial because they are Muslims, but this one is still there for almost three weeks and nothing is happening.
"On Monday, I called the Area Commander who now told me that all the family needs do is to get a burial certificate in Benin so that they can remove the corpse for burial from the specialist hospital in Irrua. With the corpse in the mortuary, tension is building up; the earlier the corpse is buried the better for us and we want a cordial relationship with security agents. The sad thing is that this young lady from Fugar just delivered a baby barely two months ago and she has four other children. So it is sad, very sad".
Christiana Adams, whose father was being buried, regreted that the incident took the life of her friend, Aisatu. "When we were dancing, the monarch, escorted by some mobile police men, was even dancing with us, when we heard people shouting, 'he has killed her! he has killed her'!. When I ran to the scene, people were running. Some persons were protecting the police man so that he will not be beaten, that is all I could remember before I fainted". Asked how she felt when she woke up to find out that her friend was one of the victims, she wept profusely. She stated: "The incident was like a film; we could not even continue with the burial of my father because of the problem and I even lost my best friend who came to help me. As a family, we feel bad because we couldn't conclude the burial. My friend came from Warri because of me, now she has been buried in Auchi, heir village. We have known each other for years and it was that Saturday that she came here. She was married with two kids.
"I have talked with the family, but because of the issue, I have not been able to go back to Warri where I am based even though she has been buried according to Muslim rites".


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Ever considered a career in entertainment? Well, you're in luck because we've enlisted musician Lungi Naidoo to share her top tips for making it in the music biz.
This is something I had to learn from the get-go. If you really want something and feel that it's worth fighting for, then patience will play a very big role in achieving it.
It's not easy being a single mum and an artist; I have had to focus a lot on my craft and many times my family paid the price. This is not intentional as I need to focus and make sure I work really hard, in order to make a living for myself and my daughter. So while others are out having fun, I am usually at some studio session or writing music.
Love is the key!!! You have to LOVE what you do, PERIOD!! This is something that will keep you motivated when you loose interest or feel like your music is going no where. I speak from experience as I have been traveling this musical journey for a 'minute' now. The one thing that keeps me coming back for more…is the LOVE I have for what I do.
Open minded
Music is constantly changing and evolving. Staying true to who you are is very important, but knowing how to move with the times and grow as an artist is vital. So being open-minded introduced me to House Music and Dance Music which I never thought I could do. I have definetly grown musically in that aspect.
Don't Loose Yourself in the Hype-
They always say that Artists change after they become famous. Its very true. How can one not change when everywhere you go, people not only know who you are but overwhelm you with love. Just don't lose yourself – your core and your upbringing – in the hype. Enjoy the love and attention but don't get lost in it.
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To John Murray 9 May [1874]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 9th
My dear Mr Murray
Mr Mc. Lennan writes to me that he applied to you to publish a new Edit. of his Primitive marriage & that you said you had never heard of it & advised him to apply elsewhere.—2 I am sure that you will excuse me telling you that I think it a most valuable book & extremely interesting. I have often quoted it as a good book unknown solely from bad publishing. I do not think that it is too indelicate. Several men & good judges have expressed to me their high opinion of its value.3
If what I say has any effect on you, you could no doubt borrow a copy (one is not to be purchased) from "F. F. Mc. Lennan 61. Bedford Gardens Campden Hill W." & could then judge for yourself or through your advisers.—
Why I trouble you is chiefly because I have for some time back blamed Mr Mc. Lennan & told him it was a sin & shame that such a book shd. be out of print.— If you decide not to look at the book pray inform me that I may inform Mr Mc. Lennan. But if you determine to look at it, do not waste your time by writing to me
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Recommends that JM consider publishing a new edition of J. F. McLennan's Primitive marriage [1865]. CD considers it very valuable and not too indelicate.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Murray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 347–347A)
- Physical description
- 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, "Letter no. 9451," accessed on 22 August 2019, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-9451
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22


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With Atlantic creating offense off of its defense and Shane Jones having his way at both ends, the Sharks turned a 29-22 halftime lead into a 64-42 walk-away in boys varsity basketball.
"Sometimes our worst quality is being aggressive on the defensive end, but sometimes a person's greatest strength is also their greatest weakness," said Atlantic coach Jimmy Johnson. "To us it was a big game and for the most part I'm really pleased with our kids."
With the win, the Sharks extended their season-long unbeaten streak to five, while Father Lopez fell to 1-2 against predominantly bigger schools.
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"We're in a strange funk right now and maybe it's on me. Every time we try to run something, someone breaks down," Father Lopez coach Eddie Miller said. "When we don't have that execution, you're not going to beat a good team and Atlantic's a really good team."
Atlantic led from start to finish.
Jones had help as Caleb Cochran finished with 10 points and Antonio Ruby tallied 10 points to go with his six rebounds.
Matt Panaggio led the Green Wave with 13 points and five rebounds.
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"Our style is more like a process," Johnson said. "We understand that teams are going to be able to play with us early, but in the third or fourth quarter we're going to start to wear on them."
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ATLANTIC (5-0) Waldt 2, Cochran 10, Pickens 6, Bolling 5, Vallejo 5, S. Jones 19, Polite 7, Roby 10. Totals: 25 10-13 64.
LOPEZ (1-2) Goss 1, Ridder 9, Ringlehan 10, Smith 5, Lemieux 4, Panaggio 13. Totals: 11 15-22 42.
Atlantic 12 17 14 21--64
Lopez 8 14 10 10--42
3-Point goals-Atlantic 3 (Bolling, Jones, Polite); Lopez: 5 (Ringlehan 2, Panaggio 2, Ridder). Total fouls-Atlantic 19, Lopez 12. Fouled out-None. Technical fouls-None.


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Now Donazzan, inspired no doubt by the invigorating scent of burning paper, has issued an edict to the region's schools announcing a further round of censorship. This time it's the turn of all those authors who signed a petition in 2004 against the extradition from Brazil of Cesare Battisti, an ex-terrorist convicted in absentia and on rather dodgy grounds of terrorist activity conducted in the 1970s. These authors are referred to, with audible distaste, as intellettuali, perhaps the dirtiest word in the Lega lexicon. What's odd though is that no one has seen fit to say who these blood-stained intellectuals actually are, neither Donazzan nor the newspapers, like Repubblica, that, while deploring the edict, exercise their own inadvertent censorship. So, in case you're interested, the list includes Daniel Pennac, Luther Blissett (now Wu Ming), Massimo Carlotto and Pino Cacucci. You can find a more complete list here.
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Platte County's chance to continue its season came down to a freshman's singles match. Continuing a strong early season, Hannah Valentine prevailed 6-2, 6-2 against Kearney senior Jennifer Cates on Monday, Sept. 28 at Oak Park High School in Kansas City, Mo. The win clinched a 5-4 victory for the Pirates in the Class 2 District 16 first-round matchup, advancing them to the semifinals to face three-time defending champion Liberty, which won 5-1 on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
Cates has lost only two matches this season, both to Valentine.
Platte County won the rubber match between the Suburban Conference Blue Division rivals, less than two weeks after Kearney ended the Pirates' 31-match league winning streak. The Bulldogs again took a 2-1 lead after doubles with Hannah Valentine and Madalyn Ivy at No. 2 doubles the lone winners for Platte County.
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As a little boy, my linguistic challenges were confined to my mother tongue and the art of gesticulation. When I was eight or nine, I went all continental, flirting with French and Latin though never German or Spanish, let alone the exotica of Arabic or Mandarin. Life was simpler then. Britain still ruled the waves, at least according to my geography text book, and our language was our greatest export. Everybody spoke English, or at least their own interpretation of it! Yet the world has moved on. Other languages have come to the fore as a cultural reference point. And so it is that London has its first dedicated English Mandarin bilingual school, Kensington Wade, open to kids from three to thirteen. Not a bad career move, bearing in mind the inexorable advance of Chinese influence. And if you really want to encourage a fast track approach for your progeny, you could send them to Hatching Dragons, a nursery in the City for budding sinophiles. This is not a new phenomenon, however. Some 25 English Mandarin schools already exist in US but the most revealing aspect about Kensington Wade is that the majority of its pupils are not Chinese.
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The concept of the family office originated in America to help administer the vast fortunes accumulated by the descendants of the fabled 19th century industrial barons, such as Morgan and Rockefeller, Gould and Vanderbilt. The social demands of that gilded age meant their beneficiaries, typically, had neither the time nor the inclination to sully themselves with the minutiae of everyday life. Responsibility for the distribution of their dividends and maintenance of their living conditions was devolved to a select group of trusted retainers. These custodians, versed in managing money and the vagaries of wealth, were the forerunners of the multifaceted concierge services available today. The principal focus of such offices is overseeing the preservation and growth of capital for families of substance. But it encompasses so much more besides including, inter alia, advice on structuring trusts and similar entities, tax and domicile, legal jurisdiction, succession planning, philanthropy and aligning the collective interests of the client. The language of money, spoken or otherwise, has been transformed.
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MFO are effectively a supercharged version of SFO, whereby a group of families pool their resources to provide economies of scale and access significant investment deals as a collective. They may be based in different regions and guided by different principles but, ultimately, they reflect a wish for the supervision of their affairs with like minded people. Many such investments are mainstream and cautious, via the public markets, but those with a greater appetite for risk often lean towards, for example, private equity, impact investing and emerging markets. It is the role of the family office to evaluate the appropriateness of that risk in the context of the wider family construct but, equally, provide a window onto the world. An international perspective is vital as, indeed, is a command of shifting cultural and societal trends. The consulting group EY suggests there are some 3,000 family offices in existence today, half of which have been formed in the past 15 years. This figure excludes the vast majority of wealth managed on behalf of Asian families, many of whom still grapple with the very idea of giving strangers their money!
Family ties are deeply embedded in Asia. Honour, pride, loyalty, respect for tradition and a sense of place all play their part, as does a deep appreciation for the patriarch who started it. The Chinese and their Asian cousins do not share our short term horizons. That is how they forge their business dynasties! Moreover, they are not shy to travel to new countries and absorb new experiences. English as a language is now pursuing a parallel path to the United States as a nation. Each retains a seat at the top table but neither is completely dominant any longer, merely very important. However, English as a business language remains primus inter pares, albeit the Brexit vote suggests we are more insular in that regard than we might care to admit. It will be interesting to observe whether the Chinese model of financial management is colonised across the globe and what lessons we may learn from it. There is often a strange reluctance to embrace fresh thinking if it takes us beyond our comfort zone. The family office universe has demonstrated innovation in its emphasis on wealth protection and strategic planning but ought to take a look at my old geography text book to recognise that, if the world is to stay the same, everything must change!


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Forget the flu. From Wall Street to Main Street, from academia to the locker room, America's greatest epidemic may be cheating. Consider:
- More than 90 percent of college students say they would cheat to get a job, according to a recent survey. Donald McCabe, founding president of the Center for Academic Integrity, uncovered a 30 percent to 35 percent jump in some types of cheating among college students in the 1990s.
- Celebrity academics such as Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose, and Michael Bellesiles have faced public humiliation for plagiarism or falsified research.
- In journalism, Jayson Blair, Jack Kelley, and CBS News are the latest examples of cheating in the newsroom.
Christians are not exempt from such temptations, and apparently neither are their pastors. Last fall, the prominent pastor of a megachurch in North Carolina resigned after admitting he used material from other preachers without attribution. Another pastor in Missouri stepped down after admitting he plagiarized sermon material via the internet.
David Callahan, author of The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead, detects "a pattern of widespread cheating throughout U.S. society." He defines cheating as "breaking the rules to get ahead academically, professionally, or financially."
We might add "spiritually." More than 20 years ago, Eugene Peterson, in A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, put his finger on the problem: "One aspect of the world that I have been able to identify as harmful to Christians is the assumption that anything worthwhile can be acquired at once. We assume that if something can be done at all, it can be done quickly, and efficiently."
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1.Heat 2 tbsp. of vegetable oil in pan, add 100 g. of meat and 40 g. of chinese kale, stir fry until cooked, add 2 egg until lightly cooked, add 300 g. of flat rice noodles stir fly well.
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Prepositions of Time
For and since are both used to say how long something was. However, we use them with different time words.
We use for when we say the number of hours, days, months, etc. We also use it in expressions like "for ages" and "for a long time".
I'm going to live in France for 2 years.
I sat down for 5 minutes.
I've worked here for 3 months.
We use since when we say when something started (e.g. Tuesday, 2008, midnight). We only use since with perfect tenses - you can read more about them in my grammar pages.
I've lived here since October.
I'd known Sam since 1999.
We use during with nouns (e.g. the holiday, my party, the night). Sometimes it means for all the time, and sometimes it means for just a part of the time.
My grandmother worked in the USA during the war.
I heard a strange noise during the night.


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Chuggington - Clunky Wilson
Children'sRepeatClosed Captions AvailableRated: G10 mins
7:25am Friday, March 29 2013
Chuggington, Episode 03 - Clunky Wilson
Series Synopsis
Chuggington follows the adventures of three young trainee engines, Wilson, Brewster and Koko.
Episode Synopsis
Episode 03 - Clunky Wilson
Wilson and Koko are having loads of fun racing each other - until Wilson damages his wheel!
Previous Episode Synopsis
Episode 02 - Wilson And The Elephant
Wilson is determined to get his Animal Transportation badge by taking Ebo the elephant to his new home in the Safari Park. But the naughty elephant has other ideas!
Future Episodes
- 7:25am Wednesday, April 03 (R)
- 7:25am Thursday, April 04 (R)
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- 7:25am Saturday, April 06 (R)
- 7:25am Sunday, April 07 (R)
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I hang there =) It's not so much the slash (which can get scary at times) as the general giggly humor that I enjoy so much.
I only read the first few, but they all seemed to be significantly less explicit (and more entertaining) than some of the stuff you run into in the HP or LOTR fandoms...
Oh, and you should see this RPG too. It's getting thoroughly hilarious in there!
Being as I am at a VERY public computer in the library, I cannot pursue that link right now. But I can't stop giggling at the thought of it. I love the userpic. Gotta love the slash community, man. I don't even know what to say.
You best not forget ::waves finger::


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This year we are excited to host another lineup of live music for the Fall 2015 People Party Craft Fair during the evening hours of our event! Don't miss this amazing FREE SHOW filled with quality performances by several out-of-town guests: Rethink from Denton, Tx bringing you atmospheric beats and mixing with the best vocal sampling we've heard in our area, Jess Goodlett from Abilene,Tx who could be described as soulful folk with her refreshing r&b vocals, The DeadSea Horse solo act from Amarillo, Tx with overlapping effects and self-produced harmonies that make his Americana folk sound thick and full of warmth reminiscent of M Ward, and our two headlining bands, The Cover Letter, an "Austin band that takes advantage of the skill and energy of all five members to create indie folk with powerhouse vocals and a dynamic edge," - Austin radio Erika Hoelscher, of KUTX 98.9, followed by Hogan and Moss described as scorch folk with a whole lot of vintage pulse, also compared to the magical sync of Gillian Welch & David Rawlings by the Houston Press. Don't miss it! 6pm - 11pm at the Fall 2015 People Party Craft Fair! Pictured to the right, The Cover Letter from Austin, Tx.
6:00pm - Rethink, Denton, Tx
6:45pm - Jess Goodlett, Abilene, Tx
7:20pm - The Deadsea Horse, Amarillo, Tx
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Winter in North Lake Tahoe through the eyes of locals/
Truckee locals + husband-and-wife duo Nick Visconti and Laura Lawson Visconti share how an almost record-breaking winter shook up their season.
From Nick:
Throughout this season, people have continued to ask me how my winter has been. And my response has varied, largely depending on how much snow I shoveled that week. In retrospect, however, I can say that it was unforgettable. For a myriad of reasons, this winter has been both challenging and rewarding. So let me just cut to the chase by sharing three of my top challenges and rewards of living in Truckee this winter.
Top 3 Challenges:
- Getting to work on time. Snow removal? More like snow upheaval. Record-breaking snowstorms have made it rather interesting getting to work this winter.
- Getting groceries. Even the simplest of errands had its challenges. Since we shop at New Moon Natural Foods in Truckee and Whole Foods in Reno, we'd often get stuck in Nevada simply getting supplies for the week because of road closures.
- Getting to North Lake Tahoe ski mountains. Believe it or not, I know many folks from out-of-town who skied more than I did. With house repairs, extreme weather, and often, extreme traffic, skiing had to take a back seat to the upkeep of my back porch!
Top 3 Rewards:
- The precipitation. With the watershed beginning to refill and the Truckee River flowing again, the sheer amount of precipitation this winter around North Lake Tahoe was a top-shelf blessing in and of itself.
- The spirit of Tahoe. People believe in Lake Tahoe tourism again. Many local businesses have economically recovered from the tough times brought on from the California drought, while visitation and quality of experience is up from past calendar years. What's more, the outlook for summer is bright.
- Mountain conditions. Naturally, from a snowboarder's perspective, the hallmark of this season was the snowboarding conditions around North Lake Tahoe. Terrain that hasn't been accessible in more than five years was back in action. And action there was! However, with backcountry fanatics angling for fresh lines on bluebird days, I tended to sneak into the last best kept secret for powder hounds in North Lake Tahoe, Northstar's Lookout Mountain.
From Laura:
Unlike my husband, living in snow is still a relatively new concept for me, since this was only my second winter in Lake Tahoe. No one could have prepared me for the reality of more than 50 feet of snow in North Lake Tahoe, most of which dumped in January and February alone. While the constant road closures, shoveling and power outages were a hassle (to say the least), it was all worth it the second my snowboard hit the powder. Below are some of the things I learned from this winter in Truckee.
1. Carry snowshoes. Yes, there seriously were times I carried snowshoes in my backpack, pulling them out to trek through the snow to a nearby work meeting. It allowed me the opportunity to get outside the office, stretch my legs and appreciate the beauty of where I live from a totally unique perspective. Plus, nothing screams "local" more than arriving to a meeting covered in snow, grinning from ear to ear in snowshoes.
2. Ski and snowboard off-peak times. As Nick stated above, it was almost impossible to fight off the crowds that swelled Truckee's streets and highways on the weekends. Thus, snowboarding Northstar during off-peak times, like weekdays, was more crucial than ever.
3. Explore beyond the ski resorts. Another great way to beat the crowds and traffic is to simply skip them altogether, exploring off-the-beaten-path around North Lake Tahoe. Whether you embark on a backcountry adventure, like one of our favorites, Relay Peak at Mount Rose, or snowshoe through the Donner Train Tunnels, the beauty of the region goes far beyond groomed trails.
4. Stock up on candles. We lost power at our cabin more than a dozen times throughout the winter, particularly during one fateful week in mid-January. Aside from making sure that our headlamps worked and flashlights had fresh batteries, I found that making sure our cabin was stocked with candles was a great way to bring a cheerful ambience to an otherwise frustrating experience. My favorite candle of choice was pretty much any scent from P.F. Candle Co., available for purchase at Dressed Boutique in downtown Truckee.
5. Plan ahead. There's no way around it, that when snow hits, everything will just take longer. Your plans could be foiled, your car could get stuck, the roads could be closed. Have a Plan B (and Plan C and D) in place in the off chance a rogue storm hits. And don't think just because the calendar says spring that you're off the hook. After all, it was snowing just this past weekend. Embrace it, wax those skis, and enjoy the ride. See you on the slopes for some epic spring shred!


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You must consider yourself lucky, if your work, your life purpose (in your eyes) and your passion all align together and form this combo package called your day job. Also bonus, brownie points if you are making tons of money from said day job and also loving it.
But for the vast majority of folks out there, this is pure fantasy, found only in the realms of deep REM sleep. Most of these people either hate their jobs or suffer in silence because it pays the bills and that is all they know how to do professionally, blah blah.. The reasons are endless.
I can relate to your frustration. I have been there.
You see, between 9 to 5 pm on weekdays, I am a data analyst at a bank. Crunching numbers, whipping out fancy Excel reports out of my butt and making sweet love to SAS and SQL are part and parcel of my day job.
But the thing is, being a data analyst is not my passion, by far. I am a psychotherapist in training, I love to drum and play music, enjoy writing, blogging and traveling, whenever I can. Also psychotherapy is what I really want to do.
But the bank job is great too. I am good at what I do, my team loves me and I love them, I have a good manager, I make good money and the bank has an amazing work-from-home policy which makes life really comfy.
But things were not so hunky dory about 1.5 years ago. I was going through my spiritual awakening and I was deeply frustrated with my job. I could not relate to the corporate world anymore and I used to lie in bed and psyche myself for 20 minutes, to go to work, every morning. I was still good at what I did but I was not getting promoted, felt stifled at work and I was really bored of what I was doing.
I was still good at what I did but I was not getting promoted, felt stifled at work and I was really bored of what I was doing
But then I realized that true spiritual growth is not about hanging out with hippies and lightworkers, mouthing feel good, love and light jargon, going for "healing" treatments and otherwise completely hating and trying to dissociate from everything else in life. My work situation then became a test for me (like in those spiritually badass, Zen parables).
I went through a metamorphosis and it was all about how I perceived my situation at the workplace and things changed for the better when I slowly shifted that perception over a period of 6 months. Here are 5 beautiful lessons that I learnt from that experience –
- I Stopped Hating My Job
The first step was to stop hating my job. This job has given me so much and still does. It has taught me so much about the corporate world, about work ethics, about working with people, about professionalism. It gave me the opportunity to come to Canada and somewhere in my heart I still enjoyed being a data analyst. I had to look at the bright side
- I Find Little Pleasures, Even in the Most Mundane Tasks at Work
Joy is the easiest thing to find if one knows how to look. You don't need to wait for the fancy, beach vacation at the end of the year to find joy. You become joy and then even the most mundane tasks become joyful. I played games with myself while I worked. How fast can I make that report? What if I use this new style of graphs in that report? Try something new, help out someone, when it is not your obligation to do so. I started enjoying my daily groove again, I made more friends at work and the atmosphere lightened
- Whatever I Do, I Want to Do It Well
I really believe in this motto. I am not a perfectionist by nature but I do my best to not do a half-ass job when I can help it. There is something to be said about the pleasure of a job well done. Even if it's a report that no one looks at, I know I did a good job and I feel satisfied
- I Stopped Comparing Jobs and Putting Other Careers on a Pedestal
In the spiritual community, people are conditioned to believe that professions with corporate and governmental institutions are evil and stuff like energy healing, other healing therapies, nutrition, yoga etc. are somehow holier-than-thou professions and something that everyone should aspire for. I used to feel ashamed at telling people about my day job at these "spiritual" gatherings, until I chose to stop comparing and be proud of what I did for a living. A job is just an experience. An emotion like happiness is no better or worse than another emotion like sadness. It is just different and so is a job, in my opinion
- I Brought My New Found Spiritual and Emotional Maturity to the Workplace
Whatever I was learning and experiencing spiritually, I started bringing that wisdom into the workplace. I stopped judging my colleagues. I became easier to work with but also asserted my boundaries in a healthy manner. I smiled more and I helped out people in need, without over committing myself (boundaries, boundaries, boundaries!)
As I changed my inner perception, the external landscape at my workplace started changing
As I changed my inner perception, the external landscape at my workplace started changing. I got spotted by someone from senior management and I was offered a position with a promotion and a chance to work for what I considered to be the dream team. Earlier I had thought that it would be impossible for me to get into that team. My manager turned out to be an amazing guy and quite the mentor. Everything changed for the better and now even though, I am very much committed to become a psychotherapist in the near future, I respect my day job and I am at peace with it. So can you.


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Venice Film Festival British filmmaker Andrea Arnold would have been 16 years old when Kate Bush topped the UK pop charts with "Wuthering Heights," a swirling art-rock ballad that stripped the Emily Brontë novel for which it is named down to a few key lines and narrative details, but evoked its grand-scale tragic romance in […]
REVIEW: "Wuthering Heights" (***1/2)
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My dream Oscar ballot, part two
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:35 pm · January 23rd, 2011
Yesterday, I began my very far-fetched (and in some cases, frankly impossible) wishlist for Tuesday's Oscar nominations with my favorite achievements in the technical categories. Today, I offer up my picks in the top races, and I don't mind telling you things got pretty agonizing in some categories. "Why can't I have 15 nominees for […]
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My dream Oscar ballot, part one
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:22 pm · January 22nd, 2011
For the past two years running, I've celebrated Oscar Nomination Eve by assembling my own ideal (and, usually, incredibly far-fetched) ballot, so here we go again. As well as a kind of last-ditch prayer to the Oscar gods, I also look on it as a salute to the worthy contenders who haven't a hope in […]
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FIRST-HALF FYC: Best Picture
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:07 pm · January 19th, 2011
For the past eight weeks, I've been spotlighting nomination-worthy names, in all major Ocar categories, from the first half of the US release calendar. Today, we close out the series with an alternative January-to-June Best Picture 10, though it comes a week after ballots closed — timing was never my strong suit. A look at […]
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'White Material' gets the Criterion treatment
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:36 pm · January 18th, 2011
When you've been doggedly championing a film for the better part of 18 months, as I have with Claire Denis's "White Material," you do start to feel weirdly parental. So I was oddly touched by the raft of emails and tweets I got from assorted readers to inform me that the film has been revealed […]
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FIRST-HALF FYC: Below-the-line standouts
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:45 am · January 11th, 2011
For the penultimate installment in our reflection on the most Oscar-worthy achievements from the largely forgotten first half of 2010's release calendar, I'm backtracking away from the major categories to the place I should perhaps have started: the technical sphere. Had I thought to start this column 20-odd weeks in advance of nomination day, I […]
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FIRST-HALF FYC: Best Director
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:59 pm · January 4th, 2011
With precisely three weeks to go until Oscar nomination morning, we continue to flag up worthy work from 2010's first half, much of it lost (or, indeed, never present) amid the crush of more recent awards contenders. You know the January-to-June drill by now: beyond that, we can get as far-fetched as we like. I […]
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NYT offers some pointers to the Academy
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:03 am · January 3rd, 2011
The New York Times has an annual tradition of getting its three top critics — Manohla Dargis, A.O. Scott and Stephen Holden — to craft ideal Oscar ballots, and the results this year point to more scattered affections than the critics' award trail would have you believe. Interestingly, only one title features on all three […]
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FIRST-HALF FYC: Best Actress
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:40 pm · December 29th, 2010
The fifth column in our new seasonal series — if you haven't got the drill by now, we're rounding up the most Oscar-worthy work from the oft-overlooked first half of the year — wraps up the performance categories with by far the most competitive race of all. Conventional wisdom has it that Best Actress is […]
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What came after "the year of the woman?"
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:26 pm · December 27th, 2010
This time last year, we were still in the thick of a long-running "year of the woman" narrative, as female filmmakers enjoyed critical, festival and box-office success, plus an unprecedentedly high profile in the awards season –culminating in that history-making Best Director win for Kathryn Bigelow (as well as a Best Picture nod for Lone […]
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FIRST HALF FYC: Best Screenplay (Original and Adapted)
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:17 pm · December 14th, 2010
For the third episode in our new Oscar-season feature, we take a recess from the acting races and look instead to the screenplays that roped the actors in to begin with. If you're new to the feature (or even if you aren't), the game is simple: railing against awards voters' usual bias towards late-year releases, […]
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12/14 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: critics' awards scoop and outrage, the year in posters, Steinfeld's 'Grit'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:19 am · December 14th, 2010
• Tim Appelo gets the inside scoop of yesterday's NYFCC vote. [The Race] • David Poland, meanwhile, is outraged that critics so far, in their dwindling numbers, have failed to resonate by missing the fertile ground between obscure and obvious. [The Hot Blog] • Jenelle Riley sits down with "True Grit" young'un Hailee Steinfeld. [Backstage]
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OSCAR TALK: Ep. 44 — The top 10 films of 2010 (x2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:30 pm · December 10th, 2010
Welcome to Oscar Talk. In case you're new to the site and/or the podcast, Oscar Talk is a weekly kudocast, your one-stop awards chat shop between yours truly and Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood. The podcast is weekly, every Friday throughout the season, charting the ups and downs of contenders along the way. Plenty […]
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FIRST-HALF FYC: Best Supporting Actor
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:18 pm · December 8th, 2010
Only two weeks into my new feature and I'm already a day late — apologies. My laptop (now cured, at least until its next mood swing) will graciously accept the blame. If you missed last week's introductory instalment, the game is a simple one. In the run-up to nomination day, I'm picking five outstanding contenders […]
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FIRST-HALF FYC: Best Supporting Actress
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:46 pm · November 30th, 2010
It's an Oscar complaint as unfailingly annual as telecast overlength and foreign-language category blunders: with the season so geared towards the glut of prestige titles released in the year's final quarter, standout contenders from the mist-shrouded months of spring and the previous winter have to fight that much harder to be heard – that is, […]
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Fassbender's 2011 gets busier with McQueen's 'Shame'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:47 am · November 11th, 2010
I'm lousy at keeping track of pre-production news, so if you'd asked me an hour ago what British artist-turned-filmmaker Steve McQueen was tackling for his sophomore feature, I'd have answered, "Oh, I know — that Fela Kuti biopic starring Chiwetel Ejiofor." And I'd have been wrong. The more clued-up folks at The Playlist report that […]
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Picking the best new lensers
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:44 am · August 24th, 2010
As you know, we at InContention are dedicated to spotlighting below-the-line talent, so this excellent cinematography-themed piece at The Playlist caught my eye — in it, Oli Lyttelton singles out five individuals that he feels are spearheading an exciting new generation of DPs, breaking down their past achievements and future promise in some detail. The […]
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Double vision
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:07 am · February 23rd, 2010
Thanks to Glenn at Stale Popcorn for pointing me to this Australian one-sheet for "Fish Tank," which deservedly took the BAFTA on Sunday for Best British Film. The designer is Jeremy Saunders, also responsible for that extraordinary "Antichrist" poster last year … someone Stateside needs to snap this guy up.
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Judging by the internet, and lets face it what could be more sensible, much of what Apple does is just wonderful. Generally I concur, however sometimes something goes wrong. One thing that has gone wrong seems to have been the 2011 model 15 and 17in MacBook Pros. More specifically the graphics cards. Take any of these macs, add heat (i.e. use the thing) and pretty soon it will stop working. Which is nice.
Since way back then, Apple have been pretty blasé about this but thankfully they do seem to have changed their minds rather suddenly. Announcing the (finally) Extended repair programme for 15 and 17 in MacBook Pro's made between 2011 and 2013 with AMD graphics cards. I'm guessing that's a LOT of MacBook Pro's. I certainly have four here at the moment, all dead or dying. It's like the Somme I tell you.
So, if you have one of these machines, (the quickest way to tell is probably to turn it on, if it starts and works then you don't), from the 27th of February you can take it to Apple. They'll take a look and repair it for you for free. Until 2016.
Here's a page with more info from over at Jeff Gamet's MacObserver website: