Best wishes on Diwali and New year. Leading us into Truth and Light, Diwali is celebrated on a nation-wide scale on Naraka Chathurthasi day on the dawn of Ammavaasa during the Hindu month of Aippasi (September/October) every year. It symbolizes the age-old culture of our country which teaches us to vanquish ignorance that subdues humanity and to drive away darkness that engulfs the light of knowledge. Diwali, the festival of lights even today in this modern world projects the rich and glorious past of our country and teaches us to uphold the true values of life.
"Diwali" is the easy-to-pronounce form of Deepavalai. In Sanskrit "Deepawali" is the marriage of two Sanskrit words- Deepa meaning light and Avali, meaning a row. Indeed celebrating the row of lights forms one of Diwali's main attraction. Every home – huts of the poor to the mansions of the rich are aglow with the orange glow of twinkling diyas. Lighting these small earthen lamps welcome Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth and prosperity. Multi-colored Rangoli designs, floral decorations and fireworks lend vivid, colorful imagery and grandeur to this festival which heralds joy, mirth and happiness in the ensuring year.
This festival is celebrated on a grand scale in almost all the regions of India and is looked upon in some parts of India as the beginning of New Calendar or Financial Year. For those who believe Diwali begins a new financial year tidy up their accounts and are much more apt to hold grand pujas and devotional displays for Goddess Lakshmi. As such the blessings of Lakshmi, the celestial consort of Lord Vishnu are invoked with prayers. Even countries like Kenya, Thailand, Trinidad, Siam and Malaya celebrate this festival but in their own ways.
This Diwali festival, it is surmised dates back to that period when perhaps history was not written, and in its progress through centuries it lighted path of thousands to attain the ultimate good and complete ecstasy. Diwali is very enthusiastically celebrated for five continuous days and each day has its significance with a number of myths, legends and beliefs.
Dhanteras marks the first day of five-days-long Diwali Festival. Dhanteras Festival, also known as Dhantrayodashi or Dhanwantari Triodasi, falls on the auspicious thirteenth lunar day of Krishna Paksha in the Hindu month of Kartik (October/November). In the word Dhanteras, "Dhan" stands for wealth. On Dhanteras Goddess Laxmi is worshiped to provide prosperity and well being. Hence Dhan Teras holds a lot more significance for the business community.
The day of Lakshmi-Puja falls on the dark night of Amavasya. The strains of joyous sounds of bells and drums float from the temples as man is invoking Goddess Laxmi in a wondrous holy "pouring-in" of his heart. All of a sudden that impenetrable darkness is pierced by innumerable rays of light for just a moment and the next moment a blaze of light descends down to earth from heaven as golden-footed Deep-Lakshmi alights on earth in all her celestial glory amidst chantings of Vedic hymns.
Lakshmi Puja consists of a combined puja of five deities: Ganesha is worshiped at the beginning of every auspicious act as Vighnaharta; Goddess Lakshmi is worshiped in her three forms – Mahalakshmi (the goddess of wealth and money), Mahasaraswati (the goddess of books and learning), and Mahakali; Kuber (the treasurer of the gods) is also worshiped.
The day following the Amavasya is "Kartik Shuddh Padwa" and it is only on this day that the King Bali would come out of Pathal Loka and rule Bhulok as per the boon given by Lord Vishnu. Hence, it is also known as "Bali Padyami". This day also marks the coronation of King Vikramaditya and Vikaram-Samvat was started from this Padwa day.
Gudi Padwa is symbolic of love and devotion between the wife and husband. On this day newly-married daughters with their husbands are invited for special meals and given presents. In olden days brothers went to fetch their sisters from their in-laws home for this important day.
Govardhan-Puja is also performed in the North on this day. Govardhan is a small hillock in Braj, near Mathura and on this day of Diwali people of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar build cowdung, hillocks, decorate them with flowers and then worship them. This festival is in commemoration of the lifting of Mount Govardhan by Krishna. As per Vishnu-Puran the people of Gokul used to celebrate a festival in honor of Lord Indra and worshiped him after the end of every monsoon season but one particular year the young Krishna stopped them from offering prayers to Lord Indra who in terrific anger sent a deluge to submerge Gokul.
This day is also observed as Annakoot meaning mountain of food. Pious people keep awake the whole night and cook fifty-six or 108 different types of food for the bhog (the offering of food) to Krishna. In temples specially in Mathura and Nathadwara, the deities are given milkbath, dressed in shining attires with ornaments of dazzling diamonds, pearls, rubies and other precious stones. After the prayers and traditional worship innumerable varieties of delicious sweets are ceremoniously raised in the form of a mountain before the deities as "Bhog" and then the devotees approach the Mountain of Food and take Prasad from it.
The fifth day of Deepavali or Diwali is celebrated as Bhaiya Dooj, popularly know as Bhai Dooj. The name itself denotes the day of the festival i.e it falls on Dooj, the second day after the new moon. This day Yamaraj went to his sister's house who put an auspicious mark on his forehead for his welfare. Thus, on this day sisters perform puja for their brothers safety and well being. Brothers in return give gifts to their sisters as a token of love.
Another version is after killing Narakasur, Lord Krishna, went to his sister Subhadra who welcomed him in the traditional way by showing him a light and putting on his forehead a tilak of her sisterly protection. Another myth behind this begins as when Bhagawaan Mahavir found nirvana, his brother Raja Nandivardhan was distressed because he missed him and was comforted by his sister Sudarshana. Since then, women have been revered during this festival.
The festival of Diwali is not complete without "Bhaiyya-Duj" in the Hindi-speaking belt, "Bhav–Bij" in the Marathi-speaking communities, "Bhai Phota" to the Bengalees and in Nepal by the name of "Bhai-Tika".
Diwali is a personal, people-oriented festival when enmities are forgotten, families and friends meet, enjoy and establish a word of closeness. Reflecting this essence, Bhai dooj has its own importance in continuing to maintain the love between brothers and sisters for it is the day of food-sharing, gift-giving and reaching out to the inner most depths of the hearts.
As a festival of light and beauty it encourages artistic expressions through home-decorations stage-plays, elocution competitions singing and dancing programmes, making gift items and making delectable sweets thereby discovering new talents of younger people. As a result innumerable communities with varying cultures and customs mingle together to make Bhai Dooj celebrations a very happy occasion for all.
Senate Resolution 299, recognizing the "religious and historical significance of the festival of DIWALI, passed unanimously on November 14, 2007 in the U.S. Senate.
Nearly identical to the House Resolution 747 that passed in the full House of Representatives on October 29, 2007, the senate resolution was introduced by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and was co-sponsored by Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Carl Levin (D-MI), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Robert Casey (D-PA).
Both resolutions were written with the input of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF), and recognized Diwali as a festival celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sindhis and Sikhs. The text explains the meaning of the festival, how it is celebrated and describes its religious significance.
HAF released a joint statement lauding the resolution and welcomed their passage as a testament to the increase in understanding of Hinduism and Hindu Americans that has occurred among U.S. policy makers and elected officials. It thanked Sen. Menendez, and the co-sponsors of the Senate resolution, for their commitment to the Hindu American community and for encouraging their colleagues to support the resolution.
"These resolutions are symbolic, but we hope that the momentum of this event – where hundreds of legislators voted to recognize a Hindu festival – will inspire Hindu Americans everywhere to work towards Diwali's recognition at the state level, having the festival listed on more calendars, and taking the opportunity to spread awareness of their faith and its festivals at their schools and places of work," the statement read.
The passed resolutions have already been distributed at several Hindu temples and at Diwali celebrations throughout the US, according to the Foundation, and these efforts will continue.


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Gov. Malloy sounds warning as transportation debt threatens to cancel projects
By Marc E. Fitch December 7 , 2017
Budget, Transportation
Gov. Dannel Malloy issued a warning Thursday about the future of Connecticut's special transportation fund, which will no longer be able to fully fund a number of transportation projects due to increasing debts costs and lower-than-expected revenue.
A new report from the Office of Policy and Management wrote that "the current STF balance under the budget adopted in October cannot support the previously planned level of capital investments and services, while also funding normal operations for the Department of Transportation (DOT), including highway maintenance and bus and rail operations."
Malloy reiterated his position that transportation projects are "critical to our economic success and simply cutting our way out of this would be catastrophic to our state."
The STF shortage could mean higher fares for both bus and railroad service and subsidy cuts to transit districts. $4.3 billion in current projects may have to be put on hold.
The primary issues facing the STF is lower-than-expected revenue from the gasoline tax – blamed on low oil prices, and fuel efficient cars – and the increasing cost of debt service for past projects, which threatens to grow from $614 million to $941 million by 2022, leaving the STF with a $216 million deficit.
In order for the STF to bond for projects, it must show that it is "in balance during the biennium and coming years," the OPM report said. The report said Connecticut will either have to curtail projects or find a new revenue source.
One of the suggestions contained in the OPM report is to issue General Obligation bonds to offset the losses in the STF and "maintain progress on important projects," but it would require legislative approval.
The report also recommended creating a constitutional amendment to place a "lockbox" on the STF to prevent the legislature from raiding it for money to solve budget problems.
Malloy has embarked on a number of high-cost transportation projects during his tenure as governor, including the CTFastrak bus line which cost $567 million and the new rail-line from Hartford to Springfield, Massachusetts, which cost over $1 billion.
Malloy also pushed his Let's Go CT infrastructure project – a 30 year, $100 billion effort to modernize and expand Connecticut's infrastructure.
According to OPM's report, $2 billion of the $2.8 billion of Let's Go CT authorizations would "not advance as scheduled."
Although gas tax revenue is growing, it is not growing fast enough to keep pace with the STF's expenses. In 2015 budget also began to direct part of the state's sales tax revenue into the STF but "it proved insufficient to meet the needs of the fund," the OPM report said.
The legislature has also directed part of the state sales tax on new cars to the STF beginning in 2021, but that will be too late to make any difference to the fund's status.
Marc E. Fitch
Marc E. Fitch is the author of several books and novels including Shmexperts: How Power Politics and Ideology are Disguised as Science and Paranormal Nation: Why America Needs Ghosts, UFOs and Bigfoot. Marc was a 2014 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow and his work has appeared in The Federalist, American Thinker, The Skeptical Inquirer, World Net Daily and Real Clear Policy. Marc has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Western Connecticut State University. Marc can be reached at [email protected]
Secretary of the State Denise Merrill requests $150,000 for analyst to "monitor and combat election misinformation"
By Marc E. Fitch February 17, 2022 Budget,Good Government,Regulation
Nearly two years after the 2020 presidential election ignited a national firestorm of election fraud claims that culminated with the […]
Connecticut flush with cash? Not so fast, says municipal organizations
By Marc E. Fitch January 27, 2022 Budget,Local/Municipal
The day before Connecticut officials announced consensus revenue estimates of a $2.2 billion surplus in the state's finances, the Office […]

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The International Blues Challenge, The IBC is set to take place January 22nd through the 26th. This is where over 250 Blues Bands from all over the world will converge on Memphis Tennessee to battle it out to see who is the best Blues Band in this competition. These bands will be seen by Industry professionals and if your band doesn't win, the exposure you get is second to none. If you want to know more about the International Blues Challenge presented by the Blues Foundation, we have a couple of links on the BluesNews page at BluesTimeinthecity.com…..


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Q: Mathematica package for explicit matrix representations of group generators? While there are several packages that are capable of working with weights and roots (for example LieArt), I couldn't find any package that spits out explicit matrices for the generators, for example for $SO(n)$ or $SU(n)$, in various bases. Specifically, I'm looking for the $SO(10)$ generators in the standard basis and the Cartan-Weyl basis.
Does such a package exist somewhere?

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Discussion forum for 8v engines below 2.0l displacement.
2.0 8V (3A) + 1.8 8V head compression etc?
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package com.melons.input;

import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.Message;
import android.os.SystemClock;
import android.util.Log;
import android.util.SparseArray;
import android.view.InputDevice;
import android.view.MotionEvent;

import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import java.util.ArrayDeque;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Queue;

public class InputManagerV9 implements InputManagerCompat {
    private static final String LOG_TAG = "InputManagerV9";
    private static final int MESSAGE_TEST_FOR_DISCONNECT = 101;
    private static final long CHECK_ELAPSED_TIME = 3000L;

    private static final int ON_DEVICE_ADDED = 0;
    private static final int ON_DEVICE_CHANGED = 1;
    private static final int ON_DEVICE_REMOVED = 2;

    private final SparseArray<long[]> mDevices;
    private final Map<InputDeviceListener, Handler> mListeners;
    private final Handler mDefaultHandler;

    private static class PollingMessageHandler extends Handler {
        private final WeakReference<InputManagerV9> mInputManager;

        PollingMessageHandler(InputManagerV9 im) {
            mInputManager = new WeakReference<InputManagerV9>(im);
        }

        @Override
        public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
            super.handleMessage(msg);
            switch (msg.what) {
                case MESSAGE_TEST_FOR_DISCONNECT:
                    InputManagerV9 imv = mInputManager.get();
                    if (null != imv) {
                        long time = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();
                        int size = imv.mDevices.size();
                        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
                            long[] lastContact = imv.mDevices.valueAt(i);
                            if (null != lastContact) {
                                if (time - lastContact[0] > CHECK_ELAPSED_TIME) {
                                    // check to see if the device has been
                                    // disconnected
                                    int id = imv.mDevices.keyAt(i);
                                    if (null == InputDevice.getDevice(id)) {
                                        // disconnected!
                                        imv.notifyListeners(ON_DEVICE_REMOVED, id);
                                        imv.mDevices.remove(id);
                                    } else {
                                        lastContact[0] = time;
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                        sendEmptyMessageDelayed(MESSAGE_TEST_FOR_DISCONNECT,
                                CHECK_ELAPSED_TIME);
                    }
                    break;
            }
        }

    }

    public InputManagerV9() {
        mDevices = new SparseArray<long[]>();
        mListeners = new HashMap<InputDeviceListener, Handler>();
        mDefaultHandler = new PollingMessageHandler(this);
        // as a side-effect, populates our collection of watched
        // input devices
        getInputDeviceIds();
    }

    @Override
    public InputDevice getInputDevice(int id) {
        return InputDevice.getDevice(id);
    }

    @Override
    public int[] getInputDeviceIds() {
        // add any hitherto unknown devices to our
        // collection of watched input devices
        int[] activeDevices = InputDevice.getDeviceIds();
        long time = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();
        for ( int id : activeDevices ) {
            long[] lastContact = mDevices.get(id);
            if ( null == lastContact ) {
                // we have a new device
                mDevices.put(id, new long[] { time });
            }
        }
        return activeDevices;
    }

    @Override
    public void registerInputDeviceListener(InputDeviceListener listener, Handler handler) {
        mListeners.remove(listener);
        if (handler == null) {
            handler = mDefaultHandler;
        }
        mListeners.put(listener, handler);
    }

    @Override
    public void unregisterInputDeviceListener(InputDeviceListener listener) {
        mListeners.remove(listener);
    }

    private void notifyListeners(int why, int deviceId) {
        // the state of some device has changed
        if (!mListeners.isEmpty()) {
            // yes... this will cause an object to get created... hopefully
            // it won't happen very often
            for (InputDeviceListener listener : mListeners.keySet()) {
                Handler handler = mListeners.get(listener);
                DeviceEvent odc = DeviceEvent.getDeviceEvent(why, deviceId, listener);
                handler.post(odc);
            }
        }
    }

    private static class DeviceEvent implements Runnable {
        private int mMessageType;
        private int mId;
        private InputDeviceListener mListener;
        private static Queue<DeviceEvent> sEventQueue = new ArrayDeque<DeviceEvent>();

        private DeviceEvent() {
        }

        static DeviceEvent getDeviceEvent(int messageType, int id,
                InputDeviceListener listener) {
            DeviceEvent curChanged = sEventQueue.poll();
            if (null == curChanged) {
                curChanged = new DeviceEvent();
            }
            curChanged.mMessageType = messageType;
            curChanged.mId = id;
            curChanged.mListener = listener;
            return curChanged;
        }

        @Override
        public void run() {
            switch (mMessageType) {
                case ON_DEVICE_ADDED:
                    mListener.onInputDeviceAdded(mId);
                    break;
                case ON_DEVICE_CHANGED:
                    mListener.onInputDeviceChanged(mId);
                    break;
                case ON_DEVICE_REMOVED:
                    mListener.onInputDeviceRemoved(mId);
                    break;
                default:
                    Log.e(LOG_TAG, "Unknown Message Type");
                    break;
            }
            // dump this runnable back in the queue
            sEventQueue.offer(this);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onGenericMotionEvent(MotionEvent event) {
        // detect new devices
        int id = event.getDeviceId();
        long[] timeArray = mDevices.get(id);
        if (null == timeArray) {
            notifyListeners(ON_DEVICE_ADDED, id);
            timeArray = new long[1];
            mDevices.put(id, timeArray);
        }
        long time = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();
        timeArray[0] = time;
    }

    @Override
    public void onPause() {
        mDefaultHandler.removeMessages(MESSAGE_TEST_FOR_DISCONNECT);
    }

    @Override
    public void onResume() {
        mDefaultHandler.sendEmptyMessage(MESSAGE_TEST_FOR_DISCONNECT);
    }

}

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The first 15 jury members' names, who will have the mission of determining the Annecy Festival 2019 winners, have been revealed!
The Mifa is launching a new event for feature film producers: "Gap Financing: Meet the Producers", which starts with a call for projects!
The First Short Films in Competition!
A first portion of the Official Selection is revealed today. There are 80 short films in competition at the Annecy Festival 2019.
It is with great sadness that the Annecy Festival team has learned of the premature death of Rosto, at the age of 50, 8th March.


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no Cobalt
no Wifi
no metal shell
at $399 too expensive
not worthy of the Tungsten T flagship moniker
tablet design
large memory store (256MB)
flash memory retains data even when batteries run down
accessible as a usb drive
Perhaps the vocal users on PalmInfocenter are neither corporate nor healthcare, but I do think they have divined correctly the source of their disappointment -- that the T5 is not the successor to the T3, but is actually the successor to the Tungsten E.
PalmOne probably has good reasons for this marketing strategy, which unfortunately, I am not privy to. Nevertheless, I will make an effort at deconstruction. According to the administrator at PalmInfocenter, the TE was PalmOne's top seller since its release last year. The tablet form factor contributed to its popularity, whereas the slider mechanism on the T3 and its predecessors have always been controversial.
PalmOne is a small company with limited resources, and thus, re-using the popular TE platform makes economic sense. Engineering, quality assurance, and manufacturing processes need only be tweaked rather than, had the design been entirely new, reworked. Yet, the decision also limits the feature set. The T5 doesn't have vibrating alarms and voice recording because the TE didn't have them. Retrofitting them would increase cost and delay the product.
So why did PalmOne market this device as the T5 instead of the TE2? I am speculating here, but it may have something to do with upgradeability to Cobalt. PalmOne has made no announcements of any kind regarding upgradeability, but in terms of hardware, the T5, T3, and TC can handle the demands of Cobalt. But the T5, with newer hardware, can probably be upgraded with lower support costs than the T3 or TC. Remember, PalmOne is a small company and can be stretched only so far.
Thus, if you could only afford to upgrade one device in your product line, which would it be? I'd say it should be your flagship device -- the model that appeals to your power users, the model your customers paid the most for. A device named TE2 would not be perceived as a flagship product and upgrading it to Cobalt while ignoring the T3 would make PalmOne's leading constituents feel abandoned. Ergo, we have the T5, which has the Tungsten name, the Tungsten price tag, some interesting features, but sadly, not the Tungsten pedigree.


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Mary Harper
Mary Harper is the Africa Editor at BBC World Service News. She has reported on Africa for the BBC for two decades, and has a special interest in the Horn of Africa, especially Somalia, where she spends much of her time.
Much of her work focusses on violent radical Islam in Africa, and sea piracy off its shores. She has reported from many conflict zones including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sudan, South Sudan, Algeria and the two Congos.
Mary is the author of GETTING SOMALIA WRONG? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State. She has written for The Economist, Granta, The Guardian, The Times and The Washington Post and is a regular speaker and moderator at universities, conferences and literary festivals.
She is an expert witness in Somali-related legal cases and is a fellow of The Rift Valley Institute and The Heritage Institute for Policy Studies. Mary has degrees from Cambridge University and the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Mary's book about the East African jihadist group Al Shabaab, EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TOLD ME IS TRUE, was published by Hurst in April 2019.
You can follow Mary on Twitter @mary_harper and visit her website www.maryharper.co.uk
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Film – Georgina Capel
Speaking Engagements – Irene Baldoni
Everything You Have Told me is True
Getting Somalia Wrong?


The Gall-Peters map is an "area accurate map" that shows that areas which are equally sized on the globe are similarly equally sized on the map. For example, Greenland which has an area of 2,116, 086 km², and Algeria which has an area of 2, 381, 741 km² are roughly the same size on the map. (Figures taken from nationsonline.org). Using this handy website we are clearly able to see that Greenland and Algeria are roughly the same size. This method of maintaining area accuracy seems like a fairly obvious way to draw maps, so surely the map we have taken as gospel for the last 500 years (the Mercator projection was presented in 1569) would follow such a procedure. The fact is that it does not.
The Mercator maps design and creation was for nautical purposes, helping sailors to navigate whilst on the seas. As Gurudev states in his article Why is the popular world map wrong?, Mercator needed to maintain direction, ie if you are sailing and using Mercator's map for reference ".. you take a straight line in a Mercator's map and follow it using a compass then you will reach the same place as depicted in the map". Unfortunately, by preserving direction, he was in fact sacrificing accurate size and area. The equations used to map the navigational straight lines distort the size and shape of large objects so countries are represented as bigger, or smaller, than what they truly are. Those objects closer to the equator are distorted to a smaller size, and those further away are enlarged. This is best explained through returning to our example of Greenland and Algeria. As we know, these countries are roughly the same size in terms of area, and yet on the Mercator map look how out of proportion Greenland is, (Greenland is the white land mass on the map). It appears to be the same size, if not bigger, than the entire continent of Africa.
This point was made when the fictitious Organization for Cartographers appeared on an episode of the TV show, The West Wing. They explained that the distortion from using Mercator projection maps inflates Greenland to a size bigger than Africa. Whereas in reality the continent of Africa is fourteen time as large. It is true that on all map projections, sizes and shapes will be distorted to a certain extent because it is impossible to accurately portray a spherical shape in rectangular form. However the Mercator map has an abundance of obvious flaws to it. Due to the inherent exaggerations many errors are upon the map. Brazil and Alaska appear to be the same size when in fact Brazil is almost five times larger. Finland is portrayed as longer from North to South than India, but in reality India is longer. Not only does the use of the Mercator projection teach generations of people incorrect information with regards to country size, perhaps leading to many fatal errors in local pub quizzes, it also has more sinister implications.
Mapping is an obviously difficult task, and no map is ever going to be perfect. Different maps suit different purposes after all. The near, worldwide adoption of the Mercator projection has proved to be very problematic. If it had remained as a purely navigational map then perhaps it may not have become such an issue as it is currently. Its original usage and purpose, as stated earlier, was for navigation, it was not geopolitical. The continued use of the Mercator projection outside of navigational purposes has led to a number of criticisms. One of these is that the Mercator projection reaffirms European imperialist attitudes. It was designed at a time of great European power when nations looked to colonise and "enlighten" those that were considered inferior. In all probability Mercator did not create the map to show European and White superiority over the rest of the world, but this was the message that was given for hundreds of years because it was used outside of a navigational context. The lesser developed countries, those that were colonised by the European powers, are smaller on the Mercator map and so appear inferior. The distortions of the map inflate the size of certain nations and so increase their importance. The inflated size of the countries fits nicely with their inflated ego, and their belief that they were better than the rest of the world. By portraying lesser developed countries as smaller than they actually are, it instils a sense of weakness and insecurity.
Once it had been adopted in the wider world, it proved hard to shake and the trend continued. Generations of Westerners have grown up believing the Mercator map to be completely accurate and true. As Currie states, perhaps we have perception difficulties, we are "displeased with the different appearance of the [Gall-]Peters projection" and "feel more comfortable" with Mercator. This comfort though, comes with the price of accepting the inherent political message of the map. The inferiority of the African and South American states, and the enlarged size of the White nations. Like Abu-Meizer, I believe that maps "truly influence the perceptions individuals might have about certain countries" and when we accept the usage of one map over another, we accept the unconscious political message that comes with it. Who is at the top of the world? Who is at the bottom? Who is the largest, and most important? Who is the smallest, and least important?
To truly understand the issue here we have to put ourselves in the places of those countries we have understated and misrepresented. How would we feel if after the horrors of colonialism and slavery, our countries were then systematically and repeatedly portrayed as smaller than they actually are. Not only factually inaccurate but hugely disrespectful. The continued use of the Mercator map is further evidence of inequality in this world and of a belief in Western, white culture and history being superior to that of any other. There are people and organisations that are taking steps to correct this though, Oxfam and New Internationalist are just two that have given up Mercator maps and adopted Gall-Peters projection. By choosing to drop the Mercator map we can take another small step towards reconciliation. The use of the Gall-Peters projection looks to restore the poorer, less developed countries to their rightful size and stature, giving greater prominence and significance to those countries we have historically viewed as lesser.


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Gavrilo Princip is arrested for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife–Sarajevo, June 28, 1914.
It was the great flash point of the 20th century, an act that set off a chain reaction of calamity: two World Wars, 80 million deaths, the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the atomic bomb. Yet it might never have happened–we're now told– had Gavrilo Princip not got hungry for a sandwich.
We're talking the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, of course—the murder that set the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire on a collision course with Serbia, and Europe down the slippery slope that led to the outbreak of the First World War a month after Princip pulled the trigger on June 28, 1914. More specifically, though, we're talking the version of events that's being taught in many schools today. It's an account that, while respectful of the significance of Franz Ferdinand's death, hooks pupils' attention by stressing a tiny, awe-inspiring detail: that if Princip had not stopped to eat a sandwich where he did, he would never have been in the right place to spot his target. No sandwich, no shooting. No shooting, no war.
It's a compelling story, and one that is told in serious books and on multiple websites. For the most part, it goes something like this:
It is the summer of 1914, and Bosnia has just become part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. A handful of young Bosnian-born Serbs decide to strike a blow for the integration of their people into a homeland for southern Slavs by assassinating the heir to the Austrian throne. Their opportunity comes when it is announced that Franz Ferdinand will be making a state visit to the provincial capital, Sarajevo.
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A basilisk–a lethally poisonous monster hatched from a cock's egg–illustrated in a mediaeval bestiary. Note the weasel gnawing at its breast; only they were impervious to basilisk venom.
Few creatures have struck more terror into more hearts for longer than the basilisk: a crested snake, hatched from a cock's egg, that was widely believed to wither landscapes with its breath and kill with a glare. The example to the right comes from a German bestiary, but the earliest description that we have was given by Pliny the Elder, who described the basilisk in his pioneering Natural History (79AD) – the 37 volumes of which he completed shortly before being suffocated by the sulphurous fumes of Vesuvius while investigating the eruption that consumed Pompeii. According to the Roman savant, it was a small animal, "not more than 12 fingers in length," but astoundingly deadly nonetheless. "He does not impel his body, like other serpents, by a multiplied flexion," Pliny wrote, "but advances loftily and upright" – a description that accords with the popular notion that the basilisk is the king of serpents – and "kills the shrubs, not only by contact, but by breathing on them, and splits rocks, such power of evil is there in him." The basilisk was native to Libya, it was said, and the Romans believed that the Sahara had been fertile land until an infestation of basilisks turned it into a desert.
The Roman poet Lucan stressed the horrors of the monster's lethal venom.
Pliny is not the only ancient author to mention the basilisk. The Roman poet Lucan, writing only a few years later, described another characteristic commonly ascribed to the monster – the idea that it was so venomous that if a man on horseback stabbed one with a spear, the poison would flow up through the weapon and kill not only the rider but the horse as well. The only creature that the basilisk feared was the weasel, which ate rue to render it impervious to its venom, and would chase and kill the serpent in its lair.
The basilisk was popular in medieval bestiaries, and it was in this period that a great deal of additional myth grew up around it. It became less a serpent than a mix of snake and rooster; it was almost literally hellish. More
Curses! Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his astounding death car
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Gavrilo Princip under arrest
It's hard to think of another event in the troubled twentieth century that had quite the shattering impact of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand [below] at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. The Archduke was heir to the throne of the tottering Austro-Hungarian empire; his killers – a motley band of amateurish students – were Serbian nationalists (or possibly Yugoslav nationalists; historians remain divided on the topic) who wanted to turn Austrian Bosnia into a part of a new Slav state. The guns and bombs they used to kill the Archduke, meanwhile, were supplied by the infamous Colonel Apis, head of Serbian military intelligence. All this was quite enough to provoke Austria-Hungary into declaring war on Serbia, after which, with the awful inevitability that AJP Taylor famously described as 'war by timetable', Europe slid inexorably into the horrors of the First World War as the rival Great Powers began to mobilise and counter-mobilise against each other.
Fran Ferdinand
To say that all this is well-known is a bit of an understatement. Seen from the Fortean perspective, however, the events of that day in Sarajevo have interesting aspects that often go unremarked. The appalling combination of implausible circumstance that resulted in assassination is one; Franz Ferdinand had survived an earlier attempt to kill him on the fateful day, emerging unscathed from the explosion of a bomb that bounced off the folded hood of the his convertible and exploded under a car following behind him in his motorcade. That bomb injured several members of the Imperial entourage, and these men were taken to hospital. It was Franz Ferdinand's impulsive decision, later in the day, to visit the wounded in hospital – a decision none of his assassins could possibly have predicted – that took him directly past the spot where Gavrilo Princip, the man who actually killed him, had decided pretty much at random to position himself. It was chauffeur Leopold Lojka's unfamiliarity with the new route that led him to take a wrong turning and, confused, pull to a halt just six feet from Princip himself. For the Archduke to be presented, as a stationary target, to the one man in a crowd of thousands still determined to kill him was a remarkable example of sheer bad luck, but, even then, the odds still favoured Franz Ferdinand's survival. Princip (seen in the photo at the head of this entry being manhandled away just after the shooting) was so hemmed in by the crowd that he was unable to pull out and prime the bomb he was carrying. Instead, he was forced to resort to his pistol, but failed to actually aim it. According to his own later testimony, Princip confessed: More


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Parafia Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego w Łomnej Górnej – parafia rzymskokatolicka znajdująca się w Łomnej Górnej, w kraju morawsko-śląskim w Czechach. Należy do dekanatu Frydek diecezji ostrawsko-opawskiej.

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Kościół w Łomnej Górnej powstał pod koniec XIX wieku; poświęcono go w 1896. Erygowana przy nim parafia podległa była dekanatowi jabłonkowskiemu.

Po I wojnie światowej Łomna Górna znalazła się w granicach Czechosłowacji, wciąż jednak podległa była diecezji wrocławskiej, pod zarządem specjalnie do tego powołanej instytucji zwanej: Knížebiskupský komisariát niský a těšínský. Jako że został odcięty od dekanalnego Cieszyna podporządkowany został dekanatowi jabłonkowskiemu. Kiedy Polska dokonała aneksji tzw. Zaolzia w październiku 1938 parafię jako jedną z 29 włączono do diecezji katowickiej, a 1 stycznia 1940 z powrotem do diecezji wrocławskiej. W 1947 obszar ten wyjęto ostatecznie spod władzy biskupów wrocławskich i utworzono Apostolską Administraturę w Czeskim Cieszynie, podległą Watykanowi. W 1978 obszar Administratury podporządkowany został archidiecezji ołomunieckiej, a parafie dekanatu jabłonkowskiego wchłonięto do dekanatu frydeckiego. W 1996 wydzielono z archidiecezji ołomunieckiej nową diecezję ostrawsko-opawską.

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With just under two months to go until the Lara Croft themed Tomb Raider: The LIVE Experience launches in London and let me tell you we are so darn excited! Which is why when a nine feet tall statue of Lara Croft herself popped up in Camden, just outside one of our local haunts, the countdown well and truly began!
"Standing self-assured at the entrance to the attraction, we hope Lara Croft inspires people to embrace their own spirit of adventure as they take on the LIVE Experience."
Dallas Dickinson, Franchise General Manager for Tomb Raider at Crystal Dynamics
The new statue is a little taste of what to come, and incorporates the hero of the experience, archaeologist Lara Croft in all her glory. With iconic plaited hair and double pistol holders, I'm immediately transported to falling off cliffs over and over again in the early 00s on my first console.
She's been built in collaboration with Crystal Dynamics and made entirely from sandstone, fitting the style of new experience launching in Stables Market later in the year.
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About Tomb Rader: The LIVE Experience
Tomb Raider: The LIVE Experience is an immersive experience like no other launching in April 2022. Created by Little Lion Entertainment in collaboration with Paramount Pictures and Square Enix, the experience brings to life the feeling of playing the famous adventure games for up to 8 players at a time. So far we know there'll be portions of the experience taking place on on a sinking ship, in the jungles of Costa Rica, hunting for treasure in an ancient tomb, and of course be absolutely packed with puzzles. It sounds like pretty much all you want out of an escape room but with that huge production value we expect (and love) from the creators!
Little Lion Entertainment are best known as the creative team behind one of London's most popular attractions: The Crystal Maze Experience. Their newest experience will have the same adrenaline fueled energy but will be stepped within the lore of one of the best known gaming franchises.
Whilst not a lot is known about the experience just yet, some of the early concept sketches have been released to the public. From these, we can spot some of our favourite levels and environments and can't wait to see the full thing in person.
Tickets to Tomb Raider: The LIVE Experience start at £66 per person. They are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting www.tombraiderlive.co.uk
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BT is set to venture back into consumer mobile space by offering customers access to its own-branded 4G network. In an interview with The Telegraph, BT Group CEO Ian Livingston confirmed the company has already invited tenders from other UK operators to form a 4G partnership and believes it is "highly possible" it will launch within the next 12 months.
BT's expansion marks a return to the mobile market after it sold its shares in O2 in 2002, and will see it go up against O2, Vodafone, EE, and Three to offer data services to UK consumers. It's a venture rare to the UK, but has seen US providers like Comcast and Time Warner Cable try — and ultimately fail — to pull off. As operators look to expand their own services to offer broadband access to their customers, BT's announcement demonstrates the company's desire to become a supplier of the "quadruple play" — by adding mobile plans to its existing fixed phone, broadband, and TV packages.
To mark the launch of its new BT Sport channel, the company became the first broadcaster in more than 20 years to offer free weekly live matches from the English Premier League to subscribers of its broadband service. The company invested more than £1 billion ($1.53 billion) to leverage high-profile football, tennis, and rugby events away from its rivals — which include Rupert Murdoch-backed Sky. It has also signed former BBC presenters Clare Balding and Jake Humphrey to front its sports channel, while offering analysis from respected and freshly-retired sports professionals to boost its coverage.
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Q: How do I (programmatically) ensure that a dll contains definitions for all exported functions? Let's say I have this lib
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#pragma once
#include <iostream>

void __declspec(dllexport) test();
int __declspec(dllexport) a();

If I omit the definition for a() and test() from my testlib.cpp, the library still compiles, because the interface [1] is still valid. (If I use them from a client app then they won't link, obviously)
Is there a way I can ensure that when the obj is created (which I gather is the compiler's job) it actually looks for the definitions of the functions that I explicitly exported, and fails if doesn't ?
This is not related to any real world issue. Just curious.

[1] MSVC docs

A: You asked
"Is there a way I can ensure that when the obj is created (which I gather is the compiler's job) it actually looks for the definitions of the functions that I explicitly exported, and fails if doesn't ?"
When you load a DLL then the actual function binding is happenning at runtime(late binding of functions) so it is not possible for the compiler to know if the function definition are available in the DLL or not. Hope this answer to your query.

A: No, it's not possible.
Partially because a dllexport declaration might legally not even be implemented in the same DLL, let alone library, but be a mere forward declaration for something provided by yet another DLL.
Especially it's impossible to decide on the object level. It's just another forward declaration like any other.
You can dump the exported symbols once the DLL has been linked, but there is no common tool for checking completeness.
Ultimately, you can't do without a client test application which attempts to load all exported interfaces. You can't check that on compile time yet. Even just successfully linking the test application isn't enough, you have to actually run it.
It gets even worse if there are delay-loaded DLLs (and yes, there usually are), because now you can't even check for completeness unless you actually call at least one symbol from each involved DLL.
Tools like Dependency Walker etc. exist for this very reason.

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How do I (programmatically) ensure that a dll contains definitions for all exported functions?

In general, in standard C++11 (read the document n3337 and see this C++ reference), you cannot
Because C++11 does not know about DLL or dynamic linking. It might sometimes make sense to dynamically load code which does not define a function which you pragmatically know will never be called (e.g. an incomplete DLL for drawing shapes, but you happen to know that circles would never be drawn in your particular usage, so the loaded DLL might not define any class Circle related code. In standard C++11, every called function should be defined somewhere (in some other translation unit).
Look also into Qt vision of plugins.
Read Levine's Linkers and loaders book. Notice that on Linux, plugins loaded with dlopen(3) have a different semantics than Windows DLLs. The evil is in the details

In practice, you might consider using some recent variant of the GCC compiler and develop your GCC plugin to check that. This could require several weeks of work.
Alternatively, adapt the Clang static analyzer for your needs. Again, budget several weeks of work.
See also this draft report and think about C++ cross compilers (e.g. compiling on Windows a plugin for a RaspBerry Pi)
Consider also runtime code generation frameworks like asmjit or libgccjit. You might think of generating at runtime the missing stubs or functions (and fill appropriately function pointers with them, or even vtables). C++ exceptions could also be an additional issue.

A: If your DLL contains calls to the functions, the linker will fail if a definition isn't provided for those functions.  It doesn't matter if the calls are never executed, only that they exist.
//// testlib.h
#pragma once
#include <iostream>

#ifndef DLLEXPORT
#define DLLEXPORT(TYPE) TYPE __declspec(dllexport)
#endif

DLLEXPORT(void) test();
DLLEXPORT(int) a();

//// testlib_verify.c
#define DLLEXPORT(TYPE)

void DummyFunc()
{
#include testlib.h
}

This macro-based solution only works for functions with no parameters, but it should be easy to extend.


That's what I'll say when I'm really feeling the weight of a busy life.
I know you get it. You know it's those days when you just feel like you're messing up even when you don't mean to be doing that. Or when you can't handle one more thing. Or or or… well, let me explain.
The two words – that I'm sorry – will come out and I'll feel guilt and I'll think to myself why can't you have it together, Martin? (What I call myself in those angsty moments) and why is this making you sad? and if you only did this you wouldn't feel so much all the time.
Sometimes this world of motherhood is full of all these moments where we have to shove down the feelings that we have deep inside and pull up the boot straps and plow through the day. That feeling, that worry, that loss and that emotion gets shoved under the surface hidden by layers of dishes to do and homework sheets to find and crazy expectations of do it all that we so often press on ourselves.
We push through life with I'm fine's and yet wonder why deep inside we're not.
And if you're like me, you'll say those I'm sorry words.
Brave mom. That's where you are or where you might be or where life just is – and there is no apology needed ever for feeling. Feeling overwhelmed, alone or needing a friend who just sits down, listens and gets it. Man, what a gift it is to have someone who gets us. Where we can be real without the worry of them judging us or worrying what they think but just in knowing that they will stick with us even if we're just a mess.
Sometimes we push through life thinking that if only we had it more together we wouldn't need to feel this way. We think we're comparing apples to apples but really we're comparing apples to oranges and grading ourselves on a scale that doesn't count.
Those days when you're feeling overwhelmed for whatever reason or lost or worried or all of it counts. Those emotions aren't there as a judge of motherhood ability – they're simply part of being human.
Supermom and those expectations chip away at the raw bit of real human that we are.
Shoving them aside with I'm fine's and it doesn't matters and all of that oftentimes means shoving away us in the process. And over the last year I'm all about not losing us in the midst of motherhood.
You see you are worth fighting for you.
You are worth allowing yourself to look at that overwhelm and feeling it and figuring out what to change not what to hide.
You are worth giving yourself grace for a break.
You are worth calling a friend and saying you need a friend.
You are worth all those gold stars of awesome that you've said nah it's no big deal when it's really a big deal.
I know that we like to qualify stuff with the word just, but today I'm stripping the word just from your vocabulary and instead want you to see you. For you. Nothing diminished, nothing lost and nothing qualified.
As a brave warrior of a mom.
As the person who makes a life difference. As the nurturer of babes and tamer of toddlers and entertainer of kids and negotiator of tweens and letting goer of teens and loving of them all.
And that story involves emotion. Not emotion that needs to be shoved down, but real nitty gritty there are days that simply are the worst and we want to give up but need a friend to tell us we will be okay emotion.
Let yourself feel the bittersweetness of rocking that toddler knowing that they're getting almost too big for your lap. Let yourself feel.
Not feeling robs joy. It may numb us but in that numbing the joy and happiness dwindles.
Today we are going to live.
Remembering us in the journey, giving us grace and feeling.
So don't apologize with I'm sorry for the times you are being real.
You're doing awesome things. Even if you feel overwhelmed.
It's an emotion. Not a grade.
I love this! You have described perfectly what I struggle with every day as a mom. I suffer from a huger perfection complex and am constantly comparing myself to others or thinking the worst of everything and everyone and assuming they are thinking the worst of me too. This article reminds me to stop grading myself and to just be real! I love it & I love you!
Hi Rachel, I just wanted to thank you. When I'm having a bad day (which has been a lot recently) I watch some of your videos or read a few posts and it really helps me feel normal, and gives me a bit of a bit of a lift. So thanks to you I am not going back to bed today! I will do some stuff and not get mad at myself if I don't do all the stuff!


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I am SO pleased my occasional rants about religion and creationists are off the Radar of nutters.
I get maybe 2-3 per year of this sort of email, so it's not bad.
And, I am pleased that the top hit for googling "clive bondfield" is now this post.


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package org.apache.camel.impl.validator;

import org.apache.camel.ContextTestSupport;
import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
import org.junit.Test;

public class InflightRepositoryWithFailedValidationTest extends ContextTestSupport {

    @Test
    public void testInflight() throws Exception {
        assertEquals(0, context.getInflightRepository().size());

        Exception e = null;
        try {
            template.sendBody("direct:start", "FAIL");
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            e = ex;
        }
        assertNotNull(e);

        assertEquals(0, context.getInflightRepository().size("first"));
        assertEquals(0, context.getInflightRepository().size("second"));
    }

    @Override
    protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilder() throws Exception {
        return new RouteBuilder() {
            @Override
            public void configure() throws Exception {
                validator()
                    .type("simple").withExpression(bodyAs(String.class).contains("valid"));

                from("direct:start").routeId("first")
                    .to("direct:validation");

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                    .to("mock:result");
            }
        };
    }
}


Marines with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, look at an Android phone with enhanced Beartooth radio capabilities, which allow them to talk, text, and see teammates on a map without requiring cellular service or Wi-Fi, during Urban Advanced Naval Technologies Exercise 2018 (ANTX18), March 21, 2018. Urban ANTX18 is an innovative approach to concept of operations and capability development that integrates engineers, technologists and operators into a dynamic development team. US Marine Corps photo.
U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division (2d MARDIV), make final preparations to their Sea Dragon 2025 weapon systems and gear during a live-fire range at Range G-6, Camp Lejeune, N.C., July 12, 2017. The Sea Dragon 2025 equipment showcased new capabilities for Marines to use in future exercises and operations. US Marine Corps photo.
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Peter Rabbit's Remarkable Performance | UK Box Office Report March 16-18th 2018
Posted on March 21, 2018 by Joseph Wade
There was a fresh look to the UK box office this week as British-led animation Peter Rabbit and popular video game turned movie franchise Tomb Raider debuted at the very top of the chart, displacing Black Panther from the number 1 spot for the first time in the movie's 5 week run. Here's the chart's top 5…
Bouncing to the top of the chart is Sony Pictures Animation's adaptation of the popular Beatrix Potter IP Peter Rabbit, starring James Corden. The animated feature was reportedly produced for around £35.5million ($50million) and struck a chord with audiences in the US upon its release there a few weeks ago, accumulating $25million in its opening weekend to pick up the number 2 spot on the chart behind Marvel juggernaut hit Black Panther. Here in the UK, the opening weekend figure was £7,273,207, making it the 2nd biggest opener in 2018 thus far, only being surpassed by Black Panther which made £17.7million back in February.
The £7.3million accumulation over this past weekend has ensured that Peter Rabbit has surpassed the opening weekend gross of Disney Pixar's worldwide mega-hit, and Oscar winner, Coco, which made £5.2million over the three day period back in January. What is most surprising about this result for Sony Pictures is that Peter Rabbit has been released opposite arguably more substantial competition, with Black Panther continuing to gross high range figures and Tomb Raider hitting cinemas during the same weekend. Coco, by comparison, opened opposite a number of awards season releases including the debuting Steven Spielberg film The Post, but wasn't faced with big budget blockbuster releases as has been the case for Peter Rabbit.
Remarkably, the weekend total of Peter Rabbit is more than the entire runs of Red Sparrow, Lady Bird, I, Tonya, The Shape of Water, The Post, The Commuter, Molly's Game and Insidious: The Last Key, each of which has thus far failed to reach a total even close to the £7.3million of Peter Rabbit's weekend. And there may be more good news on the horizon for the famous rabbit with Easter on its way and the school holidays that accompany that making cinema trips more likely for children and families.
With Coco currently sitting on a total accumulation of £18,013,336, Peter Rabbit may at this stage expect to surpass £20million overall, which would make the film an undeniable hit here in the UK, adding to the success of its worldwide accumulation of £103million ($146million) thus far; a figure already double that of its budget.
In at number 2 is the latest film iteration of the popular video game franchise of the same name, Tomb Raider, which ran to a total of £3million this past weekend, a figure that is down from the opening weekend total of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider starring Angelina Jolie that made £3.8million in its opening weekend back in 2001. With inflation, this figure becomes even more damming of the latest film's performance, with the 2001 release making the equivalent of £5.9million in today's money, almost double that of this latest effort. In North America things don't look much better for the franchise, with the 2018 movie earning $23.6million in its opening weekend, around half of the $47.8million (not adjusted for inflation) made by the 2001 release.
In the international market, the 2018 Tomb Raider is far from a disappointment however, thus far earning $131million from a $97million budget, all but guaranteeing that the film will be a box office success by the end of its runs in North America and Europe.
The other newsworthy inclusion in this week's top 5 comes via Black Panther, which earned an additional £1.8million this weekend to take its overall accumulation to £42,779,145, a figure that would have placed the film in 2017's top 5 highest grossing films and therefore makes a top 5 spot in 2018's chart more than likely for the Marvel Studios picture which remains only 5 weekends into a run we should expect to go for at least another 5 more. Worldwide, Black Panther is currently sitting at $1.19billion, making the 4th highest grossing Marvel Studios movie in history, this week surpassing the total gross of Captain America: Civil War. With things as they stand, Panther could become the number 3 highest grossing Marvel Studios film of all time by the end of this week, with Iron Man 3 next in its sights, just $25million away.
Here is the complete UK box office chart for the weekend of March 16-18th 2018:
Peter Rabbit – weeks on release: 1 – weekend: £7,273,207 – total: £7,273,207
Tomb Raider – 1 – £3,081,916 – £3,081,916
Black Panther – 5 – £1,881,691 – £42,779,145
The Greatest Showman – 12 – £1,059,983 – £38,904,203
Red Sparrow – 3 – £588,634 – £5,278,099
Game Night – 3 – £540,977 – £3,650,285
Lady Bird – 5 – £293,131 – £4,702,917
The Shape of Water – 5 – £289,641 – £6,978,097
Finding Your Feet – 4 – £285,202 – £4,437,675
Event Cinema: My Generation – 1 – £259,990 – £259,990
Mary Magdalene – 1 – £238,924 – £238,924
The Square – 1 – £221,256 – £221,256
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – 10 – £212,226 – £14,387,369
I, Tonya – 4 – £205,446 – £3,293,715
Coco – 9 – £186,770 – £18,013,336
Outside of the top 5, Finding Your Feet – the latest movie from the team behind The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 1 & 2 – has made just under £4.5million in the 4 weeks of its run despite never breaking into the top 5 on the weekend charts. The movie, which stars a plethora of British acting talent led by Timothy Spall, has been made with the intention of being sold to older generations of film goers, with its strong week-to-week performances of (on average) over £1million – compared to lesser weekend totals – seeming to indicate that such audiences hold less value in a weekend cinema experience than their younger contemporaries.
Made for a budget of £6million, Finding Your Feet has so far accumulated around three quarters of that total back through its performance in the UK alone, with Australia and New Zealand believed to have also boosted that £4.5million by an extra £2.5million to a £7million worldwide box office accumulation. This does, of course, mean that as of right now Finding Your Feet is another solid return on investment for the same producers that made unforeseen amounts of money with their Marigold Hotel franchise, though the jury is still out as to whether the film will be able to make enough money to also cover promotional costs, the actual total of which we will likely never know.
The week's other debuting features, The Square and Mary Magdalene, seemed to have suffered from a similar fate to that of other high-end independent features You Were Never Really Here and Dark River in that they seem to have failed to grab audiences substantial enough to guarantee a 2nd weekend in the box office chart. Their totals this weekend make the opportunity to see the films in cinemas beyond this Friday quite unlikely.
So that about does it for this week's UK Box Office Report. For more information regarding all film news, reviews, lists, features, essays and more, make sure to bookmark our homepage and keep up to date with us on Facebook and Twitter. For first access to the UK box office chart top 5, make sure to subscribe to us on YouTube where we release our chart video each and every Tuesday.
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