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PRESS RELEASE 10/02/2015 Stroud Against The Cuts
CAMPAIGNERS WHO WON LOCAL NHS BATTLE ORGANISE CRISIS MEETING
WHAT: "THE NHS IN CRISIS..? REBUILD THE NHS! Public Meeting"
WHEN: Monday 23rd February, 7.30-9.30pm (doors 7pm)
WHERE: The Old Town Hall, Stroud.
In 2011 and 2012, a determined Gloucestershire-wide campaign led by Stroud Against the Cuts successfully (1) used legal action (2), petitions (3) and protests (4) to force local NHS bosses to halt the transfer of local community hospitals and 3000 health and social care workers out of the NHS (5).
Earlier this year Gloucestershire's A&E services declared a 'major incident' alongside A&E services elsewhere in the country (6). On Monday 23rd February, four members of the co-ordination group that organised the successful campaign to save Stroud Hospital and others from privatisation will speak at a meeting exploring the question "How we can rebuild the NHS?"
Members of the Stroud Against the Cuts co-ordination group Hannah Basson, Chris Moore, James Beecher and Cllr Caroline Molloy will address questions including "Is the NHS sustainable?", "Is PFI bankrupting the NHS?", "What's wrong with privatisation?", and "What demands should we make?". Hannah Basson is an NHS health worker and Equalities Officer for the Gloucester Health branch of Unite the Union (she will be speaking in a personal capacity). Cllr Caroline Molloy represents the Stroud Central ward at the District Council for the Green Party. She is also editor of the OurNHS website (7), and a freelance writer. Chris Moore led the local anti-poll-tax non-payment campaign in the 1990s, and is a Trade Unionists and Socialists against Cuts (TUSC) candidate. James Beecher is Chair of Stroud Against the Cuts.
James Beecher said: "We're enormously proud that a campaign in Stroud was able to successfully resist the privatisation of local community health services, but since that victory in 2012, local non-emergency ambulance services have been handed to a private company, and around the country services are being forced out to tender and taken over by private companies thanks to the Health and Social Care Act – just the latest form of marketization and privatisation of our NHS. At the same time, health and social care services have seen their budgets cut, and workers have seen not only their pay decline dramatically in real terms, but – as in the case of District Nurses – experienced changes in their conditions of work that have led many to consider leaving the service. Morale in the NHS is at a low ebb and workers deserve better. We know we can resist, and win, so we've organised this meeting to provide people with information about what is happening and discuss the demands we should be making, and share lessons from our successful campaign" Stroud Against the Cuts have organised a further meeting, on austerity and the UK economy since the financial crisis, on Monday 23rd March, also at 7.30-9.30pm at the Old Town Hall.
1. See the press release from the time "Landmark triumph for people power". Covered in the Stroud News & Journal.
2. See the press release from the time, "Gloucestershire People Power on Show Again". Covered in Stroud Life and The Citizen.
3. A petition of 6,530 signatures was collected in favour of keeping community health services public, and the formal 'engagement' exercise showed 96% of the public and 91% of staff who voted wanted services to remain in the NHS rather than enter a 'social enterprise'.
4. Several protests were held, including two of over 500 people in Stroud. Videos of many of the protests are available on the SATC website.
5. The original plan was to transfer the following services to a 'social enterprise': the hospitals at Stroud, Berkeley, Cirencester, Dilke, Fairford, Lydney, Bourton (Moore Cottage), Moreton, Tewkesbury, the Health Clinics at Beeches Green Stroud, Stonehouse Health Clinic, Sandpits Clinic Dursley, Cinderford Health Centre, Coleford Health Centre, Lydney Health Centre, Hesters Way Healthy Living Centre, Hotts Health Centre Newent, Lydbrook Health Centre, Symn Lane Clinic (Wotton-under-Edge). All District Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Specialist Nursing, Out of hours medical and nursing services, Pharmacy, Sexual Health and Chlamydia screening, Podiatry, Dental services, Wheelchair services, Musculo-skeletal services, Telehealth and Specialist Domiciliary care were also to be transferred
6. "A major incident [was] declared for two hospitals in Gloucestershire, due to high demand in A&E departments", on 4th January, see the BBC News story. The major incident status was lifted on the 14th January, see the ITV News story.
7. Read a recent article by Cllr Molloy, "The billions of wasted NHS cash no-one wants to mention".
REBUILD THE NHS - Public Meeting 23rd February
THE NHS IN CRISIS..? REBUILD THE NHS!
Monday 23rd February
The Old Town Hall, Stroud
7.30-9.30pm (doors 7pm)
Is the NHS sustainable?
Is PFI bankrupting the NHS?
What's wrong with privatisation?
What demands should we make?
How can we rebuild the NHS?
THREE CO-ORDINATORS OF THE CAMPAIGN THAT STOPPED LOCAL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES BEING PRIVATISED AND AN NHS WORKER SPEAK:
Cllr Caroline Molloy - Editor of the OurNHS website, freelance writer, and
Green district councillor for Stroud Central.
Chris Moore - led the local anti-poll-tax non-payment campaign in the 1990s,
Trade Unionists and Socialists against Cuts (TUSC) candidate.
James Beecher - Chair of Stroud Against the Cuts, Economist.
Hannah Basson - an NHS health worker and Equalities Officer for the Gloucester
Health branch of Unite the Union (personal capacity).
Our NHS is under sustained attack
Earlier this year our local A&E department declared a 'major incident'.
Local non-emergency ambulance services have been handed to a
private company. Health and social care services have seen their
budgets cut, while the government's 2012 Health & Social Care Act
was just the latest way to introduce privatisation. Morale in the NHS
is at a low ebb and workers deserve better.
We urgently need to develop a concerted campaign to Defend Our
NHS. Join the campaign against NHS privatisation: say "No!" to an
American-style market-based health system.
...but we can resist - and win!
In 2011 and 2012, a determined Gloucestershire-wide campaign led by Stroud Against the Cuts successfully used legal action, petitions and protests to force local NHS bosses to halt the transfer of local community hospitals and 3000 health workers out of the NHS.
What you can do – Raise your Voice!
1. Come to our public meeting on the NHS on Monday February 23rd.
2. Subscribe to our regular email newsletter. We send regular emails to
supporters with news on the NHS, cuts, privatisation, protests and resistance
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3. Put the date of our next public meeting in your diary. We'll be
discussing the UK economy since the financial crisis and the effects of
austerity in the UK. The meeting will take place at the Old Town Hall on
Monday March 23rd, 7.30pm (doors 7pm).
4. Help us distribute this information: share with colleagues, friends, neighbours, everyone - put it on noticeboards in your community, workplace and online.
5. Show solidarity with health workers demanding fair pay. Whether
you work in health or not, speak to your union rep and ask them to circulate
this information. If you are a health worker you can speak confidentially to a
campaigning member of staff via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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• Telephone: James Beecher 07734 058789
• Twitter: @stroudanticuts
Strike for Fair Pay in the NHS - 24th November 2014
Below is a short excerpt of a film we are making on the NHS strike that took place on the 24th November 2014. Before the film, here is a statement from Hannah Basson
Equalities Officer, Gloucester Health Branch, Unite the Union and one of Stroud Against the Cuts' volunteer coordinators:
"I am supporting all the striking NHS workers today. Preventing their pay rises after years of real-term reductions is not 'unaffordable', as the Health Secretary states. The NHS has been giving the Treasury £billions for the last few years in underspend money. This is not about a deficit either - the deficit is no longer falling. This is about preparing my colleagues for the transition in to further privatisation. The postal workers took industrial action to defend their terms and then the Royal Mail was privatised and now the Royal Mail is requesting the tax payer bail them out in order to keep up rural services. Circle took over the publicly-owned Hinchingbrooke Hospital then also asked for a tax-funded bail out to continue doing what the NHS had been doing before. Enough is enough. The public owns these services and the public and the staff should not be lining the pockets of private companies. Good staff deserve good wages."
Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 November 2014 12:49
Oppose the Hospital Closure Clause
Sunday, 23 February 2014 17:57
The following is a letter sent by Stroud Against the Cuts member Caroline Molloy, published in the Stroud News and Journal, February 2014. For the latest on the campaign see: "Don't close our hospitals on the quiet, protesters tell Health Secretary". Why not write to Neil Carmichael MP about this?
Despite fierce opposition from doctors, 38 Degrees, the British Medical Association and charities, the Government is trying to rush through changes that will make it far easier to close hospitals without public consultation.
If one hospital, even outside Gloucestershire, gets into trouble, other popular and well-run hospitals in our area could be downgraded or shut down to balance the books under the proposed new rules.
Recently, a court ruling stopped Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt from closing accident and emergency and maternity services at popular Lewisham Hospital. Now the Government wants to remove the law that protected Lewisham.
If Clause 118 of the Care Bill, dubbed the 'hospital closure clause', becomes law in February, the fate of hospitals, including Stroud Hospital, could be taken out of our hands.
We already know that the Government is quietly reviewing the future of half the hospitals in the country.
If our hospital was threatened, this new law would give local people, doctors, and councillors little or no say in what happened to it.
That's an awful prospect.
The Royal College of Physicians has said that "handing powers to special administrators to make decisions about neighbouring trusts is cause for concern".
The UK already has fewer hospital beds than most developed countries.
The British Medical Association opposes the hospital closure clause, saying it would allow the Health Secretary to "force changes through the back door". Writing in the British Medical Journal, Professor Allyson Pollock says that the clause will "undermine equal access to care in England" and removes "checks and balances designed to ensure that changes are in the interests of the communities affected", with centrally-appointed decision-makers only having to think about money.
Public outcry now could force the Government to change the worst aspects of the Bill — including the hospital closure clause — in its final stages early next year.
Will Neil Carmichael MP press to get the Bill amended and the hospital closure clause dropped — or will he put the future of Stroud's Hospital services in jeopardy?
Since 2012 the Health Secretary no longer has a duty to secure a comprehensive health service, but he wants more power to impose fast-track hospital closures with no reference to the views of local people.
What happened to "no decision about me without me"?
Caroline Molloy
What is care.data?
An introduction to Care.data by Stroud Against the Cuts member Hannah Basson:
Over recent months there has been much media attention regarding a new way of collecting patient data. 'Care.data' is an initiative to draw together all the health details of everyone in England in to one place. This system is not the same as the local systems that your GP and other health providers use. If your GP, physiotherapist, consultant etc (care team) ask if you are okay with your data being shared with other health professionals, they are referring to systems which merely allow one health professional to share your treatments with another, eg that your GP can see easily you had some treatment from someone in your local hospital so this can have some relevance for the treatment your GP provides – this enables joined-up care and is used simply for you and in your presence. This data cannot go beyond the care team.
But this is not 'Care.data'. 'Care.data', they say, is designed to allow the NHS to examine nationwide statistics so they can work out what is working well and make changes to those treatments that are not so good. However, we must remember that now there are private companies working under the NHS banner which are very secretive and they are likely to be more interested in your information to increase their profits.
Care.Data put on hold There have been several 'listening pauses' regarding new government policies – these have, on the whole, resulted in no real change to address the concerns which have triggered these pauses. This pause is not to change how data is harvested or how it is used, it is simply to give more time for the public to understand what is being proposed.
Care.data
By now, nearly all households should have received a leaflet (link to pdf version) from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)
The leaflet tells you of the benefits of sharing your information, it lists the benefits for the planning and implementing of health services in England. It informs us that our data will not identify us in person. For an article which is in favour of the new care.data programme, you might go to The Nuffield Trust site.
Under the 2012 Heatlh and Social Care act, surgeries must comply with requests for their data to be uploaded to the central database for all patients on their books unless the person has opted out.
Why Opt Out?
The GP's own news site Pulse, highlights a number of issues with this data extraction, in an article revealing that patient-identifiable data have already been approved on request to several sources, 12 of which are bodies outside of the NHS. http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-practice/practice-topics/it/revealed-independent-experts-overseeing-caredata-have-approved-31-releases-of-identifiable-patient-data-since-april/20005572.article#.Uv991rDivcu As revealed through a question to the Health Minister, Dan Poulter, by Conservative MP David Davis, the police can still request patient-identifiable data even if you have opted out. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2014-02-04a.185516.h&s=David+Davis#g185516.q0 Both the Telegraph and the Guardian have been full of articles expounding on the details of how our data may or may not be used – and mostly, by a huge majority, how our identifiable data will get in to the hands of those who may not have our health at the heart of their organisations. An insightful article by Shibley Rahman can be read here http://legal-aware.org/2013/01/cui-bono-again-who-exactly-stands-to-gain-from-the-nhs-it-initiative/ raising many concerns about who might gain from our data. And if you still are not cynical enough, the mere knowledge that ATOS helped develop the extraction tool for pulling our data should raise an eyebrow!
How can I opt out? Most surgery websites have forms for you to fill in to opt out of your data being passed on in an identifiable form (although any reasonable person might assume that 'opting out' would prevent any data leaving your GP's surgery at all). You can also find forms online here at MedConfidential.
GPs opting out
GPs must upload your data but, if you 'opt out', they then put a code against your name to say that you have not agreed for your information to be passed on to anyone.
An article in the Telegraph on 10th February stated that "Family doctors who refuse to hand over patient information for a controversial NHS database will not be told what their punishment will be until it is too late to change their minds" and "doctors who intend to rebel against the database have been issued with warning letters which state that failure to hand patient records to the national data-sharing scheme puts them in "breach of contract" with the health service".
If this sounds like bullying, perhaps that's because it is. In direct contravention of the H&SC Act, one GP has opted out his entire patient list. In response, the area management team have threatened to terminate his contract. Dr Gancz says "The logic of this email is that unless I give in to the bullying of NHS England and illegally - as defined by the Data Protection Act and the GMC - release my patients' confidential information, I shall have my contract to work as a GP withdrawn"
How about GPs as patients? A snapshot survey of about 400 GPs revealed that over 40% plan to opt out of care.data.
So how confident are you in this new system of data harvesting and selling? I could direct you to a hundred articles that all say the same thing – our personal data is for sale and no one knows to whom or in what form – with varying degrees of identification at each level – each article with a less-than-convincing rebuttal from a relevant authority.
However, to be fair, it's not only government bodies and those in private health and with vested interests that are saying all will be fine, those better known for their campaigning for a publicly-owned, fairer NHS and for fighting the 2012 Health and Social Care Act also have something to say in favour of care.data. Pollock and Macfarlane believe that opting out means data will be inadequate to assess the impact of government policies to privatise the NHS. They believe that opting out plays in to the hands of the private sector.
Their article is very fair and looks at the debate from all angles. They say "Patients and the public need to make it clear to NHS England that their consent for medical records to be uploaded to care.data is conditional on it not being used for commercial purposes or handed over to third parties such as drug companies and health insurance and health care corporations."
Of course, it may be that the whole project is a waste of £50million
"Board papers drawn up by Department of Health (DoH) officials warn that proposed EU regulations to harmonise rules on data protection would not allow such a system - because they state that individuals must give explicit consent, knowing the specific purpose for which data is being used." (quote from Telegraph article)
In case you were wondering if I was opting out, I'm with Dr Hadrian Moss who says
"Now I'm not being silly and opting out completely. I'm quite happy for my data to be shared within the NHS but no way am I letting it go to third parties, even if it's anonymised. If high level government officers can leave laptops and USB sticks full of confidential data lying around then how likely is it my data will filter out at some point?* Not that I have anything to hide, but it's the principle that's important, especially when this information could be combined with my shopping habits and sold on to interested parties."
*Professor Sir Brian Jarman, health data expert, warned that firms could identify patients within a few hours. Although the information is meant to be pseudonymised (a form of anonymity), Sir Brian said it would be easy to find patients from those details.
Last Updated on Saturday, 22 February 2014 18:40
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The ACT test can be difficult to master and this class will help you prepare for that exam. The class will focus on the areas that are included in the exam and teach you strategies and techniques to help you with exam.
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My wife and I originally had a holiday home in Maldon, which we had for going on 6 years. And eventually the decision was made to move to Maldon permanently; which we did 3 years ago.
I have now settled into the way of life here in Maldon and both my wife and I are kept busy, me with my plumbing business and my wife with our Cottage B&B – certainly a contrast to the hustle and bustle of our life in Melbourne.
We have our daughter and son-in-law and grandson also living in the town, which has been lovely for us to be so close to them.
The move to Maldon has been an interesting one for us and we have met so many interesting and talented people, which is amazing when you think of the size of the town.
We have also made some great friends here – so life is never dull and the social calendar is more full now than if we were living in Melbourne.


Today we're gonna talk about a few of the major events from this past week on some of our favorite shows. This post will contain spoilers from the week of May 17-25 for the following shows; Arrow, Gotham, Agents of SHIELD, and The Americans.
Gotham: Renewed for Third Season, Possible Alfred-Centric Spinoff, and Clayface!
The second season of Gotham, Fox's successful series inspired by DC's Batman comics is half way over, but fans are glad to hear the May 9th season finale won't be the end of Detective Jim Gordon's time in the spotlight.
Ben McKenzie, who leads the cast as Gordon himself, spilled the beans via Twitter earlier this month that the Gotham team will return for a third season.
Batman: Arkham Origins – Who are the 8 Mystery Assassins?
So there isn't much to Garfield Lynns, AKA Firefly. But what else do you need from an assassin than the ability to fly, a fireproof gun and a torch gun? Sounds like a match made in heaven to me… err hell maybe? Lynns was hinted at in Arkham Asylum and it would be great to see him HEATING up the city in Origins. That was a terrible play on words by the way.
David Caine is one of the world's premiere assassins, being hired to kill an abundance of rich and powerful people. Not to mention he actually trained young Bruce Wayne in the ways of the assassin, though Bats never utilizes the knowledge to kill. It would be a pretty juicy tidbit to see someone who Bruce trained with trying to kill him, whether Caine knows that it is Bruce or not.
Shiva is the top assassin in Ra's Al'Ghul's League of Assassins which didn't figure prominently into the series until the second installment. Ra's may have let the Black Mask hire Shiva in an effort to test the "detective" until such a time when Ra's chooses to confront him. Not to mention Shiva is the mother of Cassandra Cain who was Batgirl for a time, and in the comics Cassandra was also the daughter of none other than David Caine. Perhaps this could figure into the next Arkham game that is a sequel to Arkham City?
If Julian Day wasn't born to figure prominently into this game, then I don't know who is. The game takes place on Christmas Eve of all nights and that is perfect for this calendar obsessed sicko to take a shot at the Batman. We've seen hints of him in Arkham Asylum and in the flesh in Arkham City. Maybe we can see what landed him in his much deserved cell during this installment of the Arkham series.
It was stated recently that Origins would have a toned down version of Bane in it. I could definitely see him as someone hired to come in and take down Batman, ala the Animated Series episode titled after the Venom induced breaker of the Batman. I could see him as being juiced to the point of having the frame of The Dark Knight Rises Bane, because if they want him toned down then they can't have his overgrown, Titan fueled appearance from the other two games.
Waylon Jones is shown most times in the comics these days as a simple muscle for hire type of guy. His predatory instincts make him a very good choice for an assassin and based on all of the animosity he shows Batman in the other two Arkham games it would be interesting to see them interacting before Croc was imprisoned. It would also be fun to have an actual boss fight with Croc given that his appearance in the first game just had you running away from him and the second game only had a short cameo.
I really can't get enough Clayface. The boss fight in Arkham City against him was probably the best part of the game for me. I think Clayface having the ability to shapeshift into almost any weapon would definitely make him a very potent killer to take down Bats. The guy is basically a living weapon, just made of clay. And since this is dealing with Batman in his younger years, he could be having a showdown with a Clayface just beginning to utilize his new powers.
Ok this guy is pretty ridiculous any way that you look at it, but I really liked his portrayal in the 1990's Batman the Animated Series. While that is still a bit too cheesy, I think that in the Arkham Batman universe that he could really be turned into a legitimate threat. Maybe he could cool down the Greek mythology a tad bit and be an assassin who's main weapon is that awesome lightning bolt scepter he uses. Like I said, it sounds terrible, but I think Maxie is scheduled for an appearance sometime, given that his night club Olympus was spotted in Arkham City.
So there you have my list! What are some of your picks for Arkham Origins? I know there are more out there! Doodlebug? KGBeast? Cheshire? Sound off below in the comments section!


Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to study natural convective flow and heat transfer in a sinusoidally heated wavy porous cavity in the presence of internal heat generation or absorption. Design/methodology/approach - Sinusoidal heating is applied on the vertical left wall of the cavity, whereas the wavy right wall is cooled at a constant temperature. The top and bottom walls are taken to be adiabatic. The Darcy model is adopted for fluid flow through the porous medium in the cavity. The governing equations and boundary conditions are solved using the finite difference method over a range of amplitudes and number of undulations of the wavy wall, Darcy-Rayleigh numbers and internal heat generation/absorption parameters. Findings - The results are presented in the form of streamlines, isotherms and Nusselt numbers for different values of right wall waviness, Darcy-Rayleigh number and internal heat generation parameter. The flow field and temperature distribution in the cavity are affected by the waviness of the right wall. The wavy nature of the cavity also enhances the heat transfer into the system. The heat transfer rate in the cavity decreases with an increase in the internal heat generation/absorption parameter. Research limitations/implications - The present investigation is conducted for steady, two-dimensional natural convective flow in a wavy cavity filled with Darcy porous medium. The waviness of the right wall is described by the amplitude and number of undulations with a well-defined mathematical function. An extension of the present study with the effects of cavity inclination and aspect ratio will be the interest for future work. Practical implications - The study might be useful for the design of solar collectors, room ventilation systems and electronic cooling systems. Originality/value - This work examines the effects of sinusoidal heating on convective heat transfer in a wavy porous cavity in the presence of internal heat generation or absorption. The study might be useful for the design of solar collectors, room ventilation systems and electronic cooling systems.


Signed edition is limited to 300 copies, each signed by Michael Moorcock, Piotr Jablonski, and Holly Black. Bound in full black cloth, stamped in three colors. Color illustrations hand-tipped into the book with translucent overlays. Oversize at 6½ × 9½ inches. Head and tail bands, ribbon marker.
Howards Conan of Cimmeria is generally credited with starting the boom in heroic fantasy that began in the late 1920s and has been with us ever since. He spawned lots of imitators. Lots and lots of imitators.
In any event, after thirty years of Thongors, Elaks, Kyriks, Duars, Donters, Braks, Whacks, Thugs and Thwacks, readers were sick of it. Somewhere along the way the writers (with the exception of the redoubtable Fritz Leiber) had forgotten all about the sorcery part of the equation, leaving the basic plot being the lumbering oaf facing off against the frail but far smarter and more powerful sorcerer, who in some act of hubris would manage to screw everything up and wind up with his head in a bag. To save us all, a young man from England arrived on the scene in the rather unlikely place of the pages of John Carnells. Michael Moorcock wrote stories about a character that, without his soul-drinking sword, was too weak to raise himself off the couch. Readers had never seen anything quite like the albino prince before and initially werent sure what to make of him.
Playing on the theme of the Ultimate Outsider, Moorcocks protagonist wasnt even human in the strictest sense. By the time the second novella saw print the readership had made up their minds: they loved Elric! Lancer Books brought out a two-volume set of Elric stories in 1967.
Gathered up the short stories. More Elric work followed, such as.
The Sleeping Sorceress, The Weird of the White Wolf. And numerous other short stories, novellas and novels. Now, for the first time, the titles, contents, and order of the Elric stories appear exactly as Michael Moorcock has long intended, making the Centipede Press editions (ultimately 9 volumes, with a tenth volume of archival artwork) the most definitive sets of these books ever made available. With gorgeous illustrations and featuring guest introductions from some of the top writers in the field.
Each volume will be signed by the author, introducer and artists. Elric of Melniboné, The Fortress of the Pearl. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate. Via the add to cart button at right will secure all matching numbers for every book in the series. The complete contents pages of each book are shown below, as well as each books dustjacket, title page spread, and one of the interior illustrations. Includes the novel of the same name and two short stories: Master of Chaos and And So the Great Emperor Received His Education.
It also has an introduction by Holly Black and new artwork by Piotr Jablonski. Signed edition is limited to 300 copies, each signed by Michael Moorcock, Tom Kidd, and Neil Gaiman. Finally, one of the true classics in the sword and sorcery genre gets the deluxe presentation that it has always deserved. For starters, lets begin at the beginning with thanks to two editorial geniuses one in the UK and one in the US. The 1950s was the heyday of the digest magazine, the successor to the pulps of a previous era.
There were a lot less titles published as the digest magazines had a new and formidable competitor for entertainment in leisure hours, more and more homes were installing televisions and while the most obvious victim of the TV revolution was the movie theater, the printed word and the expense of same was also having a rough go of it. As is often the case there were blessings in disguise, the 1930s and 1940s saw the worst aggregate of bad fantasy and science fiction to ever see print. Editors were so desperate to fill magazines that even some of the worst hacks of the time bragged about placing 90% of their output.
In the era of the digests, editors were having none of it and dozens of the old guard fell by the wayside losing their positions to writers who could actually write. Garnered a lot of attention, but real fans knew that the best stuff would find its way to John Carnells.
There was no denying the supremacy of. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. But editor Cele Goldsmith had quietly turned.
From bottom-feeders to impressive publications featuring great science fiction in one and remarkably good fantasy in the other. It should surprise no one that Michael Moorcock immediately found a home for his Elric stories with Carnells. We Yanks had to wait about a year longer for Ms.
Goldsmith to start publishing him. The early Elric stories were gathered in a Lancer paperback under the title of. This led to a follow-up novel. Which apparently brought things to their logical conclusion. Indeed, theres an anarchistic raging against the machine in the early Elric stories that is almost palpable to the point that there are more than a few of us scholars of the genre who believe that Moorcock needed his time with the pioneers of space-rock, Hawkwind, just to mellow out a tad.
What Michael Mooorcock has done is evolve from the angry young man who gave us. To the witty and sophisticated author who is now considered one of our greatest living fantasists, and the Elric character has grown with him. Moorcock simply realized that there was far more to Elrics story and how he grew from the spoiled princeling with a huge sense of entitlement to the doomed and noble figure he becomes in the end. Is Moorcock now at the height of his prowess as a novelist revisiting the early history of a young Elric.
The stories and novels that Moorcock wrote to fill in the blanks in the Elric saga are very obviously necessary pieces of the puzzle that had been left out. Without these revisions, it is literally impossible for the Elric of. To become the Elric of. The complete contents pages of each book are shown below.
The titles, contents, and order of the works appear, for the first time, exactly as Michael Moorcock has long intended, making these the most definitive sets of these books ever made available. The Fortress of the Pearl. Includes the novel of the same name and one novella The Black Blades Song. It also has an introduction by Neil Gaiman and new artwork by Tom Kidd. SAILOR on the SEAS of FATE.
Signed edition is limited to 300 copies, each signed by Michael Moorcock, Richard Hescox, and Michael Chabon. Crossovers between an authors most popular characters occur but rarely, with some of the most intriguing possibilities left untouched or else picked up by other writers practicing the form of literary pastiche. Arthur Conan Doyle never had the cerebral Sherlock Holmes consult on a case with the explosive Professor Challenger. Indeed, most authors avoided the idea entirely, or gave it remarkably short shrift.
Howard brought Bran Mak Morn and Kull of Valusia together briefly in Kings of the Night. Moore had her Jirel of Joiry meet up with Northwest Smith in one memorable story. But only Michael Moorcock had the genius and audacity to bring. Of his major characters together in a full-length novel and then play the trump card that reveals the four characters to all be in effect.
As different spokes of the cosmic wheel, avatars of the Eternal Champion. Moorcock brings together Prince Corum Jhaelen Irsei, the Prince in the Scarlet Robe, (protagonist of six novels), Erekose, (the titular hero of The Eternal Champion and four other novels), Dorian Hawkmoon, the lead of nine volumes which incorporate the two series. The History of the Runestaff.
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Bazylika św. Jana (gr. Ἅγίος Ἰωάννης Θεολόγος Hagios Ioannēs Theologos lub Ἅγίος Θεολόγος Hagios Theologos) – dawna bazylika w pobliżu Efezu, wybudowana w VI wieku przez cesarza Justyniana na wzgórzu Ayasoluk w miejscu prawdopodobnego spoczynku św. Jana Ewangelisty, autora jednej z Ewangelii. Współcześnie zachowana jako ruina w miejscowości Selçuk w zachodniej Turcji, położona u podnóża cytadeli na wzgórzu Ayasoluk około 3,5 km od ruin starożytnego Efezu.

Historia
Drugą połowę I wieku n.e. św. Jan Apostoł spędził w Efezie. Zmarł około roku 100 i pochowany został niedaleko Efezu, na wzgórzu zwanym Ayasoluk (jest to prawdopodobnie zniekształcone brzmienie słów Hagios Theologos – Święty Teolog). Nad grobem św. Jana na początku IV wieku postawiono niewielką kaplicę. Przypuszczalnie ok. 450 wzniesiono kaplicę na planie krzyża przykrytą drewnianym dachem. Około roku 535 cesarz Justynian rozpoczął na jej miejscu budowę bazyliki, wzorowanej na konstantynopolitańskiej bazylice świętych Apostołów. Była to ogromna świątynia na planie krzyża, przed którą znajdowało się atrium otoczone podwójną kolumnadą. Nad nawami bocznymi dobudowano empory, a budowlę przykryto sześcioma kopułami. Do budowy bazyliki wykorzystano między innymi materiał ze zburzonej niewiele wcześniej świątyni Artemidy. Bazylika, której budowę ukończono w 565 stała się wówczas głównym miejscem pielgrzymkowym świata chrześcijańskiego. Po inwazji arabskiej na imperium bizantyjskie w latach 654-5 spadło znaczenie Efezu, a życie miejskie zaczęło skupiać się wokół wzgórza z bazyliką. Świątynię stopniowo otoczono murami, a na szczycie wzgórza wzniesiono zamek – cytadelę służącą do ochrony na wypadek najazdów Arabów.

Do roku 1304 wzgórze oraz miasto pozostawały w rękach bizantyjskich. Kres temu przyniósł najazd Turków seldżuckich, którzy złupili miasto, a bazylikę przekształcili w meczet. Dostępu do grobu św. Jana umożliwiano chrześcijanom za opłatą. W 1402 doszło do inwazji mongolskiego wodza Tamerlana na Ayasoluk. Walki między tureckimi wodzami doprowadziły do zniszczenia wzgórza, w tym bazyliki zamienionej w gruzowisko.

Ruiny bazyliki pozostawały nieuporządkowane aż do początku XX wieku. W roku 1922 podczas wojny grecko-tureckiej greccy archeolodzy przeszukali wzgórze wraz z bazyliką św. Jana. Prace te dowiodły wczesnego kultu jakim otaczano w tym miejscu Jana Ewangelistę. Nie przyniosło to jednak postępu w uporządkowaniu ruiny. Dopiero w połowie XX wieku prace na wzgórzu podjęła austriacka misja archeologiczna. Uporządkowano ruinę i odbudowano konfesję św. Jana. Wkrótce potem miejsce to odwiedził papież Paweł VI potwierdzając jego znaczenie dla chrześcijan. Prace prowadzone w ostatnich latach dzięki wsparciu religijnej fundacji z Limy (Ohio, USA) doprowadziły do odbudowy części kolumn i murów bazyliki, dając wyobrażenie ogromu świątyni istniejącej w czasach bizantyjskich.

Architektura budowli
Bazylika św. Jana była olbrzymią budowlą zbudowaną na planie krzyża o wymiarach 110 m na 30 m. Do świątyni przylegał otwarty dziedziniec (atrium) otoczony podwójną kolumnadą. Bazylikę zbudowano z ciosów kamiennych oraz marmurowych kolumn. Sklepienie stanowiły cztery kopuły rozpościerające się nad nawą główną oraz dwie w nawach bocznych. Kopuły wsparte były masywnymi pomostami, które przebiegały między nawami i podparte dwoma piętrami marmurowych kolumn (wykonanie kolumn z marmuru było konieczne do udźwignięcia masywnej konstrukcji sklepienia). Podłoga nawy głównej wyłożona była płytami marmurowymi i ozdobiona mozaikami.

W środkowej nawie, w absydzie ołtarza znajduje się domniemana konfesja św. Jana. Stanowi ją kamienna płyta wraz z czterema narożnymi kolumnami. Obok nawy głównej znajduje się baptysterium. Na kapitelach dolnego rzędu kolumn w bazylice widoczne są monogramy cesarza Justyniana i cesarzowej Teodory. W okresie późnobizantyjskim kościół otoczono murami obronnymi nadając mu cechy budowli warownej. Z tych elementów zachowała się do czasów współczesnych potężna brama obronna.

Współczesny wygląd bazyliki jest efektem prac archeologicznych, w wyniku których odbudowano fragmenty ścian i kolumnady dające obraz rozmiarów świątyni.

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Fiji, which had been inhabited since the second millennium B.C. , was explored by the Dutch and the British in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1874, an offer of cession by the Fijian chiefs was accepted, and Fiji was proclaimed a possession and dependency of the British Crown. In the 1880s large-scale cultivation of sugarcane began. Over the next 40 years, more than 60,000 indentured laborers from India were brought to the island to work the plantations. By 1920, all indentured servitude had ended. Racial conflict between Indians and the indigenous Fijians has been central to the small island's history.


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Doctor Who: Series One
We've been re-watching last year's Doctor Who, and finished on Sunday night with Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways. I've also meantime been watching the last of the Seventh Doctor's stories, and so far have seen Battlefield (awful) and Ghost Light (Fascinating), and was pondering a deep and meaningful comparison of the two sets of stories. Maybe I will still do that, but meantime here's my renewed take on the Ninth Doctor:
Overall: Ecclestone is one of the great Doctors. The only other two to convincingly portray the character as an alien were Hartnell and Tom Baker, and oddly enough I feel that there are similarities in style between their respective successors, Troughton, Davison and Tennant, all going for a more human, more cuddly version of the Doctor, more devoted to his human companions; which is fine, but it's not quite the same thing; none of them ever felt dangerous. Ecclestone manages to do serious, funny, even afraid, and you can't take your eyes off him.
The stories: To my surprise I found that I liked several of them much more on re-watching than I had first time round. This goes in particular for Boom Town, the second Slitheen story, set in Cardiff, where Annette Badland as the baddy gets her head and neck movements just exactly right, and she and the Doctor viciously expose each others' ethics; and yet it's still very funny when it's meant to be.
But I saw new merits also in Father's Day - perhaps because I feel I know more about Rose's father now, after this year - and Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways. The World War II two-parter, The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances, is still the best, though I still dislike the Doctor's patriotic speech - he's pro-human, sure, but McCoy had a much better line about the British Empire in Ghost Light. The first Slitheen story, Aliens of London / World War Three, is still rubbish.
Anyway, more thoughts on new vs old Who when I finish watching the last of the old.
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New Spa and Bath Culture and the Art of Being Well
A showcase of 21st century wellness, from the protagonists linking ancient treatments with contemporary innovations to the spaces in which they practice.
Be Well delves into one of life's greatest pleasures; a day spent rejuvenating the body and nourishing the spirit. Humans have practiced self-care for centuries—in the sweat lodges of the American Southwest, Roman baths, the hammams of the Ottoman Empire, Japanese onsens, and Finnish saunas. Today, a new interest in self-care is redefining how we accomplish wellness, and there have never been more options. In our increasingly switched-on lives, a growing industry of highly choreographed experiences is geared to help us switch off. Be Well is a journey around the world's most extraordinary spaces for achieving this, looking at the innovative practices they offer and how to carry them into everyday life.
Design & Fashion English
Editors: gestalten & Kari Molvar
Features: 256 pages, full color, hardcover, stitch bound
Kari Molvar is a writer and editor focusing on wellness as seen through the lens of design, culture, and style. She is an online contributor to T: The New York Times Style Magazine and the founder of Rutine Matters. Her work appears in Vogue and The Wall Street Journal, among other titles.
This book has been printed in Trento, Italy.
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Every modern IT team wants to minimize failures while quickly and accurately responding to events and incidents. However, many organizations are trying to implement ITOA while still relying on outdated methodologies and isolated metrics.
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Laser Printers- How laser prints on paper - TechnikNow!
Laser Printers – the device we all use to print stuff on paper! But isn't the name itself very outrageous. I mean if you just observe, how could laser print words on paper. Won't something which can melt down metal, do the same to paper. Ever thought of that? No! But now I got you thinking. Is it not it! Let's get over with the whole thing once and for all.
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The term "laser" originated as an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation".
Basically, lasers are used to cut metals, nano drilling, cutting stacks of clothes in textile industries, breaking stones present inside the human body, etc. Let's begin with the working of laser printers.
Laser Printers – Let's have a rain check!
Laser Printers are similar to Photocopiers using the same basic technology. Laser printers took birth with the modification of Photocopiers. Before proceeding forward let's brief you about Photocopiers. Photocopier uses a bright light to make an exact copy of a printed page. The light gets reflected off the page onto a light-sensitive drum. Static Electricity( the reason behind sticking of paper pieces onto a scale when rubbed on the head) plays a role of driving force and makes the ink particles to stick to the drum and then it is transferred to papers using hot rollers.
Laser Printers works very similarly to the above-explained concept. As there is no original page to copy the laser has to take care of all these from the scratch. Moving towards having a closer look at how data is stored on our Computer. It uses a microscopically small switching devices called Transistors. The Printer has to convert this electronically stored data into pictures. For doing so this electronic data is used to control laser beams in laser printers. This laser beams throw ink to papers or draw images into the paper. This is done using the concept of STATIC ELECTRICITY as in the case of photocopiers.
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...his mannerisms, his awkwardness, his semi-languid attitudinizing, and, more than all, his ungainly shape and long hair, were obstacles in the way of admiration, while his utter absence of that essential to all lecturers, humor, put an air brake to anything like applause."
This newspaper also reported the venue as Ralston Hall.
* a.k.a. Ralston's Hall; cf. previous chronologies misspell the name as Rolston.
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Unum focuses on supplier engagement to transform procurement
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Employee benefits and insurance provider Unum is transforming procurement by strengthening its relationship with suppliers to encourage innovation.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with SM, Unum's vice president of global procurement William Bagley, explained the procurement team is in its second year of a five-year change project and aims to be "the customer of choice" with suppliers.
"We are creating a procurement organisation that is a trusted business partner to the business," he said. "So not only looking at saving money but how we can bring the capabilities of the supply base into our organisation so that we can provide a better product to our customers."
Bagley added he wanted procurement to be a "source of value and innovation through our suppliers for our businesses". He said the team is working to improve its relationship with suppliers, and build trust to encourage innovation. He said procurement professionals need to "be clear on what they are trying to accomplish when engaging with suppliers".
"It isn't very complicated, it isn't a 12-step programme," he added. "[It is about] how do you get a supplier to provide their knowledge and their smartest people to work with Unum to solve our problems.
"It isn't something that is magical. It's about having the right relationship [based on trust], and working with fewer suppliers."
Bagley has also set up a global supplier awards programme. "It recognises that we are not in it for ourselves," he said. "You have to acknowledge the people that make you successful."
As well as introducing new training and capabilities for the procurement team, and making use of business process outsourcing, Bagley has put together a procurement governance board. This consists of four senior leaders in the business including the chief financial officer and the head of the global services organisation.
"We've got a very senior level team to provide guidance and cultural input," said Bagley, who has been at the company for two years. "They played a strong role in terms of supporting the initiatives and helping to navigate myself and the procurement organisation some of the hurdles, culture-wise (helping staff through the new way of working).
"You're looking at them as an advisory board. All major transformations have to start off with the right leaders supporting you."


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Pink Floyd's influence in rock simply cannot be overstated. The legendary rock band began in 1965 and released some of the most important albums in all of music. Classics like Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall are staples of rock music and helped turn the band into an international sensation. In particular, 1979's The Wall is a largely unique and stark milestone for the band—a concept album inspired in part by Roger Waters' childhood. Overall, there isn't a bad track on the record. Every song is Pink Floyd at their peak.
The Wall—and many other Pink Floyd albums—continue to impact hard rock and metal today. Many of those acts inspired by the London quintet have come together to pay tribute to the 1979 classic in a new collection of covers called The Wall [Redux]. 26 bands and musicians joined forces to each cover a track from the two-part, 80-minute opus. Many of the bands and artists featured lie heavily in the realm of doom and stoner rock. These newer, creative minds help to reimagine one of the most important albums in rock music.
Some of the reduxed album's highlights include Year of the Cobra's "When the Tigers Broke Free" and ASG's "Mother". My personal favorite—Pallbearer's spin on "Run Like Hell"—sees the Arkansas force breathe brand new life into the track through their unique take on psych and traditional doom. Elsewhere, Ghastly Sound and Sasquatch tackle both parts of "Another Brick in the Wall" while Mars Red Sky takes on "Comfortably Numb". Each track on this cover record, however, deserves its praise. There are many shining moments throughout The Wall [Redux]. The adventure in this record—much like the original—is digging in and finding your favorite part.
In a statement to Metal Injection, the group behind The Wall [Redux] spoke about the process saying, "Magnetic Eye's Redux series came about based on the realization that, with so much music available and more showing up literally every hour, it's entirely possible that young music fans might never have the experience of discovering and listening to truly classic rock albums. So we're calling attention to records that, musically and conceptually, have great meaning for us personally as well as in the history of rock and roll.
Having already redux-ed Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland and Helmet's Meantime, we landed on Pink Floyd's The Wall at a cultural moment when the themes of isolation, divisiveness, and alienation that Roger Waters and company captured on possibly the greatest concept album of all time are more poignant than ever. Almost two years in the works, it was our honor to work with so many phenomenal bands to breathe new life and purpose into this classic record!"
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Has a cavity become an infection, one causing dental discomfort or downright pain? If so, you may need root canal treatment. While many people fear root canals, few know why. It could be because they mistakenly believe that a root canal will be a cause of pain, rather than a cure for it. Root canal treatment is actually used to treat severe infections within a tooth, infections that have been known to cause pain for many people. By addressing the infection and removing it, a restorative dentist can help restore your oral health and eliminate your pain. So, if you are worried about needing root canal treatment, or have one scheduled in the near future, take a deep breath and understand the many positive benefits that can come from restorative treatment like a root canal.
During a root canal, the dentist will use anesthesia to keep you comfortable while he or she carefully removes any infected portions of your tooth as well as other debris that may have entered your damaged tooth. The dentist will then carefully sanitize the area, and seal the tooth with a filling, a crown, or a combination of the two.
Sealing the tooth is necessary to help prevent the tooth from becoming reinfected or falling out in its fragile state.
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Twelve men, three rafts, and nine thousand miles of open ocean; that is thestory behind PACIFIC CHALLENGE, our special Thanksgiving attraction in the Amphitheater at CostaBaja. This thrilling film puts you on board with the men of the Las Balsas Expedition as they sail three balsawood rafts all the way from Ecuador to Australia. The leader of the expedition and the director of the film will be joining us for the evening, so I hope you can come and meet them and enjoy the film with us all at CostaBaja on Thursday November 24th starting at 7:30 pm.


In the zoo in Fuchsia City in front of the Safari Zone, there is an extinct Pokemon. This Pokemon will be either Omanyte or Kabuto -- which one it is depends on which fossil you chose in Mt. Moon. So the question was, If you could get to Fuchsia City without having chosen a fossil, what Pokemon would be shown at the zoo?
So, I set out to sequence break Pokemon Fire Red version. I decided to use walk through walls cheats to get to Fuchsia City as soon as it was convenient. I had to play the game long enough to get a starter Pokemon (I chose Charmander) and a Pokedex, because the game does extremely weird things if you cheat and start battling and capturing Pokemon without having these two items first.
So, enable the cheat codes and get out of Palette Town!
I couldn't find a cheat code that would disable random battles entirely, so I used a "Level 1 Pokemon" cheat so any random battles I do get into will be with Pokemon of reasonable levels.
Walking south towards Cinnabar Island.
A wild Tentacool decided to fight me. Good thing it's only Level 1.
Finally arrived at Cinnabar Island.
Cinnabar Island with no badges and only 1 Pokemon!
Finally arrived in Fuchsia City.
Now that we've finally arrived in Fuchsia City, let's check out the zoo and see what extinct Pokemon is there!
Looks like the default is a Kabuto. Mystery solved!
If you didn't choose a fossil Pokemon, it looks like the default is to show Kabuto in the zoo. Remember that ordinarily it's not supposed to be possible to get to Fuchsia City without having chosen one of the fossils, because the fossils block your path through Mt. Moon.
Now that we're in Fuchsia City, can we try to continue the game from here without cheating any more? We should be able to! I only have a level 7 Charmander and every Pokemon in this part of Kanto is around level 30, so what can I do about that?
Use the Safari Zone! I can catch wild Pokemon here without having to battle them, and the Pokemon levels will be comparable to the average level of Pokemon in the Fuchsia City area.
And I have $3,024 to spend on the Safari Zone game!
The first wild Pokemon I run into is a Lv31 Nidorino!
Remember also that the Safari Zone contains the Surf HM. But, I can't use Surf outside of battle until I defeat the Fuchsia City gym leader. Good thing I'm in Fuchsia City!
I found the Surf HM inside the Safari Zone.
From the Safari Zone, I've captured a Nidorino, Ryhorn, Nidoran♀, Paras, Exeggcute, and Venomoth. Unfortunately none of my Pokemon are able to learn Surf, so even if I do defeat the Fuchsia City gym leader, how will I escape?
But wait! There's a Fishing Guru in Fuchsia City! I can get a fishing rod from him!
I got the Good Rod.
I was wondering for a minute how the fishing rods worked. Ordinarily you find the first Fishing Guru in Vermilion City, and you get the Old Rod which can only catch Magikarp. Then you get the Good Rod from Fuchsia City which can catch Goldeen, Poliwag and Magikarp. And then the Super Rod can catch more Pokemon.
I was wondering if maybe the rods were incremental, and that the Fuchsia City Fishing Guru would give me the Old Rod since I talked to him first. But apparently the rods are hard-coded, so I got the Good Rod. With this I caught myself a Level 10 Goldeen from the pond in the Fishing Guru's back yard.
Before taking on the Fuchsia City gym, I need to level up my Pokemon some more. The best place to do that is to head out on Route 15.
Route 15 from Fuchsia City to Lavender Town.
After battling my way through the Bikers and Bird Catchers, I finally made my way to the bottom of Silence Bridge.
Silence Bridge - Route 12.
It's a straight shot north to Lavender Town!
I found the other Fishing Guru's house and got a Super Rod. With this I can catch Dratini in the Safari Zone. Dragon Pokemon are cool, right? And I don't even have a single gym badge yet!
And, here's Snorlax. This Pokemon blocks my access to Lavender Town to the north, and Vermilion City to the west. I can't get a PokeFlute to wake up Snorlax until I've already been to Lavender Town and Celadon City.
But look! I could Surf right around Snorlax and get to Lavender Town! Now I have my plan. I just need to defeat the Fuchsia City Gym Leader, teach my Goldeen how to Surf, Surf around the Snorlax and get to Lavender Town!
My Exeggcute knows Confusion, which is Super Effective against poison type Pokemon. The Fuchsia City gym is full of poison types, so Exeggcute is my best bet for beating the gym leader.
Used Exeggcute to defeat Koga, the gym leader.
Now I can Surf around Snorlax! I caught a Level 10 Goldeen with the Good Rod, now let's teach it how to Surf.
Sequence breaking at its finest.
Taking the Underground Path from Lavender Town to Celadon City.
Here we are in Celadon City!
Now I've made it to Celadon City. There's a lot of exciting things I can do here! For starters, I can buy a Leaf Stone to evolve my Exeggcute.
I bought myself a Leaf Stone.
I evolved Exeggcute with it! More power!
While I'm in Celadon City, I'd love to be able to get straight to the gym and completely destroy the Grass-type Pokemon there with my Charmeleon, but I can't get in!
Rain check! I need to get to Cerulean City and defeat the water Pokemon gym leader to be allowed to use Cut, and I need to get to Vermilion City to actually get my hands on the Cut HM to teach it to one of my Pokemon!
In the virtual Game Freak headquarters in Celadon City, you get the Hot Tea, which you then give to the guards that surround Saffron City and then they allow you into the city. Saffron City is the central hub between Cerulean City, Celadon City, Lavender Town, and Vermilion City. This will allow us to get back to all the major Kanto cities. Now we're getting back on track!
Here we are in Saffron City!
Now, the next place I should go is north to Cerulean City. You can get in to the city without Cut, but you can't get back out. I'll need to see Bill anyway to get the S.S. Ticket, so I can get the Cut HM from the S.S. Anne. So, north it is!
North to Cerulean City, south to Vermilion City.
The south border to Cerulean City.
See, this is why you need Cut to get out of Cerulean City. I'm supposed to be on the other side of this wall. But, somebody's stupid Slowbro is in the way anyway.
This is how you get into Cerulean City.
I'm not supposed to be on top of this ledge. When I jump down, I'll be stuck in Cerulean City until I complete the "go see Bill" side quest. But, I must see Bill so that I can get the S.S. Ticket!
Since the Cerulean City Gym is right here, let's go and beat Misty real quick so we'll be allowed to use Cut once we finally get it.
I know Rhyhorn is weak against Starmie, but c'mon.
Even Misty's strongest Pokemon is no chance against mine.
Thanks! This is what I came here for!
Oh look, it's my rival, Blue!
My rival Blue challenges you when you try to leave Cerulean City to see Bill to the north. Ordinarily, if you play the game properly, you're trapped in Cerulean City with nowhere to go but north.
Blue's Pokemon though are super weak compared to mine. Completely destroying him takes no effort at all. And then I'm off to see Bill, destroying any trainer who gets in my way.
I got the S.S. Ticket from Bill here.
And with the S.S. Ticket, I'm able to get out of Cerulean City and head south. I cut through Saffron City instead of taking the underground tunnel and arrive in Vermilion City.
I head straight for the S.S. Anne to get my Cut HM.
Now, this is where the first really interesting quirk happened with my sequence breaking. I didn't waste time battling trainers on the S.S. Anne since they don't stand a chance against me anyway, and I headed straight for the Captain's Cabin.
Ordinarily, your rival will challenge you to a battle right before the Captain's Cabin. But, Blue was absent! He didn't show up to challenge me. I wonder why? Is it because I have the Fuchsia City gym badge already?
Where are you, Blue? Are you too embarrassed to battle me again?
I went ahead and got the Cut HM from the Captain.
Now, with the Cut HM, I can challenge the Vermilion City gym leader.
Time to take on the Vermilion City gym!
The gym trainers stood no chance against me.
The gym leader also lost spectacularly to my overpowered Pokemon.
Now with the Vermilion City gym out of the way, I went back to Celadon City to pwn my way through their Grass-type Pokemon with my Charmeleon.
Now, when I defeated the Vermilion City gym, I'm able to use Fly now. I can get Fly in Celadon City, so, let's go get it. Also, I captured a random Pidgey I found in the grass so that I'd have a Pokemon to teach Fly to.
My gym badges so far. I never got the 1st badge.
Where should I Fly to next?
As you can see, I've now been to every city except for Pewter City and Indigo Plateau (but the latter is normal, as that's the very last city you go to).
I'm gonna fly to Cerulean City because I have an idea on how I can further sequence-break this game. Since I can Surf, I can escape from Cerulean City going west and get to Mt. Moon, and enter Mt. Moon from the wrong side.
This will place me on the other side of the fossils, and let me choose my fossil without having to battle the Pokemon trainer who guards them!
Surfing here to get out of Cerulean City!
This trainer is blocking the entrance to the Cerulean City Cave, where Mewtwo lives, because you can't get in there until you've beaten the entire game. But I'm not interested in that cave, I'm going to head west to Mt. Moon!
Mt. Moon - The back entrance.
And here we are. Ordinarily, I would be on the opposite side of the fossils, and I'd have to battle the trainer down there first. After winning, he'd let me choose a fossil, and he'd take the opposite one. But I'm standing right by the fossils right now!
I'll take the Kabuto fossil!
The trainer automatically goes and takes the other one.
As I expected, taking the fossil has triggered the trainer to take the other one. But, I've skipped the battle with him now! See, look!
I know, I've been to Cinnabar Island!
Through Mt. Moon, onward to Pewter City!
I'm positive that you are mistaken. I've never been to Viridian Forest!
All this excitement has caused my Charmeleon to evolve!
Oh. Thanks for the warm welcome to Pewter City.
I've encountered Pewter City's "invisible wall" from the wrong side. The invisible wall is this trainer who's supposed to stop you from leaving Pewter City until you've defeated the gym leader, Brock.
I'm sure I have the right stuff, buddy.
Brock's strongest Pokemon doesn't even stand a chance.
With Brock defeated, I've now run out of ways to sequence-break this game. I have the first 5 badges and have unlocked the paths to every city in the game. This is the point at which the game played legitimately and my sequence-broken game converge.
Dude, I was catching Pokemon since before you were programmed.
This old man stopped me on my way in to town to teach me how to catch a Pokemon. Because I never talked to him before I left for Fuchsia City at the beginning of my quest.
It's an Omanyte! What happened to Kabuto?
At this point I'm done with my experiment. From this point in the game, the plot has caught up with me and I'm no longer sequence breaking anymore. I'm at a state in this game where I could've gotten to the same place through legitimate means.


text in a film. The purpose of this paper is to understand whether the subtitles are already consistent with the subtitle criteria both technically and linguistically. Hopefully, this paper can help others to learn more about subtitling and its criteria. This paper will analyze the subtitle of a film with the title The Good Dinosaur. The audiovisual data of the film is in the form of Digital Video Disc (DVD) and the Indonesian subtitle is obtained from subtitle website provider in the Internet. Based on the subtitling criteria, there are several linguistics inconsistencies in the subtitles though some of its technicality is already correct.
era which people are more consumed by everything presented through television screen. The audiovisual translation is the advanced and modern translation practice of the 21st century. A most notable field in the area of audiovisual translation is subtitling. In many foreign films or television shows, we often see a text in the lower side of the screen which purpose is to tell what the speaker in the screen image is talking about. The text is usually in another language from the speakers' language, although sometimes it can be in the same language as the speakers.
In order to accommodate all of the Indonesian viewers, many of those western films are subtitled in to Indonesian language. For those who are not fluent in English language, the subtitle will be very useful in understanding the plot, the story of the film. Indonesian viewers who are fluent in English language can understand the storyline without reading the subtitle. Sometimes, the subtitle of western series is not correctly translated in to Indonesian language. It can be a small mistakes or it can be a rather bigger mistakes in understanding the content of the conversation. A good translation is needed to produce an accurate and equivalence subtitle from English language to Indonesian language.
In many western films broadcasted in Indonesia, some of them are subtitled in to Indonesian Language. The Indonesian Language translation sometimes does not have the equivalence level of context with the original English language. The English language conversation that is translated in to Indonesian Language sometimes has a slightly different meaning and it will affect the conveyed meaning of the conversation. Hopefully, with a further discussion on important criteria on subtitling English language into Indonesian Language, the number of mistakes in the film subtitling can be reduced. Significantly, each of the English language conversation in films can be equivalently translated into Indonesian Language. Therefore, the Indonesian viewers will not miss the conveyed meaning of the conversation in the films.
It was Gambier (2003) who discussed the terms audiovisual translation, screen translation and multimedia translation (Munday, 2001, p. 184). Jorge Díaz Cintas (1999) described up to ten ways of audiovisual translation, but there are only three that stand out, such as dubbing, voice over and subtitling. Dubbing or also known as lip-sync, is a process of replacing the original voice speech in source language with voice speech in target language as closely as possible in timing, phrasing and lip-movements (Munday, 2012). On the other hand, voice over is defined as a technique using a narrator speaking in target language, following the original source language. Both dubbing and voice over are considered as complex, time consuming and costly. In the early twentieth century, subtitle has taking over the use of dubbing and voice over. Subtitling is defined as a translation practice consists of presenting a written text, in the lower parts of the screen with the purpose to tell the original dialogue of the speakers, the discursive elements appear in the image, and also the soundtrack that comes along with the image (Cintas, 2014, p. 8). Subtitling have a positive reputation than dubbing and voice over, thus many film producer decided to use it in their films.
The audiovisual translation had already attracted many scholars to study analyze it. The golden era of audiovisual translation was in 1990s where the demand of audiovisual translation increased along with many films and television shows exported outside its original country. The audiovisual translation field is still under the bigger umbrella of translation studies. The term of audiovisual translation was not very popular among the scholars, it was previously called the Film Translation since it concerns mostly on the translation practice of film or television shows. A previous study on subtitling was concentrating on the process of the subtitling. Discussing on how a translator conducting a subtitling process, the strategies on doing a good film subtitling (Simanjuntak, 2013). Based on Gotlieb's previous research, there are ten strategies in conducting subtitling but in Simanjuntak's research showed only six that were used by the translator. The six most used strategies are: Expansion, Paraphrase, Transfer, Imitation, Transcription, and Deletion strategies. The other four strategies, decimation, dislocation, condensation, and resignation strategies were not used at all.
Hansjörg Bittner did another research about the quality of subtitling translation. He mentioned that measuring the quality of a translation was difficult since there are no fixed criteria (Bittner, 2011). Bittner focused on the certain aspects that influenced a translator while translating the source language of a film to the target language. He referred the aspects as the translator's daffodil. The quality of a subtitling translation depends on six aspects around the target text, which are text form, client, culture, politics, translator, and source text. These are the things that a translator needs to focus on conducting a good subtitle translation. However, with the vast growing films industry and a high demand of subtitles, there is no time to once again checking whether the translator had done the subtitle translation according to the translator's daffodil.
There are five major criteria of subtitling: distribution format, mode of projection, technicality, time and linguistic (Cintas, 2014). The distribution format will classify subtitle into cinema, television, video / VHS, DVD, and Internet formats. According to the projection mode, subtitle can be projected by mechanical and thermal, photochemical, optical, laser, and electronic. Based on the technicality, subtitle can be printed directly on the film (open subtitles), selected by the viewer from a DVD's menu (closed subtitles) or projected on to the screen. Based on the timing of process, subtitling can be pre-prepared (offline subtitles) and live/realtime (online subtitles). According to its linguistic dimension, subtitles can be Intralingual subtitles, Interlingual subtitles or Bilingual subtitles. The last type of subtitling gains its popularity when the era of films and television shows began to spread to other country in the form of Digital Video Disc (DVD).
In the process of translating source language to target language, translation equivalence may appear in different levels (Baker, 1992, p. 5). Grammatical equivalence appears when referring to the diversity of grammatical categories across languages; Textual equivalence appears when referring to the terms of information and cohesion between the source language and the target language equivalence. Pragmatic equivalence appears when referring to imprimaturs and strategies of avoidance during the translation process. A new way to produce an equivalent translation is by using Eugene Nida's two basic orientations or types of equivalence (Munday 2001, p. 42). Nida discarded the previous terms of 'literal', 'free', and 'faithful' translation. The new types of equivalence consist of, Formal equivalence and Dynamic equivalence. The Formal equivalence focuses on the message conveyed in Source text should match the Target Text whereas the Dynamic equivalence focuses on seeking the closest natural equivalent of the Source text to the Target text. In other words, the message conveyed in the text should be translated as natural as possible.
Subtitling process may involve several operators (Cintas, 2014). The spotter is the one spotting or marking the transcript according to where the subtitles should start and stop. The next operator is the translator, the one whom translating the actual source language dialogue to target language dialogue. The last operator is the adaptors whose job is to check the language and technical aspects, ensuring that the subtitles are in sync with the picture frame. Nowadays, many subtitle provider company only use two operators, the spotter and the translator. Without the presence of the adaptors, sometimes the subtitle product is not as flawless as it should be. Moreover, subtitling sometimes accused of being ruined language form since the linguistic rules requirement on it. With the growth of film production, many films sold to other countries, which means the source language of the films are translated into various target languages. This means, although translation of source language to target language is a linguistic act but it is also a cultural transfer.
In regards to subtitling criteria, the translation strategies that often used to translate the source language text of a film into target language is to translate sentences and the smaller units of a text. The use of text reduction strategy is considered to be helpful since there are technical limitations of subtitling (Cintas, 2014, p. 146). The written form of film dialogue in subtitle is always reduced from the actual speech or verbal dialogue. There are two types of text reduction: partial and total reduction. Partial reduction is achieved through condensation and precise source text rendering. Total reduction is achieved through deletion or omission of lexical items.
In order to understand more about audiovisual translation especially subtitling, I have conducted a case study. I will analyze the subtitles of a film based on the technical criteria of subtitling and its linguistics of subtitling. The data of this case study would be the Indonesians subtitles of film with the title of The Good Dinosaur. It is an American 3D Computer animated comedy-drama adventure buddy film. The ninety-three minutes film was released in November 2015 (United States). The language of the film is English, produced by Pixar Animated Studios, directed by Peter Sohn and screenplay by Meg LeFauve. Walt Disney Pictures distributed The Good Dinosaur worldwide.
Internet. The next step is watching the films with the Indonesians subtitle. While watching the film, I took notes on the technicality of the subtitle's criteria. Then, I took another round, watching the film again, but this time, I took notes regarding the linguistic criteria of subtitling. Thus, I compared the Indonesian subtitle with the original verbal English dialogue by using the English transcript and checking for any inconsistencies in the translation.
The timing for subtitle of the film is in line with the average timing rule, which is not more than 6 seconds before the subtitle change (Munday, 2009). It has longer characters on its first subtitle line. It is common for DVD format subtitle because it is assumed that the viewers have the control on hitting the pause, rewind and forward button. If the viewers feel they need more timeto read the subtitle, they can always pause the DVD player. From the technical point of view, The Good Dinosaur can be identified as closed subtitles. The Indonesian subtitle can be disassociated from each other, the viewers have the ability to choose whether to use the subtitle or not.
The preparation time for The Good Dinosaur's subtitle was pre-prepared or offline subtitling. The subtitle was prepared after the film was shoot and before the film's release date (Cintas, 2014). The translator was given enough time to conducting translation process from the English source text into Indonesians target text. According to the subtitle's lexical density, The Good Dinosaur's subtitle is within the limit of standardized DVD subtitle. The Linguistic parameter of The Good Dinosaur's subtitling is bilingual subtitles. It is a subtitle category that is produced based on its geographical areas where two languages are spoken. The original language of The Good Dinosaur is English language, but for the purpose of distribution and sales, the film was sold outside the country of origin. The original English language dialogue then translated into many other languages in the form of written subtitle.
Subtitle should consist of not only the verbal source language translation but also the visual signs and codes of the image frames of the film. In The Good Dinosaur that I watched, the Indonesian subtitle only focusing on the verbal dialogue between the characters. It does not translating the signs and codes of the image in frames although sometimes the characters do not say something verbally instead the characters are doing something.
In this frame, the little boy is dragging the bug and tries to ask Arlo the Aptosaurus to eat the bug. The little boy does not say a word throughout the film only growling, but according to the principle of translation, the imagery in this frame should be subtitled. The subtitle should be written inside a bracket, [Anak laki-laki itu menyuruh Arlo memakan serangga]. The use of bracket in subtitle indicates that the subtitle does not translating a verbal dialogue but it translate the visual code in the frame. Also, from the subtitle that I obtained from a subtitle provider website on the Internet is the result of incomplete subtitling operators. The spotter and the translator are two out of three subtitling operators (Cintas, 2014, p. 146). There are some late in and out of the subtitle in some frames, which indicate that there is no adaptor operator during the subtitling process. It is supposed to be the adaptor's job to check the in and out timing of each subtitle in each frames.
Based on the linguistic part of subtitling; a subtitle translation is considered as not a faithful translation, but it requires the translator to transfer the idea of the dialogue correctly. According to Eugene Nida, a successful translation depends on the four basic requirements of translation which are: making sense, conveying the spirit of the original, having a natural and easy form of expression and producing similar response (Munday, 2001, p. 42). Based on these requirements, the translation of the Indonesian subtitle The Good Dinosaur film is not a good translation product. Some of the verbal dialogues are not translated into a natural and easy form in Indonesian language. The choices of words are sometimes not equivalent with the intended meaning of the original language.
The first line is translated using partial text reduction strategy. The English dialogue is translated using concise words. The second line is translated using total text reduction strategy. The expression Get out of there if translated word per word in Indonesian should be Keluarlah / Pergilah dari sana, but in this subtitle translation, it translated as Enyahlah dari sini. It uses the word Enyahlah, which representing the speaker's anger and harsh language. The context of the dialogue is between Henry, the father to his son Buck. Henry is not angry towards Buck but he was surprised at what Buck did, then he ordered Buck to leave the barn. It should be translated using Indonesian words like pergilah or keluarlah.
The word Chores is translated to pekerjaan in Indonesian, which actually has a different degree of meaning between the source language and the target language. The word Chores in this line refers to the household task that children usually do to help their parents, which in Indonesian the better word should be Tugas. The Indonesian word pekerjaan means something that people do to meet ends need. Therefore, the translation should be Buck, lakukan tugasmu!
Some of the verbal dialogues in The Good Dinosaur uses periphrases that are very lengthy and if it is translated literally words per word in Indonesians, it would take so much space than it should be (Cintas, 2014, p. 151). The translator choose to replace those periphrases with a shorter verb forms. However, the translator's decision seems to jump over board and resulting a different meaning of translation.
The Indonesian translation is not the correct translation of the English source text. Not only in terms of words per words translation but also the meaning conveyed in it. The source language suggested an advice so that Arlo does not come closer to the river. It is also supported by the imagery in the frame, Arlo is not playing in the river but he was running wildly towards the river because he is being chase by a group of hen. However, for this frame, the translator wrote Jangan main-main di sungai, Arlo! which was a different meaning from the original source text. It indicates that the translator tries to simplify the periphrases the river is not something to mess around with. Unfortunately, the translator chose the wrong words, the Indonesian subtitle Jangan main-main di sungai refers to a direct order to stop playing in the river.
Another disturbing subtitle translation in The Good Dinosaur is the fatal mistake in its translation. The translator seems to make a fatal mistake in translating the verbal English sourcetext. Perhaps this is happened because the translator has a different interpretation of the frames that lead to a different form of translation.
The lines you're a poppa and you're a momma suppose to be a statement told by Henry and Ida to each other. Ida expresses her gratitude of the hatched children to her husband Henry by saying that he is now a father (Poppa – southern dialect) and vice versa. The translator of the subtitle grasps this meaning with a different perspective that resulting a different translation meaning. The word Ini Ayahmu is not the correct translation because the dialogue is supposed to be between the parents – Henry and Ida – not between the parents and the newly hatched children. The correct translation should be, You're a poppa – Kau seorang Ayah dan You're a momma – Kau seorang Ibu.
Some of The Good Dinosaur verbal dialogues are rich with the southern American dialect. If we enjoy the film and have a fluent ability in understanding the dialogue in its original source language, then we can feel the thickness of southern dialect. Dialect refers to variety of language in its association to a set of users based on geographical area (Cintas, 2014, p. 191). In terms of subtitling, the dialect can either be translated or not depending on the linguistic variation throughout the film or only some characters use it. In The Good Dinosaur subtitling, the southern American dialect is not translated because the main characters do not continually use the thick southern dialect.
The original verbal dialogues above are filled with southern American dialect, but when it was subtitled into Indonesians, it looses the original dialect since Indonesians language does not have the similar dialect. Moreover, the translator's translation turns out to be incomplete and false. The line We got longhorns to round up should be translated as Kita harus kumpulkan banteng-banteng kita in Indonesians. Instead, the translator uses para banteng menanti kita, which is false.
Technically, the subtitle for The Good Dinosaur film is already precise. There are only small minor inconsistencies with the standard subtitle criteria. On the contrary, I found many disturbing mistakes linguistically. Most of them are related with the degree of words, equivalence of words that the translator chose and false interpretation of the translator. The translator of the film The Good Dinosaur tries to use the text reduction strategy. The translator uses the strategy in order to produced shorter translation lines, which comply with the technical requirement of subtitling. Unfortunately, there are some translations that are translated with different degree of words causing a different conveyed meaning from the original source language. Therefore, It is important for a subtitle translator to understand both source language and target language. A good translator needs to find good equivalence words of Target language in order to transfer not just the words but also the idea of the Source language. Also, a translator needs to have a good knowledge of the film by watching the entire film before translating it.
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