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A Woodbury man shot a former high school classmate at Tom Reid's Hockey City Pub in St. Paul while posing as a police officer, according to a complaint filed Monday charging the man with attempted murder.
From his hospital bed, the 29-year-old victim told police that on Friday night, Patrick Timothy Juetten wore a fake badge and suggested they "rob drug dealers" together, according to the criminal complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court.
When the victim, identified as T.J.G., told Juetten to "get (lost)," Juetten raised his arm and shot the man from a distance of about 2 feet on the bar's patio, charges said.
The victim got himself back into the bar after the 11:45 p.m. shooting; police found him on the floor with a gunshot wound to his chest, according to a criminal complaint. His injuries include a severely damaged liver and pierced lung.
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Other witnesses at the bar saw Juetten, 30, carrying a gun that night. One said it was a Sig Sauer service pistol. Another said Juetten told him he was a detective and had just left work.
Officers found a .40-caliber casing on a patio chair and blood on the ground near the tables.
When Juetten earlier pointed the gun at the victim, the victim laughed it off. Two other men with Juetten seemed unconcerned about the gun.
Juetten and the victim attended high school together and played hockey, the victim told police. Juetten called him "out of the blue" and they met at the bar on West Seventh Street near the Xcel Energy Center.
The victim said Juetten was trying to pass himself off as a police officer. He wanted the victim to join him in his scheme to rob drug dealers.
Woodbury police found Juetten and his girlfriend at a hotel near his Woodbury apartment early the next morning.
The girlfriend said Juetten had come home "freaked out," saying his friend had been shot at the bar. He told her a "random guy" had done it after he took Juetten's gun from his car. She said Juetten has taken classes in law enforcement at Century College.
Juetten told police he went to the bar to see his former classmate. He admitted he had a lot to drink. Juetten said he gave his keys to a stranger so the man could get cigarettes out of his car. The stranger grabbed the gun from the car, returned to the bar, and shot the victim at close range, Juetten said. Juetten said he was scared, so he left.
He didn't know where his gun ended up, he said.
Juetten appeared in Ramsey County District Court on Monday afternoon. Judge Patrick Diamond set his bail at $1 million and ordered that he be assigned a public defender. He is being held at the Ramsey County jail.
Jennifer McNeil, spokeswoman for the North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale school district, said Juetten attended Tartan High School for his junior year in 2000-01.
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10 under-the-radar vintage clothing shops in Toronto
Toronto is a fabulous city for vintage shopping. We've got swaths of stores on Ossington and in Kensington Market, multi-store chains like 69 Vintage, and even secondhand mega-marts like Black Market. That rich vintage scene also means plenty of lesser-known or underrated gems, each of which are worthy of a visit.
Some are obscure just due to being new on the scene, while others are hidden away in spots with less foot traffic or TTC service. But they all have something to offer, whether that's a selection that hasn't been picked over by bargain-hunting shoppers, lower prices, or (of course) the bragging rights that come from having an awesome secret vintage source.
Here are 10 great under-the-radar vintage clothing shops in Toronto.
Print Vintage
Print's been in the same tiny space on College for over 15 years, yet folks still wander in off the street and ask if the store is brand-new. It's like falling into a walk-in closet stuffed with fantastic vintage, from full-skirted, wasp-waisted dresses to mod '60s coats to heavy jackets coated in hand-sewn sequins and beads. Prices hover at around $40 to $80 for non-super-rare pieces.
Thrill of the Find
This Leslieville vintage spot is accurately named; Owner Mireille Watson stocks the store with a host of vintage pieces from illustrious fashion houses like Chanel, Hermes, Chloe and Prada, as well as numerous no-name finds. Watson keeps the best pieces in the back room, but she may let you check them out if you ask nicely; she's also known for having a knack for giving you the once-over and handing you a vintage piece that fits perfectly.
Maggie's Farm
You will definitely want to work on Maggie's Farm, a Roncesvalles repository of clothing, shoes, accessories and housewares. (Look for the "Holy Land Food and Video" sign.) When I visited recently, nothing -- from the leather pants to the vintage heels to the wool coats -- rang in at over $50.
Kingpin's Hideaway
Previously located in the basement of Queen St. vintage fairyland Cabaret, Kingpin is still tucked out of sight in its new home on Mercer St. The "gentlemenswear" store, as owner Jonathan Hagey calls it, is filled to the brim (in this case, the brim of a very dapper felt hat) with vintage pieces like python leather shoes and uniform jackets. Prices aren't terribly cheap, but with a selection this good, you won't look cheap, either.
A Homerun
Formerly Pretty Freedom Vintage, A Homerun has a new name and a new space (right next door to the old one, at 165 Augusta). The carefully-decorated store is more boutique-like than the jumble-sale atmosphere of most of Kensington's vintage stores; despite the more 'edited' feel, nearly everything I checked out during a recent visit was priced at $25.
Boutique Monique
Boutique Monique isn't anywhere near what you might consider a popular shopping area, but the lower rent at St. Clair and Oakwood means owner Monique Nanton can pass on savings to shoppers who make the trek. The store was born out of Nanton's extensive collection of designer vintage: With most items (including pieces by the likes of Max Mara, Valentino and Oscar de la Renta) topping out at around $150, you'll be able to expand your own collection pretty quickly.
Da Vintage Code/Fashion Old And New
These sister stores (at 22 Kensington Avenue and 27 Kensington, respectively) share an owner, but differ slightly in their product offerings: Da Vintage Code focuses more on clothes (including tons of sequined and beaded pieces for $60 or less), while Fashion Old And New hosts a huge stockpile of vintage bags, including Coach and Dooney and Bourke. Both are remarkably well-organized (by size and, often, colour).
Mrs. Huizenga
Located at the foot of Roncesvalles, this vintage emporium looks less like a clothing boutique and more like an antiques shop. Racks of clothing are tucked away at the back, with gorgeous vintage clothing, shoes and accessories woven into the vignettes of items around the store. (There's so many treasures they actually hold auctions on the first Sunday and third Thursday of each month for the rarest and most unusual pieces.)
DuWest Vintage
Apparently, DuWest is a nickname for Dundas West; it's also the name of this warm, lived-in boutique, helmed by a 20-year veteran of Toronto's vintage clothing scene. Where prices might be driven up in another neighbourhood, the vintage shoes and worn-in rock tees here are available for a steal.
Stella Luna
Stella Luna's existence isn't exactly a secret - the vintage boutique has been tucked into a storefront at Queen and Roncesvalles for nearly 20 years - yet it somehow tends to slip away from local media when it comes time to round up Toronto's best vintage stores. It's reportedly a favourite of Toronto's most fashionable, including pro stylists, due to its mix of owner Crispian Underwood's careful eye for selection and rock-bottom prices, even for designer vintage (Christian Dior labels are frequently spotted on the racks).
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Definitions for Incestˈɪn sɛst
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Incest.
Princeton's WordNet
sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)
The crime of cohabitation or sexual intercourse between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law; broadly, sexual relations between closely related persons, usually taken as first cousins or closer. Shak.
Origin: [F. inceste, L. incestum unchastity, incest, fr. incestus unchaste; pref. in- not + castus chaste. See Chaste.]
Sexual relations between close relatives (too closely related to be legally married), usually considered taboo, and a crime in many jurisdictions.
Origin: From incestus.
Webster Dictionary
the crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law
Origin: [F. inceste, L. incestum unchastity, incest, fr. incestus unchaste; pref. in- not + castus chaste. See Chaste.]
Incest is sexual intercourse between family members and close relatives. The term may apply to sexual intercourse between individuals in a close "blood relationship", members of the same household, step relatives, those related by adoption or marriage, or members of the same clan or lineage. The incest taboo is and has been one of the most widespread of all cultural taboos, both in present and in many past societies. Most modern societies have laws regarding incest or social restrictions on closely consanguineous marriages. In societies where it is illegal, consensual adult incest is seen by some as a victimless crime. In some societies, such as those of Ancient Egypt and others, brother–sister, father–daughter, and mother–son, cousin-cousin, aunt-nephew, uncle-niece, and other permutations of relations were practiced among royalty as a means of perpetuating the royal lineage. Some writers have described the marriage and relationship of Cain with his sister as incestuous. Some societies, such as the Balinese and some Inuit tribes have different views about what constitutes illegal and immoral incest. However, parent-child and sibling-sibling unions are almost universally forbidden.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
in′sest, n. sexual intercourse within the prohibited degrees of kindred.—adj. Incest′ūous, guilty of incest.—adv. Incest′uously.—n. Incest′uousness. [Fr.,—L. incestus—in, not, castus, chaste.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that they are forbidden by law to marry.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Incest in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Incest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.
Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
On the issue of pro-life, Marco Rubio is not for an exception for rape, incest or life of the mother. I think that's the kind of position that New Hampshire voters would be really concerned about.
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- جنس محارم, سفاح القربىArabic
- ensestAzerbaijani
- кровазмяшэ́ння, інцэ́стBelarusian
- кръвосмеше́ниеBulgarian
- incest, krvesmilství, krvesmilstvoCzech
- incest, blodskamDanish
- InzestGerman
- αδελφομιξίαGreek
- sangadultoEsperanto
- incestoSpanish
- intsestEstonian
- sukurutsa, sukupuoliyhteys lähisukulaisten kesken, insesti, sukurutsausFinnish
- blóðskemd, insestFaroese
- incesteFrench
- corbadh, ciorrú coil, colIrish
- colScottish Gaelic
- ગૌત્રગમનGujarati
- croiaghtManx
- גִלוּי עֲרָיוֹתHebrew
- ईन्सेस्तHindi
- vérfertőzésHungarian
- արյունապղծությունArmenian
- sifjaspellIcelandic
- incestoItalian
- גילוי עריותHebrew
- 近親相姦, インセストJapanese
- ინცესტიGeorgian
- қан араласу, инцестKazakh
- ទាស់មុខស្មន់Khmer
- 근친상간, 근친 상간Korean
- kraujomaišaLithuanian
- asinsgrēksLatvian
- kaiwhiore, ngauwhioreMāori
- и́нцестMacedonian
- sumbang muhrimMalay
- bloedschande, incestDutch
- incest, blodskamNorwegian
- kazirodztwoPolish
- incestoPortuguese
- incestRomanian
- кровосмеше́ние, инце́ст, кровосмешениеRussian
- ìncest, ѝнцестSerbo-Croatian
- incest, krvismilstvoSlovak
- incestSlovene
- incestSwedish
- கூடாTamil
- ensestTurkish
- інце́ст, кровозмі́шення, інцестUkrainian
- محرماتUrdu
- loạn luânVietnamese
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I couldn't disagree more strongly with my Washington Examiner colleague Timothy Carney when he argues that we should not have dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My reading of the history of World War II has convinced me that Japan would not have surrendered if the bombs had not been dropped; even after that some in the military tried to prevent the Emperor from surrendering. American military leaders predicted that an invasion of Japan would have produced 1 million Americans killed or wounded. The Japanese had fought fiercely in Okinawa in the spring of 1945; 100,000 Americans and Japanese died in this one small island.
It's worth reading this 1981 New Republic article by literary scholar and World War II infantryman Paul Fussell, who was scheduled to fight in Japan. So was the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had enlisted in the Navy in 1945. "Was going to be sent to Japan," he once told me. "Would have died!"
Tim argues that it's never acceptable to attack civilians. I disagree. In modern war against an evil regime attacks on civilians are regrettably necessary and indeed civilian deaths cannot be avoided. Civilian deaths are unfortunate, even tragic; but so are the deaths of those who have volunteered or have been conscripted into the military. Many, many more deaths, of Japanese as well as Americans, would have occurred if the atomic bombs had not been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I have been to Hiroshima and have contemplated the horrifying impact of the atomic bomb there. Recently I've been reading Rana Mitter's China's War With Japan 1937-1945, which describes how fiercely the Japanese fought and the horrors they inflicted on literally millions of civilians. In visiting East Asia I have contemplated with horror the human and physical destruction that would ensue if war resulted from China's disputes with Japan and other nations over islets in the East and South China Seas or from an attack by North Korea on South Korea. War is indeed hell.
One more thought on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I have long thought that the horror which contemplation of those bombings naturally inspires may have served to inoculate world leaders against using nuclear weapons again. Would nuclear tests or demonstration explosions have had the same effect if Harry Truman had decided not to order the bombs dropped on Japan? Maybe not. In which case the explosion of two (puny, by today's standards) nuclear weapons that ended a war may have prevented the explosion of other nuclear weapons in the last 68 years.


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Different Brain Networks Perceive Different Types Of Laughter
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The human brain is capable of deciphering all kinds of social cues and interpreting them into perceptions about people or situations. Now, a group of German researchers has found that joyous or mocking laughter can spark activity in the social centers of the brain, while tickle-induced giggling does not have the same effect."Laughing at someone and laughing with someone leads to different social consequences," said lead author Dirk Wildgruber from the University of Tuebingen. "Specific cerebral connectivity patterns during perception of these different types of laughter presumably reflect modulation of attentional mechanisms and processing resources.
Wildgruber and his colleagues at the university began their study by looking into treatments for people with chronic anxiety disorders. The scientists found that a positive joyful laugh is processed by a different part of the brain than a negative snicker, according to their report in the open access journal PLOS ONE.
Laughter has been observed as a form of communication in a variety of different animals — from rats to primates.
"Laughing is a very strong signal in social interaction," Wildgruber told the German Press Agency (DPA). "If you are laughed at with joy you feel accepted. If you are the victim of scornful laughter, you feel shut out of the group."
To investigate the connection between brain activity and laughter, the team played pre-recorded samples of different types of laughter for 18 male and female right-handed volunteers while they underwent a brain imaging scan. Their goal was to discover details about "laughter perception networks""¯within the brain.
The scientists found that tickling-induced giggling stimulates areas of the brain that interpret complex acoustic signals. On the other hand, laughter induced by happiness or mockery stimulated regions of the brain typically reserved for figuring out the intentions of others. A neural chain reaction then activates parts of the brain responsible for handling either negative or positive social cues.
In their report, the researchers theorized that participants created a mental image or scenario to interpret laughter in the context of social interactions.
"Tickling laughter typically occurs in a narrower spectrum of situations and incurs lower need for mentalizing," the authors wrote.
Wildgruber noted that the study´s findings could eventually lead to treatments for those with anxiety or other similar conditions.
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Disorders of the Spinal Column and Cord in Cats
- Brain, Spinal Cord, and Nerve Disorders of Cats
- The Nervous System in Cats
- Parts of the Nervous System in Cats
- Nervous System Disorders and Effects of Injuries in Cats
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- Congenital and Inherited Disorders of the Nervous System in Cats
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- Dysautonomia in Cats
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- Leg Paralysis in Cats
- Meningitis and Encephalitis in Cats
- Motion Sickness in Cats
- Rabies in Cats
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Diseases of the spinal column and cord include congenital defects (discussed earlier in this chapter), degenerative diseases, inflammatory and infectious diseases, tumors, nutritional diseases, injury and trauma, toxic disorders, and vascular diseases.
Degenerative Diseases
Degenerative lumbosacral stenosis is a disorder of the vertebrae in the lower back that causes compression of the nerve roots. It is uncommon in cats ( Disorders of the Spinal Column and Cord in Dogs : Degenerative Diseases).
Intervertebral disk disease is a degenerative disease of the spinal column that results in compression of the spinal cord and spinal nerves. It is a common cause of spinal cord disorders in dogs, but rare in cats ( Disorders of the Spinal Column and Cord in Dogs : Degenerative Diseases).
Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases
Infectious and inflammatory diseases of the spinal column and spinal cord include bacterial, rickettsial, viral, fungal, protozoal, and parasitic infections. Many of these diseases, such as meningitis and encephalitis, can also affect the brain. Some of the more common infectious and inflammatory diseases that affect the spinal column or cord are discussed below.
Bacterial Diseases
Diskospondylitis is inflammation of the disk between 2 vertebrae (bones in the spinal column). The vertebrae can also be inflamed without infection of the disk. It is rare in cats and is usually due to direct spread of infection from a nearby wound ( Disorders of the Spinal Column and Cord in Dogs : Bacterial Diseases).
Viral Diseases
Feline infectious peritonitis is a disease of domestic cats caused by an abnormal immune response to a coronavirus. This condition causes damage to the meninges and to the cells that produce cerebrospinal fluid. Signs of spinal cord inflammation include spinal pain and partial paralysis in 2 or 4 legs. Signs affecting the blood and other organs, especially the eyes, are also common. Available blood tests are unreliable. Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid can be helpful in diagnosis. There is no effective treatment, and the prognosis for recovery is poor.
Myelopathy associated with feline leukemia virus causes nerve damage and affects some cats that have been infected with the feline leukemia virus for more than 2 years. The main signs are loss of motor control and weakness in the hind legs, which can progress to paraplegic paralysis within a year. Other signs include spinal pain and abnormal behavior. Diagnosis is based on the signs, blood tests, and eliminating other possible causes. There is no treatment.
Rabies (see Rabies in Cats) is caused by a viral infection that spreads to the central nervous system from the peripheral nerves. Rabies is common throughout the world except in Japan, and some other islands, including New Zealand, Iceland, and Hawaii. Initial signs are extremely variable, and rabies should be considered a possibility in any unvaccinated animal with severe neurologic dysfunction. Signs that the infection has reached the spinal cord include a loss of motor control and progressive paralysis, usually with a loss of reflexes. Affected animals typically, but not invariably, die within 2 to 7 days of when signs begin. There is no treatment. Vaccination is essential for prevention.
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Treatment and the outlook for recovery depend on the specific fungus involved. The drug fluconazole is often effective for Cryptococcus infections. Infections with Blastomyces or Histoplasma fungi are difficult to treat, and the outlook for recovery in cats infected with these fungi is uncertain.
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Toxoplasmosis is caused by a protozoan called Toxoplasma gondii, which can occasionally cause inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. Infected cats usually have signs of disease in other organs. A blood test or tissue sample can diagnose the infection. Various drugs are recommended for treatment.
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Verminous myelitis is inflammation of the spinal cord caused by a parasite. The most common cause in cats is larvae of Cuterebra flies. Signs of spinal cord inflammation strike suddenly and severely, often affecting one side of the body more than the other, and may progressively worsen over time. This condition is difficult to diagnose except by examination of tissue after death. Drug treatment can be beneficial, but a full recovery is uncertain.
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Feline nonsuppurative meningoencephalomyelitis, also called feline polioencephalomyelitis or staggering disease, is a slowly progressive, inflammatory disease of the central nervous system in domestic cats. It has been reported in North America, Europe, and Australia. The cause is unknown, but a virus or some other infectious agent is probably involved. The disease causes the neurons to degenerate and is most severe in the thoracic segments of the spinal cord. The disease is difficult to diagnosis in a living animal, and there is no treatment, so the outlook is poor. Signs begin with weakness in the legs for 1 to 2 months, followed by sensitivity to touch, head tremors, and changes in behavior.
In cats, lymphoma is the most common tumor to affect the spinal cord. Adult cats of any age can be affected. There is a sudden and severe or slowly progressive onset of signs that center around a specific, often painful, tumor on the spinal cord. About 85% of affected cats have positive tests for feline leukemia virus. Treatment consists of combination chemotherapy. Remission is possible, but the longterm outlook is poor.
Nutritional Disorders
Hypervitaminosis A can develop in cats that are fed diets that contain excess vitamin A, such as diets that contain a large amount of liver. Signs include neck pain and rigidity with foreleg lameness. Reducing the amount of vitamin A will prevent further damage but does not reverse the damage that has already occurred.
Injury and Trauma
Spinal cord injuries usually occur as a result of a spinal fracture or dislocation. Common causes in cats include automobile accidents, bite wounds, and gunshot wounds. The injury not only causes initial damage to the spinal cord, but also causes secondary damage from swelling, bleeding, destruction of the nerve sheath, and tissue decay. Signs of spinal trauma typically have a sudden onset, and may progressively worsen. Severe spinal cord injury to the middle or lower back may cause a rigid paralysis, or a limp paralysis that spreads to the entire body over several days and leads to death from respiratory paralysis. Fractured or dislocated vertebrae can often be seen on x-rays. Drug treatment can be helpful if started within the first few hours of injury. Animals with mild neurologic signs from injury often recover after 4 to 6 weeks of cage rest. Surgery is necessary for some types of injuries that cause severe neurologic signs. In cats that have lost the ability to feel pain at locations below the spinal injury, the outlook for recovery is poor.
Poisoning and Toxic Disorders
Delayed organophosphate intoxication can be seen after ingestion or skin contact with insecticides or pesticides that contain organophosphates. In addition to the signs of severe exposure, delayed paralysis can develop 1 to 4 weeks after exposure. Partial paralysis of the hind legs worsens progressively and occasionally all 4 legs become paralyzed. A veterinarian will need a history of the cat's possible chemical exposure to make the correct diagnosis. The outlook for recovery is poor for animals with severe signs.
Tetanus is caused by toxins produced by Clostridium tetani bacteria that usually enter the body at the site of a wound. Cats are fairly resistant to tetanus, but cases do sometimes occur. Signs usually develop within 5 to 10 days of infection and include muscle stiffness and rigid leg extension, inability to swallow, protruding eyelids, and locking of the jowl and facial muscles. In severe cases, the animal may be unable to stand as a result of muscle spasms. Treatment consists of wound care, antibiotics to kill any remaining organisms, and tetanus antitoxin. In mild cases, a cat may recover completely with early treatment. In severe cases, death may occur due to respiratory paralysis.
- Brain, Spinal Cord, and Nerve Disorders of Cats
- The Nervous System in Cats
- Parts of the Nervous System in Cats
- Nervous System Disorders and Effects of Injuries in Cats
- The Neurologic Evaluation in Cats
- Principles of Therapy of the Nervous System in Cats
- Congenital and Inherited Disorders of the Nervous System in Cats
- Disorders of the Peripheral Nerves in Cats
- Disorders of the Spinal Column and Cord in Cats
- Dysautonomia in Cats
- Facial Paralysis in Cats
- Central Nervous System Disorders Caused by Parasites in Cats
- Leg Paralysis in Cats
- Meningitis and Encephalitis in Cats
- Motion Sickness in Cats
- Rabies in Cats
- Tick Paralysis in Cats


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Katy Taylor's Yang gets best newcomer nod in first season
Published 3:59 pm, Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Katy Taylor guard James Yang earned District 19-5A newcomer of the year honors on the recently released all-district boys basketball team.
The sophomore was the team's leading scorer, at 13 points per game. He shot 48 percent from 3-point range.
"In my four years of being at Taylor, he's one of the hardest working kids I've been around," coach Matthew Brayton said.
"Everything that he's gotten so far has been because of his hard work. The guy's a gym rat, he constantly wants to stay after and get extra shots up. I've heard stories about what he did in junior high, as far as all the shots he put up.
"He's just a fabulous kid."
Yang can shoot a set shot or off the dribble, but with so much defensive attention in district, the 5-10 shooting guard sometimes struggled to get his shot off – so he's already back at work in the gym.
"Right now, when people start playing him real physical, he's not strong enough to really create his own shot, and he knows that," Brayton said. "He and I have talked about it. He's very aware of his inefficiencies.
"He just wants to get better."
Forward Tyler Foglesong earned second-team all-district honors for Taylor. The 6-4 junior, who's really more of a wing player, averaged 8 points and 7 rebounds per game at power forward.
"Him and James are pretty much the same kid as far as work ethic," Brayton said. "They've taken the role on of leadership of our program."
The Mustangs also return sophomore guards Troy Marasigan and Blanchard Layton, next season, giving Brayton confidence they can build on this difficult season and return to the playoffs.
They finished 13-20 overall and 3-11 in district this season, missing the playoffs for the first time in three years.
"These guys did a lot of growing this season," Brayton said. "We're returning seven guys, and our top three scorers are returning, so our future's pretty bright."
Cinco Ranch sophomore J.R. Adams was the Defensive MVP and Seven Lakes sophomore Kameron McGusty was the overall MVP.
Cinco Ranch also placed junior Malik Amos and senior Ben Sonnefeld on the all-district first team, with Seven Lakes seniors Jake Terry and King Turnbull, Mayde Creek sophomore J'von McCormick, and Katy seniors Arthur McCray and Chance Welsh.


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We continually find that our Passionist charism and contemplative way of life is not well known. Even though our religious Institute has been in existence since 1771, the good news about the cloistered Passionist vocation still remains somewhat hidden in the shadow of the cross, and there are strange ideas often floating around about it.
This has prompted us to start a column here that will address these issues while shedding light on many others. Hopefully, you will enjoy learning a little more about Passionist Nuns! As a good friend of ours (a retired Air Force pilot) would say: "Strap yourselves in, because we are ready to fly over all this information!"
And 'fly over it' we will, as we merely touch on various aspects of our way of life. It would take more than a whole library to tell the full story of our beautiful Passionist vocation!
Please join us in praying daily for priestly and religious vocations.
(Prayed daily by our Nuns and guests)
Lord of the harvest, send workers into your vineyard! Bless the Church in our diocese and throughout the world with many priestly and religious vocations.
We pray especially that many may welcome your call to Passionist life in this monastery, so that the Passionist Nuns may continue to give witness to your merciful love poured out in the Passion, death and resurrection of Jesus your Son.
We ask this through the same Christ
our Lord. Amen.


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The Teen Titans awoke to find themselves captured — prisoners of Mad Mod, a madcap bad guy in a psychedelic suit. Miffed at the way the Titans "disrespect ed their elders" and "interfered with the toils of hard working criminals", Mad Mod had decided to teach the teens a lesson. Thus, he created a massive mind-bending school full of optical illusions and brain-washing hypno-screens. Robin eventually saw through the endless illusions and captured the cockney criminal.
Mad Mod later resurfaced and crashed the Titans' Fourth of July festivities, declaring the American Revolution was a hoax and reclaimed the city for Jolly Old England. If that wasn't enough, old Mod used his high-tech cane to steal Robin's youth, making "King Moddie" young again while Robin turned into a withered dried up old man.
Star and the others used teamwork to restore Robin and destroy Mod's high-tech hypno-world.
- Mad Mod pre-dated Austin Powers by about 30 years. Mad Mod made the scene in the Teen Titans comic book in 1966. The first Austin Powers movie came out in 1997.
- Mad Mod hasn't had too many comic book appearances; He only appeared in the 1960's comic book twice. He didn't have another printed appearance until the Teen Titans series in 1996 – 30 years after his first appearance.
The Mad Mod was one of the earliest adversaries of the Teen Titans. The Mad Mod was a fashion designer who lived on Carnaby Street in London, where Mod clothes were the rage. Mod used his fashion label as a front to conceal contraband items in the clothes he made. He appeared in Teen Titans #7 and 17 [1967-1968]. He resurfaced year later in Teen Titans [second series] #2 in 1996. By then, he had has reformed, and become a very successful fashion designer (the retro collection of Mad Mod fashions was a huge hit).
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Malcolm McDowell (the voice of Mad Mod)
Acting legend Malcolm McDowell lends his vocal talents to the madcap Mad Mod. Malcolm has played numerous roles in movies, television and theater. One of his career highlights was his roles as Alexander de Large in Stanley Kubrick's violent and provocative "A Clockwork Orange" [1971]. He also played Dr. Tolian Soran in "Star Trek: Generations" [1997]. No stranger to animation, Malcolm has also provided voices for numerous characters – including Metallo for "Superman: The Animated Series."
Visit the Teen Titans Animated Series Guide for more information. Titans Go!
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Let be analytic in the disk . If has a zero of order 2 at the origin and in that disk. Prove that in
I have no idea where to start. Thank you.
Better use this version: Let be a bounded domain, and let be a continuous function on the closed set that is analytic on . Then the maximum value of on (which always exists) occurs on the boundary . So, in our case, it is not possible if .


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For Claire Roth, an established psychotherapist, her new patient - Jody Goodman, a young filmmaker - is a welcome diversion from her predictable life. Jody, successful, yet uncertain, is disarmed by Claire's interest and approval. Gradually, the lines between friendship and family, between love and compulsion, start to blur.
In a Country of Mothers is a transfixing psychological thriller, that forces us to confront our own judgments about sanity, danger, and desire.
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H'omes couldn't be more deliciously named: she kicks over the doll's house and gives suburbanity a good shake.' (Guardian)
'The imagination that shapes A.M Homes's fiction is exhilaratingly perverse.' (New York Times Book Review)
"Perfect Example Of How Not To Be A Therapist"
Very well written and narrated good strong story line never boring. Excellent exploration of transference and counter transference in the therapist client relationship this is a very clever book and it is very readable.
"A tale of the haunting of our past."
Adult neuroses and the tragedy of American sense of entitlement and despair brought vividly to life by exceptional narration. More an embodiment of the characters than narration.
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It's time for the Stampin' Pretty Pals' Blog Hop!
Welcome to the July Pals Blog Hop. This month we are featuring a New Hues Review. Let the new Stampin' Up! In Colors for 2014-16 inspire you – Blackberry Bliss, Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey, and Tangelo Twist. We hope you find great inspiration from our creations.
You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from 8. Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper on the Pals Hop. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all of the amazing creations.
I love the new Designer Series Paper Lullaby. It's not just for babies, really! In this Congratulations card I paired the patterned paper with Hello Honey, Pistachio Pudding, Coastal Cabana, and Baked Brown Sugar card stock. I also colored in the flower with the new Coastal Cabana Blendabilities.
For the following card I used Whisper White and Mossy Meadow cardstock, with just a hint of Hello Honey on the folded over flaps, and Blackberry Bliss Ink for the stamps. I think Blackberry Bliss is probably my favorite color of the new In Colors, just because it has such a rich hue!
The next stop is 10. Martie Pollard at the Crafty Bandit on the Pals Blog Hop! Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you next month. Please take a moment to add a comment – I'd love to know what you think!
Here's the complete Blog Hop lineup for July 2014:
- Susan Lankford at Stamp and Create With Susan
- Natalie Bradley at Natalie Bradley Events
- Jackie Diediker at Stampin' Jackie
- Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
- Debra Simonis at Deb's Stampin' Grounds
- Diane Roberts at Score at Four and a Quarter
- Mary Fish at Stampin' Pretty
- Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
- Amy Hoptay at inkingofyou.com
- Martie Pollard at The Crafty Bandit
- Kerry Willard Bray at Peonies and Paper Chains
- Maggie Mata at Maggie Made Cards
- Nicole Watt at Pixel Maven's Retreat
- Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space
- Susan Itell at Simple Stampin
- Donna Kopenski at craftycardmaker.wordpress.com
- Beth Beard at My little craft blog
- Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
- Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits from Dawn
- Cheryl McAskill at A Stampin' Holiday
- Peggy Noe at Pretty Paper Cards
- Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo
- September Gray at Septembergray.com
- Kelly DeTommaso at Kelly's Creative Corner
- Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin'
- Amy Williams at Stamps and Spice
- Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
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Jenelle Evans Breaks Thumb, Twitter Assumes Drugs Were Involvedby Free Britney at . Comments
Jenelle Evans allegedly broke her thumb at some point last night or this morning, sparking the obligatory Twitter debate regarding how this occurred.
The troubled Teen Mom 2 star was radio silent on social media Thursday night, which apparently sparked a firestorm of speculation about her whereabouts.
According to Jenelle Evans, she fell asleep at 5 (p.m.) then "woke up with a broken thumb" ... which she say was an "accident" but offered few details on.
Her boyfriend, Nathan Griffith, "said I fell off the bed earlier lol I don't remember."
Naturally, her Twitter followers were quick to assume this was BS.
"Thumb looks real broken," one person wrote, re: her latest pics.
Not that you can blame people for at least being skepitcal.
Jenelle recently spent 48 hours in jail after failing a random drug test in court on the same day she agreed to a plea bargain on drug and assault charges.
She can't stop smoking weed, people. She can't.
However it happened, she seems to have bounced back from the injured thumb, showing off pics of her morning hair with no sign of a cast on either hand.
Free to go about her busy day of spending time with Jace ... not.


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Schoolbook publishers: the case for the defence
Leftfield:Educational publishers are but one small stakeholder in primary and post-primary education in Ireland, a sector in which €8 billion is spent annually. The educational publishing market represents less than 1 per cent of this expenditure; the textbook market was worth about €55 million in 2012, down from €60 million two years ago, despite increasing student numbers.
However, this sector takes the brunt of complaints about escalating education costs. Despite the fact that all publishers have frozen prices for the past four years and provide hundreds of jobs directly and indirectly in bookshops.
Top of the myth list is the "constant" revisions of schoolbooks. The fact is that 30 out of a total of 2,114 schoolbooks on the market were revised in 2012. This figure is minor by any standards, just 1.4 per cent of the annual output. And almost two-thirds of these revisions were necessitated by curriculum change, particularly Project Maths. Two years ago members of the Irish Educational Publishers' Association (IEPA) adopted a code of practice which ensures textbooks remain available for a minimum of six years.
Publishers actively avoid revisions as they incur additional costs including new design, production, printing and warehousing, which cannot be reclaimed from the buyer as the price remains the same.
Since 2009, and in some cases 2008, the prices of Irish schoolbooks, particularly exam and revision publications, have been frozen or, in some cases, reduced.
This price freeze took place despite a 25 per cent rise in global paper costs. Barnardos' school costs survey 2012 acknowledges some reduction in schoolbook costs. When benchmarked against international schoolbook prices, Irish prices are generally 10-20 per cent cheaper (in some cases as much as 75 per cent cheaper) than their UK equivalents.
Publishers in the UK and the US charge substantial fees for the digital and other resource materials for teachers that accompany textbooks, but Irish publishers provided these at no extra cost. These include in-class activities and audio files, CDs, videos, ebooks, teacher resource books, websites, inspection copies, podcasts, downloadable notes, interactive exercises, homework examples and helpdesks.
All IEPA textbook and eBooks are national-curriculum based and developed for each specific age group and academic level. They are essential tools for the teacher to facilitate an engaging, inspiring and effective learning environment for students. IEPA publishers also provide eBook versions of school books, charging between 25 per cent and 35 per cent less than the printed books and helping to make schoolbags lighter.
Members have invested and continue to invest heavily in developing an infrastructure that will enable all schools in the country to benefit from new technology. Each of the member companies allows the user to access its ebooks on up to three different devices.
However, unlike printed books, eBooks attract a VAT charge of 23 per cent, which negates a lot of these savings. The IEPA has called on the Minister for Finance to reduce this. An alternative might be to allow schools to reclaim VAT costs.
In discussions on the development of ebooks in the classroom, the cost of the tablet, laptop, smartphone or other device must be taken into account as they are a significant additional cost, often three times the cost of the books required.
According to the Barnardos survey, the spend on uniforms each year is of the same order as the spend on textbooks. Rising voluntary contributions and stationery are also major costs in education but are rarely identified. The arrival of the tablet will see a further rise in the back-to-school costs for parents and again publishers are blamed even though they have no influence over the price of these devices.
IEPA members provide quality, curriculum-based and assessment-aligned products that are crucial to scholarship and vital for academic success. Their publications maintain objectivity, cultural integrity and top-quality production standards.
* Cliodhna O'Donoghue is secretary general of the Irish Educational Publishers' Association (IEPA)


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EA confirms Battlefield 6 is coming in 2018; Battlefield 1 is getting Esports Mode and GOTY Edition this Fall
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Review: Look Out!
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is one of 2014's biggest movies, and with any summer blockbuster movie comes the inevitable video game based on said blockbuster movie. And as any self-respecting gamer should know, movie-based games are not of the highest quality. In fact, a majority of the time they just plain suck. Such was not the case in 2012, when the first Amazing Spider-Man game was released to positive reviews. Now that the sequel is out, gamers everywhere hoped that the Amazing Spider-Man 2 would be of the same quality as the first game. While it is an OK game, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 doesn't quite do everything a spider can. (more…)
Watch Dogs hacks its way into our hearts as the best-selling game of May 2014
We were already pretty aware of the fact that a lot of copies of Watch Dogs and Mario Kart 8 were sold in the last week of May. Now, the NPD Group has made it official by releasing their official report of the best-selling games of May 2014.
Not surprisingly, Watch Dogs took the gold while Mario Kart 8 had to settle for the silver. The top ten was populated by several other May releases including Wolfenstein: The New Order (#4) and Kirby: Triple Deluxe (#9). A retail release of Minecraft on the PS3 also pushed that game back into the top five (#5, to be exact).
According to Joystiq, the NPD Group also confirmed that the PS4 has outsold the Xbox One for the fifth straight month. You can view the complete top ten list from the month of May after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, PC, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One Tagged Call of Duty: Ghosts, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Mario Kart 8, Minecraft, MLB 14: The Show, NBA 2K14, NPD, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, TitanFall, Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein: The New Order
TitanFall stomps the competition yet again as the best-selling game of April 2014
After selling 925,000 copies in March, TitanFall continued to roll over the competition at retail as the NPD Group crowned it the best-selling game of April 2014 as well.
The remainder of the top ten was made up almost entirely of games released last Fall including Call of Duty: Ghosts (#2), NBA 2K14 (#3), and Lego The Hobbit (#5). Amazingly, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition continues to hang out in the top five, landing at #4 for the month of April. That ranking may improve next month now that the retail version of Minecraft: PlayStation 3 Edition is available. And speaking of things that are amazing, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was the only other April release to crack the top ten (it was #8).
Finally, according to Joystiq, Sony's PlayStation 4 can lay claim to the next-generation consoles sales title for another month. That makes four in a row for the PS4.
The complete top ten list for April 2014 can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, PC, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One Tagged Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Grand Theft Auto V, Lego Marvel Super Heroes, Lego The Hobbit, Minecraft, NBA 2K14, NPD, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Lego Movie, TitanFall
Child of Light, Daylight, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Rambo, more added to PS Store
This week's PlayStation Store update is very thinky and very shooty. There's definitely something for everyone… whether you love to use your head or shoot people in theirs.
The thinky side includes Child of Light (PS3, PS4), Ubisoft's side-scrolling RPG; Daylight (PS4), Atlus' procedurally-generated horror game; and Yu-Gi-Oh! Millenium Duels (PS3), the latest game in the popular CCG series.
The shooty side is a bit more full with vertically-scrolling shooter Raiden IV: Overkill (PS3), another game adaptation of Rambo (PS3), and the puzzle-shooting of PSone Classic Bust-A-Move 4 (PS3). Also, thugs are prone to shooting at Spider-Man, so let's throw The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PS3, PS4) in this category as well.
For those gamers who are looking for something completely different, this week's final two releases don't fit in either category. Bandai Namco's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle (PS3) is a fighting game based on the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series and Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends (PS3) is the latest game in the hack and slash series.
More details on all of these games can be found after the break and a full rundown of this week's new game add-ons can be found at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
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XBL Store Today: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on Xbox 360 AND Xbox One
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? After announcing the Xbox One edition of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 would miss it's planned April 29 launch, Activision has gone ahead and uploaded the game to the Xbox Live Game Store. Xbox One owners are able to buy, download, and play the game, so this doesn't appear to be an accident on Activision's part. Microsoft's Major Nelson even promoted the release of the game on his blog.
The Xbox 360 edition of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is also available to download through the Xbox Live Game Store:
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($59.99 – Xbox One, $49.99 – Xbox 360)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 takes place outside the events of the 2nd film in a unique story where Spider-Man discovers a larger threat to NYC that has turned the underworld upside down. Villains from the film and classic Marvel characters are woven together in a twisted web of adrenaline-fueled, web-slinging action that puts players on a collision course with an evil far beyond Spider-Man's reckoning.
Hopefully, Activision will be able to explain what happened to the retail release of of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 soon.
Posted in News, Xbox 360, Xbox One Tagged The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Challenge Carnage in this Launch Trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 game
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will launch for the PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, and Xbox 360 tomorrow (a 3DS version is also in the works), so Activision has one more trailer to show us. In addition to appearances from the Green Goblin, Black Cat, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, and a surprisingly spry Kingpin, the Launch Trailer confirms that Carnage, the Symbiote-infected alter-ego of serial killer Kletus Cassidy, will tangle with Spider-Man in the game.
The film the game is adapted from, which is also known as The Amazing Spider-Man 2, will open in theaters on Friday.
New Releases: Mario Golf: World Tour, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Amazing Spider-Man 2, More
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can… except not on the Xbox One. Activision will not release their game adaptation of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 on Microsoft's next-gen console this week due to unforeseen (and currently unknown) production problems. But the game will make it to nearly every other platform including the 3DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, and Xbox 360. A mobile version for iOS and Android devices will also be available.
Also set to be released this week is a pair of 3DS games from Nintendo. Kirby: Triple Deluxe brings the pink puffball to the 3DS for the first time while Mario tees it up on the links one more time in Mario Golf: World Tour.
Finally this week, Ubisoft will release Child of Light on the PC as well as through every console download service (PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U).
A complete list of this week's new releases can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360 Tagged Child of Light, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Mario Golf: World Tour, The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Kingpin, Black Cat, Green Goblin fight Spidey in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 game
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is absolutely packed with villains and the video game tie-in won't be any different. Spider-Man will go head-to-head with The Kingpin, Black Cat, Electro, Green Goblin, and possibly a few others when Activision and Beenox release The Amazing Spider-Man 2 for the PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on April 29 (a 3DS version is also in the works). Serving the role of Yoda to Spidey's Luke will be Kraven the Hunter (surely after a fight where our hero mistakes Kraven for a bad guy).
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will open in theaters on May 2.


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Policy Alert: Rising Powers Ponder the Impeachment of South Korean President
On December 9, the South Korean National Assembly voted to impeach President Park Geun-hye following a scandal that drove millions to protest throughout the country. While Park offered to step down or shorten her term to avoid an impeachment vote, her opposition in the legislature moved to impeach by a vote of 236 to 56. Park has been under fire with allegations she let a family friend, Choi Soon-sil, have undue influence over her administration with accusations that Choi extorted donations from businesses to curry favor with Blue House and had access to classified government documents.
Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn will assume the presidency until the country's Constitutional Court rules whether Park must permanently step down, a decision that may take up to six months. Should this happen, South Korea will hold another presidential election within 60 days but it remains uncertain whether the ruling Saenuri Party will be able to maintain its hold on power. In this Policy Alert, we review the reactions within South Korea, China, India, and Japan to Park's downfall and South Korea's future.
President Park said she was "gravely accepting parliamentary and public voices" and wished the "current turmoil comes to a stable end." A Gallup opinion survey had her approval rating at just 4 percent with other polls showing 80 percent in favor of her impeachment. Even 62 members of her own political party voted against Park. This was just the second time a president has been impeached since the Republic of Korea (ROK) became a full-fledged democracy in the late 1980s.
Most editorials and op-eds in the South Korean press did not express much sympathy for President Park. In fact, some outright said "she does not deserve any sympathy."
- Korea Times accused Park of having "been negligent of the people's voices, only sticking to her own point-of-view."
- Hankyoreh regretted Park was "getting ready to fight the people" and ignore the voices of millions of South Koreans who stood vigil against her presidency.
- Another Korea Times editorial claimed her "greatest crime that is not transcribed onto the official list of charges is the destruction of trust in the office of the presidency, and the subsequent sense of hopelessness among the people that may take a great deal of time to heal." Nevertheless, the paper reminded that "all those involved, including the President, remain innocent until they are proven guilty."
Several liberal and conservative leaning papers called for pro-Park members – who "ruined the party" – to "step down along with President Park."
- The Dong-A Ilbo believed that "as President Park has been impeached, it is not right that the Park Geun-hye faction continues to remain in the party. Leaving the party would be the right choice, if they really care for the party." Korea Times
- Former Saenuri Party Chairman Kim Moo-sung reportedly said "it is imperative to establish a new conservative party that majority of people, who are concerned about the country's economic and national security crisis, can trust and depend on…"
- The Saenuri Party "will never be able to recover from the crisis and rebuild itself as a healthy, responsible representative of conservatives as long as the Park loyalists do not reflect on their misdeeds," wrote Korea Herald.
- Korea Times was concerned the Park scandal may have repercussion for future women politicians, observing that "a grave concern runs deep in the minds of many that this scandal may taint all future women that hope to assume leadership in Korea."
President Park's scandal prompted several newspapers to revisit the Park government's slow and controversial response to the Sewol ferry tragedy in 2014 that resulted in the death of 304 passengers and crew members.
- Korea JoonAng Daily also wondered about President Park's whereabouts during the seven hours after the tragic sinking of Sewol ferry and it was related to her current scandal. Kyunghyang Shinmun seconded this viewpoint.
- Korea Herald wanted the independent counsel investigating Park's bribery allegations to scrutinize allegations that Choi Soon-sil "curbed the state-led rescue activities" to save people from the sinking ferry. The Dong-A Ilbo wanted the same effort.
Some are hopeful that better days for the South Korean democracy are still ahead if political leaders and the public continue to fight for it.
- Hankyoreh saw the impeachment as signaling a "new dawn" for democracy in the country with the vote "not the final stop in the Choi Sun-sil scandal but rather the first stop toward a new future for the Republic of Korea. This is an opportunity not merely to remove the people who appropriated state resources for themselves but to replace the obsolete systems, conditions, and structures that made such appropriation possible."
- The Chosunilbo appealed to the "rule of law" as the guiding force toward "an honorable outcome" as Korea enters "uncharted waters."
- The Dong-A Ilbo called on acting president Hwang Kyo-ahn to "remain politically neutral and cooperate with the National Assembly to become a successful acting president." The paper also urged opposition parties to show him "due respect" during this political transition. The Chosunilbo echoed this position.
While avowing that China has a principle of not interfering in the domestic affairs of other countries, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang hoped South Korea could soon restore stability and develop good relations with China. Beijing has been harshly critical of South Korea's plans to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) – an anti-missile system targeting North Korea but one that China believes could disrupt its own nuclear deterrent – and will watch closely to see whether the new ROK leadership will continue the program.
Most of the media and expert commentary in China portrayed the embattled Park as unnecessarily impairing Sino-ROK relations and considered her downfall a direct result of these anti-China policies.
- After leading "her country astray from the normal path," Global Times blamed her fall from power on a "reckless and capricious" "180-degree change in foreign policy" with "hysteric criticism of China" and THAAD deployment having "seriously violated China's national interest." The paper alleged Park's moves toward the United States and Japan pushed "South Korea back to the shadows of the Cold War."
- Liu Jiangyong, professor of international relations at Tsinghua University, admitted the uncertain political situation in South Korea might have "adverse consequences for China-ROK ties as well as for the Korean Peninsula." Liu saw Japan moving in to take advantage of this chaotic period to sign a military agreement that may harm Beijing's interests.
- A major trilateral summit between China, Japan, and South Korea originally scheduled for this month has now been postponed to 2017. Huang Dahui, director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Renmin University of China, lamented this delay and urged South Korea to adopt a "more balanced diplomacy between China and Japan," especially as President Donald Trump may "change policy toward the Asia-Pacific."
- Korean studies expert Zhang Liangui of the Party School of the Communist Party of China Central Committee predicted the THAAD deployment will move ahead since "nobody will stand up to say no" during the leadership transition. Cai Jian, professor of the Center for Korean Studies at Fudan University, blamed South Korea's political turmoil on the THAAD deployment.
- Lu Chao, research fellow at the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, urged China and South Korea to "remain composed and avoid populist sentiments in economic, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges" at this time. Lu saw THAAD and Park's efforts to have a "bigger presence of U.S. military forces" as worsening "inter-Korean relations in every aspect."
- Zhao Lixin, director of the Department of International Political Science at Yanbian University, questioned if the Trump Administration will redefine the U.S.-ROK alliance with Seoul becoming "humbler while the U.S. tougher."
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Park have personally made efforts in recent years to build closer ties, including boosting trade and enhancing cooperation on counter-terrorism and maritime security. Bilateral trade between India and South Korea has "consistently increased over the past decades" with a target of $40 billion in annual trade.
Indian media debated Park's legacy.
- The Hindu concluded Park's "record in office was far from exemplary" with slower than expected economic growth, poor relations with China, a controversial THAAD deployment, and an inability to calm tensions with North Korea. The paper wanted Park to have resigned to spare the country from months of political uncertainty as the Constitutional Court issues a final decision.
- In the days leading up to the impeachment, The Hindu criticized Seoul's strategy of "picking winners" among competing industrial groups after allegations of extortion and corruption emerged during Park's political scandal.
While Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga insisted Tokyo "has not been affected so far" by the impeachment vote, a senior foreign ministry official admitted turmoil in South Korea and a possible inward-looking President Trump benefits Russia, North Korea, and China at the expense of Japan.
Many papers in Japan recognized that a prolonged turmoil is inevitable for the ROK. Most of the apprehensions seem to be about the impending power vacuum and the opposition parties' stance on South Korea's relationship with its neighbors, including Japan.
- As of early December, The Japan News said "it is worrying that the opposition parties seeking to win back power harbor reconciliatory tendencies toward North Korea."
- Following the Parliament's approval to impeach President Park, The Japan News also expressed concern over the South Korean opposition parties' stance on South Korea's relationship with its neighbor. "It is necessary to closely watch whether South Korean opposition parties will inflame national sentiment by taking advantage of issues related to the perception of history to change Japan-South Korea relations for the worse," the paper said.
- Nikkei Asian Review proclaimed that Park's impeachment left "Japan fretting over power balance" in Asia working in favor of China and North Korea.
- Asahi Shimbun opined "the country's lawmakers need to use the challenging process of dealing with the current political confusion to push through serious political reform."
- Mainichi worried about the looming leadership vacuum and urged South Korea to not allow a lengthy leadership vacuum during the Court's deliberation period since "South Korea will face difficulties building up good relations with the next U.S. administration" and other important regional security issues. The paper moaned that "uncertainty in South Korea's political situation has discouraged companies from investing in the country."
- Asahi Shimbun also argued President Park "effectively destroyed herself with her utter ineptitude at responding to the crisis of her own making." Furthermore, the paper thought the political turmoil surrounding President Park seriously undermined the South Korean people's trust in politics.


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Online Course | Realigning Yoga | New Directions in Yoga Anatomy and Movement Research
October 19, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Rethinking the Effects of Stretching
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The latest scientific research on the merits and misconceptions of stretching.
Motor Learning: Principles and Strategies
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Make sure your students are really learning, not just relying on your cues week after week, by taking advantage of proven motor learning tools and strategies.
Chronic Pain: Yoga, Research & Strategies
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Creating healthy coordinations through essential developmental movements.
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How to apply knowledge about the sacroiliac joint to your yoga practice.
Yoga and Rolfing: Why the Body Cares More About Safety than Posture
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Analyzing the hip joint in the context of "correct" and "incorrect" alignment.
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A tour through the somatic meanings and origins of alignment, symmetry, and "openness" in modern yoga culture, from 1930s Mysore to the present day.


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The building that once housed Jillian's on Barret Avenue is now a new, all-ages venue, run by the Sanctuary Church. Their production company is called SeventhDay Productions. The church also meets in the building. There is a discussion on the 502Scene board, which is a forum primarily drawing metal and heavy rock musicians. (Warning: very adult content)
Heading into the holiday season, expect a fair amount of live music until about December 15 or so, after which things trail off until after the first of the year. This weekend, though, you have a plentiful supply of interesting music to go hear and none of it Christmas related (particularly).
Of course, there's lots more music around the town. Check the Calendar page at louisvillemusicnews.net for listings.
In ye neo LEO, Mat Herron has a phoner with Cults. a New York duo set to play Zanzabar this evening. Herron also has a mishmash of items in his B-Sides column. Brent Owen reviews Matthew Fogle's new CD, Plea: 491. Bluegrass Catastrophe has a podcast of Pokey LaFarge's show at the Newport Folk Festival.
Over at the C-J, the music articles has slowed to a crawl since HullabaLOU. J. L. Puckett is likely still resting up. If you're really interested, there are a few items about incoming (or not) national acts, including Hanson.
Kathy Weisbach, owner and manager (and floor-sweeper, too, no doubt) of the low-power AM radio station Crescent Hill Radio (AM 1650), is looking for recordings from Louisville and regional musicians to play on her station, which is also available as stream via ye olde Internets. Check her site at http://www.chradio.net/. Driesbach has had the station on the air only since April of this year; even so, she's rapidly building an audience over the web. (Listeners in the broadcast area are not so easily enumerated.) Her AM signal only reaches a mile or less around the transmitter.
However, she is looking for musical content for the station, either in the form of CDs or other digital media and programs, again focused on Louisville-area music. No restrictions on the genre; she'll play all styles, though the heavy rockers and metalheads might tend to be played later at night. At the moment, the Kyana Blues Society's president, Gary Sampson, has an all-blues show up and running.
She is asking for permission to play the content without renumeration, as the station does not sell advertising, so if that's a problem, don't send her your content.Stop by her site for contact information.
The National Quartet Convention, which has been staged annually in September in Freedom Hall for some time now, is, arguably, the largest live music event in Louisville. The week-long event brings some 40,000 attendees over that seven days. The economic impact, according to the Kentucky Exposition Center's marketing department, is $8 million annually. The upcoming HullabaLOU Festival and the just completed Forecastle Fest might outdraw in terms of total guests, but the economic impact is yet to be determined.
The 2010 Inductees into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame were announced in Lexington today. Here's the press release:
"Robert Lawson, Kentucky Music Hall of Fame Executive Director along with Connie Hunt, event ceremony executive producer, announced [that] Keith Whitley, Patty Loveless, Steve Wariner, John Michael Montgomery, The Goins Brothers, Molly O'Day and Larnelle Harris as the newest inductees into the prestigious Kentucky Music Hall of Fame.
"This year's inductees include some of the most recognizable music artists in the world,†says Lawson of the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame. "The ceremony taking place in April 2011 will feature performances by this year's class as well as some of this state's greatest music achievers.â€Â
The 2011 Induction Ceremony will be held in the Lexington Center Bluegrass Ballroom in Lexington, Kentucky on April 7, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are on sale now at the Hall of Fame. For more information about the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame & Museum call 1-877-356-3263 or visit www.KYMusicHallofFame.com
The backstory on the E. C. Ball memorial CD, Face A Frowning World, is required reading to get a handle on this project. Ball was an Appalachian singer/songwriter, who, when not driving a school bus and running a service station in Rugby, Virginia, traveled around Appalachia with his wife Orna, playing churches of all denominations and radio stations of all wattages. The project was put together by Nathan Salsburg, a Louisvillian currently working for the Alan Lomax Archive / Association for Cultural Equity. The players are mostly from the Health & Happiness Family Gospel Band, plus Catherine Irwin, Will Oldham (as Bonnie 'Prince' Billie) and Pokey LaFarge. There's a longish post by Salsburg at http://roothogordie.wordpress.com about the project. A just-posted review is at Pitchfork.com.
The short answer to "What's up with ear X-tacy?" is that owner John Timmons has two more months at his current location before he has to do something: move, close or renegotiate the current lease, which, he said, is too much for him to pay. The problems he's facing are the familiar ones: the economy is in the toilet, the record business is in the toilet, music fans are getting their music via the internet. He's tapped out his personal resources, cut all the expenses that he can and is still on the bubble.
All asks for is for music fans to come to his store and buy some music. Got that?
There's a longer piece by Eve Bohakel Lee about the press conference, posted at Louisville.com
Louisville's Urban Gospel station WLOU-AM (Power 1350) has received five nominations in the Stellar Awards, which are the black gospel "Oscars." Larry Muhammad at the C-J has the whole story.


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Let's talk about trauma.
Not all trauma looks like a war veteran who hits the ground when a car backfires. (Although that is very real and very frightening).
Some trauma looks more like scar tissue. Or like a vine that has wrapped around a tree trunk. It grows with you, shapes you, distorts the way you branch out into the world.
Over time it becomes a part of you. You barely even feel it anymore. There are only subtle traces of it — maybe a nagging ache in an otherwise happy moment, or a dark thought that surfaces from seemingly nowhere.
Not feeling is not the same as healing.
It simply means you've accommodated it, made just enough room in you for the two of you to coexist. (Often, trauma pays its rent in drugs, alcohol, or food.) But the result is that you move through life without ever knowing why you act the way you do. Why you never managed to grow out of that propensity to self-sabotage or self-destruct.
Trauma, left untreated, changes who you are and how you look at the world. (After all, trauma by definition is a type of damage to the mind that occurs in response to an event that exceeds one's ability to cope.) Your primary goal — conscious or not — becomes shielding yourself from experiencing that perceived threat ever again. Even if it means withdrawing from the people around you. Or turning to booze, drugs, food, sex, and whatever else can dampen your overtaxed emotions (or the opposite — can dissolve the fog and let you feel something).
The pain of trauma doesn't always come from the content of a memory or flashback. Sometimes the pain you're try to "escape" (as the doctors say) is the accumulation of bad choices you continually make to regulate yourself. The pain of loneliness after intimacy became too risky. The pain of self-doubt when your thoughts and feelings seem alien. The pain of chronic stress and anxiety that churns your gut because, if the trauma occurred early enough, you didn't develop the coping strategies that other people use to manage life's normal oscillations.
Trauma isn't always nightmares and intrusive memories. Some trauma is more insidious. It's not the direct pain of an open wound, but the phantom pain of growth that never occurred. And until you deal with it, your movement will be forever restricted.
I'm learning to move freely through the world.
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MET Matchup: Kristen Stewart vs. Jessica Biel
Neither Kristen Stewart nor Jessica Biel are known for smiling. They never seem excited to be photographed.
This attitude persisted for both beauties last night, as they joined a slew of celebrities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala, which was held in honor of a future exhibit called "American Women: Fashioning a National Identity."


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I said I'd do this as soon as we got gifs back again in the comments, to close out smut week! The theme is "take off all your clothes", judging by the SFW gifs I was able to collect. Butt this can become a NSFW, equal-opportunity space. I AM OKAY WITH THAT. Consider this a pantsfeels post. As Nate Fillion famously said:
Ooops I meant to post this one:
Have at it folks!
not gif or nekkid but A+ for smolder:
And if you happen to come across this much later in the week, there is no deadline to contribute...we'll be here forever gazing into their...um eyes. THEIR EYES.


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Successful Facebook Applications Use Cross-Promotion
There is some debate as to whether or not cross-promotion is an effective technique for acquiring new users. Bret on Social Games asked the question "Does Cross-Promoting a Game Work?" back in June and came to the conclusion that it really depends and the cross-promotion strategy that is employed.
Bret used the example of a very popular Facebook game, Scrabulous, who unsuccessfully cross-promoted their game Chess Pro. He attributed this, in part, to the idea that most Scrabulous players probably wouldn't be interested in playing a chess game.
Not all cross-promotion strategies end in failure, however. Let's take a look at how cross-promotion is working for some other companies.
Playfish started cross-promoting its games in August 2008. What's interesting is that the two games that were released after they started cross-promotion—Pet Society and Geo Challenge—both experienced a spike in Daily Active Users (DAU) within about a month after their initial release. Pet Society (released August 8, 2008) more than doubled its DAU in a single day, jumping from 126,469 DAU on September 16, 2008 to 310,413 DAU on September 17, 2008.
Their latest title, Geo Challenge, debuted (in beta) on September 22, 2008 and the DAU grew to 131,430 by October 27, 2008. The next day it jumped to 458,783 DAU!
Compare the above statistics to those of their other titles, Who Has the Biggest Brain?, Word Challenge and Bowling Buddies, all of which were released without cross-promotion and experienced more of a steady climb in DAU over time. Take a look at the DAU graph from Adonomics for Word Challenge as an example:
As you can see, while DAU increased over time, it didn't experience a significant spike like Pet Society and Geo Challenge did. While this certainly isn't hard proof that cross-promotion works, its an interesting observation nonetheless.
The Blood Games
Playfish isn't the only social gaming company that uses cross promotion, The Royal East India Trading Company has produced four games called The Blood Games that they cross-promote with each other. However, they've take cross-promotion to a different level by incentivizing it. Shortly after you begin playing Elven Blood, for example, you're taken to a screen that informs you that you will be rewarded with "3 Blessings from the Elder Tree" (these blessings can be used to increase wealth, life, stamina or add a new member to your party) if you try all of the Blood Games. They also make it clear that you need to try all of the games immediately, stating that "You won't be able to do this mission again."
It isn't clear how well this approach is working: as of this writing Elven Blood has 1,040,243 Monthly Active Users (MAU) while their other games (Blood Lust, Skies of Blood and City of Blood) are seeing MAU in the range of 460,000 to 550,000. Whether or not this turns out to be an effective cross-promotion strategy (The Blood Games are still fairly new), it is still an interesting and unique approach.
As Bret points out at the end of his article, cross-promoting your games, even if they are promoted within a highly successful game, doesn't necessarily guarantee their success. No user acquisition strategy can be successful if the game just isn't engaging. But, if you've created a successful game, cross-promotion may prove to be a great way to acquire users for your other games.
Thanks for great articles!
BTW, the graph for Geo Challenge should be replaced, I think. (It is outdated, and it does not show the date you mentioned) :)