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CHELSEA, Manhattan (WABC) -- The FBI has identified two men seen on surveillance cameras taking the suitcase that contained the un-exploded pressure cooker bomb on 27th Street in Chelsea, a law enforcement official confirmed to ABC News.
The two men are not currently in the United States, and while they are not in custody, the FBI reportedly knows who they are and their whereabouts. Law enforcement officials say they are employees with Egypt Air in some capacity and are presumed to have returned to Egypt. They are still considered witnesses, not suspects, and the FBI would still like to talk to them.
Authorities on Tuesday released a new photo of the men walking down the sidewalk.
Last Wednesday, the FBI had put out a poster:
"I think they were more interested in the bag, not what they were taking out," said Jim Watters, chief of the New York Police Department's counter-terrorism unit. He added that they were "very, very lucky" the bomb didn't explode.
The photo was taken between 8 and 9 p.m., in the same hour that a similar pressure cooker-style bomb exploded on West 23rd Street, injuring 31 people. The device, which was found wrapped in a plastic bag by a neighbor, did not detonate.
Investigators said they only wished to speak with the men and recover the luggage that they took. Since the arrest of suspect Ahmad Rahami, investigators in two states are now determined to track down every possible lead in their search for accomplices and to unravel the plot.
Although the two men in the photo are not considered suspects, the suitcase could yield fingerprints or DNA that could lead to co-conspirators.
"They're not in any jeopardy of being arrested," Watters said. "We have no reason to believe they're connected."
Investigators said Rahami's bloody notebook left little doubt about his motive, with references to al-Qaeda and ISIS, and a murderous hatred for non-Muslims.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner for counter-terrorism John Miller told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that Rahami was dismissed as a serious threat more than two years ago.
"Based on what I've seen so far, as part of the investigation, he seems like many suspects who came into contact with the system at various times and was handled to the extent that the system, the law and the guidelines that we operate under would allow them to," he said.
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The class character of the expansion of COVID-19: The case of Peru's Capital City Lima
Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet by Jan Lust (February 25, 2021 ) | - Posted Mar 03, 2021
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At the end of December 2019, the world was notified about the existence of a new coronavirus in the city of Wuhan in China. This virus, SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19), rapidly spread and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 11 March 2020. In response, Peru was the first country in Latin America to implement a nation-wide lockdown and strict quarantine measures. These measures were implemented through a declaration of a state of emergency, with the military and the police charged with controlling the population.
This early response has not prevented the expansion of COVID-19 in the country. Currently (24 February 2021), Peru is ranked nineteen on the world ranking of the number of individuals infected by the virus.
The expansion of COVID-19 in Peru during the total and semi-lockdowns and now in times of the almost completely re-opened economy appears to demonstrate the class character of the virus. Although the economic, social, and health effects of COVID-19 might be diminished through concentrated efforts by the state apparatuses, the most affected are the salaried and non-salaried working class, formal and informal situations, and self-employed workers.
We argue that the expansion of COVID-19 in Peru has a socioeconomic and class background. While it seems that the virus was brought into the country by travelers belonging to what might be called the accommodated social classes, it rapidly turned into a disease of the labouring classes. First of all, these classes did not have the option to stay at home during the lockdown as was mandated by law. Second, as the large majority of these social classes perform manual labour, they are not, in general, able to do this work at home and, hence, they are more likely to be exposed to the virus. Third, the conditions for the expansion of the virus might have been eliminated if the government had decided to actively intervene in the economy instead of providing late and uneven financial alleviation and repressing the population who have no way to search for a job, income, and nutrition other than by leaving their homes.
The Peruvian State and COVID-19
Since the 1990s, Peru has been ruled by neoliberal governments. All these regimes considered the market as the principal mechanism to distribute the wealth produced in the country. The neoliberal constitution of 1993 radically reduced the role of the Peruvian State in productive activities and increasingly sold the social functions of the State to the private sector. Hence, the only relief strategy the government implemented for the most affected population was that of short-term financial assistance. In May and June 2020, the poor, the extremely poor, and the self-employed workers, numbering around 7 million families (Vergara, 2020), received a subsidy of around $210 (US). In August, again, a subsidy of $210 (US) was handed out to what are considered the most vulnerable families. However, this amount was not enough to finance the monthly basket of basic foodstuffs for a family of four. In 2019, pre-COVID, the poverty line stood at around $390 (US) per month. Thus, the subsidy of $210 (US) is actually closer to that of being in extreme poverty, as the extreme poverty line for a family of four is set at $207 (US) per month.
The ideology of non-intervention in the markets, one of the principal neoliberal prescriptions that was introduced in the 1990s, can be considered the main reason for the price increases of medical oxygen and medicines for individuals infected by COVID-19. These policy settings are also considered responsible for the lack of medical oxygen, the scarcity of relatively cheap medicines in public pharmacies, and the oligopolistic market structure of the pharmaceutical industry.1 In Peru, many people have died because of a scarcity of medical oxygen or an insufficient income to pay for the dramatic price increases of medical oxygen.2
This neoliberal concept of how the world should work is triggering new health problems now that Peru is 'operating' again. These have principally to do with the previous lack of regulation and enforcement of public transport, which has led to an intense competition between private transport companies. Prices are also too low to properly finance the transport of citizens at current international safety standards for public transport. It is to be expected that these companies will not abide by these standards, and the Peruvian citizens will not complain, fearing increasing prices in these times of economic recession.
The reduced role of the State in the economy and the preference for market-based solutions to social problems or a healthcare system of which one part is based on the market mechanism (private healthcare), and another part is public (with differentiated units for salaried workers and informal workers), is, in the main, responsible for the collapse of public healthcare. The permanent shortage of intensive care units and hospital beds in public hospitals results in many individuals who are infected by the virus being attended in wheelchairs outside the hospital buildings, in tents in the hospital's parking lots or not at all, or and remaining at home connected to large oxygen cylinders. In this context, it is interesting to observe that when we compare Peru with Uruguay at the beginning of October 2020, Uruguay, which has had only 50 deaths related or caused by COVID-19 and a total of 2,268 COVID-19 infections, spent 9% of its GDP on healthcare (Vergara 2020, 7-8).3
The Structural Conditions for the Expansion of COVID-19 in Peru
The expansion of COVID-19 was to be expected, as the country's principal role in the international division of labour and the neoliberal extractivist development model, in place since the beginning of the 1990s, creates a superfluous labour force. This is shown by the very small part of the Economic Active Population (EAP), around 30% to 35%, required to operate the country (Lust 2020, 7).
In 2018, around 70% of the EAP was not necessary to 'run' the economic-development model based on the export of the country's commodities and the investments in the extractive sectors, principally the mining sector. The sectors and branches that are directly and indirectly needed to comply with Peru's function in the globalized capitalist world, such as mining, transport, communication, finance, manufacturing, water, gas, electricity, private and social community services, and the state sector (excluding public education), provide employment to about 30% of the EAP (Lust 2020, 7).
The complete standstill of the Peruvian economy during the lockdown heavily affected workers who are employed in very small businesses or who are self-employed. Data shows that, in 2018, about 72.4% of the EAP worked in micro companies, defined as corporations that employ between one and ten individuals (INEI 2019, 55).
Informal workers are generally employed in companies that employ between one and five individuals or are self-employed (Maloney and Saavedra-Chanduvi 2007, 29-30, 39; ILO 2012, np; Salazar-Xirinachs and Chacaltana 2018, 18, 20, 21). In these businesses, principally, manual or low-skilled labour is performed. This type of labour can only be physically executed at the workplace. Hence, the lockdown urged the mass of the Peruvian workers to look for other sources of income, and thus, in 'breaking' the lockdown, they may have contributed to the expansion of COVID-19 in Peru.
Without the lockdown, the Peruvian economy would also have been hit hard by the outbreak and worldwide expansion of COVID-19, not only through the reduction of the export of mining products, due to diminishing demand in the Global North and the reduction of the commodity prices, but also, through its insertion into the globalized value chains organized by transnational capital. The mass of micro businesses are incorporated in a globalized productive process.
The worldwide reduction of productive activities and the drastic restrictions on international transport have dealt an significant blow to the global value chains. Complete supply chains came abruptly to a halt as the chain was cut. For this reason, it can be argued that through their insertion into globalized productive processes, the Peruvian workers in micro business or the self-employed workers might have contributed to the expansion of COVID-19, as the situation obliged them to 'trespass' the regulations regarding social distancing when the global value chains broke down.
The lockdown caused the doors to close of micro companies, medium-sized enterprises, and big corporations. Massive layoffs are currently allowed by the government. At mid-August 2020, the unemployment rate in Metropolitan Lima reached 16.4%, a more than 100% increase from March 16 (INEI 2020, 1). However, not only did unemployment increase, the labour force participation rate also dropped. Moreover, the government did not account for the health consequences that an increase of informality and unemployment might have on the population.
The workers who were fired due to the pandemic were formal and informal workers. Formal workers have access to unemployment benefits. However, as these benefits are individualized and based on one's salary, in general, these benefits are not sufficient to maintain one unemployed for more than three months. The search for jobs, income, and food by the informal and recently fired working classes has driven them into positions that expose them to contracting COVID-19.
The reopening of the economy has principally involved the restart of the activities of large companies. Of course, since July 2020, not only large but also small and medium-sized companies have restarted their businesses, as well. However, in the case of micro businesses, the decision whether to make a restart of activities is a very difficult question. As most of these companies are of precarious nature, lots of them have closed down permanently. Furthermore, the sanatory regulations to which companies have to abide before they can reopen are very difficult for these companies to finance.
The economic problems of micro enterprises can be clearly illustrated when we analyze the data of companies that have received loans against a very low average interest rate of 1.69% in the context of the reactivation of the economy. Although the majority of these companies were micro or small businesses, it is but a very small part of the total number of such companies in Peru. Data from the Peruvian Central Bank for October 2020 show that only 471,642 of all small and micro businesses received a loan, i.e., 19.9%, according to the total number of these companies in 2019.
The last structural condition that can explain the expansion of COVID-19 is the question of temporary contracts or the absence of any contract at all. In fact, around 90% of the workers in small companies have no contract. The absolute majority of workers in the private sector have a temporary contract (Cuadros Luque 2017, 55). Hence, as companies had to close their doors, these contracts came to an end without any possibility to proceed with a legal claim regarding the loss of income nor to demand compensation. This obliged these workers to use not only their unemployment benefits to survive, but also, parts of their personalized retirement funds. When their savings ran out, they began to look for work, resulting in more people interacting, thus, an expansion of the virus.
Informality and COVID-19
Informality or the 'expulsion' to the informal sector of previously formally employed individuals has worked as a catalyst for the expansion of COVID-19. Data for Metropolitan Lima districts show a positive relationship between the rate of informality and the rate of COVID-19 infections.
The rate of informality at district levels includes the percentage of individuals that labour in companies employing between one and five workers and the percentage of self-employed workers. In cases where the rate of individuals working in companies that employ one to five individuals is higher than the average rate in Metropolitan Lima (55.5%), the rate of informality is considered to be high. The same analytical determination applies to the rate of self-employed workers. The average rate of self-employed workers at the level of Metropolitan Lima is 32.4%. Although it is only necessary that one of the two variables be higher than the average in order to be counted as a district with high informality, in general, a higher than average rate of y small business employees is 'accompanied' by a more than average rate of self-employed individuals.
Data show that 47.02% of the population of Metropolitan Lima live in districts for which a direct relation can be established between the rate of informality and the rate of COVID-19 infections. Around 6.7% of the population reside in districts that are characterized by a low rate of informality and a high rate of COVID-19 infections. This result can principally be attributed to the specific social and geographical character of these districts.
The number of individuals that live in districts that combine a high rate of informality and a low rate of COVID-19 infections is very large. The total number of individuals who live in these 13 districts with high informality and low rates of COVID-19 infections, and persons that live in districts with a low rate of informality and a high rate of COVID-19 infections, excluding the districts with a specific character, is 4,274,649, i.e., 44.6% of the total population of Metropolitan Lima.
Our analysis does not seem to clearly confirm that an overall positive relation exists in Metropolitan Lima between the rate of informality and the rate of COVID-19 infections. Only about 47.02% of the total population of Metropolitan Lima live in districts for which this particular relation exists. The principal reason for this result is the fact that there are remarkable size differences between the Metropolitan Lima districts. The smallest district has a COVID-19 infection rate of 7.1% and the largest district, an infection rate of 2.7%. This last (working-class) district has also the highest number of COVID-19 infections. It is the large number of individuals that live in this kind of working-class districts that cause the rate of COVID-19 infections to be relatively low.
When the effect of the size differences on the relation between the rate of informality and the rate of COVID-19 infections for Metropolitan Lima is reduced, data show that a direct, clear, and positive relation exists between both variables. Around 52.1% of Metropolitan Lima individuals live in districts for which a positive relation exists between the rate of informality and the rate of COVID-19 infections.
The relation between the rate of informality and the rate of COVID-19 infections might be stronger when we take the uneven access to health services into consideration. It is to be expected that individuals working in the informal sector have difficulties in accessing these services due to financial barriers. As a consequence, the number of COVID-19 infections might be much higher than reported. Furthermore, the precarious financial and labour situation of informally employed individuals might not 'allow' them to report themselves sick due to a COVID-19 infection.
COVID-19 is not a democratic virus. Although every human being can be infected, some human beings have more chance to be infected than others. The Peruvian labouring classes in Metropolitan Lima seem to be easier to be infected by COVID-19 than the accommodating classes.
The lockdown and the state of emergency could not prevent the expansion of the virus. The function of Peru in the globalized capitalist world has called into existence a company structure (a strong majority of the Peruvian EAP are low-skilled and are employed in micro companies) and a level of informality that has functioned as a catalyst for the expansion of COVID-19. The general use of temporary contracts, which are the product of the neoliberal adjustment programs in the 1990s, enabled the companies to rapidly reduce personnel and labour costs but also forced their former workers to put their lives and that of others in danger by neglecting social distancing. For these workers, the choice has been simple: dying from hunger or from COVID-19.
Discussions over the future design of the social and economic structure of Peruvian society and the role of the State in society are more than urgent in light of the factors discussed above. The social and economic structure presently in place contributes to the expansion of COVID-19, a development model that through the elimination of the regulatory role of the State and the privatization of its social obligations has placed the country into a state of permanent social emergency. This structure has led to the incapacity of the government to develop and implement measures against the expansion of COVID-19. As such, it is crucial that these discussions should begin with a planning process to reform the current economic development model.
Jan Lust is a researcher and professor at the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of the University Ricardo Palma in Peru and forms part of the Board of Directors of the University's Research Centre. He is the author of Capitalism, Class and Revolution in Peru, 1980-2016 .
Cuadros Luque, Fernando. 2017. "Situación del mercado de trabajo y costos laborales en el Perú," Cuaderno de Investigación no. 2: 34-82.
ElDiario.es. 2020. "Perú espera reducir la escasez de oxígeno con 65 nuevas plantas," ElDiario.es , August 22, 2020.
ILO (International Labour Organization). 2012. "Statistical update on employment in the informal sector."
INEI. 2020. "Situación del mercado laboral en Lima Metropolitana." Informe Técnico No. 8, August 2020.
INEI. 2019. Perú: Evolución de indicadores de empleo e ingreso por departamento, 2007-2018 . Lima: INEI.
Lust, Jan. 2020. "Structural labor precariousness in Peru," Critical Sociology . Epub ahead of print 2 July 2020. DOI.
Maloney William F and Jaime Saavedra. 2007. The informal sector: What is it, why do we care, and how do we measure it? In Informality: Exit and exclusion , edited by Guillermo E. Perry, William F. Maloney, Omar S. Arias, Pablo Fajnzylber, Andrew D. Mason and Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi, 21-41. Washington D.C.: The World Bank Group.
Salazar-Xirinachs. José Manuel and Juan Chacaltana. 2018. La informalidad en América Latina y el Caribe: ¿Por qué persiste y cómo superarla? In Políticas de formalización em América Latina. Avances y desafíos , edited by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs and Juan Chacaltana, 13-47. Lima: OIT, Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe, FORLAC.
Vergara Alberto. 2020. "La crisis del COVID como Aleph peruano."
See also: "Perú: el negocio del oxígeno y la respuesta del gobierno," (accessed 26 August 2020).
In August 2020, the government took measures to increase the production of oxygen, in "Perú espera reducir la escasez de oxígeno con 65 nuevas plantas," (accessed 26/08/2020). Just recently (end of January), oxygen production plants were starting to be implemented in some hospitals. The Peruvian State did not take measures to ensure the production of oxygen for the population that needs it for their families at home. It seems that it does not want to intervene in the market (sic).
See also: "Coronavirus en Perú," (accessed 11 January 2021).
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Egg allergy is one of the most common food allergies seen in the United States. Although egg allergies disproportionally affect children, adults can suffer from them as well. While having a food allergy to such a common substance as eggs may seem overwhelming, there is expert help available. The allergy specialists at Accent Allergy in Gainesville, FL have dealt with every type of allergy imaginable and have the knowledge and experience to help you effectively manage your own egg allergy or that of your child.
Egg allergy symptoms are very similar to manifestations of other food allergies. The most common symptom by far is skin irritation in the form of a rash, eczema or hives. Nasal drainage, congestion and sneezing may also occur. Additionally, gastrointestinal upset like nausea, diarrhea or stomach cramps are not uncommon.
In rare cases, a severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis may occur. If you notice swelling of the neck or face, a very fast or irregular heartbeat, shortness of breath, disorientation or loss of consciousness, you could be dealing with anaphylaxis. This is a serious emergency and requires immediate medical attention.
Food allergies are the result of an abnormal, increased immune response to certain proteins. Eggs are chock full of various proteins, which means they can be part of a healthy meal, but this is bad news for those with an egg sensitivity or allergy. Coming into contact with these proteins triggers allergy symptoms in allergic patients. Although both egg whites and yolk contain protein, most allergic people only have a reaction to egg whites.
How long do egg allergy symptoms last?
An allergy to eggs typically shows up in early childhood. Fortunately, in the vast majority of cases the allergy goes away by the time the child is ready for elementary school. Of course, some individuals do carry the allergy their entire lives.
Age– younger children, including infants, are at a much higher risk of developing an egg allergy than are older children and adults. As a child ages there is a good likelihood that they will outgrow their egg allergy.
Atopic dermatitis – there is a strong link between atopic dermatitis, a skin sensitivity condition, and egg allergies. People with this condition are much more likely to have an allergy to eggs than the general population.
Family history – there appears to be a genetic connection with egg allergies. If a parent has allergies, even just to pollen, eczema or asthma, then their children are more prone to develop egg allergies.
As with any allergy, the most serious complication that can arise is anaphylaxis. This condition is life threatening and must be treated immediately with epinephrine and professional medical care.
Other than anaphylaxis, most complications arise from being unprepared for an egg exposure. Many patients do not realize that they are unexpected egg sources in their daily lives. For example, egg allergic infants may experience symptoms from breastfeeding if their mother eats eggs. Also, several vaccines, like the influenza vaccine, often contain egg products. Before having your allergic child vaccinated, find out if the vaccine in question has any egg proteins among its ingredients and consult with your pediatrician and allergist.
The allergy specialists at Accent Allergy provide several different testing options to confirm a suspected egg allergy. The first of these is via a skin test. A small amount of allergen is placed on your skin and the spot is checked about half an hour later. A positive reaction indicates an allergy. This allergy test is very convenient as it can be performed in the office, and you will know your results before you leave.
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Vaghi S.r.l. is specialised in office and community chairs, that are manufactured and tested at the company's facilities. Our collaboration with architects, research organisations and certification agencies has allowed us to propose, over the last fifty years, a number of exclusive models, inspired by the most innovative design and ergonomics.
Each product is certified in compliance with the strictest national and international standards for performance, quality and environmental friendliness of the materials.
Vaghi was established in 1964 as an upholstery shop,Tappezzeria Fratelli Vaghi, by the Vaghi brothers and thanks to their entrepreneurial attitude it soon gained a position on the national and international markets, becoming a reference company in the domain of office chairs. In 1974 the craftsmen's shop moved to a facility of 5,000 sqm and starts a production of 24,000 chairs per year. The non-stop improvement process, pursued with creativity and resolution has led the company to own 20,000 sqm of production and warehouse facilities with a yearly production rate of 120,000 chairs.
Vaghi has lived through the history of Italy since the post-war years, adapting its products to the changing market needs. In the 60s, during the economic boom, the company launched the innovative models "Serie 65" and "Serie Super". In the 70's, the new "Made in Italy" stylistic sensitivity becomes a worldwide success. Vaghi starts to collaborate with important designers and launches the "Uno" series, the famous "Union Group" and later the "Kiruna" model, which in six years sells 100.000 pieces.
In the 80s the use of resins stimulates new ideas and projects and softens lines and shapes: the results are the "Sana" and "Allegra" models, which in 1988 participate to the prestigious "Compasso D'Oro" award. In the 90s, the computers' revolution modifies completely the sector of office chairs, imposing essential ergonomics requested by computer work: the Tarifa and Guam models are the answer these new needs.
Creative design and production skills are successfully combined with communication and commercial ability on both the national and international markets, reflected in the participation to many events and through partnerships in several countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Korea and China. From the project to the product, from production to certification, everything is carried out pursuing total quality, through the most rigorous procedures of the UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 standards.
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During finals week, CDS provides "snake kits" to students. These kits are made by each student from a buffet style table consisting of appetizers, fruit, cookies, nachos, chips, candy and everything else to get students through a hard night of studying.
In addition, CDS offers Midnight Madness one night during finals weeks at the end of terms. On this night, Chandler Café is opened to the students at midnight and provides breakfast fare. In the past, the president of Caltech has even cooked omelets and served students!


Seher Shah will be participating in the group exhibition, The Projective Drawing: An Exploration of Art and Architecture in Contemporary Culture. "The exhibition is based on The Projective Cast, a book published in 1995 by architectural historian Robin Evans, whose goal was to define a new way to explain how we "see" architecture that incorporated the balancing of all sensations (mental, physical and emotional) that underpin the human experience of built structures.
In "The Projective Drawing," Evans' theory, which is essentially at its core skeptical of drawing, is used to challenge and expand our approach to understanding the medium and how it operates in contemporary culture. Within the striking architecture of the ACFNY, designed in 1992 by Raimund Abraham, the show presents select work by both Austrian and international artists whose pursuits of drawing require us to activate a matrix of complex and untraditional ideas to understand and approach their work.


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Seahawks GM Schneider is excited about Olsen, aims to re-sign Clowney
One of the Seahawks' priorities will be trying to re-sign DE Jadeveon Clowney. (AP)
BY BRANDON GUSTAFSON
Assistant Editor of SeattleSports.com
All eyes are on Indianapolis as the NFL Scouting Combine is officially underway. As he does every year, Seahawks general manager John Schneider is on site for the event to get a closer look at the draft's elite prospects.
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Schneider's Seahawks are in the midst of a critical offseason, as the team is looking to build off it's 11-5 regular season record and playoff win while playing in a division that's seen as the best in the NFL. Along with that, the Seahawks have many key 2019 contributors who are free agents.
Schneider sat down with 710 ESPN Seattle's John Clayton to discuss the offseason from Indianapolis.
First big move
While much of free agency is speculation as the official period doesn't start until mid-March, some moves can still be made with "street free agents" who were either released from their club or were already free agents at the end of the season. One of those players was tight end Greg Olsen, who was released by the Carolina Panthers. After visiting the Seahawks, Redskins and Bills, Olsen decided to sign with Seattle. Olsen's signing was made official by the team Monday.
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"(His signing) really helps," Schneider told Clayton. "(Tight end Will Dissly's Achilles injury) was such an unfortunate thing for Will (who has handled it well) … then to be able to add somebody like Greg is a big deal for us."
Quarterback Russell Wilson and Olsen spent time together during the Super Bowl, which may have helped in luring Olsen to the Pacific Northwest. ESPN's Adam Schefter reported Olsen liked the other two teams he visited, but the idea of playing with Wilson put Seattle over the top.
"Obviously we were excited to get him in, brought him in for a visit, had a great visit with him and kind of kept things going negotiations-wise," Schneider said. "We're really excited for that room and what he's going to bring."
The big name the Seahawks will focus on is defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, who Seattle traded for ahead of the regular season and could reportedly demand a record-setting deal in free agency. Clowney's numbers in 2019 weren't the best, but he was still a playmaker and caused havoc despite playing with a severe core injury that required offseason surgery.
It's no secret Schneider wants him back in Seattle.
"Everything the Texans said about him, he's a great guy, he loves football, he loves playing, he gets off the ball, he's so long and athletic and he's a blast to be around, too," Schneider said. "He's a real fun guy. The whole staff loves him and the equipment guys and everybody in the cafeteria and he's just a really fun-spirited guy. Extremely disruptive. I hope we can get him back, but obviously, we're going to have to go through a process here"
That process will reportedly start in Indianapolis, as Seattle Times reporter Bob Condotta tweeted that the Seahawks will meet with Clowney's agent at the combine.
Clowney isn't the only big free agent the Seahawks have, as Clowney is one of five defensive ends hitting the market as are starting right tackle Germain Ifedi and capable backup left tackle George Fant.
"It is (daunting), but it's fun, it's exciting," Schneider said. "We'd love to get Jarran back, Quinton Jefferson and Clowney. It's a cool group of guys and we'd love to get all those guys back. Again, it's just a matter of time. How do we do it? How do we compare our guys to other players around the league? But we're going to focus on our guys first."
On the offensive line, it sounded pretty similar.
"It sounds like a daunting process, but it's a blast for us to go through and we'll go through that process with Ifedi and George (Fant) and we'll take it day by day," Schneider said.
Defensive line is an area that the Seahawks will likely address in the draft as they were one of the worst teams in the NFL at getting sacks. Schneider said he's impressed with the draft prospects on that front.
"Like every draft, there's certain drop offs, we call them ledges, and there's a couple pretty steep ones (this year), but overall it's a good group," he said. "It looks like a little bit better of a group outside than inside at this point, but you never know throughout the spring how these guys will improve their value and improve their draft stock, if you will."
The upcoming draft is also notable for the depth at wide receiver. The Seahawks have one of the better receiver duos in Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf, who both had 900 yards or more in the regular season, but getting a third receiver to pair with those two along with the star power Seattle has at tight end with Dissly and Olsen would make for a potentially scary passing attack.
"It's incredible, it seems like every year the guys keep getting bigger and faster and more ready for the pro passing game," Schneider said of the receiver prospects. "Last year, we thought it was a good group as well, that's why we (traded to get back into the seventh round) to get John Ursua. This group looks really good. It felt like in our meetings each guy that kept coming up was getting bigger and faster as they came along, but it's a heck of a group."
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Dante in English
Eric Griffiths
Mathew Reynolds
A unique anthology of the best English translations and interpretations of Dante's poetry from across six centuries.
Dante Alighieri created poetry of unparalleled force and beauty that proved influential far beyond the borders of his native Italy and beyond his own time. This new collection brings together selections from a wide variety of English translations of Dante's poetry including the passionate Vita Nuova and the Commedia - his epic tale of one man's journey into the after-life. It also includes extracts from a wealth of poems inspired by his work - including Spenser's Faerie Queen, Milton's Paradise Lost, Ezra Pound's Cantos and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Covering the period from Chaucer to the present day, this is a remarkable exploration of the heritage provided by one of the most inspirational poets of all time.
Call Us What We Carry
The Georgics
Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil), Virgil
Dante Alighieri, Dante Dante
Dante Dante
Burton Raffel (Translator)
Olivia Gatwood
The Book of Taliesin
Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams
Janina Ramirez
Circe And The Cyclops
After Nature
W. G. Sebald
Mozart's Journey To Prague
M. Rike Eduard, Eduard Mörike
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Bryant & May and the Invisible Code
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Q: Why Spring Security HSTS header, is being removed by app engine? I have a rather simple spring boot application run on the GCP app engine.
I enabled spring security to get the default security response headers on the API's endpoint.
Now I have all of the default headers except the HSTS when I deploy the app into the app-engine.
I created a self-signed cert to test the app locally and it returned the HSTS headers, no problem there. but when I deploy the app into the app-engine of all the headers HSTS is missing.
Here is app.yaml: (*in which I redirect all HTTP requests into HTTPS and also tried the HTTP to HTTPS redirection in app-level via configuration but not different *)
runtime: java11
instance_class: F4

handlers:
  - url: /.*
    script: auto
    secure: always
    redirect_http_response_code: 301

Here is the WebSecurityConfig file: (And I know that there is no need to explicitly configure HSTS in here to get the default but with or without it does not work)
@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
@RequiredArgsConstructor
@EnableGlobalMethodSecurity(prePostEnabled = true)
public class WebSecurityConfig extends
        WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http.headers().httpStrictTransportSecurity()
                .maxAgeInSeconds(31536000)
                .includeSubDomains(true);
    }
}

Here is the main:
@RestController
@SpringBootApplication
public class XXXApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(XXXApplication.class, args);
    }

    @GetMapping("/")
    public ModelAndView suspended(@RequestParam(required = false, defaultValue = "This") String name) {
        /// some stuff ...
    }

}

I know that the only way to set HSTS header via app-engine and in the app.yaml is when you want to serve static content which is not my case.
Can someone please help me with this? I am not sure what I missed and why HSTS is the only header that I am not getting in response after deploying into the app-engine?

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A ramble through Alaska
Moose, elk, grizzlies and caribou are on Anand Yegnaswami's mind as he recalls a trip to Alaska's Denali National Park
Alaska was a part of Russia until 1867 when US Secretary of State William H Seward played a key role in purchasing it for $7.2 million. It is believed that the Russians were keen on the sale as having the Americans in their backyard would be a deterrent against the English. Most Americans felt that it was foolish to buy this barren patch of land and mockingly referred to the deal as "Seward's Folly". Mr Seward it appears was a man of profound foresight for despite the criticism he had mentioned that his greatest achievement was "the purchase of Alaska – though it will take people a generation to find it out." Five generations later, I had an opportunity to seek out the truth myself.
The Thursday before Labor Day 2008, shortly before 11:30 pm (Alaska Time), Raghavan and Rajrishi from SFO, and I from Seattle landed at Anchorage's Ted Stevens International Airport, picked up our rations at a nearby grocery store, and headed to Denali National Park.
Denali, which means "the tall/high one" in the Athabaskan language, is the highest peak in North America. The region around Denali, designated as the Denali National Park, is abundant in fauna. However, we were also hoping for a clear day to catch a glimpse of the peak itself, which is covered by clouds for most of the year.
Back at Anchorage, we were out on the Glenn Highway headed for Wasilla. Shortly after midnight of August 2008 (Alaska Time), John McCain announced Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate for the 2008 Presidential Elections. I would like to think it was a mere coincidence that we passed by the town that day, for the quest we were actually on was Denali.
The road to Denali was desolate and serpentine with frequent changes in elevation. Quite often we would see light on the horizon and mistake it for the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis). Whether this was the effect of fatigue from the long travel or a case of highway hypnotism we do not know. However, we made the same mistake knowing well that we could not expect to see the auroral phenomenon at that time of year. We saw some moose beside the highway in the early hours of the day and just about daybreak we reached the Park Visitor Center.
The Denali National Park is the only US National Park that does not allow personal vehicles inside the park. However, the authorities have ensured that ample shuttle buses are available to travel within the park. Shuttle buses are available for Toklat River (6.5 hours round trip), Eielson Visitor Center (8 hours round trip), Wonder Lake (11 hours round trip), Kantishna (13 hours road trip). Our plan for Day 1 was the Eielson Visitor Center option as the duration seemed reasonable and we had planned to upgrade it to a Wonder Lake trip if Mt Denali was visible. Though we made enquiries about the Discovery Hiking Tour for day 2, they were sold out. It was a cloudy day and it seemed unlikely that Mt Denali would be visible, yet we crossed our fingers and got into the bus.
Moose in Alaska (Douglas Brown/ Flickr)
On the trip to the Eielson Visitor Center, we passed a few solitary moose. The bus driver forewarned us to keep a safe distance from them while we were in the park, since it was the rutting season and solitary males were known to be very aggressive. After crossing the Savage River we came across a herd of caribou (Rangifer tarandus). Also known as Reindeer in Europe, these deer are both migrant and resident. The migrant herds are known to travel up to 5,000 kilometers in a year. The reindeer are food species for a variety of carnivores including wolverine, wolves, brown bear and Grizzly and we were about to meet one such foe.
Further ahead of the Savage River we came across a mother Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) and her cub. Grizzlies are found in copious numbers in this region, though the irony is that they do not reproduce often. Females mate only from the age of five and they do not mate until a few years after the cubs leave, or are killed. The Grizzly Bear has very high nutritional needs as it needs to keep itself nourished through long periods of hibernation. Its diet includes berries, fish and large mammals such as moose, elk, bison, caribou and sheep. We were getting a good idea of the food chain of the region. Next we saw Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) as small white specks climbing high up on the mountain face.
Grizzly Bear in Alaska (dgrice/ Flickr)
Moving on we saw several shrubs that seemed to be ravaged by some form of pestilence. Our driver explained that the shrubs were denuded due to the feeding frenzy of the Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus), which are predominant in the region. The landscape at Denali National Park is eerie on a cloudy day towards the end of summer. The mountains are stripped bare of snow, with dark patches exposed by the erosion caused by melting ice. Yet the tundra can surprise you with an occasional patch of bright red or yellow in these otherwise dreary surroundings.
Ahead we encountered Arctic Fox (Vulpus lagopus) by the side of the bus. At the Eielson Visitor Center we had to decide whether to proceed to Wonder Lake or head back to the Denali Visitor Center as the day had been rather cloudy. We chose to catch a shuttle back. We had just emerged from the visitor center when we froze. The mist was thick but we could see that the dark figure that hopped a few feet away from us was not really the cuddly kinds. We stood still as the Grizzly cub hopped towards a trail below us and were concerned that the mother might appear any moment. However, these concerns were belied as we got into the shuttle towards the Toklat River.
At the Toklat river a Grizzly foraged near the river bed. We tried to get close for a photo when a moose came calling. Not wishing to be the moose's bunny for the day we got back to the shuttle, only to realize that the clouds were clearing.
Were we destined to catch a glimpse of Mt Denali today? We changed our minds and caught a shuttle back to the Eielson Visitor Center.
However, by the time we reached Eielson Visitor Center the weather had worsened. Disappointed, we sat before a table with the map of Alaska. Giving up hope to see Mt Denali, we decided to spend Day 2 making a foray to the Arctic Circle.
Text and photographs by Anand Yegnaswami
Other images sourced from Flickr (as credited)
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Stanley, the Baltimore cat who received a $19,000 transplant, dies at 18
By Brittany Britto
Dec 17, 2018 | 2:25 PM
Stanley, left, and Jay, two of Baltimorean Betsy Boyd's cats, are pictured here in healthy days. Last year, Jay donated his kidney to 18-year-old Stanley. Boyd paid $19,000 for the operation. (Betsy Boyd / TNS)
Stanley, the 18-year-old cat who received a $19,000 kidney transplant last November, died Friday.
The cat's owner Betsy Boyd, who directs the master's degree program in creative writing and publishing at the University of Baltimore, said she made the decision to put the feline to sleep after he was suffering from some internal complications.
"It was such a hard decision," she said -- the biggest challenge being "how do you give a pet the longest, most comfortable life?"
Boyd said Stanley became ill a few weeks ago, and Boyd took him to various veterinarians, where he received fluids and stimulants, but nothing was working.
One year after his kidney transplant, 18-year-old Baltimore cat Stanley is thriving
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Last week, Dan Petrus, an internist at Atlantic Veterinary Internal Medicine and Oncology, discovered that Stanley had developed peritonitis, a severe inflammation of the abdomen.
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"At that point, he'd been through a lot and he would not have been a good candidate for surgery" due to his age and his kidney transplant, which required him to take drugs that suppressed immune response so that his transplant would not be rejected, Petrus said.
Despite not wanting to lose Stanley, who would have been 19 in March, Boyd said Petrus put her at ease about the process of putting Stanley to sleep.
"I believe he would have suffered more if we hadn't done that," she said. Still, she said, it's hard losing a pet.
"Stanley was the most important friend I've ever lost, and he's a family member. I really love him on the level that I love my parents, husband, my children," Boyd said, adding that she doesn't consider herself a cat person, but more so a person who loves animals.
A $19,000 kidney transplant for a 17-year-old cat? His Baltimore owner says it was money well spent
"I will miss him so much."
Boyd has invested around $30,000 in keeping Stanley well since last year, including his transplant, blood-work and emergency care. She said she realizes most people would not spend that amount on a cat, especially after she received flack for getting Stanley's initial transplant last November. The story was picked up nationwide. But the mother of twin boys and five cats said that's fine with her. She wanted to make sure Stanley had the most comfortable life.
"I know he had a wonderful year of eating lots of poultry and feeling happy and well," Boyd said. "And he didn't suffer with the transplant. He healed up at home, and he was really comfy."
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Kingsport woman thanks firefighters for saving her life | Local News
By MATTHEW LANE
KINGSPORT — When Heidi Wallace went into cardiac arrest at her boyfriend's house last month, the odds were clearly against her.
She was lying on the bathroom floor; her breathing had stopped and she had no pulse. Most people who experience this do not make it, and even if they do, they don't come out at 100%.
Yet Wallace was able to beat the odds through the actions and quick response of the Kingsport Fire Department.
Wallace's story begins April 13 when she called in at work after vomiting all day.
Her boyfriend, Dr. Emmett Crawford, took her to the emergency room thinking she was dehydrated. Wallace said the nurses gave her some fluids and sent her home.
However, she was still not acting right.
"The next day I woke up and I don't remember any of this. I go take a bath and while I'm in the tub I start screaming and say I feel like I'm being poisoned," Wallace said. "I'm holding my chest and my legs were trembling and shaking uncontrollably."
At that point, Crawford called 911, got Wallace out of the tub and dried her off. By the time Crawford walked to the driveway to flag the firefighters in and returned to the bathroom, Wallace was lying on the floor, had turned blue and was barely breathing.
Capt. Justin Waycaster, engineer Eric Wilson and firefighter J.T. Osbourne were the firefighters who answered the call by Crawford, who lives in the Hidden Acres neighborhood. Fire Station No. 8 was located just a few miles down Rock Springs Road, and the three men were on the scene in less than five minutes.
"We rolled her over and was trying to figure out what was going on and started assisting her with ventilation," Waycaster said. "I was putting the cardiac monitor on her with the pads and she somehow quit breathing."
Firefighters immediately administered a shock from the defibrillator, started CPR and ran an IV. Two minutes later, Wallace's condition remained the same, so a second shock was administered and CPR continued. Twenty seconds later, Wilson found a pulse and Wallace began breathing on her own.
EMS arrived soon after and took Wallace to the hospital. She was in a coma for five days and stayed in the hospital for about three weeks.
Last week, Wallace, her twin sons and Crawford went to Fire Station No. 8 to thank Waycaster, Wilson and Osbourne in person.
"I can't imagine not thanking them. They not only changed my life, but my entire family," Wallace said. "They're the reason I'm here today. And I took my kids with me to thank them; otherwise they'd be without a mother."
Waycaster said the reunion was a great experience.
"It's not often you get to meet the people you actually work on," he said. "We usually see people on their worst days and not their good days."
Wallace, 47, has never had issues like this before. Today, she's feeling much better. She's getting out and walking, pushing herself as much as she can without overdoing it.
"I'm just lucky," she said. "They got here in the nick of time."
Waycaster agrees, saying the odds were definitely not in Wallace's favor. In 15 years as a firefighter, Waycaster said he's seen maybe four patients achieve 100% viability post cardiac arrest.
"Most of the time (the people) die. If they don't, it's very rare they come out of it at 100%," Waycaster said.
"We had a really quick response time and if something like that happens, if you can be there within five minutes, you can change the outcome in just five minutes."
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The holiday season is well underway, but we can't be the only ones with a few gifts left to pick up. That's why we've been combing Amazon looking for presents suitable for everyone from our bosses to our moms to find cute, practical and otherwise covetable items that will arrive before the holidays. If your list still has a few names on it, take a look at the gifts below. You might just be able to finally finish your shopping.
The gift of smart home technology is always welcome. The Echo Dot is a voice-controlled speaker that works with Amazon's Alexa to play music, control smart-home devices, make phone calls and more.
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If you are looking for the perfect gift for that tech-savvy kid your life, look no further than the Fire HD 8. It gives your littles access to thousands of apps and educational games while allowing you to remain in control. Easy-to-use parental controls allow parents to personalize screen-time limits, set educational goals and filter age-appropriate content.
The Instant Pot has been out for a while, but the latest model allows you to schedule, adjust and monitor the progress of your meals from your phone. Pretty snazzy, yeah?
For those looking for a quick, easy and delicious caffeine fix, the Keurig coffee maker is perfect. And bonus: This model allows you to select your brew strength and size. And it includes a carafe!
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The Jaguar XKR-S was unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show as the pinnacle of the second-generation XK range launched in 2006. Reflecting many of the Ian Callum-designed visual modifications made to the rest of the line-up in a major 2011 facelift, the XKR-S also features a lower ride height, an aggressive front fascia complete with twin air intakes and carbon-fiber splitter, 20-inch alloys, a premium package of aerodynamic accoutrements—including the first separate rear wing ever seen on an XK—and an active exhaust system that ensures the big cat sounds as good as it looks. It's powered by the same 5.0-liter supercharged, third-generation AJ-V8 used in the deposed range-topper, the XKR. However the boffins at the legendary British marque have managed to coax an additional 39 horses out of the gate, and its upgraded output of 542 bhp not only launches the XKR-S from 0-60 mph in a dizzying 4.2 seconds, it also gains it entry to the exclusive 300 km/h club.
Please share your reviews, videos, pictures, or critiques about the XKR-S in the comment section. And be sure to check back regularly to read our very own Simraceway staff give you some insight into the creation of this high-performance machine.
I did a video on this car that I like; a bit oversteering, funny to drive in Lime Rock. One of most beautiful car nowdays for me.


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#tobyreads: Talking Comics on a Friday Afternoon
We're talking about comics this week. I read enough of them, and it seemed like this trifecta of books made sense — there's a loose "pulp adventure" theme that works, even as their tones vary wildly, from gritty procedurals to polar adventure. Some of that makes each of these notable, however, is the way that their tones shift within the same work. Body horror sits beside a sense of wonder; comedic barfights give way to grief. That these works can handle both is one reason why each comes highly recommended.
Kevin Cannon's Crater XV is the sequel to his earlier Far Arden, about a hard-drinking Arctic explorer leading an expedition to seek a lost, paradise-like, island. Cannon's style is incredibly fluid, and sometimes incorporates stage directions into the artwork; it's a lot of fun to read. The story, too, found a good balance between adventure and comedy — right up until the ending, which pushed things in a very different direction. Crater XV picks up afterwards, with Cannon's protagonist still reeling from the earlier book's events. Slowly, he's drawn into a crisis involving a Siberian boat in Canadian waters, a lost duo of space explorers, and a woman who may be his lost childhood sweetheart. Cannon's energetic style remains a joy to read, and the book as a whole is both thrilling and genuinely moving in places.
Fates Worse Than Death, the first collection of Eric Stephenson & Nate Bellegarde's Nowhere Men, takes a more collage-like approach to the story it's telling; occasionally, the story is interrupted by news clippings, advertisements, and other minutiae that evoke the world in which this is set. The short version: a few decades ago, a quartet of scientists decided to change the world, becoming de facto rock stars, and leading to a re-imagined version of today. In the present, a group of scientists on a space station is altered by a virus (there's a bit of a Fantastic Four riff going on, yes), and catastrophe ensues. Given that this is the first chapter in a longer work, I'm curious to see where the series goes from here, but I'm encouraged by what I've read so far.
I also enjoyed David Hine and Doug Braithwaite's Storm Dogs, which begins in the future, as a group of investigators are sent to an archetypally distant planet to uncover the truth about a series of killings. What emerges is a grim, murky, factionalized narrative, with contesting factions, sinister aliens, and more than a few unsettlingly visceral moments. Hine's script is occasionally deeply precise with his influences: characters appear with the surnames Bukowski, Bronson, and Burroughs. (Though in this case, either William or Edgar Rice would be an appropriate source — maybe both.) Much like the first Nowhere Men collection, this is the first "season" of a larger work; between the precisely-drawn characters and the ambiguities that Hine reveals, I'm curious to see where the series goes from here.


Instead of the 26.2-mile run, these "runners" delivered donated supplies from blankets and Home Depot gift cards to the destroyed homes of Staten Island residents in a 15-mile route. Instead of the physical and mental obstacles the runners had been training for, many of the international and domestic runners spent the day helping residents in the destroyed area.
This got me thinking, what's my purpose for running and training? Is it just for myself or are there people and causes bigger than myself that I could and should be running/training for? My first reaction is that I should only run races that have some charitable cause behind it and not just the races with really neat giveaway items (such as the Hot Chocolate Run's tech hoodie) or the races that make me look like a super fun person on Facebook (such as the Zombie Run or Disney Princess Half Marathon).
But on second thought, why would I run a race that I do not have motivation for? There's nothing wrong with running these courses that challenge me or wanting a really sweet goody bag at the end of the race, but I still want to find something bigger than myself because I know that I run for fitness and overall well-being while others run for their lives, their job or their country. (Yes, I am still on a bit of the Olympics high, but I hold Olympicans and Paraolympians in very high regard.) I haven't found the answer in the past hour since I read the article, but hope you let this ruminate throughout of your next run or workout.
And with that, I raise my grande Starbucks creme brulee half empty holiday cup to the NYC marathon runners who ran an impromptu relief run.


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Dickens with a snarl
Martin Amis's fizzingly intelligent Booker contender, Yellow Dog, should finally silence his detractors
Buy Yellow Dog at Amazon.co.uk
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Sat 23 Aug 2003 21.52 EDT
by Martin Amis
Jonathan Cape £16.99, pp288
Martin Amis's memoir, Experience, has a thoughtful description of the way that readers approach a good novel: 'frowning, nodding, withholding, qualifying, objecting, conceding - and smiling, smiling first with reluctant admiration, then smiling with unreluctant admiration'. Actually, your first reaction on reading a novel as mind-tinglingly good as Yellow Dog is not so much admiration as a kind of grateful despair. Mostly this is because, like all great writers, he seems to have guessed what you thought about the world, and then expressed it far better than you ever could.
It isn't even possible to feel envious towards him without realising, with a sigh, that he has managed to get there first, too. From Success to The Information, Amis has investigated the workings of envy - its thin-lipped rivalries, its serious games of talking up and doing down - with the sort of unruffled brilliance practically guaranteed to make a green mist settle on the page. Indeed, given the regularity and range of Amis's fictional excursions into envy, it is tempting to think that the recent flailing attacks on his work must be some sort of shared Nabokovian joke; if not, they merely provide further gloomy evidence that critics work in the same way George Santayana thought history worked: they are condemned to repeat what they fail to understand.
Amis deserves better. 'How does he do that?', you wonder, as he describes how, 'after a while, marriage is a sibling relationship - marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest'. And then he does it again: 'the contrails of the more distant aeroplanes were like incandescent spermatozoa, sent out to fertilise the universe'. And then again: 'Fame had so democratised itself that obscurity was felt as a deprivation or even a punishment.' And then you notice that all three sentences appear on the same page of Yellow Dog, and you are still only on page 8. Faced with writing of this quality, the temptation for the reviewer is simply to quote as much as possible without getting in the way: the 'neutral madness' of a sparrow's eye; the sound of 'unserious panic' coming from a playground; the 'motion jigsaw' of a swimming pool.
One common criticism of Amis's previous novels was that they too resembled 'motion jigsaws': spasms of style that never quite fitted together into a single design. The niggling doubt was that he worried too much that a flat phrase would sever his imaginative connection to the world, and not enough that all his carefully chosen words didn't necessarily add up to a novel.
There was some justification for this view in The Rachel Papers, which occasionally threatened to become little more than a series of pouts in search of a plot. There was far less justification for it in later novels, such as Time's Arrow, where it became clearer that Amis's lightness of touch was also his centre of gravity. There is absolutely no justification for it in Yellow Dog. Here is a novel to silence the doubters, because here, as he probes a human world increasingly disconnected from itself, Amis has found a subject to match the tessellated polish of his style. Here it all adds up.
In 65 fragments, three main stories emerge. There is the Royal Family, presided over by Henry IX and his reluctantly voluptuous daughter; there is an extended criminal family, which stretches from Big Mal, the cuboid bouncer, to Joseph Andrews, the ancient but vicious East End villain currently enjoying a restless retirement in California; finally, there is the solitary anti-hero, Clint Smoker, who compensates for his tiny genitals by writing luridly overblown stories for a tabloid rag.
At the same time, hanging over these stories with its unpredictable weight of disaster, there is the shadow of 'Flight 101 Heavy' (not the novel's only nod to Orwell) as it is buffeted from the outside by turbulence, and from within by a coffined corpse that seems intent on having some company on its journey to the hereafter.
As these stories develop, connections emerge - so many connections, in fact, that Yellow Dog starts to look like a teasing, testing parody of a Victorian multi-plot novel - Dickens with a snarl. The King is suffering at the hands of a blackmailer, who in turn has personal and professional links with the writer Xan Meo, who in turn has ties to a gangland world which gradually spreads out through the novel like a stain. And so on.
What motivates all these stories is the itch of vengeance: the 'circular arguments' of reprisal, and 'the misery of recurrence' that threatens to reverse personal and cultural development. What knits them together is the way that vengeance emerges as a pathological version of the ordinary human need for reciprocity and exchange, even if this is only experienced as the linguistically shrunken flirtation of email chat, or the 'lonesome crowd' of speakers clamped to their mobile phones.
And yet, the world on which Amis etches his plot is one where people rarely enjoy a meeting of voices, let alone a meeting of minds. Instead, it is a world of tongue-tied embarrassments and speechless furies, where the punctuation '...' breaks off so many conversations that those jabbing dot-dot-dots start to look like a series of failed SOS messages; a world where radio waves and jet vapour-trails cross in the sickening sky like hands groping in the dark.
The plaintive returns of '...' in Yellow Dog testify to how much of a good novel can lurk in the interstices between its words and sentences: the holes in the net which the writer uses to snare the world. Amis's two previous novels were similarly peppered with moments of trailing off and cutting short, although here the plush trickery of their surroundings left many readers feeling that he simply hadn't worked hard enough to paper over the cracks of his thinking. But Amis's return to form in Yellow Dog may owe less to London Fields or The Information than it does to his short stories, the most recent col lection of which, Heavy Water, contained a modern fable ('State of England') in which Big Mal made his first lumbering appearance, while Joseph Andrews lurked menacingly off-screen.
Short stories require reticence, a certain self-restraint, if they are not to grow into those longer stories we call novels, and Yellow Dog - weighing in at a lean 300-odd pages - shows that Amis, so often criticised for his excesses, is unexpectedly adept at scaling down his style. Puns flicker briefly and go out; the haunted fears of a world still coming to terms with the 'Horrorism' of 9/11 emerge obliquely through a footballer's hazy memories of goal celebrations in Wembley Stadium: 'The Twin Towers explode!'; even Big Mal is cut down to size, from being 'built like a brick khazi: five feet nine in all directions' ('State of England') to being a mere 'Five foot eight in all directions' (Yellow Dog). And throughout, thrumming away beneath the reader's radar, there are Amis's brooding verbal repetitions, as the logic of 'an eye for an eye' seeps into his prose like the sound of vengeance itself: 'For this, that. For that, this', 'his enemies' enemies', 'that's right, that's right', 'See how that goes down down the pub', 'enough's enough'.
Not that admirers of the earlier novels will be disappointed. All the familiar obsessions are here: the thick detail of London life; efficient but messy bursts of violence; a disgusted relish for the oozings and peelings of the human body; 'the obscenification of everyday life'. Stylistically, too, the old tics and tricks emerge: names (such as He, the King's Chinese mistress, or Love, his butler) that hover between the seriousness of allegory and an excuse for bad jokes ('He touched him and he touched He'; 'If you would, Love'); italics that are chiselled into his prose, urgently leaning forward as if anticipating an answer to questions like 'What used to be funny?... And is it still funny?'; even, for readers who miss the appearance of Amis as a character in his own fiction, a fleeting mention of the footballing wizard 'Martin Arris': Martin Amis as seen through a typographical squint.
Here, though, these elements seem to have an extra set of quotation marks around them, as if they formed part of a conversation between Amis and his younger self. Not that Amis has changed his mind about what he is up to as a novelist: the best writers rarely do; they simply get better at being themselves. But Yellow Dog does show a change of emphasis, as it circles mournfully around the idea that as we grow older we lose much more than our teeth or our hair. We also lose our innocence.
It is an idea that ran throughout Amis's attempts in Experience to explain the dreadful temptation of adults - and not only paedophiles - to destroy in children the purity they have lost in themselves, as if the only way they would know how truly fragile something was would be to crush it. In Yellow Dog, too, 'innocence' is a word which tolls like a bell. What we need as we grow older, Amis seems to be arguing, with his usual fizzing intelligence, is not more experience. What we need is more innocence.


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Leo studied Electronics and Communication engineering at the University of Hertfordshire (Southern England) and is a former radio presenter.
He is also an Associate Lecturer at Elizade University in Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State.
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With his secret math skills, Leo believes he can "solve everyone's problems".
His favourite colour is black and he enjoys eating jollof rice and fried turkey a lot.
Unless he becomes dangerously ill, he has no plans to quit the show.
What will you do with the prize money: Invest in business, use it to facilitate some development in Surulele, the area I grew up.


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Lisa Vetrano, beter bekend onder haar artiestennaam Lisa Angell (Parijs, 21 september 1968) is een Franse zangeres.

Biografie
In 2011 bracht ze haar eerste album uit, met als titel Les divines. Later volgen er nog twee albums in 2013 (Des mots...) en in 2014 (Frou-Frou). Ze raakte vooral bekend als lid van de vaste kern die wekelijks te zien was tijdens Les chansons d'abord op France 3 in 2014.

In januari 2015 maakte France Télévisions bekend dat ze Lisa Angell intern hadden geselecteerd om Frankrijk te vertegenwoordigen op het Eurovisiesongfestival 2015, dat gehouden zou worden in de Oostenrijkse hoofdstad Wenen. Daar vertolkte ze het volledig in het Frans N'oubliez pas. Ze behaalde daar de 25ste plaats op 27 deelnemers.

Frans zanger
Deelnemer aan het Eurovisiesongfestival 2015
Frans deelnemer aan het Eurovisiesongfestival

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