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Onward movie review: Chris Pratt, Tom Holland and Disney Pixar will make you laugh and cry but not enough
Onward movie review: Chris Pratt and Tom Holland voice brothers Bailey and Ian in Disney Pixar's latest tear-jerker which sadly, is far from the studios' best works.
Onward movie review: The film is about two boys who wish to bring their father back to life.
Updated on Mar 06, 2020 03:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySoumya Srivastava
Director: Dan Scanlon
Cast: Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer
Two brothers set out to magically bring their dead father back to life and it's exactly the tear-jerker pitch those geniuses at Pixar are always targeting. Fast forward a few years, we are watching Onward on the big screen and tears are indeed being shed. For any other film, me shedding two big fat tears would have meant an instant seal of quality but when it comes to Disney Pixar films, the bar is set too high. So it brings me no pleasure to inform you that Onward, despite being an emotional and enjoyable ride, takes its place on the lowest rung of the Pixar's shelves.
Onward is set in a magical world from which, unfortunately, magic has disappeared due to the laziness its people. Instead of mastering spells or learning how to wield staffs, people gave in to the lure of creating light with bulbs, warming homes with heaters or entertaining themselves with the internet. Slowly, this world forgot about the existence of magic. However, their biologies did not change. This world is still inhabited by trolls who go to high school, centaurs and cyclops have joined the police force, and dragons are kept as pets while unicorns roam the streets and dive into people's trash cans.
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Living in this world is an adorable family of elves, the stars of this story. Tom Holland and Chris Pratt reunite for the first time since the latter put a gun to the former's head on that floating space donut in Avengers: Infinity War, to voice the two brothers Ian (Tom) and Barley (Chris). The young boys lost their father when Barley was just a toddler and Ian wasn't even born. They live with their mother (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who comes closest to the cosiest, cuddliest pillow of an animated character you've ever seen.
While Barley is the carefree and careless nuisance of the town who is way too obsessed with the magical past, Ian is having a tough time at school making friends or just being confident in general. But on Ian's 16th birthday, their mother hands the boys a gift left by their dead father. Now these weren't letters about how to make your surviving parent fall for their college best friend but a magical staff to bring the dead parent back to life, just for a day. It's never mentioned or asked how the father landed on such a fantastical object in the first place or how he knew which spells to use.
The boys, regardless, try out the spell but something goes wrong as they are greeted at their house by just the legs of their father. With a dog (dragon) leash around their dad's waist and a pair of sunglasses tied to a pillow for his bust, they drag him around town, to taverns and to mountains like Satish Shah in a sari. The boys are looking for a way to bring the whole of him back to life so they could play catch, learn to drive, talk about their life or bid a final goodbye.
This Weekend at Bernie's is loaded with chaotic moments, speedy chases, treasure hunts, action and adventure but the film's most effective moments were the slower, more genuine moments between the two brothers. While Ian was surely the protagonist of this film, it was 'screw-up' Bailey who made the bigger impression. He was made even warmer by Pratt's undeniably amazing skills as a voiceover star, now twice proven after The Lego Movie. He's the overeager, excited, energetic but never annoying as the big brother who can make you feel gooey inside with his soft eyes and sincere words.
These tender, more emotionally moving moments arriving too little and too late into the film. A big portion of it is invested in the pursuit of a McGuffin while the journey offers only a few moments of real warmth. Even the jokes, are mostly inspired by juxtaposing the fantastical creatures against more regular scenarios. An elf in tights is working out to Jane Fonda-like workout videos on the telly, a Manticore is selling her swords to pawn shops, fairies have joined biker gangs or a centaur is taking his car to work. Soon, one gets accustomed of seeing these creature in a world like ours but the film hopes you'd still laugh at the absurdity of it even an hour later.
Onward, even though not among the best of Pixar films, is still more than watchable. It has a good, sweet and warm story about losing a parent and finding happiness in what one might call an incomplete family. It's about two brothers and the precious love they share for each other. By the end of it, Ian and Bailey's relationship feels real and hence, I awarded it with the two very well deserved tears from my eyes. Sure, it's nothing compared to the buckets I filled over Coco. But then, I am sure nothing ever will be.
Soumya Srivastava
Soumya Srivastava is a senior web producer at Hindustan Times. She writes about movies and TV because what else is there to life anyway. ...view detail
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We're in a rum mood this week. We've got a buffoon for a Foreign Secretary, a new PM only her parents could love and, in spite of the swell of public outcry, the country has cashed in a one-way ticket down the swanny. It's time to head to sunnier pastures, for a well-deserved spot of the three Rs: rest, relaxation, and rum.
Can't afford the airfare? Don't fret. We've got you covered, with a sprightly Polynesian cocktail recipe from Nico Peratinos of London's Aqua Nueva.
Oh stop with your sweet nothings, Nico – we were hooked as soon as we read the fresh and fruity (not to mention seriously potent) ingredients list: zesty lime, steamy pineapple, nectarous passion fruit and a bucketload of rum.
Based on classic sup the Zombie, Peratinos' Flotante draws on a distinct and ever-popular branch of drinks heritage – the tiki cocktail.
Tiki style can be traced back to the movement's founding father (and former Prohibition bootlegger) Ernest Gantt. An enthusiastic adventurer, Gantt travelled the world in the 1920s, before falling in love with the Caribbean and the South Pacific. After moving to Hollywood in 1933, he opened the first Polynesian themed restaurant, only to see the tiki craze spread like wildfire throughout the 1940s and 50s.
Popularised in the 1930s, the Zombie is a tropical confection, all zingy fruit and plummy rum, served in a tall glass with a shock of crystalline crushed ice.
Add the rum, lime juice, pineapple juice, absinthe, passion fruit syrup and sugar to a cocktail shaker, and shake well until the ingredients are completely combined.
Add the cubed ice to your chilled glass.
Using both hands, strain the drink through a Hawthorne strainer (held flush with the opening of the shaker) and a small fine sieve positioned over your glass.
Pour the Visciolata Cardinale over the top of the cocktail gently, so it floats.
Garnish with the pineapple, mint and viola flowers.


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Joshua Redman Quartet's First Album in Almost Two Decades: Saxophonist-composer Joshua Redman is set to release Come What May on March 29. Although he has toured with his quartet internationally over the last several years, Come What May his first recording in almost two decades with his longtime friends and colleagues pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. The other albums they previously released were Beyond (2000) and Passage of Time (2001).
Matthew Herbert Announces Brexit Album Release: The Matthew Herbert Big Band announced their new album in response to Brexit, The State Between Us, will be released on March 29, the day the U.K. is scheduled to leave the European Union. The LP features over 1000 musicians from across the E.U. and was first unveiled in 2017 as a collaborative project that celebrates artistic and musical collaboration and communities across the national borders.
Capitol Celebrates Nat King Cole's 100th Anniversary: Nat King Cole would have turned 100 on March 17. On March 15, Capitol Records will kick off the celebrations by releasing a brand new collection of some of his most beloved classics, Ultimate Nat King Cole, on CD. The set also includes a brand new version of "The Girl from Ipanema," with original Cole vocals paired with Gregory Porter's retrofitted voice. On the same day, Capitol will also release International Nat King Cole, a limited edition collection of songs the vocalist recorded at Capitol Studios in August 1964 in languages other than English.
A Film About Buddy Bolden: Wynton Marsalis executive produced a brand new film, Bolden, which reimagines the life of the enigmatic and mysterious figure of Charles "Buddy" Bolden, the cornet player known as the first king of New Orleans music and a father of jazz. Bolden, out in theaters on May 3, is directed by Dan Pritzker and stars Gary Carr in the title role. Watch the trailer via the player below.
The Guadalupe Islands Celebrate Its Greatest Composer: The second edition of the Saint-Georges International Music Festival will take place on some of the most emblematic landmarks of the Guadalupe archipelago on March 16-23. The festival is a tribute to Chevalier de Saint-George of Guadalupe, the violinist-conductor and first known black composer born in the French colony of Guadeloupe in 1745. The program features grand concerts, chamber music, crossover jazz nights, conferences and masterclasses.
Harlem Renaissance Celebration at Newport Music Festival: The Newport Music Festival will take place on July 4-28 in Newport, Rhode Island. The program features a performance by The Harlem 100, a ten-piece ensemble of New York musicians celebrating the Harlem Renaissance that took Manhattan by storm. They will be performing at the Bohlin on July 13. Other acts scheduled to perform include Broadway star Sierra Boggess (July 20) and piano virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin (July 21).
Blue Note Records launches today its "Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series" with the release of the first two albums in the series – Wayne Shorter's Etcetera and Chick Corea's Now He Sings, Now He Sobs. The series is produced by "Tone Poet" Joe Harley and all vinyl reissues come in a deluxe gatefold packaging and were mastered from original mastered tapes.


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Proposed amendments to the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency ("Agency") certification and recertification of income rules at N.J.A.C. 5:80-20 will be published in the March 18, 2019 New Jersey Register. The primary focus of the amendments is to allow housing sponsors to review the information and documentation provided by prospective tenants of housing projects financed by the Agency and to directly approve admissions, without the necessity of Agency pre-approval.
The Agency proposal is available here.
Proposed amendments to the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency ("Agency") prepayment rules at N.J.A.C. 5:80-5.10 will be published in the March 18, 2019 New Jersey Register. The primary intent of the amendments is to reduce the "lockout" period for the prepayment of Agency mortgages from 20 years to 15 years.
Proposed amendments, repeals and new rules are being proposed by the Agency to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP), which is codified at N.J.A.C. 5:80-33.1 et seq. The proposal notice will be published in the November 19, 2018 New Jersey Register and is also available here (1.8MB PDF).
A public hearing on the proposed amendments, repeals and new rules will be held in the boardroom of the Agency at 637 South Clinton Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 10:00 a.m.
Interested persons may appear and comment upon the proposed amendments; please call the Agency's Division of Tax Credit Services at (609) 278-7629 if you wish to be included on the list of speakers. Interested persons may also submit written comments, which will be accepted by the Agency until January 18, 2019.
Proposed amendments, a new rule, and a rule repeal are being proposed by the Agency to its rent rules, which are codified at N.J.A.C. 5:80-9. The proposal notice will be published in the September 17, 2018 issue of the New Jersey Register and is also available here (108k PDF). The Agency will accept written comments on the proposal until November 16, 2018.
The proposal was adopted effective March 18, 2019, with a non-substantial change not requiring additional public notice and comment (see N.J.A.C. 1:30-6.3) and with the proposed repeal of N.J.A.C. 5:80-9.13 not adopted, but still pending. The adoption notice as published in the March 18, 2019 New Jersey Register is available here.
Requests for waivers from the express provisions of the NJHMFA's regulations may be made by submitting such request to the attention of the Executive Director. Waivers may be granted only by the NJHMFA Board when such waiver would not contravene the provisions of the NJHMFA's enabling statute, N.J.S.A. 55:14K-1 et seq., and upon a finding that, in granting the waiver, the Board will be promoting the statutory purposes of the HMFA.
The NJHMFA's waiver regulation is found at N.J.A.C. 5:80-19.
The Agency has readopted its rules effective September 14, 2017, with technical changes effective October 16, 2017. The readoption notice is published in the October 16, 2017 New Jersey Register and is also available here (822k PDF). The rules are codified at N.J.A.C. 5:80.
The Agency has adopted amendments to the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Qualified Allocation Plan, codified at N.J.A.C. 5:80-33.1 et seq.


Lisa Vanderpump's squad hit the red carpet in Hollywood for PUMP's #LoveCampaign party.
Last night the Vanderpump Rules stars appeared at PUMP to toast Kyle Chan's #LoveCampaign, in celebration of marriage equality. Jax Taylor hit the red carpet with a female friend.
Longtime loves Ariana Madix and Tom Sandoval posed for a pic together and looked as adorable as ever.
Even boss lady Lisa Vanderpump made an appearance at the party.
Kyle Chan is a longtime friend of the Vanderpump crew. He even designed Katie Maloney's gorgeous engagement ring.
Check out more pics of the Pump Rules crew from Katie's Pucker & Pout party earlier this month.


Author's Notes: For this challenge, I figured I should write a pairing that squicks everyone, because I don't normally do that. Then I remembered that I do that ALL THE TIME when I write Palpakin ;D So! Here's another one! I've never written them before, AND it's OT instead of my usual PT so that's like two challenges rolled into one!
Luke Skywalker laid in bed, wide awake in spite of the late hour. He had a lot on his mind these days... trying to come up with a plan to rescue his carbonited buddy Han from Jabba… processing the recent revelation that the Empire's evil overlord was his father… but he suspected those weren't the real reasons for his reluctance to nod off.
It was the recurring Leia dreams. They centered on losing her, not physically so much as emotionally. And dream-Leia wasn't happy about it either; it was as if some outside force pulled them apart, yet they were still together… still in each other's lives, just with their happy feelings for one another replaced by anguish and confusion. They made absolutely no sense.
Luke did not pretend to understand the intricacies of the Force. Was it trying to warn him? Was there some action he was supposed to take to prevent an obstacle from coming between them? Why didn't Ben appear to him and tell him what it all meant? He didn't want to burden Leia with it. And she wasn't a Jedi: she would just assume his subconscious worries were manifesting themselves in these dreams. Luke knew it was more than that. He just couldn't explain the images and feelings to her. There were no words.
A gentle hand squeezed his shoulder; Leia was awake. Soft breasts pressed into his back and a leg wrapped itself around his. Whether she sensed his inner turmoil or not, Luke could not say, but she instinctively comforted him. He rolled over to face her and their bodies intertwined perfectly. His lips found hers and he felt the Force singing: the sweet melody drowned out the ugly din of his fear.


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Buster Keaton program: The Cameraman (1928) + 2 Columbia two-reeler sound shorts
Online sales end automatically 1 hour prior to the start of the first film, but tickets can still be purchased at the door. The box office opens approximately 15 minutes before the first film. We accept cash only at the box office.
Sunday and Monday, July 15-16, 2012:
Buster Keaton program (1 ticket admits you to all 3 films)
1928, USA, 69 minutes, 35mm, Warner Bros. (MGM)
Directed by Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton (uncredited) Story by Clyde Bruckman and Lew Lipton
Titles by Joseph Farnham
Starring Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin
Sun: 4:30 & 7:30 pm; Mon: 7:30 pm
PLUS, on the same program:
PEST FROM THE WEST
1938, USA, 20 minutes, 35mm, Sony Pictures Repertory
Directed by Del Lord
Written by Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton (uncredited) Starring Buster Keaton, Lorna Gray, Gino Corrado,
Richard Fiske, Bud Jamison, Eddie Laughton, Ned Glass
immediately followed by:
NOTHING BUT PLEASURE
Directed by Jules White
Written by Clyde Bruckman
Starring Buster Keaton, Dorothy Appleby, Beatrice Blinn
Your ticket admits you to BOTH The Cameraman
and the two shorts


This girl would Reeeeary appreciate it if you could/would make some of those SUPER RAD items (specifically the "alien shirt" ) in women's sizes. The ESP&G women's tshirt is my favorite shirt of all time! I'd love to add to that collection.
Soooo, anybody else feel the same?
edit to add: Sorry Simon/Jill-this Reeeaary doesn't belong in Foo Side Projects. my bad.
Does anyone know what make/material the shirts shipping with the Sound City stuff are made out of? Because the shirts used for the last tour and recent stuff were made with a really tight fitting material which I really didn't like.
I know what you mean...my Wasting Light Tour shirt shrunk down from a large to a medium. Washed in cold water and hung up to dry. I was so disappointed.
Yeah thought they sucked compared to just normal fit shirts - don't want to buy a medium and look stupid like the last ones I got.
I can't even wear my Wasting Light shirt anymore it's so small. I'm not gonna buy another because of the material. My horseshoe Foo shirt still fits just fine.
I do have to say though that I love the Roswell Film shirts with the red logo. I think I'm just gonna preorder the movie with a shirt and then buy the CD separate.
But same question, is this the same material as some other recent shirts? I'd really like to know before another of my precious shirts gets shrunk in the wash.
...I get worried that I'm gonna miss something big again, like I did with the Wasting Light deluxe bundle.
I saw the news last night via FF's and Sound City's FB/Twitter feeds, and jumped on it.
When I try to go to the full websit on my phone it says I need to submit a log in and password. What's up wit dat yo?
Got an email today about the t shirts. I wear a Large and they're now sold out all around. So bummed.
3) state what the merchandise is made out of-the percentages of material used and whether it's preshrunk or not.
I have one of those womans wasting light shirts, still fits fine and still wear it loads. Also have men sizes in ones that I liked that I couldn't get in womens, and I just wear those around the house/as pjs. It might be nice if there were some more of those in womens sizes but it doesnt make much kf a difference to me.
Yeah, they sent out an email for the preorders. But almost 48 hours after they'd been put up on the website. Anyone who followed that link would have pretty limited choices in terms of sizes.
So definitely a fast emailing list. I wouldn't mind emails even weeks ahead about limited edtion items arriving.
Also, it would be fantastic if all the shirts were preshrunk and then sold as their proper sizes. My Wasting Light shirt didn't even last one wash and it shrunk down an entire size.
Is it the womens shirts you have problems with the shrinking?
Nope, it's a men's shirt.
It shrunk the first time I washed it. Cold water, hung to dry. Super bummed.
Odd, i wear the mens tees as the womens are no good for me & they don't shrink?
Does the UK store still sell that huge Foo Fighters flag?? I never saw that in the US store, that'd be cool.


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After 26.Rc7, White is winning because Rxb7 and Rxg7 are equally devastating threats. Hikaru needed to offer a queen of trades with 25...Qd4.
Finegold's 34.Bc5! is a pretty finishing move. If Kh7 Re8+ followed by Bd4 wins so Black was forced to go for unfavorable complications with 34...Nf4.
According to MSA, Alisa broke 2200 after the U.S. Women's Championship. She is certainly playing like a master in Cherry Hill. In the fifth round of the six-day, she defeated Braden Bournival. The 16-year-old Philadelphia resident may not have known it, but her win was particularly satisfying to many CLO fans, because of a series of comments Braden made during the U.S. Women's Championship. He wrote: "They might as well just flip a coin to decide who is going to win each game, because when women play chess the results are completely random." Braden also said that with the exception of Irina Krush, he would, "be glad to bet a large sum of money on myself in a match against any of them." Scroll down and look through comments to see the debate in full.
Anyway, enough making fun of Braden. It is tough to lose a rook and pawn endgame that was drawn for much of the game, not to mention that Braden was winning with the simple 69...Kf3 instead of 69...g2??
*The small Quick schedule does not merge until tomorrow. But it significant because two GMs, Boris Gulko and Michael Rohde, are playing in it.


Murray is a well-known competitor in all forms of motorsports in a wide variety of vehicles but perhaps less recognized for his management experience in the field. He is past Chairman of BMP, the organization which runs the four major British Championships, Formula 3, British Touring Cars, GT and Superbikes and he is also a past member of the FIA Formula One Management Commission. Smith was the founder of the extraordinary Louis Vuitton Classic at Rockefeller Centre and also the instigator and organizer of the Legendes Historic Racing event at Mont Tremblant in Quebec. He was also the first to recognize the commercial potential of historic and classic car events and has been successfully involved with sponsorship development at Goodwood. Nurburgring, Monterey, Silverstone, Monaco and with Barrett Jackson in Scottsdale.


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2017 Top 40 Undergraduate Professors: Peter Corvi, Warwick Business School
by: Andrea Carter on September 18, 2017 | 1,095 Views
Peter Corvi
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Peter Corvi is the type of professor whose service to students speaks for itself. In fact, his dedication speaks loud and clear. You could say his service commitments revolve around two themes: new and improved opportunities for students.
When playing a lead role in a review of Warwick's undergraduate business curriculum, he introduced a financial management model which became the first in WBS to incorporate online group discussions. Just a few short years ago, he launched the WBS Multicultural Scholars' Programme for students from ethnic backgrounds that are under-represented in UK higher education. He also led a team that designed and developed a new Foundation Year entry route to Warwick's undergraduate business program for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Since its launch, this program has helped 25 students matriculate their first year, six of which have also earned scholarships from the Multicultural Scholars' Programme that Corvi founded.
In addition to his service acts, Corvi–a finance professor–has an teaching record that's equally admirable. He's received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching on the WBS undergrad program every year since the awards were first introduced in 2006.
At current institution since: University of Warwick since 2003.
Education: BSc (First-class Honours) Mathematical Physics, Edinburgh, 1978; MASt (Distinction) Mathematical Physics, Cambridge, 1979; PhD Theoretical Physics, Edinburgh 1981; MSc (by Research) Mathematics, Oxford, 1987; MBA Business Administration, Strathclyde, 1994; MSc Economics and Finance, Warwick, 1996
List of courses currently teaching: Financial Management, Fundamentals of Finance
Fun fact about yourself: I still shoot a mean cue at pool!
"I knew I wanted to be a business school professor … When I was an MBA student. I reckoned that I could usefully draw on my previous work experience as a school teacher, an R&D team leader in an oil and gas major and as someone who trained options traders in a global investment bank to teach the business leaders of the future. That was 25 years ago and I've never looked back."
"If I weren't a business school professor, I would … Still be working for an investment bank."
"One word that describes my first time teaching … Scary!
What do you enjoy most about teaching undergraduate business students?
I get a real 'kick' out of helping young people acquire new knowledge, develop new skills and grow in self-confidence. Many of my students are smarter than I am, and ask questions that would never have occurred to me when I was a student. I learn, too.
What is the biggest challenge that comes with teaching undergraduate business students? Managing their expectations. Not everyone can end up working for a Big 4 accountancy firm or a top-tier investment bank, although many of our students do exactly that.
Persuading them that it is O.K. to struggle at first with new concepts. Learning is like working out in the gym. It's hard work, but it pays off. Education is a great enabler.
What is the most impressive thing one of your undergraduate students has done? Use a travel scholarship (that I funded out of a University teaching award) to spend the summer in Bucharest, Romania, helping to rescue homeless children from the streets.
What is the least favorite thing one has done? One of the Students' Union sabbatical officers told our UG1 students during Induction Week last year that they needn't bother attending lectures. Not helpful!
What does a student need to do to get an A in your class?
Do … attend lectures, prepare for and actively participate in weekly seminar classes, contribute to the online group discussions about 'hot topics' in the financial press, practise answering questions in previous class tests and exams (without first looking at the model answers), and ask questions.
Don't … leave it until the day before one of the class tests or the exam to ask me questions. Instead, come and see me during my weekly Office Hours throughout the year!
"When it comes to grading, I think students would describe me as … Rigorous, but scrupulously fair.
"But I would describe myself as … Always looking for reasons to award, not deduct, marks."
What are your hobbies? Visiting National Trust properties and collecting fine art (that I can afford!), especially landscape or seascape paintings by contemporary Scottish artists such as the late John Bellany or Joan Eardley.
How did you spend your summer? Hosting the annual conference of the Foundation Year Network which saw 100 delegates from 28 different HE institutions in the UK and Ireland come to Warwick for two days for a stimulating programme of talks and small-group discussions about Foundation-level provision.
Recovering from prostate surgery!
Favourite place to vacation: Paris. My wife and I were married in the Scots Kirk, Paris 25 years ago. She speaks French fluently, and I get by.
Favorite book: Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Story of my life.
Favorite movie and/or television show: (Movie) Godfather, Part 2. (TV) Mad Men
Favorite type of music and/or favorite artist: Classical: Felix Mendelssohn (e.g. Hebrides Overture). Rock: Dire Straits (e.g. Brothers in Arms).
Bucket list item #1: Visit Machu Pichu in Peru.
What professional achievement are you most proud of? Leading the team in Warwick Business School that created the Foundation Year entry route for prospective students from disadvantaged areas who, through no fault of their own, do not meet the requirements for direct entry to our UG Programme. Our third cohort of 25 students will begin their Foundation Year studies in October 2017.
What is your most memorable moment as a professor? Receiving an e-mail in November 2016 from the Higher Education Academy, informing me that I had been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.
Professor you most admire and why: Professor Peter Higgs, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013, and who taught me when I was an undergraduate at Edinburgh. We can both claim to have 'discovered' a sub-atomic particle, but 'his' Higgs boson is much more important than 'my' Delta D35 baryon!
What are you currently researching and what is the most significant discovery you've made from it? Socially constructivist learning. I believe passionately that students learn more from each other than from their teachers, and therefore go out of my way to encourage them to form themselves into communities of collaborative learners. It helps to prepare them for the real world of work.
Assessment literacy. I firmly believe that students learn by doing, and therefore regard assessments as a tool for encouraging deeper learning.
Both areas of pedagogic research are works in progress!
Twitter handle: @petercorvi
"If I had my way, the business school of the future would have much more…" Research, teaching and consultancy in the areas that society needs. It would be the first-choice repository of expertise for organizations in need of solutions to important problems. It would have a dynamic network of contacts in diverse areas of business and social enterprise, and would draw on these contacts to bring in practitioners to deliver some of its teaching and to provide work placements for all of its students. It would be agile in responding to changes in the nature of the expertise that society demands. It would offer career prospects that are the equal of industry, banking and commerce, and would therefore be able to recruit the best future thinkers. It would have a social conscience, an established footprint in its local community and would play a lead role in raising awareness of business and social enterprise, and their contribution to society, from school age onwards."
"And much less … " Inclined to recruit staff solely on the strength of their record to publish research in academic journals. Business school research should be impactful, not simply intellectually challenging.
Looking ahead 10 years from now, describe what "success" would look like for you: I will be in my early 70s, in good health and in my fifth 'career'. I will be running a food bank in my home city of Edinburgh for people who can't afford to feed themselves or their family.
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Well the conveyor belt of great Disco tracks continue for Legs & co to perform to. This time its Earth Wind & Fire who provide the music, though this is the fifth and final time they will do so for Legs & Co. Quite a pleasant tune of easy pace, i reckon Flick came up with another winner of a routine that fitted so well with the track. Once again she put a lot of thought into the song title, and the start of the routine we find our girls huddled together to form a distant star, which slowly and gradually bursts to form a super nova, namely our lovelies. The shimmery outfits also help to give that astral feel, though Sue did seem to struggle with her cape, but as ever got the job done.
Now i'm not usually one for fancy camera effects as i like to keep it simple, but i'm giving the Aurora Borealis effects the thumbs up as it adds to the routine and certainly doesn't detract from the viewing.
DOTD--Well there is no way Pauline is going to get this on this occasion. Shes relegated to being at the back again. I guess the way Flicks laid out the routine somebody had to be positioned there. Of course Pauline is no stranger to this role. She should think of it in football terms and consider herself the `sweeper at the back`, an important position in any team !
No for me the battle is between the two premier league dancers, Sue & Patti. I simply adore Patti's uncharacteristic lypsync in this when she mouths the "Woo ho woo ho woo ho ha ha yeah" (well i reckon she does). But even though `Sue` has a bit of a blip between 1.43mins and 1.45 (by the link provided) when she loses her way, and not with standing her cape battles, she is the girl who is my Star of the day.
Just a word on the absent Lulu.This is the first full Legs & Co routine shes missed in 11 full months. The same will also apply to Rosie soon, a great effort by both.
Rating--Nowhere near a maximum, can i stretch to 9 ? No i'm just short of that so i'm giving it `8.75 out of 10`.
A most enjoyable dance routine to an engaging song. Momentary cape contretemps notwithstanding, my first magnitude star is Sue while the routine deserves a 9.
After last week's masterclass in how to do a great disco dazzler with no visual wizardry this week's theme proved too much of a temptation for another direct strategy, so it is we get this cosmic prismatic effect. And Ronco Space-Chic party kits, though going on Pauline's positioning this could easily pass for Earth Year 1978. I like the gentle movements of the circular prelude, shot at a distance in soft focus suggesting the nebulous remoteness of a star cluster. In the early stages the moderate prisms and vision mixing serves its starry purpose well and the routine is on a promising trajectory. But when the effects are turned up it impacts a little too much on visibility, sending the dance off-course. Which is frustrating because as a performance it's good and the girls appeal in their costumes, thrift material or not. Back in clear vision Sue's malfunctioning cape, recalling a visit to another Star, continues the turbulence unfazed though she is. Alongside in command, in command, Patti's naturalistic warmth shines through again. I love her jiggle forward and elbow gesture to accompany the wo ho's and ha ha yeah. Spot on! But when it culminates, once more in full-on effects mode, a back turned on us, the successful aspects of the mission are over and what's left is a brief waste of space despite the rounded surface of a heavenly body emerging into view.
One for the fans of star-filters on your lights!
I don't think we've seen the dancers turn on the smiles so much in a routine for a while, all the better for it too.
The Sky At Night's never looked as enticing as it does here. With Lulu on another planet entirely, this dance revolves around the twin shooting stars named Patti and Sue, with the interplanetary bodies of Gill and Rosie orbiting a safe distance away whilst sunny Pauline's barely discernible without the aid of a powerful telescope.
The question on the antennae of any passing pilots of interplanetary craft would be whether or not all Earth girls look like this and if in the affirmative, how soon can they get here?
The atmosphere's light and airy throughout, even though gravity has an occasional effect on one or two small steps as well as Sue's attire, although as per usual she negotiates any costume in-cape-abilities with such aplomb that one wonders whether there was any interference or not.
It's all very chaotic down on that stage, & aren't the ladies loving it, & all looking very fetching in their golden retro-style outfits.
The lighting effects are interesting, as if large sheets of prismatic foil are hanging from beneath the stage lights.
We also get plenty of close-up shots of all of the dancers, this dance routine's the sort that we've come to expect from '79.
Here come the next routine by our ladies and Flick. The ladies are in a space setting, with a star background. And the ladies are wearing silver and gold high collars with cape costumes. And silver and gold gautlets and boots. And on there heads were gold pill-box hats. A really space age image for the time. For the last couple of weeks we have seen Sue and Patti put together. These are nearest to the camera, and do the main two solos. The two solos are done so well with the two ladies. With Sue and Patti and there wonderful smiles to the camera. And with the added visual effects that with song and routine. So I must put a high score for this out of the world routine.
The Dotd must go down to our two leading ladies of dance Sue and Patti. Both ladies are on very good form for me. But yet again it must go to Sue. So even when Sue has trouble with the cape, she carry on. It interesting that Sue always as trouble wiith capes. Sue and capes, and songs with stars in there names.
The score is 8 out of 10.
How do EWF follow 'After The Love Has Gone', well they did with this not so high placed chart botherer.
Stylish routine with some rather nifty Dr Who star effects (re DR Who Titles 1980), and nice to see the 'Nice Legs' costumes appear at last.
I would go down the Sky At Night route, but I won't as all the metaphors have been used to aplomb by the other guys. Nice little cape battle for Sue (distant nightmares of Silver Star returning), alot of leg and alot of teeth on show.
Heavens above a glorious space epic, with two heavenly bodies battling it out for my attention. drat I said i wouldn't use the direct comparisons with space.
I find this more Vauxhall Nova than Supernova unfortunately. I don't much like the song and I think the costumes are more of a hindrance than an asset. The special effects might have been okay for Dr Who, but then so was Peter Davison but I wouldn't want him appearing in a Legs & Co performance either! Too many of the girls are struggling for camera time and I miss Lulu, so it all adds up to one of the least enjoyable performances of the year.
I will score it 6 out of 10. DOTD is a straight choice between two and Sue just gets it over Patti.
Slightly futuristic outfits presenting Legs & Co. as funky space cadets. I like the song, I like the outfits and I like the routine. Not great, but goooood!
DOTD Has to be the amazing Sue.
Quite similar to the previous week style wise, although now we have those rather fetching spacey costumes with the troublesome capes. The distant star theme at the start is inspired (maybe an overhead shot could have been good too), and i like pretty much everything about it including the prism based blurring, and the EWF song although not a classic is more than adequate backing. Sue and Patti are dominating the proceedings but Patti seems to be enjoying herself more even chuckling along the way at the appropriate moment, so gets DOTD.
I found the aurora style lighting a bit distracting but other than that it was ok.
I quite like this one, the gold outfts and the starburst filters actually add to the routine. A bit more would have been nice 9/10.
Back to Earth with a bump - where is my favourite space girl?? I guess she had earned a rest after 11 months solid service but how will outer space seem without her? Cold, lonely and empty surely....?
Well it seems not - with the shiny space-age costumes and the starlight being colourfully refracted, having come from millions of light-years away, the view down this particular telescope is one of joy and wonder. And beautiful spacey spectacle and this time not being interrupted by an alien DLT being our friend.
The capes look good, and probably cover up the potential unintended full-moon, but you can see they're getting in the way.
Shame about Pauline and Gill being eclipsed by the heavenly bodies at the front, but for the disco song the moves are quite graceful and elegant. The high-heeled boots almost making them look as if they're dancing pointe.
I like the way the gold skimpy spacesuits contrast nicely with the darkness of space.
All very nice enjoyable and relaxing. 8.5/10 and Commander Patti for DotD.
Afterwards when Reidy said "six good movers, five of them Legs & Co..." I thought he was going to say "and one of them the camera man". What happened at 2'39"? Was he hit by an asteroid?!


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Why African solidarity matters even more than western prop ups?
Palestine Update 263
There is a myth that goes around according to which western solidarity offers higher currency in the campaigns for justice in Palestine. A cursory glance at voting patterns in the United Nations show that Palestine has won most of its votes on crucial matters from countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Not Europe, Canada, and USA who tend to vote against, or abstain, and, in rare instances, support Palestine.
In terms of sheer numbers, Africa dominates the Third World vote and is known for its consistency in pro-Palestine votes. Why, then, is the region disregarded and disfavoured as one whose people don't matter in the global strategy for Palestine?
During the colonial era, in certain countries the European colonizer fled because of the ferocity of the resistance. Kenya was a remarkable example of how the Mau Mau movement drove the 'white man' out of the country in a swift operation which killed many British colonizers. It is another matter that the fleeing colonizers have now returned to neo-colonize Africa economically and restart their plunder and loot in other forms. They have successfully created ethnic wars and used the wars to extract hugely rich minerals from under the very surface of the land that the civil wars are fought after being engineered by corporate forces through their enslaved governments. They do so by backing one side or the other of the conflict with armaments and funds for the war while silently and stealthily extracting minerals, gold, diamonds and other precious resources. But that is another story.
It matters now that the lessons from history for Palestine must be learned from African liberationists who fought fearlessly to gain their freedom from the tormenting colonizer. Unstinted resistance and a united front defined the spirit of the anti-colonialist struggle in Africa. Africa learned what colonial subjugation was through its own experience. This is why great African leaders historically took the side of Palestine in asserting the right of the Palestinians to claim their freedom regardless of methods. For example, Kenya's struggle for independence and Palestine's current liberation struggle mirror each other. As Ramzy Baroud explains, "If we were to change the dates and places and replace 'Kenya' with 'Palestine' it would be like reading my own history." Those were the heady days of the armed struggle condemned almost universally in the West as brutish, and evil, forgetting the dreadful and pitiless ways of colonialism. Africans did engage in armed struggle when the colonial violence became excruciating. But our learning for today stems from how Africa understood the relevance of civil resistance and the inevitability of retaliation when colonial powers applied the worst forms of human cruelty against the colonized.
This is well understood even today in Africa when Israel resorts to the most barbaric forms of killings and all other forms of abuse against unarmed civilian populations in Palestine. Hence the consistent vote. Africa needs no lobbying; it is about justice.
Israel's crude and unashamed attempts to play the colonial card in Africa are seen in how it seeks a space into the African Union through dubious pretexts and methods. These have fallen flat, by and large. Israel meets rejection with the caveat that diplomatic and normal relations will follow the ceasing of the occupation.
Palestinians do not easily recognize these immense contributions of Africa because they are not 'monetized' and the corporate controlled western media prefers to profile the 'opium-filled' aid packages of the EU and USA rather than the political weight of African solidarity. The latter cannot be measured in meager dollar terms. It is value beyond measure.
Not just Africa. But Asia, Caribbean, smaller Pacific Islands, and Latin America have done more than the rich West to sustain the Palestinian cause in the international arena. The time is ripe to harvest Third World solidarity through mutual solidarity in challenging the Empire (the West as a whole) and to build new forms of political unity- the unity of the oppressed peoples of the Third world of which the Palestinians are an important part.
After all, Palestine is really the last bastion of the racist-colonialist empire. Israel colonialism must be brought down by solidarity at the level of people all over the world. India has been successful, through civil society, in dismantling a military contract and a contract with an agricultural MNC of Israel. Not many western countries can boast of similar levels of anti-colonialist mobilization. Divestments and boycotts have value but the fall of Israel apartheid must match the fall of Apartheid Africa. The biggest sacrifices in the South Africa case came from African countries notably those in Southern Africa. It continues in the case of Palestine. It is imperative that Palestinians seek more partnerships with Africa and, indeed, the so-called Third World.
Africa & Palestine's noble legacy must never be betrayed
Ramzy Baroud*
This article by Ramzy Baroud on his first visit to Africa is an eye opener into the imperatives for engaging the continent as partners in the struggle for freedom and justice in Palestine.
Europe's "Scramble for Africa" began in earnest in 1881, but never ended. The attempt at dominating the continent using old and new strategies continues to define the western relationship with this rich continent.
This reality was further validated when I arrived in Nairobi, Kenya on June 23. Although my objective was to address various Kenyan audiences at universities, public forums and the media, I also came here to learn. Kenya, like the rest of Africa, is a source of inspiration for all anti-colonial, liberation movements around the world. We, Palestinians, can learn a great deal from the Kenyan struggle.
Although African countries have fought valiant battles for their freedom against their western colonizers, neocolonialism now defines the relationship between many independent African countries and their former occupiers. Political meddling, economic control and, at times, military interventions, as in the recent cases of Libya and Mali, point to the unfortunate reality that Africa remains, in myriad ways, hostage to western priorities, interests and dictates.
In the infamous Berlin Conference of 1884, western colonial regimes attempted to mediate among the various powers that were competing over Africa's largesse. It assigned each with a share of the African continent, as if Africa was the property of the west and its white colonists. Millions of Africans died in that protracted, bloody episode unleashed by the west which, shamelessly, promoted its genocidal oppression as a civilizational project.
Like most colonized countries in the Southern hemisphere, Africans fought disproportionate battles to gain their precious freedom. Here in Kenya, which became an official British colony in the 1920s, Kenya's freedom fighters rose in rebellion against the brutality of their oppressors. Most notable among the various resistance campaigns, the "Mau Mau" rebellion of the 1950s remains a stark example of the courage of Kenyans and the cruelty of colonial Britain. Thousands of people were killed, wounded, disappeared or were imprisoned under the harshest of conditions.
Palestine fell under British occupation, the so-called British Mandate, around the period that Kenya also became a British colony. Palestinians, too, fought and fell in their thousands as they employed various methods of collective resistance, including the legendary strike and rebellion of 1936. The same British killing machine that operated in Palestine and Kenya around that time, also operated, with the same degree of senseless violence, against numerous other nations around the world. While Palestine was handed over to the Zionist Movement to establish the State of Israel in May 1948, Kenya achieved its independence in December 1963.
At one of my recent talks in Nairobi, I was asked by a young participant about "Palestinian terrorism". I told her that Palestinian fighters of today are Kenya's "Mau Mau" rebels of yesteryear. That, if we allow western and Israeli propaganda to define the discourse of national liberation on Palestine, then we condemn all national liberation movements throughout the Southern hemisphere, including Kenya's own freedom fighters. We, Palestinians, however, must shoulder part of the blame of why our narrative as an oppressed, colonized and resisting nation is now misunderstood in parts of Africa.
When the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) committed its historical blunder by signing off Palestinian rights in Oslo in 1993, it abandoned a decades-long Palestinian discourse of resistance and liberation. Instead, it subscribed to a whole new discourse, riddled with carefully-worded language sanctioned by Washington and its European allies. Whenever Palestinians dared to deviate from their assigned role, they were decreed by the west to return to the negotiating table," as the latter became a metaphor of obedience and submission.
Throughout these years, Palestinians mostly abandoned their far more meaningful alliances in Africa. Instead, they endlessly appealed to the goodwill of the west, hoping that the very colonial powers that have primarily created, sustained and armed Israel, would miraculously become more balanced and humane.
However, Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, etc., remained committed to Israel and, despite occasional polite criticism of the Israeli government, continued to channel their weapons, warplanes and submarines to every Israeli government that has ruled over Palestinians for the last seven decades. Alas, while Palestinians were learning their painful lesson, betrayed repeatedly by those who avowed to respect democracy and human rights, many African nations began seeing in Israel a possible ally. Kenya is, sadly, one of those countries.
Understanding the significance of Africa in terms of its economic and political potential (support for Israel at the UN General Assembly), rightwing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has launched his own "Scramble for Africa". Netanyahu's diplomatic conquests on the continent have been celebrated by Israeli media as "historic", while the Palestinian leadership remained oblivious to the rapidly changing political landscape.
Kenya is one of Israel's success stories. In November 2017, Netanyahu attended the inauguration of Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, who supposedly received an astonishing 98% of votes in the last elections. While Kenyans rose in rebellion against their corrupt ruling classes, Netanyahu was seen embracing Kenyatta as a dear friend and ally. Netanyahu's strategy in Kenya – and the rest of Africa – has been based on the same logic, where Israel would use its security technology to support corrupt and undemocratic regimes, in exchange for their political support.
Tel Aviv had hoped that the first-ever Israel-Africa summit in Togo would usher in a complete paradigm shift in Israeli-African relations. However, the October 2017 conference never actualized, due to pressure by various African countries, including South Africa. There is still enough support for Palestine on the continent to defeat Israeli stratagem. But that could change soon in favor of Israel if Palestinians and their allies do not wake up to the alarming reality. The Palestinian leadership, intellectuals, artists and civil society ambassadors must shift their attention back to the Southern hemisphere – Africa, in particular – rediscovering the untapped wealth of true, unconditional human solidarity that is provided by the peoples of this ever-generous continent.
The legendary Tanzanian freedom fighter, Mwalimu Nyerere – who is also celebrated in Kenya – knew too well where his solidarity lay. "We have never hesitated in our support for the right of the people of Palestine to have their own land," he once said, a sentiment that was repeated by the iconic late South African leader, Nelson Mandela, and many other African liberation leaders.
This generation of African leaders should not deviate from that noble legacy. If they betray it, they betray themselves, along with the righteous struggles of their own peoples.
* Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His last book is 'The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story' (Pluto Press, London). Baroud has a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and was a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara. His website is www.ramzybaroud.net
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The fonds consists of black and white photographs and negatives. Subjects depicted include villages, boats and ferries, landscapes, bridges, logging clearcuts, and totem poles. Some of the photos appear to be of the Lions Gate Bridge, Stanley Park, and the Capilano Suspension Bridge.
William Carr
X̄a'islak̓ala/X̌àh̓isl̩ak̓ala (Haisla language) collection
Collection consists of Haisla cultural documentation and X̄a'islak̓ala/X̌àh̓isl̩ak̓ala (Haisla language) learning material, including sound recordings, stories, a dictionary, and lessons/workbooks. The collection has been divided into two series:
Textual materials
Minn Sjolseth fonds
The fonds reflects Minn Sjolseth's artistic career and travels to First Nations communities throughout British Columbia and Alaska with her husband Anthony Carter. Contents of the fonds depict First Nations cultures in British Columbia between 1960 and 1980, including Haida, Coast Salish, Kwakwaka'wakw, Gitsegukla, Kispiox, and Nisga'a. Several of the contents depict notable figures, including Chief Dan George and August Jacks.
The fonds includes textual records including correspondence, ephemera, newspaper clippings; graphic materials such as photographs, slides, negatives, and transparencies that depict Sjolseth's travels and artworks; and artworks produced by Sjolseth including paintings, drawings, and prints.
The fonds is organized into the following series:
Artwork an Exhibition records
Minn Sjolseth
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection
([192-] - [195-])
Collection consists of 48 glass lantern slides (29 of them tinted) and 2 negatives. The lantern slides include images related to four Residential Schools: Elkhorn (Manitoba), St. Michael's (British Columbia), Shingwauk (Ontario), and Choutla (Yukon).
Collection includes images of the schools, classrooms, and different areas of the buildings (dining room, kitchen, etc.); the staff, students, and families engaged in different activities; and surroundings of the schools (cemeteries, churches, villages, etc.). Collection also includes images of landscapes and two images unidentified villages.
Collection might be similar to the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada fonds, at the Anglican Church of Canada Diocese of Rupert's Land, Manitoba.
Lantern slides shows were used during the 1920s and 1930s by the Church of England in Canada to promote the work of their missionaries and to raise funds. The slide shows took place during missionaries' services, church services, Sunday school groups, and special church programs. Usually, the slide shows were complemented with a text with basic commentary on the mission and content of the slides.
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada
Helen Moore fonds
The fonds consists of printed ephemera relating to First Nations art, correspondence, and photographs of Gitksan totem poles.
Lyle Wilson fonds
Fonds consists of a copy of Wilson's "Kitlope Report: Various Haisla Artifacts."
Lyle Wilson
Richard Cotton fonds
[ca. 1960 - 1969]
The fonds consists of four photographs taken by Richard Cotton of mortuary poles on an island in the Skeena River near Kitsilas, BC.
Richard Cotton
The fonds consists of records created by Ryckman during his tenure with the Department of Indian Affairs, primarily from the 1920s and 30s. The fonds includes contact sheets made as copies of photographs that remain in possession of Ryckman's heirs. Records in the fonds take the form of notes and correspondence. Also included in records is a ledger which contains census information. The fonds also includes photocopies of newspaper articles relating to members of the First Nations whom Ryckman came into contact with as a result of his work as well as materials relating to Ryckman himself.
The fonds consists of the following files:
1-1, Ledger Book [Original & Copies], c. 1920
1-2, Photographs [Negatives & Contact Sheets], c. 1920
1-3, Articles and Correspondence [Photocopies], 1922-1936
1-4, Kootenays [Typed & Handwritten transcipts], c. 1932
Harlan Smith collection
Fonds consists of photographic prints and text labels used in the "Emergence from the Shadow: First Peoples' Photographic Perspective" exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, from October 22, 1999 to January 6, 2002. The images depict several different First Nations groups including Haida, Kimsquit, Bella Coola, Ulkatcho-Carrier, Chilcotin, Assiniboine, and Gitksan. The label text incorporates information which Smith recorded at the time of creation. It gives name and age (if known) of the sitters as well as lineage, employment, and style of dress.
Harlan Smith
Anthony Carter fonds
[194-]-2018, predominant 1966-1979
The fonds consists of photographs, transparencies, negatives, prints, slides, textual records and objects. Contents of the fonds primarily reflect First Nations cultures in British Columbia between 1960 and 1980, including the Haida, Coast Salish (formerly Burrard Reserve), Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Gitsegukla and Ans'pa yaxw (Kispiox) nations. Notable First Nations personalities and artists documented include Chief Dan George, Gerry Marks, Henry Hunt and Norman Tait. Contents also include: B.C. landscapes such as Gwayasdums (Gilford Island), Klemtu, Mamalilikulla and Uchucklesaht; First Nations children; First Nations exhibits, totem poles and installations at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and for the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan. The original accession was arranged in series according to Carter's published works which focus on specific localities, communities, individuals and subject matter, with additional series related to Carter's photojournalistic work and personal recordkeeping added in 2019 when an accrual was made to the fonds.


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Q: Unable to replace values in a matrix I'm currently working on a cellular automata but i keep running into this problem. I have a matrix idxR which contains zero's and/or ones, depending on a probability process:
idxR = ((rRecr>rEmpty)&(rRecr>rAlgae)&(rRecr>rCoral));
Now i want to replace all ones in idxR with unique values and assign it to the variable colonies. I came up with the following:
colonies = idxR;
no = sum(colonies(:)==1)
maxvalue = max(colonies(:));
replace = [1:no]+maxvalue;
ret = reshape(replace,no,1);
colonies(colonies==1) = colonies(colonies==1).*ret;

When i output colonies it gives me a matrix with just ones and zeros and not a matrix where all ones have been replaced with incremental values. I tried this code in a new file and assigned a matrix with random ones and zeros to idxR and then it seems to work. So i guess to problem lies with the matrix idxR in my automata. It might be worth mentioning that idxR is contained in a for loop.
Can somebody tell me how to fix this?

A: Parag got it right. You have the solution there.
You can use the following code if you are looking for a more "organized" way to get to 'colonies' -
colonies = double(idxR);
maxvalue = max(colonies(:));
ind1 = find(idxR==1);
colonies(ind1)=maxvalue + (1:numel(ind1));

A: You got the entire logic correct, except one minor flaw. You have idxR as a logical matrix. Hence colonies is a logical matrix too. Therefore, you get the expected output till the second-last line. Problem occurs on the last line, when you try to assign an array of numbers in which each number is greater than 1 (colonies(colonies==1).*ret;) to a logical matrix.
Elements greater than 1 are clipped to one and thus you see only zeros and ones. There is a simple workaround. Change the first line to
colonies = double(idxR);

P.S. The answer was right in front of you, you just didn't spot it. You had written:

I tried this code in a new file and assigned a matrix with random ones and zeros to idxR and then it seems to work.

The idxR matrix must have been of double datatype, if you used randi.

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CAPSULE: MOM AND DAD (2017)
November 14, 2018 Pete Trbovich	1 Comment
DIRECTED BY: Brian Taylor
FEATURING: Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair, Anne Winters, Zackary Arthur
PLOT: Parents all across the world suddenly snap and start trying to kill their kids, leading to an all-out generational battle royale.
 WHY IT WON'T MAKE THE LIST: Mom and Dad is actually a challenging movie to comprehend on first grasp. There is nothing in the execution of this film that says "weird," but the premise alone is audaciously novel, and the tone is consistently off-rhythm. Maybe a list of "the 1000 strangest movies" would be a better fit for this movie.
COMMENTS: Mom and Dad's tagline reads, "They brought you into this world. They can take you out." That line actually comes from an old Bill Cosby joke during his stand-up days, and is reused in the pilot episode for The Cosby Show. Cringing yet? Get used to it! Add to that the facts that the writer-director of this movie also did Crank, and that Nicholas Cage, in my book, is still serving time for what he did to The Wicker Man, and you can well appreciate how I entered this movie: with my expectations roughly south of cold coffee. The artsy opening credits sequence gave me a sprinkle of optimism; the contrast of soul-rock with James Bond-ish split frame montages set me up for a happy sick humor party. What would Jackie Kong have done with this idea?
Back to reality. The movie focuses on suburban beehive hell and the nuclear family of Brent (Nicolas Cage) and Kendall (Selma Blair) and their two kids Carly (Anne Winters) and Josh (Zackary Arthur). Scene 1: bratty little brother interrupts big sister's phone call to her boyfriend, so she chases him downstairs yelling she's going to kill him and chucking a framed family portrait after him. Foreshadowing. While the family breakfasts, reports of parental filicide (that means killing your own kids) play on the news. The family argues over Carly's date conflicting with grandparents expected for dinner, reading like a campy parody of American sitcoms. Their servant, Sun-Yi (Sharon Gee), seems used to it. Throughout their day, the family, even the adults talking to each other, bicker in casual passive-aggressive ways, not a joyful scene to be had. In school, Carly's teacher is a mean jerk.
The whole world of Mom and Dad is a bleak landscape of sneering nastiness regardless of who's talking to whom, which builds up to all the parents showing up early to pick up their kids from school—and it's not to take them out for ice cream! It turns into a spontaneous riot, with the too-few cops failing to keep order as parents leap fences and gates and start stone cold assassinating their kids using any means at hand. Kids run, parents chase, bedlam, uh, badlams. Talking heads on the news spread the same story, and of course no one knows why this is happening. A lengthy delivery room sequence with Kendall's sister picking today of all days to give birth terminates in a post-natal abortion as mom strangles the newborn. Elsewhere in the hospital, new parents press their faces against the glass of the maternity ward, locked out.
All this blurs by, less like a movie and more like an anthology of connected scenes. It's exactly like a million zombie apocalypse survival scenarios, only the zombies are all repoductively fertile adults. Notably, no parent is homicidal towards anyone else but their own offspring, unless somebody gets between them. The kids of our central nuclear family return home to find their housekeeper Sun-Yi mopping up the blood from her own filicide. The kids have to fend for themselves, and marshal defenses such as taking their parents' gun; which gives us a satirical recitation of home firearm statistics after a parent gets shot.
Speaking as one who favors the darkest side of humor… I'm a little let down, because there's not much dark humor here, except in the general concept. Cage does his Cagiest, and his trademark freakouts carry every scene he's in—singing the "Hokey Pokey" while demolishing his pool table with a sledgehammer after a minor marital dispute, that sort of thing—but he's not even in the bulk of the movie. The thing about Nicholas Cage is, his act is starting to get old. After your 100th Daffy Duck cartoon, seeing him act like a loon isn't a surprise anymore. Outside the Cage, the rest of the movie seems like a particularly bleak Andy Warhol number. I would hope repeat viewings could help the flavor to come through, like a Captain Beefheart album, but that's doubtful, giving the limp ending.
Mom and Dad does have many strong points in its favor. It is intelligently handled, has an original and daring premise, and explores that concept in depth. There's just enough Nicholas Cage to flavor it without overpowering it. The rest of the cast is competent; Selma Blair gets several good scenes. But… it seems to not know what it wants to be. It nibbles on some themes, like punk nihilism, anti-consumerism, and social parody of the generation gap, without committing to any of them. It could have been a lot worse, so perhaps its biggest achievement is making this edgy premise work. It aspires to mild interest, achieves that capably, then quits while it's ahead.
"The phrase 'I swear I could kill that kid' is no longer an exaggerated statement of infuriation, as some mysterious phenomenon creates a gloriously weird amalgam of Parents, The Purge, and Dawn of the Dead in Brian Taylor's jet-black horror-comedy."–Blake Crane, Film Pulse (contemporaneous)
2017Black ComedyBrian TaylorHorrorNicolas Cage
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Val Santos says:
When news of this came out I remember I thought "Wow, half-Crank and Cage together? With some of the same camerawork as that used in Crank? Count me in!"
I really liked the Crank movies and I do like myself some Cage every so often, but I too was a bit let down with this. It feels small in scope after it starts focusing on Cage and Blair, which I thought didn't have much chemistry together. Still, it's an ok movie, and since Neveldine was the half that put The Vatican Tapes out there, we'd have to stick to Taylor to do the good stuff, I guess.