In Don't Dangle Your Participle Vanita explains what a dangling participle is and explains how to fix the sentence so that the participle no longer dangles and mangles the sentence's meaning. The participle comes before the noun to clarify it, but Vanita shows how easy it is for the modifier to get lost, ending up in the wrong place in the sentence. If you still don't get it from that explanation, well, this is because explanations are easier to understand when Vanita adds in pictures to make her point.
I know this because dangling participles (and dangling modifiers, but that is another story) have always confused me, BUT honest, after reading Don't Dangle Your Participle, I understand what a dangling participle is and how to correct the sentence and send the raskly participle on its way to bother someone else's sentence. Don't Dangle Your Participle belongs in every school library and language arts classrooms. Using humorous illustrations, Vanita shows how the participle, when left to dangle, changes the meaning of the sentences often with disastrous consequences. Try this one.
While riding his skateboard in the park, a deer almost ran into Lester.
What this sentence is saying is this: When the deer rode his skateboard in the park, it almost ran into Lester. This is not what the sentence was supposed to mean. The dangling Participle—riding—changed the meaning of the sentence to something unintended and, as shown by the illustration, often something unintentionally funny. Vanita clearly shows kids how to fix these sentences.
Did you get the correct sentence? Maybe another illustration will help.
Correct: While riding his skateboard in the park, Lester was almost hit by a deer.
Vanita has a canny way of helping kids understand English and its many rules. She effectively uses humor, which can help a child remember a concept. The more senses involved in learning, the better the material will be remembered. Vanita easily explains a subject, breaking it down so that kids can get the concept quickly. Don't Dangle Your Participle may be her best language arts book yet.
Don't Dangle Your Participle can help teachers explain sentence structure in general and the dangling participle. Many of Vanita's books make great adjunct texts, especially in a homeschooling situation. For those kids that like to learn, Vanita Books make learning loads of fun. Don't Dangle Your Participle helps the teacher and student, and charitable organizations—all net profits go to select charities. Try one more. Are you ready?
Melting in the hot sun, Ida rushed to finish her ice cream.
This sentence says, As Ida was melting, she rushed to finish her ice cream. The dangling participle—melting—changed the meaning of this sentence. The writer is trying to say, the ice cream was melting, but darn it, he dangled the participle!
I bet you figured out the correct sentence. Just in case, here it is with a visual aide.
English is a difficult language. The rules are numerous and onerous. Kids need all the help they can get in understanding how to write English. Don't Dangle Your Participle can be that help and should be available to every school child by way of the classroom and the library. Vanita explains the participle—a verb that acts like an adjective—and what happens when the participle no longer comes before the proper noun—it dangles. Her use of fun and funny illustrations help drive home her explanations. If I can finally understand these dangerous dangling participles, kids will be able to and probably faster. Use Don't Dangle Your Participle can be used at home and at school to increase your child's ability to write English properly. A skill that will help children their entire life.
Learn more about Don't Dangle Your Participle HERE.
Buy Don't Dangle Your Participle at Amazon—B&N—Vanita Books—your local bookstore.
DON'T DANGLE YOUR PARTICIPLE. Text copyright © 2014 by Vanita Oelschlager. Illustrations copyright © 014 by Mike DeSantis. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Vanita Books, Akron, OH.
I will be buying this one for sure for our homeschool library! Thanks for sharing this with us at Booknificent Thursday!
🙂 I absolutely will!!! You are welcome!
I love the premise of this book. As you say, it would be a fine addition to any classroom. Thanks so much for a great recommendation.
Okay, even though the concept appeals to me as a grammar nitpicker, I don't like the examples shown here. The second example, in particular, about the ice cream, turns a simple sentence into an awkwardly-phrased passive construction ("the ice cream had to be finished quickly by Ida"). The funny pictures to accompany the danglers is brilliant, but I'd rather show them how to get around the problem entirely than just create a new (possibly worse) sentence that is grammatically correct. Kids aren't robots; surely we can entrust them with more creative ways to solve the problem (like, "Ida had to finish the ice cream, because it was melting in the sun")?
Vanita Books, which I forgot to add, sends all profits to wonderful 501 c organizations, has some of the better books for kids on writing and learning components of English. No surprise, Vanita was–actually still is–a teacher.
Great title! Great review, Sue!
Ha! Those participles are hilarious! I kind of like them dangling….
Me, too. I love the girl melting into the road.


Here's how you reinvigorate a town suffering from doughnut fatigue: You take those oversized glucose bombs and shrink 'em, Mike Teavee-style, into bite-sized, poppable morsels. In truth, Willy Wonka would probably approve of everything that's going on at the newish Northeast sweets shop Sleepy V's. Take the ever-changing, off-the-wall flavors—no snozzberry that we've seen, but there's been a Sioux City Sarsaparilla with chocolate flakes and a Maraschino cherry, plus a caramelized, dulce de leche-stuffed crème brûlée doughnut you crack with a spoon as though it were the real thing. That bad boy is among the shop's newer, full-sized sweets, but if you go in for the teeny ones, there's another added benefit. You can eat, like, five. At least.


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OPHELIA is screening in selected UK cinemas from Friday 22 November, and will then be available on demand from Wednesday 27 November on these platforms: iTunes, Amazon, Sky Store, Virgin, Rakuten, Chili.
A full Shakespeare Magazine review of OPHELIA will follow shortly.
Filed Under: Shakespeare News Tagged With: Claire McCarthy, Claudius, Clive Owen, Daisy Ridley, Elsinore, Gertrude, Hamlet, Laertes, Naomi Watts, Ophelia, Shakespeare Film, Shakespeare Magazine, Tom Felton, William Shakespeare
If you were one of those lucky enough to get a ticket, director Kenneth Branagh's massively over-subscribed RADA Hamlet starring Tom Hiddleston was all about the "intimacy and intensity" of acting craft at its finest, writes Maddy Fry
Photos by Johan Persson
I've often found it comforting that most of Tom Hiddleston's alter-egos seem incapable of making good choices. Whether it's the PTSD-inspired alcoholism of Freddie Page in The Deep Blue Sea or the Shakespearean sibling angst of the Marvel villain Loki, most of his characters are dogged by despair and failure.
Even the nefarious Prince Hal of The Hollow Crown and the enigmatic Jonathan Pine at the centre of The Night Manager go through considerable travails before fulfilling their true purpose. It seemed apt that director Kenneth Branagh described the Prince of Denmark, that great monument to unfulfilled ambition, as "the role he was born to play."
For any devotee of Hiddleston, the chance to see him as Hamlet in a tiny central London theatre, nestled within the walls of his old drama school, felt akin to seeing The Beatles at the Cavern Club – the sense of a colossal talent scaled down while losing none of its potency. The result was little short of magical.
Up close and personal in RADA's 160-seat auditorium, the play opened with Hamlet sitting in near-darkness at the piano, crooning out a low wolf-howl of defeat.
"And will he not come again?" our hero moaned, lamenting the absence of his father via the heart-wrenching cadence of "No, no he is dead. Go to thy deathbed…"
Hamlet's alienation and sense of betrayal over his mother's hasty remarriage was, particularly for those in the front row, frighteningly visceral, made manifest through kicking and screaming, spit, sweat and tears. In turn, Hiddleston masterfully depicted Hamlet's inability to be what those around him needed – supportive, vengeful, loving, or even just consistent.
Much has been made of how HiddleHamlet's madness was undoubtedly feigned; yet the production's great strength was the ease with which he switched to an all-too-real malice and vindictiveness. His brushing aside of Ophelia (Kathryn Wilder), triggering her fatal sense of abandonment, combined with his shrugging off the deaths of his informant friends, were shocking in their callousness.
Yet one couldn't shake the feeling that the derangement and loss of control in Hamlet's eyes after murdering Polonius (Sean Foley) was genuine. The final duel resulting in the Prince's death, barely two feet from my seat, was no less agonising for its portrayal of one man imprisoned by grief, with its destructive effects spiralling outwards.
The threat of military conquest by Norway always hung in the foreground, but more than anything this Hamlet was about bereavement and family breakdown – the torment caused by our relatives moving on, even if we can't, and robbing us of any space to heal. Proof, as though it were needed, that Shakespeare speaks to us for the moment we find ourselves in. Few plays have left me waking up sobbing the next day, but the rage, remorse and anguish on display still resonated, to the refrain throughout of "Go to thy deathbed…"
Yet on the night, for those in attendance it was three hours of uncomplicated happiness. Watching Hiddleston seamlessly recite 'To Be Or Not To Be' right in front of me was enough to make me feel thankful for my pulse. As much as I loved Benedict Cumberbatch's 2015 turn at the Barbican, it couldn't rival RADA's Hamlet for intimacy and intensity of craftsmanship.
This performance of Hamlet took place on 20 September 2017 at the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, London
Filed Under: Shakespeare News Tagged With: Hamlet, Kathryn Wilder, Kenneth Branagh, Ophelia, Polonius, Prince Hal, RADA, Sean Foley, Shakespeare Magazine, The Hollow Crown, Tom Hiddleston, Wiliam Shakespeare
Soul-searching with Scott: Irish actor Andrew Scott delivered an "exquisite, fragile" performance in Robert Icke's "electrifying, heart-wrenching production" of Shakespeare's Hamlet at London's Harold Pinter Theatre, writes Clare Petre
Photos by Manuel Harlan
Director Robert Icke's exceptional contemporary interpretation of Shakespeare's most famous play has had plenty of time to sit. Indeed, London has seen two further Hamlets (Tom Hiddleston's and Benet Brandreth's) since this formidable piece of theatre closed, but Andrew Scott's is the one that seems to haunt the capital. With its soundtrack of some of Bob Dylan's most touching songs, this electrifying, heart-wrenching production has plunged a poisoned foil into the hearts of thousands.
Andrew Scott's exquisite, fragile Hamlet was offset beautifully by Jessica Brown-Findlay's graceful yet physically strong Ophelia (her dance background was evident throughout), whose weakness, ironically, lay in her attempting to convince herself and the court of her strength.
I have seen criticism of the "monotony" of Angus Wright's Claudius, as if his performance left something to be desired. I disagree – Wright is an accomplished actor and his Claudius was cunningly crafted. He left us in no doubt as to how Derbhle Crotty's elegant and likeable Gertrude, in the midst of her confusion and grief, was attracted to his lupine, prowling figure but saw the error of her ways so quickly in the closet scene.
Peter Wight's Polonius was apparently succumbing to the insidious effects of dementia, but his performance lost none of the character's levity.
Aided by a cast of such strength, the play felt so fresh that some of its most famous and often most laboured words became unfamiliar. Icke's daring direction served to emphasise this by giving several of the play's best known moments entirely new readings – Laertes' plea to use another foil as the one he has chosen is "too heavy", for example, became a sudden second thought – a desperate and urgent cry to avoid the inevitable and perhaps use a foil untainted with poison. He became a man torn between his loyalty to the court, and his desire to forgive Hamlet and begin to define a better future. For the duel scene itself Shakespeare's words were all but abandoned, the fight performed as a dumb-show to Bob Dylan's "Not Dark Yet". Emotionally manipulative? Perhaps. Facile? Possibly. Heart-breaking? Undeniably.
This production's outstanding competence lay in giving its audience the opportunity to share grief and express its own, usually muted, sorrows. Shared emotion equates to shared humanity. A fully paid-up member of Generation X, I cannot remember a more (over)dramatic outpouring of love and grief than that which we witnessed after the death of Princess Diana, which has been much discussed of late, it being the 20th anniversary of the Paris crash. There was, at the time, an extraordinary and tribal response to her carefully orchestrated funeral.
With Diana, we were not mourning the death of a princess so much as celebrating the opportunity to experience human communality. So with Hamlet, while we feel acutely his pain, Ophelia's, Gertrude's, we mourn our own tragedies as they are reflected upon the stage. When we weep for Hamlet and his fellow characters, we are weeping for our own grief and for the sense of loss which might permeate our own lives, but using Shakespeare's writing as a conduit. To paraphrase Gertrude, this Elsinore turned our eyes into our very souls.
I fell in love with Hamlet 30 years ago and in that time many interpretations have come and gone. But it is Andrew Scott's that has remained with me above all others, and which will do until usurped. I suspect I am in for a long wait.
This performance of Hamlet took place on Monday 24 July 2017 at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Filed Under: Shakespeare News Tagged With: Andrew Scott, Angus Wright, Bob Dylan, Clare Petre, Claudius, Derbhle Crotty, Gertrude, Hamlet, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Laertes, Ophelia, Peter Wight, Polonius, Princess Diana, Robert Icke, Shakespeare Magazine, William Shakespeare
Hail to the Bard! The shiny new-look Shakespeare Magazine 11 is adorned with a simply stunning cover image of rising young stars Lily James and Richard Madden in Kenneth Branagh's Romeo and Juliet
It's here! Please, read, enjoy and share far & wide the completely free delight that is Shakespeare Magazine 11!
The shiny new-look Shakespeare Magazine 11 is adorned with a simply stunning cover image of rising young stars Lily James and Richard Madden in Kenneth Branagh's Romeo and Juliet.
Head straight to page 6 to discover what our reviewer thought of the production. (Clue: she loved it)
Also in Issue 11, SK Moore tells us about his compelling new graphic novel of Shakespeare's Macbeth, while broadcaster Samira Ahmed turns her magnificently mercurial mind to the subject of Shakespeare.
We have words with Pub Landlord comedian Al Murray about his recent brush with the Bard (and Judi Dench) at RSC Shakespeare Live.
And our Editor gorges himself on a 3-DVD box set of 1960s television Shakespeare classic The Wars of the Roses.
Check out our chat with the great Don Warrington, star of Talawa Theatre's earth-shaking King Lear at Manchester's Royal Exchange – youthful co-star Alfred Enoch joins in too.
Following up last issue's cheeky Shakespeare/Star Wars feature we've dared to imagine what Tom Hiddleston's Hamlet would look like. (Looks pretty darn cool, actually)
We also take the opportunity to explore the life of Elizabeth Siddal, the model for Millais' classic Victorian painting of Shakespeare's Ophelia.
And last but very much not least, Bristol's Insane Root Theatre take us very deep into a cave in order to scare the living daylights out of us with their Macbeth!
And remember, you can read all 11 issues of Shakespeare Magazine completely free here.
Filed Under: Shakespeare News Tagged With: Al Murray, Alfred Enoch, BBC The Wars of the Roses, Bristol Redcliffe Caves, Don Warrington, Elizabeth Siddal, Insane Root Theatre, ISSUU, John Everett Millais, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Lily James, Macbeth graphic novel, Manchester Royal Exchange, Ophelia, Richard Madden, Romeo and Juliet, RSC Shakespeare Live, Samira Ahmed, Shakespeare Magazine 11, SK Moore, Talawa King Lear, Tom Hiddleston Hamlet, William Shakespeare
The tagline for her one-woman show To She Or Not To She is "Get stuffed, Will!", but Emma Bentley is a lifelong Shakespeare fan with a fresh – and funny – feminist message
Writer and actor Emma Bentley plays a parodic version of herself in one-woman show To She Or Not To She, beginning at 14 years old when it is announced that the year nine spring term play is going to be Hamlet.
Emma knows she is perfect for the lead role: she grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon, knows all about Shakespeare, and (not to boast or anything) she's the best actor in the school. Her gender doesn't occur to her as being a problem, until her drama teacher informs her post-audition that she "just couldn't see Hamlet as a girl".
Bentley says: "I chose Shakespeare because before I went to drama school I thought I knew a lot about him, and then at LIPA [Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts] I realised how much more complex the plays are. So it was a process of finding out for me. I also am not that good at really serious, intense emotional scenes – I prefer comedy."
Bentley brings her experience in mime and clowning to the excellent caricatures she presents – a particular highlight is Emma's diva-ish classmate Jimmy Danish, a Cumberbatch wannabe with a swagger and a quiff, who tells her she should audition for Ophelia because "You'd look really cool drowned".
The show's quirky style and close rapport with its audience are key to its appeal. Alongside the laughs, however, comedy proves a useful mechanism for making people think. Walking home from school in the rain, the young Emma mourns her Hamlet-that-might-have-been. Soaked to the skin, it is as if she becomes Ophelia – side-lined as mad for defying the status quo, and ultimately disposed of with very little fuss. The moment prompts us to wonder how many other young potential female Hamlets are turned into Ophelias as early as their first auditions.
To She Or Not To She is part of a recent upsurge in female actors playing male Shakespearean heroes, notably Harriet Walter's Henry IV (at the Donmar Warehouse) and Maxine Peake's Hamlet (at the Manchester Royal Exchange), alongside all-female companies like the Smooth-Faced Gentlemen. But for Bentley there is still a long way to go before female actors have access to the same opportunities as their male counterparts.
"I did see Peake's Hamlet in the cinema, and people's reactions around me were, 'I wasn't even thinking about the fact she's a woman!'" she says. "But female actors in leading Shakespearean roles are still really quite rare in this country and I don't think they get the recognition they deserve. I feel like that's quite a depressing answer [to your question]! I think things are changing, just not very quickly, which can be frustrating. I would love it if To She Or Not To She was part of a trend of productions that would get things moving faster."
"Countries like France and Germany are great for taking Shakespeare and mixing things up. Maybe because there is not that sense of it being a traditional part of their culture in same way, so they're happy to pull it apart and cut out whole scenes, or look at a character a different light. In the UK, and I don't think it's necessarily a conscious thing, the weight of tradition can hold people back."
Bentley is certainly comfortable pulling Shakespeare apart – as To She Or Not To She follows Emma through drama school and her attempts to forge an acting career, lines from the plays compare her situation with those of male Shakespearean characters, making a convincing case for how relevant they are to her (female) experiences.
Particularly effective towards the end of the play are Bentley's original lines written in iambic pentameter. She says, "It's a generalisation, but I think girls can often be more confident in Shakespeare [than with other plays]".
And it is through Shakespeare's rhythms and language that Emma can express her desperation for female voices in theatre. What she wants is not just to be allowed to play male roles, but to find female roles that are crazy, drunk, passionate or brave.
Although it is intrinsically honest, in places the show verges on didactic where it could allow its audience a little more space and time to draw conclusions for themselves, but Bentley is the first to admit that the show is a work in progress.
"The production is constantly changing – the ending especially has changed a lot. At one point it ended with my character getting a job at the Globe, but I felt like I was just making things up as I've never actually been lucky enough to work there, so it wasn't… honest.
"I've also cut the jig at the end [a Globe-style song and dance], even though I love doing it, because people fed back that they felt I just needed to leave time for the final scene to resonate, rather than dancing around as if everything's OK."
It might be the influence of the show, but Bentley seems oddly similar to popular conceptions of Shakespeare – humble, self-parodying and often witty. While To She Or Not To She is a serious reflection on sexism in the acting profession, it is also very comfortable exposing (and laughing at) the pretentiousness that often creeps into an actor's life, with lines like "Did I play Hamlet? Or did Hamlet play me? That is the question".
Asked which Shakespearean parts she would most like to play, Bentley muses: "I think I'd have to say Hamlet – I know it's a cliché, but I feel like this is the right moment for me to take on that role. You hear older actors saying they wish they'd done Hamlet, and I feel like if it doesn't happen for me in the next three years, it probably never will.
"I'd also like to play Feste – I've played him at drama school but would love to do it again. Directors of Twelfth Night tend to see Feste's as the lines to cut – he's just talking nonsense, right? – but having played him and realised what he's saying, I find there's so much there that really resonates with life today."
To She Or Not To She is produced by Joue Le Genre and is touring to Broadway Theatre Catford and Arts Theatre Leicester Square in the UK this month.
Go here for more information and tickets.
Filed Under: Shakespeare News Tagged With: Arts Theatre Leicester Square, Broadway Theatre Catford, Catford-Upon-Avon, Emma Bentley, female Hamlet, feminism, Feste, gender, Hamlet, Jou Le Genre, LIPA, Lucy Corley, Ophelia, Shakespeare Magazine, Stratford-upon-Avon, To She Or Not To She, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
Even people who aren't sure what a soliloquy is know that Hamlet's "To be or not to be" is the most famous soliloquy in theatre history. There's just one problem. It's not actually a soliloquy.
David Tennant played Hamlet with the RSC in 2008.
Spoken by the title character of Hamlet, the most famous speech in the history of theatre is 34 lines and 271 words long. Apart from providing titles for (or being quoted in) countless other plays, poems, novels, TV shows and movies, it has also appeared on posters, T-shirts, coffee mugs and keyrings. It's even been translated into Klingon ("taH pagh taHbe"). There are at least 379,000 hits on the internet for the first line alone.
This speech is many, many things. One thing it is not, however, is a soliloquy.
Maxine Peake's Hamlet debuted last year at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre.
The image of the 'lone prince', so endemic on the stage, duly made the transition to TV and motion pictures. Laurence Olivier's 1948 version placed Hamlet alone on a windswept tower of Elsinore. Grigori Kozintsev's 1964 version is another lone Hamlet, this time walking along the Danish shore. Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 film sees Hamlet alone in his father's sepulchre. Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film places Hamlet in a mirrored hall, practically alone but for Ophelia hiding out of sight. Peter Wellington's 2003 adaptation of the speech for the series Slings & Arrows features a seated, lone Hamlet. Gregory Doran's 2009 TV adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Hamlet has David Tennant's Hamlet all alone, with Ophelia scurrying off immediately before the speech and tromping back on just as he finishes saying "Soft you now."
New play 'Women Playing Hamlet' offers a fresh take on "To be or not to be" in 2015.
Despite the entrenchment of the lone Hamlet on our cultural understanding of Hamlet, when we study the six quarto and three folio printings that comprise the original texts, we find the following: one, that the famous speech cannot be a soliloquy; two, that the entering Hamlet should know he is being spied upon; three, that Ophelia's presence must be addressed; and, fourth and lastly, that Hamlet may be reading as he enters the scene.
My methodology does need some explanation. I believe in the primacy of the text: dramatic texts are the most important factor in creating a production. The words of a text are the skeleton of a play, and basing one's interpretation on elements not in the text is problematic at best. Now, I'm not trying to say there is only one way of doing any play or moment from a play. I only distinguish between two kinds of performances – those that agree with the text and those that do not.
Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2007 Hamlet.
Soliloquies feature lone speakers, but all nine original Hamlet printings agree that Hamlet is not alone, as Ophelia is also onstage throughout the speech. Therefore, the classical understanding of "soliloquy" does not apply.
Further, the "To be or not to be" speech features none of the characteristics of Hamlet's actual soliloquies. In those speeches, he follows a pattern – he speaks about Claudius, the late King Hamlet, and, usually, Gertrude. Hamlet does discuss his family with some other characters, but when he knows he is accompanied by potential spies, he stays away from the topic of his family. The "What a piece of work is a man" speech, delivered just after Hamlet discovers he cannot trust Rosencrantz or Guildenstern, is an elaborate deception. When Hamlet delivers his speech to appease his friends-turned-spies, he does not mention the circumstances of his father's murder. He only mentions the King and Queen as the people to whom Rosencrantz and Guildenstern must report.
"I will tell you why, so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the King and Queen moult no feather."
Gamut Theatre's 2015 Hamlet.
Since "To be or not to be" takes place with others on stage, and since it deviates from the patterns Shakespeare established in Hamlet's actual soliloquies, it cannot be a soliloquy. Since the speech is not a soliloquy, it cannot be staged as a soliloquy and still be faithful to the text. Text-based stagings focus on what is written. For instance, Hamlet, entering into the scene, knows he is being observed. The original printings agree that, by this moment in the play, Hamlet has discovered that his schoolmates have been dispatched by the King to spy on him. Further, all but one of the printings agree that Hamlet enters into the scene because he has been sent for by the King. The remaining printing, the First Quarto, does not mention this at all. What happens next is a strange division; all folio printings agree that the King and Polonius hide before Hamlet enters, while all quartos state they exit after Hamlet enters.
Peter O'Toole's legendary 1957 Hamlet at Bristol Old Vic.
The quarto texts allow Hamlet to see the King and his crony hide; Hamlet would clearly know he is being spied upon. In all three folio printings, the King and Polonius exit before Hamlet enters the scene. Even if a director chooses the folio option, it is still reasonable that Hamlet knows he is being spied upon. Hamlet already suspects Claudius on some level before the action of the play, as evidenced by his response to the Ghost's news that Claudius murdered Hamlet's father: "O my prophetic soul! / Mine uncle?"
The King has just sent for Hamlet. If, as in the folios, Hamlet enters not seeing the King and Polonius, he still has another reason to be suspicious: the King is absent, but Ophelia is directly in his path.
Let's talk about Ophelia and the issue of the silent actor. In order to stage the scene, we must have a better understanding of Ophelia and her relationship with Hamlet. She has only appeared twice before, in scenes revolving around her relationship with Hamlet. Ophelia speaks on this subject with her father, Polonius, saying her relationship with Hamlet is an honorable and affectionate one that has included every promise, save that of matrimony. Polonius dismisses this as Hamlet merely wanting to master her chaste treasure and commands her to never see Hamlet again.
When Ophelia is placed in Hamlet's way, she is being used to provoke her boyfriend into showing why he is behaving so strangely. This is part of Polonius' plan to discover if Hamlet is mad for his daughter's love. Claudius accedes to the plan and, immediately before Hamlet's entrance, describes his plan to Gertrude, that Hamlet should "affront" Ophelia.
The meaning of the word "affront" is crucial: "to put oneself in the way of so as to meet; to accost, address." By strategically placing Ophelia onstage, Polonius and Claudius mean for her to come face to face with Hamlet so they can hear what follows between them. As a result, Ophelia could be Hamlet's audience, either in part or in whole.
Before this passionate meeting, there is one more discovery to address: what Hamlet is doing as he enters the scene. The First Quarto offers a fascinating option. In it, before Hamlet enters for "To be or not to be", the King says, "see where he comes poring upon a book." This is similar to Gertrude's statement in an earlier scene, "But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading," which appears in all other printings of the story. It may be the First Quarto misplaces Hamlet's entrance, but this anomaly bears study. Hamlet does have a book in other scenes, so a Hamlet who enters reading can be textually valid. In fact, the book he reads may still exist.
Douce in 1839 and Hunter in 1845 noted that Girolamo Cardano's 1576 book Comfort includes passages very similar to a portion of Hamlet's speech:
"…saying, that [death] did not only remove sickness and all other griefs but… what should we accompt of death to be resembled to anything better then sleep… and to die is said to sleep."
Compare all this talk of death, the easing of griefs, and sleeping to this famous portion of Hamlet's speech:
"To die – to sleep,
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep…"
A reading Hamlet opens up a new possibility to the speech. If Hamlet is reading about death, his speech might refer to the book. Shakespeare gives us a similar situation in Henry IV, Part One, where, examining a letter from a confederate, Hotspur reads a phrase and then makes a scathing response. If this formula were applied to Hamlet's speech, "the question" may refer to ideas raised in the book itself. A staging using this reading can allow the prop to help explain why Hamlet is in this frame of mind.
Studying the original texts with a respect for their primacy reveals that the cherished long-established vision of Hamlet simply does not agree with the text. The options revealed by the text and its established circumstances are many and must be explored in a production. After studying the evidence, I staged the scene two different ways. In the first, Hamlet entered reading, responded to the book like Hotspur in Henry IV, and discussed the contents with Ophelia. In the second staging, I took Hamlet's book away, allowed him to see Claudius and Polonius exit, and had him confess his dark thoughts to Ophelia.
The first staging was greatly intellectual. Hamlet mused about the ideas of death, sharing them on that level with Ophelia. This Hamlet is the consummate philosopher, matching wits with Ophelia and even referring to the book she is carrying. The concepts of death and release are explored with great cerebral impact, so much so that, in directing a full production, I can easily see Hamlet reading voraciously through the early stages of the play.
Haunting poster image for the upcoming Barbican Hamlet which will star Benedict Cumberbatch.
The second staging focused upon the circumstances of the characters. Hamlet, knowing he is spied upon, takes refuge in the arms of his forbidden love but is unable to tell her the whole truth of his problems. Ophelia, torn by duty to her father, her King, and her love, must react to Hamlet's considering death and suicide. This staging speaks to the troubles as written by Shakespeare and had great emotional and visceral impact. Similar to the first staging, I can see a full production of this sort of Hamlet.
These are two very different interpretations of the "To be or not to be" speech, but it is vital to remember they are both based on Shakespeare's texts.
"So what?" you may be thinking. "Why is this important?" Well, for hundreds of years the theatre world has embraced a version of Hamlet that does not agree with the words Shakespeare wrote. Elsewhere in Hamlet, Shakespeare commands "suit the action to the word", charging us to base our versions of his work on the words he left behind. He did the job of a playwright well, creating the skeleton of his plays. It falls to us to give that skeleton a heart, a soul, and scars.
This article originally appeared in Shakespeare Magazine Issue 6. Go here to see the original version.
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Taking over 10 floors of the Library of Birmingham, director Daniel Tyler's 'Hamlets' was a fully immersive Shakespeare experience that offered multiple interpretations of the Bard's most iconic character
Exterior of Library of Birmingham
Walking towards the impressive Library of Birmingham I have no idea what to expect of Hamlets. Everyone has their favourite Hamlet, one that stays in their memory brighter than any other. But the aim of this production is to explore the many thousands of interpretations and incorporate them into one.
Upon arrival, we are greeted by The Archivists who will accompany us through our exploration of Hamlet. In reception there is a flutter of activity. People in white hazmat suits investigate a body on the floor. A chilling foresight of what is to come?
From the start, the audience is involved, answering questions about their relationship with Hamlet. Access granted, we are led by The Archivists to the beautiful Shakespeare Memorial Room on the top floor of the Library. Full of artefacts and books about Shakespeare, it's the perfect place to be introduced to the world of Hamlet.
The Archivists lead the group through each scene via long corridors and dark stairwells; it's almost as if we are exploring Elsinore ourselves. We find ourselves outside on the chilly night in the serene Secret Garden, high above the Birmingham life going on below us. The cold evening adds to the atmosphere of meeting the ghost of Hamlet's father.
View of Birmingham from the Secret Garden. It added to the feeling of being behind the walls of a castle
There are nine interpretations of Hamlet present, taking it in turns to shine before coming together to speak as one at particular points of the text. The absence of a stage and being able to interact with the Hamlets mean I feel connected to it all in a way I've never experienced before.
Exploring the Library's vast floors, my highlight of the journey is being able to wander around the Hamlets, watching each one deal with their descents into madness in different ways. Seeing the Hamlets both alone and with members of the court shows a raw side to the play and the character. It really adds to Hamlet's madness by seeing so many of them running around the room – a glimpse into what could have been going on in his mind.
Hamlet and Ophelia across the ages in the nunnery scene
We are led to a large room where we can take our time to walk around 18 different 'To Be or Not To Be' interpretations. As well as the nine Hamlets we've been following throughout the night, we can view pieces of art, text and visual interpretations – and also perform our own version. Walking from Hamlet to Hamlet feel I'm intruding on the most personal and private thoughts of the tortured prince. Each performance is powerful – it really feels as though you understand Hamlet's pain.
As we continue throughout the Archives we are led down more dark stairwells by The Archivists, passing by the players performing The Mousetrap, Polonius' death at the hand of Hamlet and Ophelia's madness and eventual drowning. We find ourselves in the children's room, confronted by a grave made out of books. There is even an archive box referring to Disney's The Lion King, a reminder of Hamlet's widespread influence.
We are ushered by The Archivists towards the final scene – a sword fight, with all nine Hamlets effortlessly changing places. For me, it highlights just how well rehearsed and in sync the individual players are. All nine have done a fantastic job, each one delivering a new take on an iconic role.
The Birmingham Young Rep and Hôtel Teatro Theatre groups have been superb, gelling as comfortably as if they had been acting together for years. Well-designed costumes enhance the sense of each character's different era and culture. A special mention should go to Michael Barry for changing my perception of the character of Polonius. I've always imagined Polonius as an old fuddy duddy, but Michael portrays him as a mild mannered, loving father.
Michael Barry as a 19th Century Polonius
"My inspiration came from the fact that Shakespeare – and Hamlet – is adopted around the world and is re-interpreted in so many ways it can make you dizzy," says director Daniel Tyler.
"Those of us who love and work with the Bard's plays – especially the most famous ones – can often feel weighed down by production histories and 'great' or 'landmark' versions. Hamlets addresses this by making this history the very centre of the performance.
"Also, I'm hooked on the feeling I get when people who think Shakespeare 'isn't for them' or 'is too difficult' or 'irrelevant' are having a great time engaging with a contemporary version of one of his plays."
Hamlets ran at the Library of Birmingham from 17-21 March 2015
Images by Emma Wheatley
Filed Under: Shakespeare News Tagged With: Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Daniel Tyler, Hamlet, Hamlets, Hotel Teatro Theatre Company, Library of Birmingham, Michael Barry, Ophelia, Polonius, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Magazine, Shakespeare Memorial Room, The Lion King, Young REP 18-25 Company

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There's a huge variety of Banksia species, all with spectacular nectar rich flowers. Parrots will love the flowers, seed pods, branches and foliage of any Banksia.
Banksias are a staple seasonal food for many Australian birds, including parrots. Nectar feeders like Lorikeets flock to Banksia shrubs and trees when they're in flower, and following this stage, when the flower progresses to a woody seed cone, cockatoos then have a feast. Banksia species are spectacular plants and are iconic and easy to recognize.
There are many different species, and in addition there are hundreds of cultivated varieties.
Some Banksias grow in swampy ground, others in sand, some will do well in a variety of soil and climate types, while others are very particular about where they will grow and thrive. It is well worth trying to grow your own banksia plants at home. Not only are they a spectacular addition to any garden, but your parrots will benefit immensely!
All parts of Banksia trees and shrubs can be given to parrots. All birds will love the flowers, and larger parrots enjoy getting into the woody seed pods, which differ in size between different species of Banksias. The branches can also be used as natural perches.
There are over 170 species of Banksia plant currently recognized. Below is a guide to some of the more commonly found ones, and those that you're more likely to come across in plant nurseries that you can buy and plant yourself!
Known as the Heath Banksia, this plant produces beautiful orange-red flowers and grows well in dry soil. It's also quite salt and frost tolerant. This species is often cross bred in horticulture with Banksia spinulosa, producing a lovely shrub with long thin orange flowers.
Commonly known as the Silver Banksia due to the beautiful silver coloured underside of the leaves. A very variable and adaptable species of Banksia. It is able to grow in a variety of climates and soil types, and can range in size from very small to a small tree in height.


I recently stumbled upon a recipe for coconut macaroons that I must share. I love coconuts and chocolate so I obviously had to try it. I am not great at baking and I usually never get a recipe correct on the first try but this recipe is so easy that I actually succeeded. Fortunately, not only did I succeed on the first try but they were extremely yummy. They are perfectly toasted on the outside and chewy on the inside.
Combine water, salt and sugar in a small saucepan.
Over medium heat, bring mixture to a boil while stirring frequently to dissolve sugar. Remove from heat when fully dissolved.
In a large bowl, stir hot syrup and shredded coconut until fully combined.
Cool mixture for 20 minutes.
Preheat over to 375 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a separate bowl, whisk egg white and vanilla until thick and foamy.
Gently fold egg white mixture into cooled coconut mixture.
Use a small spoon to scoop out the coconut mixture, about the size of golf balls. Space the scoops about 2 inches apart.
Bake until golden brown, about 15-20 minutes. Let cool completely.
In microwave safe bowl, heat chocolate chips until melted.
Dip cooled macaroons in melted chocolate then drizzle extra chocolate on top.
Store in airtight container to avoid stale macaroons.
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All new info entered during the processing of an order is saved in new tables. This allow to keep a perfect audit trail. This module allows the following Admin side A. Manage processing of orders placed directly through oscommerce B. Allows to enter Phone order or orders coming from other sources( fax, mail ,auctions....) through ADMIN login This modified login allows an administrator to create an account and enter manual order for the account of a client. (no emails ar sent during the manual entry.) When all infos are entered, the admin can send an email to the client with all data info and login info to access his account. C. Allows administrator to login with an ADMIN login under any client email (convenient for some of orders: Paypal is a good example where client would not press the return to catalog button on paypal site. the result is that the client paid Paypal but items stay in shopping cart instead of being proceesed as a confirmed order) D. Payment Info : Administrator can enter payment ref, payment date, check number..... E. Auction Info : if you place as well auctions on ebay or other, allows you to create an order in catalog and enter as well auction number auction end date.... gives possiblity to send order status to person who won the auction: advantage is that you make the winner aware of your catalog You ask him to login in the catalog part to see his auction status and tracking number. Thus he may come back directly to your site the next time. Automated direct link to auction page on major auction sites. you can add any auction site where you place auction through an admin page. F. Tracking number Info: Entry of shipping date, tracking number, direct link to shipper site to track package. G. Entry of qty shipped vs qty ordered. This allows to keep track of all back ordered items through a report and classify the order as "Partial Shipment" status. you can review the items and qunatities you still neded to ship. H. Allows to send an email when package is sent with all infos above: in particular shipping date, carrier and direct link to track order on shipper site. email date and time recorded and shown. I. New templates of invoice and packing list with above information. Company address, "Thank you Note" at bottom of printed invoice or email sent can be modified through admin. extra comment field for auctions can be managed through admin for specific feedback or comments. J. All the validations tables records can be modified through admin interface screens. K. 2 new comments fields were added : one for shipping, one for billing. both can be seen by client through the catalog side. A third comment field for shipping dept was added for private comments . not shown to client. NOTE: we created new validation tables for payment methods, shipping carriers specific to the shipping modules.... the tables are NOT linked to the actual shipping and payment modules. The reason for that is the flexibility. Even though you would not accept for online orders a particular payment method (like western union Bidpay for example) you can use it for manual entry of orders. Catalog side A. Client can login to his account and see online all infos entered in the admin (Payment Info, Shipping Date, Tracking Number, auction info if auction.....) B. Client can print the invoice template under order details.


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Kacy Catanzaro & Ricochet Comment On Maria's Baby Daddy Claims
Kacy Catanzaro
Kacy Catanzaro and Ricochet commented on Maria's claims on Twitter.
It's not yet clear who the father of Maria Kanellis' baby is. Last night on WWE RAW, Maria told her husband, Mike Kanellis, that Ricochet was actually the father of her baby. Rusev would then return to WWE at the same time Maria was about to name who the baby's father really is.
Ricochet's real-life partner Kacy Catanzaro commented on Maria's claims from last night on RAW. She posted the following to Twitter:
.@MariaLKanellis .. Make up lies about my man again.. and I'll have to pay a visit to @WWE #RAW ? https://t.co/xTKjTiqiwp
— Kacy Catanzaro (@KacyCatanzaro) September 17, 2019
Ricochet then offered up the following in response:
Tell her baby, we all knew she was lyin! https://t.co/y3KfGSAx4n
— WWE's resident Superhero ? (@KingRicochet) September 17, 2019
Rusev returned last night as part of the segment with Maria, her baby, and her husband. He offered up the following on Twitter regarding his return:
Return of the stache !
— Rusev (@RusevBUL) September 17, 2019
Is Kacy Catanzaro Leaving WWE?
It has been reported that Kacy Catanzaro will be leaving WWE. No official confirmation of her departure has been made, however.
Ricochet spoke to SI.com recently and addressed Catanzaro's status with WWE.
"She's still with the company. She's not retired at all and she's not injured. It's a tough sport and we're all hurting, but there is nothing wrong with her," he said. When asked if Catanzaro would ever wrestle again, Ricochet is not sure." I don't know," he responded. "She's very family-oriented and she wants kids, so she doesn't know if being on the road so much is for her."
Ricochet Talks King of the Ring & Addresses Kacy Catanzaro Situation
"For me, I'm already too deep—I'm on the road all the time. She loves wrestling and she loves it here, and she's so good at it, so it's a very tough decision for her."


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Home 9 Neurology 9 All Articles For Neurology 9 Trauma-Induced Epilepsy May Be Prevented By Cooling The Brain Following Injury
Trauma-Induced Epilepsy May Be Prevented By Cooling The Brain Following Injury
In the weeks, months and years after a severe head injury, patients often experience epileptic seizures that are difficult to control. A new study in rats suggests that gently cooling the brain after injury may prevent these seizures.
"Traumatic head injury is the leading cause of acquired epilepsy in young adults, and in many cases the seizures can't be controlled with medication," says senior author Matthew Smyth, MD, associate professor of neurological surgery and of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "If we can confirm cooling's effectiveness in human trials, this approach may give us a safe and relatively simple way to prevent epilepsy in these patients."
The researchers reported their findings in Annals of Neurology.
Cooling the brain to protect it from injury is not a new concept. Cooling slows down the metabolic activity of nerve cells, and scientists think this may make it easier for brain cells to survive the stresses of an injury.
Doctors currently cool infants whose brains may have had inadequate access to blood or oxygen during birth. They also cool some heart attack patients to reduce peripheral brain damage when the heart stops beating.
Smyth has been exploring the possibility of using cooling to prevent seizures or reduce their severity.
"Warmer brain cells seem to be more electrically active, and that may increase the likelihood of abnormal electrical discharges that can coalesce to form a seizure," Smyth says. "Cooling should have the opposite effect."
Smyth and colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota test potential therapies in a rat model of brain injury. These rats develop chronic seizures weeks after the injury.
Researchers devised a headset that cools the rat brain. They were originally testing its ability to stop seizures when they noticed that cooling seemed to be not only stopping but also preventing seizures.
Scientists redesigned the study to focus on prevention. Under the new protocols, they put headsets on some of the rats that cooled their brains by less than 4 degrees Fahrenheit. Another group of rats wore headsets that did nothing. Scientists who were unaware of which rats they were observing monitored them for seizures during treatment and after the headsets were removed.
Rats that wore the inactive headset had progressively longer and more severe seizures weeks after the injury, but rats whose brains had been cooled only experienced a few very brief seizures as long as four months after injury.
Brain injury also tends to reduce cell activity at the site of the trauma, but the cooling headsets restored the normal activity levels of these cells.
The study is the first to reduce injury-related seizures without drugs, according to Smyth, who is director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery program at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
"Our results show that the brain changes that cause this type of epilepsy happen in the days and weeks after injury, not at the moment of injury or when the symptoms of epilepsy begin," says Smyth. "If clinical trials confirm that cooling has similar effects in humans, it could change the way we treat patients with head injuries, and for the first time reduce the chance of developing epilepsy after brain injury."
Smyth and his colleagues have been testing cooling devices in humans in the operating room, and are planning a multi-institutional trial of an implanted focal brain cooling device to evaluate the efficacy of cooling on established seizures.
D'Ambrosio R, Eastman CL, Darvas F, Fender JS, Verley DR, Farin FM, Wilkerson H-W, Temkin NR, Miller JW, Ojemann J, Rothman SM, Smyth MD. Mild passive focal cooling prevents epileptic seizures after head injury in rats. Annals of Neurology, DOI: 10.1002/ana.23764.
This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS053928, R.D.; NS042936, S.M.R.; EB007362, F.D.), CURE (5154001.01, R.D.; 5154001.05, M.D.S.); the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command; and the University of Washington.
Washington University School of Medicine. "Trauma-Induced Epilepsy May Be Prevented By Cooling The Brain Following Injury." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 25 Feb. 2013. Web.
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This is a Liquid Force Overdrive in great shape . Has normal wear marks. Complete with Fusion straps and fins . Ready to ride . A great board for anyone in light wind . This is also a great standard board for a larger rider.
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Focused on Canada's 150th anniversary of confederation and the development of Canada's constitutional and human rights from the British North America Act to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the series will include papers that provide an analysis of constitutional litigation throughout Canada's history with a focus on seminal cases that have made an impact on the Canadian constitutional rights landscape.
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SO, you are finally retired. How are you going to deal with your living expenses and various payments that you must make? If that thought fills you with dread, you are not alone.
Timothy, a successful businessman, plans to retire soon. He has set aside RM3mil to finance his lifestyle after he quits his business. By Tim's reckoning, he can live comfortably off the interest that he will earn from putting that sum in fixed deposit (FD). Assuming that the bank pays him 4% per annum on that amount, he expects to live off the RM120,000 in interest.
Sadly, Tim has made a serious miscalculation. He has forgotten to consider the extent to which inflation will erode his savings. This mistake alone can potentially throw all his plans for his golden retirement out of the window.
Many people underestimate the amount they spend on their living expenses.
Take the example of Tim, the businessman whose story we began. Tim is planning to retire with a nest egg of RM3mil. He expects to live off the RM120,000 in interest from putting the money in a fixed deposit, assuming that the bank pays him 4% per annum on that amount.
As we pointed out, unfortunately, Tim has overlooked the effect of inflation on his savings. Say that the inflation rate averages 6% yearly. In 12 years, his savings would have halved in value, becoming the equivalent of RM1.5mil today.
And that is not the end of Tim's troubles. Along with inflation comes the erosion of purchasing power. So, at 6% inflation, in 12 years, the RM120,000 income that he will receive can buy only half of what it gets today. The painful truth is that if Tim lives to 86, he must survive on just one-eighth of his income today.
2. Not optimising the return on investment of retirement assets.
Like most retirees, Tim has planned to derive his retirement income from the returns on his FD or dividends from his EPF savings. We have seen how inflation and the erosion of purchasing power will put a dent on Tim's retirement income.
To mitigate the effects of inflation and loss of purchasing power, we should aim to get a return on investment of 7%-9%. By doing so, we will need less capital to fund our living expenses.
Depending solely on our EPF savings and personal funds during retirement is not advisable, as our assets are not diversified. The idea is not to keep all our eggs in one basket, Contrary to popular beliefs, optimising money is not only about growing our money, it is about protecting it too.
To ensure that our assets are not depleted due to adversities, we should diversify them. For example, we should also consider investing overseas, buying foreign equities, property and unit trusts. This will spread the risk that may affect any one class of assets.
Remember, the golden rule for protecting assets is to diversify. This principle particularly applies in today's world. Anything can happen in the financial sphere due to increased volatility; case in point, the era of post-2008 global financial crisis.
We can save ourselves much grief if we apply the rules of money optimisation to manage our finances in retirement. Until our retirement, we are used to a certain lifestyle, which we do not have to think about since it is funded from our active income. Whether we rely on our monthly pay or business income, the cash flow is not an issue. No decisions need to be made about where the money would come from. We can afford not to plan our expenditure.
All that changes once we retire. A new task dawns on us. The main challenge is where to find the income to support our lifestyle. Even with property or money in the bank, it is still a heavy responsibility to maintain the flow of funds needed to enjoy modern comforts and amenities.
For this, I would like to advocate a two-step Money Optimisation approach. To do this, we should first invest in investments that yield good capital gain, e.g. in properties and equities. The key word here is capital gain. Then, we can use the gain to fund our retirement expenses. In this approach, the capital gain is not immediate. You would need to wait for a few years before the investments make reasonable profits. You must also sell the investment or part of the investment to realise the gain. That is why it is a two-step approach.
In conclusion, learning to optimise money is a must for retirees, not an option. Retirees today cannot retire completely as they have to continue to actively optimise their nest eggs even during their golden years.


Mark your calendars. Our next wine and jewelry event will be on Wednesday, March 6th.
We introduced our 2013 series of monthly wine and jewelry events at the Columbus Ave store this week, and it was a lot of fun. Kate Cronin was the lucky lady who won the raffle for $75 of jewelry. Everyone who bought got studs as a special gift from us. Don't miss our next event…You may even be our next winner!


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A Trace of Poison
by Colleen Cambridge
Welcome to... Mallowan Hall, home of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie as well as housekeeper Phyllida Bright.
What happens: At a charity fete and amateur mystery writing competition, a guest drinks a poisoned cocktail, which might have been intended for someone else, and Phyllida investigates.
Don't miss: This fun 2nd Phyllida Bright novel following Murder at Mallowan Hall features cameos by G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Anthony Berkeley.
Blue Like Me
by Aaron Philip Clark
Starring: Trevor "Finn" Finnegan, an ex-LAPD detective turned private eye for a law firm focusing on policing the police.
Dirty cops? In November 2016, Finn reluctantly tails his former partner, whom he was once close to, and witnesses her get shot and her partner killed. Had she really gone bad? And who wanted her dead?
For fans of: Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins books, which, like this gritty 2nd in a series, offer a compelling look at a Black Los Angeles private detective.
A Death in Tokyo
by Keigo Higashino
Starring: unorthodox, persistent, and extremely observant Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga.
A strange death: Kaga investigates the murder of a businessman who, after being fatally stabbed, went to the historic Nihonbashi bridge to die. The obvious suspect is a young man who fled from the police and was found with the victim's wallet, but Kaga thinks there's more to the story.
Series alert: A Death in Tokyo is the intricately plotted 3rd Kyoichiro Kaga mystery, following Malice and Newcomer, though readers can start here.
No Strangers Here
by Carlene O'Connor
Introducing: Dimpna Wilde, a veterinarian who returns home after a wealthy racehorse owner is murdered, his body staged on the beach; DI Cormac O'Brien, who's sent to Dingle, County Kerry, to investigate the death.
What happens: When Dimpna's father, also a vet, is accused of the crime, she races against O'Brien to find the truth even as she takes over her dad's practice due to his memory issues.
Is it for you? Not cozy like Carlene O'Connor's other Irish mysteries, this 1st in her new County Kerry series retains the evocative setting, smart plotting, and appealing characters.
Secrets Typed in Blood
by Stephen Spotswood
New York City, 1947: Former circus performer turned PI Willowjean "Will" Parker and her boss, famed detective Lillian Pentecost, sign up to help pulp magazine writer Holly Quick figure out who's recreating her fictional murders in real life.
Series alert: Though this is the 3rd Pentecost and Parker mystery, newcomers can start here. Those who'd like to begin with the 1st book should pick up the Nero Award-winning Fortune Favors the Dead.
For fans of: Rosalie Knecht's Vera Kelly stories; atmospheric hardboiled detective stories starring strong women.
Books You May Have Missed
The Family Chao
by Lan Samantha Chang
The setup: In small-town Wisconsin, locals have eaten at the Chao family's restaurant for decades, but there's trouble at home for patriarch Leo as his wife has finally left him and become a Buddhist nun.
What happens: Leo's three very different grown sons gather at the restaurant for a Christmas party. When Leo is murdered, his children fall under suspicion of the town and police, even as they reckon with the legacy of their father's outsized appetites.
Why you might like it: The Family Chao is a modern take on Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic The Brothers Karamazov and offers "a disruptive, sardonic take on the assimilation story" (Kirkus Reviews).
Death by Bubble Tea
by Jennifer J. Chow
Introducing: Yale Yee, who's just lost her bookstore job and is helping out at her family's Los Angeles restaurant; Celine, Yale's rich influencer cousin from Hong Kong whom she hasn't seen in years.
What happens: Yale's dad has the cousins run a food stall at the Eastwood Village Night Market. All goes well and their bubble tea is a big hit, but then a customer turns up dead, fatally poisoned.
For fans of: fun series starters; cozy food-themed mysteries (recipes included) featuring vibrant young women sleuths, like Mia P. Manansala's Tita Rosie's Kitchen mysteries.
by William Kent Krueger
What happens: Sometime-PI Cork O'Connor gets hired by a man who's not who he says he is. It's all related to Cork's wife, who accompanies a stranger to visit to her 100-year-old uncle, Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux, before all three go missing.
Series alert: Like other entries, this compelling 19th Cork O'Connor mystery has an intricate plot and a vividly described northern Minnesota.
Reviewers say: "A must for fans of beautifully written crime fiction" (Library Journal); the author "skillfully blends an evocative look at nature's beauty and peril with Native American lore" (Publishers Weekly).
Real Easy
by Marie Rutkoski
Missing and dead: In 1999, a dancer at the Lovely Lady strip club outside of Chicago gives a co-worker a ride home. But they don't make it; the car is found with one woman killed and the other gone, her seatbelt cut.
What happens: The cops investigate, including Harvard-educated detective Holly Meylin, who recruits one of the other dancers to help with the case, which looks more and more like the work of a serial killer.
Why you might like it: Narrated by various characters, this gritty crime novel offers "moving portraits of desperate lives on both sides of the law" (Publishers Weekly).
by Peter Swanson
What it is: a clever, modern take on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None featuring nine people scattered across the United States who all receive a cryptic list of names that includes their own.
Among them is... a father, a professor, a nurse, and FBI agent Jessica Winslow. Though some dismiss it as a joke, bad things start happening to listees, prompting Jessica to search for the link that binds them all together.
Read this next: Yukito Ayatsuji's The Decagon House Murders, Gilly Macmillan's The Long Weekend, Rachel Howzell Hall's They All Fall Down, or Lucy Foley's The Guest List.


Daily affirmations Rituals On repeat.
Connecting with my Inner being, loving the mind and body completely.
Allowing love of self, to sweetly adore me, as I unravel this journey of self love, once a foreign word to me.
I begin to see, layers of suppressed memories.
Capturing the identity, the relationship with self 1st.
It starts with your mentally, movement of your physically body, healthy use of intuition and emotions, financially depositing core values connecting with self Spiritually.
Deciphering what are my real needs..
Balancing divine feminine and masculine energies..
Releasing insecurities, healing the heart, single as I lovingly date me.
Realizing it's not the destination but the self love journey, aligning to deeper meanings of creativity.
Poetry, Fashion, Purpose, Service and Fulfillment..The missing key.
The rhymes and reasons of why I didn't love me, The need to fill my own cup of tea, Birth new aspects within me, before anybody.
So I focused my energy and manifested this very dream To share my story, hoping to guide others on their self love journey.


8 days Kenya luxury safari to the tree hotels and plain masai mara game reserve and the semi desert of rare species Samburu National park.This Safari offers you thrill of wildlife,relaxation on foot of Mt Kenya and finest accomodation accompanied by sumptuous dinner of game meat at Carnivore restaurant.
Sunrise and sundown are the greatest moments for game viewing in these mystic plains, a time where the soft red hues of the sun will give your photographs the clarity of the actual African savannah. Morning game viewing with a long drive to the Mara river where you will be able to view Hippos and Crocodiles.


ettingFantasy sports are virtual games that are sometimes known by the name of rotisserie or roto. Within these sports players act as the owners of the teams that they build. They compete against other such payers on the basis of statistical information which is generated from real games these particular virtual sports are inspired from. All fantasy teams have a manager who is in charge of compiling the points as per the roster which has been selected.
The Fantasy Sports Trading Association www.greatbettingadvice.com is responsible for hosting conferences of these sports and is also responsible for ensuring their continuous growth. This association has got almost 120 members which range from the newer and smaller start-ups to the more established larger media corporations. The estimated age of fantasy sports players was twelve and above and extended to 29.9 million people in the year 2007.
Fantasy sports experienced a boom during the dot-com era with a variety of companies committing to this domain. However when this dot-com bubble burst, many of these companies went bankrupt. A few of the more established and long standing companies did manage to survive these turbulent times and remerged, some with new names like RotoWire.com and some with new marketing strategies and business models such as Yahoo. Through the years, in spite of the unstable economy, it had been noted that the average American fantasy players spent almost 8.4 hours of surveying the NFL each week compared to watching the NFL on television. NFL was able to recognize an opportunity that lay in fantasy sports and started to run ads for fantasy football featuring existing players. They were possibly the first to recognize that it was fantasy play that drives T.V. viewing.
Fantasy baseball is regarded as among the oldest fantasy sports and is one of the hardest and time consuming sports. It follows the Major League Baseball season of 162 games. Fantasy basketball is said to generally be inspired from fantasy baseball. Ever since the 1990s fantasy basketball continues to be increasing in its popularity especially with online exposure which it has got. NBA has taken advantage of its immense popularity by launching a global competition known as the Premier Fantasy Championships. This competition is regarded as being one of the largest and most exclusive fantasy sports competitions. NBA has additionally launched a program called Fantasy Hoops that offers fantasy sports players all the information and news which they need on the happenings on the world of fantasy basketball.
Fantasy football on the other hand has grown to be increasingly popular and has now taken over the mantle of popularity from fantasy baseball. This is mostly attributed to the complexities associated with fantasy baseball in terms of the players involvement for the length of time and the many number of matches that are played. Fantasy football, on the other hand, gives its players and managers a lot more flexibility especially in time as the games take place only once every week as compared to daily in fantasy baseball.


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I recently gave a talk on GContracts at Gr8Conf 2011. The download link for the slides is provided below, the source-code examples can be found at Github.

Introducing GContracts (16,4 MB)
Github Gr8Contracts Example

There will be an upcoming post about Gr8Conf itself, so stay tuned.


Tropico 6, as the previous games in the series have been, is all about building your nation and garnering support as you move through the various time periods. Here's everything you need to know about how to get revolutionary support in Tropico 6.
Getting more revolutionaries and revolutionary support is something that you'll have to do near the end of your time in the Colonial Era. One task you'll be given in search for Independence will be to get a set number or percentage of each. We've got more information on declaring Independence here, should you need it.
The best way to get more revolutionaries is to accept the tasks from the leader of the revolution and do whatever she says. Once you've completed each one, you'll be offered three reward options: money, blueprints, or revolutionary immigrants.
Be sure to pick the final option, which will usually be 10 revolutionary immigrants, because that will help towards your larger objectives.
Then, you'll need to do what you can to get revolutionary support from them. Revolutionary immigrants like buildings and tools that are supportive of the population. Military buildings also help as it gives them a way to fight for the cause.
Essentially, you get revolutionary support by getting more revolutionaries, doing things that support their effort and the common people that live there, and not helping the Crown get more power.
By doing all that, you'll be able to move on from the Colonial Era in no time. Once you've declared Independence, the revolutionary effort will disband, since they won't be necessary any longer.
That's everything you need to know about how to get revolutionary support in Tropico 6. For more tips and tricks on the game, be sure to search for Twinfinite.


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Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Published in SDGs
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals, build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight anti-poverty targets that the world committed to achieving by 2015. The MDGs, adopted in 2000, aimed at an array of issues that included slashing poverty, hunger, disease, gender inequality, and access to water and sanitation. Enormous progress has been made on the MDGs, showing the value of a unifying agenda underpinned by goals and targets. Despite this success, the indignity of poverty has not been ended for all.
The new SDGs, and the broader sustainability agenda, go much further than the MDGs, addressing the root causes of poverty and the universal need for development that works for all people.
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark noted: "This agreement marks an important milestone in putting our world on an inclusive and sustainable course. If we all work together, we have a chance of meeting citizens' aspirations for peace, prosperity, and wellbeing, and to preserve our planet."
SDG GOAL 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Goal 16 Targets:
Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime
Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms
Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels
Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance
By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration
Ensure public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements
16.a
Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime
16.b
Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development
More in this category: « Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development »
Fact Sheets:
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11 brands called out for greenwashing in 2021 | News | Eco-Business
Posted on December 8, 2021 By Terry Bailey
Greenwashing reached pandemic proportions in 2021 as businesses and governments raced to tell the world how much they care about people and planet, with varying degrees of credibility.
Every type of brand, from oil-rich governments to canned water manufacturers, tried to jump on the Covid-19-inspired sustainability bandwagon with a blizzard of net-zero, plastic-neutral, palm oil-free or gender-inclusive claims. So many companies said that sustainability is at the heart of everything they do, that they started to sound as if they were reading from the same greenwashing manual.
Levels of greenwash got so bad this year that the public relations industry launched a working group in Singapore in July to figure out how to control it. Six months later, nothing has emerged from the Public Relations & Communications Association of Southeast Asia, and the working group is itself starting to feel a bit greenwash-y.
In 2020, Eco-Business counted eight examples of brands called out for making sustainability claims that did not stand up to scrutiny. This year, we have found 11, detailed in the following list of dubious claims and marketing spin.
Tree-planting in the desert
Saudi Arabia has said it plans to plant 40 billion trees in a region that is mainly desert. Image: Flickr
Saudi Arabia announced in March that it would be planting 50 billion trees as part of a plan to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060. There was very little detail given about how the world's largest reforestation programme would work in a country with limited water resources. "Greenwashing Joke of the Day, courtesy of number 2 top oil-producing country, which apparently wants to plant 10 billion trees even though it doesn't have a single river," tweeted Assaad Razzouk, chief executive of Gurīn Energy.
Saudi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the country planned to continue to extract hydrocarbons while reducing its own emissions through means such as carbon capture, use and storage technologies (CCUS) and would be creating a "circular carbon economy". Matthew Archer, a researcher at the Graduate Institute Geneva, told Al Jazeera: "It's absurd to think that an economy based on the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels can be 'circular' in any meaningful sense of the word. The only way it works is if you rely on technologies that don't exist yet. These initiatives are … full of language that's as ambitious as it is ambiguous, with very few concrete plans and no accountability mechanisms."
The Alliance to Produce A Lot More Plastic Waste
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste has been called out as a "distraction" to Big Oil's expansion plans. Image: endplasticwaste.org
The Allliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW), a Singapore-based non-profit backed by big oil and chemical companies such as Shell, ExxonMobil, and Dow that launched in 2019, claims to be spending US$1.5 billion on cleaning up plastic waste in developing countries. But an investigation by Reuters in January highlighted not only the failure of one the Alliance's flagship projects to clean up the Ganges river in India, but the fact that these companies are planning to dramatically ramp up plastic production, which will fuel the plastic pollution crisis. Greenpeace has called AEPW a "distraction" from Big Oil's expansion plans.
In November, AEPW published a story on its website headlined Why proper waste management is more important than going plastic-free, which argued against bans or other means of reducing plastic production. Tom Peacock-Nazil, co-founder of Seven Clean Seas, an ocean clean-up organisation, commented on LinkedIn that AEPW's article was unbalanced "propaganda" that made AEPW seem like a plastic industry lobby group.
DeepGreenwash
The Metals Company claims to be mining metals from the sea floor responsibly. Image: The Metals Company
A slickly produced video posted on LinkedIn features animated explosions in land-based mines and warns viewers about the dire consequences of mining the metals needed for the energy transition. "Nature disappears, humans suffer, Earth suffers. But there's another way," purrs the narrator in the ad for The Metals Company, which until a recent merger was known as DeepGreen, a Canadian mining company which claims to be able to responsibly suck up potato-sized metal nodules lying on the sea floor. "If we use them to make a billion electric car batteries, we can dramatically reduce our environmental and social impact for the whole planet. We're building a world where metals are not mined and dumped, but rented and returned," says the narrator.
But not everyone is convinced that deep-sea mining is necessary or a better alternative to land-based mining. "Oh, sure! Let's rape another part of the earth in order to make things "cleaner". This kind of thinking is what got us here in the first place," said one commenter on LinkedIn. "Be cautious! Deep sea mining is connected with a large number of concerns that currently heavily outweigh any greenwashing arguments presented here," said another, referring to calls from scientists, environmentalists and even businesses to ban deep-sea mining, because of the environmental impact of mining an ecosystem about which less is known than the surface of the moon.
"I'm a paper bottle" (but also a plastic bottle)
The packaging of Korean cosmetics brand Innisfree's face serum had "Hello, I'm Paper Bottle" written on the side. But the paper bottle was revealed to have a plastic lining by waste-free group No Plastic Shopping. "I felt betrayed when finding out that the paper bottle product was a plastic bottle," the post read. The user also filed an official complaint to a consumer centre against the given product's so-called "green washing" labelling.
Innisfree's plastic bottle covered with a "Hello, I'm Paper Bottle" label. Image: No Plastic Shopping
An oil shop made from "eco-bricks"
Shell Philippines' mobility station selling oil is made out of upcycled plastic bricks. Image: AsiaOne
A sustainability awards show run by a public relations firm hands out prizes to companies after they've paid thousands of Malaysian-Ringgit to win. This is the business model behind the ACES Awards, run by Kuala Lumpur-based PR firm MORS Group. To give a flavour of the integrity of this awards scheme, the winner of this year's "green innovation award" went to Shell, the oil major, for building mobility stations selling oil out of "eco-bricks", which are made of upcycled plastic. "
Carbon neutral hydrocarbons
Shell's Helix Ultra car oil… now carbon neutral. The firm was ordered to stop claiming its oil was carbon neutral in the Netherlands in March.
Carbon neutral oil — yes, as bonkers as it sounds. At the start of the year, oil companies (United States-based Occidental Petroleum was first…) started branding their barrels carbon neutral because they claimed to have bought sufficient carbon offsets to account for the carbon emissions of their hydrocarbons. Shell did the same, using PR firm Edelman to pitch its "carbon neutral" Helix Ultra car oil (the same oil for sale in Shell's award-winning eco-brick stores) in Singapore with the following: "If you are looking to do features on how one can take a step forward in the mission towards a more sustainable future and lead an eco-friendly lifestyle, we feel that Shell's carbon neutral Helix Ultra lubricants will be a good addition."
In March, Shell was ordered to stop advertising in the Netherlands that claim customers can render their fuel purchases "carbon neutral" by paying for carbon offsets, because the firm had no proof that their claims were genuine. Declaring fossil fuels as carbon neutral is like "a tobacco company saying they sell nicotine-free cigarettes because they paid someone else to sell some chewing gum," David Turnbull, a spokesman for Washington-based advocacy group Oil Change International, told Reuters.
Three stripes — and you're out of credibility
Adidas' Stan Smith shoes were called out for claims that they were 50 per cent recycled. Image: Adidas
The brand with the three stripes, Adidas — supposedly one of the eco darlings of the fashion industry — was found guilty of making false and misleading sustainability claims by an advertising ethics jury in France in September. The German sportswear brand was shot down after its "50 per cent recycled" claims for its classic Stan Smith shoe were found to be vague — did the company mean that half of the materials used to make the sneakers are recycled or that they can be recycled after use? And if so, how? The complainant also said that the product's "End plastic waste" logo is dodgy as it is unlikely that wearing a pair of Stan Smith sneakers made from material that isn't fully recycled will bring an end to plastic pollution.
Oil is a 'clean fuel'
Santos is aiming to be net-zero by 2040. ACCR says the plan is not credible, as the company aims to expand fossil fuels extraction over time.
Australian oil major Santos was taken to court in August over claims it made that it produces "clean energy" and aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040 — by relying on unproven carbon capture technology. The shareholder activist group Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) also took issue with Santos describing the fossil fuel natural gas as a "clean fuel" in a sustainability report. Dan Goucher, ACCR's director of climate and environment, called the claims "completely unjustified".
The most sustainable packaging in the world
Aluminium is "the most sustainable packaging material in the world," according to Ball Corporation, the maker of Vietnamese canned water brand BeWater. The brand, and others like it, have been called out for marketing aluminium as "sustainable" and a "zero waste" alternative to plastic. Images: Ball Corporation and Stephan Ulrich
Aluminium is greener than plastic, right? This is what the aluminium can industry wants consumers to believe, with a raft of new canned water brands, such as Vietnam's Ball Corporation's BeWater product and US brand Ever & Ever, making claims that aluminium is "infinitely recyclable" and so is better for the environment than plastic bottled water. "Our mission is to eliminate single-use plastic bottles by making water better," says BeWater on its website. "BeWater is an environmentally friendly, socially sustainable, and convenient alternative to plastic-bottled water."
But this claim is "pure fantasy" and "not in line with facts," says Stephan Ulrich, regional programme manager of the International Labour Organisation in Vietnam. Aluminium may be highly recyclable, but there is not enough recycled material to meet demand, and mining the materials needed to produce aluminium is extremely energy and water intensive. From a carbon and pollution perspective, there could be no worse material to make a single-use container from than aluminium. "Let alone the idea that shipping drinking water around the world makes any sense whatsoever," says Ulrich.
'Sustainable' loan for coal port
A sustainability-linked loan for the world's largest coal terminal, Port of Newcastle. Image: Discoverytheport.com.au
National Australia Bank (NAB) was given an ironic thumbs up by environmental group Market Forces in June for describing a AU$515 million (US$374 million) loan awarded to the world's largest coal export terminal, Port of Newcastle in New South Wales, as "sustainable". The sustainability-linked loan came with incentives for hitting certain environmental and social targets, such as improving the efficiency of the terminal. "The micro-improvements in emissions efficiency at the port ignored the stampeding elephant in the room – 95 per cent of the facility's exports are thermal coal," according to commentary in The Australian newspaper.
Equinot-zero
What oil major greenwashing looks like. Equinor's historic and projected energy sales. The green slither is renewables [click to enlarge]. Image: Ketan Joshi
Norway's state-owned oil major Equinor escapes the scrutiny of more reviled rivals such as ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron because of its widely publicised efforts to transition to clean energy. The company announced a 2050 net-zero target in November 2020, committing to align with the Paris Agreement as it looks to be a "leader in the energy transition," according to chief executive, Anders Opedal. In the first quarter of 2021, almost half of the firm's revenue came from selling off wind farm development projects. But also Q1 2021, of the total energy sold by Equinor, just 0.54 per cent was zero carbon, an opinion piece by science writer Ketan Joshi pointed out. As Gurīn Energy boss Assaad Razzouk tweeted, Equinor deserves a net-zero greenwashing prize.
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Guttorm Heldahl ist ein ehemaliger norwegischer Skispringer.

Werdegang
Heldahl startete bei der Vierschanzentournee 1961/62 zu seinem ersten und einzigen internationalen Turnier. Nach einem 17. Platz auf der Schattenbergschanze in Oberstdorf konnte er in der Folge diese Leistung zuerst nicht steigern. Auf der Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck sprang Heldahl auf den 34. Platz. In Garmisch-Partenkirchen auf der Großen Olympiaschanze landete Heldahl auf dem 12. Platz und erreichte damit das beste Einzelresultat seiner Karriere. Die Tournee beendete er mit dem 52. Platz auf der Paul-Außerleitner-Schanze in Bischofshofen und erreichte damit Rang 25 in der Tournee-Gesamtwertung.

Erfolge

Vierschanzentournee-Platzierungen

Weblinks

 Guttorm Heldahl auf The-Sports.org

Skispringer (Norwegen)
Norweger
Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
Mann

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*Inception for FPA Management was July 11, 1984.
As of March 31, 2019, the 30 day SEC yield was 3.10%.
Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate Index provides a measure of the performance of the U.S. investment grade bonds market, which includes investment grade U.S. Government bonds, investment grade corporate bonds, mortgage pass-through securities and asset-backed securities that are publicly offered for sale in the United States. The securities in the Index must have at least 1 year remaining in maturity. In addition, the securities must be denominated in U.S. dollars and must be fixed rate, nonconvertible, and taxable. Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate 1-3 Year Index provides a measure of the performance of the US investment grade bonds market, which includes investment grade US Government bonds, investment grade corporate bonds, mortgage pass-through securities and asset-backed securities that are publicly offered for sale in the United States. The securities in the Index must have a remaining maturity of 1 to 3 years. In addition, the securities must be denominated in US dollars and must be fixed rate, nonconvertible, and taxable. The CPI +100 Basis Points benchmark is created by adding 1% to the annual percentage change in the Consumer Price Index ("CPI"). This index reflects non seasonably adjusted returns. The Consumer Price Index is an unmanaged index representing the rate of the inflation of the U.S. consumer prices as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. There can be no guarantee that the CPI of other indexes will reflect the exact level of inflation at any given time. These indices do not reflect any commissions or fees which would be incurred by an investor purchasing the stocks they represent. The performance of the Fund and of the Indices are computed on a total return basis which includes reinvestment of all distributions. It is not possible to invest in an index.
Expense ratio calculated as of most recent prospectus is 0.50%. As of March 31, 2019, the 30 day SEC yield was 3.10%.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results and current performance may be higher or lower than the performance shown. Performance has been calculated on a total return basis, which combines principal and dividend income changes for the periods shown. Principal changes are based on the difference between the beginning and closing net asset values for the period and assume reinvestment of all dividends and distributions paid. All applicable expenses such as advisory fees have been included in calculating performance. This data represents past performance and investors should understand that investment returns and principal values fluctuate, so that when you redeem your investment it may be worth more or less than its original cost. Current month-end performance data may be obtained at http://www.fpa.com/newincome or by calling toll-free, 1-800-982-4372.
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A story about Vlad's banjo by Tina.
Most people have one story to tell and this one is mine. I was hanging by the neck in a shop full of different kinds of musical instruments. Some voluptuous and very full bodied, some smaller and rounder like me. We all had different types of strings, different tones and different stories to tell. My story started in the 1920s. I was crafted by a very gentle, quiet man. He spent hours cutting, sanding and shaping my long thin neck. He took greater care bending my body into a perfect round, lacquering me, adding some ornate details and stretching the steel strings out across me. The first time he played me was very special. He had put a lot of himself into me and the playing was effortless. He closed his eyes in rapture. I stayed with him for a while until he brought another banjo into being, similar to me but not quite the same. He then sold me to a local shopkeeper in Kansas. I wasn't there very long when a farmer came up to the window and peered in straight at me. His face was kind of sun-burnt and dusty, but he had eyes that could see beyond what they were looking at. He walked into the shop at a leisurely pace and asked the shopkeeper about me. His hands had combined the practical with the beautiful. They had fixed machines, dug soil, created and sustained life, so when he picked me up that essence was already there and the music that we made pleased us both. He bought me and I spent the next few years on a dusty farm playing to the moonlight on the porch every evening. Then everything turned red. Clouds of dust descended, getting into everything and choking us. My owner and his family packed up all their things and we moved through the dust. I was played a lot more after that. The farmer could not make a living that way anymore so he became a full-time musician. We travelled a lot on the railroads and had fun together making the beautiful ladies and smart gentleman dance. The music had changed then and was lively and vibrant. We had got to know each other better as well so I could tease music out of the kind farmer's soul. The music was tinged with green plants growing through red soil, the sweat of a horse's back as well as the freedom of travelling through the country on snaking iron tracks. We had many more happy years together until he died in the 1980s. I was sold overseas to a music shop in a colder, greener country where I stayed for many years until I met my new owner. A tall gentle soul came up to me wearing clothes outside his era. They suited him and he looked completely comfortable in his own skin. He reminded me of my farmer. I didn't see him again until he had saved up a lot of money to buy me. He picked me up for the first time and thought of old steam railroads with wooden carriages. I could feel the tension from his fingertips right through to the top of his shoulder blade. I thought of the rocking motion of the carriages and our feelings merged taking me back to a time when I was very happy. Instinctively, he took me for a ride on a heritage railway, the steam chugging through fertile valleys. As he sat and played me, we both knew that it couldn't get any better than this.


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Nationwide uses bank statements to drive revenue
Nationwide Building Society is set to include marketing messages on customer bank statements as part of a drive to reduce the amount of direct mail it sends out.
The building society is looking to include "relevant, timely messages" in a bid to make statements "work harder as a communication tool" and drive revenue.
The Nationwide says the integration of the Portman Building Society, and Derbyshire Building Society has led to increased volumes of print and mail.
A spokeswoman for Nationwide says: "We are always looking at ways to improve the effectiveness of our communications and remain committed to direct mail as a key marketing channel."
Nationwide recently appointed former HSBC marketing director, James Boulton, into the same role. He is responsible for brand strategy and driving customer experience for Nationwide's members.
Boulton reports to executive director Chris Rhodes who is responsible for group product and marketing.
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WWF ramps up acquisition activity
WWF UK is ramping up its acquisition activity with a series of new DRTV campaigns that encourage new supporters to adopt an animal.
2 Sep 2009 4:30 pm
Betting on better business
It's official – the country is not going to the dogs. Instead, it is going to the card table, roulette wheel, slot machines and even bingo. Online gaming continues to boom through the economic trough, with global revenues of $22 billion this year due to rise to $25 billion next year.
Mango launches cut-price fashion range
Spanish fashion retailer Mango is introducing Think Up, a low-cost fashion range to accommodate customers struggling during the economic downturn.


Your assistant should respond to any message in a private conversation. Zoom.ai is located in the Apps section.
In a shared channel, trying typing "/invite @zoom.ai" in the channel and this will add Zoom.ai so that you can communicate with your assistant there as well.