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Eve (Candy Wilson) an Adam (Jorge Rivero) in (THE SIN OF) ADAM & EVE
A nude PEPLUM. Probably the corniest nudie ever made. I love watching it (with finger on the fast forward button for the dull spots). This is Candy's only film performance (under that name at least). Jorge was famous before doing this with the fun SANTO films and starred in a John Wayne western after this. In the 1970s and 80s he starred mainly in exploitation films, including the Sword & Sorcery mini trash epic called CONQUEST, directed by Lucio Fulci.
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The photo on this lobby card was in black & white and before printing it they added color to it except for...Serge Nubret's body. They definitely thought because he's black that he didn't need any color. Oy. Ridiculous.
Julius Caesar: why so difficult to cast?
It seems Hollywood (and only Hollywood) rarely got Jullius Caesar right. If he was too tall in one film he was too short in another portrayal...or too mawkish or too dull. Caesar has rarely been portrayed as a gruff and cunning man. Sadly, my idea of the perfect actor for Julius Caesar never played the emperor.
Bust of Julius Caesar
The very short Claude Rains played Julius Caesar in CAESAR & CLEOPATRA. I love this film. Very underrated and overlooked. Even so...as good as Rains is I recognize that he was totally miscast. Rains is such a good actor that even when he's miscast he's still excellent in that role.
While the very tall Louis Calhern played Caesar in JULIUS CAESAR. Excellent actor but not my favorite by any means.
John Gavin as Julius Caesar in SPARTACUS was an interesting choice but alas his character had minimal screen time and Gavin, good looking as he was, wasn't the best of actors.
Rex Harrison in CLEOPATRA. His Caesar was too genial, mawkish. Very little gruff.
...here's Alberto Lupo as Octavian in SON OF CLEOPATRA. Lupo never played Caesar but if I had my way Lupo would have been my ONLY choice to play the famous emperor. An excellent actor who always gave sharp performances, always gave the impression that he was in control of everything and was very gruff while still looking intelligent, not barbaric or simple.
Hercules (Steve Reeves) and most of the Argonauts including Gabriele Antonini (Ulysses, far left); Fulvio Carrera and Andrea Fantasia (Castor and Laertes, right of Steve); Willy Colombini and Gino Mattera (as Pollux and Orpheus, far right) in HERCULES (1958)
I like this shot as almost the entire cast from the Argo is in it. Great use of the widescreen image. This is just after the attack of the monkey men.
Spot the lion tamer!
When you watch a PEPLUM film there's almost always the Hero-Battling-A-Lion scene. Depending on how they filmed it, a real lion timer is often used for some shots. Unfortunately for the filmmakers and the lion tamers, most of the actors portraying the Hero are buff and muscular making it difficult to match the tamer's physique with the bulging actors.
From MACISTE IN HELL: this lion tamer is supposed to be Kirk Morris...not quite.
Gordon Mitchell is the star of MACISTE IN THE LAND OF THE CYCLOPS; this lion tamer simply doesn't look like Mitchell.
This scene is from HERCULES (1958) and he's supposed to be Mr Universe himself Steve Reeves. He's missing definition to match Steve.
In URSUS & THE VALLEY OF LIONS, lion tamer Orlando Orfei is a stand-in for Ed Fury. It's obvious that's not Ed.
New IMMORTALS-inspired fragrance commercial from Versace
New fragrance ad from Versace obviously inspired by IMMORTALS. Versace are going through some sort of PEPLUM phase like nothing I've seen before from any fashion house. It sorta makes sense since they're Italian and the PEPLUM genre originated in Italy. I'm like it.
Queen Deianira (Jayne Mansfield) gets ready for her dressing with her many handmaidens in THE LOVES OF HERCULES (or Hercules vs the Hydra)
How many handmaidens does one woman need to get dressed? I think she has a dozen in this scene alone. Arf. Love this campy film. Jayne should have made more PEPLUM films. She was, eh, larger than life.
Different opening credits
One of the frustrating aspects of the PEPLUM genre is the numerous title changes, between different countries and often within the same market. This practice of changing titles created unnecessary confusion and little respect from critics and cinephiles alike for the genre. Here are two examples:
HERCULES AGAINST MOLOCH
Original Italian opening credit title which translates simply as HERCULES AGAINST MOLOCH
The English/US opening credit is knowm as CONQUEST OF MYCENAE (with a title subtitle with the more direct Hercules against Moloch). For this film is particular, CONQUEST OF MYCENAE is a fairly terrible title.
The French opening credit is the same same as the Italian title. This opening credit is pretty sad looking.
THE INVINCIBLE BROTHERS MACISTE
Original Italian opening credit title which is identical to the English translation.
One of two versions for the English/US market. This one is the correct title.
THE INVINCIBLE GLADIATORS is the second opening credit version for the English market. It's a terrible title as the Maciste brothers are not gladiators.
German version (Google translated this as "The downfall of the rich leopard" huh?) is more about the Leopard men than the Maciste brothers.
PEPLUM Survey: who's got the most fab headgear?
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Pietro Ceccarelli in COLD STEEL OF TORTUGA
The ten gladiators in action from TRIUMPH OF THE TEN GLADIATORS
Cool photo. Climbing walls is most definitely a staple action moment of the genre.
French poster for CAESAR & CLEOPATRA
Gorgeous! I don't know if it captures the actual (talkative) essence of the film but it's beautiful.
Richard Harrison hugs Paola Pitti after a bloody fight in REVOLT OF THE PRAETORIANS
The hero gets the girl!
What movie?
Can you identify this movie from this screenshot?
Behind-the-scenes photo from WAR & PEACE with Audrey Hepburn and January PEPLUM Babe-of-the-Month Anita Ekberg. They seem a bit aloof and none too pleased. What a contrast between actresses.
Clio (Sylva Koscina) gets ready for her doomed marriage to Archimedes in SIEGE OF SYRACUSE
Beautiful production values in this film and this image is a good example. The film was co-financed by Paramount pictures and it shows. Sylva's role is a supporting one and it would be her last film directed by Pietro Francisci.
Then & Now : Terence Hill
Terence in CARTHAGE IN FLAMES (1960); Terence today
PEPLUM FX
Here are some impressive special effects shots for ASTERIX AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES. A combination of real sets (surprising) and cgi, the final look is almost seamless. The sets were built in Spain.
Rossana Podestà and Edmund Purdom in FURY OF THE PAGANS
Super rare PEPLUM not that different than GOLIATH & THE BARBARIANS or the many Barbarian inspired films made in the 1960s in Italy. I finally got a hold of it and I'll be watching it this weekend on PEPLUM TV for the first time. In Italian with English subs. Oh yeah. Reviews at IMDb aren't very good but I like watching anything with Rossana and Edmund.
Nude PEPLUM stars
It's not unusual these days to find a magazines with current stars/actors in the buff. It's almost de rigueur. But in the past, nudity was still a no no. But that didn't stop our favorite PEPLUM stars to disrobe entirely or be near nude, for the sake of art or titillation. Here are a fe examples:
Sylva Koscina, the sweet and innocent Iole from the Francisci's HERCULES films, was photographed on many occasion without clothes. You can easily find tons of her photos on them interwebs. Sylva was most definitely not shy. Uploaded to the Babes & Beauties page.
Mark Forest, aka Lou Degni, was a bodybuilder and of course disrobing for photographers comes with the job. Uploaded to the Heroes & Beefcake page.
Chelo Alonso was a saucy dancer before becoming an actress and popularized in the PEPLUM genre. Her costumes were always skimpy, showed loads of skin. I tried to find a nude photo of Chelo but couldn't find one but this is as close as she got to being nude. Uploaded to the Babes & Beauties page.
Like Mark Forest, Steve Reeves was a bodybuilder par excellence and he too took his clothes off for the sake of art. Only Steve can make a nude photo of himself showering and lathering up seem wholesome, not tawdry in the least. Arf. Uploaded to the Heroes & Beefcake page.
Spartacus : War of the Damned
The final season of the SPARTACUS series called SPARTACUS : WAR OF THE DAMNED starts tonight on Starz in the USA. This season, which takes place during the final battles between the rebellious slaves and Rome, actually sounds more interesting than the previous seasons as it will follow history to its inevitable end. The series will include large scale (computer generated) battles along with the usual slow-mo with over-the-top cgi blood gushing all over muscular actors.
Uranus statue in HERCULES & THE CAPTIVE WOMEN
This is a screenshot from an HD version I got a hold of recently. It's the most spectacular PEPLUM transfer I've ever seen. Truly dazzling. It's so sharp you can see the freckles on Reg Park's skin. IMO, the film should be tweaked a bit more to make it more sharp (tighter editing, some color correction, stuff like that) and re-release it on the big screen. It would be AMAZING. When it comes to spectacular, this film was way ahead of its time.
I wonder what happened to incredible statue. This set in CAPTIVE WOMEN is the biggest set from any Euro Sword & Sandal epics.
Gordon Scott in HERCULES AND THE PRINCESS OF TROY or Mark Forest in HERCULES AGAINST THE BARBARIANS
Aspect ratio: FURY OF HERCULES
Trying to find the right version of a PEPLUM film is often a daunting task. Take FURY OF HERCULES. I've been trying to get an acceptable transfer from all over the world and I still haven't found one. It would be great that a standard would exist when transfering a film but no it's different in every country, including Italy.
German DVD (titled SAMSON..!!!)
Probably the best in image sharpness even if the print looks old and and scratchy. The aspect ratio is all wrong as the sides are cropped out, missing a lot of info. Good but not great.
Italian TV Broadcast
You'd think that Italian TV would show the film is a pretty nifty transfer but no it's not good. Almost identical to the German DVD but the frame is squished vertically. The image is fuzzy and blurry. The image also has lots of artifacts caused by the transfer.
US public Domain print
Has more info on the right that's missing from the two previous version and there's no squished image issue here but the colors are terrible and the entire blurry print is not really good.
French DVD transfer
Of all the prints, this one has the most information on the sides even if it's cropped on the top and bottom. The extra info on the sides, missing from the 3 previous versions, gives you an idea of the real widescreen format. The image is terrible and the colors are murky but it's sorta acceptable. The image is slightly squished as well; because the top and bottom are cropped, the image is, vertically speaking, incredibly narrow.
My version
I tried to fix the French version with a slightly less narrow vertical height while retaining the extra info on the sides. The image is squished but with the top and bottom being cropped out there's no way around it. This is sorta the closest to what the right image should look like.
Epic scene from GOLIATH & THE GIANTS
I got hold of an HD Italian-only version of this film. It's quite nice and filled with details. To see a bigger picture of above click on it. It's beautiful and I'm amazed that these forgotten PEPLUM films are getting transferred to HD, in Europe at least. It's a very good sign for the genre's future.
Update: Unknown actors in PEPLUM films
I have two updates on the post from last week (see here)
Georges Ehling
The actor from REVAK THE REBEL is called Georges Ehling, a former wrestler it seems. I even found a video on Youtube profiling the former actor/wrestler. Thanks to Scott for the excellent info and the two photos above. I've been trying to figure out who he was for some time and it's now resolved. Yeah!
Ahmed Ramzy
Second, the mysterious actor in THE SON OF SPARTACUS. His name is Ahmed Ramzy. I saw some photos of him on Google but wasn't sure it was him and his name in the film is Braxus while IMDb had him credited as Murdok - A Lybian Chief. So of course there was confusion going on. But for sure it's Ahmed. On a sad note Ahmed passed away last year, in September. A belated RIP.
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SLAVE OF ROME - Dance sequence
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Before they were PEPLUM stars
Cleopatra Premiere
Unknown actors in PEPLUM films
PEPLUM Art
Lobby Cards set : CLEOPATRA
PEPLUM orgies
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Same statue, different films
New PEPLUM wave?
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REVAK UNCHAINED!
Anita Ekberg - From PEPLUM to Fellini
Steve spreading amore
Tragic Stars : Michèle Girardon
HELEN YES...HELEN OF TROY clips
Location: Appian Way (Via Appia)
Then & Now : Harold Bradley
PEPLUM Art - Franz von Stuck
Terence Hill/Bud Spencer - Altrimenti ci arrabbiam...
Italian Newspaper Movie Listing
Technical goof
Reynold Brown, movie poster artist
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PEPLUM stars advertising stuff
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Rıdvan Bolatlı (* 2. Dezember 1928 in Ankara; † 31. März 2022) war ein türkischer Fußballspieler. Mit der Türkischen Nationalmannschaft nahm er an der Weltmeisterschaft 1954 teil und kam während dieses Turniers zu drei Spieleinsätzen. Durch seine Tätigkeit für MKE Ankaragücü wurde er mit diesem Verein assoziiert.

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Bolatlı erlernte das Fußballspielen auf der Straße. Während seines Militärdienstes spielte er für die Militärmannschaft der Bodenstreitkräfte Ankara Karagücü. Später setzte er seine Karriere bei MKE Ankaragücü. Bevor zum Sommer 1959 in der Türkei die erste landesweit auszutragende Liga, die heutige Süper Lig, gegründet wurde, verließ Bolatlı Ankaragücü.

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Bolatlı spielte 1952 mit seinem Einsatz für die türkische Amateur-Nationalmannschaft während seiner Zeit bei Ankara Karagücü das erste Mal für die türkischen Nationalmannschaften.

Ein Jahr nach diesem Einsatz wurde er im Rahmen eines Testspiels gegen die Jugoslawische Nationalmannschaft in den Kader der türkischen Nationalmannschaft nominiert und gab während dieser Partie vom 5. Juni 1953 sein Länderspieldebüt.

Anlässlich der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1954 nominierte der Nationaltrainer Sandro Puppo Bolatlı in den Kader der türkischen Nationalmannschaft. Hier belegte man am Ende der Gruppenphase punktgleich mit der deutschen Auswahl den zweiten Tabellenplatz. Obwohl man das bessere Torverhältnis hatte, wurde nach der damaligen Regelung der Gruppenzweite durch ein Entscheidungsspiel zwischen diesen beiden Teams entschieden. In dieser Begegnung, die Deutschland 7:2 für sich entschied, spielte Bolatlı sein letztes Länderspiel. Während dieses Turniers absolvierte er zwei Länderspiele.

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The neighbor accused of attacking Republican Senator Rand Paul pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge on Thursday.
Rene Boucher, a retired anesthesiologist, faces up to a year in jail if convicted of fourth-degree assault. Boucher, 59, was released from jail Saturday, a day after the attack, on a $7,500 bond.
Paul tweeted that he suffered six broken ribs and has excess fluid around his lungs. Prosecutors have said the charges against Boucher may change because of the severity of the lawmaker's injuries.
Rene Boucher, 59, of Bowling Green, who Kentucky State Police say assaulted U.S. Senator Rand Paul at his residence, is seen in this Warren County Detention Center photo, in Bowling Green, Ky., Nov. 3, 2017.
Rob Porter, a close friend of the lawmaker, said this week that Paul doesn't know why he was attacked. Paul was mowing his yard and had stopped to remove a limb when Boucher tackled him from behind, Porter said. Paul was wearing ear protection and didn't hear Boucher approaching.
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So any chance you might consider this as an area/feature that your team should focus on?
@zwenkwiel While yes this is true, most game engines force the top of the map to be north by default but Ins: Sandstorm doesn't follow this and from what I can tell, the way up the minimap is shown must be down to the mapper as while the right side of the map is North on some maps (like Farmhouse), some others have the left side of the map is north and so on. As such it shouldn't be that hard to either change the way up the minimap is shown, or at the very least change the compass so North is up on the way the minimap is shown now.
If there is a reason why it can't be changed it would be nice to hear what that reason is from NWI at the very least.
But to be honest, i never look at the minimap when somebody makes a call out for enemy contact.
Just have a look on the marker on your compass and you know where the threat is.
The call outs for enemy contact mostly refer to close and mid-ranges and therefore don´t need a look into the minimap.
so that i had to look on the minimap where this location might be.
For me the minimap is absolutely unnecessary in Sandstorm !
This is not ARMA3 where you have to navigate through a very large area to reach your attack point.
just talking over the ingame voice comms with random pubbies to spot and receive target locations.
Many of my friends have even given up with the compass as a result of this and just say "let's flank far left", even thou in other games they always use compass directions, since even thou there is a chance of confusion from that, it is still far easier and quicker, and tbh less chance of confusion, than everyone trying to work out the compass directions they are on about if they use one.
So ye while many players may never use the map or compass to spot and identify target locations or w/e, I still feel they would benefit from the map being the right way up for the few times they may look and it and especially if they only very occasionally need to find a compass point from it, as without knowing the map is the wrong way up and slowly learning which way up each map is, putting avg players at even more of a disadvantage than competitive players who will learn each map's compass directions over time off by heart.
And while it may look odd to look at now we are used to the map being the wrong way up, here is how the map "Farmhouse" should look, where before it had West at the top and now it has North as it should be.
Seriously this is my biggest gripe with this game and I can see no logical reason why the maps shouldn't be the correct way up ingame.
Please up-vote and bump the topic if you agree as I have already made one topic on this subject in the past and it has gone even thou everyone appeared to agree with it, and this is the biggest thing I want to see changed in the game and I'm sure many others do too!


It's spring and these ducks are ready to get it on with their seemingly unwilling lady friends. Whenever they get into make-new-ducks mode, they seem to paint the rest of the world invisible, including traffic. I was driving on Broadwater yesterday and had to stop for two sets of ducks wandering across the street in a lust-fueled daze. There are a lot of them near 14th and Broadwater due to nearby Spring Creek.


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Q: Malloc 2d array is always NULL I have been trying to dynamically allocate memory for structures. I keep on getting seg faults and I am not sure why. I reduced the code to a practice program to try and figure out whats wrong. This code compiles correctly with no errors:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

typedef struct {
   int id;
  }person;

person **new;

int main()
{
  int x, size;
  printf("How big is this? ");
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     {
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     }
  person **new=(person **)malloc(size*sizeof(person **));
    for(x=0; x<size ;x++)
        {
        new[x]=(person *)malloc(sizeof(person *));
        new[x]->id=x*5;
        }
    for(x=0; x<size; x++)
        {
        printf("%d\t", new[x]->id);
        free(new[x]);
        }
  free(new);
  return 0;
  }

But whenever I try to run the program it always triggers the if statement that checks for a NULL and exits. Whenever I take out the if statement it runs perfectly and gives me the right answer. So I am not really sure what is going wrong.

A: Following line has two issues:
if((person **)malloc(size*sizeof(person))==NULL);

Issue1: Memory leak
Issue2: Has ; at the end of if condition.
To fix these issues use:
person **new=(person **)malloc(size*sizeof(person *));
if(NULL == new)
{
     printf("There was a problem\n");
     exit(1);
}

Also as mentioned by francis you need to change your new[x] malloc statement:
new[x]=(person *)malloc(sizeof(person *));

To:
new[x]=(person *)malloc(sizeof(person));

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Description We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? Six years after the events of With Fire and Sword the Polish Commonwealth has recovered from the earlier bloody wars against the Cossacks and the Crimean Khanate, but the King is being kept busy by skirmishes on the Russian border. Unfortunately for the Commonwealth, this wealthy land is all too tempting for the Swedish king Karl Gustav who sweeps in to claim his prize, forcing soldiers and nobles to reconsider where their loyalties truly lie. This backdrop allows the impetuous Pan Andrei Kmita to demonstrate all sides of his loyalty and recklessness, even at the expense of his comrades and his fiancée Panna Aleksandra Billevich. The Deluge is the second book in Henryk Sienkiewicz's trilogy of novels dealing with a series of wars in seventeenth-century Poland. Written two years after With Fire and Sword, it was serialized in the newspaper that Sienkiewicz was editor-in-chief of, and started to cement his reputation as an novelist. Throughout the Trilogy Sienkiewicz weaves historical events and people with fictional characters and stories to great effect; this mastery of the historical epic went on to earn him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905. This edition is based on the 1891 translation by Jeremiah Curtin.


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The mission of the PTO is to support the children, teachers and families of our school.
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Mentor program for new families, New Family Orientation, Back to School Coffee, coordinating guest speakers, coordinating room parents, Teacher Appreciation Week and more.
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Being an active parent at St. Pius X is fun and rewarding. There are numerous ways to get involved!
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Ruth "Ruthie" Matthes (ur. 11 listopada 1965 r. w Sun Valley) - amerykańska kolarka górska i szosowa, pięciokrotna medalistka mistrzostw świata oraz zdobywczyni Pucharu Świata w kolarstwie górskim oraz wicemistrzyni świata w kolarstwie szosowym.

Kariera
W 2000 roku wystartowała na igrzyskach olimpijskich w Sydney, gdzie zajęła 10 miejsce w cross country. Był to jej pierwszy i zarazem ostatni start olimpijski.

Swój największy międzynarodowy sukces osiągnęła podczas mistrzostw świata w Ciocco w 1991 roku, kiedy zdobyła mistrzostwo świata w cross country. W 1996 roku, na mistrzostwach w Cairns wywalczyła srebrny medal, ulegając jedynie Kanadyjce Alison Sydor. Ponadto na mistrzostwach w Durango w 1990 roku, w Bromont w 1992 roku oraz na mistrzostwach w Métabief w 1993 roku zdobywała brązowe medale w cross country.

W sezonie 1992 triumfowała w klasyfikacji cross country Pucharu Świata w kolarstwie górskim, a w 1993 roku zajęła drugie miejsce.

Matthes zdobyła także srebrny medal w kolarstwie szosowym na mistrzostwach świata w Utsunomiya w 1990 roku. Ponadto jest mistrzynią kraju w kolarstwie szosowym z 1990 roku, a rok później zdobyła brązowy medal. Trzecie miejsce zajęła także w mistrzostwach USA w kolarstwie przełajowym w 1998 roku.

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Amerykańscy kolarze szosowi
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Urodzeni w 1965


"The Lever Brothers Company was established in Cambridge by William Lever. The firm was an American subsidiary of an English company of the same name. The Lever Brothers parent company had been manufacturing soap in England since the 1870s. Its most prominent brands included Sunlight soap, Lifebuoy soap, and Lux soap flakes. By the 1880s, the company had experienced significant success from its product line and began expanding production to meet international demands. The firm did not attempt to make an entrance into the U.S. market until the 1890s. Initially, in 1895, Lever established only a small office in New York to handle American sales; however, by 1898, the firm had purchased a Cambridge-based soap manufacturer – the Curtis Davis Company, which was established in 1835 and known for its Welcome brand of soap – to begin production stateside (Gale Group, 1998; Cambridge Chronicle, 1902).During its initial years in Cambridge, the Lever Brothers company saw only slow and steady growth. Despite the success of the company's Sunlight and Lifebuoy brands overseas, the firm was unable to replicate these sales in the United States. As a result, the company's primary product early on was the Welcome soap brand inherited from the Curtis Davis Company. In 1913, however, with the appointment of Francis A. Countway as company president, the firm began to see significant expansion in U.S. sales."
In various parts of the Earl J. Arnold Advertising Card Collection, you will find information on the color printing process that made trade cards appealing, color lithography. There is another aspect of the trade card phenomenon that deserves our attention, however: artistic design. This is harder to track down, since artistic credit is almost never printed on the trade cards themselves.
I was delighted to find that someone has been researching this. Kevin MacDonnell (MacDonnell Rare Books) has written an excellent article in the New Antiquarian (the blog of The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Trade Card Designs."
"The Bride Saying Farewell to Her Mother"
"slender man shakes hands with rotund gentleman"
"old man admires laughing baby in arms of maid"
"Cupid delivers pair of Valentines to pair of young ladies"
One of the best discussions of Gilman's work appeared in "The New Antiquarian" blog. Kevin MacDonnell's article Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Trade Card Designs is highly recommended.


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The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Hyperion, August 31, 2005 ISBN 978-1-4013-0064-7 (Hardcover)
We read memoirs either because we wish to know about a life which is vastly different from our own, or because we recognize something similar to our own life experience. For seven years, I avoided reading The Tender Bar because Moehringer's memoir hit too close to home--literally. He and I both grew up in the 1970s and 1980's in a town called Manhasset, Long Island ("East Egg" in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby). Moehringer's mother Dorothy, having left J.R.'s violent, alcoholic father, is forced to move them into her parents' home. Grandpa and Grandma reside in a ramshackle Cape Cod. Dorothy's brother Charlie, her sister Ruth and her six kids, also live in "Shit House"—five adults and seven children under one (leaky) roof.
Like Moehringer, alcoholism (my father's) was a core issue of my childhood. In his prologue, Moehringer writes,
"Anyone familiar with Manhasset understood why liquor surged through Fitzgerald's novel like the Mississippi across a floodplain…Manhasset, site of the largest liquor store in New York State, was the only town on Long Island with a cocktail named after it (a Manhasset is a Manhattan, with more alcohol). The town's half-mile-long main drag, Plandome Road, was every drinker's street of dreams—bar after bar."
The "bar" in the title refers to Publican's (initially named Dickens), a bar with which anyone who lived in and/or grew up in Manhasset at that time was well-acquainted. Owned by Steve Schnitzer, J.R.'s Uncle Charlie ("Chas") was the first bartender Steve ever hired to work there. Grandpa's house, conveniently, is exactly 142 steps from Publican's.
As children, Moehringer and I also shared what psychologist Abraham Maslow defined as "The Need to Belong," i.e. people are social beings who have a fundamental need to belong to a group, and, if this need is not met, people will have low self-esteem. No kidding, Maslow; we all want acceptance and love! Yet, when people are not available to us, books always are.
The Tender Bar is Moehringer's exploration of how he found his people and his place to belong, his substitute father figures, and a world where words and stories were told or created. As a boy who loved his mother, an incredibly courageous and tenacious woman, Moehringer also had an enormous desire to please her. He worried about whether he would become a "success," be the kind of man who can really take care of his mother. He is very young when he declares that he will grow up to become a lawyer, and that he will attend Yale University. When his mother moves him to Arizona as a young teen, J.R. loses his bedrock. Dorothy understands this, and makes sure that he gets to spend the summer, and every summer thereafter, in Manhasset. This means he spends summers in the company of his Uncle Charlie and Charlie's co-workers and pals Colt, Bobo, and Joey D. Let's just say that hijinks ensue.
While in exile during the school year in Arizona, J.R. (then 13) gets a job at a mall book store, and comes under the tutelage of two employees. Bill and Bud are very odd, but very dear men, middle-aged bachelors who spend every waking moment reading the store's contents in the stockroom. J.R. has learned a lot about being a man in a man's world in Manhasset, but it is here, with Bill and Bud, that he learns about the world by reading the curriculum they lay out for him. J.R. gets accepted into Yale, where he feels he doesn't belong. He falls in love with a beautiful, high society woman student, and the class differences between them (and her own need to belong to her type of clique) end up breaking his heart. J.R. takes many a late night train from New Haven to get down to Manhasset, to get to the bar, and to drink. He is like a drone returning to the hive. After graduation in 1986, Moehringer manages to secure a place as a copyboy at The New York Times, in a training program where someone with the right stuff could work his way up to becoming a full-fledged reporter. Moehringer uses the last part of his memoir to determine whether he, as a man, can put away childish things and figure out where he truly belongs.
Moehringer's comic but never condescending pitch-perfect portraits of his family, his friends, the staff and the regulars at Publican's left me laughing out loud, and, occasionally, wiping away a few tears. He breathes life into a very specific period and place, and there is not one false note. The consummate prose, adept pacing and emotional content of the memoir are absolutely breathtaking. Although The Tender Bar clearly is a work of nonfiction, Moehringer possesses the imagination and inventiveness of a great novelist. How fortunate for us, since his first novel Sutton (based on the life of Willie Sutton, the bank robber) will be published by Hyperion on September 25, 2012.
Steve August 30, 2012 at 9:21 PM
Wow! You are a gifted writer Maura! You offer great insights and deliver them with a wonderful style. Keep it up! -Steve
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Wahama junior Brayden Davenport (11) beats out a throw for an infield single during the fourth inning of Thursday night's TVC Hocking baseball game against Belpre at Claflin Stadium in Mason, W.Va.
MASON, W.Va. — There's no place like home.
The Wahama baseball team broke a five-all tie with five unanswered runs and ultimately remained unbeaten at Claflin Stadium this spring during a 10-5 decision over visiting Belpre in a Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division matchup on Thursday night in Mason County.
The White Falcons (8-2, 5-1 TVC Hocking) found themselves in a quick 4-0 hole midway through the first inning, but the hosts countered by batting around in their half of the opening frame — which resulted in five runs on four hits, a walk and an error.
The Golden Eagles, however, tied things up in the top half of the second as a Logan Adams single and consecutive errors made it a five-all contest nine outs into regulation.
The Red and White secured a permanent lead in the home half of the second as Tyler Bumgarner singled home David Hendrick for a 6-5 edge.
Two singles and two errors allowed WHS to extended its lead out to 9-5 in the bottom of the fourth, then a pair of errors set up Hendrick to steal home for the final run in the sixth.
Wahama outhit the guests by a slim 9-8 overall margin and also committed only two of the eight errors in the game. The hosts stranded 13 runners on base, while BHS left eight on the bags.
The White Falcons used four pitchers in the contest, with Antonio Serevicz getting the win after allowing one unearned run, one hit and one walk in 1.2 innings of relief while fanning three.
Nick Godfrey took the loss after surrendering nine runs (five earned), , eight hits and three walks over 3.2 frames while fanning five.
Serevicz and Tanner Smith paced Wahama with two hits apiece, followed by Hendrick, Bumgarner, Jonathan Frye, Brayden Davenport and Trevor Hunt with safety each.
Serevicz led the hosts with two RBIs, while Hendrick scored a team-high three runs. Davenport and Smith also scored twice apiece in the triumph.
Adams led BHS with three hits and two runs scored. Jesse Collins was next with two hits. Jeremiah Stitt had a hit and team-best two RBIs.
Wahama was at Trimble on Friday and returns to action Saturday when it travels to Ravenswood for a non-conference matchup at 1 p.m.


Pathogenesis of radiation-induced capsular contracture in tissue expander and implant breast reconstruction.
Capsular contracture is the main complication in postmastectomy tissue expander and implant breast reconstruction in patients requiring radiotherapy. There is evidence that the wingless signaling pathway plays a central role in the pathogenesis of fibroproliferation in fibromatosis and hyperplastic skin wounds, involving multiple linked events leading to up-regulation of target genes and fibroproliferation. Here, the authors tested their hypothesis that the wingless signaling pathway may also regulate radiotherapy-induced fibroproliferation in capsular tissue around expanders/implants in breast reconstruction.Biopsies of the periprosthetic capsule were obtained from patients undergoing bilateral expander breast reconstruction in which one side was radiated and the other side was not radiated. Capsular biopsies were snap-frozen and stored at -80 degrees C for Western blot assays to determine protein content of phospho-glycogen-synthase-kinase-3beta (phospho-GSK-3beta), total GSK-3beta, beta-catenin, cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), and collagen types I and III (n = three to five patients), normalized to beta-actin. Immunostaining for beta-catenin in radiated and nonradiated capsular tissue was also performed. Slides were scanned and analyzed using Zeiss Mirax Scan.The following protein content levels were significantly (p < 0.01) increased in radiated capsule compared with nonradiated capsule: phospho-GSK-3beta (6.7-fold), total GSK-3beta (3.0-fold), beta-catenin (2.3-fold), COX-2 (2.8-fold), and collagen type I (1.6-fold) and type III (1.8-fold). Immunohistochemical staining demonstrated increased fibroblast cytosolic beta-catenin staining and evidence of beta-catenin nuclear translocation in radiated compared with nonradiated capsular tissue.Results from this study highlight the importance of the wingless signaling pathway in the pathogenesis of radiation-induced fibroproliferation associated with capsular contracture in expander/implant breast reconstruction.


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California, September 9, 1850: Thirty-First Admitted to the United States (Part 2)
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The next significant impact on the development of the California constitution came during the Progressive Era of the early 20th century. The Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican movement had seized control, first, of the Republican Party and, then, in the 1910 elections, of the state government. The movement was an upper-middle class, college-educated, young, elitist, technocratic reform movement centered in the legal profession, the press, and, to a lesser extent, the independent entrepreneurial class. These reformers had been excluded from the traditional retail politics of the urban machines with their roots in the working classes, strong partisan identity, and "spoils system" of political patronage. They professed to believe in the people and democracy, but a people led by the right kind of leader whose programs would use government to improve the lot of the masses. The people, in turn, would recognize the wisdom of those programs and voice their approval in the voting booth.
In January, 1911, the Progressives had full control of the legislature and had in the governorship perhaps the most popular politician California has produced, Hiram Johnson. That year, a special election was held to vote on, among other things, 23 measures that required amendment of the state constitution were proposed. All but one were approved by the voters.
Among the most significant and enduring, for better or worse, of those changes are the initiative and referendum procedures. Initiatives are brought by petitions signed by voters to enact statutes or constitutional amendments. For a statutory initiative, voter signatures must number at least 5% of the votes cast in the most recent gubernatorial election. For a constitutional initiative, the signature requirement is 8%. In either case, once on the ballot, the initiative requires majority approval to pass.
A referendum is a decision by voters on an action already taken by the legislature. For a statutory referendum, the same signature requirements exist as for a statutory initiative. A constitutional referendum to amend or revise the constitution is different. The proposed amendment or revision must first be adopted by a two-thirds vote of each chamber of the legislature (27 out of 40 in the state senate; 54 out of 80 in the assembly). Then a majority of voters must approve. The legislature can also call a constitutional convention to revise the constitution, a task that, despite periodic clamor by the press, it has declined to perform. Finally, a "mandatory" referendum is required for bonds to be issued, if the bonds are repaid by taxpayer dollars. The legislature and governor must approve, after which a majority of voters must concur. All told, the California constitution has been amended over 500 times since 1879, with topics from criminal law reform, to term limits, to state pension benefits.
A third device of direct democracy is the recall of public officials. While the number of petition signatures depends on the office, for most state-wide offices, signatures equal to at least 12% of the votes cast for that office in the most recent election are required. If enough signatures are collected, two separate questions are presented to the voters. First, a majority must decide that the targeted official should be recalled. A second question decides who should take the recalled official's place, if the recall is approved. There is no winnowing out of candidates through a primary election. Whoever gets the most votes, wins. A recent, and at the time rather shocking, demonstration occurred in 2003. Governor Gray Davis, a Democrat, was recalled by 55-45%, and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected with 49% of the vote over a plethora of other candidates.
Although these structural aspects of the Progressive Era amendments have had the most significant impact, other reforms also changed the nature of California politics. The Progressives' hostility to political partisanship led to the abolition of straight-ticket voting, the adoption of cross-filing in primary elections (a process by which a politician could run for political office on the ballot of more than one political party), and the increase in officially non-partisan offices. Local elections cannot be contested by political parties. Thus, mayors and city councils are elected in nominally non-partisan elections.
Many academics and other reformers long have lauded this push toward meritocratic, non-partisan government. In a sense, it is faithful to the classic republican ideal of leaders dedicated to the common weal, rather than factional self-interest. But, in reality, evidence now shows that these restrictions tend to dilute voter attention and interest, which, in turn, produces more and more frantic efforts to increase voter participation. California's latest constitutional contribution has been the introduction of the "jungle primary," in which all candidates of the various parties for a particular office are placed on the primary election ballot. The top two vote-getters then run against each other in the general election. This was supposed to produce more "moderate" winners, rather than the more ideologically extreme candidates produced if each party had its separate primary. Instead, this process appears to increase voter confusion from the large number of names on the primary ballot, and lessen voter interest and involvement if, as often happens, the two names on general election ballot are members of the same party. This has further stultified the resiliency of political parties, especially the Republicans, in California.
California's governmental structure differs from the federal system. The legislative branch is composed of two chambers, both elected on the basis of population. The executive branch is a "plural executive." The governor is elected by popular vote, as is, separately, the lieutenant governor. While the President appoints federal department heads with Senate confirmation, in California many such officials (attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer, etc.) are elected as independent constitutional officers. While most of the governor's powers are similar to those of the President, the governor also has a line-item veto over budgetary items. If the governor opposes a particular legislative budget item, he can veto it entirely or reduce it to a palatable level. That veto can then be overridden by a two-thirds vote of each house of the legislature.
Judges of the local and appellate courts can be appointed by the governor if a vacancy in the office has occurred. For appellate judges, the governor's candidate must have been approved by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. There is no participation by the legislature. Once appointed, the chief justice and the six associate justices of the state supreme court serve for 12 years, after which they must submit to a retention election. The voters choose whether or not to retain the justice subject to this plebiscite. While retention is almost a foregone conclusion, in the 1986 general election, Chief Justice Rose Bird and Associate Justices Joseph Grodin and Cruz Reynoso were rejected due to their perceived eagerness to overturn all death penalty verdicts that came before them.
The state's current constitution, in sum, is quite different from its predecessor. But, then, so are the people of the state. The earlier version followed the path of traditional American constitutional structure, with its basic organization of government and its "natural rights" approach. Today's constitution is a record of over a century of interest group politics. It has long since ceased to be a constitution of law and become a constitution of policy. It is easy to mock the inclusion in a constitution of an exemption from property tax for "Fruit and nut trees until 4 years after the season in which they were planted in orchard form." But one must not ignore the bigger issue. What started as a reform to get around a political structure controlled by the bosses of entrenched and organized political parties and clubs by creating a system of direct democracy to appeal to the voters directly, has become the playground of well-funded, unaccountable, politically-connected private pressure groups posing as expert technocrats solving problems. In the guise of the "public interest" are private interests achieved. This is the inevitable result of the Progressives' Platonic vision of themselves leading the masses designed to follow. It is a fit constitution for a California increasingly divided into a highly-educated, highly-compensated elite; organized interest groups of public employees, environmentalists, and ethnic affiliation; a shrinking middle class, and a mass of workers and unemployed struggling to get by.
An expert on constitutional law, and member of the Southwestern Law School faculty, Professor Joerg W. Knipprath has been interviewed by print and broadcast media on a number of related topics ranging from recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions to presidential succession. He has written opinion pieces and articles on business and securities law as well as constitutional issues, and has focused his more recent research on the effect of judicial review on the evolution of constitutional law. He has also spoken on business law and contemporary constitutional issues before professional and community forums, and serves as a Constituting America Fellow. Read more from Professor Knipprath at: http://www.tokenconservative.com/.
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Publius Senex Dassault says:
Very interesting concepts. As one formally trained in science and math with 37 years of industrial experience I find issues, policies, or processes based or triggered by percentages or thresholds very interesting. Aside from the rather direct method for changing the CA constitution, I found the threshold 5% of the gubernatorial votes cast tot be a odd, really odd threshold. 5% may be an acceptable target. But it should be based on a more stable base such as CA citizens above 18 years of age. Basing it on gubernatorial votes means the threshold can and likely does vary drastically from election to election.
The other item that left me scratching my head is that both legislative chambers are elected based on population. What's the point of having two chambers. reminds me of junior buyers who reported to me who would present two suppliers whose pricing was based on exactly the same price formula. Except for providing modestly better security of supply there was no advantage of having two suppliers.
It appears to me that CA has gone to great lengths to cure perceived ills only to marginally address those ills while exposing the patient to even more infectious diseases. I guess this one more reason I recently met scores of people in Idaho who were recent immigrants from California. It might be entertaining and educational to have a small state experiment with public governance. But its sobering when the most populace state does so.
Thank you for the education.
Home Rule or Dillon Rule? Their Common Defense: Alliance Between the Sovereign States


We are the PTRobotics Team representing Portugal.
Ricardo Almeida (Team Captain) – I'm interested in robotics because it connects a lot of school subjects with real life application. Another reason that I want to be involved in Robotics is because this is the future. In the future, I want to be a programmer, and Robotics will help me to increase my skills. In my free time, I play video games, watch anime, program and read.
Pedro Ladeira (Programmer) – I'm interested in robotics because I hope to learn how to program and learn anything else that can help me in the future. In the future, I hope to be a programmer, a game programmer, to be more specific. In my spare time I play on the computer. My favorite subjects, due to what I hope to achieve in the future, are games and programming.
Diogo Nabais (Programmer) – I'm interested in Robotics because it's something that fascinates me and will have a great utility in future. For the future, I hope to develop technology so that people can live many more years, and I hope that I can do something for that. Something unique in me is the way that I can see the problems, I never give up of my dreams and I only stop when I can reach it.
Rúben Ferreira (Driver) – I'm new in the Robotics Club but I'm very interested because I know that this project can increase my programming knowledge. I hope that in my future I will be able to work at a hardware company or store and join a firefighter's station. In my spare times, I play video games and mostly listen to music. – I would like to FIRST Global know that I'm a shy boy but comical, and I love to experiment with new things.
Armando Rodrigues (Driver) – I'm interested in robotics because in addition to gaining knowledge for my classes, I have fun figuring things out. My hopes for the future are to be a robot designer. In my free time I like to listen to music or watch movies.
Núria Paulitos (Public Relations) and Catarina Sousa (Team Designer) – We've joined Robotics because it's fun. Our studies are a little different from this subject, but robotics fascinates us because it solves a lot of daily problems. Our dreams are to continue studying and start working in our areas.
In Portugal, we take energy very seriously. In 2001, the Portuguese government launched a new energy policy instrument, consisting of a set of multiple, diversified measures aimed at promoting a consistent, integrated approach to energy supply and demand. By promoting energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy (endogenous) sources, the programme sought to upgrade the competitiveness of the Portuguese economy and to modernize the country's social fabric, while preserving the environment by reducing gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide.
During February 2016, an equivalent to 95% of electricity consumed in Portugal was produced by renewable sources such as biomass, hydropower, wind power and solar power. A total of 4139 GWh was produced by these sources. In May 2016, all of Portugal's electricity was produced renewably for a period of over four days.
The sources of the renewable energy that was produced in Portugal in 2017 were Wind power with 21.6%, Hydro power with 13.3%, Bioenergy with 5.1%, Solar power with 1.6%, Geothermal energy with 0.4% and a small amount of Wave power in the Azores. 24% of the energy produced in the Azores is geothermal.
Portugal committed to close all of the country's coal producing facilities by 2030, making it almost completely reliant on renewable energy in the coming years.
For PTRobotis Team, this subject is very important and we respect it a lot, because what is at stake is the sustainability of our planet.


Bontrager's AW1 Hard-Case Tire is a great choice for riders who value flat protection, all-weather traction, and high-mileage durability. Its sub-tread puncture barrier keeps you rolling so you can concentrate on putting in the miles, and the bead-to-bead barrier protects you from sidewall cuts. This tire also sports a siped tread pattern for improved traction in wet or messy conditions.


Jamal Allen holds #1 positions in most career receptions and most receptions and yards in one season in his college Fort Lewis in Colorado. Recently he has played in a semi-pro team State Line Miners in Spokane,WA and is currently on top of the league in receptions and yards. The Trojans has always been a good passing team. After last season though they lost a number of receivers so Jamal Allen will bring a lot of credibility to the Trojans offence especially with the help of QB Chris Dapolito.


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French Club Hosts Film Festival en Français
FRENCH FILMS: "The Women of the 6th Floor" is the festival's first offering.
Danielle Nail, Staff Reporter
In an effort to promote French films and culture, the French club is hosting the first ever French Film Festival on campus.
French language instructor Denis Pra applied for a grant from the French embassy at the beginning of September to organize and pay for the festival. He was informed of the grant's approval at the end of October.
The French embassy only gave out 60 grants within the country and only three in California.
Pra said he has been working very closely with the French club to put on this event.
Marsha Sondakh, a second semester freshman, 20, and an International Development major, said the French Film Festival has been in the works for a few semesters.
"French club started last semester, Fall 2014," she said. "We decided to start French club to bring together both francophone and non-francophone students with an interest in the French language [and] culture," she said.
Pra said the grant is from the Tournees Film Festival. The goal of the foundation is to present French Films on campus.
"The grant is helping us pay for the copyrights," Pra said. "The movies are very expensive to show. This grant allows us to put this event on to the public for free."
When Pra accepted the grant, he agreed to specific requirements.
"We are required to have a professor from various departments introduce each film. In addition to campus employees, we also needed to have a professor from another campus introduce a film,'" he said.
Sondakh said the French club is also participating in an introduction.
Each film will be followed by a question and answer session with the professor who introduced the film.
The festival will also include a cooking demonstration by chef Andrew Feldman. Feldman said he will be preparing "Pate a choux avec creme patisserie," a pastry with custard filling.
Renaud's Patisserie & Bistro in La Canada will be providing a pastry tasting after the film presentations.
There will be a total of six movies presented. Five movies will be in French and one in Arabic, but they will all be presented with English subtitles.
"The French Film Festival is an effort to bring more awareness to the culture." Sondakh said.
The free event will take place on the weekends of March 27 and April 3.
"I hope this event goes well and I would love to see it become an annual thing," Pra said.
Kreider Hall (San Rafael 138) – Free Admission
2-4 p.m: The Women of the 6th Floor (2010) [102 min]
2-3:30 p.m: Monsieur Lazhar (2011) [94 min]
4-4:30 p.m: French Cooking Demonstration
4:30-5 p.m: pastry tasting from Renaud's Patisserie & Bistro
5-7 p.m: In the House (2012) [105 min]
2-3:30 p.m: Approved for Adoption (2012) [70 min]
2-3:30 p.m: Bay of Angels (1963) [90 min]
5-7 p.m: The Attack (2012) [102 min]
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Wow, she's kind of cute — wonder if she has a date for prom. Well she is sort of cute but she's beyond prom unless she's going as a parent chaperon. But wait, I'm way off point so let me get back on track.
Christine O'Donnell has a new campaign to help her shake the whole witch thing — you know, she tried it once in college. But what a creepy commercial. (You'll have to Google it because this is only a still from the clip.)
All the "I am You" nonsense aside, it seems like she got some bad advice. First of all, her handlers and marketing folks should have used a slightly different phrase, like "I am like you if you're a whacked out conservative intolerant of others different than yourself." Secondly, they should have asked permission from Illinois Methodist University to use their claim to IMU. And finally, they made a big mistake allowing her to wear a pearl necklace. (Or am I the only one that has picked up on that?)
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Results from the August 7 primary
Primary election day 2018 is in the books, with a huge turnout of voters across Oakland County renewing public transportation (SMART) millage, choosing party candidates to run for governor, congress and Oakland County and state House and Senate offices in November, and passing a Bloomfield Township safety path millage proposal. Voter turnout was higher than expected throughout the county, with Oakland County reporting a 32.74 percent turnout, much higher than the 20.61 percent countywide of registered voters in the 2014 primary election. The turnout left numerous precincts short on ballots – and clerks scrambling to find sample or absentee ballots to avoid leaving voters without the opportunity to exercise their right to vote. According to Bloomfield Township officials, precincts in Bloomfield Township, Birmingham, West Bloomfield, Farmington, Farmington Hills, Rochester Hills, Ferndale and Pontiac – and possibly others – were left without a sufficient number of ballots for primary voters. According to sources, Oakland County Clerk Director of Elections Joe Rozelle did not supply local clerks with the number of ballots each had requested. Local clerks said they have no control over how many ballots they are given. In the hotly-contested 11th Congressional District to replace retiring Rep. David Trott (R-Birmingham), Republican Lena Epstein is the presumed winner out of a pool of five Republican candidates. The sprawling district runs from the southwestern edge of Rochester Hills, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Troy, Clawson, West Bloomfield, the Oakland County lakes area and into western Wayne County. With Oakland County numbers in, and Wayne County's website down, Epstein received 28.92 percent of the vote, with challengers former state Rep. Rocky Raczkowski receiving 22.54 percent and state Sen. Mike Kowall receiving 22.30 percent, state Rep. Klint Kesto, 16.47 percent, and former Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, 9.67 percent of Oakland County votes. Calls to Epstein's campaign were not returned Tuesday night for comment. Facing Epstein in November will be Democrat Haley Stevens, who beat out four other Democrats for the nomination. With a majority of precincts in Oakland County reporting and having won Plymouth in Wayne County before the Wayne County website crashed, Stevens campaign was feeling good about the inclusive, districtwide campaign she had run in the primary. Stevens received 27.05 percent of the Oakland County vote, setting up a battle of the women in November. "It's clear that Haley's record as chief of staff to President Obama's Auto Rescue resonated with voters looking for someone who understands the Motor City economy. She stood up in a time of crisis and helped save 200,000 Michigan jobs and will step up again in Congress to help lower healthcare costs and grow our economy," said Jake Strassberger, spokesperson for the Haley Stevens campaign. In the Democrat primary, Auburn Hills-based state Rep. Tim Greimel brought in 24.13 percent of Oakland County's tally, while Suneel Gupta received 20.87 percent. Fayrouz Saad had 17.23 percent, and Nancy Skinner, just 10.56 percent. Congressman Mike Bishop of Rochester cruised back to the Republican nomination in the 8th Congressional District, fending off challenger Lokesh Kumar by a landslide, receiving 92 percent of the vote. "I am honored by the support of my fellow Michiganders. I look forward to discussing my record of helping families earn higher wages, protecting children, safeguarding the Great Lakes, and working to find common sense solutions to the challenges Michigan families face every day," said Bishop. Bishop will face Democrat Elissa Slotkin of Holly in November. Slotkin, a former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and intelligence officer who served three tours of duty in Iraq, prevailed over fellow Democrat Chris Smith, a Michigan State University professor, 71.8 percent to 28.2 percent. "I'm proud to have earned the votes of so many people today, and thankful to the amazing volunteers who came out to knock doors and make calls. Over the last year, I've heard one, clear message from Democrats, Republicans, and Independents across the district: Folks want new voices and a new generation in Washington who will be accountable to voters, not special interests," Slotkin said. "I will bring my mission-focused approach that I learned serving my country in the intelligence community and at the Pentagon to Congress, and I will fight for the issues that matter to people here. I'm a firm believer that you can't change Congress without changing who you send to Washington." Bloomfield Township Democrat Andy Levin is one step closer to filling his father Sandy Levin's shoes in Congress, after winning the Democratic primary for the 9th District. Levin prevailed over Ellen Lipton of Huntington Woods and Martin Brook of Bloomfield Hills. Lipton narrowly prevailed in Oakland County – winning 47.91 percent, or 18,639 votes, to Levin's 47.06 percent, for 18,309 votes. But Levin had a huge night in Macomb County, winning 56.1 percent, or 46,677, of the votes, to prevail over Lipton, who received 38.6 percent (19,506) of Macomb's vote. Brook received just 5 percent of the vote, or 4,637 votes. "I'm really happy. I'm excited and humbled to be chosen by the Democrats to be their candidate for Congress," Levin said. "I think our message of raising the standard of living of working people of the district really resonated with voters. We were really able to connect with voters." Looking at results across the Democratic spectrum Tuesday night, Levin said he doesn't want to just win elections for himself, but to build coalitions to help Democrats win across the board. He will face Republican Candius Stearns in November, who ran unopposed in the primary. The district is gerrymandered to favor Democrats, but Levin said he will "campaign like we're down 10 points in November." Bloomfield Hills Republican Mike McCready pulled out a narrow victory in the race for the Republican candidate for the 12th District State Senate Seat, winning by a 1.04 percent margin. McCready, who took a total of 12,512 votes on Tuesday, faced fellow Republicans Jim Tedder (12,224 votes), Terry Whitney (2,071 votes) and Vern Molnar (766 votes). McCready will advance to the November general election to face Democrat Rosemary Bayer, who ran unopposed in the primary. "I'm ecstatic. Absolutely ecstatic," McCready said on Tuesday night. "We knew it was going to be tight. We knew it was going to be razor thin. I'm really thankful for the people that supported me. It's just unbelievable." Both McCready and Tedder are currently serving their third, and final, terms, in the Michigan House of Representatives. McCready is consider a more moderate conservative compared to Tedder. McCready's win was also likely due in part to Whitney, a far-right conservative and also a resident of Clarkston, which assuredly syphoned off some 2,000 votes that would have gone to Tedder. "It did help having the third candidate," McCready said, in reference to Whitney. "We worked really hard. It was just outstanding." Birmingham Democrat Mari Manoogian will face off against fellow Birmingham resident and Republican candidate David Wolkinson in the November general election for the state's 40th House District seat held by outgoing Rep. Mike McCready (R-Birmingham), who is term-limited. Manoogian took 52.97 percent (8,877 votes) of the ballots cast, compared to Birmingham Democrat Nicole Bedi's 46.88 percent (7,856). "I'm so thrilled about the way our team performed over the past few weeks," Manoogian said. "We turned up door knocking to reach all the voters in our district. We knocked on over 16,500 doors and reached thousands of voters. I'm so incredibly proud. It's an honor to be the Democratic nominee." Democratic tickets cast in the race totaled 16,759, compared to 11,713 for all Republican candidates in the race, suggesting a strong possibility the seat is ripe to flip to the Democratic column. Wolkinson, who took the most Republican votes in the race with 3,359 (28.68 percent), was unavailable for comment on Tuesday night. Wolkinson's total was followed by Joe Zane with 2,345 votes (20.02 percent); Mike Banerian with 1,874 votes (16 percent); Malissa Bossardet with 1,826 votes (15.59 percent); Paul Taros with 1,175 votes (10.03 percent); and Paul Secrest with 1,108 votes (9.46 percent). In the 45th state House District, 9,144 votes were cast in the Democratic primary, with Kyle Cooper, a bartender and student, prevailing over retired physician Ted Golden. Cooper received 56.31 percent of the vote, with 5,149 votes, versus Golden's 43.3 percent and 3,959 votes. Cooper will now face current state Rep. Michael Webber (R ) in the November general election. "We realize we have a lot of work ahead of us," Cooper said Tuesday evening. "Rochester and Rochester Hills haven't been blue in a long time, but a lot of people want to help teachers and students. 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Chief of Bulgaria's Largest Customs Office Accused of Taking Bribe
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The chief of the Svilengrad Customs Office Todor Karaivanov, who was detained in a special operation on Wednesday, has been charged with taking a bribe.
The lawsuit has been allocated for investigation by the specialized unit on tackling corruption, which had been created between Sofia City's Prosecutor Office and the State Agency for National Security (DANS).
The operation of DANS continues at the moment and it is expected that further arrests are to be carried out, daily Dnevnik reports.
Karaivanov, who accepted two bribes on Wednesday, was arrested in the moment when he was handed the second sum of EUR 600.
After a search was carried out in his office, the authorities found BGN 600, the sum of the bribe he had taken earlier on Wednesday, as well another EUR 12 000.
Following a search in the home of Karaivanov, the authorities found BGN 6000 in his outer clothing and three sacks with customs documents (both originals and copies).
Searches have been carried out at the premises of Svilengrad Customs Office as well as in the homes of officials who are suspected in taking bribes.
The Customs Agency had not been informed of the operation.
A couple of days ago Karaivanov was awarded personally by the Customs Agency Director Vanyo Tanov for good service on the occasion of the International Customs Day.
Karaivanov was reinstated as the head of the Svilengrad Customs Office in November 2014.
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Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded to American, French women
Why we award the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is widely considered one of the most prestigious awards celebrating human achievement in peace, medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics.
STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to two researchers Wednesday for a gene-editing tool that has revolutionized science by providing a way to alter DNA, the code of life — technology already being used to try to cure a host of diseases and raise better crops and livestock.
Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer A. Doudna of the United States won for developing CRISPR-cas9, a very simple technique for cutting a gene at a specific spot, allowing scientists to operate on flaws that are the root cause of many diseases.
"There is enormous power in this genetic tool," said Claes Gustafsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.
More than 100 clinical trials are underway to study using CRISPR to treat inherited diseases, and "many are very promising," said Victor Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine.
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The work has also opened the door to some thorny ethical issues: When editing is done after birth, the alterations are confined to that person. Scientists fear misuse of CRISPR to make "designer babies" by altering eggs, embryos or sperm — changes that can pass to future generations.
Much of the world became aware of CRISPR in 2018, when Chinese scientist He Jiankui revealed he had helped make the world's first gene-edited babies, to try to engineer resistance to infection with the AIDS virus. His work was denounced as unsafe human experimentation, and he has been sentenced to prison in China.
In September, an international panel of experts issued a report saying it is too soon to try such experiments because the science isn't advanced enough to ensure safety.
"Being able to selectively edit genes means that you are playing God in a way," said American Chemistry Society President Luis Echegoyen, a chemistry professor at the University of Texas El Paso.
Dr. George Daley, dean of Harvard Medical School, said: "New technology often presents this dichotomy — there is immense potential for human benefit, especially for disease treatment, but also the risk of misapplication."
A screen shows French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and US professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, Jennifer Doudna. (Photo by HENRIK MONTGOMERY/TT NYHETSBYRÅN/AFP via Getty Images)
However, scientists universally praised the great potential that gene editing has for patients now.
"There's no aspect of biomedical research that hasn't been touched by CRISPR," which has been used to engineer better crops and to try to cure human diseases including sickle cell, HIV infection and inherited forms of blindness, said Dr. Kiran Musunuru, a genetics expert at the University of Pennsylvania who is researching it for heart disease.
Dr. Francis Collins, who led the drive to map the human genome, said the technology "has changed everything" about how to approach diseases with a genetic cause.
"You can draw a direct line from the success of the human genome project to the power of CRISPR-cas to make changes in the instruction book," said Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which helped fund Doudna's work.
It's the fourth time in the 119-year history of the prizes that a Nobel in the sciences was given exclusively to women.
Charpentier, the 51-year-old leader of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, said that while she considers herself first and foremost a scientist, "it's reflective of the fact that science becomes more modern and involves more female leaders."
"I do hope that it will remain and even develop more in this direction," she said, adding that it is "more cumbersome to be a woman in science than to be a man in science."
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Three times a woman has won a Nobel in the sciences by herself; this is the first time an all-female team won a science prize. In 1911, Marie Curie was the sole recipient of the chemistry award, as was Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1964. In 1983, Barbara McClintock won the Nobel in medicine.
The breakthrough research done by Charpentier and Doudna was published in 2012, making the discovery very recent compared with a lot of other Nobel-winning research, which is often honored only after decades have passed.
"My greatest hope is that it's used for good, to uncover new mysteries in biology and to benefit humankind," said Doudna, who is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, and is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports The Associated Press' Health and Science Department.
CRISPR has the potential to be used to engineer plants to store more carbon or to withstand extremes of climate change, giving researchers a chance to "address urgent problems humanity is facing," she said.
The Broad Institute, jointly run by Harvard and MIT, has been in a court fight with the Nobel winners over patents on CRISPR technology, and many other scientists did important work on it, but Doudna and Charpentier have been most consistently honored with prizes for turning it into an easily usable tool.
Feng Zhang, the Broad scientist most known for that work, made no comment on the awards, but the Broad's director, Eric Lander, messaged congratulations on Twitter to the winners. Another Broad gene editing scientist, David Liu, noted on Twitter that the winners' seminal research paper in 2012 has been cited more than 9,500 times, or about once every eight hours.
The Nobel comes with a gold medal and 10 million kronor (more than $1.1 million), courtesy of a bequest left more than a century ago by the prize's creator, Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
On Monday, the Nobel in medicine was awarded for the discovery of the liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus. Tuesday's prize in physics honored breakthroughs in understanding black holes. The prizes in literature, peace and economics will be awarded in the coming days.
Larson reported from Washington, Marchione from Milwaukee, and Keyton from Stockholm. Frank Jordans in Berlin and AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein in Kensington, Maryland, contributed to this report.
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import org.f1x.util.MutableByteSequence;

/**
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Berlin Quarterly's eighth issue opens with nonfiction by renowned Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat. In experiencing her own mother's death, Danticat interrogates private, public, and literary mourning, engaging the work of writers from Leo Tolstoy to Audre Lorde, and tragedies like 9/11 and the catastrophic Haitian earthquake in 2010.
This issue features three acclaimed poets. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill constructs mythical anthropology about merfolk who have come to live on land, as translated from the Irish by poet Paul Muldoon; Safiya Sinclairviscerally interrogates the violent history of her native Jamaica; and John Burnside revisits the theme of mourning in both verse and conversation with Daniel Lipara.
Gabriel Ventura guest curates a pair of Catalan short stories by Antònia Vicens and Lucia Pietrelli, which engage with femininity and desire in symbolic and lyrical prose.
In Solastagia, artist Marina Vitaglione personifies Venice, narrating the city's sinking into the sea in text as well as images, whose film have been degraded by exposure to seawater.
Alison Leslie Gold, a preeminent Holocaust writer, shares a personal letter reflecting on a lost friend.
In Berlin Quarterly's signature long form reportage, R. Teresa O'Connell returns to her native Calabria to interview the organizers of Liberi di Scegliere, a program that relocates children from Mafia families in an attempt to redirect their adulthoods. O'Connell situates the program in the context of Mafia Studies, an emerging academic field in psychology.