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· 9th May 2020
Lodge 49 Turned the Trials of Everyday Life into Gold
Have you ever become aware of your own face while you're watching a TV show or film? I noticed my own goofy smile while I was watching Lodge 49 one day. I always wear that goofy smile watching this show; it's so comforting, such a warm, happy place, that my face naturally falls like that (which makes a nice change to the resting bitch face). The characters feel like real friends now — people who, if I lived in Long Beach, California, would be the people I hung out with. I would be drawn to Lodge 49 through fate, destiny, or happenstance. I just know it. I guess I am a believer in all that stuff. I find life magical in that way that you can meet someone, maybe the person of your dreams, and they feel exactly the same way about you. All those intricate moments of both of your lives leading up to that point in time had to fall precisely so that you could meet and fall in love, and that you both have to be at specific junctures in your lives so that your eyes and heart are open to accepting that love when it unexpectedly comes and slaps you across the face.
Lodge 49 is a mystery. I live in the UK, I don't think I ever saw an advert for it, and I write for an American entertainment website, so it's part of my job to keep up with this stuff. The only reason I heard about it at all was that people on social media mentioned it had a Twin Peaks vibe in places, and indeed Kenneth Welsh, Mr Windom Earle himself, was a character in Season 1. I'm not entirely sure what AMC was doing, but it wasn't promotion. Needless to say, the viewing numbers weren't the best, and after a tremendous Season 2 and on a major cliffhanger, AMC cancelled the show.
This happens to me a lot. I fall in love with a show (Twin Peaks, Carnivale, The OA, My So-Called Life, to name but a few), and they get cancelled after two seasons, leaving fans like me begging for more and crying out for answers as to what was going to happen next. I am in this frustrating situation with Lodge 49 right now, and honestly, it makes me want to destroy things. But no, don't let the negative thoughts in, Laura. Life is good!
What was it about Lodge 49 that caused by goofy face? Well, firstly, Jim Gavin created a story where the stakes are so low. Nobody in Lodge 49 has superpowers or special abilities — they are very human, and there is magic to be found in each of them. All of the characters live hand to mouth and just about get by but are in no position to save the world. They pawn their flat-screen TVs to pay off debts they should never have taken on in an endless cycle of borrowing and buying back from the world's grumpiest pawnbroker. Yet, you know the guy loves every second of it; it's his way of helping out his community, and community plays a big part in the show.
The two main characters are unlikely yet perfect friends. Ernie Fontaine (Brent Jennings) is a plumbing supplies salesman nearing retirement who worries that he's over the hill and can't sell quite like he used to, and Sean "Dud" Dudley (Wyatt Russell) is a strawberry blonde surfer with zero anxiety about anything and is a good twenty years younger than Ernie. When we meet Dud in Season 1, he's recently been bitten by a deadly snake, and the wound just will not heal — but at least he survived. When asked what he'd choose if he could do anything with his life, Dud answers, "That's easy: clean pools." Dud's ambition may not seem like much to some people, but I find it truly inspiring. I left a well paid but stressful job to become a stress-free hotel receptionist on minimum wage, so I see Dud's goal to just be what you want to be most powerful — it turns out all you really need to feel content is enough money to get by, good friends/relationships, and to do a job you love. It may not be everyone's idea of the American Dream — no, it's better than that; it's living life as your true self.
Ernie and Dud become friends entirely by chance, or you might want to call it fate. Dud would. On a beach that stretches for miles, Dud finds something hidden in the sand with his metal detector — a cygnet ring with the seal of the Lynx etched into it. He tries to pawn it but is told it is worthless. Then he is told that it originated from a fraternal order called the Order of the Lynx. Fate and an empty tank put Dud outside the door of Lodge 49, where Ernie, a Luminous Knight of the Lodge, greets him. That's all Dud needs to decide that becoming a Lynx is his destiny. Dud loves the tales of the Lodge and eagerly gets swept up in the myths, legends, and pageantry of the Lodge — even if the rest of the order isn't really that bothered. He becomes determined to invigorate a community of weary elders who are mostly there now for the Lodge's bar where they can run a tab, which would explain why the Lodge is failing financially. As part of the order's initiation process, Dud is appointed squire to Ernie, and it is a job he takes very seriously — unlike anything in his life before.
Dud's twin sister, Liz (Sonya Cassidy, who is just fabulous in this role — like a funnier Kim Wexler…maybe it's an AMC thing) is smart, pretty, and was left with a considerable debt when their father disappeared (he literally walked into the sea never to be seen again as a shark ate him). No one knows if this was a suicide mission or an accident, but whatever the case, he left his family pool cleaning business and spiralling debts behind. With Dud unable to work as a pool cleaner because of his foot, the business went under. Neither Dud nor Liz has quite gotten over their father's death. For Liz, it hurts that he left and dumped all this on her, as well as losing him. Dud was closer to his father, and so it hurts him more on an emotional level.
They both deal with their grief differently, and their attitudes towards life are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Dud is mostly positive, though he has depressive moments. He seeks out spiritual salvation, something to believe in, and has faith that better times are to come. Liz is more level-headed but less happy because she can't/won't let her hair down enough to really begin to enjoy life. It's not her fault. She's had to bail out her dad throughout her adult life, yet still got lumbered with a huge debt, plus she has her layabout brother living on her sofa, needing to borrow money almost daily. She had to leave her well-paid job and is now a waitress. Liz's life feels like a game of snakes and ladders; as soon as she reaches the top of the ladder, the next step is a slide right back to the bottom.
Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger. Dud finally braved the waters and went surfing again for the first time in a year, and he immediately got attacked by a shark, just like his dad. This is a very Lodge 49 coincidence, for the show is full of signs, harbingers, and strange, incidental details that come full circle several episodes later. (The show's title is itself an allusion to Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, a postmodernist novel with a taste for wordplay, Southern Californian anguish, and paranoia-inducing symbols.) In Season 1, a group of laid-off aerospace workers sneak into Orbis, their former employer's enormous deserted factory, at night and build elaborate contraptions out of the old parts and equipment, including a catapult designed to fire a refrigerator far out into the ocean. Much further along in the story, Liz has a moment of existential panic at a corporate event on a boat and jumps overboard. It is a long swim back to shore, and just as she's getting too tired to carry on, what should float by to serve her as a makeshift raft but that very refrigerator.
The eccentricity of Lodge 49 is not just for show. It is a story about how ordinary people try to get through all the things life throws at them, have a bit of fun on the way, and sometimes save each other's lives, literally and metaphorically. It's also about alchemy; the credits are an enchanting collage of turquoise swimming pools and arcane medieval etchings and hieroglyphs. As with similar fraternal organisations such as the Freemasons, the history of the (fictional) Lynxes comes adorned with mystical symbology, secret rituals, and lore about its founder, Harwood Fritz Merrill, who, as rumour has it, discovered the legendary goal of all alchemists: the philosopher's stone.
What is it all for? That question — asked to both the Lodge and life itself — gleams at the core of Lodge 49. Ernie might be a substitute for the father Dud lost a year ago. Conversely, Dud is Ernie's Magical white man: the one person with the power to jolt him out of his midlife malaise. Dud believes that Ernie is the "rightful king" of Lodge 49, destined to restore and reign over the "True Lodge," a legendary place that may or may not be a figment of the imagination of the chapter's previous leader, Larry (Kenneth Welsh) who spoke in portentous riddles and behaved peculiarly (in that marvellous, manic way Kenneth Welsh does).
Sometimes, I think that nothing really happens in the show, yet I am still glued to the screen. I think it is because all of the characters in Lodge 49 are all so likeable and relatable. They spend the series watching TV, working some hilariously bad temp jobs, having extramarital affairs in motel rooms, and chasing sacred scrolls and mythical figures with nicknames like Captain (a wealthy but elusive real estate developer played by Bruce Campbell in an exceptionally bizarre role) and El Confidente (a Guadalajaran who won the True Lodge's scrolls in a poker game, played by Cheech Marin). The Lodge's bartender and an amateur alchemist, Blaise (David Pasquesi), runs a weed dispensary and believes that mysterious forces control their fates. There is always enough intrigue to keep you watching, and I haven't mentioned it yet, but Lodge 49 is really, really funny.
At the heart of Lodge 49 is the battle for the soul of Ernie Fontaine, who (not coincidentally) has the same name as a 16th-century alchemist. The series is littered with many hermetic symbols and literary references. One even comes in Ernie's first scene: he shoots a pellet gun toward a flock of crows — a bird symbolising the undiscovered self. While Ernie is meant to be Dud's mentor, he tells him that all the Lynxes do is "get together and celebrate this beautiful bitch called life." The Lodge is just a "social club." Dud disagrees and insists that there really is something happening, something magical. Despite Blaise telling Dud that alchemy is a metaphor, Dud enjoys believing in the mystery and secret knowledge of alchemy and the ability to turn base metals into gold. Over time, Dud's enthusiasm begins to rub off on the Lodge members, inspiring Blaise to learn more about alchemy and to discover some gold residue in the Lodge's library. Connie (a Lodge member, married to Scott, but having an affair with Ernie, played by Linda Emond) decides to take a break from both men and travels to Lodge 1 in London as she is having hallucinations that she puts down to brain seizures. Ernie even begins to believe there is something more to the True Lodge than just a fable and joins the hunt for the sacred scrolls.
Season 2 takes Lodge 49 into another realm of surrealism, really stepping up its game. The opening scene is a flashforward to Ernie and Dud gripping each other tightly and jumping out of a plane with one parachute as the plane plummets. Everything that happened in the six weeks leading up to the terrifying situation is magical. Dud survived the shark attack and has an impressive scar to show for it, and his snake bite is finally healing. While he was unconscious, he saw a vision of his father — a message he felt. Dud is intriguingly happy, considering this was his second near-death experience. Liz is debt-free and looking for a job, significantly less happy than her brother. No change there then.
California, aerospace, the possibility of community in the age of loneliness, bitcoin, psychedelic folk, the hidden earth inside our hollow earth, why nothing matters in San Diego, why pools are awesome, and why bars shouldn't have TV sets are all themes of great importance in Season 2. Plus the search for the scrolls, of course. It's rare for a TV show to accomplish this, but in Lodge 49, the main storyline isn't necessarily what you are watching for. It's more about the people than the magic — well, they are the magic. The communities in which these people live each have a Lynx-ian way about them. Dud gets a job at West Coast Super Sales with Ernie and reacts like a knight joining the Round Table, thrilled to wear his company polo shirt (and the jacket handed down from his dead predecessor on the desk).
The ending of the series finale takes it one step further again. I'd call it "biblical," but it's not really about a Christian God or a God of any specific religion. It's spiritual. Dud and Liz plan a trip to Catalina, just in time for a rainstorm. Liz arrives at the Lodge and meets Connie for the first time. A moment passes between them. My guess is that Liz will become Connie's squire as Dud was to Ernie. But there's more to the moment between them. It feels like Liz might be some kind of Chosen One for the Lodge. Perhaps her destiny is even more significant than her twin brothers.
Meanwhile, Dud once again finds himself in a life-or-death situation, this time inspired by the rain. In some kind of vacant or even hypnotic state, he begins digging a hole outside Larry's old trailer. He had mentioned building a pool, but it feels more like he's digging to find the hidden civilisation hiding beneath Long Beach — the world beneath our hollow Earth as L. Marvin Metz (Paul Giamatti, who is also an Executive Producer of the show) spoke about. Lightning strikes Dud's shovel, and the rain causes mud to bury his unconscious body. I thought the show might leave him there, near-death once again, but no, that curious door on the second story of the Lodge opens, and Dud falls out, transported from some starscape beyond.
It absolutely cripples me that we may never find out any more about what happened to Dud, what Liz's destiny was, the secrets the Lodge held, and what the meaning of their (and, in a sense, all of our) lives are.
The Lodge can turn garbage into gold, maybe through alchemy, but also through friendship and storytelling and beer and watching ballgames. "When I'm out there," Dud tells his fellow Lynxes, "I feel like I'm all alone. And all these things are chasing me, dragons and dickheads. But it's different in here. I can see what this place is. I can feel it. Can't you?" Ultimately all anyone wants is a place where they feel like they belong, a place to call home, where they feel content and loved, and it may not be your actual home—quite often, it's not. You might find it with a group of people or with just one, and it doesn't matter where you are as long as you are together. When you lose someone that made you feel at home, it is a grief that is hard to bear.
Dud: All I can feel is the shadow. And I wish my dad were here to see where I am. See where I'm going. But I know that the only reason that I'm here is because Liz and I lost him. And sometimes I don't know how to square that. I don't know if I can handle paying that kind of price. Everything is all tangled, the good stuff and the bad stuff. It just seems unfair. And on some days, all of the beautiful things in my life break my heart. Will it always feel this way?
Ernie: "Yes. Always. But that's the deal."
Lodge 49 felt like home — a happy place, with people I loved — and now it's gone. So I guess the only hope is that this was somehow its destiny and true path.
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Q: Parsing JSON data with URLSession and Codable i Parsing JSON with URLSession And Map it With Codable , but i cant fetch result array Inside JSON Data to show it in table view. my question it is how i can fetch result and make an object from it to use in table view .
JSON Data :
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JSON Model :
struct Result : Decodable {
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struct status : Decodable {
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struct result : Decodable {
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View Controller:
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A: 1- result key is an array let result: [Result]
// MARK: - Empty
struct Root: Codable {
    let result: [Result]
    let status: Status
}

// MARK: - Result
struct Result: Codable {
    let id: Int
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    enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
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// MARK: - Status
struct Status: Codable {
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2- Assign array and reload the table
do {
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} catch {
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3- Table dataSource methods
var allRes = [Result]()  // add this var

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A: You should retain your task object.

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Preview: Trace Adkins in "The Outsider"
John Foo, Sean Patrick Flanery and Danny Trejo co-star in a Wild West tale of bullets, bare knuckles and bloodshed.
Here's the latest western from filmmaker Timothy Woodward Jr., director of Traded and Hickok — The Outsider, a gritty tale of revenge in a small frontier boomtown starring Trace Adkins, Jon Foo, Sean Patrick Flanery, Kaiwi Lyman (pictured above with Adkins) and Danny Trejo. The film is slated to premiere on digital platforms June 14, and will open theatrically in Los Angeles, Kansas City, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, Houston, Tampa, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, and Toronto on the same date.
What's it all about? According to the official press release: "In search of a better life, a railroad worker (Foo) unwittingly finds himself on the wrong side of a group of corrupt lawmen. As the marshal (Adkins) attempts to control his increasingly unethical town, tragedy strikes, forcing him to decide between justice and family. But through their inaction, they awaken a sleeping giant. And after teaming up with a disgraced former officer (Flanery), the railroad worker sets out to wipe out the immoral group by any means necessary."
The Outsider began filming last year at the storied Paramount Ranch, where movies and TV series such Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Gunsmoke were made. Midway through production, however, the November 2018 Woolsey Fire destroyed the historic movie set.
"The western genre holds a special place in my heart," says Woodward. "Having another opportunity to work at an iconic location like Paramount Ranch was a dream come true. It was a sad day for western fans, and a blow to the film community, when the ranch succumbed to the fires that devastated a big portion of the state last fall.
"Despite it being one of our key locations for this project, the crew, cast and team really buckled down, got creative and worked through heat, wind and fire to bring this western to life."
Here is the trailer for The Outsider.
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With all the last minute details of getting ready for Christmas I almost forgot to post this card using the Pine Border Outline die. I love this die and I had fun making these whimsical polka dot trees on this card. I used the same technique on this card as I used here. The difference is that on this card I added Glossy Accents over the top of the trees to really make them pop.


Your name is written in the Lambs Book of Life (REVELATION 21:27), you started living eternally with our Precious Lord the day you said "COME INTO MY LIFE LORD JESUS." (ROMANS 10:9-10), You have the peace of God surrounding you (PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7), you have sweet sleep at night (PSALM 127:2), OVER 2,000 years ago you WERE HEALED BY JESUS STRIPES (ISAIAH 53:5), you have favor with God and man (PSALM 5:12), you are seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus and all things have been put beneath your feet (EPHESIANS 2:4-6). The blessings of God shall come upon you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of the Lord thy God. (DEUTERONOMY 28:2) Don't make me go any further or I will keep writing until next Monday.
You know why? There are an estimated 3,000 promises to you and me in the Word of God, does God REALLY love you or WHAT?
Nita and I pray that you will be blessed by the 2nd part of this soul searching message: "DO YOU REALLY TRUST THE LORD?
It's a fair question right?
IT'S BETTER TO ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION NOW THAN BE IN A CRISIS OF LIFE AND REALIZE THAT YOU DO NOT REALLY TRUST THE LORD WHEN IT'S TOO LATE.
YOU REALIZE THAT ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS I ASK OF YOU I AM ALSO ASKING OF NITA AND ME ALSO, YOU SEE, WE READ "YOU" JUST LIKE YOU DO, SO THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS TALKING TO NITA AND ME ALSO AND THAT GOES FOR ALL OF THE TEACHING WE GIVE. IT HAS TO START WITH NITA AND ME. WE ARE ALL GROWING, AMEN?
AS I STARTED TO MENTION IN THE FIRST PART OF THIS TEACHING, HOW CAN YOU TRUST SOMEONE YOU DO NOT KNOW?
Greetings in the name of the Lord, may His sun arise in your spirit today and bring His joy to you right now, in Jesus name.
I don't know what you are going through right now, but the word the Lord gave me is for some of you that have come to this website today!
Before I start with the teaching for today, as some of you know every Monday we put new teaching on this WORLD WIDE WEB.
Recently I started looking at all of the teaching that has gone forth from this website ministry and it covers many areas of our lives.
The Lord led Nita and I to raise up this website to minister not only to those that are anchored in the Word but to people that have never received the Lord as their Lord and Savior and also to those who are born again but have strayed away from the Lord and are out of fellowship with the Lord.
"AND I, IF I BE LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME." JOHN 12:32 (Notice it says ALL men, so this website needed to fulfill what the Lord put in our hearts.
It is early in the morning of Thursday January 22, 2015.
I have been teaching on the title WHAT TIME IS IT, and I said in the midst of all the negative things that are happening in this world now and will continue to a greater degree as the days continue, THE CHURCH INDIVIDUALLY (THAT'S YOU AND ME) AND CORPORATELY WILL RISE UP IN POWER AND AUTHORITY AGAINST THE GATES OF HELL LIKE NEVER BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH.
THAT MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IS A FACT, BASED ON GOD'S WORD.
WE ARE IN THE CHURCH'S FINEST HOUR AND THE LORD IS BUILDING HIS CHURCH NOW!!!
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE I TALKED TO THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL BATTLES AGAINST SATAN THAT THEY HAVE EVER FACED IN THEIR CHRISTIAN LIVES AND HAVE COME OUT OR WILL COME OUT VICTORIOUSLY, INCLUDING NITA AND ME.


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ALGERIANS CELEBRATE Algerians in Paris celebrate Bouteflika's resignation
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Algerian protesters gathered in Paris on Sunday (April 7) to celebrate former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's resignation and push for the removal of the current political structure in their home country.
Bouteflika ended 20 years in power on Tuesday after a final push by the military for him to stand down.
His resignation follows six weeks of protests calling for democratic reforms after almost 60 years of monolithic rule by veterans of the 1954-62 independence war against France.
That leaves Algeria extraordinarily in the hands of a caretaker government until elections in three months and with no successor in sight.
Demonstrators want a completely new political landscape and they see the caretaker government as part of an old guard which helped keep Bouteflika in power for 20 years.
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Ka Luen Yick actively strengthen the automation technology upgrading, the overall production efficiency, product quality, delivery and more to enhance efficiency shortened, in response to smart phones, wearable devices, applications, products slimmer future needs, in addition to use of the existing built fabric The high-density FPC Roll automated production technology and automated processing equipment, more active correspondence with ultra-fine line of ultra-thin copper production methods.
According to Prismark statistics show that 2014 annual global output of FPC $ 11,476,000,000, compared with $ 11.284 billion the year 2013 growth of 1.7%, of which, the output value of Taiwan's FPC highest growth compared with other countries, reaching 13.1%. Prismark also forecast 2015 annual output value of the global soft board $ 11.904 billion, representing an annual growth of 3.7% in 2014, the growth rate of FPC industry continued to outpace the overall PCB industry.
Also worth mentioning is owned and large group behind the IC carrier MILL King Master, a record high revenues in 2014, the highest after-tax profit of seven years, the gross margin is the five-year high, but so far in 2015 They fell into turbulence, in the first quarter after-tax 617 million yuan, 12 times the low season, compared with the same period in 2014 greatly reduced 22%, EPS1.38 yuan, April revenues also wrote nearly three years earlier lows.
Looking to the future, King Master report to shareholders that it would continue to invest in the book only R & D resources to support the diverse needs of customers' products, continues to expand fine-line process production line, and with 16/14 nanometer fab, and then towards the 10-nm products process needs to grab market opportunities. Another will be to actively invest in automated production equipment to improve product yield. In addition, portable, components miniature wearable device trend will continue, the strong correlation baseband chip, fingerprint identification chip and other high-power amplifier IC substrate demand, will drive the continued growth of the global IC substrate market.


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Q: Adding RAM to a laptop with internal battery I heard recommendations everywhere that before you insert a second RAM to a laptop, it is best to take out the battery. However, the laptop I own (Dell Inspiron 1528S) has an internal battery. Am I supposed to find a way to disconnect the battery before I add the RAM?

A: I can't find anything about an Inspiron 1528S model. However, under the assumption it's a 15" ultrabook (generally, internal batteries are most common on ultrabooks), then it might be the 15z 5523. In that case, the manual says to hold the power button down for 5 seconds after shutting down the computer, but otherwise not to worry about removing the battery (that's a much more involved process).
Even if it's not that specific model, the general principle holds: in many computers with an internal battery, disconnecting the battery is more involved than replacing RAM. In that case, don't worry about the battery so much; just be careful to disconnect it from the wall.
Edit: As Ramhound points out, Dell is very good about releasing manuals for their computers. The best thing to do for any computer is to follow the manual; other advice is necessarily general, while the manual is how the manufacturer intends that computer to be serviced.


Thalidomide, first developed in Germany in 1956, is infamously known for its teratogenic properties when used for hyperemesis gravidarum and sedation . From the late 1950s until 1962, use of this drug rapidly expanded to 48 countries where it was responsible for birth defects ranging from congenital heart disease, malformations in limb development and ocular abnormalities in thousands of children. While initial preclinical data suggested that thalidomide had an acceptable safety profile in rodents, testing in pregnant animals was not a mandated practice at the time . The tragedy of thalidomide-rapidly led to significant changes in the processes required for medical product development throughout the world with enactment of an amendment to the United States Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act in 1962 requiring more rigorous preclinical testing for new pharmaceuticals .
Fifty years after the thalidomide tragedy, Takumi Ito and colleagues revealed the molecular mechanism of this drug through elegant studies conducted in zebrafish and chickens . Cereblon (CRBN) was identified as the direct target of immunomodulatory compounds and one of many DDB1 and CUL4-associated factors (DCAFs) that directs protein turnover by ubiquitination and subsequent proteasome recognition. Cereblon acts as a substrate recruiting module for the DDB1–CUL4A–Roc1–RBX1 E3 ubiquitin ligase complex [12,13] and the immunomodulatory compounds thalidomide, lenalidomide, pomalidomide, and avadomide (Figure 1) alter its recruiting functions by attracting various "neo" protein substrates including Ikaros, Aiolos,  and casein kinase 1α (CK1α)  to the DDB1-CUL4A-Rbx1 complex (Figure 2). It is now well established that immunomodulatory drug-dependent degradation of Ikaros and Aiolos potentiates human T cells  and is responsible for the cytotoxicity of human MM cells . CK1α degradation is selectively targeted by lenalidomide which garners an apoptotic phenotype that is uniquely associated with clinical responses in del(5q) MDS .
Figure 1. Structure of thalidomide and related immunomodulatory drug class.
Figure 2. Model of immunomodulatory-drug mechanism of activation by binding Cereblon (CRBN).
Despite advances in our understanding of immunomodulatory drugs and their molecular mechanism, the notion that mice and other rodents are "resistant" to immunomodulatory compounds has been widely circulated due to the initial erroneous safety reports. In the thalidomide binding domain (TBD) of CRBN, examination of the sequences across vertebrate species revealed that CRBN is structurally well-conserved except for three amino acids (Cys366 human to Ser369 mouse, Glu377 to Val380 mouse, and Val388 human to Ile391 mouse) . Interestingly, Ile391 is also present in chicken CRBN and in all non-mammal vertebrates excluding the flying lemur. Structural studies have now demonstrated how immunomodulatory drugs form a molecular bridge between CRBN and its drug-dependent binding partner CK1α . Interestingly, Ile391 introduces a steric hindrance that diminishes the binding of all known neo-substrates that contain a conserved β-hairpin loop in their secondary structure including CK1α, Ikaros and Aiolos . Explicitly, in the lenalidomide-CRBN-CK1α interaction, additional Van der Waals forces are formed at Val388, which stabilizes the complex and enhances the ubiquitin degradation of the substrates .
Consistent with the current premise on the role of Ile391, we confirmed that Ikaros ubiquitin-mediated degradation fails to occur in mouse T cells and multiple myeloma tumor cells . We also demonstrated functional resistance of mouse T cells with regard to interleukin-2 production and proliferation. Mouse multiple myeloma cell lines showed no evidence of apoptosis in response to immunomodulatory drug treatment in comparison to potent suppression of several human multiple myeloma cell lines. CRBN protein expression levels were similar in most of the mouse and human cell lines tested which is consistent with the possibility that mouse cells are inherently resistant to immunomodulatory drugs and thus fundamentally different with regard to CRBN function. This is also consistent with the idea that Ikaros/CK1α recruitment is indeed responsible for T cell potentiation [15,19] and responsible for the cytotoxic effects of these drugs in human tumor cells [15,19].
Consequently, the negative impact of Ile391 in response to immunomodulatory drugs raises crucial questions about the physiological performance of CRBN in rodents and in other vertebrates possessing this amino acid variant. If non-drug-induced CRBN substrates (i.e., native substrates) contain a similar β-hairpin conserved structure present in CK1α, Ikaros and Aiolos, then Val388 may represent a functionally inactive variant selected through evolutionary adaptation in mammals. Using theoretical modeling studies and orthogonal drug binding assays to several CRBN TBD sequence variants, we demonstrated that the Ile391 CRBN TBD protein does not alter its binding affinity with immunomodulatory drugs  suggesting that this variant may retain at least some of the physiological properties.
Given the conserved immunomodulatory drug binding properties, we then hypothesized that target recruitment may be selectively compromised by Ile391 or other variants of CRBN. Since all known immunomodulatory drug-induced neo-substrate recruitment occurs through an interaction with a conserved β-hairpin-loop structure, we exploited a new technology called proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTAC) to replace the substrate binding capacity of CRBN . This new technology was first developed more than a decade ago as a means of selectively recognizing intracellular proteins and triggering their destruction for scientific and therapeutic applications. These compounds contain complementary bifunctional components that 1) interact with specific proteins, and 2) engage an E3 ligase to trigger the proteasome-mediated degradation of specified proteins of interest. Thalidomide–related compounds are key components of PROTAC technology due their fidelity in hijacking the CRBN/DDB1/Cul4A/Rbx1 E3 ubiquitin ligase complex (20). Using dBET1, a thalidomide-JQ1 PROTAC, that degrades BET domain proteins , we investigated the E3-ubiquitin ligase function of mouse CRBN. Interestingly, we demonstrated that mouse CRBN can bind thalidomide containing PROTACs with similar binding affinity, trigger CRBN-dependent degradation of BRD4, and thus confirmed that the CRBN/DDB1/Cul4A/Rbx1 complex is functional in mouse cells.
It is cogent to postulate that there is a resistance mechanism related to the V388I mutation and reduction in Ikaros, Aiolos, and CK1α degradation. However, chicken CRBN, and other vertebrate species, also exhibit this mutation, but show sensitivity to thalidomide. CRBN-dependent developmental defects after thalidomide treatment have been definitively shown in several Ile391-containing species . Therefore, it is possible that teratogenicity, and perhaps other effects of immunomodulatory drugs, occur through a distinct mechanism. CRBN interacts intracellularly with calcium-activated potassium channels and the metabolic sensor adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK), which in the latter, suppresses its activation and its downstream target mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) [22-24]. Collectively, this data suggests that there may be multiple endogenous substrates of CRBN and that the immunomodulatory drugs may influence its physiological function through different mechanisms. One study in particular proposes a ubiquitin-independent role for CRBN as a chaperon for the plasma membrane glycoprotein, CD147, and the monocarboxylate transporter, MCT1, that transports lactate . In this study, researchers showed that the CD147-MCT1 complex is vital for the regulation of cellular metabolism and expression of fibroblast growth factor 8, which is the transcription factor reported to mediate thalidomide-associated teratogenicity in zebrafish and chickens . Furthermore, through elegantly designed experiments, these investigators showed that thalidomide treatment destabilizes the CD147-MCT1 complex and that a morpholino-induced loss of CD147 suppresses limb development similar to thalidomide. Collectively, this study suggests that destabilization of the CD147-MCT1 complex is responsible for immunomodulatory drug-induced teratogenicity rather than degradation of the established neo-substrates .
Few medical disasters have reached the level of thalidomide-associated teratogenicity and had such prevailing consequences in its aftermath. Elucidation of thalidomide's molecular target has been widely applauded as a major scientific breakthrough. Insights into aspects of CRBN biology relevant for the preclinical development of PROTAC compounds in humans are likely to continue for decades. However, we highlight the potential disadvantages of using CRBN-targeting PROTAC compounds as they all may harbor teratogenic potential, but should be tested in rodents and other relevant animal models during pre-clinical development. Using these new agents, it may be possible to appreciate the physiological roles for CRBN in protein regulation since it is evident that it plays a fundamental role in both proteasome and non-proteasome-related cellular regulation as well as in fetal development.
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Thomas DA (2000) Pilot studies of thalidomide in acute myelogenous leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, and myeloproliferative disorders. Seminars in Hematology 37: 26-34.
Giroud A, Tuchmann-Duplessis H, Mercier-Parot L (1962) Observatios on the teratogenic repercussions of thalidomide in the mouse and rabbit. C R Seances Soc Biol Fil 156: 765-768.
© 2018 Akuffo AA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Immunology Department, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33543, USA.


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Q: JavaScript merging two multidimensional arrays into unique arrays I am trying to sort data that looks like this:
{
    "Params": [
        ["section", "North"],
        ["monitor", "Single Monitor"],
        ["section", "North"],
        ["monitor", "Dual Monitor"]
    ]
}

Into something that looks like this:
{
    "section": [
        "North"
    ],
    "monitor": [
        "Single Monitor",
        "Dual Monitor"
    ]
}

But I am currently having issues, I've tried a few different things such as concatenating the arrays together in a loop, or even using lodash's uniq function but every time I get a non desired result.
Thanks in advance for any help

A: You can aggregate your array of arrays using array.reduce:

let obj = {
    "Params": [
        ["section", "North"],
        ["monitor", "Single Monitor"],
        ["section", "North"],
        ["monitor", "Dual Monitor"]
    ]
}

let result = obj.Params.reduce((acc,cur) => {
   let [key,value] = cur;
   if(!acc[key]){
      acc[key] = [];
   }
   if(!acc[key].includes(value)){
      acc[key].push(value);
   }
   return acc;
}, {});

console.log(result);

A: Number of operation needs to be done here. You can make use of reduce in order to group the key wise data. Since you have only key value pair array format, so in reduce I have destructured it with [k,v] indicating key and value. Then to remove duplicate values, I have used Set.

var data={
    "Params": [
        ["section", "North"],
        ["monitor", "Single Monitor"],
        ["section", "North"],
        ["monitor", "Dual Monitor"]
    ]
};

var result = data.Params.reduce((a,[k, v])=>(a[k] = [...(a[k] || []), v], a[k] = [...new Set(a[k])], a),{});

console.log(result);

A: You can use _.groupBy() the _.head() (first item of each pair) to group items. Then use _.mapValues() to iterate each group, map it to get the _.last() item, and the use _.uniq() to get just the unique values:

const data = {"Params":[["section","North"],["monitor","Single Monitor"],["section","North"],["monitor","Dual Monitor"]]};

const result = _.mapValues(
  _.groupBy(data.Params, _.head), // group by the first item
  g => _.uniq(_.map(g, _.last)) // map each group to the last item, and get unique values
);

console.log(result);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.15/lodash.js"></script>

With lodash lodash/fp you can generate a function using _.flow() that does the same thing:

const { flow, groupBy, head, mapValues, map, last, uniq } = _;

const fn = flow(
  groupBy(head),
  mapValues(flow(
    map(last),
    uniq
  ))
);

const data = {"Params":[["section","North"],["monitor","Single Monitor"],["section","North"],["monitor","Dual Monitor"]]};

const result = fn(data.Params);

console.log(result);
<script src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/g/lodash@4(lodash.min.js+lodash.fp.min.js)'></script>

A: You can turn reduce() method to groupBy function as follows

let obj = {
  "Params": [
    ["section", "North"],
    ["monitor", "Single Monitor"],
    ["section", "North"],
    ["monitor", "Dual Monitor"]
  ]
};

const res = obj.Params.reduce((acc, [key, val]) => {
  acc[key] = acc[key] || [];
  if (!acc[key].includes(val)) {
    acc[key].push(val);
  }
  return acc;
}, {});
console.log(res);


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Friday, June 1 • 5:00pm - 5:30pm
(Natural History Collections) Eggstraordinary: The conservation and mounting of historically significant great auk eggs
The Natural History Museum, Tring, UK is one of only a handful of institutions around the world that holds several Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) eggs within its collection. Great Auks were hunted to extinction in the mid-19th century and there are less than 100 eggs known to be left in existence around the world. The eggs are not only important due to their rarity, but also their provenance. Each one has a significant history and previous owners include these important collectors - William Bullock, Lionel Walter Rothschild and Henry Baker Tristram. The project initiated through a PhD thesis to investigate the surface and porosity structure differences among egg shells within the Auk family. The curator requested that specialist mounts be fabricated to hold and protect the eggs while carrying out the micro CT scanning in addition to remedial conservation treatments. All materials used had to be conservation grade as it was requested that the eggs be kept in these scanning mounts during the project. Two of the eggs exhibited severe cracking and were vulnerable to further damage and potential loss. All of the eggs were housed in acidic packaging (increasing the risk of Byne's disease) and inappropriately sized boxes. Repair and consolidation tests were carried out on experimental egg shells to formulate an appropriate treatment. The cracks were consolidated and repaired using Lascaux Medium for Consolidation and Lascaux 498HV (aqueous acrylic dispersions) with Japanese tissue paper. Failed adhesives from previous repairs were removed using laser ablation. In addition to this, a 3D print of Bullock's Great Auk Egg was created from a 3D digital surface scan in order to fabricate a new mount and storage solution for the egg. This conservation project has comprised a multidisciplinary team from across the museum including a conservator, curator, engineer, 3D visualization specialist, micro CT scanning specialist and a PhD student. It has highlighted the conservation needs of our egg collections within the museum and demonstrated how the use of technology can contribute to mount fabrication. It is hoped that the materials and treatments applied in this case can be further applied to other fragile egg collections in institutions
Arianna Lea Bernucci
Senior Conservator, The Natural History Museum
Arianna Lea Bernucci is currently a Senior Conservator at The Natural History Museum in London, UK. She recently led the conservation of the blue whale skeleton in the museum's central Hintze Hall. Prior to this she was a conservator at The British Museum and Imperial War Museum... Read More →
Amin Garbout
Imaging Specialist, Natural History Museum, London
Duncan Jackson
PhD Student, University of Sheffield
Amy Scott Murray
3D Visualisation Specialist, Natural History Museum, London
Douglas G. D. Russell
Senior Curator, Natural History Museum
Friday June 1, 2018 5:00pm - 5:30pm
River Oaks Meeting Room Marriott Marquis Houston
5. General Session, Natural History Collections
Specialty Tracks Natural History Collections
Cost Type Included with registration
Abstract ID 13740


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The Last Victim may refer to:
 The Last Victim (book), a non-fiction work by Jason Moss
 The Last Victim (1975 film), a Soviet drama film
 The Last Victim, also known as Forced Entry, a 1975 American horror film
 The Last Victim (2021 film), an American neo-Western crime-thriller film

See also
 The Last Victims, a 2019 political drama film

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Gray Attempt took the early lead in Friday's Smarty Jones Stakes, then held off late charges by Long Range Toddy and Bankor to win 10 points in the Road to the Kentucky Derby.
Ridden by Shaun Bridgmohan, the son of Graydar took a one-length lead coming for home in the 1-mile race, but was challenged in the homestretch by Bankor to his right and Long Range Toddy to his left. He managed to win by a neck over Long Range Toddy, with Bankor just behind for third.
It was the third win in four tries for Gray Attempt, is expected to continue running at Oaklawn, with the Feb. 18 Southwest Stakes next on his path to Churchill Downs.


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Lebanese burn ruling parties' offices after night of clashes
Published December 15, 2019, 7:23 PM
Attackers in northern Lebanon set fire to the offices of two major political parties on Sunday, the state-run National News Agency said.
Anti-government protesters block a road that links to the parliament square, as they clash with the riot police during a protest in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. The recent clashes marked some of the worst in the capital since demonstrations began two months ago. The rise in tensions comes as politicians have failed to agree on forming a new government. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla/MANILA BULLETIN)
The assaults came just hours after the capital Beirut was rocked by the most violent government crackdown on protesters since nationwide demonstrations began two months ago. Lebanese security forces fired rubber bullets, tear gas and used water cannons throughout the night to disperse anti-government protesters from the city center — the epicenter of the protest movement in Beirut — and around parliament.
The overnight confrontations in Beirut left more than 130 people injured, according to the Red Cross and the Lebanese Civil Defense.
In the northern Akkar district on Sunday, attackers broke the windows and torched the local office for resigned Prime Minister Saad Hariri's political party in the town of Kharibet al-Jindi.
In a separate attack in Akkar district, assailants stormed the local office of the largest party in parliament, affiliated with President Michel Aoun and headed by Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil. Their party said the contents of the office in Jedidat al-Juma town had also been smashed and burned.
Lebanon is facing one of its worst economic crises in decades, and the protesters accuse the ruling political class in place for three decades of mismanagement and corruption.
The violence comes a day before the president is due to hold talks with different parliamentary blocs to name a new prime minister on Monday.
Interior Minister Raya al-Hassan on Sunday ordered an investigation into the clashes which she said injured both protesters and security forces. She said she watched the confrontations "with concern, sadness and shock."
Al-Hassan blamed "infiltrators" for instigating the friction and called on the demonstrators to be wary of those who want to exploit their protests for political reasons. She didn't elaborate.
Nationwide protests began on Oct. 17, and the government headed by Hariri resigned two weeks later.
Political parties have since been bickering over the shape and form of the new Cabinet. Protesters want a technocratic government, not affiliated with established political parties.
After weeks of back and forth, Hariri has emerged as the likely candidate for the job.
Qatar condemns storming of Libya's eastern Zueitina port


One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that people think I hate cardio.
Now truthfully, I don't do cardio myself, but I do think cardio can have a place in a weight loss program…. I don't think it works nearly as well as people would like it to, especially when it comes to burning calories, but it can have a place.
My theory is that 4-6 weeks of cardio training 2-4 times per week used specifically to ramp up fat burning enzyme activity may be beneficial for some people, especially if done at the beginning of a weight loss program.
The thought is that those 4-6 weeks would cause changes that would carry through the next 6-8 weeks of dieting. So you'd do your cardio for a month or so, then drastically reduce it for the next two months.
Mind you, 4-6 weeks in a row is all I would ever recommend for weight loss, but it's still 4-6 weeks MORE than Craig Ballantyne would EVER recommend.
Sounds Crazy, but Craig is my friend and he's also a world-famous fitness expert who designs great workouts. Plus, he's taken a hard look at the research behind these controversial claims.


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Countess Markievicz, born Constance Georgine Gore Booth, politician, revolutionary, tireless worker with the poor and dispossessed, was a remarkable woman. Born into great wealth and privilege in Lissadell, Sligo, Ireland, she is most famous for her leadership role in the Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916 and the subsequent revolutionary struggle for freedom in Ireland, for which she risked her life. The story of Constance, Countess Markievicz, is a story of a woman of determination, independence, idealism and self-sacrifice in pursuit of freedom for the Irish people. It is the story of a woman who has inspired generations of Irish men and women.
Born in 1868, Constance was the first of the five children of Henry Gore Booth, fifth Baronet of Sligo, and his wife Georgina. She had a happy and unremarkable childhood in Lissadell with horse-riding, sailing and picnics on the strand. When she was old enough, Constance was taken to London for the social season but instead of finding a husband and settling down as expected of young ladies of her class, she persuaded her papa to rent a studio for her, and promptly enrolled in the Slade School of Art. At 25, Constance went to Paris to continue her studies and met and married Casimir Dunin-Markievicz. Their only child, Maeve Allys, was born in Lissadell in 1901.
On settling in Dublin in 1903, George Russell (AE) remarked "the Gore-Booth girl who married the Polish Count with the unspellable name is going to settle near Dublin .. we might get the materials for revolt ..". Constance continued with her painting, and she and her husband regularly exhibited with AE. They became good friends. He allowed her a small part in his play Deirdre, performed at the Abbey in 1907.
A life of painting and pleasure was not enough for Constance. As a young girl she had confided to her journal that "Nature should provide me with something to live for, something to die for". She turned to politics. In 1908 Constance spoke publicly in favour of the nationalist cause from a Sinn Féin platform. The reaction of her friend the poet W. B. Yeats was initially hostile:
"women, because the main event in their lives has been giving themselves and giving birth, give all to an opinion as if it were some terrible stone doll"
A reaction softened in later years
"dear shadows, now you know it all, all the folly of a fight with a common wrong or right. The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time"
Constance's political activities continued, but Casimir was not interested, and by 1914 he was back in the Ukraine.Constance was also active in helping the poor of Dublin. Madame de Markievicz, as she was called, had established and operated a soup kitchen from the headquarters of the ITGWU at Liberty Hall during the great Lock Out of 1913 organised by Jim Larkin. She herself collected and delivered bags of turf, which she brought into Dublin in her car from the Dublin mountains.She was regularly seen hauling heavy bags of fuel up flights of stairs in back street tenement houses, where so many of the poorest people in Dublin eked out a mere survival.
James Connolly became a significant influence in the development of Constance's political ideology. In an article written for The Nation in March 1927, Constance wrote that "when he began to organise the Irish Citizen Army he brought me along, teaching me, as he got to know me, as a comrade, giving me any work that I could do, and quite ignoring the conventional attitude towards the work of women".Constance became a commissioned officer in the Irish Citizen Army, and was involved in the planning of the 1916 Rising. Her notebook, recording the planned manoeuvres is now on display in Lissadell. She fought in St. Stephen's Green and retreated to the College of Surgeons, where she eventually surrendered. Constance was sentenced to death for her part in the Rising, commuted to life imprisonment because of her sex. This brought little relief. At that time she just wanted to die with her comrades, who were being executed almost daily in the hard labour yard outside her cell in Kilmainham Gaol. Constance had a particular loyalty to James Connolly, who was executed strapped to a chair because he was so bady wounded he could not stand (the place is marked with a cross in Kilmainham, which is now a museum). On his death, she wrote these words:
Constance Markievicz's tribute to James Connolly, May 1916
You died for your Country my Hero-love
In the first grey dawn of spring;
On your lips was a prayer to God above
That your death would have helped to bring
Freedom and Peace to the land you love,
Love above everything.
Constance was released from Ailsbury Gaol in England in 1917 following a general amnesty. However she served a further five terms of imprisonment during the troubles.
Constance Markievicz was the first woman to be elected to Westminster Parliament in London (where she refused to take her seat), and the first to be elected to and serve in Dáil Eireann. She served with distinction as the first female minister in a modern democracy, having been appointed Minister for Labour at the first meeting of the Dáil in 1919.She continued to fight for the Republican cause: in a heated exchange with Michael Collins on the Treaty debates some years later she labelled his party "traitors!". He retorted "English!" a jibe at her Anglo Irish ancestry.
In March 1926 Eamon de Valera called an extraordinary meeting of Sinn Féin to discuss the future of the party. Failing to achieve agreement on his vision of the future, he resigned as leader of Sinn Féin and established a new national movement. On 16 May 1926, the inaugural meeting of Fianna Fáil was held in La Scala theatre in Dublin. Among the founding members were Seán Lemass, Gerry Boland, Countess Markievicz and Frank Aiken.
In June 1927 Constance fell seriously ill. She was admitted to a public ward in Sir Patrick Dun's hospital (at her own insistence). She had peritonitis, and although she had surgery, it was too late. Constance Markievicz died at 1:25 a.m. on the morning of 15th July, 1927. She was attended by her husband, Casimir. Her brother, Sir Josslyn Gore Booth, had received daily bulletins from the Matron, and immediately arranged to attend the funeral in Dublin.
Her brother Josslyn would have preferred a private, family funeral, but this was not to be. In death Constance Markievicz was even more openly appreciated and acclaimed than in life. Three hundred thousand people attended the funeral to pay tribute to "the friend of the toiler, the lover of the poor", the words of Eamon de Valera, who delivered the funeral oration, and with whom she had founded the Fianna Fáil Party.
Lady Gregory, who had attended bord meetings of the Abbey Theatre with Constance, wrote: "poor Madame Markievicz, also gone…I knew her in her Castle days when she was rather a jealous meddler in the Abbey and Hugh's (Lane) gallery. But her energy found a better scope when she took up the labour movement and then a more violent outlet in 1916 when she fought with the boy scouts she had trained, against the English troops, and was imprisoned. I remember one evening when I was coming from some hard hours work at the Abbey I felt tired and jaded on the tram, and then she got in, tired and jaded also from drilling some of her "Fianna" and I felt drawn to her. There was something gallant about her. We were each working for what we believed would help Ireland and we talked together."
Constance Markievicz continued to inspire respect after her death for her kindness to the poor of Dublin and her devotion to the cause of Irish Nationalism.
Visit the YEATS GALLERY at Lissadell


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package io.github.ddebree.game.ai.core.strategy.score;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
import io.github.ddebree.game.ai.core.exception.InvalidMoveException;
import io.github.ddebree.game.ai.core.move.IMoveFactory;
import io.github.ddebree.game.ai.core.score.IMoveScorer;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.runners.MockitoJUnitRunner;

import java.util.Set;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class MoveScoreStrategyTest {

    private interface IPlayerKey {}
    private interface IState {}
    private interface IMove {}

    @Mock
    IPlayerKey playerKey;
    @Mock
    IMoveFactory<IState, IPlayerKey, IMove> moveFactory;
    @Mock
    IMoveScorer<IState, IMove> moveScorer;

    @Mock
    IState currentState;
    @Mock
    IMove move1, move2;

    private MoveScoreStrategy<IState, IPlayerKey, IMove> moveMoveScoreStrategy;

    @Before
    public void setup() {
        moveMoveScoreStrategy = new MoveScoreStrategy<>(moveFactory, moveScorer);
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetBestMove_NoMoves() throws Exception {
        when(moveFactory.getMoves(currentState, playerKey)).thenReturn(Stream.empty());

        Set<IMove> moves = moveMoveScoreStrategy.getBestMoves(currentState, playerKey);

        assertTrue(moves.isEmpty());
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetBestMove_OneMove() throws Exception {
        when(moveFactory.getMoves(currentState, playerKey)).thenReturn(Stream.of(move1));
        when(moveScorer.scoreMove(currentState, move1)).thenReturn(123);

        Set<IMove> moves = moveMoveScoreStrategy.getBestMoves(currentState, playerKey);

        assertEquals(1, moves.size());
        assertTrue(moves.contains(move1));

        verify(moveFactory).getMoves(currentState, playerKey);
        verify(moveScorer).scoreMove(currentState, move1);
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetBestMove_TwoMoves_sameScore() throws Exception {
        when(moveFactory.getMoves(currentState, playerKey)).thenReturn(Stream.of(move1, move2));
        when(moveScorer.scoreMove(currentState, move1)).thenReturn(123);
        when(moveScorer.scoreMove(currentState, move2)).thenReturn(123);

        Set<IMove> moves = moveMoveScoreStrategy.getBestMoves(currentState, playerKey);

        assertEquals(2, moves.size());
        assertEquals(ImmutableSet.copyOf(moves), ImmutableSet.of(move1, move2));

        verify(moveFactory).getMoves(currentState, playerKey);
        verify(moveScorer).scoreMove(currentState, move1);
        verify(moveScorer).scoreMove(currentState, move2);
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetBestMove_TwoMoves_differentScores() throws Exception {
        when(moveFactory.getMoves(currentState, playerKey)).thenReturn(Stream.of(move1, move2));
        when(moveScorer.scoreMove(currentState, move1)).thenReturn(123);
        when(moveScorer.scoreMove(currentState, move2)).thenReturn(321);

        Set<IMove> moves = moveMoveScoreStrategy.getBestMoves(currentState, playerKey);

        assertEquals(1, moves.size());
        assertTrue(moves.contains(move2));

        verify(moveFactory).getMoves(currentState, playerKey);
        verify(moveScorer).scoreMove(currentState, move1);
        verify(moveScorer).scoreMove(currentState, move2);
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetBestMove_InvalidMoveAndValidMove() throws Exception {
        when(moveFactory.getMoves(currentState, playerKey)).thenReturn(Stream.of(move1, move2));
        when(moveScorer.scoreMove(currentState, move1)).thenReturn(123);
        when(moveScorer.scoreMove(currentState, move2)).thenThrow(InvalidMoveException.INSTANCE);

        Set<IMove> moves = moveMoveScoreStrategy.getBestMoves(currentState, playerKey);

        assertEquals(1, moves.size());
        assertTrue(moves.contains(move1));

        verify(moveFactory).getMoves(currentState, playerKey);
        verify(moveScorer).scoreMove(currentState, move1);
        verify(moveScorer).scoreMove(currentState, move2);
    }

}

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MLR and Impact sign official agreement
Major League Rugby announced today a multi-year deal with Impact Mouthguards as its official mouthguard sponsor.
Impact Mouthguards specializes in custom, handcrafted mouthguards made in the USA for athletes around the world. The guards are built out of a need to protect athletes while keeping them comfortable and performing at the highest level. Impact will provide custom team mouthguards for all seven MLR teams. In addition to Major League Rugby, Impact is the official mouthguard provider of USA Boxing and National Small College Rugby Organization.
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Solardo take this tune from BLVK JVCK and flip it into something golden.
If you are a hip-hop fan, you know The Runners or at least some of the songs they have produced. You may recognize the name from early DJ Khaled as one of the many names he would shout out in tunes like "I'm So Hood." They are opening a new chapter in their career as BLVK JVCK, reprising in the dance world with some radio-friendly dance-pop that you might expect from hitmakers. Their new single "Mind Games" has been reworked by Manchester duo house Solardo and it is a treat.
There is still a hint of the poppy original with the vocal hook looped and pitched throughout the tune but not in the cheesy dance-pop way. God no. Then they add that thumping bassline that you expect from a Solardo.
"Remixing this Blvck Jvck track was a different outing for us," Solardo tell Magnetic Mag. "The vocals were really hooky so we used that throughout and put some old school house production underneath it to give it the driving Solardo feel. It turned out well and has been going down well in our sets"
Let this be a soundtrack to your weekend and maybe it will be as wild as Disco Dave at school.


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TV Review: Black (Kdrama) (Spoilers!)
Seong Soon Heon as Grim Reaper 444 or Black & Go Ara as Kang Ha Ram
Ever since I watched "Voice", which I loved, I've been keeping a very close eye on what OCN has to offer. When I stumbled across "Black" on Netflix, I decided to give this a shot over "Goblin", as I wanted a good crime/mystery drama after watching "Stranger" or "Forest of Secrets". What I got here was a drama with a beautiful soundtrack, praiseworthy action scenes and acting, a great mystery story that had a lot of social commentary in it without it feeling like it was shoehorned in, but had an ending that made most viewers scratch their heads in confusion as it is an ending that didn't do the show justice at all.
"Black" aired from October 14 to December 10, 2017, right after the thriller "Save Me/Rescue Me" ended. The story centers around a cold-hearted Grim Reaper named Reaper 444 or Black (Kim Tae Woo/Song Seung Heon), who teams up with Kang Ha Ram (Go Ara), a woman who can foresee death, in order to solve a twenty year old mystery. Also caught up in the mystery are Kim Won Hae ("Strong Woman Do Bong Soon", "While You Were Sleeping", "Chief Kim", "Tomorrow With You", "Criminal Minds"), who plays a detective nicknamed "Crazy Dog"; ZE:A's Kim Dong Jun, who plays a second generation chaebol named Oh Man Soo who becomes good friends with Ha Ram; and Lee El, who plays Yoon Soo Wan, a talented doctor in love with Detective Han Moo Gang (Song Seung Heon). Aside from them, Jo Jae Yoon played Reaper 007 and Lee Kyu Bok played Reaper 416, two Grim Reapers who are good friends to Reaper 444. (Just as a side note, I'm amazed at all the dramas Kim Won Hae was in this year.)
The drama was written by Choi Ran and was directed by Kim Hong Sun, who also directed "Voice". If you look at both of these dramas, you can see that the cinematography and the color palettes of both dramas are quite similar. Also, in "Black", there is a little Easter Egg of Black watching "Voice" to learn how to be a detective.
The mythology surrounding the Grim Reapers was well done, and fleshed out well all throughout the drama without things being too much of an exposition dump, and without it being shoehorned in. The epic sprawling mystery continued to surprise me, even until the end, and I'm surprised at how many socially relevant themes and topics they managed to fit into a serialized mystery show. Some of the topics covered here included teenage prostitution, pedophilia, corruption, domestic abuse and violence, plagiarism and the ugly side of showbiz, mental health issues, politics, and tragedies similar to the Sewol Ferry Disaster.
I also thought that the characters themselves were well fleshed out, and I loved the character journeys that Black and Oh Man Soo went through throughout the show.
As I mentioned earlier, I loved the soundtrack, and I thought that the acting in this show was praiseworthy. Song Seung Heon delivered as he actually ended up playing three characters in the show, which is no easy feat. I've seen Kim Won Hae in other dramas before, so I knew that he would deliver no matter what. This was actually my first time seeing Lee El in anything, and after this, I'm very much keen on seeing what else she can do. Kim Dong Jun, whom I didn't know was a singer, did really well in this drama, and Oh Man Soo became one of my favorite parts of this drama. I've never seen Go Ara act before this. I liked her portrayal in the beginning, before all the romance began between her and Black, and I especially loved her acting more when she was wearing her sunglasses. However, I am also not sure if this was because of her acting abilities, or because of what the script demanded of her. In the end, however, there were moments when I did get tired of Ha Ram, especially towards the end.
I bought Lee El's and Song Seung Heon's chemistry together, but didn't see the romantic chemistry that much between him and Go Ara. However, I did see more romantic chemistry potential between Go Ara and Kim Dong Jun.
The writing, directing and pacing were actually on point until a certain point; and it is no secret that the ending was horribly messed up. There were moments in the final two episodes that made me scratch my head, but that was nothing as compared to the last ten minutes of the series, which was a major disappointment to everyone. According to a report on Soompi, the writer, Choi Ran, expressed her disappointment in how everything was resolved, as it had been changed in order to fit the number of episodes they were given. They were actually given sixteen episodes, and were allowed to have a two more episode extension, but it looks like the original scripts were meant for twenty episodes. I think that if they did this, that wouldn't have happened. Also, I hated the moments that were "shaky cam", as it was worse than the "shaky cam" that "Voice" had.
"Black" was a wonderful ride that kept you guessing until the end, and had a wonderful mystery, performances, and soundtrack. However, you should be warned that the ending was a major disappointment. I do recommend this drama, but advise against watching the last ten minutes of the show.
"Black" tells the story of the cold-hearted Grim Reaper 444, who ends up occupying the body of Detective Han Moo Gang , after he his killed. Before that, Moo Gang had been investigating a twenty year old mystery involving a fire at a shopping mall, and his step-brother's death that somehow, his girlfriend, Yoon Soo Wan, had also been involved in somehow. Moo Gang actually had all the pieces to solve the case, and had inadvertently crossed paths with Ha Ram, a woman who can foresee death and who had a huge crush on Moo Gang's step-brother, Joon; and had actually asked her to team up with him so that they could solve cases together and prevent more deaths from happening. 444 or Black ends up occupying Moo Gang's body in order to chase down his partner, a newbie Reaper who ended up escaping while on the job. Because of this, Black ends up trying to solve the mystery that Moo Gang had been investigating, and also ends up falling in love with Ha Ram as well. Later on, it's revealed that Black is really Joon, as it turns out that the Reapers who believe themselves to be "pure-bred Reapers" are actually missing people, and once their bodies are found, they revert to their actual form, regain their memories, and finally move on to either Heaven or Hell. It is also revealed that Ha Ram can see death in the form of black smoke, as she can only partially see Reapers due to the fact that her own father was actually a Reaper, and the previous generation's 444.
Second generation Oh Man Soo, who ends up being friends and falling in love with Ha Ram, also gets caught up in all the drama as it turns out that the insurance company that his family's corporation owns was also somehow involved in the events twenty years ago; and Soo Wan is later revealed to have been Joon's actual first love, Kim Sun Young, who had been forced to be in a teenage prostitution ring when she was young.
The entire mystery surrounding this, and the fact that Moo Gang's mom gave him Joon's heart after he was accidentally shot by a young Ha Ram convinced that she was saving her father from death, as Moog Gang had a heart condition, was actually great.
Problems in the plot, for me, started after learning that a young Ha Ram had accidentally shot young Joon, and the fact that they introduced the ACTUAL big villain in the last episode of the series.
I am fine with the fact that Black accepted the harshest punishment for a Reaper- to be erased from all existence, but it doesn't explain how that leads Ha Ram to live a happy life in the end, especially with the revelation that the newbie Reaper Black had been chasing was able to travel back in time to stop the accident that caused the original 444 Reaper to fall in love with Ha Ram's mother.
Also, I hated the old make up they put on Ha Ram, and if Black was erased from all existence, I still don't understand why he was the one who picked up Ha Ram in the end when she died.
Because of this, I actually tried looking for what Choi Ran originally intended to do, and while it is still a messy ending, it's less messier than this ending.
Seong Soong Heun was amazing here, as you could see the differences in how he portrayed each character. As Moo Gang, he was innocent, righteous and determined. With Black, he went through a journey of not caring about anything to learning what it means to be human. I especially loved the parts where he had to struggle between not saving people due to the rules as a Reaper, and when he finally gave in and started helping out despite the fact that he's breaking all the Reaper rules. I also love that in the end, he became Joon, as that is who he really was in the end.
As I mentioned earlier, with Go Ara, I really preferred her in the earlier episodes. After a while, her crashing into situations, and her acting as if the entire world only revolved around her "Oppa" really annoyed me.
Lee El was a revelation to me, as her acting was well done, from her being a faithful lover to her trying to solve things, to all the emotional stuff she had to put in. However, I am still bothered by the Ha Ram-Joon-Sun Young/Soo Wan love triangle, because I don't think it's fair that Sun Young and Joon never got together, as they were the ones who really were in love with each other, and Ha Ram was quite possessive her crush towards Jun.
Kim Dong Jun as Oh Man Soo, that fluffy little puppy who was always rejected by everyone, was also another great revelation to me. He portrayed his character well, although I wish it had been more established in the beginning that he was a good hacker as well. His journey went from chaebol who acts out to a loyal friend and someone who is righteous enough to make things right again.
There were also some great emotional moments in this series. I never thought I'd cry during Crazy Dog's funeral, and I was also emotionally moved when Reaper 416 finally discovered who he was.
The violence here isn't as bad as the violence in "Voice", but I think it made up for it when Man Soo's older brother clubbed his dog to death, which was quite difficult to watch.
All in all, there were a lot of things in "Black" that worked, but unfortunately, it's rushed and half-hearted ending made viewers feel as if everything and everyone we invested in in the show didn't matter at all. However, I do highly recommend this show, but I suggest you don't watch the last ten minutes of it.
Have you seen the 2017 Kdrama "Black"? What did you think of it? What do you think they could have done in order to fix the ending? Do you have any proposals to fix that horrible ending? What did you think of Go Ara's performance here? Let me know in the comments below!
January 29, 2018 March 12, 2018 The Caffeinated KatAsian TV Shows, TV Show Reviews2017 Kdrama Catch-Up, 2017 Kdramas, Choi Ran, Go Ara, Kim Dong Jun, Kim Hong Sun, Kim Tae Woo, Kim Won Hae, Korean Drama, Lee El, OCN, Song Seung Heon, Voice
10 thoughts on "TV Review: Black (Kdrama) (Spoilers!)"
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Im so glad someone else found Ha-Ram annoying – I also liked her in the first couple episodes too & I agree with you on the lack of chemistry between her & Joon, to be honest there was more chemistry between Oh Man-Soo and his dog. I am struggling to finish Black but I'll endure it a little while longer – thank you for the heads up on the last 2 episodes – it kinda lets me off the hook somewhat lol
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Oh Man Soo is a precious puppy. 😁 I havent seen any of Go Ara's other projects but there's a huge hurdle to get over because I didnt like her so much here. Hahahaha. I got so scared by this that I started looking at Finale recaps because I Dont want to get scarred again. Heard the ending of Misty scarred a lot of people so IM Hesitant to try that out now.
I was hoping to see a happy relationship developing with Han moo gan and haram. I can sympathize with his feelings for haram and yet he sacrifice himself so that haram will have a happy life. Feel sad that he needs to be erased from all existence. I hope they have more romance between them and less tragedy. Was very touch by him that he still waited for his true love in the end.
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I've just finished watching it from Netflix and I had to find people's view about it cause I was mad at the ending..I wanted to feel I wasn't alone and your review is the best I could find. Your point on the actors are spot on as well. I've seen crazy dog drama before and Song Seung-Heon too. The other cas was a great discovery for me, I want to see more of Kim Dong-Jun and Lee-EI. We seem to have the same taste in drama and I'll go and watch Voice now, I'm sure to like it and which to see more of the genre. Before Black I watched Stranger with Cho Seung-Woo, that's something else to discuss about. But I'm still sore because of hours of binge watching Black😂😂, really such a disappointing ending, still the rest is beautifully done.
Thank you for you review, I fell more at ease now. 🙌🏾
Hi! Thank you for the kind words and for stumbling across my little blog.
Yes, I was really not happy with the way they ended this drama and I really didn't like it, but as mentioned, I did like some of the cast. For me, Go Ara redeemed herself in my eyes in Miss Hammurabi, and Song Seung Heon was fun to watch in Player. Kim Dong Jun was great in both seasons of "Chief of Staff", a show I also really liked and is also on Netflix.
Stranger was a really great and tight show.
Let me know how you liked VOICE and if you ended up watching Seasons 2 and 3 as well!
I'm glad I put you at ease. To be honest, I feel like I would have dropped Black if I knew how to back then, and if someone had spoiled the ending for me. 😀
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Charter Not Rushing to Do L.A. Deal
The company shrugs off speculation of a potential trade with bankrupt Adelphia.
George Mannes
Dec 7, 2004 12:50 PM EST
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intends to stay the course.
Speaking Tuesday at the Credit Suisse First Boston Media and Telecom Week conference at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, CEO Carl Vogel and finance chief Derek Chang said Charter isn't itching to do a deal with its Los Angeles-area cable systems, though the execs said they aren't averse to a transaction if the right one presents itself.
Vogel also said he believes Charter backer Paul Allen remains firmly committed to the cable industry as a way of offering consumers high-speed Internet connections, and that Charter is monitoring efforts by the big local telephone companies to compete for cable customers.
Charter rose a penny Tuesday to $2.16.
Vogel spent much of his presentation trying to put the kibosh on speculation that Charter would be selling off its Los Angeles system to enable further debt reduction.
Responding to questions on that subject, Vogel cited the area's excellent demographics, particularly in Malibu and Pasadena. "We like those markets a lot," Vogel said. He added that Charter isn't interested in taking assets that it deems core properties and "trading them for the sake of trading them," Vogel explained.
"We have sufficient scale in the L.A. market ... to do just fine," Vogel said.
Vogel said talk about a Charter L.A. system swap is driven in part by speculation over the fate of bankrupt rival
, which is gearing up for a long-discussed auction of some or all of its assets. Like Charter, Adelphia has an attractive set of properties in the City of Angels.
That said, opportunities may yet present themselves in the Adelphia sales process, Vogel said, adding that any resolution there is "a long ways out."
Responding to questions about
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founder Paul Allen's commitment to cable, Vogel said, "You have to ask Paul Allen those questions."
Vogel added that Allen's fundamental belief is that cable is the right broadband delivery system, and that hasn't changed. "How he decides how to spend his money is up to him," Vogel said.
Addressing Bell competition, Vogel isn't dismissing the efforts of potential rivals like
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Ubisoft's AI Hints That Watch Dogs 3 Is In Development
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The last time we saw Watch Dogs was with Watch Dogs 2 that was launched in 2016, but could Watch Dogs 3 already be in the works? Given the popularity of the franchise we wouldn't be surprised if it was, but now it looks like Ubisoft might have confirmed it themselves, or rather it might be Ubisoft's own AI service Sam who confirmed it.
For those unfamiliar, Sam is a digital assistant Ubisoft created specifically for gaming purposes. It was launched earlier this year and according to YouTuber UbiCentral, when players asked Sam about Watch Dogs 3, the digital assistant replied by saying that the game isn't finished yet, suggesting that it might already be in the works.
However it is possible that the information might be wrong and that Ubisoft might not be working on Watch Dogs 3 yet. However like we said the popularity of the franchise means that Ubisoft probably has plans for a third installment in the series, but when exactly it will be launched is anyone's guess.
With E3 2018 coming up in the next couple of months, we guess it is possible that Ubisoft might make an announcement then, but we'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime it's probably best to take it with a grain of salt for now.
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A pow-wow az észak-amerikai indiánok nagy összejövetele.

Jelentése
A pow-wow kifejezés vélhetőleg az algonkin "pauau" szóból származik, és összejövetelt jelent. Az európai amerikaiak a kifejezéssel olyan megbeszéléseket vagy társasági eseményeket jelölnek, ahol fontos kérdéseket vitatnak meg. Az indiánok számára azonban a pow-wow hagyományos nagy törzsi vagy törzsek közti világi összejövetelre vonatkozik, melynek keretében énekelnek, táncolnak, ajándékokat osztanak szét, és tiszteletadó szertartásokra kerül sor. A pow-wow-k az indián azonosságtudat látványos és nyilvános kifejeződése. Néha szélesebb közönség számára is nyitottak, de gyakrabban az indiánok maguknak szánják. A törzsek közti pow-wow-k nyilvánvalóan nagyobbak, mint a törzsiek, de bármekkorák legyenek is, a pow-wow fontos eszköze az indián hagyományok egyik generációról a másikra történő továbbadásának.

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Létezik egy jól bejáratott "pow-wow országút", azaz eseménysorozat, és az indiánok késő tavasztól kora nyárig keresztbe-kasul utazgatnak az országban, hogy részt vegyenek a törzsek közti pow-wow-kon. Pánindián eseményként ezek a pow-wow-k lehetővé teszik a törzsek tagjainak, hogy szoros kapcsolatokat alakítsanak ki más törzsekkel, így ezek egyrészt az észak-amerikai bennszülött szolidaritás megnyilvánulásai, másrészt jelentős kifejezési alkalmai az indián kultúráknak.

Egy központi térségen, vagy "lugas"-ban zajlódó esemény rendszerint ünnepélyes bevonulással kezdődik. A felvonulást veterán katonák vezetik, akik zászlófelvonási szertartást végeznek, és rövid imát mondanak. Ezután általában harci táncok következnek, majd a többi táncra kerül sor, köztük a körtáncokra, a fűtáncra és a nyúltáncra. Ezek többsége kifejezetten törzsek közti jellegű. A színpompás ruhákat - kendőket, gyöngyhímzéseket, fardaggályokat vagy ékes fejdíszeket viselő pow-wow táncosok a mozgásukat irányító folyamatos dobszóra méltóságteljesen lépkednek körül az arénában. Sok pow-wow-n kerül sor táncversenyekre is. A versenyzők gyakran nagy távolságokat tesznek meg, hogy részt vegyenek ezeken az alkalmakon, melyek a táncosok és dobosok számára tekintélyes pénzdíjjal is járnak.

A pow-wow másik fénypontja az ajándékozási szertartás. Ennek során egyének vagy családok adnak egymásnak ajándékokat, melyek lehetnek olyan díszesek, mint a sziúk kézimunkával készített "csillagos" takarói, vagy csupán egyszerű konyhai eszközök. Az ajándékozási szertartás egyik módja annak, hogy a közösség elismerje azokat, akik valamivel kitűntek, például egyetemi diplomát szereztek, illetve katonaként vagy közösségi vezetőként szereztek érdemeket. Azt is méltányolják, aki egy családot segített át valamely válságon - például a gyász időszakán. Az ajándékozást rendszerint délután, a táncok közti szünetben tartják. A pow-wow bemondója kihirdeti az ajándékozás okát, az adományozó és a megadományozott nevét, majd tiszteletadó táncra szólít fel. Ezt követően a résztvevők kezet fognak egymással, és a pow-wow tánc befejeződik.

Egyebek
A pow-wow során a barátkozás éppoly fontos, mint a tánc. Olyan alkalom ez, mikor az olykor sokféle törzshöz tartozó indiánok felújíthatják a régi barátságot, letelepedhetnek egy-egy ünnepi lakomához, melyen hagyományos észak-amerikai bennszülött ételeket szolgálnak föl, köztük bölényhúst, szarvast, kukoricapörköltet és pirított kenyeret. Sor kerülhet imádságokra és politikai szónoklatokra is, míg némelyek arra használják fel ezt az alkalmat, hogy kézimunkáik értékesítésével tegyenek szert némi többletkeresetre.

Források
 Larry J. Zimmerman: ÉSZAK-AMERIKAI INDIÁNOK, Magyar Könyvklub, Budapest, 2003,

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