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'I don't blame the authors. They've got to make a living and a bigger advance that I can't afford to match is obviously something they have to consider. They know that the door is open if they ever get stuck in that hellish midlist place. But I feel that so many of the big companies lack imagination. Instead of going out there and finding their own talent, they're cherry-picking the bestselling authors...' Our Comment is from Karen Sullivan, Orenda Books, interviewed by Jasmin Kirkbride in Bookbrunch.
The Booklife Prize in Fiction 2017 is open to unpublished or self-published novels in the English language. The entry fee is $99 and the Grand Prize is $5,000 but all entries also get a brief critical assessment of your manuscript. Categories are Romance/Erotica; Mystery/Thriller; Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror; General Fiction; Memoir/Autobiography; YA Fiction; and Middle-Grade Fiction.
Five other attractive Writing Opportunities are still live.
Our series of six articles on writing in different categories covers a wide range of genre writing - Crime, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Romance, Non-fiction, Historical fiction and Memoir and Autobiography. So, if you're a genre writer, we've probably got an article on the genre you are interested in.
In the annual jamboree which is the annual Sunday Times Rich List three children's authors have featured for the first time. In another first from across the world, British authors have achieved Public Lending Right on ebooks. News Review
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Links of the week: writing a book is really, really hard (surprise, surprise) and getting it published is a long goddam slog, 15 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Publishing a Book | | Observer; a recent tweak in the way Amazon sells books has publishers and authors very worried, Amazon Steps Up Its Battle With the Book Industry | New Republic; allowing readers to step inside the minds of those who have shaped the world we live in, and to imagine the all-too human side of history, Historical Fiction is More Important Than Ever: 10 Writers Weigh In | Literary Hub; and three months ago, the New York Times cut 10 categories from its Best Sellers list, As best-seller lists are cut, a looming disaster for publishers | The Outline.
How to market your writing services online is a useful article from Joanne PhillipsUK-based freelance writer and ghostwriter. She has had articles published in national writing magazines, and has ghostwritten books on subjects as diverse as hairdressing and keeping chickens. Visit her at www.joannephillips.co.uk about selling yourself as a writer. 'Recently someone commented to me that I seem to be doing a pretty good job of promoting my writing services on the internet. I was touched by the observation - we writers get so many rejections that a little praise is especially gratifying. And I began to wonder - what does it take to market yourself successfully as a jobbing writer today?...'
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I don't recall being asked to refund $4000 – Rawlings hits back at Major Rida
By Admin Editor December 8, 2019 67 No comment
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has denied claims by Major (Rtd) Ibrahim Rida, that he was hurt by his superiors after being asked to refund $4,000 he had wasted.
In a strong-worded statement Sunday, Mr Rawlings said he did not recall being asked to pay back some $4000.
According to him, "if I was asked to, it would make sense considering the fact that I had to cut off the flying instructors' course in Peshawar, Pakistan right at the beginning of the course and get back to the mission to help save this country by removing Acheampong to enable General Akuffo to take over."
The former Squadron commander who was almost killed during the June 4th uprising last week narrated to JoyNews' Raymond Acquah on 'UPfront' the reason behind Mr Rawlings bitterness in the running to his first coup attempt.
He was speaking ahead of the release of 'Scars of the revolution', a sequel to JoyNews Documentary 'Who killed the Judges' which was aired in October 2018.
'Scars of the revolution' discloses the act of savagery leading to and the aftermath of one of the country's darkest moment in history, the June 4th uprising.
Former President Rawlings responds to Major Rida
What a shame! A real shame indeed. Kindly give your children and some of the good people you've known some decent space; be a little truthful and let them live their lives without this shame.
You don't appear to have changed, Major Rida. You should leave these fabrications to those who're politically and financially profiting from damaging June 4th and December 31st. There were a number of interesting and near-tragic events and meetings…all very true that you could talk about.
I am shocked that you would lend yourself to such falsehood. Your uncle Gen Akuffo had a good enough space of time from General Acheampong's arrest to do what was expected of him but no, he obviously couldn't see that his refusal or inability heightened the pressure and hostility again. Your head was equally stuck in the ground. Some of you were oblivious of the danger in the air.
Rida, I do not recall being asked to pay back some $4000. And if I was asked to, it would make sense considering the fact that I had to cut off the flying instructors' course in Peshawar, Pakistan right at the beginning of the course and get back to the mission to help save this country by removing Acheampong to enable General Akuffo to take over.
Amongst the many conversations we had, do you recall suggesting that I would have to escape after dropping that bomb? Do you recall that General Akuffo, in one instance cancelled a foreign trip with the expectation that I would have dropped the bomb the night before and he would necessarily have to be in Accra to take over as Head of State? Do you recall that particular morning when you drove to the Airforce station to come to ask me "what happened", "what went wrong"?
The second thing that put me off collaborating with you was the comment you made the night I suggested (in your sitting room) some of the good senior officers who General Akuffo could bring on board his government.
Do you recall the comment you made when I suggested a senior officer I thought was clean enough? You said with irritation and annoyance in your voice that "we don't need that holier than thou pepe man".?
Major Rida, all said and done, because of your treachery, when you attempted to call on me a few days after the June 4th explosion at Nana's Flat, one of the infantry guards corked his weapon and nearly shot you. Do you recall I spun around and jumped from the veranda and planted my body between you and the soldier, to take the bullet for you to save your cowardly life? And you dare to suggest, on a slimy Joy TV programme that I was begging for mercy and to be pardoned? No Rida. 15th May failed because I made it so to prevent the blood-letting that night. Take a look at the trial and tell me that's the posture of an officer begging to be pardoned.
That soldier and many who knew what you did or did not do would read this new nonsense of yours with regrets. Do you remember it took a while to cool down their anger? Dear Rida, you should have left these fake and brainless fabrications to the Alolgas, Adabugas and the Boakye Djans to continue their cowardly and mercenary behaviour. The exposure time for them, is quite due.
I have given cover to a number of uniformed personnel who were not brave enough for June 4th, December 31st and others. There you are, repeating some of the manufactured 40-year-old lies about Boakye Djan leading soldiers to rescue me. Let me assure you that guy never led any soldier to rescue any goat anywhere. You cannot be that ignorant of another claim, that he was directing the '79 revolt from inside one of the Recce armoured vehicles? Even as the Recce armoured squadron was under siege and some of the Senior NCO commanders had retreated from engaging in the battle and waiting to join the infantry units, Boakye Djan had long escaped from his unit around 3 o' clock that morning of June 4th, when according to him he heard one of the soldiers cry out, "kill all the officers".
What he, however, did not say was that he fled to the bush behind the 5BN quarters and found himself crouching next to another Captain on the bush track and with the approach of dawn, the Captain said he headed east towards Tema where his parents lived whilst Boakye Djan headed westwards to Achimota school. I would dare him to invite the unnamed officer to deny or confirm what I'm saying.
It wasn't until late that afternoon that he was fished-out of his girlfriend's quarters by a detachment. As should have been expected, he refused to open up until Flt. Lt. Lee threatened to climb up and break down his woman's door. Another poisonous and cowardly person I covered up for was Alolga, who should have been in position at 5BN after I had taken charge of the Recce grounds. Albert and I had commandeered two of the armoured vehicles. Alolga was nowhere to be found or seen at that crucial moment of 31st. It wasn't until the fight of that day was over around 8pm, and some of us had gathered and sitting by the gutter at the Recce Regiment administration block, that Alolga came walking sheepishly and nervously in a very crumpled uniform following a more courageous Chris Atim. I kept quiet about his cowardly disappearance and went on to add him to the membership of the PNDC.
Many brave soldiers and officers have survived many fabrications and revisions of historical events in silence up to this point, don't push it any further, Rida. Your deformed character always affected and took away from your personality the appearance of a fine soldier. You betrayed the trust of your own men and after all these years have resorted to resurrect yourself this way?
The distrust and hatred that your behaviour evoked amongst the men, made it unsafe to bring you back on board. I have covered up for a lot of personnel because I am not unaware of how courage can desert some of the brave ones.
Your stories don't add up and the current generation of officers and soldiers, I hope, can see through you and your kind. I didn't think someone like you in spite of some of your character defects would sink so low. Is it not odd that you have chosen now to come out? You had to wait till that generation of officers, passed out, passed on or retired. You now find it politically expedient to come out with such mindless distortions because a lot of the actors from both the ranks and officers would have retired by now. Having been close to me you can now play the opportunistic card. If they didn't know me for who I am, all that I said at the trial wouldn't have ignited their emotions.
Yes, I was an angry man. Ghana was on its knees and real action was needed and I stood up to do a man's job. You cannot reduce the story of June 4 to your illusions and pettiness! Cowards like you convince me evil has truly triumphed!!!
Kobina Andoh Amoakwa
(Communications Directorate)
myjoyonline.com
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Today's inspiring quote comes from my daughter. Yesterday we were listening to a podcast on positive thinking and happiness and the interviewees were explaining - at great lengths - what happiness is. I was keenly interested but my daughter kind of lost patience with them and exclaimed: "Why does it take so long to explain happiness? Just do what you like and do it well!"
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The Urgency of Now: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males (The Schott Foundation for Public Education, September 20, 2012). This report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education, an Atlantic grantee, finds that only 52 percent of Black male and 58 percent of Latino male ninth-graders graduate from high school four years later, while 78 percent of White, non-Latino male ninth-graders graduate four years later.
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Democratic School Turnarounds: Pursuing Equity and Learning from Evidence (National Education Policy Center, October 1, 2012). This report considers the democratic tensions inherent in the federal SIG policy's market based school reforms. It concludes with a set of recommendations that re-center the purposes of public education for low-income students, students of color, and local communities in developing more equitable, democratic school turnarounds.
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THE PRAIRIE EDITOR: Oh? Canada!
Too many Americans have the bad habit of either ignoring or
taking for granted our neighbor to the north, Canada.
Many are unaware that Canada is our largest foreign trade
partner, or that Canadians have contributed so much to our
U.S. cultural life in popular and classical music; actors in our
theater, films and on television; artists and performers in the
visual and dance arts.
Canada historically, once we broke off from Great Britain,
became one of our most dependable allies in two world wars,
Korea, Viet Nam, and various peacekeeping efforts around
The longest (and probably most peaceful) border in the world
between two nations is between the U.S. and Canada.
Canada is thus vital to the economy, culture and security of
The Canadians just held their national elections, and their
charismatic and controversial young prime minister was
returned to office (he was first elected in 2015), but his Liberal
Party no longer has a majority in the Canadian parliament.
Queen Elizabeth II is the titular head of state in Canada which
is completely independent. Canada, formerly a colony of Great
Britain, is now a member of the British Commonwealth of
Nations (made up of countries that were formerly colonies).
The queen appoints a governor-general who is chosen by the
Canadian government. All of the executive powers rest with
the prime minister who is chosen by the parliament.
Mr. Trudeau's party just won about 15 seats less than a
parliamentary majority. He has just announced he will not try
to form a majority coalition, but will instead lead a minority
government. Fortunately for him, he can assemble often a
majority on legislation from other left of center parties which
won seats, but such a government can be a problematic one.
The second largest party, the Progressive Conservative Party
won more popular votes across Canada than did Trudeau's
Liberal Party, but Canada, like the U.S., does not hold a popular
vote election to choose its executive leadership.
The concentration of Liberal voters is primarily in the eastern
provinces and Ontario, the largest province. Conservative voters
dominate the western provinces. In 2015, Mr. Trudeau's party
also won Quebec, but in 2019, a nationalist Quebec party made a
dramatic increase in seats won --- at the expense of the Liberals.
This helped cost Mr. Trudeau his parliamentary majority.
Both the Liberals and the Conservatives are centrist parties,
center-left and center-right. Two other parties which won seats
are to the left of the Liberals (but will support Mr. Trudeau's
election as prime minister). The issue for the Quebec party is
Quebec independence --- although it leans to the left, too. This
large and primarily French-speaking province is the reason
Canada is officially bi-lingual --- although outside of Quebec,
most Canadians speak primarily English.
The population of Canada is 38 million, but most of its citizens
live in a few large cities near the U.S. border. Ottawa is the
capital, but the largest cities are Toronto, Montreal and
Vancouver. It is the second largest nation on earth in area (after
Russia) but only the fifth largest in land mass (large parts of it
include bodies of water). Like the U.S., it has a notable
population of native peoples. It has substantial natural resources;
yet much of its land cannot be cultivated, and is located in cold
climates where few persons are likely to inhabit.
It was settled by the English and the French about 400 years ago.
In spite of its relatively small population, it has the 10th largest
economy in the world.
Recently, Mr. Trudeau and his government signed the North
American trade agreement, as did Mexico, at the initiative of
President Trump, but the U.S. Congress has yet to ratify it.
Although they have somewhat different political ideologies,
Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Trump appear to get on well. President
Trump warmly congratulated Prime Minister Trudeau on his
recent re-election.
The destiny and well-being of the U.S. and Canada are vitally
linked, by language, location, economic and security interests.
Each has a pride of its own, but the larger nation has long
often undervalued the smaller nation, creating a certain
tension and resentment in the latter.
In the difficult global period likely ahead, when the U.S. will
need and rely on its friends more than ever before, an increased
interest in and greater appreciation for Canada might be a wise
Copyright (c) 2019 by Barry Casselman. All rights reserved.
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Most young vapers aren't using e-cigs to quit smoking: Survey
Electronic cigarettes are marketed as an aid to quitting smoking, but most young people who vape say that's not why they indulge.
Six out of 10 people reported that they vape to relax and they'd miss the stress relief of vaping if they quit, a new survey sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) shows.
"We're hearing this narrative that people are vaping to quit smoking, and yet what we're finding -- especially in teenagers and young adults -- is they're vaping to socialize and vaping to reduce their stress," said Dr. Natasha Bhuyan, a practicing family physician in Phoenix.
This extends to former tobacco smokers. Only about half of former smokers said they vape to quit or stay off tobacco, the survey found.
"I think this narrative that vaping is out there to help people quit smoking, we aren't really seeing it pan out in reality," Bhuyan added.
The AAFP said it commissioned this survey of 1,000 vapers to help its doctors better understand the vaping habits of their patients, and how the recent outbreak of vaping-related illnesses and deaths has impacted their attitudes and behaviors.
The survey found that young vapers view vaping as a social activity, as opposed to a means of quitting tobacco.
About one-third of teens and young adults aged 16 to 23 said they vape to socialize. They also are more than twice as likely to vape to fit in with their group than slightly older adults, 21% versus 10% of vapers aged 24 to 30.
"That's important for parents to be aware of," Bhuyan said. "Parents will ask their kids about alcohol use and drug use. My advice to parents is, ask your teenager if they have any friends or classmates that are vaping. It will give you an idea of what pressure your child might be facing to vape, and it will give you an idea of the secondhand vape our children are being exposed to."
As far as the news about vaping-related illness, many e-cigarette users are struggling to understand the facts and the potential dangers that come from vaping.
There have been 54 deaths confirmed in 27 states and the District of Columbia related to vaping, as well as 2,506 cases of illness across the entire United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has singled out THC-containing vape products containing vitamin E acetate as strongly linked to the outbreak. THC is the ingredient in marijuana that causes a person to get high.
The news has gotten through to vapers, the survey found.
About 93% of vapers said they are aware of the news regarding vaping-related illnesses and deaths, and about 71% said they are more careful about how they purchase vaping products.
But experts are concerned that misinformation might lead many vapers to assume that e-cigarettes are safer than they actually are.
A little more than half of vapers said only people who use e-liquids laced with marijuana are at risk of illness or death, and four out of five underestimated the number of injuries and deaths that resulted from the recent outbreak, the survey shows.
Three out of five vapers also stated that secondhand vapor is harmless.
"Many people think only cannabis-containing vape products are dangerous. Meanwhile, they're not aware of the major health risks of even their blueberry flavored e-juice," Bhuyan said.
Even people who only vape nicotine products are suffering lung problems, said Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, an American Lung Association spokesman.
"I run the state of Maryland's only tobacco treatment clinic and I promise you, people who vape are suffering lung issues from e-cigarettes," said Galiatsatos, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. "They just aren't lung issues that are going to get the media's attention. Asthma isn't as immediately grabbing as someone who's on a mechanical ventilator in an ICU."
There are a multitude of harmful chemicals contained in the vapor beyond vitamin E acetate, said Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
"It's vital to understand that there are harmful chemicals that are carried in the vapor that can still be inhaled as secondhand vapor that can damage the lungs," including arsenic and metals like cadmium, nickel, chromium, copper and lead, Glatter said.
About 72% of vapers said they are likely to reduce their vaping over the next six months, but "it is distressing that they have not yet done so," said Patricia Folan, director of the Center for Tobacco Control at Northwell Health in Great Neck, N.Y.
"The reason for their hesitancy may be associated with the challenges related to addressing their nicotine addiction, their fear of nicotine withdrawal and the associated discomfort, which could be overwhelming their concern about the reported vaping injuries and deaths," Folan said.
Galiatsatos said he is most concerned that 67% of vapers see no reason to strengthen the regulation of e-cigarettes.
"We have a product that's already unregulated, and that survey tells me that two-thirds of the population think we are fine where we are at, if not that we need to let go a little more," said Galiatsatos.
The lack of regulation has made it difficult for doctors to know exactly which harmful toxins are contained in vapor, Galiatsatos said.
The AAFP Vaping Survey was conducted by Wakefield Research among 1,000 e-cigarette users aged 16 to 30 between December 2 and 10, using an e-mail invitation and an online survey.
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Oak Bay resident revises grand dictionary of Canadianisms
Stefan Dollinger spent a decade updating the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
Octavian Lacatusu
Oak Bay resident Stefan Dollinger always loved languages. He spent hours and hours in the depths of the Vienna University Library, studying the origins of modern language, and more specifically, English.
In early 2000 though, the Austrian-born lexicographer and University of British Columbia English department professor stumbled on what seemed to be a bible – or more so a linguistic map – of the Canadian language: the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP) circa 1967.
"Lots of people who are in languages and literature, they don't really know about it yet," said Dollinger, adding that as it happened, he was also writing his PhD dissertation on early Ontario English, (ironically not on lexicons). It wasn't until 2005 conference in Toronto when the idea of someone revising DCHP surfaced.
Dollinger eagerly stepped in, and Nelson, DCHP's original publisher, approached him for what would take nearly a decade, $300,000 and 43 talented students to create what is now known as DCHP-2. And, unlike online sources telling the origins of Canadianisms, Dollinger and his team's approach is meticulously processed.
"There are lots of lists online that talks about Canadianisms, Canadian words and meanings, but they're not very good… this has been a scientific approach towards geographical variation in English," he said.
They didn't just look at Canadian sources, either, but at American and British, New Zealand and Australian language pools for reference. Dollinger added 1,002 new head words and roughly 1,300 new meanings, with a total of around 11,000 head words and 14,500 meanings. The first '67 edition of DCHP was also digitized for easier access.
DCHP is not necessarily for immigrants and newcomers either, but a lingual source rich with history.
"It's mostly for Canadians who really need authoritative information about what it is that makes their English special," Dollinger said. "We did a tenth of what the original team did, but when you look at the new entries, they are 10 times as long than the old ones."
There are some revealing, if not startling, entries. For example, the term "canuck" originates from the Hawaiian kanaka 'man' and was used in discriminatory and racist contexts, as well as describing a French-Canadian individual. Canuck took a lighter meaning in 1945, when a Vancouver hockey team, the Vancouver Canucks, was formed, and remains today as the most frequent use of the word.
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The project doesn't stop here, either. Dollinger is planning on a possible DCHP-3, and mulling to maybe fundraise a print edition of DCHP-2. This year, he will work with University of Victoria's archives of the first-edition of the English dictionary to compile a book on the making of Canadian English.
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October 31, 2020 permalink
Tove Jansson and Astrid Lindgren: Postwar Anti-authoritarianism in the Guise of Kid Lit →
From The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945) by Tove Jansson. ©Moomin Characters™
Our family is currently devouring Tove Jansson's Moomin books and cartoons, which are resonating with all of the things we're seeing happening in the world around us lately — timely, then, to come across this article from Aeon on how Jansson's and Astrid Lundgren's Pippi books were part of a Nordic postwar antidote to fascism and authoritarianism.
I knew about Jansson working with her mother as a cartoonist for the leftist magazine Garm, but the details about her relationship with her sculptor father makes it much more clear what's up with the often-distant Moominpappa in the Moomin books:
This message of inclusion is all the more remarkable when we remember that, during the war years, Jansson's family was every bit as divided as many are today. Her father, Viktor 'Faffan' Jansson, was an enthusiastic supporter of Nazi Germany, enraging his daughter with political views that she described as 'hair-raising', including open antisemitism. Meanwhile, Tove and her mother, Signe 'Ham' Hammersten-Jansson, were earning money drawing illustrations for an anti-Nazi, Left-wing magazine.
The strain this put on the family is transformed into Moominpappa's absence. He has '[taken] off with the Hattifatteners', 'who are forever wandering restlessly from place to place in their aimless quest for nobody knows what'. Moominpappa later quietly omits his infatuation with this strange, mindless crowd when he writes the story of his life, which was the approach taken by many Finnish supporters of Nazi Germany. When Moominpappa's memoirs are complete, there is nothing in them at all about his wayward years with the Hattifatteners, much to Snufkin's puzzlement.
Dang, these books are good. Fun stories for our six-year-old, and good reminders about how to be a family for ourselves and the community. Looks like we'll need to start in on the Pippi books sometime soon.
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July 18, 2020 permalink
Antonio Prohías, Cuban émigré creator of Spy vs. Spy →
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By the time I was reading MAD Magazine as a kid, Antonio Prohías had already finished his run of the iconic Spy vs. Spy feature that ran every month, passing it along to a new artist in 1987 after illustrating 241 strips. I only recently learned that Prohías was already an established political cartoonist and satirist in Cuba by the time he immigrated to the U.S. in 1961, himself an accused spy after fleeing Castro's clampdown on the free press:
In 1946, Prohías was given the Juan Gualberto Gómez award, recognizing him as the foremost cartoonist in Cuba. By the late 1940s, Prohías had begun working at El Mundo, the most important newspaper in Cuba at the time. In January 1959, Prohías was the president of the Cuban Cartoonists Association; after Fidel Castro seized power, he personally honored the cartoonist for his anti-Batista political cartoons. But Prohías soon soured on Castro's actions of muzzling the press. When he drew cartoons to this effect, he was accused of working for the CIA by Fidel Castro's government. Consequently, he resigned from the newspaper in February 1959.
With his professional career in limbo, Prohías left Cuba for New York on May 1, 1960, working in a garment factory by day and building a cartoon portfolio for Mad by night. Ten weeks later, he walked into Mad's offices unannounced. He spoke no English, but his daughter Marta acted as an interpreter for him. Before he'd left, he had an $800 check and had sold his first three Spy vs. Spy cartoons to Mad. […] During an interview with the Miami Herald in 1983, Prohías gloated, "The sweetest revenge has been to turn Fidel's accusation of me as a spy into a moneymaking venture."
The rest of the magazine's humor hasn't entirely aged as well, but I'm still sad to think about a world without MAD.
The Real Life Popeye Olive Oyl and Wimpy
I never knew that some of the main characters from Thimble Theatre, the 1920s newspaper comic that birthed Popeye, were based on real people that E. C. Segar knew from his hometown! What the what! Above, photos of the real-life Popeye (Frank "Rocky" Fiegel), Olive Oyl (Dora Paskel), and J. Wellington Wimpy (J. William Schuchert). No sign of Bluto or Eugene the Magical Jeep.
Fiegel's headstone now even has a pretty good Popeye etched into it. I don't think I'd mind that.
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What Keeps Al Jaffee, the Genius Behind Mad Magazine's Fold-Ins, Going After 52 Years →
If it ever gets too bleak, just remember that Al Jaffee is still making the world a better place through his incredible (and bitingly funny) illustrations for Mad at age 96 (!!!).
I was making fun of the fold-outs you'd see in Playboy or National Geographic or Life Magazine. They had these big, fancy, full-color fold-outs. Well, at Mad we didn't have that kind of budget. So I thought, wouldn't it be funny to do the exact opposite? We'd do a cheap black-and-white fold in.
I love that the Fold-In started as another subversive bit of meta-humor about how "cheap" Mad magazine is.
On a side note, Columbia University acquired Jaffee's paper archives a couple of years ago — I'd be amazing to look through that trove of 50+ years of sketches.
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January 13, 2014 permalink
Charles Addams Mother Goose
Maria Popova posts a wonderful selection of cartoons from Charles Addam's lesser-known book of Mother Goose rhymes from 1967. Such good stuff, and fun to imagine the crossovers between the classic grim nursery rhymes and his own macabre sense of humor, juxtaposed with his mid-century New York City skylines and deadpan-faced characters.
Moebius on Drawing Comics
Comics give to the artist a very interesting field of exploration and research. Everything is possible. You can be very small or very big or very modest or very ambitious. You can stay in a regular style like everybody, or you can escape and be completely unusual and incredible. You can give more to the world, more to the drawing. Everything.
Jean Giraud (aka Moebius) on why he turned to drawing comics as a young man, from the documentary The Masters of Comic Book Art (was on YouTube but got yanked, VHS might be the only option at present?), as quoted in his NYTimes obit.
November 11, 2011 permalink
Zippy Meets Family Circus
Life is a circus, Zippy! It can be a circus of pain or a circus of delight!
As the Bil Keane RIP notices started flooding across the net yesterday, my friend Julien reminded me of the bizarre phenomenon of Zippy the Pinhead making a crossover appearance in Family Circus back in 1994 (go look at it, it's weird!). It wasn't a single-panel affair: that out-of-context Family Circus strip was a followup to a week in which Bil Keane literally drew his characters into the surreal world of Zippy as a sort of exchange project. From a speech by Zippy artist Bill Griffith:
Here's an example of something that kind of blew my mind, and a number of readers. I did a number of comic strips in 1994 in which the idea was that Zippy and Griffy were going to, at least Zippy, enter, literally, the world of The Family Circus, a single panel comic. Into the strip a few days I thought, "What the hell, I'll call Bill Keene. I'll get his phone number, and I'll see if he wants to literally jam this strip with me." I figured the chances were zero, but why not? I called him up; he was incredibly friendly. He lives in Phoenix, where Zippy is published in the local paper. Loves the strip; reads it every day. Y'know, at the end of the phone call I thought, "He's my blood brother. We're like the two surreal comic strip artists."
Behind the sticky-sweet facade of everyone's favorite round newspaper comic, it's good to know there was an artist of subversive humor and warmth for his fellow cartoonists, appreciative of both parody and collaboration.
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August 29, 2011 permalink
STRIPPED: the Comics Documentary
Do you enjoy newspaper comics? Want to learn more about their history and place in the world through interviews with a laundry list of comic artists? Then you might be interested in helping these guys in Kickstarter finish out their documentary: STRIPPED: The Comics Documentary
(Via The Comics Curmudgeon)
June 19, 2011 permalink
Marjane Satrapi on Adapting Comics for Animation
Animation and comics are false siblings. They resemble one another but they're two completely different things. The relationship a reader has with a comic is nothing like the one a viewer has with a film. When you read a comic, you're always active, because you have to imagine all the movements that happen between the frames. In a film, you are passive: all the information is there. And when you make a comic it never happens that you have 500 or 1,000 people reading it in the same place at the same time, all reacting.
Marjane Satrapi, creator of Persopolis, talks about how she found success in adapting her acclaimed two-part graphic novel into an animated feature.
Bonus tip: cast Iggy Pop.
(Via Mayerson on Animation)
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Little Nemo Turns 100
The principal factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply, I could not stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure. I never wanted to know whether or not someone liked my drawings. I drew on walls, the school blackboard, old bits of paper, the walls of barns. Today I'm still as fond of drawing as when I was a kid — and that's a long time ago…
The incomparable Winsor McCay, quoted in a Los Angeles Times blog post that points out that this is the 100th anniversary of McCay's short film Little Nemo. If you've never seen his animated shorts — they're among the first examples of the medium, and yet still technically brilliant — you should hit up the YouTube and get started with Nemo…
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Donald Duck Discovered Methylene
Actually, he does. Donald Duck accidentally (and somewhat accurately) described the chemical compound methylene nearly two decades before real-world scientists:
In 1963, the Disney Studio learned just how wide and faithful a readership [Carl] Barks had. A letter arrived from Joseph B. Lambert of the California Institute of Technology, pointing out a curious reference in "The Spin States of Carbenes," a technical article soon to be published by P.P. Gaspar and G.S. Hammond (in Carbene Chemistry, edited by Wolfgang Kirmse, New York: Academic Press, 1964). "Despite the recent extensive interest in methylene chemistry," read the article's last paragraph, "much additional study is required…. Among experiments which have not, to our knowledge, been carried out as yet is one of a most intriguing nature suggested in the literature of no less than 19 years ago (91)." Footnote 91, in turn, directed readers to issue 44 of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories. … A year later, the Studio received a letter from Richard Greenwald, a scientist at Harvard. "Recent developments in chemistry have focused much attention to species of this sort," Greenwald commented. "Without getting technical let me say that carbenes can be made but not isolated; i.e. they cannot be put into a jar and kept on a shell. They can, however, be made to react with other substances. Donald was using carbene in just such a manner, many years before 'real chemists' thought to do so."
(Via Cracked's 5 Amazing Things Invented by Donald Duck [Seriously])
September 20, 2010 permalink
Wrapped Snoopy House
An art world / comics story I hadn't heard before: in November of 1978, a Peanuts strip ran in which Snoopy expresses his love for Christo and Jeanne-Claude's ephemeral environmental installations. 25 years later the artists responded by presenting the Charles Schulz Museum with an actual reconstruction of Wrapped Snoopy House.
(Image above from Landfall Press, where you can buy a litho of the artists' working collage for this piece)
UPDATE: there's a nearly identical post over at Dinosaurs and Robots, dated almost exactly 24 hours before this post. I'd honestly not seen that when I posted this, so there must be something freaky going on in the collective unconscious…
Comics in the Courtroom
From the New York Times, a notice on an exhibition entitled "The Courtroom and Comics" at the Yale Law Library:
The medium serves as a guide to what was going on in society at the time, he said: "Comics are very much a reflection of pop culture." The law has long been a part of that, whether it's Perry Mason grilling a witness or Denny Crane blustering.
In the exhibition, many of the images have the power to delight, especially for those who collected comics in their youth. If your day job happens to be anything like mine — I'm the national legal correspondent for this newspaper — you will certainly notice that the comic book creators' knowledge of law had a few gaps. For starters, the little girl in that Superman cover would have been seated in the witness chair, if in fact taking sworn testimony from a minor in open court was allowed in the Metropolis jurisdiction, and Superman would have been elsewhere in the courtroom. But you probably won't mind that the creators sacrificed a bit of reality for drama, which is also why, you know, the main character can fly.
Mike Widener, the rare book librarian mentioned in the article, formerly oversaw the Law in Popular Culture collection at our own Tarlton Law Library here in Austin, which houses a great array of movies and books with lawyerly angles.
(Via the NY Times)
Humor and death: a qualitative study of The New Yorker cartoons (1986-2006) →
A paper in the academic journal Palliative and Supportive Care analyzing perceptions of death and dying through the lens of New Yorker cartoons. Science!
"Personification of Death" (n = 38) included a subtheme of "Bargaining with Death." The main theme included representations of death with human attributes, such as the Grim Reaper. Examples are the Grim Reaper sitting in a bar talking to another man; the caption reads, "Sometimes I give myself the creeps" (from 2005; Mankoff, 2006. p. 28). The subtheme involved people negotiating for more time to live. Many of the cartoons in this theme show the Grim Reaper standing at someone's door as he or she tries to negotiate his or her way out of dying. For example, one such caption read, "Couldn't I do a couple of hundred hours of community service instead?" (from 1990; Mankoff, 2006. p. 46). This can be seen as the legacy of death (Elgee, 2003), that we are all its slaves.
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Abner Mercury Memory
From a recently declassified history (PDF) detailing the NSA's computing equipment up to 1964, comes a description of their house-sized computer ABNER's mercury-powered memory banks:
A succession of pulses (signal or no-signal) travels through an acoustic medium, say mercury, from one end to the other of a "delay line." […] At the input end of the line is a crystal that converts an electrical pulse to a mechanical wave which travels through the mercury to the other end, where another crystal reconverts it to an electrical signal. The series of electrical signals is recirculated back to input, after passing through detector, amplifier, and driver circuits to restore the shape and strength of the pulses. Also, in the part of the cycle external to the delay line are input and output circuits and "clock" pulses for synchronization. In mercury, the pulses travel at the speed of sound, which is much slower than the speed of electrical signals, and thus the delay in going from one end of the line to the other constitutes a form of storage. […] In ABNER, the mercury tank was a glass tube about two feet long; the delay time was 384 microseconds, or eight words of 48 bits at one-megacycle-per-second rate. Thus the 1,024 words were contained in two cabinets holding 64 mercury delay lines each.
ABNER was named after comic strip character Li'l Abner, reportedly because it was a big, hulking machine that "didn't know anything".
(Via Bruce Schneier)
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On the Longevity of Sam & Max
Yeah, it's great. A lot of that is the fans that have kept it alive. When people discovered it, they would be such rabid fans of it they would feel like they were the ones that got it. It was a little too obscure for their friends, maybe, but they were the ones that were getting it. A thing about the old comics I always heard was that people would lend them to their friends and never get them back. It was always this process where you'd be trying to turn someone onto it, which I thought was great. So there was a long stretch where I didn't do anything with Sam & Max and there were fan sites that were keeping them active, so I attribute that [to the fact] they're still around.
The Onion A.V. Club catches up with and gets a good interview from my favorite cartoonist Steve Purcell to ask him about Monkey Island, Sinistar, and the new season of Telltale's adaptation of his creation.
Fun fact: one of the first websites I created way back in 1994 was a Sam & Max fan site with a handful of scans from the comics and related ephemera, so I guess I was one of those fans!
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March 6, 2010 permalink
Uncle Fester Laughing in Theater
The New York Times has up a nice review of the new Charles Addams exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York:
The city street is dark and deserted. The buildings are empty. There are no witnesses. A lone man carrying a briefcase, after a long day at the office perhaps, approaches a subway staircase. Out of the subterranean gloom, a giant human hand protrudes, its index finger beckoning the office worker, inviting him into the depths. His eyes are wide with astonishment, his face showing the hint of a grin, as if the bizarre, illicit invitation were not entirely unwelcome. […]
Above is my personal favorite Addams cartoon, perhaps one of my favorite cartoons of all time. His drawings are often cited as finding their humor and inspiration in the macabre — I think their lasting appeal comes more from his ability to find joy in laughing at and rejecting the bleakness of modern life.
February 7, 2010 permalink
Dagwood: No! No! No! This Can't Be Happening!!
From today's Blondie strip, proof that even the boring legacy comics can be delightfully weird and fun sometimes. Maybe they're trying to out-Sluggo Sluggo?
Winsor Mccay's 1911 Animation of Little Nemo
Winsor McCay's 1911 animation of his Little Nemo comic strip (embedded above) was selected this year by the U.S. Library of Congress to be entered as a culturally significant work in the National Film Registry (along with Michael Jackson's Thriller, The Muppet Movie, and others). Knowing that McCay did this all himself, by hand, cranking out tens of thousands of hand-colored drawings (keep in mind he was also pioneering the field of animation, inventing techniques as he worked) in addition to his incredibly intricate newspaper work leads me to suspect he was living in an alternate stream of time than the rest of us. Incredible stuff.
The University of Nebraska Lincoln's Online Cartoon Archive
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting an online collection of U.S. government-produced comic books, with full PDF downloads. Tucked away between the weirder, more off-beat stuff you'll find some unique work from the likes of Walt Kelly, Hank Ketchum, Dr. Seuss, Charles Schulz, and more. Like this special run of Peanuts where Charlie Brown has Sally tested for amblyopia ex anopsia.
Roy Lichtenstein Makeup
Pretty awesome makeup job imitating an iconic Roy Lichtenstein pop art print. Not sure who the actual artist / model is, but found via Make.
Hi-Res Scans of Walt Kelly's "Pogo in Pandemonium" Comics
Some kind guy named Thom Buchanan has created a blog where he's posting high-res scans of the daily and Sunday strips of Walt Kelly's Pogo from the 1966 "Pogo in Pandemonia" storyline (one of the lesser-known and stranger bits from the comic, it's set in a Lost World type locale instead of the usual Okefenokee swamp). Excellent. Now where's that Fantagraphics set?
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May 9, 2009 permalink
Krazy Kat Cartoon with Restored Soundtrack
For possibly the first time in 80 years this Krazy Kat cartoon, Ratskin, has been reunited with its original soundtrack recording, discovered on a rare Vitaphone disc in Australia. Found via Cartoon Brew, who has a good writeup of the discovery.
(note for George Herriman fans: the animated escapades of Krazy generally have little to do with the comic strip, more closely resembling Oswald the Lucky Rabbit or Felix the Cat's hijinx)
December 20, 2007 permalink
Even Though the Fogged Photograph Is Not in Itself
Even though the fogged photograph is not in itself pure absence, but rather the eclipsing of an image, we know that what we are seeing is a representation that has been spoilt, a calamity that no technology can ever repair. The image is there, but hidden, 'fogged', conceled for ever by a curtain of shadow, which no one is capable of raising.
A Short History of the Shadow by Victor Stoichita, in reference to an 1839 cartoon by Cham (Amédée de Noé) from the book L'Histoire de Monsieur Jobard


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 Carlo Filippo Aldrovandi Marescotti – imprenditore e mecenate italiano
 Emanuele Aldrovandi – drammaturgo, sceneggiatore e regista italiano
 Filippo Aldrovandi – politico italiano
 Franca Aldrovandi – cantante, conduttrice radiofonica e televisiva e attrice italiana
 Luigi Aldrovandi Marescotti – diplomatico e politico italiano
 Nicola Aldrovandi – rugbista a 15 e allenatore di rugby italiano
 Peppino Aldrovandi – politico italiano
 Pierluigi Aldrovandi – pilota motociclistico italiano
 Pompeo Aldrovandi – cardinale italiano
 Ulisse Aldrovandi – naturalista, botanico ed entomologo italiano
 Vando Aldrovandi – partigiano e antifascista italiano

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 Aldrovandi – famiglia nobile bolognese
 Caso Aldrovandi – vicenda giudiziaria relativa all'uccisione di Federico Aldrovandi nel 2005
 Dorsa Aldrovandi – sistema di creste lunari
 Erbario di Ulisse Aldrovandi – collezione conservata all'erbario e museo botanico dell'Università di Bologna

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Reiki Master and Founder of the NYC Reiki Center
Brian Brunius is a Reiki Master Instructor practicing and teaching Usui Shiki Ryoho, the Usui System of Natural healing, for more than 23 years.
Brian's study of Reiki began in 1995 when he enrolled in the first degree course with his Master, John Harvey Gray. He consequently completed second degree training 1997 with John. In 2007, he founded NYC Reiki Center a full-time private practice when he committed to undertaking the Master training.
Since completing his three-year Master Apprenticeship in 2010, he has trained almost a thousand students across the country in traditional Reiki, and now teaches classes weekly at his Center. Brian has initiated two Master Instructors and, in addition to training his current Master Candidates in Usui Shiki Ryoho, he works with Masters from all traditions seeking to refine their instruction and Reiki practices.
Brian is an active member of The Reiki Alliance, an international community of Reiki Masters dedicated to the practice of Usui Shiki Ryoho, having served as Global Organigram Coordinator and Northeast USA Local Representative. Brian is founder of Reiki Centers of America, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and understanding of Reiki.
Brian travels frequently sharing Reiki and speaking on his spiritual journey. He is the author of Walk in Power, Live in Prayer: Six Principles to Make Your Prayers Powerful (2014), a step-by-step guide introducing readers to a succession of new spiritual ideas, and leading them through a series of exercises designed to teach six principles of prayer.
In this 54-minute video from the Souljourns series on Vimeo, Brian discusses his 18-year connection with Indian holy man Sathya Sai Baba, who appeared to him in dreams and drew him to India to live and work. During this time, Brian's interest in spirituality and healing gestated, as did his interest in service, resulting eventually in his decision to take up a full-time Reiki practice.
Donna, New York
During this most difficult time of my life, the only thing that saved me from going crazy was my weekly sessions with Brian.
Giovanni, Queens
I couldn't have done it without all the help and support I received from Reiki! A million thanks for getting me through a tough transition.
Though you probably wouldn't remember me from the four sessions we had years ago, the things you told me sent me in a new direction and have completely changed my life. No one person has ever had such an incredible impact on me. I am forever grateful!
Roma, Saratoga Springs
Thank you, Brian, for your incredible and loving style. Every time I come for a session I am anxious and racing. By the end I am restored to peace and serenity. It's some kind of magic you use on me that lets me sleep and feel easy again. And it works EVERY time! Eternal thanks.
Maxim, Brooklyn
I don't have enough good things to say about Reiki. I'm just glad more people don't know about it. I feel like the Reiki center is my secret library, and when I'm there it's mine and no one and nothing can disturb my happiness. Thanks to Brian and all the students at the Reiki Circle for treating me and helping me sleep again. It really worked!
Fazila, New York
One of the most peaceful hours I've had in New York my whole life! Brian is calm and centered and brings you right there with him almost immediately. Truly a valuable experience!
Alison, New York
Please don't be fooled by the hype. There are others out there called Reiki Masters, but Brian is the REAL deal. He brings genuine intuition and integrity to the traditional practice of Reiki. If you are looking for an authentic Reiki treatment or training in NYC, Brian is a phenomenal choice. I've worked one-on-one and in workshops with other energy and spiritual practitioners at top wellness destinations and institutions, and Brian clearly belongs among the elite group of professionals in his craft.
Kerrie, New York
I've been interested in energy work for some time now and it took a while for me to find the person to give me my first reiki treatment. I absolutely LOVE Brian. He is so personable and so genuine and that means a lot to me. As for me being a skeptic of reiki itself….turns out its real. You can FEEL the energy. I enjoyed my session with Brian so much I've already signed up for the my first reiki COURSE. Whoop whoop!
Gia, New York
My reiki session with Brian was really incredible. Halfway through the session I felt unbelievably relaxed even though I was going through an extremely stressful situation in my life. I was also recovering from a very toxic relationship and seemed to feel like a burden from that situation had been lifted after the session. If you are having trouble getting over any situation that may be spiritually or physically difficult, or if you just want some advice of a really gifted and spiritually in-touch healer, then you should try a Reiki session with Brian. I don't think every Reiki healer is good enough to give a try, but Brian is probably the best one in the New York area.
Sam S., New York
Brian is the real deal. In a field that is unregulated and can sometimes be hocus-pocus-ey, he is truly a veteran expert who brings to bear decades of training and experience. He can pin-point the problem areas in my life, and applies an extra dose of healing energy to help me move forward. I would trust Brian to help me fix any problem in my life.


Ed and Jess discuss how two game franchise giants, Call of Duty and Fallout, have changed to multiplayer only offerings this year and if that's good or bad.
Call of Duty fans! This year we're trying something new: because Black Ops 4's modes are so different, we're reviewing them separately , followed by our overall review and score. This part covers Multiplayer - be sure to check out the others next.
Battle royale continues to dominate video games in 2018, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout mode is the biggest new entry to the genre. But is it better than Fortnite? Find out what we think in this week's Versus.
Despite the backlash that Treyarch initially received for the removal of a campaign, Black Ops 4 has had immediate success and hit $500 million on its opening weekend.
For those Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 players who may be struggling to complete the first-person shooter's Zombies IX Easter egg, find out how to do so here.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is having an amazing launch. In its first three days, the game reportedly made over $500 million in worldwide sales, increased the number of players over the last Call of Duty title, and broke the franchise's record for Twitch views based on Activision's data.


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Digging for a Future Documentary
Phase I - Archaeological Phase
Phase II - Anthropological Phase
Phase III - Genetic Phase
Genetic testing and matching
The DNA Laboratory of Bode Cellmark Forensics (Virginia, USA) has been contracted by the CMP to carry out genetic analyses and bone profiling for the purposes of identification and association of skeletal elements.
Samples are submitted to the DNA Laboratory where genetic profiles are produced and compared with the genetic profiles of the relatives of missing on a Family Relatives Samples Database. There is a match when bone and blood samples reach a threshold equal or superior to 99.95 per cent. Results are then sent back to the CAL where a bi-communal team of geneticists interprets and confirms the results.
The collection of blood samples from relatives of the Turkish Cypriot missing persons and DNA extraction and profiling is carried out by the Turkish Cypriot DNA Laboratory (Dr. Burhan Nalbantoğlu Hospital), while the DNA extraction and profiling of the relatives of the Greek Cypriot missing persons is carried out by the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING).
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Q: Hosting a small business website on Heroku Hobby? I'm looking for a hosting solution for my transportation booking website built with React JS, Material-Ui, Node JS, Express and small MySQL database. The actual booking process is handled by LimoAnywhere plug-in that opens within the app. Being familiar with Heroku is it a good option to get a $7 Hobby plan with 24/7 dino working? I'm not expecting much traffic, maybe 500-1000 hits per month.
Should I look for a VPS hosting like Bluehost, DigitalOcean, Linode, AfterBurst etc?

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US investment bank Goldman Sachs has invested £75 mln (€87 mln) into UK modular housing specialist, TopHat.
The Midlands-based firm, which was founded in 2016, started production last year on flat-pack properties for the Kitchener Barracks scheme in Kent, which will comprise 300 homes.
According to both firms, the funds will be used to expand and scale up the business.
According to TopHat, the injection marks Goldman Sachs largest even investment into the modular housing sector.
Drooms, a Frankfurt-based provider of secure cloud solutions, has advised on the sale of a portfolio of cold storage facilities to a fund advised by Tristan Capital Partners.


This week, the associate manager of the Electric and Electronic Innovation Design Laboratory of Wuhan University of Technology invited me to give a brief oral tutorial to the current members of their lab.
Since I have 2-years experience on the controlling challenge of NUEDC, this weekend, I attended this meeting and delivered a tutorial on each key point of this topic.
I think this tutorial is very simple and basic for the lack of time preparing related materials. And the challenge is currently much more difficult than before.
All the audience are Chinese students so I only made the Chinese version slides.


› WebAssist Forums › Data Bridge › Validation Toolkit › Server Validation wiping form field data, despite having value set to ValidatedField and Recordset value?
Server Validation wiping form field data, despite having value set to ValidatedField and Recordset value?
That is because you are using the same URL parameter for each validation check. The issue is that only one validation failed but all of the forms try to populate from the failed validation fields, but they aren't all saved since they are separate validations.


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Q: About the IAM role in cdk bootstrap The following IAM roles were found in the bootstrap of cdk.

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*FilePublishingRole

*ImagePublishingRole

*LookupRole

*DeploymentActionRole

*CloudFormationExecutionRole

I understand the meaning of CloudFormationExecutionRole, but in what situations are the other IAM roles used? I would like to know if there is any documentation that clearly states this.

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*FilePublishingRole - access to S3 with associated KMS

*ImagePublishingRole - access to ECR

*LookupRole - role to performe lookups with various fromLookup methods

*DeploymentActionRole - access to CloudFormation, KMS and S3

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*FilePublishingRole, ImagePublishingRole - are assumed by the AWS CDK Toolkit and by AWS CodeBuild projects to publish assets into an environment: that is, to write to the S3 bucket and the ECR repository, respectively. These roles require write access to these resources.

*LookupRole - is assumed by the AWS CDK Toolkit to perform context lookups in an environment. Its AssumeRolePolicy controls who can deploy into the environment.

*DeploymentActionRole - is assumed by the AWS CDK Toolkit and by AWS CodePipeline to deploy into an environment. Its AssumeRolePolicy controls who can deploy into the environment.


ok so i was born in mexico but was raised in the usa since i was a baby so i dont know anything about mexico like its history traditions etc…. and i really want to learn about where i came from or off my country you know but i don't know where to start from is there a book out there or what. that can teach me about mexico's history . cause all i know is about USA's history which is alright of course. i am married to a american guy an i have a fear that when we decide to have children i wont be able to teach them about their Mexican heritage they will only know the american one. for example i have a aunt who also married an american guy and has 4 children that don't even know how to speak Spanish at all because my aunt never taught them how too she never taught them about mexico or traditional dishes from mexico, nothing. even my aunt forgot she was Mexican she doesn't know how to cook Mexican food and is always calling my mom to tell help her out. my aunt acts like shes more american than Mexican you know and i don't want that to be me. i want that when i ever take my children to mexico that they can be able to communicate with the family down there and that they know that there not only american but Mexican as well an that they know the history of mexico its traditions and everything. so basically what is a good website or book or something that is going to help me discover about my Mexican heritage.
Go to a Library and check out what ever books you can on Mexican History and Mexico the land itself. Talk to some of your parents/aunts/uncles or anyone who used to live in Mexico and ask them about how they like it and why. And of course the biggest step is to visit the country itself and mingle with the Mexican people. Visit museums and that sort of thing.
See if any local colleges offer a Mexican history class. See if there is a series of Mexican history books or encyclopedias online. Google some Mexican colleges and see if correspondance courses are available.


Please join us at the Lenfest Center on Cannery Road from 2-5 pm to enjoy wonderful food prepared by our very own talented chefs. There will be live music in a beautiful country atmosphere.
Tickets are $50 each and can be purchased beginning in September after each Service.


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The Human Services Commission provides oversight of the Department of Human Services by approving the goals and objectives as reflected in the annual budget. The Department of Human Services plans and administers a variety of federal, state, and local programs that are designed to meet basic human needs and to ensure protection of our most vulnerable citizens. The department provides supportive services to families, children, and single adults. Review the Human Services Commission's full Statement of Purpose for additional information.
The Commission holds a public meeting each month to carry out its duties. Meetings are typically held every fourth Thursday of the month at 9:30 a.m. in the Ronald H. Born Auditorium at 170 Otis Street. Please see the list of meeting dates for 2019.
The Human Services Commission consists of five members appointed by the Mayor for overlapping four-year terms. The Commission members formulate, evaluate, and approve goals, objectives, and plans. The Commission also sets policies consistent with the overall objectives of the City.
For earlier Commission documents, please contact the Commission Secretary, at (415) 557-6540.
The Commission's meeting room, the Ronald H. Born Auditorium, is located on the first floor at 170 Otis Street and has accessible seating for persons with disabilities.
The closest accessible BART Station is at 16th and Mission Streets. Accessible MUNI Lines are the 14-Mission, 49-Mission/VanNess, and 9-San Bruno. All the MUNI Metro Lines are accessible.
Accessible curb-side parking has been designated at points on the 100 block of Otis Street.
To obtain a disability-related modification or accommodation, including auxiliary aids, sign language interpreters, or other services, please contact the Commission Secretary at (415) 557-6540 at least two business days before the meeting to help insure availability.
Interpreters for languages other than English are available on request. Please contact the Commission office at (415) 557-6540 at least two business days before a meeting.
For questions about the Commission, meetings, access, or agenda items, contact the Commission Secretary, at (415) 557-6540.
Department of Human Services (DHS) and Department of Aging and Adult Services (DAAS) Budget Proposal Documents and Presentations.


Simon Makinson, ASEAN chairman of Allen & Overy is relocating to Myanmar to add senior partner support to the growing office in the country. Makinson has been based in Bangkok managing the office in Yangon from there, but his relocation to the city is a strategic move for the firm. The Myanmar practice comprises two other senior lawyers, Chris Burkett and Kathryn Thornton, as well as four business services staff on the ground. The office is supported by the firm's Bangkok and Singapore offices and certain projects bring in experts from further afield including Sydney, Perth, New York and London.
Hogan Lovells has recruited three patent and trademark attorneys into its IP, Media and Technology team in Tokyo. The hires – Chikako Hashimoto, Mikako Tsukada and Reiko Hase – continue the trend of expansion of the team and consolidates Hogan Lovells' position as the largest international trademark practice in Japan.
Holman Fenwick Willan partner partner Elinor Dautlich has been appointed vice-chair of the maritime and transport law committee of the International Bar Association. It's one of the oldest and most well-established committees of the IBA and has more than 650 members worldwide. Dautlich has been on the committee for a number of years and her new role will begin in January for a two year period.
The chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner has written to media companies warning them of legal action if they continue to publish information and files that have been leaked online having been stolen by hackers in the high-profile cyber attack on Sony Pictures. It is understood that Sony had been in discussion with media firms requesting that the information is not shared but it had not achieved the desired result. David Bois says that those who publish the stolen information will be held responsible for damage or loss arising from the dissemination.
An orchestra made up of Australian lawyers with a talent for music will perform its inaugural concert this evening (Wednesday 17th December). The Sydney Lawyers Orchestra is headed and conducted by Corrs partner Thomas Jones and has representatives from the Bar, the Courts, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Allens, Clayton Utz, Norton Rose Fulbright, Gilbert + Tobin, King & Wood Mallesons, and the social justice sector. The 30-strong ensemble are all classically trained and will perform their free concert at the Pitt Street Uniting Church, Sydney from 7pm to 8pm.