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Robert Pattinson was nearing the end of shooting the last �Twilight� film, concluding a chapter of his life that had picked him out of near obscurity and was preparing to spit him out ... where exactly? �Twilight� had made him extravagantly famous, but his next steps were entirely uncertain.
�Out of the blue,� he says, came the script for �Cosmopolis� from David Cronenberg, the revered Canadian director of psychological thrillers (�Videodrome,� �Eastern Promises�) that often pursue the spirit through the body. Pattinson, having never met or spoken to Cronenberg, did a little research: He looked him up on Rotten Tomatoes �and it was like 98 percent approval,� he says.
�It was like: OK, that�s my next job,� says Pattinson.
Pattinson now has the unenviable task of releasing his most ambitious movie, his most adult role, into a media storm that instinct would suggest should be run from like a pack of werewolves. Promoting �Cosmopolis� puts Pattinson in front of cameras and microphones for the first time since his �Twilight� co-star and girlfriend Kristen Stewart last month publicly apologized for having a tryst with director Rupert Sanders.
The awkward circumstance, he says, is �dissociated� from the film, and he�s thus far declined to use the attention to make any kind of public response to the scandal. Rather, he�s sought to deflect it to �Cosmopolis,� a film that, in an earlier interview before it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, he said �changed the way I see myself.�
If Pattinson is understandably guarded about his private life, he�s refreshingly openhearted and humble about his anxieties as a young actor. At 26, Pattinson may be one of the most famous faces on the planet, but he�s still getting his bearings as an actor � a profession, he says, he never pined for, fell into by chance and has always found uncomfortable. His unlikely trajectory began with �Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire� and �Little Ashes,� in which he played Salvador Dali.
�Then I got �Twilight� and it suddenly became a massively different world to navigate,� Pattinson said in a recent interview in New York. �Most people who get their big hit have figured out what their skills are, and I hadn�t, really.�
�Cosmopolis� is a radically different kind of film that will surely confuse not only the hordes of diehard �Twilight� fans who will line up on Friday to see it, but art house moviegoers, too. Pattinson himself has watched it four times to try to get his head around it.
The first movie adaptation of a Don DeLillo novel, �Cosmopolis� is about a sleek financier, Eric Parker (Pattinson), slowly making his way in the airless sanctuary of his white stretch limo across a traffic-jammed Manhattan with the simple goal of a haircut. But the journey, which includes visits with his new wife (Sarah Gadon), a prostitute (Juliette Binoche) and Occupy-like protesters (Mathieu Amalric), is a kind of willful unraveling for Parker, who dispassionately watches his fortune slide away on a bad bet on the Chinese yuan.
�He�s an egomaniac who wants to see some kind of spirituality in his egomania,� says Pattinson. �It�s kind of like how actors feel about themselves.�
Pattinson is in every scene of the film, which relies on his callow, hyper-literate performance to carry the movie through its limited setting and DeLillo�s heightened dialogue � much of which Cronenberg transcribed verbatim from the novel. Though some reviews have found the film static and impenetrable (perhaps intended responses), most critics have praised Pattinson�s performance, with many citing it as proof that the heartthrob can indeed act.
The stylized language and atypical nature of the film made it a risky and intimidating choice for Pattinson.
�I couldn�t hear the voice of the character at all. There was nothing,� he says. �It was scary to say yes to something which you didn�t know what it was. I knew it was interesting, I knew there was something special but I had no idea how to do it or what I could add to it. But when you start saying no to Cronenberg because you don�t think it�s good enough, it�s a stupid decision to make.�
It�s clear that his �Twilight�-fueled celebrity weighs heavily on Pattinson, who says he knows people watch his films �through a cultural context.�
�Rob, he�s popular,� says Cronenberg with deadpan understatement.
�I couldn�t have cast Rob without �Twilight� just as I couldn�t have cast Viggo (Mortensen) without �Lord of the Rings,� � says the director whose previous three films � �A History of Violence,� �Eastern Promises,� �A Dangerous Method� � starred Mortensen. �The fact that somebody who has clout is willing to do a movie that�s difficult is a gift to a director because you�re not only getting the right guy as an actor, but you�re getting financing interest and you get to make the movie. This is not an easy movie to get made.�
Pattinson seems energized by the freedom of choice in front of him following the final �Twilight� installment, which will be released in November. He�s lined up parts in gritty films far from blockbuster size: �Mission: Black List,� a military thriller, and �The Rover� by Australian director David Michod (�Animal Kingdom�), a role he says he fought for more than any before.
Embarking on �Cosmopolis� appears to have been a process of letting go for Pattinson � of self-awareness, of worry, of fear. Asked if he now feels certain he�s an actor, he quickly replies, �No.�
�As soon as you start existing in a certain world, you feel like you have tremendous amount of baggage all the time,� he says. �You get stuck in this rut where you want people to think you�re something else, but you�re too scared to do what that is to actually be the other person.
�Then you get a gift like this movie where it�s way easier than I thought it was,� he says. �You just do it. It doesn�t really matter if you fail.�


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Central Wyoming College helps students and staff work together on and off campus
At Central Wyoming College, students and staff had to be on campus to access email and documents — a challenge for a rural region where people commute long distances. To create a collaborative culture no matter where students and staff were working, CWC is using cloud-based tools from G Suite for Education.
For small educational institutions like Central Wyoming College (CWC), enhancing the student experience is a critical part of maintaining enrollment. Today's students want and need access to flexible tools for working with their classmates, as well as communicating with teachers. "We have to provide as many services as a larger college, like applications that work on mobile devices," says John Wood, CIO of Central Wyoming College. "But costs have to remain fixed. We can't double the size of the IT department or double our budget, so a cloud-based model seemed like the right fit."
Cloud-based tools could also respond to the unique challenges faced by a community college in a rural area, with students, faculty and staff traveling long distances to get to school. The school's 2,000 students are spread across four campuses as well as remote wilderness sites for its Outdoor Education program. "It's extremely hard for our students to get together in person," Wood says.
At the same time, students are being encouraged to work on teams. "Collaboration among students is much more common than it was several years ago," Wood says. Professors assign projects to groups of students, not single students. Collaboration has become the norm on the staff side as well, Wood adds: "I can't think of the last time I worked on a project by myself.
"With Gmail, we provision new accounts – and that's about it. We let Google take care of sorting out the spam."John Wood, CIO, Central Wyoming College
Off-campus access to email and documents — without "sneakernet"
CWC's existing email and file storage systems did not offer flexibility for students and staff in terms of where and how they worked. They had to be on campus to access email and stored documents. People who needed to transport files from school to home used "sneakernet" strategies, like USB drives or external hard drives. Besides posing security issues, such as exposing networks to viruses, the process could create multiple versions of key documents.
Wood believed cloud and cost-effectiveness were the two key ingredients for updated email, storage, and productivity tools that could be accessed anywhere. Email was tackled first, and Gmail replaced CWC's on-campus email system. Besides the fact that G Suite for Education tools are free to schools, Wood found his IT department also saved money and time.
"The on-premise email required more staff and more servers to manage," Wood says. "With Gmail, we provision new accounts – and that's about it. We let Google take care of sorting out the spam, which used to be a never-ending problem for IT." For a small IT department, Wood says, being able to cross such tasks off their list "is a godsend."
Putting a collaborative spin on budget planning
As students and staff began using other G Suite tools, like Google Sheets and Google Meet, they discovered new ways to team up even if they weren't in the same classroom, library, or conference room. Professors and staff can choose to work remotely as needed, and cut down on long commutes to CWC campuses. "Their collaboration can now take place in other ways," Wood says. "Meet are becoming popular, since students can use them to meet face to face when they're not on campus."
With G Suite, students have every tool they need to create academic papers or share research with classmates. "They don't need to worry about buying a student version of Microsoft Office," Wood says. "That's a home run for us and them. I don't have to worry about people installing outside software, or installing it incorrectly."
Even budget spreadsheets are getting a collaborative spin. Administrators used to email spreadsheets back and forth to solicit updates and approvals, increasing the introduction of errors – or people making changes who weren't authorized to update the budgets. Today, Woods and other department leaders can create a single spreadsheet in Google Sheets, and add user permissions cell by cell.
"That's been a powerful tool – much better than shuffling paper or emails back and forth," Wood says. "People can't simply override data in cells if they don't have permission."
With students and staff "owning" permissions, they can take control of who gets to share their work. "You used to have to rely on IT admins to share documents and folders," Wood says. "Now the users can decide."
Free, cloud-based tools are helping CWC provide a better learning experience for students, without adding costs. "Even simple tools help us drive down costs and save time," Wood says. "For example, something like travel requisitions – we used to run paper forms back and forth, but now we can create a shared Google form for everyone to review."
As collaboration becomes a must-have in teaching and the work world, Wood sees long-term benefits for students who are embracing G Suite before they start their careers. "The comments and suggestions students share are helping them work better together," Wood says. "And just as important, they're building the soft skills they'll need to collaborate in the workplace."
"As students share comments and suggestions, they're building the skills they'll need to collaborate in the workplace."John Wood, CIO, Central Wyoming College

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On September 28, 1960, John Updike went to Fenway Park "with the open heart of a fan" for what was likely Ted Williams's last game on the field he had called home for 21 years.
Updike spent the next five days writing his thoughts on Williams and that afternoon's game -- and his essay was published under the title "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" in the October 20, 1960, issue of The New Yorker.
It is one of the finest essays ever written on the national game. Its first sentence is the source of the oft-quoted description of Fenway Park as a "lyric little bandbox".
Before his death in January 2009, Updike worked with The Library of America on a special edition of the essay for the 50th anniversary of the game. The 64-page hardcover edition is now available ($15 US). (The LoA sent me a paperback copy of the uncorrected proofs.) In addition to the essay, Updike wrote a short introduction. His eight-page afterward draws on other TSW essays he wrote in 1986 and 2002.
It is a modest package -- any consideration about buying it will likely depend on whether you feel it's worth the sticker price (in that respect it's a lot like David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water") -- yet there is no denying the sheer beauty of the writing.
The afternoon grew so glowering that in the sixth inning the arc lights were turned on - always a wan sight in the daytime, like the burning headlights of a funeral procession. Aided by the gloom, Fisher was slicing through the Sox rookies, and Williams did not come to bat in the seventh. He was second up in the eighth. This was almost certainly his last time to come to the plate in Fenway Park, and instead of merely cheering, as we had at his three previous appearances, we stood, all of us, and applauded. I had never before heard pure applause in a ballpark. No calling, no whistling, just an ocean of handclaps, minute after minute, burst after burst, crowding and running together in continuous succession like the pushes of surf at the edge of the sand. It was a somber and considered tumult. There was not a boo in it. It seemed to renew itself out of a shifting set of memories as the Kid, the Marine, the veteran of feuds and failures and injuries, the friend of children, and the enduring old pro evolved down the bright tunnel of twenty-two summers toward this moment. At last, the umpire signaled for Fisher to pitch; with the other players, he had been frozen in position. Only Williams had moved during the ovation, switching his bat impatiently, ignoring everything except his cherished task. Fisher wound up, and the applause sank into a hush.


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Address: The Skyhouse, Cuilfail, Lewes
Owner: Amy Burgess
Type: New build - Off site prefabrication
Ground floor 3 bed Bed and Breakfast, First floor 2 bed appartment
Age: 1 year
Walls: Timber frame
Airtight construction
Biomass (pellet) boiler
LED lighting throughout
Low energy appliances
Natural materials
Recycled wood shavings wall insulation
Solar PV
Timber construction
Triple glazing
Zero Carbon/Carbon neutral
Amy Burgess came to Lewes 5 years ago, drawn by the beautiful setting within the downs and looking for a project to express her deep committment to sustainable, natural living. The position of Skyhouse at the top of Cuilfail seemed ideal, with its tranquility and stupendous views.
In her native Colorado, Amy was an early adopter of retrofit renovation and she carried these ideas, plus a passion for using natural, healthy materials into the Skyhouse project. In the process, it has become clear that sustainability goes beyond energy and has influenced her policies for sustainably sourced materials and food, as well as rainwater harvesting.
Having demolished an unsightly and poorly designed bungalow, she has created a comfortable and stylish B and B, with her own living quarters on the floor above.
Baufritz was chosen for their high quality of build which was prefabricated in Germany and quickly assembled on site; in this case in four and a half days. Baufritz were also chosen for their philosophy of low embodied energy construction, based mainly on timber, with minimal in life emissions via airtightness and superinsulation.
Coupled with a low carbon wood pellet heating system, and recycled solar panels to offset electricity use, the end result is a great showcase for Zero Carbon living.
From the outset, the aim has been try and achieve a zero carbon building, which has impacted on the choice of technologies. Although heat pumps would have been attractive, the current high carbon content of electricity meant that Biomass was the lowest carbon option.
A Greener Alternative have installed a highly efficient 15 kW Windhager pellet fired boiler which supplies heat via underfloor heating as well as hot water. Annual consumption is around 25,000 kWh, which is very modest for the accommodation. Although more costly than a conventional boiler, this boiler receives high RHI subsidies, which greatly discount the cost.
Two MVHR units, one for each level, ensure that outgoing air gives up its heat to the incoming, thereby increasing efficiency.
Baufritz fills timber framed walls with 240mm of recycled woodshavings which achieve a far higher level of insulation than current building regulations. U value 0.19 W/m2/K.
Triple glazed units are standard, as double glazing is not considered sufficient in Gremany. Again, the u value far exceeds UK standards at 0.79W/m2/K overall (centre pane 0.5).
Insulation is carried through the roof, which is finished in zinc.
Floors are concrete with an overlying acreed containing underfloor heating. This concrete gives thermal mass to what would otherwise be a lightweight timber structure and helps stabilise temperatures.
Airtightness is extremely high, measured at a little over 1 m3/hr at 50Pa, compared to uk building regulations of a minimum figure of 10.
The pellet boiler burns fuel with very low carbon emissions, as the fuel is produced from renewable woodland.
The original house on the site had a very large solar array of 8kWp output. This was preserved and relocated at the front of the site, cleverly landscaped out of sight on the ground, where it continues to generate 8000kWh per annum.
Low energy lighting – All lighting in the house is from LEDs and as a result consumption is very low.
Appliances - As far as possible, allpiances with the lowest energy use have been chosen.
Energy Use: Electricity 5600 kWh pa, PV 8000 kWh pa., pellet 25,000 kWh pa.
Carbon emissions are effectively neutral as electrcicity consumed is more than balanced by Solar generation and the pellet boiler emissions are very low.
As a company, Baufritz are committed to use of natural materials with as low embodied carbon as possible: hence the timber construction and insulation.
"Cradle to Cradle" recyclability - However, they go beyond that to aim for ultimate recyclability, i.e. they build insuch a way that materials can eventually be recycled or reused at the end of the building's life.
Amy has a passion for a healthy living environment, which drove her to choose the the most sustainable and natural construction materials and methods, fight down to the choice of finishes and paints made from natural sources, with minimal toxicity.
Architectural design and Construction - Baufritz
Boimass consultancy - Stewart Boyle, SEWF.
Solar PV – Old array, inherited on purchase
Pellet boiler - Windhager boiler installed by A Greener Alternative.


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By Emmanuel Legrand
Poly Styrene was more a screamer than a singer, and as such she embodied the ethos of the punk scene – if you have something to say, flaunt it, and even if you cannot sing or play music, just do it!
For many teenagers (including yours truly) living around that time, the end of the 70s were a musical desert. Bands topping the charts in the US – think Boston, Kansas, ELO and a few others – were a bore, the old guard (Led Zep, Who, Stones, Floyd) was physically tired and creatively drying out, and disco was turning R&B into a formulaic soulless dance thing.
Thankfully, bands like the Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Clash, The Jam and X-Ray Spex in the UK and Television, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Ramones, Patti Smith Group on the other side of the pond blasted onto the music scene, most of them with moderate levels of success. But they were a breath of fresh air and reignited faith in music as a means to change things (or at least as a way to express views on the state of the things, which, in the case of punk music, was more about expressing anger at the world), something that was lost somewhere between the end of the 60s and the late 70s.
In a matter of just a few years, from 76 to 79, with just five singles and an album to their credit, Poly Styrene and her band X-Ray Spex, made a mark before fading. But what a mark! Even by today's standards, tracks like 'Oh Bondage Up Yours!', 'I Am A Cliché' and 'Germ Free Adolescents' are killers. Poly Styrene remains an under-rated songwriter (all 12 songs on their debut album were written by her).
Her lyrics are as relevant today as they were then. The opening lines of 'Oh Bondage…' ('Some people say little girls should be seen and not heard') echoe those of Patti Smith's in 'Gloria' ('Jesus died for somebody's sins / But not mine'). And she knew how to put together choruses that could catch your imagination.
Poly Styrene would have never made it on the X-Factor – too outré, too outspoken, too un-musical, too innocent, too punk. But she made it more difficult to listen to, say, Linda Ronstadt, after you had been exposed to her liberating screaming. And we should be thankful to her if it were just for that. R.I.P.


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The climate conditions where you live will determine whether you need a Heat Recovery Ventilator or an Energy Recovery Ventilator. HRV's are usually recommended for colder climates with longer heating seasons. ERV's are used for warmer, more humid climates with long cooling seasons. Please see our helpful reference map to assist in selecting the right unit for you.
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On opening night, George Clooney, doing what a Hollywood star is supposed to, paused on the red carpet to flash his smile at the shouting fans across the barricade and scrawl his signature into dozens of autograph books. It is an rite of noblesse oblige that Clooney, who has a home on Lake Como, performed last year when he attended the Venice Film Festival to promote Michael Clayton. This time he's here in aid of the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading. Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand tagged along. At a press conference studded with inane questions about the stars' private lives, Pitt and Clooney were asked if they'd rather win an Oscar or spend a night in Venice with a beautiful woman. A baffled silence hung over the actors, until McDormand piped up, "I'd take the woman."
The Adriatic has been blessed with seven straight days of Adriatic sunshine, after a rainy session last year, but the star wattage of the Biennale 2008 is considerably dimmer. It could hardly compete with 2007, when The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Cassandra's Dream, I'm Not There, In the Valley of Elah, Redacted, Sleuth and the eventual Golden Lion winner, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution brought their famous directors and leading actors to the Lido. The slate of 21 films competing for the top prize includes no American movie from a major studio. So this is a festival of discovery, of panhandling for the breakthrough picture, or just for the purveyor of offbeat pleasures. After six of the festival's 11 days and apart from Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, which shows Japanese animation genius Hayao Miyazaki in top form the pickings have been slim. The search for masterpieces continues.
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Cat Pancreatic Cancer
Veterinarian Reviewed on April 1, 2014 by Dr. Janice Huntingford
Cat Pancreatic Cancer
The pancreas is a gland that assists both the exocrine and endocrine systems of a cat's body. As part of the exocrine system it aids in digestion. It produces several hormones as part of the endocrine system. Generally the cancers of the pancreas are epithelial and unfortunately have metastasized before they are diagnosed.
These cancers are very rare in dogs.
Signs and Symptoms
As with other rare Cat Cancers, the symptoms are vague. Some include Cat Loss of Appetite which creates a significant Cat Loss of Weight, Cat Vomiting and distension of the abdomen due to the presence of the tumor. Cats can also experience hair loss as well.
Most traditional lab tests are inconclusive with pancreatic cancer. The pancreas is also very difficult to feel on physical examination. Ultrasound can be useful and will also indicate if the cancer has metastasized to the liver or other abdominal organs. Other examinations such as CT scans or an MRI have not been proven successful or beneficial in the evaluation of pancreatic cancer in pets at this point. As the availability becomes greater, they may prove to be an asset.
Pain treatment
It is very important that cats receive medication to help with the pain of not only the disease, but also the diagnostic workups that may occur.
Due to the lack of appetite, it is best to feed your cat highly nutritious foods that are specifically designed for cats with cancer.
Treatment options
The cells of pancreatic cancer spread to the lymph nodes and to the liver quickly. If this has happened, surgery will not be performed in most cases. Pancreatic surgery is very dangerous and incidence of death due to the surgery is high. Radiation therapy and chemotherapy have very limited results in pets or in humans.
Due to the quick metastasis to the lymph nodes and liver, the prognosis for cats with pancreatic cancer is very poor. Generally the symptoms are not severe enough to be noticed until the disease has entered the lymph nodes and the liver. In spite of treatment, the cat has minimal chance of survival and will have a great deal of discomfort. They will become very debilitated due to poor nutrition. This will usually occur in spite of the potential for heroic attempts to save them.
At the present time there are no clinical trials for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. It is a rare form of cancer and most of the clinical trials are done on cancers that are more prevalent in the animal kingdom. It is important to keep your cat as comfortable as possible and have a close relationship with your veterinarian.
Be aware of changes in your cat's attitude, eating habits and elimination. How has your cat responded to pain in the past? Is your cat sleeping more? Has his or her elimination changed to any degree?
All of these things are symptoms that you should be aware of. Although early treatment is not possible due to the rapid metastasis and consequently the diagnosis, you will still want to keep your cat as comfortable as possible.
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How about this for a reading? Lycius's dream/fantasy in which he loves Lamia is a delusion destroyed by the power of fact and logic which the Romantics found so limiting. You could argue that Keats's sympathies are with Lycius and that nasty old Apollonius is just the wrecker of beauty and the sense world and thus an enemy.
On the other hand you can see Apollonius as a friend of beauty and truth. Lamia may be beautiful, but she isn't true. She is a snake!
The immortal products of the imagination will stand the Apollonius test. Lamia won't. She is nothing but a self indulgent dream, and there is evidence in the poem that she will not withstand the trial of reality - I am thinking of the bit where Lycius hears the sound of horns from outside the window and thinks for a moment. Lamia cannot stand this.
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here.) On reading my post this morning about February's comics sales, Russ wrote in with the following:
"After reading your post, I did some quick ballpark math to give myself a better strategic picture of the true health of today's comic book industry vs. the comic book industry of, say, 1959 — and I found the results very interesting.
"According to your figures, in 1959, comics were selling about 26 million copies per month, or about 312 million copies per year. For the sake of argument, let's use 10 cents a copy as the mean retail cover price (yes, there were some 15- and 25-centers on the stands back then, but we're just trying to get a quick-and-dirty snapshot). That comes to a grand total of about $31 million in 1959 annual sales for the industry. Trade sales, film and television income, and other licensing income was negligible for almost all comics companies in 1959, and profits from video games did not exist.
"So that $31 million, plugged into the Department of Labor's inflation calculator, is equivalent to about $236 million in today's dollars.
"Last year, according to your figures, total annual sales for comics in the direct market were about $260 million, and for trades about $160 million. That's $420 million in total retail revenue for the industry -- more than what it was in 1959 -- plus what comes from the bookstore trade. And we haven't even begun factoring today's substantial television, film, and video game revenue which can often blow comic book revenue out of the water."Call me overly optimistic, but it sure looks to me like the overall financial health of the industry looks positively exceptional compared to the "good ol' days" of 1959."
Russ's comparisons are thought-provoking. I haven't had time to dig too deeply into the Bookscan figures for 2010, but from what I saw in Brian Hibbs' report, it's reasonable to expect that perhaps another $200 million is out there beyond the Direct Market, when bookstore sales and newsstand comics are included. So we're looking at a 2010 figure in the low $600 millions, exclusive of licensing.
Now, the first question out of the gate is whether the 1959 figure is correct. (We'd probably agree that 1959's sales probably were nowhere near as good as those around 1950, but let's take what we have to compare.) As I wrote at the time, those figures were based on self-reported monthly circulations from the major publishers to the N.W. Ayer & Sons Directory — an annual publication that for more than a century under various names included information on periodicals for the use of advertisers.
As I wrote then, the 26 million-copy-a-month figure was a minimum that included everything from Dell, DC (National), Marvel, Charlton, Harvey, ACG, and Archie — left out were Fawcett and some smaller publishers. But even if we cranked that $236 million inflation-adjusted figure up to $300 million, that's still less than half the 2010 total with trades included — and pretty close to equal to the dollar value of periodicals moved in the direct market and on the newsstand. To restate: dollar sales for comic books in 2010 were similar to the inflation-adjusted dollar sales for comics in 1959 — and that doesn't count trades!
The problem with this sort of comparison is the caveats; you could fill a truck with them. The obvious one is that we don't just want dollars, we want eyeballs. The Direct Market ordered between 70 and 80 million comic books in 2010; throw in all the trades and we're looking at a bit over 100 million items. A bunch less than the 300-400 million in 1959, to be sure — and we can see that when it comes to the very long haul, comics have increased in price faster than inflation, which would expect a 10¢ comic book in 1959 to cost 72¢ today. But even that comparison is misleading, because the two products, while near in shape and size, are different in many respects. That 1959 comic book may well have had 48 pages, making it an even better deal — but on the other hand, the 2010 one is on better paper, with better color and printing. And there are other things built into the 2010 price, not the least of which is better compensation for creators relative to 1959. We're looking at the overall dollar value of the merchandise here, not profit; there are many more players to pay, now.
The numbers show it, but I think it's beyond doubt that the modern comic book is simply more valued as a good today than comics were back then. Comic books were, as Paul Levitz has said, considered loss leaders by retailers in the old days; and while today's fans would regard the comics of that time as actually under-priced (no cover-price increase for inflation for most of the 1960s!), it would have been hard to get buyers to go beyond that going rate — as Dell found when it tried to boost prices and had to retreat. Today, the package is regarded differently enough that when there have been price increases outpacing inflation, some portion of the readership does still follow. It's the difference between a specialty market and a mass market.
It's the old dilemma in the field. Broad sections of the legions of customers we had in the 1950s were only casually interested in comics, and abandoned them — but those who remained eventually gave rise to the smaller core of devoted readers willing to pay more for better-creator-compensated, better-printed, better-delivered comics. That devoted base, Russ's numbers suggest, has made for a more financially successful industry today — but we all still have that nagging feeling that, to make it into the next generation, we need the masses again. It's not clear that's even desirable — the comics of the largest boom in recent memory, the early 1990s, are not on balance regarded as fondly as those from some other periods — and when those boom readers left, disaster ensued. But on the other hand, it does strike me that in the 2010s, the market would be much better able to absorb that kind of added interest from outside. There remain a lot of regions that could easily absorb new comics shops — and the barriers to entry for new publishers and retailers are just high enough that both a glut of new shops and of new titles might be avoided, especially with the internet as an alternative distribution system. It would certainly be interesting to find out!


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- Surveillance Isn't The Solution To America's College Woes - May 29, 2015
- The Civil Disobedience Charles Murray Wants Has Already Arrived - May 26, 2015
- Ted Cruz Gets Common Core Way Better Than ThinkProgress Does - March 27, 2015
A fierce battle over a Nov. 5 election resulted in suburban Colorado voters confirming they want market-based education in their school district.
Douglas County, a wealthy suburb near Denver, has perhaps the most innovative school district in the country. Its School Board has, since 2011, voluntarily chosen policies most districts regard with horror: the country's first district-run vouchers (now tied up in court); a market-based pay scale for teachers; dropping their teachers union contract; rejecting national education standards and tests for locally decided, higher goals; and sponsoring materials and activities for home-school families.
This year, the ousted local union decided to attempt a comeback.
It sponsored a slate of four candidates seeking a majority on the seven-member board to reverse the district's pioneering efforts. The race caught national attention and campaign donations, including from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. The union candidates lost.
Conventional wisdom says suburban voters don't feel a need for education reform, believing the local schools they pay higher housing costs and a property tax premium for are high-quality, despite the evidence showing otherwise.
To be sure, with high turnout, nearly half of Douglas County voters voted against the pro-market candidates, so clearly not everyone in the district likes the new policies. But typically effective union political organizing still failed against a board willing to risk innovating beyond the status quo.
The election demonstrates that organizing by parents and local citizens can be as effective as unions' efforts. Douglas County's School Board flipped pro-reform in 2009 after a deliberate campaign by politically conservative parents under the name Parent-Led Reform.
The parents were sick of contract negotiations held behind closed doors, plans to build schools for nonexistent students under contracts granted to a sitting board member and repeated requests to raise taxes. This sort of behavior is routine for school districts. Rather than rail at national politics they had little chance of influencing, Douglas County residents decided to go local.
Their campaign strategy and favored policies now have a strong track record — three election wins in a row — and Parent-Led Reform is looking to show other grassroots groups how to replicate their success.
As many have acknowledged following President Barack Obama's election and re-election, conservatives don't play the political ground game as well as progressives.
A network of government-financed nonprofits, community organizations and political groups such as unions are powerful, high-touch forces against more atomized and politically broad counterparts like chambers of commerce and churches. The results of progressive politics are now so obviously rotten — see the Obamacare rollout and the nation's horrifying, child-enslaving fiscal condition — that some conservatives have turned to drastic, politically implausible national initiatives such as a constitutional convention.
It's easy to understand the desperation for a quick fix when big government ruins more and more lives every day. But it has taken our nation 250 years to get into this mess, and one election or attempt to amend the Constitution or a pander-fest to illegal immigration will not get us out.
Shifting our culture back toward individual liberty and personal responsibility will require at least an entire generation of sustained effort, on myriad fronts small and large. For one, America's statist education system cannot help but produce statists, and that has to change.
The Douglas County election results can and should sow similar efforts around the country to reclaim local institutions to protect freedom and demonstrate effective self-government. There's never been a more pressing time.
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The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Unit Accreditation Board recently granted accreditation to the Education Division of the University of Hawai'i – West O'ahu. NCATE is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that helps establish high quality teacher preparation. The NCATE accreditation process establishes rigorous standards for teacher education programs, ensures that schools demonstrate the quality of their programs, and holds institutions accountable for meeting these standards in order to receive professional accreditation.
"We are very excited about the good news from NCATE," said Dr. Mary F. Heller, professor and chair of the Education Division at UH West O'ahu. "We have emerged ever confident in our ability to prepare highly qualified teachers to serve Hawai'i's elementary school students."
"UH West O'ahu is committed to offering a quality educational experience for Hawai'i's future teachers," said UH West O'ahu Chancellor Gene I. Awakuni. "NCATE's recognition of our Education division is due to Dr. Mary Heller and her team's efforts to provide teacher education at the university that achieves the highest standards."
UH West O'ahu offers a Bachelor of Education degree with a concentration in elementary education, and prepares knowledgeable, skillful, responsive educators for a global society. Studies encompass an innovative, field-based teacher preparation program, as well as public service activities that support West O'ahu communities. Students participate in more than 200 hours of field-based coursework with the program culminating in a 15-week, full-time professional student teaching semester.
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Congratulations Tesla!!!
During the last earnings call, Elon mentioned that they need to build 8,000 cars to break even. From the numbers we collect in the forum, it seems likely that 8,000 cars have been finalized, but only around 2,000 have been built.
Anyway, Go Tesla! :-)
Congrats Elon and Tesla!!!
Volker, that is 8000 cars / year, after the process is be streamlined. That works to about 160 cars / week and we're definitely past that. But the ramp-up, a bit of rush and doing it for the first time surely induces inefficiencies. But even so, weekly production is now large enough so that they are cash flow positive :)
Congrats Tesla and Elon!
Congrats !
Way to go,
Mant congrats and keep up the good work!
Mant-> many
From a profit/earnings POV, income is recognized only on delivery and payment. So the 8,000 will start counting with the 1st delivery Jan. 1. Should lag production by about 2-3 weeks.
Congrats on a major milestone. Good job on all the hard work. Tell the folk on the factory floor and all the people prepping and delivering cars that the reservation holders appreciate their efforts and long hours the past few months. We are so excited to get our cars!
I'll be flowing cash Tesla's way this month. Glad to be of service and proud to be involved :) VIN1796/Silver Performance (loaded)
Brilliant milestone. Many investors look at GAAP earnings, but for a startup like Tesla, what matters is cash flow. GAAP earnings are only appropriate for a mature company. As long as this isn't a temporary blip, and Tesla will stay cash flow positive, this is indeed great news.
Morgan Stanley was targeting ~$45 shares based on optimistic expectation that TM might be cash flow positive sometime in '13. Wonder what the next target will be!
It is also fairly certain that they will remain cash flow positive for the foreseeable future given the back log of orders. The next challenge will be maintaining the momentum and staving off competition from larger players if/when it arises.
Canada P157....I shall be contributing to TM's cash flow next Feb/Mar.


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There are three native American plants that collectively may be called poison ivy: poison ivy, poison oak, & poison sumac.
These plants can cause an allergic reaction in nearly 85 percent of the population. To be allergic to poison ivy, you must first be "sensitized" to the oils. This means that next time there is contact with the plant, a rash may occur.
What Causes an Allergic Reaction?
The resin in the plants contains an oily substance called urushiol. Urushiol is easily transferred from the plants to other objects, including toys, garments, tools, and animals. This chemical can remain active for a year or longer. It is important to know that the oils can also be transferred from clothing, pets, and can be present in the smoke from a burning plant.
What are the Symptoms?
The following are the most common symptoms of poison ivy. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- A contact dermatitis rash characterized by bumps and blisters that itch
- Swelling in the area of contact sometimes occurs
- Blisters that eventually break open, ooze, and then crust over
The symptoms of poison ivy may resemble other skin conditions. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
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Scratching poison ivy blisters will not spread the rash. In addition, the poison ivy rash is not contagious—only urushiol (oil found in the sap of poison ivy) can cause a reaction.
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Specific treatment for poison ivy/poison oak will be determined by your physician based on:
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- The extent of the condition
- Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- Expectations for the course of the condition
- Your opinion or preference
Making sure you avoid the poisonous plants is the best treatment.
It is important to teach your family members what the plants look like and not to touch them.
If contact with the plants has already occurred, you should remove the oils from the skin as soon as possible. Cleansing with an ordinary soap within six hours after the initial exposure has proven to be effective. Repeat the cleaning with the soap three times. There are also alcohol-based wipes that help remove the oils. Wash all clothes and shoes also, because the oils can remain on these.
If the blisters and rash are on the face, near the genitals, or all over the body, your physician should be notified. After a medical history and physical examination, your physician may prescribe a steroid cream, oral steroids, or steroid injections to help with the swelling and itching, depending upon the severity of the rash.
Is Poison Ivy/Poison Oak Contagious?
Poison ivy/poison oak cannot be spread from person to person by touching the blisters, or from the fluid inside the blisters. It can be spread, however, if the oils remain on the skin, clothes, or shoes. This is why washing your hands, clothes, and shoes as soon as possible is very important.
Preventing Poison Ivy/Poison Oak
- Teach all family members to recognize the plants
- Make sure you wear long pants and long sleeves when poison ivy or poison oak are in the vicinity
- Wash all clothes and shoes immediately after you have been outside
- Make sure you do not touch a pet that might have been in contact with a poisonous plant
- Wash your hands thoroughly
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Note: I first met Jill Anderson a couple years ago at Intermountain Yearly Meeting and got to know her better at the World Conference of Friends in Kenya.
Her work with immigrants who have been deported from the U.S. is inspiring and she operates from a very clear-eyed sense of outrage and solidarity. She has been working for several years on a book, Los Otros Dreamers, which collects the stories of immigrants after deportation to Mexico. This guest post draws from that work and gives a sense of how destructive current immigration practices are on those deported and on the families left behind.
Find out more about that project or pre-order the book here. - Lucy
Growing up in Houston, Texas, I had no idea that the first privatized immigration detention center was being built in 1984 just a few hours from where I grew up. It is only recently, while living in Mexico City and collaborating with deported youth who are trying to rebuild their lives post-deportation, that I have become witness to the suffering wrought by our U.S. immigration detention and deportation system.
It is a legally-sanctioned system that is broken, negligent, and evil (oh, the banality of this evil!).
As detailed in the AFSC flier on deportation and detention in the United States, "in 2009, the U.S. government detained approximately 400,000 people at an annual cost of more than $1.7 billion…in a hodgepodge of about 250 facilities." Mark Dow's 2004 book, American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons, describes in compassionate detail this "hodgepodge" of a system: eerily invisible in the midst of towns and cities across the country, startlingly bureaucratic, and starkly inhumane. It is a corporate business model that has relied on public funds and public policy to generate exponential growth—in people detained and therefore profit gained—since 1996.
Perla* moved to Texas with her mother and grandmother when she was eight years old. In 2007, she kept an appointment with a local police office regarding an accusation made by a former boss. The seemingly routine questioning led to her immediate detention for having an expired visa.
Over the next twenty-four hours she was transferred to and from the county jail and the immigration detention center twice, which "required" a total of four strip searches. As tears began to roll down her cheeks, Perla described what she could remember of those twenty-four hours.
They got me to get naked and they searched me everywhere and I just felt so violated. I hadn't even ever had sex, and they just looked into my privates like that. And they couldn't understand why I was crying so hard. And they were like, "it's a female officer, you shouldn't feel bad." And I never had anyone look at me like this. And they said, "You are crying too much about it." Then they put me in a cell. … Then they took me to the ICE office, at the time I didn't know it was the ICE office, so they strip-searched me again. To make sure I wasn't taking anything, I guess? And they put me in this armored van with this other guy.
It was her birthday. After several hours of waiting and insisting, she was finally able to talk to her mother on the phone. Her mom said to her, "Don't doubt that you are a good kid, you are a good kid, you are still a good kid. I love you and happy birthday and we are working really hard to get you out."
A self-described "nerdy girl who quotes Thoreau and swoons at Emily Dickinson," Perla was released on parole and after fighting her removal orders at great financial cost, she was ordered to leave the country in 2009.
Since returning to Mexico, she has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. She has never met her newest niece. She is making the best of exile from her home and family in the birth country where she will always, in her own words, "be a foreigner."
When speculating on the distant possibility of going home to the United States, she muses, "I'm not saying I never want to go back to the States. I would go back. But it is like an abusive relationship, you know."
In 2007, Dulce was detained for two months. On her way home from a Ricky Martin concert, immigration officials questioned her on the bus and detained her en route. Before her friends could visit her, she was transferred from a Florida immigration prison to the Houston detention center near my childhood home.
In harried meetings with a deportation agent, she remembers the agent saying, "You do not look or sound Mexican." Dulce has lighter skin and she speaks fluent English after graduating from high school in Florida.
Indefinitely detained with over a hundred other women, Dulce signed a "voluntary departure" order that resulted in her deportation in the middle of the night. In what has been described to me as a common practice in multiple interviews, she was told to "run ahead and don't look back" with a five-minute window before the men under deportation orders (with possible but unconfirmed criminal backgrounds) were released to walk across the international bridge after her.
Six years later in Mexico City, Dulce wakes up at all hours of the night with nightmares, and she "can still feel the weight of the handcuffs on her wrists." She has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Syndrome, she was medicated for a year and a half, and she still struggles with overwhelming bouts of depression. Her parents and siblings do their best to support her via Skype calls from Florida, and she says she "will never be happy until she is home" with them.
Dulce and Perla are intelligent, inspiring, and ambitious young women. Meeting them over a cup of hot chocolate, their big smiles and bigger dreams shine forth. Their strength is matched by their honesty in sharing the profound emotional toll of the extreme violations of their humanity and their sovereignty by the U.S. government. From one day to the next, these women experienced a total rupture of their sense of self, their freedom, and their safety.
Post-deportation, the trauma perpetuated by a corporate-government system that is blindly racist ("You don't look Mexican.") and coldly misogynist ("You are crying too much") extends far beyond the territorial limits of the United States. It is a spiritual crisis without borders.
The wounds of immigration detention and deportation are as "invisible-ized" as the concrete, windowless immigration detention centers. Today alone, hundreds of men, women, and children will experience something similar to Perla's and Dulce's nightmares, and the so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform under weary debate on Capitol Hill does too little to dismantle this evil in our midst.
As a U.S. citizen and an immigrant in Mexico, who is inclined to look on the bright side and to articulate clarion calls of hope amidst crisis, today I feel righteous anger, deep sadness, and great concern.
*Perla and Dulce are pseudonyms. The photo of the sky is by Nin Solis.


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Notes made from Griffith to Eisenstein and Back-Peter A. Dart
Griffith and Eisenstein stand out in the history of modern motion picture as two giants, both were innovators who advanced the basic form and structure of motion pictures.Both came to films from theatre backgrounds.
Griffith's influence on Eisenstein and V.I Pudovkin, Lev Kuleshov. But how much has Eisenstein influenced American film form?
Films of 1908 when Griffith began directing motion pictures films were crude: 10 minutes in length one reelers were made cheaply and sold cheaply to mass audience.In six years Griffith mastered the craft He realized Edvin S. Porter had only understood partially the basic storytelling . He shot one individual scene and edited, arranged in context of other shots. Griffith realized he could photograph each part of the scene with the final arrangement in mind, These details could then be arranged successively by which the audience could make their inferences. It involved them as well. In 1908 the scenes were shot as though film was like a stage play transferred into film. The close-up was unheard of. But Griffith began moving his camera for closer shots. He also tried extra shots of the surrounding locale for 'atmosphere'. In case of dense action like a battle or a chase he used long shots or extremely wide angle shots. He began to move the camera while it shot a scene. Iris mask to block out extraneous details were also used by him. Selection of a scene arrangement of shots keeping in mind tempo pace rhythm and action added to the story telling new richness. Parallel cutting was the next innovation where two scenes one after the other giving an impression both were happening simultaneously. Emotional impact of two scenes was that the sum of parts were greater than the whole scene. Each scene resonated in the minds of the audience and gave emotional impact that was more than a straight story telling of Porter or other film makers before him.
Of his great films Intolerance(1916) had the greatest impact on Russian film makers.
Montage was the result.Montage of parallel scenes progressing where each detail of a scene though unrelated in its progression acquired a depth of its own:dynamic juxtaposition of these parts made them greater than single scene. Emotional, ideological and artistic power arising out of montage was the gift of Soviet film makers.'The school of Griffith before all else is a school of tempo. However he didn't have the strength to compete with the young Soviet school of montage in the field of expression and of relentlessly affective rhythm." Sergei Eisenstein
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I have a few movies that I would like to share with everyone. Nothing special, but it is better than nothing, lol. So here you go. Just go to this link and pick out what you want. Here is a list of whats inside!!
1. Babylon AD
2. Bolt
3. Burn After Reading
4. DTESS(Day the Earth Stood Still)
5. Eagle Eye
6. Gran Torino
7. Hellboy 2
8. High School Musical 3
9. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
10. Iron Man
11. Lakeview Terrace
12. Max Payne
13. Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Rainbow
14. Pulp Fiction
15. Punisher Warzone
16. Quantum of Solace
17. The Blues Brothers
18. The Dark Night
19. Transformers
20. Valkyrie
21. Waiting
22. Wanted
So have fun and enjoy the show!! :banana: