title: Sapphire Jubilee of Elizabeth II

text: To mark the Queen's Sapphire Jubilee, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council instituted "The Queen's Sapphire Jubilee Awards", which are awarded to young people aged between 7 and 20 years, to support them to get started, improve and excel in sport, art, dance or drama. The awards are presented to successful candidates at the Annual Council.


title: Sapphire Jubilee of Elizabeth II

text: Penhaligon's released a limited edition version of their Lily of the Valley perfume, to commemorate the Queen's Sapphire Jubilee. Only 65 crystal bottles were produced – one to mark each year since the Queen's accession to the throne in 1952 and the bows on every single bottle were embroidered with a number. It was announced that a percentage of the profits from this product would go towards the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust.


title: Sapphire Jubilee of Elizabeth II

text: The British Pobjoy Mint released special Titanium coins featuring the Royal coat of arms to mark the Queen's Sapphire Jubilee. The obverse features a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. Titanium reacts differently with every strike, making each coin unique in terms of colour. The coins also feature a lined effect due to its composition.


title: Sapphire Jubilee of Elizabeth II

text: The Sapphire Ice & Leisure Centre at Romford, England, named to honour the Sapphire Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, opened to the public on 3 February 2018. The building is five storeys high and includes an eight-lane pool for competitions and a 56m by 26m ice rink, and is home for the ice hockey team, the London Raiders. From an external viewpoint, the combination of the building's rectangular shape and its lightweight facade were used to mimic the appearance of an ice cube.


title: Sapphire Jubilee of Elizabeth II

text: In 2018, the House of Garrard unveiled a 118.88ct royal blue Burmese sapphire presented in a brooch that features a signature cluster setting. The jewel was named in honour of the 65th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, a date traditionally marked by the gift of a sapphire, and pays tribute to the House's role in remodelling the Imperial State Crown for the occasion.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: Sempiternal is the fourth studio album by British rock band Bring Me the Horizon. It was released on 1 April 2013 worldwide through RCA Records, a subsidiary label of Sony Music, and 2 April 2013 in the United States and Canada through Epitaph Records. It is the first album to feature former Worship keyboardist Jordan Fish and the first with guitarist Lee Malia playing both lead and rhythm components.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: Written and recorded throughout 2012, "Sempiternal" showed the band pull diverse influences from electronic music, ambient music and pop. "Sempiternal" is an archaic English word denoting the concept of "everlasting time" that can never actually come to pass. It stems from the Latin word "sempiternus" (a concatenation of root "semper" and suffix "aeternum").


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: The album spawned four singles ("Shadow Moses"; "Sleepwalking"; "Go to Hell, for Heaven's Sake"; and "Can You Feel My Heart"). The album made its debut at No. 3 on the UK Album Chart and is their second successive album to top the ARIA Charts in Australia. It also managed to reach No. 11 on the US "Billboard" 200 with 27,522 first week sales, making "Sempiternal" the band's highest charting album in America until "That's the Spirit" debuted at No. 2 in 2015. Upon its release, the album received critical acclaim.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: In 2011, Bring Me the Horizon were finishing up the tour that was held in support of the band's previous album "There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let's Keep It a Secret." Afterward, they had intentions to issue a remix extended play consisting of electronica remixes of tracks off the album, all done by British electronic producer Draper, aiming for a tentative January 2012 release. However, because of the band's situation with their then-label Visible Noise, it was cancelled. Later that year, in July, it was announced that the band would be releasing their fourth album on RCA Records.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: Although the band's split from Visible Noise wasn't strictly aggressive, the band wanted to join a major record label due to the lack of resources and support an independent label could offer during the album's development and promotion. An example of this is where front-man Oliver Sykes and his brother, Tom, who directed the movie wanted to release a "behind-the-scenes" documentary of "Bring Me the Horizon's" tour called "Lads on Tour". This was to be a part of a re-release of their third album. However, this didn't happen as Visible Noise couldn't pay for certain parts of the film. RCA Records have given Bring Me the Horizon lengthy support since their signing, the label introduces their signing of Bring Me the Horizon with the statement "signing you is as important as signing Metallica".


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: In 2012, the band decided to stop both their touring and media appearances, choosing to fully focus on writing and recording their next album. Rhythm guitarist Jona Weinhofen is quoted as saying "we're not very good at getting motivated to write on tour". The album was written in the Lake District, this keeps with the band's tradition of favouring isolation to write their music. Previous examples of where they've written was Arboga, Sweden for "Suicide Season" and rural Scotland for "There Is a Hell". They felt that they didn't need the isolated environment as much since they had a couple of months to rest after the tour for their previous album. However this posed as an obstacle for the band as they had too long of a break from song writing. The band initially wanted to begin recording the album in May 2012, however, Sykes believed it was too soon and that the band should just demo for a few months instead.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: The band posted several images of themselves recording at a "Top Secret Studio Location", which was later revealed to be the "Angelic Studio" in Banbury, Oxfordshire. The band announced that by September they would be entering the studio for pre-production of the album. In an interview with "The Guardian" Sykes stated that a majority of the album was recorded on his laptop.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: Vocalist Oliver Sykes revealed in an interview with "Kerrang!" that Jordan Fish of Worship had been working closely with Bring Me the Horizon in the studio, helping write the album and contribute electronics. His role developed over the course of writing the album as he was initially there to be instructed by the band in what to do but he slowly started to have more say in the album's writing. As his role continued he eventually became "essential" to the framework of the album and that he became "one of the leaders in terms of composition". Sykes has said how both Fish, lead guitarist Lee Malia and himself would spend days writing in his own home. Throughout the development of the album he was never announced as an official member of the band but would tour with the band in support of "Sempiternal". However in early 2013 "Rock Sound" magazine confirmed Fish had left Worship and joined Bring Me the Horizon to become a six piece band. By the middle of September it was announced that Terry Date, who is known for his work with bands like Deftones, Limp Bizkit and Pantera would be the album's producer. Sykes said he admires Date's production work shown on "White Pony" and "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water". Sykes believes that some of the work Date has done on the band's production makes Bring Me the Horizon sound like a completely different band.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: Although the band had previously worked with other artists (like Canadian synthpop artist Lights) the band decided against introducing guest, except for members of post-rock band Immanu El who did backing vocals across the album. On 3 November 2012, the band invited fans and the Drop Dead Clothing team to enter Angelic Studios to record the gang vocals for Sempiternal. Jordan Fish acted as a conductor for the crowd.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: Despite Sykes' doubts about joining a major record label and how it would affect the band's musical output (believing they would try to convince Bring Me the Horizon to release something more radio friendly), RCA and Sony pushed the band to "write the heaviest album they can". However, instead of going for a heavier sound, Bring Me the Horizon pooled more diverse influences in preparation for the writing of "Sempiternal". During the development of the album, Sykes said that he and Jordan Fish were inspired by all the music they heard throughout their daily life and thought about how it applied to their style. Taking influence from ambient music, dance, reggae and pop music and both the soundscapes and "weird pianos" from film soundtracks. Sykes had stated specifically that Danny Boyle films like "28 Days Later" and "The Beach" were influences, saying: "Before we [Bring Me the Horizon] wrote the album, we would play his 28 Days Later theme tune."<ref name="AD-Sempiternal/Movies"></ref> The album is also seen as taking the electronic elements that have progressively surfaced in the band's career and incorporating them into the foundation of the songs.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: The album has been cited as metalcore, post-hardcore, alternative rock, electronicore, hard rock, and alternative metal, and has been cited as having a more "pop rock sound" while having a "metalcore edge".


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: Describing the album as blending pieces of their previous three albums and then creating "a whole new sound" Sykes summarises the album as having been "massively" influenced by various electronic music genres. He also commented on how the album would explore similar territory as their third album "There Is a Hell". This was due to the fact that the ground covered by the album gave room for further experimentation. The sound of the album is seen as still being as aggressive as their typical work but having choruses that are "made for arenas" and a lot of electronic-influenced hooks. Sykes also sees the album as possessing a very euphoric "happy sad" feeling and this is shown where one of the tracks on the album surfaced to sound like the soundtrack to the end of the world.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: The album's track listing is arranged to fuel a conceptual interpretation. The album, which is penned by Sykes, is lyrically more positive and tongue-in-cheek in comparison to the dark lyricisms of the previous album, "There Is a Hell". The album's lyrics are also focused on self-reflective themes of analysing the consequences of someone's actions on people's lives and transforming them into apologies and described as having "a more considerate, contemplative and self-aware demeanour". Sykes explained that while "There Is a Hell" examined mannerisms such as dealing with great amounts of depression, "Sempiternal" examines learning how to deal with that stress. Despite the proclaimed positivity of the album in an interview with "Kerrang!" magazine where they review the songs track by track Sykes makes several references to "a problem" which cohesively binds the tracks themes together. The lyrics are also cited as possessing anti-religious connotations, with Sykes summarising this by saying "I'm an atheist so it's all about not believing in God. Before the album I was put in a position where I was asked to believe in God to get better, I was in a shitty place and I was asked to put my faith in God". The lyrical structure is also seen as following a "yin-and-yang". Heard in songs like "Can You Feel My Heart", where the lyrics polarise with "the higher I get, the lower I sink".


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: The introductory song "Can You Feel My Heart" was a musical experiment which helped sculpt the style of "Sempiternal". The song was the first song which Fish "really got his teeth into" which is shown in the heavy use of electronica. The song's looped vocal pattern was created by Fish as Sykes couldn't think of lyrics that fit in the chorus, but they then became a significant part of the song's structure. The song starts with cascading walls of electronica breaking into a mid-tempo song. The song is credited by Sykes as "admitting you have a problem, and admitting some thing's wrong. That's the first step of the whole album."


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: "The House of Wolves" is a song about Sykes dealing with pressures to become religious to help overcome personal problems. Lee Malia described the song as having a more "Suicide Season" inspired sound and having a Glassjaw-influenced chorus.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: The song on the album titled "Antivist" was reportedly written about former guitarist Jona Weinhofen. The first time it was played, Sykes made the following statement: "This song is called 'Antivist.' It goes out to Jona Weinhofen." However, in later interviews when asked directly about the song and its meaning the band members revealed that it's not strictly about Weinhofen (although he did serve as an inspiration), but rather deals with modern day people's hypocrisy, particularly on the Internet; where people either state reckless negative opinions and argue with other people which "not actually helping" or on the contrary preach whatever they feel is right to change the world for the better while at the same time behaving in a manner that belies their own statements (thus making them "ANTI-vists" instead of activists).


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: On 5 November 2012, the band announced that they had hosted a website domain for the album "sempiternal.info" in which they release an audio clip of "Shadow Moses" and displayed a video which eventually forms a symbol which became a part of the album's cover art. This was the Flower of Life, a geometric design consisting of overlapping circles, and is the main feature of its album cover. On 9 November, the band played a free gig in their home town of Sheffield before co-headlining the UK Warped Tour Festival in London with Lostprophets. On 14 January 2013, an "Album Teaser" video was released on Bring Me the Horizon's Vevo account. At the end of this video it was revealed that the album was scheduled to be released on 29 April 2013. All formats/editions of the album can be pre-ordered. Several different packages are available, with some including a t-shirt.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: On 23 February 2013, "Sempiternal" was leaked onto the internet two months before the release date. This, however, received a positive response from the band as they prepared something due to the "phenomenal demand". This then led to the band streaming the album online until its release date, which was pushed forward from 29 and 30 April to 1 and 2 April for Worldwide and North American release, respectively. When asked about the leak of "Sempiternal", Sykes commented by saying: "I'd make a play for it happening because I was so sure. Music is free now, if you don't want to pay for music then you don't pay for music. Everyone takes that privilege. As a musician you've got to accept that nowadays."


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: The first single from the album, "Shadow Moses", debuted on Daniel P. Carter's Rock Show on BBC Radio 1 on 4 January 2013. "Shadow Moses" was officially released as a single on iTunes on 14 January 2013, reaching No. 80 in the Official UK Singles Chart, their first top 100 entry. On 18 February 2013, the band announced that they will release the song "Antivist" as a new song, given that enough people tweet #antivist. The new song's artwork was displayed in .GIF format on the website "antivistreveal.com". On 19 February 2013, "Antivist" was released on SoundCloud and YouTube. The song isn't a single.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: On 4 March 2013, the band released the second music video from "Sempiternal" which was "Sleepwalking" on YouTube via the band's Vevo channel and Epitaph Record's channel. The band announced on their Facebook and Twitter pages that their third single would be "Go to Hell, for Heaven's Sake" and would officially release the song as a single on 10 June.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: "Bring Me the Horizon" embarked on their headline tour of the United States in support of "Sempiternal". The tour, known as "The American Dream Tour" had permanent support from of Mice & Men and Issues, while Letlive were the opening act for the majority of the tour and Northlane opened on 11 of the dates in their absence.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: They finished their last "Sempiternal" show on 5 December 2014 at the Wembley Arena. This marked the end of the "Sempiternal"-focused era of Bring Me the Horizon and the break they will use to make a new album.


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: Upon its release, the album was met with critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream music critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 12 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: AllMusic gave the album a positive review saying, "Bring Me the Horizon have been working slowly but surely to refine their sound for years now, and with "Sempiternal", it feels like their patience and hard work are finally beginning to pay dividends." In a positive review of the album, Drew Beringer of "AbsolutePunk" said the album "has just as much substance as it has style." In a positive review, "Alternative Press" praised Sykes' vocals saying, "Sykes' increased vocal range also proves a formidable addition to their arsenal" calling the album "cohesive and engaging."


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: "Classic Rock" complemented the album's more "genuine" calling the album "[more] dramatic and emotional than...ever have before." "Kerrang!" gave the album a positive review writing that, ""Sempiternal" sounds like a record that wants the world--that's all of it, not just the bits where longhairs dwell--which is refreshing for a metal record in 2013."


title: Sempiternal (album)

text: The album debuted in the United Kingdom at number three on the album chart and number one on the rock chart with over 9,000 copies sold in its first week. In the US, projections of the album selling between 24,000 and 27,000 in its first week were confirmed as it sold over 27,000, achieving a place of number 11 on the US "Billboard" 200. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on 26 April 2016 for surpassing 500,000 sales though the RIAA misspelled the band's name and certified the album as "Beyond the Horizon".


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: "The End" is an epic song by the American rock band the Doors. Lead singer Jim Morrison initially wrote the lyrics about his break up with an old girlfriend Mary Werbelow, but it evolved through months of performances at the Whisky a Go Go into a much longer song. The Doors recorded a nearly 12-minute version for their self-titled debut album, which was released on January 4, 1967.


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: "The End" was ranked at number 336 on 2010 "Rolling Stone" magazines list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song's guitar solo was ranked number 93 on "Guitar World"s "100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time".


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: Shortly past the midpoint of the nearly 12-minute-long album version, the song enters a spoken word section with the words, "The killer awoke before dawn / he put his boots on". That section of the song reaches a dramatic climax with the lines, "Father / Yes son? / I want to kill you / Mother, I want to..." (with the next words screamed out unintelligibly). Morrison had worked on a student production of "Oedipus Rex" at Florida State University. Ray Manzarek, the former keyboard player of the Doors, explained:


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: When asked if whether the lyrics of the Oedipal section resonated with his own parents, Morrison simply replied, "I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to involve anyone unless they want it." On the other hand, Doors' guitarist Robby Krieger believed that Morrison indeed suffered "from an apparent Oedipus complex". However, in John Densmore's autobiography "Riders on the Storm", he recalls when Morrison explained the actual meaning of the song:


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: According to "Mojo" magazine, during the recording sessions, Morrison was obsessed and skeptical of the words, "Fuck the mother, kill the father", as Krieger recalled, "He was on this Oedipus complex trip." Then he accidentally threw a TV, which was brought in by sound engineer Bruce Botnick, at the control room window. After the incident, he was sent home by producer Paul A. Rothchild. However, Morrison, who had taken LSD, returned in the middle of the night, broke into the studio and hosed it with a fire extinguisher. The agent marked only the instruments that were mounted in the recording place. Rothchild came back and advised the studio owner to charge the damage to Elektra.


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: "The End" was recorded live in the studio with no overdubbing. Two takes were recorded, with reportedly the second being used for the album. It was one of the last songs performed by the original group at their last concert on December 12, 1970, at The Warehouse in New Orleans.


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: "The End" has been characterized as a precursor of the gothic rock genre. In a live review published in "The Williams Record" in October 1967, critic John Stickney described the Doors collation as "gothic rock", which was one of the first uses of the term in print; most notably, he was more pensive for their contribution to "The End", citing Morrison's vocal performance in particular as "male-violent, satanic, electric and on fire". In 2017, "Pitchfork" included it on their list of "The Story of Goth in 33 Songs". In his column, Rusty Pipes indicated the track to be as one of the early examples of art rock music.


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: "The End" is performed into the pitches of the Mixolydian mode in the key of D, and incorporates aspects from Indian music. Krieger used an open guitar tuning, which he had learned from Ravi Shankar's music lessons at the Kinnara School of Music in Los Angeles, to create a sitar or veena sound; this enhances the raga rock mood. Author Peter Lavezzoli featured "The End" in his book, "The Dawn of Indian Music"; stating that Krieger also developed with his tuning an "Indian jhala style" and "rapid strumming alternating with the melody line" in his guitar playing. Scholars Aaron Barlow and Martin Kich distinguished in their book "Pop Goes the Decade: The Sixties", that the song has influenced most of the acid rock genre. "The End" has also been classified as a psychedelic rock and hard rock piece.


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: While the 1967 release of the song is the best-known version, there are other, slightly different versions available.


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: Marilyn Manson recorded a cover of "The End" for use on the soundtrack to the miniseries "The Stand". The recording was produced by country musician Shooter Jennings, who also produced Manson's eleventh studio album, "We Are Chaos". The song was released for digital download and streaming on November 22, 2019, with a 7-inch picture disc scheduled to be released via Loma Vista Recordings on March 6, 2020. The vinyl would have been limited to 2,000 copies worldwide, and all pre-orders were accompanied by an immediate download of the track. The vinyl artwork consisted of an original watercolor piece painted by the vocalist. A music video based on the single's artwork was created by Zev Deans, which utilized watercolor self-portraits created by Manson.


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: The 7" vinyl release was canceled, however, and the song and its music video were removed from all download, streaming and video hosting services shortly after release. An interviewer with "Guitar World" later said the vinyl release was "nixed" by the Doors, with Jennings saying the band claimed the pair were "taking liberties" with its release. "The Stand" director Josh Boone also confirmed the cover would not appear in the miniseries, saying the recording "ultimately proved too expensive to use. The show was made on a very tight budget and some of the dreams we had went to the wayside."


title: The End (The Doors song)

text: Manson had previously released a version of the Doors song "Five to One" as a b-side on their 2000 single "Disposable Teens". He later performed "Five to One" – as well as "Love Me Two Times" and "People Are Strange" – alongside Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger at the 2012 Sunset Strip Music Festival. In 2016, he performed "Not to Touch the Earth" with guitarist Johnny Depp during an event at Amoeba Music.


title: Might makes right

text: Might makes right or Might is right is an aphorism on the origin of morality, with both descriptive and prescriptive senses.


title: Might makes right

text: Descriptively, it asserts that a society's view of right and wrong is determined by those in power, with a meaning similar to "History is written by the victors". That is, although all people have their personal ideas of the good, only those strong enough to overcome obstacles and enemies can put their ideas into effect, and spread their own standards to society at large. Montague defined kratocracy or kraterocracy (from the , meaning "strong") as a government based on coercive power, by those strong enough to seize control through physical violence or demagogic manipulation.


title: Might makes right

text: "Might makes right" has been described as the credo of totalitarian regimes. The sociologist Max Weber analyzed the relations between a state's power and its moral authority in . Realist scholars of international politics use the phrase to describe the "state of nature" in which power determines the relations among sovereign states.


title: Might makes right

text: Prescriptively (or normatively), the phrase is most often used pejoratively, to protest perceived tyranny.


title: Might makes right

text: The phrase sometimes has a positive connotation in the context of master morality or social Darwinism, which hold that a society's strongest members should rule and determine its standards of right and wrong, as well as its goals for the greater good.


title: Might makes right

text: The idea of "woe to the conquered" is vividly expressed in Homer, in the hawk parable from Hesiod's "Works and Days", and in Livy, in which the equivalent Latin phrase "vae victis" is first recorded.


title: Might makes right

text: The idea, though not the wording, has been attributed to the "History of the Peloponnesian War" by the ancient historian Thucydides, who stated that "right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."


title: Might makes right

text: In the first chapter of Plato's "Republic", Thrasymachus claims that "justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger", which Socrates then disputes. Callicles in "Gorgias" argues similarly that the strong should rule the weak, as a right owed to their superiority.


title: Might makes right

text: The first commonly quoted use of "might makes right" in English was in 1846 by the American pacifist and abolitionist Adin Ballou (1803–1890), who wrote, "But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies."


title: Might makes right

text: Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union campaign address (1860) reverses the phrase: "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it". He spoke in defense of neutral engagement with slave-holders, as against violent confrontation.


title: Might makes right

text: Montague coined the term "Kratocracy", from the , meaning "strong", for government by those who are strong enough to seize power through force or cunning.


title: Might makes right

text: In a letter to Albert Einstein from 1932, Sigmund Freud also explores the history and validity of "might versus right".


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: The 2013–14 season was Manchester United's 22nd season in the Premier League, and their 39th consecutive season in the top-flight of English football.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: David Moyes began the season as United's new manager after taking over from Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired after almost 27 years in charge. He had been announced as the club's new manager before the end of the previous season, but did not officially take over until 1 July 2013.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: Despite winning the Community Shield, United were soon struggling in the league and endured some of their worst results since the end of the 1980s. In January, United were eliminated from the FA Cup at the first hurdle with a loss to Swansea City, as well as from the semi-finals of the League Cup after being beaten on penalties by Sunderland.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United fared better in Europe, topping their group in the group stage. They suffered a scare when they lost to Olympiacos in the first leg of the round of 16, but overcame the deficit in the second leg. United were ultimately eliminated during the quarter-finals in April, with defending champions Bayern Munich beating them 4–2 on aggregate.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: On 22 April 2014, with four games remaining, Moyes was sacked as manager, less than a year into his six-year contract. His last game, two days earlier, had ended in 2–0 defeat at his old club Everton. 40-year-old player-coach Ryan Giggs was placed in charge for United's remaining games, from which they collected seven points. A seventh place in the league was United's lowest finish since 1990 and meant that they had missed out on European qualification for the first time since 1989–90 (when English clubs were still banned from European competitions due to the Heysel Stadium disaster of 1985). The last time outside the Heysel ban era that United had missed out on a place in Europe was in 1980–81.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: Dutch coach Louis van Gaal was confirmed as Manchester United's new manager on a three-year contract on 19 May 2014, with Giggs appointed as his assistant. On the same day, Giggs announced his retirement as a player after a career spanning nearly 25 years, during which he had played almost 1,000 competitive games for the club and won 34 trophies.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: It was a period of change for United's staff. In May 2013, manager Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement after 26 years of service, having just won his 13th Premier League title that season and United's 20th overall. Earlier in February 2013, it was made known that chief executive David Gill would be stepping down after 16 years of service, with 10 years as chief executive. Each announcement was accompanied with the naming of their successors, who would take over on 1 July 2013. David Moyes, aged 50, manager of Everton and a Scotsman like Ferguson, was appointed as the new United manager. Ed Woodward assumed the top executive role at United, although he retained the title of executive vice-chairman.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: Moyes looked to appoint his own coaching staff as he started his reign. In May 2013, assistant manager Mike Phelan and goalkeeping coach Eric Steele left the club. First-team coach René Meulensteen followed a month later. All three had served in their respective positions since 2008, while Phelan and Meulensteen had worked in other roles at United since 2001. In their place, Moyes brought in staff from Everton to join him in July, appointing Steve Round as assistant manager, Chris Woods as goalkeeping coach and Jimmy Lumsden as coach. In July, veteran United winger Ryan Giggs became a player-coach, while former United and Everton player Phil Neville was also added to the coaching staff.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United preceded their 2013–14 campaign with a global tour of Asia, Australia and Europe, before returning to Old Trafford for Rio Ferdinand's testimonial match against Sevilla, marking the defender's 11 years with the club. United's pre-season saw them suffer three defeats in seven games, which was described as "poor" and "miserable". One of the defeats came against the Thai All-Star XI, which was David Moyes' first game in charge. By the time the pre-season ended, United were struggling off the pitch as well, having made no major signings at that point. Moyes admitted that the "transition from Everton to Manchester United has been difficult at times". Regarding the lack of major signings, Moyes pointed out that he "got the job on 1 July" and were on tour for the next three weeks, as well as the fact that "the level [he had] been shopping in the past [was] not the level Manchester United have been shopping in".


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: During this period, United had to battle to retain the services of their striker Wayne Rooney. Near the end of the previous season, weeks before Sir Alex Ferguson's announcement of retirement, Rooney was reported to have verbally asked to leave the club despite not handing in a transfer request. After Moyes took over, Rooney was left angered and confused by comments by Moyes which seemed to indicate that Rooney would be playing second fiddle to fellow striker Robin van Persie. Chelsea attempted to sign Rooney, with Chelsea manager José Mourinho openly declaring his high interest, but United insisted that Rooney was not for sale.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: As Premier League champions, United began the season against the holders of the FA Cup, Wigan Athletic in the Community Shield. The match, which was David Moyes' first competitive fixture in charge of Manchester United, was played at Wembley on 11 August. United ran out 2–0 winners due to two goals from Robin van Persie in a game where they played "with a sense of control" but failed to "emphasise the gulf between the two clubs more emphatically". This was United's (and Moyes') first silverware of the season. The Shield was ultimately Moyes' only honour as United manager.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United faced a tough start to the 2013–14 league season; within the first five games in August and September, three were against Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City. After the fixtures were decided, manager David Moyes publicly questioned whether the draw was done fairly for the defending champions. Moyes' first league game in charge of Manchester United saw them visit Swansea City on 17 August. It was a bright start for United as they ran out 4–1 winners with doubles from Robin van Persie and Danny Welbeck, while substitute Wayne Rooney played a part in two goals. This put United at the top of the league, a height they would never replicate that season.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United's first home game of the season was against José Mourinho's Chelsea. They played out a stalemate for the first 0–0 game since 2009 at Old Trafford in 77 Premier League games. Rooney, who was being courted by Chelsea at the time, performed prominently and positively while receiving much support from the Old Trafford crowd. The club's next match saw an "error-prone and inhibited" United falling to fierce rivals Liverpool at Anfield for Moyes' first competitive loss. Liverpool led from the fourth minute through Daniel Sturridge and topped the table with their third consecutive 1–0 victory. United, though, were out of the top four, and they stayed out for the rest of the season. United had not failed to score in successive games in six years.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: Following the international break, Moyes' first home win came against Crystal Palace on 14 September, during which Ashley Young was yellow carded for diving against Kagisho Dikgacoi, for which Moyes would criticise Young. In another controversial clash near the end of first half, Young this time earned a penalty and Dikgacoi was sent off. Van Persie converted and Rooney later scored from a free kick for a 2–0 win. Also, new signing Maroune Fellaini debuted as a substitute.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United then travelled across town to play a much anticipated fixture against local rivals Manchester City. City opened the scoring through Sergio Agüero in the 16th minute, then doubled their lead via Yaya Touré seconds before half-time. Any thoughts of a comeback for the visitors were dispersed soon after the restart, as Agüero grabbed his second and City's third in the 47th minute. Samir Nasri then added his own name to the scoresheet three minutes later to compound United's misery. Rooney managed to pull a goal back with a 25-yard free kick late on into the game, but it was merely consolation as United fell to their worst defeat at the Etihad Stadium in nine years.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: On 28 September, Manchester United hosted West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford. The visitors took the lead in the 54th minute through Morgan Amalfitano, but United responded quickly, levelling the scores with a Rooney free kick three minutes later. However, West Brom hit back immediately, with 20-year-old substitute Saido Berahino grabbing the winner as David Moyes' side slipped to their first home defeat of the season.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: On a run of back-to-back Premier League defeats, United then travelled to the Stadium of Light to play against league strugglers Sunderland. Much to Moyes' dismay, it was once again the opposition who struck first, as Craig Gardner capitalised on Nemanja Vidić's error to put the hosts ahead. However, United fired back, as 18-year-old Adnan Januzaj scored twice on his first Premier League start, rescuing a valuable three points for the visitors.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: The Red Devils then began a run of four consecutive home games at Old Trafford, beginning with a visit from high-flying Southampton, who boasted the best defensive record in the Premier League. Van Persie's 26th-minute strike looked to have set the hosts on course for a win, but the visitors equalised through a last gasp corner kick, with Dejan Lovren's header deflecting off of Adam Lallana to spoil United's celebrations.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: The club then welcomed Stoke City to Old Trafford. Despite holding the worst goalscoring record in the Premier League, Stoke unexpectedly drew first blood through Peter Crouch in the third minute. Van Persie looked to have levelled proceedings heading into half-time with a 43rd-minute strike, but the visitors soon regained their lead seconds before the break, this time through a Marko Arnautović free kick. With the game entering its final 15 minutes, United finally found their equaliser as Rooney headed in Van Persie's corner kick, and less than two minutes later, substitute Javier Hernández completed the comeback as he nodded in Patrice Evra's cross.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: On 2 November, Manchester United visited Fulham at Craven Cottage. United began brightly, as Rooney set up Antonio Valencia for the game's opener in the ninth minute, and cemented their lead a few minutes later after two quick-fire goals from Van Persie and Rooney. Alexander Kačaniklić's heavily deflected shot pulled one back for the hosts in the 65th minute, but it was not enough in the end to prevent David Moyes' side from taking the three points, as his team won two consecutive league games for the first time all season.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United then clashed with rivals and league leaders Arsenal at Old Trafford. Van Persie, who had left the Gunners to join United the previous season, once again struck against his former side after his header found the back of the net in the 27th minute. Despite the visitors looking largely dominant possession wise throughout the match, solid defending from the hosts were enough to see through a win, as United recorded a memorable victory over Arsène Wenger's in-form men.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: David Moyes' men then returned to South Wales, as they were presented with the opportunity to extend their impressive domestic run against Cardiff City at the Cardiff City Stadium. Rooney put the visitors ahead with just 15 minutes played, and after former Manchester United teammate Fraizer Campbell equalised for the home side, he set up Evra's header to restore the lead just before the break. However, United were once again unravelled by a last gasp set-piece, as substitute Kim Bo-kyung nodded in a free-kick to salvage a draw for the Welsh side.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United's next game was away against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane. Kyle Walker fired the hosts into an early lead with a close-range free kick in the 18th minute, but man of the moment Wayne Rooney pounced to equalise for United moments later. However, André Villas-Boas' men raced into the lead once again after the restart, this time through a Sandro rocket from 25 yards out, forcing the visitors to come from behind a second time through a Rooney penalty kick.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: The following two matches at home ended with 1–0 losses against Everton and Newcastle United (both of whom ended long runs without wins at Old Trafford). Those losses meant United were winless in the last four games with only two points collected from a possible 12. United then won four matches in a row, which included win at Aston Villa, Hull City and Norwich City alongside a win at home against West Ham United.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United started off 2014 by losing a fourth home league match in a 2–1 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur, leaving them down in seventh. After bowing out of the FA Cup to Swansea City the week before, a much-improved second half display against them at Old Trafford saw United come out on top. Antonio Valencia opened the scoring with a tap-in before Danny Welbeck flicked in the second from Patrice Evra's shot.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: But the high was short-lived as a defensive horror show meant the Reds left Stamford Bridge with no points. Samuel Eto'o scored a hat-trick and Javier Hernández scored a consolation before Nemanja Vidić was sent off. But United made it back-to-back home wins for the first time since November as new signing Juan Mata helped them see off Ole Gunnar Solskjær's Cardiff City. Robin van Persie returned to score before Ashley Young fired in to seal the points.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: But again United did not follow it up with a win. A Michael Carrick own goal put them behind at Stoke City before Robin van Persie converted from Juan Mata's pass. A screamer from Charlie Adam, however, meant United returned from Staffordshire empty-handed.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United also fell behind in their next game bottom-side Fulham. Steve Sidwell shocked Old Trafford as United piled forward in search of the win. Mata's cross for fired in by Van Persie, and minutes later Carrick scored his first goal of the season with a neat finish from the edge of the box. Darren Bent's injury-time goal, however, meant United dropped two vital points again.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United played well to come away from the Emirates with a 0–0 draw, denying Arsenal for the second time this season. Van Persie had two great chances to score but was denied by Arsenal keeper Wojciech Szczęsny. United got back to winning ways with a comfortable victory at Crystal Palace. Van Persie converted a penalty after Patrice Evra was fouled, before Wayne Rooney expertly volleyed in to seal the win.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United's third away game in succession saw them travel to the ground where Alex Ferguson bowed out of the Premier League, at The Hawthorns against West Bromwich Albion. United eased to a 3–0 victory; Phil Jones headed in Van Persie's dangerous free kick just before half time, a sweeping move ended with Rooney heading in Rafael's right-wing cross and substitute Welbeck expertly finished off another fine move as United finally delivered a good performance.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United returned to Old Trafford up against an in-form Liverpool. After a tight first-half, Steven Gerrard gave the visitors the lead from the penalty spot after Rafael committed a handball in the area. The Liverpool then captain added a second penalty after a foul by Phil Jones seconds just into the second-half. After United were denied a penalty of their own, the Merseyside club were awarded a third penalty which also saw United captain Nemanja Vidić sent off. Replays suggested Daniel Sturridge actually dived, but nonetheless Gerrard missed the kick. Luis Suárez completed the scoring after a neat attack.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United got back to winning ways with a comfortable 2–0 away win at West Ham. Wayne Rooney opened the scoring with a half-volley from just inside the West Ham half, reminiscent of David Beckham's goal against Wimbledon in 1996. The England striker then added his second after Mark Noble failed to clear Ashley Young's cross.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: Another poor performance saw United slip to another costly derby defeat, this time to neighbours Manchester City in the 150th Manchester Derby. Edin Džeko finished off a rebound to give City the lead after just 47 seconds. The City striker later volleyed in number two in the second-half, before Yaya Touré completed the rout in added time.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: On 29 March 2014, a flypast was staged by a portion of United fans with the banner displaying "Wrong One - Moyes Out" during a match against Aston Villa at Old Trafford. After the match, which United won 4–1, Moyes claimed that the majority of fans had been "very supportive" of him.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: Despite that comment, and a 4–0 win over Newcastle United, the club fired Moyes less than a month later on 22 April, shortly after United lost 2–0 to Moyes' old club Everton at Goodison Park. The result ended any hope of them making the Champions League, and when combined with Tottenham Hotspur winning their own match the previous day, left United needing to take near-maximum points from their remaining games to even achieve a Europa League spot.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: Ryan Giggs took over as interim player-manager for the final four games. His first game as manager was a 4–0 thrashing of Norwich City at Old Trafford, with Wayne Rooney and Juan Mata each scoring a pair. However, the next match resulted in a surprise 1–0 defeat to strugglers Sunderland, a result which ultimately proved a fatal blow to United's slim Europa League hopes. This was followed by a 3–1 win over Hull City in the club's final home match of the season, and Giggs's farewell game at Old Trafford.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: The final day saw United playing away at Southampton, needing a victory and for Spurs to lose against Aston Villa in order to take sixth place. Ultimately, neither result went United's way, as they only managed to draw while Spurs won. This meant that for the first time since the 1989–90 season (or the 1980–81 season, if the seasons when English clubs were barred from European competition in the aftermath of the Heysel Disaster are not counted), the club had failed to qualify for any form of European football whatsoever.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: In September 2014, executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward participated in a conference call to investors, discussing the results for the financial year that ended on 30 June 2014. Woodward described the 2013–14 season as "challenging and disappointing." He announced a record annual revenue of £433.2 million, a rise of 19 per cent, which was in part due to a new shirt manufacturing deal with Adidas. However, the club's annual profit fell by 84 per cent to £23.8 million, which BBC Sport analysed was "largely due to United's owners cashing in a tax credit in the previous financial year." It was also revealed that the club had paid former manager David Moyes and his staff £5.2 million following their exits, while their seventh-placed finish in the Premier League reduced their prize money by £7.4 million. BBC Sport also predicted that the total cost for missing out on the Champions League will end up at more than £50 million. Lastly, the club budgeted for a third-place Premier League finish for the 2014–15 season.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United entered the FA Cup at the Third Round stage with the other Premier League clubs, as well as those from the Championship. The draw was made on 8 December 2013, which saw United drawn at home to fellow Premier League club Swansea City. The tie took place on 5 January 2014. The Swans won for the first time at Old Trafford resulting in United exiting from the competition.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: As one of seven English clubs who qualified for European competition in the 2012–13 season, United received a bye to the Third Round of the League Cup. The draw took place on 28 August 2013, with United being paired with fellow Premier League club Liverpool. It is the fourth time overall the two rivals have met in the competition and the first time since the 2003 final, where Liverpool ran out 2–0 winners. The game was played on 25 September 2013 in Old Trafford, with United winning thanks to a goal by Javier Hernández in the 46th minute after a corner kick by Rooney. After the game United were drawn to play against Norwich City on 29 October at home, which United won 4–0. The draw for the Fifth Round took place on 30 October 2013, with United being paired with fellow Premier League club Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium. The game was played on 18 December 2013, with United winning 2–0. The draw for the Semi-finals took place on 18 December 2013, with United being paired with fellow Premier League club Sunderland. They lost the first leg of the tie 2–1 at the Stadium of Light. In the return leg at Old Trafford, they were leading 1–0 at the end of 90 minutes and the tie went to extra time. Both teams scored late goals at the end of extra time, meaning that the two sides were exactly level over the two legs. In the resulting penalty shoot-out, Adnan Januzaj, Danny Welbeck, Phil Jones and Rafael all missed their kicks; only Darren Fletcher scored, while Sunderland scored two of their own, putting United out of the competition.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: Having finished in the top three in the league last season, United began their Champions League campaign in the group stage. Courtesy of their UEFA coefficient, they were seeded in Pot 1 for the draw, which took place in Monaco on 29 August 2013. United were drawn into Group A, along with Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayer Leverkusen from Germany, and Real Sociedad from Spain. Manchester United were previously drawn with Bayer Leverkusen in both 2001–02 and 2002–03, while Shakhtar Donetsk and Real Sociedad were new opponents.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United's first UEFA Champions League group game was at home against Bayer Leverkusen on 17 September 2013, which ended in a 4–2 win after Rooney double and a strike apiece from Robin van Persie and Antonio Valencia. The game marked Moyes' first UEFA Champions League group stage game and Rooney's 200th goal in all competitions for United.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: The draw for the round of 16 was made in Nyon, Switzerland, on 16 December 2013. The first leg was played on 25 February 2014 away from home, and the second leg was played on 19 March 2014 at Old Trafford. As winners of their group, United were drawn against Greek league champions, Olympiacos, who finished as runners-up in Group C. It was the fifth tie between the two clubs and the first time they had faced one another since 2002 when United won 3–2 in the First group round. United lost the first leg 2–0 in Greece, but came back to win 3–0 in the return leg thanks to a Robin van Persie hat-trick. The 3–2 aggregate win sent United into the quarter-finals to face title-holders Bayern Munich. In the first leg at Old Trafford, United were comprehensively outplayed by Bayern, yet they took the lead through Vidić and eventually finished with a 1–1 draw. Despite again taking a 1–0 lead in Germany, they capitulated after the goal and lost 3–1, thus being eliminated 4–2 on aggregate.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: Manchester United began to make changes to their squad on in June 2013. On 7 June, it was announced that United would be releasing eight players in addition to Paul Scholes, who had retired at the end of the previous season. Also on the same day, 20-year-old Uruguayan right-back Guillermo Varela became David Moyes's first signing as Manchester United manager. These transfers came into effect upon the opening of the summer transfer window on 1 July. United went on to sell youngster Mats Møller Dæhli to Molde FK and 21-year-old Scott Wootton to Leeds United during the window. Meanwhile, Chelsea made two bids of £20 million and £25 million to sign United's Wayne Rooney in July and August, but United rejected the bids.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: During the summer transfer window, Moyes attempted to sign players from his former club Everton. In June, Everton rejected a £12 million bid by United for English defender Leighton Baines. By July, United failed in two attempts to sign Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fàbregas for over £25 million. In August, Everton rejected another bid by United, a £28 million joint bid for Baines and Belgian midfielder Marouane Fellaini, describing it as "insulting." United ultimately managed to make 25-year-old Fellaini their first major signing of the season on transfer deadline day on 2 September for £27.5 million. On that day, United also signed 17-year-old Swiss defender Saidy Janko from Zürich, while abandoning their attempt to sign midfielder Ander Herrera from Athletic Bilbao. A late loan move for defender Fábio Coentrão from Real Madrid also fell through. During the transfer window, Real Madrid also rejected a £33.9 million bid from United for midfielder Sami Khedira.


title: 2013–14 Manchester United F.C. season

text: United's failure to sign several major targets during the summer transfer window, as well as their actions on transfer deadline day, were labelled as a farce. BBC Sport described the "scramble to get [Fellaini's] deal ... over the line moments before the transfer window closed symbolised the confusion in a summer when a clear transfer strategy was conspicuously absent from Old Trafford." It was pointed out that Fellaini had a £23.5 million release clause that expired at the end of July, and that he ultimately cost only £0.5 million less than what United bid jointly for both Fellaini and Baines in August. Meanwhile, the Spanish professional football league said that three lawyers had unsuccessfully negotiated to sign Ander Herrera for United, but United denied sending anyone to the league's offices.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves is a 1997 American science fiction comedy film, and the third installment in the "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" film series. The film marks the directorial debut of cinematographer Dean Cundey and was released through Walt Disney Home Video as a direct-to-home video film. The plot tells the story of inventor Wayne Szalinski as he accidentally shrinks himself, his wife, brother, and sister-in-law with his electromagnetic shrink ray.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: Rick Moranis returns as Wayne Szalinski, and is the only cast member from the previous films to reprise their role. Eve Gordon replaces Marcia Strassman as Diane Szalinski, and their youngest son Adam, now a pre-teen, is played by Bug Hall. Wayne and Diane's two older children, Amy and Nick, do not appear but are mentioned as having gone away to college and living adult lives. The cast includes Wayne's extended family, including his brother, Gordon, sister-in-law Patti (mentioned in the first film when Diane was on the phone with her looking for Amy), and niece and nephew Jenny and Mitch.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: The film is also the first Walt Disney Pictures live-action direct-to-video release, and stands as Moranis' most recent live-action film role, though he would continue to do voice-acting for the next several years. The franchise continued with a adaptation, which aired on broadcast syndication.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: The film series will continue with the soft reboot "Shrunk", which will see Josh Gad play Nick Szalinski, and Moranis will come out of his semi-retirement to reprise the role of Wayne. Joe Johnston (who directed the first film) will also return to direct the sequel. The film will be a Disney+ release.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: Eight years after the events of the previous film, ten-year-old Adam wants to go to baseball camp. However, his interest in sports seems almost alien to Wayne, although Diane is more understanding. Wayne has started his own lab, Szalinski Labs, with his brother, Gordon. One day, they receive tickets to witness a shuttle landing, but Diane reminds him over the phone that he needs to watch Adam and his cousins, Jenny and Mitch, while she and Gordon's wife Patti go on vacation. She also reminds him to get rid of a Tiki Man sculpture they keep in the house that she sees as an eyesore, though he considers it a good luck charm.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: After Diane and Patti leave, Wayne and Gordon have activities planned that bore the kids. Wayne sends them to the store, but reveals to Gordon that it is a ruse to get rid of them long enough so that he can use his shrinking machine in order to shrink the Tiki Man without Diane's knowledge, and spare any accidents with the kids. However, after carelessly not turning it off immediately after they succeed, Wayne and Gordon are shrunk when a billiard ball left on it falls onto the activating button, just as they are in front of it searching for the Tiki Man. Meanwhile, Patti realizes she forgot to leave Mitch's medicine for his potassium deficiency, and they head back. Hoping to catch Wayne and Gordon by surprise, they sneak up to the attic only to be shrunk when another billiard ball falls onto the activating button. Shortly after, the kids return home, and after hearing Wayne's previous message about the launch, assume they are alone for the evening. Jenny makes plans to have her friends come over. Upstairs, the adults make use of a fishing rod to lower themselves down into Adam's room. To attempt to get to the floor, they use his Hot Wheels race track, but they overshoot their target and fall down the laundry chute ending up in a clean load that is delivered back upstairs by Adam and Mitch. They tumble out of the laundry basket when it is overturned, and discover Adam and Mitch reading a "" magazine, revealing to Wayne that Adam's interest is not in science as he hoped. The four suddenly encounter a cockroach, but manage to defeat it by luring it into a bug trap.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: Seeing Mitch struggling, Patti realizes that they need to get him his medicine soon, or he could pass out. He ignores his weaknesses, though, and goes downstairs. The adults witness the arrival of Jenny's friends and decide to use a bubble machine in order to get downstairs. Diane and Patti land safely, but Wayne and Gordon fall into a bowl of onion dip and are nearly devoured by the girls.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: In the kitchen, when Patti and Diane resolve to find a way up the counter in order to find Mitch's medicine and push it into view, they encounter a daddy long-legs with its leg caught in a spider web, and Diane quietly talks to it as Patti tries to cut the web with a nail file. Diane realizes her own insecurities about being small as she relates to it, which she had earlier tried to kill, and realizes how hard it is to be that size. After it's freed, Patti and Diane realize they can cling to its silk as it climbs up onto the counter. Meanwhile, Wayne and Gordon decide to rewire the stereo to work as a microphone. A group of boys begin to crash the party, including Jenny's crush, Ricky King. He takes her into the kitchen, where he steals a kiss from her, but she spurns him for not asking permission first, thus earning Patti's respect. Angered, he returns to his friends and they begin to wreak havoc in the living room. Mitch, severely weakened, enters the kitchen and discovers Patti and Diane on the counter before fainting, partially from his failure to take his medicine, and partially from the shock of seeing his miniature mother and aunt. Adam and Jenny discover him, and thinking quickly, Adam gets potassium-rich bananas to give to him, and he begins to recover, weakly saying he had seen his mother. In the living room, Adam stands up to Ricky before Wayne rewires the stereo so that Gordon can talk and amplify his voice. With this, he pretends to be the voice of God and orders Ricky and his friends to leave, leading Adam, Mitch, and Jenny to realize what has happened to them.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: In the attic, the kids discuss the benefits of leaving their parents shrunk briefly before deciding they love them more than that, so they unshrink them to give them a chance to re-evaluate their parenting methods. Patti confides her trust in Jenny for how she stood up to Ricky and took care of Mitch, while Wayne tells Adam that he can have an interest in sports, and agrees to sign him up for baseball camp. Diane tells Wayne he can keep the Tiki Man, and won't sweat the "small" stuff anymore, while he decides to relinquish his presidency of Szalinski Labs to Gordon and return to inventing. In the end, life is back to normal again. Adam returns home from baseball camp, and Wayne has developed a new respect for baseball, and the Tiki Man has been moved into the backyard and enlarged to twice the height of the house.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: Originally, the film was going to be released in theaters for Christmas 1996. Karey Kirkpatrick was called in to write the script, while working on "James and the Giant Peach". The finished script was sent in to Jeffrey Katzenberg, who decided that the studio did not want to continue with the film. It was shelved for a few months while Kirkpatrick resumed work on "James and the Giant Peach". While working on it, Kirkpatrick learned that it was going to be picked up again.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: The Walt Disney Company at the time was having success with releasing direct-to-video sequels, such as "The Return of Jafar" and "Aladdin and the King of Thieves". They wanted to test how live-action sequels would do, so they picked this one to be their first.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: Nell Scovell and Joel Hodgson were recruited to try to reduce Kirkpatrick's script due to the budget restraint. In Kirkpatrick's script, the group of shrunken parents would originally fall into an aquarium. The scene was cut from the script, and then revised to the bubble machine one. One scene shows one of Wayne's inventions, a machine that translates dog barks to human speech. It is similar to the devices in the "invention exchange" Hodgson did when with "Mystery Science Theater 3000".


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: Rick Moranis was the only actor from the first two films to reprise his role. Marcia Strassman, who portrayed Diane in the first two films and in the 3D film, did not return and was replaced by Eve Gordon, best known for portraying as Marilyn Monroe in "A Woman Named Jackie".


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: Amy O'Neill and Robert Oliveri, who had previously played Wayne's children Amy and Nick, had quit acting by the time the film was released; their characters were only mentioned in a conversation between Diane and Adam. Daniel and Joshua Shalikar, the twin actors who portrayed Adam in "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid", had signed on for two additional sequels in 1992. They had reprised their role in "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience", but Bug Hall replaced them in the part.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: Stuart Pankin and Robin Bartlett were cast as Gordon and Patti Szalinski. Allison Mack and Jake Richardson were cast as their kids, Jenny and Mitch. Mack would later become famous as Chloe Sullivan on "Smallville". Two of Jenny's friends are portrayed by Mila Kunis and Lisa Wilhoit. Kunis would later portray Jackie Burkhart on "That '70s Show", and voice Meg Griffin on "Family Guy" while Wilhoit would later voice Connie D'Amico on it.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: The film marked cinematographer Dean Cundey's directorial debut. His director of photography credits include Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park", "Hook", and some of John Carpenter's early directorial efforts such as "Halloween" (as well as its first two sequels), "The Fog", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Escape from New York" and "The Thing". Originally when the film was going to be released to theaters, the production budget was $40 million. When it was announced that it would be released to home video, the budget was cut down to $7 million.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: Due to the production cut, the studio decided to use television resolution to save money on effects by not having to pay for a projectable format. Also, the original script included that the party had gotten out of control with around 150 kids, akin to "Sixteen Candles" or "Say Anything". This was considered too costly and it was cut down.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: Despite the smaller budget, the availability of more advanced SFX technology created a more elaborate effect for the shrinking and enlarging sequences. Designer Carol Winstead Wood worked on product placement (see below) to increase her budget, enabling her to design & build more 'over scale' prop and set elements.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: The film was digitally composited on three Apple Mac computers, using After Image and Ultimate software, at Cundey's home before it was sent to the Dream Quest effects company for finessing.


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: The film was released direct-to-video on March 18, 1997. It coincided with the video releases of "The Long Kiss Goodnight" and "The First Wives Club".


title: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

text: The film received mostly negative reviews from critics. On the film rating website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 25%, based on 8 reviews.


title: Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps

text: Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps (officially abbreviated to SMMC)<ref name="ALMAR 016/09"></ref> is a billet, as well as a unique enlisted grade of rank, and is designated a special paygrade above E-9. The position also has a unique non-commissioned grade of rank insignia, in the United States Marine Corps. The holder of this rank and position is the most senior enlisted marine in the Marine Corps, unless an enlisted marine is serving as the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman.


title: Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps

text: In the U.S. Marine Corps, sergeant major is the ninth and highest enlisted rank, just above first sergeant, and equal in grade to master gunnery sergeant, although the two have different responsibilities. A sergeant major typically serves as the unit commander's senior enlisted adviser and to handle matters of discipline and morale among the enlisted Marines. The Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps is chosen by the Commandant of the Marine Corps to serve as his adviser and is the preeminent and highest ranking enlisted Marine, unless an enlisted marine is serving as the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman. The SMMC holds an order of precedence of a lieutenant general.


title: Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps

text: Although not officially considered a Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, when Archibald Sommers was appointed to the grade of Sergeant Major January 1, 1801, it was a solitary post, similar to the modern billet of Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps. In 1833, an act of legislation made the rank of sergeant major permanent for the Marine Corps and by 1899 five Marines held the rank of sergeant major. This continued until 1946, when the rank was abolished, only to be re-introduced in 1954 as part of the Marine Corps rank structure.


title: Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps

text: The post of Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps was established in 1957 from the order of Assistant Chief of Staff for Personnel at Headquarters Marine Corps, Brigadier General James P. Berkeley, as the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the first such post in any of the five branches of the United States Armed Forces. In 1970, the rank insignia of the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps was authorized (which features three stripes, the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor flanked by two five-point stars in the center, and four rockers) as opposed to the standard Sergeant Major rank insignia (which features three stripes, one five-point star in the center, and four rockers), which was used for the rank from the post's creation in 1957 to 1970. While "Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps" is the full wording of the rank, the verbal address for this is commonly "Sergeant Major".


title: Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps

text: The Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps is selected by the Commandant of the Marine Corps and typically serves a four-year term, though his service is at the discretion of the Commandant. Since Sergeant Major Wilbur Bestwick was appointed the first Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps in 1957, 19 different Marines have filled this post.


title: Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps

text: In April, 2019, Sergeant Major Troy E. Black was announced to be the next Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps. Black succeeded Sergeant Major Green at a ceremony on July 26, 2019.


title: Arvind Singh Mewar

text: Arvind Singh Mewar (born 13 December 1944) is an Indian businessman, former royal and chairman of HRH Group of Hotels.


title: Arvind Singh Mewar

text: Arvind and his brother Mahendra both claim to be the 76th custodian of the House of Mewar. The Maharanas of Udaipur are custodians of the kingdom on behalf of Sri Eklingji (Lord Shiva).


title: Arvind Singh Mewar

text: Arvind Singh Mewar of Udaipur was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer from where he completed his school certificate. He obtained his Bachelor's of Arts degree in Udaipur. He studied English literature, economics and political science at the Maharana Bhupal College in Udaipur.


title: Arvind Singh Mewar

text: He undertook a hotel management course from The Metropolitan College, St Albans, in the UK. Later, he worked in hospitality services in the United States.


title: Arvind Singh Mewar

text: Arvind Singh Mewar is the Chairman and Managing Director of the HRH Group of Hotels, which was started by his father in 1963. He has a crystal collection in the palace as well as a fleet of antique cars. These are open to the public.


title: Arvind Singh Mewar

text: A graduate of Mayo College, Ajmer he took a hotel management course in the UK and then went to Chicago, U.S. From 1979 to 1981, Arvind Singh Mewar lived and worked in Chicago. Back in Udaipur, from 1981 to 1984, he worked as the ADC / Personal Secretary to his father, His late Highness Maharana Bhagwat Singh Mewar. His duties included handling appointments, guest relations and travel plans. In 1982–83, he was General Manager of Lake Palace Hotel, Udaipur.


title: Arvind Singh Mewar

text: Mewar is married to Vijayaraj of Kutch, Gujarat, and they have three children: Bhargavi Kumari Mewar (m. Nagaraju Jinka of Kotri), Padmaja Kumari Mewar (m. Kush Singh Parmar of Santrampur) and Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar (m. Princess Nivritti of Balangir, Odisha).


title: Arvind Singh Mewar

text: There has been some controversy between branches of the family about the leadership of the House of Mewar and the subsequently the holder of the custodianship. The lines are between Arvind Singh on the one hand and Mahendra Singh on the other. In 2020, a court ruled that the estate shall be divided into 4 equal shares and allocated to Arvind, Mahendra, Yogeshwari and the deceased Maharana.


title: Manoj Kumar Pandey

text: Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey, PVC (25 June 1975 – 3 July 1999) was an officer of the Indian Army who was posthumously awarded India's highest military honour, the Param Vir Chakra, for his audacious courage and leadership during the Kargil War in 1999. An officer of the 1st battalion, 11 Gorkha Rifles (1/11 GR), he sacrificed his life for the nation in battle on Jubar Top of the Khalubar Hills in Batalik Sector of Kargil.


title: Manoj Kumar Pandey

text: Manoj was born on 25 June 1975 in Rudha village, in the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh. He was born to Gopi Chand Pandey, a small-town businessman living in Lucknow, and Mohini. He was eldest in his family. He was educated at Uttar Pradesh Sainik School, Lucknow and Rani Laxmi Bai Memorial Senior Secondary School. He had a keen interest in sports with boxing and body building in particular. He was adjudged the best cadet of junior division NCC of Uttar Pradesh directorate in 1990.


title: Manoj Kumar Pandey

text: Prior to his selection, during his Services Selection Board (SSB) interview, the interviewer asked him, "Why do you want to join the Army?" He immediately replied, "I want to win the Param Vir Chakra." Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey did win the country's highest gallantry honour but posthumously.


title: Manoj Kumar Pandey

text: He graduated from the National Defence Academy in 90th course and belonged to Mike Squadron (Mustangs). Pandey was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 1st battalion, 11 Gorkha Rifles on 7 June 1997.


title: Manoj Kumar Pandey

text: In early May, the intrusion in the Kargil sector was reported. The 1/11 Gorkha Rifles battalion had finished a one-and-a-half year tenure in the Siachen Glacier and was on-the-move to its peace-time location in Pune. The battalion was asked to move to the Batalik sector in Kargil. It was among the first units to be inducted into this sector. The unit, commanded by Colonel Lalit Rai, was assigned responsibility of the Jubar, Kukarthaam and Khalubar areas and their battalion headquarters was in Yeldor.


title: Manoj Kumar Pandey

text: Pandey, as part of the battalion, was involved in a series of boldly led attacks. He also took part in a series of actions which led to the capture of Jubar Top.


title: Manoj Kumar Pandey

text: In early July, 'B' Company of 1/11 GR was assigned the task to capture Khalubar top. Pandey was commanding a Platoon in this company. Quickly sizing up the situation, he killed two enemy personnel and destroyed the second position by killing two more.


title: Manoj Kumar Pandey

text: Although wounded in the shoulder and leg, he pressed on his solitary charge with serious determination, until he closed in on the first bunker. The two armies engaged in a ferocious, hand-to-hand combat. The troops charged at the enemy and fell upon them. Undaunted


title: Manoj Kumar Pandey

text: On the occasion of Independence Day 1999, a month after the war ended, the President of India approved the award of the Param Vir Chakra to Pandey and three others - Captain Vikram Batra, Rifleman Sanjay Kumar and Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav. His father, Gopichand Pandey, received the award from the President of India K. R. Narayanan during the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi on 26 January 2000.


title: Manoj Kumar Pandey

text: Pandey is one of the 21 individuals who have been decorated with India's highest military honour. As a PVC awardee, his statue is at the "Param Yodha Sthal" at the National War Memorial.


title: Kingston University

text: Kingston University London is a public research university located within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in South West London, England. Its roots go back to the Kingston Technical Institute, founded in 1899. It received university status in 1992, before which the institution was known as Kingston Polytechnic.


title: Kingston University

text: Kingston has around 17,000 students and a turnover of £192 million. It has four campuses situated in Kingston and Roehampton. The university specialises in the arts, design, fashion, science, engineering, and business and is organised into four faculties: Kingston School of Art, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences (which combines Kingston Business School and the School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences), Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education and Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment. The Kingston Business School is CNAA MBA degree approved. In 2017, the university won "The Guardian" University Award for teaching excellence. Kingston is a member of the European University Association, the Association of Commonwealth Universities and University Alliance group.


title: Kingston University

text: The University has been ranked in the UK's top 50 institutions by "The Guardian" in the last three years of the newspaper's annual rankings. In the most recent release, Kingston was rated top in London for fashion and textiles, and nursing and midwifery, while featuring in the top 10 nationally in five subjects.


title: Kingston University

text: The University's Town House building, which was opened in January 2020, has picked up two prestigious awards – The 2021 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize, given to the best new building in the UK, and the Mies van der Rohe architecture award for the best building in the EU in 2022.


title: Kingston University

text: In June 2021, Kingston launched its Future Skills campaign, highlighting the importance of skills for innovation and the vital role they play in driving a thriving UK economy. The results of their 2021 and 2022 surveys, conducted with support from YouGov and sampling more than 2,000 businesses and 1,000 students, demonstrated key attributes such as problem solving, critical thinking, communication, adaptability and creativity remain among the core skills most valued by employers.


title: Kingston University

text: Kingston was founded as Kingston Technical Institute in 1899, it offered courses in chemistry, electrical wiring, construction and nursing. In 1917 Gipsy Hill College for teacher training opened, a predecessor of Kingston University. In 1930 the Kingston School of Art separated from the Technical Institute, later to become Kingston College of Art in 1945. In 1946 Gipsy Hill College moved to Kingston Hill. In 1951, the first Penrhyn Road campus buildings opened. Kingston was recognised as a 'Regional College of Technology' by the Ministry of Education in 1957. In 1970, the College of Technology merged with the College of Art to become Kingston Polytechnic, offering 34 major courses, of which 17 were at degree level. In 1975, Kingston merged with the Gipsy Hill College of Education, incorporating the college's faculty into Kingston's Division of Educational Studies.


title: Kingston University

text: Kingston was granted university status under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. In 1993, Kingston opened the Roehampton Vale campus building and in 1995, Kingston acquired Dorich House.


title: Kingston University

text: This is the main university campus located close to Kingston town centre. Students based here study: Arts and Social Sciences, Civil Engineering, Computing and Information Systems and Mathematics, Earth Sciences and Geography, Statistics, Biosciences, Pharmacy, Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science, and Radiography. Development at this site has extended it to the Learning Resources Centre. In 2015, the Union of Kingston Students, moved into the main building. Penrhyn Road also houses the refurbished Fitness Centre.


title: Kingston University

text: Kingston University's Town House building was opened in January 2020 and is located on the Penrhyn Road campus. The six-storey building was the first by Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Gold Medal-winning firm Grafton Architects in the United Kingdom and is open to students, staff and the local community.


title: Kingston University

text: The building work was carried out by Hertfordshire-based Willmott Dixon. It features a three-floor academic library, archive, dance studios and a studio theatre. It incorporates a covered internal courtyard, two cafes and external balconies and walkways culminating in a rooftop garden with views across Kingston upon Thames and the River Thames.


title: Kingston University

text: Town House has been nominated for three awards, including in "The Guardian" University Awards, and a RIBA London Regional Award.


title: Kingston University

text: Kingston Hill mainly caters to Nursing (adult, child, mental health and learning disability), Education, Business, Music and Social Care. Before 1989, this campus was known as Gipsy Hill.


title: Kingston University

text: Located on Grange road, Knights Park campus is home to some of the students from Kingston School of Art (KSA) - architecture an art and design students. The campus is built on the northern banks of the Hogsmill River and opened in 1939.


title: Kingston University

text: A £29 million refurbishment of the Mill Street workshops, studios and the reception area was completed in March 2020 and includes a gallery, a social space and an art shop. The regeneration project was shortlisted for a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) London Regional Award.


title: Kingston University

text: The Roehampton Vale campus was opened in 1993 by Sir William Barlow, the president of the Royal Academy of Engineering. The site is located on Friars Avenue, on the outskirts of Kingston.


title: Kingston University

text: This campus is purpose-built and completely dedicated to the study of engineering (aerospace, automotive, motor vehicle and mechanical engineering).


title: Kingston University

text: Facilities on site include a wind tunnel, engineering workshops, a flight simulator,a range of vehicles, a Learjet 25 plan, several large 3D printers, plus automotive and aeronautical learning resources.


title: Kingston University

text: Former church converted into the Kingston Drama students' base, the Reg Bailey has two theatres with lighting and sound equipment, three rehearsal rooms and a costume room while its annexed Surrey Club is for Dance students. The Reg Bailey has been home to such alumni members as Ben Barnes, Sam Chan, Mandy Takhar, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Jessie Cave, Laura Harling and Trevor Eve.


title: Kingston University

text: The university's 55-acre sports ground houses twelve football pitches, two rugby pitches, three cricket squares, one American football pitch, one lacrosse pitch, two netball courts and three tennis courts.


title: Kingston University

text: Additional to the four main campuses is an administration building: Hind Court on London Road which was home to the office of the Vice-Chancellor until 2018 when they moved to Holmwood House.


title: Kingston University

text: Furthermore, art and design studies students from Kingston School of Art are based at River House, on the High Street in Kingston town centre.


title: Kingston University

text: Kingston School of Art (KSA) was established as part of Kingston Technical Institute founded 1899. The School of Art separated from the Technical College in 1930 and left Kingston Hall Road to move to Knights Park in 1939. It became Kingston College of Art in 1945 and merged back with the Technical College to form Kingston Polytechnic in 1970. The Polytechnic later became Kingston University in 1992, under which the school was known as the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) until 2017 when it reverted to its historic name.


title: Kingston University

text: Kingston School of Art delivers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of study across three schools:


title: Kingston University

text: The Faculty of Business and Social Sciences combines Kingston Business School and the School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences.


title: Kingston University

text: Kingston Business School (KBS) can be traced back to the 1960s. In 1985, the CNAA approved the school's Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree and the following year KBS moved to Kingston Hill Campus. The Business School is divided into four departments:


title: Kingston University

text: The Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education was founded in August 2022 and contains courses including nursing, midwifery, social work and teacher training education. The faculty also contains life sciences and chemistry and pharmacy courses, which were previously part of Kingston's former Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing – now the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment.


title: Kingston University

text: The new Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education was established after a formal partnership between Kingston University and St George's, University of London (SGUL) was mutually terminated in July 2022 after 26 years working together training the next generation of healthcare workers, social workers and teachers. The faculty is based at the University's Kingston Hill and Penrhyn Road campuses in Kingston upon Thames.


title: Kingston University

text: The Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment was founded in August 2022 and contains courses including mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering, computing, cyber security, quantity surveying and geography. The faculty is based at the University's Penrhyn Road and Roehampton Vale campuses.


title: Kingston University

text: The Stanley Picker Gallery is the Faculty's exhibition space which is now used to present a variety of research-based projects, fellowships and exhibitions. In 2003, the Stanley Picker Gallery gave birth to Transitstation, which was created/curated by Stanley Picker Fellow Dagmar Glausnitzer-Smith, and former gallery curator Charles Ryder. In 2003, the Director of Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Paul Stafford, converted a run-down public convenience in Kingston town centre into the Toilet Gallery.


title: Kingston University

text: Kingston University runs Dorich House Museum which houses a huge collection of sculptor Dora Gordine's work, and fine examples of Russian Imperial art and furniture. Dorich House is also used as meeting and conference venue.


title: Kingston University

text: "The Guardian" placed Kingston 45th out of 128 surveyed universities. "The Times/The Sunday Times Guide" placed it at no. 92 (Good University Guide, 2022). In 2018, Kingston was ranked 1st out of 121 institutions for its graphic design and product design courses by "The Guardian" in 2017. In 2017, Kingston University won "The Guardian" University Award for teaching excellence. Kingston is ranked as one of the top 40 universities in the UK by "The Guardian University Guide" 2020, ranked in the top 250 in the world for Business & Economics by the "Times Higher Education World University Rankings" 2019 and ranked in the top 140 Global MBA rank according to "QS World University Rankings" (2020)


title: Kingston University

text: The Union of Kingston Students (UKS), formerly Kingston University Students' Union (KUSU), and in the 1990s KUGOS (Kingston University Guild of Students') is a charitable organisation representing the student body and aiming to provide services and activities beneficial to the student experience. It is a student union in the meaning of the term given in the Education Act 1994, and whilst independent of the university is funded by a block grant from it.


title: Kingston University

text: The university has six halls of residence. Chancellors' and Walkden are based at the Kingston Hill campus. Middle Mill is adjacent to Knights Park campus, while Clayhill and Seething Wells are on opposite sides of Surbiton. Finally, there is Kingston Bridge House which is situated on the edge of Bushy Park at the Hampton Wick end of Kingston Bridge, London.


title: Kingston University

text: The university holds a number of links with institutions from around the world to share teaching and research and facilitate staff and student exchanges. Kingston has a number of international 'Study Abroad' or 'Exchange' partner institutions.


title: Kingston University

text: In 2008, the BBC obtained e-mails circulated within Kingston's School of Music, relating to the opinions of an external examiner moderating the BMus course. The messages showed that her final report caused considerable concern within the department. The examiner was persuaded to moderate her criticism following contact from a member of the university's staff. The e-mails also detailed a plan to replace her (at the end of her term) with a more experienced and broad-based external examiner, a process which Kingston stressed breaks no rules relating to the appointment of such examiners. In October 2008, Peter Williams, Chief Executive of the UK Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), presented the agency's findings to a Parliamentary Select Committee charged with investigating standards in British higher education. Following an investigation of the allegations by a former University staff member that undue pressure was applied to the School of Music's External Examiner, QAA upheld all charges of wrongdoing, as alleged.


title: Kingston University

text: In 2015, Prime Minister David Cameron named and shamed four British universities which gave platforms to allegedly 'extremist' speakers.


title: Kingston University

text: Kingston's Vice Chancellor Julius Weinberg defended his decision to allow controversial speakers in the name of free speech.


title: Kingston University

text: In 2008, an audio recording obtained by student media included two psychology lecturers asking students to inflate their graded opinions given as part of the National Student Survey. One member of staff was recorded as encouraging students to boost specific satisfaction scores, because "if Kingston comes down the bottom [of the league tables], then the bottom line is that nobody is going to want to employ you because they are going to think your degree is shit". In response, Vice-Chancellor Peter Scott confirmed that the recording was genuine but added that he believed that the incident was an isolated one. In July 2008, the Higher Education Funding Council of England removed the university's Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from the League Tables for the year as its sanction for having fraudulently manipulated the National Student Survey results.


title: Child neglect

text: A form of child abuse, child neglect is an act of caregivers (e.g., parents) that results in depriving a child of their basic needs, such as the failure to provide adequate supervision, health care, clothing, or housing, as well as other physical, emotional, social, educational, and safety needs. All societies have established that there are necessary behaviours a caregiver must provide for a child to develop physically, socially, and emotionally. Causes of neglect may result from several parenting problems including mental disorders, unplanned pregnancy, substance use disorder, unemployment, over employment, domestic violence, and, in special cases, poverty.


title: Child neglect

text: Child neglect depends on how a child and society perceive the caregiver's behaviour; it is not how parents believe they are behaving toward their child. Parental failure to provide for a child, when options are available, is different from failure to provide when options are not available. Poverty and lack of resources are often contributing factors and can prevent parents from meeting their children's needs when they otherwise would. The circumstances and intentionality must be examined before defining behaviour as neglectful.


title: Child neglect

text: Child neglect is the most frequent form of child abuse, with children born to young mothers at substantial risk for neglect. Neglected children are at risk of developing lifelong social, emotional and health problems, particularly if neglected before the age of two years.


title: Child neglect

text: Neglect is difficult to define since there are no clear, cross-cultural standards for desirable or minimally adequate child-rearing practices. Research shows that neglect often coexists with other forms of abuse and adversity. While neglect generally refers to the absence of parental care and the chronic failure to meet children's basic needs, defining those needs has not been straightforward. In "Working Together", the Department for Education and Skills (United Kingdom) defined neglect in 2006 as:


title: Child neglect

text: ...the persistent failure to meet a child's basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child's health or development. Neglect may occur during pregnancy as a result of maternal substance use disorders. Once a child is born, neglect may involve a parent or carer failing to provide adequate food, clothing and shelter (including exclusion from home or abandonment); protect a child from physical and emotional harm or danger; ensure adequate supervision (including the use of inadequate care-givers), or ensure access to appropriate medical care or treatment. It may also include neglect of, or unresponsiveness to, a child's basic emotional needs.


title: Child neglect

text: Child neglect is commonly defined as a failure by a child's caregiver to meet a child's physical, emotional, educational, or medical needs. Forms of child neglect include: Allowing the child to witness violence or severe abuse between parents or adults, ignoring, insulting, or threatening the child with violence, not providing the child with a safe environment and adult emotional support, and showing reckless disregard for the child's well-being.


title: Child neglect

text: The definition of child neglect is broad. There are no specific guidelines that determine when a child is being neglected; therefore, it is up to state government agencies and professional groups to determine what is considered neglect. In general, child neglect is considered the failure of parents or caregivers to meet the needs that are necessary for the mental, physical, and emotional development of a child.


title: Child neglect

text: Child neglect is one of the most common forms of child maltreatment, and it continues to be a serious problem for many children. Child neglect tremendously affects the physical development, mental development, and emotional development of a child causing long-term consequences, such as poor academic achievement, depression (mood), and personality disorders. These consequences also impact society, since it is more likely that children who suffered from child neglect will have substance use disorder problems and educational failure when they grow up.


title: Child neglect

text: Child neglect can also be described by degrees of severity and the responses considered warranted by communities and government agencies.


title: Child neglect

text: Children may be left at home alone, which can result in negative consequences. Being left at home alone can leave young people feeling scared, vulnerable and not knowing when their parents are going to return. The frequency and duration of being left at home alone may range from every evening to several days or even weeks at a time.


title: Child neglect

text: Also, young children may not be provided with a suitable amount of decent food to eat, which is another form of neglect. Children have reported being provided with mouldy food, not having any food in the house, or they were given an insufficient amount of food.


title: Child neglect

text: The causes of child neglect are complex and can be attributed to three different levels: an intrapersonal, an inter-personal/family, and a social/economic level. Although the causes of neglect are varied, studies suggest that, amongst other things, parental mental health problems, substance use, domestic violence, unemployment, and poverty are factors which increase the likelihood of neglect. Children that result from unintended pregnancies are more likely to suffer from abuse and neglect. They are also more likely to live in poverty. Neglectful families often experience a variety or a combination of adverse factors.