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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

namespace Akavache.Tests
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Encrypted DateTime tests for the <see cref="Sqlite3.SQLiteEncryptedBlobCache"/> class.
    /// </summary>
    public class EncryptedSqliteBlobCacheDateTimeTests : DateTimeTestBase
    {
        /// <inheritdoc />
        protected override IBlobCache CreateBlobCache(string path)
        {
            return new BlockingDisposeBulkCache(new Akavache.Sqlite3.SQLiteEncryptedBlobCache(Path.Combine(path, "sqlite.db")));
        }
    }
}

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hi josh! I finally made it to LA! of course, I'm a little late, seeing as how you've already left. but I can still sense you've left your impression here in many ways. in fact, there's a guy in the same building as me who says he's friends with a girl named wendy who was also really good friends with you. he's got some of your tunes and he's also a musician, so I'm hoping to maybe work with him someday. I also want to let you know I'm becoming such a better person. I have been digging up all this renewed strength and confidence that I forgot I ever had! I feel this is the place for me right now, and I want to make an impression on this town just as you did! if anyone reads this is interested in showing me around town, please email me! I'd appreciate it!
The first time I heard Josh I was in Atlanta in the back seat of a noisy car. Under all the talking I could barely hear a track off INB, but knew I wanted to find it. I've had this moment before, where I'm half-way wanting the song to go on and on and half-way wanting the dj to come on and tell me who it is. At any rate, the song ended and under all the noise I heard "Josh Clayton Felt". I sat back there, repeated "Josh Clayton Felt Josh Clayton Felt Josh . . ." so I wouldn't forget it (before I could track down the cd!) I am so sorry he passed, his music is beautiful. Thank you Josh, you will continue to inspire me.
hi josh! just wanted to say hi. I've been going thru some rough times lately, and your music helps me keep my head facing the right way. it was just over a year ago since I last saw you. I remember looking forward to the future so much at that time, and hoping that I'd get to know you more and learn a lot more about music with your help. I was going thru some old photos the other day, and I ran across one of you and your jaguar. you had good taste in guitars! anyhow, I've been listening to beautiful nowhere a LOT! I can't believe I've had that for a year now...it just seems so new! maybe that's because you weren't around to talk to you about it and tell you how groovy it was. you told me you had a feeling I would like it, and you were so right. the song "right on time" has been in my mind a lot! those lyrics seem to fit my life quite a bit, so I just imagine you singing them to me and it helps me out! take care of yourself!
I'm so sorry to hear about the loss. Josh was very talented and loved. I am and will always be a fan.
I MISS you, Josh. Not a day goes by that you aren't on my mind. I just got back from New York and met one of your fans. We bonded over ...what else, but pancakes! It was very comforting to talk to someone who felt exactly the way I do about you. She loves you too! Who doesn't??! You touch more people than you can imagine. Keeping you close to my heart....I love you sweets.
Could anyone tell me how I can get a hold of Josh's song, Heaven (I think that's the name..."what good is heaven, when your in it alone" are some of the lyrics) Will it be on the new album?
Hey, I am so anxious for the new cd to come out. I just want it so much. Has anybody thought of a tribute cd of his older stuff? That would be great.
Funny about a creative soul on this earth. I was first introduced to Josh while working in Marketing at Capitol Records (in a job I despised). It turned out that we both were from Boston and went to the same tiny, liberal, and certainly funky high school. We both moved to LA for music. Josh appeared to me to be an immensely centered and creative soul. Funny, we both hallowed the rooms of the music building at CSW and took classes with the legendary dept. head, Lee (who helped me get into a top music school). At Capitol, we were all psyched up about the release of the single "3 Strange Days." We even used the song as our theme on a Marketing retreat we attended in the very spiritual Sedona, AZ. We played the hell out of that song during our trip. I cannot hear that song without fond memories rushing back. That song brought light to me during an otherwise dismal time working for a "label." I was angry that SOF broke up and blamed it on how lame Capitol was at their attempt to "break" SOF at radio and messing with the band. I came to see that it was meant for a reason... Josh was then available to free his talented, creative soul further and express himself in his solo albums. Brilliant. Thank you, Josh, for unintentionally becoming an inspiration to others.
Josh was one of the best songwriters and performers of our generation and is badly missed. I was really hoping that someone could direct me to where I could purchase the "Soon Enough" single....I really would love to hear the two extra tracks....We all love and miss you Josh!
Josh's music has such a profound impact in my life. Whenever i think about him not being "physically" here i just want to get fall-down drunk to help me forget. But then, i just put on some of his music and everything seems to become bareable. Josh has a way of speaking directly to the listener, while at the same time, being clever enough to tap you on the shoulder, as if from behind. His use of the language totally inspired me to begin writing my own songs again.( i had been playing for several years before i heaard the first school of fish album). there is only one thing to say JOSH CLAYTON IS ALIVE AND WELL IN OUR HEATS AND IN OUR EARS. THANK YOU JOSH. WE LOVE YOU!!
My heart goes out to Josh's family and close friends. I learned of his passing only a few months ago but still feel the shock and sadness. I was fortunate enough to see him with the band and then solo here in Milwaukee. Those are memories that will always be with me. His music will not be replaced. I had to order 'beautiful nowhere' and 'alive' right away to help fill a void. I await the release of "Spirit Touches Ground" and smile every time that I listen to any of his songs. He was cut from the "good stuff". Enjoy the music Josh? Always.


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When my 4th baby was born, someone gifted my older kids with this game which was incredibly kind at a time when the newest addition was receiving tons of presents and attention.
I particularly loved it though because it's a fun hand held game that allowed me to play with my older kids while I was #breastfeeding the baby. Its also easy to pack and a fun game to travel with as well.


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Welp, the weekend is over and it's back to the real world! I am always so sad when Mondays come around… It means a bunch of days until sleeping in again. Waking up early is overrated. I think there should be a rule that no one has to be up before 10… Anyone else with me!?
Leather Jackets are a favorite of mine for fall. Okay, let's be honest, any jacket really is a favorite of mine for fall/winter. I love the textures you can find and how much they add to an outfit. I also love how versatile they are. You can really wear them with anything and everything. Leggings, Pencil Skirts, Sweat Pants, Jeans, ANYTHING!
Okay, now to the favorite part of my outfit, this Niki Biki Layering Tee. I mean seriously this thing is heaven sent. So soft, luscious, stretchy, pretty much like a baby's bottom right?? Have you tried one of these bad boys before? I can never wear anything else now… They are perfect for under jackets or cardigans because the fabric slides and doesn't get all cramped up in your sleeve. No one wants that right? To be honest when that happens it puts me in panic attack and I start screaming for Zach! Claustrophobia anyone?? Ha. But for real you need these layering tees in your life. They come in short sleeves, 3/4 sleeve, and I'm pretty sure tank tops too!
Do you have a go to layering top for fall weather?? Have you ever tried Niki Biki's?
You look adorable! And I love that jacket!!
This jacket and entire look is just perfection!!


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SRI Service Award Winner: Head Of Investment Fund For Low-Income South Africans Awarded SRI Industry's Most Honored Designation
Responsible Investors and Investment Professionals Select Shared Interest Executive Director, Donna Katzin, as SRI Industry's Most Influential Leader of 2015
First Affirmative Financial Network; The SRI Conference, Colorado Springs, CO
Nov 19, 2015, 12:15 ET
NEW YORK and COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Donna Katzin, executive director of Shared Interest, is the recipient of the 2015 SRI Service Award, the SRI industry's most vaunted award.
The SRI Service Award recognizes one individual each year who demonstrates a range of contributions to the Sustainable, Responsible, Impact (SRI) investment field, including: industry leadership, significant innovations, high standards of ethical conduct, cooperation and communication, and success in expanding the influence of investing for a sustainable future.
The 620 investors and investment professionals who attended The SRI Conference had an opportunity to cast a ballot for the recipient of this prestigious award. Votes were counted and the award was presented at The SRI Conference by the 2014 SRI Service Award recipient, Barbara Krumsiek, former chair, president, and CEO of Calvert Investments.
SRI Conference Producer and First Affirmative Financial Network President Steve Schueth, said: "As founding Executive Director of Shared Interest, Donna Katzin was an excellent choice for the 2015 SRI Service Award. Having helped lead mission-driven investors to apply economic pressure to accelerate the peaceful end of apartheid, Katzin turned from disinvestment to reinvestment in 1994 when the new South Africa was born and Nelson Mandela was elected president. Through Shared Interest, she has built a vehicle for U.S. investors to forge international relationships with South Africa's economically excluded entrepreneurs, farmers, and homeowners."
Shared Interest provides loan guarantees and technical support, helping the country's commercial lenders to make yesterday's "unbankable" people today's "ordinary business." The SRI Service Award also recognizes the rapid growth of Katzin's and Shared Interest's work in South Africa, and its initial replication across its borders.
Katzin said: "This is an historic time for our work and for Southern Africa. In countries such as South Africa and Mozambique, we see lenders with whom we work beginning to appreciate that the vast majorities of their populations constitute a powerful potential market. During the past year alone, in partnership with the Thembani International Guarantee Fund, we have more than quadrupled our number of loan guarantees—without ever losing a cent of any investor's interest or principal."
Katzin has been a powerful voice in the social and impact investment communities—first as director of South Africa Programs for the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, and then as executive director of Shared Interest. Katzin has written extensively on South Africa and investing in its communities, and has been honored with the North Star Fund's Frederick Douglass Award, and Face2Face Africa's inaugural Ubuntu Award for extraordinary service to humanity. In 2014, she received the South African Embassy's inaugural Siyabonga Friend of South Africa Award.
Read Donna Katzin's full bio here.
About Shared Interest
Shared Interest (http://www.sharedinterest.org) is a leading non-profit investment fund that guarantees Southern African commercial loans to low-income communities of color. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in New York City, it has facilitated more than $21 million in guarantees that have leveraged $103 million in commercial loans to the region's black population's small enterprises, farms, and cooperatives. In the process it has benefited 2.3 million economically marginalized South and Southern Africans.
About The SRI Conference
The SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing (formerly SRI in the Rockies, http://www.SRIconference.com), is the premier annual gathering of investors and investment professionals working to direct the flow of investment capital for positive impact. The 26th annual SRI Conference was held November 3-5, 2015. Looking ahead, the 27th annual SRI Conference will be November 9-11, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center.
Jayna Sisbarro at (646) 442-0186 or jayna@sharedinterest.org and
Patrick Mitchell at (703) 276-3266 or pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com.
SOURCE First Affirmative Financial Network; The SRI Conference, Colorado Springs, CO
http://www.SRIconference.com

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Fauci not advising Biden, sees no reason to quit Trump now - Reuters interview
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US infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci.
Doctor Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, said he has had no contact with President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus transition team and sees no reason to quit to join that effort when there is so much to do now to fight the surging pandemic.
"I stay in my lane. I'm not a politician. I do public health things," he said in an interview on Thursday ahead of next week's Reuters Total Health conference.
Since January, Fauci has served on President Donald Trump's White House Coronavirus Task Force, a position that has frequently put him at odds with the president, who has sought to downplay the pandemic and focused instead on opening the economy.
"There's absolutely no reason and no sense at all for me to stop doing something in the middle of a pandemic that is playing a major role in helping us get out of the pandemic," Fauci said.
His advice for the president-elect, he said, is "exactly the same" as what he is recommending now - social distancing, avoiding crowds, wearing masks, washing hands. "Public health principles don't change from one month to another or from one administration to another."
Fauci has served six administrations and came to prominence fighting the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s under President Ronald Reagan.
His "day job" is developing vaccines and therapeutics as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, work that is starting to bear fruit.
On Monday, Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE announced that their experimental coronavirus vaccine was more than 90% effective - significantly higher than most experts had anticipated.
Moderna Inc, a company developing a similar vaccine with support from the White House's Operation Warp Speed programme, is expected to report results from their late-stage vaccine trial in the next week or so.
Both vaccines use messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, an entirely new rapid vaccine platform that uses synthetic genes to trigger an immune response. Older methods typically use some form of inactivated or killed virus particles.
"It was a home run for the Pfizer product, more than 90% - close to 95% - effective. I have every reason to believe that the Moderna product is going to be similar," Fauci said.
"It's an almost identical platform to the Pfizer vaccine, so I would not be surprised at all if it was highly effective," Fauci added.
The next big question about mRNA technology is safety. Fauci took as a good sign the fact that neither the Pfizer trial, which has enrolled more than 43 000 people so far, nor the Moderna trial, which involves 30 000, had to pause to investigate safety issues.
"That's really good news," he said. People in both trials will be followed for two years to make sure there are no long-term side effects. Barring that, "I think that the mRNA platform is here to stay," he predicted.
In spite of the high bar set by the Pfizer vaccine so far, Fauci said he believes there is still "plenty of room for multiple vaccines, even though there may be a modest degree of difference in total efficacy.
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In contrast with most of my peers, I seldom use Photoshop and have never used Lightroom. However, I rely on three post-processing/editing apps as my tools of choice...these are Color Efex Pro (originally of Google and now part of DxO Software, Iridient Developer (the raw image format processing software for macOS, and well known for its ability to process Fujifilm X-Trans raw files), and lastly ON1 Photo Raw ( a raw processor, photo editor and plug-in collection all in one).
Approaching a new client can be a lot easier if you happen to be visiting that region, or if it's where you are based. Start local and contact businesses who you regularly use or that have less than desirable images on their website…put together a proposal and they'll more than likely say yes if it benefits them! If they're just starting out on social media you can offer to create a library of social media images they can use over a 3-6month period to generate interest in their product/region.
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The deeper you travel into distant lands and cultures, the more varied the people you'll encounter. It can be fun and intriguing to meet people of vastly different cultures. It can also be alienating and even dangerous. I've seen women treated poorly, child labourers hard at work, and helpless animals suffering in the streets. Tolerance for other cultures is necessary to access these places and document the realities within them. Our job as photographers is to observe, with the hope that our images may influence positive social change.
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Travel photography as a genre is one of the most open in terms of the subjects it covers. Many travel photographers specialise in a particular aspect of photography such as travel portraits, landscape or documentary photography as well as shooting all aspects of travel. Much of today's Travel Photography style is derived from early work in Magazines such as National Geographic magazine from photographers such as Steve McCurry. This genre of photography entails shooting a wide variety of subjects under varied available conditions, e.g. low light photography indoors, available ambient light photography for exteriors of buildings and monuments, shooting on the streets where sometimes conditions may be hostile, capturing moments which rarely recur, capturing the magic of light while shooting landscapes, etc.
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Old English boc "book, writing, written document," traditionally from Proto-Germanic *bokiz "beech" (cf. German Buch "book" Buche "beech;" see beech), the notion being of beechwood tablets on which runes were inscribed, but it may be from the tree itself (people still carve initials in them). The Old English word originally meant any written document. Latin and Sanskrit also have words for "writing" that are based on tree names ("birch" and "ash," respectively). Meaning "libretto of an opera" is from 1768. A betting book is from 1856.
Embarking on such photographic projects make me look for relevant snippets of history, social mores and art (for example, the occupation of Shanghai by the Japanese in the thirties, the Chinoiserie fad of the 18th century, fictional stories similar to that of Madam Butterfly et al). I also learned the aesthetic of the cheongsam (aka qi pao) in its various forms, and the beauty of Chinese calligraphy. I also scoured the internet for Chinese legends, poetry and songs/music that inspired the 2-3 minutes plots of my photo films; as I call these audio slideshows.
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Previously listed on the American Stock Exchange, the company moved to NASDAQ on June 2, 2008.[54] Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. is a holding company whose primary asset is the sole ownership of all issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. On June 30, 2008, the company announced that it had been added to the Russell 3000 Index.[55]
This was a really informative article Hillary :) Just wish I found it sooner because just a week ago I went to the Grand Canyon to snap some photos. I didn't have this article to help, but I found a similarly useful article that provided some kind of checklist of things to do before traveling. If anyone's interested, here's what helped me out before I went to the canyon: http://www.adoramapix.com/blog/2016/10/16/photography-101-packing/#.WFH9...
Meanwhile, Hawaiian Airlines also entered the new international markets of Australia and New Zealand in 1986 with one-stop services through Pago Pago International Airport. Hawaiian also aggressively grew its international charter business and pursued military transport contracts. This led to a large growth in the company's revenues and caused its inter-island service's share of revenues to shrink to just about a third of the company's total.[22]
Hawaiian Airlines (Hawaiian: Hui Mokulele ʻo Hawaiʻi)[5][6] is the flag carrier and the largest airline in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is the tenth-largest commercial airline in the US, and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.[7][8] The airline operates its main hub at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport on the island of Oʻahu and a secondary hub out of Kahului Airport on the island of Maui.[2] Hawaiian Airlines operates flights to Asia, American Samoa, Australia, Hawaii, New Zealand, and the United States mainland. Hawaiian Airlines is owned by Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. of which Peter R. Ingram is the current President and Chief Executive Officer.[9]
However I didn't realize that he had done lovely work documenting a rural Chinese opera troupe in Sichuan featured on the International Business Times..thus providing me with valuable inspiration for my own long term book project involving Chinese opera of the Diaspora. My primary focus in this project is on the "rural" or provincial troupes who perform their art during Chinese celebrations and religious observances.
In October 2015, Hawaiian Airlines announced that they will be upgrading their business class seats from the standard cradle seats to a 180-degree lie-flat seats on their A330 fleet in a 2-2-2 configuration. The new seats will be installed starting the second quarter of 2016. In addition to the new business class seats upgrade, the airline will add 28 additional Extra Comfort seating.[101]
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Hi Jan, so happy to hear this article was useful. I'll be sharing more on how I manage my photography business over the coming weeks in various articles…typically for Instagram I try to post once daily and for ImageBrief I simply respond to relevant briefs that suit images I already have on file. Keep an eye out for new posts weekly and hopefully I'll cover something of interest to you 🙂
On February 16, 2010, Hawaiian Airlines sought approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation to begin nonstop flights from its hub at Honolulu to Tokyo-Haneda sometime in 2010. The airline was one of 5 US carriers — the others being Delta, Continental, United, and American — seeking approval to serve Haneda as part of the U.S.-Japan OpenSkies agreement.[33] Approval was granted from USDOT to begin nonstop service to Haneda, Japan. The flight began service on November 18, 2010.[34] In addition, the airline is planning to establish a codeshare agreement with All Nippon Airways.[35] On January 12, 2011, Hawaiian Airlines began nonstop service to Seoul-Incheon, South Korea.[36] On July 12, 2011, Hawaiian added Osaka, Japan to its network.[37]
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Whether you're licensing photos through an agency or you're working with local businesses, destination photos sell. If you're just starting out, consider uploading your best work to sites like 500px, where you can offer your images for license quite easily. If you already have a strong portfolio of work, consider applying to Stocksy, the most reputable agency in the stock photo business. Interested in reportage? You can sign up for a Demotix account to get started in travel photojournalism.
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ʻOhana by Hawaiian is a regional subsidiary carrier of Hawaiian Airlines. The service is operated using three ATR 42 turboprop airplanes owned by Hawaiian and operated under contract by Empire Airlines. The new service was slated to begin in summer 2013 initially flying to Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi, however the airline was unable to begin during that period due to Federal Aviation Administration delays in certifying ʻOhana's operation.[56] ʻOhana by Hawaiian is fully integrated into the Hawaiian Airlines network.[44]
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Dan Hill (Founder and President of Sensory Logic, speaker) is the expert in facial coding, investigating the importance of emotions to advertising and consumer behavior and having experience in emotional insights consultancy. His books include Body of Truth: Leveraging What Consumers Can't or Won't Say (2007) and Emotionomics: Leveraging Emotions for Business Success (Kogan Page Publishing, 2009, which was chosen by Ad Age as one of "10 Books You Should Have Read in 2009"). His latest book (that I will review below) About Face: Ten Secrets to Emotionally Effective Advertising, was released in 2010 (Kogan Page Publishing) and it dedicates its 196 pages to the exploration of human nature (using facial coding), with implications to advertising and emotional factors that influence the creation of effective marketing.
As the author states from the first pages of About Face, 20th century marketing was largely about being "on message". In contrast, in 21th century, people are primary emotional decision makers, so successful advertising is "on-emotion". But marketers face problems in understanding consumer's emotions, as people lie, consciously or unconsciously. As scientists have known for decades now, there's the original sensory (reptilian) brain, an emotional (mammalian) brain (both millions years old) and since some 100.000 years ago, a rational (human) brain, where our verbal abilities reside. So "on-message" approach gives people a way to be interested (leveraging the sensory brain), a reason to care (leveraging the emotional brain), and then and only then a confirming reason to believe (leveraging the rational brain). So consumer experience becomes the heart of the matter and dethrones the company's marketing message. Dan Hill presents facial coding, a non-invasive system that reads people's emotions through how the muscles on their faces move in combination to reveal seven core emotions. And emotions are the key to success, as the value of the offer that a company is promoting gets determined emotionally as an instinctive judgment. But since the brain takes about half a second to react to a stimulus, if nothing happens that quickly, then consumers' first emotional response is a void.
The 10 chapters of the book move beyond the old product-centric Ps of Product, Price, Place and Promotion, to 3 new people-centric Ps: Passion, Purpose and Personality.
1. Get physical – seven eye tracking secrets are revealed. Also, the author presents the 6 templates in which award-winning ads fit (pictorial analogy, consequences, extreme situations, competition, dimensionality alteration and interactive experiment).
2. Keep it simple – the author reveals the typical patters that the eye travels in absorbing a home-page layout. He also presents the financial stakes of engagement and advertising's secret emotional cancer: frustration.
3. Keep it close to home – Dan Hill discusses how strong is the bias towards what is familiar (as memories and innate expectations involve emotional engagement and positive feelings, the brain assuming that familiar information is true information).
4. Focus of faces (my favorite chapter!) – there is no single 'lying' muscle in the face, so faces are an immediate barometer, as facial coding makes it possible to pick up clues and insights into what others are feeling. In processing faces, there are 4 steps that are observable using functional magnetic resonance imaging: (a) Primary Visual Cortex – we see the stimuli: the face(s); (b) Fusiform Face Area (FFA) – we identify it; (c) Prefrontal Cortex – interpretation and rationalization; (d) Amygdala (the 'hot button') – emotions arise. Dan Hill also provides a way to identify and differentiate "social smiles" from "true smiles".
5. Make it memorable – while the first job of advertising is to get itself noticed, the second job is to be remembered and encoding depends on the sensory bandwidth getting engaged. Retrieval involves subconsciously searching our own associative memory network for specific information relevant to the new input; a match between what is new and the old memory reactivates what is already stored and becomes an argument in favor of using repetition in advertising since memories form when a pattern is repeated frequently; moreover, each time a group of neurons fires together, the tendency to do so again is increased. Dan Hill also provides eight guidelines worth following for improving the odds that your advertising will be memorable.
6. Relevancy drives connection – ads address situations in which we seek to resolve, evade or mitigate a situation the offer promises to sort out. So our emotions turn on when one of our needs, wants, desires or fears are at stake. One model presented involves four core motivations of defend, acquire, learn and bond, in relation to which the offer can be strategically positioned. Another model involves 5 motivational groupings: physical, empowerment, attachment, self-esteem and enjoyment.
7. Always sell hope – the essence of advertising is to promote positive feelings. But to ensure revenue, the key is to invoke the advertised brand offer as the ultimate solution to our ending desire for something big, new and positive. Positive feelings make it easier for the brain to make new mental connections because the brain gets flooded with the enablers of serotonin and dopamine. So selling hope, the promise of happiness, underlies marketing. Dan Hill explains the connection between happiness and hope: joy (the highest level of happiness) is about being pleased with an event (present tense) and hope is about being pleased by the prospect of a desirable event (future tense). The author also presents 7 principles of behavioral economics in order to give marketers insights regarding how to frame choices: loss aversion, resistance to change, conformity, probability blinders, overconfidence, impulsivity and inequality aversion.
8. Don't lead with price – Dan Hill presents 7 problems: lack of sustainability (surprise fades), becoming numb to prices (devaluing hope), inviting to analysis (undercutting emotional engagement), low-value perceptions (inviting contempt), price focus that distorts purchase choices (dissatisfaction results), brand loyalty at risk (pride takes a hit), brand integrity at risk (desperation detected) and then he comes with 3 real solutions to economics hard times and price / value wars that you can find in this chapter.
9. Mirror the target market's values – the optimal strategy is always to sell consumers on themselves. Advertising should mirror the values, beliefs and attitudes of the target market as much as possible. Dan Hill also present the way cause marketing may neutralize critics.
narrative ads do only slightly better than testimonial ads, both of which suffer at times from emotional miscues involving either authenticity or sensitivity.
If you want to ensure that your advertising will have greater emotional voltage, judging from the many insights provided above (and the practical example in the book), I am sure you will be interested to read About Face. The facts that are presented in this book are based on reliable books and research articles on neuromarketing and advertising. About Face has great fluency, as the chapters unveil and anticipate themselves one after another. Also, the author presents the information using a wide variety of advertising examples, in an narrative way that is particular for spoken language (you will believe that someone is speaking to you between the lines).


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Maja Wronska is a polish artist and civil engineer. I would imagine you would need to be a civil engineer or architect to draw something as perfect as this. It reminds me of an eerie trip I once took. I was living in Rouen at the time but took the train to Berlin and on the way stopped in Cologne. My vision at the time was a bit blurred and Cologne seemed bare (nothing old was left except the Cathedral) but the Cathedral was the most stunning place ever, and even more so with a slightly blurry perspective of it almost as if I were visiting a heavenly cathedral in afterlife. Later I saw WWII photos of the allies bombing over Cologne, decimating almost everything but the Cathedral, which they mercifully avoided.
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Thank you for telling us that the artist was also an engineer. What a powerful combination when it works! The training of engineering candidates is based on principles of science, fixed accepted truths so difficult to even bend, let alone break. Here the artist made the cathedral come to us as spiritually impressive architecture with black and white. We have to overlook failures in depictions of stained glass with the limiting medium used.


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Louie DiStasio
Abbey Leonardi
Jack Cooleen
The Threat, the Record Breaker, and the Natural
FEATURE-May 2012
By Allison Paige
Photographs by Irvin Serrano
The Triple Threat
As a child on Long Island, New York, Jack Cooleen played soccer, lacrosse, basketball, hockey, and baseball. He moved to Maine in third grade. In seventh grade, he began to play football, the sport he excels at today and that regularly lands him in the pages of local newspapers. As the record holder for the most receiving yards and touchdowns in Falmouth High SchoolÕs history, Cooleen, in his junior year, was named FalmouthÕs first ever All-State player by the Maine Sunday Telegram. He went on to make All-Conference three years in a row in football, basketball, and lacrosse. The Portland Press Herald called him Ò…one of the few receivers defense has to include in their game plan.Ó Last season he averaged 18 yards per catch and scored 14 touchdowns.
Coach John Fitzsimmons calls him "one of the most gifted athletes to play football for Falmouth High School." A collection of Cooleen's highlights on YouTube plays like a reel from ESPN—the number 81 on his back is a blur dashing across yard lines and catching the ball one-handed, seemingly mid-flight.
At the 250-year-old farmhouse he shares with his parents and twin 16-year-old sisters, the six-foot-five Cooleen appears slighter without the helmet and pads—like an off-duty superhero. Football season is over. Falmouth lost the playoff in a close game, a disappointment that Cooleen is philosophical about. Even a defeat provides highlights, he reasons, recalling a game lost to Westbrook High School his junior year during which he made two one-handed touchdown catches.
Cooleen is a true triple threat, excelling in basketball, football, and lacrosse. He plays midfield in lacrosse, a game he appreciates for its improvisation. Last season, he scored 16 goals for the Yachtsmen.
For a wide receiver, precision of movement is required. "In offense, I know I have to cut across in seven yards, or five steps, or it won't work." Whichever it is, it must be working.
He plays center in basketball, where his height is a distinct advantage when it comes to netting points. He is the team captain for the second year in a row. The Yachtsmen were undefeated for the season, a first in the history of Falmouth High School basketball, with Cooleen averaging ten points per game. Coach David Halligan says, "He is a difficult match-up for other teams because if they guard him with a big, slow player he can use his quickness against them, and if they guard him with a smaller player, he can overpower them."
An early bloomer, Cooleen was six foot three by eighth grade. "Like a big puppy," his father Paul interjects. Jack laughs good-naturedly, confident that his puppy days are far behind him. Cooleen's family is tight-knit, and he considers his maternal grandfather, who doesn't miss a game, one of his heroes.
Math and chemistry are favorites. Cooleen plans to attend Tufts University in Massachusetts, where he will play football and is debating between a major in business or economics. His advice to young athletes? "Stick with it because I almost didn't. I almost stopped playing football…but I decided to stay with it and it paid off in the end."
With a high school career that has captured the attention of both local press and college recruiters, Cooleen is definitely doing something right.
"I like running and catching the ball," he says simply. As his coaches and fans know, he makes it look as easy as that sounds.
The Record Breaker
Abbey Leonardi is a born racer. She even beat her twin sister to the finish line, arriving in the world just one minute ahead. So it is no surprise that Leonardi is a gifted runner. Along with her twin sister, Leonardi played soccer and skied. She began running track only after moving to Maine from Massachusetts. Cross country or tennis were the sports offered that year and Leonardi chose cross country. One imagines that today sheÕs happy she did.
By seventh grade, the fleet-footed future Kennebunk High School star athlete began setting meet records, and at 14 she was the youth national champion in the 1,500-meter run. She currently holds the Maine high school all-time outdoor records in the 1,500 meter (4:31), 1,600 meter (4:51), 3,000 meter (9:47), 3,200 meter (10:19), and two mile (10:26).
Dubbed Most Valuable Player by the Maine Sunday Telegram three times for cross country and three times for track, she has competed as a sophomore, junior, and senior in the national Footlocker Cross Country Championships—the only Maine runner to qualify three times. A Gatorade Cross Country Runner of the Year and Gatorade Track and Field Athlete of the Year since 2008, her seven honors to date are the most received consecutively by any athlete nationally since the program's inception. Leonardi capped her prodigious high school career by winning the five-kilometer regional with a time of 18:27.19 and beating her closest competitor by more than half a minute.
When I meet Leonardi for lunch in Portland, I sense she is a creature more comfortable on the move, a humming bird momentarily stilled. A diminutive five foot one with dark hair in a pixie cut, Leonardi appears shy about the heady swirl of attention that surrounds her. But as the first Maine female athlete ever to win the Class A cross country state championship title four years in a row, she's not likely to escape notice anytime soon.
For a many-laurelled record breaker, she is gracious and soft-spoken. I have to lean in close to hear her. But her demeanor belies a nature that is focused, driven, and competitive—albeit, like her voice, quietly so. Her motto might be speak softly and run a 4:54 mile.
Illustrating her resilience, her father Jack recalls a race in which a competitor elbowed his daughter, causing her to fall into the sideline. "I had twigs in my hair and stuff," Leonardi said ruefully. But true to her style, she got up, brushed off, steadily gained on her opponent, and won the race.
A few weeks after this interview, Leonardi ran the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships National Finals for the third consecutive year, placing fourth at 17:35—the best-ever finish by a Maine female, and a feat that also earned her All-American status.
Fast on her feet, Leonardi is equally quick to give thanks. She told the Maine Sunday Telegram, "I'm winning the state title, but there's a lot more than just me going into it." She credits the support of her family, friends, community, teachers, and school, especially coach Mike Dinehart. For Dinehart, the admiration is mutual. "I've run a few miles with Abbey," he says. "And when she puts the hammer down, there's no catching her. She's inspired me to run faster now than I have in my 55 years."
She considers three Maine runners—Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson, and marathon runners Kristin Barry and Sheri Piers—to be her mentors and inspirations. She is also eager to share the limelight with her twin, Aley, a serious athlete in her own right who will attend Stony Brook University this year on a soccer scholarship. Abbey cheers on her sister from the sidelines and humbly admits that when it comes down to who is the better all-round athlete, her sister takes the cake.
As for cakes, when she's not training or competing, Leonardi enjoys baking and altering recipes to include healthier ingredients.
Leonardi will attend the University of Oregon, in Eugene, the nation's epicenter of track and field, and the home of Nike. As a recipient of a track, cross country, and academic scholarship, a raucous college experience doesn't appeal to this straight-A student thinking about a major in psychology. "I don't consider it a sacrifice…there will be times for parties and being social. For now, I need to stay focused."
Leonardi clearly knows how to pace herself, both on and off the track.
Rumor has it that cross country just may be an Olympic sport in 2018. Does she have aspirations? Leonardi nods and says in her quiet yet determined way, "We'll see."
The Natural
LOUIS DISTASIO
For 18-year-old Cheverus High School senior and Yarmouth native Louis DiStasio (friends call him Louie or Lou), athletics started early, first with little-league baseball, then basketball, and then football. Like Jack Cooleen, he's a triple threatÑan ace at all three.
Like his brother Mick before him, who now plays basketball for Trinity College, DiStasio won the George Vinall Award his junior year, which honors the outstanding player in the Western Maine Class A Boys Basketball Tournament. In baseball last season, he shared the title of Most Valuable Player with two team captains and was named to the All State Team. In basketball, his wingspan and range are practically unrivalled; he's been known to score multiple three-pointers per game. He was co-captain of this year's varsity team and a varsity team member since his freshman year.
Last winter, the Stags won the regional basketball championship before losing to Bangor in the state title game. That's okay. The baseball and football teams won the Class A State Championships, boosting Cheverus's football winning streak to 24 games. DiStasio played on all three teams.
A coincidence? Probably not.
His coaches agree: whatever sport DiStasio plays, he plays with skill and aptitude, not only excelling personally, but also improving his team's odds of winning
Baseball coach Mac McKew says, "Lou has been on state championship teams in baseball, basketball, and football and has been instrumental in the success of all three."
Whether running, kicking, pitching, or catching, he's a natural. One gets the impression that, were he a musician, he could pick up and play every instrument in the orchestra pit.
Athletic director Gary Hoyt says, "Louie has a lot of character. So many kids his age want to be somebody else. Louie is happy being Louie."
This ease is evident at football practice, where I watch him knife across a field to neatly catch a spiraling pass. Though a relative football newcomer—he only started playing two years ago—Southern Maine Activities Association nominated DiStasio state kicker in 2010, and in 2011 he made All State Wide Receiver, All-Academic team, and kicked 62 consecutive points after touchdown.
But baseball remains his forte. DiStasio's favorite shortstop moment occurred during a game against Westbrook. "There was a ball hit to left center, and I ran and had what they would call a 'Willie Mays catch,' where I'm looking, I'm running, but I can't see the ball yet and it kind of drops over into the glove, and I threw the guy out on first for the whole play."
DiStasio's catch effectively won the game, providing spectators in the stands with a vicarious thrill. What does it feel like to have all eyes on you?
"At the time, it doesn't really feel like anything…like you're alone, going for the ball. But after, when you hear the cheering, it's like, I guess that was a nice play."
Once, against Gorham, he hit for the cycle: a single, double, triple, and homerun in the same game.
Coach McKew recalls, "There were two outs and the bases loaded…and he used his athleticism to get to a ball that seemed to be a sure hit…he made it look easy."
DiStasio admires Derek Jeter and Michael Jordan. "Both of them are just classy players." He considers Jordan a gentleman. "A lot of guys make a basket and get all pumped up. Michael's quiet, he gets the job done, efficiently."
The young athlete might well be describing himself.
DiStasio will attend the University of Rhode Island on a baseball scholarship this fall, where his athletic prowess, adaptability, and easygoing self-confidence are sure to earn him many more "Willie Mays" moments.
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State senator files bill to preempt any proposed red flag laws from federal government
Updated: 3:24 PM CDT Sep 3, 2019
KOCO Staff
A state senator announced Tuesday that he has filed a bill that would push back against any proposed red flag laws coming from the federal government.Red flag laws allow a family member or officer who thinks somebody poses an immediate risk to ask a judge to order that person's guns be taken away temporarily. In early August, after a weekend that saw several people die and others become injured because of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, President Donald Trump announced that he supports those laws.State Sen. Nathan Dahm's proposed bill, Senate Bill 1081, would preempt all current or future proposed red flag laws coming from Washington, D.C., according to the news release. The bill, called the Anti-Red Flag Act, also would not allow any state or local entities to accept federal funds to try and entice state agencies into implementing infringements on Oklahoma citizens' constitutional rights."The Second Amendment is abundantly clear that it is an individual right to keep and bear arms," Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, said in the news release. "And it is necessary to keep a free state. Oklahoma has a responsibility to protect our citizens' rights from anyone who would try to infringe upon them."Senate Bill 1081 will be available to be heard in the next legislative session, which begins in February.
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A state senator announced Tuesday that he has filed a bill that would push back against any proposed red flag laws coming from the federal government.
Red flag laws allow a family member or officer who thinks somebody poses an immediate risk to ask a judge to order that person's guns be taken away temporarily. In early August, after a weekend that saw several people die and others become injured because of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, President Donald Trump announced that he supports those laws.
State Sen. Nathan Dahm's proposed bill, Senate Bill 1081, would preempt all current or future proposed red flag laws coming from Washington, D.C., according to the news release. The bill, called the Anti-Red Flag Act, also would not allow any state or local entities to accept federal funds to try and entice state agencies into implementing infringements on Oklahoma citizens' constitutional rights.
"The Second Amendment is abundantly clear that it is an individual right to keep and bear arms," Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, said in the news release. "And it is necessary to keep a free state. Oklahoma has a responsibility to protect our citizens' rights from anyone who would try to infringe upon them."
Senate Bill 1081 will be available to be heard in the next legislative session, which begins in February.


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KIS LETTER OF SOLIDARITY TO THE AUSTRIAN PEOPLE FOLLOWING THE TERRORIST ATTACKS IN VIENNA
Tuesday, 03 November 2020 14:00
A few days after the attacks in France, new bloody terrorist attacks occurred in the center of Vienna, the capital of Austria, during the night of November 2nd, 2020. Gunmen opened fire, killed four people and wounded several others at several locations in Vienna, starting from the street where Vienna's main synagogue is located. The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece addressed, today November 3, 2020, the following letter to the Ambassador of Austria in Greece, expressing the solidarity of the Greek Jewry to the people of Austria for the heinous terrorist attacks:
"Dear Mrs. Ambassador,
The Greek Jewry is shocked after the bloody terror attacks of extreme Islamists against innocent people, that struck the center of Vienna yesterday night, and caused the death of four people and several casualties.
Our thoughts and payers are with the families of the tragic victims. Our solidarity is with the Austrian people at large that was terrified by the extremists who assaulted a symbolic area of the Austrian capital, where churches and synagogues stand close to one another and in vicinity with museums and a number of multi-ethnic restaurants, a place where people enjoy culture, a place that represents collectivity and brotherhood, a district that is a small scale model of European core values.
We all have to stand together and united against hate and fanaticism that threaten our way of life and our principles.
The President DAVID SALTIEL
The General Secretary VICTOR ELIEZER"
* Our Board also addressed the following letter to the Jewish Community of Vienna:
The Greek Jewry is shocked after the bloody terror attacks of extreme Islamists against innocent people, that struck the center of Vienna yesterday night, and caused the death of four people and several casualties. Given that it all started from the Synagogue that is situated within the area of the gun fires, our worries escalated. Our thoughts are with you hoping that the Jewish community is safe and well and that it will go on with its dynamic activities while feeling protected.
We have expressed our Board's solidarity to the Austrian people with a letter addressed to the Austrian Embassy in Athens (see link below):
We wish you all the best
The Secretary General VICTOR ELIEZER
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Are political parties on social media winning?
– Duncan Alfreds, News24 –
As the national general elections draw closer, it remains unclear whether the effort political parties are putting into social media marketing will make a difference.
"Parties have definitely accelerated their social media use in the election period. Although whether or not this translates into influence on voting patterns is unclear," social media consultant for Afrosocialmedia, Samantha Fleming, told News24.
The Democratic Alliance was an early adopter of social media in its political messaging; the ruling African National Congress has jumped on the channel, particularly as it looks to win in the Western Cape.
On Twitter, the DA has around 73 000 followers, but that is dwarfed by the ANC at 112 000. Newcomer AgangSA has 44 900 followers, but has not shied away from taking shots at political rivals.
"You don't owe it to Mandela to keep voting for ANC. You owe it to yourself and future generations to #VoteAgangSAInstead #Future," the party recently tweeted.
Despite the fact that the Economic Freedom Fighters party has only around 41 000 followers, party leader Julius Malema is one of the most popular South Africans with 438 000 followers.
"I do find it interesting that Malema's Twitter account has over 400 000 followers, while ANC only just over 100 000. Are we to assume that there are more Malema than ANC followers on Twitter? Or that disillusionment with the ruling party is forcing people to consider other options?" said Fleming.
On Facebook, the DA has been racking up likes – more than doubling its tally in three months to 85 541, while the ANC tails it at 62 017. AgangSA has 35 305, the EFF 7 277, and Cope 2 576 likes.
For comparison, News24 has 310 899 likes on Facebook.
Fleming said that political parties in SA have not yet learnt to exploit social media as a channel to engage voters.
"The kind of political debates seen on SA social media are not very nuanced. Political parties still tend to use platforms as a 'push mechanism' for talking about how marvellous they are, rather than engaging in substantive debate about different policies."
The DA's Facebook page has an "Ask Helen" section where people can question party leader Helen Zille about the manifesto.
By contrast, the ANC page on Facebook does not have unique branding and features Mosiuoa Lekota – the president of opposition party Cope, which itself has only 1 773 likes on the social network. The MyANC Facebook page has 121 000 likes.
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Books about Fuller
John McHale
George Brazillier, Inc., New York. c1962, hardback.
Wizard of the Dome: R. Buckminster Fuller, Designer for the Future
Sidney Rosen
Little, Brown & Company, Boston. c1969, hardback.
Bucky - A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller
Hugh Kenner
William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York. c1973, hardback; paperback.
Mind's Eye of Buckminster Fuller
Donald W. Robertson
Vantage Press, Inc., New York. c1974, hardback.
Buckminster Fuller at Home in the Universe
Alden Hatch
Crown Publishers, New York. c1974, hardback.
Cosmic Fishing: An Account of Writing Synergetics with Buckminster Fuller
E.J. Applewhite
Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., New York, c1977 hardback.
Pilot for Spaceship Earth
Athena V. Lord
Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., New York. c1978, hardback.
Buckminster Fuller: An Autobiographical Monologue/Scenario
Robert Snyder
St. Martin's Press, New York. c1980, hardback.
Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
The Buckminster Fuller Institute, Philadelphia. c1982, paperback.
Inventions, the Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller
St. Martin's Press, New York; c.1983.
The Artifacts of R. Buckminster Fuller, A Comprehensive Collection of His Designs and Drawings in Four Volumes
Edited with descriptions by James Ward
Garland Publishing, New York, c.1984
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Mary Laycock
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Amy Edmondson
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From Harry Potter to Narnia: the pressure on film franchises to perform
In the world of film franchises, it's billions or bust – anything less than Harry Potter-style success spells the end for a series. Cath Clarke reports on how Narnia went to the brink
Cath Clarke
Thu 9 Dec 2010 17.59 EST First published on Thu 9 Dec 2010 17.59 EST
Dumped, downsized, delayed ... The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Photograph: 20th Century Fox
The omens suggest there may be a happy ending in sight in the saga of the Narnia franchise. Last week snow was falling – as if Aslan himself had ordered it – as The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third in the Chronicles of Narnia series, was premiered as the royal film performance. (Rumour has it the Queen shed a tear or two; maybe it was from relief – last year she had to sit through The Lovely Bones.) But in 2008 it was different story: it looked like curtains for Narnia after Disney unceremoniously dumped the series – disappointed with the performance of film No 2, Prince Caspian. Production of Dawn Treader was downsized, then delayed; for a while it looked likely that it wouldn't get made at all, and the projected seven-film series would be cut off at the ankles.
It wasn't the first high-profile franchise to be rejected by its parent studio. A year earlier, the planned trilogy of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials was canned after the first film, The Golden Compass, failed to live up to expectations at the US box-office. To the casual observer, neither Caspian nor Compass looks much like a failure: both took hundreds of millions of dollars. But there is no margin for error in the new generation of multi-film, factory-line franchises – with their whopping CGI bills and budgets that would keep a despot in military trifles. Get it right, like Harry Potter ($6bn and counting) or Twilight ($1.7bn), and it's golden. But films have to match those takings to have got it right. Anything less is a failure.
Franchises have been around longer than Bond has been bothering blondes, or Dracula has been sucking blood. What has changed is that now Hollywood studios are desperately seeking properties to nail their sails to, committing upfront – in theory at least – to making a string of films. Mike Goodridge, editor of the film industry paper Screen International, compares new-formula franchises such as Harry Potter and Twilight to Saturday morning serials, with storylines that run like a thread through the movies: "It's a dream situation for a studio to have a captive audience, which will inevitably come back for the next helping." As Harry Potter and Twilght grind to a close, eyes are on the next prize: which might just be Suzanne Collins's post-apocalyptic teen trilogy The Hunger Games; Kaya Scodelario and Chloe Moretz are in the running for the lead.
"If you can pull them off, they are a license to print money," says director Michael Apted. He has been on the other side, too – he was already hard at work on The Dawn Treader when Disney pulled the plug. Did he think it was all over? "For a bit."
What's Apted's verdict on Prince Caspian – the film that prompted Disney to bail? "I don't think it did go wrong. I don't think it was messed up. I just think they just took it for granted they were on to a successful franchise like Lord of the Rings." In reality, adapting CS Lewis is a trickier proposition than Tolkien or JK Rowling. Each of the seven Narnia titles is its own universe, with a changing cast of characters. "Prince Caspian is much darker than the first book," says Apted. There was less of the wonder and magic of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe; it was bigger and scarier, with two monster battles. With The Dawn Treader, Apted says he has gone back to Narnia basics with a fairytale adventure on the high seas, featuring a stonking comic turn by 17-year-old Will Poulter as cousin Eustace.
In 2008, after Disney backed out, a replacement studio, Fox, was found within a month. Still, Apted must have felt like he was captaining a sinking ship. "It was daunting. We were put in the position that we had to retrieve the franchise, both in terms of tone – to make it more family-friendly – and to do it for less money." If appearances are anything to go by, he is exactly the man you'd want in a crisis. A 69-year-old veteran (his credits include Enigma and The World is Not Enough), he is dry as bone and seemingly unflappable. His budget was shrunk to $140m. Which is still a scary amount of money ("well, you don't think about that").
How poorly, exactly, did Prince Caspian perform? It went to No 1 in the US, and was Disney's second most successful film of 2008. "When you do the math, it doesn't look quite so pretty," says Apted. "The second film cost more and made less." He's right: Prince Caspian took $420m worldwide. It cost $225m to make, and the same again to market. By comparison The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe took $745m, having been made for $180m.
There was another layer of intrigue to the saga: bad blood between Disney and Walden Media, the company that holds the rights to the Narnia books and which co-financed and co-produced the movies, and which is owned by Phil Anschutz, a billionaire conservative Christian. Apted describes a situation in which everybody was blaming everybody else: "There was a lot of ill feeling. I think that poisoned the water a bit."
If $420m in box office receipts isn't enough to secure the future of a franchise, how much is? These days $1bn is the new benchmark for a bona-fide smash (though only seven films so far have made that much). What that means for audiences is that if you have a pulse you are in the target demographic. Here's Screen International's Mike Goodridge again: "I hate to say it, but with these films you have to hit what the studios call the 'four quadrant market': men, women, young and old. You have to hit everybody and then you have a genuine phenomenon."
Prince Caspian, it was thought, pandered too much to teenage boys. Fox and Walden took no chances with The Dawn Treader. Earlier this year Christian leaders and assorted CS Lewis experts were invited to a "Narnia Summit" in LA. "We went through every line of dialogue and every scene with them to make sure it was a really faithful adaptation," Walden Media's president Michael Flaherty told Christianity Today at the time.
One obvious solution, surely, would be to make the movies more cheaply. No, says Michael Apted. While he was happy to trim the budget of The Dawn Treader ("I wanted to make sure the technology didn't overwhelm the emotion of the film"), he says swingeing cuts to fantasy films are out of the question. "If you penny pinch, you're dead. Audiences are so savvy, and if you do it on the cheap you're out of it."
One person who disagrees wholeheartedly with that is Philip Pullman, whose His Dark Materials books looked set to become another major franchise. When New Line Cinema – which was behind The Lord of the Rings – filmed the first instalment, it was the most expensive movie it had ever made. Released under the book's US title, The Golden Compass, it did roaring business overseas, but just $70m in the US – and because New Line had sold overseas rights to the film in order to fund the production, it didn't make its money back on the international box office. It was a crucial failure for New Line, which was absorbed into its parent company, Warner Bros, shortly afterwards.
Pullman reckons we are now seeing diminishing returns from CGI. "We don't believe it any more. Or we know that it's only computers." If there were ever to be a Golden Compass remake, he has an entirely different film in mind. "I would rather it was made in someone's shed with tin cans and bits of rope. I think it would be more involving – to be made for about 10 quid, rather than $200m."
Talk to Pullman and you get an impression of the head of steam that builds behind a mega-budget franchise. He was delighted with the young actress Dakota Blue Richards, who was cast as his 12-year-old heroine Lyra ("she was absolutely terrific"). The film-makers looked at 10,000 girls before finding her. But she would be too old for the part if the His Dark Materials franchise was resurrected. "They would have to recast. It's lost really. It's gone." (Makers of franchises featuring kid actors have to move quickly – the little blighters have a habit of getting bigger.)
The curious case of The Golden Compass's poor US performance has been widely put down to the controversy surrounding its anti-religious themes. Though fudged somewhat in the film itself, the outcry from the Catholic League ("atheism for kids") and the rest may have been fatal. "The Golden Compass didn't hit America's heartland, and that's what killed it, really," says Goodridge. Pullman says: "It was always going to be a difficult film for that reason. The only way to do it is to take the issue bravely to the front and wave it like a banner."
When studios first looked at his trilogy, did they assume they had the next Lord of the Rings on their hands? "Oh they always think X is the next Y," Pullman says. "They have no idea at all about looking forward. Publishers are just the same. They can only see what's coming in terms of what's been. Nobody was looking for the first Harry Potter, only JK Rowling. Studio and publishers: I don't rate them very highly as originators or visionaries."
And it's not just writers like Pullman who believe there is a failure of imagination at work. Here's Goodridge: "The problem with Hollywood at the moment is that they need an identifiable brand before they go into an expensive movie production. Which is a problem for creativity." So while there are trend-bucking examples in the system – the auteur-cleverness of Christopher Nolan's brooding Batman movies, for one – overall we're looking at reboot ad nauseum: Superman again, a Spider-Man rework. Says Goodridge: "It's no secret. Hollywood is scrabbling to put on the screen properties people already know. They can't take a risk on original ideas any more."
The Silver Chair doesn't sit right as the next Narnia film
It's a major disappointment: the next Narnia film should be The Magician's Nephew, CS Lewis's own prequel to the series, writes Ben Child
Published: 3 Oct 2013
All is well with Narnia
Greg Wright: I am a Christian minister who dislikes Narnia, but I think media attacks on the Voyage of the Dawn Treader film are over the top
Fox steps in to salvage Narnia franchise
One month after Disney's decision to pull out, Voyage of the Dawn Treader is back on the slate
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - review
The third Narnia film looks good, but fizzles out after a promising opening, says Peter Bradshaw


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The Amazing Spider-Man 3D
Spider-Man reboot billed as 'the untold story' of the web-slinger's origins. Andrew Garfield is Peter Parker, Emma Stone is Gwen Stacy and Rhys Ifans is The Lizard. Directed by Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer).
Abandoned by his parents as a boy, outcast Peter is raised by his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field). A quest to understand his parents' disappearance leads him to Oscorp and Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father's former partner. At Oscorp he fakes his way into a lab where he is bit by a genetically-modified spider. Its venom endows the lanky teen with increased agility, strength and spider-like abilities and - after the death of Ben at the hand of a thief - Peter is soon sporting a mask and fighting crime as a New York folk hero.
When Connors tests an Oscorp serum on himself and mutates into The Lizard, Peter is faced with protecting the city from this massive threat while juggling his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Stone).
2012Rating: M, contains violence136 minsUSA
ActionAdventure3D
Marc Webb ('500 Days of Summer')
James VanderbiltAlvin SargentSteve Kloves
Andrew GarfieldEmma StoneRhys IfansMartin SheenSally FieldDenis LearyCampbell ScottIrrfan KhanChris Zylka
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A Return To Continuity For The Web Slinger
In what is almost a first for comic book movies, the famous character Spider-Man has been rebooted for film, resulting in a retelling of his origin. While many would ask, "Why do they need to retell it?" it is better to see it as an opportunity for a new portrayal of a fan favourite. So how does this film do compared to that of Raimi's trilogy? From the...
Even asides from the pointlessness of the exercise, considering Raimi's recents, I was excited to see it - but this Spider-Man is a disappointment. It begins with a sense of realism, but descends into ridiculousness making for an awkward tone. Many plot contrivances and one of those films where you're always thinking: "what? why would he/she do...
Liam-Maguren
It tingles the senses
Stupendously fun superhero film. Isn't quite up there with Spider-Man 2, mainly because The Lizard wasn't nearly as interesting or as well developed as Doc Oct. The 'Untold Story' still remains untold, which irked me a little. Nevertheless, I recommend it.
KatieF
'The Amazing Spiderman' was everything you could imagine it to be and more. Andrew Garfield was cast perfectly as Spiderman as was Emma Stone as Gwen Stacey. The storyline was great although predictable as everyone knows the story of Spiderman, it was surprisingly funny also which added to the awesomeness of the movie. The visual effects were amazing, I...
Empire (NZ)
With Great Performances, from Garfield and Stone, this real comic book blockbuster really pulls its head in, and shows the other action flick who's boss. As good, if better (maybe) than the Avengers the Amazing Spider man, is amazing (almost).
A mostly slick, entertaining and emotionally involving recombinations of fresh and familiar elements.
It's Spider-Man Begins Again, struggling in places to assert its own identity... [but] the leads charm, the action crackles and the grooves are well-laid for part two.
Feels like one of those unnecessary software versions, more Spider-Man 1.5 than Spider-Man reborn.
It's the successul synthesis of the action and emotion that means this Spider-Man is as enjoyable as it is impressive.
This is a more thoughtful film, and its action scenes are easier to follow in space and time. If we didn't really need to be told Spidey's origin story again, at least it's done with more detail and provides better reasons for why Peter Parker throws himself into his superhero role.
Director Marc Webb's action-adventure is grounded in a recognizable reality, but is also full of thrills. It's dark and mysterious, but doesn't skimp on fun.
Memorable in pieces but not as a whole.
It creates its own mythology, its own magic, and it's own future. Spider-Man is dead. Long live Spider-Man.
This satisfying reboot slings a darker Spidey, a stronger romance and a welcome slew of tongue-in-cheek humor.
Graced with great performances from Garfield and Stone, [this is] a rare comic-book flick that is better at examining relationships than superheroism
In what is almost a first for comic book movies, the famous character Spider-Man has been rebooted for film, resulting in a retelling of his origin. While many would ask, "Why do they need to retell it?" it is better to see it as an opportunity for a new portrayal of a fan favourite. So how does this film do compared to that of Raimi's trilogy? From...