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Bullet Catch is a thought-provoking and utterly profound modern day performance that ingeniously develops an exhausting tension that culminates towards one final act that involves Rob Drummond convincing a member of his audience to shoot him with a loaded gun.
In this truly remarkable piece of theatre, Drummond retraces and mesmerises us with the history behind the sleight of hand illusion which is the "Bullet Catch". It is a routine, devised in 1613, that involves the magician being shot at with a loaded gun by a member of the audience.
To give further context, the stunt has allegedly claimed the lives of 12 individuals since its conception, and was regarded famously by one Houdini as a trick that was far too dangerous to perform.
Through imaginative storytelling Drummond takes on the role of a gifted illusionist William Wonder, articulating to the audience the real life narrative of his unfortunate demise. We are informed that Wonder hands a loaded gun to a randomly selected audience member, Garth, who, after shooting the illusionist down, is found to be the man in question as an investigation of the events unfolds.
Drummond chooses his volunteer, "Garth", through extensive screening exercises at the beginning of the show. The premise and the masterful development of the intimate relationship between Drummond and his volunteer provide the core structure of the performance.
The composed, yet openly vulnerable, Drummond looks to craft a relationship that aims to strengthen the bond with his assistant by allowing them to share their thoughts and feelings with the audience.
"This isn't magic, it's a conversation."
The vital relationship between Drummond and his volunteer, and the intimate connection made with the audience is brilliantly manipulated. The emotional tension deduced throughout the performance becomes too much for some audience members to handle as the final showdown is anticipated.
Bullet Catch is an outstanding piece of art that not only celebrates magic by deriving energy from traditional magic shows, but it also provides an unexpected warmth in its ability to give the audience a rare opportunity to sincerely evaluate the choices they make as individuals.
A lesson in the history of the Bullet Catch routine and an absorbing assessment of human behaviour, complemented with enough traditional magic to keep you satisfied provides for a unique and moving theatre experience.
You will be left alone to reflect on your personal thoughts as you recover from what is being described as "the most notorious finale in show business".
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Michael Stutz, author of The Linux Cookbook, 2nd Edition: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use, discusses what inspired him to write this book, when he first started using Linux, and other world views.
Who is this book written for - system administrators or people new to Linux?
Admins will find the organization of undocumented tips and tricks quite useful, but it's not a technicians-only kind of book. I wanted to write a book that would also be of great value to someone who was totally new to Linux, that would show you the whole Linux culture and Linux way of doing things from the ground up.
It's the kind of book that you could use in a hands-on Linux course, but that would actually be useful enough so that the students would keep it as a daily reference afterward, instead of selling it right back to the college bookstore when the class is over.
This isn't a Linux for Total Fools in Five Seconds type book; it's not cutesy or trendy, and the purpose is not to enable someone who couldn't care less about the subject to cheat his way through, but to elevate the user by showing him how to use Linux for real.
You don't need a book to tell you how to fake it with a GUI, anyway. The only way to really know Linux is to learn the language of the command line. You'll save a lot of time in life by knowing that, and that's what this book is for.
What kind of feedback have you been getting on the book?
It hasn't been out very long but happily people seem to love it!
That's been reassuring because a lot of time and effort went into making it. With all due respect to Krispy Kreme, computer books nowadays are plopped out quicker than hot glazed doughnuts, but the Linux Cookbook wasn't like that at all. It's not a series book and it wasn't written for hire; it was only written because I had grown utterly dejected at the thought of how everyday people were using their computers. It really made me sad to see this mass inefficiency. People had these horrible time-wasting methods pushed on them when I knew they would be so much better off running Linux.
What's your background?
Computers were always inherent - this is the Internet Age, after all - but I'm a programmer or technician only by amateur or theoretical inquiry, not by trade. My background is literature and philosophy, which has brought the advantage of perspective. The secret that most people don't seem to know, because of what our culture has become in recent decades, is the fundamental idea that computer software is not, strictly speaking, technology at all. A program is just a literary work; it's a kind of technical literature. I talk about this in the introduction.
Forty years ago the United States was the greatest producer society in the world. What happened in that interval and how does it relate to Linux? Part of that transformative shift was the adoption of the view that computer programs were objects that you bought at the store, that they were somehow new "technology" to bank on. This obscured what they really were - written works to be published and examined and read, as well as performed by the hardware. When you remove that from the culture and only sell it as a sealed object in the box, you have a fairy-tale economy and a culture that is sliding into irrelevance, decadence, and decay. Linux is a return to the old tradition, to the individual inventor-scientist and industrial entrepreneur as the productive member of an educated populace. That's what so exciting about it.
How did you come to learn about Linux?
I heard about it on the newsgroups back when it was being invented. At first I thought, "Hey, this will be great," but I knew it would be some time before it would actually be useful as an everyday OS. Those were the days when Linus said he wasn't going to support the SCSI bus. Then after a few years I came back to it when the first distributions had come out. I got a copy of Slackware Linux, where you had to make an install set of about 42 floppy disks. I've never run another OS since. It looks very different today, of course, but the core of it - what is taught in The Linux Cookbook - is the same.
What's your favorite Linux program?
That's like asking a poet what his favorite word is; it's all in how they go together.
Is there anything you need to run Windows for?
Yes, there is an area affecting business and home use where Linux is greatly deficient, and I see no solution coming at all. I refer to the area of e-mail viruses - they just don't make them for Linux like they do for Windows. Same with a lot of those crippling meltdowns and system errors. If you want a blue screen of death freeze-up, you pretty much have to run Windows to get it. You won't be able to run those trojan horses that steal all your passwords and copy your files out to the Internet, and you're out of luck with all those funny attachments that wreak havoc in the workplace - there isn't any Linux compatibility here at all.
Do you think that Linux has enough applications that people can completely leave Windows behind?
Absolutely. If you don't need the viruses and freeze-ups, by all means go with Linux. Linux is loaded with applications, everything you need. Some distributions give you hundreds and hundreds of programs. The quality is high, too; the best minds in software today are working with Linux and have been for years.
On a practical and theoretical level, there's really no need for running anything else, if maximum efficiency is desired. I haven't run a proprietary OS in over a decade. This is true for the workplace as well as the home. The smart business today is the one that uses Linux.
Speaking in general terms, if you need to use a computer to get something done fast, you're going to be a step ahead by using Linux. That's the fundamental idea behind The Linux Cookbook; it describes how to use the system for the everyday activities of the average user, and not just the technical operations.
What would your advice be to someone who is just learning Linux? What's the best way to learn it?
The way to learn anything on computers is to sit down and do it. That's the only way - trial and error.
Knowing that, I designed the Cookbook to work as a textbook that can guide you at the keys by telling you what to type and explaining why you type it, starting with the utter fundamentals such as logging in and turning the computer on and off, and building up to the most complex operations you'll probably ever come up with.
Why does the book look different inside from most other computer books?
Since The Linux Cookbook is all about using Linux for everyday work, I thought, "What better way to demonstrate that than to use Linux to make the book?"
So through an arrangement with the publisher, I typeset the book using only free software on Linux. Everything you see in the book was done with the open source, free software that you get with Linux. How's that for a demonstration?
Because of computers, graphic design is no longer the domain of experts - anyone can use desktop publishing software to typeset something. But there's a paradox. If you look around, the result of this new capability is not so good; in fact, it's a nightmare. Perhaps I'm a little more sensitive to this than some, but everywhere I go I see poor typography and awful design. Who can peacefully dine in a supposedly fine restaurant when you see that the menu is slapped together with all the wrong fonts? How can you take a place seriously when you see the cheap sign out along the road? The same with books. When was the last time you flipped through a book and thought it looked absolutely great? I like the best of the books made on the Monotype and Linotype equipment of the precomputer days, and using Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting system I deliberately tried to achieve that caliber of greatness with The Linux Cookbook, to make a product that someone might actually be proud to own.
Do you think that Linux is just for home users?
No, not at all. Linux is not just an end-user system. While it's ideal for what's called "the desktop," either in the home or office - and that is the usage that I describe in The Linux Cookbook - it also excels in industrial applications. It's unparalleled there.
Many foreign governments are taking advantage of Linux for this reason, as well as foreign industries. We would do well to do the same here in the United States. The United States as a matter of policy has to get back to the kind of producer economy that we had 40 years ago, when computing was in its infancy. A tremendous shift in our culture occurred at that time, including the rejection of what we today call the open source method. We closed the factories, put the software in boxes, and called it a "post-industrial economy."
But it's no economy; that shift was a terrible mistake. Since then our production has plummeted and our culture has gone down with it. The United States is no longer a world leader in art and culture. The most popular word to describe its citizens today is "consumer." Our cities are decaying and dangerous. The implications for the younger generation are terrifying. But with Linux, we could turn all of that around!
Why is it a "cookbook"? Are there any recipes for food inside?
Doing something with a computer is a lot like making something in the kitchen, so the "recipe" metaphor lends itself to computer instruction. Don Lancaster wrote the first computer cook-books back in the early 1970s, I think, and before that in The Art of Computer Programming Knuth very clearly draws upon the metaphor. There are all kinds of computer "cookbooks" today because it's a natural way to look at the act of programming. While most computer cookbooks are for programmers and give "cookbook" snippets of program code, The Linux Cookbook uses that method for teaching the language of the command line, and I think it's very successful at that.
As for culinary recipes, there aren't any in the book. But it's not unheard of - Hemingway indulged in that, and in The Dharma Bums Kerouac tells you how trail mix is made. In Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg, a book about computer hackers, there's a recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
What is your favorite cookbook in general?
I can talk all night on this subject! Generally the cookbooks I enjoy are the old ones. There was a time when America had many of the world's greatest chefs, and the greatest restaurants, and I look for that. For American cookbooks Master Chef Louis P. De Gouy set the standard, and if you can find a first edition of his Gold Cook Book it is worth it. Some say the cookbook put out by Vincent Price and his wife is one of the finest of the 20th century. Every well-appointed restaurant kitchen has Escoffier and a copy of the Larousse Gastronomique.
The Ford Motor Company used to publish excellent cookbooks featuring recipes from America's famous restaurants. When you bought a car they gave you one: "Here, go out on the road in your nice new Ford and have a look at this fine country!" Who in the world would do that today? What, to check out the Olive Gardens in Idaho? Of course it's nostalgic, since the entire nation has now been taken over by a giant franchise chain. I seek that forgotten history. Luchow's and Mama Leone's were New York institutions (with excellent cookbooks) the likes of which you cannot find in New York, or anywhere else today - Manhattan recently lost its last diner.
Even out in Columbus, Ohio, they had a gigantic world-class landmark, the Kahiki Polynesian Supper Club, worthy of a cookbook of its own. Its myriad features included an indoor tropical forest complete with thunder and rainstorm. The place was an astounding achievement, wonderfully preserved, and back in 2000 only weeks after it was voted best in the world by Food & Wine magazine, they demolished it for a Walgreen's. That's the future, for us and for all our children. Where is the outrage?
How about your favorite cartoon?
Zippy! I'll have to share my favorite Zippy strip, which relates to this discussion: zippythepinhead.com.
To conclude on a happy note, you should know that Linux has a way to display random Zippy quotes, and there's a recipe to show you how to do it in The Linux Cookbook.
About Michael Stutz
Michael Stutz has used Linux exclusively for over a decade. He was the first to apply the open source methodology of Linux to non-software works, and was one of the first reporters to cover Linux and the free software movement in the mainstream press. His "Living Linux" column runs on the O'Reilly Network.
|Karri89 02/04/05 01:09:04 PM EST
I'm a newbie to the world of UNIX/Linux and
The other nice thing about the book is how the author
|Glen 02/03/05 01:45:22 PM EST
This article made me want to rush out and NOT buy his book. He says the book is not trendy/cutesy, but that's just what this ridiculous article is. Food recipes? Chocolate chip cookies? Are you kidding? This is more like an interview from a sappy, lame, local news channel than an IT magazine.
|CompWizKid 01/25/05 02:49:11 PM EST
Your wanna-be gurus are funny. I run a 98, two XP's, one debian, one slackware, one Gentoo system, and one Mac. first of all, if you want "ease-of-use" for any media based medium(photos, video, grahpical editing), Windows is not indispnesable. Furthermore, if you want to game(ANY GAME) is written for and runs on Windows systems. The statement that society is decaying due to the ease-of-use of windows systems is plain eccentric. Lets come to one generallization; people are lazy,and people are stupid. I would rather an everyday user(non-techie) not use linux due to the fact that it would take more time to support them, which would overcast the efficency it would save. Anyone who is good at computers knows how many times friends and family ask them to "fix their computer." These computers are PCs, so think if they were linux/unix machines.
Drivers are a major problem from system to system. XP comes preloaded with alomost any driver that is possible.
Wireless technologies are becoming more of IT professionals everyday life. The time it takes to configure and startup a wireless arcitechture on a Linux based system far exceeds that of a windows system. When I am showing a demo to a potential customer, should I spend more time configuring or demoing. Furthermore if a client would like to display a concept of some sort and cant navigate, more time is wasted and causes confusion. Lastly I am extreamly mobile person(grad student). The ability to travel from AP to AP seamlessly is important to me. Also, for most new technology laptops, advanced option drivers(integrated wireless)are not available. This introduces additional costs.
|A humble Linux user 01/24/05 09:00:31 AM EST
Sorry, but I must said that I've been using Linux for the last four years and yes, it ALMOST replaced Windows for all my home uses except for one: it still (well, it was not six months ago) not possible to print family photos in my deskjet with the same quality as the Windows ones. This has been acknowledged by HP support, and is, except kids games, my only reason to still boot Windows.
|colin case 01/23/05 03:15:29 PM EST
martha, i got mine really cheap on amazon + free shipping...
|martha 01/23/05 02:19:59 PM EST
It's nice that you linked to Zippy, but did you consider linking to some locations that sell the book.
|Wally Masterson 01/22/05 07:14:39 PM EST
This is a great book on Linux - I own it and find it indispensable.
|A reader 01/22/05 06:25:45 PM EST
You've got to be kidding. Linux is good and all, but this guy is on crack or something. First, I like how he says Linux maximizes his efficiency, but how he hasn't used a proprietary OS in so many years. He seems to have such a solid basis for comparison then. Or how about, "Our cities are decaying and dangerous. The implications for the younger generation are terrifying. But with Linux, we could turn all of that around!" WTF? Is this guy for real?
|Sarah 01/22/05 05:55:30 PM EST
Dunno how long it lasts, but I found a 20% discount link from the publisher...
|Stuart B 01/22/05 08:54:54 AM EST
I use Linux for almost everything.
|Matt 01/22/05 06:24:26 AM EST
Ron, have you heard of this thing called the internet? It's real handy. You can even look up books there. Try it, you'll like it!
|bazmudi 01/21/05 07:22:51 AM EST
ron, i find publisher-page here: $31.95
amazon for best deal: $26.37
|Ron 01/20/05 10:46:14 PM EST
And the publisher of this book is? And it is available where, when, for how much?
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An exhibition of paintings and drawings inspired by MTC's production of The Sublime, created by artists from Arts Project Australia, will be in the Fairfax Studio foyer at Arts Centre Melbourne from 22 August to 4 October.
Artists Paul Hodges, Bobby Kyriakopoulos, Eden Menta and Lisa Reid from Arts Project Australia were invited into rehearsals for MTC's The Sublime to observe the cast and creatives at work over the course of a month. During this time the four artists sketched and took photographs of the actors, from which they have created their final artworks. Arts Project staff artist Elyss McCleary oversaw the project and selected the artwork on display.
'This has been a very exciting collaboration with one of Melbourne's outstanding visual arts organisations', said MTC Executive Director Virginia Lovett.' It coincides with Arts Project's 40th anniversary celebrations, and with the generosity of Arts Centre Melbourne, many visitors will be able to see the great work Arts Project does.'
The Sublime director Sam Strong, said, 'bringing together the visual and performing arts to capture the magic of a rehearsal room has been a wonderful experience. It was a delight to share our creative process with the talented artists from Arts Project Australia and to watch how their art takes shape. I can't wait to see the finished pieces at the theatre.'
Founded in 1974, Arts Project Australia was conceived as a dedicated space for visual art, to promote authentic self-expression and to provide access to professional quality materials and support from practising contemporary artists. Following years of incremental growth, Arts Project Australia established the first full-time arts studio in Australia for artists with an intellectual disability in 1990. In the nearly four decades since its inception, Arts Project Australia has won numerous awards and has built a reputation nationally and internationally as a leader and innovator in both the arts and disability sectors.
Arts Project Australia Executive Director Sue Roff said, 'The opportunity provided by MTC for Arts Project artists to experience and visually record the rehearsal process has been invaluable, and one not offered to many artists. The artists involved have benefitted enormously from the generosity of The Sublime's cast and crew and we are thrilled that their work will be exhibited alongside the production to celebrate our 40th Anniversary.'
Commissioned by Melbourne Theatre Company, The Sublime is a provocative new Australian play from award-winning actor and writer Brendan Cowell that puts footy, sex scandals and power under the spotlight. Directed by MTC Associate Artistic Director Sam Strong and starring Josh McConville, Ben O'Toole and Anna Samson, The Sublime opens Thursday 28 August at Arts Centre Melbourne, Fairfax Studio.
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Mike Nower, finance director, said: "We're now optimistic to bullish, and business has been very good. There is a lot of activity, a lot of offers and our surveyors are very busy indeed."
Business at Countrywide's conveyancing division has already doubled on the same period last year, to more than 1,000 instructions every week.
The pick-up contrasts with Countrywide's results for 1998, which showed profits edging up by 7 per cent but earnings falling. The shares rose 9 per cent to 137p, valuing the firm at pounds 455m.
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Cohen actually began developing LoveLive while at Perform. He had joined the firm in 2006 when it was still called Premium TV, the year before Len Blavatnik's Access Industries bought it. It then merged with Inform Group to become Perform.
He realised the company's success with managing digital content in sport — such as distributing online highlights from football leagues around the world — could be repeated with music. However, after the acquisition by Access the company decided to focus on sports so the board agreed Cohen could spin out LoveLive and run it by himself.
Various deals were discussed, but in the end he ended up with full control of LoveLive: "They went, you know what, if you're ready to go it alone now then you should have this and you can own it, and they were just amazing." Cohen admits that, with LoveLive, he "shamelessly sought to replicate the best practice that we established [at Perform] and apply it where possible to music." As he learnt at Perform, the important thing was gaining the rights.
In 2009 he made his first deal, buying online music magazine and production firm Rockfeedback. After that, Cohen set about signing deals with music labels, "effectively giving me the rights to capture their repertoire and exploit that internationally across multiple platforms".
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However, this is one of just a range of services the business provides — it also live-streams and produces concerts, manages websites and social media for bands, and books acts for shows, among many other things.
LoveLive started off just working with bands, but soon realised the opportunity in the corporate world as well. "One of my staff said to me a long while ago," says Cohen, "'Isn't it interesting how every brand has got a Facebook strategy but they've not got a music strategy, when more people are still involved and engaged in music than Facebook?'"
So the firm started bringing the corporate and music worlds together, producing events such as gigs at the top of the BT Tower and also launching campaigns — one, with Ford, saw them lend Transit vans to artists who then used the vehicles to go on tour.
The key, says Cohen, is that LoveLive is able to work in the best interests of both sides. This is partly because of the fact that its sister company is indie label Transgressive Records, whose roster includes Foals and Two Door Cinema Club. Transgressive was founded by Toby Langley — the founder of Rockfeedback - and his partner Tim Dellow. When LoveLive bought Rockfeedback, Langley and Dellow then became partners in the former while remaining owners of Transgressive.
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More acquisitions look likely to follow, and having raised some money for the Cobra deal, LoveLive is at present gearing up for a more substantial fundraise this year, somewhere in the region of $20 million (£12 million). The question is, will the company just be taking on investors or could someone swoop in for the whole firm?
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Nonetheless, he's keeping his options open — a sale could happen sooner rather than later, he concedes, or LoveLive will raise cash from institutional investors and build by itself. There's also the possibility of going public, although he says a float "wouldn't be my first choice".
Revenues are due to more than double this year, although this is not the only reason Cohen is enjoying what he describes as "the best time professionally I've had ever".
As a music fan who admits he "can't sing or play a lick", working with artists including Nick Cave and Robert Plant have been highlights, as was being on the stage at the Royal Albert Hall with PJ Harvey ahead of a gig which LoveLive was streaming.
"I was as close to her as I am to you," Cohen says. "She's sound-checking, and I'm staring out at an empty Royal Albert Hall with my crew rigging, getting ready for the shoot that night — I literally had to pinch myself."
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Montravius Adams, the No. 1 defensive tackles in the class of 2013, visited Clemson for the second weekend in a row.
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Last Saturday, Adams witnessed a Clemson win over N.C. State. He was back seven days later for the Tigers' showdown with rival South Carolina.
"It was a good trip," he told CUTigers on Sunday morning.
He added, "I got to hang out with some of the recruits, hang out with the coaches and the players."
The five-star defensive tackle was impressed with the atmosphere in Death Valley on Saturday night.
"It was good, really crazy," he said.
Adams spent much of his time with a pair of highly sought after defensive ends, Carl Lawson and Ebenezer Ogundeko.
All of the Clemson coaches, Adams said, spoke with him.
"Besides the playing time, just coming back up for the official visit, they want me to come back up on January the 12th," he said.
It's still up in the air if Adams will take an official visit to Clemson, whether it's that weekend or any other weekend. LSU, Oregon and Southern Cal are "probably" going to receive official visits. Adams has yet to nail down any dates for official visits.
His list of offers will be broken down soon.
"I'm going to do it after my season," Adams said.
After a 19-8 win over Turner County in the first-round of the GHSA class A playoffs, Dooly County High School is set to take on Seminole County on Friday.
So far this season, Adams has over 100 tackles, 4.5 sacks, four forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries. He's also punted five times for 131 yards.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/jrxr93/mobile_payments) has announced the addition of the "Mobile Payments: Only If Relevant and Useful" report to their offering.
New Survey Finds 2 In 5 Consumers Are Interested In Wearable Technology, 50% Of Them For Making Payments
This Report from the CustomerMonitor Survey Series reveals that 38% of US adults, especially young adults (62%), are interested in wearable technology devices with a mobile interface that enables various activities, which may include making payments or mobile banking. (These devices typically cost $100 or more.) When asked to rate the importance of 11 features to include on such a device, 50% of respondents interested in wearable technology considered mobile banking and, separately, making payments to be important.
Consumers are expressing growing interest in a wide variety of mobile payments in 2014 as they begin using mobile banking and more retailers provide mobile apps for payments. 'Mobile Payments: Only If Relevant and Useful' reveals mobile payments is of growing interest and use as 43% of US consumers surveyed have tried mobile payments, up from 31% in 2013.
Highlights of this report include:
- Year-over-year trends in smartphone and tablet ownership by screen size
- Year-over-year trends in use and interest in various methods of in-store and online mobile payments and mobile payment acceptance methods
- Demographics of mobile users and mobile payment users and satisfaction with operability of mobile phones
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- Use of passwords or other types of security codes on smartphones and tablets
- Shifts in use and delivery methods for six types of financial alerts
- Shifts in use and interest in e-couponing, e-receipting, and apps for coupon and receipt storage and management
- Use, interest, format, and importance of features for wearable technology including payments, mobile banking, and money transfers
Key Topics Covered:
- Introduction
- An Evolving Mobile User Landscape
- Mobile Use and Satisfaction
- Mobile Payments: Use, Attitude, and Opportunity
- Conclusions and Strategic Implications
- Appendix: Mobile Payments Module from 2014 Survey Questionnaire
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Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified an abnormal amount a protein called Prostaglandin D2 in the bald scalp of men with male pattern baldness, a discovery that may lead directly to new treatments for the most common cause of hair loss in men. In both human and animal models, researchers found that a prostaglandin known as PGD2 and its derivative, 15-dPGJ2, inhibit hair growth. The PGD2-related inhibition occurred through a receptor called GPR44, which is a promising therapeutic target for androgenetic alopecia in both men and women with hair loss and thinning. The study is published in Science Translational Medicine.
Male pattern baldness strikes 8 of 10 men under 70 years old, and causes hair follicles to shrink and produce microscopic hairs, which grow for a shorter duration of time than normal follicles.
Researchers took an unbiased approach when scanning for potential biological causes of baldness, looking in scalp tissue from balding and non-bald spots from men with male pattern baldness and then corroborating findings in mouse models. They found that levels of PGD2 were elevated in bald scalp tissue at levels 3 times greater than what was found in comparative haired scalp of men with androgenetic alopecia. When PGD2 was added to cultured hair follicles, PGD2-treated hair was significantly shortly, while PGD2's derivative, 15-dPGJ2, completely inhibited hair growth.
"Although a different prostaglandin was known to increase hair growth, our findings were unexpected, as prostaglandins haven't been thought about in relation to hair loss, yet it made sense that there was an inhibitor of hair growth, based on our earlier work looking at hair follicle stem cells," said George Cotsarelis, MD, chair and professor of Dermatology, and senior author on the studies. In a Penn study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation last year, underlying hair follicle stem cells were found intact, suggesting that the scalp was lacking an activator or something was inhibiting hair follicle growth.
Prostaglandins are well characterized for their role in many bodily functions – controlling cell growth, constricting and dilating smooth muscle tissue – and a different prostaglandin (F2alpha) is known to increase hair growth. Researchers found that as PGD2 inhibits hair growth, other prostaglandins work in opposition, enhancing and regulating the speed of hair growth.
While these studies looked at AGA in men, the researchers noted that prostaglandins may represent a common pathway shared by both men and women with AGA. Future studies, potentially testing topical treatments that may target GPR44, can determine whether targeting prostaglandins will benefit woman with AGA as well.The research team consisted of Dr. Cotsarelis, lead author Luis Garza, MD, PhD, (former post-doctoral fellow at Penn, now at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) and Yaping Liu (now at Merck & company), Zaixin Yang, Brinda Alagesan, Scott Norberg, Tailun Zhao, Hanz Blatt, from Penn's Dermatology department; Garrett FitzGerald and John Lawson from Penn's Department of Pharmacology and the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics; David Stanton and Lee Carrasco from Penn's Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and colleagues at Gilette, and University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/
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It's Raining Beta Men: Why Emasculation is a Curse, Not a Blessing
Harvard professor and Manliness author Harvey C. Mansfield opined, "We are attracted to the manly man because he imparts some of his confidence to everyone else."
Manly men–past and present–have captivated the world with their talents, leadership, oratory skills, and virility. They are strong, protective, and brave. They are fathers, gentlemen, husbands, friends, and neighbors. They are innovators, pioneers, and model citizens. Simply put, manly men are invincible. Great men like Ronald Reagan, Charlton Heston, Winston Churchill, and Clark Gable exhibited manly traits in their respective lives. They lived in an era where men were expected to defend themselves and were prepared to fight. Before the ascendancy of feminism, manliness was the gold standard — a virtue all young men wanted and sought. Anything short of manliness was discouraged.
Today, we look to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Florida Congressman Allen West, actor Bruce Willis, and other manly men for confidence and guidance. They make us feel safe and comfortable. They lead us and represent us. They protect us from harm's way here and abroad. Without them, civilization would cease to exist.
Alas, feminists have waged a war on men and continue to perpetrate it.
Feminists contend that patriarchy and its "male enablers" enslave women through marriage and motherhood. They assert that men are sex-driven, lustful pigs keen on subduing women. As a result, feminists are determined to undermine them.
Here is proof:
1): : : : : A typical feminist believes men enslave women through marriage:
"Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the Women's Movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage." – Sheila Cronan, in Radical Feminism – "Marriage" (1970)
2): : : : : A typical feminist thinks men are rapists:
"Male sexual aggression is endemic, if any sex act against a person's will were considered rape, the majority of men would be rapists." – Marilyn French, The War Against Women, Ballantine Books, 1992, p. 193
3): : : : : A typical feminist wants to eradicate manliness:
"Only when manhood is dead–and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it–only then will we know what it is to be free." : -Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies And Discourses On Sexual Politics
In order to successfully carry out their agenda, feminists want "new castrati males" to replace manly men.
Rush Limbaugh famously coined this lexicon and recently affirmed that new castrati males are "men with no guts who have just been bullied by women and the power structure and liberalism in general."
Beta males greatly contrast manly men. They are weak, defenseless, and overtly emotional. They are uninspiring and deprived. And more importantly, they are subservient to women.
Unfortunately, these emasculated males have pervaded society. Turn on the T.V., and you see a guy crying on his wife's shoulder or hiding behind her skirt. Listen to men talk about the so-called contraception shortage. They're feckless and equally duped by feminist talking points. Watch beta males be berated by their feminist girlfriends and wives in public. It is humiliating and outrageous to watch.
When will the madness stop? When will real men stand up to emasculation and demand its end?
Fear not, there is a glimmer of hope.
Daily Telegraph recently published an article highlighting a new study that found strong men are likely to be conservative. It said, "Researchers cite muscle-bound Hollywood action heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone as evidence that aggression is linked to conservative politics."
The article added that conservative men boast "the hunter-gatherer instincts of macho men – which are a hangover of out cavemen origins when the strongest ruled the roost."
Conservative men must vow to defend manliness. Our nation was built upon the hard work of men, not wimps. With the lackluster economy, high unemployment, and destructive leftist policies already in place, emasculation will add to this country's demise unless it is stopped.
Men: America needs you and your strength. Do not surrender your virility to feminists. Instead, work tirelessly to combat this attack.
Beta males — you will not go unnoticed. Let the reclamation of manliness begin!
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