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What Is Tetanus?
James Myhre & Dennis Sifris, MD
Dennis Sifris, MD, is an HIV specialist and Medical Director of LifeSense Disease Management. James Myhre is an American journalist and HIV educator.
Tetanus is a serious but preventable bacterial infection that affects the nerves. Commonly referred to as lockjaw, the disease is spread by contact with an object or surface that has been contaminated with Clostridium tetani. Transmission is most often the result of a puncture wound that provides the bacterium easy access into the body.
Tetanus can be prevented with a simple vaccine. However, if you have not been vaccinated and are infected, the disease can cause muscle spasms ranging from mild to life-threatening.
There are currently no blood tests available to diagnose tetanus. As such, treatment would begin upon the appearance of symptoms and may include a tetanus antitoxin, intravenous antibiotics, antispasmodic drugs, and mechanical ventilation. If left untreated, a tetanus infection can progress from mild spasms to powerful whole-body contractions, suffocation, and heart attack. There is no cure for tetanus.
Illustration by JR Bee, Verywell
Types of Tetanus
In addition to generalized tetanus, there are other, less common forms of the disease.
Local tetanus only affects the muscles around the immediate area of infection. The spasms tend to be mild and last for only a few weeks, although they can sometimes precede generalized tetanus.
Cephalic tetanus is limited only the muscles of the head. It usually occurs after an injury to the head such as a skull fracture, laceration, or even a tooth extraction. Paralysis of the facial nerve is the most common symptom, resulting in Bell's palsy or the drooping of the upper eyelid (ptosis).
Neonatal tetanus involves newborns of mothers who have not been vaccinated for tetanus. Because the baby has no inborn immunity to C. tetani, it is vulnerable to infection, most often as a result of an infected umbilical stump. While rare in the developed world, neonatal tetanus is the second leading cause of vaccine-preventable diseases among children worldwide.
Tetanus Symptoms
Tetanus typically begins with mild spasms of the jaw muscles, referred to as trismus or lockjaw. The facial muscles may also be affected, causing a spontaneous grimace or grinning expression, referred to as risus sardonicus.
In generalized tetanus, which accounts for around 80% of all tetanus cases, the involuntary contractions will descend from the head and eventually affect the entire body. From the jaw and face, the spasms will move downward to cause neck stiffness, difficulty swallowing, and rigidity of the chest and calf muscles.
As the spasms worsen, they can lead to painful contractions, known as opisthotonos, in which the entire body will literally arch with spasms from the head right down through the neck, back, buttocks, and legs. The contractions can last for minutes at a time and become so violent that they tear muscles and break bones. Other common symptoms include sweating, episodic high blood pressure, and the episodic loss of bowel and bladder control.
The spasms can also close off breathing passages, resulting in the shortness of breath, choking, and periods when there is no breathing at all. The episodes are often triggered by minor stimuli, such as a sudden draft, loud noise, bright light, or even a light touch.
In severe cases, sympathetic overactivity (SOA) will occur in which sympathetic nerves, which govern involuntary body responses, are hyperstimulated, triggering the spasmodic constriction of blood vessels. Symptoms of SOA include:
Symptoms of Sympathetic Overactivity (SOA)
Episodic and volatile high blood pressure (paroxysmal hypertension)
Irregular heart rate (arrhythmia)
Profuse sweating
High fever (over 100.4 F)
In combination with tetanus-induced spasms, SOA can trigger life-threatening complications including pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lungs) and heart attack. Respiratory failure is the most common cause of death.
Even with comprehensive treatment, 10 percent of tetanus infections will result in death.
Clostridium tetani is an anaerobic bacterium, meaning that it cannot live or grow where oxygen is present. When exposed to air, the bacterium will form a protective spore which allows it to remain in a dormant state, largely impervious to heat, dryness, ultraviolet radiation, or household disinfectants.
The spores can remain viable for years in soil and be reactivated when it is returned to a favorable moist environment. One such environment is a deep puncture wound in which the reactivated bacteria is able to establish an infection.
Once in the body, tetanus will release toxins—known as tetanospasmin toxins—that bind to nerve cells. The toxins will then spread through peripheral nerves until they finally reach the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord). As the bacteria multiply and amplify this effect, the tetanospasmin toxins will begin to block the production of certain chemical messengers, known as neurotransmitters, that control voluntary muscle movement.
In terms of toxicity, tetanospasmin toxin is the second deadliest bacterial neurotoxin next to the botulinum toxin found in Botox.
Routes of Transmission
Tetanus occurs almost exclusively in people who have not been vaccinated against C. tetani.
It is seen more commonly in warm, moist climates and in areas where there is a lot of manure in the soil. The disease has long been associated with puncture wounds caused by rusty nails. While the rust itself plays no role in the transmission of the disease—a common misconception—it readily harbors C. tetani spores. Stepping on a nail simply delivers the spores deeper into the body, whether it is rusty or not.
Tetanus is also associated with injecting heroin use, usually as the result of spores found in contaminated heroin rather than on the needle itself. Animal bites can also transmit the bacterium, as can compound bone fractures, burns, and body piercings or tattoos performed with unsterile equipment.
While dental procedures have also been implicated, they most commonly occur in developing countries where standard surgical hygiene practices are not in place. Medical procedures, such as surgery or injections, are unlikely routes of transmission.
Today, with routine vaccination of children and adults, only around 30 cases of tetanus occur in the U.S. each year. Worldwide, tetanus causes around 60,000 deaths annually.
There are no blood tests able to diagnose tetanus. While a bacterial culture may provide evidence of infection (by extracting a fluid sample from an open wound), it has a true positive rate of only around 30 percent. This means that of all the people who have tetanus and are tested for it, only 30% will have a positive test that confirms infection (even though the other 70% are also infected). Because of this, tetanus will be treated presumptively based on the appearance of symptoms and your vaccination history.
One in-office procedure that may support a diagnosis is the spatula test. This involves the insertion of a tongue depressor in the back of your throat. If you have been infected, you would react abnormally and reflexively bite down on the depression. If you have not been infected, the natural gag reflex would compel you to push the depressor out of your mouth.
In cases where the symptoms are either inconsistent or non-specific, your healthcare provider may order tests to check for other possible causes. The differential diagnoses may include a host of other conditions, including:
Generalized seizures
Hypercalcemia (excess calcium in the blood)
Intracranial hemorrhage (a brain bleed)
Meningitis (inflammation of the membrane surrounding the spinal cord)
Meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the membrane around both the spinal cord and brain)
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (an uncommon, life-threatening reaction to an antipsychotic drug)
Stiff person syndrome (a rare autoimmune disorder)
Strychnine poisoning
The treatment of tetanus will vary based on your vaccination status.
If you have a deep wound but have been previously vaccinated against tetanus, you may be given a drug called tetanus immunoglobin (TIG). Also known as tetanus antitoxin, TIG is a medication made up of immune proteins, known as antibodies, that are able to neutralize the tetanospasmin toxin. TIG is delivered by an injection into the muscle of either the upper arm or thigh. Localized pain and swelling are the most common side effects.
However, if you have not been vaccinated or did not complete your vaccine series, TIG may be given alongside the appropriate round of vaccinations (see below). This would need to be started as soon as possible after the injury, ideally no less than 48 hours.
If you have symptoms of tetanus, you would need to be hospitalized and undergo a more aggressive course of treatment. The course of treatment would vary based on the severity of your symptoms.
Mild tetanus would typically involve one of three treatments:
Tetanus Immunoglobin (TIG) given intramuscularly or intravenously
Flagyl (metronidazole), a broad-spectrum antibiotic, given intravenously for 10 days
Valium (diazepam), a psychoactive drug used to reduce seizures, delivered either orally or intravenously
Severe tetanus, on the other hand, may involve multiple medications and mechanical interventions to prevent some of the more severe manifestations of the disease. Treatments include:
TIG delivered intrathecally (into the spinal cord)
Tracheotomy (an incision in the windpipe) and the insertion of an endotracheal tube to aid in mechanical respiration
Magnesium sulfate, also known as Epsom salt, delivered intravenously to control spasms
Valium (diazepam), given as a continuous intravenous infusion to relax muscles
Adalat (nifedipine) or labetalol, delivered intravenously to reduce blood pressure
Morphine to alleviate pain and induce sedation
To maintain nutrition, a high-calorie diet may be delivered in liquid form through either a drip in the arm (parenteral nutrition) or through a tube inserted into the stomach (percutaneous gastrostomy). Severe cases may require four to six weeks of hospitalization before you are stable enough to be released, although it can take months to recover from some of the damage done to the central nervous symptom. While most adults can achieve recovery, tetanus seizures can cause permanent brain damage in infants due to the restriction of oxygen.
Since the introduction of the tetanus vaccine in the 1940s, the rate of tetanus infections worldwide has decreased by over 95 percent. Today, the tetanus vaccine is combined with other vaccines able to prevent common childhood diseases.
Diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine given to children as part of the routine vaccination series
Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap) vaccine used in teens and adults
Tetanus and diphtheria (Td) vaccine given as a booster shot
Primary Vaccination Series
The DTaP vaccine provides protection against three diseases: diphtheria (a bacterial respiratory infection, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus. The DTaP vaccine is given in a series of five shots in the upper arm or thigh at the following intervals:
Two months
Four months
Four to six years
Booster Vaccination
It is also recommended that adolescents get a dose of the Tdap vaccine between the ages of 11 and 12. Thereafter, a Td booster shot should be given every 10 years.
Post-Exposure Prevention
In the event of suspected exposure to tetanus without symptoms, the Tdap vaccine may be given as a means to avert infection.
Known as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), it is indicated for people who have not been previously vaccinated for tetanus, did not complete the vaccine series, are unsure of their status, or have a dirty wound and have not received a booster shot in the last five years. It should be given within 48 hours of the injury, either with or without TIG.
You may or may not be given the PEP vaccine under the following conditions:
If you have had less than three previous vaccine doses but a booster shot less than five years ago, no vaccination is needed.
If you have had less than three previous vaccine doses and a booster shot between five and 10 years ago, you would be given Tdap (preferred) or Td.
If you have had less than three previous vaccine doses and a booster shot more than 10 years ago, you would be given Tdap (preferred) or Td.
If you have had less than three previous vaccine doses with no booster shot, you would be given Tdap along with TIG.
If you have never been vaccinated or are of unknown status, both Tdap and TIG would be given.
If you get a cut or puncture wound, is important to clean it immediately with hot water and soap. Take extra care to remove any dirt, foreign object, or dead tissue that may be embedded in the wound.
After cleaning the wound, apply an antibiotic cream or ointment, such as Neosporin or Bacitracin, and cover the wound with a sterile bandage or gauze. Change the dressing once a day or as needed, and avoid getting the wound wet.
Even though tetanus is rare in the United States, you would still need to take the appropriate precautions if you experience any significant break in the skin to prevent C. tetani or any other potentially serious infection. If you cannot clean the wound on your own, see your healthcare provider or visit the nearest urgent care clinic. If you develop any worrying symptoms, do not hesitate to call your practitioner or seek treatment as soon as possible. Bring your immunization records if you can to ensure you are given the appropriate treatment.
Everything You Should Know About Tetanus Shots
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tetanus For Clinicians.
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How Soon Can You Get Boosted After Recovering From COVID-19?
Will a Fourth Shot of COVID-19 Vaccine Protect Against Omicron?
Are You Overdue for Your Tetanus Booster Shot?
Do You Really Need a Tetanus Shot?
What Causes Lockjaw?
Tdap Vaccine During Pregnancy: When It Is Used, How It Works, Is It Safe?
What Should You Do if You Test Positive After a Booster Shot?
Essential Facts About the Tdap Vaccine
Medicare Covers These Vaccines: Is It Worth a Shot?
How the DTaP Vaccine Helps Protect Against Infectious Diseases
Are Booster Shots Common for Vaccines?
A Parents' Guide to Vaccines for Children
Children Ages 12 and Older Are Now Eligible for Pfizer Boosters
Are COVID-19 Booster Shots Variant-Specific?
How Does Your Pharmacy Make Sure You Get the Right COVID Vaccine Dose?
12 Vaccines Recommended for Every Child


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Employees In The INNOVIM Spotlight: Drew Pirring In The Front Row Helping NWS Achieve a Key Feature of its Strategic Plan
andrew pirring, Dr. Louis Uccellini, Elliott Jacks, innovim, Laura Furgione, national weather service, noaa, NWS, White House Office of Science and Technology
Immediately after Andrew (Drew) Pirring joined INNOVIM in 2015 he found himself directly supporting NOAA's Hazard Simplification (Haz Simp) project and the government lead, Elliott Jacks (Chief of the Analyze, Forecast and Support Office (AFSO)). The "Haz Simp" project at the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Silver Spring, MD is developing improvements in public communication by clarifying and simplifying text and graphics associated with issuance of NWS Watch, Warning and Advisory (WWA) products.
NWS Hazard Simplification
Since Pirring joined the project, Haz Simp has accomplished several milestones. In October 2015, Haz Simp hosted a three-day Workshop with 105 emergency managers, broadcast meteorologists, and representatives from private industry and the social science community on at the NWS National Training Center in Kansas City, MO. The Workshop was an overwhelming success, generating substantial management and user community feedback and recommendations for major and minor improvements to the current hazard messaging system.
Before the project went out for wider public comment based on the recommendations from the Workshop, Pirring and Jacks briefed the Haz Simp project Workshop outcomes and next steps to Dr. Louis Uccellini (Director, National Weather Service). They went on to brief the White House Office of Science and Technology (OST) with Laura Furgione (Deputy Director, National Weather Service).
Based on positive feedback, the team is now soliciting wider public comment. In September 2016 the new Haz Simp website (http://www.weather.gov/hazardsimplification/) went live, providing information on project history and goals. This site will link to specific Repair and Revamp opportunities as they become available through the remainder of 2016.
The first proposed "Repair" is aimed at assessing how to best depict hazards on a national map. As an option to the current Watch/Warning/Advisory (WWA) map on the weather.gov homepage, the Haz Simp project is proposing two different types of maps for comment, both of which feature only four-colors and one which is based on a rough categorization of potential impact for different WWA products.
You can help! The Haz Simp team is always looking for user feedback. Visit the Haz Simp site, and then take their survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DPQH67G

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LA-based gaming company, Scopely, expands in Spain and Ireland – gpgmail
August 20, 2019 administrator barcelona, Brendan Iribe, co CEO, dublin, Evolution Media Partners, Greenspring Associates, greycroft, greycroft partners, Highland Capital Partners, Horizons Ventures, ireland, jimmy iovine, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles, Peter Chernin, peter guber, scopely, spain, take two interactive, TC, The Chernin Group
The Los Angeles-based gaming company, Scopely is expanding its geographical footprint in Spain and Ireland.
The company is building out its Barcelona offices tripling its office space and planning to significantly expand its 100-person-strong team in the city. Meanwhile, Scopely is also planning to invest heavily in expanding its strategy-focused game studio, DIGIT, in Dublin.
Scopely didn't say how many jobs it would be adding in either location.
The company has now hit lifetime revenue of over $1 billion across its franchises and recently launched "Star Trek Fleet Command" and "Looney Tunes World of Mayhem". Scopely also has licenses to develop games for World Wrestling Entertainment and The Walking Dead franchise.
"We are thrilled to expand our European footprint to accommodate our exponential growth," said Javier Ferreira, Co-CEO of Scopely, in a statement. "I am excited to further lean in to the Barcelona market, which has top-quality talent. The same is true in Dublin with top tech talent flocking to the area, and both offices have amassed impressive highly-specialized expertise. Our Dublin and Barcelona teams play a critical role in the Scopely journey, and we are actively hiring across both markets."
The company also plans to double its footprint in its hometown of Los Angeles in 2020.
The company has raised more than $250 million in financing to date from investors including Greenspring Associates, Greycroft Partners, Revolution Growth, Evolution Media Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Horizons Ventures, Sands Capital Ventures, The Chernin Group, Take-Two Interactive, Kobe Bryant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Guber, Jimmy Iovine, and Brendan Iribe.
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This month's Special Skills seminar will be a continuation of last month's One-Handed shooting course, using more range time.
As always we will begin with warm ups and self-diagnoses. From there, as requested, we will work the first part of our range training conducting one-handed shooting and manipulations of the pistol. We will work both strong and support hand shooting, drawing from the holster, reloading and reaction drills. Following that, we will continue to work on target acquisition, identification, and engagement on the range and in a more dynamic environment.


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.Fur, Last and Deposit: Appeals judge issues decision in controversial pet rent case
By Sara Ost
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In a landmark lawsuit that has gripped the region and pitted the pet-haves against the pet-have-nots, U.S. circuit Judge Pete S. Cockburn decided in favor of the defendant, child social worker and homeless volunteer Mia Cordero, 31, bringing to a close a lengthy Bernal Heights renter-landlord dispute.
The case, which has played out breathlessly in worldwide media coverage since March 2020, centered on whether or not the landlord, a t-shirt entrepreneur, aspiring rapper and Jamaican food truck company chief executive who self-styles as Trés but whose legal name is Joey Chad Ryan Jr., had the legal right to charge Cordero's pets rent, and to subsequently attempt to evict them for failure to pay their pet rent.
The matter, which appeared at first blush as a simple misunderstanding between a landlord and a tenant over a rescue cat named Bubbles and an aging dachshund named Banana, soon took on ever more wild heights of complexity.
"In what has certainly been one of the strangest matters of my judicial tenure in the 9th [San Francisco Circuit Court of Appeals], but not the absolute strangest," wrote Cockburn in his decision, "I find the plight of Bubbles and Banana to be a timely example of extreme landlord abuse, improper litigiousness and, finally, a willful denial of a standard of reasonableness to which we should hold sentient but non-human creatures in a court of law."
Chad Ryan, 48, who is not Jamaican, inherited the property involved in the dispute from his deceased mother, Karen "Candy" Chad Ryan, sometime in late 2019. After his initial attempt to double rent across the board for all nine tenants failed in January 2020, Chad Ryan quickly employed a number of other efforts to increase his revenues from the property due to "struggles getting his second memoir published" and claims of cost overruns for the fabrication of his food truck. (No evidence of a first memoir—other than a self-published pamphlet listed on Amazon.com titled Don't Make Me Creep!—has been found.)
"Simply: Pets cannot pay rent because they do not understand what rent is," wrote Cockburn. "While the plaintiff is correct in his argument that a pet could, in theory, earn income—such as, according to him, through 'sidewalk stuff, busking, rodent killing, and other errands'—it does not follow that a pet could understand a contractual agreement and as such, a pet clearly cannot be held accountable on a lease."
Cordero signed the lease on the second-floor studio apartment in February of this year, for a one-year term. She says that while she disclosed her pets, Bubbles and Banana, at the time, there was no discussion of pet rent. A copy of the lease, which does include a requirement for a pet security deposit, supports her claim. At first, Cordero thought her new landlord was playing a misguided prank.
"It's hard to even know where to start," Cordero says. "Trés used to send me literal messages in the middle of the night demanding to know if Bubbles had gotten a job yet. Another time, he put a political poster on my door that said how entitlements are for lazy people, which I guess means renters, that we are bankrupting entrepreneurship in this country."
On the poster, the judge notes Chad Ryan had crossed out "people" and added "and pets!" to the illustration.
"My basic point to him was that landlords can't force tenants' children to pay rent, because children can't legally sign a contract and generally don't or shouldn't have to earn income," Cordero says. "It would be wrong. So, how is a pet somehow magically supposed to be able to pay rent? That's what the pet deposit is for."
Chad Ryan, representing himself as the plaintiff, initially brought a legal complaint after his attempts to evict Bubbles and Banana, but not to evict Cordero "because she's been paying her rent," were ignored by the defendant. He sought recompense for "back rent from the smushy-face cat and the old weiner dog" as well as damages for his apparent emotional distress. But without a lease agreement in place to charge pet rent, the complaint was dismissed within 20 minutes.
The saga, however, was only beginning.
"At one point he even emailed and asked me what Banana's FICO score was, and said that if either pet's score fell below 650, it would be grounds for eviction. I was like … they're pets?" Cordero says.
The dismissal did not deter Chad Ryan, who appealed the decision and expanded his complaint to include his civil rights. Meanwhile, relations between the landlord and the tenants grew fractious.
At one point, Cordero came to learn that her neighbor directly across the hall, who wishes to remain anonymous, was not being held to the same expectation despite having a pet iguana. "Trés said it was a service iguana and therefore did not have to pay rent, and then he berated me publicly on Facebook as 'ableist.' I mean, I'm a social worker," Cordero says.
The service iguana incident further tangled the media narrative, as a debate about regular pets versus service pets versus emotional support animals (a non-working animal and thus controversial category) exploded in online media. At one point, #lizardsagainsttheBs—a dig at Bubbles and Banana—became a trending hashtag on Twitter. Simultaneously, colony collapse activists misunderstood the hashtag and, in an episode emblematic of the modern media climate of fragmentation and interference, were deceived by a Chamber of Commerce–affiliated bot platform into participating in a smear campaign against Cordero.
"I woke up one morning to shouting outside my window," Cordero says. "It was an event being held against my supposed anti-lizard and anti-bee sentiments. Bubbles and Banana had no clue what was going on. They just thought it was another San Francisco thing, I'm sure. I mean, we didn't have a conversation about it."
Chad Ryan, who also lives in the building he owns, was involved in the ensuing melee, blasting his new "Caribe-baby Cali-maybe fusion" album and shouting insults at Bubbles and Banana through a megaphone. "I won't repeat them," Cordero says. "Mainly because I couldn't understand them."
In an ironic twist, the neighbor with the service iguana called the authorities to disperse the event. "I mean, Mia definitely has nothing against bees," says the neighbor. "That's when I felt like Trés was taking it too far. Plus, she's always been pretty nice to Harold." (Harold is the tenant's service iguana.)
In his conclusion, Cockburn notes, "Chad Ryan, who goes by Trés, dba as Caribe-baby Cali-maybe fusion LLC, appears to have enacted a number of schemes and campaigns hostile to the tenant and her pets, including protests, social media screeds, bot attacks, and other various forms of harassment. In his effort to extract $45 more per month in rent from his tenant, who had already paid the pet deposit, he has escalated what should have been a petty matter to one of the highest courts in the state, and as a result, is likely to prove instrumental in setting back the growing spate of recent efforts by landlords to charge pets rent, as tenants reasonably argue that residents such as minor children and pets cannot legally consent to pay rent."
"Oh, he already tried to charge kid rent," says Harold's owner, upon being read the judge's decision. "I guess that didn't come up in court. One of our neighbors came home to find Trés had enlisted his eight-year-old twins in painting that old ice cream truck of his." (Whether the ice cream truck is also the Jamaican food truck is unclear; Chad Ryan has not returned our calls and emails.)
Further investigation revealed that the parents took him to court for exposing their twins to toxic fumes and for committing labor trafficking and wage theft of a minor. The family settled out of court for an undisclosed number of free months of rent.
"That's probably when he got the idea to go after Bubbles and Banana," Harold's owner says.
There is a happy ending in all of this, just not for Trés. @bubblesandbanana has become one of the biggest pet-influencer accounts on Instagram—with over 2.7 million followers. Cordero says she was not only able to move into a nicer, bigger 1-bedroom apartment in SOMA last month, she is now able to afford to send her niece to college with the extra revenue she earns from the social media platform. "So it turns out, Bubbles and Banana actually can earn money. But they still can't pay rent," she says.
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How lovely to want to surprise your friends for their anniversary! Simply being at Walt Disney World for this celebration will be a great start. Disney's BoardWalk Villas is one of my favorite Disney Vacation Club resorts and my home resort with Disney Vacation Club.
One of the first ideas that comes to mind is to plan a Specialty Cruise. You could choose a Fireworks Cruise and depart from Bayside Marina, a simple walk around Crescent Lake from Disney's BoardWalk Villas. This Fireworks Cruise would take you to see IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth from a great vantage point on the water. I have taken a this cruise a couple of times and have always enjoyed the special vantage point and relaxation of being on a boat during this nighttime spectacular. You could book the cruise just for them, or you could join them for a larger celebration. Please do note that on nights with inclement weather, fireworks are not guaranteed. Afterwards, I suggest heading back over to Disney's BoardWalk to AbracadaBar, the new and magically themed cocktail lounge, for a nightcap. I was recently able to spend time at this new cocktail lounge with friends, and found it a great place to unwind at the end of an evening.
Another possibility is to work with Disney Floral and Gifts to plan a surprise for your friends. From banners to flowers to plush animals to chocolates, the Magic Makers at Disney's Floral and Gifts can work with you to create a special in-room celebration. I suggest that you peruse the website, and then call them at 407-WDW-GIFT (407-939-4438) to customize a celebration for your friends.
I hope that these thoughts are helpful for you, Larry! Please let us know if you have any further questions.


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During all this time normal life continued, and that meant going to school. What was school like? In a word, horrible. Actually, beyond horrible.
I've said a bit about it in my previous chapters but yeah, I hated it. I just couldn't really understand my classmates that well. I was intellectual, English-educated and given to analysis and deep thinking, they were Chinese speaking and…well that actually put a barrier on much further conversation. I didn't understand half of what they were saying most of the time.
School is not a perfect institution by any means, but I think it was especially bad for a creative and sensitive soul like myself. I later found out that I had gone to one of the worst schools in Singapore, which was actually subject to a government investigation and the principal barred from any further work for a time.
The teachers were bad. Like, really bad. Not all of them, but most of them. They cared only about the grades of the class and whether or not you passed up your homework on time. There was Mr Sim, whom I mentioned above, but most of the others were lacking in teaching ability and human kindness.
The pressure to succeed and perform was incredible. It seemed like all anyone had to talk about was studies and grades and studies and grades and…studies and grades. I had always gotten straight As all my life and this is where it really started to trip me up.
I started to study when actually I didn't really need to. Education in Singapore at that time was more rote memorization and regurgitation than anything else. There were facts and figures to learn, and you learnt them, and when the time for tests came, you reproduced them to the best of your ability – that was school in a nutshell.
The problem was the sheer amount of facts and figures that we supposed to memorize. Teachers thought nothing of making us learn a hundred or more words over the weekend, to say nothing of the fifty-odd math and science problems we were expected to solve almost everyday. Spending upwards of four hours on homework a day was considered normal, even encouraged. Even I with my vaunted academic excellence started to slip. Holding on to getting A's in everything (except Chinese of course) seemed a more and more daunting prospect with each passing week, but I never once considered,, well, maybe just doing something else? It was tied so deeply into my self-concept that giving it up was not really ever an option.
All this didn't leave me with much time for my other loves – games and books – but sacrifices had to be made, and so I made them. I squeezed it as much time as I could out of my punishing schedule for leisure, but even so, the strain of keeping up with the Joneses academically (or in this case, the Tans) took its toll.
For years I felt such seething rage and anger whenever I thought about it. You used me! YOU USED ME. All you stupid teachers used me just to get more marks for your classes and promotions and you didn't care about me at all.
I was probably right. I was a middle-class kid who was sent to a school better known for street gangs (I'm not kidding) and it was terrible for me. It would have been rough even without everything that was going on in the background.
To be completely honest I must say that there were redeeming factors about school. My class was not THAT bad. Most of them were friendly and spoke English to some degree. I think that it was just too hard to adjust back after being in the US for almost three years.
Whatever happened to C and C, you ask? That's what I wanted to know at that time as well. I had come back expecting to pick things up from where we left off but that didn't happen.
Connor wanted to be "cool" – listening to Guns and Roses (which I thought was Satanic at that time…I was a very sheltered child) and dyeing his hair. Once I saw him come out of a changing room (it was swimming lesson time at school) and I was really surprised at how different he looked. He had slicked back his hair and was strolling out of the changing rooms like a boss (or at least trying to be like a boss…he looked a bit uncertain actually) and the other kids were ribbing him about it. I was just wondering what had happened to my best friend.
He became steadily more distant. We didn't even really share the same interests anymore. We played some Magic : the Gathering together (it was HUGE at that time in Singapore) and some games but it just wasn't the same. I beat him once in a marathon run at school and I mustered up all my courage and fought against my shyness to tell him that I didn't mean it and he didn't reply at all. It hurt a lot at that time. He actually once told me "don't be such a nerd" (or something similar) and was quite a blow to me as well. I never talked about it with anyone because…well, I believed I've outlined my family situation in some detail above.
From the vantage point of today, I could see that there were problems in his family as well. His Dad (whom I always knew as a jovial guy) was sending both of us to school once when I (always the straight A student) asked Connor if he had studied for the upcoming Math test. He was about to reply when his father started shouting something about how he would disown him if he didn't do well in school. Boy that escalated quickly. Connor later just told me not to mention studies in front of his father, ever.
Calvin? Always the more analytical and rational one, he seemed to slowly retreat into himself more. We still talked about games and other things but he didn't seem to be quite the same person that he was before. Once when we went out shopping with his mother he suddenly broke and started shouting at her and Connor – over what I can't remember – and I was more than a little shocked. Calvin, the quiet one, shouting?
It saddened me more than a little at that time that my two closest friends – and our friendship that had stood the test of time and distance – could so quickly grow apart. At that time I felt that it was because I was more into JRPGs and video game music and they weren't but it was probably other things as well. I actually met his mother at a barbershop one day and she asked me why I never came over anymore. All I could reply with was "we have different interests now." That was what it seemed like at that time.
So I made new friends. I met Zhen Xun Yang, who would become my new best friend during those years. He was a transfer student from the US and that was initially how I believe we bonded. We had a shared interest in all things literary and of course, that old standby – fantasy and sci-fi. He also had his fair share of family problems, but I don't think we ever really talked about our issues together at any point because we were just so young and confused.
There were others as well. There were many Indonesian students studying in Singapore at that time and one of them was Warren Subianto and the other was called… Warren something or other. Sorry, I was closer to one of them than the other, obviously.
Through them I met other Indonesian friends as well. I wasn't as close to them as I was to Warren but they accepted me readily enough, even though I was so English-educated and different. My school was pretty rough and I always wondered why I wasn't bullied (as I was in the States) and now thinking back on it, maybe the Indonesians protected someone who was so close to their kin in their own way. I'll never know.
Warren Subianto was a good friend. We shared a common interest in manga and sci-fi novels and we would talk about them all the time. I think he was being bullied at one point and I remember shouting at half the class in a fit of rage that they would do that to my friend. I think he heard me and was always grateful for it. I'll always remember his halting English and semi-bumbling walk, but also his deep care and concern for me.
Nauru, the first ever girl I was consciously interested in. She was a pretty Indian girl (notice how all the girls in my book are pretty?) who did Indian classical dance and played the sitar. She was the first person to read my amateur prose and cry. I sent her some fanfiction and she cried at that too. Yes, she was kind of emotional.
I remember her trying to teach me a bit of Sanskrit one day and my sitting in amazement at how anyone could understand those strange squiggles. (says someone who started learning Japanese scant months later…) I also learned tact from her. She had this way of never saying anything bad about anyone and minimizing the negative while amplifying the positive while always sounding sincere about it.
I did a school project with her (if memory serves it was about Kenya – Elechi Amadi's the River Between) and we shared a mutual interest and love of English literature. I even visited her house and met her family once or twice. I think we might have had something if not for what happened a few months after I knew her.
But slowly in the background the darkness spread and spread. A year passed and I turned fourteen.
I discovered anime. Back in those days (now I feel old again…) anime was not something you could turn on the TV and watch. Nor could you YouTube it. It was the most precious of gems, like sheets of beaten gold wrought into prized and treasured art, and the feeling if you discovered something with ENGLISH SUBTITLES…pure ecstasy!
I first read about it in the video gaming magazines of my youth and I was pretty intrigued. At that time I had no idea what anime was. All I knew was that when I played certain games, the art style was a certain way, and I so loved it that I would try to collect as many games as I knew that had "that kind of art." To learn that there was an entire industry and culture to this art was almost too good to be true.
The first anime I ever watched at this time was the Heroic Legend of Arislan. I found it at my neighborhood video store and I borrowed that video so many times that the owner of the store told me he might as well have sold it to me – it would have cost less than what I spent renting it! To this day it remains one of my favorite series of all time. (This is the classic version, NOT the remake! Urgh, everyone looks so ugly now!)
I discovered the Internet. Back then it was in a primitive phase indeed, with barely any pictures and no music at all. I spent night after night on Lynx (my connection was too slow to use Netscape) reading webpage after webpage. What did I try to find out about? Video games and anime of course.
I also discovered fanfiction…but that probably deserves its own section below.
During this time all my mum did besides scold and complain and of course, work on the PhD was to occasionally ask me how I was doing in a worried, querulous voice. I said I was fine. How else could I answer? I didn't want to worry her. I was a Good Boy.
More PhD work piled up and I was the one to help deal with it. Essay after essay had to be transcribed, marked and coded. She had hired a student to help but she needed more help, and so I helped.
She also needed more material for her classes and asked me about it. I sent her links to all the anime MLs that I had discovered online and she used them. I think she taught an entire class on intertextuality with old posts from the Maison Ikkoku mailing list.
I discovered that Zhen Xun had watched Ranma 1/2 as well (in Indonesia no less) and we started talking about that. He still preferred Babylon V to most anime though, something that at that time puzzled me to no end.
Fanfiction and video games managed to hold the darkness at bay for a while, but there is only so much they could do. I felt increasingly bad and had no one to talk to about it, nor did there seem to be anyone who could understand.
I learnt about the existence of an anime club in Singapore and I was like "ok I have to be a part of that." I made my way down to the club meeting and said hello to everyone. I still remember how I introduced myself. "Hello, I am Kain, a fourteen year old single Chinese male." That got a lot of smiles. Everyone there was a lot older than me (most of them were university students) and I felt a bit overwhelmed but also more than a little proud.
We talked for a bit and I was so happy to meet people who understood, who were my own kind…except that I wasn't. Try as I might I could not feel happy. Anyone could have told you that I was then already in the grip of a pretty severe depression, but all I knew at that time was a vague but utterly desperate sense of sadness.
They were going to have an anime screening somewhere in December and I went along merrily. It was fun! In fact to this day I can remember exactly what we watched, and in what order – Vampire Hunter D (the old version, with the terrible English dub) Nabiki's introduction to Ranma 1/2 (raw Japanese, which meant that no one could understand anything except the word "hentai" (pervert) and finally, Project A-ko 2 : Cinderella Rhapsody (also raw Japanese)
I can remember the bus ride home that day. Earlier that year I developed a persistent worry (which I now recognize as OCD) which resisted all my efforts to solve, understand or comprehend. Classic Pure OCD, completely unknown to all at that time.
There would be thoughts that I could not get rid of that spiralled incessantly, boring holes into my mind. Since the June of my 13th year there was a worry which haunted me constantly. I was obsessed with the notion that I had to know what the author of a specific work thought of his or her own creation before I could enjoy it. Maybe they meant it to be understood in this way, or that. What did they think about this character? What did they MEAN by this scene? If they didn't mean it this way, then how could I take it in another way? Was it alright for me to love things this much, in the ways that I did?
This went far beyond the normal musings a devoted fan might have about the perspectives of a favored author. I had to know. I absolutely had to. Even when there was no way to find out (circa 1998, the Internet was still in its infancy, and you certainly couldn't Google anything or anything) I still felt as if I was chained to a rack, unable to watch or read anything unless I KNEW what were the intentions behind it.
It sounds crazy, doesn't it? As Zhen Xun said to me when I hestitantly confided in him one sleepless night – wouldn't any authors be happy to know that I held them in such high regard? One would think so. I thought so. But my mind had other ideas.
My mind. Not me. My mind. I would tell my family about "my mind" – as if it were a separate entity from who I was. My mind thinks this, but I think that. My mind wants me to worry. My mind, racing along tracks that I had never intended for it to follow, a hungry dog champing at the hand that fed it. My mind – not me. Someone else, somebody else, an unwanted tenant that had taken up residence inside me and that I had no way to evict.
My parents and sister would listen to me in horrified perplexity…what's all this about his mind? Surely he means himself? Is he going insane? (a clear and present danger in those days.) They tried to pacify me – to distract me – but I would always return to the same questions, the same concerns. I tried futilely to make them understand the struggle that raged inside, how I could see so clearly the thought processes that brought me such pain but was at the same time powerless to do anything about them.
It was especially bad on that evening. I should have been so happy at meeting friends and watching anime but instead my mind was on the same track, going round and round and round the same thing. I was only fourteen years old.
I say I don't remember or realize anything but that is not entirely true. Children have a certain intuition about things, and even before that first Christmas I think I knew things were wrong. I didn't know how to tell anyone (even if they would listen) but I knew it somewhere inside.
The first time my young mind realized something was wrong was when my sister started crying and crying. My cousins were over and I remember joking that it was the "family curse" – because I too used to cry a lot at that age. No one had yet realized the simple equation of young children + frequent random bouts of unexplained crying = problems in the family. She cried and cried and the only way I could get her to stop halfway was by playing a scene from Eric the Unready.
She began to cry about everything. I remember the Hamburger Incident, when she wanted to buy a hamburger from McDonalds and couldn't because it was almost dinnertime. She went totally out of control, grabbed a pencil and started drawing hamburgers on everything. And I mean everything – tables, chairs, walls, lamps, doors…Mary was kind of freaked out to be honest.
Kids get out of control, they howl and scream and yell, that's all pretty normal. But looking back on it, this was anything but normal. She was really quite hysterical. I took control of the situation and spoke to her sternly, bringing her to the bathroom and slapping her hands a few times – gently, I might add, I have never believed in corporal punishment.
Little did I know that that would be the pattern for the next fifteen or so years, me being the parent, picking up the slack and the pieces. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Some part of me also knew that my relationship with my mother was not at all healthy. One day in a very emotional mood (as teenagers can get) I forced my Mum to read this Ranma fanfiction called "Apron Strings" (I'm not sure you can even find it anymore…) All she did was laugh and say that it was "very emotional." I was pretty angry and I just chalked it up to my mother's academic background that prevented her from seeing anything other than serious literature as a waste of time. That may have been true, but I didn't know how deep the barriers to certain things went at that time.
My mom got worse and worse. She started shouting at us for no reason. She would tell me repeatedly that I was "just like my father" (an unjust accusation if I ever heard one) and that I was like "the rest of the Lings" (my father's side of the family) as if they were demonspawn from the vilest pits of hell. In fact, over the next fifteen years anything bad I did was referred to as a "Ling thing".
Just like my father…it was very painful to hear it back then. Just in what way was I like my father? I worked hard, I helped her with everything, I certainly did not betray or abandon her in any way. What was going on? Wasn't I a Good Boy?
I recall the one time I got angry and rebelled against fourteen years of indoctrination and Asian culture that you Do Not Talk Back To Your Mother For Any Reason. I can't remember what I said but I do recall protesting loudly and getting angry at her. I was shouted down with such force that I never dared raise my voice again.
I couldn't quite believe it. I tried to reconcile the kind, loving woman who would buy us books and sit and read with us at night with this witch who seemed to delight in tormenting and shrieking at us (all the while telling us that she didn't enjoy being angry and that it was OUR fault that she was like this) It wasn't possible. It couldn't be possible.
What do children (especially good, kind, obedient children, like we were) do when they are told anything? They believe it. Obviously we were bad! After all Mum said so! (often and loudly) We were terrible, horrible kids. We were the cause of all of her problems. We were just like our father.
It's clearer than crystal to the me of twenty-one years later, looking back on everything that happened. But back then it was like the world had ended not once, not twice, but every day. I would tell the story of my teenage years in therapy again and again (until even I got sick of hearing it sometimes) rehearsing detail after detail. Most of my life (sometimes it felt ALL of my life) was a search for the answers…which I eventually did, against all odds, find.
But let's not spoil anything, shall we?
Gazing back into the past after all this time, my heart can't help but break a little again. This was really childhood's end for me. I still believed in rainbows and unicorns, fairy princesses and miraculous rescues. The world was still filled with mystery and love and wonder, even if there were homework and chores to do. I know the boy of that time better than he did himself then, and he wished for nothing more than to love and to be loved.
School continued. Gotta keep those grades up! I still managed to do pretty well throughout Secondary 2 (8th grade in the US) but when we got to Secondary 3 everything came crashing down. (much like the rest of my life) You see, the thing is that things got MUCH HARDER. Advanced Math had become compulsory and I sucked at Math (yes, how un-Asian of me) Plus there was just a general ramping up of the difficulty level of school. More fuel to an already raging fire.
My Dad did visit once or twice during those times. He was still busy in China and sent letters and money (as part of the alimony payments) but he didn't call much. Why would he? He thought everything was going ok. I think he also remarried about then, something that would bring its own share of problems in time.
He did send plenty of letters though, asking me how things were doing in school and what games I was playing. He couldn't have known how badly things were going. When I was going through my old notes in writing this I actually found some of the old faxes that he sent and I started crying again. While we were in a land of nightmares he was living on the outside and thinking everything was going ok.
I do recall one visit he made. I had been biting my lips and scratching my fingers for a while now (quite obviously stress-related) and my lips were so bloody and torn that I think even my Dad (who at the best of times was quite oblivious to things) noticed something was wrong. I think he asked me about it, but I fobbed him off. I would have nothing to do with the Creep.
I would go to sit at the back of the school somewhere and think to myself – long brooding thoughts. I thought about there was no perfect and true love in the world (which certainly seemed the case at that time) I thought about all the fanfiction I was reading. I thought about Deep Philosophical Questions, but they were always tinged with sadness and desperation.
Before I go any further I'll take a short break here to talk about my love affair with fanfiction.


BRIDGEWATER — Hilda F. (Ferreira) Gaboriault, age 86, passed away at home on Thursday, Oct. 4 2018, with her family by her side. Formerly of New Bedford, she resided in Bridgewater.She was the wife of the late Eugene J. Gaboriault.
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FAIR questions the factuality of John Stossel's hatchet job against John Edwards on 20/20 last week, and the justice of giving him the space to fulminate from the right each week without any counter-balance from the right:
How much of the increase in C-sections is due to medical judgment, rather than fear of lawsuits? Stossel doesn't address the question. Dr. Luis Sanchez-Ramos, an obstetrics professor at the University of Florida, noted in the British Medical Journal (2/12/94) that "in Brazil and Mexico, where malpractice is not a problem, the caesarean section rate is still high." Sanchez-Ramos suggested that profit may be another motive driving C-sections, pointing out that rates are higher in for-profit hospitals and with patients who have good health insurance.
But Stossel focused on lawsuits as the core problem: "So are women today suffering more pain, even risking their lives on unnecessary surgery, partly because lawyers like John Edwards scared doctors?" It's a complex question, depending among other issues on how much of the surgery is actually "unnecessary." But Stossel's answer just assumes that trial lawyers are the villains: "Well, maybe all Edwards' cases were good ones, but the fearful atmosphere that lawsuits create has far-reaching consequences." That we should see malpractice suits as making doctors "fearful" rather than "careful" is something that the ABC journalist asserts rather than explains.
Of course, political candidates are fair game for criticism. But given Stossel's politics, it's unlikely that he will be doing a similar attack on George W. Bush or Dick Cheney this campaign season– certainly not one that fits in with their opponents' talking points so well. (When Edwards was picked by Kerry, the Republican National Committee's website headlined its response, "Who Is John Edwards? A Disingenuous, Unaccomplished Liberal And Friend To Personal Injury Trial Lawyers.") When ABC's parent company Disney refused to allow its Miramax subsidiary to distribute Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11," company CEO Michael Eisner offered this rationale (5/5/04): "We just didn't want to be in the middle of a politically oriented film during an election year." So why does ABC air one-sided political commentary during an election year?
When I watched part of Stossel's commentary on TV, I thought to myself "Maybe we should let both sides bring medical experts to argue their case to the jury. Except – we already do." Conservatives are always claiming that their opposition to judicial decisions which limit the power of their constituencies is based in an abiding faith in democracy and a distrust of unelected judges. But in the same breath they argue for tort reform in order to protect those same constituencies from regulation by juries. And they gleefully marshall technocratic arguments to suggest that a sampling of "the people" shouldn't be trusted to decide such cases. They're stuck making that argument because for all the talk about Americans hating lawyers and malpractice suits, it isn't trial lawyers who decide cases and determine damages. It's a (not fully representative) sampling of the American people. So conservatives' concern isn't about democracy. It's about power.
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What a difference a few weeks can make. We started 2020 with business as usual.
Fast-forward, the current global business disruption has consumed our daily lives and news feeds. Many non-essential workers in countries around the globe have been asked to stay home for the foreseeable future in an effort to mitigate exposure. Of course, that means organizations everywhere have scrambled to assemble work-from-home (WFH) arrangements for millions of employees. For IT and security teams, this demands an unprecedented level of pressure and problem solving on short-notice.
Those of us in security know that as the world hustles to make the best of a difficult situation and adapt to remote working, cyber criminals are taking note and introducing new scams to exploit the vulnerable. New connections, devices and applications have expanded the corporate attack surface to industrious bad actors looking for ways to pull off an attack or breach.
Simply put, in the effort to create large-scale WFH deployments, security – particularly identity assurance - must be at the top of the list of business risk considerations.
The workforce is now even more dynamic
The rapid shift to remote work is also an opportunity for security leaders to examine a challenge that has been evolving since long before the current disruption became a headline: managing the risk of a dynamic workforce.
Securing the 24/7 workforce and enabling employees to collaborate from anywhere and at anytime has been a challenge information security teams have been addressing for years. A growing base of users, applications, devices and data all over the world gives attackers more vulnerabilities to exploit.
I sat down with Tony Arnold*, Head of Technology and Information Security Risk, ANZ Bank to discuss identity management and access, a critical component for managing dynamic workforce risk.
Arnold predicts demands for remote access will continue to grow, and for organizations, the challenge will become, "to authenticate them wherever they are."
Many teams will turn to cloud solutions to collaborate during this period of remote work. The demand is to ensure users have timely access to those cloud-based and on-premises applications they need to work from any device and location.
Organizations may try and apply legacy identity and access management (IAM) solutions designed for an on-site workforce to a now dynamic workforce. This is a recipe for disaster. As Arnold points out, IAM in the cloud is priority one. Organizations cannot rely on outdated IAM practices to secure modern cloud environments. "The cloud offers the opportunity to collaborate and communicate anywhere, anytime," he said. "But Identity assurance must be the number one security control. If you don't get that right, what you're ending up with is your [information is] compromised and it's no longer sitting within your data centers or protected by a perimeter."
Stepping up to the new identity challenge today
Now is not the time to relax security protocols in the name of productivity. Instead, it is essential for organizations to revisit their identity and access management strategy. Criminals are hoping to take advantage of the new chaos around remote deployments and will find ways to take over identities and accounts. Managing this growing dynamic workforce risk begins with knowing, with certainty, that the users and entities accessing your critical systems are who they claim to be.
If you haven't already, it might be time to invest in modern authentication methods to include options that can be deployed as a service in the cloud and distributed digitally. Doing so can help empower employees, partners and contractors to do more without compromising security or convenience. It'll ensure your workforce has timely access to the cloud-based and on-premises applications they need.
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The lessons we are learning amid this business disruption will surely be put to the test again in the future. Many analysts note that what we are dealing with now may someday be considered a "new normal."
Security managers who make the needed changes to their IAM layer today will be the ones best equipped if (or when) this happens again. If you have not learned already, shoring up defenses for IAM should be your number one lesson in order to enable a seamless and secure dynamic workforce.
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It's been fascinating to see how the decision to publish Morrissey's autobiography in the Penguin Classics imprint has polarized opinion. The debate is multi-layered and, with the portrait shot treated in the eye-catchingly traditionalist Penguin Classics design, it's interesting to observe how design is at the centre of an artistic event that so ignites people's passions.
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Using a photograph from his 2008 Greatest Hits album as a basis, the treatment brings to mind the distinctive duotone printing which was a staple of Smiths 7in singles: the character study hinting at once towards a sense of idealistic naivety and world-weary eroticism. This ambiguity, set next to the Penguin Classics logo, and such a stripped-back choice of title, could keep readers talking for years to come.
This isn't meant to fit in nicely with other examples of the genre that it sits next to. To many The Smiths were the quintessential English rock group, and Morrissey the defining embodiment of English character at its most honest, poetic, funny, hateful and self-deprecating. That's why the decision to publish the book in the Classics imprint is such an interesting event.
The effectiveness in simply framing and capturing the character is probably the most powerful aspect of the design. It's the sheer restraint, the discipline; the rigidness of the almost stoic design template that acts as both a juxtaposition and complement to the character portrait, and hints at a story fuelled by introspection, contrariness and confrontation. It's timeless. And isn't that what all the most engaging characters in Penguin books are?
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dotCMS, a leading content management system, has been authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), starting in 2023.
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Another amazing session of therapy. We worked on the idea of "deserving" and I'm so grateful for integrating that word back into my vocabulary.
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