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Works – Edouard Levé, Translated byJan Steyn
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You really have to be impressed with the fact that Edouard Levé has had three books translated into English, and all three of them have hit the Best Translated Book Award longlist. Very few writers have had that honor.
I think what this points us toward is the fact that, despite some similarities among his books, each time Levé is doing something new and different. This, to me, is what book awards should be all about: awarding authors who show an incredible range, are willing to continually take risks, resist falling into patterns, and overall produce amazing results from original ideas.
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Suicide by Edouard Levé, translated by Jan Steyn
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Why This Book Should Win: The crazy intense backstory. The fact that Dalkey—one of the leading publishers of literature in translation—has yet to win a BTBA award.
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Despite my best efforts, it has proven somewhat impossible to discuss Edouard Levé's Suicide without discussing Eduard Levé's suicide. Let's get it out of the way. Levé delivered Suicide to his editor ten days before taking his own life. This fact, as macabre as it is, is the house in which the novel lives and every review or blurb about Suicide from now to eternity will mention it. This is kind of a shame because Levé's prose is good enough on its own. However, those inclined towards the postmodern are probably salivating over the idea, for it would be hard for a book to be more self-aware than Suicide. Some have even suggested that Suicide was Levé's suicide note. I really hope that wasn't the case, it would ruin the delicacy. Regardless, we'll never know.
The novel does not have a plot, but rather its narrator (who could or could not be Levé) addresses a friend (wait, maybe the friend is Levé) who committed suicide twenty years ago. The result is homage in pointillist prose to a troubled soul explored in minute detail. It is a glimpse into the psychology of suicide. The narrator recounts the instances of his friend's life in which he felt disassociated and addresses them back to his friend as if to absolve him of his suicide, although the narrator never claims to understand his friend's pathos fully. We are only given the images and are left to wonder at reasons.
Suicide reads like a photo album. This is no surprise, considering that Levé was as much an accomplished photographer as he was anything else. The prose is clipped, almost terse; while each line can be seen to represent a single idea in just the same way a photo in an album represents one moment in time. These ideas, like collections of photos in an album, create events and distinct sections in a book where there are no chapters. Praise must be given to translator Jan Steyn who deftly maintained the integrity of each line/photograph while keeping the entire piece cohesive.
Suicide is at times beautiful, immensely sad at others, and in more moments than one might want to admit there is the potential in the text to be deeply relatable. I will not sit here and say, however, that Levé uses suicide as some sort of literary device for to teach us truth and/or beauty, because that is not what he does. Suicide is about suicide. Given that, however, there are still so many instances where a line, again like a favorite photograph in an album, so concisely articulates one of our more complex emotions or frames the nature of contemporary relationships.
Levé has written several books and put out a number of collections of photographs. The only other piece I've read, though, is "When I Look at a Strawberry, I Think of a Tongue" that was in the Paris Review last summer. I loved it.
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As if "The Vampire Diaries" heroine Nina Dobrev didn't have enough on her plate. Last season, her character Elena was torn between two of the hottest vampires broadcast television has ever seen. This year, Nina's got her own set of fangs as she gears up to bring Katherine Pierce, Elena's evil vampire doppelganger, back to life.We met Katherine in a series of flashbacks last year, but if the shocking Season 1 finale taught us anything, it's that we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of our new favorite villain. I caught up with Dobrev on the Vampire Diaries set in Atlanta and couldn't resist gushing a bit about her performance. As sweet as she is, Nina doesn't miss a beat playing the conniving back-stabber.With all the attention that Katherine is getting as we gear up for Season 2, I didn't want to forget about Elena, either. I had to ask Nina -- if Damon (Ian Somerhalder) really had kissed Elena instead of Katherine, would Elena have kissed him back?"I mean, I'm sure Elena has had dreams about Damon," Dobrev says. "I'm not sure if she was put in the position to kiss him what she would do. I feel like she has high morals, and she loves Stefan (Paul Wesley). It's always been Stefan."Don't expect those dreams to come true any time soon, vamp fans. "I think that Elena's feelings for Damon are still friendly," Dobrev says. "She's concerned about him, and she definitely cares about him, but she and Stefan have been through so much. She wants to make that work."Elena's love life right now is easy compared to her family situation. The last time we saw the Gilberts, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) had swallowed a bottle of pills and a vial of blood in the hopes of becoming a vampire, and Elena's Uncle John (David Anders) -- who is also her biological dad -- had met the wrong end of Katherine's knife.And you thought your family was crazy!"I can't say what happens to them," Dobrev says, "I don't want to ruin the fun! Things aren't going to get any easier in Elena's family situation, I'll say that much."Stay tuned to Zap2it for much more from my set visit with Nina Dobrev and the rest of "The Vampire Diaries" cast. Follow Zap2it and @cadlymack on Twitter and Zap2it on Facebook for the latest TV, movie and celebrity news.
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Month: March 2009
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Gartner have named K2 a visionary in the BPM space. In their recently released Magic Quadrant for process driven solutions on the Microsoft platform Gartner recognized K2 (www.k2.com) as an "innovator for its vision and focus on the future; its deep integration with the Microsoft product stack and the quick return-on-investment it brings to Microsoft customers; its focus on fostering collaboration and empowering a broad range of users; its SKU strategy, which allows customers to incrementally advance their BPM maturity; and its strong community and partner ecosystem". Read more here
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Rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) are found in soil and diverse aquatic environments. Two species, Mycobacterium fortuitum and Mycobacterium chelonae, are associated with disease and are difficult to eradicate. Biofilm formation may be a contributing factor to their mode of transmission and their resistance to antimicrobial agents. We investigated the ability of the RGM species M. fortuitum to colonise surfaces using a modified Robbins device. M. fortuitum formed dense biofilms within 48 h. The high numbers of sessile organisms recovered and the swiftness of colonisation suggest that M. fortuitum readily forms biofilms. These results suggest a novel mechanism for mycobacteria in evading antimicrobial treatment and also indicate that biofilms should be considered possible sites for mycobacterial contamination.
Mycobacteria other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis are known as non-tuberculous mycobacteria. One group, the rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM), are chiefly saprophytic, living in soil or aquatic habitats. However, two species, Mycobacterium fortuitum and Mycobacterium chelonae, are opportunistic pathogens affecting people with underlying immune dysfunction or chronic disease [1–6]. RGM are also associated with post-surgical infections or medically invasive procedures. Several outbreaks of M. fortuitum and M. chelonae have been linked to a hospital or clinical source [6–11].
Certain features of RGM growth and epidemiology suggest that they may form biofilms. First, they are commonly isolated from aquatic habitats including water distribution systems and tap water [1, 12]. Secondly, several clinical outbreaks have been associated with medical devices that were stored or cleaned in distilled or tap water [7–11]. Thirdly, RGM are associated with resistance to both disinfectants and antibiotics [3, 4, 13], an attribute consistently seen in biofilm forming organisms [14]. Finally, there is some direct evidence that mycobacteria can exist in adherent or slimy sediments within water distribution systems. Schultze-Röbbecke et al. recovered both slow and rapidly growing mycobacteria in 45 of 50 biofilm samples taken from municipal or domestic water supplies in Germany and France [15, 16], but these experiments were conducted over several months or years and did not include time periods of less than 4 weeks. Vess et al. also found that M. chelonae colonised PVC pipes, but colonisation was again not examined before 8 weeks or under flow conditions [17].
The ability of pathogenic RGM to form biofilms has important implications regarding the epidemiology of these organisms, their ability to survive in the environment and their resistance to biocides. The objective of this study was to assess whether the RGM species M. fortuitum formed biofilms in the short term under flow conditions. A modified Robbins device (MRD) was used to grow and sample biofilms. Silastic rubber was chosen for the test surface because it is commonly used in the medical environment [18].
Materials and methods
Culture conditions
M. fortuitum (isolate 10384 from the National Collections of Industrial and Marine Bacteria) was recovered from frozen stock cultures on solid medium (Oxoid blood agar base No. 2 without the addition of blood). For MRD experiments, M. fortuitum was transferred to 100 ml of Middlebrook 7H9 broth supplemented with 10% (w/v) OADC enrichment medium (Difco) and grown for 4 days in an orbital shaking incubator (110 revolutions min−1). Exponentially-growing batch cultures (2–3 days old) were sub-cultured twice prior to inoculation into the MRD system. All cultures were grown at 37°C.
MRD experiments
The MRD is a polycarbonate flow cell with a rectangular lumen lined with sampling studs that can be aseptically removed for analysis. It is used as an in situ sampling device for assessing biofilm growth in medical, environmental and industrial systems (described fully in [19]. Silastic rubber disks were glued in place onto the studs (Fig. 1). A 3% (v/v) inoculum of a 72-h M. fortuitum batch culture was introduced into a culture reservoir 18 h before the initiation of flow. It was previously determined that after 18 h the culture was in early exponential phase with an optical density (540 nm) of 0.555±0.015. The batch culture was recirculated through the MRD at a continuous flow rate of 54 ml h−1 (flow velocity=8.33×10−4 m s−1; Reynolds number=3.9). The experiment was maintained at 37°C and repeated 3 times.
Sampling protocol and microscopy
2.3.1Planktonic cells
Planktonic samples were obtained by aseptically removing 50–100 μl of culture medium from the lumen of the MRD via a stud port. Viable cells were assessed at each sampling time by plating triplicate samples of the appropriate dilution onto agar plates. The plates were incubated at 37°C for 48–72 h in candle jars to provide an enhanced CO2 atmosphere.
2.3.2Biofilm cells
Samples of attached cells were taken at 2, 6, 12, 24, 36 and 48 h by removing either 2 (experiment 1) or 3 studs (experiments 2 and 3). Studs were randomly selected at each time point to avoid variability in hydrodynamics and nutrient availability along the length of the MRD. Non-adherent cells were washed from the disk by rinsing with 10 ml of sterile 25% Ringers solution. Adherent cells were removed by scraping as described by Brading et al. [20]. Viable cells were expressed as colony-forming units (CFU) ml−1 for planktonic cells or CFU cm−2 for attached cells.
The growth rates and doubling times for both planktonic and attached cells were calculated from average cell counts obtained from duplicate (experiment 1) or triplicate (experiments 2 and 3) studs at each sample time using linear regression analysis (Quattro Pro 6.0). Doubling times are reported with the associated r2 coefficient.
To observe attached M. fortuitum cells directly, silastic disks at each time point from experiment 1 were examined microscopically. The disks were removed from the stud and rinsed to dislodge non-adherent cells and fixed in 5% glutaraldehyde/0.1 M cacodylate (pH 7.4) overnight at 4°C. The fixed samples were rinsed in cacodylate buffer and dehydrated using an ethanol series (30, 50, 70, 100%), air dried and examined under an Olympus BH2 microscope for transmitted light microscopy and image analysis. For scanning electron microscopy (SEM) the dehydrated disks were sputter-coated with a gold-palladium mixture to reduce charge artefacts and visualised using a Cambridge Stereoscan 100 (Leica, Cambridge, UK) with an acceleration voltage of 25 kV.
Image analysis
To assess surface coverage, a COHU 4612-5000 camera (Cohu, San Diego, CA, USA) connected to a Scion VG-5 PCI framestore board (Scion, Frederick, MD, USA) was used to capture images of biofilms. A threshold was applied so that the cell clusters were black and the surrounding voids white. The relative surface coverage of the biofilm was the proportion of black to the total area [21]. Final surface cover was determined by using the mean of 5 microscopic fields. The area of individual cell clusters was determined by manually outlining the perimeters of the cell clusters. All measurements were calibrated against a 1-mm graticule with 10-μm divisions (Ref. #CS990, Graticules, Tonbridge, Kent, UK).
Viable cell enumeration of planktonic and biofilm cells
The average viable planktonic cell population increased from 8.5×107±4.8×106 (mean±S.E., n= 6) CFU ml−1 2 h after flow began to 1.6×109±3.4×108 (n= 8) CFU ml−1 after 48 h (Fig. 2A). The doubling time for planktonic cells between 2 and 36 h was 8.7 h (r2=0.99, n= 5). The average viable attached cell population increased exponentially from 7.9×105±1.5×105 (n= 19) cells cm−2 after 2 h to 5.9×108±1.6×108 (n= 22) cells cm−2 after 48 h (Fig. 2B). The doubling time for attached cells, 4.4 h (r2=0.92, n= 5), was significantly different (P > 0.01, based on the standard error of the X coefficient) than for planktonic cells.
Image analysis
Transmitted light microscopy and image analysis were also used to observe the pattern of surface coverage of M. fortuitum directly. Fig. 3A shows that M. fortuitum surface coverage increased gradually for 48 h. The average area of individual cell clusters also increased (Fig. 3B). The biofilm accumulated sigmoidally with the greatest increase in surface colonisation occurring between 12 and 36 h. The observed area of cell clusters followed a similar sigmoidal pattern (Fig. 3B). After 48 h, 60.3±14.3% (n= 5) of the silastic disk was covered with attached M. fortuitum (Fig. 3A).
Direct microscopy of the biofilm revealed evidence of heterogeneous cell morphology. After 2 h rods that showed ovoid, refractive structures were observed (Fig. 4A). After 48 h branching rods were observed along with straight or curved rods (Fig. 4B).
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) corroborated colonisation trends observed from viable cell counts and image analysis data. Several small cell clusters were evident after 2 h (Fig. 5A). By 12 h cell clusters were larger and showed dense aggregates of cells (Fig. 5B). After 24 h the biofilm was composed of large cell clusters separated by voids (Fig. 5C and D). Higher magnification micrographs indicated that cell clusters exhibited heterogeneous morphology with a mycelial-like texture (Fig. 6A). This morphology was also observed with light microscopy (Fig. 4A and B). Material that resembled extracellular matrix was also present (Fig. 6C). Pleiomorphic cell structures were evident at higher magnification revealing bacilli of different sizes ranging from short curved rods to longer branching rods (Fig. 6A). Cells also aggregated into cord-like strands (Fig. 6A and B).
Biofilms have been defined as 'matrix-enclosed bacterial populations adherent to each other and/or to surfaces or interfaces'[22]. Using this definition M. fortuitum formed biofilms on silastic rubber disks under flow conditions. Both viable cell count data and microscopic data indicated a gradual increase in attached M. fortuitum cells (Figs. 2 and 3 and 5). Accumulation occurred in a sigmoidal pattern that is generally observed with biofilm formation [23]. The doubling time for attached M. fortuitum cells was approximately half that of planktonic cells. This probably reflects that surface accumulation is the sum of both the attachment of planktonic cells and the growth of attached cells, while accumulation in the liquid phase is probably due primarily to growth alone [23]. The faster doubling time exhibited by biofilm cells could also reflect physiological differences between planktonic and attached populations [22].
Both SEM and image analysis data showed a gradual increase in cell aggregates. These methods allowed fixed, attached cells to be viewed without disrupting the biofilm. Image analysis also allowed quantitative assessment of the non-disrupted mycobacterial biofilm (Fig. 3). Cell clusters were present on surfaces after 2 h of flow through the MRD. After 24 h some areas of the surface were colonised extensively, with dense cell clusters separated by voids that contained few or no cells (Fig. 5C and D, and Fig. 6A). This morphology is consistent with other biofilm structures that exhibited interstitial voids or channels separating cell aggregates [24].
There was some evidence that the M. fortuitum biofilm contained an extracellular matrix (Fig. 6C). This material is frequently correlated with adhesion and protection in biofilms [22]. Extracellular material was also observed by Vess et al. who showed M. chelonae cells surrounded by an amorphous material after 8 weeks in non-flowing water and postulated that extracellular material may be a principal factor in the survival of water microorganisms after treatment with germicides [17]. Extracellular material has also been observed on a catheter surface colonised by M. chelonae[6]. It is also possible that adhesion is primarily due to the hydrophobic properties of the mycobacterial cell wall.
It is significant that the presence of other organisms was not required for colonisation by M. fortuitum to occur. This observation suggests that M. fortuitum may be a primary colonising organism. Shultze-Robbecke et al. also postulated that mycobacteria are involved in primary colonisation and state that the hydrophobicity of the mycobacterial cell wall makes these organisms 'adhesion specialists of the aquatic environment'[16]. The extent to which M. fortuitum formed a biofilm and the alacrity with which it formed suggests that this organism may readily produce biofilms in industrial, medical and natural environments.
RGM have been implicated in a variety of clinically-acquired infections including several outbreaks following cardiac surgery [10]. Wallace et al. found that one M. fortuitum isolate was linked to a hospital water supply where the organism was recovered from incoming municipal water mains. One explanation for these outbreaks is that M. fortuitum could reside within biofilms. Biofilm reservoirs could explain both the irregularity of outbreaks and the difficulty in identifying a source of the infection, since water samples often fail to include specimens that are adherent to tubing or pipe materials. Based upon the results of the present and previous studies, biofilms should be considered as possible reservoirs for the survival of opportunistic mycobacteria in aquatic environments.
Our results add to the limited body of literature on mycobacterial biofilms by showing that M. fortuitum formed biofilms under flow conditions without the presence of other organisms. Biofilms represent a favourable microenvironment for many bacteria. Organisation within a biofilm can provide optimal nutrients and reduced competition from other microbial species. This organisation can also protect bacteria from predation and damaging substances in the environment, including chemical disinfectants and antibiotics [14].
In general, it has been assumed that the resistance of mycobacteria to antibacterial compounds such as disinfectants and antibiotics has been due to three fundamental characteristics: (i) the unique structure of the mycobacterial cell wall as a permeation barrier; (ii) the ability of certain pathogenic mycobacteria to survive within phagocytic cells; and (iii) the rapid mutation of target molecules [25–27]. Our results suggest that a fourth possibility should be considered, at least with environmental mycobacterial species. Mycobacterial resistance to germicides might be in part due to the ability of these organisms to exist in biofilms.
This research was supported by the Wellcome Trust Ref. 050950/MJM/APH. We would like to thank Gavin Wakely for help with electron microscopy and Tony Davey for technical assistance. We would also like to thank Paul Stoodley for technical advice and help with image analysis and for his kind assistance with the preparation of this manuscript.


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A faulty cog in the Texas Rangers' consecutive bullpen meltdowns by the Bay, O'Day called out catcher Bengie Molina to discuss pitch selection to dangerous rookie catcher Buster Posey, who, with a runner on first, could have tied it up with one crack of the bat.
"I had an idea what I wanted to throw," O'Day said. "And he [Molina] had a better idea of what I wanted to throw. I went with Bengie."
O'Day executed the pitch, a slider away, and Posey got on top of it, softly rolling it up through the box. Shortstop Elvis Andrus charged it, scooped it and threw out Posey in plenty of time.
Inning over. Crisis averted.
"I wasn't worried at all," starter Colby Lewis calmly said in the happy postgame clubhouse.
That meeting at the mound was the biggest single moment of the World Series for the Rangers. Whether it becomes a series-altering is to be seen, starting with Sunday's Game 4.
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Lewis gave up a second solo home run to Andres Torres in the eighth inning with one out. After Nelson Cruz made a terrific running catch on Freddy Sanchez's missile to left, Lewis got to 0-2 on Aubrey Huff and appeared poised to get out of the eighth on his own terms, as he did against the Yankees.
But, then Lewis plunked Huff. That triggered manager Ron Washington to the mound. Lewis exited to a standing ovation. Posey stood in the on-deck circle representing the tying run.
"I brought in O'Day to face Posey," Washington said. "I wanted to give him [Posey] that funky [side-arm] look. If Posey gets a hit, I'm bringing in [Neftali] Feliz."
More on the young flamethrower in a moment. First, O'Day had to walk through fire as the right-hand-hitting Posey laid off three straight pitches to take the count full. Molina and O'Day met on the mound.
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Retiring Posey finally allowed Washington to to go the 22-year-old Feliz for a postseason save situation in his first World Series appearance. It took 14 games, but was well worth the wait. A tad nervous and wild during the ALDS, Feliz blistered fastball after fastball. He threw 12 heaters among 13 pitches in the 1-2-3 ninth.
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After a third-pitch slider to lead-off man Pat Burrell, Feliz threw nothing but smoke, all clocked between 97 and 99 mph. Burrell swung at a high one and whiffed. Cody Ross, who broke up Lewis' shutout bid with a solo homer in the seventh, sailed a 99 mph fastball to the warning track in right. Juan Uribe had no chance to catch up to a 99 mph riser.
"Just blowin'," Lewis said. "It was awesome."
Feliz became the second-youngest pitcher in World Series history to record a save behind only Bob Welch in 1978 against the New York Yankees. Who'd the 22-year-old pass? Nolan Ryan. The Rangers team president and co-owner saved Game 3 for the 1969 New York Mets. He, too, was 22, but about three months older.
Asked about passing Ryan, Feliz smiled as he spoke in Spanish to team interpreter Eleno Ornelas. A contingent of Latin press suddenly laughed out loud as Feliz answered the question.
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Perhaps something was lost in translation. Not lost was the uplifting performance by a bullpen that desperately needed one.
"It's huge, especially for [O'Day]," the staff's elder statesman, Darren Oliver said. "He's been doing it all year anyway, but to do it in a big situation like this, because everybody's watching, every pitch is so important, I'm sure his phone is blowing up with a bunch of text messages.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy ushered in the era of the television presidency. Millions watched together as he took the oath of office, declaring "ask not what your country can do for you." The medium proved as powerful as the message.
Obama And The Internet
Obama And The Internet
Today, that medium is the Internet. The number of Americans who get their political news primarily from the Web tripled since the 2004 election.
Barack Obama successfully captured young voters by finding them where they hang out online. The Obama campaign used Facebook, YouTube, and even text messaging to seal the deal.
The election is over, but the new administration has sent signals it intends to stay wired.
If Obama could motivate young people to step away from the keyboards and vote, maybe he could ask them to volunteer, or tutor, or recycle.
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Personal Histories
The Filth and the Fury is, in a sense, intended as an antidote to Julien Temple's 1980 directorial debut The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle, which is often credited with originating the now-legendary view of the band's manager, Malcolm McLaren, as the mastermind behind the phenomenon that was the Sex Pistols. Temple's new film presents the anti-McLaren version of The Sex Pistols's history by presenting the band's (predominantly John Lydon's) side of the story. Despite Temple's insistence that this is a "film" and not a standard documentary about a band, his approach to focus on the events of the band's history as lived by the bandmembers, to "humanize" or personalize the history is not only anti-McLaren, but also self-consciously opposed to the "Situationists or academics" he believes have appropriated the story of the Sex Pistols (see the same interview). As such, The Filth and the Fury misses many opportunities for analysis and instead works to fetishize the individuals involved and to fetishize the band itself. Nonetheless, The Filth and the Fury is a very good, if nostalgic, rockumentary that effectively reproduces many of the pleasures associated with the spectacle of the Sex Pistols.
The Filth and the Fury opens with a sequence designed to indicate the chaotic social climate of London at the time the Sex Pistols was founded. These images are joined with voice-overs by John Lydon, Steve Jones, and Paul Cook describing their childhoods as distinctly working class. Thus the film begins by setting up the expectation that it will interrogate the cultural moment that produced British punk. But it doesn't: instead, we are left with an uncritical portrait of mid-1970s London, still mired in a general and unexamined postwar dissatisfaction, as well as what winds up being a meaningless reference to the working class backgrounds of the bandmembers. If Temple had chosen to explore the implications of his opening sequence, he might well have produced a film about punk as a movement instead of a rockumentary about a particular band.
The Filth and the Fury
Julien Temple
(as themselves) John Lydon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungeon
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Such an analysis might, for example, have yielded insight into at least two important highlights of the Sex Pistols's brief career. First, in early 1977, the band was very famously dropped by EMI, their record label at the time, in response to the moral outrage at the band's public behaviors. This outrage was generated in large part by the media's response to (and exacerbation of) the band's now infamous appearance on Thames TV's Today Programme. During the provocative interview, host Bill Grundy, who was drunk at the time, insists they "say something outrageous." They do. Workers at EMI's pressing plant threatened a job action if the band was not dropped from the label. This history is left out of The Filth and the Fury and instead we are given the standard narrative about bad boys who are too hot to handle. Second, on Christmas Day 1977, the Sex Pistols played for the last time in Britain at a benefit for striking workers and their families. The film presents this venue as incidental, as unworthy of a band with the number one pop single in the country. The single, "God Save the Queen," was banned by the BBC and was not listed on the music charts; the tour was conducted in secret because of harassment from local authorities and because of club bans. Within this context, Temple moves on to document the Sex Pistols's ill-fated American tour. It is at these and similar points in The Filth and the Fury that one wishes the film's history was not exclusively personal and the references to the bandmembers' class backgrounds were not purely descriptive.
Notwithstanding its various disappointments, the film successfully presents a very personal perspective on the band's history. Archival footage is complemented by recent interviews with bandmembers shot in silhouette, presumably to avoid or at least to acknowledge this conventional rockumentary component. McLaren, who was not interviewed for the film, is represented by a disembodied bondage mask which speaks excerpts from previous interviews. In a particularly poignant and somewhat embarrassing segment, John Lydon cries while discussing Sid Vicious's death. For his part, Sid Vicious's commentary is extracted from clips of an interview conducted by Julien Temple in 1978. This interview reveals a surprisingly articulate Sid Vicious discussing virtually all aspects of the band's history. Despite the personal insights, however, the story itself is already too familiar from the many other attempts to document the Sex Pistols: the tragedy of Sid Vicious, the demonization of Nancy Spungeon, the rivalries between bandmembers, the media manipulation, the antagonistic relationship between Malcolm McLaren and John Lydon, etc. The recent interviews provide insight into the bandmembers's feelings about these issues, but nothing substantive is revealed that recasts or even complicates the history itself.
The film proceeds chronologically through this familiar history by juxtaposing footage of the Sex Pistols much of which fans will be pleased to know is previously unreleased with clips of contemporaneous British television (including news segments, weather reports, advertisements, game show clips, etc.). As a result, the context for punk (which is conflated throughout with the Sex Pistols) is very clearly British pop culture, and particularly British mainstream media culture. Consequently, the Sex Pistols's intrusion into an otherwise banal media culture is presented as a clash of styles. This strategy formally severs the link suggested by the film's opening between British punk and the social relations that produced it. It is now a purely aesthetic contrast. For example, the juxtaposition of the Sex Pistols's performance on Top of the Pops with those of the other bands appearing there at the time makes the Sex Pistols appear somehow modern and the other bands somehow outdated. The technique does accurately demonstrate the extent to which the aesthetic innovations associated with punk have been assimilated over the past twenty-five years, thereby generating a certain amount of pleasure for the audience. But it fails to recreate the dialectic between "respectable" and "outrageous" performances which might originally have rendered the contrast meaningful. At one point, Lydon laments the commodification of the style he helped popularize. Left unexamined and unacknowledged, however, by both Lydon and the film itself, is the confluence of the band's desire to achieve popular success, the mass media's hegemonic function, and the music (and fashion) industry's reliance on innovation.
"The majority of the people who will see [the film]," according to Eric Gardner, John Lydon's manager and the executive producer of The Filth and the Fury, "were not part of the punk movement. They will be going to see what all the fuss was about" (www.filthandfury.com). But if, as Gardner implies, punk was a movement, prospective audiences would not know that from a rockumentary so relentlessly focused on the personal history of the Sex Pistols. The film misses the opportunity to look beneath the standard version of punk history and tell the story of punk as a genuine social movement struggling to create a truly participatory culture. The Sex Pistols were and, to a certain extent, remain an important influence on that movement. Gardner claims that "when punk came to America and American bands began copying the Sex Pistols, the anger was manufactured. One of the important things about the film is that it helps people to understand that the creation of the Pistols was as much to do with politics and economics as it was music." Because The Filth and the Fury fails to analyze the political economy of British punk that produced and extended beyond the Sex Pistols, audiences are left ill-equipped to understand the contours of a movement that did resonate in America. And because the film is really a rockumentary, audiences are left with a fetishized view of the Sex Pistols that renders the movement itself inauthentic.
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As I mentioned before, I had always dreamed of sailing on a "real" sailboat. I simply did not have the opportunity and never wanted to sail with a champagne/sunset type of holiday. This sailing adventure really turned out to be exactly what I had hoped it would be. It was a true "hands-on" learning experience that I will remember the rest of my life. It has now inspired me to look for some sailing buddies and hopefully I'll sail again. As a first-time sailing sighted person, I was filled with pleasure watching VIPs winching, tying knots and steering wind-filled sails. I was grateful to be a part of the same crew experiencing the same sensations. A big THANK YOU to Traveleyes again! Can't wait for the next one.
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My first Traveleyes experience was excellent. I was a bit apprehensive beforehand, but my fears were totally unfounded. I chose a short weekend break in York, just so I could see if this sort of holiday was my kind of thing, and I'm happy to say that I'm already looking for my next holiday with Traveleyes. The people are lovely, both sighted and visually-impaired, and it was a joy to spend time with them. I really hope I meet some of them again. If you are hesitating, don't! Book your Traveleyes holiday now - you won't regret it!
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Jackie Rothery, Sighted Traveller - Tignes Skiing, January 2016
Cuba is yet another great fantastic destination for both blind and sighted travellers. Live music fills the air from morning till night. Visits to a tobacco factory and wandering around where rum is produced and blended, offered us the strong smells and a chance to taste the rum. Not all VIs could see the 1950s American type cars, but we experienced a trip round the town when the atmosphere and exhaust fumes vied with each other! Many people still travel by horse and cart, so yet another smell! Once at the beach many in the group enjoyed swimming in the sea - a great pleasure we can't really do at home.
Moira Wilson, Sighted Traveller - Cuba, December 2015
From the childhood TV of "Daktari" to crying over "Born Free" - this lived up to every dream. Actually touching lions and her allowing us to walk with her, to the spray of Victoria Falls, a touch of the elephant as it curls its trunk around your finger each was a small moment of joy. And then we had the Safaris, when the wildlife got up close and personal - and sometimes real close! And how do you describe how big a hippo's jaw is? Pick up its skeleton! This was my first Traveleyes non-skiing holiday - and my only thought as I came back was when can I go and do it again? Damn work for getting in the way!
Debbie Bowles, Sighted Traveller - Zimbabwe, November 2015
I initially was quite sceptical about how much I would get from a safari but I was so wrong. No feeling on earth compares to the thrill and wonder of being on safari regardless of whether you can see or not. This was a superb holiday that really left its mark on me and has made me want to keep pushing the boundaries and try things that I wouldn't have before.
James Barrett, Blind Traveller - Zimbabwe, November 2015
As my first time with Traveleyes the walking trip was a great introduction to guided holidays. It was also my first holiday in Italy and the great food and good walking made it a perfect holiday for me. I went with my wife who is also blind and our needs as a couple were always treated with consideration and thought by Jack, the holiday rep. I have come back from this holiday with lots of great memories but also a stinking cold (thanks Anita).
David Buckley, Blind Traveller - Cinque Terre, October 2015
No other travel company gives visually impaired people the same range of opportunities to visit countries across the world. Exciting destinations, action packed holiday programmes. The chance to do things that you only dream of. All done in a safe, friendly environment with experienced tour managers. What more could a visually impaired person want from a travel group? Not cheap but worth it.
Steve Ewens, Blind Traveller - Canada & New England, September 2015
Yet another amazing experience with Traveleyes. I do recommend Traveleyes holidays to other visually impaired people who wish to travel, partly because the trips provide such a sensory experience of another country and partly because I find it very satisfying and fulfilling as a blind traveller to be able to exercise a level of independence on holiday which may not always be possible when holidaying with friends or family.
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The McLaughlin Group was a syndicated half-hour weekly public affairs television program in the United States, hosted by John McLaughlin from its first episode in 1982 until his death in 2016.
A group of four pundits, prompted by McLaughlin, discussed current political issues in a round table format. It aired on PBS member TV stations and the PBS digital subchannel World as well as on some local commercial TV stations, including WCBS-TV in New York City. During its run, underwriters included Pfizer, the New York Stock Exchange, and GE (the longest-serving).
The general format for the show consisted of moderator John McLaughin questioning four commentators, usually Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, Clarence Page, Tom Rogan and Mort Zuckerman during the show′s final years. Members of the regular panel varied over the years.
A typical episode covered three or four issues. The first was introduced by McLaughlin, beginning with, "Issue one..." which was explained by him, usually in a prerecorded video segment accompanied by his voice-over. He then proposed a question for the panelists, starting with Buchanan (if present). The conversation was usually sedate at the beginning of the program, but as opposing viewpoints emerged there was more verbal rough-housing, good-natured gamesmanship and occasionally very loud crosstalk as panelists attempted to out-yell the others, all of which were the show's trademarks.[1]
Two episodes at the turn of the calendar year were reserved for "The McLaughlin Group Year-End Awards". Each panelist announced his or her choice for each category such as "Biggest Winner of 2008," "Best Politician," "Most Boring," "Turncoat of the Year," "Enough Already," "Most Underrated," etc., followed by McLaughlin's choice. During the first of these special episodes, the participants typically dressed in festive Christmas attire; in the second, they typically dressed in formal evening wear for the New Year.
In popular culture[edit]
McLaughlin's loud and forceful style of presentation was parodied by many comedians and other commentators, most notably Dana Carvey of Saturday Night Live[2][3] McLaughlin made a cameo on one of Carvey's parody sketches.[4] The program was also included in a few major films, including Dave, Murder at 1600 and Independence Day.[citation needed] In the movie Watchmen, the group was portrayed discussing the nature of Dr. Manhattan.[5] In the videogame MechCommander 2, the fictional discussion panel "think tank" closely resembled The McLaughlin Group's basic format -- a moderator in between four commenters, McLaughlin's speech patterns, general appearance, etc.[6]
Journalists James Fallows and ex-McLaughlin panelist Jack Germond opined that the show gloried too much in sensationalism and simplification, to the detriment of serious journalism.[7] Ronald Reagan, while in office as U.S. president, once referred to McLaughlin and his group as taking the traditional Sunday morning talk show format of a moderator with a group of journalists and turning it into "a political version of Animal House."[8]
The show was distributed by WTTW. In the United States, it was carried on numerous public broadcasting stations and, from May 2007 to August 2016, a small number of CBS-affiliated stations.[9] Most stations carried the program on weekends, but there were a few, like WGBH in Boston, Kentucky Educational Television stations across Kentucky, Mississippi ETV in Jackson, Mississippi, PBS channel 8 KUHT in Houston, Texas, WGVU Channel 35/WGVK Channel 52 Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo, Michigan, and PBS channel 3 KBTC in Tacoma, Washington, that ran it on Friday evenings, and WHUT-TV Channel 32 in Washington, D.C., aired it on Tuesdays. Internationally, the show was carried on several satellite channels, such as Voice of America TV and it was on the London-based CNBC Europe.[10] It was also carried by CTV in Christchurch, New Zealand, and by Triangle TV in Auckland, New Zealand.
From its start until May 2008, the program originated from WRC-TV, the NBC-owned station in Washington, D.C. From May 2008 until it ended in August 2016, the show was produced at WUSA-TV, the Tegna-owned CBS affiliate for Washington, D.C., where it also aired in that market.[11]
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In the final months of the show′s run, McLaughlin took a smaller role in the panel′s weekly discussions due to health issues and a wavering voice.[12] The McLaughlin Group recorded its last episode on August 12, 2016, without him on camera.[13] It was the only episode he missed in the show′s 34-year history, although his voice introduced the week′s issues in pre-taped voiceovers.[14] The episode began with a written statement from McLaughlin, which read:
Dear Friends of The McLaughlin Group, Dr. McLaughlin here. As the panel′s recent absences attest, I am under the weather. The final issue of this episode has my voice, but please forgive me for its weaker than usual quality. Yet my spirit is strong and my dedication to this show remains absolute![14]
Panelist Pat Buchanan then began the episode by saying, "This is our first time in 34 years that our distinguished leader Dr. McLaughlin is not in his chair and we miss him. But let's get on with the show." Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, Clarence Page, and Tom Rogan recorded the show without a moderator. Rogan closed the episode by saying, "On behalf of the panel, we want to say to John that we're thinking of you and you have our very best."[14]
Four days after the recording of the last episode, John McLaughlin died at the age of 89 on August 16, 2016. On August 18, 2016, WTTW′s chief content officer Dan Soles announced that The McLaughlin Group had ended production. He told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement, "This long-running political commentary and discussion show was consistently an audience favorite, and we will miss this important contribution to our political coverage. WTTW is proud to have brought the series, and Dr. McLaughlin, to the PBS system."[12]
Regular McLaughlin panelists[edit]
- Regular panelists
- Pat Buchanan: political commentator and author
- Eleanor Clift: contributor, MSNBC and The Daily Beast
- Clarence Page: columnist, The Chicago Tribune
- Tom Rogan columnist, National Review
- Appeared every several months
- Paul Glastris: editor, Washington Monthly
- Mort Zuckerman: owner, New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report
- David Rennie: columnist, The Economist
- Former regular panelists
Tony Blankley, Lawrence O'Donnell, Michael Barone, Jack Germond, Rich Lowry, Robert Novak, Morton Kondracke, Fred Barnes, Lawrence Kudlow, Chris Matthews, Al Hunt, Mark Shields, Michael Kinsley, Monica Crowley, Katty Kay, Susan Ferrechio, Jay Carney
See also[edit]
- ^ "AT LUNCH WITH: The McLaughlin Group; Just Another Talk Show? Wronnnggg!". The New York Times. December 16, 1992. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
- ^ McLaughlin Group from Saturday Night Live, retrieved 2016-12-01
- ^ The McLaughlin Group Cold Open from Saturday Night Live, retrieved 2016-12-01
- ^ "Watch The McLaughlin Group Halloween Cold Open from Saturday Night Live on NBC.com". Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ Hoberman, J. (4 March 2009). "Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan, Meet Dr. Hollywood". Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ "MechCommander 2: Introductory cinimatic". YouTube. 2009-08-20. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
- ^ "Why America Hates the Press". Frontline. Oct 22, 1996. Retrieved Aug 20, 2012.
- ^ "Remarks at a Reception for the McLaughlin Group". Reagan.utexas.edu. 1985-10-29. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
- ^ "The McLaughlin Group". Mclaughlin.com. Retrieved 2012-02-10.[dead link]
- ^ "News Headlines". Cnbc.com. Retrieved 2012-02-10.[dead link]
- ^ 'The McLaughlin Group' Moving to WUSA and WCBS Beginning May 4th[dead link]
- ^ a b Mitovich, Matt Webb; Mitovich, Matt Webb (19 August 2016). "The McLaughlin Group to End 34-Year Run, Following Host's Death". Retrieved 1 December 2016.
- ^ Littleton, Cynthia (August 18, 2016). "'McLaughlin Group' to End After This Week's Episode". Variety. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
- ^ a b c Evans, Greg (14 August 2016). "Ailing John McLaughlin Misses First 'The McLaughlin Group' In 34 Years". Retrieved 1 December 2016.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Podcast, both video and audio
- The McLaughlin Group at the Internet Movie Database
- The McLaughlin Group at TV.com
- 1982 American television series debuts
- 2016 American television series endings
- 1980s American television series
- 1990s American television series
- 2000s American television series
- 2010s American television series
- American television news programs
- First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
- Sunday morning talk shows
- CNBC Europe programmes
- PBS network shows
- English-language television programming
- Television series by WTTW


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A Marine has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old UNT student in a suspected New Year's Eve road rage incident.
U.S. marshals arrested Eric Jamal Johnson on Tuesday morning at a military base in Yuma, Ariz., Denton police say.
Johnson, a corporal assigned to the aviation weapons and tactics squadron, faces a murder charge in the death of Sara Mutschlechner. Police said he had ties to the area, but they did not provide details.
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Surveillance video from nearby businesses and social media helped identify Johnson as a suspect, police said. Witnesses reported that they saw him with a gun before the shooting, but authorities haven't recovered a weapon.
Witnesses said the University of North Texas junior was serving as her friends' designated driver when several men in a midsize SUV exchanged words with them in traffic near Texas Woman's University. At least two of the men had attended a party where Mutschlechner and her friends were earlier in the night, according to an affidavit.
Investigators are trying to determine whether anyone else in the SUV will be charged.
"It was an amicable conversation to begin with that quickly went downhill, and some derogatory statements were made toward the female occupants of that vehicle," said Denton police spokesman Daniel Kizer, who described the remarks as sexually explicit.
Police suspect that Johnson, who was driving the SUV, fired multiple shots at Mutschlechner's car before speeding away. She was shot in the head, and her car struck another vehicle before crashing into a pole on North Elm Street near University Drive.
Mutschlechner died on New Year's Day. Another woman in her car was hospitalized with a broken clavicle, police said.
During the investigation, police focused on a group that performed at the party that Mutschlechner and her friends attended. Witnesses said two members of the Daytona Boyz were in the SUV, according to the affidavit.
Postings on social media showed others who were at the party with the group members, including Johnson. His social media profiles included a vehicle that matched the SUV involved in the shooting.
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