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Youngest child and daughter of Homer and Marge; sister of Bart and Lisa. Springfield Elementary School bus driver. Beneath the charming and funny exterior is a world full of disgust and moral destruction. She encourages Starr to do as much as she is comfortable with in terms of activism and speaking out. Mother of Selma and Patty Bouvier and Marge Simpson, Grandmother of Bart, Lisa, Maggie and Ling. Lisa, Starr's mother, is an invaluable source of support and care for her daughter throughout the novel. Janitor of Springfield Elementary School. Wife of Homer; mother of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Die beliebtesten Bedeutungen für Lisa sind „die Gottgeweihte“ und „mein Gott ist Fülle“. Adoptive mother of Ling. Lisa ist die Kurzform des Namens Elisabeth und geht daher auf die hebräischen Wörter „el“, was „Gott“ bedeutet und auf „saba“, was „der Schwur“ heißt, zurück. The creators originally intended many of these characters as one-time jokesters or for fulfilling needed functions in the town. List of recurring The Simpsons characters, Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish, $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling), Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield, "Flanders loses his faith and an inconsequential Simpsons tests ours", "The Simpsons Season 29 Episode 19 Review: Left Behind", The Simpsons Forever! A number of them have gained expanded roles and subsequently starred in their own episodes. 1 How to Obtain 2 Progression 2.1 Leveling 2.2 Ascensions 2.3 Constellations 3 Playable Characters 4 Upcoming Characters 5 Mentioned Characters 6 Non-Playable Characters 6.1 Manga-Only Characters 7 Navigation Characters can primarily be obtained by using Primogems to purchase Intertwined Fates or Acquaint Fates to perform Wishes (Gacha pulls). Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more! 1. Along with the Simpson family, The Simpsons includes a large array of characters: co … ; Bart Simpson, the 10-year-old son, who gets in trouble. passenden Namen in der Liste findet, kann die enthaltenen Namen durch leichte Veränderungen (Austausch einzener Buchstaben oder Silben) nach seinen Wünschen modifizieren. Homer J. Simpson, the father, who is overweight, lazy and works at a nuclear power plant and likes doughnuts:); Marge Simpson (née Bouvier), the mother, a housewife, who is very tolerant (understanding) of her family. The Simpson family's next door neighbor; owner of. Principal of Springfield Elementary School. Mentally ill owner of many cats. Chief Wiggum's wife; Ralph Wiggum's mother. One-eyebrowed baby. Kirk Van Houten's wife; Milhouse's mother. Student at Springfield Elementary School. Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee; one of Homer Simpson's friends. The following is a list of characters that have appeared in the television series The Batman, which ran from September 11, 2004, to March 22, 2008.The animation style bears a strong resemblance to that of Jackie Chan Adventures, since Jeff Matsuda was the chief character designer for both shows. Injured at the end of the. The fictional characters named Lisa below come from every kind of genre and medium, as this list includes movie characters named Lisa, TV characters named Lisa, and book characters named Lisa. Chinese name Lisa: what you see below is the Chinese name Lisa, composed of two characters. Lisa worries for the safety of her family and convinces Maverick that their family should move out of the Garden Heights neighborhood. Springfield Elementary School lunch lady. Laut Bill Schwab, der Charakter Designer, war Elsa vor dem Song "Lass jetzt los" sehr schüchtern und hat sich vor anderen versteckt. Der Name Lisa kommt aus dem Deutschen, hat aber einen hebräischen Ursprung. Owner of Herman's Military Antiques shop. Er gibt Hinweise auf Ihre inneren Kräfte und Entwicklungsziele. List of notable fictional characters whose name is Lisa, including photos when available. A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Continued, The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, The Simpsons Beyond Forever! Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee. Im Song entscheidet sie sich dazu, sie selbst zu sein und lässt damit die Vergangenheit hinter sich. Identical twins; Students at Springfield Elementary School. Lists about and ranking the best, worst, most interesting, and most surprising names of real people, normal and famous. Ihr Name wurde Ihnen nicht zufällig gegeben. The given name Lisa can be a short form of Elisabeth, Melissa or Elizabeth.In the United Kingdom, the name Lisa began to gain popularity during the 1960s, by 1974 it was the fifth most popular female name there, and a decade later it was the 14th most popular female name there.However, by 1996 it had fallen out of the top 100. Twin sister of Patty and older sister of Marge. Student at Springfield Elementary School. Wann hat Lisa Namenstag? Chairman of Itchy & Scratchy International. TV show clown host, original name Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofski. First name is revealed to be Kyle in ". Luann Van Houten's ex-boyfriend; American Gladiator. If you want to save a party member from death, you will have to sacrifice the strength of your character. Former billionaire and Marge's prom date. According to creator Matt Groening, the show adopted the concept of a large supporting cast from the Canadian sketch comedy show Second City Television.[1]. Lisa Carter. In this page you're going to read everything about your Chinese name Lisa in 4 sections: Section 1: Image and text you can magnify; Section 2: Meaning of each Chinese character; Section 3: Traditional version; Section 4: Famous person with the same name. Owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Only main, supporting, and recurring characters are listed. ; Lisa Simpson, the 8-year-old daughter, who is very smart. Husband of Marge; father of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. This category collects all characters featured in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and related media. Despite Marvin Monroe's character being retired in season 7, he continued to appear in the opening sequence until season 20. Lead singer of the Christian Rock band Kovenant. The main episode characters, the Simpson family, are listed first; all other characters are listed in alphabetical order. Along with the Simpson family, The Simpsons includes a large array of characters: co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople, local celebrities, and as well as fictional characters. Trying to find out more about an anime or manga character? Der Name offenbart alles was bedeutsam und mit Ihrem Charakter verbunden ist und welche Schwerpunkte Ihr Leben prägen. Twin sister of Selma and older sister of Marge. Homer Simpson's father; Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson's grandfather. Ihr Haar sieht wilder aus, ihr Kleid ist magisch und sie ist endlich frei, aber auch ganz allein. Oldest child and only son of Homer and Marge; brother of Lisa and Maggie. Springfield Elementary's school psychologist. Whether you're looking for comedy characters named Lisa or drama characters named Lisa, this list will have what you're looking for. Arch-nemesis of Maggie Simpson. The fictional characters named Lisa below come from every kind of genre and medium, as this list includes movie characters named Lisa, TV characters named Lisa, and book characters named Lisa. You might even find some notable video game characters whose name is Lisa below as well. The given name Lisa can be a short form of Elisabeth, Melissa or Elizabeth.In the United Kingdom, the name Lisa began to gain popularity during the 1960s, by 1974 it was the fifth most popular female name there, and a decade later it was the 14th most popular female name there.However, by 1996 it had fallen out of the top 100. A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Still Continued, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_The_Simpsons_characters&oldid=990989258, Lists of characters in American television animation by series, Lists of American sitcom television characters, Lists of characters in American television animation, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Minister of the First Church of Springfield. Die Figuren der Zeichentrickserie Die Simpsons setzen sich zum Großteil aus einem zwar breiten, aber überschaubaren Spektrum aus „Springfield-Bewohnern“ zusammen, die so in verschiedenen Folgen verschiedene Funktionen und Beziehungen zueinander einnehmen können.Das detaillierte Zusammentragen von Informationen über die einzelnen Figuren, die zum festen Inventar von … For other recurring characters, see List of recurring The Simpsons characters. Grampa's closest neighbor at the Retirement Castle. President of Costington's Department Store. List RulesVote up your favorite fictional Lisa. Bart Simpson's teacher at Springfield Elementary School (until season 25), and Ned Flanders wife (Seasons 23-25, when the character is revealed to have died). Estranged mother of Homer Simpson and wife of Abe Simpson. Springfield Elementary School's music teacher. Professional boxer, a caricature of Mike Tyson. These choices permanently effect the game play. Players will learn what kind of person they are by being FORCED to make choices. Middle child and eldest daughter of Homer and Marge; sister of Bart and Maggie. Bart Simpson's best friend; Student at Springfield Elementary School. Lisa is a quirky side-scrolling RPG set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Incompetent medical doctor. You might even find some notable video game characters whose name is Lisa below as well. This page was last edited on 27 November 2020, at 17:46. SECTION 1: IMAGE AND TEXT. Milhouse Van Houten's father; factory worker. Despite Maude Flanders dying in season 11, she continued to appear in the opening sequence until season 20. Name revealed as Eleanor Abernathy in "See Homer Run". Despite Bleeding Gums Murphy dying in season 6, he continued to appear in the opening sequence until season 20. The Simpson family. Get the details on MyAnimeList, the largest online anime and manga database in the world! Lisa Simpson's teacher at Springfield Elementary School.
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Ebola Already in the USA, Across Mexican Border, Doctors Fear: UPDATED Aug. 5
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UPDATED August 5 (2:30 AM EST) — In New York City, Mt. Sinai Hospital is testing an American who visited West Africa for possible Ebola infection, displaying symptoms of Ebola, ABC News and Fox News are now reporting on August 4.
From March 1918 to January 1919, a virulent strain of ordinary flu (influenza) spread in a pandemic of three waves throughout the United States, and killed an estimated 675,000 Americans, while the same flu spreading worldwide killed an estimated 30-50 million between 1918 and 1919.
Today, politically-correct leaders have learned nothing, but place public image above public health. Today’s medical and political leaders are more interested in keeping people calm than keeping them safe.
Government documents leaked from the Customs and Border Patrol, as reported by Bretibart, show “Among the significant revelations are that individuals from nations currently suffering from the world’s largest Ebola outbreak have been caught attempting to sneak across the porous U.S. border into the interior of the United States. At least 71 individuals from the three nations affected by the current Ebola outbreak have either turned themselves in or been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S. by U.S. authorities between January 2014 and July 2014.”
In West Africa, Ebola has already broken out of containment and is spreading into major African cities, as reported by NewsMax in “WHO [World Health Organization]: Ebola Spreading Too Fast, ‘Catastrophic'”. “CONAKRY, Guinea — An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned as presidents from the affected countries met Friday in Guinea’s capital.” CBS News is reportinga doctor in the Liberian capital of Monrovia “who spoke to CBS News on condition of confidentiality, said the disease is spinning out of control in Africa partly because it is extremely difficult to contain it in a sprawling, congested city center.” (Emphasis added.)
NewsMax further reported: “Randy Schoepp, chief of diagnostics at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, which is running the only lab in Liberia testing Ebola samples, said (emphasis added):
“The virus is getting to large, dense, city areas [in Western Africa]. We’re now getting samples (to test) from all over.”
But he said he thinks “we’re only seeing a small portion of the cases out there,” partly because many drivers are scared to transport vials of blood that may contain Ebola to the lab.”
As reported by Agence France Press (AFP), Nigerian authorities said Monday that a second doctor in the sprawling megacity of Lagos has contracted Ebola. This is significant because movement of the disease out of rural pockets into major cities dramatically transforms the potential for a break-out into a rapidly-expanding pandemic.
AFP continued: “The confirmation that a fourth doctor in the region had developed Ebola came Monday as fear and anger about the dead being left unburied in Liberia’s capital Monrovia brought protesters into the streets there. Meanwhile, Sierra Leone’s president said that the regional epidemic threatened the ‘very essence’ of the nation. … The latest doctor to be infected had attended to Patrick Sawyer, who worked for Liberia’s finance ministry and contracted the virus from his sister before travelling to Lagos for a meeting of west African officials. Nigeria’s Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told journalists that 70 other people believed to have come into contact with Sawyer, who has also died, were being monitored.”
Dr. Jane Orient — DC Clothesline reports — one of Arizona’s top physicians as well as other researchers have been told by Border Patrol informants that as many as 100,000 migrants from unknown countries have been allowed into the United States under the same provisions that President Obama is presently admitting so-called “unaccompanied minors.” Many of these people come from the same region of the world as the uncontained outbreak of Ebola. As Dr. Orient said in her interview on The Common Sense Show, on June 30, 2014, “It is not a matter of if Ebola comes into the United States, but when.”
In a 2012 scientific study reported in Nature in 2012, the most serious strain Ebola Zaire was proven to travel without contact with any bodily fluids Ebola Zaire jumped through the air from infected piglets to macaque monkeys in a proven experimental context. One should recall that the virus originated in monkeys and jumped to humans. “All it takes is one cough, one sneeze, one drop of saliva, and the virus is loose in one of the main transportation centers of the U.S.,” journalist Paul Craig Roberts wrote.
Contact with bodily fluids was not required for transmission of the infection in the Reston incident. On October 4, 1989, Ebola-infected monkeys from the Philippines (a crab-eating type of macaque) were imported as laboratory animals into Reston, Virginia, only 22 miles from The White House populated business center straddling major commuting routes straight into the Nation’s Capitol. “The Ebola Reston virus jumped quickly from room to room… Ebola apparently drifted through the building’s air-handling ducts.” Ileana Johnson reports.
Two (2) of the 100 monkeys arrived dead in their crates when the Ebola-infected animals arrived at the monkey house called the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit operated by Hazelton Research Products, a division of Corning, Inc. Within 6 weeks, 29 more died. It took nearly 7 weeks for an intern Thomas Geisbert to discover that the cause was Ebola — in fact, a new Ebola Reston, a mutated strain of Ebola Zaire. Two monkey handlers got sick, one had a heart attack and another one was sent to the Fairfax Hospital with flu like symptoms and vomiting.
Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, 2014 Ellis Island Medal of Honor winner, and Past Executive Director of The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons explains concerns that at least some illegal aliens who have already come across the US-Mexican border could also be infected with Ebola alongside possible Tuberculosis (TB), chicken pox, etc., and the Obama Administration could mis-categorize those cases as only Tuberculosis (TB). Dr. Vliet’s medical and educational websites are www.HerPlace.com, and www.InternationalHealthStrategiesLtd.com.
The chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO), Zack Taylor reported to DC Clothesline that West African illegal immigrants are presently coming into the U.S. through Mexico. These West Africans have been apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley sector in the last few years. Some of these groups speak Spanish in order to infiltrate into the United States posing as Central American immigrants. Mr. Taylor has stated that West Africans are using the porous southern border to illegally enter the USA, but leaves it to the medical professionals to determine the likelihood of them carrying Ebola.
Furthermore, the discovery of hundreds of dead bodies strewn across the desert leading across Mexico into the United States and just across our border raises further questions about exactly how those would-be border-crossers died before reaching their destination. (In some cases, the causes are clear such as violence, but in many cases not.)
In the United States, some medical professionals conclude that Ebola cases have so far been quarantined, but the underlying policy is leaving an unacceptable risk that further infected people will slip through the border undetected or infect others before being contained. A refusal to change the underlying policy is risking a pandemic.
For a couple of decades, Ebola has simmered in very small, rural areas in Africa. It has been kept isolated and in small numbers, aided partly by the 60 – 90% mortality rate and relatively rapid development of disease. Tribal and rural values also hindered the spread. Even now, foreign doctors are being met with young men from villages armed with knives and clubs. The doctors are warned away, with the explanation: “Wherever those people have passed, the communities have been hit by illness.” They don’t understand that the disease is only diagnosed, not spread, by the doctors. The New York Times reports: “Villagers flee at the sight of a Red Cross truck. When a Westerner passes, villagers cry out, “Ebola, Ebola!” and run away.
But once the Ebola disease reaches more-modern cities, with mass transit, a catastrophic pandemic could spread quickly around the world. During past epidemics, humans did not have the capacity to travel significantly more rapidly than the development of deadly disease. Never before has a serious epidemic broken out when humans can move around the planet faster than the symptoms of disease can be noticed. And our modern mode of travel — unlike ships or trains or covered wagons — heavily concentrate infected people for hours at a time with other humans traveling from widely diverse points of origin to widely diverse destinations. Thus, modern travel creates a mixing bowl capable of spinning disease around the globe at an astonishing potential rate.
NewsMax continues: “Over the last weeks, there has been a significant surge in the epidemic – the number of cases has increased dramatically in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and the disease has spread to many more villages and towns,” the organization said in a statement. “After a lull in new cases in Guinea, there has been a resurgence in infections and deaths in the past week. At least 729 people have died since cases first emerged in March: 339 in Guinea, 233 in Sierra Leone, 156 in Liberia and one in Nigeria.”
Was it necessary to bring the Ebola patients to America?
Dr. Bob Arnot, an expert on Ebola, who has treated Ebola patients, said on Fox’s Judge Jeanine Show that it is not. He also pointed out that he personally witnessed two doctors die of Ebola after minor contact with patients. Watch the video of his explanation here:
One doctor consulted for this article pointed out that government policy does not permit doctors or other medical personnel to quarantine AIDS patients, and often not even to notify people in contact with AIDS patients of the infection. This might be considered to place these events in context.
Recall that during past mass migrations to the USA, arrivals were sorted on Ellis Island precisely so that those whose healthy status could not be confirmed were isolated in the dormitories on Ellis Island until any danger had passed. Today’s medical threats are now more serious yet the safeguards less protective. For these diseases, Ellis Island would be too close to large U.S. populations yet also a more secure quarantine.
But in sharp contrast, the respected news website DC Clothesline reports “The U.S. Is Quietly Establishing Ebola Quarantine Centers” (July 29, 2014), first reminding us that: “Fatality rates can reach 90% and the incubation period is 2 to 21 days. THERE IS NO VACCINE OR CURE (CDC).” And “Ebola hemorrhagic fever broke out in West Africa in March, and is totally out of control as one of the most deadly illnesses has crossed into seven African countries. The illness causes fever, headache, and internal and external bleeding. It is transmitted person to person through body fluids, and has up to a 90% mortality rate.” (NewsMax quotes medical authorities as observing a 60% rate in recent cases.)
The behavior of the Obama Administration when faced with damaging failures — such as the “Fast and Furious” gun-running fiasco and Benghazi — is to instinctively cover up their policy and administrative failures, even going to extreme measures to immediately spin elaborate diversions and cover stories.
DC Clothesline further reports: “Presently, we are shipping potentially disease ridden populations to every major metropolitan area in the United States. The illegal immigrants normally spend about 24-72 hours in detention and are released through the use of tax-supported public and private transportation and are subsequently delivered all over the country. Local officials, attempting to find housing for these illegal immigrants, are making used of closed schools and abandoned buildings. This places our local communities in direct contact with the immigrant population which will increase the rate of the transmissibility of these diseases and viruses. Further, as these illegal immigrants are landed in our international airports, they are having transmissible disease type contact with regular travelers who will become potential carriers to their points of destination.”
And DC Clothesline also reports: “I spoke with a nurse, afraid of losing her job for revealing secretive health information, and she told me on Sunday that select personnel in a Phoenix area hospital received a confidential memo detailing the symptoms of Ebola. A reader told me upon being treated in a Washington DC emergency room, that she saw a sign on the wall listing the symptoms of Ebola. Even if the CDC and state and county health organizations have not yet publicly expressed concern and issued alerts, there are some officials who taking this seriously enough to spread the word to some of our hospitals.”
KVIA.com, an ABC affiliate, is reporting that El Paso, Texas has also been chosen as a “quarantine station”:
The Centers for Disease Control has designated El Paso as one of 20 quarantine stations for the ebola virus.
The Sun City is part of a comprehensive system designed to prevent the spread of the disease in the United States.
A different doctor with decades of experience as a trauma physician confirmed today to this author that the early signs of Tuberculosis (TB) and Ebola are nearly identical.
Therefore, the allegations are plausible, the third doctor confirms, that the Obama Administration is putting illegal aliens infected with Ebola under quarantine and calling them TB patients.
The allegations are that the Ebola patients are under lock-down. In fact, the Obama Administration has already confirmed that one facility housing recent border-crossers is in quarantine — but saying it is only due to chicken pox. The Last Refuge blog analyzes a Washington Times story: “However, a little more research into the Artesia, New Mexico, Detainment Center and you can find out a week prior a little-known CDC/DHS inspection found there were 89 (eighty-nine) cases of Tuberculosis identified in the exact same facility.” Clearly, if there were 89 cases of TB, as reported by the Current Argus News in New Mexico, the closure would not be announced as being for chicken pox, but for the 89 cases of TB — unless the government is deliberately trying to deceive.
The third doctor consulted by this author explains that that is extremely improbable. Chicken pox is not deadly. While chicken pox can be a serious infection for weakened patients like the elderly and young children, particularly those who lack proper medical care, there is little danger of chicken pox escaping into the pre-existing U.S. population.
Chicken pox is already widely present among U.S. citizens and residents. Most living in the U.S.A. have already had chicken pox as children or have already been exposed without developing into a serious outbreak. Therefore, most U.S. citizens and residents are already immune, having developed a natural immunity from exposure to the disease. Moreover, if U.S. citizens and residents came down with chicken pox, the U.S. medical system would be able to take very good care of them in most cases.
Therefore, it seems highly improbable that one would lock down an immigrant facility to keep chicken pox from escaping out into the U.S. population. Those inside the immigrant facility would be at far greater risk than those outside.
Locking down an immigrant facility would be much better explained by a much-more serious illness outbreak that the Obama Administration is unwilling to admit for what it is, using chicken pox as an excuse.
For those religiously minded, the horrifying nature of the Ebola disease may be seen as a judgement on the world, if it continues to spread.
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Emil Kaneti August 3, 2014, 3:49 am
What rubbish and crap.
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Alex August 3, 2014, 1:20 pm
Interesting…but too much contradiction. TB & Ebola have different symptoms…Ebola is physically devastating & rapid demise. TB is marginally inconvenient for months. If trying to purposefully infect US citizens…why set up quarantine stations? A ruse? Definitely the porous borders allow illegals from several different countries to bring in many diseases and illnesses. This article trying to link a TB coverup to Ebola doesn’t make any sense.
Jonathan Moseley August 3, 2014, 6:46 pm
Actually, Tubercolosis and Ebola have nearly identical symptoms in their early stages.
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Phillip Sanderson October 1, 2014, 8:26 am
Is it possible that the ebola outbreaks in Mexico and South America have been casued by the people we are fighting in Iraq. infect people then send them across the Mexican border if true ebola could be seen in every large city within months if not sooner. Think of what a single pint of blood from an infected person could do if dispersed into the air in crowded areas of our cities.
Dana Allen October 1, 2014, 12:12 pm
Philip, indeed it is possible, West Africa has a lot of Muslims, with the Nigerian terrorist group that kidnapped the girls being an example of the terrorist wing of Islam. Such things have been done for centuries, they used to catapult bodies of sick people into castles.
willster October 12, 2014, 1:21 pm
I find is extremely odd to the inth’ that they brought anyone here for Ebola treatment. I also find it odd that the USA now seems to be base camp 1 for treating Ebola. Seems to me someone wanted all this to happen.
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It appears that the Reverend Al Sharpton and the Cleveland office of the “National Action Network” will ask NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to cancel the August 3rd Hall of Fame Game pitting the Colts against the Redskins in Canton’s Fawcett Stadium.
The cancellation request comes from allegations of misconduct in the Canton Police Department and the fact that newly elected Mayor William J. Healy has not responded to NAN’s previous allegations of the department. Now in defense of Mayor Healy he has only been on the job for roughly 2 and half months.
This doesn’t seem to matter to Sharpton or Richard Jones who is the Cleveland president of NAN based in Solon, Ohio.
“Over the last few years, the National Action Network has received numerous complaints regarding police misconduct in the Canton Police Department. Despite the intervention of (the) Reverend Al Sharpton and a host of broken promises by the city leaders, the situation has not improved,” Jones wrote in a letter to the media.
Andy Hearman who is the Mayor’s communications director says “We have a meeting scheduled for Thursday morning with Richard Jones and (Canton) Police Chief Dean McKimm here at City Hall, he also went on to say that the organization’s request to cancel the game came as” quite a suprise”.
It is also being reported that there was a meeting scheduled in February but Mr. Jones cancelled that meeting. “We want to address these alleged situations and we hope that Jones will not cancel Thursday’s meeting,” Herman said Tuesday.
Jones stated that NAN will “publish the contact information for Roger Goodell, Gene Upshaw, Troy Vincent and every African-American player in the NFL and ask that our brothers and sisters around the world call, fax and bombard these men with the simple request that the NFL hold the city of Canton to the same standard that it held Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones, Chris Henry, Terry ‘Tank’ Johnson and Michael Vick too.”
Jones states that the NFL is 75 percent African-American.
Let me see now Mr. Sharpton and Mr. Jones you want an entity (NFL) that has nothing to do with the local government to not bring their millions of dollars to an already poor city that has lost hundreds and hundreds of jobs. That will definitley help the crime situation and the poverty level of Canton, that is just another genius idea.
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The 13th Council of the Asian Fisheries Society (AFS) held its 56th Council Meeting on 08 December 2020 with the AFS President, Prof. Alice Joan G. Ferrer (University of the Philippines Visayas) presiding.
Shared during the meeting are a number of accomplishments despite a challenging year: co-publication project of Asian Fisheries Science (journal of the Asian Fisheries Society; SCOPUS/SCIMAGO indexed) and the FAO, completion in attaching DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to all papers in the journal issues starting 2017, increasing number of paper submissions, and the big leap in the Cite Score of the journal. The Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section (GAFS) of the AFS is also wrapping up the big project titled Dialogues in Gender and Coastal Aquaculture: Gender and the Seaweed Farming Value Chain funded by SWEDBIO and is preparing for a new project with World Fish.
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Posted on January 16, 2020 by Mike Glyer
I think the title is going to be longer than today’s Scroll. It’sbeen a busy day!
(1) YOUR EYEBALLS HAVE BEEN SPARED. Foz Meadows saw it soyou don’t have to — “TomHooper’s Cats: A Study In Vogon Poetry”.
I’m not putting a spoiler tag on this. It’s fucking Cats. Get a grip.
I saw Cats today. Voluntarily. On purpose. It’s important you know that I wasn’t coerced in any way, nor was the friend who accompanied me. Of our own free will, being of sound mind and body, we exchanged real human money for the experience of seeing Tom Hooper’s Cats on the big screen, in the company of other real human strangers. Not that our session was packed – aside from the two of us, there were only five other people in attendance, all older to middle-aged women – but the two ladies sitting near us not only cried during Jennifer Hudson’s bifurcated rendition of Memory (more of which shortly), but applauded during the credits. Their happy reactions, audible in the theatre’s yawning silence, added a further layer of unreality to what was already a surreal and vaguely disturbing experience, but once we emerged in the aftermath, stunned and blinking like newborn animals, their enjoyment helped us cobble together a theory about who, exactly, Cats is for – if such a film can truly be said to be for anyone….
(2) CHATTERJEE Q&A. Joseph Hurtgen recently interviewed Indian sffauthor Rimi Chatterjee for Rapid Transmission. Born in Belfast, UnitedKingdom and now teaching and writing in India, “Chatterjee offers economic andcultural perspectives that Westerners need to hear,” says Hurtgen. “The wonderof science fiction is that science and human conflict are universal languages.By embracing non-Western culture and non-Western SF, we discover more aboutourselves.” “RimiChatterjee: Love and Knowledge and Yellow Karma”.
RT: I read recently that William Gibson will look at the news, realize the book he’s working on is already outdated, and then revise accordingly. One particularly arresting intervention was the destruction of the World Trade centers, which he decided to include in his book Pattern Recognition–published 2003, though he was writing it in 2001. Does the pace of our 24-hour news cycle with its grim depiction of a world headed to WWIII and continent wide fires ever cause you to revise your stories?
RC: Mostly it’s the other way round: the universe treads on my heels. For instance a lot of the story of Bitch Wars is set in Malaysia in a fictional place called KL City (which has a slum called Climate Town where climate refugees or Climies live). So I was researching the 1MDB scandal for background, and the next day I open YouTube and Hasan Minhaj has done an episode of Patriot Act on Jho Low, Goldman Sachs and the whole sorry mess. I’m like: dude o_O.
(3) PEACOCK STREAMING. “All Your Favorite Stars Are Coming to NBC’s StreamingService Soon” – GQ fills you in. We’ll excerpt the part that’sgenre —
…The other series that’s based on an established IP also has a very loyal, even more niche audience is The Adventure Zone. Based on a podcast of the same name from the McElroy Brothers, who also host the comedy podcast My Brother, My Brother, and Me, The Adventure Zone is a comedy fantasy adventure using the rules of Dungeons & Dragons. There is already a comic book adaptation of the series.
“The Adventure Zone is a side-splitting and heart-filled fantasy animated comedy series that follows an unlikely, poorly equipped trio and their beleaguered Dungeon Master as they reluctantly embark on a quest to save their world,” reads the official synopsis.
(4) BETTER THAN A BOOK BOMB. In the Hindustan Times:“Bookstorefails to sell books, Neil Gaiman seeks Twitter’s help. This is how theyoblige”.
Two days back, on January 15, Petersfield Bookshop took to Twitter to share an image and a sad incident. “Not a single book sold today… ?0.00… We think this maybe the first time ever,” the store wrote. “We know its miserable out but if you’d like to help us out please find our Abebooks offering below, all at 25% off at the moment,” they added. Along with the post, they also shared pictures of the empty bookstore.
The bookstore’s tweet captured people’s attention when fantasy and science fiction author Neil Gaiman retweeted it. In the caption, he urged Twitter to come together and do something good. “In these dark days it’s wonderful to see Twitter doing something good!” wrote Gaiman.
People answered the call and orders came flooding in from different corners of the world. In fact, the store ended up receiving ?1,000 worth of orders overnight with many waiting to purchase more. The store also shared a tweet to give an update on the situation.
(5) FAST START. BBC welcomes us to “Meetthe NASA intern who discovered a new planet on his third day”. And notjust a planet, but one orbiting two stars, as in Star Wars.
As far as impressing your potential new boss goes, discovering a planet on day three of your internship at NASA is up there.
That’s what happened to 17-year-old Wolf Cukier while helping out at the space agency in the United States.
He was checking images from its super-strength satellite when he noticed something strange.
It turned out to be a new planet, 1,300 light years away from Earth. News just confirmed by NASA.
(6) TODAY IN HISTORY.
January 16, 1963 — Walt Disney’s Son Of Flubber premiered. Yes, it’s SF. Comedy SF we grant you but SF none-the-less.?Sequel to the Disney science fiction comedy film The Absent-Minded Professor, it starred ?Fred MacMurray of My Three Sons fame. It was directed by Robert Stevenson. A colorized version would be released in 1997. ?It was a box office success earning back three times what it cost to produce, but critics didn’t like nearly as much as they liked?The Absent-Minded Professor. Reviewers currently at?Rotten Tomatoes give it a 86% rating.?
January 16, 1995 ?— Star Trek: Voyager premiered on UPN. ?It would last for seven years and one hundred and seventy-two episodes, making it the longest running Trek series to date. Starring a very large cast that all of all you know by heart by now. It’s interesting that it would never make the final Hugo ballot for Best Dramatic Presentation, the only Trek show to date not to so. It rates very high at Rotten Tomatoes, garnering a mid-seventies rating from critics and viewers alike.?
January 16, 2015 — On Syfy, the Twelve Monkeys series debuted. It was by created by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, and it riffs loosely off Gilliam’s film and the original French short film Gilliam based his film on, La Jetée . We are not going to detail the cast as the four-season run lasting forty-seven episodes saw significant cast changes. Reception for the most part, excepting Gilliam, was positive. Ratings at Rotten Tomatoes are over 90% but we caution that less than a hundred individuals have expressed their opinion during its four-year run.?
(7) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS.
Born January 16, 1887 — John Hamilton. He’s no doubt remembered best for his role as Perry White in the Fifties Adventures of Superman series. He also was in the Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe serial as Professor Gordon, and I see he played G.F. Hillman in the Forties Captain America serial film.?(Died 1958.)
Born January 16, 1905 — Festus Pragnell. Ok, he’s here not because he had all that a distinguished a career as a writer or illustrator, but because of the charming story one fan left us of his encounter with him which you can read here. Festus himself wrote but three novels (The Green Man of Kilsona, The Green Man of Graypec, and The Terror from Timorkal), plus the wrote a series of stories about Don Hargreaves’ adventures on Mars. Be prepared to pay dearly if you want to read him as he’s not made it into the digital age and exists mostly in the original Amazing Stories only. (Died 1977.)
Born January 16, 1948 — John Carpenter, 72. My favorite films by him??Big Trouble in Little China and?Escape from New York. ?His gems include the Halloween franchise, The Thing, Starman?(simply wonderful), ?The Philadelphia Experiment,?Ghosts of Mars and many other films. What do you consider him to have done that you like, or don’t like fir that matter? I’m not fond of Escape from L.A. as I keep comparing to the stellar popcorn film that the previous Escape film is.
Born January 16, 1970 — Garth Ennis, 50. Comic writer who’s no doubt best known for Preacher which he did with illustrator Steve Dillon, and his stellar nine-year run on the Punisher franchise. I’m very fond of his work on Judge Dredd which is extensive, and his time spent scripting Etrigan the Demon For DC back in the mid Nineties.?
Born January 16, 1974 — Kate Moss, 46. Yes she’s done SF. To be precise Black Adder which we discussed a bit earlier. She played Maid Marian in “Blackadder Back & Forth” in which as IMDB puts it “At a New Millennium Eve party, Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly.” You can watch it here.
Born January 16, 1976 — Eva Habermann, ?44. She is best known for playing the role of Zev Bellringer on Lexx. She was succeeded in her role by Xenia Seeberg. Ok, I’ll confess that I’ve never seen the series which I know exists in both R and not so R versions. Who here has seen it in either form? She was also?Ens. Johanna Pressler in?Star Command, a pilot that wasn’t to be a series that was written by Melinda Snodgrass. And she had a role in the?Code Name: Eternity series as Dr. Rosalind Steiner.
(8) SPECIALSHROOMS. [Item by Mike Kennedy.] At first glance, it doeskinda sound like mushrooms were involved. A very special kind ofmushrooms.
Futurism: “NASA Wants to Grow a Moon Base Out of Mushrooms”
NASA scientists are exploring a peculiar strategy for building a Moon base and other off-world structures: growing them onsite out of living mushrooms.
The space agency first considered the possibility of fungal space habitats in 2018, but now scientists are conducting tests to determine how well mycelia fungus might grow in Martian soil, Space.com reports. If the research pans out, it would allow future astronauts to construct off-world settlements without needing to carry expensive, heavy building materials with them all the way from Earth — a game-changer in the plan to colonize space….
PS: Technically the structures would not be built outof living mushrooms… The shrooms would take nutrients from the Lunar (orMartian) soil, then the biomass would be heat treated to convert it intobuilding material.
(9) THE THIGH BONE CONNECTS TO THE INTERNET BONE. Slate’s“Future Tense” features “TheEthical Dilemmas Surrounding 3D-Printed Human Bones”.
Ten years ago, it wasn’t possible for most people to use 3D technology to print authentic copies of human bones. Today, using a 3D printer and digital scans of actual bones, it is possible to create unlimited numbers of replica bones—each curve and break and tiny imperfection intact—relatively inexpensively. The technology is increasingly allowing researchers to build repositories of bone data, which they can use to improve medical procedures, map how humans have evolved, and even help show a courtroom how someone died.
But the proliferation of faux bones also poses an ethical dilemma—and one that, prior to the advent of accessible 3D printing, was mostly limited to museum collections containing skeletons of dubious provenance. Laws governing how real human remains of any kind may be obtained and used for research, after all—as well as whether individuals can buy and sell such remains— are already uneven worldwide. Add to that the new ability to traffic in digital data representing these remains, and the ethical minefield becomes infinitely more fraught. “When someone downloads these skulls and reconstructs them,” says Ericka L’Abbé, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, “it becomes their data, their property.”
(10) FUTURE HISTORY HAPPENS. James Davis Nicoll got Tor.comreaders excited about “5Thrilling Tales of Deadly Nuclear Reactors”. Or maybe it was him nukingHeinlein.
“Blowups Happen” is set in Robert A. Heinlein’s Future History. Rising demand for energy justifies the construction of a cutting-edge nuclear reactor. There is little leeway between normal operation and atomic explodageddon, which puts a lot of pressure on the power plant’s operators. A work environment that requires flawless performances—lest a moment’s inattention blow a state off the map—results in significant mental health challenges for the workforce. How to keep the workers focused on their task without breaking them in the process?
This story dates from what we might think of as the Folsom point era of nuclear energy… No, wait, that’s unfair to Folsom points, which are sophisticated hi-tech, really. This was the era when the atomic version of fire-hardened spear points was still on the drawing board. Hence Heinlein can be forgiven for getting essentially every detail about nuclear power wrong. What wasn’t clear to me was how a power plant composed of pure atomic explodium got licensed in the first place. Perhaps it was because this nonchalant attitude towards safety infuses the whole of the Future History. Just ask Rhysling.
(11) CLOSE DOWN. “Twitter apologises for letting ads target neo-Nazis andbigots”.
Twitter has apologised for allowing adverts to be micro-targeted at certain users such as neo-Nazis, homophobes and other hate groups.
The BBC discovered the issue and that prompted the tech firm to act.
Our investigation found it possible to target users who had shown an interest in keywords including “transphobic”, “white supremacists” and “anti-gay”.
Twitter allows ads to be directed at users who have posted about or searched for specific topics.
But the firm has now said it is sorry for failing to exclude discriminatory terms.
Anti-hate charities had raised concerns that the US tech company’s advertising platform could have been used to spread intolerance.
(12) WHO’S NOT BOND. “JamesBond: Barbara Broccoli says character ‘will remain male'” – BBC isshaken but not stirred.
The producer of the James Bond films has ruled out making the character female after Daniel Craig’s departure.
No Time To Die, which will be released in April, marks Craig’s final outing as 007, and his replacement has not yet been announced.
“James Bond can be of any colour, but he is male,” producer Barbara Broccoli told Variety.
“I believe we should be creating new characters for women – strong female characters.
“I’m not particularly interested in taking a male character and having a woman play it. I think women are far more interesting than that.”
The forthcoming Bond film will see actress Lashana Lynch play a female 00 agent after Craig’s Bond has left active service.
Lynch was seen in character for the first time in the trailer, reigniting the conversation about whether James Bond himself could be re-cast as a woman for the next film.
Broccoli oversees the franchise with her half-brother Michael G Wilson. “For better or worse, we are the custodians of this character,” she said. “We take that responsibility seriously.”
(13) NOT SO PRIMITIVE. We keep finding we underestimated past versions of humans;now the BBC reports that “Neanderthals‘dived in the ocean’ for shellfish”
New data suggests that our evolutionary cousins the Neanderthals may have been diving under the ocean for clams.
It adds to mounting evidence that the old picture of these anciClam shells that wash up on beaches can be distinguished from those that are still live when they’re gathered.ent people as brutish and unimaginative is wrong.
Until now, there had been little clear evidence that Neanderthals were swimmers.
But a team of researchers who analysed shells from a cave in Italy said that some must have been gathered from the seafloor by Neanderthals.
The findings have been published in the journal Plos One.
The Neanderthals living at Grotta dei Moscerini in the Latium region around 90,000 years ago were shaping the clam shells into sharp tools.
Paolo Villa, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and colleagues, analysed 171 such tools, which all came from a local species of mollusc called the smooth clam (Callista chione). The tools were excavated by archaeologists at the end of the 1940s.
Clam shells that wash up on beaches can be distinguished from those that are still live when they’re gathered.
[Thanks to Contrarius, John King Tarpinian, Nina, Martin MorseWooster, Chip Hitchcock, Andrew Porter, Mike Kennedy, N., and JJ for some ofthese stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day DanielDern.]
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Superman Comic Strip Debuted
By Cat Eldridge: On this day in 1939, the Supermancomic strip appeared for readers for the very first time. Let metell about it as it’s a fascinating story. It began on this date, and aseparate Sunday strip was added on November 5, 1939. Both of the strips rancontinuously without an interruption until May 1966. In 1941, the McClureSyndicate which controlled its distribution had placed the strip in hundreds ofnewspapers. The Syndicate says that some three hundred papers with twentymillion readers had access to the strip at its peak.
Setting aside the numbers,let’s turn to who created it. Joe Shuster was the initial artist but within afew years, he had turned over those duties to his bullpen including Paul Cassidy,Leo Neowik and JerrySiegel who were among the first and Bill Finger would be the last to doit before it ceased in the Sixties.
Siegel wrote them beforehe was drafted in 1943. Whitney Ellsworth, who had begun working on the stripin 1941, did them for four years. Jack Schiff began his writing on the strip in1942 and worked on the strip off and on until 1962. Alvin Schwartz firststarted writing on it in 1944, and he continued on the strip more or less until1958. Finger and Sebel finished off writing it in the last several years.
The strip had a number offirsts including the telephone booth costume change, the appearanceof a bald Lex Luthor, and the appearance of Mr. Mxyzptlk.
Superman: The CompleteComic Strips 1939-1966 is anunofficial name for the strips now in exquisite hardcover collections publishedby The Library of American Comics.
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Christopher Tolkien (1924-2020)
Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R. Tolkien and the last of the Inklings, died January 15 at the age of 95 the New York Times reports.
For nearly 50 years after his father passed away in 1973, Christophercontinued to edit and publish his father’s unfinished manuscripts, givingJ.R.R. Tolkien’s literary output the benefit of two lifetimes’ work. Christopherassembled from pieces the epic Middle-Earth predecessor to Lord of the Rings,melding them into The Silmarillion (1977). Inall, he edited or oversaw the publication of two dozen editions of his father’sworks, many of which became international best sellers.
Alongthe way he produced 12 volumes of The History of Middle-earth, acompilation of drafts, fragments, rewrites, marginal notes and other writings thatshowed the evolution of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.
Christopher is also credited with creating the acclaimed 1954 map of Middle-earth.
DuringWorld War II, when Christopher was serving with the Royal Air Force in SouthAfrica, his father mailed him parts of The Lord of the Rings for commentand editing.
After the war he studied English at Trinity College,Oxford, taking his BA in1949 and his B.Litta few years later. He becamea lecturer in Old and Middle English as well as Old Icelandic at the Universityof Oxford.
In 1945, he became the youngest member of the Inklings, a circle of Oxford writers and scholars started in the Thirties by C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and others, who met weekly in Lewis’s college rooms. Christopher was told in a letter from his father that the Inklings proposed to consider him “a permanent member, with right of entry and what not quite independent of my presence or otherwise.”
Dr. Diana Glyer, author of twobooks about the Inklings, including TheCompany They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, mournedhis passing:
I must refer now to all the Inklings in past tense; the last of them has died. I met Christopher Tolkien, talked with him, corresponded from time to time. I have devoted my life to studying the Inklings. Today, they have slipped from solid, real, and tangible into the past, beyond reach. I no longer have the privilege of studying what is, only what was. Everything has changed.
J.R.R. Tolkien biographer John Garth ended his Facebook announcementof Christopher’s death with this fitting quote from the end of Lord of theRings:
“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
Christopher is survived by his secondwife, Baillie, his sister Priscilla, and three children, Simon,Adam and Rachel.
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Glasgow 2024 Weekend Meeting
[The Glasgow 2024 team had their initial team meetings and social gatherings in Glasgow this past weekend, and James Bacon has sent us a thorough write-up.]
By James Bacon: It was lovely to be back inGlasgow, amongst fans, looking at the Scottish Exhibition Campus (formerly theSECC) and being welcomed and to the city which held two Worldconspreviously.
It issuch a wonderful city and I was impressed to find that there are now tours ofGlasgow Central Station going underground, overground and so forth in properhard hats (glasgowcentraltours.co.uk).I paused to look around the Central Hotel which has changed so much since theMoscow 2017 bid with their incredible amount of vodkas tempting fans to supporttheir efforts in 1995. The view from the bar in the hotel which has hostedEastercons, Albacon of course, and those parties in 1995 looking out over thebusy station is lovely.
Imade my way to the new Forbidden Planet, in its new premises on Sauchiehall St,it is very large, and I was stunned by how many new comics they stocked. It wasa vast amount. The shop is spread over two floors, and I was pleasantly engagedby some staff, which was helpful. Also on my list to get to were Thistle Books,Caledonia Books, the Voltaire & Rousseau Bookshop and City Comics.All four not far north from the area of the SEC.
The walk from the city to the SEC has changed, The Anderston‘bridge to nowhere’ Footbridge which I spent a lot of time contemplatingin 1995, in its unexpected glory leading to the sky, and of course the IainBanks Espedair Street reference. The area around the SEC has developed mightilyalso, The RadisonRed hotel, now one of six hotels in the immediate area (and two more are beingbuilt.) has a fabulous interior. All of the 174rooms and public spaces have wallpaper designed by legendary Glasgow comicartist Frank Quitely, depicting scenes in a beautiful style.
EstherMacCallum-Stewart had announced at Novacon in 2015 that a team wereinvestigating Worldcon venues in the UK, concurrently with the practical visitsand analysis, presentations at Eastercon Smofcons and Novacons, fans were asked— Where would they like to go? — and Glasgow was overwhelmingly the mostpopular choice of city. The selection process came to fruition in 2019 when itwas announced at Eastercon that the SEC was the venue that the team would lookto bid for the 2024 Worldcon. At Dublin 2019 Lewis Hou and the Science Ceilidh(https://www.scienceceilidh.com/) had stolen the show, and it was a bold move to bring over the band fromScotland, which along with their parties and continual table work, saw over 600people pre-supporting the Glasgow 2024 bid.
Itwas nice to walk into the SEC, to contemplate the venue. Mike, it’s a feckinglifetime ago since I was an Area Head here in Glasgow, at a Worldcon, but it isa great venue and it feels so nice to be here. The SEC welcomed the bid andhosted these meetings. Signage throughout the venue was adorned with the 2024Logo and Space Field, both by Sara Felix.
Wewere joined by Jennifer Roddie of the SEC and Aileen Crawford of the GlasgowConvention Bureau. Aileen has worked with us on the previous Worldcons atGlasgow and as there have been several changes to the venue since it was lastused it was a good opportunity for everyone to see it for the first time or with fresh eyes.
Thetour was lovely but there have been many changes, technology is now much moreprevalent, the area on the mezzanine has been developed into a meeting academy,with what was a restaurant now a very nice 400-seater room and soft furnishingsin the common area. Space is of course a fair question. Worldcons are popular.London, Helsinki, and Dublin have demonstrated that there is more interest fromfans.
It istoo early to make assumptions of what exactly space will be used for, but whatis interesting is that Mark Meenan had already spent considerable time on thematter, thinking about new programme space, and shared the concept of having a1,500-seater Second Stage in Hall 2, a 400-seater programme space in Hall1 and the addition of M1 with its 400 seats and taking ideas that worked well,such as the giant Gaming Marquee that held the successful gaming at Loncon 3.With eight hotels now in the immediate vicinity, there are also so many moreoptions on smaller workshop type spaces, and of course the Armadillo, which hashad a refresh since I was last in it, will be used the full five days. I admitI found all this very exciting… and we even found a throne for Esther.
Thevision for the convention was then worked through, teams using word associationand short tasks to come up with ideas and thoughts, which were presented back.Marguerite Smith did a very good job of getting everyone thinking andcontemplating what they want and hope for and with a quick and energisedapproach we were soon vectoring in on tangible elements and tasks. Timeline,budget, and recruitment were all important items on the agenda for the weekend,and Marguerite took the lead and managed the 20+ people present.
MegMacDonald and Matt Calvert were announced as the leads for the Bid Promotionsteam, beautifully choreographed just in time to question the task-based ideasthat came from the Promotions Brainstorming sessions, again managed byMarguerite, but here the new leads got to engage directly and explore new ideasand established strategies.
Welcomingnew fans was something that was recognised as being very important, and it wasnot lost on me that in 2013, some seven years ago, Esther walked in to a Loncon3 staff meeting a new volunteer herself, and was in charge of multiple areas bythe time the convention occurred, went on to be a successful Division Head forDublin and is now Bid Chair. Although Esther did go to Conspiracy in 1987,possibly by accident. Marguerite was part of the Valley Forge NASFiC bid, andin early 2016 joined the Dublin team as a volunteer, was soon promoted toDeputy Division head and then onto DH for promotions. Other fans in the room,who had only volunteered for Dublin were now looking at more senior roles. Itwas amazing to think that one of the participants in the room, had been ayoungster at YAFA* in 2005 and was now making a very important contribution.The doors are open, and fans are coming in. There were also Albacon, Eastercon,Satellite, Worldcon staff and chairs all adding experience as well as thosebringing skills from outside fandom to the conversations.
Itwas good fun there was a dynamism and energy to the weekend that was reallynice. Esther has sought out and found fans who are so excited with the prospectof a Glasgow Worldcon and keen to help and it was good to be brought togetherto chat and catch up.
Bothevenings, drinking and chatting took place. The bar was rammed on Saturday, andBowmore 12 year old proved very popular. A cracking good weekend. I’ll beback up for a comic book swap meet event in March and then Satellite 7 in May.(https://seven.satellitex.org.uk/)
*YoungAdult Fun Activities at Interaction the 2005 Glasgow Worldcon.
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Clarkesworld’s Statement About Fall Story
Neil Clarke, Publisher of Clarkesworld, today posted in “About the Story by Isabel Fall” an extended statement dealing with the response to the work, especially on Twitter. (See overview: “Clarkesworld Removes Isabel Fall Story”.)
The concluding paragraphs are:
…Going forward, we will bear these lessons in mind, and hopefully we will become better at fulfilling our responsibilities to our authors, and to our readers.
In the meantime I offer my sincere apologies to those who were hurt by the story or the ensuing storms. While our lives have likely been quite different, I do understand what it is like to be bullied and harassed for an extended period of time. I can empathize, even if I can’t fully understand life in your shoes.
I have also privately apologized to Isabel. She has chosen to sign over her payment for this story to Trans Lifeline, “a non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis—for the trans community, by the trans community.” They have been a vital resource for her and inspired by her actions, I have decided to match the gift.
Through the course of these events, I’ve encountered many deeply personal stories from readers and authors. I’d like to thank those people for sharing and providing many of us with further opportunities to learn from their experiences. Aside from getting to know Isabel, that has been the high point of this experience. I wish you all the best and appreciate you taking the time to share….
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Wandering Through the Public Domain #26
A regular exploration of public domain genre work availablethrough ProjectGutenberg, Internet Archive,and Librivox.
By Colleen McMahon:
Itook a hiatus for the holiday season but I’m back and ready to dig into somemore of the public domain treasures out there for fans of old-time sciencefiction, fantasy, and horror.
Sincethe new Robert Downey Jr. version of Dolittle is coming out this week, Ithought it might be a good time to take a look at Hugh Lofting, the originatorof the Dr. Dolittle character and stories.
HughLofting(1886-1947) didn’t set out to be a writer. Born in Berkshire, England, hestudied civil engineering at MIT and London Polytechnic and spent several yearstraveling the world doing engineering work. When World War I began, he enlistedand served in France for several years before being wounded and invalided out.
Thecharacter of Doctor Dolittle, a Victorian physician who can talk to animals andministers to them instead of humans, originated in the trenches during the war.Lofting later explained that his actual experiences were either too horrible ortoo dull to include in letters home to his children, so he began writingstories about Dolittle and illustrating them with pen-and-ink line drawingsinstead.
Hecollected those stories into his first book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle,which was published in 1920 to immediate acclaim. He wrote seven more Dolittlebooks between 1920 and 1928, when he tried to end the series by sending DoctorDolittle off planet in Doctor Dolittle in the Moon.
Populardemand led him to write four more Dolittle books in the 1930s and 1940s, andtwo additional collections were published posthumously in the 1950s. He alsowrote several works for children that were not in the Dolittle series, and abook-length anti-war poem called Victory for the Slain, published in1942.
Thefirst few Doctor Dolittle books are in the public domain now and are availableat Project Gutenberg:
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920)
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922)
Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office (1923)
DoctorDolittle’s Circus waspublished in 1924 and thus entered the public domain in the United States onJanuary 1 of this year. It will likely be released by Project Gutenberg in thenext few months.
Anon-Dolittle picture book, The Story ofMrs. Tubbs, wasalso published in 1923 and is on Internet Archive.
Librivox has multiple versions of TheStory of Doctor Dolittle and The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle,including dramatic readings (where different volunteers voice the variouscharacters) of both. Two versions of Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office are inprogress, a solo version and a dramatic reading, and will be released in thenext few months.
ClarkAshton Smith(1893-1961) came up in the birthday lists this week. He’s best remembered nowas a fiction writer — one of the “Big Three” of the early years of WeirdTales (the other two being H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard), but hebegan his writing career as a poet.
ProjectGutenberg has two volumes of poetry by Clark Ashton Smith:
The Star-Treader, and Other Poems (Librivox)
Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose (Librivox)
Ebonyand Crystalcontains a long blank-verse poem called “The Hashish Eater, or the Apocalypseof Evil”. This poem caught Lovecraft’s attention and his fan letter to Smithinitiated years of correspondence and collaboration.
Thispoem and nineteen other works are included in a recent Librivox release, Lovecraft’sInfluences and Favorites. The compilation was inspired by Lovecraft’s 1927 essay,“Supernatural Horror in Literature”, and collects the stories and poemsLovecraft mentions, from Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” to “Seaton’s Aunt”by Walter de la Mare.
RonGoulart(1933- ) shares his birthday with Clark Ashton Smith, and is represented atProject Gutenberg by three short stories:
Ignatz (Worlds of If, March 1960)
Shandy (Worlds of If, October 1958)
Subject to Change (Galaxy, December 1960)
Noneof these have been recorded for Librivox yet.
RecentLibrivox releases:
TheClockwork Man by E.V.Odle (1890-1942)
In the future, people will be fitted with clockwork devices in theirheads which, among other things, allows them to travel through time. Well,it seems one of these devices has frizzed-out, and a Clockwork man appearsin the middle of a cricket match in 1923. The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odleis believed to be the first instance of a human-machine cyborg appearingin literature.
The Kingof Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
This is a 1924 fantasy novel by Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany, whichbecame public domain in January 2020. It is widely recognized as one ofthe most acclaimed works in all of fantasy literature. Highly influentialupon the fantasy genre as a whole, the novel was particularly formative inthe subgenres of “fairytale fantasy” and “highfantasy”. And yet, it deals always with the truth: the power of love,the allure of nature, the yearning for contentment, the desire for fame,the quest for immortality, and the lure and the fear of magic. Arthur C.Clarke said this novel helped cement Dunsany as “one of the greatestwriters of this century”.
Crossings:A Fairy Play by Walterde la Mare (1873-1956)
Under the terms of a will, the Wildersham children have to relocatefrom the family house in the city to “Crossings” in the country,and to spend the first fortnight alone fending for themselves in thehouse. The children encounter interesting country neighbors, includingghosts and fairies. Or are they dreaming? Walter De La Mare was a poet,and we have a number of his poems available at Librivox. This is his onlyplay.
ThePhantom Death and Other Stories by William Clark Russell (1844-1911)
This is a book of remarkable nautical ghost and horror stories writtenby William Clark Russell in 1893. The stories are for the most part set onships and bring the reader on board for ghostly nights, wonderful sights,and strange occurrences.
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(1) BIG CHOICES. “TheBig Idea: Kameron Hurley” at Whatever.
…When I began writing my Worldbreaker Saga back in 2012, which begins with the novel The Mirror Empire, I too was obsessed with this idea of two choices: the light and the dark. I was writing fantasy, after all! While my protagonists might be morally messy early on, I always knew I was headed for a showdown where they had two choices: good or evil. Genocidal or self-sacrificing.
But it was a false choice.
And it literally took me years to realize this.
At some level I must have understood I was setting up a false choice as I finished the second volume, Empire Ascendant, and began the grueling process of tying everything up in the third and final book, The Broken Heavens. Emotionally, I was rebelling against my own embrace of these false choices, because no matter how many times I tried to get myself to write the ending I had in mind at the beginning of the series, it just never felt… right.
(2) BASE RUMORS. CoNZealand has extended the deadline forentering the Hugo base design competition until January 31.
If you were thinking of entering the competition to design bases for the 2020 Hugo Awards and 1945 Retro Hugos, you’re in luck. The deadline for entries has been extended until 31st January 2020 (from the original deadline of 17th January).
Read more about the design contest.
Read more about the Hugo Awards.
(3) SCREAM QUIETLY. Paramount dropped atrailer for A Quiet Place II.
Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
(4) THEY HAVE ISSUES. Daily Grail spotlights fantasyhistory in “HiddenJewels in ‘The Garden of Orchids’: The Esoteric Content of an Early FantasyMagazine”.
For a long time Weird Tales (probably best known for short stories by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert. E. Howard, and later Ray Bradbury) was seen as the first fantastical magazine, publishing science fiction, weird fiction and horror. That history has been revised over the past few years. Der Orchideengarten (in English, The Garden of Orchids) was a Munich-based magazine first published in 1919, predating the better known American magazine by several years, and is now acknowledged as the first fantasy magazine (archived digitally here).
Only published until 1921 Der Orchideengarten is somewhat overshadowed by its better known, and more mainstream, Munich-based contemporaries, Jugend and Simplissicimus, yet the breadth of stories and unsettling art is worth looking at.
(5) WOLFMAN. One of the many cameos in CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths “Part 5” was the real Marv Wolfman, who co-wrote the original Crisis on Infinite Earths mini-series which was published by DC Comics in 1985-1986. CBR.com has the dialog, from when Marv, playing a fan, stops Supergirl and The Flash to ask for their autographs.
“Wait, you know both of us?” Kara asks. “And it’s normal to see us together?” Barry adds.
“Well, normally, you’d also have Green Arrow and a Legend or two,” Wolfman explains. “Last year, even Batwoman joined in.” He points to the folder. “Would you make that out to Marv? Thank you!”
“You’re welcome,” Barry says as he scribbles. “Marv, as far as you know, how long have Supergirl and I and all the rest of us been working together on this Earth?”
“Uh, since forever!” Wolfman answers.
(6) LAST TRUMP. The LA Times’ Mark Swed reviews anopera: “KingArthur meets Trump and Superman in Long Beach “.
…Meanwhile, Long Beach Opera, as ever priding itself with radically rethinking repertory, has done a full refashioning of the first great “King Arthur” opera (there aren’t many, but Chausson’s “Le Roi Arthus” is a neglected beauty). Arthur here becomes the comic book delusional fantasy of a pudgy, narcissistic, emigrant-phobic politico requiring psychiatric treatment.
…Arthur King is a patient at Camelot O’Neil, a behavioral residence mental health unit. His sexy nurse is Gwen E. Veer. His buddy is another patient, Lance E. Lott. Doc Oswald runs the dubious joint.
Mitisek then takes apart the opera, adapting Purcell’s music to fit new circumstances and a completely new theatrical structure. His cutup rearranges, revises, reorders and reduces Purcell’s score. The occasional Dryden line is retained, but much of the sung text is new. Five acts become a single uninterrupted one under two hours.
Our schlumpy, Trumpian Arthur thinks he can save the world from aliens. He can be ridiculously pompous, Drydenesque even. He can also be sympathetically vulnerable.
(7) MAISEL MASHUP. Marvel’sMrs. Maisel: Rachel Brosnahan Enters theMarvel Universe on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
January 15, 2010 — Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold‘s?The Lovely Bones novel premiered. ?It starred starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, and Saoirse Ronan. The screenplay was by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson. Although Ronan and Tucci were praised for their performances, it received mixed reviews from critics. It has a 32% rating at Rotten Tomatoes by reviewers.
January 15, 2008 – File 770 blog makes its first post. Happy birthday to us!
Born January 15, 1879 — Ernest ?Thesiger. He’s here because of his performance as Doctor Septimus Pretorius in James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein. He had a major role in Hitchcock’s not completed and now lost Number 13 (or Mrs. Peabody) which is even genre adjacent. He was also in The Ghoul which was an early Boris Karloff film. And he continued to show up in SFF films such as The Ghosts of Berkeley Square where he was Dr. Cruickshank of Psychical Research Society. (Died 1961.)
Born January 15, 1913 — Lloyd Bridges. Though I’m reasonably sure?Secret Agent X-9, a?1945 serial, isn’t genre,?I’m listing it anyways because I’m impressed with it — it was based on a?comic strip by Dashiell Hammett, Leslie Charteris and others. He’s the Pilot?Col. Floyd Graham in?Rocketship X-M,?Dr. Doug Standish In Around the World Under the Sea, Aramis in?The Fifth Musketeer, Clifford Sterling in?Honey, I Blew Up the Kid and?Grandfather in?Peter and the Wolf. His television appearances are too many to list here. (Died 1998.)
Born January 15, 1926 — Maria Schell. German actress who had roles in Superman and The Martian Chronicles. I’m reasonably sure that the Village of The Damned was her only other SFF film appearance.? (Died 2005.)
Born January 15, 1927 — Phyllis Coates, 93. Lois Lane on The Adventures of Superman series for the first season. She’s also in Superman and the Mole Men which preceded the series. And she was in Fifties horror film Teenage Frankenstein. Wiki claims she had an appearance on Lois & Clark but IMDB does not show one.?
Born January 15, 1928 — Joanne Linville, 92. Best remembered I’d say for being the unnamed Romulnan Commander Spock gets involved with on “The Enterprise Incident”. (Vulcan’s Heart?by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, calls her Liviana Charvanek.) ?She also starred in the Twilight Zone‘s “The Passersby” episode, and she starred in “I Kiss Your Shadow” which was the final episode of the Bus Stop series. The episode was based on the short story by Robert Bloch who wrote the script for it. This story is in The Early Fears Collection.?
Born January 15, 1935 — Robert Silverberg, 85. ?I know the first thing I read by him was?The Stochastic Man?a very long time ago. After that I’ve read all of the?Majipoor series which is quite enjoyable, and I know I’ve read a lot of his short fiction down the years.?So what should I have read by him that I haven’t??
Born January 15, 1944 — Christopher Stasheff. A unique blending I’d say of fantasy and SF with a large if sometimes excessive dollop of humor. His best-known novels are his?Warlock in Spite of Himself series which I’ve read some of years ago. Who here has read has?Starship Troupers series? It sounds potentially interesting.?(Died 2018.)
Born January 15, 1945 — Ron Bounds, 75. One of the founders of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society in the Sixties. He co-chaired Discon 2, was a member of both the Baltimore in ’67 and Washington in ’77 bid committees.? He chaired Loscon 2.? He published the?Quinine, a one-shot APA. He was President of the Great Wall of China SF, Marching & Chop Suey Society which is both a cool name and a great undertaking as well.
(10) BINTI FOR TV. Author Nnedi Okorafor will co-write thescript alongside Stacy Osei-Kuffour (Watchmen) for Media Res.ShelfAwareness reports –
Hulu has given a script order for an adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s Hugo and Nebula award-winning?Binti?trilogy. The?Hollywood Reporter?noted that Stacy Osei-Kuffour (Watchmen,?PEN15,?The Morning Show) will co-write the script with Okorafor. The studio is Media Res, the banner launched by former HBO drama head Michael Ellenberg, who will executive produce alongside Osei-Kuffour and Okorafor.
(11) GENERAL WITHOUT TROOPS. NPR finds it’s lonelya the top:“Commander Sworn In As First Member Of New Space Force”.
The first newly created branch of the U.S. armed forces in more than seven decades now has its first official member.
Air Force Gen. John “Jay” Raymond was sworn in Tuesday as chief of Space Operations. It’s the top post in what since late last month is the Pentagon’s seventh military branch, the United States Space Force.
…But at the moment, there are no Space Force troops to command. Most of the 16,000 officers, airmen and civilians who Pentagon officials expect to comprise the new service branch in the next few months would likely be Air Force personnel drawn from the U.S. Space Command, which is to be the Space Force’s operational component.
(12) LIVE LONG AND PROSPER. “Secretsof ‘1,000-year-old trees’ unlocked” – BBC shares the key.
Scientists have discovered the secret of how the ginkgo tree can live for more than 1,000 years.
A study found the tree makes protective chemicals that fend off diseases and drought.
And, unlike many other plants, its genes are not programmed to trigger inexorable decline when its youth is over.
The ginkgo can be found in parks and gardens across the world, but is on the brink of extinction in the wild.
“The secret is maintaining a really healthy defence system and being a species that does not have a pre-determined senescence (ageing) programme,” said Richard Dixon of the University of North Texas, Denton.
“As ginkgo trees age, they show no evidence of weakening their ability to defend themselves from stresses.”
(13) RIGHT TO THE POINT. James Davis Nicoll tells Tor.com readers about “Five Sword-Wielding Women in SFF”.
Steel by Carrie Vaughn
In Carrie Vaughn’s Steel, fourth-rate fencer Jill Archer tumbles off her boat during a family vacation near Nassau. She hits the water in the 21st century; she is pulled out during the Golden Age of Piracy. Luckily for the teen, Captain Marjory Cooper offers Jill the choice between signing on as a pirate or remaining a prisoner. (Less savoury fates are not on offer.) She chooses piracy, a life that involves a lot more deck swabbing than Basil Rathbone movies would suggest. Jill’s astounding temporal displacement makes her of considerable interest to scallywag pirate Edmund Blane. Jill will need better than fourth-place sword skills to survive Blane and find her way home.
(14) TWO RESNICK TRIBUTES. One of them was a young writer longer ago than the other, but they both admire how Mike Resnick treated them then.
George R.R. Martin: “RIP Mike”.
I don’t recall when I first met Mike, but it was a long, long time ago, back in the 1970s when both of us were still living in Chicago.? I was a young writer and he was a somewhat older, somewhat more established writer.? There were a lot of young writers in the Chicago area in those days, along with three more seasoned pros, Gene Wolfe, Algis Budrys, and Mike.?? What impressed me at the time… and still impresses me, all these years later… was how willing all three of them were to offer their advice, encouragements, and help to aspiring neo-pros like me.?? Each of them in his own way epitomized what this genre and this community were all about back then.? Paying forward, in Heinlein’s phrase.
And no one paid it forward more than Mike Resnick.
Michelle Sagara West: “MikeResnick and me, or Laura Resnick is my sister”.
…Michelle is shy.
People who had met me in real life found this hilar?ious. I?think one of them was certain I?was play-acting. I?wasn’t, of course. I?was terri?fied. I?could stand outside a?door that lead to a?publisher party and hyper?ven?ti?late.
Resnick?—?I?called him Resnick, not Mike; I?don’t remember why?—?under?stood that fear. He talked about being nine?teen and terri?fied at his first conven?tion. And I?knew that if I?went to a?conven?tion that Mike Resnick was at, I’d know at least one person. I’d have one friend.
(15) TO DYE FOR. “Oreo Is Releasing Pink Easter Egg Cookies This Year And They’re Honestly Adorable” – that’s Delish’s opinion, anyway.
From the looks of it, these are actually Golden Oreos that have been dyed pink and made to look like decorated Easter eggs. As @ThreeSnackateers pointed out, these aren’t any fancy flavor, they’re just festive and fun.
Pink Easter Egg Oreo Cookies Are Cominghttps://t.co/Cgc6Wigyyn
— Scotty K (@ScottyKOnair) January 14, 2020
And maybe you can wash them down with one of these — “JellyBelly Is Releasing Seltzer And It Comes In 8 Sweet Flavors”.
Just because the name suggests this will be a super sugary drink (based off the beloved jelly beans, of course) doesn’t mean that’s true. These seltzers are going to have zero calories and zero sweeteners and will only use two ingredients.
The cans will begin to stock shelves next week, and the drink comes in eight of the iconic Jelly Belly jelly bean flavors. You can take your pick between French vanilla, lemon lime, orange sherbet, pi?a colada, pink grapefruit, tangerine, very cherry, or watermelon. Each flavor is made only with carbonated water and natural flavors, so you can have a taste of the candy jar with zero of the cals.
Jelly Belly in the seltzer game… Not the alcohol game tho https://t.co/Nm6ZAxQvjs pic.twitter.com/XMQub5WfQo
— Wild 104.9 (@wild1049) January 14, 2020
(16) HOPING TO LAUNCH. When you’re rich enough, you can get AV Club to treat your singles ad as news: “Rich man taking applications for moon wife”.
Yusaku Maezawa is a Japanese billionaire and the founder of online fashion retailer Zozotown—according to Forbes, as of today, he’s worth $2 billion…
Let me be perfectly clear: the Bachelor references are there for fun, and technically, Maezawa is looking for a female “life partner,” not a moon wife, but other than that, nothing else in this story is a joke. These are facts: Yusaku Maezawa, a billionaire, is taking applications from women (aged 20 and up) who want to be his life partner. One of the things that life partner will do with Maezawa is go to the moon, and that’s not just a minor perk or something, it is his major selling point.
(17) JEOPARDY! Andrew Porter was tuned in when a Jeopardy! contestant missed another chance:
Answer: This Netflix show is a chilling reworking of Shirley Jackson;s gothic horror tale.
Wrong question: “What is ‘The Lottery.'”
Correct question: What is ‘The Haunting of Hill House’?”
And somebody else took a header over this —
Answer: One of England’s most beloved tunes is the one by Hubert Parry names for this faraway Mideast city.
Bizarrely wrong question: “What is Van Diemon’s Land?”
(18) VIDEO OF THE DAY. In the sci-fi short film ‘Regulation'” on YouTube, Ryan Patch describes a dystopian future where children are forced to wear “happy patches” to fight depression.
[Thanks to Cat Eldridge, JJ, Mike Kennedy, Martin Morse Wooster,John King Tarpinian, Chip Hitchcock, Michael Toman, and Andrew Porter for someof these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day JackLint.]
Posted in Pixel Scroll | Tagged Andrew Porter, Binti, Carrie Vaughn, CoNZealand, DC Comics, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Flash, George R. R. Martin, James Davis Nicoll, Jeopardy!, Kameron Hurley, Marv Wolfman, Michelle Sagara West, Mike Resnick, Nnedi Okorafor, Space Force, Supergirl | 36 Replies
Clarkesworld Removes
Isabel Fall’s Story
Isabel Fall’s short story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” in the January Clarkesworld, the subject of intense discussion on Twitter this week, was removed from the magazine’s website today at the author’s request.
Editor Neil Clarke tweeted:
Isabel Fall's story has been removed from our website at the author's request. A more detailed official statement will follow soon, but I'm still recovering from surgery, so please allow a little more time for that.
— clarkesworld (@clarkesworld) January 15, 2020
The story remains availableto read at the Wayback Machine.
This roundup illustrates the sources of the discussionwithin the sff community, and points to some of the more frequently cross-referencedconversations.
IS THE STORY TRANSPHOBIC?
D Franklin challenges numerous passages as transphobic. Thread starts here.
All of that is straight out of the Reddit transphobes' playbook and it doesn't stop being offensive when done with an attempt at a knowing wink. It's still deeply unpleasant.
— D Franklin (@D_Libris) January 13, 2020
D Franklin agrees the story should have been pulled. Thread starts here.
I'm glad Clarkesworld agreed to pull Isabel Fall's story. I hope she continues to write and gets better editorial support in future.
I also hope cis people, next time, take a goddamn fucking seat: on all sides!
Another critic of the story as transphobic makes a detailed casefor that viewpoint here.
I read the "I identify as an attack helicopter" story and it sucks. It's transphobic, yes, but it sucks in a way that leads me to think the entire point of the story is transphobic messaging. A more detailed breakdown follows.
— Publick Universal Effbian (@EffInvictus) January 11, 2020
Lynn E. O’Connacht communicates that “there’s a pretty big difference between “this story makes me uncomfortable’ and ‘this story caused me harm’”. Thread starts here.
(Also: if you DON’T know the story? Yes, it’s the SF one based on a transphobic meme published this month. Yes, I’m subtweeting it.)
— Lynn E. O'Connacht (@lynnoconnacht) January 13, 2020
WIDER CONTEXT.
Bogi Takács sheds light on some matters that drive the reception of this story and works by and about other minorities.
First thread starts here.
And a huge amount of the engagement I see is from cis people who have never said anything about trans stories before and/or have said very little.
Out of all trans stories, this is the one they felt they needed to engage with.
— Bogi Takács at #ConFusion (@bogiperson) January 13, 2020
Second thread starts here.
This is another aspect of what I was saying earlier:https://t.co/Labb0xL5hd
Which is kind of the reverse of it, that ownvoices is not an absolution from criticisms.
But yes, one can have an ownvoices stance and still internalize various oppressive argumentation.
POSITIVE RESPONSES TO STORY.
Phoebe North supports the story and author in “An Open Letter” at Medium, an autobiographical essay that concludes:
Whatever you decide to do with your story, Isabel, thank you for writing your story. Thank you for making me feel seen and heard. We don’t get a lot of ourselves in fiction. We often only get scraps. This was more than that. A mirror.
Alex Acks says North’s essay “articulates a lot of my own difficult to verbalize feelings” about the story.
Berry Grass believes the story has shortcomings, but aligns more with those who consider it to be thought-provoking. Thread starts here.
The real shortcomings of the story (& of gender abolitionism as a whole!) is that the story's conception of gender as well as its dystopian, AI-driven world, totally eschews indigenous ways of being & thinking. It mistakes power structures of "the West" w/ the ONLY structures
— ? Berry Grass ? (@theBGrass) January 15, 2020
The author is apparently asking Clarkesworld to take down the story because of the negative reaction its gotten. I think its an engaging read, even if (& maybe because) I disagree with its conception of gender. https://t.co/cuFCMsQNdH
CONTROVERSIAL ART.
Carmen Maria Machado wrote a long, thoughtful thread about provocative stories in the context of art and literature, but while I was editing this together she locked her tweets to all but followers so those are not available to quote.
Malcolm F. Cross criticizes the story as having shortcomings as MilSF, too, but marks out more territory on the art vs. harm map. Thread starts here.
Military Science Fiction is sometimes regarded as meathead right-wing fiction. And yet there are very progressive works of military fiction out there. The helicopter story is military science fiction, and MilSF is one of my favorites.
— Malcolm F. Cross (@foozzzball) January 14, 2020
Should I not write that story? Like I shouldn't write the story with a problematic take on the value of women in society? Of course I should write those stories – But I shouldn't throw it at someone so they can't escape it, use it to justify harming them, use it to belittle them.
Warren Adams-Ockrassa’s thread seems to say that whatever the writer’s goal was, they should have handled it differently. Starts here.
That’s something more authors might want to consider when they’re taking on a hot topic or “controversial” subject, particularly one they may not be directly affected by:
— Warren Adams-Ockrassa — Author (@waxis) January 15, 2020
And I’d urge anyone writing something outside their range of experience to ask for feedback — from people in those communities — about what they’ve written.
PULLING THE STORY.
Cat Rambo is sorry the story was pulled. Thread starts here.
But for the author to be hurt to the point where they pull the story — where a piece of art is removed from our collective repository because of public reaction — how does that differ from other moments in history where people have been shocked and offended by it?
— Cat Rambo (@Catrambo) January 15, 2020
One of several eye-opening comments on Rambo’s thread:
this entire situation is, honest to god, a realization of one of my greatest fears as a queer content creator: a piece that lands, but produces hurt and a schism in my community.
— mrs moo madshoe ? (@peonyfoxburr) January 15, 2020
ROLE OF AN EDITOR.
Setsu U finds the discussion about the story connects with many questions and concerns they are responsible for as an editor. Thread starts here.
How do I recognize something resonant and real for others when my own baggage is involved?
How do I create space for messy exploration w/o burning the audience?
What do I need to change about my thinking?
— Setsu U (they/them) (@scribblesassin) January 15, 2020
ENDNOTES.
Several people have been circulating screenshots of a statement that’s represented as giving background about the story and author. I have neither found the source of the original post, nor confirmation that it is from a Clarkesworld spokesperson, so I am not posting these but you can find a copy here.
Alexandra Erin on why she won’t read the story. Thread starts here.
Cheryl Morgan says she hasn’t read the story, however, offered advice for holding the discussion. Thread starts here. Some of her points are —
2. Trans people can and do suffer from internalised transphobia and can say/do clueless things
— Cheryl Morgan (@CherylMorgan) January 14, 2020
3. Equally people trying to be allies can and do screw up
There’s extended discussion at Metafilter. As a whole, I thought I learned more just by searching “Clarkesworld” on Twitter.
Posted in Clipping Service | Tagged Alex Acks, Alexandra Erin, Berry Grass, Bogi Takács, Carmen Maria Machado, Cheryl Morgan, Clarkesworld, D Franklin, Isabel Fall, Malcolm ‘f.’ Cross, Metafilter, Neil Clarke, Phoebe North, Warren Adams-Ockrassa | 34 Replies
Pixel Scroll 1/14/20 Who Is Pixel Scroll? You Are File 770
(1) I’M WALKIN’ HERE. “Facebook: Star Wars’ Mark Hamill deletes account overpolitical ads” – BBC has the story.
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill has deleted his Facebook account, lambasting the company’s political ads policy.
In a tweet, the celebrity accused the firm’s chief Mark Zuckerberg of having valued profit over truthfulness.
It followed its decision to let politicians run adverts that contain lies on the social network.
The firm has said that it does not believe decisions about which political ads run should be left to private companies.
(2) MEAT SUIT. It’s only the second week inJanuary and Nerd & Tie’s Trae Dorn has already written the headlineof the year: “MeatLoaf Suing Horror Convention Texas Frightmare Weekend”. Oh, I supposeyou want the story, too….
Michael Lee Aday, better known by his stage name “Meat Loaf,” is currently suing horror convention Texas Frightmare Weekend and its venue the Hyatt Regency DFW in Tarrant County, Texas. According to NBC 10:
(3) READ ALL ABOUT IT. SF2 Concatenation’s spring edition is now up.Principal contents include:
Newscast for the Spring 2020. This includes within it many key sections covering SF books, films; and TV; as well as science;. See the master newscast link index that connects to all the news sub-sections.
My Top Ten Scientists – Ian Irvine (marine environmental geochemist)
30th Festival of Fantastic Films 2019 – Great Britain – Darrel Buxton
British Fantasycon 2019 – Ian Hunter
Dublin – The 2019 World SF Convention – Marcin “Alqua” Klak
SF Convention Listing & Film Diary
From the archives: UK SF Publishing Snapshot 2002 – Top SF/F authors? Top titles?
Interestingto compare this last with this season’s news page’sSF publishing news.
Plus there are manystandalone SF/FH book and non-fiction SF & science book reviews.
Full details at SF2 Concatenation’sWhat’s New page.
(4) YOU GO, JOHN. A Whatever pop quiz: “Hey,Guess Who Will Be Going to Dragon Con This Year?”
Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give a warm Agrabah welcome….Wait. Wrong script.
Ladies and Gentlemen!We are delighted to announce that John @Scalzi is the #DragonCon2020 literary guest of honor! pic.twitter.com/LYJxI2E7eQ
— Dragon Con 2020! (@DragonCon) January 14, 2020
Next quiz question: What Dragon Awards category will he bepresenting?
(5) TWEETS OF FLAME. “StephenKing slammed for ‘ignorant’ tweet about not considering ‘diversity’ when votingfor the Oscars” – Yahoo! Entertainment has a roundup of King’stweet and the reactions.
Famed writer Stephen King has stirred up controversy after admitting he “would never consider diversity in matters of art,” a remark made in reference to his status as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) voting on Oscar contenders. His remarks come a day after the 2020 Oscar nominations were announced, prompting complaints that women and people of color were largely overlooked. Many critics bemoaned the exclusion of women like Greta Gerwig from the Best Director category, while Harriet’s Cynthia Erivo spoke out about being the only person of color to be nominated across four acting categories.
(6) SIX-PACK. Nerds of a Feather’s Paul Weimer discusses “6 Books with Gareth Hanrahan”.
4. How about a book you’ve changed your mind about – either positively or negatively?
Jeff Vandermeer’s Shriek: An Afterword. I loved the first Ambergris book, City of Saints and Madmen. I picked up Shriek next, and found it utterly incomprehensible and dull. Years later, I got the third book in the sequence, Finch, and loved it. I then gave Shriek another try, and it felt like a completely different book. I was astounded at myself for hating it the first time, and I’ve no idea why I bounced off it so hard.?
(7) CAROL SERLING OBIT. Carol Serling, widow of TwilightZone’s Rod Serling and mother of author Anne Serling diedJanuary 9 reports the Binghamton (NY) Press & Sun-Bulletin.
After the death of her husband, due to complications after heart surgery, Carol worked to keep Rod’s legacy alive.
In 1981, she launched the monthly “The Twilight Zone Magazine” and served as the publication’s editor from 1981 through 1989.?She held the legal rights to Serling’s name and likeness. CBS owns the rights to the television series.
In 1994, two new episodes of the sci-fi television series were aired on CBS based on material found by Carol after Rod’s death and then sold to CBS. They aired in a two-hour special titled “Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics.”
That?same year, the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror theme park ride opened at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios (then MGM Studio Theme Park) in Orlando, Florida, and Binghamton High School dedicated its arts program as the Rod Serling School of Fine Arts.
January 14, 1954 — Riders To The Stars premiered. It?was directed by Richard Carlson (who also stars) and Herbert L. Strock (who is uncredited for unknown reasons) and has the additional cast of ?William Lundigan, Martha Hyer, and Herbert Marshall. Riders to the Stars is the second film in Ivan Tors’ Office of Scientific Investigation trilogy, which was preceded by The Magnetic Monster and followed by Gog. All in all, reviewers considered it a quite unremarkable film. It has no rating at Rotten Tomatoes though Amazon reviewers were kind to it. Fortunately you can judge for yourself as the film is here to watch.
January 14, 1959 — Journey to the Center of the Earth premiered.
January 14, 1976 — The Bionic Woman aired its first episode. A spin-off from The Six Million Dollar Man, it starred Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson and Martin E. Brooks. It run just three seasons, half of what the parent show ran. It on ABC, NBC and finally on CBS.?
January 14, 1981 — Scanners premiered. Directed by David Cronenberg and produced by Claude Héroux, it starred Jennifer O’Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane and Michael Ironside. Reviewers, with the exception of Ebert, generally liked it, and reviewers at Rotten Tomatoes currently give it a healthy 64% rating.
Born January 14, 1924 — Guy Williams. Most remembered as?Professor John Robinson on Lost in Space though some of you may remember?him as?Don Diego de la Vega and his masked alter ego Zorro in the earlier Zorro series.??(Is it genre? You decide.) He filmed two European genre films,?Il tiranno di Siracusa (Damon and Pythias) and Captain Sinbad as well. (Died 1989.)
Born January 14, 1943 — Beverly Zuk. Ardent fan of Trek: TOS who wrote three Trek fanfics, two of them on specific characters: The Honorable Sacrifice (McCoy) and The Third Verdict (Scotty). Let’s just say that based on her artwork that I found I’d not say these are anything less than R rated in places. She was a founding member of the Trek Mafia though I’m not sure what that was.?(Died 2009.)
Born January 14, 1948 — Carl Weathers, 72. Most likely best remembered among genre fans as?Al Dillon in Predator, but he has some other SFF creds as well. He was a MP officer in?Close Encounters of the Third Kind, General Skyler in Alien Siege,?Dr. Artimus Snodgrass in the very silly comedy?The Sasquatch Gang and he voiced Combat Carl in Toy Story 4. And no, I’m not forgetting he’s currently playing?Greef Karga on?The Mandalorian series. I still think his best role ever was?Adam Beaudreaux on Street Justice but that’s very not SFF.
Born January 14, 1949 — Lawrence Kasdan, 71. Director, screenwriter, and producer. He’s best known early on as co-writer of The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi. He also wrote The Art of Return of the Jedi with George Lucas. He’s also one of the writers lately of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Solo: A Star Wars Story.?
Born January 14, 1957 — Suzanne Danielle, 63. A Whovian as she showed up as?Agella in “The Destiny if The Daleks,“ a Fourth Doctor story. She was on the?Hammer House of Horror series?in the Carpathian Eagle” episode, and she’s also in Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected multiple times in different roles. To my knowledge, her only other SFF appearance was on the Eighties Flash Gordon film.
Born January 14, 1962 — Jemma Redgrave, 58. Her first genre role was as?Violette Charbonneau in the?“A Time to Die” episode of Tales of the Unexpected?which was also her first acting role. Later genre roles are scant but include a memorable turn as?Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, daughter of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart on Doctor Who.?
Born January 14, 1963 — Steven Soderbergh, ?57. Though largely not a SFF person, he’s ventured into our ‘verse on occasion by directing such films as Solaris (which he also wrote), Nightwatch which he was the writer of, ?Contagion?which he directed and The Hunger Games for which he was Second Unit Director. I’m tempted to call Kafka for which he was Director at least genre adjacent…
Born January 14, 1964 — Mark Addy, 56. He got a long history in genre films showing up first as?Mac MacArthur in Jack Frost ?followed by by the lead in?The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (why did anyone make this?), Roland in?A Knight’s Tale (now that’s a film), Friar Tuck In Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood (has anyone seen this?) and voicing?Clyde the Horse in the just released Mary Poppins Returns. Television work includes?Robert Baratheon on Games of Thornes,?Paltraki on a episode on Doctor Who, “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos”, and he was?Hercules on a UK series called Atlantis.?
Born January 14, 1990 — Grant Gustin, 30. The?actor, known as Barry Allen aka the Flash in the Arrowverse. I’ve got him as a boyfriend on an episode on A Haunting, one of those ghost hunter shows early in his career. Later on, well the Arrowverse has kept him rather busy.
Bliss knows what makes zombies laugh.
These folks at Close to Home sound like true introverts to me.
(11) RARE BOOK THIEVES PLEAD. “Menplead guilty in thefts of rare books from Carnegie Library” reportsPittsburgh’s TribLIVE.
The two men accused of stealing and reselling more than $500,000 worth of rare books, maps and other artifacts from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh reached a plea deal Monday with prosecutors who agreed to drop most of the charges they faced.
…Gregory Priore, 63, of Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood, was the archivist and manager of the library’s William R. Oliver Special Collections Room from 1992 until April 2017.
The room held a collection of rare books, maps and other items worth millions. Priore was accused of stealing the items from the library and selling them to John Schulman, 56, of Squirrel Hill, who owns the Caliban Bookshop in Oakland.
Among the items that were stolen was a 400-year-old Bible printed in London. It was recovered in April 2019 in the Netherlands as part of the criminal investigation.
(12) ATTENTION, FLORIDA MAN. Destiny is calling.
EXCALIGATOR pic.twitter.com/iXpInBZRk3
— Alex (@macr0roni) October 2, 2019
(13) ALIEN DISCOVERY CENTER. [Item by Cliff Ramshaw.] This is giving me a bad case of the VanderMeers….“Scientistsuse stem cells from frogs to build first living robots” in TheGuardian.
Researchers in the US have created the first living machines by assembling cells from African clawed frogs into tiny robots that move around under their own steam.
One of the most successful creations has two stumpy legs that propel it along on its “chest”. Another has a hole in the middle that researchers turned into a pouch so it could shimmy around with miniature payloads.
“These are entirely new lifeforms. They have never before existed on Earth,” said Michael Levin, the director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. “They are living, programmable organisms.”
(14) ELECTION RESULTS. Cosplayer Lai Pin-yu has been elected to the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan.“Taiwanesecosplay candidate, Sunflower Movement activist wins legislative seat”.
When Lai was certain of her win on Saturday, she took to Facebook at 8 p.m. to write: ” Hello friends, I am Lai Pinyu, lawmaker of New Taipei City’s 12th District. Please give me your feedback over the next four years.” In her post, Lai included a photo of herself dressed as Sailor Mars from the “Sailor Moon” Japanese manga series, gaining her 30,000 likes, 2,800 comments, and 2,200 shares within 12 hours.
(15) BACKSTORY. If you think you’ve heard of this bookbefore, there’s a reason why. But now it’s in print and Adri Joy reviews it forNerds of a Feather: “Microreview [Book]: Blood Heir by Amélie Wen Zhao”.
I don’t want to talk about Blood Heir without acknowledging the route this book took to publication. Originally scheduled for release the beginning of 2019, the book was delayed after numerous ARC readers identified significant sensitivity issues with an aspect of the plot and characters. Blood Heir deals in some depth with the concept of indenture, with marginalised characters in the place where the book is set at high risk of being forced to sign work contracts which leave them effectively in slavery. In original ARCs, the story’s depictions of race provoked strong concerns about how the story came across in the context of historic Black slavery in the USA. In response, author Amélie Wen Zhao delayed the book, revisited in the context of her original intent – to explore concepts of indenture with real-world parallels in Asian countries – and has now released the book, as of late November, satisfied that it did so. Having never read the original ARC, I don’t know how much changed before publication, and I should be clear that I’m white and, as a non-American, less likely to pick up cues that would read “chattel slavery” to US audiences – so I’m not going make claims about whether Blood Heir is now “fixed”, other than to note I didn’t pick up anything other than the author’s intended parallels in my own reading. However, from where I stand it feels like Blood Heir’s delayed, revised publication is an example of sensitivity reading going right, albeit late in the process and therefore more loudly and messily than might have occurred if concerns had been raised earlier. People were right to raise concerns. Zhao was right to listen and use those concerns to revisit her intended, ownvoices, message. I hope and suspect the book is stronger for it.
(16) YOUTH MOVEMENT. Victoria Silverwolf shares a discoverywith Galactic Journey readers: “[January 14, 1965] The BigPicture (March 1965 Worlds of Tomorrow]”.
Science fiction writers often have to deal with things on a very large scale. Whether they take readers across vast reaches of space, or into unimaginably far futures, they frequently look at time and the universe through giant telescopes of imagination, enhancing their vision beyond ordinary concerns of here and now.
(This is not to say anything against more intimate kinds of imaginative fiction, in which the everyday world reveals something extraordinary. A microscope can be a useful tool for examining dreams as well.)
A fine example of the kind of tale that paints a portrait of an enormous universe, with a chronology reaching back for eons, appears in the latest issue of Worlds of Tomorrow, from the pen of a new, young writer.
Can you rememberwhen Larry Niven was a “new, young writer”?
(17) OVER THE COUNTER. “The New York Public Library Has Calculated Its MostChecked-Out Books Of All Time” – there are assorted genre items on thelist.
The New York Public Library has been loaning books for a long time — the institution turns 125 this year.
To celebrate, the library dug into its records and calculated a list of the 10 books that have been checked out the most in its history.
The most-wanted book? The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.
The Caldecott Medal-winning tale of a young boy’s encounter with snow has been checked out 485,583 times from the NYPL since it was published in 1962.
It shares qualities with many of the other most-borrowed titles: The beautifully illustrated book has been around a long time, it’s well-known and well-loved, and it’s available in numerous languages.
(18) HELLO BOOMER. BBC says “Oldestmaterial on Earth discovered”.
Scientists analysing a meteorite have discovered the oldest material known to exist on Earth.
They found dust grains within the space rock – which fell to Earth in the 1960s – that are as much as 7.5 billion years old.
The oldest of the dust grains were formed in stars that roared to life long before our Solar System was born.
A team of researchers has described the result in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
When stars die, particles formed within them are flung out into space. These “pre-solar grains” then get incorporated into new stars, planets, moons and meteorites.
“They’re solid samples of stars, real stardust,” said lead author Philipp Heck, a curator at Chicago’s Field Museum and associate professor at the University of Chicago.
(19) VIDEOOF THE DAY. In“I Have A Secret: Another Bite” on Vimeo, Michael Simeintroduces us to a guy who DOES have room for dessert in a restaurant.
[Thanks to JJ, John King Tarpinian, Cat Eldridge, Martin MorseWooster, Cliff Ramshaw, Mike Kennedy, Alan Baumler, Chip Hitchcock, and AndrewPorter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editorof the day BGrandrath.]
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Marvel and Tsuburaya Productions Team Up To Publish Ultraman Comics
A dozen years ago John Hertz and I werediscussing the silly controversy about Nippon 2007’s Hugo Awards base. From allthe griping you’d think the Japanese superhero Ultraman practically dwarfed theHugo rocket.
A lot of fansthought it was perfectly fine for a Japanese Worldcon to honor an icon from itscountry’s sf tradition. But for or against, all fans seemed to take forgranted that the figure of Ultraman was exaggerated. No one ever asked whetherUltraman and the rocket might, in fact, be in proper proportion to one another,or how to find that answer.
Ultraman is supposed tobe 130 feet tall. Just how big do we conceive the Hugo rocket to be? I came upwith an answer in “How Tall Is theHugo?” It turned out the proportions were just fine.
That memory returned when I saw a press release from Marvel Entertainment and Tsuburaya Productions announcing theircollaborative plan for new Ultraman comics and graphic novels in 2020.
Ultraman has been a pop culture classic ever since its introduction in the 1960s, resulting in more than 50 years of stories told on screen and in the pages of manga and comics. Today, Ultraman continues to be a worldwide phenomenon, but fans will always remember the groundbreaking thrill and wonder of the first generation of Ultraman that started it all. Beginning next year, Marvel will expand that iconic era of the Ultras through the lens of Marvel’s art and storytelling.
“As one of the world’s most popular franchises, Ultraman has brought together some of the most passionate fandoms in pop culture today, and we can’t wait to bring his story to even more fans around the globe,” said Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski. “Like Marvel, Ultraman captivated generations by telling spectacular stories grounded in the real world, and it continues to be a beloved classic through its television shows, movies, toys, games, comics, and more. We are so thrilled to introduce new chapters to the Ultraman Multiverse next year.”
Story and creativeteam details will be shared at a later date. Stay tuned at en.tsuburaya-prod.co.jpand Marvel.com for more information and updates
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Muroids
Order: Rodentia
Superfamily: Muroidea
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Muroidea is a large superfamily of rodents. It includes hamsters, gerbils, true mice and rats, and many other relatives. They occupy a vast variety of habitats on every continent except Antarctica. Some authorities have placed all members of this group into a single family, Muridae, due to difficulties in determining how the subfamilies are related to one another. The following taxonomy is based on recent well-supported molecular phylogenies.
The muroids are classified in 6 families, 19 subfamilies, around 280 genera and at least 1300 species.
Family Platacanthomyidae incertae sedis
Subfamily Platacanthomyinae (spiny dormouse and pygmy dormice)
Family Spalacidae fossorial muroids
Subfamily Myospalacinae (zokors)
Subfamily Rhizomyinae (bamboo rats and root rats)
Subfamily Spalacinae (blind mole rats)
Clade Eumuroida - typical muroids
Family Calomyscidae
Subfamily Calomyscinae (mouse-like hamsters)
Family Nesomyidae
Subfamily Cricetomyinae (pouched rats and mice)
Subfamily Dendromurinae (African climbing mice, gerbil mice, fat mice and forest mice)
Subfamily Mystromyinae (white-tailed rat)
Subfamily Nesomyinae (Malagasy rats and mice)
Subfamily Petromyscinae (rock mice and the climbing swamp mouse)
Family Cricetidae
Subfamily Arvicolinae (voles, lemmings and muskrat)
Subfamily Cricetinae (true hamsters)
Subfamily Neotominae (North American rats and mice)
Subfamily Sigmodontinae (New World rats and mice)
Subfamily Tylomyinae
Family Muridae
Subfamily Deomyinae (spiny mice, brush furred mice, link rat)
Subfamily Gerbillinae (gerbils, jirds and sand rats)
Subfamily Lophiomyinae (crested rat)
Subfamily Murinae (Old World rats and mice including vlei rats)
Primary Taxonomic Reference
Steppan, S. J., R. A. Adkins, and J. Anderson. 2004. Phylogeny and divergence date estimates of rapid radiations in muroid rodents based on multiple nuclear genes. Systematic Biology, 53:533-553.
Other Taxonomic References
Jansa, S. A. and M. Weksler. Phylogeny of muroid rodents: relationships within and among major lineages as determined by IRBP gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31:256-276.
Michaux, J., A. Reyes, and F. Catzeflis. 2001. Evolutionary history of the most speciose mammals: molecular phylogeny of muroid rodents. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 17:280-293.
Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
Norris, R. W., K. Y. Zhou, C. Q. Zhou, G. Yang, C. W. Kilpatrick, and R. L. Honeycutt. 2004. The phylogenetic position of the zokors (Myospalacinae) and comments on the families of muroids (Rodentia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31:972-978.de:Langschwanzmäuse
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Until January 1, 2007, all ISBNs were allocated as 9-digit numbers followed by a [[modular arithmetic|modulo]] 11 [[checksum]] character that was either a decimal digit or the letter X. A Bookland EAN was generated by concatenating the Bookland UCC 978, the 9 digits of the book's ISBN other than its checksum, and the EAN checksum digit.<ref>[https://www.isbn-information.com/the-13-digit-isbn.html Anatomy of a 13-digit ISBN]</ref><ref>{{citation |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d5Z5I3gnFh0C&pg=PA265 |title=Elementary number theory with applications |author=Thomas Koshy}}</ref>
Since parts of the 10-character ISBN space are nearly full, all books published from 2007 on have been allocated a 13-digit [[ISBN]], which is identical to the Bookland EAN. The UCC 979 has now been assigned for the expansion of Bookland,<ref>{{citation |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KjveruEBBfoC&pg=PT41 |title=Book Marketing Demystified |author=Bruce Trelawny Batchelor}}</ref> and was first used by publishers in the French language, which can use now the additional prefix "979-10-" in addition to the nearly full "978-2-" prefix (onto which legacy ISBN 10-character numbersISBNs starting with "2-" have been remapped). Books numbered with prefixes other than 978 will not be mappable to 10-character ISBNs.
The GS1 is the global identification standards organization for retail. Every country has an assigned country code which precedes the company code. The "country codes" 978 and 979 are now officially registered for allocation by the [[International ISBN Agency]], which maintains the official international registry of ISBN numbers allocated to book publishers.
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Bermuda, World & Wikileaks Data Release
The expected release of secret communications between the U.S. Government and countries worldwide by Wikileaks started yesterday [Nov 28]. Searching through the data set shows at least one small reference to Bermuda already, however this is not as dramatic as it may seem, as numerous countries are mentioned, and not all cable communication released is of a nefarious nature.
Wikileaks said the full set consists of 251,287 documents, and they will “give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities.” The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February this year, contain confidential communications between the U.S and 274 embassies in countries throughout the world. Wikileaks released 226 so far, with over 250,000 left to go.
Material from the documents began being posted online yesterday [Nov 28] afternoon on the websites of several media outlets that have collaborated with WikiLeaks to release the information. The New York Times, the UK’s Guardian, Germany’s Der Spiegel, France’s Le Monde and Spain’s El Pais all gained advance access to the documents to prepare their coverage.
Revelations in the cables reported by those outlets include; Arab leaders are privately urging a military attack on Iran, US officials have been instructed to spy on UN leaders,. U.S and South Korea discussed a unified Korea if North Korea crumbles, and that China’s leadership directed a hacking campaign into computers of Google and Western governments.
Individuals were discussed in detail, with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has a home in Bermuda, being said to be a “vain and ineffective as a modern European leader” and that he has “frequent late nights and penchant for partying hard.” Cables also ran on lighter notes, with discussions of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s nurse being a “voluptuous blond.”
Searching the Wikileaks cable graphics of the cablegate dataset by country, shows that Bermuda is listed on the graph. We are far from alone, as the data set shows approximately 200 countries and territories spanning the globe, whereas a country/territory/area not mentioned would be in the small minority.
Bermuda, as shown below circled in blue, has a very tiny raise on the graph, indicating that the cable[s], which span 45 years, will mention Bermuda in some capacity. Additional charts show that 68 cables refer to Bermuda.
The Obama Administration issued a statement saying “We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information.” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argued that the documents could serve as “deterrents” to future war crimes. Websites carrying the data experienced server issues, and Twitter is abuzz with the hashtag #cablegate.
The cables are said to show the American officials ‘bargaining’ with foreign governments to accept the prisoners being held at Guantánamo Bay. Bermuda was one of the first countries that accepted refugees from the offshore holding center; Khaleel Mamut, Abdulla Abdulqadir, Salahidin Abdulahat, and Ablikim Turahun were released from Guantanamo and resettled in Bermuda on July 11, 2009. The ethnic Uighurs Chinese Nationals, who were held for many years without charge, have been cleared by U.S. officials of any wrongdoing.
Referencing the Gitmo prisoners New York Times, who had advance access to the documents, said:
Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison: When American diplomats pressed other countries to resettle detainees, they became reluctant players in a State Department version of “Let’s Make a Deal.” Slovenia was told to take a prisoner if it wanted to meet with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions of dollars to take in Chinese Muslim detainees, cables from diplomats recounted. The Americans, meanwhile, suggested that accepting more prisoners would be “a low-cost way for Belgium to attain prominence in Europe.”
AFP News Agency said:
Cables depicted US officials searching the world asking countries to take Guantanamo inmates, with Slovenia’s leadership told that a meeting with US President Barack Obama was linked to its decision on taking a prisoner.
UK’s Daily Mail said:
Now, with Mr Obama’s deadline long gone, the cables released by Wikileaks show just how desperate the U.S. became to offload foreign Gitmo inmates.
Searching through the initial cables released do not indicate that Bermuda has specifically been referenced yet. On a slightly correlated note to a local situation, the cables do reveal communications between Germany and the USA on accepting Gitmo refugees, and specifically the ethnic Uighurs – whom Germany specifically did not want to accept due to not wanting to “irritate” China.
A German official is quoted within a cable as saying “now that the Bundestag election was past, Germany was ready to help on detainees, as it had promised earlier.” The official also “suggested that the discussions be kept confidential,” as “premature public disclosure could doom the whole initiative.”
The quotes below showing the dialogue between Germany and the US about the Uighurs are taken directly from the cables, with the cable reference numbers provided.
Cable 09BEIJING1247, BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON DPRK, GTMO
German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported that Germany had informed China of the U.S. request to accept some Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo and had been subsequently warned by China of “a heavy burden on bilateral relations” if Germany were to accept any detainees.
German Ambassador Schaefer said the German State Secretary had informed China of the U.S. request to accept some Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo, noting that Germany had not made a decision regarding the Uighurs. He noted that no German state had yet agreed to accept the detainees. Ambassador Schaefer said China had not officially demarched Germany but had warned Germany that accepting any Uighur detainees would “put enormous pressure on Beijing and a heavy burden on bilateral relations.
Cable 09BERLIN1548, GERMANY RENEWS CONSIDERATION OF GUANTANAMO
While Germany prefers non-Uighur cases because of expected tension with China, it will consider the cases of two Uighurs based on humanitarian grounds
While all interlocutors did not outright reject the two Uighur cases, Heusgen made clear that the prospect of being the only European country to irritate China by accepting Uighurs would make it difficult, although it is unclear whether Germany would take part in any broader European decision to resettle Uighurs.
Cable 09MUNICH328, GERMANY/AFGHANISTAN: IS THE CSU THE WEAKEST LINK
The CSU has refused to accept any of the 17 Uighurs to be released from Guantanamo, even though Munich is home to an estimated 500 Uighurs, the largest Uigher community in Germany.
Heusgen said that Uighurs would be “too difficult,” but that Germany could probably accept “2-3 others.” (Comment: The reluctance about Uighurs is due to the expected negative reaction of the Chinese government. End Comment.)
The cables are Wikileak’s third huge release of classified American data. They previously released thousands of documents, as well a 2007 gun-camera video of an American helicopter crew killing a dozen people in Iraq, including two Reuters journalists, with one soldier heard shouting “Ha, ha, I hit ‘em.” The soldiers allegedly mistook the photographer’s camera for a “rocket-propelled grenade launcher.”
U.S. officials allege they were passed to WikiLeaks by Army Private Bradley Manning who had access to classified computer networks as a junior intelligence analyst in Iraq. Private Manning is now being held in a military jail, and faces a possible court-martial and, if convicted, up to 52 years in prison. Adrian Lamo, who reported Private Manning to the U.S. authorities, said the soldier had told him in chat messages that “everywhere there’s a US post … there’s a diplomatic scandal that will be revealed”.
The cables come via the huge Secret Internet Protocol Router Network [SIPRNet]. SIPRNet is the worldwide US military internet system, which is separated from the ordinary internet and run by the Department of Defense in Washington. Many are unclassified, and none are marked “top secret,” the government’s most secure communications status. Although the system is deemed to be private, reports say that SIPRNet can be accessed by approximately 3 million people.
The full cables [over 250,000 still not released] are expected to be posted online over the next few months.
Hillary Clinton Emails Mention Bermuda/Uighurs
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#Uighurs #Wikileaks #WorldNews
Articles that link to this one:
Wikileaks: No Bermuda Cables Released Yet | Bernews.com | November 30, 2010
U.S. Consulate Responds to Wikileaks Data | Bernews.com | November 30, 2010
I would have been shocked if there wasn’t something about Bermuda and the Uighurs in the leaks. Nothing surprising so far, but I’ll definitely be following this story. Cheers, Bernews, for keeping us posted on international news as well as local.
Tigga says:
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning are pitiful excuses for a human beings – their money grabbing antics are pathetic.
I don’t need Wikileaks to figure out that Brown brought those uigars to Bermuda in exchange for a photo op with Obama.
Obvious says:
No, just your imagination, unsubstantiated assumptions along with a healthy dose of bias…
What is so bias about it? Why was the entire deal shrouded in such secrecy, if it was an open ‘humanitarian’ cause? Why did everyone know that Paulau was awarded several million for taking the Uighurs, but it’s never been revealed what Bermuda got, if anything at all? Or was it quid pro quo? Very few answers, but you’re so sure everyone is just biased about it.
The ‘accept anything’ sheep mentality on this island kills me.
UncleElvis says:
We know it wasn’t quid pro quo, because Dr. Brown said outright that there was no quid pro quo. He made that statement.
Of course, Mrs. Correia then went on to say shortly after, to the news on the night of the protest, something along the lines of “What are people complaining about, just think of all the stuff we could get out of this…”, so… who knows.
I’d hate to think that the former Premier lied TWICE to the people of Bermuda about this matter.
how much did the US give ewart brown for taking them
Always nice to hear from the brain-washed party faithful.
Why don’t we all just save our judgments for when they actually release the docs and we find out what the truth is.
John Q Public Esq. says:
Perhaps Wikileaks can do what the courts were unable to do (remember BHC) – get stuff released that Government would rather have covered up. But as another poster said – let’s not pre judge. We know our MPs aren’t choirboys – but maybe (just maybe) they ain’t that bad. (Sound of laughter)…….
Wow, you guys have a pretty optimistic view of ol’ E-rat, it’s lik the last four years didn’t happen for you.
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3D model shows bacterial motor in action
Scientists have constructed a high-resolution 3D model that shows what happens when a bacterial motor switches directions.
Nagoya University scientists in Japan and colleagues at Yale University in the US have uncovered details of how the bacterial propeller, known as the flagellum, switches between counterclockwise and clockwise rotation, allowing it to control its movement. The findings were published in the journal eLife and include a model that shows structural changes happening within portions of the flagellar motor.
Vibrio bacteria are rod-shaped organisms that live in coastal waters. They can cause serious intestinal and soft tissue infections that can ultimately lead to septic shock and multiple organ failure. "Vibrio infections are expected to increase as water temperatures rise due to climate change," says Nagoya University supramolecular biologist Michio Homma. "They have evolved a sophisticated flagellum-driven motility to facilitate their invasion of host organisms. We wanted to visualize how their motors switch between clockwise and counterclockwise rotation to further understand this movement."
To do this, Homma and his colleagues used an advanced imaging technique called cryo-electron tomography, in which images are taken of frozen samples as they are tilted to produce 2D images that are combined to produce a 3D reconstruction. The scientists used samples from two mutant Vibrio bacteria whose flagella only rotated in the clockwise or counterclockwise direction. This allowed them to compare the two movements and deduce the changes happening within the bacteria's motor to switch directions.
Figure 1: Bacterial flagella are generated from the cell surface (A).
Motors are buried within the cell membrane at the bases of flagellar filaments (indicated by white arrows). The motor part is shown by the cross-section of three-dimensional tomogram images using cryo-electron microscopy (B).
The white-dashed line in (B) is enlarged in (C). The densities of the C-ring and the transport apparatus (EXP and ATPase) are easily observed. (Credit: Jun Liu)
"Our comparative analysis and molecular modelling provide the first structural evidence that the flagellar motor undergoes a profound rearrangement to enable the rotational switch," says Homma.
The scientists found that the switch from counterclockwise to clockwise involves a signalling protein, called CheY-P, binding to a protein, called FliM, in the flagellar motor's C-ring. This causes another motor protein, called FliG, to move in a way that exposes charged residues on its surface to a transmembrane protein, called PomA, that forms the stationary part of the motor, called the stator, along with another protein called PomB. The interaction between FliG residues and PomA probably leads to changes in the stator that result in an ion flow generating torque, which ultimately rotates the C-ring.
Figure 2: The flagellar motor is formed of a series of rings bound by proteins. The scientists looked specifically at the C-ring (blue), which is present inside the bacterial cytoplasm. The C-ring is formed of FliG, FliN and FliM proteins. The scientists found that during the switch from counterclockwise to clockwise rotation, part of FliG moves, exposing its charged residues so they interact with the stator. (Credit: Jun Liu)
"Cryo-electron tomography is rapidly evolving, making it increasingly possible to reveal motor structure at higher resolutions," says Homma. "This current study provides one of the highest resolution images by cryo-electron tomography of the Vibrio flagellar motor. This and future studies will further our understandings of the flagellar assembly and function."
The study was a collaboration between Nagoya University and Jun Liu's group at Yale University. PhD student Tatsuro Nishikino was supported by Nagoya University's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Program in Green Natural Sciences.
The paper, "The flagellar motor of Vibrio alginolyticus undergoes major structural
remodeling during rotational switching," was published online in the journal eLife on September 7, 2020, at DOI: 10.7554/eLife.61446.
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Cei Canarias
The main strategic aggregation of the Tri-continental Atlantic Campus is that of the two Canary Islands universities that have jointly proposed the project:
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
University of La Laguna.
The following strategic aggregations serve to reinforce the commitment of public and private institutions in the Canary Islands to the Tri-continental Atlantic Campus project:
The Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute (IAC)
Level of involvement: Strategic internal aggregation to the project, as this is a public research body that will lead one of the project’s areas of specialisation in the sphere of scientific improvement and knowledge transfer.
Strategic complementary contribution: the Institute contributes its knowledge and indicators of excellence in the field of Space Science, as well as the potential for knowledge transfer that it is deploying in its initiative to build a technological centre oriented to advanced scientific instrumentation in Astrophysics, space and other related areas.
Campus enhancement: International projection of the institute thanks to visiting lecturers, the capturing of postgraduate students and connections with foreign companies who collaborate with the planned technological centre.
Canary Islands Oceanic Platform (PLOCAN)
Level of involvement: Strategic aggregation in the field of marine Science and Technology in order to lead this area of specialisation in research, development, innovation and knowledge transfer.
Strategic complementary contribution: The Canary Islands Oceanic Platform (Singular Infrastructure of Excellence of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation,) is a major initiative to mobilise marine science and technology in general towards the search for international business socio-economic competitiveness, derived from the access to the ocean.
Campus enhancement: International projection of PLOCAN and the Canary Islands universities through visiting researchers who will use the installations of both institutions, as well as students who specialise in Marine Science and Technology Marinas. The number of international and tri-continental projects in this field will also increase.
The Canary Islands Parliament
Level of involvement: Institutional declaration of support of the Board of Spokesmen of the Parliament, pending final proceedings in the next Plenary.
Strategic complementary contribution: The Parliament contributes visualisation of the support of the highest body of citizen representation in the Canary Islands, thereby promoting its involvement and participation in the project.
Campus enhancement: Guarantee of institutional support.
Presidential Office of the Government of the Canary Islands
Level of involvement: Presidential Office’s declaration of support.
Strategic complementary contribution: Presidential support ensures the institutional guarantee of the Canary Islands Government in its support for the project.
Regional Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sport of the Canary Islands Government
Level of involvement: Guarantee and commitment of the department that is responsible for managing funds for the execution of the project.
Strategic complementary contribution: This gives us institutional guarantee of the department that is responsible for university policy in the Canary Islands Government.
Canary Islands Agency for Research, Innovation and the Information Society
Level of involvement: Commitment of support from the regional department responsible for planning and coordination R&D+i (innovation) policy.
Strategic complementary contribution: This gives us the logistic and financial support to develop aspects related to scientific improvement and transfer of knowledge.
Campus enhancement: Support through funding in both universities of a Mobility centre for lecturers and students.
Island Council of Tenerife, Island Council of Gran Canaria
Level of involvement: Declaration of support from the President’s Office.
Strategic complementary contribution: The Island Councils have helped to bring forward results in a regional development model towards a new economic and social structure in the Canary Islands, under the concept of sustainable global development, which enhances opportunities in Africa and Latin-America. In this sense, they can help to boost the Canary Islands’ university leadership axis among the Outermost Regions of the European Union and among the archipelagos of the North Atlantic that make up Macaronesia.
Campus enhancement: Guarantee of institutional support and international contacts.
Town Councils of S. Cristóbal de La Laguna, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Telde
Level of involvement: Declaration of institutional support by the Board of Spokesmen.
Strategic complementary contribution: Given that Town Councils are the bodies responsible for town planning, strategic alliances with them are of vital importance for the favouring of a model of socioterritorial integration of the university. Their contribution is also of maximum importance in terms of ensuring the involvement of the municipalities’ residents in the global development of the project.
Campus enhancement: Guarantee of institutional support and of linking the project with the municipality in which the university is located.
Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities (FECAM)
Level of involvement: Commitment of support from this body.
Strategic complementary contribution: in terms of favouring a model of socioterritorial integration for the Campus in a global manner, based on collective municipal backing.
Campus enhancement: Guarantee of institutional support and linkage of the project with the municipalities.
Federation of Island Councils (FECAI)
The Island Councils have helped to bring forward results in a regional development model towards a new economic and social structure in the Canary Islands, under the concept of sustainable global development, which enhances opportunities in Africa and Latin-America. In this sense, they can help to boost the Canary Islands’ university leadership axis among the Outermost Regions of the European Union and among the archipelagos of the North Atlantic that make up Macaronesia.
Scientific and Technological Park in Tenerife
Level of involvement: Commitment of support from the company responsible for managing island policy for scientific and technological parks.
Strategic complementary contribution: This contribution coincides with the objectives set out in the project to convert the Canary Islands by 2010 into an Atlantic benchmark in the field of research, development and knowledge transfer, and an urbanistic-territorial point of reference in strategic areas of specialisation for the Scientific and Technological Park: Astrophysics, biotechnology and energy, water and the environment. The University of La Laguna participates in the Scientific and Technological Park initiative in Tenerife, and is an institutional partner in the development of those initiatives presented as the first steps of the Campus of International Excellence project.
Campus enhancement: Guarantee of integration in the policy, planning and execution of scientific-technological parks on the island.
Scientific and Technology Park Foundation (FPCT) of the ULPGC
Level of involvement: Internal strategic aggregation with a public foundation in which the ULPGC and the Economic Promotion Association of Gran Canaria both participate.
Strategic complementary contribution: the Foundation is currently extending to develop the Tafira Campus as a scientific nucleus and the Taliarte campus as a nucleus for marine development. Also immersed in development, innovation and knowledge transfer processes.
Campus enhancement: Main agents of the policy of Scientific and Technological Parks on the island of Gran Canaria; a major expansion of the buildings used to this end is expected.
Spanish Oceanographic Institute
Level of involvement: Strategic aggregation for the promotion and improvement of the quality of teaching, research and knowledge transfer in marine Science and Technology.
Strategic complementary contribution: The Oceanographic Institute and the ULPGC have, through the ULPGC’s FPCT, been developing scientific projects of international standing in the marine field, fomenting the improvement of knowledge transfer and technology.
Campus enhancement: Principales actores de la política de Parques Científicos y Tecnológicos en la isla de Gran Canaria, con la previsión de una expansión importante de los edificios destinados a tal fin.
Las Palmas Port Authority
Level of involvement: Strategic aggregation in the field of maritime Science to support research and knowledge transfer in logistics and maritime companies in the Canary Islands.
Strategic complementary contribution: The strategic geographic location of the ports of the Canary Islands and the renowned quality of their services afford them an outstanding position on the main shipping lines between Europe, Africa and America.
Campus enhancement: Support for the tri-continental concept in research and knowledge transfer for the Canary Islands maritime sector, together with international projection for the Campus thanks to the network of ports with which the Port Authority already maintains relations.
Institute of Technology and Renewable Energy (ITER)
Level of involvement: Commitment of support from the Institute.
Strategic complementary contribution: The ITER has covered a lot of ground in the field of renewable energies, adding the business component to the carrying out of its activities. Thus, it shares actions and objectives in the strategy designed in the project, basically in the regional development of a new economic and social structure in the Canary Islands, under the conditioning factor of sustainability and globalization, the origin of opportunities on the African continent. The ITER is part of the strategy of the Scientific and Technological Park of Tenerife, and it is responsible for the headquarters in the south of the island, together with the NAPWACI and ALIX projects, which will articulate communications by means of the underwater cable with Europe from Tenerife and La Palma, and the rest of the Canary Islands. Like other NAPs, Tenerife will become a docking port for connection cables from the African coast, as well as from America, thereby symbolising the last objective of the CEI project: receivers and catalysts of strategic projects with Africa, America y Europe.
Campus enhancement: High potential in terms of projection with Africa, where this body is carrying out several projects on sustainability. Moreover, given that it is the body responsible for managing the NAPWACI and ALIX projects, it offers its connectivity potential with the African and Latina-American continents.
Official Chambers of Commerce. Industry and Navigation of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura
Level of involvement: Commitment of support from these bodies.
Strategic complementary contribution: Link with the business section for the development of teaching and knowledge transfer projects.
Campus enhancement: In particular, their contacts and support infrastructure for companies that either plan to become or are already present in Africa.
Provincial Business Confederations of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and de Las Palmas (CEOE)
Level of involvement: Commitment of support from these entities.
Strategic complementary contribution: Link with the business sector for the development of teaching and knowledge transfer projects.
Trade unions: UGT and CCOO
Level of involvement: Commitment supporting institutions.
Strategic complementary contribution: Linkage to labor agents and ability to collect union initiatives to improve the conditions of workers in the productive sectors linked to the actions of the campus.
Campus enhancement: Possibility of participation in proposal development work carried out since the unions.
Economic and Social Council of the Canary Island
Level of involvement: Commitment of support of this body.
Strategic complementary contribution: Link with social and economic agents in the process of defining economic, social and labour policies in the Autonomous Region of the Canary Islands, to ensure university participation in these policies.
Campus enhancement: Opportunity to participate in the process of defining economic, social and labour policies.
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Tricontinental Atlantic Campus. The Canary Island 2010/2015
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Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9, red) expression in the hippocampus of the adult mouse brain. Notably, TLR9 stains selectively the mossy fibers (indicated by arrowheads) but not other axonal pathways in the hippocampus. Neurons were identified with the neuronal marker NeuN (green), and cell nuclei are revealed with DAPI staining (blue). For more information on the function of this receptor in the nervous system, see Ma Y, Li J, Chiu I, Wang Y, Sloane JA, Lu J, Kosaras B, Sidman RL, Volpe JJ, Vartanian T. Toll-like receptor 8 functions as a negative regulator of neurite outgrowth and inducer of neuronal apoptosis. J Cell Biol, 175 (2): 209-1. Scale bar, 500 µm.
The adult mouse was perfused transcardially with 4% PFA following anesthetization with avertin. The brain was dissected out and postfixed by immersion in 4% paraformaldehyde (PFA) overnight at 4 °C, embedded in paraffin and cut into 5-µm-thick sagittal sections, which were deparaffinized using a standard histology protocol immediately before immunohistochemical staining. In the staining procedure, tissue sections were permeabilized with 0.5% Triton X-100 (Sigma) for 10 minutes, then blocked with the buffer containing 10% normal goat serum (Sigma), 1% (w/v) bovine serum albumin (BSA) and 0.2% (v/v) Triton X-100 for 2 hours at RT, followed by incubation with primary antibodies of anti-TLR9 polyclonal (Invitrogen) and anti-NeuN monoclonal (Millipore) antibodies at 1:50 dilution in dilution buffer (2% normal goat serum, 1% BSA, 0.1% Triton X-100) overnight at 4 °C. Samples were subsequently incubated with FITC- and/or Cy3-conjugated species-specific secondary antibody/antibodies in the dilution buffer (1:200 dilution) for 1 hour at RT. VECTASHIELD Mounting Medium with DAPI (Vector Laboratories) was used to mount the fluorescently labeled samples and to stain cell nuclei. Images were digitally acquired using a fluorescence microscope (Nikon Eclipse 660) equipped with Spot cooled CCD camera (Diagnostic Instruments).
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Olympics prepare for cyber-attacks
Ben Sutherland Flickr
An important aspect of the security for the London Olympics will be protection against cyber-attacks. Although some commentators have over-estimated the risk from hackers, Olympic organisers have made online security a priority in the run-up to the Games.
The company in charge of online security, Atos Origin, has taken measures to protect important data on competitors, drug-test results, points totals and such like. Much of the work concerns issues of privacy and data protection, but there is also awareness of the danger of a cyber-attack that could completely disrupt the operation of the Games.
Security consultant Graham Cluley spoke to The Guardian about the vital issues of Olympic security: "Clearly the computer systems will have personal information about a large number of sportspeople which could be a target for identity thieves," he said. "Also, there are the details about the spectators – those need to be held securely."
Hackers' motivations might be for entertainment, publicity or for more malicious reasons. "Olympics websites will receive a lot of traffic," Cluley said, "so there will be a risk that hackers could plant malware on webpages and infect innocent users."
With every aspect of the Olympics, from traffic schedules to sprint timings reliant on efficient compiter technology, it’s understandable if a level of paranoia creeps into the security arrangements.
"People can have horrible visions of nasty cyber-attacks," says Mikko Hypponen, an online security specialist with F-Secure. "And people prepare. In reality we have seen very few cases."
London organisers will hope that remains the story this summer.
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DEATH SS – Resurrection
Lucifer Rising 2013
Back up on their feet, Italian horror clangers do the mortal disco on yer graves.
Over the years, there’s been a lot of attempts to marry heavy riffs to dance grooves, but only a few of them sound as successful as this album. Save for execrable name – outsiders will hardly bother to find out that SS are singer Steve Sylvester’s initials – this band, charging on since 1977, know how to be magnetic, and here they serve up a dozen of tracks that are are infectious as black plague. Discarding some songs, first of all the 10-minute epic “The Song Of Adoration” where the quintet lapse into the orchestra-laden power tropes, might have resulted in a stronger impact, yet one could hardly resist the catchy, electronica-tinctured beat of opener “Revived” or “Dionysus.”
In such a context the compression on Bozo Wolff’s sometimes motorik drums come more organic than in the classic metal territory explored in the likes of “The Darkest Night” – on the more refined grounds, “The Devil’s Graal” with Al Denoble’s guitar delivering an exquisite solo over Glenn Strange’s bass bedrock, is as punchy as it gets. But if it was a Saturday Night Fever, “Star In Sight,” adorned with female voices and piano, would send Travolta in a zombie trance, and the “Bad Luck” rock ‘n’ rolling would have Alice Cooper’s fans in stitches. Looks like resurrection is fun indeed.
Tags: Death SS, heavy metal
VARIOUS ARTISTS – Fly Like An Eagle: An All-Star Tribute To STEVE MILLER BAND
STEVE HUNTER – The Manhattan Blues Project
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Guitars made by craftsmen, not accountants
The Foo Fighters – A Real Rock Band for the 21st Century
October 31, 2013 February 1, 2014 gordon
Excuse the hyperbole, but in today’s world of radio rock in which Country Music is Pop, and most Pop Music is the soundtrack to a commercial, are the Foo Fighters the last real rock band?
No disrespect intended to the countless rock artists out there creating fine works of art – albeit in relative anonymity — but in terms of mainstream popular music the Foo Fighters are one of the few acts that have succeeded in marrying popularity with independence.
The Foo Fighters seamlessly blend influences of the British Invasion, Grunge, Hard Rock, and Punk into music that both is both appealing purely on an entertainment level, and also deceptively complex. And in a world of synthesized drumbeats, Miley Cyrus and vacuous Country trash about trucks and cutoff jeans, these guys actually get airplay.
This is no small feat, and their most recent release Wasted Light is hardly a pile of throw-away pop ditties befitting of a light beer commercial. It’s complex, creative music, that is both sensitive, aggressive, and occasionally physically exhausting. These guys just bring it, and one never gets the sense that there is any underlying concern about crafting something deliberately approachable or commercial. They just do what they do. By all accounts they are successful while keeping their integrity intact. You won’t hear them on Glee either.
I just wish these guys would (or could) play a venue smaller than a stadium, because I’m too old for standing with 60,000 of my closest friends in a ball field. Then again when you are one of the last real rock bands, a lot of people want to see you.
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