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THURSDAY, May 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- It's a simple concept, but new research reinforces the idea: Teens with type 1 diabetes benefit when they feel their concerns have been heard.
Teens with type 1 diabetes may experience anger, frustration and anxiety if they haven't met their treatment goals. Their parents and health care providers may also feel frustrated and may blame the teen. But the new study suggests that interventions designed to improve diabetes-related care and communication could improve a teen's diabetes self-management.
"The biggest thing people don't understand about living with type 1 diabetes is that patients become physicians essentially, and doctors and staff become consultants," said the study's lead author, Dr. Harold Starkman. He's the director of pediatric endocrinology at the BD Diabetes Center at Atlantic Health System's Goryeb Children's Hospital in Morristown, N.J.
"Families and teens who have type 1 diabetes have the responsibility of caring for diabetes all the time. They have to figure out how much insulin they need, what to eat, count the carbohydrates in the food, consider the impact of diabetes," he explained.
Most teens are trying to do the best they can, but it's a lot of responsibility, he said. And, it's frustrating to ask for help when you're a teenager.
"Normally, teens need to separate from their parents and move on, but for teens with type 1 diabetes, diabetes is a tether," Starkman said.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that causes the immune system to mistakenly attack healthy insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Insulin is a hormone that helps usher the sugar from foods into the body's cells to be used as fuel. This attack leaves people with type 1 diabetes with little to no insulin.
To survive, they must take insulin injections or receive insulin from an insulin pump multiple times a day, every day for the rest of their lives. They also must monitor their blood sugar levels to ensure they haven't given themselves too much or too little insulin, either of which can be dangerous.
Dr. Mary Pat Gallagher, director of the pediatric diabetes center at NYU Langone Health in New York City, agreed that diabetes can be tough for teens as they're trying to develop their independence.
"Diabetes raises the stakes on the usual adolescent journey," Gallagher said.
"Type 1 diabetes requires constant vigilance, and that's challenging for teens who have many other developmental tasks. Just as other adolescents do, teens with type 1 diabetes are trying to become separate from their families. They're also trying to identify with their peers and fit in with their peer group, and diabetes can make them feel different from their peer group," she explained.
At the same time, Gallagher said, parents may worry more because if their child doesn't do what they need to do, they could be putting their health in danger.
Teens may react to the pressure by trying to ignore their diabetes care by skipping insulin doses, or not checking their blood sugar levels.
Starkman said that "kids rebel by pretending they don't have diabetes." And that can backfire because it may leave teens feeling guilty and scared, he said.
For the study, the researchers interviewed nine teens with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes about their diabetes care. They also spoke with the teens' parents and their health care providers.
The researchers found similar themes of anger, frustration, guilt and anxiety among teens, parents and providers.
The key to breaking these cycles is open communication, Starkman said. For example, a mother might become angry with a teen who didn't test his blood sugar. The teen just sees the anger, and might not realize she's angry because she's scared.
On the flip side, the teen may have missed his last blood sugar check, but maybe it was his fourth or fifth one of the day, and he'd also had to give himself two shots of insulin. And now he's frustrated and mad that mom didn't see everything he did remember to do.
"We have to work on getting away from being angry or being judgmental. Rather than telling kids what to do, ask questions: 'It must be really difficult to do all of this. How can I help?' Or, if the teen has an issue -- maybe they're going to prom and don't know what to do with their insulin pump. Say, 'How can we solve this problem together? Maybe you could do shots during prom weekend? Or, wear your pump somewhere people won't see it?'" Starkman said.
He added that it's very difficult to have optimal diabetes management unless you have good communication.
For parents and providers, Gallagher recommended not focusing on diabetes right away. With her own patients, she said she asks them what's going on in their lives so she develops a relationship with them.
Gallagher said it's important to remain available to teens and to check-in frequently. But she added that you can let them lead the way. "Try to ask how you can be helpful to them. Do they need any supplies? Do they want you to help look at their blood glucose patterns?" she suggested.
The researchers also recommended acknowledging a teen's efforts, and trying to focus less on just the blood sugar control numbers.
Starkman said it's extra important to keep teens engaged because they'll soon be transitioning to adult diabetes, and the researchers noted that nearly one-third don't seek care as adults until they have complications.
Findings from the study were published in the American Psychological Association's Families, Systems, & Health journal.
More information
Read more about how type 1 diabetes can impact mental health at BeyondType1.org.
SOURCES: Harold Starkman, M.D., director of pediatric endocrinology, BD Diabetes Center, Atlantic Health System's Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, N.J.; Mary Pat Gallagher, M.D., director of pediatric diabetes center, NYU Langone Health, New York City; March 2019, Families, Systems, & Health


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are the Serum Markers of Hepatitis B and What do They Mean?
The main serum markers of hepatitis B are Hepatitis B Virus surface
antigen (HBsAg), HBV surface antibody (HBsAb), HBV e antigen (HBeAg), HBV
e antibody (HBeAb), and HBV c antibody (HBcAb). (They are commonly
referred to as the two and a half pairs and are usually used to identify
HBV infections.) The first two pair of markers are obvious but
because HBV c antigen is quickly degenerated in the serum, it cannot be
tested in the serum. If any one of these markers test positive, it
means that the person has had a HBV infection. If HBsAg, HBeAg, and
HBcAb test positive, it means that the HBV is replicating actively and the
patient is infectious.
Individually, these markers each have their own significance. HBV surface
antigen (HBsAg) is the surface protein of HBV. The HBsAg itself is not an
infectious agent but its existence shows that there is HBV in the body of
the patient. (It has the same meaning as having detectable HBV DNA in the
blood.) HBsAg can exist in blood, saliva, breast milk, sweat, tears, nasal
secretions, semen, and vaginal secretions. It becomes positive in the
serum within 2 to 6 months of the initial HBV infection and usually two to
eight weeks before ALT and AST elevation. In acute HBV infections, it can
turn negative in the early stage of the disease course. In chronic
hepatitis B patients, this marker can be persistently positive.
The HBV surface antibody (HBsAb) is the product of the body's immune
reaction to the HBV infection. It is an immune globulin secreted by B
lymph cells that can combine with the HBsAg to neutralize it. Along with
other immune reactions, the HbsAb protective antibody can eradicate the
invading HBV from the body. Either an HBV infection or HBV vaccination can
cause the HBsAb marker to be positive. This antibody can exist in the
blood for a long time, gradually decreasing with age. If the HBV infection
happened during the infancy period, it is likely to become chronic since
the infant is unable produce this antibody at that time.
The HBV e antigen (HBeAg) comes from the core of the HBV and is a portion
of the core. When the core of the HBV degrades in the serum, this antigen
is created and can be detected. Because HBcAg will be totally degraded in
the serum, it is not detectable in the serum. Thus, when the HBeAg marker
becomes positive, it is equivalent to a positive HbcAg marker and shows
that the Hepatitis B virus is replicating actively and the patient is
The HBV e antibody (HBeAb) is the body's immune reaction to the HBeAg
and like HbsAb, it can combine with the HbeAg. It usually appears after
the HBeAg turns to negative, which also means that the HBV replication
activities have decreased and the patient is less infectious or not
infectious at all.
This overview of HBV serum markers gives us a dynamic view of the HBV
infection and we can use them to evaluate the HBV replication and the
infectious level of the patient.
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Blue Horse (Oglala Lakota: (Šúŋkawakȟáŋ Tȟó in Standard Lakota Orthography) (1822—July 16, 1908) was a leader of the Wágluȟe Band of Oglala Lakota, warrior, statesman and educator. Blue Horse is notable in American history as one of the first Oglala Lakota United States Army Indian Scouts and signatory of the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868.
Blue Horse was known for a willingness to rescue white men in distress and the iconic one-eyed chief was popular subject for portraitists. Blue Horse's life chronicles the history of the Oglala Lakota through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Blue Horse and his adopted brother Red Cloud fought for over 50 years to deflect the worst effects of white rule; feed, clothe and educate their people and preserve sacred Oglala Lakota land and heritage.
Blue Horse was the second son of Old Chief Smoke and Burnt Her Woman, and the twin brother of Big Mouth.
Red Cloud was the adopted brother of Blue Horse. Red Cloud was adopted by Old Chief Smoke, his maternal uncle, around 1825 at the age of three after Red Cloud's parents died. Blue Horse and Red Cloud were raised as brothers and mentored by Old Chief Smoke. As a young warrior, Blue Horse led war parties with Red Cloud against the Ute, Shoshone, Bannock, Arikara, Crow, Omaha, Pawnee and Piegan.
Old Chief Smoke had five wives who bore him many children. Old Chief Smoke's sons carried the Smoke People legacy of leadership in Oglala Lakota culture into the 20th century. The children of Old Chief Smoke were Spotted Horse Woman, Big Mouth (1822-1869), Blue Horse (1822-1908), Red Cloud (1822-1909), American Horse, the elder (1830-1876), Bull Bear III, Solomon Smoke II, No Neck and Woman Dress (1846-1920).
Blue Horse married Council Fire Woman (Peta Ominiciye) and had one son Baldwin ("Bali") Blue Horse (Little Medicine) and two daughters, Jennie Blue Horse and Lizzie Blue Horse.
The Wágluȟe Band is one of the seven bands of the Oglala Lakota. The Wágluȟe Band is also known as the Loafer Band. The Lakota word Wágluȟe means "One who lives with his relatives (as a hanger-on)" and was used to refer to those who stayed near military forts, their daughters having married soldiers.
Old Chief Smoke was an Oglala Lakota head chief and one of the last great Shirt Wearers, a highly prestigious Lakota warrior society. The Smoke People were one of the most prominent Lakota families of the 18th and 19th centuries. Old Chief Smoke was one of the first Lakota leaders to appreciate the power of the whites and the need for association. In 1849, Old Chief Smoke moved his Wágluȟe camp to Fort Laramie when the U.S. Army first garrisoned the old trading post to protect and supply wagon trains of white migrants along the Oregon Trail. Lakota families from other camps who preferred the safety of Ft. Laramie joined Smoke's camp. Old Chief Smoke was aware of the power of the whites, their overwhelming numbers and the futility of war. Old Chief Smoke observed and learned the customs of the whites. By the late 1850s, some Lakota from the wild buffalo-hunting camps began to disparage Old Chief Smoke's camp at Ft. Laramie and call Old Chief Smoke's community Wágluȟe (Loafers), meaning they were like men who lived with their wives' relatives, that is, hangers-on, loafers. On the other hand, some Wágluȟe thought of the Lakota in the wilds as county bumpkins. During the increasing strife of the 1860s, the Ft. Laramie took on a military posture and was the primary staging ground for the U.S. Army during Red Cloud's War. In 1864, Old Chief Smoke died and was placed on a scaffold near sight of his Ft. Laramie and replaced by Chief Big Mouth.
The Wágluȟe were aware of the power of the whites, their overwhelming numbers and the futility of war. Traditionally, in intertribal warfare, a fight among fifty warriors in which two men were killed was considered a big fight. The Wágluȟe at Ft. Laramie heard of the 50,000 casualties of the three-day Battle at Gettysburg in July 1863, and knew what white men meant when they spoke of battle. The Wágluȟe observed and learned the customs of the whites. Wágluȟe were considered by the U.S. Army and Indian agents to be the most progressive band of Lakota and many became Indian Police, U.S. Army Indian Scouts with the U.S. 4th Cavalry Regiment from Ft. Laramie and intermediaries with other bands of Lakotas. The Wágluȟe formed a civil administration at Ft. Laramie, and Old Chief Smoke appointed Blue Horse and Big Mouth the first Indian Police officers. The Wágluȟe were first Oglala Lakota to send their children to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for a formal education. Wágluȟe U.S. Army Indian Scouts were a "Band of Brothers" with U.S. Army Cavalry Scouts and later were the first Oglala Lakota to travel with Col. William "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his Wild West throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Some Wágluȟe went north to the Powder River Country to fight in Red Cloud's War and became closely tied to militant Miniconjou, Sans Arc and Hunkpappa. Other Wágluȟe supplied food and munitions to Red Cloud. All Wágluȟe respected Red Cloud. The U.S. Army concluded that, even if there were doubts about their reliability, the Wágluȟe's role as scouts, civil administrators and mediators was absolutely essential.
Blue Horse and Red Cloud were warriors, statesmen and leaders of the Oglala Lakota for over 50 years. Their special lifelong relationship chronicles the history of the Oglala Lakota through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Blue Horse and Red Cloud fought to deflect the worst effects of white rule; feed, clothe and educate their people and preserve sacred Oglala Lakota land and heritage.
In 1841, Blue Horse was shot in the back with an arrow during a skirmish with the followers of Old Chief Bull Bear, a challenger to his father Old Chief Smoke. Old Chief Bull Bear contemptuously threw dust in the face Old Chief Smoke and challenged to him to a fight. After the Old Chief Smoke refused, Old Chief Bull Bear killed Old Chief Smoke's favorite horse. Red Cloud, Old Chief Smoke's adopted son, sought revenge, and later during a fight with Old Chief Bull Bear's band killed old Chief Bull Bear. Blue Horse, who was with Red Cloud, was wounded during the incident. The Old Chief Bull Bear Incident was significant in Oglala Lakota history and resulted in the splitting of the bands. Nevertheless, Old Chief Smoke adopted Old Chief Bull Bear's son, Young Bull Bear, and raised him in the Smoke household.
Blue Horse began service with the U.S. Army at Ft. Laramie, Wyoming, as early as 1854 when General William S. Harney arrived at the onset of the Sioux Wars. Prior to 1866, Indian scouts were considered employees rather than soldiers, and on July 28, 1866 by an Act of Congress, Indian Scouts were enlisted and paid the salary and allowances as U.S. Cavalry soldiers. Blue Horse was one of the first U.S. Army Indian Scouts formally recruited at Fort Laramie around 1866 and had an excellent reputation with the U.S. Army and white traders as a reliable Indian. Blue Horse maintained the trust of General Harney and Red Cloud, and served as a messenger and intermediary during Red Cloud's War 1866-1868.
Red Cloud's War (1866-1868), also known as the "Bozeman War" or the "Powder River War", was an armed conflict after the end of the American Civil War involving the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho against the U.S. government in Wyoming Territory and Montana Territory. The Bozeman Trail through the Powder River Country was used by an increasing number of miners, emigrant settlers and others who competed with the Cheyenne and Lakota for resources and encroached on their traditional territory to reach gold fields discovered in Montana around 1863. The Powder River Country was the last unspoiled hunting ground of the Cheyenne and various bands of the Lakota. In late spring 1866, the U.S. government called for a council with the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne at Fort Laramie to discuss a treaty to gain a safe passage for emigrant settlers through the Powder River Country and construct forts along the trail. On June 5, 1866, Red Cloud appeared at Ft. Laramie with a thousand warriors to attend the council, and was outraged to learn that the U.S. Army was bringing in troops to construct forts before the Lakota had agreed to a military road through the area. Red Cloud refused to sign a treaty and left the council in protest, and promising resistance to any whites who sought to use the trail or to occupy the Powder River Country. Red Cloud scolded the Peace Commissioner for treating the Indians like children. "The white men have crowded the Indians back year by year, until we are forced to live in a small country North of the Platte. And now our last hunting ground, the home of the people, is to be taken from us. Our women and children will starve, but for my part I prefer to die fighting rather than of starvation. Great Father sends presents and wants a new road. But white chief goes with soldiers to steal road before Indian says yes or no." "Chief Red Cloud strode past Colonel Henry B. Carrington, and before dawn next day, the Oglala Lakota were gone from Ft. Laramie." Despite Red Cloud's warnings, Colonel Carrington marched into the Powder River Country with 750 men and garrisoned forts along the Bozeman Trail. One of the new garrison posts was Fort Phil Kearny, a flash point with Red Cloud. Fort Kearny was known to the Indians as the "hated post on the Little Piney." In response, by late summer Red Cloud had recruited a force of approximately three thousand Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors to oppose U.S. military expansion. The majority of warriors had only bows and arrows and a small arsenal of rifles and ammunition smuggled by Wágluȟe from Ft. Laramie. Red Cloud's warriors soon strategically attacked supply trains and closed the trail. Carrington, a lawyer who made forts with no combat experience, was logistically unable to provide escorts to whites on the trail or to engage in aggressive operations. Carrington respected the fighting ability of Red Cloud, his better knowledge of the terrain and superior numbers. Carrington was in trouble. Red Cloud and the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho were for preparing for battle.
Captain William J. Fetterman arrived at Ft. Phil Kearny, Wyoming, from Ft. Laramie, Wyoming, in November 1866. While Captain Fetterman had extensive combat experience during the American Civil War, he had no experience fighting American Indians. Fetterman criticized Colonel Carrington's strategy and allegedly boasted that "given 80 men he would ride through the Great Sioux Nation." Junior officers at Ft. Phil Kearny were anxious for battle, believed the Indians could be easily defeated and criticized Carrington's apparent unwillingness to fight Indians. On December 21, 1866, a morning supply train to Ft. Phil Kearny was attacked. Fetterman had been sent to chase away a small Indian war party that had attacked a wood party days before and was anxious to go to battle. Colonel Carrington authorized Captain Fetterman to mobilize a detachment of 81 men and gave express orders for Fetterman to stay behind the Lodge Trail Ridge where relief would be difficult. Within a few minutes of departure an Oglala Lakota decoy party led by Crazy Horse appeared on Lodge Trail Ridge. Captain Fetterman disobeyed orders and took the bait after several of the Oglala Lakota warriors stood on their ponies and insultingly waggled their bare buttocks at the troopers. Fetterman followed Crazy Horse's advance party and raced down and into valley where more than 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho were concealed. The ambush killed the entire 81-man U.S.Army detachment, while combined Indian forces suffered only 14 casualties. The incident, known as the "Fetterman Massacre" by the U.S. Army and the "Battle of the Hundred Slain" and the "Fetterman Fight" by Native Americans, involved the highest U.S. Army fatalities in a single event on the Great Plains until the disaster of the Battle of Little Big Horn nearly ten years later. General Philip St. George Cooke held Carrington solely responsible for the defeat and relieved him of command on December 26, 1866. Big Mouth and his party was dispatched by General William S.H arney and returned on January 16, 1867, after spreading news that fine gifts awaited warrior chiefs if they came into Ft. Laramie to sign new treaties. General Ulysses S. Grant, commanding the U.S. Army, moved to court-martial Carrington, but at the suggestion of General William Tecumseh Sherman submitted the matter to a court of inquiry which subsequently exonerated Carrington, as did a separate investigation by the United States Department of the Interior.
Public shock following the incident resulted in reassessment of the government's Indian policy, and a U.S. Peace Commission toured the Great Plains in 1867 to gather information to help bring about peace among the tribes and with the U.S. The Commission concluded Native Americans had been provoked by white encroachment and competition for resources and recommended assigning definite territories to the Great Plains tribes. In late summer 1867, the U.S. government changed its policy and decided to use the First Transcontinental Railroad to transport immigrants. The government decided that a military presence in the Powder River Country was too expensive and unproductive and agreed to abandon its forts and withdraw completely from Lakota territory.
Red Cloud did not participate in the Fetterman Fight. Rather, Red Cloud was with Blue Horse who had carried tobacco from General Harney at Ft. Laramie inviting Red Cloud and the Northern Oglala leadership to talks at the fort. The reaction was negative, with the tobacco packages thrown in the fire by angry warriors. Blue Horse remained in the Red Cloud's village for several days at the time of the Fetterman Fight. Blue Horse's return to Ft. Laramie with intelligence is noted in reports of the Upper Platte Indian Agency and accounts by Lakota eyewitnesses. Chief Blue Horse, Chief Big Mouth and other Wágluȟe acted as intermediaries throughout Red Cloud's War.
Blue Horse and Red Cloud were a signatories to the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868. The treaty was an agreement between the United States and the Lakota Nation guaranteeing the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills and land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. The Powder River Country was to be henceforth closed to all whites. The Treaty ended Red Cloud's War. In the Spring of 1868, U.S. peace commissioners were sent to Fort Laramie. The Treaty of Fort Laramie declared the Powder River Country "unceded territory" to be used as a reserve for Cheyenne and Lakota. The treaty also established the Great Sioux Reservation, including the Black Hills and covering the territory of West River, west of the Missouri River in present-day Nebraska, and including parts of South Dakota. On April 29, 1868, Spotted Tail and other Brulé leaders "touched the pen." On May 25, 1868, many Lakota leaders including Sitting Bull, Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses and American Horse signed. The Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho also signed.
However, Red Cloud refused to meet with U.S. peace commissioners until the U.S. Army abandoned Fort Phil Kearny and other the Powder River Country forts. In August 1868, Red Cloud's demands were met and the Powder River Country forts were abandoned and the garrisons removed to Ft. Laramie. On November 6, 1868, Red Cloud signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie with Father Pierre-Jean De Smet as a witness.
The Treaty of Fort Laramie was regarded as a great victory for Red Cloud, who defeated the U.S. Army in battle. The U.S. Army Powder River Country forts were abandoned and the hunting grounds of the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho had been protected. In addition, the treaty required the U.S. government to issue weekly rations and subsidies to the Oglala Lakota.
Blue Horse's twin brother Big Mouth was the elder and became head chief in 1864 upon the death of Old Chief Smoke. Big Mouth opposed Spotted Tail's leadership and criticized his negotiations with Washington politicians. On October 29, 1869, Spotted Tail called at the door of Big Mouth's lodge, and asked to speak with him. On his appearance, he was seized by two warriors, who held him fast, while Spotted Tail drew a pistol, placed it against his body, and shot Big Mouth dead.
Captain DeWitt C. Poole at the Whetstone Indian Agency reported Blue Horse's shock and anger to Big Mouth's murder. "Blue Horse started a violent harangue in the Sioux language. He had a rifle in one hand and a strung bow and a bunch of arrows in the other, and when he dropped his blanket, two navy Colts and a big scalping knife could be seen in their sheaths at his belt. He was in a raving fury, leaping and bounding about the room as he hurled accusations and threats at Spotted Tail. Big Mouth died toward dawn. Some hours later, Blue Horse came to agent Poole's office and told he that he felt so sad over the death of his great and good brother that he would have to wash off the paint he had put on his face for the feast the day before and begin mourning. The interpreter warned Poole that if this Indian washed his face and started mourning, it would mean the reopening of the feud and more shootings. The agent would give Blue Horse two blankets, that would comfort him, and he would refrain from washing his face and going gunning for Spotted Tail. The blankets were handed over, and the grieving brother went quietly away." Poole later reported that Spotted Tail made a prompt payment of a stipulated number of ponies to Blue Horse and that aboriginal law had been vindicated.
Blue Horse was pressed to avenge the murder of Big Mouth, but chose the path of non-violence and instead moved with his Wágluȟe Band to another locality. Red Cloud was also aggrieved by his brother's murder. Nonetheless, Red Cloud continued to work with Spotted Tail in delegations to Washington, D.C. to protect tribal lands, enforce broken treaties and preserve Lakota culture.
In 1872, Blue Horse accompanied Red Cloud and a Lakota delegation to Washington, D.C. to meet with President Ulysses S. Grant. Waiting decision from President Grant on continued negotiations, Red Cloud and Blue Horse toured New York City. The New York Herald reported the gala event:
In November 1873, Dr. John J. Saville, superintendent of the Red Cloud Agency, ordered a census of the Oglala to enumerate the agency Indians. The food situation was desperate. Blue Horse and Red Cloud opposed the census knowing the count would result in a loss of rations for the Oglala and resisted threats from the government to withhold food and supplies. "The Cincinnati Commercial thus accounts for the refusal of Red Cloud and Blue Horse to allow a census of their people to be taken. They have probably been told by the missionaries how David was punished by making a count of the Israelites, and have cultivated what may be properly styled a theological prejudice to census statistics. We think however that those chiefs theological objections are more like to relate to the Book of Cincinnati Numbers, as they don't want their numbered inferiority made public." Saville's disagreements with Blue Horse and Red Cloud eventually led to a Commission to investigate alleged mismanagement at the Red Cloud Agency and recommend that Saville be removed. Dr. Saville resigned in 1875.
On June 5, 1875, the Anglo-American Times published a letter written by Blue Horse to President Grant. "The President has received letters from Sioux chiefs unable to accompany the delegation, of which the following from Blue Horse may be taken as a sample: 'There are fifty families of my people who wish to go to farming. We wish to go to work and do not want white men to run over us. We intend to remain here and we want neat houses and fences and everything that the white men use. We want a cow, two yoke of oxen, and a wagon, also chickens. Whatever the President may give those who visit Washington, I wish a share also. I also want a sewing machine and other farming implements. The Great Father has promised us that we should not starve, and I wish to make a living for myself on these rivers in this way.'"
After the Battle of the Little Bighorn in late June 1876, the government took punitive actions including disbanding U.S. Army Indian Scouts, clamping down on the agency bands and taking a census creating considerable unrest. On August 31, 1876, Blue Horse was arrested for a short time by General Ranald S. Mackenzie for not turning in northern "hostile" Indians slipping into his Loafer village. Blue Horse continued to serve as an intermediary to Red Cloud after the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
After the Battle of Little Big Horn and the arrest of Blue Horse, the Wágluȟe split into three bands. Blue Horse remained leader of one band, and rising young leaders American Horse and Three Bears led the other two. Red Shirt was also a popular leader and served as Three Bears' lieutenant. These leaders had much in common. Blue Horse, American Horse, Three Bears and Red Shirt all served as U.S. Army Indian Scouts with the U.S. 4th Cavalry Regiment from Ft. Laramie led Lakota delegations to Washington, D.C., their children attended the first class at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and joined with Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Wágluȟe U.S. Army Indian Scouts from the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, were a "Band of Brothers" with U.S. Army Cavalry Scouts and the first Oglala Lakota to travel with Col. William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his Wild West throughout the U.S. and Europe. Veterans from the Great Plains Wars chose to offer their services to Colonel "Buffalo Bill" Cody and appreciated that Wild West shows preserved Oglala Lakota heritage during a time when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was intent on promoting Native American assimilation.
In 1883, Blue Horse received national news coverage when the Bureau of Indian Affairs released his letter to the Great Father President Chester A. Arthur respectfully requesting a glass eye. The newspaper accounts of his letter were supportive. "Blue Horse, a good hearted Sioux, respectfully writes President Arthur to send him a glass eye, brown to match the sound one. Blue Horse compares very favorable with the many requests of his white brethren who make requests of the President." Another paper reported:
Blue Horse was one of the first Oglala Lakota to go Wild Westing with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows. Blue Horse accompanied Buffalo Bill Cody on the show's first international trip to London, England on March 31, 1887. The show's entourage crossed the Atlantic in the SS State of Nebraska, and included 297 passengers (97 of them Natives), 18 buffalo, 181 horses, 10 elk, 4 donkeys, 5 longhorns (Texas steers), 2 deer and 10 mules. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was part of the celebration during the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in England, and toured through Birmingham, Salford, and London for five months. The London Courier reported Blue Horse and companions treated to an evening of English hospitality. "Willesden was as it were taken by storm on Sunday last, being invaded by the Indian contingent of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The fact was that Mr. T.B. Jones, of the White Hart Hotel had, as another instance of his great geniality, invited Red Shirt, Blue Horse, Little Bull, Little Chief and Flies Above and about twenty others to an outing to his well-known hostelry, whereabout they might enjoy his bounteous hospitality. In carriage and brake, provided by mine host, these celebrated chiefs, along with their swarthy companions, with faces painted gaily, bedizened and bedangled with feathers and ornaments, and clad in their picturesque garments, accompanied by their chief interpreter, Broncho Bill and other officials, reached the White Heart about half-past 12 o'clock." In 1888, Buffalo Bill had a Dinner Party in New York City. "The Hon. Wm. F. Cody, or as he is more familiarly known, 'Buffalo Bill', gave a watapee at the "Wild West" camp yesterday. The affair was graced by a distinguished party of ladies and gentlemen. To watapee is Sioux for "good eat." Chief Blue Horse was in attendance. "A feature of the repast was rib roast, and the menu also included roast corn, pickles and pumpkin pie." Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show returned to Europe in 1889-1890 and performed in England, France, Italy, and Germany. Blue Horse traveled with Wild West Shows from 1886 and beyond 1904.
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was a unique school, and is considered by some Native Americans like going to Yale, Princeton or Cambridge. In 1879, Blue Horse's son Baldwin Blue Horse, age 12, was in the first group of Oglala Lakota students to arrive at the Carlisle. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was part of the U.S. government's efforts to educate and assimilate Native Americans. In 1888, Blue Horse met with Baldwin Blue Horse at a performance of Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Baldwin ("Bali") could not speak Lakota and Blue Horse could not speak English, and an interpreter was called to enable them to converse.
On March 2, 1889, just months before North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, Congress passed an Act which partitioned the Great Sioux Reservation and created five smaller reservations. Blue Horse, Red Cloud and other Oglala Lakota leaders spoke against the Act and refused to sign the bill. Red Cloud referred to provisions of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), arguing that the terms had not been fulfilled, and that payment for what was due must be made before giving up more land. In response, General George Crook disparaged Red Cloud and threatened that the Indians will be swallowed like little fish by the whites unless they agreed to sign the bill. Red Cloud was enraged and asked the Indians who signed the bill and the Commissioners to leave the reservation. Despite the protests and legal arguments of Oglala Lakota leaders, the Great Sioux Reservation was partitioned.
In 1890, there was serious tension at Pine Ridge Agency around the time of the Wounded Knee Massacre. Blue Horse was opposed to the Ghost Dance movement and knew it would bring war and more suffering. Overnight, Pine Ridge Agency had become an armed camp and two twelve-pound cannon were included in the armament. One of the cannon pointed toward the friendly camp of Blue Horse, and Blue Horse sought out Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy, the chief agent of Pine Ridge Agency, to use his influence to have the cannons pointed in another direction. Blue Horse insisted, "There is no trouble in my camp. That big gun might go off and hurt someone." Dr. McGillycuddy went to General John R. Brooke's headquarters and made the request to change the gun position, but General Brooke shrugged off the matter and the cannon remained where it was.
In 1890, Native American historian Charles Alexander Eastman recorded his first meeting with Blue Horse at Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. Eastman reported Blue Horse was his "first caller" at the Pine Ridge Agency and Chief Emeritus of the Wágluȟe Band. "He softly opened the door and stepped in without knocking, in characteristic Indian fashion. After greeting me in Sioux, he promptly produced his credentials, which consisted of well-worn papers that had been given him by various high military officers, from General William Selby Harney to General George Crook, and were dated 1854 to 1877. The old man wanted nothing so much as an audience, and the tales of his exploits served to pass the evening." Eastman recorded that "Blue Horse had been, as he claimed, a friend to the white man, for he was one of the first Sioux U.S. Army Indian Scouts, and also one of the first to cross the ocean with Buffalo Bill."
In 1898, Blue Horse became friends with the noted artist Elbridge Ayer (E.A.) Burbank while he was visiting the Pine Ridge Agency. Burbank painted sitting portraits of the greatest Native American leaders, including Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud and Chief Joseph. Burbank painted more than 1200 portraits of Native Americans from 125 tribes. At the time, Blue Horse was eighty years of age and rode each day on his horse to pose for Burbank, who he called "Son of the Shadow-Maker." Burbank was also an historian and his fond recollections illuminate Blue Horse. "Hardly a day passed without Blue Horse coming to my studio to visit me. He would sit down and smoke a little, short, strong pipe and gossip with the other Indians present; all the time he was talking he would be fanning himself with the wing of a turkey. His face usually was painted red, and he wore all the Indian clothes he had, with a single feather on his head. He was a thorough Indian, and extremely kind-hearted. His principal object in life was to try to make others happy around him." Burbank recorded his stories of Blue Horse.
Blue Horse insisted that Burbank paint four portraits of him. After the first one was finished, Blue Horse's daughter Lizzie Blue Horse was very ill and Blue Horse asked Burbank to his house to see her. Burbank found the girl lying on a pile of blankets dying of consumption and did what he could to comfort her and proposed getting a doctor the next day. But in the morning Blue Horse rode in and said that his daughter had died during the night. As soon as the body was buried, Blue Horse had the house torn down. Blue Horse told Burbank that he would go to a place one hundred miles distant to visit with some other Indians and forget his troubles. Blue Horse asked Burbank to lend him seven dollars to buy calico for one of his daughter's good friends. Burbank told him that he was too poor to buy calico for other people. "Look here, my friend," said Blue Horse, "I want that calico to give to my daughter's friend so that my daughter will be happier in heaven. If you will lend me the money I will pay you by posing for you." Burbank agreed and handed him the seven dollars. Blue Horse said his heart was sick and that he wanted to go to Rosebud, about a hundred miles away, where he could see a different country and new faces that would help him to forget as much as possible his grief. Blue Horse pointed to the position of the sun at nine o'clock in the morning. "In one moon I return," and with his thumb and forefinger Blue Horse made a circle to indicate the sun. Blue Horse returned exactly when he said he would and found Burbank painting the portrait of another subject. The old man pointed his finger at Burbank accusingly. "You lie," he said. Burbank asked him why. "You promised to finish my picture when I came back." Burbank explained that he could not wait but that as soon as he had finished the portrait he was working on he would resume his picture. This satisfied Blue Horse, and Burbank painted three more portraits of him.
Blue Horse invariably dined with Burbank at noon and always had a good appetite. One day, after dinner, Burbank said to Blue Horse: "I notice that you always eat everything in front of you, but you never pass your plate back the second time or ask for another cup of coffee. Why is that? Is it because you cannot eat any more or drink any more coffee. O, yes, he replied, I could eat more, but I thought the twenty-five cents you paid for my dinner was for just what was placed before me. No, I said, the twenty-five cents pays for all you can eat. Hereafter, if one plate is not enough, ask for more, and drink all the coffee you want. All right, he replied, I will. And he did. I also told him to tell his friends this, and suggested that if any white men sitting at his table left anything to eat on their plates before them, that it would be all right for him to gather it up and take it home for his wife and children. It is needless to say that all the Sioux Indians who patronized that hotel afterward got all that was coming to them." One time Blue Horse was in the Indian trader's store with his little niece, who saw something on the shelves that she very much wanted. Blue Horse had no money, so he took off his old moccasins and gave them to the Indian trader in exchange for what the little girl craved and he walked home barefooted.
Blue Horse came to Burbank's studio one hot day, fanning himself with a big turkey wing. "He sat down on my bed and, not noticing, put his hat down on a sheet of sticky flypaper I had placed there. To pull it loose, he grabbed the other end of the flypaper with his other hand, and soon he was tangled up gloriously. Before I could come to his rescue, he had managed to stick the flypaper on his little dog's back. In no time at all, the pup had dashed around the room, attaching himself to first one object, then another. The situation was funny to everybody but Blue Horse. 'Bad Medicine,' he said in disgust."
Chief Blue Horse was known for assisting white men in distress and swore in the presence of the Great Spirit "Wakan Tanka" that his brown hand had never risen to kill a white man. Blue Horse's friend E.A. Burbank reported: "At my hotel in Pine Ridge I chanced to meet a white Indian trader who owned a store about twenty-five miles from the agency. He said that a good many years before a band of Sioux had captured twelve of his comrades and planned to burn them at the stake. Blue Horse, who lived forty miles distant, heard of their intentions and immediately mounted his horse and rode as fast as he could to where the Indians held the whites captive. The trader said he never saw an Indian or a white man work harder than Blue Horse did that day to save the lives of those twelve men, which he was able to accomplish, and from that time on, he said whenever he met Blue Horse he always gave him money and tobacco in recognition of his aid to white men in distress." Blue Horse's Wágluȟe village afterward became noted as a place of refuge for white travelers.
"I am now going to leave you, as it were. I hope to meet you again, and I raise my pipe above my head and say, Great Spirit, I pray be good to my friend, the Son of the Shadow-Maker. Toward the pine trees, north, cold winds, treat him kindly toward the rising sun, east, great sun shine on his lodge early every morning toward the place where the Shadow-Maker lives, south, bless your son toward the land of the setting sun, west, waft on the breezes our friend this way. Lowering my pipe of peace, I say, Kind Mother Earth, when you receive my friend into thy maternal bosom, hold him kindly let the howl of the coyote, the roaring of the bears and mountain lions, the cold blasts of winds swaying the tops of the pine trees be a sweet lullaby to him, that shaketh the hand of your friend."
"After finishing my work in the north, I returned to Pine Ridge, and Blue Horse hastened to visit me as before. I became very much attached to him. When I left he held my hand in both his and shook it warmly. His heart was too full of emotion to speak a word. He realized that the chances were we would never see each other again. He died several years ago."
"The Hunka ceremony was mysterious for the Indians." It was good when the Indians did not know the ways of the white man. It made the Indians like one family. Bad Indians could not become Hunka. It was not the white man's way of teaching. Sometimes many Indians camped together to perform the ceremony. Then there were good times. This was usually in the summer time. The winter was not a good time for the ceremony, because food was not plenty during the winter. When many Indians gathered together for the ceremony, the old men counseled and the young men played games. The women provided plenty to eat. The children were happy and were never hungry. The young people made lover. Many sought a vision, and talked with the spirits. The good spirits attended such gatherings. The bad spirits also come. The Lakotas here practiced this ceremony for many years. It was not always the same. The shamans first learned how to perform it right. These shamans became Oglalas. The other Lakota learned how to perform it from the Oglalas. Other Indians are Hunkas, but they are not full Hunkas like the Oglalas. The young people do not become Hunka now. It is of no use to them. The old people do not pay attention to the Hunka now. The Hunka are not what they were in old times. Some old Indians could perform the ceremony right. An old Indian who wears the gee string and leggings could perform it. He might be afraid to talk like the Indians did before they lived on a reservation. It would not be right to teach the young Indians what was taught to the Hunka in old times. There are some secret things taught to a Hunka. These secrets are not good now. They are not about the spirits. The spirits will not come now. These are the spirits of the skies of the Earth, of the clouds, of the Thunder, of the land of pines, of the coming light of the sunset of the south, of the winds, of the waters, of flying things, of the beasts, of the insects, and of the spider. There are bad spirits also. There are ghosts and the man from the land of the pines. One spirit is stronger than another. One spirit is chief, and can influence all other spirits. These spirits come no more to the Indians of the reservation. It involved things that would not be allowed now. The Oglala did not think these things were wrong, but the white people do. For example a Hunka was taught how to steal horses and steal women from other Indians than Lakota." "White men have their Bible and their Christ to guide them to the life to come. We Indians have our White Cow traditions and brave deeds. Let us wait, my friend, and see who gets there first."
In 1901, Blue Horse attended the Pan-American Exposition, a World's Fair held in Buffalo, New York, from May 1 through November 2, 1901. Blue Horse was one of the major leaders of Colonel Fred T. Cummins Indian Congress and Wild West Show. Dr. N.W. Wilson, the health officer for the exposition, reported an incident involving Blue Horse and his wife, Council Fire Woman. "One day I found myself suddenly famous among the Indians as a wonder worker fit in rank with the best of their medicine men. The squaw of Blue Horse tumbled over in a faint one afternoon and she was carried into her tepee. The Indians said she was dead. I applied restoratives and in a little while she was alright. Now Blue Horse is a big civil chief in the Sioux Nation, and his wife is of some consequence in Sioux society. So when the Indians saw her come back to life after apparent death, they gave me credit for having worked a miracle. Blue Horse himself believed it and circulated the story." Blue Horse was so grateful that Dr. Wilson was conferred an honorary degree of medicine man and given the name of "He-Wakes-Them-Up" in a great ceremony at the council house.
The Pan-American Exposition of 1901 is most remembered because President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, at the Temple of Music on September 6, 1901. McKinley died eight days later. On Sunday morning, September 15, 1901, President McKinley's casket was closed and the honor guard placed the casket into a hearse. Close behind the followed President Theodore Roosevelt with Secretary Elihu Root and other members of the Cabinet following. The procession moved through a vast throng to the Buffalo City Hall where the body, lying in state, was viewed by one hundred and fifty thousand people. Toward the end of the afternoon, Indians from the exposition, in their blankets and feathers, followed by their squaws filed by. The Indians liked President McKinley and they had come to see the Great Father. A few hours before they had sent a wreath of purple astors accompanied by the inscription: "Farewell of Geronimo, Blue Horse, Flat Iron and Red Shirt and the seven hundred braves of the Cummins Indian Congress and Wild West Show. Like President Lincoln and Garfield, President McKinley never abused authority except on the side of mercy. The martyred Great White Chief will stand in memory next to the Savior of mankind. We loved him living, we love him still." As the Indians passed, each of them dropped a white carnation upon the President's coffin.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the "St. Louis World's Fair", was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904. Blue Horse joined Colonel Cummins' Wild West Indian Congress and Rough Riders of the World and made public appearances at the Exposition. Blue Horse regularly rode the giant observation Ferris Wheel, and at age of 82 and to the delight of the crowds, ascended the sky above in a captive air balloon.
On January 28, 1904, Blue Horse requested employment as a Show Indian for the St. Louis World's Fair. Initially, S.M. McCowan of the Department of Anthropology replied to Blue Horse that he had no use for him and that it was not the purpose of the government to expend money bringing large numbers of "old Indians" to the Exposition. McCowan discouraged Indians he did not consider educated from speaking or attending the Congress of Indian Educators and distanced himself from anyone who worked in Wild West Shows. However, McCowan made eventually made exceptions to the best-known Native American orators at the St. Louis World's Fair, Blue Horse and Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota, both eighty-three years old, and they were asked to speak at the 1904 Congress of Indian Educators. Their interpreter was Henry Standing Soldier, an educated man who had been a participant in the 1901 Pan American Exposition Wild West Show. Anthropologists lectured and educated Indians held congresses, while Indian students staged band concerts, dance exhibitions, dramatic presentations and marched in parades.
On June 18, 1904, there was an incident when cowboys in the Colonel Cummins' Wild West Indian Congress and Rough Riders of the World snapped their revolvers in the faces of the Indians as an act of disrespect. "An 'indignation meeting' was held by 750 Indians presided over by Blue Horse and Geronimo, and they notified the management that if problems were not addressed vengeance would be handed out." By September 1904, relations between the Indians and the Cummins Show had much improved.
Blue Horse passed to the "Sand Hills" at the Pine Ridge Agency in 1908 at the age of 87. Blue Horse's epitaph was reported by E.A. Burbank in Blue Horse's final letter to the Son of the Shadow-Maker. "If you ever in your travels should meet my Great Father "Wakan Tanka", please ask him to remember Blue Horse."
Joseph Blue Horse, the son of Baldwin Blue Horse, attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from November 1916 through August 1918, and was a bugler and a member of the debating society. In August 1918, he was transferred to the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, when Carlisle closed. Joseph Blue Horse was a friend of Major Israel McCreight of Du Bois, Pennsylvania, and full time resident of The Wigwam for three years. A veteran of World War I, Blue Horse joined Miller Brothers 101 Ranch and for many years he was billed as "The World's Champion Rider". Later, Blue Horse performed as a musician with the show. During his years at The Wigwam, Blue Horse preferred a traditional tipi to a bedroom in the home and was known affectionately as "Teddy". Joseph Blue Horse assisted McCreight with estate duties and frequently visited local schools talking to children about Oglala Lakota heritage, singing songs and performing stunts.


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Three Silver Cups
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1959
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- Robert Hecht
Three silver cups with repousse decoration and traces of gilding.
Each has an outer skin and separately-made inner liner. Two are a pair, covered with elaborate flora and fauna. The third depicts the story of Orestes andIphigeneia (from a lost play by Sophocles).
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Acid is a damage type most commonly dealt by jellies and acidic dragonkind, which can be resisted with corrosion resistance. Most types of acid damage can apply a temporary corrosion status, which lowers your AC and slaying.
Sources of Acid
Acidic damage can come from several sources:
Acidic Melee Attacks
The following monsters have acidic melee attacks, which deal acid damage and may apply corrosion:
J Jelly
Acid Spit
The following monsters can spit acid as a ranged attack, which bypasses AC and may incur corrosion:
P Oklob sapling: 3d7 (3d3)
P Oklob plant: 3d7 (3d6)
D Acid dragon:
J Acid blob: 3d7
d Yellow draconian: 3d7
Acidic Flesh
Some monsters have acidic flesh and will deal acid damage when attacked at close range:
J Jelly
Slime Walls
Standing next to the walls of the Slime Pits will cause players and non-jelly monsters to take damage, although it does not cause the corrosion status.
Worshipers of Jiyva are unaffected by slime walls.
Corrosion Resistance
Corrosion resistance reduces damage taken from acid and reduces the chance of being further corroded.
The sources of Corrosion resistance are:
- being a yellow draconian
- Ring of resist corrosion
- Acid dragon scales
- Tiamat's dragonskin cloak (50% chance per attack)
- Having the yellow scales mutation at level 3
- Having at least ** piety while following Jiyva
Damage Reduction
Players with corrosion resistance take 50% damage from acid. All monsters with any degree of acid resistance are completely immune to acid damage.
Corrosion is a temporary status effect which gives a stackable -4 to slaying and AC for as long as it lasts. Corrosion will be repaired after enough turns have passed. It can also be removed with Potion of cancellation or Purple Draconian's breath aimed at yourself.
In addition to taking acid damage, players may also suffer corrosion from these sources:
- The Entropic Weave spell of p Entropy weavers
- Taking damage when wearing an artefact with the *Corrode property.
Monsters that have been corroded simply get a temporary -8 to their AC.
Prior to 0.15, corrosion instead caused permanent damage to weapons and armor, reducing their enchantment values, possibly into the negatives. Also, potions of resistance did not grant rAcid or rCorr. There were previously three tiers of acid resistance, each one further reducing acid damage; now there is only one level which is merged with corrosion resistance.


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Madonna's most recent musical effort MDNA, is the first since she decided to part ways with her old record company, Warner Brothers. This new album is also her first with new label Interscope. It's hard to put a tag on it, after almost 30 years in the recording business, Madonna has delivered one of her most eclectic and personal albums. Even Bedtime Stories, that featured many different producers had a consistent flow, but MDNA deliberately shifts from one genre to another effortlessly, and I think that's where its richness resides because after all, Madonna has been continuosly changing musical styles throughout her career, so MDNA or Madonna's DNA as I interpret it, it's a fantastic title for this album.
MDNA has received favorable reviews from music critics, highlighting it as her best work since Ray of light, although some of the most negative reviews found the album desperate, calculated and cliched. It's true that Madonna doesn't want to follow the easy route of other adult contemporary female artists, and she's currently redefining the looks and behaviour for a 50 year old woman, and in this respect, I think she's ahead of her time. Many people find this kind of behaviour wrong for a woman of her age, but I give her props for sticking to what she wants to do and for basically giving the middle finger to society.
Madonna has been criticized this time also for not properly promoting the album. For the first time she did alternative promotion as facebook and twitter chats, and only one televised performance at the Superbowl. She avoided doing the TV show rounds and even the mini promotional tours she had done with past releases. As a result MDNA hasn't yet delivered a global smash hit and is currently falling fast on the charts.
On the bright side, MDNA hit number one on Billboard on its debut week with sales of 359,ooo copies, and it's her 8th number one album in the USA. Whether or not MDNA can develop some legs with further releases and the soon-to-begin MDNA Tour, it ranks as one of Madonna's most interesting albums, showing that after all this time she still has a lot of expressing herself to do.
Worldwide positions & Sales
Argentina: #1
Australia: #1 (Gold)
Austria: #3
Belgium (Flanders: #1
Belgium (Wallonia): #3
Brazil: #1 (Platinum)
Canada: #1
Croatia: #1
Czech republic: #1
Denmark: #2
Finland: #1
France: #2
Germany: #3 (Gold)
Greece: #1
Hong Kong: #1
Hungary: #1
India: #1 (Gold)
Ireland: #1
Israel: #1
Italy: #1 (Gold)
Japan: #4 (Gold)
Lebanon: #1
Mexico: #1
Netherlands: #1
New Zealand: #3
Norway: #2
Poland: #1
Portugal: #2 (Gold)
Russia: #1 (2xPlatinum)
Scotland: #1
Singapore: #1
Slovenia: #7
South Korea: #4
Spain: #1 (Gold)
Sweden: #1
Switzerland: #2
Taiwan: #6
Thailand: #1
Producers: Madonna/William Orbit/Martin Solveig/Alle & Benny Benassi/
Demolition Crew/Indiigo/Klas Åhlund
1. GIRL GONE WILD (Madonna/Jenson Vaughan/Alle & Benny Benassi)
2. GANGBANG (Madonna/William Orbit/Priscilla Hamilton/Keith Harris/Jean-Baptiste/Mika/Stephen Kozmeniuk)
3. I'M ADDICTED (Madonna/Alle & Benny Benassi)
4. TURN UP THE RADIO (Madonna/Martin Solveig/Michael Tordjman/Jade Williams)
5. GIVE ME ALL YOUR LUVIN Feat. NICKI MINAJ & M.I.A. (Madonna/Martin Solveig/Nicki Minaj/M.I.A./Michael Tordjman)
6. SOME GIRLS (Madonna/William Orbit/Klas Åhlund)
7. SUPERSTAR (Madonna/Indiigo/Michael Malih)
8. I DON'T GIVE A Feat. NICKI MINAJ (Madonna/Martin Solveig/Nicki Minaj/Julien Jabre)
9. I'M A SINNER (Madonna/William Orbit/Jean-Baptiste)
10. LOVE SPENT (Madonna/William Orbit/Jean-Baptiste/Hamilton/Ryan Buendia/Michael McHenry/Alain Whyte)
11. MASTERPIECE (Madonna/Julie Frost/Jimmy Harry)
12. FALLING FREE ( Madonna/William Orbit/Joe Henry/Laurie Mayer/
13. BEAUTIFUL KILLER (Madonna/Martin Solveig/Michael Tordjman)*
14. I FUCKED UP (Madonna/Martin Solveig/Julien Jabre)*
15. B-DAY SONG Feat. M.I.A. (Madonna/Martin Solveig/M.I.A.)*
16. BEST FRIEND (Madonna/Alle & Benny Benassi)*
17. GIVE ME ALL YOUR LUVIN (PARTY ROCK REMIX) Feat. NICKI MINAJ & LMFAO (Madonna/Martin Solveig/Nicki Minaj/M.I.A./Michael Tordjman)*
18. LOVE SPENT (ACOUSTIC) (Madonna/William Orbit/Jean-Baptiste/Hamilton/Ryan Buendia/Michael McHenry/Alain Whyte)**
* Available in the Deluxe Edition
** I-Tunes pre-order only
US Chart Run:
Release date: March 23, 2012
Debut date: April 14, 2012
Debut position: #1
Peak position: #1 (1 week)
Final week on chart: June 9, 2012
Number of weeks on Billboard 200: 9 weeks
Soundscan Debut: 359,369
Soundscan sales: 484,000 (07/10/2012)
Not certified yet
Chart run in 2012: 1-8-18-34-45-65-77-81-105-off (9 weeks)
TOP CURRENT ALBUMS: 1-8-18-33-43-60-72-76-94-154-168-196-off-167- (13 weeks)
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This is an old article written by Guido van van Rossum himself. Occasionally people ask me about the origins of my nickname BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life). At some point, Wikipedia claimed it was from a Monty Python skit, which is patently false, although it has sometimes been called a Pythonesque title. I recently trawled through an old mailbox of mine, and found a message from 1995 that pinpoints the origin exactly. I'm including the entire message here, to end any doubts that the term originated in the Python community.
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – A San Bernardino man who stabbed and killed his wife was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison today.
In Nov. 2017, a jury found 56-year-old Duane Magee guilty of Second Degree Murder and found true a knife allegation. The charges stem from a Sept. 2012 incident in which the defendant stabbed his wife 24 times because they were having marital problems.
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Before becoming a famous painter, Bob was a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. While stationed in Alaska, Bob was working as a part-time bartender. He discovered the TV show, The Magic Of Oil Painting, hosted by Germain painter Bill Alexander. Bob studied with Alexander, and discovered he could earn more money selling his artwork. Bob retired from the military after twenty years of service. He became famous for creating and hosting the TV program The Joy Of Painting.
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