The sanctuary dedicated to the Madonna is perched high on the Pizzo San Angelo 800m above sea level. Said to be the first on the island to be dedicated to the Madonna. Its name refers to its position from the Arabic Jebel, meaning mountain or hill. The name translates literally as Mountain of Manna. Manna is a sweetish substance, collected in the months of July-August from the Mountain Ash trees which grow in the area.
The monastery attached is believed to be one of the six earliest Benedictine communities of coenobites founded following the wishes of Gregory the Great in the 6th C, passed into the hands of the Capuchin Friars Minor in 1535. The present building is the result of numerous remodelling, especially in the Baroque period, the façade was added in 1907.
The shrine is the destination for the devout pilgrimage on the 8th September, people will come fro all over the Madonie.
There is a ornate Baroque alter containing a stature of the Virgin, probably the work of Antonello Gagini done 1534 at the behest of hermit Brother Guiliano da Placia. The alter made in 1684 originally intended for the Cathedral in Palermo.
Next to monastery in a building previously used as a stable and guest quarters is a small museum, dedicated to the life and culture of Capuchin friars in the area of sacred vestments and religious paintings on display and other objects relating to their everyday life.
Down in the catacombs there are rare reliquaries in painted tin or wood made by the friars.


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The 22 Best Horror Books of 2022 Are Full of Real and Imagined Frights
As our real world perma-crisis wears on, horror has become the the go-to genre for interrogating the sprawling avenues of contemporary dread.
By Neil McRobert
Sarah Kim
It's a testament to the craft and imagination of horror writers that a year of make-believe terrors have kept pace with the global news cycle. Full-scale war has returned to Europe, Covid lingers like a malevolent specter, bad actors continue to undermine liberal democracy, and the shadow of climate collapse looms over all. Surely even the most hardened horror reader should be saying, "Please, no more," and reaching for the nearest celebrity memoir.
And yet, I can say without any hesitation that 2022 has been a banner year for scary stories. Horror is as buoyant as it has been in decades, and the range and reach of contemporary tales is magnitudes greater than at any point in the genre's history. Horror is not merely flourishing despite the real world perma-crisis—it's become the genre-of-choice to interrogate and explore the sprawling avenues of contemporary dread.
Brutal home invasions and bestial masculinity, drug-induced hauntings and malign misinformation, frozen wastes and sun-thrashed American borderlands: this year's dark catalogue offers a nightmare for every taste and tolerance. Now, as the winter nights draw in, it's time to look back at the highlights from a year of reading frightening things.
All the White Spaces, by Ally Wilkes
The poles play host to a short but classic canon of horror stories. H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness (1936) is the ur-text, Dan Simmons' The Terror (2007) is the opus, and we should take a moment to pay respect to Michelle Paver's superlative Dark Matter (2010). All the White Spaces borrows from each of them, but Wilkes' grueling epic is uniquely committed to unpacking the sub-genre's chauvinistic myths. When the Fortitude sails for Antarctica in the last gasp of the Golden Age of Exploration, it's a cauldron of bubbling toxic masculinities. Jonathan Morgan, a stowaway and trans man, sees his faith in the ideal of adventurous brotherhood come apart in the face of cold, hunger, and whatever hostile strangeness lurks out on the ice. The novel contains all the gritty, muscular details that makes stories like this so grimly enjoyable, but at the same time, it deconstructs those very same tropes. The inclusion of various queer identities is a masterstroke. It distinguishes All the White Spaces from other Antarctic fiction, offering a bleakly heartening suggestion that, in times of hardship, prejudice can give way to compassion and collaboration.
Echo, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
From one frigid haunt to another. Heuvelt's Echo is a very weird ghost story about a cursed mountain in the French Alps. When Nick Grevers returns as the sole survivor of an expedition gone wrong, it appears he's brought more than frostbite down from the peak. Nick's boyfriend Sam struggles with both Nick's hideous disfigurement (an element that Heuvelt addresses with refreshing frankness) and the creeping sense that something uncanny has attached itself to their lives. Cue a return to the mountain and an array of uncanny events, including creepy birds, unnatural suicides, and the worst vertigo imaginable.
Echo is often fragmentary, jumping around in time and place with disorienting spryness. At times it feels almost Lynchian in its weirdness. Yet Heuvelt strings it all together with references to classic horror stories and anchors it in the honesty of Sam and Nick's relationship. Plus, it has to be noted that the book opens with a scene so frightening that you will forgive some mid-plot meandering. You may also be very worried next time you need to get up to pee in the night.
Such a Pretty Smile, by Kristi DeMeester
So much horror centers on the beastliness of men, but few recent novels have literalised the monstrosity of misogyny with quite the finesse of Such A Pretty Smile. DeMeester's novel is the most vicious of social satires masquerading as a serial killer thriller. Every fifteen years a predator known as The Cur emerges in the American South to kill "bad girls," those women who dare to transgress the limitations of accepted feminine behavior. The murders are animalistic, highly-sexualized acts of savagery, and though little of the extreme violence takes place on the page, the references alone are enough to tip the book from thriller into outright horror territory. Across dual timelines we meet artist Caroline and her thirteen-year-old daughter Lila, who both experience uncanny episodes hinting at a link with The Cur. At this plot level, Such A Pretty Smile works well as a keep-you-guessing thriller full of weird dreams, creepy sculptures, and unsolved murders. The climax, however, slides into an uneasy space between literal violence and metaphor. This is where DeMeester's novel really screams its intention, with implications that reach far beyond any single showdown between a young girl and a violent man.
Manhunt, by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Manhunt is a provocative book. From a cover design that's enough to make the average man cup himself in panic to the gratuitous violence and scenes of cold human cruelty, Felker Martin's novel is out to make you wince—and think. In a near-future world, a plague transforms men into ravening almost-zombies, intent on rape and death. Women gather and militarize to survive. The reader follows a trio of trans characters who must thread the needle of this gender apocalypse, avoiding violent death at the hands of the feral men while staying one step ahead of fascistic TERFS, who see trans women as bombs waiting to explode. A book that involves the eating of raw testicles to maintain hormonal balance can never be described as subtle, but Manhunt is an ingenious reframing of the gender argument. It's a book that almost no one will finish without finding something that shocks, appalls, or angers them, but anyone with… ahem… the balls to tackle a truly transgressive horror novel will find much to savor.
And Then I Woke Up, by Malcolm Devlin
Malcolm Devlin's novella is another askance look at infection and zombification, though in this case, it centers on the question of who is the victim, and of what. In an unspecified city somewhere in Australia or the US, monsters explode into the streets to do what such creatures do. In turn, survivors fight for their lives with absolute prejudice. So far, so Romero. It's hard to talk in any detail about how Devlin twists and breaks the typical zombie narrative without spoiling one of the cleverest conceits in recent horror. Suffice to say that the author takes a scalpel to the post-truth era. As we follow the protagonist Spence after his "cure" and rehabilitation, And Then I Woke Up becomes a harrowing confrontation with the consequences of disinformation. It may be less than two-hundred pages long, but Devlin's novella manages to pack a thought experiment, a polemic, and a moral reckoning into the skin of a genre that just will not die.
Burn the Plans, by Tyler Jones
I remember the first time I read Stephen King's Night Shift. How amazed I was by the breadth of imagination in those short stories, a series of little pocket universes brought to life in just a few pages! Burn the Plans made me feel exactly the same way. Taken together, Tyler Jones' stories are a manifesto for how horror can move, disturb, amuse, and devastate. The opening story's bloodthirsty office politics read like Kafka on bad acid. "The Devil on the Stand" and "Boo" are both pitch-black comedies about misperception, while "Full Fathom Five" is a treatise on art that combines Clive Barker's intricate grotesquery with the punchy nihilism of Chuck Palahniuk. "Trigger" is the stand-out, however. A tale of rural brutality and brotherly love, it reads like something whispered in a bar late at night by a one-eyed man with interesting tattoos and a worrying number of scars. Many of the stories in Burn the Plans end on a downer; the collection could be subtitled, "abandon all hope ye who enter here." But these stories are written with such heart and humanity that you close the book feeling refreshed, confident that horror still has much to offer.
The Hacienda, by Isabel Cañas
There have been several recent attempts to unshackle horror from its white European roots. In 2020, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic blew the doors off with an unambiguously Latinx take on the domestic gothic story. This year, Isabel Cañas' The Hacienda is even more successful in relocating and recontextualizing the haunted house. Set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, The Hacienda follows Beatriz as she moves into her new husband's sprawling estate. Once isolated, she's at the mercy of both human cruelty and supernatural menace. Rumors of her predecessor's untimely death are an obvious and unashamed reference to Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, but Cañas' treatment of the occult elevates her revision into something much more frightening. In particular, the character of Padre Andres introduces "hot priest" vibes, blurring the lines between the colonial influence of Catholicism and a local magic that is older, wilder, and dangerous. The result is a book that manages to scratch readers' Romantic itch while still delivering genuinely nasty frights. Latin Gothic has made much headway in the last few years, and The Hacienda is at the very forefront of the charge.
Hidden Pictures, by Jason Rekulak
Not every horror novel has to emotionally destroy the reader; sometimes the genre can just be fun. It's a lesson that Jason Rekulak seems to have learned well. As publisher at Quirk Books, he was responsible for such idiosyncrasies as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Grady Hendrix's Horrorstör. Now, Rekulak brings the same breezy tone and pictorial flourishes to his own tale of Mallory and the strange little boy in her care. Teddy looks like a normal kid. Sure, there are certain rules he lives by (no photos) and he loves the color purple, but there's little cause for concern until Mallory sees his drawings. What begin as typically childish scrawls become more graphic and disquieting, as if something is trying to communicate through her young charge. Rekulak reproduces these images in Hidden Pictures, carefully positioned for maximum effect as little paper jump-scares. It's a neat conceit that makes the novel far more memorable than its twisty plot would otherwise allow. If that sounds like damning with faint praise, I'm not. Hidden Pictures is a low-stakes joy, a novel that seems designed to be read at the side of a pool with a drink in your hand and a smile on your face. It's the horror book to buy for someone who says they don't like horror.
Fairy Tale, by Stephen King
Is Fairy Tale really a horror novel? Possibly not. It's a big-hearted fantasy, a shaggy dog story about an aging hound and the all-American boy determined to save her life—even if it means traveling to another world. So maybe it's not horror in the truest sense, but it's by Stephen King, it features cannibalistic giants, gladiatorial death-matches, and an elder demon from another reality—oh, and it's brilliant. Only a true pedant would take it off this list.
As ever, King pays scant regard to plotting, structure, or any of the principles that govern the writing of mere mortals. In a six-hundred page novel about a magical otherworld, we spend nearly half in suburban Illinois following young Charlie Reade as he takes care of Radar, a lovable German Shepherd owned by the elderly and distinctly unlovable Howard Bowditch. It's a weird, low-key story with a charm you can't quite put your finger on. We shouldn't care. We should be skimming pages impatiently wondering why King is telling us about Radar's eating habits or Charlie's dad's struggle with alcoholism when THERE'S A GODDAMN PORTAL TO ANOTHER DIMENSION IN THE GARDEN SHED! When the fantasy/horror element does arrive, it's as weird as you'd expect from King. The decaying fairytale wasteland of Empis feels like a whimsical outpost of his larger multiverse (with a surprising resemblance to the video game Elden Ring). It's a fun place to spend time, with plenty of dark diversion, but maybe the true magic of King's writing is that I found that dusty Illinois house just as magical.
Mary: An Awakening of Terror, by Nat Cassidy
Horror rarely addresses menopause. There are lots of scary stories about female puberty and even more that detail pregnancy and childbirth, but few authors seem interested in the other great threshold of a woman's life. How interesting, then, that the person willing to tackle the topic in 2022 is a white millennial man. Nat Cassidy is not unaware of how this looks—he confronts his suitability for the subject in the afterword to Mary—but still, it's hard to read the book and do anything but applaud his audacity.
Mary is a book unlike any other: a serial killer thriller that's half ghost story and half possession horror, featuring a labyrinthine mansion and a desert-dwelling cult. It's stuffed to the last of its five-hundred-plus pages with scenes of body horror, psychosis, and bloody ghosts haunting bathrooms. Despite the fulsome horrors on display, Cassidy still manages to weave in the strangely affirming narrative of a woman coming to terms with the fact that "she is no longer the girl, no longer the lover, no longer the mother." What she eventually finds herself to be will leave readers grimacing and punching the air in triumph. Mary is a late-life coming-of-age horror that shines a necessary light on a neglected character type through black humor and scenes of gloriously gross carnage.
The Clackity, by Lora Senf
Children love horror too. It's part of the fabric of their lives—after all, we used to send kids to sleep with tales of cannibalistic witches and mermaids whose every step was agony. Take a look at any middle grade bestseller list and you'll find all manner of macabre and distressing incidents. In The Clackity, Lora Senf embraces her young audience's appetite for the dark stuff, but like the best kids' entertainment, it's equally compelling for older readers.
Evie is a young girl living in the "seventh-most haunted town in America." She's grown used to the ghosts, but when her spirit-sensitive aunt goes missing, she must travel into a strange otherworld to retrieve her. There, Evie encounters a sequence of houses, each offering their own horrific challenges and all overseen by the titular demon. With penny-eyed ghosts, a century-old serial killer, and a house made of bones, The Clackity has all the potential nastiness and dreamlike logic of the grisliest fairytale. But Senf smuggles the fear inside such charm and whimsy that you can easily close the book not realizing how dark the journey has been. I read a lot of horror, often of the most nightmarish type, but The Clackity contains a degree of existential terror that inspires a newfound respect in me for younger readers' ability to handle the worst.
Reluctant Immortals, by Gwendolyn Kiste
At first glance, Reluctant Immortals could be misconstrued as pastiche: one of those collages that pits famous literary characters against each other, like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or Penny Dreadful. In truth, it's much graver than its synopsis and dayglo cover would suggest.
In the dying embers of the 1960s, the two "forgotten women of Gothic fiction"—Jane Eyre's Bertha Mason and Dracula's Lucy Westenra—live an immortal life, fearing that one day their respective adversaries will return. Of course, they do! Rochester is a particularly vile creature—a Ted Bundy/Harvey Weinstein concoction who runs a harem of bewitched slaves from his sleek LA mansion. Kiste's depiction of the malign power of bad men is as striking now as it ever was. She presents the conflict as evidence that the battle of the sexes has been waging without change for centuries. That may sound like heavy stuff, but in fact, Reluctant Immortals manages to have its bloody heart and eat it. The references to classic horror fiction are fun to spot, and the plot races at pace without ever becoming too burdened by the seriousness of the subtext. I mean, what's not to love about Victorian goths running amok in the Summer of Love?
Ghost Eaters, by Clay McLeod Chapman
"Do you wanna get haunted?" This question runs like a refrain through Clay McLeod Chapman's punk contribution to the vogue for fungi-focused horror. In this case, the shrooms are a major ingredient in Ghost, a hallucinogenic so strong that it allows you to see the dead. When Erin loses her friend-cum-boyfriend to an overdose, the opportunity to contact him in the beyond leads her into a spiral of obsession and substance abuse. Ghost Eaters is a desolate ride through the suburbs and harsh nightclubs of Richmond, Virginia, where the ground is so haunted that soon Erin has little respite from the newly-visible dead. And these ghosts are all-too physical and very eager to follow you home. Chapman resurrects the stoner angst of '90s alt-culture, channeling Douglas Copeland, Chuck Palahniuk, and other miserabilist postmoderns. It's Trainspotting meets Requiem For A Dream, rewritten as an avant-garde horror movie soundtracked by Nine Inch Nails. There is hope, but it's hard to find among scenes of affectless despair and empty friendships. There have been many horrific books written this year, but few can rival Ghost Eaters' commitment to making its audience feel bad.
White Horse, by Erika T. Wurth
In recent years, Indigenous North American horror writers have been busy expanding the genre. As well as introducing an array of "new" monsters, entities, and myths, writers like Stephen Graham Jones, Rebecca Roanhorse, and Cherie Dimaline have reconfigured how the Native is represented in contemporary horror fiction. White Horse is Erika T. Wurth's contribution to this re-reckoning, and it's an edgy delight.
Kari is a memorable protagonist: an urban Indian who spends the majority of her time in Denver's famous White Horse bar listening to heavy metal, reading Stephen King, and showing a distinct lack of interest in the Native culture and community. After Kari discovers a bracelet belonging to her dead mother, a dark force from tribal lore enters her life and dreams. What could be a predictable story of reconnection and family secrets is actually something much weirder. Wurth constructs a winding narrative that combines potboiler beats with an off-kilter, dreamlike atmosphere. For a long time, Wurth keeps the reader unsure exactly what White Horse is really about; instead you're invited to just enjoy spending time in Kari's dysfunctional, haunted life. When the resolution does come, it blends the supernatural with a more mundane, but no less awful trauma. You're blindsided, but satisfied. White Horse distinguishes a gritty new punkish outsider voice in American horror.
House of Hunger, by Alexis Henderson
House of Hunger begins in a deceptively innocent mode. Early scenes set in the Dickensian slums of an imaginary city are more reminiscent of urchin-goes-on-an-adventure fantasy than horror. However, once young Marion Shaw boards the "Night Train," traveling north to the titular house, the book blooms into a full-bloodied Gothic.
Marion has been employed as Bloodmaid to the Countess Lisavet. It's a novel spin on both the vampire mythos and the enduring infamy of the real historical figure Elisabet Bathory (who was said to murder girls and bathe in their blood). Though Lisavet's sins are not quite so blatant, there's still an atmosphere of menace that pervades the second half of the book. Henderson deftly subverts reader expectations, hinting at hideous secrets while also charting the growing affection and attraction between Marion and her mistress. A vein of class struggle runs beneath the skin of the novel, with lifeblood becoming a literal symbol of what the rich take from the poor. At the same time, like many of the best horror novels, House of Hunger works on both an allegorical and literal front. Sure, you can mine it for Marxist undertones, but you can also luxuriate in the lush prose, the erotic charge, and the skill with which Henderson crafts an entire world from a single house.
The Hollow Kind, by Andy Davidson
The best horror is rooted in everyday struggle. No matter how outlandish the greater premise, it's the quotidian details that make you believe in and care about the characters. Few authors this year have managed this balancing act better than Andy Davidson. The Hollow Kind is part cosmic horror, part ghost story, and a whole lot of Southern Gothic, but it's anchored in the flora, fauna, and industry of the Georgia woods.
Davidson maps the rise and fall of the Redfern family, a dynasty founded ostensibly on the turpentine business, but in reality, their success hinges on a hideous bargain with something in the woods. The book leaps from the family's 1920s heyday to a contemporary narrative focused on Nellie and her son, the last Redfern descendants. When Nellie returns to the family manse, it's clear that something is wrong with the place. Bats circle overhead, a dead bear appears and disappears overnight, and the foliage around the house is behaving strangely. This is all compelling stuff, but the real meat of the novel is found in the historical chapters, including one scene of retributive violence so thrilling that I felt appalled by my own excitement. The Hollow Kind is a classic piece of Southern Gothic literature: dense, baroque, and rooted in the history of the land. Faulkner and Lovecraft would both approve.
Curse of the Reaper, by Brian McAuley
Just when you think that the well of meta-slasher-horror has finally run dry, a book like Curse of the Reaper comes along to show that Scream is not the last word on the subject. After decades of playing The Reaper in a long-running series of slasher movies, Howard Browning is appalled to hear that he will be replaced by the young, in-vogue Trevor Mane. As Howard's mind begins to crumble, the character of The Reaper comes to the fore, with violent consequences. McAuley excels at balancing the psychological against the supernatural, but he's even better at satirizing the Hollywood machine. The author puts his experience of the screenwriting game to good use in a biting commentary on horror fandom, franchise culture, and thespian hubris. You're never sure whether to root for Howard as a bastion of standards in a degraded creative industry or to pity him as a man whose self-regard is at odds with his body of work. Curse of the Reaper is a very funny book with some of the best "bad scriptwriting" ever committed to page. But when McAuley turns to horror in earnest, he goes hard.
A Child Alone With Strangers, by Philip Fracassi
Simply put, A Child Alone With Strangers is one of the most affecting horror novels I've read this year. It's a blending of genres—part crime thriller, part creature-feature, part ghost story—about a young boy kidnapped by a group of very bad people. They hole up in an isolated woodland cabin, where they soon discover that something else waits and wants them gone. I say "soon discover," but actually, the novel takes its sweet time bringing the disparate threads together. Instead, Fracassi treats us to long establishing sequences in which we get to know and almost accept each of the kidnappers, despite their various indecencies. When all hell finally breaks loose, you're left completely unmoored as to who to root for. The criminals are monstrous yet human; the monster outside is lethal but relatable; and even Henry, the kidnapped child, has his own agenda. Any confusion is resolved in a moment so tender and painful that I was still rattling with empathy days later. Fracassi's storytelling is clearly influenced by Stephen King's penchant for meandering tangents and psychic children, but A Child Alone With Strangers surpasses any easy comparison. It's horror with a big, broken heart.
Screams from the Dark, edited by Ellen Datlow
A handful of landmark horror anthologies have been published this year, but Screams From the Dark is hands-down the best of them. Ellen Datlow remains the most dependable compiler of horror stories in the game, and here she has collected a genre-spanning set of tales that examine monstrosity from every conceivable angle. The highlights are too numerous to catalogue, but standouts include "Devil," Glen Hirshberg's bar-room tale of things that scream out in the Tasmanian wilds, and Nathan Ballingrud's witchy fable, "Three Mother Mountain." A.C. Wise's "Crick Crack Rattle Tap" melds the horror of postpartum depression with an especially unsettling urban legend, while Indrapramit Das' "Here Comes Your Man" reconfigures Peckinpah's Straw Dogs for a West Bengal setting. It's a trauma dream of masculinity, both toxic and imperiled.
Datlow saves the best for last, though, with John Langan's "Bloedzuiger." This novella blends the authentic history and invented lore of Langan's Hudson Valley home, "in whose valleys and on whose slopes and peaks, in whose streams and rivers and under whose ponds and lakes, dwelled mystery and wonder and terror." I don't know if it's possible to read that sentence and then look away. "Bloedzuiger" alone would make Screams From the Dark a must-read, but almost every single story included is a winner.
Jackal, by Erin E. Adams
Thomas Wolfe famously wrote that we can never go home again. In Jackal, Erin E. Adams argues that, although you can, you may not wish to. This novel of provincial prejudice and ritualized violence takes place in Adams' real hometown of Johnstown, Pennsylvania—a place that she, like her protagonist Liz, clearly has conflicted feelings about. In the fictional Johnstown, summers are marked by the disappearances of young Black girls taken into the forest by something the townsfolk murmur about, but never confront. When the daughter of her best friend is taken, Liz is forced to delve into the history of the town, where she discovers that this has been happening for a very long time.
In many ways, Jackal is a perfect pairing with Kristi DeMeester's Such A Pretty Smile, refining a similar thesis about male savagery into a specifically racialized atrocity. Though, like DeMeester's book, Jackal's final reveal may be too abstract for some tastes. Also, Adams seems similarly eager to free her heroine from the need to be good or abide by rules of nice engagement. Liz is troubled, patronizing, and often hostile; in casting unfair suspicion on every white character in the book, she complicates what could otherwise have been an overly simplistic tale of Black victimhood. In the end, the real star of Jackal is Johnstown itself—all dark hollows and wooded valleys, hiding secrets and troubling memories.
The Dark Between the Trees, by Fiona Barnett
British folk horror excels at portraying the elusive magic and malevolence of the land. It's baked into the genre. Everything from The Wicker Man to Andrew Michael Hurley's The Loney builds a bridge between the natural and the unnatural world. Fiona Barnett's The Dark Between the Trees was an out-of-nowhere surprise that picks up this baton and runs with it. Across two timelines, we follow a pair of expeditions into the myth-riddled Moresby Woods. One group is comprised of sixteenth century soldiers fleeing a battle; the other is a collection of five present-day women searching for answers to the mystery of the missing soldiers. Neither group finds anything but torment amidst the trees, and Barnett constructs a nice parallel structure in which similar events befall both groups. Their respective reactions show how little human beings have changed across the centuries.
Equally, the stories of witches and monsters that prowl Moresby Woods are told in both timelines, hinting at an older, inaccessible root truth. "Which came first," one character asks, "the dismal wildness of inaccessible place, or the ghost stories? Surely in this place they were now too intertwined to tell." This spooky variation on the chicken-and-egg question distills the essence of folk horror as a genre and foreshadows the Möbius strip logic of Barnett's final revelation. The Dark Between the Trees is folk horror of the most classic kind, refreshed for the new century.
Anybody Home?, by Michael J. Seidlinger
True fear, Michael Seidlinger suggests, is the sound of "the stranger's footsteps on the hardwood floors at midnight." Reading Anybody Home, it's hard to argue that ghosts, zombies, or any manner of monster could hold their own against the terror of home invasion. That said, it takes quite some time to get to the palpable horror of Seidlinger's novel. For many, many pages, he camouflages the madness to come inside the cold, neutral tones of a seasoned home invader talking a potential protégé through the secrets of the craft. When the violence is finally released, with the detached instruction to "go torture some victims," the book plunges into all-out hell. Anybody Home owes much to its cinematic antecedents, particularly Michael Haneke's Funny Games. You could argue that the novel doesn't do anything that the film hasn't done already, including reversing focus onto the audience to ask, "What are you getting from this?" I would argue, though, that where film cements a single image, however awful, the fiction opens up infinite possibilities for horror. The only limit on extremity is your own imagination. When the suffering comes in Anybody Home, you'll want to turn away from the images in your own head.
Neil McRobert Neil McRobert is a writer, researcher and podcaster, with a specialism in horror and other darkly speculative topics; he is the host and producer of the Talking Scared podcast.
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Gavin Bocquet (* 23. Juli 1953 in London) ist ein britischer Szenenbildner, der in London lebt.

Bocquet studierte Szenenbild am Newcastle Polytechnic. Seinen Master machte er 1979 am Royal College of Art. Seine Filmkarriere begann er als Entwurfszeichner bei Der Elefantenmensch und Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter. Nach vier Jahren wurde er zum "Assistant Art Director" berufen. Schließlich stieg er zum Art Director auf und betreute dabei unter anderem Das Reich der Sonne von Steven Spielberg oder Gefährliche Liebschaften von Stephen Frears.

Als Szenenbildner war Bocquet sowohl im Film- wie auch im Fernsehbereich tätig. Für sein Production Design der Fernsehserie Die Abenteuer des jungen Indiana Jones wurde er zweimal für den Emmy nominiert, den er einmal gewann. Für Steven Soderbergh schuf Bocquet das Szenenbild zu Kafka. Schließlich ergab sich eine erneute Zusammenarbeit mit George Lucas bei dessen viel beachteter Rückkehr zur Filmregie, den abschließenden Episoden des Star-Wars-Projekts.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1988: Gefährliche Liebschaften (Dangerous Liaisons)
 1989: Erik der Wikinger (Erik the Viking)
 1991: Kafka
 1992–1993: Die Abenteuer des jungen Indiana Jones (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles) (TV-Serie)
 1994: Radioland Murders – Wahnsinn auf Sendung (Radioland Murders)
 1999: Star Wars: Episode I – Die dunkle Bedrohung (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace)
 2000: Die Abenteuer von Rocky & Bullwinkle (The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle)
 2002: Star Wars: Episode II – Angriff der Klonkrieger (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones)
 2002: xXx – Triple X (xXx)
 2005: xXx 2 – The Next Level (xXx: State of the Union)
 2005: Star Wars: Episode III – Die Rache der Sith (Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith)
 2007: Der Sternwanderer (Stardust)
 2008: Bank Job (The Bank Job)
 2010: Gullivers Reisen – Da kommt was Großes auf uns zu (Gulliver's Travels)
 2013: Jack and the Giants (Jack the Giant Slayer)
 2016: Warcraft: The Beginning (Warcraft)
 2016: Die Insel der besonderen Kinder (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
 2018: Mute

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We need to talk about this mask.
It's the new Charlotte Tilbury Instant Magic Facial Dry Sheet Mask.
So, I think y'all know by now that I am obsessed with masks.
Give me all the masks! Paper masks, diy masks, I don't care, I am drawn to them.
And today's mask is dry.
Daily readers might remember this post, where I talked about the latest products that you're going to have to try. This mask was on the list.
It was just released this month, and I had to order a mask the second the email hit.
--It's DRY (no mess). It has an in-built technological 5 Skin Solution IQ which tailors to your skin, feeding it exactly what it needs.
--Bio-mimetic revolutionary system gives a prolonged release of the ingredients, giving it time to immerse into your complexion for up to 8 hours.
And now, for scary mask pics.
So basically you open this very soft, dry, and durable mask. It's in two segments, but it's connected, and you join the loops from each section over your ears.
Y'all, this is the best-fitting mask I've ever, ever tried. It wasn't uncomfortable at all.
--Apply the mask and massage it for a few minutes to activate the ingredients.
--Wait 15 minutes and remove. No need to wash your face. You can use it up to three times.
I could sort of tell something was on my face after, but it wasn't oily or greasy. I don't know how to explain it. I definitely had my wrinkles reduced, but the effect wasn't 8 hours. I did feel hydrated and my skin looked glowy.
The mask doesn't harbor bacteria, so it is fine to use it 3 times. It really is dry! It's crazy. While $22 is pretty steep, I definitely would buy it again for a special occasion.
Have you tried this mask before or heard of it?
What an interesting mask! Can't help but think of horror movies. Lol! I'll think on this one but great review!
LOL, it totally looks like it is straight out of a horror movie! Thanks for doing this so I don't have to lol!
The only reason why this intrigued me is the fact that it's 'dry' but it's ridiculously overpriced that I don't think I'll ever give it a go.
Ok your title cracked me up and I am going to take your word on this one. Or maybe like you, use it for special occasions because you totally look like you are wearing an old hockey mask! I love that you reviewed this dry mask!!
I've never even heard of that but that's always the worst part, washing that gunk off your face & water running down your arms & everywhere (just me?) ... that's nuts you can use it 3 times too!
I want to try this mask just because it's so different! I love that you can use it 3 times!
I've been so curious about this mask since I first heard about it. Thanks for trying it and sharing your impressions. The fact that it's dry is really cool and when you break down the price to 3 uses, it's not as pricey.
I am so glad you reviewed this! I was really curious about it. Sounds like a fun splurge every once in a while!
That's so crazy that it's dry! I never would have thought that a mask could be dry!
I'm really intrigued by this but i don't think I could pay for it knowing you only get 3 uses! I'm glad you did though!
I might have to try it... I used to be a big fan of classic sheet masks but so many of them are super messy. I kind of stopped using them!
Wow this dry face mask sound amazing and your skin looks so beautiful! You always have the best beauty reviews!
Oh wow! I've never seen a mask like this before! It definitely has me interested. And that's awesome that it fits so well and isn't uncomfortable. So many sheet masks don't fit my face well, but I still love them. I'd be glad to find one like this that fits. And so cool that you can use it 3 times. Your skin looks beautiful too!
It really fits, I can see! And a dry mask that canbe used 3 times? Thanks for trying it for us, i now want to buy it, it sounds really good and the best - it works! The price is OK, for 3 times and what it does! Eager to try it!
I've used one like this but it wasn't dry! To me it's such an interesting feeling to have it on---good thing no one came by while I was wearing it!! I'd have scared them away!
This is definitely the creepiest sheet mask I've seen. Haha! I'm totally intrigued because it's dry. I'm adding it to my wish list!
I have been wanting to try this! Thanks for sharing. I think I might have to break down and buy it. You look gorgeous in that picture!
The whole dry part has me intrigued, but it is a little steep for my liking. Though I guess if you break it down since you can use it three times its not as bad. Especially since you noticed some differences in your skin.
I have never heard of a dry face mask before! That picture reminds me of Jason from Friday the 13th! haha Glad you liked the results!
Never heard of a dry mask before! I love that they keep creating new products. I like that you can get multiple uses out of it. It's an interesting concept, and I'm glad you got some results!
This seems pretty interesting, I probably would try it out.
I rarely ever use masks which is a shame. The dry concept sounds very interesting so I might just have to try it out even though the price is pretty steep but I guess getting 3 uses justifies the price a little better.
What a crazy idea, I've never heard of a dry mask. I'm intrigued though, because one of the things I don't like about face masks is that they can be so messy.
omg Elle, I laughed so hard at your mask photo and 'smile with teeth not recommended'. i am definitely intrigued by this, the price isn't *that* bad if you can use it 3 times.
I've got to try this! My friend and I were discussing it last weekend and I've got to get my hands on it. I'm so intrigued!


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The Ealing Club Black T-shirt is available in all sizes with mens cut and ladies cut options available. "Mojo Workin" was of course one of the famous tunes performed back in the heyday of the Ealing Club jams of the early 60's. The track continues to be a regular feature of West London gigs and venues to this day.


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Courte biographie de William Goldman
Oeuvres dont «William Goldman» a participé à la céation
0001 - A Family Affair (1962)
Musique: John Kander •
Paroles: James Goldman • John Kander •
Livret: James Goldman • William Goldman •
Dispo: Résumé Génèse Liste chansons
Genèse: Originally planned as a project for Gertrude Berg to be directed by Jerome Robbins, it opened in Philadelphia directed instead by Word Baker, who recently had staged The Fantasticks off-Broadway. With everything from the script to the score to the set in disarray, theatre producer Hal Prince was brought in to replace Baker and repair the damage. Poor box office prevented the out-of-town tryout from being extended and Prince, making his directorial debut, brought the show to New York City knowing it was better but still in need of serious work. The Broadway production opened on January 27, 1962 at the Billy Rose Theatre, where it ran for 65 performances and five previews. The cast included neurotic comic Shelley Berman as Alfie, Eileen Heckart as Tillie, Rita Gardner as Sally, and Larry Kert as Gerry, with Morris Carnovsky, Cathryn Damon, Bibi Osterwald, and Linda Lavin in supporting roles. An original cast recording was released by United Artists Records.
Résumé: In Chicago, Gerry Siegal and Sally Nathan, a young suburban Chicago couple, decide to marry. The bride's Uncle Alfie (her guardian) wants an intimate wedding and wages a war of words with the groom's entire family. The groom's brassy Jewish mother Tillie commandeers the planning, steering it towards a large country club wedding (despite her husband's scolding her for taking over). Caterers, dressmakers, band leaders, rabbis, florists, photographers and a bossy wedding planner are pushed to the limit by the madcap preparations. The bride and groom, who have retained their sanity, realize that their families have almost destroyed the wedding. They announce their intention to have a quiet family affair.
Création: 27/1/1962 - Nederlander Theatre (Broadway) - 65 représ.
Spectacles mis en scène ou chorégraphiés par «William Goldman»


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Same behaviour on the "Reload" button.
I only have Messenger pinned and Plurk unpinned open all the time. Memory consumption goes up with time, but it does not seem so bad. I mean I still have 2-3 GB-os left from the 8 GB total. But the GUI becomes very laggy.
When you activate the Window Background Image in Settings, the Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons in the upper, right corner disappear.
Tested animated GiFs and PNGs. Happens with both.
It has been like this since the function was introduced.
A few snapshots ago, Vivaldi was respecting macOS's dark mode appearance. It no longer does. Is there a particular reason why it stopped doing so?
@altcode: Chromium does not fully support it yet in all places so contrast could be bad in certain places. You can try -–force-dark-mode on the cmd line, I believe that will enable it again.
4th SS in a row that's sadly still not good for me.
broken H.264/MP4 when run in Firejail, but are ok if run naked https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/279174 ... VB-50975.
basic Linux paste-from-middle-click function inside text-entry fields still broken in SS but fine in Stable. Actually, now i have new info: it's not SS middle-paste that's broken, but the initial copy-selection-to-clipboard that's broken in SS. I've now found that selected text from non-SS windows [eg, Stable, other browsers, LibreOffice etc] which thus still copies to clipboard, successfully middle-click-pastes into SS text fields. It's only text within SS that fails to copy to clipboard, hence cannot later be middle-click pasted in SS ... VB-51059.
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Pretty much bugs are in this snapshot. I hope you will not hurry to stable version.
BUG: Tooltip "Show foler contents" keeps showing after clicking on folders on bookmarbar bar.
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Q: Couchdb how to get the timestamp of the last modified database? Does anyone know how to get the last timestamp that a specific database was modified?
The API _changes does not provide that information. Thank you.
UPDATE
How to retrieve the last date /time that the database had anew document inserted or a modified one.

A: CouchDB does not record the time that each change occurred, so if you need this functionality you need to a add a timestamp into the document e.g.
{
  "_id": "myid",
  "name": "Bob",
  "email": "bob@aol.com",
  "timestamp": 1657614546263
}

Then a MapReduce view will allow you to query documents by timestamp:
function(doc) {
  emit(doc.timestamp)
}

To get a the latest change you would query the resultant view with ?descending=true&limit=1 to get the most recently modified document:
GET /mydb/_design/myview/_view/myview?descending=true&limit=1&include_docs=true`

Alternatively, you can use a document id that has a timestamp encoded within it. See this blog post which shows how documents with time-sortable ids allow easy querying of the latest documents to be added.

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Q: Functional Derivation of Holonomy I would like to know how to take the functional derivative of the holonomy, or Wilson line.  I have tried it and I will show what I have done below, but before I wanted to say that I also have seen and done this with the characteristic deifferential equation for the holonomy
$$
\frac{\partial U}{\partial s}+\dot{\gamma}^a A_{a} U=0
$$
with $\dot{\gamma}$ a tangent vector to the curve and $A$ the connection.  By varying this equation I can find what $\frac{\delta U}{\delta A}$ is, but I would like to know how to do it from the expression for $U$
$$
U=\mathcal{P}\exp \left[ -\int_{\gamma} \dot{\gamma}^a(s) A_a(\gamma(s)) ds \right]
$$
with $\dot{\gamma}^a=\frac{dx^a}{ds}$ as before.  Now I have tried to directly vary this with respect to $A_b$
$$
\frac{\delta U}{\delta A_b(x)}=\mathcal{P} \exp \left[ -\int_{\gamma} \dot{\gamma}^a A_a ds \right] \cdot \frac{\delta}{\delta A_b}\left[ -\int_{\gamma} \dot{\gamma}^a A_a ds \right].
$$
Now if $A_a=A_{a}^{i}\tau^i$ then
$$
\frac{\delta}{\delta A_{b}^i }\left[ -\int_{\gamma} \dot{\gamma}^a A_{a}^j \tau^j ds \right]=-\int_{\gamma} \dot{\gamma}^a \delta _{ab}\delta_{ij} \delta^3(\gamma(s)-x) \tau^j ds=-\int_{\gamma}\dot{\gamma}^b \delta^3(\gamma(s)-x) \tau^j ds.
$$
So I end with
$$
\frac{\delta U}{\delta A_{b}^j}=U(\gamma)\left[ -\int_{\gamma}\dot{\gamma}^b \delta^3(\gamma(s)-x) \tau^j ds \right]
$$
Which isn't right. Can someone point me in a better direction.

A: *

*Let us write the Wilson-line of a simple open curve $\gamma: [s_i,s_f]\to \mathbb{R}^4$ as
$$ U(s_f,s_i)
~=~ \mathcal{P}\exp \left[ i\int_{\gamma} A_{\mu}~ dx^{\mu} \right].\tag{1} $$

*The path-ordering $\mathcal{P}$ becomes important if the gauge potential
$$A_{\mu}~=~A^a_{\mu} T_a\tag{2}$$
is non-abelian. Here $T_a$ are the generators of the corresponding Lie algebra.

*The Wilson-line has groupoid properties, e.g.,
$$U(s_3,s_2)U(s_2,s_1)~=~ U(s_3,s_1), \qquad  U(s,s) ~=~ {\bf 1}.\tag{3}$$

*If one differentiates wrt. the final point $s_f$, one gets
$$\frac {dU(s_f,s_i)}{ds_f}
~=~  i\dot{\gamma}^{\mu}(s_f)~A_{\mu}(\gamma(s_f)) ~U(s_f,s_i). \tag{4}$$

*If one differentiates wrt. the initial point $s_i$, one gets
$$ \frac {dU(s_f,s_i)}{ds_i}
~=~  -U(s_f,s_i)~i\dot{\gamma}^{\mu}(s_i)~A_{\mu}(\gamma(s_i)) . \tag{5}$$

*OP wants to differentiate the Wilson-line $U(s_f,s_i)$ functionally wrt. the gauge potential components $A^a_{\mu}(x)$. One gets
$$ \frac {\delta U(s_f,s_i)}{\delta A^a_{\mu}(x)}
~=~\int_{s_i}^{s_f}\! ds~ U(s_f,s)~
i\dot{\gamma}^{\mu}(s)\delta^4(x-\gamma(s))T_a~U(s,s_i).
\tag{6}$$

*Heuristic proof of (6). Since we have already used the letter $x\in\mathbb{R}^4$ in (6) as a fixed space-time point, let us call an arbitrary spacetime point for $y\in\mathbb{R}^4$.

*

*Imagine that $\tilde{A}(y)=A(y)+\delta A(y)$ is an infinitesimal variation of the gauge potential $A(y)$.

*Imagine that $\delta A(y)$ only differs from zero in an infinitesimally small neighborhood $\Omega$ of the fixed space-time point $x$.

*Assume that the curve $\gamma$ intersects the neighborhood $\Omega$ at the parametervalue interval $[s_x-\varepsilon,s_x+\varepsilon]\subseteq [s_i,s_f]$. (If the curve $\gamma$ does not intersects the neighborhood $\Omega$, then the equation (6) becomes trivially correct: $0=0$.)
On one hand, such infinitesimal variation of the gauge potential yields
$$\delta U(s_f,s_i)~=~U(s_f,s_x+\varepsilon)~\delta U(s_x+\varepsilon,s_x-\varepsilon)~U(s_x-\varepsilon,s_i), \tag{7}$$
and
$$\begin{align}\delta U(s_x+\varepsilon,s_x-\varepsilon)~\approx~&2\varepsilon i~ \dot{\gamma}^{\mu}(s_x)~\delta A_{\mu}(\gamma(s_x)) \cr
~=~&\int_{\Omega} \!d^4y~\delta^4(y-\gamma(s_x))~2\varepsilon i\dot{\gamma}^{\mu}(s_x)~\delta A_{\mu}(y)\cr
~\approx~& \int_{\Omega} \!d^4y~\int_{s_x-\varepsilon}^{s_x+\varepsilon}\! ds~\delta^4(y-\gamma(s))~i\dot{\gamma}^{\mu}(s)~\delta A_{\mu}(y).\end{align}\tag{8}$$
On the other hand, the defining property of a functional derivative yields
$$\begin{align}\delta U(s_f,s_i) ~=~&\int_{\mathbb{R}^4} \!d^4y~ \frac {\delta U(s_f,s_i)}{\delta A^a_{\mu}(y)} ~\delta A^a_{\mu}(y)\cr
&~=~\int_{\Omega} \!d^4y~ \frac {\delta U(s_f,s_i)}{\delta A^a_{\mu}(y)} ~\delta A^a_{\mu}(y).\end{align}\tag{9}$$
An comparison of eqs. (7), (8) and (9) yields eq. (6).

A: Lewandowski, Newman and Rovelli gave all the details in a 1993 paper
"Variations of the parallel propagator and holonomy operator
and the Gauss law constraint"
We have
$$d U(x(s),x_i)/ds + \dot \gamma (s)A(s) U(x(s),x_i) = 0  \ (1)$$
Differentiating yields
$$d \delta U(x(s),x_i)/ds + \dot \gamma (s)A(s) \delta U(x(s),x_i) =
-\delta(\dot \gamma (s)A(s))U(x(s),x_i)$$
Now the ansatz is to write $\delta U = U \Lambda$
using (1) we have:
$$U(x(s),x_i) \dot \Lambda = -\delta(\dot \gamma (s)A(s))U(x(s),x_i)$$
As the inverse of U(a,b) is U(b,a) we have to solve
$$\dot \Lambda = - U(x_i,x(s))\delta(\dot \gamma (s)A(s))U(x(s'),x_i)$$
then $\delta U(x(s),x_i) = U(x(s),x_i) \Lambda = $
$$= U(x(s),x_i) \int^s_{s_i}U(x_i,x')\delta(\dot \gamma (s')A(s'))U(x(s'),x_i) ds'$$
$$= \int^s_{s_i}U(x(s),x')\delta(\dot \gamma (s')A(s'))U(x(s'),x_i) ds'$$
We get a formula which enables us to vary the connection A,
or the curve (a loop is a peculiar case). the result will be seen
as a Pauli matrix or something else sandwiched between the two Us.
It looks like the derivation product rule. (abcd..)' = a'bcd.. +ab'cd..
 + abc'd.. + abcd'.. + ...


During my chat with Bud Selig on Tuesday, July 31, the commissioner of baseball left little doubt that the Minnesota Twins, probably in August, will be awarded the 2014 All-Star Game.
Selig was in town for the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) World Series, hosted by the Twin Cities with championship games at Target Field on Sunday. Selig spoke at a Target Field luncheon featuring teams from Atlanta; Arlington, Texas; Houston; Chicago; Detroit; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Harrisburg, Pa.; Jersey City, N.J.; Venice, Calif.; Bradenton Fla.; Phoenix; and Caracus, Venezuela.
Seated at the head table with the commissioner were hall of fame former Twins Rod Carew, Paul Molitor and Bert Blyleven, along with ex-Twins star Tony Oliva.
Selig, who turned 78 on Monday and whose salary is a reported $22 million annually, said he intends to work another 21/2 years, when his contract ends, then retire. He said he has no one he's willing to recommend now as his successor.
When Selig became commissioner in 1992, he said baseball's revenue totaled $1.2 billion. Now it's $7.5 billion.
The Twins were so intrigued by a picture of Francisco Liriano that appeared on a Twins email game ticket wearing a White Sox cap before his trade to Chicago was announced late Saturday night that they asked Major League Baseball to investigate. The picture was apparently Photoshopped.
"It's weird," a top club official said.
The Twins are losing a gem in publications manager Molly Gallatin, who is leaving on Friday after 10 years to pursue other interests.
That was Chip Beck, in town for the 3M Championship this weekend, playing at Wayzata Country Cub on Monday.
Former PGA Championship winner Lanny Wadkins speaks at a Dunkers breakfast on Thursday at the Minneapolis Club.
A memorial service for former Vikings general manager Mike Lynn will be Aug. 8 at Wayzata Community Service, with a reception at the Lafayette Club.
The wake for Jim Finks Jr., 59, son of former Vikings GM Jim Finks Sr. and a former Edina High athlete who died in Newport Beach, Calif., last week, will be Thursday in Skokie Ill., with a funeral mass Friday in Wilmette, Ill.
Edina incoming senior point guard Graham Woodward has been offered a tender by South Dakota State.
Reliever Jesse Crain was a pitching teammate of Francisco Liriano with the 2005-10 Minnesota Twins. Following Saturday's trade, the two are teammates again with the Chicago White Sox.
Liriano (3-10, 5.31 ERA) started against the Twins on Tuesday night at Target Field.
"This is great for our team, especially with all the lefties (hitters) we have in the American League," Crain said Monday evening. "We know what he's capable of, and sometimes going to a new place adds a little extra intensity to everything. Just having that weight lifted off his shoulders might put him over the edge and have him throw really well, and I truthfully think that's what's going to happen. I'm excited to see him here.
The White Sox entered Tuesday's game with a 1-1/2-game lead over Detroit in the Central Division. They had an 11-game lead over the fourth-place Twins, who were 2-1/2 games ahead of last-place Kansas City.
Incidentally, White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper pitched for the 1981-82 Twins, compiling a 1-6 record in 33 games.


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Keira Knightley just slammed Hollywood's 'ridiculous' gender pay gap
Actress Keira Knightly has slammed Hollywood's gender pay inequality as one of the main reasons she's turned down certain film roles in the past.
The Collateral Beauty star told Grazia Magazine the divide – which continues to separate the earning power of male and female stars was 'ridiculous' – and it was time for change.
'The Hollywood pay gap is ridiculous and we have to do something about it,' she said.
'I've turned down jobs many times because of it. It's s**t.'
The comments echo those of actress Mila Kunis, who earlier this month reflected on moments across her career when she'd been 'insulted', 'sidelined', 'paid less' and 'creatively ignored' because of her gender.
'I taught myself that to succeed as a woman in this industry I had to play by the rules of the boys' club,' she said.
'But the older I got and the longer I worked in this industry, the more I realised that it's [rubbish].'And, worse, that I was complicit in allowing it to happen.'
Sadly, the gender pay gap for female actors has been an ongoing issue.
Last year, Hunger Games actress Jennifer Lawrence admitted her desire to be 'liked' and 'not p**s anyone off' had previously stopped her from negotiating higher fees for roles.


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Q: Amazon MWS C# XSD class generation I'm working on a project to upload products to Amazon using MWS in C#.  I have their class libraries, and have attempted to generate classes from the XSD files like I have for other similar projects.  However, running xsd.exe to generate the classes throws errors.  Such as:
Error generating classes for schema 'amzn-envelope'. - Schema with targetNamespace='' has invalid syntax.  The simpleType 'BluRayRegionType' has already been declared. Line 130, position 3.

The xsd files have a lot of includes and do have multiple references.  Am I missing a standard workaround/solution?  Or are amazons XSD files just not usable to generate classes?  If they aren't useable, what can I do instead to accomplish this?
EDIT:
Unfortunately the XSDs are gated behind a login on Amazon Seller Central that requires a paying seller account so I cant link them.
This question: Is there a (C#) library that will create feeds for Amazon Marketplace Web Services?
is similar and also unresolved.

A: You need to use xsd.exe or xsd2code utility to convert xsd files into C# classes. xsd2code has Visual studio plugin too.


I've had a paranoid thought. Unfortunately, since Bush took office these seem to come true.
So … could the Republicans again be playing out a similar scenario again – keeping the war going now, so they can pretend to end it just in time to get credit before next year's elections?
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Slade boy identified as unknown sailor
AB Thomas Welsby Clark.
A naval mystery going back 80 years has been solved, with Slade School student Thomas Welsby Clark identified as the only sailor to be recovered from Australia's worst maritime disaster.
Able Seaman (AB) Thomas Welsby Clark attended Slade School from 1934 to 1937, where he was a prefect and school swimming captain.
He can be found on the honour board, listed as Tom Clark, which is now kept in the museum at Warwick Christian College.
He is also featured in the school magazines, described in the 1934 magazine's section on football as "light and inexperienced, but has the style of a footballer. Should do well next season."
He is also listed as being involved in athletics that year, getting a mention for the 100 yards under 15s championship.
He is featured in the swimming section for his performances in breaststroke and freestyle.
There was no magazine in 1935, however, AB Clark is featured in the 1936 magazine.
He was awarded the miniature shooting cup that year, and listed as a prefect or head of Barnes House.
He is included in the cricket team photo and listed as being on the First XI for football, as well as being involved in various athletic events.
He was the captain of the swimming team in 1936, winning the open championship and Scott McLeod Cup as well as a number of races in the school competition.
AB Clark was also on the life saving team, securing 14 of 18 points awarded to the team and receiving colours for this achievement, and on the shooting team.
He was also listed as being promoted from Cadet to Lance Corporal in the Cadet Corps in 1936.
AB Clark was again listed as swimming captain in the 1937 magazine, and awarded the title of swimming champion.
The life saving team and shooting team performed extremely well this year, of which AB Clark was again involved.
He was also awarded a medallion for meritorious performances in athletics.
He once again won the open championships and Scott McLeod Cup for swimming, creating a record for open backstroke that had been in place for 12 years.
AB Clark is listed as "the mainstay of the team" in the swimming section. He was the only member of the team in 1937 to receive his colours.
DNA evidence was used to identify AB Clark, who was the only sailor recovered from the Australian warship HMAS Sydney (II) which sunk off the coast of Western Australia during World War II on November 19, 1941.
All 645 men on board perished at sea after the warship battled the disguised German merchant raider HSK Kormoran. This included six Royal Australian Air Force members, eight Royal Navy personnel, and four civilian canteen staff. Eighty-two officers and sailors were also killed.
Ab Clark's remains were found near Christmas Island almost three months later, and it is believed he was the only sailor to make it to a lifeboat.
He was 21 years old and had worked as an accountant prior to joining the navy, reportedly to join one of his two older brothers who was already enlisted.
He briefly enlisted in the Army Reserve as a private in the Queensland Cameron Highlanders.
AB Clark reportedly did his submarine detector training in Sydney on the HMAS Rushcutter, before serving as an ordinary seaman on the anti-submarine training ship HMAS St. Giles.
He was promoted to acting able seaman in July 1941, and then underwent a further short period of training on HMAS Cerberus.
He then joined HMAS Sydney in August 1941.
Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Defence Personnel Andrew Gee said the formal identification was a significant development in Sydney's story and a historic moment for Australia.
"To finally learn Tom's name, rank, service number and home town, 80 years after he was lost, is truly remarkable," Mr Gee said.
"It says a lot about Australia that, despite the decades that have passed, our nation is still working so hard to identify those lost in war and ensuring we honour the sacred commitment to remember them.
"I know this is a terribly sad time for Tom's family. Like his brave shipmates, he died defending Australia, our values and way of life. His family should be immensely proud.
"The Office of Australian War Graves has agreed that next year Tom's grave in Geraldton War Cemetery will be marked by a new headstone bearing his name. He will be 'unknown' no longer."
Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Mike Noonan said AB Clark was just 21 when he died and was representative of the many young lives lost in the battle.
"Of Sydney's total complement of 645 men, no one survived. This included six Royal Australian Air Force members, eight Royal Navy personnel and four civilian canteen staff. Eighty-two officers and sailors were killed in Kormoran," Vice Admiral Noonan said.
"We revere the service and sacrifice of all who perished.
"Solving this World War II case involved specialists in DNA analysis, forensic pathology and dentistry, ballistics, anthropology, archaeology and naval history. I commend the combined effort spearheaded by the Sea Power Centre to confirm AB Clark's identity.
"The Australian Federal Police National DNA Program for Unidentified and Missing Persons was instrumental, as were the Australian National University, Australian War Memorial, University of Adelaide and University of Sydney, not to mention Able Seaman Thomas Clark's family.
"His long voyage is complete, may he Rest in Peace."
Retired academic Leigh Lehane was surprised and saddened to learn her Uncle Tom was the unknown sailor.
"To be quite honest it was a bit upsetting," Dr Lehane said.
However, she said, establishing the truth was important.
"I am so grateful for the many, many people – well over a hundred – who helped ascertain the truth about his identity," Dr Lehane said.
AB Clark's grave in Geraldton War Cemetery will be marked next year by a new headstone which will bear his name.
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Duty Calls: Complying with higher standards of consumer protection – session review
In our latest webinar addressing the new Consumer Duty, Adrian Harvey – CEO at Elephants Don't Forget – was joined on the 24th February 2022 by a panel that included Jeff Abbott, Editor of T-CNews, Nic Dent, Propositions & Customer Engagement at Worksmart, Daren Allen and Jonathon Crook, directors at Shoosmith, and associate, Geoff May.
With the recent message from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reverberating across the sector, that the implications and scale of the cultural shift being demanded of firms would be profound, our hosts looked to unpack the nuances of the Consumer Duty.
To this effect, they took a four-pronged approach to consider: what it means in practice for firms, where Senior Managers will struggle to offer sufficient evidence, how this can be seen through a T&C lens, and the means that will be used by the FCA to enforce the new Duty.
Our thanks to all who attended and actively took part in the discussions. The webinar is now available on-demand for viewing below.
Opening the session with a discussion on the FCA's intentions, Jonathon articulated that their objective is to "transform the way in which the UK's financial services industry operates".
The sheer magnitude of the regulator's ambition should be all the indication firms need to apply gravitas in their approach to the Consumer Duty. This will not be a one-and-done project, Nic later elaborates, but something that will need to become part of BAU operations, meaning that systems and controls are continually monitored and evolve at the pace required to deliver optimal consumer outcomes.
As could be expected, a third of participants confirmed in a poll that they were yet to take any initial steps in preparation for the new Duty.
For Shoosmiths, one unanticipated outcome was that one in five (20%) had already gone down the route of obtaining early board buy-in for the imminent changes to come. This is a promising finding in light of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR), reflecting the shared sentiment amongst leadership teams to drive genuine change from the top down.
Q1: In preparation for the new Consumer Duty, you have started to…
Assemble a project team to conduct a gap analysis between current processes and new rules 36% 36%
Review the appropriateness of the firm's current level and focus on management information relating to evidencing good customer outcomes 31% 31%
Prioritise the areas with the biggest impact (strategically important / potential harm) 28% 28%
Secured board sponsorship for this major product change 20% 20%
Train staff on new requirements 12% 12%
Give consideration to increased costs of compliance and potential impact on profitability 8% 8%
None of the above, we are still getting our heads around the Consumer Duty! 32% 32%
*Poll results based on 195 responses. Multiple selection allowed.
"The FCA does not want to simply have a set of rules, which essentially enables you to just tick box this… it's all about outcomes, and that will differ from firm to firm."
– Geoff May
Having acknowledged that there's a resounding call for clarity within the sector, the panel stipulated that – beyond the provisions in their proposal – it's unlikely that this would be supplied by the FCA. The very crux of the Consumer Duty is to put the onus on firms to look inwards and consider what this means in relation to their own products, customer journeys and systems; it's not a case of following a prescriptive one-size-fits-all plan.
Further to this point, Adrian and Nic went on to consider the role of employee competency in tangent with achieving optimal outcomes.
The Consumer Duty has an impact far beyond just your customer-facing team, as every business function has a part to play. It's the correlation between behaviours and how your company values are upheld in combination with its culture that will be the mark of getting this right.
One exercise that Adrian stressed to be worthwhile for firms was to place themselves in the position of having to submit a board report demonstrating how they are achieving good consumer outcomes. By doing this, any gaps would become apparent and actions could be taken to plug them.
Change has unintended consequences, for which he continued that there will be two components to the Consumer Duty that will require redressing, process and people.
Understanding the impact of that change on processes carries far less ambiguity, whereas determining that for people requires diligence from firms, who – in all likelihood – won't have the breadth of insight needed to gauge whether this lands correctly employee-by-employee.
"To know what's changed, you need to know where your people are today. So, you've actually got to have an accurate people competency map and monitor that in relation to those changes."
– Adrian Harvey
Available on-demand, watch the webinar session here:
With the regulator ramping up its data capabilities to monitor patterns of behaviour, Nic made the point that many organisations are forfeiting the benefits of "risk mitigation and operational efficiency" by depending on manual, resource-heavy processes over RegTech. Where valuable team members are actioning those measures, it was questioned whether the evidence would be accurate or adequate under scrutiny.
"What the regulator is interested in is your potential to implement risk to your customer base… And with data analytics, they have the ability to monitor that in real detail."
– Nic Dent
For product and service changes to take effect, firms must revise their approach to employee training to instil competent and capable people who can deliver against the FCA's proposed Consumer Duty.
Drawing on his extensive experience in the market, Adrian pointed to the short supply of authentic T&C regimes being evidenced as the greatest foreseeable challenge firms will face to analyse how their changes will land across the business.
In response to the limited timeframe the FCA have given organisations to get onboard with the new Duty, he went on to say that the nine-month window reflects the nature of the exercise; this is about "intent", not ticking the box. In other words, asking firms: what are the actions you have implemented – and are continuing to identify and implement – to meet our expectations?
Q2: What will be your key challenges in implementing the new Consumer Duty?
Conducting a gap analysis between current processes and new rules 48% 48%
Providing board or management with the required evidence to meet regulatory obligations 40% 40%
Gathering data on target markets, customer outcomes and sources of complaints to comply 36% 36%
Developing a culture that takes a joined up approach required to customer propositions 33% 33%
Securing the necessary budget for the work that needs to be undertaken 24% 24%
Other challenges 5% 5%
In a market where compliance is the cost of doing business, 76% of respondents did not see securing the necessary budget to action changes as their main blocker. Rather, it was mapping current processes against the new requirements and evidencing this information to board or management that proved most concerning for our webinar participants, with 48% in agreement.
As the conversation turned to the prospect of increased consumer complaints on account of the new Duty, an argument was made by Adrian that – to a certain extent – these should be embraced by firms. Equipped with these indicators of underlying problems, the appropriate resource could be allocated to prevent significant consequences at a later point.
"It's not about a piece of e-learning that you walk away from, this is all about embedding it… What are you going to do differently to make sure that people understand the changes in their day-to-day roles?"
– Jeff Abbott
The regulator is honing in on customer service standards, making an already flawed tick-box T&C regime obsolete. Whether with respect to vulnerability or the new Consumer Duty, financial services firms cannot afford to take shortcuts delivering genuinely competent and authentically trained people.
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Singapore suspends Bitget exchange license over K-Pop coin promotion
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The Singapore-based Bitget exchange has reportedly lost its license after a legal tussle with the agency for K-Pop boy band BTS.
Singapore-headquartered digital asset platform, Bitget, has reportedly been suspended by the Monetary Authority of Singapore after getting into a dispute with an agency for the popular K-Pop boy band BTS.
As reported by the Financial Times on Dec. 5, Bitget lost the Singapore license following the controversial listing of a new K-Pop-related cryptocurrency called Army Coin. However, the crypto exchange still claims to have licenses in other jurisdictions such as Australia, Canada, and the United States.
The issue arose on Oct. 25, when the Bitget exchange shared a tweet promoting Army Coin, which is named after the South Korean boyband's followers.
It allegedly used misleading information such as, "This coin exists for the benefit of BTS" and "ARMY coin aims to take care of BTS members for life".
The exchange reportedly violated the band agency's portrait rights by showcasing the new cryptocurrency on their website using the "ARMY" ticker and BTS's name and images without permission.
Once the agency, Hybe, received information that the cryptocurrency had been listed on the Singapore-based exchange, they announced:
"We are currently looking into the legal violations in this case, including the cryptocurrency's infringement on our artists' portrait rights without permission from or discussion with the agency. We will take legal action against all infringements and violations."
It added that the coin had "no affiliation" with BTS and urged those that had lost money on it to contact the police.
Bitget responded to the statement according to reports, by clarifying that as a trading platform, they did not create the coin itself and will take no responsibility for it. However, the ARMY token was delisted by the exchange on Dec. 3. The FT reported that the coin was available for trading in other jurisdictions on Bitget, including in South Korea.
Founded in Singapore in 2018, Bitget claims to have over 1.5 million registered users worldwide, and after their most recent Series B funding is valued at US$1 Billion.
Related: Singaporean crypto exchange enters India amid regulatory uncertainty
Bitget was cast into the industry spotlight after securing a sponsorship deal with Italian soccer giants Juventus in September and becoming an official partner of PGL Major Stockholm 2021 in October.
In June, Bitget also inked a partnership with stablecoin issuer Circle to become one of the first exchanges to list USD Coin (USDC) as collateral for trading crypto derivatives.
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The ROBOCON contest is not only a trial of technical knowledge; it is also an adversity test.
IVE engineering students brought home a bronze trophy after this year's ROBOCON Hong Kong contest – the second time that IVE won aprize in the inter-institutional robot-building competition since its first entry in 2010.
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When some of the team members were polishing the design, others were making components of the robot, including claws, extension arms, and projection machines. "The robots need different components for different tasks, and they have to coordinate with each other. It is impossible to produce all props by one person, so all of us have to cooperate and make sure the size of different component fits," said Chu Wah-kin, another student.
The preparation works were not only confined to constructing the robots, the students also spent a lot of time learning the rules of the regulations. It turned out all these efforts, though seemingly trivial, were a key factor behind the IVE team's outstanding performance. "Many teams had to start their design again because they did not comply with the rules," said Ku Tsz-yui, another student participant.
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