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__label__cc	0.565801	0.434199	Explorer Post 405 set for 21st Macaroni & Meatball Dinner Johnston Sun Rise · Thursday, September 29, 2016 12:28 pm By Pete Fontaine It’s a tradition Johnston Police Lt. Joseph Salvadore once helped make a success during his younger years as a member of Explorer Post 405. It’s a tradition that Sunday will mark 21 years, and one that is vital to the sustained success of the Johnston Police Department’s award-winning junior law enforcement program. Explorer Post 405’s annual Macaroni & Meatball Dinner on Sunday will be open to the public, and officers like Capt. Thomas H. Dolan are hoping for a big turnout inside Kelley Gazzerro VFW Post 2812 at 1418 Plainfield St. on the Cranston-Johnston line. Allegra Graziano, who was recently installed as Post 405’s new chief, said the family-style meal will begin at 1 p.m. and continue to 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 per person, and those under the age of 10 are admitted free. “This dinner is always a fun event,” said George Arakelian, who owns A Custom Car Stereo Center on Atwood Avenue and serves as vice president of the Friends of the Explorers Advisory Board. “Ralph [DeFusco] always does a great job. His food is excellent, and we guarantee that no one will go home hungry.” The menu for Sunday’s dinner includes macaroni, meatballs, salad, bread, and dessert. The event will also feature a number of raffles and prizes and is used strictly as a means to raise revenue for operating expenses associated with Explorer Post 405, which is made up on young people ages 14 to 20 who have expressed an interest in pursuing law enforcement as a career. Although tickets can be purchased at the door on Sunday, tables can be reserved by calling Arakelian at 401-946-0010 or Dolan at 401-757-3100, ext. 3138. John Bousquet, who serves as current president of the Friends of Explorers Post 405, also has tickets and can be reached at 401-529-4359. Gina Sabitoni-Arakelian, the adult advisory group’s treasurer, is also taking ticket reservations at 401-499-1317. Says who? Says you! View the full calendar » Holiday Gifts and Lifestyle 2019 More special sections © , RhodyBeat	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line324
__label__cc	0.515862	0.484138	Ricky Reports Internet Pioneers Place Next Bet on Blockchain Juggling Rookie Floors World Championship Sweeney Todd Returns for Another Fearful Shave For Norwegian Entrepreneur, Berlin is the Next Silicon Valley Beat Goes On for Final Fantasy Composer, Nobuo Uematsu Mozart Revisited! Amon Miyamoto takes a Fresh Look at “Magic Flute” Osanna’s Italian Theatrics Punctuates Progressive Journey European Progressive Rock Fest Stirs Fans in Tokyo Dropbox founder on ‘Growth’ and ‘Recruiting’ in Silicon Valley Drew Houston: I started Dropbox for myself ‘Shibuya Valley’ not ‘Silicon Valley’ for this Japanese Venture Capitalist Int’l Student in Brown U. Shares Concern on Japanese Homeland Peter Thiel to Japanese Students: “You don’t start a company for the sake of it” (Q&A 2/2) Peter Thiel Reflects on Lessons from PayPal for Japanese Students (Q&A 1/2) Cannes Ad Medalist Reveals his Creative Roots What’s Ricky Reports? Shibuya, or literally “Bitter Valley”, is the Japanese epicenter of youth fashion and culture. It is also becoming the hotbed for startups. In his office here, venture capitalist Yoshihiko “Max” Kinoshita discusses how he took inspiration from Silicon Valley to transform Shibuya into its Japanese cousin “Shibuya Valley.” How did you start investing in startups? After graduating from college, I worked at the venture capital (VC) branch of a major securities firm for three years. After spending another year at Incubate Fund, an independent venture capital firm, I founded my very own Skyland Ventures in 2012. Entrepreneurs tend to seek advice from seasoned investors with startup experience. What’s your strength? Experiences in leading projects successfully are invaluable. At the same time, there are probably just a few venture capitalists who work hand in hand to improve a startup’s business, organization, and finance. My strength comes in the knowledge I can derive from my experience. I was recently able to find engineers and designers from Twitter who were willing to commit to my investment startups. I’m happy to see more talent working at places with high growth potential. You’ve raised money to invest from your business partners. Why do you think they trust you? Successful entrepreneurs and firms with large business are likely to understand the value startups provide in creating for a better future. There are many who want to support startups. What made you start your own VC? Back when I was a student, I had the opportunity to meet Kazutaka Muraguchi of Nippon Technology Venture Partners. He had invested in companies like DeNA, which is now a mobile gaming giant. He inspired me to contribute to creating the future as a venture capitalist. Like myself, many who work in Japanese VCs have backgrounds in finance. However, I believe VCs can not only provide financial support, but also business support, which is still nascent in Japan. For example, I helped Translimit, a smartphone game company I invest in, by introducing engineers and opportunities for good hires at relevant events. This is in stark contrast to banks that usually just examine the financial statements. I see you share your office with Translimit. We started off together in the same shared office at East Ventures. After receiving investments from those like LINE (creators of a dominant messenger app in Japan), they generously offered some space in their office for me as well. I’ve been able to closely observe Hiroki Takaba, who leads Translimit. I learn a lot from the way he has his hands on the product and his team around the clock. When I introduce engineers to support his endeavor, I set up appointments at our office to let him focus as much as possible. We live in an age of chat messengers, but talking face-to-face is still the best way to communicate. Even large enterprises with tens of thousands of employees assemble their offices in close proximity. What’s necessary for a livelier startup culture in Japan? We need more engineers. Dysfunctional colleges are failing to nurture enough engineering talent. We need more colleges like Stanford with a strong expertise in computer science. As pointed by Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of the Ruby programming language, do you think there’s a problem with engineers’ low wages? There are profitable Japanese companies, but American counterparts like Google are miles apart in their profitability. This is reflected in the difference in their salaries. The scale of investments in startups in Silicon Valley are also miles apart from those in Japan. After all, the global market targeted by such startups is massive compared to the domestic market Japanese startups aim at. So the amount of investment differs too. I’m looking forward to Translimit with their “Brain Wars,” a game that has garnered 95% of its users from overseas. I wish success to all of my investees for global expansion, but the language barrier isn’t insignificant. You frequently host startup events, especially those geared towards students. Students nowadays are amazing. The millennials have higher digital literacy and thus incredible potential in the fields of startups. Including you, Ricky. I beg to differ. Students may have little to lose, but what strength do they have to succeed? Aren’t you interested in startups Ricky? If you intend to start one, let’s do it soon! I admire entrepreneurs who challenge the conventional, but I don’t find it reasonable to follow suit without a sound strategy. Perhaps you should try interning. It’s important to pick your employer carefully. For instance, a company with only three employees may not have a definite sense of direction. But you’ll find better luck at one scaled to 10 employees along with a growth strategy. You speak English, so some startups would be interested in you. Why not use your strength in communicating? That sounds like a plan, but I’d also be interested in engineering so that I could harness the skills to make products on my own and then form a team. Kinoshita-san, how did you find what you wanted to do? Interesting question. I believe that I won’t find my life’s mission in a state of “searching.” You need the “drive” to jump into and seize opportunities rather than trying to anticipate when the next opportunity will come. “Just do it.” What does Skyland Ventures aspire to achieve? To gather resources and transform Shibuya into a Mecca for startups. I’d like to emulate the enthusiastic startup spirit from its source, Stanford. Mr. Kinoshita will be hosting Skyland Ventures Festival Tokyo, an all-English startup event on June 21. Yoshihiko “Max” Kinoshita Born in Yokohama, 1985. After graduating from Waseda University’s Engineering Department in 2009, he worked at a couple of venture capitals. Founded Skyland Ventures in 2012. Skyland Ventures http://skyland.vc/ Skyland Ventures Festival Tokyo http://svft.skyland.vc/ Twitter @kinoshitay More interviews... Student Activist Fights Political Apathy Among Japan Youth Richard Rowland Born in Tokyo in 1994. A mix of Japanese and Canadian. Currently enrolled at Keio University SFC. Latest posts by Richard Rowland (see all) Internet Pioneers Place Next Bet on Blockchain - August 13, 2016 Juggling Rookie Floors World Championship - July 11, 2016 Sweeney Todd Returns for Another Fearful Shave - April 22, 2016 Follow @coolandsmartrr Evangelion Mastermind Anno Confesses Love for Anime Salaryman-turned Rock Bar Proprietor Discusses his ‘Roundabout’ Manga Reborn: Globalizing Japanese Manga, One Translation at a Time Follow Ricky! Tweets by @coolandsmartrr 日本語で読む	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line328
__label__wiki	0.811327	0.811327	HomeCD ReviewsChantel McGregor - 'Lose Control' Chantel McGregor - 'Lose Control' http://rocktopia.co.uk/media/reviews/photos/thumbnail/200x200s/9e/93/39/Chantel-McGregor-Lose-Control-87-1449513296.jpg Hot Chantel McGregor Tis Rock Potentially a superstar in the making. There is an abundance of female artists like Joanne Shaw Taylor, Samantha Fish and Christina Skjolberg (to name but three) who are proving that it's not just the guys who can be seriously acknowledged as true Blues guitarists. Now added to that list is Chantel McGregor. The Yorkshire lass debuted with 'Like No Other' in 2011 and has consistently been recognized throughout the Blues scene ever since with an abundance of awards from "Young Artist Of The Year" to "Best Female Vocalist" and "Guitarist Of The Year" – the first time the award was given to a female artist and not an achievement to be sniffed at. However, for sophomore release 'Lose Control', McGregor has shifted her style considerably – not turning her back on the Blues, but using it as the basis and making the transition towards a more Contemporary Hard Rock style with Progressive influences, all to stunning effect. Influenced by Southern Gothic culture, 'Lose Control' is a predominantly dark, sombre and somewhat twisted affair, augmented by the Gothic imagery throughout the album's sleeve. The opener 'Take The Power' is dominated by a bruising riff with an element of Grunge, the distorted vocal style enhancing the dark mood – the dense, crushingly heavy, repetitive riff that opens the stunning follow-up 'Your Fever' pushes the mood even further downwards, so when the rhythm kicks in it comes as somewhat of a reprieve. 'Burn Your Anger' and 'Southern Belle' feature more of a commercial Contemporary Hard Rock style, while later on 'Killing Time' more than nods to the likes of Royal Blood and The Black Keys. The album's ballads also continue in the moody vein, the gentle acoustic and calming vocal of 'Anaesthetize' is counteracted by the dark lyric with the subtle strings adding to the effect. 'Eternal Dream' is similarly structured though delivered with electric guitar, while the quite beautiful 'Home' is a more uplifting acoustic piece. The album's outstanding cut is the closing 'Walk On Land', a gently building slow-burner with Progressive overtones, at seven-and-a-half minutes it's the longest cut, though the final five minutes are completely instrumental, replete with quite stunning guitar solo – Mostly Autumn fans will absolutely love this. Although a dark and moody album due to the subject matter, it's still very accessible and highly enjoyable. In my interview with McGregor elsewhere this issue, she reveals she started her own independent label so she can be more hands on and control everything. Best brace yourself Chantel McGregor, as on the strength of this release the big boys are sure to come knocking! Potentially a superstar in the making. Ant Heeks	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line329
__label__wiki	0.642426	0.642426	Artworks from his Kenyan Period (1967 - 1997) Charles Sekano - South Africa Charles Sekano was born in Sophia Town, Johannesburg in 1945. His youth was cruelly overshadowed by the consequences of Apartheid. It was in Nairobi in the 1960s, amid the very real isolation of exile, that Sekano forged himself into both a self-taught artist and a musician – and where he worked as a Jazz pianist in the multiracial bars and nightclubs of this rough-edged African metropolis. Here he lived life in the tradition of a romantic bohemian artist and musician, developing his own version of the ‘Three Ps’ – Painting, Poetry and Piano. And – like Degas and Toulouse Lautrec before him – living amongst his mostly female subjects. His artistic expression was and is informed by the sense of loss experienced after his family was uprooted and by the resultant severing of family bonds. Women, for Sekano – those that he immortalises in his works – became his world and his artistic language. During his years of exile in Nairobi, Sekano waged his own passionate war against the Apar- theid regime with paintbrush and crayon. For him, colour itself began to symbolise freedom. Whilst influences of Picasso, Braque’s Cubism, Toulouse-Lautrec and Henri Rousseau’s poster art are clear in his work, Sekano has always rooted himself in the realities of cosmopolitan urban Africa. The nightclubs and bars of Kenya, with their beautiful female clientele from diverse cultures across Africa, were his subject matter and remain his inspiration. Sekano is never moralistic, always humanistic – his works celebrate and preserve moments. In 1997, Charles Sekano returned to a newly liberated South Africa with mixed feelings, leaving behind a country he had grown to love and re-entering a society that had largely forgotten him – the fate of many a returning exile. Charles Sekano has exhibited widely in Kenya, Holland, Germany, Japan and the US, and his most recent show was at the University of Pretoria in 2008. His works are in private collections across the world and in various museums, including the Völkerkunde Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, and the Peabody Essex Museum, in Massachusetts, USA. Source: Ed Cross, London, UK From this Exhibition - ca. 1980 - CODE: #Nr. 23 - ca. 1980s - CODE: #Nr. 9 Acryl on Paper Acrylic/Pastel on Paper Sea Gulls 50 x 75 cm, 50 x 70 cm, 50 x 50cm CODE: #Nr. 16, 15, 14 The man who loved all women By Frank Whalley - The Daily Nation Painter, Poet, Pianist By ZIHAN KASSAM - The Star REDHILL ART GALLERY \| ALL RIGHTS RESERVED	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line331
__label__wiki	0.661028	0.661028	Dutch royal family news May 15, 2011 10:19:06 GMT -5 Post by grimnir on May 15, 2011 10:19:06 GMT -5 Various news about the Dutch German royal family Queen's day 2011, general insanity, preliminary estimation of the costs and of the nuisances for the citizens: From Thursday morning onwards (Queen's day was on a Saturday) no cars, scooters, or other motordriven vehicles allowed into security ring 1, 2 and 3. Not in locked garages, nowhere. Both villages are divided into 4 security rings. Saturday morning 5 o'clock onwards: no vehicles at all allowed into security ring 1, 2 and 3. This includes electric wheelchairs and no doubt children's tricycles. Additional security cameras have been up and running since 14 April. Total ban on any "loose" objects like flower boxes, wheeliebins, dustbins, garbage bags, garden furniture etc, in ring 1,2 and 3. Disguises like balaclavas, shawls, helmets etc. are strictly forbidden. This includes possesion of said means to disguise. Consumption of alcohol is strictly forbidden for as long as the queen is present. Ring 1 and 2 will only be accessible for people with a ticket and a means of identification. They have been screened by the police. Same for all the people living along the route the queen will travel. An army of 1300 additional policemen will be present. The extra security will cost at least 700,000 euro (988,000 USD), not including salaries (and surcharges for working on a national holiday). It may look like peanuts, but keep in mind this is a tiny country. Prince Bernhard Jr. doesn't seem to have enough work. He will become "non-executive director" (a director without specific tasks) with Antonov plc., a company in gearboxes. Naturally, this being the DRF, no further specifics are given, but his colleagues made 22,000 to 44,000 euro (31,000 - 62,000 USD) last year. Not including options packages, which could mean another 64,000 euro (91,000 USD). The "job" will involve 10 (ten!) working days in a year, which makes for 2,200 - 4,400 euros (3,100 - 6,200 USD) per day not counting the options. No mention is being made about what happens to his current job. With this humongous extra workload, no doubt he will keep that one too. Post by rearden on May 16, 2011 15:52:28 GMT -5 Max is going to have a bday party with royalty, maybe Charlene and Albert will go? Although I don't remember them attending WA's party. Post by emmeline on May 16, 2011 15:54:58 GMT -5 ^oohh let's hope Conlene will go! I want to see that smirk once again in action! More cleaning, more articles: Reward Prince Maurits met with incomprehension by House of Representatives Hoedeman January - 29/01/1910, 00:00 AMSTERDAM A large majority of the parliament wants an explanation from Minister Eurlings (Traffic) on the two tons Prince Maurits is allowed to declare as chairman of the Formula E-Team .... Maurice may be put to work two days a week up to 156 thousand euros and for declaring his office costs 48 000 euros. "Many people do not understand this, " said Labour MP Timmer. It fits its part in the discussion about external forces that hired extreme amounts. "Everything around Orange and money is sensitive, " said D66 leader Pechtold, "because Balkenende has waited so long frank about costs of the Royal Family." Incomprehensible SP MP Van Raak that shows that the prince in two days earns more than the minister in a week. "He should not exceed two fifths of a ministerial salary merit." A minister, according to the SP to set the benchmark in the public sector more than a ministerial salary is earned. "This is standard charge." For Van Ghent Green is impossible that the prince above the Balkenende norm of 181 000 euro is. "Why is so uurbedrag secrecy about the prince?" She likes that many royals in their own living, but not this way. "I suppose that two tons the amount by which the entire campaign is funded for electric cars?" asked VVD MP Van Beek himself. "Not? Then comes trouble. " For Prince Maurice is that he earns his living. Maxima, which for 2010 has a personal allowance of 248 thousand euros, was a member of the committee PaVEM 42 000 euros over three years. The money she collapsed for a good cause. Original article (in Dutch) here: www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/archief/article/detail/977480/2010/01/29/Beloning-prins-Maurits-stuit-op-onbegrip-Kamer.dhtml Dutch royal family news Jun 14, 2011 13:27:28 GMT -5 Post by grimnir on Jun 14, 2011 13:27:28 GMT -5 More fuss about WaxMax modest holiday home in Mozambique. The third part didn't work online but in return there's an update: The committee "On-the-sly" abused for Orange issue? Sebastiaan Timmermans - 08.06.1911, 11:24 The Courtyard. © ANP. Exciting discussions about secret things from the outside world should be hidden. That is the image that the committee On-the-sly recalls. What is the secret committee and how the issues discussed there? * Aerial view of the development on the peninsula Machangulo Mozambique, where Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima, a villa built. © ANP. Aerial view of the development on the peninsula Machangulo Mozambique, where Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima, a villa built. © ANP. The committee, officially the Committee on the Intelligence and Security is called, was founded in 1952 on the initiative of the then leader of the Labour Party Jaap Burger. This was a place where members of the secret government business could share with the leaders of the major parties. The information obtained should then be kept secret. "That committee is the ins and outs of the Dutch secret service consultation," says political reporter for the Times Remco Meijer. "The group leaders to inform, there is a form of parliamentary control. It is about state secrets that do not meet the great bell may be hung, but where politics should be informed about it. " Since 2004, all party leaders have access to this committee. The SP did not initially participate. Only in 2009 joined the lot under the motto: "If you do not play the secret committee, there is nothing to check." Payment of oranges Today, the Times revealed last year that Prime Minister Balkenende 'secretly took "about a payment of oranges. The Prime Minister informed the Lower House by secret commissions on the payment of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima in a tax haven. It was money that was transferred to a broker to purchase their controversial holiday in Mozambique. In this way the prime minister wanted this "private matter" not the big clock hanging. Meijer: Group Chairmen and their party members should not talk about what happens behind the closed doors of secret commissions is discussed. This only works if the system keeps clean and just talking about state secrets. In this case it is not. The prime minister can inform the House on Mozambique by a letter. Now it has the appearance that the parliament was made silenced. That is why people from the school collapsed. Which is normally very little leaking out. " Information under the table to keep The SP reacted indignantly today. "There is not designed for that committee," said Socialist Party MP Ronald van Raak. "This is for secrets, and I can not imagine that this state secret. It seems that the commission has been secretly used to keep information under the table. " Touch of Rutte will submit written questions about the case. In 2003, Labour leader Wouter Bos away from the committee to a similar issue. He then protested against the fact that the Balkenende informed the committee about the later Princess Mabel, who became friends with top criminal Klaas Bruinsma. Original here: www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/3598/Kabinet-Rutte/article/detail/2443028/2011/06/08/Werd-de-commissie-stiekem-misbruikt-voor-de-Oranje-kwestie.dhtml Commotion about payment Oranges in tax haven Jan Hoedeman, Remco Meijer - 08/06/1911, 1:03 vk UPDATE Behind the scenes last year a political outcry over payment of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima in a tax haven. MPs were, according to various sources in The Hague was outraged that the outgoing prime minister Balkenende and Minister Hirsch Ballin payment of the prince and princess for the construction of their villa in Mozambique, in the so-secret committee had reported. Shut Duty The members of this committee on the Intelligence and Security Services - the leaders of all political parties - had an oath of secrecy. So did the Prime Minister and the information about the payment out of the political and public debate about the villa in Machangulo. The Government Information Service (RVD) confirms its request that Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima their holiday villa in Mozambique have bought bills in "different countries", including the tax haven of Jersey. The prince and princess, according to the RVD, by the way they pay no tax or financial benefits gained. They comply with all international laws and regulations kept, and all taxes paid. Ministerial responsibility Prime Minister Mark Rutte is for the actions of the few ministerial responsibility, said the RVD in a written statement to the newspaper. "The government regrets that - according to the Times - information from the consultation with the Commission on the Intelligence and Security has come out," let Rutte know via the RVD. Payment in Jersey, a Channel Island tax benefits, only covered the fee for the broker, the RVD. The department refused to name the other countries where the royal couple made any payments, but stresses that no tax havens. The party leaders gave the impression that the entire purchase amount to a tax haven was gone. They criticized the tax morale of Orange and their legitimacy of the signature shortcuts on tax 'wrong type'. They have been very indignant one year, especially about their duty of confidentiality. The prince has always said his purchase was also seen as a form of development assistance to Mozambique. Only now the government says by the mouth of the RVD that the payment was limited to Jersey. There 'brokerage services are performed by someone who is not commissioned by the prince and princess acted. Subject has a percentage of the amount that was involved in the sale of construction land rights is calculated as brokerage. At the request of the claimant, the amount is transferred to its bank account at HSBC in Jersey, "said RVD. RVD says that the royal couple has done nothing inappropriate being. That a broker was paid to whom the prince and princess were no client, according to the RVD was part of the agreements surrounding the purchase of the villa are made. Original here: www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/2442723/2011/06/08/Commotie-over-betaling-Oranjes-in-belastingparadijs.dhtml And an update next day. And now we're all friends again like nothing happened and it will be business as usual. One day of fuss, surprise and disapproval and nothing ever changes. Chamber sets Rutte ultimatum on Oranges' Villa Remco Meijer - 06.09.1911, 12:44 Prime Minister Mark Rutte © anp Prime Minister Mark Rutte (VVD), the House appearance for next Thursday, 12:01 a.m. write about the holiday villa of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima in Mozambique. That the Committee for Internal Affairs decided this morning. * Princess Máxima and Prince Willem-Alexander Princess Maxima and Prince Willem-Alexander © anp "I fell off my chair when I read in the newspaper Wednesday." D66 MP Gerard Schouw Following is coverage in the Times, Wednesday, about three meetings organized by the Intelligence and Security last year, held on the royal house Machangulo. These so-called "secret commissions" are the cash flows around the villa has been discussed. In that committee, the group leaders are members, is silence. This is because state secrets could be mentioned. Then Prime Minister Balkenende and Minister Hirsch Ballin in the commission secretly declared that the royal couple bills paid in "different countries". One of them, for the commission of the broker was paid in the tax haven of Jersey. The Court is outraged that while a political debate raged about the villa, additional information was provided in a secret commission. On the initiative of parliamentarian Ineke van Gent (Green), backed by the full committee, in his letter to Rutte therefore three questions. In which countries the prince which accounts for the purchase and construction of the villa rights paid? Why is the information, and then only in part, shared with the commission secretly and not made public? What about selling the house, whose youth was already in November 2009 has been waived? Dangerous State MP Gerard Schouw (D66) said Thursday in committee: "I fell off my chair when I read in the newspaper Wednesday." The prime minister was also requested by the committee's written questions that SP MP Ronald van Raak Wednesday suggested, along with the letter to answer. Touch of Rutte wants to ensure that the committee secretly as "dumping ground for unwelcome information 'is used. He wants a vision of the Prime Minister on the question of when information is classified or is dangerous or not. The committee supports this objective. www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/2443621/2011/06/09/Kamer-stelt-Rutte-ultimatum-over-villa-Oranjes.dhtml Last Edit: Jun 14, 2011 13:31:52 GMT -5 by grimnir Update on the committee On-the-sly: the typical Dutch solution: Now PM Rutte won't report the finances of DRF to the committee at all! Another sector of the DRF that can run amok unchecked. Oranges not handled in committee On-the-sly Reuters / Editorial - 16/06/11, 11:04 The government will not collect information on private payments from members of the royal family via the committee On-the-sly. Suggests that Prime Minister Mark Rutte in response to parliamentary questions about payments made by Prince Willem-Alexander had made his home in Mozambique. Private payments that remain private, says Rutte. Rutte says that the committee in such situations in a awkward position "is detected and that he wants to avoid. Therefore, information about private payments from members of the royal family privately, unless a clear public interest is served with the order to report to the House. But in that case, all open to the entire House and not only in confidence to the group chairmen. SP questions Reason for Rutte's letter were questions from the SP reports that Presidents have found it annoying that they got the information in the confidential discussions of the commission secretly. They can then go after talk with anyone about it and can not in parliamentary debates on the agenda. The information about the private payment to a broker at one of the Channel Islands at the end of 2009 issued by then-Interior Minister Guusje ter Horst. After the Labour Party in February 2010 the government had stepped out, also submitted Ter Horst successor Ernst Hirsch Ballin has with the committee on private payments. According Rutte payments were private and the public interest was not hit. Prince Willem-Alexander had himself reported the transfer time. It was for real estate brokerage services, not on behalf of Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima were performed. Other payments around the house in Mozambique were not using a tax haven. Willem-Alexander and Máxima did not 'by those means of payment gain any benifits or avoided taxes, "writes Rutte in his letter to the House. They have also complied with all national and international laws and regulations and all taxes paid, Rutte said. Original here: www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/2445678/2011/06/16/Oranjes-niet-meer-behandeld-in-commissie-stiekem.dhtml Sheez, google should learn better Dutch, even I can see that the translation could be better. Team Caroline Post by countess on Feb 17, 2012 12:25:24 GMT -5 www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17077390 Dutch Prince Johan Friso is in a critical condition in hospital after being hit by an avalanche in the Austrian resort of Lech, say officials. Officials said the prince, 43, was buried under the snow for about 15 minutes before being rescued. He was resuscitated at the scene and taken to hospital in Innsbruck, where officials said he was stable but his condition was "still life-threatening". Prince Friso is the second son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands the prince had been skiing with a small group off the marked pistes when the avalanche hit shortly after midday local time. No-one else was injured, "that's not koolaid, that's crack" Search for a beautiful heart but not a beautiful face. Beautiful things are not always good but good things are always beautiful. ~Author Unknown Post by donna on Feb 22, 2012 7:36:13 GMT -5 I hope he recovers well. Post by MadameConcorde on Feb 24, 2012 14:13:57 GMT -5 This is terribly sad. The Prince is in a coma and may never regain consciousness. What bothers me is that he is not in line for the throne since marrying in 2004 without the government's permission. This is so terribly backwards - really from another age. Miracles do happen. I hope he will come out of his coma with little (or no) consequences. such sad news, i'm so sorry for his young family and of course his family and friend The statement was as follows Prince Friso was brought to Innsbruck university hospital by rescue helicopter at about 14:00 on 17 February, after being buried by an avalanche in Lech. He was covered for approximately 25 minutes. At the hospital, after receiving initial treatment in the reanimation unit, he was taken straight to the intensive care trauma unit. This unit specialises in treating the most seriously injured avalanche patients with the utmost medical and technical expertise. The unit's head is Dr Wolfgang Koller. Our unit was notified of the patient's imminent arrival and we were able to prepare everything in advance. Prince Friso was brought to the hospital under reanimation conditions. Due to the length of time he was covered under the snow, his brain had been deprived of oxygen. The result was cardiac arrest, which lasted approximately 50 minutes. The patient had to be reanimated during this entire period. Fifty minutes is a very long time. One could say, too long. We hoped that the patient's mild hypothermic state had sufficiently protected the brain against excessive damage. Unfortunately, our hope was in vain. Since last Friday, a team of specialists has been fighting to save Prince Friso's life. Yesterday, a first MRI-scan was possible, without bringing the patient into danger. Since this examination and the latest neurological tests yesterday evening it is clear that the oxygen deprivation has caused extensive damage to the patient's brain. At present it is not certain whether he will ever regain consciousness. In any event, rehabilitation will take months, if not years. Prince Friso's family will now look for an appropriate rehabilitation facility Post by cm7007 on Feb 24, 2012 18:49:54 GMT -5 Feb 24, 2012 14:19:05 GMT -5 countess said: What a terribly sad situation. I don't follow this family, or know much about them - but this is horrible for anyone no matter who they are - just horrible. I'll pray that the family will have strength in the days, weeks and months ahead. It's very sad. As a skier myself, I only got back on skis this winter after Natasha Richardson died a week after I'd skied the same mountain, a few years ago. There's no precaution against an avalanche. Dutch royal family news Mar 18, 2012 14:01:05 GMT -5 Post by grimnir on Mar 18, 2012 14:01:05 GMT -5 Max got jeered at in Paris. Someone had the nerve to yell vive la republique. What's even more interesting is that the article has been taken off. The original link doesn't work anymore. So for posterity: Princess Máxima booed PARIS - Princess Maxima was Saturday night in a concert hall in Paris booed by a section of the public. Also, someone cried out "Vive la republique" when she entered the room, let royalty reporter Marc van der Linden know via twitter. "Think Maxima little victim of French election campaign and spoiled concert audience. But she was visibly not amused." The princess attended in Paris the concert of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. Since 2005 Maxima is a patron of the orchestra. Prince Willem-Alexander should also have been present. He is, however, paying a visit to Prince Friso in London. Translation of the tweet beneath it: Poor Maxima. Without husband in Paris, jeered at while entering the hall and then someone yells: Vive la republique! I doubt Max cares very much. Her daddy has escaped prosecution. Again. www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/11739041/__Vader_Mxima_niet_vervolgd__.html Justice doesn't prosecute Máxima's father LONDON - Princess Maxima's father, Jorge Zorreguieta, will not be prosecuted. A spokesperson of the national office of the Public Prosecutor's said to the ANP onSunday. Relatives of the disappeared in Argentina in 1977 Samuel Slutzky Leonardo did in september last year filed a complaint against the father of Máxima. They accuse him of involvement in the disappearance of thousands of persons in the period 1976-1981 during the reign of President Jorge Videla in Argentina. According to the attorney general there is no suspicion or evidence of personal involvement in disappearances by Zorreguieta. He did not give orders to people of the former Argentine government, which made victims disappear. There is no evidence that Zorreguieta refused to give information about the disappearances, concludes the OM. In 2001 there was even filed a complaint against the father of Máxima done. The prosecution and the court then decided that no prosecution was brought because there was no jurisdiction for the Netherlands. By amending legislation may now sue Zorreguieta Netherlands, the Dutch lawyers believed the principals, accusing and Goran Sluiter. Zegveld believes that the Attorney General itself just to do research into the allegations, which she filed on behalf of her client. According to the lawyer makes Jorge Zorreguieta is to this day guilty of the crime enforced disappearance: "Thousands have disappeared in Argentina at the hands of the regime which Zorreguieta was an active member. Relatives and friends still bear the loss and are still in agonizing uncertainty about the exact fate of their loved ones. " Jorge Zorreguieta was Deputy Minister of Agriculture during the military regime in Argentina. "Given his high office when he should have been informed. He lies there on demonstrable. This decision of the prosecutor is clearly class justice. " Counsel has not decided yet whether they will start a procedure for the OM to force Zorreguieta to prosecute. She can do in court. Zorreguieta because family ties are regularly in the Netherlands. His controversial background in the past for some problems for him and his daughter made. Jorge Zorreguieta was on 2 February 2002 by then Prime Minister Wim Cook not to the marriage of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and Máxima come. Last Edit: Mar 18, 2012 14:04:29 GMT -5 by grimnir Dutch royal family news Mar 27, 2012 7:25:11 GMT -5 Post by grimnir on Mar 27, 2012 7:25:11 GMT -5 Prince Friso keeps hit board job BRUSSELS - Prince Friso remains a director of the Belgian telecom company Telenet. Its mandate will not change the company yet. This is evident from the recently published annual report of the company. "The Board is aware that Mr. Friso of Orange-Nassau for a long time probably will not be able to attend the meetings," the text in the report. "Given the current circumstances," the board of directors decided not to change anything. On February 17 became the prince buried under an avalanche in Austrian Lech. Friso walked through the skiing accident, severe brain damage and will possibly never regained consciousness. He was early March transported to a London hospital. Friso, who since 2004 has been an independent director of Telenet, received for his board work last year, 47,500 euros, as is also published in the annual report. Original here: www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/11789238/__Prins_houdt_bestuursbaan__.html This is just one of his many jobs so do the maths yourself. Post by paca on Mar 27, 2012 7:40:21 GMT -5 well, apparently his job is not vital for the company. It serves their image as a company though, so it is not entirely altruistic. As a normal worker he would be protected from losing his job as well. It is only just over a month. as long as there has not been an official statement saying that he will remain in coma, they would have no legal reason to replace him. And that goes for regular employees as well. Only with a regular employee they would not use it to do PR as the public wouldn't care. btw I saw a report in the news yesterday about a Belgium coma center. They seem to be the best in their field (at least in Europe) so who knows, if he will not be at some stage transported there. I believe at this stage the emphasis has been on finding a good place for him to be cared for and the best opportunity for the relatives to handle the situation. For the daughters it is vital to get back into their normal routine, see their friends and be able to see their dad quickly. BUt in a few months, if the condition continues, they might try to find a different place and in the longrun maybe even relocate the entire family. Belgium is not far from Holland and part of it speaks Dutch, so not an unthinkable scenario. Just in case you've missed all the fuss: Wax and Max's controversial holiday home in Mozambique is for sale. And it isn't selling like hot cakes. This week's Dutch tabloids had (late) articles about it. Pics can be found here: i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h356/_grimnir/MC/501.jpg They are so normal, just like any other Dutchman. Until you see their villa. 60.000 square meters of garden, view on the Indian ocean, miles of empty beach, 1,700 square meters of house. Room for 24 guests, in two semi-detached guest quarters. Outside shower with huge wooden wall for the privacy. Pool with his and hers toilets, changing rooms and outdoor showers. One main house, guest quarters and two separate houses for staff. All built on poles in the dunes. Walk-in closet by the main bedroom, walk-in fridge in the kitchen. A total of 9 bathrooms and three kitchens, not counting those in the staff houses. Staff houses contain another 4 bedrooms and 3 showers. To sell it, privacy went out the window. 80,000 euros for an advertisement in GG magazine (Global Guide magazine) where Wax bares his soul in an interview in an attempt to sell the house. He shares his deepest feelings and tells exactly what he did during his holidays. How he and Max were sitting in the dunes, watching humpbackwhales, how his daughters surfed on the beach and how wonderful it is to be in Mozambique at all times of the year. Note that Wax rarely, if ever, gives interviews! While Wax and Max didn't want any excess luxury, but many people shall look at the pictures openmouthed. Interior decorating with advice of two London interior decorators. Head editor of the magazine in her editorial: "Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands speaks openly about his unique house on the bay of Machangulo, a wonderful, unspoilt place in southeast Africa. He created together with his wife, princess Maxima, a holiday home with just one purpose in mind: as simple as possible, no excess luxury." (source: This week's Dutch Weekend magazine and Privé magazine). No excess luxury compared to what he is normally used to, that should be. ROYALTY BY MARC VAN DER LINDEN(head editor of Weekend magazine) Willem-Alexander is of course free to do whatever he pleases and certainly to say whatever he wants. Yet I was a little surprised when I saw this week's GG Magazine. Because suddenly his privacy seemed not something to be protected at all costs. The Dutch media have been held on a tight rein by the royal family for several years when it comes to pictures for which no permission has been given. There have even been several court cases, all won by the prince. And during press interviews no questions may be asked about their private life. The Oranges find that irrelevant and shield their private life as much as possible. That is a choice with which you can agree or not, but fact is that they are in their right. Yet it looks a bit odd if the prince hasn't any issues with privacy if a house needs to be sold. Then pictures may be made, even of the bedroom and the prince himself is available to add nice quotes to the pictures. Even more annoying is that the prince doesn't do it in a Dutch magazine, but in a foreign magazine. May his future subjects not know how his holiday home looks like and what he has to say about it? I find it a bit a case of applying double standards. Bizar too is that the journalist who interviewed the prince, the realtor who sells the house and the photographer who made the pictures all were bound to secrecy. Apparently the reins from the Netherlands out to everybody else are being held very tight. Why so much secrecy? If Willem-Alexander and Maxima themselves had shown their house and had defended their plans, they could have gone to Machangulo each year. Now they lose that nice place and every detail causes commotion again. And talking about double standards, can you insist as a royal family that you are not so rich as everybody thinks when one of your members builts a house on the other side of the world with nine bathrooms? A house that is for sale at the moment for four million euros? At the same time the hereditary couple also owns a big ranch in Argentinia, bought as a sort of investment, but also worth several millions. Alexander and Maxima will, when the house in Mozambique is sold, go and look for a new holiday home. If no issues arise over that house and the family goes holidaying there for several years, I bet that Willem-Alexander will declare his privacy the highest good in the world again. Until the house will need to be sold...[/quote] He should start a career as fortune teller. The new holiday home has just hit the fan today! And I wonder if he knew already... So, I read Beatrix will address the nation tonight. Will she abdicate? I can hear already Maxima saying her name: "Máxima, Koningin der Nederlanden" ;D It seriously looks like she is abdicating, even foreign reporters think that. I´m not a fan of Betrix, but WA is blaaahhhh and Maximas ego is huge. Rofl at those who think it´s disrespectful to abdicate and you should rule till you die Look at Charles, he looks pathetic. creativemind Here's lookin' at you Sugar Loonies!!! Post by creativemind on Jan 28, 2013 13:06:44 GMT -5 BC-EU--APNewsAlert,9 THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Dutch Queen Beatrix says she will abdicate April 30. AP-WF-01-28-13 1806GMT Post by grimnir on Jan 28, 2013 13:15:32 GMT -5 Yep, now the place is really going to the dogs. I noticed there was no mention of any discussion about Maxima becoming queen. What happened to the "we will decide that when the time comes"? Not to mention the prudence of wasting millions on the event in times like this. My commiserations to all Dutchies, on the continent and overseas. Last Edit: Jan 28, 2013 13:19:10 GMT -5 by grimnir	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line337
__label__cc	0.564659	0.435341	Publishing House SB RAS: Address of the Publishing House SB RAS: Morskoy pr. 2, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia Subscription price Electronic versions Home – Home – Jornals – Chemistry for Sustainable Development 2009 number 3 Chemistry for Sustainable Development 2009 year, number 3 Borazine and its Derivatives: Synthesis, Mechanochemical Reactions of Obtaining and Outlooks for Technological Applications V. V. Volkov, K. G. Myakishev, E. A. Ilyunchik Keywords: borazine, borazine derivatives, mechanochemical synthesis, physicochemical properties, application Abstract >> Review of publications on chemistry, properties and outlooks for the application of the boron and nitrogen containing heterocyclic compound borazine (borazol), or cyclo-Н3В3N3H3, and some its derivatives, as well as the starting compounds for its synthesis is presented, embracing the period since 1926 (the date of borazine discovery) till present. It is shown that the information reported in classical works is essentially urgent even at present. Borazines were used to develop promising methods of obtaining insulating layers and films based on boron nitride h-BN and carbonitrides by means of the thermal or plasmachemical vapour decomposition, as well as coatings composed of condensed heterocycles of borazine derivatives. The data obtained by the authors of the review concerning solid-phase Mechanochemical methods of synthesis of borazine and its derivatives - N-trimethylborazine and N-triethylborazine are reported. The advantages and the possibility of technical implementation of these methods in comparison with other known methods are specified. Synthesis of High-Purity Bismuth Citrate with the Help of Reaction Solid - Solution L. I. Afonina, E. S. Naidenko, Y. M. Yukhin, L. E. Danilova Keywords: bismuth citrate, high-purity compounds, chemical synthesis, X-ray phase analysis, IR spectroscopy Interaction of oxohydroxobismuth (III) nitrate trihydrate of the composition [Bi6O5(OH)3](NO3)5 ⋅ 3H2O with aqueous solutions of citric acid was studied by means of X-ray phase analysis, thermogravimetry, IR spectroscopy and chemical analysis. The effect of the concentration of citrate ions, pH of the medium and process temperature on the rate of exchange of nitrate ions for citrate ions was investigated. The conditions of the formation of bismuth citrate of he composition BiC6H5O7 were determined. The reasonableness of the synthesis of high-purity bismuth citrate by the interaction of oxohydroxobismuth (III) nitrate trihydrate with the solution of citric acid was demonstrated. Development of the Technology of Regeneration of Active Coal after Adsorption of Pyridine from Waste Water O. V. Belyaeva, N. S. Golubeva, T. A. Krasnova, A. E. Yakusheva Keywords: regeneration, active coal, pyridine Results of chemical and low-temperature thermal regeneration with air and nitrogen of industrial active coal of grades AG-OV-1 and SKD-515 worked out in pyridine adsorption from model solutions and real waste waters are presented. It is shown that the use of chemical regeneration is unreasonable. The data of thermogravimetric analysis were used to choose an optimal temperature for the regeneration of active coal in the flow of nitrogen and in the air. A comparative analysis of the efficiency of low-temperature thermal regeneration in inert and oxidative environment was carried out. The results allows us to recommend low-temperature thermal regeneration with inert gas (nitrogen) for practical purposes. Distribution of Rare Earth Elements (La, Nd, Sm) in the Top Mass and Roots of Pastoral Grass for Different Methods of Introduction of REE into Soil N. N. Kozhevnikova, N. N. Pigareva Keywords: cerium, neodymium, samarium, Profile of chestnut soil, mobile forms of elements It is established that the coefficient of biological absorption of rare earth elements allows one to characterize them by the weak level of intake by the top mass of pastoral grass. The concentrations of lanthanum, neodymium and samarium in the top phytomass of a natural pasture of the cryolite zone in Transbaikalia is 2.3-4.5 times lower than in roots. Processing of Rare Earth Element Concentrate Obtained from Phosphogypsum V. A. Kolokolnikov, M. I. Kovalev Keywords: rare earth element concentrate, phosphogypsum, phosphochalk, XPA It is established that after leaching calcium by ammonium chloride into solution from the product of thermal decomposition of phosphochalk (technical-grade calcium carbonate) obtained by conversion of phosphogypsum with soda solutions, the insoluble residue is a concentrate of strontium and rare-earth elements (REE); the concentrations of strontium and REE reach 9-10 and 4.5-5.1 %, respectively. The extraction of REE into solution with the help of different acids is considered. It is shown that the degree of leaching the REE into solution reaches 96-97 % in the presence of reducing agents. The leaching solutions contain 4.2-4.6 g/dm3 REE and can be processed to obtain REE compounds. The insoluble residue after REE leaching is a strontium concentrate with strontium sulphate content of 54.5-62.9 %. Humic Acids of Caustobioliths as the Basis of New Materials for Environmental Protection and Green Construction I. I. Lishtvan, F. N. Kaputsky, A. M. Abramets, Y. G. Yanuta, G. S. Monich, O. V. Zubetz, V. I. Torgashov, M. A. Belchenko Keywords: humic acids, humic substances, functional groups, sorption, heavy metals, land-improvement preparations Results of the investigations of the properties of humic preparations obtained by means of the colloid chemical separation of the salts of humic acids are presented. Substantial differences between the properties of humic preparations isolated in acidic and alkaline media are demonstrated, first of all in changes of the elemental composition of humic preparations, as well as the composition and ratios of functional groups in the molecular structure of these compounds. Results of the determination of sorption activity of the obtained humic preparations for ion sorption from monoionic or binary solutions are reported. The revealed regularities are considered as a basis of the development of a number of new sorption and land-improving materials for nature conservation purposes. Modeling of the Interaction of Artificial Geochemical Barriers with the Solution of Nickel Sulphate D. V. Makarov, S. I. Mazukhina, A. A. Nesterova, D. P. Nesterov, Y. P. Menshikov, I. V. Zorenko, V. A. Masloboev Keywords: actificial geochemical barriers, active silica, carbonatite, serpophyte, nickel sulphate solution, deposition Interaction of artificial geochemical barriers with nickel sulpahte solution was investigated using chemical analysis, X-ray phase analysis, scanning electron microscopy and thermodynamic modeling. It was shown that the combinations of active silica with carbonatite, as well as serpophite with carbonatite, are promising materials for making artificial geochemical barriers. Extraction and Characterization of Chitin-Glucan Complexes from the Mycothallus of the Fungi of Russula Genus A. V. Pestov, S. V. Drachuk, O. V. Koryakova, Y. G. Yatluk Keywords: fungi of Russula genus, chitin-glucan complexes, sorption of copper (II) and lead (II) Composition and sorption properties with respect to heavy metal ions are investigated for chitin-glucan complexes (CGC) isolated from the mycothallus of the fungi of Russula genus collected in teh zones with different levels of anthropogenic pollution. The amount of isolated insoluble CGC does not exceed 1.1 %, chitin content (Ch) is not more than 0.65 %. Passing from a non-polluted zone to polluted ones, an increase in the content of CGC and Ch in all the three kinds of the biomass of mycothallus is observed. The sorption capacity of CGC with respect to the ions of lead (II) and copper (II) is not high: it reaches 107 and 123 μmol/g, respectively, but the high selectivity (100 %) of copper (II) ion sorption is exhibited. For the investigated CGC, a trend to increased sorption capacity of CGC with an increase in the biotope pollution with heavy metals is observed. These investigations may be applied in using widespread fungi with the limited food and taste value of the Russula genus - russules - for obtaining sorption materials. Synthesis of Methyl Ester of 2-Cyano-3,12-dioxo-11-deoxo-18-ОІН-glycyrrhet-1(2),11(9)-diene acid O. V. Salomatina, D. V. Korchagina, N. F. Salakhutdinov, G. A. Tolstikov Keywords: 18-?Н-glycyrrhetic acid, глицирретовая кислота, тритерпеноиды, синтез Methyl ester of 2-cyano-3,12-dioxo-11-deoxo-18-βН-glycyrrhet-1(2),11(9)-diene acid was synthesized by means of the combined modification of А and C rings of the 18-βН-glycyrrhetic acid. Synthesis of Bismuth (III) Oxide-Salicylate from its Nitrate Solutions for Medical Purposes E. V. Timakova, Y. M. Yukhin, T. A. Udalova Keywords: bismuth (III) oxide-salicylate, synthesis, IR and Raman spectra, thermal analysis Precipitation of bismuth salicylate from its nitrate solutions and the interaction of trihydroxo-pentaocohexabismuth (III) pentanitrate trihydrate [Bi6O5(OH)3](NO3)5 ⋅ 3H2O with the solutions of sodium salicylate and salicylic acid was studied by means of X-ray phase analysis, IR and Raman spectroscopy, thermogravimetry and chemical analysis. The dependence of the rate of nitrate ion exchange for salicylate ions on temperature and pH of the medium was investigated. The conditions of the formation of bismuth (III) oxide-salicylate of he composition Bi(C7H5O3)О were determined for precipitation from nitrate solutions and for the solid-to-solution reaction. It is shown that it is reasonable to synthesize these preparations of high purity for use as a drug substance in antiulcer and antidiarrheic preparations by means of the interaction of [Bi6O5(OH)3](NO3)5 ⋅ 3H2O with the solution of salicylic acid. Eco-Friendly Nitration of Aromatic Compounds Using Different Solid Supports D. M. Badgujar1, M. B. Talawar2, S. N. Asthana3, P. P. Mahulikar4 Keywords: eco-friendly nitration, nitro compounds, solid supports, microwave irradiation Eco-friendly method for nitration of aromatic compounds using different solid supports has been successfully reported. Investigation of the Features of the Composition of Human Bone Tissues S. A. Lemesheva, O. A. Golovanova, S. V. Turenkov Keywords: XPA, IR spectroscopy, thermal analysis, mass spectroscopy, bone tissue, biomineral, hydroxyapatite, stoichiometricity Results of the investigation of bone tissues with the help of XPA, IR spectroscopy, thermal analysis, mass spectrometry are reported. It is shown that the crystal basis of the bone tissue is poorly crystallized nonstoichiometric apatite. It is established for coxarthrosis that the amount of PO43- decreases, while the content of CO32- and the organic component increases, therefore, the degree of crystallinity and the stoichioemtry of bone apatite decrease. The differences between pathogenic and reference samples in the concentrations of manganese, tin, iron, copper and chromium were revealed. Once Again About "Growth Limits" J. S. Norgerd, N. P. Tarasova, D. I. Mustafin	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line345
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__label__wiki	0.733097	0.733097	Project Runway Threads Spoilers: Project Runway for Teens! By: Todd Betzold \| October 16, 2014 at 1:30 PM EST If you ever think that the teens/tweens just do not get enough recognition on Project Runway, than that all changes next week with the premiere of Project Runway Threads on Lifetimes! Yup, it is a new competition for teen and tween fashion designers with a pretty big payoff for the winner of Project Runway Threads 2014: a scholarship to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, which is where the show is taped! Check out a sneak peek below in our Project Runway Threads spoilers! For how Project Runway Threads works, check out the official synopsis from Lifetime: “From the producers of Project Runway, skilled teen and tween fashion designers will showcase their gift for style in Lifetime’s new competition series, Project Runway: Threads. Hosted by Vanessa Simmons (Run’s House), judges include Christian Siriano (Project Runway – Season 4 winner), Seventeen Fashion Director Gina Kelly and Accessories Editor Jasmine Snow, and YouTube style guru Ingrid Nilsen (2.5 million YouTube subscribers). The eight-episode series was filmed in Los Angeles at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) this spring, and special guests this season include television personality and host Kelly Osborne; actress, singer and dancer Zendaya and actress and model Jaime King. Project Runway: Threads is a competition series showcasing America’s most talented young fashion designers. Each week, three new contestants pull out their scissors, sketchbooks and skills to see who can out-design the competition and set the new standard for the future of fashion. Challenges will be fast-paced, unpredictable and far from child’s play as these nascent fashion powerhouses compete for $10,000 to be used at any Jo-Ann’s Fabrics and Crafts store or Joann.com, a scholarship to FIDM and a top-of-the-line sewing and embroidery studio courtesy of Brother International Corporation.” Project Runway Threads premieres next Thursday, October 23 on Lifetime at 10:30/9:30c. Join us on Reality Rewind for all your Project Runway Threads spoilers, news, recaps, previews and predictions. Subscribe to our Email and RSS or like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all our latest updates. Tagged: Project Runway, project runway threads, project runway threads 2014, project runway threads spoilers, Reality TV	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line355
__label__cc	0.718473	0.281527	Andrea Miller - Region VI Mike Biniek - Region I Jack Manzari - Region VII Andrea Miller is executive director of People Demanding Action, a nonprofit that promotes clean energy in Virginia and nationwide. She lives in Caroli Mike graduated from George Mason University in 1977 and operated a small business. Jack Manzari is a retired physician with extensive experience in hospital management. Jack has owned and managed a 400-acre cattle farm since 2002. REC Reform Board Candidates Elect REC Board members who will bring transparency, consumer choice, and lower-cost energy options back to our cooperative. The Current Rappahannock Electric Cooperative Board members act against our interests while enriching themselves. When you get your ballot in the mail in your July issue of Cooperative Living Magazine, vote them out. Board members have no binding term-limits; if we don’t exercise our right to vote, they can serve as long as they want. The current Board acts against our interests The Board hides its decision-making process from public view. It is unclear how the Board spends our money and if their spending benefits us. The Board is forcing us to pay higher costs for electricity when cheaper alternatives are available. Enriching themselves at our expense Board members pay themselves $24,000/year for part-time work on a nonprofit board. On top of this generous $2000/month, Board members give themselves a $500/day per diem when they attend any meetings or conferences plus reimbursing all travel expenses. The more they attend meetings or travel to conferences in nice places, the more they pay themselves. They don’t tell us what conferences they attend or where they travel. We Can Vote Them Out If you get your electricity from REC, you are a member-owner and have a stake in taking back our cooperative. The only way to do this is to VOTE in the upcoming election for reform REC board candidates, Andrea Miller, Jack Manzari, and Mike Biniek, who will change the current system, reduce board pay, and represent us (cooperative members), not themselves. You will receive your ballot in the July 2019 issue of Cooperative Living Magazine. You will find a “Proxy Designation Card” to select board candidates in three regions. You are eligible to vote for one candidate from each of the three regions, regardless of where you live. This year, for the first time in recent memory, there are reform candidates, Andrea Miller, Jack Manzari and Mike Biniek, running in each region. You have a real choice to make for the first time in over a decade. These reform candidates, inspired by the Repower REC Campaign, will bring member voices back to our electric co-op. Don't Throw Away Your Vote! Remember to select reform candidates on your ballot. If you do not select specific candidates, you will be giving your vote to the current Board who will cast it for their preferred candidates! Again, all REC members, regardless of where they live, can vote for a candidate in each of the three regions involved in this year’s REC board election. This election is our opportunity to elect Board members who will bring transparency, consumer choice, and lower-cost energy options back to our cooperative. This year for the first time you can also vote online at myrec.smarthub.coop You can also vote in person at the annual meeting on August 22nd at the Fredericksburg Conference Center Further consideration of the latest proposal for a utility scale solar farm in Culpeper County was recently postponed to later this summer, when neighbors will be given an opportunity to speak on the record about it. 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__label__wiki	0.530849	0.530849	Macrobenthos of the North Sea - Crustacea M.J. de Kluijver & S.S. Ingalsuo (Goodsir, 1843) Body very long and slender. Carapace of adult male with dorsal crest unarmed, in female with two to six, usually three or four, small teeth in about the middle. The pseudorostrum of the female is acutely pointed, blunter in the male. Antenna 1 has one aesthetasc. The sternite of pereionite 2 in the adult male has a median tubercle with six to eight spines on its rounded summit and two lateral tubercles with bifurcated points. The basis of pereiopod 2 has a strong bifid spur pointing inwards. Pleonite 6 with two short setae posteriorly. No free telson. Up to 10 mm. Occurs on beaches of fine sand. Depth rang: Down to about 150 m but usually in shallower depths. Distribution in the North Sea: Southern and northern North Sea, Skagerrak. World distribution: From Norway to the Canary Islands as well as in the Mediterranean. Subphylum Crustacea Class Malacostraca Subclass Eumalacostraca Superorder Peracarida Order Cumacea Family Bodotriidae Genus Iphinoe Species trispinosa Accepted name: Iphinoe trispinosa (Goodsir, 1843) Cuma trispinosa Goodsir, 1843 Jones, N.S., 1957a. Cumacea. Key to families and references. Fiches d'Identification du Zooplancton, 71 (1957). Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, Kopenhagen. Jones, N.S., 1957b. Cumacea. Figures (covering sheets 71 and 73-76). Fiches d'Identification du Zooplancton, 72 (1957). Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, Kopenhagen. Jones, N.S., 1957c. Cumacea. Family: Bodotriidae. Fiches d'Identification du Zooplancton, 73 (1957). Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, Kopenhagen. Jones, N.S., 1976. British Cumaceans. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series), No. 7. The Linnean Society/Academic Press, London. Sars, G.O., 1900. An account of the Crustacea of Norway. Vol. III. Cumacea. Bergen Museum, Bergen. van der Baan, S.M. and L.B. Holthuis, 1972. Short note on the occurrence of Cumacea in the surface plankton collected at "Texel" lightship in the southern North Sea. Zoologische Bijdragen, 13: 71-73. I. trispinosa-male For further info about Iphinoe trispinosa, you can also look up this species under: Iphinoe trispinosa (species group: Zooplankton and Micronekton of the North Sea) You can continue searching for Iphinoe trispinosa on one of these Web sites: Iphinoe trispinosa	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line364
__label__wiki	0.969812	0.969812	William & Mary Tribe Date vs Score Type 3/10/19 Delaware (N) L 79-85 Conf. Tournament 3/2/19 @ James Madison W 70-66 Regular Season 2/28/19 @ Towson W 67-65 Regular Season 2/23/19 NC-Wilmington W 71-63 Regular Season 2/21/19 Charleston W 86-84 (OT) Regular Season 2/16/19 @ Elon University W 84-74 Regular Season 2/9/19 @ Hofstra L 87-93 Regular Season 2/7/19 @ Northeastern L 60-72 Regular Season 2/2/19 Delaware W 84-63 Regular Season 1/31/19 Drexel W 75-69 Regular Season 1/26/19 @ Charleston L 59-74 Regular Season 1/24/19 @ NC-Wilmington L 88-93 Regular Season 1/19/19 Elon University L 71-76 Regular Season 1/12/19 Northeastern L 70-90 Regular Season 1/10/19 Hofstra L 90-93 (OT) Regular Season 1/5/19 @ Drexel W 84-66 Regular Season 1/3/19 @ Delaware L 56-58 Regular Season 12/30/18 Towson W 71-61 Regular Season 12/28/18 James Madison W 79-74 Regular Season 12/22/18 @ Virginia L 40-72 Regular Season 12/16/18 William Peace W 106-89 Regular Season 12/8/18 @ Hampton W 76-71 Regular Season 12/5/18 @ Old Dominion L 53-71 Regular Season 12/1/18 George Mason L 84-87 Regular Season 11/28/18 @ Marshall L 64-84 Regular Season 11/24/18 St. Joseph's W 87-85 Regular Season 11/20/18 Radford L 72-81 Regular Season 11/17/18 @ Notre Dame L 64-73 Regular Season 11/15/18 @ Illinois-Chicago L 95-100 (OT) Regular Season 11/10/18 @ Duquesne L 70-84 Regular Season 11/7/18 High Point W 79-69 Regular Season	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line366
__label__wiki	0.71245	0.71245	RussiaUnited StatesUkraineBrazilKazakhstanGermanyBelarusChinaUnited KingdomKyrgyzstanSouth AfricaNorwayHungaryItalySwedenMoldovaHong KongFranceNetherlandsLatviaIsraelCanadaBulgariaPolandLithuaniaEstoniaGeorgiaSpainPortugalUzbekistanIndiaArmeniaIrelandRomaniaFinlandCzechiaGreeceMexicoJapanBelgiumAzerbaijanColombiaPhilippinesAustraliaAustriaSwitzerlandSerbiaArgentinaIndonesiaEcuadorPakistanThailandChileMalaysiaTurkmenistanMongoliaDenmarkSingaporePeruTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesVenezuelaSouth KoreaSlovakiaCyprusSloveniaSaudi ArabiaVietnamBangladeshBosnia and HerzegovinaTaiwanAngolaNew ZealandAlgeriaMoroccoLuxembourgNigeriaEgyptMontenegroIsle of ManPuerto RicoFijiTajikistanQatarIranHondurasLebanonUruguayDominican RepublicBoliviaParaguayGrenadaJordanNorth MacedoniaRwandaOmanCabo VerdeGhanaPanamaMayotteJamaicaAndorraFrench GuianaBarbadosCambodiaKuwaitSyriaSenegalSri LankaMozambiqueSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesMaltaEl SalvadorGuineaCosta RicaPalestinian TerritoryCote d'IvoireBenin Panama Population: 3,800,644 Explored and settled by the Spanish in the 16th century, Panama broke with Spain in 1821 and joined a union of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela - named the Republic of Gran Colombia. When the latter dissolved in 1830, Panama remained part of Colombia. With US backing, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903 and promptly signed a treaty with the US allowing for the construction of a canal and US sovereignty over a strip of land on either side of the structure (the Panama Canal Zone). The Panama Canal was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914. In 1977, an agreement was signed for the complete transfer of the Canal from the US to Panama by the end of the century. Certain portions of the Zone and increasing responsibility over the Canal were turned over in the subsequent decades. With US help, dictator Manuel NORIEGA was deposed in 1989. The entire Panama Canal, the area supporting the Canal, and remaining US military bases were transferred to Panama by the end of 1999. An ambitious expansion project to more than double the Canal's capacity - by allowing for more Canal transits and larger ships - was carried out between 2007 and 2016. Strategic location on eastern end of isthmus forming land bridge connecting North and South America; controls Panama Canal that links North Atlantic Ocean via Caribbean Sea with North Pacific Ocean Location: Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Colombia and Costa Rica Geographic coordinates: 9 00 N, 80 00 W Size comparison: slightly smaller than South Carolina Land Boundaries: total: 687 km border countries (2): Colombia 339 km, Costa Rica 348 km exclusive economic zone: 200 nm or edge of continental margin Climate: tropical maritime; hot, humid, cloudy; prolonged rainy season (May to January), short dry season (January to May) Terrain: interior mostly steep, rugged mountains with dissected, upland plains; coastal plains with rolling hills Natural resources: copper, mahogany forests, shrimp, hydropower Land use: agricultural land: 30.5% (2011 est.) arable land: 7.3% (2011 est.) permanent crops: 2.5% (2011 est.) permanent pasture: 20.7% (2011 est.) forest: 43.6% (2011 est.) Natural hazards: occasional severe storms and forest fires in the Darien area Current Environment Issues: water pollution from agricultural runoff threatens fishery resources; deforestation of tropical rain forest; land degradation and soil erosion threatens siltation of Panama Canal; air pollution in urban areas; mining threatens natural resources International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: Marine Life Conservation Nationality: noun: Panamanian(s) adjective: Panamanian Ethnic groups: mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 65%, Native American 12.3% (Ngabe 7.6%, Kuna 2.4%, Embera 0.9%, Bugle 0.8%, other 0.4%, unspecified 0.2%), black or African descent 9.2%, mulatto 6.8%, white 6.7% (2010 est.) Languages: Spanish (official), indigenous languages (including Ngabere (or Guaymi), Buglere, Kuna, Embera, Wounaan, Naso (or Teribe), and Bri Bri), Panamanian English Creole (similar to Jamaican English Creole; a mixture of English and Spanish with elements of Ngabere; also known as Guari Guari and Colon Creole), English, Chinese (Yue and Hakka), Arabic, French Creole, other (Yiddish, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese) note: many Panamanians are bilingual Religions: Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant 15% 65 years and over: 8.57% (male 149,415 /female 176,396) (2018 est.) Major urban areas - population: 1.783 million PANAMA CITY (capital) (2018) Infant mortality rate: total: 9.6 deaths/1,000 live births male: 10.3 deaths/1,000 live births Contraceptive prevalence rate: 62.8% (2013) rural: 58% of population (2015 est.) total: 75% of population (2015 est.) HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 1% (2017 est.) HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 25,000 (2017 est.) HIV/AIDS - deaths: <1000 (2017 est.) Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 10.8% male: 8.3% female: 14.9% (2017 est.) Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Panama conventional short form: Panama local long form: Republica de Panama local short form: Panama etymology: named after the capital city which was itself named after a former indigenous fishing village Government type: presidential republic Capital: name: Panama City time difference: UTC-5 (same time as Washington, DC, during Standard Time) etymology: according to tradition, the name derives from a former fishing area near the present capital - an indigenous village and its adjacent beach - that were called "Panama" meaning "an abundance of fish" Administrative divisions: 10 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia) and 3 indigenous regions* (comarcas); Bocas del Toro, Chiriqui, Cocle, Colon, Darien, Embera-Wounaan, Herrera, Guna Yala, Los Santos, Ngobe-Bugle*, Panama, Panama Oeste, Veraguas Independence: 3 November 1903 (from Colombia; became independent from Spain on 28 November 1821) National holiday: Independence Day (Separation Day), 3 November (1903) Constitution: history: several previous; latest effective 11 October 1972 amendments: proposed by the National Assembly, by the Cabinet, or by the Supreme Court of Justice; passage requires approval by one of two procedures: 1) absolute majority vote of the Assembly membership in each of three readings and by absolute majority vote of the next elected Assembly in a single reading without text modifications; 2) absolute majority vote of the Assembly membership in each of three readings, followed by absolute majority vote of the next elected Assembly in each of three readings with text modifications, and approval in a referendum; amended several times, last in 2004; note - in May 2018, President VARELA began the process to amend the constitution (2018) Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court of Justice Executive branch: chief of state: President Laurentino "Nito" CORTIZO Cohen (since 1 July 2019); Vice President Jose Gabriel CARRIZO Jaen (since 1 July 2019); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government head of government: President Laurentino "Nito" CORTIZO Cohen (since 1 July 2019); Vice President Jose Gabriel CARRIZO Jaen (since 1 July 2019) cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president elections/appointments: president and vice president directly elected on the same ballot by simple majority popular vote for a 5-year term; president eligible for a single non-consecutive term); election last held on 5 May 2019 (next to be held in 2024) election results: Laurentino "Nito" CORTIZO Cohen elected president; percent of vote - Laurentino CORTIZO Cohen (PRD) 33.3%, Romulo ROUX (CD) 31%, Ricardo LOMBANA (independent) 18.8%, Jose BLANDON (Panamenista Party) 10.8%, Ana Matilde GOMEZ Ruiloba (independent) 4.8%, other 1.3% Legislative branch: description: unicameral National Assembly or Asamblea Nacional (71 seats; 45 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies - populous towns and cities - by proportional representation vote and 26 directly elected in single-seat constituencies - outlying rural districts - by plurality vote; members serve 5-year terms) elections: last held on 4 May 2014 (next to be held in May 2019) election results: percent of vote by party - CD 33.7%, PRD 31.5%, Panamenista Party 20%, MOLIRENA 7.2%, PP 3.3%, other 1%, independent 3%; seats by party - PRD 30, CD 25, Panamenista 12, MOLIRENA 2, PP 1, independent 1; composition - men 58, women 13, percent of women 18.3% note: an alliance between the Panamenista Party and Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) fractured after the 2014 election, but a loose coalition composed of Panamenista and moderate PRD and CD legislators generally work together to support the president’s agenda Judicial branch: highest courts: Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (consists of 9 magistrates and 9 alternates and divided into civil, criminal, administrative, and general business chambers) judge selection and term of office: magistrates appointed by the president for staggered 10-year terms subordinate courts: appellate courts or Tribunal Superior; Labor Supreme Courts; Court of Audit; circuit courts or Tribunal Circuital (2 each in 9 of the 10 provinces); municipal courts; electoral, family, maritime, and adolescent courts Political parties and leaders: Democratic Change or CD [Romulo ROUX] Democratic Revolutionary Party or PRD [Benicio ROBINSON] Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement or MOLIRENA [Francisco "Pancho" ALEMAN] Panamenista Party [Jose Luis "Popi" VARELA Rodriguez] (formerly the Arnulfista Party) Popular Party or PP [Juan Carlos ARANGO Reese] (formerly Christian Democratic Party or PDC) International organization participation: BCIE, CAN (observer), CD, CELAC, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAES, LAIA, MIGA, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, Pacific Alliance (observer), PCA, SICA, UN, UNASUR (observer), UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO National symbol(s): harpy eagle; national colors: blue, white, red National anthem: name: "Himno Istmeno" (Isthmus Hymn) lyrics/music: Jeronimo DE LA OSSA/Santos A. JORGE Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Emanuel Arturo GONZALEZ-REVILLA Lince (since 18 September 2014) chancery: 2862 McGill Terrace NW, Washington, DC 20007 consulate(s) general: Houston, Miami, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Tampa, Washington DC Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant), Charge d'Affairs Roxanne CABRAL (since 9 March 2018) embassy: Edificio 783, Avenida Demetrio Basilio Lakas Avenue, Clayton, Panama mailing address: American Embassy Panama, Unit 0945, APO AA 34002; American Embassy Panama, 9100 Panama City PL, Washington, DC 20521-9100 telephone: [507] 317-5000 FAX: [507] 317-5445 (2018) Panama's dollar-based economy rests primarily on a well-developed services sector that accounts for more than three-quarters of GDP. Services include operating the Panama Canal, logistics, banking, the Colon Free Trade Zone, insurance, container ports, flagship registry, and tourism and Panama is a center for offshore banking. Panama's transportation and logistics services sectors, along with infrastructure development projects, have boosted economic growth; however, public debt surpassed $37 billion in 2016 because of excessive government spending and public works projects. The US-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement was approved by Congress and signed into law in October 2011, and entered into force in October 2012. Future growth will be bolstered by the Panama Canal expansion project that began in 2007 and was completed in 2016 at a cost of $5.3 billion - about 10-15% of current GDP. The expansion project more than doubled the Canal's capacity, enabling it to accommodate high-capacity vessels such as tankers and neopanamax vessels that are too large to traverse the existing canal. The US and China are the top users of the Canal. Strong economic performance has not translated into broadly shared prosperity, as Panama has the second worst income distribution in Latin America. About one-fourth of the population lives in poverty; however, from 2006 to 2012 poverty was reduced by 10 percentage points. GDP (purchasing power parity): $104.1 billion (2017 est.) $98.82 billion (2016 est.) $94.12 billion (2015 est.) GDP (official exchange rate): $61.84 billion (2017 est.) Gross national saving: 38.9% of GDP (2017 est.) 39.2% of GDP (2016 est.) 36.8% of GDP (2015 est.) GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 45.6% (2017 est.) government consumption: 10.7% (2017 est.) investment in fixed capital: 42.9% (2017 est.) investment in inventories: 3% (2017 est.) exports of goods and services: 41.9% (2017 est.) imports of goods and services: -44.2% (2017 est.) GDP - composition, by sector of origin: agriculture: 2.4% (2017 est.) industry: 15.7% (2017 est.) services: 82% (2017 est.) Agriculture - products: bananas, rice, corn, coffee, sugarcane, vegetables; livestock; shrimp Industries: construction, brewing, cement and other construction materials, sugar milling Labor force: 1.633 million (2017 est.) note: shortage of skilled labor, but an oversupply of unskilled labor Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 17% Unemployment rate: 6% (2017 est.) 5.5% (2016 est.) Distribution of family income - Gini index: 50.7 (2014 est.) 56.1 (2003) Current account balance: -$3.036 billion (2017 est.) -$3.16 billion (2016 est.) Exports: $15.5 billion (2017 est.) $14.7 billion (2016 est.) note: includes the Colon Free Zone Exports - commodities: fruit and nuts, fish, iron and steel waste, wood Exports - partners: US 18.9%, Netherlands 16.6%, China 6.5%, Costa Rica 5.4%, India 5.1%, Vietnam 5% (2017) Imports: $21.91 billion (2017 est.) $20.51 billion (2016 est.) note: includes the Colon Free Zone Imports - commodities: fuels, machinery, vehicles, iron and steel rods, pharmaceuticals Imports - partners: US 24.4%, China 9.8%, Mexico 4.9% (2017) Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $2.703 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $3.878 billion (31 December 2016 est.) Debt - external: $91.53 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $83.81 billion (31 December 2016 est.) Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $56.7 billion (31 December 2017 est.) $50.62 billion (31 December 2016 est.) Market value of publicly traded shares: $12.54 billion (31 December 2012 est.) $10.68 billion (31 December 2011 est.) $8.348 billion (31 December 2010 est.) Exchange rates: balboas (PAB) per US dollar - 1 (2017 est.) 1 (2016 est.) 1 (2015 est.) 1 (2014 est.) 1 (2013 est.) Electricity - production: 10.6 billion kWh (2016 est.) Electricity - consumption: 8.708 billion kWh (2016 est.) Electricity - exports: 139 million kWh (2015 est.) Electricity - imports: 30 million kWh (2016 est.) Electricity - installed generating capacity: 3.4 million kW (2016 est.) Electricity - from hydroelectric plants: 51% of total installed capacity (2017 est.) Crude oil - proved reserves: 0 bbl (1 January 2018) Refined petroleum products - exports: 66 bbl/day (2015 est.) Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 26.08 million Mt (2017 est.) Telephone system: general assessment: domestic and international facilities well-developed; investment from international operators; competion among operators helps reduce price of services; launches LTE services; (2018) domestic: fixed-line 16 per 100 and mobile-cellular telephone 159 per 100 and subscribership has increased rapidly (2018) international: country code - 507; landing point for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1), the MAYA-1, and PAN-AM submarine cable systems that together provide links to the US and parts of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to the Central American Microwave System; extention of Deep Blue cable pan-Caribbean regional to Panama Broadcast media: multiple privately owned TV networks and a government-owned educational TV station; multi-channel cable and satellite TV subscription services are available; more than 100 commercial radio stations (2019) Internet country code: .pa Pipelines: 128 km oil (2013) Railways: total 77 km (2014) standard gauge: 77 km 1.435-m gauge (2014) Waterways: 800 km (includes the 82-km Panama Canal that is being widened) (2011) by type: bulk carrier 2585, container ship 590, general cargo 1327, oil tanker 808, other 2604 (2018) Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Balboa, Colon, Cristobal container port(s) (TEUs): Balboa (2,905,049), Colon (3,891,209) (2017) On 10 February 1990, the government of then President Guillermo ENDARA abolished Panama's military and reformed the security apparatus by creating the Panamanian Public Forces; in October 1994, Panama's National Assembly approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting the creation of a standing military force but allowing the temporary establishment of special police units to counter acts of "external aggression" Military branches: no regular military forces; Panamanian Public Security Forces (subordinate to the Ministry of Public Security), comprising the National Police (PNP), National Air-Naval Service (SENAN), National Border Service (SENAFRONT) (2013) Disputes - International: organized illegal narcotics operations in Colombia operate within the remote border region with Panama Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 15,614 (Colombia) (2016), 74,397 (Venezuela) (economic and political crisis; includes Venezuelans who have claimed asylum or have received alternative legal stay) (2019) Illicit drugs: major cocaine transshipment point and primary money-laundering center for narcotics revenue; money-laundering activity is especially heavy in the Colon Free Zone; offshore financial center; negligible signs of coca cultivation; monitoring of financial transactions is improving; official corruption remains a major problem RussiaUnited StatesUkraineBrazilKazakhstanGermanyBelarusChinaUnited KingdomKyrgyzstanSouth AfricaNorwayHungaryItalySwedenMoldovaHong KongFranceNetherlandsLatviaIsraelCanadaBulgariaPolandLithuaniaEstoniaGeorgiaSpainPortugalUzbekistanIndiaArmeniaIrelandRomaniaFinlandCzechiaGreeceMexicoJapanBelgiumAzerbaijanColombiaPhilippinesAustraliaAustriaSwitzerlandSerbiaArgentinaIndonesiaEcuadorPakistanThailandChileMalaysiaTurkmenistanMongoliaDenmarkSingaporePeruTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesVenezuelaSouth KoreaSlovakiaCyprusSloveniaSaudi ArabiaVietnamBangladeshBosnia and HerzegovinaTaiwanAngolaNew ZealandAlgeriaMoroccoLuxembourgNigeriaEgyptMontenegroIsle of ManPuerto RicoFijiTajikistanQatarIranHondurasLebanonUruguayDominican RepublicBoliviaParaguayGrenadaJordanNorth MacedoniaRwandaOmanCabo VerdeGhanaPanamaMayotteJamaicaAndorraFrench GuianaBarbadosCambodiaKuwaitSyriaSenegalSri LankaMozambiqueSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesMaltaEl SalvadorGuineaCosta RicaPalestinian TerritoryCote d'IvoireBenin « Previous Country \| Next Country » Back to Flag Counter Overview	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line367
__label__wiki	0.933745	0.933745	Impeach Noynoy! EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 02/16/2012 Impeach Noynoy! The official who really should be impeached is President Aquino while the rest of his mouthpieces and other officials should be fired, and along with him, his lapdogs in the Senate and the House of Representatives thrown out of their seats. Noynoy is one president who has, what can really be said, betrayed the public trust for committing the high crime of deliberately moving to destroy the very fabric of the tripartite Republican State which the Filipino people have decreed and ordered him, as President of the Republic, to uphold, defend and obey. Since he has publicly shown in too many instances disobeying the decree of the Filipino people, as ratified by them of the 1987 Constitution, then he is betraying the public trust..... MORE ‘Increase’ in health budget deceiving – Alliance of Health Workers “Under the Aquino administration, public health services are no longer free but they come for a fee.” – Alliance of Health Workers By INA ALLECO SILVERIO Employees in the health sector led by the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) and allied organizations under the Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) held a protest action in Mendiola, on Valentines Day, against the policy of the Benigno Aquino III administration of “cutting allocations for health services and benefits of rank and file health workers.” (Photo by Ina Alleco Silverio / bulatlat.com) The AHW is opposing the Department of Health (DOH) department order no. 2012-0002, which effectively reduces the subsistence and laundry allowance of health workers by P30/working day ($0 .70) and P130/month ($3.02) respectively. The group has already sought clarification from the Department of Budget and Management (BDM), but the agency insisted that the reduction of benefits was “a policy decision.” In the meantime, the AHW is also wary against the delay in the release, or worse, the probable reduction or removal of their hard-won benefits such as hazard pay and others stipulated in the Magna Carta of Public Health Workers (RA 7305) because the DBM decided to take away the “savings” in the unfilled plantilla positions from which the benefits are sourced. Last month on January 11, the DOH released order number 2012-0002 addressed to all undersecretaries, assistant secretaries, bureau/service directors, medical center chiefs of all government-run hospitals regarding the payment of magna carta benefits to officials and employees of the DOH. In it, the DOH led by secretary Enrique Ona said the subsistence allowance and laundry allowance of employees will be adjusted effective that same month. The memo also declared that the payment of hazard and longevity pay charged from any available savings of all government health offices and hospitals will be subject to the DBM’s approval. Increase in health budget goes to contractualization,PPP schemes AHW national president Jossel Ebesete said the Aquino government has been imposing budget cuts in the operations of most public hospitals. Since 2010, the government, Ebesete said, has been reducing allotments for direct service provisions like vaccinations, as well as removing subsidies for the hospitalization needs of indigent patients..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/02/16/increase-in-health-budget-deceiving-%E2%80%93-alliance-of-health-workers/ UN stalemate over Syria resolution (w/ Video) UN stalemate over Syria resolution The UN General Assembly is due to vote on a second draft resolution stipulating the removal of President Assad to end the spiraling violence in Syria. It is the second attempt at passing a resolution after China and Russia vetoed the first document. The new resolution supports the Arab League initiative to facilitate transition to a democratic government will be put to vote later on Thursday. Russia objects to the paragraph demanding the resignation of President Assad and wants amendments to the draft calling for the disarmament of opposition groups as well as government forces. Arab delegations have dismissed the Russian amendments as unacceptable, claiming they undermine the draft resolution’s message..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/general-assembly-syria-resolution-assad-443/ Battlefield USA in 2012 (w/ Video) Battlefield USA in 2012 In 2012 America will become a battlefield of the will of the people against the will of the government, proclaims Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute and publisher of the Trends Journal. The Occupy Wall Street movement has gone global and that is evidence that “people a keep kind of latch on to it”. “Even though you think the American spirit is dead, the whole world kind of focuses on the US for the center of social, economic, geopolitical and cultural change,” claims Celente, who said OWS inspired people in an estimated 80 countries and 120 cities. And police brutality only brought it to the forefront..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/usa-battlefield-2012-celente-473/ FBI might shutdown the Internet on March 8 Millions of computer users across the world could be blocked off from the Internet as early as March 8 if the FBI follows through with plans to yank a series of servers originally installed to combat corruption. Last year, authorities in Estonia apprehended six men believed responsible for creating a malicious computer script called the DNSChanger Trojan. Once set loose on the Web, the worm corrupted computers in upwards of 100 countries, including an estimated 500,000 in America alone. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation later stepped up by replacing the rogue Trojan with servers of their own in an attempt to remediate the damage, but the fix was only temporary. Now the FBI is expected to end use of those replacement servers as early as next month and, at that point, the Internet for millions could essentially be over..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/fbi-internet-server-servers-409/ Abortion — 1 VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 02/16/2012 Abortion — 1 “The State …shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception.” (Philippine Constitution: Section 12). Thus reads the categorical State policy on the protection of the “life” of the “unborn” from the moment of “conception.” The more salient observations that can be drawn from the above cited constitutional provision are the following: That in the order of nature, the essential sequence is conception that brings forth life which in turn ushers forth the unborn — all as one composite reality. That without life, there is nothing really worth to talk about, nothing truly important to bother with. That intrinsic right of the unborn is premised on the fact that it is only there from that someone is born..... MORE Nothing but a fairy tale LETTER 02/16/2012 Nothing but a fairy tale In the Feb. 13, 2012 issue of The Daily Tribune, Mr. Charlie V. Manalo alleged (Prosecution spokesman also building house in ritzy village, Page 1) that I own what he described as a multimillion-peso three-story house in Varsity Hills, Quezon City, quoting unnamed sources. A picture of said house with a specific address at 152 B.Gonzales St., Varsity Hills, Loyola Heights, Quezon City was also provided. This is totally untrue and nothing but a fairy tale. I do not own the mentioned property. I have never been to Varsity Hills and in fact I do not even know where it was located until yesterday morning. Neither do I, my spouse nor any of my children own a property in Xavierville or Varsity Hills Subdivision..... MORE US bases return seen as Okinawa base closes By Michaela P. del Callar 02/16/2012 US bases return seen as Okinawa base closes American military bases seem to be returning to the Philippines under President Aquino’s government, despite the 1987 Constitution banning the stay of foreign military bases It is being done in such a circuitous way that circumvents the constitutional proviso on military bases. The United States is eyeing the transfer of some of the thousands of American troops stationed in Okinawa to the Philippines as Washington reduces its military presence in the Japanese island, where residents have called for the shutdown of its large military base..... MORE RP protests fight riot; Senate wants envoy to Argentina recalled 02/16/2012 RP protests fight riot; Senate wants envoy to Argentina recalled Argentinian officials in Manila yesterday apologized to the Philippines after a Filipino boxer was attacked by enraged fans moments after winning over his local opponent in Buenos Aires, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said, adding a protest has already been lodged to the government of Argentina conveying its dismay over the incident. The DFA also said Argentinian boxer Luis Alberto Lazarte, who lost his International Boxing Federation (IBF) super-flyweight title to Johnriel Casimero in a bout Saturday, personally apologized to the Filipino boxer and his team. Outraged Philippine senators demanded the recall of the Philippine Ambassador to Argentina Rey Carandang, accusing him of failure to protect the welfare of the Filipino boxing delegation..... MORE PSBank executives: Records still ‘fake’ By Angie M. Rosales 02/16/2012 PRESIDENT, MANAGER ORDERED TO PRODUCE PESO ACCT ORIGINALS PSBank executives: Records still ‘fake’ The presiding judge of the Senate Court has spoken and his order must be complied with by the Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) officials called upon as witnesses for the prosecution. Bank executives, appearing as witnesses in the ongoing impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, yesterday stood their ground in their declaration that the prosecution panel’s alleged evidence is a “fake.” If it is proven that the documents pertaining to some alleged undisclosed bank accounts of the chief magistrate in the PSBank which two members of the House prosecution panel claimed to have been produced by an “anonymous source,” members of the lower house defending the case face serious sanctions..... MORE Ombudsman won’t probe SALn of CJ prosecutors for lack of leads By Arlie O. Calalo 02/16/2012 Ombudsman won’t probe SALn of CJ prosecutors for lack of leads The Office of the Ombudsman said yesterday it could not be able to conduct an inquiry on the alleged non-disclosure of statements of assets, liabilities and networth (SALn) of the prosecutors involved in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona due to “lack of sufficient leads.” The supposed probe will also involve the prosecution spokesmen as well as the senator-judges of the impeachment court, said Edgardo Diansuy, director of the Ombudsman’s media bureau. He said in a statement emailed to Tribune that Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales would not initiate an inquiry because there were no enough leads to push through with it..... MORE Retrieval operations extended for 1 day; effort shift to rehab 02/16/2012 Retrieval operations extended for 1 day; effort shift to rehab Retrieval operations at the landslide-hit villages in Negros Oriental province were extended up tomorrow after which the areas will be declared as common memorial sites for the 63 people who remained unaccounted for after the Feb. 6 magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Visayas region. National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) executive director Undersecretary Benito Ramos said the local government officials set the retrieval operations in Guihulngan City and La libertad town until yesterday to focus more to the rehabilitation efforts. “Until Friday, it should be today (Thursday) as requested by the mayor, so I extended it for another day tomorrow. We have not recovered additional (victims)…63 remained missing and 42 are dead,” Ramos said..... MORE Four new AFP choppers arrive in Pampanga By Mario J. Mallari 02/16/2012 Four new AFP choppers arrive in Pampanga Four brand new night-capable, combat utility helicopters arrived in the country on Tuesday night as part of the ongoing multibillion-peso capability upgrade and modernization program of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). AFP deputy chief of staff for plans and programs Maj. Gen. Roy Deveraturda said the four Polish-made Sokol utility helicopters, which are part of the eight helicopters purchased from Augusta PZL Swidnik of Italy and Poland, arrived in Clark Air Base in Pampanga. “We are presently inspecting them…they will be assembled in Clark Air Base by our assessment of the Philippine Air Force. So, as soon as possible we could use them,” Deveraturda said..... MORE Manila Cathedral closed, to undergo repairs — archbishop By Efren B. Chavez 02/16/2012 Manila Cathedral closed, to undergo repairs — archbishop By Efren B. Chavez 02/16/2012 The historic Manila Cathedral will officially close indefinitely to give way to a structural retrofitting amid concerns that the “liquefaction” in the soil on which it stands could render it at risk in a strong earthquake, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila (RCAM) chief announced Monday. At a press conference, newly appointed Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle said since last Tuesday the Manila Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception has been closed due to some structural concerns. The 441-year-old church will not accept any bookings of weddings, christenings and funeral Masses for the next seven months or even one year..... MORE Gabriela members sneak past guards of Pandacan oil depot, hold rally 02/16/2012 Gabriela members sneak past guards of Pandacan oil depot, hold rally The Manila Police District (MPD) was surprised when members of militant group Gabriela stormed on Valentine’s Day the heavily secured Pandacan oil depot and staged a rally to denounce the unabated increase in petroleum prices. According to the group, the .85 centavos increase in the price of diesel products and .50 centavos in gasoline after successive price increases are too much for the poor who are the most affected. “Linta (leeches) ang mga kumpanya ng langis kung sumipsip ng tubo mula sa mamamayang hindi na makaagapay sa pagkamahal-mahal ng langis, sa walang patid na pagtaas ng presyo ng langis ay unti-unting pinapatay ang mamamayang Pilipino,” Salvador, deputy secretary- general of Gabriela, said..... MORE Impeach Noynoy! EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 02/16/... ‘Increase’ in health budget deceiving – Alliance o... Abortion — 1 VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz ... US bases return seen as Okinawa base closes By Mic... RP protests fight riot; Senate wants envoy to Arge... PSBank executives: Records still ‘fake’ By Angie M... Ombudsman won’t probe SALn of CJ prosecutors for l... Retrieval operations extended for 1 day; effort sh... Four new AFP choppers arrive in Pampanga By Mario ... Manila Cathedral closed, to undergo repairs — arch... Gabriela members sneak past guards of Pandacan oil...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line371
__label__wiki	0.842727	0.842727	Thorny sovereignty issue By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise \| BusinessWorld It is quite easy for the Aquino government to arouse the people’s anger at China bullying in the South China Sea considering what appear to be clear encroachments on Philippine territorial waters and its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Couple this with the sense of frustration that the Aquino administration and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are undeniably militarily powerless in this recent confrontation over Chinese fishing poachers protected by no less than two Chinese warships, the inclination to run towards Uncle Sam and sic US might and firepower to make China turn tail appeals to many pundits, whether professional or of the barbershop variety. And thoroughly misses the point. There is more to the conflict in the Spratlys and Scarborough Shoal than an assertion of sovereignty arising from rival territorial claims. This is not the first time tension rose over alleged incursions in the Kalayaan Islands which are also being claimed by the Vietnamese and Malaysians aside from the Chinese. But while the news would hog the headlines for a few days, not without a large dose of sensationalism about the risk of a military confrontation, there had never been such open clashes between Philippine and rival armed forces, with each side eventually stepping down, resorting instead to diplomatic protests until invariably the controversy simmers down and fades away..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/20/thorny-sovereignty-issue/ True justice FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/25/2012 Cojuangco-Aquinos no longer own Hacienda Lusita — not after the Supreme Court (SC), in a final landmark ruling, voted 8-6, to have some 4,000 hectares distributed to the farmer-workers of the hacienda, at the land values set in 1989, which would amount to some P40,000 per hectare or some P200 million — not the P1 million per hectare or P5 billion that the Cojuangco-Aquino clan wanted as compensation. That is what can be finally called true justice to the farmers, who have been screwed by the Cojuangco-Aquinos for decades on end, first, when the clan’s then patriarch, Jose Cojuangco, bought the Luisita sugar plantation from Tabacalera — get this — on a behest loan, courtesy of Ninoy Aquino’s lobbying with then President Ramon Magsaysay not only for the Cojuangcos to buy the hacienda from Tabacalera but also to ensure that the then central bank and the GSIS would be guaranteeing an American bank for the clan’s loan and the sale amount asked for by Tabacalera. Apart from this guarantee, the Cojuangcos reneged on the agreement with Tabacalera to distribute part of the hacienda land — after 10 years — to the farmer-workers..... MORE US taxpayers shelling out billions for faulty weapons The Pentagon has frittered away billions in taxpayer cash on not fully tested arms, a government watchdog report says. While the policy grants the military access to cutting-edge technology, the public can be left footing the bill for faulty weapons. A report issued by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Friday shed light on the controversial policy of “concurrency” which approves untested weapons for production and use. “While some concurrency is understandable, committing to product development before requirements are understood and technologies mature, or committing to production and fielding before development is complete, is a high-risk strategy that often results in performance shortfalls, unexpected cost increases, schedule delays and test problems,” said the report..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/weapons-pentagon-report-waste-927/ Toddler Terrorist: TSA threatens lockdown over 4-year-old girl The much-maligned Transport Security Authority (TSA) is once again in hot water after it accused an innocent four-year-old girl of attempted gun smuggling as she hugged her grandmother in the security zone. In a Facebook post that has since gone viral, Michelle Brademeyer describes the story of her family being detained as potential terrorists by the TSA on a flight out of Wichita, Kansas. The TSA is responsible for screening passengers as they board and disembark from planes. Brademeyer was passing through security checks with her mother and her small daughter, Isabella. When the older lady triggered the metal detector, and was told to go for a pat-down, Isabella ran over to and briefly hugged her grandmother..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/tsa-us-girl-gun-869/ Death of 56-year old fisherman sparks more outrage against VFA, Balikatan As long as the US military is treated ‘above the law’ by the government, their victims among the civilian populace will not be given justice.” – Bayan Muna-Southern Mindanao In Zamboanga City, the progressive party-list Bayan Muna is calling for an independent inquiry into the death of a local fisherman killed by a speeding Boat manned by military forces of the United States. The group said the death of 56-year old Ahbam Juhurin, a local fisherman from Basilan should not be allowed to be swept under the rug. Based on various media reports, US and Filipino troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) were conducting maritime exercises in Baluk-baluk, an island near Hadji Muhtamad Municipality in Basilan Province on April 19. A Mark V Special Operations Craft was returning to Zamboanga City when it rammed Juhurin’s fishing boat around 7 p.m. that same day. The elderly fisherman was killed while his 26-year old son remains in critical condition as of this writing. Colonel Ricardo Visaya, commander of the 104th Brigade and Joint Task Force Basilan said it was an accident and that no one is to blame. VFA protects US troops from criminal prosecution Ariel Casilao, Southern Mindanao Regional Coordinator of Bayan Muna, said it has only been days since the US – Philippine Balikatan Exercises formally started, but already a civilian has been killed. He said the blame should be placed at the door of the Aquino government and the militarist proponents of the Visiting forces Agreement (VFA). “The US troops have immunity against prosecution from Philippine laws because of the VFA. They have committed heinous crimes against Filipinos and the Bangsamoro, but remain above prosecution. As long as the US military is treated ‘above the law’ by the government, their victims among the civilian populace will not be given justice,” he said..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/20/death-of-56-year-old-fisherman-sparks-more-outrage-against-vfa-balikatan/ Workers challenge Congress to set wage hikes A week before May 1, as P125 wage hike proposal nears Congress approval, the labor secretary and regional wage boards suddenly realized there is a need indeed for a wage hike. MANILA – A week before May 1 Labor Day celebration, influential Senator Chiz Escudero declared support for a P125 across-the-board legislated wage hike. He said fears that a significant wage hike will cause inflation to rise and companies to close down are unfounded. In speaking thus, Senator Chiz joins the likes of Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao, a boxing icon and famous media personality, who has declared since last year his support for the substantial wage hike proposal. Echoing the long-time criticisms of the labor groups of the apparent failure of the country’s regional wage boards, Escudero also criticized the wage boards for failing to give workers a “just wage.” Some regional wage boards are currently deliberating on wage proposals submitted by moderate trade union groups. But so far, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has already dashed even the possibility that the said regional wage boards may break off from tradition and start granting wage hikes that are adjusted at least to regain lost purchasing power due to inflation. Even before the wage boards in the National Capital Region began holding public consultations, for example, Baldoz has announced that wage hikes may be granted but not higher than P21 ($0.49). Escudero asserted the urgency of Congress stepping in to determine wages in the country. The labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) immediately hailed last Friday Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero’s declaration of support for a P125 across-the-board legislated wage hike, saying the influential senator is a welcome addition to the ranks of legislators supporting the call. KMU hopes Escudero can draw in more supporters to the cause..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/24/workers-challenge-congress-to-set-wage-hikes/ Govt agrees to create Bangsamoro state Tuesday, 24 April, 2012 Written by Joyce Pangco Panares THE Aquino administration has finally agreed to create an autonomous Bangsamoro political entity for the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front that will replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. In a deal signed by government chief negotiator Marvic Leonen and his MILF counterpart, Mohagher Iqbal, in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, both parties agreed that the new autonomous political entity will have a “ministerial form of government. The powers to be reserved for the national government are as follows: defense and external security; foreign policy; common market and global trade; coinage and monetary policy; citizenship and naturalization; and postal service. The power to enter into economic agreements, however, will be transferred to the new Bangsamoro entity..... MORE Source: Manila Standard URL: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/2012/04/24/govt-agrees-to-create-bangsamoro-state/ Noy, kin lose P5B hacienda plea By Benjamin B. Pulta 04/25/2012 AQUINO SC APPOINTEES SOUGHT REMAND OF COMPENSATION ISSUE TO PALACE Noy, kin lose P5B hacienda plea It’s final. Hacienda Luisita’s close to 5,000 hectares are to be distributed to the farmer-workers while the Cojuangco-Aquino family ends up with a compensation of a little less than P200 million, as against the family seeking a compensation of P5 billion for the hacienda. True to form, President Aquino’s appointees, Associate Justice Lourdes Sereno, Estela Bernabe and Bienvenido Reyes voted to allow an agency under the control of Malacañang to determine the amount which the Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) is to receive as compensation for placing the sugar estate under the government’s agrarian reform program. They were however, outvoted by the majority justices..... MORE SC blocks Comelec’s P1.8-B purchase of Smartmatic’s PCOS By Benjamin B. Pulta 04/25/2012 SC blocks Comelec’s P1.8-B purchase of Smartmatic’s PCOS A restraining order was handed down by the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday, freezing the Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s P 1.8 billion contract for the purchase of computers to be used for next year’s elections. Speaking to reporters at the end of the high court’s summer session in Baguio City, Court administrator Midas Marquez said the tribunal consolidated the three separate petitions challenging the deal between the collegial body and the Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) to buy 80,000 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines. Marquez also said the High Court will hear the cases in oral argument in a special en banc session to be held on May 2..... MORE Noy seeks China-savvy envoy 04/25/2012 Noy seeks China-savvy envoy President Aquino is still scouting for a suitable replacement for erstwhile ambassador to China Domingo Lee and hinted that his search may end outside of the realm of career diplomats as he would need an envoy who would have extensive knowledge of and contacts within the Chinese system and community — and preferably with Chinese blood. “We’re reviewing. The criteria is really different. It’s not basically just career,” said Aquino as the Philippines continued to rattle diplomatic sabres with China over the disputed Scarborough Shoal. He underscored that the next ambassador to China should be “somebody who understands the nuances of Chinese culture, how their system works, has developed contacts left and right to be able to reach the opinion makers and those whose opinions really matter.”.... MORE Palea OKs CA mediation, calls on PAL to reinstate workers 04/25/2012 Palea OKs CA mediation, calls on PAL to reinstate workers The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (Palea) has submitted a manifestation to the Court of Appeals (CA) expressing its willingness to participate in mediation with the flag carrier’s new management to seek a settlement to the long-standing labor dispute. “The new management of Philippine Airlines (PAL) should recognize that the solution to the flag carrier’s woes involves not only a refleeting of its aging aircraft but more so the reinstatement of its skilled regular workers,” said Gerry Rivera, Palea president..... MORE NBI, PNP to probe Paranaque demolition By Benjamin Pulta and Gina Peralta-Elorde 04/25/2012 NBI, PNP to probe Paranaque demolition By Benjamin Pulta and Gina Peralta-Elorde 04/25/2012 Probers from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have been tasked to gather evidence for the possible filing of criminal and administrative charges against policemen who may have been involved in the violence that erupted during the demolition of a shanty colony in Silverio Compound in Paraaque City last Monday, an incident which left one person dead and 66 others injured. Department of Justice (DoJ) Undersecretary Francisco Baraan III issued the order after residents accompanied by Bayan Muna Rep. Teodoro Casio sought the DoJs assistance in identifying the police authorities who participated in the demolition and in holding them accountable for the incident. Baraan said charges of homicide with multiple physical injuries may be filed against the policemen should evidence warrant them..... MORE True justice FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/25... US taxpayers shelling out billions for faulty weap... Toddler Terrorist: TSA threatens lockdown over 4-y... Death of 56-year old fisherman sparks more outrage... Noy, kin lose P5B hacienda plea By Benjamin B. Pul... SC blocks Comelec’s P1.8-B purchase of Smartmatic’... Palea OKs CA mediation, calls on PAL to reinstate ... NBI, PNP to probe Paranaque demolition By Benjamin...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line372
__label__cc	0.630515	0.369485	Edelweiss Alpine Ski Club The Edelweiss Alpine Ski Club is a group of dedicated skiers, coaches, and parents working together throughout the ski season to deliver a quality race program. Mario Gagnon Jonathan Letendre Nancy Greene Supervisor Céleste Bazinet-Gill Nancy Greene Coach Joshua Benson Margaret Burniston Nicola Charron Emily Haier Mathieu Malouin Sarah Barry U10 Coach Evan Derbyshire Gabriel Olivier-Fortier Federico Colasante Morgane Corcoran Gabrielle Galant Martin Charron Hervé Gagnon Martin Poitras Maddie Puttick Chris Puttick Andrew Spencer Patrick Corcoran Eric Belliveau Isabelle Ranger Chantal Martel Katie O'Brien Pierre Leduc Ken Carter Race & Volunteer Coordinator Connie Zuberbuehler Branding Coordinator Gerrard Leach Andy Benson Nathalie Lepage Here you will find a comprehensive list of the positions that need to be filled to run a successful race for the athletes. There are many technical as well a non-technical roles, so there is something for everyone! It takes more than thirty people to run a safe and successful race. This section identifies these positions and provides a brief description of each. More detailed information about the responsibilities of officials and about planning and running a race can be found in the officials training manuals and reference document published on the ACA website. Gives the correct start signal to each racer and, in collaboration with the timer, ensures the proper start interval between signals. Assistant Starter Calls the competitors to the start in their correct order. Hand Timer & Assistant Timers Operate the stopwatch at the start and finish. Recorder & Assistant Recorders Records the time-of-day data for each start and finish from the stopwatch. Start Referee Ensures that the regulations for the start are followed; controls access to the course for inspections; determines late and false starts; manages the start process at the beginning and end of the run and during “Stop-Starts;” reports the names of the competitors who did not start to the referee. The start referee remains at the start from the beginning of the official inspection time until the end of the event. He/she is a non-voting member of the Jury. Technical Delegate (TD) Has advisory control over pre-race and post-race operation and, together with the other members of the Jury, has complete control over the operation of the race itself. Along with the Jury, he/she has the final decision in all matters of safety and has the authority to cancel, postpone or annul the race if necessary. The TD is the representative of and appointed by the body that has responsibility for the race (i.e., SQA in the case of provincial events, OSZ-NCD in the case of local events. Chief of Race (COR) Is the chairman of the Race Committee and the “boss” who is responsible for staffing and directing the work of all officials except the TD and the referee. He/she normally chairs the Team Captain‟s meeting, in consultation with the TD, and deals with all technical aspects of the race. The Chief of Race is a member of the Jury. Inspects the course immediately after it is set, alone or accompanied by members of the Jury and has the authority to change the course by taking out or adding gates. (The course setter must be informed of changes if he/she was not present during this inspection.); receives the reports of the gate judges, start and finish referees and other officials about any infractions of the rules and gate faults at the end of each run; immediately after each run, checks, signs and posts the “referee‟s report” identifying the competitors who were disqualified, The Referee is appointed by the TD from outside the host organization. Appointed by the TD to assist the referee at speed events. Chief Gate Judge Organizes and supervises the work of the gate judges and designates the gates each will supervise; supplies each gate judge with control cards, pencil, start list, etc.; ensures that the numbering and the marking of the gates is done; collects the gate judges’ control cards at the end of each run and delivers them to the referee. Gate Judges Observe the passage of each competitor through the gates they are assigned; decide whether the passage is correct; when a fault is observed, prepare a proper record of the fault (bib number, gate number, drawing); respond to competitors questions about whether they have committed a fault; make a record of any competitor who leave4s the course and requests a re-run. Gate judges may be asked to perform other duties such as the replacing/repairing poles or flags; helping keep the course clear, etc. Chief of Course Directs and supervises the preparation and maintenance of the course, including the start and finish areas. He/she works with the course setters, supervises course maintenance during the race and directs post-race cleanup immediately following the event. He/she needs to know course preparation standards and techniques. Course Crew Under the direction of the Chief of Course, replace/repair gate poles; repairs potholes, ruts; berns, and other conditions; sideslip the course; Finish Referee Ensures that the regulations for the organisation of the finish and the finish in-run and out-run are followed; responds to requests for re-runs; supervises the finish controller, the timing and the crowd control in the finish area; reports the competitors who did not finish to the referee and informs the Jury of all infringements against the rules. The finish referee remains in the finish from the beginning of the official inspection time until the end of the event. He/she is a non-voting member of the Jury. (ICR 601.3.4) Finish Controller Supervision of the section between the last gate and the finish; monitors the proper crossing of the finish line; records the order of finishing of all racers who complete the course. Chief of Timing (also called Chief of Timing and Calculations) Supervises all electronic and manual timing and results calculations, plans and sets up all timing and communication systems, oversees the starter, timers, recorders, finish controller, announcers, spotters and others. Operates the timing equipment and software and ensures that accurate start and finish times are recorded for every competitor; communication with the starter throughout the race. Assistant Timer Monitors jury communication for information about “start-stops,” competitors that abandon the course, etc.; observes the course and competitors to identify any irregularities that could affect the accuracy of the timing; and otherwise assists the timer. Scoreboard Posters Records the elapsed time for each competitor on the display board. Announces each competitor‟s results as soon as they are available. Bib Collector Collects the bibs from each competitor immediately after they complete their last run for the event. Chief of Administration (also called the Race Secretary) Responsible for all administrative work for the competition, including receipt of registration and preparing the draw; ensures that the official results contain the required information; prepares the minutes of technical, Jury and team captains’ meetings; ensures that the forms for start, finish, timing, calculations, and gate judging are prepared and distributed at the proper time; receives official protests and gives them to those who are concerned; and ensures that results are duplicated and published as quickly as possible after the completion of the competition. The jury is responsible for all decisions pertaining to the race, for the arbitration of protests and for upholding the rules. The jury members must collaborate closely with the race committee through the Chief of Race. Jury members include: the Technical Delegate (Chairman of the Jury), Chief of Race, Referee, Assistant Referee (for speed events) and two non-voting Jury Advisors ~ the Start Referee and Finish Referee. Équipe de compétition Edelweiss 2019 ©	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line373
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__label__wiki	0.560983	0.560983	Thats Life Science Grad School Diaries Our Ecosystems Earth's Organisms Dina Navon 2016-10-20 HOW IT WORKS evolution theory history darwin lamarck mendel genetics A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought - Part I Evolutionary biology has come a long way since the Origin of Species was published in 1859. Today let’s discuss the history of evolutionary thinking, focusing on the earliest, and often surprising, roots of the science. Today, I’ll be taking us back to the beginning of life science, and discussing the evolution of, well, the way we think about evolution. All science has philosophy at its roots, and evolutionary biology is certainly no exception. The field of biology can trace a path back to Plato and Aristotle, who both subscribed to the essentialist view. Essentialism says that for any specific entity there is a set of attributes which are necessary to its identity. For example, a chair has a set of attributes (legs, seat, back) that make it a chair rather than, say, a stool. Any given species also has a set of identifying attributes, and an individual can be classified as a member of that species if it satisfies that list. Figure 1. A chair has a set of attributes (legs, seat, back) that make it a chair rather than, say, a stool. But how does a chair compare to a throne? (Source: public domain) Carl Linnaeus, the famous Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist who formalized the modern system of naming organisms we know today as binomial nomenclature, epitomized the essentialist view of biology. He named and grouped organisms based on their similarities and differences – as any good essentialist would do. Linnaeus was, by all accounts, a religious man who believed that he could find a deeper understanding of God by studying his creation. Many naturalists of his day, and before, were similarly minded – religion was omnipresent, and most scientists of the time were religious. Figure 2. Carl Linnaeus formalized the modern system of naming organisms we know today as binomial nomenclature. Shown here is the cover page of Linnaeus’ magnum opus, published in 1735. (Source: public domain) Over the next fifty years, naturalists began moving away from a strictly religious interpretation of their science. James Hutton and Charles Lyell dared to suggest that the Earth was older than the Bible might indicate. Georges Cuvier noticed that fossils of animals were found in locations that did not include extant populations of those animals, suggesting local extinctions were possible, contrary to the predominant religious beliefs of the time. By the late eighteenth century, the idea that life might not have been completely static since the beginning of creation had begun to percolate through the scientific community, though these ideas were mainly restricted to the fringes of academia and society. Contrary to what you might think, Darwin was not the first to suggest a mechanism by which species could change over time. Jean Baptiste Lamarck argued in favor of evolution via the use and disuse of certain body parts. For example, a giraffe originally had a short neck, but over its lifetime of stretching in order to reach leaves on taller branches, its neck grew. The longer-necked giraffe would pass that change down to its offspring, who would then stretch that neck even further, and so on until we reach the long-necked giraffe seen today. However, his mechanism for evolution lacked plausibility; after all, people could certainly gain muscles through repeated use, but a very heavily muscled parent did not necessarily lead to a heavily muscled baby. Figure 3.Lamarckian evolution, as exemplified by a giraffe. (Source: public domain) Another naturalist would shortly propose a more believable mechanism to explain changes in species over time. Charles Darwin, influenced by Thomas Malthus and by his own travels in South America and the Galapagos Islands, saw all life as a struggle for existence. He suggested that such a struggle led to a natural selection of organisms that were more “fit”, better able to survive and reproduce and thereby pass on those traits which made them well-suited for their environment. He believed that all living things are related. Over 150 years later, countless lines of evidence have verified Darwin’s crucial ideas – that all living creatures are related, that evolution is responsible for the differences between them, and that natural selection has a large role in shaping evolution. Of course, how those traits were passed on was still very much a mystery to Darwin, but that mechanism too would soon be elucidated. Figure 4.The first known drawing of a phylogenetic tree, a diagram describing the relatedness of organisms. (Source: public domain) Gregor Mendel, a German monk, would posthumously become known as the father of modern genetics. His simple research growing pea plants would go on to establish foundational principles in the field of inheritance. For example, he found that by crossing a pure-bred green pea plant to a pure-bred yellow plant, all of the offspring would be yellow; however, if he allowed those offspring to self-fertilize, approximately 3/4s of the next generation would be yellow, but some would be green. He proposed that each offspring plant inherited a copy of the color gene from each of its parents and believed that the green copy was masked by the yellow. He was operating at the same time as Darwin, yet there is no substantial proof that Darwin would have heard of Mendel or his work before Darwin died in 1882. And yet, Mendel’s research provided the very mechanism by which traits were passed on that was missing in Darwin’s theory of evolution, and it would go largely unnoticed until the early twentieth century. Figure 5. An example of Mendel’s experiments with genetics. (Source: The Tech Museum of Innovation). 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__label__wiki	0.509909	0.509909	Not Marvel/DC Home » Breaking News » Not Marvel/DC » 5 Reasons Why The Rise of Skywalker Will Be Great 5 Reasons Why The Rise of Skywalker Will Be Great December 18, 2019 E.M. 0 Breaking News, Not Marvel/DC, This week sees the release of the final film in the Star Wars saga, The Rise of Skywalker. Reviews are decidedly mixed but we here at TSFO have made this list of the reasons that, no matter what, will make it better than that SJW manifesto, The Last Jedi. Greg Grunberg is back! We missed frequent J.J. Abrams collaborator Greg Grunberg in Last Jedi and are super excited that Snap Wexley will be back. His character brought a level of warmth and humor to Force Awakens that we all loved and he quickly became a fan favorite. We can’t wait to see him help out Finn and the gang and then bond with our kids with the Snap Wexley X-Wing Strike playset. If they don’t sell out too quickly. Rey has less scenes! Putting Rey at the forefront of Last Jedi was a huge mistake. Not only is she a boring character, but it was exacerbated by her being a woman. Star Wars was made for boys and making a woman the hero in the last installment was our 9/11. We couldn’t contain our excitement when we heard that Rey’s scenes were being cut to almost nothing. She’s back to where women belong in Star Wars, in the background. Seen but not heard. And before you mention Leia, remember that she was only there because she was Luke’s sister. Nepotism! Maz Kanata has sex! The only good thing Last Jedi gave us was a further development of the concept of Maz Kanata as a sexual being. It was heavily implied that she had slept with Justin Theroux’s Master Codebreaker character, and we were disappointed that it wasn’t elaborated on, but Abrams has promised to give us what we want. While the movie is PG-13, we’re still going to get to see how Maz likes it. Does she involve her jet pack in some way? Will we see a glimpse of her nude? The possibilities are enticing. Talking porgs! Another of Rian Johnson’s endless list of mistakes was not having the porgs talk. Thankfully, Abrams refused to sign on to Rise Of Skywalker until Lucasfilm gave in to his one demand, the porgs had to talk. They gave in and the list of voice talent he’s recruited is amazing. The Rock, Brad Pitt, Greg Grunberg, Jackie Chan, and as a female porg (with boobs!), Charlize Theron. There was news that the writers of Family Guy were hired to make sure the porgs always have a great wisecrack or pop culture reference to shoot off when needed. And since Family Guy is the TSFO team’s favorite show, we’re very much looking forward to it. A solemn promise to fix anything we don’t like. Lucasfilm and Disney has vowed to the fans that whatever we don’t like in Rise Of Skywalker, they will immediately fix after the right amount of threats of lawsuits or death. It’ll be a movie that’s forever in flux for us to change as we see fit. They saw what the fans of Sonic the Hedgehog managed to accomplish with his redesign and they know the power we wield. We’re their bread and butter and we deserve to be treated as such. It’s not pandering if we ask for it! We don’t go see Star Wars because we want to be challenged, we go because we want the exact same thing nine times in a row! Tags: Disney, J.J. Abrams, Lucasfilm, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Last Jedi Previous: Zack Snyder Fans Angry with Creativity of New Watchmen Show Next: Small Town Divided After Baby Jesus is Replaced and Improved by Baby Yoda Channing Tatum Gambit Movie Finally Happening [UPDATED] Note: The following story was originally published based on our initial reporting. Updates will follow as noted. After years of rumors and studio changes, the... REST IN PEACE: Watto, of Star Wars fame, has died Watrice J. Smith, known to his friends as Watto, passed away at the age 64. Forced into taking over his fathers career after his death,... Long Time Fans Beg Kevin Smith: Please Stop Your Cinematic Universe Top 10 Avengers Who Would Do the Best in a War Against Iran Everything We Know About “The J.J. Cut” of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker True Superhero Fans Only!Follow The most sourceful source of news on comic book movies and TV shows. Reporting only the MOST EXCLUSIVE and MOST TRUE news, ever. Retweet on TwitterTrue Superhero Fans Only! Retweeted True Superhero Fans Only!@TrueSuperFans· http://truesuperherofans.com/rest-in-peace-watto-of-star-wars-fame-has-died/ Channing Tatum Gambit Movie Finally Happening http://truesuperherofans.com/channing-tatum-gambit-movie-finally-happening-updated/ http://truesuperherofans.com/long-time-fans-beg-kevin-smith-please-stop-your-cinematic-universe/ Sony Already Planning Morbius Reboot Starring Joaquin Phoenix http://truesuperherofans.com/sony-already-planning-morbius-reboot-starring-joaquin-phoenix/	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line395
__label__wiki	0.868825	0.868825	Celebrity Miitomo Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Game of the Month Tetris Effect – Game of the Month TSG Asks: Who will win the Game Awards? Red Dead Redemption 2 – Game of the Month Game of the Month Recap: Shadow of the Colossus (Feb 2018) We try out new cooperative game Deru and discuss what makes a good puzzle game TSG Asks: What Game Will Be A Classic Video Game in 20 Years? by TSG Staff November 15, 2015, 1:13 pm 88 Views They say that the golden age of gaming has come and gone, but I feel as if it has yet to pass. The industry is thriving, and games are only getting more creative and deep. Now that we have the ability to manipulate graphics, sound and story like no other, there is no telling where the future is headed especially with the capabilities of VR and future consoles. But that’s a long time from now, so let’s talk about today. The present definitely has treasures that will last the test of time, even through all the new gadgets and innovations, which prompts the question for this week: Comment below with which games you think you will still be your favorites in 20 years. I think Mario Sunshine has all the traits to be considered a classic video game in 20 years. If not, at least worthy enough for an honorable mention. It’s creative, challenging, gorgeous, re-playable and there’s enough variety in the content of each new level that it can appeal to almost any gamer. It has fun puzzles, memorable bosses, difficult platforming levels, and free-roaming gameplay. It’s really only missing an engaging plot line, but if I’m looking for strong storytelling, I wouldn’t look to the Mario series anyway. "It's completely captivating from the start, and I can't rave enough about the tight controls. It just feels right." -IGN The earlier releases of franchises such as The Legend of Zelda or Pokemon or Super Mario are already being heralded as classic video game series and I don’t see that trend changing within the next two decades. Some of the more recent titles now from those series will probably enjoy the same nostalgia and be regarded as innovative for their respective epochs. That being said, other well-known titles such as Madden or FIFA probably won’t withstand the test of time as they’re predicated on the current season/roster. I’d say a game like Skyrim, which even after nearly 5 years is still one of the most popular titles on Steam, has a strong chance of being remembered fondly over the next 2 decades. It’s hard to come up with a definitive answer because of how quickly games come in and out of popularity (mainly due to over-saturation of the market by waves upon waves of imitators). I think that games that are revolutionary in some way and franchises which carve out a niche for themselves and continue to innovate with their releases will be the most likely to become a classic video game. "It's one of the biggest, most content rich games I've ever had the pleasure of playing." - GameInformer Even though it’s been out for eight years already and I’m sure everyone’s bored to death of the cake-being-a-you-know-what by now, it’s hard not to look back to Portal. By the fall of 2007 the “cinematic” era of video games was just beginning to take off, and with most developers piling on layers of gritty and complex story plots to sell more copies rather than innovative gameplay, Portal chose to go the simplistic route and combine a low-key story with mind-bending puzzles, an iconic portal shooting mechanic and a villain with some of the wittiest writing in gaming history. While Portal’s success might’ve been dwarfed a bit by other franchises originally (a certain Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare would take the world by storm just a month after the release of The Orange Box), it’s garnered a cult following that’s stood the test of time so far, and it even got a sequel with Portal 2 in 2011. The games that are remembered as “classics” usually do something new rather than rely on the same tired mechanics as Triple-A franchises might tend to, while still being fun to replay years later—Portal has that in spades. For that reason something tells me that everyone from [SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE] will still have “neurotoxins” stuck in their brains 20 years down the line. I mean like, not actual neurotoxins. They’ll remember the neurotoxins from Portal. That’s what I meant. "Short as it may be, Portal is a fantastic game that should be played by anyone interested in unique, well-crafted gameplay and a witty, whip-smart script." - Gamespot In 20 years, one game I know for sure that will be deemed a classic video game is The Last of Us. I doubt any game will come close to raising the bar that The Last of Us has set for a very long time, and I can easily see gamers in 20 years breaking out their dusty PS4s to play this game. It’s story is simply unforgettable, and the way that it impacted me was tremendous; even after completing it, this game was on my mind for months. Never has a game made me put the controller down and stop playing because of how emotional and dark it is. The Last of Us is hands down my favorite game of all time, and it will most certainly be deemed a classic video game in 20 years if it isn’t already one. "It starts out safe but ends brave; it has heart and grit, and it hangs together beautifully." - EuroGamer This is a tough question. I can’t tell if I’m just choosing my personal favorite or if I genuinely think these games will stand the test of time. I think Super Mario Galaxy will undoubtedly become a classic video game. It was the most revolutionary Mario game since Mario 64. The Last of Us is already immortalized in the annals of video games. In twenty years, I guarantee people will still be talking about TLoU’s ending. People aren’t talking about it much these days, but I have a feeling that Gone Home will be remembered affectionately in 20 years. When I think of games that I consider classics now, a lot of them are the games that came before me that my parents or other older people introduced me to. So with that in mind, I have to also include The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker which everyone knows by now is my favorite game of all time. It is the most memorable Zelda game from the Gamecube era onward. I can’t say of the world will remember the game as much in twenty years, but I will always treasure it. "Sailing lends a sense of genuine freedom and wonder to the game." - Polygon Perhaps this is already a classic video game due to the fact that it came out eight years ago, but I would consider Bioshock an enduring classic. It’s adventurous world building and deep, compelling writing made it stand out among other games of its time. But more recently, I would venture to say Dark Souls will be a long-remembered classic video game. Its strict, punishing gameplay brought back the truly rewarding challenge that is so often lost in modern games. "BioShock stands as a monolithic example of the convergence of entertaining gameplay and an irresistibly sinister, engrossing storyline that encompasses a host of multifaceted characters." - IGN Unlike the Power Glove, I think the Oculus Rift, and all virtual reality headsets in general, will be here to stay. Therefore, the early games that fully utilize the peripheral are bound to be remembered as pioneers in the medium. While shooters like Half Life 2 have already been proven to be enhanced by the device, it wasn’t built around it. Games built for the Oculus, such as Classroom Aquatic, however, uses the player’s perspective in a 3D space to its fullest potential. I hope not only for these titles’ sake, but for gaming’s sake that the Oculus Rift’s launch titles are able to cement themselves as classics. "There are already simple experiences that give you the sense of movement or flight that are nearly addictive, and it’s only going to get better" - Polygon Comment below with your pick for this era’s soon to be classic video game! Written by TSG Staff Top Shelf Gaming is a platform where gamers can share their unique stories and perspectives in a welcoming environment. If you would like to submit an article to us or join our staff, please send an email to submit@topshelfgaming.net. 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__label__cc	0.554265	0.445735	Spectrum Tower Defense Top Tower Defense Games » Spectrum Tower Defense Rate Spectrum Tower Defense: Spectrum Tower Defense Instructions If you have played tower defense games before, the controls of Spectrum Tower Defense should be very familiar to you. Just like other games from the genre, the game is played, most of the time, the mouse: a couple of clicks to get the game started; more clicks to pick the tower you want; some more clicks to place them where you want and so on. As you get better, you surely want to get things done faster and more efficiently. That said, you want to take advantage of the hotkeys in the game: (1) numbers 1 to 9 and letter keys X, Y, Z are for building towers. (2) If you want to upgrade one of them, just press U. (3) Need to sell one to make some room for BIGGER and BETTER towers? No worries, just select the tower and press the S button. And that's about it for the controls, let's have a closer look at the game... NT Creature 2 Zack's Hardware Xeno Tactic Dwarfs Under Siege When Penguins Attack TD 2 The Space Game Magic Defender Spectrum Tower Defense Walkthrough "You think you are good at Tower Defenses? We beg to differ >:)" - this is the challenge of this brand-new tower defense game... Spectrum Tower Defense. This game leaves others in the dust in so many different levels! Just like other tower defense games, you need to survive the incoming waves of enemy bugs by building towers, upgrading their stats and skills, and rinse and repeat until victory is yours. It's a very straightforward objective, BUT getting there is NOT as easy as it sounds. Spectrum Tower Defense showcases 3 difficult levels that allows veterans and newcomers to the genre to enjoy the game. There are 50 waves of enemy bugs that you need to survive against and these waves are comprised of 12 different types of enemy bugs - each type has its own strength and weaknesses that you need to exploit if you want to see daylight! To have a fighting chance against this massive wave of bugs, you have 13 different towers to choose from. These towers have unique abilities and destructive power that can be upgraded to the next level. And to top everything off, this game showcases a unique color upgrading system as well as 3 different maps / battlefields. I really like the latter - the unique color upgrading system. It somewhat reminded me of Ant Buster TD. While it has lesser variables, overall, it's still a very original idea. One thing... one small caveat I have with the game is that it's very laggy on later levels when you have all sorts of towers firing at the same time and the screen is filled with all sorts of enemy bugs. Aside from that, everything is smooth sailing with Spectrum Tower Defense. I really love the game play. The Buy Back option makes the game less frustrating since you don't have to start over again in case you run out of lives. Keep in mind, HOWEVER, that the Buy Back option costs more and more the farther you go into the game. OK, now we are down to the REAL meat of this article: the game tips that will allow you to go to the next level! To be honest, all you really need in Spectrum Tower Defense is balance and flexibility. You need to have ice and flame towers for the first 10 waves and levels. When the going gets tough, you must move on to stronger towers like lightning, wind, and ice. Oh! By the way, a Level 3 Gold Tower is very helpful. While it may cost you a lot of dough, it will pay for itself within 3 rounds or so. During the middle game, the armor reducing and purple colored tower is just indispensable. I would advice that you get one as soon as you can. Think about it: this tower allows you to reduce your enemies' armor down to -10... PERMANENTLY! So what does that mean? That means your usual damage of 1 would be 11! Along with that, the armor reducing tower attacks both land and air enemy units. So where should you place the armor reducing towers? I would recommend that you mass build these purple towers and place them somewhere at the beginning of the path. This makes sure that all incoming enemy units will have their armor reduced by 10 or so. The level 1 towers are for the rest of the course... and it won't be a problem since the enemies are armor-less and can be ripped like papers! As I have mentioned above, the ice and fire tower... the blue and red towers for those who are color oriented, are very good for this. The blue towers hit both air and land units, and it also showcases a decent fire rate. The red towers, on the other hand, have the best fire rate in the game. With a bunch of red / blue towers PLUS the purple and armor-reducing towers, you should coast through the first couple of levels. That's early to mid game strategy. For the late game phase, the Level 3 Sniper Towers can be your main damage dealer. One reminder: upgrade them from level 1 straight to level 3. Level 2 Sniper Towers, in my opinion, aren't worth it. To go hand in hand with them, Level 3 Shockwave Towers (the green ones) are best against ground enemy units... except for the bosses. If you position them right in the center of the map (aided with the armor-reducing tower), they can deal about 60 damage to EACH and EVERY enemy on the map on every hit! If there are 10 ground enemies in the wave, that means your tower is dealing 600 damage for every hit... and to make the deal even sweeter, the Shockwave Tower costs half as much as sniper towers! This combo is just devastating. Give it a try and see what I am talking about. Little Protectors Little Protectors is an adorable and action-packed tower defense game. This strategy game features simple controls, various upgrades, and addictive... Billy Makin Kid Billy Makin Kid is a unique and bizarre tower defense game. This strategy game features amazing graphics, straightforward gameplay, and... NTCreature NT Creature is a role-playing game, action game, and tower defense game all rolled into one! This strategy game features... Not everything that glitters is gold. Well, in this case, it's a jaw-dropping hoard of gems! And everyone and their...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line404
__label__wiki	0.688312	0.688312	ERROR: type should be string, got "https://listen.sparemin.com/recordings/96/f5/5e/ea/d8/96f55eead8e5dfc191018cffc6410e93_15031.mp3\nRight after the 2016 election, liberals collectively (and justifiably) lost their shit. They started clinging to any explanation of how we got here–and who was to blame–even if it didn’t really make much sense. They blamed the economic anxiety of poor whites, even though fear of racial diversity predicted a vote for Trump far more reliably than any economic factor. They bought into the hysteria about the “liberal echo chamber” to the point that the New York Times felt pressured to overcorrect and hire an illogical conservative who can’t even accept the word of 99% of scientists. But most curiously, liberals completely forgot that oppressed groups are not monoliths, and that individual members can be just as racist/sexist/anything-ist as your average old white man.\nCase in point: this article from the feminist site Jezebel that ran the day after the election, which claimed that the fact that white people overwhelmingly voted for Trump proved that white supremacy is alive and well. So far, so good. But then, there was this little gem:\nThis is not about how much America hates women or how sexist America is, because it’s clear that white women helped facilitate Trump’s win. The majority of them, who cared more about maintaining their privilege than their freedom to choose, used minorities as sacrificial property in the process.\nI call all of the bullshit on this. Did white women vote for Donald Trump in order to maintain white supremacy in this country? Yes, most likely. Should they be held accountable for their collective racism? Absolutely. Does any of this mean that the election wasn’t at all about sexism or, even more ridiculously, that America doesn’t hate women? Literally zero percent.\nThe fact that white women voted for Trump doesn’t change the fact that millions of people voted for a man who bragged about committing sexual assault. Even if racism was a more prominent factor in this election (which it almost certainly was), for 46% of American voters, blatant misogyny wasn’t a dealbreaker. The fact that white women voted to preserve their race privilege doesn’t do a damn thing to change that.\nI already ranted in my last post that minorities were born into the same society as everyone else, and so are (almost) just as likely to have internalized prejudice. In the same vein, anti-feminist women have been fighting against their own progress just as long as feminist women have been fighting for it. From Phyllis Schlafly to Ann Coulter to Tomi Lahren, there has always been an intelligent, articulate, perfectly-coiffed woman who served as the far-right’s token mouthpiece, and used their elevated position to argue against equality for their own gender. Continue reading “Curious why 53% of white women voted for Trump? Look no further than Serena-Joy”\nhttps://listen.sparemin.com/recordings/38/83/0b/ae/62/38830bae628fbbdfc8ae332296e1b36a_10593.mp3\nBut, as per usual, when he was on screen he was the worst. The scene with him and the FBI director in bed was painful, and not just because they can’t seem to add a WOC to the cast who isn’t Fitz’s sex buddy. As many have already noted, they don’t just have zero chemistry, they have negative chemistry. Hot tip, Scandal writers: you don’t have to make literally everyone sleep with each other. Sometimes a black female FBI director is just a black female FBI director, not a weird Olivia replacement. Continue reading “Shut Up, Fitz: 6×04 “The Belt””\nDon’t be fooled, Milo Yiannopolous loves identity politics\n“I am a gay man, and a child abuse victim.”\nThis is how Milo Yiannopolous began his defense for remarks that apparently condoned child sexual abuse. He went on to say that his own experiences with abuse “led [him] to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject,” and that “when [he] mentioned the number 13, [he] was talking about the age [he] lost [his] own virginity.”\nLet me get this straight. The same guy who famously said that, as a Breitbart editor, he wanted to “offend every reader,” the same guy who once told a woman, “Fuck your feelings!” when she asked him whether his views invalidated the opinions of minorities, the same guy who said “fat acceptance” is “the most alarming and irresponsible idea to come out of leftist victimhood and grievance politics,” THAT GUY now wants our sensitivity?\nThis is classic Milo. It also happens to be classic identity politics. Continue reading “Don’t be fooled, Milo Yiannopolous loves identity politics”\nFox & Friends: Wives should be “compliant” and pick up their husbands’ socks\nShut up, Fitz: Scandal 6×02 “Hardball”\nWelcome to “Shut up, Fitz,” my weekly recaps of Scandal how terrible Fitz is. Because I don’t care how many times Shonda Rhimes tells us Olitz are “endgame” (ugh, vomit): Fitz is an attempted rapist, a spoiled brat, and an all-around entitled white guy. Fuck Fitz, and fuck this ship. Join me each week as I review Fitz’s most annoying, manbaby-ish moments.\nThe good news: Fitz had a total of maybe seven minutes of screentime in this episode. The bad news: everything he did onscreen was as insufferable (and plain stupid) as always. Let’s review: Continue reading “Shut up, Fitz: Scandal 6×02 “Hardball””\nTrump talks Black History Month, forgets to talk about black people\nBy now, you may have already heard that Trump has absolutely no idea who Frederick Douglass is, and may even think he’s still alive. But as hilarious as that particular gaffe was, it has kind of overshadowed how horribly offensive and racist his entire speech was. It wasn’t just that he clearly had never heard of any black heroes in American history; he couldn’t even bring himself to talk about black people for more than a sentence or two. For Black History Month.\nHere’s a transcript of his remarks (via The Concourse), annotated with every tone-deaf and/or outright racist thing he said: Continue reading “Trump talks Black History Month, forgets to talk about black people”"	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line405
__label__wiki	0.775896	0.775896	Film Review: Double Indemnity By Central Scrutinizer on December 16, 2017 in Movie Reviews Director: Billy Wilder Screenplay: Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, from the James M. Cain novella Double Indemnity Starring: Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff, Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson, Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes, Jean Heather as Lola Dietrichson, Byron Bar as Nino Zachetti, and Tom Powers as Mr. Dietrichson Does one have to do spoiler alerts for a summary of a 73-year-old movie? Walter Neff returns to his office sometime after business hours. He slumps down in a chair and, while panting and bleeding from a gunshot wound in his shoulder, proceeds to recount his perpetration of two murders to a colleague via dictaphone. During a routine house call to remind Mr. Dietrichson that his auto policy will soon be up for renewal, Neff meets Dietrichson’s wife Phyllis. In typical genre fashion, Neff is immediately ensorcelled by her. The two flirt until Phyllis inquires as to how she would go about taking out an accidental death policy on her husband without his knowledge. Suspecting that she is plotting murder, Neff leaves. However, again in typical genre fashion, he can’t get her out of his mind. When Phyllis shows up at his apartment, he agrees to help her trick her husband into buying an accident policy. They then plan to stage his death in such a way that will trigger the double indemnity clause in the policy, resulting in double the financial payout. When Phyllis driver her husband to the train station, Neff hides in the back seat. When the car turns onto a darkened side street, Neff kills Mr. Dietrichson. Neff boards the train posing as Dietrichson and jumps from the back of the slow moving train when it passes by he and Phyllis’ designated meeting point. They drag Dietrichson’s body onto the tracks and leave. From here, things begin to go bad for the pair. While Neff’s boss, Mr. Norton, believes that Dietrichson’s death was accidental, Barton Keyes suspects something is amiss. Phyllis’ stepdaughter, Lola, visits Neff at his office and informs him that she suspects Phyllis is responsible for Dietrichson’s death and that she was likely responsible for the death of the former Mrs. Dietrichson as well. As Keyes gets closer and closer to the truth, Neff learns that Keyes suspects Lola’s boyfriend, Nino Zachetti, is Phyllis’ accomplice. Neff informs Phyllis that he knows that she is planning to goad Nino into killing him. She shoots Neff in the shoulder. When she refuses to shoot him a second time, he takes the gun from her. As they embrace, he tells her “goodbye, baby” and shoots her twice, killing her. Neff waits for Nino to arrive and tells him to leave and go find Lola. Neff then goes to his office to record his confession. When the flashback ends, Keyes enters the office and informs the visibly weakening Walter Neff that he has heard enough to know the truth and that Walter is “all washed up.” Walter announces to Keyes that he intends to flee to Mexico rather than face the gas chamber, but he collapses from blood loss before he can reach the elevator. Double Indemnity is the result of a tumultuous collaboration between director Billy Wilder and pulp crime fiction purveyor Raymond Chandler. The working relationship between the two was apparently so contentious that at one point Chandler quit and refused to work with Wilder any longer. The lead role of Walter Neff was turned down by many of the top actors of the era before Wilder finally offered it to Fred MacMurray. MacMurray, at the time the highest paid actor in Hollywood, was accustomed to playing nice guy roles in light comedies and initially turned down the role apparently on the basis that he was lacking the chops for it. Thankfully, Wilder wouldn’t take no for an answer and pestered him until he did sign on to play the part. MacMurray’s performance is great as he goes from average joe insurance salesman to confident criminal and ultimately to doomed pawn. Similarly, Barbara Stanwyck (the highest paid actress at the time) had some trepidation about taking the role of Phyllis Dietrichson, fearing that playing the role of a cold blooded killer would damage her career. This obviously proved not to be the case because she continued to get roles in numerous films afterward, until her career decline sometime in the 1950s. Stanwyck turns in a great performance as possibly one of the most nakedly evil femme fatales in the film noir genre. On top of the acting, the film just looks great. There is no ridiculous shaky camera, every shot is well framed, and, because it is in black and white, none of that god awful Christopher Nolan/Denis Villeneuve artificial colour saturation trash. If you’re unfamiliar with film noir and have an interest in exploring the genre, Double Indemnity is an excellent place to start. At 107 minutes, it’s not overlong and the story is eminently entertaining. It is also refreshingly free of the fast talking detectives and down on their luck dames that colour many people’s perception of the genre. It’s a slick and heavily stylized crime story adapted, as quite a few films in the genre are, from the old pulp stories of the 20s and 30s. In this regard (along with the sheer glut of them that Hollywood pumped out between 1940 and 1959), noir can be seen as sort of an early precursor to modern comic book movies. Sort of comic book films before superheroes and with clever, shall we say “non whedonized” dialogue (no doubt owing much to the strictures of the “Hays Code” that was in full effect during the genre’s heyday). A quick note: 1946’s Orson Welles directed The Stranger, starring Welles as a fugitive Nazi war criminal and Edward G. Robinson as the UN War Crimes Commission officer hunting him, is another good film in the genre and is now public domain. It can be found on Youtube. Tagsclassic cinemaCrime filmsFilm NoirMovie Reviews Symetria – Self-titled (2017) Disastroid – Screen (2017) Movie Review: Velvet Buzzsaw (2018) By The Grim Lord There really isn’t much to say about this... Movie Review: Zoe (2018) Quite simply, I wish the data that comprised... Movie Review: The Happytime Murders By Central Scrutinizer Release: August 24, 2018 Director: Brian... Tower Terrors: Seance The Summoning (2011) Tower Terrors: Seance The Summoning...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line407
__label__cc	0.575887	0.424113	Blog Tour: Review - Christmas Under a Cranberry Sky by Holly Martin Today on Becca's Books, I'm delighted to be sharing my review of Holly Martin's Christmas Under a Cranberry Sky as part of the blog tour. Title - Christmas Under a Cranberry Sky Author - Holly Martin Publication Date - September 22nd 2016 Publisher - Bookouture Format - Kindle Edition (Provided by publisher via NetGalley) This year spend a wonderful Christmas on Juniper Island, where love can melt even the iciest of hearts... Piper Chesterfield lives a glamorous life travelling the world and reviewing the finest hotels. She calls nowhere home, she works alone and that's how she likes it. For long ago Piper decided that to protect her heart she should lock it away. So when Piper's next assignment brings her to the newly-opened Stardust Lake Hotel for the festive season, the last person she expects to face is Gabe Whitaker, the man who broke her heart so completely she could never love again. But Piper isn't the only one who has been frozen in time by heartbreak. Gabe hasn't forgotten the golden-eyed girl who disappeared from his world without a trace. Now fate has reunited them on Juniper Island, can the magic of Christmas heal old wounds? And can this enchanting town be the one place Piper can finally call home? Curl up with this gorgeously romantic tale and let the glistening snow and the roaring fires of Stardust Lake Hotel get you in the festive spirit Christmas. Well blow me down and sprinkle me with fairy dust! It feels like it has been such a long, long time since I last delved into a novel by the wonderful Holly Martin, so as soon as Christmas Under a Cranberry Sky became available, I jumped on it! I could not wait to discover Juniper Island for myself and see what Holly Martin had in store for her readers this time. Reading a Holly Martin novel, for me, is like stumbling into a world where EVERYTHING I LOVE ABOUT READING has been captured perfectly. The romance, the settings, the characters. They are always beautiful, always moving and always, without fail, the sort of novels that remain with me long after I've turned the final page. And, for someone who adores Christmas as much as I do, Christmas Under a Cranberry Sky was a definite must. How could I possibly resist?! In Holly Martin's Christmas Under a Cranberry Sky, readers are introduced to Piper Chesterfield, also known as Pip. Immediately, Martin brings her character beautifully to life on the page, and as the chapters pass by, we're given a wonderful yet emotional insight into Piper's life now, as well as her life before. For years now, Piper has been travelling the world to review hotels in some of the most stunning places. Readers love her honesty and style, and it's been said that some places have been left quaking in their boots over news of this reviewer's arrival. It's a job she adores but, by travelling so much, Piper has never really stopped and found a place to call 'home'. Jetting here, there and everywhere, her life is chaotic and she is constantly on the move. She's not ungrateful. She knows that there are people out there who would love to be in her shoes. But she also knows that on the cold, dark and lonely nights, her travels won't keep her warm. They won't comfort her or hold her tight, and it's obvious that Piper knows, deep down, something is missing. When Piper is sent to the Stardust Lake Hotel (how utterly gorgeous is that name?), memories surface of the last time she'd been there, with childhood best-friend and first love Gabe Whitaker, but it's not all roses and rainbows for Piper when she looks back on her past. In fact, she dealt with so much pain and heartache, it was impossible for me not to feel for the woman. But the things she dealt with and the sorrow they caused were often soothed by Gabe and his wonderful family, who took her in and made her feel as if she did actually have a place in the world, wrapped up in the warmth that they constantly bestowed upon her. Heading back to the Stardust Lake Hotel now, Piper can't wait to see what's in store for her. With her reviewing head firmly on, she's ready to tackle yet another item on her to-do list. As soon as Piper set foot on Juniper Island, I felt as if I'd stumbled into a winter wonderland. Martin's descriptions of this beautiful island were just incredible, transporting me directly to Piper's side as she began to discover and explore. The area had changed immeasurably since the last time she was there and so it's all about looking around and taking the time to see what the Stardust Lake Hotel has to offer. And boy was it exciting. I was like a child at Christmas myself as I lapped up the author's words, completely bowled over by Martin's imagination and how fantastically she'd put it to good use. From reindeers to a real-life ice palace, and spotting the Northern lights to the gorgeously snug log cabins that were available for the guests. It was just exquisite. Martin absolutely whisked me away with this story. I adored the crunchiness of the snow and the snuggliness of the roaring fires. I wanted so desperately to throw myself into the pages and book myself in for a stay at the Stardust Lake Hotel myself. It was gloriously Christmassy. GLORIOUSLY. What added to my sheer enjoyment of this novel were the relationships captured by Martin. Not only am I referring to the wobbly relationship between Piper and Gabe, but also the smaller, secondary relationships that positively thrummed with warmth and love. When Piper sets eyes on Gabe again for the first time in years, I felt my toes curl up with pleasure. It was no secret that there was still chemistry between these two and I really couldn't wait to see how Holly Martin would explore this. Although reluctant to get close to each other due to some serious misunderstandings from both of their pasts, I wanted nothing more than for the barriers between them to come crashing down. With so much time having passed since the last time they saw each other, things have changed for both of them. Piper has travelled far and wide with a secure cage locked tight around her heart, and Gabe is now a father to the adorable Wren, who adds such gorgeous presence to this story and who I found it impossible to not adore. The focus on friendship and family, including Gabe's fatherly duties, was heart-warming, and allowed to see a side to her childhood friend that she hadn't seen before. I think this was also a fantastic way to show just how much time had passed while they'd been apart, and how massively things had changed for the both of them. Alongside a number of fabulously crafted characters, my visit to the Stardust Lake Hotel was just splendid. Martin has truly captured the essence of Christmas in her latest novel and it was perfect in every way possible. There was tension, chemistry and love by the plenty, and the reunion of two people who I believe fate knew would be brought together again, whether they liked it or not. Humorous, log-fire warm and completely and utterly enchanting, it was magical and a must-read this Christmas time. You'll be whisked away from reality after the first page and, if anything like me, you'll be reluctant to come back by the time you've finished! Becca's Books is awarding Christmas Under a Cranberry Sky by Holly Martin with five of my bookish cupcakes. This was everything that I hoped it would be and MORE. A truly romantic tale generously sprinkled with a hefty helping of glittering snow! Wrap up warm and allow yourself to be whisked away by Holly Martin to a place you'll never, ever want to leave. Holly lives in sunny Bedfordshire in a house with round windows. She studied media at university which led to a very glitzy career as a hotel receptionist followed by a even more glamorous two years working in a bank. The moment that one of her colleagues received the much coveted carriage clock for fifteen years’ service was the moment when she knew she had to escape. She quit her job and returned to university to train to be a teacher. Three years later, she emerged wide eyed and terrified that she now had responsibility for the development of thirty young minds. She taught for four years and then escaped the classroom to teach history workshops, dressing up as a Viking one day and an Egyptian High Priestess the next. But the long journeys around the UK and many hours sat on the M25 gave her a lot of time to plan out her stories and she now writes full time, doing what she loves. Holly has been writing for 6 years. She was shortlisted for the New Talent Award at the Festival of Romance. Her short story won the Sunlounger competition and was published in the Sunlounger anthology. She won the Carina Valentine’s competition at the Festival of Romance 2013 with her novel The Guestbook. She was shortlisted for Best Romantic Read, Best eBook and Innovation in Romantic Fiction at the Festival of Romance 2014. 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__label__cc	0.678491	0.321509	The Vegan Militia ... because we are all made out of meat! TSR Meets the Internet, Part 2 So, several months ago I wrote up my experiences with TSR in the early days of the internet. A few days ago, I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Plot Points, interviewing Shannon Appelcline, and was surprised to hear someone else involved in those long ago events. While I had some bits of history he did not (e.g. the email TSR sent to me and related names and dates) I realize I left out some details. Also, in my searching, I found another account of these events, and a detailed web site and I found Rob Repp, himself. One difference between our cases is that his site was devoted entirely to non D&D games. Which means he could laugh off the threatening letters. My site, on the other hand, covered many systems and there was a lot of D&D content, mainly because that was what I played. When I saw something on USENET of interest, I would archive it on the FTP site. As such, the D&D parts of my site were probably the only materials which I personally read. None of it was directly copied from any TSR materials. None of it, in my opinion, violated any copyrights. But what was on there? Those files are likely long gone. I think I have a DAT tape containing those files, but finding someone with such a tape drive is unlikely, and I doubt the tape would be readable after all these years. The things I do remember where things like new magic items and spells, alternate critical hits tables, alternate rules, new character sheets, new classes, etc. A big section of the site was campaign write ups, basically transcripts of sessions. Now that I think about it, the modern day equivalent would be all the live-play podcasts which are quite common nowadays (my current favorite is The Titans of All’Terra) But at that time, my favorite was Navero which, coincidentally, I finally found on rpg.net, which is the site Shannon runs. For reasons I explained in my last post on this subject, I had entirely checked out of the discussions following the lobotomizing of my FTP site. I was angry and demoralized that something I had worked for years on could be destroyed so easily, so I walked away. That was probably also contributed to my giving up role-playing games entirely a few years later. But after hearing the podcast with Shannon, my curiosity compelled me to go look at the messages on rec.games.frp.dnd, see what I had missed, and piece together a larger timeline. What follows is quite lengthy and probably of little interest to most people, but it interested me, so here it is. 12-Feb-94: This is the first hint of TSR having an online presence with a second-hand reporting of the email address tsr@genie.geis.com. 5-May-94: The earliest post I could find Rob Repp (with TSR) was this post, answering a question about out-of-print products. 12-May-94: This post from Rob Repp shows the first rumblings of trouble: Please be advised that every element of our gaming system must be licensed before you can incorporate it into a piece of software. This includes game tables, item descriptions, and any copyrighted monster/character names. Feel free to contact me by email regarding licensing. Most of the authors that have written AD&D(R) software in the past neglected this step, and we're most interested in preventing that from happening in the future. Rob Repp Manager, Digital Projects Group TSR, Inc. AOL: TSR Inc InterNet: tsrinc@aol.com InterNet: mobius@mercury.mcs.com CompuServe: 76217,761 GEnie: TSR.Online 15-Jun-94: Apparently, the anti-TSR sentiments predated all this, and the T$R epithet was already in use as shown by this collection of rants which included Rob Repp’s name in an attempt to get TSR’s attention. 28-Jun-94: Someone made an ill-advised post. In article <2uljn4$6ho@thepoint.com> John Scott, j...@thepoint.com writes: >Anyone know of an ftp site that has a monstrous compendium availible for >download? Thanks in advance. (Please email to j...@thepoint.com). I'd be interested in knowing about this one myself. :) Rob Repp \| InterNet: tsrinc@aol.com Manager, Digital Projects Group \| InterNet: mobius@mercury.mcs.com TSR, Inc. \| CompuServe: 76217,761 __________________________________ \| GEnie: TSR.Online AOL: TSR Inc All opinions are my own, not TSR's \| 414-248-3625 Fax 414-248-0389 So basically the original poster was asking “could a blatant copyright infringer please stand up?”, followed by the copyright owner expressing an interest in such a person, and surprisingly, someone did so a few weeks later (14-Jul-94): It is available at ftp/mpgn.com, version II should be out soon. Also, I should note that USENET custom at the time was to keep ‘signatures’ to less than four lines, so Rob Repp did trim his down since his first post, but I did find the last line to be most amusing. Though some people tried to argue that they could ignore everything he said since he wasn’t speaking for TSR. Nice try. 18-Jul-94: Then Rob Repp posts a message about copyright violation including this bit: We ARE aware of the fact that people want to be able to share their creative efforts with others, and we're trying to find a way to manage licenses to allow this without giving it all away.. In the meantime, any software, netbook, etc. which uses TSR copyrighted names, material, etc. is unlawful. A lengthy discussion ensues, more heat than light, as is often the case. 21-Jul-94: Someone involved in the previous discussion asked Rob Repp for clarifications, and shared the email thread, which ended with this: Let me include a copy of a policy letter we just drafted recently. Here goes: As we have begun to explore the online community in depth, we've found many avid gamers and fans. We're interested in providing you with the best in gaming products that meet our own standards of quality, as well as suiting your needs and interests. We know that many gamers develop campaigns and other materials entirely for their own use. We think this is great! However, when gamers begin sharing their creations with the public, whether for profit or not, they are infringing our rights. If we don't make an earnest attempt to prevent this infringement of our trademarks and copyrights, our ownership of these extremely valuable assets may be jeopardized. A gamer in this situation has a few options. He can strip every TSR trademark and all copyright from his creations before putting them in public (i.e. "genericize" the adventure). Or he can share his creations with the public in a way that is licensed and approved by TSR. This is the more desirable solution, as it protects our rights, and still leaves room for gamers to share their creative expressions. Sometime very soon, we're going to create a place where gamers can legally upload and share their creations, including modules, stories and software. At that time, I'd be happy to work with you to give your product a base to work from. We are definitely interested in fostering goodwill among customers, and we'd like to see our upcoming effort as a pilot project. Eventually, we want gamers to be able to turn to TSR in cyberspace as easily as they do in a hobby store. 28-Jul-94:This is when emails were sent the the sysadmins at PSU, as I related in my previous post. It appears Shannon got the same email the same day, forwarded it to a mailing list which then found its way to rec.games.frp.dnd the next day. As can be expected there was a firestorm of discussion after this. I doubt I read any of it, as final exams were a few weeks away (writing and grading final exams is more work than taking one). 1-Aug-94: Amid the firestorm, people were trying to understand the fine line between fair use and copyright infringement, and Rob replied as follows > Again, this is all missing the point. TSR can't sue me if I publish a > 'generic' adventure with the monster 'goblin' in it. But if I list that > goblin as having AC 7, 1-4 hp, THAC0 20, Intelligence Low, etc, then I'm > using TSR's copyrighted monster. If I needed the Monstrous Manual or > other TSR product to get the information for 'goblins', then I've > probably violated copyright. Note, I am NOT saying TSR can copyright > terms like Armor Class, Intelligence, etc. But, if I get the information > for goblins from a TSR product, and republish it in another form, I've > created a derivative work, and am thus liable. This interpreatation is correct. I checked with legal, and you've got it. But clearly, Rob was getting overwhelmed by the response: Due to the large volume of mail we're receiving, we're not replying to most of it personally. Copyright comments and legal questions will be archived for later examination. Policy statements will be posted to rec.games.frp.dnd. Customer service and gaming questions will be routed internally and answered as quickly as possible. I can understand this, I could not read all the messages in the firestorm that was going on, then or now. I am just cherry picking the interesting bits. 4-Aug-94: Rob posted that he would be at Gen Con For those of you who aren't entirely certain I exist, I'll be on a panel discussion regarding online services at GEN CON. David Goss, Bruce Nesmith and I will discuss proposed projects, future plans, and take questions from the audience. See you there! :) I really wonder what happened there. Was anybody there? 8-Aug-94: Some posts started speculating that Rob Repp may not exist or may not be a TSR employee and this whole thing was a prank to which Rob responded: Yes, I did PlaneScape's border art. I do exist, and I am your internet contact. Snail mail can be directed to: 201 Sheridan Springs Rd. Lake Geneva, WI 53147 ATTN: Rob Repp, Digital Projects I did, in a fit of pique at being repeatedly misquoted, deny someone's recent request to quote me wholesale. Please feel free to paraphrase the gist of that response. Actual verbose policy statements and clarifications will be forthcoming, complete with a request to repost them where-ever you Any opinions on the border art? 30-Aug-94: By now, it seems Rob Repp was keeping his head down amidst the flamewars, but when someone tried to get him to respond, he did so: Maybe I'm just ignoring you... :) Nope, I'm pretty sure that's not it. I must be busy, or maybe I just have nothing to contribute. Hmmmm, maybe I was in an accident. Nope. Ummm... "When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed." Official releases forthcoming. Meanwhile, I'm quietly watching the commentary go by. That's all, nothing too sinister. Generally, when addressing a crowd, you should say only what needs saying, lest you draw fire. In fact, this comment is probably a mistake, but I couldn't resist. 6-Sep-94: The compiler of the Net.Monstrous.Compendium apparently had worked to get explicit permission from TSR and apparently got it. The flamewars are still ongoing, though tapering off a bit. One person questioned how much this is hurting TSR, to which someone said “I’m sure they’ll survive”. Little did they know what would happen in the next few years. Someone else called for a boycott. Later that same day, Rob posted TSR’s official corporate statement: REGARDING TRADEMARKED AND COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL USED ON-LINE: TSR is now an active member of the on-line gaming community. Since Day-One, TSR products and artwork have been developed by creative people employed or hired by TSR. This has resulted in the creation of an extensive line of products, identities, names, rules, game mechanics, logos, and standards of quality, to name a few. The gaming products, novels, and publications are designed to encourage resourcefulness and creativity in play. All of these created properties are owned by TSR through national trademarks and copyrights which protect their publication electronically or published on paper. When they are published by anyone other than TSR, Inc. or their licensees, this publication becomes an infringement to TSR trademarks and copyrights. However, the gamers, designers, writers, artists, and editors who work for TSR, do not wish to inhibit role playing game play. SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR CONTINUED PLAY: WHEN USING TSR PROPERTIES: You can create material using the AD&D game mechanics, etc. and place that material on MPGNet, a licensee of TSR, or place it on AOL on TSR's new Bulletin Board. You can download anything -- graphics, games, etc. appearing on TSR AOL for your personal use. Currently, any other distribution to the general public in paper form or on the net of AD&D adventures, other TSR materials and game mechanics, or copyrighted materials is considered unauthorized. However, you CAN freely distribute or publish "generic" novels, stories, game mechanics, etc. Read on. HOW TO CREATE GENERIC MATERIAL SOME TIPS: Don't specifically use AD&D statistics. Be creative. If you want a PC to encounter a stupid but strong NPC, let the GM determine the NPC's actual stats for the game system used by that GM. If the party encounters a hydra, let the GM look up the stats for the hydra in the game system he is using. Don't set the adventures in a TSR world. Create your own or use one from history or legend. For example, you could set your adventure in Atlantis, but not in the FORGOTTEN REALMS Adventure World. Don't use monsters, spells, etc. that were created by TSR. Create and name your own. Draw on history, legend or reality even spell their actual names backward for uniqueness. Or, if a monster or spell is used in several different game systems, this is a good indication that it is not owned by TSR. For example, Drow were created by TSR, but a hydra is a known legendary monster and is public You really can get going creatively when you invent your own, unique, game mechanics . . . worlds, monsters, etc. And you are free to publish anywhere when you specifically do not rely on AD&D game mechanics or other material from TSR. With our new on-line forum on AOL, we'd like to hear from you about games, graphics, audio, and other material you'd like to download for your own gaming. Please let us know. We plan to be electronically publishing a lot of great things in the future for your gaming use. (R) and TM designate trademarks owned by TSR, Inc. (c) 1994 TSR, Inc. 4-Oct-94: More speculation that Rob Repp doesn’t work for TSR made the rounds, with Sean Reynolds (remember that name) reporting to have phoned up TSR and was transferred to him. 18-Oct-94: Someone noticed my site was butchered and reposted the entire email thread between TSR and the admins (which I stuck on the site so people would know what happened). Now that I look at this message, I see a list of the offending files, and it is pretty much what I said above, though I see a copy of the Net.Monster book which was given an official stamp of approval several weeks earlier. 26-Oct-94: I must have seen some of this as I responded to clarify why my site was butchered. I am pretty sure James Vassilakos, who I had been emailing about this privately, suggested I clarify things. An interesting side-note is found a few posts later in that same thread, when someone got Steve Jackson himself to weigh in on this: ] The answer is simple: If you're selling a separate product based on our ] material, or free-distributing something that competes with things we ] license (e.g, software), then we would keep a level of control and ask for ] a piece of the action. On free-distribution GURPS software, we go through ] a quality-control and licensing procedure but no money changes hands. ] If you're creating a fanzine, or sharing your own original stories or ] online, then more power to you. We think it's great. We make no attempt ] to license or control fanzine writers, whether their medium is print or ] electrons. The two are indistinguishable these days, really. ] If you do create something neat, it would be a courtesy to send our ] webmaster a copy and give YOUR permission for us to archive it on our own ] system for our users to enjoy. So, if I had a GURPS web site, none of this would have happened… 31-Oct-94: And the arguments continue, with another call for boycott. I chimed in about FUDGE, which I had switched to. But Rob Repp chimed in again > Does TSR regard it as illegal to play AD&D with a dozen or so people over the > Net, as opposed to playing it with a dozen or so people in my living room? We certainly do not. Saving up all the moves, however, and republishing them as a separate work would probably be an infringement. Playing by any means is fine. So this would mean live play podcasts, which are so common these days, would not have been permitted with this interpretation! 20-Jun-94: A press release about TSR Online 15-Mar-95: A hint from Rob Repp: > Could anyone tell me what the WWW Home page is for TSR? Not yet, but soon. :) 8-Apr-95: James Vassilakos reposts his email thread with Rob Repp. He wrote a lengthy article about this in his magazine “The Guildsman”. 30-May-95: Someone reposted this job notice from the ADND-L mailing list: From: "TSR, Inc." <TSR...@AOL.COM> To: Multiple recipients of list ADND-L <ADN...@UTARLVM1.UTA.EDU> Subject: Help Wanted I realize that this is an ad, but I couldn't think of a more likely bunch of people to be interested in it, so here it is. :) ONLINE COORDINATOR TSR, Inc., the international leader in fantasy game, book, and magazine publishing, has an immediate opening for a motivated, organized individual with excellent communications and technical skills to assist in development of content for commercial online services and the Internet. Qualified applicants to be familiar with current online material. Ability to contribute to development of imaginative new content. Preferred skills include: HTML and/or RMPlus scripting; Adobe Photoshop; TCP/IP software tools; experience using WWW, FTP and Usenet; and interactive multimedia development. Online event planning, forum coordinator experience a plus. Send resume and salary history to: ATTN: Human Resources or TSR...@AOL.COM 21-Jun-95: And the hiring process is done Actually, I just hired a new online coordinator. I remain the "online rep." More and more TSR people will be out on the net in the future, though. We're getting more wired all the time. A few days later Sean Reynolds reposted the TSR online policy and identified himself as “TSR Online Coordinator”. 12-Jul-95: A somewhat different post showed up on rec.games.frp.dnd: I'm Sean Reynolds, TSR's new Online Coordinator. Rob Repp has taken a job with another company, and so he is no longer here at TSR. I'll be in charge of our online contacts, including the internet, AOL, etc. Many years later, Sean wrote about being hired by TSR. 16-Aug-95: Sean answers a question about TSR trademarks, and basically says that TSR does not have a list of their trademarks and would not compile one. 21-Aug-95: Sean answered a question about a TSR web site and said things are looking up. 11-Jul-96: It would appear that Sean made it through the massive layoffs at the end of 96 based on this post I forgot to mention it yesterday, but yesterday was my first anniversary of working for TSR. This means that _today_ is the first anniversary of the day Rob Repp _left_ TSR. Later in the same thread: >Tell us, Sean, what have you learned in all that time about being >an online rep? Take several slow, deep breaths before saying anything. Good advice! 20-Dec-96: The tsrinc.com web site delayed due to InterNic, so I guess the long-promised web site was just now appearing. 10-Mar-97: Sean is separating his personal and professional personas on the net, a wise move since Sean had been posting to this newsgroup for several years before joining TSR. 3-Jun-97: WotC completes acquisition of TSR, later in the thread Sean says he got an offer. 16-Jan-98: Sean announced that he is going to leave his role as Online Coordinator and either to creative services or a different company. It appears he did get the job and worked on a number of products until WotC laid him off in 2002, read more on his Wikipedia page. After looking at all this, it appears that if I had just blocked off access to the D&D related directories, within a year the whole thing would have blown over, and, two years later TSR would have been taken over by WotC and the landscape changed entirely. Though, on the other hand, FTP sites were on their way out, and, my site would have been rapidly become a historical footnote if I didn’t transition to the web. I may have been considering such a transition around the time of these events, but I honestly don’t remember. TSR Meets the Internet I will do my best to recount my small part amidst the decline of TSR, but many of the original files are gone (or are on media which nobody can read), so the exact dates are a bit fuzzy. I had been playing AD&D since the early ‘80 while in high school with two friends, but in total isolation. I rarely met anybody else with interest in it and so our games were pretty much limited to published materials and our own attempts to concoct our own. In fact, my first DM experience was with Village of Homlett and then I tried to write the sequel promised at the end of that module. It is probably a good thing that I lost those materials. Sometime around 1988, I discovered rec.games.frp and related newsgroups on USENET. This changed everything for me, suddenly I was reading details of other people’s games, alternate rules, monsters, maps, stories, etc. This cross-pollination greatly improved my own game and rejuvenated my interest. I started buying material for the new Forgotten Realms setting and started a campaign based on it. Within a couple of years, my university got connected to the internet, and we set up an ftp server on a Tektronix workstation sitting in the computer science lab (on more than one occasion the FTP site was down because a student bumped the network equipment behind that machine). One of the first things I did was start collecting the useful bits from rec.games.frp and populating my ftp site. On 10-Apr-90 I sent an announcement to rec.games.frp, and even more things started coming in and the site grew by leaps and bounds. In early 1994 I took a new job. A few months later, an email was forwarded to me by my successor: Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 17:28:59 –0400 From: TSRInc@aol.com To: postmaster@rigel.cs.pdx.edu Subject: TSR Copyrighted Material SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR: Your site was recently included in a list of noted FTP sites for DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS and ADVANCED DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS gaming material. You should be aware that DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS and all related marks and properties are copyrighted by TSR, Inc. of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. You should also be aware that any items created without a specific license are infringements of TSR copyrights. Such items include (but are not limited to) any software, net.books, modules, tables, stories, or rules modifications which contain elements from our copyrighted properties, including characters, settings, realm names, noted magic items, spells, elements of the gaming system, such as ARMOR CLASS, HIT DICE, and so forth. To date, TSR has not licensed any of these net On behalf of TSR, Inc. I ask that you examine your public net sites at this time and remove any material which infringes on TSR copyrights. Our intention is to find a way to license these and future creative efforts. In the meantime, remove them from your sites without delay. Please feel free to contact me with comments or questions. I will refer any pertinent queries to our legal department as soon as I receive them. Rob Repp, Manager, Digital Projects Group, TSR, Inc. At this point in my life I was not prepared to deal with this: I had just taken a new job, I was a junior engineer frantically trying to learn new software and how to keep builds, and everything else, going. I was also teaching a system administration class at the University, and I was in the process of buying a house and preparing to move. So this was really the last thing I needed on my plate. I was pretty angry about all of this, as I had nothing on my ftp site which infringed any copyrights. I read most everything that went onto the site, and I never would have permitted anything which outright copied TSR materials. Apparently, someone in TSR leadership must have felt than any fan-generated work represented competition that had to be stamped out. Since it was quite unlikely that any of these fans were capable of challenging TSR in court, it was an easy win for them. As a result of all that, I don’t think I took any action. But TSR had been mailing other admins all over the University, and they shut down the site in September. They let me go in and pick out the non-D&D material and set up a new site. Over the next few weeks I butchered out 70 megs of stuff and brought the revised site back (here’s a message I posted about this). I sent mail to the TSR representative asking them to review in case I missed anything, but I never heard anything either way. Since I had a fairly well-known FTP site and a lot of naive youthful enthusiasm, I thought I could have an impact on TSR. So put a README on the site explaining what happened to most of the content and encouraged everyone to boycott TSR. Within a week I had a manifesto posted there, further encouraging people to adopt freely distributed gaming systems to avoid this whole issue. If TSR wasn’t going to be nice to the fan community, we should abandon them. I had been active in the GNU Project for several years and clearly had delusions that I could be the Richard Stallman of FRP games. Hah! I looked at various game systems and settled on FUDGE. I set to work reformatting the plain text rules into HTML and put that on the ftp site. Then I started putting together a fantasy supplement which was intended for former D&D players like me. That effort never got past an outline and a Texinfo formatted document (with no content). My gaming group started playing using FUDGE, but designing a game system is hard work, and the gaming sessions were not as much fun and both the game sessions and the fantasy FUDGE effort fizzled. As this was going on, the arguments on rec.games.frp.dnd continued, though I was largely detached from that for the reasons mentioned above. Looking at the archives on Google Groups, it appears that the discussions continued for several years, with many people (including me) using the epithet T$R to represent the company’s apparent greed. About 30 people pulled together a mailing list about the TSR situation, and some discussion ensued, both about legal options and alternatives like FUDGE. Unfortunately, this also quickly fizzed. The last email was in December of that year. One of the leading people in those discussions wrote an extensive article about this in his “Guildsman” fanzine. You can see this via the Wayback Machine. So, what happened then? I don’t know, I barely thought about D&D until recently, so I had no idea what happened. Here’s what I have pieced together: It would appear that this legal action was part of TSR’s death spiral (listen to Why Did TSR Fail for details), and the bankrupt company was bought by Wizards of the Coast whose attitude towards the fan community was entirely different. The next edition of D&D was made freely available, which was a total reversal in policies. It seems like there is a lot of fan/3rd party material available, including on Roll20, DM’s Guild, and others. So, with that, I officially retract my call for boycott, though I suspect only a handful of people remember it, and the only people still following it had, like me, abandoned gaming for other reasons. Since I started this article I bought the D&D Starter Set, so it is now officially official. Satanic Regret On a recent vacation I was driving through Utah and passed through Heber City. I had just started reading “Of Dice and Men” and the next day read the chapter about the Satanic Panic and this excerpt: In May of 1980, parents in the “solidly Mormon” farming town of Heber City, Utah, convinced their local school board to shut down an after-school D&D club and acused its organizers “of working with the Antichrist and of fomenting Communist subversion.” Local Christian minister Norman Springer told The New York Times that the game was “very definitely” antireligious: These books are filled with things that are not fantasy, but are actual in the real demon world and can be very dangerous for anyone involved in the game because it leaves them so open to Satanic spirits.” This encapsulates my only regret about the vacation: that I did not get a picture of myself by the town sign holding a D&D book. By the time I read the above passage, I was a hundred miles away and wouldn’t be back there. For more details of what happened in this city in 1980 see this paper. I do not recalling hearing about any of these things when I started playing D&D just a few years later with a couple of high school friends. But soon after, I happened upon a copy of Jack Chick’s Dark Dungeons. At first, I found it hilariously wrong on so many fronts. But then I became more alarmed, knowing that my home town had many people who would actually believe this, in fact, almost certainly so, given I found the pamphlet in a local grocery store. And one friend had informed me a year earlier that I would be going to Hell for not believing his brand of Christianity. So a good old-fashioned book burning was not out of the realm of possibility. My D&D hobby was not something I talked about at school because I knew it would be just more fuel for ridicule and bullying. But now I had another reason to keep it to myself; bullying is one thing, but bullying in the name of self-righteous superstition and fear is far more dangerous beast (as some of my ancestors found out). However, I continued to think about why people had such reactions to D&D. It seemed that there were some pretty profound misunderstandings of the game. For example after one game one of our parents asked who won, underscoring how D&D was different from other games. I started comparing D&D to other games. First, chess. One one hand you have a game where you play a single individual and you have to face the consequences of your actions in the game. But with chess, the entire goal it to wipe out the enemy, pushing your hapless pawns (peasants) and other servants to their deaths, all to defend the relatively impotent king. That’s real wholesome: everyone and everything must be sacrificed to save some spoiled inbred brat whose only qualification for the job was who their daddy was. What about Monopoly? The entire goal it build up a financial empire, largely via luck of the dice, to dominate and destroy your other opponents. Another wholesome message. Poker? Take everyone else’s money. Actually it is hard to think of a game that does not involve defeating other players. Even when there are teams, they are generally trying to defeat other teams. I think role playing games (like D&D) are unique in that all players work cooperatively towards a goal (which is usually to defeat evil monsters). Everyone collaborates to tell a shared story with an element of chance thrown in at every opportunity (via the dice). There are no winners, or, perhaps, they are all winners. With that in mind, the “communist subversion” accusation mentioned above makes a bit more sense. I mean, the nerve of people, to suggest working cooperatively! Next thing you know, they will be kind to their neighbors and start loving their enemies, a suggestion which got one man nailed to a tree 2000 years ago. The common refrain back during the satanic panic was about people committing suicide or murder because of D&D. If a person is driven to such acts because of a game, the problem is mental illness, not the game. If a person is that detached from reality, most anything could set them off (e.g. a Beatles song, The Catcher in the Rye, Jodie Foster, etc.) It is an interesting coincidence that the people who asserted that D&D contains actual occult material and that you could actually summon evil spirits with it, also show an obvious detachment from reality. That isn’t to say that book burning is as bad as murder, but both are acts which can only happen when one has detached themselves from reality and their moral compass. The accusation of “satanic” is, of course, laughable, but it is clear that such beliefs have not gone away, as I was writing this, a pastor at a Catholic school in Nashville banned Harry Potter books claiming: “These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception. The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text,” While I do not believe that it is possible to summon evil sprits (since I doubt such things even exist), but it is apparently possible to summon medieval superstitions, even in the 21st century. For more details, read this. I could go on further, but others have explored this at length, The Plot Points Podcast has several relevant episodes: The Satanic Panic and Demons & Devils & Dungeons & Dragons: A Brief History and the book Dangerous Games seems to be an in-depth treatment of this topic; I plan on reading it. You can listen to an interview with the author. Dungeons and/or Dragons It is one of those mid-summer days, and my daughter is struggling to find something to do. After several rounds of “I’m bored” and my unsympathetic response (“Bored? I was bored once… in 1974!”), I put on my headphones and pretend I’m having a meeting so I can focus on work. A while later I go out to get some tea, and I find her with a bunch of papers and dice, making up a story using the dice to determine what would happen next. That seemed familiar! Something I had not thought seriously about for about two decades came to mind: Dungeons and Dragons. Let the rambling history begin… I had started playing in high school. My friend Lance played D&D, told me about it, and loaned me one of the basic set red books to read. I was enthused about it, but for some reason nothing came of that other than a few drawings of dragons. Several months passed before we finally started playing, and this included a new kid at school named Chris (in fact, it may have been the third person that gave us the impetus to start). The trio of us played for many years, with other friends and relations coming and going over the years. Chris enlisted in the military and was gone for several years, though the rest of us kept things going. It was a great day when Chris returned, not just to have him back in our games, but then he started DMing again and was also studying literature in college. The combination of that influence and the fantastic Judge’s Guild campaign materials made for some of the best D&D I ever played. There are many things I could relate here, including the various campaign settings we used (including Judge’s Guild), my activities on the Internet and TSR’s legal threats, an alternative RPG system we started using, and probably other things I will remember at some point, but I will leave that for other posts. But, by the late ‘90s, our gaming sessions gradually became less frequent as life started intruding (girlfriends, wives, houses, career, etc). I can’t quite remember how our last session ended, but I’m sure we couldn’t figure out the next date and said we would stay in touch and come up with another date. That never happened. Soon after, I changed jobs, sold my house, moved to a distant city, and a whole lot of other things happened (some glimpses of this can be found way back in this blog). So it wasn’t so much a matter of putting away “childish things”, but rather all the non-childish things took over and began a long period of amnesia. So, now we are back to the present and I’m thinking wistfully about D&D. Almost all of my gaming materials were lost long ago in one of my many moves. How can I get back into it? Might my daughter be interested? Can I locate Lance and Chris and renew our friendship, and perhaps gaming? So this is probably the start of many writings from my odd perspective of having played AD&D back in the day, and now coming back to it and looking back on the management changes and 4 editions which happened in the meantime, much like the proverbial “unfrozen caveman”. Here’s a short version of my first impressions: I am pleased to see what seems to be a total renaissance. The backwards handling of the internet and fan works in the 90’s seems to have been entirely reversed (with the core rules being freely available, with numerous fan works), the core materials seem to much higher quality than I have ever seen. Furthermore, it seems that the game is now being embraced by many outside of the geek culture and is enjoying a wide acceptance than I ever would have thought possible. I could ramble on further, but instead, I’ll try to write on specific topics in the future; first on my list is TSR’s handling of the internet which directly affected me. 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__label__cc	0.583832	0.416168	A blog focused on the translation of Xianxia novels Home About Archive Contact us Donations Heaven Awakening Path Martial God Sin City Teaser Suggestions Immortal Executioner Subscribe to weletranslations: weletranslations Translating since 1917 Chapter 57 - To Protect. toomuchnoob Anyone while mentioning Godou’s slogan of surpassing the four major institutes, when he’d just established the Zhai Feng, would mention it as a joke. This included Zhai Feng’s teachers, students, even the currently focussed Xi Fan and Mo Lin. However, Chu Ming hadn’t done so. Her voice was extremely tranquil and contained no ridicule as she mentioned this slogan, just as if she’d merely stated a fact. A little bit of regret in her voice was not because of ‘surpassing the four institutes’, but because Godou’s target had become Zhi Ling region’s Grand Soul Convention. Of course, in comparison to the four major institutes, Zhi Ling region’s Grand Soul Convention didn’t amount to anything. Some people would even say that this kind of regional convention’s level was same as about a random test in the four major institutes, not to mention the Dou Soul Convention which was combinedly hosted by all the four major institutes and happened only once in four years; being one of the gatherings of the continent’s most renowned and the strongest people. It could be compared to the three grand empire’s Selection Of Geniuses. The three grand empire’s Selection Of Geniuses occurred once in three years. Since it was the selection of geniuses, it required even more detailed judgement with respect to participant’s capabilities. Therefore, for all the six souls, separate assessments were conducted, namely: Soul Selection. Dou Soul Convention and the Soul Selection were the two most renowned conventions on the continent and were considered to be the highest accomplishment for a cultivator. On the other hand, gatherings like Zhi Ling region’s Grand Conventions were plenty. A region, a city, or even a cause, could pull together such gatherings. Zhi Ling region’s Grand Soul Convention, among continent’s numerous gatherings, was considerably influential. In the southern region, it was the most influential gathering. Occurring inside the Mysterious Arms empire, aside from the Soul Selection, it was one of the most highly valued gatherings by the empire. Even, the Cheng Phoenix and Cyan Peak, the other two empires would also dispatch secret scouts during this time period to observe the strength of every year’s participants and coerce geniuses. Participating in Zhi Ling region’s Grand Soul Convention was already akin to a proof of strength in the minds of numerous cultivators. However, Chu Min seemed quite disapproving towards the Grand Soul Convention. Xi Fan and Mo Lin once again exchanged a glance. They didn’t know what to say. Perhaps Chu Min had the strength to look down on the Grand Soul Convention, however, with their current strength, even this was overstating their capabilities. “Ah! First, settle down.” Chu Min said: ” Outside the door, two rooms, left and right. Help yourselves.” “How are these two?” Xi Fan said. “The girl’s strength soul is extremely formidable, but the burden it puts on her body also exceeds ordinary people’s. She is at her limit.” She said and turned her vision towards the corner of the room where Lu Ping was half buried inside books. “This one… is a fool.” Chu Min said without a trace of politeness. However as she spoke, her vision displayed a trace of liveliness which had never been seen. It seemed like delight, hope, or something else. What was it? Xi Fan couldn’t discern. “You should first go back and rest.” Chu Min commanded. The two individuals went to the rooms outside the door. Both rooms were approximately the same; both had a lot of books and dust. However, this moment, neither of the two cared about these things. Even Xi Fan, who’d used another people as a means of transportation, was mentally exhausted at this moment. He sank into deep slumber almost immediately. Early morning. Lu Ping immediately sprang up to his feet as soon as he woke up. Hua! A lot of books rummaged down. Lu Ping found himself in an ocean of books. Wherever he looked, he only saw books. However, Lu Ping wasn’t concerned about this fact at all, his only thought was Su Tang. However, no other individual was present in the room. Surrounded by gigantic trees, the entire library always seemed dim regardless day or night. However, in this room, one spot was exceptionally illuminated. Lu Ping, who could not find anyone in the room, hurriedly went towards that spot. At that spot was a window. The gigantic trees were sparing a passage connecting the window to the sky. The window was facing east. Due to the eastward morning sun, this was the time when the window was the most illuminated throughout the entire day, and the sunshine wasn’t obstructed in the slightest as it entered. As Lu Ping stood by the window with his reflection being laterally extended, he suddenly felt that this window might be an exit. Subsequently, he heard voices of conversation and saw people outside the window. Su Tang and that drunkard woman were at an empty piece of land in the woods outside the window. He jumped out of the window. Soon after, Su Tang spotted him and waved her hands: “Lu Ping.” Lu Ping hurriedly stepped forward. He’d obviously not forgotten what occurred before he’d passed out. So, what’s up with this woman? “Lu Ping, this is teacher Chu Min.” Su Tang introduced Lu Ping as he arrived a bit closer. ‘She is Chu Ming?’ Lu Ping had his vision on Chu Ming. She still looked the exact same as she’d at the congee shop; whole body reeking of alcohol and a bottle of wine in her hand. Upon seeing Lu Ping’s vision was still somewhat reserved, she suddenly took a step and was instantly behind Su Tang, with her hand placed on Su Tang’s shoulder. She was so strong that she wouldn’t have faced any difficulty in taking Su Tang’s life with just this move had she wished to do so. Lu Ping immediately clenched his fists. He hadn’t moved, but was extremely frustrated. He could discern that Chu Min had no malice, but what if she had? What if she had not stopped and had claimed Su Tang’s life? Could he have stopped it? The answer frightened Lu Ping. However, Chu Min smiled. “You can certainly achieve if you have the determination in your heart? This is just a naive and childish thinking. You need true strength. Whether the opponent is treacherous, calm, cunning, desperate, nothing could gain the slightest upper-hand in your presence; the true strength. A strength no one could contest. Only then you will be able to properly protect what you want to protect without any regrets.” “Teacher Chu Min…” Su Tang, who had been pretentiously captured by Chu Min, spoke at this moment. “I won’t just be protected….” Before finishing, her head suddenly struck backward. Using head as a weapon is undoubtedly dangerous. However, Chu Min could discern that Su Tang had not been so audacious just because she was being pretentiously threatened. It was because what she just said; she would not just be protected. She was striving to protect Lu Ping as well. Chu Ming quickly dodged the strike. However, at this moment, Lu Ping had already arrived and was standing alongside Su Tang. None of them cowered, and none of them wished to be just protected. These two individuals, if one happened to be inside a fire, the other would also certainly be inside a fire as well. They supported each other, relied on each other, and protected each other. They would only choose to advance or retreat together. For them, protecting oneself was protecting the other, and protecting the other was also protecting oneself. Between them, there was no characterization of weak and strong based on strength. Chu Min could have continued to act. She could still have defeated them. She wouldn’t even have to use any strength. But she stopped, and her face revealed an unfeigned smile. “So it actually turned out like this.” “You are very good. You are also very good. You both are very good.” « Previous Chapter Next Chapter » If you want to support this translation but can't donate, consider adding us to your ad blocker's whitelist. We take intrusive ads very seriously, please contact us if you come across a malicious ad! 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__label__cc	0.744176	0.255824	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease medical therapy (Redirected from Emphysema medical therapy) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Microchapters Differentiating Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from other Diseases Epidemiology and Demographics Natural History, Complications and Prognosis History and Symptoms Laboratory Findings Chest X Ray Echocardiography or Ultrasound Other Diagnostic Studies Primary Prevention Future or Investigational Therapies Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease medical therapy On the Web American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease medical therapy Echo & Ultrasound CT Images Ongoing Trials at Clinical Trials.gov US National Guidelines Clearinghouse FDA on Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease medical therapy CDC on Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease medical therapy Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease medical therapy in the news Blogs on Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease medical therapy Directions to Hospitals Treating Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Risk calculators and risk factors for Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease medical therapy Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editors-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2], Priyamvada Singh, MBBS [3]; Tarek Nafee, M.D. [4]; Omodamola Aje B.Sc, M.D. [5] Currently, no treatment has been found to be completely curative against chronic obstructive pulmonary disease except lung transplant. The management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) aims to improve lung function and quality of life. Initial treatment of COPD includes either a Beta 2 receptor agonist or an anticholinergic agent. Both anticholinergics and beta adrenergic receptor agonists have proved to be equally beneficial but the combination of the two has shown synergistic effects. Long acting bronchodilators are more beneficial than short-acting bronchodilators. Systemic steroids and antimicrobial agents are also used in the treatment of acute exacerbations. Many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease require oxygen therapy. One of the most important aspects of treatment is avoidance of tobacco smoke and removal of other air pollutants from the patient’s home or workplace. Goal of Therapy Improve symptoms Reduce exacerbation Improve quality of life Improve a patient's functional capacity General Therapy Patient education session about the disease, a self-treatment plan for exacerbations, and a monthly follow-up call from hospital or nurse practitioner , is associated with a lower hospitalization rate and fewer emergency department visits [1][2] Treatment of COPD requires a careful and thorough evaluation by a physician. The most important aspect of treatment is avoiding tobacco smoke and removing other air pollutants from the patient’s home or workplace. Patients who have low arterial pressure of oxygen (Pao2) are considered for supplemental home oxygen therapy. Oral and inhaled medications are used for patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to reduce dyspnea, improve exercise tolerance, and prevent complications. Symptoms such as coughing or wheezing can be treated with bronchodilators like subcutaneous medications, beta-adrenergics, methylxanthines, and anticholinergics. They act via decreasing muscle tone in small and large airways in the lungs. Respiratory infections should be treated with antibiotics, if appropriate. Nutritional support forms an integral part of management for COPD patients. COPD patients commonly have hypoxemia {PaO2 (partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood) of < 55 mm Hg or oxygen saturation of less than 90%} Oxygen administration reduces mortality rates in patients with severe COPD (resting or exercise induced SpO2≤88) because of the favorable effects on pulmonary hemodynamics. Oxygen therapy may reduce dyspnea in COPD patients with mild or no hypoxemia. [3] Trials have shown long-term oxygen therapy (15-19 hours/day) to improves survival in severe COPD patients and thus long term oxygen therapy for hypoxemic patients (paO2 < 55 mm Hg), patients with polycythemia and paO2 < 59mm Hg or cor pulmonale is recommended. These patients require re-evaluation in 1-3 months whether they require long term oxygen therapy or not.[4] Among patients with stable COPD and moderate resting or exercise-induced desaturation (SpO2, 89 to 93), long-term oxygen therapy does not demonstrate benefit in time to death or time to first hospitalization after initiation of therapy.[4] Home oxygen supplementation are also recommended for patients who are well at rest but develop hypoxemia during exertion. Oxygen therapy generally is safe. Oxygen toxicity from high inspired concentrations (>60%) is well recognized. Additionally, there are concerns about carbon dioxide retention caused as a result of decreased respiratory drive due to increased oxygen concentration. This complication can be best avoided by maintaining PaO2 at 60-65 mm Hg The major physical hazards of oxygen therapy are fires or explosions thus patients, and others must be warned to avoid smoking. It is simple and well tolerated. A liter of oxygen increases 3-4% of FiO2 (fraction of inspired oxygen). Nasal oxygen delivery also is beneficial for most mouth-breathing patients. Humidification generally is not necessary when the patient receives oxygen by nasal cannula at flows of less than 5 L/min. Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NIPPV) It allows the delivery of positive-pressure ventilation without the use of an endotracheal tube It has a tight-fitting nasal or facial mask that is attached to a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or a bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP) machine. The positive pressure is beneficial in hypercapneic respiratory failure by decreasing the work of breathing. NIPPV has been shown to decrease the need for endotracheal intubation, duration of hospital stay, morbidity and mortality. Contraindication for use Patients unable to protect airway Hemodynamically unstable Have significant secretions Uncooperative Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) score of greater than 29. The Canadian Critical Care Trials Group and the Canadian Critical Care Society Noninvasive Ventilation Guidelines Group issued guidelines (2011) encourages use of NIPPV or CPAP for patients in acute care with respiratory failure. Some of the important NIPPV facts are- NIPPV should be the first-line choice for supporting patients with a severe exacerbation of COPD. Routine use of helium-oxygen is not recommended with NIPPV in patients with severe exacerbation of COPD. Close patient monitoring and 24-hour availability of an experienced rescue team in case noninvasive ventilation fails and rapid intervention is required. Smoking cessation is one of the most important therapeutic intervention for COPD. Most patients with COPD have a history of smoking. Behavioral counseling (< 10 min) and pharmacotherapy are each effective alone. However, they have synergistic effect together. Supervised use of pharmacologic agents is an important adjunct to self-help and group smoking cessation programs. Nicotine addiction is quite strong and cessation at times is difficult. Withdrawal from nicotine may cause unpleasant adverse effects, like anxiety, irritability, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, drowsiness, depression, and sleep disruption. If a smoker requires cigarette as an eye opener in the morning (within 30 minutes of waking), the individual is considered to be highly addicted and would benefit from nicotine replacement therapy. Nicotine Replacement Therapies Trade name - Nicorette, Nicorette Plus Available doses - 2 mg, 4 mg Form - Oral, is a chewing gum Advantage - Better quit rates than counseling alone. An individual who smokes 1 pack per day should use 4-mg pieces. The 2-mg should be used by one who smokes less than 1 pack per day. Patients can chew hourly and also as and when needed for their initial cravings for 2 weeks. Gradually reduce the amount chewed over the next 3 months. Transdermal Nicotine Patches Trade name - NicoDerm, Nicotrol, and Habitrol. Success rates better compared with placebo. Well tolerated, adverse effects are limited to local skin reactions. Class - Antidepressant Trade name - Zyban It enhances central nervous system nonadrenergic function. Advantage - Better results compared to placebo Bupropion may be effective in patients who failed to quit smoking with nicotine replacement therapy. Trade name - Chantix It is a partial agonist selective for alpha4, beta2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Acts by binding to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and produces agonist activity and preventing nicotine binding. Pneumococcal vaccine should be given to all patients older than 65 years or to patients of any age with FEV1 of < 40% of predicted. The influenza vaccine should be given annually to all COPD patients. Contraindicated medications Acute exacerbation of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is considered an absolute contraindication to the use of the following medications: Brimonidine tartrate and Timolol maleate levobunolol hydrochloride Timolol Diclofenamide Fluticasone/salmeterol Beta Adrenergic Receptor Agonists Short Acting Selective B2 Agonist Used for symptomatic relief during acute mild, exacerbation Mechanism of action - Increases intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate via activation of B2 -adrenergic receptors on smooth muscle cells of airway and causes smooth muscle relaxation. These agents are less effective in COPD compared to Asthma Patients may not have increase in peak flows with treatment. However, it should be continued as it offers symptomatic relief. The inhaled route is preferred as there is less systemic absorption thus less side-effects. The adverse effects include tachycardia, tremors and cardiac arrhythmia. Drugs available are: Albuterol, Metaproterenol, Pirbuterol Used for bronchospasm refractory to epinephrine. Route - Inhaled Levalbuterol Albuterol is a racemic mixture containing both R and S enantiomer. The S enantiomer doesn't bind to Beta 2 receptor and maybe the cause of side-effects. On the other hand, levalbuterol has only active R enantiomer thus causes less side-effects. It is used for both treatment and prevention of bronchospasm. Long Acting Beta-2 Adrenergic Receptor Agonist The long acting beta 2 receptor agonist are used to alleviate chronic persistent symptoms They help to increase exercise tolerance, prevent nocturnal dyspnea, and improve quality of life. Long-acting beta-agonists include salmeterol, formoterol, arformoterol, and indacaterol. They all require twice-daily dosing, except for indacaterol. Bronchodilating effect lasts more than 12 hours. Indacaterol is administered once daily. Salmeterol, Formoterol, Arformoterol Relieve bronchospasms. Facilitate expectoration, improve symptoms and morning peak flows. Used in addition to anticholinergic agents. Arformoterol Higher potency than racemic formoterol. Indacaterol Indacaterol a long-acting beta2-agonist (LABA) is used for long-term, once-daily maintenance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [5]. It is not for use as initial therapy in patients with acute deteriorating COPD. Anticholinergic drugs act as a competitive inhibitor of acetylcholine and block their action on postganglionic muscarinic receptors, thus inhibiting cholinergically mediated bronchspasm and resulting in bronchodilatation. They block vagally mediated reflex arcs that cause bronchoconstriction. Reported adverse effects include dry mouth, metallic taste, and prostatic symptoms. Studies have found an increased incidence of acute urinary retention in patient above 66 years using inhaled anticholinergic medications than in nonusers [6]. Ipratropium They have similar efficacy as beta 2 adrenergic receptor agonist. They have a synergistic effect on broncho-dilatation when combined with beta 2 agonist. They have a slower onset and longer duration of action. Thus, lesser helpful in use on an as-needed basis. Dose - 2-4 puffs at 6-8 hour duration. Tiotropium It is the only long-acting muscarinic (once daily) anti-cholinergic agent available at this time It has become a first-line therapy in patients with persistent symptoms. It is more effective than salmeterol in preventing exacerbation [7] Phosphodiesterase Inhibitor Xanthine Derivatives (Theophylline) (Non Specific) Causes inhibition of enzyme phosphodiesterase (non-specific) that in turn increases cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), causing the relaxation of bronchial smooth muscles. It is mostly used as an adjunctive agent and reserved in non-responsive patients or patients having difficulty in using inhaled agents. It has a narrow therapeutic index and adverse effects, like anxiety, tremors, insomnia, nausea, cardiac arrhythmia (multifocal atrial tachycardia), and seizures above the therapeutics range. Previously the recommended target range was 15-20 mg/dL. However, now it has been reduced to 8-13 mg/dL. It is metabolized via cytochrome P 450 system. Thus, the plasma concentration of theophylline is affected by age, cardiac status, and liver abnormalities. Phosphodiesterase Type 4 Inhibitors (Specific) Cilomilast, Roflumilast Second generation, selective phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitors. Decreases inflammatory mediators like macrophages and CD8 lymphocytes. Roflumilast helps in reducing exacerbations, improve dyspnea, and increase lung function in patients with severe COPD. However, Roflumilast has not gained FDA approval for clinical use, largely because of side effects including significant nausea. Cilomilast another drug in this class is still in preliminary clinical trials. It is administered orally and is given in 15mg dose twice daily. Systemic (high doses intravenous) and inhaled corticosteroids act as anti-inflammatory agents and reduce the course of the disease, symptoms, treatment failure and need for additional therapy. The use of systemic steroids in the treatment of acute exacerbation is widely done. The 2011 ICSI guidelines conclude that inhaled steroids are appropriate in patients with recurrent exacerbation of COPD. Studies have shown inhaled corticosteroids along with long acting beta agonist to be more beneficial than inhaled steroid alone. Studies have shown an increased risk of pneumonia in patients treated with inhaled corticosteroids. The debate continues on the use of inhaled corticosteroids and the risk for pneumonia in patients with COPD [8], [9]. Use of oral steroids in stable COPD patients is not encouraged due to increased adverse effects due to steroid use (hypertension, glucose intolerance, osteoporosis, fractures, and cataracts). Macrolides like azithromycin have been occasionally used in treatment of COPD due to their anti-inflammatory properties [10], [11]. However, due to increased incidences of hearing loss and development of antibiotics resistance with azithromycin use, it has not been used on wide scales. Common organism involved in acute exacerbation of COPD are S pneumonia, H. influenza, M catarrhalis and rarely P aeruginosa. Antibiotics are commonly used in the treatment of acute exacerbation or suggestive of infection. However, regular long term antibiotics used for prevention of COPD exacerbation is not encouraged. Doxycycline has shown superior results for clinical cure, microbiological outcome, use of open label antibiotics, and symptoms. Beta Adrenergic Receptor Blocker COPD patients have increased risks of cardiovascular diseases. However, non-selective beta blockers have been found to increase the risks of bronchospasm and thus not recommended in these patients. Interestingly, a study has shown that addition of cardioselective beta-blocker along with standard inhaled COPD treatment with beta 2 selective agonist didn't affect the pulmonary function of the patients. Additionally, it reduce COPD exacerbation, hospital admission and all causes mortality during a follow up of 4.35 years with 5977 COPD patients [12] Mucolytic The efficacy of mucolytic agents in the treatment of COPD remains controversial. The oral agent N -acetylcysteine has antioxidant and mucolytic properties (decreases sputum viscosity and secretion) and is used to treat patients with COPD When used as an inhalational therapy, N -acetylcysteine should be administered along with a bronchodilator such as albuterol in order to counteract potential induction of bronchospasm. Route of Therapy Inhaled delivery is preferred over the oral route as there is less systemic absorption via inhaled route thus less adverse effects. However, some patients may have difficulty achieving effective delivery of the medication using a metered-dose inhaler. Use of spacer or nebulizer may be beneficial in them. GOLD Recommendations for Management of COPD Degree of airway obstruction Stage I Influenza vaccine (decrease risk) Short acting Beta 2 receptor agonist Stage II Long-acting bronchodilator Stage III Inhaled steroids in case of frequent exacerbation Stage IV Very severe or moderate with evidence of chronic respiratory failure Long term oxygen therapy Lung transplant can be considered Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease treatment Preferred regimen Beta2-agonist (1) Short acting: Fenoterol 100-200 mcg metered dose inhaler; 1 mg/ml solution for nebulizer ; 0.05 % syrup oral, duration of action 4-6 hrs OR Levalbuterol 45-90 mcg metered dose inhaler; 0.21 mg/ml -0.42 mg/ml solution for nebulizer ; duration of action 6-8 hrs OR Salbutamol 100-200 mcg metered dose inhaler and dry powder inhaler; 5 mg/ml solution for nebulizer ; 5 mg pill ; 0.024 % syrup oral; 0.1 mg, 0.5 mg vials for injection ; duration of action 4-6 hrs OR Terbutaline 400-500 mcg dry powder inhaler and 2.5 mg,5 mg pill oral, duration of action 4-6 hrs (2) Long acting : Formoterol 4.5 mcg-12 mcg metered dose inhaler and dry powder inhaler ; 0.01 mg/ml solution for nebulizer ; duration of action 12 hrs OR Arformoterol 0.0075 mg/ml solution for nebulizer ; duration of action 12 hrs OR Indacaterol 75 mcg-300 mcg dry powder inhaler; duration of action 24 hrs OR Salmeterol 25 mcg-50 mcg metered dose inhaler and dry powder inhaler ; duration of action 12 hrs OR Tulobuterol 2 mg transdermal ; duration of action 24 hrs (1) Short acting: Ipratropium bromide 20 mcg-40 mcg metered dose inhaler; duration of action 6-8 hrs OR Oxitropium bromide 100 mcg metered dose inhaler; duration of action 7-9 hrs (2) Long acting: Aclidinium bromide 322 mcg dry powder inhaler; duration of action 12 hrs OR Glycopyrronium bromide 44 mcg dry powder inhaler; duration of action 24 hrs OR Tiotropium 18 mcg; 5 mcg soft mist inhaler; duration of action 24 hrs OR Umeclidinium 62.5 mcg dry powder inhaler; duration of action 24 hrs Combination of short acting beta2 agonist and anticholinergics in one inhaler: Fenoterol/Ipratropium bromide 200-80 mcg metered dose inhaler; 0.25-0.5 solution for nebulizer; duration of action 6-8 hrs OR Salbutamol/Ipratropium bromide 100-20 mcg soft mist inhaler; 1.5 solution for nebulizer; duration of action 6-8 hrs Combination of long acting beta2 agonist and anticholinergics in one inhaler: Formoterol/Aclidinium bromide 12 mcg/340 mcg dry powder inhaler; duration of action 12 hrs OR Indacaterol/Glycopyrronium bromide 85 mcg/43 mcg dry powder inhaler; duration of action 24 hrs OR Vilanterol/Umeclidinium 25 mcg/62.5 mcg dry powder inhaler; duration of action 24 hrs Methylxanthines: Aminophylline 200-600 mg pill oral; 240 mg injection OR Theophylline 100-600 mg pill oral; duration of action variable upto 24 hrs Inhaled corticosteroids: Beclomethasone 50 mcg-400 mcg metered dose inhaler and dry powder inhaler; 0.2 mg/ml-0.4 mg/ml solution for nebulizer OR Budesonide 100 mcg,200 mcg,400 mcg dry powder inhaler; 0.20 mg/ml, 0.25mg/ml ,0.5 mg/ml solution for nebulizer OR Fluticasone 50 mcg-500 mcg metered dose inhaler and dry powder inhaler Combination of long acting beta2 agonist and corticosteroids in one inhaler: Formoterol/Beclomethasone 6/100 metered dose inhaler, dry powder inhaler OR Formoterol/Budesonide 4.5/160 metered dose inhaler ; 9/320 dry powder inhaler OR Formoterol/Mometasone 10/200 metered dose inhaler ; 10/400 metered dose inhaler OR Salmeterol/Fluticasone 50/100,250,500 dry powder inhaler OR Vilanterol/Fluticasone furoate 25/100 dry powder inhaler Systemic corticosteroids: Prednisolone 5 mg,60 mg pill oral; Methylprednisolone 4 mg,8 mg,16 mg pill oral Phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitors: Roflumilast 500 mcg pill oral; duration of action is 24 hrs. Note: Formoterol nebulized solution is based on the unit dose containing 20 mcg in a volume of 2.0 ml. Alternative regimen (1) Influenza vaccination containing killed or live inactivated virus is more effective in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (2) Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine is recommended for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in elderly patients 65 years and older, and also in younger patient with significant comorbid conditions such as cardiac disease.This vaccine also shown to reduce the incidence of community acquired pneumonia in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients younger than age 65 years with an FEV1< 40 % predicted. Alpha-1 antitrypsin augmentation therapy Young patients with severe hereditary alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and established significant emphysema may be the candidates for alpha-1 antitrypsin augmentation therapy. The use of antibiotics, other than for treating infectious exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other bacterial infections is currently not indicated. Mucolytics (mucokinetic and mucoregulator) and antioxidant agents (ambroxol, erdosteine, carbocysteine, iodinated glycerol, N-acetylcysteine) (1) Although a few patients with viscous sputum may benefit from mucolytics, the overall benefits seems to be very small; their wide spread use is not recommended. (2) There is some evidence that in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients not receiving inhaled corticosteroids, treated with mucolytics and N-acetylcysteine may reduce exacerbations. Immunoregulators (immunomodulators,immunostimulators): Studies using an immunoregulator in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease report a decrease in the severity and frequency of exacerbations. Antitussives: has a significant protective role but the regular usage of antitussives is not recommended in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. Narcotics (morphine): Oral and parenteral opioids are effective for treating dyspnea in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with very severe disease. Others: Oxygen therapy, ventilation support. Initial pharmacological management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Group A patients: Have few symptoms and low risk of exacerbations. Preferred regimen: Short acting anticholinergics OR short acting beta2 agonist Alternative regimen (1): Long acting anticholinergics OR long acting beta2 agonist OR short acting beta2 agonist AND short acting anticholinergics Alternative regimen (2): Theophylline Group B patients: Have more significant symptoms but still low risk of exacerbations Preferred regimen: Long acting anticholinergics OR long acting beta2 agonist Alternative regimen (1): Long acting anticholinergics AND long acting beta2 agonist Alternative regimen (2): short acting beta2 agonist AND/ OR short acting anticholinergics Group C patients: Have few symptoms but high risk of exacerbations Alternative regimen (1): Group D patients: Have many significant symptoms and high risk of exacerbations. COPD CDC ↑ Rice KL, Dewan N, Bloomfield HE, Grill J, Schult TM, Nelson DB, Kumari S, Thomas M, Geist LJ, Beaner C, Caldwell M, Niewoehner DE (2010). 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This page is not intended to substitute for the manufacturer's data sheet and the information is not yet complete for all species, or for all contra-indications etc. CAUTION: Before any pharmaceutical product is used, the manufacturer's data sheet, containing information on uses, dosage and administration, contra-indications, warnings etc., should always be consulted. It is important to remember that licensing of pharmaceutical products for use in a particular species/condition, as well as mandatory meat and milk withdrawal times for food-producing animals, varies between countries and changes with time. Withdrawal times also may vary between different pharmaceutical formulations and depending on route of administration. In the EU, the prescription cascade must be followed (see LCofC1.2H and W564.Apr05.w1); note that specific restrictions apply for food-producing animals. In the USA, FARAD may be consulted regarding residues and meat and milk withdrawal times. A trimethoxybenzylpyrimidine antibiotic, used in conjunction with a sulphonamide. A trimethoxybenzylpyrimidine. (B135.47.w47) "Proloprim; Trimpex; 5-(3,4,5-Trimethoxybenzyl)-2,4-diaminopyrimidine; 5-((3,4,5-Trimethoxyphenyl)methyl)-2,4-pyrimidinediamine; Monotrim; Syraprim; Tiempe; Trimanyl; Trimopan; Wellcoprim; 2,4-Diamino-5-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzyl)pyrimidine; Trimogal; Uretrim; Chemotrim; bw 56-72; Instalac; Abaprim; Alprim; Idotrim; Lidaprim; Methoprim; Primosept; Primsol; TMP-Ratiopharm; Trimexazole; Unitrim." (W324) C14H18N4O3. (W324) 290.3212. (W324) Related Chemicals Pyrimethamine (B135.47.w47) White to cream crystals/crystalline powder, odourless but bitter-tasting. (B263, W324) 199 - 203�C. (W324) Water solubility Very slightly soluble. (B263) Less than 0.1 g/100 mL at 24�C. (W324) Other solubility Sparingly soluble in alcohol. (B263) Acid/Base Weak base; pKa 7.2 (approx.). (B135.47.w47) Inhibits dihydrofolate reductase (an enzyme in the folic acid pathway), thereby blocking the conversion of dihydrofolic acid (DFA) to tetrahydrofolic acid. (B263) Storage / Stability Legal Category (In UK) Associated Techniques -- (Further Reading) Debra Bourne (V.w5); Gracia Vila-Garcia (V.w67) Suzanne I. Boardman (V.w6); Becki Lawson (V.w26); Susan Mikota (V.w72) Therapeutic Information Uses/Indications Potentiated sulphonamides (trimethoprim-sulphonamide combinations): Active against a range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, including aerobic Gram-positive cocci and some rods, and many Gram-negative rods including Enterobacteriaceae. (B201.1.w1) Active against Chlamydia, coccidia, Toxoplasma. (B201.1.w1) Active against Pneumocystis carinii. (B263) Not active against Leptospira, Pseudomonas spp. (B201.1.w1) Inhibits bacterial dihydrofolic acid reductase approximately 50,000 times more effectively than it inhibits the same enzyme of mammalian cells. (B135.47.w47) Trimethoprim is more lipid-soluble than the sulphonamides and therefore has a higher volume of distribution. (B135.47.w47) Slower development of resistance if trimethoprim-sulphonamide combinations are used rather than trimethoprim alone or sulphonamides alone. (B263) Absorption /Bioavailability Good absorption from the gut. (B135.47.w47) Peak levels about one to four hours after oral administration. (B263) In ruminants, orally administered trimethoprim is trapped in the rumino-reticulum and is partially degraded. (B263) Slower absorption following subcutaneous administration. (B263) Widely distributed in body fluids and tissues, including CSF. (B135.47.w47) Well distributed. (B263) Cross the placenta. (B263) Distributed into milk. (B263) In CSF, in the presence of inflamed meninges, may reach about 50% of serum levels. (B263) Volume of distribution: Dogs: 1.49 L/kg. (B263) Horses: 0.59-1.51 L/kg. (B263) Plasma Protein binding / Storage About 65-70% (human). (B135.47.w47) Elimination Route About 50-60% of the drug/its metabolites excreted in urine within 24 hours. (B135.47.w47) Renal excretion unchanged, both glomerular filtration and tubular secretion. (B263) Metabolised by the liver to both oxide and hydroxylated metabolites; this may occur more in adult ruminants. (B263) Elimination half-life / Clearance Rate Rapid elimination from serum but may persist longer in the tissues. (B263) Serum half life of trimethoprim: Dogs: 2.5 hours. (B263) Horses: 1.91-3.0 hours. (B263) Cattle: 1.5 hours. (B263) Trimethoprim/sulphonamide: clotting time may be increased if used in individuals receiving coumarin (warfarin) anticoagualants. (B263) Trimethoprim: may decrease therapeutic effect of systemically administered cyclosporine and increase risk of nephrotoxicity. (B263) Formulations available Doses / Administration Routes / Frequencies Use of Drugs (Medication): Before administration of any pharmaceutical product the manufacturer's datasheet must be consulted regarding operator safety, relevant withdrawal times etc. Many drugs are not registered for use in particular species and additional care should be taken in their use, with proper regard for possible toxic effects. Consideration should be given to relevant legislation regarding the use of drugs. In the UK, guidelines regarding the use of drugs are set out in the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons' Guide to Professional Conduct 2000: (See: LCofC1 - RCVS Guide to Professional Conduct 2000 - Choice of Medicinal Products). General comments: When used with sulphonamides, the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of trimethoprim for most susceptible bacteria is generally greater than 0.5�g/ml. (B263) Dose is expressed in the UK as sulphonamide plus trimethoprim. (B201.1.w1) Erinaceus europaeus - West European Hedgehog: Trimethoprim 5mg/kg + sulfamethoxazole 25mg/kg intramuscularly or orally twice daily. Pulmonary infections, gram-negative bacteria. (B22.27.w3) Sulphadoxine, trimethoprim, lidocaine (lignocaine) hydrochloride (Borgal 7.5% solution (Intervet UK Limited) 50 mg/kg intramuscularly or subcutaneously once daily. (D93) Sulphadiazine/trimethoprim 30 mg/kg once daily for 5-8 days, intramuscularly or subcutaneously. (D107) Sulphadoxine/trimethoprim/lidocaine (Borgal 7.5%, Intervet UK Limited) 75 mg/kg once daily for five days, subcutaneously. (D107) Atelerix albiventris - Four-toed hedgehog: Trimethoprim/sulphonamide 30mg/kg orally, subcutaneously or intramuscularly every 12 hours. For respiratory infections. (B267) "Hedgehog" (species not distinguished between Atelerix albiventris - Four-toed hedgehog or Erinaceus europaeus - West European Hedgehog): Trimethoprim/sulphonamide (SMZ/TMP) 30 mg/kg intramuscularly or orally every 12 hours. (B150.w1) In Elephants: Elephas maximus - Asian Elephant Sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim, 48 g orally twice daily was administered for four weeks to an adult elephant, after a regional digital intravenous perfusion (RDIP) of a sole abscess. (J2.34.w2) Sulfamethoxazole- trimethoprim was given, 57 g orally for 21 days, to a 40-year-old 3,300 kg female in the treatment of a nail infection complicated by phalangeal osteomyelitis. (J2.28.w2, P9.1.w7) Loxodonta africana - African Elephant Trimethoprim-sulfadiazide 4.5 mg/kg orally for 12 days. (P30.1.w5) Trimethoprim-sulfadiazide 60 g orally once daily for ten days for a 14 year-old female. (J3.152.w2) Trimethoprim-sulphamethaxazole, 9,600 mg orally twice daily for 14 days was used in the treatment of a 1,136 kg eight-year-old male Loxodonta africana - African Elephant with a fractured and infected tusk, in addition to initial topical treatment with 0.9% sodium chloride followed by povidone iodine solution to flush the pulp cavity. (J4.185.w2) The following information is taken with permission directly from the Elephant Care International website (W580.Aug2005.w30): Elephants: a) 22 mg/kg PO 4-6 times/day to maintain trough concentrations above the MIC in African elephants, however, the authors suggest favorable clinical response which is the basis for BID dosing in horses may also be effective in elephants (Page et al. 1991). Elephant References: a) Page,C.D., Mautino,M., Derendorf,H.D., and Anhalt,J.P. 1991. Comparative pharmacokinetics of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole administered intravenously and orally to captive elephants. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 22:(4):409-416 Abstract: Three healthy captive female African elephants (Loxodonta africana) were used to determine the pharmacokinetics of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMZ) after a single i.v. and a single oral dose of 3.7mg/kg TMP and 18.3mg/kg SMZ. A 2-mo wash-out period was allowed between the i.v. and oral trials. An adult female Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) was also used in this investigation; however, pharmacokinetic parameters calculated from data from this animal were not used to calculate mean pharmacokinetic parameters for TMP-SMZ in African elephants. Serum concentrations of TMP-SMZ were measured by high-performance liquid chromatography on blood samples collected via venous catheterization predose, over 12 hr after i.v. drug administration, and over 24 hr after oral drug administration. For African elephants, the mean terminal half-life (t1/2,z), clearance (CL), and volume distribution at steady state (Vdss) of TMP following i.v. administration were 1.4 + 0.7 hr, 856.0 + 114.0 ml/hr/kg, and 1.1 + 0.4 L/kg, respectively. For SMZ, these parameters were 1.83 + 0.06 hr, 93.6 + 10.8 ml/hr/kg, and 0.2 + 0.02 L/kg, respectively. Following oral administration, the mean t1/2,z was 3.0 + 1.1 hr, the maximum concentration (Cmax) was 0.43 + 0.07 micrograms/ml at time (tmax) 1.7 + 0.6 hr, and the bioavailability (F) was 61.2 + 21.3% for TMP. For SMZ, the mean t1/2,z was 2.0 + 0.3 hr, the Cmax was 30.7 + 2.5 micrograms/ml at tmax 3.0 + 1.0 hr, and F was 81.7 + 17.5%. Calculated pharmacokinetic parameters from this investigation were similar to values reported in horses. Based on these findings, metabolic scaling should not be employed to calculate the dose of TMP-SMZ in elephants. Sulfadiazine-Trimethoprim, 30 mg/kg orally or subcutaneous injection, once daily (dose expressed as sulfadiazine + trimethoprim). (B373.1.w1) Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim, 30 mg/kg orally once daily (dose expressed as sulfamethoxazole + trimethoprim). (B373.1.w1) Bears: In general: "Domestic dog drugs and dosages are used to treat bears." (B336.51.w51) Trimethoprim-sulfadiazine 15 mg/kg orally twice daily for 10 days post-operatively. (J2.30.w4) For Salmon Poisoning in Bears (Bacterial Disease Summary) or Elokomin Fluke Fever in Bears (Bacterial Disease Summary): trimethoprim sulphadiazine 15 mg/kg orally or subcutaneously every 12 hours. (D251.9.w10) Lagomorphs - Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus - Domestic rabbit: Trimethoprim-sulfadiazine (Sulphonamides) 30 mg/kg orally or subcutaneously every 24 hours. (B546) Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Sulphonamides) 40 mg/kg orally every 24 hours. (B546, B601.15.w15) Trimethoprim-Sulphonamides 15 mg/kg orally every 12 hours. (B548.w8) Trimethoprim-Sulphonamides 30 mg/kg orally, subcutaneously or intramuscularly every 12 hours. (B548.w8) Note: subcutaneous use may cause tissue necrosis. (B548.w8) Trimethoprim-Sulphonamides 30 mg/kg subcutaneously every 24 hours. (B548.w8) Note: subcutaneous use may cause tissue necrosis. (B548.w8) Trimethoprim-sulphadiazine (Sulphonamides) 30 mg/kg orally twice daily or 48 mg/kg subcutaneously. As an antibiotic. (B600.4.w4) Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Sulphonamides) 40 mg/kg orally twice daily for seven days. As an antibiotic or as a coccidiostat. Note ""Co-trimoxazole" human formulation is available as a human paediatric syrup. (B600.4.w4) Trimethoprim-sulphadiazine (Sulphonamides) 48 mg/kg subcutaneously every 24 hours. (B603.5.w5) Trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (Sulphonamides) 30 mg/kg orally every 12 hours. (B603.5.w5) Trimethoprim-sulphadiazine 30 mg/kg subcutaneously every 24 hours. (B601.15.w15) Trimethoprim-sulphadiazine 30 mg/kg orally every 12 hours. (B601.15.w15) Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Sulphonamides) 40 mg/kg orally every 12 hours. For the treatment of coccidiosis. (B601.15.w15) Trimethoprim-sulphonamide 30 mg/kg orally or subcutaneously every 12 hours. (B602.41.w41) Ferrets - Mustela putorius furo - Ferret: Trimethoprim-Sulphonamide 20 - 30 mg/kg subcutaneously or orally twice daily. "Used for urinary and respiratory infections." May cause renal disease in geriatric ferrets. (B626.App.w22) Trimethoprim-Sulphonamide 30 mg/kg subcutaneously or orally every 12 hours. "Renal disease possible." (B631.21.w21) Trimethoprim-Sulphonamide 15 - 30 mg/kg orally or subcutaneously every 12 hours. (B602.41.w41) Trimethoprim-Sulphonamide 30 mg/kg orally twice daily. This is concentrated in urine so may be the treatment of choice for urinary tract infections (broad-spectrum prior to culture and sensitivity test results). Note: in ferrets, ocassional idiopathic blood dyscrasias reported. (J213.3.w1) Great Apes Adult Pan troglodytes - Chimpanzee: Sulfamethoxazole (Sulphonamides)/Trimethoprim, 800 mg of the sulfamethoxazole orally twice daily or 15-20 mg/kg per day intravenously divided into two to four doses. (W768.Jun2012.w1) Primates: trimethoprim/sulphonamide 30 - 50 mg/kg (total dose) intramuscularly, subcutaneously or orally once daily. Broad spectrum against Gram negative organisms with some activity against Gram-positive bacteria. In the treatment of gastrointestinal, respiratiry, skin and urinary tract infections. (D425.3.15.w3o) Primates: Trimethoprim/Sulphonamides 20 mg/kg orally four times daily for 14 days. In the treatment of Pneumocystis carinii infection. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, 16-24 mg/kg (based on the trimethoprim) orally every 12 hours. (B336.20.w20) 16-24 mg/kg orally every 8-12 hours. Regurgitation is common. (B115.8.w4) 8 mg/kg intramuscularly every 12 hours. (B115.8.w4) Used in the treatment of enteric and respiratory infections, and as an anticoccidial. (B115.8.w4) Monitoring parameters Before the use of any pharmaceutical product in food-producing animals the label instructions for the product should be consulted regarding withdrawal requirements. Toxic Information Contraindications / Precautions Use with caution in individuals with pre-existing hepatic disease. (B263) "The manufacturer states that trimethoprim/sulfadiazine should not be used in dogs or horses [the species in which it is licensed for use in the USA] showing marked liver parenchymal damage, blood dyscrasias, or in those with a history of sulfonamide sensitivity." (B263) Adverse Effects / Side Effects / Warnings In dogs: Keratoconjunctivitis sicca (sometimes irreversible). (B263) Acute neutrophilic hepatitis (jaundice, vomiting, anorexia, diarrhoea, fever, haemolytic anaemia, urticaria, polyarthritis, facial swelling, polydipsia, polyuria, cholestasis). (B263) Hypothyroidism (particularly with prolonged treatment. (B263) Acute hypersensitivity reactions (Type I, i.e. anaphylaxis, or Type III, i.e. serum sickness. Commoner in larger breeds and perhaps especially in Doberman Pinschers. (B263) Rarely other haematological disorders (anaemias, agranulocytosis). (B263) Rarely idiosyncratic moderate to massive hepatic necrosis. (B263) Possible risk factor for the development of acute pancreatitis (cause-and-effect have not been shown). (B263) In cats: Anorexia. (B263) Leucopaenia. (B263) Anaemias. (B263) In horses: Intravenous administration may be followed by transient pruritis. (B263) Oral administration may cause diarrhoea. (B263) 48% injectable product: intramuscular or subcutaneous inoculation, or extravasation following intravenous inoculation, may result in swelling, pain and minor tissue damage. (B263) Hypersensitivity reactions. (B263) Haematological effects (anaemias, thrombocytopaenia, leucopaenias). (B263) Periodic haematological monitoring is recommended during prolonged treatment. (B263) Note: Safety of use of trimethoprim/sulphonamides in pregnant animals has not been clearly established. (B263) Operator Warnings Before the use of any pharmaceutical product the label instructions for the product should be consulted regarding operator safety/warnings. Overdose / Acute Toxicity May cause: gastrointestinal distress (nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea), central nervous system toxicity (depression, headache, confusion), facial swelling, depression of bone marrow, increase in serum aminotransferases. (B263) Oral overdose may be treated by emptying the stomach (normal protocols), plus supportive and symptomatic treatment. (B263) Urinary acidification may increase renal elimination of trimethoprim but particularly with sulfadiazine may cause sulphonamide crystallisation in the urine. (B263) Monitor e.g. complete blood count. For severe bone marrow suppression (chronic overdose), treat with folinic acid. (B263) Chronic Toxicity Reproductive effects In rabbits, increased fetal mortality following high doses of trimethoprim. (B263) Teratogenic effects In some studies on rats, reports of teratogenic effects: cleft palate. (B263) In studies on dogs, no evidence of teratogenic effects. (B263) Mutagenic effects Carcinogenic effects Organ toxicity Bird Toxicity Aquatic organism activity Other organism toxicity Nutrient Information Biological Use Recommended Daily Allowance / Recommended level in food Stability in food (Storage time) External / Environmental Information Application Concentration Persistence of Effect / Frequency of Application Effects in the aquatic environment Effects on land Breakdown in soil and groundwater Breakdown in water Breakdown in vegetation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line439
__label__wiki	0.744837	0.744837	“To fill our pool of beta and stress test participants, we’ll be choosing dedicated players who meet select criteria from both the WoW Classic beta opt-in and the standard Warcraft beta opt-in. Participants will also need to have an active subscription or active game time on their Battle.net Account. While opting-in to the beta is the primary way to make sure you’re in the running to join the test it doesn’t guarantee an invitation to the closed beta test. We may also consider additional factors such as how long a player has been subscribed to the game so that we have the right mix of players to ensure great feedback toward making WoW Classic the very best experience for the community.” The World of Warcraft is going back to its roots with WoW Classic. Giving players the chance to return to the game as it was around the time of its launch, WoW Classic is set to launch worldwide on August 27. However, ahead of its imminent release, the team at Blizzard are offering a closed beta test for WoW Classic, and we’ve got all the details players need to jump in on the action. To celebrate World of Warcraft’s 15th anniversary, Blizzard is planning to release an authentic recreation of its early days with WoW Classic. Players will be able to explore Azeroth as it originally was before the release of WoW’s many expansion sets. Initially it’ll feature encounters like Molten Core, Onyxia and Maraudon at launch and will see more content rolled out as the game goes on (such as Alterac Valley, the Ahn’Qiraj War Effort and Naxxramas). It’s not just the world that’s reverting to its classic form either – the combat mechanics, skill trees and character models will be as they were in the original too. Mag'har Orc Allied Race Leveling Guide (20-120) Dark Iron Dwarf Allied Race Leveling Guide (20-120) Void Elf Allied Race Leveling Guide (20-120) Best Void Elf Allied Race specs for leveling, efficient zones to level in, and overview of available classes and level 20 starting abilities. Level a Void Elf to 110 for a special set of cosmetic Heritage Armor. Nightborne Allied Race Leveling Guide (20-120) Best Nightborne Allied Race specs for leveling, efficient zones to level in, and overview of available classes and level 20 starting abilities. Level a Nightborne to 110 for a special set of cosmetic Heritage Armor. No he's just not paying attention. The wanted quests are built into both the leveling guides and the "Zandalar Forever" achievement guide. They aren't in the rep guide because they are not repeatable and by the time you hit max level they should be done. You'll also notice the rep guide doesn't contain every single possible completable quest that rewards rep. It is designed to focus on repeatable objectives, world quests, large quest lines, and missions. One of the most anticipated titles of 2019 for PC players out there is the upcoming release of a 14-year-old MMORPG in the form of World of Warcraft Classic. The game offers a faithful recreation of the original World of Warcraft, with the same dated look and feel that made the game oh so popular back in 2006. Here’s how to get into the World of Warcraft Classic beta. Allied Races Overview Everything about Allied Races, new playable races in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, including unlock requirements for each race, Heritage Armor, customization options, and speculation when they are playable. Battle for Azeroth (110-120) Leveling Tips and Consumables How to level from 110 to 120 as quickly as possible in WoW Battle for Azeroth, including recommended zone order, best consumables, general leveling tips, and best addons. Azerite Armor Overview and FAQ Everything known about Azerite Armor and Azerite Traits in Battle for Azeroth including what Heart of Azeroth Level they unlock and how to respec them using an Azerite Reforger. The Battle for Lordaeron - Introductory Battle for Azeroth Quests This guide is an overview of the Battle for Lordaeron scenario, including a walkthrough from both Alliance and Horde points of view. Wowhead's Guide on How to Play World of Warcraft The basics of getting started in World of Warcraft as a brand-new player. Game installation, character creation, how to move, and complete your first quest. I used Zygor for legion and BFA, used AA on an alt for BFA. Personally i like Zygors format more. I like being able to target things like achievements. I used Zygor to get my Mindworm and my Lucid Nightmare as well as finish the Rep grinds for the allied races. I have zero complaints. My experience was great. I also used Zygor for some professions, recipe acquisition, a couple mounts, all of the Suramar quest line. Thank God for that. And for the last zone of Draenor on my Demon Hunter.. i forget the name.. Whatever the big daily hub thing was called. I have played World of Warcraft and blizzard games alike since I was 10 years old, it all started back in Diablo, StarCraft and Warcraft days. I love all Blizzard releases and would be honored to be a part of the closed beta for the Classic release and will definitely be turning in my free time for World of Warcraft more as I am suuper stoked to play! FOR THE HORDE! Blizzard said it will choose players who have active subscriptions to the regular game based on a variety of factors to help them test the beta. It could be based on your PC, your commitment to the game, or just your luck. If you get in, you’ll likely receive an email, but if not, you can check your launcher. And remember: as with any beta, your progress will not be saved for when the game launches later this year. First things first, it’s worth noting that the World of Warcraft Classic beta is already underway. It kicked off on May 15, and since, players have been busy exploring the original realm just the way it was before the many expansion packs released. If you’re looking to get into the action, however, you’ll need to ensure you’ve opted-in to participating in the beta.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line447
__label__cc	0.529989	0.470011	Best of unFOMO More Fun(ny) Content Advertise on unFOMO Write for unFOMO Top 10 All-Time Best Soundtracks in Gaming World of Warcraft: Top 5 Easiest Mounts FULL RECAP: 88th Academy Awards Oscars Winners !! Top 10 Best Weapons in Gaming of All-Time Top 6 Star Wars: Episode VIII Predictions Top 5 Unintentionally Hilarious Video Game Commercials Top 6 Funniest Video Game Trolling Videos of All-Time Top 10 Netflix and Chill Shows Latest Playstation VR Rumours TOP 5 Best Android FPS Games on Google Play Best 4 FREE VPNs on the Web World’s First Virtual-Reality Roller Coaster Top 10 Must See New York Broadway Musicals Top 10 Celebrity Beauty Secrets Overcome Your Public Speaking Fears with 10 Simple Steps With Star Wars: Episode VIII’s release date pushed back to December 15th, 2017, unFOMO wanted to tease you with the top 6 most likely predictions. While the majority of Star Wars fans all loved TFA, it did raise just as many questions as it gave answers. This, of course, is nothing new to the franchise. Back in 1980 audiences’s had to wait three years to find out if Han Solo was still frozen in carbonite. Here are the top 6 most likely predictions for Episode VIII. What am I going off of? I have a secret spy in Disney giving me all the insider secrets… Well no, not actually (our lawyers made us say this). But as a superfan, I’m almost always right. Oh and it goes without saying but, SPOILER ALERT, for the three people who haven’t seen TFA yet. 6. Is Rey Luke’s daughter? I think it’s likely she is. There were way too many connections and hints between the two in TFA. The lightsaber called out to her and not Kylo Ren, she had visions of Luke, Maz Kanata hinted that they were related somehow, and R2-D2 woke up the moment she first encountered him. If Luke is her father, Episode VIII just may go something like this: We begin with Rey being trained by Luke. He’s getting her ready to fight with Kylo Ren and Snoke. We repeatedly see similarities both between her and Luke as well as a mirror of Luke’s training with Yoda. Then 2/3rds the way into the movie, in the heat of adventure, Luke reveals, “Rey, I am your father.” Echoing Darth Vader’s line from Empire. Well of course by now you’re asking, ‘who is Rey’s mother?’ Easy enough, she was one of Luke’s students that was training to become a Jedi, before Kylo Ren killed her. This is how Luke got a wife in the now defunct ‘Expanded Universe.’ Luke’s wife, Mara Jade, a force sensitive agent of the Empire. When Luke started the new Jedi order, Mara was one of the first he recruited. This is all good and well, unless you consider . . . 5. Rey could be a Solo I already mentioned that the non-canon Expanded Universe, Luke’s wife Mara Jade is a Jedi. Well, in those same works, Han and Leia have a set of twins. The boy, Jacen Solo, turns to the darkside and kills Mara Jade. This could be the inspiration for Kylo Ren and the Knights of Ren destroying the new Jedi Order. As well as potentially killing Luke’s wife in the new canon. It could also mean that Jacen’s sister, Jaino Solo, is paralleled by Rey in TFA. This leads to theory #2: Rey is Kylo’s twin sister. Her chemistry with Han was strong from the start and Leia looked at her as though she recognized her. Though that could be chalked up to force sensitivity. But there’s even times in the books where Jaina is flying in the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca, JUST like we saw in the movie. So the brother-sister thing is very possible, though not much of a twist since it happens in the books. But, there is one more possibility… 4. What if Rey is both a Skywalker and a Kenobi? Say what?! Did I just #breaktheinternet? How can this be? Consider this . . . in the canon TV series, The Clone Wars, we see that Obi-Wan had emotional feelings for the Duchess of Mandalore, Satine. He even said he would have left the Jedi Order for her. Suppose that before she died, she had a daughter by him and kept it a secret. This would put the Kenobi girl at just a few years older than Luke at most. Luke begins the new Jedi Order, meets Obi-Wan’s daughter and falls in love. She gives birth to Rey. Then when the Knights of Ren destroy the order and kill her mother, Luke leaves Rey on Jakku in order to keep her safe and do some soul searching. All of this can be shown by bringing back the ready and willing Ewan McGregor for flashbacks and/or as a force ghost (I would love to see Ewan make an appearance, and Qui-Gon Jinn/Liam Neeson for that matter!) If this would be true, then Rey is a force sensitive Mandalorian of the Skywalker line! Now THAT just broke the internet. 3. Enough about Rey, let’s talk about Kylo Ren! What will we see of him? My guess is that Snoke isn’t going to change his mind about completing Kylo’s training. I also think we’ll see the other Knights of Ren, including other Jedi defectors. When the conflict started, Luke saw the order dying so he had everyone go into hiding for their safety. There’s a good chance we could see a big showdown with the remaining Jedi, including Luke and Rey against Kylo Ren and the Knights of Ren. Put this to a big backdrop of the New Republic fighting The First Order. But that in itself gives a great opportunity to be made… 2. Returning Favorites Picture this…everything I just said happens . . . Jedi versus Knights of Ren, Republic forces versus First Order Stormtroopers. Things start looking bleak for the heroes, then all of a sudden BOOM! Here comes Lando Calrissian flying in with reinforcements, possibly in the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca as copilot. Since we saw Admiral Ackbar and Nien Nunb return in TFA, why not General Calrissian?! 1. And . . . the BIG one There’s been rumors going around that Supreme Leader Snoke is actually Darth Plagueis, Palpatine’s former master. Well, I think the chances of that are quite likely. Think about it, this big dark, powerful guy who has been around for a long time watching the events of the previous movies play out but not been involved. It’s not too hard to posit the idea that Palpatine THOUGHT he killed him but because he was so powerful he could sustain his life and go into hiding, watching until Anakin, the chosen one created by the force, through his powers, could crush both the Jedi and the Sith. This would leave only him to rule the galaxy. The only one in his way is Luke…a half trained Jedi that couldn’t even defeat Palpatine on his own. Even the score that’s played during Snoke’s scenes is nearly identical to the scene where Palpatine tells the story to Anakin of Darth Plagueis the wise. It all makes too much sense. If all of the above holds true, then in Episode VIII, we could get the biggest full circle reveal since “No, I am your father”. What do you think will happen in Episode VIII? Comment below! Related Items:hollywood, home theatre, Movies, Star Wars, top 5 Top 5 Reasons Why Star Wars: The Force Awakens was “Meh” Self Improvement in 8 Simple Steps Note: Your password will be generated automatically and sent to your email address. © 2015 - 2016 unFOMO, unFOMO Media	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line449
__label__wiki	0.931148	0.931148	UEFA Champions League Final: Barcelona 2 - 0 Manchester United Video Highlights!!! Let's hope Manchester United could clinch the second successive Europe's finest at Rome against FC Barcelona. Glory glory Manchester United!!! Watch the dream UEFA Champions League final at the Stadio Olimpico between Barcelona and Manchester United here, right after the match!!! 10' Samuel Eto'o Lionel Messi 1st goal against English team!!! What a lousy MU team, they can only play better in the first ten minutes!!! It seem like Cristiano Ronaldo are the only person that can take a shot!!! They reserved to lose!!! Credit to Edwin van der Sar, he was MU's best player!!! Labels: Sports, UEFA Champions League OMG, That's absolutely terrible!!! Damien Duff deflected a shot into his own net to relegate Newcastle United from the Premier League. Hull City 0 - 1 Manchester United Video Highlights!!! 24' Darron Gibson Wohoo!!! Manchester United bench beat Hull City at KC Stadium!! Check out the official Bandslam full trailer here! Bandslam, starring Vanessa Hudgens, Gaelan Connell, Aly Michalka, and Lisa Kudrow. Enjoy... Here's Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus showed off her curvy body in a little black and pink bikini in the Bahamas on May 16. She was celebrating her mom's birthday with her family. The Bahamas bikini photos have stirred a controversy over her weight. Is Miley Cyrus fat?? Honestly, i actually don't even think she's fat or overweight. Video: First Lady Carla Bruni Calls French President Nicolas Sarkozy My ‘Chou Chou’ Here's the so-called "hugely embarrassing video" in which Miss Carla Bruni, 41, calls French President Nicolas Sarkozy my ‘chou chou’ that caused a sensation across France. The video was captured by authorised magazine journalists in the Elysee Palace. Come on.. What's wrong with that affectionate words??? Honestly, I think it's lovely. Manchester United Crowned EPL Champions!! Manchester United 0 - 0 Arsenal Video Highlights!!! Arsenal to spoil our championship-winning party at Old Trafford today??? Let's hope Manchester United could clinch the third successive Premier League title at home against Arsenal. Come on Man United!!! Watch English Premier League match between Manchester United and Arsenal here, right after the match!!! American Idol hopeful Adam Lambert (left) french-kissing a guy Phew!!! What a fabulous voice! He is Adam Lambert. He may be gay, but so what??? That's not our place to judge, God has the final say. But it seems that Adam may be losing some votes with three weeks to go before the "American Idol" final. Honestly, Americans should be proud of having such a wonderful talent. I would have been proud to vote for him. Now, let's hope he can become the first gay or bisexual 'American Idol'." Adam Lambert ~ Believe Labels: Celebrity, Entertainment Wigan Athletic 1 - 2 Manchester United Video Highlights!!! Manchester United can move a step closer to a record equalling 18th English top-flight championship with victory at the JJB Stadium. If we get the job done right at JJB Stadium, we could clinch the third successive Premier League title, home to Arsenal on Saturday. Come on Man United!!! 28' H.R. Martinez, 61' Carlos Tevez, 86' Michael Carrick Wigan 1 - 0 Manchester United Watch English Premier League match between Wigan Athletic and Manchester United here, right after the match!!! Manchester United 2 - 0 Manchester City [Video Highlights] 18' Cristiano Ronaldo, and 45' Carlos Tevez Manchester United 1 - 0 Manchester City Video Highlights Glory Manchester United =D Now we need just 4 points from the three remaining games to win a third successive Premier League title!!! UEFA Champions League: Chelsea 1 - 1 FC Barcelona [Video Highlights] Barcelona just got lucky, they are nothing!! A win courtesy of the stupid referee.. Watch the controversy UEFA Champions League, Semi-final second leg match highlights between Chelsea and FC Barcelona here!!! Didier Drogba's confront referee Tom Ovrebo and shouting "it's a f***ing disgrace'' down the lens of a TV camera!!! Michael Essien's stunning first-half volley!!! Andres Iniesta goal against Chelsea Anelka dive??? UEFA Champions League: Arsenal 1 - 3 Manchester United Woo... Manchester United win 4 - 1 on aggregate... I just hoping it's going to be our day. If we play to our potential, we can beat anyone anywhere!!! Let's hope we can get that second goal and go through the final!!! Watch UEFA Champions League, Semi-final second leg match highlights between Arsenal and Manchester United here, right after the match!!! 8' Ji-Sung Park, 11' and 61' Cristiano Ronaldo and 76' Robin Van Persie (Arsenal) Arsenal 0 - 1 Manchester United Watch English Premier League match between Liverpool and Newcastle United, right after the match!!! 22' Yossi Benayoun, 28' Dirt Kuyt and 87' Lucas Leiva Liverpool 1 - 0 Newcastle United Liverpool Vs Newcastle United Highlights 1' N. Anelka, 4' E. Nevland, 10' F. Malouda, 53' D. Drogba Chelsea 1 - 0 Fulham Watch English Premier League match between Chelsea and Fulham here, right after the match!!! Middlesbrough 0 - 2 Manchester United Video Highlights!!! Feredico Macheda will most probably start on the front line with Carlos Tevez or Danny Welback of the Manchester United attack in Saturday's lunch-time fixture against Middlesbrough, as Sir Alex Ferguson looks to rest most of the players in the starting 11 ahead of Tuesday's Champions League semi-final, second leg against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. Lets hope the Reds get the job done and go six points clear of Liverpool, who play against Newcastle United on Sunday. 25' Ryan Giggs and 51' Ji-Sung Park Middlesbrough 0 - 1 Manchester United Watch English Premier League match between Middlesbrough and Manchester United here, right after the match!!!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line450
__label__cc	0.65732	0.34268	Great guys, great songs and great live. #truestories Krusher Joule Mark Grimmett (Vocals) Nick Singleton (Lead Guitar) Russell Simon (Guitar) Ian Edwards (Bass) Mark Simon (Drums) 3Sixty to headline Drunken Monkey Festival. 3Sixty are honoured and delighted to have been asked to headline this year’s Drunken Monkey Festival. Held just outside the town of Upton Upon Severn in Worcestershire, this increasingly popular and expanding festival is held every year, with proceeds going to the Worcestershire Air Ambulance service. 3Sixty have gradually worked their way up the bill […] 3Sixty through to live final! Having first been shortlisted, and then getting through on a live radio public vote, 3Sixty are excited to through to the final of Highway To Hell, a ‘battle of the bands’ type competition in front of a live audience at Sheffield’s O2 Academy. The winner will be decided by audience vote. Prizes include being booked […] Ian Edwards Joins 3Sixty on Bass Guitar 3Sixty are excited to announce that Ian Edwards has joined the band on bass guitar! Ian brings with him some serious low-end bass thunder and harmony vocals along with a wealth of experience, having recorded a series of albums with his previous bands Moritz and If Only. Check out Ian’s biography for further information about […] 3Sixty Perform BBC Introducing Live Session Following on from their successful performance at last years Wychwood Festival on the ‘BBC Introducing’ stage, 3Sixty were recently invited to perform a live session, to be recorded in front of a live audience and broadcast on BBC Hereford & Worcester. The session took place on Sunday 29th April at the Number 8 Theatre in Pershore, where the band played Turn […] Album Launch Gig Big Success 3Sixty are pleased to report that their official launch gig for the #truestories album, at The Iron Road Rock Bar in Evesham on Saturday 7th April 2018 was a big success. “It was so great to be back at the venue where we have done so many support slots over the last two years, for the likes […] Copyright © 3Sixty. All rights reserved. Website: 121	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line452
__label__wiki	0.998857	0.998857	Former Liberal Leader John Hewson critical of Tony Abbott’s response to Bronwyn Bishop expenses scandal Speaker of the House of Representatives and federal member for Mackellar Bronwyn Bishop at a press conference. Photo: James BrickwoodBishop left staff to check expensesFront-row rat in the Liberal Party ranks Former Liberal leader John Hewson says if Prime Minister Tony Abbott continues to support Speaker Bronwyn Bishop throughout her expenses scandal, it will come at “enormous political cost”, while Treasurer Joe Hockey has continued to criticise Mrs Bishop. Mr Abbott stood by Mrs Bishop on Friday after she paid back more than $5000 in public money to take a helicopter from Melbourne to Geelong to attend a Liberal Party fundraiser. Mr Abbott said Mrs Bishop was doing a good job and that he still had confidence in her. But Mr Hewson said he was “staggered” by Mr Abbott’s decision to support Mrs Bishop. “He’s got to nip it in the bud, it’s just going to run hard against him,” he told Sky News. “The fact that she’s just obfuscating rather than addressing the substance of the issue, as is he, is unsustainable.” The Coalition’s support for Mrs Bishop, who also spent $90,000 on a trip to Europe, including $1000 a day on limousines, was inconsistent with its calls for former Speaker Peter Slipper to resign over allegations he misused $900 in taxi vouchers. Mrs Bishop’s trip was partly aimed at securing her a job with the International Parliamentary Union, based in Switzerland. Mr Hewson was “staggered” at Mr Abbott’s decision, during a week when he had a chance to score political points against Labor, following Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s appearance at the Royal Commission into Trade Unions, and ahead of Labor’s national conference. “You’re spending all your time defending the indefensible,” he said. “I just think it’s pretty bad short-term politics and it’ll end in tears for a lot of people.” Mrs Bishop’s “only hope” to keep her job as Speaker was if she gave “a complete and honest and open account” of what happened and why, and to openly admit where she had tried to claim entitlements for the wrong purpose. This would give Mr Abbott an opportunity to deal with the scandal differently, he said. “I suspect it’s too late for that, I suspect they’ve put the barricades up and they’re going to fight this at enormous political cost,” Mr Hewson said. Mr Hewson said Mrs Bishop was “ducking and weaving” on the issue. “It’s amazing how history bites you in the bum,” he told Sky News. Mr Hockey criticised Mrs Bishop for a second time, saying he has “never heard of anyone” doing such a thing in his party. But he says the scandal is now sucking too much oxygen from the political debate and he wished Australians would keep talking about “job security, economic security, and national security.” Revelations that Mrs Bishop charged taxpayers $5227 to charter a helicopter ride from Melbourne to Geelong in November last year to attend a Liberal fundraiser are continuing to roil federal politics. Mr Hockey called on Mrs Bishop to explain why she did so earlier this week, saying in a now-infamous radio 2UE interview that it didn’t pass the “sniff test”. He was the first Abbott government minister to publicly call her behaviour into question, and Mrs Bishop fired back at him on Saturday – in a defiant press conference – saying: “Joe says some funny things sometimes, doesn’t he?” “I think he said poor people don’t drive cars or something,” she said. Asked on Sunday about Mrs Bishop’s reaction, Mr Hockey said it was good to see that she had admitted she made an error or judgement by taking the helicopter flight. “She recognised that what she did was an error of judgment, paid the money and is cooperating with the Department of Finance, and that’s all happened since I had that interview with 2UE,” he told Andrew Bolt on Channel 10. “I haven’t heard of anyone who has taken a helicopter to a fundraising event.” Earlier on Sunday morning, Environment Minister Greg Hunt said Mrs Bishop had done all she needed to do to make amends for the trip. “She has acknowledged that she was wrong,” Mr Hunt said on ABC’s Insiders. “I’m not going to comment on a colleague but I’ve made it clear… it was an error, it was wrong, she has repaid the full cost of it and with a penalty.” But Former Treasurer Peter Costello weighed into the debate, saying Mrs Bishop needed to explain what she spoke about at the fundraiser in her official capacity that could have justified her helicopter flight. Mr Costello said the rules must be tightened for parliamentary expenses to stop politicians misusing the system. “The rule can’t be that you can just turn up somewhere and talk about Parliament because then it’s justified,” Mr Costello said on Channel 10. “You could go to a wedding. You could go to a wedding, you could say. I could wander up to someone at a birthday party and say, “Look, I’d like to tell you about the Parliament.” “That can’t be the rule. There has to be something other than the fundraiser. I assume there is. We’re all waiting for the explanation. We don’t know who the fundraiser was for. Political leaders ramped up pressure on Mrs Bishop,. NSW opposition leader Luke Foley said Mrs Bishop had no choice but to step down, saying in the past she has “disembowelled” public servants over their wasteful spending. “What message does it send to the public if she keeps her job after the revelations?” Mr Foley said on Sky News on Sunday. Greens senator for NSW Lee Rhiannon accused Mrs Bishop of fraud for spending more than $5000 on a chartered helicopter to attend a Liberal Party fundraiser. She later repaid the money. “We have a situation where if Bronwyn Bishop signed the parliamentary form declaring her $5000 as a legitimate parliamentary expense, then it’s fraud and paying it back is not enough.,” she said. “This is a weeping sore for the Abbott government.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line453
__label__cc	0.679397	0.320603	Sounds simple at first, but there's a lot behind that equal sign. At its core, marketing is the act of compelling a human to take action. And it seems simple, until you dive into the details. What action do you want them to take? Buy? Call? Go? Feel? And who are these humans you're talking to? How are you reaching them? What's compelling about the value you provide? The best approach to crafting a message that works is to make sure that: It's relevant. Communicate what you want your audience to understand, what will compel them to act. It's strategic. Start with the business objective of the message. (Finish with it, too.) It's experiential. Convey how things look and sound, how food tastes, what the reader will feel. It's interesting. Never, ever bore your audience. When we meet, don't be surprised if I ask a lot of questions. I'm naturally curious, but more important, I want to understand what motivates your customer so we can flip that switch from "do nothing" to "take action." For email and phone number, visit my Contact page. Request More Info... Learn how you can build your business through highly-qualified referrals at Impact Nona BNI.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line461
__label__cc	0.731328	0.268672	<img alt="dcsimg" id="dcsimg" width="1" height="1" src="//www.qsstats.com/dcs8krshw00000cpvecvkz0uc_4g4q/njs.gif?dcsuri=/index.php/blogs/did-google-cross-the-line-on-free-speech.html&WT.js=No&WT.tv=10.4.1&dcssip=www.baselinemag.com&WT.qs_dlk=XiSPc1V5cWfYAgufulb@fAAAAAE&"> Blogs / Did Google Cross the Line on Free Speech? Did Google Cross the Line on Free Speech? The contentious "Google Memo" has launched heated discussions, but the issue isn't really about free speech; it's about what's permissible in the workplace. By now you probably know that Google senior software engineer James Damore recently penned a 10-page memo titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber." It argued that "men and women biologically differ in many ways … and that these differences may explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership." Damore's memo also argued that "personality differences" and "men's higher drive for status," as well as women's lower tolerance for stress, might account for what's perceived to be discrimination and the fact that there are fewer women in leadership roles in the tech world. The memo went onto say that Google's attempts to address diversity were "unfair, divisive and bad for business." Beyond the fact that the memo resembles a poorly constructed academic paper, there's a huge problem. Damore took aim at his employer and used company resources to share it, both internally and with the outside world. As a result, Damore was promptly fired by Google. The company issued a statement saying that the engineer violated the company's rules by "advancing harmful gender stereotypes." Predictably, this set off a political firestorm. Conservatives, including the alt-right, argue that Google and the Silicon Valley have descended into mindless intolerance. Feminists and liberals, on the other hand, accuse those on the right of inserting bias and bigotry into public discussions, while at the same time claiming that their right to free speech is being abridged. For better or for worse, we live in contentious times. Everyone has an opinion. But, make no mistake, Google acted legally in firing Damore. Employers have the right to prevent and punish speech that is political and divisive in nature. The issue isn't really about free speech; it's about what's permissible in the workplace. As Rob Wilson, president of human resources services firm Employco USA, points out: "Damore did not send this memo to his friends or family, or even post it on his own social media. He used company property to send this memo to his co-workers. This gives Google the grounds to fire him, as he is expressing controversial beliefs on company time and distracting his co-workers with his opinions." Wilson's advice? "Employees need to be cognizant of the fact that free speech does not mean freedom from consequences. If your employer finds your opinions to be distracting and offensive to other employees, they are within their rights to reprimand you for this."	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line462
__label__cc	0.666817	0.333183	Romantic song birds in London If you are a bird lover, the UK is the place to enjoy a variety of song birds in the summer. From the romantic little Robin to the musical and shiny Blackbird, bird lovers have a variety of birds to oozle over. The UK's favourite bird is the Robin - with its bright red breast it is familiar throughout the year and especially on Christmas cards ! Males and females look identical, and young birds have no red breast and are spotted with golden brown. Robins sing nearly all year round and despite their cute appearance, they are aggressively territorial and are quick to drive away intruders. They will sing at night next to street lights. The Latin name is a mouthful --Erithacus rubecula. They can be seen across the UK in woodland, hedgerows, parks and gardens. If it rains you can be sure a robin will arrive to scout the lawn for earth worms which might come up for air.And the best part is they can be seen all year. Their favourite food is worms, seeds, fruits and insects. The Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) boasts of a glossy black plumage with a bright yellow beak. These little guys will also pop out on your lawn after you have mowed it or after a sharp shower. Guess they are clever enough to realise that's when the worms or insects appear. Apparently Black birds were eaten as a delicacy in the old days and ofcourse we have all grown up with the rhyme: Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye Four-and-twenty Blackbirds baked in a pie When the pie was opened the birds begin to sing Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the King Present in the garden all the year round, the female Blackbirds plumage is a more muted grey. The Blackbird sings from a perch which most often is on a chimney spout and its song is rich, varied and flute-like, but usually finishes in a squeaky phrase. Their calls are loud and varied. The warning call is given with flicking wings and tail and sounds a little like "chook", and the alarm call is a loud rattle. They are so evocative of Europe and their song creates the perfect British ambience we have grown to love. Tiny, restless and pugnacious, the Wren is another of the more familiar songbirds, widespread across the UK. Many books describe the Wren as being secretive but, while it is often overlooked with its simple plumage colours, it certainly does not hide itself away from bird lovers. The preferred nesting habitat of the Wren is the lower section of deciduous and mixed woodland, especially the damper areas where this vegetation is particularly lush. However, Wrens feed on insects and spiders, occasionally adding small seeds to their diet. Their small size and agility mean that Wrens are able to access holes and crevices that would be out of the reach of many other birds. A question that is frequently asked by Garden BirdWatchers is how such a small bird can have such a loud song. Ornithologists say that in birds, the larynx lacks any vocal cords and so has little or no role in song production. Instead, birds have an organ known as a syrinx. In such a small bird it obviously just boggle to hear a pretty loud and exceedingly pretty song. There is a great deal of folklore associated with the Wren. One particularly interesting aspect of Wren folklore is that the bird is sometimes regarded as being both masculine and sometimes feminine. ‘The Robin and the Wren, are God’s cock and hen’ is a good example of a feminine association, as are the names ‘Jenny Wren’ and ‘Kitty Wren’. The Dunnock, another common garden songster has a similar song like the Wren but far less trilling and singing.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line465
__label__wiki	0.928846	0.928846	NAPA to sponsor Rossi in Bathurst 1000 Andretti Autosport IndyCar star Alexander Rossi will be in familiar colors when he makes his Supercars debut at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. NAPA Auto Parts, which backs the American’s IndyCar, has been announced as the major sponsor of the Bathurst wildcard Rossi will share with Canadian James Hinchcliffe. The Walkinshaw Andretti United wildcard will run alongside the team’s existing entries for Scott Pye/Warren Luff and James Courtney/Jack Perkins. NAPA joins the #27 wildcard’s previously announced partners Virgin Australia, WheresMyConcrete and Polaris Materials’ Orca High Performance Concrete Aggregates. A giant in the US, NAPA entered the Australian market in 2017 by combining a number of existing parts businesses, launching with a brief sponsorship of Erebus Motorsport. WAU co-team principal Mathew Nilsson attended the Road America IndyCar race won by Rossi earlier this year and is looking forward to seeing the NAPA Commodore hit the track. IndyCar regulars Rossi and Hinchcliffe will test the #27 NAPA Holden at Winton on October 1-3, before Bathurst practice kicks off the following week. The car is one of two wildcards confirmed for Bathurst, with Dunlop Super2 outfit Kostecki Brothers Racing to field cousins Brodie and Jake Kostecki. Hinchcliffe and Rossi - teammates at Bathurst “With such an iconic connection to Andretti Autosport and Alexander Rossi, it’s fantastic to have NAPA Auto Parts join us for the Bathurst 1000, especially after being able to witness first hand the passion for the brand in the United States this year,” said Nilsson. “NAPA Auto Parts may be relatively fresh to the Australian market, but their history over the last 90-years through brands such as Ashdown-Ingram, Appco, Autostop, Covs, Global Auto Parts, R&E, and Sulco, shows how ingrained they are. We’re excited to watch them grow to new heights. “Alexander and NAPA Auto Parts have shared some amazing achievements together in the NTT IndyCar Series, and we’re really excited about the opportunity to add to that in Australia, at Bathurst, alongside James Hinchcliffe. “I’m sure the public are going to love the look of the car, and we cannot wait to show it to everyone in the coming weeks.” The reveal of the NAPA deal follows WAU’s announcement its regular entries will run under the Mobil 1 Racing banner this weekend at Pukekohe, having split with MEGA Limited.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line467
__label__wiki	0.682841	0.682841	Christian tombs desecrated in an historic Istanbul cemetery by NAT da Polis About 90 tombstones are broken. Incidents of this nature are not rate in the city but the local press failed to report it. Only recently and through a movie, have young Turks begun to learn about past anti-Christian pogroms. Ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew visits the cemetery in question. Istanbul (AsiaNews) – A Christian cemetery was desecrated in Istanbul. Unknown person or persons broke 90 tombstones that bore the sign of the cross and the name of the deceased. The incident occurred a few days ago in the historic cemetery of Valukli near the ancient Valukli Monastery, the only monastery dedicated to Our Lady still open in Istanbul, located outside the ancient walls of Theodosius, and which five non-resident nuns care for. Istanbul’s Christian cemeteries have been desecrated on a number of occasions in the past 20 years. The latest outrage brought back memories of the tragic events of September 1955 when churches, cemeteries and properties owned by Istanbul’s Orthodox community were desecrated and destroyed in a pogrom. Eventually dubbed the September pogrom, the event was the brainchild of Turkey’s political-bureaucratic-military establishment, known here as Derin Devlet or ‘deep state’. The pogrom has remained engraved in the memories of Istanbul’s Christians who at that moment realised that their survival in the city would be difficult, if not impossible. Young Turks have learnt about such tragic episodes only recently, when Guz Sancisi, a movie by young Turkish woman director Tomris Giritlioglu, was screened in local theatres to great review and box office success. It is also important to keep in mind that Christian cemeteries are very large and serve as a reminder of the small Christian presence in this country. Given Istanbul’s huge urban development, Christian cemeteries have become surrounded by human habitation and are coveted by developers. A law adopted in the 1930s transferred title to cemeteries to municipalities; hitherto, they had belonged to religious foundations Outraged and grieved by what happened, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (pictured) went to see the desecrated cemetery, asking why such acts continue to strike Christian graveyards. Despite the seriousness of the incident, the local press did not report it. Photo: Nikos Manginas anti-christian Ecumenical patriarch: Easter, Christ’s victory over death belongs to all Christians Christians should take the good from secularised world without identifying with it, says Bartholomew The court had no jurisdiction to deny the patriarchate its ecumenical status, says Bartholomew Closer dialogue between Vatican and Ecumenical Patriarchate Bartholomew I: may Kirill's election foster common journey of Orthodox Churches	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line470
__label__wiki	0.73959	0.73959	研发：一项研究有望成就新型柔性智能变色电池 2020-01-20 00:43:55名门棋牌app游戏下载官网提款名门棋牌app游戏下载官网提款研发项研究有望It was not the first time for Lee, now an activist, to travel around the world to tell people what it means for her to seek justice, especially for those who did not survive to hear a formal apology from the Japanese government 新型What do you think China will be like in five years' time? How do you view China's longer-term future? Chinese people's incomes have increased significantly in recent years and they will become richer in the next five years柔性He has been trying his best to achieve what he has vowed to do 变色To better promote the educational exchanges, Cho and her husband founded the Handa Cultural Exchange Co in Hefei in 2006, with Cho as president电池She has played a prominent role in education, business development and friendship研发项研究有望Opening up to the world has brought dramatic changes to the coastal regions, which have been more developed that the inland areas新型" What do you feel has been China's biggest achievement over the past five years? What's the most notable change you've observed? China has achieved much in many aspects over the last five years柔性In 1998, when she was back in her hometown, Cho delivered a three-hour speech to 82 heads of primary schools, trying to persuade them to offer Chinese courses 变色In 2010, she was listed as one of the most influential women of the century in Hefei电池Officials should all start from basic positions and get promotions gradually研发项研究有望In the runup to the meeting, China Daily asked a prominent South Korean teacher to talk about her experiences in promoting educational improvements, business cooperation and people-to-people understanding in her native country and her adopted home 新型And she was the first South Korean citizen to gain permanent residency in China in 2006柔性The boy - a great fan of Chinese history who was able to give the names of more than 900 figures in the Chinese classic Romance of Three Kingdoms - was inspired and wanted very much to follow the suggestion变色President Xi puts a lot of emphasis on environmental protection电池What's the most memorable experience you've had in China, or related to China? Unforgettable experiences in China are many It also extends to boosting Sino-South Korean economic ties and helping the province's poverty-stricken areasCho's reputation is not limited to education, however When we were living in a community about 10 kilometers away, we could seldom see the hill from the windowWhat's the biggest challenge China faces, and how do you think the country should go about overcoming it? The biggest challenge could come from the changesThe improvement of the people's confidence itself is one of the biggest achievementsIn 2010, she was listed as one of the most influential women of the century in Hefei Editor's Note: The Communist Party of China will hold its 19th National Congress on Oct 18More policies should also be made to attract more foreign talent to work in ChinaIt was unforgettable because my family watched the relay in South Korea in 1988 but didn't get the chance to participate"Now I often accompany Hefei officials to South Korea for business recruitment and students for educational exchanges," Cho said "Nowadays, flights connecting Hefei with Incheon in South Korea are available five days a week, and the situation is improvingDozens of universities are located here, including the University of Science and Technology of China, one of the country's best," she said Before they became major officials, dozens of years should have passed and they should have collected enough experience to tackle seemingly tough problemsIn 1998, when she was back in her hometown, Cho delivered a three-hour speech to 82 heads of primary schools, trying to persuade them to offer Chinese courses A teacher of Korean at Hefei University in Anhui province, Cho has helped to boost the two countries' ties in multiple aspects - not just in educationThe couple found employment quickly at Hefei University and began teaching Korean the next yearcn Cho Sung-hye talks with her students at Hefei University in Anhui provinceThe latest example was a 2016 donation of 20,000 yuan ($3,000) to four high school graduates in Hefei's Feidong county who had been enrolled at universities but were about to give up for lack of moneyWhat is your impression of President Xi Jinping? I think he is a determined manAfter finishing middle school and high school studies in the city, Cho's elder son was admitted to Peking University for undergraduate studies, and then returned to Hefei later for his MBA at the University of Science and Technology of China She has played a prominent role in education, business development and friendshipAfter about a year in Hefei, Park took a job in the United States and tried to persuade Cho to give up Hefei What three words would you use to describe China today? Revitalizing, changing, confidentIn 2000, with Cho's help, the Banyang Elementary School - in which she had studied - began teaching Chinese "I told him that we had just started here and we should at least spend five years in the city before judging whether we should move to another place," Cho said"There were even South Korean businessmen who intended to invest in Hefei but decided to invest in Shanghai and Nanjing instead, as they found the two cities to be more developed," she added China is a big country, so officials have to collaborate with each other wellI don't believe the Western countries' political practices could work in China, though many of them are considered successful by the Westerners themselvesFirst, China is playing an increasingly important role in the world, so some neighboring countries, and especially some developed Western countries may regard China as a challenger to the power they have maintained for many yearsShe has helped more than 3,000 students from Anhui to study in her country, and more than 1,000 were given job opportunities there One of the results is that the Chinese people are more confident than ever about their country's developmentIt's hard to make long-term predictions, but I hope China can keep its own development pace and have its own development patterns I believe that in the coming five years, the gap between coastal and inland regions will be narrowedOpening up to the world has brought dramatic changes to the coastal regions, which have been more developed that the inland areas 名门棋牌app游戏下载官网提款Cho's brothers and sisters also brought their children to HefeiThe younger one attended Anhui University of Chinese Medicine and earned bachelor's and master's degrees there "When the eldest of my two sons was in the third year of middle school, his history teacher, who had some experience in China, suggested the students go to live there and have a close look at the old country," Cho saidBefore coming to China as an adult, she worked at Soon Chun Hyang University as a teacher"On the visit to Hefei, I found it was not very developed but thought it would have great potentialTo better promote the educational exchanges, Cho and her husband founded the Handa Cultural Exchange Co in Hefei in 2006, with Cho as president She herself knew little of the province or its capital at that time, so she decided to have a look before taking her family there"In the five years since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, China has invested more than ever before in poverty relief, and President Xi Jinping has vowed to eliminate poverty by 2020," Cho noted She is now helping the development area build a China-South Korea Industry Park, and she has already brought in three South Korean companies to invest in the city's high-tech zoneOfficials should all start from basic positions and get promotions gradually He has been trying his best to achieve what he has vowed to doI became the first South Korean person to receive the Chinese Central Government's Friendship Award in 2002 and the first from my country to get permanent residency in China in 2006 新职业折射创新驱动热0 教育部：从未授权任何机构开展“全国百强中学”等评选活动0 跑者预防应力性骨折需要多补钙缩短步幅0 美军最新部署中东B52曝光刚到就忙着飞行巡逻0 意甲第36轮：国际米兰2-0切沃0 贝佐斯畅想在太空建造自给自足人类栖息地0 资本：多渠道资金加速涌入力挺投资补短板0 长篇累牍黑杨幂被判赔5万后:我是大学生求放过0 国民党委员:民进党若搞"台独"和大陆硬干路会变窄2 田径比赛鱼跃冲线不阻碍对手就不算犯规0 俄媒：中美在非洲展开一场较量中方胜算更大2 日本太空部队规模初定100人将监控中俄卫星0 持续百年让中美欧花数百亿美元的大搜索在找啥？2 韩国足协放弃申办亚洲杯中国成唯一申办国0 搜李逵出李鬼百度竞价广告屡次触碰底线没得治？2 萨尔瓦多邻居也要与台“断交”?美国开始找人谈话2 © 2019 名门棋牌app游戏下载官网提款	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line471
__label__cc	0.531148	0.468852	S2:E16 Finale: The Best Atari Christmas Ever by Steve Fulton The Season 2 finale of Into The Vertical Blank. In this episode we pull out all the stops and explain exactly why Atari means so much to us. This honest, naked, all-cards-on-the-table, frank episode includes an Eponymous Story named “The Best #@! Christmas Ever” that tells all. There is also discussion and a remix that incorporates the entirety of Season 2. This is probably not the final episode ever of Into The Vertical Blank, but if it was, we’d be satisfied that we achieved what we set out to do: exorcise the demons of our past and discover why we are here in the first place. Please Subscribe And/Or Give Us A Review Spotify The Best #@! Christmas Ever Part 1: The Future Calls The first time I touched a computer I was 10 years old in 1980, at my friend Eric’s house who lived down the street. Eric’s dad was manager at Hughes Aircraft, the same place my dad was a draftsman. They knew each other, but there was an obvious white collar/blue collar divide between them. My dad said Eric’s was “kicked upstairs” which I think implied he was incompentent (so they promoted him?) It always sounded like sour grapes on mydad’s part.. My dad was into dirt bikes and fixing cars. Eric’s dad was into technology, sci-fi and building his wife a kiln and his son a 2-story clubhouse.. My dad showed me how to fix a roof, do a brake job on Datsun 710 station , shoot guns, and how to set off fireworks without blowing my hand off. He never built my mom anything I recall, but he did once hang a tire from a tree so we could swing on it. My dad was into the Civil War, cowboys, ghost towns and discovering the past. Eric’s dad showed me the future. I can’t imagine why now, but Eric’s dad let my brother and I, a grimy set of twins with rat’s nest hair and thread-bare clothes, touch his shiny, brand-new Apple II computer. He let us play games like Ceiling Zero and Aztec, but he did something more. It was Eric’s dad who showed how to enter and execute our first real honest to God Apple BASIC code executing on its’ MOS technologies 6502 based-processor. It went something like this. 10 Print “Hello World” 20 goto 10 When the program ran, the rippling green phosphorescent text scrolled on the black background of the Apple II monitor. It went on and on forever. And It appeared to be the stuff of Gods to me. By writing the code Eric’s dad showed us, then typing “run” hitting the [enter] key, we had, essentially, created what appeared to be, life itself. And just like those same Gods, Eric’s dad showed us how to smite that life down with a simple CTRL+C.key press. I was gobsmacked. I was hooked. Like a young blue whale that breached the water’s surface for the first time, my eyes instantly opened to world I had no concept of even existing before. A world I never wanted to leave. But a world I rarely got the chance to enter. “You are going to end up on skid row” My dad was serious. My brother and I were 11 years old, listening to my dad as he drove the Datsun 710 station wagon to the Motel 6 in Escondido California. This type of weekend trip to Motel 6 would constitute our family summer vacations in totality for the next several years. “If you don’t find a decent job, you will be living on the streets” It was a scary thought, living on the streets. The hot, sticky vinyl of the Datsun seats that I hated so much, felt like a dream compared to how I imagine sleeping on a concrete sidewalk might feel. In the summer of 1981, my brother and were video game obsessed twins who lived in a household that avoided or could not afford most modern technology and conveniences. My dad’s job at Hughes Aircraft was shaky, and we made ends meet based on how many overtime hours he was awarded there. This meant most luxuries were off the table. It was lucky then, that my brother and I both loved arcade arcade games that we could play for 25 cents each. However, we also coveted the Atari VCS, a machine on which we could play unlimited video games, but was so far, not within our grasp. When we had money, we spent most of it at the arcade or in shop fronts, playing those coin operated video games. Most of the time those games were made by one company: the aforementioned VCS creator, Atari. We taught ourselves to make a single credit of an open-ended game like Atari Asteroids last as long as possible. When we were not in the arcade, we were on the lookout for any kind of video games, favoring the Atari VCS systems set-up in the TV departments of various stores like Fedmart, Gemco and Sears. When we found one, we could play a few rounds before the salesmen ran us off. On a trip like this one to San Diego, we would, hopefully, find an arcade at miniature golf course or strip mall, and beg our dad to take us there. He would usually oblige. “You can’t make the same mistakes I made” my dad continued. We had listened to his conversations enough to know exactly what he was talking about. Our father had a degree in Fine Art from Syracuse University, and after spending 25 years trying to land acting roles in TV, he now held a job doing drafting work for an Aerospace company. , If anyone did, my dad knew the value of not wasting a college education. But he also constantly complained about his job, and warned us about getting into a bad work situation “Most of your work lives will be spent dealing with boredom” he told us. He hated his work, that much was obvious. It certainly wasn’t what he dreamed of doing when he imagined himself running away to join the French Foreign Legion as a boy, or played the bad guy on the TV show “Captain Z-Ro” in the 50s. His warnings always stayed with me. Would I be able to find a job I “loved” not be “bored”, and avoid ending up on “skid row”? It was a lot for an 11 year old to contemplate. Not too long after we returned from our weekend away, my brother and I stumbled across a computer store named HW Computers next to new laundromat my mom was trying out for the first time. HW was part of a chain established among the first wave of computer stores. The shop was a mish-mash of t-shirted techies, business-suited sales guys, IBM clones, Apple IIs, and walls filled with elaborately shaped boxes of software and games. When we saw the Atari logo on the front of the store we begged my mom to take us there while the clothes were in the washer.. Our mission that day, as it had been for months, was to look for for Atari VCS games and see if we could play them: and we did find some VCS games, albeit in a glass case. They were not playable, but it was still exciting to find “our thing” in the wild. However, we also found something far better…something amazing to me at the time. In a different glass case at HW computers we saw a display of one of the most beautiful creations I had ever witnessed in my 11 years on earth: an Atari 800 computer and 810 Disk Drive. “ Atari made computers?” I said “ I had no idea!” Jeff replied. As the computer store salesman explained the machines and how much more powerful they were than the Atari VCS and how much cheaper they were than an Apple II, I was dumbfounded by their beauty. The sleek curves of the Atari computers reminded me of the cars from the movie American Graffiti. I felt a charge in my gut when I looked at them, as if they were something I needed to possess as soon as possible. I’m not sure why exactly the name “Atari” attached to computer made them seem more accessible than Apple, but it just did. I already had an innate love for anything Atari because I loved playing the Asteroids coin-op so much, and I’d wanted an Atari VCS for several years after falling in-love with Breakout in 1978. . Maybe in my head, expensive “Apple” computers were for kids of engineering managers and math geniuses like Eric. while Atari computers were made for kids like us who might one day end up on skid row? I can’t really explain it other than the name “Atari” attached to a computer made my brother andI both think it would one day be possible to own one. We left the store that day with a catalog listing all the Atari computer software available at HW computers and a sneaking suspicion it would not be the last time we crossed the path of Atari computing machines. Admittingly, a big draw I had towards computers was the fact they could play the in-depth and exciting games we saw in the store and described in the software catalog. After using Eric’s Apple II. I was enamoured by the process of booting the machine, inserting a disk in the floppy drive, typing a command, and running a game. The sound of the whirring disk drive, and the audible clicks as each sector of bits bits was loaded from a floppy drive was thrilling. But equally as thrilling was the BASIC programming language Eric’s dad showed us how to use.. With seemingly the same commands and interface used to play games, a person could write these magical lines of text cpaba;le of making games as well. The difference between playing software and creating software appeared to be a mere matter of context. A magical flick of wrist that could take a person from shooting aliens to breathing life into them. All those years we spent trying to make home-made pinball games in garage with mechanical parts and lights my dad pilfered from work, designing my our own driveway driveway sports and hacking our analog toys into interactive experiences were leading to something, and a programmable home computer felt like, maybe, an answer. Furthermore, if my brother and I could only get our hands on an Atari computer, and learn to program one, then there was a good chance we could one day get a job making video games. At least, that is how we saw it. And if we did learn to program and make video games my dad would never had to worry about us ending up on skid row. I would never have to worry about ending up on skid row. That was the dream anyway. But dreams, by my parents example, dreams were not always an achievable reality. Both of them lived with the constant knowledge that their own ambitions of becoming professional actors would never come to fruition. We only heard snatches of their lives before us kids came along, but all of it sounded so fascinating. They met by chance in San Francisco in the 50’s, and acted together in plays at places like the S.F. State Little Theater. After my dad got roles on a couple TV shows, they chased their dreams to New York City to study “the method” under Paul Mann. Upon graduation, from acting school, they moved back to 1950’s Hollywood to chase the TV dream once more. Then…nothing. It all evaporated. To make ends meet, my dad took a job drawing for an aerospace company, and my mom worked as a typist for Rand corporation. When the first baby came not soon after, the acting was put on hold indefinitely. My dad found things to keep himself busy, but my mom…she never really did. She just sat at one side of the kitchen table, playing solitaire for hours on end. The same version of klondike, over and over: klondike for my entire childhood and beyond. Her dreams died hard. So to me, having a big “dream” for your life just seemed like a terrible idea. You’d end up on skid row, in a job you hate, or just sitting by yourself wondering “what could have been”. I never really imagined being “anything” beyond my then current position: a kid who loved Star Wars and video games. But this Atari computer thing, it seemed like it was a dream worth having. It was short-term. It was achievable…maybe. Sure computers, even cheap Atari computer, were expensive, but there had to be a way to make it happen. Part 2: Video Games Arrive For most of the 1970’s, my dad road desert motocross as his past-time and hobby. He joined a club for desert motocross racers named “The Dusters”, and spent many of his free weekends in the Mojave desert. We accompanied him a couple times, but there was little for us to do, I always secretly wanted to be a “Duster”. They had their own custom Jerseys, and they gave out trophies to their members. My dad proudly displayed his club awarded “First Place aged 50+” trophy next to his bed. Next to that was an action photo of him racing in the desert. When an accident forced my dad to quit motocross racing, he picked up a new hobby collecting military artifacts. Specifically, forage caps from the American Civil war. It wasn’t exactly “new” hobby, as he had been interested in them since the 1950’s when he saw one in store window for $5 and passed it up. The forage caps from the American Civil War looked very much like hats worn by the French Foreign Legion, and my dad connected the two from his own childhood aspirations to run away from boarding school and fight foriegn wars. In a matter of months he purchased several hats, either from the local Gun Shows or from Shotgun News magazine, a publication for gun enthusiasts that doubled as a classified ads for military memorabilia.. He even wore one of the hats as he coached our soccer team, sticking out like a sore thumb among the young beach dads in our home town. A couple months after seeing the Atari 800 in the glass case, the first issue of Electronic Games Magazine was published, and made its way into the hands of my brother and I. Even though we still had computers on our minds, the Atari VCS was never forgotten and that first issue of Electronic Games brought it right back into the forefront. We poured over the entire magazine for weeks, geeking out at the images and descriptions of all the cartridges coming out for the VCS. The visceral nature of the magazine made the prospect of getting an Atari VCS feel more real than ever. We talked about the VCS constantly and made it obvious to our parents that we could wait no longer, so when Christmas 1981 rolled by,. somehow, our parents managed to get us an Atari VCS. To this day, I still don’t really understand how. Civil War forage caps cost several hundred dollars so maybe my mom convinced my dad to postpone the purchase of a hat or two and help get us an Atari? More likely though it was made possible by or mom’s then recent re-joining of the workforce as a near-minimum wage teacher’s aid. No matter how we got the VCS, it was amazing to have! We were finally Atari “owners” and not just Atari “players”, and for awhile, the dreams of owning an Atari computer were pushed aside, as we went full bore into playing the VCS and getting the new games reviewed and advertised in Electronic Games magazine. This was our true video game golden age. We spent all of our money on Electronic Games magazine, arcade tokens, and Atari cartridges. We really tried to get make that VCS the best it could be, to embrace it as the future. We subscribed to Atari Age magazine, and acquired copies of Night Driver, Missile Command and Adventure for our 12th birthday. However, the excitement though, was short-lived. It might have been amazing to have an Atari VCS, but it was not necessarily amazing to play an Atari VCS. While we were wowed by games like Asteroids and Missile Command, we were left disappointed by many others. The blockiness of Adventure and the sheer hollowness of Pac-Man for example, made us take pause. When the next generation Colecovision and Atari 5200 were announced in Electronic Games Magazine in 1982, the VCS felt old and tired. What was cool when I was in 3rd grade in 1978, felt outdated and underpowered in an era of MTV and Tron. We watched as our friends got these newer machines, and we were stuck with a device designed when Nixon jokes still echoed on late night TV. We so desperately wanted to be on the “cutting edge” of technology, but in reality, our family situation meant we would always be coming from behind, trying to catch-up to the modern world. Computers on the other hand, still seemed new and exciting. When I wasn’t playing the VCS, I was usually in my room, lying on my bed reading the Computer Playland section of Electronic Games magazine or paging through that Atari software catalog from HW computers. As the months and years wore on, the games in that catalog took on a mythic quality.; their tantalizing names and descriptions felt so much deeper and more exciting than the mostly one-note game-play on the Atari VCS. Energy Czar, Eastern Front, Temple Of Apshai, Rescue At Rigel. Caverns Of Mars, Scott Adams Adventures, and Zork, just to name a few. All of those games sounded like the types of deep and engrossing experiences I wanted from the VCS but were so hard to find. It was around that time that somehow, some way, using our twin powers, my brother and I decided in unspoken terms, that we both wanted…no, needed to somehow, someway, rekindle the dream, and get an Atari computer in any way possible. So, Over the next two years we schemed and scouted all avenues possible to obtain what was fast becoming the pinnacle of our childhood dreams. Knowing how expensive computers were at the time (The salesman had told us an Atari 800 and Disk Drive would set us back at least $1000 dollars) , we knew we were going to have to be mighty creative in our endeavors if we were ever going to see our plans come to fruition. Sure, my dad did not want us to end up on skid row, but he also did not want to end up on skid row himself trying to pay for a computer. To be successful, We would have to present the computer as a device so necessary for our collective futures, that there was no way he could pass up the opportunity to get one for us. The first thing we did was educate ourselves. For a couple kids who did fine in school, but would rather read Encyclopedia Brown, Three Investigators, and Choose Your Own Adventure books, this was quite a startling change of direction.We checked-out books on BASIC programming from the library, and taught ourselves the main tenets of the BASIC language from the seeds Mr. Barth had planted years before.: line numbers, loops, gotos, gosubs, plot and color statements. Soon we were fashioning our own analog programs on notebook and graph paper, designing games and graphics, and anything else we could think of. We did these things out in the open, where our parents could see our work. Sitting across the kitchen table from my mom while she played another losing game of one-person cards, we copied code from books and discussed outloud how we might create the coding ideas in our heads. Among the supplies my dad brought home from work at Hughes Aircraft were a few pages of ⅛ inch graph paper. To us, the boxes on that graph paper looked just like the pixels on a 8-bit Apple II screen.. We asked to use some of the paper, and the next day he brought us a whole stack he “borrowed” from the Hughes supply closet. (“Nobody was using it” he told us) On that paper we designed the space ships and characters we planned to use in the games we wrote for our future Atari computer. We even inserted “plot” statements directly on the graph paper, so when we eventually did get a computer, we could easily replicate the graphics we designed. We had no way to test-out our ideas, but that didn’t stop us from imagining the possibilities of what a computer could do. Along the way, the unspoken agreement among my brother and I evolved. We didn’t just want to get a computer to program video games, we both hoped this all would one day lead to our ultimate goal: working at ATARI making video games because they were, hands down, the world’s greatest video game company. Skid Row? It was no-where in the picture. However, time continued to march on, and as with BMX bikes, skateboards, and video game systems before them, we, again, watched the years pass by as our friends in the neighborhood all obtained the same things we wanted so badly but seemed so far out of our reach. First, Eric’s dad upgraded to an Apple IIe, Then Wesley’s dad bought him an IBM PC compatible, Next Kenny’s mom, who was single parent, managed to get him an Atari 400, followed by Scott’s parents who scored him a TRS-80. I was happy for those guys, but frustrated too. It Just seemed like the more I wanted something, the better chance someone else would get it. The reality was, being familiar with how to program a computer did not mean we would ever own one. If our plan was going to work, we would have to start really working on getting a machine into our house. Our first solid chance came in the summer of 1982. That year MacDonald’s had an Atari Video Game ‘Scratch And Win’ contest, giving away 1000’s of Atari products, including Atari 5200 Super Systems and Atari 400 and 800 computers. We resigned ourselves that summer to win the contest by any means necessary. In between stints at the arcade that offered ‘8-tokens for a dollar’, we would walk up to local Mcdonalds looking for discarded game-cards on the ground, on the tables, and on the floors inside the restaurant. When that left us empty handed, we braved discarded Big Macs and soggy fries as we searched through the trash cans in and outside the restaurant. We did this for a few hours a day, a few days a week for at least half the summer. To this day, the scent of lettuce and tomatoes mixed with special sauce together conjure memories of picking through garbage in me. Luke-warm,. Mcdonald’s garbage. Out of the dozens of game-cards we eventually found, none of them were Atari winners. The best we did was to win fries and a coke or two, but we were (almost) too disgusted by MacDonald’s food trash by that time to eat any of it. As the summer passed, so did those Atari computer dreams, and by the time we were back in school in the 7th grade, the idea was pushed-back, but not forgotten. That year I quit Spanish class after one trimester, and found myself working in the school computer lab. For an hour a day I was allowed to explore a room filled with Apple IIe computers, and pretty much do whatever I wanted with them. It was the next revelation. I played expansive computer games, programmed in Apple BASIC, drew pictures with a Koala art tablet, and wrote poems with Bank Street Writer. It became obvious to me in that lab that computers were not just another unattainable “thing” I was obsessed with, but that they were the future. Not just my future, not just the future Eric’s dad had given us a glimpse of, but the future for everyone. This realization only made my desire for a computer burn even more brightly. If only I could get my hands on one, in my own room and learn how to program it, I’d be set for life. Christmas 1982 came and went. We received a couple great Atari VCS games, River Raid and Vanguard, but much of our household, especially my dad, was distracted by moving my grandmother out of her house and into a retirement home. Early in 1983, my brother and I managed to save-up and purchase a Starpath Supercharger for our Atari VCS. The Supercharger added about 6K of RAM to the VCS, and loaded games from cassettes, like many home computers did. This meant the VCS could play more elaborate games loaded from tape in multiple segments. The games were also cheap, running about $15.00 each. For a hot minute, I believed that the Supercharger might be a reasonable stand-in for an actual computer. The games it played, especially the first console RPG Dragonstomper and the 3D maze puzzle game Escape From The Mindmaster were mind-blowingly great! However, that idea was short-lived. We still could not program the Supercharger, and very soon after we purchased it, the company who made it, Arcadia/Starpath, went out of business. In fact, Atari was losing money hand-over-fist in 1983, and it felt like the entire video game business was going to crumble. We needed to figure out how to get a computer fast, or there was a good chance we’d never get to work making video games at all. Part 3: Time By mid 1983 and my brother and I had been obsessing about owning a computers for almost three full years. I don’t know if it’s a scientific fact that 3 years in kid time is at least 30 years of adult time, but it sure felt like it. Bill Bryson said it most eloquently in his memoir “The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid” like this: “time moves more slowly in Kid World … it goes on for decades when measured in adult terms. It is adult life that is over in a twinkling” It was about that time when Atari announced a brand new line of low-cost computers. The XL line consisted of the 600XL and 800XL replacements for the Atari 400 and 800 respectively. had sleek new designs, (straight-edges replaced the space-age curves of the older machines) with 64K ram and BASIC built-in. In mid 1983, our dad was working overtime at Hughes Aircraft with a new computerized CAD/CAM system. Without any real acknowledgement of the computer obsession we’d been trying show him for years, he started coming home and bestowing upon us his wisdom about the virtues of this new computer system, and how computers were going to change everything. He sounded a bit like Erics’ dad did a few years back. This was new. As well, with his overtime work, he seemed to have a bit more cash on-hand than usual, even if we never saw much of it. My dad had been going full-bore into his new hobby collecting “Civil War headgear”. We had attended several gun shows helping with his search, and he was obsessive about the classified ads in Shotgun news, searching them for hours looking for hats, buttons, belts, ammo holders, and other period items from the 1860s that would satisfy his collecting hobby. His book shelves were filled with antique books that described Civil War uniforms in detail, and first hand accounts written by the soldiers themselves. He also imagined himself in a business making reproduction Civil War Kepis and Bummers (the names of his favorite forage caps) and his walls were filled with drawings and designs of the different parts of the hats and how he might go about recreating them. All of these antiques he purchased ate heavily into the household income. Even though my mom took as many hours at her Teacher’s Aid job as she could, we were still left buying most of our clothes at discount shops and shoes at the local Swap Meet. This made made it very hard for us to fit-in with expensive surf-clothes wearing kids at our Junior High. We were nerds, but we didn’t even realize it. We just knew we wanted a computer. My brother and I decided it was finally time to tell our dad about the Atari we had been coveting. With my dad openly talking about computers, it felt like we had some common ground to start a discussion. Unconsciously I believe, our goal was to appeal to his sense own obsessions. We needed to try to make our desire for an Atari computer look and feel like his own hobbies. Those hobbies appeared legitimate because they had dedicated magazines, clubs, books and trade shows where enthusiasts could gather and explore together. I still recall us taking our stacks of books, magazines, catalogs, and notebooks filled with hand-written BASIC code into his room. He was on his bed, as usual, watching the black and white TV he repaired after going to night school. This was when my mom still slept there, so her things still occupied ½ the room. Her hair brush and mirror still on their shared dresser, next to the giant mirror with the enormous crack in the upper-left corner. “Hey pop” one of us said, “can we show you something…?” Didn’t just show him something, We showed him everything, especially focusing on the magazines and their pictures and ads for Atari, which only now I realize was a parallel to how he focused on Shotgun News for his hobby. We pointed out the new, lower-cost Atari computers that had been announced that year. He watched us as we paged through the books we’d checked-out, the programs we had written, and displayed our code and pixels drawings, plus the catalogs and magazines we had about Atari. Our dad was blown-away by our enthusiasm on the subject but he was just not sure Atari was a company that were serious about making computers. The one thing that he did do, at least for a short time anyway, was stop talking about skid row. It was a small thing, but just noticeable enough to encourage us to keep trying for an Atari 800xl. So we stepped up the pressure another notch. We had to somehow get him to understand that not only did Atari make the best computers in the world and that they played the best games, but just having one could be our ticket to never worrying about having a job or being laid off, something he worried about constantly. Soon after we begged our dad to take us to computer show at the LA Convention center. We saw an ad for it in the LA Times and we imagined it would be like the CES or COMDEX shows we read about in magazines. It was also the closest cousin to the Gun Shows to which we accompanied my dad when he was looking for Civil War artifacts, By taking us to those Gun Shows, he opened our eyes to the fact that these types of events existed. We planned to explore the Atari booth at the show, and make sure he knew that Atari made serious computers and were a serious player in the industry, and not just the video game system we had hooked-up to the TV. We didn’t know much about computer shows at the time, and it turned out the one we chose was “serious” all right, and covered IBM PC compatibles only. Atari was nowhere to be found. I still recall my brother and I walking through the tables on the show floor desperate to see any Atari machine anywhere so my dad could see they were serious and real. But none were found. My dad was livid. He spent money on tickets, parking, gas, and we came away with nothing. It was a huge blow to our dreams, and it was the first time I realized that while I might have high regard for Atari computers, there was a whole industry that didn’t even acknowledge their existence. Maybe we were wrong about Atari? It was near this time that my dad came home from work completely frustrated. He relayed a story to us about how his computer at work had “turned” on him. Whatever system he was using apparently did not have “back-space” which was either an actual back-spece, or his way of describing “undo”. “When i’m drafting by hand I can just erase with pencil, but with this fucking computer I have to start all over again. I hate these fucking computers” It was yet another blow to our efforts. We thought our dad had embraced the future, but it looked like he was quickly slipping into the past We needed to find something else to send things in the other direction, and in the summer of 1983 we found it. SBACE, the South Bay Atari Computer Enthusiasts was an Atari computer club that held monthly meetings a few miles from our house. Jeff and I found out about them in an Atari computer magazine, Antic or Analog, both of which we bought regularly. We showed our dad the date and time for the meeting, and he agreed to take us. I was nervous going the SBACE meeting. I felt like a kid entering an adult world. The last time we accompanied my dad to an “adult” affair, it was when he took up acting again as a hobby a few years prior. He took us down to the stage where they were preparing their sets, and gave us jobs to help. My brother and I were on our hands and knees scraping old paint off the floor, when an angry woman in some kind of charge saw us and yelled “who are these kids and why are they here!!” The pit of my stomach filled with bile when I heard this. I froze and could not look-up. My ears turned red. My eyes started getting wet. My dad quickly came over, apologized to the woman, and took us home. I never found out why we posed such an affront to her, but I never forgot it. We had invaded an adult world that did not want us. I certainly hoped the SBACE meeting would not turn out like that. We paid our dues and sat down in folding chairs in room about 50 feet long and 25 feet wide. We were about 15 minutes early, so I watched as the other attendees arrived. I was relieved to see that most of them looked similar to my dad. Still, I tried to make myself small and invisible in the chair, just in-case. When one of the arrivals stopped next to us, and turned to my dad, I was scared crapless about what he was going to say. Were we going to get kicked out of here too? The man leaned over to my dad, pointed at us and said “I see you got a couple Atari computers fans there! Welcome!” My dad nodded, and the man nodded back. And that was that. We were good. The rest of the meeting was breathtakingly brilliant. There was talk of Atari BBS systems coming online, where to buy Atari Computers, demos of games and programs written by the members, and much more. All of these adults (and few kids) talking about Atari Computers as if they were the most important computers in the world. When it was over, I was not sure how my dad felt about the meeting. He got up, and immediately went to the back of the room. I thought he was trying to leave, but instead he headed straight to the membership table and bought us each a year’s membership to SBACE. Sure, it wasn’t like being a member of a cool 70’s desert motocross club named “The Dusters”, but it was the closest we were ever going to get. On the way home, it felt like my dad was just as excited about Atari computers as we were. Our joyful conversation in the cab of the 4-door International Pick-up truck travelled from computers, to our futures as adults. “With computers and soccer you could be set for life” I recall him telling us, “your mind and body fulfilled” We swept him up in our computer dream, telling him about how we could grow-up to be programmers (a sellable skill) and not be bored with work (because computers were cool!). And not end up on Skid Row (because we could get paid) He seemed to buy every word. By the time we made it home he was sold. That night, he joined us in our quest to make the ‘Atari Computer Dream’ a reality, and even better, he wanted to do it by Christmas 1983. I felt then that the upcoming Christmas was going to be The Best $%! Christmas ever. Part 4: The run-Up In the months that led-up to Christmas 1983 we made attack plans on just how we would make the Atari Computer plan a success. We listed all the things we would need: An shiny new Atari 800XL, 1050 Double Sided Disk Drive, a box of 10 blank disks, and a color TV for output and a proper computer desk for our room My dad took care of the color TV by setting us up with a refurbished one he repaired from someone else’s garbage. Jeff and I loved the all-wood computer desk that Erics’ dad had for his Apple IIe, and the giant, fancy office desk Wesley had in his room for the IBM PC. We showed my dad pictures of computer desks from the Sears catalog, but he had his own ideas. He did the best he could for us given his other priorities He found an old discarded desk on the side of the road, and took it home with him one night, hauling several pieces in the back of the pickup truck. . He salvaged the metal desk drawers, and added a table-top from some discarded boards in the garage, then he fashioned a set of legs for the side opposite the drawers to keep it upright. It was not pretty, but it would certainly not stand-out in our house filled mostly with other discards, side-of-road specials, make-shift beds, etc. In fact, it was right at home. Now we just needed to find a computer that could sit on top of it. Throughout the fall, We kept looking for the best prices on the Atari machines. Every week we would check the ads in the LA Times, and take a trip to Fedco and Gemco to see if a shipment of 800XL’s had arrived. Our fellow members of SBACE relayed their own stories of difficulty locating the new Atari line too, and at one of the meetings in late 1983, we found out why. One of the speakers informed the attendees that Atari was having some kind of production problems and their computers were slow to arrive in the USA. What we didn’t know was that in 1983 Atari tried to cut costs and move all their manufacturing to Asia. They also got a new CEO, who halted all production for a short time so he could make sense of the mess the previous CEO left behind. Both of these events left the store shelves bare of Atari computers products in the run-up towards Christmas. It couldn’t have come at a worse time. Even though my dad was ready to make a purchase, simply finding an Atari 800XL computer anywhere became a huge problem. As the weeks before Christmas turned into mere days, the outlook became bleaker and bleaker. There were none to be found in any local stores. On Christmas Eve, we still had no computer purchased, but we took one last trip to Fedco, just for the hell-of-it. It was Saturday December 24th, and it just-so-happened to be the same day that Fedco finally received their first shipment of Atari 800XL computers. The store shelves were packed to the rafters! We were amazed, and dazed. Our dream of almost 4 years was coming true, and on Christmas Eve! My brother and I ran around the aisles, gleefully picking out everything we needed. I still recall that joy we felt when we finally saw the boxes for the 800XL and 1050 disk drive. It felt like a Christmas miracle. I still recall what happened next, as if it was slow motion. The movement of my dad, the expression on his face, the surprise of what he was seeing. I can see it now and will never forget it. Because It was not joy he was expressing. My father was not as enthusiastic about finally finding Atari computers at all. He looked quite shocked actually that the store had anything in stock, almost like he had planned to find nothing there. As we dashed around the store, he finally got up the nerve to give us the news he had been holding back. “Boys”, “I can’t buy this Atari 800XL this year. I did not get enough overtime-pay to afford one. We have to do it next year” And that was that. In a word, my brother and I were : devastated. We went home and sulked. Christmas was ruined, and there was nothing we could do. I wished our dad had never latched-onto our plan, as it only raised our hopes to dash them in the worst way possible. Why had he just gone through the motions of pretending to want this for us? I’d never been more angry at him. Like every year, We went to Catholic Church with my mom that Christmas Eve, and as we exited to the verses of Joy To The World, the feeling of Christamas of old swept over me. By the time we got home, I felt warm and happy. It was nice to be at our house and nice to know Christmas was just a few hours away. My Grannie and sisters were home when we got back, and soon we got caught-up in the evening. It was Christmas by God, and it would still be fun, as it always was. My mom, my wonderful mom, could not help but make it nice. Her little traditions were the heart and soul of our Christmas any way. There would be no computer, but there would be Christmas stockings filled with thoughtful goodies from her paycheck. There would be biscuits for breakfast, and a turkey for dinner. Since the holiday fell on a Sunday that year, we would have two full weeks to play with whatever we received. Even without a computer coming, we still might get some Atari VCS or Vectrex games, and that couldn’t be all bad. Maybe a ColecoVision was in our future? Sleep that night though, was tough. It was not the usual Christmas Eve jitters from when I was little, but something more. All the pent-up energy and feelings from years of hoping, planning, scheming to get that Atari computer were poured into twisted dreams about the Atari Christmas gone-awry. Asleep, awake, asleep, awake, with dreams in- between about what could-have-been. More thoughts came. Darker thoughts. I was angry when I thought about my dad’s hobbies. There were still four motorcycles in the garage that he didn’t rde any more. His room was stuffed with artifacts he had purchased to feed his Civil War habit, yet our lives were still mostly make-shift. We rode make-shift bikes, slept on make-shift beds, wore make-shift clothes, had a make-shift TV that sat on an empty, makeshift computer desk. The plumbing, electricity, windows, floors, and paint in our house were bandaged with make-shift patches, but never really ever fixed. Yet my dad’s hobbles were always fully funded. Why couldn’t he just put aside some of that stuff, and once, just this once, to help achieve this Atari computer dream? His hobbies seemed to be his priority. When would we* be his priority? Even when he coached our soccer team it felt sometimes like the strategy of putting together line-ups was more important to him than spending time with my brother and I. Like he’d still be doing it even if we never showed up any more for practice or games. . To say that I was never sure my dad “loved” me is pretty accurate statement. It was always a mystery as to just how how felt about anything or anyone. He neither conveyed his emotions as the thoughtfulness of a romantic (which he was not) nor the overwrought bigness of an alcoholic (which he also was not). Instead he showed that he cared with the subtle gestures of a prestidigitator: so small as to be merely experienced out of thin air. Getting that Atari computer, and more specifically, my dad giving it to us ON Christmas had become, in my mind, the proof I needed that I was okay. That my brother was okay. It would be the absent hug I always wanted from him wrapped-up neatly with a bow and placed under our Christmas tree. It would have proven, once and for all that he didn’t actually think I would ever end up on skid row, that the future really was here, and he believed, truly in his heart, that I would be part of it. But that can was kicked down the road for another time. I’d have to live with it. And by the time I finally drifted off to sleep that night a sense of restless peace came over me. Maybe we could get an Atari computer for our birthday, which was less than a month away? Dreams don’t die I guess. They have a way of morphing, and adjusting to the realities of life. I still planned to learn to program a real computer. And still planned to one day work for Atari, and I still planned to never end up homeless. I just didn’t want this dream to die like I saw mom’s acting dreams die. If it did, what would be my “solitaire at the kitchen table”? What would be the thing I wasted my days away doing because I never got the chance to do what I felt was my destiny to do? Part 5: This Is The End The morning of Christmas 1983 and the next two weeks are a complete blur in my mind. For how precisely I remember the events that led-up to Christmas 1983, the events afterwards live in a state of suspended animation, where all memories seem to rest on-top of one another as if they all happened in tandem. Some scientists theorize that time never actually passes, but simply folds over and over unto itself. If there was ever any anecdotal evidence to support this idea, it would be my Christmas 1983. My brother and I awoke that morning, and things were just as my father had said. There was no new Atari 800 XL computer, nor was there an Atari 1050 disk drive. There was no shiny new computer software in elaborately shaped packages or brand new books and manuals for us to read about our new computer. Instead there was something else entirely. There were two giant, old style 1970’s Atari Computer boxes: one for an Atari 800, and another for an Atari 810 disk drive. Next to those boxes was another plain brown cardboard box. None of it was wrapped, just hurriedly placed on the table for us to find. My brother and I were in complete shock. Our father had not lied to us. It was true, he could not afford a new Atari 800 XL,1050 disk drive or brand new computer games. Instead he got us this old Atari 800? “He got the wrong one” I said aloud. I tried to smile, but it was tough. Was it was another one of my dad’s cheap fake outs instead of the real thing? Another bargain. Another make-shift way to solve a problem. Another situation that left us behind the times instead of with them? I examined the Atari 800 box. It looked fairly new, but the side said it had only “16K” of memory. That meant it was a 1979 vintage Atari 800. The new sleeker Atari 800XL had four times a much memory, 64K. It also had the new GTIA graphics chip that was lacking in the original models. Next to the Atari 800 box was a box for the 810 disk drive. The drive was built like a tank, and almost as big as one. The 810 was okay, but it was only a single sided, single density so it could only store 90k on a disk. The newer 1050 XL Drive was a superior enhanced density for more storage. My brother and I had studied enough magazines and heard enough at the SBACE meetings to know how much better the new XL computers were supposed to be than the old 400 and 800. However, it was not all bad. The cardboard box behind the Atari boxes appeared to be filled with all kinds of “extras” like books and disks. Now THAT was intriguing. Even though we were both puzzled by the gift, when my dad came out of his room about an hour later, we put on our happy faces, and thanked him profusely. Then he told us what had happened. His told his buddy at work Dave Elwood about The Atari we wanted, and Mr. Elwood informed him that he had one already, and wanted to upgrade to an IBM PC. So Elwood had sold him the older model Atari 800 computer, an older model 810 disk drive, and all the software he had collected for three years. “It was a very good price” my dad said “Yep, a fucking bargain” I thought to myself I do not recall anything else at all from that Christmas morning except the building anticipation that I could not wait for all the present opening to complete, so we could get to those computer boxes and see if the day could be salvaged. The exact moment the last piece of wrapping paper was thrown into the green trash bag, and my dad fired-up the Pioneer receiver to put on Christmas music, my brother and I whisked that Atari 800 back to our room to check it out. We approached the computer with a trepidation. The boxes were dusty and showed the wear of being in storage for a while. They were a far cry from the brand new Shiny Atari XL boxes we saw at Fedco the day before. When we took out the equipment and cables, instead of the fresh smell of new plastic, they had the distinct, sweet odor of old leather and cigar smoke. The machines were mostly clean though, and Mr. Elwood had upgraded the memory to 48K, and the CTIA chip to a GTIA chip, so that was good. We placed the computer on our make-shift computer desk, hooked it up to our make-shift TV and, never, ever looked back. It turned out, rather unexpectedly, that buying Elwood’s 2nd hand Atari was a brilliant idea. In the extra cardboard box came the spoils of Mr. Elwood’s own foray into home computing that was now passed onto us. It contained disks and cartridges and joysticks and books and manuals and catalogs. There was so much stuff, it was overwhelming. It would take us weeks, or even months to discover it all. Over the first couple hours of testing the machine, our excitement built rapidly. In fact, there was something very special about the Atari computer system my dad got for us. Far from being the poor substitution for a shiny new machine like we feared, it was, quite possibly, the greatest idea my dad ever had. The second-hand Atari 800 was like an instant starter set into the world of home computing. It was honestly, the best gift a couple 13 year Atari obsessed computer twins in 1983 could ever hope for. If we had received a new Atari 800XL, I’m not sure it would have had the same ultimate, effect on us. Instead of starting new, with just a few programs games for our computer, we quite literally dove into the middle, with so much available to explore it felt like an actual gold mine. Like all the listings and descriptions in that HW computers catalog, the one we read over and over until it fell apart, those had become real, materizing right before our eyes on Christmas morning. My dad had come through. He had finally came through. His bargain hunting and frugal nature, in this case, turned out to be the lynch pin. It was the very thing that made the Atari computer he gave us on Christmas 1983 so damned wonderful. We dove into that computer and all the riches it held and did not come-up for air until two weeks later when we had to go back to school. We fired up DOS, read through the book Your Atari Computer, and typed in many BASIC programs. Mr. Elwood collected dozens of games, and we tried them all. Every Zork adventure, every Scott Adams Adventure, all the Atari created arcade translations, Star Raiders, and tons of others. We even explored financial programs, graphics demos, the realms of the public domain, and everything in-between. Days passed quickly into nights and nights into days. Meals were skipped or forgotten. Bathing was left to the vain Anything that would take us away from that Atari computer for more than a short time was pushed off as long as humanly possible. The two weeks of vacation felt like a single, long, amazing day. We discovered everything we ever wanted to know about owning our own computer because we now had one. In our own room. It was unthinkable. It was unfathomable. Yet there we were. Our hopes had been fulfilled. It was the last pure moment I ever knew as a child: the joy of complete intellectual and sensory discovery. The computer held the promise as a device that would entertain us as much as we could control it. We could mold it into whatever we needed and wanted. It was a seemingly an unlimited tool for playing, learning and creating. The best part was, my dad had got it for us. And to me, that meant he must have loved us, right? Even though he never actually said it, his intentions were obvious. And He didn’t mention “skid row” for many years after that. Seeing that Atari computer sitting on my computer desk when I woke up the day after Christmas 1983 and realizing it was all real, and the dream had been fulfilled, was one of the most indescribable feelings of elation I have ever experienced . It was only bested by falling in love with my wife for the first time, and having my first child. Decades later, I still feel the same way: The discoveries and life lessons of that Christmas stand out. I look back on that Christmas to remind me of the reasons why I still play games and program computers for a living. There is always the hope of the next great discovery just around the corner. The idea that I will unearth something so engrossing, so intellectually stimulating, that I will dive-into it’s all encompassing void, only to lift my head-up when I’ve found the riches inside. And then I think of my parents. Our love of computers, no matter how much it burned in us, never rubbed off on them. My mom still played analog games of solitaire at the same place at the kitchen table well in her 80’s until she could no longer see the cards. She never, ever, not even once, touched a computer, no matter how hard we tried to her to do it. My dad did try, but it was not for him. The physical world of his Civil War cum French Foriegn Legion obsession never abated. He longed to find and understand the “vibes” he felt for the past. The future, honestly, did not interest him. My dad still wore a Civil War hat on his head, every day until the moment he died in his living room. But none of that stopped us, and none of it would ever make me forget the most important moment of Christmas Day 1983. The one moment in blur of memories I recall precisely. It’s an image that sticks in my mind and never goes away. It was in the evening time. Darkness had flooded the inside, and as always, the minimal lighting from the sketchy electricity in our house was trying to hold it at bay. My stomach was full of mom’s food, and the house was warm and cozy from the forced air heater plus the smells of leftovers and French apple pie. Everyone in our house had retired to their happy places, another Christmas over and in the books. Our family on their best behaviour for a single day out of the year, now allowed to mostly ignore each other for the next 364 days. In our tiny, cramped room, my brother and I sat side by side, and booted up that Atari 800 with the BASIC cartridge inside. We tried mostly games in the morning, but now wanted to get serious and try some code. The blue glow of the Atari BASIC screen lit up our faces in our darkened bedroom. I typed our first Atari BASIC code from one of Elwood’s books and “Hello World” filled up the screen. Then we edited the program to make our own version. It was just small change really, but it was our change. All those years of writing code in notebooks, and stealing time from friends computers and the computers in the lab at school were over. The code we wrote was a simple message that said everything: “Hello Steve and Jeff, I’m your Atari computer”. Jeff typed “run”, and the message filled the screen. We saved to the program to a 90k single sided single density disk on the 810 drive so we could keep it forever, and that was it. We had done it. Our plans had worked. We were computer programmers, or at least we had the tools and desire to become computer programmers. I instinctively knew at that moment nothing, and I mean nothing in life would ever be the same again. The power sat on my desk that day, to forge my own destiny. It was an amazing moment when I truly believed, with a computer in my hands, and a dream in his my head, anything was within my grasp.. Looking back on the past 36 years, that Christmas made every other Christmas that followed possible. It helped give me a direction in life and put me on track to a livelihood I would have never found any other way. And that’s why I believe, Christmas 1983, the Atari Computer Christmas, was the best &$*! Christmas ever. Category: Into The Vertical Blank, Podcasts, Uncategorized ← Season 2: Episode 15: The Atari 7800 and ST. Our Next Gen Super Systems S2:E17: Bonus – Book Review Of Galaga From Boss Fight Books And More! →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line474
__label__wiki	0.502962	0.502962	Man Sought After Rocks Placed On Mauna Kea Road MAUNA KEA (BIVN) - Another controversy has erupted over a new set of rocks placed on the Mauna Kea Access Road, and the state is circulating a picture of a "person of interest". MAUNA KEA, Hawaii – Rocks placed on the Mauna Kea Access Road on May 16 have rekindled tensions on the mountain, as state conservation officers seek a person of interest spotted on a Visitor Information Center camera. The DLNR says the most recent rock placement happened at the 5.5 mile marker of the summit road, at the 12,500 foot level (photo above). “The rocks created a potential safety hazard as they were placed in the downhill lane, in the middle of a sharp right hand corner,” DLNR officials said in a media release. DLNR Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement officers interviewed workers on Mauna Kea, who reported seeing a man in the area just before and after rocks appeared on the road. On Tuesday, DLNR released photos taken by a Hale Pohaku Visitor Center security camera showing a shirtless man carrying a plastic gallon container and walking uphill along the road. DLNR says a telescope worker confirmed that this was the person they witnessed on the road at about the time the rocks were placed. A photo taken on May 16 by a Hale Pohaku Visitor Center security camera captures the view of a “person of interest”, DLNR says. The man in the photo is described as being between 5’5″ and 5’8”, with a slim build. He was seen wearing light-colored white to light gray-colored board shorts and slippers, with a black-colored backpack. He was carrying an opaque plastic container. The state says if anyone has information about this incident you are asked to contact DOCARE at 643-DLNR. Even before the DLNR news release, the photo of the rocks blocking the road were circulated on social media, whipping up a firestorm of commentary. Many compared the incident to what happened last June, when the road was last blocked by rocks during the heated Thirty Meter Telescope standoff. “PLEASE”, wrote Chris Stark, the We Support TMT Facebook group administrator. “Even if you are against science, astronomy, the TMT project, or whatever, don’t endanger innocent people. There is NO cause in these islands that is worth killing people for. This type of action does NOTHING to further sovereignty or the opposition to TMT.” UPDATE: Kalani Flores, a cultural practitioner who does not support TMT, added his thoughts to the Facebook discussion over the photo. Flores agreed that the placement of rocks as shown in the picture could create a hazardous condition, but told the pro-TMT group “there was no organized gathering of protectors on the Mauna that day.” “As with with everything in life,” Flores concluded, “everyone is accountable for their own actions – including whoever placed the rocks on the road – whoever that might be – TMT supporter or non-supporter. So it is. Malama pono.” Filed Under: Breaking Tagged With: astronomy, DLNR, Mauna Kea, Thirty Meter Telescope	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line479
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__label__wiki	0.577688	0.577688	Sex, Lies and Compromised POTUS: Trump and the possible Russian Honeytrap Colin BenjaminApril 16,2018 A President possibly compromised by a file in Russia. Photo: Gage Skidmore--Flickr. [Speaking Truth To Empower] Last week, fired former FBI Director James Comey, amid media analysis of his about to be released book, “A Higher Loyalty,” revealed Donald Trump asked him to investigate and disprove allegations that Trump engaged in sexual urination, called “golden showers,” with Russian prostitutes, in 2013, in Moscow. This isn’t just about sex and prurient press coverage, as some Republicans are suggesting. This allegation must be examined because: treason, with Russia, maybe involved. Additionally, Republican conservatives who were holier-than-thou lecturing America on “family values” and morality ethics, must also be rebuked for their silence and hypocrisy on these matters. Ultimately, however, this story matters much because: it is likely Trump is being politically extorted through tapes and recordings Russian President Vladimir Putin may have of Trump carnally cavorting with prostitutes. Here’s a question all Americans must consider: is Donald Trump vulnerable to political sexual blackmail? Wouldn’t this explain why Trump has been so reticent in not attacking two particular people: Vladimir Putin and Stormy Daniels? Last week, former FBI Director James Comey released, to the press, his long-awaited book entitled “A Higher Loyalty,” and several salaciously sexual revelations about Donald Trump are highlighted. Some of the more sensational statements in Comey’s book relate to Trump’s alleged strange sexual proclivity with prostitutes peeing on one another. Comey addressed these claims in his book and in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. Comey claims Trump tried to convince him to investigate and disprove allegations Trump engaged, with prostitutes, in the sexual urination practice called “golden showers.” According to Comey, Trump expressed worry about what his wife, Melania, would think of these allegations. "He brought up what he called the 'golden showers thing,” said Comey. “Adding that it bothered him if there was 'even a 1 percent chance' his wife, Melania, thought it was true.” Is Trump worried he maybe the first president facing marital divorce while in office? Is there something here violating their pre-nuptial agreement? Is there a connection here with Trump’s restrained rhetoric on porn star Stormy Daniels—as he avoids publicly attacking her on Twitter, where he attacks nearly everyone else? Moreover, if Trump has orchestrated hush money payments to silence women he had sexual relations with, like Stormy Daniels; and former Playboy model Karen McDougal; what would he be willing to pay Putin and the Russians for their silence? The impeachable issue of treason is seriously at play here. Comey reportedly writes that Trump denied these sexual allegations, of him watching prostitutes peeing on one another, by saying ‘I'm a germaphobe. There's no way I would let people pee on each other around me, no way." Trump apologists will argue revelations like these are irrelevant. These are the same Republicans who argued President Bill Clinton was unfit for office amid stories of his extra-marital affairs, including one with Monica Lewinsky. Clinton’s sexual conduct, and his lies, were used by Republicans clamoring for Clinton’s impeachment and removal from office. How can the same self-righteous Republicans now defend Donald Trump’s sexually scandalous behavior, which includes numerous accusations of criminal assault against women? How can so-called evangelical conservative Christians condone the behavior of Trump and alleged pedophiles like Judge Roy Moore? An important fact we should consider is this: Clinton’s sexual conduct never rose to the level of being a national security risk. Trump’s alleged liaisons with Russian prostitutes is quite a different story. One important reason why these seemingly private sexual affairs matter here is: the use of “honeytraps,” by foreign espionage agencies, and the use of other sexually uncomfortable information like this in blackmail and extortion attempts. Comey hints at these sordid political tactics. "I had often wondered why, when given numerous opportunities to condemn the Russian government's invasions of its neighbors and repression — even murder — of its own citizens, Trump refused to just state the plain facts,” Comey writes. “Maybe it was a contrarian streak or maybe it was something more complicated that explained his constant equivocation and apologies for Vladimir Putin." It isn’t difficult to reason what Comey is insinuating here. For some time now, there has been speculation that: Putin possibly has tapes and recordings of Trump in compromising positions with Russian prostitutes, which can be used as instruments of extortion. This would surely explain Trump’s brown-nosing and butt-kissing of Putin, which is noticeably unlike the bellicose behavior he displays when talking about countries like North Korea or Iran. Aren’t Republicans, especially, those who remember Ronald Reagan calling Russia the “evil empire,” curious about the play-nice, “why can’t we be friends” approach Trump takes with Putin? The use of “honeytraps,” where the sexual tendencies of people are used against them, has a long record in espionage history—the Biblical story of Samson and Delilah is an early example. American leaders have used these methods. Indeed, it wouldn’t be surprising that a leader like Putin probably routinely engages in sexual surveillance when powerful foreigners visit Russia. Given Trump’s clear lack of discipline it’s not hard to believe he is indeed guilty of engaging in these activities with Russian prostitutes. The multiple accusations of sexual misconduct and alleged affairs with Karen McDougal, and Stormy Daniels only strengthen the validity of these allegations. Comey also talked about something we’ve heard a lot about—which is another important part of why this all matters: the multiple women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment and assault. According to Comey, Trump "Asking — rhetorically, I assumed — whether he seemed like a guy who needed the service of prostitutes. He then began discussing cases where women had accused him of sexual assault, a subject I had not raised. He mentioned a number of women, and seemed to have memorized their allegations." Here, Comey is telling us Trump was worried about the 19 women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment and assault. Republicans are questioning Comey’s truthfulness—and Comey, in his own words, characterized himself as a “flawed human being.” Comey’s actions in the runup to the 2016 Elections election can surely be questioned—although, he was likely not the straw tilting the presidential political scales against Hillary Clinton. The same “fake news” media Trump attacks is the main reason he is president. Given the weight of the evidence here—as well as choosing between Comey’s character or Trump’s—how can Republicans call Comey a liar, while defending a serial fabricator like Trump? As more media accounts about Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels—and about hush money payments— are exposed, we must remember all the women who accused Donald Trump of sexual harassment, and, or, assault. On the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, Trump brags about sexually assaulting women saying, "I just start kissing them. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it, you can do anything ... grab them by the pussy." Trump has claimed this was just “locker-room talk.” Bragging about sexual assault is “locker-room talk?” One of the interesting things to watch will be whether White women will rebuke Trump in this year’s mid-term elections. Even after all the sexual accusations from these many women, and the “Access Hollywood” tape, 53 percent of White women still decided Trump was more fit to be president—even when the real possibility of electing Hillary Clinton as the first female president was the other option. Will White women correct their mistake this November? Many, on both sides of the political spectrum, have been critical of Comey’s conduct as FBI director. Yet, Republicans attacking Comey must remember this: Comey’s claims about Trump, in his book, are echoed by other sources. It strains credulity that Trump is the truthteller here. Trump’s sexual behavior must now be contemplated as a national security risk. Donald Trump is morally repulsive. Republicans who continue to defend him will be stained by his stench. Instead of “draining the swamp,” the swamp has been made more stinky by Donald Trump. 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__label__cc	0.634107	0.365893	The Lope: Much More than Six Feet Under Much More than Six Feet Under The coming Saturday, October 23, Hutchinson, Kansas, offers some unique opportunities to get in the spirit of the season....maybe multiple spirits if you're lucky. The Kansas Underground Salt Museum, The Hutchinson Theatre Guild, The Reno County Historical Society are all involved in a set of package deals for a bit of Halloween season entertainment called Hutch Haunts. The full package includes the guild's Talking Tombstones, tours of reputedly haunted downtown locations and more ghost stories in the Kansas Underground Salt Museum where there's an option to spend the night. There will also be reports by Hutchinson Area Paranormal Investigations and Kansas City's Paranormal Encounter Documentation and Research Organization. See the event website for packages and prices. Eastside Cemetery will once again be the setting for Talking Tombstones. I've enjoyed Talking Tombstones in 2007 and 2008. It's not mentioned on the Hutch Haunts website, but an 8:30 pm performance of Talking Tombstones will be available as a separately ticketed event at Eastside Cemetery. They usually have a tent where you can buy tickets and you are advised to get in line by about 8:15 pm. And now, lets have a little Halloween fun with a familiar Hutchinson setting you may see this Saturday night: Ace regards a huge hunk of salt in the Kansas Underground Salt Museum, where you could sleep 650 feet underground this Saturday night. Rest assured - that's about 642 feet under any vampires or zombies that may lurk in the graveyards above. Now, neither zombies nor vampires are mentioned as part of the tours Saturday - I'm just speculating here based on a lifetime of watching B-movies. But if there were zombies and vampires in Hutchinson, I wouldn't worry about them reaching you in the Underground Salt Museum. There'd be a lot of salt between them and you, like this deposit of recrystallized salt. By the time they made it through all that salt they'd be dried out like...well, like mummies. So, I guess what I'm saying is that there's a slight possibility that mummified zombies or vampires could reach you but that's unlikely. I mean, for one of the undead above to reach you in the mine, they'd have to claw down through 80.25 feet of soil and salt per hour (assuming an 8 hour night) and by the time they got to you it'd be daybreak so the vampires would be at a disadvantage. Actually, I guess sunlight doesn't really matter to vampires if they're 650 feet underground. Come to think of it, it's well sheltered from the sun down there year 'round so I suppose vampires could already be lurking around any darkened tunnel in the mine. Again, there's no mention of this..I'm just saying. Now, as to zombies, mummified or plain, I wouldn't worry. There are plenty of old boxes of explosives and such with which you could build a wall, as in what the miners called a "gob wall" (for "gobbed together"). And there's plenty of old mining equipment with which you could fight mummified zombies. This mean-looking undercutter comes to mind. It was used to undercut salt so that when explosives in a wall of salt were detonated, the stuff would fall nicely. Of course, the undercutter is rather loud so zombies would hear it coming, but they're not too bright so it would probably still be effective. I imagine a mummified zombie would cut pretty much like beef jerky. Now, were you a zombie or a vampire, you could always raid the treasures stored down there and host a movie night, showing films about your relatives. That would be very convenient, especially as there's lots of salt for the popcorn. (disclaimer: particular details of the above account are ridiculous - the salt in this particular mine is used for road salt and such and therefore not for human consumption, so it would not be good on popcorn. Vampire mummies and zombie mummies would have to bring table salt with them.) (additional disclaimer: this author dreams of a Hutchinson in which the Phantom of the Opera lives under Memorial hall and punts along subterranean Cow Creek, an in which the Cosmosphere's rockets can actually be used for heroes and super-villains to blast off. So, the Hutch Haunts event is real - website is here - but salty vampires and mummified zombies might not be included.) posted by Ace Jackalope at 2:45 PM Bela's Birthday Gargoyles, a Big Wheel and a Giant Cowboy Where's that Corpse? Nocturnal Autumnal Carthage Fortified with Corpses Hutchinson Rod Run starts today Tiki Tales Haunted Yard Season Dead Flamingos Her Fatal Dive	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line487
__label__cc	0.552661	0.447339	Accommodations Bushdrums.com - Striving To Protect Wildlife and Encourage Responsible Tourism Practices http://www.bushdrums.com Sun, 19 Jan 2020 17:19:34 +0000 Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management en-gb Ishasha Wilderness Camp http://www.bushdrums.com/index.php/kenya/kenya-accomodation/item/243-ishasha-wilderness-camp http://www.bushdrums.com/index.php/kenya/kenya-accomodation/item/243-ishasha-wilderness-camp Ishasha Wilderness Camp This exclusive tented camp has recently opened and offers quality accommodation in this unspoilt remote southern sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park famous for it’s tree climbing lions that can sometimes be spotted resting in the branches of the large fig trees in the area. Combined with excellent game viewing opportunities for buffalo, elephants, kob, topi and other species of antelope, the camp provides the ideal location, for a midway break for at least two nights, between gorilla viewing in Bwindi and the game viewing in the Mweya area of QENP. Currently catering for up to twelve guests in large twin bedded, East African meru styled tents situated in the wooded area besides the Ntungwe river. Each tent has its own private en suite bathroom and dressing area providing hot water “bush” showers and an eco friendly toilet. A central dining area, also under canvas, provides a comfortable environment for meals and an outdoor lounge area besides the river, and evening “fireplace” venue for guests completes the unique bush experience offered at this camp. Accommodation: 6 x Twin tents, with plans to be increased to 8 by end of 2007 For reservations and further enquiries please contact Wild Frontiers Uganda (G&C Tours Ltd) Email: ishasha@wildfrontiers.co.ug or info@wildfrontiers.co.ug Telephone / fax + 256 (0)41 321479 or Mobile +256 (0)772 502155 ]]> Accommodations Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:29:00 +0000 Buhoma Homestead http://www.bushdrums.com/index.php/kenya/kenya-accomodation/item/242-buhoma-homestead http://www.bushdrums.com/index.php/kenya/kenya-accomodation/item/242-buhoma-homestead Buhoma Homestead is a small, mid range property situated less than five minutes walk away from the National Park offices in Buhoma, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, home of the mountain gorilla in Uganda. It offers accommodation in six, en suite spacious twin / double cottage units with individual verandahs allowing excellent views towards the pristine tropical rain forests of the area. In addition, for the more budget conscious, three more twin rooms are available with shared bathroom facilities. All bathrooms have hot and cold running water and flush toilets. A solar system provides for lighting in the cottages, common areas and central facilities for video and camera charging. The cottages and their furnishings have recently been upgraded and improved to provide a more comfortable environment for guests. The emphasis is on providing an intimate, homely atmosphere whilst at the same time ensuring that facilities and services expected by international travellers are available. The cool evenings (as the lodge is at almost 1500 metres above sea level) are compensated for with a fireplace being lit in the common area, providing a cosy environment for guests to meet each other and discuss the events of the day. A bar service provides local beers, waragi (Ugandan gin), sodas and wines for purchase. As part of our commitment to the local infrastructure, staff are recruited from the local communities of the area and they provide a welcoming environment and excellent service levels for guests. When ever possible, supplies including local fresh produce are purchased through arrangements with local residents and businesses in the area. Meals are freshly prepared and wholesome quantities are served. A variety of international dishes are served as well as local dishes such as matoke and g-nut sauce, on request. As part of an ongoing commitment to enhance the lodge, further upgrading of the common areas and building of some additional cottages will be taking place over the next few months at times of low guest occupancy. We will be trying to minimise the impact of these changes on our guests but we would ask your patience in this regard as we will continue to welcome guests at the lodge. For reservations and further enquiries please contact Wild Frontiers Uganda (G&C Tours Ltd) on Email: buhoma@wildfrontiers.co.ug or info@wildfrontiers.co.ug ]]> Accommodations Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:00:00 +0000 Ndali Lodge http://www.bushdrums.com/index.php/kenya/kenya-accomodation/item/240-ndali-lodge http://www.bushdrums.com/index.php/kenya/kenya-accomodation/item/240-ndali-lodge Ndali Lodge Ndali Lodge is perched on the rim of an extinct volcano which, since its demise, has filled with water to become the breathtaking Lake Nyinambuga 250 acres in size and 130 metres deep. There is a main thatched lodge with spacious sitting room, reception area and dinning room flanked by 8 cottages providing luxurious accommodation for 16 guests. The cottages, face west to offer a panoramic view to the spectacular 'Mountains of the Moon', were designed by Capt. Mark Price and are built of local stone and thatch. The interiors are imaginatively and comfortably furnished, the decor emphasising the using local materials. Each cottage, large enough to accommodate a family, has en-suite facilities with bath, shower, WC and hand basin and a private verandah, perfect for watching the sun setting behind the rwenzori mountains, the snow-capped peaks of which are clearly visible on a clear day. At night the dining room is festooned with candles - the lodge has no electricity or generators to destroy the tranquility and atmosphere. The sitting room, reception and dining room open out onto Lake Nyinambuga and are connected by two open passage-ways or breeze-ways. Fruit bats, owls and frogs like to use them as a highway to the crater lake. Breakfast is on the verandah overlooking the lake: freshly squeezed passion fruit juice (from Ndali's vines when in season) and homemade bread with wild honey go down well with a full English breakfast. All Ndali's water comes directly from the lake, pumped up hydraulic ram based on technology invented in the 1770's. Ndali Estate is owned privately by the Price/Sturdy families with a history in Uganda through their English grandfather, Major Trevor Price, since the 1920's. Travelling down from Cairo, Major Price's aim was to grow tea which was a scarcely developed crop in the country when he arrived, although he had heard that in the west there were ideal tea-growing conditions: plenty of sunshine, altitude, rainfall, and black volcanic soil. He became one of the first to grow tea successfully in Uganda, developing a string of tea shambas north and south of Fort Portal (now the tea growing centre of Uganda), including Kiko and Rwetera. In the process he built roads, a school, a clinic and planted many African hardwoods. In the early 1960's he brought Ndali, but apart from some acres of tea and robusta coffee the land was left to grow wild. He developed a close relationship with the King of Toro (the Omukama) whose regalia he risked hiding after the suppression of the four hereditary kingdoms by President Milton Obote in 1967. When all Asians and Europeans were expelled in the early 70's, Major Price was given permission by General Amin to stay on at his house at Rwetera ( a two-hour walk from Ndali), although his land - Rwetera and Ndali - had been confiscated. His house at Rwetera still stands today, surrounded by the rare conifers he brought over from Kenya. In 1991 the new government led by Museveni invited all dispossessed foreign landowners to reclaim their land. Major Price's son, Mark Price - who had spent four years in Uganda working with his father until the time of explusion - took up the invitation and began building Ndali Lodge in 1994 with moral and financial help of friends. Captain Mark Araali, as he was fondly known by the toro people, sadly died in September 1998. Since that time the lodge has been run by family and friends including his sister Caroline, his niece Lulu, who now runs the farm, his son Aubrey and Becky Holt the daughter of James, a close friend of Mark and a keen investor. Aubrey has now shed his pub in Edinburgh and has settled in Ndali permanently. He and Lulu are now the third generation of the Price/Sturdy family in the Fort-Portal area and it looks like theyre here to stay. Ndali Lodge was built using local materials and labour and designed by Mark Price to blend with landscape Using traditional rough-casting and spear-grass thatch. Light, space, simplicity and openness to nature are key qualities. 'My eyes were directed by a boy to a mountain, said to be covered with salt, and I saw a perculiar shaped cloud...which assumed the proportions and appearance of a vast mountain covered with snow. Following its form downward... I became for the first time conscious that what I gazed upon was not the image or semblance of a vast mountain, but solid substance of a real one, with its summit covered with snow... It now dawned upon me that this must be the Ruwenzori...' HENRY STANLEY IN DARKEST AFRICA Ndali Lodge astride the equator (0 - 291N, 301 - 62E) sits on a narrow ridge 1,524 (500ft) Above Sea Level with outstanding 360 degree views of ancient volcanic landscape, set against the backdrop of the Mountains of the Moon (Rwenzori Mountains). The area's rich black volcanic soil is amongst the most fertile in Africa producing diverse plants and herbs and a bewildering variety of crops from tea and coffee through pineapples, passion fruits, bananas, mangoes, avocado; to millet, sweet potato, cassava, sorghum, ground nuts, yams and hot chillies. All of these can be experienced first hand at the lodge. Ndali is in the heart of Western Uganda's crater lake region; the Ndali volcanic field was formed some 11,000 years ago, possibly due to activity along the northern part of the Western Rift Valley - although local legend claims the lakes were made by the first Bachwezi King when he retired to the area after abdicating in favour of son. Many of the early explorers to the Rwenzoris remarked on the beauty of these volcanic foothills as they approached overland from Kampala. Ndali Lodge is perfectly situated, can be reached in all weathers, and provides both a base to visit local historical and wildlife attractions, and an ideal stopping off place for parties moving from Queen Elizabeth National Park up to the famous Murchison Falls National Park; Queen Elizabeth is within 2 and a half hours drive. Kibale Forest National park, famous home of the largest concentration of chimpanzees in Africa, as well as a bewildering variety of other primates, birds and butterflies can be reached within 45 minutes. Also close by is the Bigodi wetland sanctuary, a community-based conservation project. Ndali provides local guides for walks around the 1000 acre farm, to the Mahoma Water fall, and a boat for relaxing contemplation of a large variety of birds, butterflies and primates. Walks will take you around crater rims, past alcohol brewing in oil drums, through banana plantations, coffee terraces, plots of cassava, groundnuts, sorghum and millet. Below the lodge, on the lake itself, is a sturdy jetty, set in the most tranquil and secluded spot and frequented by 5 different species of Kingfisher. From here guests can swim in the lake, soak up the sun or simply get away from it all. Underway is the construction of a twin-hulled platform powered by electric, solar powered motors. An ideal way for guests to witness the fine array of wildlife comfortably and unobtrusively. THE perfect place. The lodge is a perfect place for a weekend retreat, to relax, recharge and watch the abundant flora and fauna a good selection of which can be seem from the verandas of both the lodge and the cottages. Ndali is a few kilometres from the heart of Uganda's tea growing region and historically has close links with Rwetera tea shamba (plantation) which can be reached by foot and is possible to visit by arrangement. Tel. +256 (0)772 221309, (0)772 487673 Email: ndali@ndalilodge.com Ndali is approximately a 5-hour drive from Kampala. Local buses direct to Fort Portal leave throughout the day from Kampala bus station. From Fort Portal the lodge is a 25 minutes by taxi. Directions from Fort Portal: Take road 11kms towards Kibale Forest, at Kisisi fork right. Stay on road for approximately 12kms until crossroads with sign to Ndali and Mbuga School on the left. Turn left to Ndali Lodge. Ndali can also be reached by air to Kasese with Eagle Aviation direct from Entebbe on Mondays and Fridays. From Kasese Ndali Lodge is a 40 minute drive. ]]> Accommodations Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:38:00 +0000 Kampala Serena Hotel http://www.bushdrums.com/index.php/kenya/kenya-accomodation/item/221-kampala-serena-hotel http://www.bushdrums.com/index.php/kenya/kenya-accomodation/item/221-kampala-serena-hotel The Kampala Serena Hotel The history of The Kampala Serena Hotel The new Kampala Serena Hotel began life as the Nile Hotel, a government-run 65-room hotel and adjacent conference facility, which was built in 1975. Leased to Serena two years ago, the hotel has been closed for 18 months while, at the cost of a million-and-a-half dollars a month, it was transformed into one of Africa’s most stunning hotels. An inspirational blend of 5-star polish and pan-African panache, this 152-room world-class hotel will showcase the cream of Ugandan culture while delivering the ultimate in personalized service, international cuisine, social style and business reliability. The inspiration for the hotel Drawing its architectural inspiration from the abundance of Uganda’s lakes and rivers, the hotel is styled around a central water theme, which manifests itself in the wrought ironwork, mosaic pillars, hand-carved panels, cascading waterfalls and shimmering water gardens alike. The décor The décor of the hotel is the inspiration of its architect, Jon Cavanagh of Symbion International; who has drawn his inspiration from the very essence of Uganda, which he perceives as being typified by lakes, rivers, lush vegetation and abundant fertility. These themes appear in both the exterior features of the hotel and in the room décor, where softly flowing fabrics, muted colours and organic themes prevail. Jon has also called upon the skills of numerous local artists to create the stunning carved panels, mosaic pillars, beaten copper fretwork, sensational traditional jewellery, beaded wall hangings and hand-carved ‘bambara birds’, which bedeck the communal areas. They include: Yoni Waite (mosaic art), Expedito Wakibulla (wood carving) and Julius Mutungi (rock sculpture). The oasis of Sesse pool terrace Featuring a 7-meter waterfall, which cascades down a hand-sculptured stone cliff, into a shimmering plunge pool below, the sun-drenched pool terrace offers a magnificent swimming pool, a water park, a children’s pool, a pool bar, a bandstand and a multitude of poolside cocktail option. The glorious gardens Boasting 17 acres of gorgeous grounds which provide shelter for a wide selection of indigenous trees; and protection for a beautiful array of flowers, birds and butterflies, the hotel’s extensive grounds will provide a haven of calm in the centre of Uganda’s most cosmopolitan city. ]]> Accommodations Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:43:00 +0000	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line491
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Use it thriftlessly... bonar crump husband - father - reader - runner - picker - grinner - lover - sinner When atheists and Baptists agree Posted by B Crump at 1:56 PM Paperback - $6.63 Kindle - $0.99 How Christians should rethink sex GQ Magazine: The Untold Story of the Texas Biker Gang Shoot-Out Marriage is a rubber band--deal with it The Alaskan Funk—Short Term Mission Gone…Meh… Carey Fuller Chronicles Her Experiences As A Homeless Parent In 'Writings From The Driver's Side' Waco Preamble Donald Miller's Blog Brian McLaren EMC Jamie the Very Worst Missionary Jen Hatmaker Jesus Needs New PR Rachel Held Evans - Blog Church of the Lava Lamp Create a Lava Lamp Ian Ebright "The mistake of the anti-gay marriage movement in the Christian church is that it is an attempt at indirect discipleship by way of restricting another’s freedom, and discipleship has never succeeded in that way." Morf Morford "Humility cannot exist in the spiritual vacuum that is self-righteousness." "Nothing will work, but everything might." “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident”. "Religion, which should foster sisterhood and brotherhood, which should encourage tolerance, respect, compassion, peace, reconciliation, caring and sharing, has far too frequently -- perversely -- done the opposite. Religion has fueled alienation and conflict and has exacerbated intolerance and injustice and oppression. Some of the ghastliest atrocities have happened and are happening in the name of religion. It need not be so if we can learn the obvious: that no religion can hope to have a monopoly on God, on goodness and virtue and truth." “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.” "Compassion a block away looks like condoning, but without compassion we are not imitators of Jesus Christ." "I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night." William Murray "Atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of 18 and 35. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter." “I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness—and that can make me laugh. When I am reading a book like this, I feel rich and profoundly relieved to be in the presence of someone who will share the truth with me, and throw the lights on a little, and I try to write these kinds of books. Books, for me, are medicine.” "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." “The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.” "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. it is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." "My true religion, my simple faith is in love and compassion. There is no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are - this is all we need." "I’m learning the fruit of my creative effort often ripens instantly. I’ll sit down and get thousands of words, but then a week later, working with the same discipline, will have nothing. But my job is not to make the words come. Who am I to make the words come? My job is no different than a farmer. I till the land. I fertilize the soil. I plant the seeds. Unlike the farmer, though, I am surprised when the green shoots sprout in the spring. I think perhaps it is magic, and it will never happen for me again. But the farmer knows if he tills the land, and is blessed enough to get rain, the harvest will come." Rev. Peter J. Gomes “Religious fundamentalism is dangerous because it cannot accept ambiguity and diversity and is therefore inherently intolerant,” Gomes declared in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times in 1992. “Such intolerance, in the name of virtue, is ruthless and uses political power to destroy what it cannot convert.” "The ultimate weapon," Gomes wrote, "in the face of evil or sorrow, sadness or death, is not stoic virtue and the stiff upper lip but laughter, for where laughter is, God cannot be far away." "The research shows that when pastors evaluate the success of their church, they measure attendance, dollars raised, number of staff, number of programs and square footage. All of those are logical measures to explore. The only problem is that Jesus did not die a horrible and unjust death on the cross to fill sanctuaries, generate cash, populate programs, hire religious professionals or build out campuses." © 2010 by Bonar Crump. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line496
__label__wiki	0.724705	0.724705	Tag Archives: Redskins Patriots make roster moves [caption id="attachment_2009" align="alignleft" width="110"] Patriots take on the Texans Sunday night[/caption] FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Patriots announced today that they have signed LB Eric Martin to the 53-man roster from the practice squad. In addition, the Patriots signed RB Trey Williams to the practice squad. Martin, 24, has spent time... Cleveland, Cowboys, Dallas, FOX, Foxboro, Free agent, games, NE, New, New England, New England Patriot, New England Patriots, New Orleans, NFL, Patriot, Patriots, Redskins, rookie, Roster, Special Teams, TE, Team, Training Camp, Washington, Williams Belichick on Bolden…he’s shown to be a dependable player on all four downs, plays a lot for us on fourth down” Q: Do you have any update on Dion Lewis? What did you think of the team's run blocking yesterday? BB: No, I don't have any update on Dion. I thought our run blocking was good at times. We definitely had some space in there. I thought that LeGarrette [Blount] ran well. Well Dion and Brandon [Bolden] ran... Belichick, Bolden, Boston, Bostonsportsdesk.com, Brandon, Brandon Bolden, DL, Football, games, Guard, IR, Kicking, LeGarrette Blount, Line of scrimmage, Linebacker, NE, NFL, offensive line, Press, Press Conference, Redskins, rings, rookie, running game, Ryan Wendell, Sport, Sports, TE, Team, Training Camp Jay Gruen talks Patriots following his decisive loss JAY GRUDEN, REDSKINS HEAD COACH JG: From an injury standpoint I'll get it from Larry [head athletic trainer Larry Hess] officially, nothing serious, just some bumps and bruises, everybody came back in and finished the game. Q: You knew it was going to be a tough test obviously, but seven dropped passes certainly didn't help the case offensively.... Athletic trainer, coach, Head Coach, injury, NE, New England, New Orleans, Patriots, Redskins, TE, Team Ninkovich is happy with team’s progress..So as a unit, we’re getting better and just keeping the work throughout the season, getting better every week.” ROB NINKOVICH, DEFENSIVE END Q: What's been the reason for the improvement on defense for the last four games? RN: I think every week we're trying to improve and get better, and the communication gets better amongst everybody. It's not just one thing, so collectively as a unit we want to continue to get better as these weeks roll on. It's young guys getting experience. That's huge.... defense, forward, games, IR, NE, New England, NFL, Patriots, Redskins, Rob Ninkovich, TE	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line499
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__label__cc	0.74952	0.25048	Home » » Case Briefs » Criminal Law » Lightfoot v. State Lightfoot v. State Posted on June 26, 2012 \| Criminal Law \| Tags: Criminal Law Case Brief Defendant allegedly was one of three men entering a laundromat, one of whom pointed a gun at the victim and demanded cash. Victim gave defendant cash in the back room and he placed the money into a bag. The other two men were standing by the security guard with their guns displayed. After the robbery was reported, police saw defendant who matched the description of the robber, and two other men. The officers asked defendant to come outside, where they requested his ID. When he responded with his ID, the officers saw a bulge in his pocket, which they found to be a gun, and then arrested him. Tried by jury, convicted. Victim identified defendant as one of the three robbers, but not the one with the gun demanding money. Security guards ID’d him as the man with the gun demanding money. One of the customers ID’d him as the robber who stood in the main room keeping people quiet. Judge ruled “that an accused, charged with both a crime and an attempt to commit it, may be acquitted of the crime and yet convicted of the attempt where the evidence establishes that the crime was in fact committed. Whether a defendant may “properly be convicted of attempted armed robbery upon evidence clearly establishing a consummated armed robbery.” Attempt defined: “an intent to commit it, the doing of some act towards its commission, and the failure to consummate its commission.” The Holding/Reasoning Yes, conviction affirmed. Many courts have help that attempt cannot occur where the crime is not incomplete, yet others have held that one can be guilty of both an attempt and the consummated crime. “In a sense the commission of an offense involves an attempt to commit it. It may not be a degree of the main offense, nor be necessarily included therein, so as to require the court to charge with reference thereto in every case where the commission of an offense is charged.” Where the offender actually commits a crime, he certainly made an attempt as a logical extension. Where the crime is complete, the punishment usually does not integrate the attempt charge – the court views the crime in totality; there will not be two separate penalties. The Indiana Supreme Court has held: “It should make no difference whether the criminal conduct is successful or unsuccessful when determining an included offense. The conduct is the same in both cases; the actor’s intent is the same in both cases.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line504
__label__wiki	0.514559	0.514559	Collecting Asylum Surprise review of Evil Dead! Okay, this review is a little surprise for you all, since it wasn't in my upcoming reviews list, but here it is anyway. I have to warn you in advance though. If you do not wish to know anything about the movie yet, do not read any further, as there are major spoilers ahead! SPOILER ALERT EVIL DEAD! I'm just home from seeing it, so figured I'd review it whilst it is still fresh in my mind. And I must say... Wow. The movie begins with a scene of a prior "possession", and the process that occurs to "purify" the soul and remove the demon from their victim's body. This then leads into the new cast being shown, with a very clear throwback to the original, in which three girls and two guys have come out to a cabin in the woods, only this time, it is in order for one of them, Mia, to go "cold turkey" from her addiction to drugs. Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Olivia (Jessica Lucas) are out in front of the cabin when you first see them, waiting for the arrival of Mia's brother David (along with his girlfriend, Natalie). They are clearly pissed when he arrives, since they'd been waiting for him for a while. Mia (Jane Levy) is seen sitting on the hood of a car (which I'm pretty sure was the Oldsmobile), drawing a sketch of the cabin whilst smoking, and jokes to David when she sees him about him finally coming. David (Shiloh Fernandez) and Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore), brought the family dog (named Grandpa) with them when they came to the cabin, much to Mia's surprise. They quickly get re-acquainted, with David giving his sister a necklace that will keep her spirit strong. The group then gather round a well, and Mia throws her drugs in, proclaiming to never "touch this shit again" The cabin belongs to drug-addicted Mia and her brother David's family. It has become run down in the time since they last visited, which is apparent by their reaction to how it has become, and how Mia points out that her mother "would hate to see the cabin [like this]". From the moment the group enter the cabin, Mia complains of a smell. A smell that the rest of the group are oblivious to. The dog then starts sniffing around and catches a scent, coming from underneath a rug in the centre of the floor. David pulls the rug back, to reveal a trap door to the basement, along with streaks of blood. Once the basement door is opened, the gang gasp from the stench coming from below: a mixture of the scent of the rotting flesh of dead cats strung up in the basement, and "burnt hair". Eric discovers a black, plastic bag, containing something which nobody wants to be seen, since it is wrapped in barbed wire. He cuts the barbed wire open, and discovers that it is a book. He stupidly reads a few words aloud, and releases the unthinkable. Seriously? When you find a book, bound in human skin, with words written in blood, and disturbing images inside this book, with clearly written warnings to not read from the fucking thing, why on Earth, would you read it!? Okay, morbid curiosity, I guess, but still! Mia is then wandering round in circles outside and sees a woman in the trees. It spooks the shit out of her, so she demands that they all get out of there. Everyone refuses, since she needs to kick her habit, and leaving will do her no good (ha!). She then leaves anyway, and ends up driving into water after trying to swerve out of the way of this woman whom she saw earlier. Fast forward a little, and she is raped by trees. Thorny trees, no less. Ouch. This was a good reference back to the original, in which the character of Cheryl, played by Ellen Sandweiss, is also raped by trees and is the first of the group to become possessed. And possibly as another slight reference, she is the main character: Ash's sister, in the original, which suggests that David, Mia's brother in this movie, will have a similar path to that of Ash's. She comes back to the cabin, now possessed (albeit still in control of herself, for now), freaking out - naturally - but everyone assumes it is a combination of lying to get away from the cabin, and hysteria from going cold turkey. She then burns herself, badly, by standing in a shower which is spraying boiling hot water, and there is no chance of getting to a hospital since the road home is flooded. This alerts Eric, since both the "tree-rape" and boiling water are things depicted in "the book". He knows that this isn't just Mia, desperate to go home, it's something worse. Demonic Mia has awoken, and tells the others that they're "all going to die tonight" in the creepiest voice imaginable, before puking blood all over her nurse friend, Olivia. Olivia kicks her down into the basement and Eric slams the door shut, before confessing to David about the book. Not long after, Olivia is then possessed, and proceeds to cut half of her face off with a shard of broken glass from the mirror. Eric goes to check up on her, and ends up being stabbed, with both broken glass and a hypodermic needle - which he then has to pull out of his face shudder. Olivia is not ready to give up however, so ends up having her skull caved in with part of the broken sink, by Eric (at which point, a horrified David walks in). There is definitely no shortage of blood and gore so far, and being big gore fans, Allan and I have no complaints. The guy sitting next to Allan however, was hiding behind his hands (and jumping every few minutes) for the entirety of the movie. Eventually, the only remaining "non-possessed" female in the group, Natalie, succumbs to the dark side, after being bitten in the hand by Mia, before Mia tells her to "kiss me you dirty cunt" after slicing her tongue open on a blade. Her arm is the first thing to show signs of being 'infected' by whatever it is that is taking over, so she cuts it off in an attempt to save herself, but this doesn't help her. The gasps and disgusted grunts from myself and the rest of the audience as her arm falls to the ground were so in sync. The filmmakers definitely went all out in trying to make this as gory, bloody and gruesome as possible, and they were oh so successful. This is later shown again when her other arm is blown off by shotgun-wielding David, in order to protect Eric from having his head shattered by Natalie's crowbar. Eric tells David that he needs to kill Mia to end it all, and bring her peace, before they head outside to the car. David quickly builds something, although at this point, you have no idea what the hell it is, or at least, I didn't, before he heads back inside the cabin. A struggle with Mia is ended by Eric saving the day, by knocking her to the ground to protect David, before telling him that he missed him (in the years they'd not seen each other), and then dies due to his wounds. David then takes Mia outside to lay her to rest, and buries her alive, since that is one of the three ways shown in the book that will bring peace (the other two being dismemberment and being set on fire). We then discover that the thing David built was a defibrillator, which he uses to bring Mia back to life after she dies, sending the demon out of her body. All is done, and five souls were not possessed (which is required to make it rain blood, and bring another being to life). Or so we think. A now-possessed Eric then attacks David, bringing the soul count up to it's final number of five, before David locks Mia out of the cabin, and shoots a can of gasoline (which he had been using earlier, as he'd originally planned to burn the cabin down) to sacrifice himself to save his sister. Mia looks down to see the necklace her brother had given her at the start, and picks it up, sobbing. I was welling up too, as that would be the last memory of her brother. A drop of blood comes down from the sky, landing in the centre of the necklace, before a million other drops rain from the sky, awakening the demon underneath. A hand pops out of the ground, grabbing Mia's ankle, and after a struggle and some gruesome blade on skin moments that I (and the rest of the audience) could just feel, Mia grabs a chainsaw (which we actually caught a glimpse of earlier in the movie), gets her hand crushed under a car (then pulls her arm from, leaving nothing but a stump) and soon becomes victorious for the final time against the evil, with an awesome line to boot: Demon: "I'm going to feast on your soul" Mia: "Feast on this, motherfucker" Driving the chainsaw through the demons face, and slicing it right down the middle, showing us that our thoughts of David being the "Ash" of this series was completely wrong, and that Mia is our new Ash. Brilliant ending to a completely brilliant movie. I loved seeing all the references to the original movies (as this one splices many of the things from The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II together), such as: - The group of five (3 female, 2 male) at the cabin. - The Oldsmobile. - The way the camera moves through the trees. - The use of both Cheryl and the Professor's voices from the original. - The chainsaw. - Being bit in the hand, and it becoming possessed (happened to Natalie in this, and Ash in Evil Dead II). - Main character losing their hand. All in, it's a must see, and it's just as good as the original (but both in their own way), with clear reference back to the original, but with a whole new twist. The darkness of the movie was fantastic, and the score complemented it massively. You must must must wait behind till the end of the credits to catch a "Groovy" glimpse of Ash, since that's the only downside of this movie - the lack of Bruce Campbell as Ash! Jane Levy was absolutely outstanding in her performance, being very convincing as both the normal, human version of Mia, and the crazy, demonic side too. And, Director Fede Alvarez did a great job, especially as we all know how remakes tend to work out! He definitely did the movie justice, and I really hope he stays on board for the next one. We rate this movie 9.5/10. GORETASTIC! Have you seen it? What did you think? Let me know in the comments below :) Asylum Reviews: Cold Silence [Xbox One]. Cold Silence, by developer Half-Face Games, was initially conjured up as a result of a Game Jam with the prompt "White Silence&quo... Asylum Reviews: Fortnite [Xbox One]. Developed by People Can Fly and Epic Games, Fortnite is a fun online co-op survival game, with a lot of building elements. With hord... Dragon Ball Dragon Box. So this here was part of an elaborate gift for Allan, that I was intending to give him at the end of this month, but ending up giving him a... 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__label__cc	0.663243	0.336757	All too often victims are forgotten: MP report for #Okanagan-Coquihalla As I have stated previously, there is no formal requirement for Members of Parliament to submit reports to citizens nor are there guidelines as to what format or frequency reports to local residents should have. From my perspective, the primary reason why I submit weekly reports is to pass on as much information as possible so that in turn I can hear feedback in the form of comments, concerns and questions from the people of Okanagan-Coquihalla. Although seldom a week will go by without hearing from citizens I have noted that some reports generate far more responses then others. I am always extremely grateful for the efforts of citizens to pass on comments and questions. At times these comments sometimes share deeply personal information that may help to better illustrate a citizens perspective on a certain area of concern. Citizens should know that all personal information provided to both an MLA and an MP are protected with the strictest of confidentiality and are not subject to freedom of information laws. Personal information is never shared without the consent of the individual in question; I raise this so that citizens can have confidence to freely contact their elected officials and share information in a secure manner. In last week’s report I outlined proposed changes to life sentences to ensure that for extremely serious & disturbing crimes (such as a crime involving heinous acts such as pre-mediated abduction, rape and murder), where a life sentence would mean a life sentence without a formal parole process. While the majority of the feedback I received was supportive of these proposed changes, some of the opposing criticism was also noteworthy. One such criticism was the suggestion that parole is largely an infallible process. As I was reminded this past week long time residents of Summerland will know this is not the case. Citizens in Summerland will recall that in 1997 a criminal was released on parole only to promptly skip his curfew at a half-way house in Calgary. Located in Summerland was the ex-spouse of this recently paroled criminal. Like many victims of domestic violence this ex-spouse feared greatly for her safety and had specifically requested to be notified if her ex-spouse was released from prison on parole. No phone call ever arrived from the National Parole Board upon release nor when the curfew was breached at the half way house. Sadly what did happen was a paroled criminal arrived at a Summerland motel where he located his ex-wife who was with her mother and the couple’s two children. In front of his own two children in cold blood he murdered their mother and grandmother in a truly disturbing act of violence. These murders occurred while parole had been breached and also in spite of a no contact restraining order. Further investigation found no evidence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the murder, no evidence of mental health disorders and without remorse, regret or responsibility shown by the murderer. It should also be pointed out this murderer (under the rules at the time of the sentencing) is potentially eligible for parole in two years. While these instances may be relatively rare, this is one of several tragedies I have encountered in Okanagan-Coquihalla. While the circumstances may differ what remains constant is that all too often the victims are forgotten. Out of respect for the now adult children I have refrained from using names in this particular case however we should not overlook that victims have rights and they should never be forgotten nor placed behind the rights of criminals. I welcome your comments and questions on this or any matter before the House of Commons and can be reached at dan.albas@parl.gc.ca or 1-800-665-8711. Subscribe to the MP Report Sign up now to get Dan's weekly MP report emailed directly to you! Sign up now to get a monthly MP Report mailed directly to your home. Dan Albas is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola. Communicating with his constituents is one of his top priorities. Dan writes a new MP Report each week. Photos used under Creative Commons from comedy_nose, bulliver, FutUndBeidl, scazon, Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, Chris Lancaster, Jamie In Bytown, mikecogh, couloir	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line508
__label__cc	0.688114	0.311886	Dataspam Analytical or whatever Slavery in 2013 Adapted from the Global Slavery Index’s 2013 Report here Google Drive version of the dataset. GitHub of the R code here. Adapted from the United States State Department’s 2013 Report on Trafficking in Persons here I enjoy browsing data and feel obliged to share the results with the world. Contact me on twitter @fresh_levi Enjoy. Slavery in 2013 June 3, 2014 Persistent poverty in America (1990-2010) June 1, 2014 Arrests per homicide in 2011 April 14, 2014 In-State Tuition as a percent of a state’s median income April 12, 2014 Sex offenders in North Carolina April 10, 2014 GSS (2) A Wordpress site powered by the Blogum Theme courtesy of WPShower.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line509
__label__cc	0.668099	0.331901	CHINO KINO Cinema, film industry, music, arts Film Reviews -- Filmmaking -- Awards -- Events -- Festivals -- Commentary The 6th Annual 3D Creative Arts Awards – winners Guardians of the Galaxy Wins Top Live Action 3D Feature The Lego Movie Wins Animated Feature of the Year House of Cards Wins for Best 4K Productions The International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society bestowed 23 honors for “distinguished achievement” at the 3D Creative Arts Awards on Wednesday night, at Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood. “Directors and creative teams are pushing the emotional and technical capabilities of 3D to new heights, from China, Japan, the UK, throughout the EU, Russia, and India” Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Studios/Stereo D) won for Best Live Action 3D Feature while Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Prime Focus World/Weinstein) won for Stereography – Live Action. 300: Rise of an Empire (Warner Bros./Gener8) won for Best 2D to 3D Conversion and X-Men: Days of Future Past (20th Century Fox/Stereo D) was awarded Best 3D Sequence/Scene of the Year. The Lego Movie (Warner Bros) was honored for Best Animated 3D Feature and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (DreamWorks Animation) was awarded a Lumiere™ for Best Stereography – Animation. Academy Award Nominee and French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet received the Society’s Harold Lloyd Filmmaker Award, which was presented by Suzanne Lloyd, Chairman of Harold Lloyd Entertainment and Society Chairman Mike DeValue of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Sky, Atlantic Productions and David Attenborough were honored with the Sir Charles Wheatstone Award for education and distinguished achievement in 3D storytelling. Directors James Gunn, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Dean Deblois, along with producers and production executives from Hollywood and more than a dozen countries, were in attendance, including: China, India, Taiwan, Japan, the U.K., France, Germany, Belgium, and Canada. Jason Brenek of The Walt Disney Company was presented with the Society’s first ever Founders Award for his role in creating the organization in 2009. “From Hollywood blockbusters to World War II documentaries to live opera broadcasts, we have never before seen 3D used to excite audiences at this level and quality,” said Society President Jim Chabin. “Directors and creative teams are pushing the emotional and technical capabilities of 3D to new heights, from China, Japan, the UK, throughout the EU, Russia, and India,” he added. “3D is now a standard, powerful creative tool and this bodes well for creative teams and 3D box office revenues in 2015.” “This year saw 4K production enter the marketplace with Netflix's ‘House of Cards,’ and concert productions from Japan,” said Society Awards Chairman Buzz Hays. “With emerging high dynamic range, high frame rate technologies and 4K TV's coming to market, content creators have incredible new platforms on which to tell their stories,” he added. “From live action to animated, to concert movies and documentaries, we saw a vigorous worldwide production community at its best.” The International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society was founded by our industry's creative stakeholders, including The Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, DreamWorks Animation (DWA), Sony, Paramount, IMAX, Dolby, Panasonic, MasterImage and others to advance the creative arts and sciences of the advanced imaging industry, including: stereoscopic 3D, autostereo, 4K, UHD, High Dynamic Range, Enhanced Dynamic Range and more. With chapters in the U.S., China, Japan, Canada, the E.U. and the U.K., the organization has more than 1,800 professional members in over 20 countries active in improving the arts and technologies of 3D & Advanced Imaging. The organization hosts professional education seminars and awards throughout the world. More info is at www.international3dsociety.com. Nominees for the 6th Annual 3D Creative Arts Awards Complete list of winners for the 6th Annual 3D Creative Arts Awards HAROLD LLOYD AWARD Jean-Pierre Jeunet – France Academy Award nominee (Amélie) and French director (The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet) LIVE ACTION 3D FEATURE Guardians of the Galaxy – U.S. (Marvel Studios/Stereo D) ANIMATED 3D FEATURE The Lego Movie – U.S. (Warner Bros) 3D JURY PRIZE: LIVE ACTION SHORT Call Her Lotte – Germany (Miriquidi-Film/Stereotec) 3D ANIMATED SHORT/NARRATIVE Feast – U.S. (Walt Disney Animation Studios) 3D DOCUMENTARY Enchanted Kingdom – U.K. (BBC Earth/ BBC Worldwide) THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURE – OUTSTANDING USE OF 2D TO 3D CONVERSION 300: Rise of an Empire – U.S. (Warner Bros./Gener8) 3D SEQUENCE/SCENE OF THE YEAR X-Men: Days of Future Past – U.S. (20th Century Fox/Stereo D) STEREOGRAPHY – LIVE ACTION Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – U.S. (Prime Focus World/Weinstein) STEREOGRAPHY – ANIMATION How to Train Your Dragon 2 – U.S. (DreamWorks Animation) 3D COMMERCIAL World of Warcraft – France (CowProd) 3DTV HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY David Attenborough’s National History Museum Alive 3D – U.K. (Colossus Productions) 3DTV NATURE DOCUMENTARY Tiny Giants – U.K. (BBC Earth/BBC Worldwide) 3D DOCUMENTARY SHORT D-Day: Normandy 1944 – France (N3D Land Productions) 3D JURY PRIZE: ANIMATED FEATURE Stand By Me Doraemon – Japan (Shirogumi, Inc.) 3D JURY PRIZE: LIVE BROADCAST MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT Beijing Opera: Farewell My Concubine – China (Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film & TV/SMG) 3D MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE Guns N’ Roses: Appetite for Democracy – U.S. (Rock Fuel Media) 3D INDEPENDENT FEATURE The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet – France (Tapioca Films/Weinstein Company) SIR CHARLES WHEATSTONE AWARD Sky – U.K. Atlantic Productions – U.K. David Attenborough - U.K. 4K ENTERTAINMENT House of Cards 4K-Season 2 – U.S. (Netflix) 4K MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT Bravia 4K X L’Arc en Ciel – Japan (Sony PCL) 4K ADVERTISING Liberación – Japan (Panasonic) Best Blogger Gadgets Posted by David Eng at 8:55 AM Labels: 3D, animation, awards, film, guild, industry, technology https://chinokino.com/ by Allan Tong (Toronto) Filmmaker, writer Writer/co-director of The Flying Stars Twitter: @allan68 and by David Eng (Montréal) Filmmaker, writer, actor, musician [not those other guys] Writer/director of Grand Cru Twitter: @davideng Tweets about chinokino_com 2015 Sundance Film Festival presents film awards –... 65th Annual ACE Eddie Awards – winners Call for submissions: Lindalee Tracey Award Nominations announced for the 2nd Annual Location ... 2015 JUNO Awards – nominations Québec Cinéma's 17e Soirée des Jutra – nominations... 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__label__wiki	0.63686	0.63686	Welcome to ‘Boutiques of House Tour’ Event occurs during annual Potomac Country House Tour. By Cissy Finley Grant Potomac — Hold onto your hat, grab your pocketbook and let’s go shopping in Potomac. It will all be for a good cause. The “Boutiques of House Tour” will take place in conjunction with the St. Francis annual Potomac Country House Tour, Oct. 13 and 14. Vendors with a variety of wares will be located in the church parish hall where all are invited to visit from 10-5 p.m., Saturday and 10-3 p.m., Sunday. There will also be an Oct. 12, Friday evening preview party. In its 57th year, the St. Francis Country House Tour attracts huge crowds. “Last year we had our house on the tour. Over 600 people came,” Linda Hobbins said. This year, she will be among the nearly 20 vendors at St. Francis Hall. She will have a large display of wreathes, basket arrangements, wall hangings, centerpieces and whatever she can get her hands on to create eye-catching splendor. “I never knew you could love your profession so much,” she said. Hobbins spends up to four hours most days making arrangements “and just thinking what I will do next,” she said. In fact, she thought so much that her husband, Jim, donated his work space in the lower part of their guest cottage to accommodate her designs. He then built her a work sink complete with an old maple board back splash she requested. Her interest in plant and floral arranging grew from her experience working on the Altar Guild at The Washington National Cathedral. “I took the flower course in 2000 at the cathedral, a pre requisite to be chosen to do the altar arrangements there,” she said. Her good works at the cathedral led to days of wreath making, drying flowers, and filling baskets and centerpieces with displays of pods, berries, leaves of all sorts and just about anything she can find, from fruit to nuts, as long as it fulfills her imagination. Lining the walls of her three work rooms, plus the show room, are antique doors collected from an old hayloft and decorated with wreathes. She insists, there will be wreaths for all seasons. While Hobbins creates for all seasons, the “Boutiques Of House Tour” have chosen vendors for many reasons including “Original Designs by Sharon Fabio Nowell.” Nowell, a former elementary school art teacher, does pen and ink house drawings, including the one she is presently doing for a Potomac home owner. Only, it doesn’t stop with just one house. “There are five drawings, including one of each of the homes the owner and her family lived in prior to their move to Potomac.” “All home drawings are quite labor intensive. I do them for a while and then branch out to do jewelry and hand bags, “ Nowell said. Her handbags, which she has dubbed, “Posh Bags,” are made with leather or suede pelt. She also uses faux suede and/or leather for all purpose bags. “They are used for dress up or dress down,” she added. In addition, for the younger shopper, Nowell will have her own line of jewelry. “I like to have an assortment for all ages at all prices, she said. And, special for the house tour boutique, she will introduce embellished Jean Jackets. “They are really pretty,” she said, and just in time for fall weather. Not all of the vendors are presently from the Potomac area. Sara Shankland a former Potomac resident now living in Vero Beach, Fla., will come back to her old stomping ground to participate in the boutique. Her exquisitely designed and personally created jewelry has been extremely popular in Vero Beach where she was selected last spring to participate in the highly regarded “Under The Oaks” event. Jeff Lia Braaten of Annandale, Va. will bring 200 pillow covers from which to choose, and if you can’t find the absolutely perfect combination for what you need he will make it for you. “If you bring your own color samples I will gladly match them,” he offered. This year Jeff has added tote bags created from “high-end” decorative fabrics to his inventory. However, going farther afield, he is also introducing vintage home accessories and small furniture. “We have strived to assemble a wide variety of vendors who will appeal to many, in the community,” boutique chairman Gaines Hurdle said. She will also be there representing “The Surrey Two,” featuring gifts and accessories for all occasions, from elegant to casual. Vendors at the “Boutique Of House Tour” donate a percentage of all sales to over 35 outreach programs of St. Francis Episcopal Church. Shopping at this event serves a dual purpose — a contribution to much needed programs and, again, a marvelous reason to shop in Potomac Village. Fun for All at the Potomac Country House Tour and Festival Where To Find Beautiful Wreaths House Tour For Charity Potomac Country House Tour Mark Your Calendar: Potomac Country House Tour	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line515
__label__wiki	0.764307	0.764307	Lily Aldridge > Lily Aldridge can't wait to breastfeed By Bang Showbiz in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 30 October 2018 Follow Lily Aldridge Lily Aldridge Caleb Followill Lily Aldridge can't wait to breastfeed her second child when she gives birth, as she feels ''very blessed'' to be able to do so. Lily Aldridge can't wait to breastfeed her new baby. The 32-year-old model - who already has a six-year-old daughter Dixie with her Kings of Leon husband Caleb Followill - is currently pregnant with her second child, and has said she feels ''very blessed'' to be able to breastfeed her new arrival when it comes. Speaking to People magazine, she said: ''I did with Dixie and I just love the experience. [I] feel very blessed I can [breastfeed] because I know it can be different for every woman and that's okay.'' The beauty didn't reveal the sex of her second child, but did note that her daughter is ''very excited [and] picking out outfits left [and] right'' for her impending sibling. Lily announced the news of her second pregnancy in August this year, in an Instagram post in which she showed off her tiny bump in a bikini and captioned it: ''SURPRISE.'' The Victoria's Secret beauty previously revealed she has a special ''bond'' with her fellow models Behati Prinsloo and Candice Swanepoel, because they all had children around the same time. She said: ''We [Aldridge, Behati Prinsloo and Candice Swanepoel] all had kids at the same time and we have this bond - it's a really nice community of model moms. I am so proud to be a mom, it's the greatest achievement in my life without a doubt.'' Lily also said being a parent has made her worry less about her figure and thinks people should be less judgemental. She added: ''It's been a while now since I had that moment of having to get back in shape [after giving birth], but there should be no judgement, everybody's journey is different. Of course, as I get older my body is changing, I'm a woman, but I love it. I love working out and I love being healthy but I don't judge myself so much; I don't care if I have a six-pack any more. ''I am inspired by all these amazing women who have fuller bodies and don't care about cellulite. I have cellulite, too, and I have stretch marks. When I was younger I would be like, 'Oh, my abs need to be firmer'; now I look back and I'm like, 'You were crazy! Your abs were gorgeous!''' Lily Aldridge's Ray-Ban collection influence by Johnny Depp and Jack Nicholson Lily Aldridge wants her fragrance line to be sustainable Lily Aldridge needs time for herself Lily Aldridge gives birth Lily Aldridge walked the runway five months pregnant Lily Aldridge is the face of Levi's Made Crafted range Lily Aldridge pregnant Lily Aldridge wants her own fashion line Lily Aldridge gets trolled Lily Aldridge's mom guilt Lily Aldridge reveals her ultimate beauty blunders Lily Aldridge will take personal trainer to China for VS Show Lily Aldridge stars in Salvatore Ferragamo's S/S17 campaign People Index: 0 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Help Contact Us T&Cs Privacy Cookie Policy Site Map Consent Settings	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line517
__label__cc	0.658967	0.341033	This epistle was written by Pope St. Clement of Rome around A.D. 96. It was publicly read at Corinth from time to time, and by the 4th century this usage had spread to other churches. It was included in the 5th century Codex Alexandrinus, which contained the entire Old and New Testaments. Note to the First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians. [a.d. 30-100.] Clement was probably a Gentile and a Roman. He seems to have been at Philippi with St. Paul (a.d. 57) when that first-born of the Western churches was passing through great trials of faith. There, with holy women and others, he ministered to the apostle and to the saints. As this city was a Roman colony, we need not inquire how a Roman happened to be there. He was possibly in some public service, and it is not improbable that he had visited Corinth in those days. From the apostle, and his companion, St. Luke, he had no doubt learned the use of the Septuagint, in which his knowledge of the Greek tongue soon rendered him an adept. His copy of that version, however, does not always agree with the Received Text, as the reader will perceive. A co-presbyter with Linus and Cletus, he succeeded them in the government of the Roman Church. I have reluctantly adopted the opinion that his Epistle was written near the close of his life, and not just after the persecution of Nero. It is not improbable that Linus and Cletus both perished in that fiery trial, and that Clement's immediate succession to their work and place occasions the chronological difficulties of the period. After the death of the apostles, for the Roman imprisonment and martyrdom of St. Peter seem historical, Clement was the natural representative of St. Paul, and even of his companion, the "apostle of the circumcision; "and naturally he wrote the Epistle in the name of the local church, when brethren looked to them for advice. St. John, no doubt, was still surviving at Patmos or in Ephesus; but the Philippians, whose intercourse with Rome is attested by the visit of Epaphroditus, looked naturally to the surviving friends of their great founder; nor was the aged apostle in the East equally accessible. All roads pointed towards the Imperial City, and started from its Milliarium Aureum. But, though Clement doubtless wrote the letter, he conceals his own name, and puts forth the brethren, who seem to have met in council, and sent a brotherly delegation (Chap. lix.). The entire absence of the spirit of Diotrephes (3 John 9), and the close accordance of the Epistle, in humility and meekness, with that of St. Peter (1 Peter 5: 1-5), are noteworthy features. The whole will be found animated with the loving and faithful spirit of St. Paul's dear Philippians, among whom the writer had learned the Gospel. Clement fell asleep, probably soon after he despatched his letter. It is the legacy of one who reflects the apostolic age in all the beauty and evangelical truth which were the first-fruits of the Spirit's presence with the Church. He shares with others the aureole of glory attributed by St. Paul (Philippians 4: 3), "His name is in the Book of Life." The plan of this publication does not permit the restoration, in this volume, of the recently discovered portions of his work. It is the purpose of the editor to present this, however, with other recently discovered relics of primitive antiquity, in a supplementary volume, should the undertaking meet with sufficient encouragement. The so-called second Epistle of Clement is now known to be the work of another, and has been relegated to another place in this series. The following is the Introductory Notice of the original editors and translators, Drs. Roberts and Donaldson - The first Epistle, bearing the name of Clement, has been preserved to us in a single manuscript only. Though very frequently referred to by ancient Christian writers, it remained unknown to the scholars of Western Europe until happily discovered in the Alexandrian manuscript. This ms. of the Sacred Scriptures (known and generally referred to as Codex A) was presented in 1628 by Cyril, Patriarch of Constantinople, to Charles I., and is now preserved in the British Museum. Subjoined to the books of the New Testament contained in it, there are two writings described as the Epistles of one Clement. Of these, that now before us is the first. It is tolerably perfect, but there are many slight lacunae , or gaps, in the ms., and one whole leaf is supposed to have been lost towards the close. These lacunae , however, so numerous in some chapters, do not generally extend beyond a word or syllable, and can for the most part be easily supplied. Who the Clement was to whom these writings are ascribed, cannot with absolute certainty be determined. The general opinion is, that he is the same as the person of that name referred to by St. Paul (Philippians 4: 3). The writings themselves contain no statement as to their author. The first, and by far the longer of them, simply purports to have been written in the name of the Church at Rome to the Church at Corinth. But in the catalogue of contents prefixed to the ms. they are both plainly attributed to one Clement; and the judgment of most scholars is, that, in regard to the first Epistle at least, this statement is correct, and that it is to be regarded as an authentic production of the friend and fellow-worker of St. Paul. This belief may be traced to an early period in the history of the Church. It is found in the writings of Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., iii. 15), of Origen (Comm. in Joan., i. 29), and others. The internal evidence also tends to support this opinion. The doctrine, style, and manner of thought are all in accordance with it; so that, although, as has been said, positive certainty cannot be reached on the subject, we may with great probability conclude that we have in this Epistle a composition of that Clement who is known to us from Scripture as having been an associate of the great apostle. The date of this Epistle has been the subject of considerable controversy. It is clear from the writing itself that it was composed soon after some persecution (chap. i.) which the Roman Church had endured; and the only question is, whether we are to fix upon the persecution under Nero or Domitian. If the former, the date will be about the year 68; if the latter, we must place it towards the close of the first century or the beginning of the second. We possess no external aid to the settlement of this question. The lists of early Roman bishops are in hopeless confusion, some making Clement the immediate successor of St. Peter, others placing Linus, and others still Linus and Anacletus, between him and the apostle. The internal evidence, again, leaves the matter doubtful, though it has been strongly pressed on both sides. The probability seems, on the whole, to be in favour of the Domitian period, so that the Epistle may be dated about a.d. 97. This Epistle was held in very great esteem by the early Church. The account given of it by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., iii. 16) is as follows: "There is one acknowledged Epistle of this Clement (whom he has just identified with the friend of St. Paul), great and admirable, which he wrote in the name of the Church of Rome to the Church at Corinth, sedition having then arisen in the latter Church. We are aware that this Epistle has been publicly read in very many churches both in old times, and also in our own day." The Epistle before us thus appears to have been read in numerous churches, as being almost on a level with the canonical writings. And its place in the Alexandrian ms., immediately after the inspired books, is in harmony with the position thus assigned it in the primitive Church. There does indeed appear a great difference between it and the inspired writings in many respects, such as the fanciful use sometimes made of Old-Testament statements, the fabulous stories which are accepted by its author, and the general diffuseness and feebleness of style by which it is distinguished. But the high tone of evangelical truth which pervades it, the simple and earnest appeals which it makes to the heart and conscience, and the anxiety which its writer so constantly shows to promote the best interests of the Church of Christ, still impart an undying charm to this precious relic of later apostolic times. [N.B.-A sufficient guide to the recent literature of the Clementine mss. and discoveries may be found in The Princeton Review , 1877, p. 325, also in Bishop Wordsworth's succinct but learned Church History to the Council of Nicaea , p. 84. The invaluable edition of the Patres Apostolici , by Jacobson (Oxford, 1840), with a critical text and rich prolegomena and annotations, cannot be dispensed with by any Patristic inquirer. A. C. C.] The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians1 Chapter I.-The Salutation. Praise of the Corinthians Before the Breaking Forth of Schism Among Them. The Church of God which sojourns at Rome, to the Church of God sojourning at Corinth, to them that are called and sanctified by the will of God, through our Lord Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, from Almighty God through Jesus Christ, be multiplied. Owing, dear brethren, to the sudden and successive calamitous events which have happened to ourselves, we feel that we have been somewhat tardy in turning our attention to the points respecting which you consulted us;2 and especially to that shameful and detestable sedition, utterly abhorrent to the elect of God, which a few rash and self-confident persons have kindled to such a pitch of frenzy, that your venerable and illustrious name, worthy to be universally loved, has suffered grievous injury.3 For who ever dwelt even for a short time among you, and did not find your faith to be as fruitful of virtue as it was firmly established?4 Who did not admire the sobriety and moderation of your godliness in Christ? Who did not proclaim the magnificence of your habitual hospitality? And who did not rejoice over your perfect and well-grounded knowledge? For ye did all things without respect of persons, and walked in the commandments of God, being obedient to those who had the rule over you, and giving all fitting honour to the presbyters among you. Ye enjoined young men to be of a sober and serious mind; ye instructed your wives to do all things with a blameless, becoming, and pure conscience, loving their husbands as in duty bound; and ye taught them that, living in the rule of obedience, they should manage their household affairs becomingly, and be in every respect marked by discretion. Chapter II.-Praise of the Corinthians Continued. Moreover, ye were all distinguished by humility, and were in no respect puffed up with pride, but yielded obedience rather than extorted it,5 and were more willing to give than to receive.6 Content with the provision which God had made for you, and carefully attending to His words, ye were inwardly filled7 with His doctrine, and His sufferings were before your eyes. Thus a profound and abundant peace was given to you all, and ye had an insatiable desire for doing good, while a full outpouring of the Holy Spirit was upon you all. Full of holy designs, ye did, with true earnestness of mind and a godly confidence, stretch forth your hands to God Almighty, beseeching Him to be merciful unto you, if ye had been guilty of any involuntary transgression. Day and night ye were anxious for the whole brotherhood,8 that the number of God's elect might be saved with mercy and a good conscience.9 Ye were sincere and uncorrupted, and forgetful of injuries between one another. Every kind of faction and schism was abominable in your sight. Ye mourned over the transgressions of your neighbours: their deficiencies you deemed your own. Ye never grudged any act of kindness, being "ready to every good work."10 Adorned by a thoroughly virtuous and religious life, ye did all things in the fear of God. The commandments and ordinances of the Lord were written upon the tablets of your hearts.11 Chapter III.-The Sad State of the Corinthian Church After Sedition Arose in It from Envy and Emulation. Every kind of honour and happiness12 was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved did eat and drink, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked."13 Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years. For this reason righteousness and peace are now far departed from you, inasmuch as every one abandons the fear of God, and is become blind in His faith,14 neither walks in the ordinances of His appointment, nor acts a part becoming a Christian,15 but walks after his own wicked lusts, resuming the practice of an unrighteous and ungodly envy, by which death itself entered into the world.16 Chapter IV.-Many Evils Have Already Flowed from This Source in Ancient Times. For thus it is written: "And it came to pass after certain days, that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice unto God; and Abel also brought of the firstlings of his sheep, and of the fat thereof. And God had respect to Abel and to his offerings, but Cain and his sacrifices He did not regard. And Cain was deeply grieved, and his countenance fell. And God said to Cain, Why art thou grieved, and why is try countenance fallen? If thou offerest rightly, but dost not divide rightly, hast thou not sinned? Be at peace: thine offering returns to thyself, and thou shalt again possess it. And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go into the field. And it came to pass, while they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him."17 Ye see, brethren, how envy and jealousy led to the murder of a brother. Through envy, also, our father Jacob fled from the face of Esau his brother.18 Envy made Joseph be persecuted unto death, and to come into bondage.19 Envy compelled Moses to flee from the face of Pharaoh king of Egypt, when he heard these words from his fellow countryman, "Who made thee a judge or a ruler over us? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday? "20 On account of envy, Aaron and Miriam had to make their abode without the camp.21 Envy brought down Dathan and Abiram alive to Hades, through the sedition which they excited against God's servant Moses.22 Through envy, David underwent the hatred not only of foreigners, but was also persecuted by Saul, king of Israel.23 Chapter V.-No Less Evils Have Arisen from the Same Source in the Most Recent Times. The Martyrdom of Peter and Paul. But not to dwell upon ancient examples, let us come to the most recent spiritual heroes.24 Let us take the noble examples furnished in our own generation. Through envy and jealousy, the greatest and most righteous pillars [of the Church] have been persecuted and put to death.25 Let us set before our eyes the illustrious26 apostles. Peter, through unrighteous envy, endured not one or two, but numerous labours and when he had at length suffered martyrdom, departed to the place of glory due to him. Owing to envy, Paul also obtained the reward of patient endurance, after being seven times thrown into captivity,27 compelled28 to flee, and stoned. After preaching both in the east and west, he gained the illustrious reputation due to his faith, having taught righteousness to the whole world, and come to the extreme limit of the west,29 and suffered martyrdom under the prefects.30 Thus was he removed from the world, and went into the holy place, having proved himself a striking example of patience. Chapter VI.-Continuation. Several Other Martyrs. To these men who spent their lives in the practice of holiness, there is to be added a great multitude of the elect, who, having through envy endured many indignities and tortures, furnished. us with a most excellent example. Through envy, those women, the Danaids31 and Dircae, being persecuted, after they had suffered terrible and unspeakable torments, finished the course of their faith with stedfastness,32 and though weak in body, received a noble reward. Envy has alienated wives from their husbands, and changed that saying of our father Adam, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh."33 Envy and strife have overthrown great cities and rooted up mighty nations. Chapter VII.-An Exhortation to Repentance. These things, beloved, we write unto you, not merely to admonish you of your duty, but also to remind ourselves. For we are struggling on the same arena, and the same conflict is assigned to both of us. Wherefore let us give up vain and fruitless cares, and approach to the glorious and venerable rule of our holy calling. Let us attend to what is good, pleasing, and acceptable in the sight of Him who formed us. Let us look stedfastly to the blood of Christ, and see how precious that blood is to God,34 which, having been shed for our salvation, has set the grace of repentance before the whole world. Let us turn to every age that has passed, and learn that, from generation to generation, the Lord has granted a place of repentance to all such as would be converted unto Him. Noah preached repentance, and as many as listened to him were saved.35 Jonah proclaimed destruction to the Ninevites;36 but they, repenting of their sins, propitiated God by prayer, and obtained salvation, although they were aliens [to the covenant] of God. Chapter VIII.-Continuation Respecting Repentance. The ministers of the grace of God have, by the Holy Spirit, spoken of repentance; and the Lord of all things has himself declared with an oath regarding it, "As I live, saith the Lord, I desire not the death of the sinner, but rather his repentance ; "37 adding, moreover, this gracious declaration Repent O house of Israel, of your iniquity.38 Say to the children of My people, Though your sins reach from earth to heaven, I and though they be redder39 than scarlet, and blacker than sackcloth, yet if ye turn to Me with your whole heart, and say, Father! I will listen to you, as to a holy40 people." And in another place He speaks thus: "Wash you, and become clean; put away the wickedness of your souls from before mine eyes; cease from your evil ways, and learn to do well; seek out judgment, deliver the oppressed, judge the fatherless, and see that justice is done to the widow; and come, and let us reason together. He declares, Though your sins be like crimson, I will make them white as snow; though they be like scarlet, I will whiten them like wool. And if ye be willing and obey Me, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse, and will not hearken unto Me, the sword shall devour you, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these things."41 Desiring, therefore, that all His beloved should be partakers of repentance, He has, by His almighty will, established [these declarations]. Chapter IX.-Examples of the Saints. Wherefore, let us yield obedience to His excellent and glorious will; and imploring His mercy and loving-kindness, while we forsake all fruitless labours,42 and strife, and envy, which leads to death, let us turn and have recourse to His compassions. Let us stedfastly contemplate those who have perfectly ministered to His excellent glory. Let us take (for instance) Enoch, who, being found righteous in obedience, was translated, and death was never known to happen to him.43 Noah, being found faithful, preached regeneration to the world through his ministry; and the Lord saved by him the animals which, with one accord, entered into the ark. Chapter X.-Continuation of the Above. Abraham, styled "the friend,"44 was found faithful, inasmuch as he rendered obedience to the words of God. He, in the exercise of obedience, went out from his own country, and from his kindred, and from his father's house, in order that, by forsaking a small territory, and a weak family, and an insignificant house, he might inherit the promises of God. For God said to him, "Get thee out from thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, into the land which I shall show thee. And I will make thee a great nation, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shall be blessed. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed."45 And again, on his departing from Lot, God said to him. "Lift up thine eyes, and look from the place where thou now art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward; for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, [so that] if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered."46 And again [the Scripture] saith, "God brought forth Abram, and spake unto him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars if thou be able to number them; so shall thy seed be. And Abram believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."47 On account of his faith and hospitality, a son was given him in his old age; and in the exercise of obedience, he offered him as a sacrifice to God on one of the mountains which He showed him.48 Chapter XI.-Continuation. Lot. On account of his hospitality and godliness, Lot was saved out of Sodore when all the country round was punished by means of fire and brimstone, the Lord thus making it manifest that He does not forsake those that hope in Him, but gives up such as depart from Him to punishment and torture.49 For Lot's wife, who went forth with him, being of a different mind from himself and not continuing in agreement with him [as to the command which had been given them], was made an example of, so as to be a pillar of salt unto this day.50 This was done that all might know that those who are of a double mind, and who distrust the power of God, bring down judgment on themselves51 and become a sign to all succeeding generations. Chapter XII.-The Rewards of Faith and Hospitality. Rahab. On account of her faith and hospitality, Rahab the harlot was saved. For when spies were sent by Joshua, the son of Nun, to Jericho, the king of the country ascertained that they were come to spy out their land, and sent men to seize them, in order that, when taken, they might be put to death. But the hospitable Rahab receiving them, concealed them on the roof of her house under some stalks of flax. And when the men sent by the king arrived and said "There came men unto thee who are to spy out our land; bring them forth, for so the king commands," she answered them, "The two men whom ye seek came unto me, but quickly departed again and are gone," thus not discovering the spies to them. Then she said to the men, "I know assuredly that the Lord your God hath given you this city, for the fear and dread of you have fallen on its inhabitants. When therefore ye shall have taken it, keep ye me and the house of my father in safety." And they said to her, "It shall be as thou hast spoken to us. As soon, therefore, as thou knowest that we are at hand, thou shall gather all thy family under thy roof, and they shall be preserved, but all that. are found outside of thy dwelling shall perish."52 Moreover, they gave her a sign to this effect, that she should hang forth from her house a scarlet thread. And thus they made it manifest that redemption should flow through the blood of the Lord to all them that believe and hope in God.53 Ye see, beloved, that there was not only faith, but prophecy, in this woman. Chapter XIII.-An Exhortation to Humility. Let us therefore, brethren, be of humble mind, laying aside all haughtiness, and pride, and foolishness, and angry feelings; and let us act according to that which is written (for the Holy Spirit saith, "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, neither let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in the Lord, in diligently seeking Him, and doing judgment and righteousness"),54 being especially mindful of the words of the Lord Jesus which He spake, teaching us meekness and long-suffering. For thus He spoke: "Be ye merciful, that ye may obtain mercy; forgive, that it may be forgiven to you ; as ye do, so shall it be done unto you; as ye judge, so shall ye be judged; as ye are kind, so shall kindness be shown to you; with what measure ye mete, with the same it shall be measured to you."55 By this precept and by these rules let us establish ourselves, that we walk with all humility in obedience to His holy words. For the holy word saith, "On whom shall I look, but on him that is meek and peaceable, and that trembleth at My words? "56 Chapter XIV.-We Should Obey God Rather Than the Authors of Sedition. It is right and holy therefore, men and brethren, rather to obey God than to follow those who, through pride and sedition, have become the leaders of a detestable emulation. For we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good. Let us be kind one to another after the pattern of the tender mercy and benignity of our Creator. For it is written, "The kind-hearted shall inhabit the land, and the guiltless shall be left upon it, but transgressors shall be destroyed from off the face of it."57 And again [the Scripture] saith, "I saw the ungodly highly exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Lebanon: I passed by, and, behold, he was not; and I diligently sought his place, and could not find it. Preserve innocence, and look on equity: for there shall be a remnant to the peaceful man."58 Chapter XV.-We Must Adhere to Those Who Cultivate Peace, Not to Those Who Merely Pretend to Do So. Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, "This people honoureth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me."59 And again: "They bless with their mouth, but curse with their heart."60 And again it saith, "They loved Him with their mouth, and lied to Him with their tongue; but their heart was not right with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant."61 "Let the deceitful lips become silent,"62 [and "let the Lord destroy all the lying lips,]63 and the boastful tongue of those who have said, Let us magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is lord over us? For the oppression of the poor, and for the sighing of the needy, will I now arise, saith the Lord: I will place him in safety; I will deal confidently with him."64 Chapter XVI.-Christ as an Example of Humility. For Christ is of those who are humble-minded, and not of those who exalt themselves over His flock. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Sceptre of the majesty of God, did not come in the pomp of pride or arrogance, although He might have done so, but in a lowly condition, as the Holy Spirit had declared regarding Him. For He says, "Lord, who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We have declared [our message] in His presence: He is, as it were, a child, and like a root in thirsty ground; He has no form nor glory, yea, we saw Him, and He had no form nor comeliness; but His form was without eminence, yea, deficient in comparison with the [ordinary] form of men. He is a man exposed to stripes and suffering, and acquainted with the endurance of grief: for His countenance was turned away; He was despised, and not esteemed. He bears our iniquities, and is in sorrow for our sakes; yet we supposed that [on His own account] He was exposed to labour, and stripes, and affliction. But He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we were healed. All we, like sheep, have gone astray; [every] man has wandered in his own way; and the Lord has delivered Him up for our sins, while He in the midst of His sufferings openeth not His mouth. He was brought as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before her shearer is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. In His humiliation His judgment was taken away; who shall declare His generation? for His life is taken from the earth. For the transgressions of my people was He brought down to death. And I will give the wicked for His sepulchre, and the rich for His death,65 because He did no iniquity, neither was guile found in His mouth. And the Lord is pleased to purify Him by stripes.66 If ye make67 an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed. And the Lord is pleased to relieve Him of the affliction of His soul, to show Him light, and to form Him with understanding,68 to justify the Just One who ministereth well to many; and the Himself shall carry their sins. On this account He shall inherit many, and shall divide the spoil of the strong; because His soul was delivered to death, and He was reckoned among the transgressors, and He bare the sins of many, and for their sins was He delivered."69 And again He saith, "I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All that see Me have derided Me; they have spoken with their lips; they have wagged their head, [saying] He hoped in God, let Him deliver Him, let Him save Him, since He delighteth in Him."70 Ye see, beloved, what is the example which has been given us; for if the Lord thus humbled Himself, what shall we do who have through Him come under the yoke of His grace? Chapter XVII.-The Saints as Examples of Humility. Let us be imitators also of those who in goat-skins and sheep-skins71 went about proclaiming the coming of Christ; I mean Elijah, Elisha, and Ezekiel among the prophets, with those others to whom a like testimony is borne [in Scripture]. Abraham was specially honoured, and was called the friend of God; yet he, earnestly regarding the glory of God, humbly declared, "I am but dust and ashes."72 Moreover, it is thus written of Job, "Job was a righteous man, and blameless, truthful, God-fearing, and one that kept himself from all evil."73 But bringing an accusation against himself, he said, "No man is free from defilement, even if his life be but of one day."74 Moses was called faithful in all God's house;75 and through his instrumentality, God punished Egypt76 with plagues and tortures. Yet he, though thus greatly honoured, did not adopt lofty language, but said, when the divine oracle came to him out of the bush, "Who am I, that Thou sendest me? I am a man of a feeble voice and a slow tongue."77 And again he said, "I am but as the smoke of a pot."78 Chapter XVIII.-David as an Example of Humility. But what shall we say concerning David, to whom such testimony was borne, and of whom79 God said, "I have found a man after Mine own heart, David the son of Jesse; and in everlasting mercy have I anointed him? "80 Yet this very man saith to God, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, according to Thy great mercy; and according to the multitude of Thy compassions, blot out my transgression. Wash me still more from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my iniquity, and my sin is ever before me. Against Thee only have I sinned, and done that which was evil in Thy sight; that Thou mayest be justified in Thy sayings, and mayest overcome when Thou81 art judged. For, behold, I was conceived in transgressions, and in my sins did my mother conceive me. For, behold, Thou hast loved truth; the secret and hidden things of wisdom hast Thou shown me. Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed; Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Thou shalt make me to hear joy and gladness; my bones, which have been humbled, shall exult. Turn away Thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.82 Cast me not away from Thy presence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation, and establish me by Thy governing Spirit. I will teach transgressors Thy ways, and the ungodly shall be converted unto Thee. Deliver me from blood-guiltiness,83 O God, the God of my salvation: my tongue shall exult in Thy righteousness. O Lord, Thou shalt open my mouth, and my lips shall show forth Thy praise. For if Thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would have given it; Thou wilt not delight in burnt-offerings. The sacrifice [acceptable] to God is a bruised spirit; a broken and a contrite heart God will not despise."84 Chapter XIX.-Imitating These Examples, Let Us Seek After Peace. Thus the humility and godly submission of so great and illustrious men have rendered not only us, but also all the generations before us, better; even as many as have received His oracles in fear and truth. Wherefore, having so many great and glorious examples set before us, let us turn again to the practice of that peace which from the beginning was the mark set before us;85 and let us look stedfastly to the Father and Creator of the universe, and cleave to His mighty and surpassingly great gifts and benefactions, of peace. Let us contemplate Him with our understanding, and look with the eyes of our soul to His long-suffering will. Let us reflect how free from wrath He is towards all His creation. Chapter XX.-The Peace and Harmony of the Universe. The heavens, revolving under His government, are subject to Him in peace. Day and night run the course appointed by Him, in no wise hindering each other. The sun and moon, with the companies of the stars, roll on in harmony according to His command, within their prescribed limits, and without any deviation. The fruitful earth, according to His will, brings forth food in abundance, at the proper seasons, for man and beast and all the living beings upon it, never hesitating, nor changing any of the ordinances which He has fixed. The unsearchable places of abysses, and the indescribable arrangements of the lower world, are restrained by the same laws. The vast unmeasurable sea, gathered together by His working into various basins,86 never passes beyond the bounds placed around it, but does as He has commanded. For He said, "Thus far shalt thou come, and thy waves shall be broken within thee."87 The ocean, impassible to man, and the worlds beyond it, are regulated by the same enactments of the Lord. The seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, peacefully give place to one another. The winds in their several quarters88 fulfil, at the proper time, their service without hindrance. The ever-flowing fountains, formed both for enjoyment and health, furnish without fail their breasts for the life of men. The very smallest of living beings meet together in peace and concord. All these the great Creator and Lord of all has appointed to exist in peace and harmony; while He does good to all, but most abundantly to us who have fled for refuge to His compassions through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be glory and majesty for ever and ever. Amen. Chapter XXI.-Let Us Obey God, and Not the Authors of Sedition. Take heed, beloved, lest His many kindnesses lead to the condemnation of us all. [For thus it must be] unless we walk worthy of Him, and with one mind do those things which are good and well-pleasing in His sight. For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, "The Spirit of the Lord is a candle searching the secret parts of the belly."89 Let us reflect how near He is, and that none of the thoughts or reasonings in which we engage are hid from Him. It is right, therefore, that we should not leave the post which His will has assigned us. Let us rather offend those men who are foolish, and inconsiderate, and lifted up, and who glory in the pride of their speech, than [offend] God. Let us reverence the Lord Jesus Christ, whose blood was given for us; let us esteem those who have the rule over us;90 let us honour the aged91 among us; let us train up the young men in the fear of God; let us direct our wives to that which is good. Let them exhibit the lovely habit of purity [in all their conduct]; let them show forth the sincere disposition of meekness; let them make manifest the command which they have of their tongue, by their manner92 of speaking; let them display their love, not by preferring93 one to another, but by showing equal affection to all that piously fear God. Let your children be partakers of true Christian training; let them learn of how great avail humility is with God-how much the spirit of pure affection can prevail with Him-how excellent and great His fear is, and how it saves all those who walk in94 it with a pure mind. For He is a Searcher of the thoughts and desires [of the heart]: His breath is in us; and when He pleases, He will take it away. Chapter XXII.-These Exhortations are Confirmed by the Christian Faith, Which Proclaims the Misery of Sinful Conduct. Now the faith which is in Christ confirms all these [admonitions]. For He Himself by the Holy Ghost thus addresses us: "Come, ye children, hearken unto Me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth to see good days? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are [open] unto their prayers. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cried, and the Lord heard him, and delivered him out of all his troubles."95 "Many are the stripes [appointed for] the wicked; but mercy shall compass those about who hope in the Lord."96 Chapter XXIII.-Be Humble, and Believe that Christ Will Come Again. The all-merciful and beneficent Father has bowels [of compassion] towards those that fear Him, and kindly and lovingly bestows His favours upon those who come to Him with a simple mind. Wherefore let us not be double-minded; neither let our soul be lifted97 up on account of His exceedingly great and glorious gifts. Far from us be that which is written, "Wretched are they who are of a double mind, and of a doubting heart; who say, These things we have heard even in the times of our fathers; but, behold, we have grown old, and none of them has happened unto us."98 Ye foolish ones! compare yourselves to a tree: take [for instance] the vine. First of all, it sheds its leaves, then it buds, next it puts forth leaves, and then it flowers; after that comes the sour grape, and then follows the ripened fruit. Ye perceive how in a little time the fruit of a tree comes to maturity. Of a truth, soon and suddenly shall His will be accomplished, as the Scripture also bears witness, saying, "Speedily will He come, and will not tarry; "99 and, "The Lord shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Holy One, for whom ye look."100 Chapter XXIV.-God Continually Shows Us in Nature that There Will Be a Resurrection. Let us consider, beloved, how the Lord continually proves to us that there shall be a future resurrection, of which He has rendered the Lord Jesus Christ the first-fruits101 by raising Him from the dead. Let us contemplate, beloved, the resurrection which is at all times taking place. Day and night declare to us a resurrection. The night sinks to sleep, and the day arises; the day [again] departs, and the night comes on. Let us behold the fruits [of the earth], how the sowing of grain takes place. The sower102 goes forth, and casts it into the ground; and the seed being thus scattered, though dry and naked when it fell upon the earth, is gradually dissolved. Then out of its dissolution the mighty power of the providence of the Lord raises it up again, and from one seed many arise and bring forth fruit. Chapter XXV.-The Phoenix an Emblem of Our Resurrection. Let us consider that wonderful sign [of the resurrection] which takes place in Eastern lands, that is, in Arabia and the countries round about. There is a certain bird which is called a phoenix. This is the only one of its kind, and lives five hundred years. And when the time of its dissolution draws near that it must die, it builds itself a nest of frankincense, and myrrh, and other spices, into which, when the time is fulfilled, it enters and dies. But as the flesh decays a certain kind of worm is produced, which, being nourished by the juices of the dead bird, brings forth feathers. Then, when it has acquired strength, it takes up that nest in which are the bones of its parent, and bearing these it passes from the land of Arabia into Egypt, to the city called Heliopolis. And, in open day, flying in the sight of all men, it places them on the altar of the sun, and having done this, hastens back to its former abode. The priests then inspect the registers of the dates, and find that it has returned exactly as the five hundredth year was completed.103 Chapter XXVI.-We Shall Rise Again, Then, as the Scripture Also Testifies. Do we then deem it any great and wonderful thing for the Maker of all things to raise up again those that have piously served Him in the assurance of a good faith, when even by a bird He shows us the mightiness of His power to fulfil His promise?104 For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, "Thou shalt raise me up, and I shall confess unto Thee; "105 and again, "I laid me down, and slept; I awaked, because Thou art with me; "106 and again, Job says, "Thou shalt raise up this flesh of mine, which has suffered all these things."107 Chapter XXVII.-In the Hope of the Resurrection, Let Us Cleave to the Omnipotent and Omniscient God. Having then this hope, let our souls be bound to Him who is faithful in His promises, and just in His judgments. He who has commanded us not to lie, shall much more Himself not lie; for nothing is impossible with God, except to lie.108 Let His faith therefore be stirred up again within us, and let us consider that all things are nigh unto Him. By the word of His might109 He established all things, and by His word He can overthrow them. "Who shall say unto Him, What hast thou done? or, Who shall resist the power of His strength? "110 When and as He pleases He will do all things, and none of the things determined by Him shall pass away.111 All things are open before Him, and nothing can be hidden from His counsel. "The heavens112 declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handy-work. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. And there are no words or speeches of which the voices are not heard."113 Chapter XXVIII.-God Sees All Things: Therefore Let Us Avoid Transgression. Since then all things are seen and heard [by God], let us fear Him, and forsake those wicked works which proceed from evil desires;114 so that, through His mercy, we may be protected from the judgments to come. For whither can any of us flee from His mighty hand? Or what world will receive any of those who run away from Him? For the Scripture saith in a certain place, "Whither shall I go, and where shall I be hid from Thy presence? If I ascend into heaven, Thou art there; if I go away even to the uttermost parts of the earth, there is Thy right hand; if I make my bed in the abyss, there is Thy Spirit."115 Whither, then, shall any one go, or where shall he escape from Him who comprehends all things? Chapter XXIX.-Let Us Also Draw Near to God in Purity of Heart. Let us then draw near to Him with holiness of spirit, lifting up pure and undefiled hands unto Him, loving our gracious and merciful Father, who has made us partakers in the blessings of His elect.116 For thus it is written, "When the Most High divided the nations, when He scattered117 the sons of Adam, He fixed the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God. His people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, and Israel the lot of His inheritance."118 And in another place [the Scripture] saith, "Behold, the Lord taketh unto Himself a nation out of the midst of the nations, as a man takes the first-fruits of his threshing-floor; and from that nation shall come forth the Most Holy.119 Chapter XXX.-Let Us Do Those Things that Please God, and Flee from Those He Hates, that We May Be Blessed. Seeing, therefore, that we are the portion of the Holy One, let us do all those things which pertain to holiness, avoiding all evil-speaking, all abominable and impure embraces, together with all drunkenness, seeking after change,120 all abominable lusts, detestable adultery, and execrable pride. "For God," saith [the Scripture], "resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble."121 Let us cleave, then, to those to whom grace has been given by God. Let us clothe ourselves with concord and humility, ever exercising self-control, standing far off from all whispering and evil-speaking, being justified by our works, and not our words. For [the Scripture] saith, "He that speaketh much, shall also hear much in answer. And does he that is ready in speech deem himself righteous? Blessed is he that is born of woman, who liveth but a short time: be not given to much speaking."122 Let our praise be in God, and not of ourselves; for God hateth those that commend themselves. Let testimony to our good deeds be borne by others, as it was in the case of our righteous forefathers. Boldness, and arrogance, and audacity belong to those that are accursed of God; but moderation, humility, and meekness to such as are blessed by Him. Chapter XXXI.-Let Us See by What Means We May Obtain the Divine Blessing. Let us cleave then to His blessing, and consider what are the means123 of possessing it. Let us think124 over the things which have taken place from the beginning. For what reason was our father Abraham blessed? was it not because he wrought righteousness and truth through faith?125 Isaac, with perfect confidence, as if knowing what was to happen,126 cheerfully yielded himself as a sacrifice127 Jacob, through reason128 of his brother, went forth with humility from his own land, and came to Laban and served him; and there was given to him the sceptre of the twelve tribes of Israel. Chapter XXXII.-We are Justified Not by Our Own Works, But by Faith. Whosoever will candidly consider each particular, will recognise the greatness of the gifts which were given by him.129 For from him130 have sprung the priests and all the Levites who minister at the altar of God. From him also [was descended] our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh.131 From him [arose] kings, princes, and rulers of the race of Judah. Nor are his other tribes in small glory, inasmuch as God had promised, "Thy seed shall be as the stars of heaven."132 All these, therefore, were highly honoured, and made great, not for their own sake, or for their own works, or for the righteousness which they wrought, but through the operation of His will. And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Chapter XXXIII.-But Let Us Not Owe Up the Practice of Good Works and Love. God Himself is an Example to Us of Good Works. What shall we do, then, brethren? Shall we become slothful in well-doing, and cease from the practice of love? God forbid that any such course should be followed by us! But rather let us hasten with all energy and readiness of mind to perform every good work. For the Creator and Lord of all Himself rejoices in His works. For by His infinitely great power He established the heavens, and by His incomprehensible wisdom He adorned them. He also divided the earth from the water which surrounds it, and fixed it upon the immoveable foundation of His own will. The animals also which are upon it He commanded by His own word133 into existence. So likewise, when He had formed the sea, and the living creatures which are in it, He enclosed them [within their proper bounds] by His own power. Above all,134 with His holy and undefiled hands He formed man, the most excellent [of His creatures], and truly great through the understanding given him-the express likeness of His own image. For thus says God: "Let us make man in Our image, and after Our likeness. So God made man; male and female He created them."135 Having thus finished all these things, He approved them, and blessed them, and said, "Increase and multiply."136 We see,137 then, how all righteous men have been adorned with good works, and how the Lord Himself, adorning Himself with His works, rejoiced. Having therefore such an example, let us without delay accede to His will, and let us work the work of righteousness with our whole strength. Chapter XXXIV.-Great is the Reward of Good Works with God. Joined Together in Harmony, Let Us Implore that Reward from Him. The good servant138 receives the bread of his labour with confidence; the lazy and slothful cannot look his employer in the face. It is requisite, therefore, that we be prompt in the practice of well-doing; for of Him are all things. And thus He forewarns us: "Behold, the Lord [cometh], and His reward is before His face, to render to every man according to his work."139 He exhorts us, therefore, with our whole heart to attend to this,140 that we be not lazy or slothful in any good work. Let our boasting and our confidence be in Him. Let us submit ourselves to His will. Let us consider the whole multitude of His angels, how they stand ever ready to minister to His will. For the Scripture saith, "Ten thousand times ten thousand stood around Him, and thousands of thousands ministered unto Him,141 and cried, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord of Sabaoth ; the whole creation is full of His glory."142 And let us therefore, conscientiously gathering together in harmony, cry to Him earnestly, as with one mouth, that we may be made partakers of His great and glorious promises. For [the Scripture] saith, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which He hath prepared for them that wait for Him."143 Chapter XXXV.-Immense is This Reward. How Shall We Obtain It? How blessed and wonderful, beloved, are the gifts of God! Life in immortality, splendour in righteousness, truth in perfect confidence,144 faith in assurance, self-control in holiness! And all these fall under the cognizance of our understandings [now]; what then shall those things be which are prepared for such as wait for Him? The Creator and Father of all worlds,145 the Most Holy, alone knows their amount and their beauty. Let us therefore earnestly strive to be found in the number of those that wait for Him, in order that we may share in His promised gifts. But how, beloved, shall this be done? If our understanding be fixed by faith rewards God; if we earnestly seek the things which are pleasing and acceptable to Him; if we do the things which are in harmony with His blameless will; and if we follow the way of truth, casting away from us all unrighteousness and iniquity, along with all covetousness, strife, evil practices, deceit, whispering, and evil-speaking, all hatred of God, pride and haughtiness, vainglory and ambition.146 For they that do such things are hateful to God; and not only they that do them, but also those that take pleasure in them that do them.147 For the Scripture saith, "But to the sinner God said, Wherefore dost thou declare my statutes, and take my covenant into thy mouth, seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee? When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with148 him, and didst make thy portion with adulterers. Thy mouth has abounded with wickedness, and thy tongue contrived149 deceit. Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest150 thine own mother's son. These things thou hast done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest, wicked one, that I should be like to thyself. But I will reprove thee, and set thyself before thee. Consider now these things, ye that forget God, lest He tear you in pieces, like a lion, and there be none to deliver. The sacrifice of praise will glorify Me, and a way is there by which I will show him the salvation of God."151 Chapter XXXVI.-All Blessings are Given to Us Through Christ. This is the way, beloved, in which we find our Saviour,152 even Jesus Christ, the High Priest of all our offerings, the defender and helper of our infirmity. By Him we look up to the heights of heaven. By Him we behold, as in a glass, His immaculate and most excellent visage. By Him are the eyes of our hearts opened. By Him our foolish and darkened understanding blossoms153 up anew towards His marvellous light. By Him the Lord has willed that we should taste of immortal knowledge,"154 who, being the brightness of His majesty, is by so much greater than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they."155 For it is thus written, "Who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire."156 But concerning His Son157 the Lord spoke thus: "Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten Thee. Ask of Me, and I will give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession."158 And again He saith to Him, "Sit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool."159 But who are His enemies? All the wicked, and those who set themselves to oppose the will of God.160 Chapter XXXVII.-Christ is Our Leader, and We His Soldiers. Let us then, men and brethren, with all energy act the part of soldiers, in accordance with His holy commandments. Let us consider those who serve under our generals, with what order, obedience, and submissiveness they perform the things which are commanded them. All are not prefects, nor commanders of a thousand, nor of a hundred, nor of fifty, nor the like, but each one in his own rank performs the things commanded by the king and the generals. The great cannot subsist without the small, nor the small without the great. There is a kind of mixture in all things, and thence arises mutual advantage.161 Let us take our body for an example.162 The head is nothing without the feet, and the feet are nothing without the head; yea, the very smallest members of our body are necessary and useful to the whole body. But all work163 harmoniously together, and are under one common rule164 for the preservation of the whole body. Chapter XXXVIII.-Let the Members of the Church Submit Themselves, and No One Exalt Himself Above Another. Let our whole body, then, be preserved in, Christ Jesus; and let every one be subject to his neighbour, according to the special gift165 bestowed upon him. Let the strong not despise the weak, and let the weak show respect unto the strong. Let the rich man provide for the wants of the poor; and let the poor man bless God, because He hath given him one by whom his need may be supplied. Let the wise man display his wisdom, not by [mere] words, but through good deeds. Let the humble not bear testimony to himself, but leave witness to be borne to him by another.166 Let him that is pure in the flesh not grow proud167 of it, and boast, knowing that it was another who bestowed on him the gift of continence. Let us consider, then, brethren, of what matter we were made,-who and what manner of beings we came into the world, as it were out of a sepulchre, and from utter darkness.168 He who made us and fashioned us, having prepared His bountiful gifts for us before we were born, introduced us into His world. Since, therefore, we receive all these things from Him, we ought for everything to give Him thanks; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Chapter XXXIX.-There is No Reason for Self-Conceit. Foolish and inconsiderate men, who have neither wisdom169 nor instruction, mock and deride us, being eager to exalt themselves in their own conceits. For what can a mortal man do? or what strength is there in one made out of the dust? For it is written, "There was no shape before mine eyes, only I heard a sound,170 and a voice [saying], What then? Shall a man be pure before the Lord? or shall such an one be [counted] blameless in his deeds, seeing He does not confide in His servants, and has charged171 even His angels with perversity? The heaven is not clean in His sight: how much less they that dwell in houses of clay, of which also we ourselves were made! He smote them as a moth; and from morning even until evening they endure not. Because they could furnish no assistance to themselves, they perished. He breathed upon them, and they died, because they had no wisdom. But call now, if any one will answer thee, or if thou wilt look to any of the holy angels; for wrath destroys the foolish man, and envy killeth him that is in error. I have seen the foolish taking root, but their habitation was presently consumed. Let their sons be far from safety; let them be despised172 before the gates of those less than themselves, and there shall be none to deliver. For what was prepared for them, the righteous shall eat; and they shall not be delivered from evil."173 Chapter XL.-Let Us Preserve in the Church the Order Appointed by God. These things therefore being manifest to us, and since we look into the depths of the divine knowledge, it behoves us to do all things in [their proper] order, which the Lord has commanded us to perform at stated times.174 He has enjoined offerings [to be presented] and service to be performed [to Him], and that not thoughtlessly or irregularly, but at the appointed times and hours. Where and by whom He desires these things to be done, He Himself has fixed by His own supreme will, in order that all things being piously done according to His good pleasure, may be acceptable unto Him.175 Those, therefore, who present their offerings at the appointed times, are accepted and blessed; for inasmuch as they follow the laws of the Lord, they sin not. For his own peculiar services are assigned to the high priest, and their own proper place is prescribed to the priests, and their own special ministrations devolve on the Levites. The layman is bound by the laws that pertain to laymen. Chapter XLI.-Continuation of the Same Subject. Let every one of you, brethren, give thanks to God in his own order, living in all good conscience, with becoming gravity, and not going beyond the rule of the ministry prescribed to him. Not in every place, brethren, are the daily sacrifices offered, or the peace-offerings, or the sin-offerings and the trespass-offerings, but in Jerusalem only. And even there they are not offered in any place, but only at the altar before the temple, that which is offered being first carefully examined by the high priest and the ministers already mentioned. Those, therefore, who do anything beyond that which is agreeable to His will, are punished with death. Ye see,176 brethren, that the greater the knowledge that has been vouchsafed to us, the greater also is the danger to which we are exposed. Chapter XLII.-The Order of Ministers in the Church. The apostles have preached the Gospel to us from177 the Lord Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ [has done so from178 God. Christ therefore was sent forth by God, and the apostles by Christ. Both these appointments,179 then, were made in an orderly way, according to the will of God. Having therefore received their orders, and being fully assured by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and established180 in the word of God, with full assurance of the Holy Ghost, they went forth proclaiming that the kingdom of God was at hand. And thus preaching through countries and cities, they appointed the first-fruits [of their labours], having first proved them by the Spirit,181 to be bishops and deacons of those who should afterwards believe. Nor was this any new thing, since indeed many ages before it was written concerning bishops and deacons. For thus saith the Scripture in a certain place, "I will appoint their bishops182 in righteousness, and their deacons183 in faith."184 Chapter XLIII.-Moses of Old Stilled the Contention Which Arose Concerning the Priestly Dignity. And what wonder is it if those in Christ who were entrusted with such a duty by God, appointed those [ministers] before mentioned, when the blessed Moses also, "a faithful servant in all his house,"185 noted down in the sacred books all the injunctions which were given him, and when the other prophets also followed him, bearing witness with one consent to the ordinances which he had appointed? For, when rivalry arose concerning the priesthood, and the tribes were contending among themselves as to which of them should be adorned with that glorious title, he commanded the twelve princes of the tribes to bring him their rods, each one being inscribed with the name186 of the tribe. And he took them and bound them [together], and sealed them with the rings of the princes of the tribes, and laid them up in the tabernacle of witness on the table of God. And having shut the doors of the tabernacle, he sealed the keys, as he had done the rods, and said to them, Men and brethren, the tribe whose rod shall blossom has God chosen to fulfil the office of the priesthood, and to minister unto Him. And when the morning was come, he assembled all Israel, six hundred thousand men, and showed the seals to the princes of the tribes, and opened the tabernacle of witness, and brought forth the rods. And the rod of Aaron was found not only to have blossomed, but to bear fruit upon it.187 What think ye, beloved? Did not Moses know beforehand that this would happen? Undoubtedly he knew; but he acted thus, that there might be no sedition in Israel, and that the name of the true and only God might be glorified; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Chapter XLIV.-The Ordinances of the Apostles, that There Might Be No Contention Respecting the Priestly Office. Our apostles also knew, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and there would be strife on account of the office188 of the episcopate. For this reason, therefore, inasmuch as they had obtained a perfect fore-knowledge of this, they appointed those [ministers] already mentioned, and afterwards gave instructions,189 that when these should fall asleep, other approved men should succeed them in their ministry. We are of opinion, therefore, that those appointed by them,190 or afterwards by other eminent men, with the consent of the whole Church, and who have blame-lessly served the flock of Christ in a humble, peaceable, and disinterested spirit, and have for a long time possessed the good opinion of all, cannot be justly dismissed from the ministry. For our sin will not be small, if we eject from the episcopate191 those who have blamelessly and holily fulfilled its duties.192 Blessed are those presbyters who, having finished their course before now, have obtained a fruitful and perfect departure [from this world]; for they have no fear lest any one deprive them of the place now appointed them. But we see that ye have removed some men of excellent behaviour from the ministry, which they fulfilled blamelessly and with honour. Chapter XLV.-It is the Part of the Wicked to Vex the Righteous. Ye are fond of contention, brethren, and full of zeal about things which do not pertain to salvation. Look carefully into the Scriptures, which are the true utterances of the Holy Spirit. Observe193 that nothing of an unjust or counterfeit character is written in them. There194 you will not find that the righteous were cast off by men who themselves were holy. The righteous were indeed persecuted, but only by the wicked. They were cast into prison, but only by the unholy; they were stoned, but only by transgressors; they were slain, but only by the accursed, and such as had conceived an unrighteous envy against them. Exposed to such sufferings, they endured them gloriously. For what shall we say, brethren? Was Daniel195 cast into the den of lions by such as feared God? Were Ananias, and Azarias, and Mishael shut up in a furnace196 of fire by those who observed197 the great and glorious worship of the Most High? Far from us be such a thought! Who, then, were they that did such things? The hateful, and those full of all wickedness, were roused to such a pitch of fury, that they inflicted torture on those who served God with a holy and blameless purpose [of heart], not knowing that the Most High is the Defender and Protector of all such as with a pure conscience venerate198 His all-excellent name; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. But they who with confidence endured [these things] are now heirs of glory and honour, and have been exalted and made illustrious199 by God in their memorial for ever and ever. Amen. Chapter XLVI.-Let Us Cleave to the Righteous: Your Strife is Pernicious. Such examples, therefore, brethren, it is right that we should follow;200 since it is written, "Cleave to the holy, for those that cleave to them shall [themselves] be made holy."201 And again, in another place, [the Scripture] saith, "With a harmless man thou shalt prove202 thyself harmless, and with an elect man thou shalt be elect, and with a perverse man thou shalt show203 thyself perverse."204 Let us cleave, therefore, to the innocent and righteous, since these are the elect of God. Why are there strifes, and tumults, and divisions, and schisms, and wars205 among you? Have we not [all] one God and one Christ? Is there not one Spirit of grace poured out upon us? And have we not one calling in Christ?206 Why do we divide and tear to pieces the members of Christ, and raise up strife against our own body, and have reached such a height of madness as to forget that "we are members one of another? "207 Remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, how208 He said, "Woe to that man [by whom209 offences come]! It were better for him that he had never been born, than that he should cast a stumbling-block before one of my elect. Yea, it were better for him that a millstone should be hung about [his neck], and he should be sunk in the depths of the sea, than that he should cast a stumbling-block before one of my little ones.210 Your schism has subverted [the faith of] many, has discouraged many, has given rise to doubt in many, and has caused grief to us all. And still your sedition continueth. Chapter XLVII.-Your Recent Discord is Worse Than the Former Which Took Place in the Times of Paul. Take up the epistle of the blessed Apostle Paul. What did he write to you at the time when the Gospel first began to be preached?211 Truly, under the inspiration212 of the Spirit, he wrote to you concerning himself, and Cephas, and Apollos,213 because even then parties214 had been formed among you. But that inclination for one above another entailed less guilt upon you, inasmuch as your partialities were then shown towards apostles, already of high reputation, and towards a man whom they had approved. But now reflect who those are that have perverted you, and lessened the renown of your far-famed brotherly love. It is disgraceful, beloved, yea, highly disgraceful, and unworthy of your Christian profession,215 that such a thing should be heard of as that the most stedfast and ancient Church of the Corinthians should, on account of one or two persons, engage in sedition against its presbyters. And this rumour has reached not only us, but those also who are unconnected216 with us; so that, through your infatuation, the name of the Lord is blasphemed, while danger is also brought upon yourselves. Chapter XLVIII.-Let Us Return to the Practice of Brotherly Love. Let us therefore, with all haste, put an end217 to this [state of things]; and let us fall down before the Lord, and beseech Him with tears, that He would mercifully218 be reconciled to us, and restore us to our former seemly and holy practice of brotherly love. For [such conduct] is the gate of righteousness, which is set open for the attainment of life, as it is written, "Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go in by them, and will praise the Lord: this is the gate of the Lord: the righteous shall enter in by it."219 Although, therefore, many gates have been set open, yet this gate of righteousness is that gate in Christ by which blessed are all they that have entered in and have directed their way in holiness and righteousness, doing all things without disorder. Let a man be faithful: let him be powerful in the utterance of knowledge; let him be wise in judging of words; let him be pure in all his deeds; yet the more he seems to be superior to others [in these respects], the more humble-minded ought he to be, and to seek the common good of all, and not merely his own advantage. Chapter XLIX.-The Praise of Love. Let him who has love in Christ keep the commandments of Christ. Who can describe the [blessed] bond of the love of God? What man is able to tell the excellence of its beauty, as it ought to be told? The height to which love exalts is unspeakable. Love unites us to God. Love covers a multitude of sins.220 Love beareth all things, is long-suffering in all things.221 There is nothing base, nothing arrogant in love. Love admits of no schisms: love gives rise to no seditions: love does all things in harmony. By love have all the elect of God been made perfect; without love nothing is well-pleasing to God. In love has the Lord taken us to Himself. On account of the Love he bore us, Jesus Christ our Lord gave His blood for us by the will of God; His flesh for our flesh, and His soul for our souls.222 Chapter L.-Let Us Pray to Be Thought Worthy of Love. Ye see, beloved, how great and wonderful a thing is love, and that there is no declaring its perfection. Who is fit to be found in it, except such as God has vouchsafed to render so? Let us pray, therefore, and implore of His mercy, that we may live blameless in love, free from all human partialities for one above another. All the generations from Adam even unto this day have passed away; but those who, through the grace of God, have been made perfect in love, now possess a place among the godly, and shall be made manifest at the revelation223 of the kingdom of Christ. For it is written, "Enter into thy secret chambers for a little time, until my wrath and fury pass away; and I will remember a propitious224 day, and will raise you up out of your graves."225 Blessed are we, beloved, if we keep the commandments of God in the harmony of love; that so through love our sins may be forgiven us. For it is written, "Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not impute to him, and in whose mouth there is no guile."226 This blessedness cometh upon those who have been chosen by God through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Chapter LI.-Let the Partakers in Strife Acknowledge Their Sins. Let us therefore implore forgiveness for all those transgressions which through any [suggestion] of the adversary we have committed. And those who have been the leaders of sedition and disagreement ought to have respect227 to the common hope. For such as live in fear and love would rather that they themselves than their neighbours should be involved in suffering. And they prefer to bear blame themselves, rather than that the concord which has been well and piously228 handed down to us should suffer. For it is better that a man should acknowledge his transgressions than that he should harden his heart, as the hearts of those were hardened who stirred up sedition against Moses the servant of God, and whose condemnation was made manifest [unto all]. For they went down alive into Hades, and death swallowed them up.229 Pharaoh with his army and all the princes of Egypt, and the chariots with their riders, were sunk in the depths of the Red Sea, and perished,230 for no other reason than that their foolish hearts were hardened, after so many signs and wonders had been wrought in the land of Egypt by Moses the servant of God. Chapter LII.-Such a Confession is Pleasing to God. The Lord, brethren, stands in need of nothing; and He desires nothing of any one, except that confession be made to Him. For, says the elect David, "I will confess unto the Lord ; and that will please Him more than a young bullock that hath horns and hoofs. Let the poor see it, and be glad."231 And again he saith, "Offer232 unto God the sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vows unto the Most High. And call upon Me in the day of thy trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me."233 For "the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit."234 Chapter LIII.-The Love of Moses Towards His People. Ye understand, beloved, ye understand well the Sacred Scriptures, and ye have looked very earnestly into the oracles of God. Call then these things to your remembrance. When Moses went up into the mount, and abode there, with fasting and humiliation, forty days and forty nights, the Lord said unto him, "Moses, Moses, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people whom thou didst bring out of the land of Egypt have committed iniquity. They have speedily departed from the way in which I commanded them to walk, and have made to themselves molten images."235 And the Lord said unto him, "I have spoken to thee once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people: let Me destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make thee a great and wonderful nation, and one much more numerous than this."236 But Moses said, "Far be it from Thee, Lord: pardon the sin of this people; else blot me also out of the book of the living."237 O marvellous238 love! O insuperable perfection! The servant speaks freely to his Lord, and asks forgiveness for the people, or begs that he himself might perish239 along with them. Chapter LIV.-He Who is Full of Love Will Incur Every Loss, that Peace May Be Restored to the Church. Who then among you is noble-minded? who compassionate? who full of love? Let him declare, "If on my account sedition and disagreement and schisms have arisen, I will depart, I will go away whithersoever ye desire, and I will do whatever the majority240 commands; only let the flock of Christ live on terms of peace with the presbyters set over it." He that acts thus shall procure to himself great glory in the Lord; and every place will welcome241 him. For "the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof."242 These things they who live a godly life, that is never to be repented of, both have done and always will do. Chapter LV.-Examples of Such Love. To bring forward some examples from among the heathen: Many kings and princes, in times of pestilence, when they had been instructed by an oracle, have given themselves up to death, in order that by their own blood they might deliver their fellow-citizens [from destruction]. Many have gone forth from their own cities, that so sedition might be brought to an end within them. We know many among ourselves who have given themselves up to bonds, in order that they might ransom others. Many, too, have surrendered themselves to slavery, that with the price243 which they received for themselves, they might provide food for others. Many women also, being strengthened by the grace of God, have performed numerous manly exploits. The blessed Judith, when her city was besieged, asked of the elders permission to go forth into the camp of the strangers; and, exposing herself to danger, she went out for the love which she bare to her country and people then besieged; and the Lord delivered Holofernes into the hands of a woman.244 Esther also, being perfect in faith, exposed herself to no less danger, in order to deliver the twelve tribes of Israel from impending destruction. For with fasting and humiliation she entreated the everlasting God, who seeth all things; and He, perceiving the humility of her spirit, delivered the people for whose sake she had encountered peril..245 Chapter LVI.-Let Us Admonish and Correct One Another. Let us then also pray for those who have fallen into any sin, that meekness and humility may be given to them, so that they may submit, not unto us, but to the will of God. For in this way they shall secure a fruitful and perfect remembrance from us, with sympathy for them, both in our prayers to God, and our mention of them to the saints.246 Let us receive correction, beloved, on account of which no one should feel displeased. Those exhortations by which we admonish one another are both good [in themselves] and highly profitable, for they tend to unite247 us to the will of God. For thus saith the holy Word: "The Lord hath severely chastened me, yet hath not given me over to death."248 "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."249 "The righteous," saith it, "shall chasten me in mercy, and reprove me; but let not the oil of sinners make fat my head."250 And again he saith, "Blessed is the man whom the Lord reproveth, and reject not thou the warning of the Almighty. For He causes sorrow, and again restores [to gladness]; He woundeth, and His hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea, in the seventh no evil shall touch thee. In famine He shall rescue thee from death, and in war He shall free thee from the power251 of the sword. From the scourge of the tongue will He hide thee, and thou shalt not fear when evil cometh. Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the wicked, and shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the field. For the wild beasts shall be at peace with thee: then shalt thou know that thy house shall be in peace, and the habitation of thy tabernacle shall not fail.252 Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thy children like the grass of the field. And thou shall come to the grave like ripened corn which is reaped in its season, or like a heap of the threshing-floor which is gathered together at the proper time."253 Ye see, beloved, that protection is afforded to those that are chastened of the Lord; for since God is good, He corrects us, that we may be admonished by His holy chastisement. Chapter LVII.-Let the Authors of Sedition Submit Themselves. Ye therefore, who laid the foundation of this sedition, submit yourselves to the presbyters, and receive correction so as to repent, bending the knees of your hearts. Learn to be subject, laying aside the proud and arrogant self-confidence of your tongue. For it is better for you that ye should occupy254 a humble but honourable place in the flock of Christ, than that, being highly exalted, ye should be cast out from the hope of His people.255 For thus speaketh all-virtuous Wisdom:"256 Behold, I will bring forth to you the words of My Spirit, and I will teach you My speech. Since I called, and ye did not hear; I held forth My words, and ye regarded not, but set at naught My counsels, and yielded not at My reproofs; therefore I too will laugh at your destruction; yea, I will rejoice when ruin cometh upon you, and when sudden confusion overtakes you, when overturning presents itself like a tempest, or when tribulation and oppression fall upon you. For it shall come to pass, that when ye call upon Me, I will not hear you; the wicked shall seek Me, and they shall not find Me. For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the fear of the Lord; nor would they listen to My counsels, but despised My reproofs. Wherefore they shall eat the fruits of their own way, and they shall be filled with their own ungodliness."257 Chapter LVIII.-Blessings Sought for All that Call Upon God. May God, who seeth all things, and who is the Ruler of all spirits and the Lord of all flesh-who chose our Lord Jesus Christ and us through Him to be a peculiar258 people-grant to every soul that calleth upon His glorious and holy Name, faith, fear, peace, patience, long-suffering, self-control, purity, and sobriety, to the well-pleasing of His Name, through our High Priest and Protector, Jesus Christ, by whom be to Him glory, and majesty, and power, and honour, both now and for evermore. Amen. Chapter LIX.-The Corinthians are Exhorted Speedily to Send Back Word that Peace Has Been Restored. The Benediction. Send back speedily to us in peace and with joy these our messengers to you: Claudius Ephebus and Valerius Bito, with Fortunatus: that they may the sooner announce to us the peace and harmony we so earnestly desire and long for [among you], and that we may the more quickly rejoice over the good order re-established among you. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, and with all everywhere that are the called of God through Him, by whom be to Him glory, honour, power, majesty, and eternal dominion,259 from everlasting to everlasting.260 Amen.261 1. In the only known ms. of this Epistle, the title is thus given at the close. 2. [Note the fact that the Corinthians asked this of their brethren, the personal friends of their apostle St. Paul. Clement's own name does not appear in this Epistle.] 3. Literally, "is greatly blasphemed." 4. Literally, "did not prove your all-virtuous and firm faith." 5. Eph. v. 21; 1 Pet. v. 5. 6. Acts xx. 35. 7. Literally, "ye embraced it in your bowels." [Concerning the complaints of Photius (ninth century) against Clement, see Bull's Defensio Fidei Nicaenae, Works , vol. v. p. 132.] 8. 1 Pet. ii. 17. 9. So, in the ms., but many have suspected that the text is here corrupt. Perhaps the best emendation is that which substitutes sunaisthēseōs, "compassion," for suneidēseōs, , "conscience." 10. Tit. iii. 1. 11. Prov. vii. 3. 12. Literally, "enlargement" 13. Deut. xxxii. 15. 14. It seems necessary to refer autou to God , in opposition to the translation given by Abp. Wake and others. 15. Literally, "Christ;" comp. 2 Cor. i. 21, Eph. iv. 20. 16. Wisd. ii. 24. 17. Gen. iv. 3-8. The writer here, as always, follows the reading of the Septuagint, which in this passage both alters and adds to the Hebrew text. We have given the rendering approved by the best critics; but some prefer to translate, as in our English version, "unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him." See, for an ancient explanation of the passage, Irenaeus, Adv. Haer., iv. 18, 3. 18. Gen. xxvii. 41, etc. 19. Gen. xxxvii. 20. Ex. ii. 14. 21. Num. xii. 14, 15. [In our copies of the Septuagint this is not affirmed of Aaron.] 22. Num. xvi. 33. 23. 1 Kings xviii. 8, etc. 24. Literally, "those who have been athletes." 25. Some fill up thelacunnae here found in the ms. so as to read, "have come to a grievous death." 26. Literally, "good." [The martyrdom of St. Peter is all that is thus connected with his arrival in Rome. His numerous labours were restricted to the Circumcision.] 27. Seven imprisonments of St. Paul are not referred to in Scripture. 28. Archbishop Wake here reads "scourged." We have followed the most recent critics in filling up the numerous lacunnae in this chapter. 29. Some think Rome , others Spain , and others even Britain , to be here referred to. [See note at end.] 30. That is, under Tigellinus and Sabinus, in the last year of the Emperor Nero; but some think Helius and Polycletus referred to; and others, both here and in the preceding sentence, regard the words as denoting simply the witness borne by Peter and Paul to the truth of the gospel before the rulers of the earth. 31. Some suppose these to have been the names of two eminent female martyrs under Nero; others regard the clause as an interpolation. [Many ingenious conjectures might be cited; but see Jacobson's valuable note, Patres Apostol ., vol. i. p. 30.] 32. Literally, "have reached to the stedfast course of faith." 33. Gen. ii. 23. 34. Some insert "Father." 35. Gen. vii.; 1 Pet. iii. 20; 2 Pet. ii. 5. 36. Jonah iii. 37. Ezek. xxxiii. 11. 38. Ezek. xviii. 11. 39. Comp. Isa. i. 18. 40. These words are not found in Scripture, though they are quoted again by Clem. Alex. (Paedag., i. 10) as from Ezekiel. 41. Isa. i. 16-20. 42. Some read mataiologian , "vain talk." 43. Gen. v. 24; Heb. xi. 5. Literally, "and his death was not found." 44. Isa. xli. 8; 2 Chron. xx. 7; Judith viii. 19; James ii. 23. 45. Gen. xii. 1-3. 46. Gen. xiii. 14-16. 47. Gen. xv. 5, 6; Rom. iv. 3. 48. Gen. xxi. 22; Heb. xi. 17. 49. Gen. xix.; comp. 2 Pet. ii. 6-9. 50. So Joseph,Antiq ., i. 11, 4; Irenaeus,Adv. Haer ., iv. 31. 51. Literally, "become a judgment and sign." 52. Josh. ii.; Heb. xi. 31. 53. Others of the Fathers adopt the same allegorical interpretation, e.g., Justin Mar., Dial. c. Tryph., n. 111; Irenaeus,Adv. Haer ., iv. 20. [The whole matter of symbolism under the law must be more thoroughly studied if we would account for such strong language as is here applied to a poetical or rhetorical figure.] 54. Jer. ix. 23, 24; 1 Cor. i. 31; 2 Cor. x. 17. 55. Comp. Matt. vi. 12-15, vii. 2; Luke vi. 36-38. 56. Isa. lxvi. 2. 57. Prov. ii. 21, 22. 58. Ps. xxxvii. 35-37. "Remnant" probably refers either to the memory or posterity of the righteous. 59. Isa. xxix. 13; Matt. xv. 8; Mark vii. 6. 60. Ps. lxii. 4. 61. Ps. lxxviii. 36, 37. 62. Ps. xxxi. 18. 63. These words within brackets are not found in the ms., but have been inserted from the Septuagint by most editors. 64. Ps. xii. 3-5. 65. The Latin of Cotelerius, adopted by Hefele and Dressel, translates this clause as follows: "I will set free the wicked on account of His sepulchre, and the rich on account of His death." 66. The reading of the ms. tēs plēgēs, "purify, or free, Him from stripes." We have adopted the emendation of Junius. 67. Wotton reads, "If He make." 68. Or, "fill Him with understanding," if plēsai should be read instead of plasai , as Grabe suggests. 69. Isa. liii. The reader will observe how often the text of the Septuagint, here quoted, differs from the Hebrew as represented by our authorized English version. 70. Ps. xxii. 6-8. 71. Heb. xi. 37. 72. Gen. xviii. 27. 73. Job i. 1. 74. Job xiv. 4, 5. [Septuagint.] 75. Num. xii. 7; Heb. iii. 2. 76. Some fill up the lacunna which here occurs in the ms. by "Israel." 77. Ex. iii. 11, iv. 10. 78. This is not found in Scripture. [They were probably in Clement's version. Comp. Ps. cxix. 83.] 79. Or, as some render, "to whom." 80. Ps. lxxxix. 21. 81. Or, "when Thou judgest." 82. Literally, "in my inwards." 83. Literally, "bloods." 84. Ps. li. 1-17. 85. Literally, "Becoming partakers of many great and glorious deeds, let us return to the aim of peace delivered to us from the beginning." Comp. Heb. xii. 1. 86. Or, "collections." 87. Job xxxviii. 11. 88. Or, "stations." 89. Prov. xx. 27. 90. Comp. Heb. xiii. 17; 1 Thess. v. 12, 13. 91. Or, "the presbyters." 92. Some read, "by their silence." 93. Comp. 1 Tim. v. 21. 94. Some translate, "who turn to Him." 95. Ps. xxxiv. 11-17. 96. Ps. xxxii. 10. 97. Or, as some render, "neither let us have any doubt of." 98. Some regard these words as taken from an apocryphal book, others as derived from a fusion of James i. 8 and 2 Pet. iii. 3, 4. 99. Hab. ii. 3; Heb. x. 37. 100. Mal. iii. 1. 101. Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 20; Col. i. 18. 102. Comp. Luke viii. 5. 103. This fable respecting the phoenix is mentioned by Herodotus (ii. 73) and by Pliny (Nat. Hist., x. 2.) and is used as above by Tertullian (De Resurr., §13) and by others of the Fathers. 104. Literally, "the mightiness of His promise." 105. Ps. xxviii. 7, or some apocryphal book. 106. Comp. Ps. iii. 6. 107. Job xix. 25, 26. 108. Comp. Tit. i. 2; Heb. vi. 18. 109. Or, "majesty." 110. Wisd. xii. 12, xi. 22. 111. Comp. Matt. xxiv. 35. 112. Literally, "If the heavens," etc 113. Ps. xix. 1-3. 114. Literally, "abominable lusts of evil deeds." 115. Ps. cxxxix. 7-10. 116. Literally "has made us to Himself a part of election." 117. Literally, "sowed abroad." 118. Deut. xxxii. 8, 9. 119. Formed apparently from Num. xviii. 27 and 2 Chron. xxxi. 14. Literally, the closing words are, "the holy of holies." 120. Some translate, "youthful lusts." 121. Prov. iii. 34; James iv. 6; 1 Pet. v. 5. 122. Job xi. 2, 3. The translation is doubtful. [But see Septuagint.] 123. Literally, "what are the ways of His blessing." 124. Literally, "unroll." 125. Comp. James ii. 21. 126. Some translate, "knowing what was to come." 127. Gen. xxii. 128. So Jacobson: Wotton reads, "fleeing from his brother." 129. The meaning is here very doubtful. Some translate "the gifts which were given to Jacob by Him," i.e., God. 130. ms. autōn, referring to the gifts: we have followed the emendation auton , adopted by most editors. Some refer the word to God , and not Jacob . 131. Comp. Rom. ix. 5. 132. Gen. xxii. 17, xxviii. 4. 133. Or, "commandment." 134. Or, "in addition to all." 135. Gen. i. 26, 27. 136. Gen. i. 28. 137. Or, "let us consider." 138. Or, "labourer." 139. Isa. xl. 10, lxii. 11; Rev. xxii. 12. 140. The text here seems to be corrupt. Some translate, "He warns us with all His heart to this end, that," etc. 141. Dan. vii. 10. 142. Isa. vi. 3. 143. 1 Cor. ii. 9. 144. Some translate, "in liberty." 145. Or, "of the ages." 146. The reading is doubtful: some have aphiloxenian, "want of a hospitable spirit." [So Jacobson.] 147. Rom. i. 32. 148. Literally, "didst run with." 149. Literally, "didst weave." 150. Or, "layest a snare for." 151. Ps. l. 16-23. The reader will observe how the Septuagint followed by Clement differs from the Hebrew. 152. Literally, "that which saves us." 153. Or, "rejoices to behold." 154. Or, "knowledge of immortality." 155. Heb. i. 3, 4. 156. Ps. civ. 4; Heb. i. 7. 157. Some render, "to the Son." 158. Ps. ii. 7, 8; Heb. i. 5. 159. Ps. cx. i; Heb. i. 13. 160. Some read, "who oppose their own will to that of God." 161. Literally, "in these there is use." 162. 1 Cor. xii. 12, etc. 163. Literally, "all breathe together." 164. Literally, "use one subjection." 165. Literally, "according as he has been placed in his charism." 166. Comp. Prov. xxvii. 2. 167. The ms. is here slightly torn, and we are left to conjecture. 168. Comp. Ps. cxxxix. 15. 169. Literally, "and silly and uninstructed." 170. Literally, "a breath." 171. Or, "has perceived." 172. Some render, "they perished at the gates." 173. Job iv. 16-18, xv. 15, iv. 19-21, v. 1-5. 174. Some join kata kairous tetagmenous, "at stated times." to the next sentence. [1 Cor. xvi. 1, 2.] 175. Literally, "to His will." [Comp. Rom. xv. 15, 16, Greek.] 176. Or, "consider." [This chapter has been cited to prove the earlier date for this Epistle. But the reference to Jerusalem may be an ideal present.] 177. Or, "by the command of." 179. Literally, "both things were done." 180. Or, "confirmed by." 181. Or, "having tested them in spirit." 182. Or, "overseers." 183. Or, "servants." 184. Isa. lx. 17, Sept.; but the text is here altered by Clement. The LXX. have "I will give thy rulers in peace, and thy overseers in righteousness." 185. Num. xii. 10; Heb. iii. 5. 186. Literally, "every tribe being written according to its name." 187. See Num. xvii. 188. Literally, "on account of the title of the oversight." Some understand this to mean, "in regard to the dignity of the episcopate;" and others simply, "on account of the oversight." 189. The meaning of this passage is much controverted. Some render, "left a list of other approved persons;" while others translate the unusual word epinomē, which causes the difficulty, by "testamentary direction," and many others deem the text corrupt. We have given what seems the simplest version of the text as it stands. [Comp. the versions of Wake, Chevallier, and others.] 190. i.e., the apostles. 191. Or, "oversight." 192. Literally, "presented the offerings." 193. Or, "Ye perceive." 194. Or, "For." 195. Dan. vi. 16. 196. Dan. iii. 20. 197. Literally, "worshipped." 198. Literally, "serve." 199. Or, "lifted up." 200. Literally, "To such examples it is right that we should cleave." 201. Not found in Scripture. 202. Literally, "be." 203. Or, "thou wilt overthrow." 204. Ps. xviii. 25, 26. 205. Or, "war." Comp. James iv. 1. 206. Comp. Eph. iv. 4-6. 207. Rom. xvii. 5. 208. This clause is wanting in the text. 210. Comp. Matt. xviii. 6, xxvi. 24; Mark ix. 42; Luke xvii. 2. 211. Literally, "in the beginning of the Gospel." [Comp. Philipp. iv. 15.] 212. Or, "spiritually." 213. 1 Cor. iii. 13, etc. 214. Or, "inclinations for one above another." 215. Literally, "of conduct in Christ." 216. Or, "aliens from us," i.e., the Gentiles. 217. Literally "remove." 218. Literally, "becoming merciful." 219. Ps. cxviii. 19, 20. 220. James v. 20; 1 Pet. iv. 8. 221. Comp. 1 Cor. xiii. 4, etc. 222. [Comp. Irenaeus, v. 1; also Mathetes, Ep. to Diognetus, cap. ix.] 223. Literally, "visitation." 224. Or, "good." 225. Isa xxvi. 20. 226. Ps. xxxii. 1, 2. 227. Or, "look to." 228. Or, "righteously." 229. Num. xvi. 230. Ex. xiv. 231. Ps. lxix. 31,32. 232. Or, "sacrifice." 233. Ps. 1. 14,15. 234. Ps. li, 17. 235. Ex. xxxii. 7, etc.; Deut. ix.12, etc. 236. Ex. xxxii. 9, etc. 237. Ex. xxxii. 32. 238. Or, "mighty." 239. Literally, "be wiped out." 240. Literally, "the multitude." [Clement here puts words into the mouth of the Corinthian presbyters. It has been strangely quoted to strengthen a conjecture that he had humbly preferred Linus and Cletus when first called to preside.] 241. Or, "receive." 242. Ps. xxiv 1; 1 Cor. x. 26, 28. 243. Literally, "and having received their prices, fed others."[Comp. Rom. xvi. 3, 4, and Phil. ii. 30.] 244. Judith viii. 30. 245. Esther vii., viii. 246. Literally, "there shall be to them a fruitful and perfect remembrance, with compassions both towards God and the saints." 247. Or, "they unite." 248. Ps. cxviii. 18. 249. Prov. iii. 12; Heb. xii. 6. 250. Ps. cxli. 5. 251. Literally, "hand." 252. Literally, "err" or "sin." 253. Job v. 17-26. 254. Literally, "to be found small and esteemed." 255. Literally, "His hope." [It has been conjectured that elpidos should be epaulidos, and the reading, "out of the fold of his people." See Chevallier.] 256. Prov. i. 23-31. [Often cited by this name in primitive writers.] 257. Junius (Pat. Young), who examined the ms. before it was bound into its present form, stated that a whole leaf was here lost. The next letters that occur areipon , which have been supposed to indicate eipon or elipon . Doubtless some passages quoted by the ancients from the Epistle of Clement, and not now found in it, occurred in the portion which has thus been lost. 258. Comp. Tit. ii. 14. 259. Literally, "an eternal throne." 260. Literally, "From the ages to the ages of ages." 261. [Note St. Clement's frequent doxologies.][N.B.-The language of Clement concerning the Western progress of St. Paul (cap. v.) is our earliest postscript to his Scripture biography. It is sufficient to refer the reader to the great works of Conybeare and Howson, and of Mr. Lewin, on the Life and Epistles of St. Paul . See more especially the valuable note of Lewin (vol. ii. p. 294) which takes notice of the opinion of some learned men, that the great Apostle of the Gentiles preached the Gospel in Britain. The whold subject of St. Paul's relations with British Christians is treated by Williams, in his Antiquities of the Cymry , with learning and in an attractive manner. But the reader will find more ready to his hand, perhaps, the interesting note of Mr. Lewin, on Claudia and Pudens (2 Tim x. 21), in his Life and Epistles of St. Paul , vol. ii. p. 392. See also Paley's Horae Paulinae , p. 40. London, 1820.] Copyright © MMXX Alan W. Maslar. All Rights Reserved.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line533
__label__wiki	0.510626	0.510626	Protecting Citizens through Vigilant Threat Prevention As the management of government information and services moves online, securing the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber attacks is essential to national security and the integrity of our democracy. In Denver, we will explore how city, state, federal and defense communities are safeguarding some of the nation’s most valuable assets—both physical and digital. History of Colorado Center Judd Choate Director of Elections, Office of the Secretary of State Julie Chickillo Vice President, Information Security, Risk & Compliance and Data Privacy Officer, Beeline; Executive Vice President, ISACA-Denver Ike Barnes, Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge, Electronic Crimes Task Force, U.S. Secret Service Denver Field Office Greg Sternberg, Chief Information Security Officer, Denver Information System Security Association Randall Frietzsche Enterprise Chief Information Security Officer, Amber McReynolds, Executive Director, National Vote at Home Institute and Coalition; former Director of Elections, City and County of Denver Thomas MacLellan Director, Policy & Government Affairs, Session TBD Panel: Identifying and Responding to Cyber Threats As cyber threats evolve, government agencies must remain vigilant in securing the data and platforms on which both citizens and the public workforce are dependent. The 2018 ransomware attacks on the Colorado Department of Transportation offered a stark reminder on the consequences of a vulnerable cyber infrastructure, costing the state more than $1 million in and involving upward of 100 government employees in the response. What lessons were learned? This panel will convene public-sector leaders to discuss how other offices can create a strong cyber posture to ensure uninterrupted secure service delivery. Ike Barnes, Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge, Electronic Crimes Task Force, U.S. Secret Service Denver Field Office Randall Frietzsche, Enterprise Chief Information Security Officer, Denver Health Julie Chickillo, Vice President, Information Security, Risk & Compliance and Data Privacy Officer, Beeline; Executive Vice President, ISACA-Denver Moderator: Greg Sternberg, Chief Information Security Officer, Denver Information System Security Association The Impact of Market Forces on Cyber Security in State and Local Governments The behaviors of cyber criminals are subject to the same market forces that affect Main Street and Wall Street. Attackers will avoid markets that are more constricted and move to those with greater opportunity and lower barriers to access. Similar to stock brokers, cyber criminals look to maximize their return on investments and will move capital and core investments in response to changing market conditions. This session will explore current and emerging trends in cyber security and what these changing dynamics mean for state and local governments. Thomas MacLellan, Director, Policy & Government Affairs, Symantec Fireside Chat: Securing 2020 Elections Colorado’s election system consistently ranks among the most secure in the nation—in the 2016 election, it was the only of more than 20 targeted states to report Russian interest interference to the Department of Homeland Security. Hear how the Colorado government has cultivated a nationwide reputation for election security, what strategies and best practices the Centennial State election commissions have created to combat malicious threats and how the state is preparing for 2020. Judd Choate, Director of Elections, Office of the Secretary of State, State of Colorado Amber McReynolds, Executive Director, National Vote at Home Institute and Coalition; former Director of Elections, City and County of Denver Presenting Partners Emerging Tech Partners	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line536
__label__wiki	0.542161	0.542161	FolkTours HOMECOMMUNITY---Photos---VideosUSA EVENTS---Music Teachers---Dance Teachers---Daily Schedule---Event Classes---Activities---Reviews---General InfoTURKEY EVENTS---Music Teachers---Dance Teachers---Events Itenary---Event Classes---Activities---General Information---Optional Tours---About TurkeyCALENDARREGISTER---User Panel---Lists Of EventsMEDIA---EVENTS USA PHOTOS---EVENTS TURKEY PHOTOSTURKISH DANCE---Turkish Music---Turkish Music Instruments---Turkey Visitor InformationsFORUM ---Turkish Music---Turkish Music Instruments---Turkey Visitor Informations Turkish Dance Relationship with the public science and human being: The people, white, black or yellow color (race) as a certain family (family), in physical life (Environment), production, consumption (Economics), in case study (Education), traditions and customs and (Tore) with life (religion) tax citizenship to vote and ( States), such as each part is unique this cultural area with life and influence during this cultural are come together. The review addressed a scientific society branches receive. There he begins with beauty English as a first time in 1846, William John Thomas by Folk = Folk - Lore = information with the formation this first, then depending conditions, knowledge of Scandinavian and Latin countries used by more scientific term for a Folklore It is known tab Folklore un national. Location: is owned by community rating. Research and related where strengthening of the society allows Folk Dances: Small and big group of people in the international. Historical is the product of a start Export this sure in the small and big group people law process, today the first public dances. Life then as a part As their the natural need other communities to protect become aware that the "Community" and "Consciousness" as communities human nature, human relations people, beliefs and feelings short, with physical movement, music and rhythm is transmitted basic. This "dance" can be specified with the name of Turkish Folk Dances: Our great leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk has explained through one of his maxims that "The basic principle of the Republic of Turkey is culture". We believe that folk culture is a cornerstone for our natural cohesion and unity. An overall development on various fields of economic and social life can only be achieve through education and culture. Cultural values that reflect our national pride and aesthetic values are very important. We can as a stable society find our spiritual, physical and aesthetic needs from the values of Turkish folk culture. The unusual wealth and variety of Turkish folk music and dance attracts the attention of people from all over the world. Many of the melodies and movements have very ancient origins stemming from the many different aspects of Turkish culture that form the background of modern Turkey. Turkish Folk Dances determined seven regions Every district has its own local tunes, songs and dances. There is some special song or dance for every event of rural life. A birth or a wedding, the death of a loved one, sowing the field and harvesting the crops or leading the flocks to water. Some of the songs and dances have to do with a particular craft or work, some have fertility or good luck as a theme, while others express the timeless feelings of a man, joy and sadness, the longing of an exile for his home and homeland, love and affection for the beloved. The instruments played are still mainly traditional and again vary from region to region. They are made by local craftsmen of great skill from locally obtained materials. One of these the "saz" with its wide range, may be considered the earliest form of the Western lute. Turkey has been the birthplace and bridge for many civilizations and has thus inherited a very rich tradition of folklore. Each region has its own dance and costumes. As in every branch of folklore, the mimic and motions in the dances portray the soul and character of the Turkish people. The feelings are reflected in their handcrafts, the beautiful head scarves, handbags, crochet work, hand woven carpets and kilims where each motif has a special meaning. One is left with an impression of harmony and fluency in the motion of the figures and the colorful flowing costumes. Sufi Alevi-i Bektasi-i Order The Bektashi order was founded in the 13th Century by a �wandering dervish� Haji Bektash, According to hagiographic sources, the may have been a Turk from Khorassan. Tradition has it that he left his country on the orders of his spiritual master and metamorphoses in to a dove to come back to Anatolia. It was believed that God crated Adam his own image and all his manifestation in this world are in the human form. During their ceremonies the Bektashi come together under the leadership of a �Dede�, or spiritual leader. They may be an �Ask�, one of the mystic musicians/poets who are the heirs of the ancient Khan-Ozan, priests and ministers who perpetuated the heroic and religious tradition. Sufi Mevlevi-i Order The Mevlevi mystical order, known in the West as the �Whirling Dervishes� was founded in the Konya in the 13th century by the poet and saint, Celaleddin Rumi Almost from its inception, the brotherhood used music as in integral part of its ritual Indeed Rumi�s soon Sultan Veled (1226 - 1312) is considered to be the firs known composer of Turkish music Instrumental pieces from the Mevlevi Ritual were incorporated into the repertory of secular musicians at the Ottoman Court. Belly dance; General Native to North Africa, Asia and the Middle East, belly dancing (Egyptian Arabic) is based on one of the oldest social dances in world history. Support for this theory stems from similarities between poses from the modern dance form and those depicted in ancient Egyptian art. There are two forms of belly dancing. The first is called raqs baladi, a social dance performed for fun and celebration by men and women of all ages, usually during festive occasions such as weddings and other social gatherings. The second form, the more theatrical version and the one most popular in America today, is called raqs sharqi. Like raqs baladi, raqs sharqi is performed by both male and female dancers. Turkish Gypsy Dance Gypsy Dance:�� Gypsy's came to Turkey from many different regions, Bulgaria, Greece & Romania, and for many different reasons, economic difficulties & war to name a few. For the most part they settled down in the western part of Turkey. Most of the Gypsy's that have settled in Turkey have learned to speak the Turkish language, while some have retained the language from the region in which they came. Although most gypsy's accept Muslim as their religion, some are Christian. Segmen: Ankara region and the center of the republic in the traditions of the villagers before the game is done and I know that as Ankara t�rk� Zeybegi Seymen Zeybegi, Yagci oglu Zeybegi, Karasar zeybek tissues and is zeybek. Yandim sugar, purple sheep, gave names to games like Misket. Northeastern Anatolia Region Eastern and southeastern Region Black Sea Region Central Mediterranean Region Trakya Region Folk Tours Newsletter OSSAMA FAROUK Camp Location TAYYAR AKDENIZ You are here: TURKISH DANCE \| ABOUT US \| CONTACT US \| TERMS & CONDITIONS \| SITE MAP \| LINKS \| NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES \| ARCHIVES \| FORUM \| Copyright © 2010 M.E.D. Folk Tours LLC . All Rights Reserved. Template Designed by JoomlArt.com and Webmaster	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line550
__label__wiki	0.781476	0.781476	UZBEKISTAN: Latest student expulsion in anti-Christian campaign By Igor Rotar, Forum 18 In a continuing campaign in north-western Uzbekistan against Christians, a Protestant medical student, Ilkas Aldungarov, has been expelled from the Nukus branch of the Tashkent Paediatric Medical Institute, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. The expulsion was allegedly because of poor academic performance, but in reality seems to have been because of Aldungarov's Christian faith. The dean of the Medical Institute, Bekbasyn Absametov, categorically denied to Forum 18 that religious persecution happened, but was unable to explain the persecution of Christian students by his colleagues. Expulsions of Protestant students have also taken place at another local higher education institute, the Berdah Karakalpak State University. "Each time, students are expelled for their supposed failing performance. My daughter used to be a good student, but since the campaign against Protestant students began, she has suddenly become a failing student," a local Christian told Forum 18. It is thought that the student expulsions from both institutions may have been organised by the NSS secret police. In a continuing anti-Christian campaign in the Karakalpakstan [Qoraqalpoghiston] autonomous republic in north-western Uzbekistan, a Protestant final year medical student, Ilkas Aldungarov, has been expelled from the Nukus branch of the Tashkent Paediatric Medical Institute, because he belongs to a Protestant church, the Church of Christ, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. The expulsion took place at the end of November and a Tashkent Protestant who preferred not to be named stressed to Forum 18 that, although formally Aldungarov was expelled on grounds of academic failure, in reality he was expelled for his religious beliefs. Iklas Aldungarov and other Protestants have been targeted before by the authorities. In April 2004, Nukus city prosecutor M. Arzymbetov tried to have him expelled as he belonged to what Arzymbetov called "an illegal religious sect." The Prosecutors Office also summoned 11 members of the same church for questioning, where they were pressured to renounce their faith and convert to Islam, and threatened with being shot (see F18News 21 April 2004 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=303). Speaking to Forum 18 on 9 December in Nukus, the dean of the Paediatric Medical Institute, Bekbasyn Absametov, categorically denied that students were persecuted for their religious beliefs. Absametov showed Forum 18 a record of Ilkas Aldungarov's academic achievements between 2000 and 2004, which purported to show very low academic achievement. "We consider only students' knowledge, and not their religious beliefs. For example, as soon as Sherimbetova and Artykbayeva had passed the subjects in which they had unsatisfactory marks, we immediately reinstated them," Absametov told Forum 18. During the same interview with Forum 18, Absametov admitted that the lecturers did take an interest in the students' religious views, but found it hard to explain their curiosity. He also did not explain the other expulsions, or the literature search conducted by his colleague Alima Urazova. Alima Urazova, a lecturer at the Paediatric Medical Institute, in April 2004 searched an apartment rented by Protestant students, seized religious literature, forced them to leave the flat and tried to stop them reading Protestant literature, saying that "it would be better for you to work as prostitutes than to read those dreadful books" (see F18News 27 May 2004 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=329 ). Two of the students - Aliya Sherimbetova and Shirin Artykbayeva - were expelled in September for being Christians and were told that they were also expelled because their case had been published "on the internet", possibly a reference to Forum 18's coverage (see F18News 16 September 2004 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=412). However, in November 2004 these two students were reinstated at the institute. Protestant students have also been persecuted in other Nukus-based higher education institutions. In June, the dean of the Philology Faculty (Roman-German philology) at Berdah Karakalpak State University, Dina Mamyrbayeva, summoned three Protestant students and threatened them with expulsion if they do not stop visiting "sect members" (see F18News 9 July 2004 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=359). One of the students, Elena Kim, a student of Roman-German philology, told Forum 18 on 8 December in Nukus that Dina Mamyrbayeva had accused her of "belonging to a banned sect, whose activity was of interest to the NSS." The National Security Service (NSS) is the Uzbek secret police. Just as with the cases in the Paediatric Medical Institute, allegedly poor performance is also given as a reason for the Berdah Karakalpak State University expulsions. "It's impossible to prove anything; each time, students are expelled for their supposed failing performance. My daughter used to be a good student, but since the campaign against Protestant students began, she has suddenly become a failing student," said a member of the unregistered Protestant "Mir" (Peace) Church, Vladimir Kim, speaking to Forum 18 on 9 December in Nukus. It is thought that the expulsions of students from both institutions may have been organised by the NSS secret police. Persecution specifically directed against Protestant students in Uzbekistan has so far only happened in Karakalpakstan, where it is almost impossible for Christian churches to gain official registration and therefore to meet legally for worship. Only one Christian church in the region has been legally registered - the Pentecostal Emmanuel Church – and unregistered religious activity is, against international law, banned in Uzbekistan. (END) For background information, see Forum 18's Uzbekistan religious freedom survey at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=105 . A printer-friendly map of Uzbekistan is available at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=asia&Rootmap=uzbeki	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line551
__label__cc	0.532648	0.467352	FANdom Con Hotel and Volunteer FANdom Con Catwalk Cosplay Contest Cosplay Catwalk Contest Rules & Information A more traditional costume contest, the Catwalk will not be based on your skills in craftsmanship. No, this trip across the stage is all about character likeness and your charisma! 1) Crafted or purchased costumes may be worn in the Catwalk contest, costumes will not be judged on craftsmanship. 2) If you are competing in the Craftsmanship contest, you may not compete in the Catwalk contest. 3) Contestants may only enter into one category, Individual or Group. Groups may not exceed 10 contestants, and a prize for each member cannot be guaranteed. 4) All costumes must comply with Fandom dress code. 5) Costume weapons must comply with Fandom weapons regulations. Additionally, no projectile, of any kind, may leave the stage or your person while walking the stage. 6) At this time we will not allow originally designed characters, or fan characters, to compete. After the first inaugural competition, we hope to add an award for original characters and fair judging criteria to allow them to compete. Entry forms will be available at the box office starting November, 11th, and remain open until 10:00am November, 12th. Please fill out and return all forms to the box office in order to compete. Entry is open to the first thirty contestants to return their forms, unless otherwise stated. A Group entry will be counted as only one entry. Entry forms may also be downloaded and printed before the convention and submitted to the box office before 10:00am November, 12th. All contestants will be judged on how much they resemble the character they are cosplaying, Character Likeness, and their portrayal of the character while on stage, Stage Presence and Charisma. Contestants are encouraged to be creative with their time on stage. Action poses, working with props, calling out catch-phrases and a positive stage presence will viewed favorably by the judges. Contest Awards Best Character Likeness 3 Judges Awards Host’s Choice Award Best Novice Costumer Best Group Please return all completed forms to the Box Office between November, 11th and 10:00am November, 12th to enter. E-mail submissions will not be accepted.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line552
__label__cc	0.563204	0.436796	Future Tennis Fast Forward Your Game. Paul Scullard Ola Osuch James Ardley Tom Flynn Dave Darrock Group Coaches LTA LEVEL 4 LICENSED COACH Director – future tennis & Head Coach – Thornden Tennis Club Paul with over 30 years coaching has worked with county players, national players and world ranked players including Gabriela‘s Taylor, who reached the top 200 in the world (2018). Paul currently works with the 18 & U Junior County Team During his playing career, he has represented Hampshire Juniors, Men’s and Seniors (over 35) for Hampshire. From 2003, he has regularly represented Great Britain Seniors in the World Championships & Captain on one occasion. One lasting memory was winning the bronze medal for GB 40s team in 2014 in Boca Raton (USA) beating Germany in the process! In 1997, a doubles world ranking was achieved and a British Tour title. One of the highlights was playing Michael Chang in an exhibition match in San Diego in 2007. LTA LEVEL 4 (ICA) COACH BTCA Accredited member Tim has over 30 years coaching experience having coached at schools and clubs across the southern counties region.. He has taught PE in secondary school and is currently studying for his Masters degree in Sports Psychology alongside running his coaching company (Transform Sports Coaching) and playing commitments. Tim has represented Hampshire & IOW from Junior to Senior level and currently plays for Thornden Tennis Club and Hampshire Mens 45 teams. Tim enjoys teaching players of all levels. He loves tennis as a challenge and a way of learning and developing a wid range of skills. He is continually looking to improve his own game and is looking forward to helping you with yours. LTA LEVEL 3 COACH Ola has been with the team a few years and is a valuable member of the team. She currently works with mostly mini level children (5-10 years) and our popular Adult classes. Ola likes to instruct with lots of information and gets her message across in a purposeful, creative way. Even using music is a way of getting the young Tiny Tots (3-5 years) reacting and learning in a fun way. James has recently been added to the team and is working with the younger juniors developing their skills. He has played since he was 5 years old and has progressed into the junior county set up and also represented playing for the current Thornden Mens A team. He currently competes regularly at regional level competitions. He is enthusiastic and has a calm way of getting his message across in his coaching. Equivalent LEVEL 2 COACH Tom has been working with ft now over 2 years. He brings a youth of enthusiasm with him to all his lessons. He is a very talented all round sports man having played cricket for Hampshire Elite International cricket academy (EICA) and is a single figure handicap golfer. He is currently taking a BSc sports performance coaching at Southampton Solent University and represents the 1st tennis team. He is always looking for new challenges to test him in coaching and playing. Dave is a Level 2 LTA qualified Coach. He represents Thornden Mens in both the summer and winter leagues. He is keen to encourage this age group particularly as this we believe to be so important for getting the correct habits for later development. For a few years now, Dave has represented Thornden teams. He is very passionate about his home city football team, Can you guess? HELPING & ASSISTING Juniors coming though the programme are educated on how to coach. Getting on court and off court training from Paul and his team is part of the process to becoming a coach. Time helping with the junior programme, those selected get a chance to learn how to organise groups with lesson plans and lesson structure. Gaining a qualification through the LTA (Lawn Tennis Association or RPT (Registered Professional Tennis) Also plays a big part of a coaches experience. This can be valuable to each individual and looks great on their CV! Copyright 2016 - Fitness WordPress Theme	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line559
__label__cc	0.62173	0.37827	This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner \| Book Review Posted May 28, 2015 by Zeee in Reviews • 1 Comment Favorite Authors, Space I received this book for free from the Publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. This Shattered World written by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult Series: Starbound #2 Published by Disney-Hyperion Publication Date: December 23rd 2014 The second installment in the epic Starbound trilogy introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war. Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met. Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents. Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to make the inhospitable planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion. Desperate for any advantage in a bloody and unrelentingly war, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: he returns to base with her as prisoner. But as his fellow rebels prepare to execute this tough-talking girl with nerves of steel, Flynn makes another choice that will change him forever. He and Lee escape the rebel base together, caught between two sides of a senseless war. “Hands down, one of the best books I’ve read this year!” This Shattered World is another story that blew me away! I really LOVED reading about Captain Lee Chase and Avon rebel Flynn Cormac! Plus, imagine that – a kick ass female captain! Captain Lee Chase has been in the planet Avon for a while. She has not been affected by the fury that seems to take hold of the soldiers assigned to the planet for an extended period of time. She has been assigned to subdue the rebel force that has been the thorn of the soldier’s side. Flynn Cormac, the younger brother of the rebel’s leader (who died when he was a kid), does not want violence. He just wants his planet, Avon to progress in the terraforming process. He also found an unknown building that suddenly showed up in the swamp overnight. He captures Lee and the adventure begins! The unique storyline was just like a breath of fresh air that I devoured the book in a few days (once I got into it). I liked the slow development of Lee and Flynn’s relationship and there was definitely NO insta-love! Just like the previous book, These Broken Stars, the relationship starts with attraction and then slowly develops into something more. The world building is just amazing and I felt that I was right there in Avon, which really helped me visualize this alien planet. I also liked the references to Irish culture as ancestors for the swamp dwellers. I thought this helped in the world building since we are talking about an alien planet. I also liked that I get to see Tarver and Lilac! I loved that Tarver helped Lee despite not having any contact with her. I also slightly recall that Tarver had alluded to Lee (or was it mentioned?) in These Broken Stars. The ending was JUST….mind boggling! I loved the revelations and how they defeated (sort of) La Rue Industries. I loved the revelations the alien being revealed to Lee and Flynn – also the shocking death of one of the characters. I also liked the short snippets of historical lore added before each chapter. Like These Broken Stars where the snippets where the interrogation interview with Tarver. It was hard for me to get into the story at first and I really had to stop after reading chapter one. I really do not know what but I felt it was NOT as interesting as I thought it would be. After I was able to get past the first few chapters, I was hooked! This Shattered World is definitely an awesome read, one of the best that I read this year. I am definitely looking forward to the next book in the series (hint: the characters have already been mentioned in this book!) And I am definitely hoping to see all 2 characters in the third book as well! Hi readers, if you found my review helpful, please vote for it on Amazon. Thank you! About Amie Kaufman Amie Kaufman is a New York Times bestselling author of young adult fiction. Her work has been published in fifteen countries, won the Aurealis Award for Best YA Novel, been named the Huffington Post’s best YA novel of the year, shortlisted for the Gold Inky Award and is in development for TV. Her first series, co-authored with Meagan Spooner, began with These Broken Stars, and her new series, co-authored with Jay Kristoff, will start this October with Illuminae. Raised in Australia and Ireland, Amie has degrees in history, literature, law and conflict resolution. She lives in Melbourne with her husband, their rescue dog, and an extremely large personal library. Website \| Twitter \| Facebook \| Instagram \| Pinterest \| Tumblr About Meagan Spooner Meagan Spooner grew up reading and writing every spare moment of the day, while dreaming about life as an archaeologist, a marine biologist, an astronaut. She graduated from Hamilton College in New York with a degree in playwriting, and has spent several years since then living in Australia. She’s traveled with her family all over the world to places like Egypt, South Africa, the Arctic, Greece, Antarctica, and the Galapagos, and there’s a bit of every trip in every story she writes. She currently lives and writes in Asheville, North Carolina, but the siren call of travel is hard to resist, and there’s no telling how long she’ll stay there. In her spare time she plays guitar, plays video games, plays with her cat, and reads. Website \| Blog \| Facebook \| Goodreads \| Pinterest \| Tumblr Starbound Series By Amie Kaufman New-to-Me Authors Read in 2019 A Map of My Reading Tastes through the Years After the Abduction by Sabrina Jeffries \| Book Review Cress by Marissa Meyer \| Audiobook Review Boundless by Cynthia Hand \| Audiobook Review Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas \| Book Review The Fault in Our Stars by John Green \| Audiobook Review An Amnesia Romance I Can Get Behind! 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Lewis \| Audiobook Review « Earls Just Want to Have Fun by Shana Galen [Book Review] Desire Me Now by Tiffany Clare \| Book Review + Giveaway » One response to “This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner \| Book Review” Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner \| Book & Audiobook Review – I Heart Romance & YA […] came out! I mean THIS series really started my love for all things YA: These Broken Stars and This Shattered World blew me away and I expected to be blown away by the series […] February 3, 2016, 12:01 AM	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line565
__label__wiki	0.604217	0.604217	__Buy Data __Pay Bills _Tech _Education HomeAutobiographyAUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ADEMOLA TAOFEEK ADEWALE (A.T.A) AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ADEMOLA TAOFEEK ADEWALE (A.T.A) Oluwaseun Ogunniyi January 09, 2020 COMRADE ADEMOLA TAOFEEK ADEWALE, popularly referred to as ‘’A.T.A’’ coined from his three-letter initials, hails from IYERE TOWN in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo state. He is a graduate of Political Science; also has M.Sc. Public Administration and Policy Analysis; a Masters In Legislative Studies from the University of Abuja and University of Benin respectively; and currently a PhD student of Political Science (Policy Analysis). A.T.A. is a Member of the following professional bodies: Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management of Nigeria (CIPSMN), Chartered Institute of Public Management, Nigeria (CIPMN) and Nigerian Association of Legislative Researchers and Lobyists. He obtained National Diploma in Financial studies from The Polytechnic, Ibadan prior his University education. It worth a mention, Comrade Ademola Taofeek Adewale was privileged to have acquired a special training in Nigeria’s Defence Intelligence College, Abuja. ATA is a staff of the National Assembly, Abuja, he served in the Finance and Account Department, Sergeant-At-Arms Division as the Head of Education/Excursion where he was privileged to receive and interact with the people who visited the National Assembly from both within the country and abroad on official capacity; he is currently serving in the Procurement and Supplies Department of the National Assembly. As an officer on a legislative cadre, he has privately participated in the idea-documentation of drafting process of over 20 legislative bills which a number of them have invariably turned out to become operational Acts of the National Assembly for the good of this great Nation, Nigeria. ATA belongs to the cream of ‘comrades’ of the union: Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN). He is an advocate of the politics of ideas! ATA facilitated The Democracy Promoters TDP, a political evangelical outreach of Peoples’ Democratic Party PDP. The group provided a widespread platform for voters’ mobilization and enlightenments during the last 2015 General elections across 218 polling units in Owo local Government in particular. ATA is the founder of an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization), FACE OF HOPE Community Support Initiative, which has provided privileges to a number of Nigerians especially the helpless youths and widows. FACE OF HOPE has donated well over 150,000 educational books and 5,000 minor scholarships to the Nigerian students since its establishment in the year 2009. Comrade Ademola Taofeek Adewale (ATA) desires to mentor the Nigerian youths in giving hope to the hopeless and lending hands to the helpless men and women with his endowed flaming spirit of selfless service to his community people and the world at large. He is a family man; happily married to a chartered accountant, Hajia Latifah Opeyemi Adewale and blessed with children. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the comment writers alone and does not reflect or represent the views of Gurusbest. Please Always drop your comments after Reading... [Mixtape] Hangout Party with DJ Cheche Mix [Music] Kd Kan - Fire Dem [Music] Determination - Dhezzy Photos: UNBELIEVABLE!!! See this 18-Year-Old Boy’s booty Giving Kim Kardashian Some Serious Competition 300mbfilms 40 Blogger Tricks 12 Comedy Video 59 Economy 55 Entertainment 102 Naija News 864 Advice 18	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line569
__label__wiki	0.898591	0.898591	greenparkcampground@gmail.com Green Park Campground Rock The Boat Music Fest Tyne Valley Community Links Historic Yeo House and Shipbuilding Museum Historic Yeo House - James Yeo Shipbuilder, businessman, politician Born: 1789 in Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England James Yeo was the son of a shoemaker, born poor and with little social standing. He started a carrier business in England and, through that, met Thomas Burnard, a successful businessman. When the carrier business failed, Burnard paid Yeo's debts and sent him to Prince Edward Island to work in the lumber industry. Yeo arrived in the Port Hill area in 1819. He began working for Thomas Chanter (Burnard's nephew) and, when he had sufficient money, opened a store selling liquor and other goods. When Chanter died in 1825, Yeo took over the business and began building ships. Over the next several decades, he created a trans-Atlantic empire with shipyards, warehouses, and wharves on PEI and in England. He was responsible for building over 350 ships during his lifetime. Yeo entered politics in 1839 and served as Conservative representative. He was not a nice man — allegedly bullying voters and doing other unethical things, such as collecting timber and hay from land he did not own — but he was one of the wealthiest and most influential men the island has ever seen. Additional trivia: Shipbuilding was the primary industry on PEI from 1850 to 1875. Per capita, only Great Britan built more ships during this time period, which is known as the island's "Golden Age". James Yeo owned nearly 20,000 acres of Prince Edward Island, most of which is now a provincial park. His son's house, which is in the park, is now a shipbuilding museum. Admission: Adult: $5, Student: $3.50, Family: $13.50 Email green_park@gov.pe.ca Off Season Phone (902) 368-6600 Off Season Fax (902) 368-6608 Off Season Email mhpei@gov.pe.ca www.peimuseum.com Step back in time and re-live the story of the Prince Edward Island shipbuilding industry in its glory days. Explore the restored Victorian rooms of historic Yeo house, home of successful shipbuilder, James Yeo, Jr., considered to be the richest and most influential man in the colony. Home . Green Park Campground . Attractions and Activities \| Historic Yeo House and Shipbuilding Museum Location . Contact PEI Business Directory Search: For Island Business www.greenparkcampground.com © 2013 Green Park Campground - Tyne Valley PEI Member: PEI Business Federation Ltd Designed PEI Web Design © 2013 For Small Business	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line579
__label__cc	0.698109	0.301891	Category Archives: Heritage Nov 16th: London Calling – Part III (Whiz Bang…) So, after a bit of a break in transmission, there’s the last instalment of the London trip which was rather a whiz bang affair; a whiz bang tour around the traditional sights and then a whiz bang tour around an out-of-tour attraction… No matter how many times you see them, the iconic sights of London really do send a shiver down your spine; well they do me anyway! The London Eye isn’t exactly old but it’s been there more than a decade now and it’s not showing any signs of losing its attraction as yet. Nor too are the London Dungeons; no chance of a seat or four without booking ahead. Next time maybe? So then finally to the out-of-town Warner Brothers Studio at Watford which is home to the uber sets created specifically for the filming of the Harry Potter capers. Pretty interesting tour to be honest; we went after dark and that added a certain feel to the place. Well worth a visit – even for someone who hasn’t read a single tittle from the JK Rowling pen… Also posted in Travel Oct 30th: London Calling – Part II (Imperial War Museum, Duxford)… The storm, St Jude, pretty much closed the rail network in the south west down on Monday 29th Oct. Instead of heading into London we went north instead to The Imperial War Museum at Duxford and what a place it is too! It had been on my ‘must-visit’ list for yonks – so I was made-up with the switch. For anyone that hasn’t been there’s basically an airfield full of hangers crammed with all kinds of stonking (war) exhibits. In nearly three hours we did three of the nine monster hangers – so I guess it would be best to allow a full day. AirSpace, the first hanger, is about the story of aviation in Britain and it has more iconic planes and helicopter in that you’d be forgiven for knowing; a Swopworth Camel, a Spitfire, a Mosquito, a Lancaster, a Lightening, Harrier, a Concorde and a bunch of others as well. The Spitfire, the WWII icon We skipped the next hangers where restoration work is being done and nipped into Historic Duxford, a small building outlining life on the Duxford airfield through the ages including some great stories about the famous airmen (including Douglas Barder). Anyone with a fancy to slip into a RAF uniform then head straight here – this is the place! Immediately behind HD is Hanger #4 which was used in the World War II. Currently it houses the Battle of Britain exhibits which is crammed with yet more icons including a Hurricane, a Meteor, a Hunter as well as a V1 (Doodlebug) and a Messerschmitt and then a Russian MiG. The Meteor, Britain’s first jet-engine plane Further up the airfield again is the American Air Museum which is host to a full gambit of American planes ranging from a biplane right through to the stealth Blackbird. What is striking about the American exhibits is the shear size of the ‘modern’ planes. The Blackbird is especially impressive; in size, speed (Mack 3+) and appearance. The USAF stealth Blackbird Sadly, we’d timed-out by this stage so it was the long walk back to the start past a bunch of passenger (prop) planes, the tower and a ‘clipped’ Shackleton standing somewhat forlornly on the tarmac. It’s a heck of a way to spend a few hours – I can’t recommend it enough… Here’s a gallery of some of the planes in the AirSpace, Battle of Britain and the American Air Museum. Also posted in Aviation Oct 28th: London Calling – Part I (Canons Asby, Camden, Covent Garden and King’s Cross)… It’s half term so time to spend a few days as a family away from all the usual day to day stuff. Last year we went up to the North York Moors and hung out with the Goths in Whitby, this year we headed down south to London. Far from leaving the camera kit at home it’s a great opportunity to go off-piste and add a few travel, heritage and street photography images to the archive…Travelling down we veered off into the middle of rural Northamptonshire and dropped into Canons Ashby – an Elizabethan manor house in an 18th-century garden. A double quick stroll around the garden was all we got as we arrived bang on closing time – doh! The wall-clad ivy was a stark reminder – if needed – that we were well into autumn. Autumn at Canons Ashby For our first day proper we hit the City; Camden Lock to be precise. The contrast couldn’t have been more stark! Camden was rammed with everything and everybody. Halloween seemed like the running theme but really it was business as (un)usual with the mass of things to see and of course buy. By complete fluke – and good fortune – we arrived at the food stalls at lunchtime; nice! Following a quick spin around the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square we were off to Covent Garden for a nose at the street life there which feels a bit like La Ramblas in Barcelona albeit in miniature. Covent Garden, London’s answer to La Ramblas in Barcelona Finally, a trip to Platform 93/4 at Kings Cross was demanded by the young ‘uns. The hour-long queue to hang-off the famous shopping trolley was tons of time to snap a few shots of the impressive new roof at Kings Cross … King’s Cross Station Here’s a gallery of shots… June 23rd : Trip up North Part 3: Edinburgh and Beyond… For a trip that was supposed to be all about getting north of the border we didn’t do very well to be honest. Southerners – myself included – tend to forget just how much of Scotland there is and how long it takes to get up there when driving. The game plan was Edinburgh first and then keep going. The weather though had other ideas as it transpired… We arrived in Edinburgh at the same time as the rain – hmmm. Edinburgh, of course, is famous for a whole number of reasons including the annual Edinburgh Festival, the Scottish Parliament and the Palace of Holyroodhouse (the Queen’s official residence in Scotland) and infamous perhaps for the hostelries and eateries. We had a day – and a thoroughly wet day at that – to cram as much in as possible. The Scottish Parliament was really quite spectacular, a (thoroughly contemporary) beacon of modernity. I was forced to make a mental note to myself to get a better understanding of the way it works and the way it connects to Westminster. The architecture is really quite different – strikingly so. Parliament was sitting so it was strictly no talking and no photos in the public galleries overlooking the Chamber. It was interesting to see the place working if a little frustrated to be forced to holster my camera. We didn’t check into Holyrood but it looked impressive too. Instead we headed for the Dynamic Earth exhibition and had a really engaging indoor – a.k.a. dry – afternoon. As we headed out for the evening we happened across Bene’s on Cannongate. It turned out that Bene’s makes one of the best pizza take-out we’ve had for ages if not the best since the pizza van in Cavaillon in the south of France a decade back. Result! Although the post rush-hour streets were virtually disserted they offered plenty of interest. Leaving Edinburgh we drove north into what is billed as the ‘Landof Giants’ – a.k.a. the Lock Lommond and The Trossachs National Park. This is still very definitely south Scotlandbut it is Scotland nevertheless and rather pretty. We pulled over for the night just north of Callander on the banks of Loch Lubnaig. It was an overcast evening but the location was serine. The midges were out enjoying the evening too so we watched dusk fall from inside the van. The midges had gone in the morning but a wee stroll up the Lochside left me gutted – the shore was strewn with rubbish and litter. An hour or so helping the Ranger fill black bin bags and the place was a lot closer to how nature intended. Sadly, that was the second occasion over the bank holiday weekend that the Ranger had visited to pick litter. Apparently, it’s such a problem that the Park authority is considering closing roadside pull-overs. Not good, but (perhaps) understandable if folks can’t pack-out what they pack-in… Lochearnhead and Killin just north was as far as we got – beaten by the weather. I guess we’ll have to try harder next time. Still I did get some waterfall shots. I would have gonnen some more mbt bike shots too – had I remembered to take my battery out of the charger! Another invaluable lesson I guess… Also posted in Photography, Scenic June 21st : Trip up North Part 2: Heritage stuff… I’m no expert but if there’s a single central theme that underpins the UK’s tourism business it must be heritage right? Sure as hell, it ain’t the weather! If you spot two Americans tourists together then chances are that you’re on the heritage trail heading towards the next ‘must see’ destination… I’m proud to say that I’m a (family) member of the National Trust and that I think they do a cracking job on a whole bunch of different levels. Our recent trip up north was something of a dot-to-dot NT fest. Starting with Fountains Abbey then Lindisfarne on the way up-country and then Cragside on the way back down south. Edinburgh, including the Scottish Parliament, was our Scottish heritage tick – and a very interesting one at that. Fountains Abbey hits the top of the bill as a World Heritage Site. Alongside Studley Lake and St Mary’s Church, Fountains is one heck of a locale. Fountains Abbey dates from the twelfth century and is Britain’s largest monastic ruin. Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 dealt a bitter blow to Fountains after which the fabric of the abbey suffered. Amazingly the same fate didn’t befall The Cellarium whose vaulted roof is stunning. Equally stunning, though much more decorative, is the nearby St Mary’s Church which, dating from 1870, is a mere spring chicken by comparison. Studley Lake and Studley Royal Water Garden are very pleasant too, as is the Seven Bridges (and seven fords) Trail which leads off into the wild yonder beyond Studley Lake. We zipped around the place on our mtb’s (walking only though through the Royal Water Gardens) in 3-4 hours. In truth, we needed much longer though to do it justice. Next up on our tour was Lindisfarne Castle out on the far Northumberland coast. My association with Northumberland dates back to the late Seventies when I first climbed in The County and to be honest, I love the place. A former Tudor fort, Lindisfarne was an important cog in the defence of the realm back in the day. Having been converted back to a private dwelling at the start of the last century, Lindisfarne is now one of the NT’s iconic buildings and a very powerful magnet for photogs. The mystic of Lindisfarne is boosted further by the tidal causeway that separates it from the mainland. It’s the second time I’ve cycled over to Lindisfarne and I’ll have to go back again for sure – maybe on foot. Hopefully, next time the weather will be a better too. One day, I might even make it along at dawn or dusk and then I could really dig-in photographically. Northumberland’s other gemstone is Cragside. I’ve never made it to Cragside before – despite numerous climbing trips to the area – and I have to say I was blown away by Lord Armstrong’s former pad. The number of ‘labour-saving, creature comforts’ created by this Victorian inventor which he lovingly designed and built into the stunning Cragside is amazing; the first house to be lit by hydro-electricity, a lift, a water-driven spit-roaster, a stream-room… the list is (almost) endless. The fireplace deep within the house is just incredible too. Outside Cragside continues to stun visitors with gardens and its Euro-funded refurbished iron bridge. An afternoon disappeared in no time at all – especially when I slipped my leash and managed to get some shots of the house down from the stream using tripod and split density filters. Felt a bit like a proper photog rather than just a grab-man… Whilst most of the images that follow were snapped on the hoof, some have been part processed by an in-camera function, perspective control, which is a neat addition to the camera. Granted, its not the same as shooting with a tilt and shift lens – they’re on the wants list – but it certainly helps and takes out radically diverging verts – thanks Nikon. Dropped the shot of the vaulted roof at Fountains in B&W too, colour was just a distraction…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line586
__label__cc	0.671713	0.328287	Day 1: Arrival to Arusha/ Moshi Day 2: Arusha/ Moshi to Lake Manyara National Park We depart from your hotel/logde in Arusha/moshi and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park. Although small in size, this park is one of the most diverse reserves in the country. Lake Manyara covers two thirds of the park. At the backdrop is the wall of the Great Rift Valley, before which lies the ground water forest, areas of open grassland near the lake foreshore, and the Soda Lake. We enjoy a picnic lunch in this area, which consists of open grassy areas, hot springs, dense woodlands and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise that has more than 350 species of bird. The park is also famed for its unique and elusive tree-climbing lions. Our dinner and overnight at Mto wa Umbu. Accommodation options: Camping / Tented Camp / Lodge Day 3: Lake manyara to Ngorongoro Crater After breakfast depart to Ngorongoro crater the largest intact volcanic crater in the world, the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater. At more than 2,000 feet deep and 12 miles in diameter, the Ngorongoro Crater has one of the largest concentrations of wildlife in Africa. 30,000 animals make their home in this crater, making it an ideal place for sightings of the ‘big 5’ – lion, elephant, rhino, buffalo and leopard. We enjoy a picnic lunch in this truly world-class attraction, also known as the ‘8th Wonder of the World’. Around evening drive back to Mto wa Umbu for dinner and overnight. Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater to Tarangire National Park After breakfast depart to Tarangire National Park, for excellent game viewing. Tarangire is a small park which offers some excellent sights. Generally in the dry seasons Tarangire comes alive as wildlife and birdlife congregate on the Tarangire River, which is a permanent source of water. We spend the night in our lodge beautifully set inside the park with stunning views and a unique atmosphere. In the late afternoon we travel to Arusha.Dinner and overnight in Arusha. We will arrange a private transfer to the Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) after the safari Full board accommodation while on safari in the above mentioned en suite tented camps and lodges 4 Days: Tarangire, Ngorongoro Crater & Serengeti National Park Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti, Tarangire,	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line588
__label__wiki	0.923954	0.923954	Bessie Barriscale Actress, Producer - USA Born September 30, 1884 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA Died June 30, 1965 in Kentfield, California, USA Mini-Biography: Bessie Barriscale was born under the given name Elizabeth Barry Scale on September 30, 1884 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. She was an American Actress, Producer, known for Secrets (1933), Show Folks (1928), Not My Sister (1916), Bessie Barriscale's first movie on record is from 1913. She was married to Howard C. Hickman. Bessie Barriscale died on June 30, 1965 in Kentfield, California, USA. Her last motion picture on file dates from 1934. Biographical Notes in German: Schauspielerin des amerikanischen Stummfilms, nach anderen Quellen in New York geboren. Bessie Barriscale war einer der grossen Stars von Ince in den Zehner Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts, vor allem beliebt wegen ihren grossen ausdruckstarken Augen. Doch ihre Karriere endete um 1920, und in den frühen Dreissiger Jahren hatte sie nur noch vereinzelte Episodenauftritte. Bessie Barriscale Filmography 1934: [] Beloved (Cast), Directed by Victor Schertzinger, 1934: [] The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (Cast: (/xx/)), Directed by Edward Ludwig, 1933: [] Bondage (Cast), Directed by Alfred Santell, 1933: [] Above the Clouds (Cast), Directed by Roy William Neill, 1933: [03.15] Secrets (Cast: Susan Carlton), Directed by Frank Borzage, Marshall Neilan, with Mary Pickford, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith, 1928: [10.21] Show Folks (Cast: Kitty Mayo), Directed by Paul L. Stein, with Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, Carole Lombard, 1921: [02.00] The Breaking Point (Cast: Ruth Marshall ), 1920: [12.00] The Broken Gate (Cast: Aurora Lane), Directed by Paul Scardon, with Joseph Kilgour, Sam de Grasse, 1920: [08.11] Life's Twist (Cast: Muriel Chester / Tina Pierce ), Directed by Christy Cabanne, with Walter McGrail, King Baggot, 1920: [05.09] The notorious Mrs. Sands (Cast: Mary Ware ), Directed by Christy Cabanne, with Forrest Stanley, Dorothy Cumming, 1920: [03.14] A Woman Who Understood (Cast: Madge Graham ), Directed by William Parke, with Forrest Stanley, Dorothy Cumming, 1920: [02.01] The Luck of Geraldine Laird (Cast: Geraldine Laird ), Directed by Edward Sloman, with Niles Welch, Boyd Irwin, 1919: [12.21] Beckoning Roads (Cast: Marquita Shay ), Directed by Howard C. Hickman, with Niles Welch, George Periolat, 1919: [10.12] Kitty Kelly, M.D. (Cast: Dr. Kitty Kelly ), Directed by Howard C. Hickman, with Jack Holt, Joseph J. Dowling, 1919: [09.01] Her Purchase Price (Cast: Sheka), Directed by Howard C. Hickman, with Alan Roscoe, Joseph J. Dowling, 1919: [07.27] The Woman Michael Married (Cast), Directed by Henry Kolker, with Jack Holt, Marcia Manon, 1919: [06.15] Tangled Threads (Broken Threads) (Cast: Margaret Wayne), Directed by Howard C. Hickman, with Rosemary Theby, Nigel Barrie, 1919: [05.05] Josselyn's Wife (Cast: Ellen Latimer Josselyn ), Directed by Howard C. Hickman, with Nigel Barrie, Kathleen Kirkham, 1919: [03.31] Hearts Asleep (Producer), Directed by Howard C. Hickman, with Vola Vale, Frank Whitson, 1919: [02.24] A Trick of Fate (Cast: Anna Gerard / Mary Lee ), Directed by Howard C. Hickman, with Gayne Whitman, George Field, 1919: [01.05] All of a Sudden Norma (Cast: Norma Brisbane), Directed by Howard C. Hickman, with Joseph J. Dowling, Albert R. Cody, 1918: [12.16] Two-Gun Betty (Cast), Directed by Howard C. Hickman, with Lee Shumway, Katherine van Buren, 1918: [10.14] The Heart of Rachael (Cast: Rachael), Directed by Howard C. Hickman, with Herschel Mayall, Ella Hall, 1918: [09.02] The White Lie (A Wife's Conscience (Working title)) (Cast: Dorothy Kingsley ), Directed by Howard C. Hickman, with Edward Coxen, Charles Gunn, 1918: [07.27] Maid o' the Storm (Cast: Ariel), Directed by Raymond B. West, with George Fisher, Herschel Mayall, 1918: [06.10] Patriotism (Cast: Robin Cameron), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Charles Gunn, Herschel Mayall, 1918: [05.13] Rose o' Paradise (Cast: Virginia Singleton), Directed by James Young, with Howard C. Hickman, David M. Hartford, 1918: [04.15] Blindfolded (Cast), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Joseph J. Dowling, Patrick Calhoun, 1918: [03.01] Within the Cup (Cast: Thisbe Lorraine), Directed by Raymond B. West, with George Fisher, Edward Coxen, 1918: [02.00] The Cast-Off (Cast: Pansy May ), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Howard C. Hickman, Jack Livingstone, 1918: [01.01] Madam Who (Cast: Jeanne Beaufort), Directed by Reginald Barker, with Edward Coxen, , 1917: [12.00] Those Who Pay (Cast: Dorothy Warner), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Howard C. Hickman, Dorcas Matthews, 1917: [08.20] Wooden Shoes (Cast: Pampy), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Jack Livingstone, Joseph J. Dowling, 1917: [07.29] Borrowed Plumage (Cast: Nora ), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Dorcas Matthews, Arthur Maude, 1917: [07.01] The Hater of Men (Cast: Janice Salsbury), Directed by Charles Miller, with Charles K. French, John Gilbert, 1917: [05.06] The Snarl (Cast: Helen Dean / Marion Dean), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Charles Gunn, Howard C. Hickman, 1916: [12.09] Bawbs O' Blue Ridge (Cast: Barbara 'Bawbs' Colby ), Directed by Charles Miller, with Arthur Shirley, Joseph J. Dowling, 1916: [11.03] A Corner in Colleens (Four Irish Girls, The Pig's Sisters (Working title)) (Cast: Shamrock), Directed by Charles Miller, with Charles Ray, Margery Wilson, 1916: [10.08] Plain Jane (The Hick) (Cast: Jane, 'The Orphint' ), Directed by Charles Miller, with Charles Ray, Sabel Johnson, 1916: [07.30] Home (Cast: Bessie Wheaton), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Charles Ray, Clara Williams, 1916: [07.30] The Payment (Cast: Phyllis Page), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Charles Miller, Katherine Kirkwood, 1916: [06.11] The Sorrows of Love (Cast: Beatrice ), Directed by Charles Giblyn, with Wedgwood Nowell, Ora Carew, 1916: [05.14] Not My Sister (Cast: Grace Tyler), Directed by Charles Giblyn, with Louise Brownell, William Desmond, 1916: [02.27] The Last Act (Cast: Ethel Duprey), Directed by Walter Edwards, with Clara Williams, Miss Allen, 1916: [02.20] Bullets and Brown Eyes (Will o' the Wisp (Working title)) (Cast: Countess Olga), Directed by Scott Sidney, with William Desmond, Wyndham Standing, 1916: [02.14] Honor's Altar (Cast: Winnie Mallory), Directed by Walter Edwards, with Walter Edwards, Lewis Stone, 1916: [01.30] The Green Swamp (Cast: Margery Allison), Directed by Scott Sidney, with Bruce McRae, J. Barney Sherry, 1915: [12.23] The Painted Soul (The Straight Road) (Cast: Irene Brock), Directed by Scott Sidney, with Tully Marshall, Milton Ross, 1915: [12.05] The Golden Claw (Cast: Lillian Hillary ), Directed by Reginald Barker, with Wedgwood Nowell, Robert Dunbar, 1915: [07.22] The Mating (Cast: Doris Willard), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Lew Cody, Enid Markey, 1915: [06.24] The Reward (Cast: Jane Wallace), Directed by Reginald Barker, with Arthur Maude, Louise Glaum, 1915: [04.26] The Cup of Life (Cast: Helen Fiske), Directed by Thomas H. Ince, Raymond B. West, with Enid Markey, Charles Ray, 1915: [04.01] The Devil (Satan's Pawn) (Cast: Isabella Zanden), Directed by Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince, with Edward Connelly, Arthur Maude, 1914: [11.15] The Rose of the Rancho (Cast: Juanita Castro), Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with Jane Darwell, Dick La Reno, 1914: [11.05] Ready Money (Cast: Grace Tyler), Directed by Oscar Apfel, with Edward Abeles, Monroe Salisbury, Jode Mullally, 1914: [09.17] The Making of Bobby Burnit (Bobby Burnit) (Cast: Agnes Elliston ), Directed by Oscar Apfel, with Edward Abeles, Howard C. Hickman, 1914: [03.19] The Bells of Austi (Cast: Paquita), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Howard C. Hickman, Frank Keenan, 1914: [01.08] The Harp of Tara (Cast), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Ramona Radcliffe, Richard Stanton, H.B. Warner, 1913: [12.25] Eileen of Erin (Cast), Directed by Raymond B. West, with Charles Ray, , J. Barney Sherry, 1913: [09.03] The Gambler's Pal (Cast), Directed by Scott Sidney, Burton L. King, with Charles Ray, Enid Markey, Filmography Bessie Barriscale nach Kategorien Produzent Darsteller Bessie Barriscale in other Database records: IMDb The copyright lies with the authors of these quotes - Bessie Barriscale - KinoTV More on Bessie Barriscale	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line589
__label__cc	0.638532	0.361468	Philipians 4:13 2008: Apology to the Stolen Generations by Australian Government https://www.reconciliation.org.au/what-is-reconciliation/ https://www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au/files/SJSandresources/2006_SJS_Statement.pdf The Heart of Our Country: Dignity and Justice for our Indigenous Brothers and Sisters (2006 Social Justice Statement from the ACBC) Let us Pray: O God, the source of all that is human, it is in your image that we are created. Be present with us, as we consider the importance of… Continue Reading 2008: Apology to the Stolen Generations by Australian Government CAPSA_National Week of Prayer and Action_20th Aug – 31st Aug 2018 CAPSA The CAPSA National Week of Prayer & Action will be held 20th – 31st August 2018. Once again we are asking for the Catholic community to come together to advocate for people seeking asylum, this time in the weeks either side of the 104th World Day of Migrant and Refugees. As a practical… Continue Reading CAPSA_National Week of Prayer and Action_20th Aug – 31st Aug 2018 Pope Francis’ Universal Prayer Intention for August UNIVERSAL PRAYER INTENTION: Artists “That artists of our time, through their ingenuity, may help everyone discover the beauty of creation.” Pope Francis’ Universal Prayer Intention for July UNIVERSAL PRAYER INTENTION: Lapsed Christians “That our brothers and sisters who have strayed from the faith, through our prayer and witness to the Gospel, may rediscover the merciful closeness of the Lord and the beauty of the Christian life.” World Environment Day, 5 June \| United Nations The first United Nations World Environment Day was held in 1974, and in the years since it has become a global platform for taking action on important environmental issues, successfully involving people around the world in environmentally-focused events like clean ups and the replanting of forests. Every year a diferent country hosts World… Continue Reading World Environment Day, 5 June \| United Nations Pope Francis’ Universal Prayer Intention for June UNIVERSAL PRAYER INTENTION: National Leaders “That national leaders may firmly commit themselves to ending the arms trade, which victimises so many innocent people.” Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 28 May – 4 June 2017 \| NCCA The 2017 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is being observed in Australia from the 28 May to 4 June, in the week between Ascension and Pentecost. This year’s theme is “Reconciliation – The Love of Christ Compels Us” (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:14-20). The Faith and Unity Commission of the National Council of Churches… Continue Reading Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 28 May – 4 June 2017 \| NCCA Pope Francis, English Church leaders offer prayers after Manchester Arena attack \| The Record Concertgoers react after fleeing Manchester Arena in England where US singer Ariana Grande had been performing on 22 May. At least 22 people, including children, were killed and dozens wounded after an explosion at the concert venue. Authorities said it was Britain’s deadliest case of terrorism since 2005. Photo: CNS/Jon Super. By Simon Caldwell Pope… Continue Reading Pope Francis, English Church leaders offer prayers after Manchester Arena attack \| The Record Pope Francis’ Universal Prayer Intention for May UNIVERSAL PRAYER INTENTION: Christians in Africa “That Christians in Africa, in imitation of the Merciful Jesus, may give prophetic witness to reconciliation, justice, and peace.” Pope Francis’ Universal Prayer Intention for April UNIVERSAL PRAYER INTENTION: Young People “That young people may respond generously to their vocations and seriously consider offering themselves to God in the priesthood or consecrated life.” Day of Prayer and Fasting for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Sunday 5th March This coming Sunday 5th March, the first Sunday in Lent, is being recognized by the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) as a Day of Prayer and Fasting for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. As the NCCA says, “The situation of many thousands of refugees and asylum seekers throughout the world calls Christians to respond.… Continue Reading Day of Prayer and Fasting for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Sunday 5th March	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line592
__label__cc	0.716703	0.283297	Business Card for Mat Mines: Mat Mines Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Santa Barbara, CA area www.ucsb.edu About Mat Mines: Mat Mines works as an Professor Emeritus, Anthropology for University of California, Santa Barbara at Santa Barbara, CA. The company's webpage is http://www.ucsb.edu. For email, phone number and executive profiles for Professor Emeritus, Anthropology and other executives of University of California, Santa Barbara at Santa Barbara, CA, check University of California, Santa Barbara at Joesdata.com. Not the Mat Mines you are looking for? Do a quick search in our website and find other people named Mat Mines. Mat Mines's Work History: Mat Mines's Education: Mat Mines's Co-workers: As of January 19, 2020, Mat Mines has 64 co-workers under the company name University of California, Santa Barbara at Joesdata.com. About University of California, Santa Barbara: University of California, Santa Barbara is located at UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. It has around 5K - 10K employees. Its revenue is around $500M - 1B. Cynthia Grueber Chief Operating Officer at Healthcare Director Engineering/Construction Mary Talboys Daphne Harrington Director-Library Simmons College Thomas Chema Prresident	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line598
__label__cc	0.724148	0.275852	About Joff Smith Joffrey A. Smith, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC®, LUTCF, PPC™ 11 Foster St., Suite 200 E-mail address: joff@joffreysmith.com Printed from: www.joffreysmith.com How Do Mutual Funds and Stocks Differ? Whether you’re a first-time stock investor or a seasoned veteran, you should understand what differentiates single stock investments from mutual fund investing. Picture a collection of stocks, bonds, or other securities that are purchased by a group of investors and then managed by an investment company. That's a mutual fund. When you buy shares in a fund, you're really buying a piece of a large, diverse portfolio. Conversely, stocks are shares of a single company. When it comes to managing their investments, some investors prefer leaving the details and skills to someone else. They like having a professional manager oversee the day-to-day decisions that a changing stock market involves and see that as a distinct advantage. A good manager, they might argue, has access to information that would cost them an exorbitant amount, even if they had the time and inclination to do the work themselves. On the other hand, some investors would never surrender control of their investments. Individual comfort level plays a big part in your investment choice. Diversifying Matters Diversification is a big selling factor for mutual funds. When one security in a fund drops, an insightful fund manager may have included stocks that could cushion or offset that loss. But that’s not to say that an investor couldn’t diversify his or her own stock selections. Diversification does not guarantee a profit or protect against investment loss; it is a method used to help manage investment risk. In terms of liquidity, fund investors can cash in on any business day. When you sell a stock, you must wait three business days before the trade settles and your money is released. The Issue of Red Tape Mutual fund investors often cite transaction ease as an inviting factor. And it is hard to beat the convenience of having records and transactions handled for you, while periodically receiving a detailed statement of your holdings. Transacting business with stocks can be a more complicated experience. Placing buy orders, selling shares, or dictating any number of orders can be time-consuming. To some, however, that’s just part of the experience. In summary, fund investors are often attracted by the overall convenience. By contrast, stock investors may tend to be more comfortable with their own investing skills. Keep in mind that the value of mutual funds and stocks will fluctuate with changes in market conditions; when investments are sold, the investor may receive back more or less than the original investment amount. The information in this newsletter is not intended as tax, legal, investment, or retirement advice or recommendations, and it may not be relied on for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. You are encouraged to seek advice from an independent professional advisor. The content is derived from sources believed to be accurate. Neither the information presented nor any opinion expressed constitutes a solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security. This material was written and prepared by Broadridge Advisor Solutions. © 2020 Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions, Inc Securities offered through Securities America, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services offered through Joffrey Smith Financial Group. Joffrey Smith Financial Group and Securities America are separate entities. This site is published for residents of the United States and is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or product that may be referenced herein. Persons mentioned on this website may only offer services and transact business and/or respond to inquiries in states or jurisdictions in which they have been properly registered or are exempt from registration. Not all products and services referenced on this site are available in every state, jurisdiction or from every person listed.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line599
__label__cc	0.69185	0.30815	Lennard Dost Nieuwe Vide program 2019 Posted by Lennard Dost on 27 June 2019 · From 1st of May 2015 till 31st of January 2019 I was director/curator at Nieuwe Vide art space in Haarlem (The Netherlands), working there 3,5 days a week (on a freelance basis). Nieuwe Vide is a combination of exhibition space and (25) studios. The studios are rented by artists, animation studios, graphic designers, copy writers and so on. www.nieuwevide.nl As director/curator my tasks a.o. included: – budgetting – applying for funds – drafting contracts for freelancers – composing a program – composing and leading a team – editor-in-chief of a new magazine – communicating with stakeholders – curating and designing exhibitions – stimulating press coverage I was founder of Nieuwe Vide’s Journal of Humanity as well and came up with the Focus Artist-concept. I also started the Soup Corner in 2016 (weekly eating soup together with people form the neighbourhood and people that hire a studio at Nieuwe Vide). Topic Program 2019: Absurdism Program 2019 supported by: Mondriaan Fund, Gemeente Haarlem Participation at Supermarket Art Fair 2019 supported by: Mondriaan Fund Below the projects that have been organized as part of my program 2019. PLANET VIDE – hiphopcounterculture. Dates: 12th – 20nd January 2019 @nieuwevide Haarlem, EXHIBITION \| WORKSHOPS \| #PBL Including a collaboration with Triple Threat (an organisation for youth empowerment in Schalkwijk, Haarlem) Workshops @triplethreat.nl van 22/12/18 t/m 06/01/19 Workshops by @haagshiphopcentrum Saturday 12/01/19 #PEOPLEBEFORELIKES-7 benefit auction for @voedselbankhaarlem Curator: TRIK Planet Vide’ was a project of 2 months, about the different elements of hip hop culture. PLANET Vide consisted of 3 parts: a workshop program (at Triple Threat location in Schalkwijk, Haarlem), the PeopleBeforeLikes benefit, an exhibition about hip hop culture (including classic Hip Hop movies) in Nieuwe Vide. During the Christmas Holidays of 2018 5 workshops were given by Haags Hiphop Centrum (H3C) from The Hague. The workshops were meant for youngsters who were affiliated with Triple ThreaT. The topics of the 5 workshops were: Graffiti, Breakdance, Beats creation, Rap and DJ’ing. The opening of the exhibition and the People Before Likes benefit auction (People Before Likes – 7) was on the 12th of January 2019. The event started at 12.00h and ended at 23.00h. The auction resulted in an amount of money of 2400 euro, which in a later stage was donated to Voedselbank Haarlem. Photos © Frans Claassen A World Crafted out of Conspiracy and Cabals Artist: Damon Packard Dates: 8th of February – 10th of March 2019 Curator: Lennard Dost Nieuwe Vide kicked off its program on absurdism with the first international solo exhibition by American filmmaker Damon Packard. An artist who excels in absurd horror and makes parodies of the work of world-famous directors, such as George Lucas (The Untitled Star Wars Mockumentary, 2003). Packard is an absolute outsider both to the art and the film world. After struggling for years to complete films out of his own pocket, he received a large inheritance when a relative died, which he spent on Reflections of Evil (2002), a long treatise on contemporary American paranoia. His work is DIY and accepts no limits. He belongs to the wild fauna of Los Angeles and his films are located somewhere between arthouse cinema and video art. Packard remains relatively obscure to the public. He is known for his pessimistic view of the movie business, often commenting on how directors have no control of their work and that artistic vision in Hollywood is always sacrificed for profit. He also claims that creativity in film largely vanished after the end of the 1970s. A strong affiliation to the work of John Waters and the brothers George and Mike Kuchar can be found in Packard’s work. The Kuchar brothers were pioneers in the American underground film scene of the 1960s, being part of the same scene as artist Andy Warhol and filmmaker Stan Brakhage. Their work is campy, low budget and is full of over-the-top satire. While Waters and these other makers, distance themselves from the ‘mainstream’, Packard looks for that mainstream, albeit in a completely idiosyncratic way. Having pop culture, consumerism and the blockbuster as his starting point. At the opening Cine.nl/Schokkend Nieuws filmjournalist Theodoor Steen gave an introduction on Damon Packard. Lecture day: 15:00-18:00, Saturday 9 March Lecture by Theodoor Steen Screening of Doggie Woggiez! Poochie Woochiez! On Saturday afternoon, 9 March, Theodoor Steen gave a presentation ‘Theo Talks Trash’ and the film Doggie Woggiez! Poochie Woochiez! by Everything is Terrible was screened. Theodoor Steen is a film journalist and programmer with extensive knowledge of Trash Cinema. Until recently he was programmer for Breda B-, Underground and Trash Filmfestival. At this moment he writes for Cine.nl and Schokkend Nieuws and is mainly interested in how image language can be used to convey messages. In his lecture he showed this also is the case for Trash-culture. Doggie Woggiez! Poochie Woochiez! is a surrealist remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 film, “The Holy Mountain,” consisting entirely of borrowed clips from countless dog films. Press: Cine.nl, Jegens & Tevens Nieuwe Vide at Supermarket 2019 Artist: Data Bosma Location: Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm (Sweden) Dates: 4-7 April 2019 Nieuwe Vide presented artist Data Bosma at Supermarket Art Fair 2019, Stockholm, Sweden. Bosma uses a large variety of media in her installations which results in creating a space or atmosphere. Her work researches the humane aspect in technology and on the web. Often the work is about desire or obsession shown afterwards in offline sculptures and spaces with the same intensity. Her most recent works go into the habit to observe certain online images constantly, within the security of their home, in search of things to feel a certain emotion or revisiting a certain memory. The spaces she creates evoke the same emotions but in a exaggerated manner, resulting into sometimes absurd or conflicting ambiences. Earlier she ao. curated the Pavillon: PINK PINK MOON for The wrong in 2018. FYI: The Wrong is the largest and most comprehensive biennale celebrating digital art today. https://thewrong.org/ SUPERMARKET is an international artist-run art fair that provides a showcase of artists’ initiatives from all over the world with the aim to display their unique projects and ideas, create opportunities for new networks on the Swedish and international art scene, and share the passion and vitality that are present in this sphere of the art world.https://www.supermarketartfair.com/ The presentation of Data Bosma won the Super M award for best fair stand. Press: a.o. Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, TV4 The world of K., or the prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy Artists: Michiel Westbeek, Daniël Dennis de Wit, Ivette ‘Mrova’ Zub, Elly Scheele & Carlijn Voorneveld Dates: 26th April- 23rd June 2019 The world of K., or the prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy’ was based on Franz Kafka’s book Der Prozess. Kafka (1883-1924) wrote the book between 1914 -15 and it was posthumously published in 1925. Der Prozess tells the story of bank clerk Jozef K who is arrested one morning without any apparent reason. Unclear legal proceedings are taken against him and he ends up in an absurdist world of obscure law court attendants and endless bureaucracy. How can we read and interpret a book like Der Prozess in this day and age? What is the role of absurdism within the context of our current political situation? Or is politics itself perhaps becoming a Kafkaesque scenario? The artists in ‘The world of K., or the prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy’, all reflected in their own way on themes from Kafka’s work. Specially for this exhibition they created new work in which both literature and social responsibility played a role. Press: Haarlems Dagblad Artists: Coco Duivenvoorde, Quinsy Gario & Jörgen Gario, Patricia Kaersenhout, We Sell Reality Texts by: Kalib Batta Dates: 6th of September – 3rd of November 2019 Concept: Lennard Dost Selection artists: Lennard Dost, Liesbeth Visee Curator: Liebeth Visee Photos 1 – 6 by Bogdan Andrei Bordeianu Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) is a complex, layered story of an anonymous black man who tries to find his way in early 20thcentury America. This existential bildungsroman is about the search for identity in a society that tries to make the individual assume all kinds of roles. The protagonist feels invisible because people around him refuse or are incapable of seeing his true self. This is played out against a backdrop of a racist society in which the main character struggles with contrasting visions and stereotypes of what a black man is or how he should behave. Invisible Man touched on themes that are still topical today, also in the Netherlands. Who is invisible in our society? Who has history made invisible? The power structures that dominate processes of (in)visibility are omnipresent but do we recognize them? In this exhibition artists took a critical look at the themes of Invisible Man in relation to our contemporary society. The exhibition wanted to stimulate a decolonial dialogue and created new concepts about how we can break the conventions and stereotypes that still control our actions and thinking. Decolonial means that one thinks about alternative ways to organize society; it dismisses current structures that are still influenced by colonial ways of thinking. This sometimes feels uncomfortable or challenging – we feel less safe when conventions fall away. But it creates room for new possibilities and stimulates discussion about an alternative future. Gearchiveerd onder: Projects Kunsthart Popview Copyright 2020 Lennard Dost · RSS Feed · Log in	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line602
__label__cc	0.655302	0.344698	Up against it. Barca home. Thread: Up against it. Barca home. May 6th, 2019, 11:29 AM #1 Strange to think this season has 2, maximum of three, games left. For a while there, we were all Robert Earl Keen, "The Road Goes On Forever, The Party Never Ends". This game against Barca is going to test Liverpool severely and all indications are that we will come up short. 3-0 down from the first leg, the lack of an away goal is looming larger and larger. So is the first priority to stop Barca getting one? Which would mean we'd need 5. If we manage to stop Barca, we still have to score 3 just to get to extra time. (As a sidebar, I've always thought that away goals should not count as double if scored in extra time. Liverpool had 90 minutes in Spain, Barcelona should have the same in England; extra time should be away goal neutral. But anyway...). We are without Firmino, Salah and Keita, three players who make just about most sides in the world, so let's not kid ourselves that our bench is deep enough. It's not, no one's would be, to withstand the loss of those three. Let's start with the defense. VVD, Matip and Robertson to start. The RB position is between Gomez and TAA. I completely understand Gomez in the first leg. With the exception of Man City in the first leg last season, TAA has too often looked vulnerable in big games. He handled Sane very well in that game, but too often he has struggled. A lot of this is down to having Salah rather than Firmino or Mane in front of him. Nevertheless, defensively, Gomez is the better option. But Gomez does not have the same elan and attacking verve that TAA has. You don't rack up 11 or 12 assists by accident. In many respects this choice will define the team's entire focus and approach. If Gomez, then it's a counter attacking game, keeping home safe; if TAA, it's heavy-metal, high-pressing, looking to overwhelm them early and often. Again, if TAA and we do manage to claw back 2 or 3, I could see Gomez replacing him late on. Midfield is a starker choice with Keita out. Fabinho, Wijnaldum and Henderson. With Milner lurking on the bench, probably going to see some minutes. Up front is where things should be interesting. Mane starts. Now who alongside him? Sturridge and Origi? I think not, not Sturridge anyway. I think the forgotten man, Shaqiri, sees a start here with Origi. As to how this game will end? Well I read somewhere that some statistician had worked out a 6% chance of success for Liverpool. And this was before Firmino and Salah were ruled out. So if the same person were to recalculate, I'd imagine we'd be down to about 1-2%. But football's not played on Excel sheets. Last season in the QFs, Barcelona hammered Roma 4-1 at the Camp Nou, setting up a mouthwatering SF with Liverpool. Except Roma destroyed Barca 3-0 in Rome, to put a stop to those plans. Essentially this is the same Barca team, so there is that. They fielded a B side in La Liga at the weekend (and lost) unlike us who have to be buoyed by the win and the manner of it against Newcastle. So there is that, too. Barca played almost the perfect game in the Camp Nou in the first leg, so you'd have to wonder if lightening strikes twice? So there's that, also. Putting everything together, I do see a chance for Liverpool, especially if they score early and go into the break not having conceded. I don't see them scoring 4 (removing the 90 minutes option) and I don't see them scoring 5 (overcoming Barca scoring), so that leaves score 3 over 120 minutes, concede none and go to penalties. Stranger things have happened; but my head says Barca to advance. Quick Navigation Liverpool Football Club Top LFCNY Supporters Club Non-Liverpool Football Domestic Competitions and News European Club Competitions International Competitions and Teams Non-Football Stuff Music, Books, TV and Movies Computers, Software and Technology Charities and Petitions Suggestions and Announcements Old Threads -- LFCNY -- Default Mobile Style LFC NY Supporters Club	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line604
__label__wiki	0.681947	0.681947	Advanced and Alternative Energy Advanced Propulsion Instruments - Controls - Electronics Tech Transfer - Research OhioMeansJobs.com Rodney Williams of Lisnr Meet Rodney Williams, founder of Lisnr, an app that is changing the way fans experience audio. How did you start your business? Lisnr was officially formed in March of 2012 by five members of Cincinnati, Ohio's Startup Bus bound for competition at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. Made up of Rodney Williams, Chris Ridenour, Chris Ostoich, Nikki Pfahler, and Josh Glick, that founding team is still with the company today. This team was the lead team winning the Ohio bus and ultimately securing a top-ten finish after making it to the semi-finals. How did you come up the idea for your business? Ideation started in January after I saw a need to connect to consumer and fans in a more convenient and tailored way. This led to the discovery and development of certain technologies that could deliver this experience in a way that changes how experiences are delivered to a mobile device. In summary, we’ve created a patent-pending technology that touches consumers while they are engaging in the things they love and that amplifies that experience to something totally new. What resources here did you take advantage of and how did they help? The StartupBus was extremely critical and valuable in the creation of Lisnr. Our entire team had fulltime obligations and we never had the time and resources in such a concentrated amount of time to launch such a big idea. The intent of the StartupBus is to create and launch a company in 72 hours. The 72 hours is filled with milestones, pitches and opportunities to connect to mentors and advisors along the way to SXSW. This was a catalyst for us. By the time we were off the bus, we had established many connections that led to us being funded by CincyTech within the next three months. Chris Ostoich was also an integral part of team’s ability to capitalize on the city’s resources. Chris Ridenour and Nikki Pfahler are also very connected in Cincinnati’s startup community; they are coordinators of Cincinnati’s Startup Weekend. Einstein once told us, “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” This curiosity -- and the passion to pursue it relentlessly -- fueled many inventions that continue to affect our world. Ideas and people that change the perspectives of our world today are my driving ambition. I remember the chills I felt when Steve Jobs said, “A thousand songs in your pocket,” when introducing the iPod. To me, innovation is that easy. Every day brings a chance to recreate the wheel of yesterday, the computer of today and the mind of tomorrow. What’s next for you and your company? We are launching our beta application in December with our seed round closing in the next 60 days. At the end of the 2012, we will hire two additional employees, and by mid next year, we should be entering or preparing our full launch. Interview by Robin Donovan Apps, Entrepreneurial Programs, Entrepreneurship, Technology Give us your email and we will give you our bi-weekly online magazine. Fair? Contact Us \| Privacy Policy \| Have a Tip? \| About hiVelocity \| hiVelocity Links \| Terms of Use \| RSS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line616
__label__cc	0.744093	0.255907	Why are some markets missing the inventory misery? What the fortunate metros tell us about how to cure the drought that has left the housing recovery dry and barren tab62 / Shutterstock.com by Steve Cook \| Though the nation is going through its third year of a chronic listings shortage, 10 percent of the 100 largest real estate metros are reporting more active listings now than they did a year ago. The positive inventory markets are made up of new home construction or the sales driven by falling rents or rising vacancy rates. At the end of the first quarter, inventories fell to their lowest levels since the beginning of the recovery and fell to a 3.8 months’ supply by the end of March. By April, tight supplies reached a point where they started crippling sales, which fell 2.4 percent. On a national basis, the total supply improved slightly in April, but the national inventory is still 9 percent below last year’s level, which was below the year before. We are now in the third year of an inventory drought that echoes conditions at the peak of the boom 10 years ago. National numbers are only aggregations of hundreds of markets, and they may be masking what’s going on at the ground level where people buy and sell homes. One out of 10 of the nation’s 100 largest markets had larger numbers of active listings at the end of March than they did 12 months earlier. Some of them aren’t doing as well as they normally do, and are barely in the black. Two are flush with properties. Why are some markets missing the misery and others are not? What can these fortunate metros tell us about how to cure the drought that has left the housing recovery dry and barren? Do they hold the key — or even clues — to a national inventory recovery? Secrets of inventory-positive markets Drawing on Q1 inventory data from realtor.com, which carries about 1.4 million active listings, 12 of the nation’s 100 largest markets report an annual increase in listings. The multiple listing services for two markets, Denver and Pittsburgh, reported that their positive investor counts had turned negative in April, so they were eliminated from the list. A cursory look at the list rings some bells. Palm Bay, Florida; Las Vegas; Cape Coral, Florida and Fresno, California; were all epicenters of the foreclosures that shook real estate markets following the housing bust in 2007. Thousands of homes became rentals and diminished the stock of ownership properties. The inventory of single-family rental houses grew dramatically to 12 percent of all housing units in 2015, up from 9 percent in 2006. The vast majority of these are owned by small investors with fewer than 10 rental properties. The Texas cities of Dallas, Houston, Austin and McAllen along with Tulsa, Oklahoma, are in a similar situation. They are centers of the oil industry boom (created by new technology like fracking) that took off in 2011. The boom created a large demand for housing. Austin’s housing shortage was also generated by a boom in its technology industry. With the decline in oil prices, employment had fallen and housing demand had diminished temporarily, which helped inventories recover. Sales are down 8.53 percent in Tulsa, and the decline in home values hit the housing market hard in McAllen. Today, McAllen ranks third in the national growth of underwater mortgages, up by 7,746 homes in the last quarter. However, in addition to layoffs, positive inventories in Texas and Oklahoma owe more to another force: new construction. The housing recession devastated homebuilders, and it has taken years for them to restock their supply of land and labor. The oil boom gave Texas builders a three-year head start in advance of the national housing recovery. With fewer regulatory constraints than most other states and more time to ramp up production, Texas now leads the nation in permits issued and housing starts, which in April were up 26.7 percent quarter-over-quarter, the strongest showing in more than a decade. Quarterly starts were up 4.6 percent in Dallas, 5.3 percent in Houston, and 5.8 percent in San Antonio. April new home sales in Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston and San Antonio rose more than 17 percent over 2016. MLSs serving markets like Dallas and Houston may also carry more new home listings in their inventories than other MLSs because of the success of HomesUSA, a platform for real estate agents to publish and manage builder inventory on the MLS. Are single-family rentals coming to the market? Four of the six markets on the positive inventory list are home to many single-family rentals. Rent and occupancy rates are critical factors for the landlords, and the landscape is changing for single-family rental (SFR) profitability. Today, the top markets for SFR profitability are in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Upstate New York, and the Carolinas; not California, Arizona, Nevada and Florida of the foreclosure era seven years ago. Moreover, some analysts believe that single-family rental growth has surpassed its peak growth rate and is decelerating. “It’s not clear that the economy and wages can continue to support the rapid rate of increase in rents that we’ve seen the past few years, which some single-family rental investors depend on,” ATTOM Data Solutions’ Daren Blomquist recently told National Real Estate Investor. “Tepid wage growth is far and away the most important limit on how much landlords can raise their rents. “We do see several bellwether markets where rents were basically flat — such as the Inland Empire of Southern California and Orlando, Florida — or even fell on average. Rents fell 1 percent over the last year in Las Vegas,” he said. An oversupply of rental properties can drive up the vacancy rate and eventually push rental rates down. High vacancies and falling rents are strong inducements to sell. Is that the case in the states where the single-family rental boom began? Some clues: In Florida last year, the highest fourth-quarter metro vacancy rates among houses for rent were 11.4 percent in Cape Coral-Fort Myers. Last year rents fell 1 percent in Las Vegas. Fresno SFRs fell 5 percent in July, ranking the city No. 7 nationally in biggest one-month price drops. By February, rents were up 2.2 percent but were falling in five local zip codes. A bellwether? Orlando didn’t make our list, but Blomquist cited it as a “bellwether” market, and it shows signs of joining the Florida markets where investors are selling. Like other Florida markets, it suffered a foreclosure flood and its booming, entertainment-based economy attracted international and institutional investors, like the Blackstone hedge fund. To date, Orlando shows no sign of recovering from the inventory drought. Through April, its overall inventory of homes was 17 percent below levels of a year ago. There was 16.5 percent fewer single-family homes and 20.6 percent fewer condos. That’s one reason sales were 4 percent lower than a year ago. It’s SFR effective rent growth is positive, growing at 4.8 percent in the fourth quarter of last year, but it is no longer a national leader in rental growth. “I don’t see any softening or rents. It’s just the opposite. The rental market is doing extremely well. Do I see some cashing out? Yes, I do. Through our MLS we can see what homes sold for and what they are selling for today. We see some of that,” said Bruce Elliott, president of the Orlando Regional Association of Realtors. However, Elliott maintains Orlando remains an excellent market for investors, including international investors. Portland, the outlier Portland barely made the list and didn’t fit into either category based on its Q1 inventories. It’s a popular destination for millennials and sales are hot; homes sell in 26 days on market. Prices are up 10 percent and competition remains intense because of the slim supply of homes on the market. As a result, homebuyers continue to bid home prices higher. Portland rents, rising at a record rate of 6.5 percent in the suburbs, are so high they are a political issue in the local city council election. New home construction is expensive, time-consuming and not a major source of new listings. Oregon’s land use planning laws make construction more difficult, driving up prices and making homes less affordable there. Developers are having a hard time getting financing for projects because of bank lending policies that have only recently begun to change. Portland’s first quarter positive inventory may be a seasonal aberration, but rising incomes may fuel demand for new construction despite the current regulatory barriers. A significant number of large markets — as much as 10 percent — are experiencing positive inventories. Two sources are filling the demand for new listings in these inventory-positive markets: new home construction and SFRs. Landlords in markets that were foreclosure hot spots are selling when rental rates stop growing or turn negative, or when vacancies grow too large. New homes are making more of a difference in markets where land use regulation is less restrictive and builders have had time to restock their supplies of land and labor. Markets with year-over-year inventory growth, Q1 2017 Rank by Inventory Market Active Listings, Year over Year New Listings, Year over Year Comments 1 Palm Bay FL 52% 6.7% Former foreclosure hotbed. 2 Las Vegas NV 28% 6.3% Single-family rents fell 1 percent over the last year. 3 Austin TX 14% 17.3% New construction is booming. 4 Dallas TX 13.7% 7.4% National leader in new construction. 5 Cape Coral-Fort Myers FL 10.8% 3.7% Highest SFR vacancy rate in the state in fourth quarter. 6 Fresno CA 10.5% 2.4% Rents rose 2.2 percent, but 5 Zip codes saw declining in February. 7 Houston TX 6.4% 12% New home inventories are up, sales up 17 percent. 8 McAllen TX 4.4% 16.2% Equity declining in the wake of decline in oil-related employment 9 Tulsa OK 3.9% -2.4% Oil-related employment down, home sales down 8.54 percent Portland OR 2.3% 4.6% Seasonal anomaly? Sources: realtor.com, local MLSs and news coverage. Steve Cook is editor and co-publisher of Real Estate Economy Watch. 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__label__cc	0.602251	0.397749	You are here: Genomes and Genes > human > VEGF-C vascular endothelial growth factor c vascular endothelial growth factor d vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 lymphangiogenesis lymphatic vessels vascular endothelial growth factor b vascular endothelial growth factor receptors autocrine communication lymphatic endothelium growth factor receptors neuropilin 2 placenta growth factor lymphatic vessel tumors claudins angiogenic proteins papillary adenocarcinoma decidua alpha subunit hypoxia inducible factor 1 lymphangiectasis lymphangitis ral gtp binding proteins follicular adenocarcinoma prostaglandin e receptors antisense oligoribonucleotides hantaan virus Genomes and Genes Vegfr-3 products VEGF products VEGFD products PTGS2 products Vegfc products HIF-1 alpha products vegfc VEGFB products Flt-1 products CCR7 products NRP2 products Flt4 products Lyve1 products Prox1 products Pecam1 products HER2 products MMP-2 products p50 products CXCR4 products MIR27B products Syk products STAT3 products kdrl products VEGF-C Gene Symbol: VEGF-C Description: vascular endothelial growth factor C Alias: Flt4-L, LMPH1D, VRP, vascular endothelial growth factor C, FLT4 ligand DHM, vascular endothelial growth factor-related protein Products: VEGF-C Top Publications Joukov V, Pajusola K, Kaipainen A, Chilov D, Lahtinen I, Kukk E, et al. A novel vascular endothelial growth factor, VEGF-C, is a ligand for the Flt4 (VEGFR-3) and KDR (VEGFR-2) receptor tyrosine kinases. EMBO J. 1996;15:290-98 pubmed ..In addition, VEGF-C stimulated the migration of bovine capillary endothelial cells in collagen gel. VEGF-C is thus a novel regulator of endothelia, and its effects may extend beyond the lymphatic system, where Flt4 is expressed. .. Ding M, Lin X, Fu X, Zhang N, Li J. Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor-C and angiogenesis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. World J Gastroenterol. 2006;12:4582-5 pubmed ..05). VEGF-C plays a role in lymphatic metastasis via lymphangiogenesis and angiogenesis in ESCC. VEGF-C is one of the important predictors of the biological behavior in ESCC. .. Bando H, Weich H, Horiguchi S, Funata N, Ogawa T, Toi M. The association between vascular endothelial growth factor-C, its corresponding receptor, VEGFR-3, and prognosis in primary breast cancer: a study with 193 cases. Oncol Rep. 2006;15:653-9 pubmed ..The intratumoral VEGF-C level is a significant prognostic indicator of primary breast cancer. An investigation of the mechanisms of VEGF-C protein processing in human cancer tissue should be carried out in the future. .. Mohammed R, Green A, El Shikh S, Paish E, Ellis I, Martin S. Prognostic significance of vascular endothelial cell growth factors -A, -C and -D in breast cancer and their relationship with angio- and lymphangiogenesis. Br J Cancer. 2007;96:1092-100 pubmed ..Examination of expression of VEGF-A and -C in breast cancer may be beneficial in the identification of a subset of tumours that have a higher probability of recurrence and metastatic spread. .. Wang T, Deng M, Qiu W, Dong W. Association of serum vascular endothelial growth factor-C and lymphatic vessel density with lymph node metastasis and prognosis of patients with gastric cancer. World J Gastroenterol. 2007;13:1794-7; discussion 1797-8 pubmed ..001), VEGF-C expression and LVD (both P = 0.000). SVEGF-C level, VEGF-C and LVD are related to LNM and poor prognosis of patients with gastric cancer. SVEGF-C may be a biomarker for LNM in gastric cancer. .. Hsieh C, Chen C, Chou C, Lai K, Jeng Y, Kuo M, et al. Overexpression of Her-2/NEU in epithelial ovarian carcinoma induces vascular endothelial growth factor C by activating NF-kappa B: implications for malignant ascites formation and tumor lymphangiogenesis. J Biomed Sci. 2004;11:249-59 pubmed b>Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is an important growth factor that governs lymphatic spread and the development of intraperitoneal tumors associated with epithelial ovarian cancer; however, its regulation is not yet .. Liu X, Sun X, Wu J. Expression and significance of VEGF-C and FLT-4 in gastric cancer. World J Gastroenterol. 2004;10:352-5 pubmed ..219). VEGF-C and its receptor FLT-4 play a role in the development of gastric cancer, and the tumors with expression of VEGF-C and FLT-4 are more likely to have lymph node metastasis. .. Aishima S, Nishihara Y, Iguchi T, Taguchi K, Taketomi A, Maehara Y, et al. Lymphatic spread is related to VEGF-C expression and D2-40-positive myofibroblasts in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Mod Pathol. 2008;21:256-64 pubmed publisher ..D2-40-positive myofibroblasts may contribute to lymphatic metastasis. .. Kimura Y, Watanabe M, Ohga T, Saeki H, Kakeji Y, Baba H, et al. Vascular endothelial growth factor C expression correlates with lymphatic involvement and poor prognosis in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Oncol Rep. 2003;10:1747-51 pubmed b>Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C), a member of VEGF gene family, is considered to induce both lymph node metastasis and lymphatic involvement in various cancers related to lymphangiogenesis... Scientific Experts Ph P Caffier Ding Ma Tiina Roose H Kim Lyerly Kim R Kampen Ingrid Naess Dörte Schulte Wenlong Huang Hai Qian G Marone Kari Alitalo Didier Y R Stainier Yasuyoshi Miyata A Summerfield Michał Nowicki Houjie Liang Rebecca Rachael Foster Benjamin M Hogan Javier Sarraseca M Josim Uddin Xiao Hua Zhang Marc G Achen Guofang Ding Jianwu Tang Adriana de Oliveira Camargo Gomes Steve Jeffery Peter Pabon Weikuan Gu Experts and Doctors on vascular endothelial growth factor c in Taiwan Experts and Doctors on humans in Taiwan Experts and Doctors on vascular endothelial growth factor c in Shanghai, Shanghai Shi, China Experts and Doctors on humans in Shanghai, Shanghai Shi, China Publications69 Masood R, Kundra A, Zhu S, Xia G, Scalia P, Smith D, et al. Malignant mesothelioma growth inhibition by agents that target the VEGF and VEGF-C autocrine loops. Int J Cancer. 2003;104:603-10 pubmed ..These results indicate that targeting VEGF and VEGF-C simultaneously may be an effective therapeutic approach for malignant mesothelioma. .. Tsai P, Shiah S, Lin M, Wu C, Kuo M. Up-regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor C in breast cancer cells by heregulin-beta 1. A critical role of p38/nuclear factor-kappa B signaling pathway. J Biol Chem. 2003;278:5750-9 pubmed b>Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is a critical activator of tumor lymphangiogenesis that recently has been strongly implicated in the tumor metastasis process... Inamine M, Nagai Y, Mitsuhashi A, Nagase S, Yaegashi N, Yoshikawa H, et al. Cigarette smoke stimulates VEGF-C expression in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) 1 and 2 lesions. Int J Clin Oncol. 2012;17:498-504 pubmed publisher ..No significant difference was observed among the HPV risk groups in both average Ki-67 and VEGF-C expression. These findings suggest that VEGF-C may play an important role in cigarette smoking-associated cervical carcinogenesis. .. Cho H, Kim I, Park S, Baek K, Nam I, Park S, et al. VEGF-C mediates RhoGDI2-induced gastric cancer cell metastasis and cisplatin resistance. Int J Cancer. 2014;135:1553-63 pubmed publisher ..Our results indicate that RhoGDI2 might be a potential therapeutic target for simultaneously reducing metastasis risk and enhancing chemotherapy efficacy in gastric cancer. .. Liu P, Zhou J, Zhu H, Xie L, Wang F, Liu B, et al. VEGF-C promotes the development of esophageal cancer via regulating CNTN-1 expression. Cytokine. 2011;55:8-17 pubmed publisher b>Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is a key regulator of angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis. VEGF-C is also implicated in the development of esophageal cancer... He M, Cheng Y, Li W, Liu Q, Liu J, Huang J, et al. Vascular endothelial growth factor C promotes cervical cancer metastasis via up-regulation and activation of RhoA/ROCK-2/moesin cascade. BMC Cancer. 2010;10:170 pubmed publisher The elevated expression of vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is correlated with clinical cervical cancer metastasis and patient survival, which is interpreted by VEGF-C functions to stimulate angiogenesis and lymphatic genesis... Kumar B, Chile S, Ray K, Reddy G, Addepalli M, Kumar A, et al. VEGF-C differentially regulates VEGF-A expression in ocular and cancer cells; promotes angiogenesis via RhoA mediated pathway. Angiogenesis. 2011;14:371-80 pubmed publisher ..Further, knockdown studies of RhoA even with supplementation of VEGF-C or A has resulted in decreased endothelial cell proliferation and stress fiber formation, indicating that VEGF-C does promote angiogenesis via RhoA mediated pathway. .. Khromova N, Kopnin P, Rybko V, Kopnin B. Downregulation of VEGF-C expression in lung and colon cancer cells decelerates tumor growth and inhibits metastasis via multiple mechanisms. Oncogene. 2012;31:1389-97 pubmed publisher ..These results are consistent with the idea of high potentiality of VEGF-C as a cancer drug target. .. Saintigny P, Kambouchner M, Ly M, Gomes N, Sainte Catherine O, Vassy R, et al. Vascular endothelial growth factor-C and its receptor VEGFR-3 in non-small-cell lung cancer: concurrent expression in cancer cells from primary tumour and metastatic lymph node. Lung Cancer. 2007;58:205-13 pubmed ..As VEGF-C/VEGFR-3 coexpression is very frequent in metastatic LN tumour cells, it can be hypothesised that this coexpression participates in the growth of LN metastasis. .. Chien M, Liu Y, Hsin C, Lin C, Shih C, Yang S, et al. Impact of VEGF-C gene polymorphisms and environmental factors on oral cancer susceptibility in Taiwan. PLoS ONE. 2013;8:e60283 pubmed publisher ..Gene-environmental interactions among VEGF-C polymorphisms, smoking, and betel-quid chewing might alter one's susceptibility to oral cancer. .. Leppänen V, Tvorogov D, Kisko K, Prota A, Jeltsch M, Anisimov A, et al. Structural and mechanistic insights into VEGF receptor 3 ligand binding and activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013;110:12960-5 pubmed publisher ..Taken together, our data show that ligand-dependent homotypic interactions in D5 and D7 are essential for VEGFR activation, opening promising possibilities for the design of VEGFR-specific drugs. .. Matsumura S, Oue N, Mitani Y, Kitadai Y, Yasui W. DNA demethylation of vascular endothelial growth factor-C is associated with gene expression and its possible involvement of lymphangiogenesis in gastric cancer. Int J Cancer. 2007;120:1689-95 pubmed ..0001). These results suggest that demethylation and activation of the VEGF-C gene is likely involved in lymphangiogenesis in GC. .. Su J, Chen P, Chien M, Chen P, Chen Y, Lai C, et al. Further evidence for expression and function of the VEGF-C/VEGFR-3 axis in cancer cells. Cancer Cell. 2008;13:557-60 pubmed publisher Timoshenko A, Chakraborty C, Wagner G, Lala P. COX-2-mediated stimulation of the lymphangiogenic factor VEGF-C in human breast cancer. Br J Cancer. 2006;94:1154-63 pubmed ..These results, for the first time, demonstrate a regulatory role of COX-2 in VEGF-C synthesis (and thereby lymphangiogenesis) in human breast cancer, which is mediated at least in part by EP1/EP4 receptors. .. Karkkainen M, Haiko P, Sainio K, Partanen J, Taipale J, Petrova T, et al. Vascular endothelial growth factor C is required for sprouting of the first lymphatic vessels from embryonic veins. Nat Immunol. 2004;5:74-80 pubmed ..Defects in lymphatic vessel formation or function cause lymphedema. Here we show that the vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is required for the initial steps in lymphatic development... Dias S, Choy M, Alitalo K, Rafii S. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C signaling through FLT-4 (VEGFR-3) mediates leukemic cell proliferation, survival, and resistance to chemotherapy. Blood. 2002;99:2179-84 pubmed ..These results identify the VEGF-C/FLT-4 pathway as a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of subsets of acute leukemia. .. Su J, Shih J, Yen M, Jeng Y, Chang C, Hsieh C, et al. Cyclooxygenase-2 induces EP1- and HER-2/Neu-dependent vascular endothelial growth factor-C up-regulation: a novel mechanism of lymphangiogenesis in lung adenocarcinoma. Cancer Res. 2004;64:554-64 pubmed ..Taken together, our results provided evidence that COX-2 up-regulated VEGF-C and promotes lymphangiogenesis in human lung adenocarcinoma via the EP(1)/Src/HER-2/Neu signaling pathway. .. Nakazato T, Shingaki S, Kitamura N, Saito C, Kuwano R, Tachibana M. Expression level of vascular endothelial growth factor-C and -A in cultured human oral squamous cell carcinoma correlates respectively with lymphatic metastasis and angiogenesis when transplanted into nude mouse oral cavity. Oncol Rep. 2006;15:825-30 pubmed ..Since VEGF-C is a lymphangiogenic factor, these results suggest that expression of VEGF-C is a useful predictor for LN metastasis. .. Nakashima T, Kondoh S, Kitoh H, Ozawa H, Okita S, Harada T, et al. Vascular endothelial growth factor-C expression in human gallbladder cancer and its relationship to lymph node metastasis. Int J Mol Med. 2003;11:33-9 pubmed Lymph node metastasis is a major prognostic factor in human cancer. Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is a lymphangiogenic polypeptide that has been implicated in several human solid tumors... Hong J, Kim T, Kim H, Park E, Yang E, Kim S. Genetic association of angiogenesis- and hypoxia-related gene polymorphisms with osteonecrosis of the femoral head. Exp Mol Med. 2010;42:376-85 pubmed ..0018-0.0037, OR>3). Collectively, our findings suggest that genetic variations in angiogenesis- and hypoxia-related genes may help to identify susceptibility factors for the development of ONFH in the Korean population. .. Sinn B, Darb Esfahani S, Wirtz R, Faggad A, Weichert W, Buckendahl A, et al. Vascular endothelial growth factor C mRNA expression is a prognostic factor in epithelial ovarian cancer as detected by kinetic RT-PCR in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue. Virchows Arch. 2009;455:461-7 pubmed publisher b>Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is a well described chemotactic and growth factor for lymphatic endothelial cells. Its inhibition leads to suppression of lymphatic and distant metastases in mouse models... Matsuura M, Onimaru M, Yonemitsu Y, Suzuki H, Nakano T, Ishibashi H, et al. Autocrine loop between vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C and VEGF receptor-3 positively regulates tumor-associated lymphangiogenesis in oral squamoid cancer cells. Am J Pathol. 2009;175:1709-21 pubmed publisher ..These findings together suggested that the VEGF-C/FLT-4 autocrine loop in tumor cells was a potential enhancer system to promote cancer progression, and FLT-4 in tumor tissue might become an effective target for cancer therapy. .. Shin H, Smith M, Toy K, Williams P, Bizios R, Gerritsen M. VEGF-C mediates cyclic pressure-induced endothelial cell proliferation. Physiol Genomics. 2002;11:245-51 pubmed ..Cyclic pressure is, therefore, a mechanical force that modulates endothelial cell functions (such as proliferation) by activating a specific transcriptional program. .. Schoppmann S, Birner P, Stockl J, Kalt R, Ullrich R, Caucig C, et al. Tumor-associated macrophages express lymphatic endothelial growth factors and are related to peritumoral lymphangiogenesis. Am J Pathol. 2002;161:947-56 pubmed ..In conclusion VEGF-C-expressing TAMs play a novel role in peritumoral lymphangiogenesis and subsequent dissemination in human cancer. .. Guo X, Chen Y, Xu Z, Xu Z, Qian Y, Yu X. Prognostic significance of VEGF-C expression in correlation with COX-2, lymphatic microvessel density, and clinicopathologic characteristics in human non-small cell lung cancer. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai). 2009;41:217-22 pubmed ..COX-2 and VEGF-C may play an important role in tumor progression by stimulating lymphangiogenesis. The inhibition of lymphangiogenesis, COX-2, or VEGF-C activity may have an important therapeutic benefit in the control of NSCLC. .. Witte D, Thomas A, Ali N, Carlson N, Younes M. Expression of the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 (VEGFR-3) and its ligand VEGF-C in human colorectal adenocarcinoma. Anticancer Res. 2002;22:1463-6 pubmed ..05), but not with lymph node metastasis or depth of tumor invasion. Our results suggest that VEGFs promote cancer growth not only by stimulating angiogenesis, but also by acting on receptors present on the cancer cells themselves. .. Feng L, Zheng X, Zhou L, Fu B, Yu Y, Lu S, et al. Correlation between expression of S100A4 and VEGF-C, and lymph node metastasis and prognosis in gastric carcinoma. J Int Med Res. 2011;39:1333-43 pubmed This semiquantitative immunohistochemical study investigated the clinical significance of S100A4 and vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) protein expression in gastric carcinoma... Gu Y, Qi X, Guo S. Lymphangiogenesis induced by VEGF-C and VEGF-D promotes metastasis and a poor outcome in breast carcinoma: a retrospective study of 61 cases. Clin Exp Metastasis. 2008;25:717-25 pubmed publisher ..LVD may serve as a predictor of lymph node metastasis and a prognostic factor in breast carcinoma. VEGF-C and VEGF-D play an important role in lymphangiogenesis making the carcinoma more aggressive and leading to a poor prognosis. .. Byeon J, Jung H, Lee Y, Lee D, Lee G, Myung S, et al. Clinicopathological significance of vascular endothelial growth factor-C and cyclooxygenase-2 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2004;19:648-54 pubmed ..Thus the investigation of VEGF-C expression in ESCC may assist in management planning. .. Kigure W, Fujii T, Sutoh T, Morita H, Katoh T, Yajima R, et al. The association of VEGF-C expression with tumor lymphatic vessel density and lymph node metastasis in patients with gastric cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Hepatogastroenterology. 2013;60:277-80 pubmed publisher ..The clinical observation that GIST rarely metastasizes to the lymph nodes may depend on the lack of VEGF-C expression. .. Ueda M, Terai Y, Yamashita Y, Kumagai K, Ueki K, Yamaguchi H, et al. Correlation between vascular endothelial growth factor-C expression and invasion phenotype in cervical carcinomas. Int J Cancer. 2002;98:335-43 pubmed ..0132) and VEGF-C tissue status emerged as an independent prognostic parameter (p = 0.0232). These results suggest that VEGF-C expression is closely related to invasion phenotype and affects the patient's survival in cervical carcinomas. .. Li D, Xie K, Ding G, Li J, Chen K, Li H, et al. Tumor resistance to anti-VEGF therapy through up-regulation of VEGF-C expression. Cancer Lett. 2014;346:45-52 pubmed publisher ..Our findings indicate that tumors may develop resistance to anti-VEGF therapy by activating the VEGF-C pathway. .. Wang C, Jedlicka P, Patrick A, Micalizzi D, Lemmer K, Deitsch E, et al. SIX1 induces lymphangiogenesis and metastasis via upregulation of VEGF-C in mouse models of breast cancer. J Clin Invest. 2012;122:1895-906 pubmed publisher Joukov V, Sorsa T, Kumar V, Jeltsch M, Claesson Welsh L, Cao Y, et al. Proteolytic processing regulates receptor specificity and activity of VEGF-C. EMBO J. 1997;16:3898-911 pubmed The recently identified vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) belongs to the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)/VEGF family of growth factors and is a ligand for the endothelial-specific receptor tyrosine kinases VEGFR-3 and .. Chen Y, Jiang L, She F, Tang N, Wang X, Li X, et al. Vascular endothelial growth factor-C promotes the growth and invasion of gallbladder cancer via an autocrine mechanism. Mol Cell Biochem. 2010;345:77-89 pubmed publisher ..In conclusion, GBC cells express both VEGF-C and its receptors. VEGF-C may have a role in the progressive growth and invasion of human GBC through an autocrine mechanism... Huang K, Sui L. The relevance and role of vascular endothelial growth factor C, matrix metalloproteinase-2 and E-cadherin in epithelial ovarian cancer. Med Oncol. 2012;29:318-23 pubmed publisher We investigated the correlation of vascular endothelial growth factor C, matrix metalloproteinase-2, E-cadherin to explore mechanisms of vascular endothelial growth factor C in the metastasis of ovarian cancer and the relationship of .. Su J, Yang P, Shih J, Yang C, Wei L, Hsieh C, et al. The VEGF-C/Flt-4 axis promotes invasion and metastasis of cancer cells. Cancer Cell. 2006;9:209-23 pubmed ..The VEGF-C/Flt-4 axis, through upregulation of contactin-1, may regulate the invasive capacity in different types of cancer cells. .. Zheng S, Huang R, Zhang Y. [Role of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and -9 and vascular endothelial growth factor C in lymph node metastasis of breast cancer]. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi. 2010;39:240-4 pubmed ..The expression of MMP-2, MMP-9 and VEGF-C in MCF-7 cells after gene transfection decreased significantly (P < 0.05). MMP-2 and MMP-9 in conjunction with VEGF-C, promote lymphangiogenesis and lymph node metastasis of breast cancer. .. Tanaka T, Ishiguro H, Kuwabara Y, Kimura M, Mitsui A, Katada T, et al. Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) in esophageal cancer correlates with lymph node metastasis and poor patient prognosis. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2010;29:83 pubmed publisher ..In addition, the indication of non-surgical therapy is gaining more attention. Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is potentially lymphangiogenic and selectively induces hyperplasia of the lymphatic .. Machnik A, Neuhofer W, Jantsch J, Dahlmann A, Tammela T, Machura K, et al. Macrophages regulate salt-dependent volume and blood pressure by a vascular endothelial growth factor-C-dependent buffering mechanism. Nat Med. 2009;15:545-52 pubmed publisher Joukov V, Pajusola K, Kaipainen A, Chilov D, Lahtinen I, Kukk E, et al. A novel vascular endothelial growth factor, VEGF-C, is a ligand for the Flt4 (VEGFR-3) and KDR (VEGFR-2) receptor tyrosine kinases. EMBO J. 1996;15:1751 pubmed Simiantonaki N, Jayasinghe C, Michel Schmidt R, Peters K, Hermanns M, Kirkpatrick C. Hypoxia-induced epithelial VEGF-C/VEGFR-3 upregulation in carcinoma cell lines. Int J Oncol. 2008;32:585-92 pubmed ..Our findings suggest that under hypoxic conditions an autocrine loop between VEGF-C/VEGFR-3 and HIF-1 alpha is possible in breast carcinoma and lung carcinoma but not in colorectal carcinoma cell lines. .. Foster R, Satchell S, Seckley J, Emmett M, Joory K, Xing C, et al. VEGF-C promotes survival in podocytes. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2006;291:F196-207 pubmed ..Together, these results suggest for the first time that VEGF-C acts in an autocrine manner in cultured podocytes to promote survival, although the receptor or receptor complex activated has yet to be elucidated. .. Kyzas P, Stefanou D, Agnantis N. COX-2 expression correlates with VEGF-C and lymph node metastases in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Mod Pathol. 2005;18:153-60 pubmed ..Also, the predictive ability for mortality of regional lymph node metastasis can be improved with the combined evaluation of the immunohistochemical expression of these two proteins. .. Jennbacken K, Vallbo C, Wang W, Damber J. Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) and VEGF receptor-3 in human prostate cancer is associated with regional lymph node metastasis. Prostate. 2005;65:110-6 pubmed b>Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) and its receptor, VEGFR-3, have been implicated as important factors in the formation of lymphatic vessels and recent evidence suggests that tumor lymphangiogenesis promotes lymphatic .. Kurahara H, Takao S, Maemura K, Shinchi H, Natsugoe S, Aikou T. Impact of vascular endothelial growth factor-C and -D expression in human pancreatic cancer: its relationship to lymph node metastasis. Clin Cancer Res. 2004;10:8413-20 pubmed ..017). VEGF-C and -D expression in tumor cells in the marginal portion of the tumor significantly associated with lymphatic metastasis and prognosis in patients with pancreatic head cancer. .. Tuomi L, Johansson M, Lindell E, Folkestad L, Malmerfors M, Finizia C. Voice Range Profile and Health-related Quality of Life Measurements Following Voice Rehabilitation After Radiotherapy; a Randomized Controlled Study. J Voice. 2017;31:115.e9-115.e16 pubmed publisher ..b>VRP area demonstrated a statistically significant difference when comparing changes over time, where the study group .. Li G, Yang F, Gu S, Li Z, Xue M. MicroRNA-101 induces apoptosis in cisplatin-resistant gastric cancer cells by targeting VEGF-C. Mol Med Rep. 2016;13:572-8 pubmed publisher ..In conclusion, the results of the present study suggested that miRâ€‘101 inhibited the proliferation and promoted DDPâ€‘induced apoptosis of DDPâ€‘resistant gastric cancer cells, at least in part via targeting VEGF-C. .. Yao L, Testini C, Tvorogov D, Anisimov A, Vargas S, Baluk P, et al. Pulmonary lymphangiectasia resulting from vascular endothelial growth factor-C overexpression during a critical period. Circ Res. 2014;114:806-22 pubmed publisher ..The findings indicate that VEGF-C overexpression can induce pulmonary lymphangiectasia during a critical period in perinatal development. .. Xu Q, Sun T, Tian H, Wang C, Zhou H. Ultrasound-mediated vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) gene microbubble transfection inhibits growth of MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Oncol Res. 2013;20:297-301 pubmed ..The present study highlights that VEGF-C siRNA in combination with ultrasound-mediated microbubble destruction (UMMD) could be a powerful, promising nonviral technology for breast cancer gene therapy. .. Kondo K, Kaneko T, Baba M, Konno H. VEGF-C and VEGF-A synergistically enhance lymph node metastasis of gastric cancer. Biol Pharm Bull. 2007;30:633-7 pubmed b>Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is the most important molecule in lymphangiogenesis and its relationship with lymph node metastasis has attracted considerable interest... Yamaguchi T, Fushida S, Yamamoto Y, Tsukada T, Kinoshita J, Oyama K, et al. Tumor-associated macrophages of the M2 phenotype contribute to progression in gastric cancer with peritoneal dissemination. Gastric Cancer. 2016;19:1052-1065 pubmed publisher ..Therefore, intraperitoneal TAMs are expected to be a promising target in the treatment of peritoneal dissemination in gastric cancer. .. Zuo S, Ji Y, Wang J, Guo J. Expression and clinical implication of HIF-1alpha and VEGF-C in non-small cell lung cancer. J Huazhong Univ Sci Technolog Med Sci. 2008;28:674-6 pubmed publisher ..HIF-1alpha and VEGF-C were over-expressed in NSCLC. They may be involved in the carcinogenesis of NSCLC, and play an important role in invasion and metastasis of NSCLC. HIF-1alpha and VEGF-C work synergically in the process of NSCLC. .. Marton I, Knezevic F, Ramic S, Milosevic M, Tomas D. Immunohistochemical expression and prognostic significance of HIF-1? and VEGF-C in neuroendocrine breast cancer. Anticancer Res. 2012;32:5227-32 pubmed ..Moreover, patients with NEBC exhibiting moderate or strong VEGF-C expression could be candidates for a specific VEGF-C antibody therapy. .. Cai X, Ma S, Gu M, Zu C, Qu W, Zheng X. Survivin regulates the expression of VEGF-C in lymphatic metastasis of breast cancer. Diagn Pathol. 2012;7:52 pubmed publisher ..The virtual slide(s) for this article can be found here: http://www.diagnosticpathology.diagnomx.eu/vs/9193530897100952. .. Jiang M, Gou H, Yang Y, Cao D, Hou M. [Relationship between clinicopathologic characteristics and expression of VEGF-C and VEGF-D in esophageal squamous cancer]. Sichuan Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban. 2009;40:240-4 pubmed ..691, P < 0.001). VEGF-C and VEGF-D might promote lymphatic metastasis by inducing lymphangiogenesis especially at the edge of esophageal squamous carcinoma tissue. .. Sahutoglu T, Sakaci T, Hasbal N, Ahbap E, Kara E, Sumerkan M, et al. Serum VEGF-C levels as a candidate biomarker of hypervolemia in chronic kidney disease. Medicine (Baltimore). 2017;96:e6543 pubmed publisher ..The lack of correlation between VEGF-C and EF may hold a promise to eliminate this common confounder. Further studies are needed to define the clinical utility of VEGF-C in volume management. .. DeMei M, XiangXin L, YongPing X, YongXia Y, YunHai Y, Lin Z. Vascular endothelial growth factor C expression is closely correlated with lymph node recurrence and poor prognosis in patients with early stage cervical cancer. J Int Med Res. 2013;41:1541-9 pubmed publisher ..These findings indicate that detection of VEGF-C mRNA has clinical potential as a predictor for identifying patients with pN0 cervical cancer at high risk of lymph node recurrence and poor prognosis. .. Kono M, Watanabe M, Abukawa H, Hasegawa O, Satomi T, Chikazu D. Cyclo-oxygenase-2 expression is associated with vascular endothelial growth factor C expression and lymph node metastasis in oral squamous cell carcinoma. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2013;71:1694-702 pubmed publisher ..Recently, cyclo-oxygenase-2 (COX-2) level has been found to correlate highly with vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) and lymph node metastasis, as in other solid tumors... Xiang Z, Zeng Z, Tang Z, Fan J, Sun H, Wu W, et al. 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__label__wiki	0.940594	0.940594	Monument Square Has New Accessory Staff Reports 08:03PM / Tuesday August 02, 2011 The inaptly named Monument Square was fenced in, courtesy of Berkshire Fence, on Monday. While we like the old-fashioned look, we're wondering how they're going to fit the Christmas tree behind that thing? Tags: Monument Square Taylor's Restaurant Changes Hands Andy McKeever 05:09PM / Thursday July 07, 2011 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — An employee at Taylor's Steak and Seafood on Holden Street has purchased the restaurant and will make it his own in August. Jared Decoteau has been working at the restaurant for the last two years, becoming good friends with owner Colleen Taylor. Decoteau had always wanted to run a restaurant, and when Taylor found herself and her brother and business partner Sean Taylor becoming increasingly busy with their own lives, what started as a casual conversation snowballed into a deal. "It's a feel-good thing. It all unfolded well," Colleen Taylor, who also owns the Freight Yard Pub, said on Thursday. "It feels good and it feels right." The transfer is pending the liquor license transfer that Decoteau expects in August. When that goes through, Taylor's will close down and Public Eat and Drink will open in the space. "I was looking to start up a place and she was looking to unload one," Decoteau said. "It's going to be a little more casual. It'll be some smaller plates and sandwiches — a little on the lighter side." Decoteau expects to go in front of the Planning Board on Monday for approval of his signs. He's already launched a Facebook page. Public will feature "casual and inventive" dining with live entertainment and a late-night bar menu. Most of the current staff will be retained and the inside will be redecorated a bit, he said. "I can't take over until the transfer is complete," Decoteau said. "There is a lot I'm still working out." The new full-service restaurant will be open from 5 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. most days. It will be closed on Tuesday and on Sunday it will be open for brunch. The Taylor siblings opened the restaurant in 2007, filling the vacant space that had been Gideon's. Colleen Taylor said the restaurant never went on the market because the owners had no intention to sell it immediately. And then the wheels started turning and the conversation became more serious. "It was a good opportunity for both of us," Taylor said. "There was a seed that was planted. We weren't even looking to do that." Decoteau said the two were casually discussing the exchange for about a year and the deal became serious. Now Decoteau will have a restaurant of his own and the Taylors get to sell the restaurant to a close friend. "You always, someday, want to sell your restaurant," Colleen Taylor said. "We're going back to the Freight Yard Pub and square-one." Tags: restaurant Transcript Building Sale Gets Final OK Tammy Daniels 06:59PM / Monday May 23, 2011 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Redevelopment Authority on Monday night swiftly approved the relocation of the Brien Center to the building now occupied by the North Adams Transcript at 124 American Legion Drive. The three-man board has jurisdiction over a group of properties on the south side of Main Street including the former Kmart property. The board had expected to meet on May 9 prior to the Planning Board but did not have a quorum. The approval was a bit pro forma — the City Council has already approved a tax incentive agreement for Scarafoni Associates, which will purchase the property and invest $1 million into it and then lease it to the nonprofit Brien Center. The TIF requires the property to stay on the tax rolls for the next decade, netting about $21,000 a year for the city. Mayor Richard Alcombright said he'd spoken with Brien Center's Executive Director Catherine A. Doherty months ago on how to keep the center's services in the city once its lease ran out on the Marshall Street building it currently occupies. "We worked very hard together to make sure the Brien Center stayed in the city of North Adams because it provides a very important service for many clients in the community, and also that we were able to maintain them here because of the jobs that they provide," said the mayor. The center employs 60 to 65 people full and part time; added to that will be the 10-member staff of the Adult Day Center, which will also move into the 16,000-square-foot Transcript building. The deal maintains the building, the jobs in the downtown and ensures the city a quarter of a million dollars in tax revenue over the next decade, the mayor said. Authority Chairman Paul Hopkins asked David Carver of Scarafoni Associates if the Transcript was expected to stay in the downtown area. Carver said yes and that he had approached the newspaper's management about what they would need for space when the building went up for sale two years ago. Alcombright said having staff from the 170-year-old newspaper on Main Street was a good thing. "I think to have a daily in a community this size sends a strong message about who we are," said the mayor, comparing the paper to the hospital, college and airport. "They understand the importance of that history so they are focusing on one of the spots on Main Street," said Carver. Signage is the responsibility of the Brien Center and will be provided at a later date. Carver said he expected it would be similar to the logo used at its other locations. The City Council actually approved the TIF agreement twice after MassDevelopment suggested minor changes to the language. The council also OK'd an application to designate the Transcript property as part of a economic opportunity area for the next 20 years to allow Scarafoni to apply for state incentives. The TIF, MassDevelopment application and related documents can be found below. Scarafoni_Transcript Applications & Agreement Tags: Transcript, Scarafoni, Brien Center 'Tent City' Raises Safety, Sanitation Concerns Tammy Daniels 01:00AM / Thursday May 05, 2011 The Board of Health heard concerns about the tent city planned for Noel Field this June. At the table are secretary Dianne Hein, Health Inspector Manual Serrano and Chairman David Polumbo, Brendon Bullett and John Moresi. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Board of Health will decide on the limits of a "tent city" planned at Noel Field Athletic Complex to house Wilco fans despite protests from local campgrounds. A public hearing on the so-called Solid Ground on Wednesday night drew only a few people who expressed concern over health and safety issues. The board said it would take their comments under consideration but insisted that it would set the final conditions. The city is proposing up to 300 tent sites on the soccer field to house concertgoers to the Solid Sound Festival this June 24-26 at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Solid Ground was prompted in large part by the dearth of hotel rooms and overflowing campgrounds at last year's August event. Steve Daniels, co-owner of Shady Pines Campground in Savoy, continued to express his concern over sanitation and state guidelines related to the site. Daniels and other campground owners had protested Solid Ground last month at a meeting with Mayor Richard Alcombright and Charles Kaniecki, district health officer for the state Department of Public Health. Daniels sent a large package to the board outlining concerns and referring to the state's housing guidelines in relation to information provided by Kaniecki. But health officials said the material didn't apply in this case. "Ninety percent of what you gave us was about housing, about rented apartments, living space ... this is not permanent living space," said Chairman David Polumbo. Health Inspector Manual J. Serrano said the temporary housing fell under the auspices of the Board of Health, which can set the number of tent sites and sanitation requirements. "If we didn't have the temporary housing capabilities in the housing code, you wouldn't have carnivals, you wouldn't have circuses, you wouldn't even have the Big E ... that all falls under temporary housing," he said. "I believe it is unsafe and I'm still protesting this situation," said Daniels. The camping is being operated by the ROPES program, which is staffed by volunteers almost entirely from local police, fire and ambulance departments. Police Lt. David Sacco, representing ROPES at the meeting, said the group's purpose was to facilitate whatever whatever was asked. "If you want 12 portapotties down there we'll put in 12, if you want 24, we'll put in 24." Local business owner Jennifer Barbeau said she hoped it was successful but wondered if the scale of the event was too much for an all-volunteer group. She suggested using Windsor Lake and History Valley Campground for overflow. Robert M. Moulton Jr. said he was concerned that there would too many people at the site and about the damage to the field. "Potentially, maybe a 100 tents could be posted there, where we have showers already in place and system in place," she said. Robert M. Moulton Jr., also a local businessman and a former city councilor, also objected to the scale, noting up to 1,200 people could potentially be on the field damaging it. "I'd like to see how this goes," he said, but added, "I think it's going to hurt businesses ... I think there's more of a downside than an upside." Any profits from the tent city will used first to repair any damage to the field, city officials have said. Ernest Gamache, who operates a used-car dealership abutting the field, said he was concerned about policing and restrooms. "I'm in favor of the whole idea because I know what this can do for the city," said Gamache. "But I've got a big investment and that's what I'm worried about." "Our intention is to increase the visibility of police down there, Ernie," responded Sacco, who said there will be a regular police presence and command center in addition to the volunteers. "We are cognizant of your business ... we'll keep an extra eye on it." About 140 tent sites, with a maximum of four people, have been reserved so far through the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Historic Valley is filled and has a waiting list. Palombo said the board will issue its decision at a later date. That will likely be next week when it also hears a request for a temporary housing permit for Northern Berkshire Relay for Life, which annually hosts hundreds of Relay team members for 24 hours at Noel Field. Tags: Wilco, camping, Board of Health City, College Look at How to Draw Students Downtown Tammy Daniels 11:56PM / Tuesday April 26, 2011 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — College students are looking for more retail variety and information about events in the downtown. They also feel pretty safe in the city and would like more recreational opportunities. The data comes from a survey done by Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts seniors Corey Brown and Meghan McMahon, who presented the information to the City Council on Tuesday night. The project, part of a class with professor Nancy Ovitsky, was designed to find out what would draw students from the Church Street college to the city's main retail center. Councilor David Bond had met with the students in January as part of conversations about how better to tap into the college's 1,000-odd population. Brown said 160 students responded to the survey, citing they would like more restaurants (including a bakery and health food) and more retail outlets, especially sports or discounters like TJ Maxx. "A lot of the students, what they're looking for is for businesses to stay open longer," said Brown. Councilor Lisa Blackmer agreed that later hours would be nice but said the city had little control over businesses opening. She wondered if retailers were doing their best to reach out to students. Meghan McMahon and Corey Brown, seniors at MCLA, said students were interested in the city but often didn't know what was happening or available downtown. McMahon said social media was the best way to reach students now, a situation that had changed dramatically since she'd entered college. "It used to be coupons in our mailboxes but now students just throw them away." Students want to do things in North Adams and the area, she said, but many venues were not easily accessible, such as Greylock Bowl. Students would like to see more recreational activities, such as bowling or a skateboard park, closer to the college and have more information about events. "I think the students would like to see a lot more marketing to those events downtown," McMahon said. In response to a question by Councilor Alan Marden, McMahon and Brown said they had not included Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in the survey because it was a major attraction and the college was already heavily involved with the museum. Both students and councilors agreed that the city could not be described as a "college town." Mayor Richard Alcombright said he was working with the college on coordinating sidewalk clearance during the winter and would look into more lighting around the Pitcher's Mound, which some students felt was unsafe. He also held out some hope that the city would be able to move forward with a basic skateboard park at MoCA. "We do see a great change from being a freshman," said McMahon. "I think we can make it better. There are other college towns much bigger than this that we could get ideas from." Councilor Keith Bona noted that students will spend if they find something they like. He said the college clientele at his Main Street store had increased tenfold. "I didn't think college students liked antiques but they do ... ." In other business, the council: • Put off a recommendation to adopt the state's anti-idling statute until it could be submitted in order form. • Appointed Aurora Cooper, a student at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, to the Youth Commission. • Referred to the Community Development Committee a request to change all or a section of Grimes Street to Cascade Way at the request of Cascade School Supplies. • Read through a lengthy list of committee reports. Tags: students, survey Page 1 of 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Voting Registration Deadlines :: Preliminary Election: Deadline to register is Wednesday, Sept. 7. (Office open from 8 to 8.) :: General Election: Deadline to register is Tuesday, Oct. 18 Registration can be completed at the city clerk's office at City Hall. Absentee ballots are now available at the city clerk's office for the Sept. 27 preliminary city election. Voters may come in between the hours of 8 and 4:30 weekdays. Written reguests for mailed ballots can be sent to City Clerk's Office, 10 Main St., North Adams, MA 01247. Deadline for absentee ballots is Monday, Sept. 26, at noon. The preliminary election will be held Tuesday, Sept. 27, to narrow the field of three mayoral candidates to two. The general election to select nine city councilors and a mayor will be held Tuesday, Nov. 8. Returned Papers As of 8/9 at 5 p.m. Lisa M. Blackmer* Yes Michael Bloom Yes Keith Bona* Yes David Bond* Yes Marie Harpin* Yes Alan Marden* Yes John Barrett Yes Eric R. Buddington Yes Nancy P. Bullett Yes Robert Cardimino Yes Catherine Chaput Yes Roland G. Gardner Diane M. Gallese-Parsons Yes Shane Gaudreau James B. Gyurasz Yes Michael Hernandez Yes Jennifer Breen Kirsch Yes Brian L. Flagg Kellie A. Morrison Yes Greg Roach Yes Gail Kolis Sellers Yes 18 candidates returned papers Richard J. Alcombright* Yes Ronald A. Boucher Yes Robert Martelle Yes Preliminary election will eliminate one Mary Lou Accetta* Yes Lawrence K. Taft* Yes Leonard Giroux Jr. Yes Tara J. Jacobs Yes David Lamarre Yes McCann School Committee George M. 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__label__cc	0.630628	0.369372	Making a fortune by managing misfortune... BREAKING >> CONFIRMED: VATICAN OFFICIAL TIED TO BP, GOLDMAN-SACHS, AND MEDIA CENSORSHIP IN THE OIL FIASCO INCREASING EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY Tetrahedron, LLC Health Science Communication for People Around the World BREAKING NEWS FEATURE Release: No. 8-CHASE-42 Date Mailed: June 9, 2010 Contact: Rhonda Ghoade - 949-715-2217; info@healthyworldaffiliates.com VATICAN OFFICIAL TIED TO BP, GOLDMAN-SACHS, AND MEDIA CENSORSHIP IN THE OIL FIASCO INCREASING EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY by Sherri Kane and Leonard G. Horowitz News unfolding from the oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico has linked media censorship to investment bankers at Goldman Sachs (GS) stewarding the Vatican's wealth, and increasing evidence that the explosion was intended. A near total news blackout from independent sources, and arrests of anyone caught photographing and filming the devastation, show the Halliburton-British Petroleum (BP) oil crisis is being criminally controlled, implicating some of Wall Street's heaviest hitters. According to a report issued by frightened, yet faithful, documentary filmmaker, James Fox, interviewed from the Gulf's Grand Isles by Mel Fabregas on the Internet's Veritas Radio Show, "There is a complete media blackout" on news coverage broadcast from the region. "They are arresting people with cameras and anyone off camera that is caught talking to a reporter," Fox testified. Another reporter told Fox,"You call this a free country? Right here, in the United States of America, there's no freedom of press. There's no freedom of speech. They're closing down the airspace above the oil spill, so reporter's can't fly over to determine how bad these oil plumes really are." Suspicious pieces of this deadly puzzle feature Halliburton, the world's second largest oil field services company, headquartered in Houston and Dubai, whose negligence is blamed for the timely and profitable explosion. Three weeks before the "natural gas leak," the George Bush/Dick Cheney 9-11-linked Halliburton company negotiated the purchase of the world's largest oil-spill cleanup firm (Boots & Coots) at the exact time keen observers on Wall Street - financial intelligence agents at Goldman Sachs (GS; often called "Government Sachs") - unloaded 44% of their stock in BP. These facts parallel the shorting of airline stocks by those in the know prior to the World Trade Center (WTC) 9-11 attacks that new scientific evidence proves were followed by building demolitions, given the red thermite incendiary powder found everywhere around ground zero. The WTC lessor, Larry Silverstein, partnered with Lloyd Blankfein of GS in the little known Partnership for New York City (PFNYC), took out a General Electric insurance policy just six weeks before the attacks. PFNYC "partners," in charge of assessing financial damages to NYC, and reconstruction plans for the WTC, obviously "veered" insurance payoffs and additional private equity investments to Las Vegas for the construction of the 9-11 memorial - speciously called the "Veer Towers" in the "New World Center." (Watch PHARMAWHORES, the movie; 1-888-508-4787.) Blankfein, the PFNYC Co-Chairman and GS CEO, was barraged with indictments and rising media infamy regarding Goverment Sachs's conflicting interests effectively demolishing the US economy through the "shorting" of the housing industry - scrutiny suspended by Halliburton's oil rig synchronously exploding most profitably for GS and its CEO. GS is covertly invested in the Bush-Cheney-linked Halliburton Company according to veteran observers. GS and Halliburton both had massive financial incentives to cause the profitable explosions - the three 9-11 WTC building demolitions, and the most recent "accident" in the Gulf. The media's gross neglect of the full extent of the crisis obviously supports GS's damage control and incriminating connections. These include Blankfein's PFNYC Co-Chairman, Rupert Murdoch, and their pernicious influence over the major networks and the PFNYC - the world's leading petrochemical-pharmaceutical-biotechnology consortium profiting from death, disease, and environmental destruction. This unholy alliance best explains the media's aversion to responsible reporting in the Gulf and elsewhere. Besides Blankfein and Government Sachs backing stock in both BP and Halliburton, another red oil-drenched herring is Peter D. Sutherland (right) - the outgoing Chairman of BP is also the current Non-Executive Chairman of Goldman Sachs International. The scariest part of this whole story is that Mr. Sutherland, the man standing with one foot in GS, and the other on the burning Halliburton-BP oil rig, is the Consultor of the Extraordinary Section of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See. In other words, Sutherland is the chief financial adviser to the Pope. In 2010, Mr. Sutherland finished a 13-year stint as Chairman of BP, Europe's largest oil company. A former Attorney General of Ireland, he is President of the Federal Trust for Education and Research, a British think tank whose efforts might better be called corporatist indoctrination than trustworthy "education." He is Chairman of The Ireland Fund of Great Britain, and a member of the advisory council of Business for New Europe - a pro-New-World-Order European think-tank based in Britain. From 1993-95, Sutherland was the Director-General of the World Trade Organization. In January 2006, the current Non-executive Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, was appointed by United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, as his Special Representative for Migration. Now, ironically, Sutherland's mission impossible is to migrate marine flora and fauna, fishermen, and coastal residents out of harm's way in this spreading international emergency. NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Sherri Kane, previously a news writer for FOX News in Los Angeles, is a freelance investigative journalist and Co-Founder, with Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, of Healthy World Organization (HWO) currently advancing as an alternative to the duplicitous World Health Organization (WHO). To request interviews e-mail: info@healthyworldaffiliates.com E-bulletin circulated by: ECETI - Enlightened Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Send email to ecetievents@gmail.com AWESOME BOOKS AND VIDEOS covering UFOs their origins and intentions, Earth Changes, the origin and history of humanity and the Earth, Healing unseen negative influences and the path to awakening and healing. http://www.eceti.org/Eceti-Store/Eceti.Store.html "Pass them on to a friend." ALEX JONES INTERVIEWS LINDSEY WILLIAMS Posted by Starmandala at 3:18 PM Labels: Anunnaki bloodlines, Bilderbergs, BP, Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, New World Order, The Vatican semuanya OK kot said... None of this applies to drilling in Malaysia, which is protected by Bomoh Technology (R). Believe it or not, to save cost, some offshore drilling here is done using ships instead of fixed rigs. June 15, 2010 at 2:17:00 PM GMT+8 "Delusions… expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships in philosophy; if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, [they] lead to dictatorships. Certified lunatics are shut up because of the proneness to violence when their pretensions are questioned; the uncertified [ones] are given control of powerful armies…" - Prof. Bertrand Russell, Power…, 1938 Many talk of castrating or hanging rapists, but those causing far more harm to millions with their horemone-driven fantasies of power get away. The soldiers from the "free" world probably thought (if they could think through the drugs and rock music they were fed) that they were bringing the gift of civilization with their depleted uranium shells to the Balkans and Iraq. The compound interest on this and other such gifts is accumulating, and this oil spill could be considered a dividend payment. As for the Vatican, a simple "begging for forgiveness" ought to clear things up. BEST OF THE BLOGS THIS WEEK Gulf of Mexico: Will the Gas Bubble Burst? A Wishbone Ash retrospective THIS NEWS REPORT MADE MY DAY	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line633
__label__wiki	0.730787	0.730787	Mark Greaves Features writer and editor Spotting lung cancer early is crucial. Here’s what you should know January 5, 2016 by Mark Greaves This article was first published at Spectator Health on 17 December 2015. Britain tends to lag behind other European countries in terms of its cancer survival rates. A few years ago this was most definitely the case with lung cancer. In 2005 only nine per cent of patients survived for five years after diagnosis. Now, after a remarkable jump in progress, it is predicted that for those diagnosed in 2013 the rate will be 16 per cent — still low, but actually only slightly behind world-leading rates such as Sweden’s or North America’s. The reason, says Dr Mick Peake, clinical lead for the National Cancer Intelligence Network, is a massive increase in specialist surgeons — up from 40 to more than 80. Previously about half of lung operations had been performed by heart surgeons. This greater expertise means that surgery is much more commonly a treatment. And, for lung cancer patients, surgery is by far the best option. If caught early enough the tumour can simply be cut out — vastly preferable to gruelling rounds of chemo and radiotherapy. Dr Peake cites two other factors in the improvement in Britain’s rates. One is data. From 2004 data was collected on hospitals’ performance on lung cancer. (Some hospitals’ results were alarmingly poor, says Dr Peake.) The other is more surgeons joining multidisciplinary teams to assess patients’ treatment. An expert surgeon is then well-placed to decide if surgery might be possible. For lung cancer, even more so than for most other cancers, early diagnosis is crucial. Four in 10 cases are spotted during some sort of emergency hospital admission. In these cases the survival rate is very low – 12 or 13 per cent are alive after a year. But if you are diagnosed after a GP referral your chances of surviving go up to nearly 50 per cent. These figures are undeniably bleak. But to improve our odds of beating lung cancer, and to lower the death rate generally, there are two things we should know — what the early symptoms are and whether we are likely to be at risk. So, risk. About 85 per cent of cases are caused by smoking. The other biggest cause is a natural gas called radon, which is present in higher levels in Cornwall, Wales and the north of England. (An interactive map is here.) A small percentage of cases is explained by second-hand smoking and air pollution. Symptoms, unfortunately, aren’t easy to spot. An advertising campaign had the line: ‘Been coughing for three weeks? Tell your doctor.’ Actually, says Dr Peake, it’s not that simple. Most smokers have some kind of permanent cough — so often the warning sign is when that cough changes. Dr Peake explains: ‘It becomes more persistent, or more frequent, and it might start disturbing your sleep. You often produce more phlegm or the phlegm alters in some way, becomes slightly discoloured or green or has blood in it. Or sometimes it might hurt a bit when you cough, or you have might chest pain.’ Most people, Dr Peake suggests, are aware that something has changed. ‘They might say “I had a cough for six weeks” – actually they had a cough for five years,’ he says, but its character altered six weeks ago. For some, though, there is not even a cough. In that case, what to look out for is ‘any new symptoms — breathlessness, weight loss, chest pain — that do not go away’. The threshold for concern should be very low, Dr Peake says. ‘A lot of people are very reticent about disturbing their GP,’ he says. But most lung cancers will be picked up by a single chest X-ray, so there is no downside to a check-up. The latest figures have been compiled by the UK Lung Cancer Coalition, an alliance set up to raise survival rates. They were released in its report Ten Years On: The Changing Landscape of the UK’s Biggest Cancer Killer. Filed Under: Health Tagged With: lung cancer I am a freelance and staff journalist based in London. I work as news editor of the Catholic Herald. Until June 2017 I edited Spectator Health, a site focused on health news and analysis launched by the Spectator. I also shift as a subeditor at the Guardian and write features mainly for the Spectator and the Times. On this website you can read about recycled graves, bankers reforming the CofE and Christians facing ISIS. You can also read my interviews with Joanna Lumley, artist Peter Howson, and the novelist Marilynne Robinson. markmgreaves@gmail.com The sociable hermit 'I've had a beautiful life' 'Jesus would have been a good punk' Interview with a writer: David Mitchell 'We rot. Don't we?' 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__label__wiki	0.746741	0.746741	The Bachelor Episode #4 -- A Review I should really be playing Assassin’s Creed III right now. They’re not messing around anymore. Sean is wandering around in his underwear. How long until he’s just parading around naked for the first three minutes of the show? First Date — Selma The date card reads, “Let’s turn up the heat.” That’s probably because Selma is hot. Or it’s a reference to the Homeland Security agents who will come arrest her because she is of Iraqi descent. Leslie H. cries because she didn’t get the date. She’s real bad at counting. No major injury from Tierra before this week’s date. Selma is super excited about the private jet and even though she’s wearing workout gear, she’s wondering what glamorous place they’ll be whisked off to. They are dropped off in the middle of the desert. She says, “He took the Iraqi to the desert. I do not do well in heat.” So that’s their problem? I mean, besides the nonexistent WMDs. They hop in a Jeep to go rock climbing. Is it a surprise that she claims to be afraid of heights? She starts out slow and then finds her rhythm and powers to the top. In fact, she leaves Sean in the dust at one point. For dinner, they go to a tiny RV park with four different themed RVs. They don’t actually use the RVs, they sit outside because that’s where the producers have set up the lights. He tells her about the serious girlfriend he didn’t want to marry. She tells him she grew up in a strict, conservative home. She was born in Baghdad and was raised a Muslim therefore she doesn’t want to kiss him on TV. He says he understands. Wait, I don’t understand. Is she not kissing him because of her religious beliefs or because of her mom? I’m willing to overlook the religious beliefs excuse but the mom excuse is lame. Be your own damn person. In her one-on-one interview she says, “We’ll have to wait until I’m his only lady.” Good luck with that. You’ve also just taken yourself out of consideration for being the next Bachelorette. Group Date — Lindsay, Robyn, Jackie, Catherine, Amanda, AshLee, Sarah, Tierra The date card reads, “I’m looking for a woman who can roll with the punches.” Guess what? Tierra is pissed she didn’t get a one-on-one date. Lindsay says, “I think we’re getting into those big hamster ball things and rolling down a hill.” I think we should climb inside your skull and have an echo contest. The girls will be playing Roller Derby. Tierra is excited to knock some people down. Sean says, “Amanda and Tierra are going to be really aggressive.” So observant. Amanda tells everyone she’s done this before. She hasn’t done this before. She’s playing mind games. Sarah is struggling. She says, “It’s hard.” SO articulate. She wants to quit. AshLee says, “Sarah, to me, has no disability.” The worst kind of condescension is the well-meaning kind. Sean tells Sarah he doesn’t care if she does it or not. She does it. Amanda is busy making everyone look bad until she bites it and hits her chin on the floor. The medic tells her she may have a broken jaw. She goes to the hospital. Sean bails everyone out of the Roller Derby game and they have a free skate instead. Boring. In the evening they head to the roof of a hotel for drinks. Amanda is not there. Sarah says to Sean, “Today was a good day, right?” Sean, “Is that a question?” Sarah, “Yes?” Pretty much everything she says is a question. Amanda suddenly appears. She tells us that she’s going to milk this for all it’s worth. She tells him its really painful and swollen. He says he can’t tell. He gives her a little kiss what he calls a “tiny bump on your chin.” While Sean is making out with Lindsay, Tierra and Robyn get into a fight. Tierra freaks out and tells the producers she wants to go home. Meanwhile, Lindsay has talked Sean into getting into the hot tub. Really? He’s going to bail on all the other girls just sitting on the roof to go hang out in the hot tub with Lindsay? This is the underrated storyline here. Because… …Tierra meets Sean and Lindsay before they can get into the hot tub. She pulls him away and tells him how hard this is. Classic sympathy rose move. He talks her into staying and he gives her the rose. One time I want to see the Bachelor send a girl home when she pulls this shit. One time. Never gonna happen. Second Date — Leslie H. The date card reads, “Could this be forever?” It comes with diamond earrings. Again, this is not going to be forever. It’s probably not even going to be for tonight. “Ohmygod, I slept with these earrings under my pillow,” says the most annoying girl on the planet. I wish I could impersonate her voice here. She sounds like the dumb dog from a cartoon. He takes her to Rodeo drive to go shopping. You know, like in Pretty Woman. She says it’s a dream come true. Because she’s a prostitute? I guess we’re not supposed to think this all the way through, huh? They buy a dress, shoes and a super expensive necklace. When she comes out in the last dress, Sean says, “I think that’s the one.” She says, “Winner, winner, chicken dinner.” Nothing says classy like a chicken dinner. The only thing more boring than watching people shop is watching people slowly skate in a circle. They talk about past relationships and it’s clear she has no idea how to interact with a human being. He tells her that he didn’t feel the romantic connection click. He doesn’t give her the rose. As she leaves she tells him to watch out for some of the “girls who have roses who aren’t there for the right reasons.” Hmmm, who could that be? As she drives away, Ben Taylor plays to no one as Sean dramatically drops the rose to the floor. Poignant, Repetitive Reality Show. The Cocktail Party Sean and AshLee make out. Sean says, “She doesn’t let the other girls get to her and I love that about her.” AshLee, to me, has no disability. Robyn tells Sean she has some pickup lines prepared and she tries one about chocolate (you know, because she’s black). It sounds way more dumb than it actually is, though it’s still pretty dumb. Also, lets cheer the fact that we’ll finally have at least three non-whites who will be invited to the After show. Tierra pulls Robyn and Jackie (why Jackie?) aside and apologizes to them but tells them it’s their fault for making her be a bitch to them. She tells them that she wishes that they would just focus on themselves like she’s doing. Sometimes the jokes write themselves. Tierra tells Sean, “It’s been hard. For some reason girls have a hard time accepting me for who I am.” Girls? Like every girl you’ve ever known? So the entire female gender is the problem? That probably exactly right. Sean says, “I think you are your own worst enemy and you freak yourself out.” She disagrees and then tells him she’s worried about the other girls changing his opinion of her. But she’s only worrying about herself. Catherine Sean a card with her lipstick on it as a way to tell her she wants to kiss him. They walk off so they can make out. VEGAN MAKE OUT! Selma and Tierra have roses. The roses are handed out in this order: Catherine, Desiree, Lindsay, Leslie, Robyn, AshLee, Sarah, Jackie, Daniella Amanda goes home. Really? He saw through her bullshit but he can’t see through Tierra’s? I’m not complaining. She had an annoying smile. “Heartbreak is such a difficult emotion. It’s not fair. I feel stupid.” At one point she tilts up her chin for the camera as if to remind us that he sent the girl home who went to the hospital. Good for him. They are going to subject us to two episodes next week. Fortunately, I will be traveling for work so I won’t be able to review either of the episodes. You’ll have to imagine all the snarky things I’ll write about. My prediction: Tierra gets pissed. Other girls get pissed at Tierra. Someone gets stabbed. Labels: Chris Harrison, Sean Lowe, The Bachelor	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line650
__label__wiki	0.503405	0.503405	Search Results Summary: Matching titles: 51–56 of 56 Second Language Acquisition » Series Editors: David Singleton (University of Pannonia, Hungary and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) Simone E. Pfenninger (University of Salzburg, Austria) More information about the editors are available on their university websites: David's page Simone's page This series brings together titles dealing with a variety of aspects of language acquisition and processing in situations where a language or languages other than the native language is involved. Second language is therefore interpreted in its broadest possible sense. The volumes included in the series all in their different ways offer, on the one hand, exposition and discussion of empirical findings and, on the other, some degree of theoretical reflection. In this latter connection, no particular theoretical stance is privileged in the series; nor is any relevant perspective - sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, etc. - deemed out of place. The intended readership of the series is final-year undergraduates working on second language acquisition projects, postgraduate students involved in second language acquisition research, and researchers, teachers and policy-makers in general whose interests include a second language acquisition component. All books in this series are externally peer-reviewed. Proposals for the series are welcome and should be submitted to Laura Longworth. Please read our notes about how to submit a book proposal. The Sociolinguistic Competence of Immersion Students Raymond Mougeon, Terry Nadasdi, Katherine Rehner Multiple Perspectives on the Self in SLA Sarah Mercer, Marion Williams Speaking and Instructed Foreign Language Acquisition Miroslaw Pawlak, Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, Jan Majer Format: Ebook(EPUB) - 240 pages	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line654
__label__wiki	0.501721	0.501721	Posts Tagged ‘epidemiology’ In the early part of the 20th century constipation was not generally related to any individual illness. The idealised achievement of daily defaecation meant constipation was common particularly in the elderly. Treatment was not free until the NHS came along and natural and herbal laxatives were well used medications. Diverticular disease (DD) became recognised more before WW11. The distinguishing symptoms were pain, fever and diarrhoea. A low residue diet was recommended to reduce diarrhoea and give the bowel rest. Serious pain sometimes resulted in surgery. Infection and inflammation (diverticulitis) were not always present but pieces of food and faeces were trapped in diverticula. Avoidance of coarse fruit and vegetables, seeds and pips was recommended. Hospital diet sheet for diverticulitis 1961………”forbidden foods – all fried foods, pips and skins of fruits, pastry, suet puddings, coarse stalky vegetables, salads, onions and celery, chunky marmalade, jam with pips or skins, wholemeal or brown bread, coarse biscuits-Ryvita, digestive, Allbran, oatmeal, Weetabix, Shredded Wheat, fruitcake or scones, nuts, dried fruit.” A significant change in diet started about 1970 when treatment for diverticular disease (DD) was suddenly reversed. Hospital diet sheet for diverticulis 1982………..”you can eat a normal varied diet but include…… (all of the forbidden foods from 1961 except fried food)….SUPPLEMENT meals with 2 teaspoonfuls of unprocessed bran twice daily. EAT LESS white flour in any form and white and other sugars. DIETARY FIBRE ….by helping to restore normal function of the digestive tract, fibre can be useful in the treatment of constipation and diarrhoea” Who persuaded health professionals that wheat bran was good for diarrhoea? What was the evidence for this complete reversal of treatment? Did anyone ask patients if this helped them? Who was behind this change? Tags: bran, Constipation, Diet, epidemiology, Faeces, Fibre, Foods, Laxatives, Transit time, Treatment Posted in Cause of DD, Diet and Fibre, Treatments \| Comments Off on Diverticular Disease: The Fibre Story Diverticular Disease: Genetics and Collagen Compared with other diseases, advancements in science and technology left diverticular disease (DD) behind decades ago. Worldwide occurrence, poor quality of life, level of mortality and healthcare costs should have generated far more research effort. Preoccupation with dietary fibre levels, constipation and ageing has and still is stunting research. Fibre levels have benefits for constipation and symptoms but research into cause, prevention and other treatments has been overtaken by the necessary investigations into the surgical rescue of DD effects. Recently valid trials and surveys have disputed traditional thinking about a dietary cause and revealed a genetic factor. (more…) Tags: Collagen, Environment, epidemiology, Genetics Posted in Associated illnesses, Cause of DD, Diverticular disease information \| Comments Off on Diverticular Disease: Genetics and Collagen Diverticular Disease And Colon Cancer Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 Does having diverticular disease (DD) increase the risk of colon cancer (CC)? One expert would say “yes” and another would answer “no”. Much depends on the design of studies, choice of patients, what data is fed into the computer for statistical analysis, interpretation of the results and what opinions and conclusions are made. Research can be based on the occurrence of the two separate diseases, how many people with DD have CC and how many people with CC have DD (1). Comparison can be made with the levels of CC and DD which would be expected in the general population. Information can be expanded by including different types of cancerous lesions and their position in the colon. The diagnosis of DD is not so stable. Diverticulitis but not diverticulosis was indicated to be in a long-term causal relationship with increased risk of left-sided CC (2). However, these conditions at diagnosis can change. Diverticulitis can revert to diverticulosis with few further problems, or, diverticulosis can later progress to diverticulitis or even further to serious complications. This is a basic problem in DD research. (more…) Tags: Cancer, Cigarettes, epidemiology, Nicotine, Statistics Posted in Associated illnesses, Cause of DD, Diverticular disease information \| Comments Off on Diverticular Disease And Colon Cancer Cigarette Smoking: The Cause Of Diverticular Disease? Two previous articles relate to this theory of the cause of diverticular disease (DD). “Colon wall muscles in diverticular disease” and “Diverticular disease: updated epidemiology” can be found on this website. Because of the length of this article, many details with supporting references have not been included and a summary is provided. The worldwide epidemiology of diverticular disease (DD) is the same as that of the smoking epidemic used by many organisations and charities to show the relationship between smoking and lung cancer and many Western diseases. The grouping of countries by the timing and extent of DD correspond historically with the introduction of “Western” cigarettes. The types of tobacco and additives in the Western products and their promotion are related to the pattern of disease and they are designed to deliver the maximum amount of nicotine into the body. The changes in the colon wall with DD reflect the pharmacological action of nicotine in the chronic dosing produced by cigarette smoking. Ethnic differences in the metabolism of nicotine and different sensitivity in longitudinal and circular colon wall muscles could explain differences in the sites of disease particularly between Eastern and Western countries. Changes in the colon wall structure with DD are similar to those found in blood vessels caused by smoking. Such changes are found in the lungs of children subjected to passive smoking. Could DD also start this early in life? THE CAUSE OF DIVERTICULAR DISEASE There is a plethora of reports of research and opinions on what might be the cause of diverticular disease (DD). Research is often carried out in the hospital situation where the diagnosis of diverticulosis, diverticulitis or the treatment of complications takes place. Patients can then be surveyed to find out why they came to be in that situation. This tends to result in the cause of symptoms being blamed for the disease which is not the same as why or when the disease started in the first place. The formation of diverticula, the basis of diagnosis, is a later stage in its progression. ‘Symptoms’ such as excessive flatus (1), straining on defaecation (2) or constipation (3) have been suggested as the cause of DD. Statistical analyses point to ‘risk factors’ such as red meat or alcohol consumption, low physical activity or ageing. ‘Associations’ are found with obesity, hypothyroidism, industrialisation and Western diseases. ‘Predispositions’ are found with certain genetic diseases and familial environment. Recent research on twins with DD estimated that 40% of the chance of DD was inheritable with the environmental effects at 60% (4). Another study estimated that 53% of susceptibility to DD resulted from genetic factors (5). Research has produced some facts about DD which cannot be disputed – The muscles in parts of the colon are in an apparent contracted state which is not reversible Collagen and elastin components of the colon wall have changed to a more rigid form Nerves and cells controlling the muscles have changed Electrical activity and colon movements are disordered There is increased sensitivity to acetylcholine – the normal neurotransmitter in colon function – due to increased numbers of receptors There is damage to nitergenic neurones which affect relaxation of colon wall muscles Pressure inside the colon can be increased during normal function or by drugs, resulting in the blow-out of diverticula Opinions have varied on the order in which these changes occurred. Pressure and the formation of diverticula came before the other effect (6) or the muscle and nerve changes are a result of inflammation (7). Deterioration in the vagus nerve with age has been hypothesized (8). The greatest influence on opinion has been the dietary fibre theory of the early 1970s (9). Low levels of dietary fibre have been promoted as the cause of all the colon changes. The theory still persists in some research (10), while other reports consider human and animal experiments on diets to be unreliable (11) and that fibre can be detrimental to DD (12). The idea, that the changes in the colon precede and predispose to the formation of diverticula, rather than as a consequence of the disease, has recently been published (13). Research on the cause of DD needs a rethink without a preconceived or traditional basis. Information available publically can be used to give a plausible explanation of what might cause DD and some of its characteristics. 1 Wynne-Jones G. Lancet 1975, Aug 2, 211. 2 Sikirov BA. Med Hypotheses 1988 26, 17. 3 Jones DJ. BMJ 1992, 304, 1435. 4 Granlund J et al. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2012, Mar 20. Epub ahead of print. 5 Strate LL et al. Gastroenterology 2013, 144, 736. 6 Floch MH et al. World J Gastroenterol 2006, 12, 3225. 7 Spiller R. J Clin Gastroenterol 2006, 40(3 suppl), S117. 8 Yun AJ et al. Med Hypotheses 2005, 64, 252. 9 Painter NS et al. BMJ 1971, 2, 450. 10 Floch MH. J Clin Gastroenterol 2006, 40(3 suppl), S121. 11 Commane DM et al. World J Gastroenterol 2009, 15, 2479. 12 Peery AF et al. Gastroenterol 2012, 142, 266. 13 Mattii L et al. PLoS One 2013, 8, e57023. © M Griffiths 2013 A previous article (Diverticular disease: updated epidemiology) on this website used data from barium enema and colonoscopy examinations to update the worldwide pattern of occurrence of DD and illustrated this in graphical form. Countries with insufficient data were not included. The results showed four groups of countries distinguished by the date of appearance of DD and subsequent changes in its levels. Group 1. Australia, England, USA, Sweden. DD appeared before the 1930s, peaked at about 60% between 1970-1980 then fell slowly. Group 2. European countries. DD appeared about 1960 and reached 50% around 1980 Group 3. Asian countries and Brazil. DD has been rising since its appearance about 1970. Group 4. African and Middle East countries, Peru, China. DD first appeared about 1970 but levels have remained low. People in Group 1 countries have been smoking ‘Western’ cigarettes since the beginning if the 20th century when they were invented. Group 2 reflects the import and flooding of ‘Western’ cigarettes into Europe and the take over of national cigarette companies after WW11. Group 3 is the effect of aggressive trading in the Far East by ‘Western’ tobacco companies around 1970. Group 4 countries have largely resisted the impact of ‘Western’ cigarettes due to trade restrictions, poverty or preference for their own forms of nicotine administration. These groups of countries are in keeping with the model of the cigarette epidemic described by Lopez et al in 1994 (1) which has been cited and used by researchers, charities and organisations since. The appearance of DD corresponds to the consumption of ‘Western’ cigarettes or those manufactured from ‘Western’ tobaccos and not from previous local or national products. This explains some of the anomalies which have been highlighted. The Japanese were heavy smokers without much DD around 1970 but émigrés to Hawaii had developed DD within a generation. This has been attributed to diet change but the brands of cigarettes available to them certainly changed. In Japan after 1970, cigarette consumption reduced with the ‘Western’ type cigarettes but the levels of DD began to increase. Another paradox is China – the world’s heaviest smoking population. China has resisted international tobacco companies and has low levels of DD. ‘Western’ cigarettes are smoked by ethnic Chinese in Hong Kong or Singapore with significant DD levels. Birkitt (2) noted patches of low DD prevalence in the West, Mormons and Adventists are averse to cigarette smoking and only 10% to 15% of vegetarians smoke (3). The differences in DD levels between Uganda and Britain around 1970, the relationship to urban and industrial societies, wealth and Western diseases, have been used to support the dietary fibre theory but they are all related to smoking of ‘Western’ cigarettes. Most of the old research on colon function with DD ignored the smoking habits of patients, concentrating only on diet. Some countries were opened up to transnational tobacco companies around 1990 e.g. Taiwan and DD was diagnosed there in 2.5% of ultrasound examinations in 2001 (4). The collapse of the Soviet Union produced newly independent countries. These have been targeted by international tobacco companies with imported cigarettes and privatisation of local tobacco farms and manufacturing. A report in 2011 showed that 16.2% of colonoscopy patients in a Moscow survey had diverticulosis (5). Will there be a Group 5 of countries where the DD epidemic starts around the new millennium? By the 1950s 80% of adults smoked in Britain and even more were subjected to passive smoking. With changing attitudes to smoking, the prevalence of DD may never again be as high as in Group 1 countries, particularly when that generation has passed. 1 Lopez AD et al. Tob Control 1994, 3, 242. 2 Birkitt DP British Medical Bulletin 1984, 40, 387. 3 Crowe FL et al. BMJ 2011, 343, d4131. 4 Chou YH et al. Am J Surg 2001, 181, 122. 5 Prilepskaia SI et al. Eksp Klin Gastroenterol 2011, 2, 22. HOW ARE WESTERN CIGARETTES DIFFERENT? Western cigarettes have different characteristics compared with locally produced products in emerging countries or other forms of sustaining nicotine addiction using tobacco. Flue-dried, ‘blonde’ tobacco varieties are blended to give a less irritant smoke of lower pH. This makes deep inhalation easier. The addition of menthol in some products and flavourings enhances the sensory and addictive potential (1) Tests for nicotine and tar levels using standard mechanical ‘puffs’ related to older, cruder types rather than the cigarettes largely redesigned in the 1950s. Filter tips, types of paper and the blending of tobacco enabled reduction in nicotine and tar levels to legal conformity in countries. However, smokers compensated by more and deeper puffs to achieve their nicotine fix (2). The USA had no product standards for cigarettes or other tobacco products until June 2009 so that industry could have made any changes for marketing advantage (3). Winder (4) describes how the reduction in delivery of nicotine and tar from cigarettes after the 1950s paralleled an increase in nitrate content from 0.5% to 1.5%. This enhanced combustion and increased yields of nitrogen oxides and N-nitrosamines in the smoke. The nitric oxide from the smoke opened up airways then deeper inhalation increased nicotine and tar uptake and promoted cancer at sites deeper in the lungs. Vleeming et al (5) concluded that nitric oxide contributed to nicotine addiction. Wu et al (6) compared levels of tobacco specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) from a global brand of cigarettes with TSNAs from local brands. In 10 out of 14 countries the global brand produced higher levels of TSNAs. An exception was Brazil where local cigarettes were higher. (Brazil was also an oddity in Group 3 countries of the epidemiology results). The international tobacco companies aim to control their products from start to finish – from the genetic selection of tobacco plants, their growth conditions, use of pesticides, harvesting, drying, blending, additives, cigarette design, production and marketing. There are no lists of ingredients as on food and drugs. Genetically modified tobacco plants have been allowed in Europe since 1994. Companies were also interested in nicotine analogues – biologically active compounds which would not affect nicotine levels in statutory tests (7). Farm workers harvesting tobacco leaves are susceptible to nicotine exposure producing symptoms of ‘Green Tobacco Sickness’ (8) which requires treatment by anticholinergic drugs. In one study a mutagenic change was found more often when farmers were applying pesticides to the crops. One particular liver metabolic enzyme variant was associated with DNA damage induced by pesticides (9). Pesticides are used to protect the tobacco crop from insect damage. If the insecticides used were of the type that interferes with the enzyme (acetylcholinesterase) which breaks down acetylcholine in the gut nervous system, then there may be another detrimental effect of cigarettes on the human colon which has not so far received much attention. Neonicotinoid insecticides, if used, have activity similar to nicotine and might enhance its effects. 1 Yerger VB. Tob Control 2011, 20, ii29. 2 Hoffmann D et al. J Toxicol Environ Health 1997, 50, 307. 3 Tynan M et al. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2010, 59, 487 (CDC) 4 Wynder EL et al. Environ Health Perspect 1995, 103 Suppl 8, 143. 5 Vleeming W et al. Nicotine Tob Res 2002, 4, 341. 6 Wu W et al. Nicotine Tob Res 2005, 7, 443. 7 Vagg R et al. Addiction 2005, 100, 701. 8 Satora L et al. Pol Arch Med Wewn 2009, 119, 184. 9 Da Silva FR et al. Environ Mol Mutagen 2012, 53, 525. THE ACTION OF NICOTINE ON THE COLON Messages are transmitted between one nerve ending and the next nerve cell by the chemical acetylcholine. This also bridges the gap between the second nerve fibre and the muscle to relay the message to contract. An enzyme, acetylcholinesterase, is secreted by nerves to inactivate acetylcholine and limit the time and intensity of the contraction. Stimulation of the second (postsynaptic) nerve cell also elevates the production of nitric oxide (NO) which is the neurotransmitter for the relaxation of the colon muscles (1). This all takes place in the networks of nerves in the colon known as the gut brain. The cyclic contraction and relaxation of the longitudinal and circular muscles is the basis of all types of coordinated movements in different parts of the colon. Nicotine fits and blocks the receptors on the second nerve cell and sends its own signal to produce acetylcholine at the colon muscle. A feedback controlling mechanism may also be affected (2). Nicotine is not inactivated by acetylcholinesterase and continues its activity until the transmission system is blocked. Also blocked is the production of NO to relax the colon muscles. These effects are also the basis of the insecticidal properties of nicotine. Reduced levels of NO would normally increase propulsive activity of the colon (3) but not when the stimulation system is also blocked. The net effect is the locking of muscles in the ‘on’ position and with uncoordinated movements. An increase in the numbers of receptors for acetylcholine is a response to the chronic effects of nicotine, this also alters the response to neurotransmitters and drugs (4). The effect of nicotine on smooth muscle (the type of muscle fibre) in the colon has had little attention compared with that in the walls of blood vessels. The chronic effects of nicotine from cigarette smoke produce narrowed, stiffened and less responsive artery walls (5). There are the same changes in collagen structure in arteries as there are in colon walls where it is considered a major factor in the onset of structural changes in diverticular disease (6). Changes in muscle elastin content are the same in diverticular disease as in the pulmonary artery (7). Arteries to the colon would also be affected. Are the weak places in the colon where diverticula form, a result of movement between rigid arteries and rigid colon wall? 1 Kodama Y et al. J Smooth Muscle Res 2010, 46, 185. 2 Mandl P et al. Brain Res Bull 2007, 72, 194. 3 Dinning PG et al. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2006, 18, 37. 4 Ke L et al. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1998, 286,825. 5 Enevoldsen MS et al. J Biomech 2011, 44, 1209. 6 Bode MK et al. Scand J Gastroenterol 2000, 35, 747. 7 Ludeman L et al. Best Practice & Research clinical Gastroenterology 2002, 16, 543. NICOTINE METABOLISM Nicotine is broken down in the liver by an enzyme known as CYP2A6. The main chemical formed is cotinine which is excreted from the body in urine. This provides a convenient marker for smoking and the rate of inactivation of nicotine. Cotinine and other chemicals produced are also known to have activity in the body but have not had much attention (1). Most of the research relates to activity in the brain where variations in CYP2A6 are a genetic contribution to addiction (2). The enzyme CYP2A6 is not a single entity, some 40 variants have been found which produce differences in the rates and pathways by which nicotine is broken down and other chemicals produced. This has a great effect on smoking behaviour and disease. People who metabolise nicotine rapidly smoke more to sustain the body level of nicotine and at the same time increase the intake of carcinogens (3). There are reports that females process nicotine faster that males and are more likely to become addicted. Current smokers also have increased metabolism (4). Liver enzymes such as CYP2D6, CYP2C19 or CYP2A618 have been shown to vary with ethnicity (5) (6). However a variant of CYP2A6 known as CYP2A64 is perhaps the most significant in producing ethnic differences in the effects of cigarette smoking. CYP2A64 is not active in the metabolism of nicotine. People with this variant enzyme produce different metabolic chemicals, have far less cotinine excreted in urine and have significantly reduced rates of lung cancer. Nakajina (7) compared the frequency of CYP2A64 and other reduced activity variants present in ethnic groups. The results were, Whites 9.1%, Blacks 21.9%, Korean 42.9% and Japanese 50.5%. There are differences between individuals in the ethnic groups but the different metabolic pathway for nicotine in Eastern populations, particularly Japanese, is well documented. 1 Schroff KC et al. Toxicology 2000, 144, 99. 2 Tutka P et al. Pharmacological Reports 2005, 57, 143. 3 Derby KS et al. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2008, 17, 3526. 4 Bloom J et al. Pharmacogenet Genomics 2011, 21, 403. 5 Benowitz NL et al. J Natl Cancer Inst 2002, 94, 108. 6 Vasconcelos GM et al. Pharmacogenomics J 2005, 5, 42. 7 Nakajima M et al. Clin Pharmacol Ther 2006, 80, 282. POSITION OF DIVERTICULA IN THE COLON The longitudinal and circular muscles in the colon wall contract and relax rhythmically to move along the residues of digestion. Different movements are found in different parts of the colon to enable mixing, drying and evacuating functions. To achieve this, the longitudinal and circular muscles differ in their response to neurotransmitters. Sensitivity can also vary along the colon length. There are examples of different responses to drugs and neurotransmitters including those related to the acetylcholine and NO systems affected by nicotine. The chemicals produced by the metabolism of nicotine differ in Western and Eastern ethnic populations, cotinine is an example. A greater effect on longitudinal muscle, used for example, in mass peristalsis and evacuation of faeces, would give the typical Western pattern of colon changes in the descending and sigmoid colon on the left side of the body. The level of the enzyme CYP2A64 in ethnic groups appears to relate to the position of diverticula in the colon. COMPARISON OF THE AMOUNT OF LIVER ENZYME CYP2A64 AND DIVERTICULAR DISEASE ONLY IN THE LEFT COLON % of CYP2A6*4 in ethnic group Ref (1) % with DD only in left colon Reference JAPANESE 50.5 13.3 (2) KOREAN 42.9 15.5 (3) BLACKS 21.9 41.7 (4) WHITES 9.1 80.0 (5) 1 Nakajima M et al Clin Pharmacol Ther 2006, 80, 282. 2 Takano M et al. Dis Colon Rectum 2005, 48, 2111. 3 Lee KM et al. J Korean Med Sci 2010, 25, 1323. 4 Golder M et al. World J Gastroenterol 2011, 17, 1009. DIVERTICULAR DISEASE AND AGE Diverticular disease is diagnosed when diverticula are found in examinations because of symptoms or screening for bowel cancer mainly in the over 50s. It was considered an inevitable consequence of old age, but this has changed. The mean age of people admitted for hospital treatment has dropped, more are under the age of 50 and need emergency surgery (1). The lowest age is often in the 20s when surveys report the age range of people with DD. A study in California found hospital admissions increased most rapidly in patients 20 to 34 years old (2). The relatively recent DD epidemic in Japan resulted in 2.2% of patients below the age of 29 and only 14.3% over 70 years old (3). This suggests that people get DD before they grow old. Diverticulitis in teenagers has been reported without reference to the hereditary diseases which affect collagen and predispose to diverticula formation. It is accepted that passive smoking increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and lung cancer. Passive smoking by children causes changes in elasticity and collagen and gives structure and function disorder in the lungs (4). Such changes are found in the colon before the formation of diverticula, could DD start in children subjected to passive smoking? 1 Jeyarajah S et al. Int J Colorectal Dis 2008, 23, 619. 2 Etzioni DA et al. Am Surg 2009, 75, 981. 3 Kubo A et al. Jpn J Med 1983, 22,185. 4 Bosdure E et al. Rev Mal Respir 2006, 23, 694. DIVERTICULAR DISEASE AND GENDER The ratio of males to females in surveys of DD varies according to countries. There are ethnic, social and cultural reasons why women may not smoke and this reduces the incidence of DD and the pattern can be retained after immigration. Women, especially the elderly, are reported to have different responses to the drug carbachol (acts like acetylcholine and nicotine) and to NO release (1) which are relevant to the effects of smoking. Passage through the colon was slower in females than males (2) and smoking slows colon transit time in males. There is evidence that females have different activity of liver enzymes including CYP2A6 which metabolises nicotine (3). This explains why females have a greater addiction to nicotine, greater difficulty in giving up smoking and are a target of tobacco companies. Are females more susceptible to DD if they smoke? 1 Maselli MA et al. Dig Dis Sci 2011, 56,352. 2 Sadik R et al. Scand J Gastroenterol 2003, 38, 36. 3 Anderson GD Int Rev Neurobiol 2008, 83, 1. In the past there have been pointers to a relationship between cigarette smoking and DD. It has been estimated that over 90% of lung cancer was caused by cigarette smoking. During the 20th century there was significant correlation between deaths from DD and deaths from lung cancer for both men ( r =0.68 ) and women ( r =0.92 ). Women’s deaths from DD rose steeply with their cigarette consumption ( r =0.87 ). This relationship for men was distorted by the supply of cigarettes to the armed forces during the two world wars and the death toll in the conflicts resulting in two waves of low male population through the rest of the century. In the approach to the 21st century, increasing smuggling and counterfeiting of cigarettes made such studies irrelevant. Nicotine from cigarettes has considerable effects on colon function of otherwise healthy people but most research on DD ignored the smoking habits of patients. Parameters such as transit time are not only affected by the level of fibre in the diet. Diet has never explained different levels of DD in males and females, or the differences in DD characteristics in different countries. Cigarette smoking, nicotine and its metabolism does offer an explanation. Comparisons between countries should take into consideration changes in the ethnic composition of its residents. Effects on neurotransmitters and hormones other than acetylcholine have been produced by smoking and changes in these in people with DD are unfolding. Nitric oxide has been implicated as a key molecule in the control of colon movement and pain perception. More research is needed on the effect of nitric oxide supplied externally from smoke on that produced by the body to effect normal colon function. The epidemiology of DD is dynamic, as is the smoking epidemic and probably the contents of cigarettes. Information is now available on the physiological effects of smoking, neurotransmission and nicotine metabolism which was not available to pioneers of research into DD and other diseases have had much more attention. There are many unanswered questions but this jigsaw of evidence suggests a picture of the cause of DD which merits consideration. Some researchers did not find that smoking cigarettes had a significant effect on DD but trial design could affect conclusions. Recent research has shown that cigarette smoking increases the risk of complications in patients with DD (1), and Turunen et al. (2) found that the development of complicated disease proceeded more rapidly in smokers. Usai et al. concluded that smoking was a predictive factor for diverticulitis (3). Women who smoked had increased risk of symptoms and perforation/abscess complications than non-smokers (4). Crowe et al (5) found greater risk of admission to hospital or death with heavy smokers compared with light smokers. Cigarette smoking is implicated in many ‘Western’ and ‘affluence’ diseases. There is now evidence that DD should be added to that list 1 Papagrigoriadis S et al. Br J Surg 1999, 86, 923. 2 Turunen P et al. Scandinavian Journal of Surgery 2010, 99, 14. 3 Usai P et al. Dig Liver Dis 2011,43, 98. 4 Hjern F et al Br J Surg 2011, 98, 997. © Mary Griffiths 2013 Tags: ageing, Cause, Cigarettes, Complications, epidemiology, Gender, Metabolism, Nicotine, Smoking Posted in Cause of DD \| Comments Off on Cigarette Smoking: The Cause Of Diverticular Disease? Diverticular Disease: Updated Epidemiology Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 “Ideas, like living organisms, have their natural history, growing from conception through a more or less tumultuous adolescence and reproductive maturity to an old age, when they act as a bar to further progress. During this time they become so modified that their origin is obscured” Sir Richard Doll (1) Looking at the occurrence of a disease in time and place, and assessing what might have influenced changes, is known as the science of epidemiology. The theory, that diverticular disease (DD) was caused by low levels of fibre in the diet, has been prominent for about 40 years. This was based on the rarity of DD in Uganda compared with Western countries such as Great Britain or the USA. It was assumed that high levels of fibre in the Ugandan diet protected people from DD and that an increase in dietary fibre would prevent DD and its symptoms would be eliminated. This was a conclusion too far. It ignored the rarity of DD in people eating very little fibre (2,3) and that vegetarians can get DD (4,5). There is no evidence that a high fibre diet prevents DD. The theory is so entrenched that if DD appears in a country then it is assumed that its inhabitants have changed from their normal to a low fibre western diet. This is particularly incongruous when applied to right-sided DD in the caecum and ascending colon. Even the theory’s originators thought low fibre levels could not be relevant to this area (6) Data from post-mortems, mortality statistics and surveys can provide information on the occurrence of DD, each aspect contributing to the overall picture. Song et al. (7) showed how colonoscopy findings, over time, could plot a rising prevalence of DD in Korea. Jun and Stollman in 2002 (8) collected results from research papers on the % of patients with DD in series of examinations by colonoscopy or barium enema Xray. They used these results to show that changes in the prevalence of DD varied greatly in time and between countries. Searching through later research reports mainly in the PubMed website gives this type of information for many more countries. (References to these sources are too numerous to include here). The results fall into 4 distinct patterns of when DD appeared and how numbers have changed over time until 2010. (more…) Tags: Diet, epidemiology, Fibre, Statistics Posted in Diverticular disease information \| Comments Off on Diverticular Disease: Updated Epidemiology A look at the fibre theory Diet sheets, recipes and menus are frequently requested by people newly diagnosed with DD but there is great variation in which foods help or cause problems for different people. A strict diet is not needed other than one which has plenty of variety and fluids, and conforms to the healthy diet currently recommended for everyone. Anything which is found to cause problems should be avoided, or reduced in amount or frequency but not to the extent that diet becomes restricted. People have different tastes and food should be enjoyed. AFRICAN DIETS DD patients, new and old, will find that many resources recommend a diet high in fibre, some to the extent that fibre needs to be doubled in quantity with the aid of wheat bran. The fibre and bran treatment for DD started about 1970 when some doctors working in Uganda (1) found no cases of DD and attributed this to the large amount of fibre in the diet. As Mr Hutchinson described in the last Incontact magazine, too much fibre can have its own adverse effects (very high incidence of sigmoid volvulus). Was this evidence from Uganda sufficient to conclude that a low fibre diet was the cause of DD and increasing dietary fibre, and bran in particular, would both prevent and treat DD? (more…) Tags: bran, Constipation, Diarrhoea, Diet, epidemiology, Fibre Posted in Diet and Fibre \| Comments Off on A look at the fibre theory	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line655
__label__wiki	0.895628	0.895628	Índice general ‹ Bienvenido al foro del CLUB NSU España ‹ FAQ another and the No por Cl11234566 » Sab, 07 Dic 2019, 03:27 MIAMI -- Christian Yelich stepped to the plate 0 for 4 in the game and 0-since-the-minors when batting with a chance for a walkoff win. This time he came through. The Miami outfielder hit a two-out, bases-loaded RBI single in the ninth inning Thursday to give the Marlins a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Yelich said the walkoff hit was his first since Single-A. As a reward he was mobbed by his teammates after rounding first base. "You know youre probably going to get beat up a little bit out there, but its an awesome feeling," he said. "I got horse-collared for a second, but thats all right. Ill take it. Im glad I could win that one." The Marlins won despite squandering a 3-0 eighth-inning lead. They improved to 19-6 at home, best in majors, and have scored a game-ending run in four of their past six victories at Marlins Park. That gives them five walkoff wins this year, which is tied with the Pittsburgh Pirates for the most in the majors, according to STATS. "Nobody wants to play extra innings," manager Mike Redmond said. "We wanted to get that thing done with and go out and have a nice meal." Miamis Henderson Alvarez threw seven shutout innings, while Cole Hamels allowed three runs in seven innings. The Phillies lost two of three in the series and are 20-24 going into an 11-game homestand starting Friday. "Were so close for that sort of explosion to happen and for everything to come together," Hamels said. "Its a matter of time before it will happen, but I know personally it should happen soon." Philadelphias Marlon Byrd tied it in the eighth with a two-run homer, his sixth. Miamis Marcell Ozuna hit a two-run homer, giving him two homers and seven RBIs in the past two games, and he threw out a runner at third from centre field. Ozuna also started the ninth-inning rally. He singled with one out off Jake Diekman (2-2), then took second on a two-out single by Jeff Mathis. Pinch hitter Reid Johnson reached on an infield single that Diekman bobbled, sending Ozuna to third and bringing Yelich to the plate. "Im thinking, Dont leave me here," Ozuna said. "He did a good job." Yelich grounded a 1-1 fastball up the middle. "It was fitting to get Yellie up there at the end," Redmond said. "He has been in a couple of sits where he has had a chance to get a big hit and hasnt come up with one. I was sitting there thinking, This would be a perfect day for him to get a big hit, and sure enough he did." Marlins closer Steve Cishek (4-1) struck out two with a runner at second to end the ninth. The Phillies went 1 for 7 with runners in scoring position, with Byrds homer the lone hit. With the Phillies trailing 1-0, manager Ryne Sandberg let Hamels bat for himself in the seventh. He then gave up a single and Ozunas eighth homer on an 0-2 pitch to start the bottom of the seventh. Ozuna had been batting .113 in May before his breakout in the past two games. "When he gets hot, hes as good as anybody," Redmond said. Jimmy Rollins singled in the third to take over sole possession of second place on the Phillies hit list with 2,218. He trails on Mike Schmidt, who had 2,234. Notes: RHP David Buchanan will be recalled from Triple-A Lehigh Valley to make his major-league debut Saturday for the Phillies against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Buchanan will start in place of LHP Cliff Lee, who is on the disabled list with a mild elbow strain. ... RHP Jonathan Pettibone, who has been on the Triple-A disabled list, received a cortisone injection and will try to pitch with a small labrum tear, the Phillies said. Hes expected to resume throwing next week. ... Marlins INF Jeff Baker left the game in the ninth inning with a bruised right shoulder following a collision at first base. His status is day to day. ... The Marlins transferred INF Rafael Furcal (groin) to the 60-day disabled list retroactive to March 21. They selected the contract of RHP Chris Hatcher from Triple-A New Orleans. ... The Marlins lead the majors with 54 infield hits. ... RHP Tom Koehler (4-3, 2.25) is scheduled to pitch against RHP Marco Estrada (3-2, 3.64) when the Marlins open a weekend series at home Friday against Milwaukee. ... The Phillies return home Friday to face the Dodgers, with RHP Roberto Hernandez (2-1, 3.98) scheduled to pitch against LHP Clayton Kershaw (2-1, 4.43). 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Parnell blew a save on opening day against Washington and the next day it was revealed he had partially torn right elbow ligament.Montreal, QC (SportsNetwork.com) - The Montreal Alouettes have released veteran cornerback Byron Parker. Parker had 32 tackles and one interception in 13 games last season. The nine-year veteran has 268 tackles, 30 interceptions and five fumble recoveries with Toronto, Edmonton, British Columbia and Montreal. Parker holds the CFL record for most interception return touchdowns in a career with nine.dddddddddddd The Alouettes also announced on Friday that the club has signed wide receiver Kenny Stafford and offensive lineman Dan Matha to new two-year contracts. In addition, linebacker Brian Ridgeway announced his retirement. ' ' ' Cl11234566 Registrado: Jue, 05 Dic 2019, 08:26 Volver a FAQ	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line657
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Banqueting and music have continued to be two vital entertainments since historic times. Eighty-one additional exhibits will go on sale for performances July 10 by way of December 15, 2018. The Bayreuth Festspielhaus in Germany is a theatre designed and constructed for performances of 1 specific musical composition. Copyright © 2018 Entertainment Publications of Australia Pty. Function-constructed structures as venues for entertainment that accommodate audiences have produced many well-known and progressive buildings, among the many most recognisable of which are theatre structures 156 For the traditional Greeks, “the architectural significance of the theatre is a mirrored image of their importance to the group, made apparent of their monumentality, in the effort put into their … Lowe’s Home Enchancment How To Get New Clients For Your Law Firm A Law Could Be Harsh, However It Is Nonetheless The Law Golden Digital Advertising and marketing Suggestions Gives And Finance	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line662
__label__cc	0.71796	0.28204	Software Firewalls versus Wormhole Tunnels Hardware and software firewalls promise to protect your system and your network from the dangers of the Internet, but how well do they really fare against cutting-edge attacks? This article presents some of the major differences between hardware and software firewalls and illustrates the real challenges faced by software firewall vendors. Hardware versus software Firewalls come in many different flavors to meet varying needs of users. There are dedicated hardware firewall appliances, like the Cisco PIX, complete with cool flashing lights, that provide security for whole networks. There are also dedicated software firewalls, such as CheckPoint/ipchains/iptables/ipf/pf, running on robust operating systems used as gateways that also provide complete network security. Finally, there is a new generation of "personal" firewalls that are designed to run on and protect workstations and servers directly. Dedicated hardware or software firewalls usually provide at least one-dimensional coverage -- port/IP blocking -- for your network. Some even provide two-dimensional coverage by adding active intrusion detection (IDS) or intrusion prevention (IPS) to their basic functions. Personal firewalls can even go one step further and provide three-dimensional coverage with the addition of active application blocking. Most organizations will end up deploying a combination of dedicated and personal firewalls to provide comprehensive asset protection both on and off their internal networks. Perils of personal firewalls (and other dedicated firewall software) While dedicated and personal firewalls are usually managed in a similar fashion, personal firewalls are more challenging for IT departments to deploy and control. Local users with administrative privileges -- not an unlikely scenario in most shops running Microsoft Windows -- will be able to start and stop the firewall process at will. Similarly, users with sufficient privileges or malicious programs that exploit a vulnerability on a system will be able to install software that "climbs over the top" of the firewall. In situations where the user is notified of potentially dangerous activity (usually via a pop-up window), too often they will typically select "allow", fearing the loss of the ability to operate on the network. This is the most typical mode of operation for viruses or worms spread by e-mail or spyware installed through a web browser. Since most large organizations worry about support costs, they are unlikely to even have a personal firewall configured in this highly restricted mode. Generally, the firewall will be deployed with the most basic policy possible to protect the system with no potential to interfere with core business functions. Even if more restricted blocking is in place, web, e-mail and other types of standard Internet traffic will usually be allowed from "standard" components and thus provide an equally accessible conduit for malicious programs. Once something comes in "over the top" it is, unfortunately, all too easy for it to dig its way out underneath or even go straight through the firewall. Most personal firewalls operate like a bouncer at a nightclub: they are a part of the system and look closely at folks coming in and are aware of who's going out. But how closely can they really watch everything? Will a bouncer catch a patron stealing something they could be hidden in their pocket? Will a bouncer profile who they are going to watch and miss those that do not fit the definition? In much the same way, personal firewalls operate as either an application or as a combined application/kernel component that sits and watches what it is fed by the network component of the kernel. Like a bartender, the operating system doesn't really even concern itself with what it's processing (remember, it's the bouncer's job to restrict access). If one could devise a way to consistently stay out sight of the bouncer and get direct access to the bartender, the drinks would never stop flowing. The practical question then remains: is it possible to have network traffic flow through a system and never be seen -- or at least cared about -- by any active personal or dedicated software firewall? The answer, unfortunately, is yes. Wormhole-tunneling with PCAP PCAP is a library designed to provide applications with the ability to access network interfaces using a standard API and capture packets directly. Perhaps the most common example of this is the Ethereal program. Ethereal is an open source, multi-platform packet sniffer and protocol analyzer. With it, one can get a raw view of what's coming in and going out of the PC. The following scenario uses just Ethereal to demonstrate how trivial it is to bypass these software firewalls. Find a Windows 2000/XP/2003 or BSD/Linux machine and either load a copy of your favorite firewall software or use the one that comes with it (most modern Windows and BSD/OS X/Linux systems come with a built-in software firewall). Configure the firewall to block all inbound TCP and UDP traffic and put the system on the network. Install Ethereal (which requires you to also install libpcap) and run it. If the system is on a switch, all traffic headed from or to it will be seen along with any broadcast traffic. If the system is on hub, all network traffic will be seen. Now, if the firewall is blocking all inbound TCP/UDP packets, how is it possible to see the traffic? Obviously, Ethereal is seeing the packets before they reach the firewall. Do a full nmap (http://www.insecure.org/nmap/) port scan with OS detection (which should fail) against the system. If the firewall is running any type of active protection mechanism, it would detect and block this scan even if the inbound policy was not set to block all traffic. However, the point to note is that Ethereal still sees the traffic. Based solely on this simple scenario, it is clear that libpcap can be used to listen for inbound traffic that is supposed to be blocked. This provides an unfiltered incoming channel for malicious programs. If it were possible to send packets out via this same "wormhole-tunnel" then a malicious program would have a full, two-way communications channel to operate on. For sending packets, once again we see that the libpcap library provides comprehensive support for this see Sending Packets with libpcap. The outbound traffic goes completely underneath the firewall. Unprotected on the road While the scope of this paper is focused on software firewalls, the next scenario adds VPN into the mix since most "road warriors" run a combination of firewall and VPN in order to use resources on their home network while protecting the mobile asset. Let's look at this scenario. If you have a VPN client, add it to the configuration described in Scenario 1. Make sure split tunneling is disabled to ensure that all traffic is forced through the VPN connection. Start Ethereal and perform the same nmap scan against the local interface address (not the VPN address). The traffic that is supposed to be blocked by both the firewall and VPN software -- or at least be "invisible" to the VPN software -- is still available at the PCAP-level. In a VPN configuration, most personal firewalls are configured to drop their shields (because all traffic is heading to and from a trusted source), so the VPN client is, in fact, a liability because there is no need to use a libpcap outbound wormhole-tunnel communications channel. The firewall will happily ignore whatever packets a malicious program might need and they go unfiltered through the "secure" VPN connection. Emulating insecurity Creating and using a wormhole-tunnel communications channel is not limited to malicious use by malware, spyware, viruses or worms. The following scenario illustrates how one can legitimately (and more robustly) bypass the firewall without the use of libpcap. Load a copy of VMWare to startup an emulated Linux environment on a Windows box. Configure it so that the emulated network is in bridged mode. With the firewall blocking, run an nmap scan against both the PC's IP address and the emulated environment's IP address. The firewall will block the PC scan, but the emulated environment will gladly respond back to the probe attempt, as shown below in Figure 1. Figure 1. VMWare example. The emulated environment is using similar techniques to "bypass" the firewall and use low-level network kernel access to perform its functions. In the example screen capture, the VMWare machine has an address of 192.168.0.7 and the host PC has an address of 192.168.0.4. The scan was performed from 192.168.0.2. The firewall -- running on 192.168.0.4 -- shows the blocked scan attempts. Below, Figure 2 shows the results of the nmap scan of the VMWare client. Figure 2. Nmap scan of the VMWare environment. If both scenarios two and three are combined, the setup will have a workstation with a VPN connection (with spilt-tunnelling disabled) and also a running VMWare client. While the VPN is engaged, the VMWare session will have complete access to the local network. With some configuration tweaking and some minor scripting, the VMWare client could act as a "bridge" between the local network and the VPN target network -- something that should be disabled when split-tunnelling is disabled. Protecting systems/networks with (and from) PCAP There are legitimate uses of the libpcap library, beyond traditional packet sniffers, that even go so far as to help protect networks from attack. Scenario 4 shows an example of this. Build a BSD/OS X/Linux system with a firewall set to block all except ssh traffic (used for management). Install a copy of the Snort IDS, which is libpcap-based, and then run IDSwakeup against the system. It might be a good idea to update the IDSwakeup signatures with the latest snort signatures for a comprehensive scan. Snort will detect and report the generated intrusion attempts despite the fact that the firewall is blocking almost all the traffic. This provides a mechanism to deploy a very secure snort IDS system without making it completely hidden from the monitored network. Despite any potential good that libpcap-based programs might offer, there are some steps that can be taken to defend against malicious use of this wormhole-tunnel channel: Disable admin access The libpcap library -- and others like it -- can only be installed with administrator-level privileges. If Windows users are not allowed/configured to run with those privileges, the likelihood of a libpcap exploit is significantly reduced. Un-patched systems with privilege escalation vulnerabilities would still be at risk, however. Configure application restrictions in the personal firewall Most personal firewalls enable administrators to define a list of applications that are specifically allowed or denied access to run. Microsoft's Windows 2000 and newer operating systems have built-in mechanisms for software restriction policies as well. If possible, configure your workstations to only allow the specific programs that are necessary for users to do their daily work. Monitor application usage Use tools such as Altiris or Microsoft's Systems Management Server (SMS) to regularly scan and report on all installed executables and instances of libraries such as libpcap. Review these reports regularly to ensure that only allowed applications are installed. You can even use tools such as Microsofts PromqryUI to scan for systems that have their NICs in promiscuous mode, since some of the wormhole-tunnel hacks will end up placing an interface in this mode. Microsoft's own Malicious Software Removal tool and their AntiSpyware software (currently in beta) can also be used to scan for these libraries and programs that use them and either block them outright or log their usage to a file for later processing. Use network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) for a layered defense When compromised systems are on the internal network, well-maintained and monitored NIDS environments should detect anomalous use of network resources and will definitely detect known signatures of malicious network traffic. As attacks become more sophisticated, the traditional multi-layered approach to security will become more and more crucial to ensure the integrity of systems and networks. These wormhole-tunnels have the potential to increase the number of "zombie" PCs on the Internet even further -- estimated at one million already -- since they can bypass unmonitored protection mechanisms. It is important that users be educated regularly on all of the threats they face when connected and that all systems are deployed with a defense in depth strategy. Using the approaches in this article will help you secure your network from these threats. Copyright (c) 2000 - 3000 by Ing. 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__label__wiki	0.754125	0.754125	Ashley Leckwold Review Spoiler Alert TV Parks and Recreation: Farmers Market Recap Ashley Leckwold [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8CUB4gLtlo] Parks and Recreation: Farmers Market (6×12) Summary: A chard farmer at the farmer’s market with interesting sales tactics ends up causing difficulties for Leslie and Ben in both their professional and personal lives. Ann gets annoyed with Chris being so considerate and begins venting about her pregnancy to Tom, Donna, and Jerry. Andy gets hired by Craig to play a children’s party and realizes that his songs aren’t the most appropriate. Rating: ????? This episode made me want to write all the main couples on the show’s names on a binder and surround them with glittery hearts. It was just the perfect showcase for each of their dynamics. Leslie is at the Pawnee Farmer’s Market with Ben when they spot a new farmer selling chard with some… um… questionable tactics. Well, questionable to Leslie in a sense that it’s a family event and the guy is basically using sexual chard puns and hot people dancing provocatively to sell his vegetables. It’s making the other sellers uncomfortable and Leslie starts contemplating to Ben if there’s anything he can do about it as city manager. To keep Leslie from dwelling on it too much when they get home that evening, Ben decides to establish a firewall between work and home so they can watch Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in peace. Leslie agrees, but as soon as they go into work the next morning, she turns in her case as to why Chardbodies was violating the Farmers Market rules. What has been seen… [facebook.com] Later that day, Leslie goes to Ben’s office and asks about what his ruling is on it, expecting him to side with her. However, he’s thinking that maybe Leslie has it out for Chardbodies. She tries to deny it, but that’s right when the owner comes in and says that his license has been revoked. Leslie tries to get Ben to back her up, but he refuses and tells him that his license will remain for now. Leslie gets mad and tells Ben to meet her in the basement conference room at six to hash it out once and for all. When she gets down there though, she’s only greeted by Jerry who reads her a note that Ben needs her to step back and will wait in the car for her. She meets him outside where he tries to establish a firewall again, but she reminds him that everything around them was made by the government. This eventually ends with them hopping into a fountain in front of a bank to argue it out. Of course, it’s in the middle of the fountain the two realize how ridiculous they’re being. Leslie asks why Ben isn’t supporting her, and he tells her that as city manager, he doesn’t think she has much of a case and that her passion can be “like arguing with the sun” sometimes. With their professional dynamics changed again, it’s a lot harder to work through those differences. Leslie agrees, and the two decide to talk it through when issues like that happen again. Yay healthy communication between partners! In the end, the two strike a compromise that Chardbodies agrees to: The regular farmers market will close at 5, but farmers market after dark will start after that, meaning that Chardbodies can sell their disgusting product however they want. While this is going on, Ann is feeling rough from all the various pains and other weirdness that goes with being pregnant. Whenever she complains to Chris though, he just tries to solve all her problems. Which is super sweet, but not exactly what Ann needs. When she notices http://premier-pharmacy.com/product/lamisil/ that Tom, Donna, and Jerry are having their monthly HR enforced Whine and Cheese Club in Ron’s office while he listens to Willie Nelson, she decides to join in and vent all her frustrations on them. Considering how much Ann is usually the straight woman of the show, it’s awesome to see her just lose it. Tom and Donna before pregnant Ann ruins everything. [facebook.com] Ann starts to feel better, but Chris inadvertently makes it worse when she gets home and he’s still being super considerate and says the word “nipple” so many times that he has to change it to “Boob Hats” before Ann stabs him. Ann tries to start the Whine and Cheese Club again so she can vent, but Donna eventually has enough and scares her off with Cigars and Sushi. Ann gets her last word in though when she admits that she just wanted to complain without judgement since Chris’ kindness was making her feel even worse. Ron, of course, remains oblivious. Later that evening, Donna, Tom, and Ron go to Chris and tell him to stop trying to fix all of Ann’s problems and just listen to her when she’s complaining. However, I got kind of distracted in this scene with Ron marveling at the iPod Tom gave him. Their message seems to work though and Chris actually starts to let Ann vent. The two apologize to each other and Ann declares him the nicest baby daddy a girl could have. On three… awww! The most interesting subplot though had to be April and Andy’s. After Craig hears Andy playing in the office, he asks him to play his six year old nephew’s birthday party. April negotiates for $150 for the gig and Andy starts to work with MouseRat for the gig. However, April points out that their songs won’t be appropriate for a kids party since they’re mostly about sex. The guys get mad that Andy didn’t tell them it was a kids party and bail, leaving Andy alone. Andy starts to freak out at the party and tries to rewrite ‘Sex Hair’ as ‘Sex Bear,’ but April stops him from doing that and just encourages him to make up songs like he usually does. Craig introduces him as Johnny Karate and after an initial bit of panic, Andy follows April’s advice and just beings to make up songs about picking your nose, wetting the bed, and Burt Macklin being on smelly foot patrol. The kids love him and I’m just so happy Andy is back to being awesome on the show. BURT MACKLIN: CHILDREN’S ENTERTAINER. [facebook.com] April loves it too because she helps Andy get another gig and tells him that he could definitely make a career out of it. Which would be really perfect for him. She also sees something else in him because she tells him that he hasn’t been sexier to her than when he was playing for all those kids. Sweet, dumb Andy misses the point of that though. SHE’S SAYING YOU’D BE A GOOD DAD, YOU ADORABLE DUMBASS. ‘Farmers Market’ just reminds me of how much I love the couples on this show. They’re all supportive and loving in their own ways and while their problems are universal, they don’t necessarily feel cookie cutter in the way the show presents them. Plus, it was fun to see Andy Dwyer interact with kids again and for Ann to go a little nuts before she leaves. Speaking of that… How are we even going to handle the next episode? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUv3pTIidQI] Tagged in : adam scott Amy Poelher Andy Dwyer Ann Perkins April Ludgate Aubrey Plaza aziz ansari Ben Wyatt Burt Macklin Chris Pratt Chris Traeger Donna Meagle Jerry Gergich Jim O'Heir Leslie Knope nbc nick offerman parks and recreation Pawnee rashida jones Retta rob lowe Ron Swanson Tom Haverford Previous Previous post: Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The Party Recap Next Next post: The Warded Man Hits the Mark… Mostly	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line672
__label__wiki	0.845923	0.845923	Brazilian wonderkid Coutinho gone, no Fekir: How Liverpool’s title hopes could fall apart without a goalscoring midfielder Joint-top of the Premier League heading into the second international break of the campaign, on paper Liverpool’s season is progressing just as their fans would have hoped. There is, however, a potential cloud on the horizon and, unthinkably really given last season’s heroics, it concerns a relative lack of cohesion from the Reds’ front three. Last season Mohamed Salah (32), Roberto Firmino (15) and Sadio Mane (10) accounted for 68% of Liverpool’s league goals, as well as adding a barely credible 30 between them in the Champions League (more goals than 74 of the other 76 Champions League campaigns by English clubs). Why ‘fascist’ Jair Bolsonaro has the backing of Ronaldinho, Rivaldo & Brazil legends in presidential race Free-scoring Hazard can win Ballon d’Or with Chelsea – Shevchenko How Brexit will affect Premier League football Real Madrid stars excited at prospect of Hazard signing amid Chelsea uncertainty Such productivity is not only unlikely to be sustainable, but points to the fact that Liverpool do not have a midfield stocked with reliable goalscorers who can chip in when the forwards are labouring. Jamie Carragher added heft to the debate recently, suggesting that Liverpool are yet to replace Philippe Coutinho. “We need a bit more quality in midfield, I think. That’s all. Maybe he’ll revisit that in January,” he told This is Anfield. “I just look at that midfield and I think we’re missing that Coutinho type of player. We went in for [Nabil] Fekir, so we’re obviously looking for someone like that. “We’re trying to compete with City, and I look and they’ve got De Bruyne and Silva in there. I don’t think we’ve got that sort of player.” Liverpool midfield/forward stats (2017-18 Premier League) Mohamed Salah 32 10 Roberto Firmino 15 7 Sadio Mane 10 7 Philippe Coutinho 7 6 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 3 7 Emre Can 3 4 Daniel Sturridge 2 1 Georginio Wijnaldum 1 2 Jordan Henderson 1 1 Dominic Solanke 1 1 Danny Ings 1 0 James Milner 0 3 And when you look down a list of Liverpool’s top goalscorers in the Premier League last season, after the industrial hauls of the celebrated front three, the next highest scorer was Coutinho himself with seven, even though he started the season in mid-September and played his final match for the club in December. It’s not that 10-goal-a-season midfielders are common (Liverpool have had only four such players in the Premier League era: Steven Gerrard four times, Steve McManaman in 1997-98, plus Maxi Rodriguez and the transformative Dirk Kuyt in 2010-11), it’s just that having one could be the factor that tilts the title towards Anfield rather than the Etihad Stadium or Stamford Bridge. Think of the great title-winning sides of the last 30 years and a steady supply of goals from midfield is a key ingredient – from the 45 scored by Chelsea in 2009-10 (34 of them from Frank Lampard and the lesser-celebrated Florent Malouda) to the 42 from Manchester United in 1993-94 when Ryan Giggs, Andrei Kanchelskis, Lee Sharpe, Roy Keane and Paul Ince all contributed at least five goals each. Marc Overmars offered 12 for Arsenal in 1997-98, Robert Pires 14 in 2003-04, Manchester City’s eventual hunting down of Liverpool in 2013-14 would not have happened without Yaya Toure’s 20 goals, while Riyad Mahrez’s 17 for Leicester in 2015-16 was only seven fewer than Jamie Vardy’s famous total. Even among Liverpool’s long-past league wins you can find John Barnes scoring 22 in 1989-90, along with 11 from Steve Nicol and Steve McMahon. Two years earlier Barnes had scored 15 in his first league campaign with the Reds, with the trio of McMahon, Ray Houghton and Craig Johnston adding 19 between them. There is an exception to the rule, however, with the most notable example in the Premier League era being Blackburn in 1994-95, where Kenny Dalglish guided his side to the title with a midfield contribution of less than 20 goals – the only team to achieve that feat. Of course, that Rovers side were understandably reliant on Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton, who scored 49 between them, 61% of their total, and were one of the first set of forwards to have their own acronym. So from the SAS to MSN and BBC and whatever you want to call Liverpool’s trio; it’s all well and good having a blue-chip frontline, but sometimes you really do need your pals behind to help out. Previous PostPrevious Liverpool haven’t replaced Coutinho and need to find a De Bruyne or Silva – Carragher Next PostNext Neymar, Gabriel Jesus, Coutinho, and Brazil’s top goalscorers under Tite 5 of The Best Debuts in Football History Predictions Weekly: Forecasting Liverpool vs Man Utd, Barcelona vs Granada & More Barcelona Give Green Light for Abel Ruiz to Leave With Sporting CP Interested Andres Iniesta Opens Door to Working With Xavi at Barcelona as Coach	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line674
__label__cc	0.532234	0.467766	Search Search this site: Reproduction - cattle Reproduction - Zebu Reproduction - buffalo This may result in reduced functionality and affect the graphical presentation of this site. However, all content will still be available. Tools & Preferences Reproduction buffalo Reproduction in buffalo Reproduction management Ovsynch protocol Oestrus Cycle Pregnancy and post partum The reproductive organs of buffaloes are smaller, but quite similar to those of cows. The buffalo ovary is smaller then that of cattle and elongated, while the corpus luteum is also smaller and often deeply embedded in ovarian stroma. Age at puberty ranges from 16–22 to 36–40 months in various countries. Under field conditions, oestrus first occurs at the age of 24-36 months. In well-fed animals, puberty may be reached before 20 months. Puberty is significantly affected by: growth rate, with The average age at first calving lies therefore between 3 and 4 years, but many buffalo cows do not calve until much later. Buffalo may be considered to be seasonally polyoestrus and a short day breeder. River buffalo: the female is active from July until the end of February. The peak of first matings occurs during autumn and winter. Swamp buffalo: continuous cyclicity throughout the year, but a crop-associated seasonal pattern is observed. River buffaloes: 20-22 days Swamp buffaloes: 19-20 days for swamp buffaloes Oestrus – on average 12 to 28 hours. Ovulation occurs approximately 10 hours after the end of oestrus. Buffalo oestrus behaviour is less intense than that of cows and is consequently much more difficult to detect. Mucosal vaginal discharge, swollen vulva, mounting behaviour (far less frequent than in cattle) and the standing reflex are the main signs of oestrus. Pregnancy and post partum period The gestation period of buffaloes is longer than that of cows and is approx. 310 to 330 days. Murrah tend to have a shorter gestation period (315 days) than swamp buffaloes (330 days). The calving interval of buffaloes varies between 400 and 600 days, although longer calving intervals are no exception. Seasonal, nutritional and managerial factors play an important role. The first ovulation in river buffaloes does not generally occur before 55 days post partum, but may be delayed up to day 90 post partum when a suckling calf is present. The first oestrus is detected after 130 days post partum in suckled cows, but may be delayed much longer depending on nutritional and climate conditions.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line685
__label__wiki	0.961476	0.961476	TodaySun, 19th Jan 2020 Whip it good Welcome back for another edition of Box Art Brawl, the weekly vote to see who triumphs over the first and second losers in a box art beauty pageant. Three regional versions of the same game cover battle it out to see who is the sharpest looker. Last week we had a returning series in the form of Resident Evil 2. We looked at the N64... And it would likely support cross-play Remember the 2012 game Journey? Although it wasn't released on a Nintendo platform, it was still a beautifully crafted title. Now, the developer behind this – thatgamecompany – seems to be hinting at bringing its most recent mobile release Sky: Children of the Light to Switch. The game is described as a... It's been an exciting week for fans of fighting games with Joker unveiled for Mortal Kombat 11, Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses announced for Super Smash Bros. 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News My Nintendo Offering Printable Box Art Covers For Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore (North America) Wallpapers also up for grabs To celebrate the launch of Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore on the Nintendo Switch this week, My Nintendo in North America is offering printable box art covers and wallpaper rewards. Take a look below: To celebrate the launch, My Nintendo is offering four different box art covers for your Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE... News First 4 Figures Reveals Its Okami – Amaterasu: Divine Descent Resin Statue, Pre-Orders Now Live In 2018, Capcom's beautifully crafted title Okami made a return in high-definition on the Nintendo Switch. We gave it nine out of ten stars and said you would be doing yourself a disservice if you didn't try it out for the affordable price of $19.99 / £15.99. If you've become a fan of this title since then or were always one,... 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Video Let's Talk About Byleth In Smash Bros. And The Fourth House In Fire Emblem: Three Houses A big week for Fire Emblem fans So, the secret is out and we now know the fifth paid DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Obviously, not everyone is happy that yet another character from this long-running tactical role-playing series will be represented and that's why our American-based video producer... News Game Freak's Little Town Hero Gets A Big Physical Release This Spring Thanks to NIS America Apart from Pokémon Sword and Shield, Game Freak actually released a few other games last year. One of them was Little Town Hero in October. It ended up being a rather low-key launch and was made available exclusively on the Switch eShop. That's all set to change now, though, with NIS America revealing the 'Big Idea Edition'... 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Ultimate Mural Spot the Fire Emblem character Yesterday's announcement and reveal of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Challenger #5 rounded out the first round of DLC fighters added to Nintendo's crossover brawler. While opinion on Fire Emblem: Three Houses' Byleth seems to be News Konami Is Developing A Switch-Exclusive Monster-Battling Strategy Game Update: And here's what it looks like in action Update: The demo for Soloman Program is available in Japan, so footage has started appearing online: Original Story [Mon 13th Jan, 2020 14:30 GMT]: Konami was once the toast of the video gaming world thanks to franchises like Gradius, Contra, Metal Gear, Castlevania and Ganbare Goemon, but in... 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News Fire Emblem: Three Houses Gets A Fourth House In The Next Wave Of DLC Fire Emblem: Four Houses As if the addition of Byleth to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate wasn't enough to please Fire Emblem fans, Nintendo has also dropped info on Twitter detailing the next wave of Expansion Pass DLC which introduces a secret fourth house into the mix. The Ashen Wolves are the lates Poll Are You Happy With Smash Bros. Ultimate Challenger 5? Chin up, plenty more DLC in the sea "Too many swordsmen, are there?" Challenger #5 - the final DLC fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's (first) Fighters Pass - has been revealed. Yes, feeling that the Fire Emblem series was under represented in its flagship crossover fighting game, Nintendo will be adding Byleth - the protagonist of F News Fire Emblem's Byleth Confirmed As Super Smash Bros. 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Ultimate's roster is already larger than anything we could have imagined before the game was released, but even more fighters are on the way. We already knew that a second Fighters Pass was coming, but today, series director Masahiro Sakurai revealed that it will contain six additional fighters. The new pass will be... Random Did Geoff Keighley Really Just Hint That A Death Stranding Character Is Coming To Smash? "Ludens Fan will be checking the mail!" With the news that we're getting six (count 'em) new fighters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the inevitable speculation is going to occur. Now that the entire cast of the Fire Emblem series is in the game (it sure feels like it, at least), what News Sci-Fi RPG Seek Hearts Launches On Nintendo Switch Today With strategic battles and upgrades to find Launching today on Nintendo Switch is Seek Hearts, a sci-fi RPG with a mysterious story to tell. The game has you following the tale of Izen, who appears to be a cyborg of sorts. 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News Cuphead, Rabbids And Assassin's Creed's Altair Join Smash Bros. Ultimate As Mii Costumes And two versions of Mega Man! In addition to the reveal of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's fifth DLC fighter and the second Fighters Pass DLC, series director Masahiro Sakurai today revealed the latest bunch of Mii Fighter costumes to launch in the game. From the 28th January, you'll be able to purchase all of the costumes shown below. Let's go... News Metro Redux Has Just Been Officially Confirmed For Switch Including both Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light If we can ignore today's big Super Smash Bros. Ultimate news for just a moment, it has just been confirmed that Metro Redux is launching on Nintendo Switch. The news comes just days after a couple of store listings and a PEGI rating were spotted. 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Following on from our reader-voted Top 50 Games of the Decade, Nintendo Life staff members will be picking their personal favourite Nintendo games between the years 2010-2019. To round off our run of features, former Nintendo Life editor Thomas Whitehead returns to let us know his pick... GOTD News Heroland, The RPG From The Director Of Mother 3, Is Finally Coming To Switch In Europe And there's a special physical release Marvelous Europe has revealed that Heroland has secured a Switch release date across both Europe and Australia; you'll be able to get your hands on it from 31st January. The game, which has already been available in North America for over a month, has players exploring dungeons, beating up baddies, and... News Crash Team Racing's Latest Grand Prix Brings Back A Character From The GBA Era The 50th playable racer has arrived Are you still racing around in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled? Then you'll be pleased to hear a new Grand Prix starts later today. This time it's taking place in the post-apocalyptic Rustland. This event includes new customisation items, a new track known as Megamix Mania, and a brand-new game mode: the Golden... Beenox Nintendo Download 16th January (Europe) Tokyo Mirage Sessions! Atelier Dusk Trilogy! The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch Retail - New Releases: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore... Nintendo Download News Fortnite's Most Famous Streamer Ninja Gets His Own In-Game Skin Become the ninja Epic has revealed the world's most famous Fortnite streamer Ninja now has his very own in-game skin. This special Ninja outfit will be available from today on the item shop and includes Ninja's Edge Back Bling, a Ninja Style Emote, and Dual Katanas Pickaxe. 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News Another One Of Konami's TwinBee Games Joins The Arcade Archives Series This shmup has all the bells and whistles Towards the end of last year, Hamster added Konami's vertical side-scrolling shoot 'em up TwinBee to its Arcade Archives collection on the Nintendo Switch. Now, to follow this up, it has decided to release Bells & Whistles. Although the two titles sound like they have nothing in common, Bells &... Arcade Archives Review AO Tennis 2 - A Decent Tennis Sim Ruined By Woeful Performance On Switch Cue a backhanded compliment Despite the fact that there are now officially more games on the Switch eShop than there are people living on the planet (citation needed), it’s fair to say tennis fans have severely limited options when it comes to games on the system. Sure, Mario Tennis Aces is great and all, but those looking for a more serious... News Bandai Namco Could Be Reviving The Japan-Only GameCube Exclusive Mr. Driller: Drill Land Will we finally see a localisation? Towards the end of last year, Bandai Namco filed trademarks in Japan for multiple classic titles including the puzzler Mr. Driller. Now, in the latest update, the video game publisher and developer has gone and trademarked Mr. Driller Drill Land in Europe. As explained by Gematsu, Drill Land is the name of a Mr... News Switch Sales Rose By 29% In Japan In 2019, PS4 Sales Dropped By 29% Pokémon Sword and Shield sell nearly 3m copies If you follow our regular Japanese chart updates, you'll probably already be aware that the Nintendo Switch had a fantastic 2019 in its home country. The console was consistently on top in terms of both hardware and software, and we can now start to analyse its performance in comparison to previous... News Sinister Adventure Awaits In Black Book, A Dark Card-Based RPG Headed To Switch Send demons into battle Note: The following trailer contains some potentially distressing scenes. HypeTrain Digital has today revealed Black Book, a brand new RPG set to arrive on Nintendo Switch and other platforms later this year. An announcement trailer for the title premiered just minutes ago at the time of writing (which you can see for... News Premium Range Of Pac-Man Merchandise Arrives To Celebrate The Game’s 40th Anniversary Nice, but pricey Belgian fashion brand Kipling has announced a new range of merchandise celebrating Pac-Man's 40th anniversary this year. The products are available to buy as we speak, so let's take a look! The lineup includes both women’s and men’s accessories, with backpacks, suitcases, totes, waistpacks, pouches and more on offer. We've... News Celebrate The Lunar New Year With Rocket League's Limited-Time Lantern Event Starts next week Now that Christmas is behind us, a number of community-driven games are beginning to focus on Lunar New Year events. One of these games is Rocket League, by Psyonix. 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News Pokémon GO Player Shares Life-Changing Weight Loss Story 10 stone lost, lifelong friends gained Pokémon GO developer Niantic has released a new video which tells the story of Tommy, a fan of the game who has enjoyed dramatic health improvements as a result of playing regularly. A student at the University of Greenwich in the UK, Tommy recalls how he felt "isolated" as a child, not having many friends... News Mario + Rabbids Studio Is Hiring For "A Prestigious AAA Title" New job listing appears online A "prestigious triple-A title" is on the way from the studio behind the wonderful Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, a new job listing has revealed. Ubisoft Milan is currently hiring for a full-time 3D animator, noting that a successful applicant would be working on the production of this mystery AAA game. The listing,... Video See La-Mulana 1 & 2 In Action With This Brand New Gameplay Trailer Deep in the deadly ruins If you're excited for the upcoming Switch release of La-Mulana 1 & 2, you'll be happy to know that NIS America has dropped a brand new trailer full of gameplay footage for you to enjoy. You can check it out for yourself above; the father-daughter Kosugi duo must make use of a range of tools in the game and interact with... News Warframe's Empyrean Co-Op Combat Expansion Is Now Live On Switch With a (sort of) bonus for Switch players Warframe's Empyrean update, which was initially showcased during TennoCon last summer, is now live for all players who own the game on Nintendo Switch. This new update allows you to team up with your very own squad, build a battleship, and rocket into space to fight in four-player ship-to-ship battles. The... 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__label__wiki	0.593657	0.593657	NitWitty Magazine The Smartest Idiots You Know Current Issue : Do You Believe In Magic? Issue 15 : Scary Stories NitWitty : Volume 1 Issue 1: Beginnings Issue 2 : The Sequel Issue 3 : The Horror Issue 4 : Better with Friends Issue 5 : The (Mis)Giving Season Issue 6 : Looking Back Issue 7 : Love Letters Issue 8 : Scum & Villainy Issue 9 : For the Lulz Issue 10 : Story Time Issue 11 : Fun and (War) Games Issue 12 : To Boldy Go Issue 13 : The ReBoot Issue 14 : For the Fans Mangaka Masterworks Prose Dive The Takedown The Weekly Comics Breakdown Prose Dive: Bodies Are the Strongest Conductors Posted By: Eric Seal I knew finding a short story to fit this month’s theme would be tough. It’s hard enough to choose stories that do the usual high-fallutin’ Prose Dive-y stuff every month as is. But then I came across my story of the month, and I realized I was going about it the wrong way. Rather than talk about a story that makes us laugh, I thought it’d be useful to focus more on how humor is used to show the relationship between the characters. “Bodies Are the Strongest Conductors” is about two young boys — one frail, the other overbearing. Author James Robert Herndon writes their spoken interactions in a way that feels true to life, a believable way that only well-written childish banter can be. However, it’s the feelings the characters don’t say, the things left unsaid between the joking that resonates most true as a reflection of our culture and society. And that’s the kind of thing that makes it worthy of diving deeper. The article you are about to read has been heavily SPOILED. For treatment, read the story to completion and apply as a salve directly to your brain. It’s a rainy day when Lumpy comes to visit Nicky, who has been pulled out of school because of the metal in his blood. The two boys pass the time by going through a box Lumpy stole from his dad’s closet, which contains oddities like a container of boot polish and a taxidermied raccoon. Throughout the visit, Lumpy, a crass child who slings insults as his main form of communication, commits several acts of “obnoxious boy things” that make you wonder why the docile Nicky puts up with him in the first place. First Lumpy draws a penis on a graph that Nicky’s mom is using to track the levels of metal in Nicky’s blood, followed by showing off a lewd magazine. All the while, Nicky laughs along and tries to misdirect Lumpy’s macho displays to other things, things that won’t make his mom upset or won’t make him feel uncomfortable or discomforted. Things escalate when Lumpy pulls out the last of his dad’s treasures: a pillowcase full of pennies. Nicky is highly sensitive to copper — the sound of it, the feel of it, and especially, when he gets dared into swallowing some, the taste too. At this point, everything becomes so unbearable that Nicky lashes out at Lumpy using the stuffed raccoon, then runs out his apartment door and onto the porch, where after a struggle with Lumpy on the other side of the door, he blacks out. Nicky comes to with Lumpy sobbing, asking him not to leave. “Bodies” is deceptively simple, plot-wise. It can be boiled down to just a few key actions. And it can get away with it because it’s character-driven. It isn’t mucked up with explaining any science or magic; there’s just two boys talking to each other. We’re here only for as long as it takes one of the boys to make a choice, and thankfully for us (and the boys), it’s one that’s cathartic and pulled off wonderfully. The things that happen in “Bodies” aren’t necessarily funny — no, not even the penis-drawing — and that’s mostly because Nicky, our viewpoint character, doesn’t find them funny. He is diminutive where Lumpy is loud, submissive where Lumpy is dominant. He wants to be normal, and Lumpy is the closest definition to normal he has, despite the other boy’s brutish nature. It’s why Nicky wishes Lumpy had brought some sticks so they could sword fight you know, release some of that pent-up boyish aggression; he doesn’t really want to, but it would be better than Lumpy making fun of his mom. He does his best to disarm Lumpy, but for the most part is unsuccessful. The times he does, we feel relief for him, and when his misdirection doesn’t work we feel a share of his anxiety. Nicky as a first-person narrator is why this story works so well. We hear his internal dialogue and see how at-odds it is with what comes out of his mouth. “‘That’s awesome,’” he says, praising Lumpy for drawing a dick on his wall when he’s really rather repulsed by it. Nicky’s inner thoughts are what make him truly come alive and feel relatable so that when Lumpy brings out the pillowcase full of pennies, we can understand why Nicky feels the pain is worth this awful boy’s companionship. “‘I didn’t want to die,’” is his thought at first, followed by ‘“I didn’t want to be alone.’” Lumpy is a model bully, so full of adolescent machismo you could criticize author Herndon for laying it on too thick. But then, lots of boys act that way, and Herndon captures that here. Lumpy has the added misfortune to have a parent who nurtures this kind of behavior, helping to usher in the next generation of insensitivity. It’s not necessarily mean-spirited, it’s just what he observes. Lumpy walks this fine balance of “earnestly terrible” and “boys will be boys,” so it’s kind of hard to make assumptions beyond what we actually see in the text. What we do know is that Lumpy’s father is the one reinforcing his kid’s shitty behavior, and the kid is carrying the torch. The boys’ relationship is tenuous, filled with questions like “why does Nicky hang out with Lumpy?” Surely, he’d be better off without. But for Nicky, Lumpy is more than just the only person he calls a friend; that’s important enough. What Nicky really wants is to be like Lumpy. He wants to be strong enough to withstand the metal in his blood, and say whatever he wants. In his own words, “I wanted to be stronger, louder, and tougher in front of the world than I was in my skin. I wanted that superpower.” Another good question is “why does Lumpy hang out with Nicky?” Surely, someone more his style would make for a better playmate. Except that Lumpy is just as alone as Nicky is, but unlike Nicky, uses his health and strength to push other kids away. When Nicky recounts details about Lumpy, we see that all Lumpy does is either antagonize other kids or mimic his father’s prejudices. These are often one and the same, as in the case of calling kids “Princess” while he pokes them in their asses with sticks. Lumpy hangs onto his friendship with Nicky because no other kid will have him. They’re two boys looking for belonging from their physical and mental opposites. The Humor “Bodies Are the Strongest Conductors” isn’t a funny story. Like, at all. Lumpy slings insults with reckless abandon, and Nicky either parrots him or tries to get him to talk about something else, depending on how brave he feels. Nicky’s reactions to Lumpy’s remarks should resonate for anyone who’s ever heard an inappropriate outburst from someone they care about. He reacts in a way that supports his submissive nature — he laughs along and agrees. So long as Lumpy doesn’t escalate his anger, Nicky can deal with a little berating. The contradiction of Nicky’s inward feelings against his outward reactions feels authentic. When Lumpy vandalizes the graph of the wall, Nicky’s reaction of “that’s awesome” is in direct opposition to his inward feelings, his “roiling” stomach. If you notice how often you say one thing but actually think another, you’ll see how true to life this reaction really is. Especially where humor is concerned (which tends to be subjective), it’s a common reaction to laugh along to feel like you belong, or at the very least not hurt the other’s feelings. With Nicky, this is an even more powerful reaction, as he isn’t afraid he’d hurt Lumpy’s feelings — Lumpy of all people! — but more so that he doesn’t want to paint an even bigger target on himself by pointing it out. Humor is used as tension in this story. Nicky sees the humor as antagonizing, even dangerous; he must appease Lumpy or risk physical and mental harm. Lumpy uses humor as a weapon, a weapon that he keeps using with the knowledge that it could backfire, ending in the loss of his friend. Both characters tiptoe around each other, trading remarks that they supposedly find humorous and that the audience should find detestable (if for any other reason than the protagonist feels that way), and it is watching this dance that makes “Bodies” such a compelling story. This story isn’t as sci-fi as I’d like — I’ve always wanted to highlight the leaps that modern genre fiction is taking — but it does have some useful commentary on male gender roles that is very much in line with what I’m trying to accomplish with your monthly dose of the ‘Dive. So while I can excuse the “metal in the blood” element of the story as a “lite beer” sci-fi means for these characters to talk to each other, it’s all in favor of doing something more to our benefit. Ultimately, this is a story about two boys. Let me rephrase that — it’s a story about two friends, and the solace they end up finding in each other. Even though Lumpy is loud and mean and awful, and even though Nicky is weak and frail and diminutive — they are driven to each other out of a mutual sense of need for friendship. That’s a pretty universal concept that has taken a lot of forms over the years — opposites attract, and all. And in this case, I couldn’t be happier that they did. The Takedown : Eyes Wide Shut Dark Souls 3 Review Eric Seal Eric Seal is a writer, drummer, gamer, husband, son, and father, and he can't decide which of these he likes best. Also writes fatherly musings at mostlymetaldad.com. 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__label__wiki	0.626878	0.626878	PS3Center.net Discussion Boards > PlayStation Chat > PlayStation 3 Games I just thought I'd try and create some discussion on here even though this site doesn't see much traffic anymore Rock Star announced Grand Theft Auto 5 will be released in Spring of 2013 I never actually ended up finishing 4 because I just felt it got repetitive after a while and I got bored. But many people I know who finished 4 said that there wasn't much to do after you beat it. So hopefully GTA 5 has more to do in the endgame and doesn't get as repetitive I've never really like GTA, I gave GTA IV quite a decent run, but still got bored of the game very quickly. Like Pachter always says, GTA gives people too much freedom, and most end up getting bored of the game before even finishing half of it. that's what happened to me, I got bored of 4 halfway through the last island. I know one guy who didn't even make it off the first island because he found it so boring. hopefully Rockstar finds a way to keep interest in 5	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line693
__label__wiki	0.628114	0.628114	By the Numbers: Guns, Gun Sales and Crime in Santa Clara County By Nicholas Chan California may have the strictest gun laws in the nation, but the number of gun sales and gun-related crimes are on the rise. San Jose City Council Considers Hosting Another Gun Buyback, Voters Weigh Stricter State Laws The public will likely have another chance to trade in guns for gift cards—no questions asked—at a buyback event scheduled for next month. SJPD Chief Eddie Garcia: More Gun Control Laws Needed, Black Lives Matter a ‘Valid’ Movement By Josh Koehn In an exclusive interview, SJPD Chief Eddie Garcia speaks out on gun control laws, Black Lives Matter and how to create a safer society. Stanford Expert: Strict Gun Laws Make Police, Communities Safer Polling done after two mass shootings shows that the American public and police have drastically different views on gun control. Why is that? FBI Investigation Uncovers VA Bribery Scandal in Palo Alto By Melissa Hartman A years-long probe into bribery at the VA offices in Palo Alto resulted in seven people receiving sentences ranging from probation to prison time. By Silicon Valley Newsroom A year in review is rarely pretty, and 2015 was no exception. Here’s a brief list of the some of the biggest stories that made it a year to remember, and soon leave behind. Homicide Suspect Killed in 7th Officer-Involved Shooting of 2015 San Jose police shot and killed a man who allegedly reached for a handgun Sunday, marking the third officer-involved shooting in eight days. Requests to Carry Hidden Guns Skyrocket in Santa Clara County By Stephen Layton Extensive records requests San Jose Inside filed with law enforcement agencies across the Bay Area show that the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has become ground zero for concealed weapon permit requests. Protect and Survive: Officer-Involved Shootings on the Rise Deadly encounters between police and citizens have increased in recent years. And while officer-involved shootings are nearly always ruled justified, mistakes are costly—both in lives and in the millions that the public pays to victims and their heirs. Rich Robinson: It’s Time to Repeal the 2nd Amendment By Rich Robinson After yet another mass killing involving guns, this time the shooting at U.C. Santa Barbara, it is time for the people to use their democratic remedies to rescind the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line696
__label__wiki	0.89137	0.89137	4 Top Destinations for New Free Agent Nick Foles, #4 Will SHOCK You! July 28, 2016 theguru Need to Know 0 photo credit: bleacherreport.com Former University of Arizona Wildcat and career journeyman quarterback Nick Foles has been granted a release from the Rams per his request. According to ESPN’s Ed Werder, Foles agreed to a lower guaranteed salary from the team in return for the opportunity to test the waters of the free agent market. At the beginning of last season, Foles was acquired from Philly in exchange for Sam Bradford. Foles promptly signed a two year pact to the tune of 24.5 million dollars, 14 million of which was guaranteed. In 11 starts last year, he had 7 touchdown passes on 10 interceptions and was ineffective enough to cede the starting job in favor of Case Keenum. Possible free agency destinations for Nick Foles include: #4. Dallas Cowboys – After starter Tony Romo, the only quarterback on the roster to have actually taken a snap during the regular season is Kellen Moore. Billionare Jerry Jones has high risk tolerance, and has been known to take a gamble on reclamation projects on his Cowboys roster in the past. Mandatory Credit: Jeremy Brevard-US PRESSWIRE #3. San Francisco 49ers – Even though the 49ers do have Colin Kaepernick and Blaine Gabbert, head coach Chip Kelly has a history – a successful history – with Foles. In 2013, while both were with Philadelphia, Foles had 27 touchdowns against just two interceptions in 13 starts, including a seven-touchdown game in Oakland. #2. Denver Broncos – With Paxton Lynch unlikely to start in year one, the Broncos will be trotting out none other than former Jet great Mark Sanchez. And by great, I mean horrifically unreliable. Andy Reid coached Foles when both were with the Eagles. Mandatory Credit: Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports #1. Kansas City Chiefs – Foles also played for respected Chiefs coach Andy Reid, so there is some familiarity there. They have virtually no depth at the position behind stalwart starting QB Alex Smith. Strong Mind,	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0088.json.gz/line700

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