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BY DR EMILY BALDWIN
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Posted: 04 December, 2008
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have observed light echoes from Tycho's Supernova Remnant that provide new insight into the exploding star's origin and type.
A new star was spotted in the 16th century night sky by Tycho Brahe, or so he thought, for the 'star', which outshined even Venus, was actually a rare supernova event, whereby a star explodes at the end of its life, emitting an extremely bright outburst of energy. Tycho studied the brightness and colour of the 'star' for several months until it faded from view and the remains of this milestone event can still be observed today, and is known as Tycho's Supernova Remnant.
Wide Field Image of Tycho's Supernova Remnant. It is a colour composite of Mid-Infrared by Spitzer Space Telescope (red), and X-ray (blue: high-energy X-ray, green: middle energy, yellow: low-energy) by Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The remnant is approximately 25 ly in diameter. Image: Subaru Telescope.
Using the Subaru Telescope, an international team of 21st century astronomers picked up the supernova's light echoes. That is, light from the original supernova event that was bouncing off dust particles in surrounding interstellar clouds many years after the direct light passed us by, revealing the supernova's origin and exact type. The same team used similar methods to uncover the origin of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A in 2007.
"Using light echoes in supernova remnants is time-travelling in a way, in that it allows us to go back hundreds of years to observe the first light from a supernova event," says Dr Tomonori Usuda, Associate Director for the Subaru Telescope. "We got to relive a significant historical moment and see it as famed astronomer Tycho Brahe did hundreds of years ago. More importantly, we get to see how a supernova in our own Galaxy behaves from its origin."
Such a light echo is typically visible for a couple of weeks, similar to the length of the brightness maximum of the original supernova. "However, as the light flash propagates through interstellar clouds, new echoes are generated in the vicinity of the older, fading ones," says Dr Oliver Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Berlin. "This happens because the interstellar matter is organised in denser condensations (and those stand out as the brightest echoes) embedded in more extended and diffuse clouds."
The view of the light echoes from Tycho's supernova. Optical light arrived at Earth in 1572 (blue arrow). Light was scattered by dust clouds around the supernova in 2008 (yellow arrows). Since the emitting regions were apparently shifted from 23 August 2008 to September 24, the optical lights were confirmed as light echoes. Image: Subaru Telescope.
Using the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) instrument the team broke the light echoes down into spectra – the signatures of the atoms present when the supernova exploded, which bear all the information about the nature of the original blast. The results showed clear absorption of once-ionized silicon and an absence of hydrogen H-alpha emission, findings typical of a Type Ia supernova observed at maximum brightness of its outburst.
The typical source of a Type Ia supernova is a white dwarf star in a close binary system. As the gas of the companion star accumulates onto the white dwarf, the white dwarf is progressively compressed, and eventually sets off a runaway nuclear reaction inside that eventually leads to a cataclysmic supernova outburst. However, Type Ia supernovae with luminosity both brighter and fainter than 'normal' have recently been reported, resulting in the understanding of supernova outburst mechanisms coming under debate.
In order to explain the diversity of the Type Ia supernovae, the Subaru team studied the outburst mechanisms in more detail, and discovered that the Tycho Supernova Remnant is asymmetric. "An asymmetric explosion could be the effect of the detonation itself (how the flame propagates) or it could be already triggered by the asymmetric mass transfer from a companion star in a Ia explosion," Krause tells Astronomy Now. The characteristics of this explosion resembled closely that of the known aspherical explosion of SN 2001e1, which lead the team to the conclusion that Tycho's supernova also exploded asymmetrically. "The jury is still out about the exact explosion mechanism of type Ia Supernovae," adds Krause. "It could be triggered by mass accretion onto a white dwarf or the merging of two white dwarfs. The two possibilities might be reflected in a luminosity difference."
Follow-up comparisons with template spectra of Type Ia supernovae found outside our Galaxy confirm Tycho's classification as a Normal Type Ia, and as such, is now the first confirmed and precisely classified supernova in our Galaxy. Type Ia supernovae play an important role as cosmological distance indicators, serving as 'standard candles' because the level of the luminosity is always the same for this type of supernova.
This observational study at Subaru established how light echoes can be used in a spectroscopic manner to study supernovae outburst that occurred hundreds of years ago. The light echoes, when observed at different position angles from the source, enabled the team to look at the supernova in a three dimensional view. For the future, this 3D aspect will accelerate the study of the outburst mechanism of supernova based on their spatial structure, which, to date, has been impossible with distant supernovae in galaxies outside the Milky Way.
"Extragalactic supernovae are so distant that details of the progenitor stars are hidden," says Krause. "That's the reason why observations of historic Galactic supernovae with the help of light echoes become so important: Supernovae in our own Galaxy are so close that details about their progenitors can in principle still be revealed. And using light echo spectroscopy these details on the progenitors can now be compared with signatures of the explosion itself - although it happened long ago."


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The researchers concluded that those who were still smoking three years after quitting drinking showed greater tendencies for meeting the requirements of what's considered alcohol use disorder. Okay, so it seems these survey respondents hadn't officially relapsed—yet—but the results are compelling nonetheless.
Basically, alcoholics might think the cigarettes are keeping them sober, especially in early sobriety, but every drag could be pushing them closer to drinking again. As the UPI story points out, usually treatment facilities or even 12-step programs like AA do not emphasize the powerlessness one might feel over smoking, usually for reasons like my aforementioned cancer versus DUI example. But let's be clear: cancer and all the other risk factors that come with smoking are still really serious and it's worth examining the justification for continuing an activity that so blatantly increases those risk factors.
Rehabs and support groups for alcohol use disorder should stop sweeping cigarette smoking under the rug. I've personally witnessed friends and coworkers in the midst of trying to quit serious nicotine habits and the withdrawal symptoms are jarring. So continuing to operate as if Camel Lights are an acceptable habit to pick up while one is hopefully eliminating the habit of alcohol seems irresponsible and archaic.
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Factor Authentication in Online Banking
Published: Friday, 31 March 2006 02:03
Factor Authentication
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When you set out to choose a bank, you probably look at things like the accounts they offer, how much interest they pay, and how helpful they are to customers when you need to take out a loan or get a mortgage. But in the increasingly online world, in which Internet banking is becoming as commonplace as ATMs, perhaps it's also time to start looking at the security these banks offer you?
In this series we've explored the weaknesses of the common login page. Banks generally use more rigid looking login pages, utilizing your PIN on top of a password in many instances. But what are the flaws in these systems, which can make them as unsecured as any old login page? And what are the security heads of these companies doing to step up to the plate and make logging into your online bank account a more secure thing to do?
In this article, we're first going to examine the holes that exist in the current systems. Then we're going to take a closer look at the options that will soon be available to us to consider, in addition to interest rates and ATMs - the security of our online banking.
The big catchphrase among security experts for tomorrow is 2 Factor Authentication (2FA). This is not the solution to all of the difficulties relating to identity management on the Internet, but it is a big improvement on what's out there right now. We'll put the term 2 Factor in context with other solutions commonly found on the Internet, and discuss what it actually is, and is not.
By way of introduction, 2FA aims to put another barrier between you, a hacker and your bank account. The crux of this is to put this second factor of authentication outside the reach of hackers, oftentimes by making it separate from the computer on which you are entering your data. For example, it might be a use-once code, based on your PIN or distinct from it, that is generated by a handheld computer.
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. First, let's take a look at what's currently keeping (and failing to keep) our bank accounts and other data secure online.
The Current Crop
In our last article, we took a look at some of the security threats that face the ordinary Joe who is logging into online services today. From that you will have (I hope) received a very succinct impression regarding the state of your personal security as you transact online.
Let us take a look at the types of solutions that are being used on the Internet right now, culminating with a look at 2 Factor Authentication.
Single Factor Authentication Solutions: this is where the password is not ciphered or disguised in a manner that protects it from key loggers/screen scrapers, and social engineering techniques such as phishing. We'll be looking at:
The fully transmitted login password
The partially transmitted login password
Scramble Pads
2 (Separate) Factor Authentication Solutions: this is where two factors exist to produce unrelated information as sources for the login process. This means that a password or PIN is entered, plus a separate piece of data that is sourced from something other than the computer.
The Bingo Card (Static Grid Card)
The TAN list
Mobile Phone SMS Password
2 (Combined) Factor Authentication Solutions: this is where the user combines their password and an issued token to produce either a ciphered representation of a password/PIN, or a unique one time password/PIN dispatched through a mobile phone or similar device. In this category we'll be examining:
The Dynamic Grid Card OTP
Electronic Token OTP
Mobile Phone/PDA OTP
Let us begin at the beginning, with that dreaded login box.
Single Factor Authentication
A fully transmitted login password or PIN is about as much use in security terms as a chocolate fire safe, as we outlined in the previous article. This is where the username and password are entered in full in the login box, ripe for the picking. What is most incredible is the number of otherwise prestigious sites that use them.
Does the following look familiar?
It should then come as no surprise that Fraudwatch cites PayPal as the most targeted site on Earth for phishers.
Fraudwatch is a site that monitors a variety of types of online fraud. In PayPal's favor is the fact that they are actually listed in Fraudwatch. I'm aware of many online sites that are targets of online fraud, but their names do not even show up in sites like Fraudwatch.
The cynic in the audience might be moved to say "I wonder why?" But let's not dwell on questions that cannot be answered without a trip down to the libel courts.
Here is another type of business that might be concerned with the protection of its customers:
This is Davy Stock Brokers.
Now, a variant on the theme of looking for another piece of data, but in reality, both the password and PIN are equally vulnerable:
Sites that use these systems are really looking for trouble, because it isn't that difficult to actually download the Web code from someone's site. A program such as WGET will grab every object that it can find in a web site and copy it onto your hard disk. You then have a complete copy of this website, down to the images and copyright notices, and even the phishing warnings! It isn't difficult then to comprehend why phishing has been such a successful attack.
Single Factor Authentication, Continued
Partial Transmission of Passwords/PINs is a step up from the chocolate fire safe - maybe to a hard plastic one. Again, it is very vulnerable to phishing, social engineering of all sorts, and key loggers, which will get the information they want after two or three successful logins. Despite that, it is by far the most used method in online banking today. Effectively, all the data necessary to break the login will become available through attacks on the PC, and instantly available through phishing and social engineering.
Scrabble Pads are a joke! Here, the user looks for the alternative letter that is provided onscreen and enters it in the password box. Unfortunately, all the information required for reverse engineering the password or PIN is on this page. The hacker essentially "has the screen", and the letters that are entered, so where's the security? Take a closer look:
My desktop Trojan with key logger and screen scraper says "thank you very much" to this sort of thing. It offers no resistance to phishing at all, as the password or PIN is the basis of the substitution, the 'cipher key' displayed onscreen.
And Virtual Keyboards are not much better...
As above, my screen scraper can see every button click, irrespective of the 'cipher' that is passed to the server. This also offers no resistance to phishing at all, because if the user has given up the password/PIN, then the virtual keyboard is irrelevant.
2 Factor Authentication Methods
The Bingo Card (Static Grid Card) is a 2 (Separate) Factor Authentication solution and is definitely a step up the security ladder. Look at the following and then I'll explain.
The user is first prompted for a username and password as normal. Then a challenge is received to derive values from the grid card:
Now we have a number of individual factors that determine a successful outcome. This fact renders it very resistant to phishing. The only snag here is administration - each time a set of co-ordinates is used, they cannot be used again or security degrades. This is further restricted by the size of the card, and the amount of data that it can contain.
TAN Lists Transactional Access Numbers (TANs) are considered to be a weaker form of grid card than the bingo cousin above. They are in the 2 (Separate) Factor Authentication solution category. A TAN list is a series of numbers of varying length (chosen by the creators) entered on a card.
A user might be prompted for details as follows (note that this example does not use the TAN list above):
Having entered a username (or number in this case) and password, the user is prompted to select a number from the TAN list and enter it. This is a popular solution in EU countries.
Mobile Phone SMS Passwords are another form of a 2 (Separate) Factor Authentication, in which one-off numbers are sent via SMS to your mobile phone when logging in. The user registers their mobile phone with the site, and at login time, the SMS message is sent containing a password or PIN. The user enters that unique data as a factor in the login process.
This service can be constrained by the ability of the phone carrier to route SMS messages through in a timely fashion, and to provide coverage to the location from which the user is connected to the Internet. Of course, there is also the somewhat relevant point that not everyone owns a mobile phone (surprising, but true!)
2 (Combined) Factor Authentication
2 (Combined) Factor Authentication means combining something that you know, with something that you must produce as a one-time representative value in place of your PIN. This second factor can then be interpreted and verified by the site to which you are connecting. The core idea is that the password or PIN is altered into some form of cipher that is not traceable by anything on the computer.
The two factors usually take the form of a PIN (the something that you know) and a token (the something that you have).
Tokens come in several forms, but are most commonly electronic 'calculator like' devices. These are integrated with common electronic objects such as PDAs, mobile phones and such like, or take the form of plastic cards about the size of a credit card.
The following is a synopsis of the common options. (Please note that the mention of any vendor product is not an endorsement of the product nor an indication of preference on behalf of the author, who is himself involved in 2 Factor Authentication.)
Electronic Tokens: These solutions are very secure. Each user is issued with an electronic token that is designed to go on a keyring, similar to the following:
The user inputs their PIN into the electronic token, which in turn returns a number that is an OTP. This is entered into the site login box and the OTP is validated.
The upside of these tokens is that they provide very good security. The downside is that they are expensive.
2 (Combined) Factor Authentication, Continued
Dynamic Grid Cards: A Dynamic Grid Card is similar to the Bingo Card above, with one important difference: This solution combines the user's password or PIN with information presented on a user screen, and interprets it using a token.
The user is presented with a screen not unlike the following:
The user has a password or PIN, and a token.
In conjunction with screen, token and PIN, a cipher text is derived and passed to the site software for validation.
Mobile Phones / PDAs:
An initiative is currently underway to enable personal electronic devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and the like to generate a cipher text representation of their PIN. The functionality is not unlike the electronic token, and seeks to use existing technology that may already be in the possession of potential users, to reduce costs.
We have looked at a sampling of the current 2 Factor product segment. The uptake of these solutions certainly increases security considerably, and will allow sites to expand the services that are currently available online. There is a sting in the tail however. Given our previous article explaining Man in the Middle attacks, what actual use would a 2 Factor solution be when session hijacking was an issue?
That is the question that the security industry is targeting now.
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Pat McKenna is a Security Consultant and CTO with 2SA Plus, a company specializing in 2 Factor Authentication and matters of Identity Management. He is 45 and has been in the IT business for 15 years, during which he has held many positions, including company director. Prior to a career in IT, he worked in the security and intelligence field. He is proficient with many computer languages, old and new, and has trained hundreds of programmers.
His hobbies are chess and penetration testing, aka ethical hacking.
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TIFF Interview: Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan Talk "The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel"
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Informative documentaries about big corporations are like blockbusters involved in deciphering the manipulation, mind games and control, instead of the usual fights, guns and killing.
Rarely documentaries offer a follow-up, as what else can be said that was not said before?
However, with massive information in hand, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan return after their first eye-opening "The Corporation" that was shot in 2003.
The new one named, "The Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel" may sound like a comedy, however, it is as scary as it could get, clever, concise and shocking. As there are lots to be said after what you may see very soon, I would leave it up to you to learn how advanced Corporations have become in taking over this world completely. My interview with directors Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan will shed light on to so many pressing questions which I am glad they answered in the exact manner you would expect.
This is why I am pleased to present the below coverage for you to go through, learn and get educated. But make no mistake, reading the interview is not the same as watching the film, and it should be seen by anyone who wants to be aware of their surroundings.
MOVIEMOVESME: Why did it take so long, like 17 years, to make the sequel of "The Corporation"?
Joel Bakan: We started in about 2014. That was around the time that we had the 10th anniversary screening of the first film, The Corporation. And what I realized is we had made the first film in order to challenge corporate capitalism. But 10 years later, corporate capitalism was more powerful, stronger than it had ever been. And the problems that we have been looking at, climate change, racial and economic inequality, environmental destruction, the corrosion of democracy, all these problems were even worse. But at the same time, corporations were saying that they were better, that they cared about society now. So, that struck me as a real contradiction and I started to do academic work because I'm a legal scholar, and I quickly thought that this justified doing a sequel, both the book and film, because things had really gotten out of control in terms of corporate domination in the world.
Jennifer Abbott: And I'll just add to that because it's quite a different perspective that, for me, that was… I don't think for any of us, there was an inevitability that we would do a sequel. I resisted the idea, to begin with, partially just because the first film was just such a monster of a film to wrestle to the ground. I went to one of the directors and I was also the editor of that film, and I cut it from 400 hours of footage. So, cutting back into another film that might be similarly huge was not something that I was going to do completely wholeheartedly without a lot of convincing. But then, what happened for me was that Donald Trump was elected. And while in many ways, qualitatively, that really didn't shift too many things, what did shift was that the veil was taken down. There was no longer the pretence that corporations and governments were acting independently, and they were redoing the system in the favor of the plutocratic class before our eyes. And so, that's the moment for me there were compelling reasons to undertake the sequel.
MOVIEMOVESME: The documentary is very informative. How did you get all that information? It is quite impressive.
Joel Bakan: Yeah. I mean, as a legal scholar, research is what I do, and as a filmmaker, the same for Jen, the kind of films that she makes. And so, it was a long process. I mean, we started in 2014 and it was a case of just researching, reading, but also always thinking about the larger narrative and the larger argument that we were making, and thinking very hard about what are some contemporary and compelling stories, whether it's what you're talking about, the algorithm that decides who can get a job, or it's private for-profit schools in Africa. I mean, these are stories that really tell the larger story that we're trying to tell. And so, I mean, in a way, a film like this, it's about so much. It's so broad in its scope that the harder challenge is to think about what not to include because every morning you can pick up the newspaper and 70% of the articles in it will have some relevance to what we're doing in the film.
So, it was really a question of doing lots of research, trying to find those stories that were very contemporary and that might be unknown to people, but that also served a larger purpose of moving the larger argument forward.
MOVIEMOVESME: Based on the concept of this documentary, do you think corporates really want us to succeed or are we just needed to continue to remain a source of labor for them, to continue enriching them?
Jennifer Abbott: Well, I think that's a great question and unfortunately it would seem like they aren't really prioritizing the best interests of most people, even though it would seem that that would be in their best interest because if you have a robust middle class, you obviously have a population that can purchase your goods.
It's very interesting, we interviewed a billionaire venture capitalist named Nick Hanauer and he wrote a little book. I'm not sure exactly the title, the pitchforks are… It has pitchforks in it, anyway. And he speaks about how if corporate capitalist culture continues to deny people a living wage, that that is really only going to lead to an uprising. And that is actually… He argued as a capitalist that it's in their best interest to actually work with us, to work towards a system that is fair for everybody. But sadly, it just seems like the imperative to increase shareholder value, to make a profit supersedes all. And I think that can easily be empirically proven just through statistics that chart the vast inequalities that we see in society today.
MOVIEMOVESME: Jennifer has mentioned earlier that it was massive information, over a thousand hours, but you needed to shorten it. How much more information have you left out of the film?
Joel Bakan: Well, I mean, needless to say in a film like this, as I was noting, I mean, there is so much that could be included. We're talking about everything in this film because the subject matter, literally touches everything; racial injustice, climate, the environment, human rights, safety at work, wages at work, the workplace, the middle class, all of it. It's all in there. And so, needless to say, our job, I think, is to try to create what might be called the meta story, and to make sure that the particular stories that we use serve the purpose of helping move that larger story along. And so inevitably, my hope is that somebody can see something that we left out of the film, either that's happened before in history or that's happening now, or that's happening in the future, and understand how the film's argument and point of view inform that story.
So, needless to say, we can't include everything, but what we can do is provide a framework that will enable people to look at other stories and see where they might bend. So, I think that's our primary goal.
MOVIEMOVESME: Some people may be skeptical about your film or the information you have provided. If you had a chance, what would you tell them? They may think that it's another conspiracy theory being spread by certain individuals.
Jennifer Abbott: I mean, certainly there are some people who will not be receptive to reflecting upon the content of our film, and we can't do anything about that. All we can do and all we… Not all, what we are committed to at the highest level is making sure that we research and fact-check fastidiously. And we did that. And I will say also, Joel wrote a book, The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy, which Joel can speak to personally, but because he did so much research and is such a rigorous scholar and academic, we feel we have a lot of confidence that what we're presenting is accurate, and that's just essential. So, we can't control the viewers who simply have already made up their mind. But, I think that actually, that's a fairly small percentage of the population.
Joel Bakan: Well. I mean, it's the old problem that goes back a long time. Karl Marx talked about it as false consciousness. The way that he talked about it was that the working class didn't construct themselves as a collective force, but simply saw themselves as individual work and that it was necessary, in his view, to create class consciousness, to create a sense of who workers were collectively and what their objective relations were with capitalism. And I think it's always a problem. It's not new to the Trump era, that the way people see the world is very much determined by their social place within it, by the education that they've received, by what their parents have taught them, by what corporations are telling them through advertising and marketing and through being coercive bosses at work, telling them, "Unions aren't good for you," or whatever it happens to be. And that we need to have fewer regulations so we can have more jobs, and unions take away jobs and on and on and on.
Or that, immigrants and migrants are taking away our jobs. So, there are all of these narratives that swirl around and that constitute political action. And I think your question is a really important one because it's hard to know what to do about it, except to try to put more narratives out there that are grounded in truth, that are grounded in reason, and that are grounded in appealing to people's true sense of who they are as human beings. And it's part of the reason why I like working in the medium of film, because unlike an academic article, or even an article in a magazine or a book or whatever, it gets out to a large number of people and it appeals not just to their heads, but also to their hearts and to their feelings. I think as cultural workers, I think we just have to keep doing this and trying to get some semblance of truth into a world that is swirling with falsehoods.
MOVIEMOVESME: A majority of people go to work, come back home, turn on the TV or YouTube, streaming something, browse online and that's their entire life. Do you think that people don't believe that they can achieve something big themselves and are actually the ones helping corporates get bigger and richer?
Jennifer Abbott: Well, there's a lot in that question that we could try and unravel. And one of them would be why is it that many people are feeling complacent, and probably depressed, and not motivated to strive for a more engaged, more meaningful life. So in many instances, it's really not their fault. A lot of people have had very difficult lives, and a lot of people have very difficult lives because of corporate capitalism. So, I feel I have a great deal of compassion for people who are stuck, if you will. But, we have to ask why are… And it's not a new thing either, of course.
Another thing I think that's very important to reflect on is, what is the dominant ideology which is purporting and defining who we are as human beings and what we consider a meaningful life? And for 40 years now, with the rise of neoliberalism or a corporate ideology, we've been taught that we can find meaning through consumption. We are primarily individualistic and out for ourselves. And we have really lost in many arenas, the route to citizen engagement, or even to community engagement. And then of course, on top of all of that, we have an economic system, which is oppressive to so many people. The rise of the gig economy and wages not keeping up with inflation, et cetera, et cetera, and the increasing gap between rich and poor.
So, there's this economic oppression that is overlaid, this ideological layer. And those two together are very potent forces to have to overcome. So, I guess if we look at our film, we really hope that for people that may be in scenarios that you described in your question, that it's a tool for them to understand the world better, and also to know that their situation in many instances is not their fault, and that this is not the way it has to be. So, we hope our film provides the tools to reflect upon society this moment in time, and hopefully inspire them to feel like they can make a difference. They can have a meaningful life. They can aspire to other things.
MOVIEMOVESME: In the United States, the biggest issue is obviously racism and police brutality. But there is also a lack of education, jobs, and a poor healthcare system. While there is a lot to protest about, it seems, only racial issues tend to get people on to the streets. Do you think this also a part of a bigger plan to control people's mind and dictate to them what they can and what they cannot protest about?
Joel Bakan: Yes. I mean, I don't think it's that corporations necessarily are controlling it all. I think it's a very complicated issue as to what gets people into the streets in any given time, and where you are. I mean, for example, in France, people go into the streets over economic issues, student protest, protest for healthcare fairly frequently, and in other places in Europe. But, the United States, not so much. Racial issues tend to get people on to the street.
I think what we try to show in our film is that over the last 20 years or so, there has been some mass protest against corporations. There was the whole Occupy movement and the movement of the squares around the world. There were people activating around economic issues with Bernie Sanders and other politicians. And I think what we wanted to show with the fallout from George Floyd getting brutally killed by police, was that many of these protests were in fact… it was triggered by that event, but the protest quickly expanded to include issues like healthcare, to include issues like why are the police getting so much funding almost like an army with their equipment, while nurses are wearing garbage bags, because there's no money to provide protective equipment? So, there was a way, and there is a way in which these issues of race, of inequality, economic inequality are coming together, connected to some of the issues around economic inequality that Bernie Sanders leveraged. And after him, some politicians like AOC connected to indigenous struggles over land and the environment.
And I think, on the one hand, I completely hear your point, that if we were really thinking rationally, we should be out in the streets every day, because this society is so unjust in so many ways, there are so many things to protest. But on the other side of it, I think people are scared to protest because they're seeing crackdowns on protesters. I think people don't have the time and energy to protest because they're working two shifts just to pay the rent and feed their kids. They're working 16 hours a day, that were not encouraged to protest because we're mollified with consumerism and with watching YouTube, as you suggested. There are all kinds of things that work against citizen engagement where we really need citizen engagement.
So, I guess I would hope to look at the glass being half full rather than half empty and say, when we get a moment where there's a spark, where people are just so angry about the injustice, let's hope and let's try to take that sense of injustice and spread it over all these other issues as well, and show how it's connected to all these other issues. And that's very much what we tried to do in the film, both with COVID and with the George Floyd situation, is to show these are actually bigger problems that reflect bigger problems that have been in place for a long time, and that we really need to address.
The New Corporation has some more upcoming festival premieres:
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Tamar joined as Chief Executive of RSTMH in November of 2016.
Before then she was at Nesta running the Longitude Prize, a £10m science prize looking for a rapid diagnostic test to fight antibiotic resistance. Before Nesta, Tamar founded and ran two social enterprises in global and national healthcare, which continue in her spare time.
She was Director of the social action campaign "Give More" on behalf of one of the Pears Foundation, promoting increased giving of money and time amongst the UK public. Prior to that, she spent 15 years developing and delivering funding strategies for international NGOs, including ActionAid and VSO.
She has an MBA from Imperial College, London and a Masters in Development Studies, following an undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Bristol University.
Tamar is a consultant on fundraising and strategy development, and a guest speaker at Imperial College Business School on innovation and entrepreneurship as part of their MBA and masters in health programmes.
For any enquiries about Small Grants, Medals and Awards, or governance, you can tamar [dot] ghosh [at] rstmh [dot] org (contact Tamar by email).
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Meeting Gordon C. Cook, 42nd President of RSTMH
Professor Cook was President of RSTMH from 1993 to 1995 and has been a member since 1961. He is one of our longest serving members and it was a real pleasure to be able to meet him and talk about the Society.
RSTMH members and supporters reunite at President's Garden Party, as Chris Whitty announced as Honorary Fellow
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Happy Birthday to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
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We sincerely apologize for doing this but you're about to feel old. Today, March 22, is the 30th anniversary of the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze. That means the film you probably loved as a kid is officially starting to find grey hairs, gain weight in new places, and consider a Friday night at home more appealing than going out.
Seriously though, when I think of the 1990s, one of the first things I think about is The Secret of the Ooze. Moreso than its predecessor, the second Turtles movie is quintessential '90s entertainment, complete with Vanilla Ice cameo and song, chirpy upbeat score, as well as Joan Rivers and Ralph Nader jokes. To me, and I assume many of you, it's a film we watched a ton growing up and one that holds a nostalgic place in our hearts. But have you watched it recently? Does it hold up?
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Released March 22, 1991, directed by Michael Pressman and written by Todd W. Langen, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze brings back Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michaelangelo from the first movie (and don't forget the animated series, toy line, and comic books!) and basically picks up where the original left off. Instantly, you're transported back into the world with lots of energetic action and quippy jokes. Even now, jokes like "combat cold cuts" as Michaelangelo swings some sausages still make me laugh.
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Beyond that, the main story is actually very simple and direct. The Turtles and their master, Splinter, finally get wind of the company that created the ooze that created them. As they investigate deeper into their own origins, the evil Shredder reemerges and hopes to use the ooze for his gain. He creates two new mutants, Bebop and Rocksteady Tokka and Rahzar, to fight the Turtles and almost succeeds. With that, The Secret of the Ooze won me over again because it's so direct and simple. Look, I love Marvel movies, DC movies, Star Wars, all of that, but most of the big, family sci-fi fantasy films these days are overly complicated—The Secret of the Ooze isn't. Toxic waste creates mutations, and that's it. No need to go any deeper.
The downside to a simple structure is the film also touches on a few cool character details you wish would have been explored deeper. Like when the Turtles realize their creation from the ooze was basically a mistake. Donatello ponders the meaning of his existence for a few seconds but it doesn't go beyond that. There's also this notion of them as growing boys who are attracted to the outside world that shuns them. It's mentioned, but not fully explored.
Things like that may have given The Secret of the Ooze a bit more depth, but honestly, you aren't watching a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie for the depth. You want jokes, you want action, you want spectacle. And, for its time, The Secret of the Ooze delivers. Considering the main stars are actors in elaborate costumes, it's still impressive to see such distinguishable personalities pull off so much martial arts choreography. No, these aren't the most elaborate or exciting fights you'll ever see, but it's dudes in turtle costumes, so it works. Plus, they're cracking so many football and pizza jokes as it's happening, you barely notice.
There are certain things you do notice with a 30-year lens though. Like the fact that Ernie Reyes Jr.'s character Kino is severely underwritten and acts mainly as a plot device. It's also weird to see that members of Shredder's Foot Clan are almost all white men. The amount of women in the movie at all feels like a pretty big oversight: the recasted April O'Neil (The 100's Paige Turco)—who does far less this time around—and a brief cameo from Curb Your Enthusiasm's Susie Essman early in the film are pretty much all we get.
Overall though, watching The Secret of the Ooze 30 years after its release was a joyous occasion. That the film is still as exciting and funny as I remember speaks volumes about the passion everyone involved put into it. Which is fitting since, before the film even begins, there's a dedication to Jim Henson, whose company worked on the costumes for the film and died soon before its release. It's a film worthy of Henson and perfectly linked to a time and place where Vanilla Ice could spontaneously bust out a diegetic rap song about Ninja Turtles, who then break out into a choreographed dance number. If that's not entertainment, I don't know what is.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze is now streaming on HBO Max.
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The Lion King earns prideful $78.5 million on opening day
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Disney's The Lion King has stampeded the North American box office.
Jon Favreau's photorealistic remake of the beloved 1994 animated classic earned a prideful $78.5 million in domestic ticket sales Friday, notching the 10th best opening-day gross of all time (as well as an overwhelmingly positive A CinemaScore from audiences) in the process.
The film, which features an all-star voice cast including Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Alfre Woodard, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Billy Eichner, Seth Rogen, and returning Mufasa actor James Earl Jones (who also played the part in the original film), is expected to finish the weekend with approximately $175 million in earnings from the United States and Canada. If that projection holds true, the film would land at No. 11 on the all-time opening weekend chart.
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Globally, the film bagged $192 million through Friday, with $111 million from foreign territories. The haul was aided by a massive $81 million take in China, $11.2 million in France, and $8.9 million in Australia. The film stands to gross, even more, when it opens in Japan, Italy, and Hong Kong later this year.
On the all-time single-day chart, The Lion King's gross edges last year's Oscar juggernaut Black Panther out of the top 10, grossing roughly $2.5 million more than the Marvel blockbuster's $75.9 million start at the top of 2018. April's Avengers: Endgame's titanic $157.5 million 24-hour earning holds the domestic opening record. With The Lion King's ascension into the chart, Disney now occupies seven slots on the ranking, including four Marvel titles and two Star Wars franchise entries.
Check back on EW.com Sunday for a full weekend box office report.
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FTC Staff Report on Google: Much Ado About Nothing
Geoffrey Manne — 20 March 2015
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the FTC Bureau of Competition staff report to the commissioners in the Google antitrust investigation recommended that the Commission approve an antitrust suit against the company.
While this is excellent fodder for a few hours of Twitter hysteria, it takes more than 140 characters to delve into the nuances of a 20-month federal investigation. And the bottom line is, frankly, pretty ho-hum.
As I said recently,
One of life's unfortunate certainties, as predictable as death and taxes, is this: regulators regulate.
The Bureau of Competition staff is made up of professional lawyers — many of them litigators, whose existence is predicated on there being actual, you know, litigation. If you believe in human fallibility at all, you have to expect that, when they err, FTC staff errs on the side of too much, rather than too little, enforcement.
So is it shocking that the FTC staff might recommend that the Commission undertake what would undoubtedly have been one of the agency's most significant antitrust cases? Hardly.
Nor is it surprising that the commissioners might not always agree with staff. In fact, staff recommendations are ignored all the time, for better or worse. Here are just a few examples: R.J Reynolds/Brown & Williamson merger, POM Wonderful , Home Shopping Network/QVC merger, cigarette advertising. No doubt there are many, many more.
Regardless, it also bears pointing out that the staff did not recommend the FTC bring suit on the central issue of search bias "because of the strong procompetitive justifications Google has set forth":
Complainants allege that Google's conduct is anticompetitive because if forecloses alternative search platforms that might operate to constrain Google's dominance in search and search advertising. Although it is a close call, we do not recommend that the Commission issue a complaint against Google for this conduct.
But this caveat is enormous. To report this as the FTC staff recommending a case is seriously misleading. Here they are forbearing from bringing 99% of the case against Google, and recommending suit on the marginal 1% issues. It would be more accurate to say, "FTC staff recommends no case against Google, except on a couple of minor issues which will be immediately settled."
And in fact it was on just these minor issues that Google agreed to voluntary commitments to curtail some conduct when the FTC announced it was not bringing suit against the company.
The Wall Street Journal quotes some other language from the staff report bolstering the conclusion that this is a complex market, the conduct at issue was ambiguous (at worst), and supporting the central recommendation not to sue:
We are faced with a set of facts that can most plausibly be accounted for by a narrative of mixed motives: one in which Google's course of conduct was premised on its desire to innovate and to produce a high quality search product in the face of competition, blended with the desire to direct users to its own vertical offerings (instead of those of rivals) so as to increase its own revenues. Indeed, the evidence paints a complex portrait of a company working toward an overall goal of maintaining its market share by providing the best user experience, while simultaneously engaging in tactics that resulted in harm to many vertical competitors, and likely helped to entrench Google's monopoly power over search and search advertising.
On a global level, the record will permit Google to show substantial innovation, intense competition from Microsoft and others, and speculative long-run harm.
This is exactly when you want antitrust enforcers to forbear. Predicting anticompetitive effects is difficult, and conduct that could be problematic is simultaneously potentially vigorous competition.
That the staff concluded that some of what Google was doing "harmed competitors" isn't surprising — there were lots of competitors parading through the FTC on a daily basis claiming Google harmed them. But antitrust is about protecting consumers, not competitors. Far more important is the staff finding of "substantial innovation, intense competition from Microsoft and others, and speculative long-run harm."
Indeed, the combination of "substantial innovation," "intense competition from Microsoft and others," and "Google's strong procompetitive justifications" suggests a well-functioning market. It similarly suggests an antitrust case that the FTC would likely have lost. The FTC's litigators should probably be grateful that the commissioners had the good sense to vote to close the investigation.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal also reports that the FTC's Bureau of Economics simultaneously recommended that the Commission not bring suit at all against Google. It is not uncommon for the lawyers and the economists at the Commission to disagree. And as a general (though not inviolable) rule, we should be happy when the Commissioners side with the economists.
While the press, professional Google critics, and the company's competitors may want to make this sound like a big deal, the actual facts of the case and a pretty simple error-cost analysis suggests that not bringing a case was the correct course.
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@antitrustlemur 21 March 2015 at 8:29 am
While I agree that there has been massive oversimplification and instrumentalization of FTC's "unfortunate slip", I've one small issue with your description of the staff's incentives. They might have been overeager to litigate, but aren't they the ones best positioned (knowledge asymmetry) to judge whether they had a fair chance to succeed?
Geoffrey Manne 22 March 2015 at 5:35 pm
Yes and no, is the short answer. We address some of the incentives facing staff in the context of Section 5 data security cases here (but it is presumably applicable more broadly — with the caveat that the Commission has thus far (as far as we know) accepted 100% of staff recommendations in those cases). And Josh Wright's paper with Angela Diveley (here) is also extremely useful in addressing this question. But regardless, you are right that staff should know best which cases are most likely to succeed. The most obvious problem with assuming that that means staff recommends "winning" cases, however, is that staff also cares about recommending cases it thinks/knows the commissioners will want to bring. And while the commissioners, too, prefer to win cases, it seems likely that they employ a more complex set of factors in deciding which cases to bring (and, of course, must drum up a majority vote to do so).
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SALEM � Oregon lawmakers are weighing whether to crack down on the use of neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides linked to mass deaths of bees and other pollinators.
The increased scrutiny follows a series of high-profile mass bee die-offs in Oregon over the past two years, including a spraying of a neonicotinoid insecticide, or neonic, on linden trees at a Eugene apartment complex last summer that killed an estimated 1,000 bees.
A handful of lawmakers, including Rep. Paul Holvey and Sen. Floyd Prozanski, both Eugene Democrats, are pushing for a full statewide ban on four types of neonicotinoids � dinotefuran, imidacloprid, thiamethoxam and clothianidin � this year.
The policy would broaden a rule adopted last month by the state Department of Agriculture that bans the application of any product with those four ingredients on linden trees and related species, which bloom with highly aromatic flowers that are particularly attractive to bees.
The full ban, introduced as both Senate Bill 882 and House Bill 2589, is the most far-reaching policy out of a series of bills on the issue this legislative session.
Other bills would increase state resources for outreach and education about pollinator health and for research on bee health at Oregon State University. A task force of advocates on both sides of the issue, which met for several months last year, could only reach unanimous consensus on those proposals.
In a public hearing on SB 882 on Monday, Holvey said lawmakers should go further. A ban is needed, at least temporarily, to limit the �unintended consequences� of neonicotinoids, he said.
�We�re using this stuff too much,� he said. �We�re seeing impacts on bees and birds. We�re finding it in our water.�
The ban is strongly opposed by agricultural interests, however, who say they don�t have viable alternatives to neonics to deal with the pests that harm their crops.
If the state implements a ban, farmers would revert to using older pesticides, which were themselves phased out because of the risks they posed to human and bird health, said Jeff Stone, a lobbyist for the Oregon Association of Nurseries, at Monday�s hearing.
Asked what alternative products farmers should use if Oregon implements a ban, Holvey said that a ban could �challenge� the pesticide industry to come up with �a better product, something that is not harmful to the environment.�
�It�s apparent to me that this one is causing harm,� he said.
Bee die-offs are an increasing worry because of a well-documented decline in honeybee colonies in recent years. Such pollinators are crucial to the food chain, responsible for one out of every three bites of food that Americans eat, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Scientists generally agree that neonics can be very harmful to bees and other pollinators at high concentration. The chemicals impair insects� nervous systems and can cause them to lose their sense of direction or to neglect to feed themselves.
But there�s much more debate about whether bees encountering low levels of neonics on plants are at risk. Other factors are also playing a role in the drop in bee numbers, including parasites and loss of habitat, scientists say.
Scott Dahlman, a lobbyist for Oregonians for Food and Shelter, which represents agricultural interests and pesticide manufacturers, said Monday that the recent bee die-offs in Oregon have resulted from individual instances of �misuse� of neonicotinoids.
�That is not the norm,� he said.
It�s unclear whether backers of the neonicotinoid ban have the support they need for a full ban this year. Neither the House nor the Senate version of the bill has yet moved out of a committee.
The European Union instituted a two-year moratorium on some neonicotinoids in late 2013, because of concerns over bee health.
But there�s been a recent backlash from some European farmers, who say alternative treatments are not as effective at protecting crops from pests, and can lead to other environmental harms. The ban has also significantly lowered crop output for European rapeseed, a relative of canola, and corn, farmers say.


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Des Moines, Iowa- March 9, 2022: Today Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-North Carolina), Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) introduced the bipartisan Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2022 into Congress for consideration. The House and Senate companion legislation would add stillbirth and stillbirth prevention to Title V of the Social Security Act — something that has been lacking since the introduction of Title V back in 1935. Every year, 47,000 expectant parents will lose their baby to stillbirth, according to the CDC.
Healthy Birth Day, Inc. the nonprofit organization that created the Count the Kicks stillbirth prevention campaign, helped initiate the legislation after discovering the omission of stillbirth from the most important piece of maternal health legislation in our country. The annual number of stillbirths far exceeds the number of deaths among children aged 0-14 years from preterm birth, SIDS, accidents, drownings, guns, fire, and flu combined. Racial disparities persist, with 1 out of every 96 Black pregnancies ending in stillbirth. Hispanic and Indigenous women are also at greater risk of losing their babies.
The legislation recognizes that stillbirth (defined as the loss of a baby at 20 weeks or greater during pregnancy), and the disparity in those impacted by stillbirth, requires further research, support, and prevention programming. It also calls for evidence-based programs and activities and outcome research to reduce the incidence of stillbirth including tracking and awareness of fetal movements, improvement of birth timing for pregnant people with risk factors, initiatives that encourage safe sleeping positions for pregnant people, screening and surveillance for fetal growth restriction, efforts to achieve smoking cessation amongst pregnant people, community-based programs that provide home visits or other types of support, and any other research or evidence-based programming to prevent stillbirths.
"This legislation is for the hundreds of thousands of expectant parents in this country who have lost a baby to stillbirth. It is a strong, bipartisan effort to acknowledge the silent crisis of stillbirth in this country and that we must do more to prevent preventable stillbirths through awareness and funding. We have solutions to save babies NOW. We are deeply grateful to Congresswomen Adams and Hinson and Senators Cassidy and Merkley for championing this issue," said Emily Price, Executive Director of Healthy Birth Day, Inc.
Healthy Birth Day, Inc. encourages families and maternal health professionals who have been impacted by stillbirth to share their personal stories at StillbirthStories.com and on a variety of Stillbirth Stories social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The goal is to elevate the issue of stillbirth and to put a face to tragic birth outcomes that have long been ignored.
We encourage everyone who supports this legislation to learn more about the bill and reach out to your member of Congress to let them know you support it by visiting bit.ly/StillbirthPreventionAct.
The following organizations have endorsed the bill: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP), Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Every Mother Counts, Healthy Birth Day, Inc., The 2 Degrees Foundation, March of Dimes, Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance, Measure the Placenta, Mom Congress, Moms Rising Together, PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy, Reproductive and Placental Research Unit-Yale School of Medicine, Return to Zero: HOPE, 1st Breath, 2020 Mom, and Star Legacy Foundation.
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Healthy Birth Day, Inc. is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that created the Count the Kicks public health campaign. The organization and prevention campaign were founded by five Greater Des Moines women who all lost daughters to stillbirth or infant death in the early 2000s. The free Count the Kicks app is a powerful stillbirth prevention tool to help expectant parents be more in tune with their bodies and their babies. The free Count the Kicks app has been downloaded more than 180,000 times in all 50 states and more than 140 countries. In Iowa, where Count the Kicks began, the state's stillbirth rate dropped by nearly 32% in the first 10 years of the campaign (2008-2018) and in the first five years the African American rate decreased nearly 39%; all while the rest of the country remained relatively stagnant. Learn more at CountTheKicks.org. We also invite you to learn more about our advocacy work at HealthyBirthDay.org.
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St Mary's Catholic Church in Hokitika, New Zealand, is a Roman Catholic church. It is a landmark on the country's West Coast.

Background
Irish Catholics, mostly miners attracted to the West Coast by its natural resources, made up a large proportion of the area's population. A  Roman Catholic Reserve was designated for the Catholic community in the town's survey, bordered by Tancred, Stafford, and Sewell streets. Church buildings with Saint Mary as the patron saint were built on this reserve in 1865 and, when it soon proved too small, in 1866. In 1912, the former church was in poor condition.

Architecture and construction
The parish building committee resolved on 15 July 1912 that a call be made for tender and specification for a new church. A Greymouth architect, John Thomas Watson, prepared a concept design for the parish in Roman or neoclassical architecture. This was a departure from Gothic architecture that had been prevailing until then, and was guided by the architectural style chosen for the Christchurch Basilica that had been consecrated in 1905. Alfred Luttrell of the Luttrell brothers won the tender for the detailed design and construction of the church, and the Luttrells were guided by Watson's work but introduced significantly different aspects.

The 1866 church was demolished in February 1914. Bishop John Grimes laid the foundation stone on 23 March 1914. The new church occupied the site of the previous church, but with the entrance facing Sewell instead of Tancred Street. The nave of the church was first used on Christmas Eve in 1914. Owing to the outbreak of World War I and funding difficulties, it was not until 1920–21 that the portico and tower were added. The portico is adorned with the Latin phrase Deiparae Virgini Mariae ("Mother Virgin Mary") and the abbreviation D.O.M., which refers to the Latin phrase Deo optimo maximo ("to the greatest and best God").

Internally, the church is simpler and less decorated than its exterior, but this is typical of other neoclassical basilicas built in Canterbury during the same period. The interior includes a large organ and choir loft cantilevered above the nave.

The church was built in double brick, but it was not until 1927/28 that plaster was applied, and the building achieved its final appearance.

Current status
In 2004, the church, which belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, was registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (now Heritage New Zealand) as a Category I structure, with registration number 1705.

Following a structural assessment triggered by the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, the church was closed to the public in June 2012.

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References

Heritage New Zealand Category 1 historic places in the West Coast, New Zealand
Hokitika
Listed churches in New Zealand
1910s architecture in New Zealand
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1928
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in New Zealand

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