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We all have to live together, whether we do it with enthusiasm or grace, reluctance or despair. In this skillfully drawn collection, National Book award-winning Michigan writer Gloria Whelan presents short stories and a novella that look at people living together who have reached a crisis point. Whether her characters are old or young, male or female, in settings that are urban or rural, they wrestle with anger, loneliness, and frustration, but ultimately demonstrate bravery, trust, determination, and, often, the ability to learn something new.
Whelan considers a variety of narratives about people coexisting, breaking apart, or coming together. The subdued lives of older women are shaken by a scandalous invasion; a man looks around him to discover he will be living the rest of his life in the wrong place with the wrong people; a married couple, grown apart, find themselves locked together; suburbanites reach out tentatively to the distant city; a house and the ghosts who inhabit it change lives. A final section contains Whelan's novella, "Keeping Your Place," which follows a family as their lives and their home change during the years of the Vietnam War. After the loss of her husband, a mother and the three children must make a final visit to their beloved cabin in the woods and come to a crucial decision.
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HM the Sultan speaks via video conference during the ASEAN Plus Three Summit on COVID-19 on April 14, 2020. Also in attendance was health minister YB Dato Dr Hj Md Isham. Photo: Infofoto
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In a joint declaration issued after a special virtual summit, leaders of the 10-nation bloc said regional reserves of medical supplies should be developed, as well as ASEAN reserve warehouses to support member states during public health emergencies.
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His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah also joined the teleconference — the first virtual meeting between ASEAN heads of government — saying that regular sharing of information, experiences and public health measures is crucial to improve ASEAN's response to the pandemic.
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To date, the coronavirus has infected more than 20,000 people in the region with nearly a thousand deaths.
HM the Sultan speaks via video conference during the ASEAN Plus Three Summit on COVID-19 on April 14, 2020. Photo: Infofoto
His Majesty also acknowledged the grave economic challenges created by the pandemic, and stressed that ASEAN countries must work together to keep the regional economy afloat.
Speaking at an expanded meeting later on Tuesday that included leaders from China, Korea and Japan, the monarch said the flow of trade and services must continue in order to protect the livelihoods of people in the region.
He called on dialogue partners to build on trade and investment opportunities so that economies would be resilient enough to face future crises.
The sultan also welcomed expertise provided by China, Korea and Japan on combating the spread of COVID-19.
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Shipbuilding on the River Clyde
Glasgow's Clyde river has an important place in Scotland's history both as a port and shipbuilder. Read and learn about the contribution to the Industrial revolution and beyond that period in this article and others on Scotland. Odyssey Traveller is an Antipodean travel company serving World Travellers since 1983 with small group educational tours for senior couples and mature solo travellers.
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River Clyde Shipbuilding
By Marco Stojanovik
The River Clyde, one of Scotland's major rivers, flows about 106 miles (170 km) from its source in the Lowther Hills in South Lanarkshire, west through the heart of Glasgow city, before discharging into the Atlantic at the Firth of Clyde. It is arguably Scotland's most well-known river, famous worldwide for its past as the world's pre-eminent shipbuilding centre.
At the turn of the 20th century, the river was widely regarded as the best location for shipbuilding in the British Empire. By this time, the industry here was constructing around a half of all ships worldwide, including some of the greatest ships ever built in Britain. Prestigious Atlantic liners, from the Lusitania to the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth 2, as well as some of the greatest fighting ships of the 20th century, including the gigantic HMS Hood, and a vast array of lesser warships, cargo ships, and tankers were all built here – around 30,000 ships all up. The historian Andrew Marr describes the era as "heroic industrial times, when shipbuilding was central to Scotland's sense of herself".
But by the end of the 20th century, great ships were no longer still being built in Britain, with centres having moved to America, Japan, and across the continent of Europe. What had happened? Read on to find out in this articles about the rise and decline of the shipbuilding industry on the River Clyde, intended as background reading for Odyssey Traveller's Scotland's West Coast small group tour and Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastle small group tour. Much of the information for this article has been sourced from Andrew Marr's Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged.
The Finnieston Bridge over the River Clyde in Glasgow – also known as the Clyde Arc and, less formally, the "Squinty Bridge" – at night.
Growth of the Shipbuilding Industry
Shipbuilding has occurred on the River Clyde since as far back as the 15th century. However, at first it was on only a very small scale, with a few yards building fishing boats and coastal trading vessels. Only with the loss of American suppliers during the war of independence in the 1770s did the shipyards begin to construct larger vessels and on a more industrial basis. Still though, by Scottish standards shipbuilding on the Clyde was still of relatively minor importance.
It wasn't until the 19th century that the industry grew to be a substantial source of commerce for Glasgow and the surrounding area. This came off the back of the advent of the steam engine, especially the invention of a specialist steam engine for paddle steamers by Robert Napier – 'the father of shipbuilding on the Clyde'. By the 1840s, at his yard at Govan, Napier was building record-breaking steamships and engines for commercial companies as well as for the Navy. And together with Samuel Cunard, the Canadian shipping magnate, he was making regular Atlantic steamship voyages popular and reliable.
His example spawned an industry on the upper reaches of the Clyde near Glasgow. Shipbuilding businesses like Denny's Shipyard and John Brown's Shipyard were among the first to follow to adopt steam power, before many more shipbuilding companies also established themselves on the river to be leaders in the field. These companies were highly successful, part of an economic boon for both Glasgow and Scotland in general as shipbuilding became one of the major industries on the Clyde in the 1850s. The Denny's family business itself built over 1500 ships between 1844 and 1963, including the first steamship to cross the English Channel, the first turbine steamer, and the first diesel-electric paddle boat.
It was the Fairfield Shipyards though which arguably did the most to bring the Clyde River industry to its greatest worldwide prominence. It was founded in 1864 by William Elder, an apprentice to Robert Napier, who developed the compound steam engine. This engine was a breakthrough invention – bigger, faster, more reliable, and offering more efficient use of fuel – and it brought great success to the company. At its peak under William Pearce from 1888, the company employed 70,000 workers in 19 yards to meet a stream of contracts for both passenger and naval ships. By this point shipbuilding had become the single most dominant industry on the river.
Atlantic steamship
Another Napier employee from the early days was the young Glaswegian engineer George Thomson who, with his brother James, founded another of the great shipbuilding companies at Govan. J. & G. Thomson's ships included many Cunard Atlantic carriers, and indeed a couple of the warships used by the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Forced to move from their Govan base, the brothers moved further down the river to Clydebank. They also brought their steel foundry business and engineering workshops here, effectively creating a new industrial town.
These companies' success in turn attracted other ambitious entrepreneurs to join them. At the end of the nineteenth century a Sheffield steel maker called John Brown took over Thomsons. Brown had himself developed new steel processes, and the technology which literally underpinned the Victorian railway boom (the volute spring buffer). His steel business led him to make iron cladding for Victorian warships, and the company (which he had left by then) arrived on the Clyde in 1899.
By the early part of the twentieth century, John Brown & Co. was producing ironclad battleships for the Royal Navy and the flagships of the Cunard line. All the while it pursued relentless innovation in steel plate, turbine technology and the manufacturing process itself, going on to produce a stream of fine warships and aircraft carriers during the First and Second World Wars. Following the wars, it focused on manufacturing shipping, as well as special projects such as the Yacht Britannia in 1953 and the Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner in 1967.
By this point, however, the industry had long passed its peak. This had come in the years just before the First World War, with an estimated over 370 ships alone were completed in the year 1913 alone. At this point, there were over 200 separate shipyards constructing cruise liners, steamers, yachts, submarines, and warships (including some of the leading suppliers of the Royal Navy).
Decline of Shipbuilding in the Post-war Era
The decline of the Clyde shipping industry set in swiftly following the Second World War. German air raids during the war had targeted Glasgow on the Clyde as a major industrial centre, heavily damaging its buildings. This was a hefty blow for many companies to recover from. The companies that did survive following the war were able to despite a sharp reduction in warship orders by shifting their focus to merchant shipping.
However, by the end of the 1950s, they found themselves struggling to compete. Emerging shipbuilding superpowers in Asian countries had developed well-capitalised and highly productive industries that were outdoing the British.
Marr argues that in theory that Britain should have been able to compete: "Her workforce was as highly skilled as ever. Its companies had long traditions of supplying both the Royal Navy (a picky and difficult customer) and the fast-changing demands of merchant fleets. Yet by then something fundamental had gone wrong. British shipbuilding had stopped innovating."
The great old companies had declined to learn the lessons of prefabrication and more organized factory-based systems. Managers had refused to invest in modern machinery and somehow lost curiosity, ignoring growing new markets. They had allowed the new oil supertankers to be forged, riveted, and launched in Japan. And they had not sent expert delegations (or indeed industrial spies) to the new yards in Scandinavia and Germany which were already stealing their business.
Several Clyde shipyards booked a series of loss-making contracts in the hope of enduring the crisis. However, they remained unprofitable for too long, and by the mid-1960s several were on the verge of collapse.
In response to the crisis, the UK government created the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) consortium in 1968. This consisted of about 8,500 workers in five yards – Fairfield's and Stephens on the south bank, Connel's and Yarrow's on the north bank, and John Brown's at Clydebank.
The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-in
UCS soon faltered, going into receivership in 1971. At the time, the Ted Heath-led Tory government had a policy of no support for the shipbuilding industry, amongst other industries. So, they refused USC's request for a modest loan of £6 million to help sustain it. This was despite the fact that earlier that year the government had nationalised Rolls-Royce aero engines due to vital strategic interests.
This upset the USC workers. With 6,500 USC directly at risk, along with at least another 15,000 associated jobs, the workers responded with one of the most significant episodes in industrial history. Union shop stewards representing workers from the five shipbuilding yards in the merged group seized control of the entire operation – the gates, the management offices, the half-built ships and the engineering workshops, the lot – and declared they would continue production of ships. It would be a 'work-in'.
On July 30, Jimmy Reid, spokesman and one of the leaders in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in, addressed the workers with his now famous words: "We are not going to strike. We are not even going to have a sit-in strike. Nobody and nothing will come in and nothing will go out without our permission. And there will be no hooliganism. There will be no vandalism. There will be no bevvying [drinking alcohol] – because the world is watching us and it is our responsibility to conduct ourselves with responsibility and with dignity and with maturity."
And so they did. Over seven months, the workforce of the five yards turned up every day and completed their usual tasks, so that half-built ships were finished and the finished vessels were released to their new owners. So much for all the higher-paid managers: the workers were doing it all for themselves. Hundreds of thousands of Scottish workers meanwhile showed solidarity by striking and holding mass demonstrations. These efforts were eventually a success, with the government by February 1972 finally relenting and agreeing to hand over £35 million to the yards at Govan and Scotstoun.
The River Clyde Today
Despite that bailout, with the managers back, UCS did not prosper. Closures continued up and down the Clyde, and by 1977 most of Clyde's shipyards had been nationalised and grouped with other major British shipyards, such as the firm British Shipyards. There were further mergers and many more mass redundancies under the Thatcher governments. Privatizations and break-ups followed.
Today two major shipyards on the Upper Clyde– the former Yarrow yard at Scotstoun, and Fairfield at Govan – remain in operation. Both are owned by BAE Systems Surface Ships, a naval contractor specialising in the design and construction of technologically advanced warships for the Royal Navy and other navies around the world.
Looking back up the Clyde today, there's little sign now of the sprawling industrial region that used to supply so much of the world's shipping. Near the centre of Glasgow, most of the space where the work-ins took place is semi-derelict or redeveloped for luxury flats, hotels, and a conference centre. The grand Finnieston Crane, another relic from the 1930s, stands like a lonely monument and is photographed by tourists.
Nevertheless, new industries involved in finance, tourism, digital media, and shipping have all taken root in recent years to successfully revive commerce along the Clyde for modern times. While the tradition of shipbuilding is sure to endure, the region is now once again prospering in the new direction in which it is heading.
Evening winter light on the Finniestone Crane and Finnieston Bridge on the River Clyde, Glasgow.
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Ambient Information Visualisation and Visitors' Technology Acceptance of Mixed Reality in Museums
Ramy Hammady, Minhua Ma, Carl Strathearn
The visualisation of historical information and storytelling in museums is a crucial process for transferring knowledge by directly and simplistically engaging the museum audience. Until recently, technological limitations meant museums were limited to 2D and 3D screen-based information displays. However, advancements in Mixed reality (MR) devices permit the propagation of a virtual overlay that amalgamates both real-world and virtual environments into a single spectrum. These holographical devices project a 3D space around the user which can be augmented with virtual artefacts, thus potentially changing the traditional museum visitor experience. Few research studies focus on utilising this virtual space to generate objects that do not visually inhibit or distract the operator. Therefore, this paper aims to introduce the Ambient Information Visualisation Concept (AIVC) as a new form of storytelling, which can enhance the communication and interactivity between museum visitors and exhibits by measuring and sustaining an optimum spatial environment around the user.
Furthermore, this paper investigates the perceptual influences of AIVC on the users' level of engagement in the museum. This research paper utilises the Microsoft HoloLens, which is one of the most cutting-edge imagining technologies available to date, in order to deploy the AIVC in a historical storytelling scene 'The Battle' in the Egyptian department at The Manchester Museum. This research further seeks to measure the user acceptance of the MR prototype by adopting the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The operational approaches investigated in this study include; personal innovativeness (PI), enjoyment (ENJ), usefulness (USF), ease of use (EOU) and willingness of future use (WFU). The population sampling methodology utilised 47 participants from the museum's daily visitors. Results of this research indicate that the willingness of future usage construct is the primary outcome of this study, followed by the usefulness factor. Further findings conclude that the majority of users found this technology highly engaging and easy to use. The combination of the proposed system and AIVC in museum storytelling has extensive applications in museums, galleries and cultural heritage places to enhance the visitor experience.
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
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Hammady, R., Ma, M., & Strathearn, C. (2020). Ambient Information Visualisation and Visitors' Technology Acceptance of Mixed Reality in Museums. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 13(2), 1-22. [9]. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359590
Hammady, Ramy ; Ma, Minhua ; Strathearn, Carl. / Ambient Information Visualisation and Visitors' Technology Acceptance of Mixed Reality in Museums. In: Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. 2020 ; Vol. 13, No. 2. pp. 1-22.
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AU - Ma, Minhua
AU - Strathearn, Carl
N2 - The visualisation of historical information and storytelling in museums is a crucial process for transferring knowledge by directly and simplistically engaging the museum audience. Until recently, technological limitations meant museums were limited to 2D and 3D screen-based information displays. However, advancements in Mixed reality (MR) devices permit the propagation of a virtual overlay that amalgamates both real-world and virtual environments into a single spectrum. These holographical devices project a 3D space around the user which can be augmented with virtual artefacts, thus potentially changing the traditional museum visitor experience. Few research studies focus on utilising this virtual space to generate objects that do not visually inhibit or distract the operator. Therefore, this paper aims to introduce the Ambient Information Visualisation Concept (AIVC) as a new form of storytelling, which can enhance the communication and interactivity between museum visitors and exhibits by measuring and sustaining an optimum spatial environment around the user. Furthermore, this paper investigates the perceptual influences of AIVC on the users' level of engagement in the museum. This research paper utilises the Microsoft HoloLens, which is one of the most cutting-edge imagining technologies available to date, in order to deploy the AIVC in a historical storytelling scene 'The Battle' in the Egyptian department at The Manchester Museum. This research further seeks to measure the user acceptance of the MR prototype by adopting the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The operational approaches investigated in this study include; personal innovativeness (PI), enjoyment (ENJ), usefulness (USF), ease of use (EOU) and willingness of future use (WFU). The population sampling methodology utilised 47 participants from the museum's daily visitors. Results of this research indicate that the willingness of future usage construct is the primary outcome of this study, followed by the usefulness factor. Further findings conclude that the majority of users found this technology highly engaging and easy to use. The combination of the proposed system and AIVC in museum storytelling has extensive applications in museums, galleries and cultural heritage places to enhance the visitor experience.
AB - The visualisation of historical information and storytelling in museums is a crucial process for transferring knowledge by directly and simplistically engaging the museum audience. Until recently, technological limitations meant museums were limited to 2D and 3D screen-based information displays. However, advancements in Mixed reality (MR) devices permit the propagation of a virtual overlay that amalgamates both real-world and virtual environments into a single spectrum. These holographical devices project a 3D space around the user which can be augmented with virtual artefacts, thus potentially changing the traditional museum visitor experience. Few research studies focus on utilising this virtual space to generate objects that do not visually inhibit or distract the operator. Therefore, this paper aims to introduce the Ambient Information Visualisation Concept (AIVC) as a new form of storytelling, which can enhance the communication and interactivity between museum visitors and exhibits by measuring and sustaining an optimum spatial environment around the user. Furthermore, this paper investigates the perceptual influences of AIVC on the users' level of engagement in the museum. This research paper utilises the Microsoft HoloLens, which is one of the most cutting-edge imagining technologies available to date, in order to deploy the AIVC in a historical storytelling scene 'The Battle' in the Egyptian department at The Manchester Museum. This research further seeks to measure the user acceptance of the MR prototype by adopting the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The operational approaches investigated in this study include; personal innovativeness (PI), enjoyment (ENJ), usefulness (USF), ease of use (EOU) and willingness of future use (WFU). The population sampling methodology utilised 47 participants from the museum's daily visitors. Results of this research indicate that the willingness of future usage construct is the primary outcome of this study, followed by the usefulness factor. Further findings conclude that the majority of users found this technology highly engaging and easy to use. The combination of the proposed system and AIVC in museum storytelling has extensive applications in museums, galleries and cultural heritage places to enhance the visitor experience.
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/3e751e46-2edf-3e4e-a727-51dfdc28366b/
U2 - 10.1145/3359590
DO - 10.1145/3359590
JO - Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
JF - Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
M1 - 9
Hammady R, Ma M, Strathearn C. Ambient Information Visualisation and Visitors' Technology Acceptance of Mixed Reality in Museums. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. 2020 Jun 15;13(2):1-22. 9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359590


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Ampthill mob complete double over Hinckley RFC
Ampthill 52 Hinckley 13
Hinckley Times
THE AMPTHILL mob did the Midlands division double over Hinckley in mid Bedfordshire to open up a 16 point gap at the top with a performance worthy of would-be champions.
It was the Leicester Roaders' third consecutive defeat albeit that it was five weeks since losing 10-7 to Newport in their previous game on December 12 and that, in part, was a reason for the difference in scores.
Coach Phil Massarella said: "We were rusty whereas they had played the week before and it showed. We had a few good bits but it was a poor day particularly in defence. However they are a decent side who deserve to be leaders," he added.
All of Hinckley's points came in the first half at the end of which they trailed 26-13. Sam Greasley crossed for their only try, converted by Joe Glover who also kicked a penalty with Guy Swadling adding a drop goal.
Hinckley remain in third place, seven points behind Bromsgrove but a daunting 23 in arrears of Ampthill. They have a game in hand on the top two but the same situation applies to those just below them so a return to winning ways is needed soon.
On the face of it this weekend's visit to Leicester Road of bottom club Bedford Athletic, whom they beat 47-15 away on October 10, and without a win after 15 games provides a golden opportunity to do just that but Massarella is guarding against complacency. "They are a tough side, not easy to beat and will be looking for their first scalp," he said.
A club website message said: "No panic but need more sustained intensity and accuracy over the forthcoming weeks. Bring on Bedford but more importantly bring back our match intensity."


A much-used herbicide, which for years has helped farmers throughout the United States increase profits, is losing its effectiveness and forcing producers to spend more and use more chemicals to control the weeds that threaten yields.
"I've gone from budgeting $45 an acre just two years ago to spending more than $100 an acre now to control weeds," said Mississippi farmer John McKee, who grows corn, cotton and soybeans on his 3,300-acre farm in the Delta.
The problem is Roundup, a herbicide introduced in the 1970s, and its partner, Roundup Ready crop seeds, genetically modified to withstand Roundup's active ingredient, glyphosate. In 1996, Monsanto introduced Roundup Ready soybean, soon touted as a game changer.
"It was an extremely valuable and useful tool for the past 15 years," said Bob Scott, extension weed scientist with the University of Arkansas.
The problem now is the weeds that Roundup once controlled are becoming resistant to glyphosate, Scott said.
"It's a very, very serious issue here in the Delta," licensed crop consultant Joe Townsend said. "We're knee-deep in it."
As overuse of antibiotics led to resistant bugs or superbugs, the almost exclusive use of glyphosate led to resistant populations of weeds, such as pigweed and ryegrass, once controlled by the herbicide. Glyphosate-resistant weeds have been identified in Australia, South America and China, according to the International Survey of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds.
To combat resistant weeds, farmers are turning to older methods of weed control – more chemicals and more tillage, which leads to increased rates of soil erosion. "I used so many chemicals last year, it made me silly," McKee said. "We're going backwards 15 years."
Bill Freese, science policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety in Washington, D.C., says the use of more chemicals has real public health implications. "It increases the chances they will get into our food and water."
Weed resistance to herbicides is not new. The problem, Freese says, is it's happening at a much quicker rate. "Because of the use of a single chemical (glyphosate), it's speeding up evolution." Herbicide-resistant crops are "taking us in the wrong direction. It's just not sustainable."
Rick Cole, weed management technical lead at Monsanto, said the company recommends "multiple modes of action," essentially, using more than one chemical, crop rotation and tillage. "I think everybody has learned together. When someone says they're using more chemistry, what we're worried about (is), is it safe? Is it effective?"
On the horizon for Monsanto, Cole said, is Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans, genetically engineered to be resistant to glyphosate and dicamba. Dicamba has been on the market for decades, and Cole says crops let farmers use more than one chemical on weeds.
Bayer CropScience also produces genetically modified seeds resistant to its herbicide, Liberty.


Jersey girl and I took a little trip to Clinton the other day. It was just after the recent snows but, on that particular day, the sun was out, the air was warm, and the snow had all but melted away.
On our way to get coffee, we passed by the river where I was pleasantly surprised to discover that, despite the warmth of the day, there was a full covering of ice. Understand, I come from a country where you rarely, if ever, see frozen rivers (perhaps the odd high mountain stream) and, except for that first visit to Clinton three winters ago, I hadn't really seen this kind of beauty up close before (a frozen duck pond in a London park when I was eight doesn't count).
I wished I had my camera with me but had to make do with the ubiquitous phone shots. I just loved the ring patterns that had been formed, I presumed, by swirling waters warming up beneath the ice.
Anyway, I thought some of you (probably not the East Coasters) might enjoy the images I got, so here they are.
It will steal your children.
And as beautiful as a late Autumn morning.


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import { List, Record } from 'immutable';

import { ADD_TODO, SET_VISIBILITY_FILTER, TOGGLE_TODO, VISIBILITY_FILTER_OPTIONS } from './constants';
import { IActionsTodo, ITodo, ITodosState, ITodosStateRecord } from './types';

export const getTodosStateRecord = (state: ITodosState): ITodosStateRecord => {
  class TodosStateRecord extends Record(state) implements ITodosStateRecord {}
  return new TodosStateRecord();
};

const initialState = getTodosStateRecord({
  todos: List<ITodo>([
    {
      id: 'fake_id',
      text: 'Add your own todo task above, click to mark each todo as completed',
      completed: false,
    },
  ]),
  visibilityFilter: VISIBILITY_FILTER_OPTIONS.SHOW_ALL,
});

export default (state: ITodosStateRecord = initialState, action: IActionsTodo): ITodosStateRecord => {
  switch (action.type) {
    case ADD_TODO:
      return state.update('todos', (todos) => todos.push({
        id: action.id,
        text: action.text,
        completed: action.completed,
      }));
    case TOGGLE_TODO:
      const index = state.todos.findIndex((s) => s !== undefined && s.id === action.id);
      return state.update('todos', (todos) => index === -1 ? todos : todos.update(index, (s) => ({ ...s, completed: !s.completed })));
    case SET_VISIBILITY_FILTER:
      return state.set('visibilityFilter', action.filter);
    default:
      return state;
  }
};

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Google will finally start paying some publishers for news content
Christian Zibreg ∙ October 1, 2020
Google's parent Alphabet will reportedly start compensating some of the biggest publishers for carrying their curated content in its news-focused products, such as Google News.
Google wrote in a blog post today that it has set aside more than $1 billion to cover its Digital Growth Program's first three years. Publishers will be compensated for providing blurbs for Google News. This will include giving readers free access to certain paywalled articles.
As part of the initiative, the company released a new app, called Google News Showcase, in Brazil and Germany. With News Showcase, the company's partner publishers can manage branded story panels and customize them with timelines, bullets and related news articles (video, audio and daily briefings will come next).
This financial commitment—our biggest to date—will pay publishers to create and curate high-quality content for a different kind of online news experience. Google News Showcase is a new product that will benefit both publishers and readers: It features the editorial curation of award-winning newsrooms to give readers more insight on the stories that matter, and in the process, helps publishers develop deeper relationships with their audiences.
There panels will appear in Google News on Android before coming to Google News on iOS "soon" and to Google Discover and Search "in the future." Basically, publishers can take advantage of story panels to to package the stories the way they see fit.
According to the CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, they've signed partnerships with nearly 200 publications across Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, the UK and Australia such as Der Spiegel, Stern, Die Zeit, Folha de S.Paulo, Band and Infobae. "Regionally and locally significant publications" are also part of the program. News Showcase will expand to other countries including India, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Bloomberg commented:
Brad Bender, a Google vice president, said on a call with journalists the funding wouldn't be able to cover all news organizations also because 'not all publishers produce the volume and type of content necessary for this product.' Google is deciding who to partner with on a market-by-market basis, with a focus on newspapers or sources with established audiences, as well as significant local and regional news outlets, he said. Licensing fees will be structured as a flat fee over a period of time and will be negotiated depending on the amount of content the publisher provides, Google said.
Apple's never had to deal with complaints with publishers because its News product is built on a fair business model that accepts both publishers who give away shorter stories for free to gain exposure and those who provide access to paywalled articles as part of the subscription.
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"Tomb of Dracula" 1-31 – Omnibus Volume 1
Series Summary & Remarks
#1-6 ~ Forming a Team & Time Travel
#7-13 ~ Blade, Gangs, & Killing Dracula
#14-16 ~ Interludes
#17-18, Werewolf By Night #15 ~ Werewolf by Night
#19-21 ~ Dr. Sun
#22-24, Giant-Size Chillers #1 ~Dracula in Hiding
#25, Giant-Size #2 ~ Re-Emerging
#26-28 ~ Chimera
#29-31, Giant-Size #3-4 ~ Dracula Returns
Called by some the best comic series of the 1970s, "Tomb of Dracula" wasn't a series that I paid much attention to over the years. When I was able to score a great deal on the series' first two Marvel Omnibus collection – collecting the complete 1970s series – I finally found myself intrigued. I was even more intrigued when I discovered that the series hooked me with the first issue, unexpectedly telling a novel-like serial story that grew wilder and wilder as each issue went by.
A reader knows that a series is doing something right when – in the span of a few issues – the writers have assembled a crack team of vampire hunters and chased Dracula through another dimension and back in time. Things only grew better from there.
The creative team on "Tomb of Dracula" largely stayed the same throughout its near-decade run, with Marv Wolfman writing all but the first five issues and 'Mean' Gene Colan penciling the entire series
Readers might recall Wolfman from later big name work at DC Comics in the 1980s. He wrote "New Teen Titans" when it sold at levels rivaling the "X-Men" in that time period and later re-arranged the DC universe, effectively ending all of DC's Silver Age story continuity in "Crisis on Infinite Earths."
Colan was a drawing legend since the Marvel 1960s heydays and his work was very interesting, clean and polished
"Tomb of Dracula" became the grand-daddy of a Marvel horror comics tradition that was later revived in the 1990s with popular series such as "Nightstalkers." Again, I ignored all horror comics in my early collecting days, so it was fun to discover an entire aspect of the Marvel universe that I'd never realized existed.
"Tomb of Dracula," in particular, experienced a revival in interest after first being collected in Marvel's black-and-white Essentials line. It later became part of the Marvel Omnibus line in 2008 during a time when Marvel was also making uncharacteristic releases such as the "Howard the Duck" omnibus.
The first "Tomb of Dracula" omnibus had a release date that capitalized on the Halloween holiday of 2008. All three eventual omnibus volumes were released before Colan's death in mid-2011. Colan had a revival himself at that time, landing new work from Marvel that included a "Captain America" issue. He was experiencing all kinds of crazy issues both health and wife-related at the time and there was a movement at the time to assist him financially.
From the perspective of the modern reader, "Tomb of Dracula" read better than most comics from the 1970s. Keep in mind that this was often a silly, disco-infused period in Marvel history. Instead, "Tomb of Dracula" featured many ahead-of-its-time characteristics that kicked in right away. Some reviewers would later suggest "Tomb of Dracula" as containing a mix between mainstream entertainment and the darker, mystical elements that DC Comics would later produce with the Vertigo line. One obvious example of that darker tone was the fact that Dracula seemed to kill at least one person per issue in a violent manner took me aback at first. Readers usually didn't see horrific deaths on a regular basis in a 1970s – or even 1980s – mainstream comic.
The elements from the Dracula mythology that the series used weren't limited to simply adapting Bram Stoker's original novel. Rather, well-known vampire tropes – such as an aversion to sunlight – came from the 1922 film "Nosferatu." Later film influences from the 1930s through 1950s were also present, as Dracula's characteristics in the public consciousness had already become more of a mash-up of influences than most people realize.
On a final note, unlike most super hero fare of the era, "Tomb of Dracula" often featured a very serialized story. Even its stand-alone tales usually featured glimpses of ongoing plot points. This approach led to a more novelistic feel that enhanced the depth of the overall story.
There was a significant evolution in concept and experimentation in the first few issues of "Tomb of Dracula." Most likely, this had to do with a revolving door of writers and, perhaps, a feeling by the editorial staff that the series wasn't yet on track.
Gene Conway – a spry nineteen year old who apparently had help from Stan Lee and Roy Thomas – started things off in the first two issues. He immediately introduced Frank Drake, the apparent last living descent of Dracula. Drake would continue to be central to the series, although his earliest companions would not. Drake, his girlfriend Jean and his friend Clifton Graves stumbled upon Dracula after Drake inherited Dracula's castle. The aptly-named Graves ended up inadvertently reviving the vampire lord in issue #1.
Frank's world fell apart when in issue #2 he had to deal with both Jean and Graves having been transformed into vampires by Dracula. He managed to kill Graves but had to be saved from Dracula by a convenient rising sun. That same sunrise killed the vampire Jean, leaving Frank's world shattered.
The series' location briefly shifted from Transylvania back to England in the Archie Goodwin written issue #3. Drake was so distraught from recent events that he was about to commit suicide from a bridge Luckily, he was stopped by a mysterious woman and her companion. The woman was Rachel Van Helsing, descendent of Abraham Van Helsing, the professor with knowledge of vampires from Stoker's novel. She was joined by India-native Taj Nitall, a mute whose family had been devastated by Dracula. Thus, a vampire-hunting team took shape with the duo's recruitment of Drake to their cause.
Goodwin brought that team up against Dracula and his new ally Ilsa Strangeway in issue #4. Ilsa had purchased Castle Dracula from Frank Drake, hoping to find a secret there that would restore her youth. She ended up working out a deal with Dracula to make her vampire and also offered him access to an occult mirror that would allow him to travel through time.
Of course, Dracula was a fish out of water in the twentieth century and took the opportunity to go back in time to the late-1800s in issue #5. This continuation of the story arc featured new writer Gardner F. Fox. Dracula didn't end up where he'd expected though, having said an incorrect incantation that sent him to a dimension filled with monsters. Taj had chased Dracula through the mirror and the pair ended up stuck in this dimension until Dracula found another mirror that took him back to the expected time period.
During that dimension-hopping activity, Frank and Rachel had managed to use Ilsa's original mirror to also travel to the same time 1800s time period as Dracula. Rachel ended up saving Abraham Van Helsing from Dracula and the comic's core case ended up traveling back to modern times.
Issue #6 was comparatively low-key with the vampire hunters investigating the monster-ing antics of the disfigured son of Lord and Lady Dering. That misunderstood monstrous son ended up saving the vampire hunter team from Dracula's latest plot against them.
Despite some of its era-centric shortcomings, the series' first few issues were a fun roller coaster ride. The haphazard creative team changes meant that characters were introduced and then quickly killed off, making the book anything but predictable.
Note that an amusing gimmick for readers was the incorporation of Dracula into the 'real world' of the Marvel Universe. Since many citizens within that world assumed Dracula to be a work of fiction there too, characters often didn't take his presence seriously until it was too late.
The long-term creative team of Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan were finally in place by issue #7.
Wolfman's first major character introduction was Quincy Harker, the descendent of Jonathan Harker from Stoker's novel. Harker would become the group's mastermind, a sort of Professor X for vampire hunters. He was the man behind Rachel and Taj's vampire hunting and they introduced him to Frank Drake. Besides having a bad family history, Harker had a vendetta with Dracula due to his having killed Harker's wife.
This issue concluded with the vampire hunter team having been lured into a trap by Dracula that featured an army of possessed children ready to attack them. It was an understandably creepy situation. By issue #8, that situation was defused and Dracula was back on the run, having been injured by the vampire hunters. Dracula turned to one of his vampire minions for help in getting blood from a blood bank. He then used a 'projector' device to begin calling out for an army of the undead. This was one of a couple of longer-range plot devices that were set in motion. Another was Harker's calling upon contacts in the British government for assistance.
Issue #9 was an interlude of sorts with the still-weak Dracula finding himself taken in by the small town of Littlepool. He wasn't so welcome after the residents discovered who he really was. In a curious twist, a small boy helped Dracula escape the wrath of the townspeople.
Issue #10 introduced Blade as an uneasy ally – if not outright rival – of Quincy Harker. They were both vampire hunters, but seemed to disagree on approach to a degree that caused friction between the two.
In the story's main plot, Dracula had taken over a cruise ship and it took Blade springing into action to save its passengers.
Reader might have forgotten about Clifton Graves from the first two issues of the series, but Wolfman did not. Graves turned up on the cruise ship as one of Dracula's minions. Unfortunately, he appeared to die at the very end of the story when Dracula destroyed the ship.
Blade was a man of mystery, but a unique new character. Readers would later learn that his mother had been attacked by a vampire while she was in labor, thus granting Blade several super-human characteristics of a vampire but also making him immune to their attacks. He would go on to become a popular addition to the series and, curiously enough, be featured in a Hollywood film series that was credited by many as being a breakthrough in super-hero film adaptations.
Issue #11 brought full circle a number of smaller plot points from issues #8 and #9. Dracula had been hounded by a motorcycle gang that was actually under the employ of the disabled Jason Faust. Faust sent the gang after Quincy Harker, whom he blamed for his disability. Ironically, Dracula saved Harker from the gang while seeking instead to get his revenge on them. Despite the long rivalry with Harker, this was an early sign that Wolfman was trying to make Dracula more dimensional as a character.
Issue #12 provided an impressive first storyline climax when Quincy Harker's daughter Edith was kidnapped and used as bait to lure the vampire hunter team to Dracula's latest deathtrap. This time, Dracula had an army of vampires waiting to attack the vampire hunters while they were trapped within a house. Blade saved the day though, assisted by remnants of the aforementioned motorcycle gang. The vampire army was pushed back and a severely injured Dracula was forced to retreat.
There was not a happy ending though, as Edith Harker was discovered to have been infected by Dracula. Rather than allow his daughter to turn into a vampire, Quincy Harker killed her with a wooden stake through the heart at the beginning of issue #13. It would be a gross understatement to refer to that story resolution as simply disturbing. Blade's origin was more explicitly laid out during the course of issue #13, with limits established, such as his oversensitive eyes. By issue's end, Blade ended up seemingly killing Dracula for the first time in the series.
Issue #13 was also notable for featuring the first of many brief upcoming interludes in which Asian scientists collected items for a mysterious villain named Dr. Sun. In this case, it was the body of Brand, the motorcycle gang's fallen leader. Dr. Sun wouldn't formally take center stage until issues #19 and #20.
Readers learned quickly enough – in fact, right at the beginning of issue #14 – that Dracula had managed to survive his fight with Blade. He'd summoned nearby villagers who were his mind slaves to move his body from the battle scene before it could be properly destroyed. As Dracula's body decayed though, his power over the villagers diminished and they eventually abandoned him.
Enter Father Josiah Dawn, the revival tent reverend of the Church of the Forever Resurrected. Father Dawn featured Dracula in a revival service, pulling from Dracula's skeleton the wooden stake that had killed him. The revived Dracula then killed Father Dawn and disappeared.
Issue #15 featured the first of the 'Dracula's Diary' flashback stories that Wolfman periodically used to present historical Dracula vignettes. This was an interesting approach to switching things up while revisiting Dracula's extensive past. Although longtime readers might have initially found contradictions in the series continuity, Wolfman would later clarify some of the deviations that he created in these vignettes and the presumed longstanding slumber that Dracula had been in prior to issue #1. A particular flashback of note told the tale of Dracula's revenge on Turac, the man who killed Dracula's beloved wife Maria and who had put into motion Dracula being turned into a vampire. Another flashback told of Dracula's battle with a Scottsman that ended with his being left for dead in the coffin where Clifton Graves revived him in issue #1.
Inspector Chelm from issue #2 was one of the main characters in issue #16, as he pursued a series of murders under the erroneous assumption that Dracula had committed them. In fact, they'd been committed by a 'living skeleton' named Duncan Corley who had been buried in an astrologically significant location that a man named Paul Beare wanted for his own grave. Dracula did get involved in all of the supernatural hijinks though, helping to bring Corley to a proper rest after sorting out the situation with Chelm.
Elsewhere, Dr. Sun made his credited first official on-panel appearance. He learned that his minion Mr. Lo had successfully revived the now-vampire motorcycle gang leader Brand.
Marv Wolfman had established earlier in the series that in order to survive outside of Transylvania, Dracula stashed coffins around the world that were lined with dirt from Transylvania. One such coffin was apparently hidden in Paris, which led Dracula to France at the beginning of issue #17. Blade was waiting for him there and the duo ended up battling.
After defeating Blade, Dracula headed back to Transylvania aboard a train. The train was packed with adversaries though, namely Frank, Rachel, and also agents of Dr. Sun. Dracula escaped, but readers were left to wonder about Sun's agents, who lost a mysterious briefcase that had been in their possession.
Issue #17 also featured a cameo by Jack Russell, the "Werewolf by Night" in Marvel's horror series of that name. He was on the same train to Transylvania as everyone else and became the main star of issue #18. In that issue, Russell and his mysterious companion, Topaz, encountered Dracula while visiting Transylvania in hopes of finding a cure to the werewolf curse. At the same time, he came into contact with the Book of Sins, a diary that contained the Montesi Formula. This formula could be used to destroy all vampires around the world.
Conveniently for crossover sales, issue #18 continued into "Werewolf by Night" #15. Much of that issue told the melodramatic origin of werewolves in Russell's family and their rivalry with Dracula. The issue's primary action scenes took place in the final few pages, just Frank and Rachel showed up to help save the day. Their paths veered away from Russell though, as Dracula pursed the vampire hunters, who had gained possession of the diary with the Montesi Formula inside.
Readers might have been confused by issue #19 opening with Dracula and Rachel trapped together in a blizzard in the Transylvanian Alps. Through flashbacks, it was revealed that the duo had crashed during the helicopter flight that ended issue #18. Dracula and Rachel ended up in an uneasy alliance, both dependent on one another to survive the snowstorm. Frank Drake eventually arrived to rescue Rachel, with Dracula escaping when Frank was forced to choose between capturing Dracula and saving Rachel. Note that the diary with the Montesi Formula was lost in the alps, although Marvel would not entirely ignore it.
Not to be forgotten back in Paris, Blade was revived by Quincy Harker following the injuries sustained in issue #17. Also, the training of the now-vampire Brand by Dr. Sun's minion Mr. Lo continued.
Frank didn't entirely let Dracula escape though, as he ended up chasing the vampire with his helicopter in issue #20. Firing wooden bullets at Dracula didn't do the trick, but he was ultimately felled by a conveniently timed gust of wind. When Dracula regained consciousness, he found that he'd been captured by Dr. Sun, who had been helped by the assumed-dead Clifton Graves. Graves had been betrayed by Dracula and left for dead in issue #10.
Dracula attempted to escape Sun's capture and killed Graves in the process. He didn't get far though, as Frank and Rachel had discovered where Dracula had been taken and stopped his flight. They wanted to stop him as well, but everyone was eventually immobilized by Dr. Sun when he arrived with the now-trained vampire Brand.
Dr. Sun's origin and game-plan were revealed at the end of issue #20 and the beginning of issue #21. He was essentially a living brain, having been punished by the Chinese government into being linked with a super-computer. This punishment turned out to be a major mistake, as Sun took control of the computer rather than simply making it more powerful. Since then, he'd set the goal of taking control of all vampires around the world.
Sun's training of Brand had been with the intention of using him to 'download' Dracula's experience and then become the leader of all vampires. That plan misfired when Brand and Dracula teamed up to battle Sun. Realizing that things were lost, Sun freed Frank and Rachel to battle Dracula while he stopped Brand by use of a mental bolt. Sun's lab ended up being destroyed in a fire, with Sun himself escaping via teleportation. Frank and Rachel fled the scene in Frank's helicopter after erroneously thinking that Dracula had been killed.
Unfortunately, the long lead-up to this arc only led to less than two issues of actual confrontation between Dracula and Sun. The Dr. Sun storyline was impressive though, presenting an extremely compelling threat against Dracula. Sun's own dependency on blood provided an interesting parallel to Dracula.
Issue #22 opened with the still-alive (or, rather, still undead) Dracula making his way from the Transylvanian alps to the village of Kamenka, Moldavia in the former U.S.S.R. Unfortunately for him, he encountered the adversarial vampire Gorna, whom he had to defeat. Despite Dracula's weakened state, this battle came out in his favor, but it wasn't an easy victory.
While Dracula was presumed dead, the vampire hunter team of Frank and Rachel returned to London to report back in with Quincy Harker. In doing so, they learned that Taj had mysteriously left for his home in India.
Chronologically, the storyline continued in "Giant-Size Chillers" #1 where readers learned that Dracula had a daughter named Lilith. Lilith was the product of Dracula's first marriage, a union to a woman named Zofia that had been arranged against his will. Zofia had turned Lilith over to the gypsy woman who eventually turned Dracula into a vampire. The gypsy raised Lilith, turning her into a revenge-seeking vampire in order to pay back Dracula for killing her son. Father and daughter initially appeared poised to bury their grudges, but Dracula escaped from her in bat form after rejecting her peace proposal.
This special issue's other events gave some further context into Taj's disappearance by showing him having received a mysterious letter from India that had prompted him to head home. Also of important note was the introduction of Castle Dunwick, the home of Sheila Whittier. The castle would become Dracula's home base for the next few issues and Sheila would also be wrapped up in a series of unfortunate circumstances.
Issue #23 focused more on Sheila history by introducing Alestar Dunwick. Dunwick had been haunting Sheila since his death. She'd inherited the castle from him and assumed him to be her uncle. In fact, he was her father, having later remarried to a woman whom Sheila had thought of as her aunt. Dunwick tried to sacrifice Sheila to his 'master' as a way to break a curse on himself, but Dracula ended up saving Sheila by destroying Dunwick's corpse.
A number of storylines were active throughout issue #24. Three years were acknowledged to have passed in story time since the first few issues of the series and Dracula was still assumed dead by the vampire hunter team. While observing that passage of time and a general lack of focus, Frank decided to leave Rachel. At the same time, halfway around the world, Taj's quest to India was revealed to have been in support of his ill son.
Much of the focus of this issue was on Blade though and the mystery behind a woman named Trudy being stalked by a vampire. Trudy was a 'dancer' friend of Blade's girlfriend Saffron and she had experienced run-ins with Dracula. While investigating these run-ins, Blade ended up confronting Dracula in bat form, not realizing that the vampire was actually Dracula. Their fight concluded with Dracula in retreat after being stabbed by wooden daggers while inside a sporting goods store.
A change of pace for sure, issue #25 was a mostly-standalone detective tale. Hannibal King was enlisted by Adrianne Brown Walters to solve the mystery of her husband Fred's murder. Based on Adrianne's description of the killing, he knew that the murderer was a vampire. After a lengthy investigation, King learned that Fred had been killed by Dracula to cover up the exportation of his various hidden coffins around the world.
This issue featured the first appearance of Hannibal King, who would reappear later in the series. Like Blade, he was revealed to be a vampire, but one that could keep his situation under control.
Later "X-Men" legend Chris Claremont stepped in to write "Giant-Sized Dracula" #2. The story featured Inspector Chelm hiring the investigator Kate Fraser to assist with finding the culprit behind a series of vampire-related murders. Fraser had the unique talent of being able to tell who has previously possessed an object simply by touching it.
The trail led Chelm and Kate to both Dracula and a demon named Y'Garon, who was an 'elder' on Earth that might have slain Dracula's wife in the past. Confusing matters, Kate looked like Dracula's deceased wife and he ended up protecting her from Y'Garon. After Dracula defeated Y'Garon, he manipulated Kate to forget everything that recently occurred, but not before thinking her for reminding him of human love.
Claremont had used the related N'Garai demons that Y'Garon hailed from back in "X-Men" #96 as a precursor to this story, both likely influenced by H.P. Lovecraft's Old Ones mythology. The Kate Fraser character would end up getting a bit of additional use by Claremont in his "Captain Britain" work. Note that the Dracula brand was so strong by this point that Marvel re-named "Giant-Sized Chillers" to "Giant-Sized Dracula" with this second issue.
Unfortunately, Colan didn't handle the art in the "Giant-Sized Dracula" series. Readers used to Gene Colan's atmospheric art on the main Dracula series would have likely been disappointed by this issue's Don Heck art. While not awful, Heck's style simply wasn't as compelling as Colan's on the title.
Getting back to the main "Tomb of Dracula" storyline, issue #26 was a wild one. The focus was on Kull the Conqueror's Chimera. Kull was a creation of Robert E. Howard, who had also created Conan the Barbarian. Marvel's "Conan the Barbarian" series was a huge hit in the 1970s, so it was unsurprising that a reference to Howard's world would be made in "Tomb of Dracula." In Wolfman's mythology, the Chimera referred to a three-pieced statue that could transform reality into the thoughts of those who possessed it.
A shop owner in London, Joshua Eshcol, had recently found the pieces composing the Chimera and explained their purpose to his son David. Soon thereafter, Joshua was murdered and two of the three Chimera pieces were stolen. David ended up hanging onto the third piece. Dracula, curious about the Chimera, orchestrated a meeting between David and Sheila Whittier, with Sheila lying about having been previously told by Joshua about the Chimera.
While Sheila learned about the Chimera's past with David, Dracula tracked down the thieves who had stolen its other two pieces. That task resulted in Dracula being caught in a witty bind, as he ended up trapped by the crooks in a tank that was filling with holy water. It was an inspired cliffhanger.
The narration in the issue was downright odd at times, with quotes from the Bible's Book of Solomon mixed into the text. A lesser plot point, unrelated to the Chimera, focused on Frank being offered a job in Brazil by his wealthy old friend Danny Summers. That opportunity also seemed to include nearly-instant romantic time with the beautiful Chastity Jones.
In issue #27's opening pages, Dracula managed to escape the last issue's cliffhanger by changing his form into first a bat and then mist. This proved a handy way to get out of a jam. Dracula later met up with David and Sheila, whereby he ordered David to turn over his Chimera piece. David objected and fought off Dracula, interestingly enough, with a Jewish Star of David. At the conclusion of their fight, both men lost out as two mysterious men ended up gaining possession of David's piece.
Down in Brazil, Frank didn't waste much time in moving on from Rachel to Chastity Between his new job in Brazil and Chastity, he became a new man. At the same time, Rachel was in an entirely different emotional place, still upset over the fact that she had been dumped by Frank.
Issue #28 opened with the shocking revelation that Taj's ill son was actually a vampire. It would be a couple more issues before that situation was explored more thoroughly though.
The bulk of this issue was spent wrapping up the Chimera storyline. Dracula, David, and Shiela had all been captured by Dr. Sun's organization, this time led by a dangerous Asian woman named Mae Li. The fully-assembled Chimera was used to create situations that tricked the prisoners, but Dracula was able to see through the deception and steal the Chimera back. While he briefly had control of the Chimera, it ended up being destroyed when Shiela broke free of Dracula's influence. She ended up leaving Dracula to pursue a romance with David.
Given the earlier build-up to Dr. Sun's first confrontation with Dracula, this minor sequel was a bit of a letdown. The adult emotions involved in the plot made for mature storytelling, but the machinations of Dr. Sun were very cartoony this time. Sun left available far too much of an opening to be stopped by insisting on a 'show of power' with the assembled Chimera.
"Giant-Sized Dracula" #3 featured another Chris Claremont story, this time focusing on the blind sorceress Elainne, daughter of Turac, the man who killed Dracula's wife five hundred years prior. She was seeking revenge for Dracula's responsibility in the murder of her father. She didn't stop at just Dracula though, as she also went after Quincy Harker with hopes of using his knowledge of the Montesi Formula to kill all vampires around the world. Dracula would eventually get wise to the plan and killed Elainne after a lengthy confrontation.
Readers would note that Inspector Chelm again got in on the action, along with Kate Fraser. In particular, Kate's abilities were used to learn about Elainne's past.
Note that Dracula's invasion of the facility that Elainne used in the story to work on the formula wasn't unfamiliar ground for Claremont. He also used the 'one guy invades a building' concept with an Iron Fist story during roughly the exact same late-1974 timeframe.
The first half of issue #29 focused on Taj's origin, with scenes depicting how Dracula had harmed his wife and turned his son into a vampire. He'd partnered up with Rachel after she came to India to pursue Dracula.
The latter half of issue #29 actually tied in well with the prior Chimera story arc, with Biblical quotes continuing to be a part of the narration. The seeming 'happy' ending from issue #28 ended up being complicated by this issue's end. David decided that he needed to kill Dracula in order for he and Sheila to be happy. That turned out to be a bad idea, as Dracula killed David during their confrontation. Dracula then took David's body to Sheila and, after failing to control her, Sheila fell out a window to her death.
Talk about a downer ending to a lengthy story arc.
Issue #30 provided another peek into Dracula's Diary, similar to how it had been used in issue #15. The first flashback focused on the German noblewoman Lyza Strang, who had asked Dracula to kill her husband Archibald. Dracula had motivation to do so, since her husband's ambitions threatened Dracula's castle. Archibald Strang had apparently wanted to rule Germany and take over Romania. Lyza ended up betraying Dracula after he killed Archibald, with readers learning that she was having an affair with her husband's rival Otto Von Bismark. An enraged Dracula turned Lyza into a vampire while Bismark was a real-life character who contributed directly to the beginning of World War I. Coming full circle, that war resulted in significant damage to Dracula's castle.
One odd revelation in the story for readers to note: Dracula apparently stunk in person.
The second flashback story focused on Melanie Knight, a blind little girl. Melanie's mother was killed during an act of domestic violence by her father. Dracula witnessed the killing and decided to dish out his own brand of justice by killing Melanie's father. When Dracula explained the events that had occurred, Melanie was horrified by the loss of both parents. This sadness confused Dracula, but perhaps not readers.
The final flashback took place China, circa 1968. The situation involved Blade's first meeting with Dracula, an encounter in which Blade initially pretended to help Dracula. Blade's ruse led to Dracula being ambushed by several other vampire hunters. They thought that they'd killed Dracula, but some of his servants aided him by removing a deadly wooden stake from his body.
Over in the spin-off title, "Giant-Sized Dracula" #3 was written by David Craft and again featured art by Don Heck. This story told the tale of North Dakota woman Beverly Carpenter, whose father was possessed by a Native American spirit. That spirit, known as the 'Devil's Heart,' had an unusual residence on their property. Yes, an actual giant heart was buried underneath a mound of dirt. The story's conclusion, with Dracula playing hero, was abruptly dark in that the innocent Beverly was tragically killed by her father after Dracula defeated the Heart.
By issue #31 of the main series, Dracula overplayed his hidden position while manipulating members of the British Parliament. Inspector Chelm called in Quincy Harker under suspicion that the lord of Vampires was still alive. Harker finally caught up to readers' knowledge that Dracula had been manipulating British Parliament members since "Giant-Sized Chillers" #1 and issue #23.
The 'normal' vampire hunter team was still split up though, with Taj trying to save his vampire son from local villagers in India. Elsewhere, in a bit of a retro-fitting around recent behavior, Frank Drake was portrayed as still yearning for Rachel's approval. This, despite moving on from her to Chastity very quickly in issue #27, soon after Frank had dumped Rachel. Frank's friend Danny Summers allowed him to leave the job that he'd been working in South America in order to return to Rachel.
The dispersed nature of the 'normal' team left Inspector Chelm and Harker to take on Dracula themselves. Chelm had a nice gambit unfold in which he lured Dracula out of hiding at a Parliament member's office. With Harker on a telephone urging him on, Chelm was unfortunately still too slow in finishing off Dracula, who escaped.
"Tomb of Dracula" was an unexpected surprise to discover and has been a series that I try to mention to friends, since it really isn't familiar to many who started reading comics after the 1970s. I have only become more familiar with 1970s Marvel in the past few years and "Tomb of Dracula" seems like it was one of the leaders for Marvel at the time. The Colan art was perfect for the title and Marv Wolfman's major work until he started "New Teen Titans."
The influence of "Tomb of Dracula" in the comic book medium has been undeniable. In one small example, artist Todd McFarlane has made remarks about "Tomb of Dracula" being the only run of comics that he regretted selling from his private collection. The influence of the series on McFarlane's later creation "Spawn" was very evident.
Comic book fans not overly familiar with 1970s comics might be surprised to learn about the richness of the horror comics revival of that era. "Tomb of Dracula" was clearly a flagship title in that revival, well worth the time to track down and read in some format. As mentioned above, the series was often ahead of its time and had a unique flavor that modern readers would appreciate.
The writing throughout this first portion of the series was very mature in feel, with people regularly being killed. Sex was implied with regularity. A progressive air pervaded the book. It was both classic and hip for its time. While some elements might now feel very dated, they're often rather charming in hindsight.
Wolfman's writing might remind some of Len Wein or, more closely, Chris Claremont. Both shared a verbose writing style. Both also liked to keep many long-running plot threads going at any given time. As one might notice in looking over issue summaries, it was hard to find concrete beginnings and endings to plot arcs.
Colan's impressive art was unique and extremely atmospheric. He was a master of shadows and the use of dark tones.
Above all, the characters helped to make the series interesting. Although the focus was inevitably on Dracula, the vampire hunters that formed either tight bonds or loose working partnerships were often just as compelling. My quibbles about Frank Drake's behavior leading up to issue #31 aside, his relationship with Rachel was of particular note. Blade's presence always gave a nice contrast to the main team members. Also, the 'old guard' of Quincy Harker and Inspector Chelm provided some generational variety.
Dracula himself was, of course, the most complicated character of all. At times, readers weren't sure if they should love him or hate him. He was often very human, his past steeped in unfortunate circumstances. Just as often he was a monster, killing innocents for his own gain.
As a whole, this particular run of stories ended with the series still gaining momentum. Unfortunately, as consistently interesting as this first half of "Tomb of Dracula"'s run might be regarded, it's second half has critics much more divided.
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Starting a small business online? Start with a basket for your eggs.
Starting a Small Business Online: You have to start by picking out a basket to put your eggs in.
One always learns from his mistakes.
And as well, hindsight is 20-20.
Thirdly, what you don't take care of in the beginning can set you back to the beginning.
Or you'll seem to think that. But it's not time to get depressed about things. Take stock of your resources and you'll find that you've been learning all the time. And are now in a much better condition to get really going. This next time will be faster.
I recently found myself back at doing what I should have done to begin with. However, I didn't know it at the time. The reason my sales aren't taking off is that I never set up a proper back end (terminal), followed by a regular runway, and using a definite flight plan.
A proper back end first consists of having something valuable to offer.
Next, you set up a way to exchange for this - either affiliate sales, or dropshipping, or ecommerce.
Then, you promote this all over the place. So people can find your valuable offer and take you up on it.
And all of this is before you quit your day job.
Sure, if it doesn't work out, then fine - start researching and picking out another. Now that you know what reasearch you need to do, the second one will be easier.
But the basket comes before the eggs (figuring that the chicken is around there somewhere - but let's not go there...) Basket first.
A. What is something valuable that you can offer to people who will exchange something with you for them?
Now, go and find out all about that item and what people think about it. Find your keywords, find your delivery methods, find out the demographics who will buy or subscribe to it. Get all this nailed down.
B. Next, figure out your delivery system. If this is an info product, figure out how you can offer it online and deliver it at very low cost - usually, this is an ecommerce site of some sort. If someone else already has that product, maybe you promote and sell it as an affiliate. Or you sel it directly and they dropship it for you. Or you buy in bulk, warehouse, and ship it yourself.
Make the second line as or more successful than the first, and then start up a third. Research first, always.
As you continue to do this, life becomes simpler and more profitable.
But again: basket first, then eggs - and then to market.
I'm restarting the Online Millionaire Plan (and you have it in your hand as the Online Sunshine Plan) and reworking it from the bottom up. Meaning that I'm going to take all the many volumes of work I've already done so far and verifying the tests and results. And then re-release new versions with new materials. The emphasis will be on practical application for this new economic scene we just inherited. How to start or expand a small business online on a very small (tiny) budget. Step by step. I figure with all the mis-steps I've already taken, and the tons of data I've already poured through, this should be pretty valuable and useful. Emphasis will be on each step, tying it back into the overall.
And now I know how to really give value as we go, so I'll tell you the tips and secrets uncovered during this line of work.
Stay tuned to http://robertworstell.com - as this is where I'll give the core data - a lot of my peripheral blogs will be changing as I do. But I'll also tell you why and how to apply it on your own.
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Diversity, Dancing, + Destinations with Rhythm Abroad's Brittany Pierce
Brittany Pierce is spearheading diversity in travel television programming. She is the Creator, Executive Producer and Host of Rhythm Abroad with Brittany Pierce, the award-winning travel series airing nationally on PBS and other public television stations. In Rhythm Abroad Brittany takes viewers on a cultural odyssey as she travels the world experiencing the fun and challenges of learning the traditional or popular dance of each country visited. Off the dance floor, Brittany talks to local musicians to gain a better understanding of a culture through its music. She also savors the cuisine, enjoys the thrills of local activities and uncovers the most unique places to stay and shop. Wherever Brittany is in the world, she finds dance and music to be the universal languages that bridge cultural divides and unite humanity.
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Women of Worth is a podcast where Worthy Women founder, Audrey Bellis explores what it means to live and lead in integrity with women who exemplify it through their business, leadership, and community activism.
"Travel opens you up to new ways of living, new ways of the world. It allows you to see that at our core, we're all the same." - Brittany Pierce
In this episode, Audrey sits down with creator of Rhythm Abroad, Brittany Pierce, about having a business that's an extension of your personality. Brittany goes on to talk about how she made her own path despite many obstacles.
"I thought, 'gosh is there really no space for me?' I know there are other people my age that are traveling and want to explore... why do we have no space?"
Even though Brittany travels the world, she talks about how fear is the most foreign word of all to her.
"We can be fearful of a lot of things, I think the moment you allow fear to creep into your life it prevents you from moving forward. I'm going to live my life as if there is going to be another tomorrow."
Audrey talks about her travels and seeking a community that encourages diversity + inclusion.
"The moment you allow fear to creep into your life, it prevents you from moving forward." - Brittany Pierce
The episode was recorded in sunny Downtown Los Angeles.
Women of Worth is a product of Worthy Women and produced by AG One Entertainment.