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«Кровь в бассейне» — неофициальное название матча по водному поло между сборными СССР и Венгрии, прошедшего на Олимпийских играх в Мельбурне 6 декабря 1956 года.

Матч состоялся менее чем через месяц после подавления советскими войсками Венгерского восстания 1956 года, и обстановка перед матчем была накалена до предела. Своё название в СМИ матч получил благодаря обошедшим мир кадрам, на которых игрок сборной Венгрии Эрвин Задор выходит из воды с сильным рассечением брови, полученным в борьбе с советскими ватерполистами. Зрителям казалось, что кровь течёт прямо из его глаза. Эти кадры были восприняты многими современниками событий как символическая отсылка к событиям, имевшим место в Венгрии во время восстания.

Предыстория
Побеждённая в 1945 году Венгрия находилась под советским контролем; 23 октября 1956 года демонстрация студентов Будапештского технологического и экономического университета переросла в восстание против просоветского правительства. С 1 ноября шла переброска советских войск в Венгрию, а с 4 по 10 ноября войска начали подавлять восстание с помощью воздушных ударов, артиллерийских обстрелов и действий танков, поддержанных десантниками.

В то время венгерская команда по водному поло находилась в тренировочном лагере в горах над Будапештом. Они могли слышать выстрелы и видеть, как поднимается дым. Игроки были действующими олимпийскими чемпионами; после двух месяцев летних Олимпийских игр в Мельбурне они были отправлены в Чехословакию. Игроки узнали об истинных масштабах восстания и последующих репрессиях только после прибытия в Австралию, и все они были обеспокоены новостями о друзьях и семье.

К началу Олимпиады восстание было подавлено, и многие игроки увидели в Олимпиаде способ спасти гордость за страну. «Мы чувствовали, что играем не только для себя, но и для всей нашей страны», — сказал Задор после матча. Матч проходил перед политизированной публикой, поддерживавшейся венграми-экспатриантами (многие из которых были на боксерской арене раньше, чтобы увидеть венгерского Ласло Паппа), а также австралийцами и американцами (в то время обе страны были противниками СССР в холодной войне).

События матча
Перед началом игры венгры разработали стратегию насмешек над русскими, чей язык они изучали в школе. По словам Эрвина Задора: «Мы решили попытаться разозлить русских, чтобы отвлечь их».

Игра шла в бескомпромиссной борьбе с обилием фолов и обоюдных ударов. В какой-то момент был зафиксирован удар, нанесенный венгерским капитаном Дежё Дьярмати. За несколько минут до конца матча сборная Венгрии выигрывала со счетом 4:0, причём два гола из четырёх были забиты Задором. В этот момент игрок сборной СССР Валентин Прокопов нанёс Эрвину Задору удар кулаком и рассёк кожу над правым глазом, что вызвало обильное кровотечение.  Когда Задор вышел из воды, его кровотечение привело зрителей в исступление: некоторые выбежали к бассейну и начали скандировать антисоветские лозунги и плевать в воду. В происходящее вмешалась полиция и восстановила порядок у бассейна. Однако матч был остановлен и сборной СССР было засчитано поражение в связи с тем, что на момент остановки игры сборная Венгрии вела в счёте. Позже венгры выиграли финальный поединок у сборной Югославии со счетом 2:1 и стали олимпийскими чемпионами.

Взаимное ожесточение описывает и Пётр Мшвениерадзе, которого венгерский нападающий Дежё  Дьярмати дважды сильно ударил в лицо:

 Я погнался тогда за своим обидчиком, если бы поймал, задушил бы и утопил, но он успел уплыть… После этой игры не сомневался, что нас ждет та же участь, которая постигла футбольную сборную СССР после Олимпиады 1952 года, но вопреки всем предположениям, я даже получил звание заслуженного мастера спорта.

Сразу же после окончания Олимпийских игр больше половины игроков сборной Венгрии, принимавших участие в Олимпийском турнире, попросили политического убежища на Западе: 100 венгерских спортсменов решили не возвращаться после Олимпиады на родину.

В мае 2002 года жившие на тот момент игроки сборных Венгрии и СССР встретились в Монреале, где принесли друг другу извинения за недостойное поведение.

См. также
 Неистовство свободы
 Водное поло на летних Олимпийских играх 1956

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Летние Олимпийские игры 1956
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Скандалы и конфликты на Олимпийских играх и вокруг них
Венгерское восстание 1956 года


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Q: The import com.google.android.maps.OverlayController cannot be resolved I need some help here. I am actually following the
http://www.anddev.org/google_driving_directions_-_mapview_overlayed-t826.html
tutorial for learning the Driving direction on google maps but the following libraries I cant import
   com.google.android.maps.OverlayController;
   com.google.googlenav;
   com.google.googlenav;

The are giving the errors. The direction by eclipse is The import com.google.android.maps.OverlayController cannot be resolved
I have set the Google Api emulator (means not using general emulator) and also included
<uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps" />

in the Menifest (Application) tab

A: Umm, that example is from 2008. It's really old and obsolete. The most recent documentation regarding Google Maps can be found here:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/
Google Maps is part of the Google Play SDK and it's really easy to integrate Google Maps into your own app.
If you take a look at the comments to the forum post you linked to you'll see that people in more recent posts have problems getting this to work since the API has changed. I guess the correct way to implement it using the current Google Maps API is to use the Google Maps Directions API: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/directions/ to get the directions from point A to B and then create an overlay using with some kind of poly line.
I think you'll find a bunch of related questions on SO if you do a search.

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Mister Miracle #9 (Jul.-Aug., 1972)
Posted on May 7 by Alan Stewart
In March, 1972, the lead story of Mister Miracle #8 had ended with a "Coming!" blurb promising that the very next issue would introduce readers to a "lovable old rascal" named Himon — billed not only as the man who'd mentored the series' titular hero in his craft of escape artistry, but as an updated take on the character Fagin from Charles Dickens' 1838 novel Oliver Twist. With Ron Moody's Oscar-nominated performance as Fagin in the 1968 film adaptation of the musical Oliver! still relatively fresh in the pop-cultural memory, readers might have been forgiven for expecting Mister Miracle #9 to be something of a romp — a tale one might read while listening to the movie soundtrack's renditions of "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" or "I'd Do Anything" playing in the background.
On the other hand, readers who'd been following the "Young Scott Free" back-up feature in the last few issues of Mister Miracle might suspect that such a level of jauntiness would be incongruous (to say the least) in the context of our hero's upbringing on the hell-planet of Apokolips. But even those readers might not be prepared for the reality of "Himon!" — probably the darkest and most brutal episode of Jack Kirby's Fourth World epic yet to appear, although one that still ends on a strong note of optimism and hope.
The splash page of "The Pact!" in New Gods #7 (your humble blogger's all-time favorite comic book, for anyone coming in late) had included a blurb explaining: "From time to time — this kind of segment will supplement the larger tapestry of the New Gods." That "segment", set in the time of the "Great Clash" between Apokolips and New Genesis, had explained how, years ago, Scott Free — the son of the New Genesis leader Izaya, or Highfather — had been exchanged with Orion, the son of Darkseid, to establish a truce between the two warring god-worlds. A similar blurb on the splash page of "Himon!" serves notice that this story is the second in the series of "segments" inaugurated by "The Pact!" — in other words, it's a prequel to the main ongoing storyline that we've been following since Mister Miracle #1; one that we can expect to fill in the gaps in our knowledge of our hero's background in very significant ways.
More than any other location on Apokolips, the slum area of Armagetto epitomizes the qualities ascribed by critic Charles Hatfield to the planet as a whole: "…a blotted, smoking, industrialized hell that makes mythology out of the author's [i.e., Kirby's] formative experiences, fusing Lower East Side squalor with visions of a thumping, jackbooted, Nazi-like technocracy."*
It's the story's first moment of stark, shocking violence, as the ironically titled "protector", "Wonderful" Willik, abruptly orders the summary execution by incineration of the "lowlies" who've just professed their complete allegiance to Darkseid and disdain for the "vermin" Himon. And what makes the violence even more appalling is its utter pointlessness; it doesn't even achieve its only real objective, as we learn at the top of the next page:
Page 6 is the "second splash", on which Kirby typically banners the name of the comic's featured stars (having already highlighted the story's title on the initial splash page). In any other issue's lead story, we'd see "Mister Miracle" boldly emblazoned where here we see "Young Scott Free!" Kirby is signalling that in addition to being a companion piece to "The Pact!", this story is also another episode (the last, as it turns out) of the "Young Scott Free" feature that had previously appeared as a 2 to 4-page backup in Mister Miracle #5, 6, and 7.
Whence comes Himon? As we've already discussed, Kirby points to Dickens' Fagin as his inspiration for the character; and, over the decades, many readers have also come to see this "ultimate escape-artist" as a stand-in for the creator himself. But there's at least one other model for Himon, at least visually; Kirby is known to have based his physical features on those of the founder of the San Diego Comic-Con, Shel Dorf (seen with Kirby himself in the photo shown at right).
Having just witnessed a group of people brutally murdered for no other reason than to flush him out, Himon already seems to have shrugged the whole thing off. Is he really that callous? Or is it simply that this sort of incident has happened so many times before that he's come to realize that lingering on it serves no useful purpose?
This scene of Himon and his "heroes" is where the inspiration of Oliver Twist is most readily apparent. Like Dickens' Fagin, Himon provides a haven for youths involved in criminal activities. But where Fagin's mentoring and sheltering of his gang of child pickpockets was ultimately self-serving, intended to enrich himself, Himon's teaching and encouragement of his "gang" as they explore areas of imagination and invention forbidden by Darkseid doesn't seem to have any selfish motive attached at all.
Several of the names of Himon's young "heroes" — Kreetin, Bravo, Weldun — also have a pronounced Dickensian flair (as of course do many other names of characters throughout Kirby's Fourth World). "Kreetin" may be the weakest of these, as it's simultaneously too on the nose (being a homophone of a word with specifically negative connotations) and misleading (the name's homophone indicates stupidity, and whatever else he may be, Kreetin is obviously not stupid.)
It's interesting to me that none of the Female Furies that we glimpse in this scene are identifiable as any of the "A" team of Furies we readers first met in issue #6 — Bernadeth, Stompa, etc.. Did Kirby think that including them would pull too much focus from the other characters, or did he have other reasons?
As the mob turns its full attention to Himon, Kreetin slinks away…
The morally ambivalent New God Metron had already appeared in the first two episodes of "Young Scott Free", in scenes that strongly implied that he — not Himon — was the first to reach out to Scott to encourage him to seek a different path from the one laid out for him by Darkseid.
But it's just as the promotional blurb at the end of Mister Miracle #8's lead story promised: "They kill him here! They kill him there! The hunters kill him everywhere! — but he always turns up alive!!" Darkseid's subordinates dissolve him, blow him up, drop him from enormous heights, and still…
Kirby doesn't say so, but I think we can assume that the "replicas"spoken of in the last panel above are similar, if not identical, to the "Followers" we've earlier seen in Mister Miracle #2 (and will see again in Forever People #10, out in June, 1972).
Kirby describes the location for this scene as "a gutted slag heap" — but there's still something irreducibly grand, even Olympian about it, as these two New Gods — the "master of theories" and the "master of elements" have their (literal) summit meeting. When the Kirby Krackle of cosmic energy coruscates from Himon and Metron's clasped hands, we have a sense of more going on than meets the eye — of a significance to this simple action that we mere mortals can't quite comprehend. In its mysteriousness, the scene reminds me of Lightray's final preparations of the "Glory Boat" (especially as regards the disposition of the body of Richard Sheridan) in New Gods #6.
There are aspects of the scene that are comprehensible, of course, and they're at least as important as are the mysteries. For one, we learn in this scene that Metron — whom we've understood from earlier stories, especially "The Pact!", to be the inventor of much of the technology used by both Apokolips and New Genesis — would never have been able to accomplish his prodigious feats of engineering without Himon's imagination and vision. (By the same token, the gods' handclasp can be taken as implying that Himon, who's "eternally grounded" on Apokolips, needs Metron to be able to see his dreams made real; the two of them are thus dependent on each other.) For another, Himon reveals that he considers himself responsible for Darkseid's rise to power; it's strongly implied that he could escape, but won't, as long as Darkseid rules Apokolips: "I fostered Darkseid's power! I must be here — at its end!"
One of the revelations of "The Pact!" was that Darkseid always intended for Scott to one day attempt to escape. In the earlier story, the impression was given that Scott's act in and of itself would justify Darkseid's declaring his pact with Highfather broken, which in turn would allow the war between Apokolips and New Genesis to resume in earnest. Here, however, Metron's dialogue seems to imply that Darkseid means to kill Scott when he makes his break for freedom, and that that's the act which will end the fragile peace. It's all a little murkier than it ideally should be, to be honest.
Kreetin's unfortunate end could probably be predicted by most readers; but the abrupt, perfunctory quality of his killing is likely to startle many of them, all the same. Still, there's worse yet to come, as we'll begin to discover with the very next panel:
Kirby refrains from visually depicting the undoubtedly pain-contorted face of the deceased Auralie, leaving that grim work up to our own imaginations.
The explosive disposition of Willik is about as close as Kirby gets in "Himon!" to giving us the satisfaction of seeing good trump evil — and its blunt presentation, while darkly humorous in its own way, is far from the dramatically choreographed action that usually accompanies such moments in a Jack Kirby production. Call it one more signpost to let readers know that the King of Comics has a lot more on his mind than conventional superheroic thrills this time around.
"I found the X-Element and pioneered the Boom Tube!" Readers first learned of the X-Element in New Gods #7, in a scene where Darkseid, not yet the supreme ruler of his world, showed it (in the form of a small metal block) to his fellow high-ranking Apokolipticans over dinner. At that time, he allowed that he had come across this new scientific discovery while spending "time with our technicians!!" We now understand that Himon was one of those "technicians", probably their leader.
As in its companion story "The Pact!", in "Himon!" the critical moment of decision — of choosing a new way forward — must ultimately involve the Source, though here on Darkseid's Apokolips it must make its presence known to Scott in a more subtle way — through the glowing of the Mother Box on Himon's arm — than it did years before on New Genesis to Scott's father, Izaya the Inheritor, when it wrote upon a wall in words of fire.
It's obviously important to Kirby that readers not miss any of this scene's references to "The Pact!" Here, he directs us to the very page of that story in which we first saw Scott's mother, Avia, say the lines beginning with "You know, Izaya…" to his father; though how Scott appears to have a memory of that conversation, at which he wasn't actually present (at least as far as we know) must remain a mystery.
The transition from the last scene to this new one — the final one of the story, as it happens — is jarring in its abruptness. Perhaps Kirby's intent was for the reader to feel a sense of disorientation, but one has to wonder if the writer-artist simply miscalculated how many pages he needed to finish his story — despite the fact that, at 26 pages, it'll still be coming in at 2 pages more than afforded most stories in DC's new 20-cent/32-page format; pages made available only because Kirby is foregoeing the book's usual two-page letters column this issue.
For all his determination, Scott soon finds himself boxed in between Darkseid's infantry and his "dog-cavalry". Things are looking grim…
Scott and Barda race for Armagetto through a junkyard of ruined old vehicles, hoping that the wreckage will give them cover; but then, danger comes from the air above them, in the form of "inferno-bolts"…
If Metron's words back on page 18 are to be taken literally, Darkseid's original plan was for Scott to die attempting to escape. But now, if we take Darkseid himself literally, he's ready not only to allow Scott to reach Earth alive — but is even interested in having him stay, to become fully a creature of Apokolips, even though that would presumably mean that the truce between Apokolips and New Genesis would remain in place.
We've now arrived at the final page of our story, and here, we'll take a brief detour to take a look at that page's first two panels in an earlier form that what ultimately appeared in Mister Miracle #9.
In the 35th issue of The Jack Kirby Collector (Spring, 2002), readers were given the opportunity to view a great deal of Kirby's original pencilled (and scripted) artwork for "Himon!" For the most part, what was on view was merely a rawer, pre-color version of the story as published. But in the two-panel sequence that opens page 26, there's evidence that someone — presumably the writer-artist himself — had second thoughts about the dialogue of all three characters within, prior to embellisher Mike Royer's inking and lettering of the final product.
First, here's the original version:
Kirby's pencilled-in word balloons are somewhat difficult to read, so here's a transcription:
Panel one:
DARKSEID: The young fool goes on. He struggles to rise! If he stays with you Himon — I shall kill him when I finally kill you!
HIMON: I still welcome him! He may live with death — but know the universe!
Panel two:
SCOTT: Let me be Scott Free – and first know myself!
Now let's compare that with the final, published version:
I don't think that there's any question that the revised version is much better. Not only is Himon's encouragement of Scott to leave Apokolips more consistent with his earlier words and deeds than was the first take's "welcome", but the repetition of the word "find" in all three characters' dialogue connects Scott's ultimate declaration of self-determination to the words not only of his two father-figures here present, but also of his true, absent father, whose own moment of life-changing decision in "The Pact!" was accompanied by the words, "I must find Izaya!!"
When one reads about Kirby's working methods, it's easy to come to the conclusion that he generally operated in the moment, with both story and imagery flowing from his mind directly to the page through his swiftly-moving pencil, without much advance preparation or later reflection. Here, however, we can see that Kirby was quite capable of reviewing and refining what he'd done when it really mattered.
Both the rough and finished versions of the page follow that two-panel sequence with the wordless panel of Scott hurling himself into the Boom Tube — though the published version has the additional enhancement of the thicker panel borders added by Royer at the inking stage, which subtly give the image greater weight. It's a device that the embellisher uses sparingly, but to good effect, throughout this entire issue, as well as in several other Kirby comics published around this same time.
The story ends with the prophecy of Darkseid's final showdown with his son Orion in Armagetto. That's a story that Kirby would eventually tell, though not until the 1985 graphic novel The Hunger Dogs — and when he did, Himon would play a major role. It's an indication of the high significance he accorded the character — a character whose one and only appearance in Kirby's original, unfinished Fourth World opus of 1970-72 would be in the story we've just finished looking at.
For the Fourth World was rapidly nearing its end — something that Kirby may well have suspected was in the offing when he created "Himon!" in early 1972, even if he didn't actually know for certain it was about to happen. The bottom-of-the-page blurb announcing the next issue's story — "Mister Miracle — To Be!" — would prove to be prescient — sadly so, as Mister Miracle #10 found Scott, Big Barda, and their Female Fury allies going up against an altogether Earth-bound menace: the "Earth Protective League", under the leadership of the "Head". As a follow-up to a story that had furthered and deepened the Fourth World mythos as much as "Himon!" had, this tale, completely free as it was of any connection to the New Genesis-Apokolips war, was inevitably a disappointment.
Still, it might have been taken simply for a brief respite from the larger storyline, especially when the very next issue brought Doctor Bedlam — the only one of Mister Miracle's hometown foes who hadn't turned up for the "return to Apokolips" storyline of issues #7 and #8 — back for a rematch. Even with its fellow Fourth World titles Forever People and New Gods having seen their eleventh and final issues published the previous month, Mister Miracle #11 gave fans of the project like my younger self hope that the Fourth World saga would continue, even if in a severely diminished format. Surely, if nothing else, we'd at least see the missing piece of Scott's history filled in — the story of what happened to him between his empty-handed flight through a Boom Tube to Earth at the end of MM #9, and his showing up at Thaddeus Brown's place at the beginning of issue #1, carrying a carpet-bag full of "tricks" that he said represented his "inheritance… Things left with a foundling by parties unknown!"
But issue #11 turned out to be the last one that referenced the hero's New Godly heritage at all, at least until the very end of the series' run. In the issues that followed it, Kirby would focus on the "super escape artist" aspect of Mister Miracle to the exclusion of everything else that had made the series compelling, as the hero and his companions took on one disposable villain after another. Along the way, Scott Free and Big Barda, and even the Female Furies, were reduced to oddball characters whose otherworldly origins were hardly ever alluded to; even Mother Box was demoted to mere "circuitry" hidden inside Mister Miracle's headgear. All that might have been enough, if that's all the Mister Miracle title had been from the very beginning; but an awareness of the larger universe from which the feature had been severed made it impossible to accept this lesser iteration; at least, it did for your humble blogger. I quit buying Mister Miracle during this time, and didn't come back until the very last issue, #18, in November, 1973.
That comic, which at the time of its publication gave every appearance of being Jack Kirby's final, formal farewell to his Fourth World, is regrettably flawed — but still pretty special, for all that. Special enough for its own blog post, for sure — which it'll get, eighteen months from now. I hope to see you then.
*Charles Hatfield, Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby (University Press of Mississippi, 2012), p. 218.
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Eric · May 7
After finally reading the collected Fourth World stories (and why have they been allowed to go out of print?) I was struck that Himon was such a major figure. Seems like he's never in any continuations or adaptations…
Alan Stewart · May 7
He's appeared more frequently than I realized — check out this checklist of pre-"New 52" appearances — but probably not nearly as often as a number of other characters. I wonder if some creators have been reluctant to utilize him simply because Kirby actually killed him off in "The Hunger Dogs".
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Himon_(New_Earth)/Appearances
Tom Brevoort · May 7
A contentious opinion, I know, but I've always ranked Himon above The Pact as the best of Kirby's Fourth World stories. Some of that is simply taste, but I feel that Himon contains a greater number of unshakable images and lines of dialogue than pretty much any other New Gods-related story.
DontheArtistformerlyknownasfrodo628 · May 7
It may just be the way you edited the story here, Alan, but it really seems like Kirby could see the writing on the wall and wanted to cram in as much of the backstory as he could because he knew he probably wouldn't have the chance to come back to it. I would've liked to have seen the scenes where Willik and company try to kill HImon get more room to breathe and properly tell the story of what happened there.
As for the "change" after Mister Miracle #11 when the book became a much more streamlined, uncomplicated affair: in other words, more like the rest of DC's stable of titles at the time, I imagine that was an editorial decision from over Jack's head. Carmine or someone looked at the sales figures and told Jack that the Fourth World books were too complicated and too hard for kids to understand and that he had to water future issues down in order to improve sales. Did Jack ever address this change, Alan? Anyone? Did he ever mention why he so emasculated the character and stripped him of the depth of his backstory after taking such pains to establish it? It's a shame. Jack was crashing through so many characters at this point in the Fourth World books, trying to get as much out as he could, you have to wonder what he could have accomplished if he'd had more time and more pages to lay the full story out for us to read and give it the layers it deserved.
I don't think that Kirby ever specifically addressed Mister Miracle's change in direction (if he did, it's not referenced in John Morrow's Old Gods & New, and that book is pretty comprehensive). I've always assumed that the change was dictated by Carmine Infantino, but I suppose it's possible that Kirby himself decided that without the other two legs of the tripod (Forever People and New Gods) there was no way to move his larger story forward, and thus no real point in referencing those aspects of his MM characters. Mark Evanier is quoted in the Morrow book as saying that following the cancellations of FP and NG, Kirby felt that every issue of MM could be the last; if so, that would surely have affected how he approached the series.
frednotfaith2 · May 7
Kirby was trapped in the system as it was back then, as he was financially dependent on the big comics publishers of the day and wasn't willing to risk independent publishing, even if it would have meant that he would outright own the characters he created. Of course, there was the example of the underground publishers, and the likes of Robert Crumb in the 1960s, but I'd guess due to family obligations, Kirby wanted to play it safe, working for a well-established firm after the business he'd founded with Joe Simon had gone under in the 1950s. By the early 1980s, there was also the examples of Dave Sim and the Pinis as independent publishers and eventually Kirby would work for one of the smaller firms that allowed him ownership of his creations. But by then he was also making much more money in animation than he'd ever gotten in the comics industry. Also hard to say what the difference in value of a character like Darkseid would be as part of the DC universe rather than as part of an independent Kirby-verse.
Still, I'd think if Kirby had started his Fourth World saga circa 1983 independently, it likely would have earned enough for Kirby to keep it going long enough to tell the main story he wanted to tell and then maybe have successor artists and writers keep it going. Still lots of maybes as to how successful it might have been. But in the early 1970s? Far too financially risky. And even if Kirby could foresee the future in 1970, he certainly wouldn't have wanted to wait that long to do something with the ideas percolating in his head.
As to this particular issue, yep, very dark indeed, with mass murder and even the vengeful assassination of Willik — none of that somehow having him be responsible for his own death, as with the original Baron (or Dr.) Zemo in Avengers #15. I wonder if the CCA might have any quibbles with any of that just a few years earlier, in a situation where in an unjust society under Darksied's "law", it was perfectly "legal" for Willik to kill dozens of people simply to try to weed out a suspect, as well as to execute others for association with the suspect, but illegal for that suspect to kill Willik in retaliation for the murders he had committed. That brings up the nasty little detail that just because something is the "law" of the land, doesn't mean it is just or in any way morally right. Too much to bring to the attention of little kids who just might happen to read these sort of stories. Also notable for the use of replicas as Kirby had also done in the very first S.H.I.E.L.D. story, with the Life Model Decoys, since been used quite a bit at Marvel. I have no idea if DC had any widely used equivalent at the time.
Joe S. Walker · May 7
Contentious opinion it may be, but I agree that "Himon" is the high point of the Fourth World. It's a pity Kirby didn't do a series set on Apokolips.
"You keep a pelt – and forever lose a Mother Box!" is one of my favourite lines of Kirby dialogue. Perhaps Himon simply got hold of Kreetin too late.
crustymud · May 7
Y'know, I can't find any sources at the moment, but I know I read somewhere that "Himon" was originally slotted for Mister Miracle #10 and then bumped up to #9 when Kirby got word that New Gods and Forever People were to be cancelled. So yes, I'm fairly certain that Kirby got some notice from DC/Carmine before it all ended.
From John Morrow's "Old Gods & New", p. 111: "As he finished drawing Mister Miracle #8 in late 1971, Jack switched gears, setting aside the story he'd originally planned for Mister Miracle #9. There are visible signs of erasures on the pencil stats of the final panel of #8 … indicating Jack changed the "next issue" blurb at the last minute because of that. But Evanier and Sherman weren't aware of that switch when they wrote a different description of what Jack planned next in #8's letter column…"
The lettercol description Morrow refers to mentions Bernadeth and the Female Furies coming after Big Barda again — which isn't a story that ever got told, apparently, as it's all nice-nice between the gals in every MM story after #8. Still, the note describes #10's contents better than it does #9's, so…
Spirit of 64 · May 7
Crustymud, I recall reading that too somewhere.
Otherwise I also recall Himon featuring prominently in the Englehart-Rogers revival of MM, this time with Kirby features.
brucesfl · May 8
Thanks again for another insightful review. Of course I do remember reading this issue of Mister Miracle and I find myself agreeing with other comments that in some ways this story is even more memorable than "The Pact." I remembered that Auralie had died and that was the catalyst for Barda helping Scott escape…but I had not remembered that Willik had killed all the other pupils of Himon introduced in this story. That was very shocking and disturbing. There are many disturbing images in this story that seem to be direct reminders of the Holocaust and Willik certainly seems to be written like a Nazi officer. Kirby is at hits toughest and most uncompromising in this story. What also fascinates me is that although Darkseid's presence permeates the entire story he does not appear until the last two pages. While his statement to Scott to stay seems inconsistent with his desires, something occurred to me about that. Darkseid is portrayed by Kirby as a master manipulator. Was his statement to Scott intended to goad Scott into leaving? I don't know, but it seems likely. Regarding Mister Miracle 10 (The Mister Miracle To Be), according to the Jack Kirby Collector (sorry to say I can't recall which issue) the contents of that issue were supposed to be something different, possibly the transitional story of Scott Free before MM No. 1. In fact, the title of MM 10 (The Mister Miracle To Be) was a mistake, and if you notice that title has nothing to do with the story in MM 10. In another interesting bit of trivia, Jack actually did 2 covers of MM 10. The other cover is out there and you can find it if you look for it..it's from a slightly different perspective. The printed cover is better, but it's not clear why the other one wasn't used. I'm guessing either Jack or Carmine rejected it. During this time, I went through a period where I stopped buying a lot of comics, and MM 10 was my last issue. I came across MM 18 many years later at a comic convention but before then had no idea what happened to Mister Miracle. But was Mister Miracle even slightly more commercially viable than Kirby's other books? He did manage to team up with Batman in Brave and Bold in the 70s. I guess we'll never really know. And although we know why Barda helped Scott in MM 9, why did she suddenly appear to help Scott in MM 4? I guess that is another story that Kirby never got to tell. Barda was certainly a welcome addition to this book. Thanks Alan.
You're welcome, brucesfl — and thanks for the additional details on "The Mister Miracle To Be".
maxreadscomics · May 10
Another Amazing Article, Alan! I have the "Old Gods and New" book, but have yet to find time to read it, as I merely a squirrel-brained, no-account, easily-distracted so-and-so (got plenty of hyphens, though! maybe I should call myself "Hy-Phon?"). I'm glad I took the time to read this post, as I am always amazed by your powers of recall and the character of your critiques! As for the un-epic end to the era of Miracles, it's something I'll always hold against DC's leadership of the time. The Fourth World books weren't selling as badly as some in those offices claimed, I hear…
jmhanzo · May 11
I'll need to read this lengthy article tomorrow (and am eager to do so), but I just want to say it's a shame that Kirby couldn't do a trilogy — we saw The Pact and we saw Mister Miracle grow up on Apokalips, but I'd love to see a companion issue where we see Orion growing up on New Genesis.
Alas, what could have been had this been allowed to continue another year or two, much less indefinitely.
Fred Key · May 12
Terrific story and a great job. I always wondered how Scot had escaped Apokalips. I wish it had been a little more Great Escape and a little less fight, but that's Kirby. Unfortunately for me, the name Himon irks me. I just hear Grandpa Al Lewis calling his son-in-law. "Hoimin, where are ya?"
John · June 14
>"Hoimin, where are ya?"
Thanks for the chuckle, Fred
Ben Herman: In My Not So Humble Opinion · June 18
Hi, Alan. Excellent recap & analysis, as always.
A very unsettling thought occurred to me while reading this blog post. I am surprised that it never occurred to me before, because I have read this story several times. Maybe now it's hitting so much closer to home:
Darkseid's forces whip the downtrodden masses into a frenzy, getting them to attack Himon, a man who actually wants to improve the lives of the "Lowlies." This really reminded me of how the Republicans and Fox News have spent the last two decades telling rural working-class white Americans that their true enemies are the Democrats & liberals who are trying to give the country universal health care and protect the quality of our air & water and increase wages & working conditions and curb the epidemic of gun violence that has claimed the lives of so many innocents and all sorts of other policies & proposals that would actually help America.
I realize that Jack Kirby was undoubtedly thinking of Hitler & the Nazis when he wrote this story, of how they convinced the masses of Germany that it was the Jews and the gays and the gypsies and the trade unions who were their true enemy, giving the masses easily-identifiable scapegoats on which to blame the complex, difficult-to-solve crises of the 1930s. But this is just as applicable to what has been going on for some time in 21st Century America. And seeing how the oppressed masses' blind, fervent worship of their oppressor Darkseid, their willingness to even die for him upon command, definitely parallels the Rural America's cult-like blind devotion to Trump and the rabid veneration of the greedy billionaires & corporations who hoard wealth & oppress workers who are the actual architects of so many of America's problems.
To quote Mark Twain, history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Alan Stewart · June 18
A sobering analysis, Ben — but very much on the money, I'm afraid.
frednotfaith2 · June 19
Our current political situation, as well as those of many other nations, is becoming ever more disturbing. Perhaps not as dire as things may have felt to anyone paying attention to global politics in early 1914 or early 1939 but still bad. Kirby himself was born during the first major conflagration and served in the army during the 2nd and much worse global conflict. I hope that sufficient reason will prevail such that we or the young generation of today don't have to live through another round of totalitarian psychopaths attempting to impose their will on hundreds of millions of people, slaughtering anyone they deem an enemy or simply "unworthy" despite having caused no harm to anyone. In June 1939, I don't think anyone could have imagined just how horrific the Nazis would prove themselves to be. By June 1945, Kirby was among those who saw first hand how terrible they were and although his trade was creating escapist fantasy, it still impacted much of his work over the remaining decades of his life.
frasersherman · 5 Days Ago
Glorious Godfrey's revival meeting in Forever People 3 has similar effect on me — "Tell us how our pride has been dragged in the dust! It's the work of those who do not belong here — who do not love the country like we do!" (not an exact quote but that's the gist)
I didn't want my comments to run too long, so I'm splitting them in two.
"You showed Scott the way to me… and I can teach him to escape Apokolips! But I can't give him the resolve! Only Scott can renounce what he has here!"
I understand this so much better now. You can present people with all the facts & evidence & truths that you have available, but you can't make them listen; it has to be their own decision to think for themselves & act in their own best interests rather than mindlessly following propaganda & living as virtual slaves. We've discovered that fact the herd way over the last several years.
It's so odd that Kirby compared Himon to Fagin. I guess it was a quick way to draw an easily-understood parallel, but the actual Fagin in Oliver Twist was very much a villain, a greedy miser who exploited children, as well as an anti-Semitic stereotype, so much so that an embarrassed, frequently-critiqued Charles Dickens finally felt compelled in later years to revise his novel in an attempt to make it less offensive. Kirby was very invested in his Jewish heritage — Himon's Motherbox on his shoulder and the straps on his arm are very evocative of the tefillin in Jewish religion — so it's strange that Kirby would compare, even superficially, one of the most benevolent figures of the Fourth World mythos to one of the most reviled depictions of Jews in 19th century literature.
This is the first time I ever heard of Shel Dorff being the inspiration for Himon's appearance. Interesting factoid.
Anyone else see the parallels to a looming Darkseid, hand outstretched to a helpless Scott Free, attempting to tempt the youth over to his side, with the scene from The Empire Strikes Back just eight years later when Darth Vader, hand outstretched, similarly attempts to turn a helpless Luke Skywalker to the dark side of the Force? George Lucas obviously drew on A LOT of influences when creating the Star Wars movies, but one of the least-acknowledged ones has to be the works of Jack Kirby. Empire also has the scene where Han & Leia arrive in Cloud City to find a menacing Vader waiting for them at the head of the dinner table, which is very much like that scene from Fantastic Four #87 where Sue & Crystal find Doctor Doom waiting for them at the head of the dinner table.
Anyway, while I still feel that "The Pact" is probably Kirby's finest hour, "Himon" runs a very close second.
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Darkseid's "Stay warrior" is an odd moment indeed — I wonder if the thought of corrupting and crushing such a strong spirit was a temptation Big D couldn't resist?
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This last weekend while visiting my sweet two grandaunts I made a discovery: my granduncle Walter was a scrapbooker. I knew for long that my love for photographs and stories is set in our family – they all used to photograph a lot and my granduncle even had his own dark room in the cellar of their apartment house. My aunt Waltraud gave me a book that my Uncle Walter made – it is a book about our family history, the family tree, all the birth and marriage certificates copied and inserted, some snippets of magazines. It is a treasure! It made me cry.
Letztes Wochenende während ich meine zwei süßen Großtanten besuchte, machte ich eine Entdeckung: mein Großonkel Walter war ein Scrapbooker. Ich weiß, dass meine Liebe fürs Photographieren und Familiengeschichten aus einer Familientradition kommt – alle haben sehr viel photographiert und mein Großonkel hatte sogar seine eigene Dunkelkammer im Keller seines Miethauses. Meine Tante Waltraud gab mir ein Buch das Onkel Waltergemacht hat – es ist ein Buch voll mit Familiengeschichte, Stammbaum, allen Geburts- und Heiratsurkunden und einigen Zeitungsausschnitten. Es ist ein unglaublicher Schatz! Es hat mich zu Tränen gerührt.
And then she showed me the other books he made – for each of their journeys – he kept a travel journal, he inserted pictures and drawings – lot's of books. For his 80th birthday he made a digital scrapbook – it was printed out on the table. On the cover a photo that he took of his legs – one up – the title "One step forward" (he had taken the photo with the leg up on a chair and photoshoped the chair away) and he had written all the planning stages and ideas for his 80th and last birthday party – included pictures- funny little stories inside -it was amazing. And then my aunt had a book in her hands with his favorite black and white photos – all self developed too and she said how sad it is going to be that when she is dead those photos will be just trash. I looked at her and said "ohhh nooo – I want them – don't let them be thrown away" – and she had tears in her eyes and looked happy and said "take them now!".
Treasures- close to my heart ! Once again I'm reminded what a wonderful man my uncle was- I miss him but I know thanks to his scrapbooks and photos he had an amazing and gorgeous life filled with love, travels, hobbies and fun.
Schätze, die mir ganz wichtig sind! Und wieder wurde ich daran erinnert, was für ein wundervoller Mensch mein Onkel war – ich vermisse ihn sehr- aber dank seiner Scrapbooks und Photos, weiß ich, dass er ein großartiges und wunderschönes Leben, angefüllt mit Liebe, Reisen, Hobbies und Spaß, hatte.
Wow! What a treasure! Many of us would have been honored to be the keeper of the collection even though we aren't related to your uncle. I hope people of his generation are NOT throwing out their photos and treasures. They lived much of their lives before the digital age and have every day photos that may be far more important to the public than our millions of digital photos may ever be. Local historical agencies may love to have them and display them as much as a scrapbooker would.
Oh mann, was für eine schöne Geschichte, was für ein Schatz! DAs ist ja wunderbar!! und was mich am meisten begeistert: dass er als 80jähriger Bilder mmit Photoshop bearbeitet hat, HAMMER!!


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Sticking It to Disease
Smallpox was once called the scourge of mankind. The disease's origin is unknown, but its existence can be traced to 10,000 BCE in northeastern Africa. During the 18th century, 400,000 Europeans died annually because of smallpox. In England, where a 13-year-old orphan named Edward Jenner was an apprentice to a surgeon and apothecary, the disease was also known as the "speckled monster" because of the resulting skin condition—sores filled with opaque fluid.
As an apprentice, Jenner once overheard a dairymaid say, "I shall never have smallpox for I have had cowpox. I shall never have an ugly pockmarked face."
For centuries, it had been common knowledge that smallpox survivors became immune to the disease; and because of this, many doctors inoculated people by removing smallpox scabs or pus from an infected person, then rubbing that onto the arm of someone who was uninfected. This was called variolation. The method worked fairly well for people inoculated in this manner; only up to 2 percent died from smallpox. Yet, they were likely to pass on a severe case of the disease to someone else.
Jenner never forgot what the dairymaid had said. Years later, as a physician, he decided to research his theory that the pus in cowpox blisters protected people from smallpox.
In 1796, Jenner removed cowpox scabs from the hands of a milkmaid named Sarah Nelmes and rubbed them onto the arms of James Phipps, his gardener's 8-year-old son. Phipps came down with a fever, but no lesions. Later, Jenner injected the boy with smallpox, but the child never developed the disease. He repeated the test, and Phipps remained in good health. Jenner successfully tested 23 other patients this way and published his findings. His results were debated in England until 1840, when the government banned variolation and provided free vaccinations using cowpox, which was deemed much safer.
To vaccinate patients, doctors scratched a person's arm with a cowpox-covered needle; this method continued into the 20th century. Smallpox was officially declared eradicated in 1980, but some people who grew up during the first half of the 1900s may have a scar on their arm from when they were vaccinated with a needle scratch.
These scratch vaccinations were pretty effective, but far from perfect. Doctors couldn't scratch the same way twice, which meant they couldn't guarantee they'd deliver the same amount of vaccine each time. Vaccinations need to be reproducible. In time, intramuscular injections became popular; but Louis Falo, an MD/PhD and chair of the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Dermatology, notes these miss the skin completely. Unlike skin, muscle does not directly elicit an immune response. So, at the cellular level, intramuscular injections are only modestly successful compared to smallpox vaccinations of the early 20th century.
Inspired by the history of scratch vaccinations, seven years ago, Falo began researching microneedle array technology, which delivers medicine through the skin.
Our skin isn't just keeping our insides from spilling onto the sidewalk. It's our biggest organ, and our first line of defense against viruses and other pathogens we come across.
"The control of the body's entire immune response can probably be achieved by manipulating the skin," Falo says. "I have always tried to manipulate immunity by manipulating skin immunity."
In 2016, with Andrea Gambotto, MD associate professor of surgery and member of the Center for Vaccine Research, Falo coauthored a study using microneedles to deliver a vaccine for the Zika virus. Mice showed immunity against Zika six weeks after immunization when the vaccine was delivered with microneedles. Today, the vaccine is still in preclinical testing, and Gambotto and Falo continue to develop novel vaccination strategies using microneedles.
And now Falo's work has led to what is probably the world's first study examining the effectiveness of microneedles on skin cancer.
A phase I clinical trial is testing proper dosages for patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. It's still early in the process, but if microneedle therapy pans out, it could change how skin cancer is treated. No more operations. No chemotherapy injections. Just a Band-Aid covering a fingertip-size patch with tiny medication-infused needles.
Microneedles, Falo says, are better than intradermal injections, which introduce a drug to the dermis (the thick layer of "living tissue" under the epidermis, the outer skin layer). Intradermal injections are hard to reproduce. Microneedles, on the other hand, deliver the same results each time, and they inject medicine directly to both the dermis and epidermis.
The immune system is more efficient in the skin than in other tissues. Falo has found that immunizations delivered directly to the skin result in stronger and longer-lasting immunizations than those delivered below the skin or into muscle.
Falo grew up in Greensburg, Pa., and attended Pitt as an undergrad before going to Harvard Medical School, where he also served on the faculty. He was drawn to dermatology because of the skin's adaptability. He's fascinated by how it responds to trauma, heat, cold, infection, and sunlight.
"In terms of immune responses," Falo says, "it is truly sentinel, guarding against and identifying any invading organism, tuning the body's systemic immune response to neutralize that specific attack."
Falo, whose inventions have led to a number of patents, has cofounded a company devoted to developing new therapies for skin cancer, including microneedles.
Research on microneedles began in the mid-1990s, when microfabrication technology facilitated their manufacture. The research was led by three isolated efforts operating in parallel at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Becton Dickinson (a medical technology company), and Alza Corporation (a pharmaceutical company).
Last year, Mark Prausnitz at Georgia Tech published the results of a phase I trial for a self-administered influenza vaccine using microneedles. Georgia Tech is also developing microneedle patches for polio, measles, and rubella vaccinations, notes Prausnitz.
There are a few different types of microneedles. For his research, Falo uses dissolvable microneedles. In this variety, a drug is mixed with the patch's structure, and then the needles disintegrate in the skin's aqueous environment.
Microneedles can be mass produced at a low cost, shipped in bulk, and stored at room temperature. The technology could eliminate the need for cold chain distribution, which is a series of stages of uninterrupted refrigeration, from production to storage.
The cold chain costs $13.4 billion a year globally, and vaccines sometimes expire or denature before reaching children in need, especially those in remote regions of developing countries. The World Health Organization reports that more than 50 percent of vaccines are wasted each year.
Falo's team makes microneedles in a small, narrow lab across the hall from his office on the 11th floor of the Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science Tower. Seven years ago, when Falo decided to see if the technology could work with skin cancer, he asked O. Burak Ozdoganlar for help. Ozdoganlar is the Ver Planck Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate director of the Engineering Research Accelerator at Carnegie Mellon University. A micro-milling expert, Ozdoganlar built a machine for Pitt with diamond-tooled tips that cut precise angles for microscale molds.
One June afternoon, Pitt's Geza Erdos, a PhD and assistant professor of dermatology, and Oleg Akilov, MD/PhD and director of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Program and Extracorporeal Photopheresis Unit, show off the narrow area where the microneedles are made. Akilov slides open an unassuming counter drawer. It's full of tiny, white patches that could eliminate melanoma-plagued cells. Akilov picks up a patch with two fingers and presses it against his forearm.
"It feels like Velcro," he says.
Joseph Lane (not his real name), who participated in the clinical trial, agrees that the patches feel like Velcro, and he insists they don't hurt when inserted. "But you can definitely feel it being pushed in," he says.
Lane, a lecturer at Pitt, was diagnosed with folliculotropic mycosis fungoides in 2009. With this disease, the body is the site of a traffic jam of sorts; but instead of cars, it's T cells that get waylaid. "They get confused about where to go because of how they're made," Lane says. "So they go to my hair follicles."
Lane gets cancerous lesions; they can appear wherever he has hair. He has itchy, red patches of skin on his hands, forearms, legs, and lower back. He says the disease has been manageable since he finished the microneedles trial earlier this year.
"If I could freeze it like this, I would," he says of his condition.
"I could live with this the rest of my life."
Lane has participated in a few trials at Pitt, and each time, Akilov explains why he thinks the study could help him. "He's a funny guy," Lane says of Akilov. "And he's really good at talking to me and saying why the studies make sense" for him.
Akilov grew up in Yekaterinburg, Russia. At Ural State Medical Academy, he was in awe of how much one of his professors could learn about a person from examining the skin. Akilov embraced the notion that experienced dermatologists could have powers akin to palm reading. They could tell you a patient's profession, diet, and how much time had been spent in the sun. This passion led him to immunology, and before Falo hired him at Pitt, Akilov served as a postdoc at the University of Notre Dame and as a research instructor at Harvard.
During the lab tour in June, Akilov hands me a fingertip-size microneedle patch. To make microneedles, he explains, they pour carboxymethyl cellulose into the molds, insert them into a centrifuge, and then pop them out. The needles are shaped like tiny Washington Monuments. Falo and his team experimented with the shape of the needles before landing on this structure. At first, the team built them like tiny pyramids, but Akilov says those didn't deliver the drugs effectively because they were too wide.
"You want to have a maximum volume achieved in a reasonable, geometric structure that will pierce the skin," Erdos adds.
The shape permits the needles to hold multiple drugs. One therapy can be in the tip, while one or two more can be stored in the shaft. Falo and his team are experimenting with doxorubicin, a chemotherapeutic, in the tip and, in the shaft, one or two adjuvants (i.e., artificially made molecules that stimulate and improve immune response by imitating the types of danger created by bacteria or viruses). Microneedles are easily broken, and that's the point. (Sorry about the pun.) Once they are inserted into the skin, they break off and dissolve, releasing medicine.
Holding the patch with two fingers, I accidentally snap it in half, and Akilov and Erdos laugh.
"Oh my God, now we're going to charge you," Akilov says.
"Two thousand bucks," Erdos adds.
Later, Falo guesses each patch costs about two cents to make.
The lab has three unofficial team members in Falo's children: Isabella, 15, and 18-year-old twins, Dominick and Gabriel. (During their summers, between wrestling, soccer, football, and lacrosse practices, they've helped with microneedle development.) Akilov says other members of the team turn to Falo for fatherly counsel.
"When he gives you a piece of advice," Akilov says, "be sure to print it and laminate it, because that is going to be your instructions for how to live for the next couple years."
When doctors administer chemotherapies through an IV or injection, they destroy rapidly dividing cells faster than other cells. But then the toxins flow throughout the body, producing the side effects of hair loss, nausea, and fatigue.
Falo believes microneedles can deliver a lower dose of doxorubicin straight to squamous cell carcinomas, basal cell carcinomas, and cutaneous lymphomas. The drug's high concentration to one area would cut down on, and possibly prevent, negative side effects.
"It enters cancer cells in the skin where it is delivered and essentially doesn't go anywhere else," Falo says. For example, Lane did not experience side effects from the microneedle therapy.
So: It's not possible to hit every single tumor cell with doxorubicin, and even if you could, that would not be enough to stop cancer. You've got to exploit the immune response. That's how Falo's microneedles operate.
After the microneedles release doxorubicin, the dying cancer cells let loose antigens for the immune cells to pick up. The immune response should wipe out the cancer cells that the microneedles missed. There are two benefits to this. One is obvious: This kills skin cancer in the patient. In addition—similar to a vaccination—immune memory is developed. The T cells can mount a response if the disease metastasizes or if a new skin cancer forms.
"You don't have to go through the whole process of stimulating a new immune response again," Falo says. "The T cells are already there, waiting for [cancer] to come again."
This element of the response is crucial, Falo explains, because researchers interested in developing cancer vaccines struggle to find common antigens. It's not like the flu, where there's one antigen, one protein, and everyone is immunized against that protein. Tumors have multiple antigens, and there is an individualization to them. Your squamous cell carcinoma or basal cell carcinoma might look very different from mine, antigenically speaking.
In this regard, treating skin cancer with microneedles is personalized medicine, says Falo.
"I don't need [to find] an antigen to immunize you against cancer," he says. "I'm using your tumor. It's got the right antigen. It's yours. It's your tumor serving as the source of antigen for your immunization—all because of the reaction started by the chemotherapeutic in the patch that was delivered to the cancer."
Microneedles might not be there yet, but Falo says that the field is gaining momentum. And his team also is devoted to reversing autoimmunity with microneedles. In this context, microneedles are a tool for introducing changes to the microenvironment. Down the road, he envisions help for patients with psoriasis, eczema, and contact dermatitis (like poison ivy).
"It's a remarkable tool," Falo says.
Microneedle images courtesy Falo Lab
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Priest's Letter Exposes Bp. Hubbard as Gay Ringleader in Albany
by Stephen Wynne • ChurchMilitant.com • August 22, 2018
Full letter of Fr. John Minkler revealing homosexual misconduct in Albany diocese
ALBANY, N.Y. (ChurchMilitant.com) - Church Militant has obtained an explosive report chronicling the devastation wrought by former Albany Bp. Howard Hubbard (1977–2014).
Compiled by faithful priest Fr. John Minkler, the report consists of a 1995 letter to Cdl. John O'Connor, metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of New York, as well as handwritten notes from January 2001 naming and profiling Albany's homosexual priests.
Minkler died under mysterious circumstances two days after a secretive meeting with Bp. Hubbard. Although officials ruled it a suicide, those who knew him believe it was murder — related to his outing of homosexuality in the Albany diocese.
Father Minkler had begun documenting the unraveling of the diocese in the early 1990s and fed information to The Wanderer's Paul Likoudis for his 10-part 1991 series "Agony in Albany."
Word of what was happening in the Capital Region eventually made its way to Cdl. O'Connor, who quietly reached out to Minkler — his former secretary — to commission a report of dissent under Hubbard.
As Likoudis later explained, "Minkler, ordained in 1972, was a priest for five years when Hubbard was named Bishop of Albany, and saw the immediate effect he had on the diocesan priests."
From the beginning of his episcopate in 1977, Hubbard waged war against faithful clerics. His persecution strategy, Likoudis observed, included "banishing old urban pastors to remote rural outposts, showering favors on those priests who exhibited the most outrageous and immoral behavior, ridiculing and ostracizing faithful laity who tried to uphold Catholic orthodoxy, and promoting an agenda of homosexuality, androgyny and sexual dysfunction."
Former Bp. Howard Hubbard
In a letter dated June 10, 1995, Minkler shared his findings with the cardinal. Having gathered testimony from "concerned clergy and laity who fear for the future" of the diocese, he informed O'Connor that under Hubbard, Albany's "general theological position" had become fundamentally "anti-magisterial." The diocese had become an epicenter of heterodoxy and heresy, he warned; at all levels, from the chancery to the individual parish, Hubbard was remaking Albany in his own image, and it was dying.
Ground zero for "the most organized anti-magisterial activity," Minkler noted, was the St. Bernard Institute (since 2003, St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry), a joint venture between the Albany and Rochester dioceses (the latter suffering equal devastation under homosexualist Bp. Matthew Clark, Hubbard's most intimate associate).
As an example of the institute's radicalism, Minkler recounted that a local deacon reported taking "a course in moral theology only to learn from the teacher that she is a lesbian who has had herself artificially inseminated to prove that it is not necessary to have relations with a man in order to become pregnant."
Such encounters, Minkler told O'Connor, were routine.
Minkler identified Fr. Thomas Powers as a linchpin in cultivating dissent. As director of continuing education for clergy, Powers organized annual workshops for Albany priests through the institute.
Fr. Thomas Powers
Invariably, Powers selected speakers who peddled heresy. They "denied the Real Presence, the institution of the sacrament of penance, the ontological understanding of the priesthood and ... the Catholic understanding of eternal life."
Minkler noted that Hubbard was "always present" during these presentations; time and again, the bishop witnessed open heresy hurled at his priests and did nothing to correct it.
The report also documented rampant liturgical abuse. Minkler described Hubbard as regularly taking "liberties with the Mass," consecrating hosts composed of "invalid matter," rushing through the liturgy and forcing his priests to use altar girls. The bishop often refused to "recite the formula of confirmation" while administering the sacrament and put a radical feminist ex-nun in charge of all liturgical events, "including ordination to the priesthood."
In the course of his research, Minkler also discovered that under Hubbard, the diocese of Albany had become a hotbed of abortion activism.
"While Bishop Hubbard once took public legal action to prevent Planned Parenthood from opening a new facility," he told O'Connor, "the general perception was that he was not sincere about it and did it only to correct his image as being soft on abortion."
The diocese regularly accepts and ordains seminarians who have been dropped by other dioceses because of their homosexual activity.
In fact, Minkler learned that diocesan officials enjoyed warm relations with Planned Parenthood and quietly allowed abortions at Schenectady's St. Clare's Hospital.
"At least two Albany priests, Fathers Thomas Berardi and Christopher De Giovine, are known to advise pregnant girls to go to Planned Parenthood for abortions," he reported. "These priests make no secret of this, yet Bishop Hubbard appears not to correct it."
Fr. Thomas Berardi
Meanwhile, one outspoken young cleric told Minkler he'd been ordered "never to preach about birth control or abortion again" by a chancery representative; reportedly the bishop "always had a problem with Humanae Vitae" and suppressed support for it among his priests.
Minkler noted that, not long into Hubbard's episcopate, Albany's parishes began to empty, while various fundamentalist Protestant, New Age and schismatic sects were flourishing, buoyed by the ongoing influx of ex-Catholics.
Their exodus was spurred by the new crop of heterodox (and largely homosexual) priests Hubbard was busy planting across the diocese. To bar faithful Catholic men from the priesthood, the bishop installed like-minded seminary "gatekeepers" to weed out candidates who didn't share his particular proclivities.
"The few seminarians that the Albany Diocese has are sent to St. Mary's in Baltimore and Theological College in Washington, D.C.," Minkler told O'Connor. "Both of these seminaries are noted for their anti-magisterial and pro-homosexual thrust. 'Normal' seminarians from Albany are frequently dropped because they are considered homophobic and/or too rigid, that is, pro-magisterial."
In his letter to the cardinal, Minkler named more than a dozen actively homosexual clerics operating in Albany at that time, including multiple parish priests, the diocesan priest-personnel director, the judicial vicar, the chancellor, a vicar general and Bp. Hubbard himself.
Father Minkler warned that Hubbard was intentionally cultivating an expansive homosexual network inside the diocese, informing Cdl. O'Connor that while rejecting spiritually and psychologically healthy young men, "The diocese regularly accepts and ordains seminarians who have been dropped by other dioceses because of their homosexual activity."
In fact, as early as 1991, Hubbard was voicing public support for homosexual ordinations.
"I believe the Church has a responsibility to all its members. ... I don't think gays or anybody else should be excluded from the ministry," he said in an interview with his diocesan newspaper. "Indeed, I think we have a responsibility to reach out to them with sensitivity and compassion but at the same time I also believe that we have to proclaim the Gospel message as we understand it."
In his letter to the cardinal, Minkler named more than a dozen actively homosexual clerics operating in Albany at that time, including multiple parish priests, the diocesan priest-personnel director, the judicial vicar, the chancellor, a vicar general — and Bp. Hubbard himself.
Regarding the bishop, Minkler detailed what he'd been told by various diocesan insiders:
"In recent years an Albany physician who works with AIDS patients stated that within a four-month period she encountered two recently diagnosed AIDS patients, who were unknown to each other. They informed her with almost identical stories about their involvement with a ring of homosexual Albany priests which also included Bishop Hubbard."
"A permanent deacon at the Cathedral in Albany where Bishop Hubbard has been residing for the last few years has seen the Bishop leaving and returning very late at night, dressed in cut-off shorts and tank tops. He states that the Bishop keeps very much to himself, is very secretive, and that he feels that the Bishop is living a double life."
"Recently a young priest was told by his pastor, a young priest his same age and homosexual, that he should not become so upset over the conduct of the Albany clergy. The pastor stated that the reason he was pastor of a good parish and his first pastorate was due to the fact that Bishop Hubbard favors the young homosexual priests. He went on to state that Bishop Hubbard himself has had homosexual experiences in the past and is currently involved with two young priests, namely, Fathers Thomas Chevalier and Patrick Butler, both of whom were made pastors of very good parishes at an early age. As a seminarian, Patrick Butler was invited to vacation at Cape Cod with Bishops Hubbard and Clark [of Rochester] along with Father Thomas Powers."
Minkler delivered his report to Cdl. O'Connor without incident in June 1995. With that, Paul Likoudis later wrote, "The pleas of long-suffering Catholics living under the oppressive and destructive reigns of Albany's Hubbard and Rochester's Bishop Matthew Clark had finally reached their metropolitan's ears."
Hubbard with homosexualist Bp. Matthew Clark of Rochester
But progress ended there. Father Minkler later told Likoudis that during a visit to Rome, O'Conner shared his findings with Pope John Paul II and appealed for both Hubbard and Clark to be removed. Likoudis said that according to Minkler, the Pope responded, "There's nothing I can do." No further explanation was provided.
Over the next few years, Minkler continued to chronicle Albany's ongoing disintegration. In January 2001, he added a series of handwritten notes to a printed copy of his original letter, detailing names and profiles of the diocese's homosexual priests.
According to his additions, by the turn of the century, "At least 1/2 of the priests in the Albany Diocese seem to be gay." Of the priests working in the chancery at that time, Minkler said all but one — Fr. Ed Deimeke — were active homosexuals.
"Many lay persons assume that all priests are gay ... this report now is understated!" he wrote.
In February 2004, things came to a head in Albany. Early that month, former resident Andrew Zalay convened a press conference to announce that in 1978, Bp. Hubbard drove his brother Thomas to suicide by pressuring him into sex.
Check out Church Militant's #CatholicMeToo coverage.
Zalay explained he had recently discovered his brother's suicide note, which until then his mother had kept hidden out of shame. Zalay shared that Thomas described being groomed and pressured into sex with Bp. Hubbard. He said Hubbard had tried to justify homosexual acts to him by suggesting the Bible defined celibacy as avoiding sexual contact with women.
Recognizing that homosexual acts are sinful, Thomas rejected the bishop's attempts to excuse the behavior. He explained he wanted to get away from Hubbard and indicated he felt the only way to escape the bishop's grasp was suicide. On April 19, 1978, Thomas set himself ablaze at his parent's home in Albany.
Hubbard launched an immediate counterattack. The bishop held his own press conference and declared he had been celibate since his ordination in 1963.
Hubbard's claim was soon undermined by allegations involving underage male prostitutes. Christian convert Andrew Bonneau, for example, stepped forward alleging that, years earlier, as a teenage runaway, he twice had sex with Hubbard in Washington Park, one of Albany's gay cruising hotspots. Bonneau said he was troubled by Hubbard's denial, and came forward out of a sense of Christian duty to protect other vulnerable minors.
The allegations spurred news teams into action, and Fr. Minkler's letter to Cdl. O'Connor was uncovered. On Feb. 12, a television news report named Fr. Minkler as the author of the Albany report.
Paul Likoudis
Bishop Hubbard was enraged. According to Likoudis, on Feb. 13, Minkler was ordered to the chancery, where he was forced to sign an affidavit denying he had authored the 1995 letter.
That night, Fr. Minkler contacted Likoudis, reportedly telling him, "I signed it with mental reservations, and now I'm going to have to go to confession down in New York, because I can't go in this diocese."
"But in that long Friday evening conversation," the Catholic journalist later wrote, "Minkler sounded scared. He recounted the day's events, and feared that the disclosure of the letter he wrote to Cardinal O'Connor in 1995 — at the cardinal's request — would be disastrous for him."
Likoudis added:
He asked for advice, and he was extremely apprehensive about a forthcoming meeting with Hubbard, set for Monday, Feb. 16. I suggested that he pre-empt the meeting by holding his own press conference "and let everything out." His response was that if he did that, "I'd be dead."
Less than 48 hours later, he was dead.
Father Minkler was discovered dead inside his home on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004. His death was ruled a suicide — a conclusion few who knew him accept.
On Feb. 16, Hubbard called a press conference, where he announced Fr. Minkler had not been summoned to the chancery, but came voluntarily.
"Father Minkler made an appointment to see me, and he told me that he did not author the letter," Hubbard claimed, adding "he wanted to be with me face-to-face and to assure me that he had not written anything to Cdl. O'Connor about me ... he did not know how his name got associated with the letter."
Likoudis never accepted the bishop's account. Hubbard, meanwhile, managed to weather the storms of 2004. Former prosecutor Mary Jo White was hired to investigate allegations of sexual impropriety. White eventually cleared the bishop, citing "no credible evidence."
Hubbard remained bishop of Albany for another ten years.
To read Fr. Minkler's 1995 letter, complete with January 2001 additions, click here.
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In this guide we will be talking about areas that influence youth development in Football Manager, especially the external factors: facilities, training & coaching. These are all areas you as a manager are able to influence.
This guide could give you some insights about what is affecting youth development at your club. Please keep in mind that there is no right or wrong in development, this guide is only giving advice.
The quality of your club facilities is important for the development of your players. It's recommended to invest in your facilities as much as you can. You can request an investment by doing a board request. The maximum level of your facilities determines on the club and nation you manage in. The costs of an investment will also differ per league, club and nation.
The training facilities are used by the players who are on a senior contract. The better the level of your facilities, the better your players will improve.
A state of the art training facility makes your players develop a lot faster than when you have an average training facility.
The youth facilities do the same thing as your training facilities, but only for players on a youth contract. And these facilities are even more important for the development of your youth as these are used at the earliest moment your youngsters start training at the club.
Better facilities will add more points to the player attributes increase. Whilst a player at a club with poor facilities may spend over a year to increase his player attributes by a single point point, a player with state-of-the-art facilities may improve it within a 1-2 month period.
The junior coaches at your club not only focus on the U18 or U19 at your club, but they also train the virtual players who are younger This means that better youth coaches will increase the level of your annual youth intake.
Youth Recruitment affects the potential ability of players that are recruited for your yearly youth intake. The better the recruitment, the larger the area is your scouts will cover. On the highest level it will be more common to have good youth players coming through the yearly youth intake.
This Youth Level is for clubs based in England only, since they started the 'Elite Player Performance Plan'. This determines on which level your youth teams compete. The higher this level is, the better the match experience will be for the players in those teams. (Levels (best to worse): 1, 2, 3, 4, 0).
Training has a very big influence in player development.
Team training is the overall training that players in your team will go through every week. You will be able to pick the focus and change this on a weekly basis or decide to pick a general focus.
A more powerful tool is the individual training area. Here you can focus on individual player roles or even individual attributes. With individual training you can also alter a players main position and his player traits. By using this area correctly, you will be able to create a player that is ideal for your tactical ideas.
Obviously the ability of your staff will have an enormous influence on youth development. The better your coaches are, the better training they will get. You can see the level of the training areas in the coaches tab and these are shown as stars (0 is worst, 5 is best).
However, don't focus too much on those starts as they only show the overall workload, not the overall quality. A world class coach can drop some stars simply by having too many players to train.
It's possible to tutor your youngsters in Football Manager by using your older and more experienced players. The experienced player will take care of the youngster and make him feel more at home in your first team, he will push him in his training sessions and will help him to develop more. It's important that the more experienced player has good mental attributes and a positive personality, preferably matching the one of the youth player.
When the youngster is pleased with the tutoring, he can pick up the Player Traits from the more experienced player. So you should look at the traits of the tutor and make sure he won't mess up the way the youngster reacts in different situations. Tutoring could be very beneficial for your team cohesion when used correctly. As a result, players could start to see each other as favored personal.
Match experience could be the part of player development that is underrated the most. First team match experience will truly aid in the development of a player.
Players will get 'points' for their current ability in matches. They distribute these points over their attributes in training. For example, Jan Jansen is a striker with a PA of 160 and a CA of 80. He played three good matches in a row and got 5 points for his CA in those matches, his CA is now 85. His individual training is focused on the player role 'Poacher'. The 5 points that he 'won' in the last three matches are now being divided over the attributes that are important for a Poacher by this training.
Learn to rotate your squad more if you want to develop youngsters because players will develop better if they play in the senior squad. The more minutes he makes, the better his development will be. I know this could be difficult when you are top tier elite team, but take the risk.
Just keep in mind that you don't overload them. When a player is making a lot of minutes, you should turn the intensity of his training down a little.
We can all agree that while you want to develop players, it is very difficult to hand all of your players enough game time during a season. Face it: we all hate to lose and preferably play our best players. So sending a player out on loan could help, right?
Well think again. Sending players out on loan to teams on lower league levels might increase match experience points, but with lower quality coaches and facilities available to the players. It will be a lot harder for the player develop his potential. Before you send out a player on loan, have a look at the club's facilities and coaching quality. These should be a real deal breaker if development is the main goal of sending a player out on loan.


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Every month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler's nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. After more than 6,000 performances, Broadway will bid a fond farewell to Mamma Mia! on September 12 — but not before we profile the adorable Patrick Ortiz… Mamma Mia, indeed!
Mamma Mia! takes place on the Greek island of Kalokairi — where would your ultimate wedding destination be and why?
I would have to say Riviera Maya, Mexico—because like the Greeks, Mexicans know how to throw a fun and memorable wedding.
Donna, Rosie, or Tanya – if you could swap roles for a night, which one would you be and why?
Even though Donna gets all the amazing songs, I feel like having to deal with seeing three of my exes and my daughter's wedding would be a little exhausting. I'd much rather be Tanya. She's proper, dresses well, flirts, and has a great, upbeat song.
After more than 6,000 performances, how do they keep those wetsuits clean?
I still don't know! But after a two-show day they're not as fresh as some people would like.
A chef. My family owns a restaurant in Chicago named El Jardin so I grew up around that atmosphere and cooking. Also, I love incorporating my artistic side into recipes and the presentation of food.
Curtain call is so much fun! What other show has a full-out concert at the end where everyone gets up and dances? It makes my job the best one in the world.
The High Line. It's an old elevated railroad track that has been transformed into a walking park with all kinds of little kiosks and entertainment. It's also a great place to escape the city noise and chaos.
Tokyo, Japan. I visit there while I was on tour with West Side Story and I absolutely fell in love with the culture, the people, and the technology. It was amazing!
Eat right and stay consistent. I've found that eating healthy is more than half the battle. Also, just having a consistent exercise routine will give you results. You don't need to have crazy, intense workouts or extreme diets to achieve your goals.
Confidence with humility. There's nothing worse than an ego.
I only use the Internet for Netflix and Google!
Love to sail! I take sailing trips and travel for weeks at a time. There's nothing like living on the sea.
Cobi Jones from the U.S. soccer team. I played soccer for 14 years and thought he was the coolest. He also has amazing hair.
Mamma Mia!'s final performance is September 12, what's the first thing you'll want to do on September 13?
Sleep in all day and go to a spa to get a massage!
Married with kids and teaching dance or theater. I remember how much my teachers inspired me to perform and it led me to a career performing on Broadway. I hope to be able to continue that and inspire the next generation.
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An interesting graphic illustrating how some of the so-called cute features in Apple's new iPhone 6 have been present in the two-year old LG Nexus 4 is circulating on the Internet.
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Its's the UX that matters, not the specs on the paper.
Of all people, you're the last person i thought would find this pic funny.
Specs are a subset of overall UX. So to that extent it does matter and contributes to the consumer's overall satisfaction with the device.
But specs are only one aspect of a successful device, which is why Apple wins thanks to a reasonably well spec'd device, good UI, deft marketing, media hype and smooth integration with the (walled) ecosystem (iTunes, MacBook/iMac, AppStore and now the Watch).
That said, taking Apple on by merely pointing to superior specs (better camera, faster processor, more RAM, NFC, wireless charging etc etc) of a Samsung or LG device is an exercise in futility and a recipe for failure.


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