Their first release was Concrete Blonde (1986), which included their debut single "Still in Hollywood". They added a full time bass guitarist, Alan Bloch, for their album Free (1989). This allowed Napolitano to focus on her singing without the burden of playing the bass at the same time. This album included the college radio hit "God Is a Bullet".[6]
The Bloodletting On Radio Continues…
They would incise a vein and they would allow blood to drip out and they would collect it. And they collected enormous amounts of blood from individuals. We're talking about literally tens of ounces, ten, 20, 30, 40 ounces at a time. The endpoint of bloodletting for many individuals was to faint. So how did all this start? In ancient Greece, there was a theory that all of human disease developed around what they called four humors: yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood. And they felt that these humors needed to be in balance for there to be no disease. And amongst their ideas was that blood needed to be taken out of the body. And so bloodletting developed in Greece. And, in fact, bloodletting continued almost up to around the beginnings of the 20th century.
On August 6, 1945, the United States had been at war for almost exactly three years and eight months. Entering World War II "late," and with no invading armies rampaging across its soil, it had not even begun to suffer the huge day-in, day-out losses common to the other antagonists until just the previous summer. Operation Overlord, the invasion of France, and Operation Forager, the invasion of the Mariana Islands, marked the beginning of what the U.S. Army termed "the casualty surge" in postwar analyses, a year-long bloodletting that saw an average of 65,000 battle casualties among young American soldiers and Army airmen each and every month from June 1944 to May 1945. And these figures did not include the considerable Army losses due to sickness and disease or the appalling Marine and Navy casualties in the Pacific.
Administrative manipulations and gyrations of this sort were largely, but not completely, beyond the eyes and ears of both Japanese intelligence and diplomatic corps, and the structure of the U.S. division cut off in the Philippines in 1941, and eventually lost, was only generally representative of what such formations looked like by 1943. Fighting against complete U.S. combat divisions in New Guinea generated some idea of their weight and structure through use of signals (radio) intelligence, but the fact that Japanese units took few American prisoners and were, in any event, either cut off or functionally annihilated meant that the Imperial General Staff in Tokyo operated largely in the dark and had to depend on the Germans for detailed intelligence on the U.S. Army's force structure. What the Japanese could and did get, however, was a look at the overall U.S. war effort and public opinion from the American press. And it was quite an eyeful.
In the space of just a few years, Yamamoto was dead, the victim of broken Japanese codes and long-range American fighter aircraft. Hitler and his regime were clearly reaching their end, too, as massive armies pummeled their way toward the German borders from east and west. Articles in the American press of victories and armies moving ever forward were familiar to the totalitarians in Tokyo and what was left of the Third Reich, which exercised an iron control over their own newspapers and state-controlled radio. But to the Japanese in particular, much hope was derived from what must have appeared to them to be a shocking amount of publicly allowed and reported negativity.
Yes, battle after battle had been lost and the fleet was gone, but Japan still had millions of men under arms and it appeared that there was good reason to believe that they could still salvage a victory of sorts over a decadent United States less concerned with winning than with the lives of its sons. Victory was redefined as achieving a military stalemate that left, at minimum, the core empire intact (the Home Islands, Manchuria, Korea, and Formosa) and guaranteed the continuance of the imperial structure. A decision was made to stretch out the fighting through "vigorous, protracted operations" designed to inflict the maximum "bloodletting and delay" (shukketsu and jikyu senjutsu) on U.S. forces. The Japanese military confidently maintained that attrition warfare or "bloodletting operations" (shukketsu sakusens) would simply prove too much for Americans to bear.
Human Rights Watch today expressed alarmabout the increasing use of ethnic hate propaganda by officials of theDemocratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Officials rely on hate radio to rallypopular support against the current rebellion in the country and to furtheran ethnic witch hunt in the capital Kinshasa. Human Rights Watch also expresseddeep concern about reports of wide-scale abuses, looting and armed robberyin the rebel-controlled town of Bukavu.Radio broadcasts on August 8 from agovernment regional radio in the eastern town of Bunia monitored by theBBC called on the local population to use "a machete, a spear, anarrow, a hoe, spades, rakes, nails, truncheons, electric irons, barbedwire, stones, and the like, in order, dear listeners, to kill the RwandanTutsis." On Wednesday the 12th, a local commander of the Congolesearmy called on Bunia residents to "take revenge" on the Rwandansand "massacre them without mercy."
The DRC government has accused the smallminority of Congolese ethnic Tutsis of leading the current rebellion andcredibly alleges that Rwanda has invaded its territory in support of therebels. This stimulation of ethnic hatred by government officials raisesserious human rights concerns because of its sadly well-proven record fortriggering large-scale killings. Hate radio broadcasts prepared the stagefor the 1994 Hutu-led genocide in neighboring Rwanda against the minorityTutsi population in which at least half a million were killed. The conflictspilled over in neighboring DRC, contributing to the destabilization ofthe country and the spread of political violence in its eastern provincesever since. Ethnic bloodletting continued on Congolese territory duringthe 1996-97 military campaign that brought President Kabila to power whenhis former allies reportedly massacred thousands of unarmed Hutu refugeesin apparent retribution for the 1994 killings in Rwanda.
This spring's radio ratings brought more bad news for Corus, with BIG 97.5 slumping to 2.2, from 2.6 in the fall of 2014 and 4.2 in spring 2014. In that same May 2015 update from Numeris, CJOB was dethroned for the first time in decades, with CBC's listenership surpassing that of Corus' news superstation.
The declaration of a military takeover was the most dramatic development in a week of struggle between Bishop and Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard. Although Coard had appeared to enjoy the backing of the Army commander, Gen. Hudson Austin, his name was not mentioned in the communique read over Radio Free Grenada tonight, and his role in the bloodletting was unclear.
Polycythemia vera (PV) is a slow-growing type of blood cancer, where the production of red blood cells (RBCs) increase considerably. The principal treatment for targeting the symptoms of PV is bloodletting (phlebotomy) at regular intervals based on data derived from blood counts and physician assessments based on experience. Model-based decision support can help to identify optimal and individualized phlebotomy schedules to improve the treatment success and reduce the number of phlebotomies and thus negative side effects of the therapy. We present an extension of a simple compartment model of the production of RBCs in adults to capture patients suffering from PV. We analyze the model's properties to show the plausibility of its assumptions. We complement this with numerical results using exemplary PV patient data. The model is then used to simulate the dynamics of the disease and to compute optimal treatment plans. We discuss heuristics and solution approaches for different settings, which include constraints arising in real-world applications, where the scheduling of phlebotomies depends on appointments between patients and treating physicians. We expect that this research can support personalized clinical decisions in cases of PV.
The first of four films in the franchise to begin with the ending of the previous film: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) picked up where Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) left off; Halloween II (2009) picked up where the series' reboot Halloween (2007) ended; and Halloween Kills (2021), which continues directly from Halloween (2018) (and even briefly from Halloween (1978)).
Universal Studios released the film on Blu-ray in the United States on September 13, 2011. It is packaged as a 30th Anniversary Edition and includes deleted scenes, Pocket BLU app, an alternative ending and the 1984 documentary feature Terror in the Aisles (1984). The release sparked controversy immediately due to the fact that Universal removed the credit "Moustapha Akkad Presents" and replaced it with "Universal, An MCA Company, Presents" ... in a font that did not match the rest of the opening credits. Akkad's son, Malek Akkad, called the stunt "disgusting. It's a disgrace. Obviously, bias. Objectively, any horror fan would find this as an insult to the man who has done so much to the series, and to come after his tragic death, he's not even around to defend himself. It's classless. I'm talking to Universal now and they're 'looking into it.'" However, Akkad was still credited on the packaging. Fans immediately called for a boycott of the disc and set up a Facebook page. On November 28, Universal started sending out emails announcing that the revised Blu-ray was now available and for owners of the previous disc to provide the studio with their "address and daytime phone number." Shout! Factory re-released the film in a 2-disc Collector's Edition Blu-ray on September 18, 2012 under its new Scream Factory label with new special features, including two new audio commentaries, two new "behind-the-scenes," deleted scenes, an alternative ending, the theatrical trailer, TV and radio spots, and still gallery. The Collector's Edition also contains the TV cut, along with a script of the film to download, on a second DVD disc for both format releases. The new Blu-ray release restores the Akkad credit. 2ff7e9595c
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