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LONDON –– British scientists have been given the go-ahead by the fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos.
It is the first time a country has considered the DNA-altering technique in embryos and approved it.
The embryo divides and develops from a single fertilized egg (top left) to a blastocyst (bottom right).
The research will take place at the Francis Crick Institute in London and aims to provide a deeper understanding of the earliest moments of human life.
It will be illegal for the scientists to implant the modified embryos into a woman.
But the field is attracting controversy over concerns it is opening the door to designer –– or GM –– babies.
DNA is the blueprint of life –– the instructions for building the human body. Gene editing allows the precise manipulation of DNA.
In a world first last year, scientists in China announced they had carried out gene editing in human embryos to correct a gene that causes a blood disorder.
Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, a scientific advisor to the British fertility regulator, told the BBC: "China has guidelines, but it is often unclear exactly what they are until you've done it and stepped over an unclear boundary.
"This is the first time it has gone through a properly regulatory system and been approved."
The experiments will take place in the first seven days after fertilization.
During this time we go from a fertilized egg to a structure called a blastocyst, containing 200 to 300 cells.
The work will be led by Dr Kathy Niakan, who has spent a decade researching human development.
Earlier this year, she explained why she had applied to edit human embryos: "We would really like to understand the genes needed for a human embryo to develop successfully into a healthy baby.
"The reason why it is so important is because miscarriages and infertility are extremely common, but they're not very well understood."
Out of every 100 fertilized eggs, fewer than 50 reach the early blastocyst stage, 25 are implanted into the womb and only 13 develop beyond three months.
And at the blastocyst stage, some cells have been organized to perform specific roles –– some go on to form the placenta, others the yolk sac and others ultimately us.
How and why this takes place is unknown –– but some parts of our DNA are highly active at this stage.
It is likely these genes are guiding our early development, but it is unclear exactly what they are doing or what goes wrong in miscarriage.
The researchers will alter these genes in donated embryos, which will be destroyed after seven days.
The regulator, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has given its approval and the experiments could start in the next few months.
Paul Nurse, the director of the Crick, said: "I am delighted that the HFEA has approved Dr Niakan's application.
"Dr Niakan's proposed research is important for understanding how a healthy human embryo develops and
will enhance our understanding of IVF success rates, by looking at the very earliest stage of human development."
Dr David King, the director of Human Genetics Alert, said: "This research will allow the scientists to refine the techniques for creating GM babies, and many of the government's scientific advisers have already decided that they are in favour of allowing that.
"So this is the first step in a well mapped-out process leading to GM babies, and a future of consumer eugenics."
Dr Sarah Chan, from the University of Edinburgh, said: "The use of genome editing technologies in embryo research touches on some sensitive issues, therefore it is appropriate that this research and its ethical implications have been carefully considered by the HFEA before being given approval to proceed.
"We should feel confident that our regulatory system in this area is functioning well to keep science aligned with social interests."


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Pursuing Pinot
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THE STORYPursuing Pinot is the blog and social media presence of California-based writer and wine enthusiast/influencer, Catherine O'Brien. Make no mistake, this isn't just some random little hobby. Truth be told it started out that way, but it's become a respected and well-read resource for casual sippers to adventurous oenophiles. As such, Catherine wanted to elevate Pursuing Pinot's identity to a place equal to what readers had come to expect from its content. The new brand needed to feel sophisticated but not lofty. FYI, Catherine refuses to use words like 'connoisseur' in her writing because, as she says, "it's pretentious." You gotta love that.
THE SOLUTIONWhile Pursuing Pinot exists solely online, Catherine keeps it old school when it comes to her approach to writing. You'll often find her walking a vineyard or at a hip L.A. wine bar with pen & pad in one hand and glass in the other. That says a lot about her–she loves the craft of writing as much as the subject matter. That's why a fountain pen seemed perfect for the centerpiece of the new identity. From there the inspiration for the brandmark's other graphic elements flowed like ink from an inkwell. In the negative space, forming the two nibs of the pen tip, you'll see an inverted pinot noir bottle. Out of the hidden bottle, a drop of wine—or is it ink? A lovely visual combination. From there the tagline was born—Each drop tells a story. And we can't forget the customized U beneath the brandmark that doubles as a stemless wine glass. I also did some "pursuing of pinot" myself by exploring the red wine color scale (yes, there is such a thing) as the inspiration for the final color palette. I adore being a designer. I have a similar adoration for wine. When Confucius said "Choose a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life." I'm pretty sure he was talking about this particular project.
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Hyndman Creek is a major tributary of the East Fork of the Big Wood River, and provides important riparian habitat for birds and fish, including the threatened Wood River sculpin. The conservation easement is comprised of open hillsides and flat creek bed, and is favored by deer, elk, and wolverine. Over the years, the landowners have also sighted black bears and mountain lions with regularity. Hyndman Creek and the surrounding wetlands are important to water conservation, flood control, and water quality, in addition to providing valuable habitat for wildlife.


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Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara on Thursday retracted remarks suggesting that paying off local authorities in cash would ultimately solve the problem of where to store radiation-tainted soil from Fukushima Prefecture, after opposition parties demanded his resignation.
Ishihara also said he would visit the region to apologize in person shortly after the Diet session closes for summer.
But he made clear that he had no intention of resigning, saying he wanted to fulfill his responsibilities as the environment minister.
"I retract my comments and apologize for causing misunderstanding" because the remarks were not made in a dignified manner, Ishihara said in a tense Diet session that saw him lambasted by the opposition parties.
The minister, son of former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, said Monday that "monetary value" would eventually settle the protracted talks on whether any government would agree to host storage facilities for radioactive soil removed from areas contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
The comments enraged towns and cities in Fukushima, the opposition camp, and even members of the Cabinet.
Earlier, Ishihara had apologized but refused to retract the comments, saying they were made at an informal meeting with reporters rather than a formal news conference. What he meant to say, he added, was that it is important to show the amount of compensation paid to local governments for the storage sites.
Nevertheless, he delivered a full retraction Thursday amid growing pressure from the opposition camp, which submitted a censure motion against him later in the day.
Evacuees from Okuma and Futaba, the two towns hosting the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 plant, called Ishihara's remarks insensitive. Both were abandoned after the triple meltdown in March 2011.
Emiko Yoshida, 64, who fled Okuma for Aizuwakamatsu, 100 km away, said she thinks her town has no choice but to take the storage facilities. But she also said she felt betrayed by Ishihara.
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Your pet will be given a short-term anesthesia while your Vet does an extensive oral exam and cleaning. Every safety precaution will be taken before and during the anesthesia to ensure your pet's well being. Dental Radiographs (X-Rays) may also be taken to completely evaluate your pet's oral health. X-rays can detect abnormalities that cannot be seen under regular oral exams alone. And in some cases they can detect a tooth that may need to be extracted because it is loose or because of infection.
Next your Vet will scale and polish your pet's teeth. He will use instruments that are very similiar to ones your dentist uses when you get your teeth cleaned. He will remove plaque and calcium build up from your pet's teeth called calculus. To smooth out any scratches your pet may have, he may use a special tooth enamel polishing paste. Then the application of anti-plaque substance such as flouride and a barrier sealant is also advised. Much like our children today who have their healthy teeth sealed to avoid future dental problems. It can help to strengthen teeth and well as decrease future plaque build up.
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Representatives from parliament and local councils handed the £93million A361 bid to the Secretary of State for Transport today (Monday)
A £93million bid for improvements to the North Devon Link Road has been handed in to the Department for Transport today (Monday).
Devon County Council's Outline Business Case for modifications to the A361 was handed in Secretary of State for Transport Sir Chris Grayling by representatives from Devon, North Devon and Torridge.
Councillor Andrea Davis, Devon County Council's cabinet member for infrastructure, led a delegation along with North Devon Council deputy leader Pat Barker, Torridge District Council leader Jane Whittaker, and MPs Geoffrey Cox and Peter Heaton-Jones.
If the DfT approves the Outline Business Case, Devon County Council would aim to submit a planning application in late 2018 and a full Business Case in 2020. If successful, construction could start in late 2020.
Councillor Davis said: "Submitting the Outline Business Case is a key milestone for the North Devon Link Road project.
"A lot of hard work has gone into getting the scheme to this stage and if our bid for Local Majors Funding is successful it will be a tremendous boost for the economy in northern Devon and also for improving safety on this vital route."
The scheme included in the Outline Business Case would widen the A361 from South Molton to Barnstaple, providing overtaking lanes on around 70 per cent of the route. It currently has overtaking lanes for 10 per cent of the stretch.
Junction improvements and safety upgrades would also be carried out between South Molton and Bideford. The road would continue to have a 60mph speed limit with the use of average speed cameras recommended to improve safety.
Councillor Barker said: "I'm really pleased with the news, it's the culmination of so much hard work by us and Devon County Council over the last two years.
"Fingers crossed we don't have to wait too long for a result for North Devon and it's future economic growth but most importantly for the safer journeys the improvements will make."
Councillor Whittaker said: "The business case submission is only the beginning of the journey, but the great news is that the journey has begun and I am delighted to have been there to support the submission of the funding bid."
The County Council's cabinet agreed to develop improvements to the route in phases in October.
Councillors supported a long term strategy which would provide additional overtaking lanes on sections of the Link Road and an urban four lane road, with two lanes in each direction, between Portmore roundabout and Roundswell roundabout.
The strategy also involves upgrading eight junctions along the A361 and A39, and to improve safety, all uncontrolled right turns would be removed and pedestrian facilities improved for over 35km between Bish Mill junction, east of South Molton, and Buckleigh Road Junction near Bideford.


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Happy birfday, Mr. Pants!
I know just which picture of you I'm going to put in here later on. It's the one of you sitting on the bed in Florence, in your purple stripey shirt, accidentally (sure) flipping me off.
You're in your late 20s now - how does it feel? I'm following you in about a month, so please take notes on whether there's anything I need to know about turning 27.
There are a bunch of kids who walked about 12 miles into town from Del Valle to rally at the capitol building today. They're either celebrating Mr. Pants' birthday (unlikely, I guess) or protesting the immigration bill that has everyone (THANK YOU, Molly Ivins!) in a bit of a tizzy.
Several groups have walked by our office on their way up to the Capitol grounds. Some are definitely moving faster than others - a larger girl almost collapsed in front of our building earlier, but her friends helped her up and gave her some water before I could get outside, and she seemed to recover quickly.
I think this is great! It's about time people, especially young people, really started trying to take a more active role in government. So many of us are so apathetic too much of the time - we should learn from these kids and make our voices heard!
And that's the end of today's cheesetastic entry.
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Why Functional Acknowledgment Reconciliation important for EDI
If your company uses Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), reconciling Functional Acknowledgements, or "FAs", or "997s" is important and often overlooked. Just because the FA is a small document that is automatically generated from your translator, doesn't mean that it should be ignored.
The FA provides information on problems found with the structure or content of EDI transactions, such as a mandatory segment or element missing, or invalid code. It isn't just a data receipt. So, FA reconciliation should not just ask the question, "Did I get an FA?" It should also ask whether the document has been validated. There are four validation statuses: A – Accepted; E – Accepted with Errors; P – Partially Accepted (at Least One Transaction was Rejected); and R – Rejected.
Your reconciliation process should be checking for Rejections, at a minimum, but also for Error and Partially Accepted states. Those states may reflect a change in standards or in your partner's requirements that you haven't taken into account or may not be aware of. They can also mean that you have provided incomplete or incorrect data. If E, R and/or P statuses are received on a regular basis, it may be time to check your mapping and application data for those transactions.
Ignoring the Error and Rejected statuses may be costly to your company, as those EDI transactions may not be fully processed by your partner.
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New Moon, Kate Spreckley, 22 May 2020
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This month's New Moon energy brings assurance that our current circumstances are in fact divinely guided. Although it may be difficult to understand the reason or the purpose behind what is occurring now, it is important to recognise that we are awakening into a new era. A new era of human consciousness that brings the reunification and full embodiment of our soul within our human form.
Life may still feel a little all over the place and you may know and feel that change is necessary but lack the energy, desire or ability to attempt it. Remember that in this time you are being called to dream a new life, one that is more in alignment with who you have become. Surrender into this time and allow the New Moon energy to support you in seeing your life from a fresh perspective. Learn to trust the soft and gentle voice of your soul and know that all will be well. Even as you confront current challenges and difficulties know that success is assured.
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On Friday afternoon, Mrs. Actualities and I went to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to hear a panel on The Future of Investigative Reporting. On the panel were:
David Cohn, who founded http://spot.us -- essentially a "citizen journalism" site with a model based on bringing together freelancers, publishing venues and the public. In short: the public can support stories they feel are important, freelance journalists can get a little extra financial support to develop and research stories, and editors can get stories they can't support with their own publication / site resources.
Robert Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and journalism professor who is interested in the transition from traditional journalism to new models. He's connected to http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org but obviously well-versed in the existing models.
A.C. Thompson, who has worked with various San Francisco publications but is now associated with http://propublica.org and has received a Polk Award.
Lola Vollen, a physician who has shifted her work toward social justice and human rights, working with http://exonerated.org.
And, central to the panel: famed documentary photographer Susan Meiselas. If you don't know her work, look it up, and spend some time with it. http://susanmeiselas.com/. The important thing, for my discussion here, is to consider how Meiselas' model of going to a place, getting deeply invested in a story, and allowing a point of view to develop is purely documentary photography rather than photojournalism. Now, read that clearly: it isn't a critique, but praise. As well, it's an important distinction between the two fields.
The panel shifted a bit early on from what I expected -- after all, the context was an art museum, a show of Henri Cartier Bresson's work and the title "Future of Investigative Reporting" -- to more of a discussion of new models for supporting journalism. (Now, I'm quite aware of why this is on everyone's minds -- I've done a lot of freelance work in this realm and understand that it's clear the old models will change. Yet everyone seems unclear on how that change will stabilize or what models can be sustainable.)
So there was discussion noting that old support structures like "full time work" and "expense accounts" and "go to Central America for eight weeks, here's your ticket" were clearly gone, and that the new replacements are still developing -- and quite different in nature. Think of a blend between crowdfunding and NPR and you'll have part of the picture. Add YouTube, Digg and Twitter and you'll get a hint of the rest. But just a hint.
To my mind, this missed an important point.
Beyond the financial issues, the development of the Internet is important not just as a killer of the printed daily newspaper, but as a killer of one aspect of photojournalism.
That is, imagine an event happens. It's quite likely that a half-dozen civilians with cellphone cameras are there long before your contract photojournalist gets an alert email, and it's no surprise if there's a shaky video clip from a passerby on CNN immediately. Spot news? It's covered by a cell phone cam.
I'm not negating the value of a PJ here -- I just think the game has changed and that the role of the photojournalist has shifted toward documentary work. By this I mean that if there's a glut of "just okay shots" out there, and we can hand a DSLR to the reporter and have them come back with acceptable stills and video, then the role of photojournalist becomes about quality.
The role of the photojournalist becomes more like the role of the documentary photographer. Speed becomes less critical -- you've already been beat to the punch. But that leaves a ton of room for quality, depth, beauty, humor, accuracy -- all the elements the practice of documentary allows.
I want to see that first glance picture, yes, and I don't care that it's a sloppy picture without context. But I'm going to get much more out of a smart, deep, significant presentation later -- something only the best photojournalists can do.
So, for me, the question I see is not "how does investigative reporting survive?" but "how does an unknown Susan Meiselas find a way to do the work today?"
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Future of Photojournalism
Posted by Ted Fisher at 1:55 PM
Labels: documentary photography, photojournalism
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Ted - Just a couple of thoughts on what you've written here - I disagree with the perspective that those with cellphones who are witnessing an event are 'covering' it well enough to make images that communicate the essence of that event clearly for an audience. Certainly, we cannot deny that the impulse to photograph events has been answered by the cultural ubiquity of the cell phone camera, but watching (or photographing) an event as it unfolds is only one aspect of the story. The common cell phone user does not necessarily have the access to tell the story more fully or with greater depth, and they are not thinking about story telling when taking their images...just about documenting. And there's a big difference.
- Ted Fisher said...
Well, just to clarify. When I said it was "covered" I didn't mean to equate that with "covered as well as a good photojournalist would."
As you've noted, it would not be at that level.
What I was hoping to get it was that even the PJs sitting by a scanner are now beat out of the first image -- there's already someone there.
So more than ever, there's a shift to the quality a good PJ or VJ or documentary photographer can bring to the situation.
From an economic perspective, also, my agreement with you that a cellphone pic isn't good enough ends up being moot -- so often now news sites and even many major agencies are grabbing images from online sources and then no longer are willing to pay for a better image, feeling they have it covered.
I was very disappointed last year when a usually-reputable site grabbed a clearly-photoshopped image of President Obama seemingly laughing at David Beckham's loss. It made it obvious that the night editor had grabbed, uncredited, the picture from the web and brought it right into the "authenticated" news. With disastrous results.
I emailed the site, and they were very very very inhospitable about it. They removed the image, but would not answer my question: were they grabbing unauthenticated images regularly?
In other words: I agree with you from the point of view that a PJs shot would be better. But I think it is easy to find a lot of cases were a person on the corner with a cellphone cam posts to Flickr before a serious shooter gets out the door with their camera bag -- and editors are using these. It's not what I'd prefer, but it seems to really be the direction things are moving.
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Spain: Coca-Cola workers facing plant closures and jobs massacre go on strike
The redundancy consultation period with the IUF affiliated unions FITAG UGT and CC.OO runs for 30 days, until February 21.
The workers union in the bottling factory in Alicante has approved support of the national protest by Coca Cola workers. The strike is due to begin on February 3 and continue indefinitely.
Workers at Fuenlabrada have announced strikes to coincide with the beginning of the Expediente de Regulación de Empleo (ERE, notice of intention to make redundancies) consultation - in which the business and the workers' representatives attempt to reach an agreement. From the 3rd of February the workers have called a series of strikes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These stoppages will be partial - two hours per shift - for the first two weeks, becoming a complete stoppage from the third week. It is expected that workers from the other three plants will join actions.
Although Coca-Cola Iberian Partners is financially healthy with the level of profit - €900 million - and its €3 billion turnover, the company wants to "consolidate" its operations by "centralizing production" through implementing compulsory redundancies and making incessant requests for enhanced flexibility. This attitude clearly reveals that Coca-Cola's industrial strategy will entail unprecedented attacks on jobs and workers' rights, not only in Spain, but in several European countries.
The IUF strongly urges Coca-Cola Iberian Partners to minimize the effects of the restructuring plan and pay due respect to the rights and dignity of more than 1,200 workers.
The IUF together with its members organized at Coca-Cola operations around the world stand together with Spanish workers in their fights to protect their jobs and rights and we will provide whatever support we can to assist.
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Jay-Z is arguably one of the best rappers of all time. The safe adverb 'arguably' is there for a reason, though: hip-hop aficionados are notoriously contentious when it comes to hierarchy. One thing that nobody could contest however is that Jay-Z (birth name: Shawn Carter) is one of the most famous rappers of all time. This is an objective fact. The question of just how famous he is came under dispute, though, in a scene from a video that emerged online on December 4.
Part of a longer documentary about Jay-Z's series of concerts that opened up the Barclays Center, the video showed the rapper having a conversation with a gray-haired woman on the subway. Although ultimately the woman, artist Ellen Grossman knew Jay-Z's name, their conversation consisted of her trying to figure out who this man with the Basquiat shirt and the entourage is.
Jay-Z responded to her questions like a nice young man. That's the kind of humility you'd expect from Brooklyn's favorite son. Watch the entire documentary where the video came from below.


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A very brief show with no guest — just me holding forth. Best wishes for a creative and productive 2011. May the fleeting moments of joy and transcendence out-weigh the boredom and despair.
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1835 Strand Way
Coronado, CA 92118
November 10 – December 10, 2017
Thursday, Friday, Saturday @8pm & Sunday @2pm
Please note there is no performance on Thursday, November 23, 2017 in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday nor on Saturday, November 18. There is an additional performance on Sunday, December 3 at 7pm
Conceived by Kim Rosenstock
Written by Will Connolly
Written by Michael Mitnick
Written by Kim Rosenstock
Director: Manny Bejarano
Music Director: Emily Awkerman
Producer: Jeff Sims
Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award
With a non-traditional, charming and catchy score by Will Connolly and Michael Mitnick, this darkly comic rock-fable, portrays a melancholy sandwich maker's humdrum life and how it is intersected by two entrancing sisters, weaving into its overlapping love stories a resonating message about how the 'invisible universe' connects us all. A sweeping ode to young love set against the backdrop of the northeast blackout of 1965, Fly By Night is an original and enchanting tale about making your way and discovering hope in a world beset by darkness.
"The ways in which these people…intersect are meant to evoke a cosmic pattern, a sense of the invisible connective tissue that underlies the mundane…The score flirts with early rock 'n' roll, as well as recurrent motifs that are guaranteed to take up longtime residence in your ear." – The New York Times
"Wistful earnestness is a nice mode for a musical—especially a sweet-natured romantic fable such as Fly by Night." – Time Out New York
Please note there is no performance on Thursday, November 23, 2017 in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday nor on Saturday, November 18. There is an additional performance on Sunday, December 3 at 7pm
Meet the Cast
- Narrator: Michael Van Allen
- Harold L. McClam: Weston Bennett
- Mr. McClam: John Craig Johnson
- Daphne: Tara Brown-Sampson
- Miriam: Catie Marron
- Crabble: Thomas Fitzpatrick
- Joey Storms: Andrew Paiva
Photo credit: Ken Jacques Photography and Barron Henzel
Cast Bios
MICHAEL VAN ALLEN (Narrator) is excited to be returning to the Coronado Playhouse stage and to be a part of this creative musical story. Some past San Diego credits include Singin' in the Rain, 42nd Street, and White Christmas with San Diego Musical Theatre; and The Drowsy Chaperone, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and Spamalot with The Coronado Playhouse. Michael would like to thank Manny, Emily and the rest of the incredible production team, this awesomely talented cast, filled with friends old and new, and the amazing band for making this such a great story-telling experience. Trust the connection!
WESTON BENNETT (Harold L. McClam) is a full-time wedding photographer who fell in love with musical theatre when he landed his first lead role in 5th grade, Pinocchio. His favorite credits include playing Chip Tolentino in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Point Loma Nazarene University and singing in the chorus of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Jolla Playhouse. Weston often sings with local choir SACRA/ PROFANA, leads worship at a San Diego church, and enjoys a good old karaoke night any day of the week. Weston is thrilled to be back at Coronado Playhouse after performing in last year's cabaret series, and will be back at the Playhouse in March, 2018 in Songs for a New Year, a three-night cabaret with his troupe, The Prosecco Players.
JOHN CRAIG JOHNSON (Mr. McClam) is thrilled to be making his debut with Coronado Playhouse! He maintains a very active role as a voice teacher, passionately mentoring and promoting singers, having taught at USC, APU, Mt. SAC, La Sierra University and PLNU where he served as the Vocal Studies Coordinator and Artistic/Music Director/Conductor for Point Loma Opera Theatre, producing and/or conducting 23 works since 2010 including You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Edges, The Merry Widow, Most Happy Fella, Trouble in Tahiti, Mikado and Old Maid and the Thief. He's sung roles with Los Angeles Opera, Long Beach Opera, Pasadena Lyric, Intrepid Theatre and OB Playhouse. He also serves on the faculties for Opera Academy of California and Broadway Dreams Summer Intensives. Infinite love and gratitude to his family, this amazing cast of dear friends, and to Manny, Jeff, and Emily for this incredible experience!
TARA BROWN-SAMPSON (Daphne) graduated Summa Cum Laude with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from the University of Miami in 2016. Since, she has been thrilled to be welcomed into the San Diego theatre community. Her recent credits include Bat Boy, I Love You You're Perfect Now Change, and The Who's Tommy, all at OB Playhouse. Her favorite roles include Kitty in The Drowsy Chaperone, Woman #2 in I Love You You're Perfect, Now Change, Mama in Chicago, and Celeste in Saturday Night. She'd like to thank the Connard family for all they do, Kylie Harper and Kristin Sibert for their constant love and support, and especially her mother and husband for being the most loving, selfless people alive.
CATIE MARRON (Miriam) loves being back at Coronado Playhouse. Her last performance here was as Kate Monster in the smash-hit, Avenue Q. Other Theaters: San Diego Rep, PCPA Theatrefest, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Moonlight, San Diego Musical Theatre, Welk Theatre, Candlelight Pavilion, Intrepid Theatre Co and New Village Arts. Some of Catie's favorite roles have been, Kate Monster (for which she won a 2015 Aubrey Award) Avenue Q, Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Logainne in 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Education: B.A. from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television – Ray Bolger Musical Theatre Program. When not performing, she loves to teach Jazzercise and create visual art. Catie would like to say thank you to her teachers, family, supporters, volunteers, the cast, crew and creative team. Additionally, a tremendous thank you goes out to all of you, who are here, supporting live theatre today. You are appreciated. www.catiemarron.com
THOMAS FITZPATRICK (Crabble) is excited to be back on the Coronado Playhouse stage, and to work with this talented cast and production team. For the last several years Tom has mostly been directing, but returned to the stage this year for CPH's Singin' in the Rain: In Concert. He's performed and directed with Coronado Playhouse, Pickwick Players, OnStage, and Lamplighters. He's also performed at Diversionary, Lyceum, Avo Playhouse, The Broadway and SD Lyric Opera among others. Favorite roles include: Large and Terrible Frog (A Year with Frog and Toad), Knight (Spamalot), Reuben (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat), Charlie Brown (Snoopy!!!), Julian Marsh (42nd Street), Ernst Ludwig (Cabaret), YoYo (Psycho Beach Party), Phillip (Trolls The Musical) and Billy Cocker (Anything Goes). Love to B, F & F.
ANDREW PAIVA (Joey Storms) is excited to make his Coronado Playhouse debut. Some of his past credits include Melchior in Spring Awakening, Emmett in Legally Blonde, and Piraguerro in In the Heights at UCSD. He is a student at UCSD majoring in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Theatre. When he isn't stressing about turning in an impossible problem set, he can be found working with the theatre company Turning Tydes, which has premiered mash-up musicals at the San Diego Fringe Festival and Comic-Con. He would like to thank his parents Alberto and Eliane Paiva, and his brother Chris for their undying love and support. As well as his friends for being so encouraging, and to God for opening the right doors.
Creative Team
MANNY BERAJANO (Director, Costume Designer) is thrilled to be back at Coronado Playhouse this time directing. He most recently directed Heathers The Musical at Onstage Playhouse and also directed I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at the OB Playhouse. He has appeared in numerous productions around San Diego as well as assistant direct and costume designed productions around San Diego. He is thrilled to be working with such an amazing talented cast and production team on this unique and moving show.
EMILY AWKERMAN (Music Director) This production of Fly By Night marks Emily's debut with Coronado Playhouse, and she is thrilled to have the opportunity to be Music Director for this unique and rarely done gem. She has been working in the theater community in San Diego's North County for several decades with musical highlights including How To Succeed In Business…, Man of La Mancha, Young Frankenstein, ILYYPNC, The Last Five Years and 1940's Radio Hour. She has also worked throughout the county as a pit musician on piano in a variety of shows including Les Miserables, The Addams Family, and Nunsense, in addition to over 20 productions at Patio Playhouse. She has received several Aubrey nominations and Patio Playhouse Awards for best musical direction.
JEFF SIMS (Producer, Assistant Director) is back after a long hiatus and is excited to rekindle his love for live theater at Coronado Playhouse as the producer and assistant director. He has previously worked on several projects in Phoenix, AZ. This will be his first production with the Playhouse and in the San Diego area. He is thrilled to be working with a cast full of talent and solid production team on a non-traditional musical with a flow of movement that is one of a kind.
KATHY PARKS (Production Stage Manager) is Coronado Playhouse's Resident Stage Manager. She has worked backstage on many productions here at Coronado Playhouse and also with Pickwick Players and Trinity Theatre Company.
LYNNEAH MOJICA (Assistant Stage Manager) is grateful to be working with such a wonderful cast, crew, and artistic team. Past tech credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Assistant Stage Manager and Audio Mixer , Coronado Playhouse), Avenue Q (Lights, Co- Sound, and Co-Projection technician, OB Playhouse), I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Stage Manager, OB Playhouse), In Motion 2017 (Stage Manager, SDSCPA), Anything Goes (Wireless Mic technician, SDSCPA), Summer and Smoke (Assistant Stage Manager, SDSCPA), and guest make-up work. Lynneah would like to thank the artistic team, for this opportunity and everyone involved that made this show so memorable. Lynneah would also like to thank her family, friends, and mentors for their constant support and inspiration.
KARL BUNKER (Set Designer) is delighted to have this debut opportunity at Coronado Playhouse. He most recently designed and built sets for Heathers The Musical and Bell, Book and Candle at Onstage Playhouse. He has also designed and built sets at Vanguard Theater including Meet Me In St. Louis, Oklahoma, Damn Yankees and You Can't Take it With You. He has appeared in several productions at Vanguard Theater including King Lear, Damn Yankees and Oklahoma. He is excited to support this wonderful production and the great cast.
JOSH OLMSTEAD (Lighting Designer) is excited to present his latest Coronado Playhouse lighting design and hopes it instills intrigue and wonder for all that experience the production. Thanks to the board and production team for the honor to play with, create, and present this lighting creation! Also thanks to the support team of family, mentors, and friends that has given Josh the opportunity to learn and create in this community. Past credits at Coronado Playhouse include: Hamlet (2016), Frog and Toad (Blue Ribbon Award Winner in Lighting Design, 2015), Mistletoe, Music, and Mayhem! (2014), Spamalot (2014), and Sleeping Beauty (2014). OB Playhouse: Avenue Q (2016) and Urinetown (2017). OnStage Playhouse: Heathers the Musical (2017).
CAITLIN LAMAR (Sound Designer)
LARRY MCNAMER (Sound Consultant) – no bio
PAMELA EVERETT (Properties Designer, House Dressing) is thrilled to be the Resident Properties Designer at CPH and to have the opportunity it affords to work with this amazing production staff and cast! Pam has been with CPH for 12 years assisting with too many shows to list and has received numerous Blue Ribbon and Act Awards over the years. In May, Pam received a 2017 Star Award from the San Diego Performing Arts League for volunteerism with CPH. Thank you to the Board and everyone involved at CPH for this great honor. Thank you to my wonderful loving family, Dennis and Amanda for enabling me, putting up with me (and the mess at home) and for their assistance in making everything happen.
The Fly By Night Band
EMILY AWKERMAN (Music Director/Keyboard) This production of Fly By Night marks Emily's debut with Coronado Playhouse, and she is thrilled to have the opportunity to be Music Director for this unique and rarely done gem. She has been working in the theater community in San Diego's North County for several decades with musical highlights including How To Succeed In Business…, Man of La Mancha, Young Frankenstein, ILYYPNC, The Last Five Years and 1940's Radio Hour. She has also worked throughout the county as a pit musician on piano in a variety of shows including Les Miserables, The Addams Family, and Nunsense, in addition to over 20 productions at Patio Playhouse. She has received several Aubrey nominations and Patio Playhouse Awards for best musical direction.
JOSHUA VASQUEZ (Guitar)is a San Diego-based guitarist. He performs in groups of a variety of styles including Jazz, Rock, Blues, Country, and even Hip Hop, Trap, and Neo-Soul. In 2013 he traveled to Boston to attend the Berklee College of Music and studied with renowned faculty such as Mick Goodrick, Tim Miller, Rick Peckham, and Brett Wilmott, whose former students have all made names for themselves in the world of modern jazz. He graduated cum laude from the school in 2017 and continues to perform and teach in the Southern California area. Previous shows include Spring Awakening, RENT, The Who's Tommy, Always Patsy Cline, The Wiz, and Working. He is excited to be playing for his first production at Coronado Playhouse.
MATTHEW FITZGERALD (Bass/Synthesizer) is excited to return to Coronado Playhouse with this fantastic production. He is the Artistic Manager at Patio Playhouse. He has previously directed How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Green Day's American Idiot and Rhinoceros at Patio Playhouse and acting credits at Coronado and Patio Playhouses. Previous orchestra credits include Evita at Moonlight Stage Productions and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. Matt would like to thank Emily and Manny for the opportunity to get back in the pit for a change.
SEBASTIAN BUCIO (Drums/Percussion) is excited for his second production with Coronado Playhouse. He is a performer and alumnus of Berklee College of Music. His recent credits include Fancy Nancy (Boston Children's Theater), Kiss Me Kate (South Shore Theater), and Little Shop of Horrors (Coronado Playhouse). He would like to thank the cast and crew for this opportunity.
Show Events
Friday, November 10, 2017 at 6:30 p.m.
Celebrate opening nights at Coronado Playhouse!
You're a loyal supporter of The Community's Theatre and we want to show our appreciation. Playhouse members are invited to a hosted Happy Hour at CPH for drinks and appetizers before every opening night of each new main-stage production. Mingle with fellow theatre lovers and enjoy the ambience and excitement of opening night.
Not a member? Not a problem! Membership starts at just $50 and can be purchased in advance or at the event.
Call the Box Office to reserve at (619) 435-4856
Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
Join the Cast and Creative Team behind CPH's production of Fly By Night.
Let's go BEHIND THE SCENES at this exclusive event. Meet the show's Director, Music Director, Set Designer, Lighting Designer, Costume Designer, Sound Designer, Properties Designer and Cast Members and learn all about the inspirations, challenges and creative process of this San Diego Premiere.
Community Theatre is made by, with and for the community in which it is performed. Coronado Playhouse is committed to pursuing community theatre in the truest sense of the words by giving back to the people of San Diego County and using our public platform to help those in need.
During the run of Fly By Night we are partnering with Father Joe's Villages in an effort to bring much needed exposure and donations to this incredible organization that serves San Diego's homeless population.
For more information about Father Joe's Villages you can visit their website…
Coronado Playhouse is entering a team made of of board members, patrons and the cast, crew & creative of Fly By Night into Father Joe's annual Thanksgiving Day 5k – the Turkey Trot. You can support by:
1) Signing up and walking with us
2) Donating to sponsor our team, in turn supporting the great work of Father Joe's Villages
3) Sharing this information with your network and encouraging further support by awareness and/or financial donation.
To Check out our TURKEY TROT FLY BY NIGHT TEAM PAGE, click HERE


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David Bodanis
Viral Statistics
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think
By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier
John Murray 242pp £20 order from our bookshop
Most books about the internet are written by excitable youngsters who inhabit the bodies of middle-aged men. This one is different, for the authors have identified one of the very rare moments when a fundamental shift in government, business and even our view of causality is taking place.
The reason 'Big Data' is so important is that, unlike email or even Facebook, it's not just a mechanism that lets us do, albeit more efficiently, what we were always going to do – send messages, say, or link with friends. Instead, it's more like the invention of the microscope, or financial accounting, or time-lapse photography: it's a new tool that allows us to see activities hitherto invisible to human awareness.


text: SNF Scholarship Series: Lori Drenth, Winston Industries Equipment Grant Award Winner 2016-05-27The following is an excerpt from the Beyond Breakfast Blog. When we asked Hernando County (Fla.) Schools' Foodservice Director Lori Drenth, MS, RD, SNS, about being awarded the Winston Industries Equipment Grant and the impact her new Winston kitchen equipment would have on her district's nutrition program, she paused for a moment to consider her answer. "Pride," she replied. "It always feels like Christmas for a manager to get a new piece of equipment. It's a great feeling—even for principals and students—to know your facility is being invested in, and we want [everyone] to know that food quality is our top priority. New equipment ensures that anyone who is eating with us—students, staff, parents—is getting the best food quality that we can provide. That is really important to us." As the 2016 winner of the Winston Industries Equipment Grant, Hernando County Schools will receive new equipment to install at several school sites. In-service training with Winston representatives will follow after installation, which Drenth hopes will begin in August. The new equipment will help Drenth and her staff improve both nutrition and the appearance of the food served, and create new menu items for students, all in an effort to boost access to and participation in school meals. "We have a couple of schools where we would really like to increase our offerings on breakfast carts," she explained. "We thought some of the equipment, specifically holding drawers, would work for us to increase participation in those breakfast programs. We have equipment that is 25 or 30 years old, so this is an opportunity for us. It leads to real pride for managers and kitchen staff, and they—and administrators—can say, 'Hey, look at us, our foodservice is going above and beyond.'" "I just want to thank Winston and their support of SNA and SNF," said Drenth. "Their support for foodservice programs and foodservice directors, and of [the organization] is so important." In addition to the Winston Industries Equipment Grant, Hernando County was also the 2016 recipient of the Baxter Equipment for Education Grant. To read the full story on Lori Drenth, visit the Beyond Breakfast Blog. To learn more about SNF's Equipment Grants, click here. For over 30 years, the School Nutrition Foundation (SNF) has been raising funds to provide scholarships to SNA members. Donate to the SNF Annual Fund to help SNA members achieve their educational dreams!


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CARLOS ALBERT0 WAHNON DE CARVARLHO VEIGA, was born in Mindelo, Sao Vicente, October 21, 1949.
He graduated from High School in Praia, Cape Verde, and continued his education in Lisbon, Portugal. He obtained his Doctoral Degree in Law in 1971 from the Classical University of Lisbon.
From 1972 to 1974 Mr. Veiga worked in Angola as Registrar in the Civil Registry of the City of Bie`.
He returned to Cape Verde in 1975 to become a public prosecuter and later Director General of Internal Administration, a position he held until 1978. In 1980 Mr. Veiga was appointed Attorney General.
In 1982, differences with the Party in power led him to leave the Government for private practice. He also was elected President of the Cape Verdean Bar Association from 1982 to 1986.
In 1985 Mr.Veiga was elected Member of the Cape Verdean Popular National Assembly. In the Popular National Assembly Mr. Veiga served on the Committee on Constitution and Legal Matters.
In 1988 Mr.Veiga was re-elected to a second term to the Popular National Assembly. During this period Mr. Veiga became a strong voice against the one Party system and challenged the regime to open up for free and democratic elections. His position for democratic reforms were well known and respected by the people in Cape Verde. Mr. Veiga's ideas led in 1990 to the creation of an opposition Party in Cape Verde, the MpD (Movement for Democracy).
During this Party's first National Convention, in October of 1990, Mr. Veiga was elected President of MpD and on January 13, 1991, led MpD to a major victory, by electing 56 out of 79 Deputies for the Popular National Assembly. Mr. Veiga was elected Prime Minister and formed the first democratically elected government of Cape Verde in January 1991.
After another strong victory during the 1995 elections, Mr. Veiga was re-elected Prime Minister.
Last summer(October 1,1999), I had the honor of meeting the Prime Minister and his Official Delegation, during his visit to New Bedford, Ma.. In the old YWCA building we were ushered to a lobby where a computer was available and together we all surfed this Page and my other Cape Verde related web-pages.. They really enjoyed it and so did I..


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Daniel Rozensztroch is Artistic Director at Merci, where he selects and manages the image of the famed concept store, he is editorial advisor to leading French interior magazine Marie Claire Maison and designer and collector of objects.
He has written numerous books devoted to the art of living and household objects. Precursor of the lofts in France and passionate about objects for everyday use. He does not think of himself as a collector, because a collector is able to devote his entire life to one type of object and does not budge. What interests him is the object in a general manner, through its function, its history, its origin and its simplicity. Almost it's banality.


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This piece is part of a leadership roundtable on unemployment and restarting America's jobs engine — with opinion pieces by former Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill, Harvard Business School professor and author Bill George, leadership expert Katherine Tyler Scott,Wharton School professor Michael Useem, and Woodrow Wilson Center scholar Amy M. Wilkinson.
With more than 9 percent of Americans unemployed, and with the chance of Washington intercession close to none, now is the time for big business to make employment a business of its own. To do so, corporate leaders need to reset the business mindset: making people a priority, not just earnings.
For executives, directors and owners of large, publicly traded companies, total shareholder return – TSR – has been the era's dominant mantra. Improved shareprice plus cash dividends have come to define the currency of the realm. For company executives, corporate directors and portfolio managers to think otherwise is to violate their oath of office, to fall short of their fiduciary duty.
That is the formulation that has dominated the executive suite and board room for the past two decades. And little wonder. Institutional investors – pension funds, investment companies, hedge funds and other professionals that oversee giant portfolios – now control two-thirds of America's publicly traded shares. This has given them the clout to force company leaders to focus on delivering near-term shareholder value above all else. Executives and directors who repeatedly fall short can find their careers cut short.
But what might seem an idée fixe of the American way is really a moment's artifice, a prescription that served a past era but less well the current one. The rise of investor capitalism helped force out self-serving and poorly-performing executives, and bolstered boardroom prevention of executive malfeasance. Yet in doing so, it created two byproducts that have become increasingly dysfunctional for both companies and the country.
The first is an unrelenting pressure of the equity market on company leaders to meet quarterly TSR expectations, regardless of the impact on the domestic workforce. Many companies have consequently streamlined their rosters at home and expanded their operations in China, India and other fast-growing markets abroad.
The second is an incessant equity-market demand on company leaders to focus on their own advantage whatever the disadvantage for others. Fewer executives and directors have thus been able to step forward to advocate what is required for a vibrant economy, not just what is required for their own prosperity.
But with domestic employment stalled and U.S. growth imperiled, now is a good time for executives, directors and owners to revise the rules of investor capitalism, placing long-term collective growth and employment security back in their mission statements.
If Fortune 500 companies, for instance, each added just 1,000 Americans to their payrolls, they could jointly expand U.S. employment by half a million and cut national unemployment by a third of a point. The culture of investor capitalism would discourage if not prohibit such an action, but that is precisely why it is time for the past era's mindset to give way to a revised attitude.
Revising the widely accepted rules of investor capitalism, however, will require self-conscious and collective intervention by all the key actors.
One premier player is the Council of Institutional Investors, an association of pension funds and other investors with combined assets of more than $3 trillion, 60 percent of which is held in stocks and bonds of U.S. publicly listed companies. Although serving as a "leading voice" for "strong shareholder rights," its members include public pensions such as the California Public Employees' Retirement System and unions such as the United Auto Workers, and it could step forward to provide a leading voice for employment growth.
Corporate directors have no comparable coalition, though many look to the National Association of Corporate Directors with its more than 10,000 members. For company executives, a leading organization is the Business Roundtable, representing the CEOs of America's largest companies, from American Express and General Electric to Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart. With combined revenue of $6 trillion and employment of 13 million, the Business Roundtable's voice may be among the most influential of all since it represents those who most directly lead the nation's largest enterprises.
Even more impactful would be a united voice of all three of these coalitions – along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other premier business groups. Even though they often differ on issues such as governance, they could find common ground in employment growth at a time when government is paralyzed.
Working together, an inner circle of leading executives, directors and owners could help rewrite the rules most tangibly through direct actions. Two come quickly to mind: 1) Creation of 1 million new U.S. jobs within the next year by the companies they lead or in which they invest. 2) Creation of a research and development fund for innovative ways to expand employment among companies they represent or own. Given the billions in cash that many companies have accumulated at home and abroad, the wherewithal for both is already in the bank.
A research study that we at Wharton conducted last year on Indian business leadership revealed that while Indian executives and directors are certainly committed to shareholder value, many also embrace a broader calling to serve the community and build the country. While that way of doing business may sound odd to the Western ear, it finds a parallel in China, where companies and their value are viewed as public, not just private, goods. This may be the time for American business leaders to embrace the same.
When it comes to growth in employment, the American way certainly needs a jump start. And a mobilized leadership of those who own and oversee the apex of the private sector can help provide it at time when Washington seemingly cannot.
Michael Useem is a professor of management and the director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
From the roundtable:
Paul O'Neill: Only presidential leadership can restart America's engine
Bill George:Enough talk about jobs—where's the action?
Michael Useem: Revising investor capitalism's mantra
Katherine Tyler Scott: A moral imperative on unemployment
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One of the giant screens next to the TKTS booth and spectators on the red stairs
Michael McKean, star of the upcoming Broadway play "Superior Donuts" hosted "Broadway on Broadway® 2009" earlier today in Times Square. The free outdoor concert brought together stars and performances from current and upcoming Broadway productions.
Broadway on Broadway 2009 featured appearances and performances by stars from upcoming productions such as Bye Bye Birdie, Fela!, Memphis, Finian's Rainbow, and Ragtime as well as some of Broadway's most beloved shows, including Billy Elliot The Musical, Burn the Floor, Chicago, Hair, In The Heights, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Jersey Boys, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, Mary Poppins, Next to Normal, The Phantom of the Opera, Rock of Ages, Shrek The Musical, South Pacific, West Side Story, and Wicked.
Broadway on Broadway is the second biggest event in Times Square (next to the New Year's Eve Celebration) and the photos that I took capture the revelry associated with Times Square.


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Hello and welcome to another Robot Round-Up. We've got snow here in the UK, which means half the nation has ground to a halt and the whole of Scandinavia is laughing up their sleeves at us. But that's probably nothing new. Anyhow, all of the above has very little to do with this week's collection of links-of-Angry-Robot-interest, which looks a little something (or, indeed, rather a lot) like this:
Cassandra Rose Clarke's first Angry Robot novel, The Mad Scientist's Daughter, continues to attract just the right kind of attention in the lead-up to its official publication date of February 7th. This week, Mieneke at A Fantastical Librarian said: "With this second book, Clarke has cemented her status as a must-read author. The Mad Scientist's Daughter is really something special and I look forward with anticipation to what Clarke produces next, because she is definitely a talent to watch closely". And Emily at Ed and Em's Reviews said: "The Mad Scientist's Daughter surprised me at every turn. It was completely unpredictable. The writing was addicting and absolutely phenomenal, as expected from Cassandra Rose Clarke. I knew it would be good, but the author really blew my expectations out of the water."
Ramez Naam's debut novel Nexus continues to amaze and impress. This week, Jessica at AllwaysUnmended said: "Nexus is a story everyone should read. As a cautionary tale, it will likely be considered in league with Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World in the years to come. The question is, will we learn from this one?" Meanwhile, over at Trash Mutant, Ninja Ross said: "This is an action movie in book form. It's Demolition Man, Replicant, Eagle Eye, Time Cop and all of those action Sci-Fi films we love to watch with a few beers, snacks and friends."
Ramez has been talking to New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy, about his fiction and non-fiction work to-date, as well as Crux, the forthcoming sequel to Nexus.
Anne Lyle's The Alchemist of Souls was reviewed by Janea at The Ranting Dragon: "This is a fun romp through Tudor England, filled with mythical creatures, swordsmen, and theatre-types. The characters are well-rounded and compelling, and there is a very real urgency to the plot."
Anne was also the guest of the Comic Book Outsiders Book Club podcast, talking about her work, the evolution of the Night's Masque series and what she has planned for the future. And Anne is running a giveaway over on her blog: leave an appropriate comment on that blog post and you could win a paperback or audio copy of The Merchant of Dreams.
Chris F. Holm's The Wrong Goodbye was reviewed by Kristin at OwlCat Mountain: "I love Holm's creativity and his willingness to not simply follow the herd of current fiction trends. The Wrong Goodbye is a great novel, filled with adventure and a straightforward storytelling style that makes this book a real treat."
Chris has been guest-blogging at Criminal Minds, talking about sex and violence and stuff like that.
Madeline Ashby's (Kitschie Award Nominated) debut vN was reviewed by Shaheen at Speculating on SpecFic, who said: "vN is an exciting, refreshing book that I liked, and I was surprised to find out that it is Madeline Ashby's debut novel. It's a terrific accomplishment and I look forward to reading more of her books in the future".
Chuck Wendig's Blackbirds was reviewed by Ray at Endless Falls Up: "insanely good, acrid, burning prose … Wendig is a phenomenal talent, breakthrough of the last year. Absolute must-read."
As we're sure you all know by now, Emma Newman has been writing a series of short stories set in her Split Worlds milieu in the run up to the publication of the first novel in the series, Between Two Thorns, in March. With only a handful of weeks left to go, Emma would like to offer you the chance to be involved in the creative process: "I wanted to do something a little bit different for the last ten. I'd like to invite you to submit story prompts below and if yours either inspires a story and/or appears within it, I'll send you a handwritten copy of the story and a little note to say thank you." Head on over to www.emmanewman.co.uk for full details of how to participate.
Emma was also a guest of the Roundtable Podcast, sharing her insights into the nature of writing advice, the distinction between long and short fiction, her unique process, the cyclical nature of post-apocalyptic fiction, and more.
The Qwillery 2012 Debut Cover Battle readers' poll ended in a completely honourable tie for Chuck Wendig's Blackbirds (artwork and design by Joey HiFi) and Chris F. Holm's Dead Harvest (artwork and design by Amazing 15), with a whopping 492 votes each, between them amounting to 82% of the total votes polled. With seemingly-inevitable bloodshed duly averted, that seems like a good result all round, no?
Adam Christopher talked about the Importance and Mysteries of Names for Abhinav Jain's latest Names: a New Perspective article.
Kaaron Warren was interviewed by Mihai Adascalitei for revistadesuspans.ro. It is in Romanian, but Google translate will have a go at converting it to a language near you…
Jo Anderton has announced the planned publication of a brand new collection of her short fiction, The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories, by Fablecroft Publishing.
Speaking of short fiction, Lavie Tidhar has posted a guide to the Continuity Universe, in which may of his future history short stories are set.
And finally, congratulations to Aliette de Bodard, whose short story 'Immersion' has been shortlisted for the BSFA Award. Likewise Lavie Tidhar, whose World SF Blog has been nominated in the Best Non-Fiction category.
That's all for this week, people. Same time, same place…


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exhibition guest-curated for SAW Gallery, travelling to Blackwood Gallery
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c/o la Ciudad
Mexico's Distrito Federal, Mexico City, spreads over the vast and shifting ground of a former lake, surrounded by volcanoes and subject to earthquakes. A centre of power since its founding in 1325 as the Aztec city Tenochtitlan, through Spanish colonization and the extended tremors of revolution to today's forces of globalization, it now has some twenty million inhabitants, joined by another couple thousand each day, who contend with pollution and congestion, a certain lawlessness, startling violence, volatile politics, and deep socio-economic inequities.
It is a city of extremes of time, magnitude and society that can seem irreconcilable to an outsider. Still, a number of artists have consciously assumed the task – the same one borne by the population at large, really – of reckoning with the monumental presence of the city itself. These artists are not only locating their work within the D.F., but also working with a sense of concern, taking care but also caring for this seemingly immovable yet unstable entity. They operate with a feeling for the socially immense, imbued with a certain precariousness, and with a sense of the incongruity of the city's long history and its difficult contemporary conditions.
This consideration for the city itself is particularly moving in certain strains of dematerialized and situationist artwork being produced in the D.F. As elsewhere and everywhere in today's contemporary art, there is a current predominance of conceptual practices, realized in particular through everyday objects, photo, video, performance, and other elusive forms. These tendencies coincide with an interest in quotidian urban phenomena that is by now commonplace in the international art world. Still, it may be that Mexico City is a particularly telling place for the production of work about the abject, the fleeting, the decaying, and the disappearing. Certainly some work there seems inflected by a quiet sense of survivalism. The present exhibition focuses on pieces which convey a particular sense of pressure that might be specific to that city, but which also speak eloquently outside of it, in a wider context of re–imagining the possibilities for productive urban action.
It happens that all the artists in this show are from the D.F. by birth, but more critically, each has in turn adopted the city as a privileged subject, site, source, and object of his or her work, with all the senses of obligation and mutual care that this implies. Throughout, these individuals adhere to a dual principle of making do and of doing–it–yourself, employing strategies ranging from active defiance of authority to careful extraction of poetry from everyday things, and speaking in modes that are by turn blunt, theoretical and humorous.
Works in the exhibition: Galia Eibenschutz, Sedentario(a) (Sedentary); Daniel Guzmán, ¡Qué extraordinario que el mundo exista! (How extraordinary that the world exists!); Jonathan Hernández,SE BUSCA RECOMPENSA (Seeking Reward); Gabriel Kuri, untitled (doy fe / by my faith); Gabriel Kuri, untitled (a la brevedad posible / a.s.a.p.); Mejor Vida Corp. (Minerva Cuevas), Bar-code Stickers Service – Ottawa; Yoshua Okón, Poli I; Luis Felipe Ortega, De la serie "Los cuerpos dóciles" (From the series "Obedient Bodies"); Luis Felipe Ortega, La distancia necesaria (The necessary distance).


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Master toysmith Jin Saotome is back, and this time he's making the Mushroom Kingdom a little more badass with this heavily-armed interpretation of the cute little Shy Guy.
Normally short and portly, this custom action figure is lean and packing a minigun, scythe, hammer and...scissors. His body was cannibalised from existing action figures based on Desaad, Spirit and Street Fighter's own Guile, and no, you can't buy this one.
It's just for looking.
Custom Super Mario Bros "Shy Guy" action figure [Jin Saotome, via Tomopop]
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ESA's ATV-3 Mission Manager, Massimo Cislaghi, has just confirmed: today's debris avoidance manoeuvre is cancelled.
Further analysis during the night showed that the debris object, a piece of an old Indian launch vehicle, will pass by the ISS at a safe miss distance.
The decision for today's DAM came about 7 hours before the scheduled time of ignition (TIG), which was to have been 12:12 GMT | 14:12 CEST.
Teams at ATV-CC and, in fact, mission control teams at all three control centres (Moscow, Houston, Toulouse), are now back to planning for ATV's undocking; there are undocking slots at various times in the evenings (CEST) of the next few days.


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Afghanistan Photo Gallery
Diane Lebow's photos from her most recent trip to Afghanistan.
Diane Lebow's photos from her most recent trip to Afghanistan.
Winner of Travelers' Tales Solas Gold Award for Best Women's Travel Writing 2010
–Diane LeBow
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"That's the Hindu Kush Mountains, the killer of Hindus." An Afghan man sitting next to me on the Ariana Afghan Airlines flight from Dubai to Kabul leaned over and explained. Outside the window, the flat desert lands of Iran and southern Afghanistan suddenly gave way to barren blue and gray ridgebacks, like waves of a stormy sea. I thought about the land I was visiting and wondered how stormy the political situation would be during my upcoming visit to this war weary land. As I was leaving for the San Francisco airport twenty-four plus hours ago, a friend called: "Have you been listening to the news? There's just been another bombing in central Kabul, many people killed and injured, and an assassination attempt on President Karzai. Do you think you should delay your departure?"
The cover on an Afghan tourism brochure from the 1970's that I found in a bookstore in Kabul states: Afghanistan, The Friendliest Country. Believe it or not, that's what I've found during my visits there and with the continuing friendships I have made with Afghan people…
…Even though I travel extensively, I was never in a war zone before. There were a few things to get used to. As we left the Kabul Airport, my driver said, "Don't worry that there is no seat belt," as he saw me searching along the side of the seat. "I drive slowly." With that, he floored it, and we raced up the wrong side of the divided street against the oncoming traffic. There are no traffic rules or stop lights in Afghanistan. Traffic when it moves, like spilled milk, goes anywhere there is a space. My driver Nabil's technique suits the general sense of lawlessness in the air.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2003
With The Hulk being released on DVD on Tuesday, The Continuum presents a question-and-answer interview with Josh Lucas, who plays Major Glen Talbot.
In the interview, Lucas talks about his approach to the character, working with director Ang Lee and interacting with a CGI Hulk.
The Hulk set an opening weekend record for June with $62.1 million and finished with $132.2 million.
To read the interview with Lucas, CLICK HERE.
And to see more than 100 promotional stills from the film,
Gale Anne Hurd, producer of The Punisher movie, told The Continuum that John Travolta was the first and only actor offered the role of Howard Saint, the film's antagonist.
"What really impresses me about him is the research that he does," Hurd told The Continuum during a recent visit to The Punisher set in Tampa, Fla. "Because Jonathan (Hensleigh) is a first-time director, he wanted to get a sense of Jonathan. He read the script, and he loved it. So he made calls to various people that Jonathan has worked with.
"I was truly impressed that a star of his stature made the phone calls himself. And he checked out Jonathan to see what Jonathan is like. And all the reports came back that this guy has been preparing to direct since his first day in Hollywood. So, thumbs up.
"And we all talked with him on the phone. And then we made a set visit when he was shooting Ladder 49 in Baltimore. We were on the same page from the very beginning."
Hurd said that Travolta's Howard Saint is not an over-the-top villain.
"He's very much cold and calculating," Hurd said. "Very smart. But very charming. And the one thing you'll also find out about John Travolta is that he doesn't like to play the same character. It was very important for him to know Jonathan wouldn't say, 'We want him just like (the character) you played in Swordfish or the character you played in Pulp Fiction' or the character you played in, you know, name the film.
"He's very magnetic in the film. And very contained and controlled. And very intense."
Hurd said that Travolta brings "tremendous star power" to The Punisher.
"Even when we were shooting at 2 in the morning, we had a couple hundred people across the street watching," Hurd said.
In other Punisher news:
* Above is a photo of Hurd, Punisher star Thomas Jane and co-producer Ari Arad with members of the media after a lunch interview session.
* Expect the first trailer for The Punisher to appear in November.
* To read an interview with Jane,
* Look for more on The Punisher very soon here in The Continuum.
Smallville executive producer Al Gough told The Continuum that he was very pleased with how "Perry," the episode airing Wednesday on The WB, turned out.
In the episode, Michael McKean plays Perry White, the future editor of The Daily Planet who currently is a down-and-out reporter with a drinking problem.
"The writing, acting and direction are all top notch," Gough told The Continuum. "Michael McKean gives a wonderful performance as Perry and brings a dimension to the character that you haven't seen in any other incarnation of Superman.
"And we finally answer the age-old question: Why the hell did Perry White ever hire Clark Kent in the first place?"
McKean is married to Annette O'Toole, who plays Martha Kent in Smallville. The "Perry" episode marks the first time the husband and wife will be seen acting together in a television series. McKean and OąToole are currently working on an original movie musical and recorded a song together for Disney Records coming out early next year.
* The WB has released 10 images from the "Relic" episode, scheduled to air on Wednesday, Nov. 5.
Here's how the network describes the episode:
"Lana's (Kristin Kreuk) great uncle (guest star Tom Heaton), who was convicted of murdering his wife forty years ago, shows her a picture of the man he believes really killed her aunt, and she is shocked to discover the drifter looks just like Clark (Tom Welling). Sure that the man is Jor-El, Clark's investigation leads him to a kryptonian medallion that allows him to see bits of the past and the life that Jor-El started for him long before he arrived on Earth."
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* The WB has released a logline for "Magnetic," the episode set to air on Nov. 12. Here's how the network describes the episode:
* "Clark (Tom Welling) is suspicious when Lana (Kristin Kreuk) suddenly becomes attracted to a fellow student (guest star Kevin Zegers) and begins to act rebelliously, which eventually lands her in jail. Clark's suspicions are confirmed when he discovers Lanaąs new boyfriend has magnetic powers that can move objects and alter human emotions, but when he tries to free Lana from the paranormal hold that is controlling her, she tries to kill him. Meanwhile, Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) discovers Chloe (Allison Mack) has been delving into Lionel's (John Glover) past and tries to get her to join forces against his dad."
The episode was written by Holly Harold and directed by David Jackson.
* Look for more on Smallville very soon here in The Continuum.
"The Taking of Crows," a new episode of Mutant X, will air in syndication this week. The episode is written by Bob Carney and directed by Andrew Potter.
For a thorough plot synposis, with spoilers, CLICK HERE.
Fox has released promotional images from two upcoming episodes of The Simpsons.
In the image on the left, Glenn Close guest voices as Homer's long lost fugitve mother in "My Mother The Carjacker." The episode airs on Sunday, Nov. 9.
In the image on the right, Lisa is greeted by cheering masses when she is elected student body president in "The President Wore Pearls." The episode airs on Sunday, Nov. 16.
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Halle Berry, star of the upcoming Catwoman movie, said she is getting into the physical aspects of the role.
"I'm getting to do a lot of my own fighting," Berry told Extra during the press junket for Gothika last weekend. "I'm able to do some of this Catwoman stuff that I really didn't think I would be able to do."
Berry appeared on the syndicated entertainment shows on Monday, and said she is bonding with Catwoman co-star Sharon Stone. Both women have recently parted from their husbands.
"It was our first sense of commonality," Berry told Entertainment Tonight. "So she understands where I'm at and I her. So we have a really good vibe happening right now. Very respectful of each other. Kind of giving a little therapy back and forth, which is always good."
Negation #23 will arrive in stores on Wednesday from CrossGen Entertainment. The issue is written by Tony Bedard, penciled by Paul Pelletier, inked by Dave Meikis and colored by Laura Martin.
Here's how CrossGen describes the issue:
"Continuing her search for a way home, the scheming femme fatale known as Evinlea seeks to seal a deal with the mighty Charon...but the god-emperor's newest weapons have a nasty surprise that may ensure that she never escapes their dark universe."
Negation #23 will be 32 pages and will cost $2.95.
In case you missed The Continuum's recent coverage, here are some links:
* For Wednesday, Oct. 22, including DC Comics first looks and Teen Titans news, CLICK HERE.
* For Tuesday, Oct. 21, including DC Comics' solicitations for January, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, Oct. 20, including Star Wars and Halle Berry news, CLICK HERE.
* For Saturday, Oct. 18, including Punisher movie news, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, Oct. 17, including X-Men: Evolution news, CLICK HERE.
* For Thursday, Oct. 16, including Punisher movie news, CLICK HERE.
* For Wednesday, Oct. 15, including Punisher movie news, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, Oct. 13, including Hulk and Punisher movie news, CLICK HERE.
* For Saturday, Oct. 11, including Angel news, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, Oct. 10, including Dark Horse's solicitations, CLICK HERE.
* For Thursday, Oct. 9, including Avengers news, CLICK HERE.
* For Wednesday, Oct. 8, including X-Men: Evolution news, CLICK HERE.
* For Tuesday, Oct. 7, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, Oct. 6, CLICK HERE.
* For Saturday, Oct. 4, including Star Wars news, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, Oct. 3, including Smallville news, CLICK HERE.
* For Thursday, Oct. 2, including Spider-Man news, CLICK HERE.
* For Wednesday, Oct. 1, including Jutice League news, CLICK HERE.
* For Tuesday, Sept. 30, including Jutice League news, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, Sept. 29, including Catwoman movie news, CLICK HERE.
* For Saturday, Sept. 27, including Batman news, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, Sept. 26, including Smallville news, CLICK HERE.
* For Thursday, Sept. 25, including Smallville news, CLICK HERE.
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"After seven years of fundraising and nine years of planning, our two- and-a-half-level subterranean parking structure, Caruso Community Center, Grand Pavilion, and Simon Child and Student Center are now complete. The project's first phase commenced January 15, 2012 in a formal groundbreaking ceremony and was formally opened on November 3, 2013 in a blessing and dedication ceremony with Archbishop José Gomez.
On October 1, 2014, the second phase of construction was completed by transforming the parking lot and schoolyard into the Marilyn Hawley Hilton Schoolyard. The upper level of the gymnasium was also renovated and have plans to upgrade the lower gymnasium and renovate existing facilities on the campus in the next two years."
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Great post from Craig Reid (aka Process Ninja) on why Continuous Improvement is needed:
If anyone is in doubt as to why improvement has to be continuous, the simple explanation is that stupid stuff happens all the time: mistakes are made, things are rushed, ideas badly conceived, ideas even more badly executed and then there are those people things - they keep making mistakes because for some unknown reason they aren't perfect. This doesn't even take into account the numerous amount of organisational activities that are going on on a daily basis that contribute absolutely nothing.
I think that pretty well covers it.
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Somalia has a population of about 15 million people, and over 2 million live in the capital of Mogadishu. With about 84% of the population being native Somalis, Somalia is described as the most culturally homogenous country in Africa. The official languages are Somali and Arabic.