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Palm Springs loves Forever Marilyn!
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So this week's LA Times piece on the iconic 26-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe statue—Forever Marilyn by Seward Johnson (1930-2020)—due to return permanently to Palm Springs next month, has added fuel to the sudden firestorm of righteousness by detractors who believe it to be "misogynistic."
For the record… I love the statue, which was briefly located in downtown Palm Springs 2012-2014 before heading off to Chicago.
'Forever Marilyn' in Palm Springs, 2012-2014
Palm Springs thrives on its nostalgic Hollywood appeal and connections as playground (and home) to the rich and famous back in the day.
As I wrote in my Palm Springs & Desert Resorts travel guidebook, in the early days "Palm Springs was a privileged playground to the stars. Locals—and the media—looked the other way at the indiscretions of Hollywood idols, who had found a demure hideaway at the foot of the mountains for their wild parties and peccadilloes." (As actor and future city mayor Charlie Farrell, co-founder of the legendary, members-only Palm Springs Racquet Club, once quipped, "We'd all be in San Quentin, or divorced" if the bedroom antics of the Hollywood stars who stayed at his club were divulged.)
And nowhere else in the world is as fascinated with Marilyn's legendary beauty, stardom, mystique—and undeniable sex appeal—as Palm Springs. Not least because few, if any, other places have as many connections.
Norma Jean at the Racquet Club, Palm Springs, 1947
Model Norma Jean posed for her first pin-up photos (with photographer Bruno Bernard in 1947) at Farrell's Racquet Club, where two years later she was "discovered" by Hollywood talent agent Johnny Hyde while lounging around the pool. She later posed nude for Playboy at the Palm Springs Tennis Court Resort (after having been the first nude to appear in the December 1953 inaugural issue, which featured photos taken four years prior by photographer Tom Kelley and purchased by Hugh Hefner, launching both her and Playboy to instant Hollywood stardom). Plus, Marilyn slept at several local hotels, most notably the Mira Loma hotel—today called Palm Springs Rendezvous—where she always stayed in a room now known as "Pretty in Pink." She eventually purchased a home in the Las Palmas neighborhood (at 1326 N. Rose Avenue); and famously made love with JFK in the dry heat on March 14, 1962, at Bing Crosby's home (although, alas, at his Rancho Mirage estate at 70375 Calico Rd., not his earlier Palm Springs home at 1011 E. El Alameda).
That's why Forever Marilyn is an absolutely perfect fit for Palm Springs!
The 'Pretty in Pink' room at Palm Springs Rendezvous
I see nothing "misogynistic" about the pop-art statue. (BTW: the detractors are misusing the term, which means "hatred for, or prejudice against, women," a nonsensical charge to level against the statue and its supporters. Surely they mean "sexist,' which is equally hollow.) In fact, given the meaning of "misogynistic," it's quite obviously the very opposite and reflects an appreciation and love of women. Consider it a homage to femininity!
This whimsical art-piece is not some randy male's faux interpretation of his sexist ideal. Forever Marilyn perfectly mirrors an actual iconic moment in movie history: the famous subway-grate scene from the Billy Wilder 1954 film The Seven Year Itch where Marilyn's skirt billows upwards (it was used by 20th Century Fox to generate publicity for movie).
As with that memorable movie moment, Johnson's larger-than-life representation also perfectly celebrates Marilyn's sensuality, free-spirit, beauty, and grace.
The iconic moment in 'The Seven Year Itch'
And if Forever Marilyn—and, by extension, the movie—is to be considered "misogynistic" (or "sexist"), then I guess we'll have to put into storage Titian's Venus of Urbino, Manet's Olympia, Picasso's Les Demoiselles, and Matisse's Blue Nude. As to all those Greek and Roman marble nude statues hanging around the Smithsonian, The Huntington, and Getty Villa, time to relegate them to the basement too! And while we're being all puritanical, I guess that lipstick, high-heels, lingerie, butt-tight jeans, and exposed midriffs and cleavage should all be taboo. Shame on Misty Copeland, Beyoncé, Sophia Loren, and any other woman who ever flaunted her sexuality.
Phew! Get over it!
There is no contradiction between one's support for the advancement of women's rights, self-determination, and equality, while also honoring their affirmatively self-confident pride in expressing their sensuality and sexuality as marvelous facets of the many wonders of womanhood. Meanwhile, consider that art has never been about being "politically correct"… that principle has been at its core since cavemen (oops, sorry, "cavepersons") started daubing pictographs.
Forever Marilyn proved immensely popular during its earlier two-year tenure on the corner of Palm Canyon Drive and Tahquitz Canyon Way, adjacent to Marilyn's star (101 S. Palm Canyon Drive) embedded in the sidewalk in Palm Springs' own version of the more famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. Back then, "misogyny" didn't seem to be an issue. The Palm Springs CVB even promoted "Play Like Marilyn" activities in the glamorous style of this legendary star and her party-loving Hollywood cohorts to celebrate the arrival of the new attraction.
'Forever Marilyn' at the corner of Tahquitz Canyon Way and Palm Canyon Drive, 2012-2014
The statue's backers are led by P.S. Resorts, a consortium of local hotels and restaurants that has worked since 2014 to bring it back to where it rightfully belongs as part of the Palm Springs "brand." They paid $1 million to purchase the statue and bring it home "for life," according to PS Resorts Chairman Aftab Dada.
A Committee to Relocate Marilyn, led by clothing designer Trina Turk (who has a store on Palm Canyon Drive) and architecture preservationist Chris Menrad, has been formed to fight the plan to locate Forever Marilyn on Museum Way, in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum. Although their battle is not to not place the statue in Palm Springs per se, many detractors want to kill Marilyn off for good!
One of the statue's biggest nay-sayers is the Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight, who's scathing rebuke last week of the decision to reinstall Marilyn in Palm Springs I find to be misanthropic, mud-slinging Fox News-like journalism that, as one Palm Springs resident on NextDoor has said, reflects the same "puritanical, hypocritical faux moralistic standards that ruined the movie for the director Billy Wilder." If you don't like the art piece, Mr. Knight, then fine. Just say so, and level your critique on that basis. Don't twist it into some evil and monstrous entity with such stupid slander as accusing the city council of promoting "the misdemeanor crime of up-skirting," and of portraying Forever Marilyn as a ""vulgar, misogynistic statue made by a hack artist… of zero achievement."
"To think that anyone will travel to Palm Springs inspired by a burning desire to get a gander at #MeToo Marilyn's giant panties is bizarre," writes Knight, subtly–and inanely–suggesting that it's appeal is to perverts and pornographers. I recall how in 2012-2014, the statue was indeed a huge promotional draw, bringing many thousands of new visitors to Palm Springs to admire this fantastic and fantastically kitschy piece of art. Given Knight's own obvious fascination with her panties, one wonders what deep-seated sexual problems or perversions of his own Forever Marilyn, er, exposes! More so, given that she was/is wearing knickers like my grandmother used to wear! These aren't Victoria's Secret thong panties!
Marilyn's grannie-style panties are bared!
(Meanwhile, Knight's cranky comments remind me of a parallel story: how after I posted a Facebook post linking to a magazine review I'd written of a new hotel in Costa Rica featuring first-of-its-kind all-glass villas with all-glass en-suite showers, I received a call from an executive at one of the world's leading travel brands–for which I've freelanced for twenty years–saying he disapproved of a published photo of the suite featuring me taking a shower with my bare backside to the camera. My response was the same as for Knight: "If you have a problem with a bare backside, then you really have a problem!")
A quick Google or Instagram search of this adorably Instagrammable art-piece shows that Forever Marilyn appeals equally to women as to men, including grannies who aren't as uptight as Knight. When the giant statue left Palm Springs in 2014, 2,000 people showed up for the farewell party with city officials plus actress Carol Channing (star of the original Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, based on the 1953 movie with Marilyn Monroe) and local Marilyn impersonater Cat Lyn Day.
Nonetheless, even Louis Grachos, the Palm Springs Art Museum's CEO and executive director said he considered the statue ""an unhealthy encouragement of risqué behavior of women." How so, Mr. Grachos? And do you mean "by" women or "towards" women? (This nonsensical non-sequitur seems like an echo of rabid Bible-thumping Republicans who denounce permitting gay men to teach in schools because it promotes pedophilia! Or as daft as the notion–once used to scare kids off "indecent" behavior–that masturbation will cause blindness!)
Steven H. Maloney, chair of the museum's board of trustees, echoed Gracho's sentiment in a letter to the mayor and city council. He then tripped over his own words by stating: "It also fundamentally misconstrues the role of cultural institutions, which is to facilitate a diverse public's engagement with a rich array of culture and art." In that case… baloney, Maloney! You're being hypocritical! Likewise, the critique that the statue "undermines the seriousness of the arts conversations that are part of everyday life for the museum." Er, again, what? This is the same museum that for years proudly displayed a giant pop-art sculpture of Snoopy in the lobby, and which in 2009 displayed images by controversial shock-photographer Robert Mapplethorpe that included of actress Sonia Braga topless. Where was the shock, horror cry of misogyny and sexism then?
"The aesthetic question of 'personal taste' is a common dodge in public art discussions," Knight disingenuously writes, while lacing his supposedly objectve diatribe against the ""offending sculpture"" with such subjective slaps as "offensive hunk of junk," "shameful misogynist lark," and "a blatantly sexist sculpture snickering at women in general [that] is unlikely to be widely cheered as it goes up in a tourist town."
How wrong you are, Mr. Knight!
As to local public opinion, I'm following the heated debate among Palm Springs residents on NextDoor, and it's evident that those in favor outnumber those against. "I've missed it being in its old location," says local TV Travel host Bea Broda, former president of the Society of American Travel Writers. Nonetheless, many "city fathers" who were once in favor have suddenly jumped on the opposition bandwagon out of fear of being considered politically incorrect.
Such is our times!
Marilyn Monroe nude by Bert Stern
Lastly, one wonders what Marilyn would have made of it all…
She was a very driven, motivated, and accomplished actress, albeit with a troubled personality. A voracious reader with a keen intellect, she studied history and literature at UCLA between acting stints. She even considered taking arts extension courses at UCLA to further her love of the arts! Nonetheless, the blonde bombshell clearly delighted in her own sexuality and frequently posed nude without inhibition for such photographers as Bert Stern.
SHE would be delighted to have her most iconic moment on film recorded in painted aluminum and stainless steel for posterity. SHE would not consider it misogynistic, nor sexist. How could she? I think she'd laugh at the notion.
All that said, I see having Marilyn return to the city where she was discovered as a total win-win for the city. It will become a beloved icon and certainly great PR, despite its detractors.
The only genuine debate, which also rages with threats of lawsuits, is where to put it… but that's another topic.
Christopher P Baker
Christopher P. Baker, one of the world's most multi-talented and successful travel writers and photographers has been named by National Geographic as one of the world's foremost authorities on Cuba travel and culture. Winner of the Lowell Thomas Award 2008 as 'Travel Journalist of the Year,' he has authored more than 30 books, leads tours for National Geographic Expeditions, Edelwiss Bike Travel, and Jim Cline Photo Tours, among other companies, and is a Getty Images and National Geographic contributing photographer.
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ECNEPHIAS "The Firewalker" (lyric video)
ECNEPHIAS "The Firewalker" official lyric video
Italy's finest, anthemic Dark Metal machine ECNEPHIAS have just launched their second official video for the band's upcoming self-titled album.
It is a lyric video for the song "The Firewalker" and it is a great horrorific and arcane work created by Mr. Sergio at Adhiira Art.
Enjoy the video here: http://youtu.be/FSUaQ0pxcIk
The album "Ecnephias" will contain 13 songs for more than 67 minutes and will be released on February 16, 2015. It's already described as the best ever composed by the Lucanian band and it is announced as a milestone of Dark Metal in the same vein of Moonspell, Rotting Christ, Type O Negative
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In 2009, Brooklyn Bowl New York prepared to open it's doors. Among all the moving parts of opening up a new music venue, bowling alley, bar, and restaurant, we needed a grounded chef who'd be in charge of fueling our customers, artists, and staff. Luckily for us, we got a Blue Ribbon veteran and rockstar chef, David Kornell. After nine years, 1000s of shows, dinners, brunches, parties, we've been lucky enough to keep him a part of our ever-growing family. Below is his Brooklyn Bowl story from then to now and the introduction of our new Jerk Chicken Special being featuring Tuesday, November 7 and Thursday, November 9.
Brooklyn Bowl: Tell us what it was like being the chef to open Brooklyn Bowl? What was your biggest takeaway from that experience?
Dave Kornell: Opening Brooklyn Bowl was a powerful experience, that has forever changed me. I was working for Blue Ribbon for two years when we were preparing to open Brooklyn Bowl and I was excited about representing the Blue Ribbon brand in this new establishment. I was getting pretty comfortable with the classics that would be the centerpiece of the Bowl menu, and knew that I had guidance and support from Blue Ribbon chef and owners, Bruce and Eric Bromberg (who founded Blue Ribbon 25 years ago). I was very fortunate to have a kitchen that was not only filled with shiny new equipment, but with cooks and dishwashers that had years of Blue Ribbon experience. My co-chef and best friend, Matt Deliso, came on to help lead the way, and together we embarked on a totally weird and wonderful trip.
For me, the relationships and friendships that I developed during these times were my biggest takeaway from Brooklyn Bowl. There's a laid-back vibe with a rock and roll attitude, and a serious service-driven focus, but during all of it, a shared love of creating awesome experiences. Most of us were passionate about music, and open minded to share who and what we loved about it with each other. Owner Charley Ryan with his amazing stories about rock legends, traveling the world and the Wetlands, and General Manager Stephen Schwarz with his love of Ween, bacon, and life, was always there with love and support. Kevin Denham who has kept the place in one piece and the lanes clean since day one is getting married next week in Florida. Justin Bolognino, who was a driving force in creating Brooklyn Bowl as a brand continues to amaze me to this day with his new company Meta, and growing his family, whom I love dearly. There are too many names to name and amazing stories that go along with each of them, and for every one of a them I feel love… and somewhere at the top of that list is Pete Shapiro. It's been a great privilege to see Pete and Brooklyn Bowl evolve, and I've tried to absorb, enjoy, and appreciate as much as I could during my time cooking for the venue. I saw Trey at Carnegie Hall and Black Sabbath at the O2 with Pete, as well as countless other amazing musical moments, but most importantly I went to my first "Dead" (Furthur) show with Shappy. That moment, along with the following years of Shappy's, the Bowl's and my friend's LOVE of the Grateful Dead has forever changed me, and for that, I am forever grateful.
BB: What was your favorite items on Brooklyn Bowl's menu?
DK: There were some items that we created specifically for Brooklyn Bowl, often incorporating elements of familiarity that Blue Ribbon is known for. The Knish at the Bowl was based on the pierogis that I had been enjoying at Blue Ribbon for years, so I was immediately drawn to them and found it hard not to taste test them often. We had a roast pork sandwich when we first opened that used the recipe from one of our prep cooks, Francisco, who had been working for Blue Ribbon since the very beginning, and it was delicious. It was awesome to be able to take a recipe that was most likely passed down through generations in Ecuador, and with respect and reverence incorporate it onto the Brooklyn Bowl menu.
Some favorites that are still on the menu are the San Gennero Pizza (great balance of flavors with house-made sausage), Mac and Cheese (would not be a great as it is without Mia's suggestion to add caramelized onions) and our jumbo pancake, which I think holds up as one of the best around.
BB: We know you're just as well versed in music as your are in food. Tell us about your favorite shows you've ever seen at Brooklyn Bowl?
That Robert Plant show will forever go down as one of the greatest moments at the Bowl, and I've seen the video of Plant singing "Going to California" and it gets me every time.
– Dr. Dog's July in Christmas on December 11, 2009: Our first year open and they had fake snowfall, costumes, threw gifts to the crowd; the room was FULL of spirit.
– Joe Russo's Almost Dead on October 3, 2015: The Scarlet Begonias > Fire on The Mountain was a magical moment. The eruption of the crowd was so natural and explosive as if the energy simply could not be contained.
BB: What's the wildest behind the scenes request you've had from one of the artists who played during your time as chef?
DK: Wild, behind the scenes Brooklyn Bowl stories are plentiful, but there is kind of an unspoken code to keep those amongst family… maybe one day a group of the OGs will gather some for a book or something, as long as we all agreed to it.
To be honest, I really didn't experience too many of these. I think so many artists were blown away with the options we already had in house, which is very different from most other music venues, that they were able to find things that worked for them. Another lesson I learned from Blue Ribbon is that Fried Chicken makes most people VERY happy.
BB: So you're making a Jerk Chicken special for the upcoming The Original Wailers on Tuesday, November 7 and The Movement with New Kingston on Thursday, November 9. What about this style of food speaks to you and when did you start cooking it most?
DK: Jamaica was the first country outside of the United States that I had ever visited. At the time I was 22 years old and worked as a sous chef in Rockland County. My first official vacation had to take place somewhere special, where I could relax on a beach somewhere, eat some great food, smoke some ganja, and listen to music. There were only a few options that fit all of my needs, so Jamaica it was. That first trip to Jamaica was filled with sights, sounds, and flavors that always stuck with me.
Since then, I have traveled across the globe and tasted foods from different cultures. The ones that have spoken to me recently have been loaded with bold flavors, aromatics, and spices. After working on a project that had me traveling and cooking in India, I felt a desire to reconnect to the flavors from Jamaica with a focus on Jerk Chicken. I think Jerk Chicken encompasses so many of the things that chefs love about cooking. Using bright and intense ingredients to build flavors, slow cooking with fire, simplicity, history… it takes a long process spread out over two days to accomplish correctly. There is something beautifully optimistic about marinating something overnight to cook the next day.
New Jerk Chicken Dinner special served with Jamaican slaw and curried squash!
BB: What's the best Jerk Chicken you've ever had and where? Where's the best Jerk Chicken in New York City?
DK: The best Jerk Chicken I had was in Port Antonio, Jamaica. It was last year around the holidays, and my girlfriend and I were driving around Jamaica looking for the best Jerk Chicken. There were some others that stood out also, like the chicken from Fiya Side, which is on a highway between Kingston and Treasure Beach.
Tropical Jerk in Queens Village has a pretty traditional version and their hot sauce has that real Scotch Bonnet kick. It's a no-frills type of place, so I'd recommend take out, which unfortunately means styrofoam containers. Glady's in Prospect Heights also does a great job and has more of a restaurant vibe, so you can sit down, order a Red Stripe or Pina Colada with your Jerk, and have a nice dining experience.
BB: What is the best reggae show you've ever seen and where was it?
DK: Jimmy Cliff at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. It was a rainy day, which as many of you know makes the grounds at Jazz Fest intolerable. After weaving in and out of crowds, through food stalls (I may have snagged a gumbo on the way), and towards the Congo Square Stage, the smooth sounds of steel drums welcomed us. When Jimmy Cliff took the stage, it felt as if the storms had stopped and the sun was once again shining through.
BB: Tell our fans what your favorite part about coming back to Brooklyn Bowl is? Whether it's the food, the music, the bowling, or when you get the chance to cook here again?
DK: I think it's the combination of everything. To me, Brooklyn Bowl feels like home, in the best sense. The warmth of the management, servers, and hosts. It's a testament to the management who have created a foundation for service that has continued to improve over the years. The staff at Brooklyn Bowl is awesome, and not just for a bowling alley/rock venue. From the second Khari on security greets you to the minute the server drops your bread pudding, Brooklyn Bowl does its best to create a safe space with an elevated level of service. The sight lines are incredible, the sound incredible, and getting better and better every year, thanks, Pete. The leather couches on the lanes more comfortable then any I've ever owned. The consistency of food and service. The chicken burger is the same chicken burger that was served in Blue Ribbon and fried chicken that blows peoples minds.
BB: Finally, do you have any words of wisdom for aspiring chefs?
DK: Enjoy the ride with eyes wide open. It's not always easy, and sometimes you may want to cut your fingers off, but you're part of a long lineage who have continuously gone to great lengths, through extreme conditions, and put others ahead of themselves for the sake of providing nourishment. Love food for what it is and love people for who they are, and treat both with respect. Be passionate about creating great food now, but also be aware of the future. How will the food that you are passionate about today affect the people and world around you tomorrow? Do the best with what you have and be realistic about what you can do. Take responsibility for mistakes and own up to them, communicating as often and best you can. Be compassionate and nice to people.
David Kornell outside Brooklyn Bowl November 2017.
Don't miss the chance to try our new Jerk Chicken special with Curried Squash at Brooklyn Bowl New York on Tuesday, November 7 and Thursday, November 9!
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«Морска́я поли́ция: Лос-А́нджелес» () — американский телесериал, сочетающий в себе элементы военной драмы и детектива, премьера которого состоялась на CBS 22 сентября 2009 года. Сериал рассказывает о буднях Лос-Анджелесского Управления Специальных Проектов (ОСП), элитного дивизиона военно-морского следственного управления, которое специализируется на работе под прикрытием.

Спин-офф сериала «NCIS». 7 октября 2009 года канал CBS дал добро на расширенный первый сезон, состоящий из 22 эпизодов. 4 ноября 2009 года сезон был продлен ещё на два дополнительных эпизода. Второй сезон начал трансляцию на 21 сентября 2010 года. 18 мая 2011, CBS продлил сериал на третий сезон. 18 августа 2011, CBS заявил, что будет кроссовер с сериалом «Гавайи 5.0». Кенси Блай (Даниэла Руа) появится в 6 серии 2 сезона «Гавайи 5.0». 11 января 2012 года, CBS заявил, что будет второй кроссовер с «Гавайи 5.0», в «Морской Полиции: Лос-Анджелес», появятся Скотт Каан и Дэниел Дэ Ким. 14 марта 2012 года сериал продлен на четвёртый сезон.

5 ноября 2012 года веб-сайт Deadline.com сообщил о возможном спин-оффе сериала под названием «NCIS: Red». Новые персонажи были введены в двух эпизодах «Морская полиция: Лос-Анджелес» (4x18-19). 6 февраля 2013 Мигель Феррер был повышен до постоянного актера на следующий сезон и спин-офф. Тем не менее 15 мая 2013 года канал CBS официально заявил, что проект спин-оффа заморожен из-за низких рейтингов пилота. 13 марта 2014 года CBS продлил сериал на шестой сезон. 11 мая 2015 года канал продлил сериал на седьмой сезон. 25 марта 2016 года CBS продлил сериал на восьмой сезон. 23 марта 2017 года сериал был продлён на девятый сезон. 18 апреля 2018 года сериал был продлён на десятый сезон.

22 апреля 2019 канал CBS продлил сериал на одиннадцатый сезон. Премьера одиннадцатого сезона состоялась 29 сентября 2019 года.

6 мая 2020 года телеканал CBS продлил телесериал на двенадцатый сезон. Премьера состоялась 8 ноября 2020 года.

23 апреля 2021 телеканал CBS продлил телесериал на тринадцатый сезон. Его премьера состоится 10 октября 2021 года.

31 марта 2022 года телеканал CBS продлил телесериал на четырнадцатый сезон. Его премьера состоялась 9 октября 2022 года. 20 января 2023 года было объявлено что сериал завершиться на четырнадцатом сезоне заключительная серия выйдет 14 мая 2023 года.

Производство
«Морская полиция: Лос-Анджелес» представлен, как спин-офф телесериала «NCIS». Съемки начались в феврале 2009 года
Пилотная серия состоит из двух частей и называется «Легенда» («NCIS» 6х22,23), первая часть вышла в эфир 28 апреля 2009 года. Крис О'Доннелл играет главного героя, Джи Каллена, ведущего агента, о природном таланте к тайной работе которого ходят легенды. LL Cool J играет роль специального агента Сэма Ханна, бывшего морского котика, который свободно говорит по-арабски и является специалистом по культуре Ближнего Востока. Даниэла Руа играет агента по имени Кенси Блай. Адам Ямал Крэйг играл новичка, агента Доминика Вэйл, в течение 21 серии первого сезона, но впоследствии ушёл из проекта. Эрик Кристиан Олсен играет Марти Дикса, офицера по связям с полицией Лос-Анджелеса. Олсен появляется в двух эпизодах первого сезона в качестве приглашенной звезды, и присоединяется к составу команды во втором сезоне, как замена Доминика Вэйла. Линда Хант играет Хетти Ланг, она управляет всеми операциями, бывший агент с таинственным прошлым, Рене Фелис Смит — аналитик разведки Нелл Джонс и Барретт Фоа — Эрик Билл, технический аналитик команды.
Питер Кэмбор — Нэйт Гейтц, врач оперативной команды, который держит их миссии под наблюдением, в его обязанности входит профилирование цели и постоянный мониторинг психического здоровья команды. В течение первого сезона — постоянный персонаж, со второго — повторяющийся.

Спин-офф
5 ноября 2012 года веб-сайт Deadline.com сообщил о пилотных сериях спин-оффа «Морская полиция: Лос-Анджелес» под названием NCIS: Red. Новые персонажи были введены в двух эпизодах «Морская полиция: Лос-Анджелес» (4x18-19). В спин-оффе будет показана работа команды из мобильных агентов, которые путешествуют по всей стране, чтобы расследовать преступления. Сайт  сообщил о пяти главных героях: Пэррис Симмерскирр, Рой Куэйд, Дэйв Флинн, Клэр Китса, и Кай Эша
Эдвин Ходж был первым утверждён на роль Кая Эша.. 6 февраля 2013 года стало известно, что Джон Корбетт будет играть Роя Куэйда. В тот же день стало известно, что Мигель Феррер будет одним из главных героев в спин-оффе, а также будет регулярно появляться в пятом сезоне «Морской полиции: Лос-Анджелес». 8 февраля 2013 года Скотт Граймс утверждён в роли Дэйва и Джиллиан Алексия утверждена на роль Клэр. 9 февраля 2013 было объявлено, что Ким Рейвер появится в роли специального агента Пэррис Симмерскирр. Съемки начались 13 февраля 2013 года. Пилотная серия «Red» состоит из двух частей. Первая часть «Red» вышла в эфир 19 марта 2013 года. Вторая часть «Red»-2" 26 марта 2013 года. 15 мая 2013 года канал CBS отказался от полного сезона из-за низких рейтингов пилота.

Сюжет
NCIS или Морская полиция — особое подразделение, наблюдающее за опасными преступниками, которые угрожают безопасности всей страны. Действие разворачивается в Лос-Анджелесе, штат Калифорния. Используя фальшивые личности команда специалистов работает под прикрытием, рискуя собственными жизнями ради достижения цели. Они внедряются в бандитские группировки, предотвращают террористические акты, расследуют военные преступления.
Речь идет о команде состоящей из четырёх агентов (Джи Каллен, Сэм Ханна, Кенси Блай и Доминик Вэйл, позже его заменил детектив Марти Дикс), оперативного психолога Нэйта Гетц, технического оператора Эрика Билл, а также Хетти Ланг, которая управляет всеми операциями. Позже к команде присоединяется Нелл Джонс — аналитик.
Первые два сезона вращаются в основном вокруг Джи Каллена, который пытается узнать о своем прошлом.

В ролях

Основной состав

 Крис О'Доннелл в роли Джи Каллена; Специальный агент и оперативник под прикрытием Отдела Специальных Проектов (ОСП). Детство Каллен провел в приемных семьях, не знает своих родителей и даже своего имени, только первую букву — «G» (Джи). Напарник Сэма Ханны.
 LL Cool J в роли Сэма Ханны; Старший агент и партнер Джи. Сэм — единственный, у кого есть семья (жена и двое детей). Его жена — бывший агент ЦРУ, работавшая под прикрытием. Ханна — бывший Морской котик. Его напарник — Джи Каллен.
 Даниэла Руа в роли Кенси Блай; дочь морского офицера и единственная женщина-специальный агент в отделе. Её отец умер, когда она была подростком, после этого Кенси некоторое время жила на улице. Она квалифицированный оперативник, работающий под прикрытием, и не боится использовать свою сексуальность для достижения результата. У Кенси романтические отношения с её напарником, Марти Диксом.
 Эрик Кристиан Олсен в роли Мартина «Марти» Дикса; детектив полиции Лос-Анджелеса, нанят Хетти для налаживания связей между Морской полицией и полицией Лос-Анджелеса. Хотя сразу же становится ясно, что Хетти планирует сделать из него агента Морпола. У Дикса открытый характер, он любит шутить веселиться и является самым болтливым членом команды. Со своей напарницей, Кенси Блай, он состоит в романтических отношениях.
 Барретт Фоа в роли Эрика Била; технический оператор, который обеспечивает связь между агентами и штабом. Он не работает под прикрытием и не умеет обращаться с оружием. Но ему нравится его работа в оперативном штабе ОСП. Эрик — напарник Нелл.(по 12 сезон).
 Рене Фелис Смит в роли Нелл Джонс; аналитик, но мечтает стать Специальным агентом. Она одинаково хорошо чувствует себя как в стенах оперативного штаба, так и на заданиях. Со временем становится очевидно, что Хетти готовит её как свою замену. Нелл невероятно одаренный оперативник и опытный специалист по огнестрельному оружию. У неё самый высокий IQ в Морской полиции. Напарник Эрика.(по 12 сезон).
 Линда Хант в роли Генриетты «Хетти» Лэнг; наблюдающий Специальный агент и директор отдела спецпроектов Морской полиции. Раньше Хетти была агентом под прикрытием. В своё время она забрала нескольких сирот с улицы (включая Каллена и Хантер) и сделала из них агентов под прикрытием.
 Мигель Феррер в роли Оуэна Гренджера; заместитель директора Морской полиции. Он — связующее звено между командой и Вашингтоном. С остальными членами команды отношения у него прохладные. Гренджер — давний друг и противник Хетти.
 Питер Кэмбор в роли Нейта Гетца; практикующий психолог и Специальный агент. Сначала он работал в ОСП и помогал команде при допросах. Позже Нейт уехал и стал работать под прикрытием. Со временем он превратился в высококвалифицированного полевого агента. Несмотря на смену деятельности Нейт все еще возвращается в Лос-Анджелес, когда команда в нем нуждается.
 Адам Ямал Крэйг в роли Доминика «Дома» Вейла; агент на испытательном сроке. Был партнером Кенси и воспринимался остальными членами команды в качестве младшего брата. Команда была опустошена, когда сначала Дом пропал, а затем выяснилось, что он был похищен. Во время спасательной операции Доминик погибает.
 Медалион Рахими в роли Фатимы Назами; специального агента морской полиции (с 11 сезона постоянно).
 Калеб Кастилль в роли Девина Раунтри; специального агента морской полиции, ранее агента ФБР (с 12 сезона постоянно).

Второстепенный состав
 Роки Кэрролл в роли Леона Венса; директор Морской полиции. Венс потратил много времени налаживая работу нового офиса Морпола в Лос-Анджелесе, но все еще периодически наведывается сюда, чтобы убедится, что дела идут нормально (1-3, 6 сезоны).
 Брайан Аверс в роли Майка Ренко; агент, прикрепленный к Морской полиции Лос-Анджелеса, нередко сотрудничающий с ОСП. Был убит во время акта мести Хамелеоном (1, 3 сезоны).
 Кэтлин Роуз Перкинс в роли Роуз Швартц; коронер Лос-Анджелеса. Время от времени сотрудничает с командой ОСП во время их расследований. У неё романтические чувства к Нейту Гетцу (1-4 сезоны).
 Вито Руджинис в роли Аркадия Колчека; бывший агент КГБ. Дружит с Хетти и Калленом. Он не раз помогал Морской полиции, но также не раз втягивал их в неприятности. У Аркадия есть дочь, которую он знает не очень хорошо (1-6 сезоны).
 Клэр Форлани в роли Лорен Хантер; была подобрана Хетти в подростковом возрасте и благодаря ей стала Специальным агентом и даже короткое время заменяла Хетти в качестве главы ОСП. Была убита Хамелеоном (3-4 сезоны).
 Эрик Палладино в роли Востаника Сабатино; агент ЦРУ, который был арестован командой, когда находился глубоко под прикрытием. Дружен Мишель Ханной. Также работал с Кенси Блай в Афганистане. Сначала она подозревала Сабатино в двойной игре, но позже осознала его ценность как опытного оперативника (4-5 сезоны).
 Макрейни, Джеральд в роли отставного адмирала Холлеса Килбрайда, потом временно оперативного управляющего ОСП.

Эпизоды

Критика

Первый эпизод сериала посмотрели 18,73 млн зрителей, доля основной демографической группы от 18 до 49 лет составила 4.4/11. Это позволило «Морской полиции: Лос-Анджелес» стать вторым самым популярным сериалом недели (первый — Морская полиция: Спецотдел).

Отзывы критиков о сериале были смешанными. Сайт отзывов Metacritic выставил ему 59 баллов из 100. Обозреватель из одного из наиболее популярных и авторитетных газет США Los Angeles Times Мэри Макнамара написала: «Преступление многогранно и интригует, оно требует хороший баланс опыта и большое количество перестрелок. Но, как и в оригинальной Морской полиции, акцент делается на персонажей команды. … Лос-Анджелес, тем временем, выглядит восхитительно, наблюдается приятная смесь нуара и опасных заданий, также есть ощущение стабильности, что утешает в эти смутные времена».

Дэвид Хинскли, обозреватель Нью-Йоркской газеты Daily News отнесся к шоу более критично, отмечая, что хотя «все это добавляет нам час развлечений и есть возможность для развития персонажей настолько, чтобы у нового сериала было своё лицо … премьерный эпизод не дал нам ничего такого, чего бы мы не видели раньше».

Том Шейлс из ежедневной газеты The Washington Post написал, что «это процедурал, который следует строго установленному порядку, но имеет симпатичных персонажей, несимпатичных плохих парней, а иногда и потрясающие перестрелки в Лос-Анджелесе».

Роберт Бианко из первого общенационального ежедневного издания USA Today обобщил: «Сериал принял легкую формулу-тон оригинальной "Морской полиции" с множеством подшучиваний, теперь уже в специальном тайном отделе NCIS в Лос-Анджелесе. Ничего больше, но и не меньше».

Ведущий американский журнал The Hollywood Reporter, который отслеживает события в киноиндустрии США, сравнил шоу с сериалом Команда «А», «у которого тот же беззаботный подход к жизни и смерти. Возможно, наибольшее отличие в том, что "Морская полиция: Лос-Анджелес" достигает своих неизбежно положительных результатов с немного большим уровнем интеллекта и меньшим уровнем тестостерона».

Новостной и информационный веб-сайт IGN заявил, что хотя «Морская полиция: Лос-Анджелес» не изобрел заново полицейский процедурал … но это еще одно шоу в своем жанре уровня выше среднего, учитывая то, что люди, которые стоят за ним знают, что делают". И в конечном счете выставил за эпизод 7,7 баллов из 10.

Рейтинги
Сезонные рейтинги основаны на среднем количестве зрителей за каждый эпизод.
 Примечания: ** Каждый американский телевизионный канал начинает свой сезон в конце сентября и заканчивает в конце мая, что совпадает с вычислением всеамериканского рейтинга.** Указано Североамериканское восточное время.

Номинации и награды

Примечания

Ссылки

Телесериалы США 2000-х годов
Телесериалы США 2010-х годов
Телесериалы США, запущенные в 2009 году
Телесериалы на английском языке
Телесериалы CBS Paramount Television
Программы телеканала Си-би-эс
Драматические телесериалы США
Телесериалы-спин-оффы
Криминальные телесериалы США
Телесериалы, сюжет которых разворачивается в Лос-Анджелесе

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Marie Helene Kammer
F, #90941, b. 1967
Marie Helene Kammer was born in 1967. She is the daughter of Jurgen Kammer and Diana Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg.
Emily von Oppen
Emily von Oppen was born in 1978 at Buenos Aires, ArgentinaG. She is the daughter of Georg-Sigismund von Oppen and Diana Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg.
Maximilian von Oppen
Maximilian von Oppen was born in 1980 at Buenos Aires, ArgentinaG. He is the son of Georg-Sigismund von Oppen and Diana Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg.
Helene Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg
F, #90944, b. 1892, d. 1943
Helene Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg was born in 1892 at Enns, AustriaG. She was the daughter of August Graf und Edler Herr von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg and Margarethe Baronin von und zu Franckenstein. She married Conde Jose-Luiz de Saldanha da Gama in 1919 at TillysburgG. She died in 1943 at Lisbon, PortugalG.
Her married name became de Saldanha da Gama.
Children of Helene Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg and Conde Jose-Luiz de Saldanha da Gama
Conde Alexandre de Saldanha da Gama b. 1920, d. 1960
Conde Vasco de Saldanha da Gama+ b. 1921
Gastao de Saldanha da Gama b. 1924
Conde Jose-Luiz de Saldanha da Gama
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Last Edited=5 Jun 2005
Conde Jose-Luiz de Saldanha da Gama was born in 1893 at Torres NovasG. He married Helene Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg, daughter of August Graf und Edler Herr von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg and Margarethe Baronin von und zu Franckenstein, in 1919 at TillysburgG. He died in 1958 at Lisbon, PortugalG.
Children of Conde Jose-Luiz de Saldanha da Gama and Helene Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg
Conde Alexandre de Saldanha da Gama
Conde Alexandre de Saldanha da Gama was born in 1920 at Vienna, AustriaG. He was the son of Conde Jose-Luiz de Saldanha da Gama and Helene Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg. He married Eleonore Schluter in 1947 at Madrid, SpainG. He died in 1960 at Colares, PortugalG.
Eleonore Schluter
Eleonore Schluter was born in 1914 at SanturceG. She married Conde Alexandre de Saldanha da Gama, son of Conde Jose-Luiz de Saldanha da Gama and Helene Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg, in 1947 at Madrid, SpainG.
Conde Vasco de Saldanha da Gama
Conde Vasco de Saldanha da Gama was born in 1921 at Persenbeug, AustriaG. He is the son of Conde Jose-Luiz de Saldanha da Gama and Helene Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg. He married Maria-Eugenia Vaz de Almada in 1945 at Lisbon, PortugalG.
Children of Conde Vasco de Saldanha da Gama and Maria-Eugenia Vaz de Almada
Jose-Maria de Saldanha da Gama+ b. 1947
Lourenco de Saldanha da Gama+ b. 1948
Alvaro de Saldanha da Gama+ b. 1949
Helena de Saldanha da Gama+ b. 1950
Isabel de Saldanha da Gama b. 1957
Maria-Eugenia Vaz de Almada
Maria-Eugenia Vaz de Almada was born in 1923. She married Conde Vasco de Saldanha da Gama, son of Conde Jose-Luiz de Saldanha da Gama and Helene Gräfin von und zu Eltz gennant Faust von Stromberg, in 1945 at Lisbon, PortugalG.
Children of Maria-Eugenia Vaz de Almada and Conde Vasco de Saldanha da Gama
Jose-Maria de Saldanha da Gama
Jose-Maria de Saldanha da Gama was born in 1947 at Lisbon, PortugalG. He is the son of Conde Vasco de Saldanha da Gama and Maria-Eugenia Vaz de Almada. He married Maria-Margarida Araujo Figueiredo in 1973 at Lisbon, PortugalG. He married Ana-Maria Nunes Marques in 1982 at Lisbon, PortugalG.
Child of Jose-Maria de Saldanha da Gama and Isabel Barbosa das Neves
Sofia Barbosa de Saldanha da Gama b. 1968
Children of Jose-Maria de Saldanha da Gama and Maria-Margarida Araujo Figueiredo
Rita Araujo de Saldanha da Gama b. 1975
Marggarida Arauujo de Saldanha da Gama b. 1977


This is a special preview for Origins Game Fair 2009. Mark discusses taking your kids to Origins; Tom asks some questions about Puffing Billy, and Mary and Brad give some good tips for newcomers. Want to know what's going on, and what to see and do? Check out this episode!


MeM#7 —31) The Icons (Mitchell Rose. Estados Unidos.) 4:21 min. from Movimiento en Movimiento on Vimeo.
(THIS IS A TRAILER OF THE FILM).
Alternative interpretations of signage from everyone's favorite generic couple, The Icons.
Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Mitchell Rose was a New York-based choreographer/performance artist. His company toured internationally for 15 years. Eventually he was drawn more to visual media and chose to become a filmmaker, entering The American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow. Since A.F.I., his films have won 87 festival awards and are screened around the world. The New York Times called him: "A rare and wonderful talent." Mr. Rose tours a program called The Mitch Show, an evening of his short films together with audience-participation performance pieces. He toured The Mitch Show in Kosovo as a U.S. State Dept. Cultural Envoy. Mr. Rose is currently a professor of filmmaking at Ohio State University.
Interview to Mitchell Rose, talking about his creative experience. Filmed via long distance computer call: SKYPE.
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Fair Use Takes Center Stage at Judiciary Committee Hearing
By Mitch Stoltz and Parker Higgins
Copyright reform hearings continue to lumber along in the House of Representatives, with Tuesday's in the Judiciary Committee marking the seventh in as many months. This hearing was dedicated to "The Scope of Fair Use," and though the panel of witnesses was more diverse than in some of the earlier hearings, there were still some disappointing trends in the conversation.
One area that got significant attention was the topic of mass digitization, which has been repeatedly determined by courts to be a fair and transformative use. Not only is it fair, but as Professor Peter Jaszi noted during the hearing it is also tremendously beneficial, enabling the indexing and searching of huge sets of works.
Several panelists, however, pointed to the legal status of mass digitization as evidence of "fair use creep," stressing its supposed lack of "transformative" quality over the other fair use considerations. That's a mistake. Mass digitization is absolutely the sort of thing fair use is supposed to enable. Fair use is a flexible doctrine, not a rigid list of exceptions, so that it can accommodate changes in practices or technology.
Even more troublingly, some panelists seemed fixated on the commercial character of a use in determining whether it could be considered fair. On the one hand, the Supreme Court is abundantly clear that commercial use does not preclude a finding of fair use. But to listen to some of the panelists Tuesday, the notion seemed to be that if anybody is making money, rightsholders want a cut—or worse, the power to veto the use in the first place. The definition of commercial use, too, was stretched to its breaking point: according to one panelist, an otherwise non-commercial video remix can be tainted with the label of commercial as soon as it is posted to an ad-supported platform like YouTube.
That same panelist—the songwriter and copyright expansion activist David Lowery—also repeatedly raised hip hop as an example of copyright working effectively without fair use because the genre has managed to achieve popularity despite often requiring licenses for musical samples. Of course, this characterization overlooks how licensing schemes limit what sorts of creativity are sanctioned under the law, and that seminal works in the genre simply could not be made under today's understanding of sampling.
Taken together, these two themes represent a pernicious misconception that there are "legitimate" works—the ones presented by companies that belong to lobbying organizations with multi-million dollar budgets—and "illegitimate" ones that require permission to be created or commercially exploited.
In terms of the law, the Supreme Court rejected that argument over 100 years ago, and has been reaffirmed numerous times in cases like Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music ("Whether ... parody is in good taste or bad does not and should not matter to fair use") and Yankee Publishing Inc. v. News America Publishing ("First Amendment protections do not apply only to those who speak clearly, whose jokes are funny, and whose parodies succeed"). Any understanding of fair use has to reflect that legal tradition.
Although it didn't get much attention during Tuesday's hearing, issues of fair use are complicated by the incredibly high penalties that can await those accused of infringement. These punitive fees discourage artists from actually exercising fair use rights as they create.
One panelist, Professor June Besek, recently suggested that statutory damages don't need to be addressed, but her record on this issue is troubling. Writing to the Department of Commerce this month, Besek pointed to a $6,000 court judgment won by notorious copyright troll Prenda Law—a judgment that was almost certainly achieved by fraud—as an example of the current copyright law working well.
Professor Besek said that copyright penalties for individual file-sharers don't need fixing at this time because cases like Prenda's (brought using the law firm's alter ego, AF Holdings, as plaintiff) result in damages "under $10,000." It's widely known that Prenda has coerced millions of dollars in "settlement" payments from Internet subscribers by building false copyright cases on a framework of shell companies, forged documents, lies to the courts, and threats of $150,000 penalties. Using an AF Holdings case to show that the copyright system is working well—because the fraud victim lost $6,000 instead of a possible $150,000—is bizarre, and casts doubt on Professor Besek's testimony.
Tuesday's hearing was cut short by other legislative action on the floor, but as Committee Chairman Goodlatte noted, it was "perhaps the most important copyright hearing" yet. Congress should continue to get the opinions of witnesses like Professor Jaszi and Naomi Novik from the Organization for Transformative Works—people that have experience with art and media that depends on fair use.
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Apple's iPad Pro Smart Keyboard foreseen by cartoonist 3 years ago
Apple announced plenty of new products at yesterday's big event: the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, a newly developed Apple TV, a 12.9-inch iPad Pro and — to go with that behemoth of an iPad — the Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard.
The latter, that Smart Keyboard, may have come as a surprise to some, but, to one cartoonist, it was all too predictable.
Joel Watson, creator of Hijinks Ensue and Sharksplode, saw this coming three years ago.
Watson satirised the rise of Apple and the fall of Microsoft, suggesting that Microsoft's (relative) failures would one day be Apple's successes.
The comic plays on the rollout of the Microsoft Surface – which, in its first generation incarnation, shipped with a kickstand and a keyboard cover – suggesting that unenthusiastic reviewers and commentators would have a different reaction when Apple unveiled the exact same product at WWDC in 2015.
Almost eerily close to the mark. Less prescient than observant, though.
According to Engadget, Watson said at the time that the comic was inspired by Apple's development strategy – the company may not always be original, but its products will always be that little bit more evolved, that little bit more refined.
The Smart Keyboard, announced at yesterday's event in San Francisco, attaches to the iPad simply, clicking into place magnetically with the new Smart Connector, which recognises automatically when a keyboard is attached.
The Smart Keyboard is also a screen cover, replicating previous cover designs by allowing users to wrap it around the back of the iPad Pro and, as triangular hinging is still in-built, use it as a prop.
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Updated Mets top prospect rankings prove they had a spectacular draft
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MLB Pipeline's newest top prospect list is now in, and it now includes players whom the New York Mets selected in the MLB Draft last month. The top of the Mets' prospect board is now full of players that weren't in the organization prior to July 17, with three of the team's top eight prospects, and five of the top 18, were 2022 draft picks, and it is proof the Mets had an excellent draft, with MLB Pipeline claiming that the Mets had the best draft class among the 30 clubs.
Mets catching prospect Kevin Parada debuts as the Mets' No. 3 prospect and the No. 40 overall on the chart.
We discussed on Monday what to expect from Parada, whom the Mets took with the 11th overall pick in the draft in July. He was considered by some to be the steal of the draft, Parada was ranked the sixth best player on MLB Pipeline's draft board and he fell to the Mets at 11. The best available approach worked for the Mets that entire week, and Parada was the strongest example of that.
Parada is set to make his professional debut on Friday for the FCL Mets before he is expected to move up to Class-A St. Lucie once the FCL season ends on Tuesday.
Mets shortstop prospect Jett Williams begins as the Mets' fifth ranked prospect, while falling just short of the Top 100 overall list.
Jett Williams has the makings of a special talent in the major leagues, as the Mets took a chance at him with the 14th overall selection. It was considered by some to be a reach (MLB Pipeline ranked him No. 21 of the draft prospects), but for someone like him to model his game off Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman (no buzzers or trash cans please, of course) and Mookie Betts, it gives the organization some hope.
That hope has been on display at the FCL in his first week as a pro. Williams has been really good to start his career with the FCL Mets, batting .273 with an .870 OPS. He clubbed his first professional home run on Monday.
Mets' second round pick Blade Tidwell debuts as the Mets' No. 8 prospect and the top pitching prospect.
Tidwell's last meaningful outing before the draft was in the Super Regionals for Tennessee against an upstart Notre Dame team where he got roughed up, giving up three home runs and five earned runs in just three innings. Tidwell hopes to throw that away as he made his Class-A debut on Tuesday, recording five outs without giving up a run.
The fact that he is the team's best pitching prospect showed how barren the old regime left their pitching farm system behind and Tidwell looks to elevate the organization's pitching profile, so Billy Eppler and company bolstered the Mets' pitching in the minors with this selection and hope he can come to fruition.
The Mets had two more draft picks land on their top prospects chart in Nick Morabito and Jacob Reimer.
The Mets were rewarded with compensatory pick after the second round when Noah Syndergaard signed with the Los Angeles Angels, and used it to take Nick Morabito, who is the 14th ranked prospect on the Mets after the draft. Morabito saw his first action as a pro with the FCL Mets last Saturday, where his strengths are his bat-to-ball skills and his speed.
Jacob Reimer was the Mets' fourth round pick in the draft and starts as the 18th best prospect in the Mets' organization. His passport to the major leagues will be his bat, as he hit over .400 in his career on his varsity baseball team at Yuacipa High School, and he had a big day earlier this week, hitting a home run, a triple, and driving in six runs on Monday.
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Revolution in Treatment Against Depression
November 8, 2021 | Posted by admin
A new form of magnetic brain stimulation rapidly relieved symptoms of severe depression in 90% of participants in a small study conducted by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The researchers are conducting a larger, double-blinded trial in which half the participants are receiving fake treatment. The researchers are optimistic the second trial will prove to be similarly effective in treating people whose condition hasn't improved with medication, talk therapy or other forms of electromagnetic stimulation.
The treatment is called Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy, or SAINT. It is a form of transcranial magnetic stimulation, which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment of depression. The researchers reported that the therapy improves on current FDA-approved protocols by increasing the number of magnetic pulses, speeding up the pace of the treatment and targeting the pulses according to each individual's neurocircuitry.
Before undergoing the therapy, all 21 study participants were severely depressed, according to several diagnostic tests for depression. Afterward, 19 of them scored within the nondepressed range. Although all of the participants had suicidal thoughts before the therapy, none of them reported having suicidal thoughts after treatment. All 21 participants had previously not experienced improvements with medications, FDA-approved transcranial magnetic stimulation or electroconvulsive therapy. The only side effects of the new therapy were fatigue and some discomfort during treatment, the study reported.
"There's never been a therapy for treatment-resistant depression that's broken 55% remission rates in open-label testing," said Nolan Williams, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and a senior author of the study. "Electroconvulsive therapy is thought to be the gold standard, but it has only an average 48% remission rate in treatment-resistant depression. No one expected these kinds of results."
The results were published online April 6 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Source: https://med.stanford.edu/
Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: brain, electroconvulsive therapy, magnetic brain stimulation, neurocircuitry, pulses, SAINT, severe depression, Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy, Stanford University School of Medicine, suicidal thoughts, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Our Bodies Age in 3 Distinct Shifts
August 2, 2021 | Posted by admin
The carnival worker who tries to guess your age relies on aspects of your appearance, such as your posture and whether any wrinkles emanate from the corners of your eyes and lips. If the carny's guess is more than a few years off, you win a stuffed koala.
But a team of Stanford University School of Medicine scientists doesn't need to know how you look to guess your age. Instead, it watches a kind of physiological clock: the levels of 373 proteins circulating in your blood. If the clock is off, you don't win a plush toy. But you may find out important things about your health.
"We've known for a long time that measuring certain proteins in the blood can give you information about a person's health status — lipoproteins for cardiovascular health, for example," said Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, professor of neurology and neurological sciences, the D. H. Chen Professor II and co-director of the Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. "But it hasn't been appreciated that so many different proteins' levels — roughly a third of all the ones we looked at — change markedly with advancing age."
Changes in the levels of numerous proteins that migrate from the body's tissues into circulating blood not only characterize, but quite possibly cause, the phenomenon of aging, Wyss-Coray said. A paper describing the research was published Dec. 5 in Nature Medicine. Wyss-Coray is the senior author. The lead author is neurology instructor Benoit Lehallier, PhD.
The researchers analyzed plasma — the cell-free, fluid fraction of blood — from 4,263 people ages 18-95. "Proteins are the workhorses of the body's constituent cells, and when their relative levels undergo substantial changes, it means you've changed, too," Wyss-Coray said. "Looking at thousands of them in plasma gives you a snapshot of what's going on throughout the body."
The study's results suggest that physiological aging does not simply proceed at a perfectly even pace, but rather seems to chart a more herky-jerky trajectory, with three distinct inflection points in the human life cycle. Those three points, occurring on average at ages 34, 60 and 78, stand out as distinct times when the number of different blood-borne proteins that are exhibiting noticeable changes in abundance rises to a crest. This happens because instead of simply increasing or decreasing steadily or staying the same throughout life, the levels of many proteins remain constant for a while and then at one point or another undergo sudden upward or downward shifts. These shifts tend to bunch up at three separate points in a person's life: young adulthood, late middle age and old age.
The investigators built their clock by looking at composite levels of proteins within groups of people rather than in individuals. But the resulting formula proved able to predict individuals' ages within a range of three years most of the time. And when it didn't, there was an interesting upshot: People whose predicted age was substantially lower than their actual one turned out to be remarkably healthy for their age.
The researchers obtained their samples from two large studies. One of them, known as the LonGenity study, has assembled a registry of exceptionally long-lived Ashkenazi Jews. It was able to provide many blood samples from people as old as 95. On measuring the levels of roughly 3,000 proteins in each individual's plasma, Wyss-Coray's team identified 1,379 proteins whose levels varied significantly with participants' age.
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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: blood, LonGenity, physiological clock, plasma, proteins, Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine
Most Metastatic Colorectal Cancers Have Spread Before Diagnosis
June 21, 2019 | Posted by admin
Colorectal cancers often spread before the initial tumor is detected, according to a new Stanford study. Identifying patients in whom early metastasis is likely could better guide treatment decisions. Up to 80% of metastatic colorectal cancers are likely to have spread to distant locations in the body before the original tumor has exceeded the size of a poppy seed, according to a study of nearly 3,000 patients by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Identifying patients with early-stage colorectal tumors that are born to be bad may help doctors determine who should receive early treatments, such as systemic chemotherapy, to kill cancer cells lurking far from the tumor's original location.
"This finding was quite surprising," said Christina Curtis, PhD, assistant professor of medicine and of genetics at Stanford. "In the majority of metastatic colorectal cancer patients analyzed in this study, the cancer cells had already spread and begun to grow long before the primary tumor was clinically detectable. This indicates that metastatic competence was attained very early after the birth of the cancer. This runs counter to the prevailing assumption that metastasis occurs late in advanced primary tumors and has implications for patient stratification, therapeutic targeting and earlier detection."
Researchers and clinicians have assumed that cancers acquire the ability to metastasize through the gradual accumulation of molecular changes over time. These changes, the thinking goes, confer specific traits that eventually allow cancer cells to escape the surrounding tissue, enter the bloodstream and take up residence in new locations. In this scenario, metastasis, if it occurs, would be a relatively late event in the evolution of the primary cancer.
Curtis, who co-directs the molecular tumor board at the Stanford Cancer Institute, is the senior author of the study, which was published online June 17 in Nature Genetics. Postdoctoral scholar Zheng Hu, PhD, is the lead author.
Source: http://med.stanford.edu/
Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: cancer cells, Colorectal cancers, early metastasis, metastasis, metastatic colorectal cancers, molecular changes, Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, systemic chemotherapy
Blocking Protein Curbs Memory Loss
Impeding VCAM1, a protein that tethers circulating immune cells to blood vessel walls, enabled old mice to perform as well on memory and learning tests as young mice, a Stanford study found. Mice aren't people, but like us they become forgetful in old age. In a study published online May 13 in Nature Medicine, old mice suffered far fewer senior moments during a battery of memory tests when Stanford University School of Medicine investigators disabled a single molecule dotting the mice's cerebral blood vessels. For example, they breezed through a maze with an ease characteristic of young adult mice.
The molecule appears on the surfaces of a small percentage of endothelial cells, the main building blocks of blood vessels throughout the body. Blocking this molecule's capacity to do its main job — it selectively latches onto immune cells circulating in the bloodstream — not only improved old mice's cognitive performance but countered two physiological hallmarks of the aging brain: It restored to a more youthful level the ability of the old mice's brains to create new nerve cells, and it subdued the inflammatory mood of the brain's resident immune cells, called microglia.
Scientists have shown that old mice's blood is bad for young mice's brains. There's a strong suspicion in the scientific community that something in older people's blood similarly induces declines in brain physiology and cognitive skills. Just what that something is remains to be revealed. But, the new study suggests, there might be a practical way to block its path where the rubber meets the road: at the blood-brain barrier, which tightly regulates the passage of most cells and substances through the walls of blood vessels that pervade the human brain.
"We may have found an important mechanism through which the blood communicates deleterious signals to the brain," said the study's senior author, Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, professor of neurology and neurological sciences, co-director of the Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and a senior research career scientist at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. The lead author of the study is Hanadie Yousef, PhD, a former postdoctoral scholar in the Wyss-Coray lab. The intervention's success points to possible treatments that could someday slow, stop or perhaps even reverse that decline. Targeting a protein on blood-vessel walls may be easier than trying to get into the brain itself. "We can now try to treat brain degeneration using drugs that typically aren't very good at getting through the blood-brain barrier — but, in this case, would no longer need to," Yousef said.
Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: blood, blood brain barrier, blood vessel, endothelial cells, immune cells, memory, microglia, molecule, protein, Stanford University School of Medicine, VCAM1


I am posting a few more pics while this is still working!
The water feature is part of one of the prize winning show gardens.The champagne bottle for the celtic Tiger party we thought would never end, pouring down into glasses (hard to see in the water) underneath are broken mirrors to signify the broken dreams! The furniture was made from pallets cut up and painted white and white canvas bags were hung on the back wall with herbs and flowers.
The allotment is also from one of the show gardens and showed a lovely scene with lots veg packed in.
Hanging Basket Avenue,they were huge!
The allotment ,complete with shed.
first I'd like to ask anyone who was there or just who know what is the campanula from aubergine garden?
My favorite one by the way I love the wall mounted part. And after almost 6 months researching I've got from them my dusky geranium phaeum.
As the snake handler was telling me how dangerous this snake could be I looked over to see my son taking a photo of the said snake with his phone barely 10 cm from the snake's head.
what a great event. took lots of pic only posting my fav. cant wait until next year.
pic of DICENTRA "burning hearts"
Great photos from everyone, we all took same photos but different angles! I am putting up two of the Keelings garden, I know some people did not like it but I loved it and so did all the kids I saw going through it. It may make kids look at fruit and veg in a completely different way, think Willy Wonka doing fruit instead of chocolate!
Looks like a fantastic day out....I couldn't get there myself this year as I was doing other stuff, so the images posted here have more them made up for it.....Thanks all who posted, you've brought a bit of sunshine to my day..


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Posted on May 5, 2021 Author Mary Comments Off on Hilary Swank To Play Racing Pioneer Janet Guthrie In 'Speed Girl' Feature Adaptation
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Hilary Swank is revving up her next feature project.
The Away star is set to play Janet Guthrie, a pilot turned racecar driver who smashed barriers to become the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 and Daytona 500.
She is attached to star and produce the film, which comes from Joel David Moore and Rishi Bajaj's Balcony 9 Productions. The two-time Oscar winner – for her performances in Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby – is coming off Netflix space drama series Away and Deon Taylor's feature thriller Fatale.
The feature is based on Stephan Talty's book Speed Girl.
Set in the 1970s when the fight for women's rights was gaining speed, Guthrie made a bid for the Indianapolis 500 in 1976 despite relentless opposition from the racing establishment and the men she hoped to race against. Janet qualified for the race in 1978 where she finished in the top ten, destroying many widely-held stereotypes about female drivers. The film will bring Guthrie's passion and persistence vividly to life, immersing viewers in the untold story of the woman who came to Indy just hoping to qualify and left a trailblazer, inspiring generations of future female racers.
Swank, who has previously produced features including Freedom Writers and Conviction, and her husband Philip Schneider will exec produce alongside Balcony 9's Joel David Moore and Rishi Bajaj.
"This is an incredible true story about female empowerment and going after your dreams" said Swank. "When I was approached with Janet Guthrie's story by the great team at Balcony 9, I immediately said yes. I can't wait to bring her inspiring life to the screen."
"Janet Guthrie was a fighter who wouldn't let anything stand in the way of her dreams. Her excellence in the face of sexism, hardship, and sabotage resonates even more profoundly today," added Moore.
The deal was negotiated by Hillary Jones of Jones and Jones Law Group and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman, Wertheimer, Mandelbaum, Morris, Bernstein, Trattner, & Klein.
Swank, Moore and Balcony 9 Productions are represented by Management 360.
Source: https://deadline.com/
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Review: Ruger 10/22 Target Lite
by Chris Christian, Field Editor - Monday, September 17, 2018
Ruger's venerable 10/22 semi-auto .22 LR is, without a doubt, the most popular choice in any action shooting event that allows rimfire rifles. In fact, I don't recall seeing any other make on the firing line in Steel Challenge matches. But few, if any, were stock guns.
While the basic action/barrel has proven accurate and reliable, many shooters find the factory 5- to 6-pound-plus trigger pull a drawback when trying to ring five widely-spaced steel plates in under 3 seconds. Some also don't care for the standard field stock. That has resulted in the 10/22 becoming one of the most "customized" firearms around. Providing target-grade thumb hole stocks, match triggers, and optical sight mounting options has resulted in a thriving aftermarket industry. But once a shooter adds the required "bells and whistles" to tune the rifle for upper-level competition, it's not hard to turn a modestly-priced rimfire rifle into a $1,000-plus gun.
The new Ruger 10/22 Target Lite (#21186, $649, Ruger.com) adds the appropriate "bells and whistles"—but with a much friendlier price tag.
The Target Lite is built on Ruger's standard alloy steel 10/22 action and accepts all 10/22 magazines and accessories. The lightweight 16.13-inch barrel (1:16 right-hand, six groves) is cold hammer-forged steel and tensioned within an aluminum sleeve in the same manner as the other Lite series guns. The muzzle features 1/2″-28 thread to accept muzzle accessories and is protected by a removable cap.
The laminate stock isn't much different from aftermarket stocks in the $250-$400 price range
The stock is a gray/black thumb hole laminate with a raised check piece. It looks, and feels, little different from the futuristic-looking custom stocks that sell in the $250-$400 price range. The stock is fitted with a soft black rubber butt plate for a length of pull (LOP) of about 14.5 inches. But, it features a degree of LOP adjustment via inserted stock spacers. Two Phillips head screws, accessed through the butt pad, allow it to be removed and spacers deleted or added. With the two spacers that came on the stock, the LOP can be reduced by about .75-inch. That doesn't sound like much, but it can play a role for some shooters in getting the eye properly-aligned with the optic sight. Detachable sling swivel studs are installed.
The gun comes sans iron sights. A combination Weaver and Tip-Off mount base plate is included and it screws onto the top of the receiver quickly. Additional options available through Ruger as accessory items are a higher-sitting Picatinny Rail base plate (#90465, $19.95) and a Tactical Scout Rail (#18083, $37.45) that mounts the optical sight over the barrel.
The BX Trigger broke like a "glass rod," at 3 pounds, and the over travel stop made for fast resets
The trigger assembly is Ruger's enhanced BX Trigger. It's available as a drop-in accessory ($89.95) for all 10/22 actions. I installed one on the 10/22 Take Down Lite that I shoot in Steel Challenge and love it! The BX trigger on the Target Lite was little different. It broke at a consistent 3 pounds on my Lyman Digital Trigger Pull Gauge. There was no discernible take up, creep, over travel, or lag in the re-set. It was the proverbial "glass rod."
The lightweight shrouded barrel features a threaded muzzle end to allow the use of muzzle accessories, and the threads are protected by a removable cap
The metalwork is finished in a satin blue, the empty weight is 5 pounds, and the overall length is 35.25 inches.
On The Range
I picked the gun up from my FFL dealer on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Once home I mounted the sight plate. The Weaver spacing does not fit most Picatinny mounts. Rather than ordering the accessory Picatinny Rail to mount one of my reflex sights, I found an older Simmons tubular red dot sight with tip-off mounts and installed that. The tubular red dot is not my first choice on handguns, but I have come to prefer them on rifles. They seem, at least for me, to center the eye on the dot quicker than the square reflex sight window. I did nothing else beyond running a dry patch through the bore.
The included Weaver/Tip-Off mount plate won't accept most Picatinny sight bases, but Ruger has an inexpensive accessory base plate that will
Sunday brought a break in the rain and I was able to zero the gun with Aguila Super Extra on my backyard range. I then ran a few "mount and shoots" to get used to the gun. I didn't get more than 25 rounds down range before the next shower hit, but I wasn't concerned.
The weather was clearing and my gun club holds a Steel Challenge match every Monday. They set up three stages and shoot each twice, while keeping score. I figured that would be a perfect place to start this test. I grabbed a few 10-round mags and two 15-round BX mags that I use in my regular match gun and loaded them with the Aguila. At the match, the stages they had set up (Pendulum, Speed Option, and Showdown) were a good test for a rimfire rifle.
The Target Lite was more than accurate enough for action games, and as often happens, the CCI Mini-Mag HP produced the tightest groups
Although the gun only had about 25 rounds through it (hardly broken in) and with no cleaning or lubrication, it ran just fine. The only malfunction that occurred was one failure to feed with an elderly 10-round mag that I had numbered (and already flagged) as causing problems in my Take Down Lite match gun.
The thumb hole pistol grip stock took a bit of getting used to, since I shoot a straight stock on my match gun. The first stage was Pendulum, and I paid for that lack of familiarity. After that I started getting comfortable and life got good. I didn't win. Pendulum took care of that. But I finished fourth overall, behind two Masters and an A Class shooter.
But, the gun ran well and I was now comfortable with the stock.
With the rain gone it was time for some accuracy tests. I had the Aguila Super Extra that I'd zeroed the gun and shot the match with. I knew that worked. I also had some CCI Mini-Mag HP. I consider this to be the "Gold Standard." During the three decades I've been testing guns it has always worked, and if it wasn't the most accurate load tested it was among the top three. Federal's American Eagle 40-grain LRN, their 40-grain lead Match HV, and Winchester's Super-X were also on hand. These are common target loads. Since some shooters may also use their "match rifle" for small game hunting or backyard pest control I included Federal's new 40-grain Hunter Match, and CCI's new Mini-Mag SHP—a segmented hollow point design that fragments into three pieces upon impact.
Although the gun had almost 200 rounds through it, without lubrication or cleaning, I decided not to clean it and just shoot it as is from my 25-yard bench rest.
The only malfunctions during another 150-plus rounds were two rounds of Super-X that failed to fire, despite a normal and distinct primer hit. Other than that the gun kept running. The accompanying accuracy chart will also show it ran well.
The features and performance of the new Target Lite, belie the blue collar price tag. Add a sight and its match ready.
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Richard Liss was born in Truro, Nova Scotia. He received his Master in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa in 1986, his Master of Science from the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. in 2004, and his Juris Doctor (JD – law degree) from the University of Ottawa in 2015.
After completing his articles with Barnes Sammon LLP, he joined the firm in the summer of 2016. Mr. Liss is an advocate for the elderly and for currently serving or retired members of the military. During his articles, he gained practical experience in various areas of the law, concentrating on wills and powers of attorney, family law matters, and civil litigation.
Prior to entering the field of law, Mr. Liss was a member of the Canadian Forces for over thirty years where he was awarded the Order of Military Merit for outstanding meritorious service. He was a finance officer in the Royal Canadian Navy. He was also an owner-partner of a scuba diving business and a co-manager of a retirement home within the Capital Region.
Mr. Liss is a member of the County of Carleton Law Association.


When photographer Ricci Shryock met up with a group of Eritrean migrants in Milan, she noticed they had one thing in common - most had tattoos. They have asked to remain anonymous because most have fled compulsory military service to go to Italy.
Image caption This 24 year old with the tattoos "rule of law" and "everything will pass away" said he left Eritrea because he was forced into military service. Human rights groups say this can last indefinitely. Eritreans are among the largest group of recent migrants to Europe.
Image caption This 24-year left Eritrea because, after four years, he had had enough of military service. He left his mother, who the tattoo is about, in the capital, Asmara. The UN says conscripts are subjected to "slavery-like practices", such as hard labour, with poor food and wretched pay. Eritrea says this is not true.
Image caption This 22 year old said: "I got the angel Michael to protect me". Like most of these men he travelled overland from Eritrea to Libya, then by boat across the Mediterranean to Italy. Thousands of people have died undertaking this journey - either in the desert, or when their overcrowded boats capsize.
Image caption This 20-year-old said he prayed constantly during the dangerous trip from Libya. "On the boat we prayed out loud three times a day, but in my heart, there was no rest." His tattoo says: "Rely on the Cross".
Image caption This 25-year-old said he spent five years in the military as part of the country's forced conscription policy. He got this tattoo of Jesus Christ before undertaking the journey.
Image caption This man said he chose his tattoo after seeing a film featuring a dragon before he left Eritrea.
Image caption This 19-year-old with the tattoo "I Love Mum" said he has not been able to speak to her for six months. He said his mother cried and told him not to leave when he told her he was going to Europe.
Image caption "My mother is my star," said this 17-year-old, whose tattoo reads "I Love You Mam". He didn't tell her when he left for Italy. "I didn't want her to worry".


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