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Scarlett Johansson has been busying herself with taking on plenty of new roles in the past few years. She's easy on the eyes. You'd be hard pressed to find many people who take issue with her looks. Even if she's not your cup of tea, we can agree she's reached a certain level of success. Okay? Okay.
But yes, she's a major leftist. A leftist who loves Planned Parenthood. Therefore this story has a certain level of fun. Why is it fun? ScarJo's new role in a Japanese manga turned live-action film has sparked controversy. Why? You guessed it… She's white.
The first image of the Hollywood star as cyborg policewoman Major Kusanagi hit the web on Thursday as production began on the live-action reworking, reigniting a "whitewashing" row that has been rumbling ever since her casting was announced.
Just want to chime in to agree with everyone saying that the racebending of ghost in the shell is a travesty.
I'm prob not gonna see the Ghost in the Shell movie even tho I like ScarJo.
The Ghost In The Shell casting is no different than the #GodsOfEgypt and #ExodusGodsAndKings casting to me. Wrong is wrong.
Still tight that they cast ScarJo in the role of Major Motoko Kusanagi in the upcoming Ghost In The Shell movie. White washing don't stop.
So here's the super cool thing about movies: they're not real. And the people who make them? They get to do whatever they want with the subject matter.
Hey, I get the notion of authenticity. I, too, was peeved by one of Scarlett Johansson's recent roles. They cast her as Kaa from the Jungle Book. Why not a real snake? What, they couldn't find any snake actors? Enough with the human-washing of animal roles already.
I'm willing to bet these are the same people who were upset that Zoe Saldana, a black woman, was cast as Nina Simone… A black woman. Because she wasn't black enough. Also, she's too pretty. That's proof enough that these loons will never be satisfied. Meanwhile, Hermoine being re-cast as a black girl is totes okay. But Matt Damon saying that talent and merit outweigh race is a travesty.
Make up your minds, leftists. Either no one can recast roles to different genders and different races, OR everyone can take on everyone else's roles regardless of race or gender. But to go halvsies is a bit moronic. Entertaining? Yes. Moronic? Still yes.


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Tennis to Compete at ITA Central Region Championships
LAWRENCE, Kan.– The University of Kansas tennis team is set to travel to Salt Lake City, Utah, for the 2005 ITA Central Region Women's Championships, Oct. 19-23. The Jayhawks will send six individuals and three double teams to the tournament.
Senior Christine Skoda and sophomore Elizaveta Avdeeva have already qualified for the tournament's main singles draw, while sophomore Lauren Hommell, junior Brittany Brown and freshmen Ksenia Bukina and Edina Horvath must first win two rounds of qualifying play on Oct. 19 to advance to the main draw of singles competition.
In doubles play, Kansas' three tandems of Avdeeva and Bukina, Hommell and Horvath, and Brown and Skoda are the most that any single school can qualify for the Championships.
"We are pleased to be able to send so much of our team to Salt Lake City for this extremely competitive tournament," head coach Amy Hall-Holt said. "This tournament will be full of great players and will be a strong test for our girls."

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Although some think of Visio as a mapping or topography tool but, it is much more versatile – it is a diagramming tool that helps businesses visualize their processes, visualize projects in progress, create organization charts, create flow charts and more.
For a decade, Microsoft's Visio has been the go-to diagramming tool for those who use MS Office. It is not part of the MS Office Suite and can be purchased or subscribed to as an add-on to MS Office 365 and other MS Office products. Microsoft considers it as another product in its MS Office product offerings.
But, until the end of 2016, it had a big drawback. It was that collaborators could not access Visio diagrams unless they were using an MS operating system. This meant that Apple users and users of other OS' were out of the loop when projects incorporated Visio diagrams. The only way this group could see them was if a screenshot was taken and sent to users via email.
But, for non-MS operating system users that changed with an early Christmas present from MS, actually it was two gifts – gift 1 is an app called Visio Viewer for iPad and the second is Visio Online Preview.
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It is also arguably the most popular diagramming tool available. However, folks running iOS or another OS such as Linux were unable to view Visio diagrams on their systems. The iOS Visio Viewer for iPad and the Visio Online Preview solves this issue to some degree by allowing Visio document saves on OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online
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Anaglyptus is een kevergeslacht uit de familie van de boktorren (Cerambycidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van het geslacht werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1839 door Mulsant.

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Anaglyptus omvat de volgende soorten:
 Anaglyptus colobotheoides (Bates, 1884)
 Anaglyptus decemmaculatus (Gressitt, 1935)
 Anaglyptus fasciatus (Thomson, 1857)
 Anaglyptus humerosus (Chevrolat, 1863)
 Anaglyptus nokosanus (Kano, 1933)
 Anaglyptus producticollis Gressitt, 1951
 Anaglyptus rufobasalis Tippmann, 1955
 Anaglyptus bellus Matsumura & Matsushita, 1933
 Anaglyptus meridionalis Matsushita, 1933
 Anaglyptus abieticola Holzschuh, 2003
 Anaglyptus ambiguus Holzschuh, 1992
 Anaglyptus annulicornis (Pic, 1933)
 Anaglyptus arabicus (Küster, 1847)
 Anaglyptus arakawae (Kano, 1933)
 Anaglyptus bicallosus (Kraatz, 1882)
 Anaglyptus confusus Holzschuh, 1999
 Anaglyptus croesus Pesarini & Sabbadini, 1997
 Anaglyptus danilevskii Miroshnikov, 2000
 Anaglyptus dolosulus Holzschuh, 2006
 Anaglyptus ganglbaueri Reitter, 1886
 Anaglyptus gibbosus (Fabricius, 1787)
 Anaglyptus graphellus Holzschuh, 2011
 Anaglyptus gressitti Holzschuh, 1999
 Anaglyptus higashiyamai Makihara & Hayashi, 1987
 Anaglyptus hilari Castelnau & Gory, 1841
 Anaglyptus hirsutus Gressitt & Rondon, 1970
 Anaglyptus kanssuensis Ganglbauer, 1890
 Anaglyptus longispinis (Gardner, 1939)
 Anaglyptus luteofasciatus Pic, 1905
 Anaglyptus malickyi Holzschuh, 1991
 Anaglyptus marmoratus (Holzschuh, 1982)
 Anaglyptus matsushitai Hayashi, 1955
 Anaglyptus mysticoides Reitter, 1894
 Anaglyptus mysticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Anaglyptus niponensis Bates, 1884
 Anaglyptus praecellens Holzschuh, 1981
 Anaglyptus residuus Holzschuh, 2010
 Anaglyptus simplicicornis Reitter, 1906
 Anaglyptus subfasciatus Pic, 1906
 Anaglyptus ulmiphilus (Holzschuh, 1982)
 Anaglyptus vicinulus Holzschuh, 1999
 Anaglyptus watsoni (Gahan, 1906)
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Nanci Danison's account of her 1994 NDE resonates for me, in part because she's so articulate and handily puts into words what might be difficult for many of us. Also, she remembers an incredible amount of detail from her NDE, even after 20 years. Nanci, who lives in Ohio, can't travel due to health reasons but it is my great hope to one day have her as a virtual speaker at a future OC IANDS meeting to which she's already agreed. My challenge – there's no wifi connection in the room where we meet.
In the meantime, she has many videos posted on Youtube, and there's this article she wrote a year ago for those missing deceased loved ones during the holiday season.
The holiday season and year end naturally trigger our thoughts of loved ones near and far, including those who have passed on from human life. This year, why not try to communicate with deceased loved ones instead of just missing them. After-death communications are real. They have been documented not only in the popular book Hello From Heaven! by Bill and Judy Guggenheim, but also by a group of psychologists working in VA hospitals with PTSD patients.
We can communicate with our loved ones in spirit form because they, and we, exist solely within Source's mind. We are all characters/personalities Source has designed in its own mind as portals to experiences in the physical world. Though our primary purpose is fulfilled within physical life, we continue to live and experience what we call "the afterlife" after we have left it. More importantly, our love for those with whom we have developed emotional bonds continues eternally. We can, and do, reach out from the afterlife to those still on earth to express that love. It's just harder to be heard above the chaos of human life.
The easiest way for our deceased loved ones to communicate with us is through what we call "dreams." I learned in the afterlife that dreams fall into three categories, one of which is not really dreaming at all. Some of our so-called dreams are literally out-of-body living. We Light Being souls within these bodies do not need rest. And it's boring to just watch our human animal sleep. So we use our spiritual power to manifest a temporary environment, based on earth or even some other location within the universe, populate it with people, and continue to live as usual within that manifested world/dream. It is during these out-of-body living episodes that our deceased loved ones can most easily appear and speak with us–once again taking on the human form we knew and loved.
All you have to do is let go of skepticism. Before you go to bed each night, form the intention to be open to contact from your loved ones in the afterlife. Then go to sleep. Keep doing it until you hear something. Time does not exist in the afterlife, so it may take a while for your loved ones to realize you are open and waiting to hear from them.
How do you know the difference between a dream your imagination concocted and a real communication with someone in the afterlife? Watch for these factors: (a) the "dream" isn't about the deceased loved one at all, or features a location where you wouldn't expect to see that loved one, and suddenly the deceased loved one "pops" into the dream; (b) the deceased loved one simply stands or sits and talks with you instead of taking part in the action scenes; (c) the action stops so that you can have the conversation; (d) your loved one may look younger, healthier or happier than you remember her/him; (e) you have a strong emotional reaction to the conversation or feel like something of great importance has been communicated to you; and (f) you feel like something has changed within you when you wake up. [Note from Robin: I've read others say, and is my experience as well, that the dreams where there's a visit, I don't forget as I do with other dreams. Also, there's a quality that the dream is someone more real compared to other typical dreams].
You may not remember your conversation with your visiting deceased loved one after you wake up because the human mind is designed to forget "dreams." But you will have a lingering impression that something has changed. The change may be merely a calmness you didn't have before going to bed, or, it could be as dramatic as a sense that you now know what to do with your life, a burning question has been answered, or sadness has been lifted.
Thank you for being open to the messages I have returned from the afterlife to share.
Nanci L. Danison, JD, afterlife experiencer, attorney, and author of BACKWARDS: Returning to Our Source for Answers, BACKWARDS Guidebook, BACKWARDS Beliefs: Revealing Eternal Truths Hidden in Religions, and the Light Answers to Tough Questions series of CDs and DVDs (A.P. Lee & Co., Ltd., Publishers). Visit me at www.BackwardsBooks.com or watch me on YouTube.
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Rich Martini is a writer, filmmaker, past speaker at OC IANDS about his research into life between lives documented in his book and documentary, Flipside: Journey to the Afterlife. Today, Rich posted the following fascinating account on Facebook (and blog) about Roger Ebert, Ebert's wife Chaz, and what happened prior to his Ebert's passing. Enjoy.
Funny how he reviewed his glimpse of the nature of reality; "It's all a hoax." He could have said "It's all a movie" or "It's all a theatrical piece" which would have been a bit more accurate (according to the research). "Hoax" implies there's someone behind the curtain pulling the strings, and pulling something over on people. "Illusion" is accurate, but again, so is film; funny he didn't make that connection. But when you examine the "Flipside" you find that there's no one but you pulling the strings – albeit with help from spirit guides and other resources – but we experience events and problems in our paths because we put them there, to examine them, to learn from them – to learn compassion for others. We are directing the hoax, so to speak, and when we experience the vastness, the "stepping outside of time" that one can experience during a near death experience or under deep hypnosis, we see the past, present and future as other events to experience. And we experience the vastness, as Eben Alexander did in "Proof of Heaven" as a "glittering darkness" where we are all connected at the same moment. But don't take my word for it; take Roger's. Two thumbs way up.
This Saturday, December 14, 2013, we are pleased to have Beverly Brodsky as our guest speaker, who will share her near-death experience resulting in a horrendous motorcycle accident.
For two years, Beverly was on the Board of Directors for ACISTE (the American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences), is the San Diego IANDS group leader for over 20 years. She's also a minister in the L.A. Community Church of Religious Science, and prior to retiring, was a systems and business analyst for the federal government for 28 years.
* See the bottom of this email for more information about Brad Breedlove, the teenager featured in the recent CNN special To Heaven and Back.
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Teenager Ben Breedlove was one of three people featured in the special who shared their NDE's. Thank you Donna Heim for providing this video link of the eulogy given by Ben's sister, which adds inside information and insights to the comments made by Benjamin Breedlove: "The rest of the story".


Who's Afraid of Regime Change in Iran?
Who's Afraid of Regime Change in Iran? The answer might surprise you. Right Zionists (so-called neo-cons) surely favor regime change in Iran. But they also fear regime change that is based on ethnic separatism in Iran–specifically Arab separatism.
In the long term, Right Zionists are less interested in defeating or weakening Iran than they are in strengthening a pro-Western Iran. This is, arguably, a different agenda than that of Right Arabists who object to Shiite regional power. In the Right Zionist strategic worldview, Iran remains Israel's logical (if not empirical) ally in a region dominated by Arab regimes. The model: flourishing US-Israeli-Iranian relations during the 1970s under the Shah. So, too, Right Arabists objected to this US tilt toward Israel and Iran under Kissinger and Nixon.Today, Right Zionists want to terminate the incumebent clerical regime, but they also want to enhance the regional power of Iran, relative to Arab regional dominance. Right Arabists, meanwhile, are willling to entertain the possibility of some kind of accord with the (weakened) incumbent clerical regime, especially if it prevents Right Zionists from winning US-Israeli-Iranian regional hegemony down the road.
As I have argued in a previous post, the question of Iranian nukes falls into this framework. Right Arabists, like Right Zionists, are hostile to the idea of Iranian nukes. But Right Arabists are hostile to Iranian nukes as such, not simply nuclear weapons in the hands of the current Iranian regime. Right Arabists were hostile to Iranian nukes in the 1970s under the Shah and would likely continue to oppose Iranian nukes long after the fall of the incumbent clerical regime. The issue is regional power. For the same reason–regional power–Right Zionists would welcome the exact opposite: Iranian nukes after the restoration of a pro-western regime in Iran.
Arab separatist rebellion within Iran also falls into this framework. Even though there is very little public chatter about US sponsorship of a separatist rebellion by Iran's Arab minority, Right Zionists are already busy attacking the idea of regime change in Iran on the basis of Arab separatism.
Khuzistan has a long and rich heritage…Long populated predominantly by Arabs, the region was known throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as Arabistan – "land of the Arabs." The region grew in strategic importance in the twentieth century, especially after the 1908 discovery of oil and the formation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company the following year…After Reza Khan subdued the province, the Iranian foreign ministry changed the provincial name to Khuzistan. The oil boom and government efforts to dilute the Arab component of the population have caused the relative size of the ethnic Arab population to shrink. When Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, Saddam Hussein sought to play the ethnic card. The Iraqi leader portrayed himself as the liberator of the Khuzistani Arabs.
Rubin doesn't like the idea of the US playing the Arab ethnic card in Iran, even if (or precisely because) it might destabilize Iran. He certainly seems afraid that Right Arabists (so-called "realists") are toying with the idea, however.
The Iranian regime is unpopular among the majority of its population…[T]he majority of Iran's youth long for the freedom enjoyed in the West… When the Islamic Republic collapses, a strong unified Iran will be a force for stability and a regional bulwark against the Islamism under which the Iranian people now chafe. Neither Washington nor any other Western democracy should attempt to play the separatist card in Iran. To do so would not only backfire, but would trade ephemeral short-term gain for long-term strategic harm. The realists are wrong.
Why be so picky about the precise method of uprooting the clerical regime? Because Right Zionists like Rubin are playing a long-term, regional balance-of-power game, not merely a short-term militaristic offensive. Right Zionists are battling for Shiite Iraq and Iran, but targeting the Saudis. Hence, Rubin is already anticipating the benefits of a "strong unified Iran" after the counter-revolution. In the short term, Right Zionists can't live with the incumbent clerical regime; in the long term they can't live without non-Arab Iran.
The last thing Right Zionists want is to hand an oil-rich, strategic province of Iran to Arab forces–even if it means sacrificing a short-term opportunity to topple the incumbent Shiite revolutionary regime.
Funny how things work in the Gulf (and much of the former British Empire). Arabs sit atop Iranian oil and Shiite sit atop Saudi oil.
Right Zionists love separatist rebellion in Iraq; hate it in Iran. Right Arabists favor a strong unified Iraq; hate it in Iran.
In the most audacious version of the Right Zionist fantasy the Shia of Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern Province would secede in the name of a Shia Gulf (Iran, southern Iraq, and the Saudi Eastern Province). In the Khuzistan option (championed by unidentified "realists") the Gulf Arabs would restore Sunni Arab control of Iraq and help the Arabs of oil-rich Khuzistan secede from Shiite-dominated Iran.
Smells like a regional war at every turn.
NB: there is no necessary or essential symmetry in the binary opposition Arab/Shiite. When ethnic rivalry is the issue, the more appropriate contrasts are between Arab and Persian (and/or Kurd, Turkman, etc.). When religious factionalism is the issue, the more appropriate terms are Sunni/Shiite Muslim.
Most Iraqi Shiites are Arab, not Persian.
In practice, however, Right Zionists seek to exploit something akin to Arab/Shiite rivalry in the Gulf. Hence, the centrality of their reliance on Iraq's leading Persian cleric, Grand Ayatollah Sistani. Arab nationalists also seem happy to accept the bait. See, for example, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's recent accusation that Iraqi Shiites are more loyal to Shiite Iran than they are to pan-Arab power. Mubarak's accusations, notwithstanding, the key obstacle to the full development of Arab/Shiite rivalry is the Arab nationalism of Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr.
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You're forgetting the Azerbaijanis, who make up almost 25% of Iran's population in the north. The Arabs in Khuzestan may make a lot of noise, but the country's Turkic population are a lot more angry, especially since the Azeri language is not taught in any school in Iran (it simply doesn't exist, according to the regime).
Also, Arabs from Khuzestan were VERY pro-Iran during the Iran-Iraq War.
Agreed on both counts. Rubin makes the point that any attempt to cultivate Arabs from Khuzestan might backfire. It seems to me, however, that his primary fear is not that such a strategy would not work but that it actually might be successful. I have no independent view of the likelihood of success. I do, however, find Rubin's concern very useful for understanding the mind of a Right Zionist.
But there is no necessary antithesis between 'weakening' and 'overturning' any of these régimes, either. Thus the dispute you describe seems to me to be a mere smokescreen for struggles over possession of the ideological driving seats.
Kieran, the proposition that "No people in the Middle East, outside of Israel and Turkey, are ever going to be pro-US or pro-Israel and no US administration could have any illusions about that. " contains a damgerous and unwarranted assumption, namely, that there is some inherent relationship between being "pro-US" and being "pro-Israel". If you could succeed in unthinking that assumption, you might find that there are more potential friends in the Middle East than you imagine.
Rowan, I used the word 'or', and I think you should do a reality check on the history of US involvement in the region and why the people there might feel aggrieved (like it or not, an important part of this is the US role in facilitating the ongoing occupation of Palestine). I should also clarify that I use the word 'people' in the collective sense of a given people, I'm not suggesting that no individual can be pro-US.
Professor Cutler's analysis is a very useful exercise to abstract the mind set of "Right-Zionists". However, the level of analysis does not end with the religious sect alone. In almost all cases the common nationalist fervors of different ethnic and religious groups play a pivotal role in their desire to remain unified with other ethic groups within the borders of a country; the Utra Shiite Sadrists in Iraq are indeed pan-Arabists, and Azaris in Iran have more in common (culturally, politically and economically) with Persians than with Turks and Azarbayjan (former Soviet Repulic). Many among Iranian Arabs call themselves Ajams. The Iranian Azaris share with other Iranians their hatred of the despotic governments.


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Wisconsin has 10 votes in the Electoral College. Donald Trump won it by a margin of just one percent of votes cast. It had not gone Republican since 1984.
Michigan has 16 votes in the Electoral College: Donald Trump won it by a miniscule margin of 0.3 percent. It had not gone Republican since 1988.
Mighty Pennsylvania is still one of the six most populous states in the United States, despite having lost 45 percent of its weight in the Electoral College since 1920. It went Republican by 1.8 percent.
With a grand total of 228 votes in the Electoral College, Hillary Clinton was 42 votes short of victory. She took victory in all three states for granted. She appeared a few times in Michigan, more often in Pennsylvania, none at all in Wisconsin.
Donald Trump by contrast campaigned like a man possessed in all three states. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin together carried 46 Electoral College votes. Had Clinton taken them, she would have won, even while still contriving to lose Ohio, North Carolina and Florida.
Instead they turned out to be Hillary Clinton's Maginot Line.
Yet there were endless signs and warnings that Hillary's Maginot Line was crumbling. Even in Barack Obama's two sweeping victories in 2008 and 2012, the contests for Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes were among the closest in the nation. Paul Ryan, now Speaker of the House of Representatives, was Republican Mitt Romney's running mate in 2012, yet he proved to have zero coattails in his own home state.
The Blue Wall isn't going back to the Democrats: Not until they learn Bernie Sanders' lesson and actually start to care about poor, unemployed white – and black and Hispanic – male voters again.
The Democrats do not need to abandon their social policies – more or less. But they have to produce credible economic policies that reverse the half century impoverishment of scores of millions of Americans.
Hillary Clinton, who supported the ruinous Free Trade policies for a quarter century at the highest levels of national power, was never going to do that. The suffering honest people of the Northeast and Midwest industrial states knew that. They had no hesitation in consigning her to the dustbin of history.
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, so different in so many ways understood this very well.
Had Bernie Sanders been the Democrats' candidate for president. Had the Democratic leadership not been so corrupt and dishonest and so many of their voters not been so stupid to back Hillary Clinton, they would have won the national election. It would not have taken much.
They despised the suffering survivors of Industrial America and now Industrial America has taken its epochal revenge on them.


A Cure for Sickle Cell Anemia?
Over the last 70 years, the medical advances made possible by improvements in materials science, molecular biology and manufacturing have revolutionized healthcare for both patients and physicians. Antibiotics, mechanical ventilation, intravenous nutrition, effective medicines for cancer, high blood pressure, depression… you name it. It has all happened in the last 75 years.
It is amazing that for our great-grandparents, an ear infection would have been treated by popping the ear drum in order to drain the infection, hopefully preventing its spread into the brain. Penicillin first appeared as an experimental drug for our GIs during WWII. Even with all these amazing advances, there have continued to be many diseases for which there are only limited treatment options and too often, children born with these conditions face a life of chronic ill health.
For patients and families with a loved one who suffers from a chronic illness, the excitement of a promising new medical discovery is palpable. So, too, is the excitement for scientists and physicians when we hear about a potential medical advance in the news. While we always strive to offer compassionate care to the sick, we like offering effective care even more.
Sickle cell disease is caused by a mutation in the DNA sequence for hemoglobin. When only one copy of the gene is affected (either the one from the child's mother or the one from the father) the child will have some sickle hemoglobin; and that is protective against malaria. However, when the mutation is inherited from both parents' chromosomes, the child is born with a lifelong illness that substantially decreases life expectancy and carries ongoing risks of bacterial sepsis, stroke and cardiopulmonary collapse. Sickle cell disease also causes frequent, debilitating episodes of severe pain sometimes requiring hospitalization for intravenous narcotic analgesics. During my time as a pediatrician for hospitalized children, I cared for hundreds of children with this debilitating illness.
One recent health news story has raised hopes for millions across the globe and hundreds of thousands in the US who suffer from SCD. The bone marrow — our "factory" for blood cells — was extracted from a French teenager with sickle cell disease and infected with an engineered virus carrying the correct DNA sequence for hemoglobin. This new set of instructions for making hemoglobin correctly inserted in the harvested bone marrow progenitor cells and began making the correctly folded hemoglobin, curing his disease (http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39142971). This kind of technique is called "gene therapy" and so far, only severe combined immunodeficiency (the "bubble boy" disease) had been successfully cured with this technique.
The news of a cure for Sickle Cell Anemia has fueled hopes that the pain and terrible complications of this previously incurable illness will soon be a thing of the past. However, one thing we should all be better about is maintaining a little skepticism when we learn of purportedly "revolutionary" medical advances. One case report does not make a cure.
Even when the evidence for medical discoveries looks promising, there are bumps in the road or dead ends. One analysis of 101 promising medical discoveries published in prestigious scientific journals over a five year period found that only one ultimately yielded an effective new medicine. When it comes to the "revolutionary discoveries" trumpeted in popular science journalism, you can bet the odds are even worse.
There is no substitute for randomized, blinded, controlled clinical trials of new treatments for medical problems. We would all be wise to maintain a healthy skepticism for new medicines and surgical techniques that have not been evaluated through such studies. As a pediatrician in northern Colorado, one of my roles is to help educate families about the scientific complexities of illnesses and their medical therapies using the best available evidence from the medical literature.
In the case of the sickle cell report, I am hopeful that this will be the revolutionary breakthrough these kids deserve. Over the next couple of years, the researchers in Paris who performed this first successful gene therapy intervention for sickle cell disease will try the technique on dozens of others. Other research teams at medical centers across the world will try to replicate the Paris group's technique. If they, too, are successful, that's when we'll know that we can move sickle cell disease out of the chronic, untreatable group of illnesses patients and physicians both dread and into that serious but curable category that usually comes with a happy ending.
Here's to the thousands of scientists across the world who have led the unbelievable technical advances of the past half-century! Many thanks.


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Brooklyn Nets: Ben Simmons to return to practice after battling injury
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The Brooklyn Nets could be able to deploy the services of three-time All-Star Ben Simmons in the 2022 Playoffs.
2022-04-16 Brooklyn Nets: Ben Simmons to return to practice after battling injury
Brooklyn Nets star Ben Simmons is set to return to full practice with teammates in the coming week as his rehabilitation from a back injury continues.
Simmons has reportedly been able to run and shoot without back pain and his progress will come as a boost to the Brooklyn Nets playoff aspirations.
According to ESPN, sources at the Nets say the hope is that Simmons will return to action in their opening-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics.
Brooklyn Nets to have Ben Simmons back soon
Brooklyn Nets coach Steve Nash was cagey on Simmons' progress.
When pushed for an update on Saturday, Nash said that Simmons was "still on his individual program".
The coach said that he assumes that a return to practice would be the next step for Simmons, but said he didn't have a timeline.
"I would presume," Nash said.
"That's not my job as far as the rehab and all that, but clearly to play in an NBA game you got to have some contact and play the game a little bit.
"I think clearly he's improving," Nash added.
"But I have no idea if he's getting close to playing or not."
Nets center Andre Drummond said Simmons would be a valuable addition to a group hoping to go all the way.
"Having him back obviously would be very big for our team if we're all on the same page," Drummond said.
"Ben is a very good basketball player. So if we got him back, great. If not, we still got to hold it down and play the game that we know."
In good spirits
A back injury has prevented Simmons from playing an NBA game since the Eastern Conference finals in June but he was in good spirits after a training session over the Easter weekend.
Simmons only commented "there you go" to reporters at courtside after showing them that he was able to dunk.
The Nets haven't got much use out of Simmons since their sensational deal with the Philadelphia 76ers at the February trade deadline.
ESPN's Nick Friedell says the Nets are hopeful of getting some gametime out of Simmons against the Celtics.
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So I mentioned in this post that the whole not being allowed to eat deli meat aka turkey sandwiches for 9 months is a bit of a drag (read: a total freaking drag when not a lot sounds delicious to eat except a simple turkey sandwich). So I found a way around it and showed you how to make some homemade oven rosated turkey at home, which can be put to use in this easy yummy simple turkey sammy.
Assemble just like any normal capable adult (or even child) could do, cut in half if that's your thing, and enjoy with a side of pickles (optional but I'm pregnant so hey).
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There weren't any rumors of The Lucha Dragons being called up prior to this point, so I'm not sure whether this was simply a test run or if they are officially here to stay. Either way, they were impressive here and got the crowd behind them as the match progressed. As I've said time and time again, Sin Cara is damaged goods as a singles competitor, but in this tandem with Kalisto, he has some life. Whenever it may be, The Lucha Dragons coming to the main roster would be a nice addition to the depleted tag team division, along with the recently reunited Prime Time Players.
As much as I despise the Stardust character and still believe Cody Rhodes is deserving of so much more, there's no denying that Cody is really dedicated to the role. He can be a nice pest heel as Stardust, but as noted, I can see Cody as a world champion if they just pushed the guy properly. It was fun to see Ryder compete for the first time since the Royal Rumble match and although it was in a losing effort, he had a nice showing here as well.
Although O'Neil showed some babyface tendencies when he came out, the fans were still hesitant to get behind him early on. Rose wasn't the best opponent for him since he's struggling with character development at the moment and fans don't know whether to cheer or boo him, either. That said, it was smart to keep this match relatively short, leading to Darren Young coming to O'Neil's aid afterward to fend off the Rosebuds. They received a nice reaction from the live crowd and as I said in my Raw review, it's great to see The Prime Time Players reuniting as the tag team division can really benefit from their presence.
These two always work well together and this was no exception. The action was entertaining throughout and Swagger is still over enough that he (along with Cesaro) managed to hold the crowd's interest. I really liked the narrative the commentators were telling on commentary that Cesaro is better off with Tyson Kidd than he ever was with Swagger. It was a logical win for Cesaro as he and Kidd prepare to contend for the WWE Tag Team Championship at Fastlane on Sunday.
I was genuinely surprised how enjoyable this edition of Main Event ended up being considering it's not on the WWE Network anymore. After a long string of forgettable shows, this was easily the best episode in quite some time featuring a little bit of everything. The Lucha Dragons made their main roster debut, Ryder showing up was a pleasant surprise, The Prime Time Players got a good reaction, and they capped off the night with a very solid matchup between Cesaro and Swagger. If can you fast forward through all the Raw recaps, then this show is well worth sitting through.


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Fanbase Press Interviews Sean Fahey on the Upcoming Release of the Comic Book, 'The River of Blood'
The following is an interview with Sean Fahey regarding the upcoming release of the comic book, The River of Blood. In this interview, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief Barbra Dillon chats with Fahey about the shared creative process of bringing the story to life with Carlos Trigo and Jok, the recently launched Kickstarter campaign, how the story may resonate with readers, and more!
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief: Congratulations on the upcoming release of The River of Blood! For those who may be unfamiliar, how would you describe the book's premise, and what inspired you to tell this story?
Sean Fahey: Thank you! And thank you for the opportunity to discuss The River of Blood with you on Fanbase Press. I sincerely appreciate your support of indie creators.
The River of Blood is a supernatural Viking-Horror graphic novel. The story follows a group of Varangian Guard mercenaries, Northmen, who must escape Constantinople after their leader is falsely accused of murder by a political rival. On their return home up the Volga River, they come across a Russian settlement that is being terrorized by unknown assailants some believe to be pirates. Others believe the river is cursed by spirits of the damned. The Northmen agree to help the settlers and soon discover that the true threat is much darker and insidious than any imagined. Their journey forces them to question their values, their faith and the very nature of good and evil. In a word, the book is about "courage," what it means to be genuinely courageous. I (humbly) describe it as, "Vikings" meets "Supernatural."
The book is inspired by classic works I've long admired such as "The Icelandic Sagas," Robert E. Howard's "Conan" stories, Homer's "The Odyssey," and Joseph Conrad's "The Heart of Darkness," as well as several contemporary works such as Michael Chrichton's "Eaters of the Dead," Mike Mignola's "Baltimore" series and the aforementioned television series "Supernatural." I've long been drawn to tales of ordinary men and women thrown into extraordinary circumstances forced to ultimately rely on their inner strength and moral compasses to see them through their journeys and fight in the service of a larger ideal. "The River of Blood" is my humble attempt to honor that classic tradition.
BD: What can you tell us about your shared creative process in working with Carlos Trigo and Jok to bring this story to life, and what (or who) have been some of your creative influences?
SF: I can't speak enough about Carlos and Jok. Both of them are incredibly talented professionals and just great guys. I have a lot of fun working with them. Prior to "The River of Blood," I worked with both on other projects. Carlos did pieces for our Western anthology "Tall Tales from the Badlands" and our science-fiction/horror anthology "Dark Matter." Jok was also part of "Dark Matter" and did a piece for our Viking anthology "Sagas of the Northmen" as well. Long story short, I knew what they were capable of and – more importantly – we already developed a kind of "short-hand" before starting work on "The River of Blood."
I think you see the fruits of having this kind of relationship in "The River of Blood," particularly when it comes to the depiction of violence and the horror elements. When I told Carlos and Jok at the outset that I wanted a good deal of the violence and horror to be implied, that I wanted the reader's imagination to work overtime, they knew exactly how to translate that. Horror is tricky in comic books, because you don't have absolute control of the pacing in the way you would with film. There are no "jump scares." You need to get in the reader's head, and I think the most effective way to do that is to imply something horrific and allow their imagination to complete the picture. Carlos and Jok do a superb job using shadows, silhouettes and suggestive imagery to evoke that "fear of the unknown" and force the reader's imagination to go to some dark places. Finally, our letterer Kel Nuttall gives the visuals the requisite breathing room to be effective.
With regards to the second part of your question – my creative influences – they're all over the map. As far as comic book writers, Mike Mignola, Ed Brubaker, Darwyn Cooke, Brian Azzarello and Jason Aaron are the ones I go back to most often. That said, I'm equally inspired by my favorite fiction writers and filmmakers. I'm a huge fan of James Ellroy and John le Carre, both of whom have mastered the art of depicting "compromised but noble men" struggling with the moral dilemmas presented to them by a having to live and work in society's shadow. The dirty work required to keep civilization going. The films of John Ford and Akira Kurosawa appeal to me for similar reasons, though their protagonists are generally less compromised and operate in the open, which – in some ways – makes their dilemmas more pressing. They have more to lose. The thread is consistent though, whether it's Brubaker, Ellroy or Kurosawa, their protagonists live by a strong moral code and must rely on inner character to handle the curveballs life tosses them. In short, they're human. They're relatable. Like all of us, they're flawed, but (generally speaking) they work through those flaws in order to serve an idea greater than themselves. Those are the kind of characters I want to write. Oh, and I would remiss if I did not mention John Carpenter. There's an element of Carpenter in almost everything I write.
BD: You recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to assist with the funding of the project. As an indie publisher and creator, do you find Kickstarter to be an invaluable tool in the comics-making process and would you recommend it for other indie creators?
SF: I enthusiastically recommend Kickstarter as a method for Indie publishers and creators to get their work out, particularly in a COVID restricted environment. As you know, Cons are just now starting to get going again, and conventions are – by far – the best way for Indie creators to get their comics noticed and connect with fans. There is absolutely no substitute for that in person connection and the ability to dialogue with other creators and fans. Short of that experience, Kickstart is arguably the best distribution tool for Indie publishers; it affords Indie creators tremendous reach.
Our experience with Kickstarter has been fantastic. "The River of Blood" is our third Kickstarter campaign. Our two previous campaigns, for our Viking anthology "Sagas of the Northmen" and our science-fiction/horror anthology "Dark Matter," were both fully funded well ahead of schedule. The platform is easy to use, and I've had nothing but professional experiences with the folks at Kickstarter. I'm very comfortable recommending it to other Indie creators as a distribution vehicle. My only caveat is that I do not have experience with campaigns seeking completion funds. Our campaigns (to include for "The River of Blood") have been for completed books, ready to ship upon completion of the campaign. That limitation notwithstanding, in my experience, Kickstarter is – as you say – an invaluable tool for indie creators to get their work noticed.
BD: Can you provide us with a sneak preview of some of the Kickstarter campaign's backer rewards?
SF: Happy to! The reward tier I'm most excited about is the "Sketch Bundle." At that level, backers receive not only digital and signed print copies of all our releases (to include "The River of Blood") but will also receive a signed original sketch by "The River of Blood" artist Carlos Trigo of the backer's likeness AS A VIKING! We sincerely appreciate Carlos being able the support the campaign this way, but I should note this tier is limited to ten bundles, and they are going fast.
We have a tier for every budget, digital and print. Rewards start as low as $5.00 for a digital copy of The River of Blood. That's $5.00 for an eighty-six page, full color, stand alone, graphic novel. We genuinely just want to get the book in people's hands.
BD: Are there any upcoming projects on which you are currently working that you would like to share with our readers?
SF: Absolutely! I just completed the first draft of "Devil Country," our next graphic novel. "Devil Country" is a Weird War story that takes place in North Africa in 1942. It centers on a team of British commandos that are part of the Long Range Desert Group and the Special Air Service who get trapped in an underground tomb, in a remote part of the Egyptian desert, during a violent sandstorm. Needless to say, they're not alone down there. At its core, the book is about human grit, determination and perseverance in the face of mounting tension and pressure. I describe it as Ben McIntyre's "Rogue Heroes" meets John Carpenter's "The Thing." I'm consolidating notes now from the various colleagues I sent the script to, and we should be hiring an artist sometime in early 2022.
We're also discussing doing another issue of our Western anthology, "Tall Tales from the Badlands." As with our third issue, this would be another "Weird West" themed issue. We have several scripts, but art production would be well down the road though, probably late 2022.
BD: Lastly, what is the best way for our readers to find more information about The River of Blood and your other work?
SF: The best way to learn more about The River of Blood is by checking out our Kickstarter page. Our primary method of communicating directly with readers about future projects (as well as giveaways and promotions) is through the Black Jack Press Newsletter. Folks can join by shooting us an email at: blackjackpresscomics (at) gmail (dot) com. This is the best way to ensure that you do not miss an announcement or promotion. Additionally, we have an active social media presence on Facebook (Black Jack Press - Home | Facebook), Twitter (@BlackJackPress), and Instagram (@blackjackpress).
We also have online stores at both DriveThruComics and Indy Planet. The River of Blood will only be available through Kickstarter until after all rewards are satisfied. We will then make the book available on our online stores along with our previous releases.
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Hybrid is a British electronic music duo consisting of Mike and Charlotte Truman. The group was formed in 1995 by Mike Truman, Chris Healings, and Lee Mullin. At the time they were primarily known as a breakbeat collective, although they overlapped considerably with progressive house and trance.

Their 1999 single, "Finished Symphony" was their first charting release and their debut studio album, Wide Angle, was released that year to critical acclaim. Hybrid are considered pioneers of the electronic genre, and are known for their cinematic approach to their production, specifically with the use of orchestral recordings. After Mullin left the group their second studio album, Morning Sci-Fi (2003), was made with Adam Taylor and featured collaborations with Peter Hook and Kirsty Hawkshaw. In 2006, Truman and Healings released their acclaimed third studio album I Choose Noise.

Charlotte Truman (née James) joined as a vocalist shortly afterwards in 2007. Her first recording with Hybrid was "The Formula of Fear" in 2008, the first single from their fourth studio album, Disappear Here (2010).

After a hiatus founding member Chris Healings left the group in 2015, and their long-awaited fifth studio album, Light of the Fearless, was released in 2018.

During their career they have also produced over one hundred remixes for about forty artists including U2, Moby, Rob Dougan, R.E.M., and The Future Sound of London. The group was formerly based in Swansea, Wales and have relocated to Worcestershire, England.

History

1999–2000: Wide Angle
Hybrid released their debut album, Wide Angle, in 1999 – a combination of progressive house and nu skool breaks with vocals and symphonic textures. They hired the Russian Federal Orchestra for the string sections. Julee Cruise supplied many of the vocals for Wide Angle. The album was produced and written by the duo along with the third original band member, Lee Mullin. The music's cinematic feel and scope have led to comparisons with Massive Attack and Underworld.

The album spawned two singles, "Finished Symphony" and "If I Survive" (featuring Julee Cruise), both of which charted in the UK.

In 2000, Hybrid supported Moby in a live tour through multiple countries. Later that year Hybrid released a double disc edition of Wide Angle titled Wider Angle. The second disc (dubbed "Live Angle") features a live set from the tour that includes previously unreleased tracks such as "Burnin'" and "Kill City".

2002–2004: Morning Sci-Fi
Hybrid released their second album, Morning Sci-Fi, in 2003. They added semi-permanent vocalists and guitarists, Adam Taylor and Tim Hutton (both on the album and when performing live) with a guest appearance from New Order alumnus Peter Hook. This album had a generally darker theme than Wide Angle, though still retaining the cinematic undertones for which Hybrid are known. In addition to this, Morning Sci-Fi features a more diverse range of influences than its predecessor — Chris Healings stating in an interview that,

Three singles were released from Morning Sci-Fi. These were "True to Form", "Higher Than a Skyscraper" and "I'm Still Awake".

In 2004, Hybrid were invited by noted Hollywood film composer Harry Gregson-Williams to work on the soundtrack for the film Man on Fire. The film marked not only Hybrid's first foray into film music, but also the duo's first collaboration with Harry Gregson-Williams, who continuously invited them to work on the soundtrack for movies like The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Total Recall. This also marked the first collaboration with the late film director Tony Scott. A collaboration which continued throughout the remainder of his career, until his death in 2012.

2006–2008: I Choose Noise
In April 2006, Hybrid played at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on 29 April 2006. Later in the same year Hybrid released their third studio album, I Choose Noise. The album featured the return of the epic symphonic sound and grand orchestral scope of Wide Angle. It featured Perry Farrell, John Graham (A fellow music producer, going by the name Quivver), Judie Tzuke and Kirsty Hawkshaw. Harry Gregson-Williams also appeared on the album, composing most of the album's string sections. Film composer Stephen Barton was involved with the production of the album.

The album spawned three 12" singles due to popular demand shortly after its release: "Dogstar / I Choose Noise", "Falling Down / Last Man Standing" and "Dreamstalker / Just For Today". Many of the tracks from the album would later go on to be heavily played by DJs, as well as heavily featured in advertisements. In addition, 2 of the album's tracks "Dogstar" and "Dreamstalker" would later be re-recorded with Perry Farrell for his Satellite Party project. The project also featured another re-recording of his song "Orbit," which was previously unreleased. These recordings were later released on the album Ultra Payloaded which was released in 2007.

On 8 March 2007, Hybrid kicked off their US Spring 2007 Live Tour in support of I Choose Noise. Hybrid was joined by John Graham, Peter DiStefano, and their new female vocalist, Charlotte James. Later that same year Distinct'ive Records released a compilation album: Hybrid Re_Mixed. It consisted of remixes of several compositions by Hybrid, with remixes by various artists including deadmau5, Jerome Sydenham, The Cinematic Orchestra, and The Orb as well as a rare b-side track named "Sleepwalking", originally meant for I Choose Noise. Despite this however, Hybrid had nothing to do with the release, as it was meant to be their last release with Distinct'ive. However despite being managed by Hope Recordings, Hybrid still released their next few releases with Distinct'ive.

In 2007, Hybrid:
 composed their first original soundtrack for the film Catacombs. However, Hybrid's contributions were never released, despite heavy fan demand
 played in the Lounge and Dance Village at Glastonbury Festival

2008 saw the release of Soundsystem 01. The album is a double-disc mix collection with the first CD being based around actual film scores fused with ambient electronica, and the second containing more upfront, club-oriented music represented by remixes of music by the likes of Sasha, Quivver and Elite Force. Later that same year, Hybrid released a new single, entitled "The Formula of Fear", which featured Charlotte James on the vocals. Hybrid also contributed an original track "Komuru", to the Survival International charity album, Songs for Survival.

2009–2011: Disappear Here

Besides collaborating with Harry Gregson-Williams 2009 saw Hybrid focusing on the production of their fourth album. The album was originally finished in 2008, however the group described the album as indie rock and as a result, weren't satisfied with the album, which led them to restart the production completely. After several months of silence, their fourth album Disappear Here was finally finished and released on 29 March 2010. The album was made with Andrew Skeet and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra at Smecky Music Studios. A video recording of the track from the forthcoming album, entitled "Break My Soul", was also released which was filmed and edited by the band. Disappear Here spawned several singles, and also rose to #2 at the iTunes electronic charts. The album was re-released in the same year, entitled Disappear Here: Widescreen Edition, which contained special edits, remixes and orchestral versions.

2010 also saw:
 more collaborations with Harry Gregson-Williams. The duo helped finish the score for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and yet another Tony Scott production: Unstoppable. This would prove to be the last collaboration with Tony Scott, with the director's death in 2012.
 Hybrid play at Glastonbury Festival once more.

On 15 March 2011, Hybrid released the song "Blind Side" for free, as promotion for the single, which itself was officially released on 22 August 2011. The single was their first release for their new label Kill City Records. Beyond this, Hybrid spent most of 2011 focusing on film score work. The group submitted two original tracks for the film Fast Five. They also helped finish the score for Cowboys & Aliens and were working on the original soundtrack for the video game Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, which was released in May 2012.

2012–2017: Classics and Healings' departure
August 2012 saw the release of Classics out on Distinctive Records. The album was a greatest hits compilation, compiling the biggest hits from Hybrid's career. The album was released in a standard one disc edition, as well as a deluxe edition, consisting of 4 discs. The deluxe edition featured many alternative mixes and orchestral versions, as well as unreleased material, including much of the music that was made for advertisement agencies.

In 2013, Hybrid finished working on a few soundtracks. One was for the video game Driveclub, where the band composed all of the music in addition to creating a new single for the game, entitled: "Be Here Now". They also finished work on a direct-to-video film: Dead in Tombstone. Their work (unlike for the previous film, Catacombs) was released by Back Lot Music on 15 October 2013. In 2014, the band finished a score for the science fiction film Vice, which was released on 16 January 2015.

In 2014, Hybrid released a song called "Polaris" on SoundCloud.

In 2016, Hybrid wrote the score for Jim Gillespie's Take Down. Later that year, the band announced on Facebook that Healings had left the group in the summer of 2015.

In 2017, Hybrid wrote the score for John Stephenson's Interlude in Prague, for which Charlotte James was the music producer. The soundtrack album was released by Kill City Records on 29 May 2017.

2018–2019: Light of the Fearless
On 11 May 2018, Hybrid claimed that their then-upcoming album had been completed.

On 22 June 2018, Hybrid announced their fifth studio album, Light of the Fearless. Its lead single, "Light Up", was released on 13 July 2018 alongside remixes from Loadstar and Matt Lange. The album was released on digital download and streaming services on 27 July 2018.

On 21 July 2018, Hybrid released a trailer for the album, which features recording sessions with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

On 21 February 2019, Hybrid released a short film to accompany their single "Hold Your Breath". The film featured James Purefoy alongside Hybrid's Mike and Charlotte Truman in starring roles. James Purefoy had previously worked with Hybrid on Interlude in Prague.

2021: Black Halo

On 26 March 2021, the duo released a new single, "Flashpoint". Two more singles, "Nails" and "Sky Full of Diamonds", were released afterwards. Their sixth album, Black Halo, was announced on the 14th of June 2021 and was released on 9 July.

Band members

Current members
 Mike Truman – producer, bass, guitar, keyboards, programming, engineer, mixing (1995–present)
 Charlotte Truman (née James) – vocals, guitar, piano, cello, viola, orchestral composer, programming (2007–present)

Former members
 Chris Healings – sound design, keyboards, programming, (1995–2015)
 Lee Mullin – drums, programming, (1995–2000)
 Adam Taylor – vocals, guitar (2002–03)

Additional musicians
 Harry Gregson-Williams – producer, conductor, orchestration
 Peter Hook – bass
 Stephen Barton – piano, orchestration, assistant
 Alex Madge – drums
 Jamie Griffiths – turntabalism, scratching
 Tim Hutton – vocals, bass, guitar, drums

Live members (2018)
 Stu Morgan – guitar, bass & vocals
 Simon Hanson – drums, programming

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums
 Wide Angle (1999)
 Morning Sci-Fi (2003)
 I Choose Noise (2006)
 Disappear Here (2010)
 Light of the Fearless (2018)
 Black Halo (2021)

Filmography

Film

Theatre

Video games

Use of Hybrid's music

Hybrid's extensive music for TV, film and games can be found at their dedicated scoring website, www.hybridscores.com.

Over the years, Hybrid's studio material from their first three albums and their singles, have been heavily used for television, film and video games. Hybrid composed the soundtrack for the 2007 film Catacombs, and have also helped Harry Gregson-Williams score Man on Fire, Déjà Vu, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Other notable uses includes:
 "Know Your Enemy", "Out of the Dark", and "Visible Noise" were featured in the game In the Groove 2, released on 18 June 2005.
 In November 2006, "All I Want" was featured in an advertisement for the Channel 4 show Unanimous.
 The music of Hybrid has been featured several times in the motoring TV show Top Gear. "Finished Symphony" was used when Jeremy Clarkson, in a Bugatti Veyron, raced James May and Richard Hammond, in a light aircraft, across Europe (season 7, episode 5), whilst "Formula of Fear" was featured in season 14, in the Maserati/Porsche/Aston Martin segment. "Mr. Smith" (aka "Ultimatum") was used in the fourth episode of season 5 and in the first episode of season 7, when Clarkson reviews the Aston Martin V8 Vantage on the Isle of Man, and in the tenth episode of season 6, "Know Your Enemy" was played in the BMW 5 Series Diesel vs. Petrol review. "Sea Chase" was used in the first episode of season 20, in which Jeremy (in a Toyota Corolla) and James (on an America's Cup yacht) conduct a race in New Zealand. "Just for Today" was used in the Porsche Boxster S review in season 8, episode 4.
 "Finished Symphony" was featured in the games SSX, SSX Tricky, and Juiced.
 "Higher Than a Skyscraper" is featured in the Xbox 360 game Crackdown.
 "I Know" was used as sample in the song "Desnudame", from Achillea's second album Amadas Estrellas.
 "I Choose Noise" was featured in an advertisement for the BBC's Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood.
 "Choke" was used in a game trailer for Quantum Theory.
 "Cascade", from Scores, was used as the bed for a Sky+ HD advertisement.
 "Dogstar" from I Choose Noise was used by the BBC as title music for their coverage of the 2009 World Athletics Championships and 2010 European Athletics Championships.
 "Finished Symphony" was used by the BBC for their Boxing coverage.
 "Kid 2000" was one of the tunes for the film Kevin and Perry Go Large.
 "We Are in Control" was used in Poland by Gellwe for their "Fitella" muesli advertisement, and has also been used in Top Gear a couple of times.
 "If I Survive" was used in the PlayStation 2 game Kinetica.
 Five songs by Hybrid were used in the film Man on Fire.
 Parts of "We Are in Control" were used as background music for Disorderly Conduct: Video on Patrol.
 "I Know" was used in Armin van Buuren's six-hour-long set, Armin Only.
 Hybrid produced a track called "Komoru" for BBC's Tribe LP. It was released in September 2008 by Polydor Records.
 Elements of "Zulu" were used as samples in the Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots soundtrack. The soundtrack was partly composed by Harry Gregson-Williams.
 "Gravastar" and "Celebrity Science" were used in the soundtrack for F1 Challenge '99-'02.
 The song "Choke" was used for the trailer for The Spirit; "Keep it in the Family" was used in a later trailer for the same film.
 "Formula of Fear (Hybrid's Matrix Dub)" was featured on the soundtrack for Need for Speed: Undercover.
 "We Are in Control" has been used on the Australian version of Big Brother.
 "We Are in Control" and "Know Your Enemy" can be heard in the show Alias on episode 4, "The Road Home".
 "I Know" and "If I Survive" have been used in the show CSI: NY.
 Ford and Lamborghini used the song "Ultimatum" as the soundtrack for their website exclusive video featuring the Ford Focus ST and Lamborghini Murcielago LP640.
 Several songs from Hybrid's unreleased album of scores have been used in taped segments on the ABC show Dancing with the Stars.
 "Just for Today" was used as the backing music for the 'Best in Britain' video clip on Alfa Romeo's website for the Prodrive-tuned Brera S coupe, which featured the car driving around Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire, UK.
 Early episodes of America's Next Top Model regularly used tracks from Morning Sci-Fi.
 A sample from "Last Man Standing" was used in the Crysis 2 multiplayer reveal trailer.
 "I Choose Noise" was used in advertisement for the 2006 Channel 4 police drama Low Winter Sun.
 Several tracks from I Choose Noise were included in the video game Saints Row: The Third. The game also included several unreleased tracks, available only for advertising agencies.
 "Light Up" and "Superpower" (from Light of the Fearless) were included as opening tracks on Strictly Come Dancing in separate episodes in 2018.

References

External links
 Official Hybrid website

 Hybrid's Last.fm page
 Hybrid's BBC Wales profile and biography
 Light up - performed Live @ Under the bridge, London
 Original Sin - performed Live @ Under the bridge, London
 Hold your breath short film
 Hybrid's Hold your breath premiere - article on MusicNews.com

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Michael Sucrének és Abruzzinak elmagyarázza, hogy a börtönben egy raktárépületnek fontos szerepe van a szökésben. Eközben Veronicát és Nicket majdnem megöli a Veronica lakásán elrejtett bomba. Abruzzi elmondja, hogy az egyetlen mód, hogy bejussanak abba a bizonyos épületbe, annak felgyújtása, mivel ezután BM-en nekik kell  azt kitakarítani. Mikor bejutnak, szembesülnek vele, hogy az át lett alakítva az őrök pihenőszobájává. A rabok közül egyedül Westmorelandnek van oda bejárása, ezért őt kell rávenniük, hogy felgyújtsa. Michael, hogy közelebb férkőzzön hozzá, megkeresi a macskáját (aki még a lázadás során menekült el), de ő még ekkor sem akar segíteni.

A történtek közben a titkosszolgálat két ügynöke, Kellerman és Daniel Hale L.J. házához megy, azzal a szándékkal, hogy a fiút elfogja. Mivel ő nem működik együtt, anyját és mostohaapját megölik, de neki sikerül elmenekülnie. A gyilkosságokat úgy állítják be, mintha a fiú követte volna el őket.

Bellick elkezd nyomozni Bob halálának ügyében, és mikor hallja, hogy pont Westmoreland előtt szúrták le, elkezd nála kérdezősködni. Westmoreland nem mond semmit, mivel tudja, hogy azokat a rabokat, akik beköpnek valakit, biztosan megölik. Bellick erre azt válaszolja, hogy ha nem mond semmit, míg ki nem megy a cellából, akkor a barátságuknak is vége. Westmoreland még mindig nem működik együtt. Bellick megérinti Marilynt, majd azt mondja: "Szép állat…". Később, mikor Westmoreland visszatér a cellájába, Marilynt elpusztulva találja az ágyán. Észreveszi, amint Bellick lefelé néz a cellájára a második emeletről.

Másnap, mikor Westmoreland viszi a kávét a pihenőszobába, előveszi Bellick cigarettáját és a gyújtóját, és bosszúból felgyújtja a helyiséget. Michael, miután észrevették a tüzet, megkeresi Westmoreland-et és megköszöni neki. Erre ő azt válaszolja: "Nem miattad tettem." Ahogy tervezték, Abruzziékat küldik a szoba kitakarításához, így elkezdhetik a lyuk kibővítését.

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Sarah Wilkinson from Bute, a former engineer with 20 years' experience working in industry and the holder of a Post-Graduate Certificate in teacher training.
A woman from Bute, who qualified as a teacher in England, has been telling of her experience of a new University of Aberdeen programme allowing her to teach here.
Sarah Wilkinson, a former engineer with 20 years' experience working in industry and the holder of a post-graduate certificate in teacher training from England, was surprised to find herself shut out from Scottish schools when she moved north of the border. Her teaching experience in England was predominantly in further education where she taught maths to adults. However, this did not meet the requirements for registration with the General Teaching Council for Scotland.
With a passion for teaching, she instead worked as a volunteer tutor in maths and physics at an independent school, Cedars School of Excellence, in Greenock.
This reignited her passion to teach but with a post-graduate certificate in education already under her belt, she did not want to repeat the process by completing the Scottish post-graduate diploma in education.
She said: "I felt that I had already been through this route and I didn't want to return to university to undertake a similar course. It was disappointing to find that anomalies between the English and Scottish systems meant I couldn't use my qualifications here to their full advantage.
"When I heard about the University of Aberdeen's Post-Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies, developed for those in just this situation, it seemed a good fit and I have loved being able to teach again.
Sarah said balancing the demands of the course and her role in school was difficult and that the support of her school, the university and coursemates was vital in helping her to cope.
"The headteacher and the rest of the staff have been wonderfully helpful and are very experienced, committed and caring towards the pupils and each other. This has made all the difference in terms of successfully completing this course and getting the most from it," she added.
"My 12-year-old daughter is also at the school and it means that I can earn a living teaching subjects that I love, with my daughter in the same, wonderful educational environment. This course has enabled me to achieve this.
"It is tough juggling study and work but I am glad this is a route open to me as I don't think there's another way I'd have been able to work towards a formal Scottish teaching qualification.
"The course does demand a lot of you but I have learned a lot from it. I think it is good that there are these alternative routes for people.
Sarah has only visited Aberdeen once for a non-compulsory get-together at the beginning of the course but said the bonds formed from this were vital.
"As a cohort we interact a lot through an online learning system called Blackboard. This allows us to have online collaborative meetings with our tutors and to talk to one-another. We also have a course messaging group which has been a great support when you are having a tough day.


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Home Sport Cricket Pink-ball Test much-needed rejuvenation for five-day cricket: Ganguly
Pink-ball Test much-needed rejuvenation for five-day cricket: Ganguly
Architect of India's first-ever day-night Test, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Sunday said five-day cricket "needed rejuvenation" to revive interest in the game's traditional format.
The Test in yet another commercial or marketing initiative will also have two mascots – Pinku-Tinku.
India's last series against South Africa witnessed a poor turnout but the tickets for the first three days of the pink ball Test, beginning here on Friday, have already been sold out.
"That's the way forward. Test cricket needed a rejuvenation," said Ganguly, who took the onus to organise the inaugural day-night Test in the country after becoming the Board president last month.
"It happens all around the world. Somewhere it had to start. India is the biggest country in terms of cricket. I think that rejuvenation was important."
Read More: Day-Night Test: Sachin hails move, but concerned about dew
As the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president, Ganguly had successfully organised an India-Pakistan marquee World Twenty20 clash in 2016 at a short notice, after it was shifted out of Dharamsala. However, he said organising the day-night Test is more challenging.
"The challenge was to get people back into the ground. An India-Pakistan match would anyways get filled anywhere in the world. You just announce it and the crowd will be filled," the former India skipper said.
"This was much more difficult and we managed to fill 65,000 on each of the first three days. It feels more satisfying."
Ganguly said India captain Virat Kohli would be happy to see a full house when he walks out to bat against Bangladesh.
Ganguly convinces Bangladesh for India's first ever Day-Night Test
"He is a great player and he should be playing in front of packed house. He will be happy to see it full house when he walks out to bat on day one. You will love the atmosphere at the Eden so come and watch," Ganguly said while unveiling the official pink Test mascots Pinku-Tinku at Eden the Gardens.
"You can't have greats of the Indian cricket play in front of empty stands. And here you will have full house for the first three days," he said.
Also Read: SG pink balls for Eden day-night Test: Sourav Ganguly
Meanwhile, the City of Joy is also turning pink besides the Kolkata Test between India and Bangladesh getting mascots Pinku and Tinku.
A giant pink balloon, released at the Eden Gardens, will stay afloat above the cricket ground during the historic Test.
City's important landmarks – the Shahid Minar, the tallest building '42' and some Kolkata Municipality Corporation Parks – are also illuminated with pink lights.
A ferry with pink ball illumination was also seen plying on the Hooghly and it will keep making trips between the iconic Howrah Bridge and Vidyasagar Setu every evening till the match day on November 22.
The Tata Steel building will have 3D Mapping from November 20, while the Measurers' Club has already turned pink at night and others are set to do the same.
A dozen billboards across the city, six LED boards and branded buses will also be seen from Monday onwards to further increase awareness and interest about the Test that has already got a mindboggling response, a Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) statement said.
CAB has joined hands with Kolkata-based creative agency Creocraft to create vignettes of cricket on the inside walls of the Eden Gardens, which will say the story behind every cricketer.
Over 20 artists studying at Indian Art College are working day and night to paint this idea on the walls.
The historic match will start with Army paratroopers flying into the Eden Gardens to hand over a pink ball each to the two captains just before the toss.
This will be followed by the ringing of the customary Eden Bell by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
Then at the 20-minute tea break, former captains and the galaxy of sport stars from other disciplines will be taken out on carts making a round of the ground along the boundary lines.
During the 40-minute supper break, CAB has organised a talk show featuring the 'Fabulous Five' of Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble and VVS Laxman who will walk down the memory lane, delving on the epic 2001 Test win against Australia here.
The CAB will also felicitate a galaxy of Indian sports stars including Tendulkar, Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra, tennis star Sania Mirza, world badminton champion PV Sindhu and six-time boxing world champion MC Mary Kom among others.
Specially designed mementos will be given to the dignitaries while they will also make round of the stadium aboard golf carts, CAB secretary Avishek Dalmiya said.
The CAB will also felicitate the team members of Bangladesh-India first ever Test in 2000, a game where Ganguly made his debut as Test captain.
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5 August 2022 | Dione David
The Men's Table is dedicated to helping men create safe environments in which to share their lives, challenges, highs and lows. Photo: Berry – Greg Twemlow.
The ACT is set to welcome three new "Men's Tables" by the end of the year thanks to a collaboration with Communities at Work and The Snow Foundation.
A grassroots not-for-profit group, The Men's Table helps diverse groups across the country to create unique places to share and be heard in confidential, non-judgmental environments.
"By meeting for a meal once a month in the same place, we help men build meaningful male friendships and connection," regional host Michael Collins said.
"Contrary to what might be common thinking, our research tells us that men are in fact actively looking for opportunities to connect with other men, and they are talking about their feelings and emotions given the right circumstances.
"Sitting at a Table and talking with other men helps us feel comfortable about overturning those outdated masculine norms; always fixing things ourselves, hiding emotions, holding back tears and fears – none of these behaviours are helpful to any man."
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Of the 67 Men's Tables currently operating nationwide, Canberra's one small site is located in Ainslie.
Memberships typically vary between eight and 12 per Table, so about 700 men currently benefit from the national peer support community program.
Its funding partnership with two Canberra-based community organisations will expand this presence in Canberra.
"We know that belonging to a Table positively impacts men's emotional and mental wellbeing, and it has a ripple effect into the other relationships in their lives," Michael said.
"Sharing those benefits with the Canberra community is exciting."
The Men's Table offers a sustainable, low-cost approach to emotional, mental and social health promotion and prevention for men. Photo: Metro – Michael Kovacs.
The annual Men's Table survey revealed 81 per cent of members felt being part of a Table impacted positively on other relationships in their lives, including with their spouses and partners (70 per cent), families (63 per cent), and other men (57 per cent).
Members also claimed multiple benefits including "the ability to share feelings and be vulnerable" (82 per cent), "belonging to a community" (76 per cent), and "a safe place" (73 per cent).
A Men's Table "Entrée" is an introduction to how it all works. It's an opportunity for local men to come together, meet other men and decide if joining a Table is for them.
The first of the new groups – Canberra North – will host its Entrée at Eastlake Football Club, Gungahlin.
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Eastlake marketing manager Saniya Kankanady said the venue was the ideal base from which the Northside Table could break the ice in the community.
"Canberra Northside has such a diverse background and Eastlake's patronship reflects that," she said.
"We have diverse customer segments in terms of age and background; we believe it will be great for The Men's Table's outreach.
"Northside people are very open minded and enthusiastic about community engagement in general, as well."
David Pollard is keen to attend the upcoming Entrée.
Since becoming a charity in 2019, The Men's Table has launched another 64 Tables across the country. Photo: Metro – Michael Kovacs.
The resident and member of Gungahlin Community Council, who has long been involved in various Northside community groups, is helping The Men's Table anchor itself locally.
"I was very drawn to The Men's Table when I first learned about the concept because in some of the communities I'm involved in, our audiences are mainly women," he said.
"It's not necessarily for lack of interest among the men but lack of opportunity, time and priority.
"I feel there are gaps when it comes to this type of thing for men, something connecting men to their communities.
"I've been in my various roles for quite some years now, I've connected with people of all walks of life from my various community groups and I see the value in it. I think it's something a lot of men are missing."
The Canberra North Entrée on Tuesday, 16 August runs from 6:30 pm to 9 pm at Eastlake Football Club, Gungahlin.
Registrations are essential and cover the cost of your meal and a drink. For more information or to register, visit the The Men's Table Canberra North.
SigmaOctantis11:36 pm 05 Aug 22
This is an excellent initiative and we need far more of them. Let's hope there aren't too many comments on here decrying it as sexist.
dsact6:28 pm 05 Aug 22
Brilliant idea – I wish them every success. A possible extension to the great Menslink program perhaps?
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