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The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood

Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

T.S. Eliot

The celebration of the Passion of the Lord is dramatic. It is the climax of all sacrifice. The curtain is torn. The temple is destroyed. On this day, when “Christ our passover was sacrificed,” the Christians fall prostrate in grief and sorrow. The whole range of human emotions experienced in the life of Christ are now on bended kneesorrowful suffering, dripping blood, bloody fleshthe grief is palpable.

After so many penitential prayers, after the palms have been folded into little crosses, after so many small reminders of sacrifice along the way, we find ourselves spiritually stripped down before the enormity of Christ crucified. In my Catholic parish, we do not even celebrate the Eucharist; in fact, the rubrics do not permit any sacraments to be celebrated, except for penance and anointingsacraments especially tied to sin and death. Our attention is fixed on Calvary.

Perhaps it should seem odd not to celebrate the Eucharist on Good Friday. Shouldn’t we, at the crucial climax of the Holy Triduum, celebrate the body and blood of Jesus Christ? Yet Catholics, and many other Christians do not, and have not since the early church. St. Augustine once observed that “Christ is sacrificed once in Himself, and daily in his sacrament,” therefore “receive the Eucharist daily that it may benefit you every day.” Yet the Bishop of Hippo also did not celebrate the Eucharist on this day.

This caused me to wonder, why have most Christians, for most of history, refrained from celebrating the Eucharist on the day Christ sacrifices his flesh and blood for the sins of the world? Aquinas says that Good Friday is the one day of the year that we do not celebrate the Eucharist because it is fitting that we adore Christ’s sacrifice as the cause of our redemption, just as we enjoy the effects of being made partakers of this redemption in the Eucharist throughout the year.

For Aquinas, Good Friday is not so much a day without the Eucharist as it is the day which gives the Eucharist its very intelligibility as that sacrament by which we are united to Christ’s one true and perfect sacrifice. This is why he tells us that Christians reverence the Cross with the same worship (latreia) that we offer in the celebration of the Eucharist: we make the sign of the Cross in the Triune name and we bind ourselves to Christ crucified by kissing the image of the cross with a holy kissa kiss which aims not at the image but at Christ himself (ST III, q.25, a.4). Here the reasoning is striking: it is a kiss which presses past the image to the reality of Christ crucified himself.

It is sometimes thoughtor even preachedthat, like the Eucharist, God is absent on Good Friday. Deus Absconditus rather than Adoro te devote. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday may appear to some only as manifestations of some eternal suffering and death by which we mourn. Others may see in the cross only shame and folly. G.K. Chesterton thought Christ’s “cry of dereliction” was the one moment in which every atheist could identify with Christ. And perhaps that is so. But to those with eyes to see, to those who keep watch over these three days, Christ crucified is human salvation. The cross pulsates with divine power. The cross is not folly, but triumph over Adam’s sin, over principalities and powers, the Devil, and death itself. For the vigilant, the cross is the one death “to save all the nations.”

St. Thomas tells us that the adoration we give the cross on Good Friday is real worshipno less real than the adoration we give the Eucharist the night before. The eyes of the faithful do not adore the image of the cross as a thingas carved or painted woodbut the reality of Christ himself is adored and worshipped by means of the image: limbs stretched out, saturated with blood from each of his five wounds, thorns crowning his head not only as “king of the Jews” but as king of the eternal City of God.

It is thus no accident that Thomas’ final mystical vision was before an icon of Christ crucified. He heard Jesus say to him, “You have written well of me, Thomas. What reward would you have for your labor?” Thomas answered, “Nothing but you, Lord.” After this, he stated that he would not continue writing, for “all I have written seems like straw to me.” This was not because he had no regard for theology. Rather, just as Thomas’ Eucharistic devotion constantly conformed him to the reality of Christ’s sacrificemoving from the accidents to the substanceso did his adoration rise through the icon of the cross to the eternal substance of Christ himself.

There is the temptation to think, as Eliot has it, that “we are sound, substantial flesh and blood.” But as our ashen foreheads testified at the beginning of Lent, we are dust. Our only hope is to press our lips to the crossto bind our flesh to Christto adhere ourselves to the way which raises our flesh and blood to the summum bonum, eternal life in the heavenly city. In this way, St. Thomas helps us to see why we call this Friday Good.

C. C. Pecknold is associate professor of systematic theology at Catholic University of America.

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Designed to celebrate sustainable seafood and benefit fishery improvement projects (FIPs) supported by the Sea Delight Ocean Fund, the Taste of the Sea event boasted mouth-watering culinary sampling, educational outreach from marine conservation and research organizations including FishWise, and a live chef cook-off.

Fourteen celebrity chefs, many of whom have been featured on Food Network competition shows such as “Chopped” and “Cutthroat Kitchen,” used Sea Delight-sourced seafood from FIPs or Monterey Bay Aquarium Green and Yellow-rated sources to put forward their best dishes to over 350 event attendees. The dishes ranged from a smoked mahi dip with hot pickled vegetables using longline-caught mahi from the Peru FIP to seared grouper with Buerre blanc using longline-caught grouper from the Campeche Bank, Mexico FIP.

Guests voted for their “Fan Favorite,” a title swept up this year by Latin House Grill’s Chef Michell Sanchez for his Puffy Poke Taco, featuring marinated handline-caught yellowfin tuna from WWF’s Vietnam FIP with avocado, candied jalapeÃ±o, fried onions, and chipotle aioli nestled in a flash fried flour tortilla–YUM!

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If you fall off the eastern edge of the Himalayan mountains, the first major city (population 4.1 million) that you come to is Chengdu, in China’s Sichuan province. You’ve heard of it from the spicy Chinese food, called “Szechuan” in the west.

Rosemary and I spent 5 or 6 days based around there. A few of those were visiting a Buddhist holy mountain, and the largest Buddha in the world – I’ll write about them in another post.

Chengdu itself was like every other large Chinese city – endless streets with few distinguishing features. My fault for hoping it might be a bit better than that. It has some super parks, but you have to deliberately go to them, you couldn’t stumble upon them by accident.

We saw real Giant Pandas at the breeding centre outside town – they’re super cute, mainly because they have a sixth thumb-like finger so they look like people as they eat bamboo. The Red Pandas are even better. I hope somebody domesticates some soon. They were running round playing, happy like dogs, but cute like cats.

The surprise attraction in Chengdu itself was Du Fu’s “cottage”. Really a whole complex of buildings and gardens (photo right), originally where an 8th century poet lived in a thatched house. There was lots of good bonsai trees, and also calligraphy of Du Fu’s poems. Those are the two arts which I’ve seen that are both still practiced properly in China, and are uniquely Chinese.

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Tolerant Foods poised to be top contender in legume pasta category
The seven-person company is making big strides in a young but rapidly growing category, establishing itself as one of the ‘Best for the World’ food items according to research company HowGood’s criteria.

There is more dried pasta made out of beans in the market than ever before, a response to the category’s decline. As Euromonitor found out, value sales of dried pasta fell by 6% in the US between 2009 and 2014, and double that in Western Europe (13%) for the same time period.

“Once, it was all about the content of high quality durum wheat which separated the good from the bad,”wrote Euromonitor blogger Simone Baroke. “Now the mere mention of wheat makes consumers feel twitchy.”

The industry’s answer is a plethora of new legume-derived pastas. Montreal-based Tolerant Foods is just one company that wants in on the action.

“It grew out of a desire to make a difference in the lives of those who seek healthier lifestyles, have food intolerances or dietary restrictions, through naturally powerful, legume based foods,” Shawn Pinsky, VP of MXO Global, the company behind the Tolerant Foods brand, told FoodNavigator-USA.

How to stand out in the bean pasta crowd

In the rapidly growing young category, Tolerant Foods differentiated itself through specialty lines promoting its energy and protein content, and how these lines are formulated.

“In our Energy Legume Blend line, we do not extract proteins,” Pinksy said. “But rather use pea flour with green lentil, red lentil or black bean. These are blended natural proteins, not injected with pea protein.”

The small company has had a positive year—upwards of 50% increase for revenue, and a growing staff. “Since launching in 2013, we went from a company of two (founder Tom Friedman and myself, vice president) to now working with seven more employees,” Pinsky said. “We have also expanded in private labeling manufacturing, bulk sales, and selling ingredients for soups.”

Earning a top spot in How Good’s ‘Best Food’ roster

Company values is also one area where Tolerant Foods stands out. “We take pride in manufacturing here in the USA by way of our SQF-certified manufacturing facility in Chicago,” Pinsky said.

HowGood, Inc., an independent research organization established in 2007, named Tolerant Foods’ products as some of the ‘Best for the World’ in its Best Foods list for pasta.

The organization advocates food system transparency, and partners with farmers and food scientists to collect data from over 350 sources—including USDA, Fair Trade USA, and the Non-GMO Project—to track down companies and brands it believes are contributing to positive changes in the food industry.

“Since our launch just three years ago, we've been recognized with a 2013 Nexty, 2016 Clean Eating Clean Choice Awards, Delicious Living 2016 Best Bites, and the 2016 Eat This, Not That! Food Awards - Lunch and Dinner,” Pinksy said. “HowGood, Inc.'s rating our product among the top 5% demonstrates we are a trusted brand that truly provides a healthy product.”

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The Veggie Table: Raspberry-Lime Sorbet

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When I was a kid, it was a treat to get an ice cream cone on a hot summer day. But when I became lactose intolerant, I had to give up my favorite cookies-and-cream-flavored treat for something dairy free. Fortunately, I found a favorite summer dessert in raspberry sorbet with rainbow sprinkles on top. It was sweet, refreshing, and I didn’t miss a scoop of ice cream one bit after I discovered sorbet.

Now, 20 years later, its time for a more grown-up version of my sticky sweet sorbet. To keep the fresh, tartness that comes from raspberries, I used only ½ cup of sugar, and added fresh lime juice for a refreshing, citrus-y pop. And instead of candy sprinkles, I added a pinch of lime zest on top.

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Juice from 3 limes and zest from one lime
1 cup water
½ cup sugar

In a blender, blend raspberries, sugar, lime juice and water. Chill in the refrigerator for four hours or overnight. Prepare sorbet according to your ice cream machine’s directions. Or, to make sorbet without a machine, try this method.

Cook's notes: Many sorbet recipes call for making simple syrup with the sugar and water, as well as straining out the fruit seeds for a smoother consistency. I prefer the texture and bite of tiny raspberry seeds in my sorbet. Not only does it taste more like I’m eating the fresh fruit, but it locks in the fiber benefits from raspberries. As for the simple syrup, I find my simpler method works just as well! Looking for another super simple sorbet? This two-ingredient Pink Grapefruit Sorbet will cool down any hot summer day.

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Janel Ovrut Funk, MS RD LDN, loves experimenting with vegetarian and vegan cooking. Read her food blog, Eat Well with Janel, and follow her on Twitter @DietitianJanel.  Catch up on her previous posts here.

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It was a good week for pizza lovers. Papa John's (NASDAQ:PZZA), Pizza Inn (NASDAQ:PZZI), and even California Pizza Kitchen (NASDAQ:CPKI) cracked open their pizza boxes long enough for investors to savor the toppings for their latest quarters.

Yes, I said toppings. The reports were typically better than expected, especially for a sector that seems to go hot and cold about as often as a pie sliding in and out of the oven.

The upbeat vibe is a welcome surprise to those who caught a pie in the face from Domino's Pizza's (NYSE:DPZ) quarterly results last month. Shares of the pizza delivery giant got slammed after the company posted a 55% drop in earnings, on a slight dip in domestic comps.

Then again, after the company's recapitalization strategy left it holding the bag on a ton of debt, it's not as if investors should have assumed that the weakness at Domino's would affect the rest of the industry.

As it stands, even Domino's isn't broken. On the international stage, comps have actually clocked in higher in each of the past 55 quarters. Only its domestic-sales shortcoming and its larger-than-expected interest-expense payments have weighed Domino's down.

So where does that leave us? Let's go on a pizza run.

Pizza Inn
The small 347-unit chain, known mostly for its lavish buffet spreads, posted respectable results on Monday. Revenue climbed 2.6% to $12.1 million, fueled by favorable comps. Earnings came in at $0.03 a share, but they would have been $0.06 per share before charges related to the departure of the company's CEO.

Unimpressed by the top line? Remember, only one of the 347 Pizza Inn locations is company-owned. For all the rest, Pizza Inn just sits back, collects royalties, and arranges food sales.

There are no analysts following the company, so we can't match performance to the market's expectations, but investors have to like what they're seeing. After watching annual revenue decline over the past few years, even as losses mounted, the company is growing again. It's also earned $0.045 and $0.065 per share in each of the past two quarters, respectively.

Papa John's
Better ingredients, better earnings report? Papa John's outdid rival Domino's in every facet of the game. Revenue rose by nearly 10% compared to last year, to $262.8 million. Excluding favorable tax credits, as well as a hit from the consolidation of a franchisee-owned cheese-buying facility, earnings climbed 11% to $0.31 a share. Domestic comps inched up marginally -- take that, Domino's!

Papa John's is now raising its outlook, guiding investors to expect $1.64 to $1.68 per share in earnings for all of 2007. The report was strong enough to send Papa John's shares higher yesterday, bucking the trend of the weak market.

California Pizza Kitchen
The casual-dining chain that prides itself on thin pies with eclectic toppings had another strong quarter. Revenue climbed 14% to $162 million. Earnings rose to $0.25 a share for the quarter, before a one-time charge to close CPK's experimental quick-service ASAP concept. Analysts expected earnings to come in flat with last year's $0.23-per-share showing.

Comps climbed 3.5% during the quarter. The company also initiated its outlook for 2008, predicting $0.85 to $0.92 per share in earnings, on a 14% to 15% revenue gain.

Stacking up the pies
Now that we have plenty of earnings reports to digest, it's easier to get upbeat about the pie-tossers. We had a pair of conflicting reports last month: Domino's dropped, while Yum! Brands' (NYSE:YUM) Pizza Hut rose.

It was easy to wonder whether new technology would disrupt the industry. With TurboChef (NASDAQ:OVEN) installing its speedy convection ovens in chains like Subway and Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), adding pizza sales in non-conventional channels has become a breeze. Starbucks is unlikely to roll out latte-spiced pizzas, but Subway is already offering personal-sized pies along with its subs at many locations. Will the major pizza players' sales be cannibalized?

Well, it's not having an impact now. Everyone but Domino's took a small step forward this past quarter. So rejoice, pizza lovers. I guess you don't need a pizza oven to make dough rise.

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Longtime Fool contributor Rick Munarriz enjoys pizza from the major chains, but also from many of the mom-and-pop pizzerias around town. He does not own shares in any company mentioned in this story. He is also part of the Rule Breakers newsletter research team, seeking out tomorrow's ultimate growth stocks a day early. The Fool's disclosure policy never goes soggy.


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I wrote earlier this year that the 60/40 portfolio is dead. Well, rumors of its death were not greatly exaggerated. The 60/40 portfolio that served retired investors so well over the past 30 years is gone, and it's not coming back any time soon. As investors, we have to move on.

While it's true that a simple 60/40 portfolio of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) and the iShares Core US Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG) is actually enjoying a nice run in 2016, up a little more than 3% for the year, don't get used to it. The math simply doesn't work out going forward.

Let's play with the numbers. Back in 1980, the 10-year Treasury yielded a fat 11.1%, and stocks sported an earnings yield (calculated as earnings / price, or the P/E ratio turned upside down) of 13.5%. This implied a back-of-the-envelope portfolio return of about 12.5% per year going forward, and for much of the 1980s and 1990s that proved to be a conservative estimate. Both stocks and bonds were priced to deliver stellar returns, and both most certainly did.

But what about today? The 10-year Treasury yields a pathetic 1.6% and the S&P 500 trades at an earnings yield of just 4%. That gives you a blended portfolio expected return of an almost embarrassing 2.8%.

You know the refrain: past performance is no guarantee of future results. There is no guarantee, at least with respect to stocks, that expensive assets can't get even more expensive. It's possible that the great bull run in stocks could continue indefinitely, however unlikely it might be.

But I can't say the same for bonds. Starting at a 1.6% yield to maturity (or even the 4% you might find on a mid-grade corporate bond) you cannot have returns going forward that are anything close to the returns of the past. Bond yields would have to go negative, and I don't mean the -0.15% we see today on the Japanese 10-year bond. I'm talking -5% or -10% or even more. That's not going to happen. Or if somehow it did -- if investors got so petrified that they piled into bonds to the extent that yields went negative to that degree -- then I would assume the stock portion of your portfolio effectively fell to zero at that point.

The bottom line here is that even under the most optimistic scenario, investors are looking at disappointing returns in a standard 60/40 portfolio.

So, what are investors supposed to do about it? They can't just stuff their cash in a mattress for the next 5-10 years. Most of us actually need to earn a return on our money.


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Recently a Forbes reader I'll call Susan emailed me about how to get started investing. Here's what she said:

I just turned 18 years old, and would like to invest young so that I can have life-long investments. I'm interested in investing in mutual funds, and somewhere where there will not be outrageously high trading fees or commissions. It would need to be somewhere that can accept a minimum of $1,000, which is what I am having trouble with finding. Being extremely new at this, I have no clue how to compare multiple companies, or which company will be the most beneficial in the long run. I was wondering if you had any recommendations or advice for a beginner like me? I read your article [I believe she was referring to this one on how to invest for the first time], but I am still at a loss for which company I should go with. If possible, it would mean a great deal to me if you could help me. Thank you very much.

Two things stand out in Susan's email. First, she recognizes the importance of investing at a young age. The power of compounding has three ingredients: (1) the amount of money invested; (2) the after-fee, after-tax return; and (3) time. They say that time heals all wounds. I'm not sure if that's true, but it certainly is the fuel that drives the power of compounding.

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Second, she recognizes the importance of keeping fees low. Expensive mutual funds or investment advisors, or both, can easily deplete enormous amounts of wealth. It's for this reason that the cost of mutual funds and an investment advisor combined should never exceed 50 basis points (that's one-half of one percent). This of course eliminates most investment advisors (even fee-only fiduciaries) from consideration.

So what are Susan's options? How do we find low cost investments with just $1,000 to get started? Fortunately there are several great options.

The starting point is Vanguard. Founded by John Bogle, Vanguard introduced the world to low cost index mutual fund investing. These funds track various indices such as the S&P 500. They give investors excellent diversification at rock-bottom prices. Further, study after study after study shows that over the long term, index funds outperform actively managed funds on an after-fee, after-tax basis.

Most of Vanguard's funds require a $3,000 minimum investment. One option would be to save up $3,000 and then start with the Vanguard S&P 500 fund (VFINX). Alternatively, the Vanguard Target Date Retirement Fund series has a $1,000 minimum. These funds allocate an investor's money into four mutual funds, covering U.S. and foreign stocks and U.S. and foreign bonds. Further, the allocation among these four asset classes gradually changes as the investor nears retirement.

Other Fund Companies

While I'm partial to Vanguard, there are other options with lower minimum investment requirements. For example, the Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund (SWPPX) has an expense ratio of 9 basis points and a minimum investment of just $100.

If you do stray from Vanguard, however, be sure to check the details of the index fund. While these funds generally are less expensive than actively managed funds, some do come with high fees. For example, the T. Rowe Price Equity Index 500 Fund (PREIX) sports an expense ratio of 27 basis points. There's simply no reason to pay this much for an S&P 500 index fund.


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Arsenal v Swansea City: Wenger keen to prove credentials

Ahead of a home clash with Swansea City, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has one eye on winning next season's Premier League.

Arsene Wenger is keen to prove Arsenal have what it takes to win next year's Premier League by maintaining a strong end to the current campaign at home to Swansea City on Monday.

Arsenal remain locked in a battle for second place with Manchester City, but any hopes of reeling in leaders Chelsea were ended last weekend when the Stamford Bridge outfit clinched the trophy.

Nevertheless, Wenger's men are on a 10-match unbeaten run in the league - winning nine of those - and are keen to continue demonstrating their title credentials.

"We feel we have made progress in our consistency, our quality and our stability," Wenger is quoted as saying by "That is what we want to continue and I believe it is important to finish as close as possible to Chelsea and come out of the season and think we are ready to challenge next season.

"It is difficult to know how strong every team will be next year but you gain as well your confidence from what you have achieved the year before and how you have moved forward. That is why it is very important that we continue to be consistent until the end of the season."

Swansea, meanwhile, are set to welcome back striker Bafetimbi Gomis following a month out with a hamstring problem, and the French striker will be looking to benefit from the supply of Gylfi Sigurdsson, who has chipped in with 10 Premier League assists this term.

"It's always nice to get into double figures for any statistic, so for me to get 10 assists is very pleasing," Sigurdsson told the club's official website. "When I was younger I took more pride in scoring, but as I've got older I can appreciate setting up a goal far more. An assist means as much as a goal to me these days.

"This season I've had quality strikers in [Wilfried] Bony and Bafe [Gomis] in front of me, while we have the likes of Wayne [Routledge], Nathan [Dyer] and Jeff [Montero] out wide while Jonjo [Shelvey] and Ki [Sung-Yueng] have also been around me, so it's easier to set goals up for players like them.

"They get into spaces and it's all about finding them and hoping they finish the chances. If they don't score then I don't get the assist, so I'm thankful to them for finding the net."

Sigurdsson and Gomis were on target as Swansea came from behind to beat Arsenal in the reverse fixture in November and the Welsh club have an excellent record at the Emirates - losing just once there in the league since winning promotion in 2011.

Last season's trip to north London produced a 2-2 draw, with Mathieu Flamini netting an own goal in the final minute.

Gomis' return is timely for Swansea, with stand-in Nelson Oliveira expected to miss the rest of the season with an ankle injury, while Arsenal are without Danny Welbeck (knee), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (groin) and Mathieu Debuchy (hamstring).

Aaron Ramsey, who started his career at Swansea's fierce rivals Cardiff City, is rated as "50-50" due to a leg injury.


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ATLANTA, GA. – Jan. 23, 2018 – Landis+Gyr (LAND.SW) is announcing the launch of Gridstream Connect –  a next-generation IoT platform for utility, consumer and smart city applications – at DistribuTECH 2018.

Gridstream Connect is built to seamlessly and securely integrate smart devices using a variety of communication protocols and vendors. This enables utilities to push sensor technology to the grid edge for smart community and smart home applications, while preparing for changing distribution strategies.

“Utilities have gone beyond AMI to leverage networks and data for distribution automation, demand response and consumer interactions. But the next step in developing truly smart city infrastructure is the ability to connect to sensors of every kind that can run autonomous applications,” said John Radgowski, Vice President of Portfolio Management at Landis+Gyr. “Gridstream Connect supports this new requirement as an open-source and standards-based communication system that allows compatibility with multiple vendors and an application developers hub to add future value.”

Built on an IPv6-enabled architecture, Gridstream Connect features support for multiple communication technologies – such as RF Mesh, LoRa and cellular – under a single network. This provides greater options for utilities to deploy layered intelligencewith connected computing power at the grid edge, at the community level and across the distribution system. Networked meters, sensors and devices can run applications and interface autonomously with third-party devices and software platforms to control streetlights, EV charging stations, solar invertors and environmental sensors, along with an array of distribution assets.

“Gridstream Connect is about opportunities for growth. What sets it apart is the computing power and interoperability built into each layer,” said Gary High, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Marketing. “As new technologies become available and new roles for sensors emerge, utilities will be able to leverage this technology to not only manage energy and capacity, but also expand the scope of their business.”

Landis+Gyr will be offering demonstrations and product information in booth 2323 at the DistribuTech Conference, Jan. 23-25, in San Antonio, TX.

About Landis+Gyr

Landis+Gyr is the leading global provider of integrated energy management solutions for the utility sector. Offering one of the broadest portfolios of products and services to address complex industry challenges, the company delivers comprehensive solutions for the foundation of a smarter grid, including smart metering, distribution network sensing and automation tools, load control, analytics and energy storage. Landis+Gyr operates in over 30 countries across five continents. With sales of approximately USD 1.7 billion, the company employs c. 6,000 people with the sole mission of helping the world manage energy better. More information is available at

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The Israelis have long used their Ministry of Foreign Affairs site as an important mouthpiece. I have written about it a few times in this column, usually commenting that its articles go our of their way to appear balanced. Perhaps the subtle approach did not work, perhaps new people are in charge, but the site now has a less restrained flavour.

The main story this week is about the rocket attacks from Gaza, emphasising that Israel has not cut the power supply. I read it, but did not stay long here or indeed on the site. Instead I clicked a link labelled ‘Video: “Everyone deserves to live in peace”’ and found myself transported to the video-sharing site YouTube. Here I watched a well-made slide show documenting the suffering in Sderot, a city being attacked. It was posted by ‘israeligirl67’, who says she is ‘one of the founders of giyus.org, a pro-Israeli public diplomacy group.’ Clicking around, I found another video she had posted. This was taken by a television team in Israel as it came under fire and is far more exciting than anything the MFA could produce itself.

Using YouTube in this way has a big advantage – it allows the government to direct people to powerful content it could not easily put on its own site. But it is also taking a risk by letting visitors into territory it does not control. Viewers of israeligirl’s videos are a solidly pro-Israel lot, judging by the comments they left, but when I put ‘israel’ into YouTube’s search engine, the balance of viewpoint tipped the other way. A CBC clip headed ‘Video Israel doesn’t want you to see’ is definitely not the sort of thing the MFA would like us to see. With 769,917 views, it is not getting its way – I would guess there must be discussions within the MFA about whether it should be linking to YouTube at all.

China.org.cn, ‘China’s official gateway to news and information’, is part of the country’s effort to be better understood in the run-up to the Olympics. It is well-funded, judging by the fact it is available in nine languages including Esperanto (there’s another column in that, but I won’t be diverted now). And it take a much more softly-softly approach.

The feel is of an online newspaper with sections covering the usual areas: business, government, sport and so on. The home page this week leads on an economic story (‘Consumption becomes the No.1 engine of economic growth’) but most space is given to the snow that has been paralysing the country. In other words, it is being edited with the same sort of news judgment as any western paper or news bulletin. Speeches by officials – which I tend to associate with Beijing-generated news – are tucked away in the Government section, even there being relegated to side panels.

The site does not steer away from negative stories. Many are of the micro kind (‘Asian elephants attack American tourist’) though some have a political edge. The Environment carries a feature headed ‘People vs chemical plant’, about a fight to stop a factory being built by the city of Xiamen. If you look at the air quality table in the environment section, you will see that Urumqi in the north-west is classified as ‘hazardous’, with ‘particulate matter’ the main pollutant. Strange, and perhaps encouraging, that the Chinese government is happy to wave this sort of warning flag, when it could so easily be omitted.

But if you start to dig away at the issues where Beijing is most sensitive, you will find subtle propaganda being laid. I typed ‘human rights’ into the site’s search engine, and found a story headed ‘British minister: China’s progress in human rights should be applauded’. Reading the text it’s clear Lord Malloch-Brown was actually talking about living standards and a quick search on Google brought me to a quote by him that “there is still very significant progress … to be made on the human rights side.” You probably wouldn’t find that on Google China, which is censored, but this site is aimed at outsiders.

I searched for ‘Falun Gong’ on the site, and found it described as an ‘evil cult’. I searched for ‘tibet’ and found only one reference to the Dalai Lama ‘whom China viewed as a separatist and political exile engaging in activities aimed at splitting the motherland and sabotaging national unity’.

China.org.cn does not link to YouTube. Not surprising really: put ‘tibet’ or ‘falun gong’ into YouTube’s search engine and you will struggle to find any good news for Beijing among the mass of hostile videos. ‘Chinese government torture the Falun Gong’, ‘Tibet – the story of a tragedy’. Etcetera.

Although there are parallels between Israel and China, there are also differences that make the web less effective for one than the other. The Israeli site is (now) largely a propaganda site that will reinforce the views of its supporters, be treated sceptically by neutrals, and be ignored by its critics. The China site may have an underlying propagandistic drive, but it is sufficiently interesting, and China is sufficiently ill-known, to be interesting in its own right. As long as it doesn’t start linking to YouTube, it must be doing more good than harm.

David Bowen is a website effectiveness consultant for Bowen Craggs & Co. dbowen@bowencraggs.com.

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A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s, by Alwyn W Turner, Aurum, RRP£25, 624 pages

On the morning of May 2 1997, I stood in Downing Street observing the arrival of Tony Blair, the newly elected prime minister. Also inside the gates were hundreds of jubilant flag-waving supporters who, I was among the first to discover, had all been bussed in from Labour party HQ. It was an early indication of what spontaneous enthusiasm would look like under the new regime.

Good Lord, that was 16 years ago – one-fifth of a fairish lifespan. It feels like last week. I did, however, need Alwyn Turner’s A Classless Society to remind me that the following day Britain won the Eurovision Song Contest (with “Love Shine a Light” by Katrina and the Waves), something that had not happened for the previous 16 years and has certainly not happened since.

Turner conflates the two events: like Labour, Katrina and the Waves had won in a landslide – “the goodwill towards Britain was unstoppable”. This is perfectly plausible given both the mood of the moment and the overt politicisation this bizarre conflation of showbiz and democracy (the Eurovision I mean, not the British electoral process) has undergone insubsequent years. Then again, I would not be wholly astonished to learn that the Eurovision voters had also been bussed in from Labour HQ.

Most decades are characterised by the political faultlines of the time. In 1990s Britain there was actually an extraordinary unanimity. Except for a few days before the decade’s other election, 1992, and a few weeks thereafter, the Conservatives were so unpopular that in the middle years of the decade it was perfectly possible to make an overtly party political gibe in any company, confident no one would be offended.

In 1992 the voters had shied away at the last moment from voting in Labour under Neil Kinnock, leading to five weary, scandal-ridden years before the Tories, to their own relief as much as everyone else’s, were finally released from the obligations of government.

But the consensus went deeper than that. Well before the end of the 1980s the voters had become terminally tired of being hectored and bossed around by Margaret Thatcher. Her improbable successor John Major softened the edges of Thatcherism enough to make the party electable one last time against a not yet wholly reformed Labour.

One of the great strengths of this long but very readable and enjoyable book is Turner’s use of the telling vignette. An early one is the story of how Major, a few weeks after becoming PM, crossed the floor of the Commons to kneel beside the old leftie Eric Heffer, who was obviously dying but had left his sickbed to vote against Britain’s involvement in the first war against Saddam Hussein. This sweet and most un-Thatcherite gesture provoked applause in the House, a bipartisan and possibly unprecedented breach of protocol.

However, the essential principles of capitalism über alles, re-established in the 1980s, would remain whichever party was in power. This was not a wholly British phenomenon. The political change in the US did come in 1992 when George Bush Sr was beaten by Bill Clinton, but that master of triangulation was not up for fundamental change either. Similar manifestations could be observed elsewhere.

Turner does not look abroad much. What he does do is bring together politics and popular culture in a convincing manner. For an academic, he is awfully good on his TV comedy and pop music, which he appears to have imbibed from birth rather than as a foreign language. I bet he can even hum “Love Shine a Light”. Many of the political stories are illustrated by a topical TV gag. This approach can get a bit formulaic but many of the jokes are very good: a reminder that one of the many reasons for being nostalgic for the late 20th century is that the telly was better.

Reading A Classless Society is like a safari through vaguely familiar country, illuminated by a shrewd, fair-minded guide with an elephantine memory. It is, however, like Labour in government in being wholly media-driven. As Blair himself put it: “It’s the signals that matter. Not the policy.” And if newspapers are the first rough draft of history, this is a smoother second draft: a synthesis of everything that appeared in the media.

What one would like from a future historian is a broader sense of what was peculiarly British and what was a local manifestation of global trends, and a greater emphasis on the long-term shifts that the media overlook. But maybe that needs more time.

And I was a touch unsatisfied by the title. This is the third in Turner’s trilogy (or maybe tetralogy or more) of decades, following Crisis? What Crisis? (the 1970s) and Rejoice! Rejoice! (the 1980s), titles that sum up the times beautifully. A Classless Society was an aspiration of Major’s, but not a realistic one. I might have gone for “A New Dawn has Broken, Has It Not?”, Blair’s comment on the morning of victory. It had, but in a very British way the weather was about to get crappier than ever.

Matthew Engel is an FT columnist

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D&D co-op RPG Neverwinter delayed until 2012

Cryptic Studios has pushed back the upcoming Dungeons %26amp; Dragons game Neverwinter until late next year. The delay is due to Cryptic%26rsquo;s parent company, Perfect World Entertainment, wanting to give the game more time to develop.

When we first heard of Neverwinter, back in August of 2010, Cryptic was owned by Atari, a company in the midst of a legal dispute with Hasbro over the rights to use the D%26amp;D property. Last month, the sale of Cryptic to Perfect World Entertainment was finalized, so the dispute isn%26rsquo;t the cause of the delay for Neverwinter, but will affect other Atari-owned D%26amp;D properties.

The two companies settled out of court, giving Atari the right to sell and develop a selection of games with the D%26amp;D license, including the recently released action-RPG Daggerdale and the upcoming Facebook game Heroes of Neverwinter. Hasbro will retain all other rights to D%26amp;D license, but more details on the agreement were not revealed.

Neverwinter will allow players to select a D%26amp;D class for their hero and team up with others to take on traditional quests, but for those who would prefer to roll solo, there will be a single-player option that fills in roles with AI-controlled NPCs. We%26rsquo;re looking forward to seeing how Perfect World Entertainment deals with the D%26amp;D universe, and for more info you can check out our preview.

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Diameter Of The Bomb review

Terrorism wrecks lives. Duh! This doc focusing on a 2002 suicide attack on an Israeli bus where 20 people died is Middle-East-based, but the theme is universal. Focusing on four central characters (an Ethiopian schoolgirl, a gravestone carver's wife, the only son of an elderly Arab-Israeli worker, a beautiful dancer) whose stories are told through surviving friends and family, their pain and loss is clear. Yet over-emotive editing and a tabloid mindset grate (the cute girl is the focus - do the ugly die less tragically?).

Part-funded by the BBC and told without voiceover, it preaches impartiality, yet barely interviews Palestinians. Lacking genuine political insight, this is partisan human-interest posing as sociological examination. No easy answers, sure. A few questions would have been nice, though.

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Dungeons & Dragons movie successfully rolls for initiative

Warner Bros. and Hasbro have struck a deal to re-ignite the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game into a big screen franchise. After a long legal tussle between Hasbro's Allspark Pictures and Sweetpea Entertainment was finally settled, the two companies opted to join forces with Warner to co-produce the first movie in a new cinematic universe.

The studio is eager to fast-track the project as David Leslie Johnson, who wrote Orphan, Red Riding Hood and The Conjuring 2, has already submitted a draft of the script set in the Forgotten Realms. There's no director or cast confirmed at this point, but Warner creative president Greg Silverman seems confident that brand recognition and nostalgia will drive forward development:

“We are so excited about bringing the world of Dungeons & Dragons to life on the big screen. This is far and away the most well-known brand in fantasy, which is the genre that drives the most passionate film followings. D&D has endless creative possibilities, giving our filmmakers immense opportunities to delight and thrill both fans and moviegoers new to the property.”

Hasbro executive vice-president Stephen Davis shared Silverman's excitement when he weighed in on the news. “This is such an enormous opportunity to bring the rich fantasy setting of the Forgotten Realms to life and, together with the creative powerhouse of Warner Bros., use movies to tell the stories that have enchanted passionate D&D fans for decades. D&D is the role-playing game that started it all and now we have the opportunity to ignite a franchise for its legions of avid fans in a way never done before.”

As no cinematic franchise is complete without talk of other tie-ins, there's mention of a potential TV spinoff from the core set of movies. CBS had immense success in the '80s by adapting the game into the cult classic Dungeons & Dragons animated series, so it's not out of the (forgotten) realm of possibility. Here's hoping it doesn't resemble the 2001 live-action feature.

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Equilibrium review

Welcome to the future nation of Libria, where art is banned, music forbidden and emotions outlawed. The inhabitants are kept compliant through regular doses of emotion-suppressor drug Prozium, and warrior Clerics root out "sense offenders", enforcing the law through martial-arts skills and big black coats. Yes, Big Brother is back. And this time he's got Sean Pertwee's face...

Borrowing liberally from far superior efforts, Equilibrium wants to be a Matrix-style equivalent of what sci-fi literature does so well: the morality play. Sadly, the genre's films rarely meet with the same success and this is no exception. The movie looks cool but the story's pure clag. And yes, the Gun-Kata (an impressive man-ballet of weaponry and martial-arts stances) offers attention-grabbing set-pieces, but it soon becomes repetitive.

In short, Kurt Wimmer's directorial debut is like a Ferrari built around a Robin Reliant engine - - nice to look at, but crap to drive. Christian Bale's journey from sentiment-bypassed lawkeeper to emoto-rebel is littered with clichés, from the cute puppy he rescues to the almost-romance he shares with Emily Watson. And along the way, the narrative texture unravels. Why do all the supposedly emotionless villains gurn in fear when confronted by Bale's betrayal? And if the authorities are so concerned about emotions that everyone dresses in muted pastels, why is Emily Watson wearing various pretty dresses while awaiting execution?

Not one to think about then, but those desperate for the return of Neo will find this a quick fix to keep the monkey off their back. Trouble is, it'll be replaced by a bloody big gorilla once the initial adrenaline burst wears off.

Teetering precariously between Matrix-fuelled mainstream glory and the straight-to-video sci-fi netherworld ruled by Rutger Hauer, Equilibrium is stylish but stupid. Neo, you really are The One.

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Exclusive: new images from Fantastic Four

In the new issue of Total Film magazine (on sale Friday 13 March), we bring you our Future 100 - your guide to everything that matters in movies. As the coolest comic-book flick on the slate, Fantastic Four naturally made the list.

And here's a sneak peak of some of the exclusive images you can see inside the issue. Featuring Miles Teller's Reed Richards, Kate Mara's Sue Storm and Michael B. Jordan's Johnny Storm, the new pics offer a new glimpse at one of the summer's best-kept secrets.

Directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle), Fantastic Four promises to be a wholly different beast to be a completely new take on Marvel's first family - grounded and gritty, with a harder sci-fi edge than previous incarnations.

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Fallout 4 Contraptions DLC creates automated slaughterhouse and a lunchbox surplus

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Fallout 4's Contraptions Workshop DLC has been out for nearly a week, so it's about time to check in with the player community and see what bizarre things they've started building. What have all those new logic gates, conveyor belts, and sorting machines let them get up to? Well, Reddit user 50451 doesn't have to butcher their own radstags any more (this uses a mod for the auto-butcher, FYI).

Meanwhile, Fournailsonetounge has created a Build-A-Bear workshop that you should definitely not take your kids to.

Speaking of building bears, Preston Garvey won't let being pelted by dozens of them distract him from important Minutemen business, no matter how Father tries.

This Rube Goldberg device by FluffyNinjaLlama has one very important purpose.

TheBlueFlowerPot is working hard to overcome the post-apocalyptic future's critical shortage of lunchboxes.

And our friends at PC Gamer have created a device to punish Farmer Abernathy for his horrible accent.

Fallout 4's Vault-Tec Workshop DLC is set to arrive next month, which should let players make even more bizarre, scientifically unethical creations to gawk at.

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Game of Thrones S6.05 review - This is true heroism

We should have seen it coming. It’s Game of Thrones. Not only does the show have a track record of ripping out our hearts and stomping on them until we scream “No more!”, but this week’s episode, The Door, was the midseason episode. No way we were getting through that without taking some serious damage to our delicate hope-filled hearts. Anyone who’s not seen the episode yet (what are you doing here?) might think I’m overacting. Everyone who has seen it, knows that’s not possible. Hodor is gone. And I'm hoping he's not coming back as a White Walker, but who knows? Possibly the only character in Game of Thrones without an agenda sacrificed himself to save his friends and went down fighting.

Not only have we lost one of the most beloved characters on the show, but it happened just seconds after we discovered the truth behind his origins. Oh you cruel, cruel man George R. R. Martin. We knew there had to be some meaning to the word ‘Hodor’ as soon as we realised at the beginning of the season that Wylis hadn’t always been a one-word man. As it turns out Hodor was actually “Hold the door” which is what Meera was shouting at Hodor when she was trying to escape with Bran from the White Walkers. Bran, who was at the time mind-melding with the dying Three-Eyed Raven, heard her tell him to warg into Hodor so they could escape, but in his confused state he warged into young Hodor in his vision. When he heard Meera telling him to “Hold the door” so did Wylis and it caused a sort of seizure which caused him to repeatedly yell “Hold the door! Hold the door! Hodor!” Yep, Bran and his super-convenient-at-explaining-the-past visions fucked up Hodor royally, but the large-hearted hero still died to save him.

Even for a show in which you can see almost every twist and turn coming a mile away, Hodor’s death was done perfectly. No sooner was I screaming in my head: “Hold the door… is Hodor!’ than I was watching the gentle giant's face get ripped apart by White Walkers. I know it doesn’t sound perfect, but as actor Kristian Nairn has said himself since, it felt very true to Hodor that he would sacrifice himself for his friends. The reveal of his origins and death came from author George R. R. Martin despite the show now overtaking (and sometimes changing) the books. Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss explain how the creator of Game of Thrones told them in a hotel room how Hodor become Hodor and they just looked at each and said “Holy shit.” Yeah, our sentiments exactly.

This wasn’t the only reveal that came from Bran’s storyline in this week’s episode - he’s definitely having a much more interesting time of it than the last few seasons. We also found out how the White Walkers were originally created. Basically, the Children of the Forest shoved some Obsidian, aka Dragon Glass, into the heart of a man who was supposed to protect nature from mankind who were slowing destroying it. Sound familiar? Long story short, it didn’t go so well and now the Children of the Forest are trying to fight them along with everyone else. With yet another throwback to the original season, we discover that those creeping patterns made of dead bodies we keep seeing are actually the Children of the Forest’s ancient symbols. Remember Will the Ranger who saw Wildling body parts arranged in a bizarre pattern in the pilot? And then the horses which were laid out in a swirling pattern? In this episode, we see a similar symbol during the ritual the Children of the Forest use to make the White Walkers and so another question is answered.

All in all, Bran and his cohorts haven’t had a great week. Hodor is dead, Summer is dead, the Three-Eyed Raven is dead, their Children of the Forest friend Leaf is dead. Bran is currently in the middle of a mega brain upload from the Three-Eyed Raven who admitted right before he started it that Bran wasn’t ready for it, and Meera is basically on her own, running from the White Walkers while dragging Bran’s useless body behind her. Yeah, this is not what success looks like. Thankfully, Jon and Sansa seem to be getting on a bit better.

This episode sets up the return of House Tully and Brynden ‘the Blackfish’ as Sansa learns that her Uncle has reformed the Tully army and retaken Riverrun. She finds out from Littlefinger who looks suitable shamed when she confronts him about marrying her off to psychopath and all-round bad guy Ramsay Bolton, but she lets him live. Why? Quite possibly because she knows he could help her in the future which just goes to show how much the manipulative Petyr Baelish has rubbed off on her. The other worrying development is that she lies to her brother Jon about how she comes across this information, which is not something trusted allies/family do, you know? Jon Snow and his growing war council set out in the episode to try and gain the support of the lesser Northern Houses, while Sansa sends Brienne to her Uncle to call for his support.

Although I loved watching Sansa make Littlefinger squirm while Brienne stood in the background looking menacing, there’s nothing much to report here other than what I’ve already said. It is worth noting, however, House Manderly gets a name drop which if you’ve read the books you’ll know is important because they are one of the only big northern houses still loyal to the Starks with Wyman Manderly just playing along with the Boltons. Also, Davos mentioned the one big obstacle against Jon’s success and that’s the fact that he’s not a legitimate Stark. *cough* Looks like he’s going to have to do something about that then. *cough* Also, I’d be remiss if I didn’t report back that epic love story that is Briemund is well on its way with Brienne mentioning “that Wildling fellow with the beard” and Tormund smiling at her while on horseback. Yes, smiling. It was the best.

The other big news of the episode was who won the Kingsmoot in the Iron Islands and as you’d probably expect, it wasn’t the totally-sensible-choice Yara because, you know, she’s a woman so it would be insane for her to rule. Props to her Uncle Euron who held his hands up and admitted to killing King Balon and then went on to make enough dick jokes to get the rest of the Iron Island Lords to vote him into power. While this was going on, Yara and Theon jumped into some boats with a few loyal followers and set sail outta there, which turned out to be a good idea as King Euron’s first royal decree was to murder them. Who knows where they’re going, but Euron’s ‘election’ and the fact that he’s planning on seducing Daenerys with his boats (just like he is in the books) confirms that House Greyjoy is definitely one to watch this season

Speaking of Daenerys, her storyline is in a holding pattern at the moment after her conquest of the Dothraki, but she does get a touching moment with Jorah in this week’s episode. While the Mother of Dragons is trying to work out how to banish the man who betrayed her, but keep the man who saved her, her choice gets made for her as Jorah reveals he has Greyscale. As she realises he’s dying we see how much he truly means to her despite everything he’s done and it’s genuinely quite beautiful. Daario was just standing there looking awkward obviously, but other than that… beautiful.

While that was about it for Dany and co, back in Meereen Tyrion and Varys have managed to maintain a certain amount of peace thanks to their pact with the Masters. It’s not enough though, as Tyrion points out, the people need to know their Queen is responsible for this peace and so he asks for the help of the other Red Priestess, Kinvara, in spreading the word. Turns out she’s more than happy to help as Daenerys is the chosen one. Wait, what? I thought that was Jon Snow? Or maybe Stannis? Looks like there’s dissension in the ranks.

As you can probably tell, absolutely LOADS happened in this episode and all of it was good. Well, not good good, but good TV good. With just the right mixture of action and explanation, The Door simultaneously broke us while building us up for the rest of the series. Now that we’re halfway through season 6, things will surely start heating up even more as Jon builds his army and Daenerys plans to cross the Narrow Sea. Who will win the North? Will Bran kill anyone else? More importantly, when will Tormund and Brienne get it on?

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GamesRadar and IPLAYWINNER team up for Street Fighter X Tekken livestream - watch the archive now

As you might have noticed, we've been doing lots of livestreams this week. We've also had lots of Street Fighter X Tekken content. On Thursday night, we went big. Really, really big.

We teamed up with Haunts from IPLAYWINNER as well as competitive players LPN and Crackfiend to preview SFxT from the standpoint of high-level fighting game experts. Check out the archive from the livestream; you might learn something from watching the pros in action!

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Colin Trevorrow responds to petition to bring back George Lucas for Episode IX

You may have heard of a fan petition making the rounds on the internet demanding the return of George Lucas to direct Star Wars: Episode IX. The petition now has over 20,000 supporters, but before you start worrying how current director, Colin Trevorrow will take the news, he already knows...

Speaking to ET at the BAFTA Awards Season Tea Party the Jurassic World director said: "It’s funny, I saw that, and it was on a day where I was at LucasFilm giving this big speech to everyone about how we want to channel the invention and just the raw creativity and the boldness that George brought to these films and not being afraid that we’re going to embarrass ourselves by doing something that might be crazy.

"When George Lucas made Star Wars, a lot of people thought it was crazy. When you try to pitch what that movie’s about – if you’ve never heard of Star Wars before, you say, ‘Here’s a character. His father’s part robot, but he can also do magic. And there’s a guy who can fly in a spaceship. He’s got a dog for a friend!’ – it sounds insane but it’s the greatest story ever told. I just want to embrace that kind of invention and creativity that he brought to it.”

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Not everyone is happy with the choice of director for the yet-unnamed Star Wars: Episode IX. Some fans are asking Disney to replace Jurassic World'sColin Trevorrow Jurassic World with the saga's original creator, George Lucas. The petition currently sits at roughly 17,000 signatures, with 25,000 as its next target.

Before you worry about a hypothetical "Star Wars: Episode IX - Binks Lives", keep in mind there's about zero percent chance this will happen. Lucas wasn't strong armed out of ownership by a bullying cartoon mouse and JJ Abrams (the latter of which has nothing to do with Star Wars 9 anyway); he sold the rights in a contractual business deal. As he said in November: "I will go my way, and I'll let them go their way." This isn't exactly a new situation for Lucas either, considering he didn't direct The Empire Strikes Back nor Return of the Jedi.

But let's entertain this notion just a little bit. After all, we very nearly complimented the prequels, noting that Lucas (almost) wrote a great story. Assuming it could happen and having seen the Disney approach, would you want to see Lucas in the director's chair for the final chapter of the new trilogy?

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Hitman won't come out on disc until January 2017

If you were hoping to buy a physical copy of Agent 47's new adventures, you'll have to wait a little while longer than we thought. IO Interactive told VideoGamer that Hitman's disc version is now planned for January 2017, pushed back from its former late 2016 release window, though it's not saying why.

The entire first season of Hitman is still expected to roll out digitally by the end of 2016, seven episodes and six major locations in all. The retail version, which bundles it all together, was the only part to get a little push. IO Interactive has made a big show of online support for the game, with time-limited Elusive Targets and other live events, but I can certainly understand wanting to sit down and play it all at once rather than waiting for the digital drip feed.

Though as a big fan of (most of) the Hitman series, and as someone who usually enjoys episodic games, I'm totally tearing into Paris when it comes out tomorrow.

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