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Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders have been urged to ban the wearing of full-face veils by Muslim women as part of an effort to limit the growing number of Boko Haram female suicide bombings.
ECOWAS President Kadre Desire Ouedraogo told reporters at the close of a two-day summit in Abuja that countries should enforce the ban "in line with their national realities."
The move would forbid dress that prevents security personnel from being able to identify women.
Boko Haram jihadists have since July been using young women and girls as suicide bombers by hiding explosives in their loose-fitting clothes.
Congo Republic, Senegal and Cameroon have all banned the wearing of full-face veils in public.
According to Osman Mohammed a professor of political science at Kaduna State University in Nigeria who spoke on the issue, the ban may be met with resistance, particularly from conservative Muslim groups, at the same time, the right to exercise one's religion must go hand in hand with security concerns for the public.
"It will have some social, political dimensions. Socially and culturally and religiously, predominantly Muslims wear the veil as a compulsory. So I think that [the ban] would have little bit of resistance with the conservatives such as the ones we witnessed in Kaduna that had clash with authorities. They will never accept such order. So you will have stiff resistance on one side, and also you will have some acceptance on the other side," he said.
Mohammed said the ban has worked in Cameroon and Chad, it can also work in other West African countries if the governments of those countries educate their people about the ban.
"Except of course, public enlightenment would have to come in there, both international and domestic media have to help in public enlightenment as to why that has to happen and for how long. It has to also happen in a way that it would be a temporary measure. How temporary, I don't know and it might not be certain," Mohammed said.
To those who say the ban would infringe on the religious rights of the women wearing them, Mohammed said in the wake of Boko Haram's deadly violence, national security should outweigh personal religious freedom.
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Jack and his crazy plans.
Jack and his crazy plans.
Page 10 already. Thanks guys. Getting tons of new readers lately. Welcome everyone! You all think Grace and Nikki will get out of this one?
I just sent this issue off to the printers last night. So in about 3-6 weeks we should have some physical copies!! Hope your all enjoying this book as much as we are making it. Thanks Everyone -Dug
This is one of my favourite panels from issue two. Nothing is probably worse for a highly trained Soldier than when a 9 year old gets the drop on you. Have a good weekend everyone. See you all next week.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As promised this weeks second exciting page. A tribute to the now classic silent issue of G.I. Joe. What do these soldiers want with Gracelyn? Find out next week.
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Our last term as Year 1s!
We have accomplished so much this term. We have been looking at Isambard Kingdom Brunel; his life and accomplishments. We also visited the Clifton Suspension Bridge and we dressed up in our pipe hats that we had made, in recognition of IKB.
Also we visited the S.S Great Britain. Wow what an amazing ship IKB designed. The children were amazed with the size of ship and how different the living quarters were for the different class of passengers.
The children have wowed us with how hard they have been working on their mental maths solving as many addition and subtraction problems within two minutes.
We have achieved a lot this year and have had great fun with our learning. I cannot wait to see them grow even more in Year 2!
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2006-11-28 21:51:23
|Is Stephen perhabs on vacation? Or have he shout down the project completely?
2006-11-30 08:31:05
|He is currently re-designing the results database and said it could take several weeks to complete.
2006-12-01 15:54:40
|"" and said it could take several weeks to complete. ""
Well it has been that and in a few days it will top a Month (*_*)
A update by Stephen as to his progress would go a long way
toward renewing members commitment to this project.
Leaving members in the dark for so long is not a good practice
in the DC world
2006-12-01 21:43:11
|jap updates are more importend that the speed of coding =)
2006-12-03 03:26:43
|LOL.. you said it! Remember -- that's "several weeks" in MIS time... not necessarily several contiguous weeks!!
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|Stephen Brooks
2006-12-04 14:46:20
|Sorry for the delay, I was actually ill in October so let the stats get in a state, now I'm just in the process of fixing them back up.
So far, I've got it to count the database again, with the *exception* of the new archived files for users such as LAURENU2 and [ARS]GOD who have more than 2GB in any one directory. I've created sequences of new files for those people, but need now to make the generator also count those and add them in to the stats total.
2006-12-05 15:07:30
|G'Day stranger!
Glad you're still kicking and exerting a field effect somewhere on the planet!
Do you need some more data? I've got a little bit left.
|Stephen Brooks
2006-12-05 16:24:41
|It's coming soon, I'll let you know when I'm accepting more data. Might do a run-with-downloads tonight actually, just to relieve the clogged FTP servers!
2006-12-05 21:41:36
|thanks for the update =)
2006-12-06 07:11:29
|Thanks for the update Stephen
I have about a gig of files to send Are you OK to recive them? Or should I wait to Uploade them
|Stephen Brooks
2006-12-06 10:30:50
|Oops, it looks like my "run-with-downloads" also did an unintended upload. So people with the large files won't have the correct scores!
LaurenU2, send them in - I'm going to set this partial stats generator running hourly just to receive results, with the stats for the bigger accounts being corrected when I write a part of the script to add the archived files into the totals.
2006-12-07 14:32:15
| Hi Stephen
Sorry I think I busted your partial stats generator again . I guess it could not handle all the 20 meg files I was sending.
The stats stopped updating just after my first uploads to you .
Either you need to bigger servers or I need to get smaller PC's
2006-12-08 11:23:23
Good to hear from ya Stephen ,I hope the illness was nothing much.
|Stephen Brooks
2006-12-08 12:53:59
|It's actually just me stopping the generator, I'm working on it again. Actually I also I think I've found a way to get the "big" files added to the totals, so with any luck we might be back in business soon.
The illness was shingles, a lot of blisters etc. but only slightly painful. The main thing that threw me is that it affects your psychology as well, so I was getting episodes of depression (lasting about 2 days) and anxiety (lasting about 2 hours), which basically took away my motivation for doing anything - I was glad just to get through the day, let alone do anything useful!
2006-12-15 12:16:26
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April 17, 2018
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Communicating With Conservatives
This training is also part of the Core Volunteer Training series.
In the "Watch" tab Daniel Palken, CCL Conservative Outreach Fellow, explains how to discuss climate change policy referring to values that conservatives hold. To effectively communicate, it is important to consciously project and frame our message our audiences values onto the material being discussed.
Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory
Jonathan Haidt provides a framework to understand values that conservatives may hold as they evaluate what is an appropriate response to climate change. Understanding these values can help us create effective messages and engage in a meaningful dialogue. People who are liberal or progressive tend to rely on two moral values when deciding what is acceptable behavior:
- Harm vs. care
- Fairness vs. cheating
People who are more conservative, typically rely on those two values, but less than more liberal people; and they also bring in a combination of four other values when considering what is acceptable behavior:
- Loyalty vs. betrayal
- Authority vs. subversion
- Purity and sanctity vs. degradation
- Liberty vs. oppression
When we talk on climate change to conservatives, it is important for us to bring in this broader range of values - and to avoid some common pitfalls that these values can help us understand. Let's briefly review how each of the four values that conservatives tend to prioritize can relate to conversations on climate change:
Loyalty vs. betrayal
- Speak about local impacts (Highlight Your Local Climate Impacts training)
- Speak about your local economy & local jobs
- If you live in an agricultural area – speak to the special provision that the policy makes for local farmers
- Use Conservative Quotes (See Conservative Caucus action page for more resources)
- Do not make the issue about correcting President Trump or Republicans
- Do not use references or graphics that show loyalty to more progressive sources (like Climate Reality branded slides or quotes from President Obama)
Authority vs. subversion
- Show that you support free markets and capitalism - show that you are not trying to overthrow the US economy.
- Present the values of capitalism and of fossil fuel use before talking about the secondary impacts of our emissions from using fossil fuels.
- Use quotes from conservatives leaders (See Conservative Caucus action page)
Purity and sanctity vs. degradation
- Reference groups that speak to sacred aspects of conservatives' lives:
- If you share a faith tradition with a conservative, quote your tradition:
- Show respect for items and traditions others consider sacred
- Show respect for American symbols like the United States flag
Liberty vs. oppression
- Frame a carbon price around preserving peoples' choice on how they respond to a price signal.
- Stress that this path assures that government does not try to pick what the solution is - markets and individuals are much better at creatively evaluating new technology and innovations.
- The reason people with lower incomes get back more cash in the dividend than they see in increased costs - stress that this is due to the choices people make - people at the lower end of the income scale typically get on air planes less frequently, own smaller houses, and cause less emissions.
- Our preferred policy is all about giving people freedom to respond to the price signal and living with their decisions.
Intro & Agenda
(from beginning)
Jonathan Haidt & Moral Foundation Theory?
In-Group Loyalty vs. Betrayal
Authority & Purity/Sanctity
Values & The Energy Innovation Act
CCL Community Resources
- Daniel Palken
Download PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation.Download the video.
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Intro & Agenda
(from beginning)
Jonathan Haidt & Moral Foundation Theory?
In-Group Loyalty vs. Betrayal
Authority & Purity/Sanctity
Values & The Energy Innovation Act
CCL Community Resources
- Daniel Palken
- Download this episode (right click and save).
- Find the episode on CCL's iTunes channel.
- Join the Conservative Caucus Action Team.
- Take the quizzes at the Open Mind Platform and see the Content Summary from https://openmindplatform.org/
- Download PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation.
- Conservative Quote Cards
For additional conservative themed outreach resources, check out CCL's Conservative Caucus.
Online links covering Jonathan Haidt's work:
- Jonathan Haidt's "Moral Foundations Questionnaire" (and other studies)
- Jonathan Haidt's TEDx Talk (2012)
- Jonathan Haidt's View Of Conservatives (helpful for liberals), Interview with Jordan Peterson (2017)
Examples of solid voices speaking on climate policy and pricing carbon:
- Greg Mankiw, Harvard Economist
- Bob Inglis, RepublicEn.org
- Chris Ragan chair of Ecofiscal Commission, Canada:
How carbon pricing changes behavior without changing purchasing power
Recommended Books on Communication
- The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. 2012
- Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen (Harvard Negotiation Project). 2000.
- ecoAmerica Climate Talking Points


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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Raisin Boat and Craft Us Crazy Challenges
Love is in the Air at Raisin Boat Challenges and Valentines/Love is the theme this week at Craft Us Crazy too. I had fun making this masculine Valentine with some stamps from Raisin Boat and Repeat Impressions. The tread along the bottom and the "V" are from a very cool set by Raisin Boat called Edgy Accents. The Harley and the words are from Repeat Impressions. I created the hearts "road" with a mask created with a large border punch from Martha Stewart.
Stamping smiles, Karen
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- Linda said...
Hi Karen. Great card! Thanks for joining the challenge this month. Love your card.
- January 20, 2013 at 7:30 PM
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Barristers object to nomination of controversial Brazil anti-corruption squad for UBC prize
The UBC law school is scheduled to announce tonight (September 28) the winner of the Allard Prize for International Integrity.
The biennial prize is given to individuals and organizations that organizers say in a media release have "shown exceptional courage and leadership in combating corruption and promoting human rights, especially through promoting transparency, accountability and the Rule of Law".
One of this year's nominees has attracted attention from a group of lawyers outside Canada, which alleges that the contender has failed to uphold the rule of law.
The said nominee is the Força Tarefa da Lava Jato, which means Car Wash Task Force, a controversial anti-corruption team in Brazil.
According to the media release, the Car Wash squad has "worked to prosecute some of the most powerful Brazilian economic and political elites".
"'Operation Car Wash'" began as a local money laundering investigation and grew into the largest probe to date uncovering cases of state capture and grand corruption in Brazil," according to the announcement.
"Its investigations have resulted in over 280 persons charged, 157 convictions, 1,563 years of cumulative jail time and restitution agreements of over US$3 billion," the media release continued. "The Task Force's work has led to the most significant anti-corruption bill in Brazil's history, supported by over 2 million Brazilian citizens, and underscores the message that everyone is equal under the law and even the most powerful leaders will be held accountable."
However, a group of lawyers in Brazil has objected to the nomination of the Car Wash task force, alleging "numerous abuses, arbitrariness and legal violations" by the squad.
"You need to know that Constitutional Principles are violated daily by the Lava Jato Task Force that are dear to us, such as the Principle of the Presumption of Innocence and the Principle of the Exercise of the Ample Right of Defense …," the Advogadas e Advogados pela Democracia or the Collective Lawyers for Democracy Principles wrote in a letter to prize organizers.
The lawyers' group also claimed that the actions of the Car Wash task force are an "affront to the fundamental rights of the Brazilian citizens, hard won after the violent and long process of civil-military dictatorship suffered by Brazil, facts that are destroying the legal order and social peace in the country, with methods proper to the dictatorships that have plagued humanity".
These practices allegedly included the non-observance of due process, illegal phone taps, coercion of witnesses, and use of illegally obtained evidence.
The Straight on Wednesday (September 27) sent the UBC law school a request for comment, but did not receive a reply as of this morning's post.
Maxwell Cameron, a UBC political science professor, is a specialist in Latin American affairs.
According to Cameron, "a number of faculty members and students" in UBC are also "concerned" about the nomination of the Brazilian task force.
In a phone interview, Cameron told the Straight that there are concerns about "methods" employed by the team, including the "manner in which people have been detained without charges".
"There is also I think a perception that the investigations have had a bias," Cameron said. "Now I don't know … how accurate that is. What does seem to be clear is that it has been more prejudicial to the left."
Cameron was referring to the Worker's Party that was in power when a money laundering investigation in 2014 led to the biggest corruption scandal in Brazil.
The scandal revolves around allegations that state-oil company Petrobas is being cheated by other companies such as construction giant Odebrecht through overpriced contracts, with politicians supposedly benefitting in the scheme.
Two former presidents of Brazil belonging to the Worker's Party have been implicated.
The current president, Michel Temer, with the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, was charged recently in connection with the continuing Car Wash probe.


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Mpumalanga, 'the land of the rising sun' to its Siswati- and Zulu- speaking inhabitants, extends east from Gauteng to Mozambique and Swaziland. To many visitors the province is synonymous with the Kruger National Park, the real draw of South Africa's east flank, and one of Africa's best game parks.
The town of Phalaborwa, located in the Mopani district of the Limpopo Province, started off as a mining town and is still home to the Palabora Mining Company. Situated on the border of the renowned Kruger National Park and within easy reach of a number of popular attractions, tourism and wildlife play an important role in the economy of Phalaborwa and visitors are assured of a warm welcome.


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- (in English-speaking countries) an avoirdupois unit of weight equal to 7000 grains, divided into 16 ounces (0.453 kg), used for ordinary commerce. Abbreviation: lb., lb. av.
- a troy unit of weight, in the U.S. and formerly in Britain, equal to 5760 grains, divided into 12 ounces (0.373 kg), used for gold, silver, and other precious metals. Abbreviation: lb. t.
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The news reports of the speech quoted that line, so it became the pound cake speech.A Full-Length Bill Cosby Portrait: From Track Star to Ugly Sweaters|Scott Porch|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Today, ivory prices are at record highs, having tripled since that 2008 auction, up to around $1,500 a pound.A World Without Elephants? Blame China|Michael Tomasky|August 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Or that, lacking alarm clocks, people hired watchmen to come to their house in the morning and pound on the door to wake them up?Great Cities are Born Filthy|Will Doig|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The price of ivory continued to rise, and a pound of ivory now costs up to $1,500.China's Blood Ivory Bazaar|Brendon Hong|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is sold by the pound, cut to order, and presented not on a plate but on a sheet of butcher paper.The Texas Church of Beef|Jane & Michael Stern|April 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Put a pound of loaf sugar into the pan which receives the juice, and let it remain until the sugar is dissolved.The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;|Charlotte Campbell Bury
Suddenly, the mountain boy's heart began to pound in a strange way.The Code of the Mountains|Charles Neville Buck
Pare and cut up the peaches in small pieces, and to a pound of fruit add a pound of sugar.The National Cook Book, 9th ed.|Hannah Mary Peterson
The earliest and standard specimen of Roman coinage was the as, subdivided almost indefinitely, and originally weighing a pound.
Pound smooth all these, and bottle it in, well corked, and use as above.The Curry Cook's Assistant|Daniel Santiagoe
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- the standard monetary unit of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and various UK overseas territories, divided into 100 penceOfficial name: pound sterling
- (as modifier)a pound coin
- Cyprus: divided into 100 cents
- Egypt: divided into 100 piastres
- Lebanon: divided into 100 piastres
- South Sudan: divided into 100 piastres
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- pound the pavement
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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Oberon Memorial Monument (Oberon, Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)
A monument, dedicated on 27 July 2002 in Oberon, in what is now the Municipality of North Cypress-Langford, features four plaques commemorating the Oberon United Church, Auburn School, Oberon Hall, and Oberon Rink.
Auburn School No. 146 was established in August 1882. The original one-room frame structure, originally situated elsewhere, was moved into Oberon in 1908. A sixteen-foot addition was built in 1952. As many as 30 pupils per session received grades 1 to 8 education. The school was closed in September 1967 and the building was moved away in 1977.
Oberon United Church was founded in a brick structure built in 1903 as a Presbyterian Church. It closed in 1963 and the congregation moved to Brookdale. The stone church building was demolished in 1976.
The Oberon Community Hall was first started by the Foresters but was completed by Adam McKenzie. A kitchen was added in 1920 and replaced in 1981. It is still in use today.
The present Oberon Rink, consisting of one curling sheet and a skating sheet, was constructed in 1927 to replace one built in 1909. For a couple of weeks each winter the skating ice was converted into three additional sheets of curling ice where bonspiels were held.
See also:
One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.
Carberry Plains, Century One: 1882-1982 by the Carberry History Committee, 1982. ISBN 0-88925-422-2. Manitoba Historical Society Library, 971.27Car, page 154.
This page was prepared by Allan Drysdale and Gordon Goldsborough.
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Estudio Parrado Illustrates The Wing Shelving System
Estudio Parrado, the creator of the award winning work Shelving System by Estudio Parrado illustrates, The product is composed by a perforated wooden plate and three triangular steel brackets. Each shelf takes advantage of modularity to form a fluid system that can be customized according to users necessities and space context by combining its positions and switching places of its moving brackets. Its shapes, materials and structural systems were studied and developed in order to get to the best result in terms of ease of assembly, visual harmony, possibility of customization and integration in multiple spaces. .
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While Davis is not generally considered to be at high risk for natural disasters, several types of natural disasters are possible in the region.
During the summer months, the Sacramento Valley heats up, sometimes to hazarous levels. Learn how to protect yourself and others at the Yolo County OES Summer Weather Resources page.
City of Davis Cooling Centers
The City of Davis will open a cooling center if there are three consecutive days of triple digit heat and/or if the day time/evening temperature does not drop enough to cool off. This is a general guideline, and cooling center activiation may change due to specific conditions at the time.
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The decision to shut down an area is determined by several factors. It starts with a "red flag warning" issued by the National Weather Service when forecast weather conditions are about to create significant fire danger. PG&E officials say they will consider a Public Safety Power Shutoff if humidity is 20 percent or below, with average wind speed forecast at 20 mph or higher and with expected gusts of 40-plus mph. PG&E officials say they also will take into account field observations of how much dry fuel and live vegetation is in a given area.


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Boys Basketball – Neptune Holds Off Manalapan Rally to Advance to Shore Conference Tournament Quarterfinals
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MANALAPAN – The Neptune boys basketball team's first 10 games of the season at one point represented a nightmare start to both the 2014-15 campaign and to first-year coach Joe Fagan's tenure as the man in charge of the Scarlet Fliers.
Over the last month, and particularly in Neptune's Shore Conference Tournament Round-of-16 game at seventh-seeded Manalapan, those 10 games have proved to be a necessary step for the Scarlet Fliers to both find themselves and toughen them up for games like the one they had to play on Thursday.
Neptune – the No. 10 seed in the Shore Conference Tournament – stormed out to a 20-point first-half lead and held off a furious comeback by the Braves to win, 60-52, and advance to the SCT quarterfinals Sunday at 11 a.m. against No. 15 Point Pleasant Beach at Brookdale College.
"Had we not gone through the stuff we'd gone through earlier in the year and overcame together, it would never had happened for us tonight," Fagan said. "I'd get on guys earlier in the year and they'd collapse. They'd start yelling at each other and that happened. A couple guys have stepped up as leaders and said, 'Let's stay together, this is how we win.' You saw that in the fourth quarter."
Sophomore swingman Barry Brown scored a team-high 21 points, including 16 in the first half to help the Scarlet Fliers build a 34-14 lead midway through the second quarter. Brown scored 11 points during a 19-0 run that spanned less than three minutes of the second quarter and gave the Fliers a commanding 32-12 lead with 4:34 left in the quarter.
"Coach (Fagan) told us they were going to make a run and we just had to stay positive," senior forward Micah Kerr said. "They have a good team, and they fed off the home crowd. We just had to execute down the stretch."
Manalapan cut the Neptune lead to 11 late in the second quarter and trailed by 13 going into the second half. Neptune led by as many as 16 points in the third quarter, but Manalapan again rallied, eventually pulling within one point on three separate occasions during the last four minutes of the game.
Brown helped put the game away with a double-clutch lay-up to put Neptune ahead, 57-52, with 54 seconds left. Kerry Kirkwood made a driving basket while drawing the foul to stretch the Neptune lead to 53-50 with 3:09 left to play. After Kyle Mullen scored in the post to pull Manalapan within one again, Sean McMillan found a clear lane to the rim and took it for a lay-up and a 55-52 Neptune lead with 1:30 left.
Keishawn Kirkwood made three of his four free-throw attempts in the final 40 seconds to close out the game.
"We had to play with more patience on offense," Keishawn Kirkwood said. "We rushed things too much and let them back in the game, so we tried to slow down, find the open man and look to drive to the basket."
Mullen led Manalapan with a game-high 26 points on 10-for-21 shooting from the floor and also grabbed six rebounds. Mullen scored 17 of his points in the first half and scored three baskets in the fourth quarter to key the Manalapan rally.
"It's rare that you see a really good post player at the college level anymore and you almost never see them at the high school level," Fagan said. "We really haven't done a lot of work defending a post player, and I told the guys when we've worked on it that it was going to kill us if we had to play somebody like that this year.
"We started to adjust a little better in the second half and were able to take away some of his angles. He's obviously a tremendous athlete and he's a great football player, but you can tell he's got basketball in his blood. He has a really good feel for things out there."
Kirkwood finished with 13 points, while McMillan added 10 off the bench. Kerry Kirkwood chipped in eight points, while Kerr posted eight points and 10 rebounds to go with a large share of the work against Mullen in the paint.
"It was a battle trying to stop him," said Kerr, who was one of three Neptune defenders tasked with trying to guard the Yale football recruit on the block. "He is a tough athlete, and we were talking during the game about football, but he's a great basketball player, too."
Since beginning the season 3-7, Neptune is 11-2 over its last 13 games and has lost only twice by double-figure margins.
"We had to be mentally prepared to go through what we went through," Kerr said. "Coach told us that it wasn't going to be easy and if we were going to start winning, we had to come together as a team to weather the storm."
Neptune will play another road victor in the quarterfinals at Brookdale after Point Beach knocked off No. 2 Lakewood, 67-63. The Scarlet Fliers were the lone Shore Conference team to beat Lakewood before Point Beach eliminated the Piners from the tournament on Thursday.
"I haven't looked ahead at the brackets too much so we'll get together in practice and talk about who we're playing now that we're there," Fagan said. "In these tournament settings, it just doesn't make sense to start thinking about who you could be playing when if you lose, you don't have a game anyway. For us, we just focus all of our attention on the next game."
Neptune reached the quarterfinals last year, where it lost to eventual tournament runner-up Christian Brothers Academy.
"We're more mature this year," Kerr said. "We've been through the environment already, and we're ready to handle whatever comes at us this time."
Box Score
Neptune 60, Manalapan 52
|Neptune (14-9)
|Manalapan (14-6)
Neptune (60): Kerry Kirkwood 3 1-5 8, Keishawn Kirkwood 3 6-7 13, Micah Kerr 4 0-0 8, Marcque Ellington 0 0-2 0, Barry Brown 7 4-5 21, Sean McMillan 5 0-1 10, Jared Kimbrough 0 0-1 0. Totals: 22 11-21 60
Three-pointers: Kerry Kirkwood, Keishawn Kirkwood, Brown 3
Fouled Out: Ellington
Manalapan (52): Mike Venezia 1 2-2 5, Gerard Hodge-Rocourt 3 2-3 8, Kyle Mullen 10 6-12 26, Brian Conforth 1 3-4 5, Zach Misischia 1 3-4 5, Anthony Schimbeno 1 0-0 3, Scott Scherer 0 0-0 0. Totals: 17 16-26 52
Three-pointers: Venezia, Schimbeno


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However, in recent years, Dahua Technology has received complaints from consumers about alleged Dahua distributors promoting so called "Dahua products" and enticing consumers to purchase, without any technical support or after-sale service guarantees. Such cases have misled some consumers into believing that Dahua Technology runs businesses disregarding social commitment. This has to some extent caused severe company image damage to Dahua Technology.
To guarantee consumers enjoy the genuine products and services promised by Dahua Technology, the company set up a corporate level committee in 2018. Furthermore, Dahua Technology says that it promises to keep investing resources to further improve sales order and constantly upgrade anti-tamper technologies, better protecting consumer rights.


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Jim Gray Missing at Sea
After several days of traveling, most of it without internet access, I just turned on Feedburner to sync for the first time in a few days.
The first post I read took my breath away: Larry O'Brien wrote that Jim Gray is missing at sea. Information Week confirms it.
Scary. I was on campus at Microsoft yesterday and today, and Jim's name came up with both conversations.
He is a bona fide genius; more than that, he cares about helping people. Meeting him was a tremendous professional honor for me. My thoughts go out to his family.
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Currently a senior at Wellesley College, studying Architecture - an interdepartmental major that consists of art history, architectural theory and studio. Through the MIT/Wellesley Exchange program, I have had the opportunity to cross-register for architecture studio classes at MIT as well as conduct research for faculty in the MIT Architecture department.
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Search engines are a major source of traffic for most sites, and SEO tools help improve the ranking of many WordPress sites. In this article, we review a set of the best WordPress SEO plugins and tools that will improve SEO for your website.
Best SEO Tools for WordPress
One of the SEO Plugins. It is one of the most downloaded WordPress programs. Yoast's WordPress SEO is the comprehensive solution for all your search engine needs on the site. It allows you to add the title of SEO and describe the definition and keywords to each publication and page on your site.
You can also type a custom address for your main site, archives, category pages, and tags, and also add Open Graph metadata, Twitter Cards, Sitemaps, and ping search engines whenever you update your site.
The list of WordPress SEO features is very long, check out why we used SEO for WordPress on WPBeginner and all of our sites, then directed to learn more about how to install and setup WordPress SEO Assistant, once you do this, check out our tips to improve your blog posts.
One of the SEO Plugins. SEMRush is a tool used by professionals to gather analytics and ideas from their competitors to help improve their SEO. You can identify organic keywords to rank, where you can get backlinks, insight into your competitor's advertising strategies, and more.
SEMrush is a paid subscription and is used by thousands of SEO professionals around the world. No one on the planet has more insights into what people are searching for from Google, the search giant, and is considered one of the best search engine optimization tools.
Google Keyword Planner
Get your own keyword ideas from Google itself using the Google Keyword Planner tool, which is one of the best free SEO tools.
This free tool is provided to Google advertisers for free and can be used by anyone. The main purpose of this tool is to show advertisers which keywords they can bid on for their ad campaigns and helps advertisers choose the right keywords by showing an estimate of search volume, results, and difficulty.
As content or blogger, you can use this data to find keywords with high search volume, great advertiser interest, and more importantly keywords where you can easily override all other sites.
The Keyword Tool is one of the best free keyword search tools available now that allows you to simply create keyword ideas by typing a keyword. These keyword suggestions are gathered from Google's Auto-Suggest feature.
Keyword suggestions This is a treasure trove of information. Google autocomplete suggests keywords based on how often a search keyword is used, which means that the most important results are the most searched terms on Google for that particular keyword.
The Keyword Tool is amazingly quick and, more importantly, absolutely free for anyone to use, you can use it to improve the content on your WordPress site, and you can also get keyword suggestions from YouTube, Bing, and the App Store.
Broken Link Checker
Broken links can not only create a bad experience for your users but can also affect SEO on your site. If you're running a blog for a while, check your site from time to time for broken links.
Broken Link Checker is a free WordPress plug-in that lets you find broken links on your WordPress site. You can then fix those links without even editing your posts, see our tutorial on how to fix broken links in WordPress using Broken Link Checker.
This plugin is very useful and completely free. The only downside is that it can become resource-intensive and may slow down your server. Some hosting providers like WPEngine have already blocked this plugin on their server


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It's the best part of The Bachelor season. All the angry, heartbroken and sad ladies get together to roast each other and their mutual ex-boyfriend. The well-trained, very expressive audience of psycho fans do exactly as they're told for two hours because well they're psycho fans.
The ones that didn't last long that have the most to say at these things… Like Shushanna. She needs to shush. I don't remember her saying a word in English when she was on the show but now we discover she can talk!
This Jami girl won't stop making comments, but I think she left after like the first episode. So she must have just rewatched all the episodes a million times so she would be relevant tonight.
I'll break down for you the big topics of discussion on The Women Tell All.
Leah throwing Lauren B. under the bus
Everyone realizes Leah is a liar. Leah is delusional enough to believe she didn't actually lie (she did)
Jubilee's behavior
Jami, whom no one knows, jumps at Jubilee for making comments about being the only "full-black woman" on the show. Yup, she made it a race thing. Awk. Now everyone thinks Jubilee is racist. Lol. Oh.
Jubilee cries because everyone gangs up on her. Then she realizes that oh yeah she might've said a few offensive things.
Chris hits us with a little TBT to when Jubilee and Ben were actually a cute pair and then she went and ruined it.
Is Chris Harrison like a registered therapist orrrrr….? Because he seems to have all these girls feeling a lot of things. I legit feel like I'm watching a therapy session between Jubilee and Chris.
Loony Lace
She was on an emotional roller coaster during her run on the show and left by quoting her tattoo.
Lace claims she was just super uncomf and that's not how she is. She also said she's more aware of her facial expressions now.
Lace tells Chris she's been dating since she left the show. Then, this random dude gets up and shows off his tattoo of Lace's face. Obviously staged.
Chris offers Lace a spot in paradise and she takes it! I CALLED THAT
Overly-confident Olivia
Things with Olivia started off well then she got cocky. I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU, LIV!
"I want to talk smart things"
Liv feels misunderstood by most, but not Ben. He totes understood. The girls aren't buying it, especially the twins who are simultaneously rolling their eyes.
Amanda stands her ground to Olivia about the comments Olivia made about her kids. Then every other girl chimes in and it's a ROAST. The twins start chirping. I still don't know which is which. Oh well.
Olivia reflects back to her childhood of being bullied. Shushanna chimes in (Shocker. Get your tv time, girlfriend). Liv shows some humility. WOO!
Watching the little montage made me start rooting for Ben and Caila all over again.
Caila recaps the breakup. She claims she's still in love w Ben. She also thinks Ben understood her. Ben must be the lady whisperer.
Caila ultimately wants a love like Ben has with Jojo and Lauren B. I don't think I want a guy to be in love with me and another woman at the same time, but ok.
Ben takes on the ladies
He's nervous and rightfully so. Ben thinks being in love with two women is normal. It isn't but that's ok Ben.
Caila and Ben have a nice boring vanilla conversation.
Leah tries to make Ben into the bad guy. Ben isn't having it!
Jubilee straight up calls Ben a liar. She makes some really fair points about how Ben said was seeking a wife that was good at communicating, but he kept around some women who made it clear they didn't want to open up. WAY TO GO JUBS! But honestly jubilee pulled away a lot harder than the other women she claims weren't good at open communication.
Amanda is absolutely adorable talking to Ben and saying such sweet and positive things as always. Class act.
The other ladies had good things to say too. So in general Ben is great and everyone and their mom wants to date him. Everyone should get to talk to their ex like this.
"I would marry that woman tomorrow if I could"
-Ben on the woman he chose
*eye roll*
Blooper time
Best Dressed:
Leah [find her dress]
Jami [find her dress]
My Forever Favorite: Amanda
"Being a mom is my jam." You go, Amanda!
Overall, things went well. I don't care who Ben chooses because it probably won't be Jojo and you all know I can't stand Lauren B. Oh well! Here's what happens on the "dramatic" finale.
See ya next week!


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BetEasy eSports Betting Review
BetEasy is one of the largest online sports betting sites in Australia. Licenced in the Northern Territories, the bookmaker first launched in 2005 under the name Betezy. After a series of mergers, sales and rebranding launches, it settled into the name BetEasy, which most punters are familiar with.
The bookmaker has a heavy focus on the Australian market and racing betting in particular. They do however have one of the most comprehensive eSports sections in the industry. BetEasy eSports betting includes all the most popular games and markets.
Software and Mobile Support
The BetEasy site follows the standard setup of three screen sections with the list of sports on the left, the markets in the middle and the betting slip on the right. Styled in classic purple and teal colures, there is a sort of calming feel about the site that makes it a pleasure to use.
BetEasy is also one of the few bookmakers to provide live streaming of horse racing and American sports. For mobile users, the site is available in as a mobile-ready version or there is the option of downloading the app. Available for all Android and iOS devices, the app provides live streaming, full option betting and easy banking
eSports Coverage and Odds
The range of BetEasy eSports bets is particularly impressive considering they eSports section is tucked away under general sports. All of the biggest games and markets are available including Counterstrike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, Hearthstone, League of Legends, StarCraft II and Warcraft 3.
Both tournament and match betting is available on the biggest leagues and international tournaments. There are also plenty of markets to choose from in each game/genre like map winner, map overtime, first blood, pistol round and total rounds. In terms of betting odds, they prices are fairly competitive but not as much as dedicated eSports sites.
Other Sports Markets
In addition to the expansive range of BetEasy eSports bets, the bookmaker also offers a huge selection of both domestic and international sports markets. This includes Rugby, Cricket, Tennis, Horse Racing, Golf, Volleyball, American Football, Aussie Rules, MMA, Netball, Motorsports, Darts, Boxing and Baseball. They also offer entertainment, and enhanced odds markets.
Banking Options
For punters keen on getting started with BetEasy eSports betting, the bookmaker provides a full range of convenient and secure banking options to choose from. Payments can be made by debit card, credit card, bank transfer, prepaid card, instant banking or web wallet. For local bettors, the most popular options include Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and POLi.
Bonuses and Promotions
If you are thinking of signing up with BetEasy, they are well known for their generous bonuses and sports promotions. For new members, the standard signup bonus includes a 100% cash match deposit bonus up to a maximum of $500. You can use your bonus to place any number of BetEasy eSports bets within seven days of your first deposit. As per usual, the winnings from your free bonus bets must be turned over at odds of 1.50 or greater.
Customer Support
For peace of mind, BetEasy has a dedicated help page and FAQ section where you can find valuable information on the different sports, markets and available promotions. If you run into any issues funding your account, placing a bet or cashing out, you can contact the support team day or night. While they don't have a live chat facility, they do have a toll-free telephone number, which is open 24hours. They also provide an on-site form you can fill in or you can get hold of them via email.


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1966 Pontiac GTO Convertible 4-Speed
- Price: Ask a price!
- Condition: Used
- Item location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Make: Pontiac
- Model: GTO
- Type: Convertible
- Year: 1966
- Mileage: 85,528
- Color: Blue
- Engine size: 389
- Number of cylinders: 8
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: Manual
- Drive type: RWD
- Interior color: Blue
- Options: Convertible
- Vehicle Title: Clear
Pontiac GTO 1966 Description
Up for sale is my 1966 Pontiac GTO Convertible, 3-owner, 389 cu. in. engine, 4-bbl, 4-speed transmission, 85,528 original miles, blue exterior with a white power operated convertible top and medium blue bucket seat interior. Options include (from window sticker pictured): 4-speed manual transmission, push button AM radio (not installed but included), rally gauge cluster and tachometer, console, power steering, power brakes, and soft-ray windshield glass. The car is beautiful. PHS researched and documented with paperwork. Originally a Florida car (see window sticker picture), ithas been garaged all its life and has not seen rain in my possession or in the last owner's possession of 40 years. The car has never been restored but meticulously maintained and is in great condition. The car had been repainted professionally many, many years ago and the paint is majorly cracking, mostly on the top surfaces, but the car still looks great – crisp and clean and overall shines nice and compliments a clean body. The interior is original (except for the carpet which is new), and looks nice including the seat upholstery, dash and dash pad and door panels. The steering wheel and dash pad are crack free but the driver's front seat has a couple of splits (see pictures) but overall looks great. The convertible roof operates up and down as it should, is new including the rear plastic window. The chrome and stainless shine beautifully and are in fantastic condition. As you can see from the pictures, under the hood looks nice and the trunk area is clean and in nice shape too. The engine starts up easily and is quiet - runs and drives nice and strong, steers and brakes nice. However, the throw-out bearing chatters from time to time and the clutch is original so the car would benefit from both being replaced. The motor is a date coded 1966 (YE) 389 with 325 hp (casting 9778789), with 1966 (093) Pontiac cylinder heads, factory cast exhaust manifolds (9779032 and 9779328), and an Edelbrock Pontiac Torker aluminum intake manifold with a single 4V Holley 600 cfm carb/manual choke (1850-9). The factory intake and carb are not available. The transmission is a 1966 Muncie (3885010) 4-speed. The underside of the car is clean with excellent floors and frame and original undercoating over most of it (see pictures) under a refreshed topcoat. The dual exhaust is in good condition and sounds great, door jambs look nice, the Pontiac Rally II wheels are in fantastic condition with like new tires. No disappointments!!IMPORTANT ... PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY!!!Ihavedisclosed what I know about my car to the best of my ability and to the best of my knowledge. The car is sold "as-is" and is located in thePittsburgh,PAarea. It can either be picked up at or delivered from my location. Buyer will need to arrange for ALL shipping requirements including payment! If you have any questions or you are unsure as to my descriptions, please feel free to email me. It is your responsibility to understand exactly what it is you are bidding on. Thank you. By winning the bid, you have entered into a binding contract. I require a non-refundable $500 deposit within 48 hours of the auction close. The car must be paid for in full and picked up within 7 days of auction close. See specific payment requirements listed below.


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Arts/Entertainment, Other
Porn On The News In SwedenTuesday, August 22nd, 2006 at 14:00 by Adam Williams
Swedish broadcaster SVT last night gave every other news source a dead easy story when they accidentally left porn running in the background of an evening news broadcast.
"This is highly embarrassing and unfortunate," said SVT's Per Yng. You don't say, Per.
Of course, despite creating intense media interest, no viewers complained.
Funny that.
Keywords: Filth, News, Porn, Sweden, Those crazy Scandanavians!


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From the Montreal Gazzette:
A Montreal breast cancer action group wants consumers to stop buying "pink ribbon" products and instead give money directly to organizations that fund breast cancer prevention research.
"I am offended and tired of companies slapping pink ribbons on their products, when their products continue to contain known, suspected or potential carcinogens," Carol Secter, a board member of Breast Cancer Action Montreal, said at a news conference Wednesday.
The group contends that the Pink Ribbon campaign mainly benefits corporations, many of which still sell products with ingredients linked to cancer.
These companies, the group contends, donate an undisclosed fraction of their pink ribbon profits to research, and most of that research is dedicated to searching for a cure, or for breast cancer treatment. Only about 5 per cent of the money collected for breast cancer goes to research into prevention of the disease.
"None of us are saying that research on treatments or finding a cure is not important. But the money going there is out of proportion with the percentage that goes into finding the root causes of breast cancer," Sector said.
Meanwhile, researchers are increasingly pointing to environmental causes of breast cancer, such as toxic ingredients in cosmetics or traffic-related air pollution.
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Assetz Capital, Europe's second largest business peer-to-peer (P2P) lender, has this week launched a new website and refreshed its branding, ahead of the roll-out of its ISA that is expected to be next week.
The new website has been designed to optimise and simplify the user experience, making it easier for all types of investors to navigate the platform. The company has also unveiled a fresh brand, which comes after months of development. The ISA will launch for automated accounts next week, and will also include the Manual Loan Investment Account (MLIA) in early 2018.
This marks the end of a record year for Assetz Capital. On top of receiving full authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the company's net new lending (net of redemptions/repayments) to SMEs was £27milion in the Q3 2017 – almost 30% of the £95m that the entire UK banking system lent* in the same period. Its automated accounts now hold around £150 million of investor money with manual lending being around a further £50m, and since launch lenders have earned over £32 million gross interest on the platform.
Stuart Law, CEO and founder of Assetz Capital, commented: "This has been a transformational year and we are ending on a high with a refreshed brand and website, new headquarters in Manchester and the launch of our ISA. Our results across both borrowing and investing speak for themselves.
"This is the result of the fantastic work by our dedicated team to help take peer-to-peer lending to the next level. We are the home of smart money, and we look forward to supporting our investors and borrowers in the years to come."


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Georgia Strait Alliance innovator honoured April 9, 2008 NANAIMO,BC – Georgia Strait Alliance's (GSA) long-time and innovative Green Boating coordinator, Mike Richards, was honoured with the Yachtsman Spring Thaw Environment Award at the 25th Annual Yachtsman's Spring Thaw Luncheon, held April 4, 2008 in Toronto. As the first British Columbian to receive this national award, Mike was honoured for his…Read more »
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Innovative Green Boating Program Honoured
Mike (R) with Bob Eaton of Clean Marine Ontario Georgia Strait Alliance's (GSA) innovative Green Boating program was honoured with the Canadian Safe Boating Council "Safeguarding the Environment" Award at the recent Canadian Safe Boating Award (CASBA) ceremony held January 13, 2008 in Toronto. Receiving the award on behalf of the Georgia Strait Alliance was Green Boating Program Coordinator Mike…Read more »
New Shipping Pollution Prevention Regulations only a First Step
Environmental groups from British Columbia are cautiously welcoming the new pollution prevention regulations under the Canada Shipping Act and see it as a first step to protecting Canada's sensitive marine ecosystem. They are also encouraging the government to build on these regulations in the years to come, however the regulations will only be successful when they provide infrastructure like sewage…Read more »
Greening up that Sheen
by Sarah Verstegen from Strait Talk, Summer 2004 In mid May I received the first call of the season for a holding tank pump-out by Pumpty Dumpty, the pump-out boat serving Saanich Inlet. Since I was on my way out of town, heading to Ladysmith for GSA's annual general meeting, I forwarded the request. The volunteer crew from Saanich Inlet…Read more »
Letter to Editors on Proposed Vessel Sewage Regulations
To the Editors: Pacific Yachting, Mariner Life, Fisherman Life and Boats & Places Magazines, August, 2006 Georgia Strait Alliance (GSA) applauds the intent by Transport Canada to help clean up our coastal waters through the proposed updated pollution prevention regulations of the Canada Shipping Act. With over 3 million people living, working and playing on and around Georgia Strait it is…Read more »
Georgia Strait Alliance receives national boating award
In a gala presentation last night in Toronto, Georgia Strait Alliance's Mike Richards accepted the Canadian Safe Boating Award (CASBA) for the Best Environmental Campaign, 2001. Richards coordinates the Green Boating Program for the BC-based Georgia Strait Alliance (GSA), a non-profit organization that works to protect the marine environment of the Strait of Georgia (the waters between Vancouver Island and…Read more »


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15 Games That Give You A Hard Time For Cheating
Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater. No one likes them. Everyone wants to be them; or at least, the ones that don't get caught. Cheating and hacking are as old as video games themselves. Whether it's hacking, exploiting glitches, or using an extraneous amounts of cheat codes, there is just no getting around that fact.
Not all cheating is bad. Speedrunners take advantage of the little missteps and mistakes to help streamline the game. One gamer managed to beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 18 minutes and 10 seconds by exploiting the multitude of glitches. Some gamers use cheats to make the game harders for themselves. Others use glitches to help their friends. A lot of games have built in cheat codes for the gamers who want to use them. The older games used cheat codes to let advanced players skip early levels. Newer games make accessing the cheats easy by putting them directly into the options menu. Most of these are amusing or entertaining hacks like turning enemies in Rabbids or activating a black and white filter. These cheats are fine. It's only when gamers step over the line that it becomes a problem.
There isn't much a normal player can do about a cheater. However, that doesn't mean the developers don't have something up their sleeves. Plenty of games will punish you for pirating them, rage quitting, or just being lazy. These games will punish you for cheating and hacking.
15. Dunce Hats And Car Bombs: GTA V
As tempting as it is to hack the game and add those amazing single player cars to the multiplayer game for Grand Theft Auto V, it's not worth it. Rockstar Games gives cheaters a few chances to change their ways before throwing them into the Bad Sports Lobby. That being said, those chances practically define the GTA series. They're obnoxious and involve exploding cars. The punishment for the first offense falls into the obnoxious category. Get caught hacking and you'll be walking around with a dunce cap for a while. If you try to hack a banned car into the online server, you'll be in for a wild ride. Any single player car in the multiplayer servers will instantly blow up the moment someone enters the car.
14. Crime Doesn't Pay: The Legend Of Zelda Series
Buying anything in The Legend of Zelda games isn't as easy as it might seem. Unlike other games where it's almost impossible to not own a majority stake in the universe, some of the Zelda titles can be a bit sparse when it comes to rupees. Although you can often find rupees in the grass, they tend to be small change. This isn't helpful when you need to drop 1,000 rupees on some magic armor or a powerful bow. Unfortunately, you don't really have a choice most of the time. Vendors won't let you anywhere near their items without payment first. This isn't the case in Link's Awakening and Twilight Princess. There is a shop in Link's Awakening where you can pick up the items without paying. If you can trick the shopkeeper into looking away, you can even sneak out of the building with your stolen goods. However, you'll be branded a thief. Try to return and the shopkeeper will instantly smite you.
Twilight Princess only offers one little shop where you can steal. It's a little stall run by an intelligent bird named Trill. He sells potions and lamp oil. You dip a bottle into what you want and set the appropriate amount in a box. Walk out without paying and Trill will repeatedly peck you until you pay.
13. Cow Killer: The Witcher 3
Shortly after The Witcher 3 launched, players found a fantastic exploit. One of the stables has a pair of cows. Players discovered if you killed them and meditated for an hour, the cows would respawn. It allowed you to infinitely farm the helpless bovines and gain a massive amount of loot to sell. The 1.05 update for the game fixed a bunch of glitches and added a gigantic, demonic cow monster. If you attempt to take advantage of the exploit, the game will activate the Bovine Defense Force Initiative and sends Chort after you. Although the name is silly, Chort is anything but. This massive monster has a ton of health and can really dish out damage to any low-level or ill-prepared player.
12. Skip Back To The Beginning: Banjo-Kazooie
The old Rare titles like Banjo-Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day are some of the best N64 games around. They were also some of the weirdest. Rare games always offer a unique and strange twist to platforming tropes. Even Banjo-Kazooie's cheat system was off the walls. The system was built into the very fabric of the game. There is a hidden sandcastle in one of the game's earliest levels: Treasure Trove Cove. You have to drain the water in order to access the castle. However, once inside, it gives the player free access to the games cheats. Cheato and Bottles give you codes. All you have to do is smash the letters on the floor of the sandcastle to enter the codes. You can use any of Cheato's or Bottles' codes as many times as you want. However, there are a bunch of other codes you can input into the sandcastle. These codes are considered "illegal." Each code lets you skip or unlock one of the levels. The first two times you use them, you'll get a warning. The third time activates Grunty's Code Vengeance. Grunty erases your game pack. The good news is, the effect doesn't kick in right away. You can continue to play. It only goes into effect once you save the game, turn off the console, or lose all your lives.
11. They Will Find You: Slender: The Arrival
Finding ways around the murderous, mutilated, monstrosity is the name of any horror game. You need to make it from point A to point B without becoming another red stain on the wall. A lot of gamers try to get around the unholy abominations by way of cheats or completely abandoning the beaten path in favor of the out of bounds zones. Blue Isles Studios went out of their way to make sure that their more mischievous players can't escape. If you try to glitch out of the play area, you'll find yourself plummeting into a black pit. This is normal. A lot of game developers will do this. However, Slender: The Arrival takes it one step further. Text appears as you fall. "Not even a bug will save you from me." After a few seconds, the screen flickers and Slenderman appears in a nasty jump scare of a death screen.
10. The Unending Lecture: Animal Crossing
Resetti is a recurring character throughout the Animal Crossing series. His main job is to remind the player to save their game before turning it off. Because of the nature of the game and how the time works, turning your game off without saving can be beneficial. So, in order to prevent players from cheating, Nintendo added Resetti. This is a true punishment. Resetti is annoying! Seriously. He talks for ages. It takes nearly three minutes to read through his dialogue the first time you encounter him. The more you see him, the worse he gets. The fourth time you encounter him in Animal Crossing: Wild World, he actually makes you type out an apology with the correct punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. If you get it wrong, he makes you repeat it until it's correct.
9. Public Execution: Guild Wars
Cheaters never prosper — especially not in MMOs. Doing so can get your account banned. That is a ton of time and money thrown down the drain. However, no one will have any sympathy for you. Cheaters are universally hated. Especially by the developers. ArcaneNet took their hatred to the next level. They wanted to make sure that everyone knew the consequences of cheating in Guild Wars. So, rather than quietly bad a player, they send Dhuum. This massive, unkillable version of the Grim Reaper appears from the ground and pulls out a gigantic scythe. It then proceeds to rend the offending player in half, in front of the entire server. This often leads to cheers. As entertaining as Dhuum is, you don't want it coming after you. Once the execution is complete, the hacker's account is banned. Talk about adding insult to injury.
8. Jumping The Shark: Donkey Kong 64
GameSharks were the envy of all kids in the 90s, but the bane of video game companies and the unlucky. A GameShark was a cartridge that came with pre-loaded codes. You could also enter codes. With one, you could completely hack any number of games on a multitude of systems. Nothing was sacred. Nothing was safe. GamesSharks were notorious for being somewhat dangerous. Some companies capitalized on this. In an effort to dissuade cheaters, Rare decided to do the most devious thing possible. If you tried to use a GameShark on Donkey Kong 64 it would glitch your game. Donkey Kong would spasm uncontrollably. You couldn't pick up anything. On top of all that, he'd die in a single hit. If you were unfortunate to save your game in this state, the glitches became permanent.
7. Destruction Or Debt: SimCity
The SimCity series is a spin-off to the classic and widely popular Sims. These simulation games focus on building a utopia instead of creating a barely functioning family. You're expected to run the city as its mayor. Needless to say, a lot can go wrong. There could be earthquakes or aliens invasions. Yet, no matter what, you need money. This is where the cheats come in. FUND will net you a whopping $10,000. However, use it eight times and a massive earthquake rips your city apart. In SimCity 2000, using the FUND cheat slaps you with a 25% loan. You can try to use CASS instead for a smaller dollar amount, but it also comes with a 15% chance of destroying your city.
6. Death And Destruction: Afterlife
Afterlife is an old LucasArts game that lets you take control of the real estate sector in heaven and hell. Essentially, it's a more biblical SimCity. It's your job to create make the two sectors function as efficiently as possible. That's easier said than done. Like SimCity, you need a boatload of cash. Thankfully, there's cheats for that. The [email protected]! command nets 10 million pennies. However, you can't get too greedy with it. Use the cheat more than five times and a Death Star will spawn to completely ruin your day and your cities.
The Death Star isn't the only unusual thing to pop up in Afterlife. It is riddled with a variety of pop culture references. It's also one of the few games where war, famine, and other mass deaths are a good thing.
5. Explosive Cheats: Tomb Raider II
The old 1996 Tomb Raider had a couple of cheats that required you to play around with controls. The mechanism was similar to the Konami Code. First you had to make Laura walk forward and then back. After that, you needed to her in a circle three times. The final step required you to jump forward. Doing this sequence would automatically grant you all of the game's weapons with maximum ammo. It was a really useful, if convoluted, cheat. The command was added Tomb Raider II. However, instead of granting Laura weapons and ammunition, she exploded into several, pixelated pieces. Additionally, each piece exploded again when it hit a wall or the ground. If you wanted to get the ammo and guns, you had to jump backward. Personally, I think an exploding Laura is a lot more fun.
4. Bad Sports Lobby
Cheaters are a fact of online games. There is no way around them. If you have a multiplayer game, someone is going to hack it. These offenses can range anywhere from X-RAY hacking in Minecraft to aimbots in Call of Duty. Most of the time, this leads to players getting their accounts banned. However, a lot of games decided that, rather than ban the accounts, they'd simply let the hackers get a taste of their own methods. If you get caught hacking in games like Max Payne 3, GTA Online, or Dark Souls 2 you'll be tossed into the servers with other hackers. They are sometimes called bad sports lobbies, cheater servers, or prison servers. Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has the rage quit servers for those who quit a match if it looks like they are going to lose. The only way to get back to the normal servers is to prove that you can play by the rules.
3. Public Apology: H1Z1
Getting banned for cheating is nothing new. There are a couple different kinds of bans. Players can be banned from the main servers, temporarily banned from all servers, or permanently banned from the game. Even so, that doesn't stop cheaters. Plenty of online games are riddled with hackers. The developers for H1Z1 decided they weren't going to tolerate the cheaters and banned over 25,000 hackers in a single sweep. The hackers were in an uproar. Many emailed the company, begging to be forgiven. In a rare turn of events, the Daybreak president John Smedley tweeted that the cheaters might be forgiven. All they needed to do was post a public apology on youtube and then email him a link. While plenty of gamers flocked to youtube, Smedley only accepted the apologies of a handful of gamers that he thought were sincere.
2. Konami Code Vengeance
The Konami Code is the most famous cheat in video game history. It originally appeared in Gradius. The code was meant to be a tool for the developers to help they playtest the game. Once inputted, it gave the player a bunch of powerups. Since then, the code appeared in a variety of places. It isn't even exclusive to Konami. Other companies used it for their games. Even internet websites like Google now use the code to activate special easter eggs. Although the Konami Code typically offers fabulous prizes or power ups, it doesn't always. Input the code into Super Monkey Ball Jr. title screen and the title will change to Super Nice Try. If you attempt to use the code in Gradius III, your ship will explode. A version of the code does work with Gradius III. You have to switch the "left" and "right" commands with the R and L buttons.
1. Lawsuits And Fines
Although no one likes cheaters, hacking isn't actually illegal. At least, not yet. However, that doesn't stop gaming companies from doing what they can to punish cheaters. If you cheat in Capcom's Monster Hunter 3, you'll end up with a temporary ban. The kicker though, is that the ban lasts for 7,000 years. Riot Games went one step further. One of their pro League of Legends team cheated during official matches. Riot Games fined the cheaters $30,000. However, the Korean gaming company Nexon decided to take things even further. Nexon ended up filing criminal charges against Japanese hackers in their game Sun and Attack. The three teenagers were arrested in their home country. Gamers are somewhat divided on the issue. While we all agree that cheating and hacking is wrong, no one is sure if it's bad enough to get the police involved. Why not just ban them?
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On the night of February 9 1567, a trail of gunpowder was lit in the cellar of a house in the backstreets of Edinburgh. The explosion reduced the house to rubble and Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, was murdered. Ever since, historians have debated whether Mary was involved in this outrage, and only recently has incriminating new evidence come to light. At the heart of the mystery lies treacherous politics of the Scottish Court, and love letters written by Mary to her secret paramour, James Hepburn, the Earl of Bothwell.
Mary left Scotland when she was just five to be betrothed to the four year-old Dauphin, Francis. She was already Queen of Scotland because her father, James V, had died when she was just six days old, leaving her French Catholic mother, Mary of Guise, acting as Regent. She eventually married Francis when she was 15 years old. A year later, following his father's untimely death in a jousting accident, Francis became King of France and she his Queen. But a year after that, Francis died of a brain tumour and his young widow had no option but to return to Scotland.
Mary's greatest handicap, however, was her religion: she was a Catholic in a country that was officially Protestant. The leading Protestant lord was Mary's half-brother, the Earl of Moray, who had deposed her mother in 1559. Moray was the bastard son of James V and could never be King of Scotland. Instead he became Regent and Scotland became Protestant. So when Mary arrived, she was surrounded by enemies, not least John Knox, the fiery Protestant preacher, who made regular attacks on her from the pulpit, calling her a jezebel and a heretic, and denouncing her loose French ways. Yet, for the first two years of her personal rule, things went rather well because Mary was young and inexperienced and followed the advice of Moray and the Protestant lords.
One of Mary's closest advisors at this time was the Earl of Bothwell, a tough, handsome border lord who was five years her senior. Bothwell was officially Protestant because you had to be to get on. On the other hand he had stayed loyal to Mary's mother during the rebellion of 1559 and he now served Mary with the same devotion. He was, first and foremost, a nationalist who wanted a strong and independent Scotland. His chief aim was to prevent an alliance with England - Protestant England - because he saw it as the first step to political union.
Bothwell's continuing influence
The remaining Protestant lords saw Darnley as the weak link. They told him that Mary's Italian secretary, a former musician named David Rizzio, had too much influence at court. And why? Because he was Mary's lover. The jealous and gullible Darnley believed them, and agreed to take part in Rizzio's murder. He also agreed to uphold the Protestant religion, and to the return from exile of the other Protestant lords. There has never been any evidence that Mary was having an affair with Rizzio. If she had been, Randolph would have known, yet he does not mention it in any of his reports to Cecil.
Nevertheless, on 9 March 1566, Mary was having a small supper party in her private apartments, with Rizzio and five close friends, when Darnley and a group of Protestant nobles burst in. They dragged Rizzio from the table and into the next room - where they stabbed him 56 times. Bothwell had also been a target, but he managed to climb out of a window and descape to Dunbar. Alone and defenceless, Mary decided that her only hope was Darnley. Two nights after the murder she went to his room and convinced him that the Protestant lords were using him. Soon he was begging her forgiveness and together they escaped to Dunbar, where Bothwell was gathering an army. They returned to Edinburgh with the army and forced the murderers to flee.
In November 1566, Bothwell met with nobles from all factions at Craigmillar Castle to discuss the Darnley problem. They came up with two options: divorce or assassination. But when Mary was consulted she ruled out divorce because it would make her son illegitimate. As for 'other means', she said that she wanted 'nothing against her honour'. The nobles saw this as carte blanche and, having left Mary's room, signed a bond to murder Darnley.
So was Mary in on the plot? It seems likely because, in January 1567, she joined Darnley in Glasgow and was, as he told his father, 'using herself as a most natural and loving wife'. And yet it was from Glasgow that she sent her famous love letters - known as the Casket Letters - to Bothwell while her husband was just yards away in the next room. 'Cursed be this poxy fellow that troubeleth me this much,' she wrote. 'He will not come unless I promise to be with him at bed and board and forsake him no more. And upon my word he will do whatsoever I will, and he will come.'
On 15 May 1567, Mary and Bothwell were married at Holyrood according to the Protestant rites. Mary was either so desperate - or so madly in love with Bothwell - that she now appeared to give up even her Catholicism for him. Exactly a month later, the final showdown between Mary and the Protestant lords took place at Carberry Hill near Edinburgh. But no actual fighting took place because Mary's outnumbered troops gradually melted away.
But it was to no avail. Two days after Carberry, Mary was imprisoned on the isle of Lochleven where she later miscarried Bothwell's twins. The young Queen with the golden future was just 24, and her life was effectively over. Her half-brother Moray became Regent. Bothwell fled, but was caught and imprisoned in Protestant Denmark. He died there ten years later, some say insane. For Mary there began 19 years of captivity, first in Scotland and then in England, ending only with her execution at Fotheringhay, for plotting against Elizabeth I, on 8 February 1587.
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The development of personalised molecular therapies to treat disorders of surfactant protein metabolism
Nicole Shaw, André Schultz, Anthony Kicic, Steve Wilton, Sue Fletcher, Stephen Stick
Project description
Type-II pneumocytes, located in the alveoli of the lung, are responsible for the production and homeostasis of pulmonary surfactant. Mutations in specific genes related to the surfactant system such as Surfactant Protein C (SFTPC), Surfactant Protein B (SFTPB) and ATP-binding cassette subfamily A, member 3 (ABCA3) have been associated with neonatal respiratory distress and paediatric interstitial lung disease. The spectrum of lung disease varies from being rapidly fatal, to disease that slowly resolves during childhood. At present there is no effective, evidence-based treatment for congenital disorders of surfactant protein metabolism (DSPM). However, it has been proposed that antisense oligonucleotide therapy may be a viable option for improving health outcomes in a subset of patients based on their specific genetic mutation. The proposed project aims to explore the potential of this therapy to treat patients with pathogenic mutations in ABCA3 that are amenable to splice switching intervention, while establishing appropriate disease models and functional assays in order to test specifically designed antisense oligonucleotides.
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Lung surfactant, produced by special lung cells, enables the air-spaces of the lung to be ready to expand at the end of the breathing cycle. Without lung surfactant, breathing requires a lot of energy and becomes very difficult. Certain molecules involved in the production of surfactant in lung cells and secretion into the air-spaces of the lung are required for the surfactant system to work properly. Inherited defects affecting these molecules can cause severe lung disease in infants and children, which can result in death. Survivors often spend much of their early life going in and out of hospital. At present, there are very few treatment options for patients with the disease. This project aims to investigate the possibility of using specific small molecule medicines to improve the function of molecules involved in the surfactant system for people with the inherited disorder. The small molecule medicines act by changing the way that the defective genes work. Changing the way that the genes work, results in the generation of molecules with a different structure and modifies the way that the molecule functions. This may lead to increased surfactant production.