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<?php

namespace Composer\Satis\Builder;

use Composer\Composer;
use Composer\Factory;
use Composer\Util\Filesystem;

/**
 * Builds the archives of the repository.
 *
 * @author James Hautot <james@rezo.net>
 */
class ArchiveBuilder extends Builder implements BuilderInterface
{
    /** @var Composer A Composer instance. */
    private $composer;

    /**
     * Builds the archives of the repository.
     *
     * @param array $packages List of packages to dump
     */
    public function dump(array $packages)
    {
        $helper = new ArchiveBuilderHelper($this->output, $this->config['archive']);

        $directory = $helper->getDirectory($this->outputDir);

        $this->output->writeln(sprintf("<info>Creating local downloads in '%s'</info>", $directory));

        $format = isset($this->config['archive']['format']) ? $this->config['archive']['format'] : 'zip';
        $endpoint = isset($this->config['archive']['prefix-url']) ? $this->config['archive']['prefix-url'] : $this->config['homepage'];

        $includeArchiveChecksum = isset($this->config['archive']['checksum']) ? (bool) $this->config['archive']['checksum'] : true;

        $composerConfig = $this->composer->getConfig();
        $factory = new Factory();

        /* @var \Composer\Downloader\DownloadManager $downloadManager */
        $downloadManager = $this->composer->getDownloadManager();

        /* @var \Composer\Package\Archiver\ArchiveManager $archiveManager */
        $archiveManager = $factory->createArchiveManager($composerConfig, $downloadManager);

        $archiveManager->setOverwriteFiles(false);

        shuffle($packages);
        /* @var \Composer\Package\CompletePackage $package */
        foreach ($packages as $package) {
            if ($helper->isSkippable($package)) {
                continue;
            }

            $this->output->writeln(sprintf("<info>Dumping '%s'.</info>", $package->getName()));

            try {
                if ('pear-library' === $package->getType()) {
                    // PEAR packages are archives already
                    $filesystem = new Filesystem();
                    $packageName = $archiveManager->getPackageFilename($package);
                    $path =
                        realpath($directory).'/'.$packageName.'.'.
                        pathinfo($package->getDistUrl(), PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
                    if (!file_exists($path)) {
                        $downloadDir = sys_get_temp_dir().'/composer_archiver/'.$packageName;
                        $filesystem->ensureDirectoryExists($downloadDir);
                        $downloadManager->download($package, $downloadDir, false);
                        $filesystem->ensureDirectoryExists($directory);
                        $filesystem->rename($downloadDir.'/'.pathinfo($package->getDistUrl(), PATHINFO_BASENAME), $path);
                        $filesystem->removeDirectory($downloadDir);
                    }
                    // Set archive format to `file` to tell composer to download it as is
                    $archiveFormat = 'file';
                } else {
                    $path = $archiveManager->archive($package, $format, $directory);
                    $archiveFormat = $format;
                }
                $archive = basename($path);
                $distUrl = sprintf('%s/%s/%s', $endpoint, $this->config['archive']['directory'], $archive);
                $package->setDistType($archiveFormat);
                $package->setDistUrl($distUrl);

                if ($includeArchiveChecksum) {
                    $package->setDistSha1Checksum(hash_file('sha1', $path));
                }

                $package->setDistReference($package->getSourceReference());
            } catch (\Exception $exception) {
                if (!$this->skipErrors) {
                    throw $exception;
                }
                $this->output->writeln(sprintf("<error>Skipping Exception '%s'.</error>", $exception->getMessage()));
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Sets the Composer instance.
     *
     * @param Composer $composer A Composer instance
     */
    public function setComposer(Composer $composer)
    {
        $this->composer = $composer;

        return $this;
    }
}

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Tool which allows you to paint in world objects with Paint Balls or any dye items; which are less efficient then paint balls. Supports all four types of ME Cables and other forge coloring compatible blocks such as IC2 power cables as well as all vanilla wools, glass blocks, glass panes and hardened clay.
You can shift click in the air, or hold shift and scroll the mouse wheel to change the selected color of the applicator.
Functions like a storage cell which can hold Paint Balls of all colors, so i can be loaded with an ME Chest. And like other tools requires power and can be charged in the Charger.
In addition to coloring with paint balls it can be used to remove colors from cables, and clean paint balls off of walls when you use snow balls inside it.
Also functions in the dispenser as a means to color blocks that are in front of it.


Get into the holiday spirit with a weekend full of Christmas events. Stroll through the beautiful holiday trees decorated by local businesses and non-profit organizations. shop for the perfect holiday gift at the Holiday Lane Craft Show. Crafters and Home Business owners will be in the convention center to help make your holiday shopping enjoyable. Enjoy an evening listening to Carolers, Music, Smore's by the fire and a visit from Santa Clause under the holiday lights. Climb aboard the Christmas Trolley (enclosed) and enjoy a tour viewing the Decorated Homes of Sandwich.


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by Jeffrey Kittel
The playing of ball games has been a recorded part of the human social and cultural system since the beginning of Western Civilization and specific forms of these games, which would eventually evolve into the American game of baseball, developed within European culture during the medieval period. As variants of these games evolved in complexity over time, they were enjoyed by people of both sexes and all classes. When European culture began to spread to North America at the end of the 15th century, ball games arrived in the New World along with European colonists.
There is documented evidence of ball-playing at some of the earliest, permanent European settlements in North America. At Jamestown, there is a reference to a bat and ball game being played in 1609. In 1621, there is a reference to stool-ball being played at Plymouth Colony. There is also evidence of ball-playing in the New Netherlands Colony as early as 1656. Based on these records, it appears that, as the Europeans moved to North America, they brought with them a ball-playing culture that had been developing and evolving in Europe over the course of the previous few centuries. Certainly, this appears evident in the English and Dutch colonies that were established along the eastern North American seaboard, although there is also some evidence to suggest that ball games were being played in French-settled areas of the Illinois Country in the 18th century. Based upon these references as well as numerous 18th century references to ball-playing in the original American colonies and states, it is apparent that an active ball-playing culture existed in colonial America.
The spread of ball-playing culture from Europe to North America in the 17th century is an example of cultural diffusion, whereby the culture of a given society spreads to that of another society or geographical area. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in North America, proto-baseball games were unknown to the area. Once these settlers established permanent residence in a given North American area, these proto-baseball games were played. These Europeans brought their ball-playing culture with them to the New World and established it in a region where it had been previously unknown. It should be noted that the Native population of North America had their own rich, ball-playing culture and these games were amply noted by early French pioneers. However, these Native games do not appear to have had any influence upon the evolution or spread of American baseball and their failure to do so illustrates an evolutionary competition between cultures that fuels diffusion.
In writing about the diffusion of sports from one nation to another, Allen Guttmann wrote that the key factor is "the relative political, economic, military, and cultural power of the nations involved."1 This certainly applied to the cultural competition between the native North American groups and the European settlers and explains why European, rather than native, bat and ball games dominate the cultural landscape of the United States. Guttmann also noted that this diffusion model is much more evident from nation to nation and it can be difficult to trace within a singular society or nation. But given the way in which Anglo-Americans settled the Trans-Appalachian frontier in the 18th and 19th century, it is possible to trace the diffusion of European ball-playing culture across North America.
It seems almost self-evident to state that, prior to the Anglo-American settlement of the Trans-Appalachian frontier, there was no culture of the playing of proto-baseball games in the area but it is an important fact. While there were French settlements in Louisiana prior to the arrival of the Anglo-Americans and there is evidence of ball-playing in St. Louis in the late 18th century, there is no evidence to suggest that, in America, the French culture of ball-playing had any influence upon the evolution of American baseball. French ball-playing, like the culture of Native ball-playing, appears to have played no role in the spread of proto-baseball games or in its evolution into its modern forms. The spread of ball-playing culture and of proto-baseball games was almost entirely a function of the spread of Anglo-Americans across North America. As the Anglo-Americans flooded across the Appalachians and into the heartland of North America, they took their ball-playing culture with them.
The earliest known reference to ball-playing west of the Appalachians comes from a 1795 entry in the diary of John Sevier, who a year later would be elected the first governor of Tennessee. Sevier noted that, on August 22, 1795, he, his son and two other gentlemen "played at ball" at his estate near Knoxville.2 This is significant because the Trans-Appalachian areas of Kentucky and Tennessee were the first part of the Trans-Appalachian frontier to be settled by Anglo-Americans, beginning in the late 1770s and 1780s. Less than a generation after the beginning of the settlement of the Trans-Appalachian west, we see evidence of the diffusion of the European ball-playing culture into the region. While we don't know specifically what kind of game they were playing in Knoxville in 1795, the evidence suggests that it was a form of cat and therefore a game that had developed out of the Anglo-American tradition of ball-playing.
As the Anglo-Americans pushed westward, we see the same pattern of a ball-playing culture being introduced into a region soon after its settlement. There is ample evidence of this in Illinois. Exempting the earlier French settlements, Illinois was settled in two waves in the first three decades of the 19th century. The first decade of the 19th century saw the settlement of the southern river valleys by peoples from Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, in a continuation of the original Trans-Appalachian migration. After 1818, there was a second wave of settlement in the central river valleys that saw peoples from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana enter the region. Almost immediately after the arrival of the Anglo-Americans, we find references to ball-playing in Illinois.
The earliest reference to ball-playing in Illinois comes from an anti-gaming law that was established in the Illinois territory in 1809, stating that gambling on various games, including "cards, dice, tables, tennis, bowles or any other game or games whatsoever…" was outlawed.3 While not specifically mentioning any proto-baseball games, this law does suggest the idea that a ball-playing culture (and gambling upon it) existed in the earliest Anglo-American settlements in Illinois. John Woods, a farmer who settled in southern Illinois in the second decade of the 19th century, supplied more specific evidence of the playing of bat and ball games in the area. In his memoirs, Woods noted that both cricket and trap-ball were being played in southern Illinois in 1818 and 1819.4 In later histories and memoirs, references to town-ball and cat appear that suggest these proto-baseball games were being played in southern Illinois beginning in the 1820s.
This same pattern of a ball-playing culture spreading with Anglo-American settlement can be found in central Illinois, which was settled a generation after the southern Illinois region. While there are few contemporary references to ball-playing in central Illinois in the first half of the 19th century, secondary sources are full of interviews with people who had lived in the area when it was originally settled by Anglo-Americans and their testimony suggests that an active ball-playing community existed in the region from the beginning of the settlement period. As Anglo-Americans moved into central Illinois, following the Illinois River northeast into the heart of the state, they brought their ball-games with them. In a series of county histories that were written in the 1870s, people who lived in central Illinois in the 1820s and 1830s mentioned a variety of ballgames that were played, including bullpen, bandy, cricket, cat, long town, corner-ball, over-ball and town-ball. The game mentioned most frequently in these histories was town-ball, which suggests that this was what the central Illinoisans called their local, proto-baseball variant, and there are contemporary sources from the 1860s that mention town-ball, by name, being played in the area.
While a comprehensive study correlating settlement patterns in the Trans-Appalachian west with the spread of proto-baseball games has not been completed, there is ample evidence to support the idea that, as the Anglo-Americans moved west into Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, they brought their ballgames with them and established a ball-playing culture in these areas. The evidence suggests that proto-baseball games spread across the Trans-Appalachian frontier through cultural diffusion, as the Anglo-Americans seized control of the American west. Prior to the codification of the New York game of baseball, a baseball playing culture already existed throughout most of the United States and the people of the Trans-Appalachian west were playing proto-baseball games similar to the ones that were being played in the Northeast and that would evolve, in New York, into the modern game of baseball.
The fact that a pre-existing baseball-playing culture existed in the United States prior to the spread of the New York game is significant for two reasons. First, the fact that this culture existed throughout the country made it easier for the New York game to spread. Most towns and cities had ball players, ball clubs, ball grounds and the necessary equipment to play the game. The idea of playing baseball, in whatever variant, was already culturally ingrained in these young American communities and a part of the social fabric. As the New York game spread across the nation in the 1850s, it found a solid foundation that had been laid by the spread of Anglo-American ball-playing culture in the first half of the 19th century. The New York game was in no way alien to the people of the American West because they had their own baseball variant that emanated from the same cultural source and, therefore, it was a simple step to transition from the local baseball variant to the New York variant.
The second reason that a pre-existing American baseball-playing culture is significant is because the local traditions of ball-playing, that in some places in the Trans-Appalachian west were three generations old, were supplanted by the New York game. While a pre-existing ball-playing culture helped facilitate the spread of the New York game, it was also something that the new game had to overcome. There is nothing in the history of baseball to suggest that the successful spread of the New York game was pre-determined. History did not have to unfold the way that it did; the New York game did not have to capture the imagination of the public, become as popular as it did and spread across the country. Local areas could have continued to play their local baseball variants, clinging to their own cultural traditions. There are plenty of references to local baseball variants being played through the 1860s. But the New York game did, in the end, supplant the local baseball variants to the extent that those games died and the New York game, evolved, is as popular as it ever was.
The cultural diffusion model suggests why this is so. If ball-playing, generally, spread across the United States in the first half of the 19th century as a result of the diffusion of Anglo-American culture, there is evidence supporting the idea that the New York game spread in the same way – that a dominant New York/Yankee culture spread the game across the United States. The Yankee culture of the Northeastern United States, centered in New York, dominated the nation economically to such an extent that their specific baseball variant not only spread across the nation but drove out the local variants. As Yankee culture spread across the United States in the antebellum era, the New York game spread with it.
This process of the diffusion of Yankee culture was not accidental and there were groups in the Northeast that actively sought to spread their cultural values to what they saw as the untamed wilderness of the American west. There were specific efforts, specifically among the religious communities, to transplant traditional Eastern institutions in the West because of the fear that social and moral disorder would result without them. Two examples of this is the founding of Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois and Washington University in St. Louis. Illinois College was founded in 1829 by a group of Yale graduates and Washington University was founded in 1853 by a graduate of Harvard divinity school. The Yale graduates who founded Illinois College moved from the Northeast to central Illinois and believed that what they were doing was missionary work, bringing religious, cultural and educational institutions to the American frontier. William Greenleaf Elliot, the Harvard divinity school graduate who helped found Washington University, was born in Massachusetts and established the first Unitarian church west of the Mississippi. One of the more prominent leaders in St. Louis, Elliot also helped establish the St. Louis Art Museum, another example of Eastern cultural institutions being transplanted to the west. Interestingly, several of Elliot's students from Washington University, including members of his family, started one of the first baseball clubs in St. Louis in 1860. These transplanted Yankees, like Elliot and Jacksonville's Yale Band, took it upon themselves to bring Yankee culture to the rest of the United States, establishing institutions such as schools, churches, libraries and museums that would be, in their eyes, a civilizing influence on the wild, savage and untamed west. They saw an unorganized civilization in the west that lacked the cultural institutions needed to establish a stable community and saw an opportunity to create a shining city on a hill, organized around their culture and values.5
While, within the Yankee religious community, there was a conscious, organized effort to transmit Yankee culture to the West, the economic influence that New England, in general, and New York, specifically, exerted upon Western cities played a larger role in the diffusion of Yankee culture.6 The new towns of the Trans-Appalachian west lacked the capital and the financial institutions to sustain economic growth in their communities. They lacked banks and currency and a political system that could or was willing to establish either. A local St. Louis business in 1840, for example, lacked the liquidity to purchase stock or expand its operations and they did not have access to credit markets that could alleviate their liquidity problem. At the same time, New England had recovered strongly from the depressed economic conditions of the 1830s and, by the 1840s, the region had a surplus of capital and stock that the region could not absorb and Yankee businessmen needed an outside market where they could invest this surplus. The new towns of the Trans-Appalachian west provided that outlet. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s, Yankee surplus capital flooded into the Trans-Appalachian west. Yankee capital and, more specifically, New York money helped build towns like Cincinnati, Mobile, New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago into booming cities. More importantly, with the money came the people. The population of places like St. Louis and Chicago double and doubled again within a decade and a large number of the people flooding into these new western boomtowns were New York merchants, who not only brought their money with them but also brought their culture.
One of the more interesting things about these New Yorkers who flooded into the western boomtowns in the 1840s and 1850s is their demographic makeup. For the most part these were young, unmarried men in their twenties. They were the sons of successful merchant families who often were sent west by their family to establish a business outpost in the west or, lacking the opportunity for advancement in the east, sought new opportunities in the booming western cities. They did not, for the most part, put down roots in the west. They did not marry or purchase property. If economically successful, they took their profits, returned home and invested in new businesses in the east. If unsuccessful, they ran out of capital and returned home a failure. But rarely did they stay long enough to become absorbed by the local culture, remaining, in words, thoughts and deeds, a Yankee.
However, while for the most part they did not integrate themselves into the local, western community, they had a significant impact on the culture of these western boomtowns. The capital they brought with them created some of the largest and most stable businesses in the west and their ties to eastern markets helped integrate the western towns into a credit and distribution system that allowed for economic expansion. These transplanted New Yorkers helped establish institutions such as hospitals, fire departments, schools, churches, museums and cultural organizations and the constant influx of New Yorkers into these cities over the course of twenty years helped transplant Yankee culture in the American west. The business and cultural elite of the western cities, who had more interaction with the New Yorkers than the rest of the population, aped their taste in fashion and the arts, supported the attempts to establish Yankee institutions and sent their children east to be educated.
The influence that New Yorkers had on western cities in the antebellum era was significant as far as the spread of New York game of baseball is concerned. At the same time as the New York game developed, was codified and became popular, young New York men were traveling around the United States and living, for short periods of time, in western cities, establishing businesses and influencing the local culture. The people most likely to be familiar with the New York game were, demographically, the ones most likely to move to Cincinnati or St. Louis or Chicago for a couple of years in the 1850s, taking their knowledge and love of the game with them. They influenced locals to read New York papers, which likely had information about the game in it, and to send their children to eastern colleges, where the game was already being played. Locals, under the sway of a Yankee culture which dominated them economically, may have been predisposed to replace their local baseball variants with the New York game. Playing the New York game in the 1850s could have been seen as culturally fashionable in the same way it was culturally fashionable to send your son to an eastern college or help establish a library.
Places like St. Louis and Chicago were built by the influx of Yankee money in the antebellum era and the impact of Yankee culture is evident when you look at the spread of the New York game to those two cities. While St. Louis was the first large beneficiary of Yankee investment in the West, by the 1850s it had, to a certain extent and for a variety of reasons, fallen out of favor with the New York business community, who turned their attention to Chicago. The young New York men who would have moved to St. Louis and started businesses instead were moving to Chicago. Just as the first explosion of baseball's popularity struck in New York, the young men most likely to be familiar with the game where more likely to move to Chicago than to St. Louis. As a result, the New York game appeared in Chicago first. The first baseball game in Chicago, played by the rules of the National Association, occurred in 1858 and it's possible that the New York game was played in the city as early as 1856.
While New York investment in St. Louis declined in the 1850s and regional tensions were beginning to have a profound impact on the city's cultural tendencies, the influence of Yankee culture in antebellum St. Louis can be seen in how the New York game came to the city. In 1859, a young engineer and baseball player from Brooklyn by the name of Merritt Griswold moved to St. Louis seeking to establish himself in business. He got a job at the newly founded Missouri Glass Company and, that summer, started the Cyclone Base Ball Club, the first baseball club in St. Louis to play under the New York rules. The co-founder of the Cyclone Club was local St. Louisan Edward Bredell, Jr. Bredell's father was one of the wealthier men in St. Louis and had built the Missouri Glass Company for his son, who was named the company's business manager. Bredell, Sr., in 1855, had sent his young son to be educated in the east, at Brown University, which had clubs playing the New York game by 1857. It is rather likely that Bredell had seen the game played at Brown and it is possible that he played the game while at school. So in St. Louis, in 1859, a transplanted New Yorker brought his knowledge of the game to the city and met a young man who had most likely learned the game while at college in the east. Together the two founded the first baseball club in St. Louis. Without the influence of Yankee culture on the city, it is unlikely that Griswold would have moved to St. Louis or that Bredell would have went east to attend college.7
In the end, there are no simple answers to the question of how the New York game spread across the United States in the later part of the 1850s and there is most likely no one reason why it happened. However, the evidence supports the idea that baseball spread as a result of cultural diffusion. There is ample evidence that shows proto-baseball games spreading across the Trans-Appalachian west in the first half of the 19th century by this process. Ball-playing was an important part of Anglo-American culture and wherever Anglo-Americans settled in the new west, there is evidence showing that ball games were being played. It was a highly mobile society and wherever the Anglo-Americans went, they brought some form of baseball with them. This model also appears to apply to the spread of the New York game. The economic influence of New York during the antebellum era and, by extension, the cultural influence of the city on the American west cannot be understated. In many ways, it can be argued that Yankee money built the American west and that New Yorkers, through their economic dominance, established Yankee colonies through out the west. Places like Chicago and St. Louis were, in the antebellum era, described as Yankee cities. New Yorkers, purposefully and not, transplanted their culture across the United States in the twenty years prior to the Civil War. And baseball was an important part of that culture. The Regulation game was born in New York. It grew there. It became popular there. And from there, it spread across the country. The influence of culture, and specifically that of Yankee/New York culture, helps explain how that spread happened.
1 Guttmann, Allen; Diffusion of Sports, Global; Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport (Christensen. Karen and David Levinson, editors); Great Barrington, MA; Berkshire Publishing Group and ABC-CLIO Inc; 1995. Accessed at http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/assets/pdf/SportsBytes/DiffusionOfSports_Global_Byte.pdf; p 2.
2 The Diary of John Sevier; Accessed at http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Tennessee/_Texts/THM/5/3/Sevier_Journal/1795*.html.
3 Alvord, Clarence; Illinois in the Eighteenth Century: A Report on the Documents in Belleville, Ill., Illustrating the early history of the State; Illinois Historical Library, Volume 1, Number 1
4 Woods, John; Two years' Residence in the Settlements on the English Prairie, in the Illinois Country; Longman, Hurst, Reessa, Orme, and Brown; London, 1822.
5 For more on diffusion efforts of Eastern missionaries see Don Harrison Doyle's The Social Order of A Frontier Community.
6 For more on the economic impact of New York on Western cities, see Jeffrey Adler's Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West.
7 For more on Griswold, Bredell and the founding of the Cyclone Base Ball Club, see Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1871.

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The new president of the United States, Donald Trump, is being sworn in today amid a storm of questions about the plans that he, and those who might work for him, have in store for American healthcare and medicine.
Trump's nominee to run the $1 trillion Health and Human Services Department, Tom Price, answered—or didn't answer—many of those questions in a Senate hearing Wednesday. The back and forth with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and others illustrated how some of Trump's heated rhetoric about drug pricing and parts of the Affordable Care Act could put the administration at odds with Republican proposals and ideals.
Price also fielded questions about financial conflicts of interest, a common theme for this new administration that starts from the top.
Price said many times that giving healthcare decisions back to the states was a top priority. It's noteworthy, then, that several Republican state governors are warning Washington lawmakers to move cautiously with the repeal-and-replace of Obamacare.
There's still no word from Trumpland about an official pick to run the Food and Drug Administration, however. One name floated, Silicon Valley investor Balaji Srinavasan, reportedly shot himself in the foot with a series of anti-FDA tweets. Matt Herper of Forbes wrote a thoughtful commentary here about the Trump team's flirtation with libertarian views of health regulation.
Whether the swearing-in of the new POTUS has you swearing or swaying, we've got a week of bio news to round up. Let's get to it.
—Speaking of conflicts of interest, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a paper examining the relationship between patient advocacy organizations and the drug makers that often fund them. (Here's more on that issue from an Xconomy report in August.) The report concluded that more transparency and "robust conflict of interest policies" are needed to help these groups maintain independence.
—The Kaiser Health Network reported that the drug industry for years has been stretching the definition of "orphan drug" to take advantage of federal incentives.
—A project to reproduce pre-clinical cancer studies released its first five findings. One scientist whose results the project tried to repeat told Nature that the effort, which he contests, will make it hard to raise money for his biotech startup.
—Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) reported positive data for its cancer treatment nivolumab (Opdivo) in advanced stomach cancer. The Phase 3 study reported a 26.6 percent overall survival rate at 12 months of patients on nivolumab compared with 10.9 percent in the placebo group.
—Separately, Bristol said that it would not seek accelerated approval of a combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab (Yervoy) in newly diagnosed lung cancer patients "based on a review of data available at this time." The news widens Merck's lead with pembrolizumab (Keytruda)—already approved for a subset of first-line lung cancer patients—and means Bristol won't file for approval without the results of a study, Checkmate-227, that won't wrap up until early next year.
—The two rivals, meanwhile, settled a patent infringement suit regarding Merck's pembrolizumab. Bristol will get $625 million in cash from Merck in the settlement, plus royalties on pembrolizumab sales that extend through 2026.
—Data from AstraZeneca's high-profile "Mystic" study, which tests a combination of drugs in newly diagnosed lung cancer patients, were delayed. Once expected imminently, they now won't come until mid-2017.
—Big companies are always on the hunt for promising drugs from small biotechs. But an unusual deal between tiny Ovid Therapeutics and pharma giant Takeda—Ovid will develop an experimental epilepsy drug discovered in Takeda's labs—is an example that the reverse is true, too.
—Cambridge, MA-based Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB) agreed to pay Danish firm Forward Pharma (NASDAQ: FWP) $1.25 billion to settle a patent infringement suit over the multiple sclerosis pill, dimethyl fumarate (Tecfidera).
—Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) is paying $960 million to buy Cambridge-based CoLucid Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CLCD), enabling the Indianapolis firm to reacquire a migraine drug, lasmaditan, that it first discovered more than a decade ago.
—Durham, NC-based Novan (NASDAQ: NOVN) landed $11 million up front in a licensing deal for acne drug candidate SB204. Sato Pharmaceutical gains Japanese rights and would owe Novan future payments depending on progress with the topical drug.
—Ginkgo Bioworks paid an undisclosed sum to acquire Cambridge-based Gen9, a synthetic DNA supplier co-founded in 2009 by Harvard University's George Church, Stanford University's Drew Endy, and MIT's Joseph Jacobson. The Boston Globe reports, however, that the sale came after Gen9 couldn't raise new cash and laid off much of its staff.
—New York-based Synergy Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SGYP) won FDA approval of plecanatide (Trulance), a drug for chronic idiopathic constipation that will compete for market share with Ironwood Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ: [[ticker:]]) linaclotide (Linzess). Synergy will soon seek approval of plecanatide for patients with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation as well.
Ben Fidler and Frank Vinlaun contributed to this report.
U.S. map from Dave Winer via a Creative Commons 2.0 license.


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Top cities between Bonn and London
Best stops along Bonn to London drive
40 Best Stops Between Bonn and London
How long is the drive from Bonn to London?
The direct drive from Bonn to London is 375 mi (604 km), and should have a drive time of 5 hrs 49 mins in normal traffic.
If you're going on a road trip from Bonn to London, we did the research for you and compiled some great stops along the way — with Brussels, Bruges, Brighton, Antwerp, Ghent, Dusseldorf, Lille, Ieper (Ypres), Canterbury, and Eastbourne and top places to visit like Königsallee and Aachen Cathedral, or the ever-popular Phantasialand.
The top cities between Bonn and London are Brussels, Bruges, Brighton, Antwerp, Ghent, Dusseldorf, Lille, Ieper (Ypres), Canterbury, and Eastbourne. Brussels is the most popular city on the route — it's 2 hours from Bonn and 4 hours from London.
Düsseldorf is a city in western Germany known for its fashion industry and art scene. It's divided by the Rhine River, with its Altstadt (Old Town) on the east bank and modern commercial areas to the west. In the Altstadt, St. Lambertus Church and Schlossturm (Castle Tower) both date to the 13th century. Streets such as Königsallee and Schadowstrasse are lined with boutique shops.
14% as popular as Brussels
20 minutes off the main route, 13% of way to London
Antwerp is a port city on Belgium's River Scheldt, with history dating to the Middle Ages. In its center, the centuries-old Diamond District houses thousands of diamond traders, cutters and polishers. Antwerp's Flemish Renaissance architecture is typified by the Grote Markt, a central square in the old town. At the 17th-century Rubens House, period rooms display works by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens.
Brussels is Belgium's capital and home to the European Union headquarters. The Grand-Place square at the heart of the city has shops and cafes inside ornate 17th-century guildhouses, and the intricate Gothic Hôtel de Ville (town hall) with a distinctive bell tower. The 19th-century Maison du Roi houses the Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles city-history museum, including costumes for the city's famed Manneken Pis statue.
Ghent is a port city in northwest Belgium, at the confluence of the Leie and Scheldt rivers. During the Middle Ages it was a prominent city-state. Today it's a university town and cultural hub. Its pedestrianized center is known for medieval architecture such as 12th-century Gravensteen castle and the Graslei, a row of guildhalls beside the Leie river harbor.
Bruges, the capital of West Flanders in northwest Belgium, is distinguished by its canals, cobbled streets and medieval buildings. Its port, Zeebrugge, is an important center for fishing and European trade. In the city center's Burg square, the 14th-century Stadhuis (City Hall) has an ornate carved ceiling. Nearby, Markt square features a 13th-century belfry with a 47-bell carillon and 83m tower with panoramic views.
Lille is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region in northern France, near the border with Belgium. A cultural hub and bustling university city today, it was once an important merchant center of French Flanders, and many Flemish influences remain. The historic center, Vieux Lille, is characterized by 17th-century brick town houses, cobbled pedestrian streets and the large central square, Grand Place.
Ypres (leper), is a town in the Belgian province of West Flanders. It's surrounded by the Ypres Salient battlefields, where many cemeteries, memorials and war museums honor the battles that unfolded in this area during World War I. After being destroyed in the war, many important buildings were carefully reconstructed, including Gothic-style Sint-Maartenskathedraal (St. Martin's Cathedral) and its soaring spire.
Eastbourne is a resort town on England's southeast coast. On the seafront are Victorian hotels, the 19th-century Eastbourne Pier and a 1930s bandstand. Towner Art Gallery includes modern British works. Nearby, Redoubt Fortress, built during the Napoleonic Wars, has a military museum. Southwest along the coast, in South Downs National Park, are the tall chalk cliffs of Beachy Head and its striped 1902 lighthouse.
Canterbury, a cathedral city in southeast England, was a pilgrimage site in the Middle Ages. Ancient walls, originally built by the Romans, encircle its medieval centre with cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. Canterbury Cathedral, founded 597 A.D., is the headquarters of the Church of England and Anglican Communion, incorporating Gothic and Romanesque elements in its stone carvings and stained-glass windows.
Brighton is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove. Located on the southern coast of England, in the county of East Sussex, it is 47 miles south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.
The top stops along the way from Bonn to London (with short detours) are Bruges, Brighton Palace Pier, and Hampton by Hilton Antwerp Central Station. Other popular stops include Manneken Pis, Canterbury Cathedral, and Dover Castle.
Popular theme park with roller coasters & other thrill rides, plus stage shows & accommodations.
Berggeiststraße 31-41, 50321 Brühl, Germany
Königsallee
This shopping street running alongside a landscaped canal is known for its high-end boutiques.
Landmark Carolingian cathedral, known for Charlemagne's striking octagonal chapel & gilded shrine.
Domhof 1, 52062 Aachen, Germany
http://www.aachendom.de/
Designer Outlet Roermond
Children's clothing store
Luggage store
Stadsweide 2, 6041 TD Roermond, Netherlands
https://outlets.mcarthurglen.com/nl/nl/designer-outlet-roermond/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=MAG14&y_source=1_Mzk5ODY2OS03MTUtbG9jYXRpb24uZ29vZ2xlX3dlYnNpdGVfb3ZlcnJpZGU%3D
Book Store Dominicanen
Indie bookstore selling diverse Dutch & English titles amid the stone vaults of a medieval church.
Dominicanerkerkstraat 1, 6211 CZ Maastricht, Netherlands
http://www.boekhandeldominicanen.nl/
Liège-Guillemins railway station
Railway hub & modern concourse, designed by Santiago Calatrava, with a vaulted steel & glass roof.
4000 Liège, Belgium
Hampton by Hilton Antwerp Central Station
Casual hotel with a gym & free breakfast, plus a streamlined restaurant/bar & railway station views.
Pelikaanstraat 10/16, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/anrcshx-hampton-antwerp-central-station/?WT.mc_id=zVSEC0BE1HP2NaturalSearch3GoogleMyBusiness4luau_HbHAntwerp_Dec5Luau6ANRCSHX7EN8i1
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Iconic 17th-century fountain with a bronze statue of small boy, dressed in costume during festivals.
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
https://www.brussel.be/manneken-pis?_ga=2.54717667.97219390.1561566058-1522489991.1561566058
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Cultural landmark
Giant stainless steel atom, particles connected by escalators, with exhibitions & views from 92m.
Place de l'Atomium 1, 1020 Bruxelles, Belgium
https://www.atomium.be/
Zoo & botanical garden with lions & pandas in geographically themed areas, plus aviary & aquarium.
Domaine de Cambron, 7940 Brugelette, Belgium
https://www.pairidaiza.eu/
Gravensteen
Preserved 10th-century moated castle with an armory museum, plus panoramic city views.
Sint-Veerleplein 11, 9000 Gent, Belgium
http://www.gravensteengent.be/
Belfry of Bruges
Historical landmark
Medieval bell tower with 366 steps leading to views, plus treasure chamber & 47-belled carillon.
Markt 7, 8000 Brugge, Belgium
https://www.museabrugge.be/belfort
Vieux-Lille
Lively, restored Vieux Lille is known for its redbrick houses and the ornate, 17th-century Old Stock Exchange, as well as Notre-Dame de la Treille cathedral, noted for its serene, neo-Gothic interior. The Charles de Gaulle Birthplace Museum documents the life of the former president through family objects and a multimedia center. Courtyards buzz with upscale restaurants serving white wine, charcuterie, and mussels.
Iconic British war memorial, inscribed with 54,896 names, & site for a daily Last Post ceremony.
Menenstraat, 8900 Ieper, Belgium
http://www.toerisme-ieper.be/nl/page/145-147-227-197/menentor-8.html
In Flanders Fields Museum
War museum
Museum charting the horrors of WWI in this region, with educational visits & research.
Grote Markt 34, 8900 Ieper, Belgium
http://www.inflandersfields.be/
Louvre-Lens Museum
Specialty Museums
Contemporary, glass-walled gallery showing artworks from the Louvre in Paris, plus temporary shows.
99 Rue Paul Bert, 62300 Lens, France
https://www.louvrelens.fr/
Turner Contemporary
Dramatic spaces displaying art by JMW Turner and contemporary artists, in eye-catching gallery.
Rendezvous, Margate, CT9 1HG, United Kingdom
http://www.turnercontemporary.org/
Military museum, medieval underground works, labyrinthine war-time tunnels, with views and tours.
Castle Hill Rd, Dover, CT16 1HU, United Kingdom
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/dover-castle/?utm_source=Google%20Business&utm_campaign=Local%20Listings&utm_medium=Google%20Business%20Profiles&utm_content=dover%20castle
Norman-built, CofE place of worship with organ recitals, Medieval stained glass and a vast library.
Cathedral House, 11 The Precincts, Canterbury CT1 2EH, United Kingdom
https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/
Port Lympne Reserve
Wildlife and safari park
Safari-themed hotel, a cottage, cabins and treehouse suites, plus free Wi-Fi and park entrance.
Aldington Rd, Lympne, Hythe CT21 4LR, United Kingdom
http://www.aspinallfoundation.org/port-lympne/
Zoo in 60 acres of parkland with lots of animals plus interactive feeding times, plus play areas.
Maldon Rd, Heckfordbridge, Colchester CO3 0SL, United Kingdom
http://www.colchesterzoo.org/
Adventure Island Theme Park
Free-admission fun park with more than 40 rides and attractions from rollercoasters to ghost trains.
Western Esplanade, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EE, United Kingdom
http://www.adventureisland.co.uk/
Hastings Old Town
Hastings Old Town is an area in Hastings, England roughly corresponding to the extent of the town prior to the nineteenth century. It lies mainly within the easternmost valley of the current town. The shingle beach known as The Stade is home to the biggest beach-launched fishing fleet in Britain.
Hastings, TN34 3AS, UK
Travel from a medieval queen's room to the 1920s, plus gardens, golf, zip slides and falconry.
Broomfield, Maidstone, ME17 1PL, United Kingdom
https://www.leeds-castle.com/
The Beachy Head
Victorian, country-style pub/restaurant by the cliffs, with an English menu and real ale.
Beachy Head Rd, Eastbourne, BN20 7YA, United Kingdom
Castle dating from 1270, with Tudor artworks and lavish furnishings, plus gardens and water maze.
Hever Rd, Hever, Edenbridge TN8 7NG, United Kingdom
https://www.hevercastle.co.uk/
Large shopping mall featuring numerous luxury stores, plus a cinema, food court & restaurants.
Montfichet Rd, London, E20 1EJ, United Kingdom
https://uk.westfield.com/stratfordcity?utm_source=GMB&utm_medium=Google&utm_campaign=GMB
Brighton Palace Pier
Opened in 1899 and home to fairground rides, bars, restaurants and deckchairs to enjoy the sea view.
Madeira Dr, Brighton, BN2 1TW, United Kingdom
http://www.brightonpier.co.uk/
Royal Pavilion
Distinctive Asian-style palace built for King George IV, with restored rooms, gardens and tours.
4/5 Pavilion Buildings, Brighton, BN1 1EE, United Kingdom
https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/
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The drive from Bonn to London is 375 miles (604 km).
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Gas from Bonn to London would cost around $31 to $72 USD, depending on your vehicle's fuel efficiency.
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You could check out Königsallee and Aachen Cathedral, or the always popular Phantasialand!
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ReactionGrid, headquartered in Fort Pierce, Florida has been working in virtual worlds for years. The founders – Robin and Kyle Gomboy – produced three-dimensional models of aircraft and chip parts for Florida manufacturers as part of their work on automating production facilities.
The best option available at the time was the Unreal engine, which cost a million dollars to license.
The Gomboys founded their company during the first Internet boom specifically to do three dimensional modeling, said CEO Kyle Gomboy..
Today, with the OpenSim-based virtual worlds and similar platforms, the dream is finally a reality.
"This is our real shot at the plans we had in the late 90s," said Gomboy.
Gomboy said that he first realized that the times had changed three years ago, when he took a hard and serious look at the Second Life virtual world.
"We actually tried it a few times before that, but we didn't really have any interest in adult activities," said Robin Gomboy.
But the Second Life community evolved, and soon the Gomboys were regularly meeting with other developers, and began collaborating with Microsoft on their Second Life projects.
Chris Hart, ReactionGrid's chief technology officer, actually did some volunteer work for the Microsoft built in Second Life.
"You get so frustrated when you see something being one that you could do better," she said.
The fact that Microsoft opened up the project to the community, was an innovative example of a company reaching out to its constituents.
"You feel ownership of it when you build it," said Robin Gomboy.
Microsoft's developers conference "Heroes Happen Here," in April 2008, in Second Life.
The company helped Microsoft organize a Second Life developers conference, "Heroes Happen Here," in April 2008 – a record-breaking event that brought in 450 people over the course of eight hours.
Recently, Microsoft expanded its virtual world presence to the ReactionGrid, its first deployment outside of Second Life.
Next month, Microsoft will begin work on setting up its own OpenSim grid, Gomboy said. "We've started development of that," she said.
OpenSim is appealing to Microsoft because it is based on the .Net platform – scripts can be written in C# and Visual Basic in addition to the Second Life scripting language, LSL.
The ReactionGrid worlds also use the SQL server database system, as opposed to the open-source MySQL or SQLite found in other OpenSim deployments.
As a result of using the Microsoft technology, the grids that Gomboy runs, including its flagship public world, ReactionGrid itself, can be easily backed up, moved to over machines, or copied.
Next story Is SecondLife an alternative for OpenSim users?


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FIREWORKS VIDEO MAGAZINE #5, DECEMBER, 1993. More field trips! We visit Patriotic Fireworks and interview the plant manager. He tells what's it like to run a fireworks manufacturing plant. Then we take another trip to visit Legion Fireworks. We interview a shellmaker, talk to the plant manager, and have a lengthy visit with the owner. Great inside info on a display manufacturing plant. We get a good look at Russian fireworks - something never seen in the U.S. before! And how about a Guy Fawkes celebration in Texas! A news update caps the video, which ends with the fabulous Rozzi Riverfest display.


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Catholic Bishops' Support For Open Borders Hides Self-Serving Politics
By: Maureen Mullarkey
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently rewrote a quadrennial advisory for Catholic voters. The timing appears geared toward influencing the 2018 midterms.
Maureen Mullarkey
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In practice, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is an open borders lobby, a fifth column in cope and chasuble. Its most recent instruction to the laity insinuates that open borders are a core tenet of a Christian worldview.
The group recently voted to rewrite their quadrennial advisory for Catholic voters: "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship." The document traditionally appears the November prior to a presidential election year. Ostensibly, June's comprehensive revision was done in anticipation of the 2020 election. But the timing — a year and a half ahead of schedule — suggests a move to influence the 2018 midterms.
The stated purpose of this early revision is to "apply the teaching of Pope Francis to our day." On bedrock matters such as abortion, euthanasia, obligation to the poor and vulnerable, and the nature of marriage, Francis teaches nothing that requires a new edition. Only his zeal for open borders, plus the utility of climate change dogma for global income distribution, bears on our coming elections.
Francis has a blinkered grasp of the complex political, cultural, and moral underpinnings of wealth production and, correspondingly, of the means to alleviate poverty. He is a globalist for whom prosperity is a zero-sum game divorced from the aims, habits, and political milieu of national cultures. Hence, his scatter-shot strikes against "a system that causes enormous suffering to the human family … and our Common Home in order to sustain the invisible tyranny of money that only guarantees the privileges of a few."
People of good will can debate what works and doesn't work in reducing poverty here and in the developing world. But the bishops, echoing Francis, do not offer grounds for debate. Instead, they rely on dogmatic assertions, insinuating equivalence between moral theology and their own politics.
According to USCCB, a correct Catholic conscience assigns no guilt to unproductive and failed states. It spares poor nations any agency in their own condition. When Andrés López Obrador, front-runner in Mexico's upcoming presidential election, called for mass-migration to the United States as "a human right," he raised no eyebrows among the USCCB.
Undermining immigration policy is a USCCB mission. It does so through such affiliates as Migration and Refugee Services and the Campaign for Human Development. It has sponsored National Migration Week, an annual media event, since the 1970s. It founded a subsidiary, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, to promote amnesty. And in 2016, the bishops aggressively opposed efforts to obligate non-compliant locales — sanctuary cities — to enforce existing immigration law.
Addressing last year's 3rd World Meeting of Popular Movements — a mass political liturgy initiated by Francis — San Diego's Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, called on religious leaders and activists to obstruct ICE attempts to locate and/or deport illegals. "We must all become disrupters," he said.
At the same rally, Ghana's Cardinal Peter Turkson, alluded to the shooting of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri: "I have learned how government policies and programs and business decisions can interact subtly to perpetuate isolation, poverty and hostility on racial lines, which can explode in a police shooting of an unarmed black teenager." The USCCB apparently found nothing questionable about either statement.
By fanning a political stance favorable to open borders, the USCCB protects the annual flow of hundreds of millions of federal monies to itself and such affiliates as Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Charities. (More than $500 million in 2016.) In addition to using tax dollars to support programs many tax payers oppose, immigration is an income-producing issue at the diocesan level. As bishops struggle to maintain infrastructure, they have incentive to breathe divine purpose into practical politics: "Our purpose is to help Catholics form their consciences in accordance with God's truth."
God's truth tilts left, it would seem. The bishops declare: "The Church is principled but not ideological. … the foundational principles that guide these teachings should not be … used selectively in order to serve partisan interests." Yet partisanship is precisely the agenda. Their "call to political responsibility" is a progressive propaganda dressed in utopian boilerplate ("pursuit of a civilization of love") and tailored to a Christian idiom.
They remind us we are "citizens of the heavenly Kingdom, whose reign is not yet fully realized on earth but demands our unqualified allegiance." Implicit in that not yet is expectation that, in time, the ideal society will be achieved. Whoever said, "My kingdom is not of this world," (no yet about it) failed to anticipate the saving power of the global state toward which our bishops point their staffs.
Illegal immigration poses no problem for the bishops. Viewed from the piazza of global solidarity, there are no aliens, only "newcomers." [Bold font peppers the text.] The "dignity of the human person," a phrase repeated multiple times in the text, washes away divisive judgments. High-sounding, the phrase is an all-purpose abstraction that can serve any ends. (Alfie Evans, remember, was made to suffocate and dehydrate to death in the name of human dignity.) For voters, the abstraction is meant to trump immigration law.
At points, our bishops appear disassociated from the country which supports them. As death penalty abolitionists, the bishops scold: "Our nation's continued reliance on the death penalty cannot be justified." Yet capital punishment is rarely invoked. In 2016 twenty people were executed, this after 7 to 34 years of additional post-sentencing adjudication. In that same year, 1,930 murders were committed in California plus 1,459 in Texas alone. Where is the reliance?
By admonishing voters to "humanize globalization," the bishops position themselves in the vanguard of a globalist world freed from competing national aims and interests. To a clerical elite impatient for the withering away of the national state, an open border is the staging ground for assault on citizenship and national sovereignty.
The conscience guide includes pro forma nods to national security and border integrity. But its heart is elsewhere. The USCCB cherishes visions of a "global community" [a fixed refrain] joined in "global solidarity" with "international bodies and international law" to address "global poverty," "global climate change," "global problems', and the "global dimensions" of all earthly woes between here and New Jerusalem.
"Economic justice and care for creation," twinned with climate alarmism, are the hooks on which hang the one-world gospel: "It is important that we address the rising number of migrants who are uprooted from their homeland as a consequence of environmental degradation and climate change."
Doctrinaire assertions substitute for data and argument throughout:
Care for creation is a duty of our faith and a sign of our concern for all people, especially the poor who, both everyday experience and scientific research show, suffer the gravest effects of all attacks on the environment. … We are part of a global community charged with being good stewards of the earth's environment, what Pope Francis calls "our common home, which is being threatened." [italics mine]
Concern for wise and just stewardship of resources is not new. It was central to what Max Weber called the Protestant ethic, a critical factor in the conservation movement of the mid-1800s. What is new is the apocalyptic mystagoguery of a pope who warns oil executives about the looming potential of fossil fuels to destroy humanity.
Global community. Our common home. The document imposes an aura of religious authority on figures of speech. Chief among these is the globalist fantasy: "We are one human family." A trope favored by recent pontificates, and repeated by the USCCB, it confuses zoological taxonomy with social reality. We are one species, but only in terms of Linnaean classification can we be called a family. That intimate, affective unit we recognize as a human family is bound by blood ties, law, custom, and cultural affinity.
Voting instruction bends the gospel mandate to "welcome the stranger" into a rallying cry that omits biblical distinctions between strangers. The journeying foreigner and the alien are not the same. Predictably, our bishops ignore Ruth's resonant pledge to Naomi — "Thy God will be my God; thy people, my people." Her words offend against diversity. Open borders enthusiasts are selective in their quotes. Among the ones they neglect: "Cursed is the man who moves his neighbor's boundary stone." (Deut. 27:17).
Much of the guide is familiar: The USCCB is against war, torture, oppression, all the obligatory unpleasantnesses. It is for nuclear disarmament, children, affordable housing, and healthcare. It endorses the ever-expanding welfare state. 2018 moves the needle further left by championing "food security for all," a neologism for distribution of subsidized food, and "sustainable agriculture." This last signals limits on economic growth and political freedom to save later generations from unspecified catastrophe. Put simply, it obligates Catholics to repent beforehand for what might occur later — what Pascal Bruckner calls "compensatory sadism."
Church teaching is coherent, the bishops insist, "and rests on a comprehensive vision of the dignity of the human person." But the incoherence of the application of Church teaching erodes its purposes.
What serves human dignity in concrete situations is beyond the compass of a rhetorical abstraction. Our bishops, curtsying to Francis, ignore practical distinctions between protecting the poor themselves and protecting or creating programs that do nothing to break the cycle of poverty. They prefer welfare spending to the growth that is a surer antidote to poverty.
Let us not argue with the USCCB on this: "It is as citizens faithful to the Lord Jesus that we contribute most effectively to the civil order." Yes, but the spirit of fidelity unfolds first and most decisively within our flesh-and-blood families, in person-to-person allegiance to one another. That indwelling constancy precedes "political and financial support for beneficial United Nations programs" and "other international bodies."
At crucial moments in particular places, the demands of fidelity might necessarily, and in good conscience, contradict the game plans of self-ordained world improvers.
Maureen Mullarkey is a painter and a critic. A member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), she writes on art and its intersection with religious and politics. Her essays have appeared in various publications, including The Nation, The Hudson Review, Arts Magazine, Art & Antiques, and The American Arts Quarterly. She was a columnist for The New York Sun during its life as a print publication. Currently, she is a senior contributor to The Federalist, an irregular contributor to The Weekly Standard, and keeper of a weblog titled Studio Matters. She is represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC. Follow her on Twitter, @mmletters.
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Trikál József  (Balassagyarmat, 1873. december 15. – Budapest, 1950. február 11.) római katolikus pap, teológiai és filozófiai író, egyetemi tanár.

Élete
A középiskolát Esztergomban végezte. 1892-ben a Pázmáneum növendéke lett. 1896. október 15-én szentelték pappá Udvardon, 1898-ban Esztergom-Vizivárosban káplán, 1900-től az esztergomi tanítónőképzőben, 1904-től Budapesten hittanár, és a Szent Imre-kollégium, 1909-től a Központi Papnevelő Intézet prefektusa. Budapesten, Lővenben, Párizsban és 1906–1907-ben Lipcsében filozófiát tanult, teológiából és filozófiából doktorált. 1914. január 21-én a budapesti hittudományi kar filozófiai nyilvános rendes tanára. 1921–1922-ben, 1925–1926-ban, és 1930–1931-ben a hittudományi kar dékánja, 1932–1933-ban az egyetem rektora, 1933–1934-ben prorektora. Vagyonából 10.000 pengőt adott a szegény és menekült egy. hallgatók segélyezésére. Szülővárosában templomot, szaléziánus rendházat és konviktust építtetett, játszótérnek telket vásárolt, 1939-ig 90.000 pengőt adott jótékony célokra. 1939–1945: a budapesti Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetem képviseletében tagja a felsőháznak. 1944. szeptember 1-jén nyugalomba vonult.

Egyéb tisztségei: 1910: püspöki kamarás, 1915: a Szent István Akadémia I. o-a alapító tagja, az ASzTT tagja, 1925: pápai prelátus, 1944: protonot.

Művei
Trikál jelentős irodalmi tevékenységet fejtett ki. Munkáiban több gondolat Henri Bergsonra emlékeztet.

Folyóiratcikkei
Tardos dr. álnéven cikkeket írt 1899–1917-ben az Alkotmányba; 1902-ben az Egyházi Közlönybe. Szerkesztette 1904-től az Új Magyar Siont.

Önállóan megjelent művei

Források
 Uj Idők lexikona 23–24. Szikesfalu–Zygota, Singer és Wolfner Irodalmi Intézet Rt. , Budapest, 1942, 5921. o.

 Magyar Könyvészet 1901, 1902

 Petrik Géza: Magyar Könyvészet 1886–1900, Budapest, 1913
 Schematismus Cleri dioec. Strigoniensis 1910. 280, 329. o.

1873-ban született személyek
1950-ben elhunyt személyek
Magyar katolikus papok
Magyar teológusok
Magyar filozófusok
Magyar egyetemi, főiskolai oktatók
Balassagyarmatiak
Magyar rektorok

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Le Southwind Passage est un passage navigable entre les îles Betbeder et les Dickens Rocks à l'extrémité nord des îles Biscoe.

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Barrow neurologist says coronavirus could cause strokes in young adults
May 20, 2020, 4:15 AM | Updated: 9:33 am
BY KACI DEMAREST
PHOENIX – A Barrow neurologist said Tuesday that some healthy young and middle-aged adults that have coronavirus are suffering strokes without presenting with any other symptoms.
"This appears to be another sinister aspect of a virus that can be relatively asymptomatic or completely asymptomatic in healthy individuals but in this instance would manifest as a stroke," Dr. Michael Waters told KTAR 92.3 FM's Arizona's Morning News.
Waters said the risk of strokes in these types of patients are associated with a prothrombotic state, which means the body is at an increased tendency to form blood clots.
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"It's something that we're continuing to learn about on a daily basis and not something that we've been familiar with historically with respect to this population," Waters said.
Waters said the population that is suffering these strokes generally has very few to no risk factors typically associated with stroke and cardiovascular disease.
The symptoms to watch out for with strokes can be summarized with BE FAST– balance, eyes, face, arms, speech and time.
These types of strokes that these patients are having are very treatable, and the outcomes tend to be good in the younger population.
"Because of this pro-thrombotic phenomenon, there's medications we can give to patients that will counteract that and prevent them from having additional strokes," Waters said.
'Detour Dan' Beach advocates awareness 1 year after suffering stroke
Waters said people may be hesitant about going to the hospital because of the pandemic, but they shouldn't if they believe they're suffering a stroke.
"If you're having a stroke, the only way we have any reasonable means of treating that is if you come to the hospital," Waters said.
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Fantasy Action
121 min 7.2 2002 USA
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
tmdb44006625 wrote:
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man captures the spirit of the comic book hero and it's still one of my all time favourite superhero movies. It lays out the perfect blueprint for a superhero origin story that I love revisiting every year or so. I've always been able to relate to Peter Parker growing up. Tobey Maguire and Co. delivered a great interpretation of the characters in a way that still can not be matched.
Justin Lopez wrote:
So many Spiderman movies out there but this will always be the original. Though the other ones have better CGI and maybe action sequences, none can match the plot this one has.
LoganWright wrote:
This is one of the few films that you can watch when you're bored and still be excited about what's going to happen (even though you've watched it over and over already and you've memorized almost all of the lines).
BradleyStewart wrote:
I keep telling people that this is the real Spider-Man and I will always stand by that. Tobey Maguire the real MVP!
Jane Hall wrote:
Films from the 2000s really are way different from the ones we have now. I wish all origin stories could be as good as this one.
JessieCollins wrote:
You can take your Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield with you. Tobey Maguire is the best Spider-Man of all time and no amount of CGI can change that!
It's 2019 and I still get chills every time I watch this film!
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Truly one of the most successful superheroes ever made!
MichaelWilliams wrote:
Was, still is, and will forever be one of my favorite childhood superhero movies!
WilliamJones wrote:
Lot of respect for Tobey Maguire for doing well on this one. He didn't do well in his previous films but he was able to do justice to Spider Man on this one.
DavidBrown1 wrote:
Definitely made the list of greatest comic book adaptations.
JosephWilson wrote:
Man, that scene with Uncle Ben broke my heart big time! Made me even think of my life choices.
I've read the comics and I can say that this is truly the comic book come to life!
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You know a film is good when you're able to quote something from it. "With great power, comes great responsibility"
ThomasMoore wrote:
This film is one of the reasons why 2002 was a great time to be alive!
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It's not a surprise that this is considered one of the most successful superhero movies ever made.
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It's amazing how they were able to balance action and human element in this movie.
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To sum it up, this is the first Spider-Man film with everything leveled up.
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Sam Raimi sure knows how to make a good superhero film. He was able to give so much depth to Spider-Man, a hero we only know from comic books.
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The greatest part about this is Toby Maguire's acting. He made everything so much more believable that it was hard not to be engrossed in the movie.
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Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Agent Coulson stops at a convenience store and deals with a coincidental robbery during his visit.
Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer
An adaptation of Mark Waid's "Tower of Babel" story from the JLA comic. Vandal Savage steals confidential files Batman has compiled on the members of the Justice League, and learns all their weaknesses.
Justice League: Doom
Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.
The sexy Gin is the new love of Hache, but this can not forget his former girlfriend, so the love triangle is inevitable.
When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.
200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind.
I, Frankenstein
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth's Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
Five years have passed since Hiccup and Toothless united the dragons and Vikings of Berk. Now, they spend their time charting unmapped territories. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons -- and a mysterious dragon rider who turns out to be Hiccup's mother, Valka. Hiccup and Toothless then find themselves at the center of a battle to protect Berk from a power-hungry warrior named Drago.
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.
When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.
The Brass Teapot
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
Dead Man Down
For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen's father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro, emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn, returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.
A bad boy and a socialite girl hook-up.
Three Steps Over Heaven


Imagine, for a second, that you have a Flickr account. Then, imagine you've posted more than 4,000 photos to it, and that Flickr deletes it by accident.
Next, imagine that you contact Flickr to find out what the hell is going on, only to be told that 'whoops, yeah, we did that by accident. We'll re-instate your account, but your photos are gone'.
That's what happened to Mirco Wilhelm, in an absolutely cruel mix-up. He had, in fact, been in touch with Flickr to report another user who had been posting photos that were infringing on copyright - and he included his own Flickr name in the E-mail as well.
"I did report on a user account only containing obviously stolen material", says Mirco.
Flickr, in their haste to delete the offending material, managed to delete the wrong user account - a move that is non-revertible, apparently.
Mirco's plaster on the wound? 4 years of free Flickr Pro.
"Since Flickr had deleted the account", Mirco writes, "they cannot reactivate anything more that the account itself, leaving me with an empty shell of what I did during the last 5 years. This would be acceptable, if I had a free account." - but he didn't - he's a paying customer.
I'm not being funny, but Flickr don't have to pull many stunts like this before I stop recommending them on my blogs, in my books, and to all my friends and family. Absolutely appalling. Sort your crap out.
Update: Yahoo just tweeted that Flickr "restored a mistakenly deleted member's account. We regret the error, reloaded all photos, and gave 25 years free Flickr Pro".
On that note, when did you last take a back-up of your photos? Here's some more about why and how.


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31 years old woman accuses Lagos hospital of stealing her new born baby
Mrs. Faith Obinna, a 31-year-old nurse, has accused doctors at the St. Raphael Divine Mercy Hospital in Ikorodu, Lagos State, of stealing her baby, just moments after delivery.
In an interview with NewTelegraph, the new mum said she used the Catholic hospital for her pre-natal care and that during her many doctor's appointment, three scans were conducted and it was recorded that she had a set of twins. She said it was shocking to her that when she had her baby on March 6, and only "one of her babies" was presented to her by the doctors.
She claims her baby was stolen in the labour room of the hospital before she could recover from anaesthesia.
"On the first day I registered at the hospital, one doctor Ade that attended to me, asked me to go for a scan. The scan showed twins. The pregnancy was then four months. The second scan was to determine the se.x of the babies. One was a boy, but the technician couldn't tell the se.x of the other baby because its leg covered the organ part. I was later handed over to doctor Uzoma, who took care of me until delivery.
On the day of the delivery, they tried to send my husband away, but he refused to go home. He went out to wait. After the operation, they called my husband and told him that it was only one baby inside my womb. Even though I was feeling groggy, I only heard the cries of one baby. I asked my husband, where is the other baby, the staff asked me to calm down. Four days later, my husband and I decided to raise the alarm. The chief medical doctor of the hospital asked me to accept just one baby, I refused." she said
Speaking further, she said
"When I was about to be discharged, I asked for my scan results, they refused to give them to me. Rather, they hid my file. When we wanted to leave, they locked the gate against us."
When the couple was eventually allowed to go, they narrated the incident to friends and family members who persuaded them to return to the hospital to demand the whereabouts of their baby. Obinna said when she went back to the hospital, a reverend father and a reverend sister were invited to the meeting where the hospital staff claimed there was an error on the scan results.
"We asked for the scan result. They said that if they released the results, they wouldn't like to see it on social media that it could affect the medical doctor and the hospital could be shut down. He said that what happened was scan error. I told them it was impossible. I know that scan error could occur in se.x, but not where twins' detention is concerned. I saw the babies with my two eyes. I know they are with one of my babies. The reverend asked us to have mercy. He promised to refund all money we had spent since I registered with the hospital. We refused." Obinna said
When interviewed, the consultant gynaecologist in the hospitl, Dr Uzodinma, said he took delivery of Faith, along with six other doctors.
"First of all, it's not my hospital, it's a Catholic hospital. I'm a consultant gynaecologist with the hospital. Faith Obinna was my patient. I gave her my phone number; if I wanted to steal her baby, I wouldn't have given her my number. The true situation of things is that in November 2019, I asked her to do a scan, which she did in the hospital, with one of our male staff. The scan showed two foetuses." he said
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The State government should take over this case. It is sheer wickedness to do this kind of a thing in a hospital that is supposed to care for its patients, more so a faith based hospital (Catholic Hospital). The Arch Bishop or whosoever is in charge of the Church that owns the hospital should show interest and reveal the truth no matter who is concerned; Doctors, Nurses, Rich or Ritualist. This is barbaric.


Good Morning. You caught me doing a little antique shopping hehe. In rl I can do this for hours a day. When I was younger I swore I would never own anything old or used (that's what growing up with grandparents makes you think) but as I got older I realized the beauty of older furniture, and it having a history that makes you question where it has been and who has used it. Now when I have a little extra time I can spend hours going through antique shops and flea markets, auctions, just so I might score with one piece that I absolutely fall in love with and can bring home. So when I saw this little shop in sl I could not resist!
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De Niro Banned Trump From His Bar, The Donald's Reply Was PERFECT 😂
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Opinion| ICYMI 5/18 THIS was classic Trump!- Like a fine wine .. this one only gets better with age
Following liberal actor Robert De Niro's "ban" on President Trump from coming into and/or patronizing his Nobu Japanese restaurant chain, the White House issued a response. It wasn't exactly the response De Niro was expecting, however.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley spoke to Fox News and explained that De Niro along with his partner at the restaurant chain, Nobu Matsuhisa, have nothing to worry about. President Trump doesn't plan on visiting the restaurant chain or the hotel that they own either.
Gidley explained, "I don't think the president is planning on attending a dinner at Nobu anytime soon. The president has great dinners here at the White House. And quite frankly, he can go to many of his properties around the country and globe. He won't be stopping at Nobu anytime soon."
Last week, Robert De Niro had stated to the Daily Mail that he would never be seen eating anywhere with President Trump, neither at his own restaurant or at anyone else's.
"If he walked into a restaurant I was in – I'd walk out," he claimed to the news outlet.
The Hill reports:
Robert De Niro, a frequent critic of President Trump who has been playing special counsel Robert Mueller on "Saturday Night Live," talked Tuesday about how he'd like to bar the president from eating at his Nobu restaurant chain.
The Daily Mail reported that De Niro, a co-founder of the Nobu restaurant and hotel chain, insisted that he would not let Trump eat in his restaurants, and that he would leave any other eatery where the president entered.
"If he walked into a restaurant I was in, I'd walk out," De Niro said.
Chef Nobu Matsuhisa, De Niro's co-owner, then joked that it was his "dream for Trump to sit next to" De Niro so he could make them sushi.
During his 2013 trip to Russia to attend the Miss Universe pageant, Donald Trump did dine at the Moscow Nobu restaurant.
De Niro has called Trump names, often calling him a "f***ing idiot" and a "f***ing fool."
De Niro isn't making himself look very good by bad mouthing the President of the United States. The actor should think twice about excluding someone with pockets as deep as Donald Trump's from his businesses.
Take a look at the video below in which De Niro bashes Trump repeatedly:
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Q: MethodNotAllowedHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 233 EveryThing is correct, I think I am learning laravel and I have a problem when I call to delete method.
My Routes:
Route::get('/', function () {
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Route::resource('secciones', 'seccionesController');

My form:
{{ Form::open(['route' => ['secciones.destroy', $seccion->id], 'method' => 'DELETE']) }}

{{ Form::submit('Delete') }}

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The $seccion->id is correct, the secciones.destroy (in seccionesController there are a destroy method ) is correct. When I call delete laravel return me:
MethodNotAllowedHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 233:

Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance..

A: HTML Forms don't support DELETE method.
But you can use {{ method_field('DELETE') }}
Also, you forgot to add the {{ csrf_field() }} (token field) in the form.
It will be:

{{ Form::open(['route' => ['secciones.destroy', $seccion->id], 'method' => 'DELETE']) }}

{{ method_field('DELETE') }}
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{{ Form::submit('Delete') }}

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Good luck! :)

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Gambling addicts could be helped with the use of consumer tracking information developed by the casinos, Harvard researchers say. However, the CEO at Caesars Entertainment worries about taking the technology to "extremes."
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Depression is one of the most common forms of mental illness in the U.S. and across large sections of the world. Among its many symptoms, the disorder can trigger a loss of the normal ability to feel motivated or pursue pleasurable or fulfilling activities. According to the results of a new study released in July …
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Factitious disorder and malingering are two variations on a similar theme. Both involve people who exaggerate or make up symptoms of an illness. But in malingering vs. factitious disorder, the reasons why are very different. This also means that treatment is different, too. What Is Factitious Disorder? Factitious disorder is a mental illness, classified as …
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Les pièces de monnaie roumaines sont une des représentations physiques, avec les billets de banque, de la monnaie de Roumanie.

L'unité monétaire roumaine
Le nouveau leu roumain (RON)  est la devise de la Roumanie depuis le , date à laquelle il remplace l'ancien leu à une parité de 1/10 000.

Les pièces et billets en ancien leu roumain (ROL) sont retirés complètement de la circulation depuis le .

Le leu roumain est divisée en 100 bani.

Les pièces de monnaie de Roumanie
La banque de Roumanie est seule responsable pour le design et l'impression des pièces de monnaie. La frappe des pièces de monnaie roumaines est l'activité principale de la Monetaria Statului (la Monnaie d'État roumaine).

La série de la République Socialiste de Roumanie (1966-1989)
Nicolae Ceaușescu devient premier secrétaire du parti des travailleurs de Roumanie en 1965. Il fait voter une nouvelle constitution le  qui donne naissance à la République socialiste de Roumanie.

Une nouvelle série de pièces est frappée dès 1966. Ces pièces portent les signes de cette nouvelle république : la mention REPUBLICA SOCIALISTA ROMANIA et le blason de la république socialiste (voir image).

La série comporte 5 modèles de pièces (5, 15, 25 bani et de 1 leu et 3 lei), en acier plaqué nickel.

Dans les années 1970, les pièces de 5, 15 et 25 bani seront frappées en aluminium, tandis qu'une pièce de 5 lei complétera la série.

La série de la République de Roumanie (1991-2005)
À la suite de la chute de Nicolae Ceaușescu, un référendum institue en 1991 un régime parlementaire, une république présidentielle.

À signaler deux pièces particulières :

Une nouvelle série de pièces est mise en circulation début 1992.

Cette série comprend six pièces (1 leu, 5 lei, 10 lei, 20 lei, 50 lei et 100 lei).

Sur ces pièces figurent soit les armoiries de la Roumanie, soit des personnages historiques.

Cependant avec l'inflation de nouvelles pièces sont mises en circulation (500 lei en 1999, 1000 lei en 2000 et 5000 lei en 2001), tandis que les pièces de petites valeurs sont progressivement retirées de la circulation.

La quatrième série
À la suite de la réforme monétaire du  le Nouveau leu roumain est mis en service et une nouvelle série de pièces est frappée.

Cette série comprend quatre pièces (1 ban, 5 bani, 10 bani et 50 bani), toutes de compositions différentes.

Sur toutes les pièces figurent les armoiries de la Roumanie et la mention ROMANIA

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Glossaire de la numismatique
 Liste des ateliers de fabrication de monnaies

Liens externes
  le site de Monetaria Statului (la Monnaie d'État roumaine)

Roumanie
Pièces