If the new millennium has shown us anything it is that the darkness and ignorance of discrimination and basic human rights is not a lesson humanity has learned yet. Not even the White House has been spared from a campaign of hatred and aggression.
Those belonging to the immigrant and refugee population in America have been the targets for the aggression and negative attention from President Trump and his many supporters. The president's "1st 100 Days in Office Plan" even included plans to persecute immigrants of specific ethnic groups.
But once again the overwhelming tide of hatred and ill-will only serves to accentuate those forward-thinking individuals and organizations who oppose this sentiment. There are many groups and unions that have banded together to stand for the downtrodden and fight for the civil liberties that make the modern civilizations civilized rather than falling to brutality.
Dedicated to the plight of immigrants and especially those with low income and limited resources, the National Immigration Law Center is a versatile source of legal advice. Among the various services they offer, those in need can take advantage of professional policy analysis and advocacy in all of the legal processes that pertain to their situation. For more information on the work they do and how you can join in on their efforts, visit the National Immigration Law Center.
The Coalition for Humane Rights works in and around Los Angeles to help the many immigrants that live and work here. As a premiere advocacy group, the Coalition seeks not only to defend the rights of immigrants coming from all across the world, but works to improve their quality of life as well.
The Lacey and Larkin Frontera Fund works to support many of the most active organizations working to defend the rights of those who defend all human and civil liberties. The founders of the "Village Voice" periodical, Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey, dedicated the proceeds of an enormous settlement they received over a case of gross abuse of authority, to furthering the efforts of many civil liberties groups working in Arizona.
Many people are unaware of the vast numbers of children that enter the country each year from the corners of the globe. There are many organizations that work to protect the rights of these children as well as provide options for their future. Like many of these organizations, the Young center includes a program where volunteers can take a young person under their wing and work to provide them with a friend and guide to the USA.


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Corrosion Of Conformity Books UK Tour Dates With Orange Goblin This Fall
Posted on June 8, 2018 by News Team
In what is sure to be one of the highlight tours this fall, Corrosion Of Conformity has locked down UK tour dates with fellow stoner-doom mashers Orange Goblin for a co-headline tour. Direct support will come from Fireball Ministry and Black Moth. All dates go on sale on June 15th . Orange Goblin's new album The Wolf Bites Back drops next week via Candlelight Records, while COC continues to tour in support of 2017's No Cross, No Crown (Nuclear Blast). COC plays Download festival tomorrow,.Continue reading →
Posted inNews | TaggedAckercocke, Candlelight Records, COC, Corrosion Of Conformity, Fireball Ministry, No Cross No Crown, Nuclear Blast, Orange Goblin, The Wolf Bites Back
Members Of COC, Bloody Hammers, Demon Eye Form Doom Supergroup Lightning Born
Low-key doom supergroup Lighting Born has formed with members hailing from notable bands such as Corrosion of Conformity Bloody Hammers, Demon Eye, The Hell No, Hour of 13 and Mega Colossus. The doom metal collective with roots in North Carolina and Maryland has signed a world-wide deal with Ripple Music, and are already working on a new album due out in late 2018. Continue reading →
Posted inNews | TaggedBloody Hammers, Brenna Leath, COC, Corrosion Of Conformity, Demon Eye, doom metal, Doza Hawes, Erik Sugg, Hour of 13, Lightning Born, Maryland Doom Fest, Mega-Colossus, Mike Dean, Ripple Music, supergroup, The Hell No
Corrosion Of Conformity To Be Rejoined By Reed Mullen This Summer
Posted on May 29, 2018 by News Team
If you saw Corrosion of Conformity this winter in the US with Black Label Society, Red Fang and EyeHateGod, you may have noticed a certain punk and heavy metal legend was missing behind the drum kit. Reed Mullen was sitting out the tour with a knee injury, that he eventually got replaced this spring. Redd has announced that he is rejoining the band this summer, but not before their upcoming European tour, taking place soon.
Posted inNews | TaggedBlack Label Society, COC, Reed Mullen, Reed Mullen update
Corrosion Of Conformity Announces Additional European Tour Dates
Posted on March 16, 2018 by News Team
The comeback of the classic version of Corrosion of Conformity rolls onward as the band have previously booked summer tour dates all over, including festivals in Europe. Now the band has added more dates to flesh out the schedule. All dates on sale below. Continue reading →
Posted inNews | TaggedCOC, Converge, Corrosion Of Conformity, Download Festival UK, No Cross No Crown, Nuclear Blast, Woody Weatherman
Black Label Society – Corrosion of Conformity – EyeHateGod At House Of Blues Chicago
Posted on January 12, 2018 by Rick Triana
The brotherhood of the Almighty Black Label Society brought its POWAH and PAIN to the Chicago chapter in the Grimmest of ways on January 3rd2018. Loud and Proud is how Zakk Wylde does it to kick off the New Year on an ice-filled, frozen city kind of evening. With Zakk embarking tours supporting Book of Shadows II (eOne), Zakk Sabbath, and of course performing with Ozzy it's been over 2 years since BLS has taken the Blessed Hellride. The family of the House of Blues Chicago BLS DOOM crew came out in droves and packed the hall to the limit on a sub-zero night in Chicago. The house wasn't heating up inside, it was burning up! The anticipation of the crowd was insurmountable – ready to rock with Father Zakk and the crew once again.Continue reading →
Posted inConcert Reviews, Concert Reviews: USA, Festival Reviews: USA | TaggedBlack Label Society, BLS, Book Of Shadows II, COC, Corrosion Of Conformity, EOne, Eyehategod, Ghost Cult Magazine, Grimmest Hits, House of Blues Chicago, No Cross No Crown, Ozzy, Rick Triana, Rick Triana Photography, ShipRocked, Zakk Sabbath
Corrosion of Conformity – No Cross No Crown
Posted on January 12, 2018 by Dan Swinhoe
It has been 13 years since Pepper Keenan's last album with Corrosion of Conformity; 2005's excellent and under-rated In the Arms of God (Sanctuary). In the meantime, the rest of COC ploughed on as a trio, releasing the passable pair of Corrosion of Conformity and IX (both Candlelight); two records which tried to combine their early Punk and Thrash roots with the groove-laden rock and metal of their latter days, to only middling success. Continue reading →
Posted inAlbum Reviews, Reviews | TaggedBlues Metal, COC, Corrosion Of Conformity, Dan Swinhoe, desert rock, Metal, No Cross No Crown, Nuclear Blast, Pepper Keenan, rock, stoner rock, Thin Lizzy, Woody Weatherman
Ghost Cult's Most Anticipated Albums Of 2017
This past year was a huge one for music with so many bands releasing new material it was hard to keep up, even for us here at Ghost Cult. So many legacy bands, modern classic acts, and up and comers dropped new music this year, some may wish they had waited until 2017 to drop it like it's hot. Without further ado, here are our picks for the new tunes you need in your life in 2017. Continue reading →
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Bloodstock Open Air 2016 Part 2: Live At Catton Hall- Walton-on-Trent UK
Posted on August 23, 2016 by News Team
After a wobbly Saturday morning start, Akercocke carried on from where they left off a few years ago, improving and gaining/regaining fans as they went along. Rotting Christ sounded fantastic, The King is Blind completely owned the second stage for forty brutal minutes, and Fear Factory treated the crowd to all of 1995's Demanufacture album while singer Burton C Bell tried his best to keep his voice from cracking. Paradise Lost played a set filled with heavier material, and Gojira stunned the majority of the audience with a set that not even headliners Mastodon could come close to touching. A typically eclectic set, the Atlantan four-piece struggled to get any momentum going, and even with the aid of some fancy video screens, only occasionally showed signs of being genuine headliners. A new version of old UK thrashers Acid Reign also managed to steal Mastodon's thunder all the way from the second stage, playing one of the fastest and most enjoyable thrash sets of the festival while singer, 'H', looked resplendent in his shocking pink suit and top hat.
Gojira, photo credit Bloodstock Open Air on Facebook
And so to Sunday, and to the wonders of Ghost Bath. Only possessing the vaguest of knowledge about this band, I was simply unprepared for the next forty highly confusing (and occasionally eye-wateringly funny) minutes. Imagine a Black Metal band fronted by the shrieking goat from YouTube and you'd have a good idea of what I witnessed that morning.
Although the pedigree of the members of Metal Allegiance is not in question, I'm afraid the same cannot be said of their collective efforts. Cover version after horrible cover version was mauled and discarded, as people turned to each other in disbelief and disappointment. Playing all of 1996 album Nemesis Divina in full, Black Metallers Satyricon put in one of the performances of the weekend, even in the blazing sunshine. Finland's Whispered took to the stage in their Japanese costumes and make-up and proceeded to win over an entire tent of confused onlookers. Technical Thrashers Vektor followed and even more people left with smiling faces. Symphony X gave everyone on the main stage plenty to sing along to, but Anthrax obliterated their memory in seconds. The last time the New York outfit played here in 2013, it was all fairly average, maybe even disappointing. But not this time. They were on fire from the second they launched into 'You Gotta Believe' until they left the stage to 'Indians'. Nobody even cared that they dropped a couple of favourites in order to showcase newer material.
Anthrax, photo credit Gary Alcock
Even headliners Slayer struggled to keep up. Again, like Anthrax, it was a much improved performance from 2013, but things seemed to go a little awry in the latter stages of their set. For some reason, 'Hell Awaits' became an instrumental after the first chorus, and Tom's demeanour changed from happy and smiling to fairly disinterested around the same time. Still, when they came back out for the encore of 'South of Heaven', 'Raining Blood', and 'Angel of Death' everything was quickly forgiven and forgotten. It was left up to New Orleans bandGoatwhore to close the weekend on the second stage, and they did so imperiously with one of the loudest, heaviest hours of the festival.
Slayer, photo credit Gary Alcock
From the almost comical amount of crowd surfers (Acid Reign alone clocked 263 in one hour – an average of over four per minute) to the spontaneous chant of "MAN IN YELLOW", directed to one of the security staff stood on the scaffolding before Slayer, to the glorious weather and generally contagious good feeling of everyone in attendance (even a lot of the campsite toilets were still usable by the Monday morning!), there was only one place to be last week.
There were a few odd little problems, of course. Since the festival ended, a story has emerged that a girl was sexually assaulted in her tent, and the amount of moshpit idiocy seems to be on the increase again. Not, this time, from the shirtless circle-pitters and kung-fu merchants, but this time from the people who stand on the barrier all day, doing their best to punch and deliberately tear clumps of hair from any crowd surfer (male and female) unlucky enough to invade their personal space as they get dragged over the front. Making sure at all times, of course, that security have a firm hold of their target first so that they can't retaliate.
The worst thing this year though was the repeated loop of the same bloody music videos on the big screen all weekend. When I arrived in the main arena on the Friday, I said "hey, this new Wormrot song's great. I'll definitely be getting the album". By the time Saturday evening came around, I never wanted to hear fucking thing again. And as for the constant exposure to the videos of Wakrat and Blackberry Smoke, let's just say that if I ever meet either of those bands in person, then it won't end pleasantly for either of them.
Overall though, and yet again, Bloodstock Open Air was a roaring success.
Roll on next year.
BLOODSTOCK 2016 REVIEW PART I
WORDS BY GARY ALCOCK
Posted inFestival Reviews, Festival Reviews: Europe | TaggedAcid Reign, Akercocke reunion, Anthrax, Behemoth, Black Sababath covers, bleating lamb vocals, Bloodstock Open Air, BOA, BOA 2016, Catton Hall, circle pits, COC, Corrosion Of Conformity, Cronos, crowd surfers, David Bowie covers, death metal, Dee Snider, Derby Assembly Room, Diamond Head, Fear Factory, For All Kings, Gary Alcock, Ghost Bath, Ghost Cult Magazine, Gloryhammer, Goatwhore, Gojira, Heavy Metal, Karybdis, Lemmy, Lemmy Tribute, Mastodon, Metal Allegiance, Nemesis Divina album, original Venom, Paradise Lost, Pepper Keenan, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, poor moshing etiquette, Psykosis, Rotting Christ, Satyricon, Slayer, stoner rock, Sumer, Symphony X, The King Is Blind, The Satanist, Thrash Metal, Twisted Sister, Vektor, Venom, ZZ Top covers
Bloodstock Open Air 2016: Live At Catton Hall- Walton-on-Trent UK
For those of you who may be unaware, Bloodstock Open Air is a UK festival which began at the Derby Assembly Rooms in 2001. After four successful years, the decision was made to turn one festival into two. One would remain at the same venue, while a bold, open air venture would take place at Catton Hall in nearby Walton-on-Trent. The outdoor festival proved to be a hit, the indoor show was subsequently dropped, and the annually held event has gone on to expand in both size and stature ever since.
Bloodstock 2016 Thursday crowd, photo credit BOA on Facebook
Thursday's festivities were kept fairly low-key as usual, with short, enjoyable sets from Karybdis and Sumer, with Ireland's Psykosis left toreally get the party started. The evening was rounded off by the newly renamed Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons (formerly Phil Campbell's All Starr Band), the former Motorhead guitarist ploughing through a selection of Motorhead covers plus 'Heroes' by David Bowie, 'Sweet Leaf' by Black Sabbath, and 'Sharp Dressed Man' by ZZ Top. Joined on stage by Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider and Pepper Keenan of COC for a truly memorable version of 'Born To Raise Hell', the band eventually brought things to a rousing climax with a cover of 'Silver Machine' by Hawkwind.
Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons with Dee Snider, photo credit BOA on Facebook
Friday is where the entertainment really begins at Bloodstock though, and you don't get much more entertaining than songs about unicorns and space wizards followed by a battle cry of "We are Gloryhammer and we sing songs about hammers!" Evil Scarecrow followed, and you simply haven't lived until you've held your pincers in the air and scuttled from side to side for the mighty 'Crabulon'. Corrosion of Conformity played a typically crowd-pleasing set of which my only criticism would be 'Clean My Wounds' being used as the backbone for a rambling, ten minute long jam session. Venom's Legendary bassist/vocalist, Cronos, snarled and joked his way through their set, but the band let themselves down with a poor choice of songs. No such problems from Behemoth though, who played latest album 'The Satanist' in its entirety before finishing with a blistering encore of 'Ov Fire and the Void' and 'Chant For Ezkaton'.
Britain has always held a special place in Twisted Sister's heart and it really showed in their last ever performance here. Drawing the biggest ever crowd for a Bloodstock headline act, it was the perfect send off for one of the finest American Heavy Metal bands to ever grace a UK stage. Diamond Head finished off the evening on the second stage in competent, if unspectacular style. At least they didn't sound like a tribute act to themselves like they did the last time I saw them.
Twisted Sister, photo credit Gary Alcock
Posted inFestival Reviews, Festival Reviews: Europe | TaggedBehemoth, Black Sababath covers, Bloodstock Open Air, BOA, BOA 2016, Catton Hall, COC, Corrosion Of Conformity, Cronos, David Bowie covers, death metal, Dee Snider, Derby Assembly Room, Diamond Head, Gary Alcock, Ghost Cult Magazine, Gloryhammer, Heavy Metal, Karybdis, Lemmy, Lemmy Tribute, original Venom, Pepper Keenan, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons, Psykosis, stoner rock, Sumer, The Satanist, Thrash Metal, Twisted Sister, Venom, ZZ Top covers
Desertfest London 2016: Various Venues -Camden, UK
Given that so many festivals are shutting up shop – Heavy Fest announced only last month it was closing down for good – it's nice to see London hostingDesertfest for its fifth installment. Although its shed the Prog and Heavy Metal stages from last year, it's still a glorious weekend of celebrating all things bong and Black Sabbath across some of the best venues in London's Camden town.
Crowbar, by Jessica Lotti Photography
Friday night saw big name bands such as Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, Raging Speedhorn and JK Flesh (Justin K Broadrick of GODFLESH) join forces with lesser known but excellent bands like Lionize, Asteroid, Black Pussy, Guapo, Teeth of the Sea, Gurt and more.
Saturday is opened hairy doomsters Poseidon, and they nearly rattle the Black Heart apart in the process. Their thick, monolithic slabs of reverberated riffs draw a decent crowd for so early in the day and probably shake out a few fillings in the process. Thought the vocals leave a little to be desired and the near-pitch black lighting means there's little in the way of audience connection, it's a pretty solid start to the day.
Counterblast, by Jessica Lotti Photography
Taking on of the early stints at the Underworld, Counterblast are loud, abrasive, and largely joyless. One of the few bands to go for synths and a triple vocalist attack, Swedish quintet combine the sludge of early Mastodon with a crusty punk edge. There's a lot going on, and it's a challenging listen, but also rewarding if you stick it out.
UK four piece Telepathy are first instrumental group of the day, and the first to make an effort to engage with the audience during their set. Playing a decent mix of post-metal with doomy influences, they don't let a torn drum skin spoil the show. A band with promise, but perhaps not enough quality material to sustain the whole set.
Conan, by Jessica Lotti Photography
Over at the Electric Ballroom, Scouse purveyors of "caveman battle doom", Conan, draw a massive crowd. It's easy to see why; massive, grinding riffs, thunderous drums and plenty of chances to headbang. However, the pained screams of Jon Davis' vocals are an acquired taste and if they're not your cup of tea, it all quickly becomes a chore to watch.
It takes until the mid-afternoon and Dusteroid's blend of heavy desert rock and spacey vocals before the afternoon takes a slightly more chilled direction. They're the first band to lay the riffs on thick without approaching nosebleed-inducing levels of aggression.
Truckfighters by Jessica Lotti Photography
If you take the fuzzy rock of Queens of the Stone Age and have it played by AC/DC's Angus Young, you might be halfway to a Truckfighter's live experience.Niklas "Dango" Källgren is easily the most energetic person at the festival, and not just because of what people have been smoking all day. Before the first song he's already run across the stage a few times and thrown his shirt into the crowd, and once he's strapped in he's jumping, windmilling, playing solos behind his head, and throwing every kind of rockstar shape possible. Blessed as well with a good frontman in Oskar "Ozo" Cedermalm, Truckfighter's blend of big melodic rock with plenty of fuzz makes for one of the most entertaining shows of the day and is rewarded with an energised response from the Ballroom.
Pelican, by Jessica Lotti Photography
It's not always easy for instrumental bands to not only fill a venue, but play music that grips the audience for the whole set. Pelican and Russian Circles, however, are two bands how have perfected the dark arts. Pelican play first, and their heavy take on progressive post metal is a delight. It's got the grind to make you bang your head, but also the atmospherics to get lost in.
Russian Circles, by Jessica Lotti Photography
Russian Circles, despite having two less members than Pelican, make a lot more racket. Less proggy and chin-stroking in nature, but more direct and bigger on riffs, they act as the other side of good instrumental music. It might be quite as thoughtful, but it's easier to mosh to. Both bands get rapturous applause between each song, and hardly a word has been said onstage for almost three hours between the two band's sets. But it doesn't matter. Epic bands don't need to chat when they can create massive soundscapes.
At last year's event, Manchester's Ten Foot Wizard provided a surprise in one of the best sets of the weekend. And it's no surprise that they do the same again this year. Having them close the tiny Devonshire Arms after the main headliners was an act of genius by the organizers. Shame that nearly the entire festival tried to cram into what was literally the back corner of a local boozer.10FW know how to put on a good show; it's sweaty, it's fun – where else would you gets songs like 'Turbo Dick' (working title) or 'King Shit of Fuck Mountain'? – and they know how to write a good rock tune. The mix of Clutch's boogie with a touch of QOTSA-style guitars, plus a band who know how to rile up the throng in front of them, makes for a killer end to the day. Plus there's a Theremin solo!
If the Black Keys had balls and a sense of humour, they'd be a lot like Dyse. The German two-piece are on an early shift at the Underworld, but deliver a huge helping of rawkus rock and roll. Between each sweaty song, the audience are treated to a dry dose of humour; where else would you get a drummer singing Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message' before diving in? Although not quite as alluring on record, live they are probably the best thing from Germany since Rammstein. Less fire though.
Over at the Black Heart, fellow German outfit The Moth lay on some decent heavy metal-inspired doom with some occasional ventures into more death/sludge territory.They can clearlywrite a meaty riff but live it all falls a bit flat.
Necro Deathmort are one of one the biggest oddities of the weekend. An electronic two-piece, their music is a strange mix of synths, vocal effects, and guitar distortion and reverb. It's dark, haunting, and very introspective: the band don't acknowledge the crowd or look up from the deck until the very end, when we're treated to a little wave. It's actually surprisingly very good, but at almost complete odds with everything else that's playing this weekend; more like music to get lost to in a dark room than rock out in a large venue. Which might explain why it was so under-attended, which is a shame.
Elder,by Jessica Lotti Photography
Over at the Koko, Elder couldn't be more opposite to Necro Deathmort. The Boston, MA, boys are all about riffs, guitar solos and long psychedelic jams. They almost outshone John Garcia when supporting him in London last year, and have no trouble filling the big stage with their blend of 70s rock and big doom thunder. Of the six songs they manage to squeeze into their hour long set, we're treated to a new one that definitely fits into the standard Elder mould. The crowd lap it up and this is clearly a big destined for more success.
It's a shame to see the crowd thin out after Elder leave the stage, because they miss a treat in Trouble. Probably the oldest band in attendance – and occasionally showing their years with the cheesy moves – you won't see better examples of twin guitar leads this side of Iron Maiden. Frontman Kyle Thomas, formally of thrash outfit Exhorder, has a great set of pipes on him and handle's the band's older material with ease. It's hard to argue with classic such as 'The Tempter', 'The Skull', or 'At the End of My Days', while the new material have a real energy about it. The cover of Black Sabbath's 'Supernaut' is a particular highlight.
Electric Wizard, by Jessica Lotti Photography
Closing out the Koko and festival is the mighty Electric Wizard. Along with the likes of Orange Goblin and Kyuss, Dorset's finest worshipped Sabbath long before it became cool, and have spent 20-odd years honing their brand of satanic, psychedelic, druggie bliss. Played to a background of 70s exploitation skin flicks, frontman Jus Oborn snarls his way through the more modern epics like 'Witchcult Today', 'Dunwich', 'Satanic Rites of Drugula', 'Black Masses' and of course a handful from 2000's magnum opus, Dopethrone. The band have changed little on the whole over the years, and each track is and ode to zoning out and wallowing in a fug of massive riffs. There's no encore, and nothing from their upcoming but untitled new album. But it's still a hell of a closing act, and one of par with Sleep's closing set from last year.
The crowd Electric Wizard, by Jessica Lotti Photography
It's been a great weekend that showed off some of the best Britain has to offer when it comes to dirty stoner, epic doom and everything between. Roll on next year.
WORDS BY DAN SWINHOE
PHOTOS BY JESSICA LOTTI PHOTOGRAPHY
Posted inFestival Reviews, Festival Reviews: Europe | TaggedBast, Beastmaker, Blood Ceremony, Camden UK, Carousel, COC, Conan, Corrosion of Conformity (with Pepper Keenan), Crowbar, Dan Swinhoe, Desertferst, Desertfest 2016, Elder, Electric Wizard, Ghost Cult Magazine, Godflesh, Jessica Lotti Photography, JK Flesh, London, Mantar, Mondo Drag, Monolord, Monomyth, Mothership, Oranssi Pazuzu, Pelican, Poseidon, Raging Speedhorn, Russian Circles, Samothrace, The Black Heart, The Moth, Trouble, Truckfighters, Underworld, Witchsorrow, Wo Far

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"Wait for the Lord! We shouldn't get tired of waiting," emphasizes Pr. Noldy Sakul, director of Stewardship Ministries the Adventist Church headquarters in the southern Asia-Pacific region, during the culmination of the week-long Stewardship Evangelism series at the RDR Gym, Tagum City. With him is Pr. Rudy Jimenez, director of Stewardship Ministries of the Adventist Church headquarters in Mindanao.
A total of 260 individuals accepted the Lord through baptism as a result of the week-long Stewardship Evangelism Series held on March 10-15, 2019 at the Tagum Central Seventh-day Adventist Church and culminated on March 16, 2019, at the RDR Gym, DNSTC, Tagum City, Davao del Norte, Philippines.
Pr. Noldy Sakul, Stewardship Ministries director of the Adventist Church headquarters in Southern Asia-pacific region (SSD), along with Engr. Tjak Latumahina, a lay evangelist from Papua Mission in Indonesia, alternately delivered the series messages and were joined by Pr. Rudy Jimenez, Stewardship director of the Adventist Church headquarters in Mindanao (SPUC), and Bro. Ronald Simyun, an Adventist Church elder from Zamboanga, who served as translators of Pr. Sakul and Engr. Latumahina, respectively.
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IThe purpose of the Lake Chapala Painting Guild is to further the professional development of "brush and palette" painters who use oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, collage or mixed materials to produce "wall" art–no photography nor digital images are accepted nor will be included unless part of mixed media collage.
IIn August 2011 several artists met to discuss the creation of an art group to focus on juried exhibitions of paintings and pastels only, separate from an existing judged local group exhibiting paintings, photography, jewelry, sculpture, fabrics, etc.
It was soon evident that officers would be required. The group selected Lois Schroff to be its first President, Beverly Kephart stepped forward to be Vice President and Membership Chair, Winnie Hunt became Secretary and Geraldine Classen volunteered to be the Treasurer.
In addition it was also felt that all members should be required to volunteer to help the Guild achieve the goals of presenting professional exhibitions, as well as advancing the quality of art,by arranging educational programs.


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On a Wagon Train to Afghanistan: Limitations on Star Trek's Prime Directive
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2003
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Richard J. Peltz-Steele
University of Massachusetts School of Law at Dartmouth
The Prime Directive has taken on a life of its own. Born of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's distaste for the Vietnam War, this science fiction rule that technologically advanced humans ought not meddle in the affairs of alien cultures has lent credence to noninterventionist principles in terrestrial affairs, from anthropology to international politics. And those principles have merit, intended as they are to prevent the peculiarly devastating cultural havoc that can result when two worlds meet in unmitigated collision.
But as any Star Trek fan can tell you, there is more, or maybe less, than meets the eye when it comes to the Prime Directive. Star Trek writers seem never to tire of storylines in which violation of the Prime Directive strikes starship captains and Star Trek fans alike as not only attractive but imperative. In many situations, it turns out, the Prime Directive is neither the primary concern nor an inviolable directive.
Part II of this article acquaints the reader with the Star Trek universe, both as a mirror of Western cultural development for the last three and a half decades, and conversely as a force that has had a remarkable impact on contemporary Western culture. This acquaintance provides a foundation to understand how and to what extent the Prime Directive, a product of science fiction, can be useful in understanding future intercultural contacts right here on Earth. Part III of this article reviews specifically the appearance of the Prime Directive in Star Trek lore, for the most part with reference to Star Trek's captains Kirk and Picard. This review analyzes the fictional evolution of the Prime Directive from its straightforward origin as political commandment to its fuzzy, modem complexity as an aspirational principle.
Part IV.A transports the reader back to "the real world" to show how the Prime Directive has operated both before and since the advent of Star Trek, chiefly in international relations, but also in areas ranging from the hard science of space exploration to the thoughtful business of eco-tourism. Synthesizing the lessons learned from fictional starship captains with the practical and real world applications of the Prime Directive, Part IV.B recognizes three important and related principles in understanding and employing the Prime Directive: (1) it is not inviolable, rather its violation is inherent in its nature; (2) it is not a rule of law, rather an aspiration; and (3) it is a product of a Utopian fiction, and as such can never be fully realized on the Earth as we know it. Finally, Part IV.C applies the Prime Directive, understanding these limiting principles, in the context of the present conflict between the West and the Islamic world, concluding that the modem Prime Directive should not and cannot flatly prohibit Western involvement there.
Part V concludes that the proper and modem understanding of the Prime Directive dictates that the value of cultural autonomy must be balanced with the inevitability of cultural interference and transformation. Ultimately all that the Prime Directive can teach is that when two worlds collide, people must work together to preserve the best of both.
Keywords: popular culture, prime directive, non-intervention, Utopia, Afghanistan, international relations, Western culture, science fiction
JEL Classification: K33, N40, N42, N45, Z10
Peltz-Steele, Richard J., On a Wagon Train to Afghanistan: Limitations on Star Trek's Prime Directive (March 21, 2003). University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2003, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2220868
Richard J. Peltz-Steele (Contact Author)
University of Massachusetts School of Law at Dartmouth ( email )
333 Faunce Corner Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747-1252


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There's no question that social media has radically changed the way we communicate. In just over five years, the opportunities and advantages for those who use it properly have exploded. However, when not used wisely, social media can have damaging consequences. That's why parents can't talk enough to their children about social media safety. To help facilitate those conversations, the following information and resources are being provided.
Reprinted with permission from Parent Today.
Open up a dialogue. Encourage your child to stay away from sites that promote anonymous interaction. Remind children never to share personal information with someone they don't know, such as allowing a program to access their location, or any personal information that could potentially identify them (such as hometown). Remind them that just because someone sounds like a cool teenager doesn't mean they actually are.
Talk to your children about cyberbullying. Discuss how anonymity can lead to bad behavior and cruel comments.
Review social networking tips, and set guidelines for what's OK to post online and what's not. Be sure to check privacy settings on any website they sign on to, particularly for younger children.
Review your child's apps and contacts on their cellphone. Don't recognize someone? Ask why they are on your child's phone. You have a right and an obligation to know what they are doing, particularly if you are paying for their cellphone!
Remind your children to think before they post. Kindness counts. If they wouldn't say it to someone's face, don't say it online. The Dignity for All Students Act and related New York State laws make schools accountable for certain online student behavior, especially harassment, discrimination and bullying even when it occurs off campus and outside of school hours. A child's inappropriate cyber activity could have severe consequences for his or her academic career if it creates a significant disruption within the school.
Be aware of history. Check the computer's browser history for information on sites your child is visiting. There is no mechanism to prevent a child from saying they are over the age of 13 when they are not. They are savvy enough to figure out how to compute an age that makes them old enough to set up an account.
Get with the program. Check out the various websites that are out there. Get an account for yourself and see what your children can and can't do online.
Check the settings on your computer to ensure as much as possible that your child doesn't have access to inappropriate content. Make sure parental controls are set on the computer your child uses, or they could get an education you're not planning on.
Is social media creating a generation of cowards?


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Q: Troubleshooting java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError "Can't find dependent libraries" There are several similar questions but none of them seem to get to the core issue we're having.  Please consider that before deleting this as a duplicate question!

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*We compile a C++ DLL in Visual Studio 2022 Community on Windows 11.  It depends on some other DLLs.

*Then, on the same machine, running a Java application that has to open that DLL, we get the UnsatisfiedLinkError exception for opening the DLL.

*A slight fork of the same Java app can read the same DLL on other computers.  -Djava.library.path is not needed normally, so I very much doubt it is the problem for this user.

*the Java app is literally logging its java.library.path immediately before the error, and seems to contain all the /LIBPATH options the DLL build had.
I'm mostly a C++/Linux guy so I don't have self confidence on this, but I think that our Visual Studio project must have some /LIBPATH options that are not in the PATH environment variable.  In other words, intellectually I am positive (4) above is not true.  And yet we've checked it ten times each.
And yet two engineers have gone through this with a fine-tooth comb and are not seeing any /LIBPATH not in PATH.
So, Questions:

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*Is there any other possible technical reason we should be getting this error?

*How can we find out which precise DLL is not being found?  On Unix/Linux I'd use strace or truss to see what files the executable is trying to open, and instantly know what it's looking for and where it's looking for it.  Any similar hint for Windows?

*Is there any place the DLL compile would be finding libraries that are not specified by /LIBPATH directives?

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ACON Investments Acquires Suzo-Happ Group
Washington, DC, July 17, 2012 – ACON Equity Partners III, L.P., a private equity investment fund affiliated with ACON Investments, L.L.C. announced it has completed the purchase of Suzo-Happ Group from Pfingsten Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The Suzo-Happ Group is a leading global supplier of components and accessories to the Gaming, Amusement and Industrial markets. Headquartered in Mount Prospect, IL, the Suzo-Happ Group has operations in eight countries serving both operators and OEMs worldwide.
ACON Investments purchased Suzo-Happ Group from Pfingsten Partners, a Chicago based private equity group, which will maintain a minority interest along with current management. The Company will continue to be led by President and CEO James Brendel and other members of the existing management team and staff who will focus on global growth in the Gaming, Amusement and Industrial markets.
"We are excited to partner with the management of Suzo-Happ Group to build value in a business that is poised for continued growth," said Ken R. Brotman, Founding Partner of ACON. "The Company has demonstrated solid performance through its long-tenured relationships with its customers and has built a solid foundation, which will ensure Suzo-Happ Group continued success. Customers see value in breadth of product, distribution excellence along with global engineering and manufacturing and we see continued opportunity to expand this concept across multiple end markets and geographies," added Brotman.
James Brendel, President and CEO of Suzo-Happ Group, commented, "The entire management team is excited about our partnership with ACON Investments. Under this new ownership Suzo-Happ will continue to grow as a global Company and provide quality, value, and satisfaction to our customers, suppliers and employees."
Financing for the acquisition is being provided by PNC Bank, N.A., a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) and Cerberus Business Finance, LLC. Hogan Lovells US LLP acted as legal advisor to ACON Investments and Paul Hastings LLP acted as legal advisor to Pfingsten Partners.
About SUZO-HAPP GROUP
The Suzo-Happ Group was formed in 2004 with the merger of Suzo International, headquartered in The Netherlands, and Happ Controls, headquartered in Mount Prospect, IL. Major additions were made with Advanced Electronic Systems in 2005, Starpoint Electrics in 2006, and Dynamics Chinatec in 2007. The combined organization holds a global leadership position in the gaming and amusement components and accessories market. The Company's 500 employees serve more than 20,000 customers worldwide. Suzo-Happ has manufacturing, engineering, distribution and service capabilities in 8 countries globally. More information is available at www.suzohapp.com
ACON Investments is a Washington, D.C.-based private equity investment firm that manages private equity funds and special purpose partnerships in the United States and Latin America. Founded in 1996, ACON and its principals have managed over $2.0 billion of capital. ACON pursues a theme-based investment strategy by focusing on industries and businesses at key inflection points in their development and pursues these opportunities in close partnership with established management teams. ACON has offices in Washington, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Sao Paulo. For more information, visit www.aconinvestments.com
About PNC
PNC Bank, National Association is a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. PNC (www.pnc.com) is one of the nation's largest diversified financial services organizations providing retail and business banking; residential mortgage banking; specialized services for corporations and government entities, including corporate banking, real estate finance and asset-based lending; wealth management and asset management.
About Cerberus Business Finance, LLC
Cerberus Business Finance, LLC and Ableco Finance, LLC were formed by the management of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., to invest in leveraged buyouts and leveraged "roll-ups", bridge loans, recapitalizations, refinancing, debt restructurings, acquisitions and Chapter 11 reorganizations, including debtor-in-possession and exit financing.


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Q: Testing firebase connection with .info/connected I am trying to test a connection based on the answer in Detect if Firebase connection is lost/regained
I tried:
var testRef=new Firebase('https://flickering-heat-528.firebaseio.com/test');

testRef.child('.info/connected').on('value', function(connectedSnap) {
  if (connectedSnap.val() === true) {
    alert('* we\'re connected! *');
  } else {
    alert('* we\'re disconnected! *');
  }
});

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but I get: Uncaught Error: Firebase.child failed: First argument was an invalid path: ".info/connected". Paths must be non-empty strings and can't contain ".", "#", "$", "[", or "]"
what's wrong ?

A: You can only use .info/connect directly as a child under the root, so:
var testRef=new Firebase('https://flickering-heat-528.firebaseio.com/'); // I removed 'test' here

testRef.child('.info/connected').on('value', function(connectedSnap) {
  if (connectedSnap.val() === true) {
    alert('* we\'re connected! *');
  } else {
    alert('* we\'re disconnected! *');
  }
});


But for a last minute turn just past Pojoaque I'd have missed this beauty. We'd attended Peggy's opening in the Miniatures and More show at the Albuquerque Museum of Art on Saturday night, had dinner at Arroyo Vino with Nancy and Hiroshi Murata and spent the night at their magnificent digs just west of Santa Fe. Then Sunday morning we made a mid-morning push back to Taos. While Peggy beelined it back home I took the High Road through Chimayo and Truchas.
I pulled into the parking lot at historic Santuario de Chimayo in a light drizzle and skulked around the property for some what the heck I'm here shots. None were remotely inspired till, as I was walking back to the car, the clouds burst and the wind gusted out of the east. Yellow leaves flecked the sky and laid a carpet of gold leading to the gingerbread church. Half an hour earlier I'd have missed the show and half an hour later the trees would have been stripped bare. Lends credence to the axiom that you've got to be there to get the shot and that being there at precisely the right moment is pure damn luck.
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Thank you, Susan. Glad you liked that magic moment. How did you chance upon my blog?
Pure damn luck plus a damn good eye!
You've put a smile on my face with this one, Steve.
As Susan said, this is pure magic. I would have put a couple of other expressions in front of it for emphasis, but you already know my penchant for expletives!
Your most excellent image is a definite keeper. Perhaps the poster for next year's Taos Fall Arts Festival???


What Makes a Successful Ecommerce Website Owner?
We spend a lot of time thinking about what makes an ecommerce website more effective. However, it is just as important to occasionally look inward. What traits make an ecommerce website owner more effective in their ventures? We encounter these entrepreneurs on a daily basis, and the successful ones seem to have the following characteristics.
Passion. Whether you love the items you are selling, love the category as a whole, or simply love running an ecommerce website, you need to have passion in order to succeed. Passion makes it easy to put in the long hours and turns problems into puzzles and challenges. You can't be in this for financial reward alone; there are too many other, easier ways to earn a living. For some reason, the most successful ecommerce websites are the ones run by a businessperson who loves what they do.
Planning. Even though your plans will have to change—sometimes on a daily basis—a business owner with a solid, well-thought-out plan is almost always more successful than the one who flies by the seat of their pants. You should look at data, see how other similar websites are successful, and generally think out every aspect of your business before taking a single step.
Goals. This is in many ways a part of planning, but it deserves its own bullet because it is that important. Know where you want to be in a week, a month, a year, a decade, and beyond. Set firm goals and diligently work toward them. This will give you a way of setting priorities and a framework for leading your ecommerce website in the right directions. Caveat: make sure your goals are reasonable to avoid feeling discouraged, and don't be afraid to change them as the economic market changes.
Self-promotion. Do you feel awkward tooting your own horn? Sorry, but you need to get comfortable with it. You must be a walking advertisement for your business as well as your own biggest fan. If you can't believe in yourself, it is a huge stretch to ask others to believe in you.
Community awareness. You should be joining clubs relevant to both your field and the world of ecommerce as a whole. Join message boards and industry organizations. There are so many learning opportunities and mentorship prospects that you simply cannot be an island. Similarly, you should show community awareness by helping others. The most successful business owners, including the notable example of Bill Gates, get intimately involved with their communities, however you define them.
Money sense. You have to be a good—no, a great—money manager in order to survive in the ecommerce business world. There is never enough start-up capital to do it any other way. You must always think hard about how to budget both personally and in your business so you have the resources to deal with changes in your market and in the economy.
Market awareness. You need to know who is buying from you and why. You need to know those target customers as well as you know your spouse and other close relatives. Your knowledge of that person will be a guiding factor in setting policies and making changes to your ecommerce website.


Perhaps you've seen the gigantic scoop at Miners Memorial Park in Morgan County, perhaps not. For those that have visited the site, they can attest to the size of this single piece of mining equipment that was once part of a gigantic coal mining operation that stripped veins of coal that was about 100 - 200 feet below the surface from eastern Ohio's expansive coal fields.
Dragline mining is a method of open pit mining, some call it strip mining since everything above the vein of coal is stripped away from the surface. Big Muskie's 220 cubic yard bucket was used to removed that top layer of soil and rock above the veins of high-sulfur coal. Then smaller sized equipment would come in and remove the coal.
This type of equipment is used throughout the world in both large and small mining operations. The largest piece of dragline equipment was located in eastern Ohio and was known as Big Muskie, named after the Muskingum River that passes through Morgan and Muskingum Counties.
Today, the bucket is all that is left from the dismantled dragline excavator. Construction of Big Muskie began in 1967 and started operationg in 1969. The behomoth machinery was as tall as a 20 story building, with its operator sitting some 5 stories off the ground. Unlike smaller excavators, the massive dragline equipment ran on electricity, enough to power a small town. It had no treads to move about, but instead had hydraulic feet that were used to slowly move the equipment (it could take several days to move just a mile). During its 22 years of service, Big Muskie moved more than 4.8 million cubic yards of dirt.
Big Muskie was in service up until the early 1990s when operating costs and demand for high sulfur coal waned forced the closing of the mines in eastern Ohio.
Big Muskie was owned by the Central Ohio Coal Company (once a division of American Electric Power). It was built by Bucyrus-Erie located in Wisconsin, but was originally located in Bucyrus, Ohio.
In a typical cycle of excavation, the bucket is positioned above the material to be excavated. The bucket is then lowered and the dragrope is then drawn so that the bucket is dragged along the surface of the material. The bucket is then lifted by using the hoist rope. A swing operation is then performed to move the bucket to the place where the material is to be dumped. The dragrope is then released causing the bucket to tilt and empty. This is called a dump operation.
Once mining was stopped, Big Muskie remained a tourist attraction for a number of years until legislation required the equipment to be completely dismantled and removed. There was an effort to save Big Muskie, but those efforts failed except for saving Big Muskie's bucket which now is all that remains of the equipment.
The Wilds which opened in 1994 was created from 10,000 acres of reclaimed land from where Big Muskie operated.
From I-77 at the Caldwell exit, take SR 78 about 16 miles to Miners Memorial Park, a small park with a pull-off area and picnic tables.


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Towards an Optimal Interval for Prostate Cancer Screening
Pim Leeuwen, Monique Roobol - Bouts, M Kranse, M Zappa, S Carlsson, Meelan Bul, XY Zhu, CH Bangma VERVALLEN, Fritz Schröder, J Hugosson
Background: The rate of decrease in advanced cancers is an estimate for determining prostate cancer (PCa) screening program effectiveness. Objective: Assess the effectiveness of PCa screening programs using a 2- or 4-yr screening interval. Design, setting, and participants: Men aged 55-64 yr were participants at two centers of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer: Gothenburg, Sweden (2-yr screening interval, n = 4202), and Rotterdam, the Netherlands (4-yr screening interval, n = 13 301). We followed participants until the date of PCa, the date of death, or the last follow-up at December 31, 2008, or up to a maximum of 12 yr after initial screening. Potentially life-threatening (advanced) cancer was defined as cancer with at least one of following characteristics: clinical stage >= T3a, M1, or N1; serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) >20.0 ng/ml; or Gleason score >= 8 at biopsy. Intervention: We compared the proportional total (advanced) cancer incidence (screen-detected and interval cases), defined as the ratio of the observed number of (advanced) cancers to the expected numbers of (advanced) cancers based on the control arm of the study. Measurements: The proportional cancer incidence from the second screening round until the end of observation was compared using a 2- or 4-yr screening interval. Results and limitations: From screening round 2 until the end of observation, the proportional cancer incidence was 3.64 in Gothenburg and 3.08 in Rotterdam (relative risk [RR]: 1.18; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.04-1.33; p = 0.009). The proportional advanced cancer incidence was 0.40 in Gothenburg and 0.69 in Rotterdam (RR: 0.57; 95% CI, 0.33-0.99; p = 0.048); the RR for detection of low-risk PCa was 1.46 (95% CI, 1.25-1.71; p < 0.001). This study was limited by the assumption that PSA testing in the control arm was similar in both centers. Conclusions: A 2-yr screening interval significantly reduced the incidence of advanced PCa; however, the 2-yr interval increased the overall risk of being diagnosed with (low-risk) PCa compared with a 4-yr interval in men aged 55-64 yr. Individualized screening algorithms must be improved to provide the strategy for this issue. (C) 2011 European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
European Urology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2011.08.002
10.1016/j.eururo.2011.08.002
Leeuwen, P., Roobol - Bouts, M., Kranse, M., Zappa, M., Carlsson, S., Bul, M., Zhu, XY., Bangma VERVALLEN, CH., Schröder, F., & Hugosson, J. (2012). Towards an Optimal Interval for Prostate Cancer Screening. European Urology, 61(1), 171-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2011.08.002
Leeuwen, Pim ; Roobol - Bouts, Monique ; Kranse, M et al. / Towards an Optimal Interval for Prostate Cancer Screening. In: European Urology. 2012 ; Vol. 61, No. 1. pp. 171-176.
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General der Infanterie Dietrich Hugo Hermann von Choltitz (German pronunciation: [ˈdiːtʁɪç fɔn ˈçɔltɪts]; 9 November 1894 – 4 November 1966) was a German career military officer who served in the Imperial German Army during World War I and the Wehrmacht during World War II. He is chiefly remembered for his role as the last commander of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944, when he disobeyed Hitler's orders to level the city, but instead surrendered it to Free French forces. He was hailed in many contemporary accounts as the "Saviour of Paris" for not allowing it to be destroyed. Choltitz later asserted that his defiance of Hitler's direct order stemmed from its obvious military futility, his affection for the French capital's history and culture, and his belief that Hitler had by then become insane.


One of my favorite fall colors this season (I can say "this season" already because it's technically September and I'm choosing to overlook the fact that summer's presence will remain here until late October), is hunter green (along with burgundy, but we'll save that for a separate post). Although these heels aren't quite exactly that hunter green color, at $7.99, they're close enough...don't you think? I do!
I found these on major clearance at Target, and I've heard they have other great colors such as turquoise, that are steals right now. After wearing them around for several hours (two of those hours spent carrying around a large man baby), they only hurt my feet a tiny bit....and that was after wearing them for a while. Soooooo considering the facts....they're basically slippers.
Man, do I have a BUSY week ahead of me! The highlights include co-hosting a CAbi party and doing a fashion basics class for women at my church, with doctors appointments and birthday parties sprinkled in for good measure. Hope you have a fabulous week and that September is bringing that wonderful fall weather I'm so desperately pining for.
I discovered these on significant approval at Focus on, and I've observed they have other excellent shades such as aqua blue, that are takes right now. After dressed in them around for several time (two of those time invested holding around a huge man baby), they only harm my legs a small bit....and that was after dressed in them for a while. Soooooo considering the important points....they're generally slip-ons.


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Category: Original Articles
WNT16 rs2908004 missense variant acts as eQTL of FAM3C in human primary osteoblasts
by Romm | Dec 3, 2021 | 120211304-en, 13, English, Original Articles | 0
WNT16 is a ligand of the Wnt pathway that has been extensively studied for its importance in regulating bone homeostasis. This has been confirmed with the phenotype of knock-out (KO) mice and conditional KO mice in osteoblasts (cKO), which show spontaneous fractures due to low cortical bone mineral density (BMD), low bone strength and high cortical porosity, keeping the volume of trabecular bone unchanged [1-4]. On the contrary, Wnt16 overexpression in osteoblasts and osteocytes produces an increase in BMD and bone strength in both trabecular and cortical bone [5-7]. Despite this, the precise mechanism by which WNT16 acts is not known and different studies indicate that the effect on canonical and non-canonical Wnt pathways could be tissue specific [1,8-11]. In bone, WNT16 is expressed mainly by osteoblasts and carries out its function both by stimulating bone formation and by inhibiting its resorption indirectly through osteoprotegerin (OPG) or directly affecting the osteoclasts differentiation [1,12].
Several genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have shown an association between the locus containing WNT16 and various skeletal phenotypes, including BMD and risk of fractures [2,3,13-26]. WNT16 is found in a very complex locus, where several genes in the region show an important role in bone metabolism. The genes ING3 and CPED1 at 5 'and FAM3C at 3' of WNT16 belong to this locus (figure 1).
Diet as a risk factor for hypovitaminosis D in the Spanish pediatric population
Vitamin D is an essential micronutrient in bone and non-bone metabolism [1]. The high prevalence of its deficit has been documented in multiple studies [2-5]. However, the definition of its reference values continues to be controversial and consequently doubts are raised about its diagnosis and treatment [6]. Although rickets was eradicated in the mid 20th century with sun exposure and the enrichment of milk with vitamin D, in recent years there have been reports of rickets in different parts of the planet, the mainly affected black-skinned and exclusively breastfed babies [7-9]. While rickets is the most serious consequence of vitamin D deficiency, mere deficiency also has important health consequences [6].
Studies that measure the level of vitamin D show great geographic variability due to the great regional differences in climate, sun exposure and diet. For this reason, there is a need to specifically investigate the role of the different determinants of hypovitaminosis D [10] in each country. The diet meets only 10% of the human body's vitamin D requirements, the remaining 90% being obtained through the photosynthesis process that occurs in the skin by the direct action of the sun's rays [11]. Risk factors repeatedly identified in the literature as causes of hypovitaminosis (dark skin phototype, low sun exposure, lack of physical exercise, latitude >40º north, and winter and spring seasons) act by interfering in the second mechanism [2,12]. Other factors associated with hypovitaminosis such as maternal deficit, obesity or advanced age could be related to both mechanisms of obtaining vitamin D [12-14].
Genetic relationship between pulmonary diseases of environmental or occupational origin and osteoporosis: a bioinformatic approach
Osteoporosis is currently defined as "a systemic skeletal disease characterized by decreased bone mass and a structural alteration of the bone tissue that determines a decrease in bone resistance resulting in a significant increase in fragility and susceptibility to fractures" [1]. The classic risk factors associated with the development of osteoporosis are age, a history of previous fracture or family history of osteoporosis, and prolonged estrogen deficiency [2].
On the other hand, one of the most important risk factors for mortality at the population level is air pollution. The consequences derived from air pollution have a high economic and social impact. In 2015, the costs derived from pollution-related morbidity and mortality reached 21 billion dollars worldwide and an estimated number of premature deaths between 6 and 9 million people in 2060 due to outdoor air pollution [3]. Air pollution has been shown to have a direct impact on health, causing various adverse effects [4]. The relationship between air pollution and environmental lung diseases has been reported in numerous studies [4-6]. Likewise, there is strong scientific evidence that relates poor air quality in different work environments with the development of different respiratory diseases [7,8].
Muscle strength as a predictor of bone fragility in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and osteoporosis are highly prevalent diseases due to the aging of the population that are associated with an increased risk of fragility fractures that substantially increase the morbidity and mortality of the population [1]. Recently, sarcopenia, defined as muscle weakness related to aging, has been recognized as a complication of DM2 that often increases these patients' frailty [2,3].
The musculoskeletal system is closely related, both by its physical connection and by its regulation through multiple common elements. Although muscle has been found to exert an influence on bone through the neuroendocrine system and mechanical forces, their relationship is complex and not entirely well known [4]. Many studies have shown a link between sarcopenia and osteoporosis, but the results are inconsistent due to variable diagnostic criteria and divergent assessment methods for sarcopenia and osteoporosis.
Methods for determining vitamin D and its metabolites. Threshold value of bone manifestations
by Romm | Oct 1, 2021 | 13, 920211302-en, English, Original Articles | 0
Since the time of its discovery a century ago, there have been advances into what was erroneously called "vitamin" D. It is now acknowledged that it is not a vitamin, though we continue to use that term out of custom and tacit consensus. In fact, it is an endocrine system, the vitamin D endocrine system (VDES), similar to that of other steroid hormones. Cholecalciferol or "vitamin" D3, is the threshold (physiological) nutrient of the system, synthesized from 7-dehydrocholesterol, which is produced, and found, from single-celled organisms to the skin of higher animals, including human. This route represents around 90% of the physiological contribution to the body, the rest is obtained through diet. There is another isoform, of nutritional or pharmacological contribution, ergocalciferol, "vitamin" D2 or produced by ultraviolet irradiation of ergosterol contained in fungi, yeasts, etc…[1].
Osteoporosis: definition, physiopathology and clinic
Osteoporosis poses a major health problem in modern societies, especially in women. Taking into account the aging of the Spanish population and the fact that osteoporosis and fractures increase with age, with an estimate for 2029 of more than 11 million people over 65 years of age, this problem may become of the first order. Currently it is estimated that there are more than 200 million patients with osteoporosis worldwide, with increasing prevalence[1]. In Spain, the prevalence of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women over 50 years is 26.1% and in men 8.1%.
Therefore, in daily clinical practice, this condition should be diagnosed establishing the previous clinical suspicion and the patients labeled as such in order to avoid its progression and its consequences, which are fragility fractures.
The role of new imaging techniques in predicting fracture risk
In 1994, the WHO defined criteria for the diagnosis of osteoporosis using the measurement of bone mineral density (BMD). The DXA technique has established itself as the dominant technology for quantifying BMD due to:
a) strong correlation between BMD measured by DXA and bone strength in biomechanical studies,
b) Epidemiological studies that show a strong relationship between the risk of fracture and BMD,
c) For its use in clinical trials of treatments for the selection of subjects and monitoring based on its excellent precision and low radiation dose.
DXA is indicated to diagnose osteoporosis, assess fracture risk, and monitor changes in BMD over time. In recent years, there have been improvements to the initial DXA technology and it is used for other measurements beyond BMD (eg, femur geometry, vertebral fracture detection, body composition analysis).
Diagnosing osteoporosis. Bone densitometry. Fracture risk estimate
The diagnosis of osteoporosis has evolved over the years along the disease's conceptual development. The definition of osteoporosis comes from a description offered by Albright at the outset of the 1940s for postmenopausal and corticoid-induced osteoporosis. This is considered nowadays paradigm of primary and secondary osteoporosis. Its characteristics are reduced bone mass, micro-architectural disorders, unaltered mineralization and presence of fractures[1,2]. It is a histopathological definition with the secondary clinical event. Although osteoporosis is currently the most common metabolic bone disease, rickets and osteomalacia were the main metabolic bone disease from the time of Galen and well into the 20th century[3].


This authentic Louis Vuitton Damier Ebene Pochette handbag is practical and fun. It is very fashionable and is a perfect pochette to take on the run. It is sleek and compact, but also can store all of your essential carry items. The LV Damier Ebene pattern is unmistakable. A great buy for the woman on the go!