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Samsung is in a fierce rivalry with Apple. Both of these companies are bringing innovation in their product in order to grab each other’s market share in the niche smartphone market. Galaxy s7 by Samsung was released in February this year. It is one of the best Smartphone by Samsung. Let us quickly review its specs in detail.

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Galaxy s7 appealed the users for its stunning looks. It has a 5.1 inch quad HD display. Camera experience has been improved for the users. Galaxy s7 is offering a 12MP back camera. Moreover, this smartphone is also offering fastest wireless charging. Selfie cam of 5 megapixels also has an excellent quality. Samsung in this galaxy model also introduced water resistance technology. It means that you do not have to worry about your phone getting sunk and breaking down due to water spilling.

Galaxy s7 impact on Samsung revenues

Samsung experienced an unprecedented amount of profits in the second quarter of 2016. The profit amounted to $7.00 billion in the second quarter. It was nearly 17% higher than the previous quarter. This rebound gave Samsung a hope for its new models. In 2015, Samsung faced an estimated loss of $8 billion in its market share. Galaxy top end smartphone were facing fierce competition from Apple, while low price Smartphone’s were facing tough competition from new end players i.e. Huawei, Xiaomi etc.

The increasing profits for Samsung clearly show that the bad days for Samsung are over. It is rising again against all its small and big rivals. Interestingly, the last two quarterly profits are in complete contrasts with its traditional rival Apple. Apple is seeing a decline in its profit from the beginning of this year and is planning for some structural changes in order to improve its position.

It is estimated by one analyst that Samsung nearly shipped 76 million units of Galaxy s7 in the first quarter. This success of Samsung has helped the company to recover the consumers lost enthusiasm.

Another good strategy by the Samsung is its entrance in the low price smartphone market. Many people trust Samsung brand more than their local or other Chinese brands. With a good marketing strategy, Samsung is entering nearly in all segments. The prices of its smartphones are starting from as low as $100.

Moreover, Samsung Company has its official presence in many small countries. This gives Samsung an edge over Apple. Apple officially does not have presence in many countries and new model of its smartphones arrive there illegally. Many people in small countries do not go for Apple because of reliability issue. On the other hand, Samsung has official presence in most of the countries. It helps them in devising right marketing strategies and targeting potential consumer base.

Hence, it is expected that Samsung through its innovation drive will beat Apple in the future. The main challenge that the Company will face in the next two quarters will be to keep the revenue pace higher. Since, most of the demand of s7 has been catered; other small smartphone sets have to contribute in Samsung profit sheet.

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The Indie Party Wants to Bring a new Paradigm to American Politics

It is well known that the political system of the United States of America is somewhat particular, especially the fact that it only has two (major) parties. Republicans and Democrats are the ones who, historically, run the destiny of the country, with no other party even coming close to discuss any election. This is a somewhat strange system for the rest of the world and, as it seems, Americans…
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Visiting Google's homepage today you'll get a fun surprise: the company has transformed its ever-changing website logo into a fully functional game of Pac-Man to celebrate the classic arcade's upcoming 30th anniversary tomorrow. This is Google's first ever interactive, playable doodle and will stay active for 48 hours. To start playing, just hit "Insert Coin" where the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button usually appears and use the arrow keys to gobble away.

By hitting the Insert Coin button a second time, two users can play simultaneously, controlling Ms. Pac-Man with the WASD keys. Much like the original Pac-Man, Google has programmed it to glitch and end at the 256th screen.

The game was imagined by Namco developer Toru Iwatani in 1979 -- partially inspired by a pizza missing a slice, as the story goes -- and reached the U.S. in the fall of 1980 after being renamed from "Puck Man". At a time when shooter games such as Space Invaders ruled the arcades, Iwatani's creation stood out for its originality and simplicity. Pac-Man was an immediate success and has been credited with expanding video gaming to a wider audience.

As you stroll down memory lane remembering the good ol' days when you scrambled for quarters to hit the arcades, we want to ask you: what was the first game you ever played? If you didn't think much of it, what was the first title (and platform) that really got you into gaming? I remember playing River Raid quite a bit on an Atari 2600 back in the day -- and never got the hang of E.T., man that game was awful. Discuss.


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Cre8ive Industries: 2011 - Present

Cre8ive Industries - Since 2003, Cre8ive Industries is a company that specializes in Design,  Web Development, Marketing and Web Hosting Services. Cre8ive Industries is based in Atlanta, Georgia. As a member of Cre8ive Industries,

Currently, I work as an independent contractor to assist the support team to manage the company's  website and client websites which run on the Wordpress platform. I manage content updates, assist with website migrations, domain registrations, troubleshoot website issues, email account setup, social media integration, Paypal integration and adding tutorials to the Cre8ive Help Section. I also work with clients on maintaining HTML websites as well.

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Below are projects I've worked on previously. Projects were for a small business, non-profit and a gaming community

  • Stepfamily Foundation, Inc. (2009-Present)- This is a non-profit organization that I work for during my spare time. The Founder / President is Dr.Jeannette Lofas, LCSW, Ph.D. who is a recipient of the Presidential Award from President Bill Clinton for her work with Stepfamilies. The project included website management (content updates), conversion of print books to Kindle format, and editing and uploading seminar videos. The old site ran on HTML pages. Website was revamped and redesigned from ground up using Weebly to allow ease of use and updating for the Stepfamily Foundation. Additionally, the Stepfamily Foundation has 30% of site users who access the website using mobile phones which which include iPhones and Android phones. We needed a site that is mobile friendly and allow access to information in a clean and user friendly manner. The main services the organization offers are the counseling and certification seminar services. These services are now on the front page with buttons leading to their own pages with more information. The event updates were moved to the blog page which allows social media sharing on Facebook and Twitter.
  • Phoenix Within (2014) - Local rock band from Queens,  New York. Client is the lead singer of The Phoenix Within, an alternative rock band from Queens, New York. I was contacted to assist with managing content updates and ensuring the content shows on search engines and meet SEO standards. Client maintains the website himself while I assist with ensuring the content meets SEO standards and is searchable on search engines. I also worked with my wife on creating buttons and other promotional material for the band including t-shirts. Website was created using Weebly.
  • Red Lotus Designz (2011) - Website I started with my wife in 2010. We sold customizable jewelry and crafts before offering our web development and graphic design services.  Website was done using Squarespace.
  • Supreme Steel, Inc. (2009) - Supreme Steel, Inc. is a Brooklyn based steel fabrication company. This was one of the first sites I worked on as a webmaster. Site was designed using static HTML.
  • Wildcats Clan Gaming Community (2010)- This is an gaming community for the America's Army PC game. They conduct competition on Team Warfare Ladder (TWL) matches. Their site runs on PHP Nuke. My Co-Founder from my online gaming community and I worked with the leaders of the [WC]Wildcats Clan to setup, customize the website design and install the PHP Nuke website package.


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Susan Elkin with pupils from Benendon School, who are introduced to Shakespeare at the age of 14

Susan Elkin has taught in a wide range of schools since 1968 - in that time, she is convinced, the system has improved

When my father, a former teacher in Deptford, south London, heard that I was starting my teaching career at a notorious secondary boys' school in the area, his laconic comment was: "Well, if you survive there, girl, you'll cope anywhere."

How right he was. It was 1968. I was 21 and had come straight from an appalling "child centered" teacher training college that had managed to teach me absolutely nothing in three years about classroom realities.

I was the first woman to teach in that macho, multi-cultural environment, where boys were frequently caned, "slippered" or cuffed about the head and everyone shouted continually. Learning was the least of anyone's concerns.

The expectations of staff, parents and pupils were off the bottom of the scale. Pupil crime rates probably outstripped those in the nearest prison. You could smell the boys' stinking urinals from 100 paces. And several of the staff were definitely not the sort to whom any caring parent would entrust her children. Criminal Records Bureau checks lay more than three decades into the future.

Reflecting on all this 36 years and four schools later, as I look forward to retirement from teaching this summer, I am struck by just how much things have improved.

I am often critical of schools because there is still a lot wrong, but consider the progress we have made. A school such as my first one would simply not be allowed to continue now. Ofsted would have spotted its low achievement rates, the sky-high truancy and what would now rightly be regarded as pupil abuse.

Staff absence was such that, even in my first year in teaching, when I was timetabled to have six "free" periods a week (today, a newly qualified teacher would have many more), four or five of them would routinely be clawed back. At these times, I was expected - without notice - to take horrendously difficult classes that I didn't know. Inevitably, no work had been set and I had to rely on my own slender and inexperienced resources.

Was there any mentoring? Of course not - although a handful of kindly and competent older male colleagues kept an avuncular eye on me, largely, I think, to ensure that, in my naivety, I didn't fall foul of 16-year-old testosterone.

At school today, like the rest of the English department I work in, I am formally involved in guiding a new teacher, aged 24. Fortunately for him and his pupils, he is not simply left to sink or swim as I was. He has extra time to prepare his lessons, to discuss them with the rest of us and to look for ways of improving what he's doing. It is a far cry from 1968.

The funny thing is that I came to quite like that Deptford school and stayed five years, largely, I think, because standards were so low that anything constructive you did was warmly appreciated. And, once I got the hang of it, I did teach younger boys a fair bit of English.

Then came a few part-time years in a residential special school in Northamptonshire. My husband's job had taken us to the East Midlands and by then I had two small children. Twenty-five years before the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act of 2001, no one knew the words "inclusion" or "entitlement", and pupils were sold horribly short.

Care staff looked after the children, most of whom were dying of muscular dystrophy. It was kindly, but education was a third-rate afterthought. None of the teaching staff (and that includes me) had had any training in special needs. We just muddled along and no one in authority seemed in the least concerned. I still shudder to think how much those unfortunate children missed, and am deeply thankful that their counterparts today would get a better deal.

Then it was back to secondary teaching in the South and a school where the head of English laughed at me for digging out dusty copies of A Midsummer Night's Dream and announcing I was going to use them with 11-year-olds. "That's far too hard for the sort of pupils we get here," she said.

Compare that with now. Today, every state school pupil has to study Shakespeare. It's in the literacy hour in primary schools. The Shakespeare part of the national tests for 14-year-olds has just been tightened up. And Shakespeare is a compulsory element in every English and English literature GCSE syllabus.

Perhaps it isn't as rigorous as it might be, but it is there. Twenty years ago, most children left school without reading a single line of England's greatest writer.

And am I the only one who remembers that, until the advent of GCSE in 1988, it was common for secondary schools to have "non-examination" classes? These were pupils who were just written off as being too dim (or difficult) to be worth coaching for qualifications. So they were grouped together and "minded" undemandingly until they reached school-leaving age. I "taught" - a sad misnomer - several such classes.

For the last 11 years, I have seen yet another side of education by teaching part time in the independent sector. Here, too, even in a relatively short time, I have watched a steady improvement: a greater academic focus and more attention to health and safety, for example.

Of course, I am not advocating complacency. But away with rose-coloured spectacles and hankering for non-existent good old days. The education service I am leaving is better than the one I joined.

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One of the reasons, as I explained in my book, for calling our economic crisis a "depression" is that, as was already clear on February 2, when the book was completed, the government was spending trillions of dollars--on top of all the normal expenses of government--to try to arrest the downward spiral and speed recovery. Since then, the expenditures, commitments, and guarantees--all of which represent costs, actual or expected, though many or even most of them will eventually be avoided or recovered--have increased further, and concern has begun to be expressed that the soundness of America's public finance and currency is being undermined by the growing mountain of public debt. The interest rate at which the government borrows to finance the public debt has been rising, and there is even talk, though surely premature, that the government may lose its triple A credit rating!

Remarks by the distinguished macroeconomist Paul Krugman, at a panel discussion of the economic situation published in the current New York Review of Books (June 11), help to bring the problem into focus.

Krugman has been trying for some time, without success, to correct a misunderstanding by the prominent historian (and author of an excellent recent book on the history of banking) Niall Ferguson. Ferguson, who was also on the panel, argued as he has before that the monetary and the fiscal responses to a recession or depression--that is, reducing interest rates by expanding the supply of money, and increasing demand for goods and services by deficit financing of public works--operate at cross purposes. The cost of public works has to be financed by borrowing, and any increase in borrowing raises interest rates and therefore reduces the effectiveness of the monetary response.

Actually, as Krugman pointed out, the monetary and fiscal responses are complementary. The monetary response, we have learned, is inadequate, since, as I keep saying, you can lead a bank to money but you can't make it lend. Essentially the monetary response involves the Federal Reserve's increasing the balances in bank accounts, which increases the amount of money that banks are permitted to lend. But because many banks are still undercapitalized as a result of the collapse of the housing and associated mortgage-credit bubble, because loans in a depression are especially risky, and because the demand for loans is way down since production is down and consumers feel overindebted and so want to save rather than borrow, most of the newly created money is piling up in bank accounts and other safe savings havens rather than being spent.

Moreover, the lower interest rates are, the more difficult it is to persuade the hoarders of cash and cash equivalents to invest their money productively. We want interest rates to be low, to induce borrowing and lending, which increase economic activity. But we don't want then to be so low that there is insufficient inducement for the hoarders to part with their cash. Cash that is hoarded is inert; it does not contribute to economic activity; and so hoarding exacerbates a depression.

The role of fiscal policy, in the form of Keynesian deficit spending on public works (though that is only part of the $787 stimulus program enacted by Congress, the rest being tax reductions and benefits enhancements, which unfortunately are less effective means of fighting a depression because their effect on employment is indirect), is to make up the shortfall in private demand for goods and services by increasing the public demand for them. Construction workers laid off because of the fall in the demand for new residential and commercial buildings can be hired to build public buildings. The result is to reduce unemployment, thus increasing incomes, and increase confidence by other workers that they will not be laid off; and increased incomes and increased confidence in one's economic prospects reduce the propensity to hoard. The net cost to the government should be lower than the aggregate outlay, moreover, because an increase in employment increases income tax revenues and reduces unemployment benefits.

But assuming that there is a net cost to the program, Ferguson is right that the government will borrow more, and that this will raise interest rates--but probably only slightly. For as Krugman points out, the fall in private demand has been matched (not dollar for dollar, however) by a rise in savings, included hoarded cash. The personal savings rate has risen in the last year from 1 percent to more than 4 percent. To quote Krugman, "that saving ought to be translated into investment, but the investment demand is not there." Deficit spending on public works is a way of using the pool of savings to increase investment and therefore employment. "Keynesian policy...takes excess desired savings and translates them into some kind of spending. If the private sector won't do it, the government will."

The relation between savings and (productive) investment can be seen most clearly by imagining that the government decided to finance the public works program by selling "Victory [over Depression]" bonds to the general public. Because the bonds would be safe (the risk of the United States' defaulting on its obligations is effectively zero), most of the hoarders would be quick to buy them in lieu of holding cash that carries no interest at all; and so the government would not have to pay a high rate of interest on the bonds to be able to sell them. The government isn't financing the public works program in this way, but the economic substance may be very similar. If a money-market fund in which a person has placed some of his savings buys government securities to be able to pay interest on its money-market accounts, the person is indirectly financing the government.

It is not clear that Ferguson would disagree. For from one of his remarks at the panel discussion it appears that his real concern is not with the impact of the stimulus program on interest rates but with the cumulative effect of all current and planned federal expenditures on the long-term solvency of the U.S. government, including expenditures financed by the creation of money by the Federal Reserve. (When the Federal Reserve buys Treasury securities, this does not reduce federal debt, but merely transfers it from one government agency to another.) That is a legitimate concern, but it does not prove that the stimulus program is unwise. The longer and deeper the depression, the larger will be the federal deficit; so if the stimulus program makes the depression shorter and shallower, it may not increase and in fact may reduce the total public debt.

Krugman is an advocate of universal health care and of other costly social programs, and he argues in the panel discussion that the depression has underscored "the importance of a strong social safety net," such as Europeans have. Their generous safety net has reduced the human costs of the depression to them "because Europeans don't lost their health care when they lose their jobs. They don't find themselves with essentially no support once their trivial unemployment check has fallen off. We have nothing underneath. When Americans lose their jobs, they fall into the abyss." But safety nets are costly, and, Krugman continues,"there are people who say we should not be worrying about things like universal health care in the crisis, we need to solve the crisis. But this is exactly the time when the importance of having a decent social safety net is driven home to everybody, which makes it a very good time to actually move ahead on these other things."

So he is saying that the time is ripe in a political sense for a basic change in the management of the American economy. He may be right. For one effect of a European-style safety-net economy is to reduce the amplitude of the swings that we call the business cycle, and at the moment that amplitude, the human costs of which are increased by the absence of a stroong safety net, is hurting many Americans. Because the European-style safety net raises labor costs, in part by making it difficult to lay off workers, unemployment is higher in Europe than in the United States in boom periods; employers are reluctant to hire if it will be difficult for them to lay off workers when the boom ends. But in the current world depression our unemployment rate is higher than the average European rate (after correction for differences attributable to different definitions of unemployment).

Even if the European approach is thought preferable to ours and compatible with our political and social culture, the costs of moving toward it in the present economic setting must be estimated and given their due weight. The costs are of two kinds. The first is increase that a costly and ambitious program of social reform must create in the uncertainty of the economic environment. As Keynes emphasized, uncertainty tends to dampen the "animal spirits" that drive economic activity, and to increase the incentive to hoard, which retards economic activity, as I have been emphasizing. Second, the costs of ambitious social reform, when added to the costs of the depression-recovery programs and the "normal" budget deficit exacerbated by the decline of tax revenues in a depression, may result in a potentially destabilizing level of public debt.

My own heretical view is that Americans are undertaxed, and so if I thought that the increase in the public debt was going to be financed by higher taxes I would not be upset. But Congress and the public seem adamant against tax increases, even when they take the form of closing ridiculous loopholes, and against spending reductions, even in ridiculous programs such as farm subsidies; and this combination of aversions makes it likely that increases in the public debt will be financed by a combination of continued borrowing, but at higher and higher interest rates, and inflation.

A bit of inflation can be a good thing in a depression, because it operates as a tax on cash balances and thus reduces hoarding and stimulates spending. But I am worrying about the inflation that hits after the depression, when the government decides that it can no longer finance the public debt by borrowing, cannot raise taxes, cannot cut spending, and is left with having to debase the currency. I would like to see greater efforts by the Administration and by the economics profession to determine, so far as may be possible to do, the gravity of this danger.

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Sometimes, cities looking to implement an economic-development project need a little outside help. When the Twin Cities began an effort to develop a light-rail system that would connect downtown Minneapolis with downtown St. Paul, local leaders needed resources and expertise to produce the most effective plan for their communities. That's where Living Cities comes in. A collaboration between 22 of the world's largest foundations and financial institutions, Living Cities has been connecting city leaders with private sector capital for over two decades.

I sat down with Living Cities President and CEO Ben Hecht to find out how the organization targets its funds, and why addressing specific problems requires leaders to think system-wide: to think about how assets like jobs, transportation, and education fit together, not consider them in isolation.

What does Living Cities focus on, and why is there a need for an organization like this?

We use this blend of financial institutions and foundations to help U.S. cities become gateways to economic opportunity for low-income people. We look to help places that are really trying to fix the core systems that aren't working. We want to support leaders from the public, private, philanthropic, and nonprofit sectors to come together to solve big problems.

We also believe that you're never going to get to scale unless you can really creatively use private-sector capital in new ways. And we really believe that the public sector needs to be a partner in this. Almost by default, if you don't engage the public sector, you're never going to get to a scale that is going to make a difference.

What are some initiatives that hit that sweet spot, where private capital can help cities address entrenched problems?

Our signature initiative is an effort that we call the Integration Initiative. We put together this initiative, and we invited cities to apply. We wanted a city where they had political, private sector, philanthropic, and nonprofit leaders already together, where they were already working toward a big, comprehensive solution that was going to benefit low-income people. We picked five places.

One of them is Cleveland, Ohio. The major economic drivers in northeast Ohio are universities and hospitals. Those institutions over the last few years have started asking: How do we use our economic force to improve the economic well-being of the region? Because as the region goes, so go we. They wanted to build out their biotech work, and we've helped them move their supply chain from being global to being more local.

Another is Minneapolis-St Paul. They started to build and plan for a light-rail line that connects downtown Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul, and goes through all the poor neighborhoods. The effort there is to maximize the benefit to those communities. You want to make sure that stops actually stop in poor neighborhoods, that new community-college campuses are built on the line. The same with health care facilities, grocery stores, green space.

How do you know when an initiative is succeeding? Even very well-intentioned programs can have unintended consequences.

It's really hard. But what we've been doing with these city groups is encouraging them to pick the metrics that they want to be measured by, get data that tells them where they are now, and use the data every year to hold themselves accountable.

You have to stop funding the things that aren't working, once you see they're not working, and move that funding to new strategies. To me, the most important part of doing this work is not that you come up with new ideas, but that you redirect the billions of dollars spent today on outdated programs. How do you disrupt legacy approaches to that problem in a way that puts you on a trajectory to make meaningful progress?

Is there a way to balance aggressively shifting funding with sensitivity to the fact that, often, we're talking about funding for services that deeply affect people's lives? Is there middle ground here?

I think the question is, what's the transition between seeing the progress being made, and giving the current providers room to fix the way they're providing the service. I think that paying for performance is right. That's why we've been doing a lot of work around data-driven results. That way it's less about the political hot-buttons, and more about how do you get the result.

How do you get people from different sectors all on the same page?

No. 1, you have to have people at the table who have the big picture in mind — the CEO, the leader of the university. You have to have a critical mass at the leadership level willing to sit around a table — to physically get together. No. 2, you have to agree on a really ambitious goal, because that is what's going to get people excited. No. 3, you have to be able to articulate where the system is broken, set a goal, and measure how you're doing. And related to that, you have to have a mechanism to hold you accountable — a very public and transparent mechanism.

And finally, someone has to wake up in the city every day and say: "My job is to move that collaborative forward." There has to be a backbone entity or organization or person whose job is to make sure all these people stay glued together. Because they all have day jobs! So a lot of our grant money goes to fund — somebody calls them cat-herders. We fund cat-herders in those places.

Living Cities has been around since 1991. What are some key insights that have changed the way the organization works?

Many of our member organizations fund programs or individual organizations. We realized that someone has to fund the system being changed. I was just at a conference last week in Brazil, and it's amazing how this idea of moving from program to system has a lot of currency all over the world.

The other is that systems will never be changed unless we create these new collaborations. And the third is that we have to help the public sector to be a functioning partner in this.

In our form of government, the biggest change happens at the local level. That's why we do cities. The speed of change happens in the city first, state second, federal government third.

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Tell A Tale — Gothic Fiction

Tell A Tale — Gothic Fiction

Tell A Tale — Gothic Fiction

Robert Louis Stevenson is remembered as a master of suspense, creating twisted tales with dark atmospheres of mystery and horror. Stevenson’s gothic novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has remained so influential and deeply rooted in the public’s imagination that there is perhaps no greater symbol of a person split between the forces of good and evil.

Stevenson wrote the novel after a ‘strange condition of collapse’, in which he claimed he wasn’t his own man even afterwards. British Library curator Greg Buzwell says "Jekyll and Hyde explores the theme of the human mind and body changing and developing, mutating, corrupting and decaying, and all do so in response to the evolutionary, social and medical theories that were emerging at the time".

Since its early beginnings, gothic fiction has been allowing writers to explore contemporary fears, now we’re asking you to do the same. Think about the things people fear today — the rise of technology, the use of social media, terrorism, surveillance and privacy, climate change. We could keep going, but we'll leave that up to you.

We want your terrifying tales!
We want you to write a 500-word tale of terror using the following quotation from the play's script as inspiration:

 “It might be possible, of course, that far from being one, we may possess two selves.”

Following in the gothic tradition, think about the fears we have today and how they could be expressed in a dark but fun and emotional tale.  Your tale should grip the reader in the way that gothic novels of the late 19th century captured the imaginations of their Victorian readers.  There should be an intellectual thread running through the story.

Elements of gothic fiction you could consider include

  • Melodrama and sensationalism
  • An element of the supernatural
  • Intense or heightened emotion
  • Significant focus on setting

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is touring theatres across the UK from February - May 2018. Everybody that takes part in this project will receive a £10 ticket offer on up to two tickets to see Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at their nearest theatre. View the full tour schedule here

At each city or town, Theatre Cloud and our network of theatres will select two tales to send to the cast of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. An actor will then choose their favourite tale and perform a filmed reading at the theatre. Each reading will be available to watch online and makes it onto the shortlist.

In the final week of the tour, the Tell A Tale judges will review the shortlisted tales and decide which one comes top and receives an award of £300.  Other awards include Jekyll and Hyde posters signed by Phil Daniels and family tickets to Dracula in Autumn 2018.

Greg Buzwell, Curator of Contemporary Literary Archives at the British Library. Co-curator of Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination
Dr Monica Germana, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Westminster. Teaches Writing London, a module which introduces the fundamental principles of short-story writing, such as setting, character, plot and structure. Research focuses on contemporary fiction, the Gothic and popular culture.
Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Met. Co-organising 14th International Gothic Association conference in 2018.

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Deadline: Saturday 21 April 2018

1. Entry to this project is free and open to persons of all ages who reside in the UK.

2. Your story must be your own original work and must be unpublished at the time of entry. We accept no responsibility should entrants ignore these Terms & Conditions. Short stories should be fictional and must be no longer than 500 words in length.

3. Submit your story by registering to theatecloud and uploading your work via the online form. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept submissions by other methods. All submissions will be published here on the project page.

4. Submissions will be judged on how closely they fit the gothic tradition and the inspirational quotation.

5. Entrants retain all rights to their entries but by submitting a story to the project, grant and acknowledge our right to publish the story as required in promoting the project and in the fulfilment of prizes.

6. Due to the large number of entrants, we are unable to respond individually to all submissions

7. We expect to receive large numbers of submissions on the day of deadline so advise people to try to submit before this date.

8. Entry opens on Tuesday 31 October 2017 and closes on Saturday 21 April. Submissions received after this deadline will not be accepted.

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Spanning a century and including many historical details,this true story explores the consequences of a violent act in the redemptive light of God’s love, goodness, and forgiveness. (Tyndale)

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Tuesday, March 26

Leiking: Labuan member of parliament joining Warisan ‘fits the puzzle’

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LABUAN: Labuan MP Datuk Rozman Isli’s admission into Parti Warisan Sabah has been described as completing the Sabah-Sarawak-Labuan jigsaw puzzle.

Warisan deputy president Datuk Darrel Leiking said Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan cannot be apart as the three entities form Borneo and are together, economically, socially and politically. “… and now with Rozman’s entry, it fits the perfect jigsaw puzzle,” he said at a joint press conference at the Labuan Airport yesterday in welcoming Rozman’s decision to join Warisan. Rozman had earlier announced his resignation from Umno and said he had joined Warisan.

Leiking said Warisan is evolving constantly every day, with some party members leaving the party but, at the same, some new members joining the party.

“Those who leave, they may have some reason and we respect (that). What we embrace are people who join Warisan because they understand the party’s struggles,” he said.

Leiking, who is Minister of International Trade and Industry, said Rozman’s decision is only political, to fulfill the aspirations of this portion of Borneo.

“We know Labuan can manage on its own; Labuan only needs to be part of the Sabah administration, and by Rozman’s decision, basically Sabah through Parti Warisan Sabah, as a partner of Pakatan Harapan (PH), is able to manage Labuan federally and statewide,” he said.

He said he would communicate with the Federal Territories Minister to channel more funds to Labuan and decentralise the decisions for Labuan. Leiking also commented on the Labuan-Menumbok Bridge proposal, saying the project had not been scrapped and the Sabah leaders, with Rozman, would fight for the project in the interests of Labuan and Sabah.

“The idea was thought of long ago. We must bear in mind that the federal government may have some limitation in funding, but it does not stop the idea from moving as the government would honour its promise. Let us manage the fiscal arrangement for the peninsula, Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan. We might get there very soon; just give us a little bit of time. If not for the fiscal mismanagement done by the previous regime, everything would have been well,” he said.

Leiking noted there has been talk about the government scrapping projects, but it is more of reviewing to reduce the project cost through renegotiated terms.

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The Dream of a City

Will Neom, the Saudi leadership’s new “city of the future,” become a reality?

Visitors watch a 3D presentation during an exhibition on ‘Neom’, a new business and industrial city, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 25, 2017. Faisal Al Nasser/Reuters

Saudi Arabia’s penchant for mega-projects predates Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman’s ascension to power, but he has taken this model further. In the past two years, the prince has announced three mega-projects, including an entertainment city just outside of Riyadh called Qidiyya, a resort complex on the Red Sea called the Red Sea Project and Neom, a planned 10, 200-square-mile city (roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island) in the northwest corner of Saudi Arabia.

The idea of Neom (the name is a combination of the prefix “neo” and the first letter of the Arabic word, mostaqbal, for “future” meaning “New Future”) was announced at the first Future Investment Initiative Conference in Riyadh in October 2017. The plans call for Neom to house biotechnology, entertainment and advanced manufacturing industry. According to Prince Mohammad, the city will run entirely on renewable energy and will rely on robots for most of its mundane functions. He says Neom and the resort city on the Red Sea will exist outside of Saudi Arabia’s judicial and economic bureaucracies, with its own rules and regulations, but it will presumably still come under the reign of the Saudi sovereign.

The actual area of Neom is supposed to incorporate parts of Jordan and Egypt, which has the potential to create a united or international economic zone. People of every faith from every country will be invited—but the Saudi prince has not said whether this will include neighboring Israelis.

Saudi Arabia’s neighbors were initially enthusiastic about the project. Last March, Egypt went so far as to allocate more than 1,000 square kilometers of land in the southern Sinai toward the project as part of a $10 billion economic deal between Cairo and Riyadh. However, there is no indication that any actual development has occurred in Egypt.

Last March, Jordan indicated it was in the process of discussing potential joint investments with Saudi Arabia in Aqaba, but most of the conversation between the two nations has centered on attracting cruise ships to the Jordanian port city. According to reports in the Jerusalem Post, several Israeli companies are holding secret discussions with the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) to potentially operate in Neom, but they would not be able to publicly participate in the city without a political rapprochement between the Saudi and Israeli governments. Israel does have a flourishing technology sector and Israeli expertise would benefit NEOM, but no Israeli company is large enough to be the kind of anchor-tenant needed by a project as large as NEOM. There has been no mention of including the Palestinian Authority in developing the city.

According to Prince Mohammad, Neom, “is not for conventional people or conventional companies.” Rather, it “will be a place for the dreamers of the world.” Yet, a year and a half after its announcement, Neom is still mostly desert. According to some reports, several royal palaces and possibly an airport have been constructed. Expectations must be reasonable, but Saudi Arabia’s recent track record on planned cities should be considered carefully.

Two recent development projects are still largely empty, even though they were advanced before Prince Mohammad’s rise to power. The King Abdullah Financial District, in the center of Riyadh, was designed to be a series of fifty-nine towers. It was intended to house global financial institutions and the Saudi stock exchange. Nearly thirteen years later, the project is only partially completed and most of the office space has not been leased.

Across the country, on the Red Sea coast, sits the King Abdullah Economic City—or at least part of the sixty seven-square-mile city that was proposed in 2005. The plans called for six distinct sectors and a population of two million (in a city the size of Washington, D.C., which has about a third as many people). Right now, only about 7 thousand people live there. Two manufacturers have moved in, but the city is underperforming its economic benchmarks.

Despite past failures, Saudi Arabia’s top leadership continues to forge ahead with plans for its newly announced recreation and industrial megaprojects. According to the Saudi Press Agency, construction of Neom’s residential areas will begin this year and the first phase of the city, which is supposed to include a bridge connecting it to Egypt and the African continent, is scheduled to be completed by 2025. So far, no businesses have announced tenancy in Neom, though in May 2018, the city’s former CEO Klaus Kleinfeld claimed there was a great deal of interest in the city from technology companies.

In July, Kleinfeld was replaced as CEO with Nadhmi Al-Nasr, who was previously an engineer and project manager at ARAMCO—the Saudi national oil company—and interim president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (which is located in the King Abdullah Economic City).

Neom seems to be falling prey to the same problems that its predecessor megaprojects faced—much hype and no demand. But it does not have to be that way. The Saudi government can try another business model that it has used before with great success.

In the 1970s, Saudi Arabia commissioned two industrial cities—one to be built on the Red Sea coast and another on the Persian Gulf. The plans called for two sleepy fishing villages, Yanbu and Jubail, to be transformed into industrial ports and centers for petroleum refining and petrochemical manufacturing. Before construction even started, companies like Exxon, Dow Chemical, and Shell had already committed to joint ventures with ARAMCO at these sites. As soon as the infrastructure was set up, the businesses moved in. Today, Yanbu and Jubail account for 12 percent of Saudi Arabia’s GDP.

Yanbu and Jubail succeeded where the King Abdullah Financial District and King Abdullah Economic City have not because they were managed by experienced and capable project managers who had concrete plans for construction and leasing. The cities were oriented toward serving the growing energy and petrochemical industries, and the managers ensured that they had tenants ready to move in even before infrastructure was built.

With this in mind, here is how Prince Mohammad and Al-Nasr can turn Neom into a success and avoid the mistakes of the past: Neom will have a much better chance if it is built to meet demand rather than to inspire it. Neom must also make its business, social, and religious regulations clear in advance. In brief, businesses considering Neom need regulatory certainty.

Instead of focusing on “sixteen sectors” of innovation, Neom should hone these down to industries that Saudi Arabia knows and is known for. Neom project planners should focus on one or more industries in which Saudi Arabia already has native knowledge and experience. Saudi Arabia should partner with international firms that are interested in working in Saudi Arabia, specifically. A great start would be new energy technologies and improving global desalination techniques. Desalination is a field that could pull in expertise and capital from Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian State as all of these nations face the growing need to provide clean water to desert regions. This would promote a more organic and grassroots form of economic cooperation.

Neom should also actively recruit top researchers, scientists, engineers, innovators, and startups with cash resources and the opportunities to design their own labs and innovation hubs. Perhaps, global contests would help identify the right enterprises and would generate prestige and excitement.

Prince Mohammad generated a great deal of hype when he announced Neom in October 2017, but in order to make Neom a reality, Saudi Arabia should look to the methods that led to the successful industrial cities of Yanbu and Jubail, as the kingdom works to diversify its economy.

Ellen R. Wald is an energy historian and the president of Transversal Consulting. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center. She writes weekly columns for Investing.comForbes and Arab News and is the author of Saudi, Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom’s Pursuit of Profit and PowerOn Twitter: @EnergzdEconomy

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The Halifax Explosion of 1917

In Richmond Prison, at the end of Gottingen Street, Halifax, the warden's young son was drawn to a window by a spectacular display of fireworks. Too sick to go to school that day he had gone to work with his dad.

In Richmond Prison, at the end of Gottingen Street, Halifax, the warden's young son was drawn to a window by a spectacular display of fireworks. Too sick to go to school that day he had gone to work with his dad. Suddenly he was blinded by a brilliant flash of light and then stunned by an unearthly roar. He was one of the first eyewitnesses to Canada's greatest disaster, the Halifax Explosion. He ran in terror, screaming for his father.

In the pre-dawn darkness of Thursday, December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc lay at anchor near the mouth of Halifax Harbour. It seemed a small, nondescript vessel, but it carried a deadly cargo, a witch's brew of picric acid (used to make artillery shells), TNT, guncotton, benzol (a high octane fuel) and live ammunition. The ship was prevented from entering the narrows the night before by the closing of the submarine net, the same net that prevented the Imo, a Norwegian relief ship bound for Belgium, from leaving. That morning, the two ships' captains were anxious to get going. The Imo was 18 hours behind schedule and the Mont Blanc was a sitting duck in the open harbour.

Twice the captain of the Imo avoided other vessels by passing on their starboard side, which was not standard procedure and brought the ship ever closer to the Dartmouth shore. There the pilot of the Mont Blanc was astonished to see the Imo advancing. The two ships exchanged a bewildering array of contradictory horn and whistle blasts. The last seconds before the collision dissolved in indecision and then panic.

Devastation after the Halifax explosion, showing what is left of the Richmond neighbourhood. The IMO can been seen beached on the far shore (The James Collection/City of Toronto Archives)

In a final, fatal maneuver both captains bellowed out orders to put their engines full speed astern. The Mont Blanc lurched sideways. The Imo's bow swung about and its stern struck the Mont Blanc. The grinding of ragged metal sprayed sparks and ignited the benzol. The Mont Blanc's crew dove into the lifeboats and rowed for dear life, shouting warnings that no-one could understand.

For the next 20 minutes the fiery spectacle of the Mont Blanc drew a crowd of wide-eyed onlookers as it drifted ominously across the harbour towards Pier Six. In the rail yards at Richmond Station, a telegraph operator tapped out a last telegraph message: "Munitions ship on fire in the harbour. Heading for Pier Six. Good Bye." Seconds later the Mont Blanc detonated. It was the world's greatest man-made explosion before Hiroshima. The mind numbing roar of the blast was heard as far away as Sable Island and Cape Breton.

A fireball as hot as the surface of the Sun rolled over the docks, vapourizing those within its range, as if they had never existed. The metal of the Mont Blanc shattered into millions of shards moving at a velocity greater than any bullet. A sailor, J.C. Meyers, who was only 30 metres away from the blast, heard someone call "Look out!" It was the last thing that he remembered until he found himself lying on the ground at Fort Needham, over a kilometer away, wearing nothing but his boots.

Behind the fireball came a blast of air a thousand times more powerful than any hurricane, compressing the air into a steel fist, tossing railway cars like toys, smashing houses like matchsticks and crushing anyone in its path. Behind the wall of air came a deadly shower of shrapnel. In the harbour, the Imo was stripped of its superstructure and beached on the far shore. Within two seconds of the explosion the entire neighborhood of Richmond was obliterated, leaving at least 1000 people dead.

In less time than it takes to draw a deep breath almost every building in Halifax and Dartmouth had been damaged. Early rescue efforts were chaotic. The city had no power and no way to tell the world. As the word of the disaster spread, medical aid, food, clothing, building materials and skilled labourers poured in from throughout the Maritimes, central Canada, New England and the world.

The official tally of the dead is 1963, but almost certainly more died. At least 9000 more were injured and 25,000 left homeless. The confusion in the city lasted months as those who had lost loved ones spent countless hours searching and asking questions that could never be answered. There was no measure for the grief. In one family alone, that of James and Elizabeth Jackson, 46 were killed and 19 injured.

Wartime suspicion led many to think that the explosion must be an act of sabotage. The Halifax Herald blamed it on "that arch criminal, the Kaiser of Germany." An early enquiry inexplicably put the whole blame on the captain and pilot of the Mont Blanc. The Supreme Court of Canada portioned the responsibility, with two judges blaming the Imo, two the Mont Blanc, and the fifth deciding each had acted imprudently.

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New York artist Susanna Heller drew to get through her husbands illness, see the powerful collection at Mount Saint Vincent’s gallery.

Susanna Heller’s untitled pencil on paper drawing
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As Susanna Heller spent months alongside her husband's hospital bed, watching him endure intrusive surgeries, waiting for him to return from an induced coma, she drew. During a time where so much was uncertain, and her soulmate was figuratively out of reach, it was her pencil and paper that grounded her. "For me drawing and painting stop and expand time, so drawing bedside as Bill struggled to live was a way of being more intensely with him and not thinking about what was about to happen next," reflects Heller, who for months never revisited the pictures she had drawn of her suffering husband. Eventually she began to share them, first with Bill. The drawings, along with some paintings now make up the powerful Intensive Care, a cathartic reminder of her days of waiting. "It still amazes me where all that work came from," she says. "And it really carries me back to the dark and terrifying days watching over Bill." —Allison Saunders

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The Dramble's tasting notes for Littlemill 1985 28 year old Gordon & MacPhail's Rare Old

Bottle Name: Littlemill 1985 28 year old

ABV: 46%
Distillery: Littlemill
Bottler: Gordon and MacPhail
Region: Lowlands

There’s always an air of excitement surrounding closed distilleries. Some have passed into legend, some still have just about enough stocks for occasional (and expensive) glimpses back into distilling’s past. But, all too often nowadays I’m hearing closed being directly equated as a measure of quality by itself. Distilleries have come and gone. Some were deemed surplus to the requirements of their time, others unfortunately had periods when their output was considerably less than remarkable, and poor whisky doesn’t help meet sales targets. Tasting whisky from a closed distillery does offer a unique experience in the form of a liquid time capsule, a glance back into whisky’s past. But, whilst rarity may determine price, it is a poor gauge of quality by itself.

Experimental Lowlander Littlemill closed in 1987, but 20 years later it’s still possible to sample. Loch Lomond Group bought the remaining stocks of Littlemill in 2014, some 10 years after a somewhat mysterious fire burned what was left of the deconstructed site to the ground. Likewise, independent bottlers keep Littlemill fans happy with occasional releases, though, as you’d expect, as stocks dwindle, prices flourish. But, just because Littlemill doesn’t exist anymore, does that make bottles of it any good? Well some certainly are very tasty, others frankly legendary. We tasted a nice fruity example earlier in the year in the form of 1992 21 year old from Cadenhead’s.  I’ve tried a few expressions from the distillery over the years and have generally found that I’ve enjoyed the ones distilled during the 1990’s – they’ve been exceptionally fruity, almost Irish in their structure and nuance. Conversely, those I’ve tried that were distilled in the 1980’s have varied from being slightly strange all the way to seeming near-flawed.

Today’s Littlemill is certainly in the 1980’s oddity category,  and was sampled as part of Whisky Squad’s high-end tasting session in November 2017. Distilled in 1985 and bottled in 2013 by Gordon & MacPhail as part of their Rare Old series, this 28 year old was just one of 260 bottles. It’s bottled at 46% and is still available  -  but you’re going to have to pay for this a piece of whisky history - £375 from Whisky Exchange here in the UK.

Nose: Pronounced and expressive, but highly unusual. A mixture of stone and tropical fruits – particularly peach and pineapple and some defined florals. Violets, roses and camomile. Sweet cereal notes mingle well with the florals and make the violet take on a confectionary quality – rather similar to the (im)famous Swizzels sweets. Alongside this, some uncommon aromas  - steeped black tea, strong enough to stand a spoon in – heavy brass – and sweaty shoes. Others at my tasting compared it to the aromas of a stale fart, but that’s being a bit too unkind I feel. Nevertheless, damp trainers at the least are certainly in play here.

Taste: Fruits and….puddles. Good mouthfeel offering an animated collection of fruits – stone again, but joined by plums, damsons and orange and lemon peels Aged notes come through with tanned leather an some flavours of tobacco smoke. There’s glue here – polystyrene cement and a very odd earthiness that I’m going to describe as being like a brackish pond.

Finish: Medium in length and expressing fruits, boiled vegetables and steeped tea.

This 1985 Littlemill offers some truly unique flavours, all of which are fascinating to smell and taste, but only some of which I want to smell and taste again. Pronounced fruitiness and discernible aged notes delivery a lovely experience – but sweat and groundwater have no place in any whisky and really detract away from the best aspects of this whisky. It’s a really tough one to score as the aspects which work well, work *really* well, but those that don’t are straying close to the line to being flaws for me.

This whisky has an average Whisky Base score of over 88 points from 15 ratings. That tells me one of two things – either it’s all a matter of opinion and mine is simply aberrant in this instance – or that the ‘closed distillery effect’ once again shows that it’s hard to break our programming that the things were always better in the past.

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Just days after dominating the streets of Belle Isle in Detroit with its IndyCar, Prototype, and GTD race cars, Acura is at it again in the world of high-speed and high-stakes motor racing. This time it will be in a much different setting than pretty much any other race out there, as the RDX, NSX, and TLX prepare to conquer four different competition entries at Pikes Peak.

In the all-wheel-drive RealTime Racing TLX GT, it will be Acura racing veteran Peter Cunningham, who will return to the Open Class this year after a commanding class win in 2017. In the wild-looking NSX, it will be Acura research and development engineer James Robinson, who will compete in the Time Attack 1 Class after setting a hybrid record run in last year's as well. And Pikes Peak rookie Jordan Guitar will drive the 350-horsepower 2019 Acura RDX, also in the Exhibition Class.

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From ice cream to beer: why everything is being flavoured with fried chicken

The fast food favourite has emerged as an oddball food trend over the last few years, much to the delight of enthusiastic chicken heads
Many eateries have started using fried chicken as a dessert ingredient.
Many eateries have started using fried chicken as a dessert ingredient. Photograph: WS photography/Getty

The world of fried chicken has included bizarre flavour combinations ever since poultry was first hoisted on to a waffle and doused with syrup. But, in general, even the most outré lover of deep-fried fowl has not been keen on it lurking inside their beer or nestling greasily inside their dessert.

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That appears to have changed. Last month, two craft beer companies – New York’s Evil Twin and Virginia’s Veil Brewing Co – unveiled a collaborative beer called “Fried Fried Chicken Chicken” whose delicate flavour stems from trays of takeaway chicken added during the brewing process. Despite not tasting like fried poultry – the amount of meat added to the beer is less than 4% of the total contents – it nonetheless garnered enthusiastic worldwide press coverage, with excited chicken heads buying it in such quantity that it sold out in two days.

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Oddball fried chicken dishes have been growing for the last few years. In 2016, Japan’s annual celebration of fried meat – the Karaage festival – unveiled an ice-cream flavoured to taste like a late-night KFC, prompting much excitement among food bloggers. And in 2011, there was Buffalo Wing Soda, which seemed to be less of a hit. Perhaps not surprising, given that one of the kinder online reviews described it as a drink that “walks that fine line between ‘prank soda’ and ‘legitimate soda’ but tips its hat more towards ‘prank’”.

The reason for people using fast-food ingredients in such an peculiar manner? “Sometimes you’ve got to have fun: that’s the main reason we did it,” offers Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, the founder of Evil Twin Brewing. “But fried chicken is becoming a very cool thing to eat. Especially in the US: it’s so traditional that it’d be like people in the UK flavouring things with shepherd’s pies. That’s how exciting people find it.”


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Donald was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Palmyra High School, Class of 1967, Rutgers University and received his MBA from Monmouth University.

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He was a Financial Analyst for Prudential for over 35 years.

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