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George Robert Lazenby (/ˈleɪzənbi/; born 5 September 1939)[2] is an Australian actor and former model. He is best known for having played Ian Fleming's fictional British secret agent James Bond in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). At the age of 29, he was the youngest actor to have portrayed Bond. Lazenby is also the only Bond actor to receive a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, and the only non-European actor take on the role in the official Bond series.
This article is about the actor. For the early Australian settler, see George Lazenby (cabinetmaker).
Lazenby at the November 2008 Big Apple Comic Con in Manhattan
George Robert Lazenby
(1939-09-05) 5 September 1939
Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
Los Angeles, California, U.S
Actor, model
1965–2003, 2012–present
James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Christina Gannett (1971–95)[1]
Pam Shriver (2002–08)
Prior to his portrayal as Bond, Lazenby was a model and appeared in advertising. After declining to do another Bond film, Lazenby continued to act in Italy, Hong Kong, Australia, and Hollywood. His career stalled in the 1970s and he moved into business and invested in real estate. He later appeared in several films and television series, including roles which parody the James Bond character. In 2017, a Hulu docudrama film, Becoming Bond, featured Lazenby recounting his life story and portrayal as Bond.[3]
Early life in Australia
Lazenby was born in 1939 in Goulburn, New South Wales,[4] at Ovada Private Hospital, to railway worker George Edward Lazenby and Sheila Joan Lazenby (née Bodel), who worked at Fosseys. He went to Goulburn Public School in his primary years, and Goulburn High School until 1954. His sister, Barbara, was an accomplished dancer. When he was young he spent 18 months in hospital after having an operation which left him with only half a kidney.[5]
When Lazenby was about 14 he moved with his family from Goulburn to Queanbeyan, where his father ran a store. He served in the Australian Army, then afterwards worked as a car salesman and mechanic.[6][7][8]
Lazenby moved to London in 1963 to pursue a woman he'd fallen in love with.[9][10] He became a used car salesman in Finchley, then sold new cars in Park Lane. He was spotted by a talent scout who persuaded him to become a model, and he was soon earning £25,000 a year (£475,000 today). He was best known for an advertisement for Fry's chocolate bars.[11] In 1966 he was voted Top Model of the Year.[12]
In 1968, after Sean Connery had left the role of James Bond, producer Albert R. Broccoli met Lazenby for the first time while they were getting their hair cut at the same barbershop.[11] Broccoli later saw him in the Big Fry commercial and felt he could be a possible Bond, inviting him to do a screen test.[13]
Lazenby dressed for the part by sporting several sartorial Bond elements such as a Rolex Submariner wristwatch and a Savile Row suit, which had been ordered, but not collected, by Connery.[14]
Broccoli offered him an audition. The position was consolidated when Lazenby accidentally punched a professional wrestler, who was acting as stunt coordinator, in the face, impressing Broccoli with his ability to display aggression.[13][15] Director Peter R. Hunt later claimed:
We wanted someone who oozed sexual assurance, and we think this fellow has that. Just wait til the women see him on screen ... I am not saying he is an actor. There is a great deal of difference between an actor and a film star. Didn't they find Gary Cooper when he was an electrician?[16]
In July 1969, Lazenby returned home to Queanbeyan to see his parents. He said he had 18 films to consider. "But it's all commercial rubbish, such as the guy getting the girl at the end of the Battle of Britain", he said. "I'll just have to wait and see."[17] At this stage, Lazenby said he intended to make the next Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun.[18]
Leaving Bond
In November 1969, prior to the release of the film, Lazenby announced that he no longer wished to play the role of James Bond, saying, "The producers made me feel like I was mindless. They disregarded everything I suggested simply because I hadn't been in the film business like them for about a thousand years."[19]
His co-star Diana Rigg was among many who commented on this decision:
The role made Sean Connery a millionaire. It made Sean Connery ... I truly don't know what's happening in George's mind so I can only speak of my reaction. I think it's a pretty foolish move. I think if he can bear to do an apprenticeship, which everybody in this business has to do – has to do – then he should do it quietly and with humility. Everybody has to do it. There are few instant successes in the film business. And the instant successes one usually associates with somebody who is willing to learn anyway.[20]
Rigg was also quoted as saying, "I can no longer cater for his obsession with himself. He is utterly, unbelievably ... bloody impossible".[21]
"I draw a veil over the chap", said Desmond Llewelyn (who played Q in 17 Bond films). "How can you expect someone who's never acted before ... to take on a leading role?"[22]
Lazenby grew a beard and long hair. "Bond is a brute ... I've already put him behind me. I will never play him again. Peace – that's the message now", he announced.[23]
I much prefer being a car salesman to a stereotyped James Bond. My parents think I'm insane, everybody thinks I'm insane passing up maybe millions of pounds. Nobody believed me. They thought it was a publicity stunt. But it's just me doing my own thing.[24]
He later elaborated:
Fantasy doesn't interest me. Reality does. Anyone who's in touch with the kids knows what's happening, knows the mood. Watch pop music and learn what's going to happen. Most film-makers don't watch and aren't in touch. People aren't going to films because film-makers are putting out films people don't want to see. As for the so-called "Tomorrow movies" they are only tomorrow movies with yesterday directors ... Actors aren't all that important. Directors are. I'm terribly impressed with Dennis Hopper. I'd like to work for him. I also like Arthur Penn, John Schlesinger and Peter Yates ... What I'm going to do is look for a great director first, a good screenplay second. Meanwhile, no more Bond. I make better money doing commercials.[25]
At the time of the release of OHMSS, Lazenby's performance received mixed reviews. Some felt that, while he was physically convincing, some of his costumes were inappropriate – "too loud" according to some – and that he delivered his lines poorly.[26]
Others, however, have developed differing views in the decades since the film. In the 1998 book The Essential James Bond, Lee Pfeiffer and Dave Worrell write:
Although OHMSS was routinely dismissed by critics who cited Lazenby as a brave but disappointing successor to Connery, the intervening years have been notably kinder to both the film and its star. Indeed, due in no small part to Peter Hunt's inspired direction, OHMSS generally ranks among the top films with fans. Likewise, Lazenby has emerged as a very popular contributor to the series and has enjoyed large enthusiastic audiences during his appearances at Bond related events. In summary, OHMSS is a brilliant thriller in its own right and justifiably ranks amongst the best Bond films ever made.[27]
In Roger Moore's commentary for a 2007 DVD release of The Man with the Golden Gun, he made reference to George Lazenby:
I have a great deal of e-mail contact with George Lazenby; he's sort of in on the joke circuit ... that we simply send jokes to each other. OHMSS – very well made film – Peter Hunt – excellent, excellent, excellent fight stuff, excellent snow effects ... but I think the end result for George was that it was one of the better Bonds.
Lazenby was told by Connery in a restaurant "you were good".[28]
Broccoli told the press shortly after the film's release:
I don't agree with the press. I think they should have given him A for effort. It's true he's not Olivier but Olivier could not play Bond in any circumstances... John Aspinall's mother Lady Osborne told me she thought he was the best of the Bonds.[29]
Broccoli did admit that he found Lazenby's post-movie attitude annoying:
I find it incredible that a plum role can't be respected. We chose George because in his physique and his looks and his walk he was the best of the candidates. He had the masculinity. Looking at the film, to put it in an old Spanish phrase, one could wish he had less cojones and more charm.[29]
Although Lazenby had been offered a contract for seven movies, his agent, Ronan O'Rahilly, convinced him that the secret agent would be archaic in the liberated 1970s, and as a result he left the series after the release of On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.[13] After this role Lazenby is claimed to have begun studying drama at Durham University's College of the Venerable Bede. though this was not reported on at the time.
Lazenby has portrayed James Bond several times over the years in numerous parodies and unofficial 007 roles, most notably the 1983 television film The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (in which his character is identified only by the initials J.B.), 1996 video game Fox Hunt[30] (parts of which were reedited into a feature film[31]) and an episode of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, entitled "Diamonds Aren't Forever". In 2012 Lazenby made a guest appearance on the Canadian sketch comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes, spoofing the 007 series in a skit called "Help, I've Skyfallen and I Can't Get Up".[32] Lazenby was complimentary of the finished film in later years; "In retrospect it was well done. I can't say I was Richard Burton, or a great actor in it because it was my first acting experience, but I did carry the role. It was tough carrying the role after Sean Connery because he was good. I liked him. You've got to understand the story was good, and it had some substance while most of them, I hate to say, don't."[33]
Post-Bond career
For a time there was some talk Lazenby would appear in a western, Deakin.[34] He talked to the press about his use of LSD and marijuana[35] and was involved in a well publicised incident helping a friend of his who was arrested in Germany.[36] He grew his hair and a moustache and talked about rejecting the "trappings of materialism".[37][38]
Lazenby made another film a year after On Her Majesty's Secret Service – Universal Soldier (1971), which he helped write. He said the movie was "anti-guns and anti-Bond... a [comedy] with no plot. It is really just a series of happenings which keep the audience entertained. This is the kind of film which is coming out in Europe now."[37] It starred Chrissie Townsend, his 18-year-old girlfriend and future wife. The film was a financial disaster which was barely released.[39]
"After the Bond fiasco nobody would touch me", admitted Lazenby. "Harry Saltzman had always said, 'If you don't do another Bond you'll wind up doing spaghetti westerns in Italy. But I couldn't even get one of those. My agent couldn't believe it. But the word was out – I was 'difficult'."[40]
Lazenby next appeared in the 1972 Italian film, Who Saw Her Die?, a performance for which he lost 35 pounds and has since received critical acclaim.[41] He spent the next 15 months sailing around the world with Chrissie Townsend which ended when she became pregnant with their first child, prompting Lazenby to settle down and try to re-activate his career as an actor.[42]
Lazenby played a role in the BBC's Play For Today series in 1973, starring in Roger Smith's The Operation.
In 1973, Lazenby said he was "flat broke" when he went to Hong Kong to meet Bruce Lee and producer Raymond Chow. They ended up offering him $10,000 ($56,400 today) to appear in a film with Lee, which was going to be the Golden Harvest film Game of Death. However this collapsed after Lee's sudden death – Lazenby was actually meant to meet Lee for lunch on the day Lee died.[43]
Instead it was announced Lazenby would make The Golden Needles of Ecstasy for Golden Harvest. "I'm excited to be able to concentrate on just acting in this film", he said. "On Universal Soldier I was involved in the production, the writing and even a bit in direction. I don't think I'm a good enough actor to get fragmented like that on a job. Now I can give my full concentration to acting. I hope it will be good and lead to other roles."[44]
He revealed he had been consulting an astrologer for four years. "Even before I made the Bond picture she said I would become famous, and that there would be big problems for a couple of years", he said. "Then she assured me that I would be back at the top of my profession by the end of 1973. It's absolutely fantastic, because everything she has told me has happened".[45]
In the end, Lazenby did not make Golden Needles but shot three other films for Golden Harvest, Stoner (1974) (aka The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss), The Man from Hong Kong (1975) (also known as The Dragon Flies), and A Queen's Ransom (1976).
In the mid-1970s, he appeared in a number of television movies shot in his native Australia, and an episode of the local police drama series Matlock Police.[46] He also returned to modelling, appearing in a number of advertisements for Benson and Hedges cigarettes.[47]
A few years later he told an Australian magazine, "I got a few roles but nothing spectacular, yet I was ready, willing and able to work. I just don't think I'm going to make it here. If something good came along I'd stay, though."[48]
In the late 1970s Lazenby moved to Hollywood where he started taking acting lessons and set about trying to reactivate his career. "I enjoy the States, to be quite honest about it", he said. "I've got an American wife and green card so I have the best of both worlds."[48]
In 1978 Broccoli described casting Lazenby as "my biggest mistake in 16 years. He just couldn't deal with success. He was so arrogant. There was the stature and looks of a Bond but Lazenby couldn't get along with the other performers and technicians."[49] Sean Connery came to Lazenby's defence saying "I have known George for many years and arrogance is not in his character. Alas I cannot say the same for Cubby Broccoli".[50]
"The interesting thing about that is – I've never met Sean", said Lazenby. "I don't know him at all. Once, years ago, he came to pick up someone who was staying at my house and I saw him through the door. That's all. But I always admired him. I tried to copy him when I played Bond because, after all, I wasn't an actor so I thought my best chance would be to try and be as close to Connery as I could."[40]
Lazenby went on to add:
It hasn't been easy, trying to climb back... I admit I acted stupidly. It went to my head, everything that was happening to me. But remember, it was my first film... Now what I've got to do is live down my past; convince people I'm not the same person who made a fool of himself all those years ago. I know I can do it. All I need is the chance.[40]
In 1978, he took out an advertisement in Variety, offering himself for acting work. "If I could get a TV series or a good movie, I swear I'd do it for nothing", he told a journalist. "People ask me if the Bond movie wasn't worth it if it got me into acting. It's true that it got me in, but it wasn't worth the ten years it cost me."[51]
He was particularly keen to do The Thorn Birds.[48] but that project was not made until a number of years later and without Lazenby. He did manage to secure roles in Hawaii 5-0 and Evening in Byzantium. The latter was seen by Harry Saltzman who offered Lazenby a leading role in a proposed science fiction film The Micronauts. "When I tossed Bond in after one movie he said he'd make sure I never got another job", said Lazenby. "Now he's offering me one. It seems that the 10-year sentence is up. Harry saw me in a TV show I'd recently made for NBC. He rang me up out of the blue and said, "Now that was a damn lousy show, but one thought that you were ger-reat."[48] However the movie was never made.
Lazenby made a guest appearance on the television series Superboy, as an alien disguised as Jor-El, in a two-part episode during the series' second season in 1990. He appeared with Sylvia Kristel in several new Emmanuelle films in the 1990s, many of which appeared on cable television. In 1993, Lazenby had a part in the film Gettysburg as Confederate General Johnston Pettigrew. On 19 September 2013, comedian Jim Jefferies announced on Twitter that Lazenby would be playing his father in the upcoming second season of his FX network sitcom Legit.[52]
Influence on popular culture
Lazenby's single portrayal of the iconic Bond character, and his lack of standing as a favourite in the series, has resulted in his name being used as a metaphor for forgettable, non-iconic acting efforts in other entertainment franchises, and for entities that are largely ignored. In his review of Batman & Robin, widely regarded as the weakest and least successful film in the Batman film franchise, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said that George Clooney "should go down in history as the George Lazenby of the series".[53] Actor Paul McGann has described himself with good humour as "the George Lazenby of Doctor Who"[54] because, although he has continued in the role of the Eighth Doctor in other media, he made only two appearances on television as the eponymous Time Lord. In a September 2006 episode of The Daily Show, comedian John Oliver suggested that Pope Benedict XVI is the George Lazenby of the papacy, in comparison to "John Paul II's Sean Connery".[55]
In 2009, Sondre Lerche released a song called "Like Lazenby" on his album Heartbeat Radio, in which he laments squandered opportunities wishing for a "second try". Lerche wrote the song after receiving a VHS of the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service as a child, after sending away for a free copy of the movie only to find he had joined a James Bond film club. He got into trouble when his mother was contacted to pay for the membership. Years later, watching the movie again on DVD (with Lazenby's interviews), he found it a perfect metaphor for life's disappointments.[56]
In 2010, Roger Moore, who also played James Bond, provided the voice of a talking cat character named Tab Lazenby in the film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, which contained several references to, and parodies of, Bond films.
In 1973, Lazenby married his girlfriend of three years, Chrissie Townsend, a member of the Gannett family.[42] They subsequently had two children, Zachary and Melanie.[57] Zachary was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour when he was eleven and died when he was 19 years old. Melanie became a real estate broker in New York.[58]
In 2002 Lazenby married former tennis player Pam Shriver. In August 2008, it was reported that Shriver had filed for divorce from Lazenby. Documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court cite "irreconcilable differences" for the end of the couple's six-year marriage. The couple have three children, including twins born in 2005.[59]
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service James Bond
1972 Universal Soldier Ryker
1972 Who Saw Her Die? Franco Serpieri
1973 Life and Legend of Bruce Lee Himself
1973 The Last Days of Bruce Lee Himself
1973 Play for Today David Adler BBC TV, Episode: "The Operation"
1974 Stoner Joshua Stoner
1975 The Man from Hong Kong (alternate title: The Dragon Flies) Jack Wilton
1976 Is There Anybody There? John Hersey TV movie
1976 A Queen's Ransom George
1977 The Kentucky Fried Movie The Architect (segment: "That's Armageddon")
1978 Game of Death (archive footage)
1978 Death Dimension (alternate titles: Black Eliminator, Freeze Bomb) Capt. Gallagher
1978 Evening in Byzantium Roger Tory 2 episodes
1978 The Newman Shame John Brandy TV movie
1979 Saint Jack Senator
1981 Last Harem Prince Almalarik
1982 General Hospital Reginald Durban 5 episodes
1983 Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. J.B. TV movie
1984 Rituals Logan Williams 9 episodes
1984 The Master Mallory Episode: "Hostages"
1984 Bruce Lee, The Legend Himself (archive footage)
1986 Never Too Young to Die Drew Stargrove
1987 Hell Hunters Heinrich
1989 Alfred Hitchcock Presents James Grant Episode: "Diamonds Aren't Forever"
1990 Superboy Jor-El 2 episodes
1992 Eyes of the Beholder Jack Wyman
1993 Emmanuelle Forever Mario TV movie
1993 Emmanuelle's Revenge TV movie
1993 Emmanuelle in Venice TV movie
1993 Emmanuelle's Love TV movie
1993 Emmanuelle's Magic TV movie
1993 Emmanuelle's Perfume TV movie
1993 Emmanuelle's Secret TV movie
1993 Gettysburg Confederate Brig. Gen Johnston Pettigrew
1993 The Evil Inside Me Grandinetti
1994 Twin Sitters Leland Stromm
1996 Fox Hunt Chauncey
1998 Star of Jaipur John Steele
1999 Gut Feeling
1999–2000 The Pretender Major Charles 4 episodes, recurring guest role as the hero Jarod's father
1999–2000 Batman Beyond King
Voice, 3 episodes[60]
2000 Four Dogs Playing Poker Carlo
2002 Spider's Web Leland De Winter
2003 Winter Break(alternate title: Sheer Bliss) Campbell Grady
2014 Legit Jack Jefferies 2 episodes, guest role
2015 Hunter General Bullmount directed by Gregory Hatanaka
2016 Dance Angels Captain Hugo
2016 A Winter Rose Henry
2017 Death Game
2017 Becoming Bond Himself Docudrama
Unmade films
Deakin (1970) – a western
Game of Death (1971–1972)
Roles originally offered to Lazenby
James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live And Let Die (1973) and Never Say Never Again (1983) – he turned down Eon's first offer to return, while the second offer was not supported by the director. During a Q&A session at the Sydney 2014 Supanova pop culture expo, Lazenby stated that the reason was because he was too hairy at the time. Kevin McClory only considered Lazenby for his rival Bond film.
the role played by James Coburn in Duck, You Sucker! (1971) – he turned it down[61]
the part played by Gig Young in Game of Death (1978)
John Cleese says he wanted to cast Lazenby as Jesus Christ in The Life of Brian[62][63]
1.^ Cy Endfield directed the Big Fry commercial.[64] Sean Connery had worked with this director on Hell Drivers, 1957.
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Being right simply meant; knowing what I was doing in choosing to attend a predominantly white school; as it was not known to be the path of least resistance.The influence of Coach Littlefield's teachings, were not lost to her sight.
Aside from being right, I had to take ownership of the decision, for her to be comfortable.
The Administration building faced Stanley Street, and the Library was next door. The boys and girls dorms were at opposite ends of the campus. And the gymnasium (Kaiser Hall) was located at the top of Wells Street.
He was a big man, with a similar carriage as Coach Littlefield. He thought that I looked "a bit small" based upon what he had heard.
He recruited me, sight unseen, based upon the reputation of the Mount Vernon Knights. His other upper-weights had checked in and I was small in comparison.
He seemed most anxious to talk, however, Mother was waiting; so I excused myself by saying that I needed to go and find the house where I would be staying.
He looked at my Info-Sheet, and pointed down Sefton Drive to a house about 100 yards away.
Now that was the same yellow house that we had previously driven by.
We had dismissed it as a housing possibility, because the residents were white.
Inter-racial teams was one thing, inter-racial housing quite another!
I had worked out my housing over the phone, assuming that my roomates would be black. So Brother Wilson wasn't the only one surprised. I wasn't about to be the one trying to explain the mix-up.
Norm Gerber was the Head Wrestling Coach. We were his Knights of the Round Table; committed to defending the home mats, as well as each other, with our lives.
Between you, me, and the gate post.., talk about a culture shock!
Initially I didn't particularly care for any of them; their music, food, or women.
Then one week-end we got into a racially charged fight, with the house across the street, and everything changed.
A fight which I, inadvertently, caused by atttempting to attend a segregated party.
To tell the truth, I was so accustomed to racial slurs that what was said didn't bother me; however it bothered my new team-mates, who were unaccustomed to such disrespect.
In the aftermath, the guys took turns in schooling me on what constituted a tolerable insult and what wasn't ...ie. we go to war!
See tab labeled Motivation/Grappling Mode.
Get Ready Cause Here We Come...Encore.
We spent most of the collegiate years (66-71) selling Good Humor ice cream, and grooving to the Motown sounds of the Temptations.
While he didn't work for Good Humor, Alex was a part of the " in-crowd" and attended Norfolk State, along with the Loveman, Jimmy Lee, and a host of others referenced in Chapter 3 _ Just A Little Bit Of Soap.
I attended "historically white" Central Connecticut State, where (perhaps) my greatest social contribution to the student body was the Temptation's album Get Ready, along with first hand instructions on how to dance to "soul music".
My little sister Shirley ocassionally came up to help out.
Around the Good Humor plant we were known as "the Bronx Division": We worked from 233rd street down into Harlem, year-in and year-out, without losing a man, while leading the company in sales.
Of course thats not news worthy.
A real Good Humor bar, you might say,.. behind my back, of course.
By the time I left home for college in 1967, I already knew more about Western Civilization (Age of Reasoning, the Great Awakenings, the Industrial Revolution,..etc.) than my forefathers. My primary focus was on trying to understand "the here and now".
More often, than not, I would refer the religious zealots (of the time) to the 23rd Psalms; and deflect their attempts at socialization by reminding them that "the lord was no shepherd of mine".
As far as I was concerned the Silent Majority, and the Black Power Advocates were "birds of a feather".
Hence I open Chapter 4: Knights of the Roundtable*, by saying that "most of the events exploding on the national stage took Central by storm; as the Spirit of Camelot rode a fiery steed (Robert Kennedy had aligned himself with the Civil Rights movement), and Odysseus railed against the Gods,..ie Dr King had become too vocal on the subject of human rights.
Who we are today, and who we will be tomorrow, is largely a by-product of who we were yesterday.
Teach the children History, as well as Language Arts, English, Math, and Science.
And if they choose to sport the hair style of their ancestors; applaud the courage, instead of criticizing the audacity.
Braids were fairly common within the South Carolina sub-culture, however few, if any, wore them while in the presence of members of the governing class. Normative behavior demanded that females comb their hair out; and that males keep their hair closely cropped about the head.
It was generally understood that to do otherwise constituted an intolerable offence to the governing class; as well as an open invitation to disaster.
By the time my generation came of age, late 1960s, early 1970s, not only were males wearing slave braids; but combing their hair out in defiance of what (for the governing class) had become a tradition.
Now-a-days few Americans take offence to braids: As a matter of fact, many have co-opted the hairstyle to suit their individual taste.


Prepare ribs by trimming away back membrane. At one end of the rack, slide a flat bladed knife under the membrane and over a bone. Lift and loosen the membrane until it lifts, then peel away. It may come off in one piece or you may need to do it in sections.
Place ribs in a baking dish and season all over with pepper.
To make braising sauce, stir all ingredients in a jug until combined. Pour over ribs and toss to thoroughly coat. Cover dish tightly with foil.
Roast for about 1½-2 hours or until tender.
Meanwhile, to make rice "chips", stir vinegar, sugar and salt in a saucepan and stir over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Cool to room temperature.
Place washed rice in a heavy-based saucepan. Stir in the water. Bring to a boil. Simmer, covered, for about 10-12 minutes, until water is absorbed. Remove from heat and set aside for 15 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl and fold through vinegar mixture.
Line a slice pan with baking paper, extending 5cm above two long edges. Press rice into pan to form an even layer. Refrigerate until cold and firm.
Remove cooked ribs from oven and strain sauce into a saucepan. Simmer over medium heat until thickened and reduced. Brush ribs with thickened sauce and cook under a hot grill until lightly charred and caramelised.
To finish rice 'chips', invert rice onto a chopping board and cut into small squares.
Deep fry squares until pale golden and crisp. Drain on absorbent paper. Season.
Serve ribs and rice "chips" with cucumber.


The Avenue situated in Manchester's trendy Spinningfields is home to the North West's luxury retail quarter boasting some of my favourite designers. Their post Christmas sales start today and shoppers are being treated to big discounts on a range of luxurious brands.
There's up to 40% off at the Flannels flagship store. With some of the world's leading designer brands including Alexander McQueen, Burberry, Lanvin and Dolce & Gabbana you're sure to find something you want to splash out on!
DKNY, Calvin Klein and Brooks Brothers will be offering personal style consultations alongside discounts of up to 70% off.
The Emporio Armani UK flagship store is celebrating the end of the season with customers set to receive discounts of up to 40% off their stunning A/W 12 collection.
If you're looking for footwear Kurt Geiger and Oliver Sweeney will have reductions of up to 50%.
All Saints is set to open its doors at 8.00am today offering big savings on their A/W collection.
What are you hoping to find in the sales this year?
OH EM GEE, those purses! I totally wasn't even thinking about shopping after Christmas, but you just reminded me about the sales!


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Braille by JSON
When asked about the music he makes, Json says, "You can't see it, but you can feel it". In an attempt to make heartfelt music, he sees his music as being similar to Braille. It communicates information important to him, but even more, communicates the attitude of his heart. He is known for bearing his all through his music and Braille, Json's 5th studio album, does this and more. He sees it as the perfect balance between his last two albums, City Lights and Growing Pains. City Lights had a lot of bangers on it, while Growing Pains was more emotional. With Braille, it's as if he took the best of both of those albums and made a new masterpiece. With Braille, you will hear Json as you've come to love him. Passionate and piercing as he relates all of life to the Christian walk.
taken from 'Braille'
1. Braille featuring Lori of C.B.F.
2. Passing featuring Serge & K.B.
3. Work featuring Spec
4. Play My Song featuring Flame
5. Can't Let Go featuring B. Reith & S.O.
6. Benjamin Button
7. Intoxicated featuring Lori of C.B.F.
8. Stars featuring Demond
9. Son Hit Me featuring Derek Minor & Bizzle
10. Hold Nothing Back featuring Benjah
11. Secrets Interlude
12. Secrets (Part 2) featuring J.R.
13. Trust You featuring Julianna Zobrist

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Tag Archives: Serie A
Competitiveness of leagues in the last 50 years
In this article, a comparison is made between the distinct total victorious clubs in their respective domestic league and UEFA competitions, across the top four leagues in Europe, during the last 50 years. The results are not quite what one would expect. Continue reading →
Bundesliga — the most boring league in Europe?!
Lewandowski, the only player to score 4 goals against Real Madrid in European competitions
Just yesterday, FC Bayern officially announced the signature of Robert Lewandowski on a free transfer from league rivals Borussia Dortmund. In the meantime, media and football fans around the world launched a scathing attack against Bayern Munich, accusing them of once again employing tactics to turn the Bundesliga into a boring one-horse race.
Yawn. Continue reading →
Is the Bundesliga better than the Serie A?
Despite the change in the UEFA Country Coefficients, which now pits the Bundesliga in third place, ahead of Italy's Serie A, the fans of Italian clubs still claim that the Serie A is superior to the Bundesliga. For the casual football fan, this may seem like the case; after all, clubs from Milan have won the UEFA Champions League twice in the last five seasons, and at least one of these Milan clubs looks good for another title, having mauled Arsenal 4-0 in the first leg of the Champions League first knockout round. On the other hand, only FC Bayern has represented the Bundesliga in the Champions League final during the last five years, a final they lost to Internazionale. Continue reading →
Ryan Johansson
Ivan Perišić
Official FC Bayern II and Youth Transfer Thread
Jérôme Boateng [Jérôme Agyenim Boateng]


called San Marino, and the distance from the most famous sandy Heavenly beach is merely 300 meters (10 minutes on foot). Not far from the house is everything what you need for yours carefree and comfortable vocation: market, bakery, fruit store, dispensary, post office and bank... A house has got three nice and fully equipped apartments, with three stars category, giving you the most comfortable staying. Large parking place in front of the house is provided for all our guests.
The apartment is designed to accommodate 4-5 people, a categorization of the three stars are a guarantee of quality accommodation and a large number of additional facilities in and around the apartment. The house is surrounded by flowers and greenery, so it gives the impression discreetly hidden ideal place for a relaxing holiday. Fig, olive, palm, laurel, lavender, rosemary and several kinds of flowers contributes to the look of the Mediterranean atmosphere of accommodation and provide the guests not only the relaxation for body but also for the eyes At the beginning of the courtyard, shaded by vines, next to the terrace your car is protected by sun.
We are glad to welcome you and wish you a pleasant stay in our apartments. We want to make your stay carefree and relaxing, enjoyable and filled with unforgettable moments. The apartments are privately owned by the family Pičuljan. Our family is involved in tourism for more than 30 years. We enjoy great confidence that our regular guests return year after year.
, in an attractive and peaceful area, 200m far from beautiful sandy beach ´Veli Mel´, all balkony have view on the sea. Near the haus there are many beaches ideal for people who want to enjoy in peace. Hundred metres near the house is shop, 5 restorants, boat marine. All the guests have their own parking place for the cars; it is possible to use the outside grill and a big terrace in front of the house. All the appartments have sat/tv, app number 4 and 5 have air condition, big balconies and everything you need for a pleasant vacation.You can arrange with the host to go on a boat excursion to nearby islands (Goli otok, Grgur) or many sandy beaches in the surroundings.
ApartmentsVideoCocktails Bamboocho "Villa Leona" is a habitable building recently built, placed 150 m from the sand beach "San Marino". "Villa Leona" has four excellently equipped apartaments and a wide garden. 100 m far from the place there are a bank, a shop, various restaurants, the first aid and many sport and entertainment attractions.
they offer comfortable apartments which are ideal for a pleasant and relaxing stay during the summer season. The family house of Mrs. Ana is located in the tourist center of ´San Marino´, in the very focus of all the summer events, and offers guests a warm family atmosphere and the optimal conditions of accommodation, just hundred meters from the famous ´Paradise beach´, one of the most beautiful beaches on the Adriatic coast. The owners are particularly proud of the beautifully garden in the backyard of their family home, which has more than fifty species of various Mediterranean plants. The family house has five tastefully furnished apartments for vacation, the first category (***), and each is suitable for 4 +1 persons. The apartments have fully equipped kitchens, air conditioning, satellite TV, washing machine on the outside for all to use, guests are offered free complimentary access t.


Torben Fisker Olsen (43) is managing director of FloriPartner in Odense, Denmark. Floribusiness editor Peter van Leth spoke to him at the Florensis trip in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Do you have a horticultural background?
How would you describe the Danish growers?
Why are Danish growers mainly growers of potplants and not cutflowers?
That is not a wide diversity. Why not?
Do you think growers also have a responsibility when it comes down to sustainable material of breeders?
Latest article Free trade: This is where it stops!


The news this week is the huge success of our culminating summer reading program events and the thanks we owe to all the wonderful folks who supported us.
The Children and Teen Carnival on Thursday, featured two authors – Maria Gallaugher for the younger children and Erin Bow for teens and adults. Each event featured more than 25 attendees which was a great audience for our authors.
Additionally, we had face painting for the younger kids and henna art for the older ones by Sohayla Smith, who worked tirelessly throughout the afternoon AND evening. Josh Oatman provided music and added a festive tone to the event. To top it off, Jade, Jeanne and Briana organized games in the parking lot and in the KTH room.
There was no end to the fun! A thanks too to the Town works crew who barricaded off the parking lot so our youngsters could be active and safe for the day.
TD Summer Reading Club Grand Finale: The final event was held on Saturday and all our great readers were recognized! In total the children read 2,113 books this summer and participated in a number of really great activities.
Teen Summer Reading Challenge: Our teens worked very hard to complete the weekly challenges and read a total of 281 hours altogether. They actively participated in the Kerplunk and Frisbee challenges at the Youth Carnival and really loved the henna art.
Our summer programs are ended for now but will resume again in September, so watch for announcements on Facebook and our website.
The other event in which we at SPL were involved which was a huge success was Mystery and Mayhem in the Hills of Mulmur held at Dufferin County Museum last Sunday, August 21. The event was sold out several days before.
Authors, Ian Hamilton, Steve Burrows, with Nancy Frater stepping in as Inger Ash Wolfe who was ill and moderator, Ken Weber delighted the audience throughout the afternoon. The Globe Restaurant provided the tasty tidbits, Steamwhistle Brewery, the beer and Southbrook Winery, the wine to make it all a very special event.
To add to the enjoyment of the audience, we had a cast of actors greeting guests, Miss Marple (Sharon Martin), Sherlock Holmes (David Nairn), the English Bobby (Paul Nancecivell) and Dr. Watson (Wayne Townsend).
This was the second year of the event conceived by Janet Horner from Mulmur Council with support of committee members, Nancy Frater, BookLore, Frances MacFarlane, Phyllis Robinson, Marian Gallaugher, Anne McMillen, Katharin Cowan, and Rose Dotten, SPL.


STC's enterprise unit has signed an MoU with Ateon to develop blockchain-based solutions for the financial sector.
Published: 3 July 2018 - 9:20 a.m.
STC's Enterprise Business Unit has signed an MoU with Ateon to promote blockchain in FinTech.
Under the agreement, Ateon and STC will jointly develop and market blockchain-based FinTech solutions to assist organisations in their digital transformation. Ateon is a founding member of SAMA's FinTech Saudi Initiative and one of the first companies to blockchain FinTech solutions in the Kingdom.
The memorandum was signed by Riyadh S. Muawad, Vice President of Key Accounts at STC Business and Mansoor AlGhamdi, Vice Chairman at Alhamrani Group.
Riyadh S. Muawad said: "Fully aligned with the Kingdom's Vison 2030, we are always open to adopt and accelerate cutting-edge technologies and specifically blockchain is one of the key transformational technology which is going to disrupt the status quo and transformed all businesses and governments."
Saud A. AlSheraihi, General Manager of Business Development at STC Business added: "The emerging technologies continuously disrupt the way that we do business, we believe that blockchain technology has the key to address many challenges that different sectors have, where financial sector ranks among the top. Partnering with Ateon, a local blockchain solutions provider and systems integrator, unlocks the potential to provide innovative solutions tailored for the market."
Dr. Husam Yaghi, President of Ateon's commented: "This partnership is of vital importance due to depth STC offers through its diversified ICT portfolio. As leaders in the local FinTech and blockchain space, our enterprise solutions are already helping global financial institutions and banks to become an early adopter of the blockchain technology. This MOU kicked off our collaboration with STC to offer FinTech solutions for every business segment across Saudi Arabia."


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Myriopathes bifaria är en korallart som först beskrevs av Brook 1889.  Myriopathes bifaria ingår i släktet Myriopathes och familjen Myriopathidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

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bifaria

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The Sunday of Biology Week (13th October) is UK Fungus Day, and alongside this we hope lots of people will head outdoors and record some of what they see.
If you take some photos while you're out and about, please share them with us using the #BiologyWeek Twitter hashtag or by posting them onto our facebook group. And when the weekend's over, please join Professor Adam Hart's 24 hour ant and bee lecturethon, in person or via Skype.
You can record ladybird sightings on the UK Ladybird Survey website, or on their app. They also have a guide for ladybird identification.
Slugwatch: report your Spanish Slug sightings with #slugwatch.
If you are an experienced taxonomist, or keen to become one, the Biological Records Centre provides contact details of recording groups.
Learn more about local wildlife with OPAL, and join their biodiversity survey.
You can test your nature knowledge with the OPAL Urban Safari game.
The National Amphibian and Reptile Recording Scheme provides resources for budding surveyors to go out and record amphibians and reptiles by themselves and submit sightings to the website.
The Woodland Trust hosts Nature's Calendar, a place where volunteers can record their sightings of the changing seasons and the effects that climate change might be having on our wildlife.
In addition to its annual Big Butterfly Count, Butterfly Conservation has year round monitoring schemes for moths and butterflies.
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust has a recording scheme and can help with identification.
Buglife has surveys of beetles and aphids.
You can record trees with the Treezilla app.
The Countryside Job Service lists more surveys you can get involved with.
You can also try out some DIY for your garden bees.


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A Grécia participou dos  Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1956 em Melbourne, na Austrália.

Medalhista

Bronze
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I won NaNo and another snippet
Posted on November 28, 2018 by Delilah Night
Technically NaNo doesn't end until Friday, but I uploaded and validated my win today with a grand total of 80,900 words. I finished both The Game of Love and Lab Rats.
The Game of Love is exactly the type of hot mess draft that just pushing through a story, even when deep down you know it's weak and needs a lot of work, can produce. I knew it was a mistake not to go back and fix things, but I pushed through instead. Now what I have is a hot mess that will need so much editing it will be almost starting from scratch. Ironically this is the first novel I've ever outlined, and I guess part of me thought that it would help create a cleaner first draft. I've reread it and there's promise, but it's more like a draft I would have written a dozen years ago (aka the last time I won NaNo) that my current standard of writing.
Lab Rats is a whole other ballgame. I hope that after reading the snippet in the last post you also see the promise. Here's another snippet from Chapter One, featuring my hero, who has a giant stick up his butt at the start of the book.
Dr Benjamin Wells didn't watch daytime television. It was a frivolous waste of time, and the only frivolity he enjoyed was Star Trek: The Next Generation.
"Dr. Wells?" the brunette in the first row—Valerie Alvarez, according to the seating chart—waved her hand in an undignified manner.
"Yes, Ms. Alvarez?"
"Do you think that there's any way, biologically speaking, that the viral video about the werewolf on that morning show is possible?"
"I think we should leave nonsense like werewolves to discount writers and movies, don't you?"
"So you don't believe it?" The voice came from the back of the room without so much as a raised hand.
"I will admit to not seeing it, but no, I do not believe that such mutations are biologically probable," Ben replied.
"You say not probable, not impossible." Yet another student blathering on about this damned video.
"Enough. Today's lecture is on DNA methylation. You have all read the assigned reading, I hope." From there he launched into his lecture.
The students, properly rebuked, opened their laptops and began to take notes. There were no more ridiculous suppositions about mythical creatures.
Once back in his office, though, curiosity got the better of him. What was this dratted video they were all going on about? He entered Video werewolf talk show into the search bar. Already ashamed of this waste of time, he clicked on the first search result.
He rolled his eyes at the pap his students were watching. What a waste of time. Was this some sort of mass joke on the professor in retaliation for a test he hadn't graded on a curve? Trends in movies? Who cared?
"Screw that," finished the actor and he stood. Ears shifted upwards on a head that was turning, indeed lupine in nature. Fingers became shorter and melded together into a paw. The screaming in the background was frenzied. Then the video cut out.
Ben wanted to dismiss it as CGI. But something deep inside of him—the reptilian part of his brain, he reasoned—quaked in fear. All of that rippling skin, hair sprouting from every inch of the body, hands blurring into paws made his stomach roil. If this was real, there seemed to be no way to know who was human or not until they exposed themselves. What if people of actual consequence—generals, the President, the Dean—was one of them?
Fear skittered along Ben's spine.
The phone rang at seven that evening, just as he was about to leave his office and go home. He almost didn't answer, but his stepmother's cold voice droned in his head that when one is present it's just good manners to answer a ringing telephone.
Ben picked up the phone. "Dr. Benjamin Wells."
"This is General Abernathy with the US Army Medical Corps." The voice was low and rumbled, yet carried an undeniable authority. It was a voice used to being obeyed.
"How can I help you, General?"
"It is the belief of our scientists that you are the best person to examine the werewolf. Your paper on mutations of human cells suggests you can tell us if this is a mutation or something entirely inhuman."
Benjamin blinked several times. "You want me to experiment on a werewolf?"
"Yes. We have it in custody, and in a reinforced cage. We can get you the blood you need to conduct your research. Will you serve your country?"
Revulsion flooded Benjamin's body. He wanted to go back to this morning, before he'd heard about the video. He didn't want anything to do with mutants or the government. But another voice twined through his brain—someone will do their research for them. They will be famous, able to get tenure at any university Think of the research money. The two impulses battled for supremacy.
Benjamin was as surprised to hear himself say, "Yes, sir, I will."
"Excellent. I will meet you in your office at oh-six-hundred tomorrow morning."
The phone clicked, signalling that the General had hung up.
What have I agreed to?
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Nano progress and a snippet
With only eight days left, most of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is behind me. I've "won" in that I've written more than 50,000 words this month–an unprecedented level of success and productivity. I guess this is what I can do with basically no distractions like television (I genuinely forgot Outlander was back, and I'm a huge fan), keeping my book playlists on repeat so that the characters are constantly in my head, and dragging my laptop literally everywhere. It's also what I can do when I dance on the edge and sometimes slightly into the manic side of my bipolar disorder, which is kind of exhausting, honestly.
I think it's healthy to have a daily writing goal and it's helping me quite a bit right now. But I'm also going to have to go into an editing phase and I'll need to figure out how I can write and edit at the same time. Historically I've only focused on one and that means huge lags between my projects. It's been two years since Capturing the Moment was published (three since it was accepted for publication) and while there have been huge changes in that time, like an international move, I have not always used my time well. I have some ideas for New Years Resolutions, but we shall see how things progress from here.
Thus far in Nano I have completed the book about love and espionage at a video game company (which is either a long novella or a short novel), and am about 90% done with the second big project of November which is a long novella about what comes after the Were community is exposed on national television, and what will be the first in my first series of stories.
In the meantime, he's the opening from that Shapeshifter book, which I'm currently calling Lab Rats
Everything went to hell in less time than it took to conduct a five minute interview on Wake Up LA!
Liz Green, the perky blonde co-host batted her eyelashes at Justin Carson. He was a deliciously hot up and coming actor. She wondered if he had a girlfriend, and if he might be amenable to a little extracurricular activity in her dressing room. She leaned forward, just enough to give Justin a glimpse down the front of her top.
"So what do you think of the new trend? Zombies are in, werewolves and vampires are out."
"Zombies suck," Justin said flatly. "Werewolves are where it's at. You think dead humans are scary when they want to suck you blood or eat your face? That's not scary. You know what's scary, Liz? When you can't tell the monsters from the humans. How can you? Anyone here could be a werewolf. I could a werewolf."
Liz, laughed nervously. "I had no idea you were so passionate about scary movies!"
She had never lost control of an interview before, and Justin wasn't about to faze her. He was probably teasing a new project. She could picture him in a horror flick, and even more clearly, she could picture herself clinging to his arm, pressing her face against his broad shoulder, his arm coming around her to hold her close. Later that night, he'd tease her for being so scared of make believe creatures, and then he'd rock her world six ways from Sunday.
"But you know what, Liz? No one thinks they're real, so humans get cast to play werewolves."
Liz laughed and played along. "Sounds like you've got a very meta project coming up. Actors playing werewolves who are actually werewolves. Give us another hint."
Justin growled. Actually growled.
Nervously, Liz looked at her notecards. "So how did you connect with the character of Grant for After Dark?"
Justin stared at her, unblinking.
Liz glanced at the camera. The interview was D.O.A. and she still had three minutes to fill. Her foot jiggled, the heel bouncing against the floor. The idea of hot sex in her dressing room was starting to fade in the harsh light of a bad interview. She knew she'd be blamed for it—bad delivery of questions, not enough effort at chemistry, making him upset. She took a deep breath, then flashed a dazzling smile at Justin.
"I heard the producers are hoping to start a whole After Dark franchise."
Maybe that would get this interview back on track. Most actors couldn't wait to talk about how their franchise was going to be the biggest thing since the Marvel Cinematic Universe series of movies. Please let this get him out of whatever snit he was in. Please, please, please.
"Weres are scared of being outed, and this is the consequence. Screw that."
Justin's hands clenched the armrests of his chair, and his knuckles turned white from the pressure. His nails scraped over the buttery leather, leaving marks in their wake.
"Um…" God help her, she was going to have to dump to commercial. Liz sat back, and squirmed, no longer thinking of sweaty trysts on the soft blue coverlet of the daybed she'd picked over having a couch in her dressing room. At this point, she'd be grateful just to climb into the daybed and pull that coverlet over her head until she could face the world again after this horrific goose egg of an interview.
Justin stood up. He kicked off his shoes, but his paws ripped through the socks. His jeans shredded as his legs contorted, becoming shorter and thicker. His face elongated, and suddenly long canines snapped at his shirt until it, too, ripped and fell away from his body. Within a minute, a large wolf had replaced the handsome man.
Liz screamed, and fell off her chair, out of view of the camera. She skittered backwards, away from the monster she'd actually fantasized about fucking. She could feel a wetness spreading under her as she peed herself in fear. She scrambled to her feet, kicked off her heels and ran as fast as she could toward the safety of her dressing room, which had a solid lock. She'd be safe there, or so she hoped.
As Liz was escaping, the audience had fallen into chaos. People were shoving each other, willing to trample the less vulnerable in an effort to get away as fast as possible. Screams mingled with sobbing as the reality that this wasn't some strange special effect—this was a real honest-to-God werewolf. And if you believed him, he wasn't the only one. They fled as if he were on their heels, about to take a big bite out of them.
A woman wearing a smart blue pantsuit with tasteful gold jewelry dashed into the frame.
"Justin, we need to go. Now!"
The large wolf snarled at her.
"I said now," she snarled back.
The wolf turned its head to the camera, tilted its head back, and howled.
The video cut out.
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Sneak Peek: Lab Rats
Posted on April 22, 2016 by Delilah Night
Today I have a little taste of a story I just sent off to a submission call–Lab Rats.
Dr. Benjamin Wells is close to creating a serum to expose the werecreatures that have been hiding among us. But the distracting new intern makes him feel like an animal…
Ben tried to focus on his microscope, but found himself distracted, yet again, by the intern. The local university provided research funds in exchange for one student placement per semester. After ten years of a mutually beneficial arrangement, Diana Lutz made Ben question whether the funding was worth the effort of dealing with her.
Everything about Diana scraped at him.
The gaping lab coat, buttons strained nearly to the breaking point by generous breasts. What had been her reaction at being told her to wear a garment that fit her properly?
"If you're too cheap to buy one that fits, how is that my problem? You're the well-funded scientist. I'm a broke grad student. You want me to wear something else, buy it yourself!"
She rubbed her femininity in the face of Ben and his two male post-docs, Derek and Peter. She twisted her hair back in a respectable braid, but secured it with a colorful clip. Beneath her safety goggles, her lips were always a slick, shiny red. Earrings never failed to sparkle at her earlobes.
All of that made Ben itchy, but it was nothing compared to the way she smelled. Her perfume seduced him, drawing him closer to her as a courtier paid homage to his queen. Ben was nearly forty, far too long in the tooth to be attracted to an undergraduate barely old enough to drink. It had to stop.
Wish the story luck as it goes off into the world in search of a home…
Thank you to Tamsin Flowers for the beta reading! (Are you reading her A-Z challenge? You should be!)
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Book Review Series: #2 Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives The Economy, Why It Matters For Global Capitalism
Reviewed by : Lakshmi Priya
Animal Spirits by the two lionized economists Akerlof and Shiller, comprehensively analyses the need for accounting the 'animal spirits' and other tempestuous factors into the economic theory to avert the repetition of older economic fallacies. They challenge the untouched conformist economics which have been promoting the repetition of these fallacies. Instead, they proffer a new intrepid vision to economics by endorsing a behavioural, sociological and rational approach.
Descending from the word 'Spiritus Animales' (Keynes , 1935), the animal spirits denotes the animating spirits that drive people to make important decisions. Being a blend of credence, angst and scepticism, animal spirits was first used by JM Keynes in 1936 to depict how intuition and behaviour of the investor were considered even before having a glimpse of the economic analysis. The author expresses concern on animal spirits not being included while framing economic models, and how macroeconomics should evolve in the future. The theme revolves around behavioural economics, with a plea to broaden the scope of learning and understanding macroeconomics by also correlating emotions in the business cycle.
The book discusses the five facets of animal spirits that affect business decisions – confidence, fairness, corruption and bad faith, money illusion, and stories. Confidence, being a self-fulfilling prophecy, places genuine trust and credibility in the economic system. After Donald Trump became the President, the US markets became sanguine indicating the return of animal spirits. It's hard to predict if his plan to cut tax and increase spending was useful, but this has boosted business and consumer confidence in the US.
With the idea of fairness overriding rational economic motivation and the possibility of punishment reducing selfish behaviour supports, his argument that people care about fairness and justice is thus reinforced. With reference to the third point – concealing tangible information and sale of bad products could abuse the trust and inflate corruption and bad faith in the economy. Money illusions could only magnify the debts disclosing the inability of people in adapting to the changes in the price level. While the stories have narrative power to drive human behaviour to initiate economic decisions, this could even impart damage to the economy as it did in the 1930's. During the heights of Great Depression, stories of failing businesses spread far and wide leading to closures, downfall and suicides of large number of tradesmen across the country. While considering the better performance of Toyota, Japanese animal spirits were stimulated by stories of identity and confidence. (Akerlof & Shiller, 2009, p. 137)
As the subsequent part of the book flirts with how these five powerful forces of human psychology contribute to framing economic policies and decisions, the requisite of an active government involvement in policymaking is thereby distinctly defined. Both Akerlof and Shiller have espoused a normative perspective to developing economic theories and augmenting a vivid discernment of the background of the crisis which could be an aid in improving the potential of forecasting the bloom of any economic crisis.
Eight versatile economic issues- depression, limited power of central banks, volatility of prices, inflation, unemployment, the problem of saving, the cycle of real estate markets and poverty are debated audibly. Another riveting factor is that the monetary and fiscal policy instigated by the policymakers have a tremendous effect on impulses and emotions or the animal spirits. These deviations from economic rationality could promote the breaking of the myth of rational decision making. It could even pave the path for further developments and contributions in behavioural economics. From this thread, the Nobel prize winner of 2017 in Economics, Richard Thaler re-educated and coined a vocabulary for these animal spirits (Thompson, 2017).
Regarding capitalism, Adam Smith stated that the fact that there is little, or no, need for Government intervention – is also unwarranted (Akerlof & Shiller, 2009, p. 3). Smith stressed on the rational behaviour of agents and presence of 'invisible hands' while Keynes emphasised on the existence of animal spirits or a behavioural combination of emotions and impulses which was a deviation from the normal rational behaviour. Moreover, it is indispensable to accommodate these economic, non-economic, rational and irrational motives while analysing the economy as it would enhance the confidence and the trust incorporated in the economic policies. As Akerlof and Shiller focus on the necessity of incorporating these essential features using empirical data, this book becomes a roadmap that possibly could be the solution to most economic conundrums ingrained in society.
The writing style is both high-spirited and engaging. As a sceptic and an economics graduate, I believe this book would be most beneficial to those with a rudimentary understanding of macroeconomics and its psychological approach. The book is hard to digest in one read and is very easy to forget. This could be because the authors have tried to unfold too many intrinsic implications, excerpts and various perspectives altogether. At times Shiller's and Akerlof's style tends to be magniloquent, but to an extent, they have successfully balanced their perspectives, which makes the book appealing to any forward-looking economist. The authors have done justice to the book by substantiating relevant illustrations from past to support their arguments, especially in the second part of the book where they have contemplated a lot of efforts in furnishing real motivation and evidence to reinforce passive ubiquity of animal spirits in the economic system. I am strongly enticed by their vivid elucidation of how overconfidence is drastically followed by under confidence in a bubble burst.
The title of the book 'Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, Why It Matters for Global Capitalism' is apt as the entire book concentrates on how the unpredictability of human emotions or 'animal spirits' influences and conditions the consumer and investor confidence. Moreover, this book could be a good start to all economic enthusiast who would want to have a wider perspective on behavioural economics. Their writing style is erudite and displays a sense of lucidity and brevity, which lacks in most academic works in general. This leads to the final comment I wish to make about why it would make a good source of literature in behavioural economics.
Akerlof, G., & Shiller, G. (2009). Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Dougherty, P. (2002). Who's afraid of Adam Smith? Wiley; 1 edition.
Keynes , J. M. (1935). The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Thompson, D. (2017, October 9). Richard Thaler Wins the Nobel in Economics for Killing Homo Economicus.
Lakshmi Priya is a first year masters ' student of Diplomacy in Law and Business at Jindal School of International Affairs.
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Book Review Series: #1 Phishing For Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception
Interview: Dr. Neelanjan Sircar


Bonus Web Content - April - Persnickety Pests…Continued!
In "Know Your Enemy" by Rachel O'Connell, SN's editorial assistant, readers receive a pest-by-pest refresher on why and how to banish the worst-of-the-worst in order to keep serving the best-of-the-best. This To Your Credit article in April 2018's issue covers rats, mice, cockroaches and flies, but we know there are more types of pests you might need to control, which is why this online content includes advice for birds, stinging pests (like wasps) and ants.
You might think that birds are at their worst when they fly in, unexpected, and wreak havoc on your cafeteria, your time and your patience. But, even before they're flown through your windows, bird have likely taken roost in your building or ventilation system—the worst part of which is that they are carriers of over 60 transmittable diseases, including Salmonella! They are also carriers of fleas, ticks, lice and mites (talk about pests on pests!).
It is important, regardless of these facts, to be exceedingly careful when approaching pest control of birds. Many birds are protected species and it is best to be safe (especially because common removal includes climbing on ladders) and call a pest removal service. Make sure to specify a need for foodsafe means of removal when inside your operation.
Eliminate standing water that birds will use to feed. This includes ensuring gutters are cleaned.
Make sure any open trash cans are covered.
Stinging pests are a serious issue, particularly with rampant allergy concerns. These concerns increase with outdoor cookouts and eating areas favored by many students. Whether a bee, yellow jacket or stinging ant, these critters should be contained as soon as a nest is identified. And, given the tendency of these insects to swarm, it should be done by a professional. In the United States, more people die each year from insect stings than from poisonous snake bites.
Make sure there is no panic if others are in the vicinity of the nest and that all other people (students, staff, etc.) are cleared away.
If anyone was harmed by an insect, proceed with emergency protocol immediately.
Many honey bees are now protected. You may need to contain the area and consult with an expert bee keeper if a honey bee nest is found.
There are many different types of ants: Carpenter, Fire, Ghost, Pavement, Pharaoh, Argentine, Odorous House, Leafcutter, and more. They are social creatures that thrive in colonies—so you won't be successful killing just one at a time, especially because ants lay down a chemical pheromone trail along pre-established routes to and from their food sources so that other ants can follow the "pheromone brick road." Therefore, you, as a future ant-killer, must first determine where the source of food is.
Carpenter ants, for instance, like termites, snack on wood. You will be able to spot them around damaged wood or wood piles very easily. Once you have identified the type of ant you are dealing with, you will be more equipped to develop an appropriate control strategy, i.e. ants that live outside and forage inside can be controlled by re-caulking, whereas ants that have nested inside might need ant baits.


Client: Comcast Role: Release Management Engineer (No Build and release manager) Number of positions: 3 Location: Philly Bachelor's degree in computer science/electronics or related field. Must be from a development background with C,C++, linux skills with following qualities. 5-10 years of previous release and/or Change management experience. Experience in IT integration, in an Agile/DevOps context . Ability to coordinate and lead cross-functional teams towards task completion- Knowledge of software development cycle and agile release train methodologies. Knowledge of JIRA workflow, Confluence pages. Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills. Should be detail oriented and have ability to work in a fast pace dynamic environment Should be able to support outside of business hours as needed Advanced written and verbal communication skills are a must.


Suspending Time, is the most complete look of the authors work held in Spain, curated by Isabel Carlos. It includes all work 2008-2010.
The exhibition comprised of works emanating out from research in the archives of Stanley Kubrick. Reflecting on the specific circumstance, the fact that he cancelled his film "Aryan Papers", whilst unfolding all of the research material around the abandoned project, culminating in the authors film "Unfolding the Aryan Papers", 2009. Historical memory and narrative speculation blend with each other, on a plane that only art can conscientiously problematize. The authors also exhibited carefully selected archive images from the 30's and 40's, images Kubrick had acquired from the Ealing Film Studio archive. The authors also created bronze casts of the original yardstick featured in their work and inspired by images from the Ealing archive.
The exhibition catalogue is issued in conjunction with a 2010-2011 exhibition of artwork by British artists Jane & Louise Wilson. With essays by Peter Osborne, Isabel Carlos and Mark Cousins. Includes a chronology, exhibitions history and many examples of the Wilson's work.
Text is in Spanish, Galician and English.


ALT City on CKLU Featured Band for June!
Alt. City on CKLU made Vintage Slang their featured band of the month! Thanks so much!
Go check them out at http://altcity.ca/featured-artist/ to see the feature and make sure to give them a 'Like' on their Facebook page too!
Listen to lots of CKLU 96.7 FM – Laurentian University Campus and Community Radio Station, they now have 'Standing Still' in their possession and are ready and willing to play it!
Q92 Rock Band Rumble Winners!


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New owner for Driver Hire's East London office
Home » News » New owner for Driver Hire's East London office
on March 23rd, 2016
Richard Pugh has completed the purchase of Driver Hire's East London franchise.
He's no stranger to the business, opening the office as a brand new venture in 2007 and then running it on a joint venture basis with Driver Hire ever since.
"I decided it was time to go it alone for a variety of reasons," says Richard. "Primarily the success I've enjoyed over the past nine years has put me into a strong enough position financially to buy the business outright. Longer term, owning the business 100% means I'll have a more valuable asset to sell. And, of course, as sole franchisee, the rewards for future business success will all go to me."
Over the past nine years Richard has enjoyed a consistent level of growth. Currently 30% up on same time last year, Richard and his team are heading for an all-time record trading performance in the current financial year.
Graham Duckworth, Driver Hire's Franchise Sales Director added: "Richard adds a lot to the network and is always generous with his advice and support. Coupled with his drive and determination to succeed, it's culminated in him winning this year's Driver Hire Award for Endeavour, which he collected at this year's Driver Hire Winter Conference. Richard is a great example of what franchising is all about and, if his past performance is anything to go by, is all set to continue his outstanding record of success."
Picture: Left to right: Chris Chidley, Driver Hire CEO, presents Richard Pugh with an award at the Driver Hire 2016 Winter Conference.


Publisher Toge Productions and developer Rolling Glory Jam announced their story-driven comic platformer Rage in Peace will be released on Steam and in the Nintendo eShop on November 8th. Armed with memorization skills and quick wits, players embody the protagonist Timmy to battle death and fate so that he can die in peace.
In Rage in Peace you'll be playing as Timmy Malinu, an emotionally numb 27 year old actuary whose greatest desire is to die in the most peaceful way possible: asleep in his pajamas, in the comfort of his own home, with no drama. Of course this doesn't happen and when the Grim Reaper shows up to inform him he'll die that night, Timmy wants to make his dream true. Of course the universe isn't kind and tries to spoil Timmy's death. Your job is to help Timmy get home safely, so he can finally live the death of his dreams!
Loosely inspired by Paulo Coelho de Souza stories, Rage in Peace wants to give meaning to death in a "rage game" where players meet their maker every few seconds. It's an upbeat, comical game with warm humor and bright colors brought to life by more than 10 independent Indonesian bands, as both Toge and Rolling Glory Jam showcase the best of Indonesian entertainment culture.


Will Marriage Counseling Save My Marriage?
One thing that comes up when a relationship isn't working out how you planned is the option of marriage counseling. When it comes to keeping your marriage together and you've tried everything else, or there is communication breakdown that you can't get past, marriage counseling is usually a last step for struggling couples. Getting through a tough time in a relationship can be hard, and when it comes to the crunch, marriage counseling could be the one thing that saves your marriage, or at the least make you realize that there is no saving.
What you need to know as a couple is that if you are both not 100% committed to fixing your problems you are unlikely to get the results you are looking for. Whether a marriage can be saved or not relies on several factors that the two partners bring to counseling. If you have both motivation and commitment, you can expect desired results, unfortunately, most couples have lost one or both of these, and it can be difficult find motivation and commitment.
One of the biggest issues that can hinder the desired result from counseling is that couples tend to leave it until it is too late to visit a therapist. Quite often there has been so much damage done to a relationship by the time they have decided to take the plunge and get outside professional help. The key to success rates in marriage counseling is approaching the issues early and fix it before it becomes too broken.
Communication breakdown is one of the leading causes for the need of marriage counseling. Sometimes couples have been holding a grudge about previous issues for years. Failing to tell someone how you are feeling about a subject or issue you have will eventually result in either a massive buildup that turns into a blow-up, or it builds so much that the couple can't even stand the sight of each other anymore. This sort of lack of communication is one of the main causes of marital affairs and can often simply end in divorce before any of the issues are fixed. Silence is a killer in relationships, and especially if your communication skills aren't great, marriage counseling could be the one thing that saves your marriage.
It can often take a massive episode that will force the couple into counseling, but the truth is that it should be begun before it gets out of control. Taking relationship problems seriously often takes a serious announcement, like an affair or the threat of separation or divorce and is usually the last straw before making a marriage counseling appointment.
Unfortunately, if these issues are left too late, it may also be too late for reconciliation. Marriage counseling achieves the best results when issues are tended to early, and teaching communication skills is a great way to make a relationship in the early stages of disaster better, but it's not going to be the only solution if you leave it too late. It takes both parties in the relationship to want to change. If you are not both in for a solution, then it may already be too late. The role of a counselor is not to fix the issues of your marriage, it is to bring the attention to what your issues are and offer solutions to fix them. The key factor here though is that you both must be 100% willing to listen, self-reflect and be dedicated to fixing the issues.
The first step to marriage counseling is to put out any current fires that are burning out of control in the relationship. These immediate issues need to be stabilized to move forward to then work out the underlying causes of the problems.
Some things the counselor will bring up to immediately assess the situation include whether you and your partner are willing to learn new things about yourself, communication and relationships. They will need to know if you are able and willing to let go of the need to be right and accept responsibility for the areas where you fall short in the relationship and pass on the blame.
Marriage therapy takes motivation and commitment.
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#import "Platforms/CCGL.h"

#import "CCLayer.h"
#import "CCDirector.h"
#import "ccMacros.h"
#import "Support/CGPointExtension.h"

#ifdef __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED
#import "Platforms/iOS/CCTouchDispatcher.h"
#import "Platforms/iOS/CCDirectorIOS.h"
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#import "Platforms/Mac/CCEventDispatcher.h"
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+ (id) layerWithColor:(ccColor4B)color width:(GLfloat)w  height:(GLfloat) h
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	[super setContentSize:size];
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{
	[self setContentSize:CGSizeMake(w,h)];
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-(void) changeWidth: (GLfloat) w
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-(void) changeHeight: (GLfloat) h
{
	[self setContentSize:CGSizeMake(contentSize_.width,h)];
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- (void) updateColor
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Download the Acoustic Christmas EP
Wilde Life is ending the year 2015 by giving away a free download: an acoustic Christmas EP.
The Acoustic Christmas EP is a compilation of radio and TV performances from 2013 and 2015, giving you the best acoustic tracks as performed by Kim, Ricky and Scarlett, plus special guests Cliff Richard and Nik Kershaw. The EP is only available on this website as a free download.
The full tracklisting is shown here:
Move it (featuring Cliff Richard)
White Winter Hymnal
Teenager In Love (featuring Cliff Richard)
You Came
Recorded at Chris Evans' radio show for BBC, November 8, 2013
The Riddle (featuring Nik Kershaw)
Kids In America (featuring Nik Kershaw)
Recorded at The Morning Show, Australian TV, October 15, 2013
Recorded at Guten Morgen Deutschland, December 9, 2013
Recorded at Robert Elms' radio show for BBC Radio London, December 3, 2013
Hey Mister Snowman / Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
Recorded at Loose Ends, November 30, 2013
Keeping The Dream Alive
Recorded at Phil Williams' radio show for BBC, December 15, 2015
Recorded at Kim's home for Dutch Radio 2, Top 2000, Summer 2015
You can download the EP here.