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Emily Browning
Browning at the 19th annual Hamptons International Film Festival on 16 October 2011
Born
Emily Jane Browning
(1988-12-07) 7 December 1988 (age 29)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality
Australian
Occupation
Actress, singer
Years active
1998–present
Emily Jane Browning[1] (born 7 December 1988)[1] is an Australian actress and singer.
Browning made her film debut in the Australian television film The Echo of Thunder; subsequently, she played recurring roles in the Australian television shows Blue Heelers and Something in the Air. Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship, which introduced her to a wider audience. In 2005, Browning won the Australian Film Institute International Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Violet Baudelaire in the film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
Browning is also known for her roles in the horror film The Uninvited (2009), the action film Sucker Punch (2011), and the independent drama Sleeping Beauty (2011). She was named the Breakthrough Performer of The Year by Hamptons International Film Festival in 2011 for her role in Sleeping Beauty. Her other films include The Host (2013), Pompeii (2014) and Legend (2015). She is currently starring as Laura Moon on American Gods.
Contents
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1 Early life and education
2 Career
2.1 1998–2007
2.2 2008–2011
2.3 2012–present
3 Filmography
3.1 Film
3.2 Television
3.3 Video Games
4 Discography
5 Awards and nominations
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Early life and education[edit]
Browning was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the daughter of Andrew and Shelley Browning. She attended Hurstbridge Learning Co-op and Eltham High School. Browning has two younger brothers, Nicholas and Matthew.[1][2]
Career[edit]
1998–2007[edit]
Browning's debut acting role was in the 1998 Hallmark Channel movie The Echo of Thunder.[3] Additional roles in Australian film and television productions soon followed, including recurring roles in the television series Blue Heelers from 2000 to 2002, and Something in the Air from 2000 to 2001. In 2001, Browning appeared as the daughter of a character played by Billy Connolly in The Man Who Sued God.[4]
She made her American film debut in 2002's Ghost Ship, and won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Young Actress, the same year.[5] In 2003, she appeared opposite Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom in 2003's Ned Kelly, and then reunited with Connolly the following year in the film adaptation of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, in which she played Violet Baudelaire.[6]
In 2006, Browning appeared in the music video for Evermore's "Light Surrounding You". In the behind-the-scenes video for the clip, the band stated, "[We] suck as actors, so we decided to get Emily."[7] She attended the L'Oreal Fashion Festival as a festival ambassador on 1 February 2007.[8]
2008–2011[edit]
Browning played the lead role in the 2009 horror film The Uninvited, an American remake of the 2003 South Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters, co-starring alongside Elizabeth Banks and Arielle Kebbel. She then turned down a request to audition for the role of Bella Swan in Twilight, citing exhaustion, despite an endorsement from series author Stephenie Meyer.[9][10] In 2009, she was cast as Babydoll in Zack Snyder's action film Sucker Punch, as a replacement for Amanda Seyfried, who dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.[11] Filming took place in Vancouver from September 2009 to January 2010,[12] and the film was released on 25 March 2011.[13] In an interview at Comic-Con, she confirmed that she would be singing in the film, while claiming that her audition tape brought tears to her casting agent's eyes and the song she selected ("Killing Me Softly") was one of Zack Snyder's wife Deborah's favourites, which Browning referred to as the "selling point" on her being cast in the role.[14]
Since Sucker Punch, Browning has worked steadily in film. In February 2010, it was announced that Browning would play the lead role in the independent Australian film Sleeping Beauty, directed by Julia Leigh.[15][16] She replaced friend and fellow young Australian actress Mia Wasikowska, who was committed to a film adaptation of Jane Eyre at the time.[17] The film screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and the Sydney Film Festival. In a review from the festival, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called the film "Technically elegant with vehemence and control ... Emily Browning gives a fierce and powerful performance ... There is force and originality in Leigh's work".[18] Fionnuala Halligan in Screen International wrote "Browning has gone the distance for her director and together, they have delivered something here that sometimes catches your breath".[19] At the festival Browning said, "Even reading the screenplay, it made me feel uncomfortable. But that was something that attracted me to it. I would prefer to polarise an audience as opposed to making an entertaining film everybody feels ambivalent about."[20]
2012–present[edit]
In 2012, she replaced English actress Ophelia Lovibond as the female lead in the film Summer in February.[21] The film is based on the book of the same title, by Jonathan Smith. The film was filmed in Cornwall alongside Dominic Cooper and Dan Stevens.[22] In July 2012, Browning was cast in God Help the Girl, a musical film by Belle and Sebastian front-man Stuart Murdoch.[23] Browning played Eve, and the role required live singing.[24] Filming on the production began on 8 July 2012 and wrapped on 12 August 2012.[25]
Browning was then cast in Catherine Hardwicke's Plush alongside Cam Gigandet,[26] replacing Evan Rachel Wood (who was originally attached to the project) due to scheduling conflicts.[27] Browning also starred alongside Xavier Samuel[28] whom she met on the set during filming. Magic Magic, directed by Sebastián Silva, screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Film.com designated the film as a "Top Pick".[29]
Browning starred in the 2014 film Pompeii, opposite Kit Harington, best known for Game of Thrones. The project was filmed in Toronto and the actual city of Pompeii itself.[30] Browning took a break from filming on Pompeii, and returned home to Australia to film a music video directed by Guy Franklin for the song "No Matter What You Say" by the San Francisco-based band Imperial Teen. The video follows Browning as the lead character, conducting a 'live art-piece'.[31][32]
In 2014, Browning filmed Shangri-La Suite, directed by Eddie O'Keefe. The story follows two young lovers who break out of a mental hospital in 1974 and set out on a road trip to Los Angeles to fulfill the boy's lifelong dream of killing his idol Elvis Presley, who appears as a supporting character. Luke Grimes and Avan Jogia co-star.[33] The same year, she appeared in Years & Years's Take Shelter music video.[34]
In 2015, Browning starred in the biopic crime thriller movie Legend, alongside Tom Hardy, who portrayed twin brothers Reggie and Ronnie Kray. She portrayed Frances Shea, the first wife of Reggie Kray.[35]
Browning was cast in American Gods as Laura Moon. Neil Gaiman, author of the novel, said, "I've been fascinated by Emily Browning since A Series of Unfortunate Events. She has a challenge ahead of her: Laura is a tricky character, and the Laura on the screen is even trickier and more dangerous than the one on the page. She's going to have a wonderful time bringing Laura to life".[36]
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2001 Man Who Sued God, TheThe Man Who Sued God Rebecca Myers
2002 Ghost Ship Katie Harwood
2003 Ned Kelly Grace Kelly
2003 Darkness Falls Young Caitlin Greene
2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Violet Baudelaire
2009 Uninvited, TheThe Uninvited Anna Ivers
2009 Talk.Distance.Listen Natalie Short film
2011 Sucker Punch Babydoll
2011 Sleeping Beauty Lucy
2012 Mr. Beautiful Olivia White Short film
2013 The Host Pet / Wanderer "Wanda" Cameo
2013 Summer in February Florence Carter-Wood
2013 Magic Magic Sarah
2013 Plush Hayley
2014 God Help the Girl Eve
2014 Pompeii Cassia
2015 Shangri La Suite Karen
2015 Legend Frances Shea
2017 Golden Exits Naomi
Television[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1998 Echo of Thunder, TheThe Echo of Thunder Opal Ritchie Television film
1999 High Flyers Phoebe Mason 13 episodes
2000 Thunderstone Clio 13 episodes
2001 Blonde Fleece Television film
2000–2002 Blue Heelers Hayley Fulton 9 episodes
2000–2001 Something in the Air Alicia 5 episodes
2001 Halifax f.p: Playing God Kristy O'Connor Episode: "Playing God"
2003 After the Deluge Maddy Television film
2017–present American Gods Laura Moon, Essie MacGowan 8 episodes (including 1 episode as both Essie and Laura)
Video Games[edit]
Year
Title
Voice role
2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Violet Baudelaire
Discography[edit]
Year
Title
Album
2011 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Sucker Punch
"Where Is My Mind?"
(Yoav featuring Emily Browning)
"Asleep"
2013 "Introdubtion" Plush
"Close Enough to Kill"
"Half of Me"
"The Look in Your Eye" (Jack Version)
"Half of Me" (Enzo Remix)
(featuring Thomas Dekker)
2014 "Act of the Apostle" God Help the Girl
"Pretty When the Wind Blows"
"God Help the Girl"
"The Psychiatrist Is In"
"If You Could Speak"
(with Hannah Murray)
"Perfection as a Hipster"
(with Neil Hannon)
"Come Monday Night"
"I'm Not Rich"
(with Hannah Murray and Olly Alexander)
"I'll Have to Dance with Cassie"
"Musician, Please Take Heed"
"Down and Dusky Blonde"
(with Hannah Murray)
Awards and nominations[edit]
List of awards and nominations
Year
Association
Category
Work
Result
2002 Australian Film Institute Young Actor's Award Halifax f.p. Won
2005 International Award for Best Actress[37] Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Won
BFCA Awards Best Young Actress Nominated
Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a Feature Film, Leading Young Actress Nominated
2011 Hamptons International Film Festival Breakthrough Performer[38] Sleeping Beauty Won
See also[edit]
Cinema of Australia
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c Emily Browning Biography Archived 9 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine.. Celebritywonder, retrieved 30 June 2011
Jump up ^ Emily Browning – Celebrity. TV Guide, retrieved 30 June 2011
Jump up ^ Benedictus, Luke (19 December 2004). "See Emily play ... while you can". The Age. Australia. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
Jump up ^ "Emily Browning 2014 02 05 (11:03am) The Man Who Sued God 2001 By R.R.S Sweden". YouTube. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "AACTA Winners & Nominees 2000–2010 2002". Australian Film Institute. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
Jump up ^ "Interview: Emily Browning for "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"". darkhorizons.com. 13 December 2004. Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
Jump up ^ Making of Light Surrounding You. YouTube. Retrieved on 16 May 2007
Jump up ^ Emily Browning Thewest.com.au Retrieved on 20 April 2007 Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Twilight the Movie (archives). StephenieMeyer.com
Jump up ^ Larry Carroll: Emily Browning addresses her Twilight notoriety. Mtv.com, retrieved 4 April 2011
Jump up ^ Emily Browning tipped for starring role in prison flick. Adelaidenow.com.au, retrieved 15 August 2010
Jump up ^ Carl DiOrio: Green Lantern, Sucker Punch going 3D. Associated Press, 14 October 2010, retrieved on Hollywoodreporter.com on 4 April 2011
Jump up ^ Steve Barton: Zack Snyder to Deliver His Sucker Punch in 3D. Dreadcentral.com, 5 March 2010, retrieved 4 April 2011
Jump up ^ SDCC EXCLUSIVE: Emily Browning & Jamie Chung on Sucker Punch. Comingsoon.net, retrieved on 15 August 2010
Jump up ^ Michael Bodey: Who's who in Tim Winton's Cloudstreet. The Australian, 3 February 2010, retrieved 4 April 2011
Jump up ^ Bodey, Michael (3 February 2010). "Who's who in Tim Winton's Cloudstreet". The Australian. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
Jump up ^ Billington, Alex (9 February 2010). "Emily Browning Replaces Mia Wasikowska in Sleeping Beauty". FirstShowing.net. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
Jump up ^ Bradshaw, Peter (12 May 2011). "Cannes 2011 review: Sleeping Beauty". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
Jump up ^ Halligan, Fionnuala (12 May 2011). "Sleeping Beauty". Screen Daily. Retrieved 12 May 2011.
Jump up ^ Roach, Vicky (22 June 2011). "Emily Browning on being naked in erotic thriller Sleeping Beauty and going nude again". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
Jump up ^ "Emily Browning Will Spend 'Summer In February' Instead Of Ophelia Lovibond". IndieWire. 13 January 2012.
Jump up ^ "Downton Abbey lead Dan Stevens and My Week With Marilyn's Dominic Cooper are to co-star in a new film set in a Cornish artist's colony circa 1913". Vintage Seekers. 13 January 2012.
Jump up ^ "Hannah is currently filming the lead in GOD HELP THE GIRL with Emily Browning". TroikaTalent. Archived from the original on 16 June 2012.
Jump up ^ Jagernauth, Kevin (9 July 2012). "Hannah Murray Replaces Elle Fanning In 'God Help The Girl'; Emily Browning Joins The Film". IndieWire. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
Jump up ^ "It's all go at the 'god help the girl' production office – we start shooting July 8th. Exciting!". Twitter.
Jump up ^ Eisenberg, Eric (18 June 2012). "Cam Gigandet Joins Emily Browning In Catherine Hardwicke's Plush". Cinema Blend. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
Jump up ^ Blay, Zeba (27 May 2012). "Emily Browning to star in Catherine Hardwicke's 'Plush'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
Jump up ^ "Xavier Samuel joins Hardwicke's 'Plush'". Variety. 7 August 2012.
Jump up ^ Meyncke, Amanda Mae (7 August 2013). "Review: 'Magic, Magic'". Film.com. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
Jump up ^ DeMara, Bruce (19 February 2013). "Paul W.S. Anderson to shoot Pompeii in Toronto". The Star. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
Jump up ^ "Set in a modern Art Gallery the story follows our lead female character who will perform a 'live-art-piece' in front of a small audience".
Jump up ^ Trunick, Austin (4 September 2014). "Scotland Week: God Help the Girl's Emily Browning". Under the Radar.
Jump up ^ "'Sucker Punch' Star Emily Browning Joins Luke Grimes in 'The Shangri-La Suite' (Exclusive)".
Jump up ^ "Years & Years' music video for "Take Shelter", featuring Emily Browning!". 5 August 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
Jump up ^ "Emily Browning: Legend star on her new role". irishtimes.com. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
Jump up ^ "Starz's 'American Gods' Casts Its Laura Moon". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
Jump up ^ Lloyd-McDonald, Holly (1 February 2007). "Facing up to new role in fashion". Herald Sun. Australia. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
Jump up ^ "Hamptons International Film Festival Winners". danspapers.com. 27 October 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
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Metrication in Australia
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Metrication in Australia effectively began in 1966 with the conversion to decimal currency under the auspices of the Decimal Currency Board.[1] The conversion of measurements—metrication—commenced subsequently in 1971, under the direction of the Metric Conversion Board and actively proceeded until the Board was disbanded in 1981.
Before 1970, Australia mostly used the imperial system for measurement, which the Australian colonies had inherited from the United Kingdom. Between 1970 and 1988, imperial units were withdrawn from general legal use and replaced with SI metric units, facilitated through legislation and government agencies. SI units are now the sole legal units of measurement in Australia. Australia's largely successful transition to the metric system contrasts with the ongoing opposition to metrication in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Metric Conversion Board
1.2 Metrication of horse racing
1.3 Metrication of weather reporting and forecasts
1.4 Metrication of the road signs
1.5 Building and construction
2 Extent
3 Notes
4 References
5 Further reading
History[edit]
Although there was debate in Australia's first Parliament after federation to consider adopting the metric system,[2] metric units first became legal for use in Australia in 1947 when Australia signed the Metre Convention (or Convention du Mètre). However, Imperial "Weights and Measures" were most commonly used until the Commonwealth government began the metric changeover in the 1970s. In 1960, SI units were adopted as a worldwide system of measurement by international agreement at the General Conference on Weights and Measures. The metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin,[nb 1] candela and mole were defined as base units in this system and units formed from combinations of these base units were known as "derived units". SI units were subsequently adopted as the basis for Australia's measurement standards, whereby they were defined as Australia's legal units of measurement.[3]
In 1968, a Select Committee of the Australian Senate examined metric "Weights and Measures" and came to the unanimous conclusion that it was both practical and desirable for Australia to change to the metric system. Some of their considerations included the "inherent advantages of the metric system" that meant that weighing and measuring was facilitated, "often with substantial increases in efficiency". Educationally, the reform would "simplify and unify the teaching of mathematics and science, reduce errors, save teaching time and give a better understanding of basic physical principles". In 1968, more than 75% of Australia's exports went to metric countries, and at that time it was noted that all countries except the United States were metric or were converting to the metric system. It was also noted that because of Australia's large migrant programme, more than 10 per cent of people over 16 years of age had used the metric system before coming to Australia. They also noted that school pupils were widely familiar with the metric system because it had been taught in the schools for many years.[4]
By 1968, metrication was already well under way in Australian industry. The pharmaceutical industry had metricated in 1965 and much of the chemical and electronics industries worked in metric units—there being no "Imperial" units for the latter. One of the country's major automobile manufacturers had already declared its intention to metricate before the Government announced its decision to change to the metric system. "The change itself provided a unique opportunity to rationalise and modernise industrial practices and bring Australia's technical standard specifications into accord with those adopted internationally".[4]
On 12 June 1970, the Australian Metric Conversion Act passed by the Australian Parliament was given assent. This Act created the Metric Conversion Board to facilitate the conversion of measurements from imperial to metric. A timeline of major developments in this conversion process is as follows:[2]
1971 – the Australian wool industry converted to the metric system.
1972 – all primary schools were teaching the metric system alone—many had been teaching both imperial and metric and later, metric alone since Australia changed to the decimal currency system in 1966. Horse racing converted in August and air temperatures were converted in September.[5]
1973 – all secondary schools were now using the metric system.
1974 – large scale conversion across industries, including packaged grains, dairy products, eggs, building, timber, paper, printing, meteorological services, postal services, communications, road transport, travel, textiles, gas, electricity, surveying, sport, water supply, mining, metallurgy, chemicals, petroleum and automotive services. Most beverages, aside from spirits, also converted to metric units by the end of the year. The conversion of road signs took place in July. There was a publicity campaign to prepare the public.[6]
1976 – the building and construction industry completed its change to metric measurements (within two years) by January.
1977 – all packaged goods were labelled in metric units, and the air transport, food, energy, machine tool, electronic, electrical engineering and appliance manufacturing industries converted.
1987 – the real estate industry, the last major industry holdout, converted to metric.
1988 – with Western Australia finally making the change, metrication was completed, with the metric system becoming the only system of legal measurements in Australia.
2008 - restrictions of volume and masses that had previously compelled manufacturers to package products to rounded imperial sizes despite metric labelling, for example packaging a soft drink can as a rounded 13 imp fl oz but labelling it as 375 ml, were removed.[citation needed]
Metric Conversion Board[edit]
Opposition to metrication was not widespread.[7] The Metric Conversion Board did not proceed with education programmes as polling revealed that most people were learning units and their application independently of each other, rendering efforts to teach the systematic nature of the metric system unnecessary and possibly increasing the amount of opposition.[7] The Board was dissolved in 1981, but the conversion to the metric system was not completed until 1988. The Board spent A$5.955 million during its 11 years of operation, and the federal government distributed $10 million to the states to support their conversion process. Between 1984 and 1988, the conversion was the responsibility of the National Standards Commission, later renamed the National Measurement Institute. in 1988. The cost of metrication for the private sector was not determined but the Prices Justification Tribunal reported that metrication was not used to justify price increases.[7]
Metrication of horse racing[edit]
An early change was the metrication of horse racing. This was facilitated because the furlong (one eighth of a mile) is close to 200 m. Therefore, the Melbourne Cup was changed from 2 miles (3,219 m) to 3,200 m (1.988 mi), a reduction of 18.688 metres (61.312 ft) or about 0.58%. The first metric Melbourne Cup was raced in November 1972.[8]
Metrication of weather reporting and forecasts[edit]
When the Australian Bureau of Meteorology was enlisted to introduce the metric system for weather reporting and forecasts, its public relations officer, Godfrey Wiseman, coined a series of jingles to educate the public, using the terms "frosty fives", "tingling tens", "temperate twenties", "thirsty thirties" and "fiery forties" to describe human sensation to temperatures in degrees Celsius. This was very successful because the public soon became aware of the significance of the descriptions.
As the culmination of this campaign, weather reports and forecasts in both Imperial and metric measures were only provided for one month. After that, purely metric measurements were used for temperature, wind speed, rainfall, air pressure and other meteorological phenomena.[9]
Metrication of the road signs[edit]
An important and very visible sign of metric conversion in Australia was the change in road signs and the accompanying traffic regulations; "M-day" for this change was 1 July 1974. Because of careful planning, almost every road sign in Australia was converted within a month. This was achieved by installing covered metric signs alongside the imperial signs before the change and then removing the imperial sign and uncovering the metric sign during the month of conversion.
While road signs could not all be changed at the same time, there was little chance of confusion as to what any speed limit sign meant during this short change-over period. This was because the previous (MPH) signs had the signage in black on white and were rectangular, in the same style as current US speed limit signs, while the (km/h) signs which replaced them had the number indicating the speed limit inside a red circle, as is done in Europe.[10]
Road distance signs were also converted during this period. To avoid confusion as to whether the distance indicated was in miles or kilometres all the new kilometre signs had affixed to them a temporary yellow plate, on which was indicated the corresponding number of miles. These temporary plates were removed after about one year.
Except for bridge-clearance and flood-depth signs, dual marking was avoided. Though people opposed to metrication expressed the fear that ignorance of the meaning of metric speeds would lead to slaughter on the roads, this did not happen as most drivers under the age of 25 had been taught metric units at school and through them, their parents were familiar with metric speeds if not metric units as a whole.
It was believed that public education would be the most effective way of ensuring public safety. A Panel for Publicity on Road Travel, made up of the various motoring organisations, regulatory authorities and the media, planned a campaign to publicise the change. The resulting publicity campaign cost $200,000 and the Australian Government Department of Transport paid for it. The Board also produced 2.5 million copies of a pamphlet, "Motoring Goes Metric". This was distributed through post offices, police stations and motor registry offices.
"For about a year before the change, motor car manufacturers fitted dual speedometers to their vehicles and, after 1974, all new cars were fitted with metric-only speedometers. Several kinds of speedometer conversion kits were available.
"As a result of all these changes, conversion on the roads occurred without incident."[11][12]
Building and construction[edit]
The building industry was the first major industry grouping in Australia to complete its change to metric. This was achieved within two years by January 1976 for all new buildings other than those for which design had commenced well before metrication began. The resulting savings for builders and their sub-contractors has been estimated at about 10% a year of gross turnover.[13]
In this the industry was grateful to the SAA (now Standards Australia) for the early production of the Standard AS 1155-1974 "Metric Units for Use in the Construction Industry", which specified the use of millimetres as the small unit for the metrication upgrade. In the adoption of the millimetre as the "small" unit of length for metrication (instead of the centimetre) the Metric Conversion Board leaned heavily on experience in the UK and within the ISO, where this decision had already been taken.[citation needed]
This was formally stated as follows: "The metric units for linear measurement in building and construction will be the metre (m) and the millimetre (mm), with the kilometre (km) being used where required. This will apply to all sectors of the industry, and the centimetre (cm) shall not be used. … the centimetre should not be used in any calculation and it should never be written down".[14]
The logic of using the millimetre in this context was that the metric system had been so designed that there would exist a multiple or submultiple for every use. Decimal fractions would not have to be used. Since the tolerances on building components and building practice would rarely be less than one millimetre, the millimetre became the sub-unit most appropriate to this industry.
Although for the most part they are ignored in everyday life, it was not possible for education in the logical construction of the metric system to ignore the metric prefixes deci, centi, hecto and deka, since the derivation of the litre is dependent upon the knowledge that it derives from the volume of a cubic decimetre, i.e. 1000 cubic centimetres.
However, in Australia, the prefix "centi" has been limited to use with the metre (mainly by the general public not associated with the building industry)—unlike in Europe, where the centilitre may often be encountered.
Extent[edit]
Metrication is mostly complete. Road signs solely use metric measurements, as do the speedometers and odometers in motor vehicles produced after 1974; There was no requirement for pre-1974 vehicles to have their speedometers and odometers converted to metric, so any remaining vehicles of this vintage will show miles.[citation needed] Privately imported vehicles, such as classic cars, also do not need to be so converted.[citation needed] The sale of oil and petrol is by the litre. However, vehicle tyre pressures are still commonly talked about in pounds per square inch.[15][16]
Fruits and vegetables are advertised, sold and weighed by the kilogram, groceries are packed and labelled in metric measures. Schooling is wholly metric. Newspaper reports are mostly in metric terms. In some cases old imperial standards were replaced with rounded metric values, as with horse racing or the size of beer glasses (rounded to the nearest 5 mL). The pre-metric names of beer glass sizes, including the pint, have been retained (although in South Australia the "pint" of beer is not an imperial pint, as it is elsewhere in Australia). Dressed timber is often sold in lengths such as 1.8, 2.1, 2.4, 3.0 and 3.6 metres, each multiples of 300 mm, thereby approximating foot length increments,[17] while pipes and conduits may be specified as having diameters of 12, 19, 25 and 32 etc. mm (based on "soft" conversions" of 1⁄2, 3⁄4, 1 and 1 1⁄4 in).
In some cases goods manufactured to pre-metric standards are available, such as some bolts, nuts, screws[18][19] and pipe threads[20] and there are some instances where pre-metric measures may still be used:
Mass is referred to in kilograms,[21][22] and baby nappy sizes are specified in kilograms only.[23][24] While some parents may still convert their baby's hospital-stated birth mass to pounds and ounces, the practice of using pre-metric units has become far less common.[25]
Height is measured and given in centimetres.[21][26] In informal contexts a person's height is still sometimes stated in feet and inches.[27][28]
Domestic and commercial real estate is advertised in square metres or hectares but though crop yields are described in tonnes per hectare,[29] rural land areas are sometimes still advertised in acres.[30]. Some developers still use squares to advertise their houses.
Weather reports are always in metric terms[31] but some specialised surf reports give wave heights in feet[32] and there are occasional references to "the old century", meaning 100 °F, when describing temperatures of 38 °C or more.[33]
While Imperial units of measurements may sometimes be specified instead of SI units (usually, where the product originates from or is intended for an American market) apart from area measurements, the use of any measurement except in SI units is not "legal for trade" under current Australian legislation. [34]
Examples where non-SI units are (sometimes) specified are:
Aviation, as in many other metric countries, specifies horizontal distances in nautical miles and horizontal speed in knots, but horizontal distance for visibility or clearance from clouds is in kilometres or metres, as are runway dimensions. (The pressure and temperature are also given in SI units, in hectopascals and degrees Celsius respectively). Height or altitude is always specified in feet, as this is vital for safety—as long as one remaining country in the world does not change to metric measurements. (The error in approximating 1000 feet as 300 metres is 4.8 m/16.75 feet. This may be somewhat insignificant at low altitudes. However, the cumulative effect of this error by 30,000 feet (9.15 km) becomes quite significant (144 m/472 feet) The measurement and vertical speed (rate of climb or descent) is given in feet per minute—for much the same reasons height is given in feet.
The altitude for sky diving is routinely given in feet, which follows from the above existing Aviation "conventions". [35][36] (However, Scuba diving uses metric measures[37])
Australia uses metric paper sizes for office use and home printing. (A4 = 210 × 297 mm)[38] However, the term dots per inch (dpi) is still used when printing images.[39] The photo printing industry usually uses imperial sizes for photo dimensions (e.g. 4 × 6 inch rather than 10 × 15 cm).
Historical writing and presentations may include pre-metric units to reflect the context of the era represented.
Vehicle tyres (as in the rest of the world) mark the rim diameter in inches and the width in millimetres. A car tyre marked '165/70R13' has a width of 165 mm, an aspect ratio (profile) of 70% and a 13-inch rim diameter. Tyre pressures may be given in both kilopascals and "pounds per square inch".[40]
TV screens and LCD monitors may be described in inches instead of or as well as centimetres, e.g., a Plasma screen may be advertised as 42 inches (106 centimetres), and a computer monitor screen may be advertised in inches.
Advertising billboards are measured by feet—because of the still pervading influence of USA practices on such activities.
The illicit drug trade in Australia still often uses imperial measurements, particularly when dealing with smaller amounts closer to end user levels e.g. "8-ball" an 8th of an ounce or 3.5 g; cannabis is often traded in ounces ("oz") and pounds ("p")
Firearm barrel length are almost always referred by in inches, ammunition is also still measured in grain and ounces as well as grams.
The cultural transmission of British and American English in Australia has also been noted to be a cause for residual use of Imperial units of measure.[7]
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ The kelvin was known as the degree Kelvin at the time.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ ""Dollar Bill" Currency Conversion Advertisement—1966". Video. Commonwealth of Australia—Sound and Film Archive.
^ Jump up to: a b "History of Measurement in Australia". Australia's Measurement System. National Measurement Institute. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
Jump up ^ "How Australia's measurement system works". Australia's Measurement System. National Measurement Institute. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
^ Jump up to: a b "Introduction of the metric system in Australia Support for the change". Government of Western Australia. 4 March 2010. Archived from the original on 4 July 2009. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
Jump up ^ "Australia ACORN-SAT temperature fraction audit". web page. WA climate net. December 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
Jump up ^ Metric conversion ad—1974 YouTube.
^ Jump up to: a b c d "Metrication of Australia". Metric usage and metrication in other countries. U.S. Metric Association. 1996–2009. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
Jump up ^ "Melbourne Cup History". Aussie Punter. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "Wording and Verification of Forecasts". Federation and Meteorology. Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
Jump up ^ "Road Metric Conversion Advertisement—1974". Video. Commonwealth of Australia—Sound and Film Archive.
Jump up ^ Kevin Wilkes (1992). "Metrication in Australia". Book. Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 17 February 2011A quotation from the book appears at the link provided
Jump up ^ Kevin Wilkes (1992). "Metrication in Australia" (PDF). Book. Commonwealth of Australia,Entire document.
Jump up ^ http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/CostOfNonMetrication.pdf
Jump up ^ (Standards Association of Australia "Metric Handbook, Metric Conversion in Building and Construction" 1972)
Jump up ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 March 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
Jump up ^ http://www.bunnings.com.au/our-range/building-hardware/timber/dressed-timber
Jump up ^ admin, on 27 August 2009 (27 August 2009). "what screw size and thread measurement do we use for hardware? | the scrooz blog". Scrooz.com.au. Archived from the original on 22 August 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "Nuts and Bolts - Industrial Size Assortment Packs of Hi-Tensile Nuts & Bolts". Bolts.com.au. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "Pipe Thread, Tapered Screw Plug and Screw Ring Gauges". Prittie.com.au. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b "Profiles of Health, Australia, 2011-13". abs.gov.au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
Jump up ^ http://www.jennycraig.com.au/pressrelease.aspx?id=1655
Jump up ^ "Nappies product range - Find advice on baby products at". Huggies.com.au. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "Snugglers® Australia - Our Products". Snugglers.com.au. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ An example where some birth masses are given in pounds and ounces.
Jump up ^ Beth Price; David Tynan; Natalie Caruso; Allason McNamara; Gloria Stillman; Jill Brown (2009). MathsWorld Year 8 VELS Edition. Australia: MacMillan. p. 626. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
Jump up ^ "Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum • View topic - ZZR 600 Seat Height Question". Ksrc-au.com. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ At least one Australian internet dating service uses metric units for height with the imperial measurement along side.
Jump up ^ "High hopes for big crop yields - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Abc.net.au. 17 November 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "NSW". Aussiefarmsforsale.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "Sydney Weather". The Sydney Morning Herald.
Jump up ^ Tatnell, Paul (17 September 2010). "Australian monster wave heralds huge surf for Sydney". The Sydney Morning Herald.
Jump up ^ "The 7.30 Report". ABC. 12 November 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2015C00010 Schedule 6- Permissible units of measurement
Jump up ^ "Skydive Jump The Beach Mission Beach Queensland Australia Freefall Tandem Solo Courses". Jumpthebeach.com.au. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "Parachutes Australia". Parachutes Australia. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "Litres, metres and bar - Diving with the metric system in Australia | ex HMAS Canberra Reef". Hmascanberra.com.au. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ IMS. "Sydney Australia Ph: 1300 556 744 Paper & Envelope Sizes". Network Printing. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "Label Printers - Products - QL Label Printers - Brother ® Australia". Brother.com.au. Archived from the original on 21 August 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
Jump up ^ "Bridgestone [Australia] Tyre pressure tips". web page. Bridgestone Australia Corporate. 2007. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
Further reading[edit]
Wilks, K.J (1992). Metrication in Australia: a review of the effectiveness of policies and procedures in Australia's conversion to the metric system (PDF). Canberra: Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce, Australian Government Publishing Service. ISBN 0-644-24860-2.
"Significant achievements and the history of measurement in Australia". Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources - National Measurement Institute. Archived from the original on 30 September 2009. Retrieved 9 June 2006.
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Feel It Still
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"Feel It Still"
Single by Portugal. The Man
from the album Woodstock
Released
March 3, 2017 (2017-03-03)
Format
Digital download
Genre
Psychedelic pop[1]
funk[1]
Length
2:42
Label
Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Robert Bateman
Zachary Scott Carothers
Freddie Gorman
John Baldwin Gourley
John Hill
Brian Holland
Eric Andrew Howk
Kyle O'Quin
Jason Wade Sechrist
Asa Taccone
Producer(s)
John Hill
Asa Taccone
Portugal. The Man singles chronology
"Noise Pollution"
(2016) "Feel It Still"
(2017) "Live in the Moment"
(2017)
"Noise Pollution"
(2016) "Feel It Still"
(2017) "Live in the Moment"
(2017)
Music video
"Feel It Still" on YouTube
"Feel It Still" is a song by American rock band Portugal. The Man. The song, which has interpolations from The Marvelettes' 1961 hit "Please Mr. Postman",[2][3] was written by the band along with John Hill and Asa Taccone, with the latter two serving as producers. It serves as the second single and first radio single off their eighth studio album Woodstock. The song reached number one on the US Alternative Songs, Mexican and Russian Tophit airplay chart, and became their first entry on the Hot 100, reaching number four as of October 2017. It was also featured in advertisements for the Apple iPad Pro,[4] Vitamin Water,[5] YouTube TV and in the first and second trailers for the 2018 film Peter Rabbit.[6]
The track reached the top 10 in 18 countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
In January 2018, the song won the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards.
Contents
[hide]
1 Music video
2 Commercial performance
3 Charts
3.1 Weekly charts
3.2 Year-end charts
4 Certifications
5 Release history
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Music video[edit]
The music video was released on March 6, 2017. An interactive version was also released, powered by technology from WIREWAX. The interactive video contained "Easter eggs" that a viewer could click on to build their #resist toolkit to learn and support 30 different social and political causes.[7]
Commercial performance[edit]
The song became the band's first to top both the Billboard Alternative Songs and the Adult Alternative Songs charts. Taking six weeks to do so, it is the fastest an artist has achieved their first chart-topper on the latter chart since Mumford & Sons' "I Will Wait" took three weeks to reach number one.[8][9] "Feel It Still" also climbed to number four on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming their first entry on the chart.[3] The song also peaked at number one on the Russian and Mexican airplay charts, and peaked inside the top 20 in France and Switzerland. "Feel It Still" has spent twenty weeks at number one on the Alternative Songs chart, becoming the longest-running number-one song on that chart, beating out "Madness" by Muse, which spent 19 weeks at the top from 2012 to 2013.[10]
In Billboard's November 11, 2017 issue, "Feel It Still" joined the list of songs since 2003 to have reached number one on six of the major airplay charts: Radio Songs, Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs, Alternative Songs, Adult Alternative Songs and Dance/Mix Show Airplay. Portugal. The Man are the first act to accomplish this feat since Gotye and Kimbra with "Somebody That I Used to Know" in 2012; they are the only artists to have a number-one Alternative and Adult Alternative single also reach number one on the Dance/Mix Show Airplay since the chart's launch in August 2003. They are now also one of twelve acts to have achieved the feat of having reached number one on six or more airplay charts.[11]
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (2017–18)
Peak
position
Argentina Anglo (Monitor Latino)[12]
2
Australia (ARIA)[13]
5
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[14]
4
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[15]
2
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[16]
4
Bolivia (Monitor Latino)[17]
3
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[18]
8
Canada Rock (Billboard)[19]
11
Colombia (National-Report)[20]
44
Czech Republic (Rádio Top 100)[21]
35
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100)[22]
6
France (SNEP)[23]
3
Germany (Official German Charts)[24]
7
Honduras (Monitor Latino)[25]
13
Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)[26]
5
Hungary (Single Top 40)[27]
4
Hungary (Stream Top 40)[28]
13
Ireland (IRMA)[29]
10
Italy (FIMI)[30]
83
Mexico Airplay (Billboard)[31]
2
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[32]
10
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[33]
28
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[34]
7
Norway (VG-lista)[35]
9
Philippines (Philippine Hot 100)[36]
65
Poland (Polish Airplay Top 100) [37]
10
Portugal (AFP)[38]
8
Russia Airplay (Tophit)[39]
3
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[40]
3
Slovakia (Rádio Top 100)[41]
27
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100)[42]
12
Slovenia (SloTop50)[43]
2
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[44]
42
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[45]
17
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[46]
7
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[47]
3
Uruguay (Monitor Latino)[48]
15
US Billboard Hot 100[49]
4
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[50]
2
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[51]
1
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[52]
28
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[53]
1
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[54]
1
US Rhythmic (Billboard)[55]
30
Venezuela (National-Report)[56]
43
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (2017)
Position
Australia (ARIA)[57]
55
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[58]
50
Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)[59]
70
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[60]
60
Germany (Official German Charts)[61]
76
Hungary (Single Top 40)[62]
68
Hungary (Stream Top 40)[63]
72
Israel (Media Forest)[64]
29
Poland (ZPAV)[65]
77
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[66]
53
US Billboard Hot 100[67]
45
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[68]
18
US Alternative Songs (Billboard)[69]
3
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[70]
3
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[71]
30
Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[72]
4× Platinum 280,000^
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See also[edit]
List of Billboard number-one alternative singles of the 2010s
List of Billboard number-one adult alternative singles of the 2010s
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External links[edit]
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Book of Soyga
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The Book of Soyga, also titled Aldaraia, is a 16th-century Latin treatise on magic, one copy of which is known to have been possessed by the Elizabethan scholar John Dee. After Dee's death, the book was thought to be lost until 1994 when two manuscripts were located in the British Library (Sloane MS. 8) and the Bodleian Library (Bodley MS. 908), under the title Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor, by Dee scholar Deborah Harkness. The Sloane 8 version is also described as Tractatus Astrologico Magicus, though both versions differ only slightly.[1]
Contents
1 Provenance
2 Contents
3 Analysis
4 Significance
5 See also
6 Notes
7 References
8 External links
Provenance[edit]
Elias Ashmole recorded that the Duke of Lauderdale owned a manuscript titled Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor that had formerly belonged to Dee. The manuscript was sold at auction in 1692 and is now probably Sloane MS. 8, based on Jim Reeds' identification. Bodley MS. 908 was donated to the Bodleian Library in 1605.[2]
Contents[edit]
Jim Reeds notes that the Bodley 908 MS consists of 197 pages including Liber Aldaraia (95 leaves), Liber Radiorum (65 pages), and Liber decimus septimus (2 pages), as well as a number of shorter and unnamed works totaling approximately ten pages. The final 18 pages of the MS contain 36 tables of letters. The Sloane 8 MS consists of 147 pages, mostly identical to the Bodley MS, with the exception that the tables of letters appear on 36 pages, and the Liber Radiorum is presented in a two-page summarized version.[1]
Amongst the incantations and instructions on magic, astrology, demonology, lists of conjunctions, lunar mansions, and names and genealogies of angels, the book contains 36 large squares of letters which Dee was unable to decipher. Otherwise unknown medieval magical treatises are cited, including works known as liber E, liber Os, liber dignus, liber Sipal, and liber Munob.[3]
Analysis[edit]
Jim Reeds, in his short work John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga, notes a proclivity to record words backwards in the MS, citing as examples Lapis reversed as Sipal, Bonum reversed as Munob, and the title of the MS, Soyga, as Agyos, literis transvectis, revealing a practice which sought to obscure some of the works cited. 'Soyga' is ‘Agios’ (Greek for "Holy") spelled backwards.
Reeds writes:
The Book of Soyga's preoccupation with letters, alphabet arithmetic, Hebrew-like backwards writing, and so on, is of course characteristic of the new Cabalistic magic which became popular in the sixteenth century, exemplified by the great compilation of Agrippa of Nettesheim (1486-1535), and borrowing authority both from the Renaissance humanist interest in the Kabbala expressed by such figures as Pico and Reuchlin and from the supposed Biblical antiquity of the Kabbalah."[3]
Of the square tables that obsessed Dee, Reeds continued, "Although... not themselves a characteristic feature of the traditional Kabbalah, they had by Agrippa's time become an integral part of the Christian magical Cabala."[3]
Significance[edit]
In 1556, Dee proposed the founding of a national English library to Queen Mary, but his plan was not implemented. In consequence, Dee amassed the largest library in England at the time using his personal funds, consisting of at least 3,000 printed volumes and a large number of manuscripts. The library was pilfered during Dee's six-year trip to the European Continent between 1583 and 1589, and Dee was forced to sell many more volumes upon his return due to penury. After his death in 1608 or 1609, the still-considerable remnants of the vaunted library were ransacked until nothing remained.[4]
During Dee's long trip to the Continent, he sought to supernaturally contact angels through the services of a scryer, Edward Kelley. On the subject of the Book of Soyga, Dee claimed to have questioned the angel Uriel about the significance of the book and asked for guidance. The reply that Dee received was that the book had been revealed to Adam in Paradise by angels, and could only be interpreted by the archangel Michael.
After Harkness rediscovered the two copies of the book, Jim Reeds uncovered the mathematical formula used to construct the tables (starting with the seed word given for each table), and identified errors of various types made by the manuscripts' scribes. He showed that a subset of the errors were common to the two copies, suggesting that they were derived from a common ancestor which contained that subset of errors (and thus was presumably itself a copy of another work).
Although Reeds deciphered the construction algorithm and the code words used in crafting the tables, the actual contents and significance of the tables remain mysterious. He writes, "The treatise in the Book of Soyga which discusses the tables, Liber Radiorum, has a series of paragraphs mentioning the code words for twenty-three of the tables, together with number sequences which stand in unknown relation to the words."[5]
See also[edit]
Grimoire
Voynich manuscript
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Jim Reeds, John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga, pg. 3.
Jump up ^ Jim Reeds, John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga, pg. 1.
^ Jump up to: a b c Jim Reeds, John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga, pg. 4.
Jump up ^ "Books owned by John Dee". St. John's College, Cambridge. Retrieved 26 October 2006.
Jump up ^ Jim Reeds, John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga, pg. 7.
References[edit]
Harkness, Deborah (2006). "The Nexus of Angelology, Eschatology and Natural Philosophy in John Dee's Angel Conversations and Library". In Stephen Clucas. John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in Renaissance Thought. Dordrecht: Springer.
Jim Reeds (1996). "John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2007. Retrieved 8 November 2006.
Roberts, Julian (2006). "Additions and Corrections to 'John Dee's Library Catalogue'". In Stephen Clucas. John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in Renaissance Thought. Dordrecht: Springer.
James Orchard Halliwell (1842). The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of His Library of Manuscripts (Full view book with PDF download at Google Books). Retrieved 27 June 2009.
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Edited and translated by Jane Kupin
The Book of Soyga
English Translation by CLAVIS EDITIONS
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