When I was 8 years old (in the late 70's), a treat would have been something like homemade buns, the occasional packet of crisps or a small chocolate bar. A friend of mine always had chocolate chip cookies at her house - the height of posh at the time!
Fast forward a few decades and I now have an 8-year-old daughter. So many things have changed in the intervening years; TV's have got bigger and better, cars are faster and safer, mobile phones have changed our lives. And what about the humble chocolate chip cookie? It, too, has grown.
I bought a chocolate chip cookie at a high street coffee shop recently, purely for research purposes of course! I bought the same brand of chocolate chip cookie that my friend used to supply 40 years ago. Amazingly, they're still knocking around! And I compared them.
AS you can see from the picture, the retro cookie is teeny tiny compared to the modern day version. The retro cookie weighs in at 21g (for 2) while the modern cookie is a hefty 85g. The calorie count is 104 calories versus 428 calories and the sugar content is 7.8g compared to 32g. Basically, the coffee shop cookie is 4 times bigger than the retro cookie. This may in some way, explain the expanding waistlines and increasing incidence of lifestyle-related illnesses that abound currently.
If we were all to revert to portion sizes of the 70's (we can keep the phones and the technology!), this might help keep our weight and that of our children in check. Portion size is hugely important and we seem to have lost sight of that (behind our big TV's, fast cars and mobile phones). It's back to the 70's for me - in terms of portion size only. They can keep their flares and tie-dye!
PS - In the interests of further research, I consumed both cookies in one sitting, a couple of hours before bed. Not my best idea ever - I wasn't able to sleep afterwards.


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Dialogue: A Writer's Story Demo (Tea Powered Games)
Dialogue: A Writer's Story is the tale of Lucille, a woman who is stuck on a novel, and who goes to her friends and relatives to find inspiration and work past her difficulties. The full game is not yet available, but a demo is free to download. My remarks here are therefore necessarily based just on the two scenes provided in that demo.
Dialogue has some aspects of a visual novel — in the screenshot shown above, Lucille and her brother are talking, and Lucille periodically gets timed opportunities to choose dialogue responses. All of the text is fully voice acted. There is a bar that shrinks as you run out of time to answer, as in Telltale conversation sequences, though there are also some additional dialogue powers that come into play and allow you to gain alternate dialogue lines partway through the timed session.
At the end of your conversation with Lucille's brother, you get a little summary of how the game thinks the conversation went: were you pushy? neutral? I have to admit that its understanding of what I was doing and why didn't really match my own.
Not all the dialogue scenes work in the same way, though. The second of the two demo scenes concerns Lucille's exchange with her neighbor Adrian, who is providing her with information about what it's like to work in a scientific research lab. Adrian's dialogue is modeled as a maze, with each location representing a topic of conversation:
Highlighted text in the maze dialogue indicates things that the player could follow up on, opening new topic-locations. There are also a certain number of "extra questions" available to the player, things that Lucille is supposedly wondering about. If you click on an extra question during the correct topic node, it will expose a new avenue of discussion and reveal new parts of the maze. In the location allegory, it's like discovering a secret door.
The challenge for the player is thus to figure out when those questions become topically relevant. I mostly found this fairly easy to do, though there was one question where I had to do the equivalent of pixel-hunting and run all over the map spamming that question. The game tries to fight you doing this by imposing a timer — if you ask an extra question in the wrong place, you have to endure a cooldown before you're allowed to ask any of the extra questions again — but it's a wait of a few seconds, and if you're genuinely stuck on what's going on, you can certainly brute-force the scenario.
Gradually you build up a full overhead view of everything you've talked about so far:
This is a mechanic of exploration, but it's not really functioning in the way that exploratory conversational mechanics often work, namely by challenging the player to figure out what is important enough to ask about next. (For that, see Her Story, and a lot of ask/tell conversation games in parser IF — there are many many more examples than are currently tagged on IFDB.) Instead, Dialogue's maze-conversation interface tells us what's going to be important to figure out and challenges us to find the connections between those topics and the existing topics in the conversation.
I like to try for the rule of thumb that the thing that we make the player enact is the thing we're most invested in having her understand — and on those terms, I wasn't quite sure why, in Dialogue, the emphasis was on the the transitions rather than the substance of the conversation.
It's also a fairly anti-naturalistic presentation of conversation, one that emphasizes its formal qualities and allows for a lot of repetition of content. I don't always mind that: in fact, I think that plot mapping can be quite effective. Still, I was interested by this experiment without feeling that I fully comprehended what it was trying to achieve in terms of storytelling or player experience. The full version of the game may perhaps make this clearer.
One other thing about the demo that may also be addressed by the full version: both the example conversations feel a bit shapeless. It's not clear what the stakes are, or what Lucille is trying to achieve. In the context of a larger plot, of course, that may change.
In any case, it's a new experiment in dialogue and UI, and I always like to see those. And the demo is, as I said, free.
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Points For Effort: Vogue Reality Series About Modeling Is Surprisingly Realistic, A Little Boring
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American Vogue's online reality series, Model.Live, unveiled its first episode today, and I'm sad to report that it's not the irretrievably tacky, so-bad-it's-good, corporate-sponsored suckfest I was hoping it would be. (Hoping? I am a mean-spirited person.) The series — which, at $3 million (or around $31,000 a minute) is some of the most expensive online television yet produced — follows three models as they navigate the discombobulating month-long global merry-go-round that is the fashion weeks of New York City, London, Milan, and Paris.
The most well-known model featured is 19-year-old Cato Van Ee of the Netherlands, who is the veteran of a Prada/Miu Miu double exclusive (an "exclusive" is industryspeak for when a major house puts a new model on lockdown for its show alone, and a high-profile exclusive reliably precedes a major blow-up: see Kloss, Karlie, who was exclusive for Gucci and Calvin Klein the season before she walked 64 shows in three cities). 20-year-old Arizona native Madeline Kragh has spent a year working mainly in Sydney and Athens, but her New York presence is apparently nil when the series kicks off. Austria Alcántara, a shy-seeming 16-year-old Dominican and an alleged high school senior — whose age, curiously enough, was reported as 14 this February — rounds out the cast.
The first episode introduces the three…characters? Subjects? Everyone at Vogue is insisting on maintaining a distinction between 'reality show' and 'documentary', which I personally find kind of precious. Especially given the sky-high production values and manipulative piano tinkling that bookends every scene.
The main action happens when the girls' representatives at the agency IMG meet for a strategy session more than a month ahead of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week — an agency-as-benevolent-parental-surrogate set piece that would probably irritate me more (the managers talk about the girls in all kinds of borderline condescending ways, as if they were pets) if it weren't so very dull. Meanwhile, the well spoken and composed Cato talks with some regret about seeing all her high school friends go on to university while she pursues a career that may well prove all-too-ephemeral. Austria is clearly being set up as the quiet girl fashion will deliver from her shell.
But my favorite — and the girl who seems most likely to bring a little levity to the self-serious production — is Barbizon survivor Madeline. She has an affective sort of goofiness about her on camera, and her gawky nervousness lends the proceedings authenticity. Also, she puts her foot in her mouth in the most charming way possible. "When I was in university, I was going to school," she muses at one point, before averring, "I became my own person, my own model...I don't want to be like another model."
Since the show season documented is this past Spring's, information about what happens to the girls' careers over the four fashion weeks is readily available online — a disconnect the Internet series, for all its tie-ins with Bebo.com and sponsor Express.com, strangely refuses to acknowledge. (I won't give any spoilers, but it looks like someone has visa issues, and Austria's age may stand in the way of a highly desirable gig. Who knew, in this age of 12-year-olds walking for Marc by Marc Jacobs, that there was such a thing as a model who is too young!)
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Models
Wow. Christie Brinkley sounds like a damn fool in this New York profile from the latest issue.…
Model.Live seems harmless enough, and possibly even realistic, if a little sanitized and unnecessarily heavy-handed (the point about modeling often being lonely and isolating is made with voice-over from a manager talking about the "independence" the career demands while B roll of Cato looking lonely on a street corner and wafting down a river in some kind of gondola plays. Really). Ditch the sad piano theme and it could even be fun to watch; in any case it's nice to see something about the industry that doesn't have the primetime television stain of ANTM antics.
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These buildings are in almost every U.S. city. They range from three to seven stories tall and can stretch for blocks. They're usually full of rental apartments, but they can also house college dorms, condominiums, hotels, or assisted-living facilities. Close to city centers, they tend toward a blocky, often colorful modernism; out in the suburbs, their architecture is more likely to feature peaked roofs and historical motifs. Their outer walls are covered with fiber cement, metal, stucco, or bricks.
They really are everywhere, I discovered on a cross-country drive last fall, and they're going up fast. In 2017, 187,000 new housing units were completed in buildings of 50 units or more in the U.S., the most since the Census Bureau started keeping track in 1972. By my informal massaging of the data, well over half of those were in blocky mid-rises.
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Back on August 8, I talked about how I was going to change up my study schedule for the interview.
I discovered that it was difficult to interleave learning new things and practicing, and I wanted to get past the learning phase done so I can just practice all day long.
What's in the Practice Phase?
The learning phase involves going through 5 books of programming questions. I'll go through each page, do each question, and write code on my whiteboard. Then I'll test the code to make sure I didn't goof. This will also give me tons of practice with Python, the language I have chosen for the interview.


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A Health Belief Model-Social Learning Theory Approach to Adolescents' Fertility Control: Findings from a Controlled Field Trial
A Randomized, Controlled Trial of a School-based, Multi-faceted AIDS Education Program in the Elementary Grades
Adolescent Pregnancy and Sexual Risk-Taking Among Sexually Abused Girls
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: A Review of Interventions and Programs
Age Differences Between Sexual Partners in the United States
Body-Image and Eating Disturbances Predict Onset of Depression Among Female Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study
College Students' Attitudes Regarding Vaccination to Prevent Genital Herpes
Date Rape Among Adolescents and Youth Adults
Decision Making for Pregnant Adolescents: Applying Reasoned Action Theory to Research and Treatment
Early Sexual Initiation: The Role of Peer Norms
Exploring Associations in Developmental Trends of Adolescent Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behavior in a High-Risk Population
Factors Predicting Safe-Sex Talk and Condom Use in Early Sexual Relationships
Families Matter: A Research Synthesis of Family Influences on Adolescent Pregnancy
High Prevalence and Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Urban Adolescent Females Despite Moderate Risk Behaviors
Impact Evaluation of the "Not Me, Not Now" Abstinence-Oriented, Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Communications Program
Is Emergency Contraception (EC) Safe?
Mothers' Influence on Teen Sex: Connections that Promote Postponing Sexual Intercourse
Older Boyfriends and Girlfriends Increase Risk of Sexual Initiation in Young Adolescents
Patterns of Consultation Among Adolescent Minors Obtaining an Abortion
Peer Effects on Adolescent Sexual Debut and Pregnancy: An Analysis of a National Survey of Adolescent Girls
Peer Potential: Making the Most of How Teens Influence Each Other
Personal and Ethnic Identity, Values, and Self Esteem Among Black and Latino Adolescent Girls
Piecing Together the Puzzle of Teenage Childbearing (September 1999)
Preventing Teen Pregnancy: Youth Development and After-School Programs
Reason for Hope: A Review of Research on Adolescent Religiosity and Sexual Behavior
Reducing Adolescent Pregnancy: Programs That Work
Room to Grow: Improving Services for Pregnant and Parenting Teenagers in School Settings
Secondary Sexual Characteristics and Menses in Young Girls Seen in Office Practice
Secondary Sexual Characteristics in Boys
Self Esteem as a Predictor of Initiation of Coitus in Early Adolescents
Sex Education Programs for People With Mental Retardation
Sexual Intercourse, Abuse and Pregnancy Among Adolescent Women: Does Sexual Orientation Make a Difference?
Sexuality in Fifth and Sixth Grades in U.S. Public Schools
Short-term impact of Safer Choices: A multicomponent, school-based HIV, other STD, and pregnancy prevention programs
SIECUS study on 1998-1999 Sexuality Education Controversies in the United States
The Association of Sexual Behaviors with Socioeconomic Status, Family Structure, and Race/Ethnicity among U.S. Adolescents
The Impact of Abstinence-only Programs
The Trade-Off Between Hormonal Contraceptives and Condoms Among Adolescents
Working with Young People — Towards an Agenda for Sexual Health
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Teens' Closeness with Their Mothers Linked to Delay in Initiation of Sexual Activity, Study Says
Teenagers who have close relationships with their mothers are more likely to delay the onset of sexual intercourse than teens who are not close to their mothers, according to a report published in the September 2002 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, the Washington Post reports (Sessions Stepp, Washington Post, 9/5).
The findings come from two University of Minnesota studies involving data gathered from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. One study examined 3,322 boys and girls in eighth through 11th grades, while the second looked at a sample of 2,006 14- and 15-year-olds. All participants in the two studies had never had sexual intercourse at the beginning of the study period. Researchers evaluated the associations between initiation of sexual intercourse, teens' perceived relationship with their mothers and mothers' perception of whether their children were sexually active.
The authors noted that they focused on teens' relationships with their mothers rather than fathers because the majority of parents who responded to the survey were mothers, although they added that previous studies have shown that mothers tend to have a greater influence than fathers on teens' sexual decision-making.
The following are among the study findings: Eighth- and ninth-grade teens who reported having a close relationship with their mothers were more likely to delay the onset of sexual intercourse. Among 10th- and 11th-grade students, boys who reported having a close relationship with their mothers were more likely to delay the onset of sexual intercourse, but there was no link between a close mother-teen relationship and the onset of sexual activity among girls in this age group.
Both boys and girls in grades 8 through 11 who perceived that their mothers "strongly" disapproved of them having sex were more likely to delay sexual intercourse.
Among teens in 8th through 11th grades, 30% of girls and 45% of boys whose mothers "strongly" disapproved of sexual activity did not accurately perceive such disapproval.
Among students in 8th through 11th grades who had had sexual intercourse, 50% of the mothers of these students were not aware that their children were sexually active.
Among mothers of 14- and 15-year-olds, 48% said that they had discussed birth control with their sons "a moderate amount" or "a great deal," and 52% reported that they had discussed birth control with their daughters to a similar extent. However, mothers of 14- or 15-year-old sons were more likely to have recommended a specific form of birth control than mothers of girls in that age group. The extent to which mothers discussed sex or birth control was not linked with onset of sexual activity among the 14- or 15-year-old participants.
There was no link between parents' discussion of the negative consequences of sexual activity, such as early pregnancy, and the onset of teen sexual activity among teens in the 8th- to 11th-grade group ("Mothers' Influence on Teen Sex: Connections That Promote Postponing Sexual Intercourse," September 2002).
The researchers concluded that the strength of relationships between parents and teens — not simply discussions about sex — are the key to delaying the onset of teen sexual activity. "A teen's relationship with [his or her] mother matters. It differs for boys and girls, but it matters," Robert Blum, a study co-author and director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Adolescent Health and Development, said yesterday during a press conference.
Noting that many teen study participants did not accurately perceive their parents' opinions about sex, Blum said that parents must communicate and demonstrate their values and beliefs regarding sex during day-to-day life, not just during discussions with their children. He stated that teens' perception of their parents' views on education are also important, because children who believed that their mothers placed a high importance on education were more likely to delay initial sexual activity (Meredith McGroarty, Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report, 9/5).
But Blum said that the study did not examine why many mothers were unaware that their children were sexually active. "Perhaps it's just because they don't want to know. Perhaps they're not so involved in the lives of their teens. We just don't know," he said. (Schemo, New York Times, 9/5)
Strategies for Parents
Sarah Brown, director of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, outlined several activities that parents can use to help convey their feelings about sex to their teens and build positive relationships with their children. She urged parents to:
work at developing close, loving relationships with their teens
be clear about their own sexual values
discuss the consequences of teen pregnancy, abstinence and contraception with their teens
supervise and monitor their children's activities
discourage "early, frequent and steady dating"
help their children develop educational goals and other future priorities beyond sex
communicate the importance of education, and
be aware of what their children are seeing in the media
(McGroarty, Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report, 9/5).
"We find all the time … that parents can't just lecture and talk to kids about these issues. They have to develop communication and real relationships," Kristin Moore, president and senior scholar of Child Trends, a not-for-profit research organization, said.
Doug Kirby, senior research scientist at ETR Associates, a health education research institution, noted that the study does not instruct parents on what sexual values they should have or communicate to their children. "One of the most helpful findings in the … study is the realization that the issue is complex and not simple," he said. (Wood, Christian Science Monitor, 9/5)
James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, noted that the study found that discussing contraception with teens did not prompt teens to become sexually active sooner. He said that parent-teen communication can help teens delay the onset of sexual activity and increase the chances that teens will practice safe sex, thereby reducing the chances of STD infection. (Advocates for Youth release, 9/4)
Lawrence Finer, assistant director of research at the Alan Guttmacher Institute, expressed concern about teens who do not have close relationships with their parents, asking, "if the positive is parental involvement, then what about the kids who don't have that? To help them have safe and healthy lives, they're going to have to draw on other resources, and what will those be?" (Cummins, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 9/5)
Blum, R.W. (2002). Mothers' influence on teen sex: Connections that promote postponing sexual intercourse. Center for Adolescent Health and Development, University of Minnesota.
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last night's blogger panel . . .
Was a big success, and we were at the Fortress of Planning (pictured above) so late they turned off the lights and kicked us out. Special thanks go to my fellow panelists - Eric from Thayer Avenue, Cindy at Rockville Central, David at Greater Greater Washington, and Barnaby from the Friends of White Flint blog - and of course everyone at the Planning Department who put this together, including Rina Brulé who put it together, moderator Fred Boyd, and department director Rollin Stanley, who I still have a bit of a "planner-crush" on.
Two ideas in the discussion struck me. The first was Dan Reed's passion for his community and the sense of justice that prompted him to start blogging. He recounted some success in connecting the Silver Spring skater kids to the planning process through his blog. This is the kind of outreach planners know that must do to create a valid plan, but don't always achieve.
Connecting to a larger community through blogs may be one way to get beyond the "white, middle-class, retired" people who Reed sees as making decisions for communities they may not be part of.
Either way, if you haven't seen the blog before, definitely check it out. It's really exciting to see what planners do for a living, and what inspires them. Hopefully, that kind of transparency will make the general public more interested, or at least more trusting, of those who make the decisions that affect their lives and communities.
Next week, the Rethink Montgomery speaker series continues with a discussion on "Infrastructure," with panelists Casey Anderson of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (and a Woodside resident) and planning consultant Richard Layman, who writes Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space. The event's next Thursday, April 15 at 7:30pm at 8787 Georgia Avenue in Downtown Silver Spring.
Dan, just so you know, there is a large population of white, middle-class, and even retired persons in Silver Spring. We all know that Silver Spring is one of the more diverse cities in the area, but white, middle-class people are probably the relative majority. I don't think that they are the enemy, either. In fact, I'd argue that many of those in power in this county are much more progressive than many of the newcomers.
You're absolutely right, though I don't think you would disagree that the make-up of many of our community organizations - and of our community leaders - often doesn't reflect the diversity of our community, whether in race, economic status, or politics.
Nobody is "the enemy" here, nor did I suggest that. But we have a responsibility to bring as many parties to the decision-making table as possible, and right now that isn't happening. That must change if we want to ensure that everyone's needs are met.
I was at last night's panel and I liked what I heard. Moving beyond Silver Spring's middle-aged white retirees, I'd like to comment on something that came up a couple of times: blog retirees and the issue of succession when a blogger leaves the scene.
The Silver Spring Penguin was mentioned a few times. When Jennifer Deseo left SS for New York she left a real void in the local blogosphere. When you leave to attend grad school, there will be another void.
I wonder if it is practical to plan on succession as a blogger when someone like you or the Penguin or another influential voice anticipates a change of venue.
The New York Times and other publications have a Stylebook they give to new writers. I'm not sure if that would work with a blog - when someone leaves, they take with them their voice and their specific expertise, two things that can't easily be taught or replicated.
So I'm not sure what will happen if, in fact, I do leave, but it's certainly something I've been thinking about a lot.
Actually, as a white, sort-a-middle class, almost retired SS resident, I was grateful to find out about the issues that skate boarders were having, and teens in general were having in DTSS. I sure never would have found out in the local newspapers! Now I can try to be part of the solution, as we used to say.
I did really enjoy the panel. I was particularly amused by your mentioning of the sin of discussing parking at a dinner party.
Even in a pretty liberal group there can be some reflexive positions on those issues but I've also found that I can often bring people around at least partially as a lot of the problems of the current system show up pretty quickly if you talk it through.
I'd say probably the biggest trick I need to manage is to really learn how to compellingly explain new roads failing to resolve traffic because of induced demand. Figuring out the merits of performance parking just requires some micro-economics, I think understanding induced demand requires getting into the implications for development of any transportation project and the fact that transit can scale in a way roads can't. But that implications for development point seems like it'd just start a whole new battle and is a bit more than I want to handle at an only moderately wonky party.
Dan, I don't understand what's meant by you connecting skaters with the planning process? How?
I know you said they gave you too much credit, and I tend to agree.
I appreciate some of your pro-skateboarding blogs, but none of them comes close to conveying the level of harassment skaters have (and do) experience downtown. So to the extent that you have encouraged more openness towards the idea of skateparks -- we appreciate that. But when kids are being verbally and physically abused by security guards, getting bogus citations, being banned from numerous public streets, and when they're threatened with criminal charges for simply carrying skateboards on Ellsworth, the problem is far greater than what I've ever read on your blog. And you didn't connect the young skaters with the planning process -- I did that.


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Anthony McCarten, né en 1961 à New Plymouth en Nouvelle-Zélande, est un romancier, scénariste et dramaturge néo-zélandais. Il vit à Londres et Los Angeles.

Vie et carrière
En tant que scénariste et producteur de film, la dernière production de McCarten est Une merveilleuse histoire du temps et concerne la vie du professeur Stephen Hawking et sa première épouse, Jane Hawking. Il a d'abord entamé des discussions avec Jane Hawking, pour acquérir les droits de son autobiographie, Travelling to Infinity, en 2004, et peu de temps après a commencé à travailler sur un scénario qui s'est inspiré de son livre. Le film est prévu pour une sortie mondiale à la fin de 2014. En 2011, son adaptation de son propre roman Death of a Superhero a eu sa première mondiale au Festival du film de Toronto et a remporté Les Arcs European du Festival du film européen prix du public et prix du jeune jury, et le prix du public et «Mention spéciale» du Jury au Festival du film européen de Mamer-en-Mars. Il a eu sa première américaine au Tribeca Film Festival 2012. Avant cela, Via Satellite, dont il adapté de sa propre pièce de théâtre, et réalisé lui-même, a été invité à plusieurs festivals, notamment à Londres, Cannes, Toronto, Melbourne, Hawaï et Seattle. Son suivi en tant que scénariste/réalisateur, Show of Hands (2008), en première au Festival international du film de Montréal, était en sélection officielle au Festival du film de Shanghai 2009.

Les romans de McCarten ont été traduits en 14 langues. Son premier roman, Spinners (Picador, 2000), a été élu l'un des dix meilleurs romans de l'année par Esquire magazine. Son troisième roman, Death of a Superhero, a remporté le prix autrichien de la Littérature Jeunesse 2008 et a été finaliste pour le prix allemand de la Littérature Jeunesse 2008. "Not since Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum has the pains of growing up been rendered this powerfully." Blick, Zurich. "A fantastic novel and a small revolution for the literary form." Der Spiegel (en ligne).

La suite du roman, de cette histoire, In The Absence Of Heroes a été publié en 2012, et a été en finale pour le prix Nouvelle-Zélande de fiction en 2013 et a été sur la longue liste pour le prix littéraire Dublin international IMPAC en 2014. En 2013 est également venu Brilliance (Alma Books (UK), Hawthorne Books (USA), l'histoire de l'âge d'or de Thomas Edison, le célèbre inventeur de la première lampe à incandescence commercialement appicable, et son amitié transformée avec le géant du monde de la finance fin du , J.P.Morgan.

En 2005, McCarten adapta son second roman, The English Harem, à l'écran. Ce roman a été diffusé sur ITV en .

Son quatrième roman, Show Of Hands, a été publié en Europe, et aux États-Unis par Simon and Schuster en 2009. McCarten a déjà réalisé l'adaptation sur grand écran, et le film a eu sa première mondiale au Festival des films du monde de Montréal en 2008, et il a été nominé comme meilleur film et meilleur réalisateur au Film Awards en Nouvelle-Zélande.

McCarten reçu très tôt un succès international avec sa pièce . Traduite en douze langues, elle reste en Nouvelle-Zélande la pièce au plus grand succès commercial de tous les temps, et en plus de huit tournées nationales, guichets fermés de la Grande-Bretagne, il continue à jouer dans le monde entier. En 2001, il a remporté le premier prix de théâtre de la France pour la comédie, le prix Molière.

Travaux principaux

Romans
funny girl (2014) Diogenes (Allemagne), Piranha (France, 2015)
Brilliance (2012) Alma Books (UK), Hawthorne Books (USA, 2013)
In The Absence of Heroes (2012) Random House (NZ), Diogenes (Allemagne)
Show of Hands (2008) Diogenes (Allemagne), Simon and Schuster (US), Random House (NZ)
Death of a Superhero Alma Books (2006, 2007)
The English Harem Picador (2002), reprinted (film-tie-in) Alma Books (2006)
Spinners Random House New Zealand (1999) Harper Perennial (US) (2001)

Films
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (2022)
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Les Heures sombres (Darkest Hour)  (2017) (également producteur)
Une merveilleuse histoire du temps (2014)
 Death of a Superhero (2011)
Show of Hands (2008)
The English Harem (2005) (TV Adaptation)
Via Satellite (1999)
Fluff (1995) (Short)
Nocturne in a Room (1992) (Short)

Pièces
The Pope. 2017
funny girl. 2015
Brilliance. 2014
Invitation to a Second Class Carriage. Depot Theatre, Wellington, 1984.
Yellow Canary Mazurka. Circa, 1987.
. Avec Stephen Sinclair. Mercury, 1987.
Pigeon English. Playwrights' Workshop, 1988; Depot, 1989.
Weed. Circa, 1990.
Via Satellite. Circa, 1991, and the winner of the NZ Listener Best Play and Wellington Theatre Critics' Best Production awards for 1991.
Hang on a Minute, Mate. Downstage, 1992.
Ladies Night 2. With Stephen Sinclair. Mercury, 1992.
FILTH (Failed in London, Try Hong Kong). Circa, 1995.
Four Cities alias Continental Breakfast. Los Angeles, 1996.

Musicaux
Death Of A Superhero (2014) Book by Anthony McCarten, Music by Paul Brown.

Distinctions

Récompense
 British Academy Film Awards 2015 : Meilleur scénario adapté pour Une merveilleuse histoire du temps

Nominations
 Golden Globes 2020 : Meilleur scénario pour Les Deux Papes
 Oscars 2020 : Meilleur scénario adapté pour Les Deux Papes

Références

Liens externes

 Alma Author
  Article de l'International Herald Tribune

Naissance en 1961
Naissance à New Plymouth
Écrivain néo-zélandais du XXe siècle
Écrivain néo-zélandais du XXIe siècle
Scénariste néo-zélandais de cinéma
Étudiant de l'université Victoria de Wellington
Étudiant de l'université Massey
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On 17 July 2019, member organisations of the Georgian National Coalition for the ICC (GCICC), Article 42 of the Constitution, Georgian Young Lawyers' Association, Human Rights Center , Justice International ,The Georgian Center for Psychosocial and Medical Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (GCRT) launched a report entitled "10 Years after the August War: Victims of the Situation in Georgia" during an event dedicated to the victims of the 2008 August War, in Tbilisi.
The report aims at informing the public about the situation in Georgia vis-à-vis the ICC and shed light on the victims' state of affairs a decade after the conflict. The organisations hope this will help to raise awareness amongst the international community and bring in the much-needed attention to the situation to make the ICC investigation more meaningful for those who are supposed to be in the centre of the process.
The report also aims at documenting the current socio-economic situation and identifying problems of persons forcibly displaced from Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia and its adjacent villages after the 2008 August war.
Public Defender, Nino Lomjaria, at the launch of the report expressed concern about the situation in Georgia, stating, "The war severely hit Georgia's political, economic and democratic development, as well as human relations. The border guards of the Russian Federation illegally detain and fine people in the regions with which we had intensive trade, close relations and friendly ties 10 years ago. The conflicts of the 90s and 2008 affected more than half a million of our citizens. As of today, more than 280,000 IDPs are registered in Georgia. This figure indicates the challenges faced by our country and the huge responsibility of the central government."
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#Georgian Coalition for the International Criminal Court has published the report – "10 Years after the August War: Victims of the Situation in Georgia"https://t.co/gxO3nLy51d@HRIDC @article42 @GYLA_CSO @Justice_Intl #gcrt pic.twitter.com/6zjYWamuH1
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Members of the Georgian National Coalition for the #ICC @article42 @GYLA_CSO @HRIDC @Justice_Intl & #GCRT make recs to Georgian authorities, @IntlCrimCourt & @TFV_FPV in "10 years after the war–victims of the situation in #Georgia" https://t.co/wWdTDmMjCU https://t.co/iGysi2UCkS
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"We aim at informing the public about the situation in Georgia vis-à-vis the #ICC and shed light on the victims' state of affairs a decade after the conflict. We hope this will help to raise awareness amongst the international community and bring in the much-needed attention" https://t.co/wyuPcYUhXq
— JusticeInternational (@Justice_Intl) 17 July 2019
Article 42 of the Constitution, Georgian Young Lawyers' Association, Human Rights Center , Justice International ,The Georgian Center for Psychosocial and Medical Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (GCRT) also make a number of recommendations to the Georgian Government, Local self-government bodies and States institutions, and General Prosecutor's office, as well as to the International Criminal Court, and it's Trust Fund for Victims.
On the occasion of #IJD2019, Chair of the Georgian Coalition for the ICC and Co-director of the Human Rights Center, Nino Tsagareishvili, focused on the victims of international crimes that have to wait for too long until they receive justice. #RomeStatute21 #globaljustice pic.twitter.com/Lvl5vUglux
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Here's a simple question: why did the Modi magic work in Uttar Pradesh so gloriously but fail so conspicuously to cast its charm in Punjab, Goa and Manipur? If the Bharatiya Janata Party is the new pan-India party and if Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the only pan-Indian leader, as was loudly claimed after the civic polls in Maharashtra, then why have the party and the leader failed to click beyond good old UP?
The answer is simple: a Hindu vote bank has been cobbled together and sustained there because UP has a sizeable Muslim population, against whom ancient prejudices and new resentments could be stimulated. This is the bottom line of an otherwise complicated electoral contest.
The Modi crowd can be expected to reject any suggestion of a Hindu vote-bank and the secular parties and leaders may also refuse to acknowledge it, but there is only one way to read the UP vote: the Hindu vote stands consecrated.
The process that was initiated prior to the 2014 Lok Sabha campaign was never allowed to fade away. The Muzaffarnagar violence of 2013 and its memory were assiduously kept alive. Even Kabir's famous verse 'Rahiman dhaga prem ka' had to be cited to remind one and all of the knotted connection that had come to define Hindu-Muslim ties in village after village.
It may be instructive to remind ourselves that the BJP and its allies did not field a single Muslim candidate in Uttar Pradesh. The party contested 380 seats and left 23 for its allies. This exclusion was a matter of conscious choice, a part of an unsentimental, unconfused strategy. It had worked so well in 2014 when for the first time since 1952 Uttar Pradesh did not elect a single Muslim to the Lok Sabha. In 2014, a message was successfully transmitted that the majority community was under siege and that the BJP, under Modi's leadership, was the only party that could see to it that the community's interests were defended and its values preserved.
It has been suggested that the UP verdict is a vote on demonetisation, as well as an endorsement of the 'surgical strikes'. The suggestion is that voters were happy to put up with all the notebandi-centric dislocations and disruptions because it had put the terrorists out of business and that Pakistan's dirty designs had come to naught. But then why should this nationalistic messaging be confined to UP? No one can argue that voters in Punjab, Goa and Manipur lack in patriotism; Punjab being a border state has every reason to be receptive to any anti-Pakistan sales-pitch. Yet, the BJP lost even the Pathankot, Dinanagar and Gurdaspur assembly seats, where terror-attacks took place under Modi's watch. In fact, the BJP contested 23 seats in Punjab and managed to win only three. Similarly, Goa has the honour of being the home state of our hon'ble defence minister – who single-handedly instigated the government's muscular anti-Pakistani narrative. Modi campaigned in all the other three states, though not in every galli as he did in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Yet the electorate remained immune to the Modi charm, as also to the presumed curative power of his leadership.
The Modi magic worked in Uttar Pradesh because of a very sizeable Muslim presence. That made it easy to effortlessly inject zero-sum sentimentality into the election-time discourse. This is not the first time a Hindu consolidation has been attempted. It has been working rather well in Gujarat since 2002. It worked in UP in 2017 perfectly because of three convergences. First, the Hindus could be made to feel aggrieved. The BJP's two principal rivals – the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party – could be portrayed as being too solicitous and too eager to court the Muslim voter. A certain kind of moral authority was grafted around the Hindus' perceived sense of grievances. In particular, the upper castes and the non-Yadav OBCs could be made to feel the threat of being deprived of their legitimate share in the power arrangements because both the BSP and the SP (along with the old culprit, the Congress) were pandering to the Muslims. With behan Mayawati's BSP openly basing its electoral pitch on a Dalit-Muslim axis, the BJP rhetoric and tactics seemed morally justified to the upper castes. A kind of moral equivalence was manufactured about speaking up for the Hindus.
Second, the Hindus in UP could be summoned to a kind of solidarity because the anti-Muslim sentiment was served up with an anti-Pakistani dressing. The prime minister's reference to the Kanpur rail accident and to the "conspirators" sitting across the borders was not at all an innocent invocation. The trick has always been to make the Hindus see a connection between India's Muslims and Pakistan. The BJP president used the acronym 'KASAB' to make the point — and the connection.
Pitch perfect. Modi's BJP has won a famous victory in Uttar Pradesh on a stupendous scale that eluded the party during Atal Bihari Vajpayee's heyday. The 'Modi wave' has eclipsed the 'Ram wave' of the 1990s. For now, Corporate India will be expected to shed its reluctance to invest, just as the foreign investor would also feel emboldened to take a few risks. The Indian polity stands re-jigged. First after 2014, and now after 2017, the message is clear: Muslim votes are not needed to capture power in India because a Hindu vote-bank has come into existence and it will not be allowed to disintegrate. A kind of politics of exclusion would inevitably assert itself.
The votes have been counted, a mandate procured, and Narendra Modi's unchallenged leadership established. What next? Will a renewed Modi do a better job of protecting and securing our best national interest? The primary responsibility of a leader, anywhere and at any time in any society, is to establish and deepen social harmony and trust among communities and citizens. That task has just become a little complicated. At the moment of his resounding success, Modi has also deepened a fault-line for the Indian state.
Harish Khare is Editor-in-Chief of The Tribune, where this article first appeared.


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Explore Lucknow – Hussainabad Clock Tower (Ghantaa Ghar), an unknown Gem
Posted on April 18, 2019 April 18, 2019 by AManjul
Did you know that Lucknow has a clock tower which was built to erase out what ever was Indian and introduce and enforce European concepts, a step to further strengthen the colonial footprints.
Yes, Lucknow has a clock tower. One must have passed by it many times but would have not realised that it's a historical treasure, a heritage which requires our love and attention.
The Hussainabad Clock Tower (Ghantaa Ghar) which is located quiet close to one of the important landmarks of Lucknow-the Rumi Darwaaza (Rumi Gateway), is the one we are talking about.
The clock tower was constructed to welcome the British governor during the colonial era. Yes it was the time when many in the country were trying their best to find favour with the colonial masters, doing everything possible to please them, completely forgetting the atrocities committed by them a few years ago. The site where the clock tower stands today is close to the locations where many Indian revolutionaries were tortured and hanged. The site is close to the one of the location of religious importance of which the British had disregarded and converted the same into a storehouse for ammunition.
The Hussainabad Endowment Trust (HAT; the trust which was constituted by the Nawab Muhammad Ali Shah in 1838) constructed the clock tower in 1881 CE to mark the arrival of the first Lieutenant Governor of the United Province of Awadh and North Western Province, Sir George Couper.
No, Nawab Muhammad Ali Shah wouldn't have turned in his grave at this act, he also had been favouring the British East India Company in his time; only Begum Hazrat Mahal would have turned in her grave in Kathmandu and Birjis Qadar sitting in his residence at Metiaburz near Kolkatta after 1887 CE would have shed a tear and probably given a thought on the futility of the events of 1857 or probably he would have been too busy to manage his affairs and find favours with the British Empire which had allowed him to return back to India.
The City Magistrate Lt. Col. Norman Horsford, Bengal Corps was the one who suggested and influenced the HAT to commission this clock tower. The clock tower standing tall at 221 feet (approx. 67 m) was built at a cost of Rs. 1.75 lakhs. It is the tallest among all the clock towers in India. It was built as a replica to the Big Ben of London. The designer and architect for the same was Richard Roskell Bayne (and not Roskell Payne as wrongly mentioned). Richard Roskell Bayne or R.R. Bayne (in India from 1866-1890 working for East Indian Railway) was based out of Calcutta (Kolkata); he was also the designer for Thornhill and Mayne Memorial Library and Mayo Memorial in Allahabad (Prayagraj) in this region along with many other structures in India.
An interesting fact to note is that the construction of this clock tower was a part of a larger thought process of the Colonial British rule. The British felt that the people in Lucknow had been long accustomed to hearing the time of the day announced by the muezzin (the official who proclaims the call to prayer (adhan) on Friday for the public worship and the call to the daily prayer (salat) five times a day, at dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset, and nightfall) from the nearby Asifi mosque. Read about Asifi mosque here
The idea behind constructing the Hussainbad Clock Tower (a minaret in height in the vicinity) was to transform Gods time into European punctuality, efficiency and order not only through its clock but also through the gong that sounded the hour.
Bayne has not borrowed anything from the traditional Islamic architectures structures in India for this clock tower. The square plan, the horse shoe arches, broad band of relief columns and intersecting decorative arches would remind one of Minaret of Seville (Bayne had studied the same 20 years before the construction of Hussaianbad Clock Tower).
Big Ben of London was completed in 1859 and is an example of neo gothic style (Gothic revival during that time). Hussainabad Clock Tower's similarity to the Big Ben of London could be because of the Neo Gothic influence on Bayne and also his attempt to create a structure similar to that created by British architects in his home country.
Big Ben (London) – Picture clicked during its restoration work
The clock with a dial in the shape of 12 petal flower (each petal denoting an hour) with bells around it and a gigantic pendulum having a length of 14 feet was designed and created by the famous clock maker of England-James William Benson. Gunmetal has been used for building parts of the clock. The gongs of the clock give different musical chime every time they ring.
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There is also a wind vane in the shape of the bird on the top mounted over a small shiny dome.
The clock had become defunct since 1980's. In 2010 the then district administration in Lucknow decided to replace the mechanical clock with an electronic one. Heritage lovers approached the administration to allow them to repair it. It was only because of their efforts that after a silence of 27 years, the giant clock chimed again.
Today the clock tower is in need of our attention, restoration and repair to keep this heritage not getting lost in oblivion.
Opposite Clock Tower, Husainabad, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226003, India
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Easter is one of those holidays I just don't have any decorations already made for the house. This year, I decided to make my own wreath (tutorial coming next week) and my own Easter egg garland. Even the kids and hubby got into the act!
Making your own Easter egg garland is fairly easy, but it is messy. So be prepared! Also, if I had made these eggs smaller, they would have been adorable placed in a bowl or on the mantel rather than turning them into garland.
1. Cut plenty of strands of yarn to wrap and create your egg shell. Your fingers will be covered later and you won't want to stop and clean your hands to cut more.
2. Fill your shallow dish with a very healthy serving of Elmer's Glue.
3. Set up your cups nearby so you can easily place the balloons on them once your ready for the eggs to try.
4. Blow up your balloons to the desired size. Water balloons work well but we used regular balloons and they turned out just fine.
1. Dip the yarn into the Elmer's Glue. Be sure to get the yarn covered but not so much that it's just dripping glue.
2. Wrap the yarn around the balloon, crisscrossing along the way to create a sort of web around the balloon.
3. Make sure to fill in any major holes. Of course you're going to have holes, but you don't want any gaping openings.
4. Once you're satisfied with the wrapping, place the balloon on a cup to dry overnight.
1. In the morning, check your eggs. The bottom portion sitting in the cup may not be fully dry, so you may have to turn them over and wait several more hours for the egg to completely harden.
2. Once the eggs are completely dried, pop the balloons.
3. Using your finger or the eraser end of a pencil, dislodge the balloon from the dried yarn.
4. Pull the popped balloon through an opening to remove it from the egg.
5. Thread your ribbon through a top opening in the eggs.
6. Hang your garland. You're done!
Glad you like them! And I yes, you're right. I would be tempted to make them in other colors to place in a bowl for decoration 🙂 Let me know if you try them out. Always love hearing feedback.
I think these could be pretty anytime!
Very pretty. Little cost and effort for a decor big bang!
Those are so cute. I wish I was creative like that!
Actually, this craft wasn't difficult at all… a bit messy but even my husband was in on the act. Let me know if you get inspired!
This is a cool little craft, thank you very much for posting. Have a sweet day!
The colors are so beautiful! Nice lighting in your photographs by the way. I have the hardest time taking pictures inside!
Thanks — my 5yo and 7yo actually picked out the colors. I took them to the clearance yarn section and told them to choose from there. Ha!
Have loads of fun making the eggs… they are messy but fun! And they turned out so beautifully. Honestly, I wasn't sure how they would turn out.
What a beautiful decoration! I love how simple and easy it is, but the results are magnificent!
This is so cute. Very simple yet colorful! Thanks for sharing!
Yeah! So glad that you like the Easter Egg garland. I'm pretty excited how it turned out. I was a bit nervous (especially with the kids helping) but it was great.
These are so cute and seems simple enough to do with a toddler. Such a great idea!
Thanks. Let me know if you do the activity and what you think! I always love hearing feedback.
Love these Jenny, so dang adorable and look fun to make.
My mom did something like this but with big balloons. the liquid mixture had some sugar in it too I think. then when it was all dry, she would cut out an opening and put the candy and grass inside and rick rack around the edges. I never had a desire to do it after seeing all her hard work doing those eggs! Your garlands look great though! Thanks for linking up with the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Party. I have pinned your post to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Board!
This was a crazy messy project but fun. I knew it was a good one when my husband got in on the act. Have fun!
Love the colors of the String Eggs! Great project to involve a variety of ages. Thanks for sharing during the Thoughtful Spot Blog Hop!
I love these kinds of crafts!
Jaime, if I can make them, trust me… anyone can make them. Be sure to drop me a note if you try out the project.
What a cute garland – this is a great way to use up leftover yarn from various projects, too.
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This looks fantastic! Never thought of using Elmer's glue; I was thinking of using liquid starch. I crochet many projects in crochet thread so I have used the starch to make an angel for my Xmas tree. I have many colors and I thought I would try making eggs this year. Thanks for an alternative to the liquid starch!
This is a gorgeous idea for easy Easter decor!
So very cute and clever! Such happy colors!
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I hear you on the weather, I'm just a couple of hours East from Chicagoland, your neighbor State. Aren't you sick of the cold? Although, spring is showing some signs, Easter weather is still unpredictable. Loving those cute colorful eggs! Thanks for linking up at Thursday Favorite Things. Can't wait to see what you'll share next week!
Easter weather is always unpredictable. I think that's why I love to decorate for Easter. At least it feels like spring inside!
I love this idea! I like your idea of making them smaller to place in a nice bowl! Dropping in from Crafty and Delicious Party! Hope you have a great weekend! Pinned it!
Thanks. The whole family enjoyed getting in on making the garland last year, including my husband and kindergartener!
So cute! My kids would love to make these! Thank you for sharing on Show Me Saturday!
We had a blast making them… even my hubby got in on the act!
Great idea for an Easter kid craft! Thanks for linking up at #PureBlogLove Link Party! Hope to see you Thursday 8.p.m. EST at our next link up. I'm hosting at http://www.homemadefoodjunkie.com. Can't wait to see more of your ideas!
Thanks. My kids had an absolute blast doing this project. And even my husband got in on the act!
Oh, Jennifer I love love this! A must do for our upcoming Easter party! Such a great idea! PINNED! I would love for you to share this over at my new link party Making Memories Mondays going on now!
Awww thanks! My entire family actually got into the mix of making these — including my husband! It just makes the house feel fresh and happy. I'm ready for SPRING!!!
I featured this Easter Egg Garland at this week's Making Memories Mondays! 🙂 Hope to see you at the party!
This looks like a fun project to make with kids and I love the end result!
We really enjoyed making the eggs. Even my husband got in on the act. But what I really love is it doesn't look like a kid's craft — it's beautiful under our mantle.
This is such a neat idea. I never would have thought to do this. Great job!
Our whole family had fun making this garland — including my husband, if you can believe it!
Such a cute Easter decor idea!
Would love if you shared this at our Yarn Fanatic Linky Party – http://eyeloveknots.blogspot.com/2015/03/yarn-fanatic-linky-party-29.html.
Thanks, Brittany. The whole family actually had fun making these… including my husband!
What an adorable and simple to make Easter decoration idea. My kids would love making this! Sharing with my followers. Thanks for linking up with Inspire Me Monday. Have a great weekend!!
We had such fun making them and I love the pop of color on our mantel.
This is such a cute idea! Thanks so much for linking it up to the Inspiration Galore Project party last week. You are one of my Features tomorrow over at http://www.recreateddesigns.com. Pinned and shared.
This garland is really cute! Thanks for linking up with our Merry Monday last week!


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AWS Simple Email Service - SES Test
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a cost-effective email service built on the reliable and scalable infrastructure that Amazon.com developed to serve its own customer base. This service allows you to build an email functionality into an application that you are running on AWS. With Amazon SES, you can send transactional email, marketing messages, or any other type of high-quality content to your customers. You can also use Amazon SES to receive messages and deliver them to an Amazon S3 bucket, call your custom code via an AWS Lambda function, or publish notifications to Amazon SNS.
Amazon SES has a set of sending limits to regulate the number of email messages that you can send and the rate at which you can send them. Depending upon the level of email activity in your environment, you may want to modify these limits, as any violation will result in mails not being sent at all. You may hence have to closely study the email activity in your environment and determine whether/not the sending limits need to be fine-tuned. The AWS Simple Email Service - SES test helps with this! By reporting the send quotas configured along with the count of mails sent and the send rate for each AWS region, this test readily provides you with all the information you need to take the right decision with regards to whether/not the quota needs to be reset.
Also, the key measure of the performance of any email service is successful message delivery. If a majority of the delivery attempts made at any given point in time resulted in bounces, rejections, or complaints, it is a problem condition that warrants an investigation. The AWS Simple Email Service - SES test proactively alerts you to such abnormalities! For each region, the test reports the count and percentage of emails bounced, mails rejected, and complaints received, and notifies you if these values exceed acceptable limits.
Target of the test: Amazon EC2 Cloud
Agent deploying the test: A remote agent
Output of the test: One set of results for each AWS region
Configurable parameters for the test
Test Period
How often should the test be executed.
The host for which the test is to be configured.
AWS Access Key, AWS Secret Key, Confirm AWS Access Key, Confirm AWS Secret Key
To monitor an Amazon EC2 instance, the eG agent has to be configured with the access key and secret key of a user with a valid AWS account. For this purpose, we recommend that you create a special user on the AWS cloud, obtain the access and secret keys of this user, and configure this test with these keys. The procedure for this has been detailed in the Obtaining an Access key and Secret key topic. Make sure you reconfirm the access and secret keys you provide here by retyping it in the corresponding Confirm text boxes.
Proxy Host and Proxy Port
In some environments, all communication with the AWS EC2 cloud and its regions could be routed through a proxy server. In such environments, you should make sure that the eG agent connects to the cloud via the proxy server and collects metrics. To enable metrics collection via a proxy, specify the IP address of the proxy server and the port at which the server listens against the Proxy Host and Proxy Port parameters. By default, these parameters are set to none , indicating that the eG agent is not configured to communicate via a proxy, by default.
Proxy User Name, Proxy Password, and Confirm Password
If the proxy server requires authentication, then, specify a valid proxy user name and password in the proxy user name and proxy password parameters, respectively. Then, confirm the password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box. By default, these parameters are set to none, indicating that the proxy sever does not require authentication by default.
Proxy Domain and Proxy Workstation
If a Windows NTLM proxy is to be configured for use, then additionally, you will have to configure the Windows domain name and the Windows workstation name required for the same against the proxy domain and proxy workstation parameters. If the environment does not support a Windows NTLM proxy, set these parameters to none.
Exclude Region
Here, you can provide a comma-separated list of region names or patterns of region names that you do not want to monitor. For instance, to exclude regions with names that contain 'east' and 'west' from monitoring, your specification should be: *east*,*west*
Measures reported by the test:
Sending quota:
Indicates the maximum number of emails that can be sent by this region in a day.
Emails/Day
The sending quota reflects a rolling time period. Every time you try to send an email, Amazon SES checks how many emails you sent in the previous 24 hours. As long as the total number of emails that you have sent is less than your quota, your send request will be accepted and your email will be sent. If you have already sent your full quota, your send request will be rejected with a throttling exception. You will not be able to send more emails until some of the previous sending rolls out of its 24-hour window.
Total sent:
Indicates the total number of emails that this region sent during the last 24 hours.
If the value of this measure keeps growing closer to the value of the value of the Sending quota measure, it implies a high level of email activity in the region. Under such circumstances, it is best to increase the sending quota, so that the quota is not violated, causing SES to stop sending emails.
Current sents:
Indicates the number of emails that this region sent during the last measurement period.
Sents:
Indicates the percentage of sending quota that this region exhausted in the last 24 hours.
This measure is computed using the following formulat:
(Total sent / Sending quota) * 100
If the value of this measure is consistently higher than 50%, it implies a high level of email activity in the region. Under such circumstances, it is best to increase the sending quota, so that the quota is not violated, causing SES to stop sending emails.
Max send rate:
Indicates the maximum number of emails that this region can send per second.
Emails/Sec
You can exceed this limit for short bursts, but not for a sustained period of time.
Total bounces:
Indicates the total number of emails bounced to this region during the last 24 hours.
An email is hard-bounced when the email is rejected by the recipient's ISP or rejected by Amazon SES because the email address is on the Amazon SES suppression list. This measure reports the count of hard bounces alone.
Current bounces:
Indicates the number of emails that were bounced to this region during the last measurement period.
The value of this measure should be kept at a minimum, as excessive bounces constitute abuse and can put your AWS account at the risk of termination.
Indicates the percentage of emails that were bounced to this region during the last measure period.
Ideally, the value of this measure should be very low. A high value constitutes abuse and can put your AWS account at the risk of termination.
Indicates the number of complaints received by this region during the last measure period.
If an email is accepted by the ISP and delivered to the recipient, but the recipient does not want the email and clicks a button such as "Mark as spam.", then SES will send you a complaint notification.
The value of this measure should be kept at a minimum, as a large number of complaints constitute abuse and can put your AWS account at the risk of termination.
Complaint:
Indicates the percentage of complaints received by this region during the last measure period.
Total rejected:
Indicates the number of emails sent by this region that were rejected during the last 24 hours.
A rejected email is an email that Amazon SES initially accepted, but later rejected because the email contained a virus. Amazon SES notifies you by email and does not send the message.
A high value for this measure is a cause for concern as it could indicate that your email system is severely infected.
Current rejected:
Indicates the number of emails sent by this region that were rejected during the last measurement period.
A consistent rise in the value for this measure is a cause for concern as it could indicate that your email system is severely infected.
Rejected:
Indicates the percentage of emails sent by this region that were rejected during the last measurement period.
Total delivery attempts:
Indicates the number of emails that were successfully delivered by this region to the recipient's mail server during the last 24 hours.
A high value is desired for this measure.
Current delivery attempts:
Indicates the number of emails that were successfully delivered by this region to the recipient's mail server during the last measurement period.
A consistent drop in the value of this measure is a cause of concern.


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Ferguson, Mo., Smoldering After Fiery Night of Chaos
Protests flare after no indictment for police officer Darren Wilson.
14:50 | 11/25/14
Transcript for Ferguson, Mo., Smoldering After Fiery Night of Chaos
It is the day after and Ferguson at a smaller calmer protest on the street this morning. As the community comes to grips with that explosive. Verdict after a tense and firing Knight of chaos reaction to the decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson. Turn to violence buildings set on fire as looting broke out also in spot eight spotted areas of the town the National Guard. Marching and tear gas was fired. On of the crowd so many calls for peace before that decision. Ignored hello everyone I'm Michelle Franzen in New York today. The community of Ferguson described as torn apart ABC producer Scott withers was their overnight and is there now. Where it all broke out in joins us now live hi Scott. Now time. Good morning Michelle it it is a much different Ferguson then we saw just a few hours ago it's it's a ghost town here and it is turnaround to show you why just once. And Missouri state police have flocked. This city down no one gets seated no one gets out residents are being escorted. And that no one's getting in here gonna zoom in or at little bit here and you can see downtown there next to Ferguson and west Lawrence. We're all of the violence that we saw last night the looting the buyers. The clashes with police that's where that I'll take place no when there. But police this morning. And yeah it hard to see you might see some snow apparently Internet in the packed. That is on some of the fires that were started last night and are still kind of smoldering. In Dell who ignored the Ferguson but it is a significantly. Different city here this morning. Another worry if you need him back out there you want to keep that close there were a few protesters out this morning morning downing Clayton. Though those were mostly clergy members who were protesting outside the justice senator. This morning later at about 11 AM central about two hours little less than two dollars. The brown family is expected to cam out and and speak after last night's violence. And of course Scott about a dozen fires in all we are told were set in one and a half square mile radius you also. Were marching with some of the protesters last night when that took a turn on I 44. Give us an idea let's go through that again in what happened. Outlets in the same situation I've got to be honest we were in the shawl a district of downtown Saint Louis this Shaw neighborhood it's about a good fifteen to twenty minutes away from here. And the process started out very peaceful the marchers Judy 300 were marching down grand boulevard. As they had for many many nights the court again very peaceful. But when we got to the intersection of I 44 and ran it sheen's it just a matter of seconds as I was standing there. The protesters ray and down the entrance ramp. And jumped under the expressway growing cones out. Blocking the interstate in both directions it was a very scary situation because that we're actually cars still driving it's quite dark outside. Not well lit in the cars at the slam on their brakes so they didn't hit anybody. And hundreds and hundreds of protesters. Filled the streets and block the interstate for almost an hour and there are several cars or trapped in amongst the protesters and people in those cars. They couldn't get out they were afraid to get out you can't really blame them in the riot police moved in very quickly they blocked off the interstate. And then. The protesters started falling back as the riot police blocked off grand avenue and followed him down. And as I said last night and some are reports that probably wasn't gonna be dead end it wasn't it. After they crowd dispersed from high 44. They moved into another area in grand boulevard. And arsenal its a new area that's being renovated lots of new storefronts opening up it's a lot of new investment going in. Last night the protesters clashed with police there police were using tear gas I was your guests are crew was tear gas it was done. Flying everywhere there was a couple rest broken windows up and down that boulevard. And we know that there was about 61 arrests as of this morning of the latest estimate Scott. How does this compare back in August when this story first broke in police there and Ferguson. Were criticized for overreacting. Well there are you know a lot of people are a lot of politicians are saying dead the police did not overreact last night that the violence was he did was much more than it was back in August. I can tell you very significant difference in police presence this morning just about. The football field two football fields away for me is where the the Missouri State. A National Guard is is amassing be Heidi target stores that's where there are Central Command is in there are hundreds of them there. Now when I was driving through downtown Saint Louis last night after we left the protests. There are. Humvees parked all throughout town outside of city buildings protecting those buildings and that's again the the state National Guard were protecting those buildings still. An aggregate ST a much different situation here tonight. I can tell you when we are with protesters last night they had it they told us unofficially. That this was going to go on for days and they were not stopping after last night they are planning more protests today. And throughout the week. And we know that of course there is questions and criticism. Of whether or not that he law enforcement and prosecutors should've. Gone into the night and waited to make that announcement that the indictment was not going to happen against Darren Wilson. What are we hearing today is there any book going to be any shift in tactical. Strategies for law enforcement National Guard. They're not. Saying what they're going to be doing differently but they are saying they're going to be doing things differently this morning the Saint Louis mayor. All the press conference down in that area in the Shia area where it was that. And he was saying basically to be different tonight and and and I believe him. The last night I don't think they expected the broken windows in that area I don't think they expected that police confrontation. As bad as it was so I think tonight they're going to block things off much quicker. I will say there is a lot of questioning in his community now about why this week down last night. Why the announcement was made last night. No it years really answering that question even last yesterday during the press conference the governor wouldn't answer that question he said well that's did the prosecutor's decision. A lot of people are saying maybe some of the violence we saw last night could have dead averted. If it what did that so light and I've got to tell you when we were out in the streets last night he got a little hairy. Our crew was safe bet. Completely safe but it ties to got a little it's scary we kept falling back. We kept asking people talking to residents and they also didn't understand why they had to make the decision at night. Who wins during the day in my giving easier to control the situation. Scott we're looking at some of the video from last night some of the fires that were burning we see. That's firefighters did make it to some of those buildings but in many times they were not able to make it out to that situation. We see that your act that so called checkpoint area where the rest of the town is on. Basically locked down do we know of any businesses are reopening today error they shattered. And just waiting this out. I die I highly doubt anything down behind me is opening today I can tell you why a lot of those buildings. Were looted a lot of them burned out or burned down they're gone there's nothing to reopening. And it is highly likely would the police press and likely tease me with the police presence here we just as you can see just beat behind me the Missouri state police no one is getting down in that area tonight know what is getting into that area. This afternoon in this in this part is look Ferguson is locked down in its not gonna change anytime soon. All right ABC producer Scott withers reporting from Ferguson thank you very much. And now we want to bring in legal analyst Danny Somalis for more on this story Danny you have read the grand jury transcripts by now all that information that was released publicly what was the relationship like between the prosecutor. And officer Wilson. Well this is a rare glimpse into the grand jury process and people reading the transcript will be struck right away. By the fact that this is nothing like the adversarial trial process there's no defense attorney. And the it's a very casual conversation but when you read between the lines. Look at and read the questions. Posed to officer Wilson by the prosecutor and you can see I think critics will probably say. That the prosecutor was leaving him along trying to get you answers that would help officer Wilson adds that's what we may see people saying. On the other hand what are you an example real quick maybe a couple yet. Wind just now four she asks him I was reading that she asked Sulzer Wilson. What weight were you shooting at him while he was fleeing and that's it a critical question is it may be officer Wilson didn't cover that an officer Wilson answers right away. No no I was not and that's legally significant and it seems to me. That you one could argue that the prosecutors trying to get out that evidence that is favorable to officer Wilson but of course you could equally say the prosecutions just trying to get. All the evidence before the grand jury but when you read that transcript. There are certain questions that jump out that it is again a critic might say well the prosecutors asking these questions. This sort of ring it is so Darren Wilson hits all the bullet points of legal justification. For use of deadly force so I think that's something that jumps out right away I when I say relationship. And there's no in fact they may even say in the transcript they don't know each other the prosecutor in the officer don't know each other before hand. But I think people reading the transcript will notice. That the questioning is anything but adversarial. It say it's a much more casual almost conversational. Event and the prosecution appears to be asking questions. To remind Darren Wilson to bring up all the important points in the jury has all the information about whether or not this was a crime or a justified killing. And Danny were also learning hearing officer Wilson in his own words be on the questions. His own account of what happened. In that account that incidents tell us what that what struck you about his testimony. Well it's no surprise police officers are excellent courtroom test the fires they do it as a big part of their job. And one of the things that jumped out at me is that officer Wilson was very prepared for his testimony. And look no further than where he describes. What must've been real time only taken two or three seconds but also Wilson walks us through. Very meticulously. His thought process. In escalating force and by that I mean he says in the transcript. I first thought about my pepper spray but I I realize that my peppers Graham had to close a range. And the pepper spray would have would have been mobilized me as well as the us suspect. That I thought of why ASP which is his that expendable but time. That was under my body that I thought about this than I thought about this and only then did I settle upon. My firearm and of course I'm paraphrasing. But I think that shows some really good preparation by the officer. Because he knew is gonna act explained what grand jury his thought process why. We attacked with fists did he immediately go to his firearm and what he does instead is walked the jury through his thought process. And begin to explain to the grand jury why. His choice was to draw his firearm and begin to use deadly force and that. That is a recurring theme throughout his testimony and is wrong. With his testimony Janet we also see that there is also physical evidence that was presented and and and photographs. In. What. Darren Wilson described his injuries to his cheat. Definitely week and everyone was talking about this early on is that. Early on the very disparate narratives emerge there was say Dorian Johnson's narrative which look nothing like the narrative of other witnesses which was different from even other witnesses and and I think we all knew that. Once forensic evidence began to emerge. Gunshot residue. Where shell casings were found blood all this forensic evidence that this would line up. With one narrative and exclude some of the other narratives and I think that's exactly what happened now. Your critics could say that Darren Wilson knew about this forensic evidence and could Taylor's testimony. But one where another his story the grand jury concluded. Must it coincided with the forensic evidence which again the bullets and blood and things cannot lie they are objective evidence. And jobs are Wilson's testimony I think degree injury was convinced along with some other witnesses we're told. And and that there were some sort of close altercation. Right exactly it while not just an altercation. But something that rose to the level where officer Wilson believed his use of deadly force was justified and not only that officer Wilson had to explain. If Michael Brown fled. Why. What his reasoning was for chasing him and I think that was another important part of the transcript. Real quickly we've got the browns coming up shortly with the press conference what do we expect to hear from them. White think we're gonna hear. That they are not done a proceed pursuing legal action. That they will we if they I think tactically. If I'm Ben Crump what you do as you wait for the federal government to complete their investigation because. They may do something here as we say discovery for you they may do some investigation. For you that you can use later on in the civil case. And then once that part is concluded that I think the browns will pursue a civil action against officer municipality. County. Anyone that they feel has some liability for Michael Brown's death. Denny Somalis thank you so much for joining us thank you. And of course you can keep up with this developing story in real time by downloading the ABC news app. And starring the story for those exclusive updates on the go for now I'm Michelle Franzen in New York.
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