The rallies and claims of the '70s in Argentina were not heard during those years. The community itself suffered a second genocide at the hands of the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. The parallels between the two genocides were a turning point in the struggle of the Armenian community, and it is to this day that both genocides are being studied in Argentine schools (both Armenian community and state schools). The Argentine dictatorship ended up with an estimated of 30,000 "desaparecidos," victims of forced disappearance, some of which were of Armenian origin. A recent parallel between the two stories was the message left by Pope Francis in the Book of Honorary Guests of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute during his visit to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial on June 25, 2016. Pope Francis used the words "never again," the concept used by the victims of the Argentine dictatorship to look for justice.
Law 26,199 served as a basis of the sentence of the federal judge Norberto Oyarbide in 2011, after a lawsuit initiated by lawyer Gregorio Hairabedian and co-sponsored by the Argentine-Armenian community institutions, which stated that "the Turkish State has committed the crime of Genocide." This achieved something unprecedented in the world, which is that the three branches of the Argentine state now recognize the Armenian Genocide: Executive, Legislative and Judicial Powers.
In addition, one of the articles of the law invites all Argentine provinces to "adhere" to it, which led to the majority of provincial parliament's passing their own recognition laws adhering to the national one. In most cases, this has repercussions on the regional press and statements by politicians from all over the country.
The law also served as a base for a project of the Ministry of Education of Argentina which published in 2015 a textbook titled "Armenian Genocide. Questions, answers and proposals for education," a teaching material produced in conjunction with the Armenian National Committee of South America that was distributed in Argentine schools so that the teachers have a modern and reliable material to tell the history of the Armenian Genocide.


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This article is the second in a two-part series addressing the constitutional implications of acquisition-value real property taxation. This Article addresses constitutional issues raised by systems of real property taxation that base a property owner's tax assessment not on the current value of the property but on its value on the date the taxpayer acquired it. The first Article in this series described the operation of acquisition-value systems of real property taxation such as those adopted by California in 1978 and Florida in 1992, and evaluated the equal protection challenges to the California system ("Proposition 13") which culminated in the United States Supreme Court's 1992 decision upholding Proposition 13 in Nordlinger v. Hahn. Although the Nordlinger majority determined that California's version of acquisition-value taxation satisfied the minimum scrutiny standard of equal protection review generally applied to schemes of taxation and economic regulation, that decision did not resolve all of the constitutional questions surrounding the tax disparities created by acquisition-value taxation. This Article therefore continues the analysis by evaluating acquisition-value taxation in light of two other constitutional doctrines. First, this Article examines the impact of these tax disparities on persons seeking to exercise their constitutional right to travel. Second, the Article addresses the burdens such tax systems impose on interstate commerce. If acquisition-value taxation indeed burdens travel or interstate commerce, its constitutionality should be evaluated under the stricter scrutiny that applies to interference with those protected interests.
1994 Utah L. Rev. 1027 (1994).
LaFrance, Mary, "Constitutional Implications of Acquisition-Value Real Property Taxation: Assessing the Burdens on Travel and Commerce" (1994). Scholarly Works. 433.


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A type of generalized seizure usually seen in children, characterized by staring, accompanied by a 3 per second spike and wave pattern on the electroencephalograph. These seizures respond well to medication and most children outgrow them.
A medication used in prevention of the occurrence of seizures or to stop an ongoing series of seizures.
Known as "Drop Attack", a type of seizure that causes the body to suddenly fall by losing muscle tone. May cause injuries of the face and head.
Involuntary movements which accompany seizures, such as chewing, fumbling at a button or pulling on clothes. Can occur in generalized or partial seizures.
A warning that a seizure may begin, often described as a "funny feeling". Some auras may be a small seizure that may develop into a larger seizure, or disappear.
An epileptic seizure characterized by rhythmic or semirhythmic contractions of a group of muscles. The arms, neck, and facial muscles are most commonly involved.
A seizure that begins in a specific location in the brain and alters consciousness, causing confusion.
A CAT or CT scan. This type of x-ray uses a computer to assemble multiple images, producing a detailed picture of the skull and brain.
A medical facility consisting of an epilepsy clinic and epilepsy monitoring unit staffed by neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neuropsychologists, technologists, a clinical coordinator, and a social worker specially trained to help people with epilepsy. An epilepsy center also employs sophisticated technology such as magnetic resonance imaging, single photon emission computerized tomography, and positron emission tomography scans.
A seizure characterized by stiffening of the body, jerking, and sometimes excess salivation (foaming at the mouth), loss of urine control, and sometimes followed by a period of confusion.
Presumed to be nongenetic, but cause unidentified.
a small metal contact attached to a wire designed to record brain waves from the scalp or inside the brain.
A tracing of brain waves, used to search for epileptic spikes and abnormal rhythms.
A neurological condition that intermittently produces brief disturbances in the normal electrical functions of the brain, called seizures.
The site in the brain where a seizure begins.
A neurologist with special training who treats patients with epilepsy.
A seizure that affects both hemispheres of the brain.
A type of epilepsy surgery in which one of the hemispheres of the brain is removed or disconnected. Can be extremely helpful in controlling seizures in appropriate patients.
Unidentified cause, but presumed to be genetic in origin.
Refers to seizures that cannot be stopped by medication.
Is a rare and often debilitating form of childhood-onset Epilepsy. The syndrome is characterized by a triad of signs including multiple seizure types, moderate to severe cognitive impairment, and an abnormal EEG with slow spike-wave complexes. This triad of mixed seizures, abnormal EEG and intellectual impairment represents one of the most difficult forms of Epilepsy to treat. LGS is also a physically dangerous epilepsy syndrome of childhood because of the frequent falls, injuries, and cognitive impairment that can severely limit quality of life.
A scan that uses a powerful magnet instead of x-rays to form an extremely detailed image of the brain.
An inflammation of the covering of the brain.
Characterized by sudden muscle jerks, often confined to one or more limbs; there may be single or several jerks. May occur while falling asleep or within a short time of waking up.
A sudden, very brief muscle jerk of the body. Can be seen in a number of different epilepsy syndromes.
A doctor who is skilled at diagnosing and treating diseases related to the nervous system.
A nerve cell. Billions of neurons interact to make up a working brain. Epileptic discharges are produced when groups of neurons misfire.
A substance that sends nerve impulses across a synapse.
A seizure that begins in a specific location in the brain, such as the temporal lobe.
An inactive substance sometimes used as a basis for comparison when new drugs are tested.
A scan that uses an injection or radioactive tracer to measure brain metabolism in an effort to locate the seizure focus. Often part of the evaluation before seizure surgery.Postictal: the period immediately after a seizure.
Clinically resemble epileptic seizures but without epileptic discharges from the brain. Also called psychogenic or nonepileptic seizures, most often caused by severe psychosocial stress.
A sudden change in behavior or momentary disruption of the senses, to short periods of unconsciousness or staring spells, to muscle jerks or convulsions. Some people may experience more than one type.
A seizure that begins in a specific location in the brain but does not alter consciousness. It may produce abnormal sensation, such as an unpleasant smell, or a motor movement, such as jerking of the arm.
A scan that uses an injection of a radioactive tracer to measure blood flow in the brain. Typically two SPECT scans are done, one during a seizure and one in between seizures. SPECT scans can help identify a seizure focus in preparation for surgery.
A characteristic finding on the electroencephalograph in patients with epilepsy. A spike is the result of an abnormal synchronized electrical discharge in a population of neurons.
Secondary to a previous CNS injury such as head trauma, stroke or infection; cause can be identified.
The place at which a nerve impulse passes from one neuron to another.
Continuous monitoring of the electroencephalogram, often with video.
A part of the brain important in memory and controlling speech. Often the site of the epileptic focus.
The range of drug levels within which most patients will experience significant therapeutic effect without an undesirable degree of adverse reactions. It is only a guide. Often patients require more or less medication to control their seizures than suggested by the therapeutic range listed on the laboratory report.
This type of seizure causes loss of consciousness, the body to stiffen, and then often the person will fall to the ground. This is followed by jerking movements. There may be changes in blood pressure, increased saliva and loss of bladder control.
This type of seizure causes a person's body to stiffen, because all the body's muscles contract. The person may sound like they are crying out as air is pushed out of their lungs and they may lose control of their bladder or bowels.
A device designed to control seizures, similar to a cardiac pacemaker, but with the electrode attached to the vagus nerve in the neck.


Khaaaan!!!! A strong blaaaast from the paaaast!!!!
I remember watching this movie in theaters. It really was, at the time, a movie that needed to be watched on the silver screen. I enjoyed this movie as much as I enjoyed the first one. You can read my review here. So, if you enjoyed the first one there is a huge probability you've watched this movie also.
We follow Captain Kirk as he goes up against an old enemy that fans will immediately recognize, Kahn. We learn early on that Khan is vastly superior in every way to us humans and can use his own blood to bring the dead back to life. This brief display was probably aimed more at the new fans, so they have a high-level understanding of Khan. Especially when Kirk tried to punch him and fails to even bruise his skin.
Acting was on par with the first film with all characters falling into perfect harmony like I explained in my first review. The cast still deserves the credit for truly bringing back the feeling of watching the original characters. I saw more of Scotty in Simon Pegg which is a great improvement. Benedict Cumberbatch also did a fantastic job as Khan. His hair could have been a but longer but hey, beggars can't be choosers. I also noticed that, after watching it a second time, that the man in the beginning is the same actor who played in Dr. Who as Ricky and Mickey Smith, Noel Clarke.
I still can't see Sulu and Uhura being that active but since it is an 'alternate reality' anything is possible, so I probably need to give them more time. I do understand the original actor who played Uhura was an important character at the time of the original series and a role model for many.
I will say that the acting didn't get my emotions going but the imagery and music once again did its job flawlessly. I found myself getting that tingling feeling with imaged of the Enterprise falling from the sky versus the crew doing their jobs. Maybe that is because I am a very imaginative person and I like the imagery. Speaking of imagery, as I watched the movie for the second time, I noticed a lot of things I didn't originally pickup on in theater. You can spot a model of the new starship in the admiral's office and you can pickup on a few things through conversation. You may not put all those pieces together the first time you watch the movie, but the second time will have you shouting, "how did I miss that!" Well you might not actually shout it out loud. I always get so caught in the story and visuals that I miss some things too.
The purpose of Khan's mission is to save the remnants of his people which has always been his mission even in the original series. This time he has been used by the Federation which is what triggers his one-man war. I did learn while watching on Prime Video that J. J. Abrams used the alternate reality as a ploy to be able to pull from the different series and create new adventures. Too bad I realized that on my own before reading about it but still cool none the less.
Anyway, Khan is eventually subdued by Spock, who seems to be the only person to fight him and do some sort of damage to him. Given he did survive a crash landing of a starship which not to mention had to have killed many people which is not even mentioned. Yet the manhunt started after forty something people died in an explosion. Time is also not kept in check since everything seems to happen in a matter of days. I am starting to realize this is also prevalent in a lot of original episodes. I may have originally said otherwise.
In the end, I give this movie a four out of five-star rating. The acting was pretty good, and the visuals were on par with the first film. It is unusual that a sequel can deliver on the level that this one was able to do. It has its flaws, but it still delivers. If you haven't seen I would add it to your watch list.


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## Overview

This is a work-in-progress app for my music class MUSI2960, known as "African Drumming." Our job is to use any creative talent to make something special that is relevant to African drumming, so I figured an app where you could drum on some different kinds of drums would be a great way to demonstrate our creativity.

## Team & Project

I (Adam Suskin) am in charge of making the app. Aakash Patel has taken some pictures and created designs that will be used in the app. Then, Blake Kaplan and Josh Kalter are going to make a video about people on the street using the app (after it is published).

## License

MIT. Creative Commons. Just do not reproduce commercially.

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2021 Toyota HiLux Rogue and Rugged-X prices increase by $13,000
Joshua Dowling
National Motoring Editor
The updated Toyota HiLux Rugged-X and Rogue flagship models will cost between $73,000 and $77,500 drive-away when they go on sale in November.
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Flagship versions of the 2021 Toyota HiLux range will cost more than many luxury cars, ranging between $73,000 and $77,000 – a significant 20 per cent increase on previous drive-away prices.
Leaked drive-away offers for the 2021 Toyota HiLux Rugged-X and Toyota HiLux Rogue reveal Toyota's recent round of price rises show no signs of abating.
Less than a month after Australia's biggest car maker increased the price of its most affordable model, the Yaris hatch, by more than $9000 – vacating the sub-$20,000 segment – it has issued another substantial price hike on its biggest-selling model.
Prices for the 2021 Toyota HiLux Rogue and Toyota HiLux Rugged-X were accidentally published online late last week – and have since been taken down.
UPDATE: Since this story was originally published, the recommended retail prices have been confirmed by Toyota Australia ($69,990 plus on-road costs for the Rugged-X and $68,990 plus on-road costs for the Rogue). Both vehicles are due in Australian showrooms and "formally on sale" in late November.
The drive-away price shown for the 2021 Toyota HiLux Rugged-X in NSW was $75,962. Until four months ago the Rugged-X was available for a long-standing drive-away price of $62,990. This represents a price rise just shy of $13,000.
However, in West Australia – where stamp duty and other fees are higher – customers will pay $77,485 drive-away, a hike of $14,495.
The 2021 Toyota HiLux Rogue – which now comes with a power-operated roller shutter hardlid and retains its marine-grade carpet lining in the ute tub – was advertised for $74,932 drive-away before the price was taken down. Until four months ago the Rogue was available for a long-standing drive-away price of $61,990.
Even regular models in the updated 2021 Toyota HiLux range came in for a significant price rise when they were released two months ago.
The updated Toyota HiLux gains a suspension overhaul, more power and torque (to 150kW/500Nm), Apple Car Play, Android Auto, volume and tuning dials, and a digital speed display. The Rugged-X and Rogue will also get JBL premium audio.
It is unlikely these changes alone amount to a 20 per cent price rise. Toyota and other manufacturers have attributed recent price rises to currency exchange rate pressure and increased levels of standard equipment on new or updated models.
However, a shortage in supply and an unexpected increase in demand have also pushed up prices.
Most car factories have been slow to ramp up after shutdowns during the coronavirus crisis, and demand has been stronger than expected as many consumers have decided to treat themselves to a new car rather than an overseas holiday.
It means after half a decade of record low prices, Australians are now obliged to pay top dollar – until demand wanes or dealers once again become overstocked.
During a recent press conference, the head of sales and marketing at Toyota Australia, Sean Hanley, was asked when HiLux pricing would "come back to earth" and get closer to its long-standing drive-away offers over the past two years.
Mr Hanley said: "In terms of pricing, I believe that car offers sensational value for money. Based on the (three or four weeks) that the car has been in the market, based on the demand we're seeing, I also believe the market is seeing the value in that car. It's a significant improvement to the previous model … so I would contest that the pricing of that car in the market right now is in fact offering good value."
While the popular Toyota HiLux SR5 double cab automatic four-wheel-drive had been available from $53,990 drive-away for much of the past two years, it didn't limbo to that level until early 2018 – two-and-a-half years after the current generation was released in October 2015.
Industry insiders believe the next possibility for a sharp Toyota HiLux drive-away offer will be early next year, when the company looks to clear 2020-built models in the lead up to March 31, the end of the Japanese financial year.
Historically, Toyota and other Japanese car companies have a big push for the first three months of each calendar year, to meet internal sales and profit targets.
Meantime, as before, the Toyota HiLux Rugged-X and Rogue are produced in Thailand before additional parts are fitted locally, in Melbourne. That process is scheduled to commence on the new models in early October.
MORE: Toyota Rugged-X and Rogue in detail
MORE: Toyota HiLux designs that didn't make it
MORE: How the Toyota HiLux rates against new Isuzu D-Max, updated Ford Ranger
Video: Best ute 2020 comparison: Isuzu D-Max v Mazda BT-50 v Toyota HiLux v Ford Ranger v Mitsubishi Triton v Nissan Navara v VW Amarok vs LDV T60 Trailrider
Video: 2020 Toyota HiLux Rogue review
Video: 2021 Toyota Yaris gets five-star safety
VIDEO: Toyota GR Yaris review – Australian first drive
2021 Abarth 595 Scorpioneoro coming to Australia, due second half of 2021
2021 Mitsubishi Pajero Sport price and specs: Large SUV line-up simplified, hit with price rises
Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series: Is 1 August 2021 the launch date?
JobKeeper: Most local car companies unlikely to repay taxpayer handouts
2021 Honda Odyssey price and specs: Facelifted people mover scores new look, price rises up to $5000

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"When courage inspires a novelist" Victoria Hislop at TEDxThessaloniki
For novelist Victoria Hislop "courage" lies in the lives of every day people, whose stories act as the source of inspiration in her novels. Her stories either set in the island of Crete or in Granada are all connected by the common thread of courage, as exemplified by her heroes. In this talk Hislop unfolds the inspirational stories of courage behind her novels.
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About TEDx In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep …
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Victoria on "Book Club" with James Naughtie.
Victoria Hislop talks to James Naughtie and readers about her debut novel The Island, a fictional account of a real life leper colony, the island of Spinalonga, just off the coast of Crete. First published in 2005, The Island has now sold over a million copies.
To listen to the programme on BBC iPlayer, click here
Victoria says that when she first went to Spinalonga, as a curious tourist, she had no idea that leprosy still even existed in the 20th century. She thought it had been wiped out hundreds of years ago. Even today, around 500 new cases are diagnosed every year in India and South America.
Before writing novels Victoria was a successful travel journalist. On that first visit, her initial idea had been to write a piece for one of the Sunday newspapers, but after fifteen minutes wandering around the abandoned village on the island, she decided to tell the story in fiction instead.
The resulting novel tells the story of a family beset by two cases of leprosy in the 1930s and 50s, before the cure was found. In the 1930s, Eleni, a school teacher in the village opposite the leper colony, catches the disease, probably from a pupil. As the pair are exiled to Spinalonga, we see how her husband and two daughters cope in her absence, one of whom will also succumb to the disease some fifteen years later.
Victoria explores the shame and stigma of the disease through these characters and their lives and love affairs in a family saga stretching to present day London.
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Facebook Webchat
As many of you will know, the live webchat on Facebook as part of Richard and Judy's Summer Reads was marred by technical glitches. However, readers posted questions to the Facebook and these were forwarded to Victoria. As promised, Victoria Hislop has answered your questions. Read about The Thread, her writing, her experience of being a member of a book club, her love for Greece, and more. Thank you for your questions, and a huge thank you to Victoria for her answers.
Question 1: This is the second time that Richard and Judy have chosen one of your books for their Book Club. Can you describe how it felt to have been selected for a second time and how it differed from the first time?
Victoria: I was thrilled – it's a fantastic list too and I am very lucky to be included among such titles. I shall be taking them all on my own holiday (apart from my own – I'll definitely leave that one at home!).
Question 2: Did the book have an alternative title or was it always called The Thread?
Victoria: The title evolved – many of the women in the novel earn their living through "thread" of some kind – either as seamstresses or rug weavers – and it is the means by which they physically survive so it has huge importance for them. But at another level, as I was writing the novel, I saw how a single thread links all the events and chapters of modern Greek history – that one thing led to another as you might say – right up until the present day. We are all connected with our past.
Question 3: Clearly, you have a deep love and affection for Greece. Where has this come from?
Victoria: It began when I landed in Athens in 1976 and felt this amazing wall of warmth! I loved the heat and the dust, and my passion for the country (mainland and islands) has grown with the years. Now that I have so many friends there, a house, and speak the language, I feel very much at home there.
Question 4: I had little idea of the trouble in twentieth century Greece that you explored in The Thread. How did you go about researching the events in the book?
Victoria: Lots of reading, visiting museums, photo archives – but most of all wandering about in Thessaloniki and imagining what it would have been like to live there during such a turbulent period of history.
Question 5: Why the return to Greece in The Thread?
Victoria: Once I had read and learned about the huge exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in 1923, I realised that I wanted to follow the "story" and find out what the repercussions were for Greece (where it added 25% to Greece's overall population). It was a massive event in their history, with over a million refugees arriving within a few months without homes, money, families. That was the initial reason for writing another novel set there.
Question 6: Did the history of Greece call you to find and write the story of The Thread?
Victoria: Yes, that's a good way of putting it. I am learning new things about Greece all the time – and sometimes come across something so unexpected that I feel driven to write about it.
Question 7: I would love to know what inspires you to write so lovingly about Greece. As a Greek Cypriot, I know your books have touched many Greeks both in Cyprus, Greece and the UK. Do you have a connection to Greece?
Victoria: I have no "roots" in Greece – but I have a very emotional connection to the country. There is a strong sense when I get there of "coming home" – it's a really strange feeling but a nice one too, but there is no rational explanation for it. I'm not the first British person to love Greece so much – there have been plenty of Philhellenes before me! What's not to love? Greece is an incredibly beautiful country – the images of riot police and demonstrators has tarnished its image in the recent past – but its beauty is still there.
Question 8: With all the current troubles, do you think Greece is a good place to go on holiday at the moment?
Victoria: Yes, definitely. The "problems" do not really affect tourists – for anyone who cares for Greece, the kindest thing they can do is go there for a holiday. They will find taverna and hotel owners will welcome them with open arms. The blue sky, clear sea, wonderful food, landscapes, culture – are unchanged. Parts of Athens are down-at-heel, lots of graffiti and so on, but the islands are another world.
Question 9: I've read your other two books but not yet finished this one. I noticed that they all have a combination of past and present – how do you work on them structurally – do you write the threads separately?
Victoria: No, the past and present are very much linked together. The present day character is someone, almost like myself, who is listening to a story from the past. So I write my books in the order in which they are then read – first we meet the contemporary person and then we are led back to their family history.
Question 10:How do you get your ideas for your books? What inspires you?
Victoria: Ideas and inspiration come as a surprise – I am not actually looking for them. And once an idea grabs me I get rather obsessed with it. Mediterranean countries definitely inspire me – Greece and Spain for example are full of drama, so they are, for me, good starting places.
Question 11: Are you working on anything at the moment and, if so, what?
Victoria: I am just finishing a collection of short stories. I find them very exciting and interesting to write – lots of them are set in Greece (again) and some in England. They're fun to write too. I hope readers will like them.
Question 12: Have there been any discussions about turning any of your novels into films / TV adaptations?
Victoria: The Island was turned into a 26 part tv serial for Greek television. It was sensational – and three out of four people in Greece watched it! I was closely involved, from casting, script editing, sewing costumes to acting as an extra. So far, no definite approaches for The Thread, but I would love to see that being adapted for tv as well.
Question 13: When did you first want to begin writing fiction as a career?
Victoria: From the age of 15 when I did my o'level in English Language until 2001 (I think that was 25 years roughly), I did not write one creative sentence! I worked as a journalist for several years, but as soon as I went to Spinalonga (the island of my first novel's title), I knew that I had to write something that came from my imagination rather than my intellect – hence moving into fiction.
Question 14: How often and where do you like to write?
Victoria: I write most days. It feels very comfortable to be writing. I move about – that's the beauty of a lap top, you can take it anywhere – I haven't had a big computer for years. Sometimes I write in a library, sometimes at home, lots when I am travelling/researching.
Question 15: Your books are excellent book club choices. Have you ever been part of a book club yourself, and which books would you recommend for book clubs to read and enjoy?
Victoria: Thanks! Yes, I was part of a thriving book club in Wandsworth when we lived in London and also in Kent when we moved there. I read so many books that I would otherwise never have discovered – it's great to read something that is not necessarily your own choice, but it stretches you and often surprises too. There are so many possible recommendations – I remember when we read "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham, it provoked hours of discussion. As did "The English" by Jeremy Paxman – tremendous – particularly if you have book club members from other countries.
Question 16: If you were going on holiday, what would be your perfect read?
Victoria: I always look for books that fit the landscape where I am going to be. I couldn't read Dickens or Jane Austen in a hot place – I think books could have "visas" – and Dickens and Austen would feel so out of place themselves in Greece for example. Louis de Bernieres and Kazantzakis are good for me, when I am in Greece (where I will be going on holiday this year!).
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"The Thread" is published on October 27
Victoria Hislop's new novel, "The Thread", is published by Headline books on October 27.
Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city, where Christians, Jews and Moslems live side by side. It is the first of many catastrophic events that will change for ever this city, as war, fear and persecution begin to divide its people. Five years later, young Katerina escapes to Greece when her home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army. Losing her mother in the chaos, she finds herself on a boat to an unknown destination. From that day the lives of Dimitri and Katerina become entwined, with each other and with the story of the city itself.
Thessaloniki, 2007. A young Anglo-Greek hears the life story of his grandparents for the first time and realises he has a decision to make. For many decades, they have looked after the memories and treasures of people who have been forcibly driven from their beloved city. Should he become their new custodian? Should he stay or should he go?
For more information on 'The Thread' and the troubled history of Thessaloniki, click here.
"'The Thread' is a more ambitious novel than her previous books, more expansive in its sweep of history, more controversial in its political stance. Her many, many fans will be delighted with what is her best novel yet." The Scotsman (full review)
"Hislop … is very good at interweaving the lives of individuals into the backcloth of great events… this is a writer of laudably high ambition and it would only take a small nudge to move her to a whole new level. Recommended" Daily Mail (full review)
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All novels which use history as a backdrop require and deserve diligent research into the world the writer hopes to portray. These are some of the books I read during my research for 'The Thread'. In addition to these, there are others in the London Library, in the Modern Greek History section as well as in the Embroidery section:
Concise History of Greece – Richard Clogg
Hellas – Nikolaos Gatzogiannis
Remember Greece – Dilys Powell
The Colossus of Maroussi – Henry Miller
The Hill of Kronos – Peter Levi
92 Archanon Street – John Lucas
Greek Fire – Nicholas Gage
Salonica, City of Ghosts – Mazower
Chronicle of the Big Fire – Yerolympos
Farewell to Salonika – Leon Sciaky
Twice a Stranger – Bruce Clark
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe – Renee Hirshon
Population Exchange and Rural Settlement of Refugees – Kontogiorgi
The Unmixing of Turks and Greeks – Nansen Memorial Lecture – Huntford
Crossing the Aegean – edited by Renee Hirshon
I was sent to Athens – Morgenthau
Smyrna: The Destruction of a City – Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
Paradise Lost, Smyrna 1922 – Giles Milton
The Balkan Exchange of Minorities – Dimitri Pentzopoulos
Greece and the Greek Refugees – Eddy
Beyond the Aegean – Elia Kazan
Christ Recrucified – Kazantzakis
Motherland – Dmetri Kakmi
Not Even My Name – Thea Halo
Farewell Anatolia – Dido Sotiriou
The Mermaid Madonna – Stratis Myrivilis
Secrets of the Bosphorous – Morgenthau
The Jewish Community of Salonika – Bea Lewcowicz
The Illusion of Safety – Michael Matsas
From Thessaloniki to Auschwitz and Back – Kounio Amariglio
The Holocaust in Salonica: Eyewitness Accounts – Ed. Steve Bowman
Greece – A Jewish History – Fleming
Road to Rembetika – Gail Holst
The House by the Sea – Fromer
The Origins of the Greek Civil War – Close
Greek Civil War – O'Ballance
Becoming a Subject: Political Prisoners – Polymeris Voglis
After the War was Over – Ed. Mark Mazower
Eleni – Nicholas Gage
Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries – ed. Goldberg
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My Travels (Guardian, 21 May 2011)
Victoria Hislop visits a former leper colony off Crete
I met Manoli Foundoulakis on 20 January 2007, in a hotel in Crete. It was at exactly six o'clock in the evening. His punctuality was only one of the many differences between Manoli and every other Greek I had ever encountered. We met because I had written a novel set on Spinalonga, a small island off Crete, which was a leper colony from 1903 until 1957, and Manoli had been asked to write a foreword to the Greek edition. He was a former leprosy sufferer, and still lived in the village opposite the island.
When I wrote The Island, my complete lack of Greek meant that I had not been able to do any research about the people who had lived on Spinalonga. Everything about the island itself, the patients and the doctors came from my imagination as I sat at my desk back in England. Indeed, Manoli was the first European with leprosy that I had ever met. I had always maintained a firm conviction that those who suffered from this disease would be as funny, clever, charming and wise as anyone else. Why would they not? And in Manoli, I saw how close to the truth my instinct had taken me.
When he emerged from the shadows of the hotel foyer to shake my hand, I was shocked. This was not because of the way he looked as, in spite of the very obvious damage that had been done to his face by the disease, Manoli was still a handsome man. It was more the feeling that a character in my novel had come to life.
I was anxious that Manoli might be critical of the assumptions I had made about the lives of people with leprosy. Instead he thanked me for lifting the stigma that had blighted his life for so many years. However, at that first meeting, someone had to translate every sentence we spoke to each other. I decided there and then that I would find time to learn Greek in order to talk to Manoli. I began my lessons in London shortly afterwards and gradually realised my ambition. (read more)
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Private Passions (interview with The Scotsman)
Victoria talks to Jackie McGlone about "The Return" keeping secrets, and researching her third novel…
"VICTORIA HISLOP certainly knows HOW to keep a secret. No mean feat, considering she's married to a man who has made it his business to uncover cracking news stories about the great and good doing bad things which they would prefer to remain hidden.The wife of the more famous Ian, editor of Private Eye and panellist on the popular BBC1 show Have I Got News For You, Hislop admits: "I am rather good at keeping secrets, especially from Ian."
Indeed, she's currently ferreting away all sorts of things from her nosy husband, including the small library of books she's reading to research her third novel.
The other evening she was propped up in bed tapping away on her laptop, when Ian sidled up behind her and tried to read the words on her screen. "I slammed the lid shut," laughs Hislop, a glossy-haired, slender woman on the cusp of 50, dressed in figure-revealing black, with high-heeled suede boots adding inches.
"He does try to sneak up on me when I'm writing, but I'm paranoid about talking about my work, so I've told him he'll know where my next book is set when he gets the postcard from wherever it is that I'm planning to set it. I never show Ian my books until they are finished. He doesn't say much about them, in any case. My daughter, who is 18, says she has my book by her bed, which means it's waiting in the pile to be read. My 15-year-old son, however, has read my new book, The Return. He sent me a text saying, 'Amazing, mum!' It's the best compliment I've ever had. I treasure it."
"All I'll tell you about the new book, though, is it is set somewhere hot. Erm, yes, it's a Mediterranean country. And, ummm, aahh …" she hesitates. "… Err, secrets will be unravelled." So far so formulaic, then. For torrid climates and ancient secrets are the currency of the bestselling novelist's success. With a little help from Richard and Judy, when it was selected as their Summer Read of 2006, her first novel. The Island, sold more than a million copies, earning her an estimated £500,000. Her second, The Return, has just soared to the top of the paperback charts toppling mega-selling thriller writer, Lee Child, from the number one slot.
Both The Island and The Return tell of the uncovering of old family secrets. The first is a multi-generational narrative set in a former leper colony on Spinalonga, a Greek island off Crete, which Hislop and her family discovered when they were holidaying there. Her husband hates sitting on a beach, preferring to explore new places. The Return takes place in Granada and revisits the bloody conflict of the Spanish Civil War, which tore the country, and many loving families, apart.
Her books are unashamed beach reads – she jokes about being called "Queen of the Beach Read" – although Hislop has, in fact, single-handedly reinvented the holiday blockbuster, with her ambitious take on big historical events, reminding readers of the tragic past of the lands they now visit courtesy of easyJet. Indeed, thousands this summer will read The Return while sunning themselves on Spanish beaches and learn some unpalatable truths about their holiday destination, noted one reviewer.
Formerly a travel writer, Hislop has certainly smartened up the genre. "A beach book with heart," claimed the Observer of The Island, which is currently being filmed as a 25-part serial for Greek television, but with the addition of some steamy sex scenes which aren't actually in the book.
Incidentally, that critic might have added that The Island is also a book "with brains", for Hislop's books are for thinking sun-worshippers, even if they do include those blockbuster staples: adultery, murder, love and passion triumphing against great odds.
The Return is every bit as gripping as The Island, and is impossible to read without a box of Kleenex by your side. It tells of Sonia Cameron, who is unhappily married to a "dusty" husband, with a serious drink problem. Oblivious to the past, she travels to Moorish Granada, with a wild-child girlfriend, in search of escape and salsa lessons.
Through dance she discovers a new lease of life. By chance, she also meets an elderly cafe proprietor, who recounts – in a riveting third-person narrative that makes up the best part of the novel – the story of the death of the great Spanish poet, Lorca, and of the Ramirez family.
His moving tale follows the family's misfortunes during the Spanish Civil War, telling how the battle of memory against forgetting is still being fought on all fronts.
"In the wake of the military coup led by General Franco, in 1936, the three-year civil war devastated the country," says Hislop, adding that many Scots made a notable contribution, fighting for the Republican cause, and her book is unashamedly biased anyway, since it's written from the Left-wing perspective of the war. "When I read from the book in England at author events, I always have to explain the context. People in Scotland never need that. They ask such intelligent questions and they always tell me things I never knew," she says.
Half a million people died in the conflict and an equal number went into exile. After 1939, hundreds of thousands of Republicans still languished in prison and many faced the firing squad and burial in unmarked graves.
Those who had fought against Franco experienced years of repression and even when the fascist dictator died in 1975, many people in Spain still remained silent about their experiences. The friend with whom Hislop stayed in Granada while researching her novel refused point blank to discuss the past with her. It troubles her that she has been unable to find out why the shutters came down when she mentioned that she would be writing a novel about the civil war.
"Why, why do you want to write about it? It's got nothing to do with you," her friend said, then refused to talk about it to her.
"Of course that made me even more interested as I am sure he has a family story to tell," she says, pointing out that, as holidaymakers, many of us might even have been lying by the sea in Benidorm, say, while elsewhere, people were still being executed in the mid-1970s.
"There was, in effect, a "pacto de olvido", a pact of forgetting," says Hislop, when we meet over morning coffee in the cafe of a Tunbridge Wells department store – the Hislops and their children live in the nearby village of Sissinghurst. She's on her way to a book signing, otherwise we would have met at the family home. A wattle-and-daub house, it is 500-years-old and apparently, it's a miracle it's still standing.
Carefully stirring her coffee, she notes that many people who fought on the Left were unable to publish anything about it. Now, almost 70 years since the civil war ended, that pact has finally been broken. And that, believes Hislop, is a cause for celebration, despite the revisionist historians on the Right who still insist that the repression of the Left is a myth. "Many people have not told of course, people like my friend clearly still have secrets they do not wish to reveal."
A warm, lively conversationalist, she is no stranger to long-buried secrets herself and it's tempting to play the amateur psychologist and suggest that this is why she writes so well about such matters since they echo her own past.
BORN Victoria Hamson, in Kent, her childhood was difficult, unconventional and sometimes unhappy. Her father drank too much – which explains the accuracy with which she writes about Sonia's alcoholic husband in The Return – and often directed his unreasonable anger towards Victoria. "I have no idea why this was," she sighs.
"I felt he neither loved nor liked me very much. It hurt terribly. I really don't know why I annoyed him as I worked very hard at school and tried to make him proud of me. Now I'll never know, because he died several years ago. He wasn't like that with my lovely sister, Anna, who is 18 months older than I am."
Now that she has children herself – Emily (18) and William (15) – she finds her father's behaviour even more inexplicable, especially since her husband is such a devoted father, despite the fact that their children are both so bright and eloquent neither he nor his wife can ever win an argument at home. "We always lose in the battle of words," she laughs.
Their father's televisual fame used to embarrass the siblings dreadfully when they were younger, she says. "It's a bit of a drag having a parent on the telly, I think. But Ian's famous because people like watching him and Paul Merton – who's become a real family friend – so we can't really complain."
When Hislop was 30, she discovered a secret that changed her perspective on life – her parents had had another daughter before she was born. One evening during an interval at the theatre – her father had by then remarried and had two younger children to whom she's now close – he referred in passing to having had five children. She knew of only four.
Was there some living, secret child, she wondered as she sat uneasily through the second act of the play, her emotions in turmoil, her mind reeling with shock. She was desperate to know more.
It emerged that her sister, Sonia, had died of an asthma attack at the age of three and that her brief life had been wiped from the family record. Her parents had put away all of her pictures and then they must have told everyone not to mention her, Hislop believes. "I knew nothing about her at all because there was no reference to her – ever. It just seemed so incredibly sad. But that was how they dealt with grief in the Fifties. There were no bereavement counsellors and people were not encouraged to grieve openly the way they are now."
No other family members went to Sonia's funeral, only her parents. The tragic story haunted Hislop and when she finally discussed it with her mother she understood that trying to forget was how things were done 50 years ago. That's what her parents attempted to do. "Now, I realise it must have been awful for them," she says.
There were more skeletons in the family cupboard, though. When her parents finally separated, she was in her teens. Her father had pretended he was leaving the family home because he'd been made redundant. For many years, Hislop believed he had moved to Warwickshire because he'd found a job there. In fact, he had a mistress and was dividing his time between two women, two homes and two families. Meanwhile, her mother was almost in penury and supported her two girls by taking a job as a cook and maitresse d' in a restaurant. Hislop's abiding memory is of her mother cycling off in a long skirt in the evenings to work, but she was always there with tea and home-made cakes when Victoria and Anna came home from school. "She was so loving, so very maternal!" she says.
These are memories she treasures because she's always had a wonderful relationship with her mother, who is now in her eighties and lives close by in Tunbridge Wells.
Hislop was a student at Oxford University – where she and Ian met and fell in love, "a whirlwind romance" that culminated in their marriage eight years later – when her father finally confessed to his long-running affair. She met her stepmother Cherry, whom she likes very much, and two half-siblings, Rose and Jack, both now in their twenties, and immediately liked them, too. "They are beautiful children," she says, adding that she adores her second family.
Pausing to sweep up the crumbs of her toast, Hislop says: "You know, all families have secrets." Perhaps some have more secrets than others? For instance, her mother has told her how her grandmother, who lived with them when she was a child, had grown up in a mental institution run by her father. One of her sisters had an affair with an inmate, which produced an illegitimate daughter who was adopted. Later, the great-aunt married another patient, a bigamist, who claimed to be a lord.
All of this was so shaming at the time it had been swept under the carpet for years, adds Hislop, who, having been a journalist, is imbued with lively curiosity about her own family's clandestine past as well as that of others. "Everyone has a story to tell about their family secrets," she insists, gently quizzing me about mine.
Her own husband discovered his secret Scottish heritage when he took part in the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? and found that his grandfather was a soldier from Ayr, who helped free France in 1918, and that his great-great-great-grandfather was a crofter from Stornaway in Lewis. "He's terribly proud of his Scottish roots – he's entitled to wear the Matheson tartan," she says. And, not many people know this, he's a demon Scottish dancer, who can be found on Burns night in Tunbridge Wells doing a very merry Gay Gordons.
Meanwhile, his wife is passionate about Latin American dancing; Ian, unsurprisingly, is not "a salsa type".
Like the heroine of The Return, Hislop originally went to Granada to learn to dance because she wanted to write a novel about dance; then, like Sonia, she stumbled across stories about the civil war. "I love music and I love to dance. I even dance in my kitchen when I'm cooking.
"I don't like silence. To me both music and dance are more important than words," she confesses, adding that she also plays the violin, usually in duets. "It really is unlike anything else one does."
Before they moved to the country, she had started learning to dance in London. Then she discovered to her chagrin that there were no courses available in Tunbridge Wells. Such is the mania for dance in Britain today, though, that there's even a salsa class in her local village hall.
She will be salsaing again soon when she returns to Spain for the publication of the Spanish translation of The Return. The fiendishly difficult Gypsy art of flamenco is beyond her, however, she says, adding that she's also done a crash course in line dancing and belly dancing for a magazine feature. "Salsa is marvellously simple. I'm hooked on it.
"We even stay in on Saturday nights so that I don't miss Strictly Come Dancing when it's on."
Dancing makes her happy. Surely being married to the quick-witted Ian her life is full of laughs anyway?
"Ian is actually a very serious person," she replies. "Although he can be hysterically funny. He is domestically challenged and has been known to make cucumber sandwiches for the children using a courgette – a story I used in The Island, by the way. About twice a year, he prepares a meal but he does it in the manner of a TV chef – we all sit in the kitchen weeping with laughter, because he's so funny.
"He's not always amusing, though. That would be boring."


Art museums have a love affair with social media. In an era of selfies, hashtags, fleeting attention spans, digital dexterity and post/share/comment obsession, museums look more and more frequently to their social media managers as branded content gurus and media love gods.
Take the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the first major museum to join Snapchat back in 2014. The institution paired pop lyrics with images of old master paintings and historic artifacts, sharing them as "snap stories." Lasting up to 10 seconds, these shares appealed strongly to the attention-deficient digital generation, and won the LACMA a Webby Award from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
And then there's the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). In a major stroke of experiential advertising genius, the AIC brought its Van Gogh's Bedrooms exhibit to life—literally—by recreating the artist's bedroom in the Yellow House in Arles, France and installing it in a River North, Chicago apartment. The public was invited to log onto Facebook and reserve a night's stay via Airbnb, with two tickets to the show included.
The strategy worked—and then some. More than 433,620 people came to the show, making it the museum's most popular event in more than 15 years.
So, what can other museums or institutions do to capitalize on social media and engage a whole new generation of visitors—as well as reignite the imaginations of existing loyalists?
Here are a few of the easily implemented initiatives major museums have tested and approved.
Often ahead of the curve, the Pompidou in Paris ditched its "Do Not Touch" signage back in 2013, inviting visitors to take photos of themselves sitting on the lip-shaped sofa at the center of Salvador Dali's re-creation of Mae West's face.
Just this past August, Medici Museums created a social media-driven scavenger hunt for its tour of the Chicago History Museum's exhibit, Making Mainbocher: The First American Couturier, asking teams of participants to design and post their own high fashion concepts on Instagram.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston uses Snapchat to post weekly emoji art history lessons, essentially removing the high-brow from High Art and making its collection relevant to younger, more diverse audiences.
At the Denver Art Museum, visitors who upload photos of the museum on Flickr are given prime gallery space in a Flickr Cascade Installation. Best of all, the museum gives proper attribution to each photographer.
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York allows guest curators and artists to take over its Instagram account for a week, creating unique opportunities for collaboration and audience-engaging cross-promotion. "It's like being a good guest at a party—we want to contribute to a lively dialogue in a constantly changing landscape," explains MOMA's Chief Communications Officer, Kim Mitchell, in an interview with Museum Revolution.
Just like any artist, a museum is only limited by its imagination. Quirky, inventive, humorous—social media truly has become the art world's perfect partner.
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Q: Order of if statements? I wonder if the first if statement is True, whether are the following elif executed or not (even if they are also True) ?
I have tried:
if True:
    print "Hi"
elif True:
    print "hello"

And it prints only "Hi". But in a more complex part of my code, I see some print outputs displayed that are within some elif statements and I just basically switch the very first if to True so that none of the elif should be executed for testing purposes. So why are the print statement that are within the elif printed?
(code is too long to print here, I just wonder if it could be an answer without...)

A: An elif will only be entered if the condition matches and the previous condition does not:
>>> if x == True:
...     print 'hi'
... elif x == False:
...     print 'bye'
...
hi
>>> if x == True:
...     print 'hi'
... elif x == True:
...     print 'bye' #not entered because previous condition was valid
...
hi
>>>

A: In an [if, elif, else] blocks only the first block with the condition that  checks out will be executed.
but considering your situation I guess it needs more context to understand it fully, post part of the code you're testing or something with the same logic.

A: I'm not sure if I understand this correctly, but have you tried else?
if True:
  print "Hi"
else:
  print "Hello"

EDIT: Sorry, understood what you mean now..
I might be wrong, but "elif" means "else if"
So what you're basicly writing is like this:
If i have 5 apples, i put up a hand
else if i have 5 apples, i put up a leg.
using elif should however not be used at the end of a statement/code. If you aren't going to compare more than 2 statements, use 'if' and 'else'
But why should you have 2 'True'?

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Bob often wears khaki shorts, sandles, and a red T-shirt.
Bob Jones is considered by many as a quiet man who studied very hard at school and would be disappointed if he did not make all A grades in all his courses. The was perceived as many people saw his mother and how she took school extremely seriously and thought it was necessary to have all A's as it would mean that Bob would have worked hard during school and it would be easier to get a job. It was true that Bob was very diligent during school and was extremely analytical. Bob is great at analyzing. In many areas from fighting to even eating, he would try to figure out why anything is the way it is. He was often top of the class simply as he worked harder than anybody else in class. He did not hate school nor like school but he realized that he needed to get school done as fast and well as possible so life would be easier.
Bob has been able to keep this personality even though he has moved away from his home island in the North Blue. Bob left the island as he was disappointed that the economy essentially collapsed and the village fell into chaos. Bob was fortunate that he found an island that had no people in sight but he did see a weird looking fruit. He ate the fruit as quickly as possible. He did not mind the bad taste and thought the fact that the best medicine is bitter. Bob regretted eating the fruit because his stomach would not let him eat anything in 4 days in case he puked. He often will eat a few pounds a day as he is often very hungry and works very hard. He likes to act like everything is a competition and sometimes competes on things that most people would not. One of the many examples is the amount of play money he has ever bet in a fun poker game.
Bob is also a person who is great at lying. He was able to convince a pirate that he was going to join his crew. Bob thought that he would turn the pirate in and be able to get a huge pile of money doing this. This is how Bob decided to be a bounty hunter. Bob was so good at lying that he was able join pirate crews and kill the crews and cash in for millions of berries.
Bob was a person who fled home and never looked back. He decided that he would become a doctor at the marines. He took the training for a doctor. He always used his amazing study skills and was easily able to get the best grades in class. He worked hard to get a job as a doctor because it paid well and he liked helping people. He then was forced to quit when the teacher saw the palms of Bob's hand. Many of the marines have heard of a legendary pirate who had the same unique hand palms. The fact that they saw the palms and the same symbol of the bear paw was on the exact place the pirate had it on his hands caused a major uproar in the marines.
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Bob thought that maybe it would be a good idea to try hunting a more powerful pirate. Bob went after a pirate who had a bounty of 250 million. Bob thought that he would win and that he could be so rich that he would never need to work. Bob pursued the pirate. The first thing he saw was a huge number of ships. Bob then proceeded to repel air at high speed wrecking the ships. Bob thought that was easy but realized that the captain was not there. Bob then dropped a rope down from his boat to rescue a pirate crew member who was on one of the ships that sunk. Bob asked him where his captain was. The crew member was too scared to talk. Bob kept the crew member on the ship. Bob saw that it was night and decided that he and the pirate should sleep.
Bob and the pirate woke up when they saw sunrise. Bob thought asked the pirate if he had calmed down. The pirate said that his captain was very powerful and that Bob might not want to pursue him. Bob responded by saying that he does not care he wants to know where the captain is. The pirate crew member said that his captain was at Banero Island. Bob threw let the crew member take a life boat. Bob continued sailing.
Bob arrived at Banero Island. He looked around and in a large building in the village he heard a lot of noise. Bob looked and saw the pirate captain killing the villagers who got chased into a large building. Bob then felt a gun pressed against his head. Bob quickly repelled the guy who had the gun pointed at him and kicked the gun out of his hand. Bob then proceeded to shoot the guy with the gun until he stopped screaming. Bob then saw more of the dead man's comrades come along. Bob then proceeded to shoot the other comrades with the gun. As the seemingly endless amount of men came, Bob decided to shoot huge numbers of compressed air bullets to mow down the pirate crew. Bob then stopped fighting when he saw that there were no more men to fight. Bob then confronted the pirate captain.
The pirate captain was very angry that Bob killed his crew. The pirate captain then pulled a sword out an started swinging it. Bob was barely dodging the sword blows and one of them cut his hair. Bob then tried to repel a puff of air but the captain then attacked and Bob had to cancel the attack to dodge the sword swing. Bob then was running from the enraged pirate captain. The pirate captain then got distracted by a villager who was insulting him.
Bob took this chance to charge up and Ursus Shock and as the pirate captain turned around to attack Bob shot the Ursus Shock. The pirate captain then was almost knocked out. He then proceeded to attack even more fiercely as he was even more angry. Bob ran for his life but then as the pirate captain caught up. Bob then got hit by the captains sword. Bob was in so much pain that he collapsed. The pirate captain then was about to do the killing blow when Bob repelled a rock into the pirate captains face. Bob then used another Ursus Shock to kill the pirate captain.
Bob had a sigh of relief and then fainted. A local villager saw that Bob was badly injured and took him into his home. Bob woke up on the bed and was covered in bandages. Bob thought that he should spend a few days at this nice villager's home and rest. Bob then decided that being a bounty hunter was his calling in life.
Bob went back to the World Government Bank and paid off his loan. He then set sail.


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Half-brains and US-China war · 11 December 2016
Last week I conducted a survey asking: "What should Australia do if there is War between US and China?"
The most notable result came in response to the question: "What should be done with Chinese students (and other Chinese) in Australia in the event of a US-China hot war"?
Half of the respondents wanted them "expelled", "monitored very closely", or similar measures!
Bearing in mind the highly educated nature of the respondents to this survey, one can easily imagine that a great majority of the less educated general Australian population would be in favor of a much tougher approach. Life could become quite difficult for those Chinese in Australia. Expulsion, close monitoring, or maybe even internment?
I was prompted to do the survey by reported comments by Kim Beazley (former Leader of the Opposition and Australian Ambassador to the US) saying that in the event of US-China hot war, Australia would have "no alternative but to line up militarily beside the US".
Kyle Wilson, a former diplomat and analyst in the Office of National Assessments sent me an email describing my survey (and its questions) in the following way: "This is, frankly, an affront to anyone with half a brain."
Yet, as far as I can tell all of the people who responded to my survey have much more than "half a brain".
Thirteen of the 24 people who responded to my survey are (or were) professional economists, and some of these have (or have had) a high public profile in academia, business or government. Eight of the 24 work in academia, with 4 having the title of "professor". As far as I can tell, 5 of the 24 have substantial direct knowledge of China. Fourteen of the 24 are (as far as I can tell) presently involved in business or consulting.
Wilson's comments probably reflect a view of many people working in the diplomatic and national security area (such as Wilson and Beazley) that other people not directly involved in these activities are not capable of having and expressing sensible views because – like the people who responded to my survey and were not affronted – they have less than "half a brain"!
So, what did the 24 people (with less than "half a brain") say? The survey was done via Survey Monkey and sent to over 500 people, the majority of whom are my LinkedIn contacts.
Twenty of the 24 expressed the view that "China would see Australia as the 'enemy' for many decades" if "Australia supported the US in a war against China".
Fourteen expected that Australian would experience a "very severe recession lasting several years", while the remainder mostly expressed the view that it would depend on various circumstances.
Fourteen of the 24 said that Australia should not "join the US in any military action against China", 3 said it should, while the remainder said it would depend on the circumstances.
The survey also asked: "What should be done with Chinese students (and other Chinese) in Australia in the event of a US-China hot war"?
Two respondents said such Chinese should be "expelled", while 8 said "monitor them very closely". While another 8 said "nothing", other responses tended to say that it depended on circumstances and offered a variety of views.


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