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County Treasurer Andy Meisner Puts Heat On Congress Over Fannie/Freddie Tax Exemption
There's no shortage of people in Congress that are looking to get their paws on Fannie and Freddie because they share the same outrage that we've shared: That these entities were started for a good public purpose and that they have evolved into these monsters that have manipulated our markets, compromised our property values and that have kind of roughed up our families. -Oakland County Treasurer Andy Meisner
Other than Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr., Oakland County Treasurer Andy Meisner is only other politician in the American Midwest that is actually doing something to combat the rigged U.S. housing system that has done absolutely nothing but screw homeowners since the Great Recession began in 2008.
After losing the fight over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's federal tax exemption from state and local taxes earlier this year, those of us in that fight haven't stopped. Unlike MFI-Miami, who is now using this ruling to argue that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's use of "Foreclosure By Advertisement" in Michigan is a violation of a homeowner's civil rights and Curtis Hertel, who is taking the fight to the Michigan Senatenext year, Meisner has decided to take the fight to Washington where he learned Washington politics first hand working for veteran Congressman Sander Levin in the 1990s.
This is a smart move by Andy Meisner and it's a fight that he can probably win.
After all, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were chartered by congress and subject to congressional oversight. So logically, if you want to change the corporate culture of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, you need to persuade the people who control Fannie And Freddie's purse strings and write their by-laws to change the rules.
Meisner, unlike most other Michigan politicians actually understands the unique opportunity Michigan has when it comes to dealing with the government oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Michigan has three members of it's congressional delegation on the U.S. House Financial Services Committee. The three members are Bill Huizenga (R-Grand Rapids), Gary Peters (D-Detroit) and freshman Dan Kildee (D-Flint). Only California, New York and Texas have a higher representation due to their much larger congressional delegation.
All three members of Michigan's representation on the committee come from the world of real estate or finance. Huizenga was a former real estate broker. Peters was a successful stock broker and Kildee was a County Treasurer and founder of the Genesee County Land Bank that helped fight urban decay in one of Michigan's hardest hit industrial cities. So these three men make sensible allies in the fight especially with next year being an election year and Gary Peters running for the U.S. Senate.
Being the pragmatist he is, Meisner understands he can't retrieve the money that has already been lost and that any attempt to take this fight to the U.S. Supreme Court would be futile. So he is looking forward to the future. He wants Congress to change Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's tax exemption status until congress replaces Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as Peters suggesting doing in 2011 and he's lobbying other county officials from around the country to help him pressure congress.
According to the Oakland Press, Meisner is "now partnering with legislators across the country to draft language that would change a federal statute on whether the companies — which both went public less than 30 years after their creation — should be on the hook for, or exempt from paying taxes on deeds claimed in local municipalities."


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In the past five years, role-playing games have evolved beyond a niche hobby, growing in popularity among players. While the tabletop industry as a whole has been growing, in large part because of crowdfunding, RPGs have leapt ahead due to the birth of actual play shows. The medium has expanded beyond its strictly participatory roots to become a form of spectator entertainment akin to improv, with tendrils that touch comedy, drama, and mystery.
Per-channel engagement numbers are closely guarded metrics, but according to StreamElements, 2019 saw an aggregated 19.5 million viewing hours across YouTube and Twitch. This represents a 1,142% increase over 2018. It also aligns with a significant uptick in sales of new player products according to Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast.
Unlike other tabletop experiences, which often provide concrete rules for even the most unlikely of situations, roleplaying is a loosely scripted, intimate experience. It gives players the room to sink into another persona, whether that's to hunt monsters or solve a murder through investigation and interrocation.
It's that space between the rules that has spawned a form of roleplaying that transcends the traditionally cloistered dining room table to become a theatrical stage. Tabletop RPGs (and all board games) have traditionally suffered from a variety of accessibility challenges. Scheduling woes abound—ask any tabletop RPG group how hard it is to find an agreeable time for four or six people and you'll be met with nervous laughter and cringes.
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Geography is a constraint for assembling your party. And then you may have to content with a mismatch among player expectations. A game filled with dungeon dives and combat on a tactical map is different than an investigation that involves speaking with a number of game master-voiced NPCs.
Technology has helped some of this, of course. Skype, Discord, Tabletop Simulator, Google Wave (RIP), and Roll20 are digital solutions for an audience already sold on tabletop RPGs. What these don't provide is an on-ramp for potential players curious about how these games work. That's where actual play shows come in.
The movement started in 2010 with the first Acquisitions, Inc. panel/live play at PAX. But it was in 2015, when Critical Role hit the scene, that actual play shows became their own genre of entertainment. (Critical Role did not respond to requests for comment by publication.)
"It was March 2015 that Critical Role debuted on Geek & Sundry," said Greg Tito, senior communications manager for Dungeons & Dragons at publisher Wizards of the Coast. "My involvement started at that same time. I didn't really have a lot of context with how to work with talent in this way necessarily, but I immediately recognized that this was going to be the future. I saw the success that Acquisitions, Incorporated had in acquiring new audience members. The Critical Role audience, though it started small, ended up growing very quickly.
"It was also the time that Twitch had just been acquired by Amazon, and the entire ecosystem started to shift toward people watching other people play video games. I thought that doubling down on more tabletop live play shows would be a huge boon to the entire franchise. We started 'Dice, Camera, Action' in 2016, because that was a promotion for Curse of Strahd. Originally, that was going to be a short-running show drawing on YouTube popularity, as well as people who were known from other areas such as esports and things like that. That became insanely popular, I think mostly due to [Dungeons & Dragons principal story designer] Chris Perkins' involvement from D&D. That audience got into it and every cast member brought their own [audience]. The success of that allowed us to create relationships with smaller tabletop roleplayers that were in front of an audience. The entire ecosystem began to grow from there."
RPG publishers and actual play groups: the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Live-action roleplay (LARP) has built a strange reputation for itself over the years. The most common shared imagery is of a bunch of folks running around in the woods, beating each other up with foam weapons. While this is certainly a form of LARP, it isn't the full scope of what roleplaying troupes can do with great RPG systems, lore, and a generous helping of theatrical flair.
Jason Carl, the brand marketing manager at World of Darkness and the storyteller behind Geek & Sundry's "L.A. By Night" Vampire: The Masquerade actual play show, explained that LARP and actual play streaming shows have more in common than people tend to realize.
"LARP is a kind of living MMO, a living video game experience," Carl said during our interview. "It's immersive, it's very immediate, it's very personal, and in some way, it has more in common with streaming than tabletop does. It's performative, and there is an audience [built in]: the other players involved. It's a very rules-light and fast-paced cinematic system. Designing for LARP has more in common with working on the streaming show than it ever had."
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Prior to "L.A. By Night", World of Darkness' two major RPG properties, Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse, worked with theatrical licensors like Mind's Eye in Florida. But as Carl discussed with us, licensing shows is still a unique, separate venture from creating an actual play show from internal resources, much as World of Darkness has done with "L.A. By Night."
It isn't to say that World of Darkness is the only TTRPG publisher to take notice of the need to develop internal actual play shows, instead of leaning on external creators like Critical Role and Penny Arcade. When Wizards of the Coast first approached Tanya DePass, a cast member of official Dungeons & Dragons actual play show, "Rivals of Waterdeep", it was with this in mind. We spoke to DePass about how "Rivals of Waterdeep" (and her role as Selise Astorio) first came together.
"[Greg Tito] approached me and he's like, 'Hey, do you know anyone who'd be interested in being on an actual play show based in Chicago?'" DePass told us. "I guess he'd already had some conversations with part of the cast that he met [elsewhere]. 'The idea is we're going to show everyone can play D&D, everyone can learn. They don't have to be someone who's been playing since red book, first edition. They maybe have never touched a d20 in their life.'"
Tito told us that streaming and actual play has been part of his goal since he joined the company in 2015. His work with DePass and "Rivals of Waterdeep" was born from an event featuring the Waterdeep: Dragon Heist story and a desire to showcase a more diverse Dungeons & Dragons community.
"As we were planning that, we had a bunch of creators that were people of color and other communities that you don't necessarily associate with Dungeons & Dragons," Tito said. "I reached out to Tanya DePass—who I knew as a strong voice in the community and was in the Chicago area—and another group of roleplayers who just put their toe into doing D&D related content, but were mostly known as improv actors and comedians. For some of them it was brand new. They had never played Dungeons & Dragons at all."
Anecdotally, we've both known our share of folks who have refused to play TTRPGs for the same reasons that actual play shows are catching fire. For people who only pick up dice to play mainstream board games, having actual play shows like "Rivals of Waterdeep" removes barriers to enjoy the medium.
"That visibility that we've given people who felt like they didn't belong, or getting people who tell us, 'I've gone back to playing D&D because I saw your show. I found a bunch of friends. I remember that I own these guys that I haven't touched in 10, 15 years'" DePass said, expanding on the importance of visibility. " … If someone never messages you, if someone never contacts you, you never know the impact you're having. That's the really important part for me and for all of us.
"For every one person that may come up to us at a convention, or come to D&D Live and be really grateful, there [are] 100 people that may be impacted and never say a word, because they can't come to our convention or they don't do Twitter. They don't have a way to reach out, but they tune in every week. They may never say a word in chat. They may listen to the podcast. That opportunity, I think, is the biggest thing, just realizing the wonderful and delightful, yet sometimes strenuous, burden [being a public persona] gives us."
World of Darkness also saw an opportunity in actual play partnerships. "L.A. By Night" was created to give Vampire: The Masquerade and its community more visibility among a wider roleplaying audience, thanks in part to a partnership with Geek & Sundry.
The publisher isn't interested in utilizing "L.A. By Night" to drive sales, even though the show has hit over a million impressions per season between streaming and video-on-demand. Instead, World of Darkness leans into actual play shows to spread brand awareness, continue to build a global audience with players from across a spectrum of experience (including fledgling vampires), and create positive communities that can share their experiences in safe, respectful ways.
Finding new audiences, at home and around the world
The tabletop industry is moving in ways that fold in a geographically diverse audience, also. Wizards of the Coast is making sure it looks outside its established strongholds to build the community.
"We did Lucca Comics and Games [in 2019], which is like a ComicCon that takes place in the walled medieval city of Lucca, Italy," Tito said. "It draws 200,000 plus folks from that area. It's not just gaming. It's very much like ComicCon and brings people from all different fandoms. The response from us officially being at Lucca last year was phenomenal. Joe Manganiello (True Blood, Magic Mike) did a live game there. We're doing those types of events again in 2020 and making sure that the largest events we're doing, like D&D Live, are incorporating influencers and groups from those outside areas as well. We're hoping that growth in worldwide markets continues to rise in 2020 by bringing more of them into the fold that way."
The effort on community building through actual play has been a success across the tabletop RPG segment. Pathfinder publisher Paizo said that actual play shows are crucial for awareness.
"Getting players to see the 100-plus products Paizo releases every year requires a lot of gamers talking about a lot of different products," said Jim Butler, Paizo vice president of marketing and licensing. "Every podcast, show, and interview helps with that. It is much more impactful to have players talk about our products with each other. It is also more impactful to see or hear people having fun with your product than to tell people it's fun; show, don't tell."
Wizards of the Coast has been able to put a finer point on the impact of actual play shows on its brand awareness and sales. While the company wasn't willing to share its impression numbers, in 2019, live show viewership increased 49%. Of its total views, 15% are during live broadcasts (mostly represented by Twitch), with the remainder coming from video on demand on YouTube.
"That's really a new phenomenon," said Liz Schuh, head of Dungeons & Dragons publishing and licensing. "I've been working on D&D since 2000. Back then, the No. 1 way people found out about D&D was always through friends and family. That's still way up there on the list, but it was only a couple of years ago that online popped up as one of the top ways people find out about D&D and get interested."
That, in turn, has led to a major spike in sales for what Wizards of the Coast calls "acquisition products." These include the starter sets, an Essentials Kit introduced in 2019, and partnership products like the Stranger Things and Rick and Morty boxed sets. Tito and Schuh both draw a straight line back to actual play shows as an on-ramp to learning the game.
"When we look at those boxed SKUs year-over-year, we saw a 300% growth over 2018," Schuh said. "A lot of that strength comes from mass market penetration we've been able to achieve—Target and Amazon being some key mass market players."
Barnes & Noble also plays a major role in Wizards of the Coast's retail strategy. The book seller fills a gap, especially in areas where specialty shops haven't been able to sustain themselves.
"We see it as a midpoint between a Target and a core hobby store," Schuh explains. "The thing that's so great about Barnes and Noble is that they do carry a really wide selection. We see that they do really well with the acquisition SKUs, but they also do well with the new campaign settings and things like spell cards. So clearly, they're serving both a new audience and a pre-enfranchised audience."
Live play and its impact on official materials
Part of the tabletop RPG rebirth is due to publishers dismantling the ivory tower. While Wizards of the Coast, White Wolf, Pathfinder publisher Paizo, and others are still the final arbiter of rules and systems, the path to what appears in print winds through the town square.
"I think the reason why the transition from fourth to fifth was so seamless was because of the two year plus playtest that was run leading up to it," Tito explained. "That included more than 175,000 respondents over the course of it. More importantly, from this side, it was more data driven. We had surveys that would go out. Instead of just having anecdotal evidence of what people wrote down, but actually being able to quantify."
Ultimately that resulted in a game system that left ample room for the many different shapes that Dungeons & Dragons takes at the table. Tacticians and storytellers alike had their say, and Wizards of the Coast had the fuel to power a new engine that accommodates both (and everything in between).
"I think it also came from a philosophy here at Dungeons & Dragons that we may be the publisher and the arbiter of the rules, but we realize that it is not our game," Tito said. "It's the players' game. We are stewards of those players and want to make sure that every choice that we're making is in service of those who are out there and using it as a framework to tell their stories."
The humbleness that Tito described also gives way to an environment that is both friendly and welcoming to actual play groups. In turn, Wizards of the Coast reaped rewards from these relationships. Not only are actual play shows driving interest in specific games and the medium as a whole, but they are also having material impact on the publishing side of the business.
Critical Role and Penny Arcade's Acquisitions, Inc. have been the inspiration for official Dungeons & Dragons game modules. It's a challenging process that requires significant investment from both parties involved in one of these partnerships.
"After eight or so years of live games and podcasts, it really seemed like trying to bake all of that into a supplement was the right path—we thought fans would enjoy it, but also because it would give us an opportunity to really look at what we'd done," said Penny Arcade cofounder Jerry Holkins. "We told them that's the direction we were thinking of, a sourcebook, and when they got back to us it was with the suggestion that it be an official product."
Holkins told us he understood there would be challenges along the way. However, he had confidence that despite being an official Dungeons & Dragons product, the Acquisitions, Inc. source book would still capture the essence and character of those campaigns.
"It's a profound task just scheduling the work of artists and writers to fill hundreds of pages," Holkins explained. "Ultimately, I think our producer Elyssa Grant — herself a Wizards alum — made all the difference. The content of the book, the layout, the art, all of this was done by the team we built. WotC gave suggestions, but I think if you compare our book to the products in the main line you'll get a sense of the idiosyncratic character of a group of truly hardcore fans set loose on a once-in-a-lifetime project."
Work with actual play groups has led to institutional change within Wizards of the Coast, also. Game companies have traditionally been sensitive about how their intellectual property is used, especially in a public setting. Nintendo, for instance, struggled with the advent of live streaming, imposing draconian rules for who was allowed to monetize "Let's Play videos." At Wizards of the Coast, it was no small task finding a new balance between legal protection and audience growth.
"When we started promoting the live streams of other people, those questions were asked more strenuously here," Tito said. "'Do we own this? Are these our characters now, because we're presenting them?'" I think it came from a version of this company that was a little bit more litigious in the past and went after any kind of infringements on their IP even before Wizards of the Coast owned it. That was baked into the ideas of how Gary Gygax and TSR handled those situations.
"I started arguing when I got here that we're going to stifle growth if we try to fight that fight with every live play show out there. If the choice is between 'we can play this D&D game and advertise its awesomeness to an audience' or have a behemoth like Wizards of the Coast say, 'no, you can't do that' or 'we own your characters,' as soon as we started to wade into those discussions, all of that potential upside we would get from people playing the game and talking about it in a public forum would evaporate. We very quickly had to adjust and encourage. It's our philosophy to encourage all that."
Publishers and actual play shows have created a virtuous cycle
Great design never happens in a vacuum. Consistent feedback from across a spectrum of users and an array of experience is important to refine a concept into its final product and to continue to shape it long after it ships.
When the editors, writers, designers, and playtesters at World of Darkness came together to build out the fifth edition (referred to as V5) of Vampire: The Masquerade, the team knew that they had a daunting task ahead of them. After 30 years, Vampire's rules had become bloated and unclear. But Carl had a solution: what if the rules were refined to allow for streaming?
"When we sat down to write the ruleset for V5, we knew that we wanted to make it easier to learn, simpler to teach, faster to play, very focused on narrative and character," Carl stressed. "… after almost 30 years, the ruleset was getting just a little complicated. I thought about how this would look on streaming. How would it play out to an audience that was watching for entertainment? How could it lend itself to something that could be considered a long-form entertainment? That helped inform the simplicity of the design. It certainly wasn't the only factor that went into the design decisions, but it definitely played a role."
Even though V5 was thoroughly playtested before "L.A. By Night" aired for the first time, there was no way to fully gauge how important the addition of the blood dice, which replaced the hunger pool from previous editions, would be for narrative tension. Once Carl began to lead the vampire coterie through their first moments of grappling with the everpresent vampiric beast, it was clear that the dice yielded a brilliant pivot in game mechanics.
"It wasn't until we introduced 'L.A. By Night' that we understood, wow, this system is awesome," Carl said. "It really resonates. It does exactly what we thought it would do. It introduces a risk management sub-game to the overall game. It's a little bit like playing poker or roulette with your vampire character. It really heightens the drama."
With three successful seasons of "L.A. By Night" under its spiked leather belt (and a fourth currently airing), World of Darkness is ready to sink its canines in the next edition of Werewolf: The Apocalypse. According to Carl, Hunters Entertainment, the company behind RPGs like Kids On Bikes and Altered Carbon, are building the new system to reflect the importance of streaming and the advent of actual play shows.
"We should be thinking about how the game would apply to streaming as well. It's a very conscious part of the process," Carl explained. "When we chose the new Werewolf: The Apocalypse tabletop RPG [developers], which is going to be Hunters Entertainment, we knew that we wanted a partner who understood that streaming would have to be a part of their design philosophy. We wanted a partner that would be ready to run Werewolf streams, to produce them, to run them, and share them."
As a result of their streaming-inclusive playtesting plans, Hunters will be livestreaming their playtests for an audience. This has never been done by a TTRPG developer or publisher before Hunters and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. It adds a level of transparency that has become commonplace among video games, especially with the advent of early access.
"… the very first Werewolf tabletop RPG stream you'll see from Hunters is actually probably part of the playtest version of the game so that the audience can get a look at how the game is evolving in real-time and comment on it in real-time," Carl continued. "They took the idea of a playtest [and ran with it]. I suggested a playtest game, maybe a limited series, and they took it one step further and are going to incorporate streaming into the entire playtest cycle."
Putting players at the center
The boundaries and barriers that have traditionally kept TTRPGs hidden behind an opaque divide have come tumbling down. LARP has taken on new meaning in the face of actual play. Long-form narrative is reshaping itself as an expression of both players and the audiences that accompany them on the journey ahead.
The walls between "I can't" and "I will" are eroding quickly. More players are embracing TTRPG as a meaningful way to connect with one another, regardless of experience level. As such, publishers aren't going to sit idly and watch as a new, and wholly organic, marketing and community building vehicle passes them by.
Wizards of the Coast, as the company fueling the most prominent TTRPG in the industry, has already seen immense success in building out their product line with post-launch content in a way that wouldn't be possible without the partnerships they've crafted with creators like Penny Arcade and Critical Role. And without shows like Rivals of Waterdeep, which showcases what's possible if publishers include more diverse voices in their pursuit for content, Wizards of the Coast wouldn't be able to reach those communities who may be curious, but perhaps wouldn't have felt welcomed without witnessing this kind of inclusivity.
Sales of the game, modules, and extended player content, in addition to the numbers for their actual play shows, reflects the hunger in the community: D&D fans want more stories, more connection, and more ways to play.
As Werewolf: The Apocalypse begins its journey through the dark, it will be with actual play and livestream in mind, which, according to Carl, is the entire point of evolving the brand the way that they have been. World of Darkness, White Wolf, and parent company Paradox all are active proponents in not doing things the same way they've always been done just for the sake of it. And while the purpose of "L.A. By Night" isn't directly related to sales, and Paradox declined to share World of Darkness' sales figures with us, there is wisdom in seeing a direct link between brand awareness and customer acquisition.
"I think [actual play shows are] absolutely vital," DePass said. "I think for some people, especially in terms of representation, getting to see a show with an all-POC, some of us openly queer cast… getting to see that, and getting to see people have fun and enjoy themselves, and have good stories, and tell this together, [is important].
"In our case, or for 'Plot Hunters' or 'Tales from the Mists', it shows that you too have a place in this. There [are] still people I meet who just feel like they've learned D&D was X and they've never moved past X, but now we're showing them that there's a whole alphabet until you get to X, and there's still something after X that you too can play."
Tabletop RPGs have evolved slowly since Dungeons & Dragons became popular in the 1980s. But the surge of diverse and inclusive actual play shows has injected energy into the medium that will continue to shape publishing and play for years to come.
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My apologies for being scarce last week, fellow Dogsters. I was felled by the flu -a particularly virulent case of it – and renderedpretty muchuseless and unavailable to anyone other than my beloved dogs.
Happily, fearing the worst this winter, last monthI laid in a supply of Umcka Cold Care, the homeopathic remedyI highly recommend forcombating the common cold. Umcka works to reduce the severity of cold and flu symptoms, and shortens theduration of this terrible torment – which was particularly terrible for me this time out, because no sooner did I succumb than the temperature in New York City suddenly dropped, making each dog walk a violent shock to my system.
I'm on the mend now thanks to Umcka, with the flu in its final stage of symptoms: a barking cough that chokes me up whenever I'm trying to complete an important business phone call. But the sad fact is that, at my local animal shelter, dogs with kennel cough – basically the K9 equivalent of the cough I'm struggling with- are not shown to potential adopters. Tragically, some of the very sweetest dogsget a death sentencedue toa cough just like the one Ihave now.
There is a ray of sunshine, however:Dogs with thecough may be pulled by pre-approved rescuers (of which I'm one) and nursed back to health, then adopted out. This safety net is called New Hope, and it's one of many excellent programs created by the Mayor's Alliance for New York City's Animals.
So, while I and my fellow flu-sufferers may grouse about having to do dog-walk dutyin the freezing cold while feverish and miserable, here's proof that suffering is relative: Sweet shelter dogs with kennel cough woulddo anything for the chanceto walk by your side in the freezing cold,then snuggle rightup beside you to keep you warm in bed while you convalesce together.
And here's another ray of sunshine: Umcka works wonders to cure kennel cough in dogs! I've healed several shelter dogs with Umcka's cherry-flavored soothingsyrup; it takes about five days. And it's perfectly safe for dogs to take, says homeopathic vet Dr. Jill Elliot. Some dogs let you squirt the syrup into their mouths with asyringe; others prefer it hidden in a chunk of tasty canned food.
One dog who likes his Umcka concealed in canned food is a handsome hunk of canineresembling my late dog Sam. They were calling him Willy at the shelter, and you could just tell he hasa heart as big as his head. But what reallycaught my attention – besides the fetching photo of Willy turning his high-beam green eyes to the camera in the photo above – was the detailed description provided by one of the shelter's dedicated team of volunteers.
These amazing people spend time walking, playing with, photographing, and lavishing TLC on the residentdogs. They dareto let themselves get attached to dogs whose days are numbered, whichisa tremendously courageous and selfless thing to do. Here's what one volunteer wrote which caused me to fall head-over-heelsfor Willy, sight unseen:
"Willy is the most handsome dog, with the most wonderful personality, and was awarded the most wonderful behavior rating of No Concern. He appears housetrained, sighing with relief when we were finally outside. He wags his tail constantly, is super friendly to both people and other dogs, and gives the best dog hugs."
Sold! After walking my dogs and downing my Umcka, I walked – coughing all the way -up to the shelter tofree Willy. Upon arrival, I saw yet another ray of sunshine: A group of brand-new shelter volunteers being led on an orientation tour. That made the day perfectly full of new hope, coughing notwithstanding.
Once K9Willy and I coughed our wayhome – he is, as the volunteer wrote, perfectly housetrained, and very efficient about doing his business outdoors – I bathed him, gave him hisfirst dose of Umcka,and settled him in his crate with a peanut-butter-loaded Kong. ThenI headed tothe health food storeto re-stockan important pantry item I'd run out of: Manuka honey.
This sweet treat not only tastes great (if you like honey, that is – some people and dogs loathe it); it also has remarkable healing properties- it's called antibacterial antioxidant honey (AAH for short) and it works beautifully to help combat the common cold. In some parts of the world, Manuka honey is also used topically in hospitalsas a wound dressing forburns; it works beautifully in that application too. If you or someone you love is feeling under the weather, by all means gift them with Manuka honey. It's a tremendously thoughtful present.
The brand I got, Airborne, is imported from New Zealand.Pricey it may be (one jarcost $18.99), but right now it's a necessity.I've beendrinking it in my ginger tea and adding it to all my dogs' food, so they don't accidentally catch what ails Willy. Kennel cough is highly contagious between dogs, but it can't be caught by humans or cats. (Incidentally,Willy happens to be the first dog I've ever met who refuses to eat dog food sprinkled with cinnamon!Go figure.)
What's your favorite home remedyfor coping with the common cold?Kindly share it in the comments!


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From now on, users of our web application can purchase various topic lists online. The 1000 richest Germans as well as the TOP 30 DAX companies and the TecDAX and the TOP 60 MDAX are available at the start. If you choose one of the lists, all persons and companies on it will be marked ("tagged") in the BusinessGraph. This allows you, for example, to view the shortest path to these nodes via your own network.
We are listening to the wishes of our customers
"With our new solution, we offer our customers fast access to all the protagonists of the German economy," explains Petra Kaul, COO of kantwert, who is also responsible for product management. "Which company does not want to count the most important companies and the wealthiest people among its customers?" The first lists are only a beginning, others are to follow. "In the further development of our products, we are focusing above all on the suggestions and demand of our customers," continues Kaul. Individual solutions are possible at any time, and there are hardly any limits to the imagination.
Have you tagged your own connections?
During the presentation of the new offer Petra Kaul emphasized the importance of the "Taggings". Because only when the users of kantwert BusinessGraph mark nodes in the network do the functionalities of the web application develop their full potential. The company can tag its own customers, target customers and partners, but also risks, compliance exclusions and its own "black list". The giant BusinessGraph answers with hundreds of millions of connections, thus becoming the very individual network of each customer, showing connections of partners among each other and with others.


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Fabulous Fun with Free Dr. Seuss-Inspired Mad Libs
These free printable Dr. Seuss-Inspired Mad Libs are wonderful ways to share giggles with your kids. With five themes, these activities are awesome for your party, classroom, library, family, and homeschool fun.
Find out how my five boys and I are using these Dr. Seuss-Inspired Mad Labs for family and homeschool fun. Super ways to celebrate Dr. Seuss and Read Across America Day (March 2) as you spark learning fun with kids!
Adding a bit of learning fun to your day just seems to brighten everything a bit, doesn't it?
Life can get crazy and it's so easy to let special moments with your kids get lost in the shuffle. If you're like me and want to prioritize quality time with your kids, I have a resource that can help you make that happen.
Bonus points: this resource has a Dr. Seuss theme!
Fabulous Fun with Dr. Seuss-Inspired Mad Libs
We love all things Dr. Seuss in our home. Our library of his books has been well-loved and become family favorites. It's natural for my boys to beg for more Dr. Seuss activities, games, and learning fun!
One of our favorite ways to take a homeschool brain break is with Mad Libs™ and activities like it. My boys and I shared many giggles over our Harry Potter-Inspired Mad Libs. I knew it was time to create Dr. Seuss-Inspired ones 😉
Oh, and if you like Dr. Seuss-Inspired brain breaks, you'll love these free printable Dr. Seuss-Inspired Activity Cube and Grid Art Activities!
Smiley (10) and Bear (8) helped me browse through our collection of Dr. Seuss books. They chose a few of their favorites and worked with me to create these Dr. Seuss-Inspired Mad Libs.
Oh my stars! Both boys were super excited to share our creation with their brothers. During a homeschool brain break, we brought out these printables and got a great ab workout in with lots of laughing.
Why We Love Dr. Seuss-Inspired Mad Libs
Our homeschool has discovered the many benefits of Mad Libs. We have used various levels of this fun fill-in-the-blank sentence game and it continues to be one of the most requested activities for our homeschool and family.
About 2 years ago, my boys shared why they love to play Mad Libs (and all of these reasons remain true!):
- "I get to practice grammar in a not-boring way." -Professor, 12
- "Mad Libs make me laugh so hard that my stomach hurts! And I just can't stop smiling!" -Smiley, 8 (who always can't stop smiling)
- "I like thinking of the most ridiculous words ever to make it even better. So, I guess it's good for vocabulary?" -Captain, 15
- "I love waiting to see how silly our stories are going to be! I poke around in my brain for clever words." -Bear, 6
- "Mad Libs are funny!" -Xman, 3 (who said that in the sweetest preschool voice!)
My favorite reason for using these fill-in-the-blank sentence games with my boys: sneaky learning!
As we work on a Mad Lib, I am explaining different parts of speech and their roles in sentences. Plus, my boys are building excellent vocabulary banks for their writing and communication skills.
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Atlanta, GA – The NFL has proposed a potential 15-yard penalty rule for players who kneel during the national anthem.
On Tuesday, NFL owners got together to have a discussion and the the topic of anthem kneelers was brought up, according to Sports Illustrated.
NFL reporter Albert Breer tweeted out Tuesday that the idea being floated was to allow teams to stay in the locker room during the nation anthem, but if they do com out then they can't kneel.
"Per sources, one anthem idea being discussed: Leaving it up to home team on whether teams come out for the anthem; if teams do come out for the anthem, potential that teams could be assessed 15-yard penalties for kneeling," Breer tweeted.
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the protests in the pre-season of 2016, protesting the flag over allegations that American police officers are racist killers.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder," Kaepernick said at the time.
Kaepernick opted out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers after the 2016 season and sat out the 2017 NFL season when no teams signed him.
Kaepernick's teammate Eric Reid was a vocal supporter of the anthem protests. Reid didn't sign with the 49ers and also became a free agent.
Both players have since been unemployed and have filed a lawsuit against the NFL after they weren't hired.


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a good friend of mine, you know who you are, made me question my love for him. well, she says that you can not tell that you love somebody and can not live without him, if have not sent enough time with him. and that made realize that all in all i spent about 7 hours with him. in 9 month. we never fell asleep in each others arms, we never had breakfast together. we never went shopping. we never watched a movie together. we never woke up in bed with a wood and we never had sex together. i am so relieved. now i can let go and move one with ease. thank you, C!
now, off to Grey's Anatomy and a good night sleep. all by myself. a bliss.


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Historical Photo Exhibit with artist Li Ju and Hilton Obenzinger-Monica Yeung Arima–CRRW Event-Stanford-4-11-19
Event Recap
An estimated audience of four hundred scholars, Stanford community, and the general public joined us at Stanford on April 11, 2019 at our special event commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Golden Spike and celebrating the Chinese Workers and the Transcontinental Railroad. See More.
Date: April 11, 2019, 2pm-5:30pm
Location: Tresidder Union, Oak Lounge, Stanford University
2:00 PM – Public Reception
Visit and View Historical Visualizations, Oral History Interviews, School Curriculum Modules, Student Research, Archeology Discoveries, Digital Scholarship, Digital Materials Repository in the Stanford Library, Book Releases
3:30 PM – Film screening (world premier): "Making Tracks: The Phillip P. Choy Story", a documentary film by Barre Fong and Connie Young Yu. Based on material in the project's Oral Histories collection.
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM – Formal Remarks
University Leadership and Leaders of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project
Special Honors Recognition
For this event, the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford received research, technical, and administrative assistance from:
Stanford American Studies Program, "America On the Move" series 2018-2019
Stanford Archeology Center
Stanford Center for East Asian Studies
Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
Stanford Department of History
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A phrase that has vastly been used in most industries, sex sells is today a term that fits perfectly in a campaign to highlight…
Huawei P40 Lite 5G launches with 64MP main camera, 5G (duh)
Not content with how many P40 devices there are? Huawei's set to add a fourth with the announcement of the P40 Lite 5G.
In case you're wondering why we're covering the P40 Lite again, this is actually an entirely different smartphone even if it features a similar title.
Based on the Nova 7 SE, the P40 Lite 5G looks more like the other P40s in the range. It ditches the quirky square camera array for a vertical one and also packs hotter specs than its 4G-only sibling.
Internally it sports a Kirin 820 chipset — an upgrade from the 810 on the standard P40 Lite — but keeps the 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage.
The P40 Lite 5G is also larger, wider and slightly heavier than its 4G sibling. It features a 6.5-inch display with 2400×1080 — a small upgrade from the 6.4-inch 2310×1080 display on the standard P40 Lite — and is also around 30mm longer.
Quizzically, it does feature a smaller battery at 4000mAh. It's not clear why, or how this will impact its battery life considering its additional 5G abilities.
Other notable mentions include a 3.5mm headphone jack, a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, dual SIM support, and three new colourways. And like its sibling, it runs on EMUI 10 based on Android 10 sans Google Mobile Services.
Finally, the primary camera gets a 64MP sensor replacing the 48MP snapper, while the other three rear cameras and sensors remain the same.
It's not clear if the phone will be offered in South Africa. If it does arrive, it'll likely be the company's (first and) cheapest 5G smartphone in the country, but expect it to cost more than the R6499 standard P40 Lite.
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Home ›Saving the modules page no longer (necessarily) rebuilds menus
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Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 30, 2010 - 9:56pm
Here's the code in system_modules_submit() - the function called when admin/modules is saved - that skips over flushing caches if no modules are enabled or disabled:
// Gets module list after install process, flushes caches and displays a
// message if there are changes.
$post_install_list = module_list(TRUE);
if ($pre_install_list != $post_install_list) {
drupal_set_message(t('The configuration options have been saved.'));
So, drupal_flush_all_caches() is called only if something has changed, if a module has been enabled or disabled. (That function is what calls menu_rebuild() which is what rebuilds the menus.)
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Judged by its own benchmarks — regulatory approval and vaccinations by the end of 2020 and the accelerated delivery of 300 million doses — Operation Warp Speed is a rare private-public partnership that has met its performance benchmarks. The heavy lifting of ushering vaccines through clinical-trials, scaling-up mass production, and initiating the complicated process of distribution to the states were well on their way as the Biden administration took office. It should be emphasized that OWS was launched to almost universal skepticism and even scorn. At the time of OWS's launch in Spring 2020, a strong consensus prevailed among media, public-health experts, consultants, and betting markets that regulatory approval by the end of 2020 and the accelerated delivery of 300 million doses were unrealistic goals.
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Do Biden's 'tough new sanctions' give Putin Nord Stream 2?
Western media is greeting the Biden administration's Russian sanctions as "signaling a tougher stance on Russia than under former President Donald Trump." Vladimir Putin likely thinks otherwise.
It looks as if the Biden administration has blinked on Putin's key foreign policy objective — the completion and operation of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, delivering Russian gas to Europe. The sanctioning of a few Kremlin officials is petty change compared to the decade-long profitable effects of Russian pipeline politics.
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Reportage and translation by Nathália Clark
Long before being defined the "official" geopolitical boundaries of each of the countries on which territory extends the Amazon rainforest, already lived there a wide range of distinct indigenous peoples. Freely transiting across areas of traditional occupation of their ancestors in the first days, now many of them are still on the run or in permanent refuge, remaining "isolated" from the Western society and rejecting the contact with it. However, the current socio-economic context of the large enterprises and national developmental projects, which greatly differs from that of the pre-colonial times, has increasingly gone against these populations, threatening their physical and cultural integrity.
There are many obstacles to the action of civil society organizations and government bodies for the protection of the rights of these peoples and of respect for self-determination and the option for the voluntary isolation: different legislations that behold them and even a legal gap, in many cases; different postures about the act of the contact; differences in indigenous State policies for these groups; difficulty of access in locations remotes from the major urban centres; and scarcity of financial and human resources to act in these areas are only a few of them.
To speak of the challenges of this work in regional scale and, more specifically, on the Brazil-Peru border, we interviewed the researcher Beatriz Huertas. Born in Lima, Peru, she has worked since 1994 advising indigenous organizations of the Amazon, as the Native Federation of Madre de Dios and Affluents (FENAMAD), the Interethnic Association for development of the Peruvian jungle (AIDESEP) and the Internanational Committee for the protection of Indigenous Peoples in isolation and in initial contact of the Amazon, Gran Chaco and Eastern region of Paraguay (CIPIACI).
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How is the transit of isolated groups in border regions and in which sense such transboundary displacements are connected to the impacts from specific policies of each nation-state?
Most of the people who are in isolation in these areas moves alternately in both sides of the border. Their travels are marked mainly by the seasons, usually staying at the headwaters of the rivers in the rainy seasons and moving downstream during times of drought. These visits enable them to cater the various resources they need to live. We know that during these excursions are common meetings with relatives and members of other isolated peoples. Likewise, they approach communities or villages already contacted, where metal objects are obtained. These are the times when can possibly occur some tensions.
"What we call 'border' areas are territories which some peoples inhabit for centuries, which they know very well and which are part of their cultural identity."
-Beatriz Huertas
The economic, political and social dynamics of these nations have a lot to do with the displacement dynamics of isolated peoples. We have seen how the territorial pressure can change their routes of displacement, hinder the supply of resources for their subsistence and affect their lives in general. These are things that can sharpen the conflicts between the isolates and the neighbouring populations. That's why it is necessary that the authorities understand the importance of the territory to the isolates, the dynamics of displacement of these peoples, the factors that influence or alter these dynamics, and the consequences of these changes. Only taking into account all this information and the implications of territorial pressure is that we can have a real picture of the situation and, from there, drive actions for a better protection of these territories and peoples.
From the point of view of necessary diplomacy, Governments have been able to work towards a shared management of the protection policy of these territories?
We have a long experience of pressure with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru to work jointly with Brazil and address the issues of the border regarding the situation of the uncontacted peoples. But in this scope the subject of indigenous peoples is still unknown and distant. We are trying for many years to have a binational work, where the States of each country could talk, address the issues and get engage on a protection based on the respect for the rights of the isolated peoples. But until now there has not been a breakthrough worthy of being mentioned.
The Ministry of Culture of Peru [State agency in Peru that is responsible for indigenous issues] has an agreement with Funai, but which has not yet been implemented. They have difficulties to communicate and, therefore, to advance in a joint work. Thus, the prevailing feeling is that by this way, the bilateral relationship with Brazil for a cross-border protection can be very long and bureaucratic.
On the other hand, especially in the last year, the indigenous organizations of Peru which have proposed the recognition and protection of the territorial corridor* have advanced very much their relations with the indigenous organizations of Acre (Manchineri, Kaxinawá and Ashaninka peoples). They have teamed up to carry forward the proposal and get the effective protection of isolated peoples in the Brazil-Peru border. In this process there has also been an approach with the authorities of the State of Acre.
Do you assess that there have been advances in the protection policies for the isolates in South America since the first international meeting on uncontacted indigenous peoples, held in Belém (Pará State) in 2005? Any retrogression?
There have been advances in legislative terms in countries such as Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. We can notice that there are more regulatory instruments where the topic is mentioned somehow. But also, at the same time, are advancing the normative instruments that promote the exploitation of natural resources in areas inhabited by these peoples. There are more rules that facilitate, promote and boost the ingressões in their territories. So, there's a very big contradiction.
The subject became more visible, that's for sure. In all countries there is more debate about the peoples living in voluntary isolation. Bolivia dealt with this topic for a while, including very important international events carried out by the United Nations. But there is no State policy and even less progress in terms of territorial protection. In Ecuador the issue is focused on the Yasuni [National Park], in all the problems around the exploitation of petroleum in the area and in severe impacts on their isolated peoples, both historically and today.
In Colombia we have some important advances in the production of information and the management of natural protected areas. It's not that there is an established system, but there are people that drive this debate. In Paraguay, the authorities finally began to acknowledge the existence of a diversity of Ayoreo groups in isolation, when before there was talk of only one. However, large extensions of forest in the region of Chaco, territory they inhabit, are being destroyed day after day. And we also have to keep in mind that Paraguay is one of the countries with the highest rates of deforestation in South America.
What are the main challenges and threats at regional level?
The policy at regional level is the same: push to economic activities that directly affect the life, the territories and the rights of indigenous peoples in general and even more significantly of the isolates. These are international policies established by the international demand for natural resources, such as the search for timber, ore and biofuels. In this regard, there has been a change, and this is a big problem that affects all countries. The weakening of the laws that support the rights of indigenous peoples and of the institutions that have an obligation to ensure these rights is also a phenomenon that is seen in all countries.
What are the main and most effective measures to be taken for the protection of the isolates? How civil society can act to strengthen this work?
I think there are several main lines of action: information and awareness of society as a whole; pressure on the State to bring legal certainty and effective protection of the territory; production of mechanisms for prevention of forced contacts; and attention to emergency situations that require contact and its consequences. As for civil society, there are many organizations that are already sensitized, but do not know quite how to articulate, so it is necessary to improve the articulation between them to work together for the protection of these peoples.
With regard to indigenous organizations, it is necessary a stronger work with the base communities, so that they continue designing and implementing mechanisms of protection. The communities are there, surrounding the isolates, and have a key role in the protection of these groups and themselves. It is also necessary to strengthen these organizations regarding the attempts of split on the part of companies and States every time they defend the indigenous rights in the face of large infrastructure projects.
The alliances that are being established between indigenous organizations from Brazil and Peru in the area of Acre-Ucayali-Madre de Dios is a very important breakthrough. It is very difficult for an indigenous organization, which already has so many problems on their own, to look beyond its borders. But that's what's happening: they are looking beyond their borders. And they are understanding the importance of having on hand all the information about the territorial dynamics of the isolates to actually protect them.


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In our recent blogs about which words are most commonly looked for on the Collins dictionary website, we have tended to stress how the searches reflect the changes in society brought about by the various stages of the global Covid-19 epidemic. But what is interesting about the list of words that people have looked up in August is how very similar it is to the lists of most frequently searched terms for the months prior to the pandemic: in a year of unprecedented upheaval, a sudden outbreak of normality.
Items such as meme, entanglement, pros and cons, and rain check, all of which have been mentioned in recent blogs, are still around the top of the list. However, nestled among the usual suspects are a couple of dialect words that have not featured strongly before.
One of these is collop, which refers to a slice of meat. This word can be found in English as early as the fourteenth century. It is probably of Scandinavian origin, related to the Old Swedish word kol, meaning 'coal', alluding to the fact that the food was cooked on hot coals. In the north of England, the day before Shrove Tuesday was traditionally called Collop Monday, and it was marked by eating bacon and eggs, which would be off the menu in the upcoming season of Lent.
Another dialect word on the list is the Scots term kenspeckle. This adjective means 'conspicuous or easily recognized' and is usually applied to characters who stand out from the crowd because of their unconventional behaviour or dress sense. We have not been able to put our finger on the reason why the online dictionary entry for 'kenspeckle' was viewed more than two-and-a-half thousand times in August, but it would certainly be welcome if this picturesque word starts to be used more widely.
Written by Ian Brookes, writer and editor.
All opinions expressed on this blog are those of the individual writers, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Collins, or its parent company, HarperCollins.


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Abbeyfeale Library was brimming with a sense of pride and achievement with the annual Fleadh by the Feale Art Competition over the bank holiday weekend. All those who participated were duly recognized for their achievements. The five national schools can be very proud of their students for the work that was done and exhibited.
The works of art will hang in the library for another week or two to give local a chance to view the display.
"A big thank you to all the students who performed on the night, yet again showing us as a community what a great generation is coming behind us. Mol an oige and tiocfaidh si. This was followed by an oiche of ceoil and caint in Teach Ui Mhurchú. This offered respite from the rain and some more excellent music, song and conversation," said a Fleadh by the Feale spokesperson.
"The rain was heavy and weather unkind, but this did little to dampen the spirits and enthusiasm of the Fleadh by the Feale Street Buskers.
Yet again record numbers turned out to perform on the Friday evening as they heralded the start of the weekend. Buskers of all ages fine tuned their fiddles, flutes and whistles for what was a highly competitive evening, enjoyed by performers and spectators.
The town was alive with the best of traditional, home grown talent and this was particularly evident with the local talent of the Ballaugh Wren boys. Great music and the splash of colour emanating from the gig rig lifted the spirits of all. For those who had the extra bit of energy the Céilí in Fr Casey's with the wonderful Striolán was just the place to burn it off. A fantastic evening of entertainment was had by all. It all provided a great start to the Fleadh 2015."
"The Master Workshops were very well attended with pupils of all ages. Many places pre-booked for fear of missing out. Students availed of the expertise and tutelage of the very best in their field: Niall Murphy, Diarmuid O'Brien, Michael King, Conor Moriarty, Ciaran Hanna, Lisa Canny and Deirdre Scanlan.
A fantastic show of skills and an afternoon well spent – it was agreed by all who attended. Templeglantine Comhaltas brought the Square alive once more on Saturday evening and every year never fails to keep us entertained with music, song and dance," according to the spokesperson.
"Up and coming group Out Numbered were amazing with their set despite the elements. One to watch for sure! As a community we are surrounded by a rich talent and very fortunate to have the quality of performances we witnessed over the weekend. Pub sessions up and down the town kept the music going with the best of musicians in place to keep the revelers entertained until the wee hours."
"Daisy Kearney brought her wit and humour to town and the storytelling was well attended in St. Ita's Hall. Short stories and tall tales are her thing and at times the shrieks of laughter could be heard on Convent Street. She has a pure gift and an extraordinary ability to effortlessly entertain."
There was music, song and dance on every square inch of Abbeyfeale over the weekend and it provided the perfect setting in which to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the founding of the town's most successful festival of local culture and heritage.


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Job 32:15
King James Version (KJV)
They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
American King James Version (AKJV)
They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
American Standard Version (ASV)
They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.
Webster's Revision
They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
World English Bible
"They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have a word to say.
English Revised Version (ERV)
They are amazed, they answer no more: they have not a word to say.
Clarke's Job 32:15 Bible Commentary
They were amazed - Mr. Good translates: "They (the speeches) are dissipated; they no longer produce effect; the words have flirted away from them." Your words, being without proper reference and point, are scattered into thin air: there is nothing but sound in them; they are quite destitute of sense. But I prefer the words as spoken of Job's friends. They took their several parts in the controversy as long as they could hope to maintain their ground: for a considerable time they had been able to bring nothing new; at last, weary of their own repetitions, they gave up the contest.
Barnes's Job 32:15 Bible Commentary
They were amazed - There also are the words of Elihu, and are designed to express his astonishment that the three friends of Job did not answer him. He says that they were completely silenced, and he repeats this to call attention to the remarkable fact that men who began so confidently, and who still held on to their opinion, had not one word more to say. There is some reason to suppose, from the change of person here from the second to the third, that Elihu turned from them to those who were present, and called their attention to the fact that the friends of Job were completely silenced. This supposition, however, is not absolutely necessary, for it is not uncommon in Hebrew poetry to change from the second person to the third, especially where there is any censure or rebuke implied; compare Job 18:4.
They left off speaking - Margin, "removed speeches from themselves." The marginal reading accords with the Hebrew. The sense is the same as in the common version, though the Hebrew is more poetic. It is not merely that they ceased to speak, but that they put words at a great distance from them. They could say absolutely nothing. This fact, that they were wholly silent, furnished an ample apology for Elihu to take up the subject.


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The semi-invariant natural killer (NK) T-cell receptor (NKTcr) recognises structurally diverse glycolipid antigens presented by the monomorphic CD1d molecule. While the α-chain of the NKTcr is invariant, the Β-chain is more diverse, but how this diversity enables the NKTcr to recognise diverse antigens, such as an α-linked monosaccharide (α-galactosylceramide and α-galactosyldiacylglycerol) and the Β-linked trisaccharide (isoglobotriaosylceramide), is unclear. We demonstrate here that NKTcrs, which varied in their Β-chain usage, recognised diverse glycolipid antigens with a similar binding mode on CD1d. Nevertheless, the NKTcrs recognised distinct epitopic sites within these antigens, including α-galactosylceramide, the structurally similar α-galactosyldiacylglycerol and the very distinct isoglobotriaosylceramide. We also show that the relative roles of the CDR loops within the NKTcr Β-chain varied as a function of the antigen. Thus, while NKTcrs characteristically use a conserved docking mode, the NKTcr Β-chain allows these cells to recognise unique aspects of structurally diverse CD1d-restricted ligands.
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|English (US)
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|EMBO Journal
|Issue number
|Published - Nov 2009
- Antigen recognition
- Glycolipid antigens
- NKT cells
- Recognition logic
- Semi-invariant T-cell receptor
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neuroscience(all)
- Molecular Biology
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
- Immunology and Microbiology(all)


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From the performance point of view, Galaxy Z Fold2 is quite outstanding in folding screen phones. Therefore, many users will buy this well-equipped Galaxy Z Fold2. Judging from user feedback, they are also very satisfied with the experience of using this phone. But judging from user reviews, some users are worried about data loss in their phones. Because there are many reasons that can cause data loss in the phone. Some users want to know how to retrieve the lost data when the data in Galaxy Z Fold2 is lost. In this article, with the help of Samsung Data Recovery, we will introduce two safe and efficient methods for users to retrieve lost or deleted data in Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2.
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I wrote this for my chicano cinema class, can someone please proof read it and tell me what they think? I still need to write out a conclusion, I just dont know what else to write, thank you!
Cultural environment not only helps humans develop a sense of identity, however it also helps determine a more cohesive society in which we share common values and principles. It gives us our customs and traditions that provide continuity from one generation to the next. The writer and director Gregory Nava emphasizes on how important it is to preserve one's cultural background in almost every one of his films. Culture is a reoccurring theme because it is displays a setting for the viewer so that life can be seen through a culture aside from the western culture. However, the characters that are presented in his films are very universal, in a sense that they are relatable to the viewer. For instance the movies El Norte, and Bordetown deal with very profound issues, and the main characters go through struggles that human beings, no matter what culture, have at least experienced once in their lives. It is common to feel unaccepted and alone in a new environment such as the siblings in El Norte when they were struggling to adjust in America. It is also common to get wrapped up in your career and forget more important things in life such as the main character in Bordertown. The relation between these characters and the viewer is present so that Nava is able to express his message in Chicano language in order for others from different cultural backgrounds can understand these stories and relate to the pain behind them.
In the movie Bordertown, an American reporter, Laura Adrian gets sent to Mexico, Juarez to investigate the crimes of brutal raping and killings of women coming home from the maquilladora factories. During the time she spends in Mexico, Laura starts to identify herself with the women victims, and in result she realizes how vital it is to maintain a sense of culture, and not forget her background. I can relate to her character because there have been many instances in my life while growing up where it was difficult to relate to my culture because I was raised in a westernized culture where the values and principles differed greatly. At a younger age, it was hard for me to understand the differences and cope with them. However, as I became older, I established a happy medium, and also realized that the foundation of a prosperous life is culture. There a lot of instances in the movie that displayed the Mexican culture, through religious images, and also music coming out of car radios. The filter that was being used created a color scheme that let the viewer know when they were in a different environment. For instance, when Laura was in the states, the colors being used were mainly grays and blues, and when she arrived in Mexico, the colors were more vibrant, greens for the maquiladoras and yellows for everywhere else.
Aside from the importance of culture, Bordertown is also about a tragic reality that has been going on for years in Mexico, Juarez. Peasant women workers that work along the border for little pay are being killed and raped, however no one is being punished for it. The crimes are being ignored, and the killings continue to happen. There are images in the movie where women are being oppressed through patriarchy in Juarez, and this relates to other countries in the world that are guilty of the same thing. Under a political regime, the women from Afghanistan were being badly treated for 10 years and their government displayed complete negligence towards these crimes. The same way Laura relates to the women working in the maquiladoras, I feel that I can relate to the women from my country, because I would have endured the same treatment had I not left my country.
Another film in which Nava had directed, El Norte, deals with teenage siblings who are politically exiled from their country, and in turn they migrate from Guatemala to Mexico to their final destination in the United States through rat infested tunnels. The siblings endure a lot of pain and suffering on their way to the states only to feel despair and rejection everywhere they go. This film affected me the most because it is important on so many levels, and it examines the immigrant experience through a uncensored look at the sad reality of many who come to the United States hoping for a better life. This reminded me of when my family had to adjust coming from Afghanistan to the states. It was very difficult for my parents in the beginning years of arriving to America because of the cultural differences. My mom was working graveyard shifts as a waitress and was being mistreated by management because of her poor English. My father was an ambassador in his country and when he came to the states he had a very difficult time adjusting because he had felt as if he had been stripped of his stature. Being a big family, our living arrangem
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