|Who, age||What||Where||When||Last Known Address|
|Rosalba (Gil de) Flores, 52||dog severely neglected||
|December 19 , 2011|
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|Felony||accused of animal abuse in 2009||
1 1.5-year-old poodle mix dog
(Rosalba de Gil Flores as she's led away in handcuffs by a Madera police officer, Photo courtesy of Madera Police Department)
In Madera, police have arrested a woman who also faces animal cruelty charges.
Investigators say a young dog named Clover was severely abused and starving while in the woman's care.
The suspect is Rosalba De Gil Flores was taken into custody after an outcry in the community.
Flores was booked at the Madera County Department of Corrections and is being held on $10,000 bail.
The Madera County District Attorney released a statement regarding her arrest, saying "We treat all animal abuse cases seriously. We always have. The incident involving Clover is no different.
Update 1/5/12: Clover, the young poodle mix dog, was found tied to a post with an embedded rope as a collar, died one week after being rescued from complications of Tetanus.
(Photo courtesy of DJ Becker/Madera Tribune) -Clover the severely traumatized, young poodle mix cowers in a cage at the Madera County animal shelter, after surgery to close neck wounds.
The dog was thought to be recovering well in a foster home when he suddenly took a turn for the worse.
The suffering, matted and filthy dog was reported December 19th by a good Samaritan in the 300 block of Harding Street, according to authorities and was seized and taken into protective custody by the City of Madera Animal Control.
Animal control officers said the year and a half old male dog had been neglected, starved and tied to the post for a long time with a rope deeply cutting into his neck for months, if not longer. The rope had likely been placed on the dogs neck when he was a puppy, and never loosened or checked, they said.
City of Madera animal control Officer Chelsea Ruble, who found and rescued the dog, compared the act of neglect and cruelty to torture. "The dog was found on a chain about a foot and a half long. The wound from the (embedded) collar was around his entire neck... I don't know how he survived (in this condition) ... outside in these temperatures. That's torture, to me," Ruble said.
The dog was reportedly the second animal seized from the home for neglect or cruelty in the last two years, according to police reports.
Kirsten Gross, director of Madera County Animal Services said the dog had been recovering in a foster home but became critically ill on Christmas eve, and was taken to a pet emergency facility in Fresno. "He was making good progress in the foster home, but his neck wounds were very deep. On Christmas eve he began having symptoms resembling seizures and stiffening of the muscles. He was diagnosed as the early stages of Tetanus, and they started the treatment," Gross said.
Tetanus, also known as lock jaw, is not all that common but is a serious, systemic bacterial infection that results from deep wounds that are contaminated, she said. "He was hungry but couldn't eat. A feeding tube was inserted and he began to improve. He fought really hard and a day or two later he was standing ... but even with the treatments his condition deteriorated. He just didn't have anything left ... to fight any more...he took a turn for the worse - with neurological symptoms - more rigidity and infection. The vet agreed the kindest thing to do at that point, was to end his suffering," Gross said.
Gross said the Tetanus and death was the direct result of the wounds caused by the embedded collar and she hoped the owners would be held accountable. "This suffering could have been easily prevented with a collar from the dollar store and appropriate care (of the dog)," said Gross. "At least he spent a few days in comfort - in a loving foster home. He was improving, and he was safe and warm inside. He had treats and toys, kindness and love. He had his first bath and a clipping. It's just very sad," Gross said.
Update 1/6/12: Clover's owner was accused of animal abuse in 2009, and in 2010 a warrant was issued for her arrest. But nothing came of it.
Update 1/7/12: Rosalba (Gil de) Flores, 52, was charged with 2 counts of felony animal cruelty, and was released after posting $1,000 bail, according to police.
(Photo courtesy of DJ Becker/NewsMadera.com)
Animal supporters crowded into the city council meeting and demanded prosecution and justice for the small, frail dog that had been named ‘Lucky’ Clover by the officer that rescued him.
(Photo courtesy of DJ Becker/NewsMadera.com)
“It was so lucky we found him when we did, because he wouldn’t have lasted much longer. It was horrible,” officer Chelsea Ruble said.
Police Chief Michael Kime assured the city council and the public his department and the City of Madera Animal Control seriously investigated all alleged cases of animal neglect and cruelty – and where the owners or perpetrators could be identified, the cases were forwarded the cases to the District Attorney’s office for review and prosecution.
Citizens at the City Council meeting questioned the prosecution of such cases by the DA’s office. Madera County District Attorney Michael Kietz said he was an animal owner, and his office also took cases of animal abuse, neglect and cruelty seriously, and had always done so.
Keitz said in the last three years, at least 49 animal cases had come through his office, of the approximately 30,000 or so total cases, and he had personally filed cases against owners for dog fighting and cockfighting, and cases of abuse and neglect. “I was aware of the case on Clover before it came into the office. As soon as we got the case we charged it. We do take these cases seriously, and to heart,” he said. “I don’t know where this misconception has come up that (animal) cases aren’t being prosecuted. If concerned citizens are really worried about this I would be happy to meet with them. I have three pets of my own, I was a former animal science major in college, worked at a veterinary hospital … so to say that animal cruelty cases don’t strike at my heart is just totally wrong,” Keitz said.
Keitz said a typical sentence for a conviction on felony animal cruelty was approximately 16 months of jail or prison time, and the Flores case would get the attention it requires. “(The sentence) could also be up to 2 to 3 years, depending on the case. The monetary fine also varies. If the individuals are (previously) felons, there could be more time added,” he said.
Kay Rhoads, Friends of Madera Animal Shelter volunteer
and treasurer, said she was pleased with the prompt arrest of Flores.
Rhoads said she would also like to meet the concerned person that witnessed and took the time to report Clover’s plight to animal control on December 19th.
(Photo courtesy of DJ Becker/NewsMadera.com) - Kay Rhoads, left speaks with a KMPH TV news crew before the city council meeting, about the alleged lack of prosecution of animal neglect, abuse and cruelty cases in Madera.
“I would really like to thank that person, for doing something and trying to save Clover,” Rhoads said. Rhoads also said she and other animal lovers planned to attend and closely follow the Flores trial process. “I just hope there is justice for Clover,” she said.
According to Rhoads, a reward fund will be made
available to help motivate residents to report incidents of animal abuse and
The money will come from shelter donations and the reward will be paid for information that has lead to an arrest and a conviction in cases of felony animal neglect, abuse or cruelty, she said.
“Unfortunately, this kind of neglect and abuse happens all the time. It happens out of sight, in alleys, behind fences and right here in back yards. We are not going to tolerate it anymore. We need everyone’s help – to look out for the animals. Please watch for and report animal neglect or cruelty, abuse, or dog or cock fighting, whenever you see it,” Rhoads said.
Update 1/8/12: A crowd of animal supporters sat silently in the regular meeting of the Madera City Council, and held photos and banners of Clover. The group spoke in the public comment session and claimed animal cruelty cases were not seriously prosecuted in Madera.
They demanded justice for the dog , and accountability for the dog’s owner.
The dog was first seen and reported by a passerby December 19th from the back alley at the home in the 300 block of Harding Street.
According to animal control officers the dog had been tied to a clothes line post in the backyard for months without adequate food, water or shelter in the freezing cold. He was found on a tangled, 2 foot chain with a plastic rope collar so tightly embedded it was cutting deeply into the flesh of his neck, officers said. The 20 pound dog was also starved, matted and had suffered horribly with the pain and torture of the painful rope for months, according to City of Madera animal control officers.
City of Madera police chief Michael Kime said all cases of animal cruelty were taken seriously. Kime said the investigations could be lengthy because witnesses had to found and interviewed, and suspects denied ownership of animals and attempted to avoid prosecution by moving or providing false names.
“Many things come into play. We do our job
and if we build the case properly the case should be successful. I cannot guarantee
you that happens in each and every case … but I can assure you that I,
and the police department takes these cases seriously,” Kime said.
Gil de Flores told television news crews the dog wasn’t hers, though she did acknowledge it had lived at the residence and had recently died.
According to police records, Gil de Flores also
has an outstanding warrant for felony animal neglect and abuse dating from 2010.
Judy Wedding, president of the volunteer group The Friends of the Madera Animal Shelter, handed out photos and spoke to the city council. “Someone has to speak for Clover. I think it’s important to visualize this frail, helpless, 19 pound dog that was so cruelly neglected and abused. He recently lost his life in spite of treatment at two veterinary hospitals and the help of many caring residents. It took many long months for this rope to mortally wound poor Clover. There is no defense for this unspeakable act of criminal neglect and animal torture,” Wedding said.
Wedding said the volunteer group works hard to educate residents and improve the treatment of local animals, and requested the city of Madera adopt a zero tolerance stance on issues of animal neglect and cruelty . “We need your help in this effort. It’s too late for poor Clover, but perhaps we can prevent the next case of abuse. People have to know there are serious consequences for the abuse of an animal. ” Wedding said. “However, my understanding is Clover is the second or third dog to die of an embedded collar in the last 12 to 15 months. We also had Bones, the (emaciated) dog found tied to lamp post and Hanna, the pit bull used as a breeder and then as a bait dog. So unfortunately, this kind of unspeakable cruelty is not uncommon in our town of Madera,” Wedding said.
Kay Rhoads, a long time Madera business woman, animal advocate and founding board member of the volunteer group, fostered Clover after the surgery to remove the embedded collar. “If this dog had just been found a few days earlier he might have survived. (At least) he was a normal, loving dog for a few days – one that any of you might have had in your homes. We can no longer tolerate this kind of inhumane behavior. It’s got to stop here. And we never hear about anybody being prosecuted,” Rhoads said.
Rhoads said the volunteer group has a reward fund and was working on publicity campaign to increase local awareness of the plight of neglected or abused animals. “We are here to implore you as council members to help us, and help the animals of Madera. We as volunteers can only do so much, and we need the help and support … of the city,” Rhoads said.
The Mayor and city council members expressed their concern and support, and moved to bring the matter back before the council at the next regularly scheduled meeting.
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2341 new intakes have been matriculated into various programmes in the Modibbo Adama University (MAU) Yola Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria.
The ceremony, which took place Saturday, at the University Convocation Square was graced by parents, guardians and a host of others who came to witness the formal initiation of their children.
The Vice Chancellor (MAU), Prof Abdullahi Liman Tukur in his speech, welcomed the students into the institution renowned for its scholarship and professionalism.
He maintained that the matriculation provides an opportunity for the newly admitted students to be officially inducted into the university’s academically inspiring and socially exciting community.
Prof Tukur noted that the matriculation oath would oblige the students to be diligent in the pursuit of their studies, to seek knowledge and truth and to promote the general good of the university and humanity in tandem with its motto: knowledge and humanism.
Prof Tukur while reminding them to commit to high discipline and be good ambassadors of the University, urged them to be conversant with the rules and regulations guiding their stay in the institution.
The Vice Chancellor informed the gathering that the university will admit its first set of students into the medical college in the next academic year.
He added that the institution will resume admission of students into the restored programmes of the faculty of social and management sciences which include economics, banking and finance, business administration, accounting as well as library and information science.
The acting Registrar, Mal Hamma Aminu administered the matriculation oath to the newly admitted students according to their various faculties.
Highlights of the ceremony include the presentation of awards by the Vice Chancellor to continuing students across all programmes of the University who have excelled academically in their studies.


Carlos Ghosn , the boss of Renault, will present on Friday, October 6, his new strategic plan which will cover the period 2017 to 2022 . But before, the director of the Renault factory in Spain (Valladolid), Rafael Vazquez, has just made a pretty amazing announcement.
Indeed, the factory manager announced in the Automotive News columns that a brand new SUV Renault will join the assembly lines of its factory in 2019. Rafael Vazquez did not detail this novelty, however, confirmed that it would be a SUV, which will peck market shares on the B-SUV segment.
However, Renault already has an SUV in this segment, it is the Captur which is currently selling as rolls. The Renault Captur is the best-selling SUV (in its segment) in Europe. According to Jato Dynamics, the French manufacturer sold 112’586 copies of its flagship SUV in the first half.
This new vehicle will not be smaller than the Captur, it will probably be the same or even a smaller one. It could be the Renault Grand Captur, much like the Renault Scénic and the Renault Grand Scénic. But it should be noted that Renault said last year, the investment of 600 million euros in Spain for the production of a new car and the development of a new diesel 1.5-liter dCi.
It could therefore be a completely new model (except Captur), which we will soon discover. The mystery hangs for the moment, we will certainly know more this weekend!


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The Glass Palace tells of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who creates an empire in the Burmese teak forest. During the British invasion of 1885, when soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, the woman whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her.
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Reversing and Preventing Migraine Headaches
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Some of the most addicting food substances are, not surprisingly, migraine headache triggers. There is an addiction and withdrawal response. Some of these triggers include (sorry to be the bearer of bad news) Alchohol, Caffeine, and Chocolate.
Alcohol is undeniably a trigger for migraine headaches. Some people cannot drink any alchohol without getting a migraine. In these case these headaches might actually be a blessing in disguise. Avoiding alcohol consumption can mean avoiding migraine headaches. There are many other health problems related to alcohol.
Caffeine is tricky because it is sometimes used in low doses for the relief of migraines. However, caffeine in higher doses, such as as little as two cups a day can cause an addictive response bringing about withdrawals symptoms. Some advise to drink the same amount of coffee every day in order to avoid caffeine withdrawal induced migraine headaches. I see the wisdom to that advice with a modification added: The best amount of coffee to consume daily in order to avoid caffeine withdrawal headaches is NONE. Don't drink it and don't go through withdrawals.
Cheese is generally the first food that I ask patients to give up when migraine headaches are their chief complaint. Cheese is very addicting and this suggestion often is met with decided resistance. Those that do give up the cheese also often give up the migraines. It is a very good trade. Cheese is not the only dairy products known to trigger migraines. The 'cultured' dairy products are also sometimes triggers. These include yogurt, buttermilk and sour cream. Predigestion and the fermentation process can have their problems.
Nitrates and Nitrites used to preserve processed meats are also known triggers. They can sometimes expand blood vessels in the brain. It amazes me how anybody can think that eating processed meats is good. But, then, these products are also addicting and so again we might be seeing the withdrawal cycle at work in triggering migraines.
Tyramine, which occurs "naturally" in some foods such as aged cheese, smoked fish, cured meats and some beers has also been identified as a migraine headache trigger. There are also some other plant-based tyramine rich foods such as sauerkraut and soy sauce. Foods that are high in protein (think meat) may contain the most tyramine. This is particularly true when these foods are not fresh.
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The etymology for is phrase is at Muharram chant of Ya! Husain Ya! Hasan. This extremely interesting work gives the India origin of words that have found their way into the English language. It is a thick 1021 page book, and is full of references for the progress of Indian words from the original to the corrupted words and phrases, many of which are in the British English even today. The notices of travelers to India, from the ancient times (Herodotus is mentioned often) till the late 19th century makes this book a valuable source book for the various notices it gives of India through the ages. One example to illustrate the scope is the word ?Rupee? : it came from ?Rupaiya?, which came from ?Rupa?, which, in turn is the word for Silver. This indispensable book is a reprint of the 1903 edition. Printed Pages: 1068. Buchnummer des Verkäufers 68283
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July 10, 2019
14-fold increase in health budget in Bangla in the last 8 years
- The budgetary allocation in the health sector in Bangla has gone up to Rs 9,552.70 crore in the current fiscal (FY 2019-20), from a mere Rs 682 crore in 2011, which is a massive increase of 1,300.69 per cent.
This information was provided by the Minister of State for Health during the course of her presentation of her department’s budget in the Assembly on Friday, July 5.
Under the leadership of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is also the Health Minister, the Health Department has witnessed a sea change in all parameters, said the minister, with equal priority being given to both health services and medical education in the last eight years.
Other highlights of the minister’s health budget speech:
- Number of doctors in State hospitals has more than doubled in comparison to 2011 – from 4,500 to 10,900
- Number of nurses has witnessed a sharp jump too – from 37,366 to 52,820
- 42 superspeciality hospitals set up, with locations being chosen after detailed surveys on patient requirements
- Areas identified on the basis of proneness to accidents, eye diseases, etc. and facilities set up accordingly at the nearest superspeciality hospitals
- Number of beds in superspeciality hospitals is 13,600, among which 13,000, or more than 95 per cent are operational
- 44 critical care units (CCU) operating now, from none in 2011
- Combined with high-dependency units (HDU), number of units dedicated to critical care is now 69
- District hospitals have undergone major facelift – infrastructure for digital X-ray, CT scan, dialysis and MRI introduced, among others
- Consequent to betterment of district hospitals, referral cases from them to Kolkata’s hospitals have gone down.
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Do I have a moral obligation to give money to charity?
Do we have a moral 'obligation' to do anything? I could argue for why you should give money to charity; I could probably argue for why you should not. At what point do you become bound to do something? Even if you make a promise, you can still choose not to (and what if, after making such a promise, it occurs to you that the keeping of the promise will bring about harm rather than good?).
I could argue that you should give money to charity because there might come a time when you will need it to be given to you. I could argue that your upbringing - at least in the UK - is largely as a result of public funding and that you have an obligation to give back to society for what it has provided for you. All of these things I could argue but I don't think that I could oblige you to be charitable unless you desire to do so.
On a national level, should the governments of countries which are heavily in debt still give overseas aid money?
We could take a Kantian perspective on this and argue that no, they should not; this is because they do not have the money to give and that if 'ought implies can' then they 'cannot' so it follows that they 'ought not'. However, perhaps if they have entered into a charitable relationship with another country then they must factor this into the money they accrue from borrowing.
Also, we can ask what would happen if they did not give aid money if they were in debt - given that many of the richer countries have only been able to keep themselves afloat (and often barely) with financial assistance it follows that they would cease to give such aid and many peoples dependent on such charity would die. This might be contradictory, insofar as the reason for the richer countries borrowing money is to keep the economy afloat for the well-being of their citizens - however, alongside this their unwillingness to give aid could result in a greater share of the total world population suffering even more greatly. This is, essentially, a display of double standards.
However, a government is always under scrutiny from the citizens it purports to govern and it is in their interests to remain in power (and maintain a more general confidence in political institutions) in order to enact policies which will, hopefully, lead to a better quality of life for these citizens; as such, it needs to show that it puts them before citizens from other nations.

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This minimially-invasive procedure is used to treat avascular necrosis of the hip (the death of bone tissue from lack of blood) with an injection of stem cells drawn from the patient’s pelvis. The stem cells promote the natural healing of the necrotic bone tissue.
Collecting the Stem Cells
The patient is anesthetized, and a trocar and needle are inserted into the top of the pelvis. A sample of bone marrow is drawn through the needle. The bone marrow is placed into a centrifuge, where it is spun rapidly. The spinning process helps to concentrate stem cells contained in the bone marrow. This concentrated bone marrow is then drawn into a syringe.
Preparing the Femur
A small incision is made on the side of the hip. A guidewire is precisely guided into the head of the femur with the help of fluoroscopic x-ray visualization. A hollow, cannulated drill is then used to create a hole in the femur.
Injecting Stem Cells
The drill is removed, cleared of any debris, and then reinserted into the head of the femur. The guide wire is removed. The syringe containing the concentrated bone marrow is attached to the cannulated drill and the concentrated bone marrow is slowly injected into the hollowed femoral space. Stem cells will multiply, repair and rebuild the damaged tissue. The syringe and drill are removed.
End of Procedure and Aftercare
Patients will need to stay overnight in the hospital. Patients should avoid strenuous activities, particularly high-impact activities, for six months. Regular check-ups will be needed to monitor healing.
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Hawks's production that became His Girl Friday was originally intended to be a straightforward adaptation of The Front Page, with both the editor and reporter being male. But during auditions, a woman, Howard Hawks's secretary, read reporter Hildy Johnson's lines. Hawks liked the way the dialogue sounded coming from a woman, resulting in the script being rewritten to make Hildy female and the ex-wife of editor Walter Burns. Most of the original dialogue and all of the characters' names were left the same, with the exception of Hildy's fiancé, Bruce Baldwin. Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures approved Hawks's idea for the film project. Ben Hecht was unavailable to do do the necessary script revisions so Hawks recruited Charles Lederer who had worked on the adaptation for The Front Page to work on the screenplay.:96 Additions were made in the beginning of the screenplay by Lederer to give the characters a convincing backstory so it was decided that Hildy and Walter would be divorced with Hildy's intentions of remarriage serving as Walter's motivation to win her back.:97
Hawks had great difficulty casting this film. While the choice of Cary Grant was almost instantaneous, the casting of Hildy was a more extended process. At first, Hawks wanted Carole Lombard, whom he had directed in the screwball comedy Twentieth Century, but the cost of hiring Lombard in her new status as a freelancer proved to be far too expensive, and Columbia could not afford her. Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Margaret Sullavan, Ginger Rogers and Irene Dunne were offered the role, but turned it down, Dunne because she felt the part was too small and needed to be expanded. Jean Arthur was offered the part, and was suspended by the studio when she refused to take it. Joan Crawford was reportedly also considered.
Hawks then turned to Rosalind Russell. During filming, Russell noticed that Hawks treated her like an also-ran, so she confronted him: "You don't want me, do you? Well, you're stuck with me, so you might as well make the most of it."
The film had the working title of The Bigger They Are, and was in production from September 27 to November 21, 1939.
In her autobiography, Life Is A Banquet, Russell wrote that she thought her role did not have as many good lines as Grant's, so she hired her own writer to "punch up" her dialogue. With Hawks encouraging ad-libbing on the set, Russell was able to slip her writer's work into the movie. Only Grant was wise to this tactic and greeted her each morning saying, "What have you got today?"
The film is noted for its rapid-fire repartee, using overlapping dialogue to make conversations sound more realistic, with one character speaking before another finishes. Although overlapping dialog is specified and cued in the 1928 play script by Hecht and MacArthur, Hawks told Peter Bogdanovich:
I had noticed that when people talk, they talk over one another, especially people who talk fast or who are arguing or describing something. So we wrote the dialogue in a way that made the beginnings and ends of sentences unnecessary; they were there for overlapping.
To get the effect he wanted, as multi-track sound recording was not yet available at the time, Hawks had the sound mixer on the set turn the various overhead microphones on and off as required for the scene, as many as 35 times.
Grant's character describes Bellamy's character by saying "He looks like that fellow in the movies, you know...Ralph Bellamy!" According to Bellamy, the remark was ad libbed by Grant. Columbia studio head Harry Cohn thought it was too cheeky and ordered it removed, but Hawks insisted that it stay. Grant makes several other "inside" remarks in the film. When his character is arrested for a kidnapping, he describes the horrendous fate suffered by the last person who crossed him: Archie Leach (Grant's birth name). Another line that people think is an inside remark is when Earl Williams attempts to get out of the rolltop desk he's been hiding in, Grant says, "Get back in there, you Mock Turtle." The line is a "cleaned-up" version of a line from the stage version of The Front Page ("Get back in there, you God damned turtle!") and Grant also played "The Mock Turtle" in the 1933 film version of Alice in Wonderland.


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The tune that I taught myself to play on the flute this morning is the one that Loreena McKenitt is scatting wordlessly in the above video. I first heard the song when I was a teenager and found it enchanting. What I didn’t know at the time was that the melody was lifted directly from a medieval Spanish song, the title ’Santiago’ being a reference to the original lyrics, which tell the story of a man’s pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. The story is that the man spends the night with a prostitute before his journey, and along the way he meets the Devil who, disguised as St James, persuades him to hack off his penis. The man obliges, and swiftly bleeds to death. His traveling companions then discover the body, and make a swift escape to avoid being accused of murdering him. The Devil and his minions return to claim body and soul, but Mary intercepts them and commands them to return it, on the grounds that they won it unfairly, and they have to let it go. The man is restored to life, but his penis is never returned.
The title of the song is ‘Non e’ gran cousa se sabe’ and there are several versions available online with the original lyrics.
Now, it’s really quite impossible for me to convey, in the context of a D&D game, what a profound effect medieval music has always had on me. The best I can really do is to describe the physical and cultural landscape, from the gritty to the sublime, and provide a sense of the world that inspired the music. Simply playing it in the background during games didn't work.
My first experience with D&D was as a kid playing outside, with books and dice spread over the sidewalk. This was in the days before portable devices and iTunes made music ubiquitous, so the issue never came up--and besides, my only exposure to medieval music was an anthology my father had on vinyl, and perhaps the flute section in the intro to 'Stairway to Heaven'. When I started playing again as an adult, and was somewhat awkwardly shoved into the role of DM, I fancied myself punctuating my exposition with a few bars on the flute here and there. For the sake of convenience I settled on letting things like this flow throughout the game:
My idea was that it would enhance the setting. In practice at least one player found it inappropriate and distracting. I was told, eventually, by a member of our campaign who offered to take a turn DMing so that I could play for a change, that he could use music more effectively than I was doing. What that turned out to mean was that he played certain video game soundtrack loops as he deemed appropriate for the setting of the current scene of the game. This struck me, though, as cheesy and contrived, and not merely because of the cheapness and inauthenticity of the music itself, although that was certainly a factor. The impression I got was of a ham-fisted attempt to dictate the mood we were supposed to be feeling.
Certainly I'm guilty of susceptibility to mood. I'm moved everytime I hear Anwnn's rendition of 'Douce Dame Jolie', for instance. It's breathtakingly evocative, and my frame of mind completely alters toward it, no matter the situation. Especially when preceded by the instrumental virelai in the clip below, I'm sucked right into the pathos.
I don't suppose it does much for the spirit of combat, though, if that happens to be the emotional orientation of the campaign at the moment.
Eventually, after some discussion with the players last year, I settled into the habit of using sound effects more than music. After all, in the actual fourteenth century, that's mostly what the characters would have heard. I organised a plethora of clips in YouTube and iTunes to fit different situations, and most of them are related to the weather and environment. (Sadly, the only place 'Douce Dame Jolie' might be appropriate is at a noble's private party, and our party isn't at that level socially.) There's bawdy and off-key a cappella mingled with rough chatter for the alehouses and low-end taverns, pipers and drums mixed with conversation for the better establishments and certain parts of town, lots of premodern street noise for the cities, and a variety of nature-based noise for the countryside. A ton of different rain sounds, for example.
One obvious benefit of this is that it frees me up to focus on other aspects of narration. We've certainly had players who were less than snappy in the past, and who, five minutes after my detailed description of how the icy rain is soaking everyone to the bone and painfully numbing their extremities, ask, 'What's the weather like?'
I doubt many players are going to feel the way I do, and perhaps the far more common preference is for so-called 'epic' cinematic music with the subdued string section and bass drums that so often go along with warriors racing into battle on horseback in period films, but the musicians who try to bring the arrangement and instrumentation as close to authentic as possible are the ones that get me going in the morning.


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The gray man is a film by director Anthony and Joe Russo With Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans.
And with the beautiful Ana de Armas.
Court Gentry, a former CIA agent, is released from federal prison but becomes the target of a former CIA colleague.
In theaters July 15, 2022
July 22 on Netflix.
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Ryan Gosling is an award-winning Canadian actor who has starred in a number of blockbuster and acclaimed independent productions. He is also a musician and philanthropist.
Ryan Gosling (full name Ryan Thomas Gosling) was born on November 12th in London, Ontario, Canadath 1980
He first played roles in television shows such as those on Disney Channel The Mouse Clubfollowed by a role on the family entertainment show Are you afraid of the dark? (1995).
The acclaimed film The believer (2001) was Gosling’s first feature film in which he starred. He later played with SAndrea Bullock in the movie Murder by Numbers (2002) and independent film productions such as battle rule (2002); The United States of Leland (2003).
Among a number of film productions he has starred in, it was his role Half Nelson (2006), which nominated him for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
He starred in films such as the romantic comedy crazy stupid love (2011), which brought him further popularity and starred in the box office success journey (2011).
In 2015 he starred in the acclaimed film satire The great short film (2015).
Gosling surprised with his leading role in the romantic musical la la country (2016), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and was again nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Since then he has starred in a number of films such as Bladerunner 2049 (2017) and has been involved in his musical endeavors with his band Dead Man’s Bones and has been very active in humanitarian causes.
It is expected that the film Barbie will be released in 2023, where he stars alongside Margot Robbie.
Yes, he will play the role of Ken.
Ryan Gosling is married Eva Mendeswith whom he has two daughters.
Ana de Armas
Ana de Armas was born on April 30, 1988 in La Habana, Cuba
Ana de Armas is known for her role in the series El Internado and films such as Knock Knock (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Knives Out (2019).
She has a role in the last James Bond film No Time To Die (2021).
Her last film is Dark Water (2022)a film directed by Adrian Lyne.
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Movie title: The gray man
Movie description: Court Gentry, a former CIA agent, is released from federal prison but becomes the target of a former CIA colleague.
Release date: July 11, 2022
Country: United States
Duration: 122 minutes
Director(s): Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Actor: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Billy Bob Thornton, Regé-Jean Page, Alfre Woodard, Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura

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In episode 8 of Phoned In, BOMB Magazine’s poetry reading by phone podcast, CAConrad reads from The Book of Frank and The City Real & Imagined. Click through for an Q&A where he and Luke Degnan discuss Philadelphia, (Soma)tic Poetry, and why it’s necessary to ignore advice from older poets. Here it is!
CAConrad is the author of The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock, The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), and Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. Visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com or with his friends at http://PhillySound.blogspot.com


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Camping California's Wild Coast
The coast is a place of rhythm: tides, lapping waves, the movement of the sun, the incoming and outgoing wind and fog. Camping allows you to really sink into those rhythms. Adventure tends to be on a minor scale, such as spotting an unusual bird, or splashing through mud on a short walk. Two campgrounds, one north and one south of San Francisco, offer very different experiences of the California coast. Butano State Park is nestled in the redwoods south of the city. Manchester State Beach is a windy but breathtakingly beautiful stretch of coast north of San Francisco. Both lie a short distance from drop-dead scenic California Highway One, which makes these campgrounds doubly worthwhile.
Butano State Park
Drive along the windswept coast and turn inland along country roads baked golden in the sun. Turn up the canyon drained by Little Butano Creek and suddenly you are in a redwood rain forestwhat an enchanted spot! Look for pygmy nuthatches, winter wrens, chickadees, banana slugs, and newts under the redwoods, Doug fir, tan oak, maple, and ferns. This is prime camping, and most folks don't even know it's here. According to Native American lore, butano means "a gathering place for friendly visits," and that's the vibe in Butano State Park.
The campground is up the canyon where the forest grows the thickest. Look for sites 22 through 39these are the tent-only walk-in sites. At most, the walk is about 30 yards. The trees are so tall, the forest so still that camping here is like pitching a tent in a cathedral. The pitches are soft and spongy although by fall you get a soft, red grit, so bring a drop cloth to clean your feet on before going in the tent. The huge trees moderate the heat in the summer and the cold in the winter. Live under these trees like a hobbit wrapped in the arms of Ma Naturebetween the nearby rugged coast and these majestic trees you have the best of two distinctly different worlds.
Hike up the Little Butano Creek Loop for a quick look at the park. The trail begins just below the campground. Cross the creek on footbridges and look for trillium, oxalis, and forget-me-not. In the spring, watch out for baby newts. Reach a junction and stay below with the creek. The paths soon come together and climb up through the maples. About a mile out, either cross the creek and return to the campground area via an access road, or go back the way you came.
Another slightly longer hike is the Jackson Flats-Six Bridges Hike. Pick this hike up down below the picnic area by the entrance booth. Head up a ridge through Doug fir, madrone, and poison oak (don't touch). Look for chanterelle mushrooms (don't pick) after a rain. After a mile and a half, look for a cattail marsh on your left before you come into old-growth redwoods a half a mile farther on. This is a good place to turn around. On the way back, one option is to take the Mill Ox Trail on the left and head back to the park roadgo left uphill to the campground.
Drive to the beach. Go left on Cloverdale Road and down Gazos Creek Road to Highway 1. Go across the highway and into the Gazos Creek Access parking lot. This is a pretty little beach below Gazos, Whitehouse, and Cascade Canyons. But, if you want a great beach, get back in your car and head south exactly 1 mile. Park, and walk over the dunes to the ocean. Now, this is a great beach, with a protected cove at the south end, good sandy walking beach, and tidepools at the north end. A local, a professor at U.C. Santa Cruz, showed me this beach and swore me to secrecy. Ha!
A little farther south find Aqo Nuevo State Reserve. This is truly an incredible experience. Aqo Nuevo is about the northern elephant seals who use it as a rookery. Spot the island, and see the abandoned buildings. This used to be a lighthouse facility, and folks who lived there would chase the 2,000-pound elephant seals out of the kitchen garden and sometimes find them sliding down the halls of the house. Now the place has been turned over to the elephant seals.
Breeding season is between December and March, when male elephant seals as big as VW bugs fight mano a mano for the ladies' favors. To see this spectacle, you have to go on a ranger-guided walk. You have to reserve a place in advance as early as October. Phone (415) 879-0227 to reserve a spot. Any other time, just hiking around the Reserve is wonderful. The pond is great for birdwatching waves of different birds come through here. The beach area is pristine and protected (careful of the rips), and the Visitor Center has a fine exhibit in an old barnpart of the Steele Brothers Dairy Farm.
Another good trip is over to Pescadero, which has the only gasoline around these parts. In the store by the pumps is a new Mexican restaurant. I talked to a California firefighter who swore by it. I tasted a homemade tamaleOli!
More traditional Pescadero fare is to pick up fried artichokes from Toni's Greek & American Restaurant, then drive a mile or so up Pescadero Road to the Phipps Ranch picnic tables to tuck into the chokes and drink beer brought from Muzzi's Market in Pescadero. Phipps is a much beloved petting zoo/U-pick farm for good strawberries.
Duartes Bar and Grill in Pescadero is good for an evening meal. And there's a Bank of America right next door. For fish, drive up to nearby Half Moon Bay to the fish market and buy crab or whatever to take back to the campground. For such a sleepy-looking stretch of coast here, there's lots to do. Good bicycle country.
To get there from Half Moon Bay, drive 15 miles south on Highway 1 to Pescadero Road on the left. Go east on Pescadero Road, past the town of Pescadero. Go right on Cloverdale Road. The park entrance is 3 miles on the left.
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The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office K9 unit assisted with finding a dementia patient on Sunday, July 1, 2018. The K9, bloodhound Loosie, and her handler, Cpl. C.E. O’Neal, assisted the South Charleston Police Department with located the patient who had wandered away from her home. Loosie tracked from the Little General Store in the 5700 block of MacCorkle Avenue to Smileys Motel, where she twice indicated the trail ended. The patient was found in Poca, West Virginia.
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This album isn’t quite the album to impress anyone who was throwing Mariah under the bus for fading out of the spotlight. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t an amazing album. This album is one that only true Mariah fans will enjoy, and the reasons are kinda vague so bear with me. Mariah is someone who doesn’t really care if you like her, she just wants to get her statement across. And clearly her statement is changing practically every other song, so this album is super eclectic. And people don’t really like eclectic, because when they buy an album they want a theme, but Mariah is not about that boring life. So if you want themes this album is the furthest thing you can get from it.
Charmbracelet is without doubt Mariah Carey’s most underrated albums. This album is definitely her most personal album. It has too many ballads to count. It’s got depression, love, mom problems, dad problems, people problems, life problems, and basically everything problems. This might be kindof a downer but it makes for good sad music binge with wine and a giant bag of chips. Mariah has always been known for her sad songs. But this album was something else. Maybe she went overboard, but honestly it’s so great to listen to on days like this when literally everything goes wrong. Something about listening to other people’s problems makes mine seem a little less horrible, and that’s Mariah’s turf.
The album “E=MC2” is probably Mariah’s most hip-hop oriented album. It is certainly more modern than any of her previous ones, and it has a much more impersonal approach. In contrast to pretty much every other album she has written, this one is much more about the bops and not the emotion. It seems as if in this album she was trying to appeal to a younger audience and thus made it much more bouncy. It isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it was a smart move on her part as her light was very clearly fading. But the best part about this “hail-Mary” of sorts was the fact that she got a very recognizable song from it! Have you ever met anyone who didn’t know the song “Touch my Body”? No? Didn’t think so. That was probably one of her greatest hits and it came towards the commonly referred to as “flopriah” era. You go MiMi
Mariah Carey’s movie “Glitter,” was widely regarded as a major flop and was the beginning of Mariah’s career plummet. But what is not so frequently discussed is the soundtrack from the movie. This soundtrack was an absolute roller coaster of genres, emotions, and vocal styles. Mariah co-wrote every single song on the soundtrack and thus poured her whole heart into every piece. Her songs range from hip-hop bops, to smooth pop songs, even to emotional ballads. The movie may not have been an extreme success, but the soundtrack is undeniably a work of mastery. It tells the story of a young aspiring singer who is going through personal mom, boy, and career problems. If that’s not relatable, idk what is. Mariah Carey may have had a mental breakdown, released a horrible movie, and proceeded to become one of the biggest divas in the business (and not necessarily in a good way). But! She never stopped producing deeply personal and masterful pieces of work.
This review talks about Mariah Carey’s self titled debut album, “Mariah Carey.” It breaks her masterpiece down into each song and talks in detail about each one. Mariah Carey’s debut album was an absolute vocal beast. It had everything one could potentially describe as vocally challenging (riffs, runs, whistle notes, belts, low notes, etc.). Mariah Carey not only demonstrates complete vocal prowess but also an extraordinary talent in songwriting (my personal focus). She writes in such a way that appeals to the glamorous bounce of the eighties while still managing to ride the new wave of cutesy, sultry pop of the nineties. This is what makes Mariah Carey easily one of the most talented but also one of the smartest (in the way of trends and pop culture) female singers in herstory.


Two teenage boys who suffered heart inflammation following Pfizer’s Covid jabs and then seemed to recover had relapses months later, Italian researchers have reported.
Both teenagers showed evidence of new heart damage from the recurrences, including high levels of proteins from injured cardiac muscle. Scans showed one boy had new lesions in his heart wall, and he needed nearly two weeks of hospitalization.
The researchers could not determine why the boys suffered the relapses, which came 8 to 12 months after the initial myocarditis episodes. They called for tighter monitoring of anyone diagnosed with mRNA-caused myocarditis – and more research to determine if young people who suffered it might face severe future complications.
Published in late May in the journal Vaccine: X, the paper appears to be the first case report showing mRNA jabs can cause recurring myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart. But public health authorities and the media, which since 2021 have played down cardiac side effects from mRNA shots, have ignored it.
Myocarditis has many causes, including viral infection and mRNA Covid vaccination.
It is often diagnosed when people go to emergency rooms with chest pain but can also occur without symptoms, causing people to have cardiac damage that is clear on heart scans or in blood tests but does not cause pain or fever.
Studies have shown myocarditis requiring hospitalization may occur in as many as 1 in 3,000 teenage boys or young adult men who receive a Covid jab, with the highest risk after the second dose. Many studies show Moderna’s shot, which has more mRNA than Pfizer’s, has a higher risk.
The underlying reason that the mRNAs cause myocarditis – and why it seems to affect young men more than anyone else – remains a mystery.
Researchers have proposed many different mechanisms, including direct damage from the spike protein the mRNA shots cause the body to make, immune system antibodies that mistakenly attack heart tissue instead of the spikes, or a more generalized immune system overresponse. So far they have not settled on a definite answer.
(Relapsing myocarditis. That’s not good, right?)
In 2021 and 2022, public health experts and schools and universities – particularly in the United States – pushed mRNA Covid shots on teenagers and young adults at essentially no risk from Covid.
As the connection between the mRNAs and myocarditis became more clear, they downplayed its risks, calling it mild and tranisent.
But studies from South Korea, Qatar, and the Tokyo medical examiner’s office have proved that mRNA myocarditis can kill and has led to dozens of sudden deaths of young adults in those countries. The link to the deaths was generally discovered only after autopsies or medical record reviews of deaths within days or weeks of vaccinations.
The United States and most other mRNA vaccine countries have not conducted similar reviews, so the total post-jab myocarditis death toll remains a mystery.
(Everything was fine. Until it wasn’t.)
Another mystery is the long-term prognosis of teenagers and young adults who have suffered either mild or more severe post-jab myocarditis.
Some studies have shown changes in heart function up to a year later, but cardiologists disagree about whether the scarring visible on scans is severe enough to have meaningful long-term impact.
But the heart cannot regrow muscle after injury.
Any damage it suffers is effectively permanent, which is why the possibility that the mRNAs might caused repeated episodes of inflammation or scarring is so worrisome.


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Avoid these workers’ comp mistakes so you don’t screw up your workers’ comp case and potentially lose your benefits. Although workers’ compensation benefits may seem untouchable when they begin to flow in for the first few weeks, it is important to consult with a Atlanta workers compensation lawyer to make certain that as an injured individual, incapable of working, you are taking all steps necessary to keep your checks coming while you recover. In order for the checks to keep coming, make sure to abide by these few necessary suggestions (or, ignore them if you want to totally screw up your case):
- Do not go work for another employer while you are receiving checks from your old employer. After a workplace injury, your income may decrease and you may be tempted to take a second job. Even if the new job requires little (or no) physical work, according to the law, taking it while on Temporary Total Disability benefits (TTD) is not permitted. If you had a second job before your injury and it is not as physically demanding as your primary job, you might be able to continue working that job. However, it may cause your workers’ comp benefits to be adjusted since you are able to perform some type of work. If your injuries prevent you from working both jobs, your workers’ comp benefits will calculate both of your incomes to determine your TTD benefit amount.
- Do not make things difficult for your employer or your authorized medical physician, because this can compromise your benefits. This is not to say that you must agree to every recommendation for medical treatment, including surgery, given by your doctor. However, you must abide by the workers’ compensation laws when consulting with either of them. Keep in mind, if you don’t feel you’re getting the level of medical care you need, you may be able to change doctors or get a second opinion.
- Always make sure to apply for your workers’ compensation claim as soon as possible, so that you do not lose your entitlement to benefits. In the state of Georgia, if you do not apply for benefits within a year of your accident, you will lose your right to benefits. Also, give notice to your employer of the injury within 30 days!
These are not the only workers’ comp mistakes you could make to lose your right to Temporary Total Disability benefits, but hopefully these few tips will give you some idea of how to keep your claim alive while you heal from your injuries! Questions? Contact our law offices to speak to a knowledgeable Atlanta workers’ compensation lawyer at 404-354-5432.

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Widespread, global protests killed ACTA, the secretive, over-reaching "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement," which imposed brutal copyright rules on its signatories. But now, the Canadian Conservatives have introduced Bill C-8, which turns ACTA's provisions into Canadian law, and they're fast-tracking it through with little debate or public input.
If passed, C-8 will further criminalize infringement (that is, put Canadians in jail for watching TV or listening to the radio the wrong way), turn the police into private copyright enforcers for the American entertainment industry, and interfere with the trade in legal generic drugs and other products.
What this exercise it will do – and has done – is to allow lobbyists with a maximalist agenda to use this fake problem of fakes to create the potential for interference with legitimate trade in parallel imports, vastly increased criminalization of everyday “infringement”, shifting of enforcement costs from the private sector to the taxpayer, and the interference with the transshipment of generic drugs and other legitimate products. The new law will allow incredible opportunity for abusive or even simply incompetent enforcement. This can be very costly to large and SME business, not to mention consumers. This is perhaps the most sweeping legislation in Canadian IP law in 70 years, and it is being done without adequate hearings, study or the demonstration of any need. Anyone looking for counterfeit products can find them on the street in mid-town and downtown Manhattan. One doesn’t find this kind of flagrant counterfeiting in Canada. The “evidence” of a major problem with counterfeit good that can’t already be dealt with via existing laws almost entirely anecdotal or absent. Piling on of responsibility to border officials is an unnecessary and costly mistake. The DNA and fingerprints of the movie and record industries are all over this bill.
Bill C-8 re Anti-Counterfeiting: Is Parliament Rushing to Respond to a Fake Crisis About Fake Products?
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After decades of fighting for open Web standards that let anyone implement software to receive and render online data, the World Wide Web Consortium changed course and created EME, a DRM system that locks up video in formats that can only be played back with the sender’s blessing, and which also gives media giants the […]
With the release of a pair of anti-Trump ads, the Clinton campaign has begun to fight a war on two fronts.
It’s the International Day Against DRM, and in honor of the day, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Parker Higgins has written an excellent post explaining why we can’t live with DRM, even on media that you “rent” rather than buying (streaming services like Spotify, Netflix, etc).
3D printing has been one of those “next big thing” innovations among early adopters and the tech circle in-crowd for a few years now. However, the prospect of creating your own three-dimensional objects is still in its relative infancy with the general public. While the idea itself is fascinating to most, high prices and the […]
White hat hackers get paid to find holes in their own employers’ online systems, and plug those holes before they become serious security risks. It’s a job that pays handsomely…mostly because few job candidates, even experienced IT professionals, have the skills to scamper over firewalls and infiltrate the deepest recesses of a battle-tested network. But […]
Why buy one of those expensive and confusing universal remotes, clogged with enough buttons to launch a space shuttle, when you could accomplish the same electronic control right on your favorite mobile device? The Blumoo Universal Remote, now just $52.99 in the Boing Boing Store, harnesses the audio power of all your household equipment right […]


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I’ve been messing with the terrain in Lyridia recently because it needs work. After some general indecision I decided it would be best if I could set the color of each face individually, that way I can add some painting tools to the world editor and just paint in paths or grassy patches or snow or beaches or whatever. As a step toward that I needed to just figure out how to set the color of each face, and what better way than with a different random color assigned to each face!
This obviously looks a little crazy but I kind of like it. I could see a part of the world where the terrain looks something like this all the time. Maybe in a truly chaotic place, or maybe this is how you see the world if your character eats a hallucinogenic berry. Lots of options. The main point, however, is that setting each face’s color programmatically is totally possible. That’s good because this way I can keep the low-poly style, but still add in some details to keep the terrain from just being a green blob.
I have also tried shading the terrain with vertex colors instead of face colors. The neat thing about this approach is that WebGL blends the colors between the vertices so that if I want to draw some snow on a mountain, I can take the length of a triangle to transition from gray to white. Or if I want to draw a path then the sides of the path can fade from brown to green. This might take away from the low-poly look, or it might enhance it. I won’t really know until I get some actual painting capabilities built, so my next task is to rebuild the world editor.
I’ve been away from the game for a few weeks due to my personal life being really busy lately but I’ve been thinking about the game and now it’s time to pick back up on development. Here’s some things I’ve been pondering, in no particular order.
- I need to rebuild my world editor. The world editor mostly works right now but it’s gotten big enough that it’s difficult to maintain because I didn’t really plan it out from the start. THREE.js actually has a somewhat nifty editor already built so I will probably take that editor and start adding in feature I specifically need to create zones for Lyridia.
- I’ve been thinking about character classes for the game. For a long time I’ve had this idea that character classes should progress as a character gains more experience. For instance, a fighter type may start off as a general tough guy at level 1, but by the time a character is at end game he should be something more specific and impressive like a gladiator or a commando. It has never made sense to me for a level 1 character to be the same class as a level 100 character. A level 100 character shouldn’t be just a “fighter” and a level 1 character shouldn’t be a “death knight.” So my thought is that set points in a character’s development the player should choose how to progress. For instance, for Warrior types every character starts at level 1 as a “Tough.” This is just a basic low-level fighter. But at level 10 the player would choose whether to focus more on attack or defense and become either a “Fighter” or a “Defender.” Then at level 20 you can become a “Warrior,” a “Brawler,” or a “Guardian.” This carries on until level cap. The only refinement I might make to this is to give every archetype it’s own progression chart. So instead of a Warrior type choosing between DPS and tanking, I might make Warriors choose between targeted DPS and AoE DPS, then have a progression chart for Tanks where characters can be more agile or withstand more damage. In any case, I like the idea of being able to play multiple different classes during the life of a character, and even getting to plan out skills and playstyle based on the path a character takes through the progression chart.
That’s enough planning and thinking for now. I need to go actually do some work on the game.
I’ve been fighting with getting a player character animated and, as always, there are complications. I get that Blender often does things in its own special way but it’s quite frustrating that the process to export an animated character from Blender to glTF and import it into THREE.js is still flaky. Specifically, here’s what’s happening.
I made a character, based heavily on a model I found on opengameart.org. The model was not rigged so I rigged it in Blender and created a basic idle and run animation. As far as I can tell, the export to glTF and import into THREE.js in this simple case is perfect. The guy runs, I can see the animation names in the console, all is grand. I thought, though, “It would be nice if I could model equipment separately then just parent the equipment to different bones on the model and eventually I could change the parented equipment programmatically.” This is going to be necessary eventually, but for now I have punted and simply modeled a sword as part of the character’s base mesh. This is because parenting separate objects to a bone works perfectly inside Blender. The sword, in this case, moves right along with the hand to which it is parented with no issue but when I export the animation to glTF, things go funky. The sword’s orientation goes crazy and it becomes difficult to predict where the sword will actually appear in THREE.js.
I honestly believe this is just something I’m not grasping about Blender but it’s frustrating nonetheless for the animations to work great until I add in the twist of parented objects, then it goes wild. In order to move forward what I have now is good enough. You can tell the guy has a sword and once I create the attack animation you’ll be able to tell he’s swinging it with the intention of doing great violence. Eventually I’ll need to spend some real time with this, and possibly bring in some outside expertise to get everything working correctly, but for now I’m just going to move forward with what works and not worry about it.
I’m honestly not sure what the next step is for development of the game. I’ve been thinking about battle mechanics and I have an idea for a system that is pretty different from a typical open-world MMO, but I’m hesitant to go all in with the idea because I didn’t start this project to do things differently, and doing things differently involves risk. That being said, doing things exactly the same as they’ve always been done also involves some risk, so I’m torn. Because the battle system is pretty core to the game experience as a whole, I need to make this choice correctly the first time. I’d rather not have to implement a new battle system after the game is up and running. Of course, one of the nicest things about the web as a platform for games and not working for a big company is that I can try things that are probably completely crazy. For instance, I could have the battle system work completely differently in different parts of the world, or maybe have open world battle done like a typical MMO then use something different for party play. I’m only constrained by what I can think up and implement.
I’m glad I started this post because it’s help me decide to go back to the typical MMO open-world battle system for now. That’s what players will be used to and if I want to add in another system later I can always do so.
So, I think my next step is to recreate an attack animation for the main character and implement a very basic battle system. It will be nothing more advanced than “attack an enemy and it dies” but that will do for now.
I’ve spent the last several days thinking about the overall art style of the game. I very much like the low-poly look I’ve been using thus far but my concern is that I’ll be too limited if I ever want to add assets that need more details. The primary thing that comes to mind is faces. It’s way, way cheaper to just draw a cartoon face onto a few triangles than to model and render geometry for eyes and mouths. Also clothing and equipment may be difficult to keep interesting and varied if every distinction between one piece and another has to be in the geometry. I’m not ready to go full-blown Blizzard-style art assets yet, but I’ve starting creating assets that have a single, small diffuse texture attached. I can then create a color palette on the texture and just assign faces of the mesh to the desired color. It keeps the low-poly look but also gives me the flexibility to use gradients or even just hand drawn textures where needed. I’m still feeling all this out, but the versatility of using textures is undeniable.
I’ve also been working on getting a better player character in the game. I found a nice little human character on opengameart.org and modified it some to suit my needs, then rigged it and created an idle and a run animation in Blender. I then loaded it up into Lyridia, and lo and behold I have a decent looking character that runs and kind of looks around when he’s not running. Super cool. Not sure what I’ll work on next, but I’m excited to be making progress again.

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Nabarangpur: Residents of Jamilipada under Chandahandi block in Nabarangpur district have returned their ration cards to their sarpnach. Because, they want to merge with neighbouring Chhattisgarh as they are deprived of basic amenities from the government of Odisha.
The villagers have decided to meet Collector of Gariabandh district in Chhattisgarh on December 23 and CM on December 29 to take forward their decision.
Residents alleged that politicians and elected representatives are only visible during the time of elections with tall promises. But, all their promises turn into pretention after the polls, they said.
Not only the politicians, but also government officials have never ever visited the village, they rued.
Due to the administrative apathy, the village is still to get basic requirements like electricity connection and safe drinking water.
They have also threatened to return their voter ID cards to the Sarpanch.
The sarpanch, however, discussed the issues but failed to pacify them despite giving assurance of all possible helps.
Local BDO has sent a government officer to the village to enquire about their allegations. He directed the official to produce a report on number of residents in the village, facilities provided to them, old age pension and free rations.
Nabarangpur Collector Kamal Lochan Mishra has ordered the BDO to look into the matter and resolve the issues at the earliest.
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Here are some of my favorite photos from the weekend, gussied up with Instagram:
ready to go!
four of five friends, pre-dollywood
stroller parade at the dollywood express, the coal-powered train that takes you on a scenic tour of the park
a show involving the history of the smoky mountains (?); this was sadly nixed from our itinerary in favor of more water rides at the last minute
at the christmas shop near our hotel. awesome.
clearly a bit excited about an early-morning piggy back ride
the best pankcakes i've ever had. seriously. sweet potato with cinnamon cream syrup. however, it's not recommended to order non-pancake items. #nowyouknow
Not pictured? The breakfast buffet at Aunty Granny's restaurant (which it turns out isn't named such because this woman was both someone's aunt and grandmother). The awesome tours of the Chasing Rainbows museum and Dolly's old tour bus (seriously- I'm such a history nerd). The very sooty train ride through the park. The indoor roller coaster that included touring a town on fire and several mine shafts. The above-ground roller coaster with multiple loops (a major feat for me, former hater of roller coasters!). The most terrifying ferris wheel ride of our lives (pretty sure they aren't supposed to move side to side...). The extra full lap of the park one friend and I took in search of vegetarian food options that weren't fried (hey, hey cheese pizza!). All of the walking we did in general. The multiple water rides, including a death-defying log flume ride where our group made it under the weight limit by one. pound. At least it was after we ate (and ate. and ate.). Post-Dollywood dinner at the Apple Barn, where apple fritters with apple butter and cobbler or pie are included with your meal (I got the veggie plate, wherein two of my "veggies" were mac and cheese and mashed potatoes. The others were fried okra and coleslaw. #totallyfine). Sleeping for 11+ hours Saturday night because of all the food consumed. Five friends packed into one hotel room for two nights (I brought a nice little air mattress). Car ride meal stops in the scenic Hickory, NC. And, perhaps most importantly, the addition of the term "might could" to my vocabulary (i.e.: "Yes, I might could have another helping of kettle corn."). Oh, and in case I hadn't mentioned it already, getting to spend time with awesome friends. And that's Dollywood in a nutshell.
I hope you all had an equally exciting weekend!

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Sugar-Free Sweet-N-Sour Stir-Fry
- 1 tsp. vegetable oil
- 2 stalks celery, sliced diagonally
- 1 head cabbage, shredded
- 1/2 c. water chestnuts
- 1 recipe Sweet-N-Sour Sauce
- 3 carrots, sliced diagonally
- 1 chopped onion
- 2 zucchini, sliced
- 1/4 c. green pepper, chopped
- Cook vegetables 2 minutes and add water chestnuts and green pepper.
- Cook until crisp and add Sweet-N-Sour Sauce.


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Twenty years ago the motorcycle world championship was still fresh. Everything was new; bike technology was still fitting its children shoes. But soon after that new road bikes had whiz bang sixteen inch front wheels and anti-dive suspension.
Things change, the bikes changed; racing suspension, engine management, serious rubber, it will not surprise anybody that a modern 500cc road bikes can beat a 500cc championship racing bike of about 10 years ago with not much problems.
If we just look at the technological achievements for the last 20 years we all agree that technology has come a long way. Sadly, our crash helmet hasn't made the similar march of technological progress. A couple of air vents, lighter materials, a fancy yank paint job and a new sticker don't make for radical new technology.
Basically the impact speed protection of our crash helmet has not increased as fast as say the horse power of our bikes. In the 20 years the horse power of a 500cc (4-stroke) racing machine has almost doubled. It is therefore fair to say that your crash helmet is probably twenty years behind your bike on technological level.
Lucky not everybody sits still, and a sophisticated new virtual skull is set to help researchers study evolution and design better crash helmets. The virtual chimp skull, designed by Dr Stephen Wroe of the Australian University of New South Wales and colleagues from the Australian University of Newcastle.
With this technology it is possible to test helmets with different specifications which could be virtually crash tested with a virtual skull inside them to help researchers work out the most effective combination of helmet materials to use. The research team has already built the world's most realistic virtual crash helmet yet.


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G7 promised to end plastic pollution by 2040
Another problem invented
The G7 countries promise to end plastic pollution in their countries by 2040. The G7 climate and environment ministers agreed that Sunday in Tokyo, where the group of Western economic superpowers is meeting this weekend.
Last year, Germany, France, Canada, the United Kingdom and the European Union already expressed the ambition to stop plastic pollution. Now, for the first time, they are also pasting an intended end date on it. According to the G7 declaration, the phasing out of plastic should be achieved by using more sustainable materials.
Over the past twenty years, plastic waste has doubled worldwide, and according to the OECD economic group, only 9 percent of it is recyclable. The United Nations fears that plastic pollution in the oceans will triple by 2040.
The G7 countries also want to stop using fossil fuels faster, but did not come up with an end date for that goal. The French minister wanted to do so and even mentioned 2030 as a goal, but Japan and the United States were at odds. Due to the current energy crisis, they did not want to commit themselves to a year that is so close.
The G7 foreign ministers meet in Karuizawa, Japan, northwest of Tokyo. Japan is the current chairman of the Western consultative group. Among other things, they are said to be talking about the waning influence of the West such as in the Middle East, the war in Ukraine and the tension between China and Taiwan. In the second half of May, there will be a G7 summit in Hiroshima.
The G7 is an economic-focused consultative group of Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, and the United States. The European Union, formerly the European Economic Community, has also been joining since 1977.
It was at the beginning, in 1975, a meeting in a castle near Paris where the first members spoke informally about world problems. But the G7 has gained more and more weight as a Western summit that also deals with political issues.
The group of countries accounts for around half of global wealth and between 30 and 45 percent of the gross domestic product of all countries. It is home to approximately 10 percent of the world’s population.
However, the dominant Western club seems to be rapidly losing influence and is overtaken, for example, by China. China’s recent and discreet diplomatic success in bringing arch-rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia closer together in the Middle East has been watched in Western capitals with great surprise and great concern.
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Airway management in severely obese children requires familiarity with the equipment and techniques used for establishing a patent airway. Normal anatomic landmarks are obscured in these patients, making assessment a challenge. Therapy should be individualized, and because the airway is marginal in many of these patients, small insults, such as respiratory tract infection or loss of muscle tone during sleep, can result in a perilous airway. Pediatric airway charts should be maintained and reviewed frequently in emergency departments and clinics caring for these patients. Currently, the body of literature devoted to airway management in obese children is small. Inconsistencies in parameters make comparison of studies difficult. Continued, consistent reporting of airway-management issues in these patients is needed.
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|Number of pages||9|
|Journal||Pediatric Clinics of North America|
|State||Published - 2001|
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- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health


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Background: Respiratory muscle weakness contributes to respiratory failure in ICU patients. Unfortunately, assessment of weakness is difficult since the most objective test, transdiaphragmatic pressure in response to phrenic nerve stimulation (PdiTw), is difficult to perform. While most clinicians utilize maximum inspiratory pressure (Pimax) to assess strength, the relationship of this index to PdiTw has not been evaluated in a large ICU population. The purpose of the present study was to assess both PdiTw and Pimax in ICU patients to determine how these indices correlate with each other, what factors influence these indices, and how well these indices predict outcomes.
Methods: Studies were performed on adult mechanically ventilated patients in the University of Kentucky MICU (n = 60). We assessed PdiTw by measuring transdiaphragmatic pressure (Pdi) in response to bilateral twitch stimulation of the phrenic nerves using dual magnetic stimulators (Magstim 200). Pimax was determined by measuring airway pressure during a 30-second inspiratory occlusion. We also assessed the twitch and maximum force generation for diaphragms excised from control and septic mice.
Results: Both Pimax and PdiTw measurements were profoundly reduced for mechanically ventilated MICU patients when compared to normal reference values, e.g., Pimax averaged 56 % of the predicted value for normal subjects. For the ICU population as a whole, PdiTw and Pimax values correlated with each other (r2 = 0.373, p < 0.001), but there was wide scatter and, as a result, PdiTw could not be reliably calculated from Pimax levels for individual subjects. Infection selectively reduced low-frequency force generation more than high-frequency force generation for both our mouse experiments (comparing muscle twitch to 150 Hz tetanic force) and for MICU patients (comparing PdiTw to Pimax). This effect of infection may contribute to scatter in the PdiTw to Pimax relationship. We also found that both PdiTw and Pimax were significantly correlated with both patient survival and the duration of mechanical ventilation, albeit statistically, PdiTw was the better predictor.
Conclusions: While more difficult to measure, the PdiTw is a better predictor of outcomes in mechanically ventilated MICU patients than the Pimax. Nevertheless, for some clinical applications, the Pimax determination is a reasonable alternative.
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This work was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health to G.S.S. (NHLBI 100239).
Supinski, Gerald S.; Westgate, Philip M.; and Callahan, Leigh Ann, "Correlation of Maximal Inspiratory Pressure to Transdiaphragmatic Twitch Pressure in Intensive Care Unit Patients" (2016). Internal Medicine Faculty Publications. 88.

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Client: Christopher K. Morgan & Artists
The documentary was created as part of the development residency for the multimedia performing arts work Pōhaku by Christopher K. Morgan & Artists. Pōhaku is a dance theater piece bringing together storytelling, hula, modern dance, classical music, and projection design to explore compelling universal themes in the story of Hawaii’s native people, including land loss and fractured identity. In addition to documenting the process, I was the projection designer for the live performance that was presented in the Hawaiian Islands and continues its tour around the U.S.


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Frucor Suntory has introduced cardboard packaging for its multipacks of Pepsi, Pepsi Max, Mountain Dew and 7UP.
04 May 2021
The change is one of several the Australasian beverage company has undertaken to help achieve its sustainability goal of zero waste to landfill by 2030.
The cardboard replaces shrink wrap and will remove 2.7 million pieces of plastic from going to landfill each year as well as making it easier for customers to recycle the packaging.
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(A–C) Chest radiographs obtained as part of a health checkup in a 71-year-old male patient show reader susceptibility to high diagnostic accuracy artificial intelligence (AI). In the first session without AI, a thoracic radiologist with 16 years of experience read the chest radiograph as a normal radiograph (A). High diagnostic accuracy AI observed potential lung cancer in the radiograph with an 89% CI as indicated by the nodule localization map (B) (as the color changes from blue to red, the probability of the presence of a nodule increases). When presented with the AI suggestion at the second reading session, the radiologist changed the decision and annotated lung cancer in the area that overlapped with the right hemidiaphragm (box annotation) (C). (D, E) Contrast-enhanced chest CT scans show a 6.8-cm lung mass (arrow) with an air bronchogram in the right lower lobe in the axial (D) and coronal (E) planes. This mass was pathologically proven to be an invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma. Therefore, the reader’s decision was incorrect in the first session but correct in the second session after following the AI suggestion. Image courtesy of RSNA
June 30, 2023 — Assistance from an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm with high diagnostic accuracy improved radiologist performance in detecting lung cancers on chest X-rays and increased human acceptance of AI suggestions, according to a study published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
While AI-based image diagnosis has advanced rapidly in the medical field, the factors affecting radiologists’ diagnostic determinations in AI-assisted image reading remain underexplored.
Researchers at Seoul National University looked at how these factors might influence the detection of malignant lung nodules during AI-assisted reading of chest X-rays.
In this retrospective study, 30 readers, including 20 thoracic radiologists with five to 18 years of experience and 10 radiology residents with only two to three years of experience, assessed 120 chest X-rays without AI. Of the 120 chest radiographs assessed, 60 were from lung cancer patients (32 males) and 60 were controls (36 males). Patients had a median age of 67 years. In a second session, each group reinterpreted the X-rays, assisted by either a high- or low-accuracy AI. The readers were blind to the fact that two different AIs were used.
Use of the high accuracy AI improved readers’ detection performance to a greater extent than low-accuracy AI. Use of high-accuracy AI also led to more frequent changes in reader determinations—a concept known as susceptibility.
“It is possible that the relatively large sample size in this study bolstered readers’ confidence in the AI’s suggestions,” said study lead author Chang Min Park, M.D., Ph.D., from the Department of Radiology and Institute of Radiation Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine in Seoul. “We think this issue of human trust in AI is what we observed in the susceptibility in this study: humans are more susceptible to AI when using high diagnostic performance AI.”
Compared to the first reading session, readers assisted by the high diagnostic accuracy AI at the second reading session showed higher per-lesion sensitivity (0.63 versus 0.53), and specificity (0.94 versus 0.88). Alternatively, readers assisted by the low diagnostic accuracy AI at the second reading session did not show improvement between the two reading sessions for any of these measurements.
“Our study suggests that AI can help radiologists, but only when the AI’s diagnostic performance meets or exceeds that of the human reader,” Dr. Park said.
The results underline the importance of using high diagnostic performance AI. However, Dr. Park noted that the definition of “high diagnostic performance AI” can vary depending on the task and the clinical context in which it will be used. For example, an AI model that can detect all abnormalities on chest X-rays may seem ideal. But in practice, such a model would have limited value in reducing the workload in a pulmonary tuberculosis mass screening setting.
“Therefore, our study suggests that clinically appropriate use of AI requires both the development of high-performance AI models for given tasks and considerations about the relevant clinical setting to which that AI will be applied,” Dr. Park said.
In the future, the researchers want to expand their work on human-AI collaboration to other abnormalities on chest X-rays and CT images.
For more information: www.rsna.org


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Where have these people been and why wasn't this all brought out BEFORE the unconstitutional federal health care debacle passed?
States should be given more control over how to run health care programs rather than broaden the federal government's role in a system that's already rife with problems, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday.
"Maybe we would be better off having 50 parallel experiments," Gingrich told reporters at the Center for Health Transformation, which was unveiling its latest review on the impact of the federal health care law.
The law grants the federal government 1,968 new and expanded powers -- most of which would fall under the purview of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius -- and 159 new federal offices, according to the center founded by Gingrich.
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A new service program promises to recruit an army of volunteers to help transform school food and, perhaps, groom a new generation of farmers.
Over the last three years, I have received thousands of emails, calls, letters, and in person requests from around the country reiterating the same query: “I love the concept of Farm to School programs, but how do I get started in my community’s school? Our budgets are tight and we just don’t have the sweat equity and the labor to pull it off.”
Normally, I answer by walking through the steps of starting a program and briefly assessing the situation in the school environment: do they have a working kitchen? Are there local farmers interested in selling to the school? Is the Food Service Director on board with incorporating fresh, local product? And so on.
But this time, I can excitedly add to my answer, “Have you heard of FoodCorps?” Read more

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