Canada is building world-class research capacity by recruiting top-tier doctoral students, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to our economic, social and research-based growth for a prosperous future. To promote this world-class excellence, the Government of Canada has created the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program. Once in full operation, this program will support 500 international and Canadian doctoral students with highly prestigious scholarships.
The Vanier CGS program reaffirms Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and education. The program supports Canada`s science and technology policy direction, which capitalizes on people, strengthens knowledge and encourages entrepreneurial advantages in order to build a competitive Canada.
The scholarships are administered by Canada`s three federal granting agencies: the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
The Vanier CGS program aims to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by supporting students who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering, and health. Canadian and international students are eligible to be nominated for a Vanier CGS. In an effort to support students in broadening their research horizons and seeking new challenges, the Vanier CGS program strongly encourages candidates to pursue their studies beyond the university that granted their undergraduate and graduate degrees.
A Vanier CGS is valued at $50,000 per year for three years.
When can the award be taken up?
have already undertaken a doctoral program of study at a Canadian university and will be transferring to a doctoral program at the Canadian nominating university.
will transfer from a doctoral program at an international university to a doctoral program at the Canadian nominating university.
Without exception, all nominations from Canadian universities must be submitted via ResearchNet and received by the federal research granting agencies by October 20, 2010. Late or incomplete nominations will not be considered.
The federal granting agencies will notify universities of the competition results by mail in early April 2011. The nominees will be notified via ResearchNet shortly after the university notification. The agencies will not provide results by telephone.
The names of Vanier CGS recipients and other basic award information will be published on the Vanier website. For more on the posting of, and access to, information, please refer to the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
not have already received a doctoral-level scholarship or fellowship from SSHRC, NSERC or CIHR to undertake or complete a doctoral degree (or combined MA/PhD or MD/PhD).
All prior doctoral-level studies, regardless of discipline, will be considered in the evaluation of eligibility. The granting agencies will count two months of part-time study as one month of full-time study.
In the case of students who are registered in a combined MA/PhD program or a direct-entry doctoral program, or who are accelerated from a master's program into a doctoral program without obtaining the master's degree, the agencies will not include the first 12 months of graduate study in the evaluation of eligibility.
All months of doctoral-level study within the combined degree program will be considered in the evaluation of eligibility.
Without exception, Vanier CGS awards are tenable only at the eligible Canadian university that submitted the nomination.
remain enrolled and demonstrate continued satisfactory progress in doctoral program.
A Vanier CGS may be held by students who are registered part time because of a disability. For this purpose, disability is defined as "a functional limitation resulting from a physical, sensory, or mental impairment, which, for an indefinite period, affects the ability of the student to perform the activities necessary to participate fully in his or her learning." For eligible part-time students, Vanier CGS award funding will be equivalent to a full-time award spread over a longer period of time.
Canadian federal government employees are eligible to hold a scholarship only if on an unpaid leave of absence (no salary or special allowances permitted).
Vanier CGS candidates may only apply to the same agency's doctoral or fellowship awards programs within the same academic year. They may not submit applications to more than one agency or concurrently hold more than one agency scholarship or fellowship.
Eligible universities receive three-year allocations based on 600 total nominations per research granting agency (CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC).
The distribution of allocations among eligible universities is based on the following method: for Canadian universities that have a doctoral-level program in the subject areas supported by one or more of the granting agencies, the calculation is based on the sum of the three-year rolling funding average used for the last Canada Research Chairs calculations (fiscal years 2003‑04, 2004‑05 and 2005‑06), and the payments made under the respective granting agencies for the Canada Graduate Scholarships doctoral awards for the three most recent fiscal years (2005‑06, 2006‑07 and 2007‑08).
Universities have the flexibility to submit as many applications as they wish in any given year, within their maximum three-year allocation per granting agency. Universities cannot exceed their three-year allocations or transfer allocations between agencies.
The candidate's proposed research project and doctoral program of study must be eligible within the mandate of the agency to which the nomination will be submitted. If in doubt, universities should consult with the agencies in advance of submitting the nomination. This also applies to nominations involving interdisciplinary fields of research, or disciplines that span the mandates of two or more of the federal research granting agencies.
The faculty of graduate studies at each eligible Canadian university is responsible for co-ordinating the university review of their selected candidates and forwarding nominations for Vanier CGSs to the appropriate federal research granting agencies in accordance with the university's allocation.
Once submitted to the appropriate agency, eligible Vanier scholarship nominations are evaluated by a peer review selection committee at the agency, and, if recommended by the committee, are then reviewed by the Vanier Selection Board, as outlined below.
All eligible nominations will undergo a peer review evaluation by one of three agency-specific, interdisciplinary Vanier Peer Review committees. Each interdisciplinary selection committee will recommend the top 70 most meritorious candidates (for a total of 210 candidates between all three granting agencies) based on the nominees' academic excellence and research potential, as well as on their leadership skills.
The Vanier Selection Board will make final recommendations for Vanier CGSs based on the board's assessment of the leadership abilities of the candidates put forward by the three granting agencies' peer review committees. The Selection Board also oversees the program's process and results to ensure that the program achieves its objectives.
Each year, the Selection Board will select 166 to 167 awardees (for a total of 500 active awards after the initial three years) from the total of 210 nominated candidates submitted by the three granting agencies.
Nominees will be evaluated and selected based on the following three criteria, which will be weighted equally by the peer review committees. However, the final Selection Board recommendation on awardees will be based solely on the leadership component (referee letters, leadership reference letter, university nomination letter, candidate's self-assessment of leadership potential and ability) of the nomination documents.
Research potential, as demonstrated by the candidate's research history, his/her interest in discovery, the proposed research and its potential contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the field, the potential benefit to Canadians, and any anticipated outcomes.
organization of conferences and meetings.
community involvement in charity or not-for-profit organizations.
strategizes how to achieve his/her desired outcomes and has specific, realistic and timely goals.
is constantly working on self-improvement.
accepts personal accountability for the consequences of his/her actions and decisions.
is able to solve real problems and create real products.
displays mastery of presentation skills and public communications.
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Biden: Americans should 'pay attention' to MLK's legacy
President Joe Biden attends a service honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., is at right. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
By: AAMER MADHANI
\ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden made a historical pilgrimage Sunday to "America's freedom church" to mark Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, saying democracy was at a perilous moment and that the civil rights leader's life and legacy "show us the way and we should pay attention."
As the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday morning sermon at King's Ebenezer Baptist Church, Biden cited the telling question that King himself once asked of the nation.
"He said, 'Where do we go from here?'" Biden said from the pulpit. "Well, my message to this nation on this day is we go forward, we go together, when we choose democracy over autocracy, a beloved community over chaos, when we choose believers and the dreams, to be doers, to be unafraid, always keeping the faith."
In a divided country only two years removed from a violent insurrection, "the battle for the soul of this nation is perennial. It's a constant struggle ... between hope and fear, kindness and cruelty, justice and injustice," Biden told congregants, elected officials and dignitaries.
He spoke out against those who "traffic in racism, extremism, insurrection" and said the struggle to protect democracy was playing out in courthouses and ballot boxes, protests and other avenues. "At our best, the American promise wins out. … But I don't need to tell you that we're not always at our best. We're fallible. We fail and fall.''
The stop at Ebenezer comes at a delicate moment for Biden after Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate how the president handled classified documents after leaving the vice presidency in 2017. The White House on Saturday revealed that additional classified records were found at Biden's home near Wilmington, Delaware.
In introducing Biden, the church's senior pastor, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock noted that the president was "a devout Catholic" for whom "this Baptist service might be a little bit rambunctious and animated. But I saw him over there clapping his hands."
King, whom Warnock called "the greatest American prophet of the 20th century," served as co-pastor from 1960 until he was assassinated in 1968.
Warnock, like many battleground state Democrats who won reelection in 2022, kept his distance during the campaign from Biden as the president's approval rating lagged and the inflation rate climbed.
But with Biden beginning to turn his attention toward an expected 2024 reelection effort, Georgia is going to get plenty of his attention.
In 2020, Biden managed to win Georgia as well as closely contested Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Black votes made up a disproportionate part of the Democratic electorate. Turning out Black voters in those states will be essential to Biden's 2024 hopes.
The White House has tried to promote Biden's agenda in minority communities. The White House has cited efforts to encourage states to take equity into account for public works projects as they spend money from the administration's $1 trillion infrastructure bill. The administration also has acted to end sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses, scrapping a policy widely seen as racist.
The administration also highlights Biden's work to diversify the federal judiciary, including his appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the confirmation of 11 Black women judges to federal appeals courts — more than those installed to those powerful courts under all previous presidents combined.
King, who was born on Jan. 15, 1929, was killed at age 39. He helped drive passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Members of King's family attended the service, including his 95-year-old sister, Christine King Farris.
The president plans to be in Washington on Monday to speak at the National Action Network's annual breakfast on the King holiday.
Associated Press writer Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this report.
This story has been updated to reflect that Christine King Ferris is Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister

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Colgate University announced on Tuesday, April 1, that it will open a graduate school of dentistry. The dental school will be a natural outgrowth of the university's strength in the sciences, as well as the consolidated focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. These ideas all are emphasized in the university's 2014–2019 strategic plan.
According to Herbst, campus initiatives such as Colgate's Thought Into Action Entrepreneurship Institute also have inspired campus administrators to look not just at how things are, but how they might be.
Together with Douglas Hicks, provost and dean of the faculty, and Gary Ross '77, dean of admission, Herbst determined that a school of dentistry could provide a new revenue stream for the university while also reinforcing Colgate's core mission to educate students in the liberal arts.


30 Minutes of Majora's Mask 3D Footage: All 3 Transformation Masks, Boss Fights, Etc.
YouTuber Nick Robinson has given us 30 minutes of Majora's Mask 3D Gameplay with commentary, showing off several aspects of the game we have yet to see, including a bunch of gameplay with all 3 of the regular transformation masks (sorry, no Fierce Deity!). He goes over several sections of the game from starting out with a brand new save file to jumping to areas much later in the game, including some late game boss fights. It's a very informative video and one of the best true previews we have gotten so far.


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Are you concerned that there are not contact lenses equipped to accommodate your keratoconus or dry eye syndrome? Here at Heritage Eye Care, our Arlington Texas eye doctor and the rest of the staff here are to provide you with the eye care products you need to keep your eyes seeing clearly and feeling comfortably, all while wearing specialty contact lenses. Many people are discouraged at other eye care service providers when they are not able to wear contact lenses because of their eye condition, or when they are given contact lenses that leave their eyes feeling uncomfortable and discourage them from wearing contact lenses on a regular basis.
Our Arlington Texas eye doctor offers our patients a variety of soft and hard contact lenses to choose from, including brands that allow for customized contact lenses to be created for individual patients so as to enhance their vision quality and allow for them to see as comfortably as possible. Contact lenses are an excellent vision correction option for many people and for many reasons. They do not obstruct your vision, they allow you to have a more natural appearance, they are easy to replace, and the list goes on. Because contact lenses are such a great option, no one should feel that they can not wear them because of their specific eye conditions.
For people with keratoconus, there are contact lenses available that work with the shape of your cornea and correct it so that you can see properly. For people with dry eye, there are special soft contact lenses with extra moisture and other similar qualities that can give you the relief from your symptoms as well as the vision correction that you need to see properly. Our Arlington Texas eye doctor can give you more personalized recommendations about contact lens options that can work for you during your next visit with us at Heritage Eye Care.
If you would like to learn more about the various eye care products and services provided by our Arlington Texas eye doctor, we encourage you to visit the main Heritage Eye Care website to browse through some additional information that you might find useful. If you have any questions or concerns that you would like to discuss, do not hesitate to contact our staff for assistance. We look forward to working with you.
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Statistics show that glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide, so the earlier it's diagnosed, the better. Once diagnosed, appropriate treatment can minimize, or even prevent, optic nerve damage and reduce vision loss due to glaucoma. Glaucoma can impair your vision so slowly that loss of vision may not even be noticed until the disease is at an advanced stage. Primary open-angle glaucoma is the most common type of glaucoma, and often has no noticeable signs or symptoms. With this in mind, it's very important to get your eyes examined regularly with our optometrist in Arlington. Our dedicated staff, are well-educated to evaluate, diagnose, and treat glaucoma.
Caused by various eye issues that result in gradual vision loss, glaucoma is caused by damage to your optic nerve. Even though high pressure on the eye is a cause of glaucoma, it can also occur in the presence of normal eye pressure. The two main types of glaucoma in adults are primary open-angle glaucoma and closed-angle glaucoma. Open-angle glaucoma is the more common of the two forms and happens when the pressure inside your eye rises because of fluid back-up. In time, pressure builds up, the optic nerve gets damaged, and the result is permanent vision loss. Closed-angle glaucoma is more rare and happens when the drainage canals of your eye get blocked, causing a fast rise in pressure inside your eye. Our optometrist in Arlington recommends that those at high risk for glaucoma should have a dilated pupil eye exam at least every two years. Our specialists use several tests to detect glaucoma and these tests are much more thorough and reliable than what is known as a glaucoma screening.
Our optometrist in Arlington wants our patients to know there is a difference between a glaucoma diagnostic screening and a comprehensive eye exam at Heritage Eye Care. For the most part, glaucoma screenings have been somewhat ineffective in detecting the disease. Unintentionally, they may also stop people from having a proper eye exam that will show full and specific results. The intention of a glaucoma screening is to identify those with glaucoma who may not be under the care of an optometrist, though we know through research, screening processes do not meet published quality standards. A general screening may very well detect glaucoma, but they are simply not inclusive enough to show other eye conditions that could be serious. If other eye conditions are present, such as refractive error, cataracts, and diabetic retinopathy, they need to be diagnosed and treated by an optometrist as soon as possible.
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As a concerned parent, your first concern is always the health and safety of your child. Whether or not you have a history of optical problems or diseases, your child should still be seen for regular eye examinations as soon as they are of age. Comprehensive eye examinations from your local Arlington optometrist can provide an early diagnosis that could provide vision saving treatments to your child's eyes. An immediate diagnosis can stop many vision problems your children can develop later in life from ever happening, as well as assisting you in caring for your child's eyes. For clear vision care you can count on, be sure to book your child's first eye exam as soon as they are six months old at Heritage Eye Care.
With a comprehensive eye exam you could very well be saving your child's eye sight without even knowing it. At six months old your child is too young yet for the more traditional sight tests adults have become accustomed too. However, your Arlington optometrist can still use the latest in diagnostic technology to look for any complications or disease that often develop in children by this point in their life. Ambylopia is on such complication that often shows its first signs at six months of age. Also known as lazy eye, amblyopia an make seeing clearly very difficult for your child, but if caught in early ages can be far easier to treat.
At three years old your child is old enough to communicate clearly with their peers and friends, and as such is ready for their first complete eye examination from your Arlington optometrist. Eye exams for children can test for the very same things adult optical examinations do, but are specially designed to be easier and more enjoyable for your child, with kid friendly tests that are often fun for our younger patients, while making it easier for us examine their eyes for any conditions they could have. These eye exams can also determine the strength of their eyes, and will tell us if they are seeing clearly, or if they will require optical correction through children's eyeglasses.
Proper vision is important to the growth of your child both physically and intellectually. Without proper vision correction and diagnosis your child can have trouble with everything from making friends to reading the classroom assignment on the chalk board, or even taking notes from a projector. Eye exams can also save your child's vision from many optical conditions and diseases. This is why it is so important to have your child's eyes regularly examined by your local Arlington optometrist. At Heritage Eye Care are local offices are conveniently located to make it easier for you and your family to receive the vision care you need for clear sight.
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SBK, Buriram: Rea and Kawasaki tasked with chasing the Bautista nightmare away
In Thailand, Johnny will need to responds to the superiority of the Panigale V4, but there's a risk it will be another weekend on the defensive
Submitted by Riccardo Gugliemetti on Tue, 12/03/2019 - 10:30
johnny rea
Chaz Davies
Eugene Laverty
Marco Melandri
It should be an incandescent weekend, not only for the on-track action but also for the temperatures, close to 40° degrees. Yes, because Buriram is set to the hottest event on the calendar and, consequently, everyone is keen to see the level of the playing field following Phillip Island. With many considering it the true 'first round', Thailand will provide clues ahead of the Superbikes' arrival in Europe in April.
The Australian round immediately highlighted a two-sided Ducati. While Alvaro Bautista shone, leaving his rivals with nothing but crumbs, Davies, Rinaldi and Laverty struggled to find the right path. Their performance took a backseat in fact, the spotlight firmly on the Spaniard's Panigale V4, a winner on its debut appearance.
Rather than the triple win, what was impressive was the margin by which Bautista triumphed. No-one could have imagined seeing Johnny Rea and his Kawasaki so far back, almost twenty seconds back in race 2 in fact. At this point we cannot help but wonder what will happen at Buriram. We definitely expect Kawasaki to respond, though the Cannibal has already pointed out that there is a risk of a similar situation arising again.
As you know, the Asian track is characterised by three long straights, where the Panigale V4 can really showcase its horsepower. But there are also flowing sections. Comparing Buriram to the Red Bull Ring would be a big mistake, as Andrea Dovizioso already stated last October. Yes, because through the mixed sectors, Bautista will have chance to show off his agility on board the red bike, the project inspired by that of the MotoGP.
The real risk is that Rea will find himself on the defensive once again, also having to keep an eye on team-mate Leon Haslam. Let's just say Johnny is aware of the dangers!
There are high hopes in the Honda camp too, in that back in January the team chose to test its Fireblade SP2 at the Asian track rather than in Europe. And we shouldn't forget BMW, still dealing with a Stock engine. In Australia, Tom Sykes was 20 km/h slower than the Panigale V4. #66 will be well aware of this number, despite the positives of the bike's frame.
And what of Yamaha, the privateer team having stolen the factory outfit's thunder three weeks ago with Marco Melandri, who scored a first SBK podium for team GRT. The Italian now faces the toughest, but most exciting of challenges: to consolidate that performance.
Translated by Heather Watson
Bautista: "MotoGP? I'd go back to race with an official team."
Wyman's Panigale V4 R very different from Bautista's factory bike
Ducati crossroads: Bautista or Melandri for the last Panigale V4
Phillip Island: red dawn! Bautista powers the Panigale V4 to victory
Bautista flies with the Panigale V4 at Phillip Island, Rea half a second behind
Rossi: "Buriram? I don't love the track but I want a podium"
Sykes: "In the warm-up lap I realized I had a great opportunity"
"The bike gave me great confidence. Yesterday's work paid off. Seeing the team happy is one of the reasons I love racing."
Melandri says it all has to be redone: "I'm back at the starting point"
Yamaha's old problems are back at Misano: "I expected more, I don't feel the tires working, and I'm not confident."
Podium fizzled out for Davies: "An electrical problem with the gearbox"
"I had bad luck, but Ducati did well in wet conditions. Will it be dry tomorrow? No one knows how the tires will behave."
Yuki Takahashi to replace Leon Camier at the upcoming Misano SBK round
Leon's path to recovery is what is expected for this type of injury and the rider is keen to be back in action as soon as possible
Melandri: "My season restarts today"
"The bike finally feels like mine. The Rea-Lowes contact? I was too far away, I didn't see"
Camier skips Misano tests, Fores and Takahashi will ride for Honda
Leon doesn't need surgery, but he's still unable to ride. Xavi and Yuki will back up Kiyonari.
Haslam: "Disappointed with the cancellation, I was strong in the wet"
"I cannot stop the bike, it's harder than I expected. I'm trying to change my riding style"


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When we decided to create the Artistically Irrational series, we hoped to catalyze the scientific process by bringing art directly into the place where we work and think.
Behavioral research is an indispensable tool for social scientists looking to understand and comment on the fascinating world in which we find ourselves. Controlled experiments allow us to measure and reflect on issues ranging from injustice to advertising, the taste of beer to medical conflicts of interest, and even social networks like Facebook or Twitter. Such experiments allow us to reliably test whether our intuitions about the world are true and figure out when, how, and why we are wrong. Art fills a similar void, filtering ideas and motivations through individual sensibilities, then taking the result and crystallizing it into something more or less universal. And although there are many differences between the worlds of Science and Art, both can provide useful social commentary. In fact, it is these very differences that invite a discussion between the two. We hope that, through this project, the scientific and artistic approaches can fertilize one another and expand the lines of communication between two fields that have so much in common but speak to one another so rarely.
The Artistically Irrational exhibition series is essentially an experiment in feedback loops. Each project begins with a discussion of social science research on a particular topic and a request for artists to express themselves through their art. Then, surrounded by the fruits of their labor, we get to further reflect on our research through their eyes, using their insights to enrich the meaning of our studies.
The first show revolved around our research on cheating and dishonesty. After I spoke to a group of artists, they went back to their studios and put together their interpretations of our findings. They came back with a range of pieces exploring the nature of dishonesty – especially as it related to their own practices. Several artists investigated the moral status of artistic "borrowing" and the thin line between appropriation and flat-out plagiarism. One artist played with the idea of citation, which is virtually nonexistent in art but is a practice with rigid requirements in the sciences (see APA, 2010). Another considered how the mere label of "art" affects how we experience something, whether it is a flattened steel grid or a topsy turvy urinal. Other artists examined the spiral of bad decisions that can spring from one little transgression, and how moral reminders or cleansing rituals can help us correct our misdeeds and start over. Many explored the ways that we lie to others and ourselves, how we hold distorted worldviews and memories – and the rationalizations that go along with them.
And because the Creative Dishonesty exhibit was such a success, we decided to host another art show, this time following the theme of social and economic inequality, wealth distribution, and what is so taxing about taxation. This exhibit, PoorQuality: Inequality has just been installed and will accompany me in the Center for Advanced Hindsight until August 31.
If you can make it, I highly recommend coming to our opening reception on June 22 from 6 – 10 PM.


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The Tomb of Dracula is an American horror comic book series published by Marvel Comics from April 1972 to August 1979. The 70-issue series featured a group of vampire hunters who fought Count Dracula and other supernatural menaces. On rare occasions, Dracula would work with these vampire hunters against a common threat or battle other supernatural threats on his own, but more often than not, he was the antagonist rather than protagonist. In addition to his supernatural battles in this series, Marvel's Dracula often served as a supervillain to other characters in the Marvel Universe, battling the likes of Blade the Vampire Slayer, Spider-Man, the Werewolf, the X-Men, Howard the Duck, and the licensed Robert E. Howard character Solomon Kane.

Publication history

Original series
In 1971, the Comics Code Authority relaxed some of its longstanding rules regarding horror comics, such as a virtual ban on vampires.  Marvel had already tested the waters with a "quasi-vampire" character, Morbius, the Living Vampire, but the company was now prepared to launch a regular vampire title as part of its new line of horror books.  After some discussion, it was decided to use the Dracula character, in large part because it was the most famous vampire to the general public, and also because Bram Stoker's creation and secondary characters were by that time in the public domain.

The series suffered from lack of direction for its first year; most significantly, each of the first three issues was plotted by a different writer. Though Gerry Conway is credited as sole writer of issue #1, the plot was actually written by Roy Thomas and editor Stan Lee, and Conway had no input into the issue until it had already been fully drawn. Conway was allowed to plot issue #2 by himself, and wrote a story heavily influenced by the British Hammer Films - a striking departure from the first issue, which was derivative of Universal's monster movies. Conway then quit the book due to an overabundance of writing assignments, and was replaced by Archie Goodwin with issue #3. Goodwin quit after only two issues, but also made major changes to the series's direction, including the introduction of cast members Rachel Van Helsing and Taj Nital. New writer Gardner Fox took the series in yet another direction, and introduced a romance between Frank Drake and Rachel Van Helsing, which would remain a subplot for the rest of the series. However, Thomas (who had by this time succeeded Lee as the editor of The Tomb of Dracula) felt that Fox's take did not work, and took him off the book after only two issues.

The title gained stability and hit its stride when Marv Wolfman became scripter with the seventh issue, though Wolfman himself has contended that he was floundering on the series until the story arc in issues #12-14, remarking, "This storyline is when I finally figured out what this book was about." The entire run of The Tomb of Dracula was penciled by Gene Colan, with Tom Palmer inking all but #1, 2, and 8-11. Gil Kane drew many of the covers for the first few years, as he did for many other Marvel titles.  Colan based the visual appearance of Marvel's Dracula not on Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, or any other actor who had played the vampire on film, but rather on actor Jack Palance. Palance would play Dracula in a television production of Stoker's novel the year after The Tomb of Dracula debuted.

Colan, already one of Marvel's most well-established and prominent artists, said he had lobbied for the assignment.

Wolfman and Colan developed a bond while working on the series, on which they collaborated closely. Colan recalled, "He'd give me a written plot, but he'd also discuss it with me over the phone. I tended to ask questions, rather than to have him assume I got the idea."

Dracula encountered the Werewolf in a crossover story beginning in The Tomb of Dracula #18 (March 1974) and continuing the same month in Werewolf by Night #15 with both chapters written by Wolfman. A brief meeting between Dracula and Spider-Man occurred in the first issue of Giant-Size Spider-Man. The Tomb of Dracula #44 featured a crossover story with Doctor Strange #14, another series which was being drawn by Colan at the time.  The Tomb of Dracula ran for 70 issues until August 1979. Comics historian Les Daniels noted that "With an unbroken run of seventy issues over the course of more than seven years, Marvel's The Tomb of Dracula was the most successful comic book series to feature a villain as its title character." As cancellation loomed, Wolfman made to wrap up the storyline and lingering threads by issue #72. But Jim Shooter, then the editor-in-chief, retroactively cut two issues after the artwork had been completed for three. As Wolfman recalled,

Twelve of those pages, which Wolfman had saved as photocopies, appeared in the hardcover reprint collection The Tomb of Dracula Omnibus Vol. 2. The series culminated with the death of Quincy Harker and Dracula's apparent death and dispersal.

In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Wolfman, Colan, and Palmer's run on The Tomb of Dracula fifth on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels".

Dracula Lives!

A black-and-white magazine, Dracula Lives!, published by "Marvel Monster Group", ran from 1973 to 1975. Dracula Lives! ran 13 issues plus a reprint Super Annual issue. Running concurrently with Tomb of Dracula, the continuities of the two titles occasionally overlapped, with storylines weaving between the two. Most of the time the stories in Dracula Lives! were stand-alone tales, including a serialized adaptation of the original Bram Stoker novel, in 10- to 12-page installments written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Dick Giordano.

Giant-Size Dracula
Tomb of Dracula was supplemented by a Giant-Size companion quarterly comic book that ran for five issues in the mid-1970s. Artist John Byrne's first story for Marvel Comics, "Dark Asylum", was published in Giant-Size Dracula #5 (June 1975).

Black-and-white magazine
The color title Tomb of Dracula was succeeded by another black-and-white magazine, also called The Tomb of Dracula, with stories also drawn by Gene Colan that picked up where the color title left off. It lasted six issues from 1979 to 1980.

Post-series Dracula appearances
Several years later, Dracula encountered the X-Men twice. Although Dracula (and all other vampires in the Marvel Universe) were eventually destroyed by the mystical Montesi Formula in the pages of Doctor Strange #62 (December 1983), the vampire lord was revived. Marvel published a four-issue Tomb of Dracula miniseries, reuniting Wolfman and Colan, under its Epic Comics imprint in 1991, and revived Dracula and his foes in the short-lived Nightstalkers and Blade series in the 1990s. Some unresolved plot threads from The Tomb of Dracula were addressed in the final three issues of Nightstalkers. These included the fates of Dracula's bride Domini, their son Janus, and vampire-hunter Taj Nital. Dracula took the title role in the miniseries Dracula: Lord of the Undead.

Two more four-issue miniseries followed. Stoker's Dracula continued and concluded the adaptation of the original Bram Stoker novel Dracula by writer Roy Thomas and artist Dick Giordano, which had begun in Dracula Lives 30 years prior. Another Tomb of Dracula miniseries followed with Blade joining a new team of vampire hunters to prevent Dracula's achieving godhood. Apocalypse vs. Dracula featured Dracula battling Apocalypse, an immortal foe of the superhero team the X-Men, in Victorian London.

Major characters

 Dracula
 Quincy Harker, the son of Jonathan and Mina and disabled leader of the vampire hunters; he died in a battle with Dracula.
 Rachel van Helsing, the granddaughter of Abraham Van Helsing and leader of the vampire hunters upon Harker's death; she was turned into a vampire by Dracula and subsequently given a mercy killing by Wolverine of the X-Men.
 Blade the Vampire Slayer, the son of a woman bitten by a vampire during childbirth and a valued, yet reluctant ally to Quincy Harker's band of vampire hunters. Blade possesses quasi-vampiric abilities, including a greatly prolonged lifespan and the ability to sense supernatural creatures, as well as an immunity to complete vampirism.
 Frank Drake, the last living mortal descendant of Dracula and a charter member of Quincy Harker's vampire hunters. Note: Drake's bloodline is based on one of Dracula's marriages prior to his vampirism.
 Hannibal King, a vampire hunter and private investigator who is himself a reluctant vampire, frequent partner of Blade and Drake. He subsisted solely on blood he acquired from blood banks or corpses he found and had never taken blood directly from a human being, thus he was able to survive the Montesi Formula and be restored to normal human form.
 Taj Nital, a mute Indian Muslim vampire hunter of considerable strength (sufficient to temporarily restrain Dracula) whose son Adri was vampirized. He was later transformed into a vampire himself and destroyed in Nightstalkers #18.
 Safron Caulder, a showgirl from London and Blade's recurring girlfriend. She sometimes found herself a typical damsel in distress, but was always rescued by Blade despite an instance when he was nearly tricked into staking her.
 Lilith, the daughter of Dracula, an immortal vampire who was cursed to never die until her father was permanently destroyed; when slain, she was reborn into the body of an innocent woman who wanted her father dead.
 Deacon Frost, the vampire responsible for the death of Blade's mother and Hannibal King's vampirism. He was an upstart contender for the title of Lord of the Vampires, a title held by Dracula at the time.
 Harold H. Harold, a hack writer who befriended the vampire hunters in an effort to get material for a book he was writing. He fell victim to Dracula and became a vampire (in Howard the Duck magazine #5)—though this did not stop him from becoming a successful Hollywood film producer. Like all vampires, he perished as a result of the casting of the Montesi Formula.
 Anton Lupeski, a Satanic priest through whom Dracula manipulated his Satanic cult while impersonating Satan.
 Domini, a member of Anton Lupeski's cult whom Dracula chose as his bride.
 Janus, the son of Dracula and Domini, who was possessed by a being called the Golden Angel. He was returned to his child form and at age five was kidnapped by the vampire Varnae (in the back story of Nightstalkers #16–18).
 Varnae, the first vampire (and, at one point, an enemy of Conan the Barbarian). He was the Lord of the Vampires prior to Dracula. Although he died in the process of making Dracula his heir, he was later revived. He was inspired by the 19th century character Varney the Vampire.
 Nimrod the First, another Lord of the Vampires prior to Dracula, who killed him in Nimrod's first appearance (Dracula Lives! #3). When Dracula's origin was revised in Bizarre Adventures #33, Nimrod was no longer the true Lord of the Vampires; instead, he was a mentally imbalanced servant of Varnae and had been empowered by his master as a test of Dracula's worthiness to become Varnae's heir.
 Mina Harker is the mother of Quincy, and the bride of Dracula. She died in a great battle, but she was turned into a vampire by her husband Dracula. She acts like a human rather than a vampire. She is the Queen of Romania.

Collected editions
 Essential Tomb of Dracula
 Volume 1 collects Tomb of Dracula #1–25, Werewolf By Night #15, Giant-Size Chillers featuring The Curse of Dracula #1, 560 pages, 2004, Panini, , Marvel,
 Volume 2 collects Tomb of Dracula #26–49, Dr. Strange #14, Giant-Size Dracula #2–5, 592 pages, April 2004, Panini, , |Marvel,
 Volume 3 collects Tomb of Dracula #50–70, The Tomb of Dracula magazine #1–4, 584 pages, 2004, Panini, , Marvel,
 Volume 4 collects Tomb of Dracula magazine #2, 4–6, Dracula Lives! #1–13, Frankenstein Monster #7–9, 576 pages, April 2005, Panini, , Marvel,

Some of the nudity was removed from the fourth volume. Publisher Dan Buckley explained, "That wasn't because we were going to bookstores, or because we were exclusively going to hobby shops. It probably had more with where we were at from a ratings standpoint and the editors felt that was the appropriate thing to do, considering how we communicate what's going on in our books from a packaging standpoint. ...We generally avoid nudity, unless it's a MAX title. We don't want to take an Essential volume and start calling it MAX; then you get into branding issues." Retailers' opinions on the matter were split.

 Tomb of Dracula Omnibus
 Volume 1 collects The Tomb of Dracula #1–31, Werewolf by Night #15, Giant-Size Chillers featuring The Curse of Dracula #1, and Giant-Size Dracula #2–4, 784 pages, November 2008,
 Volume 2  collects The Tomb of Dracula #32–70, Giant-Size Dracula #5, and Dr. Strange #14, 816 pages, December 2009,
 Volume 3 collects Tomb of Dracula magazine #1–6, Frankenstein Monster #7–9, and Dracula Lives! #1–13, 944 pages, January 2011,
 The Tomb of Dracula color trade paperbacks
 Volume 1 collects Tomb of Dracula #1–12, 264 pages, July 2010,
 Volume 2 collects Tomb of Dracula #13–23, Werewolf by Night #15, Giant-Size Chillers featuring The Curse of Dracula #1, 272 pages, October 2010,
 Volume 3 collects Tomb of Dracula #24–31, Giant-Size Dracula #2–4, 248 pages, January 2011,
 The Tomb of Dracula - The Complete Collection
 Volume 1 collects The Tomb of Dracula #1–15 and Dracula Lives #1–4, 512 Pages, October 2017,
 Volume 2 collects The Tomb of Dracula #16–24, Werewolf By Night #15, Giant-Size Spider-Man #1, Giant-Size Chillers #1, Giant-Size Dracula #2, Frankenstein #7–9 and Dracula Lives #5–7, 497 Pages, October 2018,
 Volume 3 collects The Tomb of Dracula #25–35, Giant-Size Dracula #3-4, and Dracula Lives #8-12, 496 Pages, October 2019,
 Volume 4 collects The Tomb of Dracula #36–54, Doctor Strange #14, Dracula Lives #12–13, and material from Legion of Monsters #1, 488 Pages, September 2020,
 Volume 5 collects Tomb of Dracula #55—70, Stoker's Dracula #2—4, and material from Marvel Preview #12 and Savage Sword of Conan #26

 Tomb of Dracula Masterworks Vol 1
  Marvel Masterworks - Tomb of Dracula Vol. 1 (Marvel Masterworks: The Tomb of Dracula) Hardcover – October 26, 2021 Volume 1 collects Tomb of Dracula (1972) 1-11; material from Dracula Lives (1973) 1-2 , 320 pages, 2021, Marvel,

Other media

TV movie

In 1980, an anime television movie based on The Tomb of Dracula was released. It was titled . Much of the main plot was condensed and many characters and subplots were truncated or omitted. The film was animated in Japan by Toei and sparsely released on cable TV in North America in 1983 by Harmony Gold dubbed into English under the title Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned. On October 31, 2022, Kineko Video released a remastered 4K scan of the film's original 16mm print.

Voice cast

Film
Blade, a character introduced in The Tomb of Dracula, has been featured in a series of three films: Blade (1998), Blade II (2002), and Blade: Trinity (2004), as well as a short-lived television series titled Blade: The Series (2006). Other Tomb of Dracula characters, Deacon Frost and Hannibal King, have been featured in these films (Frost in Blade, King in Blade: Trinity), albeit in heavily revised forms. Reference to the Tomb of Dracula series is made in Blade: Trinity when King shows an issue of the comic to Blade.

Dracula himself does not appear in the series until Blade: Trinity, in which he goes by the name of "Drake" and features an origin and powers that differ from the comics. He is played in the film by Dominic Purcell. Given Drake's age and origin, he, more than any other vampire that followed, can harness a much greater and more dynamic range of abilities. He possesses superhuman strength, much greater than that of Blade, as well as incredible speed. Like those he sired, he is capable of leaping great distances and seems to be knowledgeable of sword fighting techniques, even rivaling Blade himself. Drake's true power is derived from his origin as the first of his species. The manipulation of energies which led to his first resurrection left Drake with two forms: human and a demonic alter ego. In this form, Drake is much stronger, resilient to all forms of damage and much taller than his human form. He possesses very keen senses, allowing him, for example, to catch an arrow in mid-air.

The Curse of Dracula
Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan returned to Dracula comics with The Curse of Dracula, a three-issue miniseries published in 1998. The miniseries was published by Dark Horse Comics and was not officially associated with Marvel's Dracula series. A trade paperback collection was published in 2005.

References

External links

 The Tomb of Dracula tribute site  by Dr. Mike Rickard (Issue guide and criticism)
 The Tomb of Dracula fan site by Adrian Wymann (Issue-by-issue guide and reviews)
 Review of Essential Tomb of Dracula Volume 1 from Pulp and Dagger
 Review of Essential Tomb of Dracula Volume 2 from UGO
 Review of Essential Tomb of Dracula Volume 1 and Volume 2 from Comics Bulletin

 Japanese anime adaptation of The Tomb of Dracula

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Extraordinary Payroll, Ordinary Talent
It took a fortune to assemble the 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers, and it may take many more millions to turn them into a championship-caliber team
by Rany Jazayerli on April 10, 2013
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.
We're living through another gilded age right now, where the fabulously wealthy become ridiculously wealthy while the rest putter along. The stock market keeps rocketing up while unemployment refuses to go down. Hedge-fund managers pay lower tax rates than their secretaries. A Paul Cézanne painting gets sold for more than a quarter-billion dollars.1 It's no coincidence that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, a portrait of a previous gilded age, hits theaters next month (it was published on this very day in 1925). That's Fitzgerald's quote above. The author knew of what he spoke; he lived the lifestyle of the very rich without the requisite wealth, and he died an alcoholic and nearly broke when he was 44.
Baseball's ecosystem also has an upper class. The Yankees have long lived in the penthouse (although repairs are sorely needed), and the Red Sox have been keeping up with their wealthy neighbors for well over a decade. Teams like the Phillies and the Cubs have the means to live an opulent lifestyle, if not always the desire.
And then there are the gate-crashing, nouveau riche Los Angeles Dodgers, who pulled into the neighborhood last year and ever since have been throwing money around like a drunken sailor.
A drunken sailor who happens to have the bank account of a Russian oligarch.
You can forgive Dodgers fans if they're not complaining about the new owners. For eight years their team belonged to Frank McCourt, who purchased the franchise in 2004 despite having approximately $8 to his name. Pretty much everything in the organization was used as collateral for one loan or another — McCourt would have pawned Vin Scully for $250 and a gold watch if he could have — and every time the value of the franchise would rise, McCourt would cash out again. (Hey, with monthly bills of $225,000 for a private jet and $10,000 for a hair stylist, plus $14 million to build an Olympic-size pool at your Holmby Hills estate, it doesn't take long before you're talking real money.)
Eventually, there was no more money to suck from the franchise, and divorce proceedings with McCourt's wife left the Dodgers needing an emergency loan just to make payroll. With the threat of bankruptcy hanging over the franchise, McCourt was finally forced to sell the Dodgers to the highest bidder.
Enter Guggenheim Baseball Management, whose $2.15 billion offer was roughly twice what anyone expected. When the deal was finalized last May, McCourt (who paid $430 million for the team) was able to settle his debts, pay off his settlement with his ex-wife, and clear a cool $1 billion — enough to buy the Kansas City Royals and the Tampa Bay Rays, if commissioner Bud Selig were foolish enough to ever let him near an owner's suite again. The very rich … they're different from you and me.
And overnight, an organization that had become an MLB pariah, one that was held at least partially responsible for the savage beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow in the Dodger Stadium parking lot (McCourt was skimping on luxuries like lighting and ballpark security at the time), was reborn. Money, glitz, celebrity glamor — it was as if the Showtime Lakers had just moved down the road. And they had, in a way, since Magic Johnson was the public face of the new ownership group.
The price was quickly justified when the Dodgers signed a 25-year contract to televise the team's games with Time Warner Cable that could be worth up to $8 billion. The implications of the ridiculous TV money sloshing around baseball are beyond the scope of this column, but the point is that the Dodgers' new owners didn't just have money — they had money to burn.
McCourt's lavish lifestyle didn't leave a lot of money left over for his players. In 2003, before McCourt purchased the club, the Dodgers ranked third in the major leagues in payroll. They didn't rank among the majors' top five payrolls during the eight years he owned the team. Last year, the Dodgers began the season with the 14th-highest payroll in the majors, right behind Milwaukee.
They would end the season near the top. The new owners took control in early May, and immediately approved an emergency stimulus package for talented baseball players in Southern California:
Incumbent right fielder Andre Ethier, who would have been a free agent at year's end, was enticed to stay with a five-year, $85 million contract extension.
Just days before a new rule went into effect that would limit how much teams could pay for international talent, the Dodgers signed Cuban defector Yasiel Puig to a whopping seven-year, $42 million contract.
Rookie right-handed starter Nate Eovaldi and a prospect were traded to the Miami Marlins for lefty specialist Randy Choate and shortstop Hanley Ramirez, whose contract guaranteed him an average of $15.5 million a year from 2012 through 2014.
The Dodgers traded a pair of prospects to the Mariners for closer Brandon League, making $5 million in the final year of his contract.
In another trade, they sent right-handed reliever Josh Lindblom and a couple prospects to the Phillies for Shane Victorino, making $9.5 million in the final year of his contract.
Finally, they traded another prospect to Philadelphia for Joe Blanton, making $8.5 million in the final year of his contract.
All these moves were made within three months of the ownership change — and they were all just a prelude for the massive nine-player deal with the Red Sox on August 25, in which the Dodgers essentially agreed to absorb every bad contract on Boston's roster. For the privilege of acquiring Adrian Gonzalez (in the first year of a seven-year, $154 million deal), Carl Crawford (the second year of a seven-year, $142 million deal), and Josh Beckett (the second year of a four-year, $68 million deal), along with utility infielder Nick Punto, the Dodgers gave up James Loney and four prospects, two of whom (Allen Webster and Rubby De La Rosa) are pitchers of considerable promise.
A team that started the year with a payroll of less than $98 million already had $192.6 million in contract obligations for 2013 — and they still had nine roster spots to fill. The Dodgers suddenly had more than $90 million in contract obligations for 2017, for five players, three of whom (Gonzalez, Crawford, and Ethier) will be 35 years old that year.
If the purpose of these moves was to signal to their fan base that the new owners were serious about winning, they succeeded. If the point was to fire a shot across the bow to alert MLB's 29 other owners that a new sheriff was in town, and he worshipped the Big Dodger in the Sky, mission accomplished. If the point was to build a great baseball team … um … we'll have to get back to you on that.
On the day the trade with the Red Sox was made, the Dodgers were 69-58 and just a half-game out of the second wild-card spot. Despite all their additions, they would go just 17-18 the rest of the way, and they were eliminated from playoff contention on the penultimate day of the season.
If you expected the Dodgers to be chastened by this lesson in baseball economics, you would be disappointed. In December, they outbid the Texas Rangers for Zack Greinke, the premier starting pitcher on the free-agent market. Greinke got a six-year contract for $147 million, one that included an opt-out provision for Greinke after three years. It was the largest contract ever given to a right-handed pitcher, and you got the feeling the only reason it wasn't larger was that there were no competitors left to drive up the bidding. The Dodgers were going to get their man, and the cost was just a detail.
Almost as an afterthought, the Dodgers elected to show off their financial muscle in the Pacific Rim, signing Korean left-handed starter Hyun-Jin Ryu to a six-year, $36 million contract — on top of the $25.7 million they paid his Korean team as a posting fee — the day before they signed Greinke.
And that, my friends, is how you increase your payroll by $125 million from one Opening Day to the next. The Dodgers entered this season with a payroll just north of $223 million, which, depending on how you calculate these things, is the highest payroll in major league history.2 No non-Yankee team had ever exceeded even $180 million.
That level of spending ought to virtually guarantee a playoff team. The Yankees have exceeded $180 million for nine years in a row; they won 89 games and missed the playoffs in 2008, but won at least 94 games and reached the playoffs the other eight years. But the same year the reckoning may have finally arrived in the Bronx, the Dodgers may also find that stratospheric payrolls don't necessarily correlate with October baseball.
Take a look at where some of their money is going:
Adrian Gonzalez ($21.9 million) was the Dodgers' own Helen of Troy last summer, the Face That Launched a Thousand Trade Proposals. The Dodgers' desire to obtain the four-time All-Star first baseman transcended his pure baseball talents. Gonzalez grew up in Southern California and has strong Mexican roots. Their eagerness to acquire Gonzalez convinced the Dodgers to absorb Crawford's and Beckett's bad contracts and to give up two top prospects.
That's a worthwhile price for a superstar. A year ago, Gonzalez was a superstar; he had hit .338/.410/.548 in his first year with the Red Sox, and had back-to-back top-10 finishes in the MVP voting. But at the time of the trade, Gonzalez was hitting .300/.343/.469, and getting away from Boston's toxic clubhouse didn't help. As a Dodger, he hit .297/.344/.441. After six straight years of 24-plus home runs — playing most of that time with the San Diego Padres, whose Petco Park is one of the toughest home run stadiums in baseball — Gonzalez hit just 18 last year.
Maybe it was an off year. Gonzalez was only 30 years old, too young to expect a significant decline. But if you're going to absorb $300 million in contracts, you'd rather not have even the slightest doubt that the centerpiece of the deal has already seen his best days.
Carl Crawford ($20.9 million) was a free-agent disaster of epic proportions in Boston. After he tortured them with his bat, legs, and glove for nine years as a member of the Tampa Bay Rays, the Red Sox thought Crawford was worth $20 million a year even though he's a left fielder who has never hit 20 home runs in a season.
Crawford was a terrible fit in Boston from day one. His defense, one of his greatest assets, was largely wasted in Boston, where the Green Monster made his speed superfluous. While we hesitate to project psychological explanations for a player's lack of success, the combination of Crawford's huge contract and the oppressive media climate in The Hub may have helped create conditions for a nightmarish, season-long slump in 2011, when Crawford hit .255/.289/.405. (This spring, Crawford opened up both barrels on the Boston media, saying "They love it when you're miserable … That media was the worst thing I've ever experienced in my life.")
Crawford performed at a roughly Crawfordian level last year, batting .282/.306/.479, but he played in only 31 games because of a left elbow problem that required Tommy John surgery. He was on the DL when the Dodgers traded for him.
Crawford has wasted the better part of two seasons, making it easy to forget the exceptional all-around player he was in Tampa Bay. When he left the Rays after 2010, he had hit .300 for the fifth time in six years, stolen 45 bases for the seventh time in eight years, led the league in triples for the fourth time, won a Gold Glove, and hit double-digit home runs for the sixth time in seven years. Los Angeles is a much better fit for him because of Dodger Stadium's rangier left field, because of the lower caliber of competition in the National League, and because he doesn't have to justify his contract, which is viewed as just the cost of doing business with Gonzalez. It says here that Carl Crawford is a terrific candidate for Comeback Player of the Year honors, and as crazy as it sounds, in the long run he may prove to be more valuable than Adrian Gonzalez.
Josh Beckett ($17 million) was an All-Star in 2011, when he had a 2.89 ERA in 30 starts. That season was the meat in a crap sandwich, surrounded by a 5.78 ERA in an injury-plagued 2010 and a 5.23 ERA and a wake of bad clubhouse vibes when he was traded last summer. He pitched better after the trade, with a 2.93 ERA in seven starts.
The bigger issue with Beckett is that his fastball velocity declined from 93 mph in 2011 to 91.2 in 2012, and his strikeout rate has dropped along with it. Beckett struck out more than 20 percent of the batters he faced every year from 2007 to 2011, but his K rate dropped to 18.1 percent last year, even as strikeout rates throughout the majors jumped from 18.6 to 19.8 percent from 2011 to 2012. At this point in his career, Beckett is a no. 3 starter. That's not bad, but it isn't worth $17 million.
Hanley Ramirez ($15.5 million) was maybe the best all-around player in baseball from 2007 to 2009; he was a shortstop who hit .325/.398/.549 and averaged 29 homers, 41 doubles, and 38 steals, and he was just 25 years old at the end of that stretch. That player seems like a distant memory. Over the last three years, Ramirez has hit .269/.346/.438 while under heavy suspicion of having a bad work ethic. You might have a bad work ethic, too, if you had to work for Jeffrey Loria, but Ramirez didn't perk up much after the trade to Los Angeles. His defense has also become intolerable up the middle. Whereas once he combined a shortstop's glove with a first baseman's bat, now he combines a third baseman's glove (while still playing shortstop) with a third baseman's bat.
Andre Ethier ($13.5 million) is in the first year of a five-year contract in which his salary increases each year while his skills will likely decline. Ethier has been remarkably consistent throughout his career, with an OPS+ of between 121 and 132 for five consecutive seasons. He's a very good player; he's just not a star, particularly since he has never been able to hit left-handed pitching. (He has a career .239/.297/.358 line against southpaws.) Ethier's contract pays him like a star, but he probably won't even be a very good player by its midpoint.
That's $89 million spent on five very good players, but it's quite possible that not one of those five players is currently a star, and all five could be on the downslopes of their careers.
Meanwhile, for a team with the largest payroll in history, there are a surprising number of holes. The starting third baseman, Luis Cruz, was a 28-year-old minor league journeyman with all of 56 games in the Show when he got called up last July and fluked his way to a .297/.322/.431 performance the rest of the way. That's in no way reflective of his abilities — Cruz's career averages in the minor leagues are .261/.296/.394. So far this season, he's 0-for-17.
You would also expect a team with unlimited financial resources to be able to put together a decent bench. The Dodgers have not. With Hanley Ramirez out with a thumb injury he suffered during the World Baseball Classic, their starting shortstop is Justin Sellers, who is 27 years old and had played just 55 games in the majors before this season with averages of .204/.283/.323. He is 2-for-18 at the plate so far this season. The names of the other bench players — Punto, Jerry Hairston, Juan Uribe, Skip Schumaker, Tim Federowicz — won Ken Jennings $6,000 when he ran the table on the Jeopardy! category "Baseball Players Who Can't Hit."
If you're wondering why the Dodgers can have such an extravagant payroll and yet such a mundane roster, look no further than general manager Ned Colletti. Colletti has been a favorite punching bag of baseball analysts for most of his tenure in Los Angeles, which started after the 2005 season. Like his former boss, Giants GM Brian Sabean, Colletti has put an unwarranted premium on veteran experience while eschewing the finer points of sabermetrics. Unlike Sabean, Colletti can't give statheads a pair of championship ring–encrusted middle fingers.
Colletti has a weakness for veterans the way Buzz Bissinger has a weakness for Gucci. Juan Uribe got three years, $21 million coming off his world championship with the Giants in 2010, and he has hit .196 in 438 at-bats for the Dodgers since then. Matt Guerrier got three years, $12 million as a middle reliever the same offseason, and he has thrown 80 innings in two years. But this winter Colletti outdid himself. After trading for Brandon League to shore up the bullpen in July, Colletti rewarded League with a three-year, $22.5 million contract.
Over the past three years, League had a 3.14 ERA while pitching for the Mariners — in the best pitchers' park in the AL. You'd sort of like your closer to be able to miss bats, but League hasn't struck out more than 18 percent of the batters he's faced in a season since 2009. League is a perfectly fine setup man, a little stretched to be a closer — and the only relievers with contracts that guarantee more money overall are Jonathan Papelbon and Rafael Soriano (both elite-level relievers) and Heath Bell (a contract the Marlins regretted approximately six minutes after Bell signed it).
Given his propensity for spending too much money for the security of a veteran track record, it's no surprise that Colletti gave Ethier $85 million, or that he showed the Red Sox all of his cards during the Gonzalez negotiations. The surprise is that the Dodgers' new owners have let Colletti keep his job.
On the surface, Colletti has done his job well enough; the Dodgers have averaged more than 85 wins during his seven seasons as GM, and the team has made the playoffs three times (although one of those times was when they lucked into an NL West title with an 84-78 record). But their success isn't a reflection of Colletti so much as it's a tribute to Logan White, the Dodgers' scouting director. In the Arrested Development–like soap opera that the Dodgers have been since 2004, White plays the Jason Bateman role.
It's White who was responsible for the talent that kept the Dodgers competitive even through the worst of the McCourt years. Those players remain the most important, though far from the most expensive, players on the current roster. Chad Billingsley, their first-round pick in 2003, has been a consistent part of their rotation since 2006. Catcher A.J. Ellis, drafted in the 18th round the same year, didn't stick in the majors until he was 29, but over the last three years he has a .374 OBP.
But the Dodgers' big prize in that draft was Matt Kemp, taken in the sixth round; he nearly won the MVP award in 2011 and he's just 28 years old. Kemp is in the second year of an eight-year, $160 million contract, but unlike most of the other long-term deals on the team's books, he's worth the money.
And finally, there's Clayton Kershaw, the seventh overall pick in 2006. There are maybe a half-dozen guys for whom you can make a compelling case as being the best pitcher in baseball over the next 10 years (Felix Hernandez, Justin Verlander, Stephen Strasburg, maybe David Price and Chris Sale). But given his youth, proven durability (32-plus starts three years in a row), dominance (led the NL in ERA each of the last two seasons), and strikeout rate (over 25 percent four years in a row), Kershaw might be on top of that list. He's a third of the way to a Hall of Fame career — and he turned 25 last month.
Kershaw is eligible for free agency after next season, and this is where the new owners' profligate ways may pay dividends. In a market in which Verlander just signed what amounts to a five-year extension with the Tigers for $28 million a year, you can make a compelling case that Kershaw would be worth $30 million or more on the open market. Very few teams can handle that kind of commitment and absorb the injury risk that goes with any pitcher, but the Dodgers are clearly one of those teams. Expect Kershaw to sign a long-term extension with Los Angeles, perhaps very soon — there are rumors that a deal is already in the works.
Kershaw's unquestioned role as the ace of the staff also makes it easier for Zack Greinke to slot in as the team's no. 2 starter. At his best, Greinke can make his own case as the best pitcher in the world — by Wins Above Replacement, Greinke's Cy Young season of 2009 was the best by any pitcher in the past 10 years. But in the three years since, Greinke has a mediocre 3.83 ERA despite excellent peripheral numbers. (Over the same three years, his xFIP, a measure of what his ERA "should" be, is just 3.17.)
Greinke has successfully conquered his social anxiety disorder, but he is still less than comfortable being the center of attention. It's probably not a coincidence that in 2009, he wasn't expected to be the ace of the staff — Gil Meche was the Royals' Opening Day starter. With the Dodgers, if Kershaw draws most of the media, Greinke might flourish again. In the season's first week, Kershaw and Greinke have combined to throw 22 innings — and allow zero runs.
If the Dodgers reach the postseason, the combination of Kershaw and Greinke at the top of the rotation will make them a formidable opponent. But it's not clear that they'll be able to get there. The Dodgers have an excellent rotation, but their bullpen is not terribly deep. More to the point, they have an offense filled with question marks, questions that haven't been answered after they've scored just 20 runs in their first seven games. Crawford might bounce back. Gonzalez might. Ramirez might. But right now, Matt Kemp is their only player hitting on an elite level, and Sunday's starting lineup featured an infield that included Uribe, Sellers, and Punto.
The Dodgers are good — probably good enough to win 88 to 92 games this year. But they aren't great, and they aren't clearly better than division rivals the Giants ($136.9 million payroll) or even the Diamondbacks ($89.5 million). Nearly a quarter-billion dollars should buy you a better roster than this.
The real grim news for the Dodgers is that unless they raise the payroll into the $300 million range — and don't put it past them — it's hard to see the team significantly improving over the next few years. Look at the Yankees: Yes, they have a payroll above $200 million and a mediocre team, but at least they can write off this season as the residue of a decade of living large and doling out backloaded contracts. The Dodgers have no such excuse — this is the first season of their new gilded age. The players under contract now will only get more expensive over time, even as they age and their skills erode.
Even if ownership continues to authorize huge expenses, it will be hard to find players worth signing to mammoth contracts. As Jonah Keri wrote, the proliferation of long-term extensions to young star players makes it increasingly difficult to acquire premier players in free agency. Going forward, the Dodgers' best bet might be to replicate the trade they made with the Red Sox, absorbing bad contracts to acquire good players.
But right now, for a team with such grandiose ambitions, they have a surprisingly pedestrian destiny. It's true, the Dodgers are different from everyone else. It's just not clear that they're better.
But less (around $250 million) than Alex Rodriguez's current contract ($275 million). You decide which was the bigger waste of cash.
For instance, technically the Yankees have a higher payroll this year ($228 million) than the Dodgers, thanks to the trade for Vernon Wells. The Angels are picking up the bulk of Wells's contract, but for luxury-tax purposes most of the Angels' obligations have been pushed to next year.
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Q: React : Cannot read property 'style' of undefined So, i have this code, in react :
const sidebar = document.getElementsByClassName("pro-sidebar");

and, further, i try to change the width value using
function openNav() {
sidebar.style.width = "250px";}

and onClick={closeNav} on a button , but when i try to push the button, it gives me the next error : TypeError: Cannot read property 'style' of undefined.
Why??

A: We do not manually manipulate the DOM like this in React. Do something like this.
  return (
    <div style={styles.container} />
  )

...

let styles = {
  container: {
    width: '20px'
  }
}

You can use string interpolation on width to programmatically change it with your function.

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1. _____________________ is the art & science of cracking the cipher-text without knowing the key.
Explanation: Cryptanalysis is the art & science of cracking the cipher-text without knowing the key. This technique is also implemented for designing new cryptographic algorithms or to test their strengths.
Explanation: Cryptography is a means of storing & transmitting information in a specific format so that only those for whom it is planned can understand or process it. The process of disguising plaintext in such a way that its substance gets hidden (into what is known as cipher-text) is called encryption.
Explanation: Cryptography helps in securing a specific format so that only intended users can understand or process it. The method of reversing the encrypted text which is known as cipher text to its original form i.e. plain text is known as decryption.
4. Which of the following is not the primary objective of cryptography?
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5. Which of the following is not the primary objective of cryptography?
Explanation: Cryptography offers 4 fundamental information security features. These are Confidentiality, Data Integrity, Authentication and non-repudiation.
6. Cryptography offers a set of required security services. Which of the following is not among that 4 required security services?
Explanation: There are 4 desired & necessary security services are encryption, Message Authentication Codes (MAC), digital signatures and hash functions. These help in securing the transmission of data.
Explanation: Cryptography is a means of storing & transmitting information in a specific format so that only those for whom it is planned can understand or process it. Cryptosystem which is also known as a cipher system is execution of cryptographic algorithms & techniques.
8. ______________ is the mathematical procedure or algorithm which produces a cipher-text for any specified plaintext.
Explanation: Encryption Algorithm is the mathematical procedure or algorithm which produces a cipher-text for any specified plaintext. Inputs it takes are the plain text and the key.
9. _______________ takes the plain text and the key as input for creating cipher-text.
10. ____________________ is a mathematical algorithm that produces a unique plain text for a given cipher text along with a decryption key.
Explanation: Decryption Algorithm is a mathematical algorithm that produces a unique plain text for a given cipher text along with a decryption key. Inputs it takes are the cipher-text & the decryption key.
Explanation: A set of all probable decryption keys are collectively termed as key space. A mathematical algorithm which produces a unique plain text for a given cipher text along with a decryption key is called a decryption algorithm.
12. Encryption-decryption in cryptosystem is done in ______ ways.
Explanation: Cryptosystem which is also known as cipher system is the execution of cryptographic algorithms & techniques. Encryption-decryption in a cryptosystem is done in two ways. These are by Symmetric Key Encryption and by Asymmetric Key Encryption.
13. In _____________________ same keys are implemented for encrypting as well as decrypting the information.
Explanation: Encryption-decryption in a cryptosystem is done in two ways. These are by Symmetric Key Encryption and by Asymmetric Key Encryption. In Symmetric Key Encryption, same keys are implemented for encrypting as well as decrypting the information.
14. In __________________ 2 different keys are implemented for encrypting as well as decrypting that particular information.
Explanation: In Asymmetric Key Encryption 2 different keys are implemented for encrypting as well as decrypting that particular information. Inputs it takes are the plain text and 2 different key.
15. A set of all probable decryption keys are collectively termed as key space.
Explanation: Decryption Algorithm is a mathematical algorithm that produces a unique plain text for a given cipher text along with a decryption key. A set of all probable decryption keys are collectively termed as key space.
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Q: Perl multiline Regex for yaml file I'm trying to match subsections of a yaml file. In this example the content of ab:
Input:
a:
 aa:
  - aaa
 ab:
  - aba
  - abb
 ac:
  - aca

Output:
aba abb

I've tryied s.th. like
#!/usr/bin/perl -00 -wnl

/a:ab:[ \t]*\n([ \t]+-[ \t]+(\w+)[ \t]*\n)/sg and printf "$2";

But this only gives aba.

A: It is a bad idea to do it with a regex, for the same reasons it's bad to try and 'do' XML with a regex. YAML is a contextual markup language, and regex doesn't do context. Thus you are doomed - at best you'll make some hacky brittle code.
Just use a parser. There's quite a few for YAML.
Like YAML for example:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;
use YAML;
my $yaml = Load(do { local $/; <DATA> } );

print Dumper \$yaml;

print join "\n", @{$yaml->{a}{ab}},"\n";

__DATA__
a:
 aa:
  - aaa
 ab:
  - aba
  - abb
 ac:
  - aca

A: I take this to be play, curiosity, since you are asking for regex.  For anything serious please use one of the many modules to parse any such (irregular) structure.  Please do not use regex for this.
That said, to answer the direct question
perl -0777 -nE '/ab:[^-]+\-\s+(\w+)[^-]+\-\s+(\w+)/gs; say "$1 $2"' data.txt

With posted data in data.txt file this prints

aba abb

This is, of course, for your specific data. Once you start tweaking it for more general data sets you'll quickly see why not to use regex.


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Mozambican revolution, no. 9 (1964 Aug.)
the President of FRELIMO and the Central Committee in regard to
Leo Aldridge-Milas, he did not wish to correct himself. On the
contrary, Leo Aldridge—Milas"was to be sent  away from Dar es
Salaam as disciplinary measure to a post overseas where he would
represent FRELIMO. For a number of months Leo Aldridge-Milas
resisted this appointment, and when he was forced to leave Dar
es Salaam, he continued in his attempts to divide the organisation, using every means of comunication available to him.
The inquiry which was undertaken concerning the activities
of Leo Aldridge-Milas  enabled the Central Committee to obtain
information from which the conclusions outlined above were drawn.
In this connexion, it is important to underline one of the namely, that, contrary to his assertions, Leo Aldridge-Milas is not
a Mozambican, and that official documents in the possession of
the Central Committee prove beyond doubt that he is a citizen
of the United States of America,:having been born in the State
of Texas, and that his parents, also native born citizens of
United States, still live in Southern California.
In the face of such evidence, the Central Committee of FRELIMO decided to take most severe disciplinary measures against
Leo Aldridge-Milas, which included his immediate expulsion from
FRELIMO.
Leo Aldridge-Milas was forthwith notified directly of the
accusations thus formulated against him, accusations the truth
of which recognized and accepted.
The Central Committee, therefore, meeting on the 14th of
August 1964, adopted a unanimous decision to deprive Leo Aldridge-
-Milas, or simply, Leo Milas of all his functions as member of the
Central Committee and expelled him from FRELIMO.
" INDEPENDENCE OR DEATH. "
I    l
PORTUGUESE REPRESSIVE MEASURES AGAINST *
THE MOZAMBICAN PEOPLE
1. METALLIC AIRSTRIPS FOR THE PORTUGUESE MILITARY PLANES
Metallic airstrips are being built in different parts of
the Mozambican territory in order to serve the Portuguese Air
Force in Mozambique in its destructive mission.
Title Mozambican revolution, no. 9 (1964 Aug.)
Description Contents: Editorial (p. 2); Expulsion of Loo Milas from FRELIMO (p. 4); Portuguese repressive measures against the Mozambican people (p. 5); Cooperation between imperialists (p. 7); Pipeline link between Mozambique and S. R. (p. 7); What did the newspapers said about the "visit" of the portuguese President to Mozambique (p. 8); Mozambique, land of spies, forts dreams (p. 9).
Coverage date 1964-08-14/1964-09
Full text - 5 - the President of FRELIMO and the Central Committee in regard to Leo Aldridge-Milas, he did not wish to correct himself. On the contrary, Leo Aldridge—Milas"was to be sent away from Dar es Salaam as disciplinary measure to a post overseas where he would represent FRELIMO. For a number of months Leo Aldridge-Milas resisted this appointment, and when he was forced to leave Dar es Salaam, he continued in his attempts to divide the organisation, using every means of comunication available to him. The inquiry which was undertaken concerning the activities of Leo Aldridge-Milas enabled the Central Committee to obtain information from which the conclusions outlined above were drawn. In this connexion, it is important to underline one of the namely, that, contrary to his assertions, Leo Aldridge-Milas is not a Mozambican, and that official documents in the possession of the Central Committee prove beyond doubt that he is a citizen of the United States of America,:having been born in the State of Texas, and that his parents, also native born citizens of United States, still live in Southern California. In the face of such evidence, the Central Committee of FRELIMO decided to take most severe disciplinary measures against Leo Aldridge-Milas, which included his immediate expulsion from FRELIMO. Leo Aldridge-Milas was forthwith notified directly of the accusations thus formulated against him, accusations the truth of which recognized and accepted. The Central Committee, therefore, meeting on the 14th of August 1964, adopted a unanimous decision to deprive Leo Aldridge- -Milas, or simply, Leo Milas of all his functions as member of the Central Committee and expelled him from FRELIMO. " INDEPENDENCE OR DEATH. " I l PORTUGUESE REPRESSIVE MEASURES AGAINST * THE MOZAMBICAN PEOPLE 1. METALLIC AIRSTRIPS FOR THE PORTUGUESE MILITARY PLANES Metallic airstrips are being built in different parts of the Mozambican territory in order to serve the Portuguese Air Force in Mozambique in its destructive mission. -