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Bungay is a market town of much significance to my ancestry. Three of my family lines came from Bungay, the earliest record of which is a marriage which took place in 1771, at St Mary's Church.
Bungay is rich with history: Bigod's Castle, a Benedictine Priory, two parish churches (St Mary's and Holy Trinity), secret tunnels, and perhaps more notably, the legend of the Black Shuck. For lovers of gothic tales and the macabre, Bungay is the town for you.
|Bigod Castle
Elizabeth Bonhote (1744 - 1818), wife of Daniel Bonhote (an attorney), was born in Bungay and wrote novels and essays. Her most gothic novel Bungay Castle was written in 1796 and is still in print today. Set during the War of the Roses, Bonhote's novel included gothic themes of mystery, wicked uncles and long-lost sons.
In August 1577 while the congregation of St Mary's Church were assembled for worship, a thunderstorm blew up suddenly, plunging the church into darkness. Then, before the terrified congregation, appeared a black dog. Described as "the divel in such a likeness" it ran along the body of the church with great swiftness and incredible haste, seizing upon two people who sat praying for mercy. Known as a "Straunge and Terrible Wunder" the Black Shuck is still an ongoing legend in the town of Bungay and there are several shops in the town named after the legendary dog, one being Black Dog Antiques on Earsham Street.
|St Mary's Church
My ancestors lived and worked in Bungay from the late 1700s, my first ancestors gaining their living in Ostlery and Agricultural labouring. One family line, the Jolly's, originated from nearby Laxfield. My 3 x great-grandfather Josiah Jolly arrived in Bungay in 1829/30 with his new bride Susan and they remained in the town, having at least 13 known children! Another family line, the Preston's, didn't come to Bungay until the late 1890s from Norwich (formerly Holt) but they also remained in the town.
Bungay must have been a particularly cold place to live in as two of my family lines were kept busy raising large families. Josiah and Susan had 13 children, as I have already mentioned, and another family line, William and Eliza Ward were also kept busy with a family of 12. Jokes aside, it would have been more common to raise large families in Victorian rural areas, as the eldest children usually worked on the land alongside their parents, whilst the middle children invariably stayed at home with the youngest infants. Given time, the entire family would be out working, side by side come rain, hail or shine. Their livelihood would have been dependent on the seasons. More often than not, my male ancestry spent their "leisure hours" esconced in a local publichouse. Two known favourites were 'The Swan' and 'The Three Tuns'. Life was hard, money was scarce and children were prone to infant death or crime. Indeed, there is at least one known ancestor of mine who was transported to Australia in 1847, after stealing from a Butcher in Earsham Street. Before leaving England for good, he was sent to Millbank Prison for 3 years. He was 22 years old.
|Earsham Street circa 1910
I remember Bungay with a deep fondness. I have always been attracted to the gothic feel in Bungay and its familial connection with my dearest grandmother Lilian and dearest great-grandmother Nellie Jolly. My grandmother worked in the Buttercross Tearooms (known in her day as Alfo's) during the 1960s and my great-grandmother ran a Boarding House for single working men in Lower Olland Street during the 1940s and 1950s. Both women were strong, fiercely independent, loyal to their faith, and family-oriented.
As a child I remember walking through Bungay town with my mother, bicycling to nearby Earsham, Mettingham and Ditchingham, walks through the churchyard of St Mary's and nearby ruins of the Priory, the Outney Common, and Falcon Meadow.
The last time I visited Bungay I was pleased to see so much history still alive and well in the town, especially with the Castle and the Museum. Fisher Theatre in Broad Street is open once again (originally opened by David Fisher in 1828) and Bungay can still boast many literary people such as George Crabbe, Henry Rider Haggard, Elizabeth Bonhote, Ethel Mann, and Parson James Woodforde. Even Chateaubriand, during a period of exile, resided in Bungay in the 1790s (rather reminiscent of the more recent exile of Julian Assange!).
In recent years the continued efforts of people such as Frank Honeywood, and Christopher & Terry Reeve keep the history of Bungay very much in our hearts and minds.
In recent years the continued efforts of people such as Frank Honeywood, and Christopher & Terry Reeve keep the history of Bungay very much in our hearts and minds.
Song of "Old Bungay"
(First Stanza of Eight)
Written by Samuel Taylor in 1816
Sung at the Theatre, by Mr Fisher, to the tune of: "The Roast Beef of old England"
Of London and Plymouth, and fifty more such,
Enough has been said, aye, and some say too much:
Of all the fam'd Town's this fam'd Island can boast,
Where's the like of Old Bungay? search thro' the whole host!
Then of all places, this is the place of renown;
Oh, what a place is Old Bungay!
Old Bungay's a wonderful town!
|Aerial view of Bungay showing both Churches: St Mary's Church (left) and Holy Trinity (right)


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We can recess the design team meeting for all working group meetings and the ACL BOF. B.T.W., ACLs had a BOF a couple of years ago. Shouldn't this work be done in a working group by now? Why is the DeltaV design meeting overlapping the Access Control and WebDAV meetings? There are a lot of people (like Geoff and me) interested in both. Also, I'm not sure that an access control BOF before the WebDAV meeting makes sense, as I don't know of a lot of open issues at this point. --Eric -----Original Message----- From: email@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]On Behalf Of Jim Whitehead Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 5:14 PM To: WebDAV WG; firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: DAVers guide to the San Diego IETF For the WebDAV afficionado, the following is the ultimate guide to WebDAV and DeltaV meetings being held at the San Diego IETF meeting next week. For location, registration, and hotel information, please see: http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-49.html Wedensday, Dec 13 ----------------- 9AM - 5PM :: DeltaV design team meeting, Symphony Bay 3, San Diego Marriott Suites 1PM - 3PM :: Access Control BOF meeting, location TBD, look on announcement board near IETF registration desk (or find Eric Sedlar, Geoff Clemm, or Anne Hopkins, since they all said this was an OK time, but none of them has yet volunteered to post a message on the announcement board. :-) 3:30PM - 5:30PM :: WebDAV working group meeting, Marina 5, Sheraton San Diego (IETF) Agenda: http://www.ietf.org/ietf/00dec/webdav-agenda.txt Thursday, Dec 14 ---------------- 9AM - 12noon :: DeltaV design team meeting, Symphony Bay 3, San Diego Marriott Suites 1PM - 3PM :: DeltaV working group meeting, Marina 5, Sheraton San Diego (IETF) 3:30PM - 5PM :: DeltaV design team meeting, Symphony Bay 3, San Diego Marriott Suites (It might be wise to stop by the DeltaV WG meeting to make sure this one will be held). For the latest access control draft: http://www.webdav.org/acl/ http://www.webdav.org/acl/protocol/draft-ietf-webdav-acl-03.txt For the latest DeltaV protocol draft: http://www.webdav.org/deltav/ http://www.webdav.org/deltav/protocol/draft-ietf-deltav-versioning-10.7.htmReceived on Thursday, 7 December 2000 10:08:32 UTC
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Anjo Bordell has lived in Shanghai, China since 2007. He completed his debut novel Default in the summer of 2014, and describes it as "half expat novel, half great American adventure." It is available here on Amazon.
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"If you could fight any celebrity, who would you fight?"
"Hemingway," says Tyler Durden.
Good answer. I'd roundhouse that geezer until he was on life support. After his crimes of shooting unarmed POWs in the face and having written The Sun Also Rises, he's left me no choice. "Blimey, old chap! Another apéritif?" Screw you, old timer. "Café crème?" Smack! And then he had the audacity to Cobain himself on the same day Céline died. Who made the front page? The genius? No, the murderer, the so-called expat novelist.
Maybe the escapades of "lost" interwar boozers yapping about irrelevant nonsense made for great expat writing in the 1920s, but these days, churning out something so inexcusably mundane should earn you an immediate ticket to permanent obscurity.
Brass Tacks, Not Bullshit
Say what you want about Shanghai, this magnificent city of the future where much of my novel Default is set, but it is anything but mundane. Indeed, China (and most of Asia) offers an endless supply of situations, settings, and characters so bizarre and morbidly fascinating that the writer who finds himself here will soon realize he has enough material to write a new book every week. And this is the perspective from which this broadside has been written—an American white boy novelizing from the teeming depths of Shanghai. Not in Shanghai? Lucky you. Just apply what I'm saying to the context of stories from anywhere. And regardless of where you're writing from or about, always remember that modern readers don't want a contemporary rehash of The Sun Also Rises. I don't, anyway. The original was bad enough.
With so much compelling madness going on around him, the crafty expat novelist knows better than to defile his book with talk of Starbucks and iCrap, and the boring banter of bourgeois baloney. Shanghai is chock-full of that, by the way. Fiction fans are seeking escape, and the tedium of stateside suburbia already offers a generous bounty of these post-millennial plagues. People want "foreign" and "exotic," not KFC and Facebook. They want dark alleys and intrigue, not bonbons and Louis Vuitton. Uncertainty and suspense, not silly, superficial romances.
Speaking of which, I could be terribly mistaken about all of this, as evidenced by the massive success of a book like Eat, Pray, Love, which tells of the pseudo-spiritual pseudo-awakening of a globe-trotting narcissist searching for pseudo-happiness. Yes, it's a memoir, but you get the idea. I say we've endured enough of this inconsequential claptrap, the middle class musings of an ungrateful bore. What the world needs is straight talk, unencumbered by the poisons of political correctness. Boots on the ground, both barrels. Brass tacks, not bullshit.
You see a lot of both when living abroad, and much of the BS that's been festering in your head will get rewired into something approaching truth. Or at least a new angle, a different lens through which many assumptions are corrected, refocused, and understood anew.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
So says Mark Twain. I understand the sentiment, but it's only partly true. Yes, Americans in particular would do well to broaden their horizons, and that's exactly what happens when you move overseas. But see what a stint in a country like China does for your "wholesome, charitable views." Prejudice and bigotry? Don't get me started. Sometimes we're enlightened to the point that it's worse than the BS we've been fed all our lives.
These charitable views apply not only to your host country, but even more so to the country you've bailed. You might think "bailed" is an exaggeration, but as your passport fills with stamps and stickers in languages other than your own, you come to realize that is exactly what you've done. And for good reason.
Many of us had the feeling we'd been living ringside in some kind of neo-Weimar freak show long before we "bailed." But now, the view from outside the fence is so much more objective and sharp, like an unstable image on an old TV made clear with a good slap. This is the true value of witnessing the world with long-term immersion in a parallel universe, an alternate reality from which our notions and judgments of our personal history, opinions, culture, and general way of thinking get a tune-up, a recalibration that can neither be avoided nor reversed.
Ringside: the perfect way to describe the foreigner's life in Shanghai. But it's a different kind of circus, one we learn to tolerate as simple annoyance or entertainment. Trivial shenanigans compared to what we've escaped, which, as we confide among ourselves, can only be described as daily indications of the imminent downfall of the West.
From my novel Default:
We were well past the days when, if asked to describe the future, one would conjure up images of bright blue skies with cotton clouds and smiling Norwegians flying around in puttering air cars. But we hadn't yet descended to the point we've reached today when, if asked the same question, one either comes up blank or flat-out refuses to answer, cursing you for ruining the entire day by having to think of such terrible things.
Pending apocalypse or not, the need for a respite can get the best of even the most hardened expat in the form of a round-trip ticket to the West. Not everyone is immediately appalled at what they see during the rare vacation back home, and I will admit to the usual symptoms of staring open-mouthed at blue skies or at the stars at night. Proper climate control and big fat steaks. Unfettered, blazing internet, blue eyes, and boobs. But the high quickly fades, and the creeps begin. Old hang-ups and phobias, even revulsion and fear—reminders that we've become outsiders in our own countries, and that even short, infrequent visits are more than enough. Further reminiscing grows futile as we realize the cursory perks of home aren't really the nostalgia we'd thought we were looking forward to, but rather confirmation, closure of everything we've left behind.
Temperaments vary, of course, and not all expats have such a negative reaction to a first-world vacation. Some of my friends reached their limits long ago, bought one-way tickets west, and bailed China for good, vowing never to return. But we have all suffered similar misconceptions born from our diverse starting points, and by assuming some risk and seeking a little adventure, we have gained invaluable insight that will serve us well no matter where we end up, especially those of us who fancy ourselves writers.
Characters and Foreign Environments
Jaded businessmen, stoned engineers, ultra-capitalists. Losers, drunks, deadbeats, and the occasional drifter turned novelist. An all-star cast of post-imperialists, unrepentant and unapologetic. Nothing two-dimensional here, no boring dialogue or lack of at least mild intrigue. Just pay attention and your novel writes itself. Up against the wall of an unpredictable alien environment, these characters, these self-imposed exiles—
Oh, what's this? A knock at the door. My friend from down the hall, the Spanish architect. I don't like the haggard look on his face. Puts me off my writing game. "Everything alright?" I say. Urgent news. Big changes coming soon. He's just learned that all the foreigners in the building have to scram. "Who told you that goddam lie?" He says he heard it from the maintenance man. "Seems a little far-fetched, since I just spoke with him about the pipes and he didn't say a word about this!" He asks me if I've all of a sudden learned Chinese. I tell him that's preposterous. He gives me a look that says, "I'll let you figure that one out for yourself."
The Texan next door sticks out his head. A rare scene—he and the Spaniard going at it in rapid-fire Chinese. I hold up my hands and point to my face. They get the idea and switch to English.
"The landlord told me it was because of renovations. I figured it's because I'm black."
"Renovations?" says the Spaniard. "Remember those soldiers we saw snooping around last week? Apparently, the People's Liberation Army just liberated this building. So guess who they don't want around anymore?"
"Any of us," I say. "How much time do we have?"
"Nobody knows," says the Spaniard.
Tex has heard enough. He slams his door. The Spaniard and I listen for a few seconds at the cursing and crashing inside the Texan's apartment.
I wouldn't mind having a go myself about now. My face is straight, but I'm seething inside. For weeks I've been anticipating diving into my second novel in my little concrete cave. So much has been written here already. History, greatness! Oh, but my passport says otherwise. Even though I've faithfully paid a fistful of redbacks every month for four years (without complaint!), this dirty foreigner's money is no longer good.
What a shame to have to leave. And for the most laughable of reasons. A hate crime, where I'm from. Shanghai—city of the future, my ass! It might make sense if they'd simply said they didn't like the looks of me, or had tracked me down after the release of Default. "We no like how you portray our city like circus!" Truth be told, I tried to be as fair and balanced as reasonably possible. But in Book Two, the gloves come off.
Things could be worse, I suppose. I could have been deported—again. Back in 2008, they were taking their Olympic debutante ball very seriously. Thousands of us were caught in a dragnet of nationalistic paranoia, and promptly returned to sender. Lesson learned? Of course not. Most of us came back as soon as we could. Gluttons for nonsense. Hedonists, lechers, powerless against our impulses and the allure of the Orient. The perfect destination for a writer. China—a never ending source of material so ridiculous that most of it is unusable because no one would believe it.
Kicked out by these miserable racists! Must try to stay positive. A lot of good that's ever done. I've even tried to maintain a semblance of integrity. And it's been years since I've had to explain to some very unfriendly cops exactly from where and whom my sketchy work visas had been issued. No more. The straight and narrow! Playing by the rules, and then this happens. Indeed, the thanks I get for putting myself in the poor house writing my novel. Reaping the many rewards.
The Spaniard interrupts my mumbling rant. He says something about our deposits. I give him a look. He takes a step back. I tell him the landlord and the maintenance man are having a laugh in the KTV downstairs, blowing our deposits on ketamine and hookers.
"Ketamine?" he says. "From carrots?"
"Hmm . . ."
I'm thinking about the move. Guess I'll start looking for a place as soon as I knock out this post. Maybe somewhere near work. Commuting is no way to live. But oh, the dread of moving to Zhabei. Sure, the rent is cheap, but for good goddam reason. Mile after mile of tenement blight, smog, and phlegm. But I'll save some cash. A couple more years and I'll be able to bail China for good, vowing never to return.
See what I'm saying? Life is loose. Disaster can strike at any minute. Periodic crackdowns on this or that. Bus fires, building fires, train wrecks, war. Immigration snafus! Graft, theft, greed, general incompetence that can blow a good plan to smithereens. Thugs and cops could burst into your brothel suite right at the moment of truth. Poison milk and gutter oil. SARS, bird flu, swine flu, and this most recent affliction: not being Chinese.
Bright side, Bordell! A minor issue in the grand scheme. At least it got me writing again. I was hopelessly stuck, but now I can show you exactly what I'm talking about. Foreign environments can explode in your face without notice, leaving the intrepid novelist, once he's calmed down, with a whole new chapter.
Where was I . . . Ah, I was about to tell you more about all the lovely folks you come across in this haphazard habitat. And the locals—don't get me started. All smiles and emphatic bows until the president makes some offhand remark about the supposed sovereignty of Taiwan. Bite your tongue, sir, for it is the lowly expat who pays the price of your geopolitical indiscretions! Today, just eviction. But tomorrow, who knows? The gulag? We won't stand for it!
We came here for opportunity and adventure. And when the time is right, we'd like to leave with happy endings and fistfuls of green. No desire for a last-minute chopper escape from the roof of the Ritz. But can you imagine? This lot? Look at us, so varied, so colorful—characters with personas as unique and rare as our very DNA. The Turk, the Dane, the Mad Belgian. The Pope, the Queen, Sexy Barkeep. The Spaniard . . .
He snaps his fingers in my face. "You okay?"
"You're from the Canary Islands, right?"
"Yes, why?" he says, before looking over my shoulder to my open laptop. "Please don't put me in your stories, Anjo."
"You know what I'm talking about."
"Don't worry. No one reads my stuff."
He's shaking his head, about to say something else as I shut the door.
Hardly anyone uses a typewriter anymore, that time-honored battle ax on which countless of our favorite books were written. But the essence and vigor within that industrial clamor can still be summoned by typing on my weapon of choice: the mechanical keyboard. Invest in eternity—big and clunky, blue switches if possible. Anything worth doing!
I doubt much of any significance has ever been written on cheap, effeminate tap pads. Most garbage they sell these days are so metrosexual, so anemic, so . . . bloodless. Mac? Degenerate nonsense! Manicured, silent little widgets, so dainty and pale, engineered for maximum emasculation. Candy-coated impotence, unfit for writing even the most trivial of emails.
But clackety-clack! You know what that is? The sound of your roommates kicking you to the curb, your wife rescinding her vows. Progress, productivity—the sound of your novel being written. Noise, glorious noise! Like the jackhammers outside my window. And you, your words, your scathing indictments—take another swig of Chivas as you write your stories in maddening, explosive keystrokes, subversive prose roaring across the page—evidence of your existence, proof of your creative power, your vitality, your final purpose.
The keyboard I use is 100% double-fisted badass, tough, reliable, and loud.
Much of my novel was first written with old fashioned pen and paper. I recommend finding a pen you like and buying five of them and fifteen refills.
About this pen and paper . . . As you cut the lights before bed, make absolutely sure that your writing tools are within easy reach. I have a notebook and pen assigned to this post, never to leave my bedside except when transcribing the pages on my computer with my noisy keyboard. (A separate notebook and pen(s) are in my bag at all times.)
Very important: As we shut our eyes, we must be ready for those beautiful checkmates and ingenious plot twists to fall from the heavens into our pre-sleep subconscious. These are lucky breaks, offerings bestowed upon us from the cosmos of creation that's always swirling around us. We must treat these gifts accordingly. Their value is immense and the price is merely switching the light back on and putting pen to paper.
We've all told ourselves at some point that "this is such an obviously grand maneuver that only an idiot would forget it by morning." Then back to sleep, smiling to ourselves at how incredible our ideas are and how swimmingly our book is coming along. And then halfway through the next day we're vaguely aware that there was something important we should have remembered. I can't speak for everyone, but I never remember. Once I realized how indispensable were these bedtime brainstorms, I never chose sleep over inspiration again. And had I allowed laziness to prevail, my book would have been far inferior to what it has become, or would never have even been completed.
Everyone does his own thing. But my life is so impossibly fascinating that I'm sure you're just dying to know about my personal writing routine.
China is loud, even louder than my keyboard, especially ground zero in a mess like Shanghai, and even more especially with the busy intersection below my window. I'm used to it by now, with two notable exceptions: the curse of the hammer drill, and the old man outside, street level across the way, who plays the instrumental theme to Titanic on infinite loop on his little radio made for old deaf people. Even with all the traffic, bus horns, shouting, sirens, and street cleaners, I can hear that old man's radio as clearly as if it were sitting on my desk. And that song is really, really annoying. But God bless him. Haven't seen him in a while. Hope he's okay.
I can write during the day, but it's not optimal. I'm most productive in the hours before the sun shows up for its usual morning struggle against Shanghai's atmospheric filth. If I get to bed on time, around 9pm, I'll be up at four. I'll drink half a liter of warm water with the juice of two lemons. (No Chinese hocus pocus here. I'm worried about kidney stones. Once was enough.) Then a steaming mug of Bulletproof coffee and half a pack of Reds. Coffee is one thing. Bulletproof is another. It should be the standard breakfast of writing champions everywhere.
Civilization is quiet, and only those of us who have been deprived of the relative noiselessness to which we are accustomed can fully appreciate it. An early start with a clear head ensures the best conditions from which imagination can burst like a supernova through the splendor of silence. I can write full tilt until the bar girls come home at 5:30, tramping up the steps and chatting down the hall, finally returning my solitude with the slamming of their apartment doors. The sky brightens, a thousand buildings come into view, traffic increases, and I'm done by 6:30, maybe 8:00 on weekends.
A few hours of daily stress cripples my creativity, so afternoons are less productive. Sometimes I'll spend three hours on one lousy paragraph, cursing out loud my hermitic calling, disgusted with the entire situation, and wondering if fifteen stories is high enough for an effective cure.
I've tried writing in coffee shops. Of the 100k-plus in this city, I've found a couple of decent spots, with soft music and comfortable chairs. But like a lot of places in Shanghai, they vanished without notice, were gutted, and a week later rechristened as real estate offices or banks. I've tried a few others, but even when empty, the Whitney Houston and Kenny effin' G. blasting through the speakers got old in under a minute. I don't bother anymore, resigning myself to writing at home in my dilapidated dugout. You should see these digs. Most people would be appalled if they saw the conditions in which I live and write. They'd buy my book out of head-shaking pity. I can't even bring local guests here. I've learned my lesson with that. And now that I'm getting the boot, things are about to get a lot worse.
But anyway, I like a view. Not that the view I have now is so great, but it's something. Distance in front of me, an expanse to absorb my stares. And there's a certain third-world urban loathing in my surroundings that keeps me in check. I fear being mesmerized by a better environment. A more picturesque setting, like a misty Irish coastline or a panorama of Rockies, could sap my ability to write with such caustic mockery. My conscience might not allow it. The devious creativity on which I depend might turn soft and sentimental, and this is not a risk I am prepared to take. Like it matters. Barely a buck to my name. So, for now at least, Shanghai it is.
I don't mind the odd, unplanned distraction, as long as it's entertaining. Like the occasional fist fight in the street below, or fireworks going off in my face, provided it isn't during Chinese New Year, when the novelty of fireworks wears off after the first of many 24-hour periods of uninterrupted incoming. And even that is preferable to the hammer drill and the old man's radio.
The internet isn't too much of a distraction for me, especially in China, where the blood-boiling ritual of connecting to the outside world is far more distracting than the would-be content. But mobile messaging apps will kill your productivity. I've had to quit chat groups altogether because I couldn't get anything done. It isn't so much the time that's stolen, but your attention span, which will eventually be reduced to a generous five seconds. And it's not enough to merely put down the phone, because you'll still have that constant urge to check what new hilarious and very important messages have been posted, and how you can contribute to such earth-shattering discussions. Cold turkey, friends. On par with quitting smoking. And be ready for withdrawals—the shakes, depression, and loneliness. But come deathbed regret day, I doubt you'll be wanting to trade all the books you've written for another animated meatspin. This is just my experience, of course. If you can write your novel in five-second increments, then by all means.
And TV is a bottomless black hole of time, soul, and productivity. Nothing new here. They make excellent targets at the range.
Steve Albini, sound engineer extraordinaire and peerless champion of the analog medium, has said that if he were to cease presenting bands with reels of magnetic tape documenting their grinding toil in the studio, and instead were to simply hand over a digital file, then he would "feel like a fraud."
Indeed. And while "ebooks are forever," as Lord Konrath says, they're about as prestigious as MP3s. On the fringe of physics, they barely exist. The fruits of our struggle, years of drudgery, reduced to faceless data. I hate telling people, after they learn of my novel, that it's only available as a crappy digital file. Do I "feel like a fraud?" Not exactly, but there is a certain dismissive sentiment, on both sides, that the author and his work have been confined to amateur hour.
After all, any jackass can upload his miserable tripe to the internet. Just like indie bands. But musicians showcase their true worth by performing live, which is much more effective for gaining fans and income than a lousy author's website and feeble pleas to "buy now" and prayers that unsuspecting readers will invest hours of their precious time reading your book, actually liking it, and then telling ten thousand friends.
But yes, I have effectively bypassed the Manhattan puppet masters and have therefore avoided years of low-crawling through broken glass. And the money is already rolling in. All twelve dollars of it.
I gripe about our measly digital files masquerading as "books," but I concede that Amazon has done a remarkable job with its development of the Kindle. I was a diehard, and they had skeptics like me in mind when engineering this little device that may prove to be more profound and game-changing than the so-called smartphone. I still revere the superiority of paper books, but the Kindle is a worthy second.
What about CreateSpace? My apologies, but if I were ever to see my book in bound paper, I would never settle for less than a proper offset printing. I'm very particular about presentation and quality, and with paper books, only industry standard can satisfy my demands. Anything less would be like watching a brilliantly shot movie on dusty old VHS. In mono. It's hard for me to enjoy the content when I'm being distracted by the inferior format. And I would find it difficult to live with myself if I were to subject my readers to standards beneath my own.
It's not just me. Everyone knows there's more status in having a traditionally published book. But I suspect, as we all do, that this lamenting of self-publishing's lack of prestige will diminish in the coming years as young readers, brought up with various devices in their faces at all times, are less instilled with the pleasure of paper books, and will have little nostalgia for these relics from prior generations.
But until this becomes "normal," self-published Kindle authors will be fighting an uphill battle of preconceived notions of illegitimacy. This makes it all the more important that we are fanatics in our pursuit of excellence, and that we refuse to settle for anything less. This is our responsibility to ourselves and the poor reading public, whether you're writing an expat novel, a self-help book, or a dystopian epic about nuclear zombie . . . lesbians.
Simple Things To Avoid
I've never been much of a team player, but some of the rules of our trade have been established for reasons that are incontestable.
"Ah, thank you, Bordell! How many books have you written? One?"
Yes. But even so, I am well aware of certain foibles to avoid, glaring weaknesses I sometimes see in the writing of even "properly" published authors. I'm no expert. But the internet is. Just do a search for the overuse of dialogue tags and LY-adverbs. How these infirmities have yet to be eradicated is beyond me, but your writing will click up a notch by simply reducing them to an acceptable level.
Flat characters and boring dialogue are common complaints of dissatisfied reviewers. Remember this, and write accordingly. With an international cast ranging from charismatic to shady to outright full of shit, there is no excuse for flat, uninspiring discourse in an expat novel. Make your dialogue realistic and interesting whether or not it's actually "moving the story forward." Extra points if the reader laughs out loud.
Keep in mind that your book needs to pass the expat smell-test. Make sure you know, or at least appear to know, what you're talking about. And readers back home might not notice the hackneyed accounts of over-tread foreign subject matter, but people with experiences similar to your own might cringe. Some things are inevitable, such as confusion resulting from the culture and language barrier. But use your judgment and try to avoid the more wince-inducing clichés of the country in which your novel is set.
Watch the overuse of foreign words. My first draft had too many Chinese terms, phrases, and street names scattered about. Then I realized they added nothing to the story and were like unnecessary narrative speed bumps. All but a very few got the ax. Of those remaining, if the meaning isn't immediately obvious, then it's explained later, but not necessarily defined. This is an important distinction, akin to "show don't tell." Explain the meaning in the context of the story, or otherwise cleverly insert it into the following dialogue.
I touched on this earlier—my disdain for the use of pop culture terms and brand names, especially when related to our ubiquitous connectivity. iPhones, Facebook, Twitter, selfies, YOLO, etc. Don't talk about this crap. In the interest of making your novel as timeless as possible and not so immediately dated, be very careful with the use of these timestamps of fleeting relevance. Mentioning Facebook is one thing. But imagine having written your novel a few years earlier and your hero was using MySpace. Or dialing up to CompuServe on his 486 to do a Lycos search for PB Max on the World Wide Web.
Everything today is so transitory and cheap. Make your work the exception. Ebooks are forever, yes? Then we must write like we believe it. After all, I'm talking about writing a novel here, not a blog post. The ebook format is flighty enough. There is no need to make it even more throwaway. We should treat our work with a sense of permanence, and avoid the mistake of choosing the low road of our temporary culture, awash in gizmos, gadgets, and gimmicks. Because in the space of one year, an otherwise timeless novel could become as irrelevant as The Sun Also Rises.
Shortcuts and skimping will sabotage your efforts regardless of what you're trying to accomplish. Anything worth doing, remember? So don't skimp on your artwork! I went with awesomebookcovers.com and I think the results are fantastic. Note to Amazon: if our book covers are so important, then why has your pathetic resizing algorithm destroyed my colors, eh? I'll tell you what—sign up for the newsletter on my website and I'll send you a link for a downloadable poster. Print it out four feet across. It looks amazing.
And if you're not going to hire an editor to wade through your sloppy mess and turn it into something worthy of your good name, then you are wasting your time as well as everyone else's. I didn't skimp on Default, and I didn't rest until I got the results I wanted. And while readers might disagree on how many stars it should receive for story and style, I am absolutely certain that no one will lump my novel in with that contemporary scourge of ebook self-publishing: the "tsunami of crap."
Closing Argument
Expat or homebody, novelist or pamphleteer, we are all witnesses to global changes of historic proportion. Whether it's confrontation between restive empires or the proliferation of this little device called the Kindle, the Order is in transition, and these shifts in power are nothing short of momentous.
Regardless of what the future holds for the victims of international upheaval, I agree with Lord Konrath when he says there has never been a better time to be a writer. And if you combine this with the intoxication of an increasingly unstable yet readily travelable world, I'd say it's even more true for the expat novelist.
But there's no Parris Island for this, no drill instructors kicking our butts and violently molding us into professionals. It's up to us to lay on the hate, putting our miserable selves through this awful, desolate gauntlet of writing, editing, publishing, and promotion.
Everyone has a "voice" now, for better or worse. Don't waste yours. We must do our part in breathing life back into a culture that has become so childish, superficial, and complacent. Make your life count, make your writing count. Write every day like it's your last. Write every book like it's your last. Carpe diem, carpe librum.


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Making derivatives markets in Europe safer and more transparent
As part of its ongoing work in creating a sounder financial system, the European Commission has tabled today a proposal for a regulation aimed at bringing more safety and more transparency to the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market. In its draft regulation, the Commission proposes that information on OTC derivative contracts should be reported to trade repositories and be accessible to supervisory authorities. More information will also be made available to all market participants. The Commission also proposes that standard OTC derivative contracts be cleared through central counterparties (CCPs). This will reduce counterparty credit risk, i.e. the risk that one party to the contract defaults. The Commission's proposal, fully in line with the EU's G20 commitments and the approach adopted by the United States, now passes to the European Parliament and the EU Member States for consideration. Once adopted, the regulation would apply from end 2012.
Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services said: "No financial market can afford to remain a Wild West territory. OTC derivatives have a big impact on the real economy: from mortgages to food prices. The absence of any regulatory framework for OTC derivatives contributed to the financial crisis and the tremendous consequences we are all suffering from. Today, we are proposing rules which will bring more transparency and responsibility to derivatives markets. So we know who is doing what, and who owes what to whom. As well as taking action so that single failures do not destabilise the whole financial system, as was the case with Lehman's collapse.
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Greater transparency: Currently, reporting of OTC derivatives is not mandatory. As a result, policy makers, regulators but also market participants do not have a clear overview of what is going on in the market. Under the Commission's proposal, trades in OTC derivatives in the EU will have to be reported to central data centres, known as trade repositories. Regulators in the EU will have access to these repositories, enabling them to have a better overview of who owes what and to whom and to detect any potential problems, such as accumulation of risk, early on. Meanwhile, the new European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will be responsible for the surveillance of trade repositories and for granting / withdrawing their registration. In addition, trade repositories will have to publish aggregate positions by class of derivatives to give all market participants a clearer view of the OTC derivatives market.
Greater safety - Reducing counterparty risks: Under the current situation, participants in the OTC derivatives market do not sufficiently mitigate counterparty credit risk, which refers to the risk of loss arising from one party not making the required payments when they are due. Under the Commission's proposal, OTC derivatives that are standardised (i.e. they have met predefined eligibility criteria), such as a high level of liquidity, would have to be cleared through central counterparties (CCPs). CCPs are entities that interpose themselves between the two counterparties to a transaction and thus become the 'buyer to every seller', as well as the 'seller to every buyer'. This will prevent the situation where a collapse of one market participant causes the collapse of other market participants, thereby putting the entire financial system at risk. If a contract is not eligible and therefore not cleared by a CCP, different risk management techniques must be applied (such as requirements to hold more capital). As CCPs are to take on additional risks, they will be subject to stringent business conducts and harmonised organisational and prudential requirements to ensure their safety – such as internal governance rules, audit checks, greater requirements on capital etc.
Greater safety - Reducing operational risk: The OTC derivatives market allows for a high degree of flexibility in defining the economic and legal terms of contracts. As a consequence, there are a number of highly bespoke and complex contracts in the market that still require significant manual intervention in many stages of the processing. This increases operational risk, i.e. the risk of loss due to, for example, human error. The Commission's proposal requires market participants to measure, monitor and mitigate this risk, for example by using electronic means for confirming the terms of OTC derivative contracts.
Scope: The proposal applies to all types of OTC derivatives. It applies both to financial firms who use OTC derivatives but also to non-financial firms that have large positions in OTC derivatives. It also applies to CCPs and trade repositories. However, when non-financial firms (such as manufacturers) who use OTC derivatives to mitigate risk arising from their core business activities ("commercial hedging" used to protect against exchange rate variations for example), they are exempt from the CCP clearing requirements.
A derivative is a contract between two parties linked to the future value or status of the underlying to which it refers (e.g. the development of interest rates or of a currency value, or the possible bankruptcy of a debtor). An over-the-counter (OTC) derivative is a derivative not traded on an exchange but instead privately negotiated between two counterparts. The use of derivatives has grown exponentially over the last decade, with OTC transactions being the main contributor to this growth. At the end of December 2009, the size of the OTC derivatives market by notional value equalled approximately $615 trillion, a 12% increase with respect to the end of 2008. However, this was still 10% lower than the peak reached in June 2008.
The near-collapse of Bear Sterns in March 2008, the default of Lehman Brothers on 15 September 2008 and the bail-out of AIG the following day started to highlight the shortcomings in the functioning of the OTC derivatives market, where 80% of derivatives are traded. In a Communication on Driving European recovery from March 2009, the European Commission committed to deliver, on the basis of a report on derivatives and other complex structured products, appropriate initiatives to increase transparency and to address financial stability concerns.
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210 comments:1 – 200 of 210 Newer› Newest»
- McT said...
Now seriously, how in the hell are you supposed to get 50 yellow?
- 24 April 2017 at 12:15
Worst level ever. Been stuck for days. No fun at all. Thisclose to quitting CC for good.
- 24 April 2017 at 17:52
Need lots of luck here!
- 25 April 2017 at 09:41
- McT said...
I am looking to my friends for any help here...to me, this one is impossible...am I doing something wrong?
I actually cleared the cake and had 26 more moves left, BUT, just about every 'check' I activated turned to chocolate and not a yellow...I still had 33 more yellows to go when i was left at zero....I cannot get remotely close to beating this level...before I quit, any help out there?
- 25 April 2017 at 11:09
Hard level indeed. CC should either increase the number of moves or reduce the number of yellow candies. I've only managed to break through the cake three times and was lucky to get a dozen yellows let alone the massive amount required to beat this level.
Waiting for the magic board once again!!!
- 27 April 2017 at 01:50
Posting for luck. Having a hard time reaching the cake bomb through the chocolate, specially when there is no boosters left.
- 27 April 2017 at 12:58
well, today there was an update on CC on Firefox, and it's a new interface. Apparently it brought me luck, because I got plenty of yellow. It took me 4 tries to be able to detonate the cake bomb but once I did, I got lots of checks and lots of yellow. Finished with 3 moves left, and 3 stars, and plenty of check marks still on the board.
- 27 April 2017 at 17:15
- Lucia said...
I don't see any prospect of passing this in this lifetime. Absurdly lucky video as always.
- 28 April 2017 at 10:08
I'm playing on desktop (these levels are not open yet on Iphone). Found that after using the "boring" meter, CC give me a lucky board and let me pass the level.
- 29 April 2017 at 09:03
50 yellow? Really? Someone is out of their mind! I guess I wait until Wednesday when I can use my boosters! Come on King!
- 29 April 2017 at 14:49
How much longer can we tolerate this total bull shit from King. Enough is enough. We are not paid beta testers.
- 30 April 2017 at 01:28
Posting for luck. Number of moves would be ok if yellows were less. Will probably do it easily Wednesday when available on mobile with boosters earned. Wish there was challenges/contests (stripes, helmet, etc) on PC to get free boosters.
- 30 April 2017 at 03:59
I'm the one who just posted for luck .... AND GOT THE LUCKY BOARD!!!! Perseverance is the key for sure. Now, lets move on and see what's in store for the next levels.
- 30 April 2017 at 04:07
- cedarberry said...
Ugh. No tips here. The chocolate seems to grow faster than usual, sometimes 3 squares will get made in one turn. VERY frustrating.
I've detonated the cake bomb and gotten all the chocolate squares I needed only to have the "check" candy give me nothing but more chocolate. Bad form CC.
- 30 April 2017 at 07:10
Beyond ridiculous I'm guessing King idiots will have to nerf this - don't bother until they do folks
- 30 April 2017 at 07:37
also posting for luck. hard time even clearing cake. got chocolate. never mind yellow.
- 30 April 2017 at 15:03
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- 30 April 2017 at 21:00
- Sebastian said...
Grateful to have completed previous level, but it was out of the frying pan and into the fire.
- 30 April 2017 at 21:26
- Sebastian said...
This level is so darn boring.
- 1 May 2017 at 02:42
- Jan said...
Been playing this one for days and not got anywhere near. I've nearly given up in the past but this one is so ridiculous I have to stop for my own sanity. Hopefully it'll come on the ipad as a different level altogether, as occasionally has happened in the past. I'm certainly not trying again for a few days.
- 1 May 2017 at 04:05
Impossible to reach 50 yellow! Come on King!
- 1 May 2017 at 05:34
- cedarberry said...
So, I just passed this level with 3 stars. I ended up using a lollipop and a hand switch at the very end.
Don't be too afraid of hitting the magic mixers, I blasted everything I could to clear the cake bomb as early as possible and still easily got all 50 chocolates.
Once the cake bomb is clear, it's a panic to focus on the 'check' candies for the yellows, especially with so few moves left, but keep an eye on the top of the board, making a color bomb can really shake up the board and get tons of yellows matched up pretty quickly. Luck, y'all.
- 1 May 2017 at 10:09
My first post, a frustrating one...
Today I really passed this level, wow, happy. But now, when I wanted to continue, it doesn't move and I have to play it again, and again, and agin...
Very very frustrating!
- 1 May 2017 at 10:49
- Sebastian said...
Ready to quit, when up popped the lucky board. Passed with 3 stars using one hammer.
- 1 May 2017 at 15:49
- Johanna Rees said...
I've cleared the cake, and all the chocolate, but the left hand side of the board's check candy turn into more check candy and not yellow. The right side turn into yelllow only.
- 1 May 2017 at 19:40
impossible, no time to get enuf yellows, the levels is awful, stuck for ages
- 2 May 2017 at 09:45
I can always tell how difficult a level is when I come here to check for tips and see all the comments! This level is freaking impossible! Would post saying it was for luck, but I doubt it will help!!!
- 2 May 2017 at 10:13
- Johanna Rees said...
Finally finished after two days. The secret is vertical drops. Started with a stripe/wrap booster combo which cleared a lot of chocolate, and half the cake. Concentrated on verticle stipes to clear cake which took out most of the chocolate to release check candies. Don't waste time trying to match check candies as they turn into either chocolate or other check candies, just keep concentrating on making combos and colour bombs which take out the check candies and turn them into yellows. I never cleared the spawners, just kept the chocolate in check. At the end, I had one yellow on board with only one move left so used a hammer. Always keep a few hammers and hand switches when a hard level comes up. Finished with three stars.
- 2 May 2017 at 20:29
need a little help......or luck?:-)
- 2 May 2017 at 22:35
I cheated. CB from helmet matched with CB booster to start. This half cleared the cake. Cleared cake, which cleared rest of chocolate. After that, l played in bottom half of board, where loads of check candies appeared. Concentrated on matching these, but kept chocolate in check so it did not block the dispensers. These levels all seem to need loads of boosters, and the trick is using them to best advantage.
- 3 May 2017 at 03:54
- Robyn Lor said...
Possibly worst level yet! If that's possible!!! SMH
- 3 May 2017 at 04:29
The chocolate is not that hard. Once you break through the chocolate and get your 50, then the secret to the yellows is getting a yellow wrap in the bottom. Once I got that, it was a cascade of yellows which made more wraps, and so on. Done with 10 moves left.
- 3 May 2017 at 06:39
Posting for luck
- 3 May 2017 at 07:31
- carlton said...
Win if you can ..lose if you must but always cheat...Ric Flair
- 3 May 2017 at 09:01
This level is total horse shit.
- 3 May 2017 at 09:24
Thanks, Susie, I have the red helmet and added a sprinkle booster which turned up near the other sprinkle. A hand swap put them together and that did it along with the three extra moves from the helmet. Carol the elder
- 3 May 2017 at 10:39
First try with 17 moves left, 3 stars. Used a chocolate sprinkle combo. After that a few stripes and a stripe/ wrap combo which finished off the cake. After I got the ingredients the board went into CC Fireworks. Every lucky candy turned into a chocolate sprinkle and exploded. Finished with 2,201,000 points.
- 3 May 2017 at 14:37
End game, end game, end game, end game
- 3 May 2017 at 14:57
Too many yellow CC, now i need a lucky board
- 3 May 2017 at 14:58
This level is not doable and is impossible gone to play my Playstation 4 Candy Crush os not any fun anymore
- 3 May 2017 at 18:57
This level seems to be absolutely impossible. There is no way to clear cake and have enough moves left to collect 50 yellows. Here's hoping King decides to look at this level again.
- 3 May 2017 at 19:17
- Anonymous said...
How is that cheating? You earned the helmet and the colorbomb. You figured out how to use them wisely. You won!!!!
- 3 May 2017 at 19:39
- Sandy Carter said...
Yes, it's level is hard. But I am not going to complain if king finally got the message that we hate, hate, hate time the levels. There weren't any in the last two episodes, am I right?
- 3 May 2017 at 21:22
- Travis Bradford said...
Once I cleared it I got in a loop where it kept creating specials. It took 40 minutes to end, but it finally did. Have plenty of battery life.
- 3 May 2017 at 23:08
- Mark Potter said...
Did the same as a previous anonymous poster. CB from helmet thing matched with CB booster. 2nd try using this method with plenty of moves to spare.
- 4 May 2017 at 01:36
- SharonH said...
Posting for luck as I'm using all my turns just to hopefully remove the cake. Of course that leaves me very few for collecting those 50 yellows! Chocolate, no problem! Looking for that lucky board, because skill, as always, isn't involved in CC anymore!
- 4 May 2017 at 07:16
Cleared d level... after reading this page.... it is really lucky for me... whenever i am stuck at a level.
I come to this page... and yo the level is cleared...lucky page...
Tried 100 tyms before but couldn't clear...
- 4 May 2017 at 12:13
Cleared the level after coming to this page
- 4 May 2017 at 12:14
- Anon 1 said...
Used boosters - a striped/wrapped combo to start. Reset until they were near the top middle of the board (had to use a handswitch to get them together). That cleared half the cake; soon after that a stripe took out one side, so I used a hammer to take out the last piece. Because if you can clear the cake as early as possible there's plenty of time to collect the yellows - just note that some of the special candies will turn into chocolate until the chocolate tally is reached. So a bit expensive on boosters, but done!
- 5 May 2017 at 00:43
- Ness Mc Murphday said...
Went to play today and remembered what level it was so went to watch paint dry instead!
- 5 May 2017 at 01:12
When it quits being fun time to quit.
- 5 May 2017 at 03:58
So bored with this level! As usual at kings mercy!! Just boring!!
- 5 May 2017 at 04:51
Posting for luck. Been on level for days and the closest I had was 14 yellow left. My friend, got on the level yesterday and boom bing bang, she is past it. Hoping posting and grumbling that I am going to quit (which I am not) will bring me my lucky board..Most of the time it does!!!
- 5 May 2017 at 05:52
Posting for luck. Been playing for days. PC and tablet. no way. help.
- 5 May 2017 at 06:43
- Ness Mc Murphday said...
Oops! Forgot again..back to the paint!
- 5 May 2017 at 07:07
- Dog lover said...
Posting for luck. Hope it works. Been stuck for days even the boosters from the helmets didn't help.
- 5 May 2017 at 09:26
I Need a Lucky Board please
- 5 May 2017 at 11:31
Posting for luck!
- 5 May 2017 at 11:42
This level is impossible. Chocolate no problem. Smashed the cake bomb several times but getting yellows with so few moves is impossible. Refuse to waste more boosters. Will have to wait until next time the helmet is available and keep playing level one until I get a lucky board.
- 5 May 2017 at 16:02
Finally beat this level , it is doable, eventually. Managed to smash the cake bomb with 18 moves left. Had to use a hand swap booster to move 2 choc bombs together which then cleared the chocolate in the bottom part of the board. A wrap in the lower part did the most damage after that. I was actually shocked when I won !
- 5 May 2017 at 16:24
- cherylb said...
I can't even get close on this level...even the few times I've broken thru the cake, I can't get enough yellows..bored beyond bored
- 5 May 2017 at 21:27
I'm just here to read the comments ;). Just kidding. I've been on this level for DAAAYYYYYYYYYYs...I can't pass even WITH boosters. I love sense of humor some have so I am here to read those and to grumble as well and the old "posting for luck"...now back to try to kick the level because I 'POSTED FOR LUCK"....
- 6 May 2017 at 04:55
- Dee said...
Just passed on computer after 5 extra moves. Took me several attenpts to realize starting with any type of boosters was a waste. Clearing the cake bomb is important. This will allow check marks to drop out of the side dispensers and the majority of time results in 3 matching checks that turn into 3 yellow in a row that clear - hope that makes sense. I completely ignored the chocolate on top - and was lucky enough to have a lot of cascades - this has been a terrible series so far - afraid to look at what's ahead. Good luck!
- 6 May 2017 at 05:02
- cherylb said...
I guess it's time to take a CC break cause I'm bored trying ..been 4 days...and still not even close to enough yellows...does king think this level is fun or challenging?? I'm out for awhile
- 6 May 2017 at 06:19
Help i Need a Lucky Board
- 6 May 2017 at 12:42
Posting for luck please pretty please!! Been stuck on this level for 4 days and no where near even using all boosters to start with. Any more tips would be very welcome.
- 6 May 2017 at 15:31
- Ness Mc Murphday said...
Don't worry..the next level is almost as bad!
- 7 May 2017 at 03:28
- susieq said...
Played 3 times, could see it was going to be tricky so looked on here for strategies. None given! So I started with a spotty ball and crossed it with a square. Good start then the board opened up and I finished with ease. Amazed! Then an absolute cascade of specials dropped and my final score was almost 5 million. Bizarre!
- 7 May 2017 at 04:08
Posting worked!! Cleared the cake then 2 lucky candies turned into yellow wraps and fell together. So pleased to move on
- 7 May 2017 at 09:06
Well, I came here and decided 5 more tries this week and I would get a real life. Guess what within 5 goes, BINGO. Believe me when it goes it goes - 10 minutes of explosions ... just don't check out during the count down, it will do it itself eventually even if you have to plug your device on to charge during the grand finale. Onward crushers.
- 8 May 2017 at 14:14
So am I...
- 10 May 2017 at 01:57
Posting for lucky board.
- 10 May 2017 at 05:40
Pretty sure this is impossible. Give me a lucky board please King.
- 10 May 2017 at 10:57
I wish Candy Crush would quit making levels like this one! It gets so boring to play over and over and over and over! I do not mind hard levels if you have to think about your moves, but having to play something over and over until you get the "lucky" board is just dumb! Come on Candy Crush, you can do better than this!
- 10 May 2017 at 11:41
This just seems impossible. I can't even break the cake bomb. Lucky board please.
- 10 May 2017 at 17:14
It's mathematically impossible. Please King give us a fair chance. Or give me a lucky board.
- 10 May 2017 at 17:46
Lucky board please
- 10 May 2017 at 18:32
This level seems so mpossible in the number of moves. Can't get enough yellows.
- 11 May 2017 at 19:13
Need a lot of cascades and a chocolate sprinkle to just appear like to n the video . Horrible level.
- 11 May 2017 at 19:21
Video even had a lucky streak at the end or they wouldn't have been successful. Frustrating level.
- 11 May 2017 at 19:22
Used double chocolate sprinkles and got a lucky board finally.
- 11 May 2017 at 19:46
Posting for a lucky board . . . .
- 11 May 2017 at 21:18
50 yellow IMPOSSIBE!! Have played board about 100 times. Can't get combos, can't break cake bomb, the couple times I have, chocolate eats yellows,,need moves increaded to about 75!! Boosters DON'T help, so don't waste,,,wait for a lucky board!!
- 13 May 2017 at 04:06
- Brian said...
Hard level = impossible until lucky board-don't waste boosters.
Regular level = impossible without boosters but luck still needed.
- 15 May 2017 at 05:01
Really?50 yellows....
- 16 May 2017 at 20:48
No magic helmet at the moment. Posting for luck. Good luck everyone.
- 19 May 2017 at 12:05
Guess I'll go find something else to do till the helmet returns. Impossible level.
- 19 May 2017 at 12:24
Talk about adding insult to injury. The check marks often turn into chocolate which you have zero problem getting enough of. Is it too much to ask that they all turn yellow? Don't worry about getting rid of the spawners. It's pointless. You'll be out of moves long before it matters.
- 19 May 2017 at 12:38
I'm going to go join the person watching the paint dry. It would be more fun.
- 19 May 2017 at 12:58
This level is very unfair. I thought I had finally got my lucky board. I had 21 moves left after the cake exploded and the bottom was open. Unfortunately the spawners were still there and Making chocolate twice as fast as usual. I was doing ok till the board shuffled and sent the yellows I had everywhere. Needless to say my lucky board wasn't lucky after all. I have no boosters left. A few times I've managed to get a wrap and stripe together but they always explode instantly for no reason. Just a little fairness would be nice King. Thanks a bunch.
- 19 May 2017 at 16:39
How is it possible that EVERY TIME I make a special candy it is INSTANTLY covered by chocolate? Come on! This level is ridiculous. Posting for luck.
- 20 May 2017 at 07:55
I guess I'll be waiting for the helmet to come back. This level is impossible otherwise. Chocolate multiplies at an astounding rate. Special candies get eaten as soon as you make them. Check marks turn into chocolate instead of yellows. I'm out of boosters. If I had a gun I'd shoot the spawners. And I'm utterly sick of mindlessly playing.
- 20 May 2017 at 08:27
- Booboo said...
As with other comments this level, IMO, is impossible. Every time I make a combo it is eaten up by chocolate. It multiplies faster than usual and there is no fun attached to playing it. King has certainly lost the plot on this one. No one is going to pay for extra moves, lives when there is zero chance of collecting 50 yellows which you can't collect because of: chocolate multiplying, too few moves, too many yellows to collect, bars across the pizza cake, not forgetting a pizza to crack!.
Forget it King, you have really spoiled what used to be an entertaining pass time and it's surely not for greed since, no one be stupid enough to spend money on CC after playing this level. Just my two penny worth.
- 23 May 2017 at 17:43
- slychard said...
Another obnoxious level to the extreme degree. They really have no imagination these programmers. Try making the game fun, I can think of countless new ways to implement that would make this a fun game that requires strategy and not a lucky board. I mean really. Get off the bad acid. Jerks.
- 26 May 2017 at 19:34
- slychard said...
After starting off with stripe/wrap Booster for the 5th time, after resetting every time to have it lined up directly above the cake, I was able to bring the yellow count down to 6 with careful planning throughout the "match" with 2 moves left. I saw no other way to pass this dreaded level without using 3 hammers once down to 1 move and although I only had 4 hammers left I used 3 to get the heck out of Dodge. Good luck y'all.
PS; seems every time I post here to lament I pass the level on next try.
- 26 May 2017 at 20:00
- Nicole Hardy said...
Somehow scored 16,758,500 on level 2455. Took me 4 days and not sure what I did just glad to be done with it.
- 31 May 2017 at 04:25
- Patricia Presley said...
Hate this level. It is no fun and seems impossible!
- 9 June 2017 at 09:12
This level is evil!!!
- 13 June 2017 at 06:15
- Mawaja said...
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- 13 June 2017 at 11:11
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- 13 June 2017 at 11:11
- Eric Stier said...
Yes it was difficult but not impossible. Once I got to the bottom the fireworks started. The explosions went on forever. Candy bombs everywhere. I ended up with over 2,200,000 points.
- 16 June 2017 at 15:26
Posting for luck. This is the first time I have felt like quitting. Don't see how I can do this.
- 22 June 2017 at 20:42
- byrnesmp said...
King finally made me quit. 50 yellows? Two weeks of playing and I think I cleared just the cake ONCE - But I'm supposed to get 50 yellows AFTER the cake? I've spent close to $300 on this game over the years. Usually it was because I knew I was being impatient and didn't want to wait for a lucky board. But now I know they're treating me like an ATM - just making it impossible and forcing me to spend money. Well, I won't. Not anymore. I hope the tons of paying players like me who quit on this level make up for the few remaining suckered who will pay to get by it. Congrats King - this is why you are going out of business.
- 23 June 2017 at 23:09
- Annonymous said...
Posting for luck and sooo bored.
- 26 June 2017 at 13:39
- Annonymous said...
And I won on the next play!
- 26 June 2017 at 13:46
Started with 2 sprinkles together which cleared most of the cake. Then got all the choc. But the yellow is a joke how the hell are u supposed to get 50 of the bloody things. Another boring friggin level waiting for that lucky board. Come on King this is a friggin joke ;(
- 26 June 2017 at 22:40
Posting for luck
- 28 June 2017 at 16:13
- momma said...
King is at it again, wasting my time and money! No more!
- 9 July 2017 at 09:58
posting for luck
- 9 July 2017 at 15:05
posting for luck
- 9 July 2017 at 15:06
posting for luck
- 9 July 2017 at 15:07
posting for luck
- 9 July 2017 at 15:07
this is the worse level ever. it needs to be changed. I know that is not fair to those who spent $$$ on boosters to pass it but it is really the worse ever. i have the same complaint as the rest in here not enough moves. too many yellow to get and as soon as i get a strip or a yellow chocolate covers it up. I don't mind a challenge for that is why we play but this is really rediclous.
- 10 July 2017 at 11:42
Passed 1st try after reading comments, used helmet CB plus another CB reset board until side by side, managed to make another 2 CB's used hand switch to get them side by side then it was plain sailing! 3 stars 5 moves left bingo!!
- 11 July 2017 at 01:29
Another farcical level. Create stripes and they get turned to chocolate before you get a chance to use them. All done to halt progress for days on end.
- 14 July 2017 at 09:43
So difficult can't get anywhere near the yellows can't see how to solve this one
- 20 July 2017 at 10:45
- The Posh Pearl said...
I'm so frustrated with this level. I will get say a red stripe and then wait for the reds to help me launch. I won't get one red candy for 8 moves or so. If that is not a fixed game, I don't know what is. Boosters are no good because the put it in a place where I have to use it with my first move. The game is not skill!! It's all about the lucky board which I'm begging for because I'm losing my mind!
- 28 July 2017 at 10:22
- The Posh Pearl said...
I've been saying that for years. The people who pay are getting hood winked. It's why I would never consider buying them. I can never use my my boosters the way I want. They force me to use it as my first move almost every time.
- 28 July 2017 at 10:31
- The Posh Pearl said...
I think you are getting scammed. I'm personally never able to use my boosters the way I want to. It's usually the first move where I'm forced to use it in a way that doesn't help me!
- 28 July 2017 at 10:36
What the heck. Twice on this level I've had chocolate machines give me TWO chocolates at a time instead of the ONE at a time that I thought was the rule. "Hard level", my butt. They should call these "cheating level"s. Stupid jerks.
- 28 July 2017 at 13:53
Time to take a break from the nonsense. This is not fun. 50 yellow?!?!? 50??? I'm lucky if I can get 3! Heck, I'm extremely lucky if I can get the cake. I hate mixers with a passion, they make me want to smash my device into the wall.
- 30 July 2017 at 06:06
- Creeky said...
Posting for luck as it won't happen any other way. Not a fun level (to put it mildly).
- 7 August 2017 at 05:18
Boring, boring, boring. Watching paint dry is more fun. Giving up and going to read a book.
- 8 August 2017 at 02:58
- anoniem said...
At last succeeded this level and then it went crazy. It didnot stop. so I closed the game and gues what? I have to start this level all over again. that is not funny at all.
- 8 August 2017 at 23:41
- Don Ketz said...
Posting for luck.
- 11 August 2017 at 05:53
Posting for luck (sick and tired of this level)
- 14 August 2017 at 10:20
I am going to try posting BEFORE I try this level. Sounds like I am going to need a lot of luck
- 26 August 2017 at 18:59
Posting for luck. Got close a few times when I was able to make nice combos, but need the magic board.
- 27 August 2017 at 20:08
- Christine Hague said...
Posting for luck promised husband I will quit if I don't pass today help me
- 30 August 2017 at 21:21
OK King you have beaten me down! This game is SO not fun anymore I guess I will be looking for another hobby!
- 10 September 2017 at 20:05
You know it's bad with this many comment. Impossible!!!
- 13 September 2017 at 06:02
Awful awful level yuk
- 17 September 2017 at 22:41
Posting for luck seems a pointless exercise but with such a pointless game I am not getting anywhere so let's give it a try!
- 22 September 2017 at 05:05
I have got this far...know how to play but having big trouble with this level. can't get rid pf the cake...the few times I did had 17 moves left but then nothing matched...Cookie makes it look so easy!!
- 23 September 2017 at 08:39
Oosting for Luck.....
- 28 September 2017 at 11:27
- liloldlady said...
So much to do, so few moves.
Shall be stuck here for some Time...
- 2 October 2017 at 17:12
- tissy Kossey said...
I can't do this one. Maybe if we put a bad review they will redo this game
- 14 October 2017 at 08:02
- Anton A said...
Had unlimited lives for 2 hours - tried all 2 hours without stop - impossible. Luck and only luck. Shitty level. Posting for fckin luck
- 17 October 2017 at 11:13
Wth! This is ridiculous and beyond doable! Ugggggghhhhhh!
- 23 October 2017 at 17:31
- Marielle Litr said...
50 yellow ...impossible!!! It's not fun at all
Too much is too much
Lucky board or I give up 😟😟😟
- 24 October 2017 at 05:10
- Marielle Litr said...
I will stop wasting my time and my money playing this stupid game!!! No more fun and no luck .....
- 24 October 2017 at 11:47
- Marielle Litr said...
The worst level..... no luck ....impossible to finish 😥😥😥
- 27 October 2017 at 05:22
Haven't completed it yet, but once (out of MANY) had only 3 yellows left. One thing I noticed after watching the video is to continue to look at the top of the board for the chance to make specials, even after hitting the cake and freeing up the bottom. I've done (a little) better since trying that.
Posting for luck.
- 7 November 2017 at 16:41
Well the post for luck worked! This time I was able to make a couple of stripe/wrap and stripe/stripe combos up top to get rid of the cake and open up the bottom early on. Once you finish the chocolate, all the check-mark candies will give yellows, so finish the chocolate early on. The key I think was being able to make stripe, wraps, and combos on the bottom after opening that up. That finally gave me enough with one move to spare.
- 7 November 2017 at 17:42
I think this is beyond me. Posting for a lucky board.
- 16 November 2017 at 07:29
Desperately in need of the famous lucky board!!!
- 17 November 2017 at 04:18
Feeling very discouraged. Lucky Board PLEASE. I want to move forward.
- 20 November 2017 at 04:00
I am resorting to Begging!!!!!! Please, please, please CC, give me a lucky board so I can get past this level with my sanity in tact.
- 20 November 2017 at 10:41
This is so ridiculously impossible that it may finally do me in. Lucky board soon or color me gone
- 24 November 2017 at 12:22
- Joy Cole said...
Another impossible level. Can only get about half the yellows, if I get any at all. Some rounds I don't. Not having any luck with boosters either
- 29 November 2017 at 12:37
Impossible to get 50 yellow without lucky board.posting for luck
- 10 December 2017 at 20:17
158 comments complaints? There are challenges and then there are .......
- 27 December 2017 at 15:54
- Barb Whitlock said...
Outrageous level! One of the most difficult I've encountered. Using booster special candies have only resulted in turning in to more damnable chocolate, so don't waste you time or use of up your bank of boosters, none of them seem to help. I am not going to use any more of my 'stash' of boosters. Level from hell.
- 28 December 2017 at 11:15
I am so tired of your crap levels, no fun anymore. I gave it my best and you can take this level and cram it and I will take my life back after months of wasting time that I should have been doing something worthwhile with my life. Kiss it.
- 4 January 2018 at 20:46
Terrible level. Need help
- 24 January 2018 at 05:39
This level is impossible. Ready to give up.
- 4 February 2018 at 07:50
- Char P said...
Posting for luck, or a miracle. Most of the time I can't get even one yellow let alone 50 my check ones turn to chocolate. And to top that off I see the next level is another hard one. Come on, make this game fun again :(
- 9 February 2018 at 04:16
At the end of my first attempt I still needed dozens of yellows when I ran out of moves.
Can't see how this can be beat unless the number of moves is increased.
- 20 February 2018 at 14:30
Clear the cake? Work in the bottom half of the board?
Has anyone been able to do either?
I haven't.
- 21 February 2018 at 07:12
Nothing working and I've tried everything - burning boosters until they're gone and then so am I
- 22 February 2018 at 10:54
Really CC? This is crazy. Been stuck here forever. Only way to pass has to be a lucky board. Come on lucky board it's time to move on
- 25 February 2018 at 14:32
The chocolate goal isn't the problem it's the yellow candy? Even with using boosters no luck!
- 15 March 2018 at 19:23
- Denise said...
It's no way possible to get 50 yellows! WTF KING!!!
- 2 April 2018 at 15:29
Posting for luck. This is impossible!
- 5 April 2018 at 06:40
cherylcandycrush here.
This is not a hard level, it is VERY hard or diabolical. But it can be done.
We can all see you need to clear the cake & get to work on the bottom section to get yellows but usually I finished with well over 40 still to go. I tried using boosters-several at a time-and basically got nowhere.
Don't waste boosters.
I think you will have to wait for a lucky board to some extent. I just got through, no boosters.
I cleared the cake with only 5 moves to go. What made the difference for me was a colour ball/colour ball match, which caused a cascade & some other exploding specials.
It will eventually happen for you, just look for the chance to make a double sprinkle if possible.
- 29 April 2018 at 17:50
When I see this many comments, I know it is a tough level...I found out it is not just hard, it's impossible. 50 yellow, really? Only resort is wait for a lucky board or break the addiction
- 10 May 2018 at 08:19
need a lucky game, been close twice very boring.
- 13 May 2018 at 10:27
I mean really. This is idiotic
- 15 May 2018 at 09:44
I thought the same thing about the number of comments. So boring at this point
- 15 May 2018 at 09:47
- Rachel said...
This is an absolutely RIDICULOUS level. No fun at all on this one. I have NEVER gotten within 30 of the yellow ones. This may be the one that finally does me in.
- 31 May 2018 at 11:45
- Annomous said...
Seeing all these comments says it all. Ridiculously hard game with not a hope of getting through without a LUCKY BOARD. Most of us do not mind a challenge but this is just not fun any more. Tried every thing but only managed to get down to 30 yellows. PLEASE do not IGNORE Us players, after all without us there would not be any CANDY CRUSH. Play fairly KING or you will continue to lose players.
- 1 June 2018 at 14:21
- Annomous said...
Day 5 on this game and still not getting any where near finishing this game even after using boosters. LUCKY BOARD PLEASE HELP CANDY CRUSH . I am not getting any where near finishing this game.
- 2 June 2018 at 11:32
Crying about quitting won't help a lick.
Posting for luck, and I'll get it soon.
- 3 June 2018 at 14:43
^^ Next session passed with lucky board. It works.
- 3 June 2018 at 20:16
I found that getting rid of one of the spawners helped as the other produced enough chocolate to hit the target. Getting rid of one spawned meant I had space then to develop the yellows. Horrid level.
- 30 June 2018 at 04:29
So hard. I have blown up the cake with 20+ moves left and still haven't come close to 50 yellow.
- 5 July 2018 at 07:34
- Marwanjo said...
Let me laugh, 50 yellows, dont even try, What a sick game, no fun, no stratigy. Thats the game cc today. Well Good luck with iT.
- 11 July 2018 at 13:43
This level makes me laugh. And give it up.
- 15 July 2018 at 13:40
When I first played this level, I could see how it could be possible to win it, but after days stuck here, I have to agree with everyone else. This level is retarded. Another wait for the lucky board level. Sigh.
- 17 July 2018 at 17:48
So sick of this impossible level, if it really does any good, I'm posting for luck.
- 24 July 2018 at 13:51
- susan elster said...
Posting for luck, again.
- 5 August 2018 at 00:37
- Sharon Smith said...
Not even close to getting the yellow! Posting for luck
- 8 August 2018 at 06:20
Posting for luck.. this level is RIDICULOUS!
- 9 August 2018 at 09:28
- Carol D said...
ugh impossible level...need luck here...thanks
- 12 August 2018 at 18:57
- Unknown said...
I quit😡
- 1 September 2018 at 08:16
- Alessandra said...
Load of utter rubbish .
Tried 50 + times
Bored to death with this
I'm done
- 13 September 2018 at 12:26
Posting for luck.
- 24 September 2018 at 10:31
- Silverdollarbill said...
Finally got it after playing it for about two weeks, starting with the CB and stripped wrapped boosters, on the second to the last move. First move was a CB wrapped switch. A few vertical stripped. A stripped wrapped switch finished off the cake. A stripped wrapped switch over the left third finished the game.
- 22 October 2018 at 21:52
Posting for luck! ��
- 27 October 2018 at 12:13
By far the worst level ever! This is not even remotely possible, what's the point in trying! Sick of shit levels and sick of all the poxy adverts you are now forced to watch!!
- 30 October 2018 at 09:30
- Old Lady said...
Can't even get close.
- 27 November 2018 at 04:54
- S A Olson said...
Absolutely horrible. There is no way to get 50 yellow. Time to.just give up for a while and hope something changes and I get lucky. Boring to.so the same thing over and over and over and never even get close.
- 9 December 2018 at 16:03
- Candy Thompson said...
Posting for lucky board
- 30 January 2019 at 06:06
This is a horrible boring level ! I have been playing a couple of days and am not even getting close ... I guess I have to wait or pray for a lucky board ...LOL !!! I hate these really hard impossible ones .................
- 7 February 2019 at 10:06
- Carole Rodriguez said...
Waiting for a lucky board..
- 12 February 2019 at 03:18
- Carole Rodriguez said...
Boring!!! Over and over with no avail. Gosh!!!
- 13 February 2019 at 01:07
- Tammy Caison said...
Boring, impossible. Not even close plus cc idnt giving me daily ad pin credits, they disappear directly after winning them...they d.c. ont even show up on games anymore. Bad form cc, time to quit for a bit
- 27 February 2019 at 06:57
Like every one else posting for a little luck. I'm not quite experienced to have helmets and sprinklers so am desperately needing help
- 27 February 2019 at 10:29
King - is this level a joke??? After many attempts it has proved virtually impossible to clear the cake, let alone 25 yellow candies as well. Not sure how much longer I'm going to waste my time on what was once an enjoyable game.
- 28 February 2019 at 01:33
- Unknown said...
Please reduce the number of yellow candies. Impossible!!!!! No fun when it can't be done. bored.
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|Not Applicable
In the United States, patients dependent upon parenteral nutrition (PN) receive parenteral fat emulsions composed of soybean oils. Lipids are necessary in PN dependent patients due to their high caloric value and essential fatty acid content. They have been implicated in predisposing patients to PN associated liver disease. Phytosterols such as those contained in soybean oils are thought to have a deleterious effect on biliary secretion.
Children requiring prolonged PN are at risk for developing PN associated liver disease. We hypothesize that although omega-6 fatty acid emulsions prevent fatty acid deficiency, they are not cleared in a manner similar to enteral chylomicrons and therefore accumulate in the liver and resulting in steatotic liver injury. We further hypothesize that a fat emulsion comprised of omega-3 fatty acids (i.e., fish oil) such as Omegaven™ would be beneficial in the management of steatotic liver injury by its inhibition of de novo lipogenesis, the reduction of arachidonic acid-derived inflammatory mediators, prevention of essential fatty acid deficiency through the presence of small amounts of arachidonic acid, and improved clearance of lipids from the serum. Animal studies have shown that IV fat emulsions (IFE) such as fish oil that are high in eicosapentaenic and docashexaaenoic acid reduce impairment of bile flow which is seen in cholestasis caused by conventional fat emulsions. Intravenous omega three fatty acids may be well tolerated and might reduce the inflammatory effect in the liver of prolonged PN exposure and could potentially reverse any hepatic dysfunction due to PN/IFE use. By administering Omegaven™ in place of conventional phytosterol/soybean fat emulsions we may reverse or prevent the progression of PN associated cholestasis and thus allow the patient to be maintained on adequate PN until they are able to ingest adequate nutrition enterally.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|90 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Research Study of an Intravenous Fat Emulsion Comprised of Fish Oils (Omegaven) in the Treatment of Parenteral Nutrition (PN) Induced Liver Injury
|Study Start Date :
|September 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|April 2019
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|April 2019
Historical controls
A subset of patients previously seen, who have had at least 2 consecutive direct bilirubin levels > 2 mg/dL, who depended on parenteral nutrition for at least 90 days after surgical therapy for congenital or acquired intestinal diseases
Other: Historical Controls
Standard of Care
|Experimental: Omegaven™
Drug: Omegaven™
1 g/kg/d of Omegaven until discontinuation of PN
Other Name: Highly refined fish oil for intravenous administration (10% Omegaven™)
- Rate of reduction of direct bilirubin [ Time Frame: normalization of direct bilirubin: an expected average of approximately 5 months ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 21 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients will be parenteral nutrition dependent and are expected to require PN for at least another 30 days
- Patients must have parenteral nutrition associated liver disease (PNALD) as defined by having at least 2 consecutive direct bilirubins >2 mg/dl.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy
- Other causes of liver disease
- Enrollment in any other clinical trial involving an investigational agent (unless approved by the designated physicians on the multidisciplinary team)
- Direct bilirubin < 2 mg/dl
- Allergy to any fish product, egg protein, and/or previous allergy to Omegaven
- Active coagulopathy characterized by on-going bleeding or acute need for clotting factor replacement such as FFP or cryoprecipitate to maintain homeostasis
- Impaired lipid metabolism as defined by serum Tg level >400 at time of initiation of Omegaven
- Unstable diabetes mellitus
- Recent stroke/embolism, not including catheter related thrombosis, which is a common complication of central venous catheter.
- Collapse and shock
- Undefined coma status
- Untreated infection at time of initiation of Omegaven
- Hemodynamic instability
- > 21 years of age
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01089426
|United States, California
|Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027-6016
|Principal Investigator:
|Russell Merritt, M.D., PhD
|Children's Hospital Los Angeles
|Responsible Party:
|Russell Merritt, Medical Director of Nutrition Support and Intestinal Rehabilitation, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01089426 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|March 18, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 6, 2019
|Last Verified:
|May 2019
Keywords provided by Russell Merritt, Children's Hospital Los Angeles:
Pediatric patients with Parenteral Nutrition (PN) induced Liver Injury
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Wounds and Injuries