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This is part two (of two) of our article on Princess Cut Engagement Rings. Read Part One here: Princess Cut Engagement Rings.
When purchasing a Princess Cut Diamond there are a number of factors to consider, in particular, a knowledge of the Four C's and how they differ for a Princess Cut.
Most articles about the "Four C's" (Cut, Color, Clarity, Carat) concentrate on the Round Cut and although the Princess Cut and the Round Cut are both "brilliant" cuts, there are some important differences that should be kept in mind when shopping for a Princess Cut diamond.
The Princess Cut is usually referred to as a "square modified brilliant" on lab reports and grading certificates.
Like all diamonds, the Princess Cut diamond is initially cut from rough stone. However, the Princess cut's pyramid-like shape follows the natural crystalline structure of the diamond more effectively than most other shapes and fits closely into one-half of the rough stone. In the cutting process, the Princess shape allows the diamond cutter to produce two equal sized princess cut diamonds from one stone. The Princess Cut retains from 60 percent to 80 percent of the initial weight of the rough diamond compared to only 50% for the Round Cut.
Because the Princess cut retains much more of the original diamond, you will typically get a larger carat sized diamond for the same price when compared with the round brilliant.
Traditionally, the Princess Cut is a square shape with all four sides having an equal length. As the princess cut moves away from the square and towards a rectangle shape, the price will decrease. For reference, once the ratio of length to width is less than 1.05, the princess cut will appear square to the unaided eye.
A high-quality cut is the ideal choice, and helps to bring out the diamond's allure, brilliance and sparkle. The brilliance of the stone can be altered a great deal with just one downgrade.
Unlike the Round Cut, there currently is no industry-wide consensus on what parameters make up the perfect Princess Cut. The American Gem Society now offers a scientific cut grade based on actual light performance; however the GIA will only grade Polish and Symmetry on a Princess Cut diamond.
However, due to customer demand, each diamond seller will have their own Cut grading system for princess cut diamonds. In addition, the proportions below can be helpful when judging the cut of a princess cut diamond.
Polish – excellent to good
Height of the crown – 8 to 13%
Depth total – 62 to 73%
Length to width ratio – 1.0 to 1.05
Table size – 65 to 75%
Best Value: As with round diamonds, don't skimp on cut, it's where the sparkle is! Look for Excellent/Ideal cuts.
The Princess cut retains the color of the original stone better as compared to other cuts. Which means that the Color grade is somewhat more important for the Princess Cut than the Round Cut. It is best to select colors lower than J. The J-color may tend to show some yellowish tint in the corners of a princess cut diamond.
Best Value: Select a Color grade of G, H or I.
Because of its brilliance, the Princess Cut is more forgiving of inclusions than other square cuts.
However, as impurities in the princess cut diamond can weaken the strength of the stone, special attention should be paid to the corners of the stone and any inclusions therein. Problems can eventually occur with cracking and chipping when impurities are located at the stone's corners.
Best Value: For Princess Cuts, select a grade of VS2 or SI1 or better.
As stated above, for the same price a larger carat Princess Cut Diamond can be purchased versus a Round Cut Diamond. However, the Princess shape has a larger depth percentage than the Round cut which means that for stones of the same carat weight the Princess Cut's surface area may appear smaller than the Round Cut.
Best Value: There is a price break at 1.0 ct, so look for diamonds just under 1 ct.
Over the decades since its creation, the princess cut has gained in popularity, especially as an engagement ring. While it still is considered a modern innovation in diamond design, the rising popularity of this timeless look has set a new tradition in jewelry. Already, the sparkle of this design has captured the hearts of many customers seeking a stylish yet classic look for a diamond engagement ring.
The princess cut is considered one of the most fashionable and desirable cuts. Its larger carat size for the same price, along with its attractive shape and brilliant sparkle, makes the Princess one of the most popular choices for a diamond engagement ring.
Read Part one of our Princess Cut Engagement Rings article here.


Cooperative frameworks furnished by ASEAN have since taken on added significance, especially the defense-oriented arrangements that bring together the defense establishments and armed forces of the ASEAN countries as well as those of external powers including China, India, Japan, and the United States. The growing militarization of counterterrorism efforts will neither be easy nor straightforward, given longstanding regional sensitivities and the potentially diversive ramifications that excessive securitization could have for democratic life within ASEAN countries.
Battle of Marawi: Game Changer?
At their retreat in early February, the defense ministers of the 10 ASEAN member countries identified terrorism as the single biggest threat to their region, even as they recognized a number of other regional security challenges including the South China Sea and North Korea. In a joint statement following the retreat, the ministers noted: "Terrorism is a severe threat to ASEAN's progress, prosperity and very way of life."3 Terrorism and insurgency are not new to Southeast Asia. Various groups have taken to violence for ideological, secessionist, and religious reasons since colonialism. Terrorism gathered pace after 9/11 with a series of attacks perpetrated mostly but not exclusively by the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist organization.4 The emergence of the Islamic State or ISIL in Southeast Asia—with the attacks in Jakarta, Indonesia in January 2016 widely seen as the first conducted in its name—is but the latest addition to a complex story of terrorism in the ASEAN region.
That said, some analysts have cautioned against undue exaggeration of the ISIL threat because they see the greater, long-term threat arising from a rejuvenated JI, which has a larger network and is better funded than the pro–ISIL groups in the region.5 The concern has to do not only with possible attacks carried out by "lone wolves" and ISIL affiliates, official or otherwise, but equally if not more worrisome, with future conflicts on the scale and style—and with the savoir faire—of Marawi prosecuted by more established and better resourced terror networks such as the JI in the Philippines, Indonesia, or other parts of the region.
Reportedly, the pro–ISIL groups that drove the conflict in Marawi, particularly the Maute Group and the Abu Sayyaf, had in mind to turn Mindanao island into a wilayah (province) of ISIL.6 This is not a particularly novel goal in itself since the JI has long aspired to establish an Islamic caliphate in Southeast Asia. But what surprised analysts most about the Marawi conflict was the evident readiness of the militants to take the fight to the Philippine military by engaging in a drawn out urban war and employing tactics that initially confounded the government troops, such as the transformation of the hundreds of densely packed buildings in the city center into a warren of improvised tunnels, and bearing, in addition to the ubiquitous AK–47 assault rifles, high-powered weapons such as the .50 caliber anti-material rifle and M–14 assault rifle.7 What is most sobering about the Marawi episode is the prospect that it could inspire and embolden other groups, if they have the requisite men and material to emulate or even outdo Marawi in scale, style, and substance in other ASEAN cities and urban areas. Such a likelihood could warrant the involvement of the armed forces of the ASEAN countries, whose force capabilities match or exceed that of the Marawi terrorists.
Needless to say, the prospect of Southeast Asian militaries joining the fight against terrorism is by no means a foregone conclusion especially in a region with a difficult history of rule by the military.27 The prospect of a growing regional role in counterterrorism for ASEAN's armed forces raises questions over how national governments are to avoid stepping on civil liberties at home even as they work to protect their citizens from terrorism and violence. Democratic transition in Southeast Asia has been patchy, uneven, and—as evidenced by the 2014 coup d'état in Thailand led by General (now Prime Minister) Prayut Chan-o-cha, the then-commander of the Royal Thai Army—prone to authoritarian reversal.28 Hence, even as Southeast Asian countries brace themselves for the likelihood of a growing role for their armed forces in counterterrorism, they ought to bear in mind the consequences such a development could have for civil liberties at home as well as for regional sensitivities abroad.
2 See, for example, Tan See Seng, "After Marawi: Military's Regional Role In Counter-Terrorism?— Analysis," Eurasia Review, February 2, 2018, available at <https://www.eurasiareview.com/02022018-after-marawi-militarys-regional-role-in-counter-terrorism-analysis/>, and, See Seng Tan, "Countering Terrorism in ASEAN After Marawi: a Regional Role for the Military?" PacNet No. 11, February 2, 2018, available at <https://www.csis.org/analysis/pacnet-11-countering-terrorism-asean-after-marawi-regional-role-military>.
3 "Joint Statement by the ASEAN Defence Ministers on Countering Terrorism in ASEAN," MINDEF Singapore, February 6, 2018, available at <https://www.mindef.gov.sg/web/portal/mindef/news-and-events/latest-releases/article-detail/2018/february/06feb18_js>.
4 Kumar Ramakrishna and See Seng Tan, eds., After Bali: The Threat of Terrorism in Southeast Asia (Singapore: World Scientific, 2003); Andrew T. H. Tan, ed., A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007); Bruce Vaughn, Emma Chanlett-Avery, Ben Dolven, Mark E. Manyin, Michael F. Martin, and Larry A. Niksch, Terrorism in Southeast Asia, CRS Report for Congress, October 16, 2009, available at <https://fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/RL34194.pdf>; and, Arabinda Acharya, Whither Southeast Asia Terrorism? (London: Imperial College Press, 2015).
5 Joseph Chinyong Liow, "Congressional Testimony: ISIL in the Pacific: Assessing Terrorism in Southeast Asia and the Threat to the Homeland," Testimony before the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence Committee on Homeland Security United States House of Representatives, April 27, 2016, 6–7, available at <https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Liow-ISIL-in-the-Pacific-Full-Testimony.pdf>.
6 See, Marawi, the "East Asia Wilayah" and Indonesia, IPAC Report No. 38, July 21, 2017 (Jakarta: Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict, 2017), available at <http://file.understandingconflict.org/file/2017/07/IPAC_Report_38.pdf>.
7 "Tunnels reveal terrorists' ratlike tactics," Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 27, 2017, available at <http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/940926/tunnels-reveal-terrorists-ratlike-tactics>. Jeoffrey Maintem, 'Militants fighting in Marawi using gov't-owned guns, says Army exec', Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 15, 2017, available at <http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/930750/militants-fighting-in-marawi-using-govt-owned-guns-says-army-exec#ixzz57Bm8OLWr>.
8 Kumar Ramakrishna, "'The Southeast Asian Approach' to Counter-Terrorism: Learning from Indonesia and Malaysia," The Journal of Conflict Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2005), available at <https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/189/333 >.
9 Peter Chalk, Angel Rabasa, William Rosenau, and Leanne Piggott, The Evolving Terrorist Threat to Southeast Asia: A Net Assessment (Santa Monica, CA: National Defense Research Institute, RAND Corporation, 2009), 83.
10 See, Tan See Seng, "Military's regional role in counter-terrorism," New Straits Times, February 7, 2018, available at <https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnists/2018/02/332838/militarys-regional-role-counter-terrorism>; and, Rohan Gunaratna, "Counterterrorism: ASEAN Militaries' Growing Role," RSIS Commentaries, CO18042, March 13, 2018, available at <http://www.rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/icpvtr/co18042-counterterrorism-asean-militaries-growing-role/#.WqoC_E0h33g>. On the other hand, there have been unconfirmed reports that Koopssusgab may just have been scrapped. Inaugurated in 2015 by General Moeldoko, then Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI), there has since been no mention of it whatsoever, including in the TNI official website. Although the Koopssusgab was supposed to be a new combined unit, it however effectively comprised old TNI anti-terror units established in the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Gultor-81 Komando Pasukan Khusus (Kopassus) TNI Angkatan Darat (established 1982), Detasemen Jala Mengkara (Denjaka) Marinir TNI Angkatan Laut (established 1984), and Satuan Bravo-90 Korps Pasukan Khas (Korpaskhas) TNI Angkatan Udara (established 1990). The author is indebted to Emirza Adi Syailendra for this information.
11 For a recent analysis of ADMM+ "mil to mil" exercises, see See Seng Tan, "The ADMM-Plus: Regionalism That Works?" Asia Policy, No. 22 (July 2016), 70–75.
12 Prashanth Parameswaran, "What Did the ASEAN Defense Chiefs Meeting in Singapore Achieve?" The Diplomat, March 8, 2018, available at <https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/what-did-the-asean-defense-chiefs-meeting-in-singapore-achieve/>.
13 Joseph Raymond Silva Franco, "Malaysia: Unsung Hero of the Philippine Peace Process," Asian Security, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2013), pp. 211–230.
14 "Member states mark 10th anniversary of Malacca Straits Patrol," Channel News Asia, April 21, 2016, available at <https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/member-states-mark-10th-anniversary-of-malacca-straits-patrol-8068218>.
15 Grace Guiang, "Are Minilaterals the Future of ASEAN security?" East Asia Forum, September 30, 2017, available at <http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2017/09/30/are-minilaterals-the-future-of-asean-security/#more-89218>.
16 Prashanth Parameswaran, "What's Next for the New ASEAN 'Our Eyes' Intelligence Initiative?" The Diplomat, January 27, 2018, available at <https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/asean-launches-new-our-eyes-intelligence-initiative/>.
17 See Seng Tan, "A Tale of Two Institutions: The ARF, ADMM-Plus and Security Regionalism in the Asia Pacific," Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 39, No. 2 (August 2017), 259–264.
18 Lim Yan Liang, "Singapore and China to deepen defence ties, cooperation," The Straits Times, September 23, 2017, available at <http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/spore-and-china-to-deepen-defence-ties-cooperation>.
19 "Indonesia proposes 'mini-Interpol' plan to boost Asean counter-terrorism efforts," The Straits Times, October 24, 2017, available at <http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-proposes-mini-interpol-plan-to-boost-asean-counter-terrorism-efforts>.
20 Stewart Patrick, "The Unruled World: The Case for Good Enough Global Governance," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 39, No. 1 (January/February 2014), 58–73.
21 See, for example: Ralf Emmers, "ASEAN minus X: Should This Formula Be Extended?" RSIS Commentaries, No. CO17199, October 24, 2017, available at <https://www.rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/cms/co17199-asean-minus-x-should-this-formula-be-extended/#.Ws1_4k0h33g>; and Richard Javad Heydarian, "ASEAN needs to move to minilateralism," East Asia Forum, December 5, 2017, available at <http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2017/12/05/asean-needs-to-move-to-minilateralism/>.
22 The ACCT was completely ratified by all ten ASEAN states in January 2013. For an analysis of counterterrorism law and policy in Southeast Asia, see, See Seng Tan and Hitoshi Nasu, "ASEAN and the Development of Counter-Terrorism Law and Policy in Southeast Asia," UNSW Law Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2016), 1219–1238.
23 As Dewi Fortuna Anwar, one of Indonesia's leading political scientists, has cautioned about application of ASEAN-minus-X (or 10-X, as she calls it): "There are already those that have suggested that a more flexible sort of consensus should be taken in the realms of politics and security, similar to that in the economic realm that uses the 10-X formula, because the credibility of ASEAN will diminish if it too often fails to reach an agreement on strategic issues. Yet it must also be asked whether removing the consensus principle in politics and security matters, which are 'high politics' and related to the core interests of a nation that are often not negotiable, will truly strengthen ASEAN or not? What would happen if Indonesia had a different view from all the other ASEAN members on an issue it feels strongly about on principle, but because consensus is no longer needed, ASEAN can still make a decision with majority-rule that overrides Indonesia's objections?" See, Dewi Fortuna Anwar, "Indonesia, ASEAN and Regional Stability," Inaugural Lecture as a Member of the Social Science Commission of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences, February 16, 2017, 24.
24 Tan See Seng, "Singapore paving the way for greater regional security," The Straits Times, February 23, 2018, available at <http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/singapore-paving-the-way-for-greater-regional-security>.
25 As declared in the "Joint Statement of the 15th ASEAN Chiefs of Defence Forces' Informal Meeting," Singapore Ministry of Defence, March 8, 2018.
26 Eugene K. B. Tan, "Mutual trust is central in efforts to counter terrorism," Today, June 24, 2017, available at <http://www.todayonline.com/commentary/commentary-mutual-trust-central-efforts-counter-terrorism >.
27 See, William Case, Contemporary Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Structures, Institutions and Agency (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013); and, Marcus Mietzner, ed., The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia: Conflict and Leadership (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012).
28 See, William Case, "Low-quality democracy and varied authoritarianism: elites and regimes in Southeast Asia today," The Pacific Review, Vol. 22, No. 3 (2009), 255–269; William Case, ed., Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Democratization (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2015); Lee Morgenbesser and Thomas B. Pepinsky, "Elections as Causes of Democratization: Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective," Comparative Political Studies, article first published online on February 27, 2018, available at <https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414018758763>; Clark D. Neher, "Democratization in Southeast Asia," Asian Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Fall, 1991), 139–152; Erik Paul, Obstacles to Democratization in Southeast Asia: A Study of the Nation State, Regional and Global Order (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); and, Sorpong Peou, "The Limits and Potential of Liberal Democratization in Southeast Asia," Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Vol. 33, No. 3 (2014), 19–47.
29 Needless to say, these efforts have not been without their challenges. See, Dylan Ming Hui Loh, "ASEAN's norm adherence and its unintended consequences in HADR and SAR operations," The Pacific Review, Vol. 29, No. 4 (2016), pp. 549–572; and, Alan Chong and Jun Yan Chang, "Security competition by proxy: Asia Pacific interstate rivalry in the aftermath of the MH370 incident," Global Change, Peace & Security, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2016), 75–98.
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Karen Joy Fowler: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
When you think of a Booker Prize book, what springs to mind? A Luminaries, perhaps: a copious word-mountain of benevolent, Dickensian heft. (Sounds like The Goldfinch.) A Wolf Hall: cleverly extrapolated historical resurrection. The Remains of the Day: deep emotional potency wrought out of suffocation and poignantly funny misconception. All recognizably Bookerish (although to be honest I always think, when mention of any of those are made, of the books I preferred that missed out). Of course, this year the goalposts have been shifted, and touchdowns are now admissible. I'm one of the few people, still, who feel the switch to include U.S. authors, in particular, was a shot in the arm for a latterly ailing award, and a chance to drag-up the overall standard of the books in the running. I think the United States has a disproportionate number of the best writers around, as has been the case for a very long time, and whilst it would be good to believe that the old format might find better judges and chairs in the future to delve amongst the best of Commonwealth fiction, simply having that glut of U.S. books in the mix can only be a good thing, for me.
And despite all that we have a strange old longlist this time. I won't bother running through what I see as scandalous omissions. I'll just get straight onto one of the first four ever U.S.-longlisted titles, Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2014), a book I enjoyed in many ways but which doesn't strike me as anything like a potential Booker winner.
Karen Joy Fowler, incidentally, is plentifully blessed with a lot of the attributes that I find irresistible when it comes to American fiction. She seems indefatigable — that is, her prose is amped up and restlessly abundant and her paragraphs feel spring-loaded, vehemently persuasive and zestful. You hang onto her characters and are pulled through rapidly negotiated pages, and the pace and energy of We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves is simply something identifiably North American (and I include Canadian writers like Mordechai Richler and Douglas Coupland in that observation, a kind of neurotic all-inclusiveness that would seem to characterize a lot of their prose, as though the world experienced by writers from those environs has provoked a kind of imminent-apocalypse garrulousness, a determination to go toe-to-toe with the vast spinning sweep of everything. In the right hands, I've always found such an approach addictive and generous and just plain old exhilarating).
Our omniscient protagonist, Rosemary, is a fairly troubled kid: an early scene has her picked up from jail, her having exhibited a spot of highly impetuous and inappropriate (and carefully construed for a re-read as very much monkeyish) solidarity with a loose cannon. We get, from her very familiar disappointed-yet-defiant hangdog-on-caffeine voice (a kind of tone and assumed register I'm a sucker for, and, I pause before potential over emphasis, an entirely U.S. writer thing: Martin Amis built a career out of stealing it and adding fascinated disgust) a very acute and quickly established sense of who she is: she's out of control, she's automatically empathetic, she's a vulnerable motormouth, she's an emblematic outsider who doesn't belong inside but nonetheless rails at her occlusion.
You discover her family: also troubled. Mum is intermittently catatonic and grief-stricken (we will discover why); dad is an aggrieved but stoic psychologist (animal behavior of particular interest. Of less interest: a well-adjusted family) with a weakness for whiskey. An adored brother, Lowell, is somewhat mercurial and, latterly, absent (with the FBI on his tail following a bit of highly relevant mischief), and a sister, Fern, is also absent, for somewhat different reasons — she's a chimpanzee and, not only that: she was brought up as one of two makeshift inter-special "twins" along with Rosemary (Fern is now in the clutches of a nefarious scientist, Dr Uljevik, who seems busy ruthlessly reintegrating her as a chimp following her stint as a "human"), who is not only dealing with the wrenching loss of her mirror, partner in climb and sister, but with the gulf that now exists between her and peer humans, who she can't really connect with, having learned all kinds of tricky-to-relinquish and entirely inappropriate behavior, for a nascent human at least, and as part of a mass-observed experiment used to indulgent, inordinate attention to boot.
One day, every word I said was data, and carefully recorded for further study and discussion. The next, I was just a little girl, strange in her way, but of no scientific interest to anyone.
Fowler throughout wrests odd, often uneasy laughs from Rosemary's necessary adherence to non-chimp ways in order to successfully ingratiate herself with other infants.
Here are some things my mother worked with me on, prior to sending me off to school: Standing up straight. Keeping my hands still when I talked. Not putting my fingers into anyone else's mouth or hair. Not biting anyone, ever. No matter how much the situation warranted it. Muting my excitement over tasty food, and not staring fixedly at someone else's cupcake. Not jumping on the tables and desks when I was playing. I remembered these things, most of the time.
Our "conditioning," as such, is oft touched upon by Fowler, but it tends to feel a little forced, a little Oprah. There is also plenty mentioned regarding humans developing through mimicry far more than any other animal, and as such, her success at being accepted as a human and not the remorselessly tormented "monkey-girl" would, as her dad (he's got it covered alright: never mind the savage bullying that his little experiment has resulted in!) has it, rests on artificially applying such knowledge.
Dad gave me some tips designed to improve my social standing. People, he said, liked to have their movements mirrored. When someone leaned in to talk to me, I should likewise lean in. Cross my legs if they did, smile when they smiled, etc. I should try this (but be subtle about it. It wouldn't work if anyone saw I was doing it) with the kids at school. Well-meant advice, but it turned out badly, played too readily into the monkey-girl narrative — monkey see, monkey do. Which also meant I'd blown the subtlety part.
All such potentially interesting commentary is a little too mawkishly delivered to hit home in the head, and the heart, in any case, is the real target.
We don't, by the way, find that aforementioned key, momentous "sis was a chimp" plot point out until 70-odd pages in: we are offered clues here and there (Rosemary climbing the bars of her cell, for example) but you get the impression that, apart from being a decent talking point (the twist!), simply stating the nature of the beast from the off might've been a turn-off for the kind of readers this is really geared to. A novel about a chimp and her human sister and the fallout? Best bury the simian reveal well into the book, sell it as an A.M. Homes-esque suburban disaster comedy and see what gives when they find out . . .
And the resulting response: everyone seems charmed, including Grayling and co. Because of the "twist" it's a much more palatable proposition, I'd argue. I'm not suggesting that any of this necessarily renders the book better or worse, but it does, to me, add a layer of contrivance upon an already opaque bank of disbelief, which I was more than happy to suspend for the sake of entertainment but which got in the way of my being convinced by Fowler's true intent. That it's notionally about chimps v. humans is genuinely interesting: what it does with that premise is less interesting, more didactic and less revelatory than you'd hope, and I ended up with a sense that the idea was built into and molded across a kind of Lorrie Moore fictional world, rather than forming any real genesis for sincere debate and evolving out of serious philosophical design.
That's not to say I didn't enjoy the book: it's great fun. Fowler gets away with all kinds of authorial liberty, playing around metafictionally and occasionally interjecting to dismiss your potential inclination or warning you not to bother with the odd passing character — "Such a sweetheart. But don't get attached to him; he's not really part of the story." — in a way that's seamlessly employed. And I'm always happy to see a wide selection of eccentric, addled, compromised and funny characters run amok. Rosemary is more than agreeable company, often left to her own devices, wandering the streets as a toddler, unfazed and endangered by her warped childhood, and subsequently affably odd as a teenager and adult. One or two scenes that recount the very early days for both Rosemary and Fern and their burgeoning sisterhood are touching and affecting, and the occasions when Rosemary understands Fern's actions as fearful, as everyone else misconstrues her behavior as an endearing hoot, are intriguing, particular as they hint at what might have been had Fowler followed a more digressive, soberly interesting direction with the book.
And, it should be said: Karen Joy Fowler often musters superb dialogue exchanges. Her comic timing and acid eloquence is consistently glorious, particularly early on. She's a bit like Nora Ephron, spiky and heartfelt, and seems to do what the aforementioned Lorrie Moore does a little better in sketching out character through barbed, defensive verbal tennis. Although, on the few occasions that such zestful mordancy palls, it becomes a little like Karen Russell off-cuts.
The book is certainly at its best when not being pithily pedagogic. It often zips by in a snappily sardonic, engaging way, and its lack of caution, both in voice and narrative expedience, is exactly why the Americans are more than welcome on the Booker longlist. It doesn't flag too any great degree, merely becomes temporarily syrupy and over-emphatically pious, as though the comedy has been checked lest we forget to keep our brows furrowed, and were its heart kept out of sight quite a lot more as opposed to on its sleeve and in your face, it might've been a worthy contender.
Indeed, the parallels Fowler draws between chimps and humans are often invasively overstated. The basic premise of the book — that by one remove, by looking at the plight of chimps brought into a human environment and then wrenched out of it, we can understand how unevolved we are, how delusional and chimplike we still are, how potentially savage and vulnerable, etc. — is not allowed to unfold without nut fragments flying as a big blurry sledgehammer smashes them across most of the pages. This isn't subtle: it has a message and it has a loudspeaker with which to make sure you hear it. It's a book that makes your ears hurt. It's designs are heavily, ostentatiously signposted in a too-cloying manner too often: a shame in an otherwise pawky, entertaining read. For an example of Fowler's facile (but funny) shoehorning of chimp/human parallels, try:
"Whatev," Abbie said, which in 1992 meant you didn't really care no matter how much it had sounded as if you did. She didn't just say this; she used a hand sign as well — index fingers up, hands joined at the thumbs into a W. That we had forced her to whatev us made our silence so much worse.
Whatev was the first hand sign I learned at college, but there were several popular then. There was the thumb-and-index-finger L held against the forehead, which meant Loser. The whatev W could be flipped up and down, W to M to W to M, in which case it meant Whatever, your mother works at McDonalds. 'Cause that's the way we rolled back in '92.
So college students often resemble chimpanzees! I'll say they do. Regardless, the preceding excerpt is a good barometer for whether or not such heavy-handed postulations come with the necessary sprinkling of sugar for your tastes. Fowler avers plentifully via Rosemary, not so much with a nudge as with a largely forgivable elbow, "Not only am I, your product-of-an-entirely-cruel experiment protagonist, understandably chimplike, everyone is, when you get down to it." She perpetually underlines the pomposity and accepted savagery of the master race, the selfishness, the chaotic tendencies, and attempts to bridge the gap between evolutionary cousins. The problem with the method of inducing any such comparison in the manner that Fowler has chosen is that the scatty feel of the book ultimately mangles the seriousness of her intent. There's too much levity, too little heft. The potentially powerful moments, when they arrive, feel like a lurch too far from the established tone of slick satire. It's tricky to shift gears from Sarah Silverman to serious sermon, and therein, I think, lies the book's main weakness. I bemoaned the insistent preachiness, at times, and yearned for more of the loquacious froth that's so much fun. Without the awkward moralizing, the novel would slip down a lot easier. But then, it wouldn't be on the Booker longlist. It's an "issue" piece, a book with a supposedly provocative stance, but for this reader it's much better taken as a light bit of superbly executed comedy with clunky gravitas bolted on. And a bad ending straight out of the slush pile. Good, then, not great.
Ultimately, as a means of getting plenty of gently pointed laughs about chimp/human similarity, the book is a success. In terms of using the symbiotic relationship in the book, the "twinness" of Rosemary and Fern, it over eggs it. It's a clever surge through the lives of a dysfunctional family, not thesis-worthy intellectual insight. Or: it's Cameron Crowe's version of Project Nim.
By Lee Monks|2014-08-18T14:34:43-04:00August 19th, 2014|Categories: Karen Joy Fowler|Tags: Booker Prize|16 Comments
juliemcl August 19, 2014 at 7:52 am
Great review, Lee! I loved Project Nim, and you made me chuckle with the as-done-by-Cameron-Crowe bit. I have this one home from the library and now I am seriously doubting whether I should dig into it. Do I have time for "good, but not great"? Hmmmm….I doubt it. (I also have out Niall Williams's 'History of the Rain' – I've never even heard of him before but took it out on a whim and because I saw it is also on the longlist.)
You know, I'd really actually just love to know what you think the scandalous omissions from the longlist are so I can get something good!
Anyway, again, I really enjoyed reading this review because I was curious about this book. I may give it a try still.
Lee Monks August 19, 2014 at 9:59 am
Thanks, Julie, but please do give it a go: it's a really fun piece of work and she's a very good writer of a certain kind of whip-smart comedy. Just don't expect it to compare favourably to something like Orfeo, which is Paul Thomas Anderson level, as opposed to Croweesque good entertainment reaching for substance, which is what this is.
KevinfromCanada August 19, 2014 at 11:25 am
I am pretty sure that I like your review better than I would like the novel. I have been bouncing back and forth on whether to read this — your perceptive thoughts have pushed me back into "no go" territory, but I may give it a go if it makes the shortlist.
We should also probably note that this is not the first Booker finalist to feature a chimp/monkey/ape — Me Cheeta made the list a few years back. That one amused me but I am afraid that it looks like Fowler's amusing bits are more than offset by the kind of authorial overkill that has been driving me nuts lately.
Lee Monks August 19, 2014 at 1:03 pm
Thanks, Kevin. Well, with your review of Joshua Ferris' latest in mind (and I'm guessing 'authorial overkill' is directly relevant?) I'd definitely urge caution!
So, I read the book! It was an enjoyable and easy (quick) read, and also as an animal-rights-activist sympathizer I'm glad I did, but it really wasn't my cup of tea as material for reading. I much more prefer a calmer contemplative read, with nuanced psychological components (something like Tessa Hadley's 'Clever Girl' or Alice McDermott's 'Someone'), and not the sort of hyperactive prose that Lee posits above as the mark of certain particularly North American writers. Oh, I like a good comic novel too sometimes, but this wasn't really that, nor trying to be. Also, it was a bit mawkish at times as Lee pointed out, but did elicit wetness from my eyes a couple times as I suppose it was meant to.
My only other two criticisms are: 1) some of the characters are quite two-dimensional (Harlow, Lowell). I couldn't really get a sense of them as fully fleshed out people. They seem to stay on the periphery whereas we are meant to think they are central to our protagonist's life and experience. 2) at times I felt like I was reading a YA book, especially in the first third before Fern is introduced. I have nothing against YA but I've read things with young narrators before that definitely did not give me that sense. I don't know what else to say about that other than that feeling ties together with the cardboard-cutout nature of the characters to make me feel that in the main it wasn't subtle or nuanced or below-the-surface, which is also what I think Lee's conclusion was but more eloquently put.
You know, never having been interested in the Booker before now (which I'm guessing is perhaps why they've opened it up to American authors, to capture the American reader like me), I'm now quite interested in how books get chosen for the longlist. Or is that all shrouded in secrecy? I did look at the official criteria for eligibility on the official Booker website, but that doesn't really answer the question of the process of coming up with the longlist. Do the five or six judges plow through mountains of books? All read the same ones? Then do they have a series of meetings to whittle it down? Talk about each book and its merits? How tortured is this process? Do books with a particular kind of "message" have more of a chance? How do books that haven't come out yet make it onto the list? If anyone can point me to an article or something, even an older one, that speaks to any of this I'd sure appreciate it. I'm perplexed about how this book particularly made it onto the list. It was good, but… all the things I said above.
Lee Monks August 27, 2014 at 11:54 am
It seems we had very similar readings, Julie. And what do the Booker judges know anyway?! We're right!
I think, in theory at least, all the judges are meant to read all the entries. I think that's a general stipulation. I doubt very much whether any of the judges follow that line, and I certainly hope not, for their sake: a dreadful book will surely reveal it's hand within 50 pages, at which point sanity surely suggests it, and any similar tomes, get flung into the fire. There is surely no way – and furthermore, no need – to read every page submitted. I'd hedge a sizeable bet on a fair bit of audiobook juggling and kindle flipping.
I think certain books will be 'favoured' for all kinds of mercurial reasons not entirely pertaining to their absolute quality and I think, if I'm right, that cheapens the award massively. The book reviewed above is not of the same literary quality – a factor I think should always be paramount – as some of the books left off the list. I like it a lot, but that's a fact: it is not as good as the Joseph Boyden book, to use one example. But: it's making a supposedly provocative point and you can see that certain non-literary factors are considered the equal of its merit as a piece of writing. Which I just don't agree with. This is top-level fodder, for me, and no more. The Ferris is of a similar stock. There is one book on the longlist which is, I'd argue, not good at all but it's 'dystopian' and ticks a few boxes…rant over…
juliemcl August 27, 2014 at 7:48 pm
Thanks, Lee. I just noticed that I said I put it more eloquently than you. Sorry, I was beyond tired when I posted this. I meant the opposite. Your review was much more eloquent than my comment, obviously!
I knew what you meant, Julie – and don't be so sure!
Max Cairnduff September 26, 2014 at 12:51 pm
It sounds to me the literary equivalent of an Oscar movie. Technically well made, lots of emotional content, an underlying seriousness of point, but not surprising, not challenging.
I think sometimes books are seen as literary fiction just because they aren't another kind of more identifiable fiction. They're not horror fiction, or science fiction, or romantic fiction or historical fiction so they must be literary fiction. A kind of bibliophilic god of the gaps.What they are of course is general fiction. Entertainments as Graham Greene would have said. Nothing wrong with that, but I tend to prefer my entertainments more out and out entertaining, my serious fiction more out and out serious.
juliemcl September 27, 2014 at 12:18 am
I agree, Max! Well said. I've read too many in what you call the 'general fiction' category lately for my taste, and I wish there was an easier way of telling the difference from reviews. But I wonder: is what you are really describing just the divide between so-so work vs. the more excellent type, something that transcends the subject matter?
Lee Monks September 27, 2014 at 3:46 am
Your opening paragraph sums it up, Max. It's exactly that. Take the chimp stuff out and it'd be quickly forgotten. The dialogue is often excellent but the idea that it might win the Booker Prize is an unedifying prospect.
It's not literary fiction. It's water cooler fiction.
Juliemcl: the thing about this is that it never tries to transcend a kind of 'Oprah' vibe. It wants to sell copies. It has no designs on the big prizes, I felt. It wants to be in big piles at the supermarket with soccer moms tutting over the twist kind of thing.
juliemcl September 27, 2014 at 4:43 am
Oh, yes, Lee. I agree that this book doesn't transcend, nor try to. I think it is definitely in the so-so or general category, as opposed to the excellent/literary. I was just wondering in my comment above whether the dichotomy between general and literary that Max posited couldn't also be described in terms of less good vs. more good (better written, more transcendent) – just something for debate. Now, it's the middle of the night so I'm not even sure I know what I'm talking about any more!
It probably could – it's a book that aims low and hits its target very adeptly.
Max Cairnduff October 21, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Julie, sorry for the slow reply – holiday. I think it's a maybe. Sometimes the difference is merely quality, but I think sometimes too there's a difference in ambition. A good pulp crime novel sets out to entertain, and has no pretensions to being literary fiction as a rule. I think a lot of general fiction sets out too to entertain, and doesn't really aspire to being literary fiction which is fine.
Sometimes it does and fails. Sometimes who knows? It's not as if after all any of these categories exist in the world, we create them and use them as descriptive shortcuts. So I think yes, sometimes general fiction is just fiction that's not as well written as literary fiction, and no, sometimes general fiction is different in kind not just in quality to literary fiction.
Perhaps the test is, can we conceive of a book which is clearly literary fiction, but which isn't actually very good? I suspect we can, but it's not necessarily a clear cut answer.
Forgot to add, love the phrase water cooler fiction. I think it does capture something.

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In the Swedish/Danish TV series Bron/Broen ("The Bridge"), the lead female character Saga Noren lacks certain social skills. She takes comments extremely literally, for the most part lacks emotion, and further struggles to understand other characters' emotions.
Since the show is subtitled, I very well may have missed an explanation of her behavior. It seems like Asperger syndrome -- is this confirmed anywhere? Or is it brought up beyond 'Saga isn't normal'?
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...What if the Swedish detective was a woman with absolutely no social skills?
Catching up: Saga and Martin are friends but don't speak until another case brings them together Everything she can read, she'll learn, but when it comes to interaction with another person, she's totally lost.
That was pretty much all we said about Saga Norén (beautifully played by Sofia Helin).
Now, the media and the audience have decided that she has Asperger's, but we've actually never diagnosed her in the show.
In the American remake of the show, it's admitted by the lead actress Diane Kruger that the character has Asperger's. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter she said:
"Yes, she has a condition [with] so many shortcomings in her personal life that appear because of that condition," Kruger told THR in an interview with reporters. "Yet, she is so different in her job because she has this ability to focus and really look at things from a different point of view."
So in conclusion: no, it is not confirmed in the original series, but most reviewers and fans have assumed it.
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Horror movies have been scaring audiences for decades with their spine-tingling tales of terror and their terrifying villains. These villains are the ones that haunt our nightmares long after the credits have rolled. From the iconic slasher films of the 80s to the more recent psychological thrillers, these villains have left an indelible mark on the genre. Here are six of the scariest horror villains and why they continue to terrify audiences:
Michael Myers: The masked killer from the Halloween franchise is one of the most iconic villains in horror. What makes him so terrifying is his unyielding determination to kill and his complete lack of motive or reason. He kills because he enjoys it, making him unpredictable and all the more dangerous.
Freddy Krueger: The nightmare-inducing villain from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is another horror icon. His ability to enter and manipulate people's dreams makes him so terrifying, leaving them vulnerable and powerless. He also has a sadistic sense of humour and a twisted, burned appearance that adds to his already terrifying persona.
The Babadook: The titular villain from the 2014 Australian film is a sinister creature that represents the manifestation of grief and trauma. He is physically scary, emotionally, and psychologically terrifying as he preys on the main character's vulnerability and fear of losing her child.
Ghostface: The killer from the Scream franchise is known for its horror-comedy elements, but what makes Ghostface truly terrifying is his ability to blend in and manipulate his victims, making them lower their guard before striking. The fact that he could be anyone, including a friend or loved one, adds to the tension and fear.
The Pale Man: The villain from the 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth is a terrifying creature that sits at a banquet table with eyes in the palms of his hands. His appearance is grotesque and monstrous, but his quiet and methodical hunting style makes him so terrifying. He's also a representation of the evil and cruelty of the real world, making him all the more chilling.
The Lament Configuration: The mysterious puzzle box from the Hellraiser franchise acts as a gateway to a realm of sadomasochistic demons led by the iconic villain Pinhead. The Lament Configuration is not only a physical object but also a symbol of temptation and the consequences of giving in to our darker desires.
These villains have stood the test of time and continue to terrify audiences with their unique brand of terror. Whether it's Michael Myers' relentless killing spree, Freddy Krueger's manipulation of dreams, or the Lament Configuration's representation of temptation, these villains tap into our deepest fears and anxieties, making them some of the scariest in horror history. So, next time you watch a horror movie, pay attention to the villain – they may be why the movie is so terrifying.
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«Ма́ршала Покры́шкина» — 11-я станция Новосибирского метрополитена. Находится на Дзержинской линии между станциями «Сибирская» и «Берёзовая роща». Проектные названия — «Панельная», «Ольги Жилиной», «Фрунзенская».

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Первоначально станцию хотели назвать «Фрунзенской», затем — «Ольги Жилиной» (по названию улицы). На первых схемах также присутствовало ещё одно рабочее название — «Панельная». Однако в итоге остановились на имени прославленного лётчика и первого трижды Героя Советского Союза — Александра Ивановича Покрышкина. Такое название имеет очень слабую привязку к местности — Александр Иванович Покрышкин родился и рос в Закаменской части города, в трущобах, которые были потом снесены для строительства Ипподромской магистрали, вблизи которой и расположена станция метро. До этого в Новосибирске не было улиц или памятников Покрышкину, таким образом, станция стала первым таким объектом городе, за исключением положенного по закону бюста на площади Свердлова. В последующие годы улица и памятник в честь знаменитого земляка появились в совсем другом районе города, вблизи станции «Площадь Маркса», что породило топонимический казус.

Строительство
В 1988 году начался демонтаж трамвайной линии по улице Гоголя, которая дублирует на поверхности трассировку Дзержинской линии. Тогда же было начато сооружение станции, имевшей рабочее название «Фрунзенская». В 1990 году территория будущей станции была ограждена бетонным «метростроевским» (с буквами «М») забором. В 1991 году в сторону станции «Сибирская» направились проходческие щиты, а через два года планировалось завершить все работы и сдать станцию — близился столетний юбилей города. Однако эти планы так и остались лишь на бумаге — станция не была пущена ни в 1993 году, ни в следующем.

С наступлением кризиса 1990-х годов федеральное финансирование было прекращено, а местные бюджеты были не способны самостоятельно строить и вводить новые станции. Сроки отодвигались и строительство станции превратилось в долгострой. К январю месяцу 1995 года общая задолженность федерального бюджета перед метростроителями превышала 1,8 млрд рублей.

Первый президент РФ Борис Ельцин, в ходе своей предвыборной поездки в Новосибирск в 1996 году, обещал выделить деньги на возведение метро. Однако в итоге никаких денег федеральный бюджет Новосибирску так и не дал. Местные власти в то время также не слишком одобряли продолжение строительства метро в городе.

В результате станция «Маршала Покрышкина» была введена в эксплуатацию только 28 декабря 2000 года, через восемь лет после открытия предыдущих станций («Гагаринской» и «Заельцовской»).

Архитектура и оформление
Конструкция — колонная, островная станция мелкого заложения, с двумя рядами колонн. Построена открытым способом по проекту института «Новосибметропроект». Проект аналогичен станции «Гагаринская»: 17 пар колонн, отстоящих друг от друга на 6 метров. Станционные стены — рельефные, выполнены из крупных бетонных блоков. Блоки плавно переходят в потолок станции.
Дизайн платформенного участка станции выполнен в сочетании красного и белого. Посадочная платформа отделана гранитом, а путевые стены и колонны — мрамором. Белый потолок, по замыслу проектировщиков, призван придать объёмный простор. Отделка станции выполнена бразильским мрамором красного цвета. Блоки путевых стен выкрашены в белый цвет. В потолке, в его центральной части, установлены видеоэкраны. Вокруг колонн размещены скамейки отдыха для пассажиров, выполненные из полированного дерева. А на полу платформы нанесены разметки-указатели остановки дверей вагонов электропоезда, имеющие жёлтый цвет.

В 2013 году, к столетию маршала Покрышкина (6 марта) выполнен ряд работ по реконструкции станции и её оформления. Над станционной платформой, под потолком основного зала, появился макет самолёта («Аэрокобра», см. фото), на котором выполнял свои полёты прославленный лётчик. Изменилось оформление надписей (название станции на путевых стенах). Кроме того, в распределительном зале был установлен тематический световой витраж-мозаика (в дальнейшем появится второй), на котором размещены изображения самолётов и схема Солнечной системы, в которой есть малая планета Покрышкин. Все работы проводились ночью и завершились к 6 марта.

Вестибюли
Станция имеет два вестибюля — западный и восточный. В одном из вестибюлей расположен подуличный подземный переход. Вестибюли соединены с платформой маршевыми лестницами. Выходы на нечётную сторону улицы Гоголя имеют отдельные павильоны из металлических конструкций. На чётную сторону же выходы встроены в жилые дома. Металлические каркасы павильонов и входные двери покрашены в оливковый цвет.

Первоначально станция была открыта только с одним, западным вестибюлем, а восточный был достроен и открыт 6 декабря 2008 года, когда был сдан дом (Гоголя, 40), в котором он расположен.

К столетнему юбилею Покрышкина претерпели изменения и вестибюли. В одном из вестибюлей, перед входом в кассовый зал, появился витраж. Второй витраж, в другом станционном вестибюле, обещают установить в дальнейшем, уже после юбилея. А в одном из вестибюлей, при входе в него с чётной стороны улицы Гоголя (дом № 36) — установили бюст маршала, выполненный из бронзы. Бюст заменил находившиеся в этом месте торговые киоски. Бюст выполнил тот же художник, который готовил памятник маршалу на площади Маркса — народный художник России Михаил Переяславец. Названия же самой станции при входах в неё также заменили. Их модернизировали и дополнили изображениями звёзд Героя Советского Союза.

Путевое развитие
Путевого развития станция не имеет.

Станция в цифрах

 Длина станции, как и на всех станциях Новосибирского метрополитена, стандартная — 102 метра, что позволяет поместить на путь до 5-и вагонов (в настоящее время используются 4-вагонные составы). Длина посадочной платформы — 100 м.
 В 2014 году пассажиропоток на станции составил 7 тыс. человек в сутки. Таким образом, «Маршала Покрышкина» является наименее загруженной станцией Новосибирского метрополитена.

 Пикет ПК 103+48.
 Длина пути до станции «Сибирская» — 1080 метров. До станции «Берёзовая роща» длина перегона составляет 1168 метров.
 Время открытия станции для входа пассажиров — 5 часов 45 минут, время закрытия (входы № 1 и № 2) — 00 часов 00 минут (до 23 часов 00 минут — входы № 3 и № 4).
 Таблица времени отправления первого и последнего поездов:

Расположение

Станция расположена на пересечении улиц Гоголя и Ольги Жилиной. Рядом расположена скоростная Ипподромская магистраль, улицы Селезнёва, Крылова, Некрасова, Семьи Шамшиных, Лермонтова и другие.

Остановки
Остановки наземного общественного транспорта вблизи выходов станции:
 А, Тб, Мт: «Метро Маршала Покрышкина», «Ипподромская».
В транспортной доступности:
 По улице Гоголя, расположены остановки А и Мт: «Военторг».
 По улице Крылова, расположены остановки А и Мт: «Ольги Жилиной» и «Крылова».

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Ссылки
 Станция «Маршала Покрышкина» — Официальный сайт Новосибирского метрополитена
 Станция «Маршала Покрышкина» на сайте «Мир метро»
 Станция «Маршала Покрышкина» — МетроЭНСК

Дзержинская линия метрополитена
Колонные станции мелкого заложения
Станции метрополитена, построенные в 2000 году
Станции Новосибирского метрополитена
Центральный район Новосибирска


Micky Rogers, MRM Inc., hosted this session on the burning questions about financing in the shadow of Brexit, and asked the experts: where are the risks and where are the opportunities?
The current tax credit scheme is unlikely to be taken away, having being introduced by Labour and extended by the Conservatives.
Rosina Robson of PACT thought that no deal on Brexit would not be good for the industry. What she thinks needs to be agreed is how to ensure UK production continues to be regarded as European, and that the UK should continue to pay into Creative Europe. The alternative would be to set up a similar operation in the UK. She quoted Conservative MP Damian Collins, who believes it would be cost effective to continue with Creative Europe. Also on PACT's wish list is the continuation of freedom of movement, not only as a temporary measure but also in the longer term. She thought there was potential for an upside of no deal, with the abolition of European subsidy rules.
Lisa Logan of Simkins Llp was on hand to discuss the co-production treaties that exist now for animation, live action and drama projects. As well as long-established treaties with countries such as Canada and Australia, there are newer treaties with Brazil and South Africa. A deal with China is expected to be announced this year. Lisa thought that projects that could benefit should be both creatively and financially driven. Typical splits between both work and finance range from 20/80 to 50/50 splits.
Daren Drake from Saffery & Champness Llp took us on a brief tour of the tax break system. The current tax credit scheme is unlikely to be taken away, having being introduced for film by Labour and extended to animation, high-end TV, children's and video games by the Conservatives. Each sector has slightly different rules, but in effect give a cash payment of up to 25% of approved UK spend on a budget.
The panel discussed the BFI rules for the British cultural test, Mickey Rogers noting that it was best to use an accountant who knew how to put the package together to ensure maximum benefits were claimed.
The final speaker, Juliet Tzabar of Plug-in Media, took us through a case study of a dummy project, showing how finance for a project based on a successful game could be put together. Of course, even with games revenue, tax breaks, advances and co-production finance, there was a deficit. This might have been plugged by private equity at one time, but this route has been tightened up by the Inland Revenue. As Mickey said in her closing remarks, it's the same old story: no two projects are financed in the same way.


Rachel Liechti has been a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy of the Director at the Institute for European and International Economic Law, University of Bern since 2008. Since 2009 she has also served as a Member of the World Trade Institute Board of Trustees. Prior to taking up her current position, she worked at the same Institute as an assistant from 2002–2007.


President Maithripala Sirisena says the government has decided to abolish the Year Five Scholarship Exam in future.
The government has taken this decision taking into consideration of the difficulties face by students and their parents while facing the Year Five Scholarship Exam.
The President made these remarks at a function to handover the newly built 'Shilpa Kala Mandalaya' at Polonnaruwa Royal College yesterday.
The President also stated that many university graduates have not passed the year five scholarship but they have excelled in their higher education in an extraordinary manner.
New housing scheme will be constructed for public servants in the Kandy district.


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Paymo Helps Strongway Feel Safe Enough to Tackle and Deliver More Concurrent Projects
with Leonardo Baptista Lopes, Founder
Strongway Webstudio
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Sisyphus: The Freelancer
At the beginning, every freelancer is much like Sisyphus: they have to worry about attracting clients, understand the project in detail, control tasks, and make sure they get paid. Only to start this process over with the next client.
So was the story of Leonardo, who became a web designer ever since he got out of college in 2007. Back then, he was an art director for a game development studio and a front-end developer for another two web design ones. All while having his own projects, so you could say he was a pure-breed entrepreneur. Up until 2010, when he decided to go out on his own and open a freelancing office with a friend - who soon bailed him. With a high workload and rent putting pressure on him, Leonardo knew that he had to step up his game.
"I founded Strongway in 2012 with a new colleague. What drove us was our collective desire to do things in an orderly and solid fashion. We would call it the "strong way", which also gave name to the company.", recalls Leonardo.
Task Management Workflows Timesheets
Decluttering Sisyphus
The struggles of a one-man business have been enough for Leonardo, who finally had the courage and resources to hire professionals to help him with the extra workload. A step that enabled him to expand and become profitable in the end.
Unlike other users, he was already familiar with Paymo from his time at the game and web design studios.
"I was part of a team that used Basecamp and another that used Zoho. I was looking for a free solution that included time tracking, something that was paid on both. Paymo was very similar to Basecamp at the time (which made it very easy for me to migrate) and also had the free time tracking feature that allowed me to understand how much time I spent on each kind of task. So I could better estimate new projects and, with it, their costs."
But with a new team in place, he knew he needed to use Paymo more intelligently, other than just assigning people, task descriptions, and estimates to completion.
"Paymo was, in the beginning, my task and time management tool. As features like team scheduling were released, I started adopting them to manage the company's available time. The last big feature to be adopted was the custom task workflows, which help us to better understand the task lifecycles." says Leonardo.
Evolving together with the product, Leonardo didn't need too much training as he adopted most of the new features on the go. For creative teams that are just about to hop on Paymo, he has a few words of advice:
"First, understand how you work, what steps do you take. Second, study a bit of project management concepts like SCRUM (Agile in general), Waterfall, and Kanban, which fits exactly within the task board view. Third, see how Paymo allows you to adopt those concepts and be happy."
The Strongway Team
Sisyphus on wheels
With a lot of iterations and the distilled experience of over 10 years of freelancing, Strongway has become a self-autonomous design studio that can deal with a high volume of tasks even if they're a small team of just three.
Task statuses and assigned comments are cornerstone features for the entire team, allowing them to understand where are they standing in a project at any point in time. And feel comfortable above all to tackle parallel work at the same time:
"Before using task workflows, keeping track of their actual status was so hard because of the fleeting nature of communication, which forced us to have fewer tasks running at the same time. By tracking task statuses with Paymo, it became so crucial we felt safe enough to tackle more concurrent tasks, doing much more at the same time."
Task statuses in a project's board view
The team has even gone so far as to consider Paymo the primary source of truth. If someone has a doubt about a task requirement, or client feedback, or task status, they will probably check Paymo first, before asking anybody else for information.
As for Leonardo, he primarily relies on Timesheets to see whether or not a task has taken too long to complete on purpose or because of a human error (a developer that has left the timer running right before lunch, for example).
Time Reports also help him measure his team's performance and better estimate time for similar tasks, hence charge accordingly for future projects.
When we asked how has Paymo helped them deliver projects faster, we actually got an unexpected answer, in line with Leonardo's most cherished value - stability:
"I don't particularly value speed, but rather reliability. I would say we even got things a little slower by using Paymo to track the workflow in a more precise and conscious way. Slower but more reliable and documented."
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The Airbus A220 Is Perfect for Air Vanuatu's Expansion
byAndrew Curran
It's no secret Airbus has a hit on their hands with the A220. Sales are strong, with Airbus predicting sales of 7,000 A220's over the next 20 years. We always hear about big orders from big airlines, but it's the small sales to small airlines which usually pass under the radar, and can often be the most interesting and transformational for that airline.
Air Vanuatu is taking four A220 planes comprising two 108 seat A220-100 planes and two 133 seat A220-300 planes. A small order, but enough to have a huge impact at Air Vanuatu.
Air Vanuatu will be the only airline in the South Pacific flying the A220. Source: Air Vanuatu
It will be the only airline in the South Pacific flying the A220. The little airline from Port Vila has big plans for the future. It is an integral part of Vanuatu's Shared Vision-2030 plan to expand and revitalise tourism to Vanuatu.
Not familiar with Air Vanuatu?
You may not be entirely all over Air Vanuatu, but the airline provides an essential service for the residents of Vanuatu and is a familiar presence around the South Pacific.
The small Port Vila based airline is kept busy servicing many of the 83 islands that make up the archipelago nation of Vanuatu, in addition to flying to South Pacific destinations like New Caledonia, Nadi, Brisbane and Sydney.
Air Vanuatu has only one jet, a Boeing 737-800, in its fleet of eight aircraft. The remainder of the fleet are smaller island hopping turbo props.
Air Vanuatu's sole 737-800 flying high. Photo: Roderick Eime via Flickr
Qantas codeshares with Air Vanuatu and funnels its passengers onto the airline for the short flight across the Coral Sea. The island is a popular holiday spot and Air Vanuatu has a solid reputation for reliability and service.
In June 2019, Air Vanuatu re-commenced flights from Port Vila to Melbourne and increased the number of flights to Auckland. In the long run, Air Vanuatu is eyeing flights as far afield as North America and the Pacific Rim countries.
It is a similar growth strategy to another local (albeit larger) South Pacific airline, Fiji Airways, which grew off a small base to now fly to North America and around the Pacific Rim.
Tourism is big in Vanuatu
Vanuatu is heavily dependant on tourism. The island nations hosts about 300,000 inbound visitors a year and tourism makes up around 40% of Vanuatu's GNI of USD$794 million. Vanuatu would like to quadruple these visitor numbers by 2030.
Vanuatu's laidback capital, Port Vila. Photo: Phillip Capper via Flickr
Currently, cruise ships bring nearly 70% of visitors to Vanuatu. The bulk of cruise ship passengers only stay for the day, put a strain on local infrastructure, and don't contribute a whole lot to the local economy.
Vanuatu is a great place to drop out in for a week or two. Photo: Sarah Stewart via Flickr
Vanuatu wants its tourists to stay longer and spend more. The new A220s are integral to this wider strategy, as they allow the island's flag carrier to bring in longer stay tourists from more destinations. These tourists will spend money on accommodation, food, tours and local services, propping up the economy and generating employment.
The A220 is perfect for Air Vanuatu
Air Vanuatu sees the arrival of the A220s as essential to its future expansion plans. It would like to fly to more destinations, not only to service the local Ni-Vanuatu population, but also to grow inbound visitor numbers.
The fuel efficient A220 is ideal for hopping between the small South Pacific island capitals. Traditionally, these skinny routes were unprofitable for larger jet aircraft. But the distances between them can also render them unsuitable for turbo props.
A spokesman for Air Vanuatu told Simple Flying that the first A220-300 will service the Brisbane, Auckland and Nadi routes from June 2020. The second aircraft, an A220-100, is due in October 2020. The final two A220's will be delivered in 2021 and 2022.
It's not only tourists who are looking to hop between these destinations. Locals, businesspeople, and government officials also need to move around. Often a transit in Auckland or Australia is required.
Port Vila's Airport, home base of Air Vanuatu, is also due for a major upgrade. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
The A220 will allow Air Vanuatu to open up more direct flights to more regional destinations. The A220-300 has the range to reach Honolulu, Bali and Adelaide. That would allow some canny route structures. Bali – Vanuatu – Fiji – Hawaii anyone?
Next time you're in Air Vanuatu's part of the world, it might be worth taking a ride on one of their new A220s and spending a week in the rather lovely Port Vila. The food's good, the locals are friendly, the weather's great and the beaches are to die for.
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G'day! That is a good article. Just one thing though: by "Air Fiji" – do you mean "Fiji Airways" (formerly known as "Air Pacific")?
Joanna Bailey says:
Thank you, you're quite right, article updated accordingly.
StefanS says:
I'm completely thrilled by that gorgeous livery – makes the other airlines look like they got theirs from the nearest one dollar shop.
It is really pretty isn't it!
Tomasi Turagava says:
Economics of the A220s will be valuable to the PSIDS, tis the aircraft that these pacific nations are all eager to test against the Boeing 737 NG & MAXs, A320s


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Denning Behavior
Although polar bears may construct temporary winter shelters in order to escape severe weather, usually only pregnant females den for any extended period of time. Males and other bears that do not den may enter a physiological state called 'walking hibernation,' in which they remain awake and active.
Polar bear den in a stand of spruce trees. Natural Habitat Adventures photo.
During normal hibernation, bears obtain whatever energy and water they need from metabolizing stored fat. The daily amount of energy needed to sustain a 440-pound polar bear is equal to the energy value of about two pounds of seal blubber. In winter, polar bears also live off fat, but it is seal fat rather than their own body reserves. "If a polar bear were to eat a lot of protein when it is –50 or –60 degrees Fahrenheit," says Dr. Jonkel, "then they would need a lot of water in order to get rid of the nitrogen wastes. That would mean they would have to melt the cold snow in their mouths. By restricting food consumption to mostly fat, they circumvent that need."
Denning usually begins in early winter. Typically, these maternity dens are dug into snow banks, often on south-facing slopes near the coast. The largest dens may be three feet high, over eight feet wide and ten feet long inside. These chambers are generally oval rooms connected by an entrance tunnel leading in. Because of the insulating qualities of snow, the heat given off by a denning bear may raise the den's air temperature to as high as 40 degrees Fahrenheit, even when outside temperatures are far below freezing.
Periodically in the winter, changes in the wind direction may cause the roof of a bear's den to become thin or to even split open, making it unsuitable for use. When this occurs, the female will leave and either dig a temporary den, or re-occupy a deserted one. The proportion of temporary dens being used is higher in years with little snow.
Another unique feature of bear ecology in the Churchill area is the use of summer dens. Dug down through the tundra to permafrost, these dens are used as cool retreats for overheated bears. The bears doze away the summer months, lying on the ice, expending minimum energy. Some of these summer dens appear to have been in use for hundreds of years.
Depiction of a polar bear den. Atozkids.com. image.
Polar bear denning sites are concentrated in at least 17 locations over the circumpolar range of the species. In 1969, one of the world's largest denning areas was discovered in a forest and lake region about 40 miles south of Churchill by Dr. Jonkel. In an effort to protect its own Cape Henrietta Maria denning site, the Canadian province of Ontario has designated an area of more than 6,000 square miles as a provincial polar bear park.
Natural Habitat guide Brad Josephs inside a polar bear den in Wapusk National Park. Natural Habitat Adventures photo.


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Thierry Saussez, né le  à Bois-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), est un conseiller en communication français. En 1982, il fonde l'agence de communication Image et Stratégie qu'il préside jusqu'en 2008. Il a également dirigé le Service d'Information du Gouvernement (SIG) du  au .

Biographie

Famille et formation
Thierry Georges Saussez est né le  à Bois-Colombes. Il est le fils de Fernand Saussez, chauffeur, et d'Angèle Mignon.

Il suit des études au lycée Lakanal de Colombes.

Il s'est marié à Laurence Baudelot le . Le couple a un enfant.

Carrière professionnelle
En 1970, Thierry Saussez est nommé directeur adjoint de publicité de Jaeger Lecoultre, puis en 1972, collaborateur puis directeur de la société Michel Bongrand SA. En 1982, il crée la société « Image et Stratégie » dont il est PDG jusqu'en 2008. En 1988, il est cofondateur de Thierry Saussez conseils puis, en 1993-1994, vice-président de Bernard Krief Consulting Group. Il est membre de l'Association internationale des conseils politiques depuis 1975 et secrétaire général adjoint de l'Association nationale nouveaux médias en 1985.

Conseiller en communication institutionnelle et politique français, il participe à ce titre à de nombreuses campagnes électorales. Ancien membre du Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) et de l'Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP), il est un des proches conseillers de Nicolas Sarkozy. En dehors des leaders de la droite française, il intervient comme conseiller auprès d'entreprises, d'organisations professionnelles et de collectivités territoriales.

Avec son agence de communication « Image et Stratégie », il travaille avec la Côte d'Ivoire : en 2005, le magazine Stratégies avance le chiffre de cinq millions de francs () versés annuellement à Thierry Saussez par la Côte d'Ivoire d'Henri Konan Bédié, de 1995 au coup d'État de 1999. En 2008, il revend Image et Stratégie à Bruno Fuchs.

Le , Thierry Saussez est nommé délégué interministériel à la communication et directeur du Service d'information du gouvernement (SIG), où il est chargé de veiller à la coordination des actions d'information et de communication du Gouvernement. Lors de cette nomination officielle, Thierry Saussez est présenté par de nombreux médias comme le « remède anti-couacs » en référence aux dysfonctionnements qui venaient de brouiller la communication gouvernementale. Il y quadruple le budget alloué au SIG en centralisant les moyens des différents ministères « de manière à obtenir plus de cohérence dans le dispositif ». Il est critiqué pour le parfum de propagande d'État qui se dégage des opérations de communication effectuées, mais réfute le terme de propagande, considérant la communication gouvernementale comme un service public au service des grandes causes nationales. Dans le courant 2010, il accuse également le coup lors du lancement loupé du coûteux site France.fr. Il annonce sa démission le  en indiquant que sa mission était nécessairement temporaire et en précisant clairement les raisons d'une démission à sa propre initiative.

En 2017, dans le cadre de l'affaire Fillon, Thierry Saussez déplore la stratégie de réponse de François Fillon, qui s'est « enkysté dans sa propre crise ».

Engagement politique
Conseiller municipal depuis 1983 de la commune de Rueil-Malmaison dans les Hauts-de-Seine, Thierry Saussez est, de 1983 à 2001, adjoint au maire délégué à la communication et à l'avenir.

En 2002, il se présente, sans succès, aux élections législatives dans la  des Hauts-de-Seine, sous l'étiquette divers droite contre le candidat de l'UMP Patrick Ollier, maire de Rueil-Malmaison.

Candidat aux élections municipales de 2014 au Lavandou (Var) à la tête de la liste Lavandou Cap 2020, Thierry Saussez avait obtenu 20,47 % des voix. Il se représente en 2020 à la tête de la liste Lavandou Cap 2026.

Distinctions
Le , Thierry Saussez est nommé au grade de chevalier dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur au titre de .

Le , il est nommé au grade d'officier dans l'ordre national du Mérite au titre de .

Publications
 Politique séduction : comment les hommes politiques arrivent-ils à vous plaire, éd. Jean-Claude Lattès, 1985, 238 pages.
 Le Challenger, éd. Jean-Claude Lattès, 1988, 246 pages.
 Nous sommes ici par la volonté des médias, éd. Robert Laffont, 1990, 222 pages.
 Tapie-Le Pen, les jumeaux du populisme, Éditions n° 1, 1992, 255 pages.
 A la table des politiques, éd. Plon, 1994, 292 pages
 Le Temps des ventriloques : médias, sondages et marionnettes menacent-ils la démocratie ?, éd. Belfond, 1997, 125 pages.
 Le Pouvoir des mentors : petit manuel à destination de tous ceux qui s'intéressent aux coulisses de la vie politique et des campagnes électorales, Éditions n° 1, 1999, 172 pages.
 Le Style réinvente la politique, Éditions de la Renaissance, 2004, 235 pages.
 La prise de l'Élysée, Les campagnes présidentielles de la Ve République, coécrit avec Jacques Séguéla, Ed. Plon, 2007, 276 pages.
 Manifeste pour l'Optimisme, éd Plon, 2011, 156 pages.
 Les 101 mots à l'usage de tous : l'optimisme, Archibooks + sautereau éditeur, 2012, 116 pages.
 Sarkozy, de l'échec au come-back, L'Archipel, 2012, 187 pages

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
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 Mise en scène du pouvoir
 Storytelling
 Peoplisation

Liens externes

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Personnalité du Rassemblement pour la République
Personnalité de l'Union pour un mouvement populaire
Marketing politique
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
Officier de l'ordre national du Mérite
Naissance en février 1949
Naissance à Bois-Colombes
Spin doctor
Naissance dans le département de la Seine


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Equine rhinovirus serotypes 1 and 2: Relationship to each other and to aphthoviruses and cardioviruses
G. Wutz, H. Auer, N. Nowotny, B. Grosse, T. Skern, E. Kuechler
Equine rhinoviruses (ERVs) are picornaviruses which cause a mild respiratory infection in horses. The illness resembles the common cold brought about by rhinoviruses in humans; however, the presence of a viraemia during ERV-1 infection, the occurrence of persistent infections and the physical properties are all more reminiscent of foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV). cDNA cloning and sequencing of the genomes of ERV-1 and ERV-2 between the poly(C) and poly(A) tracts showed that the serotypes are heterogeneous. Nevertheless, the genomic architecture of both serotypes is most similar to that of FMDV. Indeed, a comparison of the derived protein sequences of ERV-1 shows that their identity is greatest to FMDV. In contrast, most ERV-2 proteins are more related to encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) proteins than they are to FMDV or ERV-1. These results place ERV-1 alongside FMDV in the aphthovirus genus of the picornavirus family and indicate that this virus may serve as a model system for examining the biology of FMDV.
Journal of General Virology
Aphthovirus
Cardiovirus
Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus
Rhinovirus
Encephalomyocarditis virus
Poly A
Serogroup
Organism Cloning
Wutz, G., Auer, H., Nowotny, N., Grosse, B., Skern, T., & Kuechler, E. (1996). Equine rhinovirus serotypes 1 and 2: Relationship to each other and to aphthoviruses and cardioviruses. Journal of General Virology, 77(8), 1719-1730.
Equine rhinovirus serotypes 1 and 2 : Relationship to each other and to aphthoviruses and cardioviruses. / Wutz, G.; Auer, H.; Nowotny, N.; Grosse, B.; Skern, T.; Kuechler, E.
In: Journal of General Virology, Vol. 77, No. 8, 08.1996, p. 1719-1730.
Wutz, G, Auer, H, Nowotny, N, Grosse, B, Skern, T & Kuechler, E 1996, 'Equine rhinovirus serotypes 1 and 2: Relationship to each other and to aphthoviruses and cardioviruses', Journal of General Virology, vol. 77, no. 8, pp. 1719-1730.
Wutz G, Auer H, Nowotny N, Grosse B, Skern T, Kuechler E. Equine rhinovirus serotypes 1 and 2: Relationship to each other and to aphthoviruses and cardioviruses. Journal of General Virology. 1996 Aug;77(8):1719-1730.
Wutz, G. ; Auer, H. ; Nowotny, N. ; Grosse, B. ; Skern, T. ; Kuechler, E. / Equine rhinovirus serotypes 1 and 2 : Relationship to each other and to aphthoviruses and cardioviruses. In: Journal of General Virology. 1996 ; Vol. 77, No. 8. pp. 1719-1730.
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