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KISS (The Replacement Lineup) - Discography
What is the Best KISS Album Of All Time with the Replacement Lineup?
Music From The Elder (1981)
Killers (1982)
Creatures Of The Night (1982)
Lick It Up (1983)
Animalize (1984)
Crazy Nights (1987)
Smashes, Thrashes & Hits (1988)
Hot In The Shade (1989)
Alive III (1993)
KISS Unplugged (1996)
Carnival Of Souls - The Finale Sessions (1997)
Sonic Boom (2009)
KISS Klassics (2009)
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It's not one of those lame ass, superficial type of interviews either. Paul's got stuff to say and he says it well.
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I've got the rocket and you want the ride..
a lot of what he said about the labels....was SO true.......they are STILL getting their money and now just screw the artists....not the fans/.
I'm watching this right now.
kid is in the tub
I do believe she is singing Beth right now. Smart kid that she is.
Paul should realize Paul sells art because he's Paul Stanley...it's not horrible work, but they wouldn't sell for more than a few hundred bucks if it wasn't him/....but people just kind of play the "we'll talk to Paul about his artwork...to get the real interview"
I actually think his art is pretty good in spite of the name attached to it.
Ack!!
ah they are talking about the level of CONSISTENCY KIss has delivered LIVE!
see **** the player haters!!!
I will say this. His work has improved.
he did a show in La Jolla about 6 years back...and it was really bad.
the stuff he's got around them during the interview is much improved....so you know for a self taught artist....it's getting better and better.
The people that are bashing KISS are the same people that think Lady Gaga is an original, an innovator. They don't know their history of what's come before. I've actually read comments where the slam Madonna for swiping from LG. F u c k i n g lame. So, I really don't listen to or take heart what any of these haters spew out.
great interview....thanks for sharing master Chip....I will for sure be watching that again.....very inspirational.
proud to be a small part of Paul's dream as a long time KISS fan......
Quote from: Chiprocks1 on October 11, 2011, 12:06:43 pm
KISS (Music From The Elder) 1981
Hahahaha. Still reading KISS: Behind The Mask and currently on the section detailing The Elder. Ace gives the album 2 Stars, Gene gives the album 2 Stars if it were a bad Genesis album and 0 Stars as a KISS album and Paul gives it a ? Stars. Yes, as in 'Question Mark'. Hahahaha. I know a certain person who will call the guys idiots for rating it so low.
I feel like an idiot for rating it so high!
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they just can't own that record....they are too close to the project.
I am not going to go on and on saying it's the best progressive concept record ever because it isn't.
I actually think dark light is a pretty crappy song....but the opening 3 or 4 tracks are awesome....and besides blackwell and dark light...I think the rest of the record is very well done.
so I'd still give it maybe 4 stars....4.2 possibly.
Man, I'd pay good money to see you go at it, one on one with Gene and Paul and trying to convince them about The Elder. It would certainly make for an awesome Reality TV Show!!!!!
hhahahaha
look now I think even they realize more than ever what they have on their hands.
I mean on that KISS cruise they played 2 or 3 songs off the Elder at that acoustic set.
it's just not rock and roll all nite and dr love.
they did Rush Caress of Steel instead.
they were still pretty good at it.
although it's a shame the guitar playing (soloing) wasn't off the Charts like Alex Lifeson was on COS/
Hey buddy, I hate to burst your bubble because I know how much you love the album, but that little bit they did on the cruise where Paul acts like he can't remember anything from The Elder, but that he will "try" to play something off the top of his head is a set-up. It's part of the show. Just search on YouTube and you will see the same bit over and over from multiple shows and it's always the same "two songs" and they always stop playing it at the same mark every time.
I'm beginning to think they like choreography a little too much.
It's just fascinating reading the book and Paul going on and on about how much he hates the album, but yet he wants to work it into the set for this little fun "off the cuff" jam session.
KISS Kruise - Just A Boy,I and Mr. Blackwell Medley
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Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.[1] His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy. Giraudoux's dominant theme is the relationship between man and woman—or in some cases, between man and some unattainable ideal.
Giraudoux was born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, where his father, Léger Giraudoux, worked for the Ministry of Transport. Giraudoux studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and upon graduation traveled extensively in Europe. After his return to France in 1910, he accepted a position with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. With the outbreak of World War I, he served with distinction and in 1915 became the first writer ever to be awarded the wartime Legion of Honour.[2]
He married in 1918 and in the subsequent inter-war period produced the majority of his writing. He first achieved literary success through his novels, notably Siegfried et le Limousin (1922) and Eglantine (1927).
Back in Paris again in the spring of 1926, Klaus Mann met René Crevel. On this trip, Mann also met Jean Cocteau ("The hours spent in his company assume in my recollection a savour both of burlesque show and magic ritual"), Eugene McCown, Pavel Tchelitchew, Julien Green, Jean Giraudoux and others.
An ongoing collaboration with actor and theater director Louis Jouvet, beginning in 1928 with Jouvet's radical streamlining of Siegfried for the stage, stimulated Giraudoux's writing.[3] But it is his plays that gained him international renown. He became well known in the English speaking world largely because of the award-winning adaptations of his plays by Christopher Fry (The Trojan War Will Not Take Place) and Maurice Valency (The Madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine, The Enchanted, The Apollo of Bellac).
Giraudoux served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal, a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.[4] In politics he was affiliated with the Radical Party, served in the cabinet of Édouard Herriot in 1932, and was appointed as Minister of Information by Édouard Daladier in 1939.[5][6]
He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris.[7]
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Pfc. Cory McKeel (left), and Spc. Landon Warner from the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division prepare for a night mission during operational testing of two new GPS navigation systems that could allow the Army to work in a degraded operational environment. (Photo by Mr. Nicholas Robertson, U.S. Army Operational Test Command)
Sgt. Jonathan Lechuga (left) from 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division and Sgt. Dalton Jordan from 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division load waypoints into their Nett Warrior device which receives positioning, navigation, and timing data from the Dismounted Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing System (DAPS) while taking part in an operational test. (Photo by Mr. Nicholas Robertson, U.S. Army Operational Test Command)
By Maj. Matthew Truax, Test Officer, Intelligence Electronic Warfare Test Directorate, U.S. Army Operational Test Command
FORT HUACHUCA, Arizona — Airborne Soldiers from Fort Campbell, Kentucky tested two new GPS navigation systems here that could allow the Army to better shoot, move and communicate in a GPS degraded environment.
Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment and 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division assessed the GPS solutions, called Dismounted Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing System (DAPS).
They conducted reconnaissance and fire missions in a variety of threat scenarios to understand the DAPS' performance in a realistic operational environment.
"The Soldiers played a significant role in helping the Army develop a replacement for the legacy Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR)," said Col. Dylan Randazzo, director of the Intelligence Electronic Warfare Test Directorate.
After several days of logging numerous miles during night operations across rough and varied terrain of the Huachuca Mountains, Randazzo said Soldiers provided critical feedback regarding the system's operational effectiveness and suitability.
Scenarios involved night vision goggles, nuclear, biological and chemical masks, Stryker infantry carrier vehicles, different rucksack configurations and inclement weather.
"In addition to highlighting system strengths and weaknesses," Randazzo said, "the Soldiers identified different techniques for better employment and suggestions for improvement."
DAPS is designed to support command and control by providing positioning, navigation, and timing to Nett Warrior and other networked command and control solutions.
About the Intelligence Electronic Warfare Test Directorate:
IEWTD executes independent operational testing of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); EW; biometrics (BM); and intelligence analysis systems to inform acquisition and fielding decisions for Army and select multiservice warfighting systems. Additionally, IEWTD provides threat and ISR simulation and instrumentation support for internal and external test events.
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For 200 miles, the action never stops!
Yes, Cannon does it again! After pretty much cornering the market on martial arts superstars during the 1980s (Chuck Norris, the American Ninja series) they set out to corner the market on the "elder statesmen" of action, first by signing Charles Bronson to an exclusive contract, then by signing veteran action icon (and former "F Troop" star) Forrest Tucker to star in the "Mad Max" inspired "Thunder Run".
Tucker plays Charlie Morrison, a retired trucker and former Korean War vet, who is trying (and pretty much failing) to make a go of a cobalt mine in his retirement. Desperate for money, he is approached by his old war friend George, now a successful independent contractor, to help lure a terrorist group (led by Alan Rachins, later of "Dharma and Greg") out of hiding by acting as "bait".
Charlie will be paid $250,000 to transport a shipment of plutonium through 200 miles of desert to a military base, with the terrorists waiting in ambush. But they soon find out the old man has a few tricks up his sleeve, including molatov cocktails, oversized stacks, a rig that can jump over trains (!) and, as Charlie explains after one head-scratching escape, "Spage Age Plastic, Son!".
Suffice to say, if watching one of Cannon's typical multi-racial terrorist groups (their makeup is similar to that of the "inner-city gang" in DEATH WISH 3) led by Dharma's dad (almost unrecognizable with the facial scar used to easily identify him as a "bad guy") and utilizing an arsenal of weapons including Volkswagen buggies with mounted heat-seeking missiles to attack Sergeant O'Rourke of "F Troop", "Thunder Run" is right up your alley!
Easily identifiable as a classic piece of 1980's cheese with its "twist" ending (think DEATH WISH 4 for a similar one), its synth-heavy soundtrack and its youthful sidekick, and with the added appeal of being Forrest Tucker's final theatrical release, "Thunder Run" developed a cult following with repeated cable showings on Showtime and The Movie Channel in the late 1980s.
Tucker is his usual solid self, some 45 years (!) after his debut as an action hero (1941's EMERGENCY LANDING) and he has an old pro to work with in John Ireland (later of Bronson's MESSENGER OF DEATH, also from Cannon). The stunt with a truck jumping a train is truly exciting, and the aforementioned VW's account for one of the truly memorable sights in 1980's action.
On the minus side, there are some lousy performances among the obviously inexperienced supporting cast, and it takes about half the film to get to the real action. Also, the low budget hurts at times.
But on the whole, another fond mid-1980s memory, courtesy of Cannon.
Forrest Tucker's final film; Dharma's TV dad as a bloodthirsty terrorist; terrorists driving VW buggies; a memorable stunt involving a train and a truck.
Low budget and some poor supporting performances.


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A rhetorical criticism of the campaign speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson : a thesis ...
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The 1952 Presidential campaign ushered into national prominence the Democratic nominee, Adlai Ewing Stevenson.
His sudden and dramatic emergence as an important factor in world politics was due in part to his unique oratory. Dynamic in style and content, his speeches commanded the rapt attention of the American people for three intense months during which he delivered over two hundred and fifty. Of interest and importance is the new insight into national problems that he gave to the American voter as a result of these orations.
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A typical unvented Trombe wall consists of a 4- to 16-in (10- to 41-cm)-thick, southfacing masonry wall with a dark, heat-absorbing material on the exterior surface and faced with a single or double layer of glass. The glass is placed from ¾ to 2 in. (2 to 5 cm) from the masonry wall to create a small airspace. Heat from sunlight passing through the glass is absorbed by the dark surface, stored in the wall, and conducted slowly inward through the masonry. High transmission glass maximizes solar gains to the masonry wall. As an architectural detail, patterned glass can limit the exterior visibility of the dark concrete wall without sacrificing transmissivity.
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During the Space Generation Advisory Council Event in Kuwait, SpaceWatch.Global Editor Chaitanya Gopal had the chance to sit down with Dr. Bassam Alfeeli, the Founder of Orbital Space, the first private company in the Middle East to provide access to space through CubeSat technology. Here, he talks about his ambitions for the company and his goal of building a space programme in Kuwait.
Dr. Bassam, it's a pleasure to have you. First of all, let's start with an introduction about yourself.
Well, thank you, Chaitanya, for giving me the opportunity for this interview.
Bassam Alfeeli; Credits: TEDxAlShuwaikh
I come from a science background. Since I was a kid, always been fascinated by space and it became my lifetime mission to be involved in space and hopefully be one of the founders of a space programme in Kuwait. I have dedicated my life to make this a reality and I have been working for almost now 10 years, since I completed my PhD, to somehow convince government officials to give us a chance to start a space programme. I have submitted several proposals, including to KFAS (Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences) and even to higher officials, the government and different entities, including KISR (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research), and even to His Highness the Emir. I literally went all the way to the top to try to get some attention. Unfortunately, this didn't happen so I decided to take a risk and start something by myself. I set up Orbital Space.
Orbital Space is a business but the initial intent is not to generate money and be profitable, but to be a platform for the people in Kuwait to create a community and build a critical mass to push for a space programme, quickly. The idea of Orbital Space is to build capacity as we go. Orbital Space does not have the required expertise to carry our a full range of space activities yet. However, the idea is to build a team from the ground up. And once we have the right team, then we can build our capabilities as we go.
The first step will be to build our own ground stations and that's what we're working on right now. We must be able to communicate with existing CubeSats on orbit. From there, we will start working on our own CubeSat project. Kuwait University have their own CubeSat project, and we wish them all the best. Our target would be the other private universities in Kuwait. I believe that they would be interested in participating in a pilot programme but they don't know how to approach it. Another potential client pool would be the large corporations in Kuwait, through their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) programmes. They might be interested in establishing a project for young people in Kuwait, as part of their CSR initiative, and Orbital Space can take the lead on that. Those are our current plans. Since we launched, back in August 2018, we've been receiving interest from local people and from the wider Gulf region. We have had people submitting their CVs, to join the team as volunteers. We can't afford to hire people yet, but we're at the stage of building the right team for space in Kuwait.
As I understand, this a step by step process to build a space sector in Kuwait. Why do you think space is important or should be important in Kuwait? And seeing the other countries in the region, why hasn't Kuwait had an organic push towards space too?
Different countries have different priorities.
The history of Kuwait, the wars, brought a lot of challenges to the Kuwaiti people. We also have a parliamentary system which sometimes cripples development. The priorities right now in Kuwait are based on the development of required infrastructure, to sustain the country. We have issues with roads, we have issues with electricity. For the government, setting up a space programme is not at the top of their priority list at this moment. However, I think it's very important. Space has been used in many countries and many societies as an inspiration for development. Space inspires the youth, especially, to drive them to pursue STEM careers or STEM education, and that will help contribute to the development of the country. It also it gives a sense of national pride, which is really needed in Kuwait right now. Our neighbouring countries are developing at a much faster rate than Kuwait. I believe that Kuwait is at point where we need to reinstate national pride again. So, I think it's very important that we pursue this route and that we should not be delayed.
It is unfortunate that government officials don't see it as a higher priority at this point. But I think otherwise, and this is why I decided to start Orbital Space, and to be the seed for the space program in Kuwait. In most nations, the space programme starts from the government level and then it grows into a sustainable programme, and drives the private sector to be part of it. An example of this is the UAE. It's a space programme that was put on steroids. It was a great example of how a government, if it has the will, can make very fast advancements and create success in such initiatives. However, we also want to prove that other ways are also possible. So, I'm attempting to prove that things can also start from private sector in an organic way. I don't expect it to develop at the same rate as the UAE approach. I think we will move slowly, but steadily and I think that, once we reach a critical mass, we will create that chain reaction that will help us grow faster. Once we create some success, then government will probably give us more attention. Then things will speed up.
You mentioned that space inspires the youth and innovation. How do you go about spreading the word? Is it through events? Is it through talks? What is on your agenda, in the next weeks?
Right now, we're focusing on social media. Orbital Space is on almost all social media channels. We try to promote what's happening within the space domain. We're also planning to work on our own events as well as participate in regional events. We participated in the latest Global Space Congress. We exhibited there, to make people aware of our existence, and it was very well received. We got a lot of visitors, especially from the UAE. We were lucky to have His Excellency Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid stopping by as well and we grabbed his attention. That was very exciting for us. He was also very encouraging. Even the UAE Space Agency and Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) were very supportive of what we're doing. They said: "Anything you need, please just let us know. And we will be by your side". We really appreciated this.
The naming of the ground station is very interesting. Back in the late 60s, specifically '69, Kuwait set up the first ground station in the region. Part of the reason for this was to receive signals from the Apollo programme so that they could transmit the images from the moon landings to the region. It was done through this ground station, which is called Um Al-Aish. It was an iconic landmark in Kuwait until 1990 as it was the main station that received all the satellite signals for Kuwait. A lot of people associate this name with space. As I was growing up, Um Al-Aish was an important place and I visited the station one time when I was a kid. It inspired me to pursue space. I therefore decided to call the new CubeSat ground station for Orbital Space "Um Al-Aish 4", continuing the legacy of Um Al-Aish 1, 2 and 3. We have received some signals from Nayif-1 and FUNcube which is a UK-based CubeSat, and also JY1-SAT which is a Jordanian CubeSat. We'd like to expand this ground station and even join a network of other ground stations so that we can be connected and share data with others or even give access to other CubeSat owners to this to this ground station if they want to send or receive signals. These are the things that we're trying to inspire people by – through storytelling and building a connection. People born in the 90s probably don't know much about space in Kuwait since Um Al-Aish was destroyed and never rebuilt. But we were hoping that maybe their parents and all our efforts, will bridge that connection. These are some of the things that we're trying to do to inspire people in Kuwait in outer space.
In a similar vein, how do you think Spacewatch.Global can help you inspire more people and bring the voice of Orbital Space, and the space community in Kuwait, to the world.
I think that you can help by making people aware of our activities, which I know are humble activities right now. However, talking about these activities, at the regional and even international level, will maybe draw some attention from from other more experienced entities such as national space agencies or even private entities, who would like to contribute to the development of space activities in Kuwait. We welcome that. Orbital Space would love to partner with international entities and try to be their footprint in Kuwait, where we can carry out activities for the local community and perhaps even provide some of the services to the to the local market, if there is a need for it.
My final question for you, and I can anticipate your answer to this but would love to hear it from you, what is your long-term goal?
My long-term goal is to have a space programme in Kuwait. I think we can make it happen.
We do have milestones that are set on our roadmap. The first task will be to make the ground station fully-operational, and provide services to others. Our plan is to create a portal where everybody can access the ground station at no cost. Owners of CubeSat from around the world can book a time to use the station to access the CubeSat as they pass over Kuwait. I know it's only a short pass, about 10-15 minutes, but at least it allows some time that they can use to gather data about orbital characteristics and also to send commands if needed. The next milestone is to design, build and launch a CubeSat. That would be a catalyst for others who have an ambition to build a CubeSat, whether its a group of students or maybe even an amateur. The goal is to make orbit and make space accessible to all.
Historically Kuwait has been land of ideas and entrepreneurs. The symbol of Kuwait is a ship. Hopefully someday, this ship can turn into a spaceship – that would be absolutely poetic and beautiful.
Yes, Inshallah.
Bio: Bassam Alfeeli is a Kuwaiti scientist with expertise in advanced technologies including nanotechnology, lasers & photonics, advanced nuclear reactors design, and space technologies. He is currently a Scientific Consultant and Program Manager within Innovation and Enterprise Directorate at the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS). Among his responsibilities at KFAS is organising science, technology, and innovation related learning programs that would provide local companies with tools & skills to improve business productivity and competitiveness.
Bassam holds Ph.D in MicroElctroMechanical Systems (MEMS) from Virginia Tech where he contributed to the development of micro gas analysis devices. He has served as scientist in the Nanotechnology program with the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, and program coordinator in the Kuwait National Nuclear Energy Committee. In 2012-2013, Bassam was a Fellow of the Kuwait-MIT Center for Natural Resources and the Environment. He has served as a visiting scientist at MIT Chemical Engineering Department, and was a visiting scientist at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan.
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Werner Liersch (* 23. September 1932 in Berlin; † 23. August 2014 ebenda) war ein deutscher Journalist, Schriftsteller und Literaturwissenschaftler.

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Werner Liersch wuchs in Berlin auf, wo er eine Ausbildung zum Werkzeugmacher absolvierte. Sein Studium der Germanistik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin von 1953 bis 1957 schloss er mit einem Diplom für Germanistik ab. Anschließend war er als Verlagslektor und Redakteur tätig. Von 1987 bis 1990 war er Mitglied der Jury des Ingeborg-Bachmann-Wettbewerbs in Klagenfurt. Von 1990 bis 1992 war er Chefredakteur der Zeitschrift neue deutsche literatur.

Werner Liersch war Verfasser von erzählerischen und biografischen Werken sowie von Radio-Features vorwiegend zu Themen aus der deutschen Literaturgeschichte; daneben war er als Herausgeber von Anthologien tätig.

Werner Liersch gehörte seit 1963 dem Schriftstellerverband der DDR und seit 1982 dem PEN-Zentrum der DDR an. Später war er Mitglied des Verbands Deutscher Schriftsteller und des PEN-Zentrums Deutschland.

Liersch setzte sich gemeinsam mit der Schriftstellerin Sabine Lange für die Aufarbeitung der Stasivergangenheit in der Hans-Fallada-Gesellschaft ein. 2004 gründeten sie zusammen mit anderen Fallada-Forschern das Internationale Fallada-Forum.

Im Juni 2008 machte er auf Ungereimtheiten in der Biografie von Erwin Strittmatter aufmerksam.

Liersch starb im August 2014 in seiner Berliner Wohnung an Altersschwäche.

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 1993: Alfred-Kerr-Preis

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Als Autor
 Hans Fallada. Sein großes kleines Leben; Biographie. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997, ISBN 3-499-13675-9 (Nachdr. d. Ausg. Berlin 1981).
 Die Liedermacher und die Niedermacher. Etwas Umgang mit Literatur. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle/Saale 1982.
 Dichters Ort. ein literarischer Reiseführer. 2. Aufl. Greifen-Verlag, Rudolstadt 1987, ISBN 3-7352-0092-3.
 Eine Tötung im Angesicht des Herrn Goethe. ein deutscher Reiseroman. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-355-00965-2.
 Eine schöne Liebe. Roman. Claassen, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-546-46089-8.
 Hans Fallada – damals bei uns zu Haus. Orte seines Lebens. Edition Libresso, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-546-00048-X (LiteraTours; 1).
 Ein gewisses Quantum Mumpitz. Anekdoten von Theodor Fontane. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-359-00953-3.
 Goethes Doppelgänger. Die geheime Geschichte des Dr. Riemer. Aufbau-Taschenbuchverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7466-1748-0.
 Lange Sekunde Erinnerung. Orts- & Zeitansichten. Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 1999, ISBN 3-928678-48-5.
 Das romantische Gebirge. Auf alten Wegen durch die Sächsische Schweiz. Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 2001, ISBN 3-928678-68-X.
 Dichterland Brandenburg. Literarische Streifzüge zwischen Havel und Oder. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-538-07199-3; erweiterte Neuausgabe: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942476-27-0; bearbeitete Neuausgabe, ebenda, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947215-17-1.
 Geschichten aus dem Antiquariat. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-936618-32-1.
 Fallada. Der Büchersammler, der Literaturkritiker, der Photographierte, der Mißbrauchte. Edition Individuell, Schöneiche bei Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935552-12-2.

Als Herausgeber
 Der Roman zwischen Klassik und kritischem Realismus. Texte aus zeitgenössischer Theorie und Kritik. Verlag Sprache und Literatur, Halle/Saale 1963.
 19 westdeutsche Erzähler. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1964 (Erkundungen).
 Die unmögliche Tatsache. Deutsche Poeten, heiter bis undsoweiter. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle/Saale 1967.
 Erfahrungen. Halle/Saale 1969 (zusammen mit Harald Korall).
 Stücke aus der BRD. Martin Luther & Thomas Münzer oder die Einführung der Buchhaltung. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Berlin 1976.
 Helmut Qualtinger: Im Prater blühn wieder die Bäume. Satiren. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1977.
 24 Erzähler aus der BRD und Westberlin Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1977 (Erkundungen).
 Günter de Bruyn: Prosa, Essay, Biographie. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle/Saale 1979.
 Willibald Alexis: Das Gelöbnis der drei Diebe. Kriminalfälle des Neuen Pitaval. Verlag das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1981.
 Fisch mit Parmesan. Rezepte aus dem Goethe-Haus. Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 1991, ISBN 3-928678-05-1.
 Willibald Alexis: Hexen, Räuber und Magister. Ein preußischer Pitaval. Verlag das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-359-00871-5.
 Die Kraft der Empfindlichkeit. Essays 1949 bis 1990. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-928660-97-7.

Als Übersetzer
 Alexandre Dumas: Tausend-und-ein Gespenst. Edition Reiher, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-910163-88-2.

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After a Black Friday Scare, At Home Stock Should Get Back on Track
Nicholas Jasinski
Jan. 29, 2019 8:00 am ET
Photograph Courtesy At Home
Sometimes all investors need is a bit of patience. At Home Group , an upstart big-box home goods and décor retailer, has an encouraging long-term trajectory and multiple promising opportunities—once it shakes off near-term frictions.
Barron's recommended $1.4 billion market cap At Home (ticker: HOME) last fall "Meet At Home Group, the Anti-Amazon.com," Oct. 27, 2018) after a broad market selloff provided an attractive entry point. Shares initially rallied, before a softer-than-expected start to the holiday shopping season sent skittish investors fleeing. At Home stock fell 30% in just three trading sessions in December, and has yet to regain its former highs.
The Plano, Texas-based company takes a value-focused fast fashion approach to home décor, operating out of massive supercenter-sized stores with row after row of indoor and outdoor products. The average item retails for less than $15, and the retailer works to keep its collection fresh: At any given time, up to 40% of At Home's 50,000 products have been available for less than a year.
At Home has grown sales more than 20% year-over-year in every quarter since going public in 2016, and its 180 current locations represent less than a third of CEO and Chairman Lee Bird's estimate of 600 store full penetration in the U.S. Thirty-four new locations are planned this year. At Home confirmed facts for this story but couldn't immediately provide comment.
When At Home reported quarterly earnings on Dec. 6–the third of its fiscal 2019 year, which ends on Jan. 31–the retailer beat Wall Street consensus estimates for earnings and revenue thanks to strong same-store sales growth and gross margin expansion. But the market focused on a different disclosure: Bird warned that sales "hit an air pocket" for two weeks in mid-November as competitors flooded the market with Black Friday promotions while At Home kept prices steady.
Traffic quickly rebounded, however, allowing At Home to reaffirm fiscal 2019 fourth-quarter guidance of 45 to 48 cents in earnings per share and close to 2% same-store sales growth at an investor event in mid-January. Full results will be published in late March.
Last week At Home also gave a preview of a transition year to come. While At Home expects its core business to continue growing sales at a strong rate in fiscal 2020, a few headwinds will hurt reported earnings.
Wall Street consensus calls for At Home's top line to grow 20.5%–including 3.1% from existing stores and 17.4% from new stores–to $1.4 billion in fiscal 2020. Earnings per share, meanwhile, are expected to fall 14.6% to $1.11, from $1.30 in the current year. Contracting earnings is not what you want to see from a growth retailer.
But as much as 45 cents a share of that decrease can be ascribed to costs not related to successfully selling home décor in its stores, according to company and analyst estimates. A coming change in accounting methodology adjusts the timing of certain costs associated with At Home's sale-leaseback strategy for its stores, and doesn't affect any cash flows. Another hit comes from expenses associated with the opening of At Home's second distribution center in Pennsylvania, which will double At Home's capacity for stores and reduce trucking miles to stores. Further headwinds include a higher interest rate and fewer tax deductions in fiscal 2020 than in 2019.
"I think investors are being a little bit shortsighted about these accounting changes and this distribution center expense," Jefferies analyst Jonathan Matuszewski tells Barron's. "The selloff recently has been ignoring the fact that this kind of growth happens over the course of five or so years. And while four out of five years you'll see that growth, there will be a year or so where they're going to have to make some investments to support it."
Meanwhile, opportunities are numerous. Beyond new-store openings, At Home continues to make existing stores more productive. One new initiative allows customers to view in-store inventory online to encourage them to make the trip. At Home is emphasizing selling items as part of collections rather than one-off transactions, and is pressing forward with efforts to directly source merchandise from suppliers–cutting out middlemen and expanding margins. Several new hires include industry veterans who bring experience to the business.
At 20.2 times future earnings per share, At Home trades at about 50% discount to other growth retailers, including Five Below (FIVE) or Ollie's Bargain Outlet Holdings (OLLI). Matuszewski has a Buy rating on At Home shares and a $33 price target, about 50% above their recent $21.70.
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12 Best Graphics Cards In 2020
There's one for almost any budget
Written by: Sydney Butler
Posted on: July 14th, 2020 in: Product Reviews
Graphics cards are an essential component if you want to run intense 3D applications or want better performance in applications that support GPU acceleration. There's a discrete graphics card for just about any budget, but many of them are poor choices, even compared against other graphics cards at exactly the same price.
We've scoured the listings and compiled a list of the best graphics cards for their intended purpose and price point. We'll start with the most budget-friendly cards and finish with GPUs that can make almost any wallet cry.
Better Than Integrated Graphics: Biostar Radeon RX 550 2GB – $82.99
Not everyone wants to use their GPU for gaming, but can still make use of a decent amount of GPU power. While integrated graphics in CPUs improve every year, there's no reason to stick with their relative lack of power in a desktop system.
If you're running off integrated graphics in a system with an older CPU, there's a good chance that, while your CPU is still good, the integrated graphics is really struggling with modern applications..
You might also be building a system with a high-end CPU, lacking any sort of integrated GPU whatsoever. In which case this RX 550 is also a great card to add premium general-purpose graphics performance to systems that aren't intended for gaming.
The Entry-level Gaming Choice: ZOTAC Gaming GeForce GTX 1650 OC 4GB – $149.99
In general, we can't recommend that someone buy a GPU with only 4GB of memory in 2020, but if you're looking for a ticket to basic PC gaming, the GTX 1650 is a major step up over integrated CPU graphics.
This model from Zotac is a compact, single-fan design at a very reasonable price. If you game at 1080p or lower resolutions and are happy with low-medium settings in modern games, then the GTX 1650 will give you highly-playable performance.
If you're a content creator who uses tools that can take advantage of Nvidia's "CUDA" acceleration feature, the 1650 can also provide a significant boost to them. It's a great all-round card that still provides a decent gaming experience in modern titles and an excellent experience for games further back in the PC catalog.
The Mainstream Gaming King : The MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 Super – $249.99
There are three models of the Nvidia GTX 1660 GPU: 1660,1660 Super and 1660Ti. The super is the newest model in the range and, despite having slightly fewer CUDA cores than the Ti, it gets within 3% of the more expensive card's performance in games.
With a factory-overclocked model such as this MSI unit, the difference is effectively nothing. Which means you can funnel the money you've saved to another component (such as the CPU or RAM) for more balanced performance.
If you're gaming at 1080p and don't care about ray tracing, then the 1660 Super is as close to the best graphics card as you'll get. It should play most contemporary games at 60 frames per second at medium to high settings. Most often that's with all in-game settings on high, depending on the title.
The MSI version of the card is also one of the coolest and quietest versions, which is why we are recommending this one in particular. If you use other software that takes advantage of GPU acceleration (such as video editors), the 1660 Super will also give them a significant boost. It really is a sweetheart graphics card.
The Ray-tracing Taste Tester: MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB – $449.99
The RTX 2060 is a pretty decent graphics card, giving raw performance in line with the GTX 1080, which was the flagship launch card from the previous generation. That's already a big leap, but Nvidia has followed up that card with the RTX 2060 Super. A card that approaches the RTX 2070 card in performance, but at a significant price cut.
This is probably the best all-round mid-upper tier card. It will handle anything you can throw at it for 1080p gaming. It will also handle 1440p gaming at 60fps, with perhaps a few cuts here and there. However, what really sets the RTX 2060 Super apart if it's inclusion of special technology. Like other RTX cards, the 2060 Super has dedicated ray-tracing hardware as well as dedicated deep learning hardware.
It has enough RTX cores to let you experience the core advantages of ray tracing, while still maintaining playable frame rates. You also get access to technology such as Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) which can give a serious boost to high-resolution gaming by using AI to reconstruct lower-resolution rendering to the native resolution of your screen. If these sound like exciting technologies to you and this is the limit of your budget, the 2060 Super is an excellent graphics card.
The Compact Assassin: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Mini ITX OC – $388.81
If you want to build a small form-factor computer either to save space on your desk or as a pseudo-console installed under your TV, then finding a graphics card that will fit those cases can be hard.
This Gigabyte graphics card squeezes the punchy RTX 2060 into a tiny mini-ITX friendly form-factor. The 2060 is a killer 1920×1080 resolution card in modern titles and will handle 1080p ultra-wide and 1440p resolutions with little complaint, though you might need to snip a few in-game settings down a notch or two.
Of course, there are more powerful cards available in this physical size, but we think this 2060 card hits the sweet spot of price and performance in this relatively niche graphics card segment.
The 1440p Choice: XFX RX 5700 XT Triple Dissipation 8GB – $379.99
If you don't care about ray tracing or machine-learning based features such as DLSS, and just want raw performance, this is your graphics card. The 5700XT performs about the same as a 2060 Super, but consistently sells for a lower price.
If your budget is tight and the RTX features don't matter, then saving $50 on your GPU can allow you to upgrade another component instead. AMD might not be doing too well in the current graphics card lineup, but the RX 5700XT does have a comfortable spot in the market.
The High-end Value King: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 Super XC – $600
When the RTX line of graphics cards first launched, the RTX 2080 was the flagship model, at a flagship price. The eye-watering number of dollars you had to part with was only softened by the fact that the 2080 was really the first viable native 4K GPU on the market.
While the launch price was officially $699, in reality these cards were changing hands for much more. Even today you'll see used 2080s on sale for $1000, though it's doubtful anyone is paying that price.
One of the reasons no one pays that premium is that the RTX 2070 Super comes within 2-3% of the 2080's performance. However, unlike the 2080, there's no shortage of this more mature silicon. You can actually get one for $700 or less. As with the EVGA version of the card, there are great factory overclocks on offer.
On its own, the 2070 Super is an amazing graphics card, but it's worth hunting for one on sale, because it's market price is perilously close to that of the next card on our list.
The Extreme Performance Value King: EVGA RTX 2080 Super – $719.99
Coming in at about 12-16% more performance than the stock RTX 2070 Super, the 2080 Super is a hard deal to pass up, considering that it's only about $50 more than the 2070 when looking at market prices. It seems like a good deal, paying about 7% more for 12% more performance.
However, keep in mind that the RTX 2070 can be bought in smaller physical sizes, and it's generally quieter and cooler as well. It also needs a power supply with 50-100 more watts of output. So if you need to upgrade your PSU or case to make space for the 2080 Super, the 2070 Super is almost certainly the better choice.
If your PSU and case are already up to it, then the 2080 Super makes more sense, but this is only true if you don't have to upgrade other components to accommodate it.
The King of Gaming Cards: Asus ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2080TI Overclocked – $1500
The RTX 2080 Ti is the undisputed king of gaming graphics cards. It pulls far enough ahead of the 2080 Super to justify its price. If you want to play games at a native 4K resolution with the details dialed up, it's really the only viable card at a "sensible" price. That being said, the raw performance figures for the 2080 Ti look about as good as the upcoming Xbox Series X system.
On the one hand this means a 2080Ti should future-proof your system for baseline, next-generation cross-platform games. On the other hand, we'd recommend waiting for 30-series Nvidia cards at this point, since their more mid-range fare is likely to match the 2080Ti when the new graphics cards release.
Entry-level Professional Power: PNY NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 – $889.99
The Quadro series of cards are not meant for gaming (though of course they can) but instead are meant for professional workstation applications. So while the RTX 4000 performs about as well as a 2060 Super, it's priced like an RTX 2080 Super.
What are you paying for? Quadro cards are tested and certified with professional applications such as Photoshop, Premiere Pro, 3D modelling software, CAD and so on. If your GPU-based work is mission critical and downtime will cost you money, then a Quadro card is the right choice. The name of the game is stability, reliability and accuracy. The RTX 4000 is the lowest-end Quadro card we'd recommend anyone buy.
Quadro in Disguise: The Titan RTX (Reference Model) – $2499.99
If you want to own the single fastest single-GPU solution that exists at the time of writing, then the RTX Titan is literally, objectively, the only choice.
At a staggering $2499 the RTX Titan is the extreme opposite of an impulse purchase. It's also a card we absolutely do not recommend for anyone who is looking for a gaming solution. If you want the ultimate video game card, go with the RTX 2080 Ti.
If, on the other hand, you're looking for a cheap professional workstation card, this might be a good alternative. With a whopping 24GB of RAM, oodles of machine learning grunt and all the latest RTX features, it's an "affordable" way to get workstation-grade performance for both graphical and general-purpose GPU tasks.
The caveat is that you don't get the Nvidia-backed Quadro certification, support, or drivers. If you want to spend this much money on a gaming system, just buy two 2080 Ti cards and hook them up for truly insane performance.
The Ultimate Professional Card: PNY Quadro RTX 8000 48 GB – $5500
The RTX 4000 is the entry-level to professional graphics, but the RTX 8000 is the pinnacle of the range. At a whopping five grand, this is strictly suitable for use cases where the card will pay for itself.
High-end workstations that are creating the next CG Hollywood blockbuster, sophisticated computer simulations and cutting edge artificial intelligence projects all fit this description. The truth is, everyone who needs one of these cards already knows about it. Still, it's always fun for us mere mortals to gawk at something as special as this.
These 12 cards each represent, in our opinion, a "best" product for their intended purpose. Which doesn't always help you make the right choice for your own needs.
So if you're still confused about which are the best graphics card to buy, head on over to our article on how to choose a graphics card. Hopefully we've managed to narrow down the list of choices just a little, to make your decision easier.
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Micki Jeans is a CT technologist and works for Ballad Health of Tennessee. Up until October 31, that is, when she will resign. She gave two weeks' notice directly to Alan Levine, executive chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Ballad Health.
In her nine-page letter of resignation, Jeans gave her reasons: Levine sold out, and in good conscience and as a Christian, she can't work for him anymore:
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rayvet October 26, 2021 at 11:52 AM
Sorry, Micki Jeans used way too many religious references in her argument for pointing out the douchebagery of this guy. Being a veteran, she should only have had to argue for the rights we are endowed with in this country in order to make her point. Religion muddies the water on things like this.
bogsidebunny October 26, 2021 at 12:26 PM
Words whether spoken or written to a Liberal are about as effective as tossing marshmallows at a charging elephant. But at least it made her feel better.
I disagree. This nation was founded on freedom of religion and she has every right and duty to speak her mind. Her snippets of her letter were very well written. I love the fact that she called out her boss that is a so-called Christian. There are way too many of wishy washy Christians put there that don't have the faith and balls to actually fight for what is right. Kind of like RINOS that are spineless POS^s. Kudos to her and I hope there are many more just like her. Hybo
Jerry Darrel October 26, 2021 at 1:53 PM
I respectfully disagree Rayvet. I see religious conviction downplayed and apologized for when it shouldn't be. Too a person of faith, it matters deeply when someone uses that faith as a shield for misdeeds. A yardstick of some kind has to be used and a person of faith uses their conviction as such. In my opinion, it's just as valid as any other opinion.
The target of the missive claimed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. If true, hitting him at the religious level was a good and solid tactic.
Frankly, when a pro-abortionist politician (Pelosi, Biden, etc) claim to be good Catholics, the correct answer is to excommunicate them for violating a pretty central tenant of the Catholic faith. Sure, it won't mean anything to a non-Catholic, but in theory it should to the Catholic.
So, in this case, hitting a person claiming to not only be a Christian, but one that has a personal relationship with Christ, about the head and shoulders with how they are violating their own faith is a very good tactic.
She was simply stating her rationale and beliefs which is if I'm not mistaken, is number one of those rights that you referenced. God bless her and more power to her and others...we sorely need more on our side just like her. FYI, I would have just told that sellout bastard to fuck off and die!
Fa Cube Itches October 27, 2021 at 1:14 AM
"Frankly, when a pro-abortionist politician (Pelosi, Biden, etc) claim to be good Catholics, the correct answer is to excommunicate them for violating a pretty central tenant of the Catholic faith."
Sorry, but The Church doesn't believe in any of that evil Xtianist bullshit, either. Communism, Gaia worship, Islam fellating and kiddie diddling - now THAT's a religion!
- Pope "Red" Francis
Bob October 26, 2021 at 1:16 PM
What bogside said
"Alan Levine" doesn't sound like a Christian name...
That's okay, he's not acting like one either. Given that he's solidly inside the Bible Belt, it would make sense that he claimed to be not only a Christian, but one with a personal relationship to Christ, even if he was a Satan worshiper (no, I don't know what his actual religion is -- but claiming "Christian" in that area of the country is a good maneuver).
This is much like in the 1970s, Jimmy Carter claimed to be a God-fearing baptist. For those that didn't follow along, the former president left his church because of politics. Jimmy Carter valued his politics more than his church; he valued his party more than his God. Some of us thought he was a hypocritical S.O.B. back when he was running in '76.
LargeMarge October 26, 2021 at 1:49 PM
That right there is the problem:
* Acting all reasonable, confronting insanity with rational.
TheHive has zero-zero-zero interest in your reasons for resisting assimilation.
Swrichmond October 27, 2021 at 6:24 AM
Precisely correct
Maureen October 26, 2021 at 3:33 PM
She calls out hospitals and medical groups pushing the dangerous, deadly and evil jabs FOR MONEY! Doctors and hospitals who signed the contracts for these nanobot kill shots agreed to push the jabs and agreed to not treat patients with safer, inexpensive, proven effective, life-saving medicine! IOW: they are complicit in the deaths and suffering. They violated their oath to do no harm FOR MONEY and to spare their licenses=practice.
Pigpen51 October 26, 2021 at 5:13 PM
I am a Christian, who is more devoted to God than I express. But I don't make a big deal out of it, usually. Unless someone asks, I don't us it as a stick to beat someone over the head. But I am always ready to tell someone about God, if they ask.
The thing is, this hospital administer has shown by the way he lives his life that he either is not a Christian, or that he has some kind of trouble in his heart, that is causing him to struggle with how he lives his life. But we must remember that living a good, decent life is but one thing that can sometimes show that a Christian does to show that they are changed by having Christ as part of his life.
I think that this woman did a good thing, in writing this letter to him, if for no other reason than to help herself process what she is going through. But it might also help her former boss rethink his whole style of leading the hospital, and of treating people. That is the hope, and what her goal should be in writing this letter.
Chadd October 26, 2021 at 10:48 PM
And it's exactly what both the Lord and the apostle Paul told us to do with fellow Christians who have failed to do what's right.
Bert October 26, 2021 at 9:39 PM
Micki would be smart not to get into a life boat with that clown if there is only one life preserver on board.
Check The Facts October 27, 2021 at 3:47 PM
She's not real. Do 2 minutes of research on Google or anything else. The letter was written by someone trying to influence us
wirecutter October 27, 2021 at 5:17 PM
So why didn't you provide us with the research that you did if you think she's not real?
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Martin Schaffner was a German painter whose work combines late Gothic elements with other, characteristically Renaissance ones. He travelled to Augsburg where he studied the work of Hans Holbein the Elder and Hans Burgkmair as well as Dürer's prints. Schaffner was a noted designer of medals that depicted members of the aristocracy of his native city of Ulm. He also produced altarpieces, such as the Wettenhausen Altarpiece, which is considered his masterpiece, and portraits, of which only a few have survived. The present panel depicts a man in three-quarter profile, his body outlined against the dark blue-green background that shades to a lighter tone towards the bottom. The pale flesh tones of the face are striking, as is the contrast between the background and the dark clothing. It seems that this name was assigned without any documentary basis as the mathematician Peter Appianus, hypothesis rejected in 1969 by Christian Salm. Nevertheless, according to the latest research, the painting appears to have been part of a double portrait together with that of A Lady in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The female sitter in the painting in the American museum has been identified as Katharina Gessler (née Gienger) by the historian Jens Kremb, who believes that the subject of the Thyssen painting could be her first husband Sebastian Gessler.
Martin Schaffner, an artist associated with the city of Ulm, developed a style that combined late Gothic formulas with Renaissance elements. Little is known of his early years and the date of his birth is known from an annotation by the artist on one of his drawings. In 1496 he is documented in the workshop of Jörg Stocker in Ulm, and around 1500 in Augsburg where he trained with Hans Holbein the Elder.Most of Schaffner's oeuvre comprised altarpieces and he was significantly affected by the Reformation. Like many other artists, this situation led him to rethink his output and he subsequently placed greater emphasis on portraiture.
This small panel was in the collection of Count Josef von Rechberg and is then recorded in the collection of Prince Oettingen- Wallerstein where it appears in two inventories of 1817/1818 and 1819, described as by the school of Schaffner. In 1828 it was in the castle in Nuremberg in the possession of Louis I of Bavaria. In 1911 it was in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and in 1929 in Berlin with the Hugo Perls gallery. It was acquired that year for the Rohoncz collection.
This person was identified in early catalogues of the Collection from 1930 onwards as the mathematician Peter Appianus, with a question mark after the name. It seems that this name was assigned without any documentary basis, and therefore in 1969 Christian Salm published it simply as Portrait of a Man. The Thyssen painting appears to be the companion piece to the Portrait of a Lady in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, whom the historian Jens Kremb has identified as Katharina Gessler (née Gienger) and, accordingly, the subject of this painting as her first husband Sebastian Gessler.
The coat-of-arms in blue and white on the sitter's right index finger remains unidentified but both his appearance and clothing suggest a member of the aristocracy or wealthy bourgeoisie. The figure is depicted in slightly more than threequarters profile against a graduated green-blue background which is almost black at the upper edge. The head is strikingly pale in tonality, allowing the artist to create a face with precisely modeled details but without an excess of detail, clearly defining the outline of the nose and the wide, thin-lipped mouth. Areas of underdrawing are evident to the naked eye in zones such as the left side of the forehead, the eye sockets and the neck. The sitter is plainly dressed apart from the broad fur collar of the coat while he wears a type of hat fashionable in the early 16th century.
With regard to its date, this oil on panel has been compared to two others: Count Wolfgang I von Oettingen in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, of 1508, which is the earliest portrait attributed to Schaffner, and another of 1516 of Eitel Besserer, a member of a patrician family in Ulm, now in the Museum in Ulm. Lübbeke considered the present work to be closer to the portrait of Besserer and to a group of panels with scenes of the Passion in the Staatsgalerie in Augsburg.


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The upshot of these exciting developments is that now it doesn't really matter if the doctor and patient are not able to be in the same room – telemedicine technology such as the system utilized in Florida is changing the healthcare industry, bringing what we only ever imagined to be feasible long into the future to fruition today.


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US now urges face masks to stop virus spread
President Donald Trump on Friday recommended that Americans cover their faces with masks when outdoors, a policy U-turn following growing scientific research suggesting their widespread use can stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Trump told a White House briefing that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was urging people to wear face coverings like scarves or homemade cloth masks, but to keep medical-grade masks available for health workers.
"It's going to be really a voluntary thing," he underlined. "You don't have to do it and I'm choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it and that's okay."
The about-face was widely expected after senior health officials told reporters the scientific evidence had evolved.
Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Anthony Fauci, head of infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, cited "recent information that the virus can actually be spread even when people just speak as opposed to coughing and sneezing."
Days earlier, the CDC's Robert Redfield said up to a quarter of people who are infected may be asymptomatic.
Taken together, the developments represent powerful arguments in favor of the widespread use of facial coverings.
Previously, the advice was that masks should only be used by sick people and their caregivers.
The new recommendations are in line with those made by France's National Academy of Medicine on Friday, and by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio a day earlier.
The city has seen almost 1,000 of the US's nearly 7,000 deaths.
But the message was undermined by the fact that none of the officials present at Friday's briefing were following it.
Trump said he would not be wearing one "as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don't know, it somehow, I don't see it for myself."
Breathing and speaking
Fauci's comments about the virus's spread via breathing came after the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) sent a letter to the White House on April 1 summarizing recent research on the subject.
It said that though research isn't yet conclusive, "the results of available studies are consistent with aerosolization of virus from normal breathing."
Until now, US health agencies have said the primary pathway of transmission is respiratory droplets, about one millimeter in diameter, expelled by sick people when they sneeze or cough.
These quickly fall to the ground around a meter away.
But if the virus can be suspended in the ultrafine mist people expel when exhaling – in other words, an aerosol – it becomes much harder to prevent its spread.
The aerosol debate
A recent NIH-funded study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could become an aerosol and remain airborne for up to three hours.
The paper received widespread attention even as critics said the findings were overblown because researchers had used a medical device called a nebulizer to deliberately create a viral mist, something they argued would not occur naturally.
The NAS letter pointed to preliminary research by the University of Nebraska Medical Center that found the genetic code of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, its RNA, in hard-to-reach areas of patients' isolation rooms.
The NAS scientists also cited two other studies – both not yet peer reviewed – from Hong Kong and mainland China.
The Hong Kong researchers had some patients with coronavirus and other viral respiratory illnesses wear masks, while other patients in the study didn't cover their faces.
They found fewer droplets and aerosols from coronavirus patients who wore masks.
The Chinese paper raised concerns that personal protective gear used by health workers could be a source of airborne virus.
The team studied hospitals in Wuhan and found two major areas where the virus was aerosolized: patient bathrooms and rooms where medical staff removed protective gear.
This may be because doffing protective gear causes particles to get re-suspended in the air. Even if these particles are not of breathable size, they could settle on people's hands and bodies, the NAS panel said.
So far, the World Health Organization has been more cautious on the airborne threat.
In an analysis published on March 29, it wrote that aerosol transmission was only known to occur during particular medical treatments that required assisted breathing.
– AFP
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