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Map of Austria-Hungary in 1914 showing the military districts. The itinerary of Švejk took place entirely within the borders of the Dual Monarchy.
The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk is a novel which contains a wealth of geographical references - either directly through the plot, in dialogues or in the authors own observations. Jaroslav Hašek was himself unusually well travelled and had a photographic memory of geographical (and other) details. It is evident that he put great emphasis on this: 8 of the 27 chapter headlines in Švejk contain place names.
This web page will in due course contain a full overview of all the geographical references in the novel; from Prague in the introduction to Klimontów in the unfinished Book Four. Countries, cities, towns, villages, mountains, oceans, lakes, rivers, islands, buildings are included. Note that from 14 September 2013, institutions (including pubs) have been moved to the new 'Institutions' page. The list is sorted according to the order in which the names appear through the novel. The chapter headlines are from Zenny Sadlon (Zdeněk K. Sadloň) American translator of Švejk, born in Czechoslovakia. Behind the 3rd and latest translation of the novel into English. 's recent translation and will in most cases differ from Cecil Parrott British diplomat and academic (1909-1984), biographer of Hašek, translator of Švejk and several short stories. Author of a conceptual study on Švejk and the short stories. 's translation from 1973.
- The facts are mainly taken from Internet sources but cross-verified when possible
- The quotes in Czech are copied from the on-line version of Švejk: provided by Jaroslav Šerák Czech Hašek-expert, owner and editor of Virtuální muzeum Jaroslava Haška. Publisher of a compilation of Hašek's poems. Since 2009 in close cooperation with the owner of this web site, and content is regularly exchanged and inter-linked. and contain links to the relevant chapter
- The toolbar has links for direct access to Wikipedia, Google maps, Google search, svejkmuseum.cz and Švejk online
The names are coloured according to their role in the novel, illustrated by these examples: San The entry "San" will be added in the future. ok as a location where the plot takes place, Dubno mentioned in the narrative, Zagreb as part of a dialogue, and Pakoměřice as mentioned in an anecdote.
|I. In the rear
8. Švejk as a malingerer
Piešťany is mentioned by doctor Grünstein when he informs Švejk that healing his rheumatism here at the military hospital here (in Prague) would be much quicker than at Piešťany.
Piešťany is a spa in western Slovakia known for its treatment of rheumatism. Until 1920 it was part of Hungary, like the rest of Slovakia.
Jaroslav Hašek visited the place himself; on 28 September 1902 he sent a post-card from here to his cousin Marie. He was here together with Viktor Janota, Ján Čulen and Štefan Čulen.
Source: Radko Pytlík Prominent Czech publicist and literary historian (1928-), leading expert on Hašek, author of numerous books and articles about the author of Švejk. Considered the foremost living authority on Hašek and his life and writing. , Václav Menger Czech actor and writer, childhood friend of Hašek (1888-1947). Author of two books and a number of newspaper articles about him. , Jaroslav Šerák Czech Hašek-expert, owner and editor of Virtuální muzeum Jaroslava Haška. Publisher of a compilation of Hašek's poems. Since 2009 in close cooperation with the owner of this web site, and content is regularly exchanged and inter-linked. , LA PNP
Quote from the novel
[1.8] "A celé noci nemůže spát, není-liž pravda? Rheuma je velice nebezpečná, bolestná a těžká nemoc. My už tady máme s rheumatiky dobré zkušenosti. Naprostá dieta a jiný náš způsob léčení se velice dobře osvědčil. Budete zde dřív zdravější než v Píšťanech a mašírovat budete na posice, jen se za vámi zapráší."
Also written:Pišťany Hašek Pistyan de Pöstyén hu
Hradčany is where the plot in this and the next chapter takes place. Švejk is first placed in the sick-bay of Posádková věznice to get a cure for his rheumatism, thereafter locked up in the very prison, suspected of malingering. Švejk also appears in other places at Hardčany: Vojenský soud, Vězeňské kaple and probably Vojenská nemocnice Hradčany.
Hradčany is a cadastral district in Prague which includes the castle area. This is where the offices of the president, St.Vitus Cathedral and many other famous buildings are located. Hradčany is situated on a hill west of the Vltava and borders Dejvice, Strahov and Malá Strana. In 1914 the district was equivalent to Praha IV.
Quote from the novel
[1.8] Konečně poptávkou na policejním ředitelství zjištěno bylo, že to byl Švejk, a dále bylo už lehké pátrat. Baronka von Botzenheim vzala s sebou společnici a komorníka s košem a jeli na Hradčany.
Also written:Hradschin de
Siam is mentioned indirectly through the term Siam elephant, used as a word of abuse against Švejk. See Vojenská nemocnice Hradčany.
Siam is the former name of Thailand or roughly the area that corresponds to the modern state. Siam was never colonised but lost some territory to European imperial powers in the 19th century. The capital was always Bangkok.
The term Siam elephant mostly refers to white (albino) animals that were regarded as holy. It was even on the flag of Siam until 1916. Thus Siam elephant is not an animal breed.
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Quote from the novel
[1.8] "Poslušně hlásím, že já vůbec nemyslím." "Himmeldonnerwetter," hulákal jeden z členů komise, břinkaje šavlí, "tak von vůbec nemyslí. Pročpak, vy jeden siamskej slone, nemyslíte?"
|I. In the rear
8. Švejk as a malingerer
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Swing Structure
This freestanding swing is a perfect perch for enjoying the garden.
The wooden part of the structure is not difficult to build if you have intermediate woodworking skills and basic tools. A fabric "roof" keeps harsh sun at bay; the swing is made of cotton canvas and plywood that's softened by a cushion. For best results, use waterproof outdoor fabrics, including awning fabric. That way you'll be worry-free when the rain clouds move in.
What You Need:
- Paintbrush
- Measuring tape
- Pencil
- Circular saw or table saw
- Drill
- Posthole digger
- Level
- Scrap 2x4
- Stakes
- 1x4s for temporary supports
- Carpenter's framing square
- Hammer
Note: The 4x4, 1x4, and 1x2 lumber may be pressure-treated pine, cedar, or redwood as desired.
- Paint or stain
- Exterior-grade polyurethane or other varnish
- Four 4x4s, 8 feet long, for posts (A)
- Four 4x4s, 36 inches long, for top beams (B) and cross beams (C)
- 1/4 x 3-inch lag screws with washers
- Crushed rock (enough for 6 inches in the bottom of each posthole, plus more for leveling posts)
- Concrete mix for four footings
- One 4x4, 85 inches long, for swing beam (D)
- Four 3/8 x 3-1/2-inch carriage bolts with nuts and washers
- Four 4x4s, 25-1/2 inches long, for roof braces (E)
- Two 1x4s, 78 inches long, for roof beams (F)
- Four 1x2s, 56-1/2 inches long, for lattice stringers (G)
- Twelve 1x2s, 32-1/2 inches long, for lattice slats (H)
- 1-1/4-inch-long deck screws
- Exterior-grade wood glue
- Four 3/8 x 5-inch eyebolts
1. Download the free pattern for this project. (Downloading requires Adobe Acrobat software.)
2. Using a paintbrush, paint or stain all wood members as desired, then let dry. Apply polyurethane or other varnish to protect the finish; let dry.
3. Using a pencil and circular or table saw, mark and cut half-lap notches in the 4x4 posts (A) and top beams (B), the center notch in the top beams (B), and the notches in the ends of the cross beams (C). Drill counter-bores and pilot holes at the joint locations, then lag-screw and glue each swing frame assembly together.
4. Dig postholes approximately 30 inches deep, spacing as shown. Pour 6 inches of crushed rock in each hole. Set the frame-assembly posts in the holes, and brace them level and plumb with 1x4 temporary supports fastened to stakes in the ground. Lay a 2x4 atop the cross beams (C) and use a level to make sure the frame pieces are on the same elevation. (Add crushed rock to raise the low posts as necessary.) Once the frames are firmly braced, level, and plumb, mix concrete and pour into each hole to ground level. Let set two or three days before proceeding.
5. Notch the ends of the 4x4 swing beam (D) with the saw. To prevent the beam ends from splitting, install 3/8-inch carriage bolts as shown in the detail illustration. Fasten the swing beam to the frames with lag screws and glue.
6. Miter one end of each roof brace (E) to 45 degrees. Mark and cut half-lap notches in the square ends, and drill counter-bores and pilot holes for the lag screws. Loosely screw each pair of braces together at a 90-degree angle, then lag-screw the mitered ends in position atop the swing frame assemblies. Tighten the lag screws where the roof braces meet (see photo). Lag-screw roof beams (F) between the roof braces, angling them as shown.
7. To make the lattice panels, place the stringers (G) about 91-3/16 inches apart on-center on a flat surface. Use a carpenter's framing square to keep ends aligned. Fasten a slat (H) to each end of the stringers with deck screws and glue, then every 9 1/2 inches along the stringers' length. Position the panels on ends of swing frame assemblies and drive 1-1/4-inch deck screws through the slats to fasten the lattice to the posts.
8. Drill pilot holes in the swing beam (D) to accept the eyebolts for the canvas swing. Also drill pilot holes in the roof braces (E) to accept the eyebolts for the striped canopy; position pilot holes so eyebolts will suspend the roof's top tabs at the peak of the roof braces. Screw eyebolts into holes. Wait to drill pilot holes to suspend the canopy's bottom tabs until you've constructed the canopy.
What You Need:
- 2-3/4 yards of 60-inch-wide natural-color canvas fabric
- 3/4-inch dowel, 45 inches long
- Two 1-inch dowels, 19-1/2 inches long
- Twenty-two 7/16-inch metal grommets
- 1/4 yard of 45-inch print fabric
- Extra-strong matching thread
- 50-1/2 x 21-1/2-inch piece of plywood
- Swing cushion
- Four 31-inch lengths of 1/8-inch steel cable
- 12 cable clamps
- Two 1-1/2-inch (inside diameter) metal rings
- Two 20-inch lengths of 1/8-inch steel cable
- Measuring tape
- Scissors
- Straight pins
- Clothes iron
- Sewing machine with heavy-duty needle
- Water-erasable fabric-marking pen
- Grommet tool
- Pliers
1. From canvas, measure and cut one 27 x 90-inch rectangle for seat/sides, one 23 x 55-inch rectangle for the back, and one 9 x 51-inch strip for the front. On each 23-inch edge of back piece, press under 1/2 inch, then 2 inches. Sew 1/8 inch from the inner pressed edges. To make the back dowel pocket, press under 1 inch, then 4 inches on one 55-inch edge. Sew 1/8 inch from inner pressed edge and 2 inches from outer pressed fold.
2. Press under 1/2 inch, then 2 inches on each 90-inch edge of the seat/sides piece. With wrong sides together, center the back piece on the seat/sides piece, tucking 1 inch of the raw back edge in the seat/sides hem as shown in Diagram 1. Pin in place. Sew 1/8 inch from the inner pressed edge of the hem, catching the back piece in the stitching. Fold the back away from the seat/sides and sew through all layers 1/4 inch from the outer pressed edge of the hem. This second seam reinforces the back's connection to the seat.
3. To make side dowel pockets, press under 1 inch, then 4 inches on each short edge of the seat/sides. Sew 1/8 inch from the inner pressed edge and 2 inches from the outer pressed fold. Close one end of each side dowel pocket by sewing 1/8 inch from the front edge of the pocket.
4. Fold the front strip in half lengthwise with wrong sides together. Sew short edges together using a 1/2-inch seam allowance. Turn right side out; press seams open. Place the front on the seat with the open edge overlapping the seat 3/4 inch. Sew through all layers 1/8 inch and 5/8 inch from the outer pressed edge of the seat hem. (Two seams add strength to the seat.)
5. Use a water-erasable fabric-marking pen to mark the position of the grommets (see Diagram1). Be sure that the marks on the back piece align with the marks on the corresponding edges of the sides, and that the marks on the front align with the corresponding marks on the front edge of the sides. Insert the dowels into the side and back pockets before closing the pockets with grommets. Apply the grommets following manufacturer's instructions.
6. For the ties, cut four 2 x 45-inch strips from the print fabric. Fold the strips in half lengthwise and press. Unfold strips and fold in the long edges to meet at the pressed center fold. Fold in half lengthwise and press again, enclosing the raw edges. Machine-stitch close to the open long edges. From the strips, cut two 18-inch-long ties for the front corners of the canvas swing and eight 5-inch-long ties for the back corners. Thread a tie through each corresponding pair of grommets; tie and knot the ends.
7. Place the plywood on the seat and cushion (see "Swing Cushion") on the plywood. Thread a 31-inch length of steel cable through the back grommet on one side of the swing; loop through a clamp and squeeze with pliers to tighten. Thread another 31-inch cable through the front grommet on the same side of the swing; loop through a clamp and squeeze with pliers to tighten. Thread the unclamped ends of both cables through one 1-1/2-inch metal ring; loop each cable through a clamp and squeeze with pliers to tighten. Repeat on other side of swing.
8. Thread one 20-inch cable through each metal ring; loop the end through a clamp and tighten with pliers. Loop unclamped end through the eye of corresponding eyebolt screwed into beam of swing structure, then through a clamp; tighten with pliers.
What You Need:
- 4-1/2 yards of 36-inch-wide ticking
- Matching thread
- Three 76-inch lengths 1/8-inch steel cable
- Four 3/8 x 5-inch eyebolts
- Six cable clamps
- Measuring tape
- Scissors
- Straight pins
- Sewing machine with heavy-duty needle
- Clothes iron
- Pliers
- Drill
Note: Sew with right sides together using 1/2-inch seam allowances unless otherwise noted.
1. From the ticking, measure and cut three 52-inch-long pieces using entire width of fabric. Trim selvages.
2. Pin, then sew the ticking pieces together along the 52-inch edges. To clean-finish seam allowances, zigzag-stitch raw edges together, and press to one side. Trim the assembled canopy fabric, which measures 106 inches wide, to a width of 76 inches, removing equal amounts from each side edge. (Do not trim the 52-inch length.) Set aside the trimmed fabric for the tabs.
3. To finish side edges, press under 1 inch twice on each 52-inch edge; sew 1/8 inch from inner pressed edges. Fold the canopy fabric in half, wrong sides together, aligning the raw edges; press along the fold for the top of the canopy. For the tabs, cut three 2-1/2 x 52-inch strips from the set-aside fabric. Zigzag-stitch one long edge of each strip. Press under 5/8 inch on each unfinished long edge and then 3/4 inch on each zigzag-finished edge. Sew down the center of the strips through all layers. From the strips, cut nine 4-1/2-inch-long tabs for the folded top edge and eighteen 5-inch-long tabs for the bottom edges.
4. Press under 1/2 inch on the short edges of the 4-1/2-inch-long tabs, then press each tab in half. Referring to Diagram 1, evenly space the tabs over the folded top edge of the canopy with 1 inch extending beyond the fold; pin in place. Sew 1/2 inch from the folded edge of the canopy, catching the tabs securely in the stitching.
5. For bottom hems of canopy, press under 1 inch twice on each 72-inch edge. Press each 5-inch-long tab in half. Referring to Diagram 2, evenly space nine tabs along each bottom hem, tucking 1/2 inch of the tab in the hem; pin in place.
Sew 1/8 inch from inner pressed edge of hem, catching the tabs in the stitching. Press the tabs down over the hem and sew 3/8 inch from the outer pressed edge of the hem as shown in Diagram 3.
6. Thread 76-inch lengths of steel cable through the tabs at the top and bottom of the canopy. Loop each end of the top cable through the eye of corresponding eyebolt in the swing roof braces (E), then though a clamp; tighten with pliers.
7. With striped canopy in place, determine the placement of four additional eyebolts, which will suspend the bottom two steel cables of the canopy, in the top beams (B). Drill pilot holes, then screw in eyebolts. Loop ends of each bottom cable through the eye of corresponding eyebolt, then through a clamp; tighten with pliers.
What You Need:
- 2 yards of 54-inch-wide decorator fabric
- Matching thread
- Batting
- 22 x 51-inch piece of 3-inch foam
- Firm-hold upholstery spray-mount adhesive
Note: Sew with right sides together using 1/2-inch seam allowances.
1. From fabric, measure and cut two 23 x 52-inch rectangles for the cushion top and bottom, two 4 x 23-inch boxing strips, and two 4 x 52-inch boxing strips. Cut a piece of batting large enough to wrap around foam. Use spray-mount adhesive to attach batting to foam; trim excess batting.
2. Sew together the short ends of the boxing strips, alternating the 23-inch-long and 52-inch-long strips. Pin the assembled boxing strip to the cushion top, positioning the seams at the corners; sew strip to top. Pin and sew the boxing strip to the cushion bottom in the same way, leaving one long edge open. Turn right side out and insert the batting-covered foam cushion. Hand-stitch opening closed.


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If you're looking for the best snake chaps on the market, we've got you covered. As experienced trekkers, we've taken an in-depth look at every product out there and have narrowed our list down to those that will offer high quality materials and are, most importantly, snakebite-proof chaps that will do the business when out in snake territory. Keep reading for our top snake chaps reviews.
Snake Chaps Reviews: The SNiff Outdoors Top 4
As part of our process, we not only consider our own essential checklist and personal experiences while out in the trail, but we also consult the best snake chaps reviews out there. We consider what experts in the field say and invest in trawling through verified purchases to ensure we find out whether the products stand the test of time.
Turtle Skin SnakeArmor Full Protection Snake Chaps
Star rating based on views of editor.
- Lightweight and flexible chaps for comfortable fit
- Superior SnakeArmor technology to protect vulnerable areas
- Waterproof
- Material has been tested on live rattlesnakes
- Highly breathable which helps in warm weather
- Machine washable for easy cleaning
- Available in sage and khaki
TurtleSkin SnakeArmor Below Knee Snake Chaps
- Breathable and super lightweight for comfort
- Effective SnakeArmor technology
- Waterproof
- Live rattlesnake bite tested
- Protection from below the knee
- Machine washable
- 1/3 weight of other chaps
- Available in sage and khaki
Crackshot Snake Chapz Khaki
- Protection against bites, thorns and needles
- Water repellent fabric, stopping venom
- Ankle to thigh protection
- 15 ounces, lightweight material
- Zippers for ease of putting on and taking off
- Waterproof fabric above knee
- Four sizes available
Rattlers Snake Chaps Reviews
- Completely puncture and snake bite proof
- Ankle to knee protection
- Water resistant coating
- Adjustable straps
- Single layer protection above the knee
- Camouflage or dark brown pattern
- Seven size variables
The Sniff Guide to The Best Snake Chaps
Of course, your chances of being bitten by a venomous snake as a general statistic are relatively low. That's the case in North America, at least: just one in 37,000+ people are bitten per year. However, as an outdoor lover, you put yourself in a more vulnerable position. Snake proof chaps are designed to prevent a bite from penetrating.
Although snakes will never choose to attack a human, they will defend themselves if they feel that they're being threatened. That's why investing in a good pair of snake chaps will give you the peace of mind you need.
The best snake chaps cover the areas which are most vulnerable to being bitten; the ankles and lower leg. Snakes prefer to hide under logs and rocks, which results in many people accidentally standing on or near them.
When you're looking for snake chaps for sale, you want to ensure that they're going to fulfill their main purpose: protecting the user from a snakebite. After all, a single bite from a venomous snake without snake protection can ultimately lead to temporary paralysis or worse. At best, you'll be looking at costly medical bills.
Between the snake chaps reviews above, there are some differences we should look at.
Both the TurtleSkin SnakeArmor snake proof chaps are of excellent quality and have a 100% snake bite protection guarantee. The material the TurtleSkin uses has been tested on live rattlesnakes, which you can view in the video below.
The difference between the two TurtleSkin snake chaps is the length of protection. Obviously, the more protection you have, the better. However, snakes generally strike low, around the ankle and lower leg. This usually happens because people accidentally stand near or on them, due to the fact they hide near logs and rocks.
TurtleSkin is known to be just about the best kind of protective snake clothing on the market. Another well known brand, however, is Crackshot which has their 'snake chapz'.
Similar to the partial protection TurtleSkin chaps, these have a double layer of protection below the knee, which is the most vulnerable area. Above the knee, you have a single layer protection, which is generally understood to be not as effective. This can still help to prevent penetration in some instances.
The snake bite proof chaps from Rattler prove to be a popular choice, largely due to the price range. They are cheaper than others on the market. Fortunately, you don't pay the price with lack of effectiveness.
So why are they cheaper? To put it simply, they're known to be less comfortable. Notably, in warmer weather they will be less breathable and are heavier. For people who don't need them every other day of their lives, this is ideal because of the price.
If you're constantly in snake territory, then it is well worth forking out the extra money for super high quality and comfort. Generally, the higher price range chaps will last longer than low-end snake chaps.
Additional Safety Advice
In addition to investing in a decent pair of chaps, there's more you can do to ensure your safety:
- Create a layer of air between your skin and your outer layer: if you're a victim of a bite, that additional air pocket can be the difference between penetration and a simple scare
- Ensure you're wearing the right materials: leather, canvas, and heavy denim are all fantastic supplements to your snake chaps
- Be careful where you step: don't think that just because you're wearing snake chaps you're immune to a bite elsewhere on your body. Snakes are easily startled; watch where you place your hands and feet.


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Associated with life and death, disease and luck, corvids have long captured mankind's attention, showing up in mythology as the companions or manifestations of deities, and starring in stories from Aesop to Poe and beyond.
In Corvidae birds are born of blood and pain, trickster ravens live up to their names, magpies take human form, blue jays battle evil forces, and choughs become prisoners of war. These stories will take you to the Great War, research facilities, frozen mountaintops, steam-powered worlds, remote forest homes, and deep into fairy tales. One thing is for certain, after reading this anthology, you'll never look the same way at the corvid outside your window.
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Alpena, MI (July 7, 2015) – World Weaver Press (Eileen Wiedbrauk, Editor-in-Chief) announces the anthology Corvidae, volume two of Rhonda Parrish's Magical Menageries, is available in trade paperback and ebook today, Tuesday, July 7.
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'Before meeting the Bishop, I envisaged that he would be more of a serious and stern figure and that I would capture him in a serious pose. I had all this planned in my head before I got to his Ormond residence for the sitting. When we first got started, I had the Bishop in several formal poses but for some reason it just did not feel right.
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On the 31st August, 1991 a large group of Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian people gathered in Forrest Chase, Perth, to celebrate the independence of their homelands. The flags of the newly independent Baltic States were proudly held aloft. Testament of the oppression experienced by the peoples of these countries at the hands of invaders was given. Freedom candles were then lighted while prayers of thanksgiving were offered. As grey clouds gathered overhead, Croatian, Yugoslavian and other people whose countries are still 'shackled by the yoke of communist oppression' marched into the mall. They were met by and offered the support of the Baltic people. I stood, watched and listened. An Estonian woman asked what country the flag on my lapel represented. My reply - the 'Aboriginal' people of Australia - did not receive acknowledgement. In that instant I once again felt complicit in a violent history of oppression.
Why even at such a moment, when people from many different countries were celebrating an end to colonialism in their homelands, was there no thought for 'Aboriginal' people who were displaced so that we might stand there to celebrate freedom? I do not ask this as a liberal humanist that has any romantic notions of 'Aboriginal' people and their culture but rather as a person who values freedom and dignity. It is my thesis that many 'Australians' are unable to empathise with 'Aborigines' as an oppressed, displaced people because even today the 'native' is still understood as sub-human. Aborigines, be that of Australia, America or Africa, because they are considered to be variants of 'primitive man', are never the creators of history, only the subjects of anthropology.
The past two hundred years of Australian history has been dominated and formulated by a network of 'white' discourses. Specifically, official representations of the relationships between 'Aboriginal' and 'non-Aboriginal' societies have been written by the 'colonisers' to construct an official Australian history. This 'history' has ensured the relegation of 'Aboriginal' history and heritage to a mythical time pre-1788 and thus these official constructions of history are instrumental in the subjugation and marginalisation of knowledges from displaced peoples. These knowledges would otherwise challenge or rupture the apparent linearity of official history. For the purposes of this paper I look to Foucault for an understanding and the implications of a written history. I assert that history, specifically official Australian history, is a fiction that both creates and substantiates a political reality that is itself ficticious. A more equitable account of Australian history post-1788 is possible if official history is mediated by a reading of 'Aboriginal' literature as history. I would further assert that counter-histories that both disrupt the apparent linearity and homogeneity of 'white' historiography and foreground previously subjugated 'Aboriginal' knowledges are emerging in a growing body of writings by 'Aboriginal' authors (designated as 'literature') that can be read as 'history.'
Subjugated knowledges are defined by Foucault in Power-Knowledge as being "the historical contents that have been buried and disguised in functionalist coherence or formal systematisation." The insurrection of subjugated knowledges "allow us to rediscover the ruptural effects of conflict and struggle"1 that the new order or functionalist coherence "is designed to mask."2 Subjugated knowledges also include:
... a whole set of knowledges that have been dis-qualified ... a particular, local, regional knowledge ... which owes its force only to the harshness with which it is opposed by everything surrounding it.3
Official history has served to marginalise 'Aboriginal' knowledges, customs and beliefs and further ensures a privileged place for 'white' knowledges, customs and beliefs as the foundation of Australian society. 'White' Australian culture has come to be considered the 'natural,' central or dominant culture of Australia which is passed on through birthright. This general condition of 'white' culture as the dominant, and therefore the official, culture of Australia was clearly the result of British political and economic desire to deny the heteroglossia - social, historical, physiological conditions - already functioning within 'Terra Nullius' when 'colonisation' initially took place. What followed was a 'narrativisation' of Australian history through the writings that represented 'white' settlement.
British imperialism and politics has thus facilitated the legitimation of 'white' Australian history. This newly-invented history has subsequently been utilised to legitimate Australian politics - 'white' dominance, 'White' Australia Policy, paternal attitudes to 'Aborigines.' 'Aboriginal' subjugation and marginalisation is subsequently justified through the domination of 'white' social/political/economic relationships. Despite the injustice upon which these politics are based, such an account appears to be justified when 'Aborigines,' their technologies and cultures are viewed and evaluated by Western standards, as they most often are.
It is evident that to facilitate an understanding of the relationships between 'Aborigines' and 'white' Australian society, it is necessary to develop some insights into the relationship of the coloniser and the colonised. Improvements in the social and economic status of the colonisers have been attained at the expense of the colonised. In Australia this involved the exploitation of 'Aborigines' through the taking of their land, and their exploitation as servants or unpaid labour. This exploitation is always possible in the relationship between the coloniser and the colonised because the colonised "are not protected by the laws of the colony." Sartre, in his introduction to Memmi's The Colonizer and the Colonized has this to say about the colonised and the law:
Political and social regulations reinforce one another. Since the native is sub-human, the Declaration of Human Rights does not apply to him; inversely, since he has no rights, he is abandoned without protection to inhuman forces - brought in with colonial praxis, engendered every moment by the colonialist apparatus, and sustained by relations of production that define two sorts of individuals - one for whom privilege and humanity are one, who becomes a human being by exercising his rights; and the other, for whom a denial of rights sanctions misery, chronic hunger, ignorance, or, in general, "subhumanity."4
In 1901 Australia was empowered by Britain "to legislate in relation to any race of people except 'aboriginal natives.' It was advised that 'aboriginal natives' should continue to be excluded from that law, as such they remained under the jurisdiction of the Department of Flora and Fauna. It was not until 1967 that 'Aborigines' were awarded citizenship. Because the terms 'Aborigine, Aboriginal and Aboriginality' are implicated in this history, I will invoke Derrida's reasons for writing sous rature, that is to highlight the inappropriateness, in this case as a result of racist origins, of the terms 'Aborigine' and 'Aboriginal.' I will physically foreground this inappropriateness by italicising the words Aborigine, Aboriginal, Aboriginality, half-, quarter-caste and also white (which stands as the other or opposition to Aborigine). This strategy recognises a history of invasion and violence that has brutilised and 'ab/originated'5 Aboriginal societies, cultures and language groups. It is used out of respect for those people who wish to positively affirm their identities as Aborigines without the burden of white stereotyping.
To read literature written by Aboriginal people as history it is necessary to take account of the ways in which the dominant white Australian discourse makes distinctions between historical and literary texts. These distinctions are generally based on the assumption that history is factual, therefore authoritative, while literature is fictional. Within the roles of history and literature, thus defined, a reader employs quite different reading strategies and politics for reading, interpreting and making value judgements of historical and literary texts. Notwithstanding this, accounts of Aboriginal/white history written by Aboriginal authors demonstrate the interconnectedness and disjunctions of Aboriginal oral history, official Australian history and literature written by Aboriginal authors. I want to claim that this history, produced in the form of literature, serves as what Foucault would call a 'counter-memory' of the violence and deculturation to which Aboriginal people have been subjected, but which has been omitted from official white Australian histories.
To highlight the strong connections in the writings of Aboriginal literature to history, Sally Morgan's My Place can be read as a counter-memory of colonialism. It challenges colonial history by bringing to the fore issues such as paternalism/family relationships, land and language rights and the suppression of history post-1788. The relationship of history and My Place is further highlighted when one considers the nature of autobiography, a genre that combines the functions of both the historical and literary textual discourses. Literary conventions allow for the emotional elements of experience such as love, suffering, displacement, the search for meaning and identity, while the historical function of autobiography produces discourses to counter existing histories. Autobiography is thus a powerful tool for constructing, what I call here 'counter-histories.' The questions of bias - political, emotional - that may arise in the case of biographies or official histories do not appear to be highlighted when autobiography is in question. As Stephen Muecke points out, autobiography makes the job of the critic/reader difficult:
Are we to ignore the generic constrictions of event and character, the rhetoric of the fiction, in favour of interpretation of the text as straight history? And if we question the motives of this or that character will our comments be taken as criticisms of real people? This is still more difficult to deal with when juxtaposed with a presumed amount of personal courage in the narrators' effort to express the unsayable, to tell the risky story of oppression.6
When it is the autobiography of a person from a minority group, questions of political and emotional bias are still more difficult to deal with. For literature written by minority groups is often a site of contestation, a cry for legitimacy and therefore acknowledgement as a counter-history. However, the reading of My Place offered by this paper does not call for "the generic constrictions of events and character, the rhetoric of fiction" to be ignored. Rather, it welcomes a deconstructive reading as one that highlights the covert use of similar devices in the writing of all histories.
A deconstructive reading of official Australian history is facilitated by Foucault's notions of historiography, as exemplified in Language, Counter-Memory, Practice. For Foucault, historiography "disturbs what was previously considered immobile;...fragments what was thought unified;... shows the heterogeneity of what was imagined consistent with itself." This understanding of historiography affirms knowledge (the foundation of history) "as perspective," concerned not with 'objective' truth but rather with disrupting centralised or unitary understanding of dominant Australian history and recognised culture.
Foucault's notion of history can thus be deployed to explain the 'effective history' of Australia - challenging official white histories that have previously been assumed to have historical legitimacy. Foucault's history is opposed to the extant order in all respects, it is:
...parodic, directed against reality, and opposes the theme of history as reminiscence or recognition; dissociative, directed against identity, and opposes history given as continuity or representative of a tradition; sacrificial, directed against truth, and opposes history as knowledge. They imply a use of history that severs its connection to memory, its metaphysical and anthropological model, and constructs a counter-memory - a transformation of history into a totally different form of time.7
The counter-history argued for in this paper is parodic in that it challenges the reality of a white Australian history. It is dissociative, and forces us to re-think the totality of a central or unified Australian identity, and opposes history as a linear account of British occupation of Australia since 1788. It is sacrificial, directed against the dominant discourse, and therefore seeks to challenge and supplement official history as truth, for it is the knowledge of the dominant discourse that is privileged as history while Aboriginal knowledges are subjugated and in some cases deemed invalid.
Turning now to a specific text, it is evident that Sally Morgan's My Place foregrounds a search for identity, for a place within Australian history, that does not have white as its hidden agenda. The life-stories of Arthur, Daisy, Gladys and Sally are striking contributions to counter history. Morgan says:
I want to write the story of my own family...there's almost nothing written from a personal point of view about Aboriginal people. All our history is about the white man. No one knows what it's like for us. A lot of our history has been lost, people have been too frightened to say anything. There's a lot of our history we can't even get at, Arthur. There are all sorts of files about Aboriginals that go way back, and the government won't release them. You take the old police files, they're not even controlled by Battye Library, they're controlled by the police. And they don't like letting them out, because there are so many instances of police abusing their power when they are supposed to be protectors of Aborigines...our own government had terrible policies for Aboriginal people. Thousands of families in Australia were destroyed by the government policy of taking children away. None of that happened to white people...8
Arthur Corunna, Morgan's uncle, asserts a similar desire to make his history known.
I want my story finished. I want everyone to read it. Arthur Corunna's story!...You see, it's important, because maybe they'll understand how hard its been for the blackfella to live the way he wants. I'm part of history, that's how I look on it. Some people read history, don't they? (my emphasis; a potent question in a 'counter-historical sense).9
By acknowledging her use of the Battye Library and the appropriation of official documents in researching her own life story Morgan highlights the interconnectedness of history and autobiography:
It's a history library. Western Australian history. I wanted to read up about Aborigines...I found out there was a lot to be ashamed of...Aborigines were considered sub-normal and not capable of being educated the way whites were. You know, the pastoral industry was built on the back of Aboriginal labour. Aboriginal people were forced to work, and if they didn't, the station owner called the police.10
In My Place, Morgan confronts the injustices to her ancestors and publicly exposes the repeated atrocities that Aborigines have been subjected to, providing examples of imperialist hegemony. Paternalism is one such injustice. Paternalism, like colonialism, relies on a sense of superiority and therefore the right to look after those 'less able' to look after themselves. Paternalism ensures that the government and its representatives manage the country and its people as would a 'father.' Individual responsibilty and freedom to make at least a limited number of possible choices about one's lifestyle are consequently usurped.
Paternalism takes on a dual meaning for many Aboriginal people and specifically for the Corunna's. Station owners having control of what was historically Aboriginal land, were deemed to be protectors or caregivers - this 'care' often extended to fathering the children of Aboriginal women. "On the basis of a belief in white superiority, children with fairer skin were then taken from their parents and raised in institutions."11 Explanation for the institutionalisation of these children foregrounded their ability to be trained and educated, as a result of their white blood. Such children were thus denied the right to co-habit with or visit their family and to speak the language of their Aboriginal family.
In My Place, political legal and economic control is exercised by white people, such as Howden and Alice Drake-Brockman, the police, missionaries and educators. Alice, Daisy, Arthur and Gladys Corunna were coerced into accepting white assessment of themselves as 'inferior' and therefore as subordinate. The exercising of white power in the lives of the Corunnas is pervasive throughout all facets of their lives: the sexual use and abuse of their bodies; the enforced denial of family rights; restricted use of their language to English and restricted communication with family members.
Morgan's grandmother, Daisy, was born on Corunna Downs Station, in the North of Western Australia. Daisy's mother was Annie and her father (the text indicates) was Howden Drake-Brockman - the station owner. It is also implied that Daisy's daughter, Gladys, was also fathered by Howden Drake-Brockman. However, the legitimate children of the Drake-Brockman family deny the existence of any illegitimate siblings from their ancestors. For Daisy, as for many Aborigines, sexual violation of cultural codes was constitutive of being part of a subjugated people. There were no forms of protection from such a personal violation. There was no social or legal recourse to protect their personal rights or their sense of personal dignity.
Arthur and Albert (also indicated as children of Howden Drake-Brockman) and Daisy were named or designated half-castes, through white paternalism. As a result of this process, Daisy was taken from the Aboriginal camp but instead of the usual practice of sending half-caste children to a mission Daisy went to work in the station's main house. Within the structure of her white family Daisy was given no status of daughter, rather the paternalistic status of servant to white daughters/sisters.
Through the status of half-caste, and the subsequent removal from their Aboriginal communities, these children were precluded from participation in ceremonies. Arthur, through his removal from the station, was denied initiation rites by his elders. At the same time, he was denied access to white society in terms of acceptance, education, and rights of inheritance. His removal to the Swan Native and Half-Caste Mission forced Arthur into 'no-man's land'. He was ab/originated.
We are not dealing merely with linguistics here. The relationship between the coloniser and the colonised, as explicated by Memmi, is such that the language of the coloniser dominates while the languages of colonised people are undervalued. Not only were Aboriginal languages given no official status, they were denigrated and the denial of their use worked as a strategy of alienation. This denial of the right to speak in their community language effectively prevented colonised speakers naming themselves as 'I' or 'we' in their own language. This, together with the introduction of the term 'Aborigine', re-inforced the subjugation of Aborigines to the hegemonic white discourse.
This strategy of alienation is evidenced through the experiences of Arthur and his brother Albert, who had restrictions placed on their use of language. They were forbidden to "talk blackfella" after Arthur and Albert had been given English lessons. During the time of Arthur's childhood, when whites were segregating the half-/quarter-caste children and teaching them (but not their parents) to speak English, the use of English forced Aboriginal children to lose their links to defined Aboriginal community status. The white language designations half-/quarter- also disqualified them from membership in the white/English/ dominant discourse.
Arthur Corunna talks about his experience of economic exploitation.
There's so much the whitefellas don't understand. They want us to be assimilated into the white, but we don't want to be. They complain about our land rights, but they don't understand the way we want to live. They say we shouldn't get the land, but the white man's had land rights since this country was invaded, our land rights. Most of the land the Aborigine wants, no man would touch. They don't want to live on that land themselves, but they don't want the black man to get it either. Yet, you find something valuable on the land that Aborigines has got and whites are all there with their hands out.12
White society conceives of land rights in terms of economic viability, therefore ownership. As such, 'land rights' is always a white man's term. For Aborigines ab/origination has denied them any legal claim to land. Aboriginal 'land rites' pre-1788 was not a question of economic viability. It was (and is often still) a question of spirit, of 'rites' that rely on particular sites - sacred sites. In the 1990's Aborigines are demanding that these sites and their importance to Aboriginal culture be acknowledged. White society, concerned with 'progress,' economic returns and with preserving the hegemonic status quo of the coloniser and the colonised, is fighting to ensure that Aborigines remain ab/originated.
In My Place, Arthur validly claims that white people have had land rights since this country was colonised in 1788. Land has been given to farmers, it has been bought from white Australian governments and it has been usurped. This fundamental right to land has most often been denied to Aborigines. Land has become a commodity which has been captured by the colonisers, a commodity which has re-inforced inequalities and denied any other concepts of ownership which indigenous people who do not 'own' may feel or believe in. The Arthur Corunna section of the text is a powerful expression of an oppositional viewpoint that challenges this situation of inequality.
My Place is the story of but one family and their experiences of colonisation. Glenyse Ward, Jack Davis, Kevin Gilbert, Mudrooroo Narogin and many other Aboriginal people are also involved in recording their life-stories. Collectively these histories provide some understanding of the experiences of Aboriginal people post-1788. They act as a counter-memory, as a record of displacement and deculturation, as opposed to official Australian accounts of settlement and civilisation. Most importantly, texts such as My Place, Glenyse Ward's Wandering Girl, Colin Johnson's (Mudrooroo Narogin's) Wild Cat Falling, and the increasing number of other texts by Aboriginal authors are interventions directed towards opening up the space for self-determined representations.
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1 Michel Foucault, Archaeology of Knowledge (London: Tavistock, 1972), p.81.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Albert Memmi, The Colonised and the Coloniser (London: Souvenir Press, 1974), p.viii.
5 The Collins Dictionary defines 'ab' as meaning: "away from; off; outside of; opposite to," therefore ab/original would mean away from or outside of the origin. Thus the term 'Aborigine', when used as a name, displaces Aborigines from their original land. It puts them into a free-floating, deterritorialised space where they are not seen to belong to or as 'owning' any land. In this way the term 'Aborigine' itself reinforces the ways in which Aborigines have been deprived of land and status.
6 Stephen Muecke, "Aboriginal Literature and the Repressive Hypothesis", Southerly, Vol.48, 1988.
7 Michel Foucault, Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, (New York: Cornell Univ. Press, 1977), p.160.
8 Sally Morgan, My Place, (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987), p.163.
9 Ibid. , p.213.
10 Ibid., p.151.
11 Eve Fesl, "How the English Language is used to put Koories Down, Deny us Rights, or is Employed as a Political Tool Against Us", (Monash: Monash Univ. Press, 1989).
12 My Place, p.212.
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Today was the first full day of recording. Our schedule calls for us to get 3 songs done each day. This morning we started out with one I wrote, "The Doctor and The Deacon". This was originally a duet I did for Doug and I, we premiered it at the Yamaha Percussion Camp at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1995. Since then it has gone through many revisions, including the addition of a rhythm section. Although Doug and I have performed it several times, this is the first time it will be done with the full quintet parts, Doug on Vibes, me on marimba, David on MalletKat bass, Bart on set, and Rich on conga and percussion. Unlike all the other tunes we are doing, this one has the solos written out. My intention was to provide a vehicle for percussion students to be able to play a jazz solo who don't have improvisation skills.
After much experimentation with mic placement, and some extra rehearsal time, we manage to get this one recorded fairly easily. With a quick break for lunch at the CU student center dining area, famous for its Alferd Packer Grill, we'll continue with 2 more.


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Studying Conceptual Art at Leicester
Posted by Katie in History of Art on November 6, 2015
I had quite a lot of choice in terms of deciding which History of Art module to take this semester. In previous years I haven't had much choice at all, so I was pleasantly surprised. As a joint honours students, I could pick between Classical Aesthetics and its Legacy, From Drawing to Painting in the Italian […]
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I'm currently writing this blog post from home, where I'm staying for the weekend! We've actually just moved house, and this is my first time staying at our new place. It's nice to have a little break away from everything (and have a couple of my meals cooked for me!) but I am ready to […]
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Seeing as this is my first blog post, I thought I'd spend a little bit of time introducing myself!! So, my name's Katie, I'm a fourth year student and I'm going to be spending the next academic year writing about my experiences, providing tips and advice, and expressing my opinions on what it's like to […]
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High commodity prices do not necessarily bring out the best in people. The fact that a grower may have farmed a particular piece of land for over 30 years or that he is farming it for a relative, in many cases will have little impact on whether that grower rents that land next year.
We're entering that time of year where many land rental contracts are being renegotiated. Last year there was some tension, but it will be nothing compared to what people will go through in the next few months.
I'm not sure I want to use the word "greed" for landlords in this environment; it's simply that they want to get the most return on their assets that they can. Some would call that good business, but I would argue on the behalf of both sides that there needs to be some reasonable common sense involved in renting land this coming year.
Even if a producer did a poor job of marketing this past year, they still should have had an outstanding financial year.
Now, everyone wants a piece of the pie — including the landlord. Granted, input prices have gone up considerably and land prices in most areas of the Midwest have more than doubled in less than two years. So when you sit down to negotiate rent for 2009, take a look at some issues that may help both sides take emotion out of the process.
To begin, we need to make some assumptions. First is that $7 corn and $16 soybeans are not practical. And unless something major changes, we're not going to see those prices. On the other hand, we're not likely to see $3.50 corn or $7 soybeans. I think some realistic numbers to use in budgeting might be $5.50-6 corn and $11-13 soybeans.
FROM A FARMER'S perspective, it's important to lock in as long a contract term as possible. If you invest in equipment to farm 3,000 acres and then suddenly lose half of that acreage, the economic impact is not going to be pretty. So, try to lock in at least three-year terms in order to assure the spread of capital costs over time.
I have a tendency to favor flexible rental contracts rather than fixed. For example, let's say a farm rented last year for $200/acre and now the landlord wants $350/acre. That might be reasonable if you had 200-bu. corn at $6/bu. It wouldn't be reasonable, however, if the crop produced 170 bu./acre at $4.50/bu.
With stakes this high, why not do something more flexible where each party shares in some of the risk. In this case, put the rent at $300 and do a revenue split on gross income above $900/acre (this is an example only).
The old-fashioned share crop is probably the most fair in all of these circumstances.
Should the landlord put the farmer in financial jeopardy of not being able to farm next year? In my opinion, if I was the landlord, I'd also want some consistency in who is farming my land.
The owner of the property needs to maximize his returns. But the top price may not be the best avenue for the property owner in the long term. Don't put yourself in a position of trying to get the top price and wind up having a different producer farm your land every year as a result.
Look at the long-term impact on maintaining your land quality and having a producer who you enjoy doing business with farm your land. Like it or not, you're in business together.
Professional farm managers in recent years have done an excellent job in negotiating contracts. With this type of volatility, I think this trend will continue.
Many times it takes a third party to make both sides understand what's reasonable. For the long-term benefit of both parties, everyone needs to be comfortable with the terms of the contract, and fairness is the only way for long-term satisfaction.
Richard Brock is president of Brock Associates, a farm market advisory firm, and publisher of The Brock Report. For a trial subscription and information on Brock services, call 800-558-3431 or visit www.brockreport.com.


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Well, folks, I'm now a published photographer. Chris Stecher, who is the publisher/editor of precis magazine, was kind enough to put "Wife and Child" on the cover of last month's magazine, as well as dedicating five other pages of the magazine to my work. I'm also very grateful for his editorial comments about my work on the second page.
Thanks to my brother Aram for introducing me to Chris, and my mom for helping me to choose the Beijing Sky photographs that Chris alluded to in his editorial. And, although it should go without saying, thanks to my wife and our son.
I'm a bit late in blogging about the magazine since it took awhile for the kind folks at issuu.com — the publishing platform which Chris uses — to dial back their pornography-bot and allow the photograph through without requiring age verification.
If you are so inclined, please show your support for the magazine by clicking-on the above photograph, and reading the publication. (My brother Aram also has a piece in it.)
btw, looks like there's too much "skin" showing for Chris to do a paid-blast on Facebook.


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Old Mutual has teamed up with HIFA to give artists financial management tips in a bid to ensure their well being.
Dubbed the Financial Literacy Workshop, Old Mutual will have professional financial management people school artists on handling their money. HIFA executive director Maria Wilson explains, "We need our artists to be able to manage their financial well being as much as they do their talent." She said there is great need to avoid a situation where artists are celebrated during their lifetime only to die in bankruptcy.
The development follows a financial management initiative that saw 200,000 households in Harare receiving pamphlets with tips on managing money during last year's festival. Old Mutual Group CEO Jonas Mushosho said, "The financial literacy program is incredible. It will go a long way in benefiting our artists and we hope they turn out in numbers." Mushosho said the financial group is proud to partner HIFA in enriching lives, as art is the heart and soul of society. "We extend the invitation to all artists who are attending the festival especially our local representatives," he said.
Attendants of this year's HIFA will also receive brochures with information on financial management as they enter the festival's venues. Old Mutual is one of the longstanding and most lucrative partners of HIFA. They sponsor the last day of the festival, the Old Mutual Day. Their subsidiary bank CABS is another of the festival's partners and sponsors the CABS Day.


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The Buckinghamshire-based agency created the 'Bou-Cakes' - bouquets of pink roses alongside Battenbergs, cherry Bakewells and French fancies - after a survey found that almost 30 per cent of women considered cake to be a thoughtful gift for Valentine's Day. A focus group found flowers to be the gift people most associated with 14 February - hence the decision to merge the two treats.
The Bou-Cakes campaign was designed to raise awareness and increase sales of a Valentine's Day-themed range of Mr Kipling cakes.
More than 100 bouquets were sent to journalists and celebrities, and Cirkle asked 10 bloggers to each offer one Bou-Cake to one of their followers as a prize. These competitions received roughly 15,000 entries, the agency said.
I've just picked a #winner for the @mrkiplingcakes bou-cake giveaway....was it you? https://t.co/rF8hizWTW2— Rachel (@coffee_cakekids) February 27, 2017
None of the influencers or celebrities, which included former X Factor winner Sam Bailey, Heart FM DJ Jamie Theakston and broadcaster Eamonn Holmes, were paid to promote the campaign.
Bou-Cakes, which trended on social media throughout the UK in February, achieved close to 14 million impressions on Twitter. An instagram post by Holmes was also 'liked' almost 12,000 times, whereas a similar post by Radio X DJ Chris Moyles was liked by nearly 6,000 people.
The campaign generated 50 pieces of coverage in the print and online editions of national newspapers. It was also featured in consumer magazines Vogue and Tatler, as well as on the Lorraine Kelly's Lorraine show on ITV.
Activity around the campaign, which included the Bou-Cakes stunt and in-store point-of-sale advertising, contributed to cake sales increasing by 12.5 per cent in the four weeks leading up to 18 February 2017 versus the same period in 2016, Cirkle said.
Cirkle has handled trade PR for Mr Kipling and parent organisation Premier Foods for over a decade, growing its remit to include consumer PR three years ago. In 2014, the agency launched a similar campaign, creating an edible cake billboard poster at Westfield Shopping Centre in Shepherds Bush.


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Jack Lew on Tax Cuts for Wealthyon Sunday, April 12, 2015
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Money Quotation saying that we tested tax cuts for wealthy and it hurt (or at least failed to help) the economy. Jack Lew said:
We're not doing things that we haven't tested. We've had an experiment in this country. We had big tax cuts for very wealthy people and the economy did not do very well afterwards
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Greg Ayres has spent the last several years working in an industry he had admired for many more as a fan. With over 200 credits to his name, this fan-boy has managed to play a variety of characters that are almost as colorful as his hair. He was thrilled to be a part of theToonami return, voicing the roles of Ganta Igarashi in Deadman Wonderland, and Heihachi Hayashida in Samurai 7. He was also thrilled to reprise his role of Son Goku in the Saiyuki Gaiden OVA, and also voiced the roles of Makoto Kobayashi in the award-winning animated film Colorful, and Kouichi Sakakibara in the chilling title,Another.
Some of his other recent roles include Sion in No. 6, Taichi Yaegeshi inKokoro Connect, Heisuke Toudou in Hakuoki, Arikawa in This Boy Can Fight Aliens, Tomoki Sakurai in Heaven's Lost Property, and Volken inThe Book of Bantorra. Other favorite roles include Chrono in Chrono Crusade, Kaoru Hitachiin in Ouran High School Host Club, Youhei Sunohara in Clannad, Yuki in The Wallflower, Leo in Ghost Stories, Satoshi Hiwatari in DNAngel, Kaworu Nagisa in The Director's Cut of Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Negi Springfield in Negima. He can also be heard as Uesugi Kenshin inSengoku Basara, Seikechi Tayama in Oh Edo Rocket, Hiro Hirono in ef: A Tale of Memories, Abe in Big Windup, Jr. inXenosaga: The Animation, Tsujido in Speed Grapher, Roan in Ragnorok The Animation, Yamazaki in Welcome to the NHK,Gau Ban in Shadow Skill, Pope Alessandro XVIII in Trinity Blood, and a bunch of other titles he'll probably forget to mention.
When he's not in a booth with headphones on, you can usually find him sporting headphones of another variety behind "the decks". A veteran nightclub DJ of many years, he jumped at the opportunity to play music at conventions. From packed rooms at anime conventions, to the legendary stage of The Knitting Factory (NYC), he never misses an opportunity to share his love of music with anyone who will listen.


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If you are like me, you use your fingers to operate a touchscreen 99 percent of the time. A stylus probably isn't top of your list of priorities and you can't imagine how you would use one. So, when I was given the chance to try out the Adonit Mini 3 precision disc stylus, I wondered how I would test this item. After all, I have only the 99p stylus I bought on a whim in a card shop a few years ago to compare it to, and that lies at the bottom of my bag unused.
The Adonit Mini 3 is like the Ferrari of styli. It is a fine line stylus that is ideal for mobile use. It's compatible with all touchscreens and promises that no screen is too small. It works with a precision disc that lies flat on the screen while the tip of the stylus rests in the centre of the disc. When you move the stylus around, the disc accommodates your movements while the nib rotates and flexes against the disc. This maintains stylus contact with the touchscreen smooth and lets you move it in whatever direction you like.
One of the things I like about this stylus is that it comes with a cap, just like a pen would which prevents it from becoming damaged in your bag or pencil case. It's quite short, around two-thirds the length of a pen and has an ergonomic design for easy grip. It also has a clip for carrying. The opposite end to the precision disc can also be used as a stylus for regular tapping without the accuracy.
It comes in a range of colours. I tried the black version but it also comes in gold, silver and rose gold. They have a matt finish and feel smooth against your fingers while still delivering good grip.
I'm pleased to say that it's as precise and easy to use as Adonit promise. In fact, it would be useful for all smartphones users. Students might find it handy for taking notes and will definitely find it easier than trying to type on a phone or tablet. Artists, both professional and amateur, will appreciate from the precision it offers. Smartphone users with long nails will definitely find it easier to use a stylus like this than their fingers and it could result in less typos. The great news is this stylus wasn't affected by the cold like our fingers might be so could be used in any environment, which appeals to us all.
What a lot of us don't take into consideration is the hygiene issue too. Our fingers get dirty and very few of us, if any, wash our hands before each time we use our touchscreens so they become a breeding ground for bacteria. Using a stylus like this reduces those hygiene issues and ensures you're not constantly touching your phone with germ-infested hands.
The Adonit Mini 3 is a worthwhile investment. It's precise, attractive and comfortable to use. I would highly recommend purchasing this for yourself and with an RRP of $19.99 it's an item that would make a great low-budget gift or stocking filler at Christmas. You can read more about it here.


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