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Going Postal is echt een leuke film! Ik vond Reacher Gilt niet helemaal zo gecast als ik me had voorgesteld, Vetinari eigenlijk ook niet echt, maar voor de rest was de cast echt voortreffelijk. Heel erg jammer dat Angua ( 
) maar zo'n klein rolletje had.
) maar zo'n klein rolletje had.
quote:Op vrijdag 5 november 2010 21:52 schreef Tha_Bartman het volgende:
In dat geval ga ik Mort ook maar eens een kans geven, nadat ik deze gelezen hebKan ik daar dan zo in beginnen zonder de anderen te lezen?
Netjes. Meestal beschrijven ze de Moist von Lipwig serie als de "Ankh Morpork series" omdat ze over de ontwikkelingen in de stad gaan, maar heel vernuftig hoe ze hier Monstrous Regiment ertussen hebben kunnen krijgen door het "Industrial Revolution" te noemen, 
. Toch gaat die meer over emancipatie dan echt industriėle revolutie, maar ik zal niet zeuren.
. Toch gaat die meer over emancipatie dan echt industriėle revolutie, maar ik zal niet zeuren.
Gisteravond Postal gezien, vond hem erg goed moet ik zeggen.
Er zaten wat kleine afwijkingen van het verhaal in, maar dat is op zich niet zo gek bij een verfilming.
Enige wat me dan wel een beetje stoorde was dat de hele film een aardig budget lijkt te hebben voor van alles en nog wat, maar dat er dan flink bezuinigd is op de Golems. Er zijn er in totaal 6 verschillende te zien ofzo, maar er zijn maar 2 of 3 versies van het pak, beetje slordig vond ik dat.
Er zaten wat kleine afwijkingen van het verhaal in, maar dat is op zich niet zo gek bij een verfilming.
Enige wat me dan wel een beetje stoorde was dat de hele film een aardig budget lijkt te hebben voor van alles en nog wat, maar dat er dan flink bezuinigd is op de Golems. Er zijn er in totaal 6 verschillende te zien ofzo, maar er zijn maar 2 of 3 versies van het pak, beetje slordig vond ik dat.
Last month we mentioned rumours that Disney will be making an
animated version of Mort in a couple of years time. This month I
have heard as yet unconfirmed reports that a live action version of
Good Omens may be on the cards. This however would be a new
adaptation and wouldn't have anything to do with the production
previously associated with Terry Gilliam, Robin Williams and Johnny
Depp.
============
Last month we mentioned that Terry had become an adjunct Professor
at Trinity College Dublin University. Terry's inaugural lecture was
recorded and can now been seen on YouTube at
============
The organisers of the 2011 North American Discworld Convention have
created a new Flash game called Feegle Frenzy which you can play
from their website. It is based around a scene in I Shall Wear
Midnight.
You can give it a go at: http://www.nadwcon.org/feeglefrenzy.html
=============
Going Postal has been nominated in the 2010 Royal Television Society
Craft and Design Awards. The awards take place on Wednesday 24th
November.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11716447
(L_V: Ik zal kijken of ik ergens de uitslag kan vinden )
=============
Terry was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the inaugural
Galaxy National Book Awards on 10th November. Terry is quoted as
saying: "I'm amazed, you find something that you like doing and do
well and keep on doing it and suddenly they give you an award, when
all I was really doing was having a lot of fun."
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=GALAXY164
=============
Has NASA found the Discworld? The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
has imaged a striking galaxy called NGC 4452, which appears to lie
exactly edge-on as seen from Earth. The result is an extraordinary
picture of billions of stars observed from an unusual angle. The
bright nucleus can be seen at the centre, along with the very thin
disc that looks like a straight line from our unusual viewing
position. To complete the picture, a hazy halo of stars on the
periphery of the galaxy makes it seem to glow.
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=DISCWORLD164
===============
En zowaar iets wat voor NL-fans wel aardig is:
[NL, New] Mort is being performed at Het Fijnhout Theatre, Amsterdam
on the 2nd - 4th and 8th - 11th December at 20.00. It will be
performed by the In Players, Amsterdam's oldest English-speaking
amateur theatre company.
Tickets are 12 Euro / 10 Euro (students, CJP, Stadspas) and can be
reserved by email to reserveren.fijnhouttheater@combiwel.nl or via
filling in a reservation form on: http://www.hetfijnhout.nl
http://www.inplayers.org
================
En een reminder:
[NL] The first Dutch Discworld Convention takes place at Hotel NH
Atlanta in Rotterdam on 28th - 29th May 2011.
Contact details: www.dutchdwcon.nl
For further information contact: info@dutchdwcon.nl
Iemand van plan hierheen te gaan? Iets voor een FOK-Pratchett-meet?
animated version of Mort in a couple of years time. This month I
have heard as yet unconfirmed reports that a live action version of
Good Omens may be on the cards. This however would be a new
adaptation and wouldn't have anything to do with the production
previously associated with Terry Gilliam, Robin Williams and Johnny
Depp.
============
Last month we mentioned that Terry had become an adjunct Professor
at Trinity College Dublin University. Terry's inaugural lecture was
recorded and can now been seen on YouTube at
============
The organisers of the 2011 North American Discworld Convention have
created a new Flash game called Feegle Frenzy which you can play
from their website. It is based around a scene in I Shall Wear
Midnight.
You can give it a go at: http://www.nadwcon.org/feeglefrenzy.html
=============
Going Postal has been nominated in the 2010 Royal Television Society
Craft and Design Awards. The awards take place on Wednesday 24th
November.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11716447
(L_V: Ik zal kijken of ik ergens de uitslag kan vinden
)=============
Terry was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the inaugural
Galaxy National Book Awards on 10th November. Terry is quoted as
saying: "I'm amazed, you find something that you like doing and do
well and keep on doing it and suddenly they give you an award, when
all I was really doing was having a lot of fun."
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=GALAXY164
=============
Has NASA found the Discworld? The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
has imaged a striking galaxy called NGC 4452, which appears to lie
exactly edge-on as seen from Earth. The result is an extraordinary
picture of billions of stars observed from an unusual angle. The
bright nucleus can be seen at the centre, along with the very thin
disc that looks like a straight line from our unusual viewing
position. To complete the picture, a hazy halo of stars on the
periphery of the galaxy makes it seem to glow.
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=DISCWORLD164
===============
En zowaar iets wat voor NL-fans wel aardig is:
[NL, New] Mort is being performed at Het Fijnhout Theatre, Amsterdam
on the 2nd - 4th and 8th - 11th December at 20.00. It will be
performed by the In Players, Amsterdam's oldest English-speaking
amateur theatre company.
Tickets are 12 Euro / 10 Euro (students, CJP, Stadspas) and can be
reserved by email to reserveren.fijnhouttheater@combiwel.nl or via
filling in a reservation form on: http://www.hetfijnhout.nl
http://www.inplayers.org
================
En een reminder:
[NL] The first Dutch Discworld Convention takes place at Hotel NH
Atlanta in Rotterdam on 28th - 29th May 2011.
Contact details: www.dutchdwcon.nl
For further information contact: info@dutchdwcon.nl
Iemand van plan hierheen te gaan? Iets voor een FOK-Pratchett-meet?
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
Hogswatch komt eraan, dus tijd voor een Hogswatch taart:
Hogswatch cake
Recipe by Freya Anduin, Denmark
Ingredients:
* 250 grams ordinary raisins
* 150 grams currants
* 200 grams candied orange peel (like Dr. Oetker's)
* 200 grams chopped, dried apricot
* 100 grams chopped dark chocolate pref. 70-80%
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* 1 tsp ground ginger
* 1 tsp ground allspice
* 1 tsp ground cloves
* 100 grams chopped, peeled almonds
* 100 grams chopped hazelnut
* 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 1 decilitre whisky plus extra
* 250 grams soft butter (leave out overnight, let fall out of
package and use the paper to grease the pan)
* 200 grams dark muscovado sugar (mush it with your fingers to be
sure there are no rock hard clumps to take out granny's teeth)
* 4 medium sized egg
* 200 grams wheat flour (not self-raising or anything)
* Icing from 400 grams icing sugar and pure lemon juice (no water)
Day one:
Cut up the apricot and put this and the peel, currants and raisins
in a container with the whisky, close tightly and put in the fridge
overnight.
Day two:
Mix butter and sugar very well. Add one egg at a time and mix well
between (yes, it does go sort of grainy). This can be done with a
mixer.
Add the dry bits and mix well. Discard the mixer and find a very
strong spoon. Mix in the wet bits. (Your mixer will not survive
having a go at this).
Put the mix in a pan - maybe a 22x30 cm foil one, well greased. It
can go to the rim as it will not rise. (If you use a foil pan take
it out with the grille as it will collapse under the weight of the
cake if you try to take it out by holding the corners or something.)
Bake at 175 degrees centigrade in the middle of the oven for 45
minutes, using top and bottom heat and no fan.
When out, wait 5 minutes and then splash it generously with some
more whisky - it will absorb immediately. Leave to cool.
When hand temperature tip out on something by holding it over the
pan and turning it over leaving the cake bottom up. Give it another
good helping of whisky. Watch it absorb, it will tell you how much
it can take.
Leave to go cold. Put on the icing and be careful to spread evenly
without damaging the cake.
When the icing is almost set cut it in squares. Big enough to not
crumble but not big ones. (Here you might want to make sure you are
alone - you will not want to share the spoils on the board with
anybody).
Prepare containers with tight fitting lids by pouring in some 2 mm
of whisky in the bottom and put the cake in there and close lids.
Put in fridge till you want to eat them. Take out of fridge in time
to go room temperature before eating.
This is my version of the Christmas Pudding - but being a Dane all
this suet and boiling stuff is not my thing so I made up this baked
version.
And by the way - this cake is not for the kiddies (or AA-members)
and believe me - when you had your first bite, you are in no mood to
share with anyone.
It should keep well in fridge - in theory at least - but I take no
responsibility for how long you will be able to leave it there.
Oh - and go easy on the stuff, ok? There are enough calories in
this to keep an extended family going for about a week. And it costs
just about that much too.
Happy Hogswatch
Hogswatch cake
Recipe by Freya Anduin, Denmark
Ingredients:
* 250 grams ordinary raisins
* 150 grams currants
* 200 grams candied orange peel (like Dr. Oetker's)
* 200 grams chopped, dried apricot
* 100 grams chopped dark chocolate pref. 70-80%
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* 1 tsp ground ginger
* 1 tsp ground allspice
* 1 tsp ground cloves
* 100 grams chopped, peeled almonds
* 100 grams chopped hazelnut
* 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 1 decilitre whisky plus extra
* 250 grams soft butter (leave out overnight, let fall out of
package and use the paper to grease the pan)
* 200 grams dark muscovado sugar (mush it with your fingers to be
sure there are no rock hard clumps to take out granny's teeth)
* 4 medium sized egg
* 200 grams wheat flour (not self-raising or anything)
* Icing from 400 grams icing sugar and pure lemon juice (no water)
Day one:
Cut up the apricot and put this and the peel, currants and raisins
in a container with the whisky, close tightly and put in the fridge
overnight.
Day two:
Mix butter and sugar very well. Add one egg at a time and mix well
between (yes, it does go sort of grainy). This can be done with a
mixer.
Add the dry bits and mix well. Discard the mixer and find a very
strong spoon. Mix in the wet bits. (Your mixer will not survive
having a go at this).
Put the mix in a pan - maybe a 22x30 cm foil one, well greased. It
can go to the rim as it will not rise. (If you use a foil pan take
it out with the grille as it will collapse under the weight of the
cake if you try to take it out by holding the corners or something.)
Bake at 175 degrees centigrade in the middle of the oven for 45
minutes, using top and bottom heat and no fan.
When out, wait 5 minutes and then splash it generously with some
more whisky - it will absorb immediately. Leave to cool.
When hand temperature tip out on something by holding it over the
pan and turning it over leaving the cake bottom up. Give it another
good helping of whisky. Watch it absorb, it will tell you how much
it can take.
Leave to go cold. Put on the icing and be careful to spread evenly
without damaging the cake.
When the icing is almost set cut it in squares. Big enough to not
crumble but not big ones. (Here you might want to make sure you are
alone - you will not want to share the spoils on the board with
anybody).
Prepare containers with tight fitting lids by pouring in some 2 mm
of whisky in the bottom and put the cake in there and close lids.
Put in fridge till you want to eat them. Take out of fridge in time
to go room temperature before eating.
This is my version of the Christmas Pudding - but being a Dane all
this suet and boiling stuff is not my thing so I made up this baked
version.
And by the way - this cake is not for the kiddies (or AA-members)
and believe me - when you had your first bite, you are in no mood to
share with anyone.
It should keep well in fridge - in theory at least - but I take no
responsibility for how long you will be able to leave it there.
Oh - and go easy on the stuff, ok? There are enough calories in
this to keep an extended family going for about a week. And it costs
just about that much too.
Happy Hogswatch
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
quote:
Hogswatch komt eraan, dus tijd voor een Hogswatch taart:
Hogswatch cake
Recipe by Freya Anduin, Denmark
Ingredients:
* 250 grams ordinary raisins
* 150 grams currants
* 200 grams candied orange peel (like Dr. Oetker's)
* 200 grams chopped, dried apricot
* 100 grams chopped dark chocolate pref. 70-80%
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* 1 tsp ground ginger
* 1 tsp ground allspice
* 1 tsp ground cloves
* 100 grams chopped, peeled almonds
* 100 grams chopped hazelnut
* 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 1 decilitre whisky plus extra
* 250 grams soft butter (leave out overnight, let fall out of
package and use the paper to grease the pan)
* 200 grams dark muscovado sugar (mush it with your fingers to be
sure there are no rock hard clumps to take out granny's teeth)
* 4 medium sized egg
* 200 grams wheat flour (not self-raising or anything)
* Icing from 400 grams icing sugar and pure lemon juice (no water)
Day one:
Cut up the apricot and put this and the peel, currants and raisins
in a container with the whisky, close tightly and put in the fridge
overnight.
Day two:
Mix butter and sugar very well. Add one egg at a time and mix well
between (yes, it does go sort of grainy). This can be done with a
mixer.
Add the dry bits and mix well. Discard the mixer and find a very
strong spoon. Mix in the wet bits. (Your mixer will not survive
having a go at this).
Put the mix in a pan - maybe a 22x30 cm foil one, well greased. It
can go to the rim as it will not rise. (If you use a foil pan take
it out with the grille as it will collapse under the weight of the
cake if you try to take it out by holding the corners or something.)
Bake at 175 degrees centigrade in the middle of the oven for 45
minutes, using top and bottom heat and no fan.
When out, wait 5 minutes and then splash it generously with some
more whisky - it will absorb immediately. Leave to cool.
When hand temperature tip out on something by holding it over the
pan and turning it over leaving the cake bottom up. Give it another
good helping of whisky. Watch it absorb, it will tell you how much
it can take.
Leave to go cold. Put on the icing and be careful to spread evenly
without damaging the cake.
When the icing is almost set cut it in squares. Big enough to not
crumble but not big ones. (Here you might want to make sure you are
alone - you will not want to share the spoils on the board with
anybody).
Prepare containers with tight fitting lids by pouring in some 2 mm
of whisky in the bottom and put the cake in there and close lids.
Put in fridge till you want to eat them. Take out of fridge in time
to go room temperature before eating.
This is my version of the Christmas Pudding - but being a Dane all
this suet and boiling stuff is not my thing so I made up this baked
version.
And by the way - this cake is not for the kiddies (or AA-members)
and believe me - when you had your first bite, you are in no mood to
share with anyone.
It should keep well in fridge - in theory at least - but I take no
responsibility for how long you will be able to leave it there.
Oh - and go easy on the stuff, ok? There are enough calories in
this to keep an extended family going for about a week. And it costs
just about that much too.
Happy Hogswatch
PSN: Cidolfas - FFXIV: Cidolfas Windu
quote:
[..]
In een spoiler voor de mensen die I Shall Wear Midnight nog moeten lezen, de context is belangrijk maar geeft veel weg over het einde:Het heeft even geduurd, maar ik heb hem ook uit en heb nu pas je spoiler gelezen....ik verwachtte iets veel ergers.... Zeker nadat ik had gelezen wat de Feegles eerder zeiden over wat ze met een schop zouden doen als er nog een in de buurt kwam. Dat vond ik toch veel erger dan het "scheldwoord" wat je hierboven noemde.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.
Ik vind de verfilming van Hogfather werkelijk verschrikkelijk.
Doe mij maar gewoon de novels
Doe mij maar gewoon de novels
There's no justice, there's just us.
Vond het wel geinig het herkenbare eraan.quote:
Ik vind de verfilming van Hogfather werkelijk verschrikkelijk.
Doe mij maar gewoon de novels
Maar idd lang niet zo sterk als het zou moeten zijn. Zelfs de games deden meer recht aan de boeken imo. Niet dat het goed valt te vergelijken.
Nou nou, verschrikkelijk...quote:
Ik vind de verfilming van Hogfather werkelijk verschrikkelijk.
Doe mij maar gewoon de novels
PSN: Cidolfas - FFXIV: Cidolfas Windu
Ik zie het probleem ook niet inderdaadquote:
[..]
Nou nou, verschrikkelijk...
[ afbeelding ]
GNU Terry Pratchett
Snuff
According to the writer of the best selling crime novel ever to
have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth
universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would
barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his
first corpse.
And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on
holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him
a mere body in the wardrobe, but many, many bodies and an ancient
crime more terrible than murder.
He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon
sandwiches, occasionally snookered and occasionally out of his
mind, but not out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be
a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
But not quite all...
Published 13th October 2011
Signed copies will be available for pre-order from August 2011 from
http://www.pjsmprints.com/
According to the writer of the best selling crime novel ever to
have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth
universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would
barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his
first corpse.
And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on
holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him
a mere body in the wardrobe, but many, many bodies and an ancient
crime more terrible than murder.
He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon
sandwiches, occasionally snookered and occasionally out of his
mind, but not out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be
a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
But not quite all...
Published 13th October 2011
Signed copies will be available for pre-order from August 2011 from
http://www.pjsmprints.com/
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
The Mob Film Company have officially announced that they will start
filming their fourth Discworld adaptation later this year. This
time around football get the mini-series treatment in their
adaptation of Unseen Academicals.
We look forward to seeing how they cast Vimes, Carrot, Mrs Nutt and
Glenda. Especially with the recent sad news of the death of Pete
Postlethwaite, who Melvyn Grant based his drawings of Vimes on in
Where's My Cow?
----------
The newspaper The Edinburgh Evening News recently ran a story about
the huge backlog of Christmas mail due to the terrible weather
conditions Scotland has recently experienced. It seems a case of
life imitating art: maybe they should invite Moist Von Lipwig over
to help them with the backlog.
Our thanks to Thom Fish for letting us know about this.
----------
Terry was recently awarded the 2011 Margaret A. Edwards Award by The
American Library Association, which honours an author, as well as a
specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting
contribution to young adult literature.
----------
In The Truth Lord Vetinari talks about people really wanting to read
olds - things like Dog Bites Man. In a case of truth really being
stranger than fiction how about Fox Shoots Man!
The story tells of how a wounded fox fighting for its life
accidentally pulled the trigger of a hunter's gun, wounding the
hunter in the leg.
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=FOX166
----------
The Guardian has recently published an article about its top 100
books of 2010.
Terry gets mentioned as being at positions 63 and 84. There is a
link at the bottom of the page but it appears to link to a
completely different set of data!
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=GUARD166
filming their fourth Discworld adaptation later this year. This
time around football get the mini-series treatment in their
adaptation of Unseen Academicals.
We look forward to seeing how they cast Vimes, Carrot, Mrs Nutt and
Glenda. Especially with the recent sad news of the death of Pete
Postlethwaite, who Melvyn Grant based his drawings of Vimes on in
Where's My Cow?
----------
The newspaper The Edinburgh Evening News recently ran a story about
the huge backlog of Christmas mail due to the terrible weather
conditions Scotland has recently experienced. It seems a case of
life imitating art: maybe they should invite Moist Von Lipwig over
to help them with the backlog.
Our thanks to Thom Fish for letting us know about this.
----------
Terry was recently awarded the 2011 Margaret A. Edwards Award by The
American Library Association, which honours an author, as well as a
specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting
contribution to young adult literature.
----------
In The Truth Lord Vetinari talks about people really wanting to read
olds - things like Dog Bites Man. In a case of truth really being
stranger than fiction how about Fox Shoots Man!
The story tells of how a wounded fox fighting for its life
accidentally pulled the trigger of a hunter's gun, wounding the
hunter in the leg.
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=FOX166
----------
The Guardian has recently published an article about its top 100
books of 2010.
Terry gets mentioned as being at positions 63 and 84. There is a
link at the bottom of the page but it appears to link to a
completely different set of data!
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=GUARD166
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
It's time to start taking Alzheimer's more seriously says Pratchett
Dementia is being widely ignored and needs the aggressive action that was taken to tackle HIV, according to a leading Alzheimer’s charity.
Sir Terry Pratchett, who has the disease, said the world ‘still doesn’t take much notice’ of Alzheimer’s and much more funding is needed for research.
The best-selling author, who is patron of Alzheimer’s Research UK, formerly the Alzheimer’s Trust, said an immediate programme of studies into the disease needed to start – similar to that into the Aids virus in the 1980s.
His comments come as a report for the charity shows that for every UK scientist working on dementia, six work on cancer.
A national poll also found that people fear dementia more than cancer or even death.
Sir Terry said: ‘Alzheimer’s is a large number of small tragedies usually played out behind closed doors, so in spite of the numbers living with it, the world still doesn’t take much notice.
‘When the world was shocked by HIV in the 1980s we saw a crash programme of research which has helped tame it enormously. We need the same kind of aggressive action on dementia now.’
The YouGov poll of more than 2,000 people marks the re-launch of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust as Alzheimer’s Research UK.
The charity is asking the public, Government and the private sector to help end years of ‘pitifully low’ investment in research.
Asked what they feared the most, 31 per cent of people surveyed for the charity said dementia, while 27 per cent were most scared of cancer, 18 per cent said death and 7 per cent said going bankrupt.
Dementia costs the economy an estimated £23billion, more than cancer and heart disease combined, says Alzheimer’s Research UK.
The charity’s chief executive, Rebecca Wood, said: ‘Public concern around dementia is at an all-time high, yet dementia research is still the poor relation. We have such brilliant research talent in the UK which could make real inroads into defeating dementia with more support – our brains depend on theirs.
‘Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity, and the public has helped us fund hundreds of top scientists, including a record £4.5million of grants last year. Regrettably, charity and Government spending still lags far behind efforts made against other diseases.’
Care services minister Paul Burstow said: ‘Dementia is one of the biggest challenges our society faces. As our population ages we need to better understand the disease if we are to counter its effects more successfully. Research is the key to developing new treatments, transforming care and ultimately to finding a cure for this devastating disease.
‘The Department of Health’s research budget is nearly a billion this year - I want more of that funding to be supporting dementia research. But we can only do that if the number and quality of the research proposals are of the right standard to justify the investment.
‘To help dementia sufferers and their families to benefit, we will help researchers to submit high quality proposals which advance our understanding of care, cure and cause.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.u(...)t.html#ixzz1DT6G6JJi
Dementia is being widely ignored and needs the aggressive action that was taken to tackle HIV, according to a leading Alzheimer’s charity.
Sir Terry Pratchett, who has the disease, said the world ‘still doesn’t take much notice’ of Alzheimer’s and much more funding is needed for research.
The best-selling author, who is patron of Alzheimer’s Research UK, formerly the Alzheimer’s Trust, said an immediate programme of studies into the disease needed to start – similar to that into the Aids virus in the 1980s.
His comments come as a report for the charity shows that for every UK scientist working on dementia, six work on cancer.
A national poll also found that people fear dementia more than cancer or even death.
Sir Terry said: ‘Alzheimer’s is a large number of small tragedies usually played out behind closed doors, so in spite of the numbers living with it, the world still doesn’t take much notice.
‘When the world was shocked by HIV in the 1980s we saw a crash programme of research which has helped tame it enormously. We need the same kind of aggressive action on dementia now.’
The YouGov poll of more than 2,000 people marks the re-launch of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust as Alzheimer’s Research UK.
The charity is asking the public, Government and the private sector to help end years of ‘pitifully low’ investment in research.
Asked what they feared the most, 31 per cent of people surveyed for the charity said dementia, while 27 per cent were most scared of cancer, 18 per cent said death and 7 per cent said going bankrupt.
Dementia costs the economy an estimated £23billion, more than cancer and heart disease combined, says Alzheimer’s Research UK.
The charity’s chief executive, Rebecca Wood, said: ‘Public concern around dementia is at an all-time high, yet dementia research is still the poor relation. We have such brilliant research talent in the UK which could make real inroads into defeating dementia with more support – our brains depend on theirs.
‘Alzheimer’s Research UK is the UK’s leading dementia research charity, and the public has helped us fund hundreds of top scientists, including a record £4.5million of grants last year. Regrettably, charity and Government spending still lags far behind efforts made against other diseases.’
Care services minister Paul Burstow said: ‘Dementia is one of the biggest challenges our society faces. As our population ages we need to better understand the disease if we are to counter its effects more successfully. Research is the key to developing new treatments, transforming care and ultimately to finding a cure for this devastating disease.
‘The Department of Health’s research budget is nearly a billion this year - I want more of that funding to be supporting dementia research. But we can only do that if the number and quality of the research proposals are of the right standard to justify the investment.
‘To help dementia sufferers and their families to benefit, we will help researchers to submit high quality proposals which advance our understanding of care, cure and cause.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.u(...)t.html#ixzz1DT6G6JJi
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
Blij dat er weer een watch-novel komt.quote:
Snuff
According to the writer of the best selling crime novel ever to
have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth
universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would
barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his
first corpse.
And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on
holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him
a mere body in the wardrobe, but many, many bodies and an ancient
crime more terrible than murder.
He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon
sandwiches, occasionally snookered and occasionally out of his
mind, but not out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be
a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
But not quite all...
Published 13th October 2011
Signed copies will be available for pre-order from August 2011 from
http://www.pjsmprints.com/
Met de heksen (en dan niet zozeer Tiffany), vind ik de wacht toch wel de tofste verhalen hebben.
Bestiality sure is a fun thing to do. But I have to say this as a warning to you:
With almost all animals you can have a ball, but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
With almost all animals you can have a ball, but the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.
Discworld fans will have not one, but two new Discworld Games to
enjoy in 2011. We mentioned the Ankh-Morpork game last month, the
other is called Guards! Guards! A Discworld Boardgame and is well on
its way to hitting the shelves this summer.
Stephen Player has recently been commissioned to produce the
Illustrations for the game.
The game will be in the shops in June/July 2011.
It will be published by Z-Man Games in the US and will be
distributed by Esdevium Games in the UK & Europe.
The game sees players taking on the role of newly recruited members
of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. With the Eight Great Spells missing
from the Unseen University the future of the city hangs in the
balance. Each player is tasked to collect and return a number of
the spells to the University before the news of their loss gets out
and chaos ensues.
You can view the artwork for the game's box at:
http://www.discworldmonthly.co.uk/gfx/guardsguardsbox.jpg
---------
Terry did rather well at the recent SFX awards (SFX is an excellent
sci-fi magazine published in the UK) winning awards for best novel
for I Shall Wear Midnight and the SFX Outstanding Contribution
Award. SFX's website includes Terry's acceptance video.
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/02/05/sfx-awards-winners-announced/
---------
Do you know what Amigurumi is? No neither did I - apparently it is
the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and
anthropomorphic creatures.
It appears that June Gilbank has decided to crochet Great A'Tuin,
the four elephants and the Disc itself. You can see pictures of the
rather cute looking project at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetjune/2766286338/
--------
[NL] The first Dutch Discworld Convention takes place at Hotel NH
Atlanta in Rotterdam on 28th - 29th May 2011.
Program items so far are Premiere for the Netherlands of Going
Postal, a Banquet buffet, a Masquerade and Workshops.
No news about Guests of Honour yet.
Contact details: http://www.dutchdwcon.nl
For further information contact: info@dutchdwcon.nl
-------------
enjoy in 2011. We mentioned the Ankh-Morpork game last month, the
other is called Guards! Guards! A Discworld Boardgame and is well on
its way to hitting the shelves this summer.
Stephen Player has recently been commissioned to produce the
Illustrations for the game.
The game will be in the shops in June/July 2011.
It will be published by Z-Man Games in the US and will be
distributed by Esdevium Games in the UK & Europe.
The game sees players taking on the role of newly recruited members
of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. With the Eight Great Spells missing
from the Unseen University the future of the city hangs in the
balance. Each player is tasked to collect and return a number of
the spells to the University before the news of their loss gets out
and chaos ensues.
You can view the artwork for the game's box at:
http://www.discworldmonthly.co.uk/gfx/guardsguardsbox.jpg
---------
Terry did rather well at the recent SFX awards (SFX is an excellent
sci-fi magazine published in the UK) winning awards for best novel
for I Shall Wear Midnight and the SFX Outstanding Contribution
Award. SFX's website includes Terry's acceptance video.
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/02/05/sfx-awards-winners-announced/
---------
Do you know what Amigurumi is? No neither did I - apparently it is
the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and
anthropomorphic creatures.
It appears that June Gilbank has decided to crochet Great A'Tuin,
the four elephants and the Disc itself. You can see pictures of the
rather cute looking project at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetjune/2766286338/
--------
[NL] The first Dutch Discworld Convention takes place at Hotel NH
Atlanta in Rotterdam on 28th - 29th May 2011.
Program items so far are Premiere for the Netherlands of Going
Postal, a Banquet buffet, a Masquerade and Workshops.
No news about Guests of Honour yet.
Contact details: http://www.dutchdwcon.nl
For further information contact: info@dutchdwcon.nl
-------------
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
Zijn er hier mensen die naar CabbageCon gaan? Ik zit er nog heel erg over te twijfelen, ik heb namelijk die zondag een cabaretmarathon (zo'n 10 uur cabaret en kleinkunst) en ik denk dat dat voor mij wat veel wordt als ik dan ook zaterdag nog naar zo'n meeting ga.
En ik heb werkelijk geen flauw idee hoe druk het zal zijn... Ergens vrees ik dat het erg rustig gaat blijven, maar ik hoop natuurlijk dat het een groot succes wordt, zodat er volgend jaar ook weer een DW-Con in Nederland komt!
En ik heb werkelijk geen flauw idee hoe druk het zal zijn... Ergens vrees ik dat het erg rustig gaat blijven, maar ik hoop natuurlijk dat het een groot succes wordt, zodat er volgend jaar ook weer een DW-Con in Nederland komt!
Geluk is een richting,
geen punt
---Loesje---
geen punt
---Loesje---
Slaughter of the swans: Terry Pratchett helps to double reward after 31 birds are shot with high-powered air rifle
Terry Pratchett has offered £10,000 to catch swan killers who have murdered 31 of the birds in the last month - doubling the reward.
The best-selling author said he was 'incensed' by the slaughter of the birds in Somerset.
Many of them had been rescued from starving after being trapped in the winter ice and nursed to health before being released into the wild.
Eight swans were found dead in Blackford last week and it later emerged that more carcasses were found by the members of the public at Wedmore and Godney, with most of the birds killed by sniper shots to the head with an air rifle.
Wildlife workers yesterday found ten more murdered swans near Wedmore and offered £10,500 to help catch the swan killer.
But after Pratchett doubled the reward, and several more members of the public offered money, the total amount on offer stood at £26,000.
Wildlife charity Secret World described finding the dead birds as 'one of the worst incidents' it had ever attended.
Pratchett, 62, said: 'Nobody understands why this is happening. I'm at a loss, but I certainly don't think someone should be walking around shooting swans.
'I phoned up this morning and said "this is terrible", I was absolutely incensed. They are protected birds and have been for many years.
'I just don't understand the mentality. I can't see them (swans) doing much harm, and why someone would go and shoot them I have no idea.
'I will be following this case with interest and I'm sure the RSPCA will be taking it very seriously, as will I.'
The money will be offered to anyone who comes forward with information that leads to a successful prosecution.
The Queen retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water. Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, anyone found guilty of attacking swans can be sentenced to six months in prison and fined £5,000.
Police said they had stepped up patrols in the area but any prosecutions would be handled by the RSPCA.
Sarah Cowen, animal care manager at Secret World, said: 'It's amazing to see that people are so enraged about the killings that they are coming forward and donating very large sums of money.
'It's always difficult with cases like this to get people to talk. If someone is carrying out this action they are not likely to be a very nice people and others might be afraid of retribution, but this might make someone more willing to come forward.'
The reward fund was started by Phil new, 53, who lives in nearby Highbridge.
He said: 'It takes a lot to put a tear in my eye but what happened here has achieved that.'
The RSPCA said it is already investigating the first incident and are able to prosecute.
An Avon and Somerset Police spokeswoman said the neighbourhood team was carrying out extra patrols.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.u(...)e.html#ixzz1FUZ3LRYx
Terry Pratchett has offered £10,000 to catch swan killers who have murdered 31 of the birds in the last month - doubling the reward.
The best-selling author said he was 'incensed' by the slaughter of the birds in Somerset.
Many of them had been rescued from starving after being trapped in the winter ice and nursed to health before being released into the wild.
Eight swans were found dead in Blackford last week and it later emerged that more carcasses were found by the members of the public at Wedmore and Godney, with most of the birds killed by sniper shots to the head with an air rifle.
Wildlife workers yesterday found ten more murdered swans near Wedmore and offered £10,500 to help catch the swan killer.
But after Pratchett doubled the reward, and several more members of the public offered money, the total amount on offer stood at £26,000.
Wildlife charity Secret World described finding the dead birds as 'one of the worst incidents' it had ever attended.
Pratchett, 62, said: 'Nobody understands why this is happening. I'm at a loss, but I certainly don't think someone should be walking around shooting swans.
'I phoned up this morning and said "this is terrible", I was absolutely incensed. They are protected birds and have been for many years.
'I just don't understand the mentality. I can't see them (swans) doing much harm, and why someone would go and shoot them I have no idea.
'I will be following this case with interest and I'm sure the RSPCA will be taking it very seriously, as will I.'
The money will be offered to anyone who comes forward with information that leads to a successful prosecution.
The Queen retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water. Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, anyone found guilty of attacking swans can be sentenced to six months in prison and fined £5,000.
Police said they had stepped up patrols in the area but any prosecutions would be handled by the RSPCA.
Sarah Cowen, animal care manager at Secret World, said: 'It's amazing to see that people are so enraged about the killings that they are coming forward and donating very large sums of money.
'It's always difficult with cases like this to get people to talk. If someone is carrying out this action they are not likely to be a very nice people and others might be afraid of retribution, but this might make someone more willing to come forward.'
The reward fund was started by Phil new, 53, who lives in nearby Highbridge.
He said: 'It takes a lot to put a tear in my eye but what happened here has achieved that.'
The RSPCA said it is already investigating the first incident and are able to prosecute.
An Avon and Somerset Police spokeswoman said the neighbourhood team was carrying out extra patrols.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.u(...)e.html#ixzz1FUZ3LRYx
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
"Folks,
There has been a long time between updates, mostly because since
early November life has been extremely hectic. A large part of
that month being mostly spent clearing snow. And then, for some
reason, Christmas seemed twice as long as any other Christmas, but
enjoyable nevertheless. And now, since our schedule is always
pretty full, the world in general believing that the time of an
author is expandable, we have run into a kind of gridlock with far
too many obligations and not enough days in the year.
However, Snuff, with Commander Vimes of the City Watch as the main
character, is now with the copy editor and I have finished our
next documentary with the BBC, which has also required our major
involvement since October. We have answered as much mail as we
can and as I sit here I see a huge pile of stuff that we will have
to work through over the next few weeks, while desperately trying
to make progress on my part of the Long Earth.
There has been one hell of a lot of rumours regarding a Good Omens
adaptation over the past few weeks, mostly started by me at the
SFX Weekender. So, ladies and gentleman, I can hereby exclusively
reveal that - YES - Neil and myself have shaken hands and received
groats from Rod Brown sealing a TV deal. An official announcement
from Prime Focus will follow in a couple of weeks time. However,
I can reveal right now that Terry Jones (yes, the Python) and
Gavin Scott (not a Python, but he gets it) are already on the job.
It's been a long time coming, but it's looking good.
A word about conventions; unless something reasonably disastrous
happens, Rob and I will be attending the Australian convention in
April and I will be doing other engagements in Oz and New Zealand.
I believe that an event advertised in Melbourne has already sold
out, in fact, even before we knew the details and I am still
unsure of the dates of the one in Sydney, although I do know that
it will be at the Opera House. PLEASE do not ask us for tickets!
We do not have any! We do not know what they look like! And we
wait, with bated breath, whether they will actually let us in.
Again, the second North American convention looks likely, but
again, health considerations, acts of god (okay, random
fluctuations in the space/time continuum) and Icelandic dust
clouds permitting. We intend to get around that by driving to the
convention ... don't ask, but it's going to be fun.
I know there are going to be smaller conventions in Germany,
Holland, Ireland and I've even heard a rumour of one in Spain.
Fortuitously, I will be able (health blah blah blah permitting) to
attend the second Irish convention because it is just after a
professorial engagement at Trinity College Dublin. I know this
will mean an overdose of Guinness, but one has to suffer for his
art.
I cannot guarantee attendance at any of the other smaller
conventions, simply because no matter what size a convention is,
it still pretty much takes up the same amount of my time and there
are so many calls on it, least of which involves writing books,
that I can't go everywhere. Sorry! But I am not the first person
to say that I think it a good idea if people put their heads
together and organised a pan-European convention, which would
probably be a lot more fun and attract a lot more fans. As it is,
we've just returned from a whistle-stop visit to Prague to see the
final performance of Maskarada at the Dlouhe theatre. It was
absolutely superb and I am hoping that it really wasn't the last
one.
We know this doesn't work but we continue to repeat it even though
no one ever takes any notice. PLEASE we would rather you did not
send your own books for signing - as we've said time and again,
signed books are available HERE. Especially
difficult are things sent with a deadline, such as 'please sign
this for my husband, whose birthday is next Thursday' which has
been posted second class on Tuesday (you would be amazed...).
Also, Never assume the author is at home or even in the country,
although he might be wishing that he was. And PLEASE do not argue
or try to negotiate with us over this.
I have heard that Professor Roy Jones, Director of the RICE Centre
for the past twenty five years and also my Alzheimer's specialist,
is celebrating by running the Bath half marathon. RICE has been
the recipient of the goodwill of many fannish occasions and they
can always do with more. God help him, but Roy's job is to work
out if I am normal or not! Please follow us and take a look at
his JustGiving page HERE.
More from me very soon.
Terry Pratchett."
Since Terry wrote this I have received confirmation that Good Omens
will be filmed in the UK and Ireland later this year.
There has been a long time between updates, mostly because since
early November life has been extremely hectic. A large part of
that month being mostly spent clearing snow. And then, for some
reason, Christmas seemed twice as long as any other Christmas, but
enjoyable nevertheless. And now, since our schedule is always
pretty full, the world in general believing that the time of an
author is expandable, we have run into a kind of gridlock with far
too many obligations and not enough days in the year.
However, Snuff, with Commander Vimes of the City Watch as the main
character, is now with the copy editor and I have finished our
next documentary with the BBC, which has also required our major
involvement since October. We have answered as much mail as we
can and as I sit here I see a huge pile of stuff that we will have
to work through over the next few weeks, while desperately trying
to make progress on my part of the Long Earth.
There has been one hell of a lot of rumours regarding a Good Omens
adaptation over the past few weeks, mostly started by me at the
SFX Weekender. So, ladies and gentleman, I can hereby exclusively
reveal that - YES - Neil and myself have shaken hands and received
groats from Rod Brown sealing a TV deal. An official announcement
from Prime Focus will follow in a couple of weeks time. However,
I can reveal right now that Terry Jones (yes, the Python) and
Gavin Scott (not a Python, but he gets it) are already on the job.
It's been a long time coming, but it's looking good.
A word about conventions; unless something reasonably disastrous
happens, Rob and I will be attending the Australian convention in
April and I will be doing other engagements in Oz and New Zealand.
I believe that an event advertised in Melbourne has already sold
out, in fact, even before we knew the details and I am still
unsure of the dates of the one in Sydney, although I do know that
it will be at the Opera House. PLEASE do not ask us for tickets!
We do not have any! We do not know what they look like! And we
wait, with bated breath, whether they will actually let us in.
Again, the second North American convention looks likely, but
again, health considerations, acts of god (okay, random
fluctuations in the space/time continuum) and Icelandic dust
clouds permitting. We intend to get around that by driving to the
convention ... don't ask, but it's going to be fun.
I know there are going to be smaller conventions in Germany,
Holland, Ireland and I've even heard a rumour of one in Spain.
Fortuitously, I will be able (health blah blah blah permitting) to
attend the second Irish convention because it is just after a
professorial engagement at Trinity College Dublin. I know this
will mean an overdose of Guinness, but one has to suffer for his
art.
I cannot guarantee attendance at any of the other smaller
conventions, simply because no matter what size a convention is,
it still pretty much takes up the same amount of my time and there
are so many calls on it, least of which involves writing books,
that I can't go everywhere. Sorry! But I am not the first person
to say that I think it a good idea if people put their heads
together and organised a pan-European convention, which would
probably be a lot more fun and attract a lot more fans. As it is,
we've just returned from a whistle-stop visit to Prague to see the
final performance of Maskarada at the Dlouhe theatre. It was
absolutely superb and I am hoping that it really wasn't the last
one.
We know this doesn't work but we continue to repeat it even though
no one ever takes any notice. PLEASE we would rather you did not
send your own books for signing - as we've said time and again,
signed books are available HERE. Especially
difficult are things sent with a deadline, such as 'please sign
this for my husband, whose birthday is next Thursday' which has
been posted second class on Tuesday (you would be amazed...).
Also, Never assume the author is at home or even in the country,
although he might be wishing that he was. And PLEASE do not argue
or try to negotiate with us over this.
I have heard that Professor Roy Jones, Director of the RICE Centre
for the past twenty five years and also my Alzheimer's specialist,
is celebrating by running the Bath half marathon. RICE has been
the recipient of the goodwill of many fannish occasions and they
can always do with more. God help him, but Roy's job is to work
out if I am normal or not! Please follow us and take a look at
his JustGiving page HERE.
More from me very soon.
Terry Pratchett."
Since Terry wrote this I have received confirmation that Good Omens
will be filmed in the UK and Ireland later this year.
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
News about a new Discworld Watch TV Series
We've just received this press release hot off the press:
Terry Pratchett's 'The Watch'
11 March 2011:
Sir Terry Pratchett and Rod Brown, Managing Director of Prime Focus
Productions, announce that they have come to an agreement for the
unprecedented and exclusive worldwide television rights to create
brand new storylines for the iconic characters of Pratchett's
phenomenally successful Discworld series.
Terry's universal success has seen him create one of the leading
fantasy fiction franchises of all time, with 70 million worldwide
sales of his 38 book Discworld titles (with a 39th being published
in October 2011). Whilst there have been three successful mini
series adaptations of his Discworld books made for television in the
UK, this is the first time that Pratchett has granted a production
company the international rights to his character's and world, for
the creation of new stories exclusively for a television audience.
The main focus of the series will be set in the bustling, highly
mercantile, largely untrustworthy and always vibrant city of Ankh
Morpork and will follow the day-to-day activities of the men, women,
trolls, dwarves, vampires and several other species who daily pound
its ancient cobbles (and, of course, Igor in the forensics
department). Terry commonly refers to the City Watch police force
series "the jewels in his Discworld Crown". These richly developed
and highly compelling characters will feature in a 'crime of the
week' episodic storyline. As each weekly adventure unfolds, viewers
will be taken on a ride through Pratchett's genius imagination, with
the author overseeing the creation of the series, where wild and
exciting encounters with werewolves, dragons, dwarfs, trolls and
golems and the classic heroes and villains, are an everyday
occurrence... many of whom even make outstanding crime fighters!
Rod Brown, Managing Director of Prime Focus Productions said, "I
believe that the globally successful Discworld franchise will
readily translate to the small screen in the form of a high-end,
mass appeal weekly drama series. It will give the audience the
anticipation and excitement of brand new Discworld stories every
week through the medium of television, rather than books. It's a
huge responsibility to get this right for Terry, his legions of
Discworld fans and the new followers to his work that we will
attract along the way, but I believe they will be in for a treat
with a high calibre writing team already attached, including 'Monty
Python's' Terry Jones and Gavin Scott (Small Soldiers, The
Borrowers). We have already spoken to a number of international
broadcasters who have shown early interest and we hope to move
forward very quickly to bring this exciting project to fruition".
Sir Terry Pratchett said, "I'm very excited! I really am incredibly
happy about this because Rod was part head of the team that produced
the very successful Sky One adaptations and my message of
encouragement to him now is; don't bugger it up!"
We've just received this press release hot off the press:
Terry Pratchett's 'The Watch'
11 March 2011:
Sir Terry Pratchett and Rod Brown, Managing Director of Prime Focus
Productions, announce that they have come to an agreement for the
unprecedented and exclusive worldwide television rights to create
brand new storylines for the iconic characters of Pratchett's
phenomenally successful Discworld series.
Terry's universal success has seen him create one of the leading
fantasy fiction franchises of all time, with 70 million worldwide
sales of his 38 book Discworld titles (with a 39th being published
in October 2011). Whilst there have been three successful mini
series adaptations of his Discworld books made for television in the
UK, this is the first time that Pratchett has granted a production
company the international rights to his character's and world, for
the creation of new stories exclusively for a television audience.
The main focus of the series will be set in the bustling, highly
mercantile, largely untrustworthy and always vibrant city of Ankh
Morpork and will follow the day-to-day activities of the men, women,
trolls, dwarves, vampires and several other species who daily pound
its ancient cobbles (and, of course, Igor in the forensics
department). Terry commonly refers to the City Watch police force
series "the jewels in his Discworld Crown". These richly developed
and highly compelling characters will feature in a 'crime of the
week' episodic storyline. As each weekly adventure unfolds, viewers
will be taken on a ride through Pratchett's genius imagination, with
the author overseeing the creation of the series, where wild and
exciting encounters with werewolves, dragons, dwarfs, trolls and
golems and the classic heroes and villains, are an everyday
occurrence... many of whom even make outstanding crime fighters!
Rod Brown, Managing Director of Prime Focus Productions said, "I
believe that the globally successful Discworld franchise will
readily translate to the small screen in the form of a high-end,
mass appeal weekly drama series. It will give the audience the
anticipation and excitement of brand new Discworld stories every
week through the medium of television, rather than books. It's a
huge responsibility to get this right for Terry, his legions of
Discworld fans and the new followers to his work that we will
attract along the way, but I believe they will be in for a treat
with a high calibre writing team already attached, including 'Monty
Python's' Terry Jones and Gavin Scott (Small Soldiers, The
Borrowers). We have already spoken to a number of international
broadcasters who have shown early interest and we hope to move
forward very quickly to bring this exciting project to fruition".
Sir Terry Pratchett said, "I'm very excited! I really am incredibly
happy about this because Rod was part head of the team that produced
the very successful Sky One adaptations and my message of
encouragement to him now is; don't bugger it up!"
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
Terry Jones is dus betrokken bij beide projecten. Terryis een enorme Fantasy fan, zoals zijn eerdere betrokkenheid bij The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy al aangetoond heeft. Ik ben erg benieuwd naar beide projecten, hoewel ik redelijk huiverig kijk naar de TV-serie. Non-Pratchett storylines met Pratchett-personages? Ik weet t niet, hoor...
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
Terry has been spending some time in the offices of SFX Magazine in the UK discussing the new
Watch TV series. You can see a video of part of the discussion at:
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/03/21/pratchett-exclusive/
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Neil Gaiman was recently interviewed about his and Terry's
involvement in the upcoming Good Omens adaptation at Digital Spy.
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=GAIMAN168
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More Discworld Stamps ... This time they are legal to use in the UK.
On the 8th March The Royal Mail issued Magical Realms, a set of
stamps based on classic magical characters.
The four 1st class stamps feature Rincewind and Nanny Ogg from the
Discworld and Dumbledore and Voldermort from the Harry Potter
series.
The two 60p stamps feature Merlin and Morgan Le Fay from Arthurian
legend.
The two 97p stamps feature Aslan and the White Witch from Narnia.
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=STAMPS168
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Watch TV series. You can see a video of part of the discussion at:
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/03/21/pratchett-exclusive/
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Neil Gaiman was recently interviewed about his and Terry's
involvement in the upcoming Good Omens adaptation at Digital Spy.
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=GAIMAN168
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More Discworld Stamps ... This time they are legal to use in the UK.
On the 8th March The Royal Mail issued Magical Realms, a set of
stamps based on classic magical characters.
The four 1st class stamps feature Rincewind and Nanny Ogg from the
Discworld and Dumbledore and Voldermort from the Harry Potter
series.
The two 60p stamps feature Merlin and Morgan Le Fay from Arthurian
legend.
The two 97p stamps feature Aslan and the White Witch from Narnia.
http://discworldmonthly.co.uk?redir=STAMPS168
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[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door Lord_Vetinari op 01-04-2011 08:17:03 ]
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
UPDATE: It appears three men, aged 34, 37 and 45, have been arrestedquote:
Slaughter of the swans: Terry Pratchett helps to double reward after 31 birds are shot with high-powered air rifle
Terry Pratchett has offered £10,000 to catch swan killers who have murdered 31 of the birds in the last month - doubling the reward.
The best-selling author said he was 'incensed' by the slaughter of the birds in Somerset.
Many of them had been rescued from starving after being trapped in the winter ice and nursed to health before being released into the wild.
Eight swans were found dead in Blackford last week and it later emerged that more carcasses were found by the members of the public at Wedmore and Godney, with most of the birds killed by sniper shots to the head with an air rifle.
Wildlife workers yesterday found ten more murdered swans near Wedmore and offered £10,500 to help catch the swan killer.
But after Pratchett doubled the reward, and several more members of the public offered money, the total amount on offer stood at £26,000.
Wildlife charity Secret World described finding the dead birds as 'one of the worst incidents' it had ever attended.
Pratchett, 62, said: 'Nobody understands why this is happening. I'm at a loss, but I certainly don't think someone should be walking around shooting swans.
'I phoned up this morning and said "this is terrible", I was absolutely incensed. They are protected birds and have been for many years.
'I just don't understand the mentality. I can't see them (swans) doing much harm, and why someone would go and shoot them I have no idea.
'I will be following this case with interest and I'm sure the RSPCA will be taking it very seriously, as will I.'
The money will be offered to anyone who comes forward with information that leads to a successful prosecution.
The Queen retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water. Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, anyone found guilty of attacking swans can be sentenced to six months in prison and fined £5,000.
Police said they had stepped up patrols in the area but any prosecutions would be handled by the RSPCA.
Sarah Cowen, animal care manager at Secret World, said: 'It's amazing to see that people are so enraged about the killings that they are coming forward and donating very large sums of money.
'It's always difficult with cases like this to get people to talk. If someone is carrying out this action they are not likely to be a very nice people and others might be afraid of retribution, but this might make someone more willing to come forward.'
The reward fund was started by Phil new, 53, who lives in nearby Highbridge.
He said: 'It takes a lot to put a tear in my eye but what happened here has achieved that.'
The RSPCA said it is already investigating the first incident and are able to prosecute.
An Avon and Somerset Police spokeswoman said the neighbourhood team was carrying out extra patrols.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.u(...)e.html#ixzz1FUZ3LRYx
and bailed in connection with the shootings.
An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said the trio were arrested on
suspicion of criminal damage.
You can see a television interview that Terry gave for ITV here:
http://www.itv.com/westco(...)in-swan-appeal89222/
De pessimist ziet het duister in de tunnel
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
De optimist ziet het licht aan het eind van de tunnel
De realist ziet de trein komen
De machinist ziet drie idioten in het spoor staan....
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