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• Trump on the defensive.
The Republican front-runner Donald J. Trump came under attack from Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in Thursday's debate, and earlier in the day from Mitt Romney and John McCain.
There were insults, genitalia references and even some foreign policy chatter in the debate, but the candidates agreed to support whoever becomes the nominee.
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• On the campaign trail.
This weekend, both parties hold caucuses in Kansas and Maine, and a primary in Louisiana. Republicans will hold caucuses in Kentucky and a primary in Puerto Rico, while Democrats caucus in Nebraska.
Bernie Sanders will campaign in Illinois today and hold rallies in Nebraska and Kansas. Hillary Clinton will speak about jobs and the economy in Detroit.
• Lead poisoning in the U.S.
A congressional delegation, including the House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, will be in Flint, Mich., to hear from families affected by the city's contaminated water.
But too much lead in children's blood has long been an everyday fact in Cleveland and many other cities.
• The next Supreme Court pick.
Democrats are seeking to unseat Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican and Judiciary Committee chairman who has become the face of his party's refusal to hold a hearing on President Obama's nominee.
He was expected to easily win a seventh term, but he'll now have a formidable opponent, as the stakes rise in the tussle to fill the vacancy.
• Reaganomics for China.
President Xi Jinping is turning to tax cuts and deregulation — like those advocated by conservative Western leaders in the 1980s — to overhaul the faltering economy. The plan takes center stage at the annual session of the National People's Congress.
In the lead-up, state media outlets described times Mr. Xi has cried, as part of a broad effort to humanize him.
• First family to stay in capital.
President Obama says his family will stay in Washington until his younger daughter, Sasha, finishes high school in the spring of 2018.
• The U.S. Labor Department said today that employers added 242,000 workers in February.
That's 72 straight months of job gains, the longest streak on record. The unemployment rate is 4.9 percent.
• Technology companies have filed court briefs challenging every facet of the government's case against Apple over access to personal data.
• Brazil's former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is in custody as the police look into a colossal corruption scheme involving Petrobas, the national oil company.
• Amazon has announced two new siblings for the voice-controlled household assistant that people address as "Alexa."
• U.S. stocks are higher. Here's a snapshot of global markets.
• At the movies.
In the comedy "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot," opening across the U.S. today, Tina Fey plays a wisecracking journalist sucked into the grueling but addictive pursuit of war reporting. Here's what else is coming to theaters.
• Sports roundup.
A federal appeals court panel signaled that it was not sympathetic to the defense of the Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in what is known as the Deflategate case.
And the retired soccer star Brandi Chastain has agreed to donate her brain to research for the study of concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease.
• Nonstop-flight record.
Emirates Airlines flew this week between Auckland, New Zealand, and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates — 8,824 miles — in what is believed to be the longest nonstop scheduled commercial flight by distance. It didn't set the record for duration, however, because it landed an hour early.
• What to watch.
Season 4 of the political thriller "House of Cards" finds President Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) on the campaign circuit while his wife, Claire (Robin Wright) — not content to be mere arm candy as first lady — masterminds her political ascent. Catch up on past episodes here.
With the series finale of "Downton Abbey" on Sunday, we present a crash course in Downtonology.
• In case you missed it…
Among our most popular articles this week: The challenge of taming turbulence, the leading cause of injuries to passengers and crew on commercial flights.
Plus, the first global assessment of dangers to the creatures that pollinate the earth's plants warned of declines that could threaten food supplies, and the comedian Aziz Ansari chronicled a trip to India.
• Weekend eats.
It's time to try this upgraded version of Mississippi roast, the Pinterest sensation.
For a treat, you can make these chewy, crunchy, chocolate and peanut cookies from Nigella Lawson in about an hour.
Back Story
With Hillary Clinton taking a step this week toward the presidential Democratic nomination, let's recall another female trailblazer in the U.S.
Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in a president's cabinet, as labor secretary, upon Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration on this day in 1933.
About 13 million people, a fourth of the labor force, were unemployed at the time, and she sought to get them back to work through an alphabet soup of new agencies and programs.
Ms. Perkins was pivotal in the development of much of the New Deal's social legislation: establishing worker safety, maximum hours and minimum wages. She led the cabinet committee that drafted the Social Security program.
A native of Massachusetts, Ms. Perkins graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1902 and became a social worker in New York. She was having tea at a friend's townhouse in 1911 when screams and sirens interrupted them.
The Triangle shirtwaist factory had gone up in flames nearby, eventually killing 146 workers, most of them women trapped in a locked, 10th-floor sweatshop.
Ms. Perkins became a leading advocate for stronger safety measures in the city and was recruited to work for New York's state government.
From there, Roosevelt, the New York governor, took her to Washington, where one of the greatest periods of organization in U.S. labor history occurred under her 12-year tenure.
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Survive! is a multiplayer first-person shooter in the spirit of "Serious Sam", but with creative building using wooden crates. Bloody, but cartoonish. You and the other players are trapped in a remote desert and are being attacked by waves of monsters. You need to pile up crates and react fast to defend yourself. The game can be played with 1 to 8 players, the difficulty will be adapted automatically.
Released Version 0.7 Alpha for online play. Download and extract the zip file somewhere except "program files". You're ready to play!
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Loved too, good idea about using Cell shading as graphic style.
Dude, very good game but, need more servers, or LAN support, or single please :)
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Don't worry, that is planned for the next release, version 0.71.
I'm trying to finish it as fast as possible, but my time is limited so it will take about a week, I guess.
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Over the years, Israel and allied U.S. leadership have been slowly but steadily applying different measures to try to kill the Palestinian issue.The expansion of settlements, the recognition of occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the nation-state law, the withdrawal of all U.S. funding for UNRWA, and reports that the U.S. and Israel might recognize only 500,000 refugees, despite the presence of up to 11 million Palestinians across the globe: None of this has happened overnight.U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power at the same time is a Zionist bonanza for Israel's expansionist, colonialist occupation.
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In December 2012 the American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education awarded $20,000 to the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission ("Commission") under its Access to Justice Commission Expansion Project. The purpose of the grant was to determine whether it was feasible to raise significant contributions to support the provision of civil legal services to low-income individuals and families from businesses, business leaders and nonlawyers.
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FRANKFURT: Bosnian auto supplier Prevent has no plans to launch a full takeover of rival Grammer, and expects carmakers like Volkswagen to honour their contracts, Prevent executive Christian Becker told German daily Handelsblatt.
The comments come after automotive interiors maker Grammer warned that the growing influence of Bosnia's Hastor family, which owns Prevent and has a more than 20 percent stake in Grammer, has led carmakers to pare back business with the German company.
"Reports about a takeover or a transfer of business to other locations are pure speculation. We do not aim to launch a takeover," Becker, who heads up Prevent DEV, told the paper's Wednesday edition.
Prevent has demanded it get seats on Grammer's supervisory board as a way to tighten its grip on the German company. Prevent has declined to detail its plans for Grammer, but demanded that Grammer raise the level of profitability.
"Thanks to our experience in the automotive area we are a different investor than a bank or an investment fund. We demand more because we understand more about the business," the paper quoted Becker as saying.
Grammer's management has said that order intake has halved since the Hastor family increased its influence, without elaborating further.
Becker also said Prevent wants to increase its business with Volkswagen. A dispute between the Hastors and Volkswagen escalated last year, resulting in stoppages at Volkswagen Golf assembly line.
"Just as Volkswagen expects this from us, we too expect contractual reliability," Becker told the paper.
In a separate interview in Handelsblatt, Grammer's Chief Executive Hartmut Mueller said the Bosnian investor group has not explained its motives for demanding seats on the supervisory board, and has made any dialogue conditional on an extraordinary shareholder's meeting being called first.
Grammer has declined to call such a meeting and has instead sought to bring in a white knight investor, China's Ningbo Jifeng, to dilute the Hastor family's influence.
Mueller said Grammer was continuing its efforts to improve profitability. Grammer aims to raise its earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) margin to 5 percent in 2017, from about 4.3 percent currently.


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Stay up to date with all that's new and noted in the world of weddings – we give you the lowdown on this week's bridal buzz.
Flower power
The vibrant sight of summer-fresh flowers is enough to get anyone in a jovial spirit. From jewellers to cosmetics companies, it appears this season, everyone's inspiration is flower power. Why not follow suit for your wedding day – floral crowns, petalled rings and flower-infused perfumes are the perfect feminine finish to your bridal look.
Donovans chocolate
Looking for favours? We're loving Donovans chocolate at the moment – wrap flavours such as Feijoa Milk Chocolate and Chilli & Lime in paper that matches your colour palette for fuss-free treats your guests will love.
Layering rings
Rings upon rings upon rings. When it comes this season's hottest jewellery, it appears stacking is the way to go. Mix and match slim bands for a unique arrangement that's high on style.
Ring boxes
The key proviso for an irresistibly photogenic day? Details – and lots of them. Our favourite finds this week came in the form of ring boxes: store your rings in a container that matches your theme, then keep the box as a memento to be passed through generations.
Rustic trend
Once again, rustic elegant theming looks to be all the rage this wedding season – think terracotta pots, hessian, pre-loved décor and loose arrangements of whimsical blooms. Make a beeline for your local opshop, because vintage crockery is this theme's pièce de résistance.


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I took this photo two years ago shortly after returning from visiting my family overseas. It was the first Christmas that we'd spent together in the eleven years since I'd married my husband and moved across the world to Australia. It was a wonderful Christmas, but on returning home I was weighed down thinking about the results of the decision we'd made to live in this sun-kissed land Down Under and the price that both my family and I have paid and continue to pay. I cried for the meals we don't have with my parents and brothers each week, for the times my Mom is sick and could do with a hot cuppa in bed in the morning and a little mother-daughter time, for the hours my father and I would spend talking about and handing on books and discussing the merits of thick-cut marmalade. I wept for the distance between my children and their grandparents, itched jealously for the time they spend with my nephew and niece and grieved for the relationship they haven't had the time to build with the amazing husband that I am blessed to have. I felt sick staring down the corridor of the rest of our lives knowing how unlikely it is that this will ever change.
On our last day before returning to work, we went to Victor Harbour, a beautiful little South Australian town not far from where we live, and I took this picture. Those are my three little angels there walking off into the scrub, the proof of this other life that I lead all the way across the sea from my family. They are my life's joy and worth every second of the sadness that I feel. The irony is, that as they walked off ahead of me without pausing to look back, I realised that there was a loving mother standing somewhere behind me and taking a photo of her child heading off into life, not pausing to look back and see the hopes and dreams and fears that she holds for me. Except that now I was looking back, and seeing…
Every mother knows there will be a day that her children will not need her anymore. Some look forward to the independence and embrace it with open arms. Others fear it and cling smotheringly to their children. I hope that I will handle it differently. I see that day coming somewhere in the distance, and know that it is as it must be. I don't want my children to live looking backwards but striding confidently forward into all that the journey ahead holds for them. I want them to discover their own paths and have adventures, even if it means that it will take them far away from me. But I want to know they are safe, that they are loved and surrounded by friends. I want to know they have the equipment they need to brave the journey and so I am planning for that day, filling them with words and memories that will make them secure and show them that they are loved more than they can imagine. We are actively building a friendship with them today that we hope will last into adulthood. I know that they cannot know themselves yet, but that they see who they are reflected in my face and in the way that I treat them and so I reflect their best selves back to them so that they grow into the best men that they can be, and I shout out from behind them that I believe in them, that I love them and that I am so proud of who they are…just as my mother has done for me.
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Maybe this is old news but David Hembrow has a parts website for dutch bikes: www.dutchbikebits.com.
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Sound Unseen and KFAI Radio present a special screening celebrating KFAI Radio's 40th anniversary with a rare screening of "Little City in Space" directed by noted Czech Republic director Miroslav Janek (Citizen Havel).
This special is co-presented by: KFAI Radio
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 | DOORS AT 6:30PM/SHOW AT 7PM
Venue: The Trylon Cinema, 2820 E. 33rd St, Minneapolis, MN 55406
Cost: $10 in advance / $12 at the door
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In 1983, documentary filmmaker Miroslav Janek became involved with a group of volunteers running a tiny community radio station out of the belfry of a Unitarian church in South Minneapolis. Operating at a humble 14-watts, KFAI hosted a motley crew of characters pumping out blues, progressive rock, foreign language programming, and absurdist radio theater to anyone who could pick up the signal.
The result of a year's worth of footage, Janek's "Little City in Space" documents the early days of KFAI radio, which celebrates its 40th year on-air this year. The film highlights some of the station's disparate volunteer DJs, including Chicago bluesman Lazy Bill Lucas, accordion player/barber Helge Lamo, and Minneapolis blues mainstay Willie Murphy.
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text: How have our lives changed since the advent of the computer age? What if this question had already been answered in the first decade of the 20th Century? Written at a time when computers were still considered people, E. M. Forster wrote a short story that presaged our current condition of screen addiction, social media frenzy, and the resulting feelings of isolation.


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I love Addie's school. Each Friday, they have an assembly and each week, a different class gets to sing a song for the school. Friday was Addie's class' turn. They sang 5 Little Pumpkins. Adorable, right?? But then, her teacher welcomed a surprise guest. Elsa!! Addie just happened to be front and center. Elsa was standing just inches from her! She was amazed! Elsa sang Let It Go with a full choir of 2-5 year olds singing along then visited each classroom.
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Curious private dinners in Brussels are key moments in Brexit process | UK News
It was a busy night for the chefs at the British ambassador's residence in Brussels on Monday night.
The opulent building, sandwiched between the Swiss and American embassies on the Belgian capital's grand Rue Ducale, was the venue for two separate but simultaneous dinners.
One, we knew about – the other, a curious meeting, we didn't.
The first of the two dinners was publicly billed. It was Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay's first meeting with EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.
The meeting was the consequence of Theresa May's return to Brussels last week for her meeting with EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.
This dinner was significant if only because it constitutes "negotiations" of sorts between two sides who have not really engaged directly since before Christmas.
Remember – the British and EU negotiating teams signed off on the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and the accompanying Political Declaration on the future relationship in December.
Together the documents represent the Brexit divorce treaty. But ever since, the deal has been blocked in Westminster.
The guests at this publicised dinner included Steve Barclay MP from the Department for Exiting the EU and Olly Robbins, Mrs May's Europe adviser from Number 10.
With them were Michel Barnier from the European Commission and his two deputies: Sabine Weyand and Stephanie Riso.
The host was the UK's permanent representative to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow.
It was, judging by the menu, a delicious meal. Pan-fried North Sea sole with Scottish scallops and Welsh samphire followed by roast duck breast, then pear parfait and British cheeses. All washed down with Sancerre and St Emilion.
The key focus of the dinner was to explore ways to get the Withdrawal Agreement through Westminster despite the fact that the EU won't reopen it or remove the backstop.
After a couple of hours, Michel Barnier delivered with a familiar message: "We held constructive talks. It's clear from our side that we are not going to reopen the Withdrawal Agreement but we will continue our discussion in the coming days. That is all."
The feeling among a critical number of MPs in Westminster, as voiced by Boris Johnson this week, is "of course they'll say that now. But soon they'll budge".
A statement from a UK spokesperson said: "The meeting was constructive and Mr Barclay and Mr Barnier agreed to further talks in the coming days and that their teams would continue to work in the meantime on finding a way forward."
But in another dining room in the same building (presumably eating from the same menu) was a much more curious gathering.
Just after 7pm, Sky News cameras spotted the former president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, arriving by limo at the residence.
If you don't remember Mr Van Rompuy, you may remember the extraordinary moment when Nigel Farage called him a "low-grade bank clerk" to his face in the European Parliament chamber in 2011.
"Who are you?!" Mr Farage had jeered. "You have the appearance of a damp rag and the charisma of a low-grade bank clerk."
It was a moment that was as embarrassing to British europhiles as it was thrilling to eurosceptics. Anyway – what was Mr Van Rompuy doing at the British residence in Brussels?
Well I'm told he was attending a separate private dinner with Mrs May's deputy David Lidington MP. And I am told that it was a meeting Mrs May had specifically requested to discuss changes to Irish backstop.
The team at 10 Downing Street see Mr Van Rompuy as an "influencer", and David Lidington was the man to meet him.
Many on this side of the Channel consider Mr Lidington to be one of the few senior British politicians who really understands.
He was David Cameron's Europe minister from 2010 to 2016 and is seen as a very capable politician and diplomat – despite being unsuccessful in Mr Cameron's bid to secure concessions from the EU which would persuade the British public to vote to remain in the EU.
When you mention Mr Lidington's name in Brussels – at the commission, the council or the parliament – people tend to speak highly of him. That's more than can be said for pretty much every other senior UK politician.
Mr Lidington and Mr Van Rompuy also know each other. There is an existing rapport.
A few months ago, Mr Van Rompuy told The Observer that a British threat of no deal would not spook the EU side into moving position.
"Those [no deal] threats will not work vis-a-vis the European Union… I cannot imagine that a British prime minister or a responsible British government is even considering seriously a no deal, playing with the economic future of the country and its people," he said in August last year.
Did he say the same privately at the Monday night dinner? We don't know how the Lidington/Van Rompuy dinner went.
But I am told that after Mr Van Rompuy left the residence, Mr Lidington switched dining rooms to catch the tail end of the other dinner – the one with Steve Barclay and Michel Barnier. They all had coffee together.
Mrs May is urging MPs to give her a little more time to improve the Brexit deal.
She's asking them not to tie her hands by forcing her to extend Article 50, thus delaying Brexit. She is using the clock and threat of "no deal" to her favour for now.
When we look back at this Brexit process we may discover that innocuous private dinners, like Monday night's between Mrs May's deputy and the former European Council Ppresident, were key moments.
Right now the UK needs all the "influencers" it can get. Herman Van Rompuy is one.
"Every little helps?" I said to a UK source last night.
The anxious nod which came back said it all.


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Author: Rachit Mohindra, Product Manager, Teledyne Photometrics
The Prime 95B™ Scientific CMOS camera is great for imaging situations requiring both extreme sensitivity as well as a high acquisition rate, making it ideal for techniques such as super-resolution localization microscopy and single-molecule tracking. The Prime camera platform incorporates a powerful FPGA and performs real-time image processing optimized for specific applications to provide more useful experimental data.
Live Particle Tracking is the latest addition to the real-time processing capabilities of the Prime 95B camera, and is designed to increase the efficacy of single molecule particle tracking experiments.
How It Works
Live Particle Tracking, as its name suggests, is designed to identify individual single molecule particles and track them across the field of view by adapting a published algorithm tuned for two-dimensional tracking. The algorithm processes the images in the following order:
- Image detection
- Image restoration
- Estimation and refinement of point locations
- Non-particle discrimination
- Trajectory linking
- Image output with tracking meta-data
The image detection step requires the camera to determine only the dynamic portions of the image and disqualify anything static from detection. The data is then run through a restoration step which behaves as a bandpass filter, reducing both the high frequency and low-frequency noise, and allows the correction of any noise variation on a pixel-to-pixel basis as well as any background intensity modulations due to uneven illumination.
The points are then processed to determine the local-maxima within the radius of the evaluation kernel, and go through a refinement process to ensure a high efficiency in particle detection based on a threshold to reduce the susceptibility to false positives. Any remaining artifacts are filtered out during the non-particle discrimination step, aimed at hot pixels and cosmic events.
Finally, the particles are tracked and linked through the acquired frame stack. The metadata included with all images is updated to include the particle data within each frame, providing particle IDs as well as the ability to display particle path traces as well as boxes to outline each detected particle.
The Live Particle Tracking feature of the Prime 95B Scientific CMOS camera provides the ability to evaluate the behaviour of single-molecules during the acquisition, ensuring that expected behaviour can be determined early in the experimental process. By reducing the number of experiments that do not meet the required or expected rates of movement by the particles, the efficacy of experiments can be increased significantly.
I.F. Sbalzarini, P. Koumoutsakos. 2005. Feature point tracking and trajectory analysis for video imaging in cell biology


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Railroad Park within Walking Distance
I've spent a lot of time enjoying Railroad Park this spring. From the Counts Brothers Building I can walk there in 10 minutes. On any given given weekend afternoon there are hundreds of people picnicing, flying kites, throwing balls, and taking in the scenery. I like to take some pencils and draw at my favorite spot beside the lake (I included a couple of quick sketches in the pictures). At night I like to walk alongside the waterfall and look at the lights changing the color of the water. I took a couple of pictures of a peculiar feature, because the reflective tape looked cool in the camera's flash. I asked Camille, the park's executive director, what these things are and got this response:
I think their technical name is "bollards", whatever that means. Kids love them - they run around them like an obstacle course, and often they try their darndest to pull them out of the ground. Since the bollards are flexible, kids also love to whack them.
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Russian Conversation Group
In this conversation group you can practice and improve your Russian language skills.
The Russian classes have the aim to support women to learn more about Russian language. The Group is for beginners who are able to read Russian. We write down everything, grammar, vocabulary, etc. We work on pronunciation, we have little conversations and we are learning new words.
We are meeting once a week at IWCK Office
Please contact group leader Olga Pantserova at firstname.lastname@example.com or 097 261 2279 if you would like to join this group.
To see the full list of Interest Groups, follow the link.


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Archenemy of Thundra, Former Holder of Earth's Weather, Serpent, Dragon, Snake
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Héctor Elizondo
He is a large dragon like serpent god snake with the black dark purple feathered wings of a bird, a long tail with the lion's fur on the end of his tail and long black, purple, and white hair. He has green eyes and purple skin though his underbelly has a much lighter coloring and his bird wings have a much darker coloring on the outside and a grayer coloring on the inner feathers He has a long tongue and fangs. He has two insect antennas on his head.
Malcho is power hungry and desires nothign short of world domination. He cares not for the consequences of his actions and seeks to rule over all beings. He is capable of holding grudges for long periods of times against those who defy him or stop his efforts to rule the world, but he shows patience and cleverness, being very sneaky and knowing when to attack.
He is a large serpent who is good at strangling others with his long tail and is capable of flight. He is very strong and durable, considering he escaped from his frozen imprisonment and volcano imprisonment. He is also very intelligent and sneaky, knowing when to attack his opponents at their weakest or most vulnerable.
He used to be the holder of Thundra's medallion and controlled the weather until Thundra over threw him and took his amulet to use the powers responsibly.
In his debut, Malcho devises a plan to steal Thundra's necklace from Iago after observing them rom afar. He proclaims the age of the rain bird was over, and the Season of the Serpent had begun. He hunts down Thundra, Iago, Genie, and Abu but they manage to hide. Iago then tricks Malcho into thinking he wants to work for him by revealing everyone's whereabouts, telling him to get revenge first, and showing him how Thundra used her book of spells to use the amulet but in reality tricks Malcho to use a dangerous spell that freezes him its called the blast of The Arctic winds, allowing Genie to send him away to the frozen North Pole Arctic.
Later, Malcho managed to survive and came to Agrabah to hunt Iago down for revenge. Aladdin, as acting sultan protected Iago and managed to trick Malcho into being trapped in a volcano/ However, Malcho began to break free of his second prison, proclaiming that he would forget about Iago, and that when he is out of the volcano, Aladdin was his revenge.
It remains to be known how Thundra defeated him.
Thundra seems to know more about the amulet than Malcho considering the fact Iago was able to trick Malcho by using one of the spells Thundra wrote down in her book about how to use the amulet properly. Malcho base on a legendary hero serpent god Quetzalcotl from the Aztec Mythology.


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Episode 14: Władysław's Family Troubles
After meeting Władysław last time, we're going to continue with his life and times and examine what his rule looked like. Spoiler alert! It's not stable, peaceful, or idyllic. We'll meet up with his sons, Zbigniew and Bolesław III, his Count Palatine Sieciech, and his wives, Judith and Judith.
If you're interested in supporting the show or finding out more about the upcoming mini-series visit our Patreon page here: patreon.com/historyofpolandpodcast


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Paul M. Loeffler, MD
Contact Info:
Office:209-966-3631, ext. 5041
Facility/Office:John C. Fremont Hospital, Imaging Services
Education:B.A., Chemistry and Biology, in 1979 from Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana
1996 attained Medical Doctorate from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, in East Lansing, Michigan
Residency:1996-2000, Residency in Diagnostic Radiology, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
Certification:Diplomat, American Board of Radiology, 2000
More/Other Information:Dr. Loeffler is the Medical Director of the Imaging Services at JCF.
Radiologist, Central California Radiology Associates
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