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Football legend Diego Maradona dies at 60
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, died yesterday at the age of 60, plunging the sport and his native Argentina into mourning.
Renowned along with Pelé as one of the finest players ever to grace the field, the Argentine World Cup-winning captain had undergone brain surgery this month and died of a heart attack, a member of his entourage told AFP.
Maradona will forever be remembered for his "Hand of God" goal against England in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final in Mexico City, when he pushed the ball into the net.
Minutes later he swerved through the helpless English defenders for a superb second goal, capping a victory that perfectly encapsulated the mixture of brilliant skill and often outrageous behaviour that ran through his life.
He struggled with addiction to cocaine and alcohol and had been plagued by poor health in recent years.
Pele described Maradona as a "dear friend" and the 80-year-old Brazilian said he hoped they would "play together in the sky" one day.
Gary Lineker, who was in the England team defeated in 1986, said Maradona was "arguably the greatest of all time" but referred to that infamous goal by tweeting: "After a blessed but troubled life, hopefully he'll finally find some comfort in the hands of God. #RipDiego."
Lionel Messi led the tributes from modern-day players to his fellow Argentine, saying: "He has left us but he will never leave us because Diego is eternal."
Argentine President Alberto Fernandez announced three days of national mourning in the South American country.
Argentine media first reported yesterday that Maradona had suffered a serious setback in his bid to recover from the surgery earlier this month to remove a clot lodged between his brain and skull.
Family members were summoned to his home north of Buenos Aires before the announcement of his death was made.
The life of the divine footballing talent that was Diego Armando Maradona was marked by wild highs and lows, with Argentina and club sides Boca Juniors, Barcelona and Napoli.
Excesses with drugs and alcohol had long taken their toll on the mercurial talent's health.
Maradona was admitted to hospital three times in the last 20 years for serious health issues — two of which were potentially fatal — due to his addictions.
The highs were crowned by his performances when he captained Argentina to World Cup glory in 1986.
In the final, Maradona set up the 86th-minute winner against West Germany. He scored twice in the semi-final against Belgium, beating four defenders for the second goal.
But the match that defined his tournament, and possibly his career, was that win over England, in which he scored two goals that will be remembered forever — for very different reasons.
In the 51st minute, as England goalkeeper Peter Shilton reached to catch the ball, Maradona jumped alongside him and with a deftness that fooled the eye, flicked the ball with his hand through the England goalkeeper's arms and into the net. The referee allowed the goal to stand.
After the game, Maradona said he scored "a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God".
The goal he scored four minutes later, when he picked up the ball in his own half and glided past six England players, was named "Goal of the Century" by Fifa.
Maradona grew up in poverty in Buenos Aires but his extraordinary talent was clear from a young age at Argentinos Juniors and Boca.
He moved to Barcelona but was singled out for rough treatment by opposing defenders and soon fell out of love with the Spanish club.
It was in Naples where Maradona would enchant an entire city by leading the then unfashionable Napoli to their only two Italian league titles in 1987 and 1990, befriending a mafia family along the way.
"Always in our hearts. Ciao Diego," Napoli tweeted. "There are no words to describe the pain we're going through."
He was honoured with a minute's silence before yesterday's Champions League games in Europe.
In recent years, Maradona, reduced to hobbling by the ravages of his career and lifestyle, had coached in the UAE, Mexico, and Argentina without ever hitting the heights of his playing days.
In 2000, Fifa ran an online Player of the Century poll. Maradona gained 54 per cent of the vote, Pele was second with 18 per cent. Fifa declared them joint winners.
Maradona married his long-time girlfriend Claudia Villafane in 1984. They had two daughters — Dalma and Gianinna — but the relationship was punctuated by Maradona's extra-marital affairs and they divorced in 2004.
He also had a son, Diego Junior, born in Naples in 1986, although he only acknowledged paternity in 2004.
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In the markets, we work each day at blocking out "noise," taking things in their proper context, and identifying high-quality trade set-ups, and that's pretty much the aim of every trading methodology in a nutshell, right?
Often, though, that's made more difficult by the clashing of conventional trading wisdom that happens in the news and financial press. You know, the "experts" we see every day on TV and the Internet?
Now, I know, the talking heads are easy scapegoats, but let's face it, "noise" is their business (and business is good!), so they're always quick to stir the pot with controversy…whether it's there or not.
Truth be told, though, conventional trading wisdom has actually gotten to be so plentiful that it's hard to know what to believe anymore. While one popular tip or tenet tells you to do one thing, there's another one out there telling you to do the exact opposite! So how do you know which is correct?
Well, that may depend on your methodology, but let's at least start by revealing a few pieces of conventional trading wisdom that are conflicting in nature, look at the facts, and see which side makes the most sense for you moving forward.
Who among us doesn't love riding out a prolonged up- or downtrend? It's fun and comparatively stress-free, especially when compared to trying to pick market tops or bottoms, which is rarely, if ever, advisable.
The Lazy Trader methodology, in fact, is trend- friendly, and for that reason, I guess I don't particularly like the conventional trading wisdom that says "Buy when there's blood in the streets," or when others are selling and fearful.
Unless you're contrarian or a much longer-term investor, that seems quite counter-intuitive, doesn't it? Whenever the charts signal fear or downward momentum, we would rather trade in the market's confirmed and prevailing direction, not go against it.
And, until viable signals emerge that suggest a reversal or end to that downward momentum, it's decidedly better to be short, anyway.
That's because our goal is not to capture every pip, but to at least catch the "meat," or middle portion, of that downward move. Then, once the trend has ended and/or reversed, we would look for opportunities to catch the meat of the reversal to the upside, thus trading with the trend in both directions.
It appears there's a fine line somewhere that delineates this conventional trading wisdom, as this is undoubtedly a hang-up that plagues many traders. Afterall, how are you supposed to be fully committed to your trade, yet at the same time, be ready to give up on it at the first sign of trouble?
Well, here, as they say, "The devil really is in the details." You see, your conviction has to be in the validity of the pattern or set-up, not in the market or asset you're using to trade it. And, from that perspective only, this conventional trading wisdom actually does make sense.
A trader's job, afterall, is to execute a proven trading strategy, not to correctly forecast the markets, or even care so much about their overall direction. With that, you'll only trade set-ups that are in accordance with your strategy, and that you yourself believe in. That's what it means to "trade with conviction," and the strongest conviction should actually stop right there.
Any conviction about the outcome of a trade, however, is misplaced, because following trade execution, the results are entirely in the hands of the market and are beyond our control. This is no time for costly trade biases or excess conviction, as that could cause you to let a losing trade run even though the signal(s) that initially inspired the trade have since been invalidated.
As you can see, there is a fine line here, and it's that conviction is reserved for the planning and execution stages of a trade, and not the end results. This time at least, it seems the conventional trading wisdom is quite valid, but only if your "conviction" is directed properly.
News trading actually sounds like a strategy all its own, but there are multiple ways to plan and execute news-based trades, and as a result, there are a few ways to look at the conventional trading wisdom as well.
"Trading the news" has this connotation that you act on the announcement, but then there's also the conventional trading wisdom that says "Play the reaction to the news," and that suggests something entirely different. So, do you trade the announcement or wait for the market to digest it?
Well, that depends on your strategy, and maybe your personality and risk profile, but for trend trading, it may be decidedly better to wait for the reaction to the news. That way, the initial shock waves have already resonated throughout the market and there's less chance of getting whipsawed in the heat of the moment.
This happens to be one of the distinct advantages of end-of-day trading, but it's also an example of how "trading the news" has multiple iterations out in the market. You can't necessarily just take the conventional trading wisdom at face value or you'd be glaring at a TV or news feed for hours each day and firing off trades in frantic succession, and even then, you'd likely be late to the party more often than not! There's a better way to trade if you know where to look, and fortunately, we do!
So many people out there will try to tell you that trading is easy, and that "all you have to do is…(insert conventional trading wisdom here.") And, you know, those little things do make it sound pretty easy sometimes!
Now, trading can be simple if you have a clearly stated, uncomplicated methodology, but calling it "easy" would really be pushing it. Especially since we now see that a lot of that conventional trading wisdom that gets spouted out there in the industry can be really conflicting…and we've barely scratched the surface here!
Start putting conventional trading wisdom in its proper context, and just like you would any other information, or investment or trade ideas, consider the merit yourself before putting any real faith in it. Afterall, just because something sounds good doesn't mean it works!


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Cayman squash duo win gold at Veracruz Games
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Squash players Cameron Stafford and Marlene West etched their names in Cayman Islands history by winning gold in the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games in Mexico.
The duo won the squash mixed doubles gold medal in Veracruz on Wednesday night when they defeated the Mexican tandem of Diana Garcia and Alfredo Avila in three sets: 11-10, 7-11, 11-10.
CAC Games organizers said in a press release that it was a thrilling match, stating, "Cameron and Marlene achieved the first gold medal for their country. The 2-1 final was extremely surprising for fans who could not believe what happened but ultimately (they) ended up giving warm applause for the gold medalists, especially so in the final set, where they came back, tied the score and then took the 11th point representing their victory after 35 minutes.
"Since squash came into the program of the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2002, the Cayman Islands have just a bronze in the men's doubles (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 2010), so this gold is historic."
The Cayman players made a dazzling run through a field of eight countries, which featured Barbados, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana and Jamaica. They beat Jamaican duo Tracy Binnie and Lewis Walters in straight sets (11-5, 11-5) in their opening match. Cayman defeated the top-ranked Colombian pair of Catalina Pelaez and Miguel Angel Rodriguez in the semifinals in three sets (10-11, 11-6, 11-10).
It should be noted that en route to victory, the local duo took down some of the tournament's best singles players as Mr. Rodriguez won gold and Ms. Garcia and Ms. Pelaez nabbed bronze.
Mr. Stafford, 22, and Ms. West, 42, have played together multiple times over the years, with their most recent showing at the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland this summer.
The Cayman Islands Olympic Committee noted its pleasure with the result, saying, "Congratulations, Cameron and Marlene, on winning the gold medal. The Caymanian pair become the first to medal at the Veracruz Games for the Cayman Islands. The pair truly showed determination and fight to win the first medal for Cayman. Cameron continues his impressive form tomorrow competing in the men's team competition with Alex (Frazer, 21) and Julian (Jervis, 17). They face a tough El Salvador team."
The squash medal is in stark contrast to Cayman's results in the Games thus far. In athletics, high jumper Ashleigh Nalty finished eighth out of eight competitors in the Women's High Jump with a leap of 1.70 meters. Carlos Morgan had a Did Not Start result in the Men's Long Jump. Ronald Forbes finished fifth out of six hurdlers in his heat for the Men's 110m Hurdles, posting a time of 14.51 seconds. The beach volleyball duo of Olney Thompson and Keith Higgins lost their opening matches to Mexico and Cuba.
Cayman continues to compete in other sports at the CAC Games, which wrap up on Sunday. The sailing contingent tackle their final races on Friday with 16-year-old Florence Allan taking part in the Women's Laser Radial; Jesse Jackson, 15, contesting the Men's Laser event and Shane McDermot, 16, competing in the Sunfish category. The sailors were ranked outside of the top 10 heading their final races.
The men's and women's national rugby 7s teams, which feature 23 players, play on Friday. The women's team takes on Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia, while the men challenge Barbados, Colombia and Bermuda.
Cameron Stafford and Marlene West proudly show off their gold medals in Veracruz.
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Hunter November 28, 2014 at 7:17 am
Congratulation to you both, I am sure it took much hard work and dedication to receive such an Honor.
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Congratulations Cameron and Marlene! All of Cayman should be proud of you for your accomplishment.
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Binance-Backed BNB Smart Chain Paused Over Potential Multi-Million Dollar Exploit, Token Slides 4%
On Thursday, 6:19 p.m. (ET), the official Twitter account for the Bnb Smart Chain explained that the team was temporarily pausing the blockchain, after citing that it noticed irregular activity. Sources say that more than $600 million in Bnb tokens were reportedly stolen from the chain's cross-chain bridge. The Bnb Smart Chain team detailed on Reddit that funds "taken off BSC are between $100M – $110M."
Bnb Smart Chain Temporarily Pauses Amid Hack Rumors
The crypto token BNB is down 4% lower against the U.S. dollar during the last 24 hours following an alleged cross-chain bridge attack that saw around 200 million BNB worth $600 million siphoned. Reports further noted that "Tether blacklisted the account" and it pushed Binance to pause the entire chain.
Through the official Bnb Smart Chain Twitter account, the team announced the chain pause. "Due to irregular activity, we're temporarily pausing BSC. We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide further updates here. Thank you for your patience and understanding," the account said at 6:19 p.m. The official Bnb Smart Chain Twitter account added:
To confirm, we have suspended BSC after having determined a potential exploit. All systems are now contained, and we are immediately investigating the potential vulnerability. We know the Community will assist and help freeze any transfers. All funds are safe. We want to thank all node service providers for their quick and attentive response.
At the time of writing, there's a lot of speculation surrounding the attack. "Before the hack, the Bnb bridge exploiter registered as a relayer for this bridge," one person wrote. "Several hundred million dollar BNB hack reported," Will Clemente tweeted on Thursday. "The team has just announced a temporary pause of Binance Smart Chain. Wow."
The Twitter account operated by Green Jeff Capital summarized the situation. At the end of the thread, he noted that the attackers may get around $100 million when all is said and done.
"The attacker's next moves will probably pull [ethereum] out of bridges back to mainnet and then [Tornado Cash]. They have around $45 million in [ethereum] on mainnet, another $20 million in bridges (Avalanche and Fantom official)," Green Jeff tweeted. "With overcollateralized [ethereum] borrows, they may get $100mm max."
At 7:51 p.m. (ET), Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as "CZ," tweeted about the affair. "An exploit on a cross-chain bridge, BSC Token Hub, resulted in extra BNB," CZ said. "We have asked all validators to temporarily suspend BSC. The issue is contained now. Your funds are safe. We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide further updates accordingly."
Bnb Smart Chain's team explained on Reddit that the estimate for the exploit loss is around $100 to $110 million. "Initial estimates for funds taken off BSC are between $100M – $110M," the Reddit post explains. "However, thanks to the community and our internal and external security partners, an estimated $7M has already been frozen."
Some Redditors questioned the veracity of the numbers stemming from the Bnb Smart Chain exploit Reddit announcement, and others criticized the BNB chain's decentralization. The exploit has been a topical conversation on social media sites like Reddit and Twitter since the Bnb Smart Chain bridge exploit was first noticed.
What do you think about the potential BNB Smart Chain cross-chain bridge exploit? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.


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'Kill Bill' Assassin Vivica A. Fox Has Several New Films In Her Sights
Actress starring in 'Blast!,' 'Beauty Shop,' 'L.A. Enchanted.'
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Just as audiences are finally getting a chance to see her bloody fight scene with Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill," Vivica A. Fox is gearing up to produce, star in and promote a slew of new projects.
The actress, who famously appeared as 50 Cent's date for MTV's Video Music Awards recently, has a full career plate filled with a variety of projects including a fairy tale, a sexy thriller, a movie set in a beauty shop and an action flick starring comedian Eddie Griffin.
"Blast!" finds the onetime "Undercover Brother" stepping away from comedy to play a tugboat captain who helps thwart a terrorist plot to set off an electromagnetic bomb on the California coast. Shot in South Africa earlier this year and set for release sometime next year, "Blast!" also stars Breckin Meyer ("Clueless") and Tom "Tiny" Lister Jr., best known for his portrayal of "Deebo" in the first two "Friday" films.
"I play an FBI agent in that [film]," Fox explained. "[I'm also] in 'L.A. Enchanted,' which is a fairy tale movie where I play a fairy. And I'm now producing films."
For starters, she just produced the erotically charged suspense thriller "Motive," which she also stars in alongside Sean Blakemore ("Dahmer"), Golden Brooks ("Timecode") and Shemar Moore ("The Brothers").
"It's kind of like an African-American version of 'Fatal Attraction,' and I play, believe it or not, the wife," she said laughing. "I'm the good one in this."
Right now Fox is heading to Washington, D.C., to work on a film called "Beauty Shop," which she called "the answer to [the 2002 film] 'Barbershop.' " Queen Latifah recently shot a cameo in "Barbershop 2," intending to spin off into a movie that's going by the same name (see "Queen Latifah In Talks For 'Barbershop 2' Cameo, Spinoff"), but Fox said that the two projects are not related.
"She may be doing [a movie called 'Beauty Shop,'] but [she's] not doing this one," Fox said. "There's a whole bunch of 'Beauty Shop's floating around. But I'm gonna beat them all to the punch."
Before any of these projects see the light of day, however, audiences can see her throwing plenty of punches in "Kill Bill," Quentin Tarantino's bloody tribute to kung fu movies, revenge flicks and spaghetti Westerns starring Uma Thurman as an ex-assassin who comes after her former teammates (including Vivica) after they try to take her out.
"What I love about my [fight] scene with Uma is that we nicknamed it 'The Brawl in Pasadena,' " Fox joked, "because there weren't a lot of tricks; it was in your face. It was violent. We pulled no punches but threw a whole bunch of them. We demolished my [character's] perfect little home in suburban Pasadena, [California,] and made no apologies about it."
Fox said she hopes the visceral battles in "Kill Bill" will be embraced by moviegoers growing increasingly tired of the computer-generated, wire-work-heavy action sequences of late. "I think that [audiences] are going to welcome 'Kill Bill' with open arms, just because they've been desensitized to real actors doing their fight scenes. You look at a movie nowadays and you're like, 'Do you guys really think that they did that?'
"Our scene, literally me and Uma filmed 95 percent of it," she boasted. "There's only one stunt I think that was performed by [our] stunt doubles. We did everything and we were covered in bruises. But it was so worth it. It was just an awesome scene to film and both of us sacrificed a lot physically. We beat the living crap out of each other. But when they yelled, 'Cut,' we go, 'Are you all right?' "


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We talked about Assassin's Creed: Origins on Vidjagame Apocalypse last week, but now we're gonna PLAY it! Join us LIVE on Twitch at 3PM PST, or find the archived version on YouTube shortly thereafter. Either way, the video is below!
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_ Read the MISSION COVENANT located on the FORMS page.
_ Download all Registration Forms from the FORMS page of our website.
_ Schedule physical with physician and optional immunizations w/health clinic (see FAQ) - Due before May 16th.
please do NOT submit forms until ALL forms are completed, even if you need to submit them late. only one email per Crew Member with all forms attached.
IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS YOUR FORMS WILL BE LOST, OR RETURNED FOR YOU TO RE-SUBMIT IN THE CORRECT FORMAT.
If we receive your $900/person after APRIL 25th, and your flight cost exceeds our mission budget of $900/ticket, we will need to pass the extra flight expense on to you.
Due to the high volume of emails and participants, we cannot manage multiple emails from each participant. Please READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY before submitting forms, and follow these instructions explicitly to save us all time and frustration. Thank you!
You may quickly and securely make a payment to sponsor a mission volunteer with an E-CHECK bank transfer through the Give Now buttons on the DONATE page. You do not need a Give Now account to make a donation.
2. Follow the Instructions on the Sponsor A Volunteer page, and select a blue Give Now button.
3. Follow the simple two-step payment process instructions.
6. Hit SEND PAYMENT and you're done!
PLEASE INDICATE WHO THE DONATION IS FOR in the STUDENT'S NAME BOX, or we will not know which volunteer to credit your donation to.
In 1-3 days, Give Now will transfer your payment directly to our mission bank account of our sponsor organization, SANTA CLARA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, which is a licensed 501(c)3 charitable organization. The cost to us is $0.50/transaction.
2. Click the "Donate Special Amount" button.
3. Follow the instructions and enter your total donation amount.
5. Hit SEND PAYMENT and you're done!
Why is a Give Now E-CHECK Bank Transfer better than a paper check?
It's FREE for you, and only costs us $.50!
An E-CHECK transfer or Credit/Debit card payment is greatly preferred over a paper check for payments for us because it saves time of our volunteers to open, record, and deposit hundreds of checks. The E-CHECK payment via Give Now is our preferred method of payment (see instructions above), because it's super fast for you and for us, accurate, safer than paper because we never see your bank information (nor does anyone else handling your mail), and it only costs us $.50/transaction.
Please put GUATEMALA MISSION in the CHECK MEMO, then write the VOLUNTEER'S NAME on an included POST-IT. No personal names on the check or in the CHECK MEMO, please, only on an attachment or post-it.
INCLUDE A LIST OF PARTICIPANT NAMES WITH YOUR CHECK.
Our ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM (needed for Step I) can be found at the bottom of this page.
To register for our mission, please complete the following online form and hit "Submit Registration Form" at the bottom. If you missed a box, or something is filled out incorrectly, an error message will appear in red next to the problem, and you will need to correct it, then hit submit again. When completed correctly, you will see a "Congratulations!" message to confirm all information was received correctly. Okay…let's get started!
Please tell us which week(s) you are planning to be with us this summer.
Please provide the following so we can better understand you, your gifts, and how you would like to serve this summer.
If coming with a group, please indicate your Group Leader. If not, please select "None"
If presently attending one (i.e. Christ Community Church, Miami, FL). If not, put "None"
Please list up to three additional people you would like to room with in Guatemala. (i.e. John Smith, Jane Smith, etc.) Every effort will be made to honor requests, but preferences cannot be guaranteed. If you have no preference, simply put "None" and you will be roomed with 1-3 people of the same gender.
Please tell us which crews you would prefer to be on. Assuming you are willing to serve where needed, please check ALL crews you are interested in serving on. (see the MISSION CREWS menu above for descriptions of each) Every effort will be made to honor requests, but preferences cannot be guaranteed. VBS team members will serve on other crews in the mornings.
I have no idea what my skills are but I am willing to learn!
Please limit your answer to 1-2 sentences for each answer in this section. Please briefly tell us more about your faith journey.
Please describe your relationship with Jesus Christ.
Tell us about significant aspects of your faith journey.
What strengths would you bring to the mission in Guatemala?
What weaknesses do you have that may affect your team, or your work in Guatemala?
Have you had a cross-cultural experience before? If so, briefly explain. If not, put "None".
Do you have any allergies? Any dietary restrictions? Special Needs? If not, put "None".
Any additional information, or Special Skills that you have, that you would like to share with us? If not, put "None".
I have read and agree to honor the "Now Is the Time Mission Covenant - Guatemala 2018", as listed at www.nowisthetimeformissions.com/forms, and I will conduct myself accordingly in order to fulfill the goals of this mission.
Your form has submitted correctly, and you have completed your FIRST STEP on the road to Guatemala this summer!
If possible, please make your FIRST deposit your FULL deposit of $1,800 for 1 wk, or $2,400 for 2 wks. That would be VERY helpful! You can make your deposit on the Sponsor A Volunteer page.
Next, please confirm you have completed all of Step I in the Registration Process above, then move on the Step II.
Thanks again…we are looking forward to working with you in Guatemala this summer!


Well that didn't take long. Last week, we learned that Ken Scott was dropping out as director of The Grand Seduction, the $13 million re-make of La Grande seduction, the 2003 Quebec comedy hit, and in this very space, Grand Seduction producer Roger Frappier made no secret of his bitter disappointment following Scott's sudden decision. Scott has left Frappier's project to write and direct the Hollywood re-make of Starbuck, the 2010 Quebec blockbuster that he co-wrote and directed.
Now comes news that hotshot Toronto actor-writer-director Don McKellar will take-over as director of The Grand Seduction.
Now who knows if it'll be a better movie than the one Scott would've directed but McKellar directing Scott's screenplay is certainly one mighty intriguing proposition. I have heard that Scott's English version of his original French-language script is pretty darn good, that it's a saltier take than what we saw on the screen the first time 'round, and McKellar is one of Canada's more interesting movie talents.
He co-wrote the brilliant 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould with Montreal filmmaker Francois Girard, and also wrote The Red Violin for Girard. McKellar wrote and directed the end-of-the-world laugher Last Night, and wrote, directed and starred in the film Childstar. He wrote the book for the musical The Drowsy Chaperone, which won him a Tony Award, and he also penned the screenplay for the film adaptation of Jose Saramago's award-winning novel Blindness. He co-starred in that film. In addition, he directed and executive produced the CBC series Michael: Tuesday & Thursday.
The film will shoot on location this summer in Newfoundland with Frappier producing in collaboration with Newfoundland producer Barbara Doran from Morag Loves Company and French producer Pierre-Ange Le Pogam from Stone Angels Production.


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Nepal Earthquakes One Year On
A UN Women News Feature
NEW YORK (IDN | UN Women) - On April 25, 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, followed by another powerful 7.3-magnitude quake on May 12. In the ongoing response to the earthquakes in Nepal, UN Women has worked side-by-side with government, UN OCHA and other UN agencies, and women's group to highlight the distinct needs of women and girls, including protection and resilience, and to promote their role as meaningful participants in eventual recovery, reconstruction and development. As we approach the one-year mark since the earthquakes, UN Women spotlight on Nepali women and girls, their stories and their solutions.
In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, UN Women through its established partnerships with women's groups, established five multi-purpose women's centres, by women's groups in collaboration with local government, and three information centres. UN Women targeted recognized groups of vulnerable women, including widows, disabled women, female household heads, Dalit women, and women with other vulnerabilities, reaching approximately 42,703 affected women so far.
Through the five multi-purpose centres in Kavre, Sindhupalchowk, Nuwakot, Gorkha and Kathmandu districts, women were offered a range of services, including psychosocial counselling and trauma assistance (1,532 women reached), awareness-raising and information dissemination, including through messages on local radio and social mobilizers deployed in the community (with 13,966 women reached directly) on relief and recovery related activities, and referral services, such as to legal organizations to support women and girls who have experienced violence (with 618 women reached).
There has been an increase in incidents of violence against women survivors since the earthquake. The multi-purpose centres are safe spaces equipped with counsellors who among other things can also help survivors cope and receive support and other services.
UN Women also distributed non-food items in seven districts (Kathmandu, Sindhupalchowk, Gorkha, Kavre, Nuwakot, Bhaktapur and Dhading), which included 6,513 dignity kits, 8,094 solar lanterns, 19,182 sanitary napkins and 2,500 radio sets.
Post-earthquake, the number of migrant workers, including women, seeking to leave Nepal has been on the rise and UN Women and partners have intensified awareness programmes and economic empowerment efforts to stem the tide of women migrant workers in the affected districts.
UN Women has also called for increased participation and leadership of women and girls in the assessment, planning and implementation of the humanitarian response, offering leadership training to strengthen women's ability to take part.
Focusing on development
As the humanitarian response shifts to focus more on development, the multi-purpose women's centres in the five districts in the second phase of the programme will aim to ensure that the local disaster preparedness and response plan respond to the needs of women and girls and strengthen their capacity to prevent, prepare for, and recover from natural hazards.
This phase of the response will also support a grass-roots women's network for community resilience and disaster risk reduction. Also via these centres, UN Women will focus on ensuring that networks of excluded women's in the three worst-affected districts have access to local budgets, benefit from employment opportunities and get engaged in cash-for-work programmes and livelihoods skills-enhancement in safe and supportive locations.
Gender-sensitive humanitarian planning and budgeting
Women – who represent 51 per cent of the population of Nepal – have been the single-highest adversely affected group. The 14 most affected districts include about 327,000 female-headed households (26.5 per cent of all households), 40,000 women and girls with disabilities, and over 163,000 women over the age of 65. More women and girls died than men and boys, partly because of gendered roles that disproportionately assign indoor chores to women and male migration out of the country.
Since the very outset, UN Women has been working to ensure that the humanitarian response to the earthquakes in Nepal takes the specific needs of women into account. With the National Planning Commission and Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, UN Women's technical assistance led to an engendered Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), with a dedicated Gender Equality and Social Inclusion chapter, ensuring sectoral and recovery strategies took women's needs into account. UN Women is also contributing to the development of the Gender Empowerment and Social Inclusion section within the Post-Disaster Recovery Framework under the leadership of the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare.
With UN Women's advocacy, the commitment to apply the Government's Gender-Responsive Budgeting principles to all recovery and reconstruction programmes was also included in the PDNA and the Ministry of Finance requested all ministries adopt these principles in their reconstruction plans. UN Women has acted as a sector lead development partner to this end, working with the Ministry, UN and civil society partners.
High-impact partnerships
The UN Women and UN OCHA partnership has been key to ensuring that gender equality and gender mainstreaming are not neglected in humanitarian action in Nepal. Both organizations co-chaired the Humanitarian Response Inter-Cluster Gender Working Group, which continues to provide recommendations, analysis and messaging for advocacy use by the Humanitarian Country Team and Inter-Cluster Coordination, including in the humanitarian bulletins and key sectoral messages.
UN Women works closely with women's groups, who helped assemble and distribute the dignity kits and other non-food items through the multi-purpose women's centres, in close coordination with the national Department of Women and Children in Kathmandu and the district-level Women and Children Office. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquakes, UN Women's NGO partner organizations also played a key role in searching the 14 most-affected districts to identify the most vulnerable women who were most in need of urgent help. They helped provide assistance, distributing urgently needed aid such as dignity kits, solar lamps, radio sets.
Over the coming year, UN Women will continue to work closely with government and development partners to support some of the most vulnerable groups of women to promote their political and economic engagement and to build their resilience.
Note: This feature first appeared as photo essay on UN Women website on April 20, 2016. [IDN-InDepthNews – 20 April 2016]
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GENERAL RETRO CHIT CHAT / Re: The MSX - 30 years on!
An MSX2 is still on my shopping list - mainly for all those lovely Japanese series origins.
R-type, Gradius yep they're all great on it especially if they have the SCC Sound chip in the cartridge.
I love the MSX, a much unloved and underrated machine. I sold my Turbo R and MSX 2 a few years ago but kept a couple of MSX 1s including the classic HX10 with is my favorite.
Pretty sure there's already an SDcard interface for the MSX machines (the name sunrise has appeared in my head) but they're difficult to obtain.
Exactly, the sunrise has been around for ages but is almost impossible to get.
FOR SALE / WANTED / Re: Atari 7800 av mod-----wanted!!!!!!
And Sony have also now confirmed the PS4 is REGION FREE out of the box and the HDD is customer upgradable.
Bye bye Microsoft - was nice knowing you - go and join Sega and Atari in the console history book (and I'm not a Sony fanboy either - just a realist).
I'll stick with my 360 for a while for modernish stuff.
I've just got a boxed issue 2 spectrum I'm quite pleased with, the actual machine is pretty minty.
Awesome twin SIDs, he mentions compiling EmuTOS to run on it too in the forums. Cool.
Hi everybody - please post any issues you *might* have in here please?


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Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive (1999/44) - United Kingdom
The Business Protection from Misleading Marketing (Amendment) Regulations 2013 23/10/2013 14/11/2013 The Business Protection from Misleading Marketing (Amendment) Regulati_en.pdf
Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 01/01/9999 01/01/9999 legislation138_en.pdf
The Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/1276) 08/05/2008 26/05/2008 transpos_laws_uk2_en.pdf
The Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer's Home or Place of Work etc. Regulations 2008 08/07/2008 01/10/2008 legislation435_en.pdf
Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 01/01/9999 01/01/9999 legislation135_en.pdf
The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 13/12/2013 13/06/2014 The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charg_en.pdf
Prices Act 1974 01/01/9999 09/07/1974 legislation132_en.pdf
2002 EWHC (QB)195 Thoburn v Sunderland City Council
MG Bridge, Benjamin's Sale of Goods (9th edn, Sweet & Maxwell, 2014) Benjamin's Sale of Goods, 9th Edition G BRIDGE, M. 2016
2003, 1, Oxford, publisher: Oxford University Press Blackstone's Guide to Consumer Sales and Associated Guarantees Robert Bradgate, Christian Twigg-Flesner 2003
2010, p. x, Sweet & Maxwell (book) Consumer Law and Practice, 8th Edition Robert Lowe, Geoffrey Woodroffe 2010
2005, Aldershot, publisher: Ashgate Consumer Protection Law Geraint Howells, Stephen Weatherill 2005
L Conway, Commons Briefing papers SN06588, 12 June 2017 Consumer Rights Act 2015 CONWAY, L. 2015
European Review of Private Law (ERPL), 2001, pages 197-221 Consumer Sales Directive 1999/44/EC – The impact on English law Stephen Watterson 2001
European Current Law, 2001, pages xi-xv E.C. Law and Manufacturers' Guarantees - Formal Irrationality or Mere Carelessness? Christian Twigg-Flesner 2001
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When you decide to move your home somewhere else, it is imminent to hire a moving company. Now, hiring a company depends on the number of furniture and fragile things at home including the distance from the new home. It might be possible for you to move some of the furniture all by yourself or with the help of a friend or a family member. But then you might have other fragile things that can only be moved with the help of a professional moving company. They will know how to pack up furniture in such a way that they can be delivered to the new property as such without causing any potential damages.
In case you have big furniture such as a piano and if you have been looking for a moving company for the same, a piano moving company would do the job well. They help customers to carry pianos in such a way that they reach your new home just the same way they were in the old home. Since there are various moving companies, you need to look around and check the rates and quality of service beforehand. Find out about 4 to 5 companies and then do a comparison. Zero in on a company that suits your preferences and budget the best.
You need to make sure that you are not charged more than what is necessary when you choose a piano moving company. In case you have many furniture and other stuffs to carry to your new home, try to move as much furniture as possible with the help of the moving company. This will reduce the amount of money spent to a considerable amount. For furniture that is delicate and fragile, you should seek help of the moving company at all costs.
A piano moving company would pack and secure every part of the piano in such a way that it does not move at all. Then it is loaded into the vehicle that is used for moving. They also secure the piano in such a way that it does not bump to the side of the vehicle when it is moving, nor will it jerk when there is a speed breaker.
In case you are worried about the payments, there is some good news for you. Some of the piano moving company houses that provide moving services allow people to pay for the services in several installments.


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Стадион Та́мале (англ. Tamale Stadium) — мультиспортивный стадион в городе Тамале, Гана, был открыт в 2008 году. Вместимость 21 017 мест, более половины из них оборудованы сиденьями. В основном используется как футбольный стадион, является домашней ареной клуба национального чемпионата Ганы — Реал Тамале Юнайтед. В 2008 году выступает в качестве одного из 4-х стадионов Кубка африканских наций по футболу.

Ссылки
 Карточка стадиона на сайте WorldStadia.com

Футбол в Гане
Стадионы Ганы
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Sec. 8-46 of the Municipal Code restricts the use and placement of portable storage units and requires a permit. In residential zones, one (1) portable storage container per property is allowed for no more than sixty (60) days per twelve month period. Portable storage containers cannot be placed in a public right-of-way (i.e. the street or on-street parking space) and must be at least 6 ft. from any property line. The maximum allowable size is: 8 ft. in height, 8 ft. in width, and 16 ft. in length. The fee for a portable storage container permits is $25.00.


You are visiting the placeholder page for Michael James. This page is here because someone used our placeholder utility to look for Michael James. We created this page automatically in hopes Michael James would find it. If you are not Michael James, but are an alumni of Martin County High School, register on this site for free now.


Deca Aloes Arborescens S.r.l. - an Italian company which we built from this one fundamental ideal: to produce a range of cosmetic products and alimentary integrators made primarily from aloe-arborescens extracts.
Our mission is to bring people closer to the benefits of nature through unique products, aimed at well-being and beauty. The extracts from aloes arborescens, together with special ingredients bring about high quality products recommended for well-being and beauty.
A small range of products has been created, from developing research, to cater for the most complex consumer needs. Products originating from Deca Aloes Arborescnes contain a unique combination of concentration and mixture so that the properties of aloe arborescens, along with its potency, and our methods of plant extraction make them different to the countless other products on the market.
All the information found within this text is for educational purposes only and is not recommended as a method of self-diagnosis. All problems related to one' s mental and physical health should be consulted with a health professional. Neither the editor, author nor any other person who is directly or indirectly related to this publication is authorised or capable of giving medical advice. We are not prescribing any cures and we will not be responsible for patience that chooses to cure themselves. Father Romano Zago' s clients are people who simply want to share their personal experiences on an "information" basis only.


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Q: Junit test not starting in eclipse I'm pretty inexperienced with both eclipse and junit tests, so this could be a really stupid question...
When I try to run my junit test by clicking run as -> junit test, nothing happens. The console is empty, the JUnit tab shows nothing, and in the Progress tab there is a message "Launching  Finished at . communication does not exist".
What does this mean? When I run a clean package on the project, with "Skip tests" unchecked, it runs the tests, and they all pass. But I don't like to run the tests this way. It is more time consuming, and I don't get the detailed information about the tests that one gets from running them as Run As -> junit test.
Any ideas what could be wrong? I've tried googling the "communication does not exist" message, but to no avail.
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When I run the clean package with "Skip tests" unchecked in the run configuration, the test runs fine. That is, I get output
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When I change the test so assertTrue(false), it fails as expected, and the output from clean package is that it failed, with a stacktrace.
The only thing happening when I right-click the test (and class name, I've tried both), is in the Progress and JUnit-tab, pictures below:

Arg, seems like the pictures won't open for some reason. but in summary, in the Junit tab, nothing shows, it just says runs : 0/0, Errors:0 Failures:0, and nothing more. In the Progress tab, I get the "Launching  (Finished at 08:13), and on the line below, "communication does not exist".

A: In my case in run configuration I put it as junit4 ran well

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Q: optimParallel can not find Rcpp function I am trying to optimize a Rcpp function parallely using the R package "optimParallel". But I am getting the error:
Error in checkForRemoteErrors(val) : 3 nodes produced errors; first error: object 'Likelihood' not found

Now, the function "Likelihood" is written in C++ and exported to R via "Rcpp". I found in this link:   parallelize Own Package in R
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McClung drops out of next debate with Grijalva
Some of my readers theorized in the comments section that Congressional candidate Ruth McClung's Tea Party backers who disrupted this week's CD7 debate actually live in Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' CD8.
Yesterday evening the Rum Romanism and Rebellion blog reported that McClung has backed out of Monday's upcoming debate (October 18) with Congressman Raul Grijalva.
Why? October 18 is the same day Giffords debates her opponent Jesse Kelly, another Tea Party darling. This lends credence to your comments, dear readers. The rowdy Tea Partiers can't be in 2 places at once. Maybe their forces aren't as strong as they want us to believe. Here is an excerpt. [Emphasis added.]
The sticking point [to the debate], in the end, was the time. McClung's people did not want the debate at the same time as the one between Gabrielle Giffords and Jesse Kelly. The Grijalva people agreed to move the debate a bit later, but McClung's people took their ball and went home.
Maybe this new found reticence is because of McClung's performance last night. She may have discovered that repeating the word "boycott" over and over again is a poor substitute for knowledge of the needs of the district and public policy.
No word yet on whether the debate will take place anyway, there are two other candidates running. Should the debate go on, this humble blogger will leave it up to you, the reader, to decide what inanimate object would be an appropriate substitute for McClung.
While your checking out the R3 link above, you also might check this story: Surprise! Conservative Group Caught in a Fib About Grijalva's Record. The Grover Norquist ad that I mentioned lies about Grijalva's record. As Tedski says, "Surprise, surprise."
31 comments on "McClung drops out of next debate with Grijalva"
andrew farley
Do you, Pam, support Mr. Grijalva and if so, what do you like about him, Thank you.
Harley Meyer
Andrew Farley,
The world is not always Rep vs Dems. Maybe she supports one of the other two candidates. If you are concerned about your economic interest, then I highly suggest you start looking at the other two candidates.
Among many things in his favor, unlike McClung he doesn't favor depriving gay people of equal rights or forcing rape victims to bear their rapists' babies.
There are lots of other things, but those 2 are enough for me to vote against McClung quite happily.
DaveinMaricopa
I to am curious on whom you support, Pam. It seems that during the primary your organization backed McClung. Judging by articles written by Jim Kelly on The Cholla Jumps McClung had him in her pocket. So much so that he allowed McClung to slander a fellow candidate in that primary. So where do you stand?
Pamela Powers
"My organization"?
I support Grijalva, but I live in Gabby's district. I will be voting for her. Look for coverage of the Oct 18 Giffords/Kelly debate and an essay about the "fair" tax– which is primarily "fair" to big business– not consumers.
I know you "support" him, but what do you like about him that you support? Thanx again. And thank you Harley Meyer for your infomation.
Three Sonorans
The Cholla Jumps left the Tucson Citizen to do his own independent blog. And yes, he hates Grijalva more than anything and loves McClung.
But there is no official "organization opinion". Every blogger has their own opinion.
I don't hat Grijalva, I hate his politics, marxist progressive left, big governemtn, big labor, big education. He has no clue as to who drives economic engines. His legislative behavior has enabled human smuggling, drug smuggling and thousands of deaths in the desert along with murder and rape of innocent exploited people. How's that compassion working out for him?
And our drug policy had nothing to do with what's going on along the border.
I say you hate him because rather than focus on the political, you also use adjectives such as "Grijalva and his bloated ass" when you write about him… not very professional, but bloggers don't have to be I guess.
It's working put better that the gay hating, anti abortion screed that McClung promotes 🙂
Plain Ol' B.O.
Let me get this straight-
A pixilated tin pot county dictator who held court for years at watering holes around town can't keep hold on a gerrymandered district which was given to him as a life long gift for a career of dirty deeds? Then he should be booted, at least for stupidity- It's a miracle his staff has kept him (so far) from dipping his beak too agressively in shaking down the PACS to date.
Maybe the "beholding" humble voters in his district will rise up this year a shuck this ass clown.
Here's a couple questions to ask the Representative-
How do you square your "enviromentalist" label with the empty KFC boxes and full diapers spread around the fragile desert?
If every "path to citizenship" included EVERYTHING but the right to vote…Would the Democrats be so excited about the process- That is, if they couldn't obtain another voter block?
Pam you crack me up – Vote For Ruth, I Am.
Interesting thing I noticed in news about these polls they are not calling anyone with cell phones, only land lines, since I have not had a land line in 10 years finding cell/wireless more economical, this article I read stated the way polls are being done this way are biased for GOP against other parties whether they be democrat, independant etc, one thing for sure, this story here makes one wonder about why this lady dodges a debate that might be on same night as her fellow right winger, guess it would have divided their tea party hooligans!
I have a suggestion for those fortuneatly blessed progressive bloggers.
You are allowing the tea partiers to set the agenda for this election.
They have declared that the issue is big government, and you are happily following along.
This has allowed them to completely avoid discussing "social issues" and the fact that they are all in the pocket of the religious right.
There are a lot of voters who would be horrified by the positions of Kelly and McClung on "social issues" but they are very carefully avoiding discussing them, and the debate presenters and media are ahppily following the teabag game plan – to their destruction.
Is "Tucson Progressive" an oxymoron?
No, but "Arizona Progressive" is (along with "Alabama Progressive", "Mississippi Progressive "…)
I'm sorry, I'm still trying to figure out how the good Congressman can square his protection of our desert enviroment with the destruction of same by illegals trampling and polluting same.
cochisecitizen
The good Congressman doesn't support people crossing our border illegally. "Open Borders" and an "Open Borders Crowd" is a right wing myth.
You have to be kidding…..right?
Which part? I'll guess Grijalva – wanna show me a single instance in which he says he supports illegal immigration?
I'll give myself a head start: Washington Post
Q: How do you reconcile your commitment to uphold the Constitution as a member of Congress and yet suggest that federal authorities not enforce U.S. immigration law?
Rep. Raul Grijalva: I have never said or suggested that federal immigration laws should not be enforced. I have suggested that federal law is a federal obligation and should not be delegated to local authorities.
You really make me laugh.
Ok…So Obama says we will build more fence, hire 20,000 more Border patrol and put troops on the border and no "Immigration Reform" what the holy hell do you think Grijalva would say.
Grijalva does not like ICE doing it's job with or without State assistance.
yheredia
Why does everyone keep calling her a "rocket scientist"? She has a bachelors degree in physics. I have a bachelors degree in economics; does that make me a economist?
Why does everyone keep calling her a "rocket scientist"?
Because that is her campaign slogan – it's on her yard signs.
Doesn't have to be true, it's just a slogan.
"She has a bachelors degree in physics"
Yeah, and she works at Raytheon's Tucson facility, which doesn't make rockets. But from what I've seen, McClung isn't one to let honesty stand in her way.
OK Poindexters,
Given that you have finally, (God only knows how, unless you were told by your handlers), figured out that there is a difference between a rocket and a missile –
Congratulations…. Still, how many of you slackers would STILL know the difference if one fell on your foot?
I can tell you Raul sure as hell can't seem to do the simple math necessary to understand 30% means serious (unemployment) that is.
Honesty…Now thats funny-
I know which one I would rather find my wallet in a parking lot-
And it ain't the 60s hold over "Defender of the enviroment, only when it means no minig jobs, not the trampling or littering in the desert part".
Grijalva and Giffords: Two big government hacks.
Was on the local news tonight.
Ducking on the League of Women Voters debate is pretty sad.
I would be interested in any video of the teabaggers who show up at the Giffords-Kelly debate – my bet is that they will be the same nutjobs that were at Grijalva's debate and aren't even from his district.
An awful lot of outside interest – and outside money and TV ads – are being aimed at Grijalva.
Yes, it will be interesting. I'll be there with my camera and notebook– but no video. 🙂
Grijalva, Keane, and Meyer are going ahead with the CD7 debate tonight– without McClung. Her dropping out of this debate commitment doesn't say much for the steel in her spine. She's following the lead of Jan Brewer and other Republican candidates– ducking debates (where one is required to coherently express ideas) in favor of soundbites and TV commercials paid for by secretly funded, national right-wing groups.
Will the District EVER rise up and shuck this two bit County King Pin?
Will it continue to be held hostage by his tempermental outbursts, enemies lists, and selective doling of Government favors and largeese?
This entry was posted on October 15, 2010 by Pamela Powers Hannley in 2010 elections, Arizona, Congress, Gabrielle Giffords, Jesse Kelly, Raul Grijalva, Republican Party, Ruth McClung, Tea Party, Tucson and tagged Arizona, Congress, Raul Grijalva, Ruth McClung.
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A CASE OF A BOY WHO IN 1813 SWALLOWED A PIECE OF COPPER AS REPORTED BY JAMES JACKSON, M.D
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James Jackson (1777-1867) has been described as the most conspicuous character in the medical annals of Massachusetts. He was the first physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital when it was opened in 1821. In 1812, he succeeded Benjamin Waterhouse as the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. The following case history will interest readers of PEDIATRICS both for its clarity of presentation and for Dr. Jackson's clinical reasoning.
In October, 1813, G. B. a boy in his fourth year, swallowed a half cent. There ensued almost immediately a nausea and a great flow of saliva from the mouth. Within twenty-four hours the patient began to vomit. He contirtued to vomit at intervals for eight days; and at sometimes it was almost incessant for hours, and in the highest degree distressing. He threw off his victuals and some bile; but much of the time, he was troubled with vain retchings. About the fifth day, he had three very offensive and copious stools, which were uncommonly green. He derived some relief from these evacuations. He often complained of pain in the abdomen, which seemed to be in the umbilical region.
The first solid food which he retained was in the night of the eighth day. He then awoke and called for brown bread; and he continued to demand this, with great vehemence, until he had eaten three large slices. He retained them all, and from that time was convalescent. For several weeks he experienced nausea whenever he attempted to swallow animal food, although he chewed it abundantly.
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Neil Diamond rewrites 'Sweet Caroline' to help combat coronavirus
By Adam Wallis	Global News
Posted March 23, 2020 1:46 pm
Updated March 24, 2020 8:15 am
Neil Diamond performs on stage during a concert at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland, on June 15, 2011.	 Steffen Schmidt / EPA
In the midst of the panic and chaos surrounding the novel coronavirus, Neil Diamond, the acclaimed American singer/songwriter, has shared an acoustic living room performance online in an attempt to connect with his fans across the globe and instil hope.
The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based musician — along with his dog Shamrock — shared a clever and incredibly relevant rewrite of his 1969 country-rock anthem Sweet Caroline, in which he sings about washing hands and social distancing.
"I know we're going through a rough time right now," says Diamond, 79, in the video shared to Twitter on Sunday, "but I love ya," he adds.
Before breaking out into the updated number, he continues, "I think maybe if we sing together, well, we'll just feel a little bit better."
Stay safe out there! "Hands… washing hands.." 🎶 pic.twitter.com/QaRB1qZshp
— Neil Diamond (@NeilDiamond) March 22, 2020
While retaining most of the song's original lyrics — which are ironically relevant to the outbreak of the global pandemic — in the pre-chorus, Diamond sings: "Hands… washing hands / Reaching out… don't touch me / I won't touch you."
"Stay safe out there," wrote Diamond in the video's caption.
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The now-viral Sweet Caroline update was met with a great deal of positivity on social media, as Diamond intended it to be.
Here's what some fans had to say on Twitter about the video:
Thanks to Neil Diamond's video going around, I have Sweet Caroline stuck in my head.
This is not a complaint.
— Sparkling Blue (@SparklingBlue) March 23, 2020
As if I didn't have enough reasons to LOVE Neil Diamond. https://t.co/5QBt9tlFYj
— Q (@thatsnicerenee) March 23, 2020
@NeilDiamond Kudos! Loved this! Brought back fond memories w/ an updated lyric. Thank you!
— Susan Longosky (@emmasamma2011) March 23, 2020
A day prior, Diamond even tweeted out sharing his appreciation for those who have continued working despite the threat of COVID-19, highlighting health-care workers and grocery store employees.
He wrote: "Thank you healthcare workers, first responders, supermarket employees, food service and utility workers, delivery drivers and everyone out there who is on the frontlines to keep everyone safe. We applaud you!"
He even included "#saferathome", prompting many fans to share the hashtag which promotes self-quarantining.
READ MORE: Michael Stipe sings 'It's the End of the World as We Know It' in coronavirus PSA
Health officials caution against all international travel. Returning travellers are asked to self-isolate for 14 days in case they develop symptoms and to prevent spreading the virus to others.
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To prevent the virus from spreading, experts recommend frequent handwashing and coughing into your sleeve. They also recommend minimizing contact with others, staying home as much as possible and maintaining a distance of two metres from other people if you go out.
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It's a pleasure to welcome science historian and writer Sarah Dry to the ClimateCultures blog and her contribution to A History of the Anthropocene in 50 Objects. Sarah's personal selection and the images she has chosen to illutstrate her objects strike a particular chord with the former astronomy student in me; and these three objects speak of the gap between seeing and feeling.
Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) was a Scottish astronomer who travelled the world studying the heavens and the earthly atmosphere that so often blocked his view. He was an obsessive, spending long hours perfecting his observing technique with the telescope, the spectroscope and the camera.
The photograph reproduced below (left) is one of 144 photographs of clouds taken by Piazzi Smyth in his retirement, from the window of his home near Ripon, North Yorkshire, during 1892 and 1893. He printed the photographs and bound them together in a handmade book of what he called Cloud Forms that Have Been To the Glory of their creator and the wonderment of learned men. Alongside each photograph, he included a page recording the time, temperature, pressure and weather conditions when each photograph was taken. His aim was to render the ever-changing clouds into something fixed which could be compared and used to generate a fuller understanding of the atmosphere. This was a continuation of a project that had begun with Luke Howard's innovation at the start of the century, a nomenclature that distilled the multiplicity of possible cloud forms to just three basic forms.
For Smyth, looking was its own end, and in looking he felt a connection with the divine.
What moves me about this book is how it embodies the deep ambivalence within the culture in which Smyth lived, with which he himself struggled. On the one hand, he was driven to try to reduce the complexity of the clouds to a set of physical laws. He achieved great success in this endeavour, becoming Astronomer Royal for Scotland at the precocious age of twenty-seven and demonstrating that mountain astronomy was possible by leading a daring expedition up the volcanic mountain at Tenerife. On the other hand, he was moved to a kind of desperate faith at the thought of the endless complexity and prodigality of nature, in the face of which even the best recording devices were impotent. His late-life cloud photography was less a quest to master the skies than a form of surrender to the ultimate unknowability of divine creation.
Today, we often try to separate science from emotion (to say nothing of science and religion), suggesting that to do good science is to be dispassionate. There may be very good reasons to try to carve out spaces from which emotion is explicitly excluded, but Smyth's poignant book is a material reminder of the potential, within one individual, to embrace two very different ways of observing, and of knowing, the clouds.
Today, we can sit at home and look through the magical window of the computer at the clouds from space. This is not, strictly speaking, a new achievement. The first Earth-observing satellite program, named Nimbus after the Latin word for rain cloud, was launched by NASA in 1964. Since then, our vision of clouds from space has continued to improve, as instruments have gotten more sensitive and new satellites with new capabilities have been launched. Today, Nimbus' successor, the less poetically named CloudSat, is part of the so-called A-train of six such satellites devoted to watching Earth.
The kind of vision CloudSat provides is gratifyingly intimate, but it is also alien. CloudSat uses radar to cut through the clouds, revealing their insides as a surgeon's knife reveals the inner organs of a patient. An animation (see below) of the inside of Typhoon Dolphin on May 16, 2015, reveals the dramatic structure of the inner eye of the storm, but it remains removed from human experience. That is, in fact, precisely the point. CloudSat reveals what would otherwise be invisible, the interiors of clouds and the storms into which they sometimes assemble. For all its scientific intent, this is a voyeuristic and even transgressive kind of vision, transposing the stark lines of the penetrating radar with the soft billows of the clouds, replacing the familiar vision of the clouds from below with a God's eye view from above.
Smyth made much of the portability and intimacy of the tools he used. He liked feeling the spectroscope in his hand and devised a special viewfinder to enable him to simultaneously look up at the skies and down through the viewfinder of the camera he used. My interface with the earth's clouds is through my laptop, a portable but nevertheless impersonal device whose workings are opaque to me. Despite the grandeur of the vision it offers, my computer—and the vast network of technology it accesses—brings me, in fact, no closer to either the satellite which passes the earth's equator every 99 minutes precisely, or the clouds it so relentlessly, and magically transects. I know what I am looking at but I don't know how to feel.
There are clouds of water on Mars. This came as a surprise to me as I researched this post. Only recently, scientists have realized that some Martian clouds are probably made of ice crystals, just like high clouds on Earth. Still photographs have been taken from the Curiosity Rover of moody Martian skies, ice crystal clouds brightening the glow of the setting sun. Even more remarkably, a series of photographs show thin stratus-like clouds in motion in the skies above the Curiosity Rover. Most clouds on Mars, however, are made not of water but of carbon dioxide, which makes up more than 95 per cent of its atmosphere (on Earth, it accounts for roughly 0.04 per cent). (Oxygen, on the other hand, is present at just 0.13 per cent, compared with 21 per cent on Earth). Most Martian clouds are, in fact, made up of tiny flakes of frozen carbon dioxide (no bigger than red blood cells) and they hover like giant foggy caps over the poles during Martian winters.
These clouds, and the carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere they float in, represents both a challenge and an opportunity to those who would explore or colonize Mars. Here is where MOXIE, the Mars Oxygen In situ Experiment, comes into the story. It is a desktop-sized prototype for a tool that could put the carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere to human use. If all goes well, it will land on Mars sometime in February 2021 and start trying to produce oxygen at a rate of 10 grams an hour. The idea is that this oxygen could be used by human explorers both for breathing, and, critically, as a propellant for fuelling the return trip to Earth. The prospect of beginning to alter the atmospheric chemistry of Mars is with us.
MOXIE already exists in prototype form and is expected to be part of the 2020 Mars Rover launch. As such, this little instrument contributes to the ultimate in futuristic thinking, the idea that humans can colonize Mars. MOXIE is a cute name for a jaunty instrument with a seriously ambitious goal that once seemed nearly impossible and now seems, depending on how you look at it, eminently achievable or wildly misguided.
What would Piazzi Smyth say about both Musk and MOXIE, about the ambition of pushing out beyond our heavens and into the atmosphere of another planet? And what would he feel when looking at these images of Martian clouds? I am not even sure how they make me feel. Are they frightening, inspiring, or merely strange? I cannot decide and that inability to know my own feelings tells me more, perhaps, than any decipherable feeling would. The distance between me and the cloudscape of Mars is contracting at the speed by which data travels from the Mars rovers cameras and NASA's Earth-bound computers. It will contract further as projects to explore and possibly colonize Mars proceed. Even as they seek, quite literally, to domesticate Mars, these technologies make me aware, as I have never been before, of all the things I cannot know about Mars. Piazzi Smyth's cloud photographs, for all the hopes they represented of increasing our knowledge, ultimately left him feeling less enlightened and more reverent. As any good writer knows, what is not revealed often plays more powerfully in the imagination than what is. What we cannot see, in other words, we have to feel.
There is more to learn about Charles Piazzi Smyth at Wikipedia. Cloud Forms that Have Been To the Glory of their creator and the wonderment of learned men and other of Smyth's documents are held in the archives at the Royal Society in London.
You can see NASA's animation of the inside of Earth's Typhoon Dolphin on May 16, 2015, revealing the dramatic structure of the storm's inner eye, and their Curiosity Rover images of Martian ice crystal clouds at sunset and thin stratus-like clouds in motion above the planet's surface.
You can discover more about Elon Musk's vision for Mars and 'making human life interplanetary' at Spacex.
Back on the home planet, there is more to explore in the clouds at the Cloud Appreciation Society and the World Meteorological Organisation's World Cloud Atlas.
Click here for Sarah's ClimateCultures Directory page.
Sarah Dry is a writer and historian of science interested in how narrative can create a bridge between people who hold different values about climate change.