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Baclofen is used to help relax certain muscles in your body. It relieves the spasms, cramping, and tightness of muscles caused by medical problems such as multiple sclerosis or certain injuries to the spine. Baclofen does not cure these problems, but it may allow other treatment, such as physical therapy, to be more helpful in improving your condition.
Baclofen acts on the central nervous system (CNS) to produce its muscle relaxant effects. Its actions on the CNS may also cause some of the medicine's side effects. Baclofen may also be used to relieve other conditions as determined by your doctor.
This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.
This product is available in the following dosage forms:
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Studies on this medicine have been done only in adult patients, and there is no specific information comparing use of baclofen in children with use in other age groups.
Side effects such as hallucinations, confusion or mental depression, other mood or mental changes, and severe drowsiness may be especially likely to occur in elderly patients, who are usually more sensitive than younger adults to the effects of baclofen.
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
Do not suddenly stop taking this medicine. Unwanted effects may occur if the medicine is stopped suddenly. Check with your doctor for the best way to reduce gradually the amount you are taking before stopping completely.
This medicine will add to the effects of alcohol and other CNS depressants (medicines that slow down the nervous system, possibly causing drowsiness). Some examples of CNS depressants are antihistamines or medicine for hay fever, other allergies, or colds; sedatives, tranquilizers, or sleeping medicine; prescription pain medicine or narcotics; barbiturates; medicine for seizures; other muscle relaxants; or anesthetics, including some dental anesthetics. Check with your doctor before taking any of the above while you are using baclofen.
This medicine may cause drowsiness, dizziness, vision problems, or clumsiness or unsteadiness in some people. Make sure you know how you react to this medicine before you drive, use machines, or do anything else that could be dangerous if you are not alert, well-coordinated, and able to see well.
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Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
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After you stop using this medicine, it may still produce some side effects that need attention. During this period of time, check with your doctor immediately if you notice the following side effects:
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Portions of this document last updated: Oct. 01, 2019
Original article: https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/baclofen-oral-route/description/drg-20067995
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Sundar Pichai at D11: Full Session
Sundar Pichai leads both of Google's operating systems - Android and Chrome - as well as many of the company's apps. Here's the full video of Pichai on stage in conversation with Walt Mossberg.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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I ... those guys are just sailing along and there's no there's no issues ... up ... the improvement but ... well that's not true so what are the quarter the issues you see around our challenges the sea around and for ... all ... when the challenges related to what is in beta mode Android in an upcoming into the gold in a bid to his unit the scale and scope of an artist painted the taking ... ICE bigger than expected the skin of the ecosystem ... of global it is common in August of this ... and yet we we have devices shipping which an awesome in in in in the news to the bailout not happen right so ... that's the skin of the system I saw the Samsung Galaxy S for many launched this morning ... I thought it suited me opening ... up and said that's the scale of this that that that it happens ... the challenge is up in a bid that scale and attendances trend and rose and it is designed to be completely open ... people can take that ... angle may get actions for that ... so from a boo perspective ... how we deeply care what the user experience ... but ... how do people use Android ... and I and so how do we have a guiding hand leverage to get to the use of its the ins ... tall The uses the lawn ... I think that's the challenge and it's because your hardware partners all ... and generally felt the need ... to layer on ... some of their own software user experience saying he is ... which I guess is really good for variety and choice ... but as you got better and how ... does the honest the first ... couple ... for three verses van driver a little drop of the user experience that you've got ... that is much smoother now ... aam ... they tend to cover that menial obviously a ... and we can come back to this but the Facebook Home ... thing is ... an interesting ... variation ... where the user might add at the ... mine only warily see your user experience work ... depending on how ... dedicated they are to ... their Facebook ... and if you look at the Galaxy S four there's ... two browsers the scene of the jurors and there's there's there's ... there's two calendars shares in there they're coming out of a second about what the combined ... place Toronto and operate out of the box ... there's two music stores and movie stores and ... set my by and there's this unplanned year the new plans to buy in years is a plan that ... on their video player so ... it ... how do you do that Heidi you take your user experience work ... and get these guys to do when they're all trying to differentiate themselves with their own software that made progress in the automotive and who is committed to be actively working with them to make it happen ... a good example this may not be good ... to be the Goebel io ... enemy announced a motion of Samsung Galaxy S four ... with the use of its beans to DC on the Nexus devices ... and not innocent a device to be in the latest hardware but what the Fed was going to take on Android ... I've been was was a small step in the Baghdad ... I am on ... it today I know I won ten am ET AltaVista HTC one ... it's ... amazing the month of the father quality in this the Audi of the camera to display ... saw the best ... Android devices out there ... I knew this and see it but if I voted ... and this is running again on the core ... you why which is fine and Nexus phones as well ... on Sunday and now you know whatever ACC put on and and they have friends the same thing called ... 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United ... had ... actually many long talks about various things and ... and and you're not ... how come it I mean guy ... but ... can she be accused of ... you know isn't this kind of ... looking a little bit like cool bowl ... asserting user experience controlled back against the ... hardware guys up what it what you wanna make sure I meet them and why why didn't care why why why would you just ... let Samsung do with it wants an HTC doing what it once ... you make some Nexus things people for for your take on it ... not that it's ... one recap of the mind is the strength of Android app ... is designed so that people can customize the UI layer at a lot ... I think what we are in the stage is precisely what you talk about the one nation uses ... emanates which owns IndiGo from one am but pointed out that there's some sense of commonality and some sense of it but if the employee and a sizable appellants are now on to to to mean that a lot of things happened us well ... right now and and ... I think it's as has happened and that made you had to get to what the product to focus on ... Payton and Bishop of London Bishop of sulfur ... you know on these two different approaches to valuable computer I understand the question is how can you get the best of some of the sentiments without sacrificing what makes the opens and great ... and in doing this in collaboration with offers to you was to see a lot of times it's often not HTC softener ... and the Teddy of customization ... but do it in a thoughtful manner ... there's the usury and I needed across all this in this assertive commonality you find in them and this is a new ... identity and in going does that mean you not can make you more Nexus devices branded Nexus he um that's a goal behind Lexus was to push push on our bed to sleep in the program like this in the hole Behind nexus is to make sure ... the all these are ... interesting and cutting edge are there along with partners in guiding the GSEs him ... with Maxfield devices the need to do about ... the company ... um ... and ... the ... the idea of you to view ... saying ok here's the group with which the Pope who will stay on the onthe user experience ... it all could also be interpreted that ... some not all but ... some of these ... partner user ... interfaces ... intentionally and unintentionally and have the effect of demoted or ... not making as prominent legal services ... which is how you make your money this um like Micra soft unease which ... places the mapping system and charge for it ... in charge the Shoemaker money in other ways ... so if ... Samsung Memphis early because they were ... our medic you are anything but they want to ... be one of ... the image ... this is of selling music in ... movies and ... you know ... the best-selling sample courses on the tablet side ... with Amazon ... where ... they pace in the taking and reading turning into plumbing ... it's just plumbing ... and there's no pool services on their ... aam ... is that a motive for one year ... pushing out your ... your take on and read a mean that be awesome to see me ... you can make any money if nobody ever sees the Google ... search box and she Malin who will now all these things out the window caught a sensor which ... mean that that ... they're competing estate ... not a fun as demand increased risk of much this ... what can the fire is doing ... it said to be shut if off and on to a new love to see them on Android ... and its partners close together ... when the larger context of what the of trying to do ... in a hundred books on phones and tablets that depend on the set of devices you what types of devices needs to go work on ... we are trying to ... think about computing that it is going the next five to ten years instead of Android for that ... some laudable different in this ... I would use the teen's its cancer costs this month boasting will ... people are going to be betting the watches people in any experimenting with class ... in an open debate in that sense that said getting added to these devices ... are pretty much everything has ... I you know ... a display with a lot of computing power ... census with up to them ... and using PC spending money and adopting them ... and into bed displays that ended on in any book oriented to the pub is the fact they say a flexible displays ... in the future ... it's incredibly amazing ... we need the intent behind Android is to be a computing system which powers all these devices were used ... it's hard to do in honeydew and honey make sure it works well ... that's the context in which beginning of new a lot a ... lot of these positions ... the folly won a major Android can become system across all these devices are the amid Android across all these devices honey havoc on his experience across all these months ... and that's the laudable the trip I were sitting in one or your partner ... and this new ... I respect even if I respected you like you and even if I understood the philosophy of what he does said ... I might also say ... consistent across all devices means I'll get to differentiate ... on the software ... so or ... maybe I still get to differentiate that the big guy map view is going to be ... doing things that are telling users you really want consistency you really want ... here and now we've got at ... times ... could take on this week this is that a we really like you all the bees that is Barbara me back to being one of the consistency ... you know you would see ... play out people get plenty of opportunities open it ... up ... to me what's important is ... can I go to India for example on and on and these phones made by my from my Gramma ... the eight it's taking off from India and the queue is innovation but you can put into some thoughts on phones ... named incoming calls are free ... so everyone thinks the sun caught up the phone and phone number listed on piano ... they keep changing now gone SIM cards ... so they get the cheapest possible among rates ... this kind of get that ... the ... ballot but this kind of innovation ... it's what Android enables ... and Micromax can do that today ... op and Manitoba consistency to the office of the litigation since this is ... its main Chef party so this is can be accessed through play consistently ... and you know people can just go out applications and services so it's less about ... who with others that showed part of it ... ah but you know me ... he is putting the use of front in the future for uses that make sense ... of it ... so ... as you know I still so ... and still actually ... intended to TD this talk to Andy ... talk to him in the early stages were bad it's said some others in this room ... I'm ... and ... I think that in the ... nor speak for him but I think you probably imagine ... that by now ... where we would be would be ... survey successful ... the match or even he I would've predicted the numbers with you you're saying ... but very successful ... any idea would be ... you have a whole bunch of hardware partners ... don't ok ... with and for ... some of the two would ... be doing better than others but a lot of ... health system ... what we have something a little different ... we have ... one guy ... Samsung ... who along with your competitor Apple ... is ... selling ... almost take almost all the profit and out of the time the report to keep reading are correct ... and ... it's really the only one with what I would call the major share traction now ... I may not ... be counting somebody in ... the emerging markets that I don't know about that and ... certainly in in the top of the line smartphones ... that are sold to people who can afford them ... it Samsung ... mean that HTC one ... I've written Katy Brett my colleague is written very nice things that I agree with you about it ... they don't have the and they had a lot more Sharon traction if a few years ago than they do now ... I had more to roll in stages today no there she ever to everybody but Samsung's in the Android world share is ... pretty low I'm ... not dreaming of making a profit ... it ... is that a prom for you and to respect one is ... that it's like I'm just naturally that it's unbalanced and two that Samsung ... has colossal power potential our home teacher banter ... of ... so here's a bit think about it aam you know ... me and recently wasn't Samsung ... a bit of a close partner of enjoyed a close working relationship ... we have to bowl a lot of success in Android one day but ... the skin the fish to ... be a plea ... the mobile space ... I think it's also fair to say a Samsung on Giving Tuesday successful mobile ... vast majority of the phones almost all of the phone think it is based on an ... opps into a sea of pace and the audit relationship and can be intend to keep it that they ... feel about industry than any of all this for awhile and you have companies that Micra soft and Intel ... you now have ... an instructional partnership which lasted for many many years ... and from from our standpoint I think the book of the seat working that day I'll be doing tend to be they close partners and are working on ... I know this because they are working on products the next twelve to eighteen months ... and collaboration is getting deeper and you would see that play out as he should these devices ... aam ... but in the sand analysis the back of a ... couple points that it is a pretty vibrant ecosystem items and any true that ... no one of the UN something is gaining share ... on many smaller players especially seeking the snow middling babe a while ... so what the cost of that category ... I look of the Chinese players on on a now updating me well ... the latest mean it's a perplexing gain share ... some legal system to us looks ... nice and a vibrant ... on ... I would also say on this concept ... that thing that I'm mad that I didn't like you don't have ... its just ... tt interrupted for one second ... you don't have three big players are four big players remain to be ... really big players ... world on that kind of scale love Samsung or even ... 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Maps ... and YouTube ... you talking about services ... we do crazy things may not happen on down the flight lazy and even satellites be buying cars and on ... and the seven million uses its scale across the services ... and be a working hard on your services like that the bill will now or ... in a lot of things feel working on she managed to ... and to mean getting the services of scale ... and be together on public Android ... is that they animation locked ... and I think if you do it well people come to me the use that ... be don't do it well we lose that and ... I think the structure of the best apps on the six percent at Armaan ... had some role to us ... I don't think that's the that's the one day they may yet be annoyed and said above ... 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I think that philosophy and he still is today ... so far US ... uses um Idealists who won a new school ... the view them as the losers ... and you want to make sure our products and services reached ... he saw the launch the live now for Iowa ... in fact in a couple weeks from now with the launch ... goo played music ... all access the subscription product of the launch denial for Android ... is doing really well they've had a buy it ... the teams are working like crazy to bring it to lie to us ... right ... so about a month after announcing that I owe ... because Iowa Iowa and that you know I'm the one thing they they on Nymex AZ who played music all access they can get ... in all the songs you want to stream to you ... op is what I do with the small ... sets an example of the philosophy of the tablet PC news is ... that in every of the load including the fight continues this ... who don't of smartphones today ... and to me ... and some of them will buy other smartphones unemployed ... doesn't mean the blasting doesn't oneness of them doesn't mean the YouTube he doesn't want me to ... and so I think it's a ... pretty important part of what we think about it ... I think it's a different approaches ... between between the two things ... happened is what makes unpaid ... leave the BN approaching the marketplace a completely different viewpoints ... that's ... um ... what about Windows eight ... Windows Phone coming ... you don't have my eyes ... I checked this out when I was in this ... column I refer to ... and there was very little from you ... I think you have been cool if I could be Robert B of A Google's search app on ... maybe a Windows Phone or when to say the camera which which it's not like we have a right to be of these dozens of things I O s ... he'll have ... very much on BlackBerry or on Windows eight are you going to ... move more apps on to those plans or need it someday function of May ... in many firsts Launch Pro mean if the windows were summoned to McAfee ... we want to reach as many people as possible ... in at some point ... in the Belmont abuses matter Sosa from the prior day's doing that ... fo platforms which don't get the bad news is that scale what the news for Tumpel YouTube ... the survey testimony by play of the ascension of by the so-called onli by this beach ... belong to a lot ... so we do that ... at some point in the critical mass of users ... we have to invest more and so on it's mainly a function of ... the attractive Democratic base in focus appropriate if a service of process that a lot on C pap ... I'm a pretty awful about it ... but every day of the philosophy is the warmth and the fast lane is this possible ... see talked about the setting up and write for the future ... um ... what ... what what are we in the chalky and that anti sixteen ... um ... what can you say what you are just in Korea you mention the flexible displays that to tell you ... that team won and ... we had ... the guts to do the eating technology calm and they showed flexible displays we still don't have them on a device is here ... it's a lot closer than it always it's one of things that so it's ... color flexible displays are always five years that ... every five years ... now maybe that's changing but that's what ... what it does seem to me but what you what what what is the isthe Albany wearable self ... I'm profoundly interested Tim Cook kept doing this nothing is what missed ... in wearable obviously you guys are or are you doing she said the ... class project ... what can be ... so ... to me I mean I think it's a lot more than their most to ALM couple things that catch me now I'm in the nest thermostat at home ... effectively competing offer now running and managing ... a lot of what's happening in my home ... 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I'm not just on me ... and it's pretty impactful ... the second thing is what you do because all of this this that ... I can be a bad he's catching the Sofia's with the with the what that's going with ... that sense that ... in all these devices ... and that it would he did the leaking that people ... especially when they stop talking money is cases like hell ... it's a tough intimate via sensors ... O shop that you can see this ago ... I was an article about ... an Android app today on a smartphone ... first responders can start using it today that baby activity ... the base he picked up a few pics those periods pixels on the sensor camera sensor ... and against top yes it is an asset to as the jaded counter right ... but ... in this image all this isn't an app on Android phone ... so the potential for what he can do ... but having smart computing but since this all around us ... not just what the man ... but around ... 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YouTube is moving a lot of money now ... oh you know why is it YouTube ... 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After India, Now Indonesia Introduces Patent Licenses For Generic Versions Of Drugs
from the who's-going-to-be-next? dept
As we noted a couple of weeks ago, when we wrote about India's moves to issue compulsory licences for the production of generic versions of expensive, patented drugs, the big fear for Western pharmaceutical companies was that other countries might follow suit. It looks like that's happening in Indonesia, where the country's president has signed a decree authorizing low-cost versions of key HIV drugs:
the measure would introduce widespread generic competition and generate major cost savings in the world's fourth most populous country. The decree licenses patents for a slate of HIV medicines, and represents one of the most robust uses of pharmaceutical patent licensing power by a country since the World Trade Organization 1995 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (WTO's TRIPS).
Again, the concern for the major drug manufacturers must be that this latest move will encourage even more countries to start granting patent licenses for drugs needed by their populations, but which are currently unaffordable thanks to Western-level pricing. Indeed, it's hard to see what can stop that happening now that India and Indonesia have shown the way by invoking the right of countries to issue compulsory patent licenses, as enshrined in TRIPS.
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Leave it to ultra luxury and sport car icon Bugatti to create a car that raises the bar above its own master piece, the much talked about multi-million dollar Veyron. This latest feat of true art and form is called the Galibier, and no you're not crazy( or maybe you are, I don't know) but that very shiny surface you see is polished aluminum casings over the cars 4-doors and front fenders, matched with dark blue carbon fibre weave on the the remainder of the beast. See more pics and a video… [ Continue Reading ]


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Beyonce and Meagan Good
At the GQ bash two nights ago - B darkened her hair. I love it. I think she looks great. I also thought at first that it was Meagan Good (attached) who is the total hotness…have you seen Stomp the Yard? I watched it twice back to back, then I kept the dvd and refused to return it to Blockbuster – that's how much I love Stomp the Yard.
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The ass you see here belongs to golf's loveable rapscallion, John Daly. Daly, by the way, is currently tied for 16th at the PGA Championship with a +1 going into today's third round action. As you can see, Daly wore these pants yesterday. These pants are black with neon-colored hands with their index fingers pointing out. These pants are designed to raise awareness for prostate cancer.
"John's pants are splashed with brightly colorful fingers to represent the early detection prostate cancer screening procedure for men. It's a humorous spin to raise awareness on a very serious examination that few men like to talk about. John is wearing the pants to show his support to raise awareness for prostate cancer."
Just a few weeks after he had Feherty no doubt clinching his ass cheeks shut, he's now asking guys to spread 'em.
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Welcome to Seeing.org and Bates Method International - the premier site for learning about the Bates Method of Vision Education. The purpose of these pages is to inform you about natural vision, vision improvement and your alternatives when wanting to care for your eyes.
Learn how to improve your eyesight without lenses or surgery and learn how to increase your chances of healing in cases of degenerative eye disease.
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Israel sees Bashar Assad's fall as certain, worries about al Qaida in Syria
The head of Israeli military intelligence told his country's parliament on Tuesday that Syrian President Bashar Assad won't be able to defeat the armed uprising that's spread throughout Syria and that the conflict there has allowed what he called "radical Islam" to gain ground on Israel's northern border.
Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi told a closed session of the Knesset that he didn't know how long Assad could remain in power, but that his fall was a certainty. "It may take more time – I can't give you an exact number – but it will happen," Kochavi said, according to notes taken during his testimony and shared later at an official briefing that was overseen by an Israeli military censor.
Kochavi, who displayed satellite photographs of Syrian artillery batteries during his testimony, described the Syrian military's tactics against the armed rebel groups as "brutal" and said 500 to 700 people were dying each week in the fighting. He warned of a growing presence of Islamist fighters. "We can see an ongoing flow of al Qaida and global jihad activists into Syria," Kochavi said, according to the version shared with reporters.
His assessment came as diplomats in New York continued to debate whether to extend authorization for United Nations monitors to remain in Syria past Friday, when their original mandate expires. A Security Council vote on a resolution to extend their mission could come as soon as Wednesday, though sharp differences over the proposal remain between the United States and Great Britain on one side and Russia and China on the other. Any of those countries could kill a resolution with its veto.
The most contentious issue is the insistence by the United States and Great Britain that a renewed U.N. monitoring mission be authorized under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which could be used to permit the use of international military force to resolve the Syrian situation. China and Russia have said they oppose any resolution that could be used to authorize a Libya-style use of outside military force. On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov charged that the United States was using "blackmail" to force the Chapter 7 approach by refusing to extend the monitoring mission otherwise.
On Tuesday, U.N. Syria envoy Kofi Annan met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Afterward, Annan expressed hope that the two sides could resolve their issues and agree on extending the U.N. monitoring mission.
"I would hope that the council will continue its discussions and hopefully find language that will pull everybody together for us to move forward," he said.
The effectiveness of the U.N. monitors has been debated sharply since a six-point peace plan that called for a cease-fire was to have gone into effect in April. Violence initially dropped when the plan went into effect, and the number of people killed, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, a London-based human rights organization, declined in April and May from its high point in March.
But neither side ever honored the cease-fire completely – rebel attacks on Syrian government positions increased during those two months, according to a recent study of rebel activity by the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War – and the unarmed monitors suspended their activities in mid-June, saying it had become too dangerous to visit the conflict zones.
Few of the Annan plan's other provisions have been implemented, including a call for each side to appoint negotiators to begin talks on forming a transition government. Assad named a representative last week in talks with Annan, but the opposition has refused to name someone and has said it won't talk to Assad's appointee.
Members of the Syrian National Council, the opposition group that the United States considers the umbrella organization for the anti-Assad uprising, said Tuesday in New York that they opposed any resolution that didn't include the Chapter 7 provisions.
"If the message is that we can't get anything done at the Security Council, then we will explore other options," Syrian National Council member Najib Ghadbian said at a news conference.
Ghadbian said those options included asking members of the international community for unilateral support, something that's already occurring. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have funneled money to the rebels in Syria and are rumored to have helped provide weapons. The United States has said it's providing nonlethal aid to the rebels.
In an interview published July 7 in the French newspaper Le Monde, Annan complained about that aid. "What strikes me is that there are so many commentaries about Russia (and its support for Assad), while Iran is less mentioned, and that, above all, few things are said about other countries that send arms, money, and affect the situation on the ground," Annan said. "All these countries claim to want a peaceful solution, but they undertake individual and collective initiatives that undermine the very meaning of the Security Council resolutions."
Meanwhile, violence is spreading. For the first time, the Syrian government is shelling rebels in the capital of Damascus, and the opposition and the government have reported three days of fighting in the city that at times has closed major roads and seen Syrian armored vehicles deployed in residential neighborhoods.
Fighting also continued in Homs, which has seen some of the worst violence of the past 17 months and where faith in the U.N. peace plan has vanished.
"All of the humanitarian organizations have lost their credibility to us," said Saif al Arabi, a spokesman for the Revolutionary Command Council in Homs. "We in the revolutionary council of Homs have declared that Kofi Annan and Gen. Mood are unwelcome in Syria. We consider them as partners to the regime in killing the Syrian people."
Gen. Robert Mood is the head of the observer force in the country.
In Israel, Syrian developments are being watched closely, officials told McClatchy this week.
One senior intelligence official based near Israel's border with Syria said Israeli intelligence was gathering details of the fighting and sharing it with unspecified "partners."
"We know, down to the names of the battalion commanders, what is happening in Syria," said the official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss Syria publicly. "That is information we are sharing with the relevant partners."
The intelligence official expressed a similar concern over what he said was the increased presence of hard-line jihadist fighters in Syria.
"To have these groups, the kind of groups who affiliate with al Qaida, right on the border with Israel is very worrying," the official said. "It is worrying for Syria and for Israel."
Another Israeli official who also spoke anonymously because he wasn't authorized to comment publicly said al Qaida-related organizations were responsible for at least a dozen suicide bombings in Syria. He said the groups worked independently of the Free Syrian Army, the loosely coordinated main rebel network.
In a report published this week, a Tel Aviv-based research center with ties to the Israeli government said the foreign jihadist fighters were coming from Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and most recently Kuwait.
The report by the Institute for National Security Studies named the groups as Jabhat al Nusra and its offshoot, Kataib Ahrar al Sham, which the institute said was based in Idlib in northern Syria.


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Instead of shying away from her horrific childhood, 16-year-old Katelyn Pendleton has used it to motivate others in the fight against child abuse.
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Instead of shying away from her horrific childhood, 16-year-old Katelyn Pendleton has used it to motivate others in the fight against child abuse.
�I want to help other children that have been in my situation,� said the Choctawhatchee High School student.
From December 2007 to April 2008, Katelyn was beaten with coat hangers, starved, dehydrated, and burned with boiling water and chemicals by her guardian and a caregiver. Both women are still in jail.
In the aftermath, Pendleton started the long process of healing physically and emotionally with her adoptive family.
The Emerald Coast Children�s Advocacy Center helped her greatly, and Katelyn wanted to return the favor.
She began volunteering at the center, where she was asked to tell her story at one of their events. She had nothing prepared but was surprised at how easily it came to her.
�It was just really from the heart,� Katelyn said.
The previously nervous public speaker soon became the guest speaker at a number of events, speaking to children, parents, law enforcement and judges.
Children are her favorite. She loves encouraging them to speak up for themselves or others and to never be afraid.
Recently, Katelyn was asked to speak at the 2013 Florida Crimes Against Kids Conference in Orlando. She�s happy anytime her story has influenced others to speak up for a child.
�I saved one more life,� Katelyn said. �They can have a childhood and just live.�
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Students in Silver Sands School teacher Cathie Williams� class raised $600 this winter by recycling greeting cards and selling them as gift tags, Valentines and notepads. They donated the money to local charities.
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Weld youngsters get 'adrenaline rush' barrel racing at Eaton arena
March 24, 2013
It's not rodeo season, not yet, but you wouldn't know it at Spicer Arena at 37440 Weld County Road 43 in Eaton. Spicer Arena offers a space for all sorts of rodeo events — Tuesday night is barrel racing — and there's never a shortage of eager riders looking for the rush of racing, especially in winter.
Winter and spring give barrel-racers a break from the rodeos that fill up the summer and fall. This break means out-of-shape horses and riders and, more importantly, a break from the adrenaline rush that so many riders barrel race for.
Spicer Arena gives riders another option. Rather than waiting for a nice day in winter to practice, riders can instead come and race indoors, keeping themselves and their horses in shape and satisfying that need for speed that winter seemed to banish.
Kaylynn Cate, 20, a barrel racer since she was 9, takes advantage of the arena. She knows the importance of keeping up the training for herself and her horses and, like so many, is addicted to the sport.
It shows with Cate as she races around the barrels with complete focus and the subtle hint of the smile you'd see with kids riding a roller-coaster.
The horses seem to share in the addiction. Cate trains her newer horses at the arena and has seen how rewarding it becomes for her when horses perfect their job of sprinting around the barrels.
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"They can love their job," she said. "It's an adrenaline rush for them too."
Cate isn't alone in her belief. Another racer Hope Delaware, 19, started out training and conditioning her horses in the barrel races at Spicer Arena, and in the process, she discovered the same rush wasn't lost in the winter after all.
"Running barrels being one with your horse," she said. "That's what gets my blood pumping."
Delaware and Cate are some of the lucky ones. They've found a unique place where they can race their horses, share their passion with other horse-lovers and garner that adrenaline rush.
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Sons of Anarchy Season 5: A Journey for JaxMatt Richenthal at .
If you're Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, it's not too early to start thinking about season five. Or, fortunately for us, to start blogging about it.
Having already said that Opie and Wendy will return to the series this fall, Sutter wrote this week that the upcoming season will focus heavily on Jax and his "journey" as President of SAMCRO. The man must decide what he wants his legacy to be.
"This season will be a pivotal one in the arc of the series," Sutter wrote on his blog. "Not that all the seasons haven't been essential in shaping the mythology, but this season will begin to lay track for how the series ends. In a feature film, season 5 would be the end of act two. Where the hero has been faced with the primary conflict and obstacles and is forced to make a decision that either ends well or not-so-well."
Sutter - who also plays Otto on SOA, of course - adds that the season ahead will slow down the action a bit, referring to it as "deliberate." He writes:
"I'm not sure how to expand upon that other to say that the decisions our hero makes will be less impulsive and more permanent. The stakes will be ratcheted up while the pace will be slowed down. Not that we won't have all the pulpy goodness we have every season (we will still blow shit up), it'll just have a different rhythm."
And we'll no doubt eat up every second of it.
Matt Richenthal is the Editor in Chief of TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter and on Google+.


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Hi, I am trying to learn java and would like some help in:
1.Read in a list of strings of chracters A,C,G,and T (ignoring case). Ignore the string if it contains any other character.
2.Store the strings in an array
3.Using a separate method, calculate the number of positions in each pair of sequences that have a different nucelotide (the 4.Hamming Distance)
5.Print out the maximum Hamming Distance between any two sequences
public class Hamming { /** * @return true if and only if every character in the input String s is one of a, A, c, C, g, G, t or T. * @return false if s is null or empty. */ public static boolean isDNASequence(String s) { // TODO fill in this method } /** * Get the distance matrix * * @param sequences - array of sequences * @return distance matrix */ public static int[][] getDistances(String[] sequences) { // TODO fill in this method } /** * Get the hamming distance between two string sequences * * @param sequence1 - the first sequence * @param sequence2 - the second sequence * @return the Hamming distance */ public static int getHammingDistance(String sequence1, String sequence2){ // TODO fill in this method } /** * Main method * * 1. Go through the parameters * 2. Ensure they are valid DNA sequences * 3. Get the Hamming distance matrix * 4. Print out the highest distance only * @param args - program arguments */ public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO fill in this main method code below this line } }
How can I code the program to read the arguments ignoring characters that are not A,C, T or G?


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Based on the Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media film capturing the renown and beloved book series from author C.S. Lewis.
Players enter the world of Narnia, a land frozen in a 100 year winter by the evil powers of the malevolent and evil White Witch. In order to end this frigid captivity and free his people, the mighty lion Aslan, true ruler of Narnia, invokes an ancient prophecy. It will become the destiny of four young siblings from our world: Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie to work together and use their unique combat skills, weaponry and abilities to defeat the Witch and her armies to save Narnia. These four unlikely heroes must battle the evil forces of the White Witch by waging war against a vast variety of creatures, including Centaurs, Minotaurs, Minoboars, Cyclops, Werewolves, Wraiths, Ankleslicers, Wolves, Satyrs, Boggles and more.
The same developer that brought you LEGO Star Wars tries its hand at Narnia and ramps up the difficulty to 11. Read More »
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Disney Interactive to release Narnia game for every major console and handheld. Read More »
Also known as: Chronicles of Narnia
Release Region: United States
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Publisher: Buena Vista Games
Also available on: PlayStation 3, Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Wireless, Wireless
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Here, some of our visitors share their memories and thoughts about the Blitz.
When the blitz was happening my great grandmother had to celebrate her 21st birthday in a air raid shelter, when she was home on leave!Isabella
I had to live through it and it was scary not knowing what might happen.Mary
RIP to all the people that has died in wartime Bootle.Calli
We only had 2 ounces of sweets a week.Tom My Great Grandma ran out of the house when they were dropping bombs and shoutEd "Why don't you come down here and fight like men!!!!!!!!!"EmilyMy great grandad was a policeman and he use to pull people out of the bombed buildings RIP Grandad Burns. xxBeckyMy grandad's favourite pub was destroyed by a big bomb.Paolo
My nan was a bomb watcher in Bootle in WW2, when Bootle Matchworks went up Simon
My mum lived in Henry Street and she chose not to be evacuated and stayed in Bootle when the bombs dropped.Cathy Cooper
My grandad was a baby and had a massive gas mask, I remember seeing it in the attick it scared me at first but my grandad said it saved his life!Helena Mulhern
I was evacuated when I was a girl and my husband was bombed out of every house he lived in.Teresa Molloy
I grew up on Marsh Lane in the 70s and some of the bomb damage was still there then. Thankfully my family were lucky.Tom
I got sent away from my mum and dad with my sister. I was only a baby.Elise Lawrence
My Great Grandad James was a fireman in Bootle during the war.Joe Holmes
My aunt was evacuated to Wales and when she came home she could only speak Welsh and had to learn English againTina
My grandad lived at 66 Keats Street Bootle and his house got bombed.Jim Bibby
My grandad was a war baby and he was put in a care home as a child because his parents were killed in the warLaura
I was in the war I was only a child I am 78 now and I can remember the devastation of seeing the amount of damage to to houses and shops I luckily survived threw it.John Heron
My Mother of 91 would talk about going to the air raid shelter and returning home to a flatened street.Bob
My father was evacuated from Vorkes Crescent Bootle to Wales in the war he lost both his parents.Chris Fennessy
My grandma told me she had to hide my mum under the table when she was a baby.Mat
I was a boy during the May Blitz and I remember the sadness on women´s faces when that telegram came. My Mam got one and she went out in the street crying. We all thought that my old man had died but he´d been wounded and the telegram was telling Mam he was being sent home. At home he helped our ARP warden. Unfortunately we lost my Father in the Blitz - he just never came home one night after Bootle had taken some beating.James Tylor
I was born in May 1940, a real Blitz baby. One night after visiting my grandmother, my mother decided to go home despite the blackout and started off. She had a great deal of difficulty pushing my pram in the darkness and at one point found herself pushing really hard and getting nowhere so she gave up and went and stayed the night at Gran´s. Next day when she retraced her steps she found the place where she had been stopped. The pram wheel marks showed that she had been trying to push me into a new bomb crater which was quite deep. Thank goodness I´m still here to tell the tale.M Farrell
I was born in Bootle and came to the USA in 1960 with my Mum and Dad and brother. As kids we would sit around the kitchen table and listen intently as my Mum told stories of the Blitz and what it was like to be in Bootle at the time. She was one of eight kids and she often wondered how my Nan managed to hold everything together during that time. They were bombed out of a house on Benedict Street and had blast damage to their next house on Wadham Road (where some of her sisters still live). My Dad was from Huyton and was evacuated to a farm with his brothers. The war for him was far different than it was for Mum. I am proud to have inherited the strength of spirit that is such a great part of the character of the people of Bootle, Liverpool, and England herself.Steve Burke (USA)
Memories of Bootle. I remember as a youngster of about 8 years old, each night the air raid warning sounding. My mother & I would go under the stairs & stay there, sometimes till morning. Each bomb that came screaming down seemed to get louder & louder. We both were very nervous in the May-blitz 1941 - it got very bad. My father was on ARP duty all of the war. He came home one morning, it was about the 5th of May, and told my mother & I we had to go to Longview, Huyton to his brother´s house as it was much safer. But he had to stay in Bootle on duty. We lived in Oliver St. We had an ariel-torpedo at the top of the street & 3 landmines at the bottom on Stanley Rd. My father had reported in about the 3 landmines but only 2 had gone off, and at the ARP post they said he must be wrong - it was only 2 that fell. So that was that until 2 or 3 days later a soldier came home on leave. He put his key in the door only to find a landmine hanging behind the front door by its parachute. Lucky for him & the rest of the streets it did not go off. The police evacuated about 5 side streets along Stanley Rd until the bomb crew came & dismantled the bomb. They put barrage balloons all along the docks & the ones on the ships in the docks were like sharks with sharp fins. Some days Jerry came over in the daylight & machined gunned the balloons. Then our planes intercepted them. On the days that a warning did not sound all the kids watched the dogfights in the sky over the docks which were about 1.5 miles away. All the family ended up at Dad´s brother's house in Huyton. About 10 of us or more. My Dad´s sister´s husband came home on leave from the Merchant Navy. He joined us all. Next day he went back home to see his side of the family. He went out in the morning with black hair & came back with a white line over his head. He had found most of his family dead, & had spent about 4 hours sorting limbs out of the debris. About 4 or 5 houses got a direct hit in the street. (NOT THE GOOD OLD DAYS)Harold Harwick
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TUPELO, Mississippi (Reuters) - A rural northeast Mississippi community discriminated against a lesbian woman by denying her a license to reopen a bar catering to gays and lesbians, a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday claims.
The lawsuit was filed by the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center and said the town of Shannon discriminated against Pat "PJ" Newton and violated her civil rights to free speech and equal protection.
It accused the town, the mayor and the aldermen of denying the license because Newton's bar would cater to gays and lesbians, and not because she failed to meet any criteria for opening and operating a business in Shannon.
During the town meeting in June when Shannon aldermen denied the license request, about 40 residents attended to oppose the bar, and delivered a petition with more than 100 signatures from people who objected.
Shannon attorney Gary Carnathan said he had not yet seen the lawsuit and could not comment. However, he said there was no mention of sexual orientation at the June meeting.
"There wasn't ever any mention about gay or straight or anything when it was brought up," Carnathan said. "It was only brought up after it was initially declined."
Town officials say they voted against having any other bar in the community of about 1,700 residents. The town has a liquor store and two existing bars.
Newton, 55, operated the bar, called O'Haras, in the community from 1994 to 1998. Now living in Memphis, Newton said she decided to reopen it after numerous gays and lesbians in northeast Mississippi said they wanted a place where they could feel comfortable and unwind without feeling threatened.
Shannon is about 11 miles from Tupelo, home of the conservative American Family Association.
Tension felt by gays in the region was highlighted in the 2006 documentary, "Small Town Gay Bar," which featured the Shannon bar. It later operated under a different name after Newton sold it, and it closed a few years ago.
Newton said she didn't know there was any opposition until she appeared at the town meeting to ask for the license.
"If I'd been a straight redneck from Shannon, nobody would have cared," Newton said recently.
She said she had already signed a lease on the property and had begun making improvements, and pays rent and utility bills even though she is unable to open.
The lawsuit asks the court to award damages for lost revenue and expenses, issue an injunction allowing the bar to open and award legal fees.
David Dinielli, the Southern Poverty Law Center's deputy legal director, said Newton met all requirements to open the business.
"The facts and circumstances make it clear that something else was at play here," he said.
The California law firm Hogan Lovells is also working on the case, which is: Pat "PJ" Newton and O'Hara's v. Town of Shannon, Mississippi, et al, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, 1:13-cv-00187-JMV
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Watching the first episode of the terrific three-part PBS series, "Broadway or Bust" which started last weekend and continues for two further Sundays, I began thinking if I ran a school system, which musicals would I suggest for my high school musical, one that connected with the kids, challenged them, but was also age appropriate for a freshman-to-senior span?
I didn't want to make them all "back in the day" shows, as much as I love "Bye Bye Birdie" (and which was MY high school musical, back in the day).
So here's my list. Tell me yours.
1. "Hairspray." Fun, funny and positive show about race relations and body images -- with a great beat that you can dance to. A show that has the kids more progressive than their uptight parents and authority figiures.
2, "Les Miserables." A rich narrative (and literature-based) that packs an emotional wallop, telling of the first Occupy Paris movement. You don't need an epic turntable (as the glorious recent national tour demonstrated), just great singers and passion.
3. "In the Heights." Heartfelt, breezy, community-centric, that has some great pop rap (and which began in 2000 by then-Wesleyan student Lin-Manuel Miranda. The show went on to win a Tony.
4. "Merrily We Roll Along". My out-there choice. This concept of the original Broadway production of this Stephen Sondheim flop was that high school kids (or close to that age) perform the backward narrativeof how far characters stray from their dreams when they were younger. For all the imperfections, the score is great and as the story returns to an innocence the last half hour of the show brings out the handkerchiefs.
5. "13." Jason Robert Brown's catchy score and a great themes about high school acclimation. Not as well known but one that hits all the right notes, gleefully.
6. "The Music Man." If I were to chose one golden oldie, this would be it. The show never fais to get to me because more than anything it's about the power of the arts to inspire a town and change lives.
7. "Oliver." OK, make that two golden oldies. You can't go wrong with Dickens'classic story and Lionel Bart's tuneful score. The pickpocket ensemble give schools a great opportunity to get a large number of kids involved, too.
8. "Ragtime". A serious undertaking for a school but a rich and rewarding one if done well, telling an American story of immigration, race and much much more.
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9. "The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee." Williams Finn's clever, smart and at times dazzling songs with one of the funniest scripts I have come across in a musical. And its about spelling!
10. "Legally Blonde." A contempo-pop score and a script that upends stereotypes while embracing the can-do spirit of musicals.
Runners up: Into the Woods, Hello, Dolly, Ragtime, Annie.
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Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs has won a lot of awards for his contributions to wireless technology -- the Marconi Prize in 2011, the National Medal of Technology in 1994 and the American Electronics Association Inventing America's Future award in 1993.
But his latest recognition, the Medal of Honor from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), seemed special to him. It is the highest honor an engineer can receive from his or her peers. Jacobs joins the likes of Intel's Gordon Moore and Andrew Grove, radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi and transistor pioneer William Shockley in receiving the award. Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi won in 2010.
Even though Jacobs is perhaps better known today as an entrepreneur and philanthropist, he said he considers himself an engineer first.
Handed out annually since 1917, the IEEE Medal of Honor was presented to Jacobs last week at a ceremony at Qualcomm's San Diego headquarters attended by about 500 people.
IEEE Chief Executive Peter Staecker said Jacobs received the medal not just for his innovations – he holds 14 wireless industry patents -- but for "the ability to translate innovation into industry applications time after time after time."
Jacobs, 79, championed Qualcomm's core technology – Code Division Multiple Access. It was a better mousetrap for the transition of wireless communications from analog to digital. But it was considered too challenging to make work in the noisy everyday cellular environment.
"The assumption in those days was CDMA was interesting and maybe good for military applications but not necessarily very good for commercial use," said Jacobs in an interview. "Research labs had worked on it for cellular considered it and had given up."
The eureka moment for Jacobs regarding CDMA came on a drive back to San Diego from Los Angeles, where he, Viterbi and early Qualcomm engineer Klein Gilhousen had been consulting on a Hughes satellite project.
Jacobs suggested that the technology – mostly deployed to prevent jamming in military communications – might allow cellular operators to pack more customers in the same amount of wireless airwaves.
After a tough fight against naysayers – one critic said CDMA violated the laws of physics – Jacobs was proven right.
What is CDMA? Jacobs describes it with the following analogy. Think of a crowded cocktail party were many people are talking – creating a lot of background noise. The party-goers can understand each other without yelling because one pair is speaking English, another French, a third Spanish and so on – allowing them to focus in on their own conversation.
"In CDMA, it's exactly like that except instead of being languages, they are mathematical formulas," said Jacobs. "And the key thing is that the others don't yell too loud. So you have to control the amount of yelling – power being used by other users."
Though he excelled in math and science in high school, Jacobs didn't start out studying engineering in college. His high school guidance counselor told him there wasn't much of a future in it.
His parents operated a restaurant at the time. So he began working toward an undergraduate degree in hotel management at Cornell University.
After a year and half, he switched to engineering, got advanced degrees from MIT and ended up as a professor at MIT and University of California San Diego.
In 1972, he co-found Linkabit, a communications consulting company that was sold in the early 1980s. After a brief retirement, Jacobs co- founded Qualcomm in 1985. Today, it's San Diego's largest publicly traded firm, with a market capitalization above $100 billion.
Jacobs has retired from the company. But the culture he helped create still resonates, according to speakers at the ceremony.
Jacobs described it as "taking a more innovative look at things. Instead of just making a small improvement in what is being done, think about it and find another path forward."


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Just hours ago, Goshen College, a private Mennonite-affiliated school in Indiana, played the National Anthem before a sporting event for the first time in their history. It wasn't without controversy. Of course.
The Mennonites are one of the historic peace churches, which endorse nonviolence in all situations. That includes war, and the "Star-Spangled Banner", if you haven't noticed, is quite the paean to the War of 1812( for what it's worth, a pretty righteous war). In the 116-year history of Goshen College, they've avoided playing the anthem (the tradition of playing it before sporting events dates back to World War II, another awesome war.)
Until today. After much debate (there's even an entire section of the school's website devoted to the issue), they played an instrumental version of the anthem before this afternoon's baseball and softball games.
Visitors to sporting events have raised concerns over the policy for years, Beyeler said. A task force studied the issue last spring. College President James Brenneman, approved the playing of the anthem in January.
"I am willing to change this one practice as an act of hospitality, because I know how committed we are to keeping Jesus' call to peacemaking and non-violence as central to this college and the wider church," Brenneman said in statement.
The move has its supporters, including those Goshen students in the photo up top. (Also, they're clearly not the "plain dress" sort of Mennonites.) But by the media's favorite metric for determining popular support — Facebook groups — students opposed to the institution of the anthem far outnumber those for it.
Not for nothing, the school mascot is the Maple Leaf.
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The Simple...yet complex discussion about Guild Wars 2, Simple Complexities: The GUILD and more.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Todays tidbits
6 comments:
- Bildo said...
I think Aion could do pretty well here if it plays more like a Western MMO and less like an Eastern one.
I mean, playing L2 and playing CoH (two NCsoft properties, developed across the Pacific from each other) is like playing two entirely different kinds of game. But the word is that Aion is developed with the Western market in mind when it comes to the UI and such. More specifically, they took a look at how games like WoW and EQ2, LotRO etc play and tried to replicate that.
If that's true... despite the fact that the Fantasy market is crowded I think Aion could do well. It's different enough with the flying, visual aesthetic, and PvEvP thing that it could grab some folks' attention.
I'll try it, simple because I'll try anything... :)
- January 8, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- Historian said...
I assure you that the issue was GameGuard, it would be really silly to sit on a game that is so anticipated.
That said we should have some good news very very soon.
- January 8, 2009 at 2:53 PM
- Danshir said...
"Did you know the rumor mill hit full steam this past month over the fact that Turbine is working on RMT (really now...who isn't recently) for an MMO."
My "prophecy" will come true. The West will get hit, and hard, with this. On a side note, I'm personally looking forward to TRYING Blade & Soul more so than Aion.
As for the WoW playerbase, I wouldn't be surprised if it went below 10 million.
- January 8, 2009 at 3:58 PM
- Lars said...
@Bildo - I'll try it too, as I try every major MMO. But from what I've read from beta testers, it just sounds like a Lineage 2 bot-filled grind fest with wings.
- January 8, 2009 at 11:17 PM
- Zeebrat said...
It's been taking so long for a decent new MMO to come out that I went back to EQ2. They sped up the leveling between levels 20-70 significantly. It's much more tolerable to play now.
I hope that AION is smart and tries to westernize their gameplay. People just aren't going to pay for a Korean grinder here. I suppose we'll have to wait and see.
Blade and Soul looks so cool, but from the looks of it, not many people will have the comp to run it.
- January 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Openedge1 said...
Just as I was afraid of. And no matter how much they "Westernize" it, leave that large of a discrepancy in your XP vs Quest ratios, and prepare to die off.
Cheers and thanks for the link
- January 9, 2009 at 10:08 AM