Welcome to the MML page at King's! In what follows, we tell you about the subject at King's, the inter-relation between the University and College teaching, the Fellows and supervisors you might work with in the College and the application process.
King's has a friendly and diverse student body with a good number of international students, which makes the College a particularly rich environment for students with an interest in languages and cultures across the world. In an average year, there are normally some native speakers of most languages taught on the course. King's travel grants are available to help fund visits to other countries during the vacations.
MML is strong at King's, both in student numbers and in academic performance. We have a lively community of around 30 undergraduate Modern Linguists plus a healthy number of Fellows. We offer in-college teaching in French, German, Linguistics, and Spanish. Any combination of languages allowed by the Faculty can be accommodated at King's.
Students may choose to specialise in any two of the following languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. It is also possible to combine a modern language with either Classical Latin or Classical Greek (both of which are taught by King's Fellows). With the exception of French and Classical Latin, Cambridge offers you the opportunity to study any one of these languages from scratch (ab initio).
For other languages, which may be studied but do not count as part of your two-language tripos, we maintain exchange agreements for teaching in Catalan, Greek, Ukrainian and Polish.
King's College Library is available 24/7 and provides many pleasant places to study (see the virtual tour), as well as books for the course and a good collection of foreign language films on DVD. The College is one of the closest to both the MML Faculty on the Sidgwick Site and the University Library (see map). It is also a central College on the river, with easy access to shops, other Colleges and the Language Centre.
Our graduates go on to pursue successful careers in a broad range of fields, often aided by their work experience or studies undertaken during their third year (see below). In the past few years, these have included several in journalism, publishing, the art market, international development, law, banking, drama, the Civil Service, the Foreign Service, politics, arts administration, and teaching and research at both school and University levels.
The Modern Languages course at Cambridge leads to a BA (with honours) after four years, the third of which is spent abroad. The course is divided into three components, each followed by an examination: Part IA, IB and Part II. The chief emphasis in Part IA (first year) is on language learning in two languages, with emphasis given to oral proficiency, translation, linguistic and literary analysis. This training continues in Part IB (second year) but with the addition of specialised papers on specific literary and linguistic topics pertaining to the languages and cultures chosen.
If you enter with an A-level or equivalent in your chosen language, you take Option B of Parts IA and IB. If you begin a language ab initio, you take Option A in Parts IA and IB with the expectation that by the end of the second year (IB) you will have reached a comparable standard in both languages. From Part IB onwards, undergraduates can specialise entirely in one language, but usually combine papers from their two languages. Some papers from other Triposes (English, Psychology, History, etc.) are open to Modern Linguists.
The third year is spent abroad, in a country in which one of your languages is spoken as a first or second language. Many students enrol in a university course given in the target language (the course may be in any subject, provided that instruction is in the language you have been studying). Others teach English as a Language Assistant at a school through the British Council. Others again opt to work abroad, as interns or in paying positions. The Year Abroad Office keeps files on available internships and students may also find their own employment. This work experience is often key in deciding on future training and employment. During this year you also write a compulsory dissertation or translation topic chosen at the end of the second year.
A full description of the papers offered by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages is available on the MML website.
Ellen, Tom Hannah, and Tish have written about their experiences of studying languages at King's, including their reasons for applying, the papers they chose, the work, social life, and application process. These pieces are well worth reading to get a sense of what King's MML is really like.
Alice Blackhurst is a Junior Research Fellow in French and the Visual Arts. She works on ideas of luxury, slow cinema in the work of Chantal Akerman, and the use of clothes and textiles in contemporary French visual art. Other research interests include critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, and fashion theory.
Bill Burgwinkle (Director of Studies) is a Professor of Medieval French and Occitan Literature. He teaches all levels of French language and lectures on medieval literature, psychoanalysis and literary theory. His published work is on troubadour poetry, medieval romance, gender and sexuality, literature in the Mediterranean, sanctity, and the visual arts.
Brad Epps is a Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the MML Faculty. His research interests include 18th to 21st century Spanish and Latin American literature, Catalan literature and film, Ibero-American cinema, photography, and art, Hispanophone Africa, theories of visuality, modernity, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, feminist thought, queer theory, urban cultures, immigration, and post-colonial studies, among others.
Aileen Kelly is a Life Fellow in Slavonic Studies. She has published widely on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature and intellectual history, with particular interest in such figures as Bakunin, Dostoevsky, Herzen, Chekhov and Bakhtin.
Rory O'Bryen (Director of Studies) is a Senior University Lecturer in Latin American literature and culture who has published a book on Colombian literature, cinema and history, and is editing a book on Latin American popular culture. His current and future research projects include a book on the novels of Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003), and a cultural history of the Magdalena River in Colombia.
Christopher Prendergast is a Life Fellow in French (retired) who has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, culture and aesthetics. He edited the new Penguin translation of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu and his latest book, The Classic: Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars was awarded the 2008 Gapper Prize by the Society for French Studies as the outstanding publication in that year on a French topic.
Erika Swales is a Life Fellow in German (retired) who has written extensively on German drama and prose fiction of the 18th and 19th century, including studies on Adalbert Stifter, Gottfried Keller and Goethe.
Bert Vaux is a University Lecturer in Linguistics and Undergraduate Coordinator for the Department of Linguistics, specialising in phonology, morphology (English, Armenian, and Abkhaz), dialectology, and (Indo-European and Turkic) historical linguistics. His research focuses on using historical, geographic, and idiolectal nanovariation in phonological and lexical structure to investigate the nature of the human language faculty and general animal cognition.
Godela Weiss-Sussex is a Fellow in German at King's as well as a Senior Lecturer in German at the London Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies. Her main research interests lie in the works of German-Jewish writers produced in Germany and in exile; contemporary women's writing; the representation of the city in literature; and the relationship between literary text, contemporary aesthetic theory and the visual arts.
above all, independent, creative and analytically sharp minds and a relish for reading, discussing and writing.
Prof Bill Burgwinkle discusses the interests and qualities you need for Modern and Medieval Languages, as well as admissions interviews and what graduates go on to do after the course .
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Reading in your language(s) may be slow, so do a little regularly!
We welcome applications for MML from suitably qualified applicants at all kinds of schools, all over the world. All candidates apply for Modern and Medieval Languages on the UCAS form. On the SAQ (or the COPA, if you are an overseas student), you will be asked to indicate which two languages you would like to study, and whether you already study your second language or will start from scratch. Our standard A Level offer is A* (in any relevant subject), A, and A. Common offers in other examination systems are given on our entrance requirements page.
The application process for all subjects is explained on our how to apply page, which we advise applicants to read thoroughly in combination with the details below about the subject requirements for MML, interviews and the MML at-interview written assessment.
To apply you should already have a prepared one language to A-level or equivalent (and ideally some background in another as well). We advise you to also read the general advice on subject choices. We like to see evidence of reading (whether in or outside your school curriculum) in the area of your language, though such reading does not have to be academic. It is equally important that you show signs of curiosity and motivation – this is a demanding course of study.
After applying through UCAS, MML candidates will be asked to submit one essay written in each post-A level (or equivalent) language they are applying for, plus a second/third essay in English on a subject of literary, linguistic, historical or cultural interest. If you do not have such essays available, you may write them independently (but we would encourage you to have the essay marked by a teacher, if possible). For those looking early, written work guidelines are published in September as part of the Applicant Information. All applicants will receive an email shortly after the 15 October deadline sending you to this information. The deadline for written work will be in early November (see how to apply) and essays must not be sent before 15 October.
Most applicants are asked to come to King's for an interview with two Fellows in your languages, These take place in early December. In most cases candidates are asked to prepare some material which they collect half an hour before the interview. This may be a text written in one of the languages you plan to study at Cambridge (in English for an ab inito language), or some grammar questions to think about etc.
Information about the interview options for international candidates are on the International Students page.
Students who are invited for interview in Modern and Medieval Languages are also required to take the at-interview written assessment for MML, which lasts one hour. You do not need to register for this written assessment as it will be organised automatically by the College if you are invited for interview.
Your performance in the assessment will not be considered in isolation, but will be taken into account alongside the other elements of your application.
Please read our general advice about developing your interests. For MML, it is particularly useful to be able to demonstrate critical engagement with the literature and culture of the societies where the languages you want to study are spoken.
You may find the guidance for offer holders useful in general terms.
There are lots of useful online resources to enrich the study of languages. See, for example, a European web radio directory and a World newspaper directory.
Regular use of phone apps such as Memrise and Duolingo can be useful for developing language skills (or you can study on their websites if you prefer).
The subject resources page has a tag for posts on Literature and Languages which you might like to browse. Humanities and Social Sciences may also be of interest, given the broad scope of the MML course.
Events which may be of interest in the year before you apply (year 12 in the UK) include: The MML Faculty Open Day in March (we normally organise an informal drop-in at King's straight after this event), Oxford and Cambridge Student Conferences, Masterclasses and King's Open Days. Students from backgrounds where there is little tradition of entry to Higher Education might like to think about applying for the Sutton Trust Summer Schools or the CUSU Shadowing Scheme.
Full details of the Tripos and its options are available on the MML Faculty website (see, for example, first year papers). There is also an MML prospectus available to download.
If you have further questions about applying for MML at King's, please do not hesitate to email King's Admissions Office.
Students interested in MML may also like to consider Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Classics, or Linguistics.
The idea is not to submit an essay that perfectly covers every point imaginable, but to build on your essay and further the points you made in dialogue with your supervisor."


Kilmarnock Loft Conversions (KA1): So, your family is expanding and you want another room or two, but is moving home the best alternative? Do you really want to put yourself through all the stress and aggravation of moving home, as well as the added financial outlay? With a loft conversion however, you will be able to create that additional space whilst continuing to live in your existing home. A twenty to thirty percent increase in the market price of your home could be the result of having this work done. This should leave you in no doubt as to why electing to do a loft conversion has become more and more widespread in Kilmarnock.
Keeping abreast of the costs involved with a loft conversion is very important. This will be determined by the sort of property being worked on and the kind of loft conversion required. As a guide an average Kilmarnock loft conversion will probably cost about £35,000 (in 2019), it could be a little more, it could be a bit less. You can safely go ahead with your project, if this is a figure you are relaxed about, if not you might have to try other options.
These figures should not be taken as gospel, they're just intended as a rough guide. Each m2 of your loft conversion will cost about £1,250 for building materials and construction work. There will not surprisingly be other costs including building control fees, architect fees and planning fees.
It is essential to check up on what the value rise on your property in Kilmarnock is likely to be, as a result of the loft conversion. You need to understand that most neighbourhoods of Kilmarnock will have a ceiling price for homes. Taking the value of your property beyond this figure can make it difficult to sell when you need to. This might affect your decision, making a loft conversion poor value. If you have no plans to sell maybe you will still want to go ahead as what you really need is more space.
Although most loft conversions in Kilmarnock won't require planning permission there are some exceptions. The local planning office for the Kilmarnock area will be glad to tell you about any exceptions that apply to you. Your selected Kilmarnock loft conversion company should be able to help you with this. The building regulations are something else that you have to comply with and this is a different department to planning. The building control office of your local council will be able to tell you what is required by law.
Kinds of Loft Conversion: The main kinds of loft conversion that you will encounter in Kilmarnock are: loft pods, mansard loft conversions, dormer loft conversions, roof light conversions, roof lift loft conversions, velux loft conversions and hip-to-gable loft conversions.
If you choose to bite the bullet and convert your loft, the first job will be to get yourself a good local contractor known for doing loft conversions in Kilmarnock. You might be able to get a recommendation from a person you know who has had this type of work done. There are so many resources online these days, so make use of them and get free quotes from the likes of Bark, Checkatrade or Rated People, to give you plenty of options. This should provide you with an overview of dependable people in the Kilmarnock area that you might use.
With "roof light loft conversions" you don't have to alter the shape and pitch of the roof, making it far and away the least disruptive and most cost-effective form of conversion. All that is needed in this instance is installing a sturdy floor, putting in skylight windows, and building stairs for easy access. Roof light loft conversions are only plausible when you already have ample roof space in your loft.
Kilmarnock loft conversion specialists will likely help with loft insulation in Kilmarnock, loft repairs in Kilmarnock, loft remodelling in Kilmarnock, loft extensions in Kilmarnock, velux loft conversions in Kilmarnock, loft carpentry in Kilmarnock, part loft conversions in Kilmarnock, loft storage solutions in Kilmarnock, loft renovations in Kilmarnock, loft rebuilding in Kilmarnock, loft transformations in Kilmarnock, hip-to-gable loft conversions in Kilmarnock and other loft related work in Kilmarnock, Scotland.
Local loft conversions: Tarbolton, Dundonald, Galston, Stewarton, Ayr, Saltcoats, Dalry, Crosshouse, Knockentiber, Dreghorn, Kilmaurs, Dunlop, Kilwinning, Irvine, Girdle Toll, Mauchline, Hurlford, Darvel, Troon, Newmilns loft conversions and more.
More Scotland loft conversion specialists: Stirling, Glasgow, Falkirk, Coatbridge, Edinburgh, Inverness, Perth, Dundee, Kirkcaldy, Hamilton, Livingston, Cumbernauld, Irvine, Greenock, Motherwell, Dumfries, Paisley, East Kilbride, Ayr, Glenrothes, Airdrie, Kilmarnock, Aberdeen and Dunfermline.
Browsing the internet for "loft conversions Kilmarnock" delivered the following results: Loch-Hill Home Improvements KA1 1SD, M R B JOINERY KA3 6FJ, Adam McLaughlin Joinery Ltd KA1 3NL.
Some Kilmarnock addresses covered by Kilmarnock loft conversion specialists: East Shaw Street, Aird Avenue, Howard Street, Victoria Terrace, Greenholm Street, Blackwood Avenue, Nursery Avenue, Robertson Place, Seaford Street, Bentinck Street, Waterside Street, Hurlford Road, Bellsland Place, Osprey Drive, Glebe Road, Bellsland Grove, Nursery Wynd, Glencairn Square, Richardland Place, Scott Crescent, Linfern Avenue, James Sym Crescent, Holmquarry Road, St Marnock Street, Glenfield Place, Mill Street.
Loft conversions in KA1 area.


For most bioscientists, a slice of Nobel Prize fame would be a very big deal. For Tom Doetschman of The University of Arizona (UA), it is minor compared to his new goal: helping prevent colon cancer.
But these days, he has high hopes for the UA's "knockout mouse" program, which he founded and which has already achieved global prominence in the field that was honored with that Nobel Prize in medicine. It is a UA core facility, called Genetically Engineered Mouse Models, or GEMM Core.
GEMM Core allows biomedical researchers worldwide study any one human gene by observing mice with an engineered mutation in that gene.
In fact, the Nobel award cited a paper he coauthored with one of the three winners, Oliver Smithies, PhD. In the 1980s, he wrote about his own part: successfully correcting a defective allele of a mouse gene with a big name: hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase, or HPRT, a gene that is defective in children with the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
Since then, about half of the 30,000 or so mouse genes have been targeted, making possible great leaps of biomedical research. Today labs can modify a gene in many ways—correction, mutation, deletion, humanization and more. Mouse models mirror human heart disease, cancer, sickle cell anemia, diabetes and cystic fibrosis, says Doetschman, a professor in the College of Medicine and a BIO5 member since 2006.
Looking back, he says he was lucky in several ways. He credits his doctorate adviser at the University of Connecticut, Professor Heinz Herrmann, with planting a seed of curiosity about complexity that has guided him in three decades as a bioscience pioneer.
Doetschman came to Arizona after 18 years at the University of Cincinnati, where he was a national leader in genetically engineering mouse models. His Cincinnati lab had made "knockout mice" for 300 genes by the time he joined the UA.
His introduction to the field came in its earliest years, with work on mouse embryonic stem cells, or ES cells, as a postdoctoral fellow at a Max Plank Institute in Tubingen, Germany.
Doetschman worked with gene targeting in the Human Genetics Department at the University of Wisconsin, correcting a mutant gene, and then helping with the creation of a new mouse strain with that corrected gene. Both of those studies were cited in the 2007 Nobel Prize.
At Wisconsin, Doetschman was the first researcher to make ES cells from hamsters, a breakthrough that added a second species from which ES cells could be made. Years later, others have made ES cells from human tissue.
At Cincinnati and now the UA, he returned to a question from his graduate school days in Connecticut: complexity. There, Professor Herrmann challenged him to tackle the complexity within problems, in science and society. "That has really stuck with me over the years," he says.
Now, he uses gene targeting technology to study some of the most complex genes around, ones called Transforming Growth Factor beta genes. They play a still-mysterious role in diseases like colon cancer, autoimmune disease and congenital heart defects, and he says that mice with mutations in those genes are helping him to sort out those mysteries.
At his BIO5 lab, he says he has the chance to ask, what does this gene do? "And not in a plastic dish, but within the complexity of the living animal," he says. The seed planted decades earlier by his Connecticut professor flourishes.
"My dreams have come true," he says.
Tom Doetschman has helped shape the field of mouse genetic engineering, a technology honored with a 2007 Nobel Prize. At the UA, his current focus is colon cancer, autoimmune disease and heart disease.
Doetschman, a professor since 2006 in the College of Medicine and a BIO5 member, founded the UA's "knockout mouse" program, a widely recognized core facility called the Genetically Engineered Mouse Models, or GEMM Core, which makes genetically engineered mouse strains for biomedical researchers.
Doetschman came to the UA from the University of Cincinnati, bringing his renowned Genetically Engineered Mouse Models program. Two years ago, the National Institutes of Health began funding the "knockout" of every gene in the mouse genome—30,000 in all. Doetschman's lab in Cincinnati was responsible for generating knockout mouse strains for more than 300 of them before he came to Arizona where he continues that work as a service to researchers worldwide.
In the mid-1980s he worked with one of the three winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize for medicine, Oliver Smithies. They won for developing the "knockout" mouse model technique. While in Smithies' laboratory, Doetschman published two papers that played a significant role in the award. The Nobel award cited Doetschman's successful targeted correction of a defective allele of a gene called hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase, or HPRT, a gene which when defective in humans results in the neurological disorder Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.


In North West Cameroon, tension is rising between farmers and violent clashes have broken out. This Village Aid film follows the stories of the Mbororo tribe, a semi-nomadic grazer community and the ethnic majority crop farmer population, capturing conflict in action. A variety of interventions are being introduced to overcome the unrest. A thought provoking documentary set in the beautiful Cameroonian countryside.


Interesting discussion topic I thought. I'm sure there will be some hefty fines handed out as it sounds like it was actually more like an illegal meat processing plant rather than just a homekill type thing!
I wonder who will get the fines? the farmers selling the meat? The processors buying the meat? The punters buying the meat?
Wow that's a big operation, I wonder how it went unnoticed for so long?
And $100k is a huge fine!
I wonder what the motivations were, maybe the customers were people who live in urban areas but wanted the benefits of 'homekill' meat? Or maybe they just wanted cheaper meat?
Makes you wonder how many other operations are out there like this.


This example shows how to design a model predictive controller for a continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR) in Simulink® using MPC Designer.
This example requires Simulink Control Design™ software to define the MPC structure by linearizing a nonlinear Simulink model.
A CSTR is a jacketed nonadiabatic tank reactor commonly used in the process industry.
An inlet stream of reagent A feeds into the tank at a constant rate. A first-order, irreversible, exothermic reaction takes place to produce the product stream, which exits the reactor at the same rate as the input stream.
The control objective is to maintain the residual concentration, CA, at its nominal setpoint by adjusting the coolant temperature, Tc. Changes in the feed concentration, CAi, and feed temperature, Ti, cause disturbances in the CSTR reaction.
The reactor temperature, T, is usually controlled. However, for this example, ignore the reactor temperature, and assume that the residual concentration is measured directly.
In the Simulink model window, double-click the MPC Controller block.
In the Block Parameters dialog box, on the General tab, in the Additional Inports section, check the Measured disturbance (md) option.
Click Apply to add the md inport to the controller block.
In the Simulink model window, connect the Feed Temperature block output to the md inport.
In the MPC Controller Block Parameters dialog box, click Design to open MPC Designer.
In MPC Designer, on the MPC Designer tab, in the Structure section, click MPC Structure.
In the Define MPC Structure By Linearization dialog box, in the Controller Sample Time section, specify a sample time of 0.1.
In the MPC Structure section, click Change I/O Sizes to add the unmeasured disturbance and measured disturbance signal dimensions.
In the Define MPC Structure By Linearization dialog box, in the Simulink Signals for Plant Inputs section, the app adds a row for Unmeasured Disturbances (UD).
The manipulated variable, measured disturbance, and measured output are already assigned to their respective Simulink signal lines, which are connected to the MPC Controller block.
In the Simulink Signals for Plant Inputs section, select the Unmeasured Disturbances (UD) row, and click Select Signals.
In the Simulink model window, click the output signal from the Feed Concentration block.
The signal is highlighted and its block path is added to the Select Signal dialog box.
In the Select Signals dialog box, click Add Signal(s).
In the Define MPC Structure By Linearization dialog box, in the Simulink Signals for Plant Inputs table, the Block Path for the unmeasured disturbance signal is updated.
Linearize the Simulink model at a steady-state equilibrium operating point where the residual concentration is 2 kgmol/m3. To compute such an operating point, add the CA signal as a trim output constraint, and specify its target constraint value.
In the Simulink model window, right-click the signal line connected to CA outport of the CSTR block, and click Linear Analysis Points > Trim Output Constraint.
The CA signal can now be used to define output specifications for calculating a model steady-state operating point.
In the Define MPC Structure By Linearization dialog box, in the Simulink Operating Point section, in the drop-down list, under Create New Operating Point, click Trim Model.
In the Trim the model dialog box, in the Outputs tab, check the box in the Known column for Channel-1 and specify a Value of 2.
This setting constrains the value of the output signal during the operating point search to a known value.
In the Define MPC Structure By Linearization dialog box, in the Simulink Operating Point section, the computed operating point, op_trim1, is added to the drop-down list and selected.
In the drop-down list, under View/Edit, click Edit op_trim1.
In the Edit dialog box, on the State tab, in the Actual dx column, the near-zero derivative values indicate that the computed operating point is at steady-state.
Click Initialize model to set the initial states of the Simulink model to the operating point values in the Actual Values column. Doing so enables you to later simulate the Simulink model at the computed operating point rather than at the default model initial conditions.
In the Initialize Model dialog box, click OK.
When setting the model initial conditions, MPC Designer exports the operating point to the MATLAB® workspace. Also, in the Simulink Configuration Parameters dialog box, in the Data Import/Export section, it selects the Input and Initial state parameters and configures them to use the states and inputs in the exported operating point.
To reset the model initial conditions, for example if you delete the exported operating point, clear the Input and Initial state parameters.
Close the Edit dialog box.
In the Define MPC Structure By Linearization dialog box, click Define and Linearize to linearize the model.
On the MPC Designer tab, in the Structure section, click I/O Attributes.
In the Input and Output Channel Specifications dialog box, in the Name column, specify meaningful names for each input and output channel.
In the Unit column, specify appropriate units for each signal.
The Nominal Value for each signal is the corresponding steady-state value at the computed operating point.
The primary objective of the controller is to hold the residual concentration, CA, at the nominal value of 2 kgmol/m3. To do so, the controller must reject both measured and unmeasured disturbances.
In the Scenario section, click Edit Scenario > scenario1.
In the Simulation Scenario dialog box, in the Reference Signals table, in the Signal drop-down list select Constant to hold the output setpoint at its nominal value.
In the Measured Disturbances table, in the Signal drop-down list, select Step.
Specify a step Size of 10 and a step Time of 0.
In the Data Browser, under Scenarios, double-click scenario1 and rename it MD_reject.
In the Scenario section, click Plot Scenario > New Scenario.
In the Simulation Scenario dialog box, in the Unmeasured Disturbances table, in the Signal drop-down list, select Step.
Specify a step Size of 1 and a step Time of 0.
In the Data Browser, under Scenarios, double-click NewScenario and rename it UD_reject.
To make viewing the tuning results easier, arrange the plot area to display the Output Response plots for both scenarios at the same time.
On the View tab, in the Tiles section, click Top/Bottom.
The plot display area changes to display the Input Response plots above the Output Response plots.
Drag the MD_reject: Output tab up to the top plot.
In the Tuning tab, in the Horizon section, specify a Prediction horizon of 20 and a Control horizon of 5.
The Output Response plots update based on the new horizon values.
Use the default controller constraint and weight configurations.
In the Performance Tuning section, drag the Closed-Loop Performance slider to the right, which leads to tighter control of outputs and more aggressive control moves. Drag the slider until the MD_reject: Output response reaches steady state in less than 2 seconds.
Drag the State Estimation slider to the right, which leads to more aggressive unmeasured disturbance rejection. Drag the slider until the UD_reject: Output response reaches steady state in less than 3 seconds.
In the Analysis section, click the Update and Simulate arrow .
Under Update and Simulate, click Update Block Only. The app exports the tuned controller, mpc1, to the MATLAB workspace. In the Simulink model, the MPC Controller block is updated to use the exported controller.
In the Simulink model window, change the simulation duration to 5 seconds.
The model initial conditions are set to the nominal operating point used for linearization.
Double-click the Feed Concentration block.
In the Block Parameters dialog box, enter a Constant Value of 11 to simulate a unit step at time zero.
In the Simulink model window, click Run.
The Concentration output response is similar to the UD_reject response, however the settling time is around 1 second later. The different result is due to the mismatch between the linear plant used in the MPC Designer simulation and the nonlinear plant in the Simulink model.
In the Block Parameters: Feed Concentration dialog box, enter a Constant Value of 10 to return the feed concentration to its nominal value.
In the Simulink model window, double-click the Feed Temperature block.
In the Block Parameters: Feed Temperature dialog box, enter a Constant Value of 310 to simulate a step change of size 10 at time zero.
The Concentration output response is similar to the MD_reject response from the MPC Designer simulation.


Will the Philippines ever succeed in breaking the Telco duopoly? There is hope, kinda.
Several days ago, consumer watchdog Infrawatch PH pointed out that the provisional third Philippine Telecommunications provider's franchise is deemed revoked after the latter allegedly failed to list its stocks in the Philippine Stock Exchange [Star].
Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company Inc (Mislatel), which received its 25-year franchise in 1998 via Republic Act 8627 [CorpusJuris], is required to public offer 30% of its stocks through the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) lest its franchise be deemed revoked.
WOOPS! "QUALIFYING" 3RD TELCO PLAYER'S LICENSE ALREADY REVOKED PRIOR TO AWARD?
More than a headache for the Mislatel Consortium, this is a source of much consternation among the Filipino Public desperately in need of better telco services. Thus, in this article, let me attempt to explain the situation so that the reader may gain a better idea of what to expect with respect to the future of Philippine Telecommunications.
"[Mislatel] shall offer at least... 30%... of its... stock... in any securities exchange in the Philippines within... 5... years from the commencement of its operations. Noncompliance... render(s) the franchise ipso facto revoked."
If the allegations that Mislatel may have indeed failed to list its stocks in the PSE, then it appears that the telco's franchise is indeed revoked.
"...the NTC published a list of... existing... franchises... (and) Mislatel... was included... In addition, the NTC has accepted the validity of the Mislatel franchise when it vetted Mislatel's documents..."
Chelsea is part of the provisional third telco consortium, along with China Telecom and Mislatel parent company Udenna Corporation.
The companies comprising the Mislatel Consortium. Udenna is Mislatel's parent company.
Clearly, Mislatel's franchise requires the it to offer 30% of its stocks to the public via a listing in any local stock exchange. Since the PSE is the only local stock exchange, then those stocks must be listed in the PSE.
Allegations of Mislatel's failure to enlist in PSE surfaced after NTC declared it as the provisional third telco. If true, this may imply that Mislatel's franchise – the right to operate – is deemed revoked, preventing it from becoming the country's third telco provider.
that NTC vetted Mislatel's franchise and it was found valid.
Mislatel basically claimed in the statement that its franchise is valid because the NTC said so, but is that really how it works?
This issue is quite similar to the Trillanes Amnesty Case.
The amnesty document, however, is insufficient to debunk the allegations against Trillanes, as Trillanes even submitted to submit copies of his amnesty application, along with an affidavit of admission. Trillanes even submitted additional evidence to support his claim [ABS].
Using the same argument, Mislatel cannot simply invoke NTC's approval of its application. Instead, it must directly answer the allegations that it never went public in accordance with its franchise terms.
In short, Mislatel could have simply said, "Hey, we did offer 30% of our stocks so you're wrong," and we would have gotten this whole thing over with. But Mislatel, so far, hasn't done anything to that effect, as it uses the Trillanes Strategy to address the issue.
Did Mislatel attempt go public with 30% of its stocks as required in its franchise terms, yes or no?
The central point of contention is whether Mislatel publicly offered, or at least intended to offer, 30% of its stocks through the PSE as required in the franchise terms. The telco has so far been mum about this.
If Mislatel indeed failed to publicly offer 30% of its stocks, then the debate is over: Mislatel's license is deemed revoked, thereby disqualify the telco from participating in the industry entirely. Hence, let's assume, for the sake of argument, that it actually did publicly offer stocks.
I would like to direct the reader's attention to the fact that Chelsea [PSE], and NOT Mislatel, issued the clarificatory statement in the PSE website, the same statement that was widely used in various news reports from major media outlets.
The clarificatory statement, submitted to the PSE and SEC, is meant to assuage Chelsea's stockholders, who may be worried about the allegations against its partner Mislatel.But then, if 30% of Mislatel's stocks are publicly held, then why does it appear that Mislatel didn't bother to assuage its public stockholders? Why didn't Mislatel submit to the PSE and SEC a clarificatory statement similar to Chelsea's?
Now, some camps may raise the possibility that Mislatel may just be late in filing the statement, but it has to be pointed out that Mislatel, its parent company Udenna, and Chelsea are either controlled or fully owned by a single person: the Davao-based business tycoon Dennis Uy.
That is, if Chelsea can quickly whip up a statement, I think it's reasonable to expect the same speed on Mislatel's part. Moreover, it can also be reasonably expected that Mislatel, a supposedly publicly traded company, can have that statement published on the PSE website.
But neither happened. Thus, surrounding facts suggest that Mislatel is indeed not listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange, thus failing to comply with a requirement in its telco franchise terms.
I managed to get a copy of Mislatel's 2015 General Information Sheet (GIS), the SEC filing that describes the company's ownership structure. But before we go through that, let me explain what exactly we'll be looking for in the GIS.
Commence operations within three (3) years from the effectivity of this Act.
Thus, assuming that Mislatel's franchise is still valid and active to this day and given that the franchise was granted in 1998, then it must have commenced operations no later than 2001.
Now, Section 16 of the same Act requires Mislatel to go public with 30% of its stocks within five years from the commencement of its operations, so that Mislatel should have done so no later than 5 years after 2001, i.e. 2006.
Let me state this clearly: if Mislatel's franchise is valid and active in 2018, then it must have gone public with 30% of its shares no later than 2006.
A photo of the relevant page in the GIS is shown below.
Thus, Mislatel HAS NOT GONE PUBLIC as of 2015, which is almost a decade past the deadline. In short, judging by the Mislatel's franchise terms, Mislatel's license to operate is deemed revoked.
DEFENSES: IS MISLATEL'S FRANCHISE REALLY DEEMED REVOKED?
Well, that's a bit tricky. I have consulted several lawyer-friends who are well-versed in corporate law and they told me that at first glance, Mislatel's apparent failure to go public may have indeed resulted in the revocation of its franchise.
They said, however, that Mislatel may have several possible ways to get out of this PR and legal mess.
The franchise terms used the term "shall offer", meaning that it requires Mislatel to publicly offer stocks but not necessarily succeed in selling them. If Mislatel indeed publicly offered its stocks within the required timeframe but there were no takers, then Mislatel may still be deemed compliant with the franchise terms.
In short, Mislatel can argue Substantial Compliance, defined as compliance with the substantial or essential requirements of a statute that satisfies its purpose or objective even though its formal requirements are not complied with [FindLaw].
In this respect, we must verify if Mislatel continuously attempted to offer its stocks and there have always been zero buyers. If Mislatel manages to do that then it's all ok. Otherwise, this alibi won't fly.
Listing a new company's stocks in the Philippine Stock Exchange is fraught with myriad challenges, so many that it's possible that PSE rejected Mislatel's attempt to list its stocks in the bourse. This can happen if, among other reasons, PSE deemed Mislatel stocks to be not valuable enough, making trading of its stocks a waste of time and resources.
Thus, Mislatel may be deemed compliant with franchise terms if Mislatel spent a reasonable amount of effort to list its stocks but the PSE refused to cooperate. That is, if Mislatel did everything in its power to comply but the PSE didn't budge, then Mislatel can argue in the courts that it can still be deemed compliant.
Mislatel can again argue Substantial Compliance.
The first two potential defenses described above apply to arguing the validity of Mislatel's franchise. This third one, on the other hand, appeals to the more practical side of things.
Possession is nine-tenths of the law, or so the saying goes. The fact of the matter is that the NTC has declared Mislatel as the provisional third telco and this declaration enjoys the presumption of regularity.
Infrawatch PH, the NGO that raised the franchise issue, can sue Mislatel in an attempt to freeze the bidding process. However, my lawyer-friends and I have doubts on whether the NGO has the legal personality to challenge the NTC decision, especially since Infrawatch is not among the losing bidders.
More likely than not, this information will instead be used by the losing bidder, and it appears to be the case. However, while Velarde's NOW Telecom [GMA] and Singson's Sear Telecom [ABS] are hell bent on challenging the legality of NTC's decision, NTC and Mislatel can still choose to proceed with everything.
Former Ilocos Sur Governor Chavit Singson owns Sear Telecom, one of the aspiring third telco players.
That means NTC and Mislatel can perform the remaining steps to complete the regulatory processes, then the Mislatel Consortium starts operating and providing telco services, all while NOW and Sear are fighting it out in courts.
Of course, we cannot discount the possibility that NOW or Sear may be able to secure a timely Temporary Restraining Order or Preliminary Injunction from the courts and I have reason to believe they will get it, as the 2015 Mislatel GIS is prima facie evidence that Mislatel failed to go public.
But there's the option to post a counter-bond.
However, considering that this is just a civil case, Mislatel can simply use Rule 58 Section 6 of the Rules of Court [LawPhil], which allows it to post a counter-bond to dissolve the TRO and Injunction.
Suppose NOW or Sear sues Mislatel and the courts grant a TRO against Mislatel, preventing Mislatel from commencing operations, after NOW or Sear argued that enforcing the NTC decision will cause the complainant significant financial damages. Mislatel can then ask the courts if it can just post a counter-bond conditioned that Mislatel will pay NOW or Sear if Mislatel loses the civil case. The courts will set the counter-bond's amount.
Of course, we are talking about astronomical amounts here, so it all boils down to the question of whether Mislatel, i.e. Davao tycoon Dennis Uy, is wealthy enough to take the hit, and I am pretty confident that he is.
With a counter-bond posted and assuming that all NTC-related processes have been completed, Mislatel can start operating and providing telco services to the public while the civil case is still pending in the courts.
If Mislatel wins the civil case years later, then business as usual. If Mislatel loses the case, it loses the amount posted as a counter-bond but it can still argue that the company is providing substantial benefit to the public so the courts should still allow it to operate.
Imagine this: we currently have a Smart-Globe telco duopoly. If the courts decide years from now against Mislatel and forces the latter to stop operating, the Smart-Globe-Mislatel triopoly reverts to a duopoly as it will take considerable time, possibly years, for Mislatel's replacement to commence operations, and that can be argued as severely detrimental to Public Interest.
In short, provisional third telco Mislatel may (emphasis on "may") still continue to operate regardless of the outcome of a civil case. That is, if Dennis Uy is willing and able to shoulder the astronomical expenses associated with it.
NOTE: My co-hosts and I will discuss this issue even further in the radio show Karambola sa DWIZ on Monday, 12 November 2018. You can listen to it on DWIZ 882 AM, or watch our live feed on Facebook, and YouTube.


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The City of Clio is located in northern Genesee County along the I-75 corridor approximately ten miles north of Flint. The City is 1.1 square miles and surrounded physically by Vienna Charter Township. Clio has a population of approximately 2,700 and serves as the hub of a tri-inter-governmental area (Vienna and Thetford Townships and the City of Clio) that is nearly ten times its individual population. Primarily a residential community, Clio boasts a diverse commercial and industrial base, too.
The City of Clio is a home rule city, having adopted its current charter in 1961. The City operates under the council-mayor form of government. The mayor is the chief executive officer of city government and is supported by the city administrator, who handles day-to-day administrative duties. A seven-member commission, of which the mayor is a member, constitutes the city's governing body.
A full-service city, Clio provides public safety (police, fire, and EMS), public works (water, sewer, road repairs, and snow and ice control), park and recreation facilities (pavilions, park land, and 5+ miles of bike paths. Unique to a community of its size, is Clio's art center, amphitheater, and industrial park--each developed through a community partnership anchored by city government participation.


This final preparatory cartoon for the painting Red Coat (1982, Whitney Museum of American Art) illustrates the last step in Alex Katz's very traditional working process, a method that can be traced back to the Renaissance. Katz begins his portraits with a series of preparatory sketches from life. In these sketches, Katz experiments with gesture and works out ideas for the finished composition. Katz then creates a small painting of the subject, consolidating the ideas he has explored in the previous sketches. A finished drawing in which the artist resolves all of the remaining compositional and lighting issues is made from the painted sketch and enlarged into a cartoon. The cartoon is transferred by poking holes along the lines of the drawing with a pouncing wheel. It is placed on the canvas, and dry pigment is pressed through the holes in the drawing, transferring the lines onto the canvas. Ultimately, because its composition is so carefully plotted out, the work has an intentionally limited sense of spontaneity.


How to maintain a robust stage gate process for 'lighter' projects, but make it less onerous? Is there anything beyond the standard options of removing gates or consolidating gates? How to get around the problem that if everything in a stage gate checklist is required how would you determine the nonessential?
I have been writing about PMO in a fairly technical way, and will continue to write posts to explain to myself what works and why. Also how. But today I'm concerned with the emotion underlying the drive to have a project environment that is the best it can be for a given organisation.
We tend to laugh at the antique maps displayed in museums. They seem the work of a child. Well, it's time to access your inner child because your maps of the project environment will not have the help of any equivalent satellite or surveyor. Like the ancients, you will be relying on the stories of travellers and sailor's tales. However, just like the maps of the ancients, they will be incredibly valuable.
I have outlined a working concept of PMO that I trust that we can use to build a basic PMO framework, in the posts that follow. The framework will be flexible enough to allow any type of PMO, and any practitioner, to optimise the particular setup they find themselves in.


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The One (2001)
Watch The One (2001) Online
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
Director: James Wong
Actors: Carla Gugino, Delroy Lindo, Dylan Bruno, James Morrison, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Richard Steinmetz
Drive Hard
A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops…
Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015)
The giant, man-eating Graboids are back and even deadlier than before, terrorizing the inhabitants of a South African wildlife reserve as they attack from below-and above.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
48 Hrs. (1982)
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Mystery Men (1999)
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes — Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja…
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Fool's Gold (2008)
Treasure hunter Ben 'Finn' Finnegan has sunk both his trusty boat and his marriage to Tess in his obsessive quest to find the legendary 'Queen's Dowry' treasure. When he finds…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Frenzy (2018)
A group of friends run a popular travel vlog that helps fund their adventures. The leader of the group brings along her younger sister for the next scuba diving trip…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Iron Sky The Coming Race (2019)
Twenty years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under…
Country: Belgium, Finland, Germany
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
Scientist Will Rodman is determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease which has slowly consumed his father. Will feels certain he is close to a breakthrough and tests…
Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Gridlocked (2015)
Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when a police training facility is attacked by a team of mercenaries.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, UK, USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
No Holds Barred (1989)
Rip is the World Wrestling Federation champion who is faithful to his fans and the network he wrestles for, but Brell, the new head of the World Television Network, wants…
Trailer: The One (2001)

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(1) Dragonflies that migrate appear to build up fat reserves, wait for favorable winds, take rest breaks, and reorient themselves when they lose their way, according to the study.(2) He tells her that he was a host for him for twelve days until the wind was favorable again.(3) A less stringent criterion is whether a certain type of mutation occurs more often under conditions favorable to the survival of the resulting mutants.(4) Without this favorable environment, transformational activities would have been more difficult to undertake.(5) We postulate that past experience can lead us to the identification of initial conditions favorable to crystallization.(6) While I have a generally favorable impression of the book, I do have a couple of complaints.(7) Even in the harbor they were raising sails that caught a favorable wind.(8) Furthermore, overall attitudes toward such policies are becoming increasingly favorable .(9) Often it seemed that his teachers were not well placed to contain and divert this student's behavior toward more favorable outcomes.(10) Eager to attack Troy, Agamemnon kills her, and the Greeks are given favorable winds for their ships.(11) They can be designed and directed to influence the will of foreign leadership to create conditions favorable to any country's strategic aims or objectives.(12) And so they traveled north with the current and favorable winds of the season.(13) The formation of biofilms makes conditions more favorable for bacterial persistence in the lungs.(14) If the film received favorable reviews on initial release, that praise paled in comparison to word-of-mouth buzz following a real nuclear accident.(15) The ad had reached enough viewers to make a favorable impression across the district.(16) A favorable climate of legislation, regulation, and taxation will foster such development.
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the new business catchword. Polls show that consumers are increasingly making choices based on ethical grounds1, that managers view irresponsible companies negatively2 and believe meeting social concerns makes business3 and investment sense4. This study sets out to discover whether there is a difference in the way that various companies within the three sectors of the automobile, banking and oil industries approach corporate social responsibility and the motivations for which these industries do so. Unsurprisingly all the industries are getting to grips with the terminology and recognise CSR's importance for their reputations with consumers and stakeholders. Research reveals that the banking industry is where the most pressure occurs for companies to regulate 'voluntarily' and where verification is the norm. Confrontations between stakeholders and multi-nationals that are aired in the media are common to all sectors. Companies with inherent societal and environmental impacts such as the automobile and oil industry can quickly exploit the brand advantage that meeting CSR challenges can give them to forge a place in the future. This ability is clearly dependent on their profitability although it is not necessarily true that profitable companies are more socially responsible. Codes of conducts are increasingly emerging to discourage stricter legislation and to ensure a level playing field for industries.


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New Denver pilot program to provide free legal services for people facing eviction
The pilot program comes on the heels of a study that showed that most tenants facing eviction can't hire lawyers because they either choose not to or can't afford one.
Blair Miller
KMGH (Denver, CO)
Organizations mentioned/involved: Colorado Legal Services
Denver tenants who have already been served with an eviction notice, have received court papers or have housing issues are asked to contact Colorado Legal Services to be screened for eligibility. CLS says it will "generally" be able to provide services to households earning up to 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, as well as the elderly.
"I want to share my sincere thanks to the community voices who helped to elevate the importance of addressing evictions and paved the way for the collaboration that made this pilot possible," said Councilwoman Robin Kniech, who chairs the council's Housing and Homelessness Work Group.
"The City Council donations will help level the playing field for low-income renters," said Jonathan Asher, executive director of Colorado Legal Services. "This project brings us closer to delivering on that foundational promise of justice for all."


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Convicted kidnapper reveals location of Kelli Ann Cox's remains
05/17/2016 3:44 pm PDT
UPDATE May 18, 2021:
The Oklahoman reports William Lewis Reece, 61, is on trial for the strangulation of Tiffany Johnston at a car wash in Bethany, Oklahoma, on July 26, 1997.
Oklahoma County District Judge Susan Stallings is allowing prosecutors to put on evidence linking him to three other deaths in Texas, including the death of Kelli Ann Cox. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Testimony begins at murder trial for man accused of serial killings in Oklahoma and Texas, 5/18/21 - The Oklahoman
William Reece charged in 1997 disappearance, death of Kelli Ann Cox, 12/15/17 - KPRC-TV
Police: Houston man charged with multiple murders confessed to Oklahoma strangling, 4/22/17 - Houston Chronicle
It's called the "Highway to Hell," a scary 50-mile stretch between Houston and Galveston, Texas, littered with mystery and misery. It cuts through a mix of murky swamps, old farms and abandoned oil fields, making it the perfect dumping ground for dead bodies.
Thirty women have disappeared along this lonely highway, some found in shallow graves near a place locals call the "Texas Killing Field." They are mostly young, pretty and brunette.
For years police have wondered if it's the work of one sadistic serial killer, or a handful of evil copycats. And now they are finally about to get some answers.
Jan Bynum keeps a yellow ribbon in the front yard of her home in Farmers Branch, Texas. Her daughter Kelli Ann Cox, a young single mom, is one of the missing.
Kelli spent her mornings studying at the University of North Texas, and the rest of her days being mom to her young daughter Alexis.
On July 15, 1997, Kelli dropped 19-month-old Alexis at a babysitter's, then drove to Denton County Jail for a field trip with her criminology class. Her professor told the students not to bring phones, keys or personal items to the prison.
According to Kelli's boyfriend Lawrence Harris III, he and Kelli had a spare key made. They tested it the night before the tour to make sure it worked and then hid the little magnetic box in the wheel well of her vehicle.
After the tour Kelli heads back to her car. That's when Denton Police Officer Shane Kizer says the story takes a bizarre turn.
"She would have walked down the sidewalk on the south end of the building and come to this parking lot that's behind us where her car was parked at the time," said Kizer. "She was unable to get into her car at the time, unable to get it unlocked."
That spare car key that had worked just hours before now mysteriously would not open Kelli's car.
"She ended up coming back across the street," said Kizer. "She came to this business here which at the time was Rick's Drive-In. She went in, got change, came back out and used the payphone."
Kelli calls her boyfriend Lawrence for help.
Lawrence claims he drives straight to the jail, and when he arrives 35 minutes later, Kelli's car was in the parking lot, but she was nowhere to be found.
By 5:30 that afternoon Kelli's mom's heart was pounding.
"I knew absolutely without a doubt that there's something wrong 'cause that's when she had to pick Alexis up at babysitter," said Jan.
Police begin questioning those closest to Kelli. Everyone had an alibi, so police start with her boyfriend Lawrence. Lawrence passes four polygraph tests, and police eliminate him as a suspect.
Now, with no leads, no witnesses, no surveillance video, the case goes cold.
Then a possible break: Cops get a tip that William Reece, a convicted sex offender, had just been released from prison. A credit-card receipt from a gas station put the trucker in Denton the day Kelli Cox disappeared. But the hot tip quickly went cold when no evidence of her fingerprints was found in his truck.
Then, finally, this February, almost 19 years after Kelli disappeared, police finally make that terrible call to Jan, and a familiar face comes back to haunt her.
"He said it is William Reece who we're looking at," said Jan.
Reece is serving 60 years in a Texas prison for kidnapping a woman. Now DNA has just linked him to another murder in Oklahoma. Reece's attorney, Anthony Osso, says his client doesn't want to face the death penalty, and offers to tell cops where he buried the bodies of two missing young women, Jessica Cain and Kelli Cox, if they agree not to execute him.
"You've had those times over 19 years where something seemed positive and then ends up leading to nothing, and so I think you're kind of let down," said Kizer. "So I think especially with our investigators, they went with a cautious but optimistic approach."
Reece leads investigators to an area not far from the "Highway to Hell," where they do find Jessica Cain's body. And then Reece takes police to an old farm nearby where he says he buried Kelli Cox. In a shallow grave they find Kelli.
"They came back with the dental and said It's Kelli. There's no doubt it's Kelli," said Jan Bynum.
"I can be comforted that I know she's in God's arms," said Jan. "And I know that she's not in harm's way every minute of every day. And I can bring her home and put her to rest the way I want to."
Jan and her husband Nyles later adopted Alexis. The cute toddler Kelli left behind is now a young woman following in her mom's steps as a student at the University of North Texas.
As for that yellow ribbon, Jan is keeping it up hoping the other girls out there in the Texas fields make it home too.
"I miss her a lot," said Jan. "I also know I was blessed with 20 years with her, and thank God for that. I know there are parents that only get to have their children for a few years. I got to have her for 20."
Sadly the pain that she feels could have and should have been avoided: William Reece was supposed to be sitting in prison the day that Kelli went missing, sentenced to 25 years for a rape conviction. However, because of a technicality, he only served nine years and was set free.
#ColdCase #Murder #Texas


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Le Secret de l'Espadon est la première aventure de la série de bande dessinée Blake et Mortimer, scénarisée et dessinée par Edgar P. Jacobs.

Elle est publiée en planches hebdomadaires dès le premier numéro du Journal Tintin, du  au . Elle est ensuite éditée en albums, en  aux Éditions du Lombard (en 1950 et 1953), puis en  aux Éditions Blake et Mortimer (de 1984 à 1986). Elle a été traduite dans près d'une dizaine de langues et a été adaptée en feuilleton radiophonique et en dessin animé.

Edgar P. Jacobs, marqué par la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'expansionnisme du Japon Shōwa et les bombardements atomiques d'Hiroshima et de Nagasaki, crée une bande dessinée d'anticipation en imaginant une aventure se déroulant lors d'une Troisième Guerre mondiale. Il ajoute des éléments de science-fiction, comme l'Espadon, un avion à réaction submersible, supersonique et radio-commandé, et imagine une base militaire hyper-sophistiquée.

La bande dessinée raconte les aventures de deux Britanniques, le capitaine Francis Blake, de l', et le professeur Philip Mortimer, physicien nucléaire. Après une attaque mondiale surprise déclenchée par l'empereur Basam-Damdu, à la tête de « l'Empire jaune », ils tentent de rejoindre une base secrète avec les plans de l'Espadon, conçu par Mortimer, qui leur permettra de riposter. Ils sont traqués à travers le Moyen-Orient par le colonel Olrik, un Occidental chef des services secrets de l'empire.

Résumé
Le découpage en trois tomes ci-dessous correspond à la réédition de 1984, alors que l'édition originale de 1950 n'était découpée qu'en deux tomes, intitulés simplement « Tome 1 » et « Tome 2 ».

Tome 1 : La Poursuite fantastique

Au lendemain de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'usurpateur Basam-Damdu, qui dirige « l'Empire jaune » dont le cœur est situé à Lhassa au Tibet, déclenche une attaque militaire sur le reste du monde. En quelques heures, les plus grandes métropoles sont détruites et ses armées victorieuses. Mais le gouvernement britannique, bien renseigné par l'agent infiltré Zhang Hasso, a pris certaines précautions et construit deux bases secrètes pour y préparer une riposte. Avertis par Hasso de l'imminence de l'attaque juste avant que ce dernier ne soit découvert et abattu par le colonel Olrik, le capitaine Francis Blake de l' (MI5), et son ami le professeur Philip Mortimer, physicien nucléaire, quittent avant sa destruction la base de Scaw-Fell à bord de l'avion «  » pour rejoindre la seconde base secrète. Ils emportent avec eux les plans de « l'Espadon », une arme révolutionnaire conçue par Mortimer. Ils sont traqués par le colonel Olrik, un occidental chef des services secrets de l'Empire Jaune et conseiller militaire de l'empereur.

Poursuivi par des chasseurs stratosphériques, le  est abattu au-dessus de l'Iran et Blake et Mortimer sont capturés par les soldats de l'armée locale aux ordres des envahisseurs. Profitant de la rivalité entre deux gradés, ils parviennent à s'échapper en camion sous le feu tardif des gardes iraniens. Sur le point d'être rattrapés par deux automitrailleuses lancées à leur poursuite par Olrik, ils sont sauvés in extremis par une attaque de partisans. À bord du véhicule blindé restant, ils poursuivent leur route vers le point de rendez-vous secret, mais se retrouvent de nouveau sous le feu de l'aviation ennemie. Ils ne doivent leur salut qu'à un violent orage et continuent leur chemin à pied dans la montagne. Au moment d'arriver à leur point de rendez-vous, ils sont arrêtés par le sergent Ahmed Nasir, un Indien du  (Armée britannique des Indes) qui leur évite de tomber dans un piège tendu par Olrik. Volant au passage l'avion personnel de ce dernier, « l'Aile rouge », ils se rendent malgré le crash de leur avion dans le désert à Turbat au Pakistan, où ils sont hébergés par un certain Zahan-Kahn. Mais Blake et Mortimer sont dénoncés par Razul, un Bezendjas à la solde des Jaunes, et ces derniers envahissent la ville.

Tome 2 : L'Évasion de Mortimer
Blake et Mortimer échappent de peu à la capture, parvenant à quitter Turbat grâce à une insurrection des habitants. Quelques jours plus tard, ils atteignent les falaises du Makran, près de Jask, où Mortimer, venu récupérer les plans de l'Espadon perdus par Blake lors d'une mauvaise chute, est fait prisonnier par les Jaunes, non sans avoir dissimulé les plans d'abord [fin du premier tome de l'édition originale].

Trois mois plus tard, alors que Blake et l'amiral Sir William Gray dirigent la résistance depuis une base sous-marine secrète située sous la péninsule du Musandam, au niveau du détroit d'Ormuz, Mortimer, lui, est détenu par Olrik à Karachi, au Pakistan. Sous bonne garde, il feint de coopérer pour rester en vie et gagner du temps. Nasir arrive à être embauché dans la prison, et Mortimer, bien que toujours sous surveillance, parvient à lui transmettre un message lui indiquant la cachette des plans. Un soir, alors que Blake récupère les plans, Nasir est reconnu par Razul près de la prison du professeur. Inquiets pour celui-ci, Blake organise son évasion en catastrophe : le soir même, Mortimer s'évade en hélicoptère à la faveur d'un orage, et embarque à bord d'un sous-marin. Encerclé par la flotte des Jaunes, ce dernier se réfugie le long de l'épave de l'Ajax, un croiseur de bataille échoué au fond de la mer.

Tome 3 : SX1 contre-attaque
Un mois après l'évasion de Mortimer, un convoi d'intellectuels et de techniciens en déportation est libéré par des résistants. Parmi eux, Donald Bell, ingénieur à l', se lie d'amitié avec Jack Harper, ancien chef de district dans le nord des Indes et ami de son frère le lieutenant Archie Bell. Après un long voyage, le convoi atteint le Makran d'où, grâce à un passage souterrain secret, ils traversent le détroit d'Ormuz et parviennent à la base de la résistance. Là, tout est fait pour accélérer la naissance de l'Espadon, un avion amphibie supersonique et ultra-maniable. Harper, qui s'avère être un ami de Blake, est alors affecté au , chargé de la sécurité, et un certain Mallow lui fait visiter la base. Mais après avoir neutralisé ce dernier, il vole des explosifs et détruit plusieurs installations de la base.

Après une brève enquête, Blake et Mortimer découvrent que Bell est en vérité Olrik, qui avait neutralisé Harper et usurpé son identité lors de la visite. Malgré le fait que toute la base soit en alerte, Olrik parvient à s'enfuir dans un scaphandre et ne peut être rattrapé. Conscient qu'une attaque des Jaunes est imminente, Mortimer décide de brusquer les choses et de simplifier son Espadon pour que deux exemplaires soient opérationnels dans seulement trente heures. De son côté, Olrik organise un assaut général sur la base qui se défend tant bien que mal. Alors qu'elle est sur le point de tomber, le premier Espadon piloté par Blake, puis le deuxième commandé par Mortimer, réduisent à néant l'aviation et la flotte des attaquants. Partout dans le monde commencent alors des insurrections qui ébranlent le pouvoir de Basam-Damdu en quelques jours. Ce dernier, pris de folie meurtrière décide de lancer une destruction nucléaire générale, mais une escadrille d'Espadons attaque sa capitale, Lhassa, et détruit son arsenal dans les rampes de lancement, mettant fin à son empire.

Lieux et personnages

Personnages
Première aventure de la série Blake et Mortimer, Le Secret de l'Espadon met en scène le capitaine Francis Blake et le professeur Philip Mortimer, ainsi que le colonel Olrik qui reviendra dans d'autres épisodes de la série, comme Ahmed Nasir. D'autres personnages tels Razul le Bezendjas, l'empereur Basam-Damdu, le capitaine Hasso, et Sir William Gray réapparaitront (pour la plupart dans des albums dont Jacobs n'est pas l'auteur).

L'histoire contient de nombreux autres personnages  qui apparaissent dans quelques cases seulement, avec ou sans dialogue. Il n'y apparaît cependant aucun personnage de sexe féminin, conformément aux usages de la bande dessinée pour jeunes gens de l'époque.

Lieux visités

L'aventure se déroule essentiellement au Moyen-Orient, mais aussi en partie au Royaume-Uni et au Tibet.

  : fort de Keru (où Blake et Mortimer sont retenus prisonniers) ; montagnes du Hérat ; col de Chemma (où Blake et Mortimer s'emparent d'un blindé) ; falaises du Makran, près de Jask (là où Mortimer est capturé par les Jaunes)
  : péninsule du Musandam (là où est installée la base secrète britannique), près du détroit d'Ormuz
  : Turbat (ville où éclate une révolte, permettant à Blake, Mortimer et Nasir de fuir à cheval) ; rivière Chambadur (où les protagonistes échappent à Olrik en détruisant un pont) ; Karachi ; ligne de chemin de fer entre Hyderabad et Larkana (où circule le convoi de prisonniers) ; Dadu ; baie de Sonmiani
  : usine secrète de Scaw-Fell ; Londres (d'où s'échappent Blake et Mortimer au début du récit)
  : aérodrome de Lhassa ; Palais du Potala (siège de l'empereur Basam-Damdu)
  : Diyarbakır

Historique

Pour lancer Le Journal de Tintin en 1946, Hergé décide de faire appel à son ami Edgar P. Jacobs. Ce dernier lui propose une série médiévale, Roland Le Hardi, qui se voit refusée en raison de l'existence de trop nombreuses séries historiques. Jacobs décide alors de créer une série d'anticipation.

Analyse

Style graphique

Dans Le Secret de l'Espadon, Edgar P. Jacobs dessine sur trois bandes par planche. Dans les aventures suivantes, il passera à quatre bandes par planche, rendant ses pages plus touffues.

Jacobs apporte une grande importance au réalisme des décors extérieurs. Ainsi, pour dessiner un  où les rochers plongent dans la mer, il demande conseil à l'explorateur français François Balsan. Ce dernier lui décrit les paysages, lui envoie des plans et lui conseille la lecture des numéros du Geographical relatant les voyages de l'archéologue et explorateur  hongro-britannique Aurel Stein dans cette région.

Inspirations

Marqué par la Seconde Guerre mondiale qui venait de prendre fin, et en particulier les bombardements atomiques d'Hiroshima et Nagasaki, Edgar P. Jacobs transpose l'expansionnisme du Japon Shōwa dans l'Empire jaune. Le nom de Basam-Damdu est inspiré de celui de Tsarong Dzasa, né Namgang Dazang Damdu.

Pour contrer l'imposant arsenal de guerre de l'Empire jaune, Edgar P. Jacobs doit inventer une arme redoutable, à la fois puissante, maniable et quasi invulnérable. Il crée l'Espadon, un avion à réaction submersible, supersonique et radiocommandé. Relevant de la science-fiction, l'avion utilise cependant des formules dans l'air du temps. Jacobs lui donne le même comportement en l'air qu'un stuka, une catégorie de bombardier en piqué allemand utilisé lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Pour la forme de son fuselage, aérodynamique, il s'inspire de la ligne de l'espadon  et du requin. Craignant l'invraisemblance de son invention, il montre des épures à un expert des questions navales et aéronautiques. Ce dernier estime  :
 le premier avion à réaction à turboréacteur de l'histoire aéronautique est le Heinkel He 178 qui effectue son premier vol le , mais ce n'est encore qu'un avion expérimental propulsé par le réacteur Heinkel HeS 3 conçu par Hans von Ohain. Il sera suivi exactement un an plus tard par le premier prototype italien, le Campini-Caproni C.C.2. Au Royaume-Uni, il faudra attendre le  pour voir le premier vol du Gloster E28/39 propulsé par le réacteur W.2/700 conçu par Frank Whittle. Il faut attendre  pour qu'un avion de combat, l'Arado Ar 234, entre en service opérationnel dans une force aérienne (suivi en  du Gloster Meteor anglais et en  du Messerschmitt Me 262 allemand produits en plus grand nombre), et les années 1950 pour que l'aviation à réaction se généralise dans le domaine militaire. Jusqu'alors, le mode de propulsion courant était l'hélice ;
 le projet d'un avion supersonique français est lancé en 1946, qui donnera naissance au SNCASO SO.6020 Espadon ;
 le premier vol supersonique est réalisé le  par le Bell X-1 piloté par Chuck Yeager de l'USAAF ;
 la position couchée du pilote était assez courante dans les prototypes de l'époque, comme dans les ailes volantes Horten, le Henschel Hs 132, le  et le Northrop XP-79 ;
 le premier avion à fuselage effilé et à ailes à faible allongement comme l'Espadon est le Douglas X-3 Stiletto, surnommé «  » (le marlin du ciel), qui fait son premier vol le . Cet avion possède cependant une entrée d'air quasi dorsale au contraire de l'Espadon. D'autres engins seront équipés d'une entrée d'air ventrale comme le chasseur Republic XF-103 et le missile de croisière  ;
 le principe de l'avion-sous-marin est présent dans la littérature de science-fiction dès le , popularisé notamment par Maître du monde de Jules Verne. Mais il faut attendre les années 1960 pour que l'United States Navy lance un concours entre  d'un projet de sous-marin volant. Les Soviétiques auraient également lancé des recherches sur un projet similaire dans les années 1930.

À l'époque de l'écriture du Secret de l'Espadon, dans les années 1940, la mode était aux ailes volantes comme les Northrop N-1M et YB-35 ou les ailes Horten. Jacobs en donne sa propre version avec l'Aile rouge (versions I, II et III), l'avion personnel d'Olrik.

Publications

En français
Le Secret de l'Espadon est publié dans l'hebdomadaire belge Le Journal de Tintin dès son premier numéro le  () jusqu'au  (). Une planche en couleur est diffusée chaque semaine sur la quatrième de couverture.

En 1950, les Éditions du Lombard publient la première moitié de l'histoire comme leur tout premier album de bande dessinée dans la Collection du Lombard. Pour l'occasion, Jacobs redessine les  planches qu'il réduit à 17 afin de donner plus de détails sur le fond des événements menant à l'intrigue principale. La seconde partie de l'histoire est publiée en 1953. Par la suite, les deux tomes sont réédités et réimprimés plus d'une dizaine de fois entre 1954 et 1982 aux Éditions du Lombard en Belgique et aux éditions Dargaud en France.

En 1964, les Éditions du Lombard publient une intégrale réunissant les deux tomes en un seul volume, mais en conservant la couverture originale au début de chaque tome.

De 1984 à 1986, les nouvelles Éditions Blake et Mortimer rééditent Le Secret de l'Espadon en trois tomes, avec une couverture originale pour le deuxième tome. Ces nouveaux albums ont des couleurs et un lettrage nouveaux, et incluent plusieurs grandes illustrations qui avaient été utilisées comme pages de couverture du Journal de Tintin. Ce redécoupage n'a pas ravi Edgar P. Jacobs.

En 1995, France Loisirs édite Le Secret de l'Espadon en trois tomes.

En 2002, l'éditeur publie une intégrale en un seul album comprenant un cahier de  préfacé par Jean Van Hamme avec des dessins commentés de Ted Benoit et André Juillard ainsi qu'un texte d'Yves Sente faisant le lien avec les nouveaux épisodes.

En 2009, l'association Les Amis de Jacobs édite en album les  planches du Secret de l'Espadon tel que publié dans Le Journal de Tintin belge de 1946 à 1949. Le tirage est limité à  numérotés.

Traductions
L'aventure a été traduite dans plusieurs langues.
 Allemand :  (La Bataille pour le monde), publié aux éditions Carlsen Comics ;
 Anglais :  (le secret de l'Espadon), publié aux éditions Cinebook ;
 Arabe, publié aux éditions Butterfly Publishing House ;
 Danois :  (La Bataille pour la domination du monde), publié aux éditions Carlsen Comics ;
 Espagnol :  (le secret de l'Espadon), publié aux éditions Norma Editorial ;
 Finnois : , publié aux éditions Egmont ;
 Italien :  (le secret de l'Espadon), publié aux éditions Alessandro Editore ;
 Néerlandais :  (le secret de l'Espadon), publié aux éditions Blake et Mortimer ;
 Polonais :  (L'Arme mystérieuse), publié aux éditions Blake et Mortimer ;
 Portugais :  (le secret de l'Espadon).

Accueil et postérité

Critiques

Sur SensCritique, le  tome du Secret de l'Espadon obtient une note de 7,5/10 basée sur  d'internautes, le deuxième une note de 7,7/10 basée sur  et le troisième 7,7/10 basé sur . Sur Babelio, les  obtiennent une note moyenne de 3,9/5 sur une base de respectivement 234, 183 et  d'internautes.

Préquel
En 2014, Yves Sente et André Juillard sortent Le Bâton de Plutarque, un préquel au Secret de l'Espadon. Ils introduisent plusieurs personnages présents dans l'album de Jacobs. Le Bâton de Plutarque s'achève juste avant le début du Secret de l'Espadon.

Suites
En 2018 et 2019, parait le diptyque La Vallée des Immortels scénarisé par Yves Sente et dessiné par Peter van Dongen et Teun Berserik, qui commence peu de temps avant la chute de l'Empire Jaune dont l'explosion de Lhassa est redessinée, puis montre la fuite d'Olrik de la ville en ruine vers l'Indochine. En 2021, les mêmes auteurs publient Le Dernier Espadon, qui évoque notamment le démantèlement de la base secrète et ce qu'il advient des derniers Espadons encore en état de fonctionnement.

Basam Damdu et ses généraux ont été téléportés vers le futur durant l'explosion dans l'album L'étrange Rendez-vous de Jean Van Hamme et Ted Benoit en 2001, et Olrik les cherche en vain avant sa fuite.

Adaptations
Dans les années 1950, Le Secret de l'Espadon est adapté en feuilleton radiophonique repris par la suite en vinyle, en cassette audio et en CD. Avec Pierre Chambon (le Récitant), Jean Servais (Olrik), Bruno Cremer (Mortimer), Henri Guisol (Blake) et Henri Virlojeux (Nasir), et aussi Maurice Barnay, Raymond Jourdan, Alain Mottet, Victor Villien.

En 1997, l'aventure est adaptée en dessin animé par Éric Rondeaux comme épisode de la série d'animation Blake et Mortimer. Il est diffusé le .

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 .

Article connexe
 Blake et Mortimer
 Le Bâton de Plutarque, préquel
 Péril jaune

Liens externes
 Le Secret de l'Espadon 1 sur blakeetmortimer.com
 Le Secret de l'Espadon 2 sur blakeetmortimer.com
 Le Secret de l'Espadon 3 sur blakeetmortimer.com
 Les planches originales parues dans le Journal de Tintin à partir de 1946, 1 partie
 Les planches originales parues dans le Journal de Tintin à partir de 1946, 2 partie

Album de Blake et Mortimer
Album de bande dessinée sorti en 1950
Album de bande dessinée sorti en 1953
Album de bande dessinée de science-fiction
Guerre dans la bande dessinée
Bande dessinée mettant en scène l'arme nucléaire
Bande dessinée se déroulant au Tibet
Bande dessinée se déroulant en Angleterre
Bande dessinée se déroulant à Londres
Bande dessinée se déroulant en Turquie
Bande dessinée se déroulant en Iran
Bande dessinée se déroulant au Pakistan
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"You now can get 14 years for a lot of supposed cannabis crimes. I thought it was going to go in the other direction, like from six years down to three or maybe no jail time and a fine, but, no it's going up. And there's a lot of crimes that weren't crimes before. If your neighbor sees your weed—even if it's legal weed—if they see it through your window or through your fence, you can go to jail for three months and six months, the second time, and so on." – Daron Rutter, cannabis activist (Photography by Georgia Love for Herb)
"Honestly, we started this protest five years ago. We had 500 plants and our goal was to grow for medical patients for free. We gave away 6500 clones in a matter of 21 days, we were here 24/7, every single day for that period. The cops came at the end of those 21 days. They took all of our tents, all of our tables, all of our cannabis, everything that we could possibly imagine except for the plants. When they went for the plants, eight of us stood against 17 cops and 14 city workers and we told them if they touched the plants, we'd fight them in court and they'd have to make arrests. And they left that day. Twenty-six days later they gassed our plants—they called them 'produce that went bad.' So we traveled the city, we went everywhere we possibly could. When we came back here, we came back here with protestors. We came back here with supporters and we made Robson Square a free market space for about a year. That was seven months ago. Seven months ago, we got raided here, $4000 and 20 pounds of pot were taken off the block." – Dillon McArdle, cannabis activist (Photography by Georgia Love for Herb)
"This is a safe use zone, anyone who wants to come and smoke weed here, come and smoke weed here. We'll fight for you like we'll fight for us." – Dillon McArdle, cannabis activist (Photography by Georgia Love for Herb)
"When I was 14, I was playing hockey and I had a concussion, broke a few bones. My arm, my rib cage, and a fractured knee. I started using cannabis to cope with the pain. From the age of 14 till I was 19, I was arrested at least four times a year for possession of marijuana." – Chris Reekie aka. Kid Cannabis, cannabis activist. (Photography by Georgia Love for Herb)
"My brother's been in for about six months. He has at least a year left. He was caught with two pounds of marijuana and also a bunch of edibles which he made for himself and he was charged with the trafficking of cannabis." – Chris Reekie aka. Kid Cannabis, cannabis activist. (Photography by Georgia Love for Herb)
"There appears to be a corporate, monopoly takeover on the part of the government of the cannabis industry, culture, and the plant itself. People have wanted an end to prohibition since the 70s and a repeal of bad laws so nobody is going to jail for smoking cannabis, but now we have even worse prohibition than we had before, ironically." – MediKatie, cannabis activist (Photography by Georgia Love for Herb)
"I predicted that they weren't going to be offering amnesty for prior crimes and that's basically the case. The amnesty is so small, it's for petty crimes, 30 grams and under, which since the 90s shouldn't have been crimes at all. Basically we're getting too little, too late." – MediKatie, cannabis activist (Photography by Georgia Love for Herb)
Written by Georgia Love