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At the eighth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Senegal in November 2021, China called for deepening practical cooperation with Africa and promoting green development on the continent.
By Erik Solheim
When you travel through the Kenyan city of Mombasa, all of a sudden, a green oasis reveals itself. After passing blocks of run-down buildings and visible poverty, you enter a brand-new world. It is the Mombasa railway station, end station of the Chinese-built Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. The station and its surroundings are strikingly green, beautiful and well kept. Everything is well organized. The trains are modern and appealing. It looks futuristic and promising. It shows the future of Africa.
The new railway runs parallel to the old line, built in the 19th century under British colonial rule. Not surprisingly, it is much faster, more efficient, and designed with more consideration to the local ecology. While the railway passes through Kenya's national parks to minimize its impacts on the wildlife, viaducts and embankments have been built to elevate the railway above ground level, with underpasses allowing wildlife to pass safely underneath. Hopefully the railway will one day connect East Africa all the way to Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, maybe even to South Sudan.
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The recent railway development builds on a proud tradition. When China built the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (TAZARA) linking Tanzania and Zambia in the 1970s, China was still a poor country.
Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere made attempts at securing support from the West, but were rejected on the grounds that the railway did not make commercial sense.
Then Chinese workers and engineers "came as brothers and sisters, as friends, as comrades with common struggle", said President Kaunda, describing the beginning of the construction of the railway, which has since then become a testament to China-Africa friendship.
The railway further promoted the friendship between China and Africa. When China regained its legitimate seat at the United Nations it happened with broad and enthusiastic African support.
Premier Zhou Enlai described the root of this China-Africa friendship best: "Suffering from the same cause and struggling for the same aim, we the Asian and African peoples have found it easier to understand each other and have long had deep sympathy and concern for one another," he said at the Asian-African Conference in 1955.
Building on that friendship, President Xi Jinping announced 10 cooperation plans between China and Africa at the China-Africa Cooperation Summit in Johannesburg in 2015, promising to support Africa in enhancing its capacity for green, low-carbon and sustainable development.
When China hosted the Belt and Road Summits, nearly all African presidents came to Beijing. At the eighth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Senegal in November 2021, China called for deepening practical cooperation with Africa and promoting green development on the continent.
Some experts have said that the two most important factors transforming Africa these days are China and the mobile phone: China investing and trading, phones connecting and making economic leapfrogging into modernity possible.
In terms of purchasing power, China has become the world's number one economy. There are some lessons that Africa can learn from China:
First, the necessity for strong and determined development-focused leadership. Fighting poverty and securing the country's green transformation are top of the political agenda in China. For that matter, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam and other Asian nations have similar experience to share too.
Second, a market-based economy. Many African countries struggle to establish functioning markets as their nations are small in population and often divided by geography and ethnicity. Some still stick to anti-market ideas. But when the forces of the market are unleashed, as happened in China after the reform and opening-up policy was launched, you can count on the ingenuity and the robustness of people to do wonders.
Third, universal education. Hardly any literate person in the world remain in the extremely poor category. China's literacy rate has increased from about 20 percent in 1949 to about 96 percent in 2019. The female adult literacy rate in sub-Saharan Africa was less than 60 percent in 2019. If you cannot read, both business and civil life become harder.
China is very well-placed to help Africa's development. It has the world's largest and most competitive solar and electric battery industries, cutting-edge high-speed railway technologies, a thriving digital finance industry, and first-class universities.
The West should think more along the lines of complementarity than competition with China in Africa. If you haven't built high speed railway at home, it will be hard to compete abroad. When China produces 80 percent of world's solar panels, it has an edge abroad, too. But the United States is a strong force in high tech and runs some of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the world. It is more likely to help with much-sought-for scholarships for African students to top universities than to build green railroads.
China has been Africa's top trading partner for more than a decade. Given China's gigantic volume of investment, it is natural that China will attract scrutiny and criticism. China should respond with self-confidence and be prepared to listen as well as speak. The Belt and Road Initiative has brought a 50-megawatt solar power farm to Garissa in Kenya, the De Aar wind farm to Northern Cape, South Africa, solar-powered milling plants to Zambia and green street lamps to the Central African Republic.
Africa has a long way to go to catch up with Asia in development terms. But the continent has a young, aspiring and innovative population. The opportunities for China and Africa cooperation are huge.
Disclaimer: The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Citizen.
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Two fin whales were blowing in Rosscarbery Bay this morning, approximately 2 miles offshore from Long Strand, with a large feeding flock of gannets. Four mediterranean gulls were on Kilkeran Lake, with 3 scaup, 3 tufted duck, 2 greenshank and a little egret also there. A late sooty shearwater was seen off Galley this evening, with 1 puffin and 1 common scoter also seen. The american golden plover was seen again at Rosscarbery today.
its gonna be a long winter!


Nice list from Brian—some good blogs to add to your blog reader.
I really found this interview helpful—from Jonathan and our friends at DG.
Kimberly Thornbury, a guest poster here and a part of the initial advisory council of The Gospel Project, in addition to her role at King's College, pens this helpful article.
Research shows multisite churches are on the rise. Dr. Warren Bird presents some data about the implications of multisite churches and discusses member development and involvement in this episode of The Exchange. In this clip, we look at lay involvement. Don't forget to join me every Tuesday at 3:00 PM Eastern for The Exchange.


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REPORT: Entertainment Stories Rated '0%' Most Discussed Topics On Radio/TV
Some entertainment critics, pundits, and core industry players have quetched at the less slot and priority given to entertainment programmes on radio and TV.
The call for making the arts a priority in national issues for instance, continues unabated. Entertainment news Editor, Broadcaster, and Arts Advocate, Mr. Kwame Dadzie, has for over 5 years, lobbied radio and TV station owners through his write-ups and social media handles, to give equitable space and priority to the arts – as they do for other disciplines.
Presspeep.com chanced on a report on 'Most Discussed Topics' on radio and TV and the finding in the report is that, the arts or entertainment and its related issues, subjects, or topics, are least discussed or given attention on radio and TV.
The report reads (unedited).
"A total of 3,254 programme/reports were monitored on 39 of the 40 media outlets being monitored under the project (due to extraneous factors, reports from one radio station could not be received).
"These programme/reports were made up of 1,286 radio programmes (including news bulletins and current affairs/discussion programmes); 1,865 newspaper reports (including news, editorials, letters from readers, opinions and features); and 103 reports on news websites (including news, features, opinion pieces, and readers' comments).
The monitoring showed that the subject matter that dominated the programmes/reports monitored included the following:
§ Economic issues (national economic forum and matters arising)- 72
§ Political party activities (press conferences, media releases, intra-party wrangling, etc.) – 48
§ Labour issues (POTAG and NAGRAT strikes) – 46
§ Social issues – 42
§ Security/Crime-related – 39
§ Presidential affairs (Governance & the president's speeches) – 34
§ Health and Sanitation issues – 30
§ Education – 23
§ Corruption –21
The report continues to disclose, "It is worth noting, however, that even though the issues/subjects discussed (as detailed above) were many and varied; the same issues featured in almost all the media outlets monitored. This suggests that despite the apparent media plurality in Ghana, there is little or no diversity in media content/programming.
"The monitoring showed that major news items and current affairs programmes of radio stations in urban centres, especially Accra, were often picked live by some peri-urban and rural-based radio stations.
It was also found that the content of major current affairs programmes and some news items on radio were sourced from some television programmes, newspapers or online publications and vice-versa. These two findings could partly account for the lack of diversity in media outputs."
From the above report, it's evident that entertainment and/or entertainment-related topics are not given maximum attention on radio or TV – hence no rating for them.
Presspeep.com is grateful to Media Foundation For West Africa MFWA for this report. MFWA is an organisation that implements and/or supports initiatives that are aimed at promoting the requisite professional standards that enable the media play their watchdog and development roles more effectively in West Africa.

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Blogs continue to occupy an increasingly important place in intellectual and academic life. One of the many roles blogs play is in creating extended conversations, allowing scholars affiliated with institutions as well as independent scholars to enter into meaningful discourse. Unlike the face-to-face conversations that occur at academic conferences, which are both fleeting and costly, the conversations that emerge from blog posts and related form of electronic exchange can be, seemingly paradoxically, less ephemeral and are relatively inexpensive. And because the barrier to participate is lower, blogs can also facilitate communication across disciplinary boundaries.
The recent round-up of history of science blog posts offers an example. The posts come from a range of scholars from different disciplines. Together these posts help to create a intellectual conversation and to bind scholars together in a common enterprise. And, in the end, these posts provide some good reading.
Welcome to another edition of The Giant's Shoulders #42. Today is the anniversary of the death of Ali Qushji, who died on 16 December 1474. Ali Qushji was a Persian astronomer and mathematician from Samarkand who died in Istanbul. He is remembered most for trying to establish an astronomical physics that was independent of Aristotelian physics. He rejected a stationary earth and, instead, tried to offer evidence for the earth's daily rotation. It seems appropriate, then, that we begin this month's carnival with the early modern posts.


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by Carrie VaughnCarrie Vaughn
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Dreams of the Golden Age is the stunning sequel to author Carrie Vaughn's groundbreaking superhero novel, After the Golden Age
Like every teen, Anna has secrets. Unlike every teen, Anna has a telepath for a father and Commerce City's most powerful businessperson for a mother. She's also the granddaughter of the city's two most famous superheroes, the former leaders of the legendary Olympiad, and the company car drops her off at the gate of her exclusive high school every morning. Privacy is one luxury she doesn't have.
Hiding her burgeoning superpowers from her parents is hard enough; how's she supposed to keep them from finding out that her friends have powers, too? Or that she and the others are meeting late at night, honing their skills and dreaming of becoming Commerce City's next great team of masked vigilantes?
Like every mother, Celia worries about her daughter. Unlike every mother, Celia has the means to send Anna to the best schools and keep a close watch on her, every second of every day. At least Celia doesn't have to worry about Anna becoming a target for every gang with masks and an agenda, like Celia was at Anna's age.
As far as Celia knows, Anna isn't anything other than a normal teen. Still, just in case, Celia has secretly awarded scholarships at Anna's private high school to the descendants of the city's other superpowered humans. Maybe, just maybe, these teens could one day fill the gap left by the dissolution of The Olympiad....
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CARRIE VAUGHN is the New York Times bestselling author of the Kitty Norville books, including Kitty Rocks the House and Kitty in the Underworld.
CELIA West sat alone in her office, a corner suite in the family penthouse at West Plaza. She kept her wide, preternaturally slick desk neat, the few files stacked in a corner, pens lined up, computer screen conveniently placed, laptop dock accessible. Everything else was put away in drawers and filing cabinets. Anyone standing before her wouldn't be able to tell a thing about her, except that she kept her office tidy. People might make assumptions based on that. They might even be right about some of them.
On the computer, she clicked on an encrypted file she'd been sent.
A video played, dark and grainy feed from a security camera outside a jewelry store on the south side of downtown. The camera looked down at the front doors from a corner of the building, creating a foreshortened image, as if the walls had shrunk. Time stamp read 1:23 a.m. A trio approached: men in ski masks, overcoats, baggy jeans, shit-kicking boots. Hoodlums of one flavor or another. One carried a backpack, one carried a baseball bat, the third a crowbar. Standard smash and grab.
Before they could get started on the window and grating, though, a masked vigilante walked into the frame. Words were probably exchanged, but the camera didn't record audio.
The vigilante was just a kid. Male, tall in that impossibly lanky way of teenage boys. All limbs and chaotic movement. He wore a black T-shirt and sweatpants and a homemade mask, probably a bandana with eyeholes cut out, covering most of his hair and the top half of his face. His chin was smooth, youthful. He stood with his fists clenched at his sides, bouncing a little on worn sneakers. He was nervous, excited—this was obviously a first outing. Too young and stupid not to know he couldn't save the world.
The robbers didn't have any patience for this. They stood back a moment, glancing at one another as if confirming this was really happening. Then the guy with the baseball bat stepped forward and swung, aiming for the kid's head.
The vigilante vanished. Blinked out of existence, there … and then not.
Celia used the laptop's touch pad to back up the video and leaned forward to watch the scene again. The average person might think the trick was a special effect, some editing cut made on the video. But the frame didn't skip, nothing else in the image changed. The boy was there one frame, gone the next.
The guy with the baseball bat stumbled, thrown off balance when his blow didn't connect. All three crooks looked around in obvious confusion. Then the baseball bat jerked out of the guy's hands, swung apparently of its own volition, and caught its former owner on the chin. He fell back and lay writhing on the concrete sidewalk.
The kid hadn't vanished, then—invisible, along with what he was wearing.
The other two lunged at the bat hanging in midair. The bat fell—wisely, the kid dropped it and wasn't there when the two crooks attacked the spot he should have been. One of them bent double, from what looked like a kick in the crotch. The other stumbled at a strike to his knees. Kid wasn't doing too badly, really.
It couldn't last, however much Celia might want it to. The guy with the crowbar might have just gotten lucky, but he swung in a likely spot, and connected. The kid flickered back to visibility, cringing and holding his shoulder. Pain, maybe any distraction, interrupted his powers. He had to focus to stay invisible.
Now that he had a target, the guy with the crowbar punched him, fist connecting to cheek. The kid's head whipped around, and he stumbled, his chest heaving to catch his breath. Still visible—he hadn't pulled himself back together.
Celia had a sinking feeling about how the rest of this was going to go, but the kid turned out to be smarter than she expected. He picked up the bat and shoved it through the bars of the security grating to smash the window of the jewelry store. Celia could tell the alarm went off by the way the crooks flinched. The two still standing hauled up their fallen partner and ran. The kid hesitated a moment, rubbing his face where he'd been struck, shaking his head as if to clear it. He looked down the street—at the approaching police sirens, Celia guessed. He disappeared, turning invisible again before presumably running away. Preserving his secret identity.
As a first outing for a vigilante went, it wasn't an unmitigated success, but it wasn't a disaster, either. More interesting to her, though—he was a new guy. She didn't know who he was. But she had a good guess.
Celia kept a file folder in a locked safe that lived underneath her desk. Inside the folder was a list of a dozen names. The people the names belonged to were all dead, but most of them had descendants who lived on, and she kept a list of those names as well. A third generation was coming up. If she traced down the family trees of that original list of names, she'd find the invisible kid. She wondered what he called himself—not the Invisible Kid, she was pretty sure.
And there it was—several teenage boys on the list, all but one of whom she was already tracking. The remaining one had a question mark by his name: Theodore Donaldson. Grandson of Lawrence Donaldson, whose son hadn't exhibited any sign of superhuman abilities, which didn't mean anything. The trait often skipped generations, as she very well knew. But his son …
She crossed out the question mark, wrote a note, and put the file back in the safe. Then she picked up her phone and made a call. A standard receptionist voice answered.
"I'd like to speak to Captain Paulson, please," Celia said.
"I'm sorry, he's in a meeting now."
"Tell him it's Celia West."
The receptionist didn't say anything to that, which made Celia smile. That one name had so much power didn't seem right, somehow. How had it come to this, again? Once upon a time, she'd just wanted to stay anonymous.
"Captain Paulson will speak to you now," the receptionist said curtly, maybe even offended. Gatekeeper duties overridden. Sorry, honey.
Mark's voice came on the line. "Celia?"
"Hi, Mark. I watched that video you sent over."
"Yeah? What did you think?"
"I think he's one to keep an eye on."
"Do you know who he is?"
"Let's give the kid some room, okay?"
"Did you catch the three crooks?"
"No, but we're canvassing the neighborhood and we've got a few leads."
"You canvassing for the kid, too?"
The police captain sighed. "I can't discuss an ongoing investigation with you."
"Why don't you drop it and let me keep an eye on him? You wouldn't have sent me the video if you didn't want me to know about him, right?"
"I just thought you might have a name."
"I can get it if we need it. But let's see what he does next. This may have shaken him up, he may back off."
"Not likely—I know how these guys operate."
"So do I, Mark. Better than you."
"Yeah. Well." He cleared his throat, avoiding an uncomfortable change of subject. "You'll let me know if you hear anything through the grapevine?"
"You know I'm always here for you," she said.
"That's exactly what I need, for people to think I'm in the pocket of the president of West Corp."
"No, they'll know better than that. Take care of yourself, Mark."
"You, too."
The complicated phone unit—the thing had more controls than a jet fighter—beeped an incoming call. She punched the button, which summoned her own receptionist to the line.
"Ms. West? There's a call from Elmwood Academy on line three."
She suppressed a groan. This was about one of the girls. But which one, and was it good news or bad? She could just make the caller leave a message …
"Right, okay, put it through." The line clicked, and she announced, "This is Celia West."
"Ms. West, this is Director Benitez, I'm so sorry to bother you"—Celia was pretty sure other parents didn't get apologies from the headmistress of the city's most exclusive private school—"but I thought you should know that Anna came to school significantly tardy today."
"Define significantly tardy."
"She didn't arrive until after lunch."
That late, Celia wondered why Anna bothered showing up at all, but she didn't say so.
"Did she have a good excuse?"
"I'm not sure what would be a good excuse in this case…"
"Oh, you know, saving orphans from a burning building, that sort of thing."
"Um. Well. No, I don't think she had a good excuse. She said she got held up and lost track of time. She wouldn't go into details. But as you know, Ms. West, attendance is an essential component of success here at Elmwood Academy, and Anna's attendance may come under review if there's another similar incident."
She wondered if Benitez had checked the records to see that Celia had dropped out of Elmwood when she was seventeen. Probably not.
"Yes, Director, I understand. We'll straighten this out at home."
"Thank you." The woman sounded relieved.
"Thank you, for letting me know. Anna and I will have a talk."
The woman hung up quickly. Celia smiled at the phone a moment before putting it away.
Something was definitely up with Anna, but Celia refused to get too worked up about it. It couldn't possibly be worse than the kinds of things Celia got up to at her age. Well, it could, realistically speaking. Imagination always failed to provide all the possible scenarios.
The security cameras in the lobby and elevator let Celia know when the kids arrived home. That meant they'd be in her office in about five minutes, checking in, giving the report for the day. Her little minions, returning to home base. They grumbled when she talked like that.
Her daughters. How the hell did she get far enough along in her life to have two teenage daughters? She ought to get some kind of medal for it. Wait to see if either one of them turns out to be a mass murderer. Ah, yes, there was that.
She timed it well and set aside the spreadsheet she'd been studying so that she was waiting, back straight, hands folded on the desk in front of her, when they walked into her office. Sullen, they held their backpacks slung over their shoulders, and afternoon weariness marred their features. Their neat uniforms—navy skirts, white shirts, maroon cardigans—always looked rumpled by this time of the day.
She greeted them. "Girls."
They muttered hellos and trudged forward to sit in the two chairs that might have been put there for the purpose.
Thirteen-year-old Bethy went first. "We had a quiz today, you know that quiz I told you about, and I think I did okay, but I don't really know. You won't be mad if I flunk it, right? 'Cause you saw me studying for it, right?"
"I know you studied. I don't think you flunked."
She went on for another minute about gym class, about how she needed a new pair of gym shoes because her old ones were too small, and so on, and on one hand Celia wanted to shake her and tell her stop with the minutiae. But really, the greater impulse was to sit back, smile, and let her go on all day long, just to hear the sound of her not-quite-mature voice tumbling forth. Right now, Celia could fool herself that Bethy was still a little girl, with round cheeks, hair in a ponytail, foot swinging to kick at her chair leg. In a couple of years, she'd be like Anna, slouched in her seat, her mind a million miles away, on boys or school or the problems of the world, or maybe just wanting to get out of her mother's crummy office and back to the sanctity of her own private life.
Bethy was strawberry blond, but Anna had inherited Celia's own flame red hair, which she in turn had inherited from her mother. The West redheads. God help her.
Bethy finally wound down and let out a sigh. Amused, Celia said, "I know you're not going to believe me, kid, but you shouldn't worry so much. You'll have plenty to worry about soon enough, don't spend it all on a math quiz."
Her youngeest pouted, clearly not believing her, but Celia didn't expect her to.
"Grandma's cooking dinner tonight. You guys'll be ready for it in a couple of hours?"
They brightened at that, which was a comfort. Family still held some attraction for them, for however long that lasted. Gathering their bags, they stood to make their exit.
Celia said, "Anna, you mind talking to me for just a minute?"
Bethy looked at her sister with a wide-eyed expression, like someone rubbernecking at a car accident. Anna herself put on a blank face, a prisoner walking into a courtroom, and returned to her seat.
Eggshells. Celia couldn't pinpoint the moment when dealing with Anna had become like walking on eggshells, or handling fine china. The change had happened slowly, and then one day she looked up and her oldest daughter wasn't a little girl anymore, and Celia didn't know what to say to her.
Treat her with respect. First rule. Celia remembered being that age, how she felt when people didn't take her seriously. She wouldn't inflict that on her own kids if she could help it.
"Hi, Anna," she said.
"Hi, Mom," the teenager answered, her thin smile a mask. Her hair was chin length, loose, the color bringing out the faint freckles on her nose. She let Celia catch her gaze, but her expression was neutral.
"I got a call from Director Benitez today. You were late to school. Very late."
Anna sighed and looked at the ceiling. "It wasn't that big a deal. It shouldn't have been, I wasn't hurting anything."
"You sure about that?"
She didn't answer.
"So, where were you this morning?"
Her mouth worked, as if chewing over words. "A friend of mine needed help. I couldn't ignore that, could I?"
Celia believed her, because neither of the girls was a practiced liar. They were smart enough to know that lying wouldn't get them anywhere, with their father the telepath around. That was something, at least.
"No, of course not. If your friend was really in trouble and if you were really the only person who could help."
"I was." She stated it as a challenge.
Celia leaned forward and asked, "Was this friend of yours Teddy Donaldson by any chance?"
Anna gaped. "How—" She clamped her mouth shut, then changed her mind about talking. "Did Dad tell you that?"
"I don't think Dad knows anything about it. You haven't seen him since this morning, have you? So how would he know?"
She went into full shutdown mode, as Celia expected, but that was okay. She had her confirmation.
"I applaud your efforts to help your friend. But next time, call me first. We can get you a permission slip or something. Don't go haring off just because you think something's a good idea. Got it?"
"You're still grounded for skipping school, but just for the weekend instead of till the end of the month, like you would have been if you were off smoking or something. Okay?"
No response, not that Celia needed one.
"And for the next three weeks Tom's going to be dropping you off in the town car and watching you go through the front doors."
"Oh, come on!" Anna said.
"Three weeks. Then we renegotiate."
"Three. Argue again and I'm riding in the car with you."
"You wouldn't."
Celia glared. Anna wilted.
"Agreed?" Celia said.
Her daughter slumped in the chair, looking sullen. Looking trapped, really. A familiar expression lately. Celia risked a further prompt, stepping gently. "How was the rest of your day? School, classes … anything else you want to talk about?"
She grimaced. "The usual. It's fine, I shouldn't complain, but it's so … It feels like I'm just going through the motions."
"Jumping through hoops," Celia added. "I guarantee you, jumping through the hoops now will make things easier later on. You just have to stick with it."
Oh, that sigh she gave would power wind turbines. "Then I should get started on my homework, shouldn't I?" She gathered her things, edging off the chair.
One of these days, Celia feared, Anna was going to walk out of the office and never come back. "Okay. I love you."
"Love you, too," she muttered perfunctorily, stalking to the door with her bag over her shoulder.
Celia spent a moment indulging in blind panic, convinced that she'd failed as a mother, her children hated her and were destined to become terrorists or trophy wives, that her entire life would come crashing down around her any day now. The moment passed.
She pulled herself together and finished up a last bit of work, reviewing company financials and arranging her task list for the next day.
"Celia? Your mother has dinner ready."
A man in his fifties stood in the doorway. He wore tailored slacks, and the top button of his dress shirt was undone. His brown hair needed a trim. He seemed like he would be most at home at a university, standing before a chalkboard, lecturing—studious, upstanding. In fact, he was a practicing psychiatrist and a semiretired superhuman vigilante. Dr. Arthur Mentis.
"Hey." Celia smiled at her partner of twenty years. "How was your day?"
"Calm. Saw a couple of patients, did some record keeping. Nothing else to report. You?" He spoke with a mild British accent, which added to his intellectual air. He approached her desk and sat on the edge to look down at her. The only person who could get away with that.
"Something's up with Anna," she said.
"Being seventeen is what's up with Anna."
"Something a little more specific."
"I couldn't say what it might be," he said, shrugging oh so innocently.
"You're not even tempted to pry?"
"No, because I have a good idea of what else I'd find in that stew of a mind. There are so many things fathers are not meant to know about their daughters, I'm terrified at what she might let slip out."
What she already had let slip, Celia suspected. Arthur Mentis was very good at picking up stray thoughts, and though Anna had by sheer force of necessity become very good at keeping her thoughts to herself, she wasn't perfect. But Arthur was also one of the most discreet and understanding men Celia had ever met.
Fathers and daughters, yes. Not that Celia was anything of an expert on the subject. She winced and rubbed at a crick in her neck. She'd been sitting here too long. She seemed to get tired earlier and earlier these days.
"Would she tell us if she had powers?" Celia asked. If Anna had powers, Arthur probably already knew, but he wouldn't say a word about it until Anna did, no matter how much Celia wheedled. It was one of the things they'd agreed on when they became parents. The girls deserved to keep their secrets, as long as no one got hurt.
Arthur nodded. "I think she would. We have to have faith in her."
"She ditched school this morning to help out a friend."
"You see? She has her priorities straight. I think."
"Tell you what: Next time, you can talk to the headmistress."
"The headmistress hangs up the phone whenever I answer her calls. She won't stay in the same room with me, did you know that?"
Arthur had been open and public with his powers for a long time. Everyone knew he was a telepath, and people usually got very nervous around him.
Celia never had.
"I'd noticed, yes. I think it's funny."
"It makes me wonder what she's hiding," he said.
Indeed. She patted his hand. "Faith, Arthur."
Copyright © 2013 by Carrie Vaughn, LLC
More than a superhero story, this is a tale of finding your true self and realizing that good and evil often come in various shades." —RT Book Reviews, 4 ½ stars, a Top Pick! on After the Golden Age
"Vaughn has written such simple and elegant prose to tell a story of superheroes who are just like regular folk….I enjoyed every minute of being glued to it." —Sacramento Book Review on After the Golden Age
"A strong outing...well worth the quick, intense read." —Library Journal on After the Golden Age
"A thrilling yarn.... Good old-fashioned comic book fun." —Locus on After the Golden Age
"[A] warm homage to and deconstruction of classic comic books.... For readers who admire Lois Lane more than Superman." —Kirkus Reviews on After the Golden Age
More known for her urban fantasies featuring Kitty Norville (Kitty in the Underworld), Vaughn returns to the characters she introduced in 2011's comic book-inspired After the Golden Age. That book focused on Celia West, the nonpowered daughter of the most famous hero of Commerce City, and a lot of its appeal was based on this concept of a "normal" person growing up in the shadow of the superpowered. This sequel shifts focus to the next generation, Celia's daughter, who has inherited a variation of her father's (Dr. Mentis) mental skills. Celia, never an easy character to love, uses surveillance and manipulation to try both to protect Anna and steer her toward what Celia sees as her destiny. But being a traditional teen, Anna rebels against her parents' expectations, exploring her abilities in secret. VERDICT The decision to age down this sequel to a younger protagonist makes this even more of a YA title than the first book, keeping the fast-paced adventure but with more teen angst and less of a cynical bite.
Is covert manipulation a better parental and corporate tactic than overt pressure? Vaughn's superpowered sequel to After the Golden Age (2011) attempts to answer that. Celia West wasn't born with superhuman abilities like her parents were, but her dedication to her home, Commerce City, is no less fierce. She did inherit the family business, West Corp, and she works tirelessly to use her wealth to better the city, not merely to profit from it--to the dismay of her rivals. She also keeps a keen but surreptitious eye on all of the descendants of Commerce City's superhumans, waiting for them to show powers of their own and secretly encouraging their vigilantism when they do. Naturally, she's wondering if her teenage daughters by telepath Dr. Arthur Mentis, Anna and Bethy, will be among them. Meanwhile, Anna struggles with figuring out how her ability to psychically locate people fits in with the more battle-ready powers of her friends (all members of the vigilante team she's secretly formed) and concealing her activities from her parents. As in the previous volume, the superhero narrative is a framework to explore the different ways in which children establish their independence from their parents and the degree to which parents can actively support that endeavor--and to what extent parents can and should accept support from their children. The story also examines the considerable reach of financial and legal power and how one's good intentions when wielding those powers may not be enough to justify one's actions. Finally, it serves as a strong argument for open, honest communication--even, or perhaps especially--in a milieu of disguises and secrets. A worthy, rich and thoughtful sequel.
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niicckkii More than 1 year ago
I have loved Vaughn's Kitty series and wondered if this one could be as good. The story is so different it is hard to compare, but both are great and so enjoyable. I read the first book and bought the next book as soon as I could. Both are so worth reading.
Mr7t More than 1 year ago
Fantastic storytelling. Carrie Vaughn did a great job on the portrayal of the superheo genre
Stephreads More than 1 year ago
I loved After the Golden Age, and this one was a lot of fun, too. A nice quick, easy read.
Anonymous More than 1 year ago
This book won't make any sense unless the first book "After the Golden Age" is read first. Both books are filled with comic book like scenarios and characters.
I adored Carrie Vaughn's Kitty Norville series so I high hopes for this book. What a disappointment! First I could not figure out who was the hero? It starts out in the mom's viewpoint, but she's a better businesswoman than mother. The older daughter is kind of a control freak who wants her friends to do what she says. The dad is a psychic who doesn't to read his kids minds even when he catches his daughter sneaking out night. R-E-A-L-L-Y???? I gave up reading at page 75 the characters are not believable or even very interesting. Don't waste your money on this one.
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We had a lovely Saturday morning last week at the Microsoft supported Redefine Learning event in Glasgow.
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Held at the Rookie Oven offices in the old Fairfield Shipyards buildings and organised by the ever-inspiring Ian Stuart, the event was refreshing and informative from start to finish. The surroundings helped – the beautifully converted high-ceilinged space was filled with light on a perfect June morning. Every windowsill and shelf held an example of past technologies, demonstrating the evolution of tech over the decades. We spotted a pristine SNES, ancient iPods, a Gamecube and some early Macs, but we didn't spy a ZX Spectrum (although there was probably one about somewhere).
In this welcoming space, over 70 educators from around Scotland had gathered to listen to other teachers telling us how they were using different MS tools in their work. After a challenging but rousing introduction from David Cameron (no not that one) we selected our workshops from the list on offer, including Sway, Office Mix, Kodu, Skype, OneNote, and Minecraft Edu.
We opted for Office Mix, Kodu and Minecraft Edu, and we weren't disappointed.
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Gareth Surgey from Queen Anne High in Dunfermline gave us a quick tour of Office Mix. This tool, allowing you to create slick multimedia resources from PowerPoint, makes flipped learning so much easier. As both a tool for teachers and a tool for learners it has loads of potential, and Gareth is using it to great effect with a range of classes, who have taken ownership of their own learning and along the way generated screeds of valid and high quality evidence for assessment. Our only quibble is that some local authorities' schools don't yet have access to the more recent versions of Office that allow Mix to be used, another symptom of the unbalanced playing field we work on when it comes to access to technology in Scottish education. It doesn't matter if it's free if your local authority's managed service will charge to upgrade your systems.
We then moved on to Kodu, an early coding/computational thinking app. The friendly user interface and high quality cartoon-like graphics make this an ideal first step into coding for younger learners. The presenter, Kiersty Travers, suggested that Kodu was ideal from mid-primary onwards, but both of us can see our own children (pre-school and P2) getting a lot out of this already. With the ability to simply create attractive Minecraft-like landscapes, adding characters and programming their actions, we can immediately see the appeal of Kodu. We were both able to download it to our hybrid Windows 10 devices, and although it was a bit buggy to begin with, it's such a fun app to play with that we're keen to persevere – a definite winner for developing coding and logic skills in children, and, like almost all of the applications being looked at during the event, free to use.
But if it's skills you're interested in, there's not much to beat Minecraft. In a hugely inspiring session, Andrew Minshall showed us what his class has been doing with Minecraft, and gave us a tantalising glimpse of the potential of Minecraft Edu. We are hoping that this will soon be available for Scottish schools to access via the Glow login. As a conduit for creativity it's hard to beat. Andrew talked about how his class visited and measured Paisley Abbey, used physical blocks to help plan their design, used squared paper to create a blueprint, and then recreated the Abbey in Minecraft – this engaging process develops too many skills to begin to list across so many curricular areas in a real life context – absolutely outstanding. We were also shown the class's recreation of their own school, down to the last detail, an amazing feat of cooperation. Andrew told us about the ready made recreations of landmarks and historic structures that can be downloaded and explored in the game, such as the Titanic and the Egyptian pyramids, bringing a whole new dimension to learning about the past. We're so excited about the possibilities in Minecraft Edu (as keen players ourselves) and we really hope whatever purchase deal is announced is accessible to all. We'd hate to see this as yet another addition to that uneven playing field.
We learned so much during this short morning and it's always great to meet other teachers and share ideas. Events like this are good for the soul, and especially valuable at this time of year when we're counting down to the end of another session – it's good to have a reason to look forward. There's a second event in Dundee tomorrow morning . We wish Ian and all the presenters the best, and for anyone attending, you're going to have a great morning!
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Sky? Skype? Confused? Battle of the communication brands
Judges at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg have denied Skype the ability to register its name as a trade mark on the ground that there is a likelihood of confusion between the "Skype" and "SKY" trademarks (Skype Ltd v OHIM, Cases T-183/13, T-184/13 and T-423/12).
In 2004 and 2005 Skype, owned by Microsoft, sought the registration of a Community Trade Mark for the figurative and word marks Skype in classes 9, 38 and 42 for various goods and services. This was opposed by Sky plc (then known as British Sky Broadcasting Group plc) on the basis that there could be confusion between the two brands due to the similarity of the 'Skype' and 'Sky' brand. The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), who promote and manage Community Trade Marks and Community Registered Designs considered Sky to possess a high degree of distinctiveness, especially in the UK market and thus dismissed Skype's application. Skype appealed the decision of the OHIM. At first instance in the Opposition Division and then later on appeal in the Board of Appeal, Sky's opposition was upheld on the grounds claimed.
Appeal to the General Court of the European Union
Skype then appealed to the General Court of the European Union against OHIM's decision on the following grounds:
the Skype and Sky marks are not similar;
the Skype mark (word and figurative) acquired a secondary meaning for the goods and services in question, serving to counteract any similarity between the signs; and
the two marks have co-existed in the market for many years without confusion.
In dealing with the claim that the two signs are not similar, the General Court agreed with the assessment of the Board of Appeal that the Skype and Sky marks are visually, phonetically and conceptually similar and there exists a likelihood of confusion between them. The Court was influenced by the fact that the Sky mark represents three fifths of the opposed Skype mark and that the word can be heard in its entirety when Skype is pronounced. In relation to the figurative mark, the General Court based its approach on the words, dismissing the bubble cloud around the word Skype as merely a decorative function. On this basis, and more, the General Court judged that it cannot be ruled out that the relevant public would recognise the term, Sky, in the Skype mark applied for, thereby giving a conceptual link between the opposing marks.
With regard to the matter of co-existence without confusion, the General Court again approved the reasoning of the Board of Appeal stating that that the opposing signs are visually, phonetically and conceptually similar. In addition to this, it was held that a peaceful co-existence could not be claimed on the basis that the applicant Skype had only been in operation 6 months prior to filing to register the mark.
Impact of the decision
The practical effect of the Court's decision is limited. The judgement prevents Microsoft from registering a trademark for Skype's name and bubble-design logo but it does not prevent the continued use of the mark Skype as an unregistered trade mark. Microsoft has confirmed its intention to appeal against the decision. If the decision is upheld, Sky could potentially ask Microsoft for a licensing fee to use the Skype name in Europe.
The case illustrates the importance of making sure that a trade mark registration is likely to be granted in any market in which a trading name is likely to be used before settling on it. It also serves to reinforce the importance of carrying out appropriate searches before using a certain brand name or brand image to ensure that there is no possibility of trade mark infringement. Longmores can assist you in protecting your IP.
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New SBS drama "Athena" leads prime time chart on 1st week
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SBS drama "ATHENA" [SBS]
New SBS series "ATHENA" which premiered this week, took off to a flying start, ranking first place amongst dramas in the Mondays and Tuesdays prime time slot.
"ATHENA", a spy action-thriller scored an average viewership rating of 26.5 percent this week, according to Total National Media Statistics (TNmS) and 21.9 percent on a survey by AGB Nielson Media Research.
The drama starring Jung Woo-sung, Soo Ae, Cha Seung-won, Lee Ji-ah, Kim Min-jong, Yoo Dong-geun and Choi Si-won, is the spin-off to KBS' smash-hit spy series "IRIS" which went on air last year.
The first episode of "ATHENA" opened with a large-scale clash between South Korean agents and a mysterious spy duo struggling to get hold of a North Korean scientist who developed a high speed nuclear reactor and expressed his wish to flee to South Korea.
The show then went onto introducing the headquarters for the National Anti-Terror Service (NTS), the intelligence agency where the main characters will serve their missions.
MBC's "Queen of Reversals", the steady second-runner of Mondays and Tuesdays shows, showed notable improvement in terms of rating, marking an mean score of 12.3 percent on TNmS' chart and 14.5 percent on AGB's poll, gaining by nearly three and five percent, respectively, from last week.
The drama starring Kim Nam-joo, Jung Joon-ho, Park Si-hoo and Chae Jung-an depicts on the joy, sorrow and struggles in the workplace through business projects, lay-offs and rivalry.
Meanwhile KBS romantic comedy "Marry Me, Mary!" starring Moon Geun-young, Jang Geun-suk and Kim Jae-wook continued to struggle on charts, reporting an average ratings of 5.8 percent on TNmS' survey and 6.2 percent on AGB's data.
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De Nebtynaam is een deel van de koningstitels van farao's.

Verschijning en betekenis
De naam Nebty is het vrouwelijk meervoudsvorm van nb of heerser, het betekent de twee heerseressen maar wordt ook wel beschreven als "Nebtynaam", "Beide heerseressen" of "De twee vrouwen".

Ze stellen voor een gier en een cobra zittend op een mand, het teken van meester of heerser (Code V30 van de Hiërogliefenlijst van Gardiner). Hierna komen een reeks hiërogliefen, een spreuk.

De betekenis is dat de koning onder de bescherming van de twee nationale beschermgodinnen van Egypte staat. Namelijk: de gier stond voor de godin Nechbet, godin van Opper-Egypte en de cobra stond voor Wadjet, de godin van Neder-Egypte.

Geschiedenis
De titel werd voor het eerst gebruikt door koning hor-Aha van de 1e dynastie van Egypte op een ivoren plaquette, de twee godinnen worden afgebeeld in een tent of tempel.. De titel werd sporadisch gebruikt tijdens de 1e, 2e en 3e dynastie. Vanaf koning Chafra van de 4e dynastie van Egypte werd het deel van de officiële titulatuur van de farao en werd het constant in dezelfde vorm gebruikt.

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Enkele voorbeelden van de Nebtynaam:

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 Vijf namen van de farao

Referenties & verder lezen
  (ed.), art. Nom de Nebty, fr.Wikipedia.org (2002-2009).
 , Early Dynastic Egypt. Strategies, Society and Security, Londen - New York, 1999, pp. 203 - 205.

Oud-Egyptische titulatuur

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The Broomall Fire Company will be visiting The Grayson School during Fire Prevention Week on Tuesday, October 9, at 9:00 a.m. to share the importance of fire safety and prevention with our K-5 students. Our entire school takes part in monthly "surprise" drills to insure that our students are both aware and prepared in the case of an emergency.
As the official sponsor of Fire Prevention Week for more than 90 years, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) works with local fire departments throughout North America to promote their annual campaign and reaches out to the public directly to encourage everyone to take action to be safe. This year's Fire Prevention Week theme is: "Look. Listen. Learn. Be aware – fire can happen anywhere,™" and works to remind the public that fires can and do still happen – at home, as well as other locations – and that there are basic but vitally important steps people can take to remain safe.
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Podcasts have been a big feature of my trip so far. Many long distance bus journeys have been spent listening to Kirsty Young asking various people for the tracks and luxury items they'd need if they were castaway on a desert island (Michael Johnson was a notable running episode) and I've pondered what I'd ask for.
For the past two days I have found out, having been marooned on a desert island for real. OK, I wasn't exactly marooned, I slept in a hotel room, had a hot shower and a lot of good food – but it was a sand island (the biggest sand island in the world) and I had no phone signal or wifi so I think that's pretty much the same thing.
I spent two days on Fraser Island which was realy nice. There, not only did I discover that my luxury item would be a sports bra please Kirsty, but I also realised some of the benefits of running on holiday. My group of 20 set off on a walk through a forest to Lake Wabbie. Wanting to be the first there and to experience this massive sand dune and lake by myself for five minutes I broke into a sprint and passed all of the group. Five minutes alone in these beautiful surroundings was amazing.
Fraser Island is also home to 75-mile beach. And if that name alone isn't crying out for an ultra-marathon to be staged on it, I don't know where is. Keen to investigate this I seized my opportunity late afternoon when the weather broke to go for a short run. I ran about 500m down the beach before I noticed some dingo footprints. As we'd been told several times not to go to the beach alone because of the dingos, I took this as my cue to turn round and run back.
I had no running shoes, so I ran barefoot but I did have a sports bra. The only luxury item I'd need if I was to be marooned there for good. And maybe some sort of dingo repellent too.
Beautiful photo, I like the idea of your sports bra being your luxury item – I think that would be a new one for her!


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Place in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Location of Öllingen within Alb-Donau-Kreis district
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Coordinates: 48°31′40″N 10°8′51″E / 48.52778°N 10.14750°E / 48.52778; 10.14750Coordinates: 48°31′40″N 10°8′51″E / 48.52778°N 10.14750°E / 48.52778; 10.14750
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Alb-Donau-Kreis
Georg Göggelmann
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www.oellingen-albdonau.de
Öllingen is a municipality in the district of Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Öllingen is on the southern slope of the Swabian Jura, in the northern Alb Danube county, about 18 km northeast of Ulm. Öllingen is located on 526m above sea level between the Lone Valley in the north and the Danube valley with the Langenau basin in the south.
Öllingen in Alb-Donau-Kreis
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3 Neighboring communities
5 Sons and daughters of the town
General[edit]
Located on the southern slope of the Swabian Jura pool, Öllingen is a rural structured village which was dominated by agriculture, weaving and by the degradation of sand on the nearby Sandberg. During the last decades, the village has converted into a residential community with several farms and craft workshops. The most striking landmarks of the community are all highly visible Ulrich church and the water tower. The boundaries of the municipality covers an area of 809 hectares. With 531 inhabitants (31 December 2012) Öllingen belongs to the group of the 30 smallest independent municipalities in Baden-Württemberg.
Öllingen - Church clock and sundial
Crest[edit]
Öllinger Crest: On a red background is an upright silver (white) lion holding a silver (white) high cross in the front paws. The silver lion on a red background is derived from the coat of arms of the Counts of Dillingen. The cross bears the lion in its paws suggests the relationship to the monastery Anhausen. At the same time, it is considered an indication of historical relations to the Chorherrenstift Wiesensteig. Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor had passed the patronage of Öllingen church in 1330 to the Chorherrenstift Wiesensteig. The coat of arms was awarded to the municipality by the state government on 21 February 1955, the flag by the District Office on October 1, 1984.
Neighboring communities[edit]
The municipality is bordered to the north by the town Herbrechtingen district Bissingen in Heidenheim district, to the east to Rammingen , on the south to the town Langenau and in the west to Nerenstetten and Setzingen.
Öllingen was documented in 1143 for the first time under the name Elingen, later Ellingen and belonged to the monastery Anhausen. By Excavations in 2002 it was demonstrated that there was a settlement in 2000 BC on the Sandberg. In addition, the Bockstein cave located in the Lone Valley was used by Stone Age hunters. In the 13th century Öllingen belonged to rule of Albeck and was bundled with Albeck 1383 at Ulm. The basic property of the municipality was sold since the 14th century to the imperial city, which meant that in 1790 the imperial city was almost the sole landowner. 1803 the land went over to Bavaria. Seven years later, in 1810 Öllingen then went to the Kingdom of Württemberg, which assigned Öllingen to the Oberamt Albeck. In 1934 the supreme office Ulm became county Ulm and later Ulm district (1938). The town remained a part of the district till the year 1973. The local government reform in 1973 led to the dissolution of the district Ulm and Öllingen came as a separate municipality to Alb-Donau-Kreis. Until 1786 the horse post of Oberelchingen took their way through Öllingen to Giengen and Nördlingen.
Sons and daughters of the town[edit]
Georg Hiller (born 1946), local politician, mayor of Blaubeuren 1978-2002, honorary citizen of Blaubeuren.
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Towns and municipalities in Alb-Donau-Kreis
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Andie MacDowell List of Movies and TV Shows: Best To Worst Filmography
Andie MacDowell's Net Worth as of January 2023 is $25 Million
Quick Facts of Andie MacDowell
Date of Birth 21 April, 1958
Profession Showbiz and TV
Andie MacDowell whose full name is Rosalie Anderson MacDowell is an American actress and model whose acting career began in 1984. Before becoming a professional actress, however, Andie schooled at Winthrop University and then left for Columbia, South Carolina.
While on a trip to Los Angeles, a Wilhelmina Models rep spotted her and talked to her about modeling. However, it was Elite Model Management that Andie signed within the year 1978.
Six years later, the model made her acting debut in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Miss Jane Porter.
Since then, the model cum actress has gone on to star in a lot of movies and TV shows so much so that her fans are beginning to wonder which Andie MacDowell movies and TV shows are the best and which are the worst.
In this article, we compiled a list of some of the actress' best and worst works as rated by viewers.
Is Andie MacDowell's hair naturally curly?
Andie MacDowell wears her naturally curly locks and is a champion for cur;y-haired gals everywhere.
List of Andie MacDowell Movies and TV Shows: Best To Worst Filmography
Groundhog Day (1993)
IMDb Rating RottenTomatoes Ratings Expenses and Returns
8.0/10 96% Tomatometer and 88% Audience score Budget – $14.6 million, Box office – $70.9 million
Top on this list as one of the best Andie MacDowell movies is Groundhog Day. It is a 1993 film directed by American writer, comedian, and actor Harold Ramis.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
The film starred Phil Connors, Andie MacDowell as Rita Hanson, Chris Elliott as Larry the cameraman, and some others.
In Groundhog Day, the cast in the fantasy comedy film acted out the events that happened to a weatherman life who is named Phil.
He feels reluctant to cover weather stories which he has been on for 4 years as he instead feels covering events for the national news should be his forte.
Working alongside him is his producer Rita and cameraman Larry. On Groundhog Day (February 2, 1992), the trio was sent as usual to cover the day's festivities in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania which Phil unapologetically loathes.
However, while on the assignment, he woke up the next morning having a feeling of déjà vu after a snowstorm prevented them from leaving Punxsutawney the previous day.
He saw himself living and waking up to the same events every day. Initially, he used this rare occurrence to indulge in one-night stands, reckless driving, and binge drinking.
However, after some time, Phil had a change of heart and instead decided to use the repetition of events in his life to actually do good to other people as he knew what will exactly happen that day.
While at this, Phil also tries to win love of Rita and does everything he can to see if he can love her back. How he went about this and Rita's responses stand out as one of the actress's best character portrayals in film.
What product does Andie MacDowell use on her hair?
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Short Cuts (1993)
7.7/10 95% Tomatometer and 89% Audience score Box office – $6.1 million
Still in the year 1993, Andie MacDowell delighted us with the character of Ann Finnigan in this American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman.
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Other casts in the film who acted out what goes on in the day-to-day lives of several suburban Los Angeles residents are Bruce Davison as Howard Finnigan, Marian Wyman, as Dr. Ralph Wyman, Anne Archer as Claire Kane, Fred Ward as Stuart Kane, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lois Kaiser, Chris Penn as Jerry Kaiser and others.
Short Cuts told the story of 22 characters in 9 short stories. Ann and her husband Howard were thrown into severe emotional pain when their child Casey went into a coma after he was struck by a car before his 8th birthday.
The film went on to introduce another story of Stuart, Gordon, and Vern; three men who went on a fishing trip but discovered the lifeless body of a naked woman floating on the river.
Instead, of doing something about the corpse, the men chose to finish up with their fishing before giving a thought to what they should do about the corpse.
Other characters introduced in the film were Jerry who works as a pool cleaner and his wife Lois who works as a part-time phone sex performer, Gene a Los Angeles cop that cheats on his wife, and Doreen a limousine driver.
This is one of the notable Andie MacDowell movies every fan of the actress should see. Her portrayal of her character, as well as the performance of other cast members in the film, were all spot on.
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Jane by Design (2012)
IMDb rating TV.com Ratings Expenses and Returns
7.3/10 8.8 Not Available
Jane by Design is an ABC Family American comedy-drama television series that starred in main roles, actors and actresses like Erica Dasher as Jane Quimby, Nick Roux as Billy Nutter, Jane's best friend since childhood, Rowly Dennis as Jeremy Jones, Jane's coworker, David Clayton Rogers as Benjamin Quimby, Jane's older brother, India de Beaufort as India Jourdain, Meagan Tandy as Lulu Pope, Matthew Atkinson as Nick Fadden and Andie MacDowell as Gray Chandler Murray.
The TV series while it lasted, centered around Jane a teenager and high school student who in a case of mistaken identity, was taken to be an adult. She got offered a job in Donovan Decker, a top fashion house.
This sees her juggling her life as a student and an assistant to the fashion house executive. All the while, she kept her true identity a secret.
In the series, Andie who acted as Gray Chandler is a fashion designer and Jane's boss. Despite her being strict, she still on occasions, acknowledges Jane's value to her.
Cuckoo (2012)
7.3/10 Not Available Not Available
Cuckoo is a BBC sitcom that began airing on 25th September 2012. It later went worldwide on Netflix starting in 2016. The British television series has as its directors Ben Taylor for seasons 1 and 2, Paul Murphy for seasons 3 and 4, and Ben Gregor for the 5th season.
The sitcom has in its cast, Andie MacDowell, Helen Baxendale, Greg Davies, Tamla Kari, Matt Lacey, Tyger Drew-Honey, and Kenneth Collard.
The TV series revolves around the Thompson family headed by Ken (Greg Davies) and Lorna (Helen Baxendale) who are the parents of Rachel (Tamla Kari) who went to spend a year abroad.
When she returned, her parents' joy turned into sorrow to see that she came back with a husband named Dale "Cuckoo" Ashbrick (Andy Samberg) an American hippie, who is jobless and a drug addict.
The new couple began living together in Rachel's parents' house with a lot of drama playing out. In the 5th series, Andie MacDowell was introduced as Ivy a character who traveled from America to England.
The suspense-packed into this drama film as well as its unique and interesting storyline is what marks it out as one of the best Andie MacDowell movies.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
7.2/10 96% Tomatometer and 79% Audience score Budget – $1.2 million
Box office – $36.7 million
Sex, Lies, and Videotape is an American independent drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh.
The film had as its cast Graham Dalton, Andie MacDowell as Ann Bishop Mullany, Peter Gallagher as John Mullany, Cynthia Patrice Bishop, Steven Brill as Barfly, and Ron Vawter as Therapist.
Just as its name aptly suggested, the film showed the events that happen in the Mullany household where Ann is an unhappily married woman who has lost every sense of intimacy with her successful lawyer husband named John Mullany.
Unknown to Ann, her husband regularly leaves his law office on middays to have a romantic rendezvous with Cynthia, her sister who lives in the same house with them.
After some time, John invited his school friend Graham Dalton who just moved back home to Baton Rouge to come live with them pending when he finds his own apartment.
John is sexually dysfunctional and only gets sexually gratified when he watches videotapes of women he recorded telling him about their lives, sexual experiences, and fantasies. Thus, he has quite a sizeable collection of such tapes.
A series of events that played out led to Cynthia making a videotape with Graham, same as her sister who went further to have sex with Graham as implied in the scene.
When John got to know of this, he got enraged and went to Graham's place where he watches the tape. A twist came into the film's storyline but in the end, we saw Ann and Graham become a couple.
Unstrung Heroes (1995)
IMDb Rating RottenTomatoes Ratings Returns
6.7/10 74% Tomatometer and 61% Audience score Box office – $7,929,434
Unstrung Heroes is a 1995 American comedy-drama film whose principal cast comprised Andie MacDowell as Selma Lidz, John Turturro as Sid Lidz, Michael Richards as Danny Lidz, Maury Chaykin as Arthur Lidz, Nathan Watt as Steven/Franz, Celia Weston as Amelia, Jack McGee as Lindquist, and Candice Azzara as Joanie.
The film was 's directorial debut and it did earn positive reviews from critics after it was released.
It was about Steven/Franz's family; his sick mother – Selma Lidz, father – Sid Lidz, and his dysfunctional, delusional, and paranoid uncles – Arthur Lidz and Danny Lidz.
When Steve's mother got terribly sick with ovarian cancer, his father allowed him to go live with his uncles despite having some reservations about it.
On moving in with them, Steve's uncle helped him understand and cope with his emotions better and also appreciate his own uniqueness. This helped him overcome the grief that fell on him when he finally lost his mother.
As the storyline of the film developed, several well-thought-out comedy scenes played out and all of these contributed to making Unstrung Heroes one of the best Andie MacDowell movies you should see.
The Beach House (2018)
The Beach House is an adaption of Mary Alice Monroe's 2002 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starred Cara Rudland, Andie MacDowell as Lovie Rudland, Donny Boaz as Palmer Rudland,
as Brett Beauchamps, Toy, and others.
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The film is one of several interesting Andie MacDowell movies with a drama set. It told the story of Cara Rudland who lost her advertising job in Chicago and at the behest of her mother Lovie Rudland returned back to their family house in South Carolina.
When she finally settled down, her mother tried to set her up with an old love interest, Brett Beauchamps. But Cara who is not intending to stay that long was less interested in the relationship.
At home, she also contends with her brother Palmer Rudland who is still mad at her for leaving him with their domineering father.
As the siblings go on in loggerheads, Cara later learned that her mother has terminal cancer and won't be around much longer.
She then begins to repair their broken relationship, fixes their family beach house, and also tends to her turtle nests on the beach which her mother is devoted to. Over time, she finally opens up to Brett's love and one year later she was still living in South Carolina.
Daydream Nation (2010)
6.4/10 68% Tomatometer and 50% Audience score Not Available
In the year 2011, Andie MacDowell worked alongside, Reece Thompson, and Josh Lucas in Daydream Nation, a comedy-drama film where they played the characters of Enid Goldberg, Caroline Wexler, and Thurston Goldberg respectively.
The film was directed by Michael Goldbach while Christine Haebler, Trish Dolman, Jennifer Weiss, and Simone Urdl worked in its production.
In the film, a 17-year-old Caroline Wexler who recently moved from the big city to a small remote town saw herself being with a bunch of "burnout losers" in her new school.
The only person that excites her is her school teacher Barry Anderson and she set out to get his attention successfully. While on this, her classmate Thurston Goldberg also falls in love with her, and a love triangle was set amidst the trio.
Andie MacDowell's role in the film is as Thurston's mother who interceded in her son's quest to win the love of Caroline. As the story had it, she got to know Caroline's father and ended up spending an intimate moment with him over drinks.
Over time, Caroline decided to break off from her teacher lover after she observed that he was dysfunctional and instead show Thurston the attention he has been yearning for.
However, Mr. Anderson does everything possible to sabotage the duo. This led to the point of having a mental breakdown and taking his own life.
Muppets from Space (1999)
6.3/10 63% Tomatometer and 58% Audience score Budget – $24 million
In contrast to the other Andie MacDowell movies, we have listed above and some others coming after this one, Muppets from Space is an American science fiction comedy film.
The film was directed by Tim Hill while Martin G. Baker and Brian Henson worked as its producers. Its cast includes the head of C.O.V.N.E.T., K. Edgar "Ed" Singer, Pat Hingle as General Luft, as the TV producer of UFO Mania, Andie MacDowell as Shelley Snipes, a UFO Mania anchorwoman, Gary Owens as UFO Mania Announcer, Dusty Kornegy as cop #2, Dave Goelz as The Great Gonzo and a host of other Muppet performers.
In Muppets from Space, Gonzo and his friend Rizzo set out on a mission to find out who they truly are. In their quest, Gonzo discovered that he was born to alien parents who live in another galaxy.
After he made his discovery public, Gonzo became wanted by the government led by K. Edgar "Ed" Singer who is zealous to prove that extraterrestrial life exists.
While his friends work to rescue him, he is faced with a hard choice to make on whether to leave for his parent's planet or remain on earth with his friends.
Christmas Inheritance is not one of the best Andie MacDowell movies despite being made with an ensemble that includes Eliza Taylor as Ellen Langford, as Jake Collins, Michael Xavier as Gray Pittman, and Neil Crone as Jim Langford, and others.
The American Christmas comedy-drama which is a directorial credit of Ernie Barbarash was however poorly received.
In the film, our cynosure in this article played the character of Debbie Collins who runs a local diner. The storyline of the film centered much on Ellen Langford who went to Snow Falls to deliver a special Christmas card to her dad's former business partner Uncle Zeke Langford/Santa.
While being held up by a snowstorm, she found shelter in an Inn where she gets befriended by Jake who runs the inn, and Debbie who runs a diner. Another snowstorm hits prolonging her stay in the town much to the angst of her boyfriend Gray.
Gray later visited and is disgusted that Ellen cared so much about the town to the detriment of their relationship.
When the weather was much better, the duo set out to leave but while they were still on the road, Ellen asked Gray to turn around in a gasoline station. There she gave him back his engagement ring and boarded a bus heading back to Snow Falls where she reunited with Jake.
Many people who watched the film expressed their opinion about the storyline being all too familiar with the typical Christmas romance/love stories. Some opine that Christmas Inheritance is one of the worst Andie MacDowell movies.
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