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National Women's Month: Julia Stein's essay "Margaret Atwood is the Leading Novelist in North America"
The more I read Margaret Atwood, the more I think she's North America's leading novelist. Her early novels of the 1960s and 1970s established a feminist voice critical of her contemporary society in Canada. Her first novel The Edible Woman describes a heroine, getting engaged to a male who believes in traditional gender roles, loses her appetite and her identity. In her next novel Surfacing the heroine, unable to conform to traditional women's roles, has a nervous breakdown similar to Sylvia Plath's heroine's breakdown in her novel The Bell Jar but Canadian.
During the 1980s Atwood wrote her breakout novel The Handmaid's Tale when in the U.S. the Reagan government and the rising Christian fundamentalist attacked abortion and women's rights. The novel is set not in Canada but in the United States, where a Christian theocratic dictatorship has taken over the country and renamed it Gilead, while Canada is the place her oppressed characters hope to escape to. The Handmaid's Tale's heroine is Ofred, whose job is to be the breeder producing children for the Commander, a high political figure married to a woman who can't get pregnant. The characters take part in sexual intrigue and rebellion as Ofred starts an affair with the chauffeur who is in a rebel group Mayday. The Handmaid's Tale was a double breakthrough for Atwood. The novel was widely adapted in a film, an opera, radio plays in England and Canada, and stage plays in England and the U.S., and a ballet etc helping Atwood gain an international audience.
Also Atwood left the realism of her earlier novels for an alternative future in The Handmaid's Tale, which won the Arthur C. Clark Award for Best Science Fiction. Atwood has argued that her non-realistic novels aren't science fiction but speculative fiction. Whatever the label, in the U.S. and Canada after World War II women in increasing numbers created science fiction including feminist science fiction of the 1960-1980s with such well-known writers as Ursula Le Guin, Joanna Russ, Marge Piercy, and Octavia Butler. Many like Atwood also created novels with utopias of gender equality or dystopias that critiqued North American society.
A second breakthrough book Atwood wrote is The Blind Assassin which won the prestigious British Man Booker Prize in 2000 where she looks historically at Canadian women, society, and pulp science fiction. In this novel Atwood intertwines three stories. . Iris tells of her life as an eighty-year old as well as a second story realistic story of the rise and decline of her family's button factory in Ontario early in the first half 20th century. Iris and her sister Laura, who come of age during the 1930s when the factory loses more and more money, both fall in love with Alex Thomas, rebel organizer of the union at their father's factory and a writer of pulp science fiction. Iris describes how she accepts being sold off in marriage to a wealthier manufacturer to save the failing factory and how Laura writes a novel and then kills herself when quite young.
This realistic story of the family and its factory is frequently interrupted by a tale of two lovers where the man spins out to his woman lover a speculative fiction story "The Blind Assassin"—supposedly Laura's novel. At the end Iris confesses she's lied about who the author of "The Blind Assassin" is, lied about her marriage, and lied in her family/historical tale. Atwood has written a postmodernist tale looking at who tells the story, who lies when telling the story, and what difference the lies make.
Atwood's trilogy MaddAddam continues speculative fictions having thriller or adventure plots with sexual in intrigue where a small rebel groups trying to overthrow the power structure. Starting in Oryx and Crake published in 2003 and continuing in the next two novels of the MaddAddam Trilogy, Atwood creates an alternate 21s century world where large corporations have compounds for their wealthy scientists/executive employees and their families to live in while most of the population live in the wild untamed slums called Plebelands. Oryx's and Crake's main character Snowman tells two stories: the first story is his struggle to survive after the epidemic that kills most humans in the world and his friendship with the Crackers, a humanoid species his corporate scientist friend Crake invented and Oryx, the woman he loved, taught.. Snowman describes his problems in inventing a scripture about Crack and Oryx for the curious Crackers. The second story Snowman's tale intertwines with the first is of his actual friendship with Crake from childhood growing up in a corporate compound to being with him in another compound while Crake concocts the epidemic and the Crakers. Though the tale might seem dark, it enchants with Snowman attacked by huge pigs, an unusual sex life the gentle Crakers, and Snowman's comic problems of inventing new religious Scripture.
In the MaddAddam trilogy Atwood's scientists create inventions just to increase corporate profits though they play havoc on a patients' health or those like Crake play God with human lives. Atwood, whose father was an entomologist, says many of the scientific inventions she describes in Oryx and Crake and the subsequent two novels could easily occur in our world. Her speculative fictions are a critique of 21st century post-industrial society. In her novels corporate scientists do gene splicing to create new species such as crossing genes between humans and pigs to create pigoons: big, super smart pigs. Scientists in 2017 just created the same kind of gene splicing between pigs and humans, but Atwood would ask, "Is this invention needed?"
The 2nd volume and 3rd volumes of Atwood's trilogy deal with rebel groups dedicated to protecting the environment and people from corporate mayhem. In the 2nd volume The Year of the Flood the heroine Toby, who is raped by her boss in a fast food job, finds refugee in God's Gardeners, a peaceful ecological group who live in the plebeland and cultivate gardens on rooftops. In the 3rd volume MaddAddam takes place after the epidemic where Toby has survived and joins up with her friends in MaddAddam, a militant group led by Zeb that split off from God's Gardeners.
In the third novel Toby seems to tell two stories: first she tells of a small group of MaddAddams people struggling after the epidemic. She interrupts this story to tell of her lover Zeb's adventures during his decades of rebellion. MaddAddam has a great love story between Toby and Zeb as well as a plot with cross-species friendships. The MaddAddam people befriend the Crackers with Toby teaching a Cracker child to read who at the end seems to be writing the story/history. This 3rd novel asks a question: is this 3rd novel a human story told by Toby or a post-human story told by a Craker? The Crakers are friends with the pigoons, the huge pigs. At one point Zeb leads his troops—humans, Crackers, and pigoons-- into battle where Atwood bends the adventure plot to look at how humans, humanoids, and pigoons after catastrophe start anew. Three human women even participate in Craker group sex getting pregnant. The creation of new lives and new scriptures is strangely cheerful and hopeful.
Atwood's later big novels are like major 19th century novelists Dickens or Tolstoy. She writes compelling characters caught up in exciting plots that also look critically at their society and their history. Like both Dickens and Tolstoy she looks at how the huge inequality in society as crucial to the characters' lives. Many of her heroes or heroines are orphans like Dickens' main characters who have to make their way in a cruel world. Not content at looking at the future, Margaret Atwood, who as a child grew up loving to read myths, has created two recent novels rewriting of myths from the past. Her novel Penelopiad rewrites Penelope story in the Odyssey where Penelope's maids are the heroines and not Penelope. Penelope helps the male aristocrats butcher the maids-- again Atwood stands up for the underdog in rewriting of Penelope. Her latest novel Hag Seed is a retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest but In Atwood's rewriting her Prospero character, a Duke who was overthrown and thrown out his realm, needs to be set free of his rage and wish for vengeance as well as learn humility. Whether creating alternative futures or helping us to rethink past myths, Atwood has been writing some of the most innovative and exciting novels in North America.
© 2017 copyright Julia Stein
Julia Stein's has written five books of poems, edited two books of poetry, and is also co-author of the prose work Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World (Intellect Press, 2015). she has been an arts journalist and literary critic for years.
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Book Review : Reap (Scarred Souls, #2) by Tillie Cole
Scarred Souls, #2
by Tillie Cole
St. Martin's Griffin
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Raised as a prototype for the Georgian Bratva's obedience drug, 221 fails to think, act, or live for himself; he's his master's perfectly-crafted killing puppet. Standing at six-foot-six, weighing two-hundred-and-fifty pounds, and unrivaled in to-the-death combat, 221 successfully secures business for the Georgian Mafiya Boss of NYC, who rules the dark world of the criminal underground. Until his enemies capture him.
Talia Tolstaia dreams to break from the heavy clutches of Bratva life. She dreams of another life--away from the stifling leash of her Russian Bratva Boss father and from the brutality of her work at The Dungeon, her criminal family's underground death-match enterprise. But when she stumbles upon her family's captive who is more monster than man, she starts to see the man underneath. A powerful, beautiful, damaged man whose heart calls to hers. But sacrifices must be made--blood for blood...life for life...souls for scarred souls...
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The second installment of Tillie Cole's Scarred Souls series, Reap, has exceeded all of my expectations. Raze was an extremely intoxicating read and I was scared that the following book in the series would not deliver the same emotions that I felt while reading the first book. I was wrong!!! Tillie Cole ALWAYS delivers an emotional, passionate and unforgettable reading journey! Her writing style is addictive and her characters unique.
I usually do a little recap of the story at this point of my review, but with Reap I won't. The blurb gives you all that you need to know to get you hooked on this story. I highly suggest that you read Raze before reading Reap. This book is not only about Talia and Zaal. We get an inside look at what Luka is going through after Rage. Believe me when I say that you will not only read this story, you will FEEL it.
Talia and Zaal will own every single part of your heart when you finish reading their incredible love story. A forbidden love story that was meant to be since the moment Talia and Zaal's hearts started beating to the same rhythm. Zaal has gone through a lot has a kid. Pain and darkness is all that he knows, but when Talia enters his life he wants to reach for that light that has been hiding behind all that darkness.
The connection between Talia and Zaal was incredible! Talia has always wanted to find her soulmate and when Zaal entered her life she became obsessed with him. She could feel it in her heart that he was the one for her. She's a strong and passionate character that caught my attention in the first book and I knew that her story was going to be powerful. The love that she feels for Zaal is indescribable.
Zeal's journey was heartbreaking. I just wanted to reach into the book and give him a huge hug!!! Everything about him was broken until Talia came along and starting putting the pieces of his life back together. His past has left him numb, but Talia brought him back to life with the love she feels for him. Reading about what happened to his family was very difficult for me. I wanted him to find peace, but that will only come with time.
If you are a big fan of Luka and Kisa, like I am, you will love every single scene that they have in this book. My heart was pretty happy when I saw that the author wrote a few chapters in his POV. This is not only Talia and Zaal's story, but also the continuation of Rage. Luka made a promise in book one that he intended to keep at all cost. He has a different life know, but the darkness within him is craving that revenge. I won't spoil the reason behind his revenge, but I can assure you that you will be cheering for him to Raze Hell when it happens.
The little surprise at the end of the epilogue has left me happy dancing left and right! I can't wait to get my hands on Ravage, which will be released in 2016. The waiting is going to be brutal, but oh so worth it!
I give Reap, by Tillie Cole, 5 dark, heart-pumping, tortured, passionate, be strong, keep strong, all-consuming stars!
Amazon & USA Today Best Selling Author, Tillie Cole, is a Northern girl through and through. She originates from a place called Teesside on that little but awesomely sunny (okay I exaggerate) Isle called Great Britain. She was brought up surrounded by her English rose mother -- a farmer's daughter, her crazy Scottish father, a savagely sarcastic sister and a multitude of rescue animals and horses. Being a scary blend of Scottish and English, Tillie embraces both cultures; her English heritage through her love of HP sauce and freshly made Yorkshire Puddings, and her Scottish which is mostly demonstrated by her frighteningly foul-mouthed episodes of pure rage and her much loved dirty jokes.
Having been born and raised as a Teesside Smoggie, Tillie, at age nineteen, moved forty miles north to the 'Toon', Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, where she attended Newcastle University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Religious Studies. She returned two years later to complete a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching High School Social Studies. Tillie, regards Newcastle to be a home from home and enjoyed the Newcastle Geordie way of life for seven 'proper mint' and 'lush' years.
One summers day, after finishing reading her thousandth book on her much loved and treasured Kindle, Tillie turned to her husband and declared, "D'you know, I have a great idea for a story. I could write a book." Several months later, after repeating the same tired line at the close of another completed story, she was scolded by her husband to shut up talking about writing a novel and "just bloody do it!" For the first time in eleven years, Tillie actually took his advice (he is still trying to get over the shock) and immediately set off on a crazy journey, delving deep into her fertile imagination.
Tillie, ever since, has written from the heart. She combines her passion for anything camp and glittery with her love of humour and dark brooding men (most often muscled and tattooed – they're her weakness!). She also has a serious side (believe it or not!) and loves to immerse herself in the complex study of World Religions, History and Cultural Studies and creates fantasy stories that enable her to thread serious issues and topics into her writing -- yep, there's more to this girl than profanity and sparkles!
After six years of teaching high school Social Studies and following her Professional Rugby Player husband around Europe, they have finally given up their nomadic way of life and settled in Calgary, Alberta where Tillie spends most of her days (and many a late night) lost in a writing euphoria or pursuing a dazzling career as a barrel-racing, tasselled-chap wearing, Stetson-sporting cowgirl... Ye-haw!
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Sophia Rose November 11, 2015 at 10:03 PM
Wow, yeah, I can see that this one would really grab you and suck you in. I've got the first one on the wish list.
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"Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror" é o quarto episódio da 12.ª temporada da série de ficção científica britânica Doctor Who, transmitido originalmente através da BBC One em 19 de janeiro de 2020. Foi escrito por Nina Metivier e dirigido por Nida Manzoor.

O episódio apresenta Jodie Whittaker como a Décima terceira Doutora, ao lado de Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole e Mandip Gill como seus acompanhantes, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair e Yasmin Khan, respectivamente. Na história, a Doutora e seus acompanhantes se encontram com Nikola Tesla e Thomas Edison e eles precisam lidar com uma invasão alienígena que busca levar Tesla.

Enredo

Nas Cataratas do Niágara em 1903, Nikola Tesla não consegue investidores para o seu sistema de transmissão de energia sem fio, já que ele é visto como perigoso e louco. Depois de trabalhar até tarde consertando seu gerador, ele se depara com uma esfera flutuante. Sentindo-se ameaçado, ele corre com sua assistente, Dorothy Skerritt, enquanto uma figura encapuzada atira neles. A Doutora chega a tempo de ajudá-los a escapar a bordo de um trem para a cidade de Nova Iorque depois de desconectar seu carro do resto da composição.

Em Nova Iorque, o grupo encontra manifestantes que esperam do lado de fora do laboratório de Tesla, tendo sido instigados a ficar com medo dele e suas invenções por seu concorrente, Thomas Edison. A Doutora identifica o orbe como um orbe de Thassa, projetado para compartilhar conhecimento, mas reaproveitado por uma causa desconhecida. Depois de localizar um espião de Edison, a Doutora, Graham e Ryan visitam a oficina dele, suspeitando que Edison esteja por trás do ataque a Tesla. A figura encapuzada chega ao laboratório de Edison e eletrocuta fatalmente todos na oficina antes de persegui-lo. O grupo escapa e aprisiona uma das criaturas em um anel químico de fogo, mas esta escapa por teletransporte. A Doutora tenta avisar Tesla e Yaz ao voltar ao laboratório, mas os dois são capturados e transportados para uma nave alienígena invisível acima da cidade. A rainha dos Skithra exige que eles consertem sua nave. Quando Tesla se recusa, a rainha ameaça matar Yaz, mas a Doutora se teletransporta para a nave a tempo de salva-la. Ela descobre que espaçonave dos Skithra é apenas uma coleção de peças roubadas de várias espécies e os Skithra usam outras pessoas para fazer seu trabalho por elas. A raça também escolheu Tesla como seu "engenheiro", porque ele conseguiu descobrir o sinal deles enquanto trabalhava em seu sistema de energia sem fio.

A Doutora consegue teletransportar ela, Yaz e Tesla de volta ao laboratório de Wardenclyffe deste último. A Doutora avisa a rainha para ir embora, mas ela se recusa, ameaçando que caso Tesla não se entregue, ela destruirá a Terra. Enquanto Tesla e a Doutora conectam a TARDIS para ajudar a alimentar a Torre Wardenclyffe de Tesla, Graham, Ryan, Yaz, Dorothy e Edison se protegem contra a invasão Skithra, que são parecidos com  escorpiões. A Torre é ativada e raios elétricos disparam contra a nave Skithra, forçando-a a deixar o planeta. Yaz fica desapontada ao aprender com a Doutora que, embora Tesla tenha sido reconhecido por ajudar a salvar a Terra, sua reputação no futuro permaneceu inalterada.

Produção

"Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror" foi escrito por Nina Metivier e dirigido por Nida Manzoor.

Robert Glenister e Goran Višnjić foram escalados para o episódio, aparecendo como Thomas Edison e Nikola Tesla, respectivamente. Anjli Mohindra, que havia interpretado Rani Chandra no spin-off de Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, interpretou a rainha Skithra neste episódio. Mais atores foram anunciados no volume 547 da Doctor Who Magazine no início de janeiro de 2020.

Os cenários de Nova Iorque de 1903 foram filmados no Nu Boyana Film Studios em Sófia, Bulgária.

Transmissão e recepção

"Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror" foi exibido originalmente na BBC One em 19 de janeiro de 2020. O episódio foi assistido por 5,20 milhões de espectadores; no dia de sua exibição, foi o sexto programa mais assistido do dia no Reino Unido.

O episódio possui uma taxa de aprovação de 89% no Rotten Tomatoes e uma média de 7/10 com base em 18 avaliações. O consenso crítico do site diz: "Se vazio de significado, 'Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror' ainda é uma brincadeira histórica agradável que se beneficia muito com a química crepitante de Jodie Whittaker e do ator convidado Goran Višnjić".

Ligações externas

Episódios da Décima terceira Doutora
Episódios de 2020
Nova Iorque em ficção
Representações culturais de Nikola Tesla
Século XX na ficção

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Strategic, direct route connects Dublin to Continental Europe bypassing London
BOULDER, Colo. – June 23, 2017 – A global webscale company has selected Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) to implement a network to connect its data centers in Dublin and Amsterdam. The wavelength solution will be deployed on a direct route unique to Zayo, which bypasses the traffic clusters of London.
The route, which leverages acquired assets from Geo Networks and Viatel, connects Dublin and continental Europe with a strategic fiber route.
"In this case, our long-standing customer needs multiple terabytes of throughput on a direct route," said Andrew Crouch, president and COO at Zayo. "It's an excellent illustration of leveraging our embedded network to provide the customer with a solution that meets their capacity needs."
Zayo continues to see strong demand in Europe for dedicated, high-capacity networks, in both dark fiber and wavelength form, from global companies in multiple sectors. The route that bypasses London is attractive to content and media companies, carriers, financial firms and multinational corporations.
"This new network will provide our anchor customer with high-capacity bandwidth along a highly strategic route," said Crouch. "Given the importance of this route, we expect a robust funnel of sales opportunities."
For more information about Zayo, please visit zayo.com.
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Steve Bissonnette, Managing Partner | March 25, 2012
Culture Days opens up shop for 2012
We're very happy to announce that @CultureDays 2012 Early Registration Opens Today!
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There's more to the story...
We're happy to be working with the national Culture Days team again for 2012. The early registration in March commences a 1/2 year run up to the events on Sept 28th, 29th and 30th coast to coast. You can imagine a lot of careful planning goes into this and the team pulled it off in spectacular fashion again this year. Maybe @plank should host an event?
Beyond the Pixels in Nfld
We really like — "Go Beyond Pixels: A one-day conference for designers and developers." in St. John's, NFLD http://t.co/ogP8QUrR
Interesting one day conference in St John's, Nfld. Seems like An Event Apart repackaged to bring some key voices and skills to smaller venues and interesting places that might not get the draw the larger conferences do.
We're hoping our alumni @ncbeets attends. We won't be able to go but funny enough @warrenwilansky is planning another trip out there shortly. A trip is on my bucket list also — dreaming of going and catching a few cold gray waves and taking in some culture and scenery. Great to see stuff like this in Canada.
The case against Google
An excellent read — "The Case Against Google" written by @mat http://t.co/kDgPAaPx #longreads
With one of the weeks more interesting #longreads, @Mat Honan crazy glues himself to our must-read tech journalists	list. The bottom line of the story is \"People don't trust Google with their data. And that's new.\".
We all use Google countless times every day for ourselves professionally, personally and on behalf of numerous clients. It's easy to forget that Google is not a public service but a for-profit company — and the adage of "if you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." seems to pop into my head more and more. Well worth reading or saving for later.
It's @plank now
We're happy to share some of the process it took to go from @plankdesign to @plank http://t.co/2EzJe4HC	#twitter
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COMMUNIST AND WORKERS PARTIES
J.V. STALIN ARCHIVES
Union de la Jeunesse Communiste (UJC): The potential for France's communist youth
The Communist Youth Union (Union de la Jeunesse Communiste- UJC) is the youth wing of the Revolutionary Communist Party of France (PCRF). The text below is an interview published on international communist press:
ICP: On the centenary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, it has become more and more important to understand well the necessity and role of the communist youth both in the struggle for the rights of the youth and in the working class struggle. How do you consider the potential that communist youth can reveal today in an imperialist country like France?
UJC: There is a clear potential for the Communist Youth Union (UJC) among young workers in France. This is a special situation where discontent is spread within the population and among youngsters, but which does not systematically turn into people's organisation into communist organisations and particularly into the communist youth.
This discontent is reflected in the search for doing politics "differently", because there is a distrust towards classical political formations. So, many youngsters get mobilised for social issues like refugees or gender question. In the second tour of the presidential elections, many chose not to vote or to give a blank vote (if we do not consider the non-inscribed), rather than choosing one of the two candidates (Macron / Marine le Pen). This fact given, the current candidate has not been chosen by a majority whereas inscribed individuals massively expressed their discontent, their desire for not participating in voting. Because of these reasons, we can say that there is a potential for communists.
Nevertheless, we should not overestimate the situation. We have expressed it above: there is no reflection of this discontent into people's systematic organisation. A big part of the youth is taken by the bourgeois ideology via media, education and mass consumption (video games, cinema, etc.), hence the provoked fear among all working people (of losing their job, for example). On the other hand, for the youth which gets mobilised for social issues, we state that there is no class direction but ideas belonging to gauchisme or reformism.
There is a great work to be done, because this potential can be exploited only through a political, economic and ideological struggle. We have to struggle against bourgeoisie who dominates people and maintains them in conformism, but also against gauchisme and reformism which diffuse dangerous ideas among the youth and which can pave the way for youngsters' capitalist integration.
ICP: On these days, "state of emergency" seems like a very useful implementation for governments in order to liquidate the discontents of political crises and on the other hand to create favourable conditions for better serving capitalists with more and more offensive tentatives. How do you explain from a class perspective the course of capitalism in France, which is passing through a particular period starting from the state of emergency and continuing with the presidency of Emmanuel Macron?
UJC: Here we see imperialism's face. There is a strengthening both inside and outside: state of emergency serves principally against the working class, while imperialism provokes abroad wars and deaths.
These all serve bourgeois's profits. We saw that state of emergency, even permanently, is not efficient against terrorist attacks. It is, on the contrary, efficient for imprisoning trade-unionists and legitimising bourgeoisie's general attack against social gains of the working people. Reformist organisations supported the first vote for state of emergency day after the attacks of November 2015 and then voted for Emmanuel Macron in the second tour of the 2017 presidential elections. How can we still affirm that state of emergency serves the protection of the working people against terrorists, while it is a tool for strengthening the bourgeois domination through its state apparatus.
ICP: We observe that following the capitalist crisis there has been an upsurge for fascist movements in Europe and in the World. France is one of the countries where fascism more and more seriously is becoming a threat. So, what can you say about fascist movements' stage of organisation within the youth? How and with which instruments do these criminal organisations wage their activities among the youth?
UJC: These organisations have too much influence, even if they are limited in little groups. Two groups are principally known in France: the Group Defense Union (GUD) and the French Action (AF). The GUD uses a revolutionary anti-capitalist discourse but is fascist and serves the revolted youngsters' integration into capitalism. The AF is especially a petit-bourgeois organisation with a royalist bourgeois ideology, which wants to restore kingdom in France without putting capitalism into question. These two organisations, as well as others in France, use community action (GUD) and collective identity around an individual (AF). They may seduce certain youngsters with their acts, notably through aids for the poor, through Christian charity or a false anti-capitalism, but their acts will always be demagogical and in the service of their ultra-reactionary and fascist cause.
There are also several people who have influence, especially in social media. They know how to exploit the anger of many youngsters by using "trash" humour, cynism and irony which reveal in reality their thoughts and reactionary ideology. We can speak about Alain Soral ("Equality and Reconciliation" group) or "Raptor Dissident" for instance. They are obviously sexist, homophobe and anti-semitic. They know how to use leftist phrases for presenting themselves as anti-conformist and anti-systemic.
But which system? Certainly not capitalism. In fact, this belongs to the extreme-right and to the pro-fascist circles: they use a contending language only in an abstract political form, without precising what stands under the system oppressing us and creating the political scandals that they denounce. Because of lacking serious scientific analyses, they can talk about complots against the French, and make junction with all complotist theories which exist on internet but are nothing but products of human stupidity.
We have to remind that even if they are organisationally in a level of little groups, these ultra-reactionary and fascist groups may be one day a tool for the bourgeoisie to implement a fascist terrorist power against the working people. These organisations may serve as militias. Today, these organisations serve to divide the working class and the youth, they divert the discontent against abstractions, but also against our communist organisations. This is why we have to fight and struggle for the overthrow of the capitalist system, which produced them.
ICP: School fees, accommodation issue, access to public services, loss of social rights and the growing interest in decadent habits are among numerous problems faced by the youth. For communists, this diversity calls for integral and coherent position and strategy. Still, France stands on a well-enrooted tradition of political struggle. How do you elaborate your works for the mobilisation of the youth and the working class?
UJC: UJC develops her policies among the youth through 6 axes of struggle: work, education, health, accommodation, transportation and entertainment (sports, culture, hobbies). These axes are transitive towards socialism. They let us show on the one hand that bourgeoisie does not devote enough means for these fields which are essential in youngsters' lives. On the other hand, these axes let us treat the issue of socialism, since we would fully respond to these questions in a socialist system.
But these axes should not rest in a cadre of agit-prop. The necessity of socialism for youngsters can be understood with a political perspective of breaking with capitalism and its crisis, and furthermore with advances via social gains. It is about articulating tactic and strategy. We do not want to reform the system, but to show the limits and that it is possible to construct another society. That is why we work for concretising these axes with our immediate propositions by helping the emergence of socialist consciousness within the youth. This must take place 1) with a mass work and mass intervention in neighbourhoods, entreprises and education centres; 2) with the organisation of youngsters in trade-union organisations or associations; 3) with the organisation of youngsters in the UJC and the Revolutionary Communist Party of France (PCRF).
ICP: Just like Italy and Spain, France has been one of the countries where the euro-communist wave got enrooted as early as the 1970s. How did the euro-communist current influence the working class and the youth in France?
UJC: This current had a strong influence in France. It is one of the countries where revisionism and class treason through social-democratic way are the strongest in Europe and maybe all world. Accompanied by a fact such as French imperialism, it may be the strongest in Europe and all world. This makes difficult the struggle against reformist illusions among the youth and for the emergence of a veritable revolutionary consciousness. Euro-communism played a role in the depoliticisation of the youngsters: bureaucratic apparatus and political choices against the interests of the working class have disgusted many people. Some turn towards anarchism (and its modern "autonomy" form), others abandon political organisation and lose their confidence in any other organisation, including revolutionary ones. This is why our struggle against social-democracy and opportunism also has to be an essential fight in our revolutionary struggle.
ICP: What is your position concerning the concept of "struggle against islamophobia for multi-cultural (pluralist) society" which is derived from the theory of "clash of civilisations"? As to European left, we see that there is a general consensus on this liberal approach. Do you find this approach efficient in the struggle against fascism?
UJC: Struggle against fascism through cultural or religious approaches is not efficient. We would even say that these approaches cannot be a nucleus for political action in general. In fact, how to justify these approaches without a moral and abstract point of view? Which are the criteria to justify that racism is not right?
Political struggle does not stand on principles of identity. We, communists, do not fight for an abstract idea but for the material transformation of the society, which will then change the ideological composition among people. If there is a total incompatibility between communism and fascism, it is because the former poses the overthrow of capitalism as the nucleus of political action while the latter serves the interests of the bourgeoisie, integrates workers into capitalism for strengthening it.
Accordingly, struggle for a multi-cultural society cannot be efficient against fascism because this is not only an ideology: fascism is the bourgeoisie's terrorist organisation against the working class. A multi-cultural society may be possible within the framework of a fascist state, with a multi-cultural government but which carries out anti-people and ultra-reactionary policies.
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Tags Emmanuel Macron, Eurocommunism, France, Interview, Marine Le Pen, Parti Communiste Révolutionnaire de France (PCRF), Union de la Jeunesse Communiste (UJC), Youth
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African Leaders have been admonished to emulate the exceptional leadership skills of former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, who discharged his duties in an exceptional way when he was alive.
The advice was given by former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Emile Short on Wednesday, after he paid his last respect to Kofi Annan who has been lying in state at the Accra International Conference Centre since Tuesday.
"He demonstrated exceptional skills in peacekeeping. At one stage he was in charge of peacekeeping operations and he discharged that function with excellence. He also demonstrated leadership which African leaders should emulate," Mr. Short said in a Citi News interview.
Kofi Annan died in Switzerland on August 18, 2018, at the age of 80 after a short illness, and will be buried at the Military Cemetery on Thursday, September 13, 2018, after a state funeral service.
People from all walks of life have been trooping to the AICC since Tuesday to view the remains of Kofi Annan which was brought into Ghana from Geneva on Monday.
Today, Wednesday, was set aside for dignitaries including government officials, judiciary, Members of Parliament, Ministers, Chiefs among other identifiable groups to also pay their last respects.
Emile Short in the interview described Kofi Annan as someone who remained humble despite ascending to one of the highest positions in the world.
"He discharged that function with excellence and I think we all should be proud of him. He is a very humble person… Even after he left the UN he continued in conflict resolution and because of his skills in conflict resolution, he was invited to Kenya to resolve the dispute that arose out of the 2007 elections which resulted in the death of almost a million citizens. He was invited because of the respect that they had for him," Emile Short added.


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Hal Needham
Director, Stuntman
Family & Companions
One of Hollywood's busiest and most accomplished stunt men for over two decades, Hal Needham broke into directing features via his friend, actor Burt Reynolds, who starred in several wildly popular if decidedly low-brow action-comedies for him, including "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977), "Hooper" (1978) and "The Cannonball Run" (1981). Critics despised Needham's cardboard scripts, which we...
Hostage Hotel (1999)
The King of Jazz (1989)
Body Slam (1986)
Rad (1986)
Cannonball Run II (1984)
Stroker Ace (1983)
Hooper (1978) -- (Movie Clip) We May Be In Trouble
Hooper (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Chariot Race Is Next!
Hooper (1978) -- (Movie Clip) I Won't Do Any Acting
End, The - (Original Trailer)
Hooper (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Perfect Companion
Dani Saval Crayne
Married on June 28, 1981; divorced in 1996; widow of David Janssen.
One of Hollywood's busiest and most accomplished stunt men for over two decades, Hal Needham broke into directing features via his friend, actor Burt Reynolds, who starred in several wildly popular if decidedly low-brow action-comedies for him, including "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977), "Hooper" (1978) and "The Cannonball Run" (1981). Critics despised Needham's cardboard scripts, which were largely constructed as filler between elaborate stunts and stale gags, but he deflected naysayers with good humor. Laughter seemed to be the key element of his work both on and offscreen, as evidenced by his penchant for running bloopers under the end credits of his films. Needham's career waned in the early 1980s, prompting a move to television, but his early movie efforts remained the epitome of crowd-pleasing, popcorn-driven entertainment for over three decades. He died in October 2013.
Born Hal Brett Needham in Memphis, TN on March 6, 1931, he was the son of Howard Needham and his wife, Edith May Robinson. Raised largely in rural Tennessee and Arkansas, he developed his taste for extreme adventure while working as a tree topper in the logging industry, and later, as a paratrooper during the Korean War. After completing his military service, Needham relocated to Southern California, where he worked briefly as a billboard model for Viceroy cigarettes while seeking to break into the film industry as a stuntman. He apprenticed under the legendary Chuck Roberson, John Wayne's longtime stunt double, before breaking out on his own as Richard Boone's stunt double on the Emmy-winning television Western, "Have Gun, Will Travel" (CBS, 1958-1963). That job soon led to steady work on other TV horse operas, including "Rawhide" (CBS, 1959-1965) and "Riverboat" (NBC, 1959-1961). The latter series introduced him to Burt Reynolds, who soon became one of Needham's best friends and supporters.
Needham soon found work as a stuntman in a wide variety of feature films, including John Ford's "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962), "How the West Was Won" (1962) and "Camelot" (1967). By the mid-1960s, he had advanced to stunt coordinator, working frequently with journeyman director Andrew V. McLaglen on such films as "Bandolero!" (1968) and "The Undefeated" (1969), and frequently taking small acting roles in his projects, most of which required him to take a punch or fall off a horse. In 1971, he joined forces with fellow stuntmen Ronnie Rondell and Glenn Wilder to create Stunts Unlimited, an exclusive organization of stunt performers who sought to provide top-notch stunt work for the industry. The company would later serve as the basis for 1980's "Stunts Unlimited" (ABC), an action-adventure film directed by Needham about stunt men recruited for espionage jobs.
In 1973, Needham advanced to second unit director on "White Lightning," a Southern-set action vehicle for Reynolds, and later served similar duties on "The Longest Yard" (1974) and "Gator" (1976). He also set out to raise funding for a low-budget action-comedy he had penned called "Smokey and the Bandit," which concerned a lovable outlaw who attempts to haul 400 cases of beer to a rodeo in 28 hours while avoiding a tough Southern sheriff. Actor-singer Jerry Reed was initially attached to play the Bandit, but Needham found it difficult to garner any interest until Reynolds read the script and agreed to play the lead. Universal Pictures soon came on board, and with Reed as the Bandit's pal, Snowman, Reynolds' real-life girlfriend Sally Field as the love interest, and comedy legend Jackie Gleason as the sheriff, "Smokey and the Bandit" went on to become the second highest-grossing film of 1977, bested only by the global phenomenon of "Star Wars" (1977).
Needham soon launched into a string of low-budget, high-energy action-comedies that attempted to reproduce the lightning in a bottle excitement of "Smokey." The results were largely mixed: "The Villain" (1979), with Kirk Douglas as a wily and seemingly indestructible Western heel who attempted to steal away Ann-Margret from virtuous sheriff Arnold Schwarzenegger, was dismissed as a live-action cartoon, but "Hooper" (1978), with Reynolds as an aging stunt man unable to give up the adrenalin rush of his job, benefitted from a smart script and fine performances by Field, Brian Keith and a host of savvy supporting players, including James Best, Robert Klein and John Marley. But none could match the popularity and box office draw of the original "Smokey," so a sequel, 1981's "Smokey and the Bandit II," was quickly drafted. It drew respectable ticket sales and scored a world record when stunt man Buddy Joe Hooker jumped a Dodge Monaco over 150 feet, but failed to reproduce the charm of its predecessor.
Needham officially left stunt work after "The End" in 1978, instead devoting his time to directing, as well as a bid for the World Land Speed Record. He was instrumental in the development of the Budweiser Rocket, which in 1979 reportedly broke the sound barrier with speeds in excess of 739 miles an hour. The record was never officially bestowed on the vehicle, and Needham later moved on to racecar driver Harry Gant's Skoal Bandit, which he owned in the 1980s. The decade was also Needham's most prolific, as well as the period in which he earned the most critical brickbats for his work. Needham's films in the 1980s stuck to a simple formula - big stars, bigger action and broad comedy - which made for some crowd-pleasing films like "The Cannonball Run" (1981), a slapstick, all-star race picture with Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, Roger Moore and even Asian superstar Jackie Chan criss-crossing the country in an illegal race. "Cannonball" was the sixth highest-grossing film of 1981, inspiring a 1984 sequel that pushed the limits of vehicular mayhem and moribund gags. It failed to attract the crowds, followed by a similar reception for "Stroker Ace" (1984), which paired Reynolds with his real-life love interest, Loni Anderson. 1982's big-budget science fiction epic "Megaforce," with Barry Bostwick as a motorcycle-driving superhero, also tanked, which essentially brought Needham's movie career to a halt.
In the late 1980s, he worked largely in television, where he produced and directed a string of syndicated TV-movies featuring his Bandit character, played by former soap star Brian Bloom. The quartet of projects, which began with 1994's "Bandit Goes Country" and wrapped with "Bandit's Silver Angel" (1994), performed modestly well for Needham, who also reunited with old friend Reynolds to helm an episode of his short-lived series, "B.L. Stryker" (ABC, 1989-1990). His final turn behind the camera as a director came with 1999's "Hard Time: Hostage Hotel" (TNT), a TV-movie with Burt Reynolds as a former convict-turned-detective. The new millennium saw Needham contribute his experience to several documentaries on his famous stars, as well as the NASCAR documentary "Tim Richmond: To the Limit," which aired as part of the "30 for 30" (2009-2010) series on ESPN. In 2011, he released his autobiography, Stuntman! My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life. Hal Needham died of cancer on October 25, 2013.
Director (Feature Film)
Megaforce (1982)
The Cannonball Run (1981)
Smokey And The Bandit II (1980)
Stunts Unlimited (1980)
The Villain (1979)
Hooper (1978)
Gator (1976)
Take a Hard Ride (1975)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Hellfighters (1968)
Southern Voices, American Dreams (1985)
Foul Play (1978)
Jackson County Jail (1976)
W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1974)
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
The Bounty Man (1972)
One More Train to Rob (1971)
Bert Gant
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
Man at racetrack
The War Wagon (1967)
McLintock! (1963)
Writer (Feature Film)
Characters As Source Material
From Story
Little Big Man (1970)
The Undefeated (1969)
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Stunt Supervisor
Bandolero! (1968)
The Devil's Brigade (1968)
The Ballad of Josie (1968)
The Way West (1967)
The Rare Breed (1966)
Action coordinator
Paratroop Command (1959)
Stunts (Feature Film)
The Sunchaser (1996)
The End (1978)
Semi-Tough (1977)
Nickelodeon (1976)
Peeper (1976)
French Connection II (1975)
Three the Hard Way (1974)
Goodnight My Love (1972)
Hardcase (1972)
Special Thanks (Feature Film)
Birch Street Gym (1991)
Misc. Crew (Feature Film)
something big (1971)
Beau Geste (1966)
Director (Special)
The Stockers (1981)
Cast (Special)
World Stunt Awards (2001)
The World's Greatest Stunts: A Tribute to Hollywood's Stuntmen (1988)
The Stuntman Awards (1986)
Egan (1973)
Director (TV Mini-Series)
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel (1994)
Bandit: Bandit Goes Country (1994)
Bandit: Beauty And The Bandit (1994)
Bandit Bandit (1994)
Writer (TV Mini-Series)
Producer (TV Mini-Series)
Served in the US Army, specialized in parachute testing
Debut as stuntman in "The Spirit of St. Louis"
Was stunt double on the TV series "Riverboat", starring Burt Reynolds
Worked on the stunts for "How the West Was Won"
Acting debut in "McLintock!"
TV acting debut, "The Bounty Man" (ABC)
Did second unit work on "The Longest Yard", starring Burt Reynolds
Was second unit director on Reynolds' "Gator"
Feature directorial debut, "Smokey and the Bandit", starring Reynolds; also received a stroy credit
Directed the semi-autobiographical "Hooper"
Acted in and directed the CBS TV-movie "Death Car on the Freeway"
Helmed the cartoonish but enjoyable "The Villain"
Directed the sequel "Somkey and the Bandit II"
Screenwriting debut "Megaforce", also directed
Directed last film to date "Body Slam"
Helmed episodes of the ABC series "B.L. Stryker", starring Reynolds
Was executive producer and director of several TV-movies featuring the Bandit character (now played by Brian Bloom)
Served as stunt coordinator for Michael Cimino's "Sunchaser"
Hooper (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Chariot Race Is Next! At a completely imaginary stunt-man's benefit show in LA, Burt Reynolds as the title character is a big draw, Alfie Wise his buddy, Norm Grabowski as Hammerhead, and Jan-Michael Vincent flies in as "the Kid," about whom there's lots of buzz, with hero stunt man Hal Needham directing, in Hooper, 1978.
Hooper (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Perfect Companion With language that might not be chosen today, and their relationship undefined, Burt Reynolds as the stunt-man title character arrives home from the set to fairly-worried Sally Field as Gwen (the two were a couple at the time), with impressive double-talking, Hal Needham directing, in Hooper, 1978.
Hooper (1978) -- (Movie Clip) We May Be In Trouble First an uncredited song (the singer's sign-off maybe the inspiration for the Toby Keith hit?) then title character Burt Reynolds with his crew at an LA bar, his squeeze Sally Field, Brian Keith and later Jan-Michael Vincent, tangle with a gang led by Steelers QB Terry Bradshaw, the reigning Super Bowl MVP (with stunt stalwart Robert Tessier), in Hooper, 1978.
Hooper (1978) -- (Movie Clip) I Won't Do Any Acting After suiting up in the credits, star Burt Reynolds (the stunt-man title character Sonny) roars down to the set where Robert Klein is the director, Adam West plays himself as the star he's doubling-for, and James Best his buddy Cully, with Burt pal and legendary stunt man Hal Needham directing, in Hooper, 1978.
Smokey And The Bandit (1977) -- (Movie Clip) I Love Your Suits It's been established that Big and Little Enos (Pat McCormick, Paul Williams) like to challenge truckers to make a reckless beer run, so they seek out "The Bandit" (Burt Reynolds, his first scene) at a Georgia truck rodeo, early in Smokey And The Bandit, 1977.
Smokey And The Bandit (1977) -- (Movie Clip) We Ain't Never Not Made It Bandit (Burt Reynolds) has already persuaded Cledus (Jerry Reed) to undertake the daredevil beer run from Georgia to Texarkana and back, so this is mostly fluff, plus the introduction of the Trans Am, in Smokey And The Bandit, 1977.
Smokey And The Bandit (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Think Of It As A Wedding Posse Having picked up the load of Coors and departed Texarkana, Cledus (Jerry Reed) in the truck and Smokey (Burt Reynolds) in the Trans Am now pause to pick up the runaway bride, Sally Field as "Carrie," in Smokey And The Bandit, 1977.
Smokey And The Bandit (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Complete Lack Of Respect Bandit (Burt Reynolds) and fugitive bride Carrie (Sally Field) getting to know each other, while Cledus (Jerry Reed), running the beer, is really starting to bother pursuing Texas sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), provoking his famous line, in Smokey And The Bandit, 1977.
Hooper (1978) -- Original Trailer Stunt man turned director Hal Needham directs Burt Reynolds as a living-legend Hollywood stunt man, in Hooper, 1978, co-starring Sally Field.
End, The - (Original Trailer) Burt Reynolds is dying so he hires loony Dom DeLuise to kill him in the comedy The End (1978).
Rare Breed, The - (Original Trailer) In this Western with breeding, James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara fight to take a rare English bull to Texas in The Rare Breed (1966).
War Wagon, The - (Original Trailer) John Wayne and Kirk Douglas plan to steal a half million in gold from a greedy mine owner. Trouble is, it's in The War Wagon (1967).
Smokey And The Bandit - (Original Trailer) The Bandit (Burt Reynolds) clears the road of Smokey (Jackie Gleason) for a cross-country beer run in Smokey And The Bandit (1977).
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More On: cardiology, Heart Center, heart regeneration, Regenerative medicine, William Pu
A mutant heart muscle cell (in green) surrounded by normal cells. The mutant cell lacks Srf, a master maturation gene. It is unable to grow in size and lacks the fine membrane invaginations that help coordinate muscle contractions (appearing as vertical striations in the normal cells). (IMAGE: GUO Y; ET AL. NAT COMMS 9 #3837 (2018).]
Scientists around the world have been trying to replace damaged heart tissue using lab-made heart-muscle cells, either injecting them into the heart or applying patches laced with the cells. But results to date have been underwhelming.
"If you make cardiomyocytes in a dish from pluripotent stem cells, they will engraft in the heart and form muscle," says William Pu, MD, director of Basic and Translational Cardiovascular Research at Boston Children's Hospital. "But the muscle doesn't work very well because the myocytes are stuck in an immature stage."
Our cardiomyocytes begin developing before birth. How they become vigorously contracting adult heart muscle cells hasn't been well understood.
"I think there are specific signaling pathways that control that process, which we haven't been able to reproduce in a dish," says Pu.
Selective deletions
Studying cardiomyocyte maturation in live mice has been equally challenging. Prior studies have tried genetically engineering mice with different genes "knocked out" in their heart muscle to figure out which ones are required. But complete loss of a gene often causes dysfunction of the entire heart, which itself can impair maturation. Moreover, breeding multiple strains of "knockout" mice with different genes deleted is an expensive, time-consuming procedure.
We were able to test 10 potential genes of interest within 10 weeks.
In a new study published September 21 in Nature Communications, Pu and colleagues bypassed these hurdles. Using live mice and CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology, they teased out a key factor involved in heart muscle maturation in a novel way.
The beauty of their approach is two-fold. First, it required just one mouse strain that expresses the Cas9 enzyme, coupled with a virus that directs Cas9 to delete a specific gene. To target different genes, the researchers simply made small modifications to the virus.
"We were able to test 10 potential genes of interest within 10 weeks," says Pu.
Second, rather than delete the gene in every cell, the researchers injected the virus such that roughly 1 in every 10 heart muscle cells was affected. This "mosaic" delivery pattern allowed the unaffected heart muscle to keep functioning. The team could then study the mutated heart muscle cells separately.
A master maturation regulator
One factor, known as serum response factor (SRF), emerged as a key regulator of cardiomyocyte maturation. When the Srf gene was deleted in the heart muscle of newborn mice in a mosaic fashion, many aspects of maturation were disrupted.
In normal, mature myocytes, the basic contractile structures, known as sarcomeres, are highly organized. But in the mutant myocytes, the sarcomeres became disorganized. Furthermore, normal myocytes develop transverse tubules, structures that help to coordinate sarcomere contraction. These too were greatly disrupted in the mutant cells. Finally, the mitochondria, which provide energy and are normally arrayed alongside the sarcomeres in brick-like fashion, were dramatically reduced in size and number.
The team then showed that SRF regulates the activity of multiple other genes, including critical sarcomere genes, in immature cardiomyocytes, but not in mature cardiomyocytes. They think that SRF receives signals from the rest of the cell which cue it to execute a master organization program during maturation.
Finally, Pu and colleagues showed that sarcomeres themselves must be properly assembled for other aspects of maturation to occur. "We learned that sarcomeres are not just important for contraction, but are probably driving the maturation program," says Pu.
Making immature cardiomyocytes grow up
Overall, the findings would seem to suggest that if you could just find a way to boost SRF, you could get lab-made heart muscle cells to grow up. But it's not that simple: When SRF was over-expressed, the cells looked the same as those without SRF at all.
And that sets up the lab's next goal.
"Cells seem very sensitive to the level of SRF," says Pu. "You probably can't manipulate SRF itself. You have to understand what's controlling it upstream."
Yuxuan Guo of the Department of Cardiology at Boston Children's Hospital was first author on the paper. Funders included the National Health Lung and Blood Institute, the American Heart Association and the Boston Children's Hospital Department of Cardiology. See the paper for a full list of authors and funders.
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EVER. - by Bianca Mastroianni
Kit Harington has said goodbye to his Game of Thrones character Jon Snow... and is ready to land his next big role. When you come from possibly the best television show ever made, the only way is up! So naturally, Kit is interested in the Harry Potter prequel film.
WATCH: Daniel Radcliffe says he is interested in the new 'Harry Potter' movie
During his appearance at Ace Comic-Con in Illinois over the weekend, Kit was asked who he would play in the prequel film 'Marauders'. If you're a true Harry Potter fan, you'll know that the film will focus on Harry's dad James Potter, and his best friends Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew (ew)... and of course, their nemesis... Severus Snape.
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Kit revealed: "Snape is the best character, ever. The storyline of Snape. Severus Snape is the most tragic, wonderful, brilliant...
"He's a character you hate, but you end up loving. He's just phenomenal. I don't think I'm right for him, so I'll play Sirius [Black]. But, whoever gets to play Snape, that's a great character."
TBF we can't see anyone doing Alan Rickman or Gary Oldman's roles justice... but Kit's a great contender. Especially with his hair.
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As of right now, Kit is busy with his new Marvel Studios movie The Eternals, set to be released in November 2020. He will be playing the role of Dane Whitman, the Black Knight.
In fact, Kit will be starring alongside his GoT brother Richard Madden (Robb Stark), and Angelina Jolie.
The Eternals is based on the Jack Kirby comic book from 1976 which is set millions of years in the past.
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