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Shawn Mendes revealed the exact date he and Camila Cabello started dating
She's been his señorita for a few months.
The chatter surrounding Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello tends to go one of two ways; they were either really into each other after collaborating on "Señorita" and making that steamy video, or they're full of it and just capitalizing on the heat from said video for some shameless self-promotion.
The paparazzi shots were almost too convenient, some would argue, as was the timing of it all. But many wanted to believe that these two young people were actually in love, and sure enough, even as the sounds of "Señorita" dissipated from mainstream radio, Shawn and Camila's relationship continued.
But another question also arose amidst the dating rumours. If they really did hook up while making their video, there may have been overlap with Cabello's relationship with ex-boyfriend Matthew Hussey. They broke up at some point in June, around the same time "Señorita" was released — but if you do the math, the video would have been filmed long before we got to see the finished product. But Shawn wanted to clear the air. During a Q&A in Hindmarsh, Australia, the "If I Can't Have You" singer revealed exactly when he and Camila first became a thing.
Fan: "I know there have been rumors of you and Camila being together for a while, but how long have you actually been dating for?"
Shawn: "We haven't been dating for that long. We have been dating since July 4th officially." pic.twitter.com/N4qrTYTCSf
— Shawn Mendes Updates (@MendesCrewInfo) October 26, 2019
"We haven't been dating for that long," Mendes told fans. "We have been dating since July 4th officially." Soooo, no overlap — and another reason to celebrate the Fourth of July. And even better? Shawn's rep as Canada's resident good guy remains intact.
The timing actually does make sense considering it was early July when they were first spotted sharing a kiss over coffee. By the middle of the month, the couple really started flaunting their PDA and stopped caring who saw, and by August, they were making out in front of everyone. Then, of course, there was that kiss. Yes, that one.
So mark your calendars, Shawmila lovers, their four-month anniversary is right around the corner.
Fans still questioning Shawn Mendes' and Camila Cabello's relationship
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Who brought us COVID-19? The Neanderthals. The susceptibility to the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus, but also to diabetes, obesity, allergies, skin diseases, smoking and autism all happened because your great-[...]-great-grandfather could not keep his todger in his trousers many thousands of years ago.
Science has spoken: the COVID-19 pandemic only happened because of Neanderthals. The extinct humans have been blamed by virtually all modern diseases and illnesses since scientists first proved that the Homo sapiens, freshly arriving from Africa to Middle East and Europe, have been mating with Neanderthals who settled there long before. As the result, all people of non-African origin of today carry genetic traces of such sexual encounters and have Neanderthals among their ancestors.
So now it is the susceptibility to the coronavirus which Neanderthals are being blamed with. All this starts looking as a version of the Biblical expulsion from paradise tale, where Adam and Eve, originally free from all diseases, left the African paradise to fall prey to sexual depravity of disease-ridden and disease-gene carrying Neanderthals. It is also a morality tale, where the god-fearing, upstanding H. sapiens men were led astray into sin by some wanton bare-breasted Neanderthal Jezebels flashing at them from inside the bushes, or maybe these H. sapiens men went hunting mammoth and let their chaste and obedient H. sapiens wives alone at the hearth, when the rough-and-ready Neanderthal brutes arrived to have their depraved ways with the defenceless and sexually somewhat neglected sapiens ladies.
I am sorry, my fantasy is going into a non-peer-reviewable direction. In any case, whoever seduced whom, the diseases of the modern humans are the just punishment for the infidelity of our ancestors, scientists have found. Including COVID-19, a Nature-published discovery which made news worldwide.
A major risk factor for contracting severe forms of COVID-19 is a gene cluster inherited from Neanderthals. https://t.co/E6dRqqJuHn
— DW News (@dwnews) October 1, 2020
The senior author of that study is the biggest star in anthropology and paleogenetics, Svante Pääbo, director of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. It was his lab which first sequenced the Neanderthal genome, and everything Pääbo discovers since is scientific gospel.
Together with Smut Clyde, I wrote about the scurrility of Neanderthal research before. Among other things, I mentioned in that 2018 article that Pääbo announced the same year in The Guardian to use the stem cells and CRISPR/CAS gene editing technology to simulate Neanderthal brains in a dish, in form of so-called mini-brains (tiny cultured organoids of neural cells). His Leipzig colleague Gray Camp announced there to "regrow your Neanderthal brain" and to "resurrect the functionality of those neanderthal genes". The amazing technology was published this summer, as Dannemann et al Stem Cell Reports 2020, coauthored by Pääbo. In a press release Camp was quoted that his minibrains can be used to study Neanderthalian "intestinal tract and digestion, cognition and neural function as well as the immune response to pathogens". That, dear reader, is modern-day anthropology, and if you think it's embarrassing, it was not really much better before (cf various theories for Neanderthal extinction), only less computational.
As the Neanderthal minibrains of Leipzig matured, COVID-19 arrived and the Leipzig MPI director Pääbo decided that it was upon him to save the world.
So here is the paper (its June 2020 preprint here):
Hugo Zeberg, Svante Pääbo The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals Nature (2020) doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2818-3
Genetic variants that are associated with the risk of severe COVID-19 may have been inherited from Neanderthals, according to a paper in Nature. This is just one of many risk factors for severe disease, and others include advanced age and being male. https://t.co/Dq6OI0rtga pic.twitter.com/oosNGQKU2f
— Nature (@nature) September 30, 2020
The other author of that Nature study is Hugo Zeberg from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. He and Pääbo compared "the DNA of very sick Covid-19 patients with that from Neanderthals and their mysterious sister group, the Denisovans", as The Guardian explains. Lo and behold: "I almost fell off my chair because the segment of DNA was exactly the same as in the Neanderthal genome", Hugo Zeberg told the British newspaper.
Zeberg and Pääbo further explain in the official press release provided by the Max Planck Society:
"It turns out that this gene variant was inherited by modern humans from the Neandertals when they interbred some 60,000 years ago," says Hugo Zeberg. "Today, the people who inherited this gene variant are three times more likely to need artificial ventilation if they are infected by the novel coronavirus Sars-CoV-2." […]
"It is striking that the genetic heritage from the Neandertals has such tragic consequences during the current pandemic. Why this is must now be investigated as quickly as possible," says Svante Pääbo, director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology."
"More research" is an academic code word for "Give me grant money now", and Pääbo will sure get plenty, probably to study next the Denisovan genes in COVID-19 context. The press release also explains why India faces such a COVID-19 disaster:
"The study also reveals considerable differences in how common this genetic risk variant is in different parts of the world. It is particularly common among people in South Asia where about half of the population carry the Neandertal risk variant. In Europe, one in six people carry the risk variant, while in Africa and East Asia it is almost non-existent."
You see, according to science the Indian COVID-19 disaster has nothing to do with an incompetent Hindu-fascist leadership which tries to fight the pandemic with chloroquine, homeopathy, Ayurveda, cow urine and outright racism, but a lot with those Neanderthal genes in South Asians.
Now, Svante Pääbo is GOD, certainly of Neanderthal genetics, and if God himself tells you in Nature that non-Africans suffer from COVID-19 so badly because of their Neanderthal genes, it is the Gospel and you better start singing hymns of praise. I wish Professor Pääbo would explain how come African-Americans die so much from COVID-19, maybe it's the lack of Vitamin D or something.
The next study, as it happens by exactly same people, utterly incidentally and unintentionally leads the way to even more race theories.
Hugo Zeberg, Michael Dannemann, Kristoffer Sahlholm, Kristin Tsuo, Tomislav Maricic, Victor Wiebe, Wulf Hevers, Hugh P.C. Robinson, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo A Neanderthal Sodium Channel Increases Pain Sensitivity in Present-Day Humans Current Biology (2020) doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.045
People who have inherited nerve-altering mutations from the ancient hominins tend to experience more pain. https://t.co/0k1uVWrT4k
— Nature News & Comment (@NatureNews) July 23, 2020
Zeberg and Pääbo discovered a gene variant which they say made Neanderthals more pain-sensitive than modern humans who just arrived from Africa. The Max Planck Society issued a press release:
"The biggest factor for how much pain people report is their age. But carrying the Neandertal variant of the ion channel makes you experience more pain similar to if you were eight years older", says lead author Hugo Zeberg, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Karolinska Institutet. "The Neandertal variant of the ion channel carries three amino acid differences to the common, 'modern' variant", explains Zeberg. "While single amino acid substitutions do not affect the function of the ion channel, the full Neandertal variant carrying three amino acid substitutions leads to heightened pain sensitivity in present-day people."
On a molecular level, the Neandertal ion channel is more easily activated which may explain why people who inherited it have a lowered pain threshold. "Whether Neandertals experienced more pain is difficult to say because pain is also modulated both in the spinal cord and in the brain", says Pääbo. "But this work shows that their threshold for initiating pain impulses was lower than in most present-day humans."
Again, a reminder that Africans carry hardly any Neanderthal genes, thus according to the research by Zeberg and Pääbo, they should have a higher pain threshold than Europeans with our gentle Neanderthal pain receptors. As it happens, much of US medicine is based on this exact presumption already, that Black patients feel less pain than whites and should receive less or no pain medication or in fact, medical attention. Luckily, some American doctors and researchers started to oppose this medical racism and its cruel scientism. The studies Sabin & Greenwald 2012 , Meghani et al 2012 and especially Hoffman et al 2016 addressed the problem of racist pain medication, where whites get treated and Blacks get dismissed as whiny, and gathered such quotes from today's medical students and residents:
"Black people's nerve endings are less sensitive than white people's." "Black people's skin is thicker than white people's." "Black people's blood coagulates more quickly than white people's."
So we now know from the highest scientific authority of Nature that non-Africans feel more pain and are more susceptible to COVID-19. But it gets even wilder. Pääbo previously collaborated on the following Nature paper from the Harvard lab of the geneticist David Reich (another very influential figure in human paleo- and ethnogenetics, whose research findings, at least according to Guardian, have never been contradicted):
Sriram Sankararaman, Swapan Mallick, Michael Dannemann, Kay Prüfer, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Nick Patterson, and David Reich The landscape of Neandertal ancestry in present-day humans Nature (2014) doi: 10.1038/nature12961
As a Harvard press release announced:
"Remnants of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans are associated with genes affecting type 2 diabetes, Crohn's disease, lupus, biliary cirrhosis, and smoking behavior."
Not bad, even smoking. One of that Nature paper's coauthors was Janet Kelso and her then-postdoc Michael Dannemann (they also co-authored Pääbo's pain sensitivity paper and co-developed the Neanderthal minibrain technology mentioned above). Kelso is a computation biologist with a lab at the Max Planck Institute which Pääbo is director of, Dannemann is now senior research fellow at the University of Tartu in Estonia, together they did their own Neanderthal research.
Exhibition at Musée des Confluences (Lyon, France). On the left, a H. sapiens lady, chaste, decent and combed, with shoes and jewellery, next to her a Neanderthal slut apparently seeking to seduce the lady's husband.
Kelso's and Dannemann's work at MPI Leipzig was part of the Neanderthal-related groundbreaking discoveries celebrated by The Scientist:
"In 2016, Kelso, Dannemann, and a colleague found that pathogen response and susceptibility to develop allergies were associated with Neanderthal sequences that affect TLR production.8 […] In their 2017 analysis, for example, Kelso and Dannemann found that Neanderthal variants were associated with chronotype—whether people identify as early birds or night owls—as well as links with susceptibility to feelings of loneliness or isolation and low enthusiasm or interest."
These were the papers:
Michael Dannemann, Aida M. Andrés, Janet Kelso Introgression of Neandertal- and Denisovan-like Haplotypes Contributes to Adaptive Variation in Human Toll-like Receptors The American Journal of Human Genetics (2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.11.015
It was celebrated in The Guardian:
"Passionate encounters between ancient humans and their burly cousins, the Neanderthals, may have left modern people more prone to sneezes, itches and other allergies, researchers say.
The curious legacy comes from three genes that crossed into modern humans after their distant ancestors had sex with Neanderthals, or their close relatives the Denisovans, more than 40,000 years ago."
Science not to be sneezed at. The Max Planck Society concurred in the press release:
"Although this greater sensitivity might protect against infection, it might also increase the susceptibility of modern-day people to allergies"
Does this mean African-Americans are less likely to develop allergies and should stop complaining when living in toxic and environmentally polluted areas? Probably. This was the chronotype paper:
Michael Dannemann, Janet Kelso The Contribution of Neanderthals to Phenotypic Variation in Modern Humans The American Journal of Human Genetics (2017) doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.09.010
"Using baseline phenotypes collected for 112,000 individuals by the UK Biobank, we […] show that Neanderthal DNA affects skin tone and hair color, height, sleeping patterns, mood, and smoking status in present-day Europeans."
The authors elaborated in the discussion:
"However, there are four phenotypes, all behavioral, to which Neanderthal alleles contribute more phenotypic variation than non-archaic alleles: chronotype, loneliness or isolation, frequency of unenthusiasm or disinterest in the last 2 weeks, and smoking status. Of these, the significant association between a Neanderthal variant in ASB1 and preference for evening activity also shows a correlation between the Neanderthal allele frequency and latitude, suggesting a link to differences in sunlight exposure for this phenotype. Additionally, the phenotype of increased frequencies of unenthusiasm or disinterest in the last 2 weeks was significantly associated with an archaic haplotype…"
Basically, as a White European, if you are the kind of person who likes to spend your nights at a pub with a pint and a ciggie, while feeling rather wasted and unable to work the next day: Blame those Neanderthal genes. Science has spoken.
With Kelso, Gray, Dannemann and of course Pääbo himself there seems to be a weird cult of Neanderthalism going on at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, maybe it is the consequence of a Max Planck Institute director having too much power. But as long as it delivers Nature papers, everyone is happy.
But wait, since we started talking about antisociality of Neanderthals. Where do you think autism and schizophrenia come from? Of course from Neanderthals, there was this paper from NIH:
Michael D. Gregory, J. Shane Kippenhan, Daniel P. Eisenberg, Philip D. Kohn, Dwight Dickinson, Venkata S. Mattay, Qiang Chen, Daniel R. Weinberger, Ziad S. Saad, Karen F. Berman Neanderthal-Derived Genetic Variation Shapes Modern Human Cranium and Brain Scientific Reports (2017) doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-06587-0
A press release from NIH National Institute of Mental Health explains that Neanderthals carried a certain mutated gene which made them autistic, and quotes the senior author:
"It's been proposed that Neanderthals depended on visual-spatial abilities and toolmaking, for survival, more so than on the social affiliation and group activities that typify the success of modern humans – and that Neanderthal brains evolved to preferentially support these visuospatial functions," Berman explained. "Now we have direct neuroimaging evidence that such trade-offs may still be operative in our brains."
Karin Berman's middle name is Faith, maybe this is her problem.
And since we arrived at autism: of course there is also the neuroscientist Alysson Muotri of UC San Diego, who might be actually a troll clown project run by his mentor Fred "Rusty" Cage in order to expose the academia, scholarly publishing and scientific journalism as a bunch of gullible morons who will publish and celebrate even the most outrageous idiocy if it sounds entertaining enough. I wrote about Muotri in my previous Neanderthal article, what with his shrivelled Neanderthal minibrains in a dish (or, as announced, inside crab-like robots), all of which Muotri says proves Neanderthals were autistic and passed the autism genes onto modern humans. Otherwise, Muotri claims in top journals (Trujillo et al Cell Stem Cell 2019) to have detected neuronal activities of a human newborn in his microscopic neuronal cell clumps (I am talking of Muotri's minibrains in a dish, not his own brain), which he also plans to send into space. Science and health journalists lap it all up at Muotri's feet, so Gage's prank works.
We shall remain in California and meet professor John Capra at UC San Francisco, who used to work at the Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. The computational geneticist Capra and his colleagues studied DNA of 28,000 patients and checked it for the diseased Neanderthal genes. They found plenty:
Corinne N Simonti, Benjamin Vernot, Lisa Bastarache, Erwin Bottinger, David S Carrell, R. L. Chisholm, David R Crosslin, Scott J Hebbring, Gail P Jarvik, Iftikhar J Kullo, Rongling Li, Jyotishman Pathak, Marylyn D Ritchie, D. M. Roden, Shefali S Verma, Gerard Tromp, Jeffrey D Prato, William S Bush, Joshua M Akey, Joshua C Denny, John A Capra The phenotypic legacy of admixture between modern humans and Neandertals Science (2016) doi: 10.1126/science.aad2149
Science has spoken, diseases of all possible organs arrived on Neanderthal genes. If only our sapiens ancestors would have controlled their primal urges. The Vanderbilt press release explained the paper for lay people: we learn that "Neanderthal DNA variants influence skin biology in modern humans" and cause the skin condition keratosis, and also that Capra and his Vanderbilt colleagues
"…found that a specific bit of Neanderthal DNA significantly increases risk for nicotine addiction. They also found a number of variants that influence the risk for depression: some positively and some negatively. In fact, a surprisingly number of snippets of Neanderthal DNA were associated with psychiatric and neurological effects, the study found."
Figure provided by Vanderbilt University
The authors also found that Neanderthals are responsible for "stroke, pulmonary embolism and pregnancy complications" in us proper humans because that Neanderthal gene variant increases blood coagulation (which in a way is funny because Zeberg, Kelso and Pääbo recently claimed that Neanderthal genes actually benefit modern women's fertility and prevent miscarriages and bleeding during pregnancy). In the same 2016 Science paper, Capra and colleagues even linked obesity to the genetic Neanderthal heritage:
"Of the 12 nominally significant associations, 8 were replicated in the independent E2 data set, including actinic keratosis (P = 0.0059), mood disorders (P = 0.018), depression (P = 0.020), obesity (P = 0.030), and seborrheic keratosis (P = 0.045) at P < 0.1"
Fat moody bastards with dandruff, those Neanderthals. In this regard, it is also funny that that Capra's obesity findings is what the Leipzig MPI people say they failed to reproduce. But in any case, by now every health problem modern humans experience seems to have have been blamed on Neanderthals, in peer reviewed research.
Of course those Neanderthals were also chock-full of sexually transmitted diseases. A variant of the Human papilloma virus (HPV) was sexually transmitted from Neanderthals to proper humans, as the following study revealed.
Ville N. Pimenoff, Cristina Mendes De Oliveira, Ignacio G. Bravo Transmission between Archaic and Modern Human Ancestors during the Evolution of the Oncogenic Human Papillomavirus 16 Molecular biology and evolution (2017) doi: 10.1093/molbev/msw214
In itself, the study is relatively down to earth, but the article had solid PR and made international news (as everything related to sexual intercourse), while the last author Ignacio Bravo, virologist at CNRS institute in Montpellier, shared his thoughts with the journalists:
"Our work suggests that some aggressive oncogenic viruses were transmitted by sexual contact from archaic to modern humans."
And this is whom you can blame for genital warts: Neanderthals. Dr. Bravo also spoke to the Smithsonian Magazine:
"Bravo and his colleagues believe a higher percentage of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA in a person's genome my influence their chances of developing cancer from HPV, an idea that they hope to soon put to the test."
And now, it is the coronavirus. Can't argue with Nature.
Because COVID-19 pandemic and Neanderthals are such a fun combination, Pääbo and Zeberg strike again. Now they claim Neanderthal genes prevent severe COVID-19, the opposite of their earlier paper in Nature. The recent joke was published on PNAS contributed track by Pääbo, meaning: without proper peer review.
Hugo Zeberg and Svante Pääbo A genomic region associated with protection against severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals PNAS (2021) doi: 10.1073/pnas.2026309118
Pääbo explains:
"It is striking that this Neandertal gene variant has become so common in many parts of the world. This suggests that it has been favourable in the past […] It is also striking that two genetic variants inherited from Neandertals influence COVID-19 outcomes in opposite directions. Their immune system obviously influences us in both positive and negative ways today."
Thing is, if Pääbo and Zeberg combined these opposite findings into one paper, it would have been unpublishable in an elite journal for lack of significance and physiological relevance.
Oh, and I also wrote about Alysson Muotri now, his Neanderthal minibrains made it into Science.
PS: Neanderthals are generally seen as a different, primitive or even degenerate species of hominids, but they and the modern Homo sapiens would be the same species if only we applied same rules of taxonomy to human evolution as we apply to the non-human-animals. For same reason, all humans, chimps and bonobos would be in the same taxonomical family Homo (or Pan), like horses and donkey are (Equus sp.).
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10 comments on "Dirty diseased Neanderthals"
I demand reparations!
NMH, the failed scientist and incel
There was some early work published by Svante Pääbo on archival DNA detection with qPCR that got published in a famous journal that he later admitted was wrong due to some kind of contamination (wish I could remember what work it was). I remember thinking at the time how could it be someone who publishes stuff that turns out to be crap to be so highly regarded and get a great job.
Now I know that is endemic in science. That's the way you to it, money for nothing and your chicks for free.
See this comment by Nature News editor Richard van Norden on RW:
"Take Svante Paabo's 1985 paper where he cloned nuclear DNA from an ancient mummy [Pääbo, S. Nature 314, 644-645 (1985)]. We realise now that it's wrong, because of contamination. (See http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110427/full/472404a.html for the details). No-one is asking for it to be retracted, since today DNA extraction techniques have moved on apace and the old methods are not relevant. "
https://retractionwatch.com/2011/10/05/do-editors-like-talking-about-journals-mistakes-nature-takes-on-retractions/#comment-2532
Interesting that our Sapiens ancient ancestors found pronounced brow ridges to be so sexually attractive. Maybe it was the somewhat enlarged cranial capacity underneath it, suggesting more white matter. I have an idea: Ill do a COVID unibrow to imitate the brow ridge and that will allow me to escape inceldom!
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Lakers & Clippers Are The Early Betting Favorites To Win The 2021 NBA Championship
The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in Game 6 on Sunday to capture their 17th NBA Championship in franchise history, and their first in 10 years.
Unsurprisingly, LeBron James and company are the early favorites to capture next year's title as well.
Following the Lakers' victory over Miami on Sunday, Odds Shark released the early betting odds for the 2021 championship. The 2020 champions are the early favorites at +400, followed by the Los Angeles Clippers at +600.
The Golden State Warriors carry the third best odds at +700. They missed the playoffs due in large part to Klay Thompson's absence (he missed the year recovering from an ACL tear that he suffered in the 2019 NBA Finals) and Stephen Curry's broken hand injury that limited him to five games.
But with Thompson, Curry and Draymond Green hopefully healthy and ready for 2020-21, the dynastic Warriors should be among the top title contenders.
The Milwaukee Bucks carry the fourth highest odds at +1000. The Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets (who'll have a healthy Kevin Durant next season) and 2020 Eastern Conference champion Heat have +1200 odds.
Entering the 2019-20 season, the Lakers and Clippers – along with the Milwaukee Bucks – were the heavy favorites to win it all. The Lakers traded for New Orleans Pelicans superstar Anthony Davis, giving James a new elite sidekick to work with.
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The Clippers signed reigning NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard in free agency, and they managed to land veteran All-Star Paul George in a blockbuster trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Countless fans and pundits expected the Lakers and Clippers to square off in the Western Conference Final. But the Clippers were upset by the Denver Nuggets in the second round, and that led to the dismissal of head coach Doc Rivers.
James and the Lakers defeated the Nuggets in five games. The Heat proved to be the Lakers' greatest challenge in the playoffs, but there was no stopping James and Davis in this series.
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Q: Hide Input Text when click anywhere in the page When user clicks the link, the input text shows. But how can I hide the input text when user clicks anywhere in the page (no need to click the link again to hide it)?
Here is my code
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A: Try this plain JS version

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  var obj = document.getElementById(objID);
  obj.style.display=show?"block":"none";
}
window.onload=function() {

  document.getElementById("link").onclick=function() {
    toggle("menulink",true);
    return false;
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If you have jQuery it would be

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    $("#menulink").toggle(true);
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    e.stopPropagation(); // watch out here...
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    if (e.target.id!="link") $("#menulink").toggle(false);
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As a region with an amazing agricultural heritage and with a impressive shoreline stretching along the northern border, it is understandable that Normandy is home to some of France's best known foods.
The freshness and the range of the seafood which is on offer is outstanding. On many of the restaurant menus you can find oysters and scallops, however one of the most common of the shellfish recipes is the beach resort staple dish of 'moules marinieres' which translates to mussels with white wine and shallots.
The sea also plays a part in another Normandy speciality, known in French as 'agneau de pre-sale' which means to salt meadow lamb. It is a type of lamb which was raised in salt marsh meadows of France, especially Mont Saint Michel in Normandy. The sheep graze in pastures that are covered in halophyte grasses, which have a high salinity and iodine content, causing their meat to have a very distinct taste. This is France is considered a delicacy.
Apples are also a feature of Norman cooking. Sometimes as the main part in a cake or tart or as part of the flavouring in a roast or stew. Apples are also a big contribution to the drinks available in the area. The famous Calvados for one. Calvados is the renowned apple brandy from the region of the same name in lower Normandy.
The Romans are supposed to have discovered the original inhabitants drinking a potent form of cider which was made from apples. However it took monks to formalise the process of planting the crop and distilling the resultant cider to come up with a consistent alcoholic end product that we would now recognise as a forerunner of Calvados.
However perhaps the biggest influence in Normandy is the dairy farming in the area, which took precedence when the marshes in many areas were drained during the Middle Ages.
Butter and cream are used in many of the cuisines in Normandy, but it is the cheeses which Normandy is best known for. Several of them have their own AOP (appellation d'origine protegee), an EU mark of origin. This guarantees certain standards and that the foods and beverages come from a unique area.
The most famous of Norman cheeses is the authentic Camembert which originates from the small village of the same name near Vimoutiers, in the Orne department of lower Normandy. There is a Camembert museum in the village which is open all week long in the Summer.
According to locals they claim the original recipe was handed to a housewife in the village by a priest, originally from the Brie area who was on the run during the French Revolution. This enabled the formerly white cheese to be given a rind and allowed it to be kept longer. This Funny enough this longer shelf life increased the popularity of the cheese over all of France to the point that Camembert itself was declared a generic word that the local production had no trademark rights over. The AOP now applies to Camembert de Normandie.
This cheese is made near Camembert to the north of the town of Vimoutiers, which is in the Calvados department of lower Normandy. One of the oldest Norman cheeses and less fatty unlike some of the other rich neighbouring recipes. The rind is a reddish colour and the cheese is wrapped with bands of raffia.
This cheese comes from the village of Neufchatel-en Bray in upper Normandy near the border with Picardy. It is a soft cheese and a has a distinctive heart shape. Legends have it that young women used to offer the cheese hearts to their soldier lovers during The Hundred Years War. It was equally popular amongst the French and their English opponents.
This is a square cheese and the production goes way back into the Middle Ages originally known as 'Angelot' and was only given the name of the town near the lower Normandy beach resort of Deauville in the 17th Century. During the French Revolutionary period the name changed to Pont Charlier. Eveque means bishop in French, which was a disapproved religious term during this time. Later it was restored to its current name. The taste for the cheese spread across France and the AOC protection was granted in the 1970's.


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Laura Dern Reveals Her "First Shoe Love" That She Bought When She Was 20
The actress co-hosted a dinner for Roger Vivier in West Hollywood where she shared that she's adored the brand's shoes since seeing Catherine Deneuve wear them in 'Belle de Jour.'
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On the rooftop of Holloway House, one of the newest hotel properties of Soho House, a host of actresses who are fans of Roger Vivier brands came out to celebrate the accessories brand on the evening of Dec. 9.
During cocktails, Mayfair Witches and The White Lotus star Alexandra Daddario chatted with Roger Vivier creative director Gherardo Felloni about his unique holiday home in Italy, a former lighthouse on Giglio Island off the coast of Tuscany. Cheryl Strayed, the best-selling writer of Wild, was there to see Laura Dern, one of the co-hosts of the party and the star of 2014 film based on the book.
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Dern, who shared hosting duties for the evening with consultant and former InStyle editor-in-chief Laura Brown, told The Hollywood Reporter that she has been a fan of the brand's shoes for decades.
"I have been since I started watching movies. I fell in love with the iconic Vivier shoes through women I admire like Catherine Deneuve," said Dern of the actress who famously wore Roger Vivier black shoes with metal buckles in 1967's Belle de Jour. Dern, who stars this fall in Florian Zeller's drama The Son, was wearing a pair of red Vivier pumps that she said reminded her of "my first shoe love." At 20, she bought a pair of Roger Vivier shoes in Paris that were modelled after Deneuve's footwear in Belle de Jour.
But Dern had never officially connected with the brand, until Brown made an introduction earlier this year.
As Felloni, a fan of Dern's since he saw her in David Lynch's 1990 film Wild at Heart, recalls it, "I saw [Laura Brown] in April last fashion week and I said, 'Come on, Laura, let's do something together. She introduced me by phone to Laura Dern, who I am obsessed with because she's a great actress, she's super beautiful, talented, iconic.
Halston Sage, Alexandra Shipp, Kathryn Newton, Jurnee Smollett Jason Sean Weiss/BFA.com/courtesy of Roger Vivier
"So Laura [Brown] asked Laura [Dern] if she wants to host a dinner in Los Angeles for the brand. I said, 'Oh fantastic.' So that's the reason I come here," continued Felloni, who hadn't thrown a soiree in L.A. since before the pandemic.
Among the stylish actresses who turned out for the dinner — which featured table decor by Mimi Brown Studio — were Alexandra Shipp, Jurnee Smollett, Allison Janney, Christina Hendricks, Lake Bell, Kristen Wiig, Sarah Shahi, Halston Sage, Brittney O'Grady, Bella Heathcote, Kathryn Newton, Michelle Randolph, Brianne Howey, Audrey Corsa, Larsen Thompson and Frida Gustavsson. Also in the crowd were writer-director Jenni Konner, director Niki Caro, Bling Empire's Christine Chiu, artist Alex Israel and stylist Jeanne Yang.
The turnout spoke to the interest in the house of Vivier and the energy at the brand under Felloni, 85 years after its founder opened his first shop in Paris in 1937. Roger Vivier, who died in 1998 at age 90, was also known for making the gold pumps that Queen Elizabeth wore at her coronation in 1953. He's also been credited as creating the first stiletto heel, though André Perugia and Salvatore Ferragamo also have a claim on that innovation.
Christina Hendricks, Lake Bell Jason Sean Weiss/BFA.com/courtesy of Roger Vivier
Regarding Felloni's turn at the helm of the brand (which is also known for its bags and jewelry), Dern told THR that, "What Gerardo is doing now is he's balancing honoring the iconic iconography while also being at play." She says she loves his takes on "the classic buckled shoe [that he's done] in those tone-on-tone almost Bakelite buckles with those beautiful spring colors, a mint green, a violet."
Among Felloni's innovations at the brand are the I Love Vivier pumps which have a silhouette in the front that creates a heart shape. "It's performing super well and it's super comfortable," said Felloni, who grew up in a shoe-making family in Italy and was named creative director of Roger Vivier in 2018. "I have two or three little secrets. It was the brand of my dreams. So when they proposed me to work on this brand, I was super excited."
Dern, who brought her daughter Jaya Harper to the dinner, expanded on her penchant for shoes, adding, "As an actress and a woman, I love shoes. They are the one luxury item I've always been in love with. But as an actor, shoes really do make the character, in terms of trying to get inside who that person is. That's always been really interesting to me."
Scroll on for more pictures from the Roger Vivier dinner at Holloway House.
Laura Dern and daughter Jaya Harper Jason Sean Weiss/BFA.com/courtesy of Roger Vivier
Kristen Wiig, Laura Brown, Allison Janney Jason Sean Weiss/BFA.com/courtesy of Roger Vivier
Brittany O'Grady Jason Sean Weiss/BFA.com/courtesy of Roger Vivier
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Tom Morello Approves of Petition to Name Black Hole After Chris Cornell
A change.org movement has nearly 50,000 signatures
Tom Morello knew Chris Cornell pretty well, and the guitarist is all for naming the newly-photographed black hole after his late friend.
A petition on change.org is aiming to do just that. Nearly 50,000 people have signed it so far, and Morello thinks it's a great thing.
"I heard that," he told WRXR. "I think that would be really nice. I don't know who you send that petition to, but I'd be happy to officially add my name to that… That seems absolutely appropriate."
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Scientists recently revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, which looked remarkably like the album cover for Soundgarden's landmark 1994 album Superunknown. It featured "Black Hole Sun," one of Cornell's biggest songwriting accomplishments.
"'Black Hole Sun," written by Chris Cornell is without a doubt Soundgarden's most recognizable and most popular song and one of the biggest anthems of the 90's," said Giuliana Jarrin – creator of the petition. "For this reason, and the impact Chris Cornell had in the lives of so many and music itself, I ask NASA, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration and all the astronomers and scientists involved in this discovery, to name this black hole after Chris Cornell."
Jarrin added that naming the black hole after Cornell would be a "surreal and amazing way to honor his life and his contribution to music."


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Home Food Beyond Burger Soon To Be Sold In McDonald's And Burger King
Beyond Burger Soon To Be Sold In McDonald's And Burger King
The brand already has big-name investors such as Bill Gates and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown has said he is "very confident" that the Beyond Burger will shortly be sold in McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's.
Since launching, the brand has raised $72 million in capital from investors such as Bill Gates and Leonarda DiCaprio and has been named the biggest scientific breakthrough of 2017.
In his latest interview with Entrepreneur, CEO Ethan Brown discussed the future of Beyond Meat and what he hopes to achieve with the brand in the coming years.
Specifically, the ability to buy the plant-based burger at your local fast-food outlet.
"I'm very confident that's going to happen, because I think the consumer is turning so quickly. We are not telling people not to eat meat — I think that would be a massive mistake — we're simply suggesting that they have a new type of meat, just plant based,"
"Once we break the code and get to the point where it's indistinguishable from animal protein," Brown said, "I think you will see that shift."
In the interview, Brown also discussed how Beyond Meat came to be, originally coming from the energy sector himself.
"I spent a lot of time there and really developed an appreciation for the scale of animal agriculture," says Brown, who has been a vegan for years but still samples meat to compare to Beyond Meat products. "With that exposure and interest in clean tech and climate, I thought that I could solve things that I cared about by focusing on protein in the plate."
"That's an awesome feeling by the way, to go from having a totally stable corporate existence where you have a 401(k), savings and everything's totally organized to complete fucking chaos," Brown says. "Pretty strange experience, but it helps to keep you motivated for sure."
The Beyond Burger is now sold in 19,000 retail stores and restaurants including 465 TGI Friday's restaurants in the US.
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Many libraries have already have access to packages of electronic books, and are either considering or putting into place two other methods of acquisition: title-by-title selection and patron-driven acquisitions (PDA). What issues are involved in planning for these two types of e-book purchases? How should they be treated alike and how different? This presentation will feature the experiences of Joyner Library, East Carolina University, through the process of setting up both firm order and PDA purchasing models, including a frank assessment of our first year into PDA.


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"The alternative" is working-class control
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Submitted by Matthew on 23 November, 2011 - 12:34
By Maria Exall
The joint union action on 30 November looks set to be the biggest strike for a generation. The fact that so many public sector workers are protesting against being forced to pay for the crisis caused by the excesses of the financial services sector and the failure of neo-liberal economic orthodoxy is good and necessary. We need resistance.
It has the potential to move things forward both on the public sector pensions issue and on the wider ideological matter of the necessity of a cuts agenda. However, resistance is not enough. No matter how big or successful N30 is, there are key challenges faced by the labour movement in coming few months.
Firstly — be prepared for the backlash. After N30, Coalition politicians and the reactionary media will be re-raising the familiar arguments against trade union rights and pressing for changes that make it harder to take industrial action.They are also highly likely to include attacks on employment rights in general under the guise of getting rid of "red tape". Union leaders need to stand firm and be prepared to mobilise against such attacks. Secondly — where is the strategy to take the pensions fight further? Though all the union leaders are making clear current government proposals are unacceptable, many union activists suspect the bottom line will be a compromise that erodes pension provision in the long term.
Thirdly — what next in the fight against the cuts agenda itself? The TUC has set aside a campaign fund of £1 million to make the case for the alternative to cuts, at an ideological, strategic and grassroots level. There will be an anti-austerity conference in the new year and "community organisers" are currently being appointed. But all this campaigning will only work if a clear economic alternative is articulated.
Lastly then, there is an urgent need to win the battle of ideas on political economy. Vague references to workers' co-operatives and economic democracy are not sufficient. We need to popularise a clear alternative and organise support for it. Yes, we need democracy in our economy, but that can only be achieved by a political fight.
As socialists we need to argue the case for working-class control of industry through public ownership and democratic control. This applies not just to the financial sector, but to other utilities and areas of mass production in the private sector. And the case for the economic alternative also needs to be made in a public sector that is run on "private sector disciplines", where low pay, casualisation, contracting out and other forms of marketisation have been well-rooted since Blairite reforms of the public services. Which brings us back to the matter of pensions.
If those managing the public sector can relieve themselves of the burdens of pensions, obligations which amount to billions of pounds, that means full steam ahead for full scale privatisation.
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'Once and Future' fills the 'Doctor Aphra shape' in Kieron Gillen's heart
Check out a preview of the upcoming series from BOOM! Studios.
Fans of Kieron Gillen's work on Doctor Aphra, The Wicked and the Divine and Die don't have long to wait for their next fix. In advance of this week's Comic-Con International, BOOM! Studios released a preview and a trailer for his six-issue miniseries "Once and Future," with artist Dan Mora and colorist Tamra Bonvillain.
"I've just finished an issue of this before writing this newsletter, and I'm enjoying writing Bridgette and Duncan enormously," Gillen said in his email newsletter this week. "It's definitely filled the Doctor Aphra shape in my heart, in terms of doing blackly funny adventure fiction. In this case, with a lot of horror notes."
Check out the trailer and some preview pages below.
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Author JK ParkinPosted on July 18, 2019 Categories Comic BooksTags BOOM! Studios, cci2019, Dan Mora, Kieron Gillen, Matt Gagnon, Once And Future, Tamra BonvillainLeave a comment on 'Once and Future' fills the 'Doctor Aphra shape' in Kieron Gillen's heart
BOOM! + IDW team up for a Power Rangers + Ninja Turtles crossover
Ryan Parrott and Simone di Meo will team up on a five-issue miniseries starring both properties in December.
Two licensed comics will punch, kick and stab their way into a five-issue crossover miniseries this winter. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brings together two of the biggest 1990s afternoon TV icons — and two popular comics franchises currently published, respectively, by BOOM! Studios and IDW Publishing.
Writer Ryan Parrott and artist Simone di Meo will bring the two properties together. Both have worked on BOOM!'s Power Rangers comics in the past. Dan Mora drew the cover for the first issue.
"Honestly, I'm pretty certain keeping this project a secret has taken years off my life. These two iconic franchises were my TV parents, each teaching me valuable life lessons thirty minutes at a time. The Power Rangers and the Ninja Turtles are too insanely awesome not to bring together. I mean, they're both color-coded teenage martial artists who fight monsters! It just makes too much sense!" Parrott said. "A huge thank you to Hasbro and Nickelodeon for letting me play with so many of their wonderful toys, as it is truly an honor to be a part of such an exciting crossover. I'm the luckiest kid in the world, and I cannot wait for you all to see what we've been putting together."
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Author JK ParkinPosted on July 16, 2019 Categories Comic BooksTags BOOM! Studios, Dan Mora, Hasbro, IDW Publishing, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Nickelodeon, Simone Di Meo, Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesLeave a comment on BOOM! + IDW team up for a Power Rangers + Ninja Turtles crossover
Loveness + Estherren fly into 'Strange Skies Over East Berlin'
New miniseries from BOOM! Studios lands in October.
Jeff Loveness and Lisandro Estherren will bring aliens into the Cold War in Strange Skies Over East Berlin, a new four-issue miniseries coming from BOOM! Studios in October. Evan Cagle will provide covers.
"Through comics, I've been able to write space operas, dark religious epics and superhero stories, and now I can't wait to write a sci-fi horror set within the bleak, creeping dread of the Cold War," said Loveness. "The Iron Curtain surveillance state of East Germany is now far enough removed from us to seem shockingly familiar. It's been humbling to research that world, only to see how many sad parallels of it we still endure today. There's body-horror and sci-fi creeping through the paranoia of the story, but it's also about what it means to be American in a world slipping away from you… a world that was perhaps never truly there to begin with."
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Author JK ParkinPosted on July 11, 2019 Categories Comic BooksTags BOOM! Studios, cci2019, Evan Cagle, Jeff Loveness, Lisandro Estherren, Strange Skies Over East BerlinLeave a comment on Loveness + Estherren fly into 'Strange Skies Over East Berlin'
'Heavy Vinyl' returns for a second spin
Carly Usdin and Nina Vakueva reunite for another round of music store fight club.
Carly Usdin and Nina Vakueva will reunite for a Heavy Vinyl original graphic novel, a sequel to the 2017 miniseries. Subtitled "Y2K-O!," this one will take place in the summer of 1999.
"Getting the chance to continue the Heavy Vinyl story is a dream come true! I'm thrilled to be reunited with my precious little '90s babies. The story picks up a few months later — it's 1999, digital music and file sharing have upset the status quo, and Y2K approaches!" Usdin said. "You can expect the same level of exhaustively researched pop culture references with new characters, a new mystery and more Chris/Maggie cuteness. I've been having a great time writing it, and I can't wait for fans to read it."
The story revolves around a group of girls who work at their local record store, Vinyl Mayhem — which is also the front for a teen girl vigilante fight club. In the new OGN, they'll have to deal with the led-up to Y2K.
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Author JK ParkinPosted on July 9, 2019 July 8, 2019 Categories Graphic NovelsTags BOOM! Studios, Carly Usdin, cci2019, Heavy Vinyl, Nina VakeuvaLeave a comment on 'Heavy Vinyl' returns for a second spin
Becky Lynch takes center ring in new 'Smackdown Live' comic
BOOM! Studios announces a new one-shot focused on The Man and Smackdown Live moving to the Fox network.
BOOM! Studios' ongoing WWE comic may have been canceled, but the sports entertainment license lives on at the publisher. In their build-up to this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego, the publisher announced a new one-shot, WWE Smackdown Live #1.
Written by Kevin Panetta with art by Kendall Goode, the comic will focus on Becky Lynch, a.k.a. The Man, arguably the WWE's most popular superstar right now. It'll also tie into Smackdown Live, currently seen Tuesday nights on USA, moving to the Fox network in October. Panetta is the writer of Bloom from First Second and Zodiac Starforce from Dark Horse, while Goode has work on previous WWE comics for BOOM!.
"The Man is one of the most electrifying Superstars to hit the ropes, and what better way to begin a new era of SmackDown Live than with Becky Lynch in the lead?" said Chris Rosa, Editor, BOOM! Studios. "Current WWE Superstars collide with WWE Legends, who are all here for one of the biggest and most unpredictable nights that they'll ever face in the ring."
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'Giant Days: As Time Goes By' wraps up the series
John Allison and Max Sarin will wrap up the long-running 'Giant Days' story with a double-sized special.
Graduation approaches for John Allison's long-running Giant Days series, and today BOOM! Studios announced Giant Days: As Time Goes By #1, which will conclude the series.
As announced back in April, Giant Days #55 will end the ongoing series, as the three main characters, Esther, Daisy and Susan, graduate from college. As Time Goes By will pick up 14 months later, as the three friends agree to reunite and catch up. Max Sarin will draw the special.
"This comic has always been about small moments and big catastrophes, so going out with a double-sized special gives me a chance to do plenty of both. It's impossible to please everybody when you're saying goodbye, but heaven knows, the Giant Days team are going to try," said Allison.
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Author JK ParkinPosted on July 2, 2019 Categories Comic BooksTags BOOM! Studios, cci2019, Giant Days, Giant Days: As Time Goes By, John Allison, Max SarinLeave a comment on 'Giant Days: As Time Goes By' wraps up the series
BOOM! opens the 'Hellmouth' in their first Buffy/Angel crossover
Five-issue miniseries featuring the Joss Whedon-created characters debuts in October.
BOOM! Studios will bring Joss Whedon's power couple, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, together again for the first time in the pages of Hellmouth. The five-issue miniseries is about, naturally, the end of the world.
Jordie Bellaire, who writes the main Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic, will team up with Jeremy Lambert of Doom Patrol and Goosebumps fame to write the series. They're joined by artist Eleonora Carlini, who previous worked on BOOM!'s Power Rangers comics.
The crossover series features the latest renditions of the characters, who don't have quite the history that they did in the TV show and Dark Horse line of comics. BOOM! rebooted the characters to a high school setting when they picked up the license, so this will be Buffy and Angel's first meeting, as editor Jeanine Schaefer explains.
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Author JK ParkinPosted on July 1, 2019 Categories Comic BooksTags Angel, BOOM! Studios, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, cci2019, crossovers, Eleonora Carlini, Jeanine Schaefer, Jeremy Lambert, Jordie BellaireLeave a comment on BOOM! opens the 'Hellmouth' in their first Buffy/Angel crossover
Smash Pages Q&A: Maria Llovet
The multi-faceted comic creator talks about illustrating Faithless, collaborating with Azzarello, and gives insight on her work.
The big name on the new comics series Faithless is writer Brian Azzarello, but it's artist and colorist Maria Llovet who has really blown readers away with her style and aesthetic choices, her sense of fashion and her use of color. Her approach has helped to define and shape the book in the way that a good artist and a good collaboration should be able to do.
Llovet has written and drawn a number of books that were published in Spain, including Eros/Psyche, Porcelain, Heartbeat and Insecto. She also drew There's Nothing There, which was written by Patrick Kindlon and published in the U.S. Spending some time on her website and social media, it's clear that Llovet is a busy and inventive artist with an agile mind. She was kind enough to take the time to answer a few questions by email about Faithless, another book coming out in the U.S. later this year and how she works.
Please note this interview includes preview art containing nudity that is NSFW or for kids.
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Author Alex DuebenPosted on June 18, 2019 Categories InterviewsTags BOOM! Studios, Faithless, interviews, Maria LlovetLeave a comment on Smash Pages Q&A: Maria Llovet
Smash Pages Q&A: Brian Azzarello and Sierra Hahn
The writer and editor of Faithless from BOOM! Studios discuss the lead character, working with artist Maria Llovet and more.
Faithless is a new miniseries written by Brian Azzarello, and it's a somewhat different project for him.
It's the story of a young woman who is playing around with magic, and by the end of the first issue, it's clear that she's in much deeper than she thought. Which admittedly, structurally sounds like a lot of the crime stories that Azzarello has written.
I spoke recently with Azzarello and Faithless editor Sierra Hahn. The two have known each other for years but never worked together, and we spoke about how this project came together, working with artist Maria Llovet, and Dante Alighieri.
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Jun 04, 2003 in "Mission: SPACE"
MKT: "The premise is that you are on a training mission to mars. You get grouped like ToT, with the numbers. You watch the preshow with Gary Sinise, and he explains the premise behind the X2 shuttles. Then you wait for a few minutes, and go to your numbers loading area. Once there, Sinise pops up on a TV screen and explains the positions of each member in the group. You are assigned positions and wait to board.
Once you board, the vehicle is IDENTICAL to the photos shown on this website.
From there, Sinise explains your duties and whatnot.
Then it begins. You lift off and the rest is hard to explain. I just have to say that it is INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are going through space. The ride vehicle moves, you go weightless, you weigh more. Those are REAL G's you are experiencing... not a simulator.
Finally, you land on Mars and the ride itself is over. Then on to the post-show. There's a few interactive games and simulations, as well as kiosks to send E-Postcards.
Finally, there's the gift shop... . The merchandise selection is pretty good.. I bought a T-Shirt. AND YOU CAN BUY FREEZE-DRIED ICE CREAM!!!!! "
You take off, and head into space. You orbit the moon for a second, and then shoot off and go into Hypersleep. You awake from Hypersleep to find a meteor shower around you. The autopilot maneuvers you around it, while the Shields are activated. Once you clear, you are almost in Mars. You can see Mars ahead of you. The navigator turns on the Descent engines, and you shoot forward to mars. Then the guests take control, and with Capcom's help, you steer through a Martian Canyon, and finally land the X2. However, you overshoot your landing, and nearly fall down a Canyon.
Then the ride is over, and on to the post show. There is a fairly big game on the right. Almost like a Space version of Diamonds. Immediately on the left is the children's play area, followed by a Mars Rescuer sort of game (kinda fun though), and Finally the postcard kiosk.
Then the gift shop. It has the required T-Shirts, License Plates, Pins, and stuff. It also has Model X2's and (like I said before) Freeze Dried Ice Cream (Vanilla, Chocolate, and Mint Chocolate Chip were the ones I remember. I think there was also a Fudge somewhere)"
FantasiaBoi: "The queue area is really nice. It looks as if it will be half inside, half outside. The inside part is really cool. Once you get close to the ride, you pass what looks to be the Control Center... and actual CM's are working in it. The side of the console that faces the guest is all done up with mockup controls and whatnot, the side that we can't see is probably the rides equivalent of the control tower.
I didn't like how when we were sent off to stand on the numbers... the numbers are VERY close to each other, and I felt kind of cramped. I like my personal space, you know? (By the way, I was not cramped at all inside the ride itself) This part of the ride, I felt there could have been more. You wait and wait and wait... then the pre-show comes on... and it ends, and you wait some more and wait some more. Make the video longer, so the waiting doesn't feel so long.
From the numbers, you then proceed into another room (Actually, its a hallway), with more numbers. I can see how this might cause confusion with some other guests... The video screen that was in this second "hallway" was on the blip... wasn't as clear as it should have been, and was flickering and whatnot. I hope they fix that.
There's a lot of following arrows, lines, and numbers. Our "team" managed just fine, but I could see how some guests may have trouble.
One thing that I really liked... inside the pod... they had fresh air blowing on you... similar to if you turn on the air in an airplane. I thought this was a nice touch, and probably helps with the motion sickness."


..I mean to earn money. Obvious that Di, Anne do.
Yes, I work full-time. Only 2 people around my age might have the choice of early retirement. Other friends same age as I, have to work since they were like me...switched several jobs and employers.
But that's ok for me.
The second time I tried working for myself it started out as temporary, while I looked for a new position. But eventually I realized I was doing better on my own than I had done as an employee. And my old clients -- from the agency that let me go -- started coming to me for their marketing projects. Which was very gratifying.
At this point, working from home on my own schedule, I see no reason to ever quit working.
Yes, "still working" and loving it.
Thankfully I have a husband/partner who is patient. He retired 13 years ago and began helping me...full time.
I'm my happiest at our markets. The customer interaction is what I thrive on. And the creativity behind what we do is muoy importante...and genetic!


Hey-ho! There's something new in town, WooYoo Ice Cream, which serves Korean pure milk soft ice-cream with honey. This newly opened dessert cafe is located at Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK) area, a few blocks away after the PONG Store and just before the Nasi Campur Atek PIK. I easily recognize WooYoo that has been opened since December 21, 2014 from its honeycomb shape looks on the exterior of the cafe. At that time, we're still in Bali for our short vacation; that is why we are not able to attend the opening of this cafe, which is run by our Korean friend in Jakarta. Congratulations Steve for the opening!
WooYoo serves a wide variety of ice cream with different toppings and can be served in a cup, cone, or snail bread. The ice-cream itself is quite creamy, milky, and not too sweet. On below picture is the Honey Chips, a simple Korean pure milk soft ice-cream topped with honeycomb. I'm not sure since when but using the honeycomb as a topping for ice cream become a trend lately in Jakarta. I heard this trend already started in Korea last year. The Misugaru (on the right side) has a unique flavor than the others and become one of our most favorite because it's topped with Korean cereal, soybean powder, and honey. In Korea, the kids love to eat this cereal. Both flavors were yummy and the presentation were interesting, but don't be surprised; the ice-cream only filled half of the cup because there's dry ice at the bottom of it to create smoke effects as seen in the photograph.
Another variety of ice cream where caramel popcorn mixed with Caramel sauce as toppings, suitable for popcorn lovers.
While some other stores sell sandwiches, bagels, etc., WooYoo try to give something different to the Indonesian market. This one is called Schneeballen, a traditional cookie made from shortcrust pastry, originated from Rothenburg, Germany, and formed into a ball-like shape. It's actually powdered sugar-covered pastries covered with lots of flavors, and also booming lately in Korea. To eat Schneeballen, first we covered it with the paper, then smashed it several times until it breaks into bite-sized pieces. We tried the Choco Almond flavor, and it was crunchy, not too sweet, and enjoyable to eat. This could be a nice treat to accompany coffee or tea any time of the day.
In addition to the above menus, they also serve other pastries such as Nune Tine; crunchy puff pastry with caramel flavors, and Dacgonaise (the dark chocolate color at the front) which is similar to macarons, crunchy on the outside, but chewy on the inside. If you want something else unique and savory, try Mochi Mochi (the round shape pastries on the middle) which has that chewy texture of Mochi. We tried the cheese and original flavors that day, and enjoyed both of them especially the cheese flavor.
From my overall experience, their ice cream tasted good, but they will need to improve the basic flavor of ice cream because not everyone is a milk lover. It will be nice if they can offer other flavors of ice creams too. However, you should give it a try and don't forget to try their unique Korean pastries too.
Have been passing by this place for numerous time but never got the time to try it. The Schneeballen is like a stressball. Break it to release your tension and then eat it afterwards. Haha. Nice idea. IDR 35K is not bad for ice cream.


Stainglass Copper Ring with Angelfish, on faux coquina base. Candle stand is hand made stainglass. Light will shine thru this creative table top decorative. Great Gift idea, and at this new price a steal! ON SALE, Was $79.00. Limited quanity available.


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Ada Alegre Consultores is an environmental boutique that provides a comprehensive service to the country's largest industries and government bodies, with particular expertise in natural resources and major infrastructure projects. Name partner Ada Alegre has a high profile in the market and brings in-house expertise and know-how from roles within government ministries to the table. The small but experienced team includes Rasul Camborda and Betty Suasnabar. Clients include construction companies and major players from the mining, oil and gas sectors. The firm has 'the most specialised environmental practice in the country'.
Delapuente is another boutique focused on administrative, environmental and health-and-safety law, with a growing practice in compliance and the management of corporate risk. The firm advises major companies on all aspects of environmental impact, from obtaining permits at the start of operations to regulatory issues related to protected natural areas and biodiversity, for example. Head of the practice Lorenzo de la Puente is a 'pioneer' of environmental law and is assisted by the experienced Luzmila Zegarra and Nicole Freire.
'One of the best firms in this area', Miranda & Amado dedicates three full-time associates to the practice, including senior Alberto Ventura Rivas, with the team led by natural resources specialist, recently elected co-managing partner Alberto Delgado. The team focuses on the environmental needs of its high-calibre client base, which includes Engie Energía Perú, Repsol Exploración Perú and Minera Las Bambas. Recent instructions included advising new client Transportadora de Gas del Perú (TGP) on compliance matters concerning the operation of its hydrocarbon transportation system pipeline as well as representation in administrative sanction proceedings brought by OEFA and OSINERGMIN.
The level of service at Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano – Abogados is 'outstanding', say clients, who highlight the firm's knowledge of environmental law, appropriate advice and good relations with authorities. The practice stands out for its breadth across all industries and ability to handle litigation at the highest level. Led by the experienced Jenny Caldas, the team provides ongoing environmental advice to Graña y Montero Petrolera (GMP) concerning its 600 operational oil wells, in addition to regarding its oil and gas exploration activities; Caldas is also client partner to Peru LNG. In another highlight, practice co-head Francisco Tong is leading advice to Tahoe Resources regarding amendments to its Shahuindo mine-closure plan. The firm's strength in depth in this arena is unmatched, with three partners, including fellow co-head Luis Carlos Rodrigo Prado and experienced counsel Úrsula Zavala, steering a capable pool of five associates, all of whom are 'prominent environmental lawyers.' Senior associate Francisco Barrios is recommended for water issues, while Juan Carlos del Busto is building a credible forestry practice.
CMS Grau complements its high-quality energy and mining practices with expertise in environmental issues. It now fields two partners in the team, following the promotion of Paola Carbajal to partner, supporting head of practice Vito Verna. Clients appreciate the 'knowledge of the industry and the strength of the team', as well as its 'innovative digital services' – namely the firm's 'GEORGE' client software for regulatory updates. Key instructions include providing a health-and-safety and environment audit for Compañía de Minas Buenaventura in respect of its eight mines and acting for Kimberly Clark on all environmental aspects of its two production plants in Peru.
A 'young and very dedicated' team at Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker McKenzie International is praised for its industry knowledge, depth and speed of response and tailored advice. The broad practice has branched out beyond natural resources to other industries such as telecoms and agriculture, for example. It provided environmental impact and compliance advice to Azteca Comunicaciones regarding its $325m Red Dorsal Nacional de Fibra Optica project, the first nationwide fibre optic installation in Peru which stretches 13,000km. Key members of the cross-disciplinary team include environmental specialist Ina María Drago; and associates Alexandra Carranza, praised for her client attention; and Natalia Zúñiga, who is noted for her knowledge of solid waste regulations.
Rubio Leguía Normand provides a 'great legal service' characterised by its knowledge and experience of environmental issues, particularly in the mining sector. However, as demonstrated by its caseload, the firm advises across a diverse range of industries: it is providing environmental and safety audits for AGP Perú and Villa Andina concerning their respective glass manufacturing plant and organic food processing plants. Other clients include Southern Peaks Mining, Empresa de Generación Eléctrica Santa Ana and Minera Barrick. Mining duo Xennia Forno and senior associate Miguel Ángel Soto are both highlighted for their knowledge and experience.
Santiváñez Abogados supports it first-class power practice with significant environmental, health-and-safety and compliance capability, led by experienced practitioner Karim Kahatt. Showcasing the team's expertise, it handled the environmental due diligence of thermoelectric and hydroelectric power generation plants for I Squared Capital during its global $1.2bn acquisition of IC Power. Other highlights included acting for Bear Creek Mining on obtaining environmental clearance for its Antapata substation and transmission line. The firm stands out for its 'vision and experience in environmental law and health and safety', and a 'level of specialisation and expertise' not seen elsewhere.
García Sayán Abogados complements its strength in mining, oil and gas with a solid environmental practice, well-resourced with two partners and three associates. Alberto Varillas and Diego Grisolle lead the practice and represented Gate Gourmet Perú in two separate matters concerning the solid waste management plan of its food and beverage plant. Other recent work included advice to Industrias Bioacuáticas Talara on the environmental issues of a corporate reorganisation of two companies from the group.
The three-year-old environmental practice at Lazo, De Romaña & CMB Abogados has 'great development potential in the Peruvian and regional legal market' thanks to the pedigree of its experienced senior associate team: co-head of the practice Juan Manuel Pazos 'differentiates himself from other lawyers by finding intelligent, effective and creative solutions in cases of extreme complexity'; fellow co-head Julián Li is noted for his water-law expertise and 'embodies the best of the environmental and natural resources area, a leader with values and great professional training'. An impressive 50% growth in the team's client base saw Fenix Power Peru, Lima Airport Partners and Peru LNG, among others, instruct the team; it successfully defended Cemex Peru in administrative sanctioning procedures regarding four separate environmental breaches, avoiding a $1.2m fine.
Estudio Olaechea has environmental capability led by experienced corporate, mining and regulatory partner José Antonio Honda, who is 'very professional' and 'dedicated'. Although environmental issues within the mining sector comprise the bulk of instructions, the firm also advises in other sectors, for example, rail and agriculture. Clients of the team include High Power Exploration, Imerys Minerales Peru and Ravago Group.
Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados provides a 'very high level of service' in this field, largely due to the expertise of senior associate and practice co-head Vanessa Chávarry, who is highlighted for her knowledge and experience in environmental issues. The firm acts for a broad spectrum of clients, from banks and mining companies to businesses in other heavy industries, such as electricity and gas. It acts for R P Global Perú on the environmental and social aspects of its various hydroelectric power plants around the country; and provides regular advice to Compañía Minera Las Camelias, Enel Generación Perú and Lima Gas, among others.
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uria gained valuable new clients during the past year – such as Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Lima Airport Partners and highway construction company, Survial, a subsidiary of Graña y Montero. It is acting for Concesionaria La Chira on the environmental aspects of its sewage treatment plant which covers 18 districts in Lima; and representing APM Terminals Callao regarding environmental liabilities of the multipurpose North Terminal at Callao Port. Practice head Fabiola Capurro is leading the advice on both matters. BHP Billiton World Exploration (Peru) is a client.


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Answers to Everyday Questions : Im cooking Christmas dinner this year. What sides should i make?!?
Well to be honest I would decide on your main dish first. Are you having ham or turkey or something else. Pick dishes that compliment your main dish. For example if you picked ham maybe mashed potatoes with ham gravy, deliscious. Find out people like, dislikes, and especially allergies and then go from there. Email me for more suggestions!
Are you doing a turkey? Ham? We do not have ESP here…..lol.
1. Preheat oven to 200°C/180°C fan-forced. Slice each baguette diagonally at 1.5cm intervals, being careful not to cut all the way through.
2. Combine spread, garlic, olives, tomato, chives and basil in a bowl. Season with pepper. Spread both sides of each bread slice with spread mixture. Enclose baguettes tightly in foil. Place on a baking tray. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until hot and crisp. Slice and serve.
* You could use a food processor to finely chop garlic, olives, tomatoes, chives and basil. Stir mixture through the spread.
1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Pour 1 tbs of oil into six 80ml (1/3 cup) capacity muffin pans. Place in preheated oven for 5 minutes or until oil is hot.
2. Combine the flour and salt in a bowl. Add the egg and use a balloon whisk to whisk until combined. Gradually add the milk in a thin steady stream and whisk until smooth. Pour batter among the hot muffin pans. Bake in oven for 20 minutes or until puffed and golden brown.
3. Serve with the beef wellingtons.
* You can make this recipe 30 minutes before serving the main.
1. Use a vegetable peeler to slice the sweet potatoes lengthways into thin ribbons. Line a large baking tray with 2 layers of paper towel. Add enough oil to a large saucepan to reach one-third of the way up the side of the pan. Heat to 180°C over medium-high heat (when oil is ready a cube of bread will turn golden brown in 15 seconds).
2. Add one-quarter of the sweet potato to the pan and cook for 1 minute or until crisp. Use tongs to transfer to the lined tray. Repeat, in 3 more batches, with the remaining sweet potato, reheating the oil between batches.
3. Place the chips in a large serving bowl. Season with chicken salt and serve.
* Time plan tip: Make this recipe 1 hour before serving.