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THE PERFECT RACEHORSE, A final visit with Holy Bull
Saturday, August 5th, 2017 | Filed under Horse Stories
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2016 Kentucky Derby champion Nyquist stood in the deepest shadows of his stall, as Medaglia d' Oro, stunningly large and perpetually anti-social, slouched with only his backside visible. Frosted, "Too smart for his own good," is rowdy and playful in a juvenile way. And the magnificent Bernardini searches your soul with his placid kind eyes.
But it is Holy Bull, the barn's elder statesman pensioned in 2012, who stands largely unnoticed in a corner stall near the door. He is framed in the white light of the early Bluegrass summer, and at age 26 still commands attention. I knew very little about him other than his attention-grabbing name.
Photo by Loren Schumacher
A handler tells our tour that he is being treated for a melanoma common in older gray horses. Like Alphabet Soup at Old Friends, he is being treated with a vaccine made from the cells of his own tumors.
The video images of the Haskell, the Travers Stakes, the Met Mile and the Florida Derby are grainy and time worn, like our memories of him. Each is a blurred testament to the greatness of the horse, Holy Bull. Tom Durkin's call of the 1994 Woodward still echoes down the years, "Holy Bull running like a champion…with devastating ease! Holy Bull toying with the best horses in training." His time, just 3/5 of a second off the stakes record set by the legendary Secretariat.
At the Travers he was tested early by the rabbit, Comanche Trail, while D. Wayne Lukas' Tabasco Cat watched and waited. But as long, fluid strides brought the closer Concern to Holy Bull, the gray horse found a last fragment of courage under the relentless rhythm of Mike Smith's left-hand. Winning by a neck, Durkin simply said of Holy Bull, "What a hero."
In 1994 he was the Eclipse Champion Three Year Old and Horse of the Year, and ultimately was elected to racing's Hall of Fame. President of Godolphin USA, Jimmy Bell, once owner of Jonabell Farm, said of Holy Bull, "I've always said he wasn't a specialist – short, grass, long or dirt. You can't mention his name without using words like fighter, determination and guts."
Winning 13 of his 16 starts (12 of his first 14, among them 6 GI and 3 GII races) and collecting nearly $2.5 million in career earnings, he proved equally as adept at single turn races, like the Hutcheson Stakes or The Met Mile, as he was in route races. But his career was not without failure and disappointment. The odds-on favorite to win the 1994 Kentucky Derby, The Bull finished a dismal 12th behind Go For Gin. To the end of his days, his trainer Jimmy Croll said that someone had "gotten to" Holy Bull before the Derby. His longtime rider Mike Smith to this day fails to come up with an explanation. In the Fountain of Youth Stakes, a displaced palate left The Bull gasping for breath, and finishing sixth.
Skeptics opined that he was just a sprinter, but after his decisive Florida Derby victory (.46 flat for the ½ and a mile and an eighth 1:47 2/5) there was little room for speculation or doubt. Hall of Fame Trainer Jimmy Croll said, "After the race he cooled out in 15 minutes and was screaming for his dinner. He cleaned out every oat and the following morning he was bright as the sun."
The 1995 Donn Handicap was supposed to be match race between The Bull and Cigar, and for most of the race it was. Then, just as The Bull began gaining ground on Cigar, Mike Smith felt something off and pulled him up. It was a career-ending ligament injury, and The Bull was retired to Kentucky's Jonabell Farm.
In his career as a sire he gave us a Derby winner Giacomo, as well as Macho Uno, winner of the 2000 Breeder's Cup Juvenile and descendants such as the undefeated Caravaggio, Judy The Beauty and Munnings. In all, Holy Bull gave racing more than 700 winners with earnings totaling more than $60 million.
These are the facts, brittle statistical validation of Holy Bull's greatness. But it is the heart of Holy Bull and others like him that statistics alone cannot define. Puncher and counter puncher, he was a fighter that refused to lose. Even when pushed to the limit, dogged by first one challenger then another, Holy Bull seemed to glide across the surface as though he were out for a Sunday hack. He ran with deceptive ease, but each stride was a demonstration of his power, thunderous, devastating and violent.
When asked by a fellow tourist, "What is the perfect racehorse?" Holy Bull's groom, Bob Coffey, pointed to his horse saying, "Right there. There is a perfect racehorse."
On that day in early June he seemed a bit restive, his head swaying back and forth as if the movement comforted him and relieved the boredom of the day's confinement. His eyes were soft and warm, at times a little vacant as if he were lost in thought. His ears reacted to the sounds of his small world, at times nearly flat and mulish, then pricked and alert. And his coat, once a steely dark gray, was now a mantle of white, still dappled and with a fine silken mane. He was beautiful.
Just five days later on June the 7th, at the age of 26, Holy Bull was euthanized due to the infirmities of old age. Surely he went to his death in much the same way he raced—with courage and dignity. You would expect nothing less from him.
I have nearly two dozen photos of him taken on that warm Friday afternoon, none of them very good, but they are among the last—perhaps the very last—photos taken of Holy Bull.
Photo courtesy of Darley
Loren Schumacher is a small business/horse owner in Southwestern Ohio. He competes in competitive trail events and publishes the blog Nip & Duck, where he talks about almost anything horse.
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dawndi Post author 05/02/2018 at 17:00
Dan: Unfortunately, you wrote to the blogger who reposted this article – not the author.
Dan Post 05/02/2018 at 16:22
Holy Bull wasn't odds-on for the Kentucky Derby. He was the 2 to 1 favourite. Had he won, he would've paid $6.40. And, to be clear, this was NOT in any way, shape, or form, supposed to be a match race between The Bull and Cigar. You diminish Holy Bull's accomplishments, and greatness by such a ludicrous suggestion. Holy Bull was the returning 3 year old champ. Not to mention, HOY! He finished his 3 year old campaign with 5 Grade 1 wins! Cigar was a nobody going into the race! At this point, we'd never heard of him (and he was sent off at 4 to 1, that's not what I'd consider a match race). I will finish by saying I watched the race that day, and had Holy Bull not pulled-up, Cigar would have been handed his head!
Loren Schumacher 28/10/2017 at 10:48
So glad you picked up my story about Holy Bull from the Horse Network. I fell in love with him in that single moment as he stood in a halo of white light. We can make what we want of the light and its meaning if any. The Bull was standing alone in his stall with only his handler/groom nearby. Most of the other visitors were too young to remember him, or just overstimulated having just seen Frosted's head-shaking, prancing entrance to the yard. I was shocked and saddened when I read that he had been euthanized just a few days after my visit. I hope fans remember him well. My story is a pale testament to the glory of this great horse.
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10 Misconceptions You Might Have About Ancient Life
by B. J. Deming
The Jurassic Park movies are wonderful partly because they're based on fact—or are they? Certainly, they try to show dinosaurs and other ancient life-forms as accurately as possible. But scientists face challenges when attempting to reconstruct ancient life. New discoveries happen frequently, clarifying what we know about the first life-forms on Earth or sometimes forcing us to rewrite the books.
10 Life And Earth Have Evolved Together
Most of us think that Earth formed, and then life developed in the seas. That's basically true, but no one knows for sure how life first developed. Once it arrived, life immediately started influencing the planet's surface. Without plants to break rock up into sediment, for example, there wouldn't be as much material for plate tectonics to turn into continents. Without plants, Earth might have ended up as a water world.
Believe it or not, increasingly complex life may even change the pattern of global ice ages, making them less severe with "regulatory feedback." This intermittent global freeze-thaw pattern goes back billions of years to a time when Earth didn't have the complex web of life that exists today. Back then, glaciers stretched all the way from the poles to the equator, disrupting the whole planet.
Since then, as more and more life has roamed the surface and filled the seas, ice-age Earth has formed huge glaciers at both poles and sent a few shivery fingers down several degrees of latitude, never reaching the equator.
9 Something Mysterious Happened On Earth 542 Million Years Ago
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Experts call the sudden upturn in diversity and richness of Earth's fossil record that began some 542 million years ago "the Cambrian explosion." It puzzled Charles Darwin. Why did all the ancestors of modern animals appear overnight, geologically speaking?
One expert explanation is that there was life before the Cambrian period, but it didn't have any hard parts. Researchers analyzed soft-bodied Precambrian fossils in Australia, some of which aren't related to any form of modern life today, as well as younger Cambrian soft-bodied fossils from Canada. They found that there was advanced multicellular life at least 50 million years before the Cambrian "explosion." They're not sure where hard parts came from, but maybe a genetic mutation caused a cascade effect leading to the sudden development of shells and skeletons.
Not everyone agrees with this theory. Scientists have yet to figure out exactly what happened to life on Earth 542 million years ago.
8 The First Land Plants Probably Caused A Mass Extinction
It was good to be a fish at the top of the food chain during the Devonian period, 150 million years after the Cambrian. Apart from a few adventurous plants and animals that were exploring land for the very first time, everything lived in the sea. Over tens of millions of years, things started looking up on land, too, where tall forests of ferns, mosses, and fungi developed.
Then marine creatures started dying. At least 70 percent of all invertebrates in the sea eventually disappeared. This Devonian extinction was one of the top 10 mass extinctions in Earth's history.
Many experts believe that land plants were the culprits. They say that the first forests created soil that broke down rocks into minerals that eventually washed into the ocean, causing algae blooms. These algae consumed all the oxygen, suffocating marine creatures. Even worse, the algae were then turned into hydrogen sulfide by other organisms. This turned seawater into acid. The plants didn't escape, either. They removed enough CO2 from the air to cause an ice age which destroyed many of them, too.
However, some species survived even those hellish conditions in the sea and on land.
7 Ancient Life Was Very Adaptable
There is never total extinction, not even when a massive asteroid impacts the planet. For example, back in Earth's youth, oxygen made by those newfangled cyanobacteria was poisonous to most early forms of life. Although many oxygen-haters died off, others adapted by becoming more complex. Extinction happens over and over again, but Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park was right when he said that life always finds a way to keep going.
According to the fossil record, survival and extinction come down to things like demographics. If a group has lots of species scattered all over the world, then there's a chance that at least one or two will get through an extinction event. Other influences are environmental conditions and genetic factors that make a species vulnerable or adaptable.
Horseshoe crabs really have the right stuff—they've survived four major mass extinctions and countless smaller ones. No wonder they're wracked with survivor's guilt!
6 The Search For Martian Fossils Redefines The Meaning Of Fossils On Earth
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Just what is a fossil anyway? It used to mean anything dug out of the ground, but that can be misleading when we're trying to understand ancient life.
Fossils can also be hard to identify. Sometimes it's difficult to tell whether a bleb on a Precambrian rock is a bacteria fossil or just rock. What is life and how can we identify its fossils? Oddly enough, the answers probably lie in space exploration.
Right now, there is a traffic jam around and on the planet Mars because, apart from Earth, Mars offers the most hospitable planetary climate for life. It once had seas and rivers.
If life existed in those ancient waters, maybe it left some fossils behind. This raises an obvious question. If we're puzzled about life on Earth from 542 million years ago, how are we going to recognize Martian remains from four billion years ago?
Astrobiologists are working on answers to that question. Paleontologists are helping, too. Redefining fossils to fit conditions on ancient Mars also helps scientists figure out what are and aren't primordial fossils here on Earth.
5 Fossils Are Biased
Most of the fossils you've seen probably formed in water. Water is good for fossil making. Land . . . not so much. In the shallow water near the beach, for instance, lots of sediment runoff from rivers and streams will quickly bury clams and other marine creatures, preserving them.
A tropical rain forest may be just as diverse and thriving as a shallow marine shelf, but it won't form many fossils. Plants and animals that die there quickly decay because of humidity. Also, predators quickly carry off carcasses anywhere on land, while whatever is left erodes in the wind and rain.
Stagnant water in low-lying places like swamps and lagoons works, too, because it doesn't contain much oxygen, and few decay organisms can live there. Besides location, there is also a fossil bias toward bodies that have hard parts, as well as for members of animal and plant groups that are large, long-lived, and dispersed over a wide geographic area. Time matters, too. Geologic processes like mountain building and plate subduction tend to erase the fossil record, so extremely old fossils are rare.
4 A Fossil Rarely Resembles The Original Living Creature
Physical processes after a plant or animal dies are complex and messy. An entire scientific field, taphonomy, has been set up to study them. This helps a lot, but it's not a perfect picture of the original living being. Some whole fossils, such as insects and carnivorous plants trapped in amber, exist but are all fairly young. Mostly, only a small part of an organism is preserved. As we've seen, fossilization tends to happen only to the hard parts of a plant or animal, so experts must reconstruct animals from only a few teeth and, if they're lucky, maybe some bones as well.
Paleoartists use fossil data to reconstruct ancient living beings, but they fill in the gaps with details from that animal's or plant's modern descendants. Many times, new discoveries confirm the reconstructions. Sometimes—most notably in the case of feathered dinosaurs—early reconstructions are inaccurate.
Don't let this ruin Jurassic World for you, though. The experts are doing their best, but as biologist Dr. John Hutchinson said to The Guardian, "If you're going for pure entertainment, you might as well throw the science out of the window and make it up."
3 Fossils Aren't Petrified
Scientists are persnickety about words. A paleontologist describing 200-million-year-old wood that has turned to stone might call it "permineralized" or "replaced" rather than petrified.
Permineralization happens because wood has empty spaces in it. Suppose a tree falls into a lake that contains a lot of dissolved minerals from a nearby volcano that has sprinkled ashy minerals into the water. Those minerals, especially silicates, get into the wood, filling up pores and other empty spaces, so the woody parts are encased in stone and preserved.
Wood can also be replaced. This is a much lengthier process. Suppose our tree misses the lake when it falls and is buried instead in soil. Ground water seeps through, and over geologic time, minerals replace the whole tree, including the woody parts, molecule by molecule. All "petrified" wood is cool, but paleontologists get more information from wood that has undergone molecular replacement than from permineralized wood.
2 Different Species Have Evolved The Same Feature Over And Over Again
As we've already discussed, the saber-toothed "tiger" wasn't the only ancient critter to be long in the teeth. Saberteeth are an example of convergent evolution, where unrelated species independently develop the same useful feature. Saberteeth are useful to all sorts of predators that must hunt animals bigger than them.
There are lots of other examples of convergent evolution. Modern giraffes, for instance, aren't related to dinosaurs, but they do have the same long necks that brachiosaurus and other thunder lizards sported. A long-extinct mammal, Castorocauda, looked and acted a lot like a modern beaver, though the two species aren't related.
One of the weirdest cases of convergent evolution involves us. Koalas have fingerprints that look just like ours, although they are marsupials (they have pouches) and we're placentals (our unborn young are fed via a placenta). You can't get much more unrelated than that! Scientists think koalas may have developed little whorls on their fingers to help them climb trees better, just like we and our close simian relatives did back in the past.
1 Ancient Animals Exist And Are Thriving Today
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Every now and then, some strange-looking animal or plant that everybody thought was extinct turns up alive and well. We think of these as relicts, unaware that there are plenty of ancient organisms around that still dwell unchanged on Earth.
As we saw above, horseshoe crabs have survived many mass extinctions. They're not the only ones. Those cyanobacteria that once killed off much of life on Earth by making oxygen billions of years ago are still around, too. Insects are another wildly successful form of ancient life. Today's staphylinid beetles, for example, go back to the Triassic (over 200 million years ago). Today, this beetle family is possibly the largest family of living organisms in the world. Their ancestors may have been acquainted with Triassic water bugs just like the ones that skitter over today's pond surfaces.
Most amazing of all, some types of sulfur-producing anaerobic bacteria, that were among the first living organisms on Earth, are with us all the time today. That's because they're some of the many microbes that inhabit our digestive tract. Fortunately for us, Earth's atmosphere has really improved down through the eons . . . well, most of the time, anyway.
Barb likes to blog about Earth science and other topics at bjdeming.com.
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Different sensors in different information and their exploitation in intelligent tasks remain a challenge. Given a wireless sensor network consisting of low-power devices, localization is the task of discovering the 2D or 3D positions of the sensor nodes.
According to Räty, T.D., in the"Survey on Contemporary Remote Surveillance Systems for Public Safety," Sensor data should be decomposed into fundamental blocks and the intelligent components should have the responsibility of composing the deductions from them. He argued that an attempt should be made to construct a multisensor distributed intelligent surveillance system that functions at a relatively high level, capturing alerting situations with a very low false alarm rate. The surveillance personnel should be one of the strongest aspects in the surveillance system and should be retained in the system. Räty concluded that despite advancements in intelligence and awareness, the human being will always be a forerunner in adaptability and deductions.
They argued that localization is essential for many environment monitoring or surveillance applications. And that existing solutions fall into two categories. Range-based approaches assume nodes are able to measure internode distances; while range-free ones merely use neighbourhood information.
Many localization algorithms are range-based adopting distance ranging techniques, such as Received Signal Strength (RSS) and Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA). RSS maps received signal strength to distance according to a signal attenuation model, while TDoA measures the signal propagation time for distance calculation. In practice, RSS-based ranging measurements contain noises on the order of several meters. On the contrast, TDoA is impressively accurate and obtains centimeter accuracy for node separations under several meters in indoor environments. They confirm that result shows that TDoA can further achieve 1-2 cm accuracy within a range of more than ten meters, but it often has a much higher cost. The majority of localization algorithms assume a dense network such that iterative trilateration (or multilateration) can be conducted. Other methods record all possible locations in each positioning step and prune incompatible ones whenever possible, which, in the worst case, can result in an exponential space requirement. Besides, some works and study of the relationship between network localization and rigidity properties of ground truth graphs. Eren et al. proposed the concept of localization in subnetworks, which is weaker than the RR3P condition.
Error analysis and control are critical issues for localization. Due to the hardware limitations and energy constraints of wireless communication devices, range-free approaches are cost-effective alternatives.
Some nodes uniquely localizable under perfect distance ranging may suffer from location ambiguities in a practical scenario of ranging errors. They envisioned at this point in order increasing the robustness of localizability testing.
According to the researchers, locations can be achieved in a straight- forward manner by either manually configuring the nodes or equipping each node with a Global Positioning System (GPS). However, there are several potential problems with this approach. First, GPS hardware requirements are excessive for extremely small, resource constrained nodes in large scale networks. Next, GPS requires a line-of-sight with a sufficient number of satellites, and can fail in the presence of obstructions like tall buildings or cliffs, as well as indoors or underground. Another potential shortage in designing a GPS-reliant localization system is that the GPS infrastructure may come under attack; its signals jammed, or are made unavailable by its operators.
Finally, in one of the applications of wireless sensor networks Wang Nan and Shen Xue-li, "Research on WSN Nodes Location Technology in Coal Mine" concludes that in the concept of wireless sensor network node they could confirm other nodes' positions through a few known nodes' positions. If they don't know the nodes' positions, then the sensor node are classified as nodes which are waiting for measuring; while, if they know the nodes' positions, they will call treat that sensor nodes as anchor node. Anchor node is the node which has its own precise position, and it account for low proportion in the network nodes. Anchor node's function is that it can help locate unknown node's position. Except for the anchor node, the other nodes are nodes which are waiting for measuring.
According to different location mechanism, they divided wireless sensor network into two kinds as follows: range-based and range-free method. The former calculates node's position by measuring the distance between points or by angle information; the later locates only from the network connectivity information. There are many methods which are based on location technology by measuring, such as TOA, TDOA, AOA, and RSSI etc. DV-Hop location algorithm, APIT location algorithm, centroid location algorithm, amorphous location algorithm are the methods, which are not based on location technology by measuring. According to the practical situation, RSSI measuring method and DV-Hop algorithm are used widely in monitoring safety of coal mine. But RSSI algorithm needs a lot of anchor nodes, its cost would increase. In DV-Hop algorithm, there is large inaccuracy in average hop distance which is estimated by hop number between anchor node and other anchor node. In order to make up for the shortage of two algorithms, they added the advantages of the two algorithms in order to improve location accuracy, and reduce cost.
RSSI can estimate distance between nodes through signal's decay when it transmit. As the signal intensity would decrease in propagation process, they estimated the distance between the sending node and receiving node according to signal strength which is received by receiving node.
For the purpose of enhance the security of poor working in coal mine, it's important to study on the problem of location and tracking for keeping mining personnel and down hole equipments safe. They put forward wireless sensor network underground location algorithm which is based on the superposition of RSSI and DV-Hop. Their algorithm makes up for the shortage of RSSI algorithm and DV-Hop algorithm.
Their algorithm helps enhance measuring accuracy and reduce const measurement. This technology could also realize location of personnel and equipments underground.
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I am writing this letter to offer my candidature for the post of Medical Community Social Worker as advertised in the weekly community letter "LAW- Los Angeles Weekly" dated 22-28 August, 2009. I have attached my resume along with this letter, for your consideration.
I have recently completed MSW (Master's in Social Work) from LA Department of Social Science, and am currently pursuing Ph.D in the same field. I have 3 years of experience with extensive field work. I had taken part in many medical camps, either as part of my educational curriculum, or as a volunteer participant. I had my self conducted minor social welfare functions at the community level for the benefit of the geriatric and other individuals in need of basic medical services. The detailed information of all camps is mentioned in the resume.
I am sure with my practical exposure and in depth knowledge of medical social work activities; I can be an effective member of your esteemed organization. Together we can bring a change in the health care services provided.
Waiting eagerly for a positive reply and looking forward to working with you.
Please refer to your mail dated August 28, 2010 reference no. CSW/M-41/0810; I would like to express my desire to be part of your esteemed organization. Through this letter I want to express my gratification for the valuable opportunity offered, and submit my resume for further scrutiny.
You will note that I have 5 years of experience in various fields of Community Social Work, particularly Medical Assistance. Being a certified medical assistant, I am sure my abilities will be helpful in successful delivery of my services. As part of my work requirements, I had effectively handled teams of 10-15 volunteers in delivering medical services at various camps.
I also hold a BSW degree (Bachelor's in Social Work) from Florida University, and this would meet your basic primary qualification requirements. Though I am not a local resident, I am sure that with my skills and experience, I will be able to adapt quickly to the place, and establish constructive relation with the local organizations and communities. This should help me in meeting my duties and responsibilities with utmost satisfaction levels.
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SN Systems Japanese studio to offer unique service for developers and publishers
News by GamesIndustry International Contributor
6th April 2005. Bristol, UK. SN Systems, the leading independent producer of software development tools for the video games industry, today announced a unique service being offered by its Japanese office - the Match-Making of Japanese developers with western publishers.
The Match-making service is a reflection of the how much the Japanese video game market has changed in recent years. Japan has traditionally been a very insular market for both cultural and economic reasons - historically the majority of Japanese game developers sell few games outside of Japan and western publishers have sold few western-developed games into Japan. Until recently sales of Japanese developed games within Japan were more than enough to sustain good businesses, however, sales have decreased whereas the Japanese consumer's appetite for all things western has increased.
In the past there have been very few independent game developers as the majority of all games have been created in-house by publishers who have specialised in creating titles specifically for Japan. But in the past couple of years some key Japanese development teams have set up their own studios and are keen to work with western publishers to sell more of their games to western consumers. Conversely, western publishers are keen to break into the Japanese games market are and more likely to succeed by using local talent to for the complete of partial development of their games.
Tomo Ohno, VP of Business Development at SN Systems UK, CEO of SN Systems Japan, SN Systems Japan commented 'We have recently noticed a big change in Japanese game development - the developers here want to work with western publishers and western publishers want to work with Japanese developers. This was almost unheard of until a few years ago. The development scene is Japan is becoming more like that of the west with developers offering to develop complete games or work on a specific part of a game e.g. Animation, FMV, storyboarding." He continued, "SN are in an ideal position to know what teams are available and what levels of expertise they have. The service we are offering is unique and believe that by making introductions we will see some truly innovative and creative games made for east and west."
For further information visit SN Systems at the forthcoming E3 in L.A. Meeting Room no. 6815, Kentia Hall, contact sales@snsys.com or visit www.snsys.com
Media enquiries to: Alison Beasley, Lincoln Beasley PR.
Tel: +44 (0) 1608 645756. E-mail: Alison@lincolnbeasley.co.uk
About SN Systems
Bristol UK based SN Systems Ltd., is the leading independent producer of software development tools for the console games industry. Since 1988, SN Systems has quickly become the world authority in their field, producing industry-standard software development tools for both Nintendo and Sony Computer Entertainment's consoles and handhelds.
SN Systems has built an enviable reputation for understanding and meeting the needs of games developers delivering products such as ProDG, ProView and Tuner as well as consistently providing first class technical support. www.snsys.com
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FrieslandCampina WAMCO announced PBT of N18.75 billion, 15% up from 2018
Multiverse forecasts N39.5 million profit in Q1 2021
Langat stated that the company pushed through the challenging business environment during the year.
Ruth Okwumbu
FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria, has announced a profit before tax of N18.75 billion for the financial year ended Dec. 31, 2019.
This represents a 15 per cent increase from the N16.31 billion posted in 2018.
The producers of Peak and Three Crowns Milk also announced a turnover of N161.83 billion for the year, 8.5% up from the N149.16 billion declared in 2018.
Mr Ben Langat, Managing Director, FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria, announced this on Thursday at the 47th Annual General Meeting of the company held virtually.
NAN reports that the shareholders unanimously approved a total dividend payout of N9.49 per 50k share. This sums up the interim dividend of N2.68 per 50k share in November 2019; with a final dividend payout of N6.81 per share.
Langat stated that the company pushed through the challenging business environment during the year, coming up with several innovations to stay profitable.
"In the year under review, the business environment remained challenging. In spite of the headwinds, FrieslandCampina WAMCO played a leading role in Nigeria's backward integration initiative led by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the dairy sector," Langat said.
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He stated further that the company has activated it Dairy Development Programme (DDP) in Bobi Grazing Reserve, modeling 10 years success of the programme on a 10,000-hectare grazing reserve in Mariga Local Government Area of Niger, and also inaugurated a state-of-the-art factory for the production of Yoghurt and introduced the new Peak Yoghurt Drink in three distinct flavours (Plain Sweetened, Strawberry and Orange) into the market, in line with its business plan.
He promised that the company would continue to focus on providing better nutrition and advocating healthy living, as well as pursuing its backward integration for business sustainability.
On the company's business outlook for 2020, Langat said that the Board of Directors and management of FrieslandCampina WAMCO remained positive and confident about the future of the company, in spite of the challenges caused by COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ruth Okwumbu has a MSc. and BSc. in Mass Communication from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Delta state university respectively. Prior to her role as analyst at Nairametrics, she had a progressive six year writing career.As a Business Analyst with Narametrics, she focuses on profiles of top business executives, founders, startups and the drama surrounding their successes and challenges. You may contact her via [email protected]
The management of Multiverse Plc has projected a revenue of N76 million and a profit of N39.5 million in Q1 2021.
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Multiverse Mining and Exploration Plc has projected that in the first quarter of 2021, the mining and exploration company will generate N76 million in revenue, and post a profit of N39.5 million.
These projections were made by the company in a recent earnings forecast issued by the Management, and signed by the Corporate Secretaries of the company.
Key highlights of the earnings forecast for Q1 2021
Total revenue is projected at N76 million.
Turnover from agency sale is projected at N1 million.
Agency cost is s projected at N850 thousand.
Total expenses are projected at N7.8 million.
Operating Profit is projected at N67.3 million.
EBIT (Earnings Before Interest and Taxation) is projected at N67.3 million.
Interest Expense is projected at N27.8 million.
Profit after tax is projected at N39.5 million.
Key assumptions made to support the earnings forecast and projection of the company
The earnings forecast was made on the ground that there won't be any significant change in the economic policies of the Federal Government, while the monetary policies of the CBN would not be altered significantly.
The company also maintained that there would not be any industrial unrest that would affect its production and sales volume, while the profit of the company would not be pressured by rising costs of inputs, as prices of materials used in production shall be stable in the period under review.
Global Credit Ratings has affirmed Dangote Cement issuer ratings of AA+(NG) and A1+(NG).
Dangote Cement Plc has announced that Global Credit Ratings has affirmed the cement manufacturer a long-term and short-term national scale issuer ratings of AA+ (NG) and A1+(NG) respectively.
According to the press release issued by the company, the rating which maintains a stable outlook on Dangote Cement would expire by November 2021.
In line with this, GCR reviewed existing bonds of the company and assigned the N100bn Series 1 Fixed Rate Bond of Dangote Cement a rating of AA+.
Why this matters
The ratings reflect Dangote Cement Plc's status as Africa's leading integrated cement manufacturer with a group-wide installed capacity of 45.6 million metric tonnes per annum across ten countries.
The stable outlook which was maintained by GCR reflects the extensive distribution network, significant scale economies and position as the largest corporations on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, with sound access to capital.
It is important to note that a rebound is expected within 18-24 months, on the back of strong base domestic demand.
What they are saying
Michel Puchercos, Chief Executive Officer, said:
"Dangote Cement has shown great resilience in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic and a challenging environment. The Group continues to report strong cash generation while maintaining strong financial discipline. As Africa's leading cement producer, we are committed to maximizing shareholder value creation."
Neimeth Pharmaceuticals to raise N5 billion in additional equity
The Board of Neimeth is set to raise N5 billion additional equity upon the approval by shareholders of the company at the AGM.
The Board of Directors of Neimeth Pharmaceuticals has revealed plans to raise N5 billion in additional equity upon approval by shareholders of the company.
The information was contained in a press release published on the NSE and signed by the Company Secretary, Mrs. Florence Onhenekwe.
The disclosure is part of the resolutions reached at the Board of Directors meeting of 15th January 2021. At the end of the meeting, it was resolved that the company would raise additional equity to the tune of N5 billion.
In line with this development, a board resolution proposing to raise equity will be presented at the Annual General Meeting of the Company scheduled to hold on 9th March 2021.
The Board of the Company is yet to disclose if the additional equity would be a rights issue or a private placement, as the details of the additional N5 billion equity set to be raised are yet to be finalized.
The fund will help the company's management to execute key strategies that will reposition the company as a leader in the healthcare industry, with the hope to deliver better returns on investment to shareholders.
The additional equity financing will also increase Neimeth's outstanding shares, which will dilute earnings and impact the Company's stock value for existing shareholders.
The move has the potential to trigger a sell-off of the company shares on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.


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Born in Colombia and now based in Mexico City, Adriana Salazar (b.1980) creates installations that displace the boundaries between life and death, nature and artifice, and the human and non-human. A finalist in this year's Aesthetica Art Prize, Salazar produced a new piece as part of her Moving Plants series, which questions our understanding of the material realm and our own mortality. Utilising a locally sourced bamboo branch from the Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park as a focal point, the artist re-situates the fallen flora within the gallery space and re-animates it through a sequence of basic mechanisms.
Fine nylon strings and handmade motors pull gently on the plant's leaves, giving it motion and offering an imitation of life. An acquired sense of artificiality illustrates mankind's desire to delay mortality, yet also hints at nature's ability to adapt to specific places. Moving Plants consists of various site-specific installations, set in different cities around the world including Akiyoshidai, Sao Paulo, Houston, New York, Havana, Medellin, Bogota and York. We speak to the artist about the piece and the complex themes that exist within it.
A: Can you describe your installation? What does the bamboo branch represent, and how does its artificial reanimation relate to your ideas on life and death?
AS: My installation shows how the definition of nature can be reinterpreted, as nature doesn't necessarily relate to biological life: the branch, a fragment of dead matter, can attain a different kind of life that can be perceived as such.
A: The complete Moving Plants series is comprised of various site-specific pieces installed around the world. Does each location influence the piece? If so, how did York influence this piece?
AS: Each city has a unique and problematic relationship with nature, so in each context that I place a Moving Plant, new questions arise and the installation acquires new meanings. Species of plants can also be so different as to demand a new set of rules.
A: Your practice seeks to displace the boundaries between life and death. How would you like the viewer to respond to this, and what do you hope they will take away with them?
AS: I hope my open question regarding life and death is understood as something that includes us human beings: we are also subject to arbitrary definitions and partitions.
A: You have mentioned an interest in exploring how inanimate objects experience the world. Coming from a human's perspective, is this difficult to connect with?
AS: Mine is an absurd and impossible task, which is precisely why I decide to undertake it. It also entails epistemological and ontological stakes: What if we could view the world without our anthropocentric or anthropomorphic gaze? Wouldn't it be an entirely different world altogether?
Entries are open for the Aesthetica Art Prize until 31 August. Details can be found at www.aestheticamagazine.com/art-prize.
Visit the artist's website: www.adrianasalazar.net.
Adriana Salazar's piece was made possible through the kind support of the Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park, Grewelthorpe, Ripon. A private garden owned by Peter and Caroline Roberts, the park is open to the public for an eight week period each summer, as well as a fortnight in the autumn. Considered a botanical masterpiece, the garden comprises natural springs, woodland, lakes, contemporary sculptures and a wide selection of flora including rare rhododendrons, azaleas and Himalayan plants. The bamboo branch featured in Salazar's work was sourced from the garden in March 2016.
The Himalayan Garden and Sculpture Park will reopen on 22 October until 6 November, The Hutts, Hutts Lane, Grewelthorpe, Nr Ripon, HG4 3DA. For more information, see www.himalayangarden.com or follow @The _Hutts.
1. Adriana Salazar, from Moving Plants. Courtesy of the artist.


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ZBP1 links interferon treatment and dangerous inflammatory cell death during COVID-19
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists identified the innate immune sensor ZBP1 as a key contributor to the inflammatory cell death that drives morbidity and mortality in COVID-19 patients.
Memphis, Tennessee, May 19, 2022
Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, Ph.D, and Rajendra Karki, Ph.D., St. Jude Immunology, October 2021.
Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have shown that the innate immune sensor, ZBP1, and its associated inflammatory cell death pathway, PANoptosis, are major contributors to the negative effects of interferon treatment and high interferon levels in some COVID-19 patients. The work was published today in Science Immunology.
Interferon therapy is a proposed treatment for viral infections that should help the immune system efficiently clear viruses. But in patients with established SARS-CoV-2 infections, interferon therapy has produced mixed results, in some cases even increasing mortality, which appears to be mediated by ZBP1.
"Our study improves our fundamental understanding of innate immunity and inflammatory cell death pathways and shows how modulating these processes during coronavirus infection could be used to improve patient outcomes," said corresponding author Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, Ph.D., St. Jude Department of Immunology vice-chair.
"Interferons induce the expression of interferon-stimulated genes. Some of these genes show antiviral function while some drive cell death," she said. "One such interferon-stimulated gene is ZBP1. Interferon induces robust expression of ZBP1, which can then sense SARS-CoV-2 and drive inflammatory cell death. This cell death is detrimental for patient outcomes."
Screening for a gene
The scientists wanted to find out which genes sensed SARS-CoV-2 and contributed the most to poor outcomes in COVID-19 patients treated with interferon. To find these genes, they used a CRISPR-Cas9 screen that knocked out genes in macrophages infected with coronavirus. Researchers then observed which genes were missing in the surviving cells. These genes were likely critical for sensing the virus and driving cell death, since their deletion resulted in the cells surviving the infection. This unbiased screening method identified Zbp1 as one such gene. ZBP1 was also expressed at higher levels in the immune cells of patients with worse outcomes during COVID-19 than those who fully recovered.
Kanneganti's group has been studying ZBP1 and its role in cell death for many years. The group initially identified ZBP1 as an innate immune sensor of influenza virus that activates PANoptosis. PANoptosis is an inflammatory cell death pathway discovered by Kanneganti's lab. It integrates components from, but is also distinct from, other cell death pathways such as pyroptosis, apoptosis and necroptosis.
ZBP1 is upregulated by interferon to sense and respond to viral infections. The researchers showed that deleting the gene Zbp1 in mice infected with coronavirus prevented cell death and mortality during interferon therapy. Additionally, cell death was prevented in human cells in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection by knocking down the expression of ZBP1.
Preventing inflammatory cytokine storms
The scientists showed that the body's antiviral inflammatory response was the cause of poor outcomes during coronavirus infection. The interferon response is a natural mechanism the immune system uses to combat infections. This response starts local inflammation at the site of viral infection to draw immune cells to the area and prevent viral spread.
Interferon also activates interferon-stimulated genes such as ZBP1 that cause cell death to prevent viral spread. In patients with poor outcomes, this response becomes uncontrolled. Cell death causes the production of cytokines, powerful immune signaling molecules. Cytokine production causes more cell death, which causes more cytokine production. This cycle creates a positive feedback loop that ultimately leads to a dangerous immune event known as a cytokine storm.
Cytokines are produced in large quantities during a cytokine storm, causing an overreaction throughout the body. This overreaction activates signaling cascades that cause serious issues, including multi-organ failure. Cytokine storms are connected to COVID-19 severity and mortality.
An overstimulated cell death pathway
The group documented that the proteins associated with inflammatory cell death, PANoptosis, were activated in SARS-CoV-2-infected macrophages treated with interferon, compared to untreated macrophages. The researchers found similar results when coronavirus-infected mice were treated with interferon. The cell death was accompanied by the release of proinflammatory cytokines. This provided the researchers with a mechanistic understanding of how ZBP1 could lead to a cytokine storm during a coronavirus infection.
"It appears inflammatory cell death can be beneficial if it occurs in the early phase of infection," said co-first author Rajendra Karki, Ph.D., St. Jude Department of Immunology. "However, once the infection is established, the ZBP1-mediated PANoptosis, inflammatory cell death, mechanism promoted by interferon therapy becomes detrimental by resulting in cytokine storm, inducing tissue damage, morbidity and mortality."
These results have important implications not only for COVID-19, but also for potential therapies for other infectious and inflammatory diseases where interferons drive pathology.
Authors and funding
The other co-first author is SangJoon Lee, formerly of St. Jude. Other authors are Raghvendra Mall, Nagakannan Pandian, Yaqiu Wang, Bhesh Raj Sharma, RK Subbarao Malireddi, Sanja Trifkovic, Jacob A. Steele, Jon P. Connelly, Peter Vogel, Shondra M. Pruett-Miller and Richard Webby, all of St. Jude; Dong Yang and Colleen Beth Jonsson, University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Gella Vishwanath, Mitnala Sasikala and Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology.
The study was supported by grants from by the National Institute of Health (AI101935, AI124346, AI160179, AR056296 and CA253095) and ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization of St. Jude.
Read the full text of the Science Immunology article:
ZBP1-dependent inflammatory cell death, PANoptosis, and cytokine storm disrupt IFN therapeutic efficacy during coronavirus infection
Science Immunology, published May 19, 2022
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(1) HOW TO KEEP GOING THE DAY AFTER. Sarah Gailey's "Coup Self-Care" at Here's the Thing has a long list of ideas for taking care of yourself (that begins after the following excerpt.)
…This kind of stress — the stress of a fucking coup happening in a big country that tends to be irresponsible with its feelings — is hard to weather. I'd wager I'm not the only one struggling with work today. Yesterday I didn't struggle with work, because I have the luxury of being able to say "nothing is getting done today" when there's a coup happening. So I didn't struggle with work, because I didn't even try to work — instead I watched what was happening, had phone calls with friends and family to process the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol, and reached out to loved ones in an effort to remind all of us that we are not alone.
…What's happening in America right now, for most of us, doesn't feel quite so navigable as that. The coup isn't something we can reach out and touch and change and solve. There are a ton of possible consequences and outcomes, some which we can predict and some which we can't, and all of them will affect us, and none of them feel like things we can control. This shit is scary and destabilizing. It's okay to feel scared and destabilized about the things we can't control.
It's also important to remember that the things we can't control don't take up the entire horizon. It's easy to feel swallowed up by that sense of helplessness — but we aren't helpless. There are things we can't control, and there are things we can.
Let's take a look at some things we can control. If you follow me on Twitter, you've probably seen some of this before, but look through anyway to remind yourself of the places you can stabilize. These might not all apply to you. This is intended to be a broad assortment of options, not a definitive list! Take what works and throw the rest in the trash….
(2) MARK HIM PRESENT. John C. Wright says he and his family were in Washington DC yesterday "to show our support for Trump, but, more to the point, our support for curtailing election fraud.""Regarding the Events of Jan 6". Short post followed by a lot of comments from Trump supporters.
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BP is under control pretty much completely now. Still watching for possible clotting issues, but that's only a general precaution at this point. We're doing fairly gentle in-room therapy, and the lungs are mostly clear now, but O2 absorption is still lagging. Got me up to the level where they want me, but it's still taking 6 liters of pressure to keep it there. So we work to bring that down on a day by day basis.
(4) HOW WRITERS DON'T GET PAID. Renowned sf critic Paul Kincaid posted on Facebook about the exploitation of nonfiction writers:
…Ten years ago I found myself inadvertently reviewing for the Los Angeles Review of Books (a review I had submitted to SF Studies was passed on to the LARB instead). At the time LARB was a start-up, a new kid on the block, and when you wrote for them you got a screed about how they were a professional publication and how much they appreciated their contributors but how they were operating on a shoestring so if we would consider not taking money for the review it would help. And yes, I was happy to help on those terms, so I did review after review for them for free. Until I was made redundant and I needed some income. So on my next review I asked to be paid. And they coughed up, no problem, money came through without a hiccup. Then they stopped asking me to review. Critics are valued only so long as you don't have to pay them….
(5) TOMORROW PRIZE. Still time to enter The Tomorrow Prize contest for short science fiction by an L.A. County high school student – the deadline is February 1, 2021. For further information visit the contest webpage.
The Tomorrow Prize showcases the best in creative, critical thinking, as well as great storytelling, by students from throughout Los Angeles.
The Tomorrow Prize is free for students to submit up to two original short stories of 1,500 words or less. Prizes include cash prizes for First, Second, and Third, as well as a special prize for the best environmental conservation themed story!
This prize, The Green Feather Award is co-sponsored by the LA Audubon Society. The winner will receive a small cash prize and will be published in the LA Audubon newsletter.
(5A) THIS SHOULD TIDE YOU OVER. Fanac.org now has available for free download two of the biggest fanzines ever published.
Outworlds 71, Bill Bowers' posthumous publication, https://fanac.org/fanzines/Outworlds/
Warhoon 28, Dick Bergeron's monumental compendium of all things Walt Willis – https://fanac.org/fanzines/Warhoon/ (>600 pages).
Bergeron's Willis issue of Warhoon came out in 1978. In those mimeo days File 770 was brand new, and I helped Bergeron promote his project with a rider attached to issue #5.
(6) FREE READ. Some of the Best from Tor.com 2020 is available free, featuring twenty-four original stories published on the site in the past year. It's convenient if you haven't already read them on the Tor.com site. Download from your favorite vendors.
(7) KNIT UP THE RAVELED SLEAVE. Here's another entry in the Future Tense Fiction series of short stories from Future Tense and Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives. "Dream Soft, Dream Big" by Hal Y. Zhang, "A new short story about science, startups, and a cultish online community."
BECKER NGUYEN (NARRATION): Complete the sequence—the wheel, the printing press, the transistor … what's next? What if I tell you the next revolutionary invention may already exist, but instead of being powered by coal or electricity, it's powered purely by the most nebulous parts of our minds?
I'm Becker Nguyen. On today's episode of Static Shock: how one man discovered something extraordinary about our dreams that could save the world, and what happened next that made it all seem like a nightmare.
It's accompanied by a response essay by sleep researcher Kristin E.G. Sanders: "Can we convince the sleeping brain to process our problems?"
…In a recent study, my collaborators and I asked whether targeted memory reactivation could improve problem-solving. In evening sessions, participants attempted to solve brain teasers, each paired with a different music clip. Then, we presented some of the music clips while participants slept. In the morning, participants reattempted the same brain teasers they failed to solve the prior night. We were excited to find that participants solved more of the brain teasers that were cued overnight. Interestingly, unlike for Katia, the solutions did not come to them in a dream. And unlike Loewi, they did not awaken with the solution in the middle of the night. Instead, participants solved the brain teasers when they actively worked on them again.
(8) YOUR MIND'S EAR. [Item by Daniel Dern.] A message I just read on LinkedIn gave the person's location as Dunedin, <State>.
My <brain or whatever> initially parsed (internally pronounced) it as:
Duned-in
at which point some other part of my brain went, "Wait, that's not right," called up the Tolkein reference cells, and burped up, "Du-ne-din"
Yeah, it's likely the real pronunciation-influencer was my being on LinkedIn (which I pronouce/see as two syllables).
Can anybody think of other words with different pronounciations based on sf-or-fantasy PoV?
(9) A TREAT FOR THE EYE. Dreams of Space – Books and Ephemera has numerous scans of the excellent art in the Russian book Hour of Space (1962).
This book is a soviet history of spaceflight and text heavy. What is notable about it are the color plates and some of the chapter header illustrations….
Vladimir Lvov. Illustrated by V. Noskov. Hour of Space. Moscow: Publishing House of the Central Committee if the Komsomol. 206 p. 20 cm. 1962.
(10) ELLISON AT IGUANACON. Fanac.org has posted the first segment of a recording of "Harlan Ellison: Burning the Phoenix" from 1978.
IguanCon II, the 36th Worldcon, was held in Phoenix, Arizona in 1978. Guest of Honor Harlan Ellison held forth for hours in "Burning the Phoenix: Remarks, Dark & Light." This audio recording, illustrated with images, is the first 40 minutes of that talk. Harlan tells a great story about Avon, talks about The Tonight Show, his script for Asimov's "I, Robot" and about his plans for "The Last Dangerous Visions". Harlan was a charismatic, funny, witty speaker, and at this event, he is talking to a large audience of his appreciative and enthusiastic fans.
(11) MEDIA BIRTHDAY.
January 7, 1934 — The first Flash Gordon comic strips of Alex Raymond were published by King Features Syndicate. The strip was subsequently adapted into many other media, from three Universal movie serials (Thirties Flash Gordon and Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, and Forties Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) to a 1970s television series and a 1980 feature film, Flash Gordon.
(12) TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS.
[Compiled by Cat Eldridge and John Hertz]
Born January 7, 1899 – Orlin Tremaine. Noteworthy to us for years as editor of Astounding. His editorial "Thought Variants" struck a spark. At one point headed half a dozen Street & Smith magazines e.g. Air Trails, Cowboy Stories, Dynamic Adventures, Romance Range. Published half a dozen stories of his own. First Fandom Hall of Fame. (Died 1956) [JH]
Born January 7, 1891 – Page Cooper. World War II reporter. Wrote books about horses and dogs including the fine Man o' War. For us she put eight poems in Weird Tales; two are quoted, more about her is told here. (Died 1958) [JH]
Born January 7, 1912 — Charles Addams. Illustrator best known for the Addams Family which he first drew in 1932 and kept drawing until his death. Needless to say there have been a number of films using these characters of which The Addams Family is my favorite. Linda H. Davis' Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life is well worth seeking out and reading. (Died 1988.) (CE)
Born January 7, 1924 – Col. Christine Haycock, M.D. Nurse in World War II, first woman intern at Walter Reed Hospital, professor, graduate of U.S. Army War College, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Olympic fencer, amateur radio, photography. Married Sam Moskowitz; both were Guests of Honor at Disclave 9. Treasurer of the Lunarians. After SaM died, won the Moskowitz Archive Award. American Medical Women's Ass'n appreciation here. (Died 2008) [JH]
Born January 7, 1926 – Graham Stone. Leading Australian fan, being also, as is often included, a bibliographer, collector, small-press publisher. Notes on Australian SF, Australian SF Bibliography 1948-1999 (rev. 2010), Vol Molesworth's History of Australian SF Fandom 1935-1963. Correspondent of Riverside Quarterly, SF Chronicle, SF Commentary. Bertram Chandler Award. See here. (Died 2013) [JH]
Born January 7, 1948 – Jeannie DiModica, age 73. Immortalized in Ginjer Buchanan's "I've Had No Sleep and I Must Giggle". [JH]
Born January 7, 1950 — Erin Gray, 71. She's best known as Colonel Wilma Deering Buck Rogers in the 25th Century series. Would it surprise you that she shows up in as Commander Grey in Star Trek Continues, one of those video Trek fanfic? Well it certainly doesn't surprise me at all. (CE)
Born January 7, 1955 — Karen Haber, 66. I fondly remember reading her Hugo nominated Meditations on Middle Earth anthology, not to mention the three Universe anthologies she did with her husband Robert Silverberg which are most excellent. I don't remember reading any of her novels but that's hardly a certainty that I didn't as even when my memory was a lot better than is now, I hardly remembered all the genre fiction I've read. (CE)
Born January 7, 1957 — Nicholson Baker, 64. Ok ISFDB lists him as having two SFF novels, The Fermata and House of Holes. The Wiki page him lists those as being two out of the three erotic novels that he's written. Not having read them, are they indeed erotic SFF? I see that ESF say they're indeed SFF and yes are erotic. H'h. (CE)
Born January 7, 1961 — Mark Allen Shepherd, 60. Morn, the bar patron on Deep Space Nine. Amazingly he was in Quark's bar a total of ninety three episodes plus one episode each on Next Gen and Voyager. Technically he's uncredited in almost all of those appearances. That's pretty much his entire acting career. I'm trying to remember if he has any lines. He's also an abstract painter whose work was used frequently on DS9 sets. (CE)
Born January 7, 1966 — Heidi Elizabeth Yolen Stemple, 55. Daughter of Jane Yolen, sister of Adam Stemple who was the vocalist of Boiled in Lead which mother wrote lyrics for. She and mother co-wrote the Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folktales for Mothers and Daughters to Share anthology which I highly recommend for your reading pleasure. ISFDBsays they did two chapbooks as well, A Kite for Moon and Monster Academy. (CE)
Born January 7, 1968 – Georgi Gospodinov, age 53. A novel and a shorter story for us; other short stories, plays, screenplays, four books of poetry. Angelus Award, Jan Michalski Prize, six Bulgarian awards. [JH]
Herman has an alien encounter with a short order cook.
Bizarro shows one step in a witch's purchase of a new home.
Get Fuzzy has a disturbing example of cat litigation….
(14) ARG! Rabbit Rabbit provides "A Game Designer's Analysis Of QAnon" on Medium.
I am a game designer with experience in a very small niche. I create and research games designed to be played in reality. I've worked in Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), LARPs, experience fiction, interactive theater, and "serious games". Stories and games that can start on a computer, and finish in the real world. Fictions designed to feel as real as possible. Games that teach you. Puzzles that come to life all around the players. Games where the deeper you dig, the more you find. Games with rabbit holes that invite you into wonderland and entice you through the looking glass.
When I saw QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. I had almost built it before. It was gaming's evil twin. A game that plays people. (cue ominous music)
QAnon has often been compared to ARGs and LARPs and rightly so. It uses many of the same gaming mechanisms and rewards. It has a game-like feel to it that is evident to anyone who has ever played an ARG, online role-play (RP) or LARP before. The similarities are so striking that it has often been referred to as a LARP or ARG. However this beast is very very different from a game.
It is the differences that shed the light on how QAnon works and many of them are hard to see if you're not involved in game development. QAnon is like the reflection of a game in a mirror, it looks just like one, but it is inverted.
First characteristic on the list:
Guided Apophenia
(15) KARMA CHAMELEON. "Rutgers engineers have created a new type of light-reacting hydrogel" – SYFY Wire has the story.
Blending in with one's immediate environment like the active camouflage technology used by the alien hunter in Predator would certainly have alarming applications in the real world, making the procurement of a free windmill cookie from the bulk food bin at grocery stores nearly undetectable.
But clever scientists and engineers at Rutgers University are eager to replicate that amazing invisibility ability by inventing a new type of 3D-printed stretchable material with the power to change color on demand. While the potentials for such shifting smart gels are limitless, the immediate goal is targeting an advanced method of military camouflage.
(16) SCREAMING HEADLINES. Here a high-definition re-upload of the late MF Doom's supervillain-themed "All Caps" music video
(17) LOST WORLD, FOUND SFF. In "Revisiting The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle's Rollicking Adventure Novel" on CrimeReads, Jon Lellenberg discusses why Doyle wrote The Lost World and explains his interest in sf. (Note: CrimeReads misspelled the author's name which is Jon and not John.)
… In the end, Conan Doyle went in another direction, but did not lose his desire to write a "Rider Haggardy" novel. While he admired authors like George Meredith and Charles Reade and his own contemporary, Thomas Hardy, he preferred to write Romances and Adventures. Even being a doctor was a Romance to him, embraced in his "The Romance of Medicine" talk in 1910 at St. Mary's Hospital, London, where his son Kingsley was a medical student. And the scientific consulting detective Sherlock Holmes's investigations were Adventures as far as Conan Doyle was concerned, rather than Cases, or Mysteries.
By 1911, these tendencies collided with a regret over diminishing "blank spaces" on the world's map. When a Lost World character remarks that "The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled up, and there's no room for romance anywhere," Conan Doyle was quoting himself anonymously, from a talk he'd given the year before at a luncheon honoring the Arctic explorer Robert Peary….
(18) WIRED FOR SOUND. Literary Hub introduces "Charlie Jane Anders Reads from Victories Greater Than Death" in the Storybound podcast. ("S3. Ep. 4: Charlie Jane Anders reads an excerpt from "Victories Greater Than Death".)
Storybound is a radio theater program designed for the podcast age. Hosted by Jude Brewer and with original music composed for each episode, the podcast features the voices of today's literary icons reading their essays, poems, and fiction.
On the fourth episode of the third season, Charlie Jane Anders reads an excerpt from Victories Greater Than Death, with sound design and music composition from Oginalii.
(19) VIDEO OF THE DAY. "Spock's Surprise Visit To The Carol Burnett Show" on YouTube shows a cameo that Leonard Nimoy made as Spock on the show in 1967.
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, N., Andrew Porter, Cat Eldridge, JJ, Martin Morse Wooster, John Hertz, Andrew Porter, and Michael Toman for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Xtifr.]
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26 thoughts on "Pixel Scroll 1/7/21 There Is No Pixel – Only Scruul"
Andrew (not Werdna) on January 7, 2021 at 7:05 pm said:
(12) Had no idea that "Thought Variants" went back to Tremaine!
Joseph T Major on January 7, 2021 at 7:44 pm said:
17) Jon Lellenberg is also author of Nova 57 Minor, the story of the discovery, publication, and controversy about the Sherlock Holmes story "The Man Who Was Wanted", which was heralded as a Unpublished New Sherlock Holmes Story — and turned out to be by another writer.
It had raised so many hopes.
I met Lellenberg at the Sherlock Holmes/Arthur Conan Doyle Symposium in Dayton. He was selling his new book, Baker Street Irregular, about a man who gets involved in mob money, espionage, and the Baker Street Irregulars. Very interesting.
mlex on January 7, 2021 at 8:23 pm said:
(5) and (10) Fanac always up to good things! what a happy vibe the audience had at that con in 1978, is all I can say.
(14) the Medium article is okay, but rather long-winded. There is another very concise and interesting twitter thread by Seth Abramson on the same subject: the Q-Anon / Trump alternate reality game. it gets to the point in a few words.
now that the alternate reality game has moved "up" a level and stormed our Capitol, I think there needs to be an effort to dismantle the disinformation machine that has pumped it up. not that I have any solutions in mind. assuming that reality would bite back and cognitive dissonance would become too great before something like this could happen was not enough.
so, it is really disheartening for me to see (2) some people writing about the invasion of our government with the motive of stopping our electoral process as if it was some harmless prayer meeting of patriots. a pack of delusional people defiled the Capitol wearing aushwitz t-shirts and waving confederate flags and trump flags! NO. nobody breaks into congress and demands that our nation to give up to their insanity. basta.
So I really appreciated OGH presentation of (1) Coup Self-Care. kindness is a virtue! thanks for that.
Camestros Felapton on January 7, 2021 at 8:33 pm said:
14) Very Focault's Pendulum
Cat Eldridge on January 7, 2021 at 8:44 pm said:
2) MARK HIM PRESENT.
The Washington Post decided yesterday to broadcast the electoral college live which meant they ended showing the insurrection as it happened. Wright is a fucking idiot. And a traitor.
Jeff Smith on January 7, 2021 at 8:50 pm said:
5a) The first fanac.org piece is actually unnumbered.
Mike Glyer on January 7, 2021 at 8:53 pm said:
Jeff Smith: Second fifth strikes again…
JJ on January 7, 2021 at 8:56 pm said:
Mike Glyer: Second fifth strikes again…
You're never going to convince us that this was not deliberate. 😀
PhilRM on January 7, 2021 at 8:58 pm said:
(2) Because nothing shows your opposition to election fraud like supporting the overthrow of the legitimately elected government in a violent coup.
Steve Wright on January 7, 2021 at 11:29 pm said:
12) It was sort of a running gag on DS9 that Morn was a lively raconteur and a brilliant conversationalist whenever he wasn't on the screen. I don't remember any instance of him speaking, but couldn't absolutely swear he didn't.
Nicholson Baker's The Fermata involves a man with the ability to stop time, which he mostly uses to perform various sex acts on women. Whether or not this is erotica is… kind of up to the reader, I guess. It's not really my cup of tea, I'll say that much.
Oh, and re. 2) – Once again: we're not related. Right now, I really want to make that clear.
JJ on January 7, 2021 at 11:56 pm said:
(2) MARK HIM PRESENT.
Wow, there certainly are a lot of whackjobs weighing in on that post (archive link).
I wonder just how many other gullible saps in straitened financial circumstances got suckered into spending their money on participating in an act of domestic terrorism. 🙄
John A Arkansawyer on January 8, 2021 at 6:04 am said:
My solution to "coup fatigue" has been munching popcorn while a corpse twitches in DC and enjoying having control of the Senate. These are the good times.
Michael J. Lowrey on January 8, 2021 at 7:36 am said:
[12] Darn it, now you've gotten me to write a Wikipedia article about Dr. Haycock (who merited one badly)!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_E._Haycock
All written since I got up this morning!
Joshua K. on January 8, 2021 at 8:38 am said:
(12) There were two different films titled The Addams Family, a live-action one in 1991 and an animated one in 2019. (The 1991 film is the better-regarded one.)
Cat Eldridge on January 8, 2021 at 11:20 am said:
Joshua K. says There were two different films titled The Addams Family, a live-action one in 1991 and an animated one in 2019. (The 1991 film is the better-regarded one.)
I'm referring to the live action version as I've never seen the animated version though I am definitely interested in doing in doing so once out of sheer curiosity just to see how they did it.
Now playing: "The Addams Theme"
Mike Glyer on January 8, 2021 at 12:05 pm said:
Michael J. Lowrey: Fast work, and so fully detailed! I've told John he's a footnote again.
Orange Mike: Great job!
A couple of days ago I mentioned that Sarah Gailey was featured at Entertainment Weekly – I just saw her tweet about it https://twitter.com/gaileyfrey/status/1347621420033998848
Kevin Roche on January 8, 2021 at 4:02 pm said:
Andy and I watched the animated version with some trepidation, as the '91 film is a favorite of ours. It took a little while to get into it (the story is quite different), but we enjoyed the 2019 entry also.
Paul A. on January 8, 2021 at 6:05 pm said:
(13) The link to Bizarro is the url that serves the most recent strip, which at this writing has already moved on. The permanent link to the witch strip is https://www.comicskingdom.com/bizarro/2021-01-07
Kevin Roche says Andy and I watched the animated version with some trepidation, as the '91 film is a favorite of ours. It took a little while to get into it (the story is quite different), but we enjoyed the 2019 entry also.
Thanks, I'll give a go some evening. The trailer's certainly amusing for it.
Now playing: Peter, Paul & Mary's "A'Soalin" because I'm playing nothing but them tonight. There's certainly worse ways to spend the evening.
Joe H. on January 8, 2021 at 7:06 pm said:
Please, good missus, a soul cake!
And Trump just a permanent ban from Twitter tonight. Twitter also banned for life the wife of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas who financed the transport of the insurrectionists to the Capitol.
On a bright note, my new anti-seizure med seem to working without any noticeably irritating side-effects. Well
still not sleeping well but that might be the still healing fractured shoulder. Eight months and counting.
I'm now taking two of them which has levelled my now forty month long headache off nicely for the most part and consequently moderated the blood pressure as well. It's also gotten rid of the dangerously low BPs, the eighty over fifty readings.
Still amazed how much they cost. One alone is several thousand a month!
Andrew (not Werdna) on January 9, 2021 at 4:22 am said:
@Joe H.: I suggested "A Scroll, a Scroll, a Scroll Cake" a while back…
Cassy B. on January 10, 2021 at 8:19 am said:
Catching up on several days worth of pixel scrolls. Funny how attempted coups derail one's routine, even a thousand miles away….
@8 The canonical word with two pronunciations, which even kind-of-works for being sfnal in one pronunciation, is "unionized".
It's either "union-ized" — formed a labor union, or "un-ionized" – a chemistry term.