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By Zeus Kerravala, Network World |
Zeus Kerravala is the founder and principal analyst with ZK Research, and provides a mix of tactical advice to help his clients in the current business climate.
The future of storage is here
At its Accelerate user conference, Pure Storage outlined its vision for the future of storage and backed it up with the products to make it real today.
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Sometime in the past couple of years, Gartner introduced a term called "Shared Accelerated Storage" (SAS) to describe what's next for the industry after all-flash arrays. I'm not sure when they first used the term, but it was the very first bullet in its 2017 Storage Hype Cycle, indicating its relative newness as a market category.
In its Hype Cycle, Gartner has a rather long and complicated definition of what SAS is. The easy way to think about it is that it brings the benefits of network-based systems and direct-attached systems together by leveraging a number of new technologies, most notably Nonvolatile Memory Express— or NVMe, as its more commonly known.
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Networked and direct storage each had pros and cons
In its time, network storage, such as SAN and NAS, was the biggest innovation in storage perhaps ever. It lets businesses share storage, increase reliability, and manage it through software. However, performance can be spotty, it's complicated to get set up, and it can be very expensive. On the flip side, direct-attached storage (DAS) is fast to deploy, performs well, and is cheap.The downside of DAS is that it's unreliable and unmanageable.
Shared Accelerated Storage is the best of both worlds
SAS brings the simplicity of direct attached and combines it with the scalability and manageability of shared systems. This has been a vision for the industry for decades, but the technology didn't exist to bring this to reality. Today it does.
NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) gets rid of the penalty for moving storage outside the server. With network speeds being where they are today, the latency for this can be reduced to fewer than 10 microseconds, so virtually on par with direct attached. Also, NVMe-oF is much leaner than iSCSI, so the processors in the system can spend more time doing storage-related things versus I/O processing. The net result is a completely stateless compute environment that leverages the fast, reliable shared storage. Pure Storage calls this its "Data-Centric Architecture," meaning the design of the data center will be built around data and not compute or servers.
The many benefits of Shared Accelerated Storage
What this brings businesses is a single storage architecture that can serve up blocks, files, and objects. This will be consumed by a diskless, stateless elastic compute system. Hyperscale environments work this way today, but there weren't any solutions available for general enterprises. There are many benefits to this model, including the following:
Standardized infrastructure eliminates all the silos that exist and plague data center operations today.
Ability to quickly scale compute, storage performance and capacity all independently.
Ability to share data flexibly between production, development, analytics and other departments. This enables data to be snap-shotted instead of copied. Snaps are significantly faster than copies, which is more cost-effective and more agile.
Self-protecting storage. The storage systems can apply data protection features such as backup/recovery, business continuity, active-active, and others for the apps instead of having to build it into the apps.
Simplicity. SAS should greatly simplify the architecture, making it easy to deploy, manage, and scale.
Some start-ups and other storage vendors offer SAS systems today, but they have positioned the use case as something above tier 1. I've heard it described as tier 0 in some cases, with the commonality being high end, expensive and niche. This is similar to how all flash was positioned years ago.
Pure Storage takes a bit of a different approach, as they want to bring it to market now and with competitive price points. If they can do this, the TAM for SAS will be the entire flash market, plus a chunk of the DAS systems, creating a much bigger pie.
This week at its Accelerate user event Pure Storage made several announcements that can deliver on the vision of SAS and the Data-Centric Architecture. During his keynote, CEO Charles Giancarlo (pictured above) described data as being the new "gold rush" for businesses, and Pure is delivering the pics and shovels required to mine that data.
Pure Storage introduces the FlashArray X family of storage systems
The most notable announcement at Accelerate is Pure Storage's FlashArray X family, which brings shared accelerated storage to every workload. There will be five models, the X10, 20, 50, 70, and 90, which have different performance and capacity characteristics. These can be configured with 100 percent NVMe direct flash architecture, which is about 2x faster than the older all flash M systems. The latency numbers are about 250 microseconds, which is about an order of magnitude lower than flash — meaning better performing applications.
The X10 through 70 will replace the existing M10-70 (the X 70 was released last year, but the others are new), but the X90 is its new flagship product. In a 6 RU form factor, the X90 can be loaded with 3 PB of effective capacity. This level of storage is achieved because the compression in the new X series is about 10:1. The highest compression level I have seen from a competitor is 5:1, so Pure's systems give customers about twice as much effective capacity on the same amount of physical disk.
The new compressional algorithms are about 20 percent more effective than Pure's current technology. This will obviously come standard on X series, but Pure will give it to the current M customers with an Evergreen Gold subscription, so those businesses will see a 20 percent bump in capacity with their next software upgrade.
SAS and flash pricing are at parity
Many companies tend to shy away from the latest and greatest until the price points of the new technology come down. In this case, though, the price points are at parity now. Last year when the X 70 was released, it cost about 25 percent more on like for like capacity (meaning effective capacity, not raw). With this release, the dollar per effective gigabyte price for M and X will be the same, making the decision to buy an X instead of an M a no-brainer. By removing the price barrier, Pure Storage has essentially democratized SAS.
Data continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. Success for digital companies depends on being able to mine this data to discover new insights and keep ahead of the competition. Fast networks and processors require fast storage, and the industry has hit a tipping point where existing spinning disk and some flash systems just can't keep up. NVMe-based SAS is the right solution for the digital world. And Pure Storage's new X family of storage systems can bring the benefits of SAS to any workload at a price that won't break the bank, meaning the future of storage is here now.
Zeus Kerravala is the founder and principal analyst with ZK Research.


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Conspiracy theory Government 12 crazy conspiracy theories that turned out to be true
12 crazy conspiracy theories that turned out to be true
by RAU on Saturday, February 24, 2018 in Conspiracy theory, Government
All the information presented in the article is not a lie. All these so-called "conspiracy theories" turned out to be quite real.
Dead Child Project
Any conspiracy theory is a wonderful fun, until it turns out to be true. Take, for example, a plot around Project Sunshine. Following the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US government launched a major study to measure the effects of nuclear sediment on the human body.
The government stole corpses for radioactive testing. In fact, the subject of the study of scientists were parts of dead bodies. Because the researchers needed young tissues, they hired a worldwide network of agents to find recently deceased children, and then took samples of dead bodies and even limbs.
Fragments of corpses were collected without notification or permission from more than 1500 grieving families.
Low-quality alcohol
It is believed that during the ban, the government specifically poisoned alcohol, so that people do not consume alcohol.
The truth is that manufacturers of industrial alcohol mixed their product with hazardous chemicals for many years even before the ban was introduced. But between 1926 and 1933, the federal government encouraged manufacturers to use stronger poisons, hampering the process by which bootleggers turned alcohol into moonshine.
This did not stop the bootleggers or their clients, and by the end of the ban more than 10,000 Americans were the victim of "dirty" alcoholic beverages.
The First Lady, who ruled the United States
It is believed that the stroke made President Woodrow Wilson unable to control the US, and his wife secretly intervened in public affairs.
Wilson was indeed defeated at the end of his presidency, but the government felt that it was in the interest of the country to remain calm. The public did not know about the hemorrhage in the brain of the president for several months, and at this time his wife Edith Wilson performed most of his duties.
Despite the fact that Mrs. Wilson claimed that she acted only as a "guide", historians who analyzed Wilson's term confirm that over a year Mrs. Wilson was the de facto president of the United States.
Government Consciousness Management
The CIA tested LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs on Americans in a top-secret experiment, the basis of which was the modification of human behavior.
In fact, the program was known as MK-ULTRA, and it was real. The CIA began its tests with the connection of volunteers, for example, writer Ken Kesi gave his consent to the experience. But program managers soon began to experience people without their knowledge. MK-ULTRA has made many people mentally retarded forever.
The huge salary of the Dalai Lama
Perhaps the reason the Dalai Lama smiles in all these photos has something to do with the six-figure salary that he received from the US government in the 1960s.
According to the declassified reconnaissance documents, he earned $ 180,000 in connection with the financing of the CIA of Tibetan resistance in the amount of 1.7 million. The idea was to suspend the rapid development of China's infrastructure.
John Lennon was under the supervision of the US government
The FBI was spying on the former "Beatle" John Lennon, which certainly took place. Like many counterculture heroes, Lennon appeared to be a threat to the United States. Such anti-war songs, like Give Peace a Chance, did not extol the former "Beatle" of John Lennon in the administration of Richard Nixon. This was reported by NPR in 2010.
In 1971, the FBI began to monitor Lennon, and a year later the service of immigration and naturalization tried to deport him from the country.
The government is spying on you
With the development of technologies, the government uses its enormous resources to track citizens.
In 2016, government agencies sent 49,868 requests for user data to Facebook, 27,850 for Google and 9076 for Apple. Such data was provided by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a large non-profit organization that protects civil liberties in the digital world and advises the public on privacy issues on the Internet.
A fake battle or a real war?
The incident in the Gulf of Tonkin, which occurred on August 2, 1964, is a complete fiction. He was called upon to provoke American support for the war in Vietnam.
By the time the news reached American citizens, the facts related to the attack by the military of North Vietnam on the American naval ship Maddox were of a rather worn-out nature.
Declassified documents since then showed that "Maddox" supported the South Vietnamese when they attacked the nearby island, and the northern Vietnamese responded accordingly.
Such an event opened the way for direct military participation of the US military in Vietnam.
Big Tobacco knew that cigarettes could cause cancer
For decades, tobacco companies have argued that smoking is deadly to humans.
In the early 1950s, studies proved an undeniable statistical link between smoking and lung cancer, but it was not until the late 1990s that Philip Morris recognized that tobacco products could cause cancer.
In the American southwest there are evidences of the existence of aliens
It is alleged that the collapse of an unidentified flying object occurred in the USA in the summer of 1947 in New Mexico. Since the 1970s, this incident has become a topic of controversy. He was also considered to be a conspiracy theorist, since the nature of the detected object was not established.
According to the US official position, the object was nothing more than a weather balloon that was used in the secret operation "Mogul". Widespread popularity acquired the version that the object was a spaceship alien, which was caught and secreted by the US government.
According to other eyewitnesses of the incident, the incident was a big operation, the purpose of which was to recreate the alien ship. Some witnesses claimed that they received threats from US government agencies.
Canada tried to develop the device "Heydar"
The Government of Canada was so vigilant about homosexuality that it used a special machine called "Heydar".
In fact, this happened in the 1960s, when the government hired a university professor to develop a method for detecting homosexuality among federal employees. Scientists invented a machine that measured the dilatation of the pupil in response to same-sex erotic images.
The Canadian government used this device to cut more than 400 people from the municipal sector, as well as from military departments.
Illuminati and the US government
Many believe that the secret society that rules the world is the Illuminati, and the US National Security Agency (NSA) is in collusion with him.
Such a connection does exist. If you print Illuminati back-Itanimulli in a web browser, you will be on the NSA website.
By RAU at Saturday, February 24, 2018
Labels: Conspiracy theory, Government

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Der Evangelische Kirchenbezirk Welzheim war ein Kirchenbezirk bzw. Dekanat der Evangelischen Landeskirche in Württemberg. Mit Wirkung vom 1. Januar 1978 wurde der Kirchenbezirk Welzheim aufgelöst und seine Kirchengemeinden auf die benachbarten Kirchenbezirke Backnang, Schorndorf und Schwäbisch Gmünd aufgeteilt.

Geschichte
1181 wurde in Welzheim bereits eine Kirche erwähnt. 1243 wird sie St. Galluskirche genannt. Sie kam durch Tausch an das Kloster Lorch, dem sie 1259 inkorporiert wurde. Durch die Reformation fiel sie an Württemberg. Die Kirche wurde nach dem Brand von 1726 wieder aufgebaut und 1815/17 umgestaltet. Bereits 1806 wurde Welzheim Sitz eines württembergischen Oberamts, dessen Sitz zwischen 1810 und 1819 nach Lorch verlegt war. 1824 wurde Welzheim auch Sitz eines Dekanats und die Pfarrkirche Welzheim somit Dekanskirche. Seine Gemeinden erhielt der Dekanatsbezirk vom Dekanat Schorndorf, das zu groß geworden war. Es gehörte zum Generalat Schwäbisch Hall, nach dessen Auflösung 1913 zum Generalat Ulm, aus dem die heutige Prälatur Ulm hervorging.

1938 wurde das Oberamt Welzheim aufgelöst und sein Gebiet überwiegend dem Landkreis Waiblingen zugeordnet. Der kirchliche Verwaltungsbezirk, das Dekanat Welzheim, blieb aber noch bis 1977 bestehen und wurde dann ebenfalls aufgelöst.

Dekane des Kirchenbezirks Welzheim 1824 bis 1977
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1824–1830 Johann Friedrich Christoph Hartmann
1831–1839 Georg Friedrich Simeon Gundert
1839–1855 Jakob Friedrich Weitbrecht (1798–1868)
1855–1859 Dr. Johann Friedrich Braun
1859–1883 Christoph Andreas Heintzeler
1883–1890 Karl Christian Hole (1837–1903)
1891–1915 Georg Emil Leitz
1916–1931 Friedrich Weller
1932–1933 Otto Engel
1934–? Hermann Josenhans
–1973 ?Dekan Rau
1973–1977 Gebhard Kirn (* 1913)

Kirchengemeinden
Der Kirchenbezirk Welzheim umfasste vor seiner Auflösung 1978 folgende 13, bis 1977 noch 14 Kirchengemeinden:

Alfdorf (einschließlich der am 4. Dezember 1977 aufgelösten Filialkirchengemeinde Pfahlbronn), Großdeinbach, Hellershof, Kaisersbach, Kirchenkirnberg, Lorch, Plüderhausen, Rienharz, Rudersberg, Schlechtbach, Waldhausen, Weitmars, Welzheim

Sie gehörten zu den politischen Städten und Gemeinden Alfdorf, Kaisersbach, Lorch, Plüderhausen, Rudersberg, Schwäbisch Gmünd und Welzheim.

Bis 1. April 1951 gehörten auch die Kirchengemeinden Lindach (heute Stadt Schwäbisch Gmünd) und Täferrot zum Kirchenbezirk Welzheim. Diese waren seinerzeit mit anderen Kirchengemeinden der Kirchenbezirke Aalen und Gaildorf dem neu gegründeten Kirchenbezirk Schwäbisch Gmünd zugeordnet worden.

Nach Auflösung des Kirchenbezirks Welzheim 1978 wurden die verbliebenen 13 Kirchengemeinden wie folgt aufgeteilt:
Kirchenbezirk Schorndorf: Alfdorf (mit Pfahlbronn), Hellershof, Kaisersbach, Plüderhausen, Rudersberg, Schlechtbach, Welzheim und Rienharz
Kirchenbezirk Backnang: Kirchenkirnberg
Kirchenbezirk Schwäbisch Gmünd: Großdeinbach, Lorch, Weitmars und Waldhausen

Literatur
Das Evangelische Württemberg – Seine Kirchenstellen und Geistlichen von der Reformation bis auf die Gegenwart gesammelt und bearbeitet von Christian Sigel, Pfarrer in Gebersheim, 1910.
Das Land Baden-Württemberg – Amtliche Beschreibung nach Kreisen und Gemeinden (in acht Bänden); Hrsg. von der Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg.
Band III: Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart – Regionalverband Mittlerer Neckar, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-17-004758-2.
Band IV: Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart – Regionalverbände Franken und Ostwürttemberg, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005708-1.

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With just over two weeks before the York Community Carol Concert just over 100 tickets remain unsold and a sell-out audience is expected.
Staff at York Barbican are encouraging those attending to arrive early. It is one of the busiest weekends for shopping and St Nicholas Fayre is still being held in the city centre.
The Barbican are opening the doors early at 1.00 pm and catering facilities will be available for those early arrivals.
Due to new in-house security procedures - bag searches are in operation and staff are asking people not to bring along large bags or back packs as they will not be allowed inside the auditorium.
Car parking is always difficult at this time of year - so please allow plenty of time to get to the Barbican for a 2.30 start.


Yellow-clad Saitama may be an unassuming and downright odd-looking fellow, but he's powerful enough to give prettyboy Superman a run for his money. Not to mention this bald, blank-faced weirdo stars in an anime that's simply a joy to watch, thanks to its hard-hitting action and laugh-out-loud parody of the superhero genre.
One Punch Man is definitely a lucrative brand, which explains its inclusion in the beloved Figma line of super poseable toys via its protagonist, Saitama. Because if anyone deserves the action figure treatment, it's a superhero so strong it only takes him a single punch to fell the mightiest of monsters and supervillains.
Unfortunately, both One Punch Man and Figma's popularity have roused bootleggers to action, which is why we now have illegal reproductions of Figma Saitama figures.
If you're an action figure collector who aggressively shuns bootlegs, perhaps one of the worst places to go online toy-hunting is AliExpress. The sad truth is many Chinese online stores openly flout laws concerning licensing and the legal manufacture and distribution of toys. In other words: expect such stores to have a surplus of bootlegs.
The fake Figma One Punch Man Saitama action figure we purchased from AliExpress is a good case in point. According to his seller, this is a "brand new" toy of the Flevans brand.
Flevans is a not a law-abiding toy maker or seller.
The credit of manufacturing Figma products goes to Max Factory, while their distributor is the renowned Good Smile Company. Stating otherwise is a complete lie, and should already paint a troubling picture of the figure being sold.
The fake Figma One Punch Man Saitama figure comes in the standard Figma packaging. Everything you'd expect printed on an official Figma box is present, including the product number (which in this case is 310), series logo, Max Factory logo, links to the Figma and Good Smile Company websites, contact information, the appropriate barcode, a whole lot of Japanese characters, and more.
Admittedly, the box resembles the real thing extremely closely. But we did notice two things off.
The fake's box is smooth, and glossy enough to be reflective. In contrast, the boxes of the most recent official Figmas have a matte finish.
Secondly, official Figma boxes come with a sticker from Good Smile Company. As you can see in the image above, this sticker features a warning about small parts, and provides the link to the company's customer support center.
You can also see through the box's window that Saitama's head is not attached to his neck.
This figure's true nature becomes more apparent when we open the box.
Remember the time in the anime when Saitama literally lost his head? We don't either.
Sadly, fake Saitama's head only very loosely attaches to his neck, so that it takes the tiniest effort to pull it off. Anything just slightly above a gentle handling of the figure will pop fake Saitama's noggin off.
Compounding problems is the fact that the neck itself is loose, and can also be detached from the upper torso surprisingly easily.
The legs lack tightness, too – particularly the left one. You can slip them off without breaking a sweat! The same can be said of the left foot.
The figure stands just short of 14.5cm tall. Viewing him from a distance, Saitama looks fairly legit. It's a different story when you give him a closer examination, however.
As Figma collectors ourselves, we can attest to the quality of the official Figma products. These figures boast exceptionally clean sculpts, flawless paint applications, and really, really tight joints.
This dedication to quality is not reflected in the fake Saitama figure. You're already aware of the loose head, neck, and legs, but this bootleg also has arms riddled with tiny, ugly lumps, and a couple of black and white dots. The belt buckle has scratches, giving it a damaged, dirty appearance.
The chest, stomach, groin, buttocks and legs are sprinkled with dark smudges, as if this toy has been rolled around in the dirt. On the upper back, we see odd, white smears along with the black stains.
The paint is generally fine, but it isn't the perfection we've come to expect from official Figma figures. Look closely at the beige collar, specifically the shoulder area, and you'll see flaws in the paint application. There's also discoloration in a few areas, with some of the yellow tinged with blue (sadly, this is tough to capture with a camera).
As for the joints, the elbow and knee joints aren't very tight, allowing you to swinging them backwards and forwards and around with uncomfortable ease.
The toe joints, however, are exceedingly stiff, so much so that you won't be able to bend them, thus preventing Saitama from doing some neat poses with his feet. As can be seen in the images above, the metal bolts holding the toe joints in place are protruding. If this were an official product, those bolts would be hidden.
There are also parts, like the right hand, where excess plastic is sticking out. Clearly, no quality management was employed in the manufacture of this figure.
The bootleg also feels dirty, as if he's covered in a fine layer of grit.
Fake One Punch Man Saitama comes with a number of accessories.
The extra head is dirty, the area around the mouth marred by stains. Both the extra and default heads are lumpy around the very visible seams.
From the outset, you'll observe the rip in the plastic housing the accessories.
The additional hands don't fit too nicely on the wrist pegs – in other words, they're loose, as well. The crossed arms fare a little better.
The mug is empty and remains so. In contrast, the official Saitama figure's mug comes with a semi-transparent plastic "tea" piece, which can be inserted into the mug to make it look as if it's filled with liquid.
The cape looks normal, yes, but the piece that drapes over the shoulders and back is rough to the touch. It's almost like sandpaper.
Yes, the articulated stand is unforgivably loose. The joint connecting the two longest bars is unable to support the figure's weight. While you can still use the stand to prevent fake Saitama from falling over when posed, you have no choice but to ensure his feet are resting on the ground. If you raise the figure into the air, the bars will fold over and said figure will fall.
Compare this to the official Figma Tracer figure in the images below. The middle joint of her stand is wonderfully tight; as such, it can bear Tracer's weight without the stand's bars bending, allowing her to stay airborne. You can therefore create a limitless number of exciting, gravity-defying, superheroic poses with Tracer – something you can't do with fake Saitama.
Lastly, there's the issue of pricing. At $16, this Saitama is far too cheap for a Figma. While some of the earlier Figmas cost over $30, most recent releases are priced at $60 and up.
One possible reason why this fake is so cheap is that it's a factory reject. Sometimes, mistakes happen during the manufacturing process, which leads to defects in the toy. Toys with defects fail quality checks and are then thrown in the trash. Some people, however, take these discarded toys and resell them without the consent of the official manufacturer. So what you are paying for is literally garbage.
The other possibility is much worse: that the mold for this toy was stolen, and the toy was then illegally manufactured in another factory. Cheap plastic toys made this way (usually in China) are more likely to be tainted with hazardous substances called phthalates. Prolonged exposure to these chemicals have been associated with numerous issues such as skin and respiratory irritation, hormone disruption, kidney and heart problems, immune system damage, and even cancer.
As small children have the habit of putting things in their mouths – which is the quickest way to introduce these toxic chemicals into the body – tainted plastic toys are particularly dangerous to kids. The frightening thing is you don't even have to swallow these toys to absorb the harmful chemicals. In a process called "offgassing," cheap plastic releases toxic substances as vapor into the air. The vapors can then be inhaled, ensuring their entry into the body.
The official Figma 310 One Punch Man Saitama figure is indeed more expensive at $65 and up. For this price, however, you're getting the type of premium quality you'd expect from Max Factory and Good Smile Company: components unblemished by dirt or paint slop; smooth, clean sculpts; wonderfully tight joints; and materials free of anything that'll kill you.
See the official product below!
Good Smile Company has an online shop where you can buy the company's latest products. Unfortunately, Figma 310 One Punch Man Saitama is currently out of stock.
Here's the good news: Good Smile Company has a huge list of partner shops from all over the world. Many of these are popular, trustworthy online and physical stores boasting all sorts of toys – including Figmas.
One of those partner shops is American online store BigBadToyStore. Figma One Punch Man Saitama is available here for $65.
Those in Europe can try the Figuya store. Here, Figma One Punch Man costs $98.
Don't hesitate to check out those other shops in Good Smile Company's partner list! And remember: you can always send these stores further inquiries through their websites, emails, or Facebook pages. These businesses are in direct contact with official toy distributors, so if a figure you want is currently out of stock, they might be able to make a special order from said distributors just for you.
Figma toys are renowned for their quality – a quality this fake Figma One Punch Man Saitama figure doesn't share. He not only looks and feels filthy, he's also riddled with lumps and suffers from loose joints. The articulated display stand's inability to support the bootleg's weight prevents cool, airborne poses, defeating the purpose of owning such an exciting superhero figure. For all these reasons, we're slamming this "product" with a 70% terrible rating.
I got my first Figma (Which is a Skyward Sword Link, and is actually authentic) off one of the shops that partner with Good Smile Co. Good thing I did that, otherwise I'd be disappointed. I'm fixing his left arm because it broke while tried to do the dabbing pose (which isn't a good idea).
Yikes, so I recently purchased this figure and thanks to your site, I can confirm it's a fake. I feel like an idiot… worse part is that I bought it off [redacted]. A site that says was built by adoring fans and blah blah blah…. it was "on sale" for only $39.99USD. Too good to be true? Seems like it. Mine is better quality than the one featured in your article, but still has enough flaws(both figure and box) to know it's not the real deal. Very disappointing. I wrote an e-mail back to the webstore in hopes of getting my money back. Who knows what other fake stuff they're selling on that website. ugh.
Anyway, thanks again for helping a white dude from Canada out.
I actually ordered a Neca Jason figure from ebay for $21.99 and got a Figma Saitama. I got supicous because I recieved the wrong figure and it was Figma, which was cheap for the price. I soon found out it was a bootleg by the amount of super glue stains on the figure and the missing liquid piece for the cup. I was disappointed by the fact I got the wrong figure and also the figure be a bootleg.


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Ireland soccer squad named for World Cup qualifiers
Republic of Ireland manager Stephen Kenny has named a 25-man squad for the upcoming FIFA 2022 World Cup qualifiers against Portugal, Azerbaijan and Serbia.
Ireland travel to Faro to take on Portugal at the Estádio Algarve on Wednesday, September 1 before returning to Ireland to take on Azerbaijan on Saturday, September 4 and Serbia on Tuesday, September 7 at the Aviva Stadium.
Enda Stevens, Callum O'Dowda, Jason Knight and Chiedozie Ogbene have all been ruled out through injury whilst West Bromwich Albion striker Callum Robinson tested positive for COVID-19 this week, and is currently in isolation.
Sligo Leitrim & District return this weekend
Burnley defender Nathan Collins receives his first call-up to the senior squad whilst Jamie McGrath and Andrew Omobamidele keep their place in the squad after impressing in the summer camp in Andorra and Hungary.
Brighton and Hove Albion striker Aaron Connolly and Newcastle United midfielder Jeff Hendrick return to the squad having missed the summer international friendlies, with the squad set to fly out to Portugal on Sunday.
Republic of Ireland Squad
Goalkeepers: Caoimhin Kelleher (Liverpool), Gavin Bazunu (Portsmouth, on loan from Manchester City), Mark Travers (AFC Bournemouth)
Defenders: Seamus Coleman (Everton), Matt Doherty (Tottenham Hotspur), Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion), John Egan (Sheffield United), Dara O'Shea (West Bromwich Albion), Ryan Manning (Swansea City), James McClean (Wigan Athletic), Andrew Omobamidele (Norwich City), Nathan Collins (Burnley).
Midfielders: Josh Cullen (Anderlecht), Jeff Hendrick (Newcastle United), Conor Hourihane (Aston Villa), Harry Arter (Nottingham Forest), Jamie McGrath (St. Mirren), Jayson Molumby (Brighton and Hove Albion)
Attackers: Aaron Connolly (Brighton and Hove Albion), James Collins (Cardiff City), Daryl Horgan (Wycombe Wanderers), Adam Idah (Norwich City), Troy Parrott (MK Dons, on loan from Tottenham Hotspur), Shane Long (Southampton), Ronan Curtis (Portsmouth).
01/09 - Portugal v Republic of Ireland, Estádio Algarve, 7.45pm
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Academia.edu is a social networking website for academics. It was launched in September 2008[3] and the site now has over 11 million registered users as of 2014.[4] The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price, who raised $600,000 from Spark Ventures, Brent Hoberman, and others.[5]
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In November 2011, Academia.edu raised $4.5 million from Spark Capital and True Ventures.[5] Prior to that, it had raised $2.2 million from Spark Ventures, and a range of angel investors including Mark Shuttleworth, Thomas Lehrman, and Rupert Pennant-Rea.[5] As of March 2014 it has raised $ 17.7 millions from Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Ventures, Spark Capital and Rupert Pennant-Rea.[6]
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TechCrunch remarked that Academia.edu gives academics a "powerful, efficient way to distribute their research"[9][10] and that it "will let researchers keep tabs on how many people are reading their articles with specialized analytics tools", and "also does very well in Google search results."[9] Academia.edu seems to reflect a combination of social networking norms and academic norms.[11]
Academia.edu is not a university or institution for higher learning and so under current standards would not qualify for the EDU top level domain. The domain name "Academia.edu" was registered in 1999, prior to the regulations which required .edu domain names to be held by accredited post-secondary institutions. All .edu domain names registered prior to 2001 were grandfathered in and not made subject to the regulation of being an accredited post-secondary institution.[12]
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Hand-wound, calibre 320, column wheel.
Gold case measuring 35 mm in diameter, excluding crown.
100% original dial with light vintage patina.
2 leather strap, 21 cm long, with 1 original buckle.
Prodotto arrivato in due giorni! Venditore affidabile e sicuro.
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Q: mklink: symlink to batch file not running batch file The problem here is that, after creating a symlink to a batch file, the link does not run the batch file. Example:
mklink x x.cmd

When clicking on x it opens x.cmd in Notepad! Ordinary shortcuts (.lnk-files) work as expected.
> ftype cmdfile
cmdfile="%1" %*
> assoc .cmd
.cmd=cmdfile

So each .cmd-file should run itself.
Is there a solution?

A: One way would be to make hard links (mklink /H). But since I think you just need some kind of shortcut, try this:
1) Make a shell script *.vbs like this (shortcut_helper.vbs):
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell" )
set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(Wscript.Arguments.Named("shortcut") & ".lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = Wscript.Arguments.Named("target")
oShellLink.Arguments = Wscript.Arguments.Named("arg")
oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
oShellLink.Save

2) Make your batch script start it like this from an batch file:
path_to_vbs\shortcut_helper /target:"file_path\file.bat" /shortcut:"shortcut_name" /arg:"optional_arguments"

Now 2) creates shortcuts (*.lnk) for you and you can then move them anywhere you like =)
Be careful though, *.vbs files MAY need admin rights in some circumstances.

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He was a key advisor to the Department of Conservation in developing its new partnership model with business, community, iwi and local government, and has been a driving force behind the New Zealand predator free movement.
At Crazy & Ambitious 2, Sir Rob's keynote is via video on Tuesday 21 May during the Tiaki session: Achieving a predator free New Zealand – are we dreaming?
He is a director of Predator Free 2050 Limited and has chaired the Predator Free NZ Trust, Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge and Kiwis for Kiwi.
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Colley Cibber, také Cooley Cibber (6. listopadu 1671 Londýn – 12. listopadu 1757 tamtéž) byl britský herec, divadelní režisér, impresário, dramatik a básník.

Život
Colley Cibber byl synem sochaře Caja Gabriela Cibbera a jeho druhé manželky Jane Colley (1646–1697). Měl vlastní divadelní soubor v divadle Royal Drury Lane v Londýně a pro něj napsal několik divadelních her. Kromě svých vlastních her adaptoval pod svým jménem pro soubor i hry jiných autorů (včetně her Williama Shakespeara a Molièra) a byl za to opakovaně kritizován.

Cibber sám sebe považoval především jako herce. Měl velký úspěch v komických rolích. Méně se mu dařilo v rolích tragických. Za jejich ztvárnění byl často obětí posměchu. Jako manažer divadla Royal Drury Lane objevil již v raném věku herečku a operní zpěvačku Kitty Clive.

Svými současníky nebyl příliš oblíben. Opakovaně byl obviňován z nevkusných divadelních inscenací, pochybných obchodních metod a politického a sociálního oportunismu. Titul královského dvorního básníka údajně obdržel pouze kvůli svým stykům. Byl také jedním z terčů satirické básně Alexandera Popea The Dunciad (Hlupiáda).

Napsal také svou autobiografii An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber (1740), která je vynikajícím zdrojem informací o divadle první poloviny 18. století. Cibber tak vytvořil tradici epických autobiografií, bohatých na anekdotické příběhy. Současníci připisovaly autorství této autobiografie spisovateli Henrymu Fieldingovi.

Zemřel v Londýně 12. listopadu 1757 stár 86 let.

Dílo

Próza
 An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber (1740)
 The character and conduct of Cicero considered (1747)
 A letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope (1742)

Poesie
 The Blind Boy

Divadelní hry
 Love's Last Shift (komedie, January 1696)
 Woman's Wit (komedie, 1697)
 Xerxes (tragédie, 1699)
 Richard III. (tragédie, 1699)
 Love Makes a Man (komedie, 1700)
 The School Boy (komedie, 1702)
 She Would and She Would Not (komedie, 1702)
 The Careless Husband (komedie, 1704)
 Perolla and Izadora (tragédie, 1705)
 The Comical Lovers (komedie, 1707)
 The Double Gallant (komedie, 1707)
 The Lady's Last Stake (komedie, 1707)
 The Rival Fools (komedie, 1709)
 The Rival Queans (tragikomedie, parodie na hru Nathaniela Lee)
 Ximena (tragédie, 1712)
 Venus and Adonis (maska, 1715)
 Myrtillo (pastorela, 1715)
 The Non-Juror (komedie, 1717)
 The Refusal (komedie, 1721)
 Cæsar in Egypt (tragédie, 1724)
 The Provoked Husband (komedie, 1728)
 Love in a Riddle (pastorela, 1729)
 Damon and Phillida (pastorální farce, 1729)
 Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John (tragédie, Covent Garden, 1745)

 Odkazy

 Reference

 Literatura
 Leonard R. N. Ashley: Colley Cibber. Revised Edition. Twayne, Boston MA 1989,  (Twayne's English Authors Series. TEAS 17)
 Helene Koon: Colley Cibber. A Biography. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington KY 1986, .
 Timothy J. Viator, William J. Burling (ed.): The Plays of Colley Cibber''. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2001. ,

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 Úplný text An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber
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Britští spisovatelé
Britští režiséři
Britští básníci
Britští dramatici
Britští herci
Narození 6. listopadu
Narození v roce 1671
Narození v Londýně
Úmrtí 12. listopadu
Úmrtí v roce 1757
Úmrtí v Londýně
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BlackBerry launches Z10 in India for $800 | BlackBerry Blast!
BlackBerry launched the BlackBerry Z10 in India on monday for a whopping $800. The BlackBerry 10 devices is priced at 43,490 rupees ($800). The Z10 will be available in retail channels on Tuesday, but the announcement was made Monday.
$800 is a whopper of a price. I wonder what the iPhone sells for over there.


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1. How he got the name Aṇimāṇḍavya ( अणिमाण्डव्य )
Once there was a famous Brahmin named Māṇḍavya. He did Tapas (penance) for many years standing silent in front of his Āśrama, under a tree, raising his hands in prayer. At that time some thieves happened to pass by that place, with stolen property belonging to the King. Finding that the King's men were pursuing them, the thieves fled away after leaving their stolen property in Māṇḍavya's Āśrama. The King's men seized Māṇḍavya with the king's property. Even prolonged and repeated questionings did not bring out a single word from Māṇḍavya. At last the thieves were caught. Mistaking him as one of the thieves, the King's men produced Māṇḍavya also along with the thieves before the King. The thieves were all condemned to death. The royal executioners took all of them to the place of execution and stuck them up at the tip of a trident (Śūla). The thieves died, but even after a long time Māṇḍavya did not die.
In Mahābhārata, Anuśāsana Parva, Verses 46- 51, it is said that at this stage Śiva appeared and blessed him with longevity and then vanished. Several Munis in the shape of birds came near Māṇḍavya who was lying on the trident and made enquiries about him. The King came to know of all these stories. Full of repentance, he went and begged pardon of Māṇḍavya. The attempt to pull out the trident from Māṇḍavya's body failed. At last it was removed by cutting it off. Since the tip (Aṇi) of the trident was left behind in his body he was there- after known as "Aṇi Māṇḍavya". (M.B., Ādi Parva, Chapter 107).
2) His curse on Dharma & birth of Vidura
After going about in the world for many years with the tip of the trident in his body, Aṇi Māṇḍavya once asked Dharma: "Oh! Lord, why is it that an innocent man like me is afflicted with the trident?". Dharma answered: "In your boyhood you once caught small birds and pierced them with a grass reed. It is a result of that sin that you have been pierced with the trident." Māṇḍavya replied: "The Śāstras ordain that there shall be no punishment for sins committed till the age of twelve. Therefore the punishment inflicted on me is wrong. As the murder of a Brahmin is a greater sin than any other murder, may you be born as a man in the 'Śūdra Caste'."
By the above curse of Māṇḍavya, Dharma was born a son of a Śūdra woman. It was this child who later on became the renowned Vidura of the Mahābhārata. (M.B., Ādi Parva, Chapter 107).
Translation in Hindi
पूर्व काल की बात है वेदार्थों के ज्ञाता, महान यशस्वी, पुरातन मुनि, ब्रह्मर्षि भगवान अणिमाण्डव्य चोर न होते हुए भी चोर के संदेह से शूली पर चढा दिये गये।
परलोक में जाने पर उन महा यशस्वी महर्षि ने पहले धर्म को बुलाकर इस प्रकार कहा –
'धर्मराज ! पहले कभी मैंने बाल्यवस्था के कारण सींक से एक चिडि़ये के बच्चे को छेद दिया था। वही एक पाप मुझे याद आ रहा है। अपने दूसरे किसी पाप का मुझे स्मरण नहीं है ।। 'मैंने अगणित सहस्त्र गुणा तप किया है। फिर उस तप ने मेरे छोट-से पाप को क्यों नहीं नष्ट कर दिया। ब्राह्मण का वध समस्त प्राणियों के वध से बड़ा है। '(तुमने मुझे शूली पर चढवाकर वही पाप किया है) इसलिये तुम पापी हो।
अतः पृथ्वी पर शूद्र की योनि में तुम्हें जन्म लेना पड़ेगा। 'अणीमाण्डव्य के उस शाप से धर्म भी शूद्र की योनि में उत्पन्न हुए। पाप रहित विद्वान विदुर के रूप में धर्मराज का शरीर ही प्रकट हुआ था।
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Independence Day Gets the Sequel It Doesn't Need
The revival of Roland Emmerich's 1996 epic will attempt to hand off the story to newcomers—a growing Hollywood trend that doesn't always bode well.
By David Sims
Regarding the sequel to the sci-fi action epic Independence Day, which is currently in development, two things should be clear. The first is that no sequel to Roland Emmerich's 1996 film has ever been required: It's such a straightforward piece of storytelling, with aliens arriving, invading, and being defeated by humanity, that there's no real thread to pick up 20 years later. The second is that the news of Jeff Goldblum reprising his role as the jittery computer expert David Levinson is exciting enough to justify the whole foolish affair.
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With the confirmation of Goldblum's involvement, tweeted out by Emmerich, Independence Day 2 became the latest in a popular trend of sequels—a pass-the-torch reboot that prepares audiences for an unending franchise. Starring alongside Goldblum are two far-younger actors: Liam Hemsworth, whose biggest role to date has been the stoic Gale of The Hunger Games series, and Jessie Usher, the lead of the excellent but underappreciated Starz series Survivor's Remorse. Goldblum will be there as a nod to the original film, but with such a long time between projects, is there really any other reason to be excited for another Independence Day?
It's clear marquee star Will Smith isn't returning—Emmerich dubbed him "too expensive" in an interview two years ago—and Usher will apparently play his character's son, now all grown up and ready to take on alien invaders from a fighter jet. The original film was a meat-headed blockbuster to be sure, sold to audiences on its explosive visual effects (its Super Bowl commercial remains the stuff of advertising legend). But it's the weird, whimsical touches that have helped it endure—you could re-create its visual effects in a video game these days, but there's something ineffable about Goldblum kvetching over his PowerBook with Judd Hirsch, Will Smith punching an alien with a hearty "Welcome to Earth!", and Emmerich's exaggerated, flag-waving American patriotism.
Independence Day 2 could be the calculated franchise reboot that proves everyone wrong, but Liam Hemsworth is hardly the most promising prospect when it comes to capturing that magic again. It's hard to know when, or if, Hollywood will ever reach peak sequel, but it is certainly testing audiences' limits as it looks to play to a more global market. With the whole world in mind, any established brand is worth reviving or continuing—even relative failures like Pacific Rim, which barely earned $100 million in the United States (against a $190 million budget), are getting sequels green-lit because they're safer bets for international audiences.
That's why the Pirates of the Caribbean movies won't go away, why Sony is letting Marvel reboot Spider-Man for the third time in 15 years, and why Chris Pratt is now the star of Steven Spielberg's two most beloved franchises: Jurassic Park and, if reports are true, Indiana Jones—which already tried this trick once in 2008's Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with Shia LaBeouf appearing alongside Harrison Ford as his son. Needless to say, Spielberg would probably rather you forgot about that—but even he isn't immune to the reboot bug.
With the whole world in mind, any established brand is worth reviving or continuing.
The most assured version of the "nostalgic reboot" arrives in December: J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which will feature the series' original stars alongside a cast of newcomers who will, in theory, eventually carry the franchise along themselves. Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher might be getting old, but the least they can do is give the new films an on-screen nod of approval.
Countless lesser franchises are being mulled to follow the same model: The creaky Arnold Schwarzenegger will take up the role of Conan the Barbarian, for example, in a sequel called Legend of Conan; he's already done the same for the Terminator series, with 2015 bringing the depressingly titled Genysis, which promises a new timeline to toy around with. Sylvester Stallone will play Rocky Balboa for, he promises, one last time in the upcoming Creed, where he will anoint Michael B. Jordan as his spiritual successor. Remember Angelina Jolie's work as Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider films? Well, Sony is casting around for a younger model as the reboot hits the production fast track.
On and on it goes. It's enough to make one appreciate the unending slew of Marvel movies, which make the effort to maintain continuity and flow into upcoming installments with real forethought. Still, it's hard to ever definitively declare that the sky is falling in Hollywood, no matter how dreadful the summer-release slate might look. Independence Day 2 won't shock the world by blowing up the White House, nor is it likely to introduce viewers to the decade's newest superstar. But at least it'll have Jeff Goldblum in it.


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Morgan Keegan Fined $200 Million for Fraud Involving Toxic Bond Funds
Post by Page Perry on June 23, 2011
Morgan Keegan & Company and Morgan Asset Management have agreed to pay $200 million to settle fraud charges related to bond funds that invested in subprime mortgage-backed securities. The charges were filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, state regulators from Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and South Carolina, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Former RMK bond fund portfolio manager James C. Kelsoe Jr., and comptroller Joseph Thompson Weller also agreed to pay penalties for their misconduct. Kelsoe is now barred from the securities industry.
Kelsoe and Weller caused false valuation of subprime mortgage-backed securities in five funds managed by Morgan Asset Management from January 2007 to July 2007, according to the regulators. Morgan Keegan also failed to employ reasonable pricing procedures, failed to calculate accurate "net asset values" for the funds, published the inaccurate daily NAVs, and sold shares to investors based on the inflated prices, according to regulators. The SEC brought its enforcement action in coordination with FINRA and a task force of state regulators from Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and South Carolina.
"The falsification of fund values misrepresented critical information exactly when investors needed it most ? when the subprime mortgage meltdown was impacting the funds," Robert Khuzami, Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, was quoted as saying, adding: "Such misconduct does grievous harm to investors."
William Hicks, Associate Director for the SEC's Atlanta Regional Office, said: "This enforcement action makes clear that the SEC will deal firmly with those who abuse their responsibility to assign accurate values to securities or other assets held by funds."
The SEC's order found that Kelsoe instructed Morgan Keegan's fund accounting department to make arbitrary "price adjustments" to the fair values of certain portfolio securities. In so doing, Kelsoe disregarded lower values for those same securities provided by outside broker-dealers, and induced at least one broker-dealer to provide inaccurate confirmations. As a result, Morgan Keegan did not price those bonds at their current fair value.
Kelsoe thus fraudulently prevented a reduction in the NAVs of the funds that should have occurred as a result of the deterioration in the subprime securities market in 2007, according to the regulators. Morgan Keegan failed to employ the fair valuation policies and procedures adopted by the funds' boards of directors to fair value the funds' portfolio securities.
Under the settlement, Morgan Keegan is required to pay $25 million in disgorgement and interest and a $75 million penalty to the SEC to be placed into a Fair Fund for the benefit of investors harmed by the violations. Morgan Keegan will pay $100 million into a state fund that also will be distributed to investors. The firms are additionally required to abstain from involvement in valuing fair valued securities on behalf of investment companies for three years. Kelsoe agreed to pay $500,000 in penalties and be barred from the securities industry by the SEC, and Weller agreed to pay a penalty of $50,000.
Page Perry is an Atlanta-based law firm with over 125 years collective experience representing investors in securities-related litigation and arbitration. While past results are not indicative of future success, Page Perry's attorneys have recovered over $1,000,000 for clients on more than 45 occasions. Page Perry's attorneys have extensive experience in representing investors in Morgan Keegan cases. For further information, please contact us.
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We already talked about the Galaxy S4 Zoom several times in the last couple of weeks, but we finally have some more news on some of the specifications of the device. Earlier this month we already got our hands on the first photo that was snapped with Galaxy S4 Zoom, which also directly confirmed the existence of the device. Today the UAProf surfaced on the Samsung website, these so-called UAProf's are being used to produce content in an appropriate format for the device in question.
The leaked UAProf shows us that the Galaxy S4 Zoom (SM-C101) is expected to feature a ARM-11 processor, which will likely result in one of the Exynos processors, although we might see two different models, one with a Qualcomm Snapdragon and one with Samsung's own Exynos, just like they did with the Galaxy S4. Russian analyst Dmitry Ryabinin said that the Galaxy S4 Zoom should look a lot like the Galaxy S4 Mini in terms of hardware specifications, and the UAProf does seem to confirm this statement. The device is likely to carry a 4,3-inch screen with a qHD resolution of 960 x 540 pixels. On the back you will find a 16-megapixel camera with 10x optical zoom.
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Lady Gaga is in a seriously bad romance in 'American Horror Story' — with multiple people. We got our first glance of Gaga covered in blood on the new cover story for 'Entertainment Weekly,' and it's exactly what we wanted.
Lady Gaga obviously has her (gloved) hands full with her role on American Horror Story: Hotel, the focus of this week's cover of Entertainment Weekly.
The appetite of American Horror Story has grown from jaar to jaar in terms of ratings and awareness, with last year's Freak toon garnering the biggest audience and most Emmy noms than any iteration preceding.
gegeven Lady Gaga's status as a style icon, it's not surprising that American Horror Story's look this jaar is fashionably following suit.
Each season of American Horror Story tackles a different horror genre and this year's iteration, Hotel, focuses on vampirism … well, kind of. "I prefer the term 'ancient blood virus,'" co-creator Ryan Murphy tells EW.
American Horror Story: Hotel is connected to season 1 — find out how and who's coming back!
Get ready to freak out, American Horror Story fans. In this week's cover of EW, we not only take u inside the the latest iteration, Hotel, starring Lady Gaga, but find out some incredible new details.
It's not every dag u get a cold call from Lady Gaga, even when you're Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Horror Story). "I was at a construction site and my phone rang," he recalls.


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