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Adidas Originals- Ode to the City
10th December 2014 /in Our Global Showcase /by Postimport
For the 'Ode to the City' campaign for Adidas Originals, Posterscope Russia and Carat placed giant Adidas Originals ZX Flux sneakers as art objects in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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MLS All-Star Game
The world gathered in Portland's Providence Park for the 2014 Major League Soccer All-Star Game as America's best faced off against Bayern Munich. But the real star attraction was not the match, but the forty-five foot All-Star Game ball perched on top of the Oregon offices dominating the attending crowd. The enormous Adidas soccer ball loomed large on the Portland skyline and over the stadium, making Adidas the most visible message at the MLS All-Star Game. This campaign was planned by Posterscope USA.
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Adidas creates new store out of a giant shoebox
29th January 2014 /in Stuff we like /by Postimport
To celebrate the famous sports shoe named after American tennis icon Stan Smith 50 years ago, Adidas opened a pop-up store in London that was a scale replica of the iconic footwear's shoebox. Apart from being able to purchase limited edition shoes, customers were also able to take part in an interactive experience which made use of 3D-printing.
3D Systems Cube printers lined the walls and gave customers a chance to personalize their lace locks. One of the most notable experiences was the ability to "Stan yourself," a preview of an app by the same name that allows users to put their own portrait and signature in the place of Smith's portrait and signature.
More than 40 million pairs of Stan Smiths have already been sold, making it the top-selling brand in the history of Adidas. Unlike the usual experience of going to buy a pair of shoes however, the sports brand made sure to give their customers an experience they are unlikely to ever forget.
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A tongue-in-cheek campaign from adidas for Murray's win
8th January 2014 /in OUR UK SHOWCASE /by Postimport
psLIVE projected a display to congratulate Andy Murray during the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards at First Direct Arena on December 15, 2013 in Leeds, England.
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Munich turned into a giant polling booth
12th November 2013 /in Our Global Showcase /by Postimport
For the UEFA 2012 final, adidas, sponsors of both finalists FC Bayern München and Chelsea FC, turned Munich into a giant polling booth. Fans in Munich (and globally via avatars) selected their teams through a series of 'choices' within a designated competition zone, such as pressing a button on a storefront, taking a certain set of subway stairs and even which ice cream sprinkles or coffee cup they choose. Votes were tallied and updated in real-time to a dedicated micro-site, whilst a vast 3D animated projection on a shopping centre facade showed the teams' popularity ranking. More than 300,000 football fans participated in choosing their team….and you can bet it wasn't Chelsea.
The project, created by Posterscope Germany, Carat, Heimat and partners, involved a number of layers covering CG graphic creation, app development, live-website streaming, video projection mapping, a few dashes of creativity, and a few million football fans.
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Data visualisation of footfall fans' choices demonstrated via real-world and online triggers
24th July 2012 /in Stuff we like /by Postimport
This campaign (created by Posterscope Germany, Carat and partners) is a brilliant example of creating excitement and audience engagement around a major, and local, sporting event. For the UEFA 2012 Final, adidas, sponsors of both finalists FC Bayern München and Chelsea FC, turned Munich into a giant polling booth. Fans in Munich (and globally via avatars) selected their teams through a series of 'choices' within a designated competition zone, such as pressing a button on a storefront, taking a certain set of subway stairs and even which ice cream sprinkles or coffee cup they choose. Votes were tallied and updated in real-time to a dedicated micro-site, whilst a vast 3D animated projection on a shopping centre facade showed the teams' popularity ranking. More than 300,000 football fans participated in choosing their team….and you can bet it wasn't Chelsea.
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adidas: 'Light You Up' projection
24th July 2012 /in Our Global Showcase /by Postimport
Another great adidas campaign demonstrating their passion for sport, created by Posterscope USA and Carat. Key locations in New York and Boston were selected for adidas's 'Crazy Light' projections which involved displaying powerful sporting imagery as well as driving audience interaction using social media. Facebook fans were invited to log onto an adidas Facebook app and post an answer to the question 'What does light get you?' Each response was rewarded with the person's name appearing on the big screen, plus a sharable image and video, to show off with to their friends.
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YUKI KIHARA | A Study of a Samoan Savage
The new series, A Study of a Samoan Savage, is comprised of two broad themes – the histories of motion photography and anthropometry – explored together.
Presented in film noir cinematographic spirit, this powerful, allegorical series features a mythical character (Maui), a Polynesian demi-god performing a variety of movements, documented as 'motion-photography.'
These movements explicitly reference rugby and the furore in April 2012 surrounding Pat Lam and the Blues rugby team, historical representations of Samoan men, Samoan cultural dances and the study of human movement through photography seen in the pioneering works of Muybridge and Marey.
The historical role of photography and the key role it played in establishing classifications in the study of race, gender, the human body, the science of movement and human evolution is everywhere evidenced in A Study of a Samoan Savage. Collectively, Samoan men were depicted as exotic savages, fetishized as a subject and as an object, colonised and treated as commodities.
Anthropologists used photography as a tool to establish a systematic process of collecting data and thereby propound various scientific theories, such as the existence of racial hierarchy, the enduring myth of Aryan superiority and Eugenics. However, those measuring systems and associated photographic techniques in turn became a primary means of subjugation.
Layers of symbolic meaning in Maui's performances also draw upon the 19th century Samoan colonial experience of the human zoo, the 'Volkerschau,' popular then in Germany and Europe, a form of exotic entertainment and colonial theatre where Samoan men's athleticism and prowess was presented as if in their primitive state. A giant man-made water slide featuring Samoan bodies ascending and descending it was also presented within the zoo.
This 19th century circumstance provides another of the conceptual threads of the series. It is explicitly acknowledged in two works, the photographic work Maui Descending a Staircase I (After Duchamp) and the silent video work Maui Descending a Staircase II (After Duchamp). Both works reference Duchamp's A Nude Descending a Staircase II (1915) and reprise Muybridge's use of sequential motion.
The video work is all at once breath-taking, captivating and beguiling. It reveals multiple layers of narrative content, as well as numerous art, political and social dialogues with distinct developments from the critically acclaimed Siva in Motion (2012), in Kihara's signature stylistic techniques: repetitive fragmentation, outline and overlay with a directness of gaze that – inevitably – elicits then seduces the viewer's participation.
A native of Samoa, Yuki Kihara is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is characterised by investigations into memory, post/de/colonialism, temporality and aesthetics often exploring the experience of peoples in the Pacific region and their diaspora; and the varying relationships and intersections between gender, race, sexuality, culture and politics.
A Study of a Samoan Savage (2015) series has been presented at Milford Galleries, Dunedin; Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; Orange County Museum of Art, California and this year at the Honolulu Biennial.


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DHS Leader Says Fewer Than 1,000 Family Separations
That tally does not include children who come with older siblings, or aunts and uncles and grandparents and are separated under longstanding policy meant to guard against human trafficking.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Trump administration official said the number of family separations at the border has fallen since last summer's zero tolerance policy, and they are done only for compelling reasons. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said fewer than 1,000 children have been separated from families out of 450,000 family groups that have crossed the border since October. He said they are separated because of health and safety concerns, among other reasons.…	Read at AP News


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January 15, 2021 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, LEPF, SEED
Four Black students in the NIU College of Education joined the Jan. 7 spring all-college meeting to share their personal stories and offer guidance for how faculty and staff can better empower them during their academic journeys. The quartet included one undergraduate
January 15, 2021 Mark McGowan CAHE, CI, enewsletter, ETRA, KNPE, LEPF, SEED
As the powerful messages from a panel of Black students concluded during the Jan. 7 all-college meeting, Dean Laurie Elish-Piper shifted the conversation to action. "I've asked each department to share an initiative that directly relates to supporting students of color, broadening
Here We Grow: Counseling minor
December 8, 2020 Mark McGowan CAHE, enewsletter
Suzanne Degges-White has never forgotten the words of a professor during her master's studies in counseling. " 'Probably only half of you are going to end up doing professional counseling,' " Degges-White, chair of the NIU Department of Counseling and Higher Education,
CAHE's Patrick McMillion helps to draft new credential for adventure therapists
November 17, 2020 Mark McGowan CAHE, enewsletter
Christmas has come early for Patrick McMillion. The instructor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education is celebrating the October debut of a Certified Clinical Adventure Therapist (CCAT) credential now being offered by the Association for Experiential Education. McMillion served as
Jessie Huebner, a doctoral student in the Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision program in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education, is the International Association of Addictions & Offender Counselors (IAAOC) 2020 Graduate Student of the Year. Huebner, who works for
How do we maintain inner calm when the world seems to be swirling with chaos and confusion? Suzanne Degges-White, Ph.D., CAHE department chair, counselor and educator, shared 12 life-enhancing practices with College of Education alumni Sept. 16 during a Whiteboard Wednesday presentation.
Welcome to Our New Faculty
September 20, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni eNewsletter, CAHE
We are excited to welcome Dr. Jacqueline Mac to the HESA family. Dr. Mac, who serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Higher Education, teaches courses on assessment, higher education public policy and quantitative research in higher education for our program. Dr.
2020 HESA Alumni of the Year Award
September 20, 2020 Mark McGowan Alumni, Alumni eNewsletter, CAHE
In Spring 2020, HESA Program faculty and staff selected Dr. Brandi Hephner LaBanc, vice chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Life at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as the inaugural HESA Alumni of the Year Award winner. Dr. Hephner LaBanc is an
We are excited to celebrate accomplishments and life events of our HESA community. Alumni, current students, and faculty can submit information for the newsletter. Please submit any announcements and pictures for our next newsletter (Spring 2021) to HESA Program Coordinator Dr. Gudrun
Scott Wickman eager for unknown paths coming in retirement from CAHE faculty
August 12, 2020 Mark McGowan CAHE, enewsletter
Adoptee. Musician. Journalist. Organizer. Minister. Teacher. Counselor. Professor. But of all the identities Scott Wickman has lain claim to – and there are many more – he clings to "advocate" most. Fellow graduates in the Waukegan High School Class of 1982 voted
LaVerne Gyant shares U.S. perspective in global webinar on Black Lives Matter
July 13, 2020 Mark McGowan Uncategorized
LaVerne Gyant shared her view on Black Lives Matter with an international audience. A professor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education and former director of the NIU Center for Black Studies, she was invited to serve as the keynote speaker
Graduate School honors COE students
May 3, 2020 Mark McGowan CAHE, enewsletter, KNPE
Several students from the Department of Counseling and Higher Education and the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education were chosen to receive 2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Awards from the NIU Graduate School. The award is given to one student from each program


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CAIPO shares HIV/AIDS awareness message
In recognition of World AIDS Day on December 1, the Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office (CAIPO in Warrens, hosted a special display hoping to raise the level of education about the disease among its clientele.
Speaking to the press on Thursday, Deputy Registrar at CAIPO, Joyann Catwell, said the department wanted to share important and relevant information with all its "shareholders".
"These are persons who have come to incorporate companies and to register businesses names, we are here to tell them a little bit about AIDS, and in addition to that, we are also here to inform them about beneficial ownership as per our international obligations."
Public Relations Officer with the National HIV/AIDS Commission Fabian Todd.
She explained, "Today at corporate affairs we have our information booth corner, we have a table with leaflets on HIV/AIDS, we also have our condom corner and throughout the day there will prizes and giveaways."
Deputy Registrar at CAIPO Joyann Catwell seen here assisting a customer with one of the displays for World AIDS Day.
CAIPO is responsible for the administration of Barbados' Intellectual Property Rights and advises the Ministry of International Business and Industry on the technical and policy issues which underlie Barbados' Intellectual Property Rights regime.
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Patrons to the HIV/AIDS Comission booth seen here playing one of the many games being displayed during the day.
Sluggish return of confidence in Gov't bonds
Local investor confidence in Government paper is returning based on the gradual climb in the take-up of the latest bond...


Celebrations include consumer activations, on-trade initiatives and social campaigns.
Italian aperitif brand Campari is marking 100 years since the invention of the Negroni cocktail with a series of activations.
The "N100" campaign will include a week-long celebration in June that aims to highlight the impact the cocktail has had on popular culture.
Campari will host a launch party, where 100 of the best Negroni cocktails will be on offer, from straight-up classics to innovative twists created by UK bartenders. The party will then continue with Negroni-inspired in-bar experiences across the UK for a further six nights.
The brand will also use the theme of "N100" to continue its Campari Creates initiative, which focuses on art. Aspiring artists will be invited to take part in a competition to create something inspired by the look, taste and creativity of the Negroni.


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Virginia Tech hires Penn State DC Brent Pry as head coach
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By HANK KURZ Jr.
Virginia Tech reached into its archives to find its next coach, hiring Penn State defensive coordinator Brent Pry, a disciple of longtime Hokies assistant Bud Foster.
Pry was a graduate assistant working with the defensive line under Foster, the hugely successful coordinator, as the Hokies rose to national prominence. Pry was in Blacksburg, Virginia, from 1995-97, going to three straight bowl games.
The school made the announcement Tuesday and plans to introduce Pry on Thursday.
Pry said he will keep former Hokies star defensive lineman and interim coach J.C. Price on his staff as associate head coach/defensive coach. Price also will continue to serve as head coach through Virginia Tech's bowl game.
"Coach Pry owns a winning track record on the football field, as well as a history of developing young men into leaders off the field and in the classroom," athletic director Whit Babcock said in a statement.
"He's earned his way up the coaching ranks, and we believe he is the right person to lead Virginia Tech football and to achieve the goals that we all aspire to attaining. He and his staff will aggressively recruit our region to keep in-state recruits home and attract the talent necessary to win championships."
Pry has been with Penn State since 2014, first as co-defensive coordinator before becoming the defensive coordinator in 2016. Penn State's defense has been ranked in the top half of the Big Ten every season he's been there.
His hiring also received an endorsement from Foster, a Hokies icon who retired after the 2019 season.
"It's been such a pleasure to watch Brent grow, mature and excel at a very high level in the coaching profession," Foster said. "I'm so excited that he's earned this opportunity to lead our football program. The best coaches are the ones who are always striving to get better, who are open to new ideas and who can put their players in the best position to be successful. Brent embodies all of those qualities and so many others that it takes to be a leader."
Pry said the opportunity to return to Blacksburg is exciting for him and his family.
"Even after I departed Blacksburg, I always continued to appreciate Virginia Tech, its great players, its championship teams, and its wonderful traditions from afar. The resources, facilities, university backing of athletics, and phenomenal fan support that Virginia Tech enjoys made this a very desirable situation," he said in the statement. "But just as importantly, the opportunity to raise our children in a community like Blacksburg also has great appeal."
Coach Justin Fuente left Virginia Tech earlier this month after he went 43-31 in six seasons. Informed in a meeting with Babcock that his return was not certain, the sides agreed to part ways immediately.
Fuente's tenure started with a 10-win season and Atlantic Coast Conference coach of the year honors. But the program was hurt by a rash of transfers and declining results. The Hokies went 6-7 in 2018, their first losing season since 1992, and 5-6 last season when they were hit hard by the pandemic. It marked the end of a 27-year streak of going to bowl games, the longest at the time in the country.
Under Price, the Hokies lost 38-26 at Miami, but rebounded to beat Virginia 29-24 on Saturday. It was their 17th victory in the last 18 meetings in the rivalry and, at 6-6, secured bowl eligibility for the 28th time in 29 years.


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"If Japan recklessly 'intercepts' [North Korea's] satellite for peaceful purposes, the [Korean People's Army] will mercilessly deal deadly blows not only at the already deployed intercepting means but at major targets," KCNA reported. Japan recently mobilized its missile defense system in response to the planned North Korean launch, Japanese officials said. The move, noteworthy for a country with a pacifist constitution, is aimed at shooting down any debris from the launch that might fall into Japanese territory. U.S. Navy ships capable of shooting down ballistic missiles have also been moved to the Sea of Japan, a Navy spokesman said. The threat of retaliation comes as North Korea has begun fueling its long-range rocket, according to a senior U.S. military official familiar with the latest U.S. intelligence on the matter. The fueling signals that the country could be in the final stages of what North Korea has said will be the launch of a satellite into space as early as this weekend, the senior U.S. military official said Wednesday.
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Other U.S. military officials said the top portion of the rocket was put on very recently, but satellite imagery shows a shroud over the stage preventing a direct view of what the stage looks like. The officials said the satellite payload appears to have a "bulbous" cover, which could indicate there is a satellite loaded on it. Such a cover protects a satellite from damage in flight. While the sources did not know for sure what the payload is, they did say there is no reason to doubt it is a satellite as indicated by North Korea. Pyongyang has said it will conduct the launch sometime between April 4 and April 8. It's a launch that may violate a 2006 United Nations Security Council resolution. Resolution 1718 "[d]emands" that North Korea "not conduct any further nuclear test or launch of a ballistic missile." "It raises questions about their compliance with the Security Council Resolution 1718," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week. "And if they persist and go forward, we will take it up in appropriate channels." Pentagon officials worry less about the payload and more about the launch itself, saying any kind of launch will give the North Koreans valuable information about improving their ballistic missile program. "I don't know anyone at a senior level in the American government who does not believe this technology is intended as a mask for the development of an intercontinental ballistic missile," U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday. Defense analysts say the same rocket could be used to push a satellite into space or deliver a nuclear warhead. Gates noted that while the United States believes it is North Korea's "long-term intent" to add a nuclear warhead to any such rocket, he "personally would be skeptical that they have the ability right now to do that."
Gates said that the U.S. military could shoot down "an aberrant missile, one that was headed for Hawaii … or something like that, we might consider it, but I don't think we have any plans to (do) anything like that at this point." He does not believe North Korea currently has the technology to reach Alaska or Pacific coast.
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Fire on the Mountain: scientists are studying wildfires using wind tunnels, giant combustion chambers, and fire-whirl generators « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
The Atlantic has an extensive feature up about the study of wildfires. The piece is an incredible read- we highly recommend heading to the site to check out the full article.


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The 360 gets a preview program, Steam has a box and we're ready to rock out! This update is "Gigantic" with plenty of Premium content. Don't say I cried Yeti. More information is inside so read on!
The big news this week is probably pretty obvious by now, but if you don't know what we're talking about, then check over to our Halo board for confirmation. Along with that, we've also got plenty of interesting news regarding Xbox, GTA and more.


Not that we need any official confirmation of what we experience first hand after every yoga class on Siesta Key beach but for the sceptics and the uninitiated here is some scientific proof.
A systematic review carried out by a team at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry has analysed existing studies and concluded that there are benefits to mental and physical well-being from taking exercise in the natural environment. Their findings are published in the research journal Environmental Science and Technology on February 4th 2011.
Eligible trials were those that compared the effects of outdoor exercise initiatives with those conducted indoors and which reported at least one physical or mental well-being outcome in adults or children.
The study found that most trials showed an improvement in mental well-being: compared with exercising indoors, exercising in natural environments was associated with greater feelings of revitalization, increased energy and positive engagement, together with decreases in tension, confusion, anger and depression. Participants also reported greater enjoyment and satisfaction with outdoor activity and stated that they were more likely to repeat the activity at a later date.
Is it any wonder that we feel so good after our yoga classes on the beach not only are we exercising outdoors but we are doing it on a crystal bed of sand while breathing in fresh sea air and being super charged with sunshine and invisible energetic ions coming off the surf of the Gulf of Mexico. There is simply no where else I would rather be.
Yoga, a kind of physical, spiritual, and mental exercise, has been around follow because the ancient era all over the world.
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In a slight departure from the normal run of events, this publication of THE LETTER comprises both the Summer issue and the Autumn issue for the year 2000. Our hope is that this double dose will be medicine enough to carry the reader through to Spring 2001, when the third and final issue in this volume will see the light of day. That will bring to you the proceedings of the Seventh APPI November Congress, which will be in full swing as this present number is being distributed.
To begin with I would like to examine the relationship between anxiety and neurosis in the way Freud impresses it on us. Does a neurosis have a stabilising effect, even stemming anxiety or, on the contrary, does it contribute to its increase? Can we assume a correlation between the two insofar as anxiety decreases at the rate of the structuring of the neurosis and vice versa? What meaning can we attribute to the physical discharge of anxiety? This is very different in hysteria, hypochondria and the so-called psychosomatic illness. A feature of the latter, if it appears in its 'pure form' and is not covered too much by the neurosis, is an almost complete absence of fear which can be understood as one of the reasons why the subject may not see any clear reasons for undergoing treatment. In most cases, however, anxiety appears as a motivational factor and so will generally be included in the list of psychical suffering.
The 21st. Century will be Lacanian or it will be barbarian. What people call barbarian can be given a very strict, very rigorous definition. It is not simply a metaphor for vaguely designating the foreigner or the Barbaros, the person who could only say bar-bar-bar! Barbarism deserves a rigorous definition and I am happy to propose it to you. It consists in a social relation organised by a power that is no longer symbolic but real. From the moment that established power is supported, takes as reference its own force and nothing else, and does not try to defend or to protect anything other than its existence as power, well then we are barbarian.
What is proper to democracy, is that the real power, the real forces by which it is supported, the police, the army, this real power is at the service of an authority that has a purely symbolic reference. Barbarism, for its part, is outside discourse, it is not based on a discourse, it is based only on the number of agents that are at its service.
I doubted my own existence, and even today, I have no faith in it, none, so that I have to say, when I speak, Who speaks, and seek and so on, and similarly for all the things that happen to me and for which someone has to be found, for things that happen must have someone to happen to, someone must stop them.
The speaker here is the voice in Beckett's Unnamable. It is not just that things that happen must have someone to happen to, someone to lock on to, but also, as the voice says, someone must stop them. How? Earlier the voice spoke of his vice-existors, Murphy, Mahood, Worm etc. as those old buffers who carried a mere tittle of his own pain, the tittle as he says, that he thought he could put from him in order to witness it. It is this gesture of putting from one, this installation of the lying old buffer of our fictional identity, which is absent in the passage a Vacte.
In the Seminar on The Psychoanalytic Act, Lacan refers to a particular type of absence as constitutive not just of the passage a l'acte but of any act: 'It is a common dimension of the act not to include in its agency the presence of the subject', he says. This statement is repeated at a number of points throughout the seminar. In fact Lacan specifically says that this is what the psychoanalytic act and the passage a Vacte have in common; this fact of knowing 'that in every act there is something which escapes him as subject'.
The Other is the dimension required in order for speech to affirm itself as truth.
Despite its fundamental rule of free association, psychoanalysis is notorious for preventing one particular thing from being said – 'No'. Pinned to a sofa, much like a point de capiton, the analysand can and must say anything at all. However, caught in the matrix of the analyst's interpretive framework, he is unable to deny the accuracy of the remarks of this grande Autre. In the context of the session, yes means yes, but no also means yes. In fact, Freud makes a fundamental clinical rule out of Shakespeare's 'methinks thou doth protest too much'. The more frequent and vigorous the patient's denials are, the closer the analyst presumes to be to unconscious truth.
Book VII of Rousseau's Confessions involves the story of an encounter between Jean-Jacques and Zulietta, a Venetian courtesan, which presents one of the richest highlights of an autobiography whose status is paradigmatic. I have read this episode in conjunction with a spectrum of Lacanian theory which has as its focus the psychopathological incidence of anxiety and its effects on the emotional and perceptual faculties of the human subject. My objective in bringing Rousseau and Lacan together is to look afresh at the possibilities yielded by psychoanalytic inquiry into the work of Rousseau, and to provoke further exploration and discussion of the ways in which our understanding of autobiographical texts can be revitalised by detailed readings inspired by the work of major psychoanalytic thinkers.
Formulation of the Problem: A New Diagnosis?
The psychiatric landscape has undergone a lot of changes in the last couple of years. This constant evolution shouldn't surprise us, considering its youthful existence and bearing in mind that psychiatry always follows in the wake of an ongoing society. Hysteria is commonly known to adapt itself to the prevailing discourse, but that psychoses should also be appearing in a new attire is a relatively new feature. Since Nietzsche's creed that God is dead one has rarely come across the 'traditional' psychotic delusions, such as the religious delusion of redemption. In the footsteps of literary forerunners like Burroughs, Huxley and Leary, psychotics have discovered drugs, – drugs which we consider as one of the current symptoms of discomfort in our post-modern culture.
Interpretations that focus directly on signification are not psychoanalytical in the Freudian-Lacanian sense. Such interpretations characterise, on the contrary, the paranoid psychosis. This is borne out theoretically by Lacan and Watzlawick. M. Klein's clinical cases demonstrate that interpretations that focus on significations induce a paranoid-like exacerbation of the imaginary. Freud and Lacan on the other hand, aim at the signifier. The significations that Freudian psychoanalysis validates are those which result from the correlation of two signifiers.
The philosopher Bertrand Russell once referred to common sense as the 'metaphysics of the savages' and in this rather smug way I think he was attempting to draw a distinction between serious reflection and what can at times pass for such. This quote struck me quite often as I was writing the present work for it seemed to cut to the quick of my subject matter. In other words, is the true-self the opium of a psychologically informed cultural discourse, a search for a psychic holy grail, or is it, as Lacan would argue, an alienating fiction produced as a defence against the painful realities of unconscious desire?
This paper reviews selected writings of two people, Maud Mannoni and Valerie Sinason, both of whom have worked psychoanalytically with people with a learning disability, with a view to considering in light of their work, whether psychoanalysis is appropriate to this patient group.
In the 1960s there was a renewal of interest in handicap in France. Here the torch for psychodynamic thinking in mental handicap was carried by psychoanalyst Maud Mannoni, and most clearly shown in her work, The Retarded Child and His Mother.1 Opening her book with the question, 'How does one become an analyst?' Mannoni affirms immediately that the events that marked her life are not without relation to her interests in retarded development and psychosis.
In 1998, a note promoting the forthcoming Colloquium on L'Opacite Sexuelle in the Ecole Lacanienne de Paris announced, almost as if it were now a received truth, that Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality had 'cut the ground from under the feet of psychoanalysts'. Up to this I had held the rather complacent view that while Foucault was of course one of the more important contemporary thinkers he was not of central relevance to psychoanalysis. Even a yearlong staff seminar on The Birth of the Clinic had done little to modify this view.
But this startling and indeed sobering remark coming from such a prestigious source is certainly worthy of investigation and assessment! I am not aware that anybody has in fact taken it up either in the Colloquium or elsewhere and this article by a non-specialist is far from being the complete response that it deserves. I have simply tried to look carefully at the three-volume work in question, to see whether in fact it undermines my own position as a Lacanian psychoanalyst. I have also tried to provide enough introductory material to encourage colleagues to read this remarkable work, which so far seems to have been relatively neglected by English-speaking analysts.
I would like to tell you, by way of introduction, about a debate I once had with some judges, about an experience which is of course a major one in our culture: that of crime. I recall that we were perpetually confronted with the hard and sombre heart of the criminal act, and that many saw, in the perplexity that took hold of us on each occasion, the sign of a radical lack of understanding which finally sent us back to the mystery of Evil itself. At that point I tried to defend the thesis which maintains that the difficulty, the complication of the criminal act, comes less from a fundamental obscurity which is thought to be essential to crime, from a hidden and as it were impenetrable identity, than from the historic entanglements, the complex sedimentation of discourses about crime, which meant that when we spoke about it we always stumbled, less because of an essential difficulty, than because of, I believe, a historical confusion of discourses.
Every once in a while one has the sense of being in the middle of something completely 'cutting edge' or 'state of the art', hearing something utterly fresh. Such was the sensory experience generated by the inaugural conference on Neuroscientific and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Emotion, organised by the Anna Freud Centre in London this summer. There is an almost canonical belief that neuroscience and psychoanalysis can never meet -and it has to be said that this view is adhered to far more tenaciously by psychoanalysts than by neuroscientists. However those attending this conference will have had the sensation of having been just about to say themselves that dialogue between the two perspectives was not only possible but also essential for the survival of both. Indeed the result of the conference was similar to that of a good analytic interpretation – while memories of the factual content may have faded, what was articulated seems to resonate with what is below the surface of our thinking and it certainly gave rise to much in the way of further associations. One had the sense of something crucial being articulated without any particular view being privileged as the correct one.


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Acquiring the tailoring skills from his parents in Aleppo when he was 12, Mazlum, now 31, worked as a tailor during his teenage years. Fascinated by the craftsmanship of the art of making clothes, he opened his own shop by the age of 20. Mazlum's dreams of becoming a well-known tailor in his community got interrupted by the war at 2012. As the conditions got harder and finally impossible for him to access to his own shop when it got burnt down along with other buildings in the area in 2013, Mazlum made a hard decision to move to Şanlıurfa, Turkey with his parents.
Starting from scratch without any prior knowledge of Turkish culture and language was challenging for Mazlum at the beginning. He started working in a factory, then moved to an atelier where he started to become known among the community by his skills, welcoming attitude and smile. During one of these interactions, he met with his future wife-to-be. "She came in for a dress and I really liked her. It was love from first sight" says Mazlum. As they got married and twins added to their family, providing them with better conditions became Mazlum's priority.
When his father informed him about IOM's quick impact grants providing tool kits for the Syrians in Turkey to start their businesses, Mazlum made an immediate application, receiving a tailoring kit that allowed him to open his own shop. His strong relations with the host and Syrian community enabled his access to customers. "This project changed my life", he said. "I can earn money and take care of my household by working with my nephews. I am very happy because this is my own shop. I want to build a bigger atelier and grow my business. Then I want to train people and help them get jobs because I understand how hard it is to be unemployed and I want people to avoid this experience".


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Jerry Orbach ( Jerome Bernard Orbach : October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor known for his starring role as Detective Lennie Briscoe in the American series Law & amp; Order.
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To build a healthy body that can ensconce a healthy mind, JGS has been equipped with expansive playgrounds. We have invested in infrastructure specifically designed to satisfy the physical training requirements of the students. As a result, there is space and provision for all kinds of sports – cricket, basketball, football and volleyball.
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This collection contains records of the Pioneer Society of San Diego County, including documents related to administration, finances, membership, accessions, and events. It also contains original correspondence to and from members of the Society.
The Pioneer Society of San Diego County was organized on May 31, 1895, and was originally called "The Ladies' Pioneer Society of San Diego." One of its purposes, as stated in the Bylaws, was "to collect, record, and preserve the history of the State of California, and more especially the history and traditions of the City and County of San Diego, and incidents connected therewith." Mrs. Flora Kimball and Hattie Phillips were the first president and secretary, respectively. Membership was limited to those persons who came to California before January 1, 1880, with extension of privileges to their descendants and to others who had shown an interest in the objects of the society. Originally all members were women, but in 1905 men were given honorary memberships. Honorary members included such figures as General John J. Pershing, Winifred Davidson, and John F. Forward. A 1908 letter from John G. Capron states that the symbol of the society was an evergreen sprig. The society held one open meeting and several closed meetings per year that featured talks on local history by a variety of guests, introduced people important in politics and society, and presented local music talents as well as entertainment and refreshments.
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Pakatan Harapan leader Tun Dr. Mahathir confirms that the new Malaysian government will cancel the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
Mahathir said, "There is no rolling back. It's a cancellation," in a press conference.
Pakatan Harapan won a simple majority of parliamentary seats in the recently concluded 14th General Election (GE14).
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Before GE14, abolishing the GST was a key part of Pakatan Harapan's manifesto.


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weekend, with 26 countries confirming participation, Vice-President Guy Scott told parliament yesterday.
Some of the countries that will be represented at the celebrations include the United Kingdom, USA, Germany, France, Canada, South Africa and South Korea.
Dr Scott said in a ministerial statement that the acting President Hon.Edgar Lungu will host a state banquet on the eve of the celebrations at Lusaka's Intercontinental Hotel before hoisting the flag at Heroes Stadium.
He said on Saturday, the acting president will lay wreaths at the Freedom Statue before hosting a state luncheon.
"Celebrations have been going on since February and this will be the climax with various activities such as acrobatics, performances and so on," Dr Scott said
He said celebrations will also take place in all the 10 provinces with cabinet ministers being assigned to each province.
Meanwhile, Dr Scott told the House that uncertainty surrounds the participation of six heads of state who had earlier confirmed participation in the celebrations.
He was responding to a question raised by Monze Central Member of Parliament (UPND) Jack Mwiimbu who wanted to know if the six foreign presidents who confirmed participation will attend even in the absence of President Sata.
And Keembe MP (MMD) Ronnie Shikapwasha asked why he had not been recognised as a freedom fighter because he once worked as a policeman in the colonial government.
"Mr Speaker, I am an unsung hero. I joined the police force at a very young age and the Vice-President has been seeing my face here but I have never been invited to any of these functions. Is it political?" he asked, much to the amusement of other members
And Dr Scott said he does not know yet how much it has cost Government to host the golden jubilee celebrations.
He was responding to Luena MP (ADD) Gertrude Imenda and Chadiza MP (MMD) Allan Mbewe who both wanted to know how much it has cost the country to host the celebrations.
Meanwhile, Dr Scott says he is proud to be Zambian because Zambia is a haven of peace.
And Dr Scott has thanked the Finnish government for the support towards the digitalisation of the National Archives.
The Vice-President was speaking yesterday when he officially opened the Golden Jubilee exhibition at the National Archives.
"I am very proud to be Zambian. We all need to be proud. We have had no war in the last 50 years. We have been a haven for most people in the region," he said
Dr Scott, who punctuated his address with numerous jokes that sent people roaring with laughter, hailed soccer for unifying the country.
"We used to have the KK 11 before it became Chipolopolo," he said in reference to the national team. "Getting the Africa Cup was symbolic. It was one of the greatest moments for this country."
Dr Scott thanked the Finnish government for helping to digitalise the National Archives of Zambia.
"We, as a government, are very grateful to the Finnish for helping us put some of our information in digital form. Zambia has 125 years of documented history," he said.
Minister of Home Affairs Ngosa Simbyakula, his deputy Nickson Chilangwa and scores of diplomats attended the exhibition.
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Chris Kinsey was BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year in 2008. She received an Arts Council of Wales Writer's Bursary in 2000. Her two collections Kung Fu Lullabies and Cure for a Crooked Smile are both published by Ragged Raven Press (UK). A further collection, Swarf is forthcoming from Smokestack Books. She has had poems for children and young people commissioned and published by Pont Books. Her first two stage plays have been given rehearsed readings by Aberystwyth Arts Centre and The National Theatre. Her short film script Legless was shortlisted by TAPs (Cymru) for production. Chris also writes poetry reviews and a regular Nature Diary for Cambria the National Magazine of Wales. Chris has two rescue greyhounds and has been dubbed Greyhounds' Poet Laureate. She lives in rural Wales UK.
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Rhizomatous, tufted perennial, grass-like or herb (sedge), 0.4-1.5 m high, culms to 0.2 m. Fl. brown, Jan or Apr to Jul. White, grey, brown or yellow sand, sandy clay. Coastal sand dunes, sandplains.
IBRA Subregions: Avon Wheatbelt P2, Fitzgerald, Geraldton Hills, Lesueur Sandplain, Perth, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
Local Government Areas (LGAs): Albany, Armadale, Augusta-Margaret River, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Broomehill-Tambellup, Busselton, Cambridge, Carnamah, Claremont, Cockburn, Coorow, Cottesloe, Dandaragan, Denmark, Esperance, Gingin, Greater Geraldton, Harvey, Jerramungup, Joondalup, Mandurah, Manjimup, Murray, Nannup, Northampton, Perth, Ravensthorpe, Rockingham, Shark Bay, Stirling, Wanneroo, Waroona.


2209 has 3 divisors (see below), whose sum is σ = 2257. Its totient is φ = 2162.
The previous prime is 2207. The next prime is 2213. The reversal of 2209 is 9022.
Adding to 2209 its sum of digits (13), we get a palindrome (2222).
Multipling 2209 by its product of nonzero digits (36), we get a square (79524 = 2822).
2209 = T46 + T47.
The square root of 2209 is 47.
2209 is nontrivially palindromic in base 14.
It is not a de Polignac number, because 2209 - 21 = 2207 is a prime.
2209 is an undulating number in base 14.
2209 is a lucky number.
It is not an unprimeable number, because it can be changed into a prime (2203) by changing a digit.
It is a polite number, since it can be written in 2 ways as a sum of consecutive naturals, for example, 24 + ... + 70.
2209 is the 47-th square number.
2209 is the 24-th centered octagonal number.
2209 is a deficient number, since it is larger than the sum of its proper divisors (48).
2209 is an frugal number, since it uses more digits than its factorization.
2209 is an evil number, because the sum of its binary digits is even.
The sum of its prime factors is 94 (or 47 counting only the distinct ones).
The product of its (nonzero) digits is 36, while the sum is 13.
The cubic root of 2209 is about 13.0236256767.
The spelling of 2209 in words is "two thousand, two hundred nine".


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Indian Beauty Brand MyGlamm Acquires Women's Lifestyle Platform POPxo
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POPxo Founder and CEO to join MyGlamm as Co-founder
India-based consumer beauty brand MyGlamm has acquired POPxo, an Indian digital content platform for women, according to a statement released late last week. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition will help build 'the largest 3C (Content + Community + Commerce) company in South Asia', the statement said, with a focus on products in the beauty and lifestyle category.
It added that POPxo backers India-based tech venture investor Chiratae Ventures, Indian early-stage tech investor Kalaari Capital, and South Korean conglomerate Doosan Group's investment arm Neoplux Venture Capital will join MyGlamm's investor roster.
MyGlamm's key investors include American venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, premium French beauty brand L'Occitane en Provence, Indian private investor Shivanand Shankar Mankekar's family office, and alternative asset management firm Tano Capital.
Further, POPxo's Founder and CEO Priyanka Gill will be joining MyGlamm as Co-founder, the statement said.
Projections of annualized revenues for the two companies stand at an estimated INR 4 billion (US$53.4 million at current rates) by December 2021, according to the statement.
"The POPxo vision has always been to build a content-community-commerce destination for women in India, with MyGlamm we have found a powerful partner with proven strengths in producing and selling beauty products at scale," Gill noted in the statement.
Founded in 2014, POPxo currently logs over 43 million monthly active users across its platforms, the statement noted.
The company had last raised INR 370 million in a Series C round of financing, led by Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo and Neoplux in 2018.
Indian venture investors Chiratae Ventures and Kalaari Capital also participated in the round, along with other investors. As of 2018, POPxo was valued at an estimated $10.8 million.
"With this acquisition, MyGlamm will further be able to connect with the millennial women, reach uncharted geographies, and work with POPxo in identifying emerging consumer needs & consumption patterns to co-create tomorrow's beauty trends," Co-founder and CEO of MyGlamm, Darpan Sanghvi said in the statement.
Since its launch in 2017, MyGlamm has established 2000 points of sale (including over 300 retail outlets) across India, with INR 1.4 billion (U$18.6 million at current rates) in annualized revenues, the statement noted. The company has grown 400% in the past 12 months.
The company touched a post-money valuation of INR 5 billion after it raised INR 1 billion in a venture round in 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners and L'Occitane.
Since then, MyGlamm has raised a total of INR 465 million ($6.2 million at current rates). The funds were raised entirely in 2020, with $1.8 million debt plus equity financing raised from Indian venture debt investors Trifecta Capital Advisors through two rounds this year.
MyGlamm also raised INR 330 million ($4.4 million at current rates) in a Series B round this year from a consortium of investors including Sanghvi, Trifecta Capital Advisors, Bessemer Venture Partners and L'Occitane.
The company's competitors have also had a good year in terms of fundraising in 2020, with Nykaa raising INR 1.67 billion ($22.2 million at current rates) in two Series F tranches, and Purplle pocketing $8 million in a Series C extension round in January this year.
The beauty and personal care (BPC) segment in India is experiencing a positive market outlook. Although mature markets such as South Korea and Japan dominate the landscape in the Asia Pacific (which accounts for 32% of the global BPC market), India was ranked eighth in global BPC sales in 2018, with the country's retail value for the BPC segment standing at $14 billion.
The BPC market in India is expected to grow to $22 billion by 2022, driven by an increase in disposable incomes amongst the Indian population.
This is further pushing demand for premium products in the BPC segment, with sales for premium BPC products touching $774 million in 2018.
As a mobile-first country with a robust internet economy, the BPC market in the subcontinent presents a massive Ecommerce opportunity for brands such as MyGlamm, Nykaa, and Purplle.


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Visiting Cobb County, GA any time soon? Well, here's where you should go!
Cobb County is located in northwest Georgia. Are you familiar with the city of Marietta? If you haven't heard of the county's largest city or of the county itself, you might not have known that in terms of population, Cobb County ranks third in the state. Planning a trip to this part of Georgia would be a great adventure. Read on to find out about some of the places of interest in this great county in Georgia!
Marietta Square is one of those places of interest, and people say the best time to visit is on Saturday morning. That is when everything is happening, and you can take in the scene while mingling with all of the locals. You will find a farmers market there, ice cream shops, Glover Park, antique stores and much more. They say there are also free concerts from time to time.
Sope Creek Trail is another place of interest in Cobb County Georgia, and you can find it on Paper Mill Road SE. Sope Creek Trail is a great area for walking and enjoying nature, and guess what, you will get to see historic ruins. You do want to know that if you want to make it to the creek and back, reviews say the hike each way is uphill. Not quite as awesome as Six Flags White Water in Marietta, GA, but it'll do in a pinch.
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How does visiting the Gone With The Wind Movie Museum sound to you? This museum is located on Whitlock Avenue in Marietta, right in the middle of Cobb County, and there is supposed to be quite the private collection available there on display. You will see original costumes and much more. It seems like it would be fun because it is a different type of museum.
This next place of interest in Cobb County is going to grab your attention and make you wonder. It is called the Naughty Soda Brewery, and it is located on Northwest Parkway SE. This place breed hard soda, beer and looks like a fun place to visit when you look at the people in the pictures having a blast. It is a small place, but it is a place you won't forget, a unique attraction for sure. Don't forget to pick up that souvenir glass while you are there.
The Marietta Fire Museum is also a neat place of interest to visit in Cobb County GA. You can find the Marietta Fire Museum on Haynes Street, and according to the reviews, it is very interesting to see the history of the equipment and fire fighting procedures. When do you get to go to a firefighters museum? You might as well take the opportunity.
Cobb Antique Mall is another popular place to visit, and you can find it on Cobb Parkway North. People say that this antique mall is quite large, and you will find tons of booths. Are you set now to have a great time in Cobb County, Georgia? If you missed the last post where we went over the history of Cobb County Georgia, be sure to check that out because Marietta is just one city in the county, but it's the largest city, so it's where all the fun is at. It's also the county seat. Hop on over and see what all you get into on vacation.


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What It's Really Like to Work in China's Film Industry
BY Reach Further
Cultural insights into China's film industry from those working on the front lines.
It's been said that China is remaking the global film industry, and that's not an exaggeration. At the end of 2016, China surpassed the U.S. in the number of cinema screens, and its box office revenue has grown 144 percent since 2012, compared to 6 percent in North America. These days, a film can be a total flop in Hollywood but still become a financial success, largely thanks to the power of the Chinese market. Just look at this year's "Transformers: The Last Knight": it made $123 million in its opening weekend in China, whereas it opened with just over $69 million in North America.
China is an entertainment powerhouse—and rightfully so—but with that power comes certain challenges. "It's easier to raise money in China [for films], and probably easier to make a movie," says Bennett Pozil, executive vice president and head of corporate banking at East West Bank, who has helped facilitate some of Hollywood and China's biggest co-production deals. "But it's also easier to lose that money."
As large as it is, China can be a tough beast to understand. What is it like to actually work and make films in China's entertainment industry? Pozil and other Hollywood veterans share their experiences and things to keep in mind when doing business in the Middle Kingdom.
First things first—develop a relationship
Anyone who has ever done business in China will tell you that it's important to develop a friendly relationship, or guanxi, with Chinese businesspeople—and it's no less different in the entertainment industry.
Bo An, a development executive at China Lion Entertainment, likens Chinese practices to those of old Hollywood, when people made deals with those they considered friends. "In the U.S., everything fundamental will be discussed beforehand, or at least in the first few rounds of the negotiation," she says. However, An warns people to not assume that, just because the Chinese companies don't immediately bring up disagreements in the initial meetings, doesn't mean everything is golden. "They just tend to make it friendly at the very beginning," she notes. "When they feel like they've set up a stronger relationship, one that can handle this kind of unpleasant atmosphere brought by disagreement, then they can bring it up."
What Chinese film companies look for
After the initial niceties, deals move very quickly in China, according to William Pfeiffer, executive chairman and cofounder of Globalgate Entertainment. "People are less focused on getting the letter of the contract correct, as much as they are trying to find the right strategic justification for a certain business opportunity," he shares.
Chinese companies will often bring in other partners outside of the entertainment industry to invest in the movie. For instance, Pfeiffer says that a film studio could bring in a cinema exhibition chain to increase the film distribution, or an online video platform to do digital marketing and promotion. That's another difference in China versus the United States. "For film marketing in the U.S., there's still a heavy reliance on television ads, billboards, newspapers ads and other traditional media," explains Pfeiffer. "A large percentage of exposure to film promotion is achieved through the online platforms."
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For international companies looking to do business with Chinese film companies, Pfeiffer suggests that they look at the overarching picture of what the Chinese companies are looking to gain, rather than just that individual deal. "It's important to consider the strategic objectives of that company and their motivations, in order to ensure that you have a good long-term relationship with them," he advises.
Getting lost in translation
Whether it's the wording of a contract, or whose name gets included in the film credits, it's important to remain conscientious about the cultural differences in language.
"You might have an English translation (of the contract) and negotiate off of that. Then, you have to be careful to make sure that the Chinese translation is accurately reflecting the negotiated points," says Pfeiffer. "There are differences in languages, in terms of the legal meanings and definitions that would be included. You still have to be very careful about definitions of rights. On top of that, there still is piracy of DVDs as well as online piracy in China—how are you going to protect yourself in that regard?"
An adds that, when structuring deals, Chinese companies handle film credits differently than U.S. ones. "In China, the most important credits are given to the big bosses of the financiers," she explains. "When we talk about 'produced by' or 'producer,' it has a different cultural meaning in China. In China, the zhipianren or zong zhipianren—the general producer—when they talk about these two credits, they actually mean the big bosses of the major financiers and distributors. They're not referenced to the creative producer, or the producers who are working on a day-to-day basis on ground or on set."
A speedier production process
Considering that it only took about 20 years to transform Shanghai's Pudong district from barren farmland into a modern financial hub, it should come as no surprise that China's film development and production process also happens at double-speed.
"Things in China are different to the extent that the whole process of shooting and development is much faster than it is in Hollywood," says Pfeiffer. "The time that it takes to conceive a film concept, get it written, complete preproduction, produce, and finalize the picture is generally much shorter than in Hollywood."
An adds that, because there aren't any unions protecting those working in China's entertainment industry, they can push for longer hours and quicker turnarounds.
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It's also simpler talking directly to the talent, An says. Although Chinese actors are often signed to long-term, multi-picture contracts with big film studios, it's much easier making deals with them. "You can even talk directly to the talent," says An. "If he or she is interested in the project, then you can just make a deal in a way easier fashion with his or her agent. In the U.S., if you want to sign a talent, you need to talk first through their manager, then their agent, and then their lawyer. You have to finish all the conversations and negotiations with this group of people, and then you can start to work with the U.S. talent."
Conversely, Pozil states that it is much harder keeping talent thanks to the bevy of opportunities in the Chinese film industry. "They kept getting offered more jobs with more money," he says. "We saw a lot of people moving around, but since the film business has slowed down a bit, we'll probably see more stability of working."
The flow of Chinese money going into Hollywood is diverse and well documented, but China also has its own unique way of financing its homegrown films.
In Hollywood, An states that studios don't always use equity financing, or what she refers to as "real" money. Production studios will first try to find as much "soft" money—i.e. tax credits or rebates for filming in certain locations, and money from international distribution presales that they can use as collateral for bank loans—before they lock down any "real" money.
"In China, we don't have any of that—at least it's not the standard yet," says An. "Most of the time, a financier will ask a film producer how much money they need to produce a film, and then just give them 100 percent of whatever is needed—equity financing." However, Chinese film financiers don't just wire the entire lump sum; they will wire the money in installments, dependent on what stage of completion the film is in.
Although the funding process seems simpler in China, Pozil cautions that it comes with its own risks. Since Chinese filmmakers don't often rely on presales and tax credits to recoup the cost of the movie, they have to rely heavily on ticket sales. "If you're in China, if you're making a movie, you basically have your one or two-wave theatrical release, but you may or may not have any other value associated with it," Pozil says.
The name's bond—completion bond
To ensure that the complex Hollywood financing structure works, An says that studios use completion bonds to guarantee that films are delivered on time and on budget. Even the equity money is usually wired to the completion bond company's escrow account, not the production company's. However, that concept of a film bond doesn't exist in China.
Aoni Ma, chief operating officer at bond company Film Finances Asia, says that, although people are opening up to the idea of film bonds, it has been a difficult process. "It's still a little harder for us to get into the Chinese market," she admits. "In China, there's not a bond process. For them, the first time they hear about us, they're like, 'oh, we're an extra cost in the budget.' What they don't understand is that we're actually here to monitor the process and get things finished."
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An adds, "When U.S. film producers do this kind of complicated financing structure, they think they're saving money and undertaking smaller risk. But when you describe this complicated financing structure with loans, soft money, presales to a Chinese film investor, they are less likely to invest—most of the time, it's been the deal-breaker."
However, Ma has a hopeful outlook on the future of film completion bonds. "When we do this [bond], production loses a lot of the control. That's why they're scared," she believes. "They're like, 'what do you mean you can take over? What do you mean you can talk to the directors and producers?' So they tend to hold back a little bit. But I think, now, people are more open to it—they realize this is how the whole world is doing it, and they need to catch on."
–This article originally appeared on Reach Further
TAGS China box office, China film, China Hollywood, China Lion Entertainment, Chinese film industry, Co-production, East West Bank, film financing, Transformers: The Last Knight
About the author Reach Further (www.eastwestbank.com/reachfurther) by East West Bank is a business news magazine with in-depth insights on US-China business, trade, tech, innovation, entertainment, lifestyle and more.
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Q: How to fix React app dependencies failing on AWS? I recently deployed an app to AWS. Locally it's working okay with the dependencies I have installed. AWS installs the dependencies on the cloud (see here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/nodejs-platform-packagejson.html), so I don't have to install them and then upload them, so I know my node_modules isn't getting uploaded and having some issue.
Here's my package.json:
{
  "name": "cookbook",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "@material-ui/icons": "^3.0.2",
    "axios": "^0.18.0",
    "material-ui": "^1.0.0-beta.47",
    "material-ui-icons": "^1.0.0-beta.36",
    "react": "^16.8.6",
    "react-dom": "^16.8.6",
    "react-google-login": "^5.0.4",
    "react-scripts": "2.1.8",
    "ts-pnp": "^1.0.1",
    "typescript": "^3.4.3"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  },
  "eslintConfig": {
    "extends": "react-app"
  },
  "browserslist": [
    ">0.2%",
    "not dead",
    "not ie <= 11",
    "not op_mini all"
  ],
  "devDependencies": {
    "@material-ui/core": "^3.9.3"
  }
}

The error I get is in regards to material-ui/core/styles. Then it proceeds to give me another ERROR saying:
Module not found: Can't resolve '@material-ui/core'

When I run npm start locally it's working okay. The only thing I can think of is peer dependencies...I had a heck of a time getting material-ui installed and it wouldn't install everything simply from npm install. I'm wondering if AWS is having the same problem? I had to try to install peer dependencies manually on my local machine. It gave me trouble for a while but I finally got everything installed I needed. I can't help but feel AWS might be having the same issue...any thoughts?

A: So I'm not sure what the issue was but I deleted my package.json and reinstalled all my packages from scratch using npm install --save on every package npm bugged me about when I tried to run my app. Here was my resulting package.json:
{
  "name": "cookbook",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@material-ui/core": "^3.9.3",
    "@material-ui/icons": "^3.0.2",
    "axios": "^0.18.0",
    "react": "^16.8.6",
    "react-dom": "^16.8.6",
    "react-google-login": "^5.0.4",
    "react-scripts": "^2.1.8"
  },
  "browserslist": [
    ">0.2%",
    "not dead",
    "not ie <= 11",
    "not op_mini all"
  ]
}

There are some slight changes. Since I installed everything from scratch there ended up being some unnecessary packages that were removed. Also, I noticed that when re-installing the material packages were upgraded and not beta. I'm not sure why they were beta versions originally. I have a hunch maybe that had something to do with it.
If anyone has some actual insight into why the changes would have worked, I'd sure like to hear it. Thanks.

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The device for curing diabetes WSJ-B is based on the theories of traditional Chinese medicine about the energetic meridians used in acupuncture, assimilating theories from electronics, physics, energetic and neurology, by making all these sciences work together, among with microelements used in scientific doses.
With the help of spatial technique of the spin-magnetic waves, it stimulates the production and emission of miraculous energies, by the shape of a powerful energetic field of a small universe.
By using the elements A, B, C and D to act separately on the eight energetic centers of the human body, you can adjust its biological functions, you can increase the life level of cells and tissues in the internal organs, the immunity functions and the metabolism of glucids, parotids and lipids, accomplishing a functional balance.
By constantly supplementing with energy the pancreas which already has damaged cells, it can help it rebuild the number of healthy cells by strengthening the function of glucose transporting genes and by improving the circulation at the pancreatic cells, it stimulates the blood oxygen metabolism and helps the cells organization in the pancreas by dividing and multiplying the pancreatic cells.
This way, the insulin secretion function, removing and transporting it, reaches an ideal level, the next step being to accomplish the rebuilding capacity of the pancreas.
Chinese traditional medicine considers that the pathological changes that take place in the body that suffers from diabetes, mainly take place in the lungs, the golden saxifrage (including the stomach) and kidneys, but especially on the kidneys level.
This is because the kidneys are the organs where water and fire mix together, up, and after the vaporization the water transforms into body fluids. If the lungs get these fluids, the thirst feeling disappears, and if the stomach receives them the hunger sensation disappears.
If the vaporized water arrives in the urinary bladder it's eliminated among with the noxious substances produced by the cellular burns.
If the kidneys (which are considered to be the water element) are showing a deficit and the fire becomes too strong, the balance between fire and water is deteriorated and inevitably causes damage to the body fluids, the blood circulation becomes deficient, which leads to blockings in the blood veins and energetic meridians. That's why the disease manifests by forming clots of blood, creating the structure for the base of other complications that appear at diabetics.
Starting from the Chinese traditional medicine's theory to treat the kidneys first, at the beginning you put transducer A on the points Ming men (gate of life) and Shenshu (kidneys points), and with the help of the spin-magnetic waves and the mini-universe, the energetic field penetrates inside by accelerating the metabolic process at the renal cells level, making the vital energy, the blood and body fluids to fill inside the organs, and outside to irrigate the skin, these processes leading to the recovery of the biological functions.
By placing the transducer D on the points Guan Yuan (everlasting fountain), because these points are called fountains on the Shoo-in meridian (leg kidneys), through transducer D the energy from the energetic field of the mini-universe produced by the device, is lead into the kidneys and strengthens the metabolic functions, with direct effects on the symptoms that make the ill to drink a lot of liquids and urinate a lot.
II. Balances the Yin and Yang energy, stimulates the metabolism of the blood oxygen.
Recent medical studies have proven the fact that because of hereditary factors, environmental factors, biological factors, of the factors of the way of life or the mental factors, in the diabetics body take place important changes that lead to blocking metabolic functions and produce deficiencies of microelements that are vital in the body, the glucose endurance decreases and the yin-yang balance of the internal organs is dysfunctional.
In the incipient stage this lack of balance manifests by a yin deficit that leads to a yang excess, dryness and inner heat which produces damage to the body fluids; in the medium stage of the disease the yin deficit appears and it affects the vital energy, and in consequence a double deficit : of yin and of energy.
In the final stage of this disease the manifestation is a yin deficit which affects the yang, the consequence being a double deficit of yin and yang.
By this we can see how the diabetes complications develop gradually and appear stealthily, they evolve more and more and aggravate gradually to dangerous stages. During the treatment, the B transducer is placed on the projection point of the pancreas (Qimen and Riyue), causing the damaged cells in the pancreas, under the straight effect of the energy produced by the device, to recover and this way the oxygen metabolism from the blood that flows in the pancreas tissues to be stimulated, and the glucose endurance factors to be stabilized, increasing the effects of the genes that provide the glucose transportation. By improving the circulation from the level of the pancreas cells, it stimulates the normal division of the cells and reproduces them.
On the other hand, because of the frequency of the B transducer, during the treatment the excitement of the patient's sympathetic nerves is blocked and the stimulation of the vaguely sympathetic nerve is stimulated (because the vague nerve supports the pancreas secretion to organize the pancreatic insulates), and so it controls the blood sugar level, the adrenalin and the secretions of the suprarenal cortex, by eliminating the insulin endurance of the cellular tissues and improving the environment terms for the insulin reception.
At the same time the sensitivity towards insulin of the cellular tissues is quickly increased, the insulin production is stimulated, the ability of glucose transformation is promoted, the usage of the sugar in the blood is fastened and the spreading of the hepatic glycogen is stopped, having as a clear result the dropping of the blood sugar level and the recovery of the pancreas functions.
III. Adjusts and harmonizes the vital energy and the blood, treats the three consumptions.
The traditional Chinese medicine considers diabetes an affection of consumption and thirst, which are, in fact, the symptoms of this disease. By analyzing the symptoms, we have three consumptions: superior, medium and inferior. The term of 'superior consumption' is used to indicate the fluids consumption in the lungs which clinically manifests by thirst sensation and a big amount of water drank.
The medium consumption is used to indicate the hunger sensation and the bulimia that diabetics have; the inferior consumption is at the kidneys level and it manifests by continuous urination and in a big amount. During the treatment, the C transducer is placed on the three energetic points on the belly called Shenque (umbilical cord), Quay (sea of energy qi) and Guan Yuan (the barrier of the primordial energy), achieving with the help of the energy produced by the device to fill with energy the cellular tissues and to promote the adjusting functions of the tissues, to reestablish the harmony between the blood and the vital energy, the veins circulation and the energetic fluids to get more efficiently to the inner organs, in the bones and legs, skin and hair.
Only this way the functions of the organs and of all the tissues, like the metabolic processes can be improved and brought to a normal scale.
Inserting the energy produced by the device through Guan Yuan energetic point can lead to the cure of the medium consumption, which manifests itself by a permanent sensation of hunger.
This can be possible because the acupuncture point Guan Yuan is an important energetic point, where five of the energetic veins of the body intersect, the theories of Chinese traditional medicine having the explanation in the form of a poem: the intersection point of five veins is Guan Yuan, he develops the primordial energy and strengthens the body by supplementing the vital essence stocks, refreshes the yang and stops the collapse, removes humidity-hotness, if the energy goes deeper in that place, the effects of the treatment are very wide.
Guan Yuan point is also a storage place of the vital essence for men and the accumulation point of blood at women.
Beyond the effects of the multiple forms of energy, tonifying this energetic center you can grow primordial energy and the base of existence of the body , it tonifies the kidneys with immediate benefic effects on the vital energy, and if it's used the method of pouring or spreading, it will no longer have the inner hotness with positive effects on eliminating the excess humidity, with the rebuilding power of the yang and stopping the prolapsed. That's why, at the same time with strengthening the biological functions of the body and recovering the health of the body it produces an efficient stimulation of the oxygen metabolism in the pancreatic cellular tissue, making the insulin secretion, the elimination and transfer to be done in excellent terms, and from there the recovery function of the pancreas.