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Midnight Sun (titre original : Midnight Sun) est un roman fantastique américain de Stephenie Meyer. Contrechamp du premier tome de la saga littéraire Twilight, Fascination qui racontait l'amour impossible entre Bella Swan, une humaine, et Edward Cullen, un vampire, du point de vue de Bella. Midnight Sun raconte les mêmes événements du roman Fascination mais du point de vue d'Edward.

Présentation
L'histoire de Midnight Sun reprend la même trame narrative que le roman Fascination, sauf qu'elle est développée du point de vue d'Edward Cullen. On a accès à ses réflexions, celles de tout son clan et également les personnages secondaires qui ici jouent un rôle essentiel.

Le livre qui le précède est Révélation. Il n'y a pour le moment aucun autre projet qui suit. Il faut cependant faire attention sur la chronologie fictive : Midnight Sun est en effet au même niveau chronologique que Fascination, et le suivant est Tentation.
 Le brouillon est disponible sur le site internet de l'autrice.
 Comme pour tous ses livres, Stephenie Meyer compose une playlist qui l'inspire.

Historique

Publication non autorisée des premiers chapitres en 2008
En 2008, à la suite d'une fuite, les douze premiers chapitres ont été diffusés sur Internet sans l'autorisation de l'auteure. Stephenie Meyer a alors décidé de suspendre son écriture pour une durée indéterminée, malgré le tollé des fans.
Ainsi, en , elle l'expliquait elle-même : « Le manuscrit qui a été mis illégalement sur Internet fut livré à des personnes de confiance pour une bonne raison. Je n'ai pas de commentaires à faire, au-delà de ce que je crois, qu'il n'y avait pas d'intention de nuire à la distribution. »

Les hypothèses actuelles balançaient entre l'arrêt est définitif, pour cause d'inspiration en panne, ou des négociations, qui seraient actuellement en cours avec l'éditeur - Hachette USA - pour renégocier le contrat à la hausse, eu égard aux excellentissimes résultats qu'a connus l'éditeur grâce à elle.

Une pétition, qui avait été lancée pour que Stephenie Meyer continue l'écriture de Midnight Sun, est disponible sur Internet, et déjà près de 388 206 personnes dans le monde l'ont déjà signée (bien qu'on observe une petite chute des signatures, passant sous la barre des 1000 par jour).

Lors d'une conférence de presse à Beverly Hills, début , Meyer avait révélé qu'elle n'avait pas abandonné définitivement l'idée d'achever Midnight Sun, livre qui réécrirait le premier tome de la série du point de vue d'Edward.

« Les gens vont l'oublier […] Et ce sera le moment où j'y reviendrai furtivement et lui donnerai sa chance à nouveau » a déclaré l'auteur de la série, qui est ensuite revenue sur ce que l'incident survenu quelques semaines plus tôt avec la mise en ligne non autorisée d'une partie du manuscrit provisoire, signifiait pour elle et son travail. « Cela s'inscrit dans ma méthode de travail. Selon moi, pour véritablement écrire une histoire – comme je le disais auparavant – je ne peux penser à ce que les autres veulent et pensent, ni quel chemin mon texte prendra ou ce que j'en attends. Parce que c'est paralysant de le faire. Vous ne pouvez littéralement pas mettre un mot sur la page. J'ai besoin d'être vraiment seule avec une histoire. »

Parution
Le 4 mai 2020 il est annoncé que Midnight Sun sera officiellement publié le 4 août 2020. La maison d'édition, Hachette, a du très vite réimprimer de nombreux exemplaires pour répondre à la demande.

Si depuis 2008 Stephenie Meyer n'avait donné aucune indication quant à la poursuite de son roman, en 2016 elle a mis à jour la page de son site web et a décrit longuement sa démarche.

« J'avais prévu initialement de le partager entièrement sur mon site web, mais j'ai changé d'avis pour deux raisons, la principale étant que la version d'Edward est bien plus longue que celle de Bella - Edward analyse tout. Je n'en suis même pas à la moitié qui compte pas loin de trois cent pages. La deuxième raison pour laquelle j'ai changé d'avis est un peu sotte - j'aimerais tellement pouvoir poser une jolie version achevée et reliée de Midnight Sun aux côtés de Twilight au dessus de mon bureau. Je vais donc tenter de le faire publier en tant que roman complémentaire à Twilight. Ça devrait prendre un moment car je ne peux m'y atteler qu'entre deux boulots d'édition, mais j'ai bon espoir qu'un jour je pourrai voir Midnight Sun dans les rayonnages des librairies aux côtés de Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, et cætera. (Renforçant ma conviction que Midnight Sun mérite d'être publié vu l'expression sur le visage de ma mère après avoir lu les onze premiers chapitres - elle a trouvé ça magique et m'a encouragé à continuer.) ».

On peut donc se montrer optimiste quant à la parution de ce roman. Stephenie Meyer ayant également mentionné Midnight Sun dans la préface de son roman《À la vie, à la mort, Twilight réinventé》qui est sorti en édition spéciale pour les 10 ans de Twilight. Cependant, elle n'assure pas qu'elle retranscrira tous les tomes de la saga du point de vue d'Edward Cullen, car d'après l'auteure c'est un personnage complexe à traduire. Midnight Sun pourrai être un one shot.

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Saga Twilight (six tomes publiés dont le roman Midnight Sun)

Liens externes

 Site de la pétition
 Site de l'auteure

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Roman de vampires
Roman américain paru en 2020
Roman de Twilight

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A mother once branded a baby killer left Ontario's top court Monday free of the manslaughter conviction that has haunted her for the past 25 years.
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TORONTO — A mother once branded a baby killer left Ontario's top court Monday free of the manslaughter conviction that has haunted her for the past 25 years.
Moments after the court acquitted her, Maria Shepherd said she forgave Dr. Charles Smith, the disgraced forensic pathologist whose evidence prompted her to plead guilty to killing her three-year-old stepdaughter in 1991.
"I'm not sure what was going on in Mr. Smith's head. There must be something extremely troubling for somebody not to do it once or twice — we're talking at least a dozen people that he has done this to," Shepherd said as her husband and children looked on.
"I forgive Charles Smith, because it's going to be less of a weight, and my family and I can carry on."
The Appeal Court exonerated Shepherd, 46, of Brampton, Ont., after a short hearing at the urging of both Crown and defence.
Speaking for the court, Justice David Watt said Smith's evidence had been the "linchpin" for the Crown's case against her.
The justice system, he said, held out a "powerful inducement" for her to plead guilty given that she faced a possible lengthy prison sentence had she been convicted after a trial, Watt said.
"The appeal is allowed," Watt said. "The plea of guilty and conviction is set aside and an acquittal entered."
Shepherd pleaded guilty in 1992 to manslaughter in the death of Kasandra Shepherd based on evidence from Smith, who was then considered an unassailable forensics expert, and sentenced to two years less a day. She gave birth to her fourth child in prison.
Defence lawyer James Lockyer, with the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted, told the justices that other experts have now concluded Smith's opinion was seriously flawed. Crown lawyer Howard Leibovich agreed, and urged Shepherd's conviction be quashed in favour of an acquittal.
"This is a tragic case," Leibovich said. "Kasandra deserved better. Her family deserved better. (Shepherd) deserved better."
Smith's autopsy on the girl was one of many suspicious child deaths he had handled. A review of his work and subsequent public inquiry uncovered numerous examples where he made serious mistakes, several leading to wrongful convictions. He was stripped of his medical licence in 2011.
Based on what was being discovered about Smith's work, Shepherd was granted leave to appeal in 2009. Lockyer said it took this long for the exoneration because the case was forensically complicated and the system is stacked against overturning convictions.
"It's very difficult to establish that someone has been wrongfully convicted," Lockyer said. "The system doesn't make it easy for you to do that. The system tends to fight you all the way."
Court documents show Kasandra began vomiting and became unresponsive in April 1991 after a long period of ill health. She died two days after being admitted to hospital. Smith concluded she died from trauma due to at least one blow of "significant force" to the back of her head.
Shepherd, who was then 21, told police she had pushed the child once, with her wrist and watch hitting the girl on the head, but said she didn't believe the blow could have killed the girl.
Her lawyer at the time consulted an outside expert who agreed Smith's theory was reasonable, prompting Shepherd to plead guilty to manslaughter rather than risk conviction after a trial.
"Charles Smith was like a god. Who am I? I'm just a little person," Shepherd said outside court. "He couldn't have been more wrong."
Forensic experts now believe Kasandra may have had a previous brain injury that caused seizures, or that she suddenly developed a seizure disorder that killed her. They have also concluded Smith's damning testimony against her contained significant errors.
Shepherd, who has always maintained her innocence, said she was looking forward to rebuilding her damaged family life, something she said she never thought would happen.
"I'm finally acquitted and I'm free and I can be a mom to my kids without this hanging over me," she said. "But this didn't come without 25 years of a lot of quiet tears and anguish."
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Maratha bandh highlights social tension in rural Maharashtra
By Dnyanesh Jathar July 24, 2018 15:47 IST
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The suicide of a Maratha youth in the Godavari river on Monday has once again brought to the fore the social tension in rural Maharashtra as the Maratha Kranti Morcha gave a shutdown call across the state on Tuesday.
Violent protests led by Maratha community youth erupted in parts of Maharashtra on Tuesday, with the protesters demanding reservation in jobs and education.
The immediate reason behind Tuesday's agitation was the suicide of Kakasaheb Shinde. Shinde is alleged to have jumped into the Godavari river as part of the 'Jal Samadhi' agitation organised in Aurangabad district.
According to reports, Shinde was a Shiv Sainik and driver by profession. Shinde had participated in almost all the Maratha Kranti Morcha events. Belonging to a family of farmers, he had completed his SSC. Shinde's family owns just an acre of land and his younger brother is still studying. Shinde took up a job as a driver to support his family. He was working for a local Shiv Sena youth wing leader as a driver.
Restive Maratha community youths have once again started their agitation in support of their demands of quota in jobs and education. They want the recruitment process for 76,000 government jobs to be put on hold till they get reservation.
On Monday, angry protests in Pandharpur forced Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to cancel his visit to the temple town to perform the puja of Lord Vithoba on the auspicious day of Ashadhi Ekadashi.
Ashadhi Ekadashi, the 11th day in the Hindu month of Ashadha, is one of the most important religious festivals of Maharashtra. On this day, the state chief minister performs puja at the temple of Lord Vithoba at Pandharpur, Maharashtra's most important temple town. Lord Vithoba is the most revered deity in Maharashtra and every year, lakhs of people walk to Pandharpur from various corners of the state and reach Pandharpur a day before Ashadhi Ekadashi.
This year, however, the Maratha Morcha organisers had declared that they would not allow Fadnavis to perform the puja at the Vithoba temple in Pandharpur. The Maratha activists had taken this stand to protest what they termed as government inaction over demands of the Maratha community like reservation.
A number of leaders including Fadnavis himself had urged the Maratha Morcha leaders not to obstruct the puja on the occasion of Ashadhi Ekadashi. Udayanraje Bhosale, NCP MP and 13th generation descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji, too had appealed to Maratha Morcha leaders to allow Fadnavis to perform the puja.
But the protesters did not yield to the pressure and Fadnavis had to cancel his Pandharpur visit. Instead, Fadnavis performed the puja of Lord Vithoba at his official residence in Mumbai.
Maratha Kranti Morcha leadership, which gave a call for a statewide shutdown on Tuesday, made sure that they dropped districts of Satara, Solapur, Pune and Mumbai from the shutdown to enable lakhs of pilgrims to return from Pandharpur.
The Maratha Kranti Morcha leadership now wants an apology from Fadnavis for his remarks that there were plans to cause violence during his visit to Pandharpur.
At the cremation of Shinde in Aurangabad on Tuesday, Maratha community leaders demanded assistance of Rs 50 lakh to Shinde's family. They also didn't allow local Shiv Sena MP Chandrakant Khaire to attend his last rites. Fadnavis had said that Shinde's death was an unfortunate incident. The government announced compensation of Rs 10 lakh to Shinde's family and a promise of a government job to Shinde's younger brother Avinash.
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Helping Students Find Their Voice
By Marjorie Ingall
Meet the all-women team bent on teaching Fordham Law students what it means to write, think, and problem-solve as lawyers—clearly, eloquently, and effectively.
The summer of 2021 marked a new direction for Fordham's legal writing and lawyering programs. The two now sit under one umbrella, forming a new department staffed by a trio of new hires. Ilene Strauss, who oversees both programs at Fordham, and her colleagues Aysha Ames, director of legal writing, and Marta Ricardo, director of lawyering skills, have serious teaching chops and practice experience, as well as the connections to bring in adjuncts and lecturers from across the legal map: judges and legal aid attorneys, U.S. Attorneys, DAs, partners in New York City firms.
The group has been busily revamping the curricula, which help more than 900 students a year soup up their communication, analytical, research, and writing skills, so they can hit the ground running once they graduate. "The reorganization allows us to look at the Law School's mandatory skills training holistically and make connections where they weren't explicit before," says Strauss.
The change goes much deeper than a bureaucratic shuffling of departments. "Reexamining the curriculum is pushing us to think deeply about what skills are most important for today's lawyers, regardless of practice area," says Strauss.
From left, Ilene Strauss, clinical associate professor of law and director of legal writing and lawyering programs; Marta Ricardo, director of lawyering skills; and Aysha Ames, director of legal writing.
For Aysha Ames, a love of teaching and writing is a longtime family affair. Her mother worked on a literacy initiative created by Coretta Scott King, and Ames began her career as an elementary school math teacher. (She has a master's degree in education as well as a law degree.) Ames explains that lawyering and teaching young students is quite similar. In both fields you work to make broad concepts easy to understand and accessible. "Teaching math to little kids and teaching writing to law students is more similar than you might think," muses Ames. "Legal analysis is all about proofs. And both math and legal writing are about showing your work. You just can't come up with an answer; you must show how you got to that answer. You can't just say, 'Here's what I think.' You have to show why you think that."
Fordham's writing program is all about those whys … and the hows too. It begins with a mandatory yearlong writing course for 1Ls that focuses on principles of legal research and reasoning and how to convey complex analysis clearly and accurately in real-world documents, such as email, memoranda, and appellate briefs. Classes are not only about writing but also interacting with professors, getting feedback, and prepping for the realities of practice students will encounter once they begin their legal careers. Strauss and Ames hope to further contextualize the course by more closely tying students' written projects to existing introductory modules on interviewing and negotiation. And they are looking to more deeply weave the concepts of social justice, technological competence, and professionalism throughout the program.
The 1L class is just the tip of the iceberg. Fordham's advanced legal writing program allows students to expand on their litigation skills and also explore the more transactional side of legal practice. "There are few schools that have as many drafting classes as we do," Strauss says. "Students can dip their toes into many different pools."
Teaching math to little kids and teaching writing to law students is more similar than you might think. Both are about showing your work.
Aysha Ames, director of legal writing
Upper-level writing classes are limited to 12 students and taught by adjuncts with relevant real-world experience in each field; students learn to draft documents in specific subjects like civil litigation, criminal litigation, intellectual property law, entertainment law, labor and employment law, and real estate law, and the list will continue to grow to reflect student interest and current practice. Yet whatever the area of law, certain fundamentals hold true.
"Good legal analysis involves writing clearly and persuasively," says Ames, who formerly taught legal writing as an assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, and, prior to that, served as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. "For example, Dr. Clarence B. Jones, who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. write one of the most beautiful and powerful pieces of writing in history, the 'I Have a Dream' speech, was a lawyer. He also went to Juilliard, and there's something musical about his writing. But everyone has a unique voice and view of the world, and it's incredibly gratifying to help students find theirs."
Strauss herself learned some postgrad, on-the-job lessons about writing that she hopes to transmit to her students."At my first law firm, my mentor went through my first pro bono brief word by word and circled just one line that he said was strong. And it was the one line that sounded like the way I actually spoke," she says. "That taught me a lot about the value and power of putting my natural voice to use within the law." She hopes to help students come to that realization before graduation.
Like Ames, Strauss and Ricardo have held multiple positions within the legal system. Both came to Fordham this past summer from Columbia Law School. Strauss served as the director of Columbia's legal writing and moot court programs. Before that, she practiced commercial litigation and clerked for the Honorable Emilio M. Garza of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ricardo was Columbia's dean of career services; before pivoting to academia, she worked in securities law at HSBC, Barclays, and J.P. Morgan. "We have varied practice backgrounds and experiences," Strauss says, "but we have complementary skills. And all three of us are committed to making these programs feel supportive and inclusive."
Using Simulations to Cement Practical Abilities
All three women have also seen firsthand how simulation-based courses can help students find their footing as future practitioners. During their 1L writing class, students work in practice settings with fictional clients facing real-world problems. The use of this kind of simulation truly takes off, however, in Fordham's Fundamental Lawyering Skills course (affectionately known as "Fundies"), which is taken by 95 percent of the student body. In Fundies, 2Ls and 3Ls learn real-life skills such as interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and fact analysis, by engaging in a series of factually rich simulations.
One unusual facet of Fundies is its use of actors to help present these different legal scenarios to students. The performers act as clients in various situations: a landlord-tenant dispute, someone injured in a bar fight, a person who was unlawfully detained by the police, a female law firm associate who was sexually harassed. "Other law schools may hire actors for clinics, but the opportunity to work with them isn't available to every law student the way it is at Fordham," says Ricardo.
After the students practice interviewing, negotiating, and advocating for their "clients," the actors—as well as the professors and fellow students—offer feedback. Did the "client" feel a rapport with their lawyer? Did they feel their lawyer had their back? Did they understand the terminology their lawyer used? Is there something they should have said but didn't?
"One actor told a student lawyer doing a police case that they had neglected to ask about the race of the officer," recalls Ricardo. "Race issues aren't always discussed in class, and we need to do that," she says. "It's a fact that certain people are pulled over more than other people, for instance. The law is a creature of society, and we need to educate students accordingly."
Making the Law Interpersonal
Many students walk away feeling like Fundies has been central to their experience at Fordham Law. "It evens the playing field if everyone can take the class, if everyone gets to gain these essential skills: how to listen, how to show empathy, how to negotiate," says Ricardo. "And I think this is the way the bar exam is moving—questions like, 'What kind of questions would you ask a client in this scenario?' will eventually be on the exam." Fundies will continue to evolve to incorporate the broader curricular goals of Fordham Law, such as fluency in legal technology and a focus on professionalism and client service.
Another benefit of simulation-based learning: It helps students grow in a vital but low-stakes way. "Any mistakes won't actually harm anyone's case, so students can take chances and try on personas," says Strauss. Role-playing also produces educational dividends that aren't always easily taught in a more conventional setting. "Working with the actors involves a range of softer skills: communicating across cultures, exercising judgment, connecting with a 'client,'" says Strauss, who feels it's easier to teach these interpersonal components this way than in a traditional classroom.
"One of the great things about Fundies is that you never knew what you were walking into," says Fallon Sheridan '22, who will be taking a job at Kirkland & Ellis in their trademark and copyright group after graduation. "The actors come in and ask questions you might not be expecting. That keeps you on your toes and helps you learn to think on your feet."
Ultimately, though, Strauss, Ames, and Ricardo want to prepare students for what they consider to be the essential task of being a lawyer: "In the end, lawyers are problem solvers," says Ricardo. "What we're really doing is developing the 21st-century lawyer, ready to practice in the 21st century."
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BBC Caspian: about 13 played by a 13 year old.
Walden Caspian: about 13 played by a 26-year-old.
In terms of their respective presence & acting, I prefer Barnes' Tirian-ish Caspian, despite that ridiculously steep age gap.
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I seriously hope in the Walden PC script they technically aged him up to like at least 17-18, no one could ever mistake him as younger than 20 lol
I'm curious if Netflix will age up the characters or not (personally I don't mind a few extra years for some of the characters, especially for the Horse and His Boy) the kids who played the Baudelaires were very close to their book ages when cast
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Caspian was played as the same as Peter – about 16-17.
You guys pretty much called it. I don't want to say the BBC Prince Caspian is bad because they really did include a lot of memorable lines and ideas from the book. But they didn't include the context to make those lines and ideas work as a story. I know that the BBC LWW has been criticized for being too slow paced. I pretty much agree with that criticism. And it's also true that the Prince Caspian has been criticized for being too slow paced. (I've read it described as nothing but padding.) To a lesser extent, I can agree with that criticism too. So I can get behind tightening the story a bit. I don't mind, for example, having the Pevensies figure out where they are and why things have changed so much earlier that in the book. (I probably would have had them figure it out a little bit slower than they did but anyway….)
But there's no sense of growing desperation for the Old Narnians, leading up to them blowing the horn, or for the Pevensies and Trumpkin to find Caspian. There's also hardly any individual characterization. Like this podcast said, there aren't any different perspectives from Edmund, Susan, Peter and Trumpkin about whether they should listen to Lucy. Which is too bad because I feel that the performances from the Pevensies' actors were better than they were in LWW. You can tell they had more experience. I wish they had more to sink their dramatic teeth.
You make an interesting point about how both this PC adaptation and the movie adaptation portray the Pevensies as talking about Narnia right before they're drawn there. I understand why they do that but I prefer how in the Radio Theatre adaptation they're just talking about dramatically irrelevant school stuff. It makes their being pulled into Narnia more of a surprise.
I guess what bothers me about Caspian being older in the first part is that I feel like he should be able to pick up from Miraz's tone that he's angry. Even if he's lived a sheltered life, Miraz's voice makes it increasingly clear that Old Narnia is a dangerous subject. I guess it's a minor point though.
It's interesting that both the BBC and the Walden Media Prince Caspian expanded Prunaprismia's role. I don't think either of them did it that well. In the miniseries, she's introduced at the beginning like she's going to be a major character and then she disappears for the rest of it. In the movie, she's a background character at the beginning, then she has a big dramatic scene in the middle and then she's a background character again for the rest (except for the end arguably.) I think if I were adapting the story, I'd just have her be an offscreen character except for maybe a scene of her giving birth.
I love the line, "I've had so much care and attention, it feels like being in jail!" It doesn't really fit with my idea of Caspian's childhood but it's a great line. LOL.
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It was nice to get to hear what Johnathan Paravel's voice sounds like.
I guess the BBC thought that Prince Caspian would be the least popular and interesting of the adaptations so they cut the story down to an hour. It really was too bad since the book is important enough to deserve two or three hours. They did get the age of Caspian right since he was supposed to be a boy rather than a young man. The Walden movie got this wrong completely with having an adult in the role. Prince Caspian is not my favorite of the Narnia books, but it shouldn't be shortened too much or have adults in children's roles. I think the Focus on the Family Radio Theater is certainly the best version for accuracy and faithfulness to the characters of the book. The creators of that program didn't try to change the story too much.
"I guess the BBC thought that Prince Caspian would be the least popular and interesting of the adaptations so they cut the story down to an hour. It really was too bad since the book is important enough to deserve two or three hours."
That's what I think happened too.
"They did get the age of Caspian right since he was supposed to be a boy rather than a young man. The Walden movie got this wrong completely with having an adult in the role."
The most specific thing the book says about Caspian's age is that he was a year or two younger than Peter. Ben Barnes looks like a year older than William Mosley at most. (I wouldn't surprised if they were the same honestly.) So do you think they should have recast Moseley and the other Pevensie actors? I don't get why people have this super specific image of Caspian's age but they don't care much about the Pevensies ages, especially when they're the more popular characters.
William Mosley was really good as Peter and I think he was about the right age. Having Caspian look younger than Peter might have helped— at least he should have looked like a boy even if he was an older actor. I don't think Ben Barnes was all that bad a choice, but the problem is that he was too old for the role. The BBC did better with Caspian as king in Voyage of the Dawn Treader. We didn't get to know much of the boy prince in the first adaptation. So much time has passed since these programs were made and probably another production won't be made for a long time since Netflix is apparently delaying their project.
I agree. CASPIAN was way too old in the Walden film. (I remember being aghast when Barnes was cast. In the final film, he looked 23. Similar to LB's King Tirian. No beard, but not a teen.) Ironically, I prefer his acting to BBC Caspian, who was an accurate age for Caspian. Neither was a true hit or miss though. They both worked fine. Hopefully the new Caspian will cast a kid under 18, so as to be a believable prince not ready to be crowned.
Personally I think Ben Barnes' Caspian looks much older than William Mosley's Peter (to me Peter looks like he could pass as a junior/senior in high school but Caspian looks well into college)
They did, however, act the same [rather annoying] age, which in my opinion:
1. Made Peter seem too much like a regular teen. Even if we don't take into consideration that he lived to be 27ish before getting snapped back to our world, he still seemed to act more mature and level headed in LWW movie (if a bit unconfident)
2. Made Caspian look like he was some sort of man child. Teens acting like teens can be tiresome (and I say this as technically a teen), but adults acting like teens is just… ugh.
Now, I never cared for this sort of power jousting Peter and Caspian had in the movie and I'm not sure if it has to do with Caspian getting aged up. However, with an older actor I'd want to see Caspian perhaps stirring trouble with Miraz and that was one of the main reasons Miraz tried to kill him. Miraz wasn't a legit king really, the people generally didn't like him, and now Caspian is old enough to take the the throne, especially if he gains the support from the other lords which he's attempting to do perhaps? (or in Miraz's mind, Caspian might even just cross off Miraz and claim the throne that way). Miraz's kid (? does he have a name?) was just the tipping point.
Incidentally, Tirian is one of my favorite characters and I believe is a good example of how strange it would be for an adult to receive help from children from another world, and how to act towards them (he's like kinda mentor-ish but also doesn't act superior to them or exclude them from planning but also isn't thrilled with the idea of sending children to get killed at Stable Hill and so forth)
This was longer than I thought
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Carley says:
I saw the BBC Prince Caspian before I ever read the book or watched the Walden Prince Caspian. I believe I was about eight years old. One of the first things that comes to my mind when I think of this adaptation is the pacing. When I first watched it, I didn't really enjoy it, just because I was really confused with what was going on. I watched a few minutes, but got tired of it quickly and didn't finish it. I think it was probably a year or two later that I actually watched the whole thing.
I like some things about BBC's PC, like a younger Caspian as opposed to the older Caspian in the movie. But the BBC PC lacks emotion, which I think is mostly due to the fast pacing. And the fast pacing is due to the fact that they decided to fit everything into fewer episodes, which wasn't the best idea. I think they just wanted to get PC over with as fast as possible. But, I have to admit, the PC book is not an easy book to adapt. Both adaptations work out the problems in different ways, and neither way is actually wrong. But, despite all the changes made, I prefer Walden Media's Prince Caspian movie.
I actually watched it before I read the book too. I could tell it was an interesting story but I couldn't get into it. I think you and I can understand why that was now.
One thing I never understood about the BBC version is why on Earth Nikabrik was wearing a Viking helmet.
Every other dwarf had one of those stocking caps, or didn't wear a hat at all.
Were the writers trying to spell it out for the audience that he was evil, or was it Leif Eriksson Day and the rest of the Old Narnians missed the memo?
Oh, and Glenstorm neighed like an actual horse when he's first introduced. Okay, then.
I actually laughed reading this:D I haven't seen the BBC adaptations but the images in my head now:):):)
Was Nikabrik the only "black" dwarf shown onscreen, and the rest were "red" dwarfs like Trumpkin? Maybe it was purposeful to distinguish the cultures… although I'm guessing it was more of the "See he's evil? You can tell because he has horns like the devil" lol
As for Glenstorm… ugh that bothers me, Harry Potter movies did that too. Like even if centaurs weren't characterized as more eloquent, wise, and mysterious than humans, they still wouldn't neigh because gee, I don't know, they wouldn't have the right vocal chords?
LOL now I can't the image out of my mind. 😀
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I think that if you were new to the Narnia stories, and BBC was your first introduction, you might feel a bit lost in BBC's PC. Carley has said something like this about her experience and I'm not surprised. There is so much going on , as the podcasters said.
On the other hand, for its merit, the castle roof scene might be the one thing holding it all together. It does have that sweet, innocent longing and hope, in the crisp Narnian night air.
I am yet to watch the second episode, but will do so before the next TB episode. I am interested to see what they do with the whole celebration, but from memory Bacchus doesn't turn up – looks like both adaptations didn't know how to incorporate that into the climax.
You're right. In the Walden Media version, Bacchus and the Maenads weren't included. Nor was Aslan's party.
Lovely having you back! One of the episodes in the coming line up isn't about Narnia's music by any chance, is it?
Incidentally, in my experience yes someone 13 can definitely tell when the person they're conversing with is agitated and the they should drop the subject. Maybe it would've been better to have Miraz fake interest, and, after Caspian spills the beans, go and banish the nurse.
That'd make Miraz pretty different from how he is in the book. He'd come across as much trickier. But I think it could work really well. (And we know he must have been pretty tricky in the past to take over Narnia even if he doesn't display this quality much in the story proper.) If or when someone makes a new Prince Caspian adaptation, I'd be interested in seeing the scene played the way you suggest.
If Netflix goes the route of retelling the stories in episodic form, they had better not cram a whole book into two 30 minute episodes. I also cringe at the thought of 8-10 episodes per book, where a small amount of butter is spread over too much bread like in The Hobbit movies. If they did episodes, 6 sounds like the right length per book, but I know Netflix likes their 50 minute episodes.
Geekicheep says:
It's funny the podcast is titled "the temptation to skip Prince Caspian", because that got me thinking it was something totally different than what it was. I'm really glad it was a review of the BBC version (which was okay for those of us who know the books IMO). It had me thinking you were talking about Netflix. And Netflix, if you follow these podcasts, NO of course you shouldn't skip Prince Caspian (lol). Seriously though, that thought inspired my blog post for this week, where I explain why it shouldn't be skipped and how to do it right. So… thank you? 😀
Courtenay says:
Great new podcast, thanks guys!
It's years since I last watched the BBC version (I caught it when it was first shown on TV, soon after I first read the book as a 7-year-old!) and I'd forgotten that it's only two episodes and it really does rush through the story far too fast. I totally agree, that's its biggest shortcoming. The original book of Prince Caspian is actually the longest of all the Chronicles (going by the number of pages), so it's quite strange that the BBC cut it down to the shortest of their four adaptations! It really deserves at least four episodes, if not six.
I must admit I'm gobsmacked at the number of people who rate PC as their least favourite or one of their least favourites of the Narnia books… I don't have a definite ranking for them, as there are too many things I love about each one of the books and I wouldn't be without any of them, but PC would definitely have to be near or even at the top if I did rank them!! The insertion of Caspian's story after several chapters of the Pevensies does make for awkward pacing, but I can't see how else Lewis could have done it without spoiling the effect you mentioned in the podcast (which neither the BBC nor the Walden versions have) — the way the mystery builds up as the Pevensies realise that they're back in Narnia but it's centuries from when they were last there and everything has completely changed… but why??? And then they rescue Trumpkin and learn the whole backstory. Whereas if we've already been told about Caspian and his search for Old Narnia, then we know what's happened and there's no surprise at all.
All in all, a great analysis and I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the concluding part later this month! Well done and thank you.
Now let's all hope that Netflix, when they get to Prince Caspian, will finally do it justice!!!
And just for Gymfan (and everyone else who was cracking up at that reference to certain unfortunate costumes in the BBC LWW)… 😀
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Cleander says:
I don't recall the Pevensie's adjustment to going to England really being that big of a concern to me when I first read the book. (I was more just there for the atmosphere at the time.) However, it probably is something that needs to be addressed in an adaptation, if only to help build the characters more.
I totally agree with your thoughts on Cornelius! I think the Walden version had more or less the right vision for how he should act; he just didn't get anywhere enough screentime.
I loved that they used a real castle for Miraz. It demonstrates why the Netflix series should consider filming at least some parts in Europe!
Fireberry says:
The main problem with Jack's "Prince Caspian" is it feels like too much like "Lion Witch & Wardrobe" redux minus the charm. The only part I really love in this book is the Great Romp. But it remains a necessary book, to set up "Dawn Treader"
Just Queen, not High Queen says:
It's funny how most of the discussion is about how this episode is so fast-paced, because when I saw this years ago, I thought that going back and forth between Caspian and the Pevensies made it feel sooo slow and generally awkward. It's one of the only things I remember from this version and made me really appreciate how they started with Caspian in the Walden version.
Thinking about why Trufflehunter was cast as a female – it's not a very good gender balance choice, given that Trufflehunter is the animal who takes care of Caspian and shows hospitality [just like a girl would eh?!]. Why wasn't a Male chosen to do that? Oh, was it just because the dwarfs were going to fight and the badger wasn't? No, this is not about gender balance.
They could so easily have dubbed in any voice, no matter who was in the suit.
At least Trufflehunter was played by someone the right size for a Talking Beast! (instead of being a giant waddling kiwifruit!)
Wait, what?! TRUFFLEHUNTER A GIRL?!?! He's a stinkin' boy in the books!


So, here's my weekly random update. It was double EXP this week in Allods, so I decided to level my Pally, Thaze, to lv30. I spread out the levels between my two twinks so there'd be more diversity in duelling. The main reason was that I wanted to try out the Sacred Sunrise Build. The build is decent, with insane heals, but the only problem is that with warriors, it's a solid loss. Stony Resistance is pretty much an instant win against this SS build. Owelz, it's still a fun build to run.
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The Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct Racetrack, in Queens, April 22, 2012. With New York's upstate casinos struggling, some state officials in 2019 are considering the once unthinkable: putting casinos in New York City itself.
By Jesse McKinley, New York Times News Service
Friday, March 22, 2019 - 2 a.m.
ALBANY, N.Y. — With New York's upstate casinos struggling, some state officials are considering the once unthinkable: putting casinos in New York City itself.
Representatives from major gaming companies have been meeting this week with lawmakers in Albany, including Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, to push a proposal to open as many as three full-fledged casinos in the New York City area.
They say that such a move could provide the state hundreds of millions of dollars each year in new revenue and create thousands of new jobs, an argument that has been given extra heft by the collapse of the Amazon deal in Queens, and the ongoing effort to find a financial cure for the city's decrepit subways.
Under one proposal, Aqueduct Raceway on the Queens border with Long Island and Yonkers Raceway would be converted from so-called racinos into full gaming operations. In another, the state would open bidding for up to three casino licenses, clearing the way for a new gambling hub to be built elsewhere in New York City, likely outside of Manhattan.
The chairmen of the Assembly and Senate gaming committees have thrown their support behind the idea of bringing gaming to New York City. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has not closed the door altogether, but he has expressed deep skepticism about an accelerated plan to expand gambling in the state. Leader of the Senate Democrats Andrea Stewart-Cousins has not publicly stated a position about new casinos, but Heastie has been historically cool to the idea.
The companies have proposed paying upstate casino operators about $100 million to counteract the loss of exclusivity — New York had agreed not to issue any more casino licenses until 2023. The three companies also have expressed a willingness to pay the state at least $500 million each to operate in the downstate market.
Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, a Democrat from Westchester County who leads the Racing and Wagering Committee, was impressed by the amount of money being floated — "They are offering $500 million each," he said — adding that such a windfall could improve the state's finances immediately. "It could go into this year's budget," he said.
The upstate casinos are seemingly on board with the expansion plan. But it still faces an uphill slope in Albany, particularly among liberal Democrats in the state Assembly who view gaming as a regressive tax.
Cuomo has said he remained "dubious" of any plan to open new casinos before 2023, but he did not outright reject the possibility of expanding casino gambling, giving hope to plans like those backed by Las Vegas Sands, owned by Sheldon Adelson, a prominent supporter of Republican politicians and President Donald Trump. Sands is seeking to open a new luxury casino in New York City, and the company has enlisted former Gov. David Paterson to advocate on its behalf.
"I think, in an iconic city like New York, to have an iconic structure, would be another, really beautiful, tourism destination," Paterson said in an interview, adding that he wished someone had proposed it when he was in office and "we had a $21 billion deficit."
Paterson was referring to shortfalls in the state budget, which is due April 1. Projected income tax revenue is lower, and agreements to create other revenue streams for the state, including legalized marijuana and congestion pricing, are facing opposition. The looming shortfalls led the governor and legislative leaders last week to signal an accord on a pied-à-terre tax, which will target superluxury second homes in New York City.
There is also external pressure from neighboring states, as New Jersey continues to embrace and expand betting, and intrastate support: In Yonkers, Mayor Mike Spano signaled support for allowing live-dealer table games at the Empire City casino, which, like Aqueduct, currently only has video lottery terminals, which resemble slot machines. So did the Business Council of Westchester, which said the effect of Empire City "cannot be overstated."
MGM Resorts, which owns Yonkers Raceway, and the Genting Group, a Malaysian-based conglomerate that runs the Resorts World racino at Aqueduct, have stressed the speed with which they could transform their current operations in Yonkers and at Aqueduct Racetrack into full-fledged casinos, arguing they could be up and running within months, as opposed to the years it might take for an outside company to start from scratch.
"Resorts World is a proven operator ready to move immediately once given the authorization," said Michael Levoff, a spokesman for the Genting Group, noting that the Aqueduct casino had been operating in Queens for seven years, and generated "over $2 billion in much-needed revenue."
Sands, meanwhile, seems to be banking on the appeal of construction and other union-friendly jobs. The company is already negotiating agreements with at least two major unions, including the Building Construction and Trades Council, whose president was one of the authors of an op-ed in early March that advocated for an expansion of casinos downstate as a way to provide "new revenue to improve public transit service, fund public education, and other New York priorities."
The argument in favor of expansion was echoed in a letter sent to Cuomo by the Business Council of New York, a frequent ally of his, arguing that it would add up to "$1.5 billion in much-needed immediate revenue," though the council said it was opposed to the idea of "any quick-fix approach to convert existing racinos." The process, it said, should be opened to bidding.
The state has had a staggered and at times stalled approach to gaming. Its first casinos in the modern era came after Supreme Court decisions in the 1980s and 1990s affirmed the right of Native American tribes to run such franchises and a 1993 compact with Mario Cuomo, who was governor at the time. The state's racinos began to open in 2004 and have expanded to nine locations, including Aqueduct and Yonkers.
In 2013, Cuomo doubled down, signing legislation to allow seven full-fledged casinos, despite warnings about saturation in the gaming market. At the time, the governor promised such facilities were designed to benefit upstate before downstate, assuring no casino license would be granted anywhere near New York City until 2023.
But all four newly licensed casinos — Resorts World Catskills Casino in Monticello, New York; Rivers Casino in Schenectady; the del Lago Resort and Casino, in Tyre, a small town southeast of Rochester; and Tioga Downs Casino Resort, west of Binghamton — have missed their own projections for earnings. Trouble signs are easy to find: Del Lago has been warned about its debt, while Empire Resorts, which owns the Catskills casino, also reported large losses last year.
Cuomo has already signed off on allowing the four upstate casinos to offer sports wagering inside the facilities, though he has balked at permitting mobile sports wagering, which New Jersey has embraced.
But the governor seemed to recognize the potential of a New York City casino, suggesting that such a facility, if opened to competitive bidding, could drive up the price far higher than the $500 million each currently being floated by MGM and Genting.
The appeal for the casino companies is clear: untold numbers of potential customers, including the 65 million tourists who come to New York City every year.
"You've got massive population, not only in New York but in surrounding states," said Ron Reese, a spokesman for Sands. "And that's really what drives the success of these multibillion-dollar casino resort properties."
Indeed, Cuomo characterized a New York City casino as "the golden franchise" for gaming.
"If you were to go there, and I'm not even sure I would go there," the governor said, about such a plan, "it would have to be through a competitive bidding process, so we made sure New Yorkers got the best price."
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The author was stabbed in the neck and abdomen at an event in New York on August 12.
Oct 24, 2022 · 09:11 am Updated Oct 24, 2022 · 09:15 am
Author Salman Rushdie in London on October 13, 2019. | Tolga Akmen/AFP
Author Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand following an attack on him at a literary event in western New York in August, his agent Andrew Wylie told Spanish newspaper El Pais on Sunday.
In an interview with the newspaper, Wylie described the extent of injuries suffered by The Satanic Verses writer.
"[His wounds] were profound, but he's [also] lost the sight of one eye," Wylie said. "He had three serious wounds in his neck. One hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut. And he has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso. So, it was a brutal attack."
On August 12, Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and abdomen as he was being introduced at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state. Wylie had then said the author's liver and nerves in an arm were damaged in the attack. Rushdie was taken off the ventilator on August 13.
Wylie on Sunday told the newspaper that he could not answer whether Rushdie was still in the hospital or discuss his whereabouts. "He's going to live...That's the important thing," he added.
The agent also said that he and Rushdie had discussed the danger of a "random person coming out of nowhere and attacking" him as a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued against the author by Iran.
"So, you can't protect against that because it's totally unexpected and illogical," he added. "It was like [singer] John Lennon's murder."
The Beatles member was shot to death outside his apartment building in Manhattan in December 1980.
Rushdie has faced several death threats for his book The Satanic Verses published in 1988. In 1989, Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had issued the fatwa, asking Muslims to kill Rushdie.
Rushdie's attacker was identified as Hadi Matar, a resident of New Jersey who was arrested from the scene. He has been incarcerated after pleading not guilty to attempted murder and assault.
In an interview with The New York Post in August, Matar had said he does not like Rushdie and described Khomeini as "a great person".
The 24-year-old added, "I read a couple pages [of The Satanic Verses]. I didn't read the whole thing cover to cover."
Iran, however, has denied being involved in the attack.
Salman Rushdie wasn't the first novelist someone tried to assassinate without reading their book
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Theater Alliance Welcomes New Producing Artistic Director
by Stephanie Cornish January 18, 2019 January 25, 2022
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer
Raymond O. Caldwell, the new Producing Artistic Director at Theater Alliance, stepped into the company's top position on the heels of a recent robbery and ahead of a promising season with award winning playwrights.
"I am humbled. I am excited," Caldwell told the AFRO. "It's a hectic time. It's almost like herding cats."
Caldwell joked but his to-do list would put even the most successful Type A personalities to shame. In between directing, reading scripts and talking to playwrights, he is also in charge of planning the season with his staff, tracking financial growth and development and, of course, selling tickets.
Raymond O. Caldwell is the new artistic director at Theater Alliance in Southeast, D.C. (Courtesy Photo).
"It's a multiplicity of things," Caldwell admitted. "But it's an exciting job and if you love the arts and if you love Theater Alliance as much as I do it's a blessing."
In a city with more than 700,000 residents, 52% of which are women, 47% are African American and 12% are over 65 years of age, according to the numbers from Census.gov, words like inclusivity and diversity are bound to pop up in a board or staff meeting. But Caldwell is ready for the long haul discussion and execution of various stories.
"The Washington theater scene is a very large collective of companies," Caldwell said. "They're very supportive. The D.C. theater scene shows up for one another. It is a community."
"It doesn't lack problems and issues. I think when you talk representation there are still things in the D.C. theater area that we are working on and towards. The fact that I am an artistic director and one of very few artistic directors here in Washington, D.C. of color… this is something we are working on."
And those conversations about telling multiple stories for multiple people within a community takes work and patience, Caldwell explained.
"I think right now we are constantly wanting to address equity, diversity and inclusion," Caldwell told the AFRO. "It doesn't only need to happen on our stage, but in the upper echelons of leaderships."
"And once we move past that, we get to have conversations about who gets to to tell what stories. And also what stories. I would love to see more Asian-American plays, or stories about the Latino-American experience."
An instance of community coming together was the now almost infamous break-in at Anacostia Playhouse during the Christmas season. Caldwell points to that instance when the community rallied around the theater.
"When we had a break in over the Christmas break the Washington theater scene showed up for us," Caldwell said. "And our community in Anacostia show up for us."
Theater Alliance is the resident company of the Anacostia Playhouse. A GOFUNDME campaign was initiated and about $22,000 was raised to replenish stolen equipment.
The event was a life lesson for the Theater Alliance and Anacostia Playhouse teams about security but also about connections with community.
"We produce some of the most beautiful shows, but when you think of a "run" there aren't a lot of audience that shows up," Caldwell said. "And I always have to antagonize and question that because the work is very strong."
"I think the lesson we're learning is about how we can rally around, not only trauma, but how do we rally around the work and the good things as well. And we're having conversations with the community about that."
For Caldwell, building a connection with theater and community is not just about a season, but a continuing dialogue with the people he is dedicated to serve.
"I'm thinking of Anacostia and Ward 8 and the community I want to serve," Caldwell said. "And the stories the people in my community need to hear."
"The first thing I did when I found out I was going to be the producing artistic director I decided I needed to move to this community because I can't service a community outside of it."
Caldwell is also helping to build roots and connection with the future theater community by teaching drama at Howard University.
Up next for Caldwell and Theater Alliance is their production of "Blood at the Root," written by Dominique Morisseau, a 2018 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. The show runs from Feb. 22 to March 24, 2019.
"I am so excited," Caldwell said. "Her work is everywhere."
"I think it's done so much because she'd doing something brilliant. She's having complex conversations about race and identity but she's doing it the way the Greeks did it. She's forcing the audience to grapple very deeply with a question. And the play doesn't answer it."
For more information about the theater and upcoming shows please visit the Theater Alliance website.


Students in Years 12 and 13 have used some of their General Studies lessons in recent weeks, in a competitive inter-form format, to battle over topical issues such as the ethics of advertising alcohol, the desirability of holding a 'People's Vote', and the impacts of fracking. We have encouraged as many students as possible to take part to in order to promote an interest in topical issues and to give students an opportunity to practise their public speaking skills.
Two tutor groups won all three of the preliminary rounds and as such found themselves in the final, grappling with the final motion of NHS funding for treatment of those who lead unhealthy lifestyles. In front of 200 peers and teachers and an assembled panel of judges the two finalist teams delivered speeches, argued passionately and dealt with challenges from the floor.
Congratulations to the winning team of Leo Gassas, Ollie Scrivens and Sami Faheem who were eventually judged this year's winners. Thanks to Charles Savin, former QEH student who represented the school at numerous national debating competitions, who along with our very own Dr Dutton and Mr Martin formed the judging panel. And well done to all the Sixth Form students who have taken part in this year's competition.


Caroline Gardiner has been appointed to Cushman & Wakefield's Global Occupier Services (GOS) team as Head of Facilities Management, EMEA.
Gardiner has spent the past three years working as a consultant to Citigroup, responsible as project lead for the global outsourcing of the Fortune 500 bank's facilities management services across 98 countries within four regions.
Established within the Facilities Management sector, Gardiner has held a number of high-profile roles within the banking sector. She was project lead for the global outsourcing of Barclays Facilities Services across three regions and 54 countries, later appointed as the Interim Head of Global Facilities Management. Prior to that, she supported HSBC in developing a service-centric facilities management operating model through multiple partners, incorporating 'change' and business transformation.
Before moving into the banking sector, Gardiner held senior management roles in corporate catering services organisations including Compass Group as well as Sodexo's fine-dining division Directors Table, developing the business and introducing Facilities Management services.
Gardiner joins Cushman & Wakefield later this month as an International Partner. Current team lead, Partner Ian Gray, remains in the senior management team, taking the role of Head of Client Delivery, continuing to drive existing client services.
Cushman & Wakefield's GOS EMEA team supports occupiers in making intelligent business decisions that optimise the value from the spaces they occupy.


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Q: How do I determine whether angle A or B is closer to angle C? I want to calculate whether angle A or B is closer to angle C. I'm sure this is really easy but the way angles return to 0 at 360 and vice versa is confusing me as to how I'm supposed to compare them.
Right now I'm doing something like this, but this is wrong:
    similarity1 := degree - targetAngle1
    if (similarity1 > 360){
        similarty1 := 360 - similarity1
    }
    similarity2 := degree - targetAngle2
    if (similarity2 > 360){
        similarty2 := 360 - similarity2
    }
    if (similarity1 < similarity2){
        degree := similarity1
    } else {
        degree := similarity2
    }

The answer must be really simple but for some reason the problem has me confused.

A: If you work with numbers in the range of -180 to 180, you can simply compare the absolute value to see which is less.
To get the numbers into the -180 to 180 range, you must recognize that adding or subtracting 360 from the angle doesn't change it at all.
similarity1 := degree - targetAngle1
if (similarity1 > 180){
    similarty1 := similarity1 - 360
}
else if (similarity1 < -180){
    similarity1 := similarity1 + 360
}
similarity2 := degree - targetAngle2
if (similarity2 > 180){
    similarty2 := similarity2 - 360
}
else if (similarity2 < -180){
    similarity2 := similarity2 + 360
}
if (abs(similarity1) <= abs(similarity2)){
    degree := similarity1
} else {
    degree := similarity2
}

A: Approach without multiple conditions, but with trigonometric function call:
if Cos(C-A) > Cos(C-B) then
    A closer to C

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Alarobia Vatosola is a rural commune in Analamanga Region, in the  Central Highlands of Madagascar in the district of Andramasina. It is located at 70 km south-east of Antananarivo. It counts a population of 14,777 in 2018.

Economy
The economy is based on substantial agriculture.
90% of the population of the commune are farmers. The main crop is rice. The region is one of the main suppliers of foie gras in Madagascar.

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After 15 weeks of high-octane quiz sessions, extremely entertaining and educative interactions among the students, the grand finale of the InterswitchSPAK 1.0 National Science Competition will be aired on AIT and Africa Magic Channel 154 today, Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 6pm and 7pm respectively.
Other television stations on which the show will be aired are: TVC Lagos, STV Jos, NTA Kano, EBS Edo, NTA Port-Harcourt, DBS Asaba and OSRC Akure.
The InterswitchSPAK Switch-a-Future Initiative was introduced to reward excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects among Senior Secondary School students across Nigeria. The competition is targeted at SS2 (Year 11) students between the ages of 14 and 17 years.
For this competition, the company has broken boundaries to make a bold statement with its N12.5million worth of university scholarship prizes available to the winners. The first prize is N7.5million in tertiary education scholarship, spread over five years.
For Cherry Eromosele, Group Chief Product and Marketing Officer, Interswitch, the finals is a must-watch for everyone who is passionate about development.


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Why Regional Integration Is Essential To Africa
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Africa's growing economy can accommodate partnerships with developed and emerging economies. Yes, this is true. So many reports get published stating what this leader or that leader emphasises or says about development in Africa.
Hello, put your hand up, those business leaders that have injected over $50 million in one specific region in any particular country on the continent that now as a direct result of "putting you money where your mouth is", inject life into that specific economy.
New partnerships are based on market forces, not colonialism. However, foreign investors should help build more local skills capacity. How is it that at the WEF Africa 2013, the continent's leaders are saying we can develop Africa ourselves and then, we get drawn back into the FDI issue?
We all know that Africa has enough income generated from natural resources on the continent to aid segmented development, regionally. What Africa lacks is the history of business leadership's involvement in the real development Africa, opting for profits instead. History has this crazy way of coming back around to bite us from behind. A sound reminder and lesson that we fail to learn from.
In the period from 1865 to 1900, the United States Government aided the development of the West by granting land to railroad companies. The development of the American west was greatly aided by the development of the railroad.
The development of the railroads in America eventually became a corrupt process. Government involvement lead to a scandal under the administration of U.S. Grant. The control of the railroads by a few companies also brought them into conflict with farmers and the government later on.
Before his assassination in April 1865, Abraham Lincoln had announced moderate plans for reconstruction to reintegrate the former Confederates as fast as possible. Lincoln set up the Freedman's Bureau in March 1865, aiding former slaves with education, health care, and employment.
The final abolition of slavery was achieved by the Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in December 1865. So, Africa has - per continent that is, probably has the most sustainable natural resources than any other continent. We have till this day experienced numerous revolutions, multiple civil wars, and continued unrest. We accused the West of making slaves out of our people both on the continent and abroad, yet the majority of Africa still lives in object poverty.
The majority of our people are still subject to conditions worse than that of slaves who were taken abroad. This continent's leaders still grapple with the simple tasks of affording basic to decent education, basic services such as running water, in many areas in Africa our people don't have food.
Cape Town, South Africa, 10 May 2013 - Regional integration within Africa and the continent's integration with developed economies are essential to its growth and development, Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, told a Bloomberg televised session on Africa's Global Partnerships at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town today.
Yes, so let's integrate. Let's integrate while a stack of hungry people, who can't really walk far because their shoes are so broken, they may only use it in the mud huts.
Let us review some figures related to the African continent;
Let us begin in South Africa - Africa's largest economy. Statistics South Africa has published "Poverty Profile of South Africa: Application of the poverty lines on the LCS 2008/2009".
A key finding was that between 2008 and 2009 about 26,3% of population lived below the food poverty line of R305 per person per month (the amount that an individual will need to consume enough food in a month); 39% were living below the lower-bound poverty line of R416 and 52% were living below the upper-bound poverty line of R577 per person per month.
Using the international poverty lines, 10.7% of the population were living on less than $1,25 per day and 36.4% were living below the $2,50 per day poverty line. The poverty gap, using the food poverty line was 8.5% and the severity of poverty was 3.8%.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million people (or one in eight) people in the world suffered from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012. Almost all the hungry people, 852 million, live in developing countries, representing 15 percent of the population of developing counties. There are 16 million people undernourished in developed countries (FAO 2012).
Developed regions also saw the number of hungry rise, from 13 million in 2004-2006 to 16 million in 2010-2012, reversing a steady decrease in previous years from 20 million in 1990-1992 (FAO 2012).
What exactly do you want us to integrate?
Children are the most visible victims of under-nutrition. Children who are poorly nourished suffer up to 160 days of illness each year. Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of the 10.9 million child deaths each year-five million deaths. Under-nutrition magnifies the effect of every disease, including measles and malaria.
The estimated proportions of deaths in which under-nutrition is an underlying cause are roughly similar for diarrhea (61 percent), malaria (57 percent), pneumonia (52 percent), and measles (45 percent). According to the most recent estimate that Hunger Notes could find, malnutrition, as measured by stunting, affects 32.5 percent of children in developing countries-one of three.
What is the amount of money made from any large infrastructure development project? I am struggling to find an answer. Thinking about it, some companies involved should make a sizable amount of money.
What is the price of human life? Again we are struggling to find these answers. What we do find comparatively is the effort garnered to find solutions for infrastructure projects compared to the amount of money the Africa is willing to receive from Aid funding to supposedly feed our own starving!
Local Economic Development - Another History Lesson
Economic development generally refers to the sustained, concerted actions of policymakers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area. Economic development can also be referred to as the quantitative and qualitative changes in the economy.
Economic development originated in the post war period of reconstruction initiated by the US. During his 1949 inaugural speech President Harry Truman identified the development of undeveloped as a priority for the west. There have been several major phases of development theory since 1945.
From the 1940s to the 1960s the state played a large role in promoting industrialization in developing countries, following the idea of modernization theory. This period was followed by a brief period of basic needs development focusing on human capital development and redistribution in the 1970s. Neo-liberalism emerged in the 1980s pushing an agenda of free trade and Import Substitution Industrialization.
Dependency theorists argue that poor countries have sometimes experienced economic growth with little or no economic development initiatives; for instance, in cases where they have functioned mainly as resource-providers to wealthy industrialized countries. There is an opposing argument, however, that growth causes development because some of the increase in income gets spent on human development such as education and health.
According to Ranis et al., economic growth is a two-way relationship. Moreover, the first chain consists of economic growth benefiting human development. With the rise in economic growth, families and individuals will likely increase expenditures with heightened incomes, which in turn leads to growth in human development.
Further, with the increased consumption, health and education grow, also contributing to economic growth. In addition to increasing private incomes, economic growth also generate additional resources that can be used to improve social services (such as healthcare, safe drinking water, etc.).
By generating additional resources for social services, unequal income distribution will be mitigated as such social services are distributed equally across each community, thereby benefiting each individual. Concisely, the relationship between human development and economic development can be explained in three ways.
First, increase in average income leads to improvement in health and nutrition (known as Capability Expansion through Economic Growth). Second, it is believed that social outcomes can only be improved by reducing income poverty (known as Capability Expansion through Poverty Reduction). Lastly, social outcomes can also be improved with essential services such as education, healthcare, and clean drinking water (known as Capability Expansion through Social Services).
John Joseph Puthenkalam's research aims at the process of economic growth theories that lead to economic development. If we continue on our path, we might just set Africa back another 50 years.
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Q: Recurrence - using power series Could you help me in solving this recursion( a closed form ) using power series
$\mu(n)=\mu(n−1)k_0+(n−1)\mu(n−2) k_1 \tag 1$,
where $k_0,k_1$ are constants $\mu(0)=3,\mu(1)=5$
HINT: We can think about a substitution such that it will be converted to a solvable non varying coefficient case.. Just thinking..
NB :: Avoid any methods where $k_i$s come as denominator in any steps. We are looking for a higher dimension like matrices, compatible solution. So a method based on series will be ideal for upward compatibility(Avoid ODE methods,Issue is upward compatibility with matrices. All matrices are not commutative. So it will be an issue when solving ODE.). Keep the positions of $k_i$ as it is in the question(by seeing the upward compatibility for matrices). A solution which satisfies the constraints in the question for non matrices can be easily transformed to matrices.. Thanks

A: Hint: If $g(x) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \mu(n) x^n$, the recursion corresponds to a differential equation for $g(x)$.  Solve that differential equation with initial conditions $g(0) = 3$, $g'(0) = 5$.
EDIT: Actually that won't work in this case, because the differential equation has a nasty singularity at $0$.
Note that with $\mu(n) = k_0^{n} u(n)$ and $k_1 = c k_0^2 $ the recursion becomes
$$u(n) = u(n-1) + c (n-1) u(n-2),\ n \ge 2$$
Rather than an ordinary generating function, consider an exponential generating function
$$G(z) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty u(n) z^n/n!$$
Using Maple's gfun package, I find that two linearly independent egf's satifying this recurrence are
$$G_1(z) = \exp((cz+1)^2/(2c)),\ G_2(z) = \text{erf}((cz+1)/\sqrt{2c}) \exp((cz+1)^2/(2c))$$
The appropriate linear combination of these will satisfy your initial conditions.


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Orbán György (Budapest, 1944. január 4. –) magyar jégkorongedző, válogatott jégkorong- és kézilabdakapus.

Többszörös magyarkupa-győztes. Az 1985–1986-os szezonban Franciaországban az SG Annecynél volt edző. Pályafutását 1964-ben a Vörös Meteorban kezdte, majd 1964-től 1971-ig a Budapesti Építőkben folytatta mint jégkorongkapus.

A budapesti Testnevelési Főiskolán 1967-ben diplomázott, majd Pozsonyban folytatta tanulmányait, 1977–1979 között, valamint Prágában, Malmőben, Torontóban, Moszkvában (1983) és Omszkban végezte. A tanári és a Testnevelési Főiskola szakedzői diploma megszerzése után 12 éven át a KSI edzője volt. Ez alatt az idő alatt 36 felnőtt és 46 ifjúsági válogatott szintű játékost nevelt ki. 1975-től 1979-ig az ifjúsági válogatott szövetségi kapitánya, 1981 és 1985, majd 1986 és 1990 között az FTC felnőtt jégkorong csapat edzője volt. Az 1983-as világbajnokságon 12 játékosával győzelemre vitték a "C" csoportból való feljutást a VB "B" csoportjába.

A felnőtt válogatott edzője volt 1983 (Budapest) és 1989 (Ausztrália). Vezetőedzőként dolgozott még NSZE Jégkorongszakosztályában 1990-ben. Az Újpesti TE vezetőedzője 1991 és 1992-ben. A Ferencvárossal magyar bajnoki címet nyert 1984-ben és 1989-ben. Magyar kupát nyert 1980-ban (FÓTI TSZ SE), 1984-ben és 1989-ben (FTC).

A rendszerváltás után 1989-ben elsőként alapította meg Magyarországon a tréfás, humoros ajándéktárgyak gyártását és forgalmazását, amelyre céget is alapított Tréfagyár Kft. néven.

Munkássága elismeréseként 2020-ban Életműdíjban részesült, amellyel a Kemény Dénes vezette Magyar Edzők Társaságának elnöksége tüntette ki.

Publikációi
A jégkorongkapus játéka. Testnevelési Főiskola szakdolgozat, 1967
Ifjúsági jégkorongozók speciális és sokoldalú képességfejlesztése 1973, szakcikk – Koltai Jenő–Dr. Nádori László: Sportképességek fejlesztése, Sport kiadó
Testtel játék jégkorongban /szakedzői dolgozat, 1975
Sportiskolai tanterv KSI, 1979
Hokibiblia, Sportpropaganda, 1981

Jegyzetek

Források

 Lépesfalvi Zoltán:A jég hátán sem élnek meg - Magyar Hírlap (1983.12.03.) 22. o.
 Gyenes J.András : Az alma nem esik messze a fájától - Fradi műsorlap (1986.12.06.) 5. o.
 Margay Sándor: Hokiezüst-és ami mögötte van - Fradi műsorlap (1987.03.07.)8. o.

1944-ben született személyek
Élő személyek
Budapesten született személyek
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Magyar jégkorongedzők


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Construction is scheduled for completion 2019.


The Western Division team has 14 pitchers, only one of which is left-handed. The Eastern Division has 15 pitchers, including five left-handers. The Quad Cities River Bandits are the only team without an All-Star pitcher; their team's lone All-Star player is outfielder Kyle Tucker.
First pitch for the Midwest League All-Star Game is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. CT Tuesday, June 21, at Veterans Memorial Stadium, home of the Cedar Rapids Kernels. The host Kernels will provide the coaching staff for the Western Division team, and the reigning MWL-champion West Michigan Whitecaps will provide the coaching staff for the Eastern Division team.
A pitcher from the host team often starts the All-Star Game, so I think it's a safe bet to say Kernels lefty Sam Clay will get the nod for the Western Division. I also think it's a safe bet to say Whitecaps lefty Matt Hall will start for the Eastern Division, considering his stellar stats and the fact West Michigan is providing the coaches for that team. Of course, these predictions could be nullified by player promotions prior to the All-Star Game.
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