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"Scholarship is a Conversation": Discourse, Attribution, and Twitter's Role in Information Literacy Instruction
March 11, 2015 Peer-Reviewed ArticleAlexander J. Carroll, conversation, information literacy, Robin Dasler, scholarship, TwitterEditor
Alexander J. Carroll and Robin Dasler
Introduction: Information Literacy & Scholarly Communication Instruction
When addressing scholarly attribution, citation, and plagiarism in one-shot instruction sessions, librarians often fail to present these issues in a manner that has relevance for students. Librarians often focus on intellectual honesty and the potential ramifications of plagiarism, both individual pursuits, rather than explaining that by creating an academic work, students are participating in academic discourse. Within Pluralizing Plagiarism, Anson argues that scholarly attribution instruction that emphasizes "policy, detection, and punishment" is antithetical to the mission of institutions of higher learning – the education of students (Anson, 2008). One of the major deficiencies of this compliance-based instruction is that it presents students with a false dichotomy that does not align with their authentic life experiences; plagiarism is demonstrated as a black and white issue, rather than existing in shades of gray. Students who have come of age within a twenty-first century information ecosystem rife with remix and parody culture will likely find teaching that presents the re-use of source material as a non-nuanced issue unconvincing. Because students respond positively to instruction that aligns with their authentic experiences, this suggests that librarians need to develop new methods for teaching attribution and scholarly discourse that not only recognize the nuance inherent to these topics, but also presents these concepts within a familiar framework (Klipfel, 2014). As a familiar platform for social interaction with multiple avenues for giving credit and a shorter timescale, Twitter presents an opportunity to place attribution, plagiarism, and integrity into a humanizing, real world context that models how discourse unfolds in an authentic manner for learners. By embedding attribution instruction into a meaningful context, librarians and other educators can make substantial and much needed improvements to traditional compliance-based instruction, which is often built upon the slow, rigid, and unfamiliar patterns of how to cite scholarly works.
The literature suggests that the compliance-based approach to this topic is not reaching the desired learning outcomes established in Standard 5 of the still active ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2000). Nor are students approaching the "Scholarship is a Conversation" threshold concept of the forthcoming ACRL Framework of Information Literacy for Higher Education, which the literature very nearly points out verbatim (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2014). Lee (2013) contends that undergraduate students lack understanding in even the basic concepts of citation and plagiarism. One possible reason students need more basic instruction on citation and plagiarism is that students, particularly undergraduates, are unfamiliar with the conventions of academic writing (Thonney, 2011). This lack of familiarity renders students unprepared to produce academic writing for their coursework. One of the primary conventions of scholarly communication is that "academic writers respond to what others have written about their topic" (Thonney, 2011). Duckett and Warren (2013) argue that the idea of scholarship as discourse is a central tenet of information literacy, noting that the way in which scholars "create, share, vet, discover, process and access new knowledge…are the same processes that students are asked to participate in when they must find scholarly literature" for use in research assignments. However, because undergraduate students are uninitiated to the social dynamics and mechanisms through which scholarly information is created, they do not understand why instructors and librarians place such high emphasis on seemingly arbitrary practices, such as using peer-reviewed sources or providing complete citation information (Duckett & Warren, 2013). Another major challenge within information literacy is convincing students to perceive themselves as knowledge creators, rather than just as knowledge consumers (Duckett & Warren, 2013). Students who do not view their academic writing as participation in discourse or themselves as information creators are unlikely to find traditional citation instruction relevant or meaningful.
To address these deficiencies, Texas A&M University introduced a credit bearing, semester long course titled Theft of the Mind that utilized case studies based in popular culture to demonstrate to students that "plagiarism and piracy…are but endpoints on a continuum between source use and misuse" (Clement & Brenenson, 2013, p. 56). Central to the ethos of this course is the idea that "theft of the mind" hurts a community of practice at large as much as it does the individual content creator, whether this community is scholars within the academy or creative performers in popular culture (Clement & Brenenson, 2013, p. 57). This is an important value to imprint upon students that can be obscured in a compliance oriented lesson. Explaining that scholars depend on citation of their work for their livelihood provides students with a more forthright and holistic explanation as to why plagiarism carries such dire consequences within the academy. The success of this course at Texas A&M suggests that students respond well to the topic of scholarly attribution and plagiarism when instruction is placed within a framework that resonates with familiar life experiences.
Teaching with Social Media: Twitter as Discourse
When first emerging in the mid-2000s, social media platforms were labeled as the distraction from learning du jour, the "comic book hidden in a boring text" for the information age (Bugeja, 2006). However, in recent years, social media platforms have increasingly taken on more prominent roles within higher education as faculty identify new ways that these potential distractions can be leveraged as tools. Dougherty (2014) suggests that social media platforms can be used within the classroom to increase student engagement. The popularity of social media sites among traditional-aged students has exploded in the last decade, with 89 percent of Internet users within the ages of 18-29 reporting use of social media (Pew Research Internet Project, 2014). As social media platforms have become ubiquitous, they have also become an integral part of student information seeking behavior. Kim, Sin, and Yoo-Lee (2014) found in their study that use of Wikipedia and social media sites in information seeking was pervasive, with 98 percent and 95 percent of users reporting use of each, respectively. Because students are using social media as sources of information, librarians have responded by using these platforms as frameworks for teaching and learning. The library literature includes many examples of librarians using social media within information literacy instruction, finding these tools are useful metaphors for explaining otherwise confusing concepts such as controlled vocabulary and subject headings (Click & Petit, 2010).
While not as ubiquitous as Facebook, Twitter is one of the more popular social media platforms for traditionally aged college students, with 35 percent of Internet users within the ages of 18-29 reporting use (Pew Research Internet Project, 2014). Twitter's interface can be a useful tool for visually demonstrating how discourse unfolds and how individual content creators can participate within a discourse. Brook suggests that Twitter and other social media tools are "platform[s] for social discourse," facilitating the sharing of content and ideas, as well as interaction between users (Brook, 2012, p. 120). Brook suggests that framing social media as platforms for discourse enables libraries to leverage these tools in a variety of ways (Brook, 2012). Presenting Twitter as a medium for discourse opens up the possibility of using the platform as a pedagogical tool.
Traditional academic discourse and Twitter discourse share a number of analogous conventions. Academic discourse is traced backwards and forwards by consulting bibliographies and publication dates. Scholars "speak" to one another using citations, and reference the work of others using direct quotes and paraphrasing. Scholarly works give credit to other scholars through footnotes, endnotes, and parenthetical citations. Meanwhile, Twitter discourse is traced backwards and forwards through timelines and timestamps. Twitter users "speak" to one another using @reply and mentions, and also reference the work of others using direct quotes and paraphrasing. Much like a citation style guide, the Twitter community has developed conventions that allow users to properly credit the ideas and content of others by using retweet for direct quotes, and using modified tweet, hat tip, and via for paraphrasing content.
These commonalities extend to the metrics used for evaluating the impact and influence of individuals and the content they create. Within academic discourse, author-level metrics like the h-index demonstrate the influence of a scholar's work, while article-level metrics like Web of Knowledge's Times Cited measures the impact of a single work. Similar metrics exist within Twitter discourse. The number of followers a Twitter user has indicates how many other users like that account's content, while the number of times a single Tweet is favorited or retweeted indicates how widely a Tweet has been shared. In both streams of discourse, authors use a consistent name or handle to create their "brand." These metrics measure the author's reach and influence, and are discussed increasingly as a potential metric for measuring the broader societal impact of research, as well as by executives for various commercial purposes (Bornmann, 2014). Twitter, therefore, is a suitable analog for discussing attribution and the scholarly machine, but its more familiar social conventions and real-time scale make it more accessible to students than traditional slow-moving examples of scholarly communication.
Plagiarism scandals within the academy draw heavy media attention, and are often followed by an apology that falls somewhere on a continuum from defiant to contrite (Thomason, 2014). Because Twitter has such established attribution norms, it also sees plagiarism and misattribution scandals of its own. In June 2013, a controversy erupted over the tweets of user @prodigalsam. Twitter is extremely popular within comedy circles, as it gives comedians the opportunity to "test out material and win over followers who might end up becoming fans" (D'Addario, 2013). A tumblr feed, "Borrowing Sam," exposed that @prodigalsam had amassed a huge number of followers by plagiarizing the tweets of popular Twitter accounts ("Borrowing Sam," 2013). @prodigalsam would routinely engage in paraphrase plagiarism of the content of other users by waiting several months after a tweet was published, then altering the wording of a tweet enough to avoid detection through a full text search on Google. "Borrowing Sam" laid this plagiarism bare by placing @prodigalsam's plagiarized content side by side with the original content. (Figure 1) The pop culture context makes this both an accessible example of plagiarism in action, as well as a more nuanced example that can engender discussion.
Using Borrowing Sam in the Classroom
Beginning in the Fall of 2013, Twitter as an analog for scholarly discourse was introduced into a selection of information literacy sessions at the University of Maryland, College Park in which the librarian had been asked to address avoiding plagiarism and proper citation of sources. The librarians teaching these sessions hoped that by using the Twitter metaphor, students would be able to (1) articulate how academic writing is a form of participation within a larger discourse; and (2) describe why citations and attribution are important within scholarly communication. Student reception to using this metaphor and achievement of these outcomes was generally positive. In an open response post-test, 86 percent of students indicated that academic writing is a means of responding to previous researchers, and 85 percent stated that the importance of citations was to give credit to the original author and/or strengthen an argument's cogency, rather than focusing on personal consequences.
The @prodigalsam illustration is especially valuable for demonstrating the concepts of scholarly discourse and attribution, as it opens the discussion to more complex issues of attribution and plagiarism. Plagiarism is rarely a black and white issue, as evidenced by remixes, mash-ups, and the ever-nebulous Fair Use legal defense, and acceptable attribution behavior can vary depending on the medium used or the norms of a particular community of practice. Presenting this view of attribution without clearly defined boundaries encourages students to engage with the concept, prompting further class discussion. When this illustration was employed in class, students raised questions about self-plagiarism, including the re-use of a body of work across multiple media. (Figure 2) While purely anecdotal, this line of inquiry indicates a higher level of engagement than what is typically seen in an information literacy instruction session. Perhaps most importantly, by telling the story of @prodigalsam, the librarian can use a narrative structure to convey information, which educational research suggests is among the most effective ways to increase student retention of content (Willingham, 2009).
In addition to prompting useful in-class discussion, the Twitter-as-attribution concept easily translates into online learning modules and scales well for larger groups. This made it ideal for incorporation into a revisioning of the UMD Libraries' partnership with the campus Professional Writing Program (PWP), an upper-division required core writing component that serves students from all majors and disciplines. In response to undergraduate population growth, and in an effort to maximize the value of class face time, the UMD Libraries is transitioning the PWP information literacy instruction component into a flipped classroom model, the basis of which is instructional modules designed for Canvas, the campus' learning management system. Given that PWP students are typically upperclassmen, the process of how scholarly information is created, reviewed, disseminated, and consumed is heavily emphasized throughout these modules, and attribution is a key component of this process. But given that PWP students also typically have varying levels of knowledge and experience when it comes to research, attribution must be presented in a way that is accessible and makes use of their previous experiences, particularly given that they will be initially interacting with the information in an unsupervised context. To convey the importance of proper attribution and the harm plagiarism can potentially cause original content creators, the Canvas modules include the Twitter illustration and the narrative of @prodigalsam.
Areas for Further Research
Copyright cases often catch the attention of the news media, such as the recent legal dispute over who owned the copyright of a selfie taken by a black macaque (Chapell, 2014). The public interest in these news stories suggests that this is an area of high interest where information professionals could share their expertise with their communities, and while there are numerous avenues that promote copyright and fair use awareness for information professionals in higher education, such as Duke University Libraries' scholarly communication blog, there are far fewer initiatives directed at making this content palatable and meaningful for non-library faculty, students, or the general public (Smith, 2015). While initiatives such as the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) are trying to increase awareness of these issues, perhaps there is an opportunity to use authentic contexts and popular culture to make these issues more comprehensible, as well. One recent example that seems to present such an opportunity was the photo sharing service Flickr's decision to sell photos that had been licensed under the Creative Commons license ("50 million Creative Commons and licensed images now in Flickr Wall Art," 2015). While Flickr ultimately elected to reverse this decision, Flickr was within its rights to sell these images based on the Creative Commons attribution licensing agreement users agreed to when uploading their photos ("An Update on Flickr Wall Art," 2014). While many Flickr users were outraged by this decision, what this revealed was a lack of understanding of the purpose of licensing materials under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license ("An Update on Flickr Wall Art," 2014). Materials licensed under the Creative Commons agreement are not universally blocked from commercial use; rather, materials licensed under the Attribution-ShareAlike license are truly open (Paley, 2010). The Attribution-ShareAlike license allows for the copying, redistribution, and adaptation of licensed materials for any purpose, including commercial purposes, so long as the original work is attributed to the original creator and that the new materials are licensed under the same terms (Creative Commons, 2015). Using this Flickr example as a case study within the classroom could present these complex, highly abstract issues into a more concrete and relatable context, but additional research must be done to consider whether such examples will authentically capture the attention of audiences.
While the authors used Twitter to demonstrate the mechanics of scholarly communication and attribution within a higher education context, the success of this model within one context suggests that similar models could be used to present related concepts in other settings. School libraries often reuse the online instructional materials on plagiarism that are created by academic librarians; consequently, changes in how attribution, citation, and integrity are taught within a higher education context could impact the instruction presented within school libraries. Perhaps by challenging students to consider plagiarism and attribution in a more nuanced way within the secondary school curriculum, undergraduates would arrive on college campuses better prepared for the rigors of college level writing and research. Furthermore, as creating an online presence is becoming increasingly important for individuals and businesses, presenting controversies about Twitter plagiarism and copyright together could make for compelling programming within academic, school, and public libraries. Case studies such as @prodigalsam and Flickr Wall Art ground these abstract issues into reality, and can be used to instruct the public on the importance of recognizing the work of others, carefully considering license agreements, as well as the how to create a litigation-proof online presence. Rather than limiting attribution to the realm of in-text citation and bibliographies, librarians working within libraries of all types should consider connecting these issues to case studies, which can convey to the public and students of all ages that attribution and copyright have relevance beyond the confines of academic writing.
Twitter and other social media platforms are promising pedagogical tools for teaching some of the central concepts of information literacy, especially in light of the forthcoming ACRL Framework of Information Literacy for Higher Education. These platforms, which show discourse unfolding within real time in media environments that are familiar to undergraduate students, are great metaphors for introducing students to the threshold concept that "Scholarship is a Conversation." Just as Twitter users or Facebook accounts can discuss content within a thread, so do scholars respond to one another within scholarly literature. Grounding these critical issues of scholarly communication within familiar media also shows promise as a method for engaging students with the threshold concept that "Information has Value." These platforms bring the human element of information creation to the foreground and allow educators to shift the focus of their teaching to how plagiarism affects others, conveying that whether in academia, the workplace, or on Twitter, the original producers of content gain significant value from their work being properly attributed to them. Instead of emphasizing the negative personal consequences of academic dishonesty, librarians can use these platforms to convey the positive associations with participating in discourse and crediting the work of others, focusing on benefits to the academy or community at large.
Figure 1: Example of paraphrase plagiarism. (Borrowing Sam, 2013)
Figure 2: Example of self-plagiarism. (Borrowing Sam, 2013)
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Jennifer Aniston To Sing On The Big Screen
Lisa Kudrow shared her voice while performing "Smelly Cat" on television, and now, her former "Friends" co-star, Jennifer Aniston, is finally set to unleash her own pipes in an upcoming film.
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"She can sing," Sucsy said of Jennifer. "And she's going to learn how to play the Dobro [an acoustic guitar with metal parts]."
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According to Texas Monthly, seven million Americans would tune their antennas to hear the girl group every Wednesday evening.
"These women learned to harmonize and they learned to play instruments," Sucsy told E!. "They weren't these amazing, accomplished singers who banded together. That's what's interesting about it.
"It's not just like, 'Hey, you can play the guitar, I can play the piano, I can play the harmonica. Let's put a band together.' It's like, 'We have to get out of jail, and if we have to put a band together to do that, then that's what we're going to do,'" he added.
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Although Jennifer has signed on for the role, her fellow bandmates have yet to be cast.
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Job Seekers Remember How You Make Them Feel
I recently attended the MaximumImpact Leadership Conference. There was a host of terrific speakers, but the two that really "did it" for me were Patrick Lencioni, Founder and President of The Table Group, Inc., and Tim Sanders, Chief Solutions Officer of Yahoo!.
Tim said a lot with regard to Gen X and Y, and how we as employers are failing in our efforts to attract them to our organizations. He said that Gen X'ers and Y'ers go to work to have a good time - they go to work for "the experience" and are concerned about "Fairness and Dignity."
As recruiters we tend to think that everybody is focused on money. Tim says that X'ers and Y'ers don't care about financial freedom. The freedom they are looking for is the "freedom of not working for a jerk."
Tim wrapped up with a slide that highlighted the four questions people (esp X'ers and Y'ers) are asking about you. Here's what they want to know:
Friendliness (Are you friendly?)
Relevance (Are you relevant? Do you have what I need?)
Empathy (Do you care? Are you a powerless listener?)
Realness (Are you real?)
Tim finished with this quote:
"Long after people forget what you did and said, they will remember how you made them feel."
I used the same quote (giving Tim credit of course) when I wrapped up my comments on the "Blogging Panel" at the Kennedy Conference. My point was this --- a blog can be the medium to allow one to reach their audience in a meaningful way. It can increase one's opportunity and personal capacity to create positive emotional experiences in others.
What does all that fluffy-sounding talk really mean? Sanders says, "Good things happen to people that make themselves emotionally attractive."
I'm just foolish enough to believe that a blog can used as a tool to help me make a connection with job seekers that I would otherwise never have the opportunity to meet. And long after they have forgotten what I said and did (in my blog), they will remember how I made them feel. Why? Because I was friendly - relevant - empathetic - real.
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D-Man, let's also add vulnerable; because when you write from the sould people just naturally pick up on the subtle nuances we always put out there. Think about how you and I became friendly - I made some flip comment as I am wont to do from time to time and you responded with an honest retort (yeah, I did get a phone out of it but the company became a staple in my blogging).
Look - as recruiters we can sell the job but can we effectively sell the soul of the company and the future teammates? Blogs can help make this happen - but it requires an earnest effort on the part of the blogger to reveal their innermost feelings.
Wisely said, Master Jedi-Levy. Jest aside, it is work. But when it is genuine, it makes its way more easily from thought process, to words and deeds. And I think people, jobseekers, know the difference. Esp the X'ers and Y'ers.
I have been in the Recruiting business for over 14 years and I have had plenty of "jobs". What I have now is a fun place to go everyday that is easeierto sell then icewater in, well, you know. The people are genuine and honest and certainly empathetic. Do we pay the best in the area? No we don't, but we have the most fun and we reap the most rewards.


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ENG vs SA: England thrash SA by an innings and 85 runs to level series 1-1
ENG vs SA: South Africa defeated England by an innings in the first Test. However, little did they know they would have to suffer a similar fate in the next Test match in Manchester. Ben Stokes and Co. thrashed England by an innings and 85 runs in the second Test on Saturday to level the series 1-1.
The bowlers came out all guns blazing on the first day of the Test match. The experienced duo of James Anderson and Stuart Broad ran through South Africa's batting unit as they combined to pick 6 wickets between them.
None of the South African batters could reach the half-century mark as they were bundled out for just 151 runs at the end of the first innings. Even that total wouldn't have been possible had Rabada not played a 36-run knock in the latter stage of the innings.
However, South African bowlers ignited some hope when they picked the first three English wickets for just 43 runs. But in-form Jonny Bairstow counter-attacked and took England to 134 before getting out off Nortje. He made 49 in 63 balls. Zack Crawley got out soon as England lost half of their side for 147 runs.
South Africa had the chance to make a comeback from that position but Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes had other ideas. The England skipper, once again, stepped up when the team needed him the most. He played a sensational knock of 103 runs in 163 balls, while Ben Foakes remained unbeaten on 113 off 217. Thanks to those two valuable knocks, England went on to reach a mammoth 415 at the end of the second innings.
Ollie Robinson, who didn't look at his best in the first innings, picked four wickets when South Africa came out to bat again. However, it was James Anderson, Stokes, and Broad who picked the vital wickets, denying South Africa to stitch big partnerships. In the end, they were bundled out for just 179 runs.
ENG vs SA Brief Scores: England 415 for 9 dec (Foakes 113*, Stokes 103) beat South Africa 151 (Anderson 3-32, Broad 3-37) and 179 (Petersen 42, Robinson 4-43) by 123 runs
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In Hindsight: How 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Ran a Great Marketing Campaign
Alisha Grauso Contributor
I write about film and television.
'In Hindsight' is a weekly column where I take a look at the aftermath of a film's opening weekend and dive into what its marketing campaign did right, where it went wrong, and how it impacted the bottom line.
Welcome to the first-ever 'In Hindsight.' The marketing of the movie industry has always fascinated me just as much as the making of movies itself, so as a new contributor, I thought I'd start a weekly column where I take a look at the marketing campaign of one specific movie after its opening weekend in detail. Studios still often have a lot to learn about how to market their films, so it's always interesting to break down the campaigns that really nailed it...or how they missed the mark.
For this first column, I'm hopping on board the Star Wars: The Force Awakens train. I realize I'm a week late on this, but the juggernaut hadn't shown any signs of slowing down so I thought I'd wait and see how it continued to fare. There was never a doubt that The Force Awakens would be anything but hugely successful at the box office - it is, after all, a continuation of the most beloved, globally influential franchise in movie history. And it has exceeded those expectations, beating out this summer's Jurassic World for the fastest movie to cross the billion dollar threshold, hitting $1.09 billion in just 12 days to Jurassic World's 13. Along the way, it also crushed a few records, including biggest Christmas day box office in history ($49.3 million), biggest domestic opening weekend ($238 million), biggest domestic second weekend ($149.2 million), and biggest worldwide opening ($529 million), among others. And it hasn't even opened in the major market of China yet. It boggles the mind to think of what the numbers might be once it does.
But even so, director J.J. Abrams had his work cut out for him to repair the damage done by the prequels, and he had to do it with mostly brand-new characters and actors and actresses not well-known by the majority of audiences.
To that end, Disney took not just pages, but entire chapters out of its marketing playbook for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to build the campaign for The Force Awakens. How do you build massive hype for an unknown brand? Three things: 1. Start early 2. Go big 3. Endear the cast to audiences all across the world. When the MCU was first being constructed, it had the same problem. The characters were mostly from Marvel's B-list and most of the actors and actresses cast were largely unknown. The trick was to build goodwill with audiences before the first few films from a place of low brand awareness, and through a savvy, year-round promo campaign that relied heavily on its cast marketing itself, Marvel did just that.
SHANGHAI, CHINA - DECEMBER 27: From left to right, J.J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, attend the premiere of Star Wars on December 27, 2015 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Hu Chengwei/Getty Images for Walt Disney Studios)
For The Force Awakens, Disney recaptured that lightning in a bottle. From the first black and white image of the assembled cast sitting around doing their first table read together, it was clear that this would be another ensemble cast that truly had fun together and enjoyed one another's company off-screen as much as on. Disney was savvy enough to let the natural chemistry between and charisma of its cast do most of the work, making sure to schedule multiple press events for the cast with an especial focus on its young cast in Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, along with Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Lupita Nyong'o, and Gwendoline Christie. Their charm and camaraderie continued to endear them to fans all across the globe and built up major goodwill with audiences. How could we not have rooted for the young cast that was just as starry-eyed and gleeful about Star Wars as the rest of us?
Still, while the franchise newcomers were front and center, Disney made sure to weave a fair bit of nostalgia into the marketing campaign, with Harrison Ford's Han Solo and Chewbacca featuring heavily. When Han said, "Chewie...we're home," in the first trailer, it was the same sentiment being echoed by longtime Star Wars fans who still had a bad taste in their collective mouth from the prequels. Don't worry, the marketing campaign seemed to say, the Millennium Falcon - and Star Wars as a whole - is back in good hands again. Audiences couldn't help but associate The Force Awakens with the original trilogy, forming a positive brand association from the start.
SHANGHAI, CHINA - DECEMBER 27: J.J. Abrams attends the premiere of Star Wars on December 27, 2015 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Hu Chengwei/Getty Images for Walt Disney Studios)
And, just as it did with Marvel, Disney used its deep pockets to go big. What Disney does exceptionally well is making audiences care about things they don't even know they want, turning properties into not just movies, but cultural phenomenons. The Star Wars San Diego Comic-Con panel wasn't just a panel; it was a celebration. J.J. Abrams surprised the entire audience by inviting them to a secret post-panel Star Wars symphony complete with dazzling fireworks display. The release of the first trailer wasn't just a typical trailer release, but a global event. Rather than just attaching it to a movie in theaters or releasing it online, Disney debuted the trailer via live stream at its Star Wars Celebration convention, and for two minutes, millions of people all around the world stopped what they were doing to watch the first anticipated footage. Social media exploded, with thousands of tweets in dozens of different languages expressing joy, and everyone who was anyone wanted on board.
Likewise, the obligatory appearances on late night television just before the film's release were themed events. Jimmy Kimmel Live! devoted an entire episode to Star Wars, as did Conan O'Brien, who hosted a hilariously unfiltered special episode with the entire cast the week of release.
By the time The Force Awakens hit theaters, fans had already bought tickets to two, three, six different showings. Fans on the fence decided to go, if only so they weren't left out of the conversation. And non-fans who had no particular interest in Star Wars itself still wanted to be part of the biggest pop culture phenomenon in decades. With buzz on social media reaching a fever pitch, including an unprecedented 4 million tweets in the week leading to its release, no one wanted to be left out, longtime fan or not.
What Disney does, it does exceptionally well, and the success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the embodiment of what can happen when you marry a strong brand with a smart marketing campaign. The Force Awakens is currently reaping the fruits of that marketing labor and will continue to break box office records for the foreseeable future.
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I cover film and television for a number of outlets with an emphasis on psychology, geek culture, and marketing. A former college adjunct and current pop culture junkie,...


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Temptation Island recap: A spicy start to a wild ride
Wed Feb 17, 2021 at 2:23pm ET
By Serena Nitta
The couples meet with host, Mark Walberg, before starting on their journey. Pic credit: USA Network
Season 3 of Temptation Island popped off with an introduction to the four couples at a crossroads, who are beginning their journey of dating other people.
This journey involves 11 single women vying for the attention, and possible affection, of the four boyfriends, while 12 single men do the same for the girlfriends.
Viewers were also introduced to the host, Mark Walberg, who will be supporting and guiding the couples during the peaks and valleys of their time dating other people besides their significant others.
The Couples
At the beginning of the episode, we meet the couples who will be embarking on the rocky road to their truths. They will be going on dates with the singles and participating in activities meant to bring them closer together.
The kicker is that the singles were hand-selected based on each person in the couple's individual interests and attractions.
37-year-old Thomas and 27-year-old Chelsea are Los Angeles residents who met a year ago when Thomas slid into Chelsea's DM's. Chelsea's insecurities and trust issues are compounded by Thomas's flirtatious personality, but Thomas says he will pass all the tests thrown at him.
Thomas and Chelsea on Temptation Island. Pic credit: USA Network
Corey and Erin are a couple in their mid-20s who have been together for one-and-a-half years.
Erin boasts about being an extrovert, ex-pro soccer player who has dated a list of famous athletic men. Erin's track record and constant criticism of Corey's more introverted personality chiseled away Corey's confidence, leaving the pair in a delicate place.
Corey and Erin on Temptation Island. Pic credit: USA Network
Kendal and Erica have been dating for two-and-a-half years and came to the island with no rules.
Kendal says that he has life planned out and is ready to settle down but wants to find out if this is the relationship he will be moving forward with.
Erica dislikes Kendal's outlandish ideas of excellence and doesn't like how he pushes her out of her comfort zone.
Kendal and Erica on Temptation Island. Pic credit: USA Network
Julian and Kristen are a New Jersey couple who have been dating for 11 years. They say they are very much in love, but Kristen needs Julian to prove himself after infidelity on his part has stopped them from moving forward.
Julian and Kristen on Temptation Island. Pic credit: USA Network
This season is filled with spicy singles who will try their best to claw their way into the couples' hearts.
Meeting the singles involved individual introductions from each participant, where they tried to show off their looks and personalities down the catwalk.
The girls from Temptation Island. Pic credit: USA Network
There were some catty moments as those in and outside of the relationships made snide comments at each other during the introductions.
Side eyes and wandering eyes were abundant as the couples got their first look at the competition and temptation.
The guys from Temptation Island. Pic credit: USA Network
The singles made it known that they did not come to play, as each side got to have a mixer with their singles, and viewers got a first look into the interactions taking place.
What is in Store
In the final scene of this episode, the couples sat down to have dinner with Mark and have the last moments with their significant others. Mark then asked the couples to have a final private moment to lay bare anything else they may want to say to each other.
Under the wing of host Mark Walberg, each relationship will be tested, and each participant will grow throughout the process. There will, however, be no shortage of drama in the effort to get these couples to their truths.
Temptation Island airs on Tuesdays, at 10/9 on USA.
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Q: Dense Compact subset of $X = ((\beta(D) \times (\mathfrak{c}^+ + 1)) \setminus (\beta(D) \setminus D) \times \{\mathfrak{c}^+\})$ Let $D$ be a discrete space of cardinality $\mathfrak{c}$ and $\beta(D)$ is the Stone Cech compactification of $D$. Let
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X = ((\beta(D) \times (\mathfrak{c}^+ + 1)) \setminus (\beta(D) \setminus D) \times \{\mathfrak{c}^+\})
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be the subspace of the product space $\beta(D) \times (\mathfrak{c}^+ + 1)$. Does $X$ has a dense compact subset in $X$, if yes, then what that subset would be.
If not, then here is my another question:
If $\mathcal{U}$ be any family of pairwise disjoint nonempty open sets in $X$, then can we find a compact subset $K$ of $X$ such that $K$ intersects with every member of $\mathcal{U}$.
Any help would be appreciated.


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John Stockdale: A Chart of the Track of the Scarborough on her Homeward Passage
Title: A Chart of the Track of the Scarborough on her Homeward Passage
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This unusual chart shows the track of the transport ship Scarborough after her participation in the voyage of the First Fleet to Port Jackson.
The importance of this chart is apparent in its record of mulitple islands as the ship sails north. This is the first European cartographic record of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. The latter were originally named Lord Musgrave's range but later were re-named after their discoverer. [AUNZ2802]


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By Apna Roots
The SIU has charged a trio of Toronto Police officers with assault following the 2013 arrest of a 46-year-old man at his home. (NAKITA KRUCKER /TORONTO STAR)
Const. Piara Dhaliwal, Const. John Darnell, and Const. Adam Morris are facing assault charges.
By VJOSA ISAI Toronto Star
Ontario's police watchdog has charged three Toronto police officers with assault following an incident during a 2013 arrest — and two of the officers have been in trouble before.
A 46-year-old man was arrested at his home on Feb. 13, 2013, and was taken to a police station in the back of a police cruiser, the Special Investigations Unit said in a media release Tuesday morning.
There was "an interaction" between the man and three officers during transportation, the SIU says, and the man was taken to Humber River Regional Hospital to examine what was determined to be a serious injury. The SIU was informed of the incident in August 2015.
Const. John Darnell, Const. Piara Dhaliwal, and Const. Adam Morris are facing assault charges. They will appear in court on Nov. 3; all three officers have been suspended with pay, said Const. Meaghan Gray.
Dhaliwal was subject to a Professional Standards investigation after an Ontario Court judge found that his testimony and that of his partner to be "deliberately misleading" and added that Dhaliwal's actions "amounted to an assault."
Dhaliwal and Const. Akin Gul alleged they were assaulted by Abdi Sheik-Qasim while investigating a noise complaint in January 2014.
Sheik-Qasim, then 32, had taken out a cellphone to record the encounter. Within seconds, Dhaliwal knocked the phone out of Sheik-Qasim's hand; Sheik-Qasim was then arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer and failing to comply with a court order.
The phone was seized by the officers at the time, but not returned to him after he was released from detention. However, the phone automatically uploaded video files to the cloud, and the video evidence was used during his trial.
"Officer Dhaliwal's swing of his arm and hand was the very first physical force during the interaction. The accused didn't grab a hold of the belt of Officer Gul in advance of this action by Officer Dhaliwal," said Ontario Court Justice Edward Kelly, adding he had doubt it happened at all.
"I believe that Officer Dhaliwal's action amounted to an assault against the accused," Kelly said in a decision issued Sept. 10, 2015.
Sheik-Qasim was acquitted of both charges. It is not known what result the Professional Standards investigation produced.
Meanwhile, Gray confirmed one of the officers, Const. Adam Morris, was arrested back in 2013.Morris was pulled over on Hwy. 400 when he was approached by a York Region police officer, after having several drinks in an industrial parking lot after reporting off duty.
York police officers performed a breathalyzer test, which Morris failed. He was taken back to a station, where his gun was seized by police. Morris took two more breath tests, one showing he was exactly at the legal limit and the second showing he was over it.
He was released with no criminal charges, and instead received a three-day driving suspension.
"The decisions of certain members of the York Regional Police Service not to proceed with criminal charges against Const. Morris should in no way detract from the seriousness of this misconduct," the prosecutor told the disciplinary hearing in 2013.
Morris apologized for his actions and told the hearing it would never happen again. He was docked 18 days pay.
The SIU investigates allegations of police involvement in any interactions resulting in sexual assault, injury, or death.
With files from Jayme Poisson, Jesse McLean, and Wendy Gillis
Piara Singh Dhaliwal
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Jackett: We Could Have Scored More
Boss pleased with Pompey's performance against FC Utrecht
Photo: Ben Queenborough
by Neil Weld
@Neil_Weld
It was the final dress rehearsal ahead of the 2018/19 campaign.
And Kenny Jackett was pleased to see that his players did not fluff their lines on the grand Fratton stage.
Facing an FC Utrecht side who narrowly missed out on European qualification from the Dutch league last term, they fell behind to Sean Klaiber's unstoppable strike.
But a similarly impressive finish from Anton Walkes levelled the scores and Jackett felt it was the hosts who looked more likely to snatch victory.
The Blues boss said: "It wasn't bad at all. I felt they dominated the first 20 minutes, but once we worked them out a bit then we came into our own.
"We had a lot of chances and were unfortunate not to score more goals, while we gave the majority of our squad the opportunity to play at Fratton Park.
"It was a good game for our supporters to see and not a typical British one."
Kenny Jackett
"That was very good for the new lads and we made sure that everyone knew their jobs against a high-quality side.
"They scored a fantastic goal, but otherwise created very little against us, while we had opportunities in both halves.
"It was a good game for our supporters to see and not a typical British one, which they'll see many of over the next nine months.
"We thank them for their attendance and hopefully they've seen signs that we can do well in League One."
There was a concerning moment just past the hour mark when Jamal Lowe limped off the pitch injured.
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Molly Hoagland
Molly Hoagland is the longtime wife of businessman, Ralph Hoagland -widely known as the founder of CVS.
Molly's husband is said to have passed at age 88 on January 17, 2020. According to reports, Hoagland died of posterior cortical atrophy.
Ralph P. Hoagland, III was born in Boston on August 1, 1933, son of the late Ralph, Jr. and Mary Hoagland. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Business School, where he conceived and founded CVS -which grew into the nation's largest pharmacy chain.
During his lifetime, Ralph Hoagland launched a number of businesses, including the Orson Welles Cinema Complex. In addition, the lifelong entrepreneur spent his life as a philanthropist and civil rights activist.
He is survived by his wife of decades Molly Hoagland and the couple's children. Check out interesting facts about Mrs. Hoagland below.
#1 They were married for over six decades
Molly Hoagland who was born Molly Kaplan in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She met her husband while she was attending University. The night they met they were both attending a speech by the Rev. King at Brandeis University. At the time they were both dating other people but soon after they became a couple. They tied the knot in 1958 -meaning they were husband and wife for 61 years.
#2 Her husband's ventures became part of Greater Boston history
Molly Hoagland is credited with helping her husband manage his many businesses. Some of the ventures her husband was either part of or created himself, became part of Greater Boston history including the Orson Welles Cinema on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, the Paris 26 restaurant in Newton and the 33 Dunster St. restaurant off Harvard Square. Mr. Hoagland also ran 1001 Plays in Cambridge, an early video game arcade, and cofounded the round-the-clock Store 24 chain, the result of another entrepreneurial epiphany.
#3 She is a mother and grandmother
During their marriage, Ralph and Molly Hoagland welcomed three sons -Peter, Larry and Eric who are now adult and parents of their own. As a result, Molly Hoagland is the proud grandmother of Mark Hoagland, Sally O'Brien Hoagland, and Joshua Love.
#4 Her brother died in 2018
Accoridng to an obituary, Judah Kaplan died in 2018 at age 84 in Savannah, Georgia. According to the obituary, her brother was survived by wife Judie Weiss Kaplan and his children, Ronald and Marjorie.
#5 Her husband started CVS at their apartment
According to the company's website, Hoagland and his business partners, Sid and Stan Goldstein, started selling health and beauty products out of Hoagland's apartment in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1963, establishing the world's first Consumer Value Stores location. A year later, Hoagland and Golstein unveiled the first CVS logo and expanded the company.
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Why "Wonder Woman" Should Be Nominated For best picture
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When it comes to Oscar watching/predicting, the online community lives in a dichotomy. On one hand, we love the familiarity. There is something satisfying in watching the events of the awards season play out and see our educated guesses come true ("I told you so!"). On the other hand, it is easy to get bored with predictability and we long for true surprises. Yes, it is exciting following an Oscar race without a frontrunner, but true excitement would come in of the following statement: Best Picture Nominee "Wonder Woman."
Warner Bros' rolled out their FYC website and the usual suspects are there. "Dunkirk" will be their big player, the studio is hoping for another "Mad Max: Fury Road" in the form of "Blade Runner 2049," and it is looking like Batman will be in the Oscar race this year (albeit in his LEGO form). The only other film on their FYC website is Patty Jenkins' superhero epic, and all signs are pointing towards a true Best Picture campaign for DC's leading lady.
It is best to talk about "Wonder Woman's" Oscar chances in two categories: the "optimistic" category and the "extremely optimistic" category. Make no mistake, this will be a steep uphill battle for Warner Bros'. Whether it be the movie's early release on the genre bias that has become associated with the Academy, there is no obvious path to see "Wonder Woman" join our expected Oscar contenders. Even while recent years have seen blockbusters like "Mad Max: Fury Road" and "The Martian" become Best Picture nominees, neither is an apt comparison for WB's ambitious plan this year.
In the "optimistic" category, what many pundits would say is "Wonder Woman's" best day on nominations morning, here's how it could shake out. It is completely possible to see WB go gangbusters with the campaign this Fall and see "Wonder Woman" all throughout the techs. Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Costume Design and Makeup/Hairstyling could be real nominations for the movie (and possible wins if WB plays their hand right). The other nomination that would bring happiness to the film community worldwide would be that of Original Score. People love the "Wonder Woman" theme and it is instantly iconic.
But Warner Bros' isn't looking to run a full fledged Oscar campaign just to pick up some nominations below the line. As Variety reported earlier this Summer, they are aiming big and it looks like they will be spending the money to back up their goals. This is where we leave the "optimistic" category and step into the "history-making" category. After passing on 2008's "The Dark Knight," we mustn't underestimate the task of getting a superhero film nominated for Best Picture.
So what does "Wonder Woman" have that "The Dark Knight" didn't? Well, we needn't look any further than the actual name of the movie itself. If there was ever a year to rally behind women in Hollywood, 2017 would be that year. Going back to Variety's reporting from the Summer, a specific section stood out to me all these months later. Speaking of Warner Bros' expected campaign, Ramin Setoodeh wrote,
"The studio's efforts will include reintroducing the film this fall, to scarce few who may not have seen it. Insiders report strong reactions to the screening of "Wonder Woman" at the Academy, as it's been championed by a liberal Hollywood and a reinvigorated wave of feminism in response to Donald Trump."
Make no mistake, we can definitely make Oscar predictions using "the current political climate" as a point of reference (looking at you, "The Post"), but nominating "Wonder Woman" has the capability to say more than "we don't like who is in the White House." Hollywood has their own Donald Trump, and his name is Harvey Weinstein.
With the public unveiling of Weinstein's true nature, we have seen him fired from the company that bears his name and his Academy membership revoked. Women (and men) all across the industry are going public with their stories of sexual harassment and assault, and many are hopeful that real change is brought to this industry we all love. Whether it be fans receiving harassment from Screen Junkies' Andy Signore or our top actresses going on the record with their Weinstein experiences, 2017 has proved to be a horrifying year for women involved in the movies, and it is time for true reform to be made real.
With an over $800 million box office haul and a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, "Wonder Woman" could join the ranks of "Inception" and "Avatar" as a blockbuster that broke into the Oscar race. Yes, the Oscars serve as a vehicle to praise some great movies each year, but they have always been political in nature (studios are spending money to earn people's votes after all). I say if you are going to be political, then just own it and be political.
Make a statement this year.
Not only is "Wonder Woman" a great blockbuster and it would be nice to see the variety amongst the nominees, but "Wonder Woman" presents the opportunity to show the changing mindset within Academy voters and an opportunity to make a statement. As far as Hollywood goes, 2017 will be known as the year a major Oscar player was revealed as someone who used their power to harass women. That doesn't have to be Hollywood's future. Here is hoping that "Wonder Woman" breaks as many records as possible and women in film can see a true win in 2017.
You can follow Josh and hear more of his thoughts on the Oscars and Film on Twitter at @JoshTarpley7
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Mitch Landrieu, E Pluribus Unum Launch 2020 Policy Agenda, "Roadmap to an Equitable Response, Recovery & Resilience"
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(NEW ORLEANS, LA) – Today, E Pluribus Unum (EPU) released its 2020 policy agenda, Roadmap to an Equitable Response, Recovery & Resilience. The roadmap provides policy recommendations that center on addressing not only the current COVID-19 pandemic but also the preexisting social inequities that have plagued the United States of America since its founding. The agenda outlines overarching principles and specific policy proposals for federal, state, and local officials in three phases: COVID-19 response, recovery, and longer-term resilience. E Pluribus Unum's policy focus is rooted in dismantling unequal access to opportunity, democracy, safety, and protection under the law, with a particular focus on how local governments can positively impact communities across the South.
"The COVID-19 pandemic is a grave threat to underserved communities, exacerbating disparities that have been allowed to fester for generations," said Mitch Landrieu, founder and President of E Pluribus Unum. "Our current circumstances must prompt a greater examination of how we treat our most vulnerable. Centering our response on policies that directly address racial and economic disparities will ultimately benefit all of us. We cannot go back to the way it was before this pandemic. Together, we can build a shared future, but only when we understand the power of equity and view it as an economic and social growth strategy."
E Pluribus Unum's agenda highlights that the roadmap to greater resilience and better outcomes requires an equitable response and recovery, noting that all government action must be guided by the following four principles:
● Data and science must lead the way.
● Our federal, state, and local governments must address this pandemic in a way that strengthens racial equity and economic equality. Disparities thrown into sharper relief by this crisis require long-term solutions, not short-term patches.
● Local governments are on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis and must be treated as partners in delivering services and policy, not as special interest groups.
● This is a time to act with courage and conviction and to make bold and lasting systemic change.
Landrieu, the former mayor of New Orleans and president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, launched E Pluribus Unum in 2019. "Roadmap to an Equitable Response, Recovery & Resilience", follows EPU's first annual report, "Divided by Design: Findings from the American South", released in October 2019, that covered qualitative and quantitative findings from discussions with 800 people in one-on-one interviews, small groups, and random-sample focus groups to learn how southerners are impacted by race, equity, economic opportunity, and violence. EPU also commissioned a 1,800-person survey on attitudes on race and class across the 13-state region. In January, EPU released a 2020 Policy Tracker that outlined relevant policy positions of the presidential candidates throughout the Republican and Democratic primaries.
The policy agenda can be found here.
About E Pluribus Unum
E Pluribus Unum is an initiative created to fulfill America's promise of justice and opportunity for all by breaking down the barriers that divide us by race and class. In its first year, the E Pluribus Unum team traveled extensively across the American South to uncover and confront the challenges we face, to learn from people about what separates us and what can bring us together, and to find bold and effective solutions to tackle the modern legacy of Jim Crow so that an inclusive new South may be born. Incubated at Emerson Collective and led by former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, the E Pluribus Unum team is building a series of programs and initiatives to cultivate courageous leaders who are committed to realizing an inclusive vision for a new South, champion transformative policies to reverse the enduring harms of America's Jim Crow era past for those who continue to experience them today and change narratives that perpetuate systemic and interpersonal racism in order to shift people's attitudes and behaviors.


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Argentina heads for Senate vote on expanding abortion rights
• Argentina heads for close Senate vote on expanding right to abortion
• One of the activist told the press, that the citizens should be responsible for their decision making
• Ana Marmora, a 29-year-old lawyer and journalist rejects the legalisation of abortion
Argentina's Senate will decide next week whether to give final approval to a government-backed bill that would expand the availability of legal abortion, a proposal that has divided a society with strong ties to the Roman Catholic church.
On December 11, the lower house of Congress approved the measure, which would allow interruption of pregnancies until the fourteenth week. The Senate vote is expected to be close.
"We have the right to be able to decide about our own lives, about whether we want to have children and, if we want to have them, how many we want to have. If we decide to interrupt the pregnancy, we have the right to do it autonomously and freely," Yamila Picasso, a 33-year-old activist, told the Reuters news agency outside Congress, where she was demonstrating.
Picasso is a member of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion, which has been demanding the new law for years.
On the other side of the debate is Ana Marmora, a 29-year-old lawyer and journalist who is a spokeswoman for the Young Front, a group that rejects the legalisation of abortion.
She said backers of the bill want women to be able to terminate pregnancies not out of need but simple desire.
bA similar bill was defeated by Argentina's Congress in 2018. Current law allows for abortion only when there is a serious risk to the mother's health or in the event of rape.
Broad demonstrations are expected both for and against the bill when it is debated in the Senate on Tuesday of next week.
On the same day, the Senate will also debate a side project to provide assistance to women who want to move forward with their pregnancy and need help facing economic hardship.
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Dodge Challenger Scores 2019 Ideal Vehicle Award in Sporty Car Category
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For the third time in four years (and the second year in a row) the Dodge Challenger has scored top honors its category, Sporty Car, in the AutoPacific Ideal Vehicle Awards.
According to FCA, "AutoPacific's Ideal Vehicle Awards are based on scores developed using results from the automotive research and consulting firm's New Vehicle Satisfaction Survey. More than 50,000 respondents rated 14 vehicle attributes based on their desire for change. Those vehicles whose owners want the least change rank highest in their class for the Ideal Vehicle Award."
The 2019 Dodge Challenger is equipped with best-in-class cargo volume and offers all-wheel drive, the only muscle car to do so. The 2019 Challenger is all about power, offering drivers a choice of several intense powertrains.
The 6.2-liter Hellcat HEMI Redeye is rated at 797 horsepower and 707 lb-ft of torque while the 6.2-liter HEMI SRT Hellcat V8 delivers a thrilling ride with 717 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque. The 392 HEMI V8 is rated at 485 horsepower and 475 lb-ft of torque. The 5.7-liter HEMI V8 generates 375 horsepower and 410 lb-ft of torque and delivers a fuel efficiency rating of 25 mpg on the highway. Highway mpg is a bit greater at 30 mpg with the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine that's rated at 305 horsepower and 268 lb-ft of torque.
The power generated by the Dodge Challenger is complemented by its advanced tech, which helps drivers stay connected on the go. The Uconnect infotainment system offers smartphone integration via Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
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