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Copied information over from when the article was at its largest, and editing it to work now. I don't know if we can copy over templates or not. Edit away. Dream Focus 01:33, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Need to divide the article to make it load better
It suggest when I edit, that the article is too long, and should be divided into smaller sections. Any suggestions? I guess a page for each Voltron series, with just a brief mention of it on the main page. Dream Focus 01:42, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
- I like it long like that, all the information relevant to other information, no problems scrolling down. Does anyone who is interested in the information, and difference in the series and characters and whatnot, prefer to have things put onto separate pages? If not, no reason not to let it stay as it is. I put the DVD information on another page already, and the trivia that doesn't concern anything in the Voltron universe itself is on another page called Trivia now. Dream Focus 11:21, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Its about the article, not the fame
The thing about making 50 stubs, and trying to get noticed by Google, and posting links everywhere you can to make your wiki more popular, I find rather shocking! I certainly wasn't expecting that. If you wish to make a stub, it should be because you believe there should be an article there, not because you want to pick up more hits on a search engine.
The wiki's should provide interesting information to those seeking it, not just be some search engine trap where you end up there, look around, find nothing that impresses you much, and then never return. Dream Focus 18:27, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
What should be added?
A list of the ratings in various countries when it came out. How long the syndication of it have been going on(I believe reruns are still shown on some channels in America at times). Estimates as to how many times the series has aired through reruns. Perhaps pictures of all of the characters on a character portrait page? More detailed information about them, if any was to be had perhaps? What more could be said that wasn't in their summaries? Did the Japanese script have them any different than the American script? Since the series didn't last that long, not much more to say about it I suppose. Never hesitate to speak up and state your opinions though. Dream Focus 19:07, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I moved the comic book information to its own page
WARNING: This page is 57 kilobytes long; some browsers may have problems editing pages approaching or longer than 32kb. Please consider breaking the page into smaller sections.
Firefox 3 has no trouble loading this, but what about those of of you using Internet Explorer, or whatever other browsers are out there? Do Mac and Linux users have access to Firefox even? I don't think they'd be using Internet Explorer, so perhaps other browsers exist. Anyway... does anyone know if anyone out there, is having trouble loading the page? Older computers perhaps have a problem.
I moved the two comic book sections to another page, but we're still a bit long. I believe all the information about the first three Voltrons fits together, they all connected after all, but the comics could stand on their own page I suppose. They did come out more than a decade later after all. I'll see what else I can move to reduce the page size, for those who might have a problem with it. They wouldn't be adding that WARNING message in big scary capital letters, unless there was a problem. Dream Focus 17:21, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
There is a review from a guy who has read the Voltron movie script
http://www.latinoreview.com/script-reviews/voltron-defender-of-the-universe-65 A lot of foul language, and whatnot, but when he gets to describing the script, he does a good job. I stopped reading because I'd rather be surprised when I see things in the movie. So, spoiler alert. If anyone is interested though, check it out. I see no need to add a lot of plot detail to this article, but perhaps some general information such as character changes, overall setting, and whatnot might be of interest to some people. Dream Focus 17:44, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
- Link changed. I fixed it in your comment above. Also added to movie page. I ought to find a copy of that script if it's floating around... --GrantB 07:28, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
WorldEvents has YouTube collection
The company that released it in American has its own official YouTube collection found here: http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldEvents
Watching through the first part of their history found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwqeNResh6s I found it interesting to note that Go Lion was sent over by accident, they actually planning on using other robot series before then.
Lot of official stuff there to look through for information. Dream Focus 17:14, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Is there any activity on this wiki?
From what I can tell, there's been no activity here in almost 4 months. Is anyone actively maintaining this wiki? I'd be interested in helping. Raukodraug 05:10, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
- I get a message whenever someone post anywhere at all here. I created this wikia because no one else had yet, and I wanted to preserve some of the information which was being deleted from the official Wikipedia article. I thought after I created it, someone else would take over. I just found all the information interesting, and didn't want to see 90% of that article deleted, so I just moved everything over here, and then worked on it from there.
- Anyway, feel free to edit whatever you want. Dream Focus 11:30, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
- I'm still fairly new to the wiki editing world, but as I get a little more familiar on other wikis I'll be sure to be back and work here. Thanks. Raukodraug 01:21, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
- I have been adding articles about episodes. Dbz77 07:32, January 19, 2011 (UTC)dbz77
draft for new front page
(originally posted this comment on Dream Focus' user page, but I guess it's probably more relevant here)
See my draft front page on my user page. Obviously each image will be different; those are just placeholders. I'll take some screengrabs off my DVDs and take other pictures before it goes live.
Anyway, give me feedback if you have any. I'm going to split up the current front page soon into the sub-pages that this page links to. I'll probably take it live this weekend if I don't hear any objection.
--GrantB 18:53, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
- I love the draft you set-up. --Raukodraug 16:25, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks. I need to get it in gear and wrap it up already. I can't believe I said I'd get it done a month ago! Need to get the remaining pics and just do it already. Stupid real-world interfering with my frivolous projects... --GrantB 20:11, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Working on new page now
I copied some things over from GrantB's creation: [1]. It still needs some work. Having the boxes for the original Japanese version on the right, next to the Americanized version, would look fine. I had trouble getting that to happen. Anyway, we can not loose any content. There has to a box listing it or linking to a page that does in a proper manner. And no reason not to have general series information on the main page to explain things. Dream Focus 11:44, September 28, 2009 (UTC)
Moved a lot of info to other pages
I put in a lot of time tonight making revisions to the front page. All info removed from this page has been preserved and moved to other pages. I took great care not to delete any info from this wiki. Please ask me if you think I lost something; I tried to be clear in my edit comments where I moved the info to (note: "TOS" means "The Original Series" aka Voltron: Defender of the Universe). I will continue to move the random info at the bottom of this page to more appropriate pages. --GrantB 07:25, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
I made stub articles for the villians and started finding pictures for all of them
I went ahead and made articles for all the villains, and started finding pictures of them to upload. Adding in what episodes they appeared in, and additional information might be helpful in some cases. Once an article is made, it can be expanded, growing in time, thus is the way of things. Dream Focus 04:09, January 26, 2010 (UTC)
- Cool cool. The character summaries from Wikipedia are pretty sloppy, so I plan to clean them up later, but it's good to get the pages started. As I go through episodes/comics, I'll be cleaning them up. I plan for character pages to follow the general format I used for Pidge aka Hiroshi Suzuishi (different pages), as this format has served the TFWiki well (e.g. see Powerglide). I think we ought to enforce separation of Voltron/Golion references, and eliminate pointless references to non-Voltron anime. For example, the King Zarkon summary is an ambiguous mix of Golion/Voltron references, and the references to Voltes V do not help to clarify or illustrate any point. I'll probably work over that page in a bit (and move his Golion character traits to a Daibazaal page).
- Going forward, another thing I'd like to be thorough on is citations. I want to be fairly rigorous on having sources for various claims made, and I suspect there's some stuff on this wiki right now that isn't entirely accurate. A few times people have added fan-fic last names to the VV characters to Wikipedia; stuff like that bugs the crap out of me. "Common knowledge" is not-infrequently totally wrong.
- Right now I'm revising the episode guides and templates (see User:GrantB/Test Page). When I'm done with that I'm going to get back to my Todo list. --GrantB 14:28, January 26, 2010 (UTC)
- I added more info on the King Zarkon page. Dbz77 18:01, January 22, 2011 (UTC)dbz77
You can see what pages people keep going to
http://voltron.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Mostvisitedpages&limit=500&offset=0 That list all of the pages on this Wikia, and how many views each one of them got. I wonder why so many people go to the main page, and so few of those then go and visit other pages. Dream Focus 09:32, March 28, 2010 (UTC)
Been busy
Hi, just an FYI that I'm still into this, just too busy to contribute much right now. I'll get back to this sooner or later... GrantB 13:32, April 21, 2010 (UTC)
Voltron Force added, DVD box dropped
- Added a new box for Voltron Force, as production is well underway according to various official sources. Image pulled from Voltron Facebook page. I'll stub out a page for the series soon.
- Removed the DVD box, because I don't think it's a good idea. DVD information would be best placed on the show page of what it is. A couple pages have this already, and I'll migrate the current DVD page contents to other pages as appropriate.
--GrantB 21:48, August 31, 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps a picture of something bloody and then the same image of something clean, put together to be the size of the other banners, and thus linking to all the changes in the series. The various articles for the different series can have a link to the list articles for their enemies, characters, episodes, and whatnot. Dream Focus 01:01, October 23, 2010 (UTC)
Wikias allow an option to turn on badges. Some wikias I've seen use them. For every single thing you can imagine doing, you get a badge and some points. This apparently encourages people to edit more. How does everyone feel about them? Dream Focus 04:22, November 21, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not really interested. I think adding a "competitive" aspect is a little silly, and might inadvertently encourage "gaming" the system for points. --GrantB 17:45, November 21, 2010 (UTC)
100 Articles! What What!
I just added the 100th article! (If you're curious, it's The Armored Fleet Dairugger XV Collection.) I saw we were at 99 and felt the need to knock us into triple digits. Hooray for us! --GrantB 22:30, November 23, 2010 (UTC)
- Yay. I should be adding more over the holiday weekend. --User:RenkonNairu
- Poop. I deleted a bunch of orphan/empty pages, and now we're back under 100. Yay progress. Number 100 is back in play!--GrantB 20:28, November 29, 2010 (UTC)
- Are we in competision now to see who can create the 100th article? RenkonNairu 20:33, November 29, 2010 (UTC)
- Not really, I'm just joking around. --GrantB 20:36, November 29, 2010 (UTC)
- Good to know. BTW, how's that fomat for the episodes coming? The one that you were dtafting so that other users could just copy paste it and fill in as nessisary. RenkonNairu 20:41, November 29, 2010 (UTC)
- Not really, I'm just joking around. --GrantB 20:36, November 29, 2010 (UTC)
- Are we in competision now to see who can create the 100th article? RenkonNairu 20:33, November 29, 2010 (UTC)
New Articles
Is anyone planning to write new articles for the new month? Dbz77 20:29, February 1, 2011 (UTC)dbz77
- I just added First Day on a New World (vehicle ep 2). I'll put up Building a New World soon (ep 3). They've been ready for a while (sitting in a text file on my computer); I've just been lazy about uploading them. --GrantB 20:50, February 9, 2011 (UTC)
- I have added Enter Merla: Queen of Darkness, To Soothe the Savage Robeast, Lotor - My Hero?, The Alliance Strikes Back!, and Breakin' up is Hard to Doom Dbz77 19:48, March 12, 2011 (UTC)dbz77
Front page reorg time?
Now that Voltron Force is going strong, and we know how WEP is allotting their attention for the next year or two, I think a front-page reorg might be in order. The current front page was good enough when I first hacked it together, but I think we can do better.
- First off, I think some space on the front page should be devoted to our fledgling wiki community. For instance, point to some guidelines and important community pages, show some news, some TODO items if someone is looking for something to do... you know, stuff that other wikis do.
- Second, the Voltron content should be reorg'd toward a franchise-oriented approach. Basically, we group content into three families:
- Voltron Force
- Voltron: DotU (aka the old show)
- Japanese stuff (Golion/Dairug/Albegas).
- (If the Voltron live-action movie ever happens, likely it would be a fourth franchise group. Probably we'll keep something like current box on the front page so people can find movie news if it breaks.)
To elaborate on the second point, I would rearrange the "Comics" content. Each franchise should have a comics sub-link: Voltron Force would have a link to Force comics and DotU would link to DotU comics. The "Merchandise" box would be reworked similarly. (This is kinda reflective of how I'm going to steer our wiki content organization, but one thing at a time.)
I'll probably start working on a new page (using a sandbox page) to better show what I'm talking about. I basically just wanted to get this braindump out here to see if anyone had any opinions or ideas or anything to add. (Also note my somewhat related post over at Voltron wiki talk:Community Portal) --GrantB 23:17, July 14, 2011 (UTC)
DotU looks stupid. Suggestions
Instead of renaming characters from Voltron: Defender of the Universe with (DotU) in their name, perhaps just leave that out entirely. Those from the newer version have (Voltron Force) in their name, so you can't mix the two up. Also, the banner up top that says what series they are from, should list the series, not just the abbreviation for it. Example: [2]. Everyone state your opinions please. Dream Focus 11:50, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
- I asked for input more than a month ago (see previous topic and [[3]]), and no one replied, except for MonkeyMan5 on my talk page. The plain-old name is being used redirected to disambiguation pages, e.g. Keith or Allura, which I think is more appropriate. Now that Voltron Force is going strong, DotU is starting to get used more and more on the forums to differentiate the old and the new. --GrantB 16:53, August 19, 2011 (UTC)
- You are right. I just checked the most visited pages. http://voltron.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Mostvisitedpages Voltron Force has more hits than any of the character pages from any series. I think having (Defender of the universe) instead of (DotU) looks better though. Dream Focus 00:38, August 20, 2011 (UTC)
- I mostly intend for DotU to be used on page names only (because the full phrase is just too damn long). In actual page content, the full phrase should be used. The change you made on Allura (DotU) is appropriate and I should have done that in the first place. I will get around to fixing it on those other pages with similar headings. --GrantB 17:03, August 20, 2011 (UTC)
- You are right. I just checked the most visited pages. http://voltron.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Mostvisitedpages Voltron Force has more hits than any of the character pages from any series. I think having (Defender of the universe) instead of (DotU) looks better though. Dream Focus 00:38, August 20, 2011 (UTC)
New changes
The Voltron on TV section needs a proper image next to each of the shows, something that shows Voltron and the pilots, not just a title screen. The video section should show videos from all the different series. Anyone feel like working on that, go for it. Any comments, suggestions, whatever, don't hesitate to post here. Dream Focus 21:00, February 16, 2016 (UTC)
January 27th Season 2 of Legendary Defenders
Since the release of Season 2 is within two months of arriving, I think that everyone should be ready to add pages, edit already existing ones and comb the episodes for more information. If you're willing to do so, please leave me a message on my talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AvatarAero (talk • contribs)
- People do that anyway whenever a new episode comes out. And always remember to sign your name when you post on a talk page, something you just forgot. Also when you edit an article, you can click to preview it before publishing the change, this keeping you from having to edit it several times in a row to change minor things. Dream Focus 12:48, December 1, 2016 (UTC)
Allura Should Be On The Front Page
Now that Allura is a paladin, she should be on the front page with the rest of the paladins.Bob4584584545 (talk) 09:27, November 14, 2017 (UTC)


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Let's say I have a bunching of books on the cloud nothing too excites there so let's go to my device. Now I have a bunch of different books listed the Oxford Dictionary astronomy textbook.So let's organize this differently we can organize it by author so at lists in alphabetical order we can organize it by recently bought or read or just by title.Another way that we can change the way these looks are hitting this button downs here once I hit it gives me help or the list views. I prefer the list view rather than a bookshelf, so I were hitting listed view and my books are listed and I can scroll upped and down and still access them perfect and I just showed you how you can organize your books on your Kindle, thanks.

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It wasn't the film's story of love and romance that built the huge hit song – it was his own
"The Power of Love" became one of Huey Lewis & The News' biggest hits of the '80s. But it wasn't inspired by the time-traveled-addled romance between Marty McFly's parents or even the bromance between Marty and his pal Doc Brown in Back to the Future.
Rather than draw inspiration from the film's plotline, Lewis – who co-wrote the song with original bandmates Chris Hayes and Johnny Colla – looked to his personal muses of the moment.
"It was my young family," he reveals in time for Back to the Future Day Wednesday, which coincides with the release of the trilogy on Blu-ray. "It was 1985, and I was married in '83 and had two kids, one born in '84 and one in '85. And that was what that was about."
Turning the clock back to 1985, the frontman for the mega-popular '80s band recalls being called into a meeting with producer Steven Spielberg, director Bob Zemeckis and Zemeckis' screening partner Bob Gale to talk about their upcoming time-travel comedy, which was early in production.
"Zemeckis said 'We've just written this movie, and the lead character Marty McFly's favorite band would be Huey Lewis & the News,' " Lewis tells PEOPLE. The filmmakers asked him: "How would you like to write a song for the film?"
"And I said "Wow!" Flattered, but I didn't know how to write for film, necessarily – and furthermore didn't really fancy writing a song called 'Back to the Future,' honestly," says Lewis, who nearly balked at the offer.
"And he said 'Oh no, no – call the song whatever you want.' And I said, 'Well, great! The next thing we write, I'll send it down to you.' And the next thing we wrote was 'The Power of Love."
The song appears in the original film in two versions: one performed by Marty (Michael J. Fox) and his band the Pinheads, while the News' track played as Marty skateboards through Hill Valley's Town Square.
The tune was an instant smash, rising up the pop charts in the weeks prior to the film's release, becoming the group's first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was eventually nominated for an Academy Award as Best Song, and Christopher Lloyd appeared as Doc Brown in the band's music video.
"The song was gonna be a big hit anyway," notes Lewis, "but the movie propelled it internationally. So for us, we had plenty of hits, more than a few hits in America, but with the film, suddenly it was a big international hit. So we toured Asia and Europe and all that."
Early on, the filmmakers were so pleased with the results that they asked Lewis if he could pen one more song for the film's end credits. For the second effort, Lewis decided to try building the song around the movie's story points.
"Sean Hayes and I put together "Back In Time" – and it turned out that it's actually quite easy to write for film!" the singer laughs. "In a way, it's easier, in that you don't have to invest yourself in it. So that was a lot of fun, actually."
The musical collaboration also led to a side-gig for Lewis, who was cast in a cameo as one of the high school teachers auditioning Marty's band – telling him, ironically, that his version of "The Power of Love" is "just too darn loud."
"I was reluctant at first, not being an actor, obviously," says Lewis. "But Zemeckis thought it would be a good idea, as long as I didn't get credited. It was kind of an inside joke kind of thing."
The singer subsequently scored some high-profile acting gigs, including a role in the Robert Altman-directed "Short Cuts," a leading role opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in Duets, and most recently a multi-episode stint on the sitcom Hot In Cleveland.
"I'm in show business: I'll do anything for attention or money – usually in that order," he laughs. "I like it as long as I don't have to do it for a living. As a lark, it's really, really fun."
At age 65, Lewis says he doesn't exactly miss the heady atmosphere of his '80s-era heights of fame. "I remember it wasn't a lot of fun to be in malls. It wasn't a lot of fun to be in McDonald's. Just walking around town was a bit of a job for me. I actually prefer my new profile, to be honest with you, because it was a little too much for me. I don't care about being famous so much."
But making music remains the priority: Despite a few lineup shifts, Huey Lewis & The News is in its 37th year of touring, performing around 70 concerts in 2015 .
"Playing live is what we've always done," says Lewis. "It's what we're best at. It's what we love to do – and by the way, we're still improving. So that's what we are: We're an audio act. Yeah, we make videos and yeah, we make records, but what we really do is play live."
And the singer says that, after a long recording hiatus, the band may have a few new hits ahead. "We've written five new songs, which is wildly prolific for us," he chuckles. "You know, it gets harder to write. That really becomes the hard problem, because you've told your best stories, maybe. But as a songwriter and as a singer, you need a new story every once in a while, and you can't force this stuff. And suddenly, we had some ideas and we got five new things, three or four of which I'm very, very proud of."
Proud enough for Lewis to prompt fans to envision a future beyond 2015: "Tell everybody to feel free to imagine themselves owning a brand new CD next year!"


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All-Ages in a Onesie. Corey Babra Talks 'Yam'
It's a lovely life on the island of La Leche de la Luna. On an average day, you might find yourself dealing with a cupcake that thinks it's a pet, a flower that wants to start a rock band, turtles with delicious treats for shells, or even meet the girl of your dreams…and hang out with her in her dreams.It's the life of an adventurous little boy with a jetpack and orange onesie known as Yam. For years, his adventures have appeared in Nickelodeon magazine, and now they've come to comics in Top Shelf Productions' new collection Yam: Bite-Size Chunks, which features an all-new 38-page story. Yam's creator, Corey Babra, talked to Newsarama about his surreal creation, and how it came to be. Newsarama: Corey, could you describe Yam to a new reader? Corey Babra: Yam is a little boy who flies around a remote tropical island with a magical backpack/jetpack. He has these sort of surreal adventures, and when he comes up against a challenge- he's forced to use creative solutions. Some of the circumstances are a bit odd- like, he lives alone, just him and his pet TV. There's also some mystery concerning where he's from. It all started as a series of visual gags, but I've developed a mythology about the little guy. The island is called La Leche de la Luna, which is Spanish for "The Milk of the Moon." And we'll be finding out more about that. Yam's best pals are Gato the cat, a young girl named May, and Grams, and nice old lady who lives near Yam. NRAMA: How did you come up with the concept? CB: I had drawn a bunch of little pictures as a kind of exercise, and one of them was the first ever drawing of Yam. He was flying over the city, and I thought, "Wow- he's like a cool little baby super hero" Except traditional super heroes didn't really interest me. I figured if he had wacky adventures, maybe I could pitch them to Nickelodeon Magazine. Incidentally, a few days after that first Yam drawing, I discovered a photo I'd taken of our little son Elijah at the zoo- he was sitting in his stroller wearing an orange hoodie. It was weird. The Yam adventures I ended up creating were dreamlike scenarios- you know, little situations where I could use and bend child-logic. Like, if you put sod on your head and watered it, would you grow flower hair? NRAMA: I'm sure we've all been there. How did you become involved with Nickelodeon Magazine, and what's working for them been like? CB: I first approached the Nick Mag art director at my wife's urging. I had been doing these humorous illustrations and I thought I could sell some work to them. The A.D. called me back with an assignment for a few illos, and said she'd also passed my stuff along to Chris Duffy, the editor in charge of the magazine's comic section. I pitched a few things to Chris soon after that, including an adaptation of a children's story I had in mind. A few years later, when I first pitched Yam to Chris, he thought it was too baby-like for the Nickelodeon readership. Then he got back with me and that he'd reconsidered- he would run what I'd pitched. I probably wasn't that invested in the character at the time- had Chris not changed his mind, I'm not sure Yam would be around today. That was quite a few years ago, and now I've spent all my time with Nick Mag in the comic section. And I'm in awesome company. The Nick Mag "Comic Book" is full of amazing cartoonists who often times have one foot in the underground or indy world. Good stuff. NRAMA: How did the collection from Top Shelf come about? CB: I had written a long-form Yam story with the goal of getting a Yam book published. I sent it around to Chris Staros at Top Shelf- who wasn't quite sold on that particular story, but enjoyed Yam and all the short stories I showed him. He said if I wanted to collect all of the Nick mag color comics and all the other shorts I had, he and Brett [Warnock- Top Shelf co-publisher] would put it out. I then wrote the 38-page story to round out the book. Staros was a big help with that- he wanted be sure that whatever I cooked up had some heart to it. Now there's going to be a series of Yam books. NRAMA: What's the process of creating a Yam comic? How do you plot out the story, and what are the challenges in telling it without words? CB: The best ideas are bolts out of the blue. They pretty much arrive ready to be drawn. Others start as seeds of a gag that need to be thought through to get something worthwhile. Then I'll spend time laying it out and deciding on the best images to show. The tough part about doing a "silent" strip is that it's acted out in pantomime. There's no exposition where a character talking to another can explain all the boring stuff I don't want to draw. If I want the audience to know that something has occurred, I have to show it in some way; it makes you think about how to best get an idea across. There are dream sequences in "Toy with My Dreams" that I handled by making the style of panel border into clouds. There are whole pages with cloud borders, and it keeps the reader informed as to when the dream ends. Future Yam stories will utilize flashbacks in time as a way to show past events, and the color stuff will switch to sepia tones as a way to show that. But it's a fun challenge to rely on the acting of the characters. I take a lot of cues from animation and Charlie Chaplin movies. Things have to read well, you know? If there's one action taking place that the reader doesn't understand, the whole thing can just fall apart. NRAMA: It seems like the no-dialogue approach is a great trend in all-ages comics these days, Owly and Korgi being two other examples. Why do you feel silent stories work so well in the all-ages format? CB: Yeah, that's odd, huh? When it came time to find a publisher, seeing that Top Shelf was doing Owly and Korgi certainly made me think they might be open to Yam. I think it's less of a movement and just kind of a naturally occurring thing. There have been wordless picture books for children forever. I've seen wordless alternative comics in anthologies like RAW going way back. Norwegian cartoonist Jason does great wordless stuff, and I definitely count Jim Woodring as an influence.
If it's well told, I think wordless stories can work for anyone. And I still consider it reading, even though there are no wordsNRAMA: There's also the matter of length – what are the challenges in doing Yam as one-and-two-page strips, and, conversely, what was it like doing the longer story for the collection? CB: Short, wordless stories are way more challenging from a writing standpoint. You may have a great idea or a gag you want to convey, but if there's only a page or two worth of panels to get it across, that's tough; it forces you to cook it down to the bare bones. Only the necessary actions can make the final cut, you know?
And each pose you choose for the character has to communicate the maximum amount of expression. Too bad a one or two pager will take less than a minute to read. You can't think about that sort of thing up front, though."Toy with My Dreams," the longer story in the book, was a pleasure to make. It gave me some breathing room that I ordinarily don't get. The humor is gleaned more from the situations and drawings, less from gags. It's a nice thing- not having to stuff an idea into a predetermined amount of little boxes. I mean, it's a great discipline, to be able to economize your drawings, but it sure is good to have the luxury of space and time. NRAMA: What were the inspirations for the countless living creatures in Yam's world? It reminds me of the old Terrytoons where everything seemed to be alive. CB: The animation of the Fleischer Brothers is a big influence on me. Things were always coming to life in the old Betty Boop and Popeye shorts. Part of it is also inspired by Japanese pop culture, though- when I was a kid, I imagined that if you walked down the streets of Tokyo, you'd find that everything had a face and wanted to befriend you. NRAMA: What materials do you use to illustrate Yam? Given that some of the stories are done in different styles from others, do you use the strip as a way to experiment artistically? CB: Yeah, if you flip through "Bite-size Chunks" you'll see that the mediums used to draw the strip range from Sharpie markers and brushes to crow-quill dip pens. There was a period where I was just doing stuff using whatever materials were handy, then I sort of honed in on the things I liked best.
I'd been a brush and ink guy for a long time- which gave me a real slick look, but I found that the tool that feels most natural for Yam is the dip pen. They give you this scratchy, intense quality you can't get with anything else, and to me it just says, "comic strip."I think it feels like a connective tissue to the strips that have inspired Yam the most-the great newspaper cartoonists like Winsor McCay, George Herriman and E.C. Segar. The Sanrio influence kicks in after that.
There is still some experimenting that occurs. I was looking at some Peanuts strips recently, and I thought the obvious evolution that the characters undergo is so awesome. I wanted a totally different looking version of Yam, but not as an evolution or replacement.This would be a big-headed Yam that could exist in a book with the standard-designs of the characters, but in different stories. So yeah, I designed this alternate version of the character. He's in the book. I call him "Candied Yam." He's 30% cuter than regular Yam, and inked with a brush for maximum smoothness. We'll see more of that in the future. NRAMA: Mmm…candied yam. Have you had any talks about doing Yam in animation? CB: There's no talk of anything at the moment, but animation is one of my big loves, so yeah - Yam will definitely be brought to life that way at some point. NRAMA: Completely silly question: Does Yam's pet TV have a name? CB: He does- it's TV. NRAMA: Touché. What are some of your favorite all-ages comics, and what are some other comics in general that you enjoy? CB: For all-ages stuff, I think: Spiral Bound by Aaron Renier is a terrific ride, Jeff Smith's Bone, Jay Stephens' Space Ape #8 & Jet Cat stuff is awesome. Comics in general: I'm a huge fan of Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley, Dan Clowes is hands-down the World's Champion cartoonist. And I'll always have a place in my heart for Charles Schultz, Charles Adams, Jack Davis, Crumb, Osamu Tezuka. And way, way more. NRAMA: Do you have any older-skewing works in the vein of your webcomic "The Big Kiss-Off" coming up in the future? CB: I do have some things in the works, but my focus is really on Yam and developing the world of La Leche de la Luna. If I didn't focus on this, I'd be all over the map. Too many ideas, you know?
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In January I (Debby) started volunteering at a center called Fundación Arenal. Located a couple of blocks from Cuenca's biggest market, la Feria Libre, Fundación Arenal serves as a day center for kids whose parents work all day at the market. If it weren't for this Center, many of these kids would be at the market after school at best and, more likely, hanging out on the streets. The market is located in a pretty tough area of the city and the poverty surrounding the neighborhood brings me right back to Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
As a private school parent and a University professor here, I have mostly been surrounded by middle to upper class Cuencanos. This volunteer job puts me in direct contact with the city's neediest and most vulnerable population. I work with the 6 and 7 year olds in the afternoons. The kids are in school in the morning and then they eat lunch at a special place in the market (funded by the Foundation) and then they head over to the day center. We start our afternoon with some quick exercises and calisthenics (yesterday we danced to MJ's "I'm Bad" - very cute!) and then the kids go into their age appropriate classroom and sit down and do their homework. Homework is a big deal in Ecuador, at all levels, and if the kids do poorly on it it's a reflection of their parents. I've seen so many shopkeepers, neighbors, domestic workers, etc help their kids (read: do their homework for them) with their work after school. Kids definitely don't do it on their own, except in our household. Actually, Don and I both end up helping Mia and Nikki a lot with their daiily work mostly when they get stuck in the language.
Anyway, the 1st and 2nd graders at Arenal come from very poor, unstable, and often abusive homes. Their parents, if they have both living with them, have no time or desire to sit down and help their kids with their school work. Many of the parents didn't study beyond 6th grade. Many of these kids are behind their peers in reading and writing and the Center is trying to close that gap, while raising the self esteem of the kids.
The first day I was there I immediately noticed that this population was different. Their clothes are dirty, they smell like they may not have bathed in several weeks, and they are constantly itching their hair (lice....). Their language is different from other kids, they are more physical, and they are starving for attention. Within 10 minutes of being there on the first day, I had little girls climbing on my lap, touching my hair, looking at my wedding ring, staring at the color of my skin, and asking me questions non stop.
After several weeks of going, I started to bring some picture books in Spanish to read to the kids. After they finish their school work, they get a stamp and they have free time. One day, I pulled out an "I Spy" book in Spanish and I instantly had a crowd of kids surrounding me. They were completely rapt by my story telling and I realized many of them have probably never ever been read to at home or at school. They were amazed by the pictures, loved following a story, and begged me to bring more books! One little boy sat on my lap the entire time and was totally focused on the story and the lead educator for the classroom told me after she had never seen that boy sit still for more than 2 minutes. I'm going to try to build a little library at the Center and am working on getting some books at a discount from a local bilingual book store. Kids' books are really expensive here.
Yesterday I had an eye opening conversation with a 7 year old. When I first met her, I could tell she was a very angry kid and she spent more time sticking her tongue out at me and making faces than anything else. I decided she would be my personal challenge. For the first 4 or 5 visits, she continued to be nasty to me and even hit me on the arm, calling me stupid. She swears all the time to the other kids, pulls their hair, rips their paper and then gets in trouble. Apparently, it's even worse in school. My initial reaction was "I don't need this" and I moved away from her, but then later I realized she's just testing me and this is the only way she knows to get attention.
Yesterday we made a bit of a break through. She was relatively polite to me and now understands she can't use foul language or hit me. She asked me if I was married and when I told her I was, her first question was "Does he hit you?" I was shocked and told her no, when we have arguments, we work it out with words. Her follow up question was "He doesn't even hit you when you are with other men?" !! Then I asked her if her Dad hits her Mom and she said "all the time, especially when she's with another man". Her next question was shockingly vulgar, especially for a 7 year old. ¿Su esposo la sube en la cama? (Does your husband mount you?? !!!) Again, I just told her we hug each other and then go to sleep in bed. And she told me her family of 7 shares a room but she is in a different bed than her parents. Children are indeed products of their environments....
I'm sure there will be more eye opening stories as I get to know these kids. The Director of the Center tells me these are the most vulnerable kids. In addition to being extremely poor, many of them come from homes of domestic violence, alcholism, drug addiction, and there are even cases of incest. The Center has several social workers who work with the families as well, but it is an uphill battle. The satisfying part for me of working with kids is there is always a seed of hope in youth and I can only hope that the positive role models they see around the Center can give them a glimpse of other possibilities for their futures.
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Self catering accommodation in Weydale sleeps 4.
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Accommodation overview: 1 Mayfield Cottage is one of a pair of traditional croft cottages that has been lovingly restored and transformed to provide modern, bright and attractive accommodation in a superb setting.A large kitchen/ dining room opens onto an attractive conservatory lounge which looks out over open countryside across to the sea at Dunnet Head on the far north coast. The gardens are a real feature of the cottage. Surrounded by beautifully maintained dry stone walling, with lawned areas, the owners have cleverly incorporated the old sheep shearing walls, planting the thick stone walls with a variety of small plants and flowers, creating a unique and attractive garden area that enjoys truly spectacular views across to the Orkney Isles.
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Accommodation overview: CHARMING COTTAGE WITH SPECTACULAR CLIFF-TOP VIEWS This traditional croft cottage boasts a stunning clifftop location on the beautiful Caithness coast with magnificent open views over moorland to the sea sits within extensive grounds. The property offers a comfortable warm and welcoming family holiday home with simple furnishings. The cottage is located just a couple of miles from the quaint old fishing village of Dunbeath which has a fascinating Heritage Centre village shop and pub. The neighbouring coastal villages have further excellent shops and are just a short drive away. Local activities include golf river and sea angling walking climbing and trekking. If you re looking to explore there are many sand and shingle beaches local bird reserves and a ferry to take you to John O Groats. The accommodation offers TWO bedrooms: 1 double and 1 twin. Bathroom: shower over bath. Lounge/diner: with open fire flat screen TV. Kitchen: with electric oven and hob fridge freezer and microwave. Outside: enclosed garden to the front. Amenities: bed linen towels electric and initial supply of solid fuel included. Regret no smoking. Regret no pets. Location: village of Dunbeath 2 miles Wick 21 miles Strath 25 miles. Arrival: 4pm.
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Self catering accommodation in Thurso sleeps 4.
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Accommodation overview: Weydale Farm Cottage is a detached farm cottage situated on the owners 140 acre farm, with rare breed sheep grazing nearby and open views across the fields to the mountains beyond. The cottage has recently undergone extensive renovation and refurbishment. This traditional farm cottage, with its wood lined walls, local flag stone kitchen floors and deep silled windows now provides attractive, homely accommodation in a very quiet setting.Approached via a 3/4 mile traditional stone road, Weydale Farm Cottage has no near neighbours and offers a real sense of space, with a get away from it all feel to it. The large lounge, with traditional tongue and groove wood panelling has soft leather sofas and chairs. The farmhouse kitchen/dining room is very spacious and the bright, modern bathroom and two beautifully colour coordinated bedrooms add to its warm welcoming ambience. Whilst it is in a country setting, the cottage benefits from all the amenities and facilities of Thurso, which is only 2.5 mile away.


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The Berkeley Pit partially froze over this winter and experts are stumped as to why.
Although no one could say exactly how long it's been since the last time the Berkeley Pit froze over, Mark Thompson, Montana Resources vice president for environmental affairs, said that by the late 1990s it became "hit or miss."
But this winter, the pit partially froze. Thompson estimated that perhaps as much as half the lake, which is about a mile wide, iced over.
A considerable amount of ice on the surface of the water was still visible late last week.
The pit holds approximately 50 billion gallons of contaminated water. Nobody knows for sure why it partially froze this year. Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology hydrogeologist Ted Dwaime said he doesn't have any theories as to the cause.
"I really don't know," Dwaime said.
The bureau monitors the pit's water quality.
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Missoula-based National Weather Service meteorologist Bob Nester said that with the average winter temperature in Butte from Dec. 1 to Feb. 28 hovering around 19 degrees, this winter was pretty average.
Last winter Butte had a much colder winter. The average temperature during the 2016-2017 winter lingered around 15 degrees. It hasn't been that cold in Butte since the 1992-1993 winter, Nester said.
But last winter, despite the more extreme cold, Thompson said there was very little freezing on the pit's surface.
Thompson did not have any theories as to why the pit partially froze this winter.
No one The Montana Standard spoke with could remember the last time the pit's water froze completely or significantly. Thompson said that up to the mid-1990s, the pit froze every winter.
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I?m super curious about what the drops will be for the jive turkey. It will have to be good in order for me to keep an anthropomorphized headless, cooked poultry in my kingdom. Not to mention its violent nature (props to the dev team on the sleek carving fork animation).
Though to be fair, were I to be beheaded and prepared as a main dinner course, and somehow kept animate, I?d be brandishing the nearest weapon as well.
Perhaps I should keep it in my spooky section. The whole concept is downright chilling lol.
Still only ONE boar bloom from adventures. I'm not sure it's worth it to do them!
i've gotten 3 boar blooms from adventures. i think i went 5 or 6.
has anyone else's kingdom been infested w/ boars? i don't have the boar-ing problem. but everytime i click on something, i don't have a monster parked, out pops a boar
-shortdanzr aka wicked red
[Though she be but little, she is fierce]
*accepting new neighbors. I answer all requests, but don't visit daily
The game G-ds have been working again. After finishing a minute to spare last event it was a good prize but not top 3 and I have feast/food droppers, but a stay in the ICU saturday and step down now sleeping most of day the decision has Been made.
Good luck to those still in!!
Proud Owner: Dolphin Palace
Play often, help w/ requests & gifts. Looking for 1-2 40+ to exchange wisps I have great neighbors I gift but they?re often full. I gift back in order so it would be 1-2 days
Love the game & aesthetics, want it to look real/fun & true! During quests sadly aesthetics put aside for collections, but happy when over. Have expansions to improve as well!
Still part of the confirmation button club!
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One of the benefits of taking notes when reading through a book is the ability to go back very quickly and revisit some of its ideas without having to do a full reread. I've been reading through my notes of a book I read a few years back and absolutely loved, R. Paul Stevens' The Other Six Days: Vocation, Work, and Ministry in Biblical Perspective. Many Christians wrongly view their experiences of Sunday worship as punctuation so that Sunday becomes sacred while the rest of the week remains secular. I wouldn't argue that Sunday isn't a special day; certainly the gathering of the redeemed people of God for corporate worship is a special event. I would only argue, with Stevens, that it is not the division between the sacred and secular parts of our week, but rather the event that turns the whole of our weeks into sacred days. It is the time in which we are nurtured together to sent out to all the different places God has called us. Here's how he put it:
"The church, like the gathering and dispersion of blood in the body, is a rhythm of gathering (ekklesia) and dispersion (diaspora)…The church gathered must not be separated from the church dispersed any more than the heart and lungs can be separated from the body. Gathered, the blood is cleansed and oxygenated. Sent out, it fights diseases and energizes" (p. 211)."
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We know, we know, there's too much choice these days. You can't just sit down and watch a movie because there are too many to choose from, so you just spend hours scrolling through potential films and then go to bed.
Not now, you don't - everything on this list is worth watching. And we know, because we've watched them all. The lengths we go to keep you guys happy, eh...
Of course to watch the films and TV shows here you'll need an Amazon Prime Instant Video subscription. Come on, you didn't think it was going to be free, did you?
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Mr. Robot (S1)
An office drone by day, Elliott Alderson (played brilliantly by Rami Malek) is also a morphine-dependent keyboard vigilante who hacks the lives of everyone he meets. That is until he's lured in by Mr. Robot (Christian Slater) to join the hacktivist group 'F Society', whose grand plan is to cancel world debt by attacking ubiquitous conglomerate E Corp (or Evil Corp, as Elliott calls it).
Cue a trip down a rabbit hole that twists through Lynchian dream sequences, episode-long musings about the hackability of human minds, and a mounting sense of paranoia that leaves you suspicious of everything down to Elliott's malfunctioning radiator.
That Mr. Robot resists Hollywood's 'Computers for dummies' approach to the Internet is just one of the reasons why it's great. The others are that it's stylishly shot, unpredictable and offers a new take on cyberpunk, while wearing its influences (The Matrix, Fight Club and American Psycho) as proudly as the badge on its title character's shirt.
The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team at Britain's top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
Benedict Cumberbatch steals the show as the awkward genius in one of the most important, interesting, tough and painful films of recent years.
There's a moment in Paddington that will make you jump off the sofa and howl out loud in agony. Whether you're a grown-ass adult or bushy-eyed sprog, this filmic ode to everyone's favourite marmalade fiend finds a way to nestle itself around your heartstrings.
It's stuffed full of belly laughs, impeccable voice acting from Ben Whishaw and a refreshingly affectionate take on immigration. Can a Peruvian bear vanquish the dastardly Nicole Kidman, and find a home for himself in Blighty? We're not telling, but you'll have a blast finding out.
The Man in the High Castle (S1)
What if the Allies had lost the Second World War, and America was currently ruled by Germany in its eastern half and Japan in its western half? Well, you can find out in this big budget Amazon Prime original series, a thriller which zips around a 1960s North America that's more "Ja wohl!" than "Aw shucks!".
Dealing with underground resistance groups, various plots and an alternative Cold War (waged between Imperial Japan and the German Reich, now the world's only superpowers), it's the kind of series that'll appeal to history buffs, sci-fi fans and anyone who's into high concept, high budget television.
Watch The Man in the High Castle on Amazon Prime Instant Video
12 Years A Slave
12 Years A Slave is the kind of film that you'll watch once and struggle to forget about. Steve McQueen's follow-up to the exacting sex addiction drama Shame is unflinching in its portrayal of the slave trade.
Based on the true story of Solomon Northup, it shows the cruelty humans can inflict on each other without offering much in the way of hope or respite from the savagery on show. Set against the stunning landscapes of rural America, this is a movie where beauty and brutality intertwine to ruinous effect. A modern day classic.


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The Orange-breasted Bush-shrike is distributed in Africa south of the Sahara except in deep forest and the arid and semi-arid south-west. See the distribution map at Birdlife International.
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glides down to the base of the canopy of the next tree.
It has a yellow forehead which extends over the black eye-mask. The crown and mantle are grey while the rest of the upperparts are moss-green. Underparts are yellow with an orange breast.
Photos 2 and 3 show a juvenile bird which has a grey rather than black head and lacks the yellow forehead of the adult.
The song is a series of clear whistles varying in speed.
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In a bid to diversify its petrodollar economy, Saudi Arabia has become a surprise contender for a slice of the Gulf's tourism pie, and travel to the Kingdom is set to rocket over the coming years.
In a bid to diversify its petrodollar economy, Saudi Arabia has become a surprise contender for a slice of the Gulf's tourism pie, and travel to the Kingdom is set to rocket over the coming years.
While the travel and tourism industry globally took a battering last year thanks to the economic downturn; there was one shining star. Thanks to the resilience of the religious tourism market, the industry in Saudi Arabia seems to have survived the storm surprisingly well.
According to a recent report by Business Monitor International, the Kingdom is expected to receive 12.91 million tourists in 2010, a figure which will grow 6.5 percent year on year. And Saudi's Commission for Tourism & Antiquities (SCTA) has reported that revenue from tourism will increase 4.8 percent this year to reach SR66billion ($17.6bn), rising to SR118billion in 2015.
As the birthplace of Islam and custodian of the Holy Mosques in Makkah and Medina, which hold vital importance for Muslims seeking to undertake Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages, the potential for religious tourism in Saudi is huge. The current numbers still represent only a tiny fraction of the world's 1.8 billion Muslims.
Around three million Muslims gather in Makkah each year to perform the Hajj, which takes place once a year and is one of the five pillars of Islam. The Saudi government has had to set a strict cap on the number of people allowed in, with visa quotas in place for all countries.
Umrah meanwhile can be undertaken at any time of the year. Ramadan is peak season, and with the Holy month arriving during the summer over the next few years, experts are anticipating demand for pilgrimage travel to rocket in the coming years.
Ziad Bin Mahfouz, CEO of Elaf Group – one of Saudi's biggest travel and tourism companies, told ATN: "We have positive expectations for this year. Tourism for religious goals has become a vital sector for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and we anticipate a rise in the number of Hajj and Umrah pilgrims, with visitors from Egypt and Morocco predicted to account for the largest increases. Given these positive developments we expect our profits for 2010 to surpass last year's figures."
Meanwhile agents selling 'pilgrimage packages' to Makkah and Medina report a burgeoning demand for religious travel among their clients. Mohammed Al Rais, deputy managing director of Dubai-based Al Rais Travel said Ramadan saw demand peak: "During Ramadan we saw a huge demand from our clients to go to Saudi and we expect to see a lot more demand for the coming years, especially with Ramadan taking place over the summer holiday period. People don't expect to travel on holiday during Ramadan but they all want to travel to Saudi for a pilgrimage."
Building up the Industry
In order to try to accommodate the growing numbers of visitors to Saudi Arabia, the government is pouring billions of dollars into overhauling the infrastructure in the Holy Cities, as well as re-instating old heritage areas, and developing brand new tourism projects along the Red Sea coast.
Upcoming projects include the 444km-long Makkah-Madinah rail link, a $6billion system that will ferry pilgrims between the two cities, via Jeddah, in around 30 minutes. The current journey by road can take between four to five hours.
Madinah Airport is also currently undergoing a $2.4billion upgrade – a move that will allow the terminal to handle 12 million passengers a year; a four-fold increase on its current capacity.
Meanwhile, King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah is undergoing expansion which will allow it to handle 30 million passengers by 2012 and 80 million when complete; plus there's a new monorail system being built in Makkah to link the city centre with holy sites at Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah, scheduled for completion in 2011.
A recent report by Jones Lang LaSalle stated that the planned developments will increase the potential number of pilgrims visiting the Holy Cities to around 13.75 million by 2019.
Outside of the Holy Cities ambitious plans include a $13 billion 'tourist city' in Al-Oqair, south of Al Khobar, on the east coast, which was announced earlier this year.
The luxury experience
One area that still needs serious attention is the hotel stock. According to Jones Lang LaSalle: "most of the existing hotel stock (around 50,000 rooms in Makkah and 20,000 in Madinah) is not of international quality and there is a clear need to increase this supply to accommodate the growing and maturing requirements of pilgrims undertaking Hajj and Umrah."
International operators are beginning to realise the potential of Saudi's burgeoning religious tourism market and are lining up to deploy their most prestigious upscale brands to the Holy Cities. Whereas once a pilgrimage might have been all about the sackcloth and ashes, nowadays it's a rather different story and the industry is witnessing a rising demand for high-end travel.
"At the present time, Saudi is like Dubai was ten years ago – all the demand is for the five-star luxury hotel market," explains Christophe Landais, managing director of Accor Hospitality Middle East which is pursuing an aggressive expansion plan in Saudi Arabia, with a plan to develop 15 new hotels in the Kingdom over the next five years.
Last month Raffles Hotels & Resorts opened its first Saudi property in the Abraj Al Bait complex, in Makkah – a seven-tower development directly adjoining the Grand Mosque.
Mohammed Arkobi, vice president and managing director of Fairmont Raffles Hotels International — Makkah, said the prime location means the hotel will provide a "unique and one-of-a-kind experience" for pilgrims. The ultra-luxury property features personal butlers and is described as a "new step in the hospitality sector in Saudi Arabia".
More luxury hotels soon to follow at the complex include the Makkah Clock Royal Tower, a Fairmont Hotel; and Swissotel Makkah, due to open in 2011.
Tightening up on standards
Major efforts have also been made to improve the general experience for the millions of pilgrims that descend on Makkah and Medina every year.
After years of substandard accommodation and shoddy treatment dished out by local tour operators, the authorities have finally clamped down and are now imposing fierce penalties to any Hajj or Umrah operator that breaks the rules or receives complaints against them about the standard of service they provide.
"There are a number of conditions that the operators have to abide by which are set by the governing body," explains Mohsin Z. Kidwai, general manager – retail, Orient Travel who has been selling Umrah packages from the UAE to the Holy Cities for the last 14 years.
"They have to have a certified doctor to accompany the group; they have to provide all meals, accommodation and transport as part of the package; they have to provide air conditioned buses."
He adds: "All Hajj and Umrah operators have to pay a guarantee money of 100,000 to 500,0000 AED to the Hajj committee, and if there is one single complaint against them which is found to be valid, their money will not be returned and their licence will be cancelled immediately"
Battling the Red Tape
The major challenge facing the tourism sector in general is the provision of visas – a process which can prove slow and arduous.
Through the current system visit visas for the Hajj will only be issued if the trip is arranged through a registered travel agent in conjunction with a Hajj organiser in Saudi.
The visa difficulties also affect those wanting to operate in the Kingdom itself. Christophe Landais, from Accor describes visa regulations as being one of the biggest barriers for operators looking to expand in Saudi and says it's imperative the government loosens up its restrictions for the tourism sector.
"We all have to import foreign staff and although we manage more or less it's one of the biggest difficulties we have.
"Saudi is very bureaucratic," he adds. "It takes a lot of time [to obtain visas] and it's very regulated. The way it works is, you have to define in advance how many visas you need and you have to say how many people are coming from Egypt, how many from India, how many from Asia, etc.
"You might select someone not for his nationality but for his competency and then you might have a situation where you have a person from Egypt, but your visa is for India.
"I think the Saudi government has to be less bureaucratic for the hotel industry as a whole. They have to be more flexible on their rules," says Landais.
This may not happen any time soon. A recent press report stated that the Kingdom has stopped granting visas entirely to people wanting to enter Saudi for tourist reasons alone (20,000 such visas were issued in 2009) – a move that has caused much controversy.
Prince Abdullah Bin Saud, chairman of the consultative committee for organisers of tourist trips said the decision would prove a major hurdle to tourism growth: "Officials in the SCTA should encourage this trend instead of halting tourist visas," he said.
A leisure destination?
Given the recent visa ruling, it's certainly no surprise to discover that when it comes to expanding its leisure tourism offering Saudi Arabia is firmly targeting its own domestic market rather than the international market.
Dr Salah K AlBukkayet, vice president – Investment for SCTA explained to ATN: "The reason we are focusing on domestic tourism is because of the fact that we are exporting a lot of tourists with a lot of money.
"The logic would say that when your own people are spending billions outside you should focus on them before you focus on [inviting in] somebody else."
He added: "The reason Saudi tourists are travelling abroad is because the tourism offering in the country is not acceptable to them both from a quality and a price point of view. So our focus right now over the next three to five years is product development, product development and product development."
Dr Salah also categorically ruled out the possibility that Saudi would ever open its borders to international tourists in the same way that other Gulf countries have, saying: "For the international market we will not target the same markets that Dubai has – that's for sure."
But, that's not to say there is no market for international travellers taking holidays in Saudi. The SCTA recently launched an 'Umrah-plus' strategy which aims to encourage middle and upper income pilgrims to extend their stay and visit other areas of interest in the Kingdom. Key target markets include Malaysia, Egypt, Oman, Morocco and the UAE.
Kidwai from Orient Travel believes this strategy has excellent potential for Saudi: "There are some beautiful places in Saudi Arabia. In the Aseer region for example there is a place called Abha. It's a bit like Salalah in Oman, beautifully green and in summers the temperature is around 18 degrees.
"There are some local families here in the UAE who want to take their children to a 'decent' place. They don't want Thailand or Malaysia. I have done packages in the past for people for two weeks in Abha and they really enjoyed it. It's lovely weather, and it's their own culture and you can get furnished apartments there which during the summer it's difficult to get elsewhere. Plus you can go and perform Umrah at the same time and combine the two. There are definately places in Saudi that can be developed in a big way and these need to be promoted."For all the latest travel news from the UAE and Gulf countries, follow us on Twitter and Linkedin, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube page, which is updated daily.


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Northeast Nebraska Ag Banquet
Members of the Agri-Business Council of the Norfolk Area Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with the Madison Area Chamber of Commerce, celebrate northeast Nebraska's #1 industry at their annual Northeast Nebraska Ag Banquet each June.
The event recognizes area producers and ag business in Madison, Antelope, Wayne, Pierce, Stanton, Boone and northern Platte counties for their contributions to the economic well-being of our communities. The banquet emphasizes the link between the business and agricultural communities. Open to the public, tickets are available through the Norfolk Chamber office. This annual event features a social hour, dinner, and a keynote speaker.
The primary focus of this event is to recognize and award area youth with continuing agri-business education scholarships. In the last four years, scholarships totaling $13,000 have been awarded to 18 deserving area high school seniors and college students. Several deserving students, as well as the previous year's Norfolk Beef Expo scholarship recipient, will be presented scholarships towards furthering their ag-related education that evening. It is the Council's goal to continue growing this event in order to increase the number and dollar amounts of scholarships awarded.
Awards will also be given to an area farm family/producer of the year and an area ag business of the year, which are selected from nominations.
The Norfolk Area Chamber of Commerce and Agri-Business Council are happy to welcome University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletic Director, Bill Moos, as a special/guest speaker for this year's 5th Annual Northeast Nebraska Ag Banquet.
Shana Beattie, 2018 Ag-Ceptional Woman of the Year, will also be a featured speaker at this year's event. Click HERE to learn more about Beattie and her contributions to Nebraska agriculture
If you are interested in helping to sponsor this event, download an Ag Council Sponsorship Form. Please submit the sponsorship form to sponsor the upcoming September 7-8 Norfolk Beef Expo, no later than June 7th 2019 to be recognized in the program. A 10% incentive discount is offered if you choose to sponsor both events!
The 5th Annual Northeast Nebraska Ag Banquet will be at 5:30 pm, June 20, 2019 at the Madison County fairgrounds. Get your tickets TODAY – $30 through June 7th – $35 after June 7th.
For more information about the Northeast Nebraska Ag Banquet, contact the Chamber at 402-371-4862 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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