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Interview: Get to Know TWISTED ROMANCE with de Campi, Skelly, Gutierrez, McNeil, and Trungles
By Kat Vendetti
TWISTED ROMANCE is unlike anything you'll find on shelves this month. The month-long weekly anthology transcends genres and exceeds expectations, bringing comics' long history with Romance to a modernized place. Yet TWISTED ROMANCE isn't here to make a statement. This anthology exists for the love of the medium, for good storytelling, and just for pure fun.
With a main comic, a backup prose story, and a backup comic, each issue of TWISTED ROMANCE is jam-packed with content. And each issue is wildly different — from horror to fantasy to space pirates — playing to each artist's particular strengths. The romance in each story is versatile; cute, sexy, humorous, and always inclusive. Together, TWISTED ROMANCE is a collaboration for all fans that exhibits what the comics medium is capable of.
We spoke with writer Alex de Campi and the artists behind TWISTED ROMANCE's main comics — Katie Skelly, Alejandra Gutierrez, Carla Speed McNeil, and Trungles — who fill us in on their thoughts on romance comics, how this anthology came to be, and what we can expect from their individual stories in TWISTED ROMANCE.
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ComicsVerse (CV): Alex, what made you choose romance comics for your anthology? And for Katie, Carla, Alejandra, and Trungles, what interested you about drawing TWISTED ROMANCE?
Alex de Campi (AdC): I like messing with people. Given my other body of work, romance comics would be pretty much the last thing folks would expect from me. But why would I want to do more of what I've already done? Comics is a laboratory, a place to play and innovate. So I do something new and unexpected. I mean, I'm a thriller writer at heart, and every time I try to write anything else there's always the thriller suspense and pacing that sneaks in. You'll definitely see that here. But concentrating on emotional arcs first and foremost has been a lot of fun.
Alejandra Gutierrez (AG): I'd been meaning to do a romance-ish story for some time, and then when Alex asked me I thought it'd be super fun (aside from it being a great opportunity) to work with her, we were Twitter acquaintances and I really liked her writing in NO MERCY so I knew it'd be a good time.
Katie Skelly (KS): I really wanted to work with Alex, and the rest of the artists she approached were great as well. How could I pass it up?
Trungles (T): I wasn't sure about TWISTED ROMANCE at first. I like my romances pretty straightforward and downright saccharine. My experience of Alex's work is mostly full of excitement and bombast. Her stories are exhilarating and fun. They're usually the stuff I like to read but not necessarily stuff I like to draw. She sent me a script, and I think about thirty seconds into it I emailed her back in all caps. I absolutely loved what she wrote, and I had to draw it. She's a really versatile writer, and she's made this incredible space for all of us to just play around and have fun.
Carla Speed McNeil (CSM): For me it was basically that it was an Alex party. I'm a tough sell on luv. I want a good love story as much as the next sop, but it has to take me by surprise, and I know I can count on Alex to do that. The rest was "space opera Leiko Matsumoto pirate boys" and I was all in. Manga was not thick on the ground when I was coming up and what little I saw was SO different that it drew me like a magnet. Doing something with spaceships that look like wet-navy ships or steam trains is something I never knew how badly I wanted to do.
TWISTED ROMANCE #1. Art by Katie Skelly.
CV: Romance comics have a long history in the medium. How does TWISTED ROMANCE modernize the genre, and how do you feel romance comics have evolved within the medium since their origins?
AdC: Oh, sure. I mean, all your big masc faves (Kirby, Simon, Lee, Romita, etc) wrote/drew kissy books. But once US comics fell away from newsstands and into specialty shops, monthly comics lost a lot of the wider-appeal titles (crime, romance, etc). They've continued strongly elsewhere. It's not like the comfort of reading about true love and happy endings (or the solace of reading about bad choices/relationships) went away. That never goes away. Readers simply abandoned US comics in favour of shoujo manga, prose romance, and fanfic. Now that we have a couple generations raised on bookstore shoujo manga, we're seeing books like FRESH ROMANCE and BINGO LOVE and all of Iron Circus' graphic novels become very successful. Like I said, the market never went away. It was just not acknowledged for a while by monthly comics publishers.
And we're not making any big statement with TWISTED ROMANCE. There's no point to it; we're not proving anything. I just wanted to write some weird love stories with a bunch of friends, so we did. I guess I come at genre stories a bit the way Jim Jarmusch does: I just want to play with it, see how it works.
If anything, in terms of format we're a bit of a throwback to 50s titles YOUNG ROMANCE and OUR LOVE, with each issue being stand-alone and having backup stories, than we are some great modernist statement. We just want to entertain you. Make you gasp. Make you blush.
AG: I think it brings it to the 21st century by not being a basic boy-meets-girl romance story. I like to say that the stories in TWISTED ROMANCE are more romance-adjacent, so you get a much more interesting story in a romance setting.
Nowadays I think porn and sex, in any capacity, is becoming more mainstream in the romance genre, which I'm all about. Also there's a lot more sad romantic stories which are some of my personal faves. Not to mention now we get to see diverse romance stories which feels more real, in my opinion.
T: Oh my god, the history of romance comics is so bizarre. Alex explains it really well, but as far as American comics go, romance comics sorta disappeared for decades for a variety of reasons, though not for lack of interest.
The closest thing to a western romance comic I read growing up was an ARCHIE digest I could pick up at the grocery store. I loved those, and then those eventually went away. From there, it was all shoujo comics for me. These days, I feel like romance exists pretty organically in most media across all genres. I guess it reflects the notion that monogamous marriage isn't some kind of endgame, and that it's an organic part of many people's lives. It's nice, but it's not without its problems. I'd love to see people engaging in romance for the sake of it again. It doesn't have to set an example or exist to interrogate something or other.
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CSM: I read the horrors, I loved space opera, I read HEAVY METAL. As far as I knew, growing up, there weren't any romance comics. There was a love story in SWAMP THING. There were a number of sort of love stories in CEREBUS. There was definitely a love story in LOVE & ROCKETS. There were definitely love stories in OMAHA, also lust stories and some other people-banging-into-each-other things… There was a love story or two in JOURNEY… but they weren't the point of the story in any of these.
I can't say I actually read a comic in which characters falling in love was the point of the story until THE LESS THAN EPIC ADVENTURES OF TJ AND AMAL, and, reading that, I was so unaccustomed to the tropes of romance that it caught me (very pleasantly!) off-guard. Like the offbeat love stories in THE FISHER KING and MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE and some other non-romance genre movies, that book showed me how good a romance could be. But I still had no idea how to do one of my own, so getting a script with a starchy Regular Army guy and a slinky rock-god pirate had me entertained.
Modern storytelling with its more cinematic storytelling approach enables a story to have the fleeting subtleties of the "lid on a potful of boiling emotions" that I rarely saw in comics growing up, and that I love to imagine and draw. That's what I tried to bring to my chapter.
TWISTED ROMANCE #2. Art by Alejandra Gutierrez.
CV: Each issue of TWISTED ROMANCE will include a wide variety of genres and themes. What can we expect from each of your stories in TWISTED ROMANCE?
AdC: I can't emphasize enough how different all the stories I wrote are. They were very much written to become invisible in each artist's style, to give them a script that was full of things they want to draw and which played to each of their very specific strengths.
AG: I tried to have a lot of fun visually so lots of little gags, goofy stuff, but also a lot of sensuality. The story I drew is also very grounded and relatable (not the part where you get involved with a movie star but, hey, you never know).
CSM: Mine has a heavily-armed space juggernaut that looks like a marital aid….because it Does. It also has battered people trying to hold their fractal part of a society together in the face of utter abandonment by that society. Trying for and failing and finding connections where they don't expect them. And a pretty cool outrigger canoe that was a lot of fun to design. Space paradise.
CV: I had the opportunity to read TWISTED ROMANCE #1, and it was the perfect story for Katie to draw, with its stylish 70s setting. Alex, did you have these teams in mind as you put TWISTED ROMANCE together, or was it something else that joined you all for this anthology?
AdC: When I pitched this to Image in August, I had only the vaguest plan. Then with the decision to make it a weekly title I had to scramble to pull the book together. Image kindly offered to hold Feb 2019 for me but f*** that, I wanted immediate gratification and so did my collaborators. (We run everything as a mostly-group decision.) There were folks I really wanted to work with, and also whose prose or comics work I wanted to provide a stage for, and it all went down in the DMs during one frantic week in mid to late Jan. So again, no massive point or statement to the teams. I asked my friends. That's all.
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CV: Katie, I loved your comic with Alex for TWISTED ROMANCE #1. It went places I definitely wasn't expecting. Without giving anything away, what was your favorite part of drawing that story?
KS: Definitely all of the disco scenes. I went and watched a bunch of Soul Train videos to get inspired for specific dance moves and fashion. So cool!
CV: I noticed a common theme in the main story, backup prose story, and backup comic in TWISTED ROMANCE #1. Will there be a running thread in each issue that ties the stories together?
AdC: There's a vague thread to each one that developed as everyone pulled their stories together. When I started seeing drafts of the prose and comics backups I slotted each story in with ones that felt complimentary to it. So Issue 1 is definitely our murder book; Issue 2 is cute and brown and very pop; Issue 3 is space adventures; and Issue 4 is fantasy. Again, don't give me credit here, because it's not like I was sitting on my editorial throne going "okay, everyone in issue 3 gotta write a sci-fi story." It just happened, and I took advantage of it.
TWISTED ROMANCE #3. Art by Carla Speed McNeil
CV: Carla and Alex, you worked together previously on NO MERCY. What was your experience teaming up again for TWISTED ROMANCE?
AdC: Haha. Poor Carla. She was super stressed on deadlines so her experience has mostly been "oh my god get off my back you'll get your pages when you get them." We tried to make things easier for her by doing her pages as tight pencils, which looks gorgeous, but hasn't turned out to be any time saving versus inks. But I trust Carla so completely, if there was one bird who was going to be the last one to arrive on migration, I'm glad it was her. Everyone else was on time, too. I'm so impressed with us. 48 pages, weekly, ON F***ING TIME. Early, even! Which is good. My already dubious grip on sanity might have finally slipped if everyone had been late, considering I'm doing all the lettering, layout, design, and prepress on the book.
CSM: Here's where I scream "NAAAAAAOOOOW, IT WASN'T LIKE THAAAAAT" like Lucy Ricardo or Eliza Doolittle, but it totally was.
In the end, the pencil thing did work out interestingly, led me to some new processes. I don't know what I'm gonna do with them, because ALL THE SMUDGE. Even with choking myself out on fixative spray, my desk, my hands, my scanner, my pages, everything was dirtier than the well-digger's pigs. Once I worked a couple bugs out — and these were prehistoric six-foot fanged cockroach sorts of bugs — it did get very fast, but it never stopped being an incredible mess.
The story itself was a blast, like all the stories I've done with Alex. One of the things I've always loved about working with her is the fact that she does her own lettering. It's not that I need her to take on extra work and die a little younger, but that she's OK with me ad-libbing.
I do lettering on my rough pencilled pages even when the final lettering is to be done digitally, so I know there will be plenty of room for words and so the pacing is right. Sometimes I make suggestions for dialogue that Alex feels perfectly free to use, discard, or riff further on. And the occasional word balloon for an animal or object that she can do whatever with. This doesn't sound like a big deal, and I have no problem with writers that don't want me to do this. But it definitely can help a story find its funky flow.
CV: Alejandra, this will be your second comic credit, after drawing a story for LOVE IS LOVE by IDW to benefit the tragedy at Pulse in Orlando. What excites you about contributing to TWISTED ROMANCE?
AG: Like you said, this isn't my first time being published, but I do consider TWISTED ROMANCE to be my comic debut in a way, so that's really exciting. I also saw it as kind of an exercise for me as a storyteller to draw longer comics, I've learned a lot about my own art and abilities while working on this. I'm also hoping I get a stalker or two out of this so I can live my full Tiffany Darwish fantasy.
TWISTED ROMANCE #4. Art by Trungles
CV: Trungles, you also illustrated the story "Beauties" for FRESH ROMANCE by Rosy Press, a comic that sought to revive the romance genre in comics. Is there anything from that experience that you carried with you when drawing your issue of TWISTED ROMANCE?
T: I think much of my growth has been technical. I never went through any formal training or traditional avenues for comics, so I've been trying to figure out my own way around the comics I make and figuring out what works for me. Beyond that, it's just been a joy to be absolutely indulgent in drawing longing glances, starry eyes, and sweetness.
CV: And finally, what are you hoping readers will take away from TWISTED ROMANCE?
AdC: A warm happy feeling in their chest. And in their pants.
AG: I like to think TWISTED ROMANCE will open people's minds as to what can be considered a romance story. Also boners maybe, hopefully.
T: I just hope people enjoy something about it. My hope is that folks can just sit down and have a nice feeling or two before going about their day.
CSM: A greater appreciation for the fine art of starship design.
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Look for TWISTED ROMANCE All February
TWISTED ROMANCE will be released weekly starting February 7th, kicking off with Katie Skelly's entry. Look out for Alejandra, Carla, and Trungles' issues of the romance anthology each week after. Whether you're in it for the Valentine's Day spirit or just to have a damn good time, you don't want to miss this one.
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Verbatim Poetry
August 18, 2016 August 18, 2016 ~ poetryinpink
The first time I heard the word 'verbatim' used to describe an art form was in reference to theatre. A drama teacher I was shadowing in my PGCE year was encouraging her A Level students to produce pieces of verbatim theatre by reading through transcripts of historic court cases and shaping them into performances. *As a side note, a shout out must now go to Alessandra, Bao Vi and Yeon Kyu, my former AS Level English Lit students, who may or may not still read this blog. All three of them got an A in their English A2 result (so another shout out must go to my friend and their teacher, Emma). If you're reading this girls, CONGRATULATIONS, YOU MADE IT! And let me know how you got on in your other results!!* Ok, side note over. The definition of Verbatim Theatre is as follows:
a form of documentary theatre in which plays are constructed from the precise words spoken by people interviewed about a particular event or topic.
To be honest, I didn't get the point of it. To me, it seemed lazy: a way of spoonfeeding students a ready made story line and script in the absence of real creativity. But then I saw my first piece of Verbatim Theatre and changed my mind.
In 2012, the National Theatre staged a production of 'London Road': a verbatim MUSICAL, no less, about the Ipswich murders. Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it: a script drawn entirely from interviews with the residents and prostitutes living and working on London Road, and which aspires to be both hilarious and tragic. Every um, every er, every accidentally misspoken word would be preserved in the script. I went because I loved the National Theatre, but I wasn't expecting much.
To my surprise, it really worked (and not just for me – it's since been revived, transferred to other theatres and even turned into a film). The moment though that, for me, really crystallised the value of verbatim came towards the end. After a busy, cheerful string of show tunes about flowers, town hall meetings and other innocuous aspects of suburban life, the lighting dropped to a single spotlight and a single woman, alone on the stage. In a wavering falsetto, in a tiny circle of light surrounded by all that darkness, she sang:
"I mean, sounds awful, doesn't it, but they've. They've um, done us all a favour, haven't they, really?"
The 'they' she referred to? The murderer Steven Wright. The 'favour' he did them? Improving the class of her neighbourhood by murdering five prostitutes.
After that line, the spotlight cut to black and three women (representing the prostitutes who lived on to mourn their friends deaths and fear for their own lives) stepped onto a balcony, their faces lit from below. They stood for maybe three minutes, utterly silent. No one in the theatre made a sound. Three minutes of silence to reflect on whether you've ever felt like that spot-lit woman. Three minutes to realise that those words were really spoken, by a real human. Three minutes of silence to remind you that these women's voices were never invited into the conversation, so there are no lines to give to them in a piece of verbatim theatre. That was the moment that this art form first made sense to me. Sometimes, the power of art is not in creating something new but in casting fresh light on something which already exists. Verbatim theatre can do just that.
The National Theatre, London in July 2012 (summer of the London Olympics AND London Road: what a time to be alive!)
A bad photo of the staging of London Road at the National Theatre, 2012.
So is Verbatim Poetry a concept? Why yes, yes it is! Although it's often called Found Poetry instead, as sometimes the art is in noticing that the poem already exists, whole, if you look at it the right way (as opposed to constructing something artificial from things that already exist, as with the London Road script). Google Poems are a great example of these, in which Found Poetry lovers screenshot Google's predictions from half typed searches. The results are sometimes hilarious, sometimes profound. Here are some fun examples…
So this morning, for my poetry writing warm up, I decided to write some verbatim poetry after getting the following poetry prompt:
Grab the closest book. Go to page 29. Write down 10 words that catch your eye. Use 7 of words in a poem. For extra credit, have 4 of them appear at the end of a line.
Since I'm in the library with Pete today, the nearest book to me was 'Principles and Practice of Surgery – 6th Edition'. And page 29 is all about 'transfusion of blood components and plasma products'. Yay. As I was reading through to pick my ten words, trying to think how 'immunoglobins' or 'coagulation' could be embedded into a poem that I might be able to both write and understand, I decided to make that the focus of the poem: applying random scientific phrases to the topic poets normally seem to write about: LOVE. As a result, I ended up with these: two short, silly verbatim poems which list commonalities between blood components/plasma and love.
Hopefully the informative nature of this post will make up for the flimsy nature of the poems. =]
Enjoy! If you'd like to try some verbatim writing, why don't you try writing your own poem listing commonalities between love and something? You could use any kind of non fiction book: a recipe book, a text book, a travel guide… as long as it's page 29!
Happy plagiarising!
Ruminations on The Principles & Practice of Surgery (6th Ed)
1) Commonalities between Love and Fresh Frozen Plasma
Available for use in children
Can be removed
Can be removed from a unit of whole blood
Associated with severe bleeding
2) Commonalities between Love and Human Albumin
No compatibility requirements
No clear advantage
There is increased vascular permeability
There is a risk of acutely expanding the intravascular space and precipitating pulmonary oedema
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Earnings refer to a company's income after taking expenses into account. A business may choose to either keep these funds in the company or give them out to its shareholders. Retained earnings refer to the portion of business income that the business keeps. The beginning balance of retained earnings shows the level of retained earnings at the beginning of a certain period. A company has to record its retained earnings in its financial statements.
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Action at Stop No. 7 on the 2015 Samsung Galaxy World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT), the Billabong Pro Tahiti, continued today with the remaining heats of Round 1 followed by Round 2. The world's best surfers battled at Teahupo'o to avoid early elimination and progress on in the competition.
Round 2 got underway with Jeep Leaderboard No. 1 Adriano de Souza (BRA) taking on trials winner Taumata Puhetini (PYF). A strong showing from the Brazilian netted him a 16.26 heat total and left the local wildcard in need of an excellent 9.39 to take out the world no. 1. Puhetini couldn't find the score and De Souza moves on to Round 3 where he will face another dangerous wildcard, Bruno Santos (BRA).
"For me this has been a really tough event in the past," De Souza said. "In the last four years I've come up against the wildcards and haven't done so well. I've been working every single year - I've been coming early and staying later and watching a lot. I still need to work so much but I'm really proud to make that heat against an amazing Tahitian. The next heat will be against a friend, Bruno (Santos)."
Reigning WSL Champion and defending event winner Gabriel Medina (BRA) found his form today and dominated his Round 3 heat against Ricardo Christie (NZL). The rookie drew first blood but the Brazilian answered back with an excellent 9.17 and found a back-up 8.33 for an unstoppable 17.50 heat total. Christie, who injured his back during a freesurf on Saturday, couldn't keep pace and was eliminated in 25th place. Medina will face John John Florence (HAW) in an all-star Round 3 match-up.
"That was a fun heat and I got a lot of waves," said Medina. "Since I got here I haven't got barrelled so it felt good to get some in my heat just now. Last year was last year, this year I'm just focused on my thing and making as many heats as I can. I'm excited for the rest of the contest but I know my next heat will be tough because of my seeding. It was my dream to be a World Champion and that dream came true. This year I'm not feeling any pressure and just want to surf."
Earlier in the day Medina was send to elimination Round 2 by rookie Italo Ferreira (BRA) in Round 1 Heat 10. An exciting exchange saw the Brazilian goofyfooters battle for the lead and Ferreira came out on top, taking a narrow victory over Medina.
"I'm so stoked to make my first heat with Gabriel (Medina), he's a great competitor," Ferreira said. "At the start of the heat I got one wave on the inside and went right into the reef. I just tried to stay focused and I knew I had to get back out to the lineup. It's my first time here and today it's slow but really fun."
A high-scoring battle played out between C.J. Hobgood (USA) and Nat Young (USA) in Round 2 Heat 3. Both surfers had excellent 8-point rides on the board but Young's backup 7.97 gave him the edge. Young increased his lead with an 8.43 but a committed, late drop from Hobgood wowed the judges and earned him a near-perfect 9.80, the highest heat total of the event and his first man-on-man heat win of the season.
"I was just stoked that I got a couple of opportunities," Hobgood said. "The waves turned on and we both made the most of it. I made a man-on-man heat and it was fun and I really enjoyed it. When someone asks me what I'm going to miss about the tour it's that - the man-on-man combat. I'll also really miss all the guys on tour that I've travelled around with for years."
Brett Simpson (USA) looked fired up in his match-up against Tour veteran Taj Burrow (AUS). The Huntington Beach (CA, USA) local secured his first Round 2 win of the season with an excellent 9.17 to upset the current No. 8 on the Jeep Leaderboard who leaves the competition in 25th place.
"The heat before was really exciting and it got me fired up," Simpson said. "I was able to find a couple and I'm stoked. I feel like I'm capable and I know which waves I want to ride. I've been watching others out here and try and learn from them. Taj (Burrow) was my favorite surfer when I was a kid so I'm stoked to beat him but I've still got a lot of work to do."
Another Brazilian in fine form today was Jadson Andre (BRA) who powered through Round 2, eliminating Tahitian Michel Bourez (PYF). Andre looked energetic in the afternoon conditions and stayed busy to find the best two waves of the heat and earn a pair of 8-point rides for the win.
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Earlier in the day competition ran through Heats 9 to 12 of Round 1 with Josh Kerr (AUS), Italo Ferreira (BRA), John John Florence (HAW) and Jeremy Flores (FRA) earning the direct advance to Round 3.
John John Florence (HAW) returned to competition today after a two-event absence due to an ankle injury and steadily built his scoreline throughout the bout with a series of deep barrels, technical late drops and backhand carves. Florence netted two excellent scores, a 9.03 and an 8.93, for a 17. 96 heat total and a return to form. Despite keeping busy Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) couldn't catch the young Hawaiian and went on to lose out to Matt Wilkinson (AUS) in elimination Round 2, while Bede Durbidge (AUS) got the better of Glenn Hall (IRL) to earn his place in Round 3 alongside Florence.
"It's actually really fun out there and there's lots of waves coming through," Florence said. "I had a lot of fun. I was so excited to get the jersey back on. When I first got hurt I was super bummed out but at the same time I thought it would be good to take a break. When Fiji came around I couldn't bear to watch it because I was so bummed out. My ankle feels so good and I really took my time letting it heal. I'm so excited to be back in the event and be surfing again."
Josh Kerr (AUS) put on an impressive display in Round 1 Heat 9 against Kolohe Andino (USA) and Wilkinson. The trio traded tube rides and lead changes for the opening half of the heat. Andino, who kept busy through the bout, held the lead with a 7.17 until Kerr found the wave of the heat, pulling into a long barrel and coming out on the dry reef for a near-perfect 9.67. He backed it up with a 7.50 for a convincing win and a pass into Round 3. Wilkinson went on to defeat Patacchia in Round 2 while Andino was eliminated by Brazilian rookie Wiggolly Dantas (BRA).
"That one wave was pretty crazy and I pulled up into dry reef," said Kerr. "I would never have stayed on that wave in a freesurf. I just wanted to make sure I got the score but I might need a new set of fins."
When competition resumes, up first will be Filipe Toledo (BRA) and Brett Simpson (USA) in the opening heat of Round 3.
Event organizers will reconvene tomorrow at 7 a.m. to assess conditions and make a call for competition.
The Billabong Pro Tahiti runs from Friday, August 14 to Tuesday, August 25, 2015 and is webcast LIVE at WorldSurfLeauge.com and via the WSL mobile app.
The world's best surfing is also broadcast LIVE on Fox Sports in Australia, MCS Extreme in France, EDGE Sports in China, South Korea, Malaysia and other territories and on Globo TV in Brazil.
Billabong Pro Tahiti Round 1 Results:
Heat 1: Kelly Slater (USA) 15.10, Jadson Andre (BRA) 8.23, Brett Simpson (USA) 4.70
Heat 2: Owen Wright (AUS) 11.67, Adrian Buchan (AUS) 11.50, C.J. Hobgood (USA) 9.67
Heat 3: Aritz Aranburu (ESP) 13.10, Keanu Asing (HAW) 7.16, Filipe Toledo (BRA) 5.37
Heat 4: Julian Wilson (AUS) 10.66, Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 9.00, Garrett Parkes (AUS) 1.30
Heat 5: Mick Fanning (AUS) 12.17, Adam Melling (AUS) 6.26, Taumata Puhetini (PYF) 1.33
Heat 6: Bruno Santos (BRA) 8.67, Adriano de Souza (BRA) 5.30, Michel Bourez (PYF) 2.44
Heat 7: Dusty Payne (HAW) 10.00, Nat Young (USA) 5.14, Kai Otton (AUS) 1.30
Heat 8: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 10.83, Taj Burrow (AUS) 4.77, Glenn Hall (IRL) 2.96
Heat 9: Josh Kerr (AUS) 17.17, Kolohe Andino (USA) 12.80, Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 9.00
Heat 10: Italo Ferreira (BRA) 14.43, Gabriel Medina (BRA) 14.47, Ricardo Christie (NZL) 5.73
Heat 11: John John Florence (HAW) 17.96, Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 13.83, Bede Durbidge (AUS)11.43
Heat 12: Jeremy Flores (FRA) 14.90, Wiggolly Dantas (BRA) 12.34, Miguel Pupo (BRA) 12.27
Heat 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 16.26 def. Taumata Puhetini (PYF) 8.44
Heat 2: Filipe Toledo (BRA) 8.57 def. Garrett Parkes (AUS) 8.23
Heat 3: C.J. Hobgood (USA) 18.13 def. Nat Young (USA) 16.66
Heat 4: Brett Simpson (USA) 16.50 def. Taj Burrow (AUS) 10.23
Heat 5: Bede Durbidge (AUS) 14.36 def. Glenn Hall (IRL) 9.44
Heat 6: Wiggolly Dantas (BRA) 10.83 def. Kolohe Andino (USA) 4.47
Heat 7: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 17.67 def. Ricardo Christie (NZL) 12.44
Heat 8: Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 12.50 def. Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) 10.96
Heat 9: Kai Otton (AUS) 14.66 def. Miguel Pupo (BRA) 5.54
Heat 10: Jadson Andre (BRA) 17.10 def. Michel Bourez (PYF) 10.60
Heat 11: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 16.40 def. Adam Melling (AUS) 15.27
Heat 12: Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 14.60 def. Keanu Asing (HAW) 14.07
Billabong Pro Tahiti Round 3 Match-Ups:
Heat 1: Filipe Toledo (BRA) vs. Brett Simpson (USA)
Heat 2: Bede Durbidge (AUS) vs. Kai Otton (AUS)
Heat 3: Owen Wright (AUS) vs. Dusty Payne (HAW)
Heat 4: Italo Ferreira (BRA) vs. Jadson Andre (BRA)
Heat 5: John John Florence (HAW) vs. Gabriel Medina (HAW)
Heat 6: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Bruno Santos (BRA)
Heat 7: Mick Fanning (AUS) vs. Aritz Aranburu (ESP)
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A tiny island connected by a bridge to the island of Sanibel, which in turn is near Ft. Myers, Florida, has been our favorite retreat for many years.
Honeymoon Island is a really beautiful state park/beach on the mid-western gulf coast of Florida. If you ever get a chance to visit the area, definitely make it a point to stop there!
Digital illustration for Mike Lowery and SCAD-Atlanta.


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Zounds (band)
Zounds were a UK anarchist band formed in 1977 from loose jamming sessions around the Reading area. Originally they were part of the cassette culture movement, releasing material on the Fuck Off Records tape label, and were also involved in the squatting and free festival scene.
The band met up with fellow anarchists Crass when, legend has it, their van broke down on the road. They made their way to nearby Dial House, home of Crass, who helped them with repairs. The two bands became friends, and although musically very divergent, they shared many common political views. Zounds shortly afterwards released their first EP, "Can't Cheat Karma", on the Crass Records label.
The band released their first album The Curse of Zounds on Rough Trade Records in 1981. The cover art, by anarchist artist Clifford Harper, featured a painting of fire fighters apparently trying to put out a blaze at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. However, the picture continued onto the back cover, which showed that in fact they are spraying the fire with petrol, thus feeding it!
Cover art for 'The Curse of Zounds' LP by Clifford Harper
The band split up in late 1982. Bass player and vocalist Steve Lake and guitarist Laurence Wood continued to work together for a while as The World Service, whilst drummer Josef Portar went on the join The Mob and later Blyth Power. Lake continues to work as a solo artist, and Zounds occasionally reform for benefit gigs with a line-up augmented by Protag (formerly of Instant Automatons, Alternative TV and Blyth Power) and drummer Stick (previously of DIRT, Doom and Extreme Noise Terror). A remixed version of the bands song "This Land" was released in 2001 as a CD single benefit for the McLibel support campaign.
The name of the band is derived from the old English curse-word "zounds", which is a contraction of "Gods wounds", referring to Christ's crucifixion wounds.
1 Original band line-up
2 Discography
Original band line-up
Steve Lake- Vocals, bass guitar
Laurence Wood- Guitar
Josef Portar- Drums
Artwork- "Dr Inadequate Phuck"
"Can't Cheat Karma" (EP, 1980, Crass Records)
The Curse of Zounds (LP, 1981, Rough Trade Records)
"Demystification/ Great White Hunter" (Single, 1982, Rough Trade Records)
"Dancing" (Single, 1982, Rough Trade Records)
"Le Vache Qui Rit" (EP, 1982, Not So Brave Records)
"More Trouble Coming Every Day/ Knife" (Single, 1983, Rough Trade Records)
The Curse of Zounds (CD reissue, including all other tracks previously released as singles or EPs by the band, 1993, Gap Recordings\\ Rugger Bugger Records)
"This Land" (CD remix single, a benefit for the McLibel Support Campaign, 2001, Active Distribution)
See also; anarcho-punk
Zounds official website


Fig. 1 NASA concept of ancient Mars.
After searching Mars for years, a submerged lake has been found near Mars' south pole. This is not surprising, because more than five million cubic kilometers of ice have been identified at or near the surface of modern Mars, enough to cover the whole planet to a depth of 35 meters (115 ft). The suspected lake is only 12-km in diameter and thought to be liquid because it is salty and not in contact with the atmosphere. A NASA sanctioned scientist writes "Perhaps about 4.3 billion years ago, Mars would have had enough water to cover its entire surface in a liquid layer about 450 feet (137 meters) deep. More likely, the water would have formed an ocean occupying almost half of Mars' northern hemisphere, in some regions reaching depths greater than a mile (1.6 kilometers)." The current 'scientific' view is that everything happened billions of years ago, but this view is not consistent with the data.
Fig. 2. The outlow channel and the crater named Orson Well at the equator had their water drawn toward the north pole.
A number of larger submerged lakes on Mars gave up their water to the Earth between 3687 and 687 BC, during the time covered in the Bible from Genesis to Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. This added approximately 150 m to the oceans of the world (17 million km3), evidenced by the submerging of the continental shelves today and many ancient harbor facilities. Mars was known as Ba'al in the countries surrounding Israel, but although Jehovah forbid its worship, the name shows up 300 times in the Bible. These features are not 3 billion years old. Anyone with a brain can see that in light of the global dust storms on Mars observed in the last twenty years.
During this period Mars was in a geostationary orbit only 35,000-km above Mt. Kailash in Tibet, appearing as a globe with a diameter of 30 degrees – ten fingers held at arms length as told in the RigVeda. As a result, this single mountain, the focus of the Himalayan mass anomaly, was called "Indra's Home on Earth" and is sacred in four different Eastern religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön and Jainism. THERE IS A REASON FOR THIS.
At the end of each visit of Mars to the Earth (there were one hundred) the solid core of Mars was forced out through another feature ,Valles Marinaris, THE CORE IS NOW THE PLANET MERCURY!. This feature was called 'the eye of Ra or Horus' by the Egyptians when it first appeared, but when it continued into space and zoomed around the Earth they called it Hathor.
iAfter each 14.4-year period orbiting the Earth, it zoomed around the Earth to the East in a slingshot maneuver and caught up to the outer shell drifting to the west – ninety-nine times! They had a hieroglyph for the eye of Ra. Compare the Hieroglyph with the feature and decide whether Mars was close to the Earth or not. One more image – a carving in stone of Mars from the reign of Akhenaten. The Tharsis Bulge is easily seen on it. Note that the globe of Mars was larger in proportion to during this Vedic Period, because the solid iron core was still present.
WAKE UP people. Don't accept these old ideas. There is a much more exciting universe out there.
~ by Angiras on July 29, 2018.


HOUSTON, June 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) today announced that Al Walker, Anadarko Chairman, President and CEO, will present at the J.P. Morgan 2018 Energy Conference on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at 8 a.m. EDT in New York City, New York.
The link to the audio webcast presentation will be available in the Investor section at www.anadarko.com. The replay and slide presentation also will be available on the company's website for approximately 30 days following the event.


Newts of the genus Triturus (marbled and crested newts) exhibit substantial variation in the number of trunk vertebrae (NTV) and a higher NTV corresponds to a longer annual aquatic period. Because the Triturus phylogeny has thwarted resolution to date, the evolutionary history of NTV, annual aquatic period, and their potential coevolution has remained unclear. To resolve the phylogeny of Triturus, we generated a c. 6,000 transcriptome-derived marker data set using a custom target enrichment probe set, and conducted phylogenetic analyses using: 1) data concatenation with RAxML, 2) gene-tree summary with ASTRAL, and 3) species-tree estimation with SNAPP. All analyses produce the same, highly supported topology, despite cladogenesis having occurred over a short timeframe, resulting in short internal branch lengths. Our new phylogenetic hypothesis is consistent with the minimal number of inferred changes in NTV count necessary to explain the diversity in NTV observed today. Although a causal relationship between NTV, body form, and aquatic ecology has yet to be experimentally established, our phylogeny indicates that these features have evolved together, and suggest that they may underlie the adaptive radiation that characterizes Triturus.


These cakes from Bubba Rose Biscuit Co. are our newest obsession! They are densely chewy in texture (not crunchy) and made with organic ingredients. They are a peanut butter apple cake and can be cut for smaller dogs.
Cake Size: 3" x 2.25"
Box Size: 4" x 4" x 2.5"
Ingredients: organic oat flour, applesauce, organic molasses, honey, peanut butter, peanut oil, baking soda, vanilla extract, ginger and cinnamon. Topped with yogurt coating, vegetable coloring and carob.


Wine shipments increased 1.3 percent in the United States last year, continuing a more than 20-year expansion for the sector even as it undergoes tremendous changes in the way wine is distributed and sold.
Wineries around the country shipped $57 million worth of wine directly to Pennsylvania consumers last year, the first full year of large-scale, and legal, direct wine shipping in the state, according to a new report from Sovos and Wines & Vines.
Australia has filed a trade complaint that accuses Canada of placing "discriminatory" rules on the sales of imported wine.
The formal objection, lodged with the World Trade Organization (WTO), follows a similar complaint made by the US last year.
After state regulators, probably wine retailer complaints are aimed at distributors the most, especially when it comes to discount deals. For various reasons, some deals don't readily appear in distributor price sheets and those that do sometimes don't make it into the hands of all customers, like small restaurants and mom and pop retailers.


This year is set to be a busy year for HR and employment law. From post-Brexit immigration rule changes and gender pay gap reporting, to age discrimination at work, employers are faced with amended employment laws and new deadlines for their organisation to meet. These are ten important areas of the law that HR professionals and business owners need to be aware of.
• £8.21 per hour for workers aged over 25.
The minimum contributions for auto-enrolment pension schemes will increase for both employers and employees. Currently, employers must contribute a minimum of 2% of an eligible worker's gross salary to their pension pot and the worker must contribute 3% themselves. Under the new requirements, employers and employees will now have to contribute a minimum of 3% and 5%.
From 6 April 2019, the legal right to an itemised payslip was extended from employees to those recognised as being 'workers'. Best practice will be for employers to ensure all engaged by the business are given wage slips to avoid any issues. Employers will now also be required to include the total number of hours worked on payslips for those whose wages vary depending on how much time they have worked.
If your business comprises European workers living in the UK, they will be able to apply for settled status, allowing them to remain indefinitely in the UK following the end of the Brexit transition period in 2021.
To be granted settled status individuals must be able to prove they have been living in the UK for five years by the date of application. Those who do not meet this requirement can apply for temporary status, allowing them to remain until they have accrued enough residency to be granted settled status.
Do ensure that you are providing enough information to your workforce about this so they can research their own position or seek support from you as their employer.
Private organisations with 250 or more employees were again required to publish their gender pay gap figures on the 4 April. You will recall that employers have already published their figures but this time around, there was scrutiny against 2018 figures to see whether businesses have actively taken steps to address and reduce any significant pay disparity.
The reports must be published on the business' website as well as on the www.gov.uk site, accompanied by a written statement confirming their accuracy and signed by a senior person as prescribed by the regulations.


I recently started using an OpenPGP smartcard for my PGP keys. If you don't know what one of these is, it's a credit card sized card which you store your PGP keys on. It is very different from storing them on a USB drive. You can write your PGP keys onto the card, but they can not be read back off. When you want to sign or decrypt some data, GnuPG sends the data to the card, which performs the crypto operations on board, and sends the results back. The main reason this is good, is because an attacker who compromises your laptop and installs a trojan and a keylogger, still can't get access to your keys.
One of the problems with this setup is that observation attacks like shoulder surfing or keylogging suddenly become much easier. Previously my keys were stored, password protected, in a keyring on my hard drive. If you observed me entering my password, you'd still need to compromise my laptop in order to access the keyring. When I'm not using my laptop, it is either locked or turned off, and my keyring is protected by full disk encryption. So unless you manage to steal it whilst I'm using it and logged in, it's no use to you. However, my smartcard is never "off". If you watch me enter my passphrase when using my smartcard, all you need to do is steal my smartcard in order to get access to my keys. You can just mug me or pick pocket me as I'm walking down the street.
To get around this problem, I've implemented a solution that adds a second layer of password protection. Now, when you observe me entering my password, what you're actually observing is my password which decrypts the smartcards password from my laptops disk. I implemented this at the pinentry layer, so it is completely transparent. Pinentry is a program that gpg-agent calls when it wants to prompt the user for the password. I wrote a custom pinentry application which wraps around your normal system pinentry application, and intercepts the password response, using it to decrypt the real password, before passing that back to gpg-agent. I use gpg's "–symmetric" option for this.
So now, to compromise my PGP keys, you need to observe me entering a password, then compromise my laptop to get the "real" smartcard password, and steal the smartcard too.


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EDITOR'S LETTER: Serving a need
Paul Doocey
KEYWORDS casino technology
Server-based gaming may be the key to more precise casino marketing, if operators ever truly embrace the technology.
You can learn quite a lot talking to an enlightened chief marketing officer of a major gaming company.
This month, I had the privilege to interview Staci Columbo Alonso, the chief marketing offi cer of International Game Technology (IGT), who is slated to receive the Casino Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Casino Marketing Conference, which will take place July 24-26 at Paris Las Vegas.(For more details on this event, visit www.casinomarketingconf.com.) She has gleaned a lifetime of marketing knowledge from her experiences in the consumer, operator and supplier sides of the gaming business.(See story on page 26.)
Her latest challenge as CMO of IGT is nothing less than the survival of traditional casino gaming. "Patti Hart (CEO of IGT) and I have had long conversations on how the gaming industry has changed; how more revenue is now derived from non gaming than gaming; how younger people seem disinterested in the casino experience; what is was going to take for brick-and-mortar casinos to prepare for and derive business from future generations," Alonso said.
By Alonso's way of thinking, the crux of the problem is consumer demand, and how to create wagering experiences that can appeal to socially-active yet constantly distracted 20- to 30-year-olds, tech savvy 30- and 40-somethings seeking a different wagering experience from their parents, and the 50-year-old plus generation that continues to generate most casino income, especially when it comes to slot play.
"Think about how much noise we have in our world today…it is so hard to break through," Alonso said. "A key part of our marketing strategy is to break through the clutter and give stickiness to our games. That involves building the right games and introducing that game to both the casino operator and players in ways that will drive people to play on the slot floor."
It seems to me an answer already exists to part of this problem. Indeed, isn't one of the primary attributes of server-based gaming technology, which, hard to believe, has been around for more than a decade, that you can easily and quickly switch games on the fly? On paper, such a system also allows you to target market to various areas of your slot floor. So it's possible for a gaming property to flood a specific area-say next to a nightclub popular among younger clientele-with slots and play dynamics specifically designed to appeal to their social media ways and wandering eyes. Similar "zones of interest" can be created for various age and ethnic groups elsewhere throughout the gaming property in areas they tend to congregate.
But, surprisingly, server-based gaming acceptance has stalled of late. A study of 150Casino Journalreaders recently conducted by BNP Media's Market Research Division found 31 percent of respondents said they had fully-networked slot machines with a centralized server that controls all gaming operations. However the largest group of those asked, some 35 percent, replied they still rely on traditional, non-networked slot machines. When asked why they have not yet adopted full server-based gaming, those with partial or non-network slot floors listed cost/budget limitations, uncertainty on ROI and technological issues (wiring/incompatible slots) as the primary barriers.
It's hard to envision slots competing with the immersive experiences found in computer gaming and other social entertainment options if server-based gaming doesn't eventually find more purchase in land-based casino properties. And as older players die off and younger clientele drift toward amusements more suited to their collective zeitgeist, marketing the casino palaces of yore may prove to be a marketing challenge even the Alonso's of the world can't match.
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Paul Doocey was appointed editor of Casino Journal, a BNP Media publication, in 2011. He had previously served as editor of the publication from 2003 to 2006. Paul also served as editorial director of the Gaming Group for Ascend Media and editor of International Gaming & Wagering Business magazine from 2006 to 2008. He had previously worked for IGWB from 1992 to 2000, the last three years as editor of the publication. From 2000 to 2003, Paul was editor-in-chief of Bank Systems & Technology magazine, a CMP publication. He also served various editorial positions at International Council of Shopping Centers and Fairchild Publications. Paul has also had freelance articles appear in Billboard, Unique Homes, Hotel Business and other magazines. Paul is a graduate of Fordham University.
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