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Oliver Twist (2005)

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An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Roman Polanski

Charles Dickens (novel), Ronald Harwood (screenplay)
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Cast overview, first billed only:
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Peter Copley ... Dining Hall Master
Andy Linden Andy Linden ... Mr. Gamfield - the Chimney Sweep
John Nettleton ... 1st Magistrate
Tony Noble Tony Noble ... 2nd Magistrate
Michael Heath ... Mr. Sowerberry

In the Nineteenth Century, orphan Oliver Twist is sent from the orphanage to a workhouse, where the children are mistreated and barely fed. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives exhausted and starving, and is soon welcomed in a gang of pickpockets lead by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Bill Sykes decide to kidnap Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow's fancy house. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Rated PG-13 for disturbing images | See all certifications »

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Czech Republic | UK | France | Italy

Release Date:

30 September 2005 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Oliver Tvist See more »

Filming Locations:

Czech Republic See more »

Box Office

€50,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

CZK 322,085 (Czech Republic), 29 September 2005, Limited Release

Opening Weekend USA:

$68,447, 25 September 2005, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$1,987,287, 16 October 2005

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2.39 : 1
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Excellent adaptation
11 November 2005 | by gtzamSee all my reviews

Roman Polanski's film is an authoritative take on Dickens' classic. It is expertly paced, slowly immersing the viewer into the plight of the young orphan and its predicament in Victorian England. Through a meticulous period reconstruction, superb acting, and effective characterization (all the secondary characters are memorable), the typically Dickensian theme of the survival of Innocence against all odds is dramatized with utter conviction. The omission of the excessively melodramatic elements from the original story (Oliver's family back-story for instance) contributes greatly to the story's strength by minimizing any trace of implausibility or mawkishness, thus providing a wide-ranging portrait of the Victorian society with its intrinsic inequalities and its rather warped sense of justice. The visuals are splendid and the prevalent detached and non-judgmental approach to an easily emotive story is simply the signature of master director Roman Polanski, who is functioning here on top form.

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Often (2006)

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29 May 2008 | by udita_mittalSee all my reviews

I often wonder how movies like this even get made, and the most shocking part is that people actually pay to watch them.

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Every one of the characters was shallow and underdeveloped. Acting was awful. Constumes (lycra for Udita and awful suits for a stocky Emran), locales (the numerous houses that were used for interiors did not even vaguely resemble a Victorian mansion), screenplay etc etc, just one word- rubbish.

For those people who love Hashmi and his movies, watch it. As for me, I'll never get those two and a half hours back. The only redeeming factor was some of the music which was decent.

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Book Review Times 2: Hometown Girl and Marilyn’s Addresses

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                               Marilyn’s Addresses

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For those of you who weren’t able to go to this year’s annual MM Community gathering in Los Angeles, I’ve two books to tell you about that will allow you to see Marilyn’s hometown from wherever you are. Or maybe you are planning to head to LA at some point in the future and want to create your own tour of those spots where Marilyn Monroe once worked, played, lived and laughed. Used to be you either went ahead and booked a trip and once there just kind of winged it but with the aid of Michelle Finn and Eric Woodard you can sit down and map out every single place you want to see in person.

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The text on the cover pretty much explains the concept of the book: “A chronological guide of Marilyn Monroe related Los Angeles area addresses from 1923 to 1962 with 250 listings illustrated with over 700 images.” What the cover doesn’t tell you is that the visual images leap off the page to grab the reader and pull them deep into a world that for the most part is no longer: the actual world Marilyn Monroe inhabited. Yet this is not a presentation of photo after photo but a nearly 200 page collage created by an incredible graphic artist. In the hands of any other author the information would be welcomed but in no way could it have been presented in such a dazzling manner.

Many authors can write about Marilyn’s life and I’m pretty sure you’ve read a good deal of them. But it is one thing to read a four hundred page biography, (even those with a sizable photo section), and quite another to enter Marilyn’s environment with Eric Woodard as your visual guide. You can see a picture of the young MM dining with her first husband and her mother, everyone at the table grinning for the likely souvenir photograph, but to see the restaurant in color, see a menu or a matchbook cover and know what now stands there—this is a totally different experience. Or how about trying to find where the famed Macambo nightclub once stood, the place where Marilyn Monroe used her growing stardom as leverage to break the color barrier and land Ella Fitzgerald a booking? Or maybe you’re halfway through Donald Spoto’s biography and would love to figure out the distance between Peter Lawford’s Santa Monica home and 12305 5th Helena? Curious to see what the exterior AND interior of the home Marilyn and Milton Greene rented during the filming of Bus Stop? You’ve read that Marilyn was looking for a place like Dr. Greenson’s house but have no idea what his home looked like? It’s all right here in this book.

From the very first page Hometown Girl guides you through Marilyn’s day to day life, seeing her world through her eyes, from the quiet of Grace Goddard’s backyard, to the skating rink Norma Jeanne and Bebe escaped to, from the Beverly Hilton where she accepted her last Golden Globe to poolside at the Lawford’s Santa Monica beach house.

And that’s’ the joy of this book: to see Los Angeles as it she saw it. Any book that can tell me on which corner to stand and then describe the famous Schwab’s Pharmacy to the point where I can actually see Sidney Skolsky rather than the Crunch Gym that stands there today, is more than okay with me. It is a treasure to hold onto and retreat into whenever the spirit moves me.

While Hometown Girl concentrates on the many places Marilyn lived, played and worked in and about Los Angeles and is presented in a chronological-biographical format, Marilyn’s Addresses also encompasses many of the locations Marilyn traveled to—from Los Angeles to New York, from Canada to Japan, from England to Mexico.

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What I found surprising, (although having now read her other books I realize I should never be surprised by Michelle Morgan), was the amount of information that I had been unaware of. Take Las Vegas for example. I knew that Marilyn had traveled to Vegas for the Dougherty divorce, knew that she had met up with Roy Rogers while there and even got to ride his horse Trigger, but I had no idea where she had stayed. Well, here in Marilyn’s Addresses you will discover that it was at The Last Frontier, (still in existence as The Frontier), one of the very first hotel casinos in what was then a sleepy little town out in the Nevada desert. Or take her entry on Paramount Studios. I knew that the last scenes for The Misfits were filmed there but had no idea which scenes or that it was during the two weeks of final filming that Marilyn posed for the Arnold sitting. And although you might already know where Marilyn and Joe went on their first date, not many MM fans know the exact location in New York where Marilyn scrawled “Marilyn Monroe Was Here” in a patch of wet cement. Michelle Finn, all the way over in England made it a point to find out and includes this information in her book.

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Between the city and the sea: An unfinished 'shell' transformed into this luxurious family home

An unfinished 'shell' transformed into this luxurious family home, writes Katy McGuinness

Number 8 Glenair Manor would suit a large family, it boasts 5,026 sq ft of living space with five bedrooms
Number 8 Glenair Manor would suit a large family, it boasts 5,026 sq ft of living space with five bedrooms
The dining room with walnut timber flooring
The conservatory
One of the five bedrooms
One of the en-suites
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The first phase of the nine-house Glenair Manor development was launched in September 2004, with the houses - there are three different styles - priced at between €1.65m and €1.7m.

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In 2012, the incomplete Number 8 was on the market with a guide price of €400,000 and the current owners bought what the selling agents described as "effectively a shell, a step up from a site" in 2014 for €510,000. They set about transforming that 'shell' into this super-luxurious family home. They are now down-sizing because their children have left home.

One of the reception rooms
One of the reception rooms

Number 8 is certainly a house for a large family, sitting behind electric gates and with 5,026 sq ft of living space and no fewer than five large bedrooms, each with a lavish bathroom or shower room en-suite.

The finishes throughout - the carpets on the stairs and in the bedrooms, the walnut timber flooring in the main reception rooms and the Andrew Ryan kitchen - are top-notch, and the décor palette uses soft, neutral tones that are stylish and sophisticated.

The double-height hallway is overlooked by a galleried landing and leads to five generous reception rooms - drawing room, dining room, family room, study and conservatory - which flow together nicely and are geared towards entertaining yet work equally well for everyday family living.

Andrew Ryan is one of those names that crops up whenever anyone talks about smart kitchens and here the bespoke solid beech in-frame handcrafted cabinetry is painted in Little Greene's subtle French Grey, with a black Aga with an antique mirrored back taking pride of place alongside a range of integrated appliances. The separate utility room lies between the kitchen and the dining room, and there is a handy guest lavatory.

Outside, there's a detached double garage and the gardens - about two-thirds of an acre in total, enough for fun and play but not too much to be overwhelming - are nicely landscaped.

For anyone interested in food, Delgany is a dream village. There's the Firehouse Bakery for one thing, where Patrick Ryan sells his excellent artisan breads and decadent doughnuts; it's so popular that there are often queues out the door. (If you want to avoid the wait, you can pick up Firehouse bread in SuperValu in Greystones.) Locals says that The Pigeon House restaurant is good value and has been upping its game consistently since it opened, while The Delgany Grocer is as fine a local food store as one could hope for, with plenty of fresh herbs and organic Irish vegetables. Farrelly's Butcher stocks organic beef and lamb from Philip Emmet who farms at Altidore Castle in nearby Kilpedder. Philip is a direct descendant of Thomas Emmet, brother of the Irish patriot, Robert Emmet.

The dining room with walnut timber flooring
The dining room with walnut timber flooring

The best coffee in Delgany is to be found at the Bear Paw deli, where Ballymaloe graduate Claire O'Brien dishes up fresh, vibrant salads and tasty sambos to take away, and provides the food for the smartest local gatherings. There's a Bear Paw café down the road in Greystones too, which gives the Happy Pear a run for its money. Some locals sniff that the Flynn brothers' extraordinary popularity means that Greystones is overrun by tourists, walkers and Happy Pear groupies at the weekend, making parking difficult, but business owners in the town are no doubt delighted.

Other good places to eat in Greystones are Daata and Chakra, both serving Indian food, Buoys Kitchen and Three Qs, while La Touche Wines is a relaxed and friendly gathering place. Sunil Ghai's Tiffin, which opened last year, is everyone's favourite takeaway.

There is plenty of equestrian activity in and around Delgany, with the local pony clubs gearing up for a summer of fun, and the sailing and tennis clubs in Greystones putting together summer programmes to keep children and teenagers occupied during the long school holidays.

For golfers, the Charlesland course is just down the road, while the Greystones Yoga Studio and SoBe at the South Beach Pavilion keep locals flexible with yoga and pilates.

Delgany has its own national school and there is a good choice of secondary schools in the area, including St David's in Greystones, St Gerard's, and the new North Wicklow Educate Together in Bray.

8 Glenair Manor

Delgany, Co Wicklow

Asking price: €1,395,000

Agent: Sherry Fitzgerald, (01) 2874005

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Travelling to a different country is always a challenge even in the best of times.  It becomes even more difficult when the travel is for taking medical treatments. It is advisable to work with trusted partners who can assist you in all the processes related to travel and  treatment. INDHEAL is one of the leading online medical travel companies in India which provides end to end assistance to people looking for medical treatment in India.

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IndustryWeek magazine -- okay, and every other magazine that you can't actually buy at an airport newsstand or kiosk -- has been banned from flights out of Canada heading to the United States. According to an article in the Globe and Mail, new airport security measures forbid passengers from bringing books and magazines purchased pre-flight onto airplanes bound for the U.S.

As you would imagine, publishers are absolutely livid about this restriction, which seems to benefit only the relative handful of vendors who sell books and magazines in Canada's airports. Forget about hauling along any books or magazines from your own home or office; the ban apparently even extends to books checked out of a library. Nope, if you're flying from Vancouver or Montreal or Toronto or any other Canadian airport to the USA, you've gotta settle for whatever reading matter you can dredge up once you've cleared security and are in an airport terminal.

The article doesn't spell out what happens to all the pre-purchased books and magazines that are now considered verboten. I would imagine there'd be quite a few outraged passengers wondering how they're going to get their books back, especially if it's one they've been anxiously waiting to read on the plane to make the trip go faster. Like, say, this book.

Of course, fortunately for IW's faithful readers, you can always access our content online, but that'll only take you so far, too... until the flight attendant informs you that all PDAs must be turned off for the duration of the flight. Thankfully, some (but by no means all) airlines now offer in-flight Internet access, so while you may not be able to bring your copy of IW onto the plane, you still might get to read it, after all.

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Powdered Measles Vaccine Found to be Safe in Early Clinical Trials

A measles vaccine made of fine dry powder and delivered with a puff of air triggered no adverse side effects in early human testing and it is likely effective, according to a paper to be published Nov. 28 in the journal Vaccine. The paper is now available online.

In 2013, measles killed 145,700 people, most of them children, according to the World Health Organization. That's despite the fact that the conventional injectable vaccine against the measles virus is effective.

"Delivering vaccines in the conventional way, with needle injections, poses some serious challenges, especially in resource-poor parts of the world," says Robert Sievers, co-author of the new paper, a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and also a professor in the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

His team innovated a dry delivery technique for the measles vaccine to eliminate the need for injections, liquid storage, and other challenges, such as vaccine contamination. "You don't need to worry about needles; you don't need to worry about reconstituting vaccines with clean water; you don't need to worry about disposal of sharps waste or other vaccine wastage issues; and dry delivery is cheaper," Sievers says.

The new paper represents the first successful Phase I clinical trial for a dry powder vaccine, he says. Sievers and his co-authors identified no adverse effects of the powdered and inhaled vaccine when tested in 60 healthy men who were already immune to measles. In this safety-focused clinical trial, they tested delivery with two devices--the Aktiv-Dry PuffHaler® and BD Technologies Solovent™--compared with the usual under-the-skin liquid injection method.

"Out of an abundance of caution, we test first in people who have already had the disease, or been injected earlier by needles with liquid vaccines," he explains. The men in all three groups responded similarly, with no clinically relevant side effects and some evidence of a positive immune response to vaccination. Because the men were already immune to the disease, this experiment could not yet compare effectiveness of the vaccines, measured by immune response. That will be the primary goal of follow-on Phase II/III pivotal trials.

"It is very good news that we encountered no problems, and now we can move on," Sievers says. The next phase of tests could include work in people who are not yet immune to measles, including women and children.

The authors of the new paper include researchers from the Serum Institute of India, Ltd., in Pune, India, which is the largest manufacturer of childhood vaccines used in developing countries; an Indian medical college; a North Carolina medical technology company; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Several of the authors also are affiliated with the Boulder company Aktiv-Dry, LLC, where Sievers is president and CEO.

In preclinical research, Sievers' team has already demonstrated that the vaccine protects rhesus macaques and cotton rats from infection by the measles virus. The researchers also have shown that their dry vaccines can be safely stored for 6 months to 4 years, at room temperature or in refrigerators kept at 36 to 46 degrees Fahrenheit (2-8 degrees Celsius), respectively.

This work was funded in part by a $20 million grant from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health through the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative, which was created by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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D30 Air is a patented protective material that combines enhanced chemistry with product engineering to produce high performance shock absorption and impact protection solutions.  A brand new D30 Air material has been developed especially for the Rukka protectors.  This new material has some unique characteristics that provide enhanced versatile and flexible protection. The material contains intelligent molecules that flow freely when moving but on shock lock together to absorb impact energy, instantly returning to their flexible state.  D30 Air does not go hard when hit, the molecules lock together to absorb and spread the force, significantly reducing the effect of impact.  D30 Air disperses the force of impact, drastically reducing transmitted force and minimising the risk of injury.  The protective qualities are retained after repetitive impact.

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D3O is a UK based company specialising in impact protection and shock absorption. The company develops unique, high performance impact protection technologies that are used by global brands in sports, electronics, motorcycle, defence and industrial workwear. D3O licenses its protective solutions to leading brands and organisations worldwide including Under Armour, Schutt Sports, Snickers Workwear, Dr. Martens, US Special Forces, 3M, Furygan and Scott Sports.

D3O uses unique patented and proprietary technologies to make rate-sensitive, soft, flexible materials with high shock absorbing properties that are used in impact protection products.Based on non-Newtonian principles, in its raw form, the material’s molecules flow freely, allowing it to be soft and flexible, but on impact, lock together to dissipate impact energy and reduce transmitted force.

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Schuberth C3 Basic Helmet - Glossy Silver

The Schuberth C3 Basic is a great choice for anyone who wants a helmet that gives high performance and protection. Designed and tested at Schuberth’s wind tunnel facility this helmet will deliver everything you need from a motorcycle helmet. This testing means that the C3 Basic has a highly aerodynamic design that improves stability even at higher speeds. The C3 Basic is the second quietest flip-front helmet on the market. Only the C3 Pro is quieter. When the sun starts shining the C3 Basic has an integrated sun visor controlled by a convenient lever on the base of the helmet. This sun visor provides great coverage and is easy to use even when wearing gloves.

To keep you safe the C3 Basic is constructed from reinforced fibreglass that offers great protection whilst also being very lightweight. The interior has an EPS foam liner to give added shock absorption.

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  • Coolmax interior lining promotes moisture wicking keeping you comfortable
  • Schuberth’s exclusive Anti-Roll-Off-System designed to reduce head pivot during an accident
  • Integrated sun visor with easy to use lever

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Schuberth helmets were founded in the 1920’s in Braunschweig, Germany. They produce over 1.5 million helmets each year, both under their own brand name and also as BMW brand helmets. A renowned leader in Formula 1 auto helmets, they also supply to 65 armies worldwide, national fire services as well as industry specific headgear for mining, construction, oil/gas, steel, forestry and energy. All of these require exacting professional standards for their specific needs, and for that reason Schuberth have an enviable breadth and depth of manufacturing and engineering experience.

From F1 To SR1

Schuberth often bring their engineering insights from working on different helmets for different industries to bear on their motorcycle helmets. Probably the best example of this is their SR1 helmet range, inspired by their Formula 1 range and designed in close collaboration with Michael Schumacher himself.

These supersport helmets are beautifully designed with a solid feel to every part of the helmet, from the shell itself to the way the moving parts click smoothly and effectively into place. Comfort and durability are both very high quality, and of course they benefit from the most unique feature of Schuberth helmets – they are extremely quiet at high speeds.

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Schuberth helmets are one of very few manufacturers who have a dedicated wind tunnel in which to test their helmets. During testing, Schuberth helmets are not only optimised aerodynamically but also aero-acoustically too. That is to say that not only does the wind tunnel ensure that your Schuberth helmet remains stable at speed but also remains as quiet as they can possibly be. The current C3 Pro flip front helmet for example has a noise level of less than or equal to 82dB(A) at a constant 100km/h setting a new benchmark for the whole industry.

That's especially good news for riders with tinnitus or sound sensitivity, as we know that ear plugs cannot be relied on to completely protect your hearing in all circumstances.

It's much more than just a helmet for protecting damaged ears, though – without earplugs or helmet, wind noise alone can reach 115 decibels on a motorbike, as much as a loud rock concert. Since decibels are measured in a logarithmic way, this is a huge difference! Logarithmic measurements are like the Richter scale (used to measure earthquakes) and that means that:

Moving from 10 decibels to 20 decibels means that a sound is about 10 times more intense.

Moving from 90 decibels to 100 decibels also means that a sound is about 10 times more intense.

A Schuberth C3 Pro flip front helmet is therefore nearly 2000 times less intense than unfiltered wind noise!

That means that a C3 Helmet is useful for safeguarding your hearing before you hearing can be damaged by excessive and continuous exposure to loud noises. As well as being exceptionally aerodynamic and quiet, the C3 range is also notable for being incredibly light, making it a great choice of helmet if comfort is of high importance to you.

It is no accident that Schuberth work with BMW so well; they are a great partnership, both offering high quality German engineering with a focus on providing understated luxury and comfort in addition to the features you expect from a high-end product.

Schuberth Helmet Extras

Schuberth have a few extras that help their helmets stand out from their competitor ranges.

The Anti-Roll-Off-System or A.R.O.S. is a safety feature that is included in every Schuberth helmet, and makes sure that the chinstrap is closed and safely adjusted. The A.R.O.S. means that the helmet cannot pivot off the head from behind and is less likely to cause damage or come into contact with vulnerable areas during a crash, which is important for safety.

Reflex pads also demonstrate Schuberth's commitment to safety, as reflective "Reflex" areas ensure that the motorcyclist is easy to identify and avoid in dark conditions. Early recognition and recognition from a way off means that passive safety is greatly improved by these areas.

Working its way through the planning and design stages for years to ensure it is exactly as good as it can be, the long awaited SRC-system (Schuberth Rider Communication system) can be integrated into the Schuberth helmet acoustic collar within minutes. This Bluetooth communication device has a wide range of functions including, rider-pillion intercom, mobile phone, MP3 and GPS connectivity, bike to bike intercom (up to 300m) and a built in radio. Come in store and check out this amazing technology from Schuberth helmets.

Infinity And Schuberth

At Infinity Motorcycles, we've been Schuberth helmet stockists since the first Concept models were brought into the UK, our stores have staff trained by both the UK importer and Schuberth themselves. We would always recommend coming into a store in order to get a good fit and advice on the right helmet for you, but if that is not possible you can buy online thanks to our 7 Day Exchange policy on helmets.

In addition to the standard two year warranty, all Schuberth helmets bought from Infinity Motorcycles since January 1st 2014 are eligible for an extended warranty.

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As long as you are sure to rinse out the coffee maker once after using the cleaning agent, it does make a difference in the over all taste of the coffee. It gives me peace of mind that my coffee maker is clean.
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Shut up this is the sweetest and cheapest tax - Andrew Mwenda

Andrew Mwenda has blasted Ugandans who are complaining of social media tax saying they are the same  people who want free services provided by government.
He went ahead and said that this is the best  tax ever in Uganda history
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Since government introduced a tax on mobile money and social media, there has been deafening opposition to it from every quarter of Ugandan public opinion. The very Ugandans complaining against this tax are the same people who constantly demand a large basket of public goods and services to be provided freely and/or very cheaply to every citizen by the state – education, healthcare, security, clean water, electricity, justice, agricultural extension services, roads, schools, hospitals, bridges, etc. If Ugandans don’t want to pay taxes, how do they expect the government to fund all this?
This is the real crisis of the state in Uganda and Africa generally. We have elites with a highly developed entitlement mentality for a nanny state. They want heaven and earth from the state and yet do not want to contribute anything to make it possible for the state to serve them. They own a cow they want to milk without feeding it. This is an absurd and counterproductive mentality that explains the real cancer eating our country and continent. The words of USA president John Kennedy in his 1961 inaugural address must be quoted here: Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
I have a simple question for everyone here: if you disagree with this tax, which other tax do you have in mind that spreads the collection net widely to catch a large number of people? And if you want your government to do all the things you demand – and actually get – how do you want to it to fund them?
For many years the state has relied heavily on a few local businesses and foreign aid to fund the budget. This led to a situation where the state listened to donors instead of citizens on matters of public policy. When donors cut aid in 2012 over the anti homosexuality act, a law most Ugandans supported, the government avoided the hard choice of increasing taxes; deepening and/or broadening the tax base and went on a domestic borrowing spree. In just five years, domestic debt has grown to Shs 12.5 trillion with interest payments alone are now the largest part of the budget.
The claim that “we pay a lot of taxes” is nonsense. There are ways to measure this scientifically. One way is the ratio of tax revenues to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In Uganda this is very low, at 14% of a very miniscule GDP ($27 billion) compared to Sweden or Norway – the nations whose public goods and services Ugandans envy and demand – where it is 40 to 45% of a huge GDP ($540 billion and $440 billion respectively). The other way is tax revenue per person, which in Uganda is $106. How much can anyone get from $106 for a whole year? In fact this is 15% of per capital income in Uganda.
Why are our taxes small? First because our people are poor, there is little to tax. Second, the state’s tax administration infrastructure is very thin on the ground. Third, the state has a very limited economic map of the population to collect taxes from it because a huge part of economic activity is informal. Fourth, many economic activities in this country are tax-exempt. For example, 76% of imports are not taxed. Fifth, the government has always been afraid of the political backlash from taxing people. Given the hullabaloo over this tax I am afraid government may panic and withdraw it.
There is a lot to criticize about our tax policies
and administration. Our government lacks a plan for broadening the tax base. This has led tax policy to always seek to extract the last penny out of a few existing taxpayers instead of bringing more people and activities under the tax bracket. The better strategy should be to increase productivity so that more taxes are collected from increased output. And quite important, government has no strategy for creating incentives to attract people from the informal to the formal economy so that it can tax them.
But be that as it may, the tax on receiving and sending mobile money and on social media is good because it makes very many people pay it directly. It has also made all Ugandans feel the tax burden deeply and personally. This is good politically because it has made Ugandans realise that they contribute to state coffers from whence they expect services. The response should not be asking the tax to be suspended but the government to account for what it does with it.
For tax administration purposes this is a good tax because it is impossible to evade and expensive to avoid. It is easy and cheap to administer because it is collected electronically. Mobile phone companies will act as collection agents for the state hence no need to hire more staff and build elaborate infrastructure for tax collection.
Secondly you can only avoid this tax by not consuming the service. But its demand is inelastic because alternatives are more expensive. If you decline to use the service to send money to your mother in Katakwi in order avoid this tax, the cost of taking it in person is much higher. Secondly, the inconvenience of looking for a person who lives near your mother to take it there for you, is too much, not to mention the risk of him/her stealing it.
The use of social media for texting and voice calls has reduced government revenues from Short Message Services (SMS) and voice calls. This tax is therefore one way to compensate for this. If anyone uses social media to earn money, surely Shs 200 per day is not too much to ask. And I don’t see a problem with government using this tax to penalise those who use social media for lugambo and to hurl insults at others.
The great advantage of this tax is that is spreads the net widely thereby bringing many more Ugandans into the tax ambit. Right now only about 760,000 people are registered for personal income tax called Pay As You Earn (PAYE) or Pay As Yoweri Enjoys, which is true. The joke aside, 760,000 registered taxpayers in a population of 40m or an adult population of 17m is a scandal. Secondly, there are 236,000 individuals with businesses registered to pay taxes in Uganda. Yet only 24,600 actually pay taxes and a miniscule 4,150 pay 80% of it.
For far too long, the government of Uganda has been reluctant to tax the vast majority of its citizens for fear of a political backlash, like the one we are seeing today. It abolished graduated tax for populist reasons. Hence it has always relied heavily on the generosity of its Western benefactors through foreign aid. At one time foreign aid was 56% of the government budget. However, when Uganda passed the anti-homosexuality act in 2012, most aid was cut. Rather than cut spending and/or increase taxes, government went borrowing on the domestic market and also turned to China on the international credit market.
Before 2012, government used domestic borrowing only for monetary policy i.e. to control money supply. After the aid cuts, government began borrowing from the domestic market for fiscal purposes i.e. to finance the budget. This has led domestic debt to raise to Shs 12.5 trillion in 2018 with interest payments now the largest cost on the budget, a development that has attracted the ire of many Ugandan elites. Ironically, the very Ugandans denouncing government for imposing this tax have been the same people denouncing it for increasing debt.
Secondly, too much domestic borrowing has crowded the private sector out of financial markets. This has led to slow growth in the private sector not to mention discouraging private investment. This has led to sluggish GDP growth over the last five years – from an average of 7.2% in the 20 years between 1993 and 2012 to an average of 4.1% in the last five years. Indeed high interest rates on treasury bills and bonds has led interest rates for private firms to skyrocket causing many companies to default on their loans and some to go under.
There are many problems – both economic and administrative – with the new tax. But regardless of the weaknesses, I think it is good. From a political perspective, its biggest inefficiency (charging both senders and recipients of mobile money and asking people on social media to pay the tax directly instead of deducting it from their airtime) is actually its greatest advantage. Because many Ugandans are being taxed directly, they are now feeling the pinch. It is very likely that (holding many factors constant) they will now become more vigilant in holding government to account to serve them than they have ever done.
For far too long, the government of Uganda had avoided making citizens pay for the public goods and services they demand – and get – by relying on domestic and international borrowing. This disarticulated the state from citizens and made its creditors the most important influence on public policy. The state should rely on citizens for revenue. This has created a golden opportunity for citizens to engage the state over public policy. If this happens it may contribute to consolidating our democracy.
A note to President Yoweri Museveni: you have always fought hard to keep your job. Please for the first time in your presidency use the same energy to fight to keep this tax, because it is good for this country’s politics and revenue. The vast majority of Ugandans are against you. But you are right and they are wrong. For once stand firm against public opinion in defense of something where you don’t have a pecuniary interest.

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Objectives: To compare 4 online and off-line recruiting methods. Methods: Young adult smokers (n=3353) were recruited to a trial comparing smoking cessation services with an online health risk assessment (HRA), online ads, offline materials, and quit-line screening. Results: Online ads (n=1426; $41.35) and off-line materials recruited the most smokers (n=1341; $56.23) for the lowest cost. Quitline screening was more expensive (n=189; $132.22), but enrollees used cessation services the most (34%-82%). Online HRA was least successful and most costly (n=397; $630.85) but had the highest follow-up (45%-55%). Conclusions: Online ads and off-line materials were most effective and cost-effective methods.
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The Amalfi Coast is one of the most recognisable images of Italy – a 50-kilometre-long coastline of plunging cliffs topped with sky-scraping viewpoints. The towns step down the cliffs in a jumble of pastel houses and church domes, before fetching up at tiny harbours.

Although alike in looks, each place has its own forte. Ravello is known for its terraced gardens and clifftop summer music festival. Amalfi has a grand eighth-century cathedral, while Positano offers the Byzantine Church of Santa Maria Assunta.

Amalfi Coast holidays also leave you perfectly poised for exploring the rest of the region – from Sorrento, Ischia and Capri to Naples, Pompeii and Vesuvius.

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Since the beginning of this season, Grey’s Anatomy fans have been watching the relationship between Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) and Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary) take a dramatic turn downhill. Let’s be fair, their relationship didn’t exactly start well either, with plenty of will-they-or-won’t-they going on in Season 14 as well.

But for a relationship that doesn’t exactly have much time in the bank, they appear to be having an inordinate number of problems already. In the season premiere, they had a near-death experience together, with Andrew DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti) pulling them out of the way of an oncoming car. While Maggie was grateful, it seemed to throw Jackson completely off the rails, and he disappeared for a few weeks, letting Maggie know over a voicemail.

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According to Jackson, they have only been talking, but Maggie says the messages contain heart emojis and that the woman keeps telling Jackson she misses him. Whether or not they were sleeping together, there are other ways to cheat on your partner, and Jackson’s explanation doesn’t seem to reassure Maggie that he hasn’t been breaking her trust since he suddenly disappeared for weeks on end.

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“As soon as I entered the examination hall, my mind went numb, and I possibly forgot everything that I had studied.” This is the biggest fear that each university scholar has encountered at least once in his/her life. The experts associated with us who offer assignment help to the students have come up with a few tricks to ensure that you never encounter the similar situation. These hacks will make sure that you are making the utmost usage of your brain. Let’s go through them one by one:

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Mind Palaces

If you are a fan of Sherlock series, then you would be familiar with this concept. If not, then read further. The scientific name for this is ‘method of loci’, and it is used to memorise huge chunks of information. To follow it, firstly you need to visualise a building or a road, then populate it with image or details on the rooms or either side of the road. After this, you need to connect these details mentally and retrace your path when you want the access to the information. Additionally, to make space for more information, you just need to add an extra lane or room in your mind palace. The best part is that you can constantly expand it!

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With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, many jewelers, bakers, florists, chocolate makers, and similar businesses are enjoying a seasonal boost in business. But what happens when the seasonal uptick in business from a holiday like Valentine’s Day doesn’t happen?

Imagine, for example, that your florist shop is located right next to a commuter train station – but this year, that station is closed for repairs for six weeks, right in the middle of the Valentine’s season. Because many small-business owners rely on seasonal events for a significant chunk of annual revenue, the risk of losses from a less-than-stellar season is very real – and potentially very costly.

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The Onboarding Starter Kit

Good onboarding isn’t just about introducing new signups to your product’s features. It’s a continual process of guiding people towards success with your product. A well crafted messaging campaign, rather than a fancy intro screen, is the quickest and easiest way to achieve that. Appropriate messages will remind users why they’re here, show them what they can accomplish and what they can do next. And it will do it faster than any fleeting product tour can

The secret to a good onboarding messaging campaign is to send the right message to the right person at the right time, based on a user’s activity with your product (or lack thereof) rather than a cookie-cutter series of messages that’s blasted out to everyone on day 1, day 5, day 14, etc.

One of these messages in isolation won’t deliver engaged users overnight. But a series of onboarding messages will help get new signups on the road to success and remove any stumbling blocks they might encounter along the way.

Aligning all those elements to get everything right takes deliberate effort and planning. That can seem daunting when you think of all the flows and steps and people involved. So in this guide, you’ll learn how to cut through the confusion to plan and create a great onboarding messaging campaign.

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Messaging campaigns best practices

Make sure your campaign has a goal

Before you sit down to plan your campaign, ask yourself: what is the action you’d like to persuade people to perform? This gives your campaign a clear focus and purpose. (Consequently, if you’re sending messages without a clear goal, ask yourself whether you should be sending them at all.)

You can set a goal using any piece of data in Intercom, whether it’s an event or a user attribute. For example, your goal could be to get users to send 10 messages, or to complete their first project.

Prioritize which messages get sent first

Some of your onboarding messages, such as your welcome message, are mission critical. Other messages only need to be sent when someone isn’t using your product. Make sure your campaign prioritizes which message gets sent first. To choose which message to send first in Intercom, just drag and drop it to the top.

Space out your messages

Onboarding is no time to be shy. But you also need to make sure you’re not over-messaging your customers. Decide how many days you would like to leave in between messages (we recommend a minimum of 2 days). This prevents you from annoying customers with new messages when they haven’t even had a chance to act on the last one.

Trigger based on behavior

The best behavior-based messages feel personal, not spammy. You can trigger messages based on actions people take in your product (e.g. hasn’t used feature X), on the outcome of other messages (e.g. hasn’t opened welcome message), or time passed since an event (e.g. hasn’t logged in for 14 days).

The Onboarding Starter Kit

What messages should I be sending?

Welcome message - in-app and email

You know the standard “Thanks for signing up for $EXAMPLE_APP” email you typically get right after you put your credit card back in your wallet? This is a missed opportunity for most startups. Why tell them things they already know (“You signed up!”) when you could focus on things which will actually help them get value from your product? Things like:

  • The most impactful next steps for them to take e.g. send a message or add 5 teammates.
  • The three most common questions customers have on the first day. Address them right up front so they don’t have to hunt around for the answers.
  • A warm welcome from somebody behind the product who is ready to help e.g. “I’m the Product Manager of ExampleApp. I’d love to hear about what you’re trying to achieve with our product.”

Should you welcome new users through an in-app message or email? Probably both. Right after signup is one of the occasions when a user is expecting to receive an email from you, so make it count. Similarly the first time someone logs into your app is a great opportunity to set them on the right path and show the features most likely to convert them to being a lifelong happy customer. Rest assured, if you’re using Intercom to deliver your onboarding campaign, your messages will only be delivered to the first channel your customer opens.

Getting started guide - in-app

Your brand new users are unfamiliar with your product and will definitely have questions. Create a “Getting Started” guide that’s brief, clear and proactively answers those questions. It should only include the bare essentials to start using your product, e.g. installing, configuring, using your key features etc. It should not be an exhaustive list of everything they could do on day one.

Even better, create a short video to walk your customers through your key workflows. When you simultaneously show and tell with video, ideas are communicated and understood quicker.

Once you’ve sent your welcome message and new signups have had a chance to explore the product, a getting started guide is your best chance of nudging uncertain users into action. You don’t want to send this message to people who are already making good progress in your product so consider adding filters around usage of some of your main features.

Key feature message - in-app

The seeds of churn are planted early. Very often it’s during those all-important few days between when a customer has signed up but before they’ve used that killer feature all your successful customers are using.

For example, if your product is a dating website and you know someone hasn’t sent a message yet, you also know they stand a very poor chance of finding romance. And if they don’t find romance soon, they’re going to churn to a competitor. That’s why one of your first onboarding messages should be designed to get people using the key feature you’ve identified. And if you are trying to change behavior in the app, a well-timed in-app message is going to be more successful than an email which gets filed “for later”.

Set up a message that triggers to all new users who haven’t carried out the step you want them to take 2 days after sign up. Your filters here would be something like “Signed up more than 3 days ago” and “Project created is false”.

Habit forming message - email

Facebook. Twitter. Google. Slack. These companies all have one thing in common – they create habits among their users. So how do you create these habits in your own product? If your product has a browser extension, desktop application, or mobile app, promote it via an email or in-app message and make sure it’s easy to add.

By getting new users to integrate your product across multiple platforms, you’re increasing the likelihood your product will become a recurring part of their lives. For example, new Dropbox users who fail to install the mobile application won’t experience the full value of being to access files anywhere. They may upload fewer files, use less space and are less likely to pay for more storage.

Target with intention. Yesterday’s signups are unlikely to be as ready to form a habit as a group of users that are regularly logging into your product and using it. For example, if you have a photo sharing app, target a segment of engaged users with this message (e.g. those who signed up less than 30 days ago and who’ve shared more than 50 photos).

Network effect message - in-app or email

Encouraging users to build shared connections in your software is one of the best ways to fast-track engagement and reduce churn, especially for collaborative, team-based products like Asana, Intercom and Slack. Getting an individual user up and running with your product is a great start. Getting a whole team to rely on your product is even more powerful.

A good onboarding campaign knows when to bring other people into the fold. You should only ask new signups to invite colleagues or teammates once they’ve reached a milestone, or indicated they’re sufficiently engaged with your product. (e.g has used a feature X amount of times, has imported custom data etc). Making such a heavy “ask” too early in the relationship will likely mean your request will go ignored.

Invited teammates or friends require a unique onboarding message. Make sure your invitation emails contain 3 key pieces of information: who invited the user, what the product is, and a call to action to create an account.

New feature announcement - in-app

If you’re not continuously showing your customers how to get value out of your product, you’re not encouraging product dependency. You’re leaving the door open for someone else to come in and persuade them their product is more valuable than yours. The best onboarding retains customers over time by continually showing them how to get the most out of your product.

For example, let’s say somebody has been using your product for six months. They’re engaged and up to speed. But then you release a brand new feature that can help them perform their job even better. This is a perfect opportunity to send a targeted in-app message that gives them a high-level overview of the feature and instructions to get started.

Think about where it makes the most sense to announce new features to active customers. For example, if you’ve just released a new sync reports feature, a good place to tell your customers about it would be on your reports page.
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How to measure success

How to measure success

There’s no universal definition of a fully-onboarded customer; it’s simply different for every company. However a good proxy to consider a customer onboarded is when they’ve achieved one or more successful milestones with your product.

For example, if you’re a project management tool, a successful milestone could be “mark one project as complete”. If you’re a productivity app, it might be “more than 10 to-dos completed”.

You can track any of these attributes in Intercom by setting them as your campaign goal before you set your messages live.

Overall message engagement should also be a key success metric. Open and click-through rates will give you one perspective, but so too will setting goals for your individual messages in your campaign. Of those who received the “key feature” message, how many used the feature afterwards? Of those received the “habit-forming” message, how many downloaded the mobile app?

Onboarding campaigns can also be measured qualitatively by talking and checking in with your customers regularly. You’ll understand whether they’ve achieved success with your product, and if not, what’s preventing them from doing so.

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Customer spotlight: Using onboarding emails more effectively at Proposify

By Kyle Racki, CEO at Proposify

Using email to nurture new users as they begin to learn your product is one of the most important elements of user onboarding. At Proposify, we haven’t always done it as well as we could have.

For starters, we weren’t targeting our emails based on whether or not someone was actively using the product. There was no activation metric we could use to say, “This person is on their way to becoming a customer” or, “This person signed up and gave up quickly”. Thanks to this excellent blog post by Groove on email onboarding, we developed our own workflow to send relevant emails to users based on whether they were active (completed the walkthrough) or inactive (didn’t send a proposal or complete the walkthrough).

Secondly, we didn’t have the right tool for sending onboarding emails. In the past we custom-coded every email ourselves and used CRON jobs to send them out, but this didn’t work well. Often those of us on the product and marketing teams need to tweak emails, either the content or when they are sent, without needing to wait for developers to push the changes live. That’s when we started using Intercom’s Smart Campaigns feature to send our onboarding emails.

Now our non-engineers are empowered to review and change the onboarding emails themselves, and we can see more clearly how many emails are being sent, opened, and clicked. Here’s how the final onboarding campaign looks in Intercom.

Now our in-app walkthrough and our email onboarding campaign work together to guide new users to become active, and our subsequent emails send unique messages to users based on whether or not they’ve become active. And as of Dec 1st, our trial to paid conversion has gone up 5%.

There are a lot more steps to our onboarding, which means there are more chances for new signups to drop off. But our bet is that anyone who goes through our new onboarding process will have a much better understanding of what Proposify can do for them and feel confident they can successfully use the product to achieve their objectives.