We've had a lot of WTF moments with Trump, but this is seriously WTF?! Alright, Mr. Cohen, let's give you a lesson on the Latino population in the United States because, clearly, you need it. And maybe you can pass on this info to your boss.
The Latino population in this country is currently 57 million strong. Of those, ONLY 11 million are here illegally. Which means that there are 46 million Latinos living legally in THEIR country. Every year, 800,000 turn 18 adding to the 12 million Latinos already qualified to vote.
And guess what? The Latino Decisions/ImpreMedia poll found that of the registered Latino voters in swing states, 71 percent don't like Trump. So do we matter? We think YES.
Read how other Latinos reacted to this here.
Meet Mike Chesworth. He loves his dog, Angel.
Look at that face. How could he not?
He loves Angel so much that he decided to throw her a quinceañera.
In a Facebook video, Chesworth said he wanted Angel to live a long, prosperous life. So he promised Angel he'd throw her a quinceañera on the day she turned 15 (in human years).
And they made a grand entrance together.
There was even a bounce house for the canine guests.
Of course, a mariachi was on hand to play a few songs for Angel.
But there was no vals. Angel and her pals had to settle for piñata.
Not the most traditional move, but there probably aren't any dog quinceañera choreographers out there – yet.
(Doggie Birthday Party) Feliz Cumpleaños, Science says we love our dogs like children… some kids are really LUCKY!!!


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I don't know about any of you but as much as I liked the Gladiator, the JT, the J8 or any of the other JK like trucks that have come out over the past few years, the one thing that always bugged me about them is that ultimately, they were in effect - just another JK with a pick-up bed thrown on the back. Not that there's anything wrong with that per se, I've just been wanting to see Jeep come out with something that was more truck than JK Wrangler and fortuantely, they've started to do just that. Thanks to the awesome work of Mark Allen, the Mopar Underground released the gorgeous Jeep J12 Pick-Up at the 2012 Moab Easter Jeep Safari and a years before that, they released the awesome, NuKizer 715! Along with the J12, the NuKizer 715 is by far one of the most beautiful concept trucks that have come out of the Mopar Underground, bar none. Here are a few photos that we took of it at SEMA and Moab. I hope you enjoy.
That thing is a work of art! I love the detail in the door hinges.
I would buy one and drive it.
Dang I love this truck!
They need to make alit to make our JKs into one of those!


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Estalagem
Estalagens são os estabelecimentos hoteleiros instalados em um ou mais edifícios, que, pelas suas características arquitectónicas, estilo do mobiliário e serviço prestado, estejam integrados na arquitectura regional e disponham de zona verde ou logradouro natural envolvente.

Classificação

As estalagens classificam-se, atendendo à sua localização, às características do respectivo edifício e zona envolvente, bem como à qualidade das suas instalações, do seu equipamento e mobiliário e dos serviços que ofereçam, nas categorias de 5 e 4 estrelas, de acordo.

Estalagens de Portugal
Distrito de Aveiro
Estalagem Quinta Progresso - Vale de Cambra (4*)
Distrito de Beja
Estalagem de São Domingos - Mértola (5*)
Distrito de Braga
Distrito de Bragança
Distrito de Castelo Branco
Distrito de Coimbra
Distrito de Évora
Distrito de Faro
Estalagem Quinta Jacintina - Almancil (5*)
Estalagem de São Jorge - Areias de Pera (4*)
Distrito da Guarda
Distrito de Leiria
Distrito de Lisboa
Distrito de Portalegre
Distrito do Porto
Estalagem ViaNorte - Leça do Balio (4*)
Distrito de Santarém
Distrito de Setúbal
Distrito de Viana do Castelo
Estalagem Casa Melo Alvim - Viana do Castelo (5*)
Distrito de Viseu
Distrito de Vila Real

Regiões Autónomas
Região Autónoma da Madeira
Região Autónoma dos Açores

Ver também

 Albergue
 Hotel
 Pousada
 Turismo Rural

Ligações externas
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Estalagens

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Modernisation to passenger checkpoints begin at Munich Airport
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Modernisation renovations are underway at Munich Airport's central security checkpoint at Terminal 2, including the integration of state-of-the-art technology.
Credit: MUC
Renovation work gets under way at Munich Airport's (MUC) Terminal 2 (T2). The central security checkpoint at Munich Airport's T2 is being modernised and equipped with state-of-the-art technology, with completion scheduled for fall 2024. As a result, passengers of Lufthansa and its partner airlines will benefit from faster, more effective procedures and much greater convenience.
Instead of the familiar traditional checkpoints, lanes with innovative technology will be used in the future. First of all, in the week commencing 12 December 2022, Lufthansa's Service Center on Departures level 04 will be sealed off and dismantled to create the required space. A newly designed Service Center will be opened in the southern part of the check-in level. During the renovation phase of the screening lanes starting in January, passengers will be rerouted, and the number of screening lanes will be reduced at times.
Once the work is complete, passengers will benefit from a total of 15 new security screening lanes that meet the highest standards in terms of convenience and ergonomics. The district government of Upper Bavaria, the body responsible for passenger checkpoints at Munich Airport, is installing special CT scanners here.
As well as checking all items of carry-on baggage for solid and liquid explosives, the CT scanners provide the screening staff with a three-dimensional view of each carry-on baggage item on a screen. These new CT scanners mean that electronic devices and liquids will no longer have to be removed from passengers' baggage. All personal items will be placed in large trays at the four preparation points of each lane and returned on a long output conveyor with lots of individual space. Passengers can take as much time as they need, and can even overtake slower passengers. As the modern screening lanes are so efficient, the passenger flow per screening lane can be increased significantly compared with the conventional screening lanes.
From now on, the central passenger checkpoint in T2 is being converted to the new technology in six construction phases. Upgrading of the first three screening lanes in Terminal 1 will start in the first quarter of 2023. In periods with high traffic volume, e.g. at Pentecost or during the Oktoberfest, the renovation work will be temporarily suspended in order to ensure availability of sufficient screening lanes and smooth handling of screening during these busy periods with particularly large numbers of passengers.
Munich Airport will then be the first airport in Germany to be almost entirely equipped with the new security technology and convenient screening lanes.
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Heathrow's passenger results for the first six months of 2022
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Kid Paddle () est une série de bande dessinée humoristique belge créée par Midam en 1993 pour le magazine Spirou  avant de paraître en albums, édités à partir de 1996 par Dupuis. En 2010, Midam autoédite sa série chez MAD Fabrik puis en 2014, Kid Paddle est publié par Glénat qui rachète l'éditeur. En 2019, la série retourne chez son premier éditeur, Dupuis.

Historique

Naissance d'un personnage

Le personnage de Kid Paddle apparaît pour la première fois en  dans le magazine Spirou (), en marge de la rubrique Shazam présentant les jeux vidéo du moment. Son nom n'est pas donné : on trouve juste un texte à côté de l'illustration : . La semaine suivante, on le retrouve, toujours en marge de la rubrique Shazam, dans une illustration où il se trouve séparé de sa console de jeux par divers obstacles sortis de divers jeux vidéo (bombes, piques et monstres). Le texte à côté précise :  Encore la semaine suivante, on le retrouve, toujours en marge de Shazam, complètement emmêlé dans les fils de sa console. MC Sprite, le personnage de Mauricet qui illustrait jusqu'alors la rubrique, le regarde d'un air narquois et commente : . En effet, dans le numéro 2890 du , la rubrique Shazam devient : Pas de Joystick pour Kid Paddle, dont chaque planche illustre un des trois jeux vidéo présentés dans la rubrique par Patrick Pinchart. Mais Midam, qui n'est pas un fan de jeux vidéo, prend cette rubrique comme une occasion de se faire un nom car selon lui : . La rubrique sera par la suite renommée Labo Kid, tandis que les planches de Kid Paddle se font de plus en plus indépendantes de la rubrique elle-même qui disparaît de Spirou à partir du numéro 2992, le . Maintenant, lors des représentations de scènes tirées du jeu vidéo, ce n'est plus le dessin de Kid qui représente le héros, comme c'était le cas auparavant.

Évolution

L'enthousiasme grandissant des lecteurs poussent Midam et le rédacteur en chef de Spirou, Patrick Pinchart, à passer de la demi-page à la pleine page. Puis, après quatre ans d'existence de Kid Paddle, un premier album paraît aux éditions Dupuis. Fort de ce succès confirmé par les ventes de l'album, les ayants droit décident d'exploiter le personnage sur d'autres supports : ainsi, en 2002, le premier Kid Paddle Magazine apparaît, et un an plus tard, une première saison de 52 épisodes présente Kid Paddle dans un dessin animé diffusé sur les écrans de France, de Belgique, de Suisse et du Québec. À l'achèvement de la deuxième et dernière saison, 104 épisodes ont été produits et multidiffusés dans plus d'une vingtaine de pays.

Dans le but de satisfaire les fans de la série, des centaines de produits dérivés ont été créés à l'effigie du héros dans les domaines du textile, de la bagagerie, de la papeterie, des jeux vidéo, du jouet, etc. Pour gérer de manière optimum la licence « Kid Paddle » et veiller à la bonne exploitation des univers créés par Midam, ce dernier crée en 2000, la société Midam Productions et en confie la gestion à son épouse, Araceli Cancino.

En 2004, une série « spin-off » de Kid Paddle intitulée Game Over paraît, mettant en scène l'avatar virtuel de Kid Paddle : « Le Petit Barbare », évoluant dans un jeu vidéo. Pour ce projet, Midam collabore avec Adam Devreux au dessin et s'entoure de divers scénaristes. Le succès de cette série est presque égal à celui de Kid Paddle. Et enfin, en 2009, Midam crée sa propre structure éditoriale et de gestion de droits dérivés. Il s'associe toujours avec Araceli Cancino, ainsi qu'avec Dimitri Kennes, ancien directeur général de Dupuis. Les premières lettres de leurs prénoms donne son nom à l'entreprise : MAD Fabrik. Cette société reprend les droits sur l'ensemble de l'univers Kid Paddle le  et s'appuie sur une gestion centralisée et exclusive de la marque. Le premier janvier 2014, Mad Fabrik rejoint le groupe français Glénat afin de profiter du savoir-faire acquis par ce dernier dans le domaine du marketing.

Le 9 avril 2019, Kid Paddle retourne aux Éditions Dupuis après dix ans d'absence.

Synopsis

Thématique

Cette série présente les aventures d'un jeune garçon nommé Kid Paddle, un gamin d'environ neuf ans fan de jeux vidéo, qui a tendance à confondre les univers de ses jeux avec le monde réel. Il apprécie particulièrement les jeux vidéo et les films « gores », comme il les qualifie lui-même avec délectation. On notera, par exemple, la récurrence des tentatives de Kid, et de ses acolytes Big-Bang et Horace, pour tenter d'aller voir des films qui leur sont interdits à cause de leur jeune âge (des films aux titres prometteurs en matière de répugnant comme La crème anglaise était du pus, La cervelle est vivante ou encore Autopsie sur sujet vivant). Ces tentatives témoignent d'une certaine ingéniosité (comme celle de monter les uns sur les autres en dessous d'un long manteau pour mesurer la taille requise) mais se soldent toutes par un échec, causé tantôt par la maladresse d'Horace, tantôt par les bavardages du caissier, tantôt par une mésaventure en rapport avec le sujet du film.

On notera dans les premiers albums des références à des jeux qui existaient réellement, références qui disparaissent dans la suite de la série.
Ainsi, Kid a pu s'adonner à des jeux comme SimCity, A Link to the Past, Aero the Acro-Bat, Aladdin, Cool Spot, Tiny Toon Adventures, Ecco the Dolphin, Goblins 3, Mr. Nutz ou encore Flashback, jeu qui bluffe Kid par sa technique d'animation, effectivement très avancée pour l'époque et qui fut l'un de ses atouts majeurs.

Personnages principaux
 Kid Paddle : le héros de la bande dessinée et du dessin animé.
 Benji « Big » Bang : un petit génie, ami de Kid, qui invente tout le temps des gadgets, lesquels ne fonctionnent pas toujours. En réalité, lors de ses premières apparitions (premier gag de l'épisode 2) Big n'était qu'un technicien de pacotille mais ses inventions dans les autres épisodes fonctionnent. Au début, il a une autre coupe de cheveux.
 Horace Becquet : un autre ami de Kid, très naïf et qui se retrouve toujours blessé, généralement d'une énorme fracture à la tête. Toujours partant pour jouer à une partie de Rikiki. Contrairement à Big Bang, on ne peut pas dire qu'il soit très intelligent : il mélange souvent des mots plus ou moins faciles (par exemple : dans le tome 7, il mélange ventriloque et vendre des loques).
 Mirador : le patron de City Game (salle de jeux où se retrouvent périodiquement Kid et ses amis), très grincheux envers Kid et ses amis ; il les traite souvent de bande de jeunes (uniquement dans le dessin animé).
 Le père de Kid Paddle : Monsieur Paddle ou P'pa ; il a une existence trop banale au goût de son fils qui l'imagine souvent, dans ses rêveries, en super héros.
 Carole Paddle : la sœur de Kid, qui le prend pour un débile profond et un décérébré. Quand elle « gagne », elle n'hésite pas à étaler sa satisfaction, ce qui énerve et écœure son frère. On ignore si elle est plus jeune ou plus âgée que son frère, mais on peut supposer qu'ils sont jumeaux, vu qu'ils ont la même taille.
 Le petit barbare : c'est le petit guerrier du jeu vidéo auquel joue le héros. Il perd souvent la partie, ce qui lui a valu une BD spéciale du nom de Game Over. Il a une tendance particulière à s'autodétruire, souvent aidé par sa princesse, bien que son destin soit plus souvent lié à la malchance qu'à la maladresse...
 Les Blorks : ce sont des monstres qu'on trouve principalement dans les jeux vidéo de Kid mais aussi dans les films d'horreur qu'il désire voir ou que l'on peut voir sous forme de jouets et autres produits dérivés.

Personnages secondaires
 Radar : le chien de Mirador ; il surveille sans arrêt Kid et ses amis et mord les personnes qui secouent les machines. Kid essaye un temps de l'amadouer avec des biscuits puis abandonne cette idée, faute d'argent. Kid tente aussi d'autres méthodes comme l'envoyer au loin à l'aide d'un punching ball ou l'enfermer toute la journée dans une attraction.
Le grand-père de Kid Paddle : dur d'oreille, il entend tout de travers. Convaincu que Kid Paddle est fleur bleue, il lui offre des jouets tels que Mickey, Babar, Bécassine, Bambi et surtout Rikiki le Canard (voir plus bas). Il est parfois mêlé aux histoires imaginaires de Kid. Ex : dans le tome 8 (Paddle... my name is Kid Paddle), à la page 39, le grand-père de Kid devient le garde du corps de son père ou alors, dans le tome 6 (Rodéo blork), page 3. Il sert à réaliser une petite farce à base de machine à vieillissement accéléré. Bien que son apparence ait changé au fil des albums, il reste moralement le même.
 La princesse : c'est la fille que le petit barbare doit sauver dans certaines pages des Game Over ou dans les jeux de Kid. Généralement, elle cause des problèmes au petit barbare ou se fait blesser à cause de lui (ce qui cause souvent la défaite de ce dernier).
 Max : au départ dans la classe de Carole, c'est maintenant une amie de Kid. Mirador est son oncle. C'est une pro du jeu vidéo. Plus ou moins vêtue à la mode gothique, elle fascine Kid.
 Océanne : grande amie de Carole (on ne la voit que dans le dessin animé tiré de la série).
 Rachel (uniquement dans la BD) : l'autre amie de Carole. Elle organise souvent des soirées déguisées, dans lesquelles Kid a toujours un costume gore (sauf lors de la première soirée, où Kid se déguise en noisette ; on devine d'ailleurs qu'il est un peu amoureux d'elle).
 Pit Bull (uniquement dans le dessin animé) : il tient le rôle du cancre craint des autres élèves de la classe de Kid. Joueur aguerri, néanmoins inférieur à Kid et à Max, tout laisse à croire que Pit est son prénom et Bull son nom (voir l'épisode Horace se surpasse, où la prof' de gym' fait l'appel).
 Eustache : le chat de Carole.
 Rikiki le Canard : Horace est son plus grand fan, mais Kid le déteste. Horace est toujours heureux de prêter à Kid son jeu Rikiki joue aux échecs. Lors du tournoi dans la salle de jeu, il est humilié par Kid qui dit qu'Horace se fait battre par la marée au  de Rikiki à la plage ou qu'il perd au  de Rikiki fait des crêpes. De plus, les meilleurs films de Rikiki sont sûrement Rikiki et la baguette magique, toutefois déconseillé aux moins de 8 ans à cause de scènes pouvant choquer la sensibilité des plus jeunes, ou bien Rikiki au sports d'hiver, et enfin l'inoubliable Rikiki au Far West, sans oublier Rikiki se cache derrière le champignon !
 Kurt Maltdor (uniquement dans le dessin animé) : réalisateur préféré de Kid.
 Joystick Billy : propriétaire de « Planet Zombie », dans lequel on peut retrouver de temps à autre Kid. Il fait son apparition dans le tome 8.
 Augustin Glossaire : le professeur de Kid, il enseigne aussi bien le français que l'histoire en passant par les mathématiques. Il considère les trois amis comme une bande de débiles profonds et n'hésite pas à le leur dire. Dans la série animée, il est amateur avoué d'Amédée Feuillas, poète décédé.
 Le voisin de Kid  : Kid fait toujours de drôles de coups accidentels pour faire peur à son voisin.
 Benjamin Benjamin : le prof préféré de Kid. Il fait toujours en sorte que Kid et sa classe s'intéressent à ses cours en y ajoutant du gore.
 La Prof' de Gym : comme on peut s'y attendre, c'est le professeur de sport de Kid et de ses amis. Elle a un très fort caractère et est particulièrement impitoyable envers les trois garçons, qu'elle appelle souvent « les majorettes ». Ce n'est pas pour rien si ceux-ci ont coutume d'appeler son cours « séance de torture physique », et elle-même «  la prof' d'haltères » ou « GI Jane ». Elle apparaît seulement dans le dessin animé.
 Le garçon avec la mèche blonde (uniquement dans la BD) : ancien ami de Kid. Il est en fait la représentation physique de Midam, l'auteur, dans la BD. Il disparaît à la fin du cinquième album, Alien Chantilly.
 Cindy : la poupée malchanceuse de Carole (Kid s'en sert pour faire des expériences).
 Le directeur de l'école (uniquement dans le dessin animé) : il est assez à cheval sur la discipline.
 Le concierge de l'école (uniquement dans le dessin animé) : il est tout le temps enrhumé et parle tantôt avec un accent campagnard, tantôt avec un accent de « l'Est ».
 Le caissier du cinéma : sensible et bavard, il empêche toujours Kid et ses amis de voir les films qui les intéressent.
 Le boucher : chauve et avec un crayon sur l'oreille, il s'agit d'un personnage qui vend toute la viande que mangent les Paddle. Kid s'amuse quelquefois à dire n'importe quoi sur la provenance de la viande.
 Le voisin du dessous de Big Bang (de son vrai nom Ernestin Tronchard) : il se fait sans cesse bousculer par les expériences informatiques de Big Bang et Kid.
 Dissékator : la prof de bio. Son vrai nom est :  Mendélief (à ne pas confondre avec Dimitri Mendeleïev)
 Amédée Feuillas : poète inconnu souvent cité par Augustin Glossaire (en tant que référence en matière de poésie). C'était un gaucher.
 Zara : petite fille blonde qui est secrètement amoureuse de Kid. On la trouve à partir du tome 12 et elle réapparaît à plusieurs reprises dans le tome 13. Kid la prend pour une pieuvre.
 Frank : Un ami de Carole. À chaque fois que cette dernière essaye de le présenter à son père, ils arrivent au mauvais moment.

Lieux importants
 La maison de Kid : une petite maison tranquille dans une petite banlieue (trop ?) tranquille. Kid, Horace et Big Bang s'en servent souvent comme QG ou comme terrain de jeu (avec son jardin).
 La maison de Big Bang : elle ressemble à un grand hangar. C'est là que se trouve le laboratoire, qui est en même temps la chambre de Big Bang, dans lequel il s'adonne à ses expériences. Elle sert aussi de QG, mais plus pour tester les trouvailles du petit génie. Dans la bande dessinée, il s'agit d'un appartement situé au-dessus d'un paisible retraité, souvent victime des expériences du garçon.
 La maison d'Horace : elle est très semblable à celle de Kid, mais beaucoup moins usitée.
 City Game : une salle d'arcade. C'est le lieu de prédilection du trio : ils y passent le plus clair de leur temps en s'adonnant à leur activité favorite, qui n'est plus à citer. C'est la salle dont Mirador (et Radar son chien) est le tenant.
 Planète Zombie : c'est la boutique de jeux vidéo, de figurines de Blorks, de revues spécialisées dans le « gore », plus simplement de tout ce qui intéresse Kid. C'est là que travaille « Joystick » Billy.
 L'école : c'est là que nos héros passent leurs heures perdues à travailler. Subtilités des poèmes d'Amédée Feuillas, étude des oiseaux maritimes, mathématiques, autant de matières indigestes que Kid et Horace fuient. Étant donné son intelligence, cela ne pose guère de problèmes à Big Bang. Dans les dessins animés, la salle de biologie de Dissékator sert souvent d'annexe au laboratoire de ce dernier.
 Galactic Park (uniquement dans le dessin animé) : un parc d'attractions apprécié de Kid et ses amis.
 Le monde virtuel : le monde dans lequel vit « Le Petit barbare », les Blorks, ou plus largement celui des jeux vidéo.
 Le parc (uniquement dans le dessin animé) : un lieu assez apprécié des trois copains, surtout de Horace pour les balançoires (la girafe et le lapin), qui sont l'objet d'une de ses passions.

Running gags récents
On retrouve des running gags apparaissant fréquemment dans les livres, parmi lesquels:
 L'onomatopée "bunk", utilisée pour un coup sur la tête.
 Les séjours d'Horace à l'hôpital, notamment dus à de mauvaises manœuvres dans la salle d'arcade.
 Les tentatives de regarder un film interdit pour mineurs, se soldant toutes par un échec.
 L'arrivée de Frank au mauvais moment (à partir du tome 12, Panik Room, par exemple lorsque le père de Paddle répare l'évier.
 Les ruses utilisées contre Radar pour le distraire dans la salle d'arcade.

Succès
Depuis la parution du premier album, Jeux de vilains en 1996, plus de 6 millions d'albums de Kid Paddle (en langue française) ont été vendus. D'après le site officiel de Midam, « en comptant le nombre d'albums vendus et la pléthore de produits dérivés, ce sont plus de  qu'il aurait dû transporter ». Le neuvième tome, Boing ! Boing ! Bunk !, sorti en 2004, s'est classé  vente de cette année ci, avec , le dixième tome, Dark, j'adore !, fut quant à lui,  vente de 2005, année de sa sortie, avec , il reçut aussi le prix Canal J du meilleur album jeunesse au salon de la BD de Nîmes.

En plus de cet indéniable succès d'édition, le nom de Kid Paddle est immortalisé en sciences par un entomologiste (Yves Gomy) qui lui dédie une espèce de Coléoptère Histeridae de Tanzanie : Hypocaccus kidpaddlei. Par cet acte le descripteur devient à son tour un personnage, croqué par Midam sous les traits de « Papy the Bug ».

Évolution graphique
Depuis sa première apparition dans Spirou, en 1992, et ce même entre sa première et sa quatrième apparition, le dessin de Kid a changé : les personnages, proportionnés à l'origine, ont progressivement évolué vers le dessin actuel, où la tête est disproportionnée par rapport au corps. De plus, d'abord coiffé d'une casquette rouge, il la troquera pour une casquette verte, ce qui serait un hommage à feu le chat de Midam ; en effet, nommé Gambit, il était roux et portait un collier vert, tout comme donc Kid, qui porte généralement un marcel orange et une casquette verte.

Publications en français

Revues
 Le Journal de Spirou (1993-2002)
 Kid Paddle Magazine (2002-2011)

Série principale

 Jeux de vilains (1996)
 Carnage total (1996)
 Apocalypse boy (1997)
 Full métal casquette (1998)
 Alien chantilly (1999)
 Rodéo blork (2000)
 Waterminator (2001)
 Paddle... My name is Kid Paddle (2002)
 Boing ! Boing ! Bunk ! (2004)
 Dark, j'adore ! (2005)
 Le Retour de la momie qui pue, qui tue (2007)
 Panik room (2011)
 Slime Project (2012)
 Serial Player (2014)
 Men in blork (2017)
 Kid N'Roses (2020)
 Tatoo compris (2021)
 Silence of the lamps (2022)

Hors-série
 Compil gore (2009)
 Kid Paddle Monsters (2010)
 Kid Paddle cherche et trouve (2012)
 Daddy cool (2022)

Séries dérivées

Game Over

 Blork Raider (2004)
 No Problemo (2006)
 Gouzi gouzi gouzi (2008)
 Oups! (2009) (scénarios de Midam et gameoverforever.com)
 Walking Blork (2010) (scénarios de Midam et gameoverforever.com)
 Sound of Silence (2011) (scénarios de Midam et Patelin)
 Only for Your Eyes (2011) (scénarios de Midam et Thitaume )
 Cold Case, affaires glacées (2012) (scénarios de Midam et gameoverforever.com)
 Bomba Fatale (2012) (scénarios de Midam et Patelin)
 Watergate (2013) (scénarios de Midam et Thitaume )
 Yes I can! (2013) (scénarios de Midam et Patelin)
 Barbecue royal (2014) (scénarios de Midam et gameoverforever.com)
 Toxic Affair (2015) (scénarios de Midam et Patelin)
 Fatal Attraction (2016) (scénarios de Midam et Benz)
 Very Bad Trip (2016) (scénarios de Midam et Patelin)
 Aïe aïe eye (2017) (scénarios de Midam et gameoverforever.com)
 Dark Web (2018) (scénarios de Midam et Valerian)
Bad Cave (2019) (scénarios de Midam et Thitaume )
Beauty Trap (2020) (scénarios de Midam et Patelin)
Deep impact (2021) (scénarios de Midam et Patelin)

Grrreeny

 Les carnets de Grrreeny :
 Sors tes griffes pour ta planète (2010) (Prix Collégien du Musée des Confluences de Lyon 2011)
 Série principale :
 Vert un jour, vert toujours (2012) (Prix du Livre Environnement 2012 de la Fondation Véolia)
 La nature est un cadeau (2013)
 Habitons bio ! (2014)
 Green anatomy (2016) (contient la description officielle de deux espèces d'insectes: coléoptères Histeridae)

Adaptations

Série animée

La série a été diffusée dans l'émission Total BD sur la chaîne Canal J.

Film
En , il est annoncé qu'une adaptation cinématographique des aventures de Kid Paddle et de ses amis était en cours de production par le studio de production Bidibul Productions avec à l'écriture l'un des créateurs de la série SODA, David Soussan, un des scénaristes de la série David Doussan et l'acteur Kev Adams.

Jeux vidéo
Kid Paddle est également décliné sous la forme de plusieurs jeux vidéo pour les consoles Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS et Wii :
 Kid Paddle (Game Boy Advance)
 Kid Paddle: Blorks Invasion
 Kid Paddle: Lost in the Game
 Kid Paddle: Puzzle Monsters

Les jeux de cartes
Un premier jeu de cartes est lancé par Éditions Atlas, Blorks Attack. Le but est de détruire le « Petit Barbare » de son adversaire grâce à de terribles « blorks » et des cartes « matos » pouvant renforcer l'attaque, le tir ou la défense. Le jeu comprend également des cartes « surprises » ainsi que des figurines des personnages de Kid Paddle ayant des pouvoirs spéciaux.

Le premier fascicule contient 30 cartes sont des cartes « blorks », des cartes « matos » et la figurine de Kid Paddle. Il contient aussi un tapis de jeu, les règles du jeu, un poster et des pions. Le reste des fascicules comprennent entre autres de nouvelles cartes, une boîte de rangement, les figurines du Petit Barbare et de Horace.

Un second jeu sort en 2012 édité par La Haute Roche. Game Over Le jeu est illustré par Midam et créé par Jérémy Peytevin. Ce jeu se base un peu sur le principe du Mémory, jeu de mémoire où le principe est de reformer des paires éparpillées, le but étant de former tout un chemin à travers blorks invincibles et autres obstacles jusqu'à sa princesse. Chaque joueur place sa carte « Petit Barbare » sur son point de départ. Ensuite, le plus jeune joueur commence, il choisit une arme (massue, poison, pistolet ou arc), puis retourne une carte adjacente à la sienne. Si la carte retournée est un Blork qui ne peut être vaincu avec l'arme choisi ou un Blork invincible, c'est Game Over. Le joueur retourne toutes les cartes face visible et c'est au joueur suivant. Dans le cas contraire le joueur peut continuer son exploration : prendre une autre arme ou garder la même et retourner une autre carte adjacente à la sienne. Si un joueur arrive à avoir face visible simultanément une clef et la princesse de sa couleur, c'est gagné.

Romans
Il existe également plusieurs romans racontant des épisodes du dessin animé.

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
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Articles connexes
 Midam
 Mad Fabrik
 Game Over
 Grrreeny

Liens externes
 Le site officiel de Midam

Série de bande dessinée belge
Bande dessinée franco-belge
Série Dupuis
Série MAD Fabrik
Série publiée dans Spirou dans les années 1990
Série publiée dans Spirou dans les années 2000
Série publiée dans Spirou dans les années 2010

Canard dans la bande dessinée
Bande dessinée sur les jeux vidéo


In the spirit of setting new goals and making positive changes as we start the new year, we're putting together a mini-series of posts on "New Year's Resolutions with LastPass". Our little tips and reminders will contain simple steps that help increase your online security in 2012, and ensure you get the most benefit out of the features LastPass has to offer to improve your digital life.
First up, let's take stock of the data stored in your LastPass account with the LastPass Security Check! Located in your LastPass Icon under the Tools menu, the LastPass Security Check analyzes the passwords stored in your LastPass account.
When you open and run the Security Check, you are given a score from 0 to 100 and ranked amongst LastPass users who have taken the test before, based on such factors as the strength and uniqueness of your passwords, the number of passwords stored in LastPass, and the use of multifactor authentication with your account.
You might be surprised by the results - most people underestimate the number of logins they have stored, and the number of old passwords still lurking there.
If you've run the Security Check before, you will see a graph charting the history of your performance over time - hopefully showing improvements as you've continued to use LastPass!
Take a minute today to run the Security Check and review your numbers. We won't get into the work right now of raising your score, but let's use it as an opportunity to see how your passwords are doing, and see where there are some areas for improvement. Do you have a lot of old logins with old, simple passwords? Are you still using the same passwords across multiple sites?
If you answered "yes", or just generally see room for improvement, our upcoming posts will help you up your score and get back on track!


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"Designed in California" is the new "made in Italy" according to Design Museum exhibition
Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 May 2017 2 comments
Skateboards, Snapchat Spectacles, an early Gay Pride flag and a self-driving car sit side by side in a new Design Museum exhibition that explores how California has become the new centre of the design industry.
Called California: Designing Freedom, the exhibition documents the American west-coast counterculture movements of the 1960s, and looks at how they fed into today's technology scene in Silicon Valley. It opens today at London's Design Museum.
California: Designing Freedom documents counterculture movements of the 1960s and their influence on Silicon Valley
Curators Justin McGuirk and Brendan McGetrick set out to explore the cultural cachet of the phrase "designed in California", which they saw increasingly used to sell products.
"It seemed really surprising to me that no one had done a show about contemporary Californian design," McGuirk told Dezeen. "If you think about 'designed in California' – which is the phrase Apple uses on all their products – this is the contemporary equivalent of 'made in Italy', but for a world of devices."
The exhibition design is informed by geodesic domes, a favourite form of architecture among hippies in the 1960s and 70s
The curators' view is that a common thread links Californian design from the 1960s through to today: the idea that it can provide people with the "tools of personal liberation".
This is exemplified by the Whole Earth Catalog, a 1960s knowledge-sharing magazine that served as something of a predecessor to Google or Wikipedia. Its editors published information they hoped would help people live self-sufficiently and holistically, particularly when building their own communities.
Among the significant objects in the exhibition is Google's self-driving car, now branded Waymo
The magazine is featured in the exhibition, along with relics from other early tech-minded counterculture groups like the Homebrew Computer Club, the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, architecture collective Ant Farm, the Burning Man festival and the Woman's Building.
The exhibition also tells the story of major companies like Apple, whose founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak met at the Homebrew Computer Club and went on to start Apple in Jobs' parents garage in the 1970s.
Skateboards and skateboarding paraphernalia also come in for attention from the curators
"What happens is when the commune movement dies out in the 1970s, these ideas start to get taken up by the hacker movement and the computer geeks, and they start to frame what they're doing with computers in the same way," said McGuirk.
"The computers are tools for empowering people, helping people communicate, helping people make things, and that is an ethos that continues to run through Silicon Valley today."
The exhibition includes an eight-coloured version of the rainbow Gay Pride flag stitched by Gilbert Baker in 1978
Among the significant objects in the exhibition is Google's self-driving car, now branded Waymo and on display for the first time in the UK.
There are also hand-drawn sketches from the Apple archives, protest posters from the 1960s, an eight-coloured version of the rainbow Gay Pride flag stitched by Gilbert Baker in 1978, early editions of Californian technology magazine Wired from the 1990s, video of Douglas Engelbart's 1968 "mother of all demos", and site plans for the new campuses of Apple, Google and Facebook – which the curators compare to the communes of the 1960s.
One of the newest objects is a pair of Snapchat Spectacles from 2016
Among the contemporary California-born gadgets on display are Snapchat Spectacles, the Amazon Echo, and fitness trackers Jawbone and FitBit.
The exhibition design is informed by geodesic domes, a favourite form of architecture among many hippie movements in the 1960s and 70s.
The exhibition continues at the Design Museum in Kensington until 15 October 2017
California: Designing Freedom runs from 24 May to 15 October 2017 at the Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street.
The museum moved into its £83-million London home, designed by John Pawson and OMA, at the end of 2016.
Photography is by Luke Hayes.
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Man Gets 600 Years After Years of Sickening Child Abuse
By Michael Austin, The Western Journal October 11, 2020
At a time when the American justice system is under constant criticism, it's nice to see it put a horrible monster exactly where he belongs.
On Friday, federal prosecutors announced that an Alabama man was being sentenced to 600 years in prison for sexually abusing two children for years.
The children were both under 5 years old.
NEW: We've now learned more about the circumstances surrounding Matthew Tyler Miller's arrest. Investigators say they found evidence that Miller sexually abused two children under the age of five. He could face more charges. @wvua23 https://t.co/wiALYomIJ8
— Chelsea Barton (@ChelseaBarton_) February 18, 2019
The Alabama man, Matthew Tyler Miller, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Scott Coogler after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting young children, according to The Associated Press.
Between 2014 and February 2019, Miller had enticed two children to have sexual contact with each other.
According to the AP, Miller's two victims were both as young as 4 when the incidents began.
Prosecutors noted that electronic devices owned by Miller contained as many as 102 pornographic images of the children.
Does the American judicial system work?
He pleaded guilty to the charges in October 2019.
Miller still faces a "state sodomy charge that accuses him of having sex with a child younger than 12 last year," according to the AP.
In a U.S. Department of Justice statement, U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona commended law enforcement and the judicial system for finding justice in this case.
"Child predators seek out and victimize those that are the most innocent and vulnerable — children," Escalona said.
"The sentences imposed today and yesterday in local child exploitation cases reflect the commitment of law enforcement in this district to prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law those who commit crimes against children."
Additionally within the statement, FBI Special Agent Johnnie Sharp Jr. spoke out about the heinous nature of the case, fully condemning Miller and his actions.
"The crimes for which Miller has admitted guilt are not only disturbing, they are sickening, and his actions robbed these children of their childhood," Sharp said.
"I am proud of the work of the FBI on this case, and I applaud the sentence handed down today, as Miller will spend the rest of his natural life behind prison bars."
Before left-wing activists totally upend the American judicial system that took decades to build up, they should take note: When it comes to the worst monsters in society, the system still does its job.
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Michael Austin, The Western Journal


Cheesy Sausage Hash Brown Bake – Real ingredients, real good. No cream of chicken soup, made with sour cream, fresh eggs, real cheese and ground sauage. Favorite family breakfast!
Do you ever get an insatiable urge for something? I loved that hash brown casserole that you'd find at potlucks. I stopped making it because I refuse to buy the canned cream of chicken soup or any canned soup for that matter. I've been trying to cut out lots of processed foods.
We still eat some but I try to find a happy medium. Canned soups are out the window. I don't miss them a bit.
Anyway, I had such a desire for this that I decided to come up with my own version. It was delicious. Everyone wanted second helpings. There was a small bit left and everyone wanted it.
We decided to fight it out. Guess who won? Me, of course!
Heck, I cooked it! At least I shared some of it.
Just teasing! Don't we moms love to feed and please our hungry little monkeys?
Hope you'll like this rendition of hash brown casserole. Happy chow down.
Brown sausage for 5 minutes over medium heat, crumbling as you brown.
Add chopped onion. Continue cooking until sausage is thoroughly cooked and onion is translucent. Drain.
Put hash browns in medium bowl. Add sour cream, cheese, eggs. salt and pepper. Stir until combined.
Add sausage/onion mixture. Stir until combined.
Spray a 3 qt baking dish. Spoon mixture in.
Crush cornflakes. I do this by putting in a quart size sealed bag and crushing with the side of a meat mallet.
Add melted butter to cornflakes.
Sprinkle cornflake/butter evenly over sausage hash brown mixture.
Spray a 3 qt baking dish.
Add onion. Continue cooking until sausage is thoroughly cooked and onion is translucent. Drain.
Put hash browns in medium bowl. Add sour cream, cheese, eggs, salt and pepper. Stir until combined. Add sausage/onion mixture. Stir again until combined.
Spoon mixture into 3 qt dish.
Add melted butter to cornflakes. Sprinkle cornflake/butter evenly over sausage hash brown mixture.
This is going on the Christmas morning breakfast list.
Awesome. Good idea. Hope you like it!


Multinational hotel chain, Radisson Hotels, is a testament to the power of solid and consistent customer satisfaction. As the Radisson continues to grow internationally as well as locally to North America, they remember their defining mission. By provided first-class consistent service at all Radisson Hotels, they will continually grow and further meet the customer's satisfactions. With over four hundred hotels currently and about one hundred more planned, they hope to reach over six hundred properties by 2015. Such an optimistic future plan is backed by a history of substantial growth and solid expansion since their foundation. Expanding to key locations throughout the United States has thus far been a very successful investment for the franchise.
Internationally, they are part of a substantial tradition of venerating the style of the 1960's and under the Carlson parent company, is a substantial section of over eleven hundred hotel properties. Along with Radisson are the Park Inn and Park Plaza franchises which do just as good a job as the Radisson for filling all the properties in almost eighty countries. The Radisson Hotel chain stands out though as its future is shining the brightest. It hosts a powerful group of amenities that are often overlooked by other Hotel Chains and are available to you. All of this is bolstered by their patented "Yes I Can" service spirit which empowers employees to go out of their way to improve your stay.
For example, the first thing most hotels aren't concerned with backing up is your experience with their service. Radisson's first and foremost goal is ensuring you never have to rely on their one hundred percent guarantee which they offer to all guests in the event they are not pleased with their stay. To this end, they offer the 3 Hour Express Laundry, Late Checkout, Free Internet, Business Class, Meetings Success, Grab and Run, Online Price Guarantee, and Express Checkout. This assortment of amenities, services, and packages are available to everyone should they need or choose to use them.
Recognizing that business travelers need more than an extra comfy bed and a warm place to shower, Radisson offers the 3 hour express laundry which will ensure your laundry is washed, cleaned, dried, and available for you no more than three hours following your dropping it off. Furthermore, the Free Internet service and Business Class accommodations will ease you into the trip much more realistically by allowing you to keep connected should you need to. Finally, should you need to stage a meeting, and then Meetings Success is a collection of cutting edge and top quality presentation and research facilities that will give you the leg up in your proposal. Then, of course, if you need to spring out of the hotel in a hurry one morning, you're always welcome to snag a coffee along with water and quick breakfast-on-the-go snacks so you won't be late.


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Meme is Now Available to Watch on AppleTV, Amazon, and from 4MileCircus
"Making Meme" is a series of blog posts about the long process of taking a project from an idea to a completed feature film. I made a lot of mistakes on the way and learned a lot of lessons, but I also had a lot of fun and got to work with a lot of wonderful people throughout the process. These posts are presented in the hopes of helping others in their struggles to make a film.
– Sean Mannion, Writer/Director, Meme
Read this series in order from the beginning
After our extended break and shooting the film-within-the-film it was time to come back together to get the final scenes of Meme. We decided to return to Nicole Solomon's apartment, where we'd shot most of Beneath the Black Moon to use it for 3 separate locations.
The quote of the day for Day 17 of production was: "There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story. — Frank Herbert"
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With turning Nicole Solomon's apartment into two different characters' apartments and faking a white cyc studio Day 17 became the final day of principal photography. We wouldn't be shooting any more scenes from the script after this day, though we had already discussed the need to get some additional footage around Brooklyn to establish the setting a little better and potentially create a bit more connection between certain scenes.
While shooting in Nicole's apartment for Beneath the Black Moon hadn't really been any trouble we soon ran into a major issue while shooting for our final day: Reggae music.
Reggae music is fine. It's not among my personal favorite forms, but I don't hate it. Except I hate it a little when we're trying to shoot the final day of my film and someone is blasting it loud enough in a courtyard that you can hear it on the fifth floor like someone is standing by the window with their stereo.
Like with the kids on Day 10 (mentioned in Part 12 of this series) there was nothing we could do about the music. People have a right to play their music. We didn't have permits. Worse even than the kids, we didn't know where it was coming from and it was constant. The music persisted for hours and it was a problem for our dialogue heavy scenes.
For this day we were shooting four scenes. Material that appears on the mysterious "Meme" tape that Jennifer finds and then Jennifer's interactions when she finds these people who were on the tape. We got the material for the tape easily. Characters Danielle (played by Tara Cioletti) and Craig (played by Matt Addison) were able to do their monologues without much interruption. It's when it came time to shoot the scenes between the characters that the music started.
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What do you do in a situation like this? Trying to find the person was just unlikely to work out and the truth is the acoustics of the courtyard behind Nicole Solomon's building meant they didn't even really have to have it up that loud for it to be disruptive to our shoot. We could cancel the day, but then we'd have to recast Danielle as actress Tara Cioletti was about to move to England for school. Also, it would have been a waste of the money and time spent on transportation and food. We decided to roll with it and get as much as we could.
Most of the dialogue we shot in the scene between Matt Addison and Sarah Schoofs was unusable. That was clear as we were doing it. So, we did the same thing that we did on Day 10 when we concerned about the kids. We had Matt and Sarah go to a quieter part of the apartment and we recorded all the lines there. A sort of ADR on the fly. We didn't do this with Tara right away as we were hoping we wouldn't need it.
We took lunch between shooting Matt's scene with Sarah and Tara's. We took a little more time with it and hoped the Reggae would stop. It didn't. So, we dove into setting up another room and getting ready to shoot their scene together.
During lunch and setup of the last scene I had a notion about how to salvage the scene between Sarah and Matt in the edit. We'd intercut the scene we'd shot with the subsequent scene where Jennifer is watching Craig on the tape. We could then use the usable audio from the earlier part of the day. We had then two possible ways to make that scene usable. We were hoping we wouldn't have to do as much with Tara's scene.
And the Reggae continued through our first takes of Tara's end of the conversation. We got what we could in mediums and close-ups and then moved on to Sarah's side. As we finished setting up to shoot Sarah's end of the conversation the music stopped. So did we. Was it over? We waited a moment and then Peter looked at me and asked if we should try and flip back and reshoot Tara's side again. We did and we got one more take per angle on Tara.
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We finished shooting Sarah's side of the scene and that was the end. With the exception of doing some pickups and possibly shooting commercials for our in story Wotan Lager brand of beer, the film was shot, it was done. Principal photography was wrapped. We'd made a movie.
In the next entry we'll cover our pickup day and shooting the Wotan Lager commercials and where we were at that time with post-production.
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⟵Making Meme Part 15: Shooting the Film Within the Film
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Creston is an unincorporated community in southeastern Wirt County, West Virginia, United States.  It lies at the confluence of the Little Kanawha River and the West Fork Little Kanawha River on West Virginia Route 5, southeast of the town of Elizabeth, the county seat of Wirt County.  Its elevation is 653 feet (199 m).  Creston had a post office, which closed on June 25, 2011. The community was named for a drainage divide near the town site.

Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.  According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Creston has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.

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Unincorporated communities in Wirt County, West Virginia
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Girl,17, killed by the obsessed and abusive ex she complained about .
Home 2018 October 4 Girl,17, killed by the obsessed and abusive ex she complained about .
Police have identified the victim as 17-year-old Lashonda Childs of Dayton, who once complained about her killer.
LaShonda's ex-boyfriend, 28-year-old Trendell Goodwin, was arrested Tuesday evening and charged with felonious assault. They started dating last September, according to LaShonda's mom, Nina. .
Shortly after, LaShonda realized Goodwin was not 20, as he initially told her, and Goodwin started showing concerning behavior. Around January and February, Goodwin bit LaShonda hard enough to draw blood, according to Nina. .
Even after they broke up, Goodwin continued to reach out to LaShonda. "She was really in the process of leaving," said her brother, Jaylon Childs. LaShonda filed for a protection order, but Nina said it was never served because Goodwin kept avoiding it.
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ABC: Simone Biles, Rashad Jennings, Normani Kordei & David Ross are the final four on this season of Dancing with the Stars and Sonic is there to pump up the intensity. Cue used here is Age of Tomorrow by Proofsound off of Volume 92: Machines Have No Conscience.


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Kikuletwa hot springs is a natural warm water pool located just outside Moshi municipality in Tanzania. It is part of a small river and has crystal clear water that is heated by volcanic activity, as well as a blue bottom. The water itself is not exactly hot but rather warm when compared to that in the surroundings, thus enabling beautiful fish to live inside. In some places, there is hot water that can be seen constantly rising from the underground water ways, giving the impression of boiling water.
The pool itself is quite large and over 5m deep in some areas. All this adds up to a rather beautiful environment that everyone should at least get the chance to experience. Kikuletwa hot springs has a campsite next to it that also doubles as a picnic or parking area, however use of this area as a campsite is at your own risk.
Kikuletwa hot springs is located in a secluded area far off the tarmac roads around Boma Ng'ombe district of Kilimanjaro region. The hot springs are in the middle of a semi - arid area, however the springs themselves are surrounded by thriving greenery, mostly trees, giving them the appearance of an oasis in the middle of nowhere. There also is a small village nearby.
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Studies from all four corners of the globe have been collated by the World Happiness Database in Rotterdam, offering a few answers to questions we have on achieving happiness. One of the most surprising revelations from the data is that there is a slight negative correlation between the amount of times people mentioned goals during the studies and their happiness.
While many of us would assume that clearly defined goals would lead to happiness, there has been mixed evidence. Professor Ruut Veenhoven (Director of the Database) believes this is because unhappy people are more aware of their goals as they are seeking to make their life better.
Another intriguing result is the lack of correlation between seeing a meaning to life and being happy. Studies reveal that leading an active life, and being 'involved' leads to happiness far more so than seeing a meaning to life.
You are more likely to feel happy if you think you are good looking (irrespective of your actual, objective beauty).
People who drink in moderation are more likely to be happier than those who don't drink at all.
Having children will lower your happiness levels, but they will increase again when they grow up and leave home.
If you want to learn more about what will make YOU happy, why not speak to a life coach? For more information on how they could help, please see our Personal Development page.


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Son of 98-year-old COVID-19 survivor urges public health compliance in Saskatchewan
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'We need it now': Experts say at-home coronavirus tests critical to fight 2nd wave
Where are Canada's rapid at-home coronavirus tests?
Infectious disease experts have been asking themselves — and public health officials — this for months.
"If every Canadian had that in their medicine cabinet, we might be able to test our way out of this," said Colin Furness, an infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto.
"The stakes are high. We really do need it now."
But like any medical test, there are hurdles to cross before getting a stamp of approval. Experts believe the benefits would be significant and that those benefits are underscored by Canada's coronavirus resurgence.
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Questions about reliability of Canada's newly approved rapid COVID-19 test – Oct 1, 2020
Swabbing at home
On this specific front, the United States is one step ahead of Canada.
On Tuesday, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) authorized its first rapid test that can be performed entirely at home and deliver results in 30 minutes.
The single-use test kit, from California-based Lucira Health, allows users to swab themselves to collect a nasal sample. The sample is then swirled in a vial of laboratory solution that plugs into a portable device. Results are displayed as lights labeled positive or negative.
According to company-run trials, Lucira's coronavirus tests were able to accurately detect 94.1 per cent of infections, as well as 98 per cent of healthy, uninfected people.
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The test currently requires a prescription, which will likely limit its initial use, but Furness is hopeful for a wider approval. He said at-home tests have the ability to not only assist busy public health agencies but also help keep businesses and schools afloat.
"We have to think of it like a screening tool, a magic thermometer," he said. "It doesn't provide you a diagnosis but it tells you something's wrong."
Health Canada has approved more than three dozen different tests for COVID-19. Only six of them are "point of care" or so-called rapid tests.
None of them are at-home or self-testing kits.
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Many of these tests have gotten a "bad rap" because they're considered less sensitive than lab-based tests, said Dr. Prabhat Jha, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto, and director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael's Hospital.
The "gold-standard" COVID-19 tests (PCR tests) need to be processed in a lab and usually take at least a day to provide results. Rapid tests can be processed on-site — sometimes in just a few minutes — but are generally less reliable.
Health Canada requires rapid tests to meet a minimum standard of 80 per cent sensitivity or accuracy before their application can be approved.
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Jha believes there's too much weight being put on this threshold. He believes an effective home testing strategy is a critical part of Canada's response to the second wave of the virus.
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"Making them available to nursing home staff, for example, would be worth it. Sure, there'd be some you miss, but you could substantially reduce the number of people who are showing up positive at a nursing home, asymptomatically," he said.
"We don't have to let the perfect be the enemy of the possible."
Approval delays
Health Canada says it has not yet received any applications for at-home tests to be approved in Canada.
However, Federal Minister Patty Hajdu confirmed Wednesday that Health Canada has reached out to Lucira Health and ask them to submit their test-kit for evaluation. The agency later told Global News in an email that it has "proactively contacted numerous manufacturers" of at-home tests in the U.S. to have them apply to the Canadian market.
"The whole world is looking for tools that can help us on the screening side and on the testing side," said Hajdu. "As soon as there's a rapid test with a certain degree of sensitivity and accuracy, of course, the regulators will approve that test. At the end of the day, you can't rush science."
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Furness isn't of the belief the science is slow in this case. He says there are unique hurdles self-testing devices face, the first being the testers themselves.
The big problem with at-home tests is whether people without any medical training can accurately screen themselves and interpret the results, he said.
Home pregnancy tests, for example, were subject to years of scrutiny before the FDA and others approved their use in the 1970s.
Clinical studies by Lucira Health show 100 per cent of users aged 14 and older were able to run the single-use test kit properly.
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Furness is skeptical of those results.
"People aren't necessarily as good at creating a sample out of their own heads," he said.
"The effectiveness of the test is going to be very heavily dependent on the competence of the person drawing the sample."
Gaps in testing
Past rhetoric from Canada's top doctors might also be to blame for the lack of at-home test candidates in Canada, Furness said.
He suggested the federal government "sent the wrong signals" to technology and innovation communities when rapid tests first came into the pandemic-psyche.
Throughout the summer, Dr. Theresa Tam and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed back on pressure to approve rapid tests, despite versions of the antigen test being used in Japan, Britain, the U.S. and parts of the European Union at the time.
They later walked back their stance, acknowledging they wanted to see more concrete data on the methods. But "we don't really know what damage they did by being so adamant," said Furness.
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Tam said Friday that Canada has mobilized more than 3.8 million rapid tests in recent weeks, but noted that more can be done. She suggested at-home tests, specifically, should be taken with caution.
"We welcome the submissions, but we haven't yet received one and got satisfactory information from the manufacturers, or we need to test in clinical terms," said Tam.
"A negative test under any of those circumstances doesn't necessarily mean you don't have the virus. So some of these tests might need serial testing. Those are the parameters we're going to have to look at."
Furness put it plainly: "Health Canada's got their priorities wrong."
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He said Canada's "biggest blind spot" right now is asymptomatic transmission. With broad testing being withheld in Ontario and backlogs being reported at testing centres in much of the country, "even a low sensitivity test would still be enormously useful," he said.
"If we could take the proportion of asymptomatic transmission and cut it in half, we would really put a dent in transmission," said Furness.
"Given the sh-t show we're in, we don't need high sensitivity to move the needle."
He used Ontario schools as an example. The province currently requires only those showing COVID-19 symptoms or a confirmed contact with someone who tested positive to get tested. That test is a definitive diagnostic test, a PCR.
"That's all Ontario has right now. There's a huge gap," he said. "There's the teacher before they go to work. The kid before they go to school. The parent at drop-off."
"We could be and should be putting this test into everyone's hands, constantly screening themselves. We need to do better than, 'Hey does your kid have a fever and a cough?' because that's a really weak way to do screening right now."
–With files from the Associated Press and Global News' David Akin
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