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Data security and GDPR
It is essential to draw a distinction between the security of the data stored by the customer and the security of the infrastructures that store the information.
Security of the data stored by the customer: the customer is solely responsible for ensuring the security of the resources and application systems that they use with OVH's services. OVH offers tools to help customers secure their data.
Security of infrastructures: OVH is committed to ensuring optimal security for its infrastructures. This includes implementing a security policy for information systems, and meeting the requirements for multiple standards and certifications (PCI-DSS certification, ISO/IEC 27001 certification, SOC 1 TYPE II and SOC 2 TYPE II certificates, etc.). -
You can find all these certifications and their exact scope in OVH's certification section.
The security of OVH infrastructures
OVH takes all necessary precautions to maintain the security and confidentiality of the personal data it processes, to prevent it being corrupted, damaged or accessed by third parties.
OVH is committed to implementing the following:
Compliance and certification
Customer audits
System and application development policy
Monitoring services and infrastructures
Natural and environmental risks
General security measures for physical sites
Access to OVH sites
Area access management
Managing physical access for third parties
Awareness and training for personnel
Managing logical access to the OVH IT system
Managing administrative access to the production platforms
Access control to the Control Panel
Security for workstations and mobile equipment
1. Security management system
Commitments made by OVH in its capacity as a hosting provider
An IT systems security policy (ISSP) is put in place that sets out all the provisions we take in this regard. Our ISSP is updated every year, at the minimum, or every time there is a major change that has ramifications for its content. The security of our solutions is assured by formal information security management systems.
Various roles coordinate our actions with regard to the security of the perimeter:
the IT system security manager (ISSM);
the security manager, responsible for processes and projects associated with the security of the perimeter;
the data protection officer (DPO), who is in charge of preserving personal data;
the risk manager, who coordinates the management of security risks and the associated action plans;
the security measures manager, who implements and applies the provisions pertaining to the risks identified.
To ensure that compliance is maintained and to evaluate the performance of our systems, security audits are carried out on a regular basis. There are five types of security audit:
external audits (certifications, attestations, customers);
internal audits, carried out by internal or external auditors;
technical audits (intrusion tests, vulnerability scans, code reviews), carried out by internal or external auditors;
audits of the activities of third parties, carried out by the person responsible for managing third parties;
datacentre audits, carried out by internal auditors. The nature and frequency of the audits carried out will depend on the solutions and the perimeters. Whenever non-compliance is identified, a corrective measure is applied and added to the action plans. All these measures are covered by a formal, tracked follow-up, as well as a regular review, where their effectiveness is reexamined.
3. Customer audits
Recommendations for the customer in charge of processing
Customers can carry out technical audits (intrusion tests) on services hosted for them, as well as on service management blocks. The terms and conditions for carrying out audits are set out in each contract, or handled on an ad hoc basis, on request.
The terms and conditions for carrying out audits are set out in each contract, or handled on an ad hoc basis, on request.
Customers must ensure that the security measures applied by OVH are relevant to the risks associated with the manner in which they use the infrastructure.
A formal methodology for risk management is put in place. This is reviewed annually at the minimum, or in the event of a major change. It also concerns personal information and sensitive data (health, payments, etc.).
This methodology formalises the analyses carried out. It identifies assets, critical industry processes, threats and vulnerabilities.
It is based on the ISO 27005 standard. A plan for handling any risks identified is devised following each analysis. This plan is then implemented within a maximum of 12 months. It documents the analysis in detail and sets out the order of priority for the actions to be taken. Each corrective measure is added to the action plans and is covered by a formal, tracked follow-up, together with a regular review to reexamine its effectiveness.
5. Change management
Customers must ensure that their contact information is accurate, so that OVH can notify them of any changes that could potentially have an impact on their solutions. Where appropriate, customers are responsible for making the necessary modifications to the configuration of their services in order to take these changes into account.
A formal change management procedure is put in place:
roles and responsibilities are clearly defined;
criteria for classification are set out in order to identify the steps to follow as part of implementing the change;
priorities are managed; the risks associated with the changes are analysed (if a risk is identified, the security manager and risk manager work together to validate the change);
intrusion tests may be carried out (where applicable); the change is planned and scheduled with the customers (where applicable);
the change is rolled out gradually (1/10/100/1000) and, if there is a risk, a rollback procedure must be planned for;
a retrospective review of the various assets concerned by the change is carried out;
all steps are documented in the change management tool.
6. System and application development policy
Processes for OVH developers are set up and documented. These processes contain the principles of secure development, "privacy by design" measures, and a code review policy (vulnerability detection, error processing, managing access and entry and protecting storage and communications).
Code reviews are also carried out on a regular basis:
new features are validated prior to launch, tested in a validation environment (where applicable) and rolled out gradually (1/10/100/1000);
a distinction is drawn in terms of roles and responsibilities between developers and the persons responsible for launching production.
7. Monitoring services and infrastructures
A monitoring infrastructure is implemented for all OVH services. This has several objectives:
to detect production and security incidents;
to monitor critical features, with any alerts being escalated to the monitoring system;
to inform the persons responsible and trigger the appropriate procedures;
to ensure continuity of service in the performance of automated tasks;
to ensure the integrity of the resources monitored.
8. Incident management
Customers must ensure that their contact information is accurate, to enable OVH to notify them in the event of an incident. They must also implement incident management processes for incidents affecting their IT system, that include OVH as a potential source of alerts.
An incident management process is set up. This process is used to prevent, detect and solve issues in the service and its management infrastructures. The process includes:
a guide for classifying security events;
handling security events;
simulation exercises for the crisis unit;
tests for incident response plans;
customer communication as part of a crisis unit.
These procedures are covered by a continuous improvement process for the monitoring, assessment and overall management of incidents and their corrective actions.
Customers must ensure that their contact information is accurate, to enable OVH to notify them in the event that a vulnerability is detected in their IT system.
Technological monitoring for new vulnerabilities is carried out by the security manager and their teams. These vulnerabilities are identified via:
public information sites;
alerts from the manufacturers and publishers of the solutions deployed;
incidents and observations escalated by our operations teams, third parties or customers;
internal and external vulnerability scans performed on a regular basis;
technical audits, and code and configuration reviews.
If a vulnerability is detected, it is analysed by dedicated teams in order to determine its impact on the systems and the potential operating scenario.
Mitigation measures are implemented, where necessary, and a corrective plan is then defined.
Each measure taken is added to the action plans and is covered by a formal, tracked follow-up, together with a regular review to reexamine its effectiveness.
10. Business continuity management
Customers are responsible for the continuity of their own IT systems. They must ensure that the standard provisions implemented by OVH, the options they choose, and any additional provisions they implement will enable them to achieve their objectives.
Continuity of activity for the infrastructures (availability of equipment, application and operating processes) is assured by various provisions:
continuity of water- and air-cooling,
continuity and redundancy of the electricity supply,
managing the capacity of the equipment for which OVH is responsible,
technical support for the service,
and the redundancy of the equipment and servers used for system administration.
Alongside this, other mechanisms ensure the resumption of service in the event of an incident, such as backup of network equipment configurations.
Depending on the Service, OVH may propose, as part of the standard package, or as an option, backup and restoration features that may be used by the Customer.
11. Natural and environmental risks
Measures are implemented to prevent natural and environmental risks:
lightning rods are installed to reduce the concomitant electromagnetic radiation;
OVH offices are set up in zones not subject to flooding or the risk of earthquakes;
uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) of a sufficient capacity and emergency transformers with automatic load-switching;
automatic switching to electricity generators with a minimum autonomy of 24 hours;
a water-cooling system is used for servers (98% of our hosting rooms have no air conditioning);
heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) units are used to maintain temperature and humidity at constant levels;
a fire detection system is in operation (fire drills are run every six months in datacentres).
12. General security measures for physical sites
Physical access to OVH sites is based on a restrictive perimeter security system, which applies from the entrance area onwards. Each site is divided up as follows:
private traffic areas;
offices accessible to all employees and to registered visitors;
confidential offices, for authorised personnel only;
areas containing datacentre equipment;
confidential areas in datacentres;
areas in datacentres hosting critical services.
Security measures are taken to regulate access to OVH's physical sites:
an access permissions policy;
walls (or equivalent dispositions) between each area;
cameras located at the entrances and exits to installations, as well as in the server rooms;
secure access, controlled by badge readers;
laser barriers in the car parks;
a motion detection system;
burglary prevention systems at the entrances and exits to datacentres;
intrusion detection mechanisms (security guards 24 hours a day and video surveillance);
a permanent surveillance centre monitoring when the entrance and exit doors are opened.
14. Access to OVH sites
Physical access control operates using a system of badges. Each badge is linked to an OVH account, which, in turn, is linked to an individual. This system makes it possible to identify all persons within the installation and to authenticate the control mechanisms:
every individual entering an OVH site must have their own individual badge associated with their identity;
the identity of every person must be verified before any badge is issued;
within the installations, badges must be worn in a visible location;
badges must not show the name of their owner or the name of the company;
badges must makes it possible to identify the categories of persons present (employees, third parties, persons with temporary access, visitors);
badges are deactivated as soon as their holders are no longer authorised to access the installations;
OVH employees' badges are active for the duration of their employment contracts; for the other categories of person, badges are deactivated automatically after a defined period;
any badge that is not used for a period of three weeks is automatically deactivated.
15. Area access management
Door access via badge
This is the standard form of access control at OVH:
doors are connected to a centralised access rights management system;
people have to badge in using a dedicated badge reader in order to unlock the doors;
access rights are verified when the badge is read, to ensure that the person in question has the required entry rights;
if the centralised access rights management system goes down, the rights configured at the time of the incident will remain valid for its entire duration;
door locks are protected against power cuts and will remain locked if there is no power.
Door access via key
Some areas or items of equipment are locked using key locks:
the keys are stored in a centralised, access-restricted location on each site, with a reference document;
each key is identified via a label; an inventory of the keys is kept;
any use of the keys is traceable, via a delivery mechanism or a paper journal;
the reference document for the keys is checked against the inventory every day.
Access to datacentres via single-person airlocks
Our datacentres are accessed exclusively via single-person airlocks:
each airlock has two doors and a delimited area between the checks, to ensure that only one person gets through at a time;
each door will not open unless the other door is closed (mantrap);
the airlocks use the same system of badges as the other doors, and the same rules apply to them;
detection mechanisms verify that there is only one person in the airlock (anti-piggybacking);
the system is designed to make sure badges cannot be used more than once in the same direction (anti-passback);
a camera placed next to the airlock means that people entering can be monitored.
Access to the goods airlocks
Access to the datacentres for goods is exclusively via dedicated walkways:
the delivery vestibule is configured in the same way as a single-person airlock, larger in area and with no verification of volume or weight, and with badge readers on the outside only;
only the item being delivered passes via the vestibule - accompanying personnel must enter via the single-person airlocks;
there is a camera in the vestibule, with no blind spot.
16. Managing physical access for third parties
OVH never carries out interventions on its customers' premises. Customers are therefore responsible for the security of their offices.
The movements of visitors and ad hoc service providers is strictly supervised. These persons are logged as soon as they arrive on site and are issued with a visitor or a service provider badge:
all visits must be announced ahead of time;
third parties are the responsibility of an employee and must be accompanied at all times;
all identities are verified prior to granting access to the site;
each third party is issued with a staff badge, allocated to them for the day, which they must return before leaving the site;
all badges must be worn in a visible manner;
badges are automatically deactivated at the end of the visit.
17. Awareness and training for personnel
OVH personnel follow security awareness training and are trained in compliance rules for personal data processing:
training sessions on these topics are organised annually for the teams concerned;
training sessions on carrying out audits are organised annually for the teams concerned;
training sessions on the technical services are organised annually for the teams concerned;
awareness training in IT system (IS) security is organised for new employees when they join the company;
messages about security are regularly sent to all personnel;
test campaigns are organised to ensure that employees know how to act in the event of a threat.
18. Managing logical access to the OVH IT system
A strict policy of logical access rights management for employees is applied:
authorisations are issued and monitored by managers, following the principle of least privilege and the principle of gradually gaining trust;
to the greatest extent possible, all authorisations should be based on roles rather than unit rights;
the access rights and authorisations granted to a user or to a system are managed based on a procedure of logging, modification and delogging that involves the managers, internal IT and human resources;
all employees use nominative user accounts;
connection sessions systematically have an expiry period suited to each application;
users' identities are verified prior to any change in authentication methods;
if a user forgets their password, only their manager and the security manager are authorised to reset it;
user accounts are automatically deactivated if the password is not renewed after 90 days;
the use of default, generic and anonymous accounts is prohibited;
a strict password policy is applied;
users use automatic password generators rather than choosing their own passwords;
the minimum length for passwords is 10 alphanumeric characters;
passwords must be renewed every three months;
storing passwords in unencrypted files, on paper or in web browsers is prohibited;
the use of local password management software, which has been approved by the security teams, is mandatory;
any remote access to the OVH IT system (IS) must be via VPN, using a password known solely to the user and a shared secret configured on the workstation.
19. Managing administrative access to the production platforms
A policy for managing administrator access rights for platforms is applied:
all administrator access to live systems is realised via a bastion host;
administrators connect to the bastion hosts via SSH, using individual and nominative pairs of public and private keys;
connection to the target system is realised either via a shared service account or via a nominative account and bastion hosts; using default accounts on systems and equipment is prohibited;
dual-factor authentication is mandatory for remote administrator access and for any employees accessing sensitive areas of the system, with such access being fully traced;
administrators have an account exclusively devoted to administration tasks, in addition to their standard user account;
authorisations are granted and monitored by managers, in accordance with the principle of least privilege and the principle of gaining trust;
SSH keys are protected by a password that meets the requirements of the password policy; access rights are reviewed on a regular basis, in collaboration with the departments concerned.
20. Access control to the Control Panel
Customers are responsible for managing and ensuring the security of their methods of authentication. Customers wishing to give their account added protection can: activate two-factor authentication in their OVH Control Panel; only allow connections from a list of IP addresses, defined ahead of time.
Customers can manage their OVH services from their Control Panel or the API. Customers can manage their OVH services from their Control Panel or the API. Default access is via a nominative account (NIC handle) and a password:
the password is chosen by the customer and must meet the complexity criteria imposed by the interface;
only the hashes of the passwords are stored on OVH's servers;
OVH offers the option of activating dual-factor authentication via the Control Panel, using a system of one-time passwords (OTP) sent by SMS, a mobile application, or a U2F-compatible key.
Customers may restrict access to their Control Panel to certain predefined IP addresses;
the API's access tokens are usable for as long as they remain valid, and no specific subsequent verifications need to be applied;
all customer activity in the Control Panel or the API is logged;
customers can choose to handle the technical and administrative tasks associated with the management of their services separately.
21. Security for workstations and mobile equipment
Customers must ensure that their workstations and mobile equipment are secure in order to enable the administration of their service and the systems.
Protection of standard workstations
Measures to protect the standard workstations of OVH personnel are in place:
updates are managed automatically;
antivirus software is installed and updated, and regular scans are carried out; only those applications contained in an approved catalogue may be installed;
hard drives are systematically encrypted;
employees do not have administrator rights on their workstations;
potentially compromised workstations are handled according to a specific procedure;
equipment is standardised;
there is a procedure for deleting sessions and resetting workstations when employees leave the company.
Protecting mobile terminals
Measures to ensure the security of mobile terminals, whether belonging to personnel or supplied by OVH, are in place:
terminals must be registered in a centralised management system before they are granted access to internal resources (WiFi, email, calendars, people directory, etc.);
the security policy used on the terminal is verified (unlock code, lock time, storage encryption);
procedures are in place for wiping the terminal remotely if it is lost or stolen.
22. Network security
The Customer is solely responsible for encrypting the content to be communicated through the OVH network.
OVH manages a high-performance fibre optic private network, connected to numerous operators and forwarding agents. OVH manages its own backbone internally, that distributes connectivity to each datacentre's local networks and connects the datacentres to each other.
All this equipment is secured using the following measures:
an inventory is kept within a configuration manager database;
a tightening process is in place, featuring guides that describe which parameters need to be modified in order to ensure a secure configuration;
access to the administrator features for equipment is reserved to staff listed on control lists;
all equipment is administered via a bastion host, applying the principle of least privilege;
all configurations for network equipment are backed up;
the logs are collected, centralised and monitored on a permanent basis by the network operations team;
configurations are deployed automatically, based on validated templates.
A backup policy is in place for the servers and equipment used by OVH to provide its services:
all systems and data necessary for continuity of services, reconstructing the IT system, or analysis purposes following an incident is backed up (technical and administrative database files, activity logs, source codes for applications developed internally, configurations for servers, applications and equipment, etc.);
the intervals, conservation periods and manner of storing backups are defined in accordance with the requirements of each asset backed up; the backup process is covered by a monitoring process, and by an alert and error management process.
24. Logging
The Customer is solely responsible for the logging policy of their own systems and applications.
A logging policy is in place for the servers and equipment used by OVH to deliver its services:
logs are backed up and centrally conserved;
logs are consulted and analysed by a limited number of authorised personnel, in accordance with the authorisation and access management policy;
tasks are divided up between the teams responsible for operating the monitoring infrastructure and the teams responsible for operating the service. The list of activities that are logged includes the following:
logs of storage servers hosting customer data;
logs of the machines managing the customer's infrastructure;
logs of the machines monitoring the infrastructures;
logs of the antivirus software installed on all equipped machines;
integrity checks of logs and systems, where appropriate;
tasks and events carried out by the customer on their infrastructure;
network intrusion detection logs and alerts, if appropriate;
logs of network equipment;
logs of the infrastructure of the surveillance cameras;
logs of administrator machines;
logs of time servers;
logs of badge readers;
logs of bastion hosts.
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New furniture is expensive. Check garage sales and local thrift shops for attractive and interesting finds in furnishings. There are often some real gems hiding amongst used items. Some may need a lot of work, but if you invest enough time, they can greatly improve your home.
When you make improvements, think about the rest of the neighborhood too. A Victorian house is going to stand out blaringly on a block that only has saltbox cottages. If you plan for changes that will blend well with the other homes in the area, it will make the home easier to sell in the future.
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Use bleach to maintain a clean toilet bowl. Although you may dislike the smell of the bleach, you can rest assured the toxic chemical is killing germs and leaving you with a shiny clean toilet. You can use scented bleach for a nicer smell.
Refrain from purchasing sofas or couches with a lot of designs on them. If you do, you will have the challenge of coordinating your home to that pattern until you recover or discard the items of furnishing. Instead, buy solid colors in natural tones. You can experiment with patterns to your heart's content with pillows and throws without making too much of a commitment.
A little wallpaper can add appeal and distinction to your bookcase. Pick a unique and interesting design. For a creative look, apply the wallpaper you have picked out on the inside of your bookshelf. This will give your bookcase a good design and it will also act as a focal point in your room.
In the world of home improvement, there are many techniques that you have at your disposal to improve your home. The body of knowledge that is home improvement has open doors for all, but what you find easy might be quite difficult for others. With these suggestions, you can be on the way to making your house a great place to come home to.


How does Awana fulfill this mission? Through God's guidance and power, Awana strives to reach kids for Christ through fun, Scripture-rich experiences that lead them to know, love and serve Him. Kids represent the greatest opportunity to make a long-term impact on our world for Christ. Offered through local churches, community groups and homes, Awana reaches kids where they're at and walks alongside them in their faith journey. Those kids who come to faith at an early age discover God's purpose for their lives and hope for the future. Ministry leaders and parents witness the profound impact Awana has in reaching kids with the gospel and watching them grow as long-term disciples. That's why so many families and leaders have returned year after year, week after week, for more than three generations.
Awana also equips ministry leaders and parents to reach and disciple kids who impact their generation with the gospel. Finally, God is at work changing the world through the evangelism and long-term discipleship ministry of Awana.


Le dhá bhliain déag anuas, tá leabharlann bhréagán agus leabhar ag Altram ar fud an réigiúin. Is tríd phórdheontas ón Crannchur Náisiúnta a maoiníodh na háiseanna leabharlainne i dtús ama. Leis an deontas seo, bhí Altram in ann réimse áiseanna luathbhlianta a cheannacht. Is ón HSCB a thagann an maoiniú anois.
Déanann ár speisialtóirí luathbhlianta measúnú ar riachtanais na suíomhanna agus freagraíonn siad d'iarratais ar iasachtaí ón leabharlann bhréagán agus Leabhar. Tugann siad áiseanna curaclam-bhunaithe chuig na naíscoileanna. Tacaíonn siad sin leis an fhoghlaim i ngach suíomh agus, tríd roinnt na n-áiseanna, cinntítear go bhfuil fáil ag gach naíscoil ar áiseanna riachtanacha gan iachall a bheith orthu iad a cheannacht.
Léirigh measúnú agus aischothú i measc earnáil na luathbhlianta lán-Ghaeilge go n-aithnítear gur áis luachmhar an leabharlann bhréagán agus leabhar ag úsáideoirí. Táimid ag tabhairt faoi athbhreithniú ar an tseirbhís seo faoi láthair agus tá súil againn maoiniú a lorg le cur leis an tseirbhís atá muid a chur ar fáil do phaistí atá ag freastal ar naíscoileanna.
Bridgeen McGlinchey: bridgeen@altram.org nó Aisling Walls: aisling@altram.org.
Altram has provided a toy and book library across the region for the past 12 years. The initial funding for the library resources was provided by a seed grant from the Big Lottery. With this grant, Altram was able to purchase a range of early years resources. Now, the grant comes from HSCB.
Our early years specialists assess the needs of settings and respond to requests for loans from the toy and book library. Curriculum-based resources are delivered to naíscoileanna. They support the learning in each setting and, by sharing resources, ensure that all naíscoileanna have access to necessary support equipment without having to resort to buying it regularly.
Evaluation and feedback revealed that the toy and book library is viewed as a very valuable resource within the Irish-medium early years sector. We are currently reviewing this service and hope to secure further funding to enhance the service we deliver to children attending naíscoileanna.
Bridgeen McGlinchey: bridgeen@altram.org or Aisling Walls: aisling@altram.org.


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Trials & Studies
Summer 2014: Super glue for beating hearts
Super glue for beating hearts
A close-up view of the adhesive (pink) interacting with collagen tissue (blue). Images courtesy of Karp Lab.
Surgeons of all specialties have long sought a safe and effective surgical adhesive or glue that can be used within the body to close wounds or join tissues. The need is particularly great when caring for children with congenital heart defects, where patients undergo multiple invasive procedures and surgeons need to be able to quickly and safely secure devices within the heart.
Sutures are time-consuming to stitch and can cause stress on fragile heart tissue, while the adhesives currently available on the market have several shortcomings. "Current glues are either toxic or easily washout in the presence of blood or react immediately upon contacting water," says Pedro del Nido, MD, chief of Cardiac Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. "The available options also tend to lose their sticking power in the presence of blood or under dynamic conditions, such as in a beating heart."
A new biocompatible glue developed by researchers from Boston Children's, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may overcome all of those obstacles.
The glue—a mixture of glycerol and sebacic acid—grew out of the recognition that many creatures in nature, including slugs, spiders and mites, produce secretions that are viscous and repel water, enabling them to attach under wet and dynamic conditions. Thus inspired, the research team—led by del Nido, Jeffrey Karp, PhD, of BWH, and Robert Langer, ScD, of MIT—developed a material with these properties that also is biodegradable, elastic and biocompatible.
According to preclinical animal data published in Science Translational Medicine1, the glue (dubbed a hydrophobic light-activated adhesive) provides a strong, on-demand, blood-resistant seal after five seconds' exposure to ultraviolet light. Rather than binding to the top of tissue, the material infiltrates the tissue's structure, degrading over the course of weeks or months.
The researchers showed that the glue could be applied to large, high-pressure arteries and the heart wall and remain secure. Biodegradable patches adhered with the glue held fast even under increased heart rates and blood pressure.
"This study demonstrated that the adhesive was strong enough to hold tissue and patches onto the heart equivalent to suturing," says the study's co-first author Nora Lang, MD, of Boston Children's Department of Cardiac Surgery. "Also, the adhesive patch is biodegradable and biocompatible, so nothing foreign or toxic stays in the bodies of these patients."
The researchers note that this waterproof, light-activated adhesive will be useful in reducing the invasiveness of cardiac surgical procedures, as well as operating times, postoperative complications, recovery times and patient discomfort. They also note that the glue could have a long list of applications beyond cardiac surgery, including gastrointestinal surgery and trauma care.
"This adhesive platform addresses all of the drawbacks of previous systems in that it works in the presence of blood and moving structures," says del Nido. "It should provide the physician with a completely new, much simpler technology and a new paradigm for tissue reconstruction to improve the quality of life of patients following surgical procedures."
"To our knowledge this is the first demonstration that an adhesive can bond to wet tissues and seal them without being impacted by the presence of blood," says Karp, of BWH's Division of Biomedical Engineering. "Importantly, we showed that the tissue glue can seal holes in high-pressure dynamic tissues including blood vessels and myocardium."
The technology behind the adhesive has been licensed to a start-up company called Gecko Biomedical, based in Paris. The company raised 8 million euros (approximately $11 million) in their Series A financing round and expects to bring the adhesive to the market within two to three years.
1 Lang N, Pereira MN et al. A blood-resistant surgical glue for minimally invasive repair of vessels and heart defects. Sci Transl Med;6(218):218ra6.
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A: I've had to deal with a similar issue, basically mssql inside PHP is totally fine and you have a couple of options about how to do it.
First up, there is the Microsoft php extension that will let you connect to SQL Server instances and execute queries, run procedures etc.. but with the restriction that it will only work on Windows hosts. As this was no good for me (linux hosting) I ended up not using this particular extension, but you can check it out here
If you are using linux hosting, or want to try something else on windows, you can use FreeTDS to extend your php installation with mssql functions. This also works on windows. You can read a bit more about it here - or I found the guide included with Moodle's docs to be really useful, which you can read here.
Also don't worry about having various database connections going at the same time - but do watch out for response times, as this can get really slow if you are using lots of remote connections over a bad line.

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Property Taxes for your home, business or farm can be frustrating and confusing. Knowing your rights and how to protest and appeal can save you money.
If you received notice that the County Assessor is raising the value of your property, it means that your property tax bill is going up as well. What you pay in property taxes is determined by the value of your home (as determined by the County Assessor) times the tax levy for your county.
If you own your home outright, you will be paying more in taxes. If you have a mortgage, that means your monthly house payment will go up to make up for the extra taxes that need to be paid into escrow.
Either way, if you don't agree with the County Assessor's valuation or you think it was made in error, you have certain rights. You can protest the County Assessor's finding to the County Board of Equalization.
If the County Board of Equalization doesn't find in your favor, the next step is to appeal the decision the Tax Equalization and Review Commission (TERC).
The important thing to remember is that there are strict deadlines during each step of the process, so its important to keep track of these dates. You can't appeal to the TERC if you don't file a protest first, so the first important date is June 30.
Fill out and file a protest Form 422 or Form 422A by JUNE 30. Fill out one form for each parcel of land you own and return it to the County Clerk's office on or before June 30.
Be sure to state the reasons why you disagree with the County Assessor's valuation, usually that it is overvalued or is not valued equally as other similar properties in the county.
The Board of Equalization is required to have a hearing on your protest. They are also required to issue a written decision on or before August 2. This date can be extended to August 18 in Douglas, Lancaster or Sarpy Counties, but you need to check if they have passed a resolution to extend it for that year.
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Fellow Woodturners, the next meeting of the Classic City Woodturners is Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at the Lyndon House Arts Center, 293 Hoyt St, Athens. The meeting begins at 6 PM. Gene Wengert is our demonstrator for April. Gene is an expert on woods and is known as the "Wood Doctor". Gene has been a woodworker for over 65 years. He began his career with the US Forest Products Lab in Madison, WI, with work on solar heated lumber dryers. After 15 years there, he transferred to Virginia Tech for 16 years and then to the University of Wisconsin as a wood products extension specialist. He is known for translating complex aspects about wood and wood processing into practical procedures. He has written 9 books about wood processing and over 500 magazine articles.
Since he is known as the Wood Doctor, we can bring questions to our meeting to see if we can get answers or can "stump the Wood Doctor." Topics will include moisture measurement and effects, gluing tips, sandpaper, and wood species. This program will be a discussion and will include identifying species both domestic and exotic. He will present a discussion on moisture content in wood and demonstrate the use of various types of moisture meters. His demonstration will include control of moisture content in turning projects as well as other woodworking projects.
Gene will bring a small solar heated kiln in his pickup truck. Our program will be informative and should be a hands on type of meeting with participation from the group. Remember to bring some wood for the raffle and bring a guest. If you haven't paid your dues it is time to do so.
Fellow Woodturners, our next meeting is March 5, 2019. We meet at 6:00 PM at the Lyndon House Arts Center located at 293 Hoyt Street, Athens. Our demonstrator for the month is Ken Rizza. Ken is the owner of Woodturners Wonders which sells various woodturning supplies and tools.. He will demonstrate sharpening carbide bits used in carbide turning tools. This time the demonstration will be hands on so any person who wants to sharpen whatever tool they bring can do so. Sharpening skews should be of particularly interest. The demonstration will also include honing. Members should bring a couple of tools but don't monopolize the entire time with tool sharpening.
The demonstration will show sharpening using CBN wheels and grinder and then participants sharpen their tools, especially skews as they are difficult to sharpen. There will be a chuck with a bowl blank partially turned to demonstrate sanding tools. Additionally Ken will show his latest respiratory protection gear, especially the new Sundstrom half face respirator with either particulate or vapor filters. Also super glue products, lathe lamps, which are LED and have a high light output and sanding tools . There will be an opportunity to take orders or buy various items Ken will have available.
Remember to bring something for the raffle and a friend. If you haven't paid dues for 2019 bring your check book. Individual memberships are $30 and family memberships $35.
Fellow Woodturners, our next CCW meeting is Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at the Lyndon House Arts Center, 293 Hoyt St, Athens. The meeting begins at 6 PM and concludes around 8:30 PM. The demonstrator for February is Marvin Payne, a member of the CCW.
Marvin will be doing a demonstration on turning a natural edge winged bowl. Not only will he turn this from a piece of log but he will also demonstrate safety tips and techniques that need to be followed. By following these safety tips and techniques the process of turning a winged bowl can be done by most turners.
Marvin has made this presentation to various clubs in this area and has worked with this technique at John C Campbell Folk School on five different occasions including as an instructor and also at Arrowmont under the guidance of David Ellsworth.
As we begin a new year, it's time to pay 2019 dues. Individual dues is $30 and a real bargain of $35 for a family membership.
Remember to invite a guest and bring something for the raffle. This should be a good demonstration so he is hoping for a big crowd.
Due to New Years falling on our meeting date we will not meet in January. Our next meeting will be the first Tuesday in February.
Justin sent out an email for a headcount. Those of us attending, it is Tuesday, Dec 11, 2018, 6 PM at the clubhouse in the Greystone Subdivision (where we have met for the past several years), cost: $10 person.


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Q: identifying source of issue with java_home environment variable I am trying to run a hadoop cluster like this in the latest version of ubuntu 64bit (vm):
hadoop launch-cluster MyCluster 1

this is the output that i get:
/usr/bin/hadoop: line 320: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/hadoop: line 390: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java: No such file or directory

I am setting this JAVA_HOME in /usr/bin/hadoop this way export JAVA_HOME=$(readlink -f /usr/bin/java | sed "s:bin/java::")
When I check the value of JAVA_HOME, i get /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/
line 320 of the file is:
JAVA_PLATFORM=`CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH} ${JAVA} -Xmx32m ${HADOOP_JAVA_PLATFORM_OPTS} org.apache.hadoop.util.PlatformName | sed -e "s/ /_/g"`

and line 390:
exec "$JAVA" -Dproc_$COMMAND $JAVA_HEAP_MAX $HADOOP_OPTS -classpath "$CLASSPATH" $CLASS "$@"

Why am I getting this message? /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java: No such file or directory

A: The value of $JAVA is probably set somewhere in your script to point to an older Java 6 binary. In this case it points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java which causes the shell to fail when running the commands. Set the $JAVA variable to point to the right location of your Java 7 binary and the problem should be solved.


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Q: Unable to Transform XML using XSLT I want to transfor xml using xslt. Below is the xml and the output I want. I just want to select the Question tags with their attributes and NOT the QuestionText or Answer tags. How do I do this? Do I need to create a template to just select the Question tags? If so, how do I go about it?
xml:
<Upsert xmlns="http://talemetry.com/">
      <Locale>fr</Locale>
      <LanguageAware>true</LanguageAware>
      <Question active="true" question_id="NOV22-Question" read_only="false" show_on_profile="true" type="multiple_choice_multi_answer">
        <QuestionText>Please select your list of Achievements</QuestionText>
        <RegEx>[0-9]+</RegEx>
        <Answers sort_by="text">
          <Answer answer_id="BOD" is_correct="true" seq="#">
            <AnswerText>Board of Directors Appointment</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="CMT" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Certificate of Merit Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="CSS" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Community Service Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="DCN" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Dale Carnegie</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="DEA" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Dean's Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="DLA" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Distinguished Lectureship Awrd</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="EDU" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Education Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="HDD" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Honorary Doctorate Degree</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="MBE" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Member of the British Empire</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="NMS" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>National Merit Scholarship</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="OBE" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Order of the British Empire</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="OCA" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Outstanding Contributor Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="PRE" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>President's Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="PUB" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Publication Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="RPG" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Research & Publications Grant</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="RYA" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Retiree of the Year Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="SCL" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Sales Excellence Club</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="SER" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Service Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="SFT" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Safety Prevention Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="SPY" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Sales Person of the Year</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="TECHY" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Techy Gold Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="TST" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Toastmasters</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="VYA" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Volunteer of the Year Award</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
        </Answers>
      </Question>
<Question active="true" question_id="EEO_CommunityNI" read_only="false" show_on_profile="false" type="multiple_choice_single_answer">
        <QuestionText>What is your Community Religion (NI)?</QuestionText>
        <Answers sort_by="text">
          <Answer answer_id="CA" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Catholic</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="PR" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Protestant</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
          <Answer answer_id="UD" is_correct="true">
            <AnswerText>Undetermined/Other</AnswerText>
          </Answer>
        </Answers>
      </Question>
    </Upsert>

output:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:hr="http://ns.hr-xml.org" xmlns:m="http://peoplesoft.com/HCM/Schema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <soap:Header>
    <AuthHeader xmlns="http://talemetry.com/">
      <Username>blah-blah</Username>
      <Password>blah-blah</Password>
    </AuthHeader>
  </soap:Header>
  <soap:Body>
    <Delete xmlns="http://talemetry.com/">
      <Locale>fr</Locale>
      <LanguageAware>true</LanguageAware>
      <Question active="true" question_id="NOV22-Question" read_only="false" show_on_profile="true" type="multiple_choice_multi_answer">
      <Question active="true" question_id="EEO_CommunityNI" read_only="false" show_on_profile="false" type="multiple_choice_single_answer">
</Delete>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

current xslt:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns="http://ns.hr-xml.org/2007-04-15"
    xmlns:hr="http://ns.hr-xml.org/2007-04-15"
    xmlns:tal="http://talemetry.com/"
    exclude-result-prefixes="tal">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns=""
            xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
            xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
            xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
            <SOAP-ENV:Header>
                <AuthHeader xmlns="http://talemetry.com/">
                    <Username>${param_cred_api_client_id}</Username>
                    <Password>${param_cred_api_client_secret}</Password>
                </AuthHeader>
            </SOAP-ENV:Header>
            <SOAP-ENV:Body>
            <Delete xmlns="http://talemetry.com/">
                <Locale>
                 <xsl:value-of select="tal:Upsert/tal:Locale"/>
                </Locale>
                <LanguageAware>true</LanguageAware>
                    <xsl:copy-of select="tal:Upsert/tal:Question"></xsl:copy-of>
            </Delete>
            </SOAP-ENV:Body>
        </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

A: AFAICT, you want to do something like:
XSLT 1.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:tal="http://talemetry.com/"
exclude-result-prefixes="tal">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="/tal:Upsert">
    <soap:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:hr="http://ns.hr-xml.org" xmlns:m="http://peoplesoft.com/HCM/Schema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <soap:Header>
            <AuthHeader xmlns="http://talemetry.com/">
                <Username>blah-blah</Username>
                <Password>blah-blah</Password>
            </AuthHeader>
        </soap:Header>
        <soap:Body>
            <Delete xmlns="http://talemetry.com/">
                <xsl:copy-of select="tal:Locale | tal:LanguageAware"/>
                <xsl:for-each select="tal:Question">
                    <xsl:copy>
                        <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
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Vaszilevszkij orosz ortodox nyolcgyermekes családba született negyedik gyermekként. Édesapja Mihail Alekszandrovics Vaszilevszkij pap volt, édesanyja Nagyezda Ivanovna Szokolova egy pap lánya. Családja nagyon szegény volt és már kora gyermekkorától mezőgazdasági munkákat végzett testvéreivel, hogy meg tudjanak élni. A családja az anyagi nehézségek ellenére mégis vállalta, hogy teológiai tanulmányokat folytathasson. Az első világháború kitörése után azonban kilépett a szemináriumból, és 1915-ben a rá váró papi élet helyett katonának jelentkezett. A tiszti tanfolyam gyorsított változatát végezte el a jó eszű fiú, és zászlósi rendfokozatban került frontszolgálatra. Az első világháborút végigszolgálta, ahol század- és zászlóaljparancsnoki beosztásokat töltött be. Az 1917-es októberi orosz forradalom után 1919-ben belépett a Vörös Hadseregbe. E döntését családja visszatetszéssel fogadta, emiatt megszakította velük a kapcsolatot, amelyet csak 1940-ben, Sztálin kérésére állított helyre.

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A cári hadsereg tisztjéből a Vörös Hadsereg vezérkari főnökévé emelkedő marsall karrierjét a történelem eseményei irányították. A második világháborús szovjet hős az 1920-as években a polgárháború vörös hadseregében alegység- és különítmény-parancsnokként harcolt a fehérek ellen.

Katonai pályája 1937-től kezdett emelkedni, amikor a vezérkar tagja lett. 1942-től 1945-ig vezérkari főnök és a honvédelmi népbiztos (Sztálin) helyettese volt. Jelentős szerepet vitt a sztálingrádi ellentámadás megtervezésében, a hadműveleteket Voronovval és Zsukovval dolgozták ki. Másik nagy feladata a kurszki ütközet előkészítése volt, melynek során legfontosabb döntése az volt, hogy meg kell várni, amíg a németek támadnak, csak azután kell ellencsapást indítani. Sokszor látogatott ki az első vonalakba, Szevasztopolnál meg is sebesült. 1945-ben Csernyahovszkij halála után a 3. Belorusz Front parancsnoka lett, majd a Távol-Keletre vezényelték. Mandzsúriában és Koreában a Japán Birodalom elleni hadműveleteket irányította. 1949–1953 között a Szovjetunió honvédelmi minisztere volt. Élete utolsó éveit szolgálati teendőitől visszavonulva, emlékiratai megírásának szentelte. "A vezérkar élén" (Дело всей жизни) című visszaemlékezését a Zrínyi–Kossuth kiadó jelentette meg 1975-ben.

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The future of the film industry lies in the hands of adolescent women like Shahadi Wright Joseph: The 13-year-old plays your average teenage-girl-turned-dystopian-survivalist in Jordan Peele's Us, as well as the young and courageous Nala in the upcoming remake of The Lion King. With major star power and a collected yet genuine attitude, Joseph has the grace and talent to truly make it in Hollywood.
Still, the Gen-Z actress keeps it real: She runs around New York City with her friends, she loves clothing, from Forever 21 to Balenciaga, and she stans her co-star Lupita Nyong'o (which who doesn't?!). Below, we talk to the rising star about the future of the entertainment industry, her upcoming role in The Lion King, and more.
You did a lot of work on Broadway before getting into film. How did the transition from stage to film challenge you?
"Musical theater and film are so vastly different. With film, you can experiment a little more with the way you act. It was definitely a little bit challenging when I first started, but I think it all came together really well. I will always and forever love musical theater, though, it's just a big part of my life."
You've worked alongside modern industry legends like Jordan Peele, Winston Duke, and Lupita Nyong'o. What have you learned from them?
"I've definitely learned a lot from meeting Lupita and Winston because they're such amazing actors, and Jordan is such an inventive director. The way that they get into their characters was really unique and interesting to see, and I'm definitely going to use what they all taught me in the future. It's been working for them for a while, so it'll probably help me too, right?"
It's really cool that your major film debut was in a horror film. Do you think that gave you some more creative freedom?
"It's one thing going from musical theater to film; it's another going from musical theater to horror film."
What was the scariest part about filming Us?
"Probably the times that we had to shoot at night. I always felt like something was going to just pop out of the bushes; maybe it's just my fear of the dark or being alone, but I think a lot of people felt it as well."
How do you see your generation changing the film and entertainment industries?
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You're also starring in the remake of The Lion King. How does it feel to be a part of such a pivotal film, especially since different generations have such strong ties to it?
"I love The Lion King; when I first watched it I fell in love with it just like everyone else. With my role of Nala in her younger years, I set out to create a character that will inspire little girls the same way that character inspired me when I was younger. She's adventurous, and she's so empowering even in her youngest form, so it's an honor to be able to play her."
How do you want to leave your mark on film in the coming years?
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You mentioned the possibility of doing creative work in the industry. Would you ever want to dabble in directing or writing outside of your acting career?
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You're from Brooklyn. How do you think New York has influenced you?
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Who are some of your biggest role models at the moment?
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How about your favorite style and beauty icons?
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Before I lay it out here for all the world (well, the few of you who read this blog, thanks girls!), I'm not a UFO enthusiast or nut. I'm a healthy sceptic, with a dose of "prove it and I'll go along for the ride" thrown in there. Just so you know, I'm not a huge fan of little green men.
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One night, when the air was warm with coming summer, we saw a huge circle of inordinately bright lights hovering low over the road. This is a four-laned, busily traveled highway. I was sure there was a logical explanation, until the hovering object moved up vertically, then turned at a 90 degree angle. The girls and I stared hard, discussed the object, and decided that yes, indeed, we'd been initiated into the UFO club. Very cool. Nothing earth-shattering, but extremely interesting.
I was surprised no one wrote in the newspaper about the flying object. Nor was there even a whisper on TV news until the next evening, when a newscaster reported multitudinous reports of an unidentified flying object. He also reported that no one from the airport acknowledged ownership of this object. Then he smiled, a tight little smile that said he knew more than he was reporting, and skipped on to another story.
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Brian Keene's History of Horror Fiction, Chapter Eight: The Monk and 1796 Cancel Culture
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on January 24, 2020 January 23, 2020 Categories Brian Keene's History of Horror FictionTags Brian Keene, Columns, History of Horror Fiction, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk
In our last column, we discussed Walpole's The Castle of Otranto—a novel written in 1764 that merged supernatural situations with realistic characters in a natural setting. I mentioned that while it was inarguably the world's first supernatural horror novel, the marketing category of Horror wasn't invented until the Eighties, so it was instead categorized as a "Gothic."
Soon after, the Gothic literary genre took the world by storm. Between 1776 and 1820, hundreds of Gothic horror novels were published. We would have to devote several chapters of this series to examining them all in detail, so instead, I'll focus on some of the more notable contributions. Worthy of mention is The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve (1778), Vathek by William Beckford (1786), The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (1794), The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest by Peter Teuthoid (1794), The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom (1798), The Animated Skeleton by Anonymous (1798), The Witch of Ravensworth by George Brewer (1807), The Demon of Sicily by Edward Montague (1807), and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1817).
As I pointed out in our last column, Walpole's novel is one of two that has inspired much that has come since, beginning with Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Allan Poe (all of whom we'll be getting to soon).
The other novel that serves as the genre's ancestral blueprint is The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis.
Up until the publication of The Monk in March of 1796, the Gothics mostly followed Walpole's formula. The books usually featured a mystery or threat to the main character, an evil villain threatening the virtue of a virginal female, supernatural elements such as a ghost or an ancestral curse, and secret passages in crumbling mansions or castles. That template carried over into the next century, as evidenced by the bulk of the stories published in the pulps during the 1930s.
But with The Monk, Matthew Gregory Lewis took Walpole's formula, as well as the influence of Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, and ran them through a meat grinder. The result was the most shocking novel of the century. If The Castle of Otranto was the world's first horror novel, then The Monk was the world's first extreme horror novel. As author J.F. Gonzalez once said, "In some ways, The Monk can be seen as the entire hardcore oeuvre of Edward Lee and Wrath James White of 1796. It was certainly hardcore for its time, and as a result it was banned and suppressed in later editions."
All of the standard Gothic trappings are present—the secret passageways and crumbling estates and maidens in peril. But Lewis turns these things on their head, drenching the novel in buckets of sadism, satanism, and supernatural events that aren't explained away by the book's end. The story consists of two main intermingled plots. The one I want to focus on for our purposes is that of the main protagonist, Ambrosio. He is a respectable and devout clergyman who ends up being seduced by a demon. Under this supernatural influence, Ambrosio kills his mother and rapes his sister on a bed of rotting corpses. (And that's not even the most shocking rape scene in the book, which is reserved for the equally shocking brutalization of a nun).
Lewis wrote The Monk at age twenty. The first edition was published anonymously, with only his initials in the preface. The novel became a best-seller for its time, and Lewis then added his name as the author for the second edition (published in October of 1796). But with that came notoriety and 1700s cancel culture. Some critics (including the esteemed Samuel Taylor Coleridge) and notable public figures savaged the book, taking issues with its anti-Catholic and sexual themes, as well as the depravity depicted. But not content to comment on the work itself, they criticized the author as well, accusing him of immorality and even plagiarism. The pressure weighed heavily on young Lewis and was a great source of distress for his entire family. In 1798, he wrote an apologetic letter to his father, and promised to make reparations.
With the publication of The Monk's fourth printing, Lewis took it upon himself to completely revise the novel, expunging every controversial scene and changing any objectionable word. For example, Ambrosio, who was described as a "ravisher" in the first three printings, is now an "intruder" or "betrayer." His "lust" is changed to "desire," and his sexual deviancies, having been previously described as him "indulging in excesses" in the previous printings, are now described as Ambrosio "committing an error." He also wrote an apology which served as a new preface for the fourth edition, stating in part:
I solemnly declare, that when I published the work I had no idea that its publication could be prejudicial; if I was wrong, the error proceeded from my judgment, not from my intention. Without entering into the merits of the advice which it proposes to convey, or attempting to defend (what I now condemn myself) the language and manner in which that advice was delivered, I solemnly declare, that in writing the passage which regards the Bible (consisting of a single page, and the only passage which I ever wrote on the subject) I had not the most distant intention to bring the sacred Writings into contempt, and that, had I suspected it of producing such an effect, I should not have written the paragraph.
Author Matthew Gregor Lewis
Lewis went on to have a good life, and had many adventures and experiences, including spending the summer of 1816 with Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelly in Geneva, where the three of them recounted ghost stories to each other. But the controversy caused by The Monk never quite left him, and the attacks on his character—not on the work but on the author himself—never stopped. Indeed, after his death, one posthumous criticism (published in The Courier) stated:
He devoted the first fruits of his mind to the propagation of evil, and the whole long harvest was burnt up … There is a moral in the life of this man … He was a reckless defiler of the public mind; a profligate, he cared not how many were to be undone when he drew back the curtain of his profligacy; he had infected his reason with the insolent belief that the power to corrupt made the right, and that conscience might be laughed, so long as he could evade law. The Monk was an eloquent evil; but the man who compounded it knew in his soul that he was compounding poison for the multitude, and in that knowledge he sent it into the world.
Sadly, Lewis was not the only horror author to suffer personal attacks for their work. It's a cautionary tale that we see play out again and again throughout this trip through time. The names and venues and delivery methods may change, but there will always be those who cannot differentiate between the author and their work.
Despite this. Lewis's contributions to the genre cannot be overstated. Nor can the influence of The Monk, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and The Castle of Otranto. The former went on to inspire film and literary adaptations, as well as an opera and a Batman graphic novel. And the three, as the linchpins of the Gothic genre, went on to inspire countless novels. As I said earlier, from 1800 to 1820, hundreds of similar books were published. Often, they were written by sub-standard authors looking to cash in on the craze. They were often printed on cheap paper and featured lurid covers. Costing one shilling, they became known as "shilling shockers."
The plots, the production, the attacks on the authors, and even those lurid covers are things that we will see echoed again and again as we move forward through time, beginning with our next stop—1812 and the Brothers Grimm.
Brian Keene is the author of over fifty books, as well as hundreds of short stories and dozens of comic books. He also hosts the popular podcast The Horror Show with Brian Keene. The father of two sons, Keene lives in rural Pennsylvania.
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Mark Orr says:
Well done, as always. I actually count three operas inspired by The Monk; Edward Loder's Raymond & Agnes (1855), Gounod's La Nonne Sanglante (The Bloody Nun) of 1854 and Donizetti's Maria de Rudenz, 1838. I've found an audio recording of the Loder online (in addition to a couple on YouTube), but the other two have thus far escaped me. There is a DVD available of the Donizetti, a performance at the Opera Comique of Paris from just a couple of years back, that I'm considering purchasing. There are also several films, none of which appear to be available on YouTube, including a 1990 version starring the Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann.
Looking forward to what you unveil about my favorite German brothers. I read the Märchen in the original language in college, back when my German was much less rusty than it is now. 🙂
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