immediately on the heels of silent hill: f
comes silent hill: townfall
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A Word or Two on W.L. “Bumps” Adams
And a word or two is about all there is! The little I know (and probably all anyone knows) about W.L. “Bumps” Adams (Walter Lawrence Adams, 1894-1943) comes at the hands of Steve Massa’s indispensable book Lonesome Luke’s Lively Life.
A local L.A. kid Adams was involved in silent movie comedies from roughly 1917 through 1922, though that might be generous. For his first year he was a supporting…
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AI blood test finds silent liver disease years before symptoms
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) driven liquid biopsy that analyzes genome wide patterns of cell free DNA (cfDNA) fragments circulating in the blood. The test examines how these DNA pieces break apart and where they appear across the genome. Using this information, the system can identify early signs of liver fibrosis and…
AI blood test finds silent liver disease years before symptoms
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…and my whole being is aching for a green, silent spot…“
— Kahlil Gibran, in a letter to Mary Haskell, from ”Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and her private journal“ (Alfred A. Knopf, 1972)
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When you build in silence, people don’t know what to attack. No announcements. No warnings. Just results.
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The Bigger Ann Little
February 7 was the birthday of silent film star Ann Little (Mary Hankins Brooks, 1891-1984). We call her the “bigger” Ann Little because she was a more consequential star than another person of the same name, who was one of the women who played Betty Boop.
This Ann Little was primarily a star of westerns. Born on a ranch near Mount Shasta, California, she possessed many of the requisite skills.…
