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Ziehl–Neelsen staining is a type of acid-fast stain, first introduced by Paul Ehrlich. Ziehl–Neelsen staining is a bacteriological stain used to identify acid-fast organisms, mainly Mycobacteria. It is named for two German doctors who modified the stain: the bacteriologist Franz Ziehl (1859–1926) and the pathologist Friedrich Neelsen (1854–1898).

Mycobacteria
In anatomic pathology specimens, immunohistochemistry and modifications of Ziehl–Neelsen staining (such as the Fite-Faraco method) have comparable diagnostic utility. Both of them are superior to traditional Ziehl–Neelsen staining.

The genus Mycobacterium is a slow growing bacteria, made up of small rods that are slightly curved or straight, and are considered to be gram positive. Some mycobacteria are free-living saprophytes, but many are pathogens that cause disease in animals and humans. Mycobacterium bovis causes tuberculosis in cattle. Since tuberculosis can be spread to humans, milk is pasteurized to kill any of the bacteria. The Mycobacteria species that causes tuberculosis (TB) in humans is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is an airborne bacterium that typically infects the human lungs. Testing for TB includes blood testing, skin tests, and chest X-rays. When looking at the smears for TB, it is stained using an acid-fast stain. These acid-fast organisms like Mycobacterium contain large amounts of lipid substances within their cell walls called mycolic acids. These acids resist staining by ordinary methods such as a Gram stain. It can also be used to stain a few other bacteria, such as Nocardia. The reagents used for Ziehl–Neelsen staining are carbol fuchsin, acid alcohol, and methylene blue. Acid-fast bacilli are bright red after staining.

Fungi
Ziehl–Neelsen staining is a type of narrow spectrum fungal stain. Narrow spectrum fungal stains are selective, and they can help differentiate and identify fungi. The results of Ziehl–Neelsen staining is variable because many fungal cell walls are not acid fast. An example of a common type of acid-fast fungus that is usually stained with Ziehl–Neelsen staining is called Histoplasma (HP). Histoplasma is found in soil and the feces of birds and bats. Humans can contract histoplasmosis by inhalation of the fungal spores. Histoplasma enters the body and goes to the lungs where the spores turn into yeast. The yeast gets into the blood stream and affects lymph nodes and other parts of the body. Usually people do not get sick from inhaling the spores, but if they do they usually have flu like symptoms. Another variation on this staining method is used in mycology to differentially stain acid-fast incrustations in the cuticular hyphae of certain species of fungi in the genus Russula. Some free endospores can be confused with small yeasts, so staining is used to identify the unknown fungi. It is also useful in the identification of some protozoa, namely Cryptosporidium and Isospora. The Ziehl–Neelsen stain can also hinder diagnosis in the case of paragonimiasis because the eggs in sputum sample for ovum and parasite (O&P) can be dissolved by the stain, and is often used in this clinical setting because signs and symptoms of paragonimiasis closely resemble those of TB.

History
In 1882 Robert Koch discovered the etiology of tuberculosis. Soon after Koch's discovery, Paul Ehrlich developed a stain for mycobacterium tuberculosis, called the alum hematoxylin stain. Franz Ziehl then altered Ehrlich's staining technique by using carbolic acid as the mordant. Friedrich Neelsen kept Ziehl's choice of mordant but changed the primary stain to carbol fuchsin. Ziehl and Neelsen's modifications together have developed the Ziehl–Neelsen stain. Another acid-fast stain was developed by Joseph Kinyoun by using the Ziehl–Neelsen staining technique but removing the heating step from the procedure. This new stain from Kinyoun was named the Kinyoun stain.

Procedure
A typical AFB stain procedure involves dropping the cells in suspension onto a slide, then air drying the liquid and heat fixing the cells.

Studies have shown that an AFB stain without a culture has a poor negative predictive value. An AFB culture should be performed along with an AFB stain; this has a much higher negative predictive value.

Mechanism explanation
The mechanism of action of the Ziehl-Neelsen stain is not completely understood, but it is thought to involve a chemical reaction between the acidic dyes and the cell walls of the bacteria. The acidity of the dyes causes them to bind more strongly to the cell walls of the bacteria than to other cells or tissues. This results in the selective staining of only those cells that have a high density of cell wall material, such as acid-fast bacteria.

The Ziehl-Neelsen stain is a two step staining process. In the first step, the tissue is stained with a basic fuchsin solution, which stains all cells pink. In the second step, the tissue is incubated in an acid alcohol solution, which decolorizes all cells except for acid-fast cells, which retain the color and appeared as red. The mechanisms by which this color is produced are not well understood, but it is thought that the interaction of the basic fuchsin with the cell wall components of bacteria creates a new molecule that is responsible for the color.

Modifications
 1% sulfuric acid alcohol for actinomycetes, nocardia.
 0.5–1% sulfuric acid alcohol for oocysts of isospora, cyclospora.
 0.25–0.5% sulfuric acid alcohol for bacterial endospores.
 Differential staining – glacial acetic acid used, no heat applied, secondary stain is Loeffler's methylene blue.
 Kinyoun modification (or cold Ziehl–Neelsen technique) is also available.
 A protocol in which a detergent is substituted for the highly toxic phenol in the fuchsin staining solution.

See also
 Lowenstein–Jensen medium
 Gram stain
 Kinyoun stain
 Acid-fastness
 Franz Ziehl
 Friedrich Neelsen

References

Bibliography
 "Microbiology with Diseases by Body System", Robert W. Bauman, 2009, Pearson Education, Inc.

External links

 Ziehl–Neelsen protocol (PDF format).

Microscopy
Microbiology techniques
Laboratory techniques
Histopathology
Histotechnology
Staining dyes
Staining
Bacteriology
Acid-fast bacilli

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Maybe We Don't Need To "Resist" Pokemon Go | Vol. 3 / No. 38.1
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The grouchy Marxists over at Jacobin have published an over-the-top editorial by Sam Kriss called "Resist Pokemon Go," and while it's not the usual fare of complete insanity I usually post on Mondays, it's still nuts enough to be worth sharing. My chief criticism with it is that it creates a straw-man for what Pokemon Go is and represents, and then proceeds to set it on fire without adequately dealing with reality.
His primary issue with the augmented reality game seems to be that it doesn't turn adults into children, which he thinks would have some merit, but instead — well, I'm not sure. He refuses to outright say what he thinks, only that others' criticisms — that it somehow "infantilizes" adults into "vicious, sticky-fingered" children, that it's turning our world into one in which "grown adults in their millions are milling about aimlessly, staring at their phones, collecting digital rats, reliving a stupid childhood, and shrinking all the while into inattentive sugar-zapped brats" — constitute "a strong critique of the game." You should definitely read it for yourself to see if you can actually find a substantive criticism anywhere in there.
What I've seen of people playing the game is a far different reality: it's free to download; you never need to purchase anything in it to play or enjoy the game (though many will, it remains voluntary); it's having a great impact on people with social anxiety, depression, and other challenges; it's making people more active and more social; and people are having fun. Now maybe this all takes away from the time they might otherwise spend confronting the sheer misery of a world where we think it's okay for the punishment for not contributing labour to the economy to be starvation, homelessness, and death, but I think there's probably room for a little bit of fun catching Pokemon while also hating your place in the work-based economy.
You can read the piece over at Jacobin if you're so inclined.
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This is a rush transcript of "Special Report With Bret Baier" from February 25, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: In a month's time or a few weeks' time or six weeks' time, we could actually resolve something. And if we can't, then I think we have got to go ahead and make some decisions, and then that's what elections are for.
SEN. HARRY REID, D-NEV., SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: It's time we do something and we're going to do it.
MITCH MCCONNELL, (R) SENATE MINORITY LEADER: I was discouraged by the outcome. I think it's pretty clear that the majority, including the president, want to continue with basically the Senate bill.
BAIER: Senate minority leader there, the Senate majority leader reacting to the day-long health care summit which lasted more than seven and a half hours. Late in the day we heard from the White House senior advisor David Axelrod about this whole thing of pushing the Senate bill through.
DAVID AXELROD, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE ADVISER: The American people, I think, want a straight up vote on this. They don't want procedural games. They want a majority vote on this one way or the other. Hopefully we can get that done.
BAIER: But to get a majority vote you would have to do the procedural reconciliation, which essentially means 51 votes for the Senate instead of the normal 60.
So what about this day? Let's bring in our panel, Tucker Carlson, editor of thedailycaller.com, Mara Liasson, national political correspondent of National Public Radio, and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer.
Let's start, Charles, with, I guess, the end of the day, because we really learned everything at the end of the day.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: After seven and a half hours, the president reveals the purpose practically in the last minute, in which he said we're going to give it a month or so. We're going to see if we can agree.
Obviously they are not going to agree. Obviously this was all about giving the appearance of reaching out for other ideas. And it was all about setting the premise for a pivot to reconciliation, i.e., meaning the Democrats are not going to try to ram it through on a procedural trick in the Senate and try cobble the votes required in the House.
Now, I think the Democrats actually helped themselves in the process. They did have a seven and a half hour show in which it appeared as if they were genuinely open. I think it was quite cynical, but I think it allowed at least them to argue to independents who want to see a kind of an ecumenical effort, to argue that we tried. We went the last mile, and we failed. So in order to get health care reform, we had to go by this partisan procedure.
However, on the other hand, the Republicans really helped themselves. The argument against the party of no, they have no ideas, they are against anything, they're nihilists.
In fact, they spent seven hours, I think, presenting a very strong case. They're knowledgeable. They have ideas. They are interested in reform. But they have differences.
Lamar Alexander was dazzling. Paul Ryan was rapier sharp in rebutting all of the smoke and mirrors that the Democrats had presented. I think it's going to help the Republicans in November on their image. But in the short run it's going to help the Democrats in trying to ram the thing through.
MARA LIASSON, NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: The purpose of this summit for the president was to, one, give the American people two things that they really want, bipartisanship and transparency. That's what the American people like to see, cameras were rolling, and he was reaching across the aisle.
The other purpose, the more important purpose, was to somehow use the summit to buck up his own Democrats so that they would get the votes they need in the House, in particular, which is going to be the bigger lift, and then try to get 51 votes in the Senate for the strategy of reconciliation.
I don't know if he accomplished that second purpose. It's hard to tell. I think it was a big risk for the president in that he gave the Republicans an equal -- he had them on the same stage as him. It was different than when he went to Baltimore and was talking from a podium.
BAIER: You say he reached across the aisle. But he ended the day saying baby steps don't get you where you want to go. Despite the fact that Republicans said from the beginning, almost every one said we need to scrap the existing bill and we'll come with you on a number of different points.
LIASSON: What I mean by bipartisanship is the American people want to see both parties sitting down together, and that's what it accomplished. It was pretty much not too much more than that. The Republicans don't want to work with this bill as a starting point. They want to scrap it and start over, and the president doesn't want to scrap it.
I do want to take issue with one thing Charles said. Reconciliation is not a procedural trick. That implies it's illegitimate. Reconciliation has been used many times. You can say it's not wise in this instance on a big piece of social legislation. You can say there are many reasons not to do it, but it's not a trick.
BAIER: It's used for budget measures.
LIASSON: Yes, and it was used for welfare reform, it was used for Medicaid. It's been used for many things. Now, it's not used every day, and clearly the preference for big pieces of social legislation is not to use it, but it's not a trick.
KRAUTHAMMER: It's a trick because the Senator Byrd who invented it and who talked about it recently said it was never intended for anything like this. It is a trick in the sense that it was attempted. It was designed as a way to harmonize budgets and cut taxes -- raise taxes and cut spending.
It was never designed as a way to execute a reform for a sixth of the economy.
BAIER: Tucker, overview of the day.
TUCKER CARLSON, EDITOR, THEDAILYCALLER.COM: The White House is making the same bet they always make, which is if they just get the president out there, people will fall in love. They will be enthralled by the power and the magnetism of his personality.
This is the same bet they made going into Copenhagen trying to win the Olympics for Chicago. It's the same bet they made early on at the joint address to the joint session of Congress. They make it every time. And every time the verdict comes back, which is this guy may be charming, but it's not enough. The public just doesn't buy the program.
I think this time is more alluded to he may have actually pushed it too far. He did see diminished in this forum, I thought, because he was on, as someone wrote to us today, he looked like just another guy in subcommittee hearing in Rayburn.
But I also think his tone was off. Time and again a guy of amazing, remarkable self-esteem, he got highhanded with people. He got highhanded with John McCain. I know we are not allowed to call this president arrogant but I thought frankly it made him look that way, and I thought it made him look bad.
BAIER: Does he win votes with the American people, Mara with this.
LIASSON: I don't think he wins votes with the health care plan with the American people. I think the American people like the cameras to be rolling. They wanted this.
I think the audience was not actually the American people. He needs to win votes among Democrats if they're going to pursue the strategy that they always planned to do, which is this reconciliation strategy.
The bigger lift, as I said they have to get -- they don't need 218 anymore because the House has shrunk recently, but they still need a majority of votes in the House, and Nancy Pelosi doesn't have them yet. And the question is did anything happen today to make her job easier, and I don't know.
BAIER: OK, more on the health care summit after the break. We will look at the political ramifications of this summit when we come back in three minutes.
In the meantime you can check out our website there, FOXnews.com/Special Report. We have videos on there as well as past panels and something we call "extra grapes" from the "Grapevine." Check it out on the break. We will see you on the other side.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-ARIZ.: They want us to go back to the beginning. They want us not to do this kind of legislating.
OBAMA: Let me just make this point, John, because we're not campaigning anymore. The election is over.
MCCAIN: I am reminded of that every day.
BAIER: It got heated a couple times during the health care summit back and forth, a couple of times between President Obama and John McCain, and it started with the president walking into Blair House saying he was all about listening.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President, do you have a brief comment?
OBAMA: I'm looking forward to listening.
BAIER: That's what he said. Then we had the breakdown according to John Boehner's office. The Democrats and President Obama spoke for almost four hours and Republicans spoke for about two hours in the total timeframe. There were a couple discussions about timing throughout the summit.
We are back with the panel about the politics and the style involved here. Charles?
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, I thought it was rather interesting the president risked his prestige in doing. Let's remember, look at the optics of this. Two months ago is he standing in the Congress on the podium in the House of Representatives addressing the Congress. He has literally at its feet the whole Congress, the Supreme Court, the generals, and he is speaking to the nation on television. He gives this speech. This is in December on health care.
And he strikes out. He gets nowhere on it. So here he is now two months later, and he is literally at the same level as the members of the House and the Senate. He has given up the aura of the presidency, which is half king, half prime minister, and he is now at the level of prime minister toe to toe with members of a Congress.
So he diminishes his aura, and I think it doesn't help him in the long run.
And then he gets, at the same time he is so imperious and so self- confident that he nonetheless acts as the arbiter of what is legitimate and what's not. I mean, he would be saying, well, that's a talking point and that's a legitimate point.
You know, if you win the presidency, you win the White House, you win Air Force One, you get a personal chef, but you do not become the arbiter of legitimacy in American discourse. And that's what he appointed himself as.
BAIER: Tucker, everybody had, it seemed, a personal story. Somebody back home they just talked to, read a letter, something. We heard a lot of those stories throughout the day. Some are affective, obviously, some, at the end of the day, it seemed like we heard a lot.
CARLSON: George Miller not only has two artificial hips but a kidney stone. It turns out Louise Slaughter has a friend who borrowed her sister's false teeth. One of Obama girls had meningitis, the other asthma. Barack Obama's mother passed away.
All of this stuff is a species of moral blackmail -- I know someone who is suffering. I am suffering, therefore, you must accede to my point or you are a bad person. It's ludicrous.
I have to say, since I can't control myself, all the mistakes the Democrats made -- expected. The specter of spectacle of watching Republicans demagogue on Medicare, very distressing to see Republicans get up there and say you, President Obama, want to take money from seniors.
That is not a stand on principle. That is something that Democrats have deny for generations. It's been repugnant when they did it. A lot of Republicans recognize that we need to get Medicare under control or we will be bankrupt. And I wish they had said that today.
BAIER: We talked a little bit, Mara, about the politics here going forward. As you look at the latest FOX opinion dynamics poll just out today -- asked do nothing or pass a bill this year, you see do nothing there 50 percent, pass a bill this year 46 percent.
And then if no compromise is reached at today's health care summit, what should the president do? And that's the drop the bill and start over 59 percent to 34 percent. Similar polls in a number of different organizations.
LIASSON: You know, those polls don't tell Democrats what will happen to them if they do nothing next November. In other words, that's all how the American people feel right now. But a Democrat has to ask himself, if I go home to the voters, having already voted, many of them for a bill just like this one, and nothing to show for it, am I better off or worse off?
The Democrats are facing a really difficult problem. Either way is pretty bad for them in November. But they have to decide which is worse, to have cast all these votes and have nothing to show for it and look like we can't govern, we can't be effective, or to pass something, have the courage of our convictions, and go out and try to sell it.
I mean, I'm not saying that passing an unpopular bill is a good thing to do, but I feel that not passing anything for the Democrats is marginally politically worse. I'm not saying it's going to be good for them to do it. I'm just saying I think it's worse for them, and that is clearly what the house is going to be arguing.
BAIER: Were you surprised you didn't hear a Republican saying, hey, this summit is great, but we should have a jobs summit?
LIASSON: Well, yes. I mean, that would have been a good thing to do.
KRAUTHAMMER: Look, it was a day of theater. I think the president accomplished giving the appearance of reaching across the aisle, but his audience is the Democrats in the House and the Senate. He might marginally have advanced the chance of getting it through.
Just one point on Medicare, the Democrats are -- it would be demagogic if you were to cut Medicare in the name of saving it and you oppose that. But what's happening here is Medicare is being cut in order to subsidize a new entitlement.
And that is legitimate to attack as incredibly imprudent and is not at all item demagogic. And if that is what the Republicans are arguing, and I think most of them are, I think it's good argument against these cuts.
BAIER: And Congressman Paul Ryan pointing out that the money is being used twice, to shore up Medicare and to spend on another program.
KRAUTHAMMER: And pretending that Medicare will be shored up at the same time, which of course is impossible.


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Miami Marlins (L to R) Cameron Maybin, Lewis Brinson and Brian Anderson celebrate a 7-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals after the third out on June 5 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
The Seattle Mariners acquired outfielder Cameron Maybin on Tuesday as part of a trade with the Miami Marlins.
[post_ads]Miami received infielder Bryson Brigman and international bonus pool money in exchange for the veteran outfielder. The Marlins acquired right-hander Tommy Evald in exchange for pitcher Brad Ziegler earlier in the day in a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks
Maybin, 31, hit .251 with three home runs and 20 RBIs in 99 games this season with the Marlins. He won a World Series with the Houston Astros in 2017, while hitting .186 with four home runs and 13 RBIs in 21 games. Maybin began the 2017 season with the Los Angeles Angels before being waived and picked up by the Astros on Aug. 31.
He previously had stops with the Detroit Tigers, Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres and Atlanta Braves. The 12-year veteran has a $3.2 million salary in 2018 and is a free agent in 2019.
Brigman is now the Marlins' No. 28 prospect, according to MLB Pipeline. The 23-year-old infielder was a third-round pick in the 2016 MLB June Amateur Draft. Brigman hit ..304 with two home runs and 38 RBIs in 98 games this season for the Double-A Modesto Nuts.
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"This car can be viewed in person from 14th to 18th July 2020 at our the auction site, Windsorview Lakes, Datchet, SL3 9HY
This model was first shown at Frankfurt in 1965 and this S-Class Mercedes-Benz range was outwardly distinguishable from preceding models by a sleeker bodyshell with lower roof and waistlines and an increased glass area creating a very attractive Coupé style. All models featured similar all-independent suspension as well as four-wheel disc brakes and power-assisted steering. However, although the saloon used this 'New Generation' bodyshell, the Coupé and Cabriolet kept the timelessly elegant coachwork that had debuted back in 1960. The 250 SE used a fuel-injected version of Mercedes-Benz's new, overhead-camshaft, 2,496cc engine which developed 150bhp. There was a choice of either four-speed manual or automatic transmissions, while the rear suspension featured Mercedes-Benz's hydro-pneumatic compensating spring. Today all examples of these classic Coupés and Cabriolets are highly sought after.
This nice original example, once owned by the well-known journalist and television broadcaster Sir David Frost, is presented in gold with a black interior and has been maintained over the last six years by Mercedes-Benz specialist Colin Ferns Ltd near Richmond, Surrey. This elegant and sought after model is powered by the smooth 2.5 litre engine mated to an automatic gearbox, providing effortless touring capabilities which these Mercedes-Benz were famed for. Accompanying the car is a current V5 registration document and the car will come to the Auction with a new MoT test certificate. The boot space has more than adequate luggage room for modern travel and in this wonderful original condition, one can certainly use it everyday as indeed it was intended when first manufactured.
The health and safety of both our customers and team remains the utmost priority, we are therefore operating to Government guidelines throughout viewing and auction day."
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The Quantock Harriers are a small and friendly running club based in the Quantock hills region of Somerset in the UK.
We meet weekly all year round to train together. In the winter we meet at the YMCA in Bridgwater and run between 5 and 8 miles. In the summer we run mainly off road in and around the Quantock Hills.
Our members range in ability from people just trying out running as a form of exercise to fast competitive athletes. If you might be interested in coming along, please contact one of us for details.
As we are fully affiliated running club, membership brings benefits such as discounted rates when entering events and discounts in some sports shops. We also run an annual multi-terrain race on the Quantock Hills known as 'The Quantock Beast'.


A new teacher has been found for a school with nine pupils on a tiny Hebridean island after a social media appeal generated worldwide interest.
Residents of the Isle of Muck set up a dedicated Facebook page to attract applicants after the former teacher left for family reasons.
Nearly 60 people applied and now a permanent teacher has been appointed.
The successful applicant, Laura Marriner, will move to the island with her husband Dean and their two sons.
She works for Hampshire County Council and will take up her new appointment in November.
Muck Primary School has eight pupils and one nursery pupil.
The Marriners' eldest son Charlie, whose little brother is called Atticus, will join the island school's P1 class.
Mrs Marriner, who is originally from Flintshire in North Wales, said: "I am really looking forward to getting started in the classroom at Muck Primary and can't wait to meet all the children and their parents.
"My husband and I hope that our family will settle into community island life as swiftly as possible.
Muck's parent council chairman Mark Johnson said: "On behalf of all the parents, we are very happy to welcome Laura and her family to Muck.
Highland Council's education, children and adult services committee chairman Drew Millar said he was delighted by Mrs Marriner's appointment.
The community on Muck turned to social media in their hunt for a teacher after an initial tranche of applicants decided life on the remote island was not for them.
Located south of the Isle of Skye and measuring just 2.6km (1.6 miles) east to west, it can be a wet and windswept place in winter.
Muck has no church, shop or even a postbox. With a population of about 30, a single road links a farm to the main settlement near the harbour at Port Mor.
The job description, however, highlights it as an ideal location for nature lovers with bird species including corncrakes and puffins and other abundant wildlife such as otters and seals.
A three-bedroom flat is included with the job, situated over the school house, offering views across the sea to Ardnamurchan Point.


When working with HTML tables, we often want to extract the column and row index for a particular cell. Easy enough, surely — just use row.rowIndex and cell.colIndex, right? Well, no.
the column index of cell "g" is reported by the browser to be 2 — when in fact it should be 4!
Fortunately, there is a solution. The code below is based on this very old example by Matt Kruse. I updated it, tidied it up, and MooTools-ified it.
Simply call "getCellCoords" on the (header) cell you're interested in. This will return an object containing "x" and "y" members — the column and row index, respectively.


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Good design can make a huge difference to a business. Premises should not only function properly but be a great place for staff to work and for customers to visit. A building that reduces energy consumption and engages with a company ethos will bring huge benefits to the business both in terms of cost and marketing.
But most of all a business that values design will send out a message that it itself is high quality – that customers can expect a high level of service and care.
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Truthbomb Apologetics: Does "Jesus" Actually Mean, "Hail, Zeus?"
Does "Jesus" Actually Mean, "Hail, Zeus?"
One of the more bizarre and misguided claims made by those in the so-called "Hebrew Roots" movement is that the name "Jesus" actually means, "Hail, Zeus!" Some will even claim that anyone who uses the name Jesus is offering praise to a false god and is not saved. Their conviction is that true believers must only use the Hebrew name for Jesus since scripture teaches that "...there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).
First off, it should be obvious that Acts 4:12 is not talking about the specific word by which we identify Jesus, but about the Person and work of Jesus Christ.
"Within this camp of false teachers, there are some that say 'Jesus' actually means 'Hail Zeus.' It's not hard to hear the similarities between the sound of 'Jesus' and a quick mashup of 'Hail Zeus,' but that's not even the bizarre argument these few teachers make. They say that Roman Church officials changed the Messiah's name from YAHSHUA (which they say means "YAH is Salvation") to a hybrid Greek/Latin word, lésous, which supposedly means 'Hail Zeus.' They claim this change was made to make their religion more acceptable to the pagan culture. Zeus was chief of the Greco-Roman pantheon of gods, so, according to this theory, the supposed new demigod was easily accepted and Christianity was melded with paganism. One brief thing to mention is that YAHSHUA is not even correct, as the Hebrew name for the Savior is Yeshua.
As further 'proof' for this conspiracy theory, proponents say that when people say Jesus in Spanish it is obvious they are actually saying 'Hey, Zeus.' They also mention sculptures of Zeus with a beard and images of Jesus with a beard.
Simply put, the name Jesus means "The Lord Saves" or "The Lord Is Salvation." Whether it is spelled Jesus, Jesu, Joshua or Yeshua, the meaning of the name is the same, and we can be sure it has nothing to do with Zeus.
For more on the claim that "Jesus" means "Hail, Zeus," see here.
1. Michael Houdmann, "Does 'Jesus' really mean 'Hail, Zeus'?," 2011-2017.
2. Dr. Craig A. Dunning, Watchmen Fellowship Profile: Hebrew Roots Movement, 2014.


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Sex and the Capital City: Confessions of a serial non-dater
By Mikela Floyd Kinnison
Sex and the Capital City is a new bi-weekly column from CultureMap contributor Mikela Floyd.
About three years ago, I stopped dating. I didn't have a traumatic incident, nor did I have some sort of asexual epiphany. No, my dereliction of the dating world was of the apathetic variety; a mere "meh" in the face of the awkward situations I had experienced throughout my dalliances in the meat market.
Alas, it's a new year, and I begin it with resolve to change my Cathy-cartoon-like ways.
I wasn't always so indifferent on the idea of putting myself out there. In fact, like many, I had a serious relationship throughout most of college. And like many, ours was a relationship that didn't work out. I don't have ill thoughts of that time, mind you. This was not a one-off that soured me on the whole notion of settling down. I didn't begin burning bras as soon as the breakup wounds healed.
Nope, I wasn't completely averse to dating — until I left Austin.
In fact, once "back in the saddle," I entertained a number of eligible suitors. There was the Australian reality TV star (a story I may dive into at a later date), the record label employee whose mere acquaintance paid off with free music in spades (when you're 21, these are the things that matter) and even the occasional revisiting of a high school flame or two.
Moving to New York City at the age of 22 can be a terrifying prospect. Moving to New York City at 22 alone? Well, that's a different ballgame altogether.
Sure, I had interned in the city previously, and my post-grad setup included free co-ed housing provided by my new employer (the same employer who now pays Snooki and The Situation to cohabitate, but I assure you, the digs weren't nearly as nice in my six foot by six foot room), but I went without a good friend in my midst, doe-eyed and optimistic of my future as a New Yorker.
Fast-forward a few months, and the reality sets in, and how. Sarah Jessica Parker et al glamorized the city's dating landscape a bit, folks. There were friends of friends, of course (most notably a Northeasterner with a WASPY name and a family bed and breakfast to boot), but as they often do, things fizzled, and before I knew it, I was a non-dater extraordinaire.
The reality of Los Angeles is that while it boasts a population to rival most third world countries, it has the ability to simultaneously be the loneliest place on earth.
Relocation to Los Angeles didn't exactly help things in terms of singledom. Like many naïve girls before me, I flocked to the City of Angels with idealized dreams of a bohemian lifestyle, determined that my life would be footloose, fancy free, and full of interesting people.
The reality of Los Angeles is that while it boasts a population to rival most third world countries, it has the ability to simultaneously be the loneliest place on earth. Careers are on the brain, instead of crushes; lunch meetings, instead of lunch dates.
You can see now, where I'm going with this. Finding love takes a backseat, and understandably so. Los Angeles isn't exactly a city known for its crop of fine gentleman, so things didn't seem to work out there.
But here I am: a serial non-dater, back in my hometown, and facing the tail end of my 20s as the only single gal at the endless barrage of weddings now dominating my social calendar. I may not find the man of my dreams, but I'm ready to at least test the waters.
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Marvel star Scarlett Johansson and the Walt Disney Company have settled the breach of contract lawsuit the "Black Widow" actor brought against the studio in July.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"I'm very pleased that we have been able to come to a mutual agreement with Scarlett Johansson regarding 'Black Widow," said Disney Studios chairman Alan Bergman in a statement. "We appreciate her contributions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and look forward to working together on a number of upcoming projects, including Disney's 'Tower of Terror.'"
The explosive suit claimed that Disney had breached Johansson's contract it released "Black Widow" on its streaming service Disney+ at the same time it debuted in theaters. Johansson argued that the company had guaranteed an exclusive theatrical release for her solo film, and her salary was based, in large part, on the box office performance.
"I am happy to have resolved our differences with Disney," Johansson said in a statement. "I'm incredibly proud of the work we've done together over the years and have greatly enjoyed my creative relationship with the team. I look forward to continuing our collaboration in years to come."
Lawyers for Johansson and Disney spent months slinging barbs at each other. Disney accused the actor of "callous disregard" for the dangers of Covid-19 to the moviegoing public and publicly revealed she had bee paid $20 million for the film already.
Johansson's lawyers said Disney's comments were "an attempt to make her appear to be someone they and I know she isn't."
The back-and-forth led Jamie Lee Curtis, Blumhouse's Jason Blum and Marvel's own "WandaVision" star Elizabeth Olsen to come to Johansson's defense. Even the president of the Screen Actor's Guild on Friday slammed Disney for "bullying" Johansson in a public statement.
While it's unclear what Johansson was paid in the settlement, the star seems to be willing to put the lawsuit behind her. Johansson is expected to work with Disney on the upcoming "Tower of Terror" reboot based on one of Disney's most popular attractions.
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Uhuru Votes Are MoreThan Total Voter Turnout- Chebukati Confirms
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I am proud that I am alive today, to bear witness to one of the most defining moments of our history.
I write this piece a day after the fresh presidential election was conducted and as we speak, the "numbers, data or statistics" with regard to the outcome of the election are still streaming in. UK was of course competing against himself but typical of the status quo's penchant for illegalities/irregularities , the numbers are mind boggling.
Yesterday, the Chairman of IEBC had stated publicly that the maximum number of voters stood at 6.5 million. UK is likely to hit 12 million if the machine is not unplugged by 9 am tomorrow morning (hilarious). Anyone who still thinks that those are genuine numbers and hence votes, is either a bourgeoisie, an ignorant proletariat, an emotionally mollycoddled voter or a citizen in dire need of psychological adjustment.
Well, they are at liberty to believe but that's taking incredulity a bit too far. In Kenya's body-politic, these are the majority who make the rule, not the exception. We saw the outcome yesterday, thanks to the media, which would rather make one livid considering that the figures being displayed portray quite a different picture.
But that isn't the subject of concern.
For without a doubt, Muthamaki will be coronated and allowed to continue controlling the realms of power. That's a given. My concern is for those running to the Courts to nullify this charade.
Ever since Mwilu's bodyguard was shot at, the dynamics of the game changed big time.That assignment was a master stroke. Straight out of a Bolshevik script.
And it sent a subtle message, yet one pregnant with meaning. The following day, we witnessed a lack of quorum in the highest Court of the Land. That was not a coincidence. It was a plan cleverly and swiftly executed. We saw David Maraga on that day, sounding weak and completely out of control with the situation. He shifted uneasily on his seat and sounded defeated.
On September 1, Maraga together with his 3 disciples, had gone against the grain and nullified the Presidential Election of August 8th but what followed was out of this world. Financial cuts, outright denigration and behind the scenes intimidation.
All these the Judges went through but in public, they maintained a straight face. Until they threatened to step on the feet of impunity, again. The danger of stopping the October 26th election. Somebody had to die in order to send that message.
I can bet that any petition that falls on SCOK's desk from now henceforth and which might involve the Executive, upsetting the apple's cart, will be handled with lots of trepidation. Ours is a system run by the upper middle class and nobody fears death more than a middle-class corporate with a bright future.
No petition will ever have the ground-breaking valor the nullification received.
In any case, the Elections Amendment Act 2017 is already in effect thereby muzzling the powers of SCOK with regards to nullification of the Presidential Election Petition.
So Omtata will not have a field day anymore. That path has been rendered decrepit. That road has hit a dead end. A cul-de-sac. The President is entirely in control now. The "Benevolent Dictator" is now in charge.
Raila Odinga understands the intricacies of Govt more than anyone else. He knows that the Jubilee duo cannot be restrained or deterred by any law in and by itself. He knows pretty well that the two chaps have been hardened beyond repair by the chain of iniquities they left behind since the days of Ocampo.
They are not scared by the sight of blood. They have been through hell and back. And are capable of doing anything to retain power. The God-thing, "hallelujah, oh God is great, lets love one another" yaddah yaddah, is just but a smoke screen.
He knows that the only language they understand is the language that will shake the nucleus of State power. And that language has never been derived from the constitution. Never.
That lingo is one that walks with gusto and drinks scotch on the rocks. Carries a mahogany cane and wears a bailey hat. Its extra-judicial in all its form. It's called civil unrest. Civil disobedience.
An agitated population will bring down even the strongest of societies. A refractory mass is what has caused revolutions throughout Europe and even in Africa starting from the days of colonialism to date.
The absconding of the vote yesterday touched the nerve center of State Power. For it was unexpected, and seemed to serve Raila's purpose.
This is the path we will live with for some time. Forget the Courts. The battle has moved to the open fields now.
Where men wear no gloves.
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Defying the odds: Nina's journey from Syria to the Special Olympics
Nina - an athlete from Syria - will be representing a new team a the Special Olympics, but her heart belongs to Damascus.
by Diana Al Rifai
Nina during an interview in Sofia, Bulgaria, during an event celebrating the countdown until the Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi [Al Jazeera]
For my sister, Nina, being chosen to represent Bulgaria at the Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi in March 2019, is a dream come true.
But a dream she will be fulfilling with her heart back at home in Syria.
In previous years, Nina has represented Syria at the regional and international Special Olympics in several countries, including Syria, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Greece.
Next year, she gets to represent her second home, Bulgaria - a country my family moved to because of the ongoing war that tore apart our country and dispersed so many Syrians.
For Nina, representing two different countries was confusing at first, but now that she has acknowledged that we are not going home anytime soon, she has chosen to adapt to the fact that Bulgaria is her new country.
Nina was born with Down syndrome on June 4, 1985, in Homs, Syria. According to the National Down Syndrome Society, Down syndrome is when an individual has a full or partial extra copy of chromosome 21.
This additional genetic material alters the course of development and causes the characteristics associated with Down syndrome. It is the most commonly occurring chromosomal condition.
Nina at a bazaar organized by Maria's World Foundation in Sofia with her mother Souad [Al Jazeera]
According to the World Health Organization, approximately one in every 1,000 babies in the world is born with Down syndrome. But what doctors do not tell you is that Down syndrome is not a sickness, nor a disability, and it's certainly not an obstacle - it simply should not affect any stage of a child's life or the way we treat someone who has it.
In 1985, there were no tests to show if your unborn baby carried an extra chromosome in Syria. So the doctors found out Nina had Down syndrome after she was born.
"Your baby has Down syndrome," the doctors told my mother, words she remembers until today.
"When Nina was born, I was wrenched in depression," my mother, Souad al-Jundi, said.
"The mid-80s were not the time for a girl like Nina to be born. We both faced so much rejection and sometimes, mental aggression, but as years passed by, I stood by her and she became the person who I am proud of," she said.
"I am thankful because she taught me determination, consistency and unconditional love."
Nina's mother Souad and Nina coming home after the 2011 International Special Olympics in Athens [Al Jazeera]
My family moved to Damascus in 1990, which is when and where I was born.
Nina and I started school together, but Nina switched to several other schools until teachers informed my mother that she will be needing a special educational programme.
In 2005, the first school for children with special needs opened its doors in Damascus, and after Nina joined the school, she began to feel like she belonged to a growing community.
Nina is probably the only person I know who fights to go to school, even when she is so sick she cannot leave bed - education means everything to her.
Growing up with a sibling who has Down syndrome is just the same as growing up with a sibling who does not. For those of you wondering, she never fell short of being there for my brother and I. Nina inspires us to be the best version of ourselves. Nina and I share clothes, we share midnight talks, we share our love for sports, we share friends.
We shared a room and a beautiful childhood in Syria together. She will always be my big sister, someone I look up to and someone I will always share happy memories with.
My mother Souad dedicated her whole life to raising awareness about children with special needs, encouraging parents to speak out about the subject and ask questions when they feel stuck - instead of giving up and isolating their children.
She taught herself about it, she gave lectures and toured the country to give workshops about it. She eventually joined the family committee of the Special Olympics, and she taught English and arts to children with special needs - and even chose the topic "The Effectiveness of a Phonic Reading Method in Teach Reading Skills for Teenagers with Down Syndrome" for her PhD dissertation, which has been published online.
My mother has done so much she deserves a book to be written about her journey in which I believe she has redefined determination and resilience.
My father, Bassam Rifai, loves Nina with all his heart, he is her biggest fan and always makes sure Nina gets what her siblings get too. My father has always said that Nina has always been loving and caring at home.
"Despite there being a challenge sometimes to represent her as someone who could contribute to society just as anyone else, we managed to turn that into a fact," Bassam said.
A family vacation in Cambridge, UK, in 1998 [Al Jazeera]
My brother, Shoueb, loves Nina so much and he cares for her in the most beautiful way. He was always overprotective of her and made sure we both know that, whatever happens, he will always be there. He has a special place in Nina's heart - they were born just a couple of years apart.
Shoueb thinks that growing up with Nina has opened his mind and made him question life, destiny, creation, religion and everything that helped him understand life better altogether.
Most importantly, my brother and I both believe that through Nina our parents showed us in practical terms what acceptance, selflessness and commitment means.
"Your mum and dad are just an amazing lesson on how to keep going regardless of what gets thrown at you," Shoueb would always say.
Nina grew up developing incredible talents. She loves to read, she speaks three languages (English, Arabic and Bulgarian), she loves sport, she loves horseback riding, and she loves meeting new people.
Nina also loves photography. Her photos of Damascus were displayed and sold at an art gallery in the city; she loves art and was inspired by it because my mother is a painter - we both used to sit in my mother's art room for hours. Nina was so creative that anything her teachers would ask her to do, she would turn into a masterpiece.
When she joined the swimming team in Damascus, her coaches were so impressed they suggested that she should join the Special Olympics, which is how her journey began.
Along with her team, Nina participated in her first Special Olympics in the Regional Games in Egypt, the UAE and Syria.
She later participated in her first International Special Olympics in Athens, Greece, in 2011 and came home with a gold and a silver medal.
A few months after Nina returned home from Athens, the war in Syria was getting worse and the situation became unsafe. Everyone in Syria at this point was thinking of a plan B; things were unclear but people knew something was not right and the uprising was not heading anywhere optimistic.
When we would hear gunshots or explosions, Nina would get frightened and cry endlessly, she was so confused.
We left Syria in 2012, and since my family and I have been through so much, moving from one place to another.
War is ugly, but what is uglier than war is the trauma that comes along with it. We were all heartbroken and it took a long time to feel settled. We left behind family, our home and most of our belongings. We left behind a home we have always lived in, a home that had endless memories.
Nina was heartbroken for leaving her friends in school, her swimming team and everything she spent years building. She had finally felt like she belongs to a growing community at school, a community that appreciates her.
Nina could not understand the concept of war and why it was happening in our country.
We kept trying to hide the news from her. Nina was so sensitive about it she would cry every time someone would even say the word Damascus. She felt as if her dreams of swimming beside her teammates were over.
Nina with her family in Borovets, Bulgaria [Al Jazeera]
Years went by, and now my father, mother and Nina have moved to Sofia, Bulgaria.
Nina joined Maria's World Foundation, a remarkable centre that supports people with intellectual disabilities, and she instantly felt at home. She started taking Bulgarian lessons again, started going to horseback riding and joined the swimming team.
She was recently chosen to represent the Bulgarian national swimming team at the Special Olympics, scheduled to be held in March 2019.
Of all the things Nina loves, she loves Syria the most.
I do not think I can ever be more proud of being Nina's sister. She is truly a star.
Diana Al Rifai
@ D_R_23


The overwhelming majority of entries are detailing a problem I got and the solution that I found that worked for me. I've spent a couple of decades in software and hardware testing across a wide variety of platforms and so I can pretty well fault any hardware or software from a running start with negligible if any training, and, if I can get access to the code I can identify where it's going wrong in fine detail.
I don't bother recording common problems that you'll quickly find solutions elsewhere. These are the odd-balls, the quirky, the unique.
I write this blog to help people. Humans have a natural and evolved instinct to be gregarious and altruistic and I see no reason to think otherwise but this openness is limited and balanced by the need for a trust model, constraints in network sizes ("Dunbar's Number") and what is known as the Tragedy of the Commons. Web pages are a "commons" in that whilst one topical comment won't detract from the enjoyment that others in the community can get from the commons, many hundreds of irrelevant messages quickly reduce the value of the web page as a commons to a minimum.
Comments must have some kind of trust metric attached to them else they are of little value to anyone. There are other sites that have many-to-many trust metrics systems but that is impractical to implement here.
So that is why no comments: if you want to comment about a post then please use the contact form. I can verify what is said and incorporate the new data, citing you as a reference. That way my outbound links and content are trusted as I keep full control on these and you would end up with a quality inbound link. You have seen our content so if you do want to add stuff and get cited then it really has to add something that I didn't think of to make it here.
As an aside, if you are setting up WordPress to appear with no comments or "Reply" footer but have already had comments then go into the Dashboard Settings -> Discussions and turn off (uncheck) the "Allow people to post comments on new articles " and then save that and then to retro-fit that to old articles and pages go into the Pages -> All Pages and check all the pages and then set the bulk actions setting to "Edit" and then Apply and then you'll get a new set of options that appear – under the "Comments" change that to "do not allow" and then do Update. Repeat that set of actions for the posts.
If you do want comments then there is the fantastic Akismet plugin but the API key is paid-for.
As an alternative zero-cost compromise I'd recommend disqus. This replaces the existing WordPress comment system with the Disqus comment system. The main advantage is that all comments from many web sites that you moderate can appear in one dashboard. I now use Disqus on our with-comments sites e.g. my own Lincoln Phipps blog plus the LifeSignPress book sites.


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Activision: Snoopy's Grand Adventure!
Ok folks, we're big fans of the Peanuts comics and cartoons here at Gasket. So when Activision asked Gasket Studios for a few FMVs they needed for a Snoopy-centric game that was a tie-in with the new Peanuts movie, we pretty much exploded with excitement. It was truly an honor to work with Charlie Brown and the gang for this project.
Gasket was tasked with matching the new look and feel that Blue Sky's Studios had established. Referencing brand guides and rendered images we created models and characters to match. The talented team at Gasket Studios then worked with Activision to create the games FMV story. Sprinkle in a lot of directing, editing and a ton of rendering, voila it was the perfect kickoff for Snoopy's Adventure!
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Year of the Horse is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, following the band on their 1996 tour. It accompanies the film of the same name, but has a different track listing from the film.

It peaked at number 57 on the Billboard 200 chart, as well as number 36 on the UK Albums Chart.

Track listing

Personnel
 Neil Young – guitar, piano, harmonica, vocals
 Poncho Sampedro – guitar, keyboards, vocals
 Billy Talbot – bass guitar, vocals
 Ralph Molina – drums, percussion, vocals
 John Hausmann – recording
 Tim Mulligan – mixing, mastering
 Gary Burden – art direction, design
 Jenice Heo – art direction, design
 Lars Larsen – cover photography
 L.A. Johnson – back cover photography
 Jim Jarmusch – inside photography

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Ernst Walraad van Schaumburg-Lippe (Stadthagen, 19 april 1887 - Hannover, 15 juni 1962 was een prins uit het Huis Schaumburg-Lippe en hoofd van dat Huis van 1936 tot aan zijn dood.

Hij was de vierde zoon en het vierde kind van vorst George van Schaumburg-Lippe en Maria Anne van Saksen-Altenburg. Een van zijn broers (Maurits) overleed in 1920 terwijl een ander ouder broertje in zijn eerste levensjaar stierf. Zijn oudste broer, die als Adolf II de laatst regerend vorst van Schaumburg-Lippe was geweest, kwam in 1936 met zijn vrouw om bij een vliegtuigcrash boven Mexico toen hun vliegtuig neerstortte in een bergpas tussen de vulkanen Popocatépetl en Iztaccíhuatl. Sindsdien was Walraad het hoofd van de familie. Het grootste deel van zijn leven woonde Ernst Walraad van Schaumburg-Lippe in Kasteel Hagenburg, een zomerresidentie van zijn adellijke familie.

Walraad was van 1936 tot het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog als cavalerieofficier aangesloten bij de SA en diende vanaf 1940 in het huidige Polen, echter niet direct aan het front. Hij was vermoedelijk betrokken bij de inbeslagname door de Duitse bezetter van Poolse landerijen e.d., die in sommige gevallen in het bezit van joden geweest waren. Hij gold als aanhanger van het nationaal-socialisme. Walraad was eigenaar en exploitant van het deftige kuuroord Bad Eilsen, dat hij in de Tweede Wereldoorlog aan de vliegtuigfabrikant Focke-Wulf had verpacht. Na de oorlog was het in vervallen staat geraakt, waarna Walraad het in 1957 verkocht aan een verzekeringsmaatschappij.

Hij trouwde in 1925 met zijn achternicht Bathilidis, enige dochter van Albrecht van Schaumburg-Lippe en Elsa van Württemberg. Het paar kreeg vier kinderen:

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Victoria Louise van Schaumburg-Lippe (1940)

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"They call themselves the 'L.O.C.'…the 'Legion of Chaos,' and they're chaotic, man," Lamb said. "They fly to the ball, and they really enjoy playing with each other. It is a really close-nit bunch. There's a sense of excitement on the sidelines when they're on the field. You talk about a lot of those back-end guys, but we really had to control the line of scrimmage. I thought Isaiah Buehler and Dorian Kithcart played well up front as always (Saturday against The Citadel). It all starts up front, but those guys out back really fly to the ball and make plays."
Mercer forced four turnovers against The Citadel to raise its total to 15 for the season. The Bears have recovered nine fumbles and picked off six passes.
Wofford, Samford, The Citadel and Furman are tied for second in the conference with 10 forced turnovers. Mercer is tied with Wofford for the conference lead with a plus-six turnover ratio.
"Yes, that is definitely what we are trying to do," Mercer defensive back Eric Jackson said forcing turnovers. "We preach that a lot in the defensive room; the ball is always the issue. So any chance we get to step on the field we're trying to get the ball back into our offense's hands because we want to score points. We want to get the ball back in their hands because that's what they specialize in."
But about the nickname?
"It started over the summer during workouts in player-led practices, and we just came up with something that would get the whole team going," Jackson said. "We came up with 'Legion of Chaos,' and we just rolled with it. It was something that LeMarkus (Bailey), Lee Bennett and I came up with. It was just fun."
And it has been accurate.
Mercer leads the conference in scoring defense, allowing 18.8 points per game. The Bears are third in the conference in total defense, allowing 351.8 yards per game.
Mercer has recovered from a three-game losing streak to beat VMI and The Citadel to get back to .500 at 3-3 overall and 2-2 in conference play. Chattanooga is 1-5 and 0-2.
Bennett, who set the Mercer career record with his sixth career fumble recovery Saturday, leads the conference with 37 tackles and four forced fumbles.
"It definitely gives us a sense of confidence, but it just makes us want to keep working harder because we want people to know that when they play us they're going to have to deal with our defense," Jackson said. "We come in every week knowing that every team is a challenge regardless of who it is. We feel like we're going to come in ,and we're going to work hard and we're going to try to do what we need to do to make plays on defense."
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Henley 4s Move Into The Top Two
Henley Mens 4th XI returned to play following the lockdown with a 3-0 win away to Milton Keynes 4s.
With the hosts sitting mid table, it was important that Henley started well and the team responded brightly, taking the game to the hosts. The 4s have been bringing Colts into key positions during the season and the young midfield of Louis Poundall, Max Hems, Oli Warren and Chris Batey immediately took control, causing the hosts lots of problems and creating opportunities for the forward line. However, whilst Henley had Milton Keynes under a lot of pressure, a combination of good goalkeeping and some missed chances meant they failed to score before the break. And whilst the hosts struggled to get into the game, they were nevertheless threatening on the break and the
Henley defence played well to keep them under control and, on the occasions they did get a chance on goal, Keeper, Ed Hems was up to the challenge, pulling off one particularly good save high to his left.
At half time the team talk was calm and positive, with the team being asked for more of the same in the second half. That message was clearly the right one with Henley's first goal coming soon after the break. Having put the Milton Keynes under pressure once again, a short corner quickly came which was converted by Phil Biggs, whose strong shot from the top of the D could only be half saved by the home Keeper, before deflecting onto a defender's foot and into the goal. Whilst the 4s had remained calm to that point, the relief at scoring could be sensed and the team relaxing slightly helped the flow of attacking play. Henley's second came following a break by Max Hems who found Andy Farrow on the right-hand side of the "D". Farrow then drove towards goal before striking the ball high into the roof of the net from a tight angle.
The game was then killed off by another Farrow strike. Once again, the Henley midfield was instrumental with Poundall, Warren and Batey combining to find Ian Rechner
on the left, whose cross was swept in from close range by Farrow.
With 15 minutes to go, the hosts kept trying to push forward and had a couple of short corners of their own in the closing stages. However, the Henley back line was up to the task, making a number of timely interventions and holding out for another clean sheet.
With a number of league matches postponed, the 4s win saw them move to second in the table.
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Training for the changing climate
Training for the changing climatewebadminOctober 10, 2018 June 25, 2019
02 May 2019 Local authorities lead subnational efforts to curb climate change
31 January 2019 COP24 Success: Nations agree on the Paris rulebook
18 December 2018 Strengthening cooperation to tackling climate change for IKI-funded projects Thailand
16 November 2018 Thailand on course for an improved MRV system
26 October 2018 Mobilising climate finance to implement the Thai Nationally Determined Contribution
25 October 2018 More Ambitious Targets: Key takeaways from the public lecture on the IPCC Special Report
01 October 2018 Private sector engagement and investment are key to achieving Thailand's climate goals
Photo 1: Agencies under MNRE are working hard to ensure that climate change aspects are integrated across all the agencies and sectors. Photo: GIZ/Denpong Namnaul
Improving individual and institutional capacities as well as strengthening cooperation among relevant agencies is key to policy integration. The Thai-German partnership on climate change is supporting Thailand with the expertise and tools.
On 8 October 2018, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report highlighting the much-needed actions to keep temperatures between 1.5 C and 2 C. On the same day in Thailand, more than 40 government officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) learnt about climate change knowledge and approach to aligning sectoral plans with national strategy and climate change master plan.
Driving forward climate change policy
As the focal point for climate change issues, the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP) under MNRE is mandated to initiate and execute climate policy at all levels. At the central level, MNRE officials are key and indispensable implementers to help accelerate the climate policy implementation in the country. With the mandate of propelling national environment policy and supporting the policy integration efforts, a common understanding of climate content as well as implementation and alignment approach among MNRE officials is of utmost importance to achieving CCMP implementation.
The training on "Strengthening the Capacity to Integrate Climate Change Policy into Planning Process" promoted knowledge exchange and common understanding on climate change among MNRE officials. For two days, the MNRE staff were introduced and trained by the expert the content of climate change, CCMP targets and measures, climate policy integration approach through this customized training programme. Participants learnt how to align their sectoral policies with the targets of 20-year national strategy and CCMP through the small group discussions.
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), GIZ is working closely with Office of the Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP) in building the capacity, both horizontally among the relevant ministries and their central agencies, and vertically between central and local authorities in mainstreaming climate change policy into their provincial development planning.
This training is organised by the Climate Policy Project under the Thai-German Climate Programme (2018-2021). Part of the support includes national policy development, sub-national implementation, advice on MRV, and financing.
Photo 2: From left to right: Dr. Phirun Saiyasitpanich, Director of Climate Change Management and Coordination Division (CCMC), Dr. Raweewan Bhuridej, ONEP Secretary-General; and Mr. Tim Mahler, GIZ Country Director for Thailand and Malaysia; Photo: GIZ/Denpong Namnaul
Photo 3: The customized training programmes promoted knowledge exchange
and common understanding on climate change among MNRE officials and align sectoral policies with the national climate framework. Photo: GIZ/Anusara Tanpitak
In July 2015, the Climate Change Master Plan (CCMP), formulated by ONEP, was approved by the cabinet as the national climate policy framework for addressing climate change. The CCMP specifies a set of mitigation, adaptation and capacity building targets for the 2015-2050 period. It is with the aspiration to propel Thailand to become a climate change resilient and low-carbon development society.
Ms. Chutima Jongpakdee
Email:chutima.jongpakdee(at)giz.de


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Lamorgese: "Nobody can escape the law" "I believe that none of us can escape the law." So the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, replied to "Eight and a half" to a question on the request of authorization of the court of ministers to proceed against the leader of the League for the affair of the Gregoretti ship. "A former minister – he added – goes before the court of ministers and then it will be decided whether he should be tried or not."
Lamorgese then launched a further hit to its predecessor. "I believe that an interior minister must not speak much but must operate. The role of the Interior Ministry is a guarantee role and the minister must be out of the scene".
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Canada's Jet-Age Dream: The Avro Arrow
Between 1952 and 1959, Avro Canada developed an advanced all-weather fighter interceptor called the CF-105 Arrow. This aircraft, with its futuristic, delta-wing design, captured Canadians' imaginations in a way few projects have, before or since.
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Q: Prove self-adjoint by symmetric matrix Let A be a 3x3 matrix and M be the matrix representation of my inner product.
I have to check if the map associated to A is self-adjoint.
This means: $$\langle Ax,y \rangle = \langle x,Ay\rangle$$.
Now would it be enough to prove that M (matrix reprensentation of my inner product) is symmetric? Does then follow that it is self-adjoint.


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Climate change, extreme poverty and conflict emerge from social relations based in fear, selfishness, hatred and ignorance. To transform the inherent destructive powers of these relations requires a confrontation with governments, corporations, and individuals committed to following the same scripts that benefits the privileged minority while billions suffer the consequences. This project demands a battle of ideas, a radical shift to confront radical inequality. While wealth redistribution is not the topic of this paper, the ideologies that sustain and innovate processes of exploitation and inequality are central — more so in the ways these processes manifest themselves in climate change and conflict narratives. Nonetheless, the glaring increase of capital accumulation in the hands of a few governments, corporations, and individuals — despite radical inequality — deserves our attention and critique. As a privileged member, in many ways, of the world's enigma — the United States of America — it is my responsibility to question the policies, ideologies, and practices that (re)produce inequities in social-environmental interactions.
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Market rationalities and corporate environmental management strategies are the vanguard of emergent transformational methodologies causing disastrous climate change and unchecked environmental degradation. The concepts seem at odds with each other since the corporation and market caprices are often the culprits instigating environmental crisis. But that aside, global climate change carries the potential to challenge or destroy the three pillars of sustainable development — environmental protection, economic development, and social development. The environment forms the foundation of our lived experiences and climate change threatens our foundation in new ways necessitating new approaches.
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Oil is the coveted natural resource. Governments are built and destroyed depending on their oil reserves and geopolitical importance. The presence of oil integrates the controlling power within the larger globalized world constructed around geopolitics, markets, and transnational corporations. Among the several states central to international oil distribution is Nigeria. Located on the Gulf of Guinea in Western Africa, Nigeria evolved from a colonial state system to a postcolonial state system, and from the 1980's to the present, a neoliberal state system (Adejumobi 2011, 7). The Nigerian government embodies the characteristics of an authoritarian post-colonial oil exporter integrated into the globalized world — neoliberal, corrupt, elitist, militaristic, unequal, and constrained by contentious electoral politics.
Ideology and Orientation: State Power and Catholic Social Thought
Indeed, we are living in interesting times. Our relationships, both with ourselves and others, constantly pass through intermediaries composed of our beliefs and ideologies that work as the distorting mechanisms limiting or expanding our horizons. These ideologies are created to socialize and orient us in society, but our society itself has become disoriented. Our disoriented society imbues, within each of us, ideologies of self-interpretation that work in the interests of those in power, those who control the state…
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