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The internet has torn down barriers to communication and made the sum of man's knowledge accessible to all. As such, it has proved a tremendous force for good, by, for example, enabling courageous people in Zimbabwe to expose the injustices perpetrated by Robert Mugabe's regime. However, the internet can also be a deeply corrupting influence.
Scarcely a week passes without news of an appalling crime in which it has played a part. Recently, there has been the homosexual cannibal, in Germany, Armin Meiwes, who met a willing victim by placing an advertisement on the internet; the case of Graham Coutts, who murdered the teacher Jane Longhurst, after spending hours looking at images of rape and strangulation on the net; and the former US Marine Toby Studabaker, who befriended a 12-year-old girl through an internet chatroom, engineered a meeting, then abducted her.
These cases are regular reminders that the net, through images and opportunities for contact, can encourage people to realise their darkest fantasies. What is becoming apparent is that there is a much broader appetite for images of the most extreme forms of sexual perversion and violence than we ever realised. Websites offering pornography are those most visited on the net, so much so that they are putting many of the top-shelf magazines out of business.
It was revealed last month that 3,022 people were cautioned or charged in connection with child pornography offences in England and Wales between 1988 and 2001 - an increase of more than 33% each year. That this increase is happening now suggests a possible causal link between these offences and the proliferation of child pornography on the internet, as well as the ease with which it can be accessed. And those caught are likely to be a fraction of those looking at this material.
Research in the US has found that as many as one in three people found in possession of such images also directly abused children. But what about the remaining two-thirds? Until a year ago, I would have believed that all such individuals posed a serious risk to children. Then, a few weeks ago, my husband was sentenced for viewing child pornography on the net and is now serving a three-month prison sentence.
It began in 1999, when he was employed by a national newspaper to edit its online edition. He spent hours surfing the net, both at home and at work, becoming convinced that the internet heralded a bold new future for the world.
He was equally concerned about its potential to encourage all manner of evil, and began planning a book with the working title Virtual Eden. He believed there were parallels between the Garden of Eden and the internet, but in his book proposal he pointed out an essential difference.
"In the Garden of Eden, God told Adam and Eve that they must not eat the fruit from a certain tree. With the internet, there is no supreme being telling us what we can and cannot access. The internet is a Godless Eden. It is down to the individual's conscience what they do and do not look at and delve into. Individual nations' attempts at regulating and censoring the net will fail," he wrote.
Soon his research led him to spend more time looking at indecent images than on developing his book proposal. There were depictions of sexual violence and child pornography which he later told me he found repulsive, but for the first time in his life, he found himself drawn to pictures of pubescent and pre-pubescent girls in states of undress, and started to seek them out on the internet. He thought he could stay within the law if he accessed only websites which in their small print classified their material as "art" under US law rather than pornography, or if they promised that their models were over 18. Some of the sites were Japanese, where such material appeared to be legal and a relatively mainstream taste. For four years he surfed the net, usually paying by credit card to view sites for limited periods. He did not save illegal images or communicate with anyone about them. His was a solitary occupation, usually conducted late at night in his study, often with a bottle of wine at his side.
All I noticed was that he was drinking too much and not getting enough sleep. If I woke during the night, I would often find he was downstairs "working". During the day, he often appeared preoccupied and distant, both with the children and with myself. When we were around, he spent much of his free time either sleeping, reading or listening to music. This pattern of behaviour remained essentially the same over four years. It was brought to an abrupt end by a ring on the doorbell at 6.20am on a bitterly cold morning last March. Five police officers arrived with a warrant for his arrest. They searched the house and found nothing incriminating, but then took away the hard drives from our computers.
My husband's arrest formed part of a major police investigation called Operation Ore. It began in 2002, when the US Postal Service seized a list of names and credit-card details of people who had accessed child pornography websites run by a company in Texas called Landslide Productions. There were 7,272 UK-based subscribers on the list. My husband - a senior newspaper executive - was one of those named, and a police source immediately leaked news of his arrest to the press. Stories appeared the next day and he resigned from his job. We were told social services would be in touch about our children and we waited for the phone to ring.
My overwhelming desire was to discover how the man I loved and thought I knew so well could have done such a thing. He did not seem to know the answer himself. Our elderly parish priest was the only person who would listen calmly and understand. He has had little to do with the internet, but the story of a man who is tempted to do evil, then falls under its control, is only too familiar to an experienced priest.
"Is my husband a bad man?" I recall asking my priest as I dropped him home after his first visit to our house following my husband's arrest.
"No, he is not a bad man. He has been weak," was his reply.
Addiction to internet pornography is a morality tale for modern times. These images of depravity, both legal and illegal, had acquired an extraordinary hold on my husband. Prior to his arrest, whenever he was alone in the house, he could not resist going online. We were continually bombarded with unsolicited "spam" emails advertising child pornography websites. The same sites continually inserted themselves into our "Favorites". When I asked my husband about them he would say his email address had been sold to thousands of companies and denied that he had looked at pornography of any kind.
Once, late at night, when I was working on the home computer for a change, the screen froze and, as I tried to sort out the problem, a new and unfamiliar desktop appeared. It consisted entirely of lurid icons linked to child pornography sites and gave me a terrible fright. It felt like a manifestation of pure evil. Why didn't I go upstairs to wake my husband and show him what was on the screen? I am still angry with myself when I think about it today. As it was, I left it until the morning and was only too willing to believe his denials.
The police technicians recovered 6,000 images of legal adult pornography and 245 classed as child pornography. Among them were 10 images viewed between 1999 and 2000 that showed images of children being abused by adults. I agree that viewing those images is in effect "child abuse by proxy", and that those who pay to look at them are fuelling demand for such pictures and therefore indirectly contributing to further abuse of children. But it is also absolutely wrong that those 10 pictures and thousands like them can be accessed in minutes by anyone via an internet service provider (ISP), a search engine and a credit card.
Within days of his arrest, my husband had begun to face up to his addiction and arranged to see a consultant psychiatrist every week for three months. The psychiatrist helped him to take responsibility for what he had done, but also to understand that stress at work, depression, insomnia and alcohol had all played a part in his addiction. My husband also came to believe that the problem of child pornography and other illegal material on the internet cannot be solved solely by arresting and punishing those who create a market for it. He hopes that he can help mobilise a campaign for the regulation of the internet. In a statement he prepared to be issued after he had been sentenced he drew an analogy with the war on illegal drugs.
"I became one of the addicts," he wrote, "An addict's habit is fed by dealers."
The dealers in this instance are often major corporations who, in their role as ISPs, sell consumers a gateway to the internet and, through their search engines, facilitate the search for illegal material.
Self-regulation by the ISPs in cooperation with the police has failed to prevent the child porn industry from expanding.
No one doubts that effective strategies to trace and close down child pornography sites would be costly. But the ISPs also worry that unwelcome public attention might then switch to adult pornography. This is probably the most lucrative industry on the internet, generating billions of US dollars.
In November 2002, Lord Justice Rose, vice-president of the court of appeal criminal division, said that increased access to the internet had greatly exacerbated the problem of child pornography by making it more easily accessible "and increasing the likelihood of such material being found accidentally by others who may subsequently become corrupted by it".
And so it has proved. The police are struggling to deal with all those on the Operation Ore list. In January, the Home Office minister Paul Goggins said only one in 20 of them had so far been convicted. A mere 10% had ever been charged.
Over the past year I have read many newspaper accounts of cases where men of previous good character have become caught up in this terrible evil. The extent of their habit varies considerably, from looking at relatively few indecent images of children, to building up huge collections of pictures and exchanging them with others.
While the secular experts are right to demand more research about this phenomenon, Christianity offers an explanation that I have never understood as well as I do now; all human beings are, to a greater or lesser extent, drawn towards evil, and once we succumb it is hard to break free. But there is the hope of redemption and a new beginning. In our own case, it felt entirely appropriate that we should ask our priest to bless the house again after what had happened, and that we should renew our marriage vows on our 20th wedding anniversary. There is something to celebrate when my husband returns home next month. He is free in more senses than one.
· This article first appeared in the Tablet. The Lucy Faithfull Foundation runs Stop it Now - a helpline for adults who are worried about their own or others' behaviour towards children. The number is 0808 1000900. There is also a website: www.stopitnow.org.uk.


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The Florida Georgia Line is not going to fade like a number of musical duos. These two men, Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, have the drive to thrive (and have driven across the country to this end). Florida Georgia Line tickets in 2013 are going to take the pair to venues to play with Luke Bryan and Thompson Square from July until late October. The band will play a few concert dates with a couple of other young acts and as a standalone headliner too.
All this is being done in the name of promoting Here's to the Good Times, the Florida Georgia Line's first full-length studio album. Released in late 2012, this album seemed to be out of place given the focus on youthful summer fun. Still, the album was released with plenty of lead time for the first single "Cruise" to become a multiplatinum hit and to be remixed with Nelly. The song also managed to capture a couple of CMT Music Awards, one for Duo Video of the Year and the second for Breakthrough Video of the Year. "Get Your Shine On" has followed this with a platinum performance and soon "Round Here" may join the other two as certified hits.
The Florida Georgia Line, the musical duo Of Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, is the kind of country group that shines during the summer. They combine up tempo instrumentation with lyrics about young love and partying in a small town.
This would have never happened had a friend not introduced them at Belmont University in Nashville. The two forged a friendship and a musical relationship, choosing to adopt their home states and the dividing line (Hubbard is from Georgia and Kelley is from Florida) when coming up with a name. All this has worked out quite well for the group and today Florida Georgia Line tickets are available for summer tours and the albums and singles are selling well all while becoming hits on the charts.
Before all this tangible success, the two had to catch the eye of a Nashville record executive. They went to work on two EPs, Anything Like Me and It'z Just What We Do. These 11 tracks were enough to entice Republic Nashville to sign the two.
With this support, Florida Georgia Line has released one album so far. The album, Here's to the Good Times, was recorded with the help of producer Joey Moi and released in the December 2012. It has been celebrated as an exciting addition to the spectrum of contemporary country albums. It is a recording with songs all about summer nights of drinking, days spent joyriding on dirt back roads, and the pursuit the potentially brief summer loves with girls in bikinis (basically everything in "Cruise").
Most critics seem to agree that the collaboration of Hubbard and Kelley is an exciting one, one with the potential to become one of the biggest duos in the genre. These two young artists have focused on the kind of fun and enthralling sound, but they are certain to add some emotional depth and to embrace different, more nuanced styles of country music. In the meantime, fans will have the chance to enjoy a raucous good time with Florida Georgia Line tickets while the group tours and proves itself to thousands across the nation.


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Chapter 22
"No, Katara!" Zuko screams rushing to her side. The blue scales disappear. Zuko hugs Katara close to his body, and he notices her heartbeat is gone. "No, don't die on me." He looks up and sees the Dragon Moon crumbling in the sky, causing the last light in the sky to disappear. He feels something wet running down his face, and realizes he is crying. Zuko wipes away the tears and stands up, and creates a ring of fire around him and Mai. "Why? Why did you destroy her?"
"Because she stole your love from me. After we left Ba-Sing-Sei, I was finally happy and had you in my arms. Then you betray the fire nation and leave me locked in that Agni forsaken prison. I then find out you and that water tribe whore had hooked up." Mai glares at Zuko. "You took my love for granted and broke my heart. So I decided to shatter yours."
Zuko stares at his old friend in shock. Mai, the girl he grew up with like a second sister. He looked at Katara's body and then at Mai. Suddenly he realizes what his uncle was trying to teach him in order to master lightning. Zuko takes in a deep breath and feels the lightning crackling in his arms. "Uncle, thank you for teaching me all those months ago. I have found true balance.. Hate and love, happiness and sadness, good and evil. Mai, you have killed my love, and now you will pay.". Zuko starts to bend the lightning flowing threw his arms and Mai notices his movement. She mimics him and the two let out the lightning. But instead of blue, Zuko bends a strange, but beautiful, purple lightning. His lightning meets Mai's and the two enter a stand off.
"Die, Zuko, Die!" Mai shouts at him as her lightning slowly starts to eat away at Zuko's. Zuko struggles and starts to loose the power. Suddenly Zuko feels a familiar presence next to him. He look around and sees Iroh standing next to him.
"Zuko, concentrate. You must not let Mai win." Iroh says. He then turns to Mai and touches Zuko's hand. The purple lightning stats to get stronger, but Mia is still stronger.
"Zuko don' fail us." Zuko looks around and sees Sokka and Suki standing nest to him. They both touch his hand and he gets stronger.
"Hey, Sparky, you gonna let Gloomy over their beat you?" he hears Toph say.
"Ya, come on, Sifu Hothead, you can beat her." Zuko sees Aang and Toph put their hands on his.
"Zuko, you can't loose now." Zuko's eyes widen as he sees Katara. "We all believe in you. Take Mai down, for me." Katara wraps her arms around Zuko"s shoulders and kisses his neck. Suddenly he feels the power flowing threw him.
"Mai, you have taken everything from me, and now you will pay!" Zuko shouts as his lightning absorbs Mai's. Mai's eyes widen before the lightning hits her in the chest. She flies into the ring of fire and Zuko watches as she burns. He then turns to Katara's body and the tears start to flow.
I watched as Zuko took down Mai, then rush to Katara's side and hug her close to his chest.. Are the spirits really against love this much. Do they really love playing with people like they do. Always letting someone find happiness, then ripping it away. I walked up to him and put my hand on his shoulder. "So Zuko, are you ready to reshape your destiny?"
Zuko turns around and stares at me, still crying. "Who are you?"
"I am May, the destiny bender. I am hear to help you alter history."
"I can send you into your past as a dream. In that dream, you will need to convince the person you choose not to allow the event to happen, and also guide them to help the Avatar."
"Where will you send me."
"The night before you went into the war meeting."
Zuko gasped at my comment. "I will also go into your past and remake myself to be a mentor for you."
"I will alter the past and give you a brother. One who will always be by your side. I will also split into three other beings. One will be a young Kyoshi warrior. One will be an older air bender. And the last will be a northern water tribes man."
"When do we start?"
I raised my hand and placed it on Zuko's head. "Now." Suddenly a bright flash of light filled both of our visions.
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Lindsey is dreading school, wishing for a better life and a fairer world. Not terribly uncommon. But when a mysterious man starts showing up around town in a black cloak and people are being found dead all over the united states, she could be the only one who knows how to take the evil cult down. But the real question is... does she want to?
Moonlight spilled in through an open window, the only light in the musty room. A balding man in a now ripped Italian suit was hiding in a corner behind a desk. He had never felt anything like this. It was fear, but that would be like calling the core of the sun warm.
Wind swirled in through the open window, throwing the blinds like some sort of invisible ghost had just entered the room. The man panted and held a deep gash on his upper left arm.
He had just earlier been wearing a pair of glasses that made him look rather intelligent, but some while ago they had dropped from their perch. Now they lay in some dark hallway of the deserted motel he had taken refuge in.
Then the man's heart skipped a beat. The ancient floorboards groaned in the hallway outside the door. He knew there was only one other person who could possibly be out there.
His only chance at survival was not to move, breathe, or make any sound of any kind.
Then there was another step. Another groan. This one so close, he thought he could feel the floor board underneath him give a little bit. The man peered under the desk to see a pair of black shoes and the bottom of a black cloak. He snapped his head back up, trying desperately not to hyperventilate.
He thought of his family, then. He hadn't even said goodbye. Who on earth was this madman? Could his cloaked attacker possibly know what he'd done? What he was planning to do?
Then there was a sharp crack to his right. He turned his head to see what it was, fearing the worst, but was never able to find out. His attacker plunged a 6 inch blade into the man's back as soon as he had turned to look.
The assassin smiled fondly at his work, then took a step back, leaving the blade in his victim. The dead man slumped against the wall now that his assailant was no longer supporting the weight. He pulled a digital camera from his pocket and took a picture of the back, the side not leaning against the wall and the front of his victim.
The assassin put his camera away, then freed his blade with a single tug. He shut the door to the room, the door automatically locking with a metallic clang.
He looked around, letting his eyes adjust before he went to the bed and pulled out a second, smaller blade, which was one of five remaining slim, light-weight throwing knives. He cut a single strip off the bed sheets, no wider than a few inches. He tied one end around his waist then proceeded to the open window.
He tied the other end of the bed sheet around the sharp side of the blade, careful not to cut it, then pushed it into the rotting wood. He climbed out and jumped with all the gracefulness of a cat on the hunt. Half way down to the ground from the second story window, the bed sheet was stretched taut, pulling the window down until it crashed closed.
The sudden jerk of the window closing freed the knife of the rotting sill. The blade shone in the moonlight as it fell soundlessly in the dirt next to him near a chain link fence. He cut the bed sheets from around him, then threw them in a dumpster. He placed the knife back into its sheath, then walked out of the alley casually with his hands in his pockets. He passed several people, none of which gave him a second look.
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Today, for no reason, a mundane conversation I had with a coworker about a year ago suddenly popped into my head. It's been buried in the back of my mind, and I have no idea why it's even stored in my long-term memory - except as a glaring statement on how much I've changed since I moved to Alaska.
My coworker was training for the upcoming cycling season, and was trying to plan a fitness routine he could stick with. He hated the hamster wheel/spinning bike/whole indoor workout setup more than anyone I know. So he asked me what I knew about studs that you could attach to bike tires. He thought they might help him navigate icy Idaho highways during longer rides.
I remember shooting back a reply that was something along the lines of "That's crazy. Why in the world would you want to ride outside in the winter when you have a well-lit, climate-controlled gym at your disposal?" (I was a big hamster wheel advocate at the time.)
He told me he was training for a double century, and needed to keep a pretty strict routine that required him to step up his mileage soon. And he just couldn't put in the time indoors.
"But that's crazy," I replied. "Why would anyone want to ride a double century?"
Not only did I not have any advice to offer, but the whole idea turned my stomach. I promptly forgot the unpleasantness - until today, only one year later. I'm still plugging away on the hamster wheel, but this time with big dreams of double triple-digits running through my head.
There are a lot of things I want to do this summer, but I think the first event I might like to plan for is the Fireweed 200, a 200-mile highway ride from Sheep Mountain to Valdez. The race is slated for July 8. That's a little too close to 24 hours of Kincaid (June 24) to feasibly train for both (there's another similar event I specifically told another coworker she was "crazy" for doing - in her case, the 24 hours of Moab race.) So I do have to make some decisions, and map out a plan. The Fireweed 200 has a nondrafting division that appeals to the rabid soloist in me, so my early pull is for the road race. (However, some have suggested that I consider riding the entire Fireweed 400. While I do have a plug-along attitude that has gotten me through some tough spots, I'm not exactly an ultra athlete - and the Fireweed 400 is not only Four Hundred Nonstop Miles, but also 28,000 feet of climbing! UltraRob has done it. But UltraRob is UltraRob. He's one of those RAAM people that even the current me would call crazy.)
But I am excited about the prospect of training for and riding in these "ultra" races - if nothing else, to spite my 2005 self for being so self-depreciating and cynical. I do not need Cat 5 status or quads of steel to ride 200 miles or spend 24 hours on a mountain bike. I have love! I have Power Bars! I'm good to go.


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Medicine (6 years including foundation year) Course details
Year of entry: 2017
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Course description
The Manchester medicine programme educates, trains and prepares students for practice in the healthcare systems of today and the future. Upon graduation, you will be able to apply knowledge, intellectual and practical skills to understand and manage the complex healthcare needs of individuals and society, while developing the resilience to meet the demands of changing healthcare environments. We run the largest medical programme in the UK with over 2200 undergraduate medical students.
The one-year foundation course, taught at The University of Manchester and Xaverian College is specifically designed to prepare you for entry to the five-year MBChB Medicine degree. We aim to recruit from all sections of the community and encourage able students from all backgrounds to apply. Automatic entry into the standard five-year MBChB Medicine course is granted upon satisfactory completion of the foundation year.
We use a wide variety of teaching and learning methods but the key Manchester approach is the study of themed case discussions in small groups where students are proactive learners. This is supported throughout the course by lectures, practical classes (including anatomy dissection) and clinical experience. Our course integrates science and clinical learning so you are able to apply scientific knowledge and concepts to your clinical practice.
Graduates of the MBChB Medicine meet the core requirements for junior doctors and successful completion entitles you to apply for provisional registration with the General Medical Council and apply for Foundation Year 1 posts. See the Careers section for more details. You can enter this course with the appropriate qualifications, or if you have successfully completed the Foundation Year 0. We aim to recruit from all sections of the community and encourage able students from all backgrounds to apply.
Foundation year
Students on the foundation year are full-time students at the University of Manchester, the learning and teaching is delivered jointly at the University and Xaverian College . The College is a long-term partner of the University of Manchester and has an enviable reputation as a provider of innovative and effective Foundation Programmes to different faculties within the University.
Five-year MBChB Medicine:
Further information on what to expect on the five-year MBChB can be found in the course details .
Special features
- Clinical hospital and community-based experience
- International reputation for excellence in teaching and research including close links with the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre - the only accredited Centre in the North of England
- Clinical case-based learning in small groups and whole body cadavers used in anatomy
- Flexibility to create a bespoke education
Additional course information
Clinical Placement Travel Costs
Although there are currently small bursaries available to help students with the travel costs associated with clinical placements, this may not cover the full cost of your travel expenses to and from your clinical placements.
GCSE reform - for 2017 entry
Due to the phased introduction of GCSE reform in England we will accept a mixture of GCSEs, those which have been taken under the new reformed GCSE qualifications (in England) and those which have not.
All applicants are expected to adhere to these GCSE requirements. If you are resitting any GCSE subjects, you must explain the extenuating circumstances that prompted this. New GCSE grading structure At least three subjects are required at Grade 8 or above plus at least three subjects at grade 7 and above. These subjects must include Chemistry, Biology and Physics, or Double Science or Core and Additional Science.
English Language and Maths are required at Grade 6 or above.
Teaching and learning
Foundation year
Self-directed learning, group-working, laboratory skills and a student selected component are used, in addition to lectures on the relevant sciences, to prepare you for entry to the five-year MBChB.
Five-year MBChB Medicine:
Clinical case-based learning
Different learning methods are used but the key Manchester approach is the study of themed case discussions through facilitated group activities to emphasise enquiry, discussion, self-education, and the development of critical faculties and communication skills; all essential skills for doctors.
Learning anatomy is fundamental to becoming a good doctor. We use whole body cadavers and dissection to teach anatomy. A completely different way of learning from solely studying text books and attending lectures, the practical experience offered by using cadavers and dissection will teach you how the human body works and how systems of the body work together. If you find this approach challenging, support is available, but most students find it an excellent way of learning and the experience gained is invaluable in clinical practice.
Clinical learning
In Years 1 and 2, you will learn the basic skills essential for conducting a consultation with patients (including communication skills, history taking and physical examination) in the Consultation Skills Learning Centre. You will be able to apply these skills as you meet patients early in general practice and in hospitals.
From Year 3 onwards, you are assigned to a Health Education Zone centred around a major teaching hospital. This is where you will gain most of your clinical experience. You will be based at one of four partner teaching hospitals, and their associated district general hospitals and community placements, across the North West region.
- Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Preston)
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
The course is fully integrated across all four Zones; all successful students graduate with a University of Manchester degree. Successful applicants who firmly accept our offer of a place will be allocated to one of the four Zones. There is no guarantee of an allocation to a particular Zone but the School will take your preference into account where possible. See `Application and Selection' for further details.
Find out more about our University and NHS facilities .
Community placements
The course includes learning opportunities within diverse community settings, such as general practice surgeries, pharmacies, hospices, opticians and nursing homes, enabling you to work with a diverse range of health professionals. We have over 700 community placements geographically spread from Blackpool to Crewe including central Manchester, Lancashire and Wigan and you will be expected to travel to these locations. Although there are currently small bursaries available to help students with travel costs this may not cover the full cost of your travel expenses to and from your clinical placements.
Find out more about our placements .
Coursework and assessment
Foundation year
The foundation year is assessed by short answer and multiple choice questions, written reports on laboratory-based skills, and a student selected component. You will be given feedback on your performance in assessments as well as general feedback on your overall performance on the course.
Five-year MBChB Medicine
Methods of assessment include both summative exams (which demonstrate you have reached the required standards to progress to the next phase of the course) and formative tests (which tell you how you are performing on the course and how you can improve).
Your assessments will include: written examinations; objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs); workplace-based assessments; reflective portfolio work; written reports to assess personalised modules; and assessment of professional behaviour.
Summative assessment will normally happen at the end of each year with formative assessments occurring at regular intervals throughout the course. Assessments closely reflect the course content, with assessment of knowledge and skills in the initial phase, moving on to clinical assessments and application of knowledge including in complex situations by the end of the final phase.
You will receive feedback on your performance in assessments from your academic and clinical advisors in addition to generalised feedback about your cohort's performance. Feedback on performance is integral to all learning activities.
Course content for year 1
During Years 1 and 2, you will be mostly based on The University of Manchester's Oxford Road campus, with visits to centres of excellence for clinical medicine, community settings and teaching hospitals across the north-west.
At the start of the course, you are introduced to the learning processes necessary for successful study at university level, and you will learn the consultation skills needed to equip you for early clinical experiences.
Years 1 and 2 are divided into four modules, the content of which relate to the overall curriculum themes of doctor as scientist and scholar, doctor as practitioner and doctor as professional, as stipulated by the General Medical Council.
Each module is divided into a series of topics that can take the form of one or more themed cases. The cases contextualise learning to prepare you for the way in which doctors meet patient problems. The approach to learning around the themed case discussions will develop your skills in collaborative group working and independent learning.
There is an emphasis on practical work, including anatomy dissection, physiology and pharmacology practical classes, clinical experience, and personal development activities that are designed to introduce you to the skills and attitudes necessary to become a successful junior doctor.
You will learn about the body through detailed studies of molecules, cells, tissues and organs and the systems that control their activities. The modules are partially system-based.
In the Year 1 Life Cycle module, you will study the cellular and molecular processes that underlie reproduction, development and growth. In addition, you will explore the immune system and the pathophysiology of genetic disease and cancer. The second module of Year 1, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, focuses on the chest and the function of the heart, lungs and blood.
Course content for year 2
Year 2 continues with two more modules. The first is Mind and Movement, where you will explore the brain and the nervous system connections to the muscles that move the skeleton. The focus is on neuroscience, but the concepts in this module prepare you for concepts applied to clinical medicine, including mental health.
The final module, Nutrition, Metabolism and Excretion, introduces you to the gastrointestinal system, the kidneys and the key hormonal mechanisms involved in regulating these systems.
There are also opportunities for you to begin developing a Personal Excellence Path for your special interests in medicine. The activities in Years 1 and 2 support literature appraisal, academic writing, team-working and presentation skills.
Course content for year 3
From the beginning of Year 3 until the end of your final year, you will learn primarily though clinical placements organised around our Health Education Zones that comprise four base hospitals and their associated teaching hospitals and community placements.
You will have a base hospital where you will spend a greater proportion of your time; some time will be spent at other Health Education Zones according to their areas of specialty and expertise. Limited time is spent on the University campus.
In Year 3, you will spend the majority of your week learning from real patients, and the basic scientific knowledge and clinical skills you acquired in the earlier years will be applied in clinical settings.
The first semester will involve general medical placements giving you access to common conditions in appropriate settings. These two 6-week blocks will be followed by three 4-week blocks in the second semester that will expose you to a more complex clinical environment, which will include more acute medical settings and a placement within a surgical specialty.
Personal Excellence Pathway: Applied PEP project
Towards the end of the year, you will undertake the Applied Personal Excellence Pathway (APEP). This will give you the opportunity to carry out an original project involving, for example, basic or applied research, service evaluation, or educational development, supervised by a subject expert from the University or the NHS.
Student-Selected Clinical Placement
The final activity of the year will allow you to select a placement in an area of clinical interest to you from within our Health Education Zones. The placement will give you the time and opportunity to reflect on your future career choices within medicine.
Course content for year 4
Year 4 will broaden your clinical learning across the medical specialties, offering immersion in new clinical placements with supervision and teaching by specialty experts.
There will be clinical placements in:
- general practice and clinical public health;
- mental health, neurology and special senses;
- musculoskeletal health;
- ageing and complex health;
- women's health;
- child health;
- oncology and breast health;
- dermatology and infectious diseases.
PEP: Quality and Evidence
As you become more experienced in clinical environments, the PEP in Year 4 will focus on broader concepts of working in the NHS through quality enhancement projects. This will be completed in a single 4-week placement.
The year will end with a student elective placement, commonly an overseas experience of medical practice in an unfamiliar healthcare environment.
Course content for year 5
The final year of the course will prepare you for your final university exams, national assessments such as the Prescribing Safety Assessment and, for your role as a foundation year doctor in the NHS, the year is your preparation for practice.
Clinical placements will include further general medical and surgical placements, general practice and acute medicine. A community placement will allow you to understand how medical services are delivered outside of the hospitals and general practices, for example, through experience in community paediatrics or community psychiatry.
All students will undertake a Student Assistantship placement. You will be appropriately supervised and integrated into a clinical unit while you undertake most of the duties of a newly qualified doctor, including shift-working and being on-call.
The final year will include a further Quality and Evidence PEP project and another opportunity to explore career choices through a second Student-Selected Clinical Placement.
Scholarships and bursaries
5th Year of Study Onwards
Currently the NHS Business Services Authority pays the cost of undergraduate medicine tuition fees, and a means-tested amount of funding to help with day to day living expenses, to eligible students who are in their fifth year of study onwards and who are ordinarily resident in England. If you move to England from Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland primarily for the purpose of undertaking a full-time course of education, you will not normally be classed as being ordinarily resident in England for NHS Bursary purposes.
If you reside in Wales , Scotland or Northern Ireland , broadly comparable arrangements will apply, but you will need to consult the relevant national authority for details as NHS Student Bursaries will not be able to administer your funding.
Visit our Student Finance pages to find out about the financial support that may be available to you.
During the Foundation Year, you will work in small groups for enquiry-based Learning, have weekly skills sessions in well-equipped laboratories and attend lectures on specialist subjects. You will also attend lectures on Chemistry and Biology at Xaverian College, given by highly qualified and experienced lecturers.
Five-year MBChB Medicine course:
During years one and two you will be based mostly in the Stopford Building on the University of Manchester's Oxford Road campus. The Stopford Building contains facilities such as the anatomy dissection room, the Consultation Skills Learning Centre, and IT clusters and a dedicated library for medical students.Consultation Skills Learning Centre
The Centre is a purpose-built facility designed to teach medical students core skills. The Centre houses 24 dedicated consultation rooms designed to replicate hospital outpatient departments and GP surgeries. The consultation rooms contain basic medical equipment for practical skills sessions which can be filmed by built-in cameras so you can watch yourself in action for personal reflection and to allow observation by tutors for feedback. The aim is to provide as realistic environment as possible to allow you to develop communication skills, learn how to take medical histories and undertake simple physical examinations of simulated patients.Stopford Library
The main collection of books on medicine is housed within in the University's Main Library, which houses an extensive collection of printed and online material. However, books for years one and two medical students are also located in the Stopford Library.Health Education Zones
During years three to five you will spend your time learning in clinical placements in the Health Education Zones
- Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
- University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
Innovative learning
We embrace the move towards mobile learning and were the first medical programme in Europe to provide its third year students with iPads as an aid to learning. We have also been awarded Distinguished Programme Status by Apple.
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Replacing Rubicon hood decals
A few years ago I replaced my factory RUBICON decals with aftermarket.
They looked pretty good, but it's time for a change.
I decided to eliminate all of my aftermarket decals and go back to a clean, uncluttered look.
This is how I was taught to apply a decal.
First step, wait for a nice hot day, and remove the decals. Use your fingernail or something like a PLASTIC putty knife (no sharp corners!) to get them started, then slowly peel them off. Or you can get a vinyl chisel that is designed for this sort of thing.
The important thing is NOT to scratch your paint.
The sun will warm and soften the adhesive making it possible to pull the decals off easliy. In colder weather you can use a heat gun on low or a blow dryer to warm them up. Be careful with a heat gun not to blister the paint.
To remove the adhesive residue left by decals you will have better results if you use some sort of chemical. I have always used Ronsonol Lighter fluid and a terrycloth rag.
I have often seen Goo Gone recommended but had never tried it. I just happened to have a small bottle of it on hand and decided to give it a shot.
For comparison I used them both on parts of the same area. Hands down, the lighter fluid did a much faster and better job than the Goo Gone. It's a lot less expensive too.
Decals all gone:
After removing the decals and cleaning it up with adhesive remover you will need to wash it so that there are no oils or contaminants under the decals to inhibit adhesion. Look closely to be certain you have ALL of the old adhesive off. It can be stealthy. If any is left it can cause an unsightly bump under the new decal.
Measuring for the new decals.
From the edge of the hood latch measure to the rear of the hood 9 3/8"
make a small pencil mark.
Use a piece of tape and run it vertically along the front edge of the mark leaving about 1/8" space.
Measure the length of your decal and transfer that measurement to your hood adding appx 1/4". Run a piece of tape vertically there too.
These pieces of tape are going to be your alignment tools.
Decals have an adhesive paper "liner" on top of them. It holds the decal together while you're applying it. It also can help with alignment.
Using a ruler, make a straight pencil line lightly across the bottom edge of the letters on your decal extending all the way to the edge of the paper.
On the hood, make a mark on the tape 3/4" UP from the top of the fender. These are your guide lines.
Clean the area with something like glass cleaner (I like Invisible Glass by Stoner) and a lint free towel. Any lint, dust or contaminants on your hood will show under your decals and look like little pimples.
Peel the backing off of the decal and lay it adhesive side up on your hood.
Be careful not to let it bend around and stick to itself. Decals sometimes have a static charge that makes them attracted to any nearby surface.
Mist the area lightly but completely where the decal is to be applied with Invisible Glass. Cover the entire surface where the decal is going to be applied.
Do not stretch your decal.
The moisture will evaporate, so you will want to work fairly quickly but carefully.
Apply the decal lightly onto the moist area between your blue tape guides and gently align it so that the lines on the tape and the lines on the paper decal liner match up. The moisture helps to keep the decal from sticking while you align it. You may need to lift it and reset it a couple of times, as long as you don't let it stick firmly and the area is moist you should be ok.
Place the decal right up to the edge of the front tape line. The rear bit of tape is only there for vertical alignment. It would be difficult to get it exactly the same on each side and an eight of an inch either way won't make a bit of difference.
Once you have the decal aligned use a vinyl squeege
and work your way from the center of the decal to the outer edges. Using light pressure push out the moisture and air bubbles from beneath. If it appears as though there are wrinkles STOP before you start using the squeegee. Gently lift the decal and reposition it (be sure you still have moisture under it) then press it down.
Once it's all smoothed out gently peel off the liner and wipe the rest of the moisture from the hood. Don't rub too hard as it takes a a day or two before the vinyl gets truly good adhesion.
After all of this, I think I liked the look of the aftermarket decals a little bit better :doh:
like the originals, but where did u get the aftermarket ones they r pretty sweet...:D
Nice Job, looks clean! I removed all the stickers on my rubicon, but i like the all black look.
The aftermarket were mad up for me by some folks at a vinyl shop.
Not hard really, just choose your font and give them the dimensions that you want.
On yours, black on black might look all stealthy and stuff :punk:
What type of rocker guards are you running? I like the look of them.
Flint, they're what we call "Dick Hard" my hubby's name is "Dick" he made them. He made my rear tire carrier too. That's whey I say the best accessory I have on my rig is my OBM - On Board Mechanic.
He was planning on making the rails and selling them but hasn't gone into production yet.
Well tell him nice work and let everyone know if he is going to make a few for market. Post up some pictures of the tire carrier, would love to see the craftsmanship
Kate, you have one of my favorite Jeeps on this site, btw! It looks great!
Nice Look
I just purchased an 02 white wrangler. I like the looks of yours from the side. Would it be too much to ask for you to post some front and back pictures? TIA
Magic Erasers work great for getting sticker adhesive off your jeep......no chemicals required!
And Kate........your Jeep looks awesome!! I think I like the aftermarket stickers a little better.
Hey Dan!
Congrats on the new Jeep!
Asking for photos of someone's Jeep is kind of like asking to see pictures of their grandchildren, heck no I don't mind! I actually have more pics of my rig than I do of my grandchildren. Pitiful, isn't it.
For some reason, today it looked short to me in this picture... go figure.
Trailer queen...
Next project for him is my new front bumper.
Thank you for your kind words, made me all proud and stuff *aww shucks!*:redface:
but that's a nice write up Kate. :)
I had a bunch of people asking how I did the graphics on my hood a while back.
I never thought about doing a write up on it, good job.
The only big difference is that I didn't use liquid for the application process.
I really like your Rig btw.
The DC-1's, along with the rocker and corner guards give a nice contrast. :cool:
However, it looks like hers was stretched and narrowed a bit.
"Lets see how many pics we can get her to post before she catches on! :rofl::rofl: "
Here's my OBM with the tire carrier & bumper nearly complete:
Thank you BTG!
Yes, you are right about the font being elongated. It had to be, much to my dismay, in order to stretch out and be the right size on the side of the hood.
I HAVE found a new one though, think this is what I will go to next.
Prolly get it ordered next week. You can have them cut at any vinyl shop and they should have a selection of fonts for you to choose from.
I'm SERIOUSLY considering painting my wheels black. They have a lot of rock rash on them and are starting to corrode.
When they cut it,
it should be cut so your paint shows through as the flames right?
Sorry to hear about the wheels.
But if they're corroding, you gotta do something about it.
I've always liked those DC-1's.
Never had the chance to get a set though.
Now they've been replaced with the DC-2, which I really DON'T like.
There's only a few changes to them,
but they stick out like a sore thumb IMO.
Here's Mine:
Since you have the font you posted,
you probably already have this one too,
but in case you don't:
THAT is just flat sexy!
Your Jeep is so clean it makes mine look like a piglet.
Way back when I first started thinking of doing something different to mine, I desperately wanted a "torn" look with something like diamond plate and the RUBICON peeking out from under it.
Never fond a place that could do it for me though, so I gave up.
Yes on the "flames" the white would be as pictured.
BTG, you and Kate are killing me with those white TJ's.... Love, love, love a white and black TJ... :)
Kate, I really like the flame decals, go for it.. Best thing about fairly simple decals is they are not terribly expensive. I had a huge skull and crossbones on the rear window of my Tahoe several years ago, that thing (2 colors) was expensive.... :( Then hubby went all retard on me and made me take it off.... :rofl: Still miss that one...
If your wheels are pitting and nasty then by all means paint them... You have the skills I know, and I'm sure you've already made up your mind to do it. The only other thing I could suggest would be to polish them up nice, sell them and pick up some soft 8's. I know you've mentioned that you really wanted some. 5 will run you just over $200, I'm sure you could get that outta your DC's....
But while scrounging through my font files I found the flame one and it just kind of clicked. It's SO similar to the factory font, but with a little zing.
I thought about going with something like this
for just long enough to drive the guys in the club NUTS over it...
but it would be a waste of time & money.
Funny as heck though. I know I would get a raise out of them :rofl:
LOL Kate! In pink even..... :rofl:
If you have any questions feel free to ask.
Here's a list of mods on my rig.. I think I got them all.
06 Rubi, 4.0L, 4sp Auto,
Rough Country 4" X series-lift,
Rough Country Diff Guards
Rough Country Steering skid brace
Rough Country Winch plate
Rough Country Performance 2.2 shocks
Rough Country steering stabilizer
JKS Track Bar
5.13 Gears,
Alloy rear axles
Tom Woods CV Driveshaft
SwayLOC (sway bar replacement/disconnect)
DickHard Rock rails
DickHard rear bumper & swing away tire carrier
Rockmen shorty corners
Warn M8000
Carr Rota Light bar w/a 6 pack
Skinny Pedal MiniMe rock lights (these are cool as heck!)
15 x 10 Cepek DC-1 wheels
Rough Country X rock rings (on the wheels)
35" Cepek Mud Country Tires
Cobra 75wxst w/ 4' Firestick
Rugged Ridge Grab handles
HD Rear shackles
Superlift TruSpeed
Iron Rock Tie Rod
On the way: Savvy gas tank skid
Oh... and MAYBE one pink Girley sticker on the hood LMAO!
It doesn't look like that on an everyday basis though.
Just after some TLC. ;)
I know this might be a rather cheezy version of your idea,
but it's more for reference:
Diamond Plate Rip*::*Rips / Torn Metal*::*Weston Signs Inc
If you really wanted it done, I think this guy could do it.
Since he's already got the 'torn' design completed,
it's just a matter of filling the inside part with whatever is desired.
To 'delete' the inside and just add 'RUBICON',
or combine with Diamond Plate,
seems like it would be pretty easy.
If you're still interested in doing something like that,
the owners name is Chris.
You might shoot him a message or give em a call.
Not to mention, SCARY AS HELL! :eek:
They might turn out very nice.
Go for it! :)
I have one sanded down. It's one that got bent on a mean ol' rock awhile back and I replaced it. Seemed like the perfect guinnea pig.
Go for it Kate, you have the skills, and they would be great looking!
When you do it,
just make sure to buy an extra fine brush
so you can add all those important highlights!
Just teasing ya. ;)
Some people are actually bold enough to do it though.
I found this one on AutoTrader last year! :eek:
To each their own, I guess.
Here now! I kinda like the wheels the way you did them!
I was playing with the guys awhile back and threatened to paint my whole Jeep hot pink.
If I paint my wheels black, I might paint my rock rings red, but that's about as close to pink as I think I will ever get.
Green is more my color. If I had to repaint my Jeep and choose a different color than white - which I love - I would go with Rescue Green. Something about that color makes my knees wobbly.
Poor Ajax... he would be SO humiliated if I put pink on him. He's my war horse, a "Manly Jeep" after all.
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I'm just outside the American Embassy, where I've been applying for a visa as I'm going to interview Woody Allen in Manhattan.
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Choose a favourite author, and say why you admire her/him
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Describe the room where you usually write
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What distracts you from writing?
Frankly, almost anything can distract me. The internet, of course – when you disappear down the rabbit hole of an enquiry.
Which fictional character most resembles you?
When I was was a teenager, I identified very strongly with Antigone in Jean Anouilh's play. I thought: "She is me". But then I decided that she's such a pain in the arse – she's so hard on everybody. Now, I wonder if I haven't become quite like her. She's so demanding of the people close to her.
What are your readers like when you meet them?
[With my novels] I was so touched and surprised when people found things in them that I hadn't realised I'd put there.
Who is your hero/heroine from outside literature?
I admire people who excelled at one thing but applied themselves with fantastic discipline to something else. For instance, when I studied Latin and read Horace, I found out he knew so much about farming.
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More than 200 people were stung by box jellyfish at Waikiki and Ala Moana beaches over the last two days, and lifeguards are urging people to stay out of south shore waters to avoid the painful welts.
"They're inundating the beaches," said Capt. Paul Merino, supervisor of Ocean Safety and Lifeguard Services for the south shore. "The lifeguards are just overwhelmed."
Box jellyfish, nearly invisible in the water, leave a painful sting that can be dangerous for people who are allergic. One beachgoer was sent to the hospital yesterday for treatment of anaphylactic shock, followed by two more this morning, Merino said.
The influx began yesterday and is expected to last through New Year's Day and begin to fade on Sunday, he said. Warning signs went up along south shore beaches yesterday.
"Being that it's such a nice day, people aren't heeding the warnings," Merino said. "It's a perfect storm. It was rainy all week, and now it's sunny and beautiful today, and jellyfish are on the beach."
Box jellyfish typically measure one to two inches long, with tentacles that stretch about a foot long. Lifeguards advise beachgoers to immerse the sting in warm water, or try a cold pack to relieve the pain.


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NFL 2012 Season — Week 15 Preview
Three weeks remain in the 2012 NFL season. Four more teams can clinch a postseason berth this week. Here's a preview of this week's games:
Three weeks remain in the 2012 NFL season. Four more teams can clinch a postseason berth this week. Here's a preview of this week's games:
The New England Patriots have not lost a game since mid-October and seem like a lock for the postseason. Will they get another Super Bowl victory this year?
Robert Griffin III threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to Pierre Garcon early in the fourth quarter, and the Washington Redskins held on to beat the New York Giants, 17-16 in Landover, Md. on Monday night.
As expected, Notre Dame and Alabama will meet in the BCS National Championship Game to award another trophy to one of college football's most successful programs. However, the complete bowl lineup was not without some surprises, including #15 Northern Illinois crashing the BCS party and 9-3 Louisiana Tech being left home for the holidays after their administration turned down an Independence Bowl invite.
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Several teams can clinch playoff spots this week, as the NFL enters the stretch run of the 2012 season. Here's a preview of this week's games:
Sadly, we've come to the end: the last week of college football's regular season. And while many teams are already in the stable waiting to find out their bowl opponents, there is still a lot of action this week with a spot in the national-title game and at least seven conference championships still up in the air.
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Buffalo took advantage of three Miami turnovers, and the Bills beat the Dolphins, 19-14, in Buffalo on Thursday night.
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By Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY
KABUL The winner of Afghanistan's election may not be determined for months, U.S. and Afghan officials said Tuesday, as an international oversight group presented new allegations of widespread fraud and ordered a partial recount.
President Hamid Karzai now has 54.1% of the vote, enough for him to be re-elected without a runoff, according to voting results announced Tuesday. The results, based on 92% of ballots cast in the Aug. 20 election, showed his nearest challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, with just 28% support.
Yet a report by the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission, which must sign off on the result for it to be official, said it had found "clear and convincing fraud" across the country. The ECC called for partial recounts and an audit of the result.
Daoud Najafi, a commissioner for Afghanistan's election regulator, said that process could take "two months or three months." A similar timetable was cited Tuesday by U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly.
"The results as they are have no credibility," said Fazel Sancharaki, a campaign aide to Abdullah. "We are happy to see the ECC investigating this, and we wait for them to overturn this tragedy. There is no doubt that Karzai's numbers will be well below 50% once the investigation is completed."
Widespread fraud allegations could undermine the credibility of the eventual election winner, as well as President Obama's call for Americans to continue supporting the war at a time when U.S. casualties are at an all-time high, said Jonathan Morgenstein, a fellow at the Third Way, a Washington think tank.
Karzai's campaign has denied involvement in widespread fraud. Attempts to reach Karzai campaign spokesman Wahid Omar on Tuesday were unsuccessful.
Grant Kippen, a Canadian who heads the ECC, said the group found evidence of vote-rigging in Ghazni, Kandahar and Paktika provinces, three areas where Karzai appeared to have won handily.
"Such evidence included indications from the ballot boxes, the forms accompanying the ballots, and the condition of the ballots themselves (that showed) that the ballots were not legally cast, or were not legally counted," he said.
Kippen ordered a recount of ballots from polling places where turnout appeared to be at or above 100% of registered voters. Recounts were also ordered for any polling place where at least 100 votes were cast and one candidate got more than 95% of them.
The recount of suspect votes will take place with independent election observers, candidates' agents and investigators of the complaints commission watching, the ECC's order said. Votes found to have flaws may then be excluded from the count, the commission said.
If Karzai's vote tally falls below 50% following the recount, he will face a runoff. However, the start of Afghanistan's winter is just weeks away, which could make holding another round of voting difficult.
Regardless, Morgenstein said a runoff might be the only chance of producing a legitimate winner. "It may offer the best-case scenario," he said.
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The sale of one of John Constable's finest works, an idyllic depiction of rural Suffolk, has provoked a bitter dispute among members of one of Europe's most flamboyant aristocratic families.
The Lock, painted in 1824, was sent for auction by Spanish socialite Barones s Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, who says she is a victim of Spain's economic crisis and must sell the work to raise funds.
The Baroness, a former Miss Spain, owns four luxury villas as well as an art collection which includes eight Gauguins and a Picasso. But her decision has led to a family rift and the resignation of one of the trustees of her museum in Madrid.
Constable's oil on canvas masterpiece went under the hammer at the Christie's Old Master and British Paintings sale in London last night and went for £22.4 million to an unknown buyer - a record amount for the artist and among the top five prices ever paid for an Old Master in Britain.
The Lock is one of six large-scale canvases of the River Stour, also including The Hay Wain, that Constable exhibited to acclaim at the Royal Academy in London between 1819 and 1825. It was bought by the Baroness' late husband, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, in 1990 for £10.8m, then a record for a British painting.
Its sale last night infuriated the Baroness's step-daughter, Francesca Von Habsburg, who said her late father, a renowned art collector, would never have agreed to it. "The proposed sale is entirely self-serving and should not go ahead. She [the Baroness] likes to pretend she is a typical Spanish citizen who is struggling just like everyone else but that could not be further from the truth."
The sale prompted Sir Norman Rosenthal, former exhibitions director at the Royal Academy, to resign as trustee of the Baroness' Madrid museum. He said it was "morally shameful" and accused the 69-year-old Baroness, known as "Tita", of having no understanding of either art history or art appreciation.
The billionaire Baron had agreed to cede his collection of 1,600 paintings to the Spanish state, upon his death, aged 81, in 2002. They are housed in the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid.
However the Baroness, his fifth wife, kept 250 works worth £700m, including The Lock, in her private collection which she loans to Spanish museums without receiving any income. The Spanish government, currently securing a €100bn eurozone bail-out, rejected her request for state-funded compensation.
"This sale is a small inject ion of cash in my accounts," said the Baroness, who owns a 175ft yacht and employs about 80 staff. "Keeping the collection here is costly to me, and I get nothing in return."
"Tita" is battling on all fronts to preserve her late husband's €2.5bn inheritance. Her son, Borja, who was adopted by the Baron, is suing her for a share of the art collection after mother and son argued over his choice of wife. As for Francesca's claim that she is "isolated from reality", the Baroness says: "Besides getting furious, she can't do anything about it."
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The Room Continues To Think...
The Room sees the girl's friends come in. It wants to tell them to leave, to tell them that she is not yet healed, but they are unreceptive and do not hear its words.
The Room sighs. People who have been that gravely injured, though it is all psychological, often nightmare, and more often than not their friends come in. That will spoil the healing process, and they will Change.
The Room sighs again. It wishes that it could make itself clear, but no one is listening.
Instead, it probes into the mind of the house, which is shrinking away from an evil rapidly approaching. It is scared. In all its years, the Room has never felt this. The Hideout is scared?
This worries the Room, and it shudders. The humans - and others - feel it; they look down at their feet in alarm. The Room wishes that that had not happened, but it is too late now.
It cannot change the past, not can it change the future.
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text: On The Media Published by On The Media Tintin in the World Download this audio Want to embed this player? Use the code below. More info. <iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" height="130" width="100%" src="https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/otm/#file=/audio/json/129472/&share=1"></iframe> Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email a Friend Summary Transcript Summary Between 1929 and 1976, Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, AKA Hergé, penned the Tintin series. On the occasion of Hergé's 100th birthday, cartoonist R. Sikoryak talks about why the books, hugely popular around the world, never gained a mass following in the U.S. Transcript BOB GARFIELD:Between 1929 and 1976, Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergē, wrote and illustrated 23 books. They featured the worldly adventures of a blank-faced protagonist named Tintin. Since that time, the Tintin books have been translated to more than 50 languages, they've sold hundreds of millions of copies, and they attract two million new fans per year.This year marks Herge's 100th birthday, and European cities are celebrating with exhibitions and retrospectives of his work. Last month, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson announced that they would direct a series of films based on the Tintin series.But for all the accolades, Herge has also been criticized over the years. He's been called a fascist, a racist and a misogynist. Cartoonist R. Sikoryak joins us now to talk about Herge's legacy and influence. Bob, welcome to the show. R. SIKORYAK:Thanks. Thanks for having me. BOB GARFIELD:The character himself had just little dot eyes and very simple line drawings for his figure and really for everything around him. It looks very different from the heavily-stylized superhero cartoons of the era. R. SIKORYAK:Oh, absolutely. That's the whole European style that's completely different from the American style. And what's interesting is he's almost like Charlie Brown in his simplicity, and yet, the adventures have more in common with newspaper characters that we'd be familiar with, like Terry and the Pirates or Steve Canyon, which were much more rugged and thick, heavy brushstrokes and dark shadows and much more manly, in an American way, I suppose.So I think the contrast between this very clean, clear-lined style and the globetrotting adventures was something that Americans hadn't seen before. BOB GARFIELD:Tintin was not Donald Duck. He was not Garfield the Cat. Herge wasn't looking for just universal little strokes of humor. He was exploring cultures and ideas. Can you give me some examples of the subject matter that he explored over the years? R. SIKORYAK:One of the strips that he began in 1940 cast the Germans as villains, and that strip was quickly shut down. During the war he kind of avoided those topics, but certainly into the fifties he wasn't averse to showing nations fighting against nations, stealing weaponry. There were a lot of Cold War references. The last story that was done was about a South American dictatorship being toppled. BOB GARFIELD:Tintin was often caught up in the swirl of momentous world events, and so too, Herge. He was cartooning in Belgium in 1940 when the Nazis occupied. What happened? R. SIKORYAK:The paper that he was drawing the strip for was shut down, and he began working for the approved paper at the time. And he continued working with them through the war. And I don't want to be an apologist for him, but it strikes me as more obliviousness than collaboration. BOB GARFIELD:Although he did officially have to answer to charges of being a collaborator, no? R. SIKORYAK:Yes, he did. And he continued to have to answer [LAUGHING] for them for the rest of his life. BOB GARFIELD:He's also gotten a lot of criticism for what I guess I just have to call political incorrectness on a grand scale. R. SIKORYAK:Oh, yes. BOB GARFIELD:He's been called a racist. He's taken hits on environmental grounds. Tell me what in the text has exposed him to this criticism. R. SIKORYAK:Well, maybe the worst example is the book where he goes to the Congo and meets the natives and explains to them why it's okay to be part of the Belgian Empire. And I think the nicest way you can put it was that it was naive of him. BOB GARFIELD:So even if he was a creature of his times - his Congo visit was in the thirties, after all - he at least eventually became aware that the caricatures that he was drawing and the ideas they implied really were, in some way, objectionable. R. SIKORYAK:Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's interesting. I don't know exactly where his opinions came up and where his desire to please his publishers arose, but certainly a lot of the stuff that was the most egregious was revised and edited out. I would like to think that that was him just becoming slightly more aware. BOB GARFIELD:Okay, 23 different books. What's your favorite episode? R. SIKORYAK:Tintin in Tibet. It's probably the most personal one of the series. Around that time, Herge was in the middle of a break-up with his first wife, and his psychoanalyst suggested that he stop doing Tintin stories. And I don't think that ever would have occurred to him.So instead, he basically took Tintin on this quest to find an old friend, a character named Chang, who was in one of the earliest stories. And Chang is in a plane crash in the mountains, and Tintin has to go find him, while no one else believes that he's there. And there's pages of Tintin walking through the snow, and just on a quest, and on a more personal quest, I think, than any other book.That's a great example of this icon who, in some ways, is incredibly generic, and yet, Herge is able to use that character and all of the associations that we have with that character to sort of reflect his own emotions and his own turmoil. It's actually rather moving. BOB GARFIELD:Well Bob, I thank you very much for joining us. R. SIKORYAK:Well, thank you. BOB GARFIELD:R. Sikoryak's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Nickelodeon Magazine, Drawn & Quarterly and the dear departed Raw Magazine. [MUSIC UP AND UNDER] BOB GARFIELD:That's it for this week's show. On the Media was produced by Megan Ryan, Tony Field, Jamie York, Mike Vuolo, Mark Phillips and Nazanin Rafsanjani, and edited by - uh - nobody. Brooke is in Moscow. Dylan Keefe is our technical director and Jennifer Munson our engineer. We had engineering help from Paul Schneider and other help from Madeleine Elish and Andrya Ambro. Our webmaster is Amy Pearl. AMY EDDINGS:Katya Rogers is our senior producer and John Keefe our executive producer. Bassist/composer Ben Allison wrote our theme. This is On the Media from WNYC. Brooke Gladstone will be back next week. I'm Amy Eddings. BOB GARFIELD:And I'm Bob Garfield. [MUSIC TAG]


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Staff in Chinese and Indian takeaway restaurants as well as shops run by ethnic minorities on Merseyside are to be provided with body cameras to record evidence of race hate crimes.
The Ministry of Justice-backed initiative is the latest example of video devices being deployed for law enforcement purposes: more than 500 Metropolitan police officers are already wearing body cameras, other forces are adopting them and magistrates courts across the country are being equipped with digital screens.
The Merseyside scheme is one of the more innovative projects that has been put forward by police and crime commissioners (PCCs) for funding by central government. The £35,000 grant will pay for 48 miniature cameras, charging stations and data storage units.
They will be provided to workers in takeaways and convenience stores who have been targeted in the past. The video devices are contained in a badge worn on a neck lanyard. When the shopkeeper feels threatened they activate the camera which displays a sign that it is recording.
Chinese restaurants have been among those targeted in the past. The video devices will also help those serving alone in a shop or those exposed to assaults and insults late at night. Attacks by alcohol-fuelled customers after pub closing hours have long been a problem for staff in Chinese and Indian restaurants across the UK. Some have installed their own CCTV security systems.
The police commissioner for Merseyside, Jane Kennedy, said: "A lot of the problem has been with corner shops owned by Asian families in white neighbourhoods that are being targeted by youths.
"We have been running a small pilot programme for the past year after a detective on one of our Sigma teams, which deal with race hate crimes, came across the badge cameras. When someone feels threatened they simply slide aside the main part of the badge to reveal a camera emblem and a yellow sign saying that it is recording.
"The quality of the images is superb. They have been used in court. When young people see the video sign they often stop misbehaving, although some still behave abominably.
"Suspects often plead guilty once they see the evidence. Officers say that when they interview young people with their parents, the parents are really shocked. The cameras also reassure victims that what is happening to them will not be ignored. Sometimes the camera simply defuses the situation."
A growing number of courts are being provided with screens to enable suspects held on remand to take part in preliminary hearings, without having to be transported to and from prison, as well as to allow video evidence from police officers to be shown during trials.
Altogether the MoJ is announcing £12m in grants on Thursday to support victims of crime. Other initiatives also involve spending on technological solutions. Video links are being set up to enable victims of sexual violence give evidence remotely so that they do not have to go to court where they might meet their attacker.
Personal alarms for victims of domestic violence are being purchased by commissioners in several areas. The £12.5m has come from additional receipts from offenders, raised through the victim surcharge and increased financial penalties such as penalty notices for disorder.
Criminal justice minister Damian Green said: "Victims of crime need and deserve the best possible support to cope with what they have been through. The excellent and innovative ideas put forward for this fund show exactly why PCCs are best placed to understand the needs of their local communities and commission the majority of victims' services. I've no doubt they will make a difference to victims up and down the country."