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The New York City home and offices of former hedge fund manager Julian H. Robertson were targeted by protest groups in a series of simultaneous direct actions in early May. Robertson is ranked No. 512 on Forbes' list of "the world's billionaires" with a reported net worth of $3.4 billion. "Robertson is making a killing off of people with Hep C," read one sign.
Julian Robertson & @GileadSciences prohibitively priced #HepC Meds at $1000 per pill. Literally making a killing pic.twitter.com/xXQYOrpuvc— Hedge Clippers (@GoHedgeClippers) May 5, 2015
The protests targeted high profile hedge fund investors who have reaped substantial profits from the California-based pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences. Hedge Clippers, a coalition of labor, community and social justice groups including VOCAL-NY, seeks to draw links between hedge funds and income inequality, mass imprisonment, climate change, health disparities, and other challenges. Gilead has been targeted because of what has been called "exorbitant" pricing for its groundbreaking new class of drugs that can cure hepatitis C virus (HCV), such as Sovaldi, and the enormous profits they have generated.
BlackRock reaping MILLIONS from #HepC epidemic. Literally making a killing off of exploiting peoples sickness pic.twitter.com/mrE7F6Fcg2— Hedge Clippers (@GoHedgeClippers) May 5, 2015
Clippers here at SAC Capital offices delivering our message. We will not sit idly by while Cohen profits from sick pic.twitter.com/UDXdTUh2sw— Hedge Clippers (@GoHedgeClippers) May 5, 2015
HCV infection "is the most common chronic blood borne infection in the United States [and] approximately 3.2 million persons are chronically infected," according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). About 150 million people around the globe are living with HCV -- disproportionately the poor, uninsured and incarcerated -- which in its advanced stages can cause cirrhosis or liver cancer.
Coinfection with HCV is a significant challenge among people living with HIV in the United States. About 25 percent of the estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV in the U.S. are coinfected.
A surge in heroin and injectable opioid drug use across the country -- particularly in rural areas -- has fueled an increase in HCV cases. More Americans now die from HCV complications than HIV, according to a 2012 report from the CDC.
Until recently, the standard treatment for HCV infections usually lasted almost one year. The regimen included weekly injections of interferon -- a synthetic version of a protein that "stimulates the immune system to neutralize or destroy" the virus -- and were often accompanied by flu-like side effects. Many people could not tolerate the side effects and were forced to interrupt treatment, which allowed the infection to progress.
The new class of antiviral medications has revolutionized treatment. Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) has demonstrated a higher cure rate, fewer side effects and a drastically reduced duration for therapy. The price for the 12-week course is about $84,000 or about $1,000 per pill. Gilead's manufacturing cost is reportedly less than $200 per pill. Gilead's newer combination pill, Harvoni, approved in October 2014, adds a second drug, ledipasvir, that improves effectiveness for treating HCV genotype 1 -- the most common strain of HCV in the United States, Japan and Europe. It costs $94,500 for the eight-week course. The Fair Pricing Coalition, a consortium of HIV and viral hepatitis activists, has proposed a uniform "price per cure" for all HCV patients based on an eight-week cost of $63,000.
.@GileadSciences bought #HepC patent for $1B. This year they have already gouged $13B from those in need of meds. Mark up of over 1000%!!— Hedge Clippers (@GoHedgeClippers) May 5, 2015
Sovaldi's pricing has become a bonanza for Gilead and its investors. Gilead sold $10.3 billion of Sovaldi in 2014, "a figure that brought it close to being the best-selling drug in the world in only its first year on the market," reported The New York Times. Sovaldi represented almost half of the pharmaceutical's total sales last year.
"It's fabulous," billionaire Robertson said on CNBC and applauded "the fact that the company would be 'inundated with cash from the profits on the hepatitis C drug,'" according to Hedge Clippers. Robertson and five other prominent hedge fund managers reportedly increased the value of their collective holdings in Gilead from $45 million to $844 million during 2014.
"The sudden huge increase in spending on Sovaldi has strained the budgets of health plans, state Medicaid programs and prison systems," The New York Times reported in February. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) became among the first public agencies to file a class action lawsuit against Gilead for Sovaldi's alleged "price gouging." The Philadelphia public transit system's lawsuit filed in December 2014 claims it spent "at least $2.4 million on Sovaldi for employees and retirees" and that Gilead is "bleeding health and welfare plans around the country."
Gilead says Sovaldi could save money for insurers by preventing people living with HCV from getting sicker and needing more expensive medical care. But critics maintain the pricing of Sovaldi and Harvoni has done just the opposite. "Many resource-constrained programs, such as Medicaid, have only been covering Sovaldi-containing regimens for patients with advanced liver disease," said FPC co-chair Murray Penner, "despite the fact that people with early stages of disease can transmit the virus to others and may suffer health consequences if treatment is delayed."
The pricing controversy has spread beyond the United States. Just a few weeks after the Hedge Clippers took action, the New York City-based Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), which advocates for improved access to affordable medications, filed challenges against Gilead's patent on Sovaldi in Argentina, Brazil, China, Russia and Ukraine. A generic, $10 a pill version of Sovaldi called Incepta is now available in Bangladesh and could be marketed in Southeast Asia, Africa and other developing regions not covered by Gilead's patent. The $900 cost for three months is the same price that Gilead will charge for the drug in India. That's almost a 90 percent reduction in price.
Rod McCullom has written and produced for ABC News and NBC, Scientific American_,_ The Atlantic, Ebony, Poz and many others. He has been selected as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


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The Center of Immunology Pierre Fabre will participate in EORTC-NCI-AACR Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics Symposium 2016.
ADCs (Antibody-Drug Conjugates) make up, with immunotoxins and radio-immunoconjugates, the class of targeted therapeutic agents of immunoconjugates. The concept involves using the specificity of an antibody to target the tumor cell and vectorize a highly toxic agent that is associated with it. The cytotoxic agent is chemically coupled to the antibody through the intermediary which will allow, after internalization, the release of an active form inside the targeted cell. Depending on their natures and mechanisms of actions, several molecules of the same drug can be conjugated by antibodies.


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1. Re: EZ-serial throughputjeffr_71 Jun 9, 2017 5:36 AM (in response to erlec_2497116)
Hello Eric,
EZ-Serial does not currently support the Data Length Extension of Bluetooth 4.2. This is partly due to RAM availability (I believe it may not be possible to implement on 128k modules with only 16 kB of RAM), and partly due to feature prioritization. At the moment, we do not have immediate plans to add support for it.
Because of the API-based mechanism required to use L2CAP, there is some extra UART packet and processing overhead involved compared to the transparent CYSPP mode, and it will be difficult to beat that throughput. Avoiding errors to reduce this overhead--as you are already doing with delays--will be the best approach. The errors come directly from the BLE stack that EZ-Serial uses, so there's no practical way to avoid them otherwise.


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April 17, 2019
April 17th, 2019
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ,
Thank you once again for your loyal support and the vision you have, recognizing this Work is worthy of your support. Those of you who fellowship with us in person know that we are imperfect human beings, but nevertheless, are also individuals called by our Creator at the end of this age to do something unique.
We are to preach a message of hope, the true Gospel of the coming Kingdom of God to a troubled world. We must also warn this world of what is surely coming upon it, the greatest crisis ever known—what the Bible refers to as the Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord, which will descend upon rebellious mankind. Now I understand that for some, this may appear a bit unrealistic, even fantastically over the top, but is it?
Jesus Christ walked this earth some 2,000 years ago. That is a historical fact. He claimed to be the Savior of mankind who would pay the penalty for our sins and "live His life in us" through His Spirit. How could He do this? If He were an ordinary man, He might pay the penalty for one other person, but no more than one. However, as Creator, His life was worth more than all our lives put together. So how can we know whether His claim of being Emmanuel, God with us, is true?
Whole books are written on this subject but let me remind you of a few indisputable facts. There is a scroll in Israel, discovered in an earthen jar in a cave overlooking the Dead Sea. This scroll is dated somewhere between 150 and 100 BC, long before the coming of Christ, and is the centerpiece of the "Shrine of the Book" in Jerusalem. It describes in amazing detail the first coming of the Messiah. Please read it for yourself in Isaiah 52:13 through 53:12. It is a remarkable prophecy. But there are so many other predictions found in the Hebrew scriptures of One who was to come as our Savior.
This is only one reason why we need to take Jesus' words seriously, for He foretold events for our very day. He accurately stated that we would come to the place where all flesh could be destroyed (Matthew 24:3, 21-22), something not possible, and frankly, not imaginable, until the latter half of the last century. However, He will come again, this time not as a Lamb led to the slaughter, but as a conquering King to save mankind from itself (Revelation 11:15; 19:11-16; 20:4).
He also proclaimed an event that would take place before the end: "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come" (Matthew 24:14). Notice that it specifies what that Gospel (good news) is. It is about the Kingdom of God, and this is NOT the same message preached in today's professing Christianity. Not only is Jesus the One who came to pay the penalty for our sins, but He is also the King of a coming divine family and government that will rule over this earth. Abundant evidence of this is found in detail in both the Old and New Testaments. This was the message of His parables (Luke 13:18-29), the message He said He came to preach (Luke 4:42-43), the message His followers understood He proclaimed (Luke 19:11), and the message His apostles taught (Acts 28:23, 31). The subject is so large and covered in such detail in Scripture that I don't have space to explain it all in this letter. If you have not already read our booklet, Do you Believe the True Gospel? I encourage you to do so, and if you haven't read it recently, I encourage you to review it again. If you need a copy, let us know and we will be happy to send you one absolutely free of charge.
In addition to preaching the true Gospel of the Kingdom of God, we have a responsibility to warn, primarily the Israelite nations, but also the whole world of what is to come (Ezekiel 33:1-7). Note that this passage in Ezekiel is not for the Jews, but for "the house of Israel," who were taken into captivity more than a hundred years earlier. This warning was for the future, our time today. We are also told that if we see someone stumbling to the slaughter, we have a responsibility to hold him back or God will hold us accountable (Proverbs 24:11-12). Do we not see a world on the brink of disaster?
Dear brethren and co-workers, our world is in trouble. At best, most people in North America only hear bits and pieces of news regarding what is happening in Europe, and what happens there has great significance for those of us on this side of the Atlantic. Remember that we were drawn into two world wars on the European continent in the last century.
While the United States frets over a migration from Central America, and Congress is paralyzed to act, or better stated, refuses to act, there is a crisis in Europe that few Americans and Canadians understand. The entire European "experiment" is unraveling, and the consequences may lead to the resurrection of the end-time Beast of Revelation. Our minister and correspondent in England, Mr. John Meakin, recently described the Brexit part of the crisis this way:
This Telegraph article ["Brexit Delay," 10 April 2019] is exceptional for Philip Johnston's fascinating examination of [British Prime Minister] Mrs. May's mindset. She is being controlled by her Mandarins, especially her all powerful Cabinet Secretary (Johnston calls it "the deep state"). He points out the historical precedent going back to Henry 8th and the French. "You don't mess with good European relations".
Whichever way things go, it all points to a constitutional crisis. This is 2019 not the 1500s and there is a lot more at stake. The will of the people versus the will of the elite. The main parties could both end up as "toast" in their current form. The EU elections in June could see the strongest protest by the U.K. electorate. The Brits will want to be as disruptive as they can be. The Tory Party is expected to be crushed!
All this seems to be playing out to our prophetic rule book. A chronically weak U.K. is foundering on a German (and French) led EU. Mrs. May is "begging" her way around Europe (the Telegraph's term) and looking to Germany for help (our Hosea King Jareb scenario all over). Remarkable!
What Mr. Meakin refers to in his last paragraph is the prophecy in Hosea 5:13 that members of the Living Church of God have considered for decades: "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb; yet he cannot cure you, nor heal you of your wound." Note the contrast between Ephraim [the leading tribe of the house of Israel] and Judah [the house of Judah, the Jews]. Knowing the identity of these ancient nations is critical to understanding prophecies in their end-time context. The British-descended nations are Ephraim and Germany is the nation of Assyria. The result of Brexit is that the European Union, led primarily by Germany, has Britain over the barrel and has thus far made it impossible for Britain to leave the union without retaining the very burdens they want to get away from, but at the same time losing all influence to alter EU policies that affect them. Thus, the "begging" tour by Mrs. May. We are watching a great historic event in real time!
How God will use us to preach the true Gospel to "all the nations" and to warn the Israelite nations and the world of the disaster on our doorstep due to our rejection of God, we do not yet know—but it will be done, and our Creator no doubt will bring His Church to prominence in His own way and at His own time. Nevertheless, we are encouraged by the fact that we are beginning to gain traction with our telecasts and other initiatives. In the last six months, we have seen several telecasts and other video efforts "go viral" in English, Spanish, and now in French. Our Spanish YouTube channel has now surpassed 18 million views, and our French-language YouTube channel Le Monde de Demain has surpassed 10,000 subscribers. The French telecast Sept signes identifiant l'Antéchrist ("Seven Signs of the Antichrist") has received nearly 600,000 views. We have a long way to go, but this is encouraging, and you make it possible. These are 28-minute Tomorrow's World telecast videos, so this indicates commitment on the part of the viewers. These responses are in addition to our worldwide television audience.
Five- to seven-minute Viewpoint videos have also done amazingly well. "Do Schools Discriminate Against Boys?" has surpassed 617,000 views, and almost all of these are young males, many still in high school. Our challenge is to know how to turn them to the biblical message now that we have their attention. "Where Did the Celts Come From?"—which advertises our booklet The United States and Great Britain in Prophecy—has exceeded 440,000 views.
All this is possible because of your support. Thank you for the faith you have in what God is doing through us. Every one of you is important, appreciated, and valued on the team. Thank you for your support!
Sincerely, in Christ's service,
Gerald E. Weston


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The Post House, West Tilbury.
© Copyright David Anstiss contributor to the Geograph Project and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
History of West Tilbury >> Post Office Directory 1874
If you wish to trace any of these people on the census returns, he nearest census date for this 1874 directory is the 1871 census.
Note: the directory lists the names in the following order: Surname, First Name. It also abbreviates names. These have been reversed and typed in full to assist research.
My ancestor lived here at this time, but why aren't they listed here? Answer: Not everyone appeared in a trade directory. Please read our Trade Directories article.
You should also consider newspaper archives. With millions of pages now online, there is always the possibility of finding articles featuring your ancestors. Discover how to explore newspaper archives.
Samuel Stock, parish clerk
Rev. James Dobree, M.A., rector
Samuel Walter Poynter
John Bland, farmer
Robert Capon, shoe maker
William Harris, baker
William Hart, grocer
Jospeh James, miller and farmer
Major John Ellis, farmer
William Newing, King's Head
James Sawall, farmer
William Springett, beer retailer
John Such, blackmsith
Edward Travis, wheelwright
John Wright, farmer
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The Essex Record Office 'ERO' are custodians of the parish registers of Essex. Ancestry.co.uk have now transcribed the entire collection of Essex parish registers. Search now on Ancestry for your Essex ancestors. Then on the results page click on 'request image' and you will be taken to the ERO website where you can purchase an image of the relevant page.
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Newspaper archives are now a very important source of information for researching your family tree.
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West Tilbury - Cary's New and Correct English Atlas, 1798
West Tilbury - First Series Ordnance Survey Map 1805
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The Picasa .pmp formatPosted by Unknown at 1:03 PM
I recently needed to dig into Picasa's internal databases to get some information that it appeared to store only there, and not finding the answer on the interwebs, here are my notes about their format. Please do let me know if you have more information about this file format.
The notes are for the Mac OS, Picasa version 188.8.131.522.
The database files are found under
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Picasa3/db3
on the Macs, and there are equivalent locations on other platforms. Under here are a set of files with a .pmp suffix, which are the database files.
[BTW: The files with the .db suffix just hold thumbnails of various groups of images. They are in the standard windows thumbs.db format, and here's a link that has more useful information about this format.]
Each .pmp file represents a field in a table, and the table is identified by a common prefix as follows:
$ ls -1 catdata_* catdata_0 catdata_catpri.pmp catdata_name.pmp catdata_state.pmp
The file with the _0 suffix is a marker file to identify the table, and each .pmp file sharing that prefix is a field for that table. For instance, catdata_state.pmp contains records for the field state in the table catdata, and so forth.
All files start with the four magic bytes: 0xcd 0xcc 0xcc 0x3f
The marker files (ie, files that end in _0) only contain the magic bytes.
The pmp file is in little-endian format rather than the usual network byte/big-endian format.
There are several areas where I just see constants -- I don't know the purpose of these and I'll list them out. Please note: all values are presented in little-endian format, so if you hex-dump a file, you should see the bytes reversed.
4bytes: magic: 0x3fcccccd
2bytes: field-type: unsigned short.
2bytes: 0x1332 -- constant.
4bytes: 0x00000002 -- constant.
2bytes: field-type: unsigned short -- identical with field-type above.
2bytes: 0x1332 -- constant.
4bytes: number-of-entries: unsigned int.
Following the header are "number-of-entries" records, whose format depends on the field-type. The field-type values are:
0x0: null-terminated strings. I haven't tested how (if at all) it can store unicode.
0x1: unsigned integers, 4 bytes.
0x2: dates, 8 bytes as a double. The date is represented in Microsoft's Variant Time format. The 8 bytes are a double, and the value is the number of days from midnight Dec 30, 1899. Fractional values are fractions of a day, so for instance, 3.25 represents 6:00 A.M. on January 2, 1900. While negative values are legitimate in the Microsoft format and indicates days prior to Dec 30, 1899, the Picasa user interface currently prevents dates older than Dec 31, 1903 from being used.
0x3: byte field, 1 unsigned byte.
0x4: unsigned long, 8bytes.
0x5: unsigned short, 2bytes.
0x6: null-terminated string. (possibly csv strings?)
0x7: unsigned int, 4 bytes.
The entities are indexed by their record number in each file. Ie, fetching the 7273'rd record in all files named imagedata_*pmp gives information about the fields for entity #7273 in the imagedata table.
You might expect every "field file" for a given table to contain the same number of records, but this is not always the case. I expect the underlying library returns the equivalent of undefined when fetching fields for a record beyond the "end" of any given field file.
Finally, a small java program to dump out whatever information I've gathered thus far. Compile, and run against a set of .pmp files.
Here is a sample run.
$ javac -g -d . Read.java $ java Read "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Picasa3/db3/catdata_name.pmp" /Users/kbs/Library/Application Support/Google/Picasa3/db3/catdata_name.pmp:type=0 nentries: 10 [0] Labels [1] Projects (internal) [2] Folders on Disk [3] iPhoto Library [4] Web Albums [5] Web Drive [6] Exported Pictures [7] Other Stuff [8] Hidden Folders [9] People
And here's the code.
import java.io.*; import java.util.*; public class Read { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { for (int i=0;i <args.length; i++) { doit(args[i]); } } private final static void doit(String p) throws Exception { DataInputStream din = new DataInputStream (new BufferedInputStream (new FileInputStream(p))); dump(din, p); din.close(); } private final static void dump(DataInputStream din, String path) throws Exception { // header long magic = readUnsignedInt(din); if (magic != 0x3fcccccd) { throw new IOException("Failed magic1 "+Long.toString(magic,16)); } int type = readUnsignedShort(din); System.out.println(path+":type="+Integer.toString(type, 16)); if ((magic=readUnsignedShort(din)) != 0x1332) { throw new IOException("Failed magic2 "+Long.toString(magic,16)); } if ((magic=readUnsignedInt(din)) != 0x2) { throw new IOException("Failed magic3 "+Long.toString(magic,16)); } if ((magic=readUnsignedShort(din)) != type) { throw new IOException("Failed repeat type "+ Long.toString(magic,16)); } if ((magic=readUnsignedShort(din)) != 0x1332) { throw new IOException("Failed magic4 "+Long.toString(magic,16)); } long v = readUnsignedInt(din); System.out.println("nentries: "+v); // records. if (type == 0) { dumpStringField(din,v); } else if (type == 0x1) { dump4byteField(din,v); } else if (type == 0x2) { dumpDateField(din,v); } else if (type == 0x3) { dumpByteField(din, v); } else if (type == 0x4) { dump8byteField(din, v); } else if (type == 0x5) { dump2byteField(din,v); } else if (type == 0x6) { dumpStringField(din,v); } else if (type == 0x7) { dump4byteField(din,v); } else { throw new IOException("Unknown type: "+Integer.toString(type,16)); } } private final static void dumpStringField(DataInputStream din, long ne) throws IOException { for (long i=0; i<ne; i++) { String v = getString(din); System.out.println("["+i+"] "+v); } } private final static void dumpByteField(DataInputStream din, long ne) throws IOException { for (long i=0; i<ne; i++) { int v = din.readUnsignedByte(); System.out.println("["+i+"] "+v); } } private final static void dump2byteField(DataInputStream din, long ne) throws IOException { for (long idx=0; idx<ne; idx++) { int v = readUnsignedShort(din); System.out.println("["+idx+"] "+v); } } private final static void dump4byteField(DataInputStream din, long ne) throws IOException { for (long idx=0; idx<ne; idx++) { long v = readUnsignedInt(din); System.out.println("["+idx+"] "+v); } } private final static void dump8byteField(DataInputStream din, long ne) throws IOException { int[] bytes = new int[8]; for (long idx=0;idx<ne; idx++) { for (int i=0; i<8; i++) { bytes[i] = din.readUnsignedByte(); } System.out.print("["+idx+"] "); for (int i=7; i>=0; i--) { String x = Integer.toString(bytes[i],16); if (x.length() == 1) { System.out.print("0"); } System.out.print(x); } System.out.println(); } } private final static void dumpDateField(DataInputStream din, long ne) throws IOException { int[] bytes = new int[8]; for (long idx=0;idx<ne; idx++) { long ld = 0; for (int i=0; i<8; i++) { bytes[i] = din.readUnsignedByte(); long tmp = bytes[i]; tmp <<= (8*i); ld += tmp; } System.out.print("["+idx+"] "); for (int i=7; i>=0; i--) { String x = Integer.toString(bytes[i],16); if (x.length() == 1) { //System.out.print("0"); } //System.out.print(x); } //System.out.print(" "); double d = Double.longBitsToDouble(ld); //System.out.print(d); //System.out.print(" "); // days past unix epoch. d -= 25569d; long ut = Math.round(d*86400l*1000l); System.out.println(new Date(ut)); } } private final static String getString(DataInputStream din) throws IOException { StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(); int c; while((c = din.read()) != 0) { sb.append((char)c); } return sb.toString(); } private final static int readUnsignedShort(DataInputStream din) throws IOException { int ch1 = din.read(); int ch2 = din.read(); if ((ch1 | ch2) < 0) throw new EOFException(); return ((ch2<<8) + ch1<<0); } private final static long readUnsignedInt(DataInputStream din) throws IOException { int ch1 = din.read(); int ch2 = din.read(); int ch3 = din.read(); int ch4 = din.read(); if ((ch1 | ch2 | ch3 | ch4) < 0) throw new EOFException(); long ret = (((long)ch4)<<24) + (((long)ch3)<<16) + (((long)ch2)<<8) + (((long)ch1)<<0); return ret; } }
20 comments:
thanks for your great work!
i have adopted your code to use it in order to get a complete record: ReadPicasaDBrow.java (sorry, could not post it to the comment as it would exceed the allowed characters limit).
use it as follows:
$ java ReadPicasaDBrow PathToPicasaDBdir TableName ZeroBasedRecordNumber
e.g. like
$ java ReadPicasaDBrow "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Picasa3/db3" catdata 5
Unknown said...
Awesome work! Do you have any idea how these records map to an actual filename? For instance, if I look at imagedata_tags.pmp and see a line like this:
[27725] vacation,friends
do you know how I'd figure out what actual file path the 27725 record is pointing to with those tags?
It's really late so I may be overlooking something simple but I have been poking around a bit and haven't found it.
Jonathan Dean said...
Great explanation! Thanks to your article and some additional reading, I figured out how to link each image from the pmp files to its filename (information in thumbindex.db) and the corresponding face album (if a face is present in the image).
I reused some of your code for my program: http://skisoo.com/blog/en/2013/how-to-read-picasa-3-9-database-and-extract-faces/
skisoo said...
Hi - I'm wondering if you can help. I read elsewhere that I could access the catname.pmp file to remove categories from the drop down list that I no longer needed. I copied the original elsewhere for safety and opened the .pmp with notepad. The changes I wanted were not reflected. I then pasted the original back into app data folder (windows 7) but now it doesn't know what to open it with? When I right click/properties/ it says it opens with notepad. I changed that to open with picasa.exe but all of my categories in picasa now read as 'other stuff'?
How do I get picasa to read this table properly again? Any help is appreciated!
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In response to Jonathan Dean's question (it's an old question, but on the off chance he's still interested, or if someone else has the same question):
See the great page skisoo wrote and gave the URL for, in a comment above.
Excerpt from skisoo's page ( http://skisoo.com/blog/en/2013/how-to-read-picasa-3-9-database-and-extract-faces/ ):
"This information is held in the file thumbindex.db. This file contains the whole list of folders and files indexed inside the Picasa database. the line x in thumbindex.db file will correspond to the same image as the line x in the table imagedata."
(The only slight simplification there is that the file first lists, on a few separate lines, the directories.)
See also http://projects.mindtunnel.com/picasa3meta/docs/picasa3meta.thumbindex.ThumbIndex-class.html (which skisoo's page directed me to).
Jacob Cappell said...
Thank you for this excellent work!
Do you know which file(s) contain the Folder Manager paths (places to watch for image changes)?
I've moved all my pictures to a larger volume and need to repoint Picasa to the new location, without rescanning the whole darn thing (it's several hundred gigabytes).
I'm happy to use change D:\Pictures to X:\Pictures in a hexeditor, I just haven't been able to locate the right places yet.
I thought had it with `repository.dat` but that's not it, or at least not complete.
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09 October 2017: Inmarsat-sponsored Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is providing calls and internet access to families in Dominica who have been cut off from outside communication since category five Hurricane Maria hit on 19 September.
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New Mexico's Young Farmers & Ranchers Program
The New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau's Young Farmers & Ranchers program includes both men and women between the ages of 18 & 35. The objective of the YF&R program is to provide training to young people for leading roles in agriculture, to foster young farmers and ranchers through our industry and to help build a more effective Farm Bureau to preserve our individual freedoms and expand our opportunities in agriculture.
The Young Farmers and Ranchers program offers opportunities in:
· Leader Development and Educational Conferences
· Legislative Awareness
· Networking with other farmers & ranchers across the country
· Involvement in the whole Farm Bureau Program
YF&R's mission is to attract and empower future Farm Bureau and community leaders and increase the interest in agriculture as a way of life. Our committee is designed to facilitate professional development and social networking opportunities among young farmers, ranchersand people who work in agriculture related jobs.
· YF&R Pasture Golf Tournament– Hosted each year in February, the YF&R Pasture Golf Tournament is a one-day event and fundraiser for the program. Featuring ag-inspired challenges, the course is suitable for players of all levels allowing competitors of all ages to enjoy.
· Collegiate & FFA Discussion Meet – Each year at the NMF&LB Annual Meeting the YF&R program hosts a discussion meet for the FFA and Collegiate Farm Bureau Programs. The contest is just like the YF&R Discussion Meet (See "Discussion Meet" below), but with shorter times. Competitors win cash prizes, and the winner of the Collegiate Discussion Meet has the opportunity to compete at the national level.
· Legislative Program – Members of the Young Farmers & Ranchers program become involved in the legislative process by making personal contacts with legislators, representing NMF&LB at AgFest and the Legislative Roundhouse Feed, and hosting Ag Tours for legislators at different times and locations during the year.
· AFBF FUSION Conference – Held every other year, the FUSION Conference brings together volunteer leaders from the Promotion & Education, Women's Leadership and Young Farmers & Ranchers programs. The conference features great guest speakers, breakout sessions and evening events that provide value for people of all ages with a variety of different activities including local tours, Collegiate Discussion Meet, hands-on learning sessions, evening entertainment and more! You'll leave the conference with new friends, new ideas and new energy for your farm/ranch and Farm Bureau. The 2019 Farm Bureau Fusion Conference will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin March 15ththrough the 18th!
· YF&R Leadership Conference – The Leadership Conference focuses specifically on the Young Farmers and Ranchers of Farm Bureau, and features guest speakers, breakout sessions and evening events that cater to this group. The Leadership Conference is a fantastic networking opportunity, as there are YF&R Members from across the nation who attend this conference. This conference also features the Collegiate Discussion Meet, local tours, learning sessions and more! The YF&R Leadership Conference was last held in February of 2018 in Reno, NV. We will update when the next conference is announced!
YF&R Competitive Events:
· Achievement Award– Recognizes Young Farmers & Ranchers who have excelled in their farm or ranch and have honed their leadership abilities. Participants are involved in production agriculture with a majority of their income subject to normal production risks. Judges evaluate competitor's excellence in management, growth and scope of their enterprise and the self-initiative that has been displayed throughout the farm or ranch.
· Excellence in Agriculture Award– Spotlights YF&R members who are agricultural enthusiasts but have not earned a majority of their income from an owned production agriculture enterprise in the past three years. Competitors are evaluated on their understanding of agricultural issues, leadership experiences and achievement, and their ability to communicate their agricultural story.
· Discussion Meet– The American Farm Bureau Federation Discussion Meet simulates a committee meeting where discussion and active participation are expected from each participant. This competition is evaluated on an exchange of ideas and information on a pre-determined topic. Participants build basic discussion skills, develop a keen understanding of important agricultural issues and explore how groups can pool knowledge to reach consensus and solve problems.
· 2019 PRIZES for Achievement Award, Excellence in Ag Award, & Discussion Meet
o 1stPlace – NEW Ford Truck
o 2ndPlace – Case IH Farmall 50A Tractor
o 3rdPlace - Case IH 40" Combination Roll Cabinet & Top Chest, $500 parts card, $2000 of Stanley Black & Decker merchandise.
o 4thPlace - Case IH 40" Combination Roll Cabinet & Top Chest, $500 parts card.
· For more click the link to AFBF's Competitive Events page!
o https://www.fb.org/programs/young-farmers-and-ranchers/competitive-events/
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2019 Committee YF&R Committee
Chair: Andy Ellett – Lake Arthur
Vice Chair: Keith Shafer – Carrizozo
2ndVice Chair/Secretary: Britney Lardner – Albuquerque
Treasurer: KyLee Rice –Las Cruces
District 1 (Colfax, Union, Mora/San Miguel, Harding & Guadalupe Counties): Erin Fuchs – Santa Rosa
District 2 (Quay, De Baca, Roosevelt & Curry Counties): Jeroen van der Ploeg – Clovis
District 3 (Lincoln, Chaves, Lea, Otero & Eddy Counties): Bronson Corn – Roswell
District 4 (Hidalgo, Grant, Sierra, Luna & Doña Ana Counties): Russell Johnson – Columbus
District 5 North (San Juan, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe & Taos Counties): Savannah Trujillo – Ohkay Owingeh
District 5 South (Cibola/McKinley, Bernalillo, Valencia, Torrance, Catron & Socorro Counties): Nicki Jacobs – Edgewood
Staff Contact:
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Bertram HASENAUER draws human figures.They are not invented, but real, although they appear as timeless creatures through the artist´s strongly reduced representation. They do not tell stories, because it is not the artist´s intention to be narrative. On the other hand, the figures appear in an eloquent silence and the viewer is involuntarily enticed to make up a story about the protagonist. The artist draws his characters in front of white monochrome or sometimes dark backgrounds. White is the most important colour for HASENAUER; he uses it for the background, the clothes and to reproduce the pale flesh tones. Especially through the bright colouring, the pieces produce a glow, which HASENAUER refers to as the "aura" of his works, something indescribable and immeasurable. "I put, with only a few exceptions, just one person in the picture, because I find him or her important, and this way I set him or her apart", says HASENAUER. His human figures are present and absent at the same time and, although they are subject to the Zeitgeist, they have taken leave of the fast moving time we now live in and accomplish their own, unknown mission. They are withdrawn, concentrated on their innermost self, averted, veiled or nearly merged with the amorphous background. HASENAUER is not fascinated by illustrating individuality, personal characteristics or ways of living, but rather by finding a basic form that defines a person. HASENAUER is interested in art that can stand for itself, even without the discourse of sociocultural embedding. He does not want material extravagance, but rather a reduction of the person´s image without its environment, without any background. HASENAUER´s figures are idealized and depersonalized. Therefore, it is not surprising that the artist is not interested in a realistic reproduction; rather it is the presentability of the idea of hair, clothes and a person that plays a role.


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By GARY EMMERT
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In a school where many of its young students have at least one parent who is or has served in the armed forces, Veterans Day holds a lot more meaning than your typical school.
On Thursday, Hettie Halstead Elementary School students had the chance to show how much they appreciate those brave veterans, veterans like Copperas Cove Mayor Frank Seffrood, who himself served our nation for 22 years in the military.
Speaking before a packed gymnasium of students, Seffrood told them, "I hope you young children appreciate why we have this day...the more you learn about it, the better this country will be."
His remarks were followed by patriotic and fun songs performed by each grade and conducted by Paige Mitchell, the school's music teacher.
Following their performance and the mayor's remarks in the gym, the students lined the hallway to give "high fives" and cheer the veterans as they made their way to the cafeteria on the other side of the school for cake.
Holding the hand of his great-granddaughter who is a student at the school, Sgt. First Class (Retired) Everette White was another veteran honored that day.
White, a retired Army veteran, has been a Copperas Cove resident since 1973.
"I thought the kids today were great and what impressed me was the singing." White spent 10-1/2 in Germany, two tours in Vietnam, and one in Korea.
"I don't see myself doing anything outside the military, ever since I was little serving in the military has been a huge dream of mine," said Sgt. Karina Ortiz. Born in California and raised in Washington State, Ortiz is a member of the 2nd Battalion, 182nd Field Artillery Regiment, which participates as Halstead Elementary's adopted unit.
Fellow soldiers from her unit being honored by the battalion's adopted school joined Ortiz. As a 13B, Cannon Crewmember, Ortiz was the first female from her state to successfully complete that training after the Army authorized women to serve in combat arms positions. Ortiz, a newly promoted sergeant, deployed with her unit to Iraq and has recently extended her enlistment so that she may accompany them to their upcoming mission in Korea.
Whether their careers begin, continue, or end in this area, the veterans in attendance last Thursday left Hettie Halstead Elementary with smiles on their faces and pride in their hearts. Not only pride for the brave decision they made to answer the call of duty, but also in the performances and support the children, teachers, and faculty displayed in their honor.


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Sworn to secrecy on where this is, but it's in the Nelson lakes area, with all the beauty that conjures up.
Drove an hour up our chosen valley and set off straight up the hill, got called back by the others in our party to tow their stuck jeep out of the river crossing.
This turned out well so we were back at the slog in 20mins, slipping & sliding our way up the damp lower reaches of the 1000m climb. With a bunch of negotiated windfall and bush lawyer behind us, we found the leading ridge which was much dryer with a good deer trail, noting some antler thrashed trees at 1200m
Got to the top at 5pm. We were a little worried about a water supply but promptly saw local tarn and some snow lying about so we had a good brew and set up camp, keeping our sleeping bags over our legs as the sun was seriously beating down.
Edging over to the watershed to the north of us it was pretty cool to immediately spot a hind & yearling browsing within 400m of camp. They were in no danger from us as we were targeting Chams at that stage. Of which Ricky spotted several at the head of the valley behind us. After that big climb I slept like a log. The next day dawned clear at our level, overcast and cool, perfect for stalking.
The deer will still there, 80m further up the hill. As we climbed up to look for the Chams they winded us and moved off.
The next valley head was bare but we got some neat photos, with my pano feature on the phone coming in handy as Ricky walked in one side of the pic and out the other.
We climbed over into the main valley head glassing all the way to pick up the Chams. They were still over 1000m away and an approach stalk would be useless as they held the high ground with no natural cover in the approach.
Then the classic Cham scenario- Rick suddenly rasped "keep still!!" A lone Cham buck was over his right shoulder, slightly behind us, just over 200m away, just watching us with only his head and neck and front chest visible.
As Rick got set up I kept the binos on him, estimating (incorrectly as I couldn't see the returns on his hooks) that he was in the 8 inch class. As Ricky hadn't got a Cham before I said definitely take it, it's a good first.
Ricks Howa Alpine 6.5cr spoke and the animal broke right and disappeared.
As we got over there the blood trail looked like WW3 had occurred! The ELDM Hornadys doing the job perfectly. Old mate Cham was 100 down a slip so some careful descent was required. He looked better on the ground and Rick was elated later to see it go over 9 inches.
The rest of our trip yielded no further game sighted except for Hares. The other parties had no luck with big climbs but little to no animals seen on the tops, however a couple of yearling Reds were shot on the river flats. All in all a beautiful part of the country and good to stretch the legs.


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Blind Squirrel Games has been teasing something with a countdown on Twitter, and fans think it's the long-rumored Borderlands 1 remaster.
Initially, the countdown images led people to believe that Blind Squirrel Games is hinting at something related to Fallout but the studio dismissed those reports.
— Blind Squirrel Games (@Blind_Squirrel_) March 2, 2019
"As hilarious as that would be, definitely not," the developer wrote in response to a fan who suggested that it was teasing a Fallout remaster.
A Borderlands 1 remaster is a plausible guess considering recent events. In early January 2019, the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee rated Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and it specifically listed Blind Squirrel Games as the developer. This followed a May 2017 rating by Korea's Game Rating and Administration Committee. If that isn't convincing enough, a mysterious Reddit user known for their accurate trophy list leaks has already shared Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition's trophy list screenshots from their PS4.
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I first found a Roesel's bush-cricket in the summer of 2009 in the long grass of some set-a-side land behind the string of houses in our small hamlet. That land is now consumed into a garden, but I digress.
I came across one again the other week in the warmth of mid-September as Jasper and I ambled down the lane on one of our daily walks around our patch of the Rib valley. An unmistakeable unbroken stream of stridulations emanated from a patch of long grass in the thin strip of roadside verge.
Despite the strong breeze, bright sunshine beamed down from a clear sky which had managed to raise the temperature for this basking specimen to an optimum for stridulation. It was quite happy to continue as I moved my smart phone closer, so much so that I was able to shoot some video at both normal and slow motion speed.
On playback, particularly in slow motion, it is fascinating to be able to see the wing casing visibly vibrating or stridulating against the comb-like structures on the cricket's legs to create the sound that we hear.
When watching the video back I noticed what appeared to be quite large and somewhat tatty wings, which I didn't remember as being so prominent when I had looked at them previously.
Compare this freeze frame from the video to the specimen below that I photographed in July 2009. No wings – vestigial or otherwise – seem to be visible.
The answer I found was quite fascinating.
The bush crickets first emerge as nymphs in May from eggs laid the previous summer and autumn that have been placed into grass stems by the female, using their long ovipositer. The nymphs then grow and develop, shedding their outer skins in a series of 5 or 6 regenerations called instars, before a final metamorphosis into their adult form.
In most cases they are brachypterous, meaning they develop wings that are small, undersized and not at all functional in the normal sense of wing development. However in about 1% of the species, the adult emerges in a macropterous form with fully formed wings. This would give an obvious advantage to both individuals and the species in general in extending it's range by easier dispersal from the home environment and is thought to be due to reduced levels of juvenile hormone in the final instar, brought about by increased population pressures in the local environment. A beautiful in-built biofeedback loop, developed through evolutionary pressure that gives the species an opportunity as a whole to move about the landscape.
Gardiner T (2008). The Overlooked Orthoptera: an introduction to grasshoppers and bush-crickets. Essex: A British Naturalists' Association Guide.
Marshall JA & Haes C (1988). Grasshoppers and Allied Insects of Great Britain and Ireland. Great Horkesley, Colchester, Essex: Harley Books.


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I can still feel the dry heat on my skin as I walk up the paseo to the town. I see toothless old men grin and nod their heads from the benches that line the walkway; they tap their canes in the pleasure of my acknowledging smile. I see old couples—the women still dressed in the black of mourning, not choosing to care that their husbands are eyeing up every young woman that passes by.
I see "El Trapero" —the town tramp—standing by the collision bars on the street corner. He waits there for the bank customers to come out and give him some change. He sings to himself and his breath weaves around the one tooth he has left. He mutters and turns to shuffle away; dirty, ragged clothes flapping by his thighs.
I sit in the dining room, eating thin steak and fries while the TV stutters its way through gaudy advertising and a bullfight. I stand in the cool pantry, gazing into the three-foot-tall vat of olive oil from the family farm. I press my hungry fingers into the fresh bread rolls the bread man just delivered. I watch during breakfast as Belen dips half a packet of galettas (flat cookies), one at a time, into her chocolate milk. I sit with the extended family and eat paella in the front yard, with the smell of chicken and seafood sweating on grains of saffron rice.
I drive in the open country of Jaen, a wild place untamed by construction, cacti and dry dust swirling into the blue sky as the tires churn. I stand in the market place, lusting over the reds and purples and greens of fresh fruit and vegetables. I climb the steep hill to the doctor's house as two boys freewheel by on one bicycle. I eat and sleep and speak and think in Spanish.
At the end of that year, I wait in the railway station with friends, hugging each one in turn until I finally step onto the train and wave until they seem like a spiral of smoke on a twig.
When I think back, I can still feel that dry heat on my skin.
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The Hearth is one of the most respected consultancies in the field of education due to its record of accomplishment of implementing the vision of its clients. It has extensive international experience in building and managing education institutions and nation-wide systems. The Hearth designs each of its projects to the client needs and vision, adapting local and regional demands, academic offering and the over-all strategic plan.
The Hearth offers clients the option of a turnkey design solution, from ideation and visioning, to directing the detailed design, construction, launch, marketing, operations and management of an education institution. The Hearth Design Philosophy incorporates internationally proven instructional techniques, leading human resource and faculty inputs and state-of-the-art facilities to develop education institutions relevant today and in the future. Central to its philosophy is that the institution must provide its students the greatest opportunities to discover themselves and to succeed academically, while preparing them for the global knowledge economy.
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A classic English breakfast is a really special way to start the day. It's the kind of breakfast that will leave you nice and full through the early afternoon, at which point maybe you'll want a light snack or some tea to get you to the dinner hour. It also happens to be a fantastic cure after a night of overindulging!
There's a lot going on with the full English breakfast. Typically, there would be bacon and a few types of sausage on the plate, along with simmered beans, roasted mushrooms and tomatoes, and fried eggs. Normally, these things are cooked in separate skillets, then assembled together on the plate.
By the way, an Irish Breakfast is similar, but usually includes different kinds of meat or other proteins and a few different puddings.
All in all, it's a huge plate of food! It's a delicious, hearty breakfast, but it can leave your kitchen in shambles with piles of pots and pans to clean.
Cooking this entire meal in the oven on a single sheet pan is a beautiful thing—it uses far fewer pots and pans, and clean-up is very easy.
Since some of the components of an English breakfasts take longer than others to cook, the only trick is to make sure you add your ingredients to the sheet pan in the right order. Start with sausage, then add the tomatoes, followed by mushrooms, and last but not least, the beans and eggs! (I keep the beans simple—I toss them with a few seasonings and then just heat them in a small, oven-safe skillet alongside the other ingredients.)
For the sausage, you can use any breakfast pork or chicken sausage, or a mix of different kinds. I recommend buying full sausages in the casings (6 to 8 ounces per sausage) so they cook evenly and slowly. The sausages will need 40 to 45 minutes to finish cooking in the oven, but I always recommend using a meat thermometer just to be sure you hit the correct internal temperature (160°F).
I'll probably get some flak for skipping the bacon, but it was difficult to include bacon on the sheet pan without adding a lot of extra grease to the whole pan. Personally, I think it's fine with a smaller portion of protein, but if you do want to add some bacon to the plate, I would cook it separately.


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Maphis, Joe and Rose Lee
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Songwriters and country music duo. Known as "Mr. and Mrs. Country Music," Joe [Otis Wilson] Maphis (b Suffolk, VA, 12 May 1921; d Nashville, TN, 27 June 1986) and Rose Lee [Doris née Schetrompf] Maphis (b Baltimore, MD, 29 Dec 1922) were a popular husband-and-wife duo that contributed to the development of honky-tonk music in California during the 1950s. Their respective careers began in barn dance radio in the late 1930s. Billed as "Rose of the Mountains," Rose performed sentimental songs on local stations in Hagerstown, Maryland, before joining the Saddle Sweethearts, a cowgirl ensemble, on Richmond Virginia's WVRA Old Dominion Barn Dance in the 1940s. On Cincinnati's Boone Country Barn Dance and Chicago's National Barn Dance, Joe developed a distinctive guitar style, finger-picking melodic lines at electrifying fast tempos over chordal accompaniments, and mastered several other string instruments. After serving in World War II, Joe met Rose while performing on WVRA's ...


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(NEW YORK POST) – A Florida man is accused of living off his dead mom's Social Security checks for 15 years — pocketing almost a quarter-million dollars, according to a report.
Richard Greenberg, 67, of Sunrise allegedly raked in more than $225,475 in improper funds since mother Rose Greenberg's death in 2004, the Miami Herald reported.
Authorities launched an investigation after an audit revealed that Rose's retirement income benefits were continuing after her death, the outlet reported.
The money went into Richard and his mother's joint account, with the latest deposit made in July, the report said.
Surveillance images allegedly showed Richard withdrawing the deposits at a Wells Fargo ATM for his own use, the outlet reported.
Richard was arrested Nov. 19 with only $1,500 left in the bank from his alleged scheme, the Miami Herald reported. He is being charged with 55 counts of theft of government property.
If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.


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3 Health Problems That Women Often Ignore But Shouldn't
Unfortunately, women tend to ignore subtle signs of illness until they are too sick to ignore them anymore. In some cases, this can be the difference between life and death. These three symptoms can be the signs of serious disease or health problems and should never be overlooked. If you're worried about overlooking health problems, read on and look at more info on signs of deeper issues you shouldn't ignore.
Acute Fatigue
Women often run themselves ragged at work and at home, so fatigue is nothing new to them. However, when extreme fatigue comes on suddenly and doesn't improve after proper rest, it can be a symptom of something quite serious.
Hypothyroidism—more and more women are currently being diagnosed with underfunctioning thyroid. Your thyroid controls so many bodily functions that if it isn't functioning properly, it can make you very ill. Finding the actual cause of hypothyroidism can be challenging, but in the meantime, there are hormone replacement treatments that will help you feel normal again.
Anemia—as busy as women are, they sometimes get into bad eating habits and can become deficient in one or more essential nutrients. The most common anemias are iron and vitamin B12, which are easily treated with supplements. However, some anemias are associated with chronic or serious illness, including sickle cell anemia, aplastic anemia or bone marrow diseases such as leukemia.
Abdominal Problems
Many women consider occasional bloating, pain, diarrhea or constipation just a normal part of life, and in most cases, they are just that. If these symptoms last for more than 2 weeks, though, you should see your family doctor for further diagnosis. Abdominal problems may also signal serious conditions such as
- ovarian or colon cancer
- inflammatory bowel syndrome
- diverticulitis
- Chrohn's disease
- food sensitivities or allergies
Chest Pain
While it used to be far down on the list, heart disease is now the leading cause of death for women. Symptoms of heart disease are often not as pronounced in women as in men. Some commonly overlooked symptoms of heart disease in women are
- Unusual fatigue
- Neck, jaw, shoulder, upper back or abdominal discomfort
- Lightneadedness or dizziness
- Shortness of breath
- Sweating
- Pain in one or both arms
- Nausea and vomiting
Women often do not have the crushing chest pain associated with most heart attacks, and may show up in the emergency room after the damage is already done, because their symptoms were much more subtle and passed off as something else.
Your first step to wellness is to see your family physician as soon as these symptoms occur, when he can treat you successfully without the need for a specialist.


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Regardless of your own spirituality, these great cathedrals are historic and architectural achievements you'll find fascinating to see and explore.
St. Paul's Cathedral – London, England
Designed by Sir Christopher Wren to replace a church destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, St. Paul's is one of the world's most famous cathedrals. Built in a mere 35 years, the baroque-style church reveals inspiration and craftsmanship on a grand scale. Among its many treasures are mosaics from the Victorian Age, the Whispering Gallery, and numerous carvings and statutes.
Notre-Dame de Paris – Paris, France
Notre-Dame de Paris, a spectacular example of Gothic architecture, is another of the world's finest cathedrals. Begun in 1163, the cathedral took more than 200 years to complete. No expense was spared to create an edifice that reflected the Church's rising power—from the spectacular rose windows to the soaring flying buttresses to the intricately carved gargoyles.
Hagia Sophia – Istanbul, Turkey
Originally a Byzantine church built in the sixth century, the Hagia Sophia served as a mosque for more than four centuries after the Ottoman conquest in 1453. Many people consider Hagia Sophia the supreme masterpiece of Byzantine architecture. Much of the gilding has faded, but the original church's grandeur still remains in its vast proportions, wall paintings, and mosaics.
Rouen Cathedral – Rouen, France
Begun in the 12th century and finished several centuries later, Rouen's Cathedral displays with great majesty the evolution of Gothic architecture. Nineteenth-century Impressionist Claude Monet immortalized the West Façade, a confection of stone detailing and 70 statues, in several of his works.
Chartres Cathedral – Chartres, France
Chartres Cathedral (1194-1260) is quite possibly the most beautiful expression of Gothic architecture in all of Europe. This masterpiece contains superb stained-glass windows—many of which are original to the 12th and 13th centuries—and wonderfully preserved statuary. Built on the site of a Romanesque church, the cathedral incorporates elements of the earlier church in the west portal. The mismatched towers on the west façade resulted after the north tower burned down. The banks of the Eure River provide magnificent views of the copper-roofed cathedral.
Reims Cathedral – Reims, France
Harmonious, monumental, and richly adorned, the Cathédrale Notre-Dame (1211-1311) in Reims is magnificent. Taking its cue from a contemporary at Chartres, Notre-Dame exhibits the same quadripartite rib vaulting, three-story elevation, and pier structure found in that cathedral. The cathedral witnessed and ordained the coronation of several kings. The last, that of Charles X, was in 1825.
Santa Maria del Fiore – Florence, Italy
Although more commonly known as the Duomo, the cathedral in Florence formally bears the name Santa Maria del Fiore—Saint Mary of the Flower, which refers to the lily, the symbol of Florence. The cathedral, designed by Arnolfo di Cambio in 1294 to rival the magnificence of the new cathedrals in Pisa and Siena, is unquestionably beautiful. Brunelleschi, a master of Renaissance architecture, designed and oversaw the construction of the famed dome.
Canterbury Cathedral – Canterbury, England
St. Augustine founded the first Canterbury Cathedral in 597; however, the oldest part of the present cathedral—the crypt—dates back only to the 11th century. Over time the cathedral acquired a 12th-century Gothic quire, a 15th-century nave, and additions constructed in the uniquely English perpendicular Gothic style. In medieval times, the cathedral was an important pilgrimage site. Notable tombs within the cathedral include King Henry IV and Edward the Black Prince. Trinity Chapel memorializes Thomas Becker, the archbishop who was killed here in 1170. The cathedral sits amid the remains of cloisters, a monastery, a chapter house, and a Norman water tower.
St. Sophia Cathedral – Novgorod, Russia
Dedicated in 1037, St. Sophia Cathedral was commissioned by Prince Yaroslav the Wise. Byzantine in layout and design, St. Sophia sits inside Novgorod's Kremlin walls; it was the spiritual heart of the early Russian state and is still regarded as a treasure and a symbol of Novgorod. The cathedral's gold dome denotes its importance. None of the other cathedrals in Novgorod have gold domes. The exquisite 12th-century bronze gate of the west entrance, used only on select occasions, was brought back from Sigtuna, then the capital of Sweden.
St. John the Divine – New York, New York
Rising above Morningside Heights north of Central Park, the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine is a stunning masterpiece of medieval-style architecture against the backdrop of one of the world's most modern cities. Begun in 1892, the interior is Romanesque with Byzantine overtones; the exterior has Gothic touches. The spectacular nave is 284 feet long and 128 feet high. The Cathedral was rededicated and its entire interior reopened to the public in November 2008.
THE GREAT SYNAGOGUE – Budapest, Hungary
Also known as the Dohány Street Synagogue, it is the largest synagogue in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It seats 3,000 people and is a centre of Neolog Judaism. The synagogue was built between 1854 and 1859 in the Moorish Revival style, with the decoration based chiefly on Islamic models from North Africa and medieval Spain (the Alhambra). The Synagogue complex consists of the Great Synagogue, the Heroes' Temple, the graveyard, and the fabulous Jewish Museum.
LA SAGRADA FAMILIA CATHEDRAL – Barcelona, Spain
Not sure whether it is beautiful or grotesque, it is definitely different. The first foundation stone was laid 144 years ago and came under the direction of Architect Antoni Gaudi shortly thereafter. A notable example of Gaudi's innovation is the "leaning columns" (that is, columns which are not at right angles to the floor and ceiling). The ongoing construction of Sagrada Familia is paid for by tourism. When Sagrada Familia is complete in 2026, the church will have a total of 18 towers, each dedicated to a different religious figure, and each one hollow, allowing the placement of various types of bells which will sound with the choir. The architectural style of Sagrada Familia has been called "warped Gothic," and it's easy to see why.


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In the world of Porphyra, the powers of the kineticist are rarely understood, and sometimes these powers can become corrupted, leading to more 'pure' strains of kinetic power. Only certain types of kineticists have the ability to become corrupted, often favoring those who have more varied powers than their fellows. A character can only take 1 elemental mutation. The following mutations have been discovered, although there are still rare cases of less common ones being found:
Arrow Mutation
While kinetic blasts tend to be large masses of elemental energy and matter, some individuals shape their blasts into condensed, precise forms.
Restrictions: Must possess a kinetic blast.
Benefit: A kineticist with this mutation increases the critical threat range of their blast by 1. This effect stacks with other effects which increase a blast's critical threat range, but is applied last. Any bludgeoning or slashing damage dealt by their blast is converted to piercing damage.
Drawback: A kineticist with this mutation does not deal full damage to swarms, instead dealing damage to it as a normal weapon depending on the swarm's size (half damage to swarms of Tiny creatures, no damage to swarms of Diminutive or Fine creatures). In addition, their blast's damage die size is reduced by 1 step.
Special: Blasts used with infusions which cause them to affect an area (such as explosion or cloud) still affect swarms as normal for area of effect attacks (dealing half again as much damage to them).
Avatar Mutation
While some elemental avatars are composed of the basic elements of nature, there are those who instead embrace a different natural order, choosing to summon the elements of other realms of existence, forsaking the natural order.
Restrictions: Must have the elemental avatar archetype.
Benefit: A kineticist with this mutation can choose the material or esoteric array from the entropist archetype when deciding the elements to which they have access. Avatar blast counts as poison, sound, viscera, and wood element and can be used with infusions with which bone, vibration, and/or wood blast are associated. Spirit blast counts as aether, light, time, and void element and can be used with infusions with which chrono, force, and/or light blast are associated.
Drawback: A kineticist who chooses esoteric array cannot learn avatar blast, and one that chooses material array cannot learn spirit blast.
Brutal Mutation
A brutal mutation is one that occurs when a kineticist is born with too much potential. The mutation causes their raw power to rip apart their body as it is used, often leaving lasting scars. Those who possess this mutation are far more easily able to tap into their elemental power.
Restrictions: Must possess the Burn class feature
Benefit: Whenever a kineticist with this mutation gains the expanded element class feature, if the kineticist selects a new element to expand into, they gain an infusion for that element. They are also only treated as 2 levels lower than their main element for selecting wild talents from their new element. If the kineticist chooses to expand their original element, they gain both a new infusion and utility wild talent.
Also when they select the Extra Wild Talent feat, they can increase the level of the talent they can select with this feat by 1 as well as removing the prerequisite of the feat, allowing you to select level 1 wild talents at 1st level.
Drawback: All damage a kineticist receives from burn or an ability that alters burn is treated as lethal damage instead of non-lethal damage. This damage cannot be reduced or healed except by the methods of removing non-lethal damage from burn.
Special: A fusion kineticist with this mutation treats their sub element as 2 levels lower than their main element at 1st level, removing the restriction limiting them to only 1st level talents until 7th level. At 7th level, they consider their sub element 1 level lower than their main element.
Conservative Mutation
Some kineticists don't have the physical fortitude to channel their powers fully, causing their full strength to be locked within themselves - although they lessen the strain needed to channel their powers, leaving them in far better condition afterwards.
Restrictions: Must possess the Burn class feature
Benefit: Whenever a kineticist with this mutation receives a point of burn, they only take 1 point of non-lethal damage for every 2 levels they possess instead of for every level.
Drawback: Reduce the damage die of all kinetic blasts the kineticist possesses by 1 step (d10 to d8, d8 to d6, d6 to d4, d4 to d3, d3 to d2) as well as reducing the DCs of any infusions applied to their blast by 1.
Dense Mutation
While some kineticists wield raw elemental energy such as fire or lightning, others manage to impart too much of their own power into the blast, making them far less adept at finding weaknesses in their opponent's armor. These blasts instead pack a far more powerful punch to them.
Restrictions: Must possess a basic energy blast
Benefit: Kineticists with this mutation determine the damage of their energy blast as though they were physical blast (dealing 1dx+1 damage + their Constitution modifier), as well as gaining a +4 on checks against spell resistance.
Drawback: The kineticist's energy blast now targets normal AC instead of touch AC and is treated as a physical blast for how it interacts with infusions and class features.
Furyshaper Mutation
While most blood kineticists receive the benefits of hydrokinetic and sometimes corpokinetic powers, the furyshaper can use fire to the same effect.
Restrictions: Must possess the blood kineticist archetype.
Benefit: A blood kineticist with this mutation gains fire as their primary element instead of water and fire blast as their kinetic blast instead of water blast, and treats hypertensive infusion as a fire infusion. They can apply bleeding, foe throw, gut-wrenching, hypertensive, vampiric, and wrack infusions to their fire and blue flame blasts. In addition, they can apply any infusion to their blood blast which is associated with fire blast (including those previously listed), and their blood blast deals half bludgeoning, half fire damage.
Drawback: A blood kineticist with this mutation cannot apply infusions to their blood blast that are associated with water blast unless those infusions are also associated with fire blast. They do not gain blue flame blast the first time they select fire as an expanded element, gaining blood blast instead (they can gain blue flame blast by selecting fire as an expanded element a second time). The wrack infusion deals fire damage if applied to a fire or blue flame blast.
Intelligent Mutation
The power of most kineticists is in their creativity, although some kineticists manage to express this in even more unique fashions, their education far surpassing their allies'. These intelligent warriors have forsaken other ways of gaining power in a more physical sense.
Restrictions: Must possess the gather power class feature
Benefit: Kineticists with this mutation gain two additional skill points per level, and can select 2 skills, treating them as class skills.
Drawback: The kineticist can only use their gather energy or supercharge class feature as a move action.
Utilitarian Mutation
Some kineticists prefer to use their powers with more cunning and finesse than wielding their element as a tool of war.
Restrictions: Must possess gather power.
Benefit: A kineticist with this mutation can use gather power once per minute as a full-round action to reduce the cost of a utility wild talent used the next turn by 1 (to a minimum of 0). In addition, if they possess the internal buffer class feature, it is doubled in size (this effect does not stack with that provided by abilities granted by archetypes or equipment, such as the kinetic chirurgeon's healing buffer).
Drawback: A kineticist who chooses this mutation cannot reduce the cost of their kinetic blasts with gather power or internal buffer, and their kinetic blasts' damage die size is reduced by 1 step.