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What if Dracula won? The secret inspirations behind "Anno Dracula"
Kim Newman
Kim Newman's classic novel Anno Dracula imagines a world where Dracula wins at the end of Bram Stoker's story, conquering Britain and establishing a vampire-dominated society. Where did this horrifying scenario come from?
To celebrate the reissue of Anno Dracula from Titan Books, Newman explains the genesis of his story, including his literary influences and early discussions with Neil Gaiman and others.
When I was eleven years old, my parents let me stay up past my bed-time to watch the 1931 Tod Browning-Bela Lugosi version of Dracula on television. I can't overestimate the effect this has had on the subsequent course of my life, since the film was the spark which lit the flames of my interests in horror and cinema. I was captivated by Dracula, and became an obsessive in the way only an eleven-year-old can be obsessive. I think my parents expected the craze to wear off, but obviously it never did. Among my first attempts at writing was a one-page play, based on the film, which I typed, starred in, and directed in drama class at Dr Morgan's Grammar School in Autumn, 1970. Mercifully, this juvenilia has been lost.
Shortly afterwards, I read (and reread) Bram Stoker's novel, and went out of my way to catch as many Dracula movies as possible. I had the Aurora glow-in-the-dark hobby kit ('Frightning Lightning Strikes!') of Lugosi as the Count, and began to collect other novels (far fewer then than there are now) which sequelised, imitated, parodied or ripped off the character. When I happened to return to the building which had been Dr Morgan's assembly hall in February 1989, the stage was set for that year's school play, Dracula, which I regarded as a personal vindication.
Here's how Anno Dracula evolved. At Sussex University in 1978, I took a course entitled Late Victorian Revolt, tought by the poet Laurence Lerner and Norman Mackenzie (Wells's biographer), for which I wrote a thesis ('The Secular Apocalypse: The End of the World in Turn of the Century Fictions') which later cropped up as the work of the main character of my novel third novel, Jago. For this, I read up on invasion narratives (George Chesney's 'The Battle of Dorking', Wells's The War in the Air, Saki's When William Came), which imagine England overwhelmed by its enemies (usually the Germans).
I was already interested in alternate history science fiction and recognised in this mostly-forgotten genre the precursors of many twentieth century stories which imagine an alternative outcome to the Second World War featuring a Nazi occupation of Britain (Len Deighton's SS/GB, Kevin Brownlow's film It Happened Here). Other variants are the Communist Britains of Constantine FitzGibbon's When the Kissing Had to Stop and Kingsley Amis's Russian Hide and Seek, the fascist future of Robert Muller's After All, This is England (an underrated novel from a writer whose TV series Supernatural was also an influence on the Anno Dracula world) and the American-occupied England of my friend Paul McAuley's story 'The King Under the Hill'. In a footnote to my section on these stories, I described Dracula's campaign of conquest in Stoker's 1897 novel as 'a one-man invasion'.
I'm not sure when all the connections were made, but at some point in the early '80s it occurred to me that there might be story potential in an alternative outcome to the novel in which Dracula defeats his enemies and fulfils his stated intention to conquer Britain. It still seems to me something of a disappointment that Stoker's villain, after all his meticulous planning and with five hundred years of scheming monstrousness under his cloak, has no sooner arrived in Britain than he trips up and sows the seeds of his eventual undoing by an unlikely pursuit of the wife of a provincial solicitor.
Van Helsing describes Dracula's project in Britain as to become 'the father or furthurer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead through Death, not Life'. Yet Stoker allegorises Dracula's assault on Britain entirely as an attack on the Victorian family, an emblem of all the things he prized and saw as fragile. It struck me as an interesting avenue to explore the kind of England, the kind of world, which would result if Van Helsing and his family of fearless vampire killers were defeated and Dracula was allowed to 'father and further' his new order.
I remember discussing this idea with Neil Gaiman and Faith Brooker (then an editor at Arrow) around 1984, when Neil and I were compiling a book called Ghastly Beyond Belief for Faith and trying to come up with novel ideas we could sell her (I also remember gruesome horror novel pitches called The Creeps and The Set). Among many projects we talked about but never did much with was the idea of a trilogy on my 'Dracula Wins' theme, which would have concentrated on the workings of a vampire government from the 1880s to the First World War (Neil was keen on writing the trenches scenes). Nothing was ever written down, but the vision then was of a story that concentrated on high places: it was to have been set in the corridors of power, with Dracula as a major character, and the plot would be what eventually became the backstory of the novels, the workings of vampire politics, following Dracula's rise to power and the efforts of British revolutionary groups and foreign powers to oust him from the throne.
The idea lay about in my head gathering dust and the odd character (Charles Beauregard, for instance, came from a fragment called 'Beauregard in the Fog' I wrote at university: he was intended as a dashing if troubled Victorian hero along the lines of Rudolph Rassendyll in The Prisoner of Zenda or Gerald Harper in the old TV series Adam Adamant Lives!), until 1991 when Stephen Jones asked me to write something for an anthology project he was working on, The Mammoth Book of Vampires. I felt a mammoth book of vampires should have some showing from the king of the undead, so Steve's request prompted me finally to set down the parameters for Anno Dracula.
The result was 'Red Reign', which first appeared in Steve's book (published by Robinson in the UK and Carroll & Graf in the US) and is the bare skeleton of Anno Dracula. For Steve's later The Mammoth Book of Dracula, I wrote 'Coppola's Dracula', which will appear as part of the fourth book in the series, Johnny Alucard.
Meanwhile I'd already been drawn to vampires in my work under the name of Jack Yeovil for GW Books' tie-ins to their Warhammer fantasy universe. As Jack, I developed not only a system of vampirism that, crossbred with Bram Stoker's, survives in the Anno Dracula novels, but also the creature who became their most popular character. For the record, the Genevieve of the Jack Yeovil novels and stories is not the same character as the Geneviève of Anno Dracula, but she is her trans-continual cousin. That Genevieve (who lacks an accent because the primitive word-processing software of the day tended to throw up type-setting glitches which made them inadvisable) was introduced in Drachenfels and has her own complicated biography.
For me, book ideas are like coral reefs, built up as bits and pieces stick together over years. With Anno Dracula, I had the background and the two lead characters, plus the notion (inspired by Philip José Farmer) of a large cast list which would include not only real Victorians (Oscar Wilde, Gilbert and Sullivan, Swinburne) but famous characters from the fiction of the period (Raffles, various Holmesian hangers-on, Dr Moreau, Dr Jekyll).
In The Night Mayor, my first novel, I had explored the idea of a consensus genre world, whereby all the faces and figures from 1940s films noirs hung out in the same city; it was an obvious step to make the London of Anno Dracula a similar site, where the criss-crossing stories of all the great late Victorian horror, crime and social melodramas were being played out at the same time (yes, it all goes back to the likes of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man). This adds to a certain spot-the-reference feel some readers have found annoying but which others really enjoy: I admit to getting a tiny thrill when I can borrow a character from E.M. Forster or resurrect someone as forgotten as Dr Nikola. This also allows me to make the novel as much a playground as a minefield, and go beyond historical accuracy to evoke all those gaslit, fogbound London romances.
One of the things my plot needed was a plethora of vampires, since Dracula would have turned a great many Britishers into his get, starting with a couple of Stoker's characters (Arthur Holmwood, Mina Harker) and extending to a lot of real people from Queen Victoria to a horde of walk-on prostitutes and policemen. I decided that if Dracula were to replace Prince Albert as Victoria's consort, then all the other vampires of literature would come out of hiding and flock to his court in the hope of advancement.
After Dracula, the best-known vampire in literature was Dr Polidori's Lord Ruthven (this was before Twilight, True Blood, Buffy and other franchises which will have to take their lumps in later books), so he came forward to take the job of Dracula's Prime Minister and stick around for the rest of the series (in The Bloody Red Baron, the second Anno Dracula novel, I see Ruthven as John Major to the Count's Margaret Thatcher).
For my other major vampire characters, I drew on less-known names, borrowing from Alexander Dumas (in The Pale-Faced Lady), Eric, Count Stenbock (in 'The True Story of a Vampire', which I found in James Dickie's anthology The Undead), George A. Romero (in Martin) and the ever-dependable Anonymous (in 'The Mysterious Stranger') for the worthies Kostaki, Vardalek, Martin Cuda and von Klatka. I decided to let LeFanu's Carmilla stay dead, but at least gave her a mention, and thought it obligatory to have some fun at the expense of the real-life Elizabeth Bathory (my version owes more to Delphine Seyrig in Le Rouge aux levres than history) and Anne Rice's fashion-plate bloodsuckers.
I enjoyed cramming in as many previous vampires as possible, to the extent of writing a speech which finds Ruthven nastily listing all his peers and being rude about them. In follow-up novels, I have enjoyed working a little more with Les Daniels' Don Sebastian de Villanueva and Barbara Steele's Princess Asa Vajda, though I'm wary of doing too much with other people's characters when their original creators might not yet be finished with them.
The final element which dropped into place was the actual plot. I needed a spine for the story, which would enable me to explore the world I had created and wanted something which would take the readers on a tour of my London that would include the slums and the palaces. The story of Jack the Ripper would have been hard to keep out of Anno Dracula, but the idea that the unknown serial killer was a vampire (a theme Robert Bloch made his own in 'Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper' and which has been rehashed several times since) not only struck me as old hat but also not quite right for a story in which vampires were out in the open rather than cowering in the fog.
So, with the world turned upside-down, Jack the Ripper should be a vampire-killer; Stoker had obligingly called one of Van Helsing's disciples Jack, made him a doctor and indicated that his experiences in the novel were pretty much pushing him over the edge. Therefore, Stoker's Dr Seward became my Jack the Ripper, driven mad by the staking of Lucy Westenra, with whom he was in love, and stalking vampire whores in Whitechapel. To make his situation more complex, I made Mary Kelly, the Ripper's last victim, the get of the vampire Lucy and also her near-lookalike.
The Ripper story is nowadays almost as big a favourite with the conspiracy theorists as the Kennedy assassination, and so it became quite natural to depict the effects of a series of sex crimes on a volatile society. With a killer on the loose, my other characters had all sorts of reasons - self-serving or noble - to find out who he was, to hinder or help his crimes or to make propagandist use of him. I was trying, without being too solemn, to mix things I felt about the 1980s, when the British Government made 'Victorian Values' a slogan, with the real and imagined 1880s, when blood was flowing in the fog and there was widespread social unrest. The Ripper murders also gave the novel a structure: the real dates of the killings - I couldn't resist adding the Ripper's most famous fictional victim, Wedekind's Lulu, to his historical list - became pegs for the plot, and other actual events like a Bernard Shaw speech, the bogus letters from the Ripper to the press or an inquest also fit into the fantasy.
The Ripper theme imposed a specific date on the action, the Autumn of 1888. It is often assumed that the events of the Stoker novel take place in 1893 (the dates he gives fit that year), however there is a chink in the argument. Published in 1897, Dracula ends with a present-day chapter locating the bulk of the story seven years in the past; it is implied that the book itself is part of the story, a non-fiction compilation memoir compiled by Mina Harker at the behest of Van Helsing and presumably agented for publication by Bram Stoker the way Holmesians assume Arthur Conan Doyle agented Dr Watson's memoirs. Numerous small details - like the use of the phrase 'new woman', coined in 1892, or even the comparative sophistication of Dr Seward's phonograph - jar with the notion that the book takes place before 1890, however. If Stoker had wanted to specify a year, he undoubtedly would have – it was not yet a convention to pin fictions down to a calendar date, even in the 19th Century equivalent of a techno-thriller. I plumped - as did Jimmy Sangster, Terence Fisher and Hammer Films for their 1958 Dracula (Horror of Dracula to heathen Americans) - for an 1885 setting for the main action of Dracula, and opted to shift on to an alternate timetrack half-way through Stoker's Chapter 21 (on page 249 of Leonard Wolf's annotated edition). Stoker's Dracula is already an alternate world story, set in a timeline where social and mechanical progress advanced slightly faster than in our own, and where certain givens of London geography are altered (his London boasts a Kingstead Cemetery in the region of Hampstead Heath, presumably corresponding to our own Highgate Cemetery). In reworking history, I took as a starting point Stoker's imagined world rather than our own, even to the extent of finally presenting to the public Kate Reed, a character conceived by Stoker for Dracula but omitted from the novel (and who has become more important in the sequels). There are a few other anachronisms (some deliberate) because I wanted to overlay the actual 1980s on the imaginary 1880s.
And now, twenty years on, it's taken on a life of its own.
Corvus-Corax
There is a scene in the book where Lord Ruthven does a role call of all the vampire worthies of ANNO DRACULA's UK, and he mentions an American named Collins, and later there is mention of a vampire getting mad about his waist coat getting ripped, his name was Lioncourt. Yes, Lestat and Barnabas Collins are in the book, and Snoopy is in THE BLOODY RED BARON.


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Q: Fourier series of a function with boundary conditions Let's consider any parametrizable curve $g : R \rightarrow C$
For that I thought of creating Fourier series
$g(t)=\sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} c_ne^{int}$ which can possibly cover any curve on $C$ plane.
For the sake of optimization problem I have a differentiable loss function
$F: C^m \rightarrow R$
$F(c_{-n},...,c_{-1}, c_{0}, c_{1}, ..., c_{n})$
It takes the parameters of $g$ and returns some real value.
I would like to adjust $c_{n}$ with gradient descent to find the optimal path $g$ (reach the minimum of $F$).
The problem starts when the boundary conditions come in.
A curve must start at $g(0) = z_0$ and end on $g(t_0) = z_1$.
Can the Fourier series represent any curve starting meeting these conditions? If that's the case, how?
What are the other approaches to this problem not necessarily using Fourier series?

A: One solution is create a polynomial instead of Fourier series as @TravorLZH stated.
$W(t) = F(t) + P(t)$
$F$ would regulate the conditions $W(0) = z_0, W(t_0) = z_1$
and $P$ would be the one to optimize on, but it has to keep the requirement
$t \epsilon \{0, t_0\} \rightarrow P(t) = 0 $
To solve this, first I'll start with $f$.
It can be a simple linear function such that:
$F(t) = ax+b
F(0) = z_0$ thus $b = z_0$ and
$F(t_0) = z_1$ thus $a = \frac{z_1 - z_0}{z1}$
Then when it comes to $P(t)$, I divided it into
$P(t) = (t)(t-t_0)P_1(t)$
I'd create a random polynomial $P_t(t) = c_0*t^0 + c_1*t^1+ ... + c_n*t^n$, on which I can optimize the problem by manipulating $c_0, c_1, ..., c_n$
Note that by adjusting these coefficients we can preserve the boundary conditions.
The final polynomial is the
$W(t)=F(t)+P(t) = (\frac{z_1 - z_0}{z1}t^2 +z_0t) + (t)(t-t_0)(c_0*t^0 + c_1*t^1+ ... + c_n*t^n)$.

A: Theorem: Let $f : [0,2\pi]\rightarrow\mathbb{C}$ be a function of bounded variation. Then the Fourier series for $f$ converges pointwise everywhere to the mean of the left- and right-hand limits of $f$ for all $0 < t < 2\pi$, and converges  to $\frac{1}{2}(f(0^+)+f(2\pi^-))$ at $0,2\pi$. (These limits exist for such an $f$.) Furthermore, the convergence is uniform on any interval $[a,b]$ where $f$ is continuous at every point of the interval, including $a,b$.

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Melbourne Rebels Super W Co-Captain Meretiana Robinson says the women's side will be out to finish their season on a positive note against the NSW Waratahs Women's side on Sunday.
In what will be the Melburnians' final match of the season, the Rebels will come up against a Waratahs side who will be looking to claim top spot and secure a direct entry into the Super W Grand Final.
While the task against NSW may seem intimidating, Robinson is adamant that the team will be out to make sure their final game of 2019 is a strong reflection of what Melbourne's Super W side stands for.
"We want to prove to ourselves that we actually can go out there and play rugby," Robinson said.
"For this season, it's important for us to finish strong and it'll go with something we have in our team which is inspire today, inspire tomorrow and legacy forever.
The Rebels are coming off a bye, which came after the side's much improved performance against the Rugby WA Women's side in Round 3.
While the bye may have stifled the momentum gained in that match, Robinson says the week off has allowed the team to continually work on facets of their game which need improving.
"I think the bye works in both ways," she said.
"There are still things that need to come together, but the general sense was our defensive game was a lot more solid and I guess it would have been good to have a game the following week to keep up that momentum.
The Melburnians' defensive game will need to be strong against a NSW side which remains undefeated in 2019.
However, rather than overanalysing the Waratahs' strength and weaknesses, Robinson says the focus for Melbourne has been to concentrate on their own game.
"I don't think it's about putting them on a pedestal and analysing them too much," she said.


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When people lose hope they die, Ann Beaglehole
Posted on December 1, 1992 by NZ Books
By the Moon and the Stars
Eva Hayman,
Random Century, $24.95
Krystyna's Story
Halina Ogonowska-Coates,
Bridget Williams Books, $29.95
When there is nothing left, what stops people huddling in a corner, not doing the things necessary for survival? Where does the courage to survive unbearable losses come from? How would you react if, like the 15- year-old girl in Eva Hayman's By the Moon and the Stars, you had to leave your family and go with your little sister to a strange country, never to see your parents again? How would you have behaved if, like the eight-year-old girl in Halina Ogonowska-Coates' Krystyna's Story, you lost your home, your father, then your sister, your niece, your brother, your aunt and finally your mother died in your arms?
I began these books about the experiences of two former refugees – the first Czech-Jewish, the second Polish-Catholic – both of whom later settled in New Zealand, with considerable trepidation. My anxieties were well-founded, for reading them aroused such strong feelings that I had to force myself to put the books down at times to distance myself from the grief and the pain. My background is Hungarian-Jewish (members of my family were killed by the Nazis during the Second World War) and I was brought up with accounts of Jewish suffering in the Holocaust. I also grew up with stories of Polish indifference to the fate of Jews and sometimes of their complicity in that fate. But suffering has no ethnic label. There is no 'Jewish' suffering or 'Polish' suffering, only suffering.
While thinking about By the Moon and the Stars and Krystyna's Story, I began to read Margaret Drabble's latest novel, The Gates of Ivory, which is in part about the calamities that have taken place in Cambodia in recent years. 'Genocide and the Numbers Game' is a preoccupation of one of the protagonists in that book, the writer Stephen Cox. Of 20th century deaths, Stephen records this:
Some 20 million in labour camps in the Soviet Union, 2 million in Vietnam and between 1 and 3 million in Cambodia. In China, during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution it is estimated that between 20 and 80 million died …
Between 20 and 80 million? I mean are you serious? Do you call this language? What kind of history, what kind of mathematics is this, what has happened to those spare tens of millions? Unnumbered, unburied, will they haunt the earth forever … do they not jostle us, do they not stifle us, are we not kept awake at nights by their squeaks and gibbering batlike cries?
The answer to Drabble's question is 'probably not, bombarded daily as we are by massacre, rape, starvation, genocide on a grand scale. If we are disturbed by suffering at all, it is stories of individual anguish that still have the power to move us. It is the exceptional merit of Eva Hayman and Halina Ogonowska-Coates that they do this simply, effectively and without overstatement.
In By the Moon and the Stars, Hayman tells her own story and that of her family, based on diaries and letters she wrote and received after she fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for England in 1939. In Krystyna's Story Ogonowska-Coates, who is the daughter of one of the Polish children who was deported to the Soviet Union and found refuge in New Zealand in 1944, writes composite biography based in part on her mother's story and in part on her interviews with other Polish refugees.
Both books begin with an idealised, rather sentimental picture of happy childhood surrounded by loving family, rooted in a beloved native land. For both Eva and Krystyna exile, the loss of loved ones and the need to adjust to strangers and to a new country follow. Krystyna experiences deportation and starvation herself, and she is there to witness her family's suffering and to see them die one by one. Prominent in the book are details about food – its abundance in Poland before the family's deportation and later also in New Zealand – in contrast with its scarcity or non-existence during transportation and in the Soviet Union. Eva's burden is to be safe, yet helpless; to be compelled to follow from a distance, with guilt and with anguish, the fate of her doomed family left behind in Czechoslovakia. Her parents and other relatives are deported and eventually die in concentration camps.
It is hope that keeps people going during extreme hardship. When people lose hope they die. Later, when they are safe, in order to get on with the business of living, the painful memories have to be buried. As Ogonowska-Coates writes: to survive people have to 'close off the places in their mind where there is sadness and hunger, screaming and crying'. Or, as Hayman puts it: ways have to be found through work and study to 'ease the heaviness' and efforts have to be made to prevent the past 'overpowering the present'.
Eva and Krystyna, as indeed refugees whatever their background and particular circumstances, have much in common – having to survive overwhelming losses, having to be forever grateful to the kind and not so kind strangers who help them – but there are also crucial differences in the experiences. One striking one is this. Both girls have a strong love for their native land. When the war is over, Polishness remains a comfort for Krystyna and basic to her sense of self. Being Polish is complicated only by the need to integrate that identity with also being a New Zealander. At no stage does Krystyna face the rejection of her fellow Poles. Eva's patriotism, her feeling that Czech people are
her people, is just as strong as Krystyna's Polishness. Her Jewish background has always seemed to Eva to be far less important than her Czech identity. Yet Eva's feeling of belonging to the Czech nation is seriously undermined when she returns to Czechoslovakia at the end of the war. She finds that 'she belongs and yet she does not belong'. Anti-Semitism 'hangs in the air'. One day, she hears a neighbour shout: 'It is a pity that all the Jews did not perish in concentration camps'.
By the Moon and the Stars and Krystyna's Story must have been painful books to write. They are indeed harrowing to read. Perhaps such books enlarge our understanding of the response of ordinary people to the brutality of war and to the horror of persecution. Perhaps they tell us something that we did not know before about cruelty, courage, resistance. But even if they do not, while such anguish and suffering exist, the least we lucky ones can do is read what the survivors have to say with attention and without squeamishness.
Ann Beaglehole is Claude McCarthy Fellow at the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University. Her first two books were about Jewish refugees in New Zealand, and she is currently writing an account of Jews in this country.
Tagged with: Ann Beaglehole, Bridget Williams Books, Eva Hayman, Halina Ogonowska-Coates, Issue 7, Random Century, Summer 1992


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Her Sun and Moon, Her Stars and Her Dreams
by hollandrae | Apr 9, 2018 | Art, Beauty, Heroines, Musings, Women | 0 comments
I tried to pick just one Juliet Marillier quote, I really did.
But as I scanned pages of her quotes, from books I've read and reread, stories that have stayed with me through the easy times and the hard, I found the task impossible.
How could I narrow down a writer that has so fundamentally changed my life? How can I pick just a handful of words from stories unfolding through my own years, witness to my own heartbreaks and victories, my own difficult journeys mirrored upon her pages, my own coming of age, coming of life?
From the wilds of the Faroe Islands to the rolling countrysides of Ancient Erin, Juliet's tales have taken the fantastical and made it human, taken the human and made it fantastical.
But throughout her many tales, and she truly is a prolific, wild storyteller, certain themes rise to the fore time and again:
"We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone." (Seer of Sevenwaters)
We are the heroes of our own stories.
"Our family has survived a long time. We've weathered battles and transformations, enchantments and floods and fires. We've endured being sent away, and we've coped with evildoers in our midst. If I were telling a story of Sevenwaters – and it would be a grand epic told over all the nights of a long winter – I would surely end it with a triumph. (Flame of Sevenwaters)
Family first.
"He and I…we share a bond. Not love, exactly. It goes beyond that. He is mine as surely as sun follows moon across the sky. Mine before ever I knew he existed. Mine until death and beyond." (Son of Shadows)
"It seemed to me it would be better to die standing up to a tyrant than to survive as a tool of his will." (Shadowfell)
Strength can come in many forms.
Juliet's stories, for my mother, another lifelong convert, and I have long referred to her as Juliet, a friend, a witness to life's lessons and foibles and successes, tells historical, folklore stories. But she also tells the stories of life, of falling in love, of sacrifice and the heartbreak we endure by opening ourselves to our families and our lovers. She speaks of good and evil, and the shades of grey that may turn an antagonist into a protagonist and hero into a villain.
Her stories may revolve around ancient tales, British, Irish, Norse, but that is because these stories, of first loves and last, of a mother's love for her child, of a heartbroken, but still beating, these are forever stories. These are anywhere stories.
Through all her words and all her pages, and I have laughed and cried on each of the many, many books she has written in my library (she shares a shelf with J.K. Rowling, another heroine in writing and in life), I have learned. I have learned about the strength of family and the strength of self. I have understood that heroes might wield swords or knitting needles, I have been taught that we do not know our own power until those we love are threatened.
Though I read my first Juliet tale on a plane from Boston to Amsterdam in the dead of winter over half a decade ago – I cried, if you were curious – I will continue to be changed, to be better, because of her words, and the messages she has shared with me. I hope we are all so lucky, readers and writers alike, to find a Juliet on our bookshelves.
"I saw that in him she had found her sun and moon, her stars and her dreams." ♦


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When you think you've covered all your bases, something new comes along. This time, it's invisible! New intelligence suggests that space aliens with invisibility cloaks have been going through our checkpoints for years. We know they've been observing flight operations at some of our busiest airports, but we had no idea they were coming in.
It's not entirely clear what their intentions are, but they need to be screened just like anybody else. We don't mind space aliens visiting our airports. In fact we think it's kind of cool. However, they need to go through security just like everybody else. They can't just continue to stroll through security, especially if they have their shoes on or if they're carrying liquids. Or even liquefying weapons... We can't get into all the details of how we know these aliens are transiting the checkpoint, but one thing we noticed is an uptick in suggestions that Goloxtinizer be added to our "Can I Bring"tool. Who knew... Even space aliens use our app.
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Q: Using Keras StandardScaler with Groupby function in Pandas I have a pandas data frame with multiple columns. I need to use groupby function on each column and after use Keras StandardScaler function to transform each column in the dataframe. I tried the following code:
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
scaler=StandardScaler()
df2= df.groupby('Sector').apply(lambda x: scaler.fit_transform(x.astype(float)))

but it returns lists of data by group, however, I need to preserve the initial structure of the dataframe.
I specifically need to use StandardScaler because afterwards I want to use it to transform testing features.
Is there a way to use StandardScaler in this case?

A: I don't understand why you are using group by.
To get a copy of data
scaled_features = data.copy()

To scale only a few columns
features = scaled_features[['column1','column2']]
scaler = StandardScaler().fit(features.values)
features = scaler.transform(features.values)

To transform columns also you can do it in your way. Or also using a query you can get only these data where the value matches your query.
df_c = df['column'].apply(lambda x: scaler.fit_transform(x.astype(float)))
df_cc = df[df['column'] == '...'].apply((lambda x: scaler.fit_transform(x.astype(float)))

Another way is to use ColumnTransformer
from sklearn.compose import ColumnTransformer
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler

ct = ColumnTransformer([
        ('name', StandardScaler(), ['column1', 'column2'])
    ], remainder='passthrough')

ct.fit_transform(features)

A: I think there is no such option in the StandardScaler library but following pandas commands can be of help.
# Normalize around mean
df['normal'] = df.groupby('Group').transform(lambda x: (x - x.mean()/ x.std()))
# Normalize between 0 and 1
df['normal'] = df.groupby('Group').transform(lambda x: ((x - x.min())/ (x.max() - x.min())))

Regarding testing data, I think you should do the normalization before and then split it into train and test.


The bill of law to transform the current Sales Tax into a value-added tax was approved by the Treasury Commission of Congress on April 10, 2018, and transferred to the Plenary for a continuation of the legislative process. If enacted, the value-added tax would apply to all services. In addition, the bill contains important changes in the Income Tax Law, such as a tax on capital gains.
This schedule is in force from May 1, 2018.
The Registry of Shareholders was established by the Law to Improve the Fight against Tax Fraud. However, the law lacked the proper regulations regarding transparency and disclosure of the final beneficiaries of legal entities and other legal structures based in Costa Rica, managers of third-party assets in favor of its clients, non-profit organizations, and private trusts that would enable the Tax Authorities to access the information related to all the shareholders, as well as final or effective beneficiaries.
Among other things, the new Regulations establish that the requisite information should be supplied annually in accordance with the date to be defined by the Tax Authorities and the Costa Rican Drug Institute and in the format defined by the Central Bank of Costa Rica.
Information on who has the right to appoint or dismiss most of the administrative, management, or supervisory bodies.
Information on who controls the entity according to the bylaws.
This new resolution modifies article 2 and repeals article 13 of Resolution DGT-R-08-2018 of February 7, 2018. According to these changes the legal representatives of legal entities and guardians of minors and invalids must complete the form that the Tax Authorities have prepared for this purpose, as well as provide the legal status where applicable, within 10 working days from the date that the legal representative is changed in the Public Registry.
When the average of taxes paid for the last three fiscal periods is equal to or exceeds ₡450,000,000.00.
When the average gross income declared in the last three fiscal periods is equal to or exceeds ₡40,000,000,000.00.
When the average of total declared assets in the last three fiscal periods is equal to or exceeds ₡50,000,000,000.00.
When the taxpayer is subject to SUGEF, SUGEVAL, SUPEN, SUGESES or SUTEL regulations.
When the average of taxes paid for the last three fiscal periods is equal to or exceeds ₡120,000,000.00.
When the average gross income declared in the last three fiscal periods is equal to or exceeds ₡20,000,000,000.00.
When the average of total declared assets in the last three fiscal periods is equal to or exceeds ₡25,000,000,000.00.
Interested parties must be notified of their classification by means of a reasoned decision taking effect from the first month following their notification, such classification to be maintained for at least 2 fiscal periods.


Pele To Sign For The Hibs?
I had to chuckle when I read that Hibs are interested in signing a player called Steve Pele, who currently plays for French club Grenoble.
What a perfect name for a Hibs player. 'Leith's Finest"s brand of football has always been in the true spirit of the beautiful game and let's face it, the great Brazilian sides of the past clearly modelled their style upon the men from Easter Road. Or so their fans would have us believe anyway!
Pele is apparently one of several French players being looked at by Hibs manager John Collins, who of course will have good knowledge of the game over there after his distinguished spell with Monaco as a player. No doubt he'll be able to find some decent talent out there and he'll probably significantly strengthen the Hibs team in the summer. Hopefully he does, because a stronger Hibs does make for a better Scottish league in my opinion.
Signing a guy called Pele could also be an excellent marketing opportunity, too. Just imagine how many Hibs tops with his name on the back could potentially be sold. I'm sure they'd exploit that to the max.
So, Hibs used to have a player called Brazil and now they could be on the verge of signing Pele. Pah…..give me Zico instead any day of the week……..!


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Home > News > Governments of Angola, Timor-Leste and Sao Tome Discuss Chinese Investments
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Governments of Angola, Timor-Leste and Sao Tome Discuss Chinese Investments
The governments of Angola, Timor-Leste and São Tomé and Príncipe will be represented at a forum in Macau to discuss Chinese investments.
The governments of Angola, Timor-Leste and Sao Tome and Principe will be represented at a forum in Macau to discuss Chinese investments on May 30 and 31, the organization announced Monday at a press conference.
The Secretaries of State for Water and Transport, Lucrecio da Costa and Guido Waldemar da Silva Cristóvão, respectively, the Minister of Public Works, Infrastructures, Natural Resources and Environment of São Tomé and Príncipe, Osvaldo Abreu, the deputy minister of Public Works of Timor-Leste, Nicolau Belo, and the member of the State Council of that country, José Ramos-Horta, are present at the 10th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Forum (IIICF).
Chinese Company Interested in Air Links Between Dili and Several Cities
This year's edition of the forum will feature more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, academics and politicians, including more than 50 governors from 40 countries and regions, in an event whose budget is estimated at 39 million patacas (4.3 million euros ) and is promoted under the guidance of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China and the Government of Macao.
The IIICF includes 36 parallel forums, exhibitions, project promotion seminars and contact exchanges, among other commercial negotiation activities, to operationalize the cooperation between the countries involved in the strategy adopted by the Chinese government "One Track, One Route", which aims to the development of infrastructures and investments in European, Asian and African countries.
At the press conference, the executive director of the Macao Institute for Trade and Investment Promotion Sam Lei highlighted the holding of the 5th Conference of Central Bank Governors and Financial will have as its theme "Maximizing the Role of Finance to Encourage Practical Cooperation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries."
Real Mermaids Found in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste was "Betrayed" by "a Friendly Country" for Economic Interests, According to Xanana Gusmão
Remittances of Immigrants in Timor-Leste Were Higher Than Those of Emigrants
Fire Destroys Market in Timorese Town of Manatuto (with video)
World Bank Forecasts Growth of 3.9% in Timorese Economy in 2019


Firecracker and I were driving around town a few days ago, when we had an interesting conversation. Firecracker was asking why we don't have a TV...or rather why we don't have a TV that you can watch TV on. We do own a tiny old TV...but no converter box. We don't subscribe to any kind of cable, so it is only good for watching our very limited supply of VHS movies.
Firecracker was trying to sell me on the idea that there are lots of education shows. She said, "But Mom! Super Why teaches you to read!" to which I responded, "Yes, but 'Super Why' doesn't teach you to read nearly as well as picking up a book and reading does."
There are a few things I've discovered about my kids...they love to pick up and look at books. Firecracker is good enough at reading now, that she can pick up many books and actually read them to herself. But as much as she likes books, she would pretty much never choose reading over watching TV if she was given the choice. TV is easier...you don't have to do any work, and it's more vibrant and faster paced. We just don't often give our kids the choice most of the time.
Back when Hubby was a full-time student, we had free cable that came with our apartment. We'd go through cycles...I'd let Firecracker watch a show or two each morning...you know the "good, educational" ones. She'd want to watch "just one more," and we'd end up with a lot of whining when it was time for the TV to go off and then whining and begging throughout the day for it to go back on. She'd be bored and the only thing she could think of to do was to watch TV. When we'd had enough of this, the TV would "break." She was too young to realize it had come unplugged from the wall. Guess what happened...after a day or so of her trying to turn on the TV and it not responding, the whining stopped and she was able to think of things to do again. Then the TV would stay off for a few weeks until in a moment of weakness I would plug it back in to entertain her while I got something done, and the cycle would start all over again.
I'm certainly not saying that TV is "bad" or this is the answer for everyone. And don't get me wrong...there are definitely days when I plop my kids down in front of a video so I can get something done or as a reward. I'm just offering it up as food for thought...life is possible without a TV, and it might not be as boring as you and your kids think.
I'm sure Firecracker would still be doing fine in school if we had a TV that "worked," but I highly doubt her reading would be as developed as it is right now. I also know that we have a lot more peace in our home without a lot of bickering and begging to watch more than the allotted amount of TV.
Are we the only ones who tell the cable salespeople who call that we're not interested in their "amazing deal" and wouldn't be, even if it were free?
My parents didn't buy a TV when I was a kid. My grandparents bought one when I was 13, but by then I wasn't that interested. I used to visit my aunt next door and watch The Mouseketeers Disney program once a week. Reading and playing outside was what occupied my time. In the summer I'd bring a few neighborhood kids with me to the library, which was nearly 3 miles away and we had to walk!
Reading this reminded me of something that happened a few weeks ago in our home. We were telling a visitor that our children watch very little television and that we didn't even think it had been turned on in two or three months. She looked incredulous and asked, "What do your kids DO?"
I'm also very familiar with that cycle of more more more tv. our solution is to give our 3 yo 3 shows a day which are represented by corks set up on the mantle.he knows when the corks are gone he needs to find something else to do. Right now it equals about 45 min our less just bc of theshows he chooses, but I'm not sure what we'll do if he starts picking longer shows.


Former MLW World Heavyweight Champion Shane Strickland said goodbye to DEFY Wrestling on Friday night at an event when he told the fans in attendance that it would be his final appearance for the promotion. He added that he's moving on to bigger and better things, according to PWInsider.
He's giving a speech that this was his last match at Defy.
Back in January, he announced on his Twitter account that he's now a free agent after being able to fulfill the rest of his Lucha Underground deal after season four.
There have been rumors that he could be headed to the WWE as the company has an interest in signing him. Strickland is also a former EVOLVE Champion and it's no secret that WWE and EVOLVE have a working relationship.
Strickland will be working the next two EVOLVE shows. EVOLVE Tag Team Champions The Street Profits vs. two members of The Unwanted (Eddie Kingston, Joe Gacy, Colby Corino & Strickland) will take place at EVOLVE 123 on March 15th at the Melrose Memorial Hall in Melrose, Mass.
At EVOLVE 124, Strickland, Kingston & Gacy will take on Dream & The Street Profits the following night at the La Boom in Queens, N.Y.


When a person is killed as the result of a car or truck accident caused by another person's negligence, the family of the victim has the right to seek compensation for their loss through civil litigation. The Norfolk Wrongful Death Attorneys with the law firm of Lowell "The Hammer" Stanley explain such a case was recently settled outside of a Virginia courtroom.
According to an article from the Claims Journal, a 27-year-old Newport News, Virginia, woman was killed June 14, 2012, along Interstate 664 in the city of Chesapeake. Reports indicate the victim's vehicle had broken down along the highway. The driver of a tractor trailer didn't see the broken down vehicle and plowed into its rear, killing the woman inside.
The victim's family later filed suit against both the driver responsible for the crash and the company who hired him. The family claimed the company and driver's negligence was directly responsible for their loss. In order to avoid a costly court battle, an agreement was reached between the three parties that the family of the victim would be paid a sum of $3 million in order to lay the matter to rest.
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N.J. Legislature passes $7.7B stopgap budget to cover next three months
Updated Jun 29, 2020; Posted Jun 29, 2020
The state Senate holds its first in-person voting session since March.Phil McAuliffe For The Times Of Trenton
By Samantha Marcus | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The Legislature on Monday sent the governor a $7.7 billion spending plan to fund state government for three months while they assess COVID-19′s economic impact and chart a new course.
The supplemental appropriations bill has the effect of extending the state's fiscal year through Sept. 30, a rare step taken by Gov. Phil Murphy and lawmakers during the pandemic as the unemployment ranks swelled and taxes revenues sharply dropped.
The bill heads to Murphy's desk. It largely follows his administration's recommendations, forgoing funding for any new initiatives and flat funding k-12 schools.
In keeping with the governor's proposal for interim spending, the state would postpone making several big-ticket payments until the Oct. 1 budget, including a $951 million quarterly pension contribution, $467 million in public school aid, $355 million in municipal aid and $114 million in NJ Transit operating assistance.
The Legislature's spending bill veers from the governor's plan in a few key ways, relying on higher and more up-to-date revenue estimates. Those higher projections allowed lawmakers to restore funding for county colleges and public four-year colleges, send $4 million to the Department of Labor to modernize the unemployment system, and sock away more money into a rainy day fund.
"We have developed a three-month budget plan under crisis conditions that requires hard decisions to get us through the next stage of an extremely difficult economic recovery," Sen. Paul Sarlo, D-Bergen, said in a statement after the vote. "This budget is not what we want to do, but it is something we have to do to keep government operating.
But Sarlo, chairman of the budget committee, reminded senators that the temporary budget is balanced without any new taxes or borrowing.
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Meanwhile, during an Assembly debate on the spending plan, Assemblyman Hal Wirths, R-Sussex, argued that no one should be congratulating themselves for going "three months without increasing taxes."
Republicans in the Senate and Assembly voting against the budget bill slammed the governor for disregarding the Legislature's cost-saving proposals, including a massive partial furlough program for state and local workers. "So after many of our suggestions have been ignored, we find ourselves boxed into a corner and expected to go along, or otherwise we're considered not to be cooperating," said Sen. Steven Oroho, R-Sussex.
The supplemental appropriations bill also authorizes Murphy to cut more than $1 billion in spending this year, including money for property tax relief, to close a projected $2.8 billion revenue shortfall. According to the bill, the Legislature's Joint Budget Oversight Committee will receive a list of potential "deappropriations" and will have five days to raise any objections.
Once the stopgap budget is enacted, Murphy and the Legislature will have until Oct. 1 to pass a new budget, with potentially billions of dollars in revenue losses. Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester, has said he expects the Legislature and administration to turn their attention quickly to the fall budget and work throughout the summer.
Murphy has called for billions in borrowing and is calling on the federal government to come through with more aid to help offset reduced tax collections.
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Open Air Cinema is arguably one of the best thing about this event. It's a good first watching movie experience for younger children who haven't been to movie theaters.
KidsFFest is a movie festival for kids and teens in Indonesia. Started back in 2009, the festival has been screening movies for the younger audience inside the Blitz Megaplex movie theatre as well as outside on the side foyer. For there older children, there are short film competition, dubbing workshop and many other activities. The three Paddle Pop movies screened this year is Pyrata, Kombatei and Elemagika. So we came and watched Paddle Pop. Other than that, there are many other kids movies from around the world such as: Kung Fu Kid (Japan) and The Magic Tree (Poland).
Paddle Pop Elemagika is the 6th installment of this Thai animation about young lion price that survived the massacre of his family, done by a creature called Shadow Master. He was saved by his owl tutor/mentor Professor Higganbottom. In this Elemagika episode, Paddle Pop has to defeat Shadow Master in completing the four ice cream elements and rule the world.
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WATCH: Weaves (Collective Arts Black Box Session)
Weaves performs "Birds & Bees" and "One More" from their debut LP live at Indie88 in the Collective Arts Black Box.
By dave kennedy Black Box Sessions, Live Performances, Music News, Sessions 08.06.2016
It's been only a couple years since Weaves started as voice memos on singer Jasmyn Burke's phone. Now their self-titled and highly anticipated debut album is set to come out on June 17. They've been described as "ebullient, art-damaged pop music, as difficult to categorize as it is to ignore", but you really have to watch them perform live to understand what they're about and why they've become so buzz-worthy over the past couple years.
Before jetting off to Europe for a summer tour they paid us a visit to share a couple songs from the record. Watch them perform "Birds & Bees" and "One More" live at Indie88 in the Collective Arts Black Box.
Artist: Weaves


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This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come… [Men] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof (2 Timothy 3:1, 5a).
Many pastors within Christianity today, I am sorry to have to say, are complicit in helping fulfill this prophecy on an hourly basis.
Again, to be clear, when I say "Christian pastors," I'm referring to genuine pastors: Bible-believing preachers who lift up Christ as the only way to salvation.
Some will say that Paul's "perilous times" warning of men who would display the end-times characteristic of "having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof" applies to the false teachers of Peter's prophecy, not to true preachers called by God to be shepherds of His flock. I agree that Paul's 2 Timothy prophecy applies to those interlopers who deny Jesus Christ as the only way to redemption.
However, the accusation against those who have a "form of godliness, but deny the power thereof" can apply as well to God's true shepherds. The condemnation is in some ways even more to the point than when leveled at the false preachers and teachers. It's my contention that Christian pastors today–and, sadly, I believe this includes the majority of them–deny the power of God when they deliberately cast aside prophecy given in the Bible that is for time yet future.
We have written in these commentaries, and many others have written and spoken on the fact that God's Word, the Bible, consists of at least 27 percent prophecy. Half of that prophecy has been fulfilled; half is yet to be fulfilled. Although it can be proven through study of the Scripture and by examining history that the Bible is always accurate in putting forth prophecy in past instances, pastors–preachers and teachers—consistently and persistently ignore preaching and teaching things to come.
By this willful disregard for presenting this vast body of scriptural truth, men of God–called and anointed by the Lord as guardians of His truth and shepherds of His flocks–deny the great power wrapped up in the astonishing reality that our God is the only One who knows the end from the beginning–and in excruciating detail, might I add.
For the most part, preachers of today seemingly avoid the prophetic Word at any cost. And, in God's holy economy, the cost must be astronomical. These shepherds of God's precious people are denying those people the assurance of the hope that He promises. Jesus Christ, their Lord and Savior, is the fruition of God's magnificent plan for their journey into forever. With the knowledge of Christ's return plainly given as imminent in God's love letter to mankind, the born again should be living victoriously, not with cringing fear or, even worse, in almost complete apathy.
The majority of those who aren't informed about what is going to happen next in this judgment-bound world, or who are totally unconcerned about things of God, are fed pabulum rather than meat for living life in the way the Lord intended. These are as often as not force fed the prosperity, name-it-and-claim-it false teaching that is anathema to truth from the Word of God. The only ones accumulating wealth are the preachers of such spirit-dulling poison.
To the pastors and teachers who do in fact teach doctrine and sound biblical principles, may the Lord bless you to the extent to which you remain faithful to break the Bread of Life in the way it should be fed to your flocks. But, if you don't include prophecy as an important and generous part of your messages–that Jesus is coming again, and might come at any moment–you are falling far short of deserving full commendation. You are denying the true power of God. You are exhibiting only a form of godliness.
Respectfully, please pay attention, you who are the truth-bearing pastors of our Holy God. These are the times to which all of Bible prophecy has pointed for millennia. These are perilous times. Signals are rampant that this generation is the generation that will almost certainly see the Lord's return in power and glory. Israel and the peace process, with all nations beginning to turn against that state, dear pastors, is the number-one signal that we are bumping up against the very end of this swiftly fleeting age. Christ's shout, "Come up hither," is imminent!
By Terry James in Prophecy Line on January 21, 2016 .
Your quote -These are the times to which all of Bible prophecy has pointed for millennia. These are perilous times. Signals are rampant that this generation is the generation that will almost certainly see the Lord's return in power and glory.
Neither 'hot nor cold' defines it best.
Keep the fire of God's word burning hot brother Terry. It surely cannot be much longer.


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Property investors lose 50pc in Qld mining towns
Mark LudlowQueensland bureau chief
Updated Mar 3, 2016 – 5.55pm, first published at Mar 2, 2016 – 5.13pm
When the coal price falls, Bella Exposito feels the pain. The owner of Moranbah Real Estate in central Queensland has sold only two houses in the past three months.
A few years ago mining towns in regional Australia were experiencing a Sydney-like house boom. Today, their real estate markets are in an epic collapse that would impress the investors portrayed in The Big Short.
At the peak of the mining boom, a fully renovated four-bedroom house in Moranbah sold for $820,000. In November that house went for $170,000.
Moranbah Real Estate owner Bella Exposito says investors have lost a bundle on houses in Central Queensland. Daryl Wright
This week Ms Exposito sold a house bought for $720,000 in 2012 for $130,000.
"We are in very bad shape here. We don't know what will happen. Everyone is being made redundant," she says. "Things have definitely got worse in the past year."
The median value of residential land in Moranbah has fallen by more than 40 per cent in the past year to $74,000, according to the latest land valuation figures released by the Queensland government.
Southern investors who flocked to the town at the height of the coal boom are now frantically looking to offload their properties, but the problem is no one is buying.
The rental market is also flat as thousands of workers from nearby mines have been let go as mines close down or substantially scale back their operations.
Ms Exposito, who is making a tilt at local council to make ends meet, also has houses for rent on her books in Moranbah, Dysart and in Mackay that have sat vacant for two to three years. Rents have plummeted from $2000 a week to $180 a week.
Land values in Moranbah have halved in the past year, according to the latest figures. Peter Braig
"I'm being realistic and the prices have come down a lot, but nothing is moving. There have been a lot of bankruptcies and it's the banks who are trying to sell the houses now," she said.
Investors take a bath
Investors who took a punt on the never-ending coal boom have taken a bath with land valuations falling by almost half in some central Queensland mining towns, according to the latest figures from Queensland's Valuer-General.
While the mining towns of Moranbah, Dysart and Clermont rode the property wave during the coal boom – with a four-bedroom house going for $1.25 million at the peak of boom – they have now fallen back to earth as 22,000 workers leave the industry.
Figures from CoreLogic RP Data in 2015 found the median value of a home in Moranbah, about 200 kilometres west of Mackay, had fallen 66 per cent in the past three years from $751,989 to $251,933.
Nebo, whose famous pub used to be full of mining workers before the price of coal fell through the floor, also took a hit, with a 30 per cent fall in land values to $56,000.
Other mining towns in the Bowen Basin also experienced a dramatic plunge in land values, including Coppabella (down 29.7 per cent), Dysart (down 30.2 per cent) and Middlemount (down 29.7 per cent).
In the Isaac Regional Council's area, which takes in a big chunk of the Bowen Basin west of Mackay, the median house price fell by an average of 26.6 per cent to $69,000.
Further north in Collinsville, a quintessential mining town where most of the jobs at Glencore's coal mine were slashed just before Christmas, land values have fallen by a staggering 54 per cent.
Accommodation demand dwindles
Queensland Valuer-General Neil Bray said the value of properties in mining towns had been hit hard in recent years which had hurt investors who flooded the market when the price of coal was soaring.
"Residential markets throughout the Isaac Regional Council have continued to decline with difficult operating conditions within the mining industry resulting in a substantial lowering of confidence, particularly amongst investors," Mr Bray said.
"There has been a marked decline in sales volumes as accommodation demand dwindles, which can be directly linked to job losses, mine closures and falling commodity prices."
"For the coal mining towns, such as Dysart, Middlemount, Moranbah, Clermont, Nebo and Glenden, reductions in value have been moderate to significant."
In Townsville – which is sweating on the future of Clive Palmer's Queensland Nickel – there was insufficient movement in the residential property market to even trigger a new land valuation, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Mines.
Mining services towns such as Mackay (down 6 per cent) and Gladstone (down 1.6 per cent) have also taken a hit in recent years.
Further north in Bowen, which was supposed to be the home of a massive expansion of Abbot Point coal terminal, residential land values have plunged almost 30 per cent in the past year.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's jobs taskforce met in Mackay on Wednesday to discuss way to create jobs to fill the vacuum left by the end of the mining boom.
The Queensland Resources Council has suggested a short-term reduction in royalties and fast-tracked approval times for mining projects in the Galilee Basin, but it's going to do little to bring workers back to struggling mining towns.
Mark Ludlow writes on politics, energy and infrastructure based in Brisbane. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mludlow@afr.com


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An F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 510th Fighter Squadron takes off from Aviano Air Base, Italy, on Aug. 2, 2020. F-16s from the 510th FS flew integrated training missions alongside the USS Porter in the Black Sea which were designed to train U.S. forces to operate while executing multi-domain operations. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Rebeccah Woodrow.
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USAF, Navy Link Up for Black Sea Training
Aug. 3, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
U.S. Air Force jets and Navy ships on Aug. 2 held a joint training exercise in the Black Sea near Russia's borders together for the second time in two weeks, aiming to fine-tune their collaboration in a potential conflict.
Four F-16s from the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base, Italy, refueled by KC-135s from the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall, England, flew with an MQ-9 Reaper from the 52nd Expeditionary Operations Group's Detachment 2 hosted at Miroslawiec Air Base, Poland.
The aircraft linked up with the Navy's USS Porter guided-missile destroyer and a P-8 Poseidon from Patrol Squadron VP-47. Video of the exercise showed F-16s flying low over the USS Porter.
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On Jan. 21 at 11 a.m. EST, the Air Force Association's Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies will host USAFA Superintendent Lt. Gen. Richard M. Clark on the next installment of its "Aerospace Nation" series. Clark will share his insights into how the Academy is preparing cadets to face today's global…
30 Years After Desert Storm: Jan. 12-18
In commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, Air Force Magazine will post a daily recollection from the six-week war, which expelled Iraq from occupied Kuwait. This first post includes several days of events. Most future posts will just include a single day.
Air Force Comptroller to Step in as Acting Secretary After Inauguration
Air Force comptroller John P. Roth will temporarily take over as acting Air Force secretary before President-elect Joseph R. Biden names his pick to run the department, among a slew of other fiscal officials who will oversee their respective services. Defense News reported the information Jan. 14. The Biden team…


Gather with friends for an evening of socializing and painting at Muse. Create a piece of art to take home under the direction of artist Liz Ellis. Enjoy a beverage or appetizer from Muse's special menu. $45, museum members receive a 10 percent discount. Fee includes instruction and materials; food and beverages extra. Questions? Call 929-9230 or email kkroon@anchoragemuseum.org.


Sealcon PG 16 Nickel Plated Brass cable glands are made to assist customers in many industries to attach cable or wire to various applications. Also known as a cord grip or strain relief fitting, it carries a NEMA 4x & 6 (IP 68 & 69K), 150 PSIG (10 bar) Liquid Tight Rating. The CF16CR-BR lets you increase or decrease the cable opening by switching out standard or reduced the inserts. The ACME thread on the flex top is self locking, ensuring that the overlapping splines create a concentric seal. This keeps the form seal from being pulled out of the fitting and provides pull out protection for your cable with no damage caused. Cable kinking or chafing is eliminated by using the flex nut. Using fittings with elongated threads are common when they go through a thick wall, or simply if a longer thread length better serves the application.