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Investigate the different shaped bracelets you could make from 18 different spherical beads. How do they compare if you use 24 beads?
What happens if you join every second point on this circle? How about every third point? Try with different steps and see if you can predict what will happen.
How many different shaped boxes can you design for 36 sweets in one layer? Can you arrange the sweets so that no sweets of the same colour are next to each other in any direction?
There are ten children in Becky's group. Can you find a set of numbers for each of them? Are there any other sets?
56 406 is the product of two consecutive numbers. What are these two numbers?
I throw three dice and get 5, 3 and 2. Add the scores on the three dice. What do you get? Now multiply the scores. What do you notice?
Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
There is a clock-face where the numbers have become all mixed up. Can you find out where all the numbers have got to from these ten statements?
The planet of Vuvv has seven moons. Can you work out how long it is between each super-eclipse?
48 is called an abundant number because it is less than the sum of its factors (without itself). Can you find some more abundant numbers?
How many different sets of numbers with at least four members can you find in the numbers in this box?
Can you work out the arrangement of the digits in the square so that the given products are correct? The numbers 1 - 9 may be used once and once only.
Ben's class were making cutting up number tracks. First they cut them into twos and added up the numbers on each piece. What patterns could they see?
On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs. The great planetary explorer Nico counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?
Nine squares with side lengths 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, and 18 cm can be fitted together to form a rectangle. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
Can you order the digits from 1-6 to make a number which is divisible by 6 so when the last digit is removed it becomes a 5-figure number divisible by 5, and so on?
"Ip dip sky blue! Who's 'it'? It's you!" Where would you position yourself so that you are 'it' if there are two players? Three players ...?
When Charlie asked his grandmother how old she is, he didn't get a straightforward reply! Can you work out how old she is?
Can you work out some different ways to balance this equation?
Can you complete this calculation by filling in the missing numbers? In how many different ways can you do it?
Suppose we allow ourselves to use three numbers less than 10 and multiply them together. How many different products can you find? How do you know you've got them all?
Have a go at balancing this equation. Can you find different ways of doing it?
Becky created a number plumber which multiplies by 5 and subtracts 4. What do you notice about the numbers that it produces? Can you explain your findings?
In a square in which the houses are evenly spaced, numbers 3 and 10 are opposite each other. What is the smallest and what is the largest possible number of houses in the square?
Investigate the sum of the numbers on the top and bottom faces of a line of three dice. What do you notice?
Norrie sees two lights flash at the same time, then one of them flashes every 4th second, and the other flashes every 5th second. How many times do they flash together during a whole minute?
The discs for this game are kept in a flat square box with a square hole for each disc. Use the information to find out how many discs of each colour there are in the box.
Factor track is not a race but a game of skill. The idea is to go round the track in as few moves as possible, keeping to the rules.
Work out Tom's number from the answers he gives his friend. He will only answer 'yes' or 'no'.
Using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, mulitply a two two digit numbers are multiplied to give a four digit number, so that the expression is correct. How many different solutions can you find?
The sum of the first 'n' natural numbers is a 3 digit number in which all the digits are the same. How many numbers have been summed?
In this problem we are looking at sets of parallel sticks that cross each other. What is the least number of crossings you can make? And the greatest?
Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...
The number 8888...88M9999...99 is divisible by 7 and it starts with the digit 8 repeated 50 times and ends with the digit 9 repeated 50 times. What is the value of the digit M?
This article for teachers describes how number arrays can be a useful reprentation for many number concepts.
Which is quicker, counting up to 30 in ones or counting up to 300 in tens? Why?
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules, to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
Four of these clues are needed to find the chosen number on this grid and four are true but do nothing to help in finding the number. Can you sort out the clues and find the number?
Can you see how these factor-multiple chains work? Find the chain which contains the smallest possible numbers. How about the largest possible numbers?
What is the lowest number which always leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by each of the numbers from 2 to 10?
A mathematician goes into a supermarket and buys four items. Using a calculator she multiplies the cost instead of adding them. How can her answer be the same as the total at the till?
An investigation that gives you the opportunity to make and justify predictions.
A game for 2 people using a pack of cards Turn over 2 cards and try to make an odd number or a multiple of 3.
What do the numbers shaded in blue on this hundred square have in common? What do you notice about the pink numbers? How about the shaded numbers in the other squares?
There are a number of coins on a table. One quarter of the coins show heads. If I turn over 2 coins, then one third show heads. How many coins are there altogether?
Can you work out what a ziffle is on the planet Zargon?
A student in a maths class was trying to get some information from her teacher. She was given some clues and then the teacher ended by saying, "Well, how old are they?"
Can you find what the last two digits of the number $4^{1999}$ are?
Can you make square numbers by adding two prime numbers together?

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The lineup for the Fayetteville After Five summer concert series was announced Wednesday.
The free concert series has a new day and time. Instead of being held the Third Thursday of the month, the concerts will be the third Friday of the month from May to July. Concerts will be at Festival Park beginning May 17.
Two bands will kick off the series - On the Border, an Eagles tribute and classic rock band, and Suicide Blonde, which plays '80s tunes.
The rest of the series will feature country artist James Otto on June 21 and a trio of tribute bands on July 19, featuring In the Name of Love, which plays U2 music; High Voltage, playing AC/DC; and Mostley Crue, a Motley Crue tribute band.
All begin at 5 p.m. The concerts are organized by the Fayetteville Dogwood Festival. Go to faydogwoodfestival.com.
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Get YNAB for Android on Google Play or on the Amazon App Store (for Android phones and the Kindle Fire)
YNAB 4 is required for Cloud Sync. If you haven't yet upgraded, you can upgrade here ($40 if you purchased on or before December 26, 2012, free if you purchased thereafter).
Please read this post. It will likely answer some questions you may have, and will save our support team from having to individually answer hundreds of the same question ;)
Will the latest app versions work with YNAB 3?
Yes. But only using the manual wi-fi sync protocol. When you're doing your setup on your phone, select Wi-Fi sync. (Exception: the iPhone Lite app only offers Cloud Sync). You can change your sync method at any time on your phone by clicking the settings button at the top-right of the main screen.
I already own a prior version of YNAB for iPhone/Android, what will the upgrade cost?
It will be a free upgrade. On your respective device, simply follow the links above and you'll be brought to the YNAB App page where you can download the update for free.
I don't own YNAB for iPhone/Android, what is the cost?
The cost of the app is $4.99. If you're an iPhone user and not certain there's value in entering your transactions on the go, consider trying the free YNAB for iPhone Lite first. (YNAB for Android Lite will come once the Android version has feature parity with the iPhone.)
I'm an iPhone user, what are the differences between the Full and Lite versions?
The Lite version does not have Geo-Smart Payees (where we use the phone's location awareness to automatically set the category and payee when you begin adding a new transaction).
The Lite version does not have Favorite Categories, where you can designate certain categories as Favorites for quicker entry.
The Lite version does not have the home screen, or account view. It offers only your budget categories, and the ability to add new transactions.
The Lite version does not do wi-fi syncing where you can initiate a manual sync between your desktop and phone when they're on the same network, or create an ad-hoc network. The Lite version only does Cloud Sync. Because of this, the Lite version cannot sync with YNAB 3.
The Lite version does not have the ability to clear/unclear transactions, or set/remove flags on transactions.
The Lite version will not have new features added to it (we'll obviously fix bugs and make sure it's ready for future OS versions and all of that). The full version will see significant future improvements.
I have multiple iOS/Android devices, do I need to purchase the app multiple times?
If all of your devices are iOS and they share the same iTunes account, YNAB for iPhone will be available for download (go to the App Store, search YNAB, find the app, and click the Install button).
If you have two different iTunes accounts, you can follow these instructions to make sure you don't have to purchase twice.
If you use the same Google account between Android devices, you can install YNAB for Android on all of those devices. If you use a different Google account, you'll have to purchase the app for each device with a different email address. OR, you could consider purchasing through the Amazon App Store, where Amazon allows you to authorize separate devices to install and run the same app. Instructions for this are here.
Do I need to purchase twice if I have an Android and my spouse has an iPhone?
Unfortunately, yes. Where our desktop is one price for multiple Windows or Mac machines, the different App Store requirements don't allow us the same luxury.
What are the Device/iOS requirements?
- The app runs on any device with iOS 4.3 or later.
- However, Cloud Sync is only possible on devices that can multitask (iPhone 3GS and later, iPod 3rd generation with 16GB and later) and have at least iOS 4 running. This means you'd still have to use the manual wi-fi sync that was used in YNAB 3. Please update your OS version!
The app will run on any Android phone using Android 2.1 or later. The app will also run on your Kindle Fire, though it is not optimized for the larger screen. By that I mean that you're getting essentially a larger screened version of the phone app.
I have unsynced transactions on my old version of YNAB for iPhone, what do I do with those?
If you're using YNAB 3, you don't need to do anything different. The new version of YNAB for iPhone will still sync with YNAB 3 via the manual wi-fi sync protocol.
If you're using YNAB 4 on your desktop, follow these steps to sync your transactions before upgrading:
- Open your budget in YNAB 4 on your desktop.
- Go to File -> Budget Properties and under "Cloud Sync this budget?" select "No, make it local."
- Go to File -> Wi-fi sync with Mobile Device and follow the instructions there.
- The transactions will come from your iPhone and land in YNAB 4 just fine. However, the iPhone will report that the sync failed (the old version of the iPhone can't talk with YNAB 4 both ways, it can only send transactions).
- The 'sync failed' message is expected.
- Go to File -> Budget Properties and activate Cloud Sync.
- Update your iPhone app and choose Cloud Sync during the initial setup.
If you've already "lost" your unsynced iPhone transactions, Taylor, our lead developer, wrote a forum post that instructs you on how to get them back. We really don't want you losing them.
How do I cloud sync when we have two (or more) separate Dropbox accounts?
Option 1 (Easy): Set up each phone to Cloud Sync, and when prompted to authenticate with Dropbox, simply login with the "primary" Dropbox account you'll be using. Only YNAB for iPhone/Android will have access to the Dropbox account on that device, and access can be removed at any time by logging in to Dropbox and deactivating the authorization.
Option 2 (Advanced): This article explains Cloud Sync in detail. You'll want to scroll down to the last topic, "How do I share a budget file with someone?"
Do I need to install Dropbox on my iPhone/Android device?
No. When you press the "Link Account" button in the Cloud Sync setup, you're brought to a page where you can login to your Dropbox account and allow YNAB access to it. You are not required to install anything extra.
Will there be a full-featured iPad app?
Because of the many questions surrounding an iPad app for YNAB, I wrote a fairly lengthy post over in our forums. There's where you'll find pretty much every question answered (at least I hope!).
Will this version of the iPhone app run on my iPad?
Yes. Just like any other iPhone app that isn't optimized for the iPad, you can run it in the small view, or tap the 2x button to expand it to the size of the full iPad screen.
Will there be a full-featured Android tablet version?
At the moment, we are making no plans for a full-featured Android tablet version. If we see that it becomes economically viable, we will—with opportunity cost obviously taken into account.
When will the Android version have all the (two extra) features of the iPhone?
We are working on them right now. By right now I mean that code is checked in daily to get us there. Split transactions are our first priority, and then we'll get Geo-Payees in there. At that point, we should have parity.
I've reviewed YNAB for iPhone/Android, but now that you have Cloud Sync, I'd like to adjust my review (upward).
Well gosh, thanks for asking. If you left us a review that docked our prior version a bit for not having Cloud Sync, we'd love to have you make any necessary edits ;)


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What is Auth module?
There are already HTML file wrapping modules for Xoops, like
TinyContent or iContent.
The problem with these modules, is that it is quite troublesome
to put the content in the xoops menu and additionally it requires
quite a lot of editing of the original html files.
There is most likely a need to have a xoops module that can easily
put html contents under separate xoops menus, so this is why I have
developed the "Auth module"
Additionally the Auth module will allow .php and .CGI files to be included instantly into Xoops, without the need to do any modifications. There are probably people that have some knowledge about using .php or .cgi, but would not be able to create a complete module.
All you need to do is put the .html, .php, .cgi and even image files into the designated "Auth module" folder and they will be automatically wrapped with the xoops header and footer and display properly in xoops.
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I carried out this procedure myself quite successfully on a 500 page website using wf-section. How do you preserve the links between the different html pages when importing them into wf-section? Published: 2004/12/23 0:41 • Updated: 2004/12/23 0:41
I looked at this project from every angle and could not find a quick easy fix!
creating a new document in a XOOPS site inevitably changes every part of the URL, so you have to be prepared to recode all your links manually. If you are interlinking other XOOPS pages, chances are they need to be pulled from the database, so that will require a query. If yu want to go down the route of "wrapping" an existing site in an iframe, this becomes a little easier, BUT the trade off is severe. Nothing is integrated in the XOOPS website and what happens when a S/Eengine calls and serves one of your wrapped pages? Will it include your XOOPS website? no, just the html page! This is an old problem encountered when building a Frames website... linking the content page so that the frameset was included as well. Maybe this could be achieved in xoops, but there will be other connectivity and search problems. The ther option as stated in this http://www.xoops.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=253 FAQ is to 'include' your pages. This becomes a more managable project. You could use a good search and replace program like http://www.orbit.org/replace/ and insert the header and footer snippets in each of your existing html pages. Thet will now all be included in your XOOPS site and their relative URLs will be the same. If not use search and replace again to correct this. The challenge now is reaching them. Probabbly use a menu system like multimenu. It's a lot of work! It took me 4 months of evening work cutting and pasting a few pages into wfsections. In the end it was worth it. Published: 2004/12/23 3:40 • Updated: 2004/12/23 3:52
Check out the auth module. It supports cross links between pages and pictures.
I've made a rough translation of the readme see here Published: 2005/1/8 15:45 • Updated: 2005/1/8 15:45
Hello, I'm curious what the easiest way to wrap EXTERNAL content on another site might be?
I have to manage a non-profit site with some content stored as plain html pages on external hosts. It would be great if I could just put in a URL and have that one page wrapped in XOOPS theme. Thanks for your help! Published: 2005/1/29 15:07 • Updated: 2005/1/29 15:07
If the page is offsite to your own server, the easiest way is to use an iframe to display the page within a XOOPS custom block
Look in thr FAQ section HERE To do this properly, you need to create a custom page using This FAQ here Then insert the iframe into that custom page. After that use multimenu to link to your new page. It will automatically load the external site Published: 2005/1/29 15:46 • Updated: 2005/1/29 15:51
This works perfectly and is quite simple to set up. The only weird thing is having to adjust the height to pixels. Is there a way to just let it stretch vertically as it wants to? Adding vertical scrollbars would help too, not sure how to do that yet. Published: 2005/2/4 1:49 • Updated: 2005/2/4 1:49
you can use 'auto' instead of a defined height. Problem is the page usually displays a little longer than really required. If the page is going to change a lot in height, auto is best, whereas a fixed height gets a much tighter fit for fixed content size.
Published: 2005/2/4 7:03 • Updated: 2005/2/4 7:03
Ok. I think if there's one thing XOOPS needs the most is some kind of PR / Organizational effort that takes business objectives (I mean business loosely here) and says:
Commerce -> Use this block and here is a faq list Static Content -> Use this block.... Wrapped External content -> .... Wysiwyg Editing -> .... News Publishing -> .... Etc. etc. Right now you have to go through 6 modules (APS, WFSections, News, etc. ) to figure out anything about managing stories. Same for anything else. The language at XOOPS is too focused on modules for the sake of modules, and not enough on what people want to do in real life, leaving modules per se aside. I hope I can contribute to such an effort Published: 2005/2/4 10:27 • Updated: 2005/2/4 10:27
I hope I can contribute to such an effort Serious offer? Pm me if you want to help with documentation, we have some exciting projects going on right now that are relavant to your commenst here Richard Published: 2005/2/4 12:05 • Updated: 2005/2/4 12:05
We have created a custom module which contains iframed content. We would like to have XOOPS blocks under the iframed content. However when we insert content blocks these blocks appear above the iframed content. Is there a code which would insert
a specified amount of space above content blocks. Published: 2006/3/21 9:04 • Updated: 2006/3/21 9:04


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Tampa, FL-- The Whole Foods Market stores in South Tampa, Carrollwood and Sarasota will soon be joined by a Whole Foods Market store in the Clearwater area!
The South Tampa store posted the news online but did not give an exact timeframe.
Popular organic community grocer, Nature's Food Patch, will face competition from the new Whole Foods Market.
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Minority Report
Screenplay : Scott Frank and Jon Cohen (based on a short story by Philip K. Dick)
MPAA Rating : PG-13
Year of Release : 2002
Stars : Tom Cruise (Detective John Anderton), Colin Farrell (Detective Ed Witwer), Max von Sydow (Director Lamar Burgess), Samantha Morton (Agatha), Steve Harris (Jad), Neal McDonough (Officer Fletcher), Patrick Kilpatrick (Knott), Jessica Capshaw (Evanna), Erica Ford (Jill), Lois Smith (Dr. Iris Hineman), Tim Blake Nelson (Gideon)
As they are arguably the most internationally successful director and male star of the second half of the 20th century, it was only a matter of time before Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise made a movie together. Both are consistently able to impress both the critical establishment and draw the mass audience (for example, Spielberg could have the then-biggest box office hit of all time with Jurassic Park in the same year that he took home Best Picture and Director Oscars for Schindler's List, while Cruise could top the $200 million mark with Mission: Impossible 2 only six months after his role in Magnolia was nominated for an Oscar). These two men literally define Hollywood success and box-office clout.
Thus, there is quite a bit riding on Minority Report, particularly since both Spielberg and Cruise are coming off what have been perceived as relative disappointments in 2001, with Spielberg's ambitious and underappreciated A.I. Artificial Intelligence, which failed to make $100 million domestically, and the Cruise vehicle Vanilla Sky, which did top the century mark, but was widely derided in many circles. Despite those "disappointments," neither one of these men looks anywhere close to being on the ropes, and Minority Report should resolidify their respective standings, as it delivers the thrills of a summer movie with an intellectual edge.
Loosely based on a 1956 short story by Philip K. Dick (whose works have also inspired such films as Blade Runner and Total Recall), Minority Report takes place in the year 2054, where an experimental crime-prevention program known as "Precrime" is entering its sixth year in the U.S. capitol. The Precrime Division utilizes a combination of advanced technology and a threesome of genetically engineered clairvoyant humans known as "precogs" to stops murders before they take place. Able to see the future, the precogs alert the Precrime authorities to a murder about to take place, and officers sweep in and arrest the would-be killer, who is then taken away and cyrogenically frozen in a futuristic pod prison.
Cruise stars as John Anderton, one of the lead Precrime detectives and the system's most fervent defender. When Ed Witwer (Colin Farrell), a fastidious and aggressive government agent working for the attorney general, begins investigating the Precrime Division to look for flaws before it goes national, Anderton immediately jumps to its defense, arguing that, even though people are being arrested for crimes they didn't commit, just because they haven't done it yet doesn't mean they weren't going to do it. Working under Lamar Burgess (Max von Sydow), the Precrime director and a sort of surrogate father figure, Anderton has invested everything he is into stopping murders before they take place, largely because of the losses he has suffered in his own life.
However, Anderton quickly learns to doubt the system when he is fingered by the precogs as being a future murderer of someone he has never met. With 36 hours to clear his name, Anderton has to avoid his own team of Precrime cops while trying to prove that he has been set up. But, has he been? After all, Anderton himself claims that the precogs are never wrong, so why should he be the exception? One of the most striking themes in Minority Report, which is especially prescient given the heightened security in the U.S. brought on by fears of terrorism, is that any system of crime containment seems foolproof until one finds himself in the crosshairs. It's always "perfect" when someone else is the focus.
Minority Report is stunning visually, narratively, and thematically. So many science fiction movies use their futuristic backdrops as merely that--backdrops. Here, however, the futuristic elements and advanced technologies are used to explore human possibilities for eliminating human error. As Witwer says at one point, he knows the system itself is perfect, but what he wants to find are the human flaws that might lead to its downfall.
The technological elements of the movie are everywhere, from the floating images of a computer interface the Precrime Division uses to determine where and how the next murder will take place, to the plethora of billboards and advertisements that scan the retinas of passer-byers and subsequently tailor their sales pitch, Minority Report paints an intriguing and believable future that is dimly recognizable, but still astonishing. Production designer Alex McDowell (The Crow, Fight Club) and the visual effects gurus at Industrial Light & Magic have done an amazing job of seamlessly combining sets and digital effects to create a realistic portrait of the United States in 50 years.
The screenplay, written by Scott Frank (Out of Sight) and novelist Jon Cohen, is a slick piece of work that borrows Dick's basic ideas and constructs around then an essentially old-fashioned whodunit of plot twists and turns that always has one more trick up its sleeve. The "innocent man on the run" dilemma is a classic device, and they infuse it with added depth in that Anderton is not a thoroughly admirable hero. Deeply scarred by life events and often reduced to burying his guilt in illegal drugs, Anderton is not a shining beacon of heroism, but rather a realistically flawed human protagonist for whom we root simply because we can feel what it would be like to be in his shoes. Cruise, always watchable on screen, gives a solid performance; it's nothing showy, but it fits the bill perfectly.
As far as Spielberg's work goes, he continues to impress with his ability to bring visual innovation to his films while not discarding what has worked in the past. Working again with cinematographer Janusz Kaminiski (with whom he has worked ever since Schindler's List), he gives Minority Report a gritty, grainy, oversaturated look, relying largely on cold blue tones, extreme contrasts, and an intense use of camera flares and beams of light. The comparisons to film noir are adept, both visually and narratively (not to mention the less-than-subtle homage paid to the great crime writers in the names of the three procogs: Agatha, Dashiell, and Arthur).
Spielberg also constructs a handful of bravura action sequences, including a high-speed race down a futuristic highway that runs both horizontally and vertically and what is sure to be the most-talked-about sequence in the film, where Anderton tries to hide in a bathtub of ice water from a host of creepy mechanical spiders that sense heat only to be given away by a single air bubble. The latter sequence also includes an impressive extreme high-angle tracking shot that moves across of a number of apartments, showing how the various residents react to the intrusion of these mechanical creepy-crawlies that then scan their retinas for identification (the shot reminds one of something Brian De Palma might have pulled off).
Spielberg has often been derided for the optimistic fairy-tale nature of his movies, and indeed Minority Report generates a particularly positive ending that is not ambiguous in the way that A.I. was. Yet, at the same time, much of the film allows Spielberg to indulge his darker side, particularly a sequence in which Anderton undergoes black-market eye surgery in order to allude all the retinal scanners that would give him away. This sequence is dark and queasy, with Cruise's eyes being pried open with metal clasps reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange, while the seedy rooming house in which the operation is taking place is a strong reminder of the continuation of stark class disparity, even in a future free of murder.
As the summer movie season is usually the bleakest in terms of intelligent movies, Minority Report is something of a godsend. Working with well-honed elements of both the science fiction and the crime-thriller genres, Spielberg has created a constantly invigorating blockbuster--a thinking person's action flick that grips you on the basic popcorn level but also leaves you with something to think about in the end. Particularly in this day and age, the question of what steps we are willing to take to prevent violence is one of the most pressing we face.
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HOUSTON (ICIS)--Tronox shareholders submitted a competing plan to get the titanium dioxide (TiO2) producer out of bankruptcy protection - a plan that places a higher value on the company.
The group filed the plan on Thursday in the US bankruptcy court of the southern district of New York. Afterwards, Tronox shares reached 33 cents on Friday in over-the-counter trading, up 22%.
Key differences exist between the two plans.
The shareholders' plan values the company at $1.2bn-1.3bn (€936m-1.01bn), while the Tronox plan values the company at $975m-1.15bn.
Because of the higher valuation, the shareholders' plan gives the creditors a higher portion of the stock being issued in the reorganised company.
In fact, 62.5% of the stock would go to creditors who hold general unsecured claims. The Tronox plan calls for 16.9%.
Because the Tronox plan places a smaller valuation on the company, it needs to reserve a larger portion of the new stock to the bondholders who are backstopping the rights offering.
By backstopping the offering, the bondholders agreed to buy any unsold shares in the company.
While both plans would issue new stock in the reorganised company, the shareholder plan would allow some of the existing stockholders to participate in the rights offering. The Tronox plan allows no stockholders to participate in the rights offering.
Both plans preserve the settlements that Tronox reached to address claims connected to lawsuits and environmental regulators.
However, if any class of creditors opposes the size of the claims, then the company could likewise challenge the amounts of the claims, according to the shareholders' plan.
Also, the shareholders' plan would allow the company to borrow more money.
The next step for the shareholders is to have the court approve the disclosure statement. Creditors use the information from the disclosure statement to decide on whether they should approve or reject the reorganisation plan.
If creditors approve the plan, then the bankruptcy court would hold a hearing to confirm the plan. If confirmed, Tronox would emerge from bankruptcy protection.
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Study finds 75 percent of Chinese adults at risk for diabetes or heart disease |
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More than three-quarters of Chinese adults have at least one risk factor for Type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease, according to new data in a long-term study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers and published July 19 in the journal Obesity. Rates of hypertension, diabetes and triglycerides are particularly high, the study reports, even in the young and trim. While the risks are highest among overweight adults, 33 percent of those who are not overweight also have at least one cardiometabolic risk factor. Cardiometabolic risk is a cluster of factors that are good indicators of a patient's overall likelihood of developing Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Adults at a healthy weight are less likely to be screened for these factors.
"The fact that high levels of risk were present even in non-overweight adults is highly concerning, given the societal and economic costs of these diseases," said Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD, associate professor of nutrition at UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health and the study's principal investigator. "Rates of risk increase dramatically with age, even in the non-overweight adults. Of even greater concern is the fact that we see these high levels of risk in individuals living across the entire country - in rural and urban areas."
The new data come from the longest ongoing study in China, the China Health and Nutrition Survey, a joint project of UNC and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety. This longitudinal study has followed more than 29,000 people in 300 communities throughout China from 1989 to 2011. Surveys were conducted in 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2011. The study is funded by the National Institutes of Health, with additional funding from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC).
China, home to more than 1.3 billion people, has seen unprecedented economic growth in the past two decades, accompanied by equally dramatic changes in diet, activity, inactivity and obesity. The 2009 study, which followed a randomly selected sample representing 56 percent of the Chinese population, found large increases in overweight and cardiometabolic risk factors, even in young adults.
"China has had a history of undernutrition followed by the most rapid increase in obesity and related diseases worldwide," said Barry M. Popkin, PhD, W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition and a co-author of the study. "Given the current picture, we can expect a tremendous health burden in China in the coming years."
Given the speed of modernization in China, these findings shed light on patterns of risk in the United States, where change has been more gradual. These findings also call attention to the cardiovascular risk in thin individuals.
Other UNC study co-authors include Shufa Du, PhD, research assistant professor of nutrition; Linda Adair, PhD, and Beth Mayer-Davis, PhD, professors of nutrition; and Amy Herring, ScD, professor of biostatistics.
Another study co-author is James B. Meigs, MD, associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston. The Chinese co-authors, both of Beijing, are Sheng-kai Yan, Beijing Homa Biological Engineering Co. Ltd. and department of laboratory medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital; and Bing Zhang, PhD, department of public health nutrition in the CDCC's National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety.
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The following is Part 2 of "Dan Harmon and Chris McKenna and Two Microphones," a special closing panel for CommuniCon's second convention. The Community scribes came to partake in an unmoderated question and answer session with the audience where they talked about everything from the evolution of Britta's character, to why there haven't been any characters with physical disabilities portrayed on the show, to little teases about season five.
This is as close to a transcript as we could get. At times crowd laughter and applause did overstep some of the words. Additionally, the questions have been paraphrased for conciseness and crosstalk about talking into the microphone (there was a lot of Harmon making fun of people who didn't) has been cut out. Enjoy!
- Did you ever expect Community to become such a globally accepted and loved show?
HARMON: "That's a loaded question! I could either sit here and argue with him that it's a globally-- oh but the world globally is important there. I always absolutely worried that it would never translate overseas. I am very shocked and super pleased that people in the U.K. and Australia-- people that come back from Australia that don't even really know me that well go like 'Oh shit, Australia is like crazy for Community!' I don't know, that's really just anecdotal stuff; it's not a measurement. But yeah, overseas are people are crazy for the show... Yeah, I'm shocked. The answer is no, I did not know the show is equally globally loved, if it is. I have since learned that there's this amazing kind of demographic that transcends time zones and languages, so I would not be shocked tomorrow. But that's because of what I have learned about the show."
- Do you have any regrets about the paths you've decided to take with any of the characters, for example Britta's intellectual regression?
HARMON: "I have regrets about the path that I've taken with every single character. When you do a show for five years, every single character is amazing; every single actor playing that character is amazing; you're in twenty minute format; you're competing in your own head with the ghost of 30 Rock like standing next to you going 'That's still not as funny as 30 Rock!' And you go 'Okay guys, we can get to 70% as funny as 30 Rock and fill the 30% with feelings.' That's always my strategy. Everyone's got a heart, right? So instead of 'Ha ha ha, it will be ha ha, heart!' So you're trying, and the format should be 'set up, punchline; set up, punchline', it doesn't matter how touching the show is. And sort of the show's worst moments are when I forgot that, you know, to be crass about the Home Depot of it all...If you can figure out a way to be touching while getting people to laugh, good for you, but that moment where you lose your level because you're like 'Oh man, who are we kidding? Everyone watches this show so we can get into this five minute conversation about how this character feels about this character', you can slip up.
"I went off on a tangent there. I won't do it again, I promise. Therefore in every episode of Community there's this chess game you have to play with 'This character's going to be over here; this character's going to be doing that.' There's an absolute tendency to start having, for instance... Let's talk about Britta because that person mentioned her specifically. I think you're going to really like-- [in announcer type voice] I think you're going to love the new Britta! She's 2014 compliant! She's got--
MCKENNA: "She's filtered now."
HARMON: "She's less filtered. I've explained this a lot of times, a lot of these people have heard this before, so I'll say the quick version. Britta was the typical indie film, non-wanted symbol female that the horny male was supposed to be so tempted by that he had to jump through a bunch of hoops in the pilot. Every writer thinks that they know what a perfect woman is-- every male writer-- and every male writer that tries to write the perfect woman has this tendency to kind of just create a 'Well, she's eclectic. She's everything to everybody.' And it's kind of like you're disservicing that character. That's our issue as men writers that we'll always be working at.
"We started to do the series, we sat down, what about Britta? Hilary Winston, who was here yesterday, the first thing she said was 'I'm sure she's a wonderful person, but I wouldn't hang out with her.' Why not? 'Well, I wouldn't trust her not to bum me out! It says more about me than about her, but I wouldn't want to go shoe shopping with her because I know I'd feel vulnerable the whole time; I'd feel like she was looking over my shoulder. Everything is too outside the moment for her; everything is too being measured; everything is symbolic, and sometimes you just want to be a worse person and be a consumer and be a woman and be able to fall back on your sisterhood.' And I, instead of saying 'Okay let's make Britta a better woman to those definitions', I just said 'Okay, let's make Britta more of a woman that all women hate.' And we started moving from there, and a million things, and at a certain point the joke became that Britta's a buzz kill and Britta always screwing things up and all of this stuff.
"Definitely along the way, we have a tendency-- Pierce's racism is another good example. Pierce was always supposed to be a liberal Baby Boomer, like my parents, who through the best of intentions but a generation gap, was actually accidentally racist."
MCKENNA: "He was so aware of race, and we constantly used it as something that he could stumble over."
HARMON: "Yeah, if you watch Norman Lear sitcoms in a world where they were trying to change the world, like the consciousness of race by our definition today is racism, and so there's, anyways a horrible tangent. Britta's intelligence level, how smart is she? How many books has she read? How much is she on her stuff? It's a good question. I think the truth about Britta is that she did drop out of high school; she did spend a lot of time like vandalizing and actively defying the system. I think she's been all over the world. think she's been tear gassed and loved it! I think that she fights, and I think that she does-- I think she knows things and she's a wise character, but she's pop culturally and technologically illiterate.
"Sometimes the joke became like 'Britta doesn't know what this is. Britta doesn't know anything.' And when you're in an artificial society, sometimes the person that knows everything about what is actually the most important thing is going to seem like the biggest idiot in the world. There's a self-parody to that as well because as I've said, Britta's politics are my politics, and so anyways in season five, I got fired and re-hired, so this year my politics are now it's just a full-born like 'She's an idiot.' [laughter] No, this year she's right. Now she's right all of the time. She believes human kind is a victim of a system."
MCKENNA: "Even when she's not involved with the the theatrical storyline, you'll see some Harmonium elements of fighting against the system that becomes a theme for the season."
HARMON: "I will apologize for this season because I think the word 'system' is used so many times this year."
MCKENNA: But in a great way! But no, I think in a great way where there are people fighting against elements of complexity, anti-humanity, that's a big theme for this season, which is great."
HARMON: "I've always been in love with Britta, and I'm not apologizing for it this year."
MCKENNA: "No, I think someone who like you said was a character that caused certain people to feel a certain way, and you embraced it, you Charlie Browned her in a certain way, she's just a great character."
HARMON: "We have similar conversations with each character. How dumb is Troy? How high is his IQ? You know, you do the Woody jokes with him; that was an important archetype: Troy just didn't get it half of the time. He didn't understand even the context of the conversation. Was he an airhead or is Britta more of an airhead? It goes beyond that. I think all characters, when you put them on a sitcom, they pretty much become stupid. Unless they're "The Smart Guy", like the Professor on Gilligan's Island who can make a coconut radio. But he still seems kind of dumb compared to a normal person because a normal person would say 'You can't make a radio out of a coconut.'"
- Is it more satisfying to have a hugely popular show like Modern Family or The Big Bang Theory, or to have a show with a fandom like us?
HARMON: "What's it like having a hugely popular show? Let me compare those two things! I think, I hope that when I say this isn't sour grapes people know because...I think I willingly roll around in ditches and have said I don't want to be successful and been self-destructive and people have screamed at me 'All you have to do is shut up right now and you could have twice as much money,' and I've said 'Well, I have a couple more things to say!'
"Part of the craftsmanship of this is 'Why are you doing something on television if you aren't trying to make something that everyone loves? And if you can't do it, is it really just because you're so awesome?' And is the person who manages to get fifteen million people to watch his sitcom in your time slot, is he able to do that because he's so stupid, so untalented? No. Two different people, two different paths, two different contexts. I love this. This sounds like pandering. If I said I love the room next door, you guys would boo me. I like the focus. I like where I can be a person and kind of also combine that with everyone liking me. I don't want to be successful. I don't want to be successful...I'm finally saying it now. I do not want to be successful."
- Are you planning for #sixseasonsandamovie or are you prepping a fifth season finale that could also work as a series finale?
HARMON: "The short answer is absolutely not, I cannot assume that a season is the final season. If it was, I would do weird stuff which would be the final season. My job and my religion and my philosophy is to pretend that my goal is to get as many people to watch the show so that the show runs as long as possible. That being said, each season you have this situation that comes up at the end of each season, maybe we'll never come back; maybe this is the last time we'll ever get to talk to these people ever again. So you make sure, like a parent leaving the house to go off to Iraq that you don't freak the kid out, but the hug is a little tighter. And that's what we'll continue to do."
MCKENNA: "In season three, we were taken off the schedule, and it was like oh, the supposed death. And here we are two years later, so I mean it's one of those things where--"
HARMON: "Season three, by the way, I said, because the scene where Abed goes into the cardboard box and closes the door, and there's a weird light? They pushed back on that and said like 'Can we make sure it looks like a practical light from inside the box, not some magical light?' And I said 'Tell them no! It's symbolic of me leaving the show!' [shocked cartoon voice] Why did they fire me?
"But always at the end of seasons, you're always thinking about the mortality. It's like every year you blow out your birthday candles, you love your kids a little bit more."
- Since every episode follows a story circle, how important is a story circle for the whole series and that certain characters reach a certain destination/development by the end? Or is the journey enough?
HARMON: "The journey's absolutely the only thing. I think if there's a theme to the show that accidentally emerges, it's because we've been trained to think about hitting certain points at certain points. How that can mess with us and make us enjoy who we are and be what we are less. So absolutely it's like, characters are like-- this will sound great-- characters are like sea monkeys. Like, you ever get those trilobites? Those like prehistoric things? You put them in a journey, and it's up to them what happens."
MCKENNA: "Season three we tried to map it out. That's the thing, the season, which I loved, but we tried to map it out. Dan had to go in and pitch season three to the network, and so we had to have arcs for everyone and everything, and like what was the arc of the study table? It was just like okay, and we did it. We did it with season three, and we broke it out, and we were like 'Okay, we have these marks,' which you go, 'Well, this should be how Dan thinks because Dan thinks in story circles; he thinks in arcs; he thinks in these ways.' But if you play it too much, then you're trying to hit these things; you become slaves to Chang taking over the school."
HARMON: "Which could be fun, it could be not fun, whatever. Ultimately, I will tell you guys my overall philosophy. It doesn't matter if you're atheist or a fundamentalist or the eight things in between them-- there's only eight; you have to pick one! The bottom line for me is that you're in the moment. You are walking in step with the thing that is actually running everything and trying to make it decent. And every second we get tripped and tempted into thinking about five seconds ahead, ten seconds ahead, thirty seconds ahead. And you have to do that-- we all have to do that all of the time-- but to the extent that we do it, we get screwed; we get clumsy. You're looking where you're not existing, and you're screwing up. So I just wanted to make that clear. The characters, we definitely want to have a life of their own, and when we start to think ahead like 'Oh man, season four Jeff's going to meet his dad', well look how-- I wasn't there for season four! We couldn't have predicted that. You don't know if the show's going to exist. So definitely the important thing is to know the core of the characters as much as you can and observe what happens to them in whatever water's flowing. It's part lifeguard; keep them from drowning."
MCKENNA: "It's hard talking about these things without you having seen any of season five, which you know if they'd have done this right, you guys would have seen five or six episodes of the season of Community. But there are things going on with characters that we just follow because they amuse us: 'Oh, that's interesting.' And we follow characters, like this new character that we have who's great, Buzz Hinkey [sp?] played by Jonathan Banks, and we're following these things, and it just like tickles us; it amuses us. We can't write towards where 'Oh this is where he holds everyone hostage!' We're letting these characters sort of lead us. Once you write towards character, we're writing things that I think all of you guys will love, and when we look back, we'll go 'Oh, there was a shape to that that we didn't know about except that we loved what was going on with this character and the other characters in the group.'"
HARMON: "He's like 'You guys could have just said organic.'"
- Will there be more behind-the-scenes footage coming?
HARMON: "Absolutely."
MCKENNA: "We're trying to. This year we're really trying to champion to get back to doing EPK, behind-the-scenes."
HARMON: "But he was also asking about extended cuts, like the Valentine's Day episode."
MCKENNA: "I would love that because we have cuts right now that are three minutes over that we're like 'How we're going to cut three minutes!?' ... The thing is, we have these great cuts that are coming out right now that are literally thirty minutes long--"
HARMON: "Of awesomeness!"
MCKENNA: "And don't let production know because they go, 'See? We told you they should be shorter! We told you they should be a twenty page script!'"
HARMON: "It's so crazy because every week we write a thirty-three page script, basically, on average, and then every week they go 'This should be twelve pages long to shoot it.'"
HARMON: "So sometimes we cut pages, and then we come in ten minutes under, and when we don't cut pages and blah blah blah. It's so arbitrary. We have this great episode coming up where we're a minute under, that's the director's cut. It will probably end up becoming two minutes under, and then we're giving free ad time to Sound of Music live telecast. But then we have longer stuff because we have great stuff, and then we have to let go of a lot of great stuff and trim it down to 21:30 of awesomeness, so yes I think if we do-- I don't mean to say if at this point, I just don't know where DVDs are these days. But assuming there's a season five DVD, I gotta make sure there's everything on it. I'll just be naked on it."
MCKENNA: "That is one of the things with Community sometimes. It goes over, and you just want to save that stuff and put it somewhere, but where do you put it?"
HARMON: "I have video diaries. I was pompous enough to keep video diaries of me driving to work everyday for seasons one through three. I have this iPod Touch that I bought expressly for the service, in the most pretentious way of all, like 'This is going to go in the Smithsonian one day.' Every day I'd drive to work for twenty minutes and talk for twenty minutes. One day I want to just hand that to the DVD people and go 'Here you go!'"
MCKENNA: "This year we're doing like all these behind-the-scenes EPKs, which sort of fell off for awhile, but we're having a crew down there all the time."
HARMON: "Yes is the answer to your question, and we could have just said that!"
- When the Dean was locked up in the basement, why did his facial hair grow but the top of his head stayed bald?
HARMON: "He's bald. I'm assuming you mean why didn't he look more like Mr. Howell? I don't know. I guess that hair grew slower."
- Is the Jim Rash/Dean Pelton "Human Being was murdered" video canon, and will there be tryouts for a new Greendale mascot on season five?
HARMON: "I only watched season four once; I might have missed that part."
MCKENNA: "It bums Dan out."
HARMON: "I think he's probably still alive."
MCKENNA: "We have a problem with the Human Being creatively because every time he's on screen, you find you have to define and explain his character."
HARMON: "That's true, you have two choices if you're going to do a Human Being joke. Writers often in the writer's draft, they'll go, Jeff says this, and Britta says that, and they'll go 'Well, that's not what the Human Being thinks' and then over there-- or not even that, they'll just cut to the Human Being in a corner with a bowl of cereal going [unintelligble noise]. I'm so often accused of having this show that's just inside jokes, and I can't imagine someone tuning into the show [getting it]. He doesn't look like a mascot; he's just a guy in a weird, white suit."
MCKENNA: "That's going to get us on at 8 p.m. in November!"
HARMON: "Not that I pander to that mentality, but as a craftsman, I'm just like the Human Being is hard! He has a big footprint. You can't just bring him in as a tchocke; he actually covers the whole desk. You'd have to explain he's the mascot, so these schools have mascots; he's a Human Being. You can't just throw over to him. And also, who is he? It's a costume. And now they're telling me they killed him off? Season four! So now I know what the finale's going to be. He's going to be a hundred feet tall stepping on a school called Season Four."
- What's the story behind the cast rallying and planning to get you guys back to the show?
HARMON: "I know for sure that if Joel McHale hadn't bothered to like grab a torch from inside his Edgar Allan Poe home and take to the cobblestone streets with shenanigans..."
MCKENNA: "I'm an indentured servant now to NBC Universal. Dan was this crazy guy who was like 'I don't need you now, I've got Adult Swim, pew pew!' [shooting finger guns] I wrote for a really fun show last year called The Mindy Project because I don't know, I made a deal because I thought we were coming back for season four. And that's the way the business goes, and you're going 'Okay', but luckily I ended up on an awesome show called The Mindy Project. Dan went to do his Adult Swim show. We were not working together, and then because of my contract, I was allowed to come back this year because Dan came back."
HARMON: "Yeah, but as far as the dramatic biopic aspects of anyone engineering us coming back, I think start with Joel McHale. But there was an article oddly enough in Vulture-- I think it was Joe Adalian who wrote a little interest piece called something like 'The Real, More Boring Reason Why Dan Harmon Was Fired and Then Rehired.' It was a basic rundown of the very boring, sort of fiscal examination of how the relationship between studios, networks, ratings, syndication, blah blah blah. Ultimately it was very boring and proved that you have this guy and the ratings keep going down, and the studio's goal is for syndication numbers, so they try to change it up to save this thing before their entire investment is a wash. That doesn't quite save it enough, they bring the other guy back, and it's sort of boring that way. It's so much less cigar smoke and so many less dark rooms. That's the thing that infuriates me. I wish there were fat cats that you could punch. I'm a fat cat. When I look back the thing I want to punch isn't human, it's the faculty that doesn't give a shit."
- How did the idea for "Remedial Chaos Theory" come about?
MCKENNA: "The season before, Dan kept on obsessing about doing an episode about-- and I remember it was right before Christmas, season two, and we had like two days to break, and we had to send someone off to write an episode over Christmas. And it was like 'Okay, I've always wanted to do an episode with multiple timelines.' Oh really? Two days before Christmas and you want to break this thing? You asshole! So he obsessed about that for a little while, and we ended up doing [something else], and then next season, Dan still had a little obsession with doing something with multiple timelines. We had already done one and two, and we wanted to do something-- it was supposed to be the third episode actually, and Dan was like 'Hey, remember multiple timelines.' So we started kicking around ideas, and Dan had a million awesome ideas, and Dan just downloaded and had like 'Oh it has to be this, it has to be all seven timelines.' So we did seven timelines, and you've seen probably on Tumblr the insanity. Dan downloaded, talked about it, figured out things, and he would come back in and reshape, and it was about four of us for two weeks with Dan just figuring out how do you do this most complicated episode that we've ever done? Because we wanted everything to work in this kind of clockwork way, but the clock is constantly changing. So it was this incredible idea of Dan's that we beat our heads against the wall on for a couple of weeks, and even that was like a template. And we came back and we made this thing that at a certain point, Dan and I sort of go 'Oh, this is terrible. This is a terrible episode of television.'"
HARMON: "Oh yeah, we really thought it was a stinker. You always think at some point or another that it's just a horrible stinker. The relationship between sci-fi and comedy is so much different than the relationship between sci-fi and drama. For some reason, with sci-fi and drama, you can have Sandra Bullock rent a lake house that has a magical mailbox where she's talking to a guy that used to live there two years ago. I mean it's so fucking weird in a drama! And pay no hede to any actual internal logic because the root of it is 'Well, this is how I feel.' In comedy-- and this is the amazing thing-- in comedy if you want to go there, you have to bring your A sci-fi game. Hence Groundhog Day, which is one of the most amazing romantic comedies, one of the most amazing sci-fi concepts, and yet it's neither sci-fi, nor particularly a comedy. The idea of saying what is the fact? That every reality is based on our choices, obviously, how you illustrate it. If Lisa Kudrow or Gwyneth Paltrow-- I get them confused sometimes-- if she steps off a subway and the sliding doors happen behind her or whatever and she ends up in a different thing, it's fine as long as nobody's laughing. And I just always find that fascinating that in comedy, you're always a little less licensed to do something that nerdy people always do, which is think about the macro-reality of reality."
MCKENNA: "It's harder than drama! We're doing someting conceptual, and at the same time, we still have to have set-ups and punchlines. I'm sorry, drama doesn't have to do that! They just have to give looks."
HARMON: "I'd love to write that: 'Abed gives Jeff a look.' Anyway... For anyone who doesn't know, I remember uploading screenshots of a text message conversation I had with then-writer Megan Ganz about the concept probably over that holiday break or something where the cool thing about it, and I'm glad I did it was because I would have forgotten about where my head was at the time. Because you can see us talking about the idea way before it has anything to do with a board game or anythign like that. At the time it was called the Run Lola Run idea, and you'd see the scene that they'd restarted, and there was also this element of like well when play video games, we save our place instead of start over. And then that was a whole other idea actually. The original idea, I think, was going to be Abed and Troy playing a reality video game and then starting over because one of their character dies. But how do you justify that stuff? You can't actually reach that reality."
- Are there any plans for a character with an ailment or disability on season five?
HARMON: "Season five, sadly not, as far as having a character who's sort of physically, on-screen, cuts that archetype."
MCKENNA: "Jeff has body dysmorphia!"
HARMON: "That's true. Jeff is anorexic, and we could focus on that struggle. No, but the physically differently abled folk who have approached me and said 'Where's that guy or girl on Community?', it really-- it gets to me. There's a lot of categories that you go 'Oh shit, am I doing my job?' We haven't incorporated anything like that this season."
MCKENNA: "We'd also want to do it in a way that we run up to the idea and the character, and we talked about in the past, and it's just, we also don't want to make it feel like we're doing something as a joke, more of a run-up to these people who have afflictions."
HARMON: "Yeah, I remember talking to this guy who came up to me after a Writer's Guild panel, and he was in a wheelchair, and he said the same question... and I sort of thought on it for the first time with him, out-loud, and said 'You know, that is so important.'"
MCKENNA: "We do have a character coming up that is hearing impaired."
HARMON: "That's true."
MCKENNA: "You know, and it becomes a major storyline, the episode, and it's not just for a laugh. It is someone we hired who does have a hearing impairment. So it's one of those things, though, where we're always trying to embrace every element of humanity in the show. I mean, in season three we were talking about having someone who was an assistant to the dean, and it wasn't a joke; it was like 'Oh we want to have an assistant to the dean who has a mental disability,' and I think it became one of these things where we were just so worried it would be coming off as I don't know, like we were making fun of it or something."
HARMON: "Well, people's scalpels come out. That's the interesting thing, and why it is our responsibility to do it, because people self-hatred and hatred of others come out at the same time. So we talked about the idea, for example, of the dean having this assistant that was mentally disabled or challenged, I don't even know what the correct word is for it anymore. But we had this character that he was using to kind of shield him-- that he would use him to deliver the bad news about teachers' salaries being cut and stuff. And so that joke is what? Are we supposed to laugh at what makes uncomfortable? Are we supposed to laugh at the fact that we're all on the same page as human beings? Or are we supposed to laugh because we're all really happy about how everything is? I think the latter type laugher is not real; I think that laughter happens because we're scared. And I think that the physically challenged people who walk into a room with crutches on their arms or in a wheelchair, the most profound thing that happens is the entire room desperately-- emotionally-- wants that to not be the case. They don't want that person to be in that situation. And so the incredibly irony is that somebody you have the most concern for becomes a living ghost. I remember explaining this to somebody who talked to me after a panel, and I was just kind of babbling about it in my autistic way and not making eye contact and just kind of thinking through it, like 'How would you do it comedically?' And I look over, and he's crying because I've fucking ripped his soul apart, describing this stuff but sort of glossing over it with my comedic sensibility. How would you add a wheelchair to a sitcom without pandering? How would you invite that human experience into it and make it part of the thing? The answer is I don't know how, but I do know at the time that we're doing it, there would be a lot of conversation.
MCKENNA: "We try to write up to people, write up to human beings, in a way that also does not make them martyrs and saints for having an affliction but also not doing jokes about someone with a disability. So I've always thought that we'd be able to do it in the Community way, which embraces humanity and also brings a sense of humor to it so it's not just oh we're patting ourselves on the back for doing it."
HARMON: "Yeah, Joe Russo told me a phrase when we were casting the pilot for Community-- and this is related to the race conversation we were having. We were talking about casting the pilot race neutral. As opposed to 'Oh this character is the black housewife; this character is the Asian astrophysicist', it's saying 'Okay, this character is the housewife, we don't know ethnically what she'll be.' It's difficult in casting-- it's not casting's fault-- you're dealing with racks of human tissue; you shuffle through them like they're coats; there are sizes and shapes and different colors. So conquering racism as a source on television, it's weird-- the conversations get weird. And you've never even gotten to the place-- we haven't gotten to the place of talking about disabled people the same way. 'Oh this person's in a wheelchair'-- we're nowhere near there at all. And so the strange thing about it is, I don't want to do what Joe Russo would call the Disney approach to it. That's what he described racially. He said, 'That's where you just say 'I want a black person; I want an Asian person; I want--' it feels like a crime is being committed there. 'I did a multi-ethnic, multi-camera sitcom where race didn't exist as much.' I don't like that; I don't want to be that show where the guy rolls in in the wheelchair and is just there, and it's great, it's a victory because of the fact that the wheelchair got to be there. There's something-- something is wrong with that. I do like the idea of respecting people so much that we acknowledge all of the different ways to be human and acknowledge that they can also be part of set-ups and punchlines. One of my biggest pet peeves is that the laughter has to stop because someone comes into a scene; their IQ has to lower or higher because of their other condition. It makes me very conflicted about it. I was raised in the '70s where they were obsessed about it."
- What was the approach to the show upon returning?
HARMON: "Actually our challenge was more about 'What are we going to do now?' It was kind of like a re-pilot. If we commit one crime in the eyes of hardcore fans in episode one of season five, maybe it will be a little bit boring because we actually just get them all back at Greendale so we could start it again? So actually more than anything it was 'What is our job here?' We had a big three-day summit with all of our writers, and that was the title of it. 'What is our job?' What have we been hired to do by the fans, by the mythical beast known as the new viewer, what is our job? And we all agreed-- we had a three-day conversation-- that our job was--"
MCKENNA: "To make everyone feel okay. About getting back to basics. And that's what we're doing. Once 501 is out of the way-- which is also a great episode-- because when you watch 502, I watch it, and I just get excited, I go, 'Okay, here we go!' We have new characters, new dynamics, similar settings, but it is just getting back to the characters."
HARMON: "There's two episodes into the thirteen that are just like full-blown, screw you, season two Community just decided you need to catch up tonally, basically. But that does not mean that the other episodes are normal episodes. The other episodes kind of thread this weird needle of 'Well because of the subject matter they're dealing with, we feel a little David Finchery this week.' So it's pretty interesting."
MCKENNA: "And then we go out in style with a certain character in a way-- that you know about, he's leaving-- that makes it fun and epic and feels like a throwback of season one and two Community."
- How do you strike a balance between story, character development, arcs, and jokes in the script?
HARMON: "It's pretty easy because you sort of set a rule and say 'Well, this is a comedy script,' and as I've said, I want this to be competitive with something as recognizable as 30 Rock. You sort of set a rule in your head where you need to be setting up or telling a joke three times per page, or something like that. You set a ridiculous sort of 'I'm going to write a haiku; I'm going to write a sonnet.' Sonnets and haikus, they have structural demands that may seem to sort of compromise you, but within that sonnet or haiku, you absolutely go 'This sonnet is about people'; 'This sonnet will not make you think that this person that they're talking about is not a real person, even if that's necessary for the syllables to end at the right number at the end of this line.' Does that makes sense? The jokes are the last thing."
MCKENNA: "The jokes are the meaty part, but we could do those in an all-nighter or the morning before, but if the story's not working, if you don't care about what's happening, then the joke's not working either. I've been at table reads, not on this show, where the jokes are incredible, but if the story's not working, the jokes don't play because people don't care. So once you get them caring about the story, then the jokes will come, and you can move on into really fun, fun stuff. But it's all empty if the story's not working."
Community will return to NBC on January 2 2014 at 8 p.m.
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