Hey Friends! As a departure from my usual writing that tends to be very theoretical and big picture, I felt like I should put something together that was much more practical and applied for this week. Recently, I took some time off grinding Ranked, and made a run at Master for Draft. I built up quite the stockpile of Gold, so it seemed like it was about time.
On RNGEternal we have a Draft Tier list. This is a great resource for people starting out drafting this format, but as any experienced limited player knows, synergy is a key part of winning in draft. If you look at different limited formats, there are varying levels of synergy that are supported. Sometimes a format just rewards you for picking a collection of the best cards available, and building a reasonable curve. This is true of Hearthstone's Arena environment, and many Magic sets, especially Core Sets. Other formats reward decks that have a plan. Cube draft is famous for being very rewarding for high synergy decks. I would describe the Eternal draft environment as being a bit more synergistic than the average Magic format, and way more synergistic than Hearthstone.
Description: what defines it? What does it do? Outstanding characteristics of the deck.
How do you get into the deck? Each deck has something of a "path" that you take to get into it. You start off by taking a certain type of card, and then you take some of a second type of card, and now you find yourself in a specific deck. This is really helpful for understanding what direction to push in as the draft unfolds.
Difficulty to play/draft: not all archetypes are created the same in terms of difficulty in drafting or playing. Are you drafting Rakano Aggro? Well pick the cards that say "Warcry" or "Deal X damage" and you will be in a good spot. Are you drafting 4 Faction Time control? Well, you will have a tougher time. I will be ranking these decks in terms of the difficulty to both put together and play.
Power ranking: this will give you my own subjective take on which decks are the most powerful most consistently. I want to make clear that a good version of any of these decks can reach 7 wins, so you should not go out of your way to go crazy and force one of these archetypes. This is also a format that rewards finding the right lane I have found, as piles of cards will usually lose to decks with a plan. The ranking is out of the 10 decks I have presented here. I imagine that this will be the section I get the most disagreement on, so don't take my ranking as "Truth". Discuss with others and see what the consensus is!
Cards that go up/down in value: the draft tier list has been assembled as if you are picking for pack 1 pick one. As soon as you take a card, the value of everything you see changes. If drafting were as simple as just choosing the best card in each pack it would be a lot easier to do! Here I will specify a few cards that I noticed which tend to go up/down in value in each archetype. I want to make clear that when I say a card "goes up in value" I'm not saying you should be taking it over premium removal, and if a card goes down in value I'm not saying it is unplayable. Just think of these as adjusting the grade of a card from B to B+ or B- for example.
As always, if you feel like I have missed some archetype that you have had some success with, or that there is some card I missed, be sure to leave a comment below or on Reddit! Let's get started with one of my favorite archetypes!
Combrei Aggro – Once upon a time this was a reasonable archetype, but it has been nerfed a number of times. It started with Unlock Potential moving to 3 power, but was totally crippled when Vodakhan's Staff moved to rare and Gilded Glaive was rebalanced. Some Ageless Mentor + Karmic Guardian decks can pull off a reasonable beatdown, but the strong versions of these decks are few and far between.
Elysian Echo – The echo units in Elysian are very good, and the enablers for echo synergies are pretty OK, so why isn't there a good "Elysian Echo" deck? Well, I feel this is often just a sub-theme in Elysian midrange decks, and it is unnecessary to build an entire deck around just Echo synergies because there are just not enough Echo cards. I will be touching on this in the Elysian Midrange section.
"Flyers" – There are flyer-heavy versions of both Feln and Elysian. Given that there isn't really any great "flyers" pay-offs since the change to Skycrag Wyvarch I don't really think there is point in pushing a specifically flyer heavy deck. For now I would just focus on picking good cards, and if you end up with a lot of good flyers, that's cool.
Stonescar Tokens/Aggro – I have never been crazy about this deck. The tokens theme does not have quite enough support to come together consistently, and the pure aggro version often just feels like a worse version of Rakano aggro or Stonescar Midrange. This deck is buildable, but I would rather be in one of these other archetypes.
Most of my archetypes are going to stick to 2 Faction pairs, but this is the main 3+ faction variant that people can draft consistently. Time has some great fixing options, so we get to take advantage of it a play a 3+ faction "good stuff" deck. The most common base for this is Elysian splashing Justice or Shadow, but you can really run any combination you like when you have enough fixing. I have personally have gotten 7-wins with 4 Faction decks, and I know of others that have made it to 7-wins with true 5 Faction brews. Pretty sick!
How do you get in the deck?
It may seem obvious, but I feel like the answer is just "Time is open". If you have a good flow of time cards to make up the backbone of your deck, as well as some of the Faction Fixing Strangers, and suddenly you are passed a 5th pick Feeding time, or open a Worldpyre Pheonix, or some other random stupid bomb rare. If you are still early in the draft, it is easy to just shift to building a Time-based deck splashing all sorts of nonsense. If I start out in Time I am usually looking to move into this kind of deck.
This is a deck that really rewards people who know the value of cards. What is worth splashing for? How many sources do I need to splash for my bombs? How much early game do I really need? If your deck is all Faction Fixing Strangers and early game blockers it doesn't matter that you can assemble your influence requirements early, since other decks will overpower you, while if you have a mitt-full of bombs it doesn't matter if you can't cast them. If your first foray into such a deck is a failure don't feel too bad, as it takes some adjustment. This deck is a test of your greed, as an appropriately greedy deck will be insanely powerful, but an overly greedy deck will be non-functional.
A well-built version of the time-based 3+ Faction deck is exceptionally powerful. You get to play all the best cards that you see in the draft, and end up with a late game that is truly unreal. That being said, since we are grading the "average" power level of decks, this archetype takes a major hit from its high variability. Poor versions of this deck will sputter and spurt through the early turns, and often find themselves too far behind to leverage their powerful top end. This is the highest variance deck in my opinion.
Although I believe many people do not take influence-fixing effects highly enough, this deck really needs it. My rule of thumb in splashing is as follows: 1 card needs 3 sources, 2 cards need 5 sources, and 3 or more cards need at least 6 sources. Remember, you want to "splash" cards that are good at any point in the game. Cards like Permafrost are great early or late, while splashing cards like Direwood Beastcaller are not worth the effort, even though the ceiling on the card is high if you can get it to work.
For Bombs and Removal, you want to prioritize stuff with single influence requirements. In a deck such as this it is often much easier to hit TTFJP than TTFF. You will also need to decide which Factions are light splashes versus dedicated parts of the deck, as it will inform which removal and bombs you will be taking.
Cards that go down in value: Initiate of the Sands, Minotaur Grunt, Temple Scribe, Off-faction early game blockers.
Any reasonable version of 3+ Faction Time will have more than enough top-end to shake a stick at, the issue is getting there. Any early game cards that do not block well are worth skipping. Initiate of the Sands is a particularly bad offender here. You are usually bottle-necked on influence requirements rather than maximum power. Putting a 1/1 into your deck that might let you slip 1 card into play a bit early is fairly unexciting. I would usually rather a Faction-Fixing Stranger.
One common trap people will fall into is playing early game blockers from off-factions. Maybe you have some sweet shadow cards for some of your top end. You still should avoid things like Direfang Spider, despite the fact that it is a good early blocker. Unless you are very heavy in Shadow you are very unlikely to play it in the first few turns of the game.
For my money, this is the most consistently powerful deck you have access to when drafting. I would consider this to be a tempo deck, that is aiming to use a combination of evasive threats and removal to connect with Infiltrate units. Turn 2 Lethrai Ranger into turn 3 Cobalt Acolyte is a frequent opening that is very tough to beat. The best part about this deck is how it does not rely on super key cards. Don't have Lethrai Rangers? Gorgon Fanatics and Serpent Trainers will do. No Cobalt Acolytes or Jarrall's Frostkins? Flash Freeze and Levitate can do the trick. The depth in these factions is pretty astonishing.
You may start with a Permafrost or a Bomb like Impending Doom, but soon you start getting passed Lethrai Rangers and Gorgon Fanatics. These Infiltrate units are the real priority, as the secret is certainly out how strong this archetype is. Once you have gathered 1 or 2 premium removal spells and some great early game threats, you just need a handful of enablers and you are on to the next pack! Any time you see any premium Infiltrate threat past the 3rd pick, you should start thinking about moving in.
As I said above, there are TONS of interchangeable pieces. As long as you have a reasonable number of threats enablers and removal your deck will be good. Gameplay is a little bit harder as you will need to customize answers and threats to a given situation, but it is certainly not overly difficult to play.
Because of the redundancy in the available cards, as well as the premium rares and uncommons that fit into this archetype so well, this deck both has a high ceiling and a high floor. If you have played with a good version of this deck you know the feeling of just establishing a great position as early as turn 3, and knowing your opponent will need to string together some premium cards to get back into the game. There is no question to me that this is the most consistently powerful deck in the draft format.
You are obviously looking for a base of strong infiltrate cards. Blood Beetle and Yeti Spy are a little bit unexciting for what you are up to, but other than that you probably just want to take anything with that word on it. Beyond this, you want to put a premium on the most efficient infiltrate enablers. My personal ordering would be Cobalt Acolyte as the best, followed by Jarral's Frostkin, Levitate, Flash Freeze, Trickster's Cloak and Ghostform. Really you want to avoid Flash Freeze and anything below it, but they work. Dark Return also has some nice synergy in the deck as you can rebuy units like Lethrai Ranger that have Infiltrate buffs and retrigger them.
There are a handful of defensive cards in Feln that don't quite do the trick. You can't use Execute to clear out a troublesome blocker, so it is not as exciting of a pick up as it would be in a more controlling deck. Defensive units like Stonescar Magus or Dark Wisp are not terribly synergistic with what you are up to, although they go up in value if you are particularly high on Flyers. You can play finishers like Sapphire Drake or Horsesnatcher Bat, but they can end up clogging up your hand. Make sure you don't go too deep on this sort of card if you can help it.
I believe I like this archetype more than the average person, and probably more than I should. Of the two Feln archetypes I feel this comes together less often, is more dependant on high-power rares and uncommons. All that being said, when a good version of this deck comes together, you have an extremely powerful deck that can take on the world.
The name sorta says all you need to know. This is a classic control deck through and through. Card draw, defensive units, removal spells, and kill your opponent with some finisher. The difficulty is finding the right mix, as well as fighting for the key removal spells that make the deck playable. If you do not have multiple copies of fairly unconditional removal spells you probably have a bad version of the deck.
I find there are some people who don't respect Feln top-end cards. I have seen Umbren Reapers and Thunderstrike Dragons being passed in pack 1 which is insane to me. I guess some people just don't like playing control? However it happens you can either open one of these control finishers, or some premium removal spell (Feeding Time, Deathstrike, and the like) and get passed the other half. From here you just want to fill out your curve with defensive units and a bit of card draw and you have a control deck!
Finding the right mix of effects is very difficult because your most important cards (removal spells) are sought after by everyone. If there is no good removal spell or curve topping bomb in the pack, you will often face tough decisions about whether you want to choose card draw, defensive units or mediocre finishers. Finding the right balance between these effects will be challenging, and only experience with the archetype will guide you to an understanding of which to prioritize when.
The actual games are also challenging as you must meter out removal, trade resources, and set up 2-for-1s carefully throughout the game, while staying alive. There is always the chance that an opponent has the wrong threat for your removal, like a Karmic Guardian suited up with weapons to dodge both your Lightning Strike and Execute.
I talked above about these bomb cards. There are actually a wide range of them you could have access to. Hatchery Raider is great, Dinomancer is serviceable, Recurring Nightmare can work too, Touch of the Umbren is surprisingly good… You would like to have some of these in your deck, but Sapphire Drakes and Horsesnatcher Bats will function as a substitute.
Execute and Lightning Strike are playable in any deck that can cast them, but they really shine here. You expect to be on the back foot throughout much of the game, so these spells will be castable, unlike in more aggressive Feln variants where they can sometimes be turned off for several turns. Having all your removal be reactive does have some issues, as it means you cannot hit certain targets (Execute struggles to hit Endurance units for example), so you will need more proactive removal as well.
Sweepers like Plague and Storm are obviously the nuts in a deck like this. They can often be a 2-for-1 at a power advantage, which is everything a control deck has ever wanted. A late Storm might be a good reason to move into this archetype.
There are a selection of defensive units in Feln that fit into this archetype well. Stonescar Magus has impressed me a great deal after giving it a fair try, and Yeti Troublemaker represents a slow-motion 2-for-1.
Card draw is also important, but difficult to get right. I have gone through a lot of drafts where I seem to get non-stop Wisdom of the Elders, or I see none of them. A Scheme is also serviceable in this role, as it can help you dig for a clutch Feeding Time or Permafrost, but it does not help with just building an overwhelming ad advantage in resources the way Wisdom does. I feel like every control deck wants about 2 or 3 of this kind of effect.
These are all fairly obvious. These units favour attacking, which is not what you are up to. Ranger you should be playing still since the card is so powerful, and is a great blocker if it is able to connect. Beetle is barely playable in dedicated aggro, so it really misses the mark in a control deck. Xenan Destroyer can gain some life, and opponents must often attack into it just to maintain an aggressive stance, but it certainly does not shine when you lack some of the tools to defend it.
All the Infiltrate enablers like Rapid Shot, Flash Freeze and Cobalt Acolyte go down in value. I still play Acolyte in these types of decks, as you often want to build a flying blocker, but she certainly is less exciting here than in something like Feln Aggro.
Although there is technically a Stonescar Aggro deck that is draftable, I'm not crazy about it, as it just feels like a worse version of either Stonescar Midrange or Rakano for the most part. If I am drafting Stonescar I want to be building a Smuggler's Stash deck. The power this adds to your deck is difficult to overstate. The first half of the game you trade resources, and getting in some early beat down. Then, in the mid game, you can cast Smuggler's stash for full value and bury your opponent!
If Stonescar is open, you want to move toward this deck. Smuggler's Stash in a good Stonescar deck is the most powerful thing outside of Legends and Rares. As soon as you find yourself taking a handful of Fire and Shadow cards you should start thinking about your weapon count. I think the average Stash deck wants about 6 Weapons, with Granite Acolyte and Obsidian Golem each counting as about a half a Weapon. Don't settle for crappy weapons like Heavy Axe – it is better to only get 3 cards off a Stash than dilute your deck with crappy cards.
The drafting here is not too difficult, but the balance between Weapons, Units and Spells is harder to strike in this deck than most. If your balance is off your Stash will not give you the card volume you need, or you will be left with hands of all Katanas and no targets. Obsidian Golem and Granite Acolyte are just outstanding in this deck because they pull such fantastic double duty.
Giving a good-stuff midrange deck a powerful draw spell of the late game apparently leads to some messed up stuff. I'm not sure whether Stonescar or Feln has the best removal mix, but they are very close, and both are miles ahead of everyone else. That is one of the main reasons why these decks are at the top of the power rankings. Although some draws with this deck can kinda fail to come together if you draw too much top end in the opening hand, that is a danger of any midrange deck. I also just love drawing so many cards off of Stash. It feels filthy.
You need to get your weapon count high enough to make Stash work at its best, and this is best accomplished by playing a couple (mediocore) Relic weapons. Does it feel great to Magma Javelin down your opponent's 3-drop? Not really. But if you get a second crack at it later in the game you are fairly happy.
Oni Quartermaster can also shine here. It is not uncommon for her to draw you 2 or 3 cards over the course of a game. Be careful though; one of the greatest dangers of the archetype is putting too much energy into maximizing value when you are getting beaten down.
It is important to have some top end beef to finish out games. Nothing is better at this than Warband Chieftain, although Frontline Cyclops and Horesnatcher Bat are functional alternatives.
Remember, this is a midrange deck. Although it is possible to get off to fast starts with Oni Ronin into Obsidian Golem on the play, you are not planning to beat down every game. Any card that only works when attacking is not worth including in your deck.
That's it for today! Join me tomorrow when I talk about the next 6 archetypes!
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Made my first 15-minute block today (see above). My block is 12" square. Not sure I have the technique down just right just yet, but I'll keep at it. It's so much fun. Can't wait to have enough blocks for a quilt.
Keep trying new things, and it may lead you to something new and fabulous!
Thanks for the tips, Victoria.
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Retailers warn of Christmas tree shortages amid supply chain chaos
Christmas tree retailers are struggling with supplies
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As the HGV driver shortage continues to cause chaos for supply chains across the UK, hitting everything from supermarkets to petrol stations, Christmas tree retailers have emerged as the latest industry to raise concerns ahead of the festive season.
The perfect storm of Covid, Brexit and the number of retiring drivers have all been cited as reasons for the problems, with the Road Haulage Association saying the 100,000 more HGV drivers are needed to meet demand in the UK.
It was previously reported that the UK could face a real Christmas tree shortage in the wake of these problems.
Families may think they can avoid the issue by buying an artificial tree, but online home store Christow has warned that it may be easier said than done.
Josh Piercy told The Times that, despite ordering back in January, only 60% of the artificial trees Christow has ordered have been supplied so far due to production problems in a factory in Asia.
"They are manufactured in Vietnam and they had all sorts of Covid restrictions there," he said.
This, coupled with the shipping industry's delays, congestion at Britain's ports and the shortage of lorry drivers means there could be a significant shortage, though Mr Piercy said he was "hopeful we'll be able to satisfy our customers."
According to the British Christmas Tree Growers Association (BCTGA), the UK buys around eight to 10 million real Christmas trees a year, importing between one and three million of those from other European countries.
Christmas tree retailer ChristmasTrees.co.uk says that difficulties getting real trees into Britain from abroad is likely to give rise to a festive shortage.
The company adds that it is 'harder than ever' to find the labour needed to look after and harvest trees.
Mark Rofe, owner of the online store, told BirminghamLive : "We've spoken to our UK growers and they are all facing the same challenges.
"They are seeing an increase in demand for their product, especially from clients who would usually import their trees from Europe, but are keen to avoid any red-tape that could increase costs or cause delays for what is of course a highly seasonal and time-sensitive business."
Mark added: "Our main grower supplies the market with 100,000 Christmas trees each year and employs between 50 and 70 workers during the peak of the season.
"In previous years they were reliant on foresters, mostly from Eastern Europe who would come over for the harvest and then would return to their home country afterwards, but since the Brexit transition, they just aren't able to come over to work now.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Instagram just passed 100 million users
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At the TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco today, Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg told Michael Arrington of CrunchFund one major new figure: Instagram has passed 100 million users. "[Instagram] just crossed 100 million users," Zuckerberg said. "They're killing it."
This has never been revealed before and may have been a slip-up from the young CEO. Zuckerberg also reiterated that he wants to help the app grow, but at the same time he doesn't want to meddle with it.
"Our mission around Instagram is we think Instagram is amazing, and we want to help it grow to hundreds of millions of users," Zuckerberg also said. "We want to help them out with whatever we can. We have no agenda in terms of making them go into our infrastructure. We're just going to do the things that we would have done if they were an Open Graph partner, but now we can prioritize them more highly. They can do a lot directly, because they have access to our code directly."
Facebook announced its plans to acquire Instagram in April 2012. The company only closed the deal last week, however, as the FTC gave the green light just three weeks ago. When Facebook announced everything was final on September 6, Instagram revealed it had passed the 5 billion photo milestone.
Back in late July, Instagram passed 80 million users, growing at a rate of more than 10 million users on average per month. When Facebook closed the acquisition, I wrote "If that trend continues, we can expect the 100 million user milestone any day now." It appears that I was right, but even I didn't think Zuckerberg would be the one to reveal the milestone.
There are currently two rumors going around as to Instagram's future. The first is plans to port Instagram to the Web. The second is a Windows Phone app, slated for release later this year.
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Ontario privacy watchdog criticizes secrecy about facilities that provide assisted dying
By Jessica Smith Cross	The Canadian Press
Ontario's privacy commissioner says patients may want to know which facilities provide medically assisted deaths when choosing where to access health care.
TORONTO – Ontario's privacy commissioner is calling on the provincial government to make information identifying publicly funded facilities that provide medically assisted deaths available to members of the public who request it under the freedom-of-information system.
Brian Beamish says legislation passed this spring shields hospitals, long-term care homes and hospices from Ontario's freedom-of-information law, allowing them to refuse to disclose any information that would reveal whether or not they grant patients' requests for medical assistance in dying.
While the government says that was done to protect the safety of clinicians in those facilities, Beamish says there's no proof opponents of assisted dying would pose any threat to them if the facilities were identified.
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The new legislation also allows the government and facilities to choose not to disclose which individual physicians perform medically assisted dying. Beamish is not calling for that to be changed, but he says protecting facilities as a whole goes too far.
Ontario medical facilities are not required to provide medical assistance in dying and some, particularly religious institutions, have decided not to do so on conscience grounds.
Beamish says patients may want information about facilities that do and do not provide the service when choosing where to access medical care. He says that information is also important to the broader civic debate about the assisted death.
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"We believe that excluding information that could identify facilities providing such services is inconsistent with Ontario's access and privacy laws and would hinder the transparency and accountability of Ontario's health system," Beamish wrote in his annual report, released this week.
The government has no plans to change the law on the matter, according to a spokeswoman in the health minister's office, who said the decision to shield medical facilities under freedom-of-information laws was made after clinicians expressed "concerns about the potential consequences of participating in medical assistance in dying."
Beamish said, however, that no other jurisdictions with legal assisted death have experienced violence or threats because of it, and the government has offered no proof that would occur in Ontario.
Nor should the government withhold information in order to "stifle legitimate and peaceful protest," he wrote.
"The right to protest and express criticism of government decisions is an integral component of any democracy and is protected by … the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees everyone freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association."
READ MORE: Ontario creating service to help people seeking medically assisted dying
Beamish's criticism comes as the provincial government has promised to set up safe access zones around abortion clinics, where protesting is banned, to protect the people who provide abortions and those who seek them.
Beamish noted the freedom-of-information law also provides a shield for information about abortions, which the government has relied on to decline to release information that would present no safety risk, such as general statistics on abortions in Ontario.
In a decision earlier this year, a court ordered the government to rewrite the abortion provision in the freedom-of-information law, after an anti-abortion group argued it was too broad.
A spokesman for the Ministry of the Attorney General declined to say how the government will respond as it still has time to appeal. Meanwhile, the law preventing protests around abortion clinics will be introduced in the fall, Andrew Rudyk said.
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Digital Health Funding Defies Expectations
John GrahamContributor
Investors have not had their fill of digital health deals, according to new fundraising reports from Rock Health and Startup Health, two outfits which have led the digital health revolution and produce complementary reports on how much capital is flowing into the sector. While other sectors have wobbled recently, digital health (which was only defined as a market five or six years ago) continues to attract venture capital.
Digital health refers to businesses that apply new information technology, especially the cloud, to health care. That being said, there is no agreement about where the boundary is. San Francisco's Rock Health and New York's Startup Health do not quite agree on which deals are digital health deals.
A technician inspects a Roche Holding AG Cobas 6000 blood analyzer machine. (Photographer: Xaume... [+] Olleros/Bloomberg)
Startup Health estimates digital health ventures raised $1.8 billion last quarter, and notes the center of gravity has shifted from San Francisco to New York. However, Startup Health includes the $400 million round for NY-based Oscar, a health insurer which specializes in Obamacare exchanges, in its tally. Rock Health does not include Oscar's financing in its total estimate of just under $1 billion raised. Perhaps Rock Health just does not categorize a health insurer as digital health, no matter how friendly its website is.
Oscar's raise of $400 million in February increased the company's valuation to $2.7 billion from $1.7 billion in September 2015. The latest round was led by Fidelity, which joins an extremely high quality group of venture funds which have decided to risk their capital on an insurer that focuses exclusively on Obamacare's exchanges.
In a column written in the wake of last year's capital raise, I expressed surprise that anyone would want to invest in an insurer that specializes in Obamacare's exchanges – a sure way to lose money. If they expect to make it up on volume…..? Well, I just don't get it. However, much smarter minds than mine have invested a lot of money in Oscar, so there may be a future in Obamacare's exchanges that nobody else (including established health insurers that are running, not walking, to the exits) is seeing.
Rock Health excludes raises of less than $2 million, while Startup Health includes very small deals, which also explains why Startup Health's estimate is almost twice as large as Rock Health's is. Nevertheless, both agree digital health funding is not taking a breather. Rock Health figures investment has grown 13 percent over the trailing twelve months and almost 50 percent from Q1 2015. Startup Health's Q1 2016 estimate is almost two thirds higher than its $1.1 billion estimate for Q1 2015.
Both sources agree Big Data attracted over $200 million in venture funding, of which Flatiron raised $175 million. Flatiron analyzes big oncology data in the cloud, promising to support the continuum of care. Rock Health's category of "wearables and biosensing" also raised over $200 million. This likely overlaps Startup Health's "medical devices" and "personalized health/quantified self" categories, which raised $360 million. These categories include the well-known sporty and wellness devices, but also very promising tools that collect vital statistics passively from patients and send them to the cloud for analysis and communication to care teams.
The diversity of investors is noteworthy. For example, Roche , a global pharmaceutical company with a significant oncology footprint, is an investor in Flatiron. Corporate venture arms like GE Ventures feature among leading investors, as does Blue Cross Blue Shield Venture Partners, and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The best pedigree of venture capital firms, such as Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, and Tribeca Venture Partners, are well represented in last quarter's deals.
Whether American health care can be transformed from a top-heavy, bureaucratic system dominated by government into a patient-centric, highly responsive, and energetic enterprise is still an open question. It is encouraging to see so many entrepreneurs continue to try to answer it.
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A financial analyst who has completed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst program and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, Graham is a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis and other research organizations; as well as Co-Organizer of the Health Technology Forum: DC. Formerly Vice President at the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), he earned an MBA from London Business School. Graham also served as a parachutist and infantry officer in the Canadian Army, having earned his undergraduate degree at the Royal Military College of Canada.


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Q: How to update sum during for loop in Java? Got stuck at this exercise.
The goal is to let the user input the type and number of coins added to the program, and count the total coins and amount of money the user has.
update:
I think I'm almost there, (sorted out the amount of money!) but my problem is that the total coins adds up badly after the second loop. (the sum is incorrect)
//硬貨の種類の合計
        int kindSum = 0;
        //硬貨の枚数の合計
        int amountSum = 0;

        //質問を10回繰り返し
        for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
            //硬貨の種類の入力
            System.out.println(i + "回目。硬貨の種類を入力してください。");
            int kindInput = inputScanner.nextInt();
            //硬貨の枚数の入力
            System.out.println(i + "回目。硬貨の枚数を入力してください。");
            int amountInput = inputScanner.nextInt();

            kindSum = kindInput + myMoney.getAmount() + myMoney.addCoins(kindInput, amountInput);
            amountSum = amountInput + totalCoin + myMoney.getCount(kindInput);

            //足した合計を表示する(1回ずつ)
            System.out.println("硬貨の総枚数は" + kindSum +
                    "枚、総額は" + amountSum);
        }

I reckon I should be using something like sum += sum + i but when I use something like kindSum += + kindInput + myMoney.getAmount(); the total just doubles up.
Would appreciate any advice, many thanks in advance.

The full code, if anyone is wondering-
class ManageCoin {

    //硬貨の種類
    int yen500 = 0;
    int yen100 = 0;
    int yen50 = 0;
    int yen10 = 0;

    //• addCoinsメソッドで硬貨を増やしたり減らしたりする
    //メソッドの引数は硬貨の種類と枚数
    public int addCoins(int kind, int count) {
        //種類を絞っていく
        switch (kind) {
        case 500:           //500出てきたら500円の数を増やす
            yen500 += count;
            break;
        case 100:
            yen100 += count;
            break;
        case 50:
            yen50 += count;
            break;
        case 10:
            yen10 += count;
            break;
        }
        return 0; //何もなかったら最初に戻る
    }

    //getCountメソッドで硬貨が何枚あるかを取得する
    //メソッドの引数は硬貨の種類
    public int getCount(int kind) {
        switch(kind) {
        case 500:           //500出たら500円の種類を特定
            return yen500;
        case 100:
            return yen100;
        case 50:
            return yen50;
        case 10:
            return yen10;
        }
        return 0;
    }

    //getAmountメソッドで硬貨の総額を取得する
    //メソッドの引数はなし
    public int getAmount() {
        return (yen500 * 500) + (yen100 * 100) +
                (yen50 * 50) + (yen10 * 10);
    }

ManageCoin myMoney = new ManageCoin();

        //初期値の硬貨=財布
        myMoney.yen500 = 1;
        myMoney.yen100 = 4;
        myMoney.yen50 = 1;
        myMoney.yen10 = 4;

        //硬貨の総枚数と総額を表示する
        int totalCoin = myMoney.getCount(500) +
                myMoney.getCount(100) +
                myMoney.getCount(50) +
                myMoney.getCount(10);

        //①ユーザーに硬貨の種類と枚数を入力してもらう
        System.out.println("初期化の硬貨の総枚数は" + totalCoin +
                "枚、総額は" + myMoney.getAmount() + "円です。");

        //②入力したら硬貨の枚数と総額を表示する
        //入力を受け付ける
        Scanner inputScanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        //入力の指示
        System.out.println("500円、100円、50円、10円から、");
        System.out.println("硬貨の種類と枚数を決めて数字で10回ずつ入力してください。");
        System.out.println("硬貨の枚数を増やしたり減らしたりすることもできます。");
        System.out.println();

        //硬貨の種類の合計
        int kindSum = 0;
        //硬貨の枚数の合計
        int amountSum = 0;

        //質問を10回繰り返し
        for (int count = 1; count <= 10; count++) {

            //硬貨の種類の入力
            System.out.println(count + "回目。硬貨の種類を入力してください。");
            int kindInput = inputScanner.nextInt();
            //硬貨の枚数の入力
            System.out.println(count + "回目。硬貨の枚数を入力してください。");
            int amountInput = inputScanner.nextInt();

            kindSum = kindInput + myMoney.getAmount() + myMoney.addCoins(kindInput, amountInput);
            amountSum = amountInput + totalCoin + myMoney.getCount(kindInput);

            //足した合計を表示する(1回ずつ)
            System.out.println("硬貨の総枚数は" + amountSum +
                    "枚、総額は" + kindSum);
        }

        //③①~②を10回繰り返す
        System.out.println("硬貨の総枚数は" + amountSum +
                "枚、総額は" + kindSum);

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Ole Gunnar Solskjær lead Manchester united 3-1 in his first match
December 30, 2018 December 30, 2018 - 1 Comment
In the 19th round of the 2018/2019 season of the English Premier League, Manchester United ushered in Huddersfield at home, and eventually Manchester United scored twice with Pogba and Matić. In the end, at home 3-1 victory over Hazen, Manchester United coach Solskjær took two consecutive victories.
The two teams have played against Manchester United 5 wins and 1 draw in the past 6 times. In the last season, Manchester United won Huddersfield 3 times, the league double-killed opponents, and the FA Cup will also be eliminated. Solskjær ushered in the first show of Old Trafford, Ferguson, Giggs live watching. In terms of lineup, compared to the previous round, Solskjær made three adjustments. Dalot, Fred Rotary Ashley Young, Herrera played, Mata replaced the sick Martial, the other starters did not change. Gea served as the captain.
After the opening, Huddersfield led the opportunity. In the 10th minute, the left side of the town of Harbin thrown the ball to the restricted area. Kongolo was unguarded, but he attacked the ball incredibly, and Manchester United escaped. Subsequently, Manchester United gradually controlled the situation on the field. In the 17th minute, Lingard's long-range shot from the outside of the penalty area was confiscated by the opponent's goalkeeper. In the 26th minute, Pogba left the door with a small angle and was once again resolved by the opponent's goalkeeper.
Matić fills the goal
Manchester United took the lead in the 29th minute, the left corner of the Red Devils opened the corner, the former point of Lindelöf headed the goal was saved by the goalkeeper of the town of Rasle, the horse in front of the goal , Matić smart shot score , Manchester United 1- 0. This is also the first goal of Matić this season.
Manchester United continued to storm after leading. The long-range shot from the outside of the restricted area of Pogba was softly resolved. In the 40th minute, Manchester United got a great opportunity. Rushford was beautifully worn on the left side. Then he made a fine pass. Dalton, who was assisted, pushed near the small restricted area, but the ball was incredibly missed. Out of bounds, he squatted on the ground and regretted it. In the 44th minute, Rushford missed a wide shot in the penalty area. At the end of the first half, Manchester United temporarily led Huddersfield 1-0.
The second half was an easy battle. At the 53rd, Solskjær replaced Dalot and Fred with Ashley Young and Herrera. Manchester United continued to use the offensive to put pressure on the opponent's penalty area. In the 54th minute, Rushford hit the free kick on the left side of the ball and the ball was confiscated by the opponent's goalkeeper. In the 61st minute, Gea offered a slap in the face, and Pritchard took the corner from the right. Depoitre slammed the ball in the penalty area. Gea bravely solved the ball.
Pogba expands the score
Pogba scored into the world wave
Sports betting malaysia In the 65th minute, Manchester United kicked out the match. Mata broke into the penalty area and then passed the ball to the triangle. Herrera knocked the ball to Pogba. The latter easily broke the goal. Manchester United scored a 2-0 lead and served from Gea. To the final goal, the player in Hazhen did not touch the ball. In the 77th minute, Manchester United sealed the victory. Lingard crossed the ball to Pogba in the middle of the restricted area line on the left. The French star slammed the right foot and the ball went straight to the corner. The away team recovered a goal in the 88th minute, Huddersfield took the free kick, Muñeu headed the ball in the penalty area, Zanka shot the ball into the net , but it was too late.
Zanka pulled back a goal
Both sides played lineup:
Manchester United (4-3-3): 1-Gea/20-Dalot (53st minute 18-Ashley Young), 4-Jones, 2-Victor Lindelöf, 23- Luke Shaw/ \
17-Fred (21st-Herrera 53rd minute), 31-Matić, 6-Pogba/14-Lingard, 10-Rushford, 8-Mata (81st 47) -Angel-Gomez)
Huddersfield (4-2-3-1): 1-Lössl; 37-Durm, 25-Zanka, 26-Schindler, 5-Kongolo/33-Hadergjonaj, 8 – Billing / 9 – Kachunga, 21 – Pritchard, 18 – Mbenza / 20 – Depoitre
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Q: jQuery service response showing in firebug but not getting in success I facing an issue when accessing the service url using browser it runs and show json result on browser like this.
  /*-secure-{"statusCode":200,"errors":
  ],"isSuccessful":true,"statusReason":"OK","Envelope":
 {"Body":{"GetStoresByZipcodeResponseElement":
 {"ns1":"http:\/\/abc.com\/intg\/ws\/\/provider","status":"statusCode":"000","statusDescription":"Success"}}*/"

but when I hitting that url using jquery:
 $.ajax({
        url: url,
        cache: true,
        dataType: 'script',
        type: 'GET',
        async: false, // must be set to false
        success: function (data, success) {
           console.log(" success "+ JSON.stringify(success));
           console.log(" data " +JSON.stringify(data));
        },
        error :function( jqxhr, textStatus, error ) {
        var err = textStatus + ', ' + error;
        console.log( "Request Failed: " + err);
        },

        complete: function (jqxhr, textStatus ){
        console.log( "complete: " + JSON.stringify(jqxhr)+" "+ textStatus );
        }
    });

its showing me the response in firebug but even it come to ajax success function and for data its saying undefined.
after change 'script' with 'json' return this:
Request Failed: error,
complete: {"readyState":0,"responseText":"","responseJSON":null,"status":0,"statusText":"error"} error

JSON Response and Response tab view in Firebug

Any help would be appreciated.

A: Try these callback functions and find out what "data" is.
success: function(data, success) {
  console.log("success", arguments);
  console.log("data", typeof data, data); // Verify the response
},
error: function(jqxhr, textStatus, error) {
  console.log("error", arguments);
},
complete: function(jqxhr, textStatus) {
  console.log("complete", arguments);
}

Also, why not disable the cache while debugging? cache: false.
It seems like you´re trying to request some secured JSON data as the response is not valid JSON and that is probably why jQuery can´t parse it.
If neccessary, it would be possible to write a custom dataFilter to trim and parse the response.
dataFilter: function(data, type) {

  if (type === 'json') {
    // TODO: Parse the custom format by removing the comments
    // and then parsing what is expected to be valid JSON.
    return $.parseJSON(data);
  }

  return data;
}

UPDATE
You are trying to make a cross-domain request and should be using JSONP, if the service provider supports it as you are limited by the Same Origin Policy.


Thomas Land at Drayton Manor is better than ever!
Drayton Manor in Staffordshire is one of our favourite places to visit in the holidays. My son is a huge fan of Thomas the Tank Engine so the fact that Europe's only Thomas Land is found there has us going back again and again. This week we were lucky enough to be invited to the press launch of the expansion to Thomas Land. As part of Drayton Manor's 65th anniversary celebrations a £2.5 million extension to our favourite part of the park has been unveiled, increasing Thomas land by 40% and introducing new rides featuring Flynn the fire engine, Captain the life boat and Toby the tram. My kids had a fabulous tie going on the new rides and watching the performers there to celebrate the opening. My son's loved firing the water cannon on Captain's Sea Adventure and both children wanted to fly with Jeremy again and again in his new location right outside the Sodor Airport function rooms and cafe. The fat controller has a brand new statue sheltering under an unbrella from a fountain and there are fairground style games to play too.
In celebration of the 65 years since the park opened there are some great offers available including a family day pass offering a family of four entrance to the park and access to all of its attractions for just £65 when booked seven or more days in advance or if individual tickets are more appropriate by booking seven days or more in advance you can take advantage of the following great discounts; adult (12+) tickets at £20, children (aged 4-11), grandees (60+) and disabled visitors and their carers priced at £15.
The exclusive anniversary offers throughout the 2015 main season and provides a whopping 55% saving, compared to on the gate prices.
Drayton Manor Theme Park Ltd, opened to the public in 1950 by the Bryan family, is one of the UK's most popular family attractions with over one million visitors a year. George and Vera Bryan OBE, converted 80 acres of derelict land, which once belonged to Sir Robert Peel Bart; MP & PM to Queen Victoria and his family, into today's wonderful multi award-winning family attraction, combining thrill rides with a conservation zoo plus catering and conference facilities.
Today, Drayton Manor Theme Park, still family owned and run by second and third generation family members, covers 286 acres of beautiful woodland and countryside and features some of the wildest and scariest rides around. Rides include: Roller-Coasters – Shockwave, Ben 10: Ultimate Mission and G-force. Major rides: Maelstrom, Apocalypse and Storm Force 10, our wettest ride. It is home to the hugely popular Thomas Land™ featuring many named Thomas & Friends™ character rides for the children and adults alike. Thomas Land™ at Drayton Manor is the only one of its kind in Europe. The park's 152 seat 4D Cinema and over 50rides and attractions makes for an truly unforgettable day.
A four-star Hotel onsite featuring 150 rooms includes Thomas & Friends™ themed rooms all sleeping four to six guests, family rooms, executive rooms and presidential suites. It also features two well stocked bars, two sublime restaurants, a relaxing lounge, large conference room for functions and exhibitions as well as an idyllic wedding facility for up to 400 guests.
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Thomas land looks awesome, I would have loved to have taken the kids as my son used to be a Thomas fan. It's a bit of a trek for us though!


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It was delightful, therefore, to come upon Ira Steinman's wise, wonderful, lively, and engaging book, Treating the 'Untreatable': Healing in the Realms of Madness. Steinman has dedicated himself to working psychodynamically with severely ill, schizophrenic, bipolar, and multiple-personality patients. His description of his work is clear, hard-headed, convincing, and inspirational. Treating the 'Untreatable' is filled with rich clinical detail that is both fascinating and a distinct pleasure to read.
Steinman begins by observing that humane institutions that employ judiciously administered medications together with group and individual psychotherapy are not only few in number at present, but are rapidly disappearing. Even in the best of them, furthermore, the treating personnel do not generally delve deeply into the meaning of psychotic delusions and hallucinations. For many years, he has worked intensively on an outpatient basis with psychotic patients, a large number of whom previously spent years in one or more of those institutions without achieving a major change in their condition. His approach has revolved around the expectation that helping these patients understand the origin and functions of their psychotic symptoms is the most effective way of helping them become able to relinquish them.
This book is a beautiful forward development of Frieda Fromm-Reichman's seminal work. It's a creative confirmation of the virtues of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the hands of a virtuoso for the most disturbed patients many of us are reluctant to engage. For our residents who have little psychotherapy training and for seasoned clinicians, the book is an awakening!
In bell clear, eloquent language, Ira Steinman shows his deep knowledge and compassion for the mentally ill and their problems. He never falls into the trap of thinking that mentally ill people are only that, and so he pleads for the understanding that will allow therapists to elicit the strength and health in their sickest patients. The word 'cure' is seldom attached to schizophrenia. Dr Steinman dares to use it and sometimes to prove it.
Joanne Greenberg, author of "I Never Promised you a Rose Garden" (under the pseudonym of Hannah Green).
Treating the 'Untreatable' demonstrates in a lucid and impressive way the possibilities for the intensive psychotherapy of severely ill psychiatric patients in a way that can lead to lasting benefit and restoration of full life functioning much beyond the kind of systematic management that can come with the use of psychoactive drugs (though of course such medications are indeed part of Dr Steinman's treatments in selected cases). This kind of treatment was once quite in vogue in psychiatric and psychoanalytic circles back in the mid-20th century associated then with the names of Frieda Fromm-Reichman, Margaret Sechehaye, Gertrud Schwing, Harry Stack Sullivan, and John Rosen, the best known of that generation, but has since been largely eclipsed by the rise of the use of psychoactive drugs, and this I feel has been a major curtailment of the restorative possibilities of these patients.
Ira Steinman's manuscript is an effort, and a substantial one, to redress this imbalance and to bring the intensive psychotherapy possibilities with these very ill patients back into the foreground. As such it can serve a very useful purpose for both the practitioner world and the world of current and potential patients out there.
Alongside psychopharmacological intervention and the benefits it brings, the treatment of seriously disordered individuals requires that their delusional beliefs be addressed psychotherapeutically; otherwise, there is no significant and sustained symptom relief. Ira Steinman provides the most thoughtful, well articulated account available of how such treatment should be conducted, complete with captivating and instructive case examples. I wish we could have used his book in our residency program when I was Director of Training at the Department of Psychiatry, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco. As Editor-in-Chief of 'The Psychoanalytic Quarterly' for ten years, and Program Chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association for two terms, I can assure you that clinicians from various backgrounds and with all levels of experience will want to read Treating the 'Untreatable' and will find it enormously useful when they do.
I am very pleased to enthusiastically recommend Treating the 'Untreatable' by Ira Steinman. This is a most important book. I have no doubt that it will be controversial, but there are a good number of persons, of which I include myself, who are very familiar with the content of the kind of work that Ira Steinman is describing; although we might not all have the degree of success that he has, we do have similar successes and indeed there is a long history of such work from this approach. I think it very exciting to contemplate this kind of book, which will appeal to a wide audience and that focuses on immediate narratives of one person's clinical experiences in a psychodynamic psychotherapy as a treatment for schizophrenia.
A brilliant story teller of journeys through Madness to Sanity; Ira Steinman has crafted a must read for anyone interested in the work of true psychological healing. These gripping clinical tales combine the artistry of Robert Lindner's "The Fifty Minute Hour" and the clinical brilliance and wisdom of the writings of Harold Searles and Harry Stack Sullivan.
I read Treating the 'Untreatable' with fascination, and with awe at your insight, your patience and pertinacity, and above all: your courage. Would anyone else ever have sufficient conviction to continue past scores of setbacks and resistances in the inner certainty that there would be success in the end - the God knows when - and for how long - end? You have confirmed me in my belief that you are essentially an artist, unique in your field, perhaps imitable, but never equalled: Artists are born, not made, not taught.
Dr Steinman's book Treating the 'Untreatable' invites the reader to a journey into the realms of madness, as explored in long term psychodynamic psychotherapy with severely disturbed individuals. These are people lost in a dark forest of psychotic terrors, deemed hopeless and untreatable by the psychiatric system. Though these patients have usually undergone many hospitalizations and years of biological and psychosocial treatments they continue to suffer from severe symptoms, and are not able to break free from a marginal and marginalized existence. When these people reach Dr Steinman, many times as a last resort, he starts by asking them a few simple questions: what are you suffering from? When did it all begin? What is the meaning of your symptoms? These questions seem like simple exploratory questions, regularly asked by psychotherapists in the course of treatment, but to these 'untreatable' patients they are quite new. These unasked questions clearly state in their absence that symbolic meaning has nothing to do with psychosis. They imply that an introspective inquiry into the history of delusions and hallucinations is nothing less than a waste of time.
Yet Dr Steinman asks these questions, and these questions are the first foot steps taken together by patient and therapist as they journey into the depths. Escorted by a wise and trustworthy guide, the life histories of these 'untreatable' patients begin to unfold. The stories that are revealed seem to explain why these patients have never been asked about the meaning and history of their psychotic symptoms, for they are tales of intense suffering and pain. Psychic pain has been covered by layer upon layer of psychotic defenses, enabling them to survive but denying them the possibility to live. Based in a strong theoretic stance that psychotic thoughts and feelings are not garbage products of a disturbed brain but have symbolic psychic meaning, Dr Steinman manages to bare his patients' pain with them. Slowly and laboriously he helps his patients to peel the onion of psychosis and work through the memories, thoughts and feelings revealed underneath.
The stories of treatment presented in this book are powerful ones. And perhaps the strongest word that comes to mind while reading is Hope, a word rarely used today in the psychiatric system. Schizophrenic patients and their families are told that the disease is a chronic one, and that medication is a lifelong necessity. There are not many that can say otherwise, and Dr Steinman is one of them. His statement that psychodynamic psychotherapy is a form of treatment that can help even the most psychotic and severely disturbed individuals is not a statement based only on faith and hope, but one arduously reached by years of experience. This is why the words of the title of this book stand out loud and clear, stating that given time, experience, faith, and a stable therapeutic relationship, recovery, even of those deemed 'untreatable', is not a delusion.
Occasionally, a book is published that carries implication for the reader far beyond its stated purpose. This is one of those books. Dr. Steinman has quite successfully dealt a major blow to the myth that mental maladies involving delusion and thought disorder are beyond treatment with psychodynamic tools. In doing so he has done a great service.


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Tide facing state champs
Published 6:44 am Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Last year, Picayune and East Central faced each other to open the Class 4A South State playoffs.
This season, the same teams will face off to close out the South State portion of the postseason.
East Central, which struggled with the Maroon Tide before winning in three games last year, travels to Picayune for game one of the South State championship thursday night at 7.
"It ws a great series we had with them last year," Picayune head coach Cayne Stockstill said. "I expect this one to be just as hard fought, but hopefully the outcome will be different."
The Hornets are the defending state champions, and come ito the series with some impressive credentials.
Veteran head coach Gary Long has a solid pitching staff, led by Trey Porter who is expected to take the mound in game one. Porter is an impressive 10-1 on the year, and is part of a staff that includes unbeaten Joel Tanner (9-0) and well as Matt Linton who is perfect also at 6-0.
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Zero Is a Lens to See: Karla Suárez's "Havana Year Zero," translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
May 3, 2021 · by smilkova · in Spanish · Leave a comment
By Dorothy Potter Snyder
I have learned that the lines we draw to contain the infinite end up excluding more than they enfold. I have learned that most things in life are better and more beautiful not linear but fractal. Love especially.
– Maria Popova
What's the sum total of anything – food, gasoline, hope, or love – multiplied by zero? Cuban novelist Karla Suárez addresses the mathematics of emptiness and absence in Havana Year Zero, the first novel available in English from this important contemporary Cuban writer and the third movement in her four-volume "Havana symphony." It is a magisterial and innovative demonstration of first-person narration: magisterial because it convinces as novelistic art must and innovative because the author fractalizes her protagonist Julia via her relationships with three men, each of whom reflects an important facet of her personality. With this structure, Suárez arguably achieves a kind of braided polyphony in a monophonic narration.
But who is "Julia"? A bored university mathematics professor, she takes her alias from French mathematician Gaston Julia, whose work on rational iterations was fundamental to the later theories of the more famous fractalist Benoit Mandelbrot. It is 1993, "Year Zero", and Julia seeks something, anything, to give her a sense of purpose. She feels empty, incorporeal: "…like a hologram, a projection of myself, and I sometimes feared that if anyone reached out their hand to my body, they'd discover I didn't exist" (14-15). Julia's search for an important historical document is the pretext for a quest to find herself.
1993 was the lowest point of the Special Period in Cuba (1991-2000) when scarcities resulting from withdrawn Russian support and the ongoing U.S. embargo of the island made life a daily struggle for the average Cuban. Ironically, however, Julia is less preoccupied with hunger and blackouts than she is with the hunt for the purloined diagram by Italian inventor Antonio Meucci, which will prove that he invented the telephone in Cuba, not Alexander Graham Bell in the United States. Shortages of food, gas, clothing, and housing plague all the characters, but "Cuba is a country of mutants with a talent for survival," says Julia. It's not empty shelves but rather inner emptiness that bedevils her. Like Julia, her lovers have their own significant lacks: Ángel, a sense of completion in his relationship with ex-wife Margarita; Leonardo, the last piece of documentation for his novel; and former tutor Euclid, historical justice for Meucci – and, by extension, for Cuba itself. Smart and sexy, Julia becomes the key "variable" upon whom all three depend to deliver what they need. But to whom will she be loyal? Whom can she trust? And what's in it for her, anyway?
In 2018, I was reporting on the Key West Literary Seminar when I interviewed Cuba's best-known contemporary writer Leonardo Padura. Sipping espresso with me in a café, the Cuban Coffee Queen, he named Suárez as one of the country's strongest women writers. She lists him in the novel's acknowledgements and gives her writer character the alias "Leonardo," while Julia takes care to dismiss any connection with the novelist. This is just one of many playful intertextualities sprinkled throughout the novel that will delight the savvy reader. But Padura, Havana's most extensive chronicler, offers a darker, sweatier take on the Special Period than Suárez, whose gaze is cooler.
Zero has an inside and an outside: it is an empty stomach, but it is also a lens to see close up from far away. Born and educated in Havana, Suárez has been writing about her city from Europe for the past twenty years (she now resides in Lisbon): "When you are sunk into a reality, an important historic reality, it's hard to see it," she says. "Distance, remoteness, gives you a certain detachment, less pain."[1] A trained engineer and classical guitarist who opted instead for the writer's life, Suárez endows her protagonist with her own obsession for order: astute readers will notice that all the chapters are between 10 and 12 pages long in English, rhythmically regular like musical phrases or waves crashing on a beach. Julia employs the same algorithmic approach to her love life as she does to the search for the document.
But why should anyone care about an old piece of paper when there is "nothing of anything. Zero transport. Zero meat. Zero hope"? Because, according to Julia, "certain phenomena can only manifest themselves when a given number of factors come into play, and we were so fucked in 1993 that we were converging on a single point. We were variables in the same equation" (1). To Julia, people are variables, and she is a "common denominator." All problems are intellectually solvable. She triangulates her life around the Meucci document because it, too, is a common denominator. Its sheer absence matches her own emptiness and is the engine that powers relationships, self-examination, and the novel itself.
A book also has an inside and an outside, a cover and the pages within, the one who tells and one who listens. Suárez makes the fourth wall permeable, implicating the reader in the moral and intellectual universe she creates. Julia addresses us directly, alternately wary and intimate, strategically changing the names of people while simultaneously reaching a warm hand across the metaphorical table to touch us and negotiate the terms of the telling – "Can I ask you something? Do you mind if we use first names? It's just that I'm telling you very personal things…" (23). The reader becomes ensnared in Julia's paranoid universe, a surveillance state in which your best friend or lover could betray you. Bored of "trying to explain basic formulae to kids who [have] absolutely no interest in anything," Julia's hunt for the Meucci document distracts her from her own inner zero, gives her "something to hang on to, the lever capable of moving our small word, as Archimedes would put it" (11). But why is she telling all this to us? Zero, it turns out, can be a very complicated equation.
"A fractal," according to Mandelbrot, "is a shape made of parts similar to the whole in some way." All three men competing both for Julia's body and the document are similar to her in some way, making her one and yet many. We see her interior world as if in a house of mirrors. Ángel's desire to bring his relationship with Margarita full circle complements Julia's preoccupation with order. Leonardo's frustration with his unfinished novel parallels her lack of inspiration in her job. And mentor Euclid's quest to protect the document from being sold for food so that it may be preserved for international science reflects Julia's lost dream of being an important scientific researcher. Suárez's innovation lies precisely in revealing her narrator's inner world through the view of herself in others, making the monophonic appear to be polyphonic. Zero is the lens through which Julia sees herself and seeks rapprochement with her own soul. Borges famously had a horror of mirrors, the simulacrum that for him was an obscene repetition of the self, obliterating reality. For Suárez, however, the mirrored self is not terrifying, especially when seen in the eyes of a lover; rather, it is a tool for discovering one's personal truth, one's self. Julia finally learns that her most trusty compass is her body, not her intellect: "[T]he best thing to do is to make love, not think, offer up the body, the body, the body, to the point of exhaustion, until you reach your limits, have nothing more to give, and the next day another body, and not thinking, not thinking, not thinking" (219). Reiteration is salvation itself; repetition is almost like a prayer.
Translator Christina MacSweeney (2016 Valle Inclan prize for Valeria Luiselli's The Story of my Teeth) gives Julia a voice that is smart, angry, sometimes vulgar, and always sympathetic. She privileges the blunt, primary-color vocabulary that Suárez favors and preserves the illusion that the story is being heard rather than read. Since MacSweeney is conscious of her choices regarding American versus British English, we can only deduce that it was the publisher's choice to replace "asshole" with "arsehole," "just on vacation" with "just on holiday," and a slew of other Britishisms that are sprinkled throughout the text. As a reader, I find the insistence on British voice in translations of Latin American writers distracting and inexplicable; ultimately, however, it does not harm the experience of reading this superb translation.
What's the sum total of anything multiplied by zero? Nothing, of course. But as computer algorithms teach us, when many zeroes are combined with many ones in infinite combinations, the result is the internet, global communication, shared knowledge, and new universes of possibility. In a world of zeroes, the trick is to find your one.
Suárez, Karla. Havana Year Zero. Translated by Christina MacSweeney. Charco Press, 2021.
Dorothy Potter Snyder writes short fiction and translates literature from Spanish. Her work has appeared in The Sewanee Review, Exile Quarterly, Reading in Translation, Three Lines Press, and Public Seminar, among others. Her translation of stories by Mexican writer Mónica Lavín, Meaty Pleasures, will be published in 2021 by Katakana Editores.
[1] "Cuando estás metido en una realidad, un momento histórico importante, es difícil de verlo. La distancia, la lejanía, te da una cierta frialdad, con menos dolor." (Translation: D.P. Snyder) Interview with Leandro Estupiñán, OnCuba News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cLZs0Mb6wo.
Tags: Antonio Meucci, Benoit Mandelbrot, Caribbean literature, Charco Press, Christina McSweeney, Cuba, Dorothy Potter Snyder, emptiness, fractals, Gaston Julia, Havana, Karla Suárez, Leonardo Padura, literary reviews, Literary translation, Maria Popova, zero
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