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"The Borrowers" and Mary Norton: An Imaginative Children's Book
Linda Crampton is a teacher who enjoys reading and creative writing. Her favourite genres are classic literature, fantasy, myth, and poetry.
The hole leading to Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's home is located under a grandfather clock. | Source
A Captivating Story for Children
The Borrowers is a story about a family of tiny people that live in a home under the floorboards of a house. Pod, the father in the family, secretly "borrows" (collects) food and other items from the house. This enables him, his wife Homily, and his teenage daughter Arrietty to enjoy a comfortable life.
As the story progresses, Arrietty becomes increasingly frustrated with having to remain hidden and being unable to explore the world. Her behaviour eventually causes her to be seen by a big person—a very serious situation for a borrower—and even to develop a friendship with him. The friendship leads to a series of adventures that eventually force the borrowers to leave their home and search for another place to live.
The Borrowers was published in 1952 and was written by Mary Norton, an English author. The book won the 1952 Carnegie Medal, a British prize that is awarded annually for the best children's book. Norton created four sequels for her story, which are all popular, but the first book in the series is the best known. In the sequels, Arrietty continues to form relationships with big people.
Mary Norton's childhood home, which is now part of a school; this was probably the setting for the Clock family's home in The Borrowers | Source
A Brief Biography of Mary Norton
Mary Norton was born on December 10th, 1903, in London, England. Her birth name was Kathleen Mary Pearson. She grew up in a large Georgian house located in the town of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire. This house is believed to be the setting for The Borrowers and is shown above.
After leaving school, Norton had a brief career as an actress and spent a season with the Old Vic Shakespeare Company. She married Robert Charles Norton in 1927 and had four children from the marriage—two girls and two boys. The first part of her marriage was spent in Portugal, where Robert was an engineer. During the second world war, Norton worked for the British War Office and then for the British Purchasing Commission in the United States while her husband was in the navy. Her literary career started during her time in the U.S.
Norton's first marriage was dissolved. (Dissolution can be thought of as a no-fault divorce.) She married her second husband Lionel Bonsey in 1970. She died in England on August 29th, 1992, after experiencing a stroke. She was eighty-eight years old.
Mary Norton's grave is located at St. Nectan's Church in Devon, England | Source
The Early Books of Mary Norton
Mary Norton's first book was published in 1943. It was entitled The Magic Bed-Knob or How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons. A sequel called Bonfires and Broomsticks was published in 1947. The two stories were combined and republished in 1957 in a book called Bed-knob and Broomstick. This book became the basis of a 1971 Disney film with a similar name, which starred Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson.
The Borrowers was Norton's most famous book. One of her publishers said that the author had a wonderful sense of humour. Norton said that the idea of the borrowers and the problems that they would face developed because she was very shortsighted. She was often looking at things close by while other people were peering into the distance. Norton enjoyed examining plants and wondering what it would be like for a tiny person to travel through them.
Mary Norton enjoyed getting close-up views of plants and animals and wondering how tiny people would deal with them. | Source
Introduction to The Borrowers
I have long believed that a children's book should be enjoyable for adults, too. In my opinion The Borrowers definitely fulfils this requirement. It's an interesting story and has an imaginative plot. It also has great descriptions of scenes, people, and the attitudes and emotions of the main characters. I enjoyed the book as a child and I still enjoy it today.
The plot is driven by the desires of fourteen-year-old Arrietty, who lives in secret with her mother and father under the kitchen floor of a large house. A long tunnel leads to Arrietty's home. The entrance to this tunnel lies under the grandfather clock in the front hall of the house. Arrietty's family is therefore known as the Clock family. (Even the names of the borrowers are borrowed.)
Other borrower families once lived in different parts of the house. As the children in the family of big people left and the lady who owns the house became bedridden, rooms were no longer used and borrowers could no longer find enough food to survive. Only the Clock family remains.
When he was younger I've seen your father walk the length of a laid dinner table, after the gong was rung, taking a nut or sweet from every dish, and down by a fold in the tablecloth before the first people came in at the door. He'd do it just for fun, wouldn't you, Pod?
— Homily Clock, AKA Mary Norton
The borrowers used letters written by human beans as wallpaper. | Source
A Plot Summary: Life as a Borrower
Borrowers believe that "human beans" (a mispronunciation of human beings) exist to support them. The borrowers themselves are humans (or at least appear to be), though they are tiny compared to other people.
The Clock family feels that they have a perfect right to borrow, which from their point of view is definitely not the same as stealing. Pod collects small items from the house and then he and Homily repurpose the items. Scraps of old letters becomes wallpaper and postage stamps become wall art, for example. Blotting paper is used as a carpet, stacked matchboxes as a chest of drawers, and pins as knitting needles. Water is plentiful because while Pod's father was alive he tapped the pipes connected to the kitchen boiler. Food is borrowed whenever necessary.
Arrietty has spent her whole life inside the family home, with only a grating to view the outside world and only her parents for company. Although her home is comfortable and her parents love her, Arrietty is frustrated by her restricted life. To relieve her frustrations and to teach her how to survive if he dies, Pod takes Arrietty on the first of a planned series of borrowing trips.
Postage stamps are often miniature works of art. The borrowers liked to put them on their walls. | Source
Meeting the Boy
During her borrowing trip, Arrietty enters the garden of the house through the open front door. After a glorious exploration of some of the garden's delights, Arrietty is seen by a boy who is temporarily staying at the house. The boy appears to be a giant to her because he is a human bean.
Arrietty and the boy develop a friendship. This relationship is at first beneficial for the Clock family. The boy brings them wonderful things from the big house, allowing them to live in luxury. Unfortunately, the family is eventually discovered by the adults in the big house. The story ends with the family's dramatic escape to find a home elsewhere. They face grave danger during their escape from the house—death by inhaling rodent poison—but the boy saves their lives.
This blotting paper (the larger yellow sheet) dates from the early twentieth century. The Clock family used blotting paper as a carpet. | Source
Blotting paper was once used to absorb excess ink after writing, drawing, or stamping with ink from an inkwell.
Other Books in The Borrowers Series
The sequels to The Borrowers describe the exciting adventures of the Clock family as they move from one temporary home to another, interacting with other borrowers and with human beans as they do so.
The five books in the series and their publication dates are as follows:
The Borrowers: 1952
The Borrowers Afield: 1955
The Borrowers Afloat: 1959
The Borrowers Aloft: 1961
The Borrowers Avenged: 1982
At the end of the first book there is a slight suggestion that the borrowers existed only in the boy's imagination, which always annoyed me when I was a child. I wanted Pod, Homily, and Arrietty to be real. In the later books the reality of the borrowers is assured.
In the last book of the series the Clock family find their long-lost relatives. There are still questions about the borrowers' future to be answered at the end of the story, however. Some people think that Mary Norton had yet another book in mind but never wrote it.
Matchboxes are made of thin wood or cardboard and often have attractive labels. The borrowers used them as drawers. | Source
Movie, TV, and Stage Adaptations of The Borrowers
Several screen adaptations of The Borrowers have been created. Not all of these have followed the correct plot. For someone who loves the books, this is a serious flaw.
The best screen version that I've seen is the award-winning 1992 BBC miniseries, which covers The Borrowers and The Borrowers Afield. I like this series not only because of its relative plot accuracy and its realistic special effects but also because the appearance of the actor Ian Holm closely resembles my mental image of Pod. The first episode of the series is shown below.
The BBC produced a sequel to the miniseries in 1993. This was based on The Borrowers Afloat and The Borrowers Aloft and contained the same actors as the first miniseries.
The Secret World of Arrietty was created by a Japanese animation studio and released in 2010. It won a number of awards. I've never seen the film, but from the plot synopsis it seems that the idea behind the book is maintained. The film describes the adventures of the Clock family of borrowers and the boy who finds them. The story is set in Tokyo, however.
From November 2014 to the end of January 2015, the New Vic Theatre in Britain presented a stage adaptation of the story, complete with special effects. Other theatre companies have also presented the story. It's interesting that a tale first published over sixty years ago is still popular.
A Fantasy but Not a Fairy Tale
The Borrowers is a fantasy, but it's not a fairy tale. Part of the charm of the borrowers is that they are so real. Although they call big people human beans and themselves borrowers, they are humans like us, despite their small size. The fact that they often live in an environment meant for much bigger people creates special challenges for them, however. The description of how they meet these challenges is one of the joys of Mary Norton's books. Her story of the borrowers has captured people's imagination ever since it was published. It's a story that can be enjoyed by both children and adults.
A report about Mary Norton and the Borrowers from The Guardian newspaper
Mary Norton obituary from the New York Times
What are some fun facts in the "The Borrowers and Mary Norton" children's book?
I think the ways in which the Clock family uses human bean belongings to decorate their home are fun. I've mentioned some in the article, but the book mentions others. Postage stamps are used as pictures for the walls, blotting paper is used for a carpet, a matchbox is used for a chest of drawers, and a padded trinket box with the lid open is used as a settle.
Potatoes are so big that the family has to roll them along the ground and cut off just a small piece for a meal. Fibres from the front door mat in the big house are used to make a scrubbing brush for the Clock family. Arrietty's bedroom is built from two cigar boxes. The pictures on the boxes decorate her room.
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Hi, aesta1. That's so interesting that Mary Norton is your real name! Thank you very much for the comment. I hope you're able to read about the borrowers some day. Even as an adult, I enjoy the story.
Mary Norton
4 years ago from Ontario, Canada
I was fascinated by this story. I have seen the name Mary Norton as that is my name, too, but I have never read one of her books. Thanks for this. I enjoyed it very much.
Hi, MelRootsNWrites. I love the idea of you wanting to find borrowers in your own home! Thank you very much for the comment. I appreciate your visit.
Melody Lassalle
4 years ago from California
The Borrowers was one of favorite series as a child. I remember borrowing every single volume from the school library. I was fascinated by the tiny family and I think I hoped to find some Borrowers in my own home so I could help them with their adventure. Thanks for this wonderful article and bringing back such warm memories.
Hi, Deb. Yes, the story is a great fantasy. I think you would enjoy reading it, too!
Deb Hirt
4 years ago from Stillwater, OK
This sounds like such a fascinating fantasy. I think I'd enjoy reading it, too.
Hi, VioletteRose. Yes, The Borrowers is a wonderful book for children. Thanks for the comment.
VioletteRose
Sounds like a wonderful book to read. I love reading children's books for myself and for my kids. Thanks for sharing :)
Hi, vespawoolf. It's nice to discover that other people like the borrowers. They are very interesting characters!
Vespa Woolf
5 years ago from Peru, South America
I loved the Borrowers series! I agree that their appeal lies in their humanity. Thank you for sharing this review. I hope others will be able to enjoy this book.
Hi, Martie. Thanks for the visit and the comment. I hope your grandchildren enjoy the story!
Martie Coetser
Oh, I will enjoy reading The Borrowers series by Mary Norton, and I am going to get hold of the movie for my grandchildren. Thank you for this comprehensive and delightful review, Alicia :)
Hi, Nell. Thanks for the comment. I can understand why the borrowers make people smile!
Nell Rose
5 years ago from England
I never read the book, but I loved the film and the TV series, I never knew who wrote it though, so this was really fascinating, thanks Alicia, it made me smile to see it again!
Hi, Vellur. Yes, I think the series is both awesome and fun! Thank you for the comment.
Nithya Venkat
5 years ago from Dubai
I have never read the Borrowers the series sound awesome and great fun for kids and adults to read.
Thank you very much for the comment, Flourish. I hope you're able to read the book with your nieces and nephews one day.
Wonderful hub, and it looks especially timely, too, in some parts of the world. I never heard of this author but the way you highlighted The Borrowers it makes me want to learn more along with nieces and nephews.
Hi, Jodah. Thanks for the comment. I enjoyed reading your "Between the Floors" hubs very much. I did notice the similarity with The Borrowers, though. It's interesting how we tuck ideas away in our mind and then use them in the future without remembering what stimulated them!
John Hansen
5 years ago from Queensland Australia
Hi Alicia, thi was very interesting. I can't recall ever reading "The Borrowers" or having heard of Mary Norton, but I have a feeling I must have because the story is very similar to my short children's stories I made into hubs called "Between the Floors". The first of these I wrote about 20 years ago..so in the 90s..maybe I saw the tv series about the same time and got the idea from that. Thanks for sharing this.
Hi, Audrey. I think the videos are great, too. It's nice to see the borrowers in action!
Audrey Howitt
Oh this looks wonderful! I loved the trailers!
Thank you very much for the comment, PsychGeek. I'm glad the hub is bringing back pleasant memories for people. The Borrowers is one of my favourite children's books.
Fiona Guy
5 years ago from UK
This brings back so many memories! I used to love this programme on television when I was younger and I never did get around to reading the original books - maybe now I will. Great Hub.
Hi, Ilonagarden. Yes, I've frequently seen the books recommended for ages 8 or 9 and up. Some adults like them, too!
Ilona E
5 years ago from Ohio
These are great stories for young children, the ones between toddler, just learning read-ers, and those who are full fledged readers ready for "The Hobbit".
Hi, eugbug. Thank you for the visit and comment!
Thank you very much for the comment and for sharing your experience, Patricia. I appreciate your votes and the shares a great deal, too. Most of all, I appreciate the lovely angels that you send!
Eugene Brennan
5 years ago from Ireland
The plots are a dim distant memory, but as far as I can remember , I really enjoyed these books as a child.
Thanks for the memory!
Lovely highlighting of this author...kids love her. I read the Borrowers to many classes of students over the years and they hung on every word ...certainly some wished they could have had such an experience
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Hi, Pro Shell. Thanks for the visit. Reading The Borrowers again reminds me of my childhood, too, although I still enjoy the book as an adult!
Hi, Kim. Although the stories of the borrowers are very popular, I think they may be better known in Britain than in North America. Their world is certainly magical, as you say. Your children might enjoy the books!
Pro Shell
5 years ago from Vereinigten Staaten
This really takes me back to the days of my youth
Thank you for the comment, Heidi. I hope a new generation does discover the story! I hope your weekend is going well, too.
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5 years ago from Niagara Region, Canada
Is it bad that I've never heard of it and I have four kids? What a magical world to write about. Great job, Linda.
Hi, Bill. I hope you enjoy the book if you read it. Thanks for the visit.
Thank you, Devika, I'm glad you found the hub interesting,
Hi, Jo. Thank you for the visit and comment. A story about little people living underground could be very interesting!
Heidi Thorne
5 years ago from Chicago Area
I haven't thought about this story since like maybe 4th grade! Time for a whole new generation to discover. Have a beautiful weekend!
Bill De Giulio
5 years ago from Massachusetts
Hi Linda. I am also not familiar with The Borrowers. I'll have to find the books and give it a read. It sounds very interesting. A great review, thanks for introducing this to me.
Devika Primić
5 years ago from Dubrovnik, Croatia
An interesting review. All new to me and I found this hub to be very enlightening on such a book.
Jo Alexis-Hagues
5 years ago from Lincolnshire, U.K
I remember following the BBC series of the Borrowers and being really intrigued by the little people. This is mainly because as a child, I used to imagine that there were little people living underground. However I never got around to reading the book.
Informative and and as always beautifully done.
Thanks, Bill. I appreciate your comment, as I always do.
It's obvious I haven't had a child for awhile because I've never heard of this. Very nice review, Alicia.
I think that the book is definitely worth reading as an adult, ologsinquito. Thanks for the visit.
I vaguely remember this book from my childhood. I'd like to read it again with adult eyes.
Hi, Marcy. I agree - the use of everyday objects in new ways is an enchanting part of The Borrowers! Like you, I hope the story is popular for a long time to come and that more people discover its joys. Thanks for the comment.
Hi, Cynthia. It's great to hear about another borrowers fan! Thank you very much for the comment.
Marcy Goodfleisch
5 years ago from Planet Earth
I just LOVED this book as a child - I've always loved anything 'miniature,' and the idea of a tiny family putting to use simple things in new ways enchanted me. What a fun trip down memory lane, Alicia! I hope generations for years to come enjoy the Borrowers on their bookshelves.
CMHypno
5 years ago from Other Side of the Sun
Thanks for a wonderful hub Alicia. I used to love the Borrowers when I was a child, but never knew very much about the author, so thanks for all the great info and pictures
Thanks, TheWritingnag. It was one of my favourite books, too!
Writing Nag
5 years ago from Colorado Springs, Colorado
One of my favorite childhood books! Thanks for invoking such lovely memories.


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The Federal Reserve sent its clearest signal to date Wednesday that it will keep interest rates super-low to boost the economy even after the job market has improved significantly.
The Fed says it plans to keep its key short-term rate near zero until the unemployment rate reaches 6.5 percent or less, as long as expected inflation is tame. Unemployment is now 7.7 percent.
That plan adds detail to what the Fed had said before - that it expects to keep the rate low until at least mid-2015. For the first time, the Fed is making clear to investors and consumers that it will link its actions to specific economic markers.
"This approach is superior" to setting a timetable for a possible rate increase, Chairman Ben Bernanke said at a news conference. "It is more transparent and will allow the markets to respond quickly and promptly to changes" in the Fed's economic outlook.
Bernanke made clear that even after unemployment falls below 6.5 percent, the Fed might decide that it needs to keep stimulating the economy. Other economic factors will also shape its policy decisions, he said.
The Fed will spend $45 billion a month on long-term Treasury purchases to replace a bond-purchase program of an equal size. And it will keep buying $40 billion a month in mortgage bonds.
"The Fed has become more explicit and more transparent," said Steven Wood, chief economist at Insight Economics. "This should provide the markets with much more clarity around monetary policy action in the upcoming year."
The policies are intended to help an economy that the Fed says is growing only modestly.
Stocks and bond yields rose after the Fed's statement was released. The Dow Jones industrial average was little changed just before the Fed announcement and closed down 3 points at 13,245.
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The Fed's plan to keep stimulating the economy at least until unemployment has reached 6.5 percent is intended to reassure consumers, companies and investors, said Joseph Gagnon, a former Fed official who is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
"This is trying to get away from that sense of 'Oh, my God, this is all about gloom and doom,'" Gagnon said.
The meeting was held against the backdrop of the looming "fiscal cliff," the sharp tax increases and spending cuts that will hit the economy in January if Congress and President Barack Obama are unable to reach an agreement this month to avert them.
Bernanke has said that the Fed's efforts will not be able to rescue the economy if the budget negotiations fail and the country does go over the fiscal cliff.


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Letters / Hustings 'did no credit to the BBC'
Any pretence of fairness by the BBC was shattered by their handling of the hustings on Tuesday evening. I was cut short, not allowed to make my points and even excluded from some questions. Others, meanwhile, were allowed to ramble on to their heart's content. This programme did no credit to the BBC.
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What was interesting was that the party candidates, by complaining about what they couldn't do because their hands were tied by one circumstance or another, all reinforced my argument that we need to retain power here.
We could accomplish all their policies in a month, which they are proposing to implement in the next five years. With a large salary and a small voice as one of 650 others, they are seriously expecting us to believe they are acting in our best interests.
However, I am buoyed up by the response I am getting on the doorstep. Once people realise that all the government has to justify its authority in Orkney and Shetland is a magazine article, and that its authority is only validated because we send a representative to parliament, they are incensed at the fraud that has been perpetrated on them.
For the first time, we have the choice – to send or not to send. If we elect an MP, of whatever party, we decide to willingly hand over our power for another five years. I have no intention of taking up the seat when elected.
This means that we wake up next Friday owning the land, and the seas and seabed out to 200 miles. It means that agriculture and fisheries are safe – they come off the Brexit negotiating table – and we have £82 million extra in our economy. The political parties can only offer wish-washy hopes and intents. Mine is a promise . The legal work is already done – we just have to put up our hands, say 'No thanks' and mark HILL on the ballot paper.
The government doesn't want you to know all this and neither, apparently, does the BBC. They can ignore one man, but they can't ignore a majority of the people.
The world is watching what we do here and people outside are taking me much more seriously. The New York Times recently published an article, I have has a Belgian film crew following me last week, an English one next week, and an Irish radio station is doing daily updates. The Orkney and Shetland constituency has the potential to lead positive change in the world – don't waste it.
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Response from John Johnston, senior producer of BBC Radio Shetland:
"Under the BBC's election guidelines, independent candidate Stuart Hill was included in the debate but did not get the same level of coverage as the four candidates representing the larger parties. In taking into account the level of coverage to give Independent candidates, the BBC looks at past and current electoral support. Mr Hill was made aware of the guidelines before the BBC Radio Shetland hustings was recorded."
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Almost 200 years after Frankenstein was published, Haifaa al-Mansour presents Mary Shelley, a biopic about the renowned author's teenage years leading up to the completion of her most famous novel. The film screened at the Calgary International Film Festival.
Mary Shelley prioritizes the love affair of young Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin to the affluent poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It's a gothic, young-adult romance featuring constant rendezvous at her mother's grave and poetic flirtations that only the two lovers can comprehend. The film centres on their forbidden love set against harsh traditions and the restrained society of the 18th century.
Alongside the young-adult romance is a coming-of-age story. Mary Shelley was only a teenager when catapulted into motherhood, but she matured quickly as a result of her hasty elopement to Percy Shelley. Wild adventures and tragedies with Percy Shelley and her stepsister, Claire Clairmont, guide us towards the titular character's growth into adulthood.
With all this going on — plus the attempts by the Shelleys and their writer friends to succeed the Romantic era — Mary Shelley comes across as an awkwardly paced film. The biopic's thesis is lost within the many moments of Mary Shelley's life as the film desperately attempts to cover them all.
The film's strength lies in Mary Shelley's experiences as a woman in the 18th century. The film could have focused on more of Mary Shelley and Clairmont's relationships. Their solid sisterhood sits covertly at the core of the film, further strengthened against the predatory shackles of the men in their lives. Furthermore, Mary Shelley frames the toxic male relationships as the basis of Mary's first novel.
Lead actress Elle Fanning stuns as the idealistic, beautiful and intellectual Mary Shelley. Douglas Booth exudes Percy Shelley's attractive but dubious nature and Bel Powley plays Clairmont excellently, appearing overlooked and needy without stealing the spotlight from Fanning.
Mary Shelley is a decent biopic. It highlights the many significant events in her life, but fails to convey a unifying theme. The film does an impressive job of showcasing female solidarity through the sisters' strong bond and the movie could have been better if it remained focused on this matter. Unfortunately, unlike Mary Shelley or Frankenstein, this film will not stand the test of time.


My first real memory of a trip to Walt Disney World was when I was in kindergarten. Of course, I had actually been there several times before that. My parents have a cool 1970's style photo album that they turned into a scrapbook of my adventures there. There are photos of me running around the Contemporary Resort kiddie pool, taking a big sister only trip with my parents, and more. Still, my memories are of a family trip with another family. I remember going to Chef Mickey in what would eventually become Downtown Disney.
Epcot had just opened and I fell madly in love with Dreamfinder and a cute purple dragon named Figment.
My love for Figment held on during that trip when it was time to pick something special out. The figment I am holding below was the special friend I picked out from a bribe my father made with me for going on Space Mountain.
Growing up at Walt Disney World, I watched as it went from one park to four over the years. The Contemporary Resort and Polynesian Resort soon had more and more resorts cropping up throughout the sprawling land that Walt Disney had purchased in Florida. Going to Orlando and spending time at Walt Disney World with my mother, father, and brother was priceless. It was a place where we were carefree, all kids at heart, and my father and mother laughed, smiled, and were relaxed. Memories of my father leaving his lens cap on during the Hoop-De-Do Review always make us laugh. Then there was soaring high over the Seven Seas Lagoon with my brother as we went parasailing for the first time. Classic times that were even more magical at Disney.
It's no wonder that TechyDad and I picked Walt Disney World as our honeymoon destination. He had never been and I wanted to share my passion for this special place. I do not think it took a day and he was hooked. We even had a special tenth anniversary trip planned there in September. Unfortunately, that trip was canceled thanks to Hurricane Irene.
Now we both have watched as our two boys have caught the Disney bug. We have watched NHL and JSL meet characters, grow big enough to try out new rides, and many other items with us.
There are other places that we could go on family vacations, but each time is unique and provides us with special moments. Disney World is like a home away from home where we can forget about our troubles and enjoy time together.
So now it is your turn. What made you fall in love with Disney? Feel free to share a story, link up to a funny memory, or anything else in the comments.
Love the old school photos!! We have an album around somewhere with our old Disney photos, but we moved so many times as kids that it has gone missing.
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I honestly don't remember a time when I didn't love everything Disney. I know I'm dating myself when I say we went on a family vacation to Walt Disney World the month after they opened in 1971. We stayed at Fort Wilderness and I still remember how much fun it was. We would go to the campfire singalong and watch Disney movies at night. I saw my first armadillo there!
I can't even count how many times we have gone to WDW as a family both growing up and with my own family. So many wonderful memories have been made there.
I'm so happy that we have been able to pass the love of Disney onto our own children. Our two oldest daughters have both done the college program and one of them is there right now for the 3rd time. Our oldest daughter met her future husband during her college program and now have twin boys.
We can't wait to go back this year to pick up our Disney Daughter and we'll be staying in Fort Wilderness, right where the magic first started for me!
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I didn't visit Disney until I was grown but aways had a love for it was a kid. It just seemed like such magical place!


Ever wondered why some of the oddballs out there just don't tip, no matter how much lemonade and extra soda crackers you bring them? Have you been the oddball?
If yes, then read this.
There is always this one motto of total judgment: "They know. They just don't want to," going on among hospitality people, which is true to a certain extent and which I am guilty of preaching about too. Some/A lot of people are also plain dumb or really actually don't know.
How about culture block? How does a European view you while you rant about their carefully counted, lemon-juice-polished five pennies? How does the Chinese family think when you rant to your server friend that "they" didn't tip you or not enough, damnit?
So I compiled a list of countries across the world and how tipping works there.
The United States of America: Tip. Now.
more is normal as a tip in New York City. More or less is dependent on the service and the guest. There are some restaurants now that do charge mandatory tips, but you are often warned before entering the lair before this happens.
The problem? Some states see tipping as part of the minimum wage law of $7.25 an hour, so they will set the wage as low as $2.00 an hour. Some people from out-of-country are unaware that tipping makes or breaks your server/bartender. Think about this next time you let your pet pee in the server's shoes just because you can. For more, go here.
How do our continental counterparts tip?
A couple of days ago while trying to ram my car in an open spot in the left turning lane, I saw a sticker on someone's car (with Florida license plate) that said this: "Heaven is when 10,000 Canadians go back north and have a New Yorker under each arm." Before anyone gets angry, this is of course a generalization, like most judgments made in life.
Canadians, you do tip, or according to your country laws, you should. In Canada the tipping law is like in the U.S. Some cities share "alternate minimum wage" and some servers share their tips in something called "tipping out". This is similar to the dreaded practice of "tipping out" as found in some specimen in the U.S. who do it willingly to hosts and bartenders. So yes, people tip in Canada.
Mexicans also tip, but rather in higher end establishments, and no less than 10% and no more than 15%. You can tip more if you liked them, their service, or swinging around real Margaritas. Average tip in Mexico is about 11% after value added tax.
Service charge is included. A 5% extra tip is appreciated.
Service charge is included and tipping is rare.
It depends on the island you swim to. In the Dominican Republic, they add a 10% gratuity and it is custom to add another 10%. Watch out, I'm coming!


In an effort to drum up enthusiasm among investors for his company's new agreement with China Mobile, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook participated in a rare TV interview on Wednesday, sharing the spotlight with Xi Guohua, the chairman of the world's largest wireless carrier.
Both Cook and Xi spoke with CNBC, and though the two parties revealed little, China Mobile's chairman did disclose that the carrier had netted 1.2 million total preorders for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c as of Jan. 13. Both devices are set to launch on China Mobile this Friday.
Cook referred to the agreement as a "watershed day," and praised China Mobile for having a "very fast network." It was a rare television interview appearance by the Apple CEO, who participated in a high-profile appearance on NBC in late 2012.
In his latest appearance, Cook spoke of the "deep respect" he and Apple have for China Mobile, saying he has been "incredibly impressed" with them thus far. Unsurprisingly, neither Xi nor Cook opted to give estimates on how many iPhones they believe China Mobile could sell in its first year.
"We see this as bringing the world's best smartphone to the very largest and now the fastest network in China," Cook told CNBC.
Both men also sat down for an interview with The Wall Street Journal this week, in which Cook hinted that both companies could expand their partnership in the future. While Cook declined to get into specific plans, it's likely that Apple will introduce cellular-capable iPads on China Mobile, as it has done on other partner carriers' networks.
I wish Tim Cook wouldn't give interviews to CNBC. They are so anti-Apple it isn't even funny. This morning they had Walter Isaacson on to tell us that Google has taken the innovation crown from Apple.
Isaacson has been on an anti-Apple crusade lately. I think the guy's ingratiating himself for his next book. Looks like he'd love to do one on Musk or Bezos or Page.
He used to have something interesting to say, but not anymore.
And just because he wrote a book on Steve Jobs doesn't make him an authority on Apple the company.
"neither Xi nor Cook opted to give estimates on how many iPhones they believe China Mobile could sell in its first year."
Don't even care about that. I just want to know what the iPhone price is, and how much of that price goes to Apple.
Apple are involved with Pro Desktops, Standard Desktops, Laptops, Tablets and Mobile Phones. Google are involved with Laptops, Tablets, Mobile Phones, GoogleGlass, Self-drive cars, Robotics and now Networked Home Accessories - and, of course, Search. Google's portfolio is more varied. Self-drive cars and Robotics have an exciting flare to them, a flare that Apple seems to lack at the moment. There is a lot of expectation for Apple to develop disruptive technology. They have earned that from past performance. It seems any development less than being market-disruptive, no matter how it may reflect admirable advances over previous iterations, gets a 'meh' from many Tech media sources.
google bought it, any company with more money than they know what to do can buy what they can not do themselves.
Btw, AI, Tim was not 'hyping' anything. Lousy headline.
He talked about how important the China market is, the role of China Mobile within that, the fact that they have (now) the largest and fastest network in the world, and how much respect he has for them. He pointedly refused to answer any questions on sales estimates. (The CM head said that there were 'millions in pre-orders', that was about the extent of it).
Granting interviews is one way to make them pro-Apple.
So buying a ac control and smoke derector company for 3bill make it better thank appl?
Who knows what apple is working on! google nust says every move they make.. apple can buy anything they want and then some..
Doubt it. Larry Page doesn't give them interviews yet their coverage of Google is much more positive than Apple. Same with Amazon.
And out of all of these things, what has Google done to make these better? Absolutely nothing. From what I see, most of the crap they release are total flops.
None of Google's many diversions are making them money. They are interesting, but interesting doesn't pay the bills.
"Hate the Leader" is America's favorite game.
Google's not paying its bills?
Apple isn't putting any money into diversions?
Apple spends considerably less on their R&D. We already know this is a fact. They are more focused. Google is a riot of diversions, reflecting the attentions of their founders.
... and, in the end, this might be Apple's downfall and Google's gain.
Apple could be focusing on the wrong things, while Google's diversions help it gain experience in other fields.
Google makes big money doing one thing and one thing only, selling advertising.
They are like old school ABC or NBC.
Nothing else Google does is making the big bucks.
There's thought: Just give the phones away and make it up on volume.
F**K Walter Isaacson and whoever agrees with him.


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Q&A: Andrew Dudman, Abbey Road Studios
Erica Basnicki talks to the award winning engineer about Sondheim, the new Star Wars series and – inevitably – Gravity
Erica Basnicki ⋅ Apr 23, 2015
Things you may already know about Abbey Road senior engineer Andrew Dudman: he is a senior engineer at Abbey Road Studios, and his credits include the biggest film franchises in history – namely Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Things you may not know about him: he is one of the very few engineers in the world who has made a recording using the Royal Family's microphones (for The King's Speech); he's spent the better part of the last 18 months working on Rob Marshall's epic fairytale reimagining Into the Woods (when he wasn't busy with critically acclaimed weightlessness worrier Gravity); and he won studio engineer of the year at the 2014 Pro Sound Awards (see PRO SOUND AWARDS 2014: The winners!). As we launch the 2015 awards, it seems fitting, then, to shine a light on one of the brightest stars in film sound.
Congratulations again for winning last year's Pro Sound Award!
Thank you! It was quite the surprise. I wasn't really expecting it… but it's amazing what can happen when you have something called Gravity on your CV [laughs].
That was a good little bit of work. I really enjoyed it.
And it was a "little" bit of work, because I didn't have anything to do with the mixing of it, just the recording. I really feel for Gareth [Cousins], who did mix it. When it comes to the film awards season, the music engineers aren't included in the award categories unless they are part of the dubbing mix team. Especially as Steven Price's Oscar-winning score was so central to the sound mix.
You say your Abbey Road bio isn't completely up to date – what's missing?
The biggest project of the last year and a half was Into the Woods. That was probably second only to The Lord of the Rings in terms of the amount of time I spent on it. It was immense. We pre-recorded the complete musical and delivered that to the set so that the actors could sing along. Some of the singing was redone live and other pieces were completely pulled apart, adjusted and retimed on the fly as the scenes were shot. Then, last summer, we re-recorded it all again. Well, 70 per cent of it – with a bigger orchestra, broader filmic orchestrations and extra new score music.
Are the songs permanently stuck in your head now?
[Sings theme; laughs] I love it. It's brilliant. Composer Stephen Sondheim is a genius, and it's a brilliant story. The actors were all amazing, and they could all sing really rather well… much better than we could have hoped for [laughs]. And Meryl Streep's a legend.
Are actors different to work with than musicians?
I guess most of the actors are slightly insecure about their abilities as singers – it's out of their comfort zone, which can actually make it easier to get a performance out of them: you can guide them where you want to be, rather than them having a pre-conceived idea about how they're going to do it. So all of them took direction really well… but that's part of their career isn't it: taking direction?
Is film where you always wanted to end up working?
I played violin and viola when I was growing up, so that's the world I know and grew up in. I did the Tonmeister course at Surrey University and came to Abbey Road for my work experience year. The best thing about film is that it can be anything; it won't necessarily be an orchestra. You get the electronic elements, bands… it's limitless.
In this day and age, you're processing orchestras a lot more than we ever used to. With Gravity, we deliberately recorded things in a way knowing [composer Stephen Price] was going to mash them up or mess around with them.
What's been a highlight for you?
I've been lucky enough to work on a couple of the biggest franchises out there. I've worked on all the new music for Star Wars so far, which was amazing: big orchestra, all live, no click, no headphones. John Williams had a secondhand clock in front of him and he'd know exactly where he was supposed to hit based on where the clock hand was. There aren't many composers that work that way these days.
Then there was The Lord of the Rings: that was the last real big non-Pro Tools film. We did it on a [Sony] 3348HR, which is a glorious sounding tape machine, but it was quite an involved process. These days you forget how much time you used to spend going "I can relax for three or four minutes while my tape spools."
Kit-wise, is there anything you can't live without?
I love our Bowers & Wilkins speakers here; I think they are so true, sound-wise. My Sennheiser HD 600 headphones go everywhere with me. But my favourite piece of kit is a Neumann U 47 microphone. They're rare as hen's teeth and we're lucky enough to have 14 of them, so on a film session I'll use four on the basses… because I can.
Anything else we should know about you?
We try and have fun! Some of the best sessions are the ones that you remember just laughing. A bit of light banter… and if everyone's involved in that, it's even better.
You seem like a smiley guy.
I am a pretty smiley guy. It certainly helps. Especially during 18-hour mix days!
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Following closely on the heels of the lovely five star review for Agnil and the Centaur's Secret from Readers' Favorite, I received another email from them yesterday giving me a gentle nudge to check my author page on their web site.
I'd entered the contest towards the end of last year and promptly put it to the back of my mind, where it remained buried under the untidy heap of my busy life.
I eventually managed to login and discovered that The Rise of Agnil, book 1 of the Agnil's Worlds series, had won the Bronze award in its category, Children's Fantasy/Sci-fi.
Readers' Favorite has become the fastest growing book review and award contest site on the Internet. They have earned the respect of renowned publishers like Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins, and have received the "Best Websites for Authors" and "Honoring Excellence" awards from the Association of Independent Authors.
Sadly, I won't be taking a hop, skip and a jump over to Miami for the awards' ceremony in November (A pair of elf wings might have helped me!) but I hope to be celebrating at home with a glass of something bubbly sometime soon.
After my very exciting day yesterday, attending The People's Book Prize awards ceremony, I'm really very tired and perhaps I should be taking a nap rather than writing this blog post. The invitation had made it clear it was a 'Black tie' event, so I dusted off my best frock and matching bolero for the occasion. I don't often get the chance to dress up for a formal event but always enjoy it when I do. On this occasion, however, it did feel slightly odd travelIing on the London Underground all dressed up in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday!
I was the first to arrive ready for the official photographs and dress rehearsal. My feet were already hurting by the time I arrived as I'm not used to wearing high heels. After a short rest, I was led up some stairs in the beautiful historic building of Stationer's Hall in London and had my photo taken, holding up my book. The holding up of books was a feature of the whole evening as were supposed to carry them around with us at all times!
After a dress rehearsal where we had to line up in our category groups in the correct order (alphabetical by book title), we were eventually taken down some steps and through to another very grand room where we had drinks and could mingle for a while before dinner.
We had to keep very strictly to timings as we'd been told that the ceremony was being filmed and broadcast live by Sky News, so when we were called into dinner, nobody lingered… we all followed each other, like a flock of sheep, into the dining room and sat down at our allocated places. I was lucky enough to find myself at a table of three women and six men – a very good balance of numbers, I thought!
Beautifully presented and interesting dishes were presented to us, starting with pea mousse served with a sliver of air dried ham. You must understand they weren't just any old peas and ham, the menu proudly announced the provenance of the two main ingredients – "Kentish Peas" and "Cumbrian Ham".
For the main course we had Gressingham duck with fondant potato, cherries and glazed cabbage. The most creative course was the dessert which was a de-constructed trifle consisting of a sheet of Pimms jelly, blobs of lavender custard and mint and cucumber sorbet.
Waiters hovered, filling up our glasses at the first sign of a drop in the level of wine held within them. Throughout the meal I chatted with the others at the table, discovering a local connection with Rob Jones who happens to know a friend of mine. It's certainly a small world! I had a lovely conversation with Tim Wotton and through the course of the evening was mistaken for both his wife and his mother!
As Frederick Forsyth, Patron of The People's Book Prize, was unable to come along in person he had sent along a short video message wishing us all a fun evening. We watched and applauded politely.
Promptly at 8:20pm, the non-fiction finalists made their way to the stage, standing in their rehearsed positions as the camera panned along the line. Tension mounted as the presenter tore open the envelope. The winner was announced, "Grumpy Old Menopause" by Carol E Wyer!" Carol stepped up to the podium to receive the beautiful crystal trophy and give her little speech. It really was like the Oscars, only on a smaller scale.
Next up were the children's finalists. Three of us from our table got up and followed the others onto the stage. My heart was pounding so loudly I was worried the microphone on the podium would pick up the sound and it would be broadcast across the nation!
Once again, the camera panned across as our names and book titles were read out and the presenter of the children's book award ripped open the envelope.
"The winner is… Bernard by Rob Jones!" I was so delighted that someone on our table had won that I really wasn't upset at all it hadn't been me.
The fiction awards came next following exactly the same pattern, apart from having to wait while the adverts were on TV! Some of the people at the table had been following Sky News on their phones and so far nothing had been broadcast. This was to change with the fiction category. You can see the back of head at 3:24 on this video.
After coffee and some rather yummy chocolates we had to perform The Loving Cup ceremony. Rather than attempting to explain what we had to do and why, here's a short video that shows it.
By that end of the evening, none of us were too certain what we had to do but we all helped each other along – symbolic of the camaraderie I felt and experienced throughout the evening.
I want to thank all friends of Agnil who have supported me and voted for the book in this competition. I would never have even been in the finals without you all! I didn't win but I felt so privileged being there among such lovely people, breathing in the ambience. I came away with a renewed enthusiasm for writing and itching to get started on my next book. Perhaps I'm a winner after all!
My blog posts are like buses – you wait for ages and then, suddenly, two come along at once! Regular readers will be aware that The Rise of Agnil was nominated for The People's Book Prize a while ago and I spent a while twisting people's arms to vote for the book. Well, it's time to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who did because the book has made it to the finals! It's been a nail-biting few days as I've waited for the end of the month to pass, signalling the end of the voting session and rushed to the web site this morning to check. I don't know if my publisher has been sent an email as she's currently travelling but I have also sent her a message. I feel like I'm bursting at the seams with excitement!
To add a little more to the thrill, The Rise of Agnil has also reached the finals of The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards . The winners of this award will be announced in one month but I'll have to wait until May to hear about The People's Book Prize as there is one more voting session for another selection of books. Stay tuned in to catch the news!
If you have been following my blog, you'll already know that The Rise of Agnil has been nominated for The People's Book Prize and that this is a really important national award. The book is now on their web site and will be there until the end of February. I'm incredibly excited about this! To progress through the stages of the award needs you, the readers, ordinary members of the public, to go and vote on the web site. You will have to register and will be sent a password allowing you to vote.
"The People's Book Prize is the democratic Book Prize voted exclusively by the public aimed at finding, supporting and promoting new and undiscovered works. It is the public who choose Britain's Next Bestsellers.
Please help support me and vote for The Rise of Agnil!
Several weeks ago my publisher, Ant Press, submitted The Rise of Agnil to The People's Book Prize Awards. This is a national competition aimed at finding, supporting & promoting new and undiscovered works. With Founding Patron, Dame Beryl Bainbridge and Patron, Frederick Forsyth, this is quite a 'big deal' for me. So imagine the huge excitement at Agnil's Worlds this morning when I found out that The Rise of Agnil will be showcased on the People's Book Prize web site for three months from the 1st December. It means that the book has been accepted into the awards and would get through to the next round on the strength of public votes. I guess I will be canvassing for votes like crazy from that day!
Yesterday evening, I came home tired after an awful drive to do an airport pickup. The M11 motorway had been closed in both directions due to an over-turned lorry spilling glue across both carriageways. Imagine how delighted I was to find this in my inbox! During the week of promoting The Rise of Agnil to celebrate Children's Book Week, it has been awarded Indie Book of the Day! Agnil and I are very happy! Visit their web site to see the full post.


The Bingham Canyon porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit is located in the central part of the Oquirrh Mountains, 30 km southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. The Cu-Au-Mo deposit lies at the center of a large polymetallic district, which includes proximal Pb-Zn-Ag replacement and distal sediment-hosted gold mineralization. Open-pit copper mining commenced in 1906 and through 2011 has produced 2.666 billion tonnes of ore averaging 0.74% Cu, 0.035% Mo, 0.448 g/t Au, and 3.29 g/t Ag.
Bingham lies near the west end of an 80-km-long belt of petrochemically similar Eocene to Oligocene intrusions and coeval volcanic rocks, which host base and precious mining districts. The Bingham district is centered on the Bingham stock, a multiphase mid-Eocene intrusion emplaced into a thick succession of folded mid- to upper Paleozoic siliciclastic and carbonate rocks. The 2 × 2 km Bingham stock consists mainly of premineral equigranular monzonite that was intruded successively by a 2-km-long dike-like body of quartz monzonite porphyry (QMP), long narrow dikes and sills of intramineral latite porphyry (LP), and narrower dikes of late-mineral quartz latite porphyry (QLP). The intrusions and associated porphyry-style mineralization dip steeply to the northwest and persist from the pre-mine surface at 2,390 m to below sea level. U-Pb zircon dating indicates a 38.6 Ma age for the equigranular monzonite and suggests that the subsequent porphyry intrusions were emplaced at ∼ 38 Ma. Porphyry intrusion and mineralization were approximately synchronous.
Early actinolite-stable alteration in igneous and sedimentary rocks is flanked by distal chlorite-epidote alteration. Magnetite-destructive secondary biotite alteration is pervasive in intrusive rocks that contain > 0.7% copper but typically is fracture-controlled and overprints earlier actinolite alteration in lower grade intrusive rocks and quartzites. K-feldspar alteration accompanies the highest grade copper and gold mineralization. Sericitic alteration is locally pervasive but, more typically, it is restricted to the margins of late quartz-pyrite veins. Late, low-temperature montmorillonite ± kaolinite alteration is ubiquitous in the intramineral porphyries and adjacent equigranular monzonite.
An outer zone of 0.35 to > 0.70% Cu mineralization surrounds and overlaps an inner zone of 0.05 to > 0.15% Mo mineralization, which in turn forms a cupola around a barren core. Intense bornite-chalcopyrite-chalcocite-gold mineralization (> 0.7% Cu and > 1 g/t Au) occurred directly above the barren core but has largely been removed by mining. The copper mineralization in the flanks of the deposit is dominated by chalcopyrite. Copper and gold grades decrease downward but quartz-molybdenite stockwork mineralization grading > 0.05% Mo extends to the lower limit of drilling. Equigranular monzonite is the predominant ore host, containing 53% of the ore mined to date.
Vein types proceed in a sequence from early biotite through quartz-sulfide to late anhydrite and zeolite. Early copper-bearing quartz veins are truncated by the LP and QLP dikes, but later copper-bearing veins cut the dikes. Cathode luminescence studies indicate that copper-bearing sulfides were deposited within micro-fractures and vugs created by dissolution of earlier quartz. Quartz-molybdenite veins postdate the copper-bearing veins and cut all of the porphyries. Vein densities reach > 10 vol % in the barren core and decrease to ∼ 1 vol % at the outer boundary of the > 0.35% Cu zone.
Published fluid inclusion and vein density studies, together with modeled grade distributions, show that mineralization was precipitated by a plume of metal-bearing fluid approximately 2 km in diameter, centered near the southeastern edge of the QMP. The barren core apparently represents an upflow zone near the top of which supercritical fluids separated into vapor and brine. Copper-bearing sulfides and gold precipitated as vapor-dominant fluids cooled from 430° to 350°C. Inclusions in quartz from the deep flanks of the copper deposit indicate similar fluid compositions, but less separation into vapor and brine.


Only a day after a judge gave his blessing to the AT&T-Time Warner deal (opening the M&A floodgates), Comcast (-0.19%) burst through Rupert Murdoch's door and slammed an eye-popping bid on his desk: $65 billion for Fox assets…all cash.
Do you hear that heavy breathing? That's Disney's (+1.92%) CEO Bob Iger, whose $52 billion all-stock offer for those same assets looks pretty lame in comparison.
Fox assets—like his 20th Century Fox studio—are in high demand as telecom and media companies bulk up to compete with the Silicon Valley giants.
You may have heard that North America is hosting the 2026 World Cup. Well, Fox got those broadcasting rights at a $500 million discount.
Bottom line: The bidding war between Comcast and Disney is ON. Who has the edge? Tough to say, but here's one wrinkle: Fox activist investor Chris Hohn (7.4% stake) is leaning Comcast.


Somewhere between the cockiness that B.C. receiver Manny Arceneaux recommends for his quarterback and the humility that has taken root in Jonathon Jennings, there is an appropriate, useful amount of swagger.
After an off-season spent rebuilding his confidence and a solid Week 1 performance that will help in the standings and between the ears, it's a good bet Jennings will find that balance this season, which is just his fourth in the Canadian Football League.
"It was a humbling year last year, so that was different," the 25-year-old said earlier this month in Kamloops, where the Lions held training camp.
"When I'm playing my best, I'm playing a little cocky. I'm not a cocky guy — I think I was, at one point in my life — and I learned a lot of lessons. I've been humbled a lot.
That's the point Arceneaux was making in camp.
"I joke with him all the time. I say, 'Hey, you're the man. Ain't nothing wrong with being a little arrogant and a little cocky because that's what comes with the position.' Like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, guys who just know I'm the guy, this is what I expect.
Jennings took the first decisive steps on Saturday in a 22-10 home win over Montreal.
He was good on 20-of-24 pass attempts for only 183 yards, but he tossed for two touchdowns and no interceptions. His 83 per cent completion rate and 131.1 passing efficiency rating topped the league.
He also ran with purpose, piling up a team-high 57 yards on nine carries.
True, a solid outing against Montreal, expected to be the league doormat, won't change the narrative yet.
Jennings still has to prove that 2017 was the aberration, not 2016. He dipped to just 3,639 yards passing, 16 touchdowns and 19 interceptions last year. Those were particularly pedestrian when compared to 5,226 yards, 27 TDs and 15 interceptions in his breakout 2016 campaign.
But there were complications. He suffered a shoulder injury in Week 4 last year, came back in Week 8 and didn't look ready. His offensive line didn't do the job either, and the Leos yielded a league-high 49 sacks.
"It was us as a whole not executing," said Arceneaux. "Because when he was out there tearing it up, everything was peaches and cream — 'This guy can throw for 5,000 yards or something.' When we're not out there executing, the linemen miss a block, the receiver runs the wrong way, now you've got injuries occurring and everything starts going bad, and a lot falls on the quarterback.
GM Ed Hervey did his part, shoring up the offensive line with the acquisitions of Joel Figueroa and Jovan Olafioye, and the Lions gave up two sacks on Saturday.
Hervey also brought in a new offensive coordinator, former Lions quarterback Jarious Jackson, who had an immediate impact.
"I love Jarious. He's really demanding, really set in his structure," said Jennings.
The big picture last year wasn't pretty, but Jennings has had help narrowing the focus to his controllables. He worked with a sports psychologist and read NFL quarterback Drew Brees' autobiography, Coming Back Stronger.
"It's kind of crazy because in his third year he had a similar situation where he didn't play very well, ended up getting hurt, getting benched a couple times," said Jennings.
Winnipeg linebacker Adam Bighill will tell you, now that he knows first-hand, what the real difference is between the NFL and the CFL.
"They don't look at things the same in the NFL. One guy's salary there is an entire team's salary up here. So the values they put on things are completely different," he said during the Blue Bombers' training camp in early June.
The 29-year-old from Montesano, Wash., encountered that reality in New Orleans, when the Saints cut him loose after a minicamp in May. He signed a three-year deal in January 2017, but spent the year mostly on their practice roster. He played in only three regular-season games, and only on special teams.
But he knows he can play down there. He answered that question for himself, emphatically, during the 2017 pre-season. He had four tackles and a pick in his first two games, 11 tackles in his final tilt against Baltimore.
It didn't work out for him, a former CFL all-star and most outstanding defensive player, and he has advice for the next CFL star who will test the NFL waters.
"It's trying to find the right fit, the team that really likes you. You would hope to speak to some coaches before you sign, as opposed to the scouting staff. Because sometimes coaches and scouting staff, they don't necessarily completely agree with one another on decisions, or communicate well enough.
Bighill believes Saints head coach Sean Payton respected him for his skills and work ethic, but wouldn't go to bat for him because Bighill simply did not fit the preferred physical model. He's undersized at 5-foot-10, 230 pounds.
"I think the scouting staff down in New Orleans really liked me, but I just don't think I ended up fitting the height, size mold that Sean Payton wanted. He's a former Bill Parcells guy. They like linebackers at 6-foot-2, 6-foot-3, big linebackers.
He is doing all of that again in the CFL. Against the Eskimos in Week 1, he had eight tackles and a quarterback pressure.
With Bo Levi Mitchell off target, Calgary balanced its attack against Hamilton with 132 rushing yards and found a way to get it done on defence.
A come-from-behind win over Winnipeg again showed Mike Reilly's steady hands late in a close game. He's unflappable.
With pressure from Willie Jefferson and Charlston Hughes, the Riders front looks like it will produce plenty of sacks and hurries.
QB Jonathon Jennings was good on 20-of-24 attempts, threw two TDs and no interceptions in a win over Montreal. If he keeps that up, the Lions will be in the mix.
In a road loss to the Riders, the Argos looked like a team that didn't give its starting QB a single rep in pre-season. Ricky Ray had several layers of rust on him.
QB Jeremiah Masoli had the Ticats in position to steal one in Calgary, until he threw a fourth-quarter pick. Not good enough.
The Redblacks had the bye, stay in the seven slot.
Rookie QB Chris Streveler, who tossed three TDs and two picks against Esks, is learning on the fly. That's going to involve pain.
After strong start against B.C., Als gave up too many sacks, took too many penalties and stopped giving ball to RB Tyrell Sutton.
B.C. Lions head coach Wally Buono, during training camp. He increased his CFL record win total to 274 with a 22-10 victory over Montreal on Saturday.
Increase in combined official CFL Week 1 attendance in 2018 versus 2017. BC Place Stadium was the only venue that had a home game in Week 1 each year, and the Lions boosted their announced attendance from 19,175 in 2017 to 20,182 on Saturday night.
Ty Long's league-high punting average for the Lions against Montreal in Week 1. He boomed eight punts, the longest was 57 yards. He was also tops in net punting average with 40.9 yards, and went two-for-two on field goals. Looks like the vertigo that bothered him in training camp is no longer a factor.
Bo Levi Mitchell's dreadful passing efficiency rating in a Calgary home win over Hamilton. It's particularly notable because it was lower than those of Winnipeg's Chris Streveler (79.2), Hamilton's Jeremiah Masoli (88.2) and Montreal's Drew Willy (92.7) and their teams lost in Week 1.
In a Week 1 win, the Riders answered questions at QB with Zach Collaros. The Redblacks had the bye.
Winnipeg's D should be the difference against a Montreal O-line that couldn't handle the B.C. rush, yielding five sacks.
it up against Hamilton's starter Jeremiah Masoli.
Both quarterbacks in this 2017 Grey Cup rematch have to be better than they were last week.


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The Chicken: A Short Film with Food for Thought
The Chicken (2020) stills directed by Neo Sora, Produced by Jackson Segars. Doc: Film at Lincoln Center
Based on the Japanese novel "An Afternoon on November 3rd" and beautifully shot in 16 mm, The Chicken is a short film directed by Neo Sora that alludes to the conditions of our contemporary society. Produced by Jackson Segers, who won the Fest Fiction Film Award for Minikino Film week with his short film Kimchi (2018), I got the chance to watch the Chicken prior to an online session with the producer, in which the latter talked about his films that touch upon political issues, something that we will also find in the Chicken.
From the perspective of the Japanese immigrant Hiro, the plot follows him and his visiting cousin Kei during an eventful day in New York. Starting with Hiro's daydream to build up a farm in Siberia to escape the stifling heat in the city and live off its own crops, the short film develops into a journey of the protagonist's own reflection on life. While offering the viewer several thought-provoking impulses without explicitly expressing them, it leaves us with many open questions on its meaning.
Throughout the narrative, Hiro's actions are marked by contradictory behavior: Complaining about gentrification and dreaming about building a farm in Siberia to live off its own crops to teach his children "the value and perviousness of life from a young age", he proudly presents his new apartment in China-town to his cousin, in which he will move into soon with his wife Anna and their future child. Also, when the film begins, we see him killing a fly with his palms by slapping it against the windowpane and leaving traces of blood behind. However, at the end of the film, he is unable to butcher a chicken that he bought for dinner and decides to eat a meatless meal instead, leaving his wife questioning how he will be able to fulfill his plan of running a farm.
The film portrays the thought development of Hiro, initiated through the experiences of the day and especially tied to one specific skipping point in the story: When visiting the new flat in Chinatown Kei observes an old man screaming out loud from pain, while rolling back and forth on the floor. Kei shows concern, but Hiro ignores the situation, writing the man off as a crazy old drunkard and withdraws himself from the responsibility to help. When he eventually decides to intervene, (as no one else did), the old man presses the words "no ambulance" out of his mouth. But Hiro and Kei only understand too late and have no other choice than leaving the old man with the paramedics against his will.
The main attraction of the story consists of the chicken that Hiro brings home to butcher for dinner at the end of the short film. In a close-up shot that depicts the calm chicken in a beautiful play of warm light, we observe Hiro in his attempt to cut the throat of the chicken. When he fails to do so, his wife takes over and we see the blood dripping into a big bucket.
While we slide with Hiro and Kei from one situation into another, there are a multitude of topics that the film touches upon: Police violence, gentrification, ignorance towards our fellow citizens, access to healthcare, violence against animals. By offering us glimpses of these topics, the film offers considerations without treating them in depth. Like the protagonist, we start to reflect on our own relation to these topics.
In addition, The Chicken confronts us with many open situations that provoke after-images in us. Such as when the police suddenly leave the restaurant in their full protection gear, when the old man who asked for no ambulance is left behind, or when Kei mops up the liquid of Anna's ruptured water at the end of the film and discovers blood in the puddle. We then try to imagine the story to the shot and their future impacts. Will the police get violent? What will happen to the man who probably has no medical insurance? Is the blood coming from the unborn child or the chicken?
The openness of situations and images represents the strength of the film. They stick with us after finishing the film, but also show us that political articulations do not have to be explicit to be effective. Embedded in aesthetically pleasing shots, The Chicken questions different structural principles of society in a subtle tone and thus creates moments of openness that are taken up by our own reflections.
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In February 2018 Cisco released details of a 6-month investigation into the use of phishing in Bitcoin wallet thefts and malware campaigns. The investigation, named COINHOARDER, provided insights into these new methods by utilizing whois data and domain registration patterns.
Using live access to Cisco's OpenDNS threat intelligence interface, this workshop will provide an overview of the investigation. Then attendees will apply similar tools and hunting patterns to find new attacker constructions.
1. Basic knowledge of DNS, HTTP, and HTTPS.
2. A laptop with Python installed.
3. Attendees will receive a temporary OpenDNS API key for threat hunting during the class.


The Emperor Lokus is a 4 door sedan in Grand Theft Auto IV.
The Lokus is based on a Lexus GS.
Lokus is a german word for Toilet.
The default radio station in the Lokus is Vladivostok FM.
On the back end on the Lokus, Emperor is misspled as Emporer.
The Lokus is a rather rare vehicle, it will take a long time to find the vehicle, but, it is seen two missions in the story.
Three black Lokuses appear during Entourage. One is with a unique red shade behind you, one is with a unique blue shade that you are driving and one is with a standard black with no shade added to it. These cars also has black rims. The red shade and the blue shade can be taken after the mission. But, the one in front is unobtainable where the front one is been destroyed by an Rocket Launcher used by a Russian Mob member.
Three black Lokuses during Entourage.


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The effect of toothbrushing on a hybrid composite resin
Gary Goldstein, Todd Lerner
This study observed the effect of various toothpastes on a hybrid composite resin to determine the difference in surface roughness as measured by a profilometer. Slurries (100 gm dentifrice/100 gm H2O) of eight toothpastes were tested by brushing composite resin samples 20,000 times and recording changes in surface smoothness with a profile meter. The surface topography of a hybrid composite resin was altered by routine toothbrushing; the effect of Colgate toothpaste was a statistically smoother surface than found with the other dentifrices; and the surface topography of acrylic resin was altered less by Colgate, Crest, Viadent, and Supersmile than the more abrasive Shane, Sensodyne, Rembrandt, and Topol dentifrices.
Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry
https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3913(91)90511-T
Toothbrushing
Composite Resins
Dentistry(all)
Goldstein, G., & Lerner, T. (1991). The effect of toothbrushing on a hybrid composite resin. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, 66(4), 498-500. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3913(91)90511-T
The effect of toothbrushing on a hybrid composite resin. / Goldstein, Gary; Lerner, Todd.
In: Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, Vol. 66, No. 4, 1991, p. 498-500.
Goldstein, G & Lerner, T 1991, 'The effect of toothbrushing on a hybrid composite resin', Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 498-500. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3913(91)90511-T
Goldstein G, Lerner T. The effect of toothbrushing on a hybrid composite resin. Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. 1991;66(4):498-500. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-3913(91)90511-T
Goldstein, Gary ; Lerner, Todd. / The effect of toothbrushing on a hybrid composite resin. In: Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. 1991 ; Vol. 66, No. 4. pp. 498-500.
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Fire at Mae La Refugee Camp
From Mitos Urgel, Executive Director, WEAVE Foundation
I regret to inform you about a fire in Mae La refugee camp yesterday December 27 [2013] and which destroyed around over 100 temporary shelters in Zone C. It is difficult to get direct information on the ground. At any rate, we shall coordinate with our local Karen partners and to verify if there are WEAVE artisans who are affected.
Mae La is home to over 60 refugee women artisans in WEAVE's Fair Trade Social Enterprise who have to toil hard to provide for their and their families most needed income.
This unhappy end of the year for the refugees is a reminder to us all of how vulnerable their lives are.
Update: Refugee Camp Fire Leaves 600 Homeless
Mae La Refugee Camp officials confirmed that a fire that tore through Zone C of Mae La Refugee camp destroyed as many as 120 houses. Camp officials confirmed to karen News that the fire broke out at around 1.30pm of Friday 27 December.
Naw Blooming Night Zan, a spokesperson for the Karen Refugee Committee told Karen News that an emergency meeting was quickly organized with the Mae La camp officials, non-government-organisations, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees and officials from the Thai government in an effort to deliver emergency relief – food, blankets and shelter for those affected by the fire.
Naw Blooming Night Zan said that three camp residents "were injured, one with serious burns who had to be taken to hospital for treatment." Refugees made homeless by the fire were given shelter at a school and others stayed with friends and relatives in the camp.
Refugees look on as firefighters attempt to quell the blaze at the Mae La refugee camp. | PHOTO: DVB
A fire has destroyed an estimated 102 buildings in Mae La Refugee Camp, 57km north of the Thai town of Mae Sot.
Camp officials say the fire broke out in Zone C at the Mae La Refugee Camp today at 1.30pm and lasted until around 3pm.
Naw Day Day Poe, joint secretary of Mae La's camp committee confirmed to Karen News that the number of buildings destroyed is 102. "The fire has now stopped, but it we know that a 102 buildings were destroyed. The fire started at around 1.30pm today in Zone C Section 3 and raged until 3pm."
Naw Day Day Poe said it is too early to estimate how many people have been injured, but confirmed one child and one adult have been hurt and there are concerns about one missing child.
Mae La camp residents were helped by two Thai firetrucks to bring the fire under control.
Mae La camp is home to around 53,000 refugees, the majority of the camp residents are from Karen State.
This not the first time fires have hit the estimated 160,000 refugees living in the 10 refugee camps on the Thai Burma border.
In February 2012, there was a huge fire at Umphiem Refugee camp where over 500 houses were destroyed by fire and another 500 houses dismantled to prevent the fire from spreading. Over 4,400 refugees were affected by the fire. Umpheim Mai is home to over 14,500 refugees and located 87km south of the Thai border town of Mae Sot.
In April this year a fire killed 35 refugees and destroyed most of the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp.
People living in the camps along the Thai Burma border are scared that their respective camps are firetraps and claim that the camps compulsory precautionary measures of filling plastic bags with sand and water to use in case a fire breaks do not offer enough protection.
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