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Q: How to create Ruby on Rails custom form fields? I have a Repair model which currently has may too many fields in the database - http://i.qyk.in/b0DwJ.png. This can be a pain for testing and I'm guessing it will be in the future as well.
I am looking to have a way to create custom form fields which will only be linked to this Repair model. I'm just curious as to how I would go about doing this?
These custom form fields would also need to accept content as well.
I'm guessing I would be using has_many and that?
Could someone point me in the right direction?

A: That does sound like a has_many, probably with nested attributes (http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/NestedAttributes/ClassMethods.html)
This question has some decent pointers on using nested attributes.
I hope this at least gets you started in a useful direction.


Do you find writing emails exhausting?
Do you get tired of the hamster wheel of email newsletters?
You know, always having to find new stories.
Then trying to write up each of those stories in the most moving way possible.
Then organizing those stories in your newsletter format.
And making sure on the links work just right.
If just reading this gives you a headache and makes you dread the next email newsletter you are supposed to be crafting right now then I got a tip for you.
Automate your nonprofit email marketing. It is a complete game changer.
Let me dive into this a bit here and see if I can convince you this is the only way to go.
When you develop an automated nonprofit email marketing system you are not drafting an email newsletter filled with stories that will all be sent out at one time.
Instead you will be drafting a series of emails all designed for a specific audience, intended to get them to take very specific actions.
You will write all of these emails before the first one is ever sent to a subscriber.
And because of this, you can look at your communication with this subscriber over time and assess how well you are communicating with them.
You can review your messaging to see if you are emphasizing the correct points, or if you are hitting the correct emotions.
You can count how many different calls to action you make.
Do you find that you are you only ever asking for a donation?
Or, are there other things you should be asking them to do instead?
If so, how often and when in the messaging do you want to ask?
Writing your emails in advance and then automating the timing of their release to your readers allows you to assess your overall messaging and gives you more control over how and what you communicate.
This gives you much more control over your nonprofit email marketing.
Automating your nonprofit email marketing allows you to work smarter, not harder.
When you automate your email marketing you no longer need to kill yourself by trying to cram together all the content you need for your next massive e-newsletter bomb.
Instead, you should tell your stories over time.
This is a much smarter and more effective approach to nonprofit email marketing.
The truth is, most nonprofits do not send enough email.
They have a tendency to wait until they have 5 or 6 stories combined in a massive email newsletter and then send it out once a month or once a quarter.
This is the surest way to get your audience to lose interest and forget all about you.
One of the quickest wins nonprofits can achieve when it comes to increasing community engagement is to email more often.
How engaged are you really trying to be if you only email your community once a month or less!?
I do not mean you should be cramming together weekly email newsletters.
That would be awful, for you and for your readers.
Instead, break up your newsletter into multiple emails so that your readers are given a bit more information with every email.
Then schedule and automate the emails so they are sent out according to your optimal email schedule, once a week at least.
This is much better than e-newsletter bombing your readers.
Automating your nonprofit email marketing will save you time.
Once you have written and scheduled your automated emails you can move on to other things.
You won't have to write another email until that automation has run its course.
This means you can dedicate a few hours each quarter to writing emails and then let them run while you turn your attention to all of the other pressing issues on your desk.
Automating your nonprofit email marketing allows you to chunk your time when creating your monthly schedule.
If you are sending one email per week, then you need to write 52 emails in a year (it will be more if your nonprofit email lists are segmented).
Once you get into your email writing rhythm you will be able to write an email in 20 minutes.
That means you'll be able to write three emails an hour.
At that rate can draft 52 emails in less than 18 total hours of work.
If you can schedule 3 hour chunks of time three times a week strictly for writing your emails, then you can have your entire automated email system for the entire year drafted in two weeks.
Heck, even if it takes you 40 minutes to write each email, you can still get that done in 4 weeks.
Once those emails are uploaded and the schedule set, you could theoretically get by without having to write another email for the entire year.
That is NOT what I recommend, but you get the point.
Think of all the time you'll save when you no longer have to come up with 5 or 6 stories every single month!
Automating your emails will save you tons of time. Something we all have precious little of to begin with.
You need to automate your emails.
So why isn't your email marketing campaign automated?


Via TBogg recently, the behind-the-curve wingnuts are all fired up over the immigration bill.
"and Google, who rewrote their algorithms last year specifically to combat linkbombing, are never going to notice."
I believe it was Driftglass who I first heard say, "these people could f*ck up a two car funeral". If you want to understand why the top-down style of the wingnuttosphere is the abject failure it is, bass-ackwardness such as this is proof positive of Drifty's point. So by all means, my dear C-cuppers and cheerleaders, fire up your Amigas and Lisas and have at it. Do try to not give the hamster powering your beige boxes a heart attack, though.
Oh, and while nibbling at your cheetos, enjoy this little cartoon break.
And in the spirit of bi-partisan disgust, this week's craven bullsh*t on our side will not go uncommented on. Fill up a bowl of Congress Crispies, my fellow lefties.


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Jun 23 2021 · 12:52 UTC by Steve Muchoki · 3 min read
This year, Microsoft stock has gained 19%, outshining Apple and Amazon which have had gains of 0.97% and 7.63% respectively.
Microsoft Corporation's (NASDAQ: MSFT) valuation shortly eclipsed the $2 trillion benchmark during Tuesday's intraday trading. The stock price rose as high as $265.79, a 1.2% hike that exceeded the $265.55 share price requisite for a $2 trillion valuation. This placed it as the second public company in the US to hit the $2 trillion valuations just after Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), which is currently worth $2.2 trillion.
Nevertheless, markets closed with Microsoft shares at $265.51, just a few pennies shy from their initial mark. The company's market capitalization now stands at 1.98 trillion. Oil company Saudi Aramco (TADAWUL: SAR), had also neared such a threshold in December 2019, but currently, its valuation stands at $1.9 million.
The surge in Microsoft stock price was motivated by high anticipation that its dominance in enterprise software and cloud computing would advance further in the post-covid world. With this, the company shares rose to hit a new 52-week high, surpassing the June 21st peak of $263.52.
Additionally, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated his opinions that inflation would be short-lived as the economy gradually recovers from the pandemic. Thereafter, an all-around productive trading session ensued, with many shares advancing. Apple, for instance, gained 1.27% to $133.98, while Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) gained 0.33% to $141.24.
The S&P 500 Index also rose 0.51% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.20%. The NASDAQ 100 closed up 0.9% while other indexes like the Russell 2000 gained 0.11%.
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Since assuming the CEO position in 2014, Satya Nadella has remodeled the company making it the biggest seller of cloud-computing software. Significant upgrades have been made to both infrastructure and the Office application cloud units.
Additionally, the blue-chip tech company has managed to elude scrutiny from American antitrust regulators, who have recently become increasingly active. With a clear path ahead of it, product expansion and acquisitions became more achievable.
This year, Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) stock has gained 19%, outshining Apple and Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) which have had gains of 0.97% and 7.63% respectively. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has also risen 65% during the same period.
As the pandemic enveloped the world, investors flocked the company following rising expectations of long-term growth both in earnings and revenue. Plans to expand in cloud computing and machine learning also lured them.
Moreover, the company's Q3 2021 financial results, released in late April, reported a $41.7 billion revenue and a $15.5 billion net income. Both values had risen by 19% and 44% in that order, due to heightened demand for the firm's personal computers, Intelligent Could business, and workplace productivity solutions. These records exceeded expectations and showcased the great growth potential.
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That's a lot to absorb but a clear, written mission statement when starting your business provides a guideline for decision-making that will help align and motivate your team. It allows and welcomes healthy changes — and gives you a vision for the future. Most importantly, a mission statement gives your business direction.
More recently — more and more people are becoming conscious about their health. Now, Coca-Cola has taken steps to help customers enjoy their products with less sugar.
Instead of starting off with a mention about it's affordable and innovative furniture — the company went with the "to make everyday life better for its customers," route. It backs up this claim. They start by allowing customers to view showrooms and select their own functional furniture. They have large and varied accessories — and customers can save money purchasing in this store.
If you've shopped at Nordstrom — their mission statement shouldn't be a surprise. The company focuses on the customer experience. It accomplishes this by providing top notch customer service. They always having someone on the floor asking if customers have already been helped — while also offering quality products.
Patagonia, founded in 1973, is a clothing company known for marketing and selling sustainable outdoor clothing. They provide philanthropic efforts to help the environment — and they highlight employees who are saving the world. Their mission statement lets their customers know this in one clear sentence.
Patagonia's mission statement puts their values and what they're committed to front and center. Even better — Patagonia has built a successful business by staying true to its core values every step of the way. This is a great example of a brand being authentic and putting its money where its mouth is.
On your next trip fly with Southwest and be greeted by some of the friendliest employees in the sky. Browse the Southwest Magazine in your seat — and read the page where customers explain why they love traveling with Southwest. There's even a page dedicated to the employees who go above and beyond both at work and in their community.
Despite the fact that the airline struggled to stay profitable for some time — they stayed true to their core values and mission statement and are now one of the most profitable airlines in the country.
Warby Parker took that "rebellious spirit" a step further by making the process as painless and fun as possible. Go online, select five pairs to try-on at home for free — and keep what you want. The company has partnered with non-profits like VisionSpring to provide glasses to people in need.


Back to school is fast approaching for us, and I always try to get first day of school pictures of each of my boys before I send them off. Sometimes I'm really prepared and have a printable sign for them to hold…other times, I quickly snap a pic with my cell phone and hope for the best. But, then I have mom guilt and feel bad because there isn't a whole lot of fanfare and hoopla about their first day of school. No matter which type of photo I get they will look great displayed on this DIY back to school picture holder.
This year, I'm prepared though, even if I don't have printable signs for them to hold! I was wandering through the Target Dollar Spot, as one does, and I saw these cute little chalkboard blocks. A dozen for just $3, so into my cart they went. Next, I hopped onto Amazon and picked up a package of picture clips, and in two days, I was ready to make some cute first day of school picture holders.
To make the clip semi-centered, I taped the blocks from edge to edge one way, and then rotated the block and taped a different edge. This left me with just a small triangle of block showing on the top. The top of the triangle should be just about the center of the block.
Next, I drilled a hole about 1/4" into the center of the block.
Then, I added a little bit of E6000 to the end of the alligator clip, and stuck it into the hole.
I let it dry over night. Once it was dry I wrote down my kiddo's name and grade level on the front of the block, and clipped a picture into the alligator clip.
These are SO easy to make and are super cost efficient. I can't wait to find more ways to use the extra photo clips! These are some of my favorite Back to School ideas from Giggles Galore, and my own page, Everyday Party Magazine!


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How to design an organic heat-shield?
When they started dropping from the skies.. or no, they landed. They were so similar to us, yet so different. Like nothing we would've ever designed or created - but so much like everything
Eyewitness account, 2 weeks after 'The Event'
For first-encounter project I am working on, my version of humanity is being encountered by aliens from space. They are intended to be not too human-like - because that would be too interesting. But also not too much like the usual bugs.. more like fleshy engineering things.
Their technology is starkly based on biology and chemistry, rather than metallurgy.
For this scene, and really all situations where I have them use the technology in question, they are entering the earth's atmosphere inside huge wart-like lumps of flesh(?) - their version of droppods/dropships.
Q: How to design an organic heat-shield for (re)entry of an earth-like atmosphere?
I have imagined something along the lines of interchanging layers of callus for structure & something to be burned off, and blubber for thermal insulation. But I am by no means a biologist/chemist, and only a hobby-engineer..
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Something along these lines has already been tried. The Fanhui Shi Weixing, a Chinese surveillance satellite (http://www.astronautix.com/f/fsw.html) used an impregnated oak heat shield. This wood, white oak, chars rather than burns which is a desirable quality in a heat shield as it carries heat away. Each layer turns to charcoal and is then carried away:
The FSW satellites used a 5.9-inch thick heat shield made of oak. During reentry, friction caused the wood to burn and char, leaving behind a layer of charcoal. That charcoal was blown away in the wind as the satellite fell, exposing more oak, which burned and turned into charcoal. It's a repeating process that ultimately allowed very little heat to get through to the spacecraft; both the wood and the charcoal are great insulators. It was a light and elegant solution to the reentry problem. (https://vintagespace.wordpress.com/2016/12/05/can-a-wood-heat-shield-really-work/)
If your aliens simply use biological materials, something akin to this would be a good solution. If the technology itself is alive, then the innermost layer of the heat shield could be constantly growing living tissue as L.Dutch suggested, and in this way it could also be reusable if needed.
Whether the same properties would work on something fleshy rather than woody is hard to say, though for atmospheric entry a hard surface is probably going to be desirable due to the immense stresses involved.
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Carbon based fibers are pretty good at resisting heat (I have used a graphite crucible when I had to evaporate TiO2), so they could be used as heat shield.
Unsurprisingly, carbon is also the base of life as we know it. And a process for making carbon fibers is to actually use some carbon based precursors and let them burn to leave the fibers.
Therefore a plausible way to go would be for them to have:
a deep layer of cells producing carbon based fibers (a la skin or bark)
a surface layer resulting from the deposit of such fibers
During atmospheric reentry the surface layer would burn due to the intense heat and turn into carbon fibers, producing additional shielding.
With such mechanism you also give a realistic limitation to the number of reentry they can do in a short time, since they need to allow the surface layer to reconstitute.
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Consider shells - of oysters & similar shellfish. They're a biological composite, formed mostly of layers of calcium carbonate. The calcium carbonate has a high melting point (825°C), while the microstructure makes it much stronger than the bulk material, and could be designed/evolved to ablate to carry away reentry heat.
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Jelly.
You want something that can absorb heat and move it away from the entity undergoing re-entry. Specific heat is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of a given material by one degree. Given that you are working with biologics, it is lucky that water has one of the highest specific heats.
Also handy for this is that water can undergo 2 phase changes in the range of temperatures one might encounter during your scenario, and each of these soaks up a lot of energy.
Your creatures are encased in a thick layer of jelly, much akin to jellyfish jelly. It is mostly water, with enough biomolecules (?long chain polysaccharides? siloxanes?) to serve as a scaffold and hold it in place. This stuff is frozen initially, and then the outer layer melts during re-entry, then vaporizes. The thick layer ablates with the energy of re-entry, absorbing this energy with the innate high specific heat of water and then 2 phase changes, with the final steam blowing off of the creature.
This would work fine, and thick jelly is great for a biological entity.
Bonus 1: Thick jelly would also be good protection from radiation in space.
Bonus 2: Creatures would land with a messy splat, blobs of disgusting space jelly spraying everywhere.
Bonus 3: Star jelly is a real Fortean mystery. You can tap into the real world Bigfooty weird history of star jelly (aka Pwdre Sel) as part of your backstory.
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A material like Starlite would be ideal. It's supposedly "mostly" organic. From Wikipedia:
Starlite's composition is a closely guarded secret, but it is said to contain a variety of organic polymers and co-polymers with both organic and inorganic additives, including borates and small quantities of ceramics and other special barrier ingredients—up to 21 in all. Perhaps uniquely for a material claimed to be thermal and blast-proof, it is claimed to be not entirely inorganic but up to 90 percent organic.
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Make them sweaty.
Bit of background: SpaceX is redesigning their Starship Super Heavy (aka BFR) to be made from stainless steel, and plan to have it sweat as a heat shield.
The basic concept is that tiny pores on the forward surface will "sweat" out liquid methane fuel, which will absorb the heat and blow away, keeping the stainless steel below the melting point.
Your visitors could store large amounts of compressed liquid methane, harvested from comets or produced by their own bodies, and feed it out through their pores as they aerobrake.
Combined with toughened skin that can handle high temperature, and reverse thrusting to reduce velocity a bit before reentry, and a way to lose speed quickly like a parachute or something, and they should survive.
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Lovecraftian Laos: Likely entities
If you're creating work set within the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft and his kindred writers, and using Laos as a setting there are a number of existing entities who are rife with possibility for incorporation in part or at the heart of a particular story, image or poem. We've discussed the possibilities for Nyarlathotep, for example.
Among those who I would prioritize for consideration in a story set in Laos include:
Serpent People.
Created by Robert E. Howard, they first appeared in "The Shadow Kingdom," published in the August, 1929 issue of Weird Tales. The authors Lin Carter and Clark Ashton Smith included them more fully in the Cthulhu Mythos, taking a cue from a note in Lovecraft's "The Nameless City." There, an Arabian city had been built by a pre-human reptilian race. "The Haunter of the Dark" features a more explicit mention of the "serpent men of Valusia" as being one-time possessors of the Shining Trapezohedron, according to Lovecraft. Because of Lao legends regarding relationships to the Nak, there are some interesting possibilities to consider.
Tcho-Tcho.
August Derleth created the Tcho-Tcho tribe in "The Thing That Walked On The Wind." An Asiatic race occasionally considered sub-human, the Tcho-Tcho are polytheistic, most commonly known to worship, Chaugnar Faugn and Hastur. They are often connected to the mythical Plateau of Leng but their range is believed to be throughout much of Asia.
Yig.
The Father of Serpents established by H.P. Lovecraft in "The Curse of Yig," is primarily connected to the Americas, but there is nothing to suggest that "the half-human father of serpents" could not have influence elsewhere, particularly in Southeast Asia where there are an abundance of snakes and snake-like creatures constantly being discovered.
Chaugnar Faugn.
Created by Frank Belknap Long in "The Horror on the Hills," Chaugnar Faugn is found in a cave in an Asian mountain range. Worshipped by a branch of the Tcho-Tcho, it has a vaguely elephantine appearance, almost like Ganesha. However its trunk terminated in a large floating disk that drains blood from its victims. It's normally encountered as a grotesque statue but may stir at night. Considering Laos was regarded as the Realm of a Million Elephants, dealing with a statue of Chaugnar Faugn or Chaugnar Faugn itself is reasonably plausible.
Bokrug.
"The great water-lizard" mentioned in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Doom That Came To Sarnath." It's considered greenish blue and iguana-like, almost twelve feet long but found primarily in the Dreamlands. Could it have connections to the Nak or Zaj of Laos? It could be worth exploring for an intrepid writer.
Ghatanothoa.
Laos is a landlocked country but the myths of Phra Lak Phra Lam and others allow for legends of islands like Lanka, and presumably an island like R'Lyeh or Mu, the home to Lovecraft's creation, Ghatanothoa, found in the story "Out of the Eons." It possesses myriad tentacles, maws and sensory organs. Rumored to be found between New Zealand and Chile in the Pacific Ocean, this would be an interesting being in relation to the other water-dwelling entities of Lao myth.
Zhar.
Created by August Derleth in "The Lair of the Star Spawn," Zhar is said to dwell in a dead city buried beneath the Plateau of Sung or Tsang in China. It is known as the Twin Obscenity, but it is possible it may live in other locales. The similarity to the Hmong word Zaj, or dragon/naga, etc. may well be worth exploring.
But which entities do you think would work well to connect Laos with the Cthulhu Mythos?
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Q: Update a DOM later when it has an images. This is running under a ngFor home.ts
myMethod(){
   this.eventService.getUserEvents(uid).subscribe(
            res => {
                this.setEvents(res);
            },
            err => console.log(err),
            () => console.log('request completed')
          );
}

setEvents(events: EventModel[]) {
     forEach(events, async (event: EventModel) => {

     // Call Server API here
     const photoResponseModel: PhotoResponseModel = await this.photoService.getPhoto(event.displayPhotoPath);

      const eventModel: EventModel = {
          attendanceStatus: event.attendanceStatus,
          imageUrl: this.sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl(photoResponseModel.dataUrl)
        };

        switch (eventModel.attendanceStatus) {
          case AttendanceStatusEnum.ATTENDED: {
            this.attendedEvents.push(eventModel);
            break;
          }
          case AttendanceStatusEnum.INVITED: {
            this.invitedEvents.push(eventModel);
            break;
          }
          default:
        }
       });
    });
  }

home.html
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  <ion-card-content>
    <img [src]="attendedEvent.imageUrl"> <---- Image URL here
    <ion-item>
      {{attendedEvent.title}}
    </ion-item>
   </ion-card-content>
</ion-card>

Here you can see that the above coding pattern is very bad due to performance issues. i.e. If it has 10 events then it goes to the server 10 times to bring the image. Can you tell me a more optimized architecture here?
Is there any way to bind images later after showing the other things first. I know about this ng-lazyload-image library. Any clue about how can I use it here? My biggest problem here is there are lot of events and it can have 1 image per event. Since HTML has a loop how can I update it if I'll retrieve the images later?
Here I can use Promise.all to bring all the images once. But how can I update dom for these images only?
Any idea about how to architect this use case in a better way?

A: Let's say you have 100 events - which means you have to load 100 images. You don't want the client to load all of them at once.
Fortunately, you have a few options:

*

*use the native loading="lazy" which has been introduced in Chrome 75.

*use IntersectionObserver. This API allows us to determine if an existing element is visible in the viewport and if so, we could add the img (which will trigger loading the image).

This way, the client will download several images in the first load (instead of all of them, opposed to your original code), and when he scrolls down, other images will be downloaded as well.

BTW, you may want to .subscribe only in the view (via async pipe) and not in the component itself. Something like this:
userEvents$ = this.eventService.getUserEvents(uid)
  .pipe(
    tap(response => this.setEvents(response)),
    catchError(error => console.error(error)),
    tap(() => console.log('done'));

and in the view, you simply do:
<ng-container *ngIf="userEvents$ | async as userEvents">
  <!-- Angular will unsubscribe when this component is destryoed -->
</ng-container>

This way, you prevent a memory leak since Angular will unsubscribe automatically.

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Le Grand Jeu ou Le Jeu de Molly au Québec () est un film américain écrit et réalisé par Aaron Sorkin, sorti en 2017. Il s'inspire de la vie de Molly Bloom, auteure du livre dont le film est l'adaptation.

Il met en scène Jessica Chastain dans le rôle principal, ainsi que Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera et Chris O'Dowd et raconte l'histoire de Molly Bloom, ancien espoir olympique de ski, devenue la cible du FBI en raison de son cercle de poker réunissant des personnalités du cinéma, des athlètes, des hommes d'affaires mais aussi des mafieux russes.

Présenté au festival de Toronto en , il est distribué aux États-Unis par STXfilms en sortie limitée le , puis en sortie nationale le . En France, il sort le .

Le Grand Jeu reçoit des critiques positives, qui font l'éloge du scénario de Sorkin et des prestations de Chastain et Elba. Il est nommé aux Golden Globes dans les catégories meilleur scénario et meilleure actrice dans un film dramatique, tandis que le scénario est nommé aux Oscars, au Writer Guild of America et au BAFTA Awards. Au box-office, le succès commercial est modeste avec 59,3 millions de dollars de recettes mondiales.

Synopsis
Molly Bloom est une jeune skieuse aux grandes espérances, à la suite d'années d'entraînement intensif sous la direction de son père, Larry, qui exige l'excellence de la part de ses trois enfants. Mais lors d'une épreuve de qualification pour les Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2002, elle se blesse sérieusement en raison d'une branche cassée rencontrée sur son chemin, ce qui met fin à ses ambitions sportives.

Au lieu de se plonger immédiatement dans des études de droit, elle prend contre l'avis de son père une année sabbatique et emménage à Los Angeles, où elle obtient un emploi de serveuse de cocktails dans un club. Un jour, elle y rencontre le tyrannique Dean Keith, promoteur immobilier ostentatoire criblé de dettes, qui lui offre un emploi d'assistante et l'implique bientôt dans le monde des tournois de poker de haut niveau, où elle côtoie des stars de cinéma, des chanteurs, des patrons de grandes entreprises et d'autres célébrités. Molly gagne de grosses sommes d'argent uniquement grâce à des pourboires.

Initialement mal informée au sujet du poker, Molly apprend rapidement à faire appel à des joueurs pour obtenir des conseils. En particulier, elle espère faire plaisir au joueur le plus performant, qu'elle appelle Joueur X, en attirant de nouveaux joueurs dans le jeu. Dean, voyant que Molly devient de plus en plus indépendante dans la gestion des jeux, tente de la contrôler, puis la congédie. Molly, ayant gagné des contacts au fil des années de gestion du jeu, décide de créer ses propres soirées de poker. Elle loue un penthouse dans un hôtel et engage un employé pour l'aider à organiser des jeux. De plus, elle contacte les employés des clubs et des casinos pour essayer de faire connaître ses parties de poker. Le joueur X, avec beaucoup d'autres joueurs, quitte les parties de Dean pour celles de Molly.

Molly devient de plus en plus performante, gagnant plus d'argent tout en subissant des pressions pour augmenter les enjeux. Harlan Eustice, un joueur conservateur qui devient de plus en plus compulsif, rejoint son jeu. Malgré de lourdes pertes, Eustice continue à jouer et Molly découvre que le joueur X a financé ses pertes pour le garder dans la partie. Après que Molly l'a réprimandé pour ses actions contraires à l'éthique, le joueur X décide de retourner auprès de Dean, suivi par les autres joueurs.

Molly quitte alors Los Angeles pour New York, avec l'espoir de commencer un nouveau jeu de poker underground. Après avoir tendu la main à de nombreux riches new-yorkais, Molly trouve assez de joueurs pour plusieurs jeux hebdomadaires. Mais, malgré un succès continu, elle est incapable de couvrir ses pertes lorsque les joueurs ne peuvent pas payer. Son concessionnaire la convainc de commencer à prendre un pourcentage de gros pots, lui permettant de récupérer ses pertes potentielles. Lorsqu'un de ses joueurs de Los Angeles est inculpé pour avoir lancé une chaîne de Ponzi, Molly fait l'objet d'une enquête et est interrogée afin de savoir qui a assisté à ses jeux. À ce moment-là, Molly devient de plus en plus accro à la drogue, les jeux ayant de plus en plus de conséquences.

Ses joueurs commencent également à inclure des individus riches de la mafia russe, entre autres. Approchée par des membres de la mafia italienne qui offrent leurs services pour récupérer l'argent à des joueurs qui ne payent pas, Molly décline leur offre, mais est agressée chez elle par un homme de main des mafieux, qui menace même de s'en prendre à sa mère. Alors qu'après s'être soignée toute seule elle s'apprête à revenir à ses parties de poker, le FBI mène un raid chez elle, par la faute d'un des joueurs qui se révèle être un informateur de police. Les biens de Molly sont saisis et elle rentre chez elle pour vivre avec sa mère.

Deux ans plus tard, Molly publie un livre où elle nomme quelques individus qui ont participé à ses jeux. Elle est arrêtée par le FBI et accusée d'implication dans des jeux illégaux avec la mafia, voire de blanchiment d'argent sale, etc. Elle sollicite l'aide de Charlie Jaffey, un avocat prestigieux (et très cher) de New York, qui accepte de l'aider après que Molly a déclaré avoir plus de 2 millions de $ en dettes de jeu non recouvrées. Alors qu'elle attend son procès à New York, le père de Molly la cherche et tente de se réconcilier avec elle. Il admet avoir été autoritaire avec elle et qu'il la traitait différemment de ses frères parce qu'elle était au courant de ses relations extra-conjugales. Charlie lit le livre de Molly et commence à s'intéresser à son cas, car il estime qu'elle n'a pas commis d'actes répréhensibles suffisamment graves pour mériter une peine d'emprisonnement. Il envisage de négocier un accord pour que Molly ne subisse aucune peine et que son argent lui soit rendu, en échange de ses disques durs et de ses enregistrements numériques. Mais Molly refuse, ne voulant pas que les informations sur ses joueurs soient divulguées, va au procès et plaide coupable. Le juge, estimant qu'elle n'a commis aucun crime grave, la condamne aux travaux d'intérêt généraux, à de la probation et à une amende de .

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 Titre français : Le Grand Jeu
 Titre original :
 Titre québécois : Le Jeu de Molly
 Réalisation : Aaron Sorkin
 Scénario : Aaron Sorkin, d'après les mémoires Le Grand Jeu de Molly Bloom
 Direction artistique : Brandt Gordon
 Décors : Patricia Larman
 Costumes : Susan Lyall
 Photographie : Charlotte Bruus Christensen
 Son : Todd Toon
 Montage : David Rosenbloom
 Musique : Daniel Pemberton
 Production : Mark Gordon, Amy Pascal et Matt Jackson
 Co-production : Lauren Lohman et Lyn Lucibello
 Production exécutive : Oren Aviv, Felice Bee, Stuart M. Besser, Adam Fogelson, Leopoldo Gout, Robert Simonds, Donald Tang, Zhongjun Wang et Zhonglei Wang
 Sociétés de production : Entertainment One, Pascal Pictures, Huayi Brothers Pictures et The Mark Gordon Company
 Sociétés de distribution : STX Entertainment (États-Unis), Entertainment One (Canada), SND Films (France)
 Budget : 30 millions $
 Pays d'origine : ,  et
 Langue originale : anglais
 Format : couleur — 2,39:1 — format numérique — son Dolby Digital
 Genre : drame, biographie
 Durée :
 Dates de sortie :
 Canada :  (festival international du film de Toronto)
 États-Unis :  (sortie limitée),  (sortie nationale)
 France :
 Classification : R (Restricted) aux États-Unis, tous publics en France

Distribution
 Jessica Chastain  : Molly Bloom
 Idris Elba  : Charlie Jaffey, l'avocat de Molly
 Kevin Costner  : Larry Bloom, le père de Molly
 Chris O'Dowd  : Douglas Downey
 Brian d'Arcy James  : « Bad » Brad Marion
 Michael Cera  : joueur X
   : Harrison Wellstone
 Bill Camp  : Harlan Eustice
 Graham Greene  : le juge Foxman
 Jeremy Strong  : Dean Keith
 Joe Keery : Cole
 Michael Kostroff  : Louis Butterman, l'ancien avocat de Molly
 Natalie Krill : Winston
 Madison McKinley : Shelby
 Whitney Peak  : Stella
 Claire Rankin  : Charlene Bloom, la mère de Molly
 Mary Ashton : Tracy
 Angela Gots  : B
 Morgan David Jones : Brennan
 Samantha Isler  : Molly Bloom, jeune

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Production

Genèse et développement
La genèse du Grand Jeu débute avant même que Molly Bloom, auteur du livre dont est adapté le film, comprenne que son règne dans le monde du jeu va se terminer. Alors qu'elle tient encore sa maison de jeu illégale dans une suite de l'hôtel Plaza de Manhattan, elle rencontre au cours d'une soirée le réalisateur et producteur Leopoldo Gout, qui travaille sur son premier roman. Impressionné par son parcours, Gout présente Bloom à son éditeur qui obtient un contrat de publication, par la suite suspendu par son arrestation. À la fin de son procès, Bloom, avec Gout, fait circuler le livre à Hollywood mais rien ne semble se concrétiser malgré l'intérêt de certains producteurs, jusqu'au jour où le producteur Mark Gordon reçoit un appel de Ken Hertz, l'avocat de Molly, et de Pete Micelli, son agent.

En , la société du producteur Mark Gordon acquiert les droits d'adaptation des mémoires de Molly Bloom, Molly's Game. Aaron Sorkin est alors chargé d'écrire le scénario. Au départ, Sorkin est réticent à adapter le livre en raison de l'identité des joueurs qui ont fréquenté son cercle de jeu, étant donné qu'il connaît certaines personnes décrites dans le livre, dont deux de ses amis, et qu'il envisage de travailler avec d'autres. Il décide de réécrire les personnages secondaires afin de préserver leur anonymat.

En , il est annoncé qu'il sera également le réalisateur du film, qui sera produit par Sony Pictures Entertainment, avec Amy Pascal à la production. En , Sony quitte finalement le projet. Le , STX Entertainment achète les droits de distribution cinématographique aux États-Unis et en Chine pour 9 millions de dollars.

Distribution des rôles
En , Aaron Sorkin propose le rôle-titre à Jessica Chastain. C'est Bloom qui aurait dit à Sorkin qu'elle souhaitait que Chastain joue son rôle, alors que l'actrice a tenté sa chance auprès de Sorkin pour incarner ce personnage aux antipodes de cette dernière, allant même jusqu'au bluff auprès du réalisateur, qui est impressionné par le cran de Chastain. En , Idris Elba rejoint le film alors que Jessica Chastain est officiellement confirmée. Aaron Sorkin déclare alors .

En , Michael Cera décroche le rôle du joueur X, une célébrité du poker. Ce personnage serait un composite character de plusieurs célébrités comme Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire et Ben Affleck ainsi que certains joueurs de poker. En , Kevin Costner est confirmé dans le rôle du père de Molly Bloom. Il est rejoint en  par Brian d'Arcy James, puis en novembre par Chris O'Dowd, Jeremy Strong, Bill Camp et Graham Greene.

Tournage
Le tournage se déroule du  au . Il a lieu à Toronto.

Musique

La musique originale du film est composée par le Britannique Daniel Pemberton. L'album sort en téléchargement numérique le  chez Sony Music Classical et le  en CD. Un pressage vinyle en édition limitée est sorti le .

D'autres chansons non inédites telles que Blow Away de George Harrison ou C'est si bon interprétée par Eartha Kitt sont entendues dans le film, mais ne figurent pas dans la bande originale.

Liste des titres

Accueil

Sortie
Le film est présenté le  au Festival international du film de Toronto et en clôture à l'AFI Fest le , remplaçant Tout l'argent du monde de Ridley Scott. Pour la présentation du film à Toronto, Molly Bloom, bannie du Canada parce qu'elle a été reconnue coupable d'un crime fédéral aux États-Unis, a cependant obtenu une autorisation spéciale pour y assister.

Le film est prévu pour une sortie limitée aux États-Unis le , avant de connaître une sortie nationale le . Le film était initialement prévu pour sortir le  avant d'être déplacé à la date de Noël en .

Accueil critique

Dans les pays anglophones
Depuis sa présentation au Festival de Toronto, le film obtient un accueil globalement favorable dans les pays anglophones de la part des critiques professionnels, recueillant 82 % de taux d'approbation sur le site Rotten Tomatoes, pour 271 critiques collectées et une moyenne de 7,1/10, notant dans son consensus que . Sur le site Metacritic, le film obtient un score de 71/100 pour 46 critiques collectées. Les audiences sondées par CinemaScore ont donné au film une note moyenne de A- sur une échelle de A + à F.

Peter Debruge de Variety fait l'éloge du scénario de Sorkin en disant : . Mike Ryan de Uproxx donné au film une note de 9/10 en écrivant : .

En écrivant pour Rolling Stone, Peter Travers a donné 3 étoiles sur 4 au film : .

En France
En France, il obtient également un bon accueil de la presse, obtenant une moyenne de 3,5/5 sur le site AlloCiné, pour 31 critiques collectées. La plupart des critiques saluent la prestation de Jessica Chastain.

Parmi les critiques positifs, Caroline Vié de 20 Minutes note que l'actrice est , tandis que Paola Dicelli du magazine Elle affirme que Chastain est , dans , sauvant . Pour Christophe Caron de La Voix du Nord, . Jean-Claude Raspiengeas de La Croix, Aaron Sorkin  pour son premier film en tant que réalisateur. Selon Catherine Baille du Parisien,  et que . Selon Cécile Mury de Télérama, , mais .

Parmi les critiques mitigées, Simon Riaux de Écran Large trouve que , alors que Olivier Lamm de Libération écrit que . Chrisitian Vivani de Positif trouve le film .

Parmi les critiques négatives, Jacques Mandelbaum du Monde note que ce , alors que Nicolas Schaller de L'Obs trouve que Sorkin . Pour Jean-Sébastien Chauvin des Cahiers du cinéma, .

Accueil critique du public
Le Grand Jeu obtient un bon accueil du public, obtenant 84 % de taux d'approbation sur Rotten Tomatoes, pour  et un score de 7,5/10 sur le site Metacritic, pour 193 critiques. Sur le site IMDb, il obtient 7,5/10, sur la base de .

Box-office

Sur le territoire américain
Distribué en sortie limitée le jour de Noël aux États-Unis, le film a rapporté 1,04 million de dollars dans 271 salles, soit une moyenne de  par salle. Pour son premier week-end en salles, Le Grand Jeu prend la treizième place du box-office américain en totalisant 2,3 millions de dollars, portant le cumul à 5,3 millions de dollars depuis sa sortie. Le long-métrage réussit à faire mieux que les récents films de Jessica Chastain, dont La Femme du gardien de zoo, qui avait totalisé 4,7 millions de dollars en première semaine et Miss Sloane qui avait fini son exploitation à 3 millions de dollars. Le long-métrage est distribué plus largement en salles le  dans 1 608 salles. Pour son premier week-end, il prend la septième place du box-office américain avec 7 millions de dollars de recettes à cette période, se classant septième au box-office américain, pour un total de 14 millions de dollars depuis sa sortie. Le film a engrangé 28,8 millions de dollars de recettes en fin d'exploitation sur le territoire américain, se hissant à la 85 place des meilleures recettes d'un film sorti en 2017.

À l'international
Le Grand Jeu totalise 30,5 millions de dollars à l'international, portant le total à 59,3 millions de dollars de recettes mondiales, lui permettant d'être 94 des meilleures recettes mondiales de 2017. Il rapporte notamment 4,5 millions de dollars en France et 5,2 millions de dollars au Royaume-Uni, pays où le long-métrage a réalisé ses meilleures recettes à l'international. Il a dépassé le million de dollars de recettes en Australie (2,4 millions de dollars), en Espagne (1,6 million de dollars), aux Pays-Bas (1,4 million de dollars) et en Russie (1,4 million de dollars).

En Allemagne, le film sort le  dans 51 salles et ne totalise que 17 158 entrées pour son démarrage et 58 364 entrées depuis sa sortie. Le Grand Jeu enregistre 476 101 entrées au Royaume-Uni, 240 519 entrées en Russie, 213 266 entrées en Espagne, 153 521 entrées en Pologne, 188 653 entrées aux Pays-Bas, 63 205 entrées au Portugal, 56 610 entrées en Italie, 33 416 entrées en Suisse, 30 642 entrées en République tchèque et 30 099 entrées en Belgique.

En France
En France, sorti le premier mercredi de , Le Grand Jeu prend la tête des premières séances le jour de sa sortie avec  sur Paris, pour une moyenne de 75 entrées sur les 19 copies distribuées dans les salles parisiennes. Sur l'ensemble du territoire français, il totalise 42 866 entrées, devenant le cinquième meilleur démarrage en premier jour pour Jessica Chastain. En première semaine, le long-métrage prend la septième place du box-office avec 262 258 entrées sur une combinaison de 324 salles, devenant le cinquième meilleur démarrage d'un film de l'actrice en première semaine à l'affiche et faisant mieux que le précédent film de l'actrice sorti en France, Miss Sloane, qui a fini sa carrière en salles avec 117 144 entrées l'année précédente. En seconde semaine, où il est diffusé dans 325 salles, il occupe la neuvième place avec 132 745 entrées, portant le total à 395 003 entrées. Il atteint le cap des 500 000 entrées en quatrième semaine. Au bout de neuf semaines en salles, le long-métrage finit son exploitation avec plus de 544 000 entrées.

Distinctions

Sélection et nomination

Annexe

Bibliographie
  Molly Bloom, Molly's Game: Molly's Game: The Riveting Book That Inspired the Aaron Sorkin Film, HarperCollins, 2014, 272 p.  (version française sorti en 2018 sous le titre Le Grand Jeu, 352 p., Harper Collins )

Vidéographie
  zone 1 : Le Grand Jeu (Molly's Game) — Édition 1 DVD, Universal Home Entertainment, sorti le . Cette édition, en version originale et espagnol, avec des sous-titres anglais et espagnol, comporte le bonus « Building an Empire ».
  zone 1 : Le Grand Jeu (Molly's Game) — Édition 1 Blu-ray, Universal Home Entertainment, sorti le . Cette édition, en version originale et espagnol, avec des sous-titres anglais et espagnol, comporte le bonus « Building an Empire » et le DVD du film.
  zone 2 : Le Grand Jeu — Édition 1 DVD, M6 Vidéo, sorti le . Cette édition, en version française, originale et en audio-description pour malvoyants, avec sous-titres français et pour sourds et malentendants, contient les entretiens avec l'équipe du film, les images de tournage, une bande-annonce et une featurette.
  zone ABC : Le Grand Jeu — Édition 1 Blu-ray, M6 Vidéo, sorti le . Cette édition, en version française, originale et en audio-description pour malvoyants, avec sous-titres français et pour sourds et malentendants, contient les entretiens avec l'équipe du film, les images de tournage, une bande-annonce et une featurette.

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Molly Bloom
 Jeremy Bloom, le frère de Molly

Liens externes

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Film canadien sorti en 2017
Film chinois sorti en 2017
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Film dramatique canadien
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Film biographique américain
Film biographique canadien
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Film doublé au Québec
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Mafia russe au cinéma
Film sur la famille
Mafia sicilienne au cinéma
Film sur le poker
Psychotrope au cinéma
Film biographique sur une personnalité criminelle
Adaptation d'une autobiographie au cinéma
Premier long métrage sorti en 2017
Film tous publics en France
Film tous publics au Québec
Film interdit aux moins de 14 ans en Suisse
Film classé R aux États-Unis
Film nommé aux BAFTA Awards
Film nommé aux Golden Globes
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What kinds of informal learning most impact communities?
Snyder, Wender and McDermott, in their book Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge, suggest that to be effective, informal learning efforts should be designed for evolution, invite different levels of participation, and open a dialogue between inside and outside perspectives. They should also combine familiarity and excitement and create a rhythm for the community, among other things.
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The past years I have written my favourite reads of the year for my local English book store. This year they aren't doing the readers top books. Thus I decided to write it here. I like sharing books I read. I also hope others will chime in what theirs was. Without much ado, here are my top 5 books of...
'The Girl in the Spider's Web', not worthy of Stieg Larsson
It was five or six years ago that I bought Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and read them all in less than two weeks. My first encounter with Scandinavian crime mystery that got me hooked, line and sinker. I remember how slow paced Larsson started 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'. He took his time to build the characters, the setting...
It's only recently that I read about The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. I wasn't really sold on the story, but after reading a couple of good recommendation and not having anything else new to read I decided to gibe book one a try. The Hunger Games is another young adult series, unlike Twilight, The Hunger Games doesn't has...
The Passage
Regarded as "the" summer read and highly anticipated, The Passage by Justin Cronin is yet another vampire story. But don't confuse it with our hero vampire Edward Cullen. Set in the not so distance future of 2014 we follow an U.S. Army secret test with a virus, death row inmates and a six year old girl. Soon we are taken...
Our Tragic Universe
Our Tragic Universe is Scarlett Thomas newest book. Revolving around Meg, a commercial fiction writer living in Dartmouth in Devon with her boyfriend. The mood settings resembles her previous book "The End of Mr. Y" a lot, only that one plays in a city and the other in a far less urban environment. Since discovering Scarlett Thomas I have realy...
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Summer Poetry Pick: Waiting at the Dead End Diner by Rebecca Schumejda
We need more poetry about the world of waitressing. I'm saying this as a former waitress (I was a lousy waitress, by the way) and as a lover of Jan Beatty's waitress poems, a favorite being "A Waitresses' Instructions on Tipping or Get the Cash Up and Don't Waste My Time." This is why I was happy to find Waiting at the Dead End Diner by Rebecca Schumejda.
In this book, the poet enters the Dead End Diner as a waitress. While I am always hesitant to say that the "I" in any poem is the poet, in this case it's probably true, since the book synopsis says that while Schumejda was working on this book, "she put her apron back on and waited tables, discovering that her respect for the industry is unwavering." Throughout this collection, the reader meets the waitresses, the cooks, the regulars, and even the boss of the Dead End Diner, all the while exploring both the workplace and the personal trials and tribulations of her characters.
Certainly, some readers would say that the focus of this collection is on the work of the restaurant industry, and in some ways, this is true. Many poems display the day-to-day work of waitresses balancing trays and busboys cleaning off tables. Others tell more specific stories. In one poem, "The Leaf Pepper Special" we learn that the waitresses encourage customers to order the cook's special "a butternut squash soup/a hamburger with American cheese/and red velvet cake with chocolate icing" because Rick has promised a twelve-pack "for the waitress who sells the most." In other poems, we learn the distasteful task of dealing with rude customers (a normal part of a waitress's job, I am afraid). One image that has stuck with me is found in "Tip" where the narrator lists some of the strangest tips she has ever received including "scratch-off lottery tickets, two shiny/pennies left heads up, a handful of/condoms, a golden hundred dollar Monopoly bill" but then ends her list describing a truck driver who talked to her about missing his kids, and then leaves her "a twenty for listening and a/tiny tooth nested on a coffee spoon."
Still, it's the people who take center stage of this collection. We meet Carlos, who busses tables in order to get his wife and children to the United States. We meet Rick, the cook, a brash man who shouts racist comments but also has a secret life as a cross dresser. We meet Kitty, a regular who "always wears shirts adorned with cats/and white laceless tennis shoes with/handmade Puff Paint kitchens on the front." We meet Maggie who has been a waitress for so long that she considers herself "tough as razors." We meet the owner's wife, whose presence disrupts the kitchen so that "either scatter to the darkest corners/ like roaches or buzz around like bees." Indeed, this collection could easily be read as a novel in verse, with the main character navigating a single story line throughout the book while exploring both the outer conflicts of the setting and the inner conflicts of the characters themselves.
Schumejda's poetic language is blunt and sometimes, harsh. At first glance it may seem that Waiting at the Dead End Diner lacks the lyrical line found in much of the music of today's poem. But then, the reader will realize that there is music here: it's the hard edge of working-class life that sings with a stubborn but hopeful melody all of its own.
Spring Poetry Pick: A Generation of Insomniacs by Anthony Frame
Anthony Frame's first full-length book of poems, A Generation of Insomniacs, is a coming-of-age collection full of elegies -- elegies mourning place, elegies mourning people, elegies mourning specific time periods. Physically set in the 1990's when Kurt Cobain was King of the pop culture world, Frame's collection tackles the big themes of loss and hope all the while navigating the stark Ohio Rust Belt landscape.
One of the first poems in the collection, "How to Write a Poem in Toledo, Ohio" serves as a perfect prelude to the collection. In this poem, Frame writes, "Start with the churches, those brilliant buildings/standing at the center of every neighborhood." From these first two lines, he moves forward, giving precise directions for writing about a place including citing specific actions: "Learn how/to hop fences as a child. As an adult//learn how to hop curbs in your 4x4." He ends with this piece of advice: "If you manage//to leave, don't forget your blue collar genes." After all, he explains, "Here, we fray. Here, we rust. Remember that."
Certainly, the pictures of a frayed and rusted narrator follows the reader throughout the collection, as many of the poems focus on the stark images of a time period filled with tension and loss. The collection weaves in and out of personal history that often reflects both local place and the world at large. Some poems focus on memory such as "Hate" which depicts a scuffle between two boys that ends with physical pain and injury and a narrator who says, "This city has more hate than broken windows." In another poem, "Why I Hate the Sunrise," the narrator thinks back to his perception of war as a memory of a teacher who wheels a television to her classroom to show "A green sun exploding over the darkened sky/ of Baghdad, surrounded by cascading comets."
Still, most of the poems take on a more lyrical, instead of narrative voice, often mourning different losses. The time period of this collection focuses on the early 1990's and the poem, "Are You Ready" finds a group of friends toasting the new millennial with the narrator cataloging their futures -- futures he cannot yet know: "Greg will get kicked out of Iraq for loving/a man. He'll move to Maine/hiding himself/among snow and foster children./Eric will find salvation in a church run//by a schizophrenic Christ, the rapture always/ almost here. Jason will lose himself somewhere/on the fringes of Route 66. The Pacific Ocean/forever a fantasy, he'll come back to Ohio//and die slowly, woken at night by cancer scars/and seizures." Indeed, several works in this collection are dedicated to Jason including the poem, "Heart-Shaped State" that explains, "Jason's cancer grew from/his skin towards his lymph nodes. We should have seen/the danger of sun and bare skin, but we knew//albinos die first in nature."
As with many collections that focus on elegies, A Generation of Insomniacs also finds the narrator of these poems fighting losses about himself. In "Evolution," he depicts his own grief about the departure of a friend: "As you cry, I stand and search this secret crowd/for a space to remain a man." In another poem titled "Last Night of Childhood, Nearly Thirteen," the narrator laments the loss of youth when he returns "to the boy in the green bedroom/his name scribbled on the door above a series/of inches and dates." Yet, Frame's work is not without hope. Several poems celebrate hope in the face of loss including the concluding poem, "Flannel Love Poem With a Touch of Sky" where the narrator addresses his love: "I pull into our driveway, the sun/soon to rise. In front of me, the living room lamp/you left on all night to guide me home./Above me, the stars and the spring breeze/dancing with the bedroom window. And you, love--/wearing my old Nirvana shirt as a nightgown."
For more information, see Frame's website or visiting Main Street Rag, the publisher of A Generation of Insomniacs.
Prose Poetry Pick: The Rusted City by Rochelle Hurt
An American Rust Belt City would hardly seem to be the location where a tale of magical realism would take place, but Rochelle Hurt, in her first collection of poetry, The Rusted City, navigates a broken and battered world through elements of fantasy and characters who seemed to have stepped out of a blue-collar fairy tale.
In The Rusted City we are introduced to a family of four whose names are never given and are only described as the smallest sister, the oldest sister, the quiet mother, and the favorite father. Most of this novel-in-verse collection is told from the perspective of the smallest sister who views the world around her in wonderment, although most of what she sees is coated in rust. For instance, in the opening poem, "The Old Mill" she explains that she knows birds are living in an abandoned mill: "The birds are there, eating the rust from the wings." Certainly, it seems as if these birds are acting as phoenix symbols -- rising from rust as if they are rising from the destruction of fire and ashes.
Although we don't always necessarily see the characters rising from their rusty world, we do see them as hopeful survivors that seem to make the best of their situations. In "The Smallest Sister Decides to Make Herself Red" we see a child who wants to make herself attractive by stringing "corroded washes into a necklace" and coloring her lips with "sanguine river water." In another poem, "The Oldest Sister Smashes Cans" this same sister learns the art of destruction from her sibling: "Each can lets out a wheeze as it folds into itself, a burst of breath/ that whooshes the rust-laced pollen on the ground." While many of the poems do feature the smallest sister and her relationship with other characters and the world around her, some let other people speak including poems where the quiet wife takes center stage. For instance, in "Wife Song," the speaker likens her love to "impatient decay" while in the two sentence poem "The Quiet Mother Moves," that acts almost like an interlude to the collection, we understand this figure that walks "like breath, and an out of the house. Like a lung, the house empties and fills."
Yes, we get a strong sense of how the characters are navigating this world of debris, but perhaps the most interesting section of this collection is where the older sister relays the history of their hometown. In the poem, "In the Century of Lunch Pails" she explains that the world was once filled with "the grown and whistle of liquid/aluminum, churning the river to a radium loam" and "coins/inside all the hollowed-out fathers as they walked." This world of busy factory activity ends, however, and is followed by the sullen stillness of unemployment described in "In the Century of Silence" when "the plants closed, no/exclamations were heard,/but the city opened with the pink/of a thousand gapemouths, all/of its citizens miming themselves."
Navigating the American Rust Belt through poetry is tricky -- it's easy to fall into clichés and nostalgia. But Hurt avoids all the rusty overwrought drama and creates a new world from the old by using rust as more than corrosion and damage. In her lyrical poems, she transforms a world that is familiar debris to a place that is beautiful and hopeful.
For more information about The Rusted City, visit Rochelle Hurt's website. The Rusted City is part of White Pine Press's Marie Alexander Poetry Series which highlights prose poetry. More can be found about this series here.
Winter Poetry Pick: Scrap Iron by Mark Jay Brewin Jr.
In Scrap Iron, the debut poetry collection by Mark Jay Brewin Jr., he struggles to answer the question, "Can one really go home again?" The answer is not clear, but his exploration is worth reading. From the flooded farmlands of Southern New Jersey to the island countries of Ireland and New Zealand, we watch as a narrator struggles to negotiate the relationship of personal identity with home and family.
Scrap Iron is divided into three sections. The first section is dedicated to memories of the poet's youth in New Jersey. The narratives detail a hardscrabble life of rust and water and work. The opening poem, which is untitled, acts as a prelude to the collection where the poet describes the landscape around him: "Water was always the problem surrounding/our rancher anchored to the low end of the acreage--/rain lurched in, ankle-deep pools filled every dip/in the road..." The narrator goes on to explain that his father "donned his fisherman's rain suit/shoveled sand along the edge to keep street gutters/from overflowing and making our house an island/in a slump of the farmed plain." The family, meanwhile, hunkers down at home, with a mother taking care of three children and waiting for a husband who, seemingly disappears in the drowned land around them.
What follows this poem is a collection that explores the family's everyday life. My favorite poem is "Scrap Iron" where the narrator tells about finding and collecting scrap metal for extra money. Detailing the landscape, it's easy to see that Brewin knows this world well: "We hunted for steel along flat-bottom train rails -- glass/blanketing the gravel track bed like chicken feed/jimson weed between creosote-steeped timbers/picked over buckled trailers and garbage stacks:/crack pump heads, mower blades, band saws rusted mid-cut."
Many of the poems detail physical labor and focus on the effects this work has on the body. In one poem, "So Intricate, So Inconceivably Complex" the narrator explains that his father lost fingers "when he/wedged the index and middle fingers of his left hand in the cogs and gears." Following the theme of survival which pervades many of the poems in this collection, the reader later learns that he had "to relearn how to grip objects with his left hand, the nerves/too sensitive to touch anything." In another poem, "Peeling Skin" the narrator tells how he and his sisters used to peel away "flakes of sunburned skin" from their father's shoulders. Making a game of the ritual, the siblings "had little contests/to see who could pull/the largest piece, the best shape." Even more than a game, the narrator seems to realize they had a more noble cause: "We tended/him as if we could peel/the mark of hard work from his body."
Other sections of this collection find the narrator traveling away from New Jersey, both physically and mentally. In "Working First Shift at the Progresso Soups Factory" the narrator takes a summer job, knowing that after a few months he would walk away from "this calloused glance at another life" to attend college. In other poems, he travels further away. In "The Island Meditations" the narrator explores the land and culture of New Zealand, and tells his sister over the phone, "I can't tell you/how nice it is to be some place so very different from home." Ironically, throughout most of this particular poem, which actually is composed of a sequence of events and recollections, we find the narrator thinking of home more often than recording the world around him.
Brewin is a master of a narrative poem. Working with the unreliability of human memory, he weaves stories from both history and the rough landscape he knows well. Readers will be drawn into his stories without ever getting lost in his images of landscapes and people. Indeed, walking away from this collection, you may find yourself wringing rain water from your clothes and looking for rust on your hands and metal splinters in your skin.
Brewin's collection won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry, and this book definitely deserves the honor. It's also a collection that leaves me wanting more of Brewin's work and looking forward to his future books. For more information on Scrap Iron and Mark Jay Brewin, Jr. visit the poet's website


If you don't know who Richard Thompson is for some reason, then I'll start by saying this – if you're looking for pretty vocals you might want to look elsewhere. For pretty vocals from a singer/songwriter with the last name Thompson, look up Teddy Thompson, Richard Thompson's son, who sometimes plays and records with his dad and is an accomplished singer/songwriter in his own right. Teddy is the type of singer whose voice is familiar with the adjective "golden." His father, Richard, is a much more, shall I say, "human" singer. Fortunately Richard is a guitar wizard and a first-rate songwriter. He is also a witty and wizened old folkie from the sixties, who is now in HIS sixties, but who remains in full command of his guitar playing and songwriting powers on this, his 42nd album, titled STILL.
About half of this album had to grow on me, and about half was instantly appealing, which is actually a nice balance. Enough low hanging fruit to attract me to the tree and keep me there long enough to notice something desirable is also growing in the upper branches.
I imagine fans of Richard Thompson will find plenty to enjoy on STILL, and for those who may be new to his world, if you like folk, rock, virtuoso guitar work (both acoustic and electric), acerbic wit, failed relationships, English nostalgia and romance, songs about pirate con men…and 1960's recording artists who have influenced hordes of contemporary musicians and who've still got it after all these years, then this latest offering from Richard Thompson might just be your cup of tea.
Psst…Wilco fans, this one's produced by Jeff Tweedy.
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Two charities announce feasibility review into working more closely together
Two of the UK's leading employment support charities, Shaw Trust and Careers Development Group (CDG) have today announced the commission of an independent feasibility review to explore working more closely together, which could lead to a merger of the two organisations.
The aim of the review is to explore if and how the two charities could together serve more workless people, including those with disabilities and those at disadvantage within society, to help them overcome the barriers they face in finding and staying in work. Working together would build on the individual strengths and experience the organisations both have.
John Briffitt, Chairman of Shaw Trust, said: "For the last thirty years, Shaw Trust has worked at the heart of the community; helping thousands of disabled or disadvantaged people to build confidence, motivation and the skills to find and sustain work. That mission continues but we also fully recognise the ever-growing challenge of delivering vital services to our clients with the realities of a more commercially driven Welfare State.
"We think that a blending of Shaw Trust and CDG may potentially better meet this challenge. With shared values and a common purpose, it may bring about a stronger voice, more innovative services and most importantly, significant benefits for our clients across the UK. We now want to confirm this and await the results of the feasibility review."
Raoul Pinnell, Chairman of Careers Development Group, said: "The two charities have a similar ethos of care and support for those out of work, but with a slightly different focus in terms of their core customer group. CDG serves people who have been out of work for some time, while Shaw Trust works with people at disadvantage or with disabilities. This means the main programmes each delivers are complementary.
"The Department for Work and Pensions, which commissions us to support people to find and stay in work, rightly continues to demand high levels of performance and efficiency.
"The independent review will help us to conclude whether we can become part of a new force in the sector through the sharing of our experience and skills across a larger footprint. This will benefit more people and allow them to participate fully in society through gaining meaningful work."
About Shaw Trust and Careers Development Group
Both Shaw Trust and Careers Development Group (CDG) believe that everyone has the right to employment, inclusion and independence, and a society in which employment is available to all.
Shaw Trust (www.shaw-trust.org.uk) started in the village of Shaw in Wiltshire. It was set up originally by five local people to help a small group of individuals achieve their employment aims. All were disabled, but each one had valuable skills and abilities. It became a registered charity in 1982.
Careers Development Group (www.cdguk.org) started in Wandsworth, London. The organisation was founded by several members of Wandsworth Council to specifically work with those who had been unemployed for a significant period of time.It became a registered charity in 1982.
Shaw Trust is now a national charity which last year supported 69,000 disabled and disadvantaged people to prepare for work, find jobs and live more independently. It is the UK's largest third sector provider and one of the Government's lead partners in the delivery of employment programmes for disabled and disadvantaged people.
CDG is a leading welfare to work charity with nearly 30 years' experience of helping people find and stay in work. The charity supported 27,000 people in 2010/11 on their journey into work and has over 300 staff and operates from 22 centres.
Shaw Trust employs some 1,000 staff and works across the UK. It has a successful track record in delivering government programmes – from Pathways to Work, Flexible New Deal and New Deal for Disabled People to Work Choice and Work Programme – runs 47 retail outlets, owns and operates 14 enterprises that support disabled and disadvantaged people into employment, work placements or volunteering, and works with national and local employers to find the vacancies into which our clients can grow and flourish. In addition to its work across the UK, Shaw Trust operates in partnership with Intergracja in Poland and Motivation in Romania and merged with Interwork in Australia in 2009.
CDG is one of only two third sector prime providers in the UK delivering the Work Programme (London East) – the government's main back to work scheme. As a key part of a strategic alliance with MAXIMUS Employment & Training it also delivers the Work Programme in London West and the South East (Thames Valley, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight),as well as being a delivery partner for Avanta in Sussex. The charity is also Work Choice prime provider through its partnership with WISE Employment. It has an international presence through its partnership with BEST community development in Australia.
As part of its charitable and public benefit, CDG launched the Expert Volunteer Initiative in 2010 and CDG Volunteers in 2011, to help give further support to people wanting to find and stay in work by tapping into the expertise of people wanting to give something back. Shaw Trust also uses volunteers with its extensive social programmes related to assisting people into employment.
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(e) mark.brooks@cdguk.org (e) kate.groves@shaw-trust.org.uk
10:22 pm on February 2, 2012
In response to Mr Smith's comments, I can reassure the readers of Yes Minister that the comments made about CDG are without foundation.
I would like to reiterate that the announcement sets out clearly that the feasibility review will explore the possibility of the CDG and Shaw Trust working closely together, including a merger
It is based on whether blending the skills, strengths and experience of both organisations can better support those we serve now and in the future. It is important to note that the core services of both organisations are complementary and do not cross over.
CDG's Work Programme success in London East was based on the quality of our bid in keeping with our key tenet of combining a commercial brain and a charitable heart. It was a bid fully supported by the trustees and directors and it continues to be so. CDG, like Shaw Trust, is financially strong. CDG's Work Programme contract is being delivered within our agreed financial model and to our performance expectations and we are confident it will continue to do so.
Wednesday's announcement should be seen as a positive move for CDG, its staff and all those we serve. This is simply because that is exactly what it is.
Richard Clifton, Director of Business Development, CDG
1:25 pm on February 2, 2012
Lets be in no doubt this is a takeover rather than a merger. The blame falls squarely with CDG's directors and trustees who perpetuated a completely unrealistic (and at times foolhardy) strategy for CDG. Work Programme was a pyrrhic victory as none of the large winners discounted their pricing so where did that leave CDG? To make Work Programme succeed you need ruthless commercial operators driven to results, forget the "charity" or "third sector" alternative. CDG's directors were long on dreams but short on backbone to get results. If nothing else it is pleasing to see the BoDs and Trustees coming to their senses and throwing in the towel albeit just 7 months into the programme. CDG you played the game incredibility poorly and now your employees must pay the price.
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Why Brands Like HBO and WWE Are Flocking to Streaming Subscription Services
By Aarthi Rayapura • April 26, 2017
Excerpts from an article by By A.J. Katz in AdWeek
In the history of TV—all 75 years of it—there has never been a time when so much content has been so readily available to watch. But with the average cable package now topping $103, according to Leichtman Research Group, and a new wave of direct-to-consumer services, viewers have more choices than ever in how they watch, via over-the-top, or OTT, services.
About 82 percent of TV households nationwide subscribe to some form of pay-TV service, according to Leichtman. That's down 5 percent from 2011. As consumer behavior changed, and the technology got better, TV programmers took notice and started going over the top.
CBS All Access was one of the first to launch in October 2014. It now has almost 1.5 million subscribers paying $5.99 a month. HBO Now was the first premium direct-to-consumer service. It launched in April 2015 and now has more than 2 million subscribers paying $14.99 per month.
And while those platforms serve a wide audience, the new trend is niche. This month, Turner launched Boomerang, an ad-free streaming service that comes with access to thousands of hours of cartoons including the entire Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes and MGM libraries.
Another streaming player, WWE Network, is built for fans of professional wrestling."Back in 2012 and 2013, we started doing research among our fans, and we found out pretty quickly that WWE fans were consuming a lot of digital content online, about five times the national average," WWE chief revenue and marketing officer Michelle Wilson told Adweek. "So while we were originally going down the path of launching a linear TV network, when we saw this data the light bulb went off for us and we felt this was an opportunity for us to go direct to our consumers."
"We felt streaming provided the greatest long-term transformative growth for WWE on a global basis." The three-year-old WWE Network, which can be viewed with services like Roku and Apple TV, now has nearly 2 million paid and free trial subscribers across the globe.
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Atopy in children with chronic hepatitis...
Atopy in children with chronic hepatitis B virus infection
Cakir M., Karakas T., Orhan F., Okten A. N., Gedik Y.
ACTA PAEDIATRICA, vol.96, no.9, pp.1343-1346, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
Doi Number: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2007.00405.x
Journal Name: ACTA PAEDIATRICA
AIM: To investigate whether immune responses against chronic HBV infection in children have an effect on prevalence of allergic diseases and atopy.
METHODS: Children with chronic HBV infection [HBV carriage (group 1) and chronic hepatitis (group 2)] were screened for allergic diseases. The results were compared with age-matched controls (group 3).
RESULTS: The frequencies of doctor-diagnosed 'asthma', 'allergic rhinitis' and 'eczema' were 29.4%, 7.8% and 7.8% in group 1; 7.8%, 5.2% and 5.2% in group 2 and 12.4%, 9% and 2.8% in group 3, respectively. 'History of ever wheezing', doctor-diagnosed 'asthma' and 'eczema' were more common in group 1 than group 3 (p < 0.05 for all parameters), and 'history of ever wheezing' and 'doctor-diagnosed asthma' were more common in group 1 than group 2 (p < 0.05 for al parameters). Atopy was more common in group 1 (35.2%) than both groups 2 (15.7%) and 3 (18%) (p < 0.05 for all parameters). Vertical transmission was more common in patients with versus without atopy in HBV carrier group (33.3% vs. 9%, p < 0.05).
CONCLUSION: Immune responses in chronic HBV infection associated with carrier state may also lead to allergic diseases, which suggests the necessity of following these patients for the allergic diseases along with their viral reactivation.


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