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Posters, stamps, coins, books and medals – presents that increase in value needn't be dull. In fact, chose well, and even toys can prove to be an investment. Dinky toys are very popular with collectors at the moment, as are Corgi and Matchbox toys and Hornby locomotives. If it's pre-1970 and in good condition, you may have a collector's item on your hands.
When Dinky toys were first sold they were produced without boxes, but packaging became more detailed in the Sixties and toys were produced to tie in with television programmes such as Thunderbirds, so the packaging adds significant value to toys from this era. The boxes can even be worth more than the toys – in the case of a Batmobile from the Sixties, for example, 60pc of the value is in the box.
Pop and rock memorabilia became sought after as collectables in the Eighties and the value of items have generally increased dramatically over this time. The most expensive and probably well-known sale in this sector was John Lennon's piano on which he composed 'Imagine'. It was bought in October 2000 by the singer George Michael for a hammer price of £1.45m, with an extra 15pc commission bringing the total sale price to £1.67m.
Though this sector generates some high end items, music memorabilia is a good starting sector for the budding collector or investor.
Neil Roberts, head of the department for Popular Culture for auction house Christie's points out tickets and flyers as an undervalued area- one that he predicts will do well in the future.
Luxury goods
Even luxury gifts such as jewellery rarely hold their value. It is said that diamonds presented in a certain turquoise box lose a third of their value as soon as you leave the shop – as you pay extra just for the branding. But there are certain picks in the luxury gift sector that are so sought after that they hold their value over time. Hermes handbags are one of these. An Hermes Birkin is the holy grail of handbags, and the market is just as strong for a five-year old Birkin as a brand new model.
This is because the waiting list for a new Birkin is up to three years, and so impatient shoppers push up the prices for already owned models. Bought new, the standard 35cm model retails for around £8,800 – but can be up to £120,000 for a limited edition bag.
As with all vintage clothing and accessories if you are reselling items, condition is key. But a quick search on eBay reveals a good-as-new version of the standard model on sale for £12,000 – that's a return of 36pc.
Another item that can increase in value over time is a good quality watch – vintage or new. Go for a recognisable brand such as Patek Philippe, Rolex and Cartier or a specialist producer such as Audemars Piguet.
Contrary to what you may assume, old gold watches are not necessarily more valuable than steel ones. When people bought watches in the 1920s to 1940s they usually bought a special timepiece as a luxury item. The idea of the wristwatch as an indulgent purchase meant that they were traditionally cased in a precious metal. But now, as with all collectables, rarity defines price, and steel is the less common casing for many watch types.
Alexander Barter, a Sotheby's specialist gives an example: "A Reference 1518 Patek, a very complex hand-wound watch from the 1940s which displays the day, date, month and has a stopwatch, was made in a limited run of 281 pieces. Most of these were in yellow gold and would reach around £100,000 in a sale today. Two or three of the watches were made in steel and would now be worth between £800,000 and £1.2m."


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Single-game tickets are now on sale for the 2017 Philadelphia Phillies season and to make picking games easier, here's a top ten guide to the best promotions and giveaways fans at Citizens Bank Park can enjoy.
1. Opening Day Commemorative Knit Hat — April 7 vs. Washington Nationals
Baseball is back in Philadelphia and the team is giving out these sweet knit hats for those cold April nights when the wind is gusting out to left field. Here's hoping the team will be a little better than the 2-4 record they sported last year when they opened the gates for the first time at Citizens Bank Park.
2. Phillies Franks Dollar Dog Nights — April 10, April 26, May 9
Forgo eating the entire day so that you can do your best Joey Chestnut impression three times this season and see how many of these delicious hot dogs you can down in nine innings of baseball.
3. Ladies Crossbody Tote Bag — May 7 vs. Washington Nationals
This stylish bag is available to women aged 15 and older, and tickets to this game could make the perfect Mother's Day gift with the team on the road on May 14.
4. Hawaiian Shirt Giveaway — June 18 vs. Arizona Diamondbacks
Want to stand out in a crowd? Wear this blue Hawaiian shirt the Phillies are giving away to men 15 and older. The game is on Father's Day, so bring the old man and look outrageous together.
5. Fireworks Shows — July 6 and July 7 vs. Pittsburgh Pirates
A staple of the Phillies' promotional calendar, the Phillies will have their classic fireworks shows a few days after we celebrate Independence Day. Note the early start times of 6:05 and 6:35 on these nights.
6. Mike Schmidt Bobble Figurine — July 8 vs. Pittsburgh Pirates
Haven't had enough baseball after taking in back-to-back fireworks shows? This bobblehead of the Hall of Famer will look great on your desk or displayed prominently in your home.
7. Kids Retro Pullover Jacket — July 9 vs. San Diego Padres
You'll be begging the staff at the gate to give you one of these sweet jackets, for fans 14 and under.
8. Photo Night — July 22 vs. Milwaukee Brewers
Another classic Phillies theme night, the popular Photo Night is back. Be sure to arrive early to take photos on the field with your favorite players and make sure your cameras and devices are all charged up.
9. Phanatic Bobble Body — July 30 vs. Atlanta Braves
Fans 14 and under will receive this solar powered Phanatic Bobble Body figurine. You'll have to drive a hard bargain to pry this one away from your youngster.
10. Back-to-School Alarm Clock — Aug. 27 vs. Chicago Cubs
Another one for kids 14 and under, who will be receiving this awesome alarm clock with the Phanatic's likeness. You'll also get a chance to see the reigning World Series Champions.
Honorable Mention: May 9 and Sept. 18 — Carlos Ruiz and Chase Utley Return
The 2008 team has a special place in the hearts of all Phillies fans. Carlos Ruiz, who never received a full send-off last season, and Chase Utley, who received quite the welcome last year, will be back to play a two-game and three-game series, respectively, with the Mariners and Dodgers.
Ryan Howard, still attempting to sign with a team, could be back as well.

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Tour of 'Tehran in Qasr' festival
In this feature, we visit a festival called 'Tehran in Qasr'. The festival has been organized to help introduce the culture and traditions of the people of Tehran in the old days. The festival takes place in Tehran's Qasr Museum.
Firefighters protect the safety of the general public by responding to emergencies and putting out fires. Training is commonly offered through local fire department programs or colleges, where candidates go through rigorous written, medical and physical tests. The primary focus of the physical ability test is agility, upper body strength and endurance. Qazvin city and its fire department are hosting the 5th Search and Rescue at Height competition, where several firefighters from different cities all around Iran are showing off their amazing physical skills and abilities!
The 3rd largest city in Isfahan Province, Najafabad, lies to the west of the world-famous city of Isfahan. The people in the city have a reputation nationwide for being fair and offering all kinds of goods at quite reasonable prices. It has lots of things to offer, including a variety of exquisite handicrafts and agricultural produce. It also houses a number of ancient monuments and historical sites. In this episode, we are going to take you on a tour of the city and in the next ones we'll show different aspects of this old city.
Fatima Masumeh was and is a cherished Muslim woman, who was martyred. Upon her poisoning and before her passing, she made a simple request that after her passing, she be laid out in the city of Qom. Since then, a shrine has been created for her alongside a mosque.


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2017 July
Antioch Review contributor Kenneth King is busy. King collaborated with filmakers/directors Robyn Brentano and Andrew Horn to create Space City a 32m 34s video that features King's coregraphy and dancing with music by William-John Tudor and sets by Richard Birtzenhofe (see the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suAec-QLHtg&t=94s). King is currently working on a new dance solo wherein he ventriloquizes eight character voices and is nearing the completion of a new novel. King's novels include The Secret Invention, Red Fog, Bring on the Phatoms, and Writing in Motion (see novels here http://www.kennethkingmedia.com/). King's works published in the Antioch Review include "The Esthetics of Mystery" (Catch-as-Catch-Can, Spring 2014, Vol. 72, No. 2), "Obsession—Beginning with the Brontës: A Revisitation" (Kipling, Vol. 73, No. 2), and "Forgotten Masterpiece? Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling" ("Funny Bird Sex" and Other Miscellaneious Tales, Vol. 74, No. 1),
2017 June
Review contributer and Winner of the 2016 Codhill Poetry Award, Brandon Kreig's second book In the Gorge (Codhill Press) is scheduled for release this month. Press releases describe King's collection as "an artfully self-aware poetry collection that attempts to capture humanity's complicated and turbulent relationship with the natural world. Krieg's smart, pastoral lyricism paints a restless portrait of America that is both grotesque and beautiful, honest and clever, and ultimately leaves us haunted by a future that has yet to happen: 'I rage against it a little, then eat from its open hand' ("On the Missouri After Election Day"). Order for King's new book can be placed through Codhill Press www.codhill.com. Kreig's first book Invasives was a finalist for the 2015 ASLE Book Award in Enviornmental Creative Writing. Kreig's poem "Echolocation" appears in our Fall 2013 Vol 71, No. 4 issue (Cartography with a Twist).
2017 April
Antioch Review contributor Melissa Delbridge ("West Greene and River Bend: Fun and Bait", Memoirs True & False, Fall 2006, Vol. 64 No. 4) will lead the class, "Asking the Five Hard Questions: An Approach to Revising Memoir" at the North Carolina Writers' Network 2017 Spring Conference on April 22, 2017.
The NCWN 2017 Spring Conference features intensive workshops and sessions in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as publisher exhibits, "Lunch With an Author," readings, an open mic, and the third annual "Slush Pile Live!" where panelists comment on and critique anonymous submissions in front of a live audience. The keynote speaker is poet, critic, and essayist Fred Chappell, the former poet laureate of North Carolina and an inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Registration: www.ncwriters.org.
Melissa Delbridge's writing and interviews have appeared in Antioch Review, Third Coast, Southern Humanities Review, Poets & Writers, and many other publications. Her memoir Family Bible (University of Iowa Press, 2008) evolved from essays written during her fellowship at Duke University's John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and focuses on lessons she learned about sexuality, race, and forgiveness while growing up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Her fiction and nonfiction have won the GLCA Nonfiction Award, the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Essay Award, and a fiction award from the Southern Women Writers Conference. She lives, teaches, and writes in Chatham County, NC.
2017 March
NewsWorks recently featured author Pia de Jong in "Dutch novelist Pia de John gives the world a window into America" wherein de Jong shares insights about her forary into writing that came about during her "midnight disease" bouts. She also shares her very personal and emotional experience regarding how she coped with one of her beloved children's life-threatening illness as well as her thoughts about "attachment parenting." Ms. de Jong's pieces have been featured in our Spring 2015 ("All She Ever Wanted") and Fall 2015 ("The Bat House") issues.
Antioch Review author Bruce Fleming has written a new book: Saving Madame Bovary, a reflection on modern longing told through the lens of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. The book, described as a "stay-up-all-night read", will be released in April, 2017, by Frederic C Beil. Works by Fleming published in the Antioch Review include: "At the Army-Navy Poetry Play-offs" (The Army-Navy Poetry Play-Offs, Vol. 49, No. 4, Fall 1991), "Woolf Cubs: Current Fiction" (Current Fiction I: Virginia's Progeny, "Woolf Cubs", Vol. 52, No. 4, Fall 1994); "Skirting the Precipice: Truth and Audience in Literature" (Hawaiian Epic: The Folding Cliffs, Vol. 56, No. 3, Summer, 1998); "Why I Love Conservatives" (All Essay Issue: "The Real O. J. Story", Vol. 62, No. 2, Spring 2004); "The Deep Springs College Cowboy Lunch" (Cowboy College, Vol. 67, No. 2, Spring 2009); "Postmoderism to Post-Crash: The New Ads in the New York Review of Books" (The Physics of Speed, Vol. 68, No. 4, Fall 2010); "Consider the Videocassette, or: Is Progress Possible?" (Our Doppelganger Moment, Vol. 71, No. 1, Winter 2013); and "Night in the Museum" (The Future of Museums: Challenges and Solutions, Vol. 74, No. 2, Spring 2016).
2017 February
We rarely publish playwrights in the Antioch Review: In 75 years of continuous publication, only two pieces of theater have appeared in our pages—less than one a generation.
Then again, we rarely encounter work like Will Eno's. Eno's work "Intermission" appeared in our Reading the Archipelago, Vol. 60, No. 4 issue.
"People don't talk the way they talk," complains Jack, a character in Eno's short play Intermission, which appears in the Fall 2002 issue of the Review. It's a criticism that could easily be leveled against Eno's characters themselves: Their words are charged with uncommon eloquence. Whatever his subject—theater, baseball, or simply, "little life, in its blazing imperfection," (another line from Intermission,)—Eno writes with incisive clarity and expansive humor. His work feels vital. And it is.
We aren't alone in thinking so: Eno's 2005 play, Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. In 2014, his play, The Realistic Jonses, was named the best on Broadway by USA Today, and the best in America by The Guardian. Eno has been awarded both Guggenheim and Edward F. Albee fellowships. His work often appears at the Edinburgh Festival.
Suffice it to say Will Eno is a very good playwright.
That's why we're particularly excited to announce the production of his new play, Wakey, Wakey, by New York's Signature Theatre Company. Performances run through March 19th. On the play's webpage, we're told, "there's a chance [it] will be a really good experience." Knowing Will's work as we do, we wouldn't expect less.
2017 January
Pre-publication reviews are praising Antioch Review author Peter LaSalle and his new short story collection Sleeping Mask. Kirkus Reviews: "Haunting and evocative . . . . Lasalle's prose is lyrical, at times rhapsodic, and his characters memorable." Booklist: "Engaging . . . . Lasalle, a literary descendant of Borges and Nabokov, writes with the inventiveness of his predecessors." The collection Sleeping Mask (Bellevue Literary Press: New York) presents 12 meticulously crafted and moving stories, such as "Boys: A New African Fable" about child soldiers sent to raid a girls' boarding school, and "A Day in the Life of the Illness" about a Virginia Woolf scholar surviving cancer. "Lunch Across the Bridge," originally published in the Antioch Review Spring 2010 issue and selected for the anthology Best of the West 2011, deals with a young American couple confronted with drug-war violence in Mexico. Peter LaSalle's stories have appeared in the Antioch Review since 1982. Some of these include "A Guide to Some Small Border Airports" (Spring 1990), "The Last Book" (Winter 1996), "What I Found Out About Her" (Winter 2008), and "Summer Conference Jack" (Summer 2013).
Professor Emeritus, Robert S. Fogarty, Editor of the Antioch Review, will judge for the 2017 Ellie Awards. Judging will take place at the Columbia Journalism School.
2016 December
Author Laura Glen Louis' story "From the Museum of Found Things," was recently selected as of the Other Distinguished Stories of 2015 in Best American Stories 2016. The story was originally published the Antioch Review Summer 2015 all fiction issue.
2016 October
Antioch College graduate and intern for the Antioch Review, Bianca Stone, poet and visual artist, is the author of Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours (LSU Press, 2016) and Someone Else's Wedding Vows (Tin House, 2014), and she was artist/collaborator on a special illustrated edition of Anne Carson's Antiogonick (New Directions, 2015). She runs the Ruth Stone Foundation and Monk Books with her husband, the poet Ben Pease, in Vermont and Brooklyn.
Poet, Adam Scheffler, recently released A Dog's Life. Here, Adam takes on true love, extinction, our fragile enviornment, ware, technology, porn, aging, and our fight againt it, cancer, nuring homes, and death. Adam's poem "On the Discovery that Oleic Acid is the 'Dead Smell' of ants" was originally published in the Spring 2013 issue of The Antioch Review.
On October 25th, Texas Review Press released the debut novel from Jeff P. Jones, Love Give us One Death: Bonnie and Clyde in the Last Days, which was selected by Tracy Daugherty as the winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize. The novel also received an Idaho Author Award. Jones's short story "Iceland" appeared in the Summer 2015 issue of The Antioch Review.


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The Informational Content of Trades on the EuroMTS Platform
This paper presents unambiguous evidence that trading European government securities on EuroMTS contributes to determine their (unobservable) efficient price. Using twenty-seven months of daily transaction prices data for 107 bonds issued by eleven European governments, the estimated EuroMTS market's contribution to price discovery is about 20 percent, on average. Further, the amount of price discovery turns out to be strongly related to trading activity and price volatility conditions even controlling for institutional factors and for the maturity of bonds. Overall, the empirical results suggest that trades conveying information occur on EuroMTS when the level of liquidity is sufficiently high.
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The two Robert Capa Gold Medal Award winners for combat photography will discuss Journalism, Social Media, and Storytelling in Conflict Scenarios: New Roles and Challenges for Today's Professional Photojournalists.
Readers and viewers depend on professional and ethical photojournalists to give a true and accurate picture of the back-and-forth of the world's conflicts, whether the battle is raging in Syria or Libya or Afghanistan or Iraq. But today, the role of the professional war and conflict photojournalist is changing rapidly.
Along with the effect of new technology and the evolving world of online storytelling, social media has changed the way some photojournalists do their job. In addition, the mainstream media's economic situation is having an impact on the war photographer's ability to earn a sustainable living while covering conflict.
In stories such as the Arab Spring, the civil war in Libya, the rebel uprising in Syria, and even the Boston Bombing, there has been a shift in how mainstream media outlets – newspapers and television broadcasts and Web sites – use the images created by professional photojournalists. The professionals are now in competition with pictures taken by "citizen" journalists – and sometimes they are even up against photographs that have been taken and distributed by the rebels and resistance forces themselves.
As a result, readers now often view the work of professional visual journalists displayed alongside images created by civilians, or by parties who have a vested interest in one side of the conflict or its outcome.
The crucial role of mainstream media's editors as gatekeepers is also changing; often the pictures we see first on social media outlets, such as Facebook and Twitter, are more graphic than the photos that will be published on tomorrow's front pages. Why? Because editors fear offending the sensibilities of readers with graphic war photography. As a result, many readers wonder if the war and conflict pictures they see published in social media outlets are in some way more "truthful" or "accurate" than what they see in the newspaper or on television. And so a credibility gap is growing.
The world's most famous war photographer, Robert Capa, documented the Allied invasion of Omaha Beach on D-Day during World War II for Life magazine, and died when he stepped on a landmine in Vietnam on May 25, 1954. But Capa's name and reputation for courage live on through a prestigious annual award presented by the Overseas Press Club, which honors the most courageous conflict photography from the preceding year.
The two most recent Capa Award winners – Bucciarelli (2013 winner) and Liohn (2012 winner) – are coming to John Cabot University to reflect on their experience as conflict photojournalists. They will address new challenges they're facing that have been created by technology, social media, citizen journalists, and the economic crisis that is hindering global publishing and the funding of war reporting.
Bucciarelli, who most recently has been documenting the rebel uprising in Syria, is the author of a new book about Libya, The Smell Of War.
Liohn, who was in the midst of some of Libya's worst fighting, was posted in Misrata along with photojournalists Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington when they were killed by government forces. He has created a series of dramatic images that are truly in the spirit of Capa's best war photography.
The two Robert Capa Gold Medal recipients will be joined on the panel by Italian photojournalist and NGO director Antonio Amendola, founder of the social documentary nonprofit "Shoot 4 Change" (www.shoot4change.net), and American magazine editor and photojournalism author Donald R. Winslow, of News Photographer magazine and the National Press Photographers Association (www.nppa.org).
Founded in Rome, "Shoot 4 Change" is a worldwide network of social documentary photographers that has evolved into a platform for citizen journalism that is not a competitor to professional photojournalists. "On the contrary, many of its members are professionals who are as committed to storytelling in crisis zones as all the other professions," founder Antonio Amendola said. "Shoot 4 Change fills the gap in the global media scenario when it gathers 'sparkles of information' from around the world."
This special evening is free and open to the public. College students, photojournalists and photojournalism students, and anyone interested in how the media covers and depicts conflict and war are encouraged to attend and to ask questions and afterwards to meet the panelists.
The program begins at 6 p.m. (1800), Wednesday, July 17, at John Cabot University, via della Lungara, 233, Rome, 00165. Telephone (+39) 06 681 9121
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André Liohn is a freelance photojournalist now based in Rome and is the 2012 winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal for courageous photography in combat for his coverage of the revolution in Libya. Liohn is the creator of "ADIL – Almost Dawn In Libya," along with a handful of the world's leading conflict photographers who documented the rebel uprising and eventual fall of the Libyan government. His work appears in Der Spigel, The New York Times, The Guardian, El Pais, Le Point, TIME, Die Welt, Stern, and his videos have been seen on the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera English, RAI, RTL, France 24, and many others. (http://www.prospektphoto.net/photographers/andre-liohn/).
Antonio Amendola is a both a photojournalist (www.antonioamendola.com) and the founder and director of the Rome-based NGO "Shoot 4 Change" (www.shoot4change.net). S4C is a global nonprofit organization whose members include professional and amateur photojournalists, designers, artists, and writers from around the world who share their time participating in humanitarian reportage for NGOs and other social organizations.
Donald R. Winslow is an American photojournalist and author who is the editor of News Photographer magazine for the National Press Photographers Association (www.nppa.org). In his career of more than 35 years, he has worked at large U.S. newspapers such as The Milwaukee Journal, The Pittsburgh Press, and The Palm Beach Post, and was a senior photographer and editor for REUTERS covering Washington, DC, the White House, and major league sports and Olympics. Winslow teaches photojournalism in Rome at John Cabot University. He is currently writing a book about the iconic war photographer and Pulitzer Prize-winner Eddie Adams (famous for his image "Saigon Execution") for the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin, where Adams's photographic archive is housed.


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Glenn Beck, a well known criticizer of President Barrack Obama, headed a rally last Saturday, August 28, 2010, named "Restoring Honor" at Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. According to Beck, he initiated the rally because he believes that the United States "has wandered into the darkness for too long."
The whole area of Lincoln Memorial plus the stretch to Washington Monument was packed with people. It is estimated that there are less than a hundred thousand of people in attendance and millions watched the rally in television.
Among the famous personalities that attended the rally, some of them gave speeches, were Sarah Palin, Reverend Al Sharpton, Albert Pujols and Tony LaRussa. Former Alaska Governor, Sara Palin talked about the militaries, soldiers and restoring the honor of America. In her speech, she said, "If you look for the virtues that have sustained our country, you will find them in those who wear the uniforms. Say what you want to say about me, but I raised a combat vet, and you can't take that away from me."
Albert Pujols was there to receive the Hope Award. Cardinals' manager Tony LaRussa introduced Pujols as the Hope Award recipient and called Pujols a "real-life hero." Pujols is actively involved in causes especially on their own Pujols Family Foundation.
The rally received a lot of criticisms and the guests were questioned in their attendance. LaRussa said he thinks introducing an award recipient is not a problem and the event was inspiring. Beck said the rally is non-political and it is a religious event.


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Robotic inventions have come a long way in the last ten years. While creating human-simulating robotic creations were all the rage back in the day, now turning virtually anything into a robotic simulation is quiet the technology feat. From robotic pets to delivery devices, it seems that anything and everything these dayscan be artificially re-created with robotics.
Whether for helpful reasons or for pure entertainment, robotic inventions are quickly popping up in all aspects of life. From inventions like hands-free robotic vacuums, robotic artificial limbs and revamped robotic toy birds, it's clear to see that creating automated products that don't require the consumer to do much to them besides turn them on are quickly becoming a popular way to simplify everyday life.
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Neoclassical Literature
The 18th century produced a change in literature, as new tendencies arrived from France with the Enlightenment movement, which simplified what we knew of the Baroque era. The new authors criticized the previous literature and searched for a literature with new objectives. The Baroque had become over elaborate, and the books had become too complicated and incomprehensible. The Enlightenment was pleading for a simple literature that could be used to teach. The objective of this new literature was didactic, and so it had to be simple so that it could reach the largest number of people possible.
The Enlightenment in Spain was in the hands of the Bourbon dynasty. The last King of the House of Habsburg was Carlos II "El Hechizado" ("The Bewitched") who had died with no heir, which caused the War of the Spanish Succession between the Austrian and French emperors. In the end, with the help of the Treaty of Utrecht, the Bourbon dynasty began with Felipe de Anjou, the nephew of Luis XIV, who would become Felipe V. Despite the continuous wars in which he intervened because of his desire for the French throne, he began a profound reform of Spanish politics. He centralized all politics on the French absolutist model, and got rid of the states of Aragón and Cataluña but maintained the jurisdiction of Navarra and Vascongadas.
However Carlos III was the real model of an Enlightened monarch. As the abdicated King of Naples he came to Spain since Fernando VI had no heir. He began a profound reform which was interrupted by the Esquilache Riots, which were named after one of the King´s ministers. The revolt happened because he tried to ban the long cape and "chambergo" (broad brimmed hat); items of clothing that were used, among other reasons, to hide one´s face. The government argued that this promoted delinquency. The Minister of Esquilache had to resign and the King had to change his reforms, and attempt to slowly implement them.
Literature became a vehicle of the Enlightenment, giving its support to the absolute monarchs who in turn returned their support. The novel practically disappeared as a genre and the essay appeared in its place. This genre was the discloser of ideas based on excellence, which fit very well into the general characteristics of the era: usefulness and education. The main representatives of this genre were Feijoo and Jovellanos. The epistolary form took hold of many works of prose. These were letters dedicated to fictional or real people. The main work of this type in Spain was "Las Cartas Marruecas" (The Moroccan Letters).
The essays were published in the newspapers. Journalism was a successful method of distribution due to the fact that it was very cheap and easy to read, and moreover it reached a wide range of the population. People became aware of the need to be well-informed, and the government realized that journalism contained great power.
In terms of poetry, the classical models reemerged, but with many metrical innovations. The themes were always didactic: criticism of customs, importance of education, the role of women, and the pleasures of life. Fables, which were a type of poetry that delivered moral teachings, usually using animals as examples, also became popular.
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Thirteen-time world champion Phil Taylor survived an epic tussle with Lancashire's Alan Tabern to reach the fourth round of the PDC World Championship last night.
Tabern looked set for a 4-2 win when he needed 116 for the match, but Taylor fired in a superb 171 to force a deciding set.
Tabern took out a 160 finish to lead 3-2 but Taylor came back with a 13-dart leg to level the scores. Taylor broke Tabern's throw to lead 5-4 and the 47-year-old from Stoke then fired in consecutive 180s to seal a thrilling 4-3 win.
Defending champion Raymond van Barneveld progressed with a 4-1 win over Jason Clark.
The Dutchman just missed a maximum 170 checkout in the last leg of the fourth set but sealed victory in the fifth with an 11-dart leg.
World No 5 Andy Hamilton slumped to defeat against Alex Roy. Hamilton was beaten 4-1 by the world No 27 who will face John Part in the next round.
Tony Eccles made a miraculous comeback from 3-0 down against Steve Maish.
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DALLAS - Several people who were held after a flight from Qatar landed at DFW Airport Tuesday afternoon were able to reunite with loved ones.
At least 8 people were questioned for about four hours before their release, much shorter than for others over the weekend.
Legal teams remained at the airport to help those who needed it.
Greeted by applause, two Iraqi women emerged from Terminal D in wheelchairs and were reunited with their family in Fort Worth.
The women were on board a flight from Qatar that landed at DFW at 2:30 p.m. They, along with a 39-year-old man from Syria, weren't released until after 7 p.m. after being questioned by U.S. Customs and border patrol agents. All of them were green card holders.
"I cannot explain the feeling right now," said Abdula Zeki, whose mother was processed for several hours. "It's been the hardest four hours for me."
The latest reunion came at a time when many Americans are greatly divided over President Donald Trump's executive order and travel restrictions.
55-year-old Amil Imani was born in Oran but came to the U.S. at the age of 18 when Iran was in the midst of an Islamic revolution. He's now a U.S. citizen but talks to family and friends in Iran.
"I'm 100 percent with President Trump on this issue because terrorism nowadays is unbelievable," he said.
Imani says these restrictions are needed because he understands the religious and political climate in Iran.
"It's about security of America and American people. That's what he's doing," Imani said. "People are overblowing it, making it something it's not."
But many Americans disagree. And some continue to show up to the international arrival gate to show their support.
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It's a virtually impossible task, but the little elves at Amazon have done it again – compile a list of the Best Books of 2011. Their list includes works by bestselling veterans, award-winning authors, and debut novelists alike, spanning the gamut of genres from literary fiction to young adult to thriller. Your best bet for a holiday gift or the perfect book to curl up with on a winter evening? Start here, with Amazon's Top 10 Best Books of 2011.
Breathless predictions that the Islamic Republic will soon be at the brink of nuclear capability, or – worse – acquire an actual nuclear bomb, are not new. For more than quarter of a century Western officials have claimed repeatedly that Iran is close to joining the nuclear club. Such a result is always declared "unacceptable" and a possible reason for military action, with "all options on the table" to prevent upsetting the Mideast strategic balance dominated by the US and Israel. And yet, those predictions have time and again come and gone. This chronicle of past predictions lends historical perspective to today's rhetoric about Iran.
During Bill Clinton's presidency, the unemployment rate fell from 7.3 percent to 3.9 percent. The number of people who were unemployed fell by 3.7 million over eight years. Love them or hate them, the Clinton years marked a high water mark for the creation of jobs. On Tuesday, publisher Alfred A. Knopf released the former president's latest book, "Back to Work," which is in part a list of ways Mr. Clinton thinks the nation can get its job machine back on track. Here are five suggestions (out of 46) from the silver-haired "man from Hope."
Joe Frazier, who passed away on Nov. 7, held the title of heavyweight champion for nearly five years in the late 1960s and early 1970s. See how Joe Frazier compares with 11 of the greatest heavyweight champions over the past century (with help from the International Boxing Hall of Fame). Who do you consider the best?
The Great Recession hit many people hard, but it is slamming young people now coming into the workforce, the so-called Millennials. "The whole budget is totally stacked against [Millennials]," says Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. But all is not lost for America's 18-to-29-year-olds. If they are proactive and make smart career moves, young people can avoid setbacks and long-term damage to their careers, earning power, and lifestyle. "An important message is that recovering after a bad start will take quite some time," says Till von Wachter, a Columbia University economist and author of a study on Canadian students' job prospects. "As the labor market recovers, you need to be very watchful and active and search for that better job." Here are four top obstacles facing young people and strategies to help:
US sanctions on Iran began in 1979, following the Iranian hostage crisis. The first sanctions banned Iranian products other than small gifts, informational materials, food, and "some carpets," according to Reuters. The UN and EU have since come down with sanctions themselves and broadened their scope. Here's a recap of the sanctions Iran faces now.
Who reads more books than the review staff at Publishers Weekly? Hardly anyone, and that's why their year-end "10 best list" always attracts attention. With five fiction titles and five nonfiction, here are the 10 books that most impressed the PW readers in 2011. According to their intro, these are the books that "stayed with us, that we talked up, handed around, and of course argued about among ourselves."
Osama bin Laden was killed in a May raid by Navy SEALs, and Chuck Pfarrer, a former Navy SEAL, commanded the "same outfit" that carried out the strike on the Al Qaeda leader. In his new book, "Seal Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden," Mr. Pfarrer says he wants to provide what he says are facts that dispel some of the myths that have surrounded the mission, and that have cast the SEALs, he fears, as "spray and pray" commandos intent on killing the terrorist behind the 9/11 attacks.
The terrorist Carlos the Jackal went on trial today for his role in four bombings in the 1980s that targeted trains and a newspaper office, killing 11 people. The native-born Venezuelan was once the most sought-after fugitive in Europe, a mysterious figure who killed two French secret police and an informant before being apprehended in Sudan in 1994. The Jackal's real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez. He first gained headlines and notoriety for an attack on an OPEC meeting in 1975 on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in which he took some 60 hostages, including 11 oil ministers. His current trial follows the discovery of evidence against him in communist-era files from Hungary, Germany, and Romania. He is suspected in a dozen other cases for terrorism spanning three decades. Today in a Paris court, Ramirez said he was a "professional revolutionary," according to the Associated Press. He claims involvement in some 100 terrorist attacks. What is the Jackal's story?
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is the oldest guerrilla group operating in the Western Hemisphere. What began in the 1960s as a peasant insurgency with political aims morphed into a drug trafficking organization dependent on cocaine and kidnapping for revenue. The group, whose influence grew over the decades to count 19,000 members in the 1990s, began to face major setbacks when former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002. With the help of the US under Plan Colombia (begun in 2000), Mr. Uribe made fighting the FARC the cornerstone of his presidency – an effort that Colombians widely supported. The effort continues under current President Juan Manuel Santos. Top leaders have been captured and thousands of members have demobilized. But the FARC continues to remain a deadly force in Colombia, especially in the countryside. Here is what Colombia has accomplished against the FARC in the past three years.
Most people agree that asking for a doggie bag from a meal ordered in a restaurant is fine. But you'd never believe what some people take home in doggie bags or what they think they're entitled to! Maybe it's the economy. Maybe it's just bad manners. Whatever it is, here are my Top 6 doggie bag stories – and a little inspiration to go with them:
If their parents weren't at war, would Romeo and Juliet have noticed each another? A good tempest now and then, particularly one thrown up by a family member, has the power to turn what could have been a perfectly nice but short-lived love affair into a commitment capped with vows. All five romances this month reviewed by Eloisa James for The Barnes & Noble Review feature a tempest of one sort or another, brought about by a family member.
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations and tea party rallies are the latest of more than 200 years of economic protest that have brought down governments and changed the course of nations. The most far-reaching ones aren't always the biggest or even successful initially (one of our Top 10 started with a confiscated vegetable cart). Sometimes it's hard to tell if they're more about politics or economics. Here is our list of 10 of the world's most important economic protests. Let us know your picks in the comment section.
With the latest headlines focused on Kim Kardashian's divorce, the famous family is thrown into the spotlight again – not that they ever really left. Here are a few of the insights into the Kardashian sisters as featured in the new version of their book 'Kardashian Confidential.'
This year's floods in Thailand, now threatening central Bangkok, have killed 437 people and done tens of millions of dollars' worth of damage. But it is far from the worst flood in history. By comparison, the deadliest US flood killed about 2,000 people, when the South Fork dam, upstream from Johnstown, Pa., collapsed on May 31, 1889, after unusually heavy rain. And even that pales beside the destruction wrought by the five deadliest floods in history – all of which took place in China. When did they happen, and just how deadly were they?
Between late 2008 and early 2009, David Yen Lee, a chemist with Valspar Corp., used his company's computer network to download 160 secret formulas for coatings and paints onto portable storage devices, according to a new report by the US Office of the National Counter Intelligence Director. Mr. Lee had planned to join a Chinese paint company in Shanghai and take the formulas (worth $20 million) with him. Instead, he was caught and is now serving 15 months in prison for theft of trade secrets. China, Russia and other nations are anxious to get – or steal – many proprietary US technologies. Here are seven at the top of their wish lists, the report says:
Comedian and writer Andy Borowitz chose work from some of America's sharpest wits for the Library of America's new collection, The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to the Onion. Here are a few of the lines you'll find in the book.
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Now that New Hampshire has set its primary for Jan. 10, the 2012 political calendar is largely set. Both political parties select their presidential nominees through state primaries and caucuses, with candidates amassing delegates as they go. Under Republican Party rules, a candidate needs 1,212 delegates to win the nomination. That's half, plus one, of the total 2,422 delegates.
The offices of a French satirical magazine were bombed early today, after the periodical published an issue about the Arab Spring with a caricature of the prophet Muhammad. The magazine featured the Muslim prophet as a "guest editor" for the magazine, Charlie Hebdo, threatening "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!" Images of the prophet Muhammad are forbidden in Islam and have proved a source of controversy in recent years. Most disputes have stemmed from Western publications operating in countries with free speech and large Muslim immigrant populations. While Muslims contend that such images are deeply offensive and must not be published, free speech advocates have countered that the rules of an open society should not place prohibitions on religious drawings. And though not all incidents have resulted in violence, a number of have drawn widespread protest and unrest around the globe. Here are three that caught attention worldwide:
"Steve Jobs" reigns as No. 1, although the life of a powerful Russian empress, a history of the world told through 100 objects, and a memoir by Diane Keaton also made the cut when Amazon's editors picked their top 10 favorite November books.
US authorities announced this week the dismantlement of a massive drug-smuggling operation in Arizona, believed to have generated $2 billion in proceeds over five years. The 76 suspects arrested in the 17-month probe, dubbed Operation Pipeline Express, are allegedly connected to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, the most powerful drug-trafficking organization operating in Mexico – and, some say, in the Western Hemisphere. "Today we have dealt a significant blow to a Mexican criminal enterprise that has been responsible for poisoning our communities," Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne said in the statement. But who are the Sinaloa cartel?
Given the somewhat amorphous slogans of the Occupy Wall Street movement, members of the tea party may be wondering if they should join the fray. Depending on how the Occupy Wall Street agenda is actually applied, many of the protesters' calls for change resonate pretty strongly with tea partiers. University of Denver law professor Robert Hardaway suggests how the tea party might "agree" with five of the Occupy movement's top demands – in its own way:
The longlist for this year's Man Asian Literary Prize ($30,000 awarded to the author of the best novel by an Asian author written in or translated into English) was announced this week. This year's nominees include a number of authors and works already popular with US readers – and some less familiar names as well. The 2011 prize winner will be announced on March 15.
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Did Vladimir interfere enough in an American election to get his pal Donald elected president?
Nobody really knows, but that cannot be the end of the story. What matters is that Russian President Vladimir Putin tried. And anybody who cares about American democracy should be worried that Donald Trump's surrogates and apologists spent the weekend trying to make the issue go away.
They asked, in so many words, "What's the big deal?" They insisted nobody cares except for a bunch of sore losers.
On one Sunday morning news show, President-elect Trump's chief of staff, Reince Priebus, tried to shift the blame for Russia's hacking to the Democratic National Committee, saying the DNC was a "sitting duck" because it failed to protect its computers. On another Sunday show, Trump's former campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, declined to go even that far. There were only "alleged attacks, alleged," she said, and Hillary Clinton's loss in November "had nothing to do with Moscow."
Even if that is true — and close victories for Trump in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania call Conway's assertion into question — where is the Trump camp's outrage over even the possibility that Russia tried to tilt the outcome of an American election?
What we are witnessing — and must resist — is a further attempt to normalize the most abnormal behavior in modern times by an elected American leader.
Trump was a preposterous candidate, bullying and lying his way to victory. People weirdly got use to it. Now he's an equally boorish president-elect, much to the disappointment of those who predicted he would grow up once elected. That's the new normal, too.
We barely blinked last week when Trump, in a tweet, called Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer the "head clown." We took it in stride when, in another tweet, he taunted Arnold Schwarzenegger for pulling lower ratings as the new host of "Celebrity Apprentice." Yep, that would be the next leader of the free world, fighting the good fight.
But it is one thing to become inured to Trump's name-calling and pettiness. So it goes. It is quite another to allow Trump and his enablers to downplay or even dismiss the great danger that any foreign nation — but most especially autocratic and menacing Russia — presents when it tampers in an American election. Trump's tactics during the presidential race, in which all inconvenient facts were disposable, cannot be allowed to prevail here.
Already, Trump's alternate reality is taking hold. We have confidence that the two leading Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee — John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — will conduct a solid investigation into Russia's meddling. But a third Republican on the committee, Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who was quick to overlook all kinds of stupid behavior by Trump during the presidential race, could be inclined to sell out again, given half a chance. And, as reported Sunday in the New York Times, many Trump supporters already have swallowed his line that this is all sour grapes by sore losers.
It would be bad for America if that false narrative gained strength, especially as other big events in the next two weeks, including Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, crowd the headlines. So let's revisit the strong and unequivocal conclusions about Russian meddling in a report released Friday by our nation's top spy agencies, including the CIA, the FBI and the National Security Agency.
The report concludes with "high confidence" that Russia's main military intelligence unit, the G.R.U., created a website, DCLeaks.com, to release the emails of the Democratic National Committee and of the chairman of the Clinton campaign, John D. Podesta. When the G.R.U. decided the website wasn't making enough of a splash, it relayed the hacked emails to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
The report says Putin favored Trump because the Russian leader liked dealing with "Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia," and because he thought Trump saw eye to eye with him on how to combat the Islamic State.
The report says Russia's motives "evolved over the course" of the presidential election and that its original aim, when Putin thought Clinton would win, was "undermining her future presidency." Russia's interference began as early as July 2015 with the hacking of the DNC.
There is more evidence cited, but for our money the real topper is that senior Russian officials, including some suspected of running the cyber-attack campaign, whooped it up and congratulated each other after Trump defeated Clinton. That telling fact, from an intercepted communication, contributed to the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Moscow's efforts were aimed at least in part at helping Trump win.
Donald Trump insists this is much ado about nothing, and that his critics are just gunning for him. That is Trump's way. He is either the winner or the aggrieved.
Nobody should be fooled. It is crucial that Congress get to the bottom of what Russia did and why — and who knew what and when. The integrity of our democratic process is on the line.
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Joseph Fabrice Ondoa Ebogo, Cameroon international and best goalkeeper of the 2017 African Cup of Nations considers quitting FC Seville for not having enough play time.
Trained at Fundesport (Eto'o Fils Foundation) to Barcelona B and transferred to Tarragone, presently on loan with FC Seville B, Ondoa speaks out to Jeune Afrique after playing only a single game since the Nations Cup in Gabon.
"I desire to play. I expected some consideration from FC Seville as the African Champion with Cameroon. I was designated the best goalkeeper of Gabon 2017, but I am still humble, and think I could have my opportunity. I will see if it is not better to try out in France, Belgium, England or Italy".
He laments on, "This season I have only played a game against Saragosse (2-1) and showed great performance even if I was sent out. I have not been playing for a long time. I cannot continue like this".
Ondoa thinks the moment has come to move on and suggests that FC Barcelone and FC Seville should exploit the option to buy him over from Tarragone as his contract expires 2019.
The 21 year old seems to suggest that the limited play time is associated with his choice of playing for the national team.
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