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Tarzan of the Apes is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine The All-Story in October 1912.[1] The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle, to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society. So popular was the character that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels.[2] For the novel's centennial anniversary, Library of America published a hardcover edition based on the original book with an introduction by Thomas Mallon in April 2012 (ISBN 978-1-59853-164-0). Scholars have noted several important themes in the novel: the impact of heredity on behavior; racial superiority; civilization, especially as Tarzan struggles with his identity as a human; sexuality; and escapism.
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Tarzan and the Captives of Thunder Valley
4.9 out of 5 stars (10)
Tarzan and the Dwarfs of Didona
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
4.5 out of 5 stars (163)
Tarzan the Untamed
Tarzan the Terrible
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Tarzan & The Golden Lion: "Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?"
Tarzan Of The Apes: "For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard."
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First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, "Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is "the best known character in the whole of fiction." As John Taliaferro asserts in his Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic, "There is no question that ["Tarzan of the Apes] is one of the most entertaining and exemplary books of the last century. . . . [It] is not merely a story from a bygone era; it is a tale as old as time, and for all time, too." --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
This book is a large print version using a minimum of 16 point type in a 6 by 9 inch size and perfect bound - a paperback. As with all Quiet Vision print books, it use a high grade, acid free paper for long life. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
[Burroughs has] a gift very few writers of any kind possess: he can describe action vividly. Gore Vidal --Gore Vidal --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
From AudioFile
Tarzan fans can have their fill of jungle adventures. Weismuller and company get it right, of course. Selecting the best elements in each of the four stories, the adaptation aims for entertainment, romance and adventure--and succeeds. What is Tarzan's jungle without drums and roar of lions and the shrieks of the apes? The sound effects, exaggerated accents, lively pace and multiple voices give variety and drama to the well-known stories. R.F.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.
I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it may be true.
The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of my convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies.
If you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting.
From the records of the Colonial Office and from the dead man's diary we learn that a certain young English nobleman, whom we shall call John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, was commissioned to make a peculiarly delicate investigation of conditions in a British West Coast African Colony from whose simple native inhabitants another European power was known to be recruiting soldiers for its native army, which it used solely for the forcible collection of rubber and ivory from the savage tribes along the Congo and the Aruwimi.
The natives of the British Colony complained that many of their young men were enticed away through the medium of fair and glowing promises, but that few if any ever returned to their families.
The Englishmen in Africa went even further, saying that these poor blacks were held in virtual slavery, since after their terms of enlistment expired their ignorance was imposed upon by their white officers, and they were told that they had yet several years to serve.
And so the Colonial Office appointed John Clayton to a new post in British West Africa, but his confidential instructions centered on a thorough investigation of the unfair treatment of black British subjects by the officers of a friendly European power. Why he was sent, is, however, of little moment to this story, for he never made an investigation, nor, in fact, did he ever reach his destination.
Clayton was the type of Englishman that one likes best to associate with the noblest monuments of historic achievement upon a thousand victorious battlefields—a strong, virile man—mentally, morally, and physically.
In stature he was above the average height; his eyes were gray, his features regular and strong; his carriage that of perfect, robust health influenced by his years of army training.
Political ambition had caused him to seek transference from the army to the Colonial Office and so we find him, still young, entrusted with a delicate and important commission in the service of the Queen.
When he received this appointment he was both elated and appalled. The preferment seemed to him in the nature of a well-merited reward for painstaking and intelligent service, and as a stepping stone to posts of greater importance and responsibility; but, on the other hand, he had been married to the Hon. Alice Rutherford for scarce a three months, and it was the thought of taking this fair young girl into the dangers and isolation of tropical Africa that appalled him.
For her sake he would have refused the appointment, but she would not have it so. Instead she insisted that he accept, and, indeed, take her with him.
There were mothers and brothers and sisters, and aunts and cousins to express various opinions on the subject, but as to what they severally advised history is silent.
We know only that on a bright May morning in 1888, John, Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice sailed from Dover on their way to Africa.
A month later they arrived at Freetown where they chartered a small sailing vessel, the Fuwalda, which was to bear them to their final destination.
And here John, Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice, his wife, vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men.
Two months after they weighed anchor and cleared from the port of Freetown a half dozen British war vessels were scouring the south Atlantic for trace of them or their little vessel, and it was almost immediately that the wreckage was found upon the shores of St. Helena which convinced the world that the Fuwalda had gone down with all on board, and hence the search was stopped ere it had scarce begun; though hope lingered in longing hearts for many years.
The Fuwalda, a barkentine of about one hundred tons, was a vessel of the type often seen in coastwise trade in the far southern Atlantic, their crews composed of the offscourings of the sea—unhanged murderers and cutthroats of every race and every nation.
The Fuwalda was no exception to the rule. Her officers were swarthy bullies, hating and hated by their crew. The captain, while a competent seaman, was a brute in his treatment of his men. He knew, or at least he used, but two arguments in his dealings with them— a belaying pin and a revolver—nor is it likely that the motley aggregation he signed would have understood aught else.
So it was that from the second day out from Freetown John Clayton and his young wife witnessed scenes upon the deck of the Fuwalda such as they had believed were never enacted outside the covers of printed stories of the sea.
It was on the morning of the second day that the first link was forged in what was destined to form a chain of circumstances ending in a life for one then unborn such as has never been paralleled in the history of man.
Two sailors were washing down the decks of the Fuwalda, the first mate was on duty, and the captain had stopped to speak with John Clayton and Lady Alice.
The men were working backwards toward the little party who were facing away from the sailors. Closer and closer they came, until one of them was directly behind the captain. In another moment he would have passed by and this strange narrative would never have been recorded.
But just that instant the officer turned to leave Lord and Lady Greystoke, and, as he did so, tripped against the sailor and sprawled headlong upon the deck, overturning the water-pail so that he was drenched in its dirty contents.
For an instant the scene was ludicrous; but only for an instant. With a volley of awful oaths, his face suffused with the scarlet of mortification and rage, the captain regained his feet, and with a terrific blow felled the sailor to the deck.
The man was small and rather old, so that the brutality of the act was thus accentuated. The other seaman, however, was neither old nor small—a huge bear of a man, with fierce black mustachios, and a great bull neck set between massive shoulders.
As he saw his mate go down he crouched, and, with a low snarl, sprang upon the captain crushing him to his knees with a single mighty blow.
From scarlet the officer's face went white, for this was mutiny; and mutiny he had met and subdued before in his brutal career. Without waiting to rise he whipped a revolver from his pocket, firing point blank at the great mountain of muscle towering before him; but, quick as he was, John Clayton was almost as quick, so that the bullet which was intended for the sailor's heart lodged in the sailor's leg instead, for Lord Greystoke had struck down the captain's arm as he had seen the weapon flash in the sun.
Words passed between Clayton and the captain, the former making it plain that he was disgusted with the brutality displayed toward the crew, nor would he countenance anything further of the kind while he and Lady Greystoke remained passengers.
The captain was on the point of making an angry reply, but, thinking better of it, turned on his heel and black and scowling, strode aft.
He did not care to antagonize an English official, for the Queen's mighty arm wielded a punitive instrument which he could appreciate, and which he feared—England's far-reaching navy.
The two sailors picked themselves up, the older man assisting his wounded comrade to rise. The big fellow, who was known among his mates as Black Michael, tried his leg gingerly, and, finding that it bore his weight, turned to Clayton with a word of gruff thanks.
Though the fellow's tone was surly, his words were evidently well meant. Ere he had scarce finished his little speech he had turned and was limping off toward the forecastle with the very apparent intention of forestalling any further conversation.
They did not see him again for several days, nor did the captain accord them more than the surliest of grunts when he was forced to speak to them.
They took their meals in his cabin, as they had before the unfortunate occurrence; but the captain was careful to see that his duties never permitted him to eat at the same time.
The other officers were coarse, illiterate fellows, but little above the villainous crew they bullied, and were only too glad to avoid social intercourse with the polished English noble and his lady, so that the Claytons were left very much to themselves.
This in itself accorded perfectly with their desires, but it also rather isolated them from the life of the little ship so that they were unable to keep in touch with the daily happenings which were to culminate so soon in bloody tragedy.
There was in the whole atmosphere of the craft that undefinable something which presages disaster. Outwardly, to the knowledge of the Claytons, all went on as before upon the little vessel; but that there was an undertow leading them toward some unknown danger both felt, though they did not speak of it to each other.
On the second day after the wounding of Black Michael, Clayton came on deck just in time to see the limp body of one of the crew being carried below by four of his fellows while the first mate, a heavy belaying pin in his hand, stood glowering at the little party of sullen sailors.
Clayton asked no questions—he did not need to—and the following day, as the great lines of a British battleship grew out of the distant horizon, he half determined to demand that he and Lady Alice be put aboard her, for his fears were steadily increasing that nothing but harm could result from remaining on the lowering, sullen Fuwalda.
Toward noon they were within speaking distance of the British vessel, but when Clayton had nearly decided to ask the captain to put them aboard her, the obvious ridiculousness of such a request became suddenly apparent. What reason could he give the officer commanding her majesty's ship for desiring to go back in the direction from which he had just come!
What if he told them that two insubordinate seamen had been roughly handled by their officers? They would but laugh in their sleeves and attribute his reason for wishing to leave the ship to but one thing—cowardice.
John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, did not ask to be transferred to the British man-of-war. Late in the afternoon he saw her upper works fade below the far horizon, but not before he learned that which confirmed his greatest fears, and caused him to curse the false pride which had restrained him from seeking safety for his young wife a few short hours before, when safety was within reach—a safety which was now gone forever.
It was mid-afternoon that brought the little old sailor, who had been felled by the captain a few days before, to where Clayton and his wife stood by the ship's side watching the ever diminishing outlines of the great battleship. The old fellow was polishing brasses, and as he came edging along until close to Clayton he said, in an undertone:
" 'Ell's to pay, sir, on this 'ere craft, an' mark my word for it, sir. 'Ell's to pay."
"What do you mean, my good fellow?" asked Clayton.
"Wy, hasn't ye seen wats goin' on? Hasn't ye 'eard that devil's spawn of a capting an' 'is mates knockin' the bloomin' lights outen 'arf the crew?
"Two busted 'eads yeste'day, an' three to-day. Black Michael's as good as new agin an' 'e's not the bully to stand fer it, not 'e; an' mark my word for it, sir."
"You mean, my man, that the crew contemplates mutiny?" asked Clayton.
"Mutiny!" exclaimed the old fellow. "Mutiny! They means murder, sir, an mark my word for it, sir."
"Hit's comin', sir; hit's comin' but I'm not a-sayin' wen, an' I've said too damned much now, but ye was a good sort t'other day an' I thought it no more'n right to warn ye. But keep a still tongue in yer 'ead an' when ye 'ear shootin' git below an' stay there.
"That's all, only keep a still tongue in yer 'ead, or they'll put a pill between yer ribs, an' mark my word for it, sir," and the old fellow went on with his polishing, which carried him away from where the Claytons were standing.
"Deuced cheerful outlook, Alice," said Clayton.
"You should warn the captain at once, John. Possibly the trouble may yet be averted," she said.
"I suppose I should, but yet from purely selfish motives I am almost prompted to 'keep a still tongue in my 'ead.' Whatever they do now they will spare us in recognition of my stand for this fellow Black Michael, but should they find that I had betrayed them there would be no mercy shown us, Alice."
"You have but one duty, John, and that lies in the interest of vested authority. If you do not warn the captain you are as much a party to whatever follows as though you had helped to plot and carry it out with your own head and hands."
"You do not understand, dear," replied Clayton. "It is of you I am thinking—there lies my first duty. The captain has brought this condition upon himself, so why then should I risk subjecting my wife to unthinkable horrors in a probably futile attempt to save him from his own brutal folly? You have no conception, dear, of what would follow were this pack of cutthroats to gain control of the Fuwalda."
"Duty is duty, John, and no amount of sophistries may change it. I would be a poor wife for an English lord were I to be responsible for his shirking a plain duty. I realize the danger which must follow, but I can face it with you."
"Have it as you will then, Alice," he answered, smiling. "Maybe we are borrowing trouble. While I do not like the looks of things on board this ship, they may not be so bad after all, for it is possible that the 'Ancient Mariner' was but voicing the desires of his wicked old heart rather than speaking of real facts.
"Mutiny on the high sea may have been common a hundred years ago, but in this good year 1888 it is the least likely of happenings.
"But there goes the captain to his cabin now. If I am going to warn him I might as well get the beastly job over for I have little stomach to talk with the brute at all."
So saying he strolled carelessly in the direction of the companionway through which the captain had passed, and a moment later was knocking at his door.
"Come in," growled the deep tones of that surly officer.
And when Clayton had entered, and closed the door behind him:
"I have come to report the gist of a conversation I heard to-day, because I feel that, while there may be nothing to it, it is as well that you be forearmed. In short, the men contemplate mutiny and murder."
"It's a lie!" roared the captain. "And if you have been interfering again with the discipline of this ship, or meddling in affairs that don't concern you you can take the consequences, and be damned. I don't care whether you are an English lord or not. I'm captain of this here ship, and from now on you keep your meddling nose out of my business."
The captain had worked himself up to such a frenzy of rage that he was fairly purple of face, and he shrieked the last words at the top of his voice, emphasizing his remarks by a loud thumping of the table with one huge fist, and shaking the other in Clayton's face.
Greystoke never turned a hair, but stood eying the excited man with level gaze.
"Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass."
Whereupon he turned and left the captain with the same indifferent ease that was habitual with him, and which was more surely calculated to raise the ire of a man of Billings' class than a torrent of invective.
So, whereas the captain might easily have been brought to regret his hasty speech had Clayton attempted to conciliate him, his temper was now irrevocably set in the mold in which Clayton had left it, and the last chance of their working together for their common good was gone.
"Well, Alice," said Clayton, as he rejoined his wife, "I might have saved my breath. The fellow proved most ungrateful. Fairly jumped at me like a mad dog.
"He and his blasted old ship may hang, for aught I care; and until we are safely off the thing I shall spend my energies in looking after our own welfare. And I rather fancy the first step to that end should be to go to our cabin and look over my revolvers. I am sorry now that we packed the larger guns and the ammunition with the stuff below."
They found their quarters in a bad state of disorder. Clothing from their open boxes and bags strewed the little apartment, and even their beds had been torn to pieces.
"Evidently someone was more anxious about our belongings than we," said Clayton. "Let's have a look around, Alice, and see what's missing."
A thorough search revealed the fact that nothing had been taken but Clayton's two revolvers and the small supply of ammunition he had saved out for them.
"Those are the very things I most wish they had left us," said Clayton, "and the fact that they wished for them and them alone is most sinister."
"What are we to do, John?" asked his wife. "Perhaps you were right in that our best chance lies in maintaining a neutral position.
"If the officers are able to prevent a mutiny, we have nothing to fear, while if the mutineers are victorious our one slim hope lies in not having attempted to thwart or antagonize them."
"Right you are, Alice. We'll keep in the middle of the road."
As they started to straighten up their cabin, Clayton and his wife simultaneously noticed the corner of a piece of paper protruding from beneath the door of their quarters. As Clayton stooped to reach for it he was amazed to see it move further into the room, and then he realized that it was being pushed inward by someone from without.
Quickly and silently he stepped toward the door, but, as he reached for the knob to throw it open, his wife's hand fell upon his wrist.
"No, John," she whispered. "They do not wish to be seen, and so we cannot afford to see them. Do not forget that we are keeping to the middle of the road."
Clayton smiled and dropped his hand to his side. Thus they stood watching the little bit of white paper until it finally remained at rest upon the floor just inside the door.
Then Clayton stooped and picked it up. It was a bit of grimy, white paper roughly folded into a ragged square. Opening it they found a crude message printed almost illegibly, and with many evidences of an unaccustomed task.
Translated, it was a warning to the Claytons to refrain from reporting the loss of the revolvers, or from repeating what the old sailor had told them—to refrain on pain of death.
"I rather imagine we'll be good," said Clayton with a rueful smile. "About all we can do is to sit tight and wait for whatever may come." --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres. Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois (he later lived for many years in the suburb of Oak Park), the fourth son of Major George Tyler Burroughs (1833–1913), a businessman and Civil War veteran, and his wife, Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs (1840–1920). His middle name is from his paternal grandmother, Mary Rice Burroughs (1802–c.1870). After his discharge from the Army, Burroughs worked a number of different jobs. He drifted and worked on a ranch in Idaho. He found work at his father's firm in 1899. He married his childhood sweetheart, Emma Hulbert (1876–1944), in January 1900. In 1904, he left his job and worked less regularly, first in Idaho, then in Chicago. Burroughs took up writing full-time in 1912, and by the time the run of Under the Moons of Mars had finished, he had completed two novels, including Tarzan of the Apes, published from October 1912 and one of his most successful series. Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction and fantasy stories involving adventurers from Earth transported to various planets (notably Barsoom, Burroughs's fictional name for Mars, and Amtor, his fictional name for Venus), lost islands, and into the interior of the hollow earth in his Pellucidar stories. He also wrote Westerns and historical romances. Besides those published in All-Story, many of his stories were published in The Argosy magazine. After WW II ended, Burroughs moved back to Encino, California, where after many health problems, he died of a heart attack on March 19, 1950, having written almost 80 novels. He is buried at Tarzana, California, US. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
"[Burroughs has] a gift very few writers of any kind possess: he can describe action vividly." —Gore Vidal --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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J. Aaron Bellamy
4.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to the Jungle
There's something about the character Tarzan that still resonates with people today even more than 100 years after he was originally created. Television shows, radio shows, feature films, comic book adaptations, animated shows, and animated features have all contributed to this mythic character, while also mostly leaving some of the more unpleasant stuff aside. It can certainly be troubling to some to go back to the source of it all, Tarzan of the Apes, only to discover that it is chock full of sentiments that today's readers may take great offense to. The discussion of racism and sexism in this novel, and frankly, of many thousands of novels written in less enlightened times than our own, is valid and worth having, but I won't be having it here. Readers sensitive to those topics may want to proceed into Tarzan with caution or not at all. That said…
I had a great time reading Tarzan of the Apes, but it is absolutely a pulp novel. The plot is well known to most, the details probably less so, but there isn't anything ground breaking going on here. Or is there? It's hard to say. On one hand, like I pointed out above, Tarzan has been around for over a hundred years now. That certainly doesn't rank him in Shakespearean terms, but outside of Sherlock Holmes, Zorro, or James Bond, I can't think of many other characters that have persisted quite like that, barring the entrance of comic book super heroes. Tarzan serves as a kind of model man for young boys – like the ultimate Boy Scout. The boy Tarzan, like many boys, is born and feels mundane until that first look in the water reveals he is actually special. And over time, he learns to do things others can't. This is the super hero origin part of the story, and it begins early on. Tarzan becomes capable of physical feats that mere men are not while at the same time, the other side of him becomes the learned English gentleman. In many ways, he foreshadows Bruce Wayne and Batman, except the disguise for Tarzan is absent. He lost his parents, was an outsider, trains his mind and body to super human levels, then re-enters society as a regular man. Outside of the losing your parents part, it isn't hard to imagine this journey as that of a young boy's fantasy. That alone doesn't seem like quite enough to carry a dime story novel for a century though. Is there more? I feel like the further men of our current culture are separated from their traditional primitive roles of hunter gatherer, the greater the need and difficulty finding value and meaning in one's own existence becomes. In that sense, I feel like Tarzan speaks to all the guys out there that are mild mannered, sit at a desk all day doing accounting or insurance adjusting or whatever, and go home to throw something in the microwave, and just don't feel fulfilled. They wish they could have their cake and eat it too. They want to hunt there food, trudge through the jungle back to home, and slap their kill down on the table. But they want tea too, and of course, Matlock's coming on. Instead, they've got their fantasies. I think the current plague of zombie content fits this same void for modern audiences. It's like the modern male wishes society were wiped away so he could reign supreme again. Except not really. It's just a fantasy. It's what books are for. I got to be Tarzan for a little while, but now it's back to work for me. They don't have showers in the jungle or wives to share a morning coffee with, but I have both, and I better not get complacent about it either… cause… you know… the zombies and stuff.
Rex Lane
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tarzan, now, then and forever
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2019
The work of Edgar Rice Burroughs should interest and inspire author and reader alike. As a pencil salesman, he sold pencil advertisements in the pulp fiction publications of his day. He found the published stories not very good and thought he'd try his hand at writing. After all, if they were publishing such drivel, why not his drivel? Amazingly, he sold his first piece, which began the John Carter of Mars series. Shortly thereafter, he began what made his fortune and allowed him to name his own town Tarzana after Tarzan of the Apes.
The character of an Englishman of noble birth, raised in the wilds of Africa by great apes captured the imagination of many and deservedly so. Tarzan is one of the seminal fictional characters and has never been depicted as well as Burroughs imagined him.
Raised as an ape, he speaks and understands their language, which is also spoken by monkeys and baboons. His sense of smell is highly developed and he is taught to hunt and kill to eat. When a great ape makes a kill, he lets forth with a terrifying howl of victory that lets the rest of the jungle know. It's a fearsome sound and nothing like Johnny Weissmuller's glorious yodel. After killing the great ape that was his stepfather, he sets out on his own and discovers the cabin his real father made after being marooned on the African coast.
Inside the cabin, he discovers the skeletons of his parents as well as his father's knife, which will serve him through the rest of the series. Also inside the cabin are books that were meant for a boy's instruction. In a fascinating and ingenious sequence, he teaches himself to read and write English without knowing how the language sounds. After rescuing a French soldier from cannibals, he learns French before English.
Among his enemies are Numa, the Lion; Sheeta, the Panther; Hista, the Snake and cannibals. Enemies are what help define protagonists and through the series, there are enemies galore. There are Germans, Swedes, Russians, Communists, Arabs, Shiftas (bandits) and Japanese who find themselves up against the Ape-Man.
Tarzan is fluent in French and English as well as the language of the beasts and the native African tribes who have learned to fear and respect him. He becomes king of the Waziri and them, his loyal subjects and armed force.
The Johnny Weissmuller films are filled with scenes of Tarzan calling for hordes of jungle beasts to charge white hunters and whatever enemy is on the horizon destroying his jungle paradise. Unlike Weissmuller, Tarzan is quite articulate. In the books, the only scene with an animal charge (other than when Tantor is employed) is when Tarzan persuades a baboon king to send his horde of baboons to attack his enemies. Otherwise, his power over animals is limited. Tantor, the Elephant, is Tarzan's friend and is happy to carry him on his back to wherever he wishes to go.
However, in The Beasts of Tarzan resides an extraordinary sequence, where after becoming the chief of a tribe of great apes and saving a panther from a trap that would otherwise have cost it its life, the beasts join Tarzan in his quest to recapture his bride, Jane. Together with marooned sailors, the apes row a hollowed-out tree to the coast of Africa while Sheeta, the panther drools over the sailors but will not eat them out of loyalty to the Lord of the Jungle. Not so, the fate of Jane's abductors. Any mention of animal loyalties would be amiss without mentioning the Golden Lion, Jad-bal-ja, whom Tarzan raised from a cub to become his ally and watcher. More than one enemy is vanquished by Tarzan's loyal avenger, who will not attack any of Tarzan's friends.
In the first part of Tarzan Returns, he wears clothing, fights off killers in Paris and is hired by the French government to go undercover in North Africa. He's more like James Bond and quite skilled with a gun in his hand in addition to his superior physical prowess.
One of the major threads that runs through the novels are the lost worlds hidden in the Dark Continent. The first of the worlds is Opar, a city and civilization originally from Atlantis and its queen, La. Opar and La figure in several subsequent novels.
Lost worlds are a throwback to the 19th-century writings of H. Rider Haggard, H.G. Wells, and Jules Verne. Among the lost worlds Burroughs imagined are two warring Roman cities, warring Crusaders who took a wrong turn returning from the Holy Land, warring civilizations of cat people, warring religious fanatics among many others.
The novels are at their best when focusing on Tarzan and his Waziris, his son, and wife, Jane.
The series lost momentum after shifting focus to lost worlds rather than keeping sharp focus on Tarzan. He even cross-fertilized Tarzan with the Pelucidar series sending the Ape-Man to the Earth's Core. The stories are at their best when focusing on Tarzan himself. Burroughs created one of the great and most enduring characters of fiction. He revolutionized science fiction and fantasy. He predicted many medical advances and probably inspired discoverers and inventors with his audacious fiction.
One barrier for many modern readers is the language used in 1912. There are many archaic terms and descriptors used, but as the series progresses the language evolves and is less off-putting.
One note on the version I read. The later novels were digitized utilizing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software because there are missing periods and abbreviations that don't make sense otherwise. The letters "Ms" are in place of where it should have read "his" for example among many other artifacts. The edition I read cost 99 cents for 25 complete novels. Figuring out what the word should have been should be easy enough for the reader and well worth the minor extra effort.
Burroughs pulls the series out of the lost world rut in Tarzan and the Lion Man where he infuses the story with science fiction ideas usually found in the Barsoom series. A mad scientist has created a race, crossing gorillas with men. It's a thrilling entry to the series with brilliant elements of horror in it. That novel was written in 1933-34 with a subplot involving a Hollywood production of a Tarzan-like feature filmed on location in Africa. References to Burroughs' success in Hollywood continue as characters refer to Lord Greystoke as "a regular Tarzan" not knowing who he really is. Once we reach World War II in Tarzan and the Foreign Legion, Lord Greystoke is a British Army Colonel who reveals his true identity to the band of warriors fighting the Japanese on the island of Sumatra.
No discussion of Burroughs' Tarzan novels would complete without mentioning the "Tantor" in the room: race. It's important to keep in mind that Burroughs was a product of his time and his writing reflects what were many prevailing attitudes and ideas of the day. The essential idea of a British nobleman raised by apes only to realize the promise of his superior genes is rightly regarded today as racist. Tarzan hates the black tribes he first meets but one must keep in mind that they were also cannibals. There is liberal use of what is now referred to as the N-Word throughout the books. Tarzan himself doesn't use the word but many of the white characters do and most of those are Tarzan's enemies. Throughout the novels, Tarzan is frequently predisposed to help a person because they are white and is callous to the fate of the black tribesmen he encounters.
In Tarzan's defense, he frequently prefers the law of the jungle to the law of man. He would rather be eaten by a lion or a tiger or gored by a rhinoceros than have the knife of a duplicitous man stab him in the back. The books are replete with wry observations of Tarzan's preference for the savage natural world over civilization.
Burroughs gradually evolved his regard for the black tribes. By the time the novels mature, Tarzan relies on a tribe of blacks known as his Waziri and its chief, Muviro. They become the source of many a deus ex machina while coming to his rescue. They are noble, beautiful and strong. He infuses them with loyalty, self-sacrifice, intelligence, and great courage. They love Tarzan and Tarzan loves them. We could all use allies such as these.
By the time we reach Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja the Golden Lion, most of Tarzan's most beloved characters play a part in the resolution of the tale. Tantor is here as well as Nkima, the monkey and his loyal Waziri facing down the half-men of Opar, descended from gorillas.
Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most fascinating and enduring characters in literature and was wildly successful in his lifetime. None of the film adaptations captured the essence of the author's vision but Burroughs was more than happy to laugh all the way to the bank. The novels are high adventure with romance and impossible situations (with sometimes ridiculous storylines) but holding all together is the audacious imagination of Edgar Rice Burroughs, who arguably created modern science fiction and infused many of those fantastic situations from what was one time called The Dark Continent, a place of mystery and limitless possibilities that launched many a fantasy adventure. Most of the writers of more recent science fiction were inspired as boys and girls by the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The physical courage of Tarzan is something all boys aspire to. Cast off, naked and alone with nothing but our wits and wills to be engines of our survival, there is a part of every person alive who ought to wish to emulate Tarzan.
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and an eye opener
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2017
Once you get past the bombast of the period writing, the story is quite good. Parts of it are, of course, downright ridiculous in whole, and others are only mildly impossible. Our hero is superlative, too smart, learns to read by himself, with no possible reference points, and speaks French in a matter of days. Beside all that, this is a fun book. I just had to remind myself Burroughs was writing for an audience much less sophisticated than the jaded reader of today. I think it is good to occasionally read a book written long ago to experience attitudes and social norms that existed before our current time. This book is certainly one example. Although the author is not unkind in his portrayal of native Africans, or a domestic black slave, I still experienced a feeling of discomfort as I read these sections of the book. That it was not only acceptable, but perfectly normal to consider people of other races as less than the "white man" is hard to reconcile with modern thinking. And that the female lead was portrayed as the weak, fainting violet made me laugh as well. Remember what you are reading when you dive into this book, and sit back and enjoy.
5.0 out of 5 stars Escapism at its best
Tarzan is one of these books I feel I must have read but have in fact never read. When I saw this set, at a ludicrously low price, I decided to remedy the situation. I have to say that I was hooked very early on. At my reading pace there were 38 hours of reading in the set. Broadly one book leads to the next like a pulp fiction serial. It is true that some of the language is archaic and doubtless some might be offended by what, today, would be seen as casual racism. The books are of an earlier simpler time. A rip roaring, if slightly repetitive series of stories. I have lost count of the number if lost cities, and I still have more than 20 hours left to read. Excellent, well worth the price. I would recommend it to anyone looking for old fashioned escapism.
5.0 out of 5 stars A true original
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2019
The original story Tarzan of the Apes, written in a different era from ours and in some ways ludicrous to a modern reader, it still retains its original power and kept me gripped, regardless. Poor Tarzan! He deserved a happier ending although what happened was inevitable.
4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended
Great stories written well. You can really imagine yourself there and lose yourself in the jungle excitement and it gets very exciting at times. I recommend this book. Some stories were more interesting to me than others which is to be expected in a collection of stories. I took the time it was written into account but even so I found Jane a bit wet. I much prefer the Maureen O'Sullivan version. However Jane is not the only female character so there's lots of characters to enjoy.
M. Dowden
5.0 out of 5 stars It Started Here
I think that like most people I first read this as a schoolboy, and come back to it through the years as I have grown up. Lets be honest and admit that it isn't perfect and has a number of 'problems', but as a good old adventure yarn that is an ideal piece of escapism, then you can't but not like this.
I think that everyone must know the basics of the tale, who Tarzan's parents were and how he was brought up. Edgar Rice Burroughs struck gold with this piece of fiction, writing many more Tarzan stories and causing a whole host of imitators to spring up because of its popularity. The quality of the stories do differ immensely though. Apart from one group of short stories this particular book and Return of Tarzan are arguably the best.
If you have never read this before, then why not immerse yourself in a new world? Or if you have read it before, relax and take in the story again.
I think that everyone must know the basics of the tale, who Tarzan's parents were and how he was brought up. Edgar Rice Burroughs struck gold with this piece of fiction, writing many more Tarzan stories and causing a whole host of imitators to spring up because of its popularity. The quality of the stories do differ immensely though. Apart from one group of short stories this particular book and [[ASIN:B0083ZRJF8 Return of Tarzan]] are arguably the best.
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic fiction, good reading.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2019
I'm busy reading this book, about halfway through. After watching many of the early Tarzan movies I'm getting to know the "real" Tarzan and I can see that the movies have deviated somewhat from this character. Edgar Rice Burroughs' writing is very descriptive though, and I can picture the scenes in my mind, well that some of the scenarios would never happen in real life. I recommend it to anyone who reads fiction.


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Striker signings, system, season: Sheffield United conclusions as Blades look down but not out
Chris Wilder's side suffered defeat in a game they could not afford to lose, so where do they go from here?
Nathan HemminghamSheffield United reporter
George Baldock and Lys Mousset react at the full-time whistle following United's 1-0 defeat at West Brom. (Image: Lindsey Parnaby, via Getty Images)
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It was a game they should have won and certainly did enough to draw, but in the end they came away with nothing.
Sheffield United's season so far was summed up in those 90 minutes at the Hawthorns as West Brom, similar to West Ham the previous week and the likes of Leeds and Aston Villa before then, found something that United couldn't.
Conor Gallagher's strike on 13 minutes was the difference between the two sides as United laid siege to the home goal in the second half but their profligacy proved costly once again.
Here are the talking points to emerge from Sheffield United's 1-0 defeat to West Brom.
United look down, but not out
All the stats point to relegation for United.
Worst start in Premier League history; no side has survived after picking up just one point from their opening 10 games and a combination of leaking goals and being unable to score all add up to one thing.
But no one at Sheffield United should be accepting their fate just yet.
Last night's performance was arguably their best of the season and they did absolutely everything, but score. They had a staggering 22 shots at goal and created enough chances to win two games, never mind one. It's actually difficult to put into words how they have lost that game.
Ultimately, it is about sticking the ball in the net and that is something United are struggling to achieve right now, but the two performances since they returned from the last international break have been encouraging.
They should have taken at the very least four points from these matches and are not far off from getting the all-important win that they need.
However, that has to come soon.
United have now given the division a 10-game head start. Normally when a side is rock bottom without a win they look completely cut adrift and it's hard to see where wins will come.
Sheffield United players react after another chance goes begging at the Hawthorns. (Image: Jason Cairnduff - Getty Images)
That's not the case with United. Yes, there are issues in defence without Jack O'Connell and both Ethan Ampadu and Enda Stevens are now injured adding to the problem, but United's biggest issue is at the other end.
They have only conceded more than two goals in a game just once so far - away at Chelsea. It's not like they are shipping goals for fun and need to score a mountain to get something from a game. Far from it, they have lost seven of their nine matches by just one goal.
If they can find their scoring boots sharpish between now and the end of the year and pick up three wins they can end 2020 with their season very much alive.
But if they continue to shoot themselves in the foot like they did last night, they will find themselves heading for the Championship.
All is not lost, just yet. They may look down and they may be written off in some quarters, but right now they are not out.
Striker signings
This is a topic that is continuing to dominate United fans' agendas right now.
Since promotion to the Premier League, Chris Wilder has a net spend of £46m on five strikers who have arrived in the past two seasons.
Lys Mousset (£10m), Oli McBurnie (£18m), Rhian Brewster (£18m), Callum Robinson (£7m) and Oli Burke (+£3m) have all been brought in to try and score the goals to keep United in the division.
That is a lot of money to United, whose transfer record stood at just £4m before promotion. However, this is not a lot of money in the Premier League, certainly not in the striker department.
It's the one area that United are struggling in recruitment wise. They do not have the funds or the wage bill to accommodate proven goalscorers at this level.
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An example of what they are up against in a snapshot is last week's match-winner for West Ham, Sebastien Haller. He is back-up to Michail Antonio and has made just three starts this season but cost £45m and is on £121,000-a-week. Ollie Watkins, who was top of Chris Wilder's transfer targets in the summer, is on £75,000-a-week at Aston Villa. United tried for him but it became apparent very quickly they could get nowhere near him.
Strikers cost the most on the wage bill and at this level those wages are eye-watering. Oli McBurnie (20k-week, as revealed in his recent court case) is the player most on the receiving end of fans' ire right now.
But in the Premier League you get what you pay for and this is the one issue United have not been able to get right. They can only afford youngsters the likes of Brewster, cast-offs from other sides such as Mousset or Championship strikers such as Burke and McBurnie and hope they can get enough goals between them.
Ironically, it was not just the strikers last night. John Fleck, Sander Berge, George Baldock all had chances - with Baldock's miss on the hour mark the worst of the lot.
Goalscoring has been an issue since last season. McBurnie and Mousset's six goals topped the scoring charts but their incredible defence meant that was not such a problem.
However, those lack of goals this time round will send United down if they don't start converting these chances.
Time for a system change?
Another question that crops up after every week but United did change formation in the second half and went 4-3-3.
It suggests it paved the way for the onslaught and some fans are calling for this as United's formation of choice from now on, but it's slightly misleading. West Brom sat back in the second half on the edge of the area and played counter-attack, defending their 1-0 lead.
They gave United possession and space in front of their back line and the Blades were able to lay siege to the Baggies goal.
'United and together' - Sheffield United chairman's defiant message after West Brom defeat
David Brooks hits back at Curtis Woodhouse over dig at Sheffield United keeper Aaron Ramsdale
However, it's not something the manager is likely to start with unless injuries to his defence dictate that he has no option.
Wilder started Kean Bryan in the Jack O'Connell role last night - the fifth player to play in that position this season (O'Connell, Stevens, Robinson, Ampadu, Bryan). This was a brave move to chuck someone in for his first league start but it was the message that went with this inclusion.
Bryan has been at the club two years and brought in for that role. He has not been able to develop the way in which coaching staff had hoped following his arrival from Man City, but he's not afraid to get forward and overlap and it was a selection from the manager that said 'we are here to attack'.
Indeed, his cross for Oliver Burke to force a wonderful save from Sam Johnstone almost led to an equaliser.
The system is not at fault for United's start. If it was, they don't lose most of their games by just one goal like they have.
It is broken without O'Connell and the need to fix it in January grows ever more pressing, but there is no reason to move away from something that has taken the club from the middle of League One to possible European contenders last season.
Sheffield United player ratings: Burke and Ramsdale only Blades to emerge with credit
'That hurts, we did enough to win' - Chris Wilder's reaction after crushing defeat at West Brom
They are still hard to beat and creating enough chances to take points from matches. It's a quality issue at the top end of the pitch that is hurting the most right now.
They don't really have the personnel for a back four. Only John Egan and Phil Jagielka, at the age of 39, are recognised as proper centre halves. The lack of pace in that middle two would leave United badly exposed.
However, should injuries continue to mount in that department and Wilder's hand is forced, he certainly has the options in attack to go three up top should they need to.
But changing system does not make any of those 22 chances find the net. They need to stick with their identity but the board must release the funds to bring in a defender of suitable quality. They failed to in the last window and that decision now looks to be biting them on the bum.
Billy Sharp scored from the penalty spot against Fulham with five minutes to go at Bramall Lane. (Image: Gareth Copley via Getty Images)
Billy Sharp
The striker finds himself down the pecking order at Bramall Lane.
Rhian Brewster is the future of the club and McBurnie (24), Mousset (24) and Burke (23) all have the nod in front of him as Wilder tries to evolve a strikeforce that included Sharp, McGoldrick and Clarke following promotion.
Wilder hinted recently that his job now is to lead the team off the pitch in his role as captain.
However, last night's game was crying out for Sharp.
The striker would have loved to have been on the end of some of those chances. Of the 22 shots at goal, seven were classed as 'big chances' and 19 came from inside the area.

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The Аssociation « League of machine engineers and employers of Ukraine «Ukrmashbud» is created as association of the enterprises of domestic mechanical engineering, for strengthening their economic position in a home market of Ukraine and abroad.
The structure of Association includes 240 enterprises of Ukraine from such areas of economy, as heavy, agricultural mechanical engineering, manufacture of spare parts to various types of technics, repair and service, lawyer offices, financial and insurance companies, bodies of certification and test laboratories.
Lobbyings interests of the domestic enterprises at different levels of authority.
Association "Ukrmashbud" invites foreign industrial enterprises to co-operate to place orders for manufacturing parts of equipment and machinery in Ukraine.


Please note that we are injecting $log service into the controller function to log the events.
In our previous video, we used $$route.originalPath property to get the route that the user is navigating to. How do we know next parameter has $$route.originalPath property. Well the easiest way is to log and inspect their properties. The following code does exactly the same thing.
In this example we have logged just $routeChangeStart & $locationChangeStart events parameters. In a similar way, you can also log $routeChangeSuccess & $locationChangeSuccess events parameters.
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Why did we change $rootScope to $scope? Is it like the success events get triggered from different controllers?


We've managed to lay our hands on the last of Neesh's inventory, including their most beloved summer dresses! Favorite has a soft V-neck, an asymmetrical gathering at the empire waistline and a full, crinkly, billowy skirt. The fabric here is a crisp cotton, and the hemline hits below the knee on women of average height.
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Abdelrahman Elashwal scored a hat-trick capped by a extra-time winner, as Egypt saw off Italy with a 4-3 scoreline to earn passage into 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup quarter-finals.
49'55'' Italy try a shot on goal, but it is off-target.
49'52'' Italy has a shot blocked.
49'43'' Italy swing in the corner.
49'42'' The goalkeeper of Egypt pulls off a save.
49'41'' A player from Italy sees his effort hit the target.
49'30'' Italy swing in the corner.
49'10'' Italy try a shot on goal, but it is off-target.
48'46'' Italy swing in the corner.
48'33'' Italy has a shot blocked.


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Legal Challenges Ahead After President Trump Reduces Utah National Monuments
By Alex Arensberg on December 20, 2017 Posted in Environmental Litigation, Environmental Protection, Mining & Natural Resources, Rulemaking & Policy Development, Uncategorized
On December 4, 2017, President Trump issued two Presidential Proclamations reducing the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments by more than 800,000 acres and 1.1 million acres, respectively. Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments had been previously created by Presidents Obama and Clinton pursuant to the Antiquities Act of 1906. The announcement by the Trump Administration to scale-back those designations is already being challenged in court, as land conservation groups dispute whether the President has authority under the Antiquities Act to modify or reduce the scope of previously designated national monuments.
The Antiquities Act authorizes the President, in his discretion, to "declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated on land owned or controlled by the Federal Government to be national monuments." The Act also provides that the President "may reserve parcels of land as a part of the national monuments. The limits of the parcels shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected." As previously discussed on this blog, the central question to be litigated is whether the Antiquities Act's delegation of authority from Congress to the president to create national monuments also includes the power to abolish or modify previously created national monuments.
On its face, the Act contains no explicit authorization to modify an existing monument. Therefore, land conservation groups and other opponents will argue that President Trump's proclamations are invalid because he lacks express authority for them. It is anticipated that the Trump Administration will argue that it has implied authority to modify an existing monument to comply with the Act's instruction that national monuments "shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected."
The legal battle to define the president's authority under the Antiquities Act could have far-reaching implications for federal land management throughout the United States. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recently conducted a review of approximately a dozen national monuments and could recommend further modifications to those monuments depending on the outcome of the litigation related to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
For now, President Trump's decision to reduce Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante fulfills a campaign promise and restores large portions of Utah to multiple use management. According to the Presidential Proclamations, public lands removed from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante shall be made open to entry, location, and disposition under applicable mining, mineral and geothermal laws starting on February 2, 2018, subject to existing rights and other applicable laws.
Tags: Antiquities Act, Antiquities Act of 1906, Bears Ears, Escalante, Grand Staircase-Escalante, President Trump, Public Lands, Trump Administration, utah


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Farzana is not alone in her success. Since launching in 2016, GharPar has attracted over 100 beauticians to its platform—and, as part of the company's social mission, nearly all come from marginalized and minority backgrounds.
Taking home 70 percent of the price of every GharPar request, beauticians' incomes have soared. So while the average monthly salary of a beautician in a brick-and-mortar salon is estimated to be PKR 11,000 (US$82), according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, a GharPar beautician makes PKR 60,000 per month on average. Top earners can double that. This jump in income has allowed these women to climb out of poverty, becoming household breadwinners and strong female role models in their families and communities.
GharPar is just one of many startups that are taking advantage of Pakistan's rising comparative advantage in technology. And a 'tech boom' could help to reenergize and diversify the country's economy.
Pakistan's primary exports—textiles, leather, and rice—have stagnated over the last decade. Rising oil prices, relatively high minimum wages in key sectors and a lack of innovation have eroded the country's competitiveness in the global value chains that move these products around the world.
Yet, ICT services exports have been rising steadily since 2007. Many multinational IT firms, including Cisco, S&P Global, and Mentor Graphics – have already opened offices across the country, relying on Pakistani talent to deliver IT services to global markets. The industry is targeting $10 billion in exports by 2025, which would be 400% growth from 2017.
As technology continues to reshape global industries, supporting diversification towards IT and IT-enabled services is one way the Government of Pakistan can reinvigorate growth today while also helping build the global brand of Pakistan's tech sector for the future. That means focusing reforms and incentive policies in three main areas of activity: (1) software-as-service exports, (2) virtual freelancing (e-lancing), and (3) e-commerce.
Pakistan's software-as-service exporters have been able to leverage Pakistan's increasingly large pool of young software engineers and computer science graduates to offer services to global clientele at a competitive quality-to-price ratio. Industry associations report Pakistan now has more than 300,000 English-speaking IT and IT-enabled service professionals. With nearly one quarter (23.3 percent) of its population between the age of 10-19, there is potential to develop a pipeline of skilled young workers and entrepreneurs to help this sector grow.
Many of those who have not found jobs with Pakistan's larger tech companies have become e-lancers in the global 'gig economy'. Today, an estimated 150,000 Pakistanis offer their services on online e-lancing platforms, according to the Punjab Information Technology Board. This has helped make Pakistan the 3rd most popular country for virtually outsourcing tasks, according to the Oxford Internet Institute's Online Labor Index, trailing only India and Bangladesh and ahead of the United States and the Philippines.
As the world's 6th most populous country, Pakistan is also an attractive market for global e-commerce and a petri dish for young Pakistani tech entrepreneurs. Many of these entrepreneurs are trying to find marketable solutions to local problems—like GharPar—focusing on social impact and helping to drive social change.
Strengthen the regulatory framework around e-commerce. This will help to safeguard data and to build trust between buyers and sellers. The government is already working on this—in particular, on consumer protection rights and on privacy/data protections. These are critical building blocks that will help to protect domestic consumers and to alleviate the concerns of potential foreign direct investors.
Reduce the costs of regulatory compliance for start-ups and small businesses through consistent, streamlined, and transparent administrative procedures. Addressing the country's complex tax system is already on the new government's agenda, and this is a start. Granting small start-ups a temporary waiver on paying the Employee's Old-Age Benefit could be another option. To help new businesses grow and to encourage them to formalize, the government needs to make it easier for them to interface with regulators.
Strengthen oversight and regulatory mechanisms to foster cross-border electronic transactions. The State Bank of Pakistan is currently working on amending foreign exchange policies—a major constraint on the tech sector. Establishing dispute resolution mechanisms for e-commerce and formulating licensing requirements for establishing and operating e-commerce businesses will help.
Focus on skills development – but not just technical skills and not only at the tertiary level. For Pakistan to continue to build its brand as a country known for excellence in digital technology and skills, the workforce of the future will need to be creative, agile, and resilient—skills that should be fostered at all stages of the education system. And fostered for all parties. Pakistan will need more women workers and entrepreneurs. The government should continue to level the playing field for women in education and in the workforce, to ensure sustainable, inclusive growth.


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Refresh to last.. : We're kind of in a wait at the international box office, because the end-of-year headlines are always behind the scenes. This weekend was all about the sustaining business – and other market launches on major footage already released elsewhere. The debut of the last picture, Disney's Charm, leads the studio session again with a solid 30% drop, adding $ 20.7 million of 49 material markets for an overseas sum of $ 58.1 million and a worldwide total of 116,1 M$.
Positive word of mouth helps drive the musical comedy, with France, Italy, Colombia, Brazil and Mexico among the continuing No. 1s in this session. Asia-Pacific, however, detected. The best performing countries to date are France ($ 6.5 million), Colombia ($ 5.9 million), the United Kingdom ($ 4.2 million) and Russia ($ 3.5 million) million dollars), tied with Italy and Korea.
MGM/Universal Gucci House, meanwhile, shapes impressive numbers. Lady Gaga star added $ 14.8 million in 60 UNI / MGM markets combined to reach a total $ 33.6 million abroad and $ 67.2 million global. Russia debuted No.1 with $ 2.8 million and four times more than A star is born. Germany took # 1 with $ 1.9M and in line with The star is born. The UK held number 1 and has now racked up $ 7.1 million. Other key markets include France ($ 3.4 million), Mexico ($ 2 million) and Spain ($ 1.7 million). Australia, Japan and Korea are still to come in 2022.
Debut at No. 1 in Russia ($ 2.7M) and Spain (1,1 M$), Sony Ghostbusters: the afterlife increased its hold abroad by $ 13.1 million in the session out of a total of 53 markets. The offshore cue is now $ 42.9 million with $ 145 million worldwide. France was also a new release, landing No. 2 with $ 2 million. Australia and Japan are coming in the New Year.
Also from Sony, Venom: let there be carnage got off to a good start in Japan with $ 5.5 million to lead the local charts. It's ahead of Shang-Chi of 109%, Black Widow of 107%, Eternals by 55%, and tied with Venom the first one. IMAX seized $ 800,000 from this start (+ 18% on Venom) and indexed at 15% of the national total to reach an overall IMAX amount of $ 17.2 million.
The full offshore session of the symbiote was $ 9.8 million of 62 markets, bringing the international cue to $ 272.3 million and worldwide at $ 483.2 million.
All in all, China Diagrams in antiques was the world leader overseas this weekend at 164.3 million RMB ($ 25.8 million) in the domestic market alone. Billed as the country's response to Indiana Jones, it has effectively kicked off the holiday season in the market.
Authorities dated the Warner Bros / Village Roadshow's yesterday Matrix resurrections – but in January after bypassing several potential studio artists in 2021.
Next week's world release includes Steven Spielberg's release West Side Story from Disney / 20th Century which begins offshore deployment on December 8 before December 10 nationally.
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Eternals (DIS): $ 5.8 M intl weekend (51 markets); $ 227.8 million in international revenue / $ 384.3 million worldwide
Dune (BM): $ 5.1 M intl weekend (69 markets); $ 277.6 million in international revenue / $ 382.2 million worldwide
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (SNY): $ 4.2 M intl weekend (39 markets); $ 11.1 million intl / XX
Clifford the big red dog (PAR): $ 3.8 M intl weekend (21 markets); $ 5.5 million intl / XXX
No time to die (UNI / MGM): $ 3.64 M intl weekend (95 markets); $ 604.4 million in international revenue / $ 764 million worldwide
king richard (BM): $ 2.1 M intl weekend (53 markets); $ 8.2 million intl / $ 21.6 million worldwide
*Sing 2 (UNI): $ 1.12 M intl weekend (3 markets); $ 1.12 million intl (major rollout begins December 22)
Last night in Soho (UNI): $ 517K intl weekend (60 markets); $ 12 million in international revenue / $ 22.1 million worldwide
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In this fifth installment of the Thin Man series, the Charleses leave New York for some rest and relaxation at Nick's parents' home in the small town of Sycamore Springs (boo!) but leave precious little Nick Jr. at boarding school (yay!). Coming a decade after the original film, this time out, William Powell and Myrna Loy are as devastatingly debonair as ever, though it doesn't stop them from playing at a little physical comedy when needed. Loy's willowy gorgeousness adds to, instead of detracts from, her comic timing, while Powell remains the coolest character in just about any room, even with that big Walter Matthau-size schnozz and ridiculous moustache.
While it would likely have been heretical to the characters' creator Dashiell Hammett, the couple seems to have given up liquor, with Nick compulsively nipping at a flask of nonalcoholic cider. This doesn't stop Nora from mistrusting his ability to stay on the wagon, and wishing maybe that he would ("Sneaking off like that and getting drunk ... without me."). The film eases ever so slowly into the mystery that we know is coming, following the couple up to the town on the town, and setting up Nick's relationship with his stern and disapproving father. The mystery, which involves a horrid painting of a windmill that everyone wants to get their hands on, Maltese Falcon-like, and a townful of neighbors who keep stopping by, wondering if Nick is working on a case. He'd prefer not to and would rather sit in a hammock with his cider jug and reading Nick Carter detective stories, but he gets sort of goaded into it once the stranger shows up on Nick's parents' doorstep and gets shot before he can get a full sentence out.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang probably can't take full credit for the reform of harsh prison conditions across the South in the 1930s, but there's no doubt it played a part. Its message is powerful, but luckily it's delivered by way of a dark and thrilling story that's all the more gripping because it's based on a true story. Warner Brothers took a risk with this one ("Banned in Georgia!!!"), but it paid off. Chain Gang is a minor classic that touches on all sorts of big American themes of class and justice.
James Allen (Paul Muni), a returning World War I veteran, is one of the unluckiest people you'll ever meet. His first problem: returning WWI vets were guaranteed none of the upward mobility that vets of later wars were granted. There were no G.I. Bills for these guys. Returning to his old job as a clerk in a factory, Allen knows he's changed, but his job hasn't. He stares dreamily out the window at a bridge being built and realizes that he wants to become an engineer to continue the kind of work he did in the Army.


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require "spec_helper"

describe Conduit::Driver::Braintree::FindTransaction do
  subject do
    described_class.new(options).perform.parser
  end

  let(:options) do
    { merchant_id:      "hello-labs-1",
      private_key:      "hello-labs-ssh",
      public_key:       "hello-world",
      environment:      :sandbox,
      reference_number: "k4rs72",
      mock_status:      mock_status }
  end

  describe "#perform" do
    context "with a successful authorization" do
      let(:mock_status)        { "success" }
      its(:response_status)    { should eql mock_status }
      its(:transaction_status) { should eql "settled" }
      its(:transaction_status_timestamp) { should eql "2019-02-08 15:44:46 UTC" }
      its(:transaction_authorization_expires_at) { should eql "2019-02-08 15:44:46 UTC" }
      its(:transaction_settlement_batch_id) { should eql "test_settlement_batch_id" }
    end

    context "with a failure" do
      let(:mock_status)     { "failure" }
      its(:response_status) { should eql mock_status }

      it "should have errors" do
        expected = [
          Conduit::Error.new(attribute: :base,
            message: "Failed to find resource with identifier  (error)")
        ]
        expect(subject.errors).to eql expected
      end
    end
  end
end

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Art of Incarceration Review – Honest and Eye Opening
In 2018, a report written by Sophie Russell and Chris Cunneen stated that Indigenous Incarceration has increased by 45% in the last decade – that's from 2008 -2018. We make up under 3% of the population, and yet 28% of the adult prison population. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 21 times more likely to be in custody than non-Indigenous women. It's even worse for children, they make up 7% of the general youth population, and yet, 54% of those in youth detention across Australia are Indigenous. Just this week, there have been reports of an Indigenous child with developmental issues, only 10 years old, being left in adult lockup for three days, naked, with only a sheet to keep him warm. It's not even the first time I've heard of this sort of thing happening, although I've never heard of it happening to a non-Indigenous person.
The statistics are disgusting, disappointing, and tell a terrible story of colonisation, intergenerational trauma, and a low-socioeconomic environment. Screening at this years Melbourne Documentary Film Festival as the closing night film is Art of Incarceration. As the film opens, we're shown some of these statistics, and while the documentary is heartbreaking at times, it's also eye-opening, insightful and shows the positive work been done to help incarcerated people.
Since 2011, The Torch has been providing guidance and leadership to men and women in incarceration through art. The Torch features large in Art of Incarceration, allowing an exploration into how art connects culture, identity and allows growth for inmates, giving them opportunities and guidance for life outside of prison.
The artwork itself is also a great feature of the documentary and there are some really beautiful pieces shown; one with a goanna as its focus really caught my eye. If I actually had any money, I would love to hang it on my wall. Hearing the meaning of the art is also great, you see the pride that the inmates feel, and Art of Incarceration really does a great job at finding this human side of the men featured. Men that would probably normally just look like criminals, but here they are just everyday people, doing their best with what they have. One ex-inmate, Robby, is a huge success of The Torch program, making and being commissioned for sculptures and also becoming an employee at The Torch. The confined men even had their own art exhibition through The Torch at St. Kilda, Melbourne – The Confined 8.
Director Alex Siddons has done a great job at bringing the efforts of The Torch to the screen and telling the stories of the Confined 8, but as I said earlier there plenty of heartbreak, so you may need to keep a Kleenex handy. Art of Incarceration is honest, fascinating and shows you what can happen when you give some one proper guidance and care.
Director: Alex Siddons
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Travis grew up on the west coast of South Australia and has been interested in film since seeing Jurassic Park and Predator for the first time in the mid-nineties. Particularly fond of the action and thriller genres, he met his long-time idol, Jean Claude Van Damme, in 2016, talking with 'the muscles from Brussels' about his upcoming films and the hurdles he has faced in the entertainment industry. Some of his favourite films include Jurassic Park, The Salton Sea, Apt Pupil and Any Given Sunday. Travis loves the way a film can make people feel such a diverse range of emotions, from excitement and happiness to fear and sadness. He believes that creativity is what helps the world evolve and that the arts, is the centre of creativity.
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Home / Design News / Autodesk's first sustainability bond aligns impact and financial strategies
Autodesk's first sustainability bond aligns impact and financial strategies
From Autodesk News: Debbie Clifford
Autodesk is in business to enable a better world designed and made for all.
Customers across our industries rely on Autodesk to help solve challenges big and small. This presents a profound and urgent opportunity; we can empower innovators with technology to harness their data and unlock insights to fuel innovation and create new paths to efficiency, sustainability, and growth. Providing tools to help our customers reveal actionable insights to improve the impact of design and make decisions, at scale, is central to our sustainability efforts.
To accelerate these efforts, I'm excited to share that we issued our first sustainability bond offering totaling $1 billion to further align Autodesk's impact strategy with our financial strategy. The proceeds from the sustainability bond will fund existing and future projects in alignment with Autodesk's impact strategy, which aims to advance positive environmental and social outcomes in areas most important to our business and the needs of our customers and other stakeholders.
I am also acutely aware that our impact starts with us. I believe it's imperative for us to set a good example and I'm passionate about the powerful role finance can play in driving sustainability issues forward. I'm proud that, as of our 2021 fiscal year, Autodesk is net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across our business and value chain, enabled through the introduction of the Autodesk Carbon Fund and an updated price on carbon.
Of equal importance is our continued work with our customers and industries to advance a more sustainable future. We know that to solve the challenges we face today, we need collective action.
We believe the investments from our sustainability bond will benefit our customers and other stakeholders, while accelerating our collective progress toward Autodesk's vision of a better world designed and made for all. This sustainability bond enables our investors to join us in in our efforts to address issues in alignment with key environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indicators and the internationally recognized UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
We intend to focus on projects related to both environmental and social initiatives, including:
Eco-Efficient Products, Production Technologies, and Processes –Developing and improving software capabilities to deliver insights that optimize the energy, waste, and water efficiencies and resilience of building, infrastructure, and industrial projects.
Sustainable Water and Wastewater Management –Providing technology to enable more cost‑effective and sustainably designed water distribution networks, water collection systems, water and wastewater treatment plants, and flood protection systems.
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency –Advancing initiatives to build on our achievement of net-zero GHG emissions across our business and value chain, continuing to reduce the carbon footprint of our operations through efficiency and renewables.
Green Buildings –Developing and improving technology to support the design, construction, maintenance or refurbishment of buildings to tackle total carbon impacts of the building lifecycle.
Pollution Prevention and Control –Supporting carbon mitigation and removal projects in the areas of GHG mitigation technologies, products, and projects focused on the build environment, GHG capture and sequestration technology projects, and carbon removal and avoidance projects.
Socioeconomic Advancement and Empowerment –Activating initiatives to advance economic opportunity and equity for underrepresented communities, promote greater diversity and inclusion, and improve access to quality education.
Autodesk's Sustainability Financing Framework will guide our investments, and we'll report back annually on our progress. This is another milestone in our journey to design and make a better world for all.
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Александър Димитров Арангелов е бивш полицай, български политик от партия "Възраждане". Народен представител в XLVIII народно събрание.

Биография

Александър Арангелов е роден на 7 май 1980 г. в град Самоков, Народна република България. Когато е на 5 години, се премества да живее в София. След отбиване на военната си служба почти 10 години работи в МВР. През март 2008 г. като полицай от Трето РПУ в София е арестуван за подкуп и изнудване на собственици на автосервиз в столицата, след което е уволнен от системата на МВР. От 2009 г. развива собствен бизнес в сферата на строителството.

Политическа дейност

Александър Арангелов е сред основателите на партия "Възраждане" през 2014 г.

Парламентарни избори през 2022 г.

На парламентарните избори през 2022 г. е кандидат за народен представител от листата на партия "Възраждане", водач в 26 МИР София – област. Избран е за народен представител.

Източници

Външни препратки
  Профил на Александър Арангелов в сайта на 48-то Народното събрание

Български политици след 1989
Членове на Възраждане (партия в България)
Български полицаи
Родени в Самоков

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