The parallels with our world are many, but here's just one: with its serialized presentation of the unexpected interconnections among all levels of society, its huge gallery of characters and caricatures, each one easily identified by a tic or motif, its broad urban canvas, its interest in institutions, its brooding atmosphere, "Little Dorrit" reminds you how much "The Wire" owes to Dickens.
"Harvesting Happiness Through Spoken Word" inter-woven with Sgt. Denoh Grear's "Pieces of PTSD" project is just one of several inspiring presentations that took place at the TEDxMalibu 2012: Living Out Loud = LOL event at the Malibu Jewish Center & Synagogue.
With more and more designers moving their shows out of the tents, where costs can exceed $500,000 for just one show, the rise of formal presentations displayed on static models or mannequins is inevitable.
Presentation to a doctor is just one aspect of the time taken to diagnose a haematological malignancy.
This was just one of many comments I heard after delivering my presentation at the Glazer/Kennedy Info Summit a while back.
Just one of this year's categories, the Ray Bradbury award for outstanding dramatic presentation, was won by a man, with Mad Max: Fury Road, written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris, taking that category.
In other presentations to the media, BAT sought to "present the message that tobacco smoke is just one of the sources of air pollution and a very insignificant one compared with other pollutants," the paper said, quoting from company documents.
The undercurrents may be dark but the presentation is for the most part wildly funny, with just one sustained exception.
Of note, 94 patients (30.5%) had no recorded diagnosis, which in most cases (69, 73.4%) was related to having had just one face-to-face contact with the staff (e.g. a single presentation to A&E).
