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Pharma overtakes arms industry to top the league of misbehaviour
GlaxoSmithKline's $3bn fine for mis-sel ing drugs in the US is the
biggest ever handed down, but analysts say it is a drop in the ocean
compared with the profits from medicines
Terry Macalister
The Observer, Sunday 8 July 2012
GSK's headquarters in Brentford, London. The firm has been handed a $3bn fine in the US for mis-sel ing the drug Paxil for unapproved use in children. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA Archive/Press Association Images What's the current scandal?
GlaxoSmithKline, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical group, has been
sel ing anti-depressant drugs in the US for unapproved uses on
children, concealing critical evidence from US regulator the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) relating to a diabetes product, and offering
lavish entertainment to doctors wil ing to promote its medicines.
The problems came to light because of whistleblowers inside the
company and adds to a string of other settlements with pharmaceutical
firms that lead critics to claim problems are endemic in the sector.
Last month, Abbott Laboratories was forced to pay $1.6bn over its marketing of the antipsychotic treatment Depakote, while the total cost of industry fines is over $20bn covering the last two decades. But the GSK case has shaken even the most hardened of industry observers, as prosecutors found the company had been al otting over half a mil ion dol ars a year to its district sales representatives to offer doctors regular golf lessons, fishing trips, and basketbal tickets while promoting the use of antidepressant drug Paxil in children. The GSK sales campaign also involved helping to publish an article in a medical journal that misreported evidence from a clinical trial. Meanwhile the company was also being accused of marketing the drug Wel butrin for sexual dysfunction and weight loss, when it had only received official consent from the FDA to treat depression. Some of its drugs reps were reportedly describing Wel butrin as "the happy, horny, skinny pil ". In the case of a third treatment, Avandia, the company did not report to the FDA studies it had carried out that showed there were safety concerns about heart risks. Critics had been cal ing for the drug to be banned four years ago yet it was only in 2010 that restrictions were final y slapped on its use. What's happened to the perpetrators?
GSK has agreed to pay a $3bn fine to settle criminal and civil charges
with federal and state governments stemming from il egal activity over
10 years. This is the biggest-ever fine of its kind but there seem no plans at this stage to pursue executives or other individuals in positions of power at the time. Through some of the period covered by the fine, the firm was run by the highly paid Frenchman Jean-Pierre Garnier, whose entitlement to a £22m "golden parachute" payoff if he left the company enraged shareholders and caused a historic investor revolt. In response to last week's announcement by regulators, the pharmaceuticals company said it had changed the way its sales staff are paid by eliminating individual sales targets. Sir Andrew Witty, GSK's chief executive, said the settlement brought a resolution to "difficult, long-standing matters for GSK" adding: "I want to express our regret and reiterate that we have learned from the mistakes we made." Critics point out that other executives directly named as having been told of concerns continue in top jobs, albeit in different companies. Whistleblower Greg Thorpe first alerted the company to the entertainment offered to doctors and the culture that al egedly put profits above ethics in 2001. He raised his concerns with David Stout, who was then head of the US business, and Bob Ingram, GSK's chief operating officer. When he was forced out of the company, he took his case to the regulators, which spent almost 10 years investigating the issues. Stout became a non-executive director of another London-listed pharmaceutical company, Shire, and Ingram is chairman of the biotechnology firm Elan. What's the public image of the industry?
Rock bottom, despite drugs firms' best efforts. GSK's corporate
responsibility report runs to more than 100 pages, and details its
pledges to improve access to healthcare in the developing world, and
cut its carbon footprint. Witty insists: "We firmly believe that operating
in a responsible and ethical way is essential for the success of our
business."
But after last week's case, there can be little doubt that Big Pharma is
top of the table for misbehaviour ahead of the arms industry, which has
hogged the limelight for the past 100 years.
Some point to a long-running pattern of behaviour reaching back much farther than the most recent revelations. Eliot Spitzer, who as New York's attorney general sued GSK over similar al egations eight years ago, told the New York Times that companies like GSK seem incorrigible. "What we are learning is that money [ie fines] do not deter corporate malfeasance. The only thing that wil work in my view is chief executive officers and officials being forced to resign and individual culpability being enforced." Sidney Wolfe, a doctor and director of consumer organisation Public Citizen's health research group, goes further: "Until more meaningful penalties and the prospect of jail time for company heads who are responsible for such activity become commonplace, companies wil continue defrauding the government and putting patients' lives in danger." What's the reality?
Despite the large fine, $3bn is far less than the profits made from the
drugs. Avandia has made $10.4bn in sales, Paxil took $11.6bn, and
Wel butrin sales were $5.9bn during the years covered by the
settlement, according to IMS Health, which provides information for the
pharmaceutical sector.
The fact that the profits available from bestsel ing drugs dwarf the fines handed out if anything goes wrong means the kinds of misdemeanours picked up in the settlement are bound to happen, says Wolfe. His conclusion is that, for Big Pharma, "crime pays". What's the UK doing about it?
All of GSK's problems have come to light in the US, where corporate
abuse is taken very seriously. Britain is different, and the FDA's
equivalent, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
(MHRA), appears to engage in lighter-touch regulation. The MHRA has
never successful y prosecuted a company since it was established
nearly 10 years ago. It did investigate GSK over al eged inappropriate
use of a drug in 2008 but abandoned the case. Since then, the total
amount of fines imposed on individuals engaged in counterfeiting is
£73,300. Confiscation orders under proceeds of crime legislation have
total ed £18.9m and the MHRA says it has issued 467 warnings and
151 cautions.
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New Zero-Day Exploits discovered on Google Chrome
by Lidia Howler
A new update of the popular Google Chrome web browser has been released by Google for its Windows, Mac, and Linux versions. The update includes patches for two recently found security bugs that are both reportedly exploited in the wild and enable threat actors to actively take advantage of them.
The first vulnerability is described as CVE-2021-2122 and is related to insufficient validation of untrusted input in the V8 JavaScript rendering engine. The flaw was revealed and demonstrated by security researchers in the Pwn2Own 2021 hacking contest that took place last week.
The Google team acted quickly to fix the vulnerability demonstrated in the contest, however, over the weekend, security researcher Rajvardhan Agarwal came up with a publication on Twitter that revealed an exploit of the patch that the Chromium team released for the open-source component. Agrawal used reverse engineering to reveal a working exploit code for the zero-day remote code execution vulnerability.
According to the information that is available, the discovered vulnerability is affecting Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers such as Opera and Brave.
Another flaw that was recently fixed by Google is a flaw in its Blink browser engine described as CVE-2021-21206. The vulnerability was reported on 7th of April by a researcher who has remained anonymous.
0-day attacks on Google Chrome
Chrome's Technical Program Manager has noted in a post that Google is aware of reports that CVE-2021-21206 and CVE-2021-21220 exploits exist. However, it should be noted that the existence of exploits does not automatically mean that they are actively exploited by hackers. Presently it is not known whether malicious actors are actively targeting the reported two flaws.
Since the beginning of this year, Google has already addressed three Chrome vulnerabilities, (CVE-2021-21148, CVE-2021-11166, and CVE-2021-21193), that have been actively attacked.
A new Chrome 89.0.4389.128 version could be released by the company in the next few days. Users who want to be safe and eliminate the security risks related to the latest vulnerabilities should upgrade to the new release by going to Settings >>> Help >>> About Google Chrome.
Lidia Howler
Lidia is a web content creator with years of experience in the cyber-security sector. She helps readers with articles on malware removal and online security. Her strive for simplicity and well-researched information provides users with easy-to-follow It-related tips and step-by-step tutorials.

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Bełogradczik (bułg. Белоградчик) – miasto w północno-zachodniej Bułgarii.

Miasto jest malowniczo położone w zachodniej części Starej Płaniny. Znajduje się w nim fort oraz obserwatorium astronomiczne.

W pobliżu miasta jaskinia Magura ze śladami pobytu człowieka z okresu paleolitu.

Miasta partnerskie
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Miasta w obwodzie Widyń

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Training the biggest guns at Fort Eustis
By Mark St. John Erickson
Founded after the U.S. entered World War I 100 years ago, Camp Eustis was organized to meet the U.S. Army's urgent need to train officers and crews for the service's biggest guns, which were mainstays of the giant artillery battles on the Western Front.
For more than 300 years after the first English settlers arrived in the early 1600s, Mulberry Island was a vast expanse of woods and fields tucked into a winding bend of the James River.
Pioneering tobacco farmer John Rolfe was among the earliest to plant crops along its shores, and in the decades after the Civil War it was divided and subdivided again into more than 100 farms where both newly freed slaves and some of Warwick County oldest white families led a way of life not much different from the time of the Revolution.
But all that changed indelibly in April 1918, transformed by the war in Europe and the giant guns pulverizing the landscape in France and Belgium.
And that's because the U.S. Army needed a place where it could train thousands of new recruits how to operate artillery pieces of a scale and range it had not used against land targets before.
Starting with the huge cannon and mortars that defended the waters off Fort Monroe, the Coast Artillery tried to improvise a training program even as its classes swelled from 50 to more than 1,200 officers.
But soon reports from its own frontline observers as well as advice from veteran French artillerymen compelled it to buy 5,672 acres of nearby land, where nearly 40,000 workers rapidly erected a far larger, tailor-made gunnery range and school at a sub-base called Camp Eustis.
"World War I was an artillery war — and that made the Coast Artillery at Fort Monroe indispensable because they knew how to fire the biggest, heaviest guns," says former Virginia War Museum head John V. Quarstein, author of "World War I on the Peninsula."
"But firing these big guns over the water was not like firing onto land. They had to have someplace else."
Just how urgently the Army needed heavy artillery can be seen in its early attempts to mimic the big railcar-mounted guns and mortars its officers and men would operate in Europe yet which were not yet available in the U.S.
"These mounts are rather complicated and take some time to construct. We do not, however, propose to loose any time in waiting for such construction," wrote Col. S.M. Foote, commandant of the War Training Camp at Fort Monroe.
"We propose to use whatever guns we can get, big or little, and … improvise fire control apparatus … thus simulating the guns and methods that we shall later have to use."
So focused did the school become "on the battlefields of France," another Fort Monroe officer recalled, "that seacoast gunnery became a minor part of the new course of instruction."
But problems sprang up right away at the firing range, where mostly fixed guns and mortars aimed at tethered targets floating on the water.
Officers returning from the front joined with newly arrived French advisers to belittle the practice.
So did the trainees.
To the battery commander, the simulation was fairly complete, but to the mass of candidates the illusion was far from convincing,
Lt. Col. Fred M. Green wrote in the "Journal of the U.S. Artillery"
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"To the battery commander, the simulation was fairly complete, but to the mass of candidates the illusion was far from convincing," Lt. Col. Fred M. Green wrote in the "Journal of the U.S. Artillery."
"The confusion between seacoast and mobile methods and equipment was heightened by this expedient."
More problems came from the increasing lack of space at Fort Monroe, where most of the trainees slept in tents on the beach while waiting on the construction of new barracks.
"Fort Monroe was only 300 or 400 acres at the time. They hadn't added all the space they created by filling in the marsh during the 1930s," Casemate Museum historian Robert Kelly says, pointing to photos that show row after row of heavy artillery tractors filling streets and yards.
"Every square inch here was filled and programmed. They were bursting at the seams."
The Army tried to shoehorn in a new balloon observation school, too, but the large open fields that the 1,000-man-plus classes required only added to the strain of doing so much on an increasingly congested island.
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So tightly packed was the fort by early March 1918 that the Acting Secretary of War asked President Woodrow Wilson to draw upon an emergency war fund to build a new sub-base at Mulberry Island in what was then Warwick County.
"They definitely needed more room — but they didn't want to travel far," says Fort Eustis Cultural Resources Manager Christopher L. McDaid.
"And because the bend in the James enabled them to fire over water at a land target, they didn't have to buy as much property to get the kind of firing range they needed."
Built from scratch
Favorable geography and convenience weren't the only reasons why an Army selection board recommended the site, which was actually a peninsula rather than an island.
Moving the giant guns required good rail connections and port facilities, Green wrote, and those could be had through the nearby Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and the deep-water channel at Skiffes Creek.
The commercial value of the property was relatively small, too, creating not only the opportunity to acquire it as a reasonable price but also few constraints when it came to pulverizing large tracts of land with an untold number of high-explosive artillery shells.
Still, the Army wanted to move swiftly, and it paid the landowners so well compared to later Navy purchases for the Yorktown Mine Depot that — despite being given only 30 days to leave — few resisted.
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"The urgency to get the camp up and running was very strong — and the officer in charge didn't want to hear a lot of push-back from the Army about spending the kind of money they spent," McDaid says, describing a total purchase price of $538,000 — about $9.7 million in 2018 dollars.
"He stated from the beginning that he didn't want any delays. He didn't want any lawsuits."
Approved on March 19, 1918, construction began in April and proceeded so rapidly that the new sub-base was operational when the Headquarters Company and Battery A of the 2nd Trench Mortar Battalion arrived on May 3.
By August, more than 250 barracks capable of housing 19,000 soldiers had been erected, making Camp Eustis bigger than giant 15,000-man Camp Stuart in Newport News, which was the Army's largest port of embarkation cantonment.
Despite that speed, the epic construction project continued through 1919 and required a work force of nearly 40,000 brick layers, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, drivers, mechanics and laborers.
Greeted by dense stands of pine trees and thick undergrowth, the builders cleared out preliminary roads and paved them with felled logs, then extended the railway into the camp, wrote Brig. Gen. Richard C. Marshall Jr. in the 1919 "History of the Construction Division of the Army."
But that was just the start of a colossal $14 million effort — worth an estimated $250 million today — to create a self-contained city.
"Several miles of concrete road and a much larger amount of gravel roads were built," Marshall wrote, "together with a complete sewer system and sewage disposal plant, a complete water system, an electric power plant, a refrigerating plant, a bakery and an extensive railroad yard."
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Then there was the vast storm water drainage system, which kept being expanded in order to keep the mostly low-lying land dry.
"The difficulties of the undertaking can only be realized by those who have seen the roads as they were in the early days," Green noted after the war.
"Such roads and trails as existed were rapidly churned into a sort of slimy foam by the passage of heavy loads, ... and seemingly bottomless mud holes were the rule rather than the exception."
Across the bend of the James, the construction effort at the "Upper Firing Point" — also known as Camp Wallace — made the immense job even bigger.
There builders completed another 30 barracks, six storehouses and eight mess halls in addition to more rail spurs and roads.
"We have records with dozens of pages describing everything they built," McDaid says, citing one that lists 58 bath tubs, 102 drinking fountains, 336 lavatories and 921 shower heads.
"They were pushing the construction crews to the point where the plumbers went on strike. Every soldier who had any kind of plumbing experience was pressed into duty."
Ramping up
About a month before the camp completed its sprawling barracks complex in August 1918, its first graduates left for Europe.
So successful and capable was the new school, Green wrote, that the Army closed its other heavy artillery training center in Hoboken, N.J., then sent all its students to Mulberry Island before shipping them to Europe via the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation.
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By the war's end, Camp Eustis had trained nearly 21,000 soldiers, and it processed more than 10,000 others when they returned.
Though most flowed through the rail artillery and trench mortar schools, thousands went into the revolutionary new fields of anti-aircraft fire and motor transportation.
Others graduated from the new 591-acre Balloon Observers School established next to Camp Eustis by the Signal Corps, where nearly 1,500 trainees at a time spent as long as 17 weeks mastering the art of aerial observation as well as the disciplines of "telephony, meteorology, physics and aerial photography," wrote historian Dick Ivey in a 1997 publication for the Fort Eustis Historical and Archaeological Association.
"They put the balloon school there because these were closely integrated commands," Virginia War Museum educator Chris Garcia says.
"The balloon spotters and heavy artillerymen worked hand in hand."
Still, the camp — like many military installations established during WWI — was just ramping up in November 1918 when Germany surrendered nearly a year before planners expected.
But unlike many others that closed, it continued to operate because of its outstanding infrastructure and adaptability to other military missions, including the Transportation Corps headquarters and related schools that began arriving in 1947.
They barely started to maximize what Camp Eustis could do when the war ended. That's why they bought up so much land for future expansion.
Historian John V. Quarstein
"They'd barely started to maximize what Camp Eustis could do when the war ended," Quarstein says.
"That's why they bought up so much land for future expansion."
Those who seemed to love the camp most in 1919, however, were the railway artillery brigades that returned to find the longest and best-equipped firing range in the nation had everything needed to make them among the best in the world.
Miles and miles of rail lines supported not only the big, rail-mounted 14-inch naval guns and 12-inch trench mortars but also boasted 100 locomotives and 1,500 pieces of rolling stock, wrote brigade commander Brig. Gen. Johnson Hagood in the September 1920 issue of "National Service & the International Military Digest."
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Miles and miles of concrete and hard-packed gravel roads added to the assets they used every day to train, as did the $501,000 pier, 3 miles of adjacent railroad spurs and concrete connecting roads built to provide access to a 17-foot-deep shipping channel.
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Just as important were five steel towers that reached 150 feet into the air, giving artillery spotters an expansive view of the impact area and the ambitious gunners an instant telephone report of their skills as marksmen.
"They did such a good job that Camp Eustis became a separate fort after the war," McDaid says, "and 100 years later we're still training people here for other missions."
ONLINE: Go to dailypress.com/history to see a photo gallery and video.
Erickson can be reached by phone at 757-247-4783.
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Mark St. John Erickson covers Hampton Roads history and museums for the Daily Press, where he's won 17 awards from the Virginia Press Association. Born in Portsmouth, he lived in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Yorktown and Williamsburg as well as overseas while growing up as the son of a Navy civil engineer. He graduated from York High School, the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia and now lives with his wife and son in Hampton's Victoria Boulevard Historic District.
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As Katya Kinski, Dichen Lachman has been a regular Neighbours cast member since 2005, joining the show as the Australian 2005 series was coming to an end. Katya was involved in some of the biggest storylines of 2006 and fast became a popular addition to the action on Ramsay Street. However, Dichen has now finished filming on the show and Katya's final scenes aired on Australian screens this week. In this exclusive interview, Dichen shares with us some of her experiences...
Can you please give us some background on your career prior to winning the part of Katya Kinski in Neighbours?
I realised I wanted to be an actor when I was 19 and then took the next step by moving to Sydney when I was 20. I did the usual, worked in retail, and at a resturant called Jimmy Licks. I didn't have much luck to begin with but two years later, after many classes and several auditions, I got the part of Beth Ann in Aquamarine, which was an amazing experience and I learnt a lot! Then I was asked to audition for Neighbours, not for a part, it was more of a general and they seemed to like what I did because two weeks later they told me that they were going to write me in.
Do you recall how the role of Katya came about? Your audition, getting the news you had won the role?
I was working at BaySwiss at the time, with my friend, Julia (fantastic girl) and had just taken my parents to the airport and my agent called me and I think I nearly peed in my pants! It was a fantastic moment.
Can you share with us your memories of your first day of work on set and what were your first impressions of working on the show?
I remember thinking 'this is really strange'. It was very weird working with people that I felt I already knew in a strange way. Growing up watching these people, then being in the same room as them, working with them was a bizarre feeling. I was also very nervous because I didn't have much experience and took a while to settle in and get used to all the technical side of things.
Your first appearance on the show conincided with the filming of the 2005 finale. Did this make it a frantic entrance for you?
Everything was kind of frantic. My grandfather, Gus, who was very dear to me, died two weeks after I started. I was moving, a relationship I was in was seeing its final days, in a very ugly fashion, and everything was kind of overwhelming. But in the end, my grandfather had a long and very happy, content life. The relationship should have ended anyway, and I needed the challenge of Neighbours for my own personal growth... So, even though I miss my dear grandfather, I still consider it was a very significant and important part of my life and I am lucky to have experienced it.
What was it like to be working within an already established cast on the show?
Very comforting because it is like joining a family. I loved it! It was one of the best experiences of my life and the friends I made there will be friends forever, especially Caitlin (Rachel Kinski) and Matt (Zeke Kinski), they were my two shining stars.
How would describe the character of Katya?
She is just a bit lost. Wants to be loved, looking to fit in. Never means to be nasty, deep down she is soft and very vulnerable.
What was it like to be involved in a large storyline, such as the Robert/Cameron Robinson one, so soon after joining the show? Did you enjoy working alongside Adam Hunter?
Yeah, he was great and I felt privileged to be part of that exciting storyline and being able to work with the other actors who were heavly involved in it.
Katya played in a role in the breakdown of one of the shows favourite couples, Steph and Max Hoyland. What did you think of the storyline and what kind of feedback did you receive at the time?
I didn't get much. I thought it was an interesting way to go. I never found out what the audience thought of it... I really enjoyed working with Stephen (Max Hoyland), he was fantastic! I remember a lot of scenes, where I had to concentrate really hard not to laugh during the take because he was funny. I also remember the camera man, who we call Biggsy, had to stop at one point because the camera was shacking from him laughing so much.
Are there any particular stories or scenes that Katya was involved with that you are most proud of?
The shooting and the work with Ned (Dan O'Connor) at the start of their relationship.
Did you receive any memorable fan mail or have many encounters with fans?
Yes, it is wonderful to get that support from the fans, with out the fans there would be no show. I still have a lot of letters to reply to, but if people go to my myspace I usually respond within a few days.
How did you find the public recognition, at publicity events and in everyday life, after your scenes had first been on air?
It was a rush, but I tried not to think about it too much, I just kept reminding myself that everything is transitory... because it is an amazing feeling being recognised for doing what you love and if you get used to that, and then don't get it anymore it can be demoralizing. But what you have to remember is that the work is really what it should be about.
How does working on show like Neighbours differ from the experience of having worked on a film set?
Very different! Neighbours shoots 25 minutes a day, on a film you might do 4 minutes if you're lucky.
Without giving away too much, do you ever envisage a return to your Ramsay Street role, with Katya returning to Ramsay Street?
We will see ;) But I don't know if they would want her back... it's hard to know these things.
What have you been up to since you finished filming and can you give us a hint as to what's in store for you next?
Well, I'm in LA at the moment doing some classes, but I will be sure to let you know if anything exciting happens ;)
Finally, thank you very much for taking the time to share with your fans.
Thank you! Without you guys there would be nothing. I really mean that. Thank you for watching and writing. I'm off air now (in Australia) so good bye and enjoy the show.
Click here to read a full biography of Katya...
Interview by Darren. Added on 10th February 2007


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February 4th, 2022 NBA Betting Tips
Three NBA tips for February 4th, 2022.
A tough night last night brings our season record to 60-38.
It was a night of close calls as the Bulls (+4.5) lost by seven in overtime, the Lakers were +11 in the fourth quarter in a 111-110 loss to the Clippers (-4), and the Warriors (-13.5) won by 12. All three of those losses could've easily gone the other way.
I couldn't end the week on a down note like that so here's a few tips for tonight's games.
Boston Celtics at Detroit Pistons Betting Tips:
There might not be a team in the league I trust less than the Boston Celtics, but they look good in this match-up.
The Pistons are playing their third game in four nights and the second half of a back-to-back. They are likely to be without Cade Cunningham once again which doesn't leave much to get excited about in the backcourt or on the offensive end.
Boston has played much better of late with wins in five of their last six games. Even more impressive, all the wins have come by at least six points and four of the wins have come by 10+.
Pick: Bet Celtics -9.5
Brooklyn Nets at Utah Jazz Betting Tips:
A match-up of two teams that are absolutely in the mud right now. The Nets have dropped six straight and the Jazz have lost five of their past six games.
The good news for Utah is that they will have Donovan Mitchell back for tonight's match-up. He hasn't played a game since January 17th. The bad news is that their injury list is still long with Gobert and Ingles out, and Whiteside and Clarkson listed as questionable.
These are two offenses that can absolutely cook when they are full strength, but for this game they are anything but. It seems like the total on this one is set more off of reputation than output. Eleven of the last twelve Jazz games would've gone under this total. While three of the last five Nets games would've.
Pick: Bet Nets/Jazz Under 231.5
Philadelphia 76ers at Dallas Mavericks Betting Tips:
The Sixers have a long injury list for this one, but it doesn't include Joel Embiid so I'm not sure why the Sixers aren't favored here. They've won five of their past six and without Porzingis there is little the Mavericks should be able to do to stop him here.
Dallas has also lost two straight to the Thunder and Magic. Losing to two of the worst teams in the league is not a good look and Doncic was on the floor for both games so they don't even really have a good excuse. Playing one of the better teams in the league won't be easy.
Pick: Bet 76ers +1.5
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Firefighters tamed wildfires on the northern edge of the French port city of Marseille overnight as strong winds and dry conditions threatened new blazes in the south, local officials said on Thursday.
Air tankers were seen taking off from the firefighters' base in nearby Aix-en-Provence heading towards Marseille, France's second city, as fires continued to smoulder in the area.
At the port of Fos-sur-Mer, northwest of Marseille, 800 hectares (2,000 acres) went up in flames on Wednesday, local official Jean Rampon told AFP.
"Violent winds are exposing the area to the risk of new fires," Rampon said, adding that the dry vegetation was a "matter of concern".
The fires took hold Wednesday afternoon and spread over 3,300 hectares of scrubland and wooded areas.
Some 1,800 firefighters including many drafted in from elsewhere in France joined the battle backed by around 500 rescue vehicles, five air tankers and two helicopters and around 100 police, Rampon said.
"Three people suffered burns including one who is seriously injured," he said, adding that around 20 firefighters and a dozen police officers were suffering from smoke inhalation.
Around 500 people forced to leave their homes spent the night in shelters in the area, including 300 from the city of Vitrolles, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of Marseille, which lost 1,600 hectares to the blazes.
Fires damaged many houses and several industrial buildings in Vitrolles, Rampon said.
Transport by road and air was badly affected by the fire on Wednesday evening, with two motorways closed and some flights cancelled at Marseille airport.
Forest fires in the Portuguese holiday island of Madeira meanwhile claimed three lives and forced around 1,000 people to flee their homes.


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Scanning your gut bacteria with this smartphone health tool
by Kirsten Dirksen on June 12, 2016
Our bodies, our homes, our things— everything on earth is covered in a cloud of microbes, and while we are more likely to worry about pathogens, the beneficial microbes can help fight diabetes, obesity, and even save our lives (in the case of fecal transplants).
"We think that the microbes that are on our skin and in our mouth and in our gut and in our pet and in our plants and animals, they play important roles in our health," explains UC Davis microbiologist Jonathan Eisen, "and so we'd really like to get people to think about them more."
For over 25 years the medical world has flirted with the the "hygiene hypothesis": the idea that exposure to dirt and animals, especially when you're young, lowers the risk of autoimmune diseases like Type 1 diabetes, allergies and asthma. "In the last 10 years there's been much more convincing evidence that the mechanism behind that is introducing more microbial diversity," explains Eisen.
Eisen warns that ignoring the microbial world has also resulted in too many C-sections (vaginal births deliver beneficial microbes to the baby), too many antibiotics (he recognizes their importance to our health, but they're often abused like when they're delivered in animal feed) and a cavalier attitude when it comes to "spread(ing) triclosan all over your arm just because you got a little scrape" or buying a UV sterilizer ("which they're selling on eBay") to sterilize your bathroom.
Besides spending considerable energy trying to educate the public on the importance of these tiny bugs, he's also using DNA sequencing to work toward building a global microbial map, a kind of field guide to microorganisms (he's a former "birder" and his graduate work was on butterflies).
"I want to make a field guide but for the hundreds of millions of microbes that are on the planet… It's not just sort of an esoteric exercise they're driving the chemical cycles on the planet, they're running carbon fixation, they're affecting all the greenhouse gases, they're affecting the health of all the plants, of all the agricultural systems, they affect our health, our nutrition, our metabolic rate, our resistance to infection, and it's not that people haven't thought about this before, but we couldn't do it until the last few years."
And in the last few years, we can now see our own microbes with cellphone microscopes. We picked up a MicrobeScope– a 800x microscope that attaches to an iPhone, or can be used with the naked eye. We found "bugs" all over our home, bodies, food and garden.
Eisen hopes that this democratizing of the study of this tiny world will speed up its mapmaking, in the same way it amateurs have contributed to mapping birds and butterflies. "We want to get everyone to think about microbes and building this map of all the microbe. I would bet in 5 years and probably sooner people will be able to do the DNA sequencing at home then we can have a billion people building a global microbial map…. Most of the diversity of life are microorganisms and they're actually really cool, but we mostly don't look at them."
[*All microbe footage was filmed with a MicrobeScope].
tags: allergies, antibiotics abuse, asthma, autoimmune diseases, c-sections, diabetes, fecal transplants, hygiene hypothesis, indoor microbes, microbes, microbescope, microbial world. jonathan eisen, microbiomania, microbiome, obesity, prebiotics vs probiotics, smartphone microscope, uc davis
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Two Weeks Notice (2002): A Romance Starring RomCom Royalty
Posted by Naazneen Samsodien | Nov 29, 2017
Two Weeks Notice Review
By mid-2000, the age of the romantic comedy was fading fast, leaving only the nostalgia of a glorious time gone by. Two Weeks Notice was one of Hugh Grant's last forays into the genre, although Sandra Bullock still had The Proposal up her sleeve as her biggest rom-com hit. On-screen together, I couldn't help but feel like I was watching some version of romcom royalty go about their business.
You Make Gandhi Look Like A Used Cars Salesman
Two Weeks Notice starts with Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock) a Harvard educated lawyer who is passionate about the environment and her community. She is most likely the definition of a do-gooder or a tree hugger. Anti corporations, Lucy is a lone crusader for causes she feels passionate about. These usually include trying to stop the demolition of old buildings that have meaning to the communities that live around it.
In an effort to save her local community center, Lucy studies and then confronts George Wade (Hugh Grant), a wealthy, spoilt millionaire who cares little for anything except the bottom line. Perhaps that's not quite true though. Yes, he isn't particularly altruistic, but George is also just the figurehead of his families company due to his handsome looks and charming personality. His brother Howard (David Haig) is really the man pulling all the strings behind the scenes.
RELATED: Notting Hill (1999) – A Classic Romantic Comedy with Fairytale-esque Qualities
George, a notorious womanizer, realizes that Lucy is smart. Seeing as he was forced to fire his previous less than competent legal counsel, he hires Lucy in exchange for saving her precious community center. Despite her reservations, Lucy agrees and quite rapidly, becomes George's right-hand woman.
All too soon, however, the lines between their personal and professional lives blur and in an attempt at self-preservation, Lucy offers George her two weeks notice. She promises to help him find a replacement before disappearing from his life forever. Initially, this doesn't sound like a bad plan. But George realizes he actually enjoys her counsel and her company. And Lucy realizes that perhaps her feelings run deeper than she had anticipated. Can George and Lucy navigate the complexities of business and pleasure?
I Find You… Annoying
I'm a huge, huge fan of Hugh Grant's. It's true that he basically plays the same character in every romantic comedy. However, it continues to be the most charming sight to behold. George doesn't take himself very seriously and is generally a teenager in an adult's body. As you can imagine, Hugh Grant plays this type of character to perfection. He's funny, self-deprecating and incredibly charming. He's also annoying and selfish, while simultaneously showing bouts of kindness. Hugh Grant is playing Hugh Grant. But as I said, I'm certainly not complaining.
I have an ulcer, I don't sleep well, mostly because you keep calling me in the middle of the night, and if you don't call me I dream that you're gonna call me. I think about you in the shower…not in a good way, but in an I'm-so-distracted-I-can't-remember-if-I-washed-my-hair kinda way – so I'll wash my hair twice!
Sandra Bullock, however, is an incredibly graceful and funny actress. She has great comedic timing and I really like her in romantic comedies. There are moments where it seems like Hugh and Sandra are laughing in scenes that don't quite seem scripted. And I realize I enjoy the idea of these two having fun in real life, and seeing it translate so well on screen.
They have an easy, natural chemistry that's dare I say… comforting? It's true, their spark isn't creating a snap!crackle!pop! of fiery chemistry, but their dynamic still works in its understated way. Alongside the romcom royals, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey, and Robert Klein also star as the third wheel in a love triangle and Lucy's parents respectively.
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Two Weeks Notice is not the best example of a romcom out there. Even among Hugh Grant's offerings, there are funnier, more romantic films in his portfolio – Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral and of course Love Actually (although that's a large ensemble of course). Two Weeks Notice lacks some depth and although George is handsome and charming, he isn't very interesting. I would have loved to get to know George as more than just the carefree lothario, which might have made his position at the top of a multi-million dollar company more plausible.
This person, despite being unusually stubborn and unwilling to compromise and a very poor dresser, is… she's rather like the building she loves so much. A little rough around the edges but, when you look closely, absolutely beautiful. And the only one of her kind.
Sandra Bullock also oscillates between dowdy hippy, straight-laced corporate and cute girl next door which is a little confusing. It's as if the wardrobe department was trying to tell a story through her costuming, but didn't quite know where to put the stake in the sand. Having said that, Sandra Bullock is so gorgeous, it really doesn't matter what she's wearing. Like Hugh Grant, she is affable and therefore generally a joy to watch.
From a storytelling perspective, Two Weeks Notice is pretty light on the overall romance. While George and Lucy verbally spar with each other, their attraction is generally sparked by the "transformation" scene quite late in the film. I believe this movie would have benefitted by ramping up the romantic tension between the characters sooner.
Actually, This Is For Two
Overall, Two Weeks Notice is not the best romcom out there, but it has its moments. Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock are funny, charming and go a long way towards making this a worthwhile watch. Also, Hugh Grant knows how to deliver a romantic monologue. Two Weeks Notice gives him that opportunity and he certainly doesn't squander the opportunity!
RELATED: The Rewrite Film Review: A Hugh Grant Romantic Comedy
Where to Watch: Two Weeks Notice is available for sale or to watch on Amazon. It can also be streamed on Netflix US and Amazon Prime.
Content Note: Two Weeks Notice is rated PG-13 for some sex-related humor.
Have you watched Two Weeks Notice? Is it one of your favourite Hugh Grant romantic comedies? Comment below and let me know!
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Naazneen hails from South Africa and has spent most of her life steeped quite happily in fandom. A corporate Human Resource professional by day, she completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology and is currently completing her MPhil at the University of Cape Town. She spends her nights in a parallel universe where her creative pursuits find meaningful outlets. When she is not doing research, writing fanfiction or reading the latest novel for her book club, she is voraciously consuming information on pop culture and global socio-political issues - or quite simply, travelling the world. She loves words, fangirling shamelessly, Mr. Darcy and rugged beards... a lot.
jenn metts	on November 29, 2017 at 12:55 pm
My son, who has Autism, was obsessed with this movie for 3 years. We watched it a LOT..suck a cute, romantic movie. I just adore Hugh Grant.


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DACC welders show off finished display
By Glenn Battishill - gbattishill@aimmediamidwest.com
Recreation Unlimited CEO and Executive Director Paul Huttlin poses with a group of seniors from the welding program at the DACC Tuesday evening after the display was lit up. Huttlin said the display was "fantastic," and he thanked the students for their work on the project.
Glenn Battishill | The Gazette
One of the first displays that attendees of Butch Bando's Fantasy of Lights will see this season is a promotional display for Recreation Unlimited that was created by welding students at the Delaware Area Career Center.
The display was created by the senior welding students at the DACC and Dante Bando, the owner of the light show, over several weeks. The display depicts a child in a wheelchair shooting an arrow at a present, which explodes. The display was created for Recreation Unlimited, a local nonprofit "serving individuals with physical and developmental disabilities and health concerns."
Bando said he enjoyed working on the project with the seniors, and they only lit up the child part of the display in the lab. He added, "I was like a little kid" waiting to light up the rest of it.
"It was well worth the wait," Bando said Tuesday evening in front of the completed and fully lit display.
Bando worked with students last year as well to create a display for the show. He said the students he worked with this year were juniors last year and didn't really know what to think of the project.
"No one knew what to expect," Bando said. "But they were great. It's so intricate. It was a learning curve for everyone, but it's a great display. I'm eager to see what the juniors come up with next year. I hope they keep trying to out-do themselves."
Bando said the students worked with deadlines during the project and hoped they learned a lesson about work and management that they can take to a job in the future.
"There are real world applications for what they are doing," Bando said. "I'm incredibly proud of them."
Recreation Unlimited CEO and Executive Director Paul Huttlin was on hand Tuesday to see the display be lit up. He said the display was "fantastic!"
"I've been through this display show many times and to see something that represents Recreation Unlimited in such a prominent area was just heartwarming," Huttlin said. "It's not just a donation to us, it's exposure — showing our name and our program in such a fun way. It'll be great exposure for our organization for the thousands of people who come through."
Huttlin said he was mostly hands-off of the design, and he thought the child shooting the area is appropriate because archery is one of the programs offered by Recreation Unlimited.
"I thought it was excellent," Huttlin said before expressing his gratitude to the students. "Thank you very much. You did a fantastic job."
Huttlin said he hopes people will learn about Recreation Unlimited and take steps to learn about more local organizations.
"I think it's important for everybody to know different charities and what they do," Huttlin said.
"Recreation Unlimited has been around for many, many, many years, but for people coming into this marketplace, it's new. It's important that they created this and how it will help us as an organization and make this show more fun."
Butch Bando's Fantasy of Lights opens Friday, Nov. 16. More information can be found at http://butchbandosfantasyoflights.com/
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Singled Out recounts the athletic feats and personal tragedies of baseball's Glenn Burke
By Sean Kinch | February 24, 2021
The title of Andrew Maraniss' new book, Singled Out, captures the predicament that Glenn Burke faced in the 1970s. As a baseball player with an Adonis physique and extraordinary athletic gifts, Burke stood out even among his major league teammates. An extrovert with a colorful sense of humor, he offered entertainment in the locker room and leadership on the diamond.
Photo: Keith Miles
What really made him different, though, was a secret he tried to conceal. By the time he reached the big leagues, Burke knew he was gay. Playing a sport that Maraniss describes as "the heart of homophobia," Burke understood that staying in the closet was his only option. He led a double life for as long as he could — macho outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers by day, disco denizen by night — but soon rumors of his sexual orientation hastened his exit from the sport he loved.
Maraniss describes Burke as a magnetic individual with boundless charm. On bus rides, he sang along with music blaring from his boombox; he kept the dugout upbeat and engaged with constant streams of chatter. Decades later, journalist Lyle Spencer described him as "the most lively personality I ever covered in forty-five years in sports." Typically the instigator of team celebrations, Burke was the first athlete to deliver a high five when he spontaneously rushed to greet Dusty Baker after Baker hit his 30th home run in the last game of the 1977 season.
Maraniss begins the story with Burke's upbringing in Oakland, where his athletic legend began on the city's blacktops. His friends recall his amazing jumping ability and ruthless competitiveness on the basketball court and his affability off of it. Burke "was the funniest kid in his circle of friends," Maraniss writes, "adept at perfectly mimicking the popular Black comedians of the day." His performance on the court, leading to high school championships, turned him into an East Bay celebrity who seemed destined for success.
To account for Burke's experiences off the field, Maraniss covers cultural revolutions of the 1970s and 80s. Burke's MLB debut in 1977 coincided with the explosion of disco, a milieu in which a gay Black man could experience freedom and a measure of equality. In the offseason, and whenever he could sneak away during the season, Burke raced to clubs and indulged in all available pleasures.
Out of consideration for his younger readers, Maraniss soft pedals the sex-and-drugs angle, but he makes it clear that Burke's downfall was not the result of a random sexual hookup or occasional narcotic use. Burke approached partying, especially in the Castro district of San Francisco, the way he played sports: at full speed, with maximum effort and balletic grace. Burke was perfectly suited to the disco era. Former major league player Tito Fuentes compared Burke to "a glistening mirror ball at a discotheque when the light hits it and all of these different reflections and colors flash all over the room."
Maraniss offers a nuanced perspective on Burke's relationships with his teammates. When spring training started, Burke left the expressive gay subculture and returned to the "repressive existence" of the Dodger locker room. With the team, he found joy on the field but struggled to fit into the players' skirt-chasing lifestyle.
In the fishbowl of MLB, Burke's hidden life became difficult to disguise. His teammates faced the dilemma of suppressing their suspicions or confronting Burke. In Los Angeles, clubhouse leaders Dusty Baker and Davey Lopes took different tacks. Baker felt compelled to learn the truth, so he talked to Burke and queried his friends, but no one gave a forthright answer. When Lopes heard the rumor, he thought about it briefly and then dismissed it as irrelevant. "You know what? I don't give a shit," Lopes told a teammate. "He was an integral part of the ball club."
Maraniss deserves credit for giving proper space to Burke's less savory traits. While still in the minors, Burke developed a "reputation as an unpredictable hothead" whose temper was often directed at authority figures. He was a poor judge of character, trusting friends who had proven to be selfish. His drug abuse, which skyrocketed when he was a well-paid baseball player, continued during the thin years that followed, ultimately landing him on the streets.
Singled Out is marketed as a young adult title — the author's third, after Strong Inside and Games of Deception — but its content and language assume mature readers. Maraniss is unsparing about the vitriol suffered by Burke and other homosexuals, most egregiously when the AIDS epidemic caused the deaths of thousands. This book pays long-overdue tribute to a cultural pioneer, a man who wanted simply to play ball and dance in a world that was not yet ready for his moves.
Sean Kinch grew up in Austin and attended Stanford. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas. He now teaches English at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville.
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Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke
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"Morrison hopes to transport readers to a world where poetry tells a powerful story that relates to audiences of all ages."
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If you were at Dolly Parton's recent Tampa show, you could've looked up towards Amalie Arena's Verizon loft and caught a glimpse of Jeremy Gloff with about 20 of his friends, new and old, singing the night away. The outspoken, über-posi Tampa songwriter has a way of of collecting comrades, and he does it again for his ongoing Phonogenics 101 music discussion series. On the table this time is Blonde on Blonde, the 1961 classic for which everybody's favorite Nobel Prize winner ditched garage rock for a double LP of folk that dips its legs into country and blues. Bob Dylan wasn't scared to get some brass and organ to accompany the witty wordplay on this album, and you shouldn't be afraid to talk your way through one of history's most important records.


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Kid N' Play Talk 'Unsung' Episode, Being Hip-Hop Pioneers, And 25 Years Of Friendship
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The season finale of Unsung airs tonight and Kid N' Play are the subject. The legendary hip-hop duo are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their classic movie House Party which also starred then new faces Martin Lawrence and Tisha Campbell.
Kid N'Play are among the few hip-hop acts that have been on Unsung and as one of hip-hop's pioneering duos, they had a huge impact on the musical genre. Christopher "Kid" Reid and Chris "Play" Martin have also enjoyed an enduring 25-year friendship. They enjoyed doing the documentary which took them, literally, down memory lane. The two lived around the corner from each other growing up in East Elmhurst, Queens.
"They really put a lot into it. I'm really impressed with a budget. We did a lot of filming in L.A. and then we went to New York and went and visited our old stomping grounds," Martin said. "We visited the house and the guy who owns the house who still owns it, that was used in House Party."
As far as their signature dance moves, Kid N Play says that they were inspired in part by The Nicholas Brothers, the famous dancers from the 20's who also inspired folks like classic movie star/dancer Fred Astaire and actor/dancer Gregory Hines.
"We did a poster similar to a lot of [the Nicholas Brothers'] moves," says Martin. "It was really borne of of urgency because when it was time to hit the road, Kid and I didn't have a budget to bring dancers with us, so it we had to come up with some moves we could do and not have any dancers to rely on. A big shoutout to Hi-Hat, who choreographs for Missy Elliot and Li'l Bit, among all the other dancers that helped us."
Martin admits they stole the moves, because they are basically the Charleston, but with two people doing the Charleston in front of the other.
"If you steal it with a smile, they forget you stole it," says Reid.
As far as a House Party sequel, Martin says there have been some offers, but now they are casted as the fathers.
"I've always wanted Kid and I do to remake of Uptown Saturday Night," says Martin. "It's age appropriate."
Martin is currently producing a documentary of the famed FAMU band, the Marching 100 that Tom Joyner is in, so look out for that.
Unsung airs tonight on TV One at 8 p.m. ET
Click the link above to hear the entire interview.
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Given is a language with 3 letters: A, B, C.
Determine the possible message pair.
I think guessing key bits and checking if the plaintext is valid in both words is the way to go (much like a binary puzzle).
For instance, it is clear that at least one of the words starts with an A because if you take the first 4 bits they are all different except for the last one. That rules out BB, BC, CB or CC as combinations of the first letter, because they don't differ by 3 bits where the final bit is 1. Similarly you should be able to rule out two other combinations, leaving only one combination - unfortunately you don't know yet if it is AX or XA. Similarly, you expect an AA and B combination at the final bits as the bits must be each other complements.
I would implement this using left to right guessing of key bits with backtracking in case the pattern becomes impossible for either W1 or W2. You may even start at each end, but I don't think that is needed. You should be able to do this by hand, but programming it may be fun as well.
In the end I see 13 bits set to 0 and 13 bits set to 1, and I had to backtrack 18 times to find a solution (assuming bits set to 0 before possibly back tracking, simply working from left to right), which is entirely doable for a mere human. Of course giving the key, the pattern of W1 or W2 gives away the entire result, so I won't do that.
The complement of the found key is also a solution in this particular case.
Beware to check the end conditions correctly, or you may have to do some manual restructuring at the end.
This is not an easy task to program. Basically you need to create a tree for both the key as well as the resulting plaintext to perform the pattern matching.
but one causes an immediate contradiction.
The rest is left to the OP.


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The Super Bowl of Marketing
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By Jess Lyon | integrated marketing, Blog, marketing | 0 comment | 30 January, 2020 | 0
Each winter, one of the biggest athletic spectacles in the U.S. unfolds amid much fanfare: the Super Bowl.
Alongside all the cheering, face paint, and touchdowns, there's another type of spectacle: the most ambitious (and expensive) advertising of the year. Indeed, of the 100 million people who tune in to watch the Super Bowl, a big portion are there mostly — or only — to watch brands' blockbuster ads.
Every year, brands are becoming more creative and treating the Super Bowl not just as an opportunity for a single 30-second spot, but rather the chance for an entire marketing campaign. Here's a look at what to expect when it comes to 2020 Super Bowl advertising, from veteran brands, to advertising newcomers, to the social media aspect.
Viewers no longer have to wait until game day to learn which brands bought air time. AdAge has published an extensive list of which major brands are advertising. This year, we can expect spots from a range of brands, from Budweiser and Cheetos, to Audi and Hyundai, to presidential incumbents and hopefuls like Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg.
In many cases, brands even release a short teaser of their ads ahead of time, previewing the content much like a Hollywood blockbuster does with a trailer. "Brands want consumers to love the teaser so much that they'll be looking for their spot during the game," an advertising executive told Fast Company in an article titled Why Super Bowl ad teasers have become as important as the commercials.
First-time advertisers
Some brands have been advertising during the big game for as long as we can remember — it's hard to recall a game without a Budweiser spot. But 2020 will bring a crop of newcomers, too: "Little Caesars pizza chain, Facebook, and the running brand Saucony will buy their first Super Bowl ads ever this year," Reuters reports. These newcomers aren't easing into it, either: Little Caesar's 30-second spot will feature comedian Rainn Wilson of "The Office," and Facebook's ad will feature action hero Syllvester Stalone and legendary jokester Chris Rock. "The ad during the big game in February will be part of the company's 'More Together' campaign, which it launched in May to get people talking about Facebook Groups," writes CNBC.
A unique platform
In a world where so many consumers now watch shows on demand, the Super Bowl is a rare live opportunity for advertisers. Far more than half of Americans now subscribe to streaming services like Netflix, a trend that has taken viewers away from live TV and diminished the impact that traditional TV advertisements can have. All this makes the Super Bowl's live audience — 100 million viewers for CBS in 2019 — not only enormous, but exceptional.
Of course, even the Super Bowl is affected by trends. The 2019 live viewership numbers "were down 5 percent from last year's comparable measurement," according to The Wrap, and many viewers tuned in to the game via streaming platforms. As this trend continues, we'll likely see brands adjust their content for the new environment. For example, many brands already "leak" their ads online before the big game, swapping secrecy for online clicks and views.
Complementary marketing
In a world where ads can have second lives online, it's no longer enough to simply air a commercial and move on. An entirely new brand ecosystem has emerged, with complementary content and audience reactions dominating Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms. Twitter has dubbed this phenomenon #BrandBowl, giving brands, marketing experts, and consumers a place to measure and comment on ads' success.
One 2020 example? On January 22, Planters published a short, goofy clip announcing the death of mascot Mr. Peanut. The clip created a major stir and much chatter online, and consumers can expect a follow-up commercial during The Super Bowl. "We think it will make more sense after people have a chance to watch the spot during the Super Bowl's third quarter," a Planters spokesperson recently told The Today Show. (Note: Planters paused social advertising for the campaign following the untimely passing of NBC legend Kobe Bryant, but is staying the course with its plans for game day.)
Another example? Snickers isn't just creating a commercial this year — they're also creating jewelry. The snack brand has a Hungriest Player campaign underway to celebrate the NFL's 100th season, which entails a Snickers-themed diamond chain that's worn by players.
What ads and marketing campaigns are you most excited for when it comes to Super Bowl LIV?
Jess Lyon
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E-Man Part Four--City in the Sand
E-Man and Nova are in Egypt! Nova knocks 'em dead at a dance club, but her real purpose is to get a map to a lost city. Mr. Bogni gives her the map at the cost of his life; E-Man appears as the god Ra and stuns the killers with a power bolt.
E-Man and Nova follow the map and find the lost city. Once inside, they discover futuristic machines built five thousand years ago! The city's central tower is a time machine, and our heroes travel back to 3000 B.C., where they find an Egyptian city ruled by fear.
Ramis, the dethroned ruler of Naab (the ancient city), explains that his people came from another star to escape oppression. On Earth, they experienced a plague and blamed Ramis. E-Man and Nova darken their own skin in order to pass as Naabians.
E-Man discovers that the plague that has haunted the Naabians is carried by fleas on pets given to the children by the evil Faro. He warns the people, and Ramis regains control after Faro becomes infected by the very plague he had set upon his fellow Naabians.
Nova is going far afield to earn money for college!
I see a Gil Kane influence here.
"City in the Sand" is a sixteen-page story with much to recommend it. The splash page is a treat, as it is the first time we have actually gotten a glimpse of one of Nova's performances. The humorous touches continue, with signs all over the lost city urging Naabians to join the "Great War Machine."
Joe Staton's art is excellent, as usual, and has a hint of Gil Kane in some of the facial angles. Nova never looked better. Near the end of the story, at Faro's palace, she is bathed and dressed in a skintight black costume, which only serves to accentuate her superb figure.
Staton must have loved drawing Nova!
The letter column is replaced this issue by a full-page letter reprinted from "Fantastic Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories." This letter is addressed to science fiction fans, and it talks about E-Man, praising its satire of science fiction tropes.
The backup story is another Killjoy tale by Steve Ditko. Much like the prior one in E-Man 2, this is an almost incomprehensible mess in which Ditko criticizes liberal ideas of how to deal with criminals. The art is not bad, but the storytelling is terrible and so many panels are clogged with dialogue balloons that the artwork is overwhelmed.
A typical Killjoy panel.
This issue has a cover date of August 1974. While the indicia says it was published bimonthly, the first four issues have been dated October 1973, December 1973, June 1974 and August 1974. Issues one and two were 20 cents; the price went up to 25 cents with issue three. Oddly enough, issues three and four also feature a cover price of "UK 6p," perhaps anticipating big sales in England. Subscriptions were $1.20 a year at 20 cents a copy, then $1.25 a year at 25 cents a copy. I recall ordering a subscription directly from Charlton because these comics were so hard to find on the newsstand.
E-Man or Plastic Man?
One more thing to note about this issue is the influence of the Ancient Astronaut craze that hit in 1968 when Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods was published. This idea had a significant influence on Marvel comics mythology and here it pops up in E-Man as well. One of the fun things about reading the E-Man series is to see what was on peoples' minds in the 1970s.
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E-Man Part Three--The Energy Crisis!
Back in 1974, the energy crisis was a serious concern. Our parents got up before dawn to line up at the gas station on alternate days, depending on whether their car's license plate began with an odd number or an even number. In New York City, Broadway was no longer the Great White Way—it was the Brown Way.
Nova Kane and her fellow dancer, Rosie Rhedd walk home in the dark when they are attacked by a mugger. Things take a turn for the worse when Nova sees Rosie pulled through a solid brick wall! E-Man, being made of pure energy, is busy helping out at a hospital where power is in short supply. He tells Nova that Mayor Beame has put him on 24-hour alert, so he can't help. Nova sees a handbill advertising "Michael Mauser, Private Eye," and she goes to visit the seedy investigator.
Nova's friend Rosie is NOT
working her way through college!
Mauser agrees to look into Rosie's disappearance with Nova, mainly because she is able to pay for his services. After visiting the scene of the crime, they are attacked on the road by a powerful yet mysterious beam of light. Nova telephones E-Man, who has been occupied with boosting generators for the power company. He travels at the speed of light through the telephone lines only to find Nova and Mauser already gone.
Michael Mauser does not
accept personal checks.
In chapter two, E-Man checks into a boarding house in Boarsville, then uses power lines to try to infiltrate Boar Mansion. Along the way he confronts The Battery, a walking cell that looks like a biker and absorbs energy. E-Man is carried into Boar Mansion, where he meets Boar, the richest, most powerful man in the world. Boar has been buying human beings and using their energy to supply his need for power during the energy crisis. One of the people he has collected in glass tubes is Nova!
The aptly-named Boar!
E-Man escapes and defeats The Battery with trickery, then arrests Boar. The government dismantles Boar's empire, saving Nova, Mauser, and Rosie and distributing his energy among the general public. Nova pays Mauser, who teaches E-Man a handy new phrase to describe his girlfriend—a "tough little broad." The story ends with a plea from E-Man to the readers to save the Earth!
Menacing, with a hint of
the Village People.
This month's letters column features rave reviews of E-Man #1. Of interest are the comments that discuss Charlton's 1960s entries into the superhero market, such as Captain Atom, as well as the new "bullseye" logo on the cover.
This issue's second story is called "Travis in the Dragon Killer!" It is written by Nicola Cuti, E-Man's scribe, and illustrated by Wayne Howard, a Charlton artist who studied under Wally Wood and was heavily influenced by his style. Unfortunately, the story is trite and the art not very impressive. Travis is a boy who is left alone with a time-traveling robot babysitter. His parents never return, and he grows up under the robot's tutelage. They visit the Jurassic era and a T-Rex accidentally passes through a time warp, emerging in the time of knights. Travis dons knightly garb and slays the "dragon," winning the love of a beautiful maiden.
Not bad Wally Wood art, just Wayne Howard art.
Upon rereading E-Man #3 I was struck once again by how good this series is! Staton's art is cartoony and evocative at the same time, and the character of Michael Mauser, who would become a long-term, recurring character, is drawn in a "comic-noir" fashion that fits the story perfectly. Nova continues to be a feast for the eyes, and Boar is the second major villain to challenge E-Man. Like the Brain, he would return.
It is also interesting to be catapulted back to the social problems of 1973 and to remember the energy crisis and the looming problems in and around New York City. It's both funny and sad to see that E-Man's plea to conserve energy is one that continues to resonate almost 30 years later.
Even blown up, this
Wayne Howard signature
is not easy to make out!
E-Man Part Two--The Entropy Twins
Having established the characters and relationship between E-Man and Nova Kane in the first issue, Nicola Cuti and Joe Staton began to expand their storytelling in the second, bi-monthly issue.
It turns out that The Brain was not killed at the end of the first story. Instead, the badly injured mass of grey matter was able to repair itself and contact its home planet, Sirius, for another weapon.
E-Man and Nova continue to live together and develop their flirtatious relationship. During a trip to the zoo, they meet a young blonde couple who look like twins. Nova introduces E-Man as Alec Tronn, a name she makes up on the spot, and Staton obviously relishes drawing the beautiful redhead in revealing costumes and alluring poses. She discloses that her real name is Katrinka Colchnzski!
Nova continues to favor
as little clothing as
possible...
E-Man battles and defeats a monster comprised of millions of tiny amoebas working together, as well as one made up of pieces of every animal in the zoo.
In chapter two, cars float into the air as if magnetized, and the earth shakes and splits open. Nova falls through a fissure and lands atop a speeding subway car. E-Man makes himself into a giant net to save her.
In the Catskills, Michael and Juno, the young couple that E-Man and Nova met at the zoo, are revealed to be Entropy--the forces of order and disorder. All is well when they are together, but when they are apart, chaos reigns.
E-Man appears on the scene and kills each of them with a bolt of energy--or does he? He later explains to Nova that, instead of killing them, he changed their chemical composition so that they can never be near each other again.
This always struck me as a very sad panel.
The story ends with an image of The Brain, undefeated and surely planning another attack.
Don't miss the groovy jacket!
"The Entropy Twins" features outstanding artwork by Joe Staton. E-Man "wears" cool 1970s duds, as do Michael and Juno, and Nova is stunning. The rescue by web of the speeding subway car prefigures a similar sequence in the film, Spider-Man 2, and the scene where E-Man "kills" the Entropy Twins is chilling. The story's next to last panel is tragic.
This issue features a letters column entitled "E-Mail," which is certainly a look into the future.
In 1973--who knew!
A good example
of Ditko's "subtlety."
The second story is called "Killjoy" and, although uncredited, it is written and illustrated by Steve Ditko. This is a strange little story that fits in well with Ditko's growing fondness for Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy. Criminals cry "He's prejudiced against us because we're a minority group fighting exploitation!" A lawyer works for the "Foundation to Protect the Guilty From Justice," and so on.
Ditko's heroes always
could move!
Ditko's draftsmanship was as strong as ever, but plotting is virtually absent and the script is filled with slogans. I recommend this book for more on Steve Ditko: http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Stranger-World-Steve-Ditko/dp/1560979216.
E-Man #2 is thus a mixed bag. The E-Man story is excellent, while the backup story is a disappointment.
We think E-man has killed them, but not so!
A rather menacing shot of our hero, appearing out of nowhere!
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E-Man Part One--The Origin of E-Man
Note two things not seen anywhere
in the story: the Brain's tentacles
and Nova's skintight purple outfit!
Back in the 1980s, when I sold off my comic book collection, I saved two series: Will Eisner's The Spirit and E-Man. I have long wanted to look at E-Man in more detail.
The first issue hit the newsstands in the summer of 1973, and I can remember standing at the magazine rack in a grocery store in Corsicana, Texas, when I spotted the words "First Edition!!" and "Collector's Item!" on the cover.
The E-Man story, which is untitled, is in two parts, spanning sixteen pages. Part one, "The Beginning," follows a sentient burst of energy from its genesis millions of years ago through its encounter with a star-ship from Alpha Centauri. The ship is guided by a giant brain in a glass dome. The energy burst changes itself into a duplicate of one of the Brain's robots, and the extra weight causes the ship to change course and crash land on Earth.
The energy burst travels along high-tension wires and ends up in a light bulb on the makeup mirror of Nova Kane. This page, with drawings of Nova in her dancer's outfit, both attracted and frightened me, and I have never forgotten it. Nova explains that she's working her way through college as an exotic dancer.
I have never really gotten over this page.
In part two, "The Brain and the Bomb," the energy burst, having taken the form of a handsome young man, christens himself E-Man. He and Nova are menaced by her landlord, who has suddenly gone crazy. E-Man deduces that the man had been near the site where the star-ship crashed; E-Man travels there instantly by telephone line, while Nova takes her jeep.
The residents of the small town in upstate New York react violently. E-Man shows off his new orange and yellow costume, and he and Nova track down the star-ship and the Brain. E-Man destroys the Brain, saving New York from a bomb that would have turned everyone into a violent maniac.
E-Man #1 was the first time I saw Joe Staton's artwork, and I always liked it after that, especially when he started drawing superheroes for DC. This story is filled with fun little touches, including a couple of off-the-cuff references to Tolkien.
Sauron to testify--against Baggins?!?
Baggins indicted?!?
The issue is rounded out by an eight-page story called "The Knight--Operation: Rotten Apple!" This is a throwaway story illustrated by Tom Sutton. Both stories were written by Nicola Cuti, who would write almost all of the best E-Man stories.
I had a similar reaction to this
filler story.
E-Man #1 is a Charlton comic, so its distribution was never very good. It is packed with wonderful ads, some of which are reproduced below.
For more information on E-Man, I recommend this cool website: http://alectronn.homestead.com/Eman.html
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The Dilday-Monk Family Tree
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Father: Frank Stuart Monk
January 31, 1905 114 Pittston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania 0 May 16, 2017 - 1:44:35 a.m. F YES YES
Carl W. Monk
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1902 117 Pittston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania 1 September 1977 41 75 May 15, 2017 - 11:41:48 p.m. M YES Y100
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Father: Edison Thomas Monk
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1897 122 Pittston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania 2 January 26, 1981 38 84 May 16, 2017 - 1:32:34 a.m. F YES Y100
Harriet Monk
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Father: John Francis Monk
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Tag Archives: Longest Free Fall
October 14, 2019 Aviation, Space FlightDavid Clark Co., FAI, Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, Felix Baumgartner, Lighter-Than-Air, Longest Free Fall, Parachute, Raven Aerostar, Red Bull Stratos, Sage Cheshire Aerospace, World Record for Exit Altitude, World Record for Freefall Distance, World Record for Vertical Speed Without DrogueBryan Swopes
Felix Baumgartner prepares to step off the gondola, 127,852 feet (38,969 meters) over New Mexico. The Mescalero Dunes are directly below. (Red Bull Stratos)
14 October 2012: At 12:08 p.m. MDT (1808 UTC) Felix Baumgartner jumped from the gondola of a helium-filled balloon at 127,852.4 feet (38,969.4 meters) over eastern New Mexico.
At 12:08 p.m. MDT (1808 UTC), Felix Baumgartner steps off the gondola. (Red Bull Stratos)
The free fall distance was 119,431.1 feet (36,402.6 meters). He fell for 4 minutes, 19 seconds before deploying his parachute and touched down after nine minutes, 3 seconds. During the free fall, he reached 843.6 miles per hour (1,357.6 kilometers per hour), Mach 1.25.
Felix Baumgartner in full-pressure suit, prepares to jump during an earlier intermediate test. The geological feature running diagonally across the center of the image is the Mescalero Escarpment, western boundary of the Llano Estacado. The light-colored features are sand dunes. (Red Bull Stratos)
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) recognizes three Sub-Class G-2 World Records set by Baumgartner with this jump:
16669: Vertical Speed Without Drogue: 1,357.6 kilometers per hour (843.6 miles per hour miles per hour)
16670: Exit Altitude: 38,969.4 meters (127,852.4 feet)
16671: Freefall Distance: 36,402.6 meters (119,431.1 feet)
Felix Baumgartner wore a custom-made full-pressure suit designed and manufactured by the David Clark Co., Worcester, Massachusetts, based on their S1034 Improved Common Suit.
The helium balloon, with a volume 29,470,000 cubic feet, was manufactured by Raven Aerostar, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Baumgartner's pressure capsule was designed and built by Sage Cheshire Aerospace, Lancaster, California.
August 16, 2019 Aviation, Space FlightAttack Pilot, David Clark Co., Distinguished Flying Cross, Excelsior III, Fighter Pilot, Harmon Trophy, Highest Balloon Ascent, Highest Parachute Jump, Joe Kittinger, Joseph W. Kittinger II, Joseph William Kittinger II, Longest Free Fall, MA-3 Helmet, MC-3A Partial Pressure Suit, Prisoner of War, Project Excelsior, Red Kittinger, Tularosa ValleyBryan Swopes
Captain Kittinger steps out of the Excelsior III gondola, 102,800 feet (31,333 meters) above the Earth, 7:12 a.m., 16 August 1960. (U.S. Air Force)
16 August 1960: At 7:12 a.m., Captain Joseph William ("Red") Kittinger II, U.S. Air Force, stepped out of a balloon gondola, 102,800 feet (31,333 meters, 19.47 miles) above the Tularosa Valley, New Mexico. This was his third balloon ascent and high altitude parachute jump during Project Excelsior, a series of experiments to investigate the effects of high altitude bailouts.
For protection at the extreme high altitude—above 99% of the atmosphere—Joe Kittinger wore a modified David Clark Co. MC-3A capstan-type partial-pressure suit and MA-3 helmet. Over this was a coverall garment to keep the pressure suit's lacings and capstans from catching on anything as he jumped from the balloon gondola. He breathed a combination of 60% oxygen, 20% nitrogen and 20% helium. During the 1 hour, 31 minute ascent, the pressure seal of Kittinger's right glove failed, allowing his hand to painfully swell with the decreasing atmospheric pressure.
In temperatures as low as -94 °F. (-70 °C.) Captain Kittinger free-fell for 4 minutes, 36 seconds, and reached a speed of 614 miles per hour (988 kilometers per hour). During the free fall descent, he trailed a small drogue parachute for stabilization. His 28-foot (8.5 meter) diameter main parachute opened at 17,500 feet (5,334 meters) and he touched the ground 9 minutes, 9 seconds later. The total duration of Kittinger's descent was 13 minutes, 45 seconds. For this accomplishment, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (his second) and the Harmon Trophy.
Joseph Kittinger had previously worked on Project Man High, and would go on to a third high altitude balloon project, Stargazer.
A recovery team assists Captain Kittinger after his 102,800-foot free fall, 16 August 1960. The helicopter in the background is a Piasecki H-21. (U.S. Air Force)
After returning to operations, Kittinger flew 483 combat missions in three tours during the Vietnam War. After two tours flying the Douglas B-26K Invader, he transitioned to the McDonnell F-4D Phantom II and returned to Southeast Asia for a voluntary third tour with the famed 555th Fighter Interceptor Squadron ("The Triple Nickel"). He is credited with shooting down a MiG 21 fighter.
Almost to the end of his third combat tour, Lieutenant Colonel Kittinger was himself shot down and and he and his Weapons System Officer were captured. They spent 11 months at the infamous Hanoi Hilton.
Captain Joseph W. Kittinger II, United States Air Force. Captain Kittinger is wearing the wings of an Air Force Senior Pilot and an Air Force Basic Parachutist Badge. The red, white and blue striped ribbon represents the Distinguished Flying Cross. (U.S. Air Force)