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October 31, 2008 at 6:15 am #10358lancehoweParticipant
I'm a newcomer to the world of biology, and the biggest thing that has been frustrating me is enzymes. Not what they're made of or what their function is. My question is how do they know to do it? For example, how does DNA Polymerase know when it is supposed to attach itself to DNA and begin the replication process? Is it just a chemical attraction? I don't even know if its answerable at this stage, but its been bothering me so I'd thought I'd post the question.
October 31, 2008 at 1:02 pm #86857mithParticipant
Hydrophobic interactions.
Electrostatic interactions.
Minimization of energy and maximization of entropy.
October 31, 2008 at 9:16 pm #86863biohazardParticipant
Briefly, what comes to DNA and replication (E. coli as an example model): there are several enzymes involved in the initiation. The enzyme complex recognizes the so-called origin of replication site by its typical nucleotide sequences (here several repeated sequences). These enzymes (I think there was 9 or so of them) open up the DNA helix and denature a small region of the DNA, thus making a "nick" on the strand. Next, other enzyme components form the replication fork. Several helicases and topoisomerases are involved here. Only after this DNA polymerase III takes the main responsibility of the replication, although still many other enzymes assist.
All in all, the process of DNA replication is amazingly complex and the underlying forces dictating the initial recognition of the origin and all subsequent enzyme activities are, like Mith said above, mediated via different chemical interactions. I think even today the exact mechanisms of how the cell regulates the DNA replication to take place only once per cell cycle are still somewhat unclear.
November 2, 2008 at 5:27 am #86879lancehoweParticipant
Its amazing the complexity of events that our bodies go through every day! Thanks for the responses, the answers were exactly what I needed.
November 2, 2010 at 9:41 pm #102121
ahh, okay, so i got a questionn:
how do eukaryotes speed the process of replication-since they have multiple long chromosomes?
im confusedd? 🙄
November 2, 2010 at 9:47 pm #102123
Why would they need to speed up?
They are slow growers. Compared to bacteria, I mean.
November 2, 2010 at 9:50 pm #102124
thats what im confusedd about?
its a question on my worksheeet…
November 2, 2010 at 10:04 pm #102125
Ok, I see what this slightly poorly worded questions leads too…
Let's think about it that way: if you want to photocopy the whole collection of Harry Potter book. Which edition will be faster to copy:
a/ the seven part bound in one (ginormous and impracticable) book
b/ the edition coming in 7 different books
Remember you can have friends helping…
November 2, 2010 at 10:12 pm #102126
uhhh…shoot, well in my opinion i'd say
uhmm..the all 7 in one? ughh.
im sorry im sort of blank about biology andd stuff.
gotta slowly explain things to me 😕
November 2, 2010 at 10:15 pm #102127
Nope. Think of it has a logistic problem!
You one big book and your photocopy machine.
You, 6 friends each with one book, and each one of you in front of a different machine.
Now think of chromosome as the books, and each human at a machine as a DNA polymerase.
November 3, 2010 at 8:39 am #102129Julie5Participant
"My question is how do they know to do it? For example, how does DNA Polymerase know when it is supposed to attach itself to DNA and begin the replication process? Is it just a chemical attraction?"
They don't 'know' in the sense of having any conscious awareness of it! (as I'm sure you've appreciated!). It is indeed 'just a chemical attraction' –
When we read biology textbooks, it's very easy to read into the text a kind of 'anthropomorphism' as though the cell is actually a factory staffed by a lot of busy little beavers all bustling around frantically doing whatever needs to be done, and maybe that is simply because as humans ourselves we do have a kind of 'automatic anthropomorphising' instinct maybe??!
If you step back, and see the cell as a network of energies, all flowing from local areas of high energy, to lower ones, that is what is 'pressurising' the molecules to go where they go, and react as they do. In the end, molecules bind and bond together because it is 'easier' (ie, goes with the energy flow!) for them to do so, than to stay apart.
Many apologies if that sounds either mystic or gobbledook, (ah, energy flows….karma….crystals….blah blah etc!). It isn't supposed to!
As for the incredible complexity of the cell, I have to say that it is SOOOO tempting to go down the Intelligent Design route – if anything screams for a Designer, it has to be the inner workings of the cell! Stunningly impressive! (That said, I'm happy to state I'm a Goldilocks Girl – such a tempting thesis to be persuaded by!)
November 3, 2010 at 2:23 pm #102133
I would say that there is no need to have attraction.
The cytosol is fluid (or more gel like, probably) and molecules diffuse in and mix and interact randomly with one another all the time. In most case those interactions are not going anywhere because the interactions between the molecules are not energetically better than any (most) other configuration. But when there is a good interaction, then the interaction is going to last a bit longer, increasing the probability for the next necessary interaction to stabilize the whole complex possible and then the reactions can happen. Things happen randomly, and if/when they are lowering the global energetic state of the molecule they will be more stable, and last longer. Billions of year of evolutions and modification have made that possible and viable in extremely complex system, without the need for a designer or any teleology.
Interestingly, this is not something that is often discussed in textbook. Interactions and organizations are taken for granted, with a very machine like organization. This happens, then that, and then something else. It is very likely to be much more complex, and yet much more simple in terms of why, because the answer is simply that molecules able to form stable interaction in this kind of environment are more likely to be doing their job better, thus being favourably selected over the less stable conformations.
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It's been a long holiday over here in China, and after working on personal projects, I've been mainlining movies.
Last night I watched Captain America (#1). Today I watched The Avengers. Right now I'm in the middle of Man of Steel.
Watching them back-to-back, the difference (and why Marvel is so much better) is blatantly obvious: Marvel is about the characters, DC is about the epic story. The problem is: Epic is nothing without empathy.
Captain America goes to great lengths to show us that Steve Rogers is "Joe Average". He's a pipsqueak. He's the least of us becoming the best of us. That's a tale of hope.
On the other hand, Man of Steel goes out of it's way to tell us that Clark Kent is not one of us. We can never aspire to be Superman because he's alien—he's separate from us, above us.
Marvel has Thor—a god! But... that god is humbled. He is sent down to Earth to learn humility—to understand that even the lowest person can stand up and face unbeatable odds. Man of Steel says... "Stand aside puny mortals, this is a job for Superman!"
It comes down to empathy. The audience can see themselves as every member of the Avengers (even Thor, who resonates with father issues). Nobody can see themselves as Superman.
I think Man of Steel did a very good job, given what they had to work with. But the constraints of the character are just too much.
The same goes for Batman. Whereas a rich playboy Stark is easy to identify with (and want to be), a rich Wayne—steeped in personal tragedy and fallen into the dark and brooding—is as alien as the man from Krypton.

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The point of a budget is?
Forecasting your spend for the coming year is important. It allows you to know what you're spending on which area of your business and you can account for everything going out. By tracking the amount of money you're spending on your marketing and when you do it, you can then see what kind of Return on Investment (ROI) you are getting for it.
90% of the time businesses have a website. Most people see the advantages of having a website even if it is a simple brochure site.
Sarah Parmenter can't build a website for £500
Sarah Parmenter posted on her personal blog about why she couldn't build a website for £500. In a nutshell Sarah had received an enquiry from a potential client who wanted a large dynamic website building. They had filled in Sarah's website worksheet form with some in depth detail of what they were looking for, brand awareness, structure and colour palettes usually something us designers never see as most clients need guiding rather than them knowing what they want. Everything seemed fine to Sarah until she hit the "budget" part of the worksheet where her potential client had budgeted a lowly £500 for the work they were requiring. Sarah did a fantastic job of handling this by not only replying where most would bin the emails, she also educated her potential client on what £500 would get them and why £500 was such a low estimation from them on what they could get.
Shortly after she blogged about the issue she updated everyone with the news that the client had indeed acknowledged what Sarah said and that they were able to increase their budget.
Whilst at first I thought Sarah's post was going to be a rant, it turned out to be a valuable piece of information for anyone in the same position. The problem with potential clients or even current clients at times is something I see quite often. Design in my opinion is somewhat undervalued by most professions even though the most wealthy people in the world rely on designers and developers day in day out to enhance their brand or increase their sales.
How much does design cost?
It depends on who you want to work with and how long they think it will take to put the best piece of design out there for you. You have to remind yourself that a good designer is not going to do something below-par just because he's getting paid for it. We're a strange breed where being pedantic is something in our blood and we know if something doesn't sit right. It maybe more beneficial for a client to book a whole day or longer with a designer rather than pay an hourly rate but this is something to talk over with your designer.
When it comes to web design, think of the size of the application you're wanting to build. Ask advice before hand with regards to budget from someone who has been there and done it. Organisations like Business Link can guide you. And remember one thing, "Pay Peanuts and get Monkeys."
What is your budget?
I'd love to see more realistic budgets being given to designers/developers, agencies and freelancers. A designer doesn't ask for a new kitchen and then say they've budgeted £500 when the total cost is around £4500. A designer doesn't ask for a new £10k car and then tell the salesmen they have £750 to spend. We'd get laughed out of the park.
Think about your budgets, think about what you want to achieve and don't be surprised over cost. It takes time to build a website just like it takes time to build a car or fit a kitchen.
Thoughts anyone?
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Extended co-sleeping seems to be one of those things most parents don't really plan on. When I hear talk of co-sleeping, it's usually about babies. But there is a large contingent of parents who co-sleep indefinitely with their children. It makes life so much easier. Research shows that extended co-sleeping is more common than many might suspect.
It's funny. I never thought much about co-sleeping in terms of baby vs toddler vs preschooler. When Annika was an infant, I just assumed she would have moved to her own bed by now (age 4.5). I had no idea how it was going to happen, but in my head, it did.
Unfortunately, when it comes to parenting, it's rarely that simple.
I tried to move Annika into her own bed off and on. Once around 4 months, we attempted to move her back into her crib, in my bedroom. She'd just stiffen up and scream bloody murder every time I tried to lay her down.
Again, around 8 months, I tried side-carring the crib against my bed. It worked. For one night. She slept for a heavenly six hours alone, and I stretched out luxuriously in my own bed inches away from her.
The second night, she was on to me, and refused to stay sleeping in the crib, waking after only about an hour and refusing to go back down without me close enough to touch.
The early events were traumatic enough on both of us that I gave up and realized I'd be sleeping with my babe for a while.
Around age 2, I made up a bed for her and pushed it up against my bed. She slept in twice sometime around age 2 or 3. At this point I don't really remember when it happened. Because it hasn't happened since.
Her dad (my ex) wishes I would harder at getting her in her own bed. As much as I'd like to sleep alone again, I don't see any way to get her into her own bed. I've tried just about everything. We've had so many issues surrounding sleep, what with constant night wakings, all-night nursing marathons, night weaning, napping on me, nightmares, potty training, and missing me during overnights with dad.
And finally, finally, (knock on wood) we are finally at a place where we both get good enough sleep. I am finally able to put her to sleep in my bed, and get up for a few me-hours in the evening without screams of terror every 45 minutes.
I am not getting awoken throughout the night for feedings or linen changes. After four years of constant wakings at night, I'm sleeping very regularly now. Sure, with a gangly, long-legged 4.5 year old pushing up against me all night and using me as a body pillow. But still, it's the best sleep I've had since I was pregnant. I thought that was bad. Boy was I wrong.
She has her own room, with her own bed. She's even attempted to sleep in there a couple of times. But overall, she's just not ready.
So, I'll wait her out. And that's how it happens.


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The days of Dayan Viciedo as a third baseman seem to have been replaced by this top White Sox prospect moving almost exclusively to the outfield.
"Particularly in right field," said White Sox general manager Ken Williams. "He is very good out there."
White Sox Minor League director Buddy Bell and Williams talked about Viciedo two weeks ago and decided to mix him in at first base every now and then for Triple-A Charlotte. Viciedo's experience at first helps keep the White Sox insulated in case something happens to Adam Dunn or Paul Konerko.
"And if we run into a situation where we need him up here in the big leagues, and let's say you pinch-run for Adam or Paulie while they're playing first base and you got another guy who can come in and play that as well," Williams said. "That's the thought behind it. He's taking ground balls every now and then at third base, so we might mix him in there, too, with the same mindset."
Williams has stressed that the ball comes off Viciedo's bat better than almost any hitter in the organization. With Viciedo's offense serving as his main asset, the White Sox don't want to mess too much with his defensive position.
"We're very mindful of not making him [switch positions frequently], not disrupting him too much, because he's really come on strong with that bat," said Williams of Viciedo, who is hitting .322, with 32 RBIs and a .865 OPS.
Other White Sox links: J.J. reports Peavy's shutout from the Cell, James, also, looks at Peavy's start, and Brent Ballantini tries to optimize the Sox 6-man rotation.


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From the early days of television, top games shows have fallen into two major categories: Ones that rely on knowledge and mental acuity ("The $64,000 Question" to "What's My Line?" to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire") and those built on gimmicks or guesswork ("Beat the Clock" to "Let's Make a Deal" to "Deal or No Deal").
"The Million Second Quiz" – which pits contestants in a round-the-clock million-second (nearly 12-day) trivia marathon, set in an outdoor, see-through hourglass-like Manhattan studio – is vying to become, to put it mildly, a game-changer with its debut Monday. Sure, the NBC effort combines the old standbys of smarts and stunts – but it also adds ingredients from a mélange of entertainment genres and delivery methods, encompassing the increasingly melded TV and Internet worlds.
While contestants spout answers as they compete for up to $10 million, an even larger big-money question looms: Will all those elements – and a million seconds – add up to success for NBC?
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The show may take place in an hourglass, but its approach is more kitchen sink. "The Million Second Quiz" arrives with the hoopla of a David Blaine-like spectacular. Its privacy-free test of endurance evokes the likes of "Survivor" and "Big Brother." The glass Manhattan studio carries a hint of the "Today" show. "The Million Second Quiz" even owes a debt to "Saturday Night Live" – after all, it's live, from New York.
While viewers will be treated to 10 TV installments – the show will air for six straight nights beginning Monday before returning for four nights the following week – most of those million seconds will visibly tick away online beginning Sunday at 6:30 a.m. NBC's waging a social media blitz and there's even an app to help the audience play along as contestants slog through the 20,000 questions written for the show.
It will take far more than novelty to keep audiences following the action online or on TV. The contestants' personalities and their rivalries – not to mention their brainpower – seem likely to play key roles in determining the show's fortunes.
It's impossible to know how this all will unfold, which is part of the allure of a live spectacle. But the show lands with a major advantage in the form of host Ryan Seacrest, the last man standing from "America Idol." The ubiquitous Seacrest excels at building dramatic moments while never denigrating contestants sent walking – or, in this case, stumbling – after a grueling ordeal.
In some ways, the competition harkens to the pre-TV Depression-era marathon dances, where contestants literally bopped till they dropped for the entertainment of others. The potential voyeuristic appeal of "The Million Second Quiz," combined with the play-at-home aspect, could elevate the show beyond mere spectator sport, and perhaps into a multimedia game show genre of its own.
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David Bild, Museum Educator Heads to London for MozFest
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Hi! My name is David Bild and I am one of 14 Educators at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. I work on a wide variety of programming which serves middle and high school-aged students, middle school teachers, and undergraduates.
I'm also involved with Hive Chicago, which is a network of 57 youth-serving organizations dedicated to transforming the learning landscape in Chicago by enacting connected learning experiences. Through Hive, which is funded by MacArthur's Digital Media and Learning (DML) initiative, I have been heavily involved in digital badging initiatives including the Chicago Summer of Learning and the recently formed Hive funded C-STEMM Digital Badges Working Group with Chicago Botanic Garden, Adler Planetarium, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Project Exploration, Forall Badges, and After School Matters. It is truly an exciting time for Hive Chicago and Connected Learning.
As I write this blog post, I'm sitting at the airport getting ready to board an eight hour flight to the Mozilla Festival (MozFest) in London. The Mozilla Foundation runs Hive Networks in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh and is working to extend Hive globally. I was lucky enough to be selected by Mozilla to serve as one of five Hive Ambassadors representing Hive Chicago at MozFest. Joining me on the trip are four other Hive Ambassadors from Chicago which include representatives from Shedd Aquarium, LevelUP, Yollocalli Arts Reach, and Game Changer Chicago.
I'm not quite sure what to expect, but I'm super excited to learn from and share with people from across the globe to bring back innovative ideas and strategies to help us continue to improve the learning landscape in Chicago through connected learning principles. Keep an eye out for blog and twitter updates from me during #MozFest.
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Henry David Thoreau said you should always challenge the wisdom of your elders, and try things for yourself before you take someone else's advice. It might sound a little backwards, but that's the way it comes across on the page, although he was definitely more eloquent than I.
This experiment with the CF card is turning out to be a perfect example of that. Just about every promise I was given by the naysayers has proved to be wrong, from the "it'll last a week" threat to "it won't boot a CF card" prediction.
If I had listened to any of them, I would have missed out on one of the best improvements I've ever personally made to a computer. Short of painting it chili-pepper red.
So it looks like I get to add that to my list of favorite computer myths. The list is short, but distinguished. 😉
- You can't put that CF card in a Pentium! At a time when SSDs are still over a hundred US dollars for a relatively wimpy size, dropping US$45 on a card and adapter was a quick, cheap and painless way to get the same thing done at less than half the price. It is 100 percent compatible, thus-far reliable, and the Pentium's BIOS has never even blinked. Totally silent, totally heat-less and a speed improvement too. Go out there and get one of your own.
- Those old computers are huge wastes of power! Some of them were. But to be honest, I find it hard to believe that a quad-core, 12Gb, dual drive, dual video card machine — something along the lines of this, which probably required its own power substation just to idle — is somehow more efficient than a K6-2 450 with a mid-grade 180W power supply. Think about what you're saying before you say it: Is my 14-year-old Pentium laptop, with an AC adapter pulling roughly 40W, really much more of a drain than your dual core desktop machine? I doubt it. And this page doubts it too.
- More memory makes your computer faster! No, more memory means a memory retailer just made money off of you. There are very specific circumstances that must exist before adding memory will make your computer faster, and Reacocard did the best job summarizing them here. If you want actual, in-your-face scientific proof that it doesn't work, you can look at my experiment here, or any of a number of other similar experiments elsewhere on the Web; Google is your friend. Don't feel bad if you were suckered into thinking more was better; I was too. Windows was designed to keep you spending money, and it still is.
Feel free to disagree on any point, of course. I would guess that you and I are both equally stubborn and intractable, so unless you can offer facts and links — and not just personal anecdotes — your argument could fall on deaf ears. Thoreauvians are like that.


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Varsity boys basketball
Cherryville 84, Stuart Cramer 59 � D.J. Cunningham (24 points), Yung Sherrill (13 points), Ryer Davis (15 points, eight assists) and Grant Henderson (11 points) led Cherryville. Jordan Sherrill (18 points, 23 rebounds) led the Storm. The Ironmen (5-0) host West Lincoln on Friday.
Bessemer City 70, Piedmont Charter 66 � Jearrard Wright (20 points), Michael Meeks (16 points), Jha�qui Adams (11 points) and Travon Oglesby (10 points) led Bessemer City (4-2), which hosts North Gaston on Thursday.
Ashbrook 60, Clover 50 � Shardel Givens (15 points), Isaiah Whaley (15 points, 13 rebounds) and Austin Mitchell (12 points) led Ashbrook (1-5), which hosts Crest on Wednesday.
East Lincoln 68, South Point 63 � Chazz Surratt, made 7 of 7 free throws in the last two minutes to seal the victory for the Mustangs over the Red Raiders in Belmont. Surratt, had a double-double with a game-high 20 points and 11 rebounds while Sage Surratt scored 12 points. The Mustangs will be at home against Lincoln Charter on Wednesday. Deonte Gaston (15 points) Tanner Muse (12 points) and Brandon Reeves (10 points) led South Point. The Raiders host East Gaston on Friday.
Weddington 64, Forestview 58
Varsity girls basketball
Bessemer City 62, Piedmont Charter 10 � Anjala Brewton (21 points), Madison Carter (18 points) and Cherish Moore (10 points) led Bessemer City (3-3), which hosts North Gaston on Thursday.
South Point 59, East Lincoln 26 � Haley Stewart (16 points), Chrissy White (11 points) and Allie Jackson (10 points) led South Point (2-3), which hosts East Gaston on Friday.
Cherryville 48, Stuart Cramer 41 � Molly Whitworth (20 points), Miranda Huffsteller (10 points), Landis Moss (11 rebounds) and Rikayla Kirkland (seven steals) led Cherryville (2-3), which hosts West Lincoln on Friday. Laura Trull (10 points) led Stuart Cramer.
Weddington 59, Forestview 33 � Nikkyana McCaskill (13 points, 3 rebounds, 2 steals) led the Jaguars in the loss. Forestview (0-3) hosts Fort Mill Thursday.
West Lincoln 42, North Lincoln 27 � Erin Huff led Rebels (3-3) with 13 points. Cailee Franklin led the 0-7 Knights with 10 points.
Clover (S.C.) 38, Ashbrook 36
Cramerton Christian 42, Bible Baptist 18 � Shamani Stafford (16 points) and Logan Brown (12 points) led Cramerton Christian (7-0), which visits New Manna on Friday.
JV boys basketball
Bessemer City 42, Piedmont Charter 21 � Josh Davis and Camrin Green had nine points each for Bessemer City (6-0), which hosts North Gaston on Thursday.
Cherryville 41, Stuart Cramer 36 � Trevor Harrill (12 points) led Cherryville. Chance York (10 points) led Stuart Cramer. The Ironmen (1-4) host West Lincoln on Friday.
Gaston Day 42, Davidson Day 36 � Ben Barger (12 points), Robert Geraghty (11 points) and Harry Robinson (10 points) stood out in the Gaston Day win. The Spartans (5-2) head to Spartanburg Day on Friday.
Weddington 36, Forestview 29
Middle school wrestling
Mount Holly 66, Holbrook 30 � Joseph Fox, Shane Hill, Shawn Hedgecoe, Caleb Clemmer, Quinton Hooker, C. Santana, Preston Osborne, Gavin Dolwell, Corey Newman, Alex Mathis, Chase Harper and Kyle Mauney won their matches for the Hawks. Joseph Norfleet, Issac Grigg, Liam Clary, Hayden Welle and Antwon McClee won for Holbrook. Mount Holly (3-4) hosts Southwest on Friday; Holbrook (1-6) hosts Grier on Friday.
Southwest 90, Chavis 6 � Jordan Hildreth, Andrew Inman, Evan Padgett, James Coulter, Cole Jenkins, Anthony Nance, Joshua Wilson, Christian Reese, Kalin Rodgers, Marvin Reynolds, Kaleb Hendren, Kellen Hicks, Cameron Jackson, Jalen Miller and Trevor Simons won their matches for the Roadrunners. Nate Lackey took his Chavis match. Chavis (0-7) hosts Cramerton on Friday; Southwest (3-4) visits Mount Holly on Friday.
Belmont 49, Grier 45 � Cameron Hilton (100 pounds), Landon Pate (108), Ben Bowman (122), Keaton Hale (128), Matthew Robinson (140), Colton Russell (154), Devon Bain (172), Larry Dowdy (197) and Andrew Voigt (222) won for Belmont. For Grier, Lucas Larrazabal (83), Stroud (92), Bobby Watson (115), Eric Greene (134), Clay Elliott (147), Silverstrim (162), Daquan Brown (184) and Noah Kyei (Hwt) won their matches. Grier (4-3) visits Holbrook on Friday; Belmont (6-1) visits York Chester on Friday.
Stanley at Cramerton, no score reported � Stanley (5-1) hosts Friday on Friday; Cramerton (4-2) visits Chavis on Friday.
Friday at York Chester, no score reported � Friday (6-0) visits Stanley on Friday; York Chester (1-5) hosts Belmont on Friday.


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The arc of history bends toward justice, said one famous American, but maybe he wasn't aware of Gaza. The 1.6 million inhabitants of this thin strip of land on the eastern Mediterranean find themselves caught yet again between the fusillades of two uncompromising, hard-bitten adversaries—and, once more, they are the ones paying the steepest price in blood. As thousands of Hamas rockets rained down on Israel, parallel Israeli strikes have led to the deaths of more than 130 Gazans over the span of less than a week (five Israelis have been slain by Hamas rocket fire). This is par for the course. In 2008, a similar Israeli campaign, Operation Cast Lead, killed more than 1,400 Gazans. The body count won't be as high this time as a host of diplomatic mediators—from the Arab League's envoys to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—struggle to settle the last binding terms of an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire. But even after the smoke clears and the rubble gets carted away, what will remain is something no forced handshake can cure.
(PHOTOS: A New Gaza War: Israel and Palestinian Militants Trade Fire)
Gaza "is a manmade ecosystem of outrage and despair," writes Karl Vick, TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief, in this week's issue of the magazine. Rights activists refer to it as a prison camp, a vast human cage whose people are now hemmed in by an Israeli blockade and Egyptian neglect. Vick writes:
Gaza is a stepchild of history. It has been ruled by both Egypt and Israel and is beloved by neither, which is a problem for all. Gazans are emphatically Palestinian, a national identity forged from the trauma of losing their land to Jewish armies in 1948, the year Israel was established. Many defeated Arab landowners fled to Gaza, where 3 out of 4 residents are classified as refugees.
Their ingrained sense of dispossession was anticipated by the famed Israeli general Moshe Dayan in 1956, who Vick quotes:
"For eight years now," said Dayan, "they have sat in the refugee camps of Gaza and have watched how, before their very eyes, we have turned their lands and villages, where they and their forefathers previously dwelled, into our home."
(MORE: Diplomatic Efforts Yield Prospect of Tenuous Cease-Fire in Gaza)
Combine historical grievance with contemporary hardship—unemployment, food shortages and myriad other daily deprivations—and you get a climate of anger that leads to the success of radical militant groups like Hamas. Heap onto that the psychological toll of Israeli bombardments, and you arrive at a situation that is, for many, existentially intolerable.
Writing in the New Yorker, Wasseem El Sarraj, a Palestinian writer based abroad many years, recounts the experience of living with his family in a Gaza under siege, staying awake at night amid the scream and whir of rockets, missiles and drones:
The reality is that there is no escape, neither inside the house nor from the confines of Gaza. It's my first harb (war), and it has stirred in me feelings that I had tried hard to suppress. I never wanted to see Israel as an evil force. I said to myself that that sort of thinking, that sort of emotion, would not be helpful, would not be constructive, would not be "me." I had wanted to work with Israelis; to reconcile, I suppose. After four years of living in Gaza, this has become an untenable position for me.
On the other side of the fence, countless Israelis are facing up to their own sense of the enemy, to the wail of sirens and the invisible, merciless threat of a rocket spiraling in and devastating life as they knew it. The hate, the sense of zero-sum despair that war creates takes generations, let alone years, to dispel. Even while the Arab world quivers from seismic political change, what's taking place in the skies over Gaza is part of an increasingly lengthy, calcified narrative of unfinished battle and uneasy peace. "This time the biggest surprise is how much it's like all the other times," writes Vick. And that may be the biggest tragedy of all.
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By Tina Susman
There is an unwritten rule in New York City: When the light is red, you cross the street if it's safe to do so.
There is also a written rule: When the light is red, you wait for it to turn green before stepping off the curb.
To the chagrin of some pedestrians, police last month began enforcing the written rule in the wake of a streak of pedestrian deaths _ at least a dozen so far this year. The deaths underscored the perils of walking in a city awash in taxis, tour buses, delivery vans, emergency vehicles, impatient commuters and yes, jaywalkers, darting among vehicles as they dash toward the subways, seek shortcuts across long blocks and hurry home to escape the cold.
"It's an epidemic we're facing," Mayor Bill de Blasio said after the third death in nine days on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where a 9-year-old boy and a 73-year-old man died in separate incidents on Jan. 10. On Jan. 19, a 26-year-old woman died in the same area when she was clipped by an ambulance and then hurled into the path of another vehicle.
De Blasio announced Vision Zero, a plan that aims to eliminate traffic fatalities within 10 years. Police, meanwhile, began enforcing a jaywalking rule that is flouted by locals, who impatiently push past out-of-towners as they obediently wait for the red hand to turn green.
That's easier said than done in a city of more than 8.3 million people, where cars, bicycles, skaters and pedestrians battle for space on crowded streets and sidewalks.
At a busy Brooklyn intersection on a frigid evening, Darlene Brown said she had no intention of changing her ways and doubted many New Yorkers would.
"Do they honestly expect millions of people to scrunch together at a corner waiting for the light to turn if there aren't any cars coming?" she said incredulously, before crossing a car-free avenue against the red light. "We'll never get anywhere. Between subway breakdowns and traffic jams _people here aren't going to wait around any more than they have to."
De Blasio said his plan does not involve a policy change in terms of jaywalking and ticketing. "We need to be sensitive to the fact that we do have a way of life, and any of us who've been here know that," he said.
Instead, Vision Zero is supposed to focus on drivers. De Blasio announced a working group made up of police, transportation, health and taxi officials. Its job is to find ways to combat aggressive driving, to alleviate dangers at the city's most perilous intersections, and to find more so-called slow zones, where the speed limit could be dropped to 20 mph from the usual 30 mph.
The police initiative is separate from De Blasio's plan but part of the same effort. Through Jan. 19, police had issued 65 jaywalking summonses, compared with 12 in the same time frame last year, a police spokesman said. He did not know what the fines are, saying they are set by individual courts.
The crackdown has not been without problems. An 84-year-old man says he was roughed up by police who confronted him after he had crossed an Upper West Side street near his home. The man, Kang Chun Wong, said he suffered a severe head gash after officers forced him to the ground after accusing him of jaywalking _ a charge he denies.
The city's police commissioner, William J. Bratton, called the encounter "an unfortunate incident" and said he was not aware of police using excessive force.
Under former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, pedestrian fatalities fell as the city promoted walking, bicycling and public transportation. This included remaking major traffic-choked intersections into pedestrian malls and adding bicycle lanes. Last year, 156 pedestrians were killed in New York, compared with 365 in 1990, according to the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives. Brian Zumhagen of Transportation Alternatives says the group supports the goal of Vision Zero, assuming it focuses on drivers, not walkers.
"Protecting the most vulnerable users of our streets is where the focus of the effort should be," Zumhagen said.
(c)2014 Los Angeles Times


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Cries and Whispers (Swedish: Viskningar och rop) is a brilliant film from Ingmar Bergman, dealing with human suffering. As with the next film I have here included, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,in Cries and Whispers women dominate and men are only introduced to reinforce the intensity of their lot. From the four characters here represented they are anything but nice. But then considering how they have so long been hemmed in by gender politics these are survivors (of their subservient role), in terms of both gender and sexual politics, it would be too much to expect them to be sweet under adversity.
In fact the film is loaded with adversity of pain both physical and psychological kind, that each of these four characters undergo.
'The movie is built out of a series of emotionally charged images that express inner stress, and Bergman handles them with the fluidity of a master… Each sister represents a different aspect of woman—woman viewed as the Other—and the film mingles didacticism with erotic mystery.'— Pauline Kael
Cries and Whispers takes place at an old English manor and revolves around four women: Agnes (Harriet Andersson), Maria (Liv Ullmann), Karin (Ingrid Thulin) are sisters while and Anna (Kari Sylwan) is the faithful maid of Agnes.
Agnes, the owner of the manor, is a young, virginal woman terminally ill with womb cancer. Agnes' sisters, Maria and Karin, are unhappily married and have come to the manor to help take care of their dying sister. The film depicts Agnes' last two days of life in terrible agony and her death. As with most of Bergman films religions plays a vital role. Here the role of religion is examined in context of physical torment of death and disease. The name Agnes means lamb and it serves as a clue to her death that resonates with death and passion of Jesus on the cross. Towards the end the scene where Anna cradles the lifeless body of Agnes is like a tableau, a visual reminder of Michelangelo's Pièta. Agness is a kind of martyr who serves to bring the two sisters to open up emotionally at least for a short while. The chaplain who administers last rites to Agnes, seems to represent organized religion and his confession of his lack of faith gives the whole film a depth because of the religious motif is consistently sustained in so many ways. Males, as represented by the doctor and the Chaplain, are completely useless in providing any comfort to Agnes. Also, Karin and Maria's husbands utterly fail to understand the emotional needs of their wives.
The tragedy of human suffering is not that it is visited once in a life time but that echoes in memory even after death of someone. But as much sisters might grieve over their lost chances the pain of neglect shall linger on. As Vladimir says in Waiting for Godot, 'Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listens) But habit is a great deadener.' (Act-II)
The film was written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It stars Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann.
Unlike most of Bergman's films, Cries and Whispers uses saturated colour, in particular crimson. 'All my films can be thought in terms of black and white, except for Cries and Whispers. In the screenplay, I say that I have thought of the color red as the interior of the soul. When I was a child, I saw the soul as a shadowy dragon, blue as smoke, hovering like an enormous winged creature, half bird, half fish. But inside the dragon, everything was red'. This quote from Bergman I used already in part while discussing The Seventh Seal.
'The color red dominates almost every single scene that takes place inside the manor,… and most probably, is also used as an allegory for the interior of the womb. White is a color often linked to the virginal Agnes, and stands symbolically for sexual repression. Finally, black is a color that Bergman has consistently associated with priests and Christianity in his films.'( quoted from Marco Lanzagorta)
For his work on this film, Sven Nykvist won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and the film was also nominated for Best Costume Design, Best Director, and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced. Unusual for a foreign language film, it was also nominated for Best Picture, not for Best Foreign Language Film.
In closing let me quote from the master, "I believe that the film—or whatever it is—consists of this poem: a human being dies but, as in a nightmare, gets stuck halfway through and pleads for tenderness, mercy, deliverance, something. Two other human beings are there, and their actions, their thoughts are in relation to the dead, not-dead, dead. The third person saves her by gently rocking, so she can find peace, by going with her part of the way."
— Ingmar Bergman, from his workbook for
Cries and Whispers (22 April 1971)
* Harriet Andersson — Agnes
* Kari Sylwan — Anna
* Ingrid Thulin — Karin
* Liv Ullmann — Maria (and her mother)
* Anders Ek — Isak, the priest
* Inga Gill — Story teller
* Erland Josephson — David, the doctor
* Henning Moritzen — Joakim, Maria's husband
* Georg Årlin — Fredrik, Karin's husband
* Ingrid Bergman — Spectator (as Ingrid von Rosen)
* Lena Bergman — Maria as a child
* Lars-Owe Carlberg — Spectator
* Malin Gjörup — Anna's daughter
* Greta Johansson — Undertaker
* Karin Johansson — Undertaker
* Ann-Christin Lobråten — Spectator
* Börje Lundh — Spectator
* Rossana Mariano — Agnes as a child
* Monika Priede — Karin as a child
* Linn Ullmann — Maria's daughter
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Produced by Lars-Owe Carlberg
Written by Ingmar Bergman
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin
Cinematography Sven Nykvist
Editing by Siv Lundgren
Running time 91 min
Language Swedish
Memorable Quotes:
Anna:[reading Agnes' journal entry] "Wednesday the third of September… The tang of autumn fills the clear still air but it's mild and fine. My sisters, Karin and Maria have come to see me. It's wonderful to be together again like in the old days, and I am feeling much better. We were even able to go for a little walk together. Such an event for me, especially since i haven't been out of doors for so long. Suddenly we began to laugh and run toward the old swing that we hadn't seen since we were children. We sat in it like three good little sisters and Anna pushed us, slowly and gently. All my aches and pains were gone. The people I am most fond of in all the world were with me. I could hear their chatting around me. I could feel the presence of their bodies, the warmth of their hands. I wanted to hold the moment fast and thought, "Come what may, this is happiness. I cannot wish for anything better. Now, for a few minutes, I can experience perfection. And I feel profoundly grateful to my life, which gives me so much.
David: Come over here Maria. Look at yourself in the mirror. You are beautiful… but you have changed. These days you cast rapid, calculating, sidelong glances. You're gaze used to be direct, open, and without any disguise. Your mouth is an expression of discontent and hunger. It used only to be soft. Your complexion has become pallid, you use make-up. Your fine, broad forehead now has four creases above each eyebrow… And this fine contour from the ear to the chin… it's no longer quite so evident. That's where complacency and indolence reside… Look here, at the bridge of the nose, why do you sneer so often, Maria?… Beneath your eyes, those sharp, barely visible wrinkles of boredom and impatience.
Maria: You've changed. Is there someone else?
David: There always is. Besides, I thought the problem didn't interest you.
Maria: It doesn't.
Karin: It's true. I think… about suicide. I've often thought about it. It's… it's disgusting. It's very degrading and everlastingly the same.
Karin: [to Maria] You look so disconcerted. You thought our talk would be different, didn't you? Do you realize I hate you and how foolish I find your insipid smile and your idiotic flirtatiousness?
Karin: How have I managed to tolerate you so long and not say anything? I know of what you're made – with your empty caresses and your false laughter. Can you conceive how anyone can live with so much hate as has been my burden? There's no relief, no charity, no help! There is nothing. Do you understand? Nothing can escape me for I see all!
(Ack:wikipedia, Marco Lanzagorta,imdb)


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Michael Miler's The Speed of Light will be performed in program 1 of Shades of Dance. Photograph by Eyal Landesman.
Last Saturday night was chilly and wet, but despite the discouraging weather conditions, I bundled up and trekked down to the Suzanne Dellal Center. Choreographer Micheal Miler of Haifa's Sigma Ensemble had invited me to a rehearsal for the Shades of Dance festival (called Gvanim in Hebrew). Shades of Dance is mounted biennially, and since last year was an off year, I had effectively been waiting to attend the festival for over a year and a half. A little rain wasn't about to stop me from this special sneak peak.
Since its inception in 1984, Shades of Dance has showcased artists who are relatively fresh to the field of choreography. It has helped launch the careers of some of Israel's best-known choreographers including Yasmeen Godder, Inbal Pinto, Emanuel Gat, Ronit Ziv, Barak Marshall, Renana Raz, Shlomi Bitton, Anat Danieli, Itzhik Galili, Sally-Anne Friedland, Yossi Yungman, Tamar Borer, Liat Dror and Nir Ben-Gal of Adama, Noa Wertheim and Adi Sha'al of Vertigo Dance Company, and Yoram Karmi of Fresco Dance Group.
Perhaps this is why my anticipation of this festival feels different: I can't help but wonder what new choreographic voices will be revealed this year. A mind-boggling 80 dances were submitted to the festival's selection committee, composed of artistic director Hanoch Ben Dror with Ya'ara Dolev, Sally-Anne Friedland, Renana Raz, and Niv Sheinfeld. I'm looking forward to seeing what sets the 10 chosen works apart from their competition when the 15th Shades of Dance festival opens this week.


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I thought about this Merion Barry thing all night yesterday and didn't initially post cause I fux with Mayor-for-life. I shouted the mother fucker out in Cheap Bites for chrissakes! I'm also smart enough to realize, this is a situation where barbarians are fighting over scraps. I mean, what are we talking about here? This ain't Georgetown! This ain't Dupont! This ain't Jack Evan's Ward 2... It's Merion Barry's 8th Ward. Why are there "dirty Asian businesses" by Barry's description? Because Asians love Too Short and we GET IN WHERE WE FIT IN FOOL.
Look at the numbers from the 8th Ward. For the last 20 years and probably more, the 8th Ward represents the highest poverty rate in all of D.C. Most people don't want to serve this neighborhood, but Asians are willing. Yet despite owning many of the businesses in the neighborhood, Asians have not integrated. We only represent .5% of the population in the 8th so in many ways, we're carpetbaggers there.
This is what Barry had to say today via Columbus Telegram:
"We need businesspeople who'll be a part of the community, not exploit the community, give jobs to those of us in the community, and to contribute to the well-being of our community, have fresh vegetables and fruits and et cetera," Barry said.
Barry, however, did not back away from his claim that some Asian-owned convenience stores and carryout restaurants don't "respect" the residents in his ward.
"Ward 8 residents are spending their hard-earned dollars in these stores because they are the only stores in the immediate neighborhoods; my constituents want respect, too," he said in a statement. "It is to these less-than-stellar Asian-American businessmen in Ward 8 that my remarks were directed."
I'm sure a lot of Asians want to feed Barry to Red Pandas right now, but I'm not with that. I feel the man. If the tables were turned and we were being served by Black businesses who didn't live with us, break bread with us, and just dumped their combo no5 on us, I would be pissed too. We don't even eat this shit at home yall! I also liked that Barry pointed out the "plexi glass". It's interesting. The Plexi Glass isn't necessarily "dirty", it's symbolic. What bothers Barry isn't Asian businesses being "dirty" or even "Asian"... It's that a lot of Asian shop owners don't respect Black customers. The blame goes both ways. Neither side really tries to reach out and get to know the other, but I will say this. As the retailer SERVING the customer, I think this one is on Asians.
It would be entirely wrong for us to write off Barry's comments. He MUST be condemned for projecting stereotypes on us and the way in which he approached this problem. But, there is definitely a problem. The 99% percent needs to understand that we have power in solidarity. This is not a race thing. It starts with ameliorating a race thing (i.e. Asians-Blacks not getting along), but the real issue is that we are reduced to fighting over scraps in the 8th Ward. Asians need to understand that the 8th Ward isn't an impersonal port for us to fling our goods on. Yes, our prices our cheap and our service is fast, but we need to change the business model. It's a good thing we're getting called out. Let's take it and come back better, faster, stronger.
I'm telling you now, not just cause it's my joint, but if you want to see a prototype solution to Blasian relations, look no further than Baohaus. Counting Evan and myself, we employ 5 Asians, 9 Black People, 4 Latino (Chris is the light skinned ciroc boy that look like Montana), and 2 White People. Evan and I obviously are the owners but our Head Chef and 3 Shift Leaders are all Black and Chris. It's important to have different ethnicities in leadership positions.
This isn't by design, it's organic. We all just get along, but if you need a design, think but this and all is mended. Adopt the Bruce Lee method. Don't treat cooking like it's some exotic ancient secret art form. You give people a little and they'll give back. Teach the people in your neighborhood how to cook, hire other ethnicities, and integrate them into your business. If not because it's the RIGHT thing to do, it's the smart thing to do. They'll increase business, serve as a buffer, and in many ways replace that bullshit bullet proof glass that has been the extent of our outreach in Black communities.
The bullet proof glass is despicable. It's not non-violent, it's defensive. It's rude. It's crass and it says nothing about who we are. If we want to be mad at Barry for stereotypes, we should be mad at ourselves for perpetuating them... From the people who brought you the Great Wall, comes take-out bullet proof glass. We need to do more... And Merion Barry, work with us on a personal level. This is gonna take a village.
P.S. - Please read the comments, especially Canela's. This is a multi-faceted issue with lots of valid points. Looking back at this post, if I sat with this longer I would have edited 3 things.
1) That this isn't "on Asians". Clearly, Marion Barry stands alone in the wrong with his comments. I thought that was more obvious than it is. This article is not self-hating, it's about understanding why someone like Barry takes issue with the Asian community in Ward 8. I saw lots of people pissed off at Marion Barry writing responses that themselves seemed racist and inflammatory so the point of this article was to set Barry aside and angry commenters aside to look at the conflict itself. I still believe the main issue is that people are fighting over scraps in Ward 8. It's a difficult situation for both parties.
2) Both sides are ill equipped to deal with this issue. I think that is the big miscalculation in this post. I used a personal example and was too quick to provide a "solution". I know there is a huge language and cultural barrier for a lot of these owners. My parents had to overcome it themselves when they came to this country, but it's hard and every one deals with it in a different way. The important thing though is to realize that we need help, ask for it, and try to improve. There's a reason that there is so much tension in the neighborhood and we should recognize that.
3) The bullet proof glass. I still feel the bullet proof glass is something that is very symbolic of the situation. I know the glass is there as a defense measure and it can't come down until people are safe, but eventually, that's where you want to be. I think every one involved would love to live or work in a neighborhood where you don't need bulletproof glass at take out joints and liquor stores. There is blame to go around on both sides, but we need honest conversation about these things.


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We had some good inversion this morning which of course helped us, but being a new contest there was not as many stations on the air, as had been hoped, to take part. Hopefully that will change for next year.
After our club breakfast I drove up to Fort Henry Hill and immediately started to set up. Richard-VA3VDP showed up a few minutes later and stopped by to say hello on his way to RMC. After Richard left I became, almost, the sole attraction for bus loads of Japanese tourists visiting Fort Henry.
I made only 14 contacts, a few of which are excellent, the rest local. Best DX of the day goes to KK1CW in Spofford, New Hampshire, for a distance of 370 Km. I also worked VE3DC in Hamilton, 294 Km's away. Not to bad for 40w into a four element Yagi.
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Time(L) Band Call Name Mode QTH
1005 2m VE3DZE Dave SSB Kingston
1006 2m VA3LX Paul SSB Wolfe Island
1009 2m VE3TEF Tom SSB Kingston
1010 2m VE3DC Club Stn SSB Hamilton
1022 2m KK1CW Walter SSB Spofford, NH
1037 2m VA3TIC Tim SSB Kingston
1055 2m VE3UR Peter SSB Quinte West
1108 2m VA3ORP Dave FM South Frontenac
1109 2m VE3DZE Dave FM Kingston
1110 2m VE3TEF Tom FM Kingston
1113 2m VA3ORP Dave SSB South Frontenac
1123 2m VA3AKY Martin SSB Kingston
1140 2m VA3KAI Al SSB Tay Valley (Perth)
1245 2m VE3KKL Gord SSB Ottawa
This was a good learning experience today, and I'm sure we will incorporate some changes for next year.
My big lesson of the day? I need a bigger battery for portable ops, the one I currently have doesn't last as long as it once did.
Thanks to all who participated, and to those of you who didn't……hope we see you on the air for the next 2m Challenge, next September.


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Luis Garcia Mozos in London and New York
Yesterday we followed Luis Garcia Mozos as he joined the S.I. studio in Barcelona and developed into one of its top romance artists. Today we will find him beginning to stretch his wings…
While most foreign artists were happy to draw their commissions back in their home countries, some took the chance to travel to Britain and work directly for the publishers there. Notable artists who made the journey include Hugo Pratt, Alberto Breccia, Luis Roca and Stelio Fenzo and as Luis remembers he too made several visits to London...
"Until the birth of my son Luis Alberto in 1991, London was the strongest experience of my life. The first time I lived in the city was for a little over a month in the Autumn of 1965 (with Luis Roca and Enrique Montserrat). The second was in 1968 for 2 months and finally in 1969 I stayed for an entire year. At first I knew no one there, but I was free to do whatever I wanted. I started making friends amongst the editorial teams I was working with at IPC Magazines. Margaret Koumy, Editor of the teen magazine 19 became my best friend and guardian angel. Another ally was Dick Lewis the story editor at Mirabelle, he was a tall, fat gentleman who was very fond of my drawings. I also met The owner of the company; a deaf, mute nobleman who had lost a son about my age in a motorcycle accident. He invited me to spend a weekend at his cottage and I can remember sitting outside his pub drinking beer watching a group of people wearing red jackets and hats sitting on horseback, accompanied by a pack of dogs chasing a fox. Another time I went to the legendary Speakeasy club With Maureen, a journalist friend of the publisher (and editor of Honey) and ended up sitting near John Lennon, accompanied by his then wife Cynthia. Eric Burdon, lead singer of The Animals, was singing on stage - a celebration of cannabis sung over a rhythym and blues backing while pouring a huge mug of beer over his head!"
"At the beginning of this period I drew countless romance strips for Mirabelle, Valentine and Romeo and illustrations for 19. I also drew a couple of portraits of Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger which were printed up as posters and sold through ads in Mirabelle. My friends and I would set up opposite Marble Arch selling these posters and I also started drawing open air portraits. My friend from the age of 15, Maria Del Carmen Vila (better known as "Marika" who later became a comic book artist) also joined us from Spain. I found that by drawing portraits on a Sunday I could make enough money to live on for the rest of the week. I stopped drawing romances and illustrations and gave myself the full hippie experience: counterculture, Buddhism, Hinduism, free love, sexual revolution, marijuana, hashish, LSD... At the beginning of the last "trip" I had with LSD (a "Vulcan"), I saw in three dimensions "The Battle of Thermopylae" (from the comic strip Mort Cinder by Alberto Breccia) on the gray carpet. Someone said something that turned the trip bad, I lost control and went into paranoia. Everything happened very fast: panic, fainting, police station, light-headedness, hospital. It was a "Satory", a revelation, a complete break. The experience of the "Vulcan" coupled with chronic flu forced me to return home to Barcelona."
(Above: Luis (in hat) selling posters in Marble Arch, London, 1970. With Margaret Koumy to his left and Marika to his right)
On his return he eventually resumed his romance work, mostly for Jackie and Romeo which by this point were featuring some spectacularly good artwork. In addition to Luis a typical issue from 1970 could feature work by Pepe Gonzalez, Felix Mas, Ramon Torrents, Jose Maria Bea, Esteban Maroto and Adolfo Usero. A year later this same group of artists could be found in the U.S. in almost every issue of the Warren comic magazines Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella. Warren had made a big impact in the mid '60s when its magazines reintroduced horror comics to the U.S newsstands a decade after the genre was effectively wiped out by a combination of media witch hunts and industry self-censorship. After a thrilling first few years which had seen the company reunite many of the artists from the legendary E.C comics line, Warren had gone into a steep economic and artistic decline from which it was only just beginning to emerge. When publisher Jim Warren was contacted by S.I.'s Josep Toutain in 1971 the work he saw was a revelation and the resulting flood of artwork from Spain transformed the company's fortunes.
"The first Spanish artist to work for Warren was Carlos Prunes who contacted the company personally without any intermediary agencies. After this Toutain travelled to the U.S and got work from the company for all of us. After returning home I talked to Toutain and told him I did not want to draw any more romances, instead I asked him to give me work in the Warren magazines. Among the strips I drew one of the most memorable was "The Men Who Called Him Monster." On the one hand, I identified with the protagonist (a werewolf) who had a compulsion to harm others and fled to avoid this (a guilt complex that reminded me that I was taught by the Brothers of La Salle). On the other, I began to enjoy the narrative possibilities of the story. Medium shots, dramatic lighting ... I could now investigate the narrative aspects, technical and formal. The system of work was similar to the UK market: we had no contract, the scripts were translated and then we drew the originals which were then sent on to the publisher. The only differences were that we could sign the pages and collect royalties from sales to other countries."
(Above: Page 1 of Luis' first strip for Warren Publications. Page 6 features comic's first interracial kiss. Modelled by Sydney Poitier and Carol de Haro)
The Spanish artists quickly came to dominate Warren's magazines For them it was a chance to cast off the shackles of endless romances, for their audience it was artwork unlike anything they had ever seen before. Prior to the Spanish invasion pretty much all American comic book artists ( Bernard Krigstein excepted ) could trace the foundations of their styles to the great triumvirate of Alex Raymond, Hal Foster or Milton Caniff. The Spaniards were different; they were in thrall to the Italian artist Dino Battaglia and most crucially to Alberto Breccia. What Breccia had shown them, particularly in his early '60s masterwork, Mort Cinder, was that comics needn't look the way they had always looked - anything that makes a mark could be used to draw comics. Breccia's strips might contain line work mixed with collage, texture rubbings, scratches, tones, photographs or anything that might come to hand. His drawings owed as much to German expressionism as anything else and In his constant questing for innovation, creativity and self expression he was a supremely liberating influence. His impact on the S.I. artists was profound and no one felt that influence more keenly than Luis.
I wonder if any artist has ever so completely transformed his approach to comics as Luis did in 1971? Straight after putting down his final romance strip for Romeo he launched into his Warren work, which combined ultra-realistic drawing, rendered in various combinations of ink or graphite, with the most extraordinarily rich array of tones and scratches. While there are the faintest echoes of his old drawing style still visible under the new surface patina, the reader could be forgiven for thinking they were two completely different artists.
Throughout 1972, nine of these striking, experimental and arresting strips emerged – making almost 100 pages in total; an extraordinary rate of production for such accomplished images. While many fans embraced the Spanish new look others reacted with confusion and hostility. For them it was too far removed from the artwork they had grown up with, it's reference points were too obscure and it was taking inspiration from traditions beyond their understanding. Some saw it all as self indulgent, the product of cheap foreign labour with no idea of how to tell a story (an opinion that still pops up from time to time). I see it rather differently. To me it was Spains' golden generation cutting loose after a decade shackled to the most conservative comic producing nation in the world.
The very striking girl at the heart of "Song Of A Sad Eyed Sorceress" was based on Carol de Haro who had been Luis' co-star in several '60s Photonovels.
When Carol returned from a period living in the U.S. she met up again with Luis – who had himself just returned from London and their reunion had an unexpectedly profound effect for the world of comics, as Luis remembers...
"Carol de Haro, besides being my model and my girlfriend was also the Vampirella model for Pepe Gonzalez' drawings of Vampirella. Most importantly, Carol was the model for the poster-size color painting of Vampirella. Gonzalez drew the picture in the first place which was then painted by Enric Torres (for the cover of Vampirella 19, subsequently used as an iconic 6ft high poster) and Enric also used her as a model."
"Carol was my "Muse", the "Muse" of Gonzalez, Enric... and many others who also drew comic covers or illustrations."
Enric clearly used Carol as the model for most of his early Vampirella covers and her stunning features clearly inform Gonzalez' interpretation of the character as well. She would go on to star in many of Luis' later strips as well as, after a year working at Warren, he turned his attention to Europe. Looking back at this period today he reflects that, "The most important aspect of my work for Warren, was the chance to investigate technique, dramatic lighting effects and to establish my own comic style. I was bored with the drawing techniques of my romances and I wanted to change my art completely. After testing and learning in the Warren magazines I found my own character in the Cronicas del sin Nombre series (drawn a year later for the French magazine Pilote). But I am very grateful and pleased to have drawn for Warren, otherwise perhaps I would have continued doing romance comics for the U. K. Without the experience of working for the Warren magazines, I could not have developed the style that I did for France."
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Fascinating article and gorgeous art.ReplyDelete
This is a great look at comic work done outside of the American fish bowl. As much as I adore the work of people like Hal Foster and Alex Raymond, it's easy to forget that vastly different artistic traditions have developed throughout the rest of the world. It's so easy to stop experimenting, to stop pushing the medium, and to keep referencing the tried and true.ReplyDelete
Hey, I am new to your blog. That's lovely work you have a knack of finding. I'll keep checking back!ReplyDelete
Worth the wait. Thanks Leif for sharing Davids profile of Luis Garcia Mozos. What a draftsman, great cosmetics!ReplyDelete
- Deiter of Venice, CA12:11 AM
Have been a big fan of LGM since I discovered his work for Vampirella. I agree with the other commenter, his use of mascara was a highlight.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for posting. Also greatly enjoyed the Jack Davis post.
TI is my favorite blog. (And that's saying something!)
It's so cool to see Warren artists finally written about!ReplyDelete
I collected these in the 70's and they were endless inspiration to me-there were some big names illustrating for them, but I had no idea who all of these Spanish sounding named guys were doing this fantastic artwork. Thanks for giving us some background information and stories. The Vampirella poster was burned into by brain back then and still remains an icon of (undead) sexiness in illustration.
Excellent blog!! This is one of the best about illustration that I've ever found.ReplyDelete
You should consider to dedicate a post to some of the other great Spanish artists that worked for Warren: Esteban Maroto (still alive and you can see him drawing in my youtube channel), Fernando Fernandez, Luis Bermejo and many others.
- Anonymous7:42 AM
You can find an excellent picture of Pepe Gonzalez & Enric's Vampirella's original here (7mb): http://www.jhalpe.com/items/view/2026ReplyDelete
Thank you for this great post and this great site.


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