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Stan Lee reads Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
'The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything" – Stan Lee (December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018).
One story Stan Lee read and enjoyed was Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. The artist and storyteller who created Spider-Man, Iron Man and the X-Men reads from the book. It's terrific. Thank you for all the stories, Stan Lee. "Excelsior!"
Spotter: Stan Lee reads Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven – Open Culture
Posted: 12th, November 2018 | In: Books, Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Princess Margaret's absurd morning rituals were 'such fun'
In 1955, Princess Margaret shared with the world her morning routine. The Queen's chain-smoking sister's regimented daily habits, with her "punishing schedule of drinking and smoking", were revealed in Ma'am Darling by the satirist Craig Brown. "For a while," writes Brown, Princess Margaret "glued matchboxes to tumblers so that she could strike matches while drinking, but it was a craze that never caught on.' But worse than her fabled rudeness – an "unstoppable urge to say the first thing that came into her head, just so long as it was sufficiently unpleasant" – and vapid weltschmerz of her rank in life, were the sycophants. As Brown notes:
Receiving a prize from the young Princess Margaret in 1958, the 52-year-old John Betjeman was so overwhelmed by her curvaceous presence that tears came into his eyes, a reaction duly noted by his waspish friend, Maurice Bowra, the chairman of the judges, who lampooned it in a parodic verse:
"Green with lust and sick with shyness
Let me lick your lacquered toes.
Gosh, O gosh, your Royal Highness
Put your finger up my nose …"
Mingling with the obsequious is wonderful, but the morning's were peak princess:
Princess Margaret's morning routine c 1955. Yassgirl. pic.twitter.com/YbCAvhtfMC
— Gareth Roberts MA (Failed) (@OldRoberts953) October 20, 2017
They really are not like the rest of us. As JG Ballard noted in Princess Margaret's Facelift: "Somewhere in this paradoxical space our imaginations are free to range, and we find ourselves experimenting like impresarios with all the possibilities that these magnified figures seem to offer us." As Mags would say through a tight mouth, her sarcastic eyes a small sign of life amongst the panto Munsters, "Such fun!"
Posted: 15th, October 2018 | In: Books, Key Posts, Royal Family | Comment
Stormy Daniels teaches Donald Trump that porn star sex is rubbish
What's it like to have sex with Donald Trump? Until Melania goes full Princess Diana and reveals all, we can roll over and ask Stormy Daniels (aka Stephanie Clifford) about intercourse with The Don. "It may have ben the least impressive sex I've ever had," is the lead quote on the Mirror's front page. So there's Trump in his 'I'm Number 1 why Try Harder' T-shirt possibly expecting new adventures with a professional shagger. Reading Stormy damn Trump brings to mind the tennis pro playing with the happy amateur. The pro knocks the ball over the net with spin, power and guile; the amateur hits a sublime return, his game improved immeasurably by the skill of his partner . I once played head tennis with a top footballer. With an equally hapless mate, I could manage 6 or seven headers. But with talent we got to 20, 30, 40… So, Donald Trump, what's it like to have sex with a pro?
On page 7, we learn that Trump's penis is "smaller than average" but not "freakishly small". "He knows he has an unusual penis," says Stormy T-Cup. "It has a huge mushroom head like a toadstool." did little Mis Muffet sit on the engorged tuffet? "I lay there," she says enticingly, "annoyed I was getting fucked by a guy with yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart." so much for the fantasy porn star level sex. Stick with the love doll, smut enthusiasts. You won't get judged.
On page 10, Stormy's lie-there-and-tell becomes "Donald stump". In the Sun, we learn that Stormy's tribute to gaming forms part of her book, Full Disclosure. Donald isn't a "fun guy" in bed, the paper puns. We're reminded there and in the Express that Trump denies the affair. She claims to have been paid "hush money". And Trump reimbursed his then lawyer, Michael Cohen, for the money she received, $130,000. Yep. That's what it allegedly costs to shag an angry woman who thinks you're an inadequate loser. There's a book in it – but not a token entitling the bearer to a discount on marriage guidance…
Posted: 19th, September 2018 | In: Books, Celebrities, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment
James Joyce crayon marked manuscripts for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
James Joyce wrote Finnegans Wake "lying on his stomach in bed, with a large blue pencil, clad in a white coat, and composed most of Finnegans Wake with crayon pieces on cardboard," says Maria Popova. "The large crayons… helped him see what he was writing, and the white coat helped reflect more light onto the page at night."
His obituary in the NYTimes noted:
While living in Zurich Joyce began to suffer from severe ocular illness and eventually underwent at least ten operations on his eyes. For years he was almost totally blind and much of his later writing was done with red crayon on huge white sheets of paper.
"Joyce used a different colored crayon each time he went through a notebook incorporating notes into his draft," adds Derek Attridge in a review of The Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo. The crayons were "a scrupulousness which has never been satisfactorily explained".
And steeped in deep meaning, of course, Unlkess the witer was a great meketeer. As he said: "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant – and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
Spotter: Flashbak, Open Culture
Philip Roth RIP – with replies by John Updike, The Atlantic and Wikipedia
Philip Roth, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998, has died. He was 85. Claudia Roth Pierpont said his books looked at "the Jewish family, sex, American ideals, the betrayal of American ideals, political zealotry, personal identity [and] the human body (usually male) in its strength, its frailty, and its often ridiculous need." And, boy, was he funny.
In 1996 Roth reacted to Claire Bloom's memoir Leaving a Doll's House. The actress commented at length on her and Roth's marriage. "He's tense; she's tense," said Gore Vidal said. "Each is neurotic. They were together 17 years; it couldn't have been all that bad. It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars."
The book was trailed thus in the NY Times:
Ms. Bloom was 47 when she began her romance with Mr. Roth. In the memoir, the opening scene of their relationship reads like a parody of the daily life of two cultivated New Yorkers, with Mr. Roth on his way to his psychoanalyst, and Ms. Bloom on her way to her yoga class….
But soon there were signs of trouble. Mr. Roth was suspicious and mistrustful, she said, and pressed her to send her daughter elsewhere. In the memoir, Ms. Bloom expresses guilt for having done so. But the real problems began when Mr. Roth had a knee operation, she said, and became addicted to sleeping pills and an anti-anxiety drug. She writes that a terrible depression ensued, and that the couple took refuge on Martha's Vineyard in the home of their friend William Styron, who has written a moving book about his own depression.
Later, when Mr. Roth wrote "Deception," he named the character of the deceived wife "Claire," Ms. Bloom writes, changing it only after she begged him to do so. Still, as if teasing his readers, Mr. Roth reserved the name of "Philip" for the book's narrator.
In 1999, when the book came up in a John Updike essay about literary biography in The New York Review of Books, Roth wrote to the Editors:
To the Editors:
In your February 4, 1999, issue, John Updike, commenting on Claire Bloom's 1996 memoir Leaving the Doll's House, writes: "Claire Bloom, as the wronged ex-wife of Philip Roth, shows him to have been, as their marriage rapidly unraveled, neurasthenic to the point of hospitalization, adulterous, callously selfish, and financially vindictive." Allow me to imagine a slight revision of this sentence: "Claire Bloom, presenting herself as the wronged ex-wife of Philip Roth, alleges him to have been neurasthenic to the point of hospitalization, adulterous, callously selfish, and financially vindictive." Written thus, the sentence would have had the neutral tone that Mr. Updike is careful to maintain elsewhere in this essay on literary biography when he is addressing Paul Theroux's characterization of V.S. Naipaul and Joyce Maynard's characterization of J.D. Salinger. Would that he had maintained that neutral tone in my case as well.
Over the past three years I have become accustomed to finding Miss Bloom's characterization of me taken at face value. One Sara Nelson, reviewing my novel American Pastoral, digressed long enough to write: "In her memoir, Leaving the Doll's House, Roth's ex, Claire Bloom, outed the author as a verbally abusive neurotic, a womanizer, a venal nutcase. Do we believe her? Pretty much:Roth is, after all, the guy who glamorized sex-with-liver in Portnoy's Complaint." Mr. Updike offers the same bill of particulars ("neurasthenic…, adulterous, callously selfish, and financially vindictive") as does Ms. Nelson ("neurotic, a womanizer, a venal nutcase"). Like her, he adduces no evidence other than Miss Bloom's book. But while I might ignore her in an obscure review on the World Wide Web, I cannot ignore him in a lead essay in The New York Review of Books.
Philip Roth
Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut
John Updike reply was slo printed in the magazine:
Mr. Roth's imagined revisions sound fine to me, but my own wording conveys, I think, the same sense of one-sided allegations.
In 2012, Roth had more words for the World Wie Web. He wrote an open letter to persuade Wikipedia to let him adjust inaccurate description of his novel The Human Stain. Wikipedia refused to accept him as a credible source.
Dear Wikipedia,
I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel "The Human Stain." The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like to ask to have removed. This item entered Wikipedia not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is no truth in it at all.
Yet when, through an official interlocutor, I recently petitioned Wikipedia to delete this misstatement, along with two others, my interlocutor was told by the "English Wikipedia Administrator"—in a letter dated August 25th and addressed to my interlocutor—that I, Roth, was not a credible source: "I understand your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own work," writes the Wikipedia Administrator—"but we require secondary sources."
Also in 2012, Roth wrote to the The Atlantic over an essay's claims that he suffered "a 'crack-up' in his mid-50s".
"The statement is not true nor is there reliable biographical evidence to support it," wrote Roth at the time. "After knee surgery in March 1987, when I was 54, I was prescribed the sleeping pill Halcion, a sedative hypnotic in the benzodiazepine class of medications that can induce a debilitating cluster of adverse effects … My own adverse reaction to Halcion … started when I began taking the drug and resolved promptly when, with the helpful intervention of my family doctor, I stopped."
The letters have stopped. But the books remain brilliant.
Spotter: Dangerous Minds, NYRoB
Posted: 23rd, May 2018 | In: Books, Celebrities, News | Comment
Mertesacker outlines his Arsenal vision
Per Mertesacker, Arsenal's new academy manager, is the German known as the 'BFG'. He's written a book. In it he advocates yoga and using both eyes.
…I was a big fan of yoga from the beginning because I had seen that it improved stability and flexibility.
Even at the age of 33 I was one of the most flexible at Arsenal when it came to my back muscles. Hardly anyone came to the yoga sessions that the club offered. Often there were only four of us: Héctor Bellerín, Nacho Monreal and Tomas Rosicky.
The youth players who were promoted to the first team smiled at these exercises. They thought we were meditating. They were happy with the ball at their feet but for everything else there was a lack of desire. "I play football and go to training. That's enough."
But no, it isn't enough when you want to maintain a certain level for a long time or want to improve.
Either you are learning from scratch, from your parents and the teachers and coaches around you, to take responsibility, or you don't do it at all. This is the kind of dumbing down we must fight against.
The well-rounded Per:
When I injured myself against Sunderland [in the 2011-12 season] I started working with Lars Lienhard. A former athlete, he is a sports scientist as well as a pioneer when it comes to neurally controlled training.
Working with him was a huge success. We always assume that we can run and see properly because nothing hurts. But that is a mistake. Lars showed me that our eyes are a big factor in everything, above all when it comes to our timing.
On my right side my timing was super but I had the feeling my left eye was not really up for it. Why was that? And was it possible to train and improve [the left eye] so that I didn't have to turn my whole body in order to look left? It all meant that in 50% of the times the ball came towards me my brain said: "Hey, I can't really see that ball so I'm not going to jump for it."
And as my left eye was not really looking at the ball I was always twisting my neck to use my dominant right eye.
Football doesn't really deal with those things, despite the fact they can be decisive. Players would rather lift weights, stand on their own with their dumbbells – but how does that help me on the pitch?
During the exercises with Lars one could see quite clearly that my eyes were moving differently when an object was approaching me. My left eye always remained in the middle rather than focusing on the object.
He showed me how to make my left eye stronger. I had a patch on my right eye, forcing my left eye to focus on the objects. And after a few weeks I could really notice the difference in games. If there was a high ball from the left I had a much better feeling for where it would end up.
With Lars's help I stayed injury-free for four and a half years. Meeting him changed my life as a footballer.
The important thing was to do exercises myself before games as well to adjust the eyes. One example was a kind of push-up for the eyes. You bring a pencil in towards your nose and force your eyes towards the middle. When you do that at the training ground a lot of people think: "What is he doing now? Is he completely stupid?"
Mainly I was doing it at home or in the hotel room. I had six or seven exercises that I did, sometimes just before kick-off in the dressing room. I didn't care what the others thought or if they laughed. But you saw again that something new, something unknown, led to laughter rather than people asking: "What are you doing there?"
The Idlers:
Footballers are used to working only three hours a day. And out of the three hours they are at the training ground they are on their mobiles for half of that.
We have all the money in the world but do not realise how important the body is. A player on average has a seven‑year professional career, 10-15 if everything goes right. You have to do everything possible to be at your maximum.
Weltmeister ohne Talent by Per Mertesacker. Via: Guardian.
Posted: 19th, May 2018 | In: Arsenal, Books, Sports | Comment
Action comics Number 1 yours for a bargain $300,001
To the attic in search of a pristine copy of Action Comics #1 (1938). It's the magazine in which Superman appeared for the first time. On the Heritage Auction website, the top bid sits at an impressive $300k. The auction house hopes the bid will soar to double that figure at its Comics & Comic Art Auction May 10-12 in Chicago:
Form the auction house:
"This auction has a chance to be among the largest comics auctions of all time, if not the largest," Heritage Auctions Comics Director of Operations Barry Sandoval said. "It will be in a vibrant city that is easy to reach from just about anywhere, and we have an extremely strong collection of valuable comic books that will draw the attention and interest of comics collectors from just about everywhere."
Action Comics #1 (DC, 1938) CGC VG 4.0 Cream to off-white pages(est. $650,000+) is among the most coveted comic books in the hobby. The issue generates major interest regardless of its condition, and this is one of the highest-graded copies ever offered by Heritage Auctions. Ernst Gerber's The Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books rated it "scarce," and CGC's census lists just 40 unrestored copies. The first appearance of Superman launched the Golden Age of Comics, and every superhero that followed is in debt to the character created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster (artist). The issue also sits atop Overstreet's "Top 100 Golden Age Comics" list.
In 2014, a mint-condition of Action Comics No. 1 sold for a record $3,207,852 in an auction on eBay.
Spotter: Boing Boing, Flashbak
Andrea Dunbar: ghastly review of Rita Sue And Bob Too warps the story to support the narrative
In the Sunday Times, a theatre review of Andre Dunbar's excellent 1982 play Rita, Sue and Bob Too, currently showing at London's Royal Court. It was made into a film in 1987. Readers are told:
Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a prickly, thought-provoking and sometimes hilarious little period piece, but there is one huge elephant in the theatre. No one, surely, can watch a piece about underage schoolgirls being groomed for sex in Bradford and not think of more recent scandals. Perhaps the most sickening thing is how innocent Rita and Sue's experiences seem compared to those of young girls in Bradford and Keighley over the past few years: girls as young as 12, drugged into a stupor, raped by five men or more at once, abortions at 13 and many worse details. Such things leave deep scars and lifelong trauma.
Andrea Dunbar drank herself to death in 1990, at the age of 29.
This makes me so fucking angry. Andrea Dunbar did NOT drink herself to death. She died of a brain haemorrhage. But that clearly does not fit the reviewer's narrative. https://t.co/mTW5LKZa8n
— Lisa Holdsworth (@WorksWithWords) January 16, 2018
Christopher Hart's review of the Royal Court's Rita, Sue and Bob Too revival in today's Sunday Times reads like it was written in 1918 rather than 2018. It's all handwringing and moral outrage. Could they not find a theatre critic that isn't a Puritan?
— Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) January 14, 2018
Tosh then. Dunbar's play is better than some moralising guff. Much better. Dunbar (22 May 1961 – 20 December 1990) died from a brain haemorrhage.
Spotter: Mic Wright. For further reading on Dunbar, this is a better start.
Posted: 16th, January 2018 | In: Books, Broadsheets | Comment
Fire and Fury: Michael Wolfe's Donald Trump expose is available as a pop-up book
"I've made a pop-up easy reader version of Fire and Fury so Donald can see what all the fuss is about," tweets Happy Toast. The book, by Michael Wolfe, is making waves, accusing Donald Trump of not wanting to become president and being a doofus.
I've made a pop-up easy reader version of Fire and Fury so Donald can see what all the fuss is about pic.twitter.com/xMASZUKjSn
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 6, 2018
His first days in office pic.twitter.com/xwIa0VBbWs
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 6, 2018
snacks pic.twitter.com/kFprQ2Cy2L
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 6, 2018
hairdressing tips pic.twitter.com/aO7KtGkumn
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 6, 2018
inauguration sads pic.twitter.com/lHGCqxbIUK
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 6, 2018
new friends pic.twitter.com/weVLJcpgyC
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 6, 2018
presidential dinners pic.twitter.com/J36h858S2L
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 6, 2018
and pouring over the best intel a world leader can receive pic.twitter.com/8wDMOTO0jx
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 6, 2018
Spotter: @IamHappyToast
Posted: 6th, January 2018 | In: Books, Politicians, The Consumer | Comment
William Gass and his hates (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017 )
William Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017 ) has words to the wise, telling the Paris Review in 1976
"If someone asks me, 'Why do you write?' I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, 'Why do you write the way you do?' I must answer that I wish to make my hatred acceptable because my hatred is much of me, if not the best part. Writing is a way of making the writer acceptable to the world—every cheap, dumb, nasty thought, every despicable desire, every noble sentiment, every expensive taste."
Hate has been criminalised. Hate crime. Hate speech. Haters. Hate is bad in the therapeutic age of conformity.
The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump: Ode to 45
Donald Trump's poetry is composite blend of Tweets, speeches and interviews edited by Rob Sears, who notes the "little known alternative fact that the 45th President, Donald J. Trump, has long been a remarkable poet."
The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump considers Trump "a modern-day Basho or Larkin" with smaller hands.
The greatest misapprehension about DJT corrected by this volume, however, may be the idea that he sees money and power as ends in themselves. In fact, just as Wilfred Owen turned his wartime experiences into poetry, and Slyvia Plath found the dark beauty in her own depression, Trump is able to transform his unique experiences of being a winner into 24-karat verse. He didn't build a huge real-estate empire for the billions; he did it so he could write poems…
I won!
Well, we've had some disasters, but this is the worst
Bad hombres
I've known some bad dudes
I've been at parties
They want to do serious harm
I've seen and I've watched things like with guns
I know a lot of tough guys but they're not smart
We're dealing with people like animals
But they are the folks I like the best—by far!
I am the least racist person there is
I've always had a great relationship with the blacks
I remained strong for Tiger Woods during his difficult
Oprah, I love Oprah. Oprah would always be my first choice
Kanye West—I love him
I think Eminem is fantastic, and most people think I
wouldn't like Eminem
And did you know my name is in more black songs than any
other name in hip-hop?
You are the racist, not I
I respect women, I love women, I cherish women
Vagina is expensive
No more apologies—take the offensive!
Hot little girl in high school
I'm a very compassionate person (with a very high IQ)
Just think, in a couple of years I'll be dating you
It must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees
Come here, I'll show how life works. Please.
We've got to stop the stupid
You know what uranium is, right?
It's a thing called nuclear weapons and other things like lots
of things that are done with uranium including some bad
I have to explain this to these people, they don't even understand basic
physics, basic mathematics, whatever you call it
I mean, they're like stupid
Look at the way I've been treated lately
I should have been TIME Magazine's Person of the Year
Just like I should have gotten the Emmy for The Apprentice
I should have easily won the Trump University case
I should have won New York state but I didn't
I unfairly get audited by the I.R.S. almost every
single year
No politician in history—and I say this with great surety—
has been treated worse or more unfairly
Spotter: The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump , Dangerous Minds
Posted: 13th, November 2017 | In: Books, Politicians | Comment
Peter Dahmen's stunning pop-up books
Pop-up books done well are gorgeous. So here's a peeks at the work of Peter Dahmen and his video Most Satisfying Video of Pop-Up Cards.
Spotter: The Kid Should See This
Posted: 26th, October 2017 | In: Books, Gifs, The Consumer | Comment
A flame-activated edition of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
The Anne Petronille Nypels Lab at Holland's Van Eyck Academie showcases the work of French graphic design collective Super Terrain. They've created a version of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in heat sensitive ink. At room temperature the book's text is secreted under a layer of black substance. Heat it up and the words are revealed.
Spotter: Open Culture, Flashbak
Posted: 22nd, October 2017 | In: Books, Technology, The Consumer | Comment
KLF issue instructions for getting your book signed
If you want the KLF to sign your book, you'll need to obey their rules.
On my way to Liverpool for the KLF thing and what's shaping up to be the greatest book signing in pop history (pic via Kristy off Facebook) pic.twitter.com/nwHBxHwKns
— Peter Robinson (@Popjustice) August 22, 2017
Please listen carefully…
Welcome To The Dark Ages volunteer rules and regulations#k2planthire #jams #klf #theklf 2023 pic.twitter.com/z35sV5sjzD
— Bido Lito! (@BidoLito) August 22, 2017
Posted: 23rd, August 2017 | In: Books, Celebrities, Music, The Consumer | Comment
Children's book confuses readers with 5 bananas graphic
"I imagine a child learning to count from this book and then just being incredibly confused for the rest of their life," writes GooseHerder on Reddit.
Posted: 10th, August 2017 | In: Books, Strange But True | Comment
Stephen King's recipe for successful writing
Stephen King In On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft addresses the importance of a good night's sleep and become a better writer:
Like your bedroom, your writing room should be private, a place where you go to dream. Your schedule — in at about the same time every day, out when your thousand words are on paper or disk — exists in order to habituate yourself, to make yourself ready to dream just as you make yourself ready to sleep by going to bed at roughly the same time each night and following the same ritual as you go.
In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives. And as your mind and body grow accustomed to a certain amount of sleep each night — six hours, seven, maybe the recommended eight — so can you train your waking mind to sleep creatively and work out the vividly imagined waking dreams which are successful works of fiction.
How do you achieve wakeful dreams?
The space can be humble … and it really needs only one thing: A door you are willing to shut. The closed door is your way of telling the world that you mean business. . . .
If possible, there should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there's a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall. For any writer, but for the beginning writer in particular, it's wise to eliminate every possible distraction. If you continue to write, you will begin to filter out these distractions naturally, but at the start it's best to try and take care of them before you write. … When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don't you? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.
Nonsense, of course. Distraction is welcome. Although it does reduce the risk of some spilling coffee on your laptop.
Spotter: Brain Pickings
Why Hunter S. Thompson typed out The Great Gatsby & A Farewell to Arms word for word
Learning to write is hard. Leaning to write well is a grind. Hunter S. Thompson put in the hard yards, typing out whole pages of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. He did this "just to get the feeling," writes Louis Menand at The New Yorker, "of what it was like to write that way."
Johnny Depp told The Guardian:
"He'd look at each page Fitzgerald wrote, and he copied it. The entire book. And more than once. Because he wanted to know what it felt like to write a masterpiece."
Josh Jones adds:
In a 1958 letter to his hometown girlfriend Ann Frick, Thompson named the Fitzgerald and Hemingway novels as two especially influential books, along with Brave New World, William Whyte's The Organization Man, and Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything (or "Girls before Girls"), a novel that "hardly belongs in the abovementioned company," he wrote, and which he did not, presumably, copy out on his typewriter at work. Surely, however, many a Thompson close reader has discerned the traces of Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Hemingway in his work, particularly the latter, whose macho escapades and epic drinking bouts surely inspired more than just Thompson's writing.
Spotter: Open Culture
Posted: 11th, June 2017 | In: Books, Celebrities | Comment
Vladimir Putin is playing things by the book: this book
Is Vladimir Putin following a book, namely The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia by Aleksandr Dugin, aka "Putin's Brain". You can read it on Wikipedia:
The book declares that "the battle for the world rule of [ethnic] Russians" has not ended and Russia remains "the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution." The Eurasian Empire will be constructed "on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us."
The United Kingdom should be cut off from Europe.
Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics".
The book stresses the "continental Russian-Islamic alliance" which lies "at the foundation of anti-Atlanticist strategy". The alliance is based on the "traditional character of Russian and Islamic civilization".
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements — extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."
Spotter: Kottke
Posted: 6th, June 2017 | In: Books, Politicians | Comment
The screaming abdabs: Anthony Burgess's Dictionary of Slang
Manchester-born writer and academic Anthony Burgess began work on a dictionary of slang – "the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers, the acted upon, the used, the used up. It is demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight."
Entries in A from Anthony Burgess's lost dictionary of slang
Abdabs (the screaming) – Fit of nerves, attack of delirium tremens, or other uncontrollable emotional crisis. Perhaps imitative of spasm of the jaw, with short, sharp screams.
Abdicate – In poker, to withdraw from the game, forfeiting all money or chips put in the pot.
Abfab – Obsolescent abbreviation of absolutely fabulous, used by Australian teenagers or 'bodgies'.
Abortion – Anything ugly, ill-shapen, or generally detestable: 'You look a right bloody abortion, dressed like that'; 'a nasty little abortion of a film' (Australian in origin).
Abyssinia – I'll be seeing you. A valediction that started during the Italo-Abyssinian war. Obsolete, but so Joyceanly satisfying that it is sometimes hard to resist.
Accidental(ly) on purpose – Deliberately, but with the appearance of accident: 'So I put me hand on her knee, see, sort of accidental on purpose.' (Literary locus classicus: Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine, 1923.)
Arse – I need not define. The taboo is gradually being broken so that plays on the stage and on radio and television introduce the term with no protest. The American Random House Dictionary … is still shy of it, however, though not of the American colloquialism ass. Arse is a noble word; ass is a vulgarism.
NOTE: Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is cited three times in the historical Oxford English Dictionary: 'thou', 'your' and 'droog' which was invented by Burgess in the novel and appears on the first page: "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim."
Via: The Anthony Burgess Foundation and Flashbak, which has more.
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This Is How We Dot It: the daily lives of seven kids in seven countries
This Is How We Do It by Matt Lamothe features the daily routines of seven children from different countries around the world (Japan, Peru, Iran, Russia, India, Italy, and Uganda).
In Japan Kei plays Freeze Tag, while in Uganda Daphine likes to jump rope. But while the way they play may differ, the shared rhythm of their days — and this one world we all share — unites them. This genuine exchange provides a window into traditions that may be different from our own as well as a mirror reflecting our common experiences.
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Thoughts From Under A Down Comforter
It's nice to be here, nice to be back. I've missed putting my thoughts out there for you to read. Let's hope that the stay isn't fleeting. * * * * * * It's a rainy Saturday morning and a … Continue reading
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History of Aongatete Forest Project
The concept for this project began in 2001 with a search to locate the last surviving kokako in the Kaimai range. The search revealed the heavily browsed and degraded state of the Kaimai-Mamaku Forest Park and the paucity of bird life.
The Tauranga branch of Forest & Bird approached Katikati Rotary and Ngai Tamawhariua for help to set up a pest control and advocacy project at Aongatete. These groups formed the Aongatete Forest Restoration Trust.
In 2006 the project started with pest (rats, possums and stoats) control over an area of 140 hectares and this was subsequently extended to cover 245 hectares. In 2013 the National office of the Royal Forest & Bird Society of NZ (Forest & Bird) funded the expansion of the project area to some 500 hectares. In 2016 the Trust decided to operate under the name Aongatete Forest Project to reflect the close partnership with Forest & Bird.


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The north Kanawha lookout is a location in the Forest region of Appalachia in 2102. It is located just east of Vault 76.
A number of super mutants inhabit this fire watchtower. Directly below it is a cooking station and an explosives crate surrounded by meat bags put together by the super mutants. The most meat bags can be found at the top of the tower; the room at the top of the stairs is littered with them, with a safe requiring a key in the center of the mess. The safe key can be found on top of a port-a-potty to the west. Nearby is a weapons workbench and a water pump. Rhododendron flowers and soot flowers can be harvested in the area.
There is a ruined cabin near the lookout with graffiti in its crawlspace that states "Sickleman is here." Prior to the Wastelanders update, the graffiti read "Sickleman was here."[1] There are also several beheaded skeletons near the graffiti. A hole in the floor here provides access to the cabin interior.
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- Responder's note - Note, on top of the safe.
- Two random recipes:
- One in the cabin with a hot tub just south of the tower.
- One in the shack near the cabin south of the tower.
- Safe key - Found on top of a port-a-potty to the west. Opens the safe inside the tower.
Climbing to the top of the lookout lets the player character survey the area, which can unlock the following locations:
The north Kanawha lookout appears only in Fallout 76.
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A Marwell Visit
A couple of week ago we had to take a friend back to Southampton Airport early in the morning. This mean't that we to get there for 8am. So what can you do at 8am on a Sunday morning. Not much but we decided to head towards Marwell as it had been over a year since our last visit.
Ater stopping off on route we got to Marwell at 9:15 still way too early!
Marwell hadn't changed too much in the last year. The Amur Leopards where still playing hard to get, the Tigers and Desert Cats were non-existent and the Snow Leopard where fast asleep at the back of the enclosure!
I did however manage to get this by walking up around the back of the enclosure where I was just able to see its head above the rock.


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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
This morning...the ticket machine gave me two extra quarters change with my ticket. Ok, ok, I hear you..I'll stop trying to figuring out why the guy didn't pick up the dime. Let's leave with his back hurt, and he didn't see it drop. Now that it's settled I feel a lot better! lol :)
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- Malcolm said...
Although it's a small victory, I always like it when I get extra change back or if the vending machine kicks out an extra snack to me. I hope that the extra quarters were the sign that you would have a good day.
- May 20, 2008 at 2:17 PM
- Jessica said...
Thanks...I did have a good day. :)
- May 20, 2008 at 10:42 PM
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In a recent TV show, Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Issa said that the barbaric crimes perpetrated by ISIS were indeed based on the Islamic sources but that the clerics were afraid to say so.
"I would like to see a single Al-Azhar cleric in Egypt have the courage to admit that Abu Bakr burned a man alive," he said. This is a vicious circle of barbarity, because it is wrapped in religion, said Issa, whose statements aired on the Egyptian ON TV channel on February 3, 2015.


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Tornado hits Waterman's hometown, Student Council raises funds
Taylor Schmitt, Co-Website/ Social Media editor
December 21, 2018
After Principal Brian Waterman's hometown of Taylorville, Ill. was hit by a severe tornado Dec. 1, student council began raising funds to show their support. Student council members will be walking around with cans to collect donations from Dec. 13 to Dec. 21. "I'm just humbled someone though...
Happy Holidays!
Grace DeKoker, Editor-in-Chief
December 21, 2018
Happy Winter Break! On behalf of the whole LION Newspaper staff, we hope your finals went well, your semester ended smoothly, and you enjoy the next two weeks off! We'll still be updating our website as much as possible, but our staff members will be enjoying the break as well and spending some time...
LT teacher displays light show in yard
Anna McCormick, Reporter
December 21, 2018
Physics teacher Robert Sherman has always loved decorating his house for Christmas. He placed third in a decorating competition as a kid, and continued to decorate his dorm for Christmas in college. Ever since 2004, Sherman has been conducting a light show at his home. He originally did the show every year...
Media Mayhem: To survive in the modern age, local news needs to adapt
Lars Lonnroth, Managing Editor of Breaking News and Multimedia Content
December 17, 2018
Local news is in a crisis and it's only getting worse. Over the past 10 years or so, an innumerable number of newspapers and periodicals have gone defunct. The incredibly fast destruction of these valuable, community-based institutions has likely been fueled by a painful reality: local news' inability t...
Tentative teacher contract reached
Grace DeKoker, Editor-in-Chief
December 13, 2018
As of the Nov. 19 Board of Education meeting, negotiations for a new contract for LT teaching staff were still in progress. There have been two closed meetings since then, where both the School Board as well as the Lyons Township Education Association had their negotiating parties present and discussion...
2018 GRAMMY's nominations
Isabel Tuisl, Co-Website/Social media editor
December 13, 2018
The 2018 GRAMMY nominations are out for the Feb. 10, 61st GRAMMY Awards, and I'm here to recap the nominees of the most popular categories for you. General Field: Record Of The Year - God's Plan/Drake, Shallow/Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, All The Stars/Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Rockstar/P...
The Aragon Ballroom parties with Carti
Xavier McDonald, Freelance Reporter
December 13, 2018
On a snowy night in Uptown, Chicago, Playboi Carti made a quick stop to The Aragon Ballroom on Nov. 15 that left the audience joyful but bruised from the insane mosh pits and inexpensive tickets, costing only $35. The concert was the sixth stop of 22 dates of his current Neon Tour, in which he is trav...
Teachers sit in on November Board of Education meeting
Grace Dekoker, Editor-in-Chief
December 12, 2018
At the beginning of a new school year, students can expect to see new faces, new teachers and new classes. LT faculty expected something new at the start of this school year as well- to ratify their new contract for this and upcoming school years. The previous contract-- which lays out logistics such...
Hinsdale Central Pool thrown into uncertainty (video)
Lars Lonnroth, Managing Editor of Breaking News and Multimedia Content
December 11, 2018
Hinsdale Central and Hinsdale South High Schools are in a sticky situation after a referendum seeking millions of dollars in funding for infrastructural improvements failed. Now, the schools may be forced to make deep cuts to many programs and facilities—potentially even their pool and swim team. ...
Play 'Lend Me A Tenor' takes LT stage
Lars Lonnroth, Managing Editor of Breaking News and Multimedia Content
December 11, 2018
The LT Theatre department presented Ken Ludwig's "Lend Me A Tenor" on the weekend of Dec. 9. The humorous play tells the story of a big shot Italian singer who suddenly can not perform at an engagement in Cleveland, forcing the other characters to try to fix the situation. "Every scene, bac...
LION Playlists: What we're listening to
Georgia Dougherty, Pulse co-editor
December 10, 2018
What are our favorite bops this month? Here are our top picks for a great jam session! Grace Kelly by MIKA Radio Gaga by Queen Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground Femme Fatale by The Velvet Underground Big Poppa by The Notorious B.I.G. War by Edwin Starr Goodb...
12 Years
Pilar Valdes, Art Director
December 10, 2018
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released their Climate Report. The report details the devastating consequences the world will face if the world's temperature increases by more than 1.5 degrees Celcius (34.7 degrees farenheit) in the 12 years. The effects of man-made climate...
Help at home: 10 easy ways to reduce your carbon footprint
Liz Gremer, Reporter
December 10, 2018
While it may seem difficult to help better the environment, there are small, easy changes you can incorporate into your life to make our Earth healthier. Take public transit: No matter where you go, taking a train or bus helps reduce the amount of carbon emitted into the air. According to America...
It's not as bad as you think!
Georgia Dougherty, Pulse co-editor
December 10, 2018
Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is the hypothesis that climate change is produced by human activity. Most people who believe in AGW follow Penn State University climatologist Michael Mann's hockey stick model. His view hypothesizes that "the post-1970 surge of global warming has created a 'hockey...
Burning Up (the Earth, that is)
Camilla Breen, Pulse co-editor
December 10, 2018
It's no secret that the United States is one of the top contributors to climate change: we have one of the world's highest water footprints, and we fall just behind China for having the most carbon emissions. This information has been plastered all over America in an effort to conserve drinkable...
NHI gives the gift of inspiration this holiday season
Travis Morales, Freelance Writer
December 10, 2018
The sight of juicy steak and chicken fajitas combined with sweet churros is only a sliver of what Noche Navideña—or Christmas Night in English—offered on Dec. 7. For the second year in a row, LT students, faculty and the National Hispanic Institute (NHI) club came together to truly learn about the...


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By: Haynes Hudson
Ever hear "any publicity is good publicity"? Well, we'll save that argument for another time. Truth is, in this new world of social media and paid influencers, garnering any and all attention for your brand doesn't always end with the win you think it will.
By now, you've probably at least heard of the Fyre Festival – certainly not for any positive reasons. And if given a few minutes to think about it, I'm sure you can recite other examples of brand marketing ideas gone wrong – Subway's pedophile pitchman or Pepsi's social "protest" with Kendall Jenner – just to name a few.
Smoke and Mirrors
So what went so terribly wrong for those entrepreneurial-minded folks at Fyre Festival? They started out wanting to create something bigger than life. Something never seen or experienced before. Something so unique and exclusive, that the fear of being left behind would make people do anything (and believe anything) to be a part of it. And…IT WORKED! For a while. Until it came time to deliver.
By enlisting some social media heavy-hitters, Fyre Festival knew they could create the kind of buzz that makes people look right past the details and gladly hand over their cash to secure their place at such a singular event. And the heavy-hitters were all too eager to sign on – for a price. Most failed to acknowledge they were being paid to promote the event, which made their involvement appear completely genuine. Now those same influencers face subpoenas as part of a lawsuit and new regulations now stipulate that any payment for such endorsements be disclosed.
In this overcrowded marketing space, where attention spans are only seconds long and consumers demand relevancy and authenticity, brands are always looking for fresh ways to break through – to connect with the consumer. Thus, the evolution of influencer marketing.
The Power of Influence
The idea is simple enough and certainly makes sense, especially when faced with the challenges of modern-day marketing. But any good marketing plan is only as good as the product or service that is delivered to the consumer. I mean, do you really think Coca-Cola cares if you love polar bears? And Nike isn't going to call you every day to make sure you're just doing it. They want you to buy their product. But they know the only way to connect with you as a brand – and create a loyal and repeat customer – is to create a personal connection.
Fyre Festival's fatal flaw was that its creators and promoters ignored the essential part (the consumer experience) and focused solely on creating so much buzz and excitement that they just didn't think it would matter.
But it did…it's the ONLY thing that matters.
Start With the End in Mind
So when you're thinking about how to best "tell your brand's story", it helps to start at the end. What I mean is – focus on the customer experience first – make sure it's exceptional. Don't give your customers a reason to not buy you again and again or at least tell everyone they know about their great experience with your brand.
And when considering influencer marketing, here are some tips – so you can avoid playing with "fyre" 🙂
- Is the product or service you're marketing relevant to the influencer? Is it a fit?
- Is this influencer over-exposed? Do they say "yes" to every opportunity?
- Have they endorsed a competitor previously?
- Ideally, have them sample the product or service prior to any agreement to endorse
- Provide them with "talking points" to keep them on message, but let it be in their voice, from their perspective
By following these guidelines, you'll help keep your brand content authentic and believable, while creating meaningful and deep connections with consumers.
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Author: Angela Huth
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Little brown
"Myrtle and Annie have grown up together in a remote Scottish fishing port. Their friendship remains deep, even after they have both married, but when one husband is responsible for the other's death in an accident on board their boat, their closeness is put to the ultimate test."
Oh I loved this book, I really did. It was such a cosy read.
It is about how two friends grow up together and marry fishermen. The story goes through their lives from when they were children into adulthood. Through their laughter to their arguments and love lives.
It is quite an emotional read and if you are looking for a book to read as you drink with your Coco next to a warm fire. Then this book is your you. It's not overly exciting but it's not boring either. It's just so lovely and cosy.
It's up in my top ten of the best books I've ever read.
Verdict: Beautiful.
Monday, March 06, 2006
Wives of the Fishermen by Angela Huth
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The Supreme Court, today put a six-month stay on the controversial practice of Triple Talaq, asking the government to enact a law within that time frame. The apex court also declared the practice unconstitutional, stating that it violates fundamental rights.
Here are 7 things that you need to know:
1. Issues such as divorce, alimony, marriage amongst Muslims are government by governed by Muslim Personal law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937. However, they are not codified. The practice of Triple Talaq is one such practice that is governed under this Act.
2. The Supreme Court, with a five judge bench comprising of judges of five faiths viz. Justice Kurian Joseph (Christian), Justice Rohinton Nariman (Parsi), Justice Uday Lalit (Hindu), Justice Abdul Nazeer (Muslim), the headed by Chief Justice J.S. Khehar, passed the verdict declaring Triple Talaq unconstitutional, also stating that it violates fundamental rights.
3. The petition in this case is titled as Quest for Equality vs Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind. Linked with the case there are six petitions by Muslim women Khuran Sunnath Society, Shayara Bano, Aafreen Rehman, Gulshan Parveen, Ishrat Jahan and Atiya Sabhri.
4. The verdict was a 3-2 majority verdict with Justices Rohinton Nariman, Uday Lalit and Joseph Kurien ruled that triple talaq is unconstitutional. Justice Abdul Nazeer and Chief Justice JS Khehar upheld the validity of triple talaq.
5. The All India Muslim Personal Board (AIMPLB) will convene a meeting in Bhopal on September 10 to decide their future course of action post the verdict. The board had issued an advisory that Muslim women should be given the choice to opt out of instant triple talaq before their nikah or wedding.
6. The practice is 1400 year old – with cases of Triple Talaq being given to women on Skype and WhatsApp, coming to light recently. The practice is known as talaq-e-biddat. The court invoked extra-ordinary jurisdiction under Article 142 to declare the practice invalid.
7. The government claimed that instant talaq is not fundamental to Islam. It said it shall bring a new divorce law for Muslims in case the apex court strikes down the three forms of talaq under Muslim Personal Law – 'Ahsan, Hasan and Biddat'.
8. SC has given the centre 6 months time to enact a law banning the practice. The injunction of the apex court will continue if the government fails to enact the law in 6 months time. The apex court has also asked the political parties to keep their differences aside.
The Triple Talaq practice is likely to restart the debate on a Uniform Civil Code.


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As promised, I got the pics of the nail polish I used for yesterday's NOTD.
The original post can be found below this one.
I want that whole Nubar collection. Every color looks gorgeous. I've never used NYC before. It is a beautiful color. I really love that Konadicure you did.
thanks for updating :-) beautiful colors.
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7 ways how the Poco F1 trumps the OnePlus 6
Hot on the tracks of OnePlus, the new Poco F1 from Xiaomi is now the best smartphone to get under Rs 30,000
Who would've thought that there could be a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 based phone that would cost less than Rs 30,000, but then Asus managed to do it earlier this year with the Asus ZenFone 5z. With that token imagining a Snapdragon 845 based phone for less than Rs 25,000 would've been almost unimaginable, but here we are.
The new Poco F1 starts at an incredible Rs 20,999 for its base model which offers 6GB RAM and 64GB of expandable storage. Now that's an astounding gulf of Rs 15,000 between the current best selling Snapdragon 845 phone - the OnePlus 6. And even if one sees the ZenFone 5z, there is a gap of around Rs 10,000.
Now why are we obsessing about this Qualcomm chipset? Well, basically, this is the processor Qualcomm has made for phones, which it hopes will help the Android ecosystem take on the iPhone. So with that in mind, one would imagine that Xiaomi's new brand Poco is cutting a lot of corners to achieve this incredible pricing. But, that's not the case. In fact, there are more ways than one where this phone ends up trouncing the all conquering OnePlus 6 which has been for the last few months the best selling phone in India Rs 30,000 upwards.
Killer battery life
It's no secret that the OnePlus 6 has great battery life thanks to its 3,300mAh battery coupled with the fastest charging technology in the world - OnePlus Warp Charge (previously known as Dash Charge). This ensures about a day-long battery life if you don't use it too heavily. Mind you, this is very good battery life.
But what the Poco F1 offers is something amazing. It has a whopping 4,000mAh battery which is almost 20% larger, but the end result is sweeter. You get around day and a half of battery life on a single charge which is incredible. We also believe that Poco has optimised the battery better which results in this big improvement. And the difference between this extra battery life on the Poco is what gives more peace of mind to the user and definitely you wouldn't need to carry about a charger. Make no mistake, the Warp Charger is a big unit; you don't want to get stuck carrying it despite the convenience it offers.
Reliable and consistent
As you'd imagine, for any phone powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, the performance of the device is bound to be top class. And not many get better than the OnePlus 6. That being said, the Poco F1 does manage to usurp it. How, it's not only using the same processor and similar amounts of RAM, there is an addition - a copper heat pipe which releases water vapour. This means that the phone runs cooler and at a consistent rate for longer durations.
This is a function of the fact that the phone uses a polycarbonate frame instead of a metal one as metal and even glass get warm faster. This makes it in more ways than one a faster phone. Like OnePlus, Poco has optimised the software further which improves the performance even more.
Gamer ready
It's not that the OnePlus 6 isn't gamer ready and phones like the Honor Play even have their chipset tuned for PUBG Mobile, but if you're going to be playing this game for long hours, then the Poco F1 has to be your go-to phone. It not only lasts longer than the OnePlus, but its sustained performance is better because of the combination of the heat pipe and the Snapdragon processor which makes sure this will be one of the ultimate phones for gamers.
Secure and how
When OnePlus first introduced face unlock on the OnePlus 5T, the most striking thing was how reliable and fast the feature was in implementation. OnePlus 6 obviously improved upon this aspect of the phone, but the Poco F1 takes things one step further. It adds an infrared sensor alongside the front camera which not only makes it faster, more a reliable unlock feature particularly in low light and more secure. Of course, both phones also have fingerprint scanners, but talking to Jai Mani, Poco's product head, one got to know that they were so confident about the face unlock that he felt they could've skipped on the fingerprint scanner altogether.
Better video for concert goers
The Poco F1 takes better video than the OnePlus 6. Now that may surprise you but that's a combination of superior electronic stabilisation, a better Sony IMX 362 sensor on the F1's side and better microphones which capture cleaner audio even in the loudest conditions. Audio capture, particularly, is the bane of the OnePlus's existence. If you go to concerts, you will like the Poco camera better and guess what it's Rs 15,000 cheaper to begin with. Win win!
Also read: Poco F1 review: Xiaomi's OnePlus 6 killer
AI and cameras that see better
The OnePlus 6 has a great camera and with cumulative software updates, it has become bloody good. In pure image quality the Poco is still behind, but if you like snazzy features like AI scene detection and a better bokeh mode than the OnePlus 6, both give the F1 a critical edge. Then there are the selfie cameras which, the 20-megapixel shooter on the Poco F1 is an absolute beauty, and even takes a bokeh selfie from a single camera. The OnePlus 6 front camera doesn't hold a patch on it.
Case free and no dongle life
Yes, people can pine about the fact that Poco cut corners to the build quality of the phone by using a polycarbonate frame instead of metal and glass but this also means this phone is less vulnerable to accidental damage as glass breaks quite easily, and metal gets dented and scratched fast.
The kevlar armoured version of the phone in fact is even more rugged. This means, you don't need to hide this brand new phone behind a case, something you would need for the OnePlus 6. Even when you look at the choice of the cover glass for whatever reasons, the Poco F1 uses Corning's Gorilla Glass 3 which has proven to be more scratch resistant than Gorilla Glass 5 which is on the OnePlus. You also get all kinds of ports including a 3.5mm jack which also leads towards its no compromise pragmatic design.
At the end of the day the Poco F1 has an apt name. It is as fast as Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari F1 car, but that it doesn't cost a bomb. It even leaves behind affordable masters like the OnePlus 6 behind in dust despite being 35% more affordable than it. Now, that's a mean feat.


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Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurants is a casual-dining chain known for its varied menu and hand-crafted, barrel-aged wines made on location. Tim McEnery opened the first unit in Orland Park, Illinois, in 2005. The restaurants are freestanding and in endcap locations. Units range from 8,000 to 13,000 square feet and seat approximately 250 to 300 patrons. Exterior facades vary by location, but each maintains sleek, modern lines modeled from elegant, natural stones. Dark wood floors and tables create a sharp, polished dynamic, and wine barrels, bottles and decanters accent the dining room's refined decor. Each location has a winery where patrons can view and taste the winemakers' latest creations; weekly wine tastings offer visitors the chance to experience and learn about different types of wine. Units also have a gift shop. Fresh, high-quality ingredients are used in food preparation, and the selection of upscale appetizers, chopped salads, burgers, sandwiches, pasta, seafood, beef and pork entrees, and desserts aimed at an upscale clientele with a more sophisticated palate.
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5 Things Hawaii: Waiver approval, Dan Juberg, Insulin cost bill
Big mahalo for reading our newsletter, and for supporting our work at State of Reform! We are starting to begin our thinking and planning for our 2019 Hawaii State of Reform Health Policy Conference, with our Convening Panel meeting coming up next month.
We're always interested in our readers' ideas and thoughts about topics and speakers. So, if you have a few, send them in and we'll include them in the Convening Panel process!
With help from Emily Boerger
1. CMS approves 1115 waiver
On the last day of the one-month temporary extension on Hawaii's 1115 waiver demonstration, CMS sent a letter notifying Medicaid Director Judy Mohr Peterson of their approval to extend the "QUEST Integration" project through Jul 31, 2024.
The extension authorizes Hawaii to continue its managed care delivery system and provide additional benefits like HCBS. The letter also authorizes the state to expand access to community integration services through the Community Transition Services pilot program. CMS did not approve the state's application for increased flexibility for a new Medical Respite Services pilot program, but says the request is still under review.
2. Proposed bill to cap insulin costs
Representative John Mizuno has announced his intent to file a bill next session to cap co-pays for insulin. The proposed bill would cap the price at $100 for a 30-day supply, regardless of the amount or type of insulin needed.
"It is my understanding that insulin prices have increased approximately 555 percent in the last decade and a half and therefore has caused co-pays to sky-rocket to unaffordable rates for our people," said Mizuno. "As painful as it sounds, many of our residents' underuse insulin because of its significant cost." We've covered the impacts of similar legislation Colorado adopted.
3. Tulsi, Kamala and Russia
Tulsi Gabbard turned some heads in the recent Democratic presidential debate for hitting Kamala Harris on her record as a prosecutor and as Attorney General in California. It was a powerful hit that Harris appeared surprisingly unready to address. Apparently Russia took note. The state media site "Russia Today" allegedly created and launched the hashtag #kamaladestroyed. Apparently fake Twitter accounts, like this one, began pushing out content to try to drive the national conversation because of the way Twitter activity tends to influence national political news.
This may have dinged Kamala, but it's not clear it helped Tulsi. She has until August 28th to earn 130,000 unique donors (which she hit last week) and hit 2% in four national polls in order to make the next debate stage on Sept. 12 in Houston. According to a Harvard/Harris poll after the debate, Tulsi remains at 1%. RCL has her at an average of 1.3%.
4. Video: Dan Juberg, Lumeris
Dan Juberg is the Vice President – West at Lumeris. He joins us in this edition of "What They're Watching" to discuss health systems transitioning to value based care. Lumeris was founded and has been built on the idea of creating infrastructure to support providers moving into the value based care space.
"When you've changed the amount that you're going to be paid, no matter how much service you are [providing], it breeds innovation and having to treat them (patients) in different ways cheaper. That's really kind of the tidal wave that we're surfing on right now…"
5. East Hawaii IPA Symposium is next week
We'll miss this year's East Hawaii IPA Symposium on the Big Island. It's one of the really solid conferences on the calendar that gathers a "who's who" of health care leaders and organizations. I commend it to you if you are looking for a good professional gathering next weekend.
This year's agenda has a focus on leveraging community supports as part of the care team within an integrated care model. It also will "reflect upon the toll that system transformation has on providers and how to manage the pressures."


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"The Hateful Eight" Review
Seven men. One woman. One blizzard-bound cabin.
That's the setting for Quentin Tarantino's newest blood-and-bullets escapade, this time set in the snowy desolation of post-Civil War Wyoming. The plot is fairly simple, equal parts western and locked room mystery. Bounty hunter John "The Hangman" Ruth (Kurt Russell with a truly magnificent mustache) is taking one Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to hang in Red Rock when his coach encounters another bounty hunter, Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), stranded in the frozen wilderness. The two men form an uneasy alliance before letting one more man, soon-to-be Sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), join them in the cramped stagecoach. With a fierce blizzard right behind it, the stage coach barely makes it to a lodge, where four other men are already hunkered down for the storm. From there things begin to come to a bloody boil as Ruth and Warren quickly realize no one may be who they claim.
If you've seen any Tarantino movie before, you will have a good idea what The Hateful Eight will be like. Witty, purposeful dialogue. Gallows humor. On-point soundtrack. The catchy-yet-suspenseful soundtrack is especially fitting, for multiple reasons. It comes courtesy of Ennio Morricone, legendary composer of films such as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and countless other spaghetti westerns. He was also the composer for John Carpenter's classic 1982 The Thing, which also features Kurt Russell's facial hair and an hostile snowy landscape; Hateful Eight even repurposes some of Morricone's unused score for The Thing. The Hateful Eight also boasts an amazing array of characters, as would be expected. Unfortunately, despite a three hour run time, The Hateful Eight never seems to allow time for the characters to truly become memorable. Russell, Leigh, and Jackson's characters are the standouts, especially with Leigh's cackling mad woman, but even then the film paints them in such broad strokes that it's hard to become invested. That's not to say it's not a well acted or a bad movie, far from it, but compared to the rest of Tarantino's towering catalog The Hateful Eight comes across as a slight misstep. The Hateful Eight is out now in theaters.
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Today I invite you in my art studio transformed into embroidery workshop. This little fabric bag is the real size for a book.
Bonjour, aujourd'hui, je vous invite dans mon atelier transformé en atelier de broderie. Ce petit sac en tissu est parfait pour transporter un livre.
flowers without the words.
2- Embroider it with stem stitch.
3- Saw the bag.
1- Tamponner les fleurs sans les mots
2- Broder au point de tige
3- Coudre le sac.
Have a good day. Kind regards.
Que cette journée vous soit profitable.
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A bag for a book (by Dominike)
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The Idea of North
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The Idea of North has always been renowned for its exceptional ability to connect musically and emotionally with an audience. They take songs people know and songs they don't and tell the stories through their enviably imaginative and arresting vocal arrangements – all without touching an instrument.
Although their instrumentation is all voices, this is far from the point of the show. The Idea of North will help you forget there are no instruments with their exceptional delivery of their wonderfully created repertoire, their relaxed and easy rapport with the audience, and the depth of their connection to the stories they sing.
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Are there any plans to add support for IIS URL Rewrite so users can add rules from within the control panel?
Not currently, however if it's something the community is interested in we can always add it to the roadmap. (we go through things step by step, as you can imagine there's plenty to do, fix up, and create)
so far i think people are just using Web.config url rewrites (and more projects start to include web.config to the default deployment such as wordpress).
Hi Marco,
We've been getting more and more clients asking for a way to manage their rewrite rules using the control panel rather than editing the web.config.
I have a hard time telling them that they should just edit the web.config because we are giving them the control panel to do so many other things on their site, so they question why this capability isn't available in the control panel.
I am willing to donate a little to get this added to the priority list.
P.S. – I'm sorry for missing this but I can't seem to find a roadmap anywhere. Do you publish one?
Actucally i did double check but it doesn't look like for example Plesk supports such feature via gui neither. (for iis)
Personally the big question would be if you want it to do through GUI do you expect just an text area to put the rules in? (pretty similar to editing web.config) or do you seek an interface such as IIS? (very advanced flow of rule sets etc).
The second problem i would see is for any errors in web.config, meaning if they make a wrong rule (somehow, somewhere) solidcp won't be able to load the site (neither would IIS Management) untill web.config is fixed.
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ecology, famine, Federal Research, global warming, Governmental policy, Overpopulation, Research spending, war
Global climate change is in the air here on the University of California, Berkeley campus. As I was going over to the first lecture on my schedule at Hearst Memorial Mining Building, here was one of our climate professors Dan Kammen, Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute for the Environment, setting up for a TV interview in front of the old UC Art Museum.
On February 9th I had a blog about a lecture by Dan Kammen on Global Warming.
Helene York, Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation Sponsor: CITRIS (Ctr for Info Technology Research in the Interest of Society)
Food and Climate Change: Myths v. Facts
The food system's contribution of greenhouse gases has long been ignored in the United States and where it has discussed it has become a matter of mythology. Constituting as much as one-third of GHGe, it should not be ignored if we are to achieve ambitious reduction targets, but we also need to gain an appreciation of the true sources, and appropriate mitigation efforts, rather than rely on ideology and folklore.
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Buildings That Think Green: The Next Generation of Smart Energy Technologies
Arun Majumdar hopes to change that. He's leading a team of Berkeley Lab scientists to create a new generation of net-zero energy, carbon-neutral buildings. Majumdar's goal is to reduce today's demand by 90% in new buildings and by 50% in retrofitted old buildings by 2030.
Watch for this lecture on YouTube. Here is a similar previous lecture. Today's lecture was primarily aimed at improving buildings and therefore is a more focused one than Al Gore's The Unpleasant Truth, but it is more capable of being implemented.
Follow the money and you will get a better understanding of where the actions is rather than the words.
Past actions are the foundation of future actions,
Most of the past research money has gone to Defense, and most of that listed as Energy has gone to atomic energy research in various ways. Renewable energy gets a lot of political lip service, but very little money.
Each of these lectures was very good in its own way, but each of them is a total failure, in my opinion, because none of them will discuss the population explosion, and how that massive increase in human population will totally overwhelm the solutions which they are each trying to implement. I have spoken to each of them personally, briefly, and each admits that I am correct about the population problem. Off the record of course. It is a politically charged issue, and is outside of their expertise so they can't, and won't talk about it.
It appears to an outsider such as myself, that they are all being manipulated from above by higher forces. That they are puppets on a string. That is a bit harsh but if they can not speak out on the obvious problem, and the problem is going to totally overwhelm their solutions then their solutions are worthless, and perhaps even counterproductive. Their solutions may be worse than doing nothing at all because they give the veneer that something is being done to solve the problem, when it isn't. This is similar to what is happening on Wall Street this last week where covering up obvious investment failings eventually catches up with the perpetrators of the fraud, and the public not the perpetrators gets stuck with a tremendous bill. The accountability falls not where it should but upon the innocent people who are forced to trust these experts.
This coming ecological failing will be vastly worse than a simple loss of money on a rather large scale, it will lead to and directly precipitate global famine which will almost certainly bring on a global war much greater than we have ever witnessed. These very nice people remind me of the very nice atomic scientists of the last century, some of whom I knew, and which created their horrible genie in the bottle, all for the betterment of mankind. Here again we have well meaning people setting the world up for disaster and the more successful they are the more precarious the human condition becomes.
Rock a bye baby, in the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock;
When the bow breaks the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby cradle and all.
Unfortunately, in this case, the baby is humanity, and the cradle is the Earth. We need innovation like we have never had before! But the innovation must somehow bring human baby population under some form of rational control before the natural processes of nature solve our population explosion problem the way it always has in the past.


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Omega-3 fatty acids
All eggs do not have the same amount of nutrition. It varies because of the nutrition compound which depends on the kind of food that was fed to the hens and how they were raised. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) element present in eggs helps in the maintenance of brain function, vision, and lower blood triglycerides. Omega-3 fatty acids are also found in fish like tuna and salmon. So, if you are unable to eat fish, eggs are the perfect alternative for you.
2. Raise good cholesterol
Eating eggs can help you to increase the High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) which is also known as good cholesterol. A single egg contains 212 mg, which is over half of the recommended daily intake of 300 mg. Higher levels of HDL lower down the risk of heart disease, stroke, and other health problems. Studies have shown that consuming two eggs per day for six weeks have helped in enhancing HDL level by 10%.
3. High in quality protein
Getting enough protein in your diet is extremely important for a healthy body. Proteins are the building blocks of the blocks of the human body as they formulate all sorts of tissues which serve as a structural and functional process. A single large egg contains around six grams of protein. Apart from this, eggs also contain all the essential amino acids which further help in working with protein in your body. Enough protein is important for stronger bones, increase muscle mass, help in weight loss etc.
4. Beneficial for eyes
Eggs contain two powerful antioxidants – lutein and zeaxanthin. These antioxidants assemble in the retina of the eyes. The risk of the two most common eye disorders, cataracts, and macular degeneration can be reduced by consuming adequate amounts of these nutrients. Eggs are also high in vitamin A. Deficiency of vitamin A is known to be the most common cause of blindness in the world.
5. Lower risk of heart disease
Consumption of higher amount of LDL cholesterol which also known as the bad cholesterol is harmful for health and enhances the chance of heart disease. Lesser known fact is that there are two subtypes of LDL: small LDL and large LDL. According to the studies, large LDL is more beneficial for health than small and eggs help to raise the level of the former.
6. Take in essential minerals
Minerals like iron, zinc, and phosphorus are present in eggs in great amounts and are requisite for your healthy body. Zinc maintains your immune system and turns food into energy. Iron is required for a number of things, but women need it plenty of it due to menstruation. Eggs are also rich in iodine, which is required to make thyroid hormones, and selenium.
7. Brain Health
The most complex part of the body is the brain. And for maintaining good health, it is extremely important for you to maintain a healthy brain. Eggs contain most of the right vitamins and minerals which are needed for regular functioning of cells, memory, nervous system and metabolism.


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What Is Anaphylactic Shock and How To Avoid It An Anaphylactic Shock is the extreme level of shock that the body receives from a sudden allergic reaction due to a trigger or allergen, and this kind of extreme allergic reaction is called Anaphylaxis. When you have had a previous history of anaphylaxis, then you are more susceptible to anaphylactic shocks in future. Understanding anaphylactic shock An anaphylactic shock is often caused by a trigger. This trigger can be any allergen. Any allergen which may have never caused you such severe allergy may get suddenly overtly reactive, and cause your body to react too much. Sometimes an allergen which may have caused very little allergy or irritation to you in the past grows to be a bigger problem over time, and may trigger an anaphylaxis one day. The whole thing starts generally with a reaction to food or drugs typically harmless to the body. The reaction may show up in 3 minutes or within 30 minutes of ingestion. How to recognize that you are going through an anaphylactic shock What happens during an anaphylactic shock must be learn to avoid it. Rather you must recognize first that you or the patent is under a shock, so that you may arrange for an emergency medical help. One or many of these symptoms may show up: Trouble in breathing and hoarse voice Trouble swallowing and speaking Hives and redness through the body Itching and swelling across throat, or tongue, or full face, or full body Runny nose and coughing and sneezing Diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, headache Fall in blood pressure, weak pulse rate and cramps through body or abdomen Swellings inside the body underneath skin In anaphylactic shock the blood pressure of body suddenly falls as the blood vessels gets very dilated, and rather the wind pipe gets congested or shrunk, and it leads to a serious drop in blood pressure and difficulty breathings. If left untreated for long, this may be fatal. Common triggers of anaphylaxis In children the triggers are commonly food, and in adults the triggers are commonly drugs. The food which may cause the anaphylactic shock in children are milk, seafood, shellfish, peanuts, eggs, what or soy etc. in adults the triggers can be penicillin, ibuprofen, aspirin type of drugs. If you have any drug allergy you must talk to your doctor while he prescribed you medicines for any condition. That is the best way to avoid such a condition. Other factors may be pollen or suspended particles in the air, latex, and insect stings. The common mode of treatment and avoiding the problem The best mode of treatment for anaphylactic shock is epinephrine injection. More than one injection may be needed if the symptom persons after 30 minutes if giving the first shot. The epinephrine shot should be given on the thigh preferably, and you must avoid any doses of antihistamine during an anaphylactic shock. The best way to avoid the problem is by avoiding triggers, and though you may not avoid any and all food items, you should stay away from any which caused allergies earlier.
An Anaphylactic Shock is the extreme level of shock that the body receives from a sudden allergic reaction due to a trigger or allergen, and this kind of extreme allergic reaction is called Anaphylaxis.


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