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Christian Jacq (Paris, 28 de abril de 1947) é um escritor e egiptólogo francês.

É conhecido por seus romances, bem como livros de não-ficção, ambientados no Antigo Egito. Seu livro O Egito dos Grandes Faraós ganhou o prêmio da Academia Francesa.

Biografia
Jacq nasceu na capital francesa, em 1947. Era filho de um pai farmacêutico, de origem bretã, e mãe de origem polonesa, mas foi criado por uma de suas avós, que o iniciou no mundo da leitura, tanto de quadrinhos como de obras clássicas. Aos 13 anos, inadvertidamente, ele topou com uma obra em três volumes, A história da civilização do Antigo Egito, de Jacques Pirenne, e ficou fascinado. Com essa idade, ele já escrevia poemas, mas depois de ler a obra de Pirenne, resolveu arriscar na escrita de romances. Em cinco anos, teria escrito oito livros, bem como um libreto.

Aos 17 anos, antes mesmo de terminar a escola, Jacq se casou com Françoise e passou a lua de mel, depois de se formar, conhecendo a antiga capital do Egito Antigo, Mênfis, tendo admirado estátuas do faraó Ramsés II, que se tornaria um de seus personagens favoritos da história egípcia.

Seu primeiro livro foi publicado quando Jacq tinha apenas 21 anos e consistia de um estudo das relações entre o Egito Antigo e a Idade Média. Nesta época, Jacq era estudante de filosofia na Universidade de Paris e resolveu mudar de cursos para se aprofundar na egiptologia. Tornou-se bacharel, mestre e doutor em egiptologia, defendendo a tese The Journey through the Netherworld as Perceived in Ancient Egypt: the Trials and Metamorphoses of Death According to Inscriptions Found in Pyramids and Sarcophagi, publicada em 1986.

Para poder se dedicar totalmente à escrita, Jacq, a esposa e seu cachorrinho Geb deixam Paris e se instalam em uma casa com uma grande biblioteca, contendo mais de dez mil trabalhos de referência, bem como artigos científicos e fotografias sobre o Egito Antigo.

Além da carreira acadêmica, onde escreveu artigos importantes sobre a cultura egípcia, Jacq também foi produtor-assistente da rede France Culture, tendo trabalhado no programa "Pathways to knowledge". Em 1987, chegou no topo da lista dos mais vendidos com seu livro Champollion O Egípcio. Entre 1995 e 1997, publicou sua bem-sucedida Pentalogia de Ramsés, publicada em mais de 25 países. Cada volume acompanha uma etapa da vida do famoso faraó, onde Jacq tece uma narrativa tanto ficcional quanto histórica.

Por seu livro O Caso Tutankhamon, Jacq ganhou o Prix des Maisons de la Presse, em 1992. Sua série O Juiz do Egito, ficou na lista de mais vendidos entre 1993 e 1994, vendendo mais de 300 mil cópias apenas na França.

Junto de sua já falecida esposa, Jacq fundou o Instituto Ramessés, que se dedica a criar descrições fotográficas do Egito para a preservação de sítios arqueológicos em perigo. De fato, o Instituto conta com a maior coleção de fotografias do Antigo Egito, entre doze e quinze mil, com o projeto de reunir mais de cem mil.

Até 2004, Jacq já escreveu mais de cinquenta livros, incluindo diversos estudos na área da egiptologia. O livro que o fez conhecido para o grande público foi "Champollion O Egípcio". Além disso é responsável por vários romances policiais assinando além de Christian Jacq, com os pseudônimosː Christopher Carter, J. B. Livingstone e Célestin Valois.

Atualmente, Christian Jacq reside em Genebra, na Suíça.

Obras (Parcial)

Série O Juiz do Egito
O Juiz do Egito: A Pirâmide Assassinada
O Juiz do Egito: A Lei do Deserto
O Juiz do Egito: A Justiça do Vizir

Série Ramessés
Ramessés: O Filho da Luz
Ramessés: O Templo de Milhões de Anos
Ramessés: A Batalha de Kadesh
Ramessés: A Dama de Abu-Simbel
Ramessés: Sob a Acácia do Ocidente

Série Pedra da Luz
A Pedra da Luz: Nefer, o Silencioso
A Pedra da Luz: A Mulher Sábia
A Pedra da Luz: Paneb, o Ardoroso
A Pedra da Luz: O Lugar da Verdade

Série A Rainha Liberdade
A Rainha Liberdade: O Império das Trevas
A Rainha Liberdade: A Guerra das Coroas
A Rainha Liberdade: A Espada Flamejante

Série Mozart
Mozart: O Supremo Mago
Mozart: O Filho da Luz
Mozart: O Irmão do Fogo
Mozart: O Amado de Ísis

A Vingança dos Deuses
Caça ao homem
A Divina Adoradora

Outros
A Sabedoria Viva do Antigo Egito
As Egípcias: Retratos de Mulheres do Egito
A viagem iniciática ou os 33 graus de sabedoria
A Rainha Sol
Barragem sobre o Nilo
Contos e Lendas do Tempo das Pirâmides
Champollion O Egípcio
Nefertiti e Akhenaton: o Casal Solar
O Mundo Mágico do Antigo Egito
O Caso Tutankhamon
O Pequeno Champollion Ilustrado
O Egito dos Grandes Faraós
O Faraó Negro
O Vale dos Reis
Por Amor de Philae
Sob a pirâmide
Tutancâmon - o último segredo
Viagem ao Egito dos Faraós

Naturais de Paris
Egiptólogos da França
Escritores da França
Professores da Universidade de Paris


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Face of Australia's rental crisis: Single mum-of-two breaks down as she opens up on being left homeless after her landlord evicted her and she was rejected from 300 properties
One obviously sympathizes with the woman below but, as a single mother, she will always be at the bottom of the list of prospective tenants. Single mothers often have money problems and that too often leads to defaults in paying rent. No agent worth his salt would let to a single mother when other applicants were available.
So single mothers should be top priority for welfare housing. The goverment can afford to take a monetary hit. Private landlords usually will not
One also wonders where the father of the childre is in all this. She had two of them so it must have been a relationship of some duration. If he is in employment he could offer a rental guarantee, which agents would view very favourably
A single mum is at breaking point after two months of living and sleeping in her car with her two teenage sons.
Danni Cox, 45, became homeless for the first time in her life when she was evicted from her rental property in Beenleigh, south of Brisbane, after being told the landlord was planning to renovate and sell up.
Ms Cox and her sons Zach, 15 and Jordan, 12, spent the first few weeks living in a caravan, which was battered by wild weather.
They spent a brief stint in a motel until it became unaffordable and now spend each night parked in friends' driveways.
Adding to the frustration is that their old home has remained vacant ever since they moved out in May.
Ms Cox has applied for more than 300 properties in recent months without any luck, despite her perfect rental history and references from previous landlords.
She told Daily Mail Australia the dire situation is now taking a heavy toll on the family physically, emotionally and financially.
'The situation has gone beyond desperate, we can't be homeless for any longer,' she said.
'Homelessness is no longer a viable option. My youngest son is half-deaf and autistic, so he's not coping at all at the moment, which is heartbreaking to see.
'I have friends' places where we sleep in their driveways. There's one park in the area where you can stay for three nights but then have to move on, so we've done that a few times.'
Currently on a disability pension, Ms Cox is so desperate she underwent training as a traffic controller and is in the process of finding work to boost her chances of getting a roof under her family's head.
'I've always been a great tenant and have never defaulted on rent or bills,' she said.
'I've never been homeless in my life and set myself up to be very independent.
'I tick all the boxes and haven't done anything wrong. The real estate agents and landlords who get back to me say there's nothing wrong with my application, it's just than other applicants were more successful.
'There's no reason to be homeless, which makes it harder to accept.'
Ms Cox spends anything from $50 and $100 on food and fuel each day while sleeping in the car each night is 'cold, cramped and horrible'.
'It's easier having a roof over your head as you can budget from week to week,' she said.
But being homeless, you have to pay your way everywhere you go. There are some days where we don't have any money.'
Her former home, where she lived for five years remains vacant. She believes the real estate agent used the owners' potential plans as an excuse to re-lease the property at a much higher rent.
'I was absolutely mortified but at the end of the day, it's the owners' decision,' she said.
'It's tenants who lose out. We've been looking at units as we've been pushed out of houses.'
The thought of the desperate lengths she has gone to get out of the dire situation brings Ms Cox to tears.
'I've slept nights in my car in the park as there has been nowhere else,' she told 7News.
'I've rang the Homeless Line and asked is there anywhere for me to go with my boys, they're here with me crying and we need somewhere now and they've said 'no, nothing','
Ms Cox is among almost 32,000 Queensland families on the social housing register, where there's a two-year wait.
The list has grown by 78 per cent in the last four years.
The Queensland government this week vowed to review the social housing register following the release of a scathing report by Auditor-General Brendan Worrall.
The report found the state government had failed to build enough homes, keep an accurate waiting list and manage existing stock.
Of the 30,000 families waiting for social housing, it's estimated almost 12,000 will still be on the list in three years time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11008661/Australias-homelessness-crisis-Brisbane-mum-two-teenage-sons-sleep-car-rents-soar.html
AstraZeneca saved most lives despite public's fears
New research shows that AstraZeneca is the jab that saved the most lives last year, with the data showing the alarm that gripped the state over the vaccine was unfounded.
Infectious disease expert Paul Griffin said that mistakes were made when then chief health officer Jeannette Young warned Queenslanders under 40 not to have the jab due to deaths from blood clotting.
The clotting side-effects were rare with only two to three people in every 100,000.
"I don't want an 18-year-old in Queensland dying from a clotting illness who, if they got Covid, probably wouldn't die. We have had very few deaths due to Covid in Australia in people under the age of 50 and wouldn't it be terrible that our first 18-year-old in Queensland who dies related to this pandemic, died because of the vaccine," Ms Young said in August.
Prof Griffin said that lessons could be learned that any comments made to the public about vaccinations can have a huge impact.
"What was said came from a place of concern but it did instil fear into Queenslanders about the vaccine. The new data shows that the vaccine was very efficient in what it was designed for and that was to save masses of lives," Prof Griffin said.
The University of Oxford's AstraZeneca was the first vaccine over the line in the race to protect the world from the deadly virus and was the first to be rolled out to elderly Queenslanders.
The new data released by Airfinity, a London-based data firm, shows AstraZeneca saved 6.3 million lives globally followed by Pfizer which saved 5.9 million. The findings build on a study last month estimating that all vaccines saved about 20 million lives in the first year of the campaign, more than half of them in wealthier countries.
Airfinity said the AstraZeneca shot went first to older-age groups in high-income counties and nations with more vulnerable healthcare systems. The firm reported that Sinovac and Moderna vaccines saved two million and 1.7 million lives respectively.
https://www.couriermail.com.au/coronavirus/covid-qld-astrazeneca-saved-most-lives-despite-publics-fears/news-story/431095f0a41702fcf9d9792553a3a05b
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Crisis on campus as student discontent rises by degrees
University cost-cutting is driving dissatisfaction among students as staff shedding and the shift to online teaching compromise academic achievement.
Students paying to study a degree have little recourse if they're unhappy with the calibre of their education. Car buyers have more consumer rights than the students who fork out tens of thousands of dollars in tuition fees to institutions that effectively make and adjudicate their own rules.
National Union of Students president Georgie Beatty laments that many universities have failed to reinstate the face-to-face lessons that were standard before the Covid-19 pandemic forced courses online.
"The quality of education has gotten to the stage where it's considered completely acceptable for you to pay $3000 for a subject and have to sit in a Zoom class with 40 other kids," Beatty told Inquirer.
"We're hearing so many stories of academic quality going down across the board. But there is no quality control and no protection or complaints mechanism in place, so we have to deal with a crap education. We are helpless in the face of these mighty vice-chancellors."
Australian car buyers have consumer rights entitling them to a repair, replacement or refund if a new car is faulty. But what can students do if the university degree they're paying for falls short of the quality or experience that was promised?
Beatty is concerned that the federal government's Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency has not held a meeting of its student advisory board since April last year. "TEQSA says they care about students but their student advisory board hasn't met for nearly a year and a half," she says.
"They're meant to keep universities accountable but they're not doing it."
As the agency that registers higher education providers and approves their courses, TEQSA fobs off most student complaints. "If you are unhappy about aspects of your experience with a higher education provider, you should access the policies and procedures they have established to resolve complaints," its website states.
University students lodged just more than half the 289 complaints with TEQSA last year. The biggest issues involved online course delivery during the pandemic, the inadequacy of universities' complaints handling processes and a failure to follow published admission policies.
"TEQSA is not a complaints resolution body and typically does not have a role in addressing individual complainants' requests or grievances,'' a TEQSA spokesman told Inquirer.
"Academic quality and student wellbeing and safety continue to be compliance priorities for TEQSA, and we will take action where we consider there are systemic issues or failures. This action may include informal resolutions, warning letters, enforceable undertakings, conditions on registration, revocation of registration or civil or criminal sanctions."
TEQSA's latest compliance report reveals it finalised only one investigation and 43 compliance assessments last year while imposing conditions on 47 course providers and negotiating 19 voluntary undertakings. "The most common Covid-19 related concern was in relation to … teaching and courses, including quality of online delivery," the report states. For half of those complaints, "we decided it was appropriate to bring the concern to the providers' attention to inform their internal quality assurance and make improvements where appropriate".
A four-year cycle of complaints at Central Queensland University relating to its sonography degree highlights the difficulties faced by students who were dismissed as "disgruntled". CQU offers the nation's only degree in sonography, costing students $8017 in the first year alone. It has 601 students in Brisbane, Mackay, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth who must complete 2000 hours of clinical placement during the four-year degree.
CQU began fielding gripes about the course in 2017, when 34 students signed a complaint sent to the university's student ombudsman. However, it took three more years for CQU to acknowledge this as a formal complaint. In the meantime, one of the students complained about an assessment to the Queensland Ombudsman, which liaised with CQU and arranged for her to re-sit an exam in 2018.
Queensland's Office of Fair Trading fielded a complaint from the same student last year, seeking a refund of her course fees. The OFT tried to conciliate. "Unfortunately, they weren't willing to give you a refund," an official wrote to the student. "The OFT cannot force a trader to give you a refund. Unfortunately, this means I am unable to assist you any further and your complaint will be closed."
A former student complained to Fair Trading NSW that the course "has extremely high and unacceptable failure rates that show the service they provide is completely inadequate". She was told university degrees were "not its jurisdiction".
CQU waited until last year to launch an internal investigation, after what it described as a "spiral" in complaints from students ranging from fail rates and assessment issues to staff communication and industry placement problems.
The investigation was conducted by the school of health, medical and applied sciences, which CQU told Inquirer was "independent from the medical sonography academic team".
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/crisis-on-campus-as-student-discontent-rises-by-degrees/news-story/ffc218137f5e0bdaf6c0d1286f37e5bf
Australian researchers join the race for a vaccine that deals with all Covid variants in ONE SHOT - and it's almost ready for human trials
A super vaccine designed to smash all Covid variants is in the works with the aim of starting human clinical trials early next year.
A team of scientists from Sydney University are mixing together different Covid mutations to find one jab with the best immunity and combat the need for people to receive multiple vaccines at different times.
The scientists' hopes are to create a multi-layered jab so proficient in its 'long-lasting immunity' that it would be doled out to recipients every two years.
It could make the need for boosters an outdated concept at a time where most Aussies are getting their fourth jab in 12 months for best immunity.
University of Sydney virologist Dr Megan Steain told News Corp the variants that are infecting Aussies now are slipping past immunity protection provided by the present generation of vaccines.
'Currently what we are seeing with the Covid-19 pandemic is we are getting a rapid emergence of new variants that have partially escaped some of the immunity, which in generated from our current vaccines,' Dr Steain said.
'Our aim is to generate an immunity that will protect us from all possible variants that arise in the future to limit that immune escape.'
The researchers' goals are part of a race between 12 different teams in the world to create the first multi-effective jab of its kind.
A USA team from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research has already started the first human clinical trials for multiple coronaviruses.
Israel is trying to produce a vaccine to target different variants in a pill form that dissolves in the mouth.
The research is crucial as vaccine companies are struggling to keep up with the ever-changing variants that are putting up a fight to get past immunity in humans.
Moderna and Pfizer made vaccines for the original Omicron variant earlier this year, yet before they finished trials the variant had mutated into two new robust forms.
Dr Steain said it was not feasible for vaccine makers to continue along this route, emphasising the need for a jab that targets all potential emerging variants in the future.
Another group of Aussie researchers also have a similar plan underway at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research [WIMR] in Sydney.
They are building on a separate 'T-cell' vaccine that enhances immunity when it is given alongside other Covid jabs.
It aims to prolong the duration of regular Covid vaccines in the human body by producing more of the T-cells needed to create antibodies.
When a Covid booster is put into the body it creates two things - antibodies and T-cells - and they fight in tandem to ward off the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which creates the Covid-19 disease.
As antibodies diminish in potency over time, T-cells pick up the slack by creating more antibodies rapidly when infection occurs.
WIMR founder and infectious diseases expert Professor Tony Cunningham told Access News last November the booster has a multi-pronged approach to tackle mutations.
'We're trying to develop a booster that doesn't require changing every time a new variant comes along, it can be used for just simply all variants,' Professor Cunningham said.
But public health physician Dr Robert Grenfell said making the multi-impact vaccine was no walk in the park as efforts to do the same with the influenza jab have failed.
'Believe me, there's been a lot of work done on it and it's been it's been fraught with failure. But that certainly doesn't mean we give up on it with regards to coronavirus,' he told The Courier-Mail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11019237/Aussie-vaccine-research-deals-Covid-variants-ONE-SHOT-soon-human-trials.html
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So we will be celebrating the moor bred registered Exmoor pony as recognised by the Rare Breed Survival Trust (Watchlist Category 2, Endangered) across the UK. There will be opportunities for people to meet Exmoor ponies and learn about the breed whether you are lucky enough to be down on Exmoor during the summer months or situated in other parts of the country.
We have our own special Exmoor Pony Festival rosettes that will be given out to the best moor bred pony in in-hand and ridden classes at the Exmoor Pony Society's area shows – so that everyone can see that moor bred ponies do go on to become fantastic family ponies.
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Louisville graduate transfer�Trey Lewis�said Wednesday that athletic director�Tom Jurich�has assured players that�Rick Pitino�will remain the Cardinals' coach amid escort allegations.
Lewis said that Jurich 'explained to us that Coach Pitino is going to be our coach' when he was asked if he was worried about his coach's future during the Atlantic Coast Conference media day in Charlotte, N.C. 'Coach has come in very confident saying that he's going to be here for a long time.
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'So I have no worries about that. None of the players have any worries about that.'
Allegations emerged earlier this month that an ex-staffer hired an escort and other dancers to strip and have sex with players and recruits from 2010 to '14. Pitino isn't attending the media day on the advice of counsel, and he said to avoid the investigation being a distraction for other ACC coaches.
'If Coach is ever bothered by this, he does a great job of hiding it because we can't tell,' Lewis said. 'And I worry about him all the time, I pray for him all the time, but he handles this very well. He comes in fired up every day. He seems like he's more fired up now.'


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Photo courtesy Johan Bävman from his series 'Swedish Dads'.
Latte pappas
Sweden's hands-on dads represent an alternative male form forged by lowered testosterone and the potent hormones of attachment
Richard W Orange
is a freelance journalist who reports for the UK's Daily Telegraph and The Observer newspapers. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in India and Kazakhstan, and as a business reporter in London. He lives in Malmö, Sweden.
Edited by Pam Weintraub
'Something happens to the men who come here,' says Lisa Lindell, observing the first arrivals at her drop-in centre for new parents in Malmö, Sweden. One, a straggly haired Israeli scientist, has built a perfect pyramid out of Play-Doh for his daughter. A Swedish restaurant manager is sprawled on the floor as his son presents him with various objects.
'We think it's a revolution,' her colleague Karin Hallback Stigendal chimes in. 'These daddies here, they're very much closer to their feelings. They couldn't harm another person. Children will change their minds, and that will be good for our society.'
Sweden is leading the fight for gender-equal parenting – men here get three months of paid, use-it-or-lose it paternity leave for each baby (in fact, many take more) – and Lisa and Karin are its warm, welcoming stormtroopers. Since they started trying to lure dads to their centre a decade ago, numbers have grown steadily until, recently, the fathers began to outnumber the mothers.
'My patience levels have sky-rocketed,' reports the restaurant manager. 'There's not so much "me" in focus any more. It's all "him" now.'
The scientist hasn't noticed much change, but as we bond over having given our daughters the same rare Nordic name, I'm struck by something about the way he is standing, his one-year-old perched on a stuck out hip. He's one of a legion of Sweden's 'latte pappas', as the country's legion of scruffy men with prams are known. I've been one myself, taking six months off twice over the past four years to be the main carer for my daughter and then son. One afternoon in the playground, I began to notice the high, exaggerated voices many of my latte pappa acquaintances used with their babies – clear 'motherese'.
I felt compelled to find out if I was imagining it, and quickly discovered an explosion of new research demonstrating the dramatic impact that fatherhood has on men's hormones – along with their affect and talent for staying attuned. A 2011 longitudinal study of 624 Filipino men showed evening testosterone dropping by a median of 34 per cent in the first month after becoming fathers (the most extreme case saw a drop of 75 per cent). Levels of oxytocin, the so-called 'cuddle hormone', almost double in fathers between the time the mothers become pregnant and the first months of fatherhood. Prolactin, the hormone that triggers lactation in women, was almost a fifth higher in fathers of infants than in non-fathers. Fatherhood also physically alters the brain. In a 2014 study, researchers scanned men's brains in the first month after their children were born, and then again after the fourth month. It turned out that gray matter grew in areas linked to reward, attachment and complex decision-making.
These are the changes recorded in countries such as the United States, Canada and the Philippines, where mothers still do most of the childcare. But could the impact be even greater in Sweden, where men like me often take six months or more off work to be the primary carer for their babies? According to Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg, who pioneered research into oxytocin at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden's medical university, no one has tried to find out. 'This is a unique experiment that we are performing right now,' and the consequences might be profound.
Lee Gettler, director of the Hormones, Health, and Human Behavior Lab at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and the lead author on the Philippines study, suspects that Swedish fathers might be further along the spectrum than the fathers he has studied – truly hormonally and temperamentally transformed. They would have lower testosterone than less involved dads, and their testosterone would stay reduced during the early parenting years. 'Their prolactin might also be high, and their oxytocin would likely frequently spike up during affectionate, sensitive moments, reflecting father-child bonds and familiarity.'
I've seen the changes in myself. For several years, whenever my baby daughter or son made the slightest whimper at any time of night, I would find myself instantly awake and stomping over, as if controlled by a chip in my head. I'm restless and fidgety, but within a week of my first child being born I was able to rock from side to side singing 'rock-a-bye-baby' for hours, night after night, and I can still read my children the same story five times back-to-back without getting bored. A few years ago, there was a moment when, cradling my infant son, my nipples began to tingle strongly as if preparing to lactate.
As first one and then two children have absorbed more and more time, my life, and that of my wife, has been reduced to caring for them and working to provide for them. We rarely go out, and the only other adults we meet are those with children who can entertain our own. After a decade working in far-flung places such as India and Kazakhstan, my world has shrunk to two square kilometres of Malmö bounded by my children's daycare, the playground, my office and my home. The strangest thing about this is not that it's happened, but that, nestled in my warm oxytocin cocoon, I don't mind.
Thinking about the effects of hormones on fatherhood makes my Swedish wife cringe. It seems anti-feminist, suggestive that childcare is naturally a woman's job. This is something Uvnäs-Moberg recognises from her own work on oxytocin: 'I was attacked, not by men but by the feminist movement,' she says. They feared that the findings would provoke a 'backlash, that if women have hormones, that would be a reason for pushing them back into the kitchen and to caring for children'.
Widespread response to research from the Philippines shows that these concerns are justified: media coverage has focused almost exclusively on the finding that the more new fathers' testosterone levels fell, the less sex they had with their partners – even though parenting itself is exhausting and testosterone does not seem strongly correlated with male libido. Most popular conversations about testosterone involve 'societal definitions of masculinity', Gettler states.
But even some prominent researchers on fatherhood suspect that Sweden has gone too far.
Peter Gray, an anthropologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, says that if Sweden achieved gender-equal parenting, it would be the first society ever to do so in human history. Fathers from the Aka Pygmy people of central Africa, perhaps the world's most engaged fathers, do almost everything that mothers do, even down to suckling. But in camp they hold their babies for a creditable, but still less-than-equal, fifth of the time. 'Sweden is asking fathers to just focus on the direct childcare, and not to have to worry about resource acquisition, and I think that might be challenging,' Gray fears.
From my experience, though, I can tell him that it isn't. At no point in my own combined 12 months off work did I ever feel I was doing anything unnatural or against the grain, and I have yet to meet a father in Sweden who has described feeling that way.
The flexible physiobiology governing parenting in humans likely explains my report – starting with the changes in testosterone itself. According to the Philippines study, fathers who live with their children had testosterone levels on average more than a sixth lower than those who live apart. Those who co-sleep with their children saw greater declines in testosterone than those who did not. The hormone is double-edged: testosterone makes both men and women more muscular, more likely to take risks, more socially outward-looking. Trial lawyers have higher testosterone than their office-bound counterparts. Testosterone seems to encourage people – both men and women – to take a dominant role. Less testosterone, on the other hand, has a mellowing effect. A 2014 study of Israeli fathers found that those with lower levels of the hormone were more affectionate, tactile and communicative with their infants, and more frequently used that motherese.
Then there's the power of oxytocin. 'There are multiple pathways to increase your oxytocin levels and to ignite the parental brain, and there are pathways for fathers which can make that system work just as well as in mothers,' says the developmental neuroscientist Ruth Feldman of the Bar-Ilan University in Israel. In the past, she points out, many mothers died in childbirth, 'so evolution must have tailored the parental brain as something very, very flexible and adaptive.' Far from transgressing some natural role, human fathers' engagement in direct childcare might have been crucial to our evolutionary success.
the longer the leave that fathers took with their babies, the more they saw them later in life, even if they had separated from the mother
Traditional fatherhood is enhanced by hormones, too. Vasopressin and prolactin have been associated with 'orienting infant attention to objects and the outside world', Feldman explains. A 2010 study by Ilanit Gordon and colleagues at Feldman's lab, found that the higher the base prolactin levels of fathers, the longer the bouts of exploratory play they engaged in with their children. In birds, prolactin seems to be involved in more indirect forms of paternal support, so-called 'provisioning'. Some seabirds maintain high levels of prolactin over long voyages, perhaps to increase the chance of their returning to their young. Gettler points to research showing that human fathers with higher prolactin are also more alert and responsive to infant cries. Feldman has spent the past six years studying gay couples who father children with surrogate mothers, and she has yet to find any difference between their offspring and those of heterosexual parents, which suggests to her that at least one of them is doing everything that a mother does.
'A higher level of oxytocin directs you to focus more on play that is face-to-face, and vocalising, and this kind of affectionate contact,' she reports. 'For mothers, it comes more naturally, because pregnancy makes your whole brain soak in oxytocin. For fathers, it's much harder work. If, for 10 minutes before you go to your newspaper and television, you play with a well-fed and bathed infant, you know – "I'd like to see my kid when I've come back, between my pipe and my New York Times" – that's not going activate any hormones.' Triggering oxytocin takes physical contact, particularly skin-on-skin.
And to any men still smirking at the hit that engaged fathers seem to be taking to their testosterone, take note of this: dads involved enough to garner the full hormonal effect will be rewarded by a more intense bond with their children, throughout life. One Swedish study from 2008 found that the longer the leave that fathers took when their children were babies, the more they saw them later on in their lives, even if they had separated from the children's mother.
But what happens to Sweden's latte pappas when they return to their workplaces, their brains marinading in oxytocin and prolactin? How many, like me, find their priorities shifting in subtle but significant ways?
When Uvnäs-Moberg had her own children, the effects were so powerful that it changed the direction of her academic career. 'That's why I started to work with oxytocin, because I noticed these differences, in emotion but also in priorities,' she says. 'I was a scientist, working with the gastrointestinal tract, but that wasn't interesting any more.'
This might be one reason why some women who have fought tooth and nail to rise up in competitive careers abandon those careers without qualms once they have a child. Could something similar be happening to Sweden's latte pappas?
Uvnäs-Moberg describes oxytocin as the opposite of the fight-flight system. 'It is the calm and connection system: you reduce your arousal, you become calm, and you become friendly and not so anxious, and also your blood pressure gets lower. Your need to be at the top of a hierarchy decreases, and you become more interested in social networking and other affairs. That may be good when your babies are small, but after five years you may regret it.'
a temporary lull in the competitive drive of returning fathers is more than made up for by the retained expertise of the mothers better able to continue their careers
It could be that anyone, male or female, who combines parenthood with competitive careers and positions of power will, as a result, be a less patient and attentive parent. There might be a trade-off between being a status-hungry careerist and a nurturing parent, whatever your gender.
'You as a journalist have flexibility, but I'm sure that if you are the head of an investment bank, it could be catastrophic,' Uvnäs-Moberg argues. 'What I see in the institutions where I've been working is that the real careerists don't do this. There is a group of men that are so testosterone-linked, that I don't think they will ever stay at home with the children.'
Yet big Swedish companies such as the tech giant Ericsson actively encourage their male workers to take longer parental leave, which suggests that Sweden's latte pappas remain useful employees. Perhaps a temporary lull in the competitive drive of returning fathers is more than made up for by the retained expertise of the mothers better able to continue their careers.
Back at the drop-in centre, Lisa and Karin remain convinced that giving all fathers a six-month dose of hands-on parenting would vanquish forever the brash, aggressive, insensitive man. 'If you are closely connected to a child,' Karin says, 'you can't be tough and hard.'
Soon, the assembled mammas and pappas begin squeezing themselves into the centre's back room for the daily singing session. As they come to the final rousing ballad, which everyone sings while wafting a multicoloured parachute in the air, memories well up of the hundred or more mornings I must have spent in this room, rocking from side to side with either my daughter or my son on my lap. Whatever the final impact of Sweden's experiment on fathers, there's one latte pappa who will never be the same again.
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20 Famous Movies Accused Of Copyright Infringement
Posted on August 29, 2018 August 29, 2018 by Leon Miller
Ask almost any established screenwriter, and they'll tell you that ideas are essentially worthless – and that's true…up to a point. After all, you can come up with the most groundbreaking premise for a movie ever conceived of, but if you can't transform this concept into an equally impressive screenplay, then your idea isn't worth squat.
It's also fair to say that you need to move quickly in the filmmaking business, as chances are that someone is already developing a different project built around a similar idea at the exact same time as you are. If a film based off that script makes it into theatres beforehand, then you're going to look less like a genius and more like a copycat – and again, having a big idea won't matter.
All this being said, it's also fair to say that ideas are valuable once they've properly evolved into a screenplay you can wave under the nose of a studio executive or producer. Indeed, at this stage, not only do you now have something tangible, but also something that is subject to copyright law.
It's on the basis of copyright infringement that lawsuits have been brought against the creative teams behind many smash-hit films over the years. Here, the aggrieved parties argue that the screenplays for these movies are so similar to their own material – which they've already unsuccessfully shopped around Hollywood – that the only explanation is that the former plagiarises the latter.
With this in mind, here's a rundown of 20 Famous Movies Accused Of Copyright Infringement – including the outcome of each dispute.
1. The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro's 2017 fantasy romance The Shape of Water racked up a plethora of well-deserved awards, including the Best Picture Oscar – but it also snagged itself a plagiarism lawsuit, too. See, the estate of celebrated playwright Paul Zindel accused del Toro and co-writer Vanessa Taylor of pretty much copying everything in Zindel's play Let Me Hear You Whisper.
And we do mean everything: the suit argued that the story, characters and themes of Shape of Water were all cribbed from Zindel's play. For his part, del Toro (who was named along with producer Daniel Kraus in proceedings) claimed to be unfamiliar with Let Me Hear You Whisper, and denied that Taylor or any of his other collaborators ever mentioned it, either.
In the end, the court sided with del Toro, ruling that, while Let Me Hear You Whisper – which focuses on the relationship between a cleaner and a dolphin, and not a fish-man – does share broadly similar elements with The Shape of Water, this aspects were not specific enough to be protected by copyright law.
2. Zootopia / Zootropolis
Zootopia (or Zootropolis, as it is known in some international markets) was yet another commercial and critical smash-hit for Walt Disney Animation Studios, and nabbed the 2016 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (among many other gongs). Unfortunately, it wasn't all smiles for the studio, as it later found itself embroiled in legal dispute related to copyright infringement.
In March 2017, screenwriter Gary L. Goldman initiated proceedings against Disney, alleging that the animation powerhouse lifted the idea for Zootopia from a project he unsuccessful pitched to the studio back in 2000 (and again in 2009). The unrealized film – a live-action flick titled Looney – revolved around a socially inept animator who develops an auto-biographical cartoon series called "Zootopia".
Now, on the face of it, that all sounds wildly unrelated to the film Disney released, which was a fully animated, buddy cop-style outing set in a world of anthropomorphic animal characters. Goldman nevertheless insisted that not only did Disney steal the name for Zootopia from his pitch, but also the setting, themes, and underlying character archetypes it featured. He even produced concept artwork that bore a resemblance to the finished designs for the cast of the film.
Despite all of this, District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald rejected Goldman's claims, finding that the screenwriter's attempts to draw connections between Zootopia and Looney were "strained", and the case was subsequently dismissed.
3. The Fifth Element
Not content with merely being a provocative auteur with his own cult following, Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky also finds the time to pen critically acclaimed comic books, too. Of these, those most well-received is The Incal, a sweeping space opera he co-created with legendary artist Jean Giraud (better known as Moebius).
It was thanks to The Incal that fellow director Luc Besson found himself in court, as Jodorowsky and Giraud felt that Besson's 1997 box-office smash The Fifth Element ripped off their work on the series. The case ultimately fell apart, however, with the judge dismissing proceedings on the basis that only "tiny fragments" of The Incal seemed to be re-used by Besson in The Fifth Element.
As Jodorowsky would later note, it also didn't help matters that Giraud was hired by Besson to provide concept designs on the film – making at least some similarity between the comic and film inevitable, really.
4. The Matrix
When The Matrix first arrived in theatres back in 1999, it was hailed as a truly unique blend of various genres and influences unlike anything previously seen in Western cinema, with a unique story to boot. However, superstar comic book scribe Grant Morrison would dispute the originality of the Wachowskis' screenplay, as he's long maintained that they filched much of the plot for the first Matrix instalment from his influential comics series, The Invisibles!
Although Morrison has never bothered taking the Wachowskis (or Warner Bros.) to court, he has publicly called them out over parallels between their story and his. On the surface, these allegations might seem a bit of a stretch, as both are variants on the usual mind-bending outing that questions the very nature of reality, which is not really something you can copyright.
But the specific scenes Morrison references – like the "leap of faith" and the good guys being tortured while in a trance state – do back up his claims, to some extent. It's also fair to say that both The Matrix and The Invisibles share a similar, 90s aesthetic and counter-cultural vibe, so it's hard to imagine that someone involved with the movie didn't flip through the pages of Morrison's funnybooks.
5. Alien
When Alien arrived in theatres back in 1979, it was a watershed moment for the horror genre. Working from Dan O'Bannon's disarmingly cerebral screenplay, Scott crafted a claustrophobic sci-fi thriller that inspired countless imitators in the years that followed.
However, if aspiring screenwriter Jack Hammer is to be believed, the Alien script was itself an imitation of his own work! Hammer accused O'Bannon of plagiarising his screenplay for unproduced feature Black Space, and attempted to sue him.
Fortunately for O'Bannon, he was able convince the court that he had penned Alien well before Hammer put pen to paper for his own script, and the case against him was thrown out.
6. An American Tail
Whilst many accusations of copyright infringement levelled against a filmmakers can easily be disproved, others are able to stand up to a lot more scrutiny. Take the case of animated flick An American Tail, which bears an unmistakable resemblance to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, Maus.
Both Don Bluth's film and Spiegelman's comic book depict Jewish characters as anthropomorphized mice and their persecutors as cats, however, the first issues of Maus were published several years before An American Tail hit cinemas.
Spiegelman has made it clear that he believes Bluth and Amblin Entertainment founder Steven Spielberg pilfered this symbolic device – itself inspired by Nazi propaganda – from his award-winning story. But rather than engage in protracted and costly legal proceedings, the cartoonist instead decided to release the first collected edition of Maus prior to the movie's premiere, in an effort to steal the latter's thunder.
7. Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino makes no bones about the many homages to classic cinema woven into his films. Yet what makes the maverick director so respected is that he still always manages to create stories that are not only fresh and exciting, but stand comfortably apart from the movies that inspired them.
Which isn't to say that QT hasn't been sued for copyright infringement – on the contrary, Tarantino found himself in hot water over the screenplay for 2012 revisionist Western Django Unchained! That's right: Oscar Colvin Jr and his son Torrance J. Colvin sued Tarantino in 2015, alleging that the script for Django Unchained copied much of the material contained in their screenplay for a film titled Freedom.
The filmmaking duo sought $100 million compensation in a lawsuit that dragged on for two years. Ultimately, the Colvins were unable to sufficiently prove that plagiarism had taken place, and the case was dismissed in 2017.
8. Coming To America
So far, we've only dealt with claims that have either never made it to court, or that have been resolved in favor of the defendant. So it's probably time to shift the spotlight onto instances where the aggrieved parties were able to successfully back up their accusations of copyright infringement.
Let's start with 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy vehicle Coming to America, which saw Paramount Studios hauled into court humorist by Art Buchwald over their unauthorized re-use of concepts he devised.
Buchwald was able to support his allegations that Paramount incorporated ideas he pitched to the studio as part of an abandoned earlier project into the screenplay for Coming to America. This turned out to be a violation of the terms of Buchwald's contract with the studio, and he received a payout – although it was considerably less than he had hoped for, especially once his legal team had taken their cut.
9. A Fistful Of Dollars
Film buffs have long acknowledged classic Spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars as an unofficial remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. It's the "unofficial" part in that last sentence that wound up causing problems for Italian director Sergio Leone, after Kurosawa and film production company Toho pursued legal action, citing copyright infringement.
For his part, Kurosawa expressed admiration for Leone's work on A Fistful of Dollars, commenting "[he] made a fine movie, but it was my movie". Leone disagreed – citing other influences, such as Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest and the play Servant of Two Masters, by Carlo Goldoni – and initially tried to ignore the lawsuit.
However, the pressure from Toho's lawyers continued to mount, and Leone finally caved to it. He settled the dispute out of court for a substantial sum of money (for the time), rumored to be over $100,000 plus 15% of A Fistful of Dollars' world-wide box office haul.
10. The Island
Another case settled out of court, the filmmakers behind obscure 1979 flick Parts: The Clonus Horror objected to similarities between their film and Michael Bay's 2005 sci-fi thriller The Island. Producers Robert S. Fiveson and Myrl A. Schreibman filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against DreamWorks – although the studio tried in vain to prevent proceedings from making it to the courtroom.
Rather than risk the bad publicity of a trial – and perhaps worried that a court would rule in favor of Fiveson and Schreibman – DreamWorks agreed to settle the case for a hefty fee (think seven figures). It's also worth mentioning that Michael Marshall Smith has noted a strong resemblance between The Island and his novel Spares, although the author apparently can't be bothered to seek compensation (owing to the costs involved with hiring legal counsel).
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In fashion, Eighteenth century has never stopped to inspire. The overwhelming decorations, extreme volumes and the push for lavishness that are at first glimpse often associated with it keep recurring on catwalks and as inspiration for editorials in magazines as well.
Recently, Raf Simons went back to that precise moment in history, when he designed a narrow-fit pink jacket with contour decorations for Christian Dior a/w 2014-15 couture collection, as Jean Paul Gaultier did twenty years before for his menswear line for s/s 1994. For John Galliano it has been a deep pool for inspiration, from where he has drawn many times and for the many lines he directs and directed, including Givenchy, Maison Margiela and Christian Dior, whose founder also was also fond of that exuberant century.
In 1998, Richard Martin, then curator of MET's Costume Institute, addressed this topic in an exhibition entitled 'The Ceaseless Century', very well capturing with this title the enduring allure the Eighteenth century has on fashion designers. In the exhibition the curator argued, in fact, that the atmosphere for lust and excess that was expressed in the costumes and styles of the century never stopped to influence and inspire fashion in the following ones.
Beside the Costume Institute own collection's of Eighteenth century clothes, in the exhibition the curator decided to include pieces from the Nineteenth and Twentieth century as well, to show the correspondences between each dress, illuminating how the ceaseless century was evoked and took form in its aftermath. The exhibition featured designs by Worth, Drécoll, Cristobal Balenciaga, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Gianni Versace, Vivienne Westwood, all mounted up to show the continuity of a century whose grandiosity still holds its fascination over fashion.
As mentioned earlier, it is clear how the Eighteenth century is still a period in time where designers can refresh the sometimes-weary zeitgeist with a magnificent and sometime impossible feeling for excess and lavishness that still has no comparisons. In this sense, those who glance back at this moment in history are not made drowsy and kept from moving on; instead, as Richard Martin pointed out, the 'ceaseless century' never ceases to infuse a renewed exuberance on those who dare to look back and linger on its memory.
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Kangnam Opens Up About What Kind Of Boyfriend He Is
by D. Druther
Former M.I.B vocalist Kangnam is not afraid to open up about his insecurities in dating!
The popular idol joined FIESTAR's Cao Lu, B.I.G's Benji, and former "Abnormal Summit" cast member Robin on a special foreign entertainer episode of KBS talk show "Hello Counselor."
During the episode, a Nepalese man who has been living in Korea for 15 years shared problems between him and his Korean wife with the guest panel. The situation inspired the stars to open up a bit about their own love lives.
When "Hello Counselor" host Shin Dong Yup asked Kangnam if he had ever dated a Korean woman before, Kangnam answered that he had in fact dated "a lot" of them. He then began talking about his dating style, admitting that he can be a bit possessive.
"[When dating,] I'm completely obsessed. Even when she's just looking at her phone, I think she's cheating on me," he bashfully confessed.
The unusual statement caused a surprised Cao Lu to ask, "Why do you think she's cheating on you? You don't have any confidence?"
"I don't," he joked, causing everyone around him to laugh in disbelief.
Meanwhile, this was not the first time Kangnam has gone public about his love life. Earlier this month, the singer appeared on Channel A's "Singderella" and shared how he was able to date without his agency finding out.
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Invitational Winner Terry Soh and his brother Joe face off against Hall of Famer Dave Humpherys and Steve Sadin.
Terry Soh needs little introduction as a former Invitational winner and multiple Pro Tour Top 8er. The Rakdos Augermage's brother Joe, on the other hand, is a face that readers might not so readily recognize. Still, with the help of his more famous brother he managed to earn a slot here through a PTQ, and despite Joe's lack of Pro Tour experience, the duo seems to work well together as a team. Unlike many of their compatriots, they share physical drafting responsibilities, diligently splitting each set of picks in half while drafting so that both teammates are holding some of the cards. That teamwork mentality has paid off for the Malaysians as they enter Day 2 in a solid first place finish at the top of the field.
Their opponent's for this round are no slouches either. Dave Humpherys is a YMG Hall of Famer who grandfathered in the otherwise unqualified Sadin despite not playing 2HG until this past Thursday. It would seem that a million Pro Points and experience goes a long ways towards being a quick-study.
Steve: "Dave has gone 0-60 in six rounds."
Terry managed to beat Steve in the die roll, and he and his teammate decided to play first. Joe didn't like his hand, however, and threw it back, looking for a fresh seven. After determining that those were okay, it was Humpherys's turn to mulligan. After conferring with his teammate, they opted to stick with the second hand of seven as well.
The first play of the game offered up an Essence Warden from Terry, which forced Dave to pause to read the card.
Terry, laughing: "You've never played that card before?"
Dave: "Yeah. It was a different color though…"
After a few turns of play, it looked like the match was a pseudo-mirror: both teams had a red-green deck (with Steve and Terry playing them for their respective teams) and each had a blue-X build. Joe opted to pair Plains with his Islands, while Dave went with Swamps.
The early Essence Warden had done some work for the Sohs. They had gained 2 life with it as well as dropping their opponents to 28 by putting it on the offensive. In addition, when Steve and Dave had answered it with Dead // Gone, the Sohs had the trump in Gift of Granite. The board stood with Steve and Dave on a lonely Nessian Courser while Joe and Terry had a Thallid Shell-Dweller, a suspended Infiltrator il-Vec, and a 1/3 Essence Warden.
Trying to make sure they stayed caught up with their opponents, the Americans added an Urborg Syphon-Mage and Wormwood Dryad to their side of the table. Unfortunately for them, the Essence Warden meant their opponent's life totals kept creeping higher and higher, and soon began nearing 40. To make matters worse, on the Malaysians' next turn, their Infiltrator came in off suspend and Terry was able to make a Kavu Primarch with the kicker paid.
Dave played a main-phase Venser's Diffusion targeting the Primarch, then Steve followed up with a Flowstone Embrace targeting Joe's Aven Augur. In addition to dealing with those two threats, the Americans looked to run away with the turn, playing Grapeshot with a storm count of two and choosing 2 damage to hit Joe's morph and 1 to hit his Infiltrator.
But Joe had some tricks up his sleeve as well. A Mana Tithe on the copy targeting his Infiltrator kept the 3/1 alive, as Sadin was tapped out from playing all of his spells. Then Joe returned two Islands to his hand to flip up his morph, revealing Fathom Seer. That effectively countered the other copies of the 'Shot, and Dave and Steve were left bashing with their Courser and Urborg Syphon-Mage, dropping their opponents to 34.
Tempo seemed to be firmly on the side of the Soh brothers and the Americans were definitely backpedaling. A Shivan Meteor dealt with Dave's Urborg Syphon-Mage, meaning Terry would be the only one gaining life (thanks to his Essence Warden). That card was proving particularly troublesome. Because the Americans were behind on tempo, their hope seemed to lie in racing the Soh brothers as best they could, hoping for a bit of luck to come through for them. However, because the Warden was slowly accumulating enough life to undo the occasional attack, that plan wasn't looking to work.
The board stood at 35-20 in favor of the Malaysians. Their creatures were Mistmeadow Skulk, Jedit's Dragoons, Knight of Sursi, Infiltrator il-Vec, and Fathom Seer for Joe, while Terry had a kicked Kavu Primarch, Thallid Shell-Dweller, Essence Warden with Gift of Granite, and one Saproling. Dave and Steve, on the other hand, had Nessian Courser, Penumbra Spider, Wormwood Dryad, Whip-Spine Drake, Jodah's Avenger, and a Veiling Oddity counting down from four. They spent a good portion of each turn in the tank, trying to make sure they didn't make any mistakes in an effort to dig themselves out of a tight, but not unwinnable, spot. For fans of Humpherys that comes as no surprise, as the Pro Tour Champion has long been described as "meticulous."
The Soh brothers looked to completely put things away, utilizing their advantageous board position with the backbreaking Boom // Bust. Tapped out, Dave and Steve could do nothing but discuss what their next play was going to be before destroying all of their lands. After the end of the turn, Terry and Joe stood at 41 life with an overwhelming board position and an Essence Warden that the Americans were still struggling to contain.
Dave and Steve weren't out yet, though. Dave's Jodah's Avenger was plinking away at the Soh's life total, gaining vigilance and shadow each turn to attack for 2 (and still being up for defense to stop the Infiltrator il-Vec). A gang block had managed to kill the Kavu Primarch for a meager two-for-one, and their Veiling Oddity continued to tick down. Not looking to lose the race, the Soh brothers opted for an alpha strike, sending in a Jedit's Dragoons, Mistmeadow Skulk, Fathom Seer, Essence Warden, and two Saprolings.
Death Rattle took out the Dragoons, Spider sucked up a Saproling, and the Avenger stopped the Infiltrator. When the smoke cleared it was 40-6 in favor of Terry and Joe, who added two Knights to their board position after the attack: Riftmarked Knight and Blood Knight. Dave and Steve, however, had only Evolution Charm on their turn, searching up a Mountain for Steve, which he played.
A second alpha strike from the Sohs cost them a few more threats but dropped the Americans to 2, and it was make or break time for the Hall of Famer and the Grand Prix Champion. Their Oddity came into play but only served to allow the Avenger to get in for 4. A Conflagrate killed a Saproling, and Terry and Joe were left only able to swing with their Mistmeadow Skulk as its protection ability gave it evasion against the American's board. That move left their opponent's on a single, precious life.
…and the Americans get the blues.
During the American's next turn, they had a question for the judge: would flashing back the Conflagrate by discarding a single card create a converted mana cost of less than three, allowing them to kill the Skulk? The judge explained that, with two Xes in the mana cost, it would not, and that was nothing but bad news for Steve and Dave. They opted to attack with their vigilant Avenger and, surprisingly, their Penumbra Spider. The Soh brothers, fearing shenanigans, put their Thallid Shell-Dweller in front of the 2/4 and Steve revealed they had guessed correctly: Brute Force took down the 0/5. However, the damage the Avenger got in for was considerably less than the 40+ needed to earn them the victory, and when Joe didn't forget to attack with his Skulk, Steve and Dave extended the hand.
Some critics have derided the 2HG format for being too "luck-based" but this match seems to be a solid example of why that isn't the case. The Soh brothers' innovative use of the little-played Gift of Granite allowed them to save their Essence Warden seemingly out of nowhere during the very early stages of the game. The Warden then went on to gain them the life they needed in order to maintain an edge in the matchup and earn the win. It is that type of thinking outside the box in addition to their honed skills working together that merits their standing at the top of the field.
Terry Soh/Joe Soh defeat Dave Humpherys/Steve Sadin!