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HARD BODIES BE GONE
bob calandra, contributing writer | Aug 01, 2004
After 42 years as the country's oldest and largest nationwide operator of health clubs, Bally Total Fitness is dramatically revamping its approach to fitness.
Gone is the old image of fitness: the sculpted, super fit, young, hard bodies. In its place is the concept of total fitness where everyone, regardless of age, shape or size, works out regularly and eats right. While the difference may sound subtle to some, Bally views it as a major change.
"We see a difference between fitness and total fitness," says Martin Pazzani, chief marketing officer for the fitness centers. "We are evolving the company from gyms to a 'total fitness products and services' company. We have reformed the brand and position."
The change went public in December 2003 when the company launched its "Every Body Needs Something" ad campaign. The ads reflect the company's philosophy that says a combination of proper nutrition and diet instruction, along with a regular fitness routine tailored to an individual's specific needs, will produce effective and lasting results. The ads represent a more realistic and modern approach to fitness, Pazzani says, adding that the ads tackle the concerns and lifestyle issues that most Americans face daily while showing that Bally has effective and affordable solutions for all these issues.
FROM CASINOS TO HEALTH CLUBS
Since 1962, Bally has offered solutions to the industry. Originally part of the Bally casino organization, the fitness business grew through acquisitions of other operations, including Jack LaLanne, Vic Tanny and Holiday Health. Today, Bally has more than 440 centers in North America with outlets in 29 states and 45 major metropolitan areas. Most of the clubs go under the Bally Total Fitness or Crunch Fitness name, but the company also owns Gorilla Sports, Pinnacle Fitness and Sports Clubs of Canada.
In 1997, the company spun fitness off from the casino. Since then, Bally has ramped up its in-house product line, opened eight clubs in four foreign markets, and crossed the four million member and $1 billion annual revenue marks. Bally's latest addition in Monterrey, Mexico, opened in April. The company is partnering with Consorcio Spectrum, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican investment group, to open 10 fitness clubs over the next eight years. Bally also has clubs in China, Korea and the Bahamas.
And yet, for many American health club consumers, the Bally Total Fitness name conjures up bad memories. Most of that ire comes from the company's ironclad, until-death-do-you-part contracts that the company previously insisted members buy. Bally now offers a variety of memberships from a day, to a week, to three years.
"The business model that involved a contract has been outdated," Pazzani says. "We sell month-to-month memberships. You can join Bally's for a day, a week or a month. We have the most flexible pricing in the business."
Pazzani, however, defends the multiyear contract, saying it remains the company's best buy.
"What has been lost in all the negativity about the contract is that a huge portion of our members like it because you pay more up front and for the rest of your life you pay a little in membership fees," he says.
AMERICA: LAND OF THE UNFIT
The company has aimed its "Every Body Needs Something" campaign at people who don't exercise or belong to a fitness club — about 88 percent of the population.
"We see this as an unbelievable growth opportunity," Pazzani says. "[The campaign] is a direct response to what Americans want from a fitness company while realizing that everyone has different and personal needs."
To go along with its ad campaign, Bally conducted Every Body Needs Something survey in December. It found that people are looking for answers to weight control issues.
The random sample poll of people 18 and older found that 97 percent of Americans are aware that the United States is the world's fattest nation. Sixty-four percent found this fact embarrassing. Fifty percent of respondents said they were overweight and needed to lose between 20 and 40 pounds.
"We are coming at this at a point in time when Americans have never been fatter and less fit," Pazzani says. "We've made it a mission to play an important role in making America fit. Our objective is to take the company out of the niche and make it a mainstream product and service."
Jon Harris, vice president of communications for Bally, agrees, adding that people are understanding that the only solution is a combination of diet and fitness.
"Eighty percent of the people out there could use our help," Harris says. "It is our goal to make exercise more appealing and inviting whether they are beginners or people who have gone to the gym their whole life. We like to think that we have something to offer you in all aspects of our business."
Despite these survey findings, why don't more Americans work out? The answer, Bally discovered, traced right back to the industry and clubs like Bally.
"We learned that the (hard body) image turned everybody off," Pazzani says. "It was an impossible standard to meet. It was impossible to envision perfection, and people didn't want to go to the gym."
In addition, the average person feels he or she has to get into shape before going to the gym, says Harris. That information led Bally to understand that if it wanted to attract the largest group in America — the baby boomers on the bust side of boom — it had to change its philosophy. The average person wants to stay healthy, feel good and not be bombarded by images of sleek, super fit people. It is a new way of thinking for the industry, Pazzani says.
"The industry has been insular and never looked outside the fitness business for new business," he says. "It has been youth-oriented. The industry is being forced to be better. We know that, as the leader, we have the responsibility to be as accessible as possible. The new ads are more mainstream and reach out to everyone."
More than half a year in, the new ad campaign seems to be working. Bally recorded a 33 percent increase in first quarter memberships. "What we have managed to do in a short amount of time is change the consumer perception of fitness and Bally," Pazzani says.
Both Harris and Pazzani credit Paul Toback, Bally's chairman, CEO and president, with leading the way. The real push came last year when Toback revamped the clubs and revved up the brand potential.
"Part of it is recognizing our strength and knowing our reach and recognizing where we are and where we are going," Harris says. "When Paul came on, this was part of his initiative."
EXPANDING THE MARKET
Since 1997, the company has expanded the marketing of the Bally brand. It started with power bars and shakes sold inside the clubs. From there it led to an agreement with Life Fitness to produce home gym equipment. Smaller, handheld weights are sold through Avon, Foot Locker and Ladies Foot Locker. The branding business is bringing in $150 million a year.
Along with its in-house retail stores, Bally has childcare centers and offers new programs such as Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art form. Members can get a personalized diet and fitness program complete with personal trainer. Bally now has a 30-day, results-oriented, money-back guarantee stating that the company will return money to members who are not satisfied with their results.
The chain has teamed with the Discovery Health Channel and the President's Challenge to Fight Obesity on a series of family fitness offerings that include hip-hop and boot camp classes.
"We offer everything we can to make sure we are the destination," Harris says. "We like to think that we are the one-stop solution. As a leader, we see it as an important position to get America off the couch and into the gym. As an industry, it is critical that we do all we can do."
Bally Total Fitness has joined with Meredith Viera from the TV show "The View" to get America's children fit. Bally is providing personal trainers to five children to help them get in shape. "The goal is to take the concept and educate and motivate the masses," Harris says.
As for what's next, Pazzani says the company isn't revealing its future plans, but he will say that Bally wants to attract mainstream Americans into its clubs. He believes that, over the next five years, fitness will become a regular and expected part of most American's lives.
"What encapsulates Bally is that there is not a better value in fitness on the planet," he says.


I haven't yet seen the film version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but thankfully naill_renfro has, and has parodied it for us.
LUNA: Look, mad horse things. Aren't they cute?
HARRY: Oddly enough, yes. And I feel the strangest urge to take off all of our clothes, then cut their eyes out.
Y'know, I didn't get that the first time through, but now that you point it out, it came to me. Equus. (Which apparently Daniel Radcliffe is starring in, on stage.) Hah. Erudite man, our Naill!
That was funny. Loved the Monkees filk.
Yes, I'm a big Monkees fan - I've been meaning to tell you that I liked your Monkeemen icon for a while. Davy was my favorite when I was (much) younger ('cause he's English and around my height), but Mike became my favorite in more recent years.
My favorite album by them is Pieces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones, and my favorite of their songs is "The Girl that I Knew Somewhere."
Thanks! Davy-and-then-Mike is the progression I made too. :) Mmm, Mike's gentleman-cowboy voice and manners... *sigh* Discovering his solo stuff about ten years ago was a real delight.
It's hard for me to pick a favorite album, but Pisces etc. is a great one. I would put "Headquarters" up high on the list too.
Mike's solo work has been called, "The best music you've never heard." Apparently it was far more successful in England than here.
I met them back in the mid-90s, and they were all nice. I met Micky at a book signing, and at first I thought that he was addressing all of the women near me in line as "Darla," until I realized that he was actually calling them "darlin'." Micky's book, BTW, is very funny and worth reading.
MICKY: Cool. I haven't seen this one before.
ME: This copy is yours - keep it.
When I met Davy (another book signing), I brought in a 60s teen 'zine with Sally Field on the cover, and Davy immediately lit up and said, "Hey, it's Sally!" - they were friends on the Columbia lot back when she was filming The Flying Nun.
Final story: Peter and his friend James Lee Stanley played at a very small folk club in Harvard Square, and at one point Peter had to shout at some college women chatting loudly in the alley near the club to be quiet. Little did they realize they'd been shouted at by a pop culture legend.
How is The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora?
Hehe--very cool stories. Good idea to bring unusual material for them to sign.
I recall Mike's book as being weird but enchanting. It was probably ten years ago that I read it; I figure I'll reread it one of these years and see what I think now.
You're welcome, and sorry it was so late!
I realize you need to perpetuate a good image. However, I really love reading your "All Slash All the Time" LOTR parody, and I was wondering if you could perhaps send it to me at amonre768@Yahoo.com. Or perhaps make it accessible through another page.


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How can older people play a bigger role in society?
The main points from our discussion on how to make the best use of older people's skills, knowledge and experience
• Read the discussion in full
Mon 30 Mar 2015 10.28 EDT
'Older people have a wealth of skills and experiences, they have lived through situations others cannot even imagine.' Photograph: Dag Sundberg
What do people worry about as they grow older?
Anna McEwen, director of support and development, Shared Lives Plus: Older people have different expectations these days, and that will continue to change. What might have been good enough for previous generations will not cut it in the future, and what we have is not sustainable anyway. I certainly don't want to end up in a care home, nor do I want to have to make the decision for my parents to go into one. I have worked with many older people who have just wanted to stay in their own homes. It's about choice, having the services in place to support people to make choices about how they want to live, and be supported when necessary in later life.
Gemma Heath, PA Consulting Group: I think broadly the things people worry about are the same throughout life – finances, wellbeing, loneliness etc – but as people get older their feeling of being able to control these things changes.
Roger Newman, older person and LGBT activist: My concerns are the usual things like health, mortality, money, etc, but having a feeling of significance is also important.
Are there stereotypes of older people?
McEwen: Yes there are. Intergenerational work is a great way to break down barriers between groups of people. For young people to appreciate the experiences and skills of older people and vice versa so that we foster greater understanding between groups of people.
Helen Creighton and George Holley-Moore, International Longevity Centre: There are certainly stereotypes surrounding the baby boomers – well off retirees who maybe took early retirement, own a couple of properties and take frequent holidays. While we have made significant strides in reducing pensioner poverty in the last 20 years (previously to be old meant most likely you would be poor), there is still a significant number of older people living in poverty today. And with wealth inequality comes health inequality, as the Marmot report of 2010 pointed out.
Gillian Connor, head of external affairs, Hanover: I think that older age is still seen as a shorthand for ill-health, inactivity and decline and therefore that stereotype can prevail. There is also an unhelpful stereotype of older people as being anti-youth. There is such brilliant diversity in older age now – you really can't generalise about a group who may range from 50 to 100+.
What role do older people play in society at the moment?
McEwen: Older people have a wealth of skills and experiences, they have lived through situations others cannot even imagine, and yet we continue to dismiss these lifetimes of experiences when they begin to need care and support and instead people become a list of care needs.
Heath: Older people contribute on a macro level to the workplace and financially and at a local level to their communities and individual networks in terms of experience. They have also contributed for many decades which is something which is often forgotten.
Creighton and Moore: Recent research by the ILC estimated that workers over the age of 50 contribute €2.5tr to the Eurozone economy every year, and many older people also contribute to the economy informally – by caring for their grandchildren or other family members. Figures from the Family and Childcare trust report that 2.3 million grandparents say that they look after their grandchildren in order to enable the children's parents to go to work.
How is the environment geared towards (or against) older people taking part in their communities?
Simon Bottery, director of policy and external relations, Independent Age: There are so many simple things that could be improved. For example, most people over 65 walk more slowly than the 1.2 metres per second that is assumed at pedestrian crossings. The result is older people rushing to get across a road as the lights turn to green and the traffic begins to move.
Newman: In Singapore the elderly have smart cards that they can swipe at road crossings and thus slow down the speed that traffic lights change.
Heath: I would extend the "environment" to include people's homes. How are we ensuring that people's homes are adequate for them to remain independent and happy in? Local authorities should review their funding policies to ensure home solutions such as telecare and assistive technology are free to all with substantial need. This supports a reduction in demand on other healthcare services for example A&E departments when issues arise.
Connor: Small things, like well-placed benches for people to rest if they can't walk so well, public toilet provision and thoughtful use of lighting and colour to aid those with dementia can be the difference between being active and housebound.
Creighton and Moore: Making active transport (walking, cycling) more accessible for older people is important. In the UK, cycling remains a disproportionately young (and male) mode of transport. In the Netherlands and Germany, for example, it is far more common for older people to cycle. Improving cycle routes to make them safer is a start. In Scandinavia, planning laws encourage mixed-use development, making journeys from the home to shops and services a lot shorter, and more accessible for older people. This has obvious health benefits, but also can reduce isolation in our older population.
Anthea Tinker, professor of social gerontology, King's College London: The Age Friendly City research in London showed that there were some excellent features such as the freedom pass and better accessibility on buses and tubes but some way to go with such things as overcrowding, antisocial behaviour, lack of handrails and not enough time to cross roads at traffic lights.
What employment opportunities are there for older people?
Newman: I chair a local medical centre patient participation group and we have a number of older members who are using their skills in the workplace. However, working in later life needs to acknowledge our need for flexibility especially when our staying power might be reduced. Job sharing and part-time work can be ideal for us.
Jonathan Morgan, senior service manager, Red Cross independent living services in London: There are a number of opportunities to increase work opportunities for older people, someone mentioned previously that the third sector has notoriously low numbers of older people as employees despite having the most experience of advocating for them as a group. It's a cultural shift that's needed so that young people growing up are understanding the value of older people and the many benefits they can bring to the workplace.
Tinker: There is evidence of age discrimination in the workplace as the recent government report A new vision for older workers: retain, retrain recruit shows.
Interestingly more older people are becoming self employed.

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The long awaited sounds of Sr. Pastor Christopher Shipp and the Bald Rock Gospel Choir is now available. Click on the CdBaby link to preview and or purchase. You can also download songs by clicking on the MP3 link. Enjoy!


So Darrell and Jarrelle Jones (yep, their names almost rhyme) drove all the way from Upper Coomera to Kooralbyn a few Sundays ago with their fresh seafood, and now it's going to be a regular service!
I don't know if it's fortnightly or weekly, so better check their Facebook page, which is called Our Sensational Seafood.
Mike was keen to buy something, so we drove over to Salisbury Avenue and voila! There they were. This is what their truck looks like.
Since they started coming to Kooralbyn, we have been eating more seafood. It's so good and gee, you only live once. We are getting older so why not!
I don't know how to cook things like Morton Bay bugs (aka slipper lobsters).
Plus lemon grass and herbs from our garden, which makes me feel nice! (I grows 'em, he cooks 'em).
There's basil, coriander, kaffir lime, bay leaves.
The first time DJ came here, we bought cod, bugs and prawns.
We did, Steamed Cod, Cantonese style with Ginger, Spring Onions and Soy. Here's the recipe.
I spoiled the presentation by finely chopping the garnish – I should have julienned then and crisscrossed then over the fish. But when you drizzle smoking hot peanut oil over it, that sizzle still smells just as good, regardless.
Mike made Braised Bugs and prawns, Malaysian style with aromatics and spices: Kam Heong style. Here's the recipe for that.
Mike's homemade Chili Oil for added heat. Yum.
Here's some confusion fusion. It's seafood pasta leftovers the next day. I want to put the delicious chilli oil on it, and use chopsticks. It just tastes more yum.
Thank you Darrell and Jarrelle, see you again soon!
https://www.facebook.com/OurSensationalSeafood/ and they're getting a new mobile number so I'll pop that up here soon.
When is your next visit to Kooralbyn. I have not been able to conect with you since my first time. Great fish and prawn. I need more regularly.


More bad news is surfacing from Google's Chinese government-ordained search engine. The project, known as "Dragonfly," has proven unpopular with some Google employees and many, many Google critics. The Intercept obtained leaked documents from a unhappy Google employee back in early August. More information has surfaced, thanks to additional documents leaked to the site. Whatever surveillance/censorship concerns Dragonfly posed are far more pronounced in the wake of these new leaks.
Google's Chinese search engine also contains a blacklist of terms like "human rights," "student protest," and "Nobel Prize," showing the government has a deep interest in using the custom-built search engine to deter and punish dissent. None of this is surprising, other than Google's willingness to participate in government censorship. Google does pretty much the same thing with Android phones here in the US, where everything in the ecosystem is tied to the originating phone. There are ways to prevent that, but most phone users won't take those steps. In China, however, the phones are also registered with the government, removing the third-party hop needed to tie internet activity to a person.
Even Google's seeming embrace of censorship and dissent deterrence may not be as surprising as it should be, as any number of social media platforms have made considerable concessions to authoritarian governments in recent years, rather than face losing market share in these countries.
The more details come out, the worse Google looks. As Ryan Gallagher reports, Google would also be complicit in replacing facts with the Chinese government's approved narrative.
Companies make bad decisions when faced with doing the right thing or doing the most profitable thing. Google premised its existence on not being evil. Pulling out of China lived up to that ideal. This does not. Concessions will always be made, but if these leaked documents are accurate, what Google is doing in China is far more than making small compromises to provide Chinese citizens with platforms not entirely controlled by their government. For all intents and purposes, Dragonfly is the government's toy, built on tech underpinnings and expertise Google has apparently offered willingly.
The longer Google refuses to discuss this publicly, the worse it looks. Its continued silence will make it very difficult to fend off complaints it skews search results for political reasons or placate US government agencies demands for data or broken encryption.


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checkForCppUTestToolsEnvVariable() {
	if [ -z "$CPPUTEST_HOME" ] ; then
	   echo "CPPUTEST_HOME not set. You must set CPPUTEST_HOME to the top level CppUTest directory"
	   exit 1
	fi
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	   echo "CPPUTEST_HOME not set to a directory.  You must set CPPUTEST_HOME to the top level CppUTest directory"
	   exit 2
	fi
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#CPP_SOURCE_TEMPLATES can point to templates you write
#identify the template files
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  then
    TEMPLATE_DIR=$CPPUTEST_HOME/scripts/templates
  else
    TEMPLATE_DIR=$CPP_SOURCE_TEMPLATES
fi

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  templateTestFile=$TEMPLATE_DIR/Interface$testSuffix.cpp
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  templateTestFile=$TEMPLATE_DIR/InterfaceC$testSuffix.cpp
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  templateTestFile=$TEMPLATE_DIR/$templateRootName$testSuffix.cpp
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className=$(echo $className | cut -c1 | tr a-z A-Z)$(echo $className | cut -c 2-)

#if a package is specified, set the directories
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  if [ -e $2 ]
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    fi
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Galactic Carnivale Electricos
By Ryan B. Patrick
Galactic's musical path has seen them transition from purely making organic, Louisiana-flavoured funk to a harmonious gumbo of jazz, electronic and hip-hop. Oddly enough, in the 18 odd years of their existence, the New Orleans-based instrumental funk sextet had never released a Mardi Gras-themed project, until now. "We're obviously from New Orleans, where Mardi Gras is extremely prevalent. When it was time to make this album, it was a concept that really struck a chord with the band," notes Galactic bassist Robert Mercurio. Noted for their concept albums tackling a specific theme or musical vibe, Carnivale Electricos travels along the same wavelength – this time out connecting the musical through line between the respective Big Easy and Brazil carnivals. Hip-hop/samba mash-up "Magalenha," featuring Casa Samba, pays an electric homage to Sergio Mendes' original, while jams like "Out in the Street" (featuring Ivan and Cyril Neville) and the hip-hop juiced "Move Fast" reverentially conjure both pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina musical performance sensibilities. It's a raucous, vibrant, but well structured musical approach that brings along recognized artists (like current lead singer Corey Glover and local rap legends Mystikal and Mannie Fresh) for the ride.
What are your thoughts on the band's evolution over the years?
Mercurio: I think that we're at the point where you take a look at where you've been and where you're going. We see a progression throughout the last six or seven studio albums; it's not the same album over and over again.
There's always been a distinctive hip-hop flavour to your music. What was it like working this time out with Manny Fresh and Mystikal?
Man, they were both great, really professional. Mystikal was just hilarious in the studio. Both of them showed up and we worked on one track from, like, seven p.m. to like seven a.m. It was just amazing to see them create lyrics that quickly.
Would you still consider Galactic primarily an instrumental band or have you evolved beyond that?
It's tough to say. I mean, the core members of the band are an instrumental band; we still do play a good half of a show playing instrumental songs. At the same time, we definitely understand that we love to play vocal songs. And, of course, we've been touring around with Corey Glover from In Living Colour and he's one of the best vocalists in the world. So vocals are definitely not an afterthought; we do both. (Anti)
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The photos are part of a series taken in Sardinia (Italy) in a harsh environment, the coasts eroded by the sea.
Francesco Merella born in Pattada May 22, 1949 and operates in the city of Sassari (Sardinia - Italy). The passion for photography was born already at a very young age, but only for about 20 years has been able to develop his interest together with the passion for traveling to the study of little-known cultures and environment. He has prepared numerous photographic works of travel reportage in Africa, Central and South America, India and Melanesia. He also participated in numerous national and international competitions with excellent results and reports including, Oasis and Aspherical in Italy, The Dome of Florence, Hipa Dubai, Leica Talent, Sony Award and others, including the international photography contest EPC "Emirates photography Competition 2014 "on the theme decisive moment, with a photo essay on Berta, a tribe of d 'gold diggers in Ethiopia. On that occasion he received the Gold Medal of the "PSA - Photographic Society of America".
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Simon Bewick: Fiction and More
Noir from the Bar
Authors: An Extended Profile of Joe R. Lansdale
Series Note: This is one of a series of 10 posts looking at my favourite authors writing today. Not just the writers I like; I'm talking the ones I pre-order anything new that they release and spend unhealthy amounts of time and money searching out back catalogue books that have been written under pseudonyms or via more non-conventional routes. To this end I make two points upfront, neither with apology.
These suckers are going to run long – and I mean long. These are the authors that make me love reading, and inspire my own writing, so you bet these posts will go on some…
These are not going to be literary criticisms of their works: I'm not equipped enough to do so, and as I said, these are my favourite living authors: so this might get very fan boy….
I first came across Joe R. Lansdale's work in a small Bargain Books in Oxford while looking for something new to read one work lunchtime back in around 1993. It wasn't so much the cover of 1989's By Bizarre Hands that caught my attention: – it was the back cover blurb: 'The genre's most interesting stylist…with a healthy sense of black humour and moral outrage' (New York Times), it was the 'About the Author' paragraph explaining Lansdale had written 5 novels and a 'vast number of short stories', and it was Lewis Shiner's persuasive introduction which described how publishers were too scared and/ or confused to publish Lansdale's work. All of this seemed very interesting to me as a short story lover who had been looking for something different for a while (see my post on Great Short Stories for my thoughts on the market at that time…) I shelled out the £4.99 cover price and started my relationship with Joe R. Lansdale.
25 years on, Joe R. Lansdale has written a lot more than 5 novels – The bibliography in Miracles Ain't What They Used To Be (2016) lists over 44 novels, as well as over 300 shorts, comics, adaptations, screenplays and anthologies. I haven't read every one of those works: writing such a range of works for so many publishers and occasionally under pseudonyms such as Ray Slater, Brad Simmons and Jack Buchanan, and with some print runs in very limited quantities which are occasionally very expensive to buy new and ridiculously expensive to buy second-hand…) makes it a difficult task. But I've read a lot –
Now that's not my entire collection, but it gives a flavor of the amount, if not necessarily the range, of books Lansdale has written. While his Wikipedia entry describes him as a writer of the 'splatterpunk' movement, I think that's an overly reductive term. Yes, some of his writing is graphic, gory and violent – whether it be in modern-day Texas, the Great Depression, the American frontier, or a prehistoric jungle by way of a comet-stricken Drive In…are you starting to get the picture? Joe R. Lansdale is not a writer you can pigeonhole…
He does have re-occurring themes: abuse (to children, to women, to animals), and a strong stance against intolerance of a wide variety (racism in particular is a common factor: and one memorable amateur review I read described him as a racist writer – which is missing the point of his writing at an impressively stupid level) but pigeonhole? Not easy.
Given the length and breadth of Lansdale's writing this piece can only begin to scratch the surface – and it will concentrate on the man's writing, not his personal life or history: although I get the impression if you read his books you know the man to some small degree – and not just through his commonly used locale of East Texas (Stephen King has his Castle Rock universe, Joe R. Lansdale has Laborde), but through characters and situations which (and this is part guess-work/part glimpses gained from Lansdale interviews) have featured in his and his family tree history. If Hap Collins, the protagonist in Lansdale's most popular series, isn't Batman (which incidentally Lansdale has also written) to his Bruce Wayne, then he definitely shares many of the author's beliefs and values.
And so, to the books…
Savage Season: the first of the Hap and Leonard Novels
Hap and Leonard (ten novels, four novellas, and three short story collections at the time of writing) have become Lansdale's most familiar work: Hap Collins, a forty something white working-class ex-Vietnam war protester and Leonard Pine, a gay, black Vietnam vet who just can't avoid getting into scrapes – often at Leonard's making. The first Hap and Leonard novel 'Savage Season' sees the two getting roped into a nefarious treasure hunt by Hap's ex-wife and her gang of misfit miscreants. Since that auspicious debut the pair have featured in a wide range of adventures with an ever-increasing cast of supporting characters, many of whom have appeared in other Lansdale novels – adding to the 'universe' feel of his work, and providing the long-term fans with great fun in the cross referencing. For the longest time, back in the days when IMDB had message boards, fans would argue who should play the duo in a movie version (for the record, my suggestion back in the day was Kevin Costner and Wesley Snipes if I recall…) before finally in 2016 Sundance TV produced the first season, based on Saveage Season. Hap was played by James Purefoy, Leonard by Michael Kenneth Williams:
James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams as 'Hap and Leonard'.
both, to be fair, better than my original choices. The series came about as close to capturing the novels feel as possible on 'mainstream' TV (– are the execs quite ready for the conversation Hap and Leonard have in Mucho Mojo, the second novel in the series, about the black man with AIDS who jacks off into the honkie folks' mayonnaise (oh, and he's ugly too)?) as written in the book? Maybe not. But I actually barked with laughter on a first reading of it.
Although the show received incredibly positive reviews from fans and critics alike ("This season, Mucho Mojo is doing something pretty fantastic–you should care enough to watch"- Collider), was the highest rating for Sundance TV, and had the complete devotion of all cast and crew involved, it was cancelled after 3 seasons. Whether this was because of the difficulty in getting to see it in the US (coming from the UK, we had easy access via Amazon Prime), or, as suggested by some, that it didn't fit with the politics of the time is open for discussion. In an ideal world, when shows such as Lucifer, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Designated Survivor, and other lesser pieces are getting a reprieve from cancellation by take up from Netflix, Amazon and others , Hap and Leonard will find a reprieve somewhere, somehow.
But back to the books.
As funny and coarse as Hap and Leonard might be (and believe me at times it is both), don't think for a moment that the books are mere smut comedies, or are salacious written throwaways: they're not – and the growth of cast members means that as the book series progresses and certain characters we have come to know and care about, either via one novel or throughout the series come to harm, we genuinely care for them (and this is a no spoiler article, don't worry).
As much as Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch resulted in me 'paying homage' to their work in my early schoolboy short story writing, Hap and Leonard was the major influence in the first novel I wrote – in spirit and intention, if not in quality…
And what about the writing?
Well, you don't get to be an Edgar Best Crime Novel, Inkpot Lifetime Achievement, ten times Bram Stoker including a Lifetime Achievement, and Grandmaster of Horror award winner if you can't put a few lines of words together in a pretty decent way…
As I said in the beginning of this article, with a library as big as Lansdale's it's simply impossible to cover everything. If this was a longer piece I'd wax lyrical about novels like 'Cold in July' – an apparent Cape Fear style revenge story for all of the first couple of chapters, before it goes in a very different, and a very 'Lansdale' direction (made into a pretty fine movie by Jim Mickle and Nick Damici, with great turns from Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, and in particular Don Johnson as Jim Bob Luke – one of those previously mentioned types who appear across the Lansdale universe.
Or I'd talk more about The Thicket – a turn-of-the-century crime novel which sees Jack Parker, a young boy forced to enlist a bounty hunting dwarf, a grave-digger son of a slave, and a sharp shooting female gun-for-hire to help him rescue his kidnapped sister…
Or maybe concentrate on the short stories – and any one of my many favourites – My Dead Dog Bobby; Dog, Cat, and Baby; Down By the Sea Near the Great Big Rock; Night They Missed the Horror Show; Bubba Ho-Tep (although I mentioned that elsewhere on this blog…), I'd like to talk about some of the stories in the collection The Good, The Bad and the Indifferent – but that's currently going for £485 second hand on Amazon…, so instead I might have talked about the story or the play version of the short By Bizarre Hands – the one that got me started on all this.
But if I'm going to write about one more piece of work I'm going to write a little bit about The Bottoms – the book that won the Edgar Best Crime Novel back in 2001. And when I write about it, it is with one tinge of sadness.
The Bottoms – Joe R. Lansdale
I'm a sharing person – as I've said elsewhere in posts the fact a book or a movie or a piece of music is not in my collection it doesn't mean I don't like it – in some cases it's because I like it too much. I like to share: and in some ways perhaps that's why I write. To share. Of all the things I've bought, lent and rebought, I'd say the three pieces of art I've shared, never to be seen again, and therefore bought again (and again), would be Glenn Gould's The Goldberg Variations, Lawrence Block's writer's manual Telling Lies For Fun and Profit, and Joe R. Lansdale's The Bottoms.
The Bottoms is set in East Texas during the Great Depression. A young boy finds the mutilated body of a black woman, and along with his younger sister set out to find out who the murderer is. What follows is a coming-of-age story encompassing family, race and prejudice in various forms, all wrapped up in a mystery thriller of the very highest order. Aaaaand…I'm not going to write much more about the plot than that.
I've leant or recommended The Bottoms to over a dozen people – and that's personally recommended it, rather than a review like this – and I have glowed in the adopted praise in their enjoyment of it…so I guess there's another one to add to the three things I already thought I owed Joe R. Lansdale…
The tinge of sadness? As mentioned in my post on underrated thrillers, The Bottoms was being prepared for filming – co-produced by Lansdale, and to be directed by Bill Paxton. With Paxton's tragic death in 2017, we lost a much under-rated actor, and a director who had potential to do great things after his sorely underseen debut Frailty.
I think The Bottoms would have been to Joe Lansdale what Shawshank Redemption was for Stephen King, and made a lot more people aware of his work.
And, as this night is getting late, I'll bring this epic to a close…
Oh, the three things?
First, and most obviously, there's the stories – always the stories.
Second, are the 'finds by association' when you follow an author: you know the sort – a comparison on back cover blurb to others (typically in Lansdale's case the likes of Cormac McCarthy, Harry Crewes, Walter Tevis, and Harper Lee), but there's also the new introductions you can get through the author's own influences or passions: so it was through reading Joe R. Lansdale I found Andrew Vachss, Neal Barrett Jr. and the music of Kasey Lansdale (and indeed the writing – Terror Is Our Business: Dana Roberts' Casebook of Horrors the collaboration between Joe and his daughter has recently arrived, and is my last unread book in my collection…)
And thirdly – the support. Joe R. Lansdale, along with Lawrence Block, has been both inspirational to a new writer (and there's certainly influences in some of my stories in Basement Tales) and supportive: answering questions with patience and enthusiasm.
You can find more of Joe R. Lansdale's work on his official website here
I hope you've enjoyed this extended post: I know it's longer than the usual, but hopefully you found something of interest within. If you did, please feel free to share, and, as always, follow the blog for more free fiction, reviews, resource suggestions for writers and more. I'm aiming to get the next in this series out for next Monday, but there'll be plenty of new stuff in between. And if you're looking for something new to read that isn't Joe R. Lansdale…well, you know…
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Safeplace Inc., is one of nineteen domestic violence shelters serving the victims of abuse in the state of Alabama. These shelter programs join together to form the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Safeplace was commissioned to serve the counties of Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Marion and Winston.
Safeplace opened at the beginning of the social reformation concerning family violence in 1981. At that time is was supported and staffed by concerned citizens who saw the need and rose to the challenge. On that first opening day in June, the twelve available beds were filled. Since that time, with the help of federal and state funding, independent grants and community contributions, coupled with blood, sweat and tears, Safeplace has grown to a 40 bed facility offering services far beyond what could be provided in those early years.
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The Lamp
1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. 3Aaron shall set it up in the tent of meeting, outside the curtain of the covenant,
Or treaty, or testament; Heb eduth
to burn from evening to morning before the Lord regularly; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 4He shall set up the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold
Heb pure lampstand
before the Lord regularly.
The Bread for the Tabernacle
5You shall take choice flour, and bake twelve loaves of it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf. 6You shall place them in two rows, six in a row, on the table of pure gold.
Heb pure table
7You shall put pure frankincense with each row, to be a token offering for the bread, as an offering by fire to the Lord. 8Every sabbath day Aaron shall set them in order before the Lord regularly as a commitment of the people of Israel, as a covenant forever. 9They shall be for Aaron and his descendants, who shall eat them in a holy place, for they are most holy portions for him from the offerings by fire to the Lord, a perpetual due.
Blasphemy and Its Punishment
10A man whose mother was an Israelite and whose father was an Egyptian came out among the people of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and a certain Israelite began fighting in the camp. 11The Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name in a curse. And they brought him to Moses—now his mother's name was Shelomith, daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan—12and they put him in custody, until the decision of the Lord should be made clear to them.
13The Lord said to Moses, saying: 14Take the blasphemer outside the camp; and let all who were within hearing lay their hands on his head, and let the whole congregation stone him. 15And speak to the people of Israel, saying: Anyone who curses God shall bear the sin. 16One who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death; the whole congregation shall stone the blasphemer. Aliens as well as citizens, when they blaspheme the Name, shall be put to death. 17Anyone who kills a human being shall be put to death. 18Anyone who kills an animal shall make restitution for it, life for life. 19Anyone who maims another shall suffer the same injury in return: 20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to be suffered. 21One who kills an animal shall make restitution for it; but one who kills a human being shall be put to death. 22You shall have one law for the alien and for the citizen: for I am the Lord your God. 23Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel; and they took the blasphemer outside the camp, and stoned him to death. The people of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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It's time to step back and take a look at our first five days of our IndieGoGo Campaign for our new film Pitching Tents, a coming-of-age film set in the 1980s, and see what lessons we have learned thus far.
Crowdfunding is all about getting the word out to as many people as possible and building a solid foundation of supporters. The earlier you can start the process, the better off you will be. And that can include writing a blog (like I do with this blog), having an active Facebook and Twitter presence, building social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Creative District, etc) for your movie and actively updating them every day or so, gathering email addresses of your fans and sending them newsletters about your work, and spreading the word about your projects to anyone who will listen.
2) Crowdfunding is a full-time job.
3) It takes a village.
We have five people on our core team of Pitching Tents who are actively promoting the campaign and that doesn't include our spouses and loved ones and close colleagues and cast and crew who are helping us get the word out. It takes a village to make a movie and that includes the crowdfunding campaign. Build a team to help make it happen. You will be much more successful and you will have others to lean on throughout. And you will need your team to help rally each other through the tough times. And a team can bring many more ideas to the table than you can dream of or execute yourself.
Here's three of us from the core team with our pics from the 1980s - the decade in which our film takes place! Totally rad!!
You never know when or from whom your next contribution will come. You will write a gazillion emails and tweets and Facebook updates and you won't know who will feel compelled to contribute. So keep on promoting, day in, day out. Hit up that new blogger. Write to that journalist you've been meaning to contact. Send an email to your aunt you haven't spoken to in a while. I know it's daunting and for many of us, it's downright scary. But if you want your film to be a success, you need to break out of your comfort zone and keep promoting Every. Single. Day. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
We want our contributors to know how much they are valued and that we truly are grateful for all of their support. Oh and we thank everyone on our own personal Facebook pages as well, which auto-tweet to our Twitter accounts. In the end, thank yous go a long way.
I too wake up each day worrying about failure but I know I can't allow those feelings to keep me down. No matter what happens, I have to pick myself back up and keep going. What other choice do I have? I want to make movies. And I know the only way I can do that is if I force myself to put one foot in front of the other and just keep pushing to make my career happen. Success = doing it. So just do it.
Have fun with your IndieGoGo campaign. Doing things outside of the box will only draw more attention and that's a good thing! For our campaign, one of our writer/producers is leaving on a road trip across the United States from LA to Connecticut, where we will be filming. We will need his car for the production and he thought it would be a good excuse to take his family on a road trip - dual purpose trip - we love it! So we thought, why not create a publicity campaign out of his road trip? Third-purpose trip!!! So starting this Monday, Jayme is going to start on the trip with his family and he will be posting updates, videos, pictures of the sights they see and rally support from those he meets along the way. We can't wait to push the film and our campaign while he's driving. It's creative and frankly, it's fun! And again, we have everything to gain and nothing to lose by it.
What's that saying? Don't reinvent the wheel. Well that's true for crowdfunding campaigns. Research those who have gone before you. See what worked for them and try it with your campaign. Read everything and watch every video you can about how to make your campaign a success. It will help.
IndieGoGo has been doing this for a while and the CEO offers some great suggestions based on hard data from their campaigns. Click here for his tips.
I received a lot of hope from this great video from Film Courage (who also did a wonderful Q&A with our director Jake here).
A positive attitude is incredibly important to your success in anything. Who wants to be around a grouch? Not me. I doubt you do either. There will be dark moments during your crowdfunding campaign when you will wonder why no one is contributing. You will feel like you're speaking but no one's listening, or worse, no one cares. You will cry out of frustration, fear and embarrassment at times during the process. No one wants to be a failure. But crowdfunding can make you feel like a failure - even those campaigns who have met their goals have experienced moments of darkness before they saw the light. Just know that you are doing something to make your project happen, regardless of the outcome. You have seized the day. You took control of your destiny and your film. You put yourself out there. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose.
10) Remember to help others.
It's important to your success to give back to the people who have helped you and to help others just like you! Give and you shall receive. Over the years, I have contributed to many Kickstarters and IndieGoGo campaigns and I have shared countless links and helped spread the word of many other campaigns and films. I have a drawer full of perks as proof and I wear my T-shirts from other campaigns to this day (in fact, I'm wearing one right now). And if I hadn't done that, I don't know how I would feel comfortable asking others to help me now. Crowdfunding is not a one-way street. Nor is filmmaking. Nor is anything in life really. We have to be there for each other. I know it's physically impossible to help everyone who asks for your help but remember to help as much as you can. And remember that contributing doesn't have to mean money. It can mean spreading the word about a film or a campaign to your friends and family and hopefully that same person will spread the word about your film and campaign when you're ready to make your own film and start your own campaign.
Just like our campaign video says below, it takes a village, we can't do it without you, and if we tell two friends and you tell two friends and so on and so on then how can we not be a success?
Well, those are some ten tips we've learned thus far. I'm sure we'll keep on learning more and I will share them with you. And thanks everyone for your continual support and reading my blog all these years! It warms my heart knowing you're out there, rooting for the success of the indie film industry. Let's come together and just do it!! Have a great day everyone!


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La saison 2013-2014 du championnat d'Argentine de football est la  professionnelle de la première division en Argentine. Les vingt meilleures équipes du pays sont regroupées au sein d'une poule unique où elles s'affrontent deux fois, lors de deux tournois semestriels, qui couronnent pour chacun la première équipe au classement. À la fin du tournoi Final, un classement cumulé des trois dernières saisons détermine les trois clubs relégués en deuxième division.

Ce sont les formations de San Lorenzo de Almagro et du River Plate qui sont sacrées lors des tournois Inicial et Final. Il s'agit respectivement des  et  de champion d'Argentine de l'histoire de ces deux clubs.

Les clubs participants

 River Plate
 Boca Juniors
 All Boys
 Arsenal
 Atlético de Rafaela
 Belgrano (Córdoba)
 Colón (Santa Fe)
 Quilmes
 Tigre
 Vélez Sarsfield
 San Lorenzo de Almagro
 Estudiantes (La Plata)
 Lanús
 Godoy Cruz (Mendoza)
 Newell's Old Boys (Rosario)
 Argentinos Juniors
 Racing Club
 Rosario Central - Promu de D2
Gimnasia y Esgrima (La Plata) - Promu de D2
 Olimpo (Bahía Blanca) - Promu de D2

Compétition
Le barème de points servant à établir le classement se décompose ainsi :
 Victoire : 3 points
 Match nul : 1 point
 Défaite : 0 point

Classements

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Tournoi Inicial

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Tournoi Final

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Relégation
Un classement cumulé des trois dernières saisons est établi pour déterminer les trois relégués.

 Le Colón (Santa Fe) et l'Atlético de Rafaela sont à égalité parfaite au classement cumulé pour la dernière place de maintien en Primera Division. Un barrage entre les deux formations est donc organisé à Rosario.

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Bilan de la saison

Voir aussi

Références

Liens internes
 Championnat d'Argentine de football

Liens externes
  Page complète sur la saison sur RSSSF

Championnat d'Argentine de football
Argentine
Sport en Argentine en 2013
Sport en Argentine en 2014

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Konami resurrects 'Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls' as Apple Arcade exclusive
AppleInsider Staff | Aug 14, 2021
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It was announced this week that "Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls," a game Konami unveiled in 2018, will be finally see wide availability on iOS as an Apple Arcade exclusive.
Described as a "full-fledged side-scrolling action game" in its App Store preview, "Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls" puts players in the boots of familiar characters like Alucard, Simon Belmont, Charlotte, Shanoa and Maria as they do battle with Dracula's minions.
"Set in a world after Dracula has been sealed away, the pages of a new story bringing together heroes of the past have begun to turn," the App Store description reads.
The game was announced in 2018 and soft launched in Canada in 2019, only to be shelved last year. Konami did not explain why the title was pulled from the App Store, but it appears that the "Castlevania" installment will make its return "soon."
According to Konami's updated "Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls" webpage, the title will feature multiple game modes including bounty hunt and co-op.
A separate App Store page says the game provides "epic" amounts of content spread across 60 levels, with progression marked through a wide variety of equipment and unlockable characters. To hold player interest, fresh content will be served in the form of daily and weekly missions.
As noted by Gematsu, which spotted the announcement on Friday, series creators Ayami Kojima and Michiru Yamane worked on the project's character designs and music, respectively.
Apple Arcade is a subscription service priced at $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year. Users gain access to a constantly growing catalog of games that recently topped 200 titles. Apple offers a free one-month trial subscription for new customers.
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Looking forward to this one. It's great to see another game on the service that appeals to my generation.
Great news, I hope Konami get even more invested in iOS. Would be amazing to see ports of MGS or Silent Hill. Peace Walker would be very welcome.
Apple & Google will have to tighten health app requirements, say researchers
New laws mean any App Stores that include health or medical apps must be more rigorous gatekeepers — and perhaps should not distribute its own apps.
Apple Support app gains 3 languages, expands into 118 new regions
The Apple Support app is now usable by even more Apple users, with three new languages and an expansion into 118 new regions bringing the software tool to a wider audience.


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In the world's poorest countries, slightly more than 1 in 4 children are engaged in child labour
Children around the world are routinely engaged in paid and unpaid forms of work that are not harmful to them. However, they are classified as child labourers when they are either too young to work or are involved in hazardous activities that may compromise their physical, mental, social or educational development. In the least developed countries, slightly more than one in four children (ages 5 to 17) are engaged in labour that is considered detrimental to their health and development.
The issue of child labour is guided by three main international conventions: the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 138 concerning minimum age for admission to employment and Recommendation No. 146 (1973); ILO Convention No. 182 concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour and Recommendation No. 190 (1999); and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. These conventions frame the concept of child labour and form the basis for child labour legislation enacted by countries that are signatories.
Prevalence of child labour
Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest proportion of child labourers (29 per cent of children aged 5 to 17 years). This is in stark comparison to the Middle East and North Africa, where 5 per cent of children in this age group are performing potentially harmful work.
Gender disparities
In all regions, boys and girls are equally likely to be involved in child labour. However, gender disparities are often observed in the types of activities carried out, with girls far more likely to be involved in unpaid household services.
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The main sources of data on child labour include the UNICEF-supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and the ILO-supported Statistical Information and Monitoring Programme on Child Labour (SIMPOC) surveys. The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have adopted the MICS module on child labour in its questionnaires. Many countries also produce national labour estimates and reports that often include data on child labour and/or employment among children.
Data on child labour have been collected in MICS since 2000 in more than 50 surveys through a standard module questionnaire. A standard definition of child labour was also used to calculate the prevalence of child labour across countries. In 2010, following consultations with ILO, the standard MICS questionnaire underwent a careful revision to make it consistent with currently available international standards.[1]
The MICS module covers children 5 to 17 years old and includes questions on the type of work a child does and the number of hours he or she is engaged in it. Data are collected on both economic activities (paid or unpaid work for someone who is not a member of the household, work for a family farm or business) and domestic work (household chores such as cooking, cleaning or caring for children). The MICS child labour module also collects information on hazardous working conditions.
SIMPOC questionnaires have been developed to be used in a variety of data collection methods, including in stand-alone, household-based, child labour surveys and as a separate module in other household-based surveys. No specific operational definition of child labour is used in SIMPOC surveys across countries, but estimates are calculated on the basis of the definition used in the national legislation of individual countries. As a result, the definition of child labour that is used to calculate child labour estimates differs markedly among countries, as do the resulting estimates.
In December 2008, the International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) adopted the Resolution concerning the measurement of working time. The resolution sets standards for the collection and analysis of data on child labour and calls upon all countries to develop a system of child labour statistics. The resolution also confirms that any type of work undertaken by children should be considered in the measurement of child labour, in addition to economic activities. The target populations for the resolution are children aged 5 to 17 years who, during a specified time period, were engaged in one or more of the following categories of activities: worst forms of child labour,[2] employment below the minimum age, and unpaid household services.
The Resolution concerning the measurement of working time sets the threshold for economic activities at 14 or more hours per week for children aged 12 to 14 years, but does not specify precise thresholds for unpaid household services due to a lack of evidence that would support such a threshold. Since then, UNICEF and ILO have both conducted data analyses to support the establishment of a threshold for the inclusion of unpaid household services in the measurement of child labour. The results of these analyses were presented at the 19th ICLS, which took place in Geneva in October 2013.[3]
UNICEF's standard indicator for child labour includes the following:
Age 5 to 11 years: At least 1 hour of economic work or 21 hours of unpaid household services per week.
Age 12 to 14 years: At least 14 hours of economic work or 21 hours of unpaid household services per week.
Age 15 to 17 years: At least 43 hours of economic work per week.
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[1] This means that data on child labour from earlier rounds of MICS are not directly comparable with data collected in subsequent rounds for any given country. The new MICS child labour module is only administered in reference to one randomly selected child within the relevant age group, rather than all children in the household. The rationale behind the changes introduced in the new MICS module can be found here: United Nations Children's Fund, How Sensitive Are Estimates of Child Labour to Definitions?, MICS Methodological Paper No. 1, UNICEF, New York, 2012.
[2] ILO Convention No. 182 defines the worst forms of child labour, to be prohibited to all persons under 18 years, as a) all forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery, such as the sale and trafficking of children, debt bondage and serfdom and forced or compulsory labour, including forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict; b) the use, procuring or offering of a child for prostitution, for the production of pornography or pornographic performances; c) the use, procuring or offering of a child for illicit activities, in particular for the production and trafficking of drugs as defined in the relevant international treaties; and d) work which, by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out, is likely to harm the health, safety or morals of children.
[3] UNICEF, Impact of Unpaid Household Services on the Measurement of Child Labour, MICS Methodological Paper No. 2, UNICEF, New York, 2013.
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A consortium of banks headed by J.P. Morgan Chase will become the main financial consultant of Uzbekistan in obtaining a sovereign credit rating and issuing of sovereign bonds.
Uzbekistan's financial regulator relaxed the rules for Kazakh banks to gain access to the local market, paving the way for Halyk Bank, Kazakhstan's largest lender, which had expressed interest in entering its neighbor's banking sector, the Diplomat reported.
Uzbekistan plans to introduce Islamic finance regulations and set up an Islamic finance institution to expand its banking sector and tap foreign markets as part of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's efforts to revamp the economy, Reuters reported.
The World Bank Country Office in Tashkent hosted a workshop in the context of the preparatory work for launching the Digital Central Asia – South Asia (CASA) project in Uzbekistan. The project will contribute to digital infrastructure, e-government and digital economy development in the country.
World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Cyril Muller reconfirmed the World Bank Group's strong commitment to support Uzbekistan as it goes through a major economic and social transformation, and encouraged Uzbek authorities to maintain the impressive pace and scope of reforms.
The Government of Uzbekistan issued a resplution approving the roadmap for 2018 aimed at financial improvement and boosting the efficiency of the companies that are part of UzbekEnergo, according to Norma.uz.
Starting from July 2, the Central Bank of Uzbekistan will be issuing 50 (fifty), 100 (one hundred), 200 (two hundred), 500 (five hundred) soum coins into circulation, the Central Bank published the design of coins.
There should be no rush to adopt the new tax concept, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said at government meeting devoted to tax reforms last week. He noted the importance of taking into account foreign experience and the proposals made by international organizations.
Uzbekistan's transformational economic reforms, aimed at improving people's lives, will be supported by a US$ 500 million development policy financing loan, approved today by the World Bank's Board of Executive Directors.
The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a $300 million policy-based loan to help improve economic management in Uzbekistan, which will help support macroeconomic stability and sustain high growth in the country.


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