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All the World's a Stage in Santa Fe
Join us for the viewing of Shakespeare's First Folio
Jenny's View
Why would anyone want to go look at a dusty old book? Maybe because this particular tome, besides being nearly four centuries old, helped save the words of the most famous poet in the English language. In Shakespeare's time, plays were written to be performed, not read. Yet, two of his actors compiled a volume of plays to save for posterity—which is what makes the so-called First Folio a 'Holy Grail' for Shakespeare enthusiasts. And Santa Fe has plenty of these!
For us, it's just another example of how culture easily blooms in our desert, even in the middle of winter—which, along with Santa Fe Restaurant Week, offers yet another reason to love our fair city, making parting in such sweet sorrow. According to Carmen Vendelin, a curator at the New Mexico Museum of Art, our many Shakespeare societies, reading groups, and acting troupes in the City Different helped convince the Folger Shakespeare Library to make Santa Fe the one location in our state to host a copy of the touring First Folio, which is being exhibited in only one venue per state.
Schools, libraries, theater troupes, and Shakespeare experts around Northern New Mexico have eagerly signed on to host dozens of free performances, readings, talks, and other events this month. It's a great opportunity for New Mexicans to connect with a treasured artifact of Western civilization, Carmen noted—especially here, in the city that already had been settled in Shakespeare's time. La Fonda is even offering a special package through February in honor of the First Folio tour.
Till the morrow,
Jennifer Lea Kimball
Recipe For Adventure
This hearty soup is the perfect starter for a heavy winter dinner, or works great for lunch with some crusty bread. Your house will smell amazing while it's cooking and it's so delicious, that it's a guaranteed hit. Serve with your favorite corn bread and garnish with shredded cheese, crispy bacon or jalapeños.
Green Chile Corn Chowder, Yields 1 gal - Serves 8-10
1# Roasted Hatch green chile, small diced
8oz Onions, small diced
8oz Celery, small diced
2oz Green peppers, small diced
4oz Red peppers, small diced
2# Sweet corn, fresh or frozen
2# Russet potatoes, diced
5oz flour
½ gal vegetable stock, hot
16oz heavy cream, hot
16oz Half & Half, hot
8oz whole butter
1ea bay leaves
Tabasco, to taste
Worcestershire, to taste
Cayenne, to taste
Sweat the onions, celery, green chile and peppers in butter.
Add flour to make a roux, cook this for five or so minutes to get a blonde roux.
Add hot vegetable stock to this slowly while stirring constantly.
Puree ½ the corn and add it with the potatoes to the soup.
Cook this until the potatoes are tender then add the rest of the corn.
Add the half and half and cream and adjust the seasonings.
Garnish as desired.
Opening in early February on the lobby level at the corner nearest the Plaza, our stylish shop, Detours at La Fonda, brings our home to yours. A wide range of unique, affordable New Mexico gift items can be found here, along with traveler essentials and home furnishings inspired by La Fonda designer Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter. Whether it's genuine art, from oil paintings to tableware, or La Fonda logo items, home decor, or personal luxuries, the store offers hours of happy browsing for anyone who loves to shop for the unique and unusual.
It's a Good Time To...
Off thee must wend to the art museum, which is having a free public opening (Feb. 5) with two complementary exhibitions, refreshments and performances by the medieval ensemble Musica Antigua de Albuquerque. At the Palace of the Governors, the Palace Press will be printing First Folio facsimiles, and visitors can pull their own prints to take home. The many activities planned this month include a Romeo & Juliet workshop on creating character at the Scottish Rite Center (Feb. 16), a sonnet workshop at the New Mexico History Museum (Feb. 18), and a free showcase from local directors of Shakespeare at the St. Francis Auditorium (Feb. 21). In anticipation of this auspicious event, La Fonda has assembled a special Shakespearean package featuring two museum passes, breakfast for two and a discounted room rate through the end of February.
World-music acts perform back to back this March, including mariachi heavy-metal band Metalachi at Skylight (March 7); Niger's hit band Tal National (March 12); and Japan's Taiko drummers, who bring their high-energy sound to the Lensic complete with costumes and acrobatics (March 2). Ireland's acoustic group Lunasa joins Grammy-winning country singer Tim O'Brien (March 19) at the same venue, followed by a celebration of African music in diaspora with globalFest's Creole Carnival Tour (March 24).
Singer-songwriter Greg Brown brings humorous Americana to the St. Francis Auditorium (Feb. 26); Rock & Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby will play a solo show at the Lensic (March 27); and veteran performer Claudia Schmidt brings lively folk, jazz, and blues vocals to GiG Performance Space (March 4), followed by the Austin Piazzola Quintet (March 12) and Hawaiian slack-key innovator Makana (March 19).
In classical music, join the Santa Fe Symphony for Valentine's Day with romantic pieces by Mozart, Weber and Dvorak (Feb. 14), or celebrate the arrival of spring with a program of Brahms and Stravinsky with guest conductor Oriol Sans (March 20). The New Mexico Performing Arts Society's annual Valentine's concert features the New Mexico Bach Society and soloists at Immaculate Heart Chapel (Feb. 20). Performance Santa Fe brings the string trio Time for Three to the Lensic (Feb. 16), followed by Cameron Carpenter on his monumental digital Touring Organ (Feb. 20). Joseph Illick's "Notes on Music" series reacquaints us with Gilbert & Sullivan (Feb. 9) at the United Church of Santa Fe. And Santa Fe Pro Musica plays a concerto of favorites in The Lark Ascending, featuring violinist Colin Jacobsen (March 5-6), with a special artist dinner on Sunday evening.
Film & Performance
Veteran comic Paula Poundstone brings her one-woman show to the Lensic (Feb. 4), followed by a cheeky revue from the male British dance company BalletBoyz (Feb. 11).
The legendary comedy troupe Second City keeps the mood light for Valentine's Day with their show "Hooking Up" (Feb. 12). Also at the Lensic, Mountainfilm screens the best of outdoor and adventure films from the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival (Feb. 18).
Met Live in HD presents Puccini's Manon Lescaut set in the 1940s in a single performance (March 5). Shakespeare fans can catch the National Theatre Live in HD production of As You Like It (Feb. 25), along with the more unconventional Lear's Shadow from award-winning actor Geoff Hoyle, who retells the tragedy through the eyes of the court Jester (Feb. 27).
Enjoy a bit of traditional-meets-contemporary flamenco from Juan Siddi Flamenco (March 18).
New York Times critic and novelist Teju Cole will speak with journalist Amitava Kumar (Feb. 3) as part of the Lannan Foundation's engaging speaker series. Then, Native rights activists Winona La Duke appears with Mililani Trask (Feb. 24), climate change expert Gabrielle Walker with environmental activist Chris Williams (March 23), and novelist Nadeem Aslam, author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The Blind Man's Garden, with author Phil Klay (March 30). Also at the Lensic, the Santa Fe Institute's free community lecture series presents author Annalee Newitz speaking on "The Urban Species: How Domesticated Humans Evolved" (Feb. 29), and author-entrepreneur Gary Marcus on artificial intelligence (March 15).
Sample all the restaurants on your bucket list during Santa Fe Restaurant Week (Feb. 21-28), when fixed-price menus are offered from top eateries (including La Plazuela's special menu). New restaurants are added each week, so keep checking the website to make reservations.
The Art of Home Tour is a self-guided sampling of 12 adobe homes, each showcasing art from different Santa Fe galleries (Feb. 27-28); donations go toward bringing art programs to schoolchildren.
The Museum of International Folk Art celebrates the Asian New Year for its opening of Sacred Realm: Blessing and Good Fortune Across Asia (Feb. 28).
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Home Life and Science Health and Education Choose Your Sex: Transgenderism at School
Choose Your Sex: Transgenderism at School
Transgenderism is being addressed in American schools from elementary to university level. What was once an anomaly is becoming
normalized with the help of compliant courts, governmental entities, complicit politicians, and spearheading organizations.
A male 1st-grader in the Fountain-Fort Carson School District in Colorado will not be allowed to use the girls' bathroom. The young boy wears dresses to school and "self-identifies" as a girl. Although his state-issued ID and passport list him as a female, he is biologically a male. The school offered the child use of the gender-neutral faculty bathroom, the nurse's bathroom, or the boys' bathroom.
The Colorado school district claims their decision was made out of consideration for the comfort of female students who would not like a male in their bathroom. His parents have contacted the state of Colorado Civil Rights Division, and will homeschool until the issue is resolved to their liking. This is expected to end up in court.
An eleven-page directive issued by the Massachusetts Department of Education (DOE) in February 2013 allows boys and girls who identify with a sex differing from their own physiology to use the bathroom and locker room in which they feel most comfortable. The DOE is responding to a state law that added "gender identity" to the non-discrimination code.
All Massachusetts schools are now required to accept the sex a student chooses as his or her own, regardless of biology, and allow bathroom and locker room access accordingly. Critics of the DOE edict argue that the new law did not require such a broad directive from the education department, but that the result is what can be expected when states add gender identity to state non-discrimination policies.
As of August 2013 Brown University student health insurance will begin covering sex change operations for those students who want them. According to the campus Director of Insurance and Purchasing Services, "the total package of sexual reassignment surgeries, hormone therapy and other services can cost up to $50,000." (National Review, 02-07-13)
The University of Iowa is the first public college to offer a transgender check box along with those of male and female on its application for admission. An additional application question is, "Do you identify with the LGBTQ [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer] Community?" The University of Iowa executive director of admissions said, "The new LGBT question on our undergraduate application reflects our foundational commitment to inclusion of all students, no matter what their origin or orientation."
A February 2013 conference at the University of California-Riverside, called "20 Years of LGBT Progress," celebrated the movement to normalize and promulgate these lifestyles. There are LGBT centers at most University of California (UC) campuses and over 20 different LGBTQ organizations on the UC Los Angeles campus, alone. (TheCollegeFix.com, 02-05-13)
A founding director of the UC Davis LGBT Center is quoted at the UC Riverside conference website:
Prior to the formal founding of the Cantú Queer Center at UC Santa Cruz in 1997, queer students were emerging from hostile high school environments onto our campus with few coordinated resources and no safe and accessible queer-centric space in which to heal and explore their sexualities and genders. Queer and questioning students received no consistent guidance from professional staff. . . . Transgender students, staff, and faculty paid for all their transition needs out-of-pocket. . . . The impact of our collective advocacy has been significant.
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Le Conseil scolaire de Vancouver (CSV, Vancouver School Board, VSB) est un système des écoles à Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique. Le district a 74 écoles élémentaires, 17 annexes des écoles élémentaires, 18 écoles secondaires, et 7 écoles pour adultes. Le district a environ de  élèves.

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The WOW Files: Mindblowing Pics Of The Rothschilds' 1972 Illuminati Ball With Dali & Audrey Hepburn
by Brent Lambert • March 22, 2014 • Photography, Random News, The WOW Files, Unexplained • Comments (0) • 40206
I owe a huge tip of the hat to my friend Rada for forwarding me this story of what is undoubtedly the most surreal dinner party in human history. The night was December 12, 1972, and the location was the Rothschild family's Château de Ferrières roughly 26km east of Paris. Greatly considered to be the largest and most luxurious 19th-century château in France, the mansion was constructed in the mid-1850s by Baron James de Rothschild, the iconic German-French banker and the original founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family. On that evening, Marie-Hélène de Rothschild (1927-1996) and Baron Guy de Rothschild (1909-2007) threw their now legendary Illuminati ball entitled "Diner de Têtes Surrealiste". Like a cross between Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, and New York's immersive "Sleep No More" experience, the event was nothing short of a phantasmagorical waking dream.
To label the event as "surreal" would be an enormous understatement. Guests initially received an invitation which was written backwards and required a mirror to decipher. Attire was "black tie, long dresses, and surrealists heads." When guests arrived at the Château de Ferrières, the entire facade was illuminated in bright amber light, creating the illusion that the building was engulfed in flames. Upon entering, guests encountered the sight of the grand Rothschild staircase filled with servants and footmen dressed as cats, all in various poses of sleep. Guests would then make their way through a vast area of black ribbons which mimicked cobwebs, followed by a hellish labyrinthian maze. If you found yourself lost inside the maze, one of the "cats" would find you and take you away to a room where you would be formally greeted by Marie-Hélène herself. The next journey led guests to a tapestry salon where they were greeted by a man wearing a hat which resembled a still-life platter. It was here that guests would then begin to make their way to the lavish ballroom.
Audrey Hepburn and Salvador Dali were among the guests, and Dali himself described in his own words what he experienced that night: "On 12 december 1972, Marie-Hélène de Rothschild gave her surrealist ball at Ferriéres. This time the guests were asked to come in black tie & long dresses with surrealist heads. For the evening the chateau was floodlit with moving orange lights to give the impression that it was on fire. The staircase inside was lined by footmen dressed as cats that appeared to have fallen asleep in a variety of staged poses. Guests had to pass through a kind of labyrinth of hell, made of black ribbons to look like cobwebs. the occasional cat appeared to rescue the guests & lead them to the tapestry salon. Here they were greeted by guy with a hat to resemble a still-life on a platter, & by Marie-Hélène wearing the head of a giant stag weeping tears made of diamonds. Marie-Hélène proved that she had the flare and imagination to create something unique and worthwhile. None of this was created by charm alone. It needed a degree of ruthless determination. She attended to every minute detail of style in her life & also in her entertaining. She was a great hostess with all the qualities. She loved parties & people. She was forever in quest of new talent & new figures to entertain from the world of the arts, literature, dance & haute couture. She mixed them with the more established set of paris society. Everyone was intrigued. Marie-Hélène's parties took on such importance that one social figure threatened to commit suicide unless she was invited. The invitation was printed with reversed writing on a blue & cloudy sky, inspired by a painting by Magritte. To decipher the card, it had to be held to a mirror."
The Rothschild family is the iconic banking dynasty descending from Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who established his banking business in the 1760s in Germany. During the 19th century, when it was at its height, the Rothschild family possessed the largest private fortune in the world as well as the largest fortune in modern world history. The family has long been linked to the Illuminati, a collection of elite shadow groups (both real and fictional) with a globalist agenda to rule the world through an authoritarian world government and a New World Order. The Illuminati have been linked to such historic events as the Battle of Waterloo, the French Revolution, President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and countless others.
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General Motors is bringing its Take 2 career re-entry program into Canada for the first time.
Take 2 provides training and development opportunities for experienced professionals returning to the workforce after taking a career break of two or more years in length.
GM Canada is headquartered in Oshawa. It also has a new Canadian Technical Centre in Markham and a cold weather testing facility in Kapuskasing, in addition to three manufacturing facilities in Ontario.
The automaker is looking to fill three, but possibly four, Canadian Take 2 positions in Markham and Oshawa. The automaker is looking for a software test specialist, software project manager and controls development engineer.
The company says so long as Take 2 participants are performing and there is a fit within the company, they will be hired full time.
GM said in a statement it is seeking marketing professionals and engineering, IT, manufacturing, finance and customer care experts.
The application period begins May 1, and the paid 12-week internship positions will run from mid-September through early December.
Positions for the fall 2017 session are also available in Southeast Michigan, Phoenix, Austin and Atlanta.
In addition to technical training, the Take 2 program offers participants networking and professional development support.
The Take 2 program began in early 2016 and this upcoming intake marks its fourth session.


Work in Quality Assurance within health and fitness.
This certificate is an industry specific award for internal verifiers wanting to qualify using exercise and fitness assessment practice as evidence for their internal verification award. It is accepted by the sector's awarding bodies to internally verify on VRQ Exercise & Fitness Awards.


The term "self-actualization" was made popular by Abram Maslow in his hierarchy of needs theory of human development. Essentially self-actualization is an existential term indicating the prominent feeling of being fully alive and aware of what it means to be a meaning-creating creature in an otherwise meaningless universe. It is the self-realization of one's individuated maturity in balance with an interdependent spirit. Self-actualized people have a healthy perception of reality (mind, body, and soul) and practice healthy habits. Here are seven things self-actualized people tend to do differently than the rest of us.
Self-actualized people tend to be acutely aware of the interconnectedness of all things. As such, they are able to form deep relationships with nature. From these relationships develops a profound nonverbal communication, what Derrick Jensen refers to as, "a language older than words." It's in the body, resonating within an ancient muscle memory. You have to be still to hear it. You have to be silent to realize how loud it really is. By relearning this nonverbal language, we open ourselves up to the majesty of the cosmos and allow for the inner-workings of nature to rethread itself through us. It can be as simple as the body warning us that we've consumed too little water, or as complex as the cosmos pinpointing for us what is the healthy way for a human being to live in an interconnected world. Until we can relearn this language, and once again engage in a healthy dialogue with nature and the cosmos, we will continue to be tricked by the less evolved aspect of ourselves. Self-actualized people are able to learn from this deep dialogue with nature, and are therefore rarely tricked by the less evolved aspects of themselves.
Self-actualized people are able to get away from the cultural rat-race and embrace solitude. As it stands, the loss of Soul in our culture has become untenable. Hegel's "silent weaving of the spirit" has unraveled into discordant knots of anxiety and neurosis. We live in a dog-eat-dog society of nine-to-five wage slavery, brainwashed into working jobs we don't like in order to buy things we don't need. Self-actualized people are aware of this. And even if they are currently stuck in such a pattern, they at least understand how important solitude is for the human soul to breathe. In a lot of ways solitude with nature is where we learn a language older than words. But losing ourselves in the wild is about rediscovering a balance between nature and the human soul. It's about trumping the noisy ego with sacred silence. Solitude teaches us how to be quiet in order to reconnect. We find that the more we open up to the world, the more the world opens up to us.


I think… no, I KNOW I've finally discovered the way to you! I'm spreading out, becoming less dense, vibrating faster and faster. I'm feeling healthier (thank you my Dear Raphael!!) and experiencing a general overall sense of wellbeing. The song I was working on yesterday that had such a downer ending – now has a positive, uplifting ending. I feel so much better – so much closer to you.
This IS proof that I AM in control of my own destiny now. I think that disclosure is just around the corner. Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day, maybe sometime next week, but all in all, very close indeed. I don't anticipate that summer will be here before everyone is aware of yours and all the other's existence/presence.
Am I right? Well, I KNOW I am, because I said so! LOL So therefore it is SO. Wow!! What a feeling of empowerment, but empowerment in only the best way possible. The freedom to create and enjoy paradise in a way that will make me happiest, and then I can share that happiness with all – and I do mean everything, not just everyone – around me.
I wrote on my "Ariel DeAngelis" FB wall today "I feel so light and airy today! Wonderful!!" It is a wonderful feeling!! I feel as if nothing can bring me down. NOTHING can bring me down. This higher frequency I have attained, and though I'm not yet to exactly where I want to be – I'll know when I am because I'll see you standing right in front of me as you've always been :-D – NOTHING will drag me back down to the level that I just left, NOTHING!! Freedom is just a heartbeat away My Love. I truly feel this. And with that Freedom I will know you once again and we will be together forever as we so choose.
I feel so much closer to you now… almost as if I could reach out and touch you, and I know that in a few days time, I indeed will. So glorious and euphoric that will be. If I think I'm feeling good today, I can only imagine how I will feel a few days from now!! I think I shall experience such an explosion of Joy, that my whole being will be set free to soar among the clouds and stars!! I feel it coming… I've felt that recently if I just let go I will be out of my body, or it will disintegrate, or spread out on the wind or something. Almost like ceasing to be, but more like becoming real again.
I can hear you whispering in my ear "you just wait… J" with a smile in a tone that says "it will be beyond your wildest imaginings". And I know that it will! Already I feel like I did when I was child, so full of innocent anticipation for what tomorrow would bring and a curiosity that must be fulfilled. No worries. No pain. No fear for what tomorrow will bring. Just embracing right here, right now and loving and living in the moment and enjoying every aspect of it. There is no tomorrow, for everything we could possibly hope for is right here, right now, within our grasp, right here within our hearts and our dreaming. This IS our reality, because we say so!!
I love you so deeply and tenderly My Love Michael… my golden haired "El"f. My reason for being is to experience, but now I wish to experience only Joy, and you My Love are the most part of that Joy. Our Joy in being One together and in so doing being One with All. What a wondrous experience we have ahead of us!! And so close at hand!! I'll be forever patient, but thankful, oh so thankful that I won't have to wait forever!!
I'll be seeing you soon My Love, and will be bestowing all my Love on you.


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Science fiction comics
Publication of comic strips and comic books focusing on science fiction became increasingly common during the early 1930s in newspapers published in the United States. [1]
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A.D. Condo
Armundo Dreisbach "A.D." Condo (September 19, 1872 in Freeport, Illinois – 24 August 1956 in Albany, California) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip "The Outbursts of Everett True".
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Action (comics)
Action is a controversial weekly British anthology comic that was published by IPC Magazines, starting on 14 February 1976.
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Akira (manga)
Akira (Japanese: アキラ Hepburn: Akira), often stylized as AKIRA, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by mangaka Katsuhiro Otomo.
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Amazing Stories is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing.
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Appleseed (manga)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow.
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Astro Boy, known in Japan by its original name, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka.
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Brick Bradford was a science fiction comic strip created by writer William Ritt, a journalist based in Cleveland, and artist Clarence Gray.
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Buck Rogers is a fictional space opera character created by Philip Francis Nowlan in the novella Armageddon 2419 A.D., subsequently appearing in multiple media.
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A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.
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A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.
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Comics International
Comics International was a British news and reviews magazine about comic books.
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Crisis (Fleetway)
Crisis was a British comic book magazine published from 1988 to 1991 as an experiment by Fleetway to see if intelligent, mature, politically and socially aware comics were saleable in the United Kingdom.
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Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories.
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Don Lawrence
Donald Southam Lawrence (17 November 1928 – 29 December 2003) was a British comic book artist and author.
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Eagle (British comics)
Eagle was a British children's comics periodical, first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994.
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Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books, which specialized in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction, and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series.
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Enki Bilal (born October 7, 1951) is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director.
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Flash Gordon is the hero of a space opera adventure comic strip created by and originally drawn by Alex Raymond.
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Fredric Wertham
Fredric Wertham (March 20, 1895 – November 18, 1981) was a German-American psychiatrist and author.
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Futuropolis is a 1984 American short animated/stop motion science fiction film written and directed by Steve Segal and Phil Trumbo.
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Gag cartoon
A gag cartoon (a.k.a. panel cartoon or gag panel) is most often a single-panel cartoon, usually including a caption beneath the drawing.
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is a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, later adapted into a number of anime films and television series.
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is a Japanese media franchise originally published as a seinen manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow.
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A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.
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Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators.
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Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition.
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James P. Starlin (born October 9, 1949) is an American comics artist and writer.
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is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director.
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Keith Ian Giffen (born November 30, 1952) is an American comics artist and writer.
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Kris Straub
Kris Straub is a webcartoonist and the creator of Checkerboard Nightmare, Starslip, Chainsawsuit, Broodhollow, and F Chords.
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Le Rayon U
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is a well-known creator of several anime and manga series.
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are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.
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is the pen name of Japanese manga artist Masanori Ota.
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was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, animator, and film producer.
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Planet Comics
Planet Comics was a science fiction comic book title published by Fiction House from January 1940 to Winter 1953.
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Polymer City Chronicles
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Seduction of the Innocent
Seduction of the Innocent is a book by American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, published in 1954, that warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency.
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Starlord (comics)
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Meanwhile, in a large enameled cast-iron casserole, melt the butter in the oil. Add the garlic and peppers, cover and cook over moderately high heat until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Add the warm water and a pinch of salt, cover and simmer over low heat until the peppers are tender, about 10 minutes.
Add the rigatoni and the reserved pasta cooking water to the peppers. Cover and cook over moderately low heat, stirring a few times, until the rigatoni is al dente and the sauce has thickened slightly, about 5 minutes longer. Discard the garlic. Stir in the basil and season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a large bowl and serve at once, passing the Parmesan cheese at the table.


Whether you're on an awkward first date, at a party or even at a networking event, if you work in SEO then this has got to be amongst your top 10 dreaded questions.
Whilst the work we do may be complex and challenging, the fact is if a neuroscientist can explain the work they do, then there is no excuse for us as an industry to not be able to put it simply to people.
So this blog is going to cover how we define ourselves – but not in an inspirational sunset picture with rubbish font and motivational statement kind of way.
Our sector is a service industry; if we can't explain the role we have in delivering that service then how can we expect anyone to really buy into it? The start of this has got to be what goes on our LinkedIn profile, business cards & email signatures, and that is our job titles.
This isn't about being a kill-joy or stopping a business from having a personality. As a comparatively new industry, we have the opportunity to grow and shape itself. This means everyone has a part to play in earning the image we want to present.
Let's shape the industry into one that earns respect & attention when we speak, not one where we have to tackle the perception our work is just memes'. Our job titles need to support the day to day life of your role, so before picking a title think- What would a day in the life of a digital marketing superstar-ninja-hero really look like?
Are you skilled in the Japanese art of ninjutsu?
If the answer's no, then sorry but you're not a ninja.
Or perhaps you're a Hindu spiritual teacher?
Odds are no, which means you're not a Guru either.
Do you recreate Led Zepplin's greatest hits whilst writing meta descriptions?
It's difficult to pick a noun for a job title that is truly reflective of most roles in the digital marketing sector. There's a reluctance to describe yourself as a consultant when you're implementing the work you're recommending too, whilst just calling yourself a 'marketer' doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
So how do you solve this? It's important to work alongside your boss in defining what your title really is. One way to do this is to consider defining your role by outcomes and what you achieve, rather than the actions you take. If the results of your work are more tangible to an outsider than the processes undertaken, then this can be the easiest way of expressing your job role to others.
Traditionally an executive job role would refer to someone who is ultimately responsible for the project or organisation, yet in marketing it is often the inverse and an entry level job into the industry. The levels and seniority in your job title may not correlate with other industries or employers. At Facebook, employees are intentionally given lower titles than the industry standard, in order to ensure they are in a position relative to their performance within the company, rather than against the whole industry. This means that long-standing employees are not overlooked when experienced, new staff are bought in.
Without a well thought out, disciplined process for titles and promotions, your employees will become obsessed with the resulting inequalities. If you structure things properly, nobody other than you will spend much time thinking about titles other than Employee of the month.
This is difficult to overcome as an issue, as most importantly the seniority in your job title needs to be relevant to the others in your business as well as the outside world. A bit of a cheat, but the easiest way around this is to make sure you clarify the title in a description of your job, whether that's a CV or LinkedIn, you need to justify how the title differentiates you from other employees and what you did to earn it.
Primarily, a job title helps an employee to understand their place within the business- their responsibilities, who they report to, how their career could progress. Terminology, such as a Guru, can be difficult for an employee to place relative to a Ninja. It also helps to be comparable to other departments in your business, be it between an SEO and Social department or across Marketing and Legal.
A clear job title is also comparable across other firms which can be useful for when an employee is looking to move roles. If you're trying to map a horizontal move to another firm, or a promotion at a new agency then the ability to match your job title to an equivalent at a new role is infinitely harder. If you're a Digital Prophet at AOL (this is an actual thing) then what would that make you at MSN?
To understand what it is you were doing in your Digital Prophet role the future employer is going to have to look a lot deeper at your CV and the information you've provided in it.
In theory, not a problem. In practice, the average employer spends 6 seconds looking at your CV for the first time before deciding if you're worth a closer look. Those 6 seconds focus on your name, current company, previous employment dates and education; that's not a lot of time left to deciphering that quirky job title of yours. When 34% of employer's have noted an employee lying about a job title on their CV, the extent to which this is a problem becomes apparent. This shows that many employees are feeling like the title they hold could hinder their chance of employment, and not fully represent the work that they do.
Having one person in your organisation responsible for client relationships can be useful. Whether that's an Account Manager or a consultant for each client, building a personal relationship with clients is ideal.
But, what if they phone the office and their main point of contact is out? If your structure is clear to someone outside of your firm, then they'll know exactly who they want to speak to. Being transferred away from the person they regularly communicate with and handed over to a Director of First Impressions isn't going to fill them with confidence.
How to do this in practice?
Is this job title relatable?
Does it reflect the reality of what I actually do?
Who else do I know with this job title?
As an employee, don't be afraid to push back on your job title and ask the difficult questions about why it's been chosen. If it doesn't relate to the company culture, and is something you'd be reluctant to tell your mates down the pub then there's not a lot of benefit in being quirky. Think about your own home, if you needed a builder would you really choose to hire a 'brick guru'? When you're looking to hire an expert, it can be difficult to work out who really is knowledgeable, and as a job title is one of the first impressions made, it is crucial to someone's purchase decision.
A good job title is a small, but very important, part of the process of making our industry mature. Rather than earning points for style or personality, it will help build trust with those looking to invest large budgets in a grown up marketing agency.
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Hannah Thorpe is a Digital Specialist at White.net, with 2 years' experience in content marketing and technical SEO so far. White.net is a digital marketing agency which works across SEO, PPC, Content Marketing and Digital PR.


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What to expect from Microsoft's Surface event
It's fall. That means every big to mid-sized tech company is holding an event to debut its latest offerings in time for the holidays. Even if said offering is just a laptop made out of leather. Not to be left out, Microsoft's got an event planned for tomorrow afternoon in New York.
As we noted early last month, we know a few thing for sure. First, it's a hardware event. Second, it's focused on Surface products. Third, there's not going to be a Surface Phone this time.
The invite itself doesn't offer a lot of information. It's plain and white, bearing the words "a moment of your time." Could there be a Surface Watch? I mean, I guess, but I wouldn't bet on it. We have, however, seen enough credible rumors and leaks that we've got a pretty decent handle on what to expect tomorrow.
The Surface Pro 6 is the clear frontrunner here. It's the product that's been leaked the most ahead of the event — and honestly, it's the member of the Surface family most overdue for a refresh. From what we've seen so far, I wouldn't anticipate anything major on the design front. In fact, the product looks nearly identical to its predecessor.
In fact, the company's apparently staying with the full-size USB ports found on the earlier units, rather than embracing USB-C. Seems like an odd choice for what's traditionally been a forward-thinking line, though Microsoft appears to prize backward compatibility above all else here.
The internals fare a bit better here. The processors are being upgraded to 8th-gen Intel Cores with between 128GB and 1TB of storage, coupled with 4, 8 or 16GB of RAM.
The same appears to go for the Surface Laptop. I liked the original quite a bit, so I wouldn't be entirely disappointed if they company doesn't tweak the design language, as expected — though the supposed lack of USB-C ports is an odd one. As with the Pro, there's expected to be a black version for the models with higher-end specs.
The Laptop is said to ship in both Core i5 and i7 configurations, coupled with storage starting at 128GB (up to 1TB) and 8 or 16GB of RAM.
Other potential additions include a refreshed Surface Studio and updates to the HoloLens line. The event kicks off tomorrow at 4PM ET.


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Formulaic Independent, Why Stay Disappoints.
The Good: Scenery, Acting
The Bad: Painfully predictable plot and character arcs
The Basics: Moody and predictable, Stay both epitomizes and defies the conventions of the independent film.
One of the truly wonderful things about independent cinema – and, when applicable, not reading the books upon which an indie film is based – is that such films have the potential to go in any direction and, unlike most mainstream movies, they tend to actually go in more original directions. With Stay, the potential for surprise and originality diminishes with almost every minute. Stay is Taylor Schilling's first major film project since her success with the first season of Orange Is The New Black (reviewed here!), but the movie does not afford her much in the way of opportunities to showcase any additional talents she possesses as a performer.
Having not read the novel upon which Stay is based, I cannot provide any concrete analysis as to how the movie stacks up against the book. That said, there are elements of the film that are presented so obviously on screen that one may only hope that they worked better in the novel. In a film about a man who loathes the idea of having his own children, the only point of a sustained plotline involving him interacting with a boy is to soften him to the concept of having a kid of his own. About A Boy (reviewed here!) executed the idea fairly well; Stay does not. Unfortunately, the moment the camera starts following Sean around, the viewer has to figure that he will act as a conduit for the crotchety older man's character growth and that Dermot does not send the kid packing pretty much immediately makes no real sense in the film. Instead of being an audacious film, Stay feels like a formulaic novel put on screen; early in the movie there is foreshadowing to past events, a diary pops up, conversations are had, and all the truths come out to give the characters greater understanding of themselves and what they truly want in life. While this is pretty much essential to all storytelling, most films (and books) today have some subtlety and sophistication to them. Stay does not; it's a movie that pretty much perfectly embodies the formula.
Opening in Ireland with Dermot bringing his student and lover, Abbey, breakfast in bed, Abbey has a sense that things are not quite right. She goes into town, where she discovers getting a job will be hard with the stigma attached to her relationship with her and Dermot, Abbey picks up a pregnancy test and discovers she is pregnant. With Dermot eager to continue enjoying his life the way it has been, Abby tiptoes around telling him and when he finds the pregnancy test, the two have a falling out. While Abbey makes the trek back to Montreal, Dermot's mail carrier dies and her pregnant daughter Deirdre returns to the village for the viewing. When Deirdre goes into labor at her dead mother's side, Dermot has to help deliver the baby.
Abbey returns home to discover her father has broken his arm and is generally as surly as she remembers. In discussing Dermot's desperate proposal to her, Abbey's father quickly realizes his daughter is pregnant. Frank actually likes the idea of a grandchild and tries to get Abbey to stay in Canada while Dermot puts up with Sean, a local schoolboy, insisting on building a fence for him (ostensibly Sean is trying to help his family out given that his father has just taken a bath on a bed and breakfast when investors disappeared on him). Abbey debates keeping the fetus when her mother's diary turns up and informs her exactly why her mother abandoned her and her father, which puts her in an emotional tailspin. Dermot reveals to Sean why he lives in exile in the middle of nowhere and he finds himself helping Deirdre out with her new son. Independent of one another, Abbey and Dermot come to realize what they want out of life and their relationship.
Sean is a pretty obvious character for the themes of the film and it is unfortunate that Dermot's character is undermined so quickly after he is established. Sean's whole purpose is to teach Dermot one of the film's Valuable Life Lessons and the youth lacks the charisma or intelligence to be a valuable life teacher. There are no defining characteristics of Sean that set him apart from young people in a way that would make him defy the expectations Dermot has for children, so how this particular kid gets under his skin makes no real sense.
Furthermore, Wiebke von Carolsfeld's direction is annoyingly unclear in establishing Dermot's character. After Abbey decides to go home, the reasonable expectation is that Dermot is driving Abbey to the airport. And yet, Dermot drops Abbey off by the side of the road to hike. It's a pretty dick move for a man to strand his pregnant lover on the side of the road to walk to a bus station, which is fine. Dermot is free to be an asshole, if that's what he is supposed to be. But, if that's the case, it makes his taking Sean under his wing all the more inexplicable.
For all the issues with Stay, the acting is good. Aiden Quinn's face when Abbey tells Dermot that she wants to go home to "get perspective on things" is priceless. Taylor Schilling is given more to do than to stare at the camera and look dumbfounded. Abbey might not be the most interesting character for her to portray, but she does it well. Michael Ironside plays Frank without a hint of smugness – every other character I've seen him play is smart, powerful, and smug beyond belief, so this was very much a departure for him – and Barry Keoghan plays off Quinn very well.
Ultimately, Stay is not a bad film, but it plods along until its inevitable end and its plot and character direction seems far more obvious than audacious, making it less pleasant to make the journey. For a more interesting indie film with pregnancy, irresponsible men, and a lot more character, check out Waitress (reviewed here!).
For other works with Taylor Schilling, please check out my reviews of:
Orange Is The New Black - Season Two
For other movie reviews, please visit my Film Review Index Page for an organized listing!
Labels: Movie Review, Wiebke von Carolsfeld
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Experiencing Andalucia on horse back is something special; The region´s dramatic landscape with its breathtaking panoramic views provides a wide range of routes for the adventurous spirit.
Following the old smugglers trails through the cork woods as you wind your way through the hills which lead to Ronda, is a firm favorite with riders of all ages and abilities.
Join the 6 day riding tour and follow the trail that goes past the most beatyful landscapes and villages of the Grazalema Nature Park. It starts in Prado del Rey and will pass in 6 days riding through the Tour of the White Villages: El Bosque, Zahara de la Sierra, Grazalema and Montejaque to Ronda.
If you are a horse lover and in Andalucia you might consider visiting Jerez, "the capital of the horse". In the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art, you can enjoy the show "How Andalusian Horses Dance".


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Influence of socio-economic status on Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection incidence, risk factors and clinical features
N. L. Adams, L. Byrne, T. C. Rose, G. K. Adak, C. Jenkins, A. Charlett, M. Violato, S.J. O'Brien, M. M. Whitehead, B. Barr, D. C. Taylor-Robinson, J. I. Hawker
Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 147 / 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2019, e215
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection can cause serious illness including haemolytic uraemic syndrome. The role of socio-economic status (SES) in differential clinical presentation and exposure to potential risk factors amongst STEC cases has not previously been reported in England. We conducted an observational study using a dataset of all STEC cases identified in England, 2010–2015. Odds ratios for clinical characteristics of cases and foodborne, waterborne and environmental risk factors were estimated using logistic regression, stratified by SES, adjusting for baseline demographic factors. Incidence was higher in the highest SES group compared to the lowest (RR 1.54, 95% CI 1.19–2.00). Odds of Accident and Emergency attendance (OR 1.35, 95% CI 1.10–1.75) and hospitalisation (OR 1.71, 95% CI 1.36–2.15) because of illness were higher in the most disadvantaged compared to the least, suggesting potential lower ascertainment of milder cases or delayed care-seeking behaviour in disadvantaged groups. Advantaged individuals were significantly more likely to report salad/fruit/vegetable/herb consumption (OR 1.59, 95% CI 1.16–2.17), non-UK or UK travel (OR 1.76, 95% CI 1.40–2.27; OR 1.85, 95% CI 1.35–2.56) and environmental exposures (walking in a paddock, OR 1.82, 95% CI 1.22–2.70; soil contact, OR 1.52, 95% CI 2.13–1.09) suggesting other unmeasured risks, such as person-to-person transmission, could be more important in the most disadvantaged group.
Impact of oat processing on glycaemic and insulinaemic responses in healthy humans: a randomised clinical trial
Thomas M. S. Wolever, Jodee Johnson, Alexandra L. Jenkins, Janice C. Campbell, Adish Ezatagha, YiFang Chu
Journal: British Journal of Nutrition , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2019, pp. 1-7
Oats can be processed in a variety of ways ranging from minimally processed such as steel-cut oats (SCO), to mildly processed such as large-flake oats (old fashioned oats, OFO), moderately processed such as instant oats (IO) or highly processed in ready-to-eat oat cereals such as Honey Nut Cheerios (HNC). Although processing is believed to increase glycaemic and insulinaemic responses, the effect of oat processing in these respects is unclear. Thus, we compared the glycaemic and insulinaemic responses elicited by 628 kJ portions of SCO, OFO, IO and HNC and a portion of Cream of Rice cereal (CR) containing the same amount of available-carbohydrate (23 g) as the oatmeals. Healthy males (n 18) and females (n 12) completed this randomised, cross-over trial. Blood was taken fasting and at intervals for 3h following test-meal consumption. Glucose and insulin peak-rises and incremental AUC (iAUC) were subjected to repeated-measures ANOVA using Tukey's test (two-sided P<0·05) to compare individual means. Glucose peak-rise (primary endpoint, mean (sem) mmol/l) after OFO, 2·19 (sem 0·11), was significantly less than after CR, 2·61 (sem 0·13); and glucose peak-rise after SCO, 1·93 (sem 0·13), was significantly less than after CR, HNC, 2·49 (sem 0·13) and IO 2·47 (sem 0·13). Glucose iAUC was significantly lower after SCO than CR and HNC. Insulin peak rise was similar among the test meals, but insulin iAUC was significantly less after SCO than IO. Thus, the results show that oat processing affects glycaemic and insulinaemic responses with lower responses associated with less processing.
Review of the status and conservation of tenrecs (Mammalia: Afrotheria: Tenrecidae)
P. J. Stephenson, Voahangy Soarimalala, Steven M. Goodman, Martin E. Nicoll, Vonjy Andrianjakarivelo, Kathryn M. Everson, Michael Hoffmann, Paulina D. Jenkins, Link E. Olson, Martin Raheriarisena, Felix Rakotondraparany, Daniel Rakotondravony, Vololomboahangy Randrianjafy, Nanie Ratsifandrihamanana, Andrew Taylor
Journal: Oryx , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2019, pp. 1-10
The mammal family Tenrecidae (Afrotheria: Afrosoricida) is endemic to Madagascar. Here we present the conservation priorities for the 31 species of tenrec that were assessed or reassessed in 2015–2016 for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Six species (19.4%) were found to be threatened (4 Vulnerable, 2 Endangered) and one species was categorized as Data Deficient. The primary threat to tenrecs is habitat loss, mostly as a result of slash-and-burn agriculture, but some species are also threatened by hunting and incidental capture in fishing traps. In the longer term, climate change is expected to alter tenrec habitats and ranges. However, the lack of data for most tenrecs on population size, ecology and distribution, together with frequent changes in taxonomy (with many cryptic species being discovered based on genetic analyses) and the poorly understood impact of bushmeat hunting on spiny species (Tenrecinae), hinders conservation planning. Priority conservation actions are presented for Madagascar's tenrecs for the first time since 1990 and focus on conserving forest habitat (especially through improved management of protected areas) and filling essential knowledge gaps. Tenrec research, monitoring and conservation should be integrated into broader sustainable development objectives and programmes targeting higher profile species, such as lemurs, if we are to see an improvement in the conservation status of tenrecs in the near future.
Reinvestigating Cougar Mountain Cave: New Perspectives on Stratigraphy, Chronology, and a Younger Dryas Occupation in the Northern Great Basin
Richard L. Rosencrance, Geoffrey M. Smith, Dennis L. Jenkins, Thomas J. Connolly, Thomas N. Layton
Journal: American Antiquity , First View
Cougar Mountain Cave is located in Oregon's Fort Rock Basin. In 1958, avocationalist John Cowles excavated most of the cave's deposits and recovered abundant fiber, lithic, wood, and osseous artifacts. A crew from the University of California, Davis returned to the site in 1966 to evaluate the potential for further research, collecting additional lithic and fiber artifacts from disturbed deposits and in situ charcoal from apparently undisturbed deposits. Because Cowles took few notes or photographs, the Cougar Mountain Cave collection—most of which is housed at the Favell Museum in Klamath Falls, Oregon—has largely gone unstudied even though it contains diagnostic artifacts spanning the Holocene and, potentially, the terminal Pleistocene. We recently submitted charcoal and basketry from the site for radiocarbon dating, providing the first reliable sense of when Cougar Mountain Cave was first occupied. Our results indicate at least a Younger Dryas age for initial occupation. The directly dated basketry has provided new information about the age ranges and spatial distributions of diagnostic textile types in the northwestern Great Basin.
The effect of cotton growth stage on response to a sublethal concentration of 2,4-D
John T. Buol, Daniel B. Reynolds, Darrin M. Dodds, J. Anthony Mills, Robert L. Nichols, Jason A. Bond, Johnie N. Jenkins, Janice L. DuBien
Journal: Weed Technology / Volume 33 / Issue 2 / April 2019
Print publication: April 2019
Recent commercialization of auxin herbicide–based weed control systems has led to increased off-target exposure of susceptible cotton cultivars to auxin herbicides. Off-target deposition of dilute concentrations of auxin herbicides can occur on cotton at any stage of growth. Field experiments were conducted at two locations in Mississippi from 2014 to 2016 to assess the response of cotton at various growth stages after exposure to a sublethal 2,4-D concentration of 8.3 g ae ha−1. Herbicide applications occurred weekly from 0 to 14 weeks after emergence (WAE). Cotton exposure to 2,4-D at 2 to 9 WAE resulted in up to 64% visible injury, whereas 2,4-D exposure 5 to 6 WAE resulted in machine-harvested yield reductions of 18% to 21%. Cotton maturity was delayed after exposure 2 to 10 WAE, and height was increased from exposure 6 to 9 WAE due to decreased fruit set after exposure. Total hand-harvested yield was reduced from 2,4-D exposure 3, 5 to 8, and 13 WAE. Growth stage at time of exposure influenced the distribution of yield by node and position. Yield on lower and inner fruiting sites generally decreased from exposure, and yield partitioned to vegetative or aborted positions and upper fruiting sites increased. Reductions in gin turnout, micronaire, fiber length, fiber-length uniformity, and fiber elongation were observed after exposure at certain growth stages, but the overall effects on fiber properties were small. These results indicate that cotton is most sensitive to low concentrations of 2,4-D during late vegetative and squaring growth stages.
4 - Boosting School Readiness with Preschool Curricula
from Part I - Program Dosage and Quality
By Tutrang Nguyen, Greg J. Duncan, Jade M. Jenkins
Edited by Arthur J. Reynolds, University of Minnesota, Judy A. Temple, University of Minnesota
Book: Sustaining Early Childhood Learning Gains
Print publication: 10 January 2019, pp 74-100
Diagnosis Prevalence and Comorbidity in a Population of Mobile Integrated Community Health Care Patients
Becca M. Scharf, Rick A. Bissell, Jamie L. Trevitt, J. Lee Jenkins
Journal: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / February 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 December 2018, pp. 46-55
Print publication: February 2019
Frequent calls to 911 and requests for emergency services by individuals place a costly burden on emergency response systems and emergency departments (EDs) in the United States. Many of the calls by these individuals are non-emergent exacerbations of chronic conditions and could be treated more effectively and cost efficiently through another health care service. Mobile integrated community health (MICH) programs present a possible partial solution to the over-utilization of emergency services by addressing factors which contribute to a patient's likelihood of frequent Emergency Medical Services (EMS) use. To provide effective care to eligible individuals, MICH providers must have a working understanding of the common conditions they will encounter.
The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate the diagnosis prevalence and comorbidity among participants in the Queen Anne's County (Maryland USA) MICH Program. This fundamental knowledge of the most common medical conditions within the MICH Program will inform future mobile integrated health programs and providers.
This study examined preliminary data from the MICH Program, as well as 2017 Maryland census data. It involved secondary analysis of de-identified patient records and descriptive statistical analysis of the disease prevalence, degree of comorbidity, insurance coverage, and demographic characteristics among 97 program participants. Diagnoses were grouped by their ICD-9 classification codes to determine the most common categories of medical conditions. Multiple linear regression models and chi-squared tests were used to assess the association between age, sex, race, ICD-9 diagnosis groups, and comorbidity among program enrollees.
Results indicated the most prevalent diagnoses included hypertension, high cholesterol, esophageal reflux, and diabetes mellitus. Additionally, 94.85% of MICH patients were comorbid; the number of comorbidities per patient ranged from one to 13 conditions, with a mean of 5.88 diagnoses per patient (SD=2.74).
Overall, patients in the MICH Program are decidedly medically complex and may be well-suited to additional community intervention to better manage their many conditions. The potential for MICH programs to simultaneously improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs by expanding into larger public health and addressing the needs of the most vulnerable citizens warrants further study.
ScharfBM, BissellRA, TrevittJL, JenkinsJL.Diagnosis Prevalence and Comorbidity in a Population of Mobile Integrated Community Health Care PatientsPrehosp Disaster Med. 2019;34(1):46–55.
Effect of Growth Stage on Cotton Response to a Sublethal Concentration of Dicamba
Journal: Weed Technology / Volume 33 / Issue 1 / February 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2018, pp. 1-8
The introduction of auxin herbicide weed control systems has led to increased occurrence of crop injury in susceptible soybeans and cotton. Off-target exposure to sublethal concentrations of dicamba can occur at varying growth stages, which may affect crop response. Field experiments were conducted in Mississippi in 2014, 2015, and 2016 to characterize cotton response to a sublethal concentration of dicamba equivalent to 1/16X the labeled rate. Weekly applications of dicamba at 35 g ae ha−1 were made to separate sets of replicated plots immediately following planting until 14 wk after emergence (WAE). Exposure to dicamba from 1 to 9 WAE resulted in up to 32% visible injury, and exposure from 7 to 10 WAE delayed crop maturity. Exposure from 8 to 10 and 13 WAE led to increased cotton height, while an 18% reduction in machine-harvested yield resulted from exposure at 6 WAE. Cotton exposure at 3 to 9 WAE reduced the seed cotton weight partitioned to position 1 fruiting sites, while exposure at 3 to 6 WAE also reduced yield in position 2 fruiting sites. Exposure at 2, 3, and 5 to 7 WAE increased the percent of yield partitioned to vegetative branches. An increase in percent of yield partitioned to plants with aborted terminals occurred following exposure from 3 to 7 WAE and corresponded with reciprocal decreases in yield partitioned to positional fruiting sites. Minimal effects were observed on fiber quality, except for decreases in fiber length uniformity resulting from exposure at 9 and 10 WAE.
Chapter 32 - Lawrence's Influence on Later Writers
from Part VI - Creative Legacies
By Lee M. Jenkins
Edited by Andrew Harrison, University of Nottingham
Book: D. H. Lawrence In Context
Print publication: 15 November 2018, pp 327-336
Large outbreak of multiple gastrointestinal pathogens associated with fresh curry leaves in North East England, 2013
A. Waldram, J. Lawler, C. Jenkins, J. Collins, M. Payne, H. Aird, M. Swindlehurst, G. K. Adak, K. Grant, D. Ready, R. Gorton, K. Foster
Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 146 / Issue 15 / November 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 August 2018, pp. 1940-1947
A total of 592 people reported gastrointestinal illness following attendance at Street Spice, a food festival held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North East England in February/March 2013. Epidemiological, microbiological and environmental investigations were undertaken to identify the source and prevent further cases. Several epidemiological analyses were conducted; a cohort study; a follow-up survey of cases and capture re-capture to estimate the true burden of cases. Indistinguishable isolates of Salmonella Agona phage type 40 were identified in cases and on fresh curry leaves used in one of the accompaniments served at the event. Molecular testing indicated entero-aggregative Escherichia coli and Shigella also contributed to the burden of illness. Analytical studies found strong associations between illness and eating food from a particular stall and with food items including coconut chutney which contained fresh curry leaves. Further investigation of the food supply chain and food preparation techniques identified a lack of clear instruction on the use of fresh uncooked curry leaves in finished dishes and uncertainty about their status as a ready-to-eat product. We describe the investigation of one of the largest outbreaks of food poisoning in England, involving several gastrointestinal pathogens including a strain of Salmonella Agona not previously seen in the UK.
23 - Cardiac Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
from Section 4 - Advanced Organ Support
By Jason M Ali, David P Jenkins
Edited by Kamen Valchanov, Nicola Jones, Charles W. Hogue
Book: Core Topics in Cardiothoracic Critical Care
Print publication: 05 July 2018, pp 193-201
Prehospital Blood Product Administration Opportunities in Ground Transport ALS EMS – A Descriptive Study
Felicia M. Mix, Martin D. Zielinski, Lucas A. Myers, Kathy S. Berns, Anurahda Luke, James R. Stubbs, Scott P. Zietlow, Donald H. Jenkins, Matthew D. Sztajnkrycer
Journal: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine / Volume 33 / Issue 3 / June 2018
Hemorrhage remains the major cause of preventable death after trauma. Recent data suggest that earlier blood product administration may improve outcomes. The purpose of this study was to determine whether opportunities exist for blood product transfusion by ground Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
This was a single EMS agency retrospective study of ground and helicopter responses from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2015 for adult trauma patients transported from the scene of injury who met predetermined hemodynamic (HD) parameters for potential transfusion (heart rate [HR]≥120 and/or systolic blood pressure [SBP]≤90).
A total of 7,900 scene trauma ground transports occurred during the study period. Of 420 patients meeting HD criteria for transfusion, 53 (12.6%) had a significant mechanism of injury (MOI). Outcome data were available for 51 patients; 17 received blood products during their emergency department (ED) resuscitation. The percentage of patients receiving blood products based upon HD criteria ranged from 1.0% (HR) to 5.9% (SBP) to 38.1% (HR+SBP). In all, 74 Helicopter EMS (HEMS) transports met HD criteria for blood transfusion, of which, 28 patients received prehospital blood transfusion. Statistically significant total patient care time differences were noted for both the HR and the SBP cohorts, with HEMS having longer time intervals; no statistically significant difference in mean total patient care time was noted in the HR+SBP cohort.
In this study population, HD parameters alone did not predict need for ED blood product administration. Despite longer transport times, only one-third of HEMS patients meeting HD criteria for blood administration received prehospital transfusion. While one-third of ground Advanced Life Support (ALS) transport patients manifesting HD compromise received blood products in the ED, this represented 0.2% of total trauma transports over the study period. Given complex logistical issues involved in prehospital blood product administration, opportunities for ground administration appear limited within the described system.
MixFM, ZielinskiMD, MyersLA, BernsKS, LukeA, StubbsJR, ZietlowSP, JenkinsDH, SztajnkrycerMD. Prehospital Blood Product Administration Opportunities in Ground Transport ALS EMS – A Descriptive Study. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2018;33(3):230–236.
Re-evaluation of the life cycle of Eimeria maxima Tyzzer, 1929 in chickens (Gallus domesticus)
J. P. Dubey, M. C. Jenkins
Journal: Parasitology / Volume 145 / Issue 8 / July 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 December 2017, pp. 1051-1058
A time-course study was conducted to resolve discrepancies in the literature and better define aspects of the Eimeria maxima life cycle such, as sites of development and both morphology and number of asexual stages. Broiler chickens were inoculated orally with five million E. maxima oocysts (APU1), and were necropsied at regular intervals from 12 to 120 h p.i. Small intestine tissue sections and smears were examined for developmental stages. The jejunum contained the highest numbers of developmental stages. At 12 h p.i., sporozoites were observed inside a parasitophorous vacuole (PV) in the epithelial villi and the lamina propria. By 24 h, sporozoites enclosed by a PV were observed in enterocytes of the glands of Lieberkühn. At 48 h p.i., sporozoites, elongated immature and mature schizonts, were all seen in the glands with merozoites budding off from a residual body. By 60 h, second-generation, sausage-shaped schizonts containing up to 12 merozoites were observed around a residual body in the villar tip of invaded enterocytes. At 72 and 96 h, profuse schizogony associated with third- and fourth-generation schizonts was observed throughout the villus. At 120 h, another generation (fifth) of schizonts were seen in villar tips as well as in subepithelium where gamonts and oocysts were also present; a few gamonts were in epithelium. Our finding of maximum parasitization of E. maxima in jejunum is important because this region is critical for nutrient absorption and weight gain.
International quality improvement initiatives
Patricia A. Hickey, Jean A. Connor, Kotturathu M. Cherian, Kathy Jenkins, Kaitlin Doherty, Haibo Zhang, Michael Gaies, Sara Pasquali, Sarah Tabbutt, James D. St. Louis, George E. Sarris, Hiromi Kurosawa, Richard A. Jonas, Nestor Sandoval, Christo I. Tchervenkov, Jeffery P. Jacobs, Giovanni Stellin, James K. Kirklin, Rajnish Garg, David F. Vener
Journal: Cardiology in the Young / Volume 27 / Issue S6 / December 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 December 2017, pp. S61-S68
Across the globe, the implementation of quality improvement science and collaborative learning has positively affected the care and outcomes for children born with CHD. These efforts have advanced the collective expertise and performance of inter-professional healthcare teams. In this review, we highlight selected quality improvement initiatives and strategies impacting the field of cardiovascular care and describe implications for future practice and research. The continued leveraging of technology, commitment to data transparency, focus on team-based practice, and recognition of cultural norms and preferences ensure the success of sustainable models of global collaboration.
David R. Jarraway , Wallace Stevens among Others: Diva-Dames, Deleuze, and American Culture (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015, £43.00). Pp. xiii + 307. isbn 978 0 7735 4602 8.
LEE M. JENKINS
Journal: Journal of American Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 4 / November 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 October 2017, pp. 1285-1286
Information Theory Applied to Animal Communication Systems and Its Possible Application to SETI
Sean F. Hanser, Laurance R. Doyle, Brenda McCowan, Jon M. Jenkins
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2017, pp. 514-518
Information theory, as first introduced by Claude Shannon (Shannon & Weaver 1949) quantitatively evaluates the organizational complexity of communication systems. At the same time George Zipf was examining linguistic structure in a way that was mathematically similar to the components of the Shannon first-order entropy (Zipf 1949). Both Shannon's and Zipf's mathematical procedures have been applied to animal communication and recently have been providing insightful results. The Zipf plot is a useful tool for a first estimate of the characterization of a communication system's complexity (which can later be examined for complex structure at deeper levels using Shannon entropic analysis). In this paper we shall discuss some of the applications and pitfalls of using the Zipf distribution as a preliminary evaluator of the communication complexity of a signaling system.
Detecting Extrasolar Planet Transits from the South Pole
Douglas A. Caldwell, William J. Borucki, Robert L. Showen, Jon M. Jenkins, Laurance Doyle, Zoran Ninkov, Michael Ashley
We have developed and tested a wide-field photometer to detect extrasolar planet transits from the South Pole. The discovery of transiting planets for which masses can be measured by radial velocity is vital to constrain the models of planet formation and evolution. Short of going to space, the South Pole is the best site from which to carry out a such a survey. Based on results from the Doppler velocity surveys and the Vulcan transit search, we expect to detect 10 to 15 transiting planets in two years of operation at the South Pole.
Polarization of radio waves transmitted through Antarctic ice shelves
C. S. M. Doake, H. F. J. Corr, A. Jenkins
Journal: Annals of Glaciology / Volume 34 / 2002
The polarization behaviour of radar waves transmitted through two Antarctic ice shelves has been investigated using a step frequency radar with a centre frequency of 300 MHz and a bandwidth of 150 MHz. One site was on Brunt Ice Shelf at a site near Halley station, and 17 sites were on George VI Ice Shelf near the southern ice front. Birefringence in the ice dominated the behaviour on Brunt Ice Shelf, where the anisotropy in the effective permittivity was found to be about 0.14%. On George VI Ice Shelf, a highly anisotropic reflecting surface was the controlling feature, suggesting a fluted ice-shelf base formed by oceanographic currents.
Investigations of an "ice plain" in the mouth of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
H. F. J. Corr, C. S. M. Doake, A. Jenkins, D. G. Vaughan
Journal: Journal of Glaciology / Volume 47 / Issue 156 / 2001
We present newly acquired airborne radar data showing ice thickness and surface elevation for Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica. These data, when combined with earlier measurements, suggest the presence of a lightly grounded area immediately above the grounding line of Pine Island Glacier. We identify this region as an "ice plain". It lies close to the centre line of the glacier, has an elevation above buoyancy of <50 m and extends inland for >28 km. The upstream edge of the ice plain is defined by a "coupling line". The configuration of the ice plain implies that nearby thinning of the ice stream would result in substantial grounding-line retreat. We suggest that the grounding-line retreat of Pine Island Glacier, observed between 1992 and 1996, probably commenced sometime after 1981.
Does growth restriction increase the vulnerability to acute ventilation-induced brain injury in newborn lambs? Implications for future health and disease
B. J. Allison, S. B. Hooper, E. Coia, G. Jenkin, A. Malhotra, V. Zahra, A. Sehgal, M. Kluckow, A. W. Gill, T. Yawno, G. R. Polglase, M. Castillo-Melendez, S. L. Miller
Journal: Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease / Volume 8 / Issue 5 / October 2017
Fetal growth restriction (FGR) and preterm birth are frequent co-morbidities, both are independent risks for brain injury. However, few studies have examined the mechanisms by which preterm FGR increases the risk of adverse neurological outcomes. We aimed to determine the effects of prematurity and mechanical ventilation (VENT) on the brain of FGR and appropriately grown (AG, control) lambs. We hypothesized that FGR preterm lambs are more vulnerable to ventilation-induced acute brain injury. FGR was surgically induced in fetal sheep (0.7 gestation) by ligation of a single umbilical artery. After 4 weeks, preterm lambs were euthanized at delivery or delivered and ventilated for 2 h before euthanasia. Brains and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were collected for analysis of molecular and structural indices of early brain injury. FGRVENT lambs had increased oxidative cell damage and brain injury marker S100B levels compared with all other groups. Mechanical ventilation increased inflammatory marker IL-8 within the brain of FGRVENT and AGVENT lambs. Abnormalities in the neurovascular unit and increased blood–brain barrier permeability were observed in FGRVENT lambs, as well as an altered density of vascular tight junctions markers. FGR and AG preterm lambs have different responses to acute injurious mechanical ventilation, changes which appear to have been developmentally programmed in utero.


Shrewsbury – The spirit of the season was evident on Dec. 1 in downtown Shrewsbury when Santa Claus made an appearance outside of the Chiampa Funeral Home, 5 Church Road. The weather was beautiful but seasonably chilly. Provisions were made for a fire and warm refreshments to keep guests toasty.
After a lift courtesy of the Shrewsbury Police Department paddy wagon, Santa met with the young children waiting for him, as well as those young at heart.