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Stanley White, Koh Guiqing
Tokyo/New York (Reuters)-Asian stocks rose on Tuesday, and Japanese stocks hit 30-year highs because the Brexit trade deal encouraged investors to take risks and hope that the long-awaited US pandemic rescue plan will be expanded.
File picture: A man wearing a protective mask walks in front of a stock quote board outside a brokerage company in Tokyo, Japan, on March 10, 2020 after the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-1
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MSCI's broadest index in the Asia-Pacific region excluding Japan rose 0.45%. The Australian stock market rose 0.53%. Japan's Nikkei index soared 2.4%, reaching its highest level since August 1990. The Chinese stock market bucked the trend and rose, falling 0.32% due to profit taking.
S&P 500 futures rose 0.4%.
The European Stoxx 50 futures rose 0.42%, the German DAX futures rose 0.53%, and the UK FTSE index rose 1.12%, heralding a good start for European trade.
After U.S. President Donald Trump approved a $2.3 trillion stimulus plan to ward off the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar against major currencies fell and U.S. Treasury yields rose.
Although the plan must still pass the Senate, Trump's approval on Sunday caused Wall Street stocks to hit a record high on Monday due to increased optimism about the economic recovery.
Stephen Innes, chief global market strategist at Axi, said: "With Brexit…and the stimulus deals in the US are now seen in the rearview mirror, we have avoided the worst. It's comforting." Broker.
Britain reached a narrow Brexit trade agreement with the European Union on Thursday, only seven days before leaving one of the world's largest trading blocs.
The strong demand for high-risk assets has put the U.S. dollar (usually seen as a "safe-haven" asset) back into the second line. The dollar fell 0.02% against a basket of major currencies.
Shorting the U.S. dollar has been a popular trade recently, and Reuters calculations based on data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday indicate that this trend may continue. As of the week of December 21, the US dollar short position surged to 26.6 billion US dollars, a three-month high.
The dollar index against a basket of six major currencies fell to 90.137, not far from its lowest level in more than two years.
The pound rose slightly to 1.3483 against the dollar, after confirming a widely anticipated trade agreement between the UK and Europe last week.
The weakness of the US dollar pushed the price of gold up 0.33% to US$1,877.56 per ounce.
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Analysts also cited concerns that other large Chinese technology companies may face more government scrutiny, which may inhibit investment in this area.
After falling overnight, oil prices have rebounded globally due to new COVID-19 travel restrictions and fears of increased supply and decreased demand.
Brent crude oil rose 0.45% to US$51.09 per barrel. US crude oil rose 0.48% to $47.85 per barrel.
More fiscal stimulus measures in the United States have also eased concerns about the threat posed by new variants of the coronavirus discovered in the United Kingdom and South Africa.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rose to 0.9381%, but the two-year yield fell back to 0.1270%.
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Middle East|Backing Off Added Powers, Egypt's Leader Presses Vote
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Backing Off Added Powers, Egypt's Leader Presses Vote
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK DEC. 8, 2012
Protesters against President Mohamed Morsi next to a destroyed barricade near the presidential palace in Cairo on Saturday. Credit Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times
CAIRO — Struggling to quell violent protests that have threatened to derail a referendum on an Islamist-backed draft constitution, President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt moved Saturday to appease his opponents with a package of concessions hours after state news media reported that he was moving toward imposing a form of martial law to secure the streets and allow the vote.
Mr. Morsi did not budge on a critical demand of the opposition: that he postpone the referendum set for next Saturday to allow a thorough overhaul of the proposed charter, which liberal groups say has inadequate protection of individual rights and provisions that could someday give Muslim religious authorities new influence.
But in a midnight news conference, his prime minister said Mr. Morsi was offering concessions that he had appeared to dismiss out of hand a few days before. The president rescinded most of his sweeping Nov. 22 decree that temporarily elevated his decisions above judicial review and drew tens of thousands of protesters into the streets calling for his downfall. He also offered a convoluted arrangement for the factions to negotiate constitutional amendments this week that would be added to the charter after the vote.
Taken together, the announcements, rolled out over a confusing day, appeared to indicate the president's determination to do whatever it takes to get to the referendum, which his Islamist supporters say will lay the foundation of a new democracy and a return to stability.
Amid growing concerns among his advisers that the Interior Ministry might be unable to secure either the polls or the institutions of government in the face of renewed violent protests, the state media reported early Saturday that he would soon order the armed forces to keep order and authorize its solders to arrest civilians.
In recent days, mobs have attacked more than two dozen Muslim Brotherhood offices and ransacked the group's headquarters, and more than seven people have died in street fighting between Islamists and their opponents.
As of early Sunday, Mr. Morsi had not yet formally issued an order calling out the military, raising the possibility that the announcement was intended as a warning to tell his opponents their protests would not derail the vote.
The moves on Saturday offered little hope of fully resolving the standoff, in part because opposition leaders had ruled out — even before his concessions were announced — any rushed attempt at a compromise just days before the referendum.
"No mind would accept dialogue at gunpoint," said Mohamed Abu El Ghar, an opposition leader, alluding to previously floated ideas about last-minute talks for constitutional amendments.
Nor did Mr. Morsi's Islamist allies expect his proposals to succeed. Many said they had concluded that much of the secular opposition was primarily interested in obstructing the transition to democracy at all costs, to try to block the Islamists from winning elections. Instead, some of the president's supporters privately relished the bind they believed Mr. Morsi had built for the opposition by giving in to some demands, forcing their secular opponents to admit they are afraid to take their case to the ballot box.
For now, the military appears to back Mr. Morsi. Soon after the state newspaper Al Ahram suggested the president would impose martial law, a military spokesman read a statement over state television that echoed Mr. Morsi's own speeches.
The military "realizes its national responsibility for maintaining the supreme interests of the nation and securing and protecting the vital targets, public institutions and the interests of the innocent citizens," the spokesman said, warning of "divisions that threaten the State of Egypt."
Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood carried the bodies of three people killed during clashes on Wednesday at their funeral in Cairo on Friday. Credit Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times
"Dialogue is the best and sole way to reach consensus that achieves the interests of the nation and the citizens," he added. "Anything other than that puts us in a dark tunnel with drastic consequences, which is something that we will not allow."
If Mr. Morsi goes through with the plan, it would represent a historic role reversal. For six decades, Egypt's military-backed authoritarian presidents used martial law to hold on to power and to jail Islamists like Mr. Morsi, a former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. It would also come just four months after he managed to pry power out of the hands of the country's top generals, who had seized control when Hosni Mubarak was ousted last year and then held on to it for three months after Mr. Morsi's election.
The announcement of impending martial law marked the steepest escalation yet in the political battle between Egypt's new Islamist leaders and their secular opponents over the draft constitution.
Mr. Morsi said he issued the Nov. 22 decree that set off the crisis to prevent the Mubarak-era courts from dissolving the constitutional assembly and upending the transition to democracy. The terms of his concession were ill-defined; the new decree Mr. Morsi issued Saturday night said he retained the limited authority to issue "constitutional declarations" protecting the draft charter that judges could not overturn. Although the plan for martial law outlined in Al Ahram would not fully suspend civil law, it would nonetheless have the effect of suspending legal rights by empowering soldiers under the control of the defense minister to try civilians in military courts.
Calling in the army could overcome the danger of protests or violence that might disrupt the referendum and the parliamentary election to follow. But resorting to the military to secure the vote could also undermine Mr. Morsi's hopes that a strong showing for the constitution would be seen as a sign of national consensus that could help end the political crisis.
Brotherhood officials cheered the military's statements, noting they closely resembled the president's own speeches about a "national dialogue" and moving forward toward democracy.
But Moataz Abdel-Fattah, a former adviser to Egypt's transitional prime minister who is close to Defense Minister Abdul Fattah el-Sisi, said that the military also sought to make clear it was not joining either camp.
"The military is saying, 'Do not let things get so bad that we have to intervene,' " Mr. Abdel-Fattah said. "In the short term it is good for President Morsi, but in the long run they are also saying, 'We belong to the people, and not Mr. Morsi or his opponents.' "
After taking office, Mr. Morsi spent months courting the generals, sometimes earning the derision of liberal activists for his public flattery of their role. And the constitution his supporters eventually drew up included protections of the military's autonomy and privileges within the Egyptian government, despite the protests of the same activists.
Those provisions suggested an understanding between the military and Mr. Morsi that may now allow him to call on the generals' help.
Under the president's planned martial law order, Al Ahram said, the military would return to its barracks after parliamentary elections, which are expected to take place two months after the referendum if the constitution is approved.
If the military does secure the polls, that would appear to undermine the opposition's argument that the latest unrest had all but ruled out this week's referendum.
"Under the present circumstance, how can you conduct a referendum or an election when chaos is reigning and you have protests everywhere?" Amr Moussa, a former foreign minister under Mr. Mubarak and now an opposition leader, asked in an interview Saturday.
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Иван Иванович Козлов (19.01.1921—10.11.1980) — бригадир плотников СМУ № 6 треста «Кировжилстрой» Кировской области, Герой Социалистического Труда (07.05.1971).

Биография
Родился в деревне Чимбулат, Марий Эл (сегодня Советский район). По специальности плотник, образование 4 класса.

Пришёл в строительство в 1937 году. Отец и дед его были плотниками. В шестнадцать лет Иван захотел стать плотником и рассказал об этом отцу. На следующий день он вместе с отцом пошел на работу и первое задание было сделать топорище. Конечно, не все сразу получилось, изделие походило больше на толкушку. С этого и началась для Ивана Козлова жизнь в профессии. Потом уже доверили окантовку бревен, настил полов оконные и дверные коробки.

Служил с 1940 до 1948 годах в железнодорожных войсках, дошел до Будапешта, воевал с Японией. Строили железнодорожные пути и мосты, восстанавливали на освобожденной от врага территории разрушенные железные дороги. В 1943 году служил в стрелковом батальоне.

После демобилизации вернулся в строительство и стал опять работать плотником. Более 20 лет руководил бригадой плотников, позднее по состоянию здоровья перешёл в столяры. В его трудовой книжке есть единственная запись о приеме на работу — в СМУ № 6. Участвовал в строительстве десятков жилых домов, Драматического театра, Дома Советов, гостиницы «Центральная», Дома политпросвещения, ЦУМа, областной больницы, Дворца пионеров, цирка и многих других объектов.

Семья
 Жена — Козлова Таисья Ивановна

Три дочери:
 Лимонова Нина Ивановна
 Шибалова Людмила Ивановна
 Кощеева Наталья Ивановна

Также у него есть четыре внука и три правнука.

Награды
Награждён медалью «За боевые заслуги». В 1966 году стал кавалером ордена Ленина. В 1971 году удостоен звания Героя Социалистического Труда и второго Ордена Ленина. Отмечен медалью «Серп и Молот». Занесен в книгу трудовой славы Министерства строительства СССР.

Примечания

Источники
 Козлов, И. И. Мы обновляем город : [рассказывает бригадир плотников Иван Козлов] / // Кировская правда. — 1973. — 12 авг. — С. 1.
 Смышляев, Г. По стопам деда : [об Иване Козлове] / Г. Смышляев // Кировская правда. — 1980. — 6 апр.
 Козлов Иван Иванович : [о бригадире плотников СМУ № 6 треста «Кировжилстрой»] // Энциклопедия земли Вятской. Т. 6 : Знатные люди. — Киров, 1996. — С. 199.
 Иван Иванович Козлов : [некролог] // Кировская правда. — 1980. — 12 нояб. : фот.
 Герои Социалистического Труда — кировчане : указ. лит. / Киров. обл. библиотека им. , Краевед. сектор; [сост. ]. — Киров, 1976. — 32 с.
 Смолин, Ю. М. Звёздные люди : [о Героях Соц. Труда Киров. обл.] / // Кировская правда. — 1995. — 30 дек. : фот.
 Золотая плеяда кировчан : сб. материалов о Героях Труда, Героях Социалистического Труда, полных кавалерах ордена Трудовой славы, лауреатах Ленинской и Государственных премий и премии Ленинского комсомола / [сост. ; ред. : , ; вступ. слово ]. — Киров : [Дом печати «Вятка»], 2009. — 624 с. : ил.

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Full Moon Names for 2007
By Joe Rao
Full Moon names date backto Native Americans, of what is now the northern and eastern United States. Those tribes of a few hundred years ago kept track of the seasons by givingdistinctive names to each recurring full Moon. Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred.
There were some variationsin the Moon names, but in general thesame ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England on westto Lake Superior. European settlers followed their own customs and createdsome of their own names. Since the lunar ("synodic") month is roughly 29.5days in length on average, the dates of the full Moon shift from year to year.
Here is a listing of allthe full Moon names, as well as the dates and times for 2007. Unless otherwisenoted, all times are for the Eastern Time Zone.
Jan. 3, 8:57 a.m. EST - The Full Wolf Moon. Amid the zero cold anddeep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indianvillages. It was also known as the Old Moon or the "Moon After Yule." In sometribes this was the Full Snow Moon; most applied that name to the next Moon.
Feb. 2, 12:45 a.m. EST- The Full Snow Moon. Usuallythe heaviest snows fall in this month. Hunting becomes very difficult, andhence to some tribes this was the Full Hunger Moon.
March 3, 6:17 p.m. EST- The Full Worm Moon. Inthis month the ground softens and the earthworm casts reappear, inviting thereturn of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this as the Full CrowMoon, when the cawing of crows signals the end of winter, or the Full CrustMoon because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing atnight. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is anothervariation. A total lunar eclipsewill take place on this night; the Moon will appear to rise will totallyimmersed (or nearly so) in the Earth's shadow over the eastern United States. The rising Moon will be emerging from the shadow over the central UnitedStates, while over the Western U.S. the eclipse will be all but over by thetime the Moon rises.
April 2, 1:15 p.m. EDT- The Full Pink Moon. Thegrass pink or wild ground phlox is one of the earliest widespread flowers ofthe spring. Other names were the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and-- among coastal tribes -- the Full Fish Moon, when the shad came upstream tospawn. This is also the Paschal Full Moon; the first full Moon of the springseason. The first Sunday following the Paschal Moon is Easter Sunday, whichindeed will be observed six days later on Sunday, April 8.
May 2, 6:09 a.m. EDT - The Full Flower Moon. Flowers are abundanteverywhere. It was also known as the Full Corn Planting Moon or the Milk Moon.
May 31, 9:04 p.m. EDT -The Blue Moon. The secondfull Moon occurring within a calendar month is usually bestowed this title.
Although the name suggeststhat to have two Full Moons in a single month is a rather rare occurrence(happening "just once in a . . . "), it actually occurs once about every threeyears on average.
June 30, 9:49 a.m. EDT- The Full Strawberry Moon. Knownto every Algonquin tribe. Europeans called it the Rose Moon.
July 29, 8:48 p.m. EDT- The Full Buck Moon, whenthe new antlers of buck deer push out from their foreheads in coatings ofvelvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, thunderstormsbeing now most frequent. Sometimes also called the Full Hay Moon.
Aug. 28, 6:35 a.m. EDT- The Full Sturgeon Moon, whenthis large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water like LakeChamplain is most readily caught. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moonbecause the moon rises looking reddish through sultry haze, or the Green CornMoon or Grain Moon. A total lunareclipse will coincide with moonset for the eastern United States. TheCentral and Mountain Time Zones will see the Moon's emergence coincide withmoonset, while the western United States will see the entire eclipse.
Sept. 26, 3:45 p.m. EDT- The Full Harvest Moon. Alwaysthe full Moon occurring nearest to the Autumnal Equinox.Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice-- the chief Indian staples--are nowready for gathering.
Oct. 26, 12:52 a.m. EDT- The Full Hunter's Moon. Withthe leaves falling and the deer fattened, it is time to hunt. Since the fieldshave been reaped, hunters can ride over the stubble, and can more easily seethe fox, also other animals that have come out to glean and can be caught for athanksgiving banquet after the harvest. The Moon will also be at perigee laterthis day, at 7:00 a.m., at a distance of 221,676 miles from Earth. Very hightides can be expected from the coincidence of perigee with full Moon.
Nov. 24, 9:30 a.m. EST- The Full Beaver Moon. Timeto set beaver traps before the swamps freeze to ensure a supply of warm winterfurs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Beaver Full Moon comesfrom the fact that the beavers are now active in their preparation for winter. Also called the Frosty Moon.
Dec. 23, 2:51 a.m. EST - The Full Cold Moon; among some tribes, theFull Long Nights Moon. In this month the winter cold fastens its grip, andthe nights are at their longest and darkest. Also sometimes called the "Moon beforeYule" (Yule is Christmas, and this time the Moon is only just before it). Theterm Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter nightis indeed long and the Moon is above the horizon a long time. The midwinterfull Moon takes a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite to thelow Sun.
Joe Rao serves as aninstructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes aboutastronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also anon-camera meteorologist for News 12Westchester, New York.
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Joe Rao is Space.com's skywatching columnist, as well as a veteran meteorologist and eclipse chaser who also serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmers' Almanac and other publications. Joe is an 8-time Emmy-nominated meteorologist who served the Putnam Valley region of New York for over 21 years. You can find him on Twitter and YouTube tracking lunar and solar eclipses, meteor showers and more. To find out Joe's latest project, visit him on Twitter.
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Hands-On – Bell & Ross BR 03-92 AeroGT and BR 03-94 AeroGT – The racing car-inspired B&R watches (live photos & price)
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It's now more than 10 years that the BR 01 is the emblematic model of the brand Bell & Ross, a watch inspired by aviation and now iconic. However, the brand couldn't stay focused on a single inspiration and the creation team had to renew the concept, without burning the reasons why the brand is successful. This is the "raison d'être" of the recent BR-X1, a technical and more complicated iteration, or of the B-Rocket, a watch inspired by an internally designed motorbike. For Baselworld 2016, the B&R team again opens new horizons with a collection inspired by a racing car designed by Bruno Belamich ("the Bell" of Bell & Ross). Hands-on with the Bell & Ross BR 03-92 AeroGT and BR 03-94 AeroGT – The racing car-inspired B&R watches.
Just like the B-Rocket editions that we reviewed here, the new Bell & Ross AeroGT collection takes inspiration with a concept away from aviation. Of course, this field will remain the strongest focus of Bell & Ross for the coming years but it can't be the only one, otherwise the brand could easily collapse from collectors' boredom. New horizons had to be explored, without breaking the link with the army or mechanics. This is why a few years ago – in 2014 – Bell & Ross came out with the B-Rocket watches, inspired by an internally designed (by Bruno Belamich) motorbike. This is also why the brand is now sponsoring the Renault Sport Formula 1 team (as reported in an interview of the CEO), in order to open its potential fields of inspiration. The Bell & Ross AeroGT is in the same vein.
Everything started with a design, but not of a watch. The main idea was to design a car that could be the interpretation of the Bell & Ross spirit. The AeroGT concept car was the starting point of the creation of a new pair of watches inspired by the automotive world – the BR 03 AeroGT models. Of course, this concept will remain a 3D sketch (well, who knows, maybe a rich collector will have the wish to build it…) however it served as a base to design the watches. This new AeroGT collection plays with textures, colours and layers in the classical squared-case of Bell & Ross, to bring some race-car spirit.
Two models are introduced, both with entirely skeletonized movements: the 3-hand Bell & Ross BR 03-92 AeroGT and the chronograph Bell & Ross BR 03-94 AeroGT. Both models come in a 42mm x 42mm case, made of stainless steel but with different finishes and surfaces than what the brand used us. If the idea of a round dial and a round bezel inserted in a squared-case is still present, the perceived quality has been improved (just like the B-Rocket editions) by adding polished bevels on the sides of the case and on the periphery of the bezel. Flat surfaces are on the other hand finished with a circular brushing. The 4 screws on top of the case are now aligned.
Mainly playing on metallic colours and brushed surfaces, these two Bell & Ross AeroGT models both feature red indexes and elements inspired by luxurious sports-car. The tube surrounding the crown, the starting pusher of the chronograph, a small triangle pointing the date or 12 o'clock of small tips on the hands are red painted to contrast with the very steel-coloured cases and dials. Both editions are fitted on a perforated leather strap with red lining, reminiscent of seats in high-tech sports vehicles.
Their open-worked dials are formed from layers to give the Bell & Ross BR 03-92 AeroGT and BR 03-94 AeroGT an impression of depth. On both editions, legibility is conserved with tracks printed on the inner flange (with a tachymeter plus a second track on the chronograph and a second and minute scale on the 3-hand version), with a design that reminds of racing cars' dashboard instruments. Hours are indicated by large applied indexes filled with luminous paint and so are the hands. Overall, considering the skeleton movements, these Bell & Ross AeroGT watches remain clear and, mostly, attractive for mechanics' enthusiasts, who will enjoy the view on the mechanical movements – something that the BR-X1 also emphasized, but in a much higher price range.
The Bell & Ross BR 03-92 AeroGT features an automatic movement with 3 hands on the central axis (hours, minutes and seconds) and thankfully no date complication (something that could have clustered the dial). The Bell & Ross BR 03-94 AeroGT features on its side a chronograph movement, with automatic winding. It displays the time (hours and minutes) on the central axis, a small second at 12 and for the chronograph, you'll see a 30-minute counter at 9, a 12-hour counter at 6 and the seconds classically on the central axis. Finally, it displays the date at 3. This movement is based on a modular construction – here a classical automatic movement on top of which is added a skeletonized chronograph module. Both of these watches sit quite pleasantly on the wrist, due to their relatively low dimensions (even if a squared-case always feels larger than a round case).
Both of these watches will be limited to 500 pieces. The 3-hand Bell & Ross BR 03-92 AeroGT will be priced at 4,900 Euros (inc. taxes) and the Chronograph Bell & Ross BR 03-94 AeroGT will be priced at 7,900 Euros (inc. taxes). More to discover on the dedicated page, on bellross.com.
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Opposites Connect
posted Apr 13, 2010
Opposites Connect founder Larry Wilson
Larry Wilson has been on some bad dates.
Really, ask him about them sometime.
Not that he didn't have anything in common with the women he met on online dating sites. In fact, quite the opposite.
The problem, he says, was that they often had too much in common.
Which gave him an idea. A dating site based on conflict.
Yes, conflict.
So on June 1st the Delmar resident is going to launch Opposites Connect -- the dating site that connects people based on their differences.
OK, so really? Setting someone up with their opposite?
You know, I went through a divorce a few years back and after the dust settles people come up to you and say you should get back out there. So I started checking out online dating and ended up joining some of these sites. But what I found was you're seated across the table from a really awesome person that the system is telling you is your 98% match or your 94.5% match and you end up having nothing to talk about because you literally think you know everything there is to know about each other. You forget your social graces, you forget how to hold a conversation. And it ends up you're just repeating what they wrote in their profile.
And all the profiles are the same. "I like sunsets. I'll cook for the right guy. Here's a picture of my dog." And the guys... I started checking out the comptition... "Here's a picture of me in my baseball cap. Here's a picture of me hunting -- but I'm not like other guys."
You fall into what I started calling "date talk." "Soooo... you like sunsets. Me too...."
I got to thinking about what my grandmother always said -- opposites attract.
It's the oldest credo in dating but no one does it. eHarmony matches you with your closest match. Chemistry, Cupid, Plenty of Fish -- all of their systems are to fix you up with your mirror image. And that works for some people. But I thought: "What if we could find a way to have a system that identifies certain moral imperatives: you're a good person, you believe in monogamy -- a good moral base -- and yet brings out your opposite traits. If you have a date with someone and you start with a debate about some issue whether it's frivolous or serious, you're going to gain more respect for them and have a great conversation -- not just date talk.
But why do you have to resort to date talk if you have things in common? If, say, you both like baseball, can't you talk about your favorite players or ballparks or the best games you've been to?
A great show on television was The Odd Couple. A great show on television was Cheers with Sam and Diane. The conflict is what makes it interesting. Sure eHarmony and Match have a lot of success stories. I'm not saying their system stinks... but there are so many people that it doesn't work for, and this is a great alternative.
So is this just marketing, though? You're marketing an online dating service but in a different way.
Of course, but our methodology is different. The "science" behind it is different. When I had this idea, I proposed it to three women who are psychologists in the Albany area, and they loved it. They counsel people about relationships and one of the biggest mistake the folks they meet make is going for the same type over and over and over again. They never give that other person who is so interesting a second glance. We're going to be giving you a chance to meet those people who you wouldn't normally meet. If you are an expert skier, for example and I've never skied. Take me skiing -- I would love to go somewhere I've never been before. That's what we're all about.
40% of everyone who I found on Match locally were also on Cupid and also on eHarmony. They were on three different sites that all do it the same way -- the same system. And they were paying $19 or $20 a piece concurrently. How about giving them the alternative? How about showing them people they're not seeing?
So someone could meet a great match for life or they could just have a really rockin' argument...
Exactly, but why not? Spark the conversation. Gain the respect. Don't just go on someone else's word that you should be together, find out for yourself. We're never going to be like eHarmony and claim that two out of every five marriages in America is from us. If you get married, terrific. But we're going to guarantee your dates are much more fun, much more animated.
OK so how does it work?
If you join now you get a free lifetime membership. We're going to try and keep it free and rely on advertising.
There are three ways to match with someone.
+ There's a quiz that's designed to be fun and humorous that should take you about eight minutes. The quiz was designed with the help of the psychologists to draw out opposite personality traits.
+ There's the oppo-vote, where each week we'll put up a fun poll and show you the people who voted against you.
+ And then we've created a space we call the Rivals Room... which is where you can match based on preferences... say Red Sox/Yankees, rock n'roll/country, liberal/ conservative.
Wait, really?
Sure (laughting), it can happen. Look at James Carville and Mary Matalin.
So in the Rivals Room you join a fan club. You like Starbuck's, someone else likes Dunkin' Donuts. You're gonna get an email from us once a week with the names of people who like Dunkin' Donuts.
But they'll both like coffee?
Right. I don't want to call it science, but there is some really sound thinking behind this. We've worked very hard to craft a test that draws out opposites in peoples personality traits without making it toxic. If someone is a 10 in the overbearing scale we won't match them with someone who is a 0 on the shy scale -- that's not a good date. But maybe a 7 and a 3, sure.
We want to make sure one person doesn't dominate the date -- we're looking for a free flow of ideas. If you hate sports, you won't get matched up with someone whose a sports fanatic. But if you both love music, but one is more country and another rock n' roll, we might put you together.
Is there any kind of study that backs up the opposite's theory?
As far as I know, no one has done an actual study, but there's lots of anecdotal evidence of people who seem so different, but have a great relationship.
Everybody wants this fairy tale where everything is perfect and you don't disagree on anything -- and that doesn't exist. But if you can find something you disagree on but that you're passionate about -- it shows that you're passionate.
We've done some beta testing... setting people up on dates where all they know about each other are the answers to the test questions. There was very little date talk. They had something to talk about. Let's get out of the date talk. I know you like sunsets, but forget it for now... let's have fun.
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This is a great idea! I couldn't be more different than my husband- but we agree on all the "core" principles. It certainly keeps things interesting! Good luck!
... said Anonymous on Apr 14, 2010 at 7:18 AM | link
I get a runtime error when I attempt to sign up???
... said Steve on Apr 14, 2010 at 8:04 AM | link
THANKS SO MUCH Anonymous! We ALL know so many couples that we look at and say "Wow, they're SO different! But together for SO long!" It works for so many people. Thanks for the good wishes.
Steve, I've alerted your problem to the techies. They'll check it out right away. THANKS for your support and keep trying.
In the meantime, if you're on Facebook we have a Fan Page! You can become a fan there and be alerted to the actual site launch!
... said Larry Wilson on Apr 14, 2010 at 8:29 AM | link
yeah, yeah, opposites attract..until they don't. As someone who married her opposite I can say that just like the people who have too much in common and feel like they don't need to talk anymore, with an opposite you end up not talking anymore either. Cause really, what's to talk about? I sometimes find myself silently quoting Ralph Wiggum and want to ask.."so, do you like stuff?" !
... said english major on Apr 15, 2010 at 12:17 AM | link
Well, English Major, I've been married to my "opposite" for 21 years, and life couldn't be better....
... said Accounting Major on Apr 16, 2010 at 2:00 PM | link
My boyfriend and I are pretty much opposites in most ways. We agree on certain things and have similar views on others, but as for our interests and hobbies, we're about as far as you can get. Take for instance we agree that physical activity is important, but he's a runner who can't swim and I'm a swimmer who is allergic to running.
... said Cute~Ella on Apr 16, 2010 at 2:02 PM | link
this is a real dumb idea....opposites do NOT connect...smarty does not date dummy and pretty does not date ugly... he's been on "some bad dates" ?? ...oooofah, that's easy to see why.... yikes!
... said liz78 on Apr 16, 2010 at 10:49 PM | link
What a great idea. In this day a new approach is necessary. Sounds like there are some synical people out there!!!! Wonder if they would ever be smart enough to think of something like this. Obviously NOT.
... said Das on Apr 17, 2010 at 12:51 PM | link
Actually, this isn't a totally new concept. I was just given a book called "Finding Your Perfect Match" (long story, not as insulting of a gift as you this), and apparently it's associated w/ an online dating site called perfectmatch.com. There are personality traits were they feel similarities are matched, and other traits were opposites are better matches.
... said Kim M. on Apr 17, 2010 at 7:40 PM | link
@Das...at least I'm smart enough to know how to spell "cynical" correctly!! and that is EXACTLY my point, I would not want to waste my time looking for my "opposite" who can't even spell simple 5th grade words. Dumb idea.
... said liz78 on Apr 17, 2010 at 9:55 PM | link
WOW ! I think this is a great idea! I have tried many dating sites and from the essays you think that's you;d get along well with your choice....but...ick! Help, where's the emergency exit!!! LOL
I can't waitto have this start up and be one of the 1st to try it out.
Good idea, now for the test coming soon...
greyci
... said greyci on Apr 17, 2010 at 11:08 PM | link
There are so many dating sites out there and they all have the same concept, and maybe that doesnt work for everyone. This sounds like a great new option worth trying!
... said datinggrl on Apr 18, 2010 at 1:31 AM | link
Hi Larry,
So when your site really takes off (I'm confident it will)
get in touch with me about working for you!
... said Rose @Dozenroses13 on Apr 26, 2010 at 11:36 PM | link
So if you go to you site and put in your info it tells you someone will contact you , but no one does, what is up with that ?
... said C on Apr 28, 2010 at 11:49 AM | link
First I want to thank EVERYONE for the very nice comments and words of encouragement!!
And "C", I want to tell you that the issue you bring up was the subject of a meeting just today! We are getting a letter out soon to all who have pre-registered.
What we've been doing in the meantime is constantly updating people with our Facebook page, and via Twitter. So look for us in either of those places.
We've got some big announcements and cool surprises coming up soon, so stay tuned!
... said Larry Wilson on Apr 29, 2010 at 8:37 PM | link


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Now, that you are celebrating this specific and religious feast after a month of fasting, self-controlling as well as practicing mercy, forgiveness, and reconciliation, seeking God's "face" blessings, I would like to call upon the winning lists of 2018 Iraqi Parliament Election (regardless of their sizes) to sacrifice for the love of Iraq and Iraqi people, in bearing their national and historical responsibility and do their best in saving our country from its' current "dangerous" political and social crisis caused by election. Thus, the problem of fraud votes should be solved, otherwise, it will lead Iraq to a constitutional vacuum and an unknown future.
Hence, I am calling all of them to get together around "one table", and having a courageous dialogue to prepare a work program for the "elected" government, realistic and comprehensive in accordance with the objectives and prioritized national matters; find a clear mechanism for its implementation; and especially to speed up the forming of a "patriotic" government, a government that represents all Iraqis, a government based on law, integrity and deeds rather than on speeches, a government that improves services, such as electricity, water, roads and helps in reconstructing what have been destroyed.
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St Lawrence's Square in Byker
St Lawrence's Square was a small estate in the south west corner of Byker which has recently been demolished.
The first photos I took of the place were in the summer of 2006 and less than half the flats were occupied.
Plans for the land include details of 97 new homes, which will be a mix of 2 bedroom flats and 3/4/5 bedroom houses, for market sale and social housing for rent (in the main to accommodate residents who have relocated from St Lawrence and wish to return to the new scheme). There will also be some affordable housing for sale. Development is expected to start on site in early 2009 to be complete in early 2011.
Edit: As of 2021 all the houses in the square are gone and there is no sign of any redevelopment.
Now demolished western side.
The demolished south side.
Demolition of the western side.
The western side.
The houses are now all empty and awaiting demolition.
The south side.
See my other photos around Byker:
Byker - Scrapyard Fire 2011/05
Byker - Spillers' Tyne Mill
Byker - 2021 to 2023
still no development in St Lawrence square
I think the authorities talk all sorts of schemes so they can knock whole estates down and nothing ever happens.
The authorities are what they are and all ways will be lying conmen.get what they want.regardless what it takes to get it.this is the way it is any always will be.(sad but true)


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Museum presents 7-part lecture series on Newlands Project
The V-line canal is one of many waterways constructed for the Newlands Project
By Steve Ranson
Water has been a lifeline to the Lahontan Valley since construction of the Newlands Project began more than a century ago.
Construction commenced in 1903 on a project that would cover land in a four-county area and, according to the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, provide water for 57,000 acres of irrigated land in Churchill County near Fallon and the bench lands near Fernley in Lyon County. The two other affected counties are Washoe and Storey.
Two divisions — the Carson and Truckee — ensure water from two basins eventually flows into the Lahontan Reservoir. The Newlands Project called for a number of dams and 700 miles of canals, lateral and open drains to move the water.
The importance of the Newlands Project to the Lahontan Valley is the subject of this fall's lecture series presented by the Churchill County Museum. All presentations are free and open to the public and will be on Tuesdays beginning at 6 p.m. Teachers may receive professional development hours.
The first of seven weekly presentations begins Tuesday at 6 p.m. with Leanna Hall discussing the evolution of tribal farmers and the Newlands Project. Hall is the Land and Water manager for the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe.
• Sept. 21: Ernie Schank, former president of the TCID Board of Directors and a longtime Lahontan Valley farmer, will give a slide presentation on the project's history and specifically the beginning from 1903 to 1905.
• Sept. 28: Rusty Jardine, TCID's general manager and legal counsel, will present "Water Law in the West: Is water more precious than gold?" Jardine's talk focuses on water rights and how they affect users.
• Oct. 5: Scott Schoenfeld of the Bureau of Reclamation and Daniel Kaler of Farmers Conservation Alliance discuss "Derby Dam: New and Improved Fish Screens."
They will give an overview of the construction of the screens and how they will restore the watershed and support the endangered fish movement along the Truckee River.
• Oct 12: Darcy Phillips, executive director of the River Wranglers, has given previous presentations in Churchill County. Her discussion is "In and Out of the Classroom: Learning About the Carson River Watershed." Phillips will present information on the watershed, pollution, water quality and water conservation.
Also speaking Oct. 12 is Brenda Hunt, manager of the Watershed Program for the Carson Water Subconservancy District. Hunt's topic is "Watershed Literacy in Action: I am Carson Watershed."
The gist of her information centers on the integrated planning for the watershed and the watershed literacy campaign process.
• Oct. 19: The final presenter is Carl Lunderstadt, project leader of the Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"Water for Stillwater: An Oasis in the Desert" examines how the Newlands Project affects the refuge, which is northeast of Fallon.
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The League of Legends World Stage (src: lolesports.com)
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Last weekend, over two million dollars in prize money were awarded to some of the most talented League of Legends players in the world. This year, the League of Legends World Champion came to a stunning conclusion at Incheon, Korea. Here, Invictus Gaming (IG) went head-to-head against Fnatic (FNC) to earn the title of World Champion,
The finals ceremony kicked off with guest performances from artists Mako, The Glitch Mob, The World Alive, IKON's Bobby, and a special stage featuring a Riot Games-produced single performed by Madison Beer, Miyeon and Soyeon of (G)I-DLE, and Jaira Burns.
The much-awaited 2018 season finalists greatly contrasts the Korean team-dominated finals from the past 3 years. This year marked the first year since the tournament's start in 2011 that neither Worlds finalist teams came from Korea, with Invictus Gaming coming from China and Fnatic from Europe.
After hours of rigorous gameplay and impressive performance from both teams, Invictus defeated Fnatic in the Best of Five finals 3-0, making them the first Chinese team to win the world championship in the tournament's history.
The five winning players of IG will be honored with the production of an in-game skin for each member, which will be available for purchase by League of Legends players.
The e-sports industry has experienced massive growth in recent years, and the widespread success of video games such as League of Legends have been carving a path for gamers and video companies alike. In fact, Riot Games has already announced the host regions for the next three years of world championships, further supporting the notion that e-sports are here to stay.
Competitive League of Legends will continue this December in the All-Star Event. You can support your favorite players at lolesports.com from December 6-8, where 64 players from around the world compete for prizes and to raise money for charity.
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Nintendo Done For?
To say that I'm impressed with my new 3DS is an understatement, and that' even before I've gotten my games from Amazon (I was able to play quite a bit of games at Best Buy and Gamespot). However, the lack of a blow-out sales figure along the lines of the iPhone is a worrying factor. Now comes news that PSP has outsold the 3DS in Japan, Nintendo's home turf.
Is Nintendo done for? My answer is a resounding yes.
I am not advocating the notion that Nintendo will go the way of Sega, who exited the hardware business to focus on software, but the mobile gaming industry has changed so much that a dedicated gaming machine is simply out of the question. And Nintendo is pretty conservative and ruled out a Nintendo phone. Why would you carry around a gaming machine, albeit an excellent one, when most but the hard core gamers can find a major of the titles and types of games on an app store for their iPhone, iPod touch, or Android device?
Where does Mario and friends go from here? Well, I hate to use the n-word, you know, niche. However, Nintendo might become a niche player going forward selling to only the most ardent fans.
Why did I get the 3DS if this is how I feel? Well, call it the sentimental side of me. I really wanted to see what I consider to be Nintendo's first Internet and multimedia device can do. So far, I've been impressed with the specs, the 3D screen (I've yet to deveoped headaches because I don't use it for a long period at a time, no games yet), and it's social features.
And I really want the 3DS to succeed.
At this time, a lot of functions like the app store and the browser are not available and won't be for another quarter or so, May or June. And I think that's a mistake but still, at least it's out the door. And I hope the Mii functions can be expanded further, beyond just Wii. We'll see if that aspect of my long list of features get fulfilled.
I hope I'm wrong. However, I hope I'm wrong. Should sales continue to disappoint, you'll likely hear analysts clamoring for a price cut. Nintendo will be stubborn but I think they'll capitulate this time around.
More than just pricing, it's about the software. I really want to see some spectacular ones if I'm going to be paying $40 a pop for them. The 3D games I've played are nice but gimmicky.
And not just games but the social network that Nintendo has created on the Wii. Nintendo should embrace it and build on it. Then it should market it with limited support on other platforms to give users a taste of what they are potentially missing. Maybe even allow their Mii to automatically link up with their real Facebook account if possible.
Nintendo is one of the most innovative company in the world. Conservative yes but when it has something to wow us, it presents it in a big big way. The 3DS is such a innovation but it comes at a time in a very complex and fast moving mobile gaming market. I think we are mere scrapping the top of what 3DS do but it will have to move fast.
Nintendo has said that the iOS devices are its greatest challenge going forward. For now, I'd worry about the PSP
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Q: WPF ContentControl inside another ContentControl not showing I have a Window with a ContentControl that I use to simulate a Wizard navigation that's working just fine. In order to refactor some code I have extract a form inside of one of the UserControl of the Wizard that I'am using in another Window in the exactly same way...
The UserControl that I've extract is working fine on the other window (Not the wizard one), but not inside of my UserControl inside of the Wizard... I'm using ContentControl in both situations...
I don't get any error... I've debugged and the constructor is been called in both cases, but inside of the Wizard it doens't appear, just that.
The code from the simple Window is:
<Controls:MetroWindow x:Class="Desktop.Views.FilePropertiesViewModel">
  <Grid>
     <ScrollViewer VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible">
        <ContentControl x:Name="DocumentPropertyListViewModel" />
     </ScrollViewer>
  </Grid>
</Controls:MetroWindow>

And in the code behind, in the constructor of my Window
public DocumentPropertyListViewModel DocumentPropertyListViewModel { get; set; }
public FilePropertiesViewModel(){
   this.DocumentPropertyListViewModel = new DocumentPropertyListViewModel(File.Properties, false);
}

The difference, as as said is (as a reference, not a real code):
<ContentControl x:Name="Wizard"> <!-- Loading plenty of UserControls>
    <ContentControl x:Name="DocumentPropertyListViewModel" />  <!-- One of the UserControls has this -->
</ContentControl>

By the way, I'm using Caliburn.Micro, that's why I'm using ContentControl instead of a normal UserControl reference, I couldn't figured it out how to do the other way...
I'am doing something wrong here?

A: you might give this a try...
<ContentControl x:Name="Wizard">
  <ContentControl cm:View.Model="{Binding DocPropListViewProp}" />
</ContentControl>
Where DocPropListViewProp is a viewmodel property of type DocumentPropertyListViewModel in your main window viewmodel
And in the code behind, in the constructor of my Window
public DocumentPropertyListViewModel DocumentPropertyListViewModel { get; set; }
public FilePropertiesViewModel(){
   this.DocumentPropertyListViewModel = new DocumentPropertyListViewModel(File.Properties, false);
}

Still troubled by the statement above with the code fragment that you provided saying you had it in the codebehind, did you mean ViewModel?
Also what container are you using for IoC: MEF, SimpleContainer, etc...? Nothing?

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Zach Braff Recruits Bon Iver for Wish I Was Here Soundtrack
Wish I was Here
Focus Features—Merie Weismiller Wallace
By Charlotte Alter
June 30, 2014 3:40 PM EDT
Zach Braff's always been particular about the music in his projects, from Garden State to Scrubs, and his new movie Wish I Was Here is no different.
Braff asked singer-songwriter Justin Vernon, of Bon Iver, to write a new song for his upcoming Wish I Was Here, which is set to hit U.S. theaters in July. Some are calling the new film a grown-up version of Garden State, which was also written and directed by Braff.
Music Supervisor Mary Ramos told NPR that Vernon was immediately inspired when he saw the film.
"They were enjoying it and laughing, but at a certain point, they just got quiet. When it was over, Justin started humming. We talked afterwards about the relationship between Zach's character and his brother [Josh Gad], and Justin and Nate talked a little about their father — all the while Justin kept distractedly humming. Eventually, he sang out the words 'heavenly father.' Before I even left their house, Justin was recording the first version of the song in his downstairs studio. His inspiration was that immediate."
Check out the song here.
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Write to Charlotte Alter at charlotte.alter@time.com.
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Methods: The PBMCs were separated from 22 patients with MS and 20 healthy individuals. They were cultured at 37°C for 24 h in the absence of a stimulator or in the presence of Myelin oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein (MOG) or Phytohemagglutinin (PHA) at a concentration of 10 μg/mL. Then the T-bet and GATA-3 expression was measured by real time-PCR.
Results: The T-bet expression was enhanced, while the GATA-3 expression diminished. Therefore the expression of T-bet/GATA-3 ratio diminished in not-stimulated, MOG-stimulated and PHA-stimulated PBMCs from MS patients compared with equal cultures from the healthy individuals (P<0.01, P<0.01 and P<0.01, for T-bet; P<0.03, P<0.01 and P<0.02, for GATA-3; P<0.01, P<0.001 and P<0.01 for T-bet/GATA-3 ratio, respectively). The not-stimulated, MOG-stimulated, and PHA-stimulated PBMCs from men with MS expressed higher amounts of GATA-3 than equal cells from MS women (P<0.05, P<0.05 and P<0.01, respectively).
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Mick Jackson: 'Taking pity on the reader'
Richard Lea
Having begun his career setting out to write a Booker-shortlisted novel – and succeeding – the novelist tells Richard Lea that these days he's more worried about readers than prize judges
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Thu 8 Apr 2010 05.41 EDT First published on Thu 8 Apr 2010 05.41 EDT
'I was literally two-thirds of the way through before I thought "this is possibly quite mainstream''' ... Mick Jackson. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
"I think this is probably my funniest book," Mick Jackson says – before backing away from "funny" and searching for a "more grown-up word" in order to avoid giving the impression that his latest novel, The Widow's Tale, is just a piece of knockabout. The finely-judged story of a woman who holes up in a cottage on the Norfolk coast after her husband's sudden death certainly includes some good jokes, but there's a lot more to it than that. Assembled from the scraps of diary the widow writes while fuelled by a steady flow of G&Ts and Sauvignon Blanc, her Tale perfectly captures the disorientation that comes with grief and brings it to life against the big skies, grainy light and salt tang of an east coast winter. Over and over, Jackson's widow confronts some awful detail of her bereavement, then veers off into rage or black comedy before arriving at another unpalatable realisation. But the comedy, or the wit, or whatever grown-up word best describes Jackson's wry humour, combines with a deft narrative acceleration to give his story the kind of straightforward appeal that literary fiction often lacks.
Born in 1960 in the Lancashire mill town of Great Harwood, Jackson studied drama at Dartington College of Arts in Devon and spent the 1980s singing and writing for a succession of bands, moving from an acappella group to an indie band called the Screaming Abdabs which played Womad and Glastonbury without ever quite making the big time. Flicking through the newspaper one weekend he saw a piece about the creative writing course at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, and idly thought that if his band were to break up it would be interesting to study there. "Two months later we did," he says "and it took me about a week to put those two things together and decide that I might as well be skint in Norwich as anywhere else." He got in at the second time of asking, a success he now attributes to Rose Tremain, who "took pity" on him at the interview.
Just as Dartington had given him the confidence to do his own thing in music, the year he spent at UEA gave him both the time to focus on his writing and the confidence to experiment. While Jackson understands that many people have reservations about creative writing courses, he feels they're based on a misunderstanding. "You can't teach creative writing," he allows, "but you can support writers while they're developing their skills." For Jackson, Virginia Woolf's dictum that a woman needs "money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" has a wider application. "It's more difficult if you're from a more working-class background to have the time, the liberty, to attempt something as preposterous as writing a novel."
His own preposterous attempt was The Underground Man, another story based on the diary of a person on the edge of reason: this time an eccentric 19th-century duke, who builds a network of tunnels under his Nottingham estate and gradually retreats into them as he slips into madness. It was shortlisted for the 1997 Booker prize, something which Jackson now remembers taking easily within his stride. "The book came out in January, and was really well reviewed, for a first novel," he explains. "The Booker thing didn't happen until August or September time, so it was a long old stretch. It had been shortlisted for a couple of other prizes, so in a strange sort of way it wasn't an incredible surprise. Even when I was writing it I thought, 'This is the kind of book you write, because you've been to UEA'." He's conscious that it might sound flippant, but he set out to write "a sophisticated book" – so it was no shock to find himself in contention for a prize which looks for literary sophistication.
The Widow's Tale, with its gradual ascent from a place of raw despair, offers a structural mirror-image of The Underground Man's descent into insanity. Despite the echoes in their construction, however, the more recent book has a simplicity which Jackson has only recently discovered. "The idea for this book could be written down in two or three sentences," he explains, "and there's something rather wonderful and pure about that. It's very reassuring: if I ever went off track I just thought, 'What is this about?' and found the centre and aimed back towards it."
The novel, which was sparked by a piece on widowhood by Katherine Whitehorn in the Guardian and a wintry Norfolk holiday, started off as an idea for a screenplay for the kind of French director who could catch the grey hues of loss. His editor at Faber suggested it might have the makings of a novel. Jackson had begun talking to women who had lost their husbands when he heard a voice on the radio and knew he'd found what he was looking for. "She's much posher and brighter than I am," he says, but he just got the "hunch" that he could do that voice in his head. Daunted and intrigued in equal measure by the prospect of a female narrator, he jumped in, and began to assemble the novel patchwork fashion.
This episodic structure, which characterises The Underground Man as well as The Widow's Tale, is also evident in Jackson's two folk tale collections, Ten Sorry Tales, published in 2005, and last year's Bears of England. "That's how my imagination works," he says, though he resists the suggestion that this is because he began his writing career as a pop lyricist. For Jackson, the diary form demands the story is told in short chunks, otherwise the character is going to have to "sit at the desk all day to write reams and reams of stuff", and the attraction is obvious: "It's the closest way there is to capturing the actual voice of the character." He finds it "much easier to write in the first person" – something that caused difficulties in his second novel, Five Boys, a story of evacuees in a Devon village, published in 2003. "If you ask any writer they'll say that the idea will dictate the form it takes," he says, "but I suspect it's not a coincidence that two of my three novels have been in this form and that the other one, Five Boys, had technical difficulties." He'd like to think that the next novel "might be completely different", but "halfway through any novel I think 'Oh my God, there's that bloody trope of mine, there's my leitmotif barging in again'. As you get close to the end of the novel you think 'Ah yes, it's another Mick Jackson book', but as long as you genuinely feel when you start the next novel that anything might happen again, then you're sufficiently deluded to have another crack."
The novel he's working on at the moment is also in the first person, and features another character on the edge. Already he has the feeling that a trio of first-person struggles with insanity will be enough, and that it will be time to move onto something else, but he's realistic enough to admit that "if it works like this, then that's fine".
The Widow's Tale is just one of a number of his projects that have shifted between page and screen, and he still hopes to pursue screenwriting alongside his career as a novelist. It may take a while to "swing the tanker around" between projects, but his ideal would be "to write fiction and the occasional screenplay, and most pertinently, to earn money from both". This last remark reveals a willingness to discuss the business of writing that's unusual among literary authors. He explains that, rather than spending time developing screenplays, he's recently devoted more of his energy to maintaining his relationships at his publisher, Faber, because "they're the ones who are going to be paying my mortgage for the next 10 years, hopefully". Faber have been "very accommodating," he adds, "but to a degree they'll encourage me; they'll say 'You've had your bit of fun with this, maybe we should try doing something like this'." The Widow's Tale may have started off as something Jackson was pursuing for himself, but he gradually realised that he might have hit on something with broader appeal. "I was literally two-thirds of the way through before I thought 'Actually this isn't the most obscure project I've ever written; this is possibly quite mainstream'. It genuinely did not occur to me until I was heading towards the end that it's got a woman protagonist. I mean, who buys most bloody books in this country?"
Despite this evidence of a commercial blindspot, Jackson believes he has a much stronger idea of the sort of book an editor will like, or a publisher will get behind, than when he started writing 15 years ago. "I don't want to sound too cynical," he says, "but I quickly get to the pitch, or where I think 'That would be a year's work, I'd really like to do that,' or 'That's six months' research before I've even started, no one's going to want to make a film like that.' You end up being pragmatic." Nowadays, he's also more focused on his readers. When he was writing his first novel he spent his whole time thinking "how can I make this sentence more lyrical?", but now he "takes pity on the reader", always remembering from his own experience "that the reader wants to get the sense of what's happening and be entertained along the way". "I like the idea of a voice having momentum," he adds, "and a reader picking up on that."
Jackson is untroubled by the way the literary establishment undervalues books with an element of humour; the appetite for gloom that saw Orange prize judge Daisy Goodwin complain that "there's a lot of grimness out there". "If I somehow wrote a book that was more mainstream and more humorous than my other books," he says, "then there's a chance that more people might buy them". He recalls a reading he gave years ago alongside an author of romantic fiction, and remembers "looking down my nose at her". "Now I think that any writer worth their salt would rather be in her position," he continues, "than hoping that they're going to get longlisted for one of the prizes, because that's proper money that's going to pay for your next book to be written, and your publisher is going to love you, because you're shifting units." As a literary fiction writer, he believes, "you can't take yourself too seriously. I've got friends who've lost contracts over the last few years – they're not being published unless they're selling."
He's unconvinced by the argument that publishers have a duty to subsidise the work that they feel is really important from the profits of their mainstream successes. "If I'd been trying to get published in the 1940s I don't think I would have been accepted in Bloomsbury," he says, "because I didn't go to the right school, my accent's not quite right, I don't have the right patches on my tweed jacket. In lots of ways I'm glad I'm writing now, rather than then."


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Home Health NAFDAC, Benin Republic Destroy Tramadol, Pharmaceuticals Worth N95bn
NAFDAC, Benin Republic Destroy Tramadol, Pharmaceuticals Worth N95bn
Alice Etuka, Abuja
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Government of Benin Republic have destroyed five containers of tramadol 200 mg and other unregistered pharmaceuticals supplies worth 95 billion naira.
Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeye disclosed this on Monday, January 23, 2023, at a press briefing in Abuja.
Adeyeye explained that one of the containers was transferred to the Cotonou port in Benin Republic while the remaining four were initially diverted to the Tema Port in Ghana.
She said, they were later moved to Cotonou, having met resistance from the Ghana Food and Drug Agency that NAFDAC had already contacted for collaboration to stop the four containers.
Detailing how the operation was carried out, Adeyeye said that the agency liaised with the former Ambassador of Nigeria to the Republic of Benin, Kayode Oguntuase, to ensure that the port authority in the Republic of Benin affected the seizure of the five containers:
"His successor, Olukayode Aluko never relented in his effort at ensuring that all these five containers were released to NAFDAC for destruction.
"Meanwhile, for the other 24 containers, some entities took the case to court in Benin that the containers should be brought back to Nigeria.
"This took about one year plus but Ambassador Aluko stayed on the case until the court made the judgment that the containers can be destroyed in Benin.
"Alas, the government of the Republic of Benin eventually agreed to engage with the Nigerian counterparts to carry out the destruction of these containers in Cotonou.
"A team of NAFDAC officers, including Investigation & Enforcement Directorate officers, led by the Director of Ports Inspection Directorate, Prof Adebayo, travelled to Cotonou where the destruction exercise of the five containers took place on December 21st and 22nd, 2022.
"This international landmark achievement, which had never been recorded in the history of the two countries and NAFDAC, did not come without the unflinching efforts of the staff of the Ports Inspection Directorate in Apapa and Seme Border," she said.
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COLOR TOUCH is the next generation able to recreate oxidative highlighting colors multi hues-tone very similar to those of natural hair thanks to the innovative light2colour Complex: a special combination of three different color pigments guarantees up to 57% more multifaceted reflections combined with a protein complex in fiber with moisturizing can nourish and offer up to 63% more shine to hair. A delicate coloration ' ammonia ' from rich base treating cosmetic which allows excellent coverage of white hair thanks to a perfect color pigment development even at low volumes.
directions for use: mix it with Color Touch L2CC Emulsion to 6 or 13 volumes ' depending on the intensity of the desired variable 1:2 or 1:3 ratio in reflection (gloss).
Rich in pigments and reflective micro-illuminating light in just 5 minutes gives radiance and extreme brilliance in both natural and colored hair.
Synergistic action with Trispectra Formula to cover gray hair with up to 70% harmoniously natural reflexes extremely bright.
nuance: available in 16 shades intense reflections with natural effect.
directions for use: COLOR TOUCH PLUS mixes with Color Touch Plus 1 + 2 ratio of Emulsion.