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WANT to know how to negotiate a fixture list in which you face a potential 17 games in 51 days, including possibly two cup finals?
That is the task that Rafa Benitez and his Chelsea troops face as they gather themselves after the international break this morning on the south coast at Southampton, steeling themselves for a merciless, muscle-pounding final two months to the season.
Chelsea, still somehow fighting on three fronts after a chaotic season, now face a schedule of a game every three days if they beat Manchester United in their FA Cup quarter-final replay on Monday and then win their semi-final – as well as continuing to progress in the Europa League.
Those two winnable competitions aside, Chelsea also have nine league games left and the task of finishing in the top four to guarantee Champions League football for next season is arguably the most important.
All but five of Chelsea's squad played at least one game in the international break, many of them two, so how do Chelsea and Benitez do it? "Basically, you have to manage your squad. It is as simple as that," said Benitez, whose side are third in the table, just a point above third-placed Tottenham and five above Arsenal in fifth.
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was hinting this week that he is contemplating playing two entirely different teams at Sunderland today and Chelsea on Monday.
Benitez claims he does not have the resources to do that.
There will be little rest for tired limbs. Benitez will bring his players in for their normal warm-down session tomorrow.
Those who have not played today will have a full session, the rest a light, tactical workout after which they will study United.
Benitez said: "The main thing for me is my eyes, what I see. My knowledge and my conversations with my staff. I have to consider each player and prepare the game plan.
It is impossible to be fully fit with the matches so close.
"You have to put things together gradually rather than just have one priority.
"You are influenced by lots of things. At the same time you analyse the opposition players and your scouts' reports.
"There is enough time in terms of preparation and tactics. But it is the physiological side that is harder.
After United on Monday, Chelsea face Rubin Kazan at Stamford Bridge on Thursday in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final.
Almost three full days between games is a luxury these days.
He said: "I don't think there will be a knock-on effect from this weekend. It depends how we manage things.
The methodical Benitez still somehow has the time to shoehorn in showing his players 10 to 15-minute video clips of the opposition.
To that end, fit-again skipper John Terry is expected to be brought back today and rested on Monday. The same is likely to apply to Demba Ba.
Ashley Cole could also be rested today, but Benitez does not want any sympathy.


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Confessions: The Priest
Project by Christine Torres
Christine Torres
Los Angeles, California • Series • Horror
A priest is confronted by the sins of his past.
by Christine Torres
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CONFESSIONS: The Series
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This project is being made as part of the TWR5050 Horror Anthology project which is specifically designed help underrepresented directors. Both the cast and crew are an all-inclusive and diverse group of filmmakers who champion fresh voices and points of view.
In the middle of his sermon, Father Horne is interrupted by one of the few attendees of mass. This young man forces the priest to confront some very unpleasant truthes from his past. What happens when a catholic priest is confronted by the son he never recognized or accepted? The son that he betrayed?
This happens so often in the Catholic Church that there is a name for those offspring - Children of the Ordained. And breaking the vow of celibacy is so widespread that the church has guidelines in place. They suggest that a priest leave the church and raise the child that they fathered. But to deny that duty is not a cannonical crime.
The wreckage they leave behind are children being raised by financially insecure single mothers who are reluctant and ashamed to ask for child support. They get labeled whores by their community and their children are ostracized as bastards.
I remember as a young child, my mom knew such a family. And I've never forgotton the story she told me about the pain they suffered by those who were so closed minded. This story is my love letter to them.
It is time to bring this "invisible legion of secrecy and neglect" into the light to overcome the the self-harming habits that so often accompany these victims of the Church and hold those who hide behind the cloth responsible.
This story is a serious, dark, grounded story about the nature of hell. Symbolism drawn from art and literature accent the subtext and compose the creepy tone of the Priest's world.
Betrayal is by far the worst sin. Betrayers are doomed for all eternity to freeze in the Nineth Circle of Hell.
The budget for this production is being kept intentionally low because many of the more costlier items are being split among the different CONFESSIONS episodes in this series.
If THE PRIEST is something you'd like to see and are financially willing and able, please contribute to our campaign. We would like you to be enticed by the perks including a script consult package with either myself or Producer Roberta Munroe, or a trailer edit by our Editor Nelson Torres.
Please share THE PRIEST's Seed&Spark campaign with anyone you think would be interested via email, social media, or your favorite method of communication.
AND PLEASE FOLLOW this campaign for the latest info on bringing it to life. Hit the little heart button!
We are so excited to include you as part of our team.
A shout out on Social Media! Thank you for your support!
A shout out on Social Media and we'll send you a digital personalized Indulgence that shaves twenty-five years off your time in purgatory (probably not but ya never know) that you can proudly show off on Social Media. Plus we'll send you a digital copy of the shooting script. Thank you for your support!
A shout out on Social Media and a private link to the finished episode after it's made the rounds in the festival circuit. Thank you for your support!
A shout out on Social Media, Special Thanks in the End Credits and on IMDb. And, we'll take your confession. Thank you for your support!
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A shout out on Social Media, Special Thanks in End Credits and IMDb Credits, and you can choose from either Producer Roberta Munroe or Writer/Director Christine M. Torres to read your screenplay (short, pilot, spec, or feature, up to 90 pages) and give you notes. Thank you for your support!
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A shout out on Social Media, Associate Producer Credit in end credits and on IMDb, and an invitation to our Wrap Party (travel and lodging not included). Thank you for your support!
A shout out on Social Media, Associate Producer credit in End Credits and on IMDb, Invitation to Wrap Party (travel and lodging not included), and come have lunch with us on set (again, no travel or lodging provided). Thank you for your support!
A shout out on Social Media, Executive Producer Credit in End Credits and on IMDb, and our Editor Nelson Torres will edit up to a 60 second trailer for your project (you provide all the film and audio elements with a creative brief). Thank you for your support!
Be a featured extra in THE PRIEST, filming in Los Angeles (travel and lodging not included). A shout out on Social Media, Executive Producer credit in End Credits and on IMDb, Invitation to Wrap Party (travel and lodging not included), an autographed, physical copy of the shooting script by the cast, and a private link to the finished episode after it's made the rounds in the festival circuit. Thank you for your support!
Lunch for the Cast & Crew
We need to feed the cast and crew a healthy meal otherwise they get grumpy.
Camera Package
We need a camera to capture the moving images so that we can share them with you at a later date.
Who knew priestly vestments were so expensive to rent?
You can't have actors punching each other without supervision.
Film is a collaboration. I need collaborators. That's where we need your help.
We need a church to shoot in. And permits.
Grip and Electric
Without equipment, the Best Boys have nothing to play with. They make everything cinematic.
Christine M. Torres - Writer/Director
Born in New York, Chris spent her formative years constantly relocating. Her father worked for Puerto Rico and his job took the family around the US and eventually to Germany. After a childhood of being denied her fundamental right of sitting in front of a TV every Saturday, she convinced her parents that the best way to learn German was to watch television. Once permission was granted, she squandered the opportunity by watching Tom and Jerry cartoons, which had no dialogue and thus held no value in learning German, but was particularly instructive in visual storytelling.
After way too much formal education, Chris joined the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office as a Prosecutor. Never one to stray too far from the drama, Chris continued her education by taking classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts under the auspices of improving her trial skills. After all, courtroom trials are like a production – just a lot more improv.
After an epiphany while volunteering at the Sundance Film Festival, Chris made the career decision to move to Los Angeles and become a filmmaker. She's never looked back.
Chris is an award winning writer and producer and has worked in various capacities in the film/TV industry. She has served as a legal consultant for numerous films and television projects. She worked both for Universal and Disney in their business and legal affairs departments. She also consulted on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit before joining their staff as a writer.
Chris produces and develops film, documentary, and television projects for legendary horror filmmaker, Sean S. Cunningham at Crystal Lake Entertainment. She is also the co-founder of filmtorres, where she writes and produces independent projects
Chris graduated from Hamilton College, with a B.A. in Philosophy, and received her J.D. from Washington and Lee University, School of Law. She is a Member of the New York State Bar Association and the Writers Guild of America, west.
Evette Vargas - Creator of Confessions, Horror Anthology Series, Producer
Vargas is an award-winning writer, director, producer and immersive storyteller. Named by the New York Times as an "Artist to Watch," Vargas' has produced series for Amazon, MTV, Bravo, DirectTV; and interactive content for Fast And Furious, Lord Of The Rings trilogy and Madonna. Vargas executive produced, wrote and directed her digital series Dark Prophet, starring Henry Rollins, which was in contention for two Emmys. Vargas sold her drama series, Muses, to TNT Super Deluxe. Vargas is creating a drama series for MGM Television with Marc Guggenheim and Rosario Dawson serving as executive producers and penning the Mix Master Mike feature biopic. Vargas wrote The Current War VR Experience, a companion piece for the film, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. A staunch activist for inclusion and equity, Vargas founded The Writers Room 5050 to mentor storytellers and create opportunities for their next-level success. A member of the Writers Guild of America, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and Producers Guild of America, Vargas was born in the Bronx and learned to tell stories at the dinner table where the imagination ruled. Vargas collects action figures, typewriters and shoes; has past lives as a DJ, a fashion designer and is a recovering New York City advertising Art Director.
Roberta Marie Munroe - Producer
Roberta Marie Munroe has produced and/or directed over 30 award-winning shorts film and several features for companies such as Fox Searchlight, AT&T and the United Nations (UNFPA), that have played at festivals worldwide, (Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW and Tokyo Short Film Festival), won many "Best Of" awards, and/or enjoyed a theatrical release and television broadcast. For a complete list: IMDB LINK. Ms. Munroe produced a series of films with for the 2017 AT&T Hello Lab Mentorship Program: an emerging filmmaker partnership where she was a creative mentor alongside Octavia Spencer, Shelby Stone (Freedom Road Productions), Common, Rick Famuyiwa (Dope) and James Lopez (Will Packer) and she also moderated their BFF Summit 2017 panel: Sending The Elevator Back Down, and The Blackhouse @Sundance 2018 panel, Hustle, Strategy & Perseverance: Make It Permanent. One of the projects, The Lost, won an Artios Award for Best Short Film casting (Lessall Casting). Ms. Munroe is the author of How Not To Make A Short Film: Secrets From A Sundance Programmer, (Hyperion 2009), which has been translated in several languages including Chinese, Korean and Spanish. Her latest book, How Not To Sign A Film Contract: Know What You're Saying Yes To, provides indie filmmakers with an overview of film industry contractual law. Roberta is a Co-Founder of The Blackhouse, an educational and celebration space for Black filmmakers and their supporters at Sundance, and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). As a film festival consultant & programmer, Roberta spent 5 years programming film for the Sundance Film Festival helping to launch the careers of Aurora Guerrero (OWN's Queen Sugar), Cary Fukunaga (True Detective, Beast Of No Nation), the Duplass Brothers (Togetherness, Room 104), Tiffany Shlain (The Tribe, Connected), Taika Waititi (JoJo Rabbit, Hunt For The Wilderbeast, Thor), and many others. In addition, she has programmed film at IFP New York (No Borders co-production section), Tampa LGBT Film Festival, Sundance, and the Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF). She was Sales & Industry Theatre Manager at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and Managing Director of the Niagara International Film Festival (NIFF – Niagara on the Lake).
Nelson Torres - Editor
Nelson Torres has completed a wide variety of projects for clients including Showtime, SciFi, USA, NBC, HBO, Food Network, Rainbow Networks, Universal, Warner Brothers, and Paramount Pictures. As a post production veteran, he helped create the popular children's show Blue's Clues for Nickelodeon and has a close on-going editorial relationship with feature director Sean S. Cunningham (Friday the 13th franchise).
Nelson won a Gold award at the 2008 US Film Festival, a 2009 Gold Telly, 2016 NY Screenplay award, and has been nominated for numerous Emmy's and Promax awards.
Harry Manfredini - Composer
Harry Manfredini is an American film composer and jazz soloist, who has scored more than one hundred films, including the Friday the 13th film series, save for Jason Takes Manhattan, Freddy vs. Jason, and the reboot. He has had years of classical training, as well as twenty years in the popular music scene. In conversation with Russian journalist and composer Tony Vilgotsky, Harry Manfredini said that his musical tastes and style were influenced by such composers like Giacomo Puccini, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel and others.
Pablo Borges - Costume Designer
Venezuela native Pablo Borges received his Associate of Arts Degree in Fashion Design and Merchandising from the International Fine Arts College in Miami in 1996. Pablo graduated at the top of his class and received the award for Outstanding Fashion Design Student, as well as winning the prestigious "Jeunes Createurs de Mode International Fashion Design Competition" in Paris, France two years in a row (1994 and 1995).
Pablo worked in New York City as a Fashion Designer for five years before moving to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue his dream of working in film as a Costume Designer. He started his career in Hollywood as a Workroom Assistant for John David Ridge, Inc in 2003. He quickly became a Sketch Artist for several designers and eventually a Costume Illustrator for Academy Award/Oscar Winner Costume Designer, Colleen Atwood. Pablo has worked with Hollywood top Costume Designers in numerous Films and Television Series.
A member of The Costume Designers Guild, Local 892 as well as a member of The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences/Prime Time Emmys, Pablo has an impressive resume that speaks for itself.
When it comes to designing a costume, Pablo knows exactly how to bring a character to life by creating specific shapes and choosing the right fabrics, as well as using interesting textures, fabulous colors, and if the character requires it, using aging, dyeing and material-break-down techniques to create the perfect costume for a specific project, and always keeping the integrity of the character as well as the Director's vision.
From a pencil sketch to a finished garment, Pablo's design ideas always translate flawlessly from concept to finished product, both on screen and on stage.
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Already the last night of our mid-week summer worship - August 30 - has arrived. For one more time (until next year), we will roast hot dogs at 6 p.m. and then worship around the campfire at 6:30 p.m.
Thanks go to all who have participated in making our Campfire Communion a success. Special thanks to Jeff and Kari Owens, Bob Andrews, Mark Lind, Janet Karsten, Tim Evans, and Ainsley Fuerst - our campfire band.


The CSC certification system is applicable to the following activities: concrete plants, cement plants and aggregate quarries. The CSC Certificate for a concrete plant always includes the performance of the supply chain (which has a weight of 40% of the total score). The CSC Suppliers Certificate for cement and aggregate takes into account the performance of the respective plant and will be used in providing the needed supply chain evidence to the CSC Certificate for concrete.
Figure 1: Schematic description of the weighting of different activities.
The four main categories (management, environment, social topics and economic topics) do not have an equal weight and are not the same for concrete, cement and aggregate certification. An overview of the available points by category and activity is given in the following table.
Where score(cement) and score(aggregate) are the average scores (weighted by mass) of the cement and aggregate suppliers, respectively.
The CSC has the following certification levels: Bronze,Silver, Gold and Platinum.
*) the Platinum level will be made achievable at a later point in time.
The plant has to comply with all prerequisites.
The plant has to score the points in the mandatory criteria for the corresponding level. The table "2.1 List of Prerequisite Criteria for Silver, Gold, Platinum" summarizes the information in the description of all criteria regarding whether they are mandatory for a certain level; in the case of a discrepancy between the table and the discription in each criterion the latter will prevail.
Suppliers who have not achieved the minimum score for the Bronze level but who comply with the mandatory prerequisites contribute to the final score of their clients with their score but do not receive a certificate.


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9 New Romantic Comedies to Fall in Love With in 2020
Bring on the meet-cutes!
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Over the past decade, the rom-com genre has seen a reawakening, as the film industry flooded our screens with delightful stories that mix love with humor to nuanced effect. Once formulaic and derivative, these films have experienced a necessary rebirth. Today's romantic comedy doesn't fit inside a blue Tiffany box, but rather its narrative comes with twist, its subtext is often unexpected, and its cast paints with all the colors of the LGBTQ rainbow. From Isn't It Romantic and The Big Sick to Always Be My Maybe and The Incredible Jessica James, the genre has a lot to live up to in 2020.
Below, we're keeping track of all the forthcoming romantic comedies worth your time. Be sure and check back periodically for new additions to a list that is shaping up to be more satisfying than that one scene with Meg Ryan making the O-face at a diner. We have a sequel, threequel, and even a film adaptation of a Broadway play to look forward to. And don't get us started on the screen talent: Issa Rae, Kristen Wiig, Wes Anderson, Reese Witherspoon—the stars are aligning and happily ever after is just a scroll away.
1 To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
The first installment of the Netflix Original rom-com based on the 2014 novel by Jenny Han was a huge success for the platform—even serving as one of the pivotal romantic comedies leading the surge of reinvention to the genre. So fans have huge hopes for the sequel. Based on Han's novel follow-up, P.S. I Still Love You catches up with It couple Peter and Lara Jean, as their bliss is interrupted by one of the recipients of Lara Jean's previous-storied love letters.
Look for it: February 12
2 Emma
Adapting Jane Austen novels for modern contemporary society never gets old. It's a formula filmmakers have been exploiting since the days when "courting" was a thing. Here, actress Anya Taylor-Joy steps out of the dark side of cinema (her work includes horror-bent films like The Witch, Thoroughbreds, and Split) to play the lead in a satirical romantic comedy adapted from the same-name Austen novel about a matchmaking meddler whose misadventures lead to her own happy ending. The Crown's Prince Charles, Josh O'Connor, costars.
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Director Michael Showalter (who starred in Wet Hot American Summer) and leading man Kumail Nanjiani reunite after The Big Sick for another reinvented genre comedy, this time inviting Insecure's Issa Rae and Pitch Perfect's Anna Camp to the party. Nanjiani and Rae play a couple on the verge of splitting up when they become embroiled in a murder mystery. Here's hoping for a bloody good time this spring.
Look for it: April 3
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It's been nearly two decades since we last caught up with the fashionably sound attorney-at-law Elle Woods. And according to Reese Witherspoon, the reunion is definitely happening, and she and friends Alanna Ubach (Serena) and Jessica Cauffiel (Margot) are all returning. Though the film's plot is remaining under lock and key, we can't imagine a chapter in the Elle Woods diary that doesn't include romance, comedy, and comedic romance. That would just be criminal.
Look for it: May
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Hold onto your pantaloons, comedic gold writing duo Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig have teamed up post-Bridesmaids to pen a hilarious trip down to Vista Del Mar, Florida. The pair also star as the titular, vacay-bound Midwesterners who have no idea they're headed south for an adventure in love and scheming. The eye candy in this one takes the form of Jamie Dornan—you know, just that guy from Fifty Shades of Grey.
Look for it: July 31
6 Happiest Season
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Clea DuVall, who'll you'll recognize in front of the camera on hit shows including Veep, The Handmaid's Tale, and Broad City, steps behind the lens to direct a modern rom-com, out next fall, about a woman planning to propose to her girlfriend at an annual holiday party. The only hitch? Her lady's not exactly out yet. Mackenzie Davis (Terminator: Dark Fate) and Kristen Stewart (you know, your Twilight heroine) headline the marquee.
Look for it: November 20
7 The Prom
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Ryan Murphy is adapting the Tony-nominated Broadway show for the screen and recruiting Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Awkwafina, Kerry Washington—the list goes on—to ensure it's just as smashing of a hit. If you're not familiar with its plot, the musical rom-com pivots around a group of theater divas who get wind of a small-town high school canceling its prom after a female student wants to ask another female student to be her date. Deadline puts this one out just ahead of awards season next fall.
Look for it: Fall 2020
8 Marry Me
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Fresh off hustling in Hustlers, Jennifer Lopez gets meta in a romantic comedy costarring Owen Wilson. It's about a pop megastar who splits from her fiancé (Maluma) days before they are scheduled to say "I do" at Madison Square Garden, so she marries a chump off the street (a.k.a. stage) instead. We're betting that's where Wilson comes in, and we say that with nothing but affection for the Wedding Crasher. For a deeper dive, go here.
Look for it: In 2020
9 The French Dispatch
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From the director of The Royal Tenenbaums and Isle of Dogs comes The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson's love letter to journalism starring Léa Seydoux, Timothée Chalamet, and Anderson mainstay Jason Schwartzman.
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When you are undergoing gastric band surgery, you need to take calorie-controlled diet when it comes to losing weight prior to surgery. This diet helps to reduce the fat in your liver that leads to shrinking the liver. In gastric band surgery, your surgeon access the stomach to place the band around your stomach by pushing the liver to the side.
The weight loss and shrinking of liver lessen the risk of complications during the laparoscopic surgery. Reduce the dose of your medicine if you are diabetes patient but consult your doctor before reducing your medication. You should take the instruction from your surgeon about the medication you should take or avoid.
How the pre-op diet is important?
This diet is high in protein and low in fats and carbohydrates that help you not only lose weight and decrease the potential of bleeding during the laparoscopic surgery. Moreover, it helps you in the recovery process after the surgery and aid to muscle tissues intact. When you use this diet, it reduces the fat around the liver and consumes the stored fats as the source of energy instead of muscle fuel.
Pre-op diet is vital for lap band surgery but it can vary patient to patient. This diet can lower the size of the liver that makes the laparoscopic surgery easier and less intrusive. It can also seep duo the recovery process with less pain after the surgery. This diet also prepares the patient's body for the surgical process. Moreover, it protects and preserves the muscle tissue by using the stored fat. This diet should be high in protein, mineral, and multivitamins.
But don't forget to cut the fats and high carbohydrate food from your diet. It is typically advised that you should not take fatty meat, desserts, fried food, and sugary food items. This diet also depends on the size and type of the patient's body. It is highly recommended that consult your surgeon for the pre-op diet according to your type of the body. You should start this diet a couple of weeks ago before the surgery. Adjust the medication with this diet if you are a diabetes patient. Continue this diet till your gastric lap surgery. The following are some instruction that helps you to lose weight before the surgery.
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Caspar Wessel (1745-1818). Surveyor and Mathematician.
Bodil Branner, Nils Voje Johansen
This is a biography. It focus on Caspar Wessel's work as surveyor under the auspices of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, in particular on some of his theoretical investigations of geodesy that lead him to use complex numbers to represent directions in a plane at least as early as 1787. In 1797 his mathematical paper "On the Analytical Representation of Direction. An Attempt Applied Chiefly to Solving Plane and Spherical Polygons" (in Danish) was accepted for publication in the Collected Papers of the Academy. The articleis today recognised as the first to contain the geometrical interpretation of the complex numbers and their rules of composition.
Caspar Wessel. On the Analytical Representation of Direction.
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Kylie Jenner made sure all eyes were on her at Vera Wang's New York Fashion Week Show yesterday.
The Keeping Up With The Kardashians lady, 18, was at the event to watch her big sister Kendall on the catwalk – but it was her outfit that got everyone talking.
Kylie was sporting a quirky gold mini as she sat FROW-side alongside BFF Jordyn Woods.
She'd paired the piece with thigh-high black boots, a pink wig and a pair of oversized sunnies. Hmm. Not sure they were needed indoors in the middle of February, Kyles!
Further ensuring Kendall didn't steal the spotlight on the runway, Kylie also announced some exciting news on Instagram.
But let's talk about Kendall. She looked incredible as she modelled a monochrome thigh-split piece from Wang's AW16 collection.
The 20-year-old was rocking this season's hair choker trend, tucking her brunette locks into the collar of her white shirt to give the illusion of a soft bob.
This isn't the first catwalk the hair choker's been seen on. Spotted in shows including Christian Dior and Marc Jacobs, the beauty trick transforms your loose locks into a seriously stand-out style statement.
The edgy look may not be to everyone's taste, but we can imagine that it could work as a simple and easy alternative to fastening your hair into a pony – instantly adding some catwalk-worthy style points, too.


Time is a funny thing!!.
Sometimes it goes fast and sometimes it goes slow.
And this all depends on our perception of it, doesn't it? You know the story. When you are doing something fun, then it whizzes by and when you are doing something dreary, then it goes slow. When you are at the dentist time drags and yet when you are out of there, looking back, it seems like it went fast. It's over - yay!
When you meditate what does time do?
I remember sitting in the Sanctuary at Mana Retreat Centre, Cromandel, staying still in the immense stillness. The time would slow. Each minute felt like an hour with nothing in it. No busyness, no problems to solve, no conversations, no stories. Not that I looked at a watch every minute, but there is a bell tower there that rings on the quarter hour and it was a very long time until the next chiming.
And I realised that the perception of time is just that - a perception - it's not real. Yet we set ourselves to be confined by time. We urge ourselves to do more, to get more done. Is that part of conditioning from young? That we think we need to fill this moment with doing or thinking in order to...........achieve something??
"Take your time. There is plenty of time"
I realised this when in India at the sacred mountain Mt Arunachala. Our group realised this. When I meditate, this is realised again. There is plenty of time.
Time is what we make of it. Time is what we think it is.
Change how you think of time. To allow more possibilities. Let your mind relax. Let the future unfold. Trust yourself - whatever you need to do, will get done. Take your time.
Are you journeying to the light?


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We, the staff of the Department of Art History and Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester, abhor racism and are committed to redressing the issues of discrimination and racialised disadvantage within our disciplines and our own teaching and research practice, and to decolonising our curriculum. We are determined to produce a departmental culture which welcomes and supports BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and disabled students and staff, and where everyone is equally recognised and can flourish.
Dr Abigail Gilmore - Senior Lecturer in Arts Management and Cultural Policy and ICP Director
Abigail established the MA Arts Management, Policy and Practice at University of Manchester and works with colleagues in the Institute on other taught and research programmes. Her background is in sociological research on cultural policy, beginning with a PhD in Popular Culture and Society at the University of Leicester. Her research now focuses on local cultural management, participation and the different forms of knowledge and evidence used to measure and understand cultural value.
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Dr Kostas Arvanitis - Senior Lecturer in Museology
Kostas has a MA and PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester and a first degree in History and Archaeology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests cross the fields of museology, archaeology, cultural heritage, and digital media. His expertise lies in the area of Digital Heritage that includes the theory and practice of digital technology in museums, galleries and heritage sites.
Dr Jenna Ashton - Lecturer in Heritage Studies
Jenna is an experienced curator and producer, working in the areas of heritage, arts, participation, public space, social movements and activism. She is passionate about embedding inclusive practices and co-production methods in the arts and heritage sectors. She has an MA and PhD in Art History and Visual Studies from The University of Manchester. Jenna is also the Founder and Creative Director of Digital Women's Archive North – a Manchester-based feminist arts and heritage organisation addressing social inequalities through creative archiving and documentation.
Dr Andrew Hardman - Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries
Andrew has worked in the creative industries for over twenty years. His research explores the representation, theory and practice of creative production. During his PhD (in art history and visual cultures at Manchester) he formed a production company with two fellow researchers. Their filmmaking, for cultural organisations across the UK, specialises in archival research, documenting cultural practices, and co-producing film as a means of developing audiences and participation with collections and places.
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Dr Emma Martin - Lecturer in Museology
Emma has worked as a curator of ethnography and decorative arts for nearly 20 years, specialising in South Asia, the Himalaya and Tibet. She is leading a new research network called Object Lessons from Tibet and the Himalaya, which aims to bring researchers and museums from across Europe together with members of the Tibetan diaspora for the purpose of sharing and collaborating on Tibet and Himalaya collections-based research.
Dr Simon Parry - Lecturer in Drama and Arts Management
Simon has managed and evaluated a number of arts and education projects across the UK and Europe. He has a BA in Modern Languages (Nottingham), MA in Text and Performance Studies (King's College London / Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), and a PhD in Drama (Royal Holloway University of London). His research interests include the arts in education, engagements between contemporary science and the arts, activist performance and approaches to arts evaluation.
Dr Catherine Roberts - Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries
Catherine has a MA in English Literary Culture and a PhD in Tourism Studies from the University of Central Lancashire. A practitioner in regional and national museum learning programmes for over 15 years, Catherine has undertaken project consultancy for UK and European heritage and education projects. Her research interests and practice relate to experiential learning, placemaking and psychologised readings of visitor experience in dissonant/difficult heritage environments.
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Dr Leandro Valiati - Lecturer in Arts and Cultural Management
Leandro started his career in Brazil as a professor and policy advisor in Creative Industries and Economy of Culture, creating and leading the most representative policy-oriented academic centre on CCIs. In the past years, he has been working in academic positions and as board member in policy institutions in Spain, France and the UK. His research interests are Culture and Socioeconomic Development, Cultural Policy and Multidimensional Impact of Arts.
Dr Biyun Zhu - Lecturer In Cultural Policy and Governance
Biyun has a PhD in Cultural Policy and Arts Management from The Ohio State University and a MA in Public Policy from King's College London. Her research draws on knowledge from multiple disciplines including public policy, international relations, history, and management. She uses cultural policy as a lens to investigate issues in broader fields such as arts organisation governance, creative industries, cultural diplomacy, and soft power.
Prof Helen Rees Leahy - Professor in Museology
Prior to coming to Manchester, Helen worked as a curator and museum director for over 12 years, and organised numerous exhibitions of fine art and design. She has published on topics relating to art museums, art exhibitions, the art market and art criticism, and is interested in supervising research in these areas. Her work has explored practices of individual and institutional collecting, past and present, in both and in relation to questions of patronage, display and interpretation.
Dr Maria Balshaw CBE – Director of Tate (formerly Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester and Manchester City Galleries)
Maria succeeded Sir Nicholas Serota as Director of Tate in June 2017. Previously, as Director of The Whitworth and Manchester City Galleries, she was responsible for the artistic and strategic vision for each gallery. Maria was also Director of Culture for Manchester City Council. In 2014 Maria was appointed as a board member of Arts Council England and in June 2015 she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the arts.
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Alistair Hudson - Director of the Whitworth and Manchester Art Gallery and Honorary Professor of Useful Art
Alistair was appointed as Director of the Manchester Museum and the Whitworth in 2017. He is co-director of the Assoiacion de Arte Util with Tania Bruguera, and expending international project and online archive that promotes art as a tool for social change. In April 2023 he will take up his new position as the Artistic-Scientific Chairman of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM) Karlsruhe, Germany taking over from Professor Peter Weibel, who has headed ZKM since 1999.
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Dr Nick Merriman - Director of the Horniman Museum and Gardens
Nick was appointed Director of the Manchester Museum in March 2006. He has focused the Manchester Museum mission on promoting understanding between cultures and working towards a sustainable world and has overseen the refurbishment of most of the Museum's permanent galleries. He led the Museum's major capital project to build a new temporary exhibition space and a permanent gallery on South Asia in partnership with the British Museum. In 2018 Nick was appointed Director of the Horniman Museum and Gardens.
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Esme Ward - Director of The Manchester Museum and Honorary Professor of Heritage Futures
Esme was appointed Director of Manchester Museum in April 2018 and is the first woman to hold that position in its 127-year history. Prior to this, she was Head of Learning and Engagement at Manchester Museum and the Whitworth. She holds an MA in French Revolutionary Culture and Theory. In 2016-17 she was a Fellow on the Clore Cultural Leadership programme. Esme is the Strategic Lead (culture) for Age-Friendly Manchester and the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub. She is co-curator of the Arts, Health and Social change programme the World Health Congress 2019-20.
View Esme's profile on the Manchester Museum website
Honorary Research Fellows
Dr Susan Oman
Susan Oman is an AHRC Creative Economy Engagement Fellow looking at Data, Diversity and Inequality in the Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield. Susan completed her interdisciplinary PhD, based in Sociology at the University of Manchester, investigating the cultural politics of participation and well-being in the context of metrics and knowledge production. Susan was recently awarded an Honorary fellowship to the Institute of Cultural Practices at University of Manchester in recognition of her work on research methods and work in the cultural sector.
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Dr Virginia Tandy OBE
Virginia has a PhD from the University of Manchester. The first Director of Culture for Manchester City Council (2008-2011) and the first female Director of Manchester City Galleries (1998-2008), she was a trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund from 2009-2015. A former President of the Museums Association and the founder of the Women Leaders in Museums network, she is a member of the board of National Museums Liverpool, chairs Curious Minds, sits on the Fabric Committee for St Paul's Cathedral and is a trustee of the Granada Foundation.
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Dr Roaa Ali
Roaa is a researcher and educator with a growing research profile in race and the cultural industries, access inequality and the politics of minoritised cultural production. She is a Research Associate at the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) at the University of Manchester. Currently, she is researching racial and ethnic inequality in the Creative and Cultural Industries at the intersection of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Movement.
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Dr Sophie Everest, Lecturer in Documentary Film Making
Sophie is Lecturer in Film Practice in the Drama Department and Co-Director of Belle Vue, a film production and creative research company. Sophie started her career in television production at the BBC. Her practice uses film as a tool to capture and initiate relationships between people, objects and cultural practice within museums, archives and heritage spaces. Underpinning her research is a commitment to film as a socially engaged practice that invites collaboration and co-creation.
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Helen Mark
Helen is responsible for audience research at Manchester Museums Partnership, comprising the Whitworth, Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Museum. Helen leads on the collection and analysis of public engagement research data and co-ordinates research partnerships with HEIs and other bodies. Research interests include: inequalities and cultural participation; the civic role of museums; open data on cultural participation; and 'data practice' as an emergent area of arts management professional practice.
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Dr Rebecca Taylor
Rebecca has designed experiential marketing campaigns for global brands and developed design management and advertising degree programmes. Rebecca has a PhD and MRes in Digital Innovation (Lancaster University), MA in Enterprise and Management for the Creative Arts (University of the Arts, London) and BDes in Design Futures (Edinburgh Napier University). Rebecca supervises postgraduate students in Digital Media Management and Experience Design. An activist for green space in urban areas, her research interests include research through design and community activism.
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Dr Liz Thomas
Liz has a BA in Heritage Studies, an MA in Archaeology and a PhD in Historical Archaeology and has recently completed her British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship on the subject of 'Sailortown', a docklands area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Liz has successfully led numerous community driven projects and is a founding member of Buildings in Society International (BISI). Her research interests include, heritage, contested spaces, oral histories, institutions, identity and memory.
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How are data created, managed, shared, and used?
How do people collaborate over distance, what makes that work successful (or not), and how can we develop strategies and information technologies that make collaboration easier and more effective?
How do the "cyberinfrastructures" that provide the foundations for Big Data science and engineering come into being, and how do they support new forms of knowledge production?
How are values embedded in the artifacts we create? How do we support value awareness, negotiation, and reflection in our design processes? How do we manage ethical and privacy considerations in the design of information systems?
I use sociotechnical theories to illuminate the complex interplay of social and technological phenomena. I primarily use qualitative methods (especially interviews and ethnographic observations of collaborative work practices), although I also conduct experimental studies and surveys to validate emerging theory. My research has appeared primarily in the Human-Computer Interaction domain, especially in the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conferences and journals. I am also involved with Social Studies of Science (SSS) and Science, Technology and Society (STS) communities.
Data play an important role in the production of knowledge, but this is not data's only function. In "Data at Work [C3]," Jeremy Birnholtz and I wrote about some of the social roles that data play in three different scientific communities: earthquake engineering, HIV/AIDS research, and space physics. For example, we found that one's access to data frequently denotes position within a scientific community, and that allowing students to take control over data is a powerful signal that they are gaining full scientific status. We also provide an economic framework for understanding the potential positive and negative impacts of data sharing. We conclude that successful data sharing systems will seek to support the social functions of data as well as the scientific.
Databases Are Sites for the Negotiation of Scientific Values.
In a 2009 article [C5], Charlotte Lee and I discuss how genetic sequence databases support collaboration in the nascent and highly interdisciplinary field of metagenomics. Metagenomics researchers rely on large centralized collections of community-submitted genetic sequence data, both to provide shared data for (re)analysis and to provide a baseline for analyzing new data. As part of a 3-year study of the development cyberinfrastructure, we looked at the work of developing large high-performance scientific databases for metagenomics. We classified these databases as boundary negotiating artifacts (Lee, 2007). In other words, in the process of developing the databases, it was necessary to bring multiple stakeholder communities together to make decisions about what kinds of data the databases would contain, how the data should be described, and what tools should be provided to query, manipulate, and analyze the data. These seemingly technical discussions became opportunities for members of different scientific communities to argue about which scientific questions were most pressing, how data should be collected and annotated, and which analysis methods were most valid. Through this process, the database became a site where the communities' scientific values could be negotiated, codified, and enacted.
"Synergizing" Is a Fundamental Infrastructure Design Process.
Sustaining Cyberinfrastructure Requires Adapting to Change.
Infrastructures are expected to last for long time periods, but this is a challenge for cyberinfrastructures that are often funded as short-term projects. In "Sustaining the Development of Cyberinfrastructure" [C9], Toni Ferro, Charlotte Lee and I wrote about how one organization met the challenges of sustaining a scientific infrastructure through a number of potentially disruptive events. We show that "maintenance" work is better thought of as ongoing redevelopment as technologies, organizations, and science changes. As such, flexibility becomes an important design requirement. In another paper [C10], Charlotte Lee and I explored how three genomic databases dealt with the challenge of adapting to new science. Metagenomics is a new science that uses genomic data, but the level of analysis moves away from the organism to the population of organisms. This requires new database structures and new forms of metadata that could not be accommodated by the old systems. We document three strategies for dealing with legacy systems—work-arounds, extensions, and from-scratch development—and explore the design tradeoffs of each strategy.
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The way things are designed and made is radically transforming. Whether you make bridges or buildings, products or media, AutoCAD can help prepare your business for a new era.
When it comes to designing and building new products or structures, the future is already here. Over the last few years the process of making things has drastically changed. This also applies to the way things are used, which spurs innovation and continues to send companies to the drawing board to create even more. This phenomenon has affected organizations across a variety of industries, including engineering, construction, architecture, manufacturing, entertainment, and media. However, those that are equipped with the right knowledge will be able to master the tools needed to turn every challenge into an opportunity.
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Press release: ODX Assembles All-Star Cast to Bring Free Internet to Emerging Markets
ODX Pte. Ltd. today announced that it has more than $60 million in commitments for its private token sale. Early backers include a global list of very prominent names in the technology and blockchain space such as Pantera Capital, BlockTower Capital, DNA Fund, Kenetic Capital out of Hong Kong, Andromeda out of Switzerland, Hexa Labs out of Israel, Wavemaker Genesis, Strong Ventures in Korea, Jonathan Finch (advisor to Liquid Telecom out of Africa), Randy Kaplan (serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Akamai), Alexander Shulgin (Russian Blockchain Godfather), Christian de Faria (VP Special Advisor Orange for Middle East and Africa) and Brock Pierce (early global blockchain thought leader and venture capitalist).
Through its decentralized data marketplace, Open Data Exchange (ODX), ODX Pte. Ltd. is setting out to solve what is perhaps the most basic problem of all for consumers in emerging economies: internet access.
"Free and fair access to the web is a fundamental human right," said Scott Walker, co-founder of DNA Fund. "The dynamic nature of emerging markets creates unique challenges that have never confronted the developed world but also opens up opportunities for innovation and growth. We are proud to be part of the elite group of early supporters of the ODX platform, which will leverage blockchain technology to enable the delivery of free mobile internet access to underserved populations across the world."
In many emerging markets such as Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, the average user is online only through paid internet access less than ten days every month. Why? Because mobile data is expensive, free public Wi-Fi is scarce and DSL/cable options are limited.
This is an especially significant problem when you consider the fact that over 80 percent of the world's internet population lives in emerging markets.
"Blockchain is a revolutionary technology, with extensive benefits to enterprises, government entities and private citizens alike," said Nix Nolledo, founder and chairman of ODX Pte. Ltd. "It provides the perfect framework for our platform, which brings together internet service providers and publishers from around the globe in ways that have never previously been possible."
ODX Pte. Ltd. is uniquely positioned to execute on this lofty endeavor. Its parent company is Xurpas Inc., the largest consumer tech company in the Philippines. With more than 900 employees across offices in Southeast Asia, Xurpas has already built a vast network of business relationships, which will be leveraged to fuel the growth and expansion of ODX.
For more information about ODX, please visit https://odx.network/ and join the conversation on Facebook, Reddit, Telegram and Twitter.
Photo courtesy of Remko van Dokkum.
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Gig Review: Georgia Fair @ The East Brunswick Club, 16th December
December 18, 2010 by Lachy 0 Comments
On Thursday night Georgia Fair officially launched their 'Times Fly' EP in Melbourne with a dual headline show with Gossling. With so many of these 'dual headline' shows it can feel like the first act to play is more like a support band than a headliner, but this was not the case with Georgia Fair. Despite playing very early in the night, the guys put on a great show to a packed house which demonstrated that the days of being able to see them live for $8 are most certainly numbered.
It was a short but sweet set from Georgia Fair, featuring a smattering of songs from their EPs as well as some new material from their upcoming debut album, scheduled to be released next year. Jordan and Ben began the show on stage by themselves, however were shortly joined by the same band that accompanied them the last time I saw them live.
Picture Frames provided an early sing-along, as the crowd initially lingered back from the stage, creating an unfortunately awkward atmosphere. Thankfully a few people moved forwards right up to the stage, which was followed by everyone else shuffling forwards as well, creating for a much better atmosphere, much to the appreciation of Jordan, who said the space had been freaking him out a bit.
These guys really do play beautiful music. Regardless of whether they were playing new songs or old favourites, the constant was Jordan absolutely sublime voice, which was simply captivating. It was one of those shows to just lose yourself in, even only temporarily.
The highlight of their set for me was Marianne, which in its studio form is sung with Boy And Bear providing harmonising vocals. In the absence of Boy And Bear, Jordan invited "Our friend Lisa" to sing the song with the band, and out of nowhere appeared Lisa Mitchell. I'm a huge fan of hers, having seen her live plenty of times this year, and seeing her with Georgia Fair was a real treat, even if she only stayed on stage for the one song.
Her vocals for Marianne were of course perfect, and helped to create a truly spellbinding song. As quickly as she had appeared however she disappeared, never one for the spotlight.
After what seemed like no time at all Jordan announced that the next song would be their last, much to the disappointment of the crowd. It was of course Times Fly, and its innocent yearning provided for a very fitting and enjoyable end to the night.
I was left slightly disappointed that the band hadn't played my favourite song of theirs, Something Easy, but it was still a great performance and a very enjoyable show. After a few big nights I was feeling pretty out of it and decided not to wait it out for Gossling's set, although I'm told it was great.
Georgia Fair are a band unmistakably on the rise, and they have a live show to back up the hype. It may not be a flashy show (for the most part the bandmembers just stand and deliver their music, with limited crowd interaction), but it is pure and at times mesmerising.
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Whitechapel: An FCT Area Guide
By fctproperty 2020-02-29 March 26th, 2020 Area Guide
Whitechapel is an exciting up-and-coming district in East London and the future administrative centre of the London borough of Tower Hamlets. Situated a stone's throw from the Tower of London, this district is set to flourish under the hands of Tower Hamlets with their Whitechapel Vision. The arrival of the Elizabeth Line, opening in 2021, will transform Whitechapel Station into a stunning new transport hub with connections to Reading, Heathrow Airport, Essex and Abbey Wood, making it one of the best-connected areas in London. E1, its postcode, also includes most of Aldgate, Spitalfields, Shoreditch and parts of Stepney and Mile End. A diverse and vibrant area, Whitechapel is destined for a bright future.
The district became part of the County of London in 1889, before which it was part of the ancient parish of Stepney, Middlesex. Whitechapel also has its spine-chilling history of the Victorian serial killer, Jack the Ripper, in 1888, and the Ronnie Kray's murder of George Cornell in the Blind Beggar pub on Whitechapel Road in 1966. The pub was also the site of William Booth's first sermon that led to the creation of the Salvation Army in 1865.
Whitechapel is set to become a key destination and hub for London with renovations in the next five years. The vision includes:
3,500 new homes by 2025 including substantial amounts of new family and affordable homes
5,000 new local jobs
7 new public squares and open spaces
New streets and public routes
New 21st century civic hub for Tower Hamlets
Globally significant research campus
Creative industries including new local media hub
New cultural centre and community facilities
Shopping and Leisure experience on Whitechapel Road
Expansion and improvement of street market
Thriving evening time economy
Reduced crime with safer and cleaner streetsThe Masterplan involves various transformations:
Revitalising Whitechapel Road – easier pedestrian movement
New Civic Hub – improved range of public services in the towncentre
Durward Street Gardens – new high quality urban quarter
Med City Campus – expansion of health, bio-tech and life sciencesresearch
• Raven Row – residential-led development with improved links to town centre
• Cambridge Heath Gateway – redevelopment of the Sainsbury's site with a new larger store and residential and community facilities
Average property price: £703,612 (17.6% above the London Average of £598,340).
The average sold price in Whitechapel has increased by 39.12% over the last year.
Average property prices from 2000 to 2019:
Source: Foxtons
Property price range: £285,000 – £2,00,000
Average rental value: £573 per week (24.9 % below the London Average of £763 per week)
Rental price range: £445 – £1,500 per week
Whitechapel is in Zone 2 and an annual travel card to Zone 1 is £1,364.
Stations:
Whitechapel Station
Liverpool Street Station
Shadwell Station
Stepney Green Station
Limehouse StationTrains:
District line
Hammersmith & City line
Circle line
TfL RailWhitechapel Crossrail Station:The arrival of the widely anticipated Crossrail Station at Whitechapel at the end of 2020 will be great news for commuters into The City, Canary Wharf & Heathrow. The only station on the central line to interchange as far west as Reading and both Eastern parts of the Line in Shenfield and Abbey Wood. It is little wonder then that Whitechapel Crossrail Station was ranked 1st for potential price growth forecast due to Crossrail in JLL's investment report case.
Step-free from street to platform
Bright underground spaces with curved sweeping corners to ease passenger flow
Full height platform screen doors to separate people from tracks
99,000 passengers per day on the Elizabeth line (peak) 24 trains per hour (peak, each way)
Interchange: District, Hammersmith & City, London Overground
Commuter Buses
25 – to Oxford Circus via Cheapside and Holborn
205 – to Paddington via King's Cross and Baker Street
Education Primary Schools:
Canon Barnett Primary School
Harry Gosling Primary School
Stewart Headlam Primary School
Thomas Buxton Primary SchoolSecondary Schools:
London Enterprise Academy
Swanlea School
Madani Secondary Girls' School
London East Academy
Whitechapel Gallery – a public art gallery that opened in 1901 as one of the first publicly funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London. 2018 hosted a solo show for Mark Dion and the first major UK survey of artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset.
• Street art – beyond the gallery, Whitechapel suburb has become a vibrant exhibition of its own.
Brick Lane Food Market – an array of colourful, delicious cuisines ranging from Spanish paella and empanadas to fresh Japanese sushi and okonomiyaki.
Vintage shopping experience – weekend pop-up markets and permanent vintage shops to explore.
Old Spitalfields Market – a market place for over 350 years, the market hosts almost 50 shops and stalls, focusing on local artisan products and with food and drink options too.
Our Exclusive Development –The Liberty, 116 Jubilee Street, Whitechapel, E1
We still have some last remaining opportunities at our exclusive new development in the up- and-coming area of Whitechapel owing its name to Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which was where Robert Charles ordered the Liberty Bell to be made in 1752. Sitting in the heart of East London, The Liberty is in the perfect location to make the most of the Elizabeth Line and all other Whitechapel renovations.
9 units:
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1x 3bedPriced between £502,695 and £893,350
8 minutes walk to Whitechapel Station (Hammersmith & City, District & Overground)
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2020. Flexible payment structureavailable
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Character Development: How to Write Impactful Characters
You have decided to write that novel, short story or play that is waiting inside you. You have the story—it's beginning, middle and end. You also have a few characters in mind. But you need some help to flesh those characters out. That's where you'll need to get the hang of character development.
You might think that characters that have appeared in your head might somehow write themselves on the page, without much effort. Indeed, sometimes, they do. But, most of the time you, as the writer, author and creator of your book, are in charge and have to make decisions to shape the character for your story.
Before we start, I will be using 'story' throughout to mean the fictional work of any length.
Let's start at the very beginning. A character can be defined as any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work. It is an important element of a story. Characters do not always have to human. Animal and inanimate characters are also characters and have to be developed in quite the same way.
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand, the marsh of blank paper.
– John Updike
American novelist
Character development is the development through the story of a complex character who will take your story forward, attract the reader's sympathies and leave a long-lasting impression long after the back cover of the book has been closed.
For example, J. K. Rowling developed some impressive characters in her Harry Potter universe: Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Dumbledore and others. Even the 'evil' characters were fleshed out with backstories making the reading of her books a cohesive experience. J.R.R Tolkien's
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
– Michael Morpurgo
British Children's Writer
characters like Frodo, Samwise Gamgee, Bilbo and Gandalf, among others, also leave a strong mark on the reader's mind. George Smiley from John Le Carré's spy universe is also a well-developed character. Oscar Wao from Junot Díaz's 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' is another unique and well-developed character.
If you don't develop your characters well, then your story is that much less impactful. A well-developed
character can make the book, and a poorly developed character can break it. This applies across genres.
There is no magic potion, pill or short cut available to make this an easy task. The secret is sheer hard work. Work on your characters and your characters will work for you.
Let's start with the types of characters in a story.
You'll need many different characters in your book. Have you decided on them yet? Not all of them will have the same kind of focus in your story. In fact, you don't need to use all of them at all. You need to be aware of the types of characters so that you can create or choose the ones that will illustrate your story the best.
You can never know enough about your characters.
– W. Somerset Maugham
British novelist
Major characters: also called central characters are important to the development of the story. The plot and the resolution to the conflict revolve around them.
Minor characters: are characters that support the main characters.
Static character: is a character that doesn't change over time in the course of the story.
Dynamic character: is a character that changes over time and grows over the course of the story.
Round character: is a character who has a complex personality and is often shown to be contradictory and conflicted.
Flat character: is a character that has only one trait or characteristic; it is the opposite of the round character.
Stock character: is a character that has become stereotypical or conventional from constant use. Examples include the private eye, the femme fatale, the mad scientist, the geeky boy etc. Stock characters are mostly flat but sometimes can be conflicted as well.
Protagonist: is the main character, the central person, who faces the conflict in the story. Protagonists need not be likeable or good; they need to make the reader feel involved and invested in the story.
Antagonist: is a character or a situation against which the protagonist must struggle and overcome.
Anti-hero: is usually a protagonist who does not have the characteristics associated with a conventional hero.
Foil: is a character (sometimes the antagonist or an important supporting character) whose qualities and characteristics contrast with another character (usually the protagonist) and through this contrast, we get to know more about the important character.
Symbolic character: which could be a major or minor character represents an idea or aspect of society. For example: In Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem 'The Raven' the big blackbird is a symbol for the narrator's deep feelings of loss, regret, mourning and loneliness.
Note that some characters can show more than one characteristic at the same time. A dynamic character may be the antagonist, and the flat and stock character can be the protagonist.
Now that you know the types of character you might need in your story, you will need to know how to present them. There are two broad ways of presenting them.
Direct characterisation: is when the speaker or narrator directly tells what the character says or thinks. Usually, omniscient narrators use this method.
example, in 'The Old Man and the Sea', Earnest Hemingway describes the character of the old man, Santiago:
The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheek … Everything about him was old except his eyes, and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. (p.2)
Indirect characterisation: is when the speaker or narrator shows the reader how the character behaves, what he says and what he does. After which the reader infers how the character is. This is a more natural way of characterisation since it comes closest to real life. For example: John Steinbeck in the 'Grapes of Wrath', shows the personality of Tom Joad.
Joad took a quick drink from the flask. He dragged the last smoke from his raveling cigarette and then, with callused thumb and forefinger, crushed out the glowing end. He rubbed the butt to a pulp and put it out the window, letting the breeze suck it from his fingers. (The Grapes of Wrath, p. 9)
The reader arrives at the conclusion that Joad is a poor, blue-collar worker.
So now that you know the two methods of characterisation, you'll need to know how to use them. Here are ten ways by which you can develop your character:
To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.
– Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Indian American author
Through psychological description
Through physical description
Through investigating what the character thinks
Through the character's dialogues
Through the way, the character says those dialogues
Through the content of the dialogues
Through what others say about the character
Through the character's environment
Through the character's reaction to others
Through the character's reaction to oneself
It is knowing when to use what type of characterisation is key to making your characters believable. You are now well on your way to creating memorable characters. Hold on; there are a few more tips and tricks that will help you master this skill.
Direct characterisation has the most impact when you use in certain specific situations. Use direct characterisation:
To introduce the character for the first time. This is a good time to list their essential details. For example: Charles Dickens introduces Scrooge-like this:
I present him to you: Ebenezer Scrooge….the most tightfisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!
For crucial character details and primary goals, drives and motivations. You need to describe the character's physical details which also reveals the character's personality. For example, let's read this description of Tom Joad from John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath':
He was not over thirty. His eyes were very dark brown, and there was a hint of brown pigment in his eyeballs. His cheekbones were high and wide, and strong deep lines cut down his cheeks, in curves besides his mouth […] His hands were hard, with broad fingers and nails as thick and ridges as little clamshells. The space between thumb and forefinger and the hams of his hands were shiny with callus. (p. 3)
To focus on the specific and unique details of a character such as clothing, identity and personality: This is where you can really create unique characters. For example, the ageing Fermina Daza in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is described as:
Her stylish attire did not seem appropriate for a venerable grandmother, but it suited her figure – long-boned and still slender and erect, her resilient hands without a single age spot, her steel-blue hair bobbed on a slant at her cheek. Her clear almond eyes and her inborn haughtiness were all that was left to her from her wedding portrait, but what she had been deprived of by age she more than made up for in character and diligence. (pp. 25-26)
Marquez very clearly and directly tells us not only about Fermina's appearance but also about her character (her 'inborn haughtiness' and 'dilligence').
Just like direct characterisation, the indirect characterisation needs to be used at specific points in the story for maximum effect. Use indirect characterisation:
For and in dialogues. One of the best ways to show a character's personality is through dialogue. The way a person speaks tells a lot about them. For example, in this excerpt from Marina Lewycka's 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian' we get to know not one but two characters, Nadezhda and her father, through their dialogue.
There are lots of unlikeable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.
– Lynne Tillman
Novelist, short story writer and cultural critic
My father's voice, quavery with excitement, crackles down the line. 'Good news, Nadezhda. I'm getting married!'
I remember the rush of blood to my head. Please let it be a joke! Oh, he's gone bonkers! Oh, you foolish old man! But I don't say any of those things. 'Oh, that's nice, Pappa,' I say.
'Yes, yes. She is coming with her son from Ukraine. Ternopil in Ukraina.'
Ukraina: he signs, breathing in the remembered scent of mown hay and cherry blossom. But I catch the distinct synthetic whiff of New Russia. (p.1)
The reader (you) can infer the character of the sensible and disapproving daughter and the excited and idiosyncratic old father through these lines.
To show a character's actions which reveal their personality indirectly. In another example from Marina Lewycka's 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian', the narrator Nadezhda describes indirectly through her father's actions that he was conflicted about asking his daughter from his first marriage to attend his second.
My father doesn't invite us to the wedding, but he lets slip the date. 'No need to visit now. Everything is OK. You can come after June first,' he says. (p. 70)
To show the consequences of the character's actions. It is possible to think about the relationship between direct and indirect characterisation as being one of cause and effect.
This will be evident with an example. At the beginning of Charles Dickens' novel 'Hard Times,' we first meet the fraudulent Mr Bounderby. Dickens shows as directly how exaggerated everything that Bounderby says and does. Later through indirect characterisation shown by Bounderby's accumulated words and actions, we understand the reasons for his behaviour.
To show the character's viewpoint and private thoughts. Through indirect characterisation, you as the third-person narrator, can relate the character's innermost thoughts and convey his/her viewpoint.
For example, in Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway', Clarissa Dalloway, the protagonist thinks about Peter Walsh, the man whose proposal she refused. In this excerpt, you can see Clarissa's thoughts relayed by the narrator, which show how much she has learnt and grown over the years and her self-reflective nature.
For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter, and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, if he were with me now what would he say? – some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James Park on fine morning – indeed they did. (p. 4)
You now know how to approach direct and indirect characterisation separately, so when you work on your characters, you'll need to mix the two types of characterisations to keep things interesting for the reader. Relying on one type of characterisation alone will not work.
In the absurdist play 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' by the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, six characters which he had started to write but hadn't finished writing appear off stage catch him off guard, disrupt the rehearsal of his other play and demand to be realised and given a story. Metaphorically many writers have experienced this feeling—of characters appearing and demanding to be written. Whether characters demand to be written by you or you feel compelled to write and realise them, with what you have read in this article, you will be able to create believable and memorable characters. Good luck and happy creating!
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