text: Episode 97: Transylvania Curses and Traitors, Lords of Xidit and Let's Build a Haunting Episode released on Friday, October 23, 2015 It's Halloween time again and the ghosts and goblins are out and looking for trouble. Today the gang takes ghoulish pleasure in reviewing Transylvania Curses and Traitors. Then the Founders look back a Lords of Xidit and give their thoughts a year later. Tony Topper gives you a terrifying look at all the news and updates from the gaming world in his news segment. Then the guys resurrect an old discussion topic in which they free form create stories in Tony's Topper's Let's Build a Haunting. Right-click to Download Episode Now! Games We Played Invaders from Outer Space Last Night on Earth: Timber Peak Blood Rage Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small Machi Koro Bootleggers Dragon's Gold Medina La Granja Eclipse Transylvania Curses and Traitors In the late 19th Century the land of Transylvania fell under a terrible curse allowing Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies to terrorize the citizens. The Governor issued a desperate plea for help. You play one of the best and bravest Adventurers in the world called to Transylvania to break the curse. Your goal is to find the Knowledge to break the curse over Transylvania but beware, the Knowledge you seek may just turn you into one of the terrible Monsters you have come to destroy. Transylvania: Curses & Traitors is a heavily themed adventure and exploration game utilizing a modular board, variable player powers, hand management, and dice rolling. Paths to victory include: 1. Solving the curse of Transylvania by finding the right combination of Knowledge cards and returning your pawn to the Church Tile. 2. Becoming a Monster (vampire, werewolf, or zombie) by collecting Transformation cards and then killing half the other players. 3. Killing a Monster as an Adventurer. Game play: The board consists of sixteen 6" x 6" tiles representing places in Transylvania such as the Church, Graveyard, and Castle. Adventurers start on the Church Tile and explore uncovering new tiles. Each tile contains token spaces which are opportunities to perform challenges of strength, mental acuity, and spiritual fortitude. A successful challenge results in the reward of a Quest card. The Quest deck contains the Knowledge cards needed to break the curse. While exploring Adventurers will also encounter Events. Failure of Events leads to injury and/or death while success leads to additional rewards. If Adventurers collect Transformation cards plus a card that activates the Transformation card, they become a Vampire, Werewolf, or Zombie. The goal of the game immediately changes from seeking Knowledge to eliminating the other players by attacking them. Lords of Xidit The Black Southern Host has arisen, corrupting the hearts of the indigenous creatures. Afflicted by a mysterious sickness, they are attacking human cities. The last remaining hope for restoring peace to Xidit lies with the Kingdom's noble heirs, the Idrakys. As one of them, you must roam the Kingdom recruiting brave soldiers and reclaiming threatened cities. Your bravery will not go unrewarded: accumulate wealth, send bards to sing your praises, and build Sorcerers' Guilds! Lords of Xidit features simultaneous programming and an elimination-based scoring system that leaves no room for complacency! In more detail, at the end of the game players compare their influence in one category and the player with the least influence is eliminated and his pieces removed from the board; players then compare influence in another category, with a player again being removed. The order of elimination is randomly determined at the start of play, forcing you to thinking in different ways each game. Prepare to ride out, Idrakys, and forge your legend! Previous Article Episode 96: Far Space Foundry, Cyclades, Short Topic Extravaganza and Creating a Cohesive Party in RPGs Next Article The Secret Cabal's Tales from Beyond the Grave


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Stormont ministers are to consider measures aimed at reversing the rise in the number of road deaths. Photograph: Joe St Leger/The Irish Times
Stormont ministers are to consider a package of measures designed to reverse a rise in the number of road deaths after years of significant declines.
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Fr. Thomas Doyle: the Vatican's most critical insider | Holy Post | National Post
Essentially, the Church is on fire. The faith of generations is turning to ash in front of our eyes as neglect and a perceived ongoing disrespect for victims rights (with the aim of 'preventing scandal' that would 'damage the faith' - a worthy end but morally fatally flawed means). I acknowledge that the fires have burned down in North America as Bishops are finally beginning to understand the moral carnage their predecessors have wrecked upon the Church and the faithful. Generations of savings from Catholics have been sacrificed thanks to a failed strategy that was geared more towards 'cauterizing the damage' rather that seeking justice in bringing these predators to the civil authorities. Of far greater importance are the millions of souls that have been (temporarily I hope and pray) lost to the Church. The embers of rage that wracked the faithful as week after week brought the filth of the scandal higher and higher up the ecclesiastical chain of command is giving way... but alas for many, the warmth of faith has been extinguished by a cold indifference to the voice of the Church in today's debates.
This is an exact repeat of what happened one generation ago in Quebec in the wake of the 'Révolution Tranquille' and it is indeed soil poisoned to the arguments of faith. Anger is at least an expression of emotion that implies an attachment to the Church; indifference means that this link is extinguished. I do not deny for a moment that the situation is hopeless... but it falls now to a few priests and faithful to work to rebuild the Church under difficult circumstances in which we can no longer assume that our message will be granted the benefit of doubt as to our good intentions. This repository of good will has been spent over the past 20 years in vain attempts to 'prevent scandal' to the faith. The irony is that it is these acts that provided the 'coup de gras' to the faith of many.
So long as we remain prayerful, mutually connected with meaningful liturgy that feeds and sustains their faith, and trusting in the saving power of Christ's message as a 'better way', we will succeed. But there is no doubt that if the entire hierarchy truly gets its act together, it will make the work seem lighter. Modernizing its instruments of communication and administration are essential steps along that way... and these steps will come as younger clerics more attuned to the post-modern society (and NO!!! I do not count myself them!!!) work their way up the structures of the Church. Quebec faces an opportunity over the next few years as over half of the Bishops will soon retire - and Cardinal Quellet, who taught in both 'La Grande Séminare in Quebec and the North American college and thus has personal knowledge of the best and the brightest among many young priests from his home province will be choosing their replacements. The same is eventually going to happen to all the Canadian Bishops as they are replaced when they retire due to age or ill health, but just as Quebec led us into this new hostile environment, it might too provide us with the first steps towards an authentically renewed Church in Canada.
Fr. Thomas Doyle: the Vatican's most critical insider | Holy Post | National Post
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- Anonymous29 December, 2010
It seems as if you do actually agree with all the charges levied by the 'grumpy' atheists you so unfairly maligned. Anger really is the appropriate response to the rape of children and your paltry response and excuses don't cut with Doyle or your atheist critics.ReplyDelete
- jim stevenson31 December, 2010
Benedict XVI has stated that the sexual abuse crisis has theological roots. He states that it is the moral relativism or proportionality of contemporary social ethics, that is its primary cause. By this, I think he means that by the exchanging of absolute "prohibitiva" or "thou shalt nots" for a relativism that speaks of lesser and greater evils such things became accepted by some. Although I totally disagree with Benedict`s conclusion, I do think another kind of proportionality was at work in the crisis, encapsulated in the question of what is most destructive to the church: the sacrificing of the priests and bishops involved in the abuse and its cover up -- or justice to the victims of the abuse. Sadly the powers that be chose against the victims; and as far as I can tell they are still doing so.ReplyDelete
B16 is correct. The culture and values that claimed ascendancy in the 60's & 70's rendered impotent the assumptions about candidates that stepped forward to enter the seminary. Assumptions about how these men reasoned led elder priests to take for granted that they would understand the context of theological teachings. For example, whereas they had been educated in scholasticism, logic and latin as part of their pre-seminary training, virtually anyone who received their secondary education once Catholic schools accepted to teach provincially imposed curriculum in exchange for full funding experienced none of this. Further, to be 18 years of age meant something different in the 30's through the 50's than it does in more recent generations. Levels of personal maturity assumed by these professors simply did not exist among these now 'late stage' adolescents who streamed into the seminaries.
I once suggested to a professor that as Gestalt philosophy taught that meaning was ascertained by a relationship with others, he had essentially rendered himself obsolete through his decades teaching in the Seminary as he neither understood the times nor the young men seated before him each day during classes. He didn't appreciate my contention at the time, but if he were alive today, it would be hard for him to argue his case.
con't below....
con't from above...ReplyDelete
So yes, B16 was correct in that the defective formation of candidates in the wake of the tumult of of 60's & 70's led to morally compromised priests in the years that followed... priests who also rose to positions of authority within the church, leading to a phenomenon referred to as 'lavender chanceries' which excused and hid the offenses of their peers from civil authorities. My old friend Fr. Richard J. Neuhaus (RIP) repeatedly wrote throughout those days that it was not an issue of celibacy that was fueling these scandals, but rather a crisis of immaturity and infidelity to one's commitments in life. Add this to wisdom offered to me by the chief engineer of a paper mill who stated that if his end product is not turning out as it should, he begins by looking at the wood product that's starting to work its way through his plant and it becomes clear that the solution to a crisis of infidelity is to ensure that the men who are being formed to be priests are sufficiently capable and mature to remain faithful to the commitments as a priest. Thankfully, this is being done and hopefully there are now enough time and safeguards in place throughout the formation process to weed out such inappropriate candidates for the priesthood.
Fr. Tim
- Anonymous31 December, 2010
Hi Tim,ReplyDelete
Perhaps you can explain to us what you mean by "lavender chanceries". Are you implying that chanceries were overrun by homosexually oriented priests, who in turn hid and excused the actions of pedophile priests?
Are homosexuals somehow more inherently tolerant and protective of pedophiles than heterosexuals?
Are homosexuals more prone to disregard the suffering of children in favour of the institutional Church's reputation than heterosexuals?
While you are busy supplying us with the empirical evidence you no doubt have to demonstrate that homosexuals are worse than heterosexuals in this regard, perhaps you can also tell us why B16 continues to shelter Bernard Law in Vatican City instead of facing his accusers in the US?
It is most instructive and interesting to learn that all of the problems of the Church seem to have nothing to do with its own structures, attitudes, governance, and theology.
The holy spirit did not fail, the wisdom of the hierarchy did not fail, the ideas and beliefs of the insitution are not at fault - no...it is all down to the fault of homosexuals.
You speak of a failure of maturity in priestly candidates, but I have to wonder how mature it is for a Church to continually blame others for one's own shortcomings?
Martin: Those who inhabited the 'lavender chanceries' are not necessarily homosexuals. They were those staffed with clerics who were compromised by their personal convictions regarding what constituted 'abuse' and thus they were willing to 'excuse', 'forgive' and shelter predators. If you remember back to the Bishop who sent me to the seminary (and your Bishop at the time as well) he certainly was guilty of giving the benefit of the doubt to questionable candidates rather than accept a negative assessment from other priests or fellow seminarians. I most certainly dealt with a 'lavender chancery' during those years - and I had no reason at the time to question anyone's sexuality. (Morality, view of justice... yes; sexual orientation... no)ReplyDelete
As to your rhetorical questions about homosexuals, you know as well as I do that there is no connection between sexual orientation and probabilities of being an abuser.
BUT... you do have to acknowledge that there has been a stubborn sub-set of the gay community that does not respect the 'inconvenience' of age limits when it comes to choosing sexual partners (NAMBLA etc.) and that they are used as circumstantial evidence by those who to try and link the GLBT community with the abuse of young aged boys. Through the exigencies of the media coverage of such predators priests as Geoghan (sp?) in Boston, and the fact that priest victims have tended to be of the same sex has cemented this connection in the minds of some. Thanks to folks like you, I've been educated and have come to accept the weight of evidence supports no such statistical connection. There was no need to assume that I intended any insult or derogatory assessment of the homosexual community.
As to the failure to adequately address the immaturity of candidates for the priesthood, I can only suggest that you look back to some of our mates 26 years ago and answer that question for yourself. You know my answer.
Here's hoping 2011 will be year of health and happiness for you and yours! Happy New Year!
- Anonymous31 December, 2010
Hi Tim,ReplyDelete
Interesting - whenever I hear the term "lavendar chancery" or "lavendar mafia" bandied about by the religious right, it is usually as a slur against homosexual priests. It seems you have some other meaning in mind - what that meaning is, I am still not clear about it.
No matter. You have diverted our attention from B16's own inexplicable and continued sheilding of Bernard Law by making the entire LGBT community carry the water for NAMBLA. May I remind you, there is also a stubborn subset of the straight community that continues to rape children. They are called pedophiles. Please note that I do not slander the entire straight community (or even priests) with the crime of child rape.
I am sure that I have no need to remind you that Father Charles Sylvester raped little girls. The only connection I see between Geoghan and Sylvester is that they were priests at the time of their crimes. This is a horrible tragedy - but it is raised to a whole new level of wickedness when the RCC hierarchy looks the other way!
Perhaps the problem is not homosexual priests in the RCC, but rather closeted, self-loathing, homosexual priests. Encouraged to live in the closet by their theology and the blessed Church, they have learned to despise and decieve themselves, that they will sacrafice anything to keep their secrets.
As the LGBT community has stated for decades, the closet is a truly dark place...and your Church continues to endorse and perpetuate that closet. If you are looking for the root causes of the evil within your Church, may I humbly suggest you begin your search here.
As for the immaturity of preistly candidates during the 1980's, I do not dispute the point. But as I recall it, they were all sponsored by an older generation of clerics who were every bit as psycho-sexually immature as their younger charges. Your Bishop was born in 1917 and my Bishop was born in 1929. They were not the products of the swinging sixties, but the products of a twisted self-loathing Catholic theology of the body.
Which leaves many of us with just one question - when will you and the Roman Catholic Church stop blaming the media, moral relativism, the cultural, psychology, the victims, and homosexual priests for these crimes?
Despite our sometimes barbed exchanges, I also wish you a prosperous and healthy new year! Let's all hope for, and work towards, a better world in 2011.
- Jim Stevenson01 January, 2011
Fr. Tim,ReplyDelete
How does the case of Marciel Maciel Delgado fit into the proportionality relativistic misinterpretation of Vatican II?
Jim: 'Proportionality relativistic misinterpretation of Vatican II' ??ReplyDelete
Maciel Delgado was the fatally flawed founder of the Legionaries of Christ. He formed the community into a virtual personality cult that protected him from facing the responsibility for his crimes. These issues have been addressed by B16 who suspended Delgado and then taking over control of the order by appointing a new head.
What does any of this have to do with Vatican II?
Fr. Tim
- Jim Stevenson01 January, 2011
As I understand Bendedict XVI`s analysis of the sexual abuse crisis, it was the misinterpretation by liberal theologians of Vatican II`s decrees that led to relativisitic ethics.ReplyDelete
My point about Fr. Maciel is that he was protected by different members of the Curia for the forty years after charges were first presented to the Holy See in the late 60`s. He was also defended by Neuhaus and others who saw the crisis in terms of lax liberal theology. It seems that even John Paul II was complicit in the cover up. The scandal is not in Fr. Maciel`s disgraceful life so much as it is in how he was effectively protected until the very last years of his life, when to his credit Benedict XVI confined him to a life of prayer and penitence - but did not laicize him. At the same time his victims and his exposers such as Jason Berry were ruthlessly vilified. As far as I know, no one else, none of the cover upers, who were guilty of moral breaches and some of civil crimes were ever disciplined in any way.
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Cite this page: Weisenberg E. Rhodococcus. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/lungnontumorrhodo.html. Accessed May 28th, 2020.
Clinical features
- Zoonotic infection originally identified in lungs of foals; also cattle, swine, sheep, deer, goats, dogs, cats, other species
- Worldwide distribution in water and soil, especially near feces of herbivores
- Infection by inhalation or ingestion
- Resides primarily within lung macrophages of infected patients, also some alveolar cells (Microbes Infect 2011;13:438)
- R. equi is most common human pathogen of the Rhodococci
- Generally occurs in AIDS patients (may cause malakoplakia, Clin Infect Dis 1999;28:1334); also other immunodeficient patients; very rarely in immunocompetent
- Incidence decreasing, likely due to HAART therapy and azithromycin prophylaxis
- "Rhodo" since salmon pink pigment in culture
- Treated with antibiotics, but mortality is 50% in AIDS patients, 20% in other immunocompromised and 10% in immunocompetent
Case reports
- 15 year old girl with congenital AIDS and cavitary lesion (Arch Pathol Lab Med 2003;127:e315)
- 68 year old man with fatal lung infection post chemotherapy for T-PLL (Emerg Infect Dis 2007;13:1942)
- 68 year old man with pneumonia post heart transplant (University of Pittsburgh)
Microscopic (histologic) description
- Epithelioid macrophages containing gram positive, partially acid fast coccobacilli that resemble mycobacteria
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In the Los Angeles Neighborhood poll, right behind Morningside Circle is Little Armenia. To vote in the Los Angeles County Community poll, go here.
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When I first moved to Silver Lakefrom Chino I got a job in nearby Burbank. I drove through Glendale and noticed that the population of both cities was largely Armenian. The signs were written in that unique Armenian alphabet that kind of looks like broken bits of elbow macaroni glued to croquet hoops. I think that, at the time, I had only the vaguest notion of where Armenia was. (For the record, at Amoeba we file it in the Middle East, to the consternation of many since it's a Christian nation in South Eastern Europe).
A typical block of Little Armenia
Anyway, Armenia is where Noah crash landed his Ark full of all the world's species at the end of the Earth's brief oceanic period. Armenia is one of the world's oldest civilizations. It was founded by Noah's great-great grandson Hayk. Armenia, situated between Turkey, Iran and Russia finds itself ideally situated for invasion from some of history's biggest imperialists so it's pretty amazing that they still exist as a people. Perhaps that's partly due to the fact that Armenians seem to be willing to live anywhere. Like Australians, Lebanese and Israelis, Armenians are one of the the nationalities you're most likely to encounter in any country as tourists or part of the diaspora.
A Statue of Hayk (In Yerevan) Me in my Little Armenia-purchased Sean John
Back to Burbank then. Many of my customers were Armenian and I noticed that a lot of them really liked Tupac and film Scarface (I think that may still be true). A lot of the guys wore Sean Jean tracksuits, which I thought looked pretty damned comfortable (especially the velour ones). Both the guys and (less often) the girls had a high incidence of synophrys, which I also thought was cool because I have one myself (like many Anglos e.g. Hugh Grant, Damon Albarn, Kraftwerk and the Brothers Gallagher). Whereas in England they have been linked to criminality, some Eurasian peoples consider them beautiful. I let mine grow in, for the first time in years. But then a friend from college visited me who'd only experienced the groomed version of my eyebrows. Right away when he saw me he said, "Jesus Whoah God" and I returned it to its cage.
Unibrowed beauties
When I noticed the signs in the East Hollywood neighborhood for Little Armenia I was surprised, given the more undeniable and overwhelmingly Armenian character of Glendale and Burbank. But what I wasn't realizing was that Glendale and Burbank are their own cities and Little Armenia is the main Armenian neighborhood of Los Angeles. When you're new to the city and you drive around on the freeway you see many little clusters of downtown skyscrapers and it's hard to tell which is Los Angeles, which is Century City, which Downtown, &c since they're all roughly the same size and just pop up like termite mounds around the sprawlscape.
St. Garabed
Little Armenia doesn't really have a downtown. It's roughly quadrisected by Normandie and Sunset; bordered by Hollwood Blvd to the north, Santa Monica Blvd to the south, Vermont to the East and the 101 Freeway to the west. It is neighbored by Los Feliz, Sunset Junction, Virgil Village, Melrose Gateway, Melrose Hill, Hollywood proper, Franklin Village and Thai Town.
It's very diverse. On my bike rides through the neighborhood to and from work I always see Mexicans, Scientologists, Salvadorans, the disabled, Guatemaltecas, Russians, Schizoprenics, Thai and Pilipinos on any day of the week. And all of my co-workers that I know of that live in the neighborhood are Caucasian (in that they're white, not that their people are from the Caucausus Mountains, as Armenians are). But Little Armenia got its titular character in the early 1970s when significant populations of Armenians started moving to the area and opening businesses.
Aside from the storefronts, which often have signs written in Armenian, Little Armenia has few physical aspects that reflect its Armenian character. Physically, like most of the Hollywood lowlands, it's actually a fairly ugly neighborhood, dominated by bland apartment buildings, small homes with concrete lawns and strip malls. There is, however, a mural depicting Armenian history on the south face of the building at 1203 E Vermont Ave (update: it's been painted over) and several art deco buildings and a couple of attractive churches, including St. Garabed Church (an Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church).
If you've ever looked at the crosses on Orthodox churches, you may wonder why they look like old fashioned TV antennas more than the cross most non-Orthodox Christians are used to. The explanation I've heard for the diagonal bar is that Jesus' legs were unequal lengths. Armenia was the first nation to adopt Christianity as the state religion so they probably know what they're talking about.
The Hollywood and Western Building is a nice Art Deco building that was built for Louis B. Mayer in 1928. It was featured in the film, Hollywood Shuffle and used as a rehearsal space by bands including Guns N Roses and White Zombie. The Holy Transfiguration Russian Orthodox Church on Fernwood is rather striking. I once e-mailed them asking if they were holding services whilst the church was being restored. Disappointed by my experiences with Vatican 2, I hoped to get some old-fashioned ritual. They didn't write back.
There used to be the famous Hollywood Star Lanes. I loved that place, despite my indifference to bowling. Built in 1962, it was famously featured in the Big Lebowski. Sadly, it was demolished to make way for a school.
In the neighborhood's only significant green space, Barnsdall Art Park, there is the Hollyhock House and other buildings atop Olive Hill, which were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1910s during his Mayan Revival phase. This probably makes me sound like a philistine, but I've always thought of the architect as "Frank Lloyd $h*+3" because his designs, from his various phases, always seem like such pale reflections of his influences. The Mayans and the Japanese were architectural gods. Frank Lloyd Wright is like the Disney version in my mind. I do enjoy his appreciation for mulled wine and the fact that he built his furniture to the scale of his buildings' inhabitants ...but I just can't share appreciation for his architecture.
Back in 2005, on Labor Day weekend, the park was the sight of Arthurfest where I saw Sleater-Kinney, The Black Keys, Lavender Diamond, Wolfmother and a whole slew of others that I've can't remember.
There's also the Scientology Church, located in a former hospital. There are actually a lot of Scientology buildings in the neighborhood. On any given night you might see a bus unloading the unfortunately-attired enemies of Xenu who then parade morosely into a non-descript building for a night of niacin tripping and psychiatry-bashing.
I ended up buying a tracksuit at Little Paris, which isn't a neighborhood, but a store that serves most of the neighborhoods tracksuit needs. I heard the words "baby blue" amidst the Armenian several times. I often observe older Armenian men's uniform consisting more often of waistcoats, jackets, dress shirts and driving caps. They often walk with their hands clasped behind their backs and hang out in their yards with friends drinking libations and playing board games.
Every April 24, Little Armenia is flooded with luxury cars adorned with Armenian Flags, both real and sometimes painted. The streets are choked with Armenians marking Genocide Remembrance Day. This is probably the main thing non-Armenian Americans know about Armenia. The other big celebration in the neighborhood seems to be June 1, which marks Armenian Independence Day.
I've never read any Bukowski because he seems like a writer for bros, but I guess a lot of his stuff took place in Little Armenia. Also, I hear that a lot of The Shield is filmed there. I tried watching The Shield, mistakenly confusing it with the massively-hyped The Wire (which both sound like they're for bros) and got nauseous from the camera work to the point that I couldn't follow what was going on but it seemed to mainly concern the misadventures of a a bald, henpecked Bruce Willis-type bickering with his wife and was very unpleasant physically and spiritually.
As a glutton, I've got to mention Armenian cuisine. Most non-Armenians probably don't even know when they're eating Armenian because so many places take the incognito strategy of calling themselves "Middle Eastern" or "Mediterranean" joints--as do a lot of Lebanese and Persian restaurants. I guess naming yourself "Beirut Palace," "Star of Iran" or "Baghdad No. 1" might not make good business sense in the Near & Middle East-hating USA. Anyway, to be fair, Armenian cuisine is kind of a mix of Assyrian, Balkan, Mediterranean, Caucasian (the region), Eastern European and Middle Eastern influences. If you live in Los Angeles County, you've probably eaten at a Zankou Chicken. After being started by a Lipananahay in Beirut, Zankou opened its second store in the Little Armenia location on Sunset before spreading out. Other oft-spoken of restaurants of Little Armenia include Marouch, Arax, Carousel and Panos and there are a lot of highly-praised bakeries in the area too.


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There are many theories on how to analyse the efficiency of a development intervention. Then again, these are just theories. What happens in the real world? In practice, it can be quite a struggle to analyse the efficiency of a certain project in difficult circumstances. The Efficiency Lab challenged three experts to recommend what methods to use in different, practical cases.
A panel of experts consisting of Markus Palenberg (The Institute for Development Strategy in Munich, Germany), Pol de Greve (Context, international cooperation) and Antonie de Kemp (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IOB) was invited to formulate, for ten different types of projects, recommendations concerning the most appropriate methods and tools for analysing efficiency. Below you find these cases and recommendations.
So, are you struggling with your efficiency analysis? Take a look at these examples, select the one similar to your own case and find out which method or tool to use!
- Case 1 – Value chain development: Efficiency analysis in value chain development projects
Since the turn of the century, practitioners in agricultural development shifted their attention from farming systems, with a focus on technology and productivity at farmer household level, to value chains. In addition to the introduction of new technologies to enhance productivity (the "push" factors), the value chain development approach focuses in first instance on market opportunities (the "pull" factors). Instrumental in this approach is the establishment of business linkages between farmer groups and actors downstream the value chain including, traders and processors.
This case explains how to analyse efficiency in value chain development projects.
- Case 2 – Basic education: Efficiency analysis in a pilot of an accelerated education programme
Accelerated education (AE) programmes promote access to education in an accelerated time-frame for disadvantaged groups, including over-age out-of-school children and youth who missed out or had their education interrupted due to poverty, marginalisation, conflict and crisis. The goal of AE is to provide learners with equivalent certified competencies for basic education and learning approaches that match their level of cognitive maturity.
This case explains how to analyse efficiency when piloting an AE programme in a country.
- Case 3 – Higher education: Efficiency analysis in higher education capacity building projects
Developing countries invest in higher education to develop their own capacity to acquire and generate knowledge in support of their economic and social development, and to pass on this knowledge to next generations. Donor organisations and programmes such as Nuffic, DAAD, Erasmus+ to support international collaboration between higher education institutions with the aim to strengthen the capacity of universities in low and lower-middle income countries.
This case explains how to analyse efficiency in projects aimed at capacity development in higher education.
- Case 4 – Sanitation and hygiene: Efficiency analysis in sanitation and hygiene projects
SDG 6 calls for access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all by 2030., Most sanitation projects have a strong market-oriented approach and are based on three assumptions:
– On the demand side, people's behaviours need to be changed towards adopting improved sanitation practices
– On the supply side, a well-functioning private sector-based supply chain for sanitation products and services is a prerequisite for effective and sustainable coverage
– An enabling environment providing regulation and funding is needed to support these changes
This case explains how to analyse efficiency in sanitation and hygiene projects.
- Case 5 – Water supply: Efficiency analysis in water supply projects
SDG 6 calls for universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030. Most projects in the area of water supply have a strong market-oriented approach which is usually based on three assumptions:
– On the demand side, people's attitudes need to be changed towards developing a willingness to pay for water supply services.
– On the supply side, a well-functioning private sector-based supply chain for water is a prerequisite for an effective and sustainable coverage
– An enabling environment providing regulation and funding is needed to support these changes.
This case explains how to analyse efficiency in water supply projects.
- Case 6 – Micro finance: Efficiency analysis in micro-finance projects
Micro-finance projects aim to help poor and excluded people to get access to financial services including loans, saving facilities, insurance and money transfer services. Micro financing has its roots in Bangladesh where in the seventies the Grameen Bank started providing micro credit to groups of excluded people. Many projects followed this example by providing micro-credit services to poor people or supporting the establishment of micro-credit schemes and institutions. Increasingly, micro finance projects tend to focus on developing the capacities of existing financial institutions to become more inclusive.
This case explains how to analyse efficiency in micro finance projects.
- Case 7 – Disability inclusion: Efficiency analysis in disability inclusion projects
People with disabilities are often unemployed. As a result, many of them live in poverty. There are several factors causing this. As people with a disability are often stigmatized and discriminated against, many do not have access to education. It is often assumed that they are not able to perform any work, and sometimes people are reluctant to work with them. Stigmatization and discrimination in their communities also cause loss of self-esteem. Lack of self-esteem causes self-exclusion. It's a downward spiral.
This case explains how to analyse efficiency in projects that aim to include people with disabilities.
- Case 8 – From conflict to peace: Efficiency analysis in conflict prevention and peace building
Violent conflict continues to affect the lives of millions of people around the worlds, especially in the most marginalised areas. Frictions leading to violent conflict are a set-back to social and economic development. In fact, peace is a pre-condition for all other development interventions to succeed. Therefore, it is important to monitor tensions intervene in an early stage to prevent eruptions of violent conflict. Interventions include facilitating dialogue, consensus building and influencing all stakeholders who can contribute to maintaining or building peace.
This case explains how to analyse efficiency in projects that aim at conflict prevention and peace building.
- Case 9 – Prevention of gender-based violence: Efficiency analysis in prevention of gender-based violence projects
Every year millions of women fall victim to gender based violence (GBV) and many don't survive. GBV is rooted in cultural norms, practices, traditions and patriarchal attitudes that contain stereotypes regarding the roles, responsibilities and identities of women and men in all spheres of life. The project combines a number of interventions that focus on the positive transformation of harmful social norms targeting individuals (men as well as women), communities and actors that belong to the policy and legislative environment.
This case explains how to analyse efficiency in a project that aims to prevent gender-based violence.
- Case 10 – Domestic biogas: Efficiency analysis in a domestic biogas programme
Domestic biogas plants have a direct positive effect on rural peoples' energy supply, environment, health and agricultural production. Therefore, the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) supports the formulation and implementation of national programmes on domestic biogas in some developing countries. In these programmes, multiple actors at different levels cooperate on the basis of proper institutional arrangements to provide access to sustainable energy for households raising livestock. SNV advises these actors in developing a commercially viable and market-oriented biogas sector.
This case explains how to analyse efficiency in domestic biogas project.
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LONDON (AP) –75-year-old victim of Westminster Bridge attack in London has died.
London police say a 75-year-old man injured in the attack on Westminster Bridge has died of his wounds.
In a statement late Thursday, police said life support was withdrawn from the man and his family has been notified.
The announcement brings to four the number of victims killed in the attack Wednesday in central London. The man identified as the driver of the car that rampaged across the bridge into pedestrians was also killed by police after he jumped out and stabbed a police officer to death.
LONDON (AP) — Britain's prime minister defiantly declared Thursday that "we are not afraid" even as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack by a man who plowed an SUV into pedestrians on a London bridge and then stabbed a police officer to death at Britain's Parliament.
In a sweeping speech before the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Theresa May said the man who killed three people Wednesday before being shot to death by police was born in Britain and once came under investigation for links to religious extremism.
British officials named the attacker as Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old with criminal convictions who was living in the West Midlands, which includes the central city of Birmingham.
Police arrested seven people in Birmingham and one in London — five men and three women — on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in connection to the Westminster Bridge attack. Among the homes raided in Birmingham was one Masood lived in until just after Christmas, according to a neighbor.
Iwona Romek, who said she lived for about five months two doors down from Masood, said he had a wife and a young child and appeared like a "normal family man who liked to take care of his garden."
Romek looked with surprise at a photo of the attacker on a stretcher.
"From the face, from the beard — that is 100 percent him," she said.
Romek said Masood would walk the child, around 6 years old, to school in the morning, and that he rarely left in the evenings. But one day she saw him packing their belongings in a black van and then they were gone, months after moving in.
May set an unyielding tone Thursday, saluting the heroism of police as well as the bravery of ordinary people in the British capital who simply went about their lives in the aftermath of the attack.
"As I speak, millions will be boarding trains and airplanes to travel to London, and to see for themselves the greatest city on Earth," May told the House of Commons. "It is in these actions – millions of acts of normality – that we find the best response to terrorism. A response that denies our enemies their victory, that refuses to let them win, that shows we will never give in."
Parliament held a moment of silence Thursday morning to honor the slain officer, Keith Palmer, a 15-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police and a former soldier, as well as the other victims. Then Parliament, which was locked down after the attack, returned to business — a counter to those who had attacked British democracy.
In the 1,000-year-old Westminster Hall, the oldest part of Parliament's buildings, politicians, journalists and parliamentary staff lined up to sign a book of condolences for the victims. Among them was a uniformed policeman, who wrote: "Keith, my friend, will miss you."
Several thousand people crowded London's Trafalgar Square for a memorial on Thursday evening, where three large candles were placed in front of the National Gallery.
People lit candles for those killed and wounded and one woman painted the word "freedom" on her forehead. The crowd was so quiet that the bells of Big Ben, near where the attack occurred, could be heard chiming in the distance.
The rampage was the first deadly incident at Parliament since 1979, when Conservative lawmaker Airey Neave was killed in a car bombing by Irish militants.
Some parliamentarians said they were shaken, and all were somber. But they were also determined.
"There is no such thing as 100 percent security," said Menzies Campbell, a member of the House of Lords. "We have to learn to live with that."
May later visited a London hospital to meet with victims of Wednesday's attack and to thank the hospital staff who had helped them.
A Utah man visiting London with his wife for their 25th anniversary and a British woman who was a school administrator were killed by the SUV and 29 others were hospitalized, seven of them in critical condition. Others were injured and treated at the scene.
The London attack echoed even deadlier vehicle rampages last year in Nice, France, and in Berlin that were claimed by the Islamic State group.
IS said Thursday through its Aamaq News Agency that the London attacker was a soldier of the Islamic State who "carried out the operation in response to calls for targeting citizens" of countries fighting IS in Syria and Iraq.
IS militants have been responsible for numerous bloody attacks around the globe, but also have claimed events later found to have no clear links to the group.
Police believe the London attacker acted alone and there is no reason to believe "imminent further attacks" are planned, May said, adding that he had been investigated before but police believed he was a peripheral figure at the time.
Car rental company Enterprise said the car used in the terror attack was rented in Birmingham.
Labour Party lawmaker Khalid Mahmood, who represents part of Birmingham, condemned the "barbaric attack" and urged his fellow Muslims to report concerns about radicalization to the police.
"We have to condemn this outright," he said. "There are no ifs or buts. This is a hugely tragic incident. These people do not belong to any faith. They certainly don't belong to my faith of Islam."
Many suspects in British terror attacks or plots have roots in Birmingham, and several local mosques have also been linked to extremist clerics.
British security forces have foiled 13 plots in the past four years. There are currently thousands of extremists in the U.K. known to officials but only a fraction of them are under surveillance, according to a security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about ongoing security operations. It takes dozens of officers to watch just one terror suspect.
Witnesses said the attacker went straight after the police officer after ramming into the pedestrians.
"This man got out of the car with two knives in his hands and while he was running he was stabbing people," said Vincenzo Mangiacarpe, an Italian boxer who was visiting Parliament. "You can imagine if someone was playing a drum on your back with 2 knives – he gave him (the policeman) around 10 stabs in the back."
People from 11 countries were among the victims, including 12 Britons, four South Koreans, three French, two Romanians, two Greeks, two Irish, two Americans and one person each from Germany, Poland, China and Italy.
Kurt Cochran, a Utah man visiting London with his wife Melissa for their 25th anniversary, was named as among the dead by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His wife has been hospitalized in the attack.
U.S. President Donald Trump was among the world leaders offering their condolences.
London has been a target for terrorism many times over past decades and the threat level for the British capital was already listed at severe, meaning an attack was "highly likely."
May said the attack in London targeted "free people everywhere" and declared she had a response for those behind it: "You will not defeat us."
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Commercial Property e-Brief – It's not easy being green!
Friday 15th March 2013
In these uncertain economic times, it would be easy to think that green issues are off the agenda with investors devoting more time to filling voids and considering the perennial problem of slow growth. The sector is, however, slowly coming to terms with sustainability issues, whether through a greater awareness of the impact of climate change or through increasing government intervention.
From April 2018, the Energy Act 2011 will make it unlawful to let residential or commercial properties which do not meet a minimum energy performance standard. Although a final decision has not yet been reached, early indications suggest that this will catch properties with an EPC rating lower than "E".
Property owners need to be looking at their portfolios, as it estimated that almost 20 per cent of commercial properties have the problematic "F" or "G" status. As we start to approach 2018, we expect to see the value of these affected properties drop as they effectively become unlettable. At best, landlords would take lower rents and see an increased number of void premises as tenants continue to be driven by green issues.
The market is already starting to see high-profile tenants looking to incorporate green clauses into their existing leases to protect them going forward as the new legislation is implemented. Marks and Spencer has recently reported deals it has struck to include green provisions in their leases which will encourage the more effective management of a building's environmental performance. We suspect this news will see tenants increasingly looking to their Landlords to accommodate their wishes on green issues.
A lot can happen in five years and the proposals may change but landlords have been given time to act and it would be prudent to address the issues before 2018 is upon us. Investors ideally need to be considering sustainability issues in their business plans over the next 12 months so that any future income stream is not hampered by those affected properties. The earlier they start to consider the potential impact, the easier it will be to spread the cost of any required expenditure over successive financial years.
One straightforward step is to check your EPCs and recommendation reports and establish the cause of any low ratings. It may well be that your current tenant's alterations are a contributing factor and you may have the ability in the lease to require them to remove their fit-out at the end of their tenancy.
Landlords can start conversations with their managing agents and other advisers to see if any improvements can be made to their buildings prior to 2018. Such costs may be recoverable through the service charge.
Property investors should also pay greater attention to green issues on any new acquisitions they are making. The EPC ratings and recommendation reports are of real relevance now and will prove to be effective tools in highlighting any potential future expenditure.
We understand our clients may be anxious about how the potential changes will affect their portfolios. We have a dedicated Renewable Energy Group comprised of specialist advisers across a range of disciplines and we are able to conduct reviews of your existing documentation and management / service charge structures to recommend improvements. In particular, we can look at your standard leases to identify whether any potential costs of improving the energy ratings of your buildings are recoverable from your tenants through the service charge.
The saving grace is that our clients do have a number of years to mitigate any surprises on the horizon. Prudent investors will be conscious of any concerns in their portfolios and by taking steps early on, can reap the rewards of energy efficiency improvements through the resultant savings on utility bills.
If you would like to speak to someone about our "Compliance with the Green Property Code" initiative, please contact a member of our Renewable Energy Group.


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Summary of Bolder even in my fear
Pastor Brent speaks at SouthRidge Fellowship, in Langley BC. He speaks on fear, anxiety, and being bolder. This is the fifth message of our churchwide series Bolder.
About this Message Series
"Bolder" focuses on what it takes to be bolder in our faith and how God is pushing us to be bolder both as a church and as individuals. This message series is church-wide series, meaning SRKids and Youth will be following the series as well.


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Treatment of Dementia associated to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - -Serotonin
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Other medication used to control aggressive and uncontrolled behavior, such as gamma-aminobutyric acid(541)(542)(543) with functions of inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system(540), (541)(543). Dopamine and serotonin(542)(543) also functioning as a neurotransmitter may be helpful.
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(514) An overview of human prion diseases by Imran M1, Mahmood S.(PubMed)
(515) Rapidly progressive dementia: prion diseases and other rapid dementias by Geschwind MD.(PubMed)
(516) Neuroimaging of rapidly progressive dementias, part 1: neurodegenerative etiologies by Degnan AJ1, Levy LM.(PubMed)
(517) Degeneration of skeletal muscle, peripheral nerves, and the central nervous system in transgenic mice overexpressing wild-type prion proteins by Westaway D1, DeArmond SJ, Cayetano-Canlas J, Groth D, Foster D, Yang SL, Torchia M, Carlson GA, Prusiner SB.(PubMed)
(518) Prion protein transgenes and the neuropathology in prion diseases by DeArmond SJ1, Prusiner SB.(PubMed)
(519) [Differential diagnosis of status epilepticus in intensive care: about one case of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob].[Article in French] by Chauvin A1, Dubost JL2, Cleophax C2, Niclot P3, Thuong M2.(PubMed)
(520) Prion protein accumulation in eyes of patients with sporadic and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by Head MW1, Northcott V, Rennison K, Ritchie D, McCardle L, Bunn TJ, McLennan NF, Ironside JW, Tullo AB, Bonshek RE.(PubMed)
(521) Fast progressive memory loss in a 63-year-old man by De Smet K1, De Maeseneer M, Amir TY, De Mey J.(PubMed)
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(526) Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease presenting as major depression by Jiang TT1, Moses H, Gordon H, Obah E.(PubMed)
(527) [Course of anxiety, depression, and quality of life in relatives of patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Disease][Article in German]by Riedemann C1, Zerr I, Kropp S, Otto A, Poser S, Herrmann C.(PubMed)
(541) Alterations of neurotransmitter norepinephrine and gamma-aminobutyric acid correlate with murine behavioral perturbations related to bisphenol A exposure by Ogi H1, Itoh K2, Ikegaya H3, Fushiki S1.(PubMed)
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(543) Escalated aggressive behavior: dopamine, serotonin and GABA by de Almeida RM1, Ferrari PF, Parmigiani S, Miczek KA.(PubMed)


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Jill M Amundson OD
Doctor DetailsJill M. Amundson, O.D. is a licensed optometrist who joined Maine Eye Center in January 2002. Prior to making Maine her home, Dr. Amundson practiced in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she lived for six years. As an optometrist, she has years of experience specializing in the care of patients' primary vision needs, from routine examinations and contact lenses to the non-surgical treatment and management of ocular disorders.
Dr. Amundson is an honors graduate of Michigan State University and the Ohio State University College of Optometry. She is an active member of the American Optometric Association and the Maine Optometric Association and is certified by the National Board of Optometry and the Maine Board of Optometry.
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happy cakesTuesday, December 14, 2010
I just scrolled through some of my recent posts, and it seems my definition of post-race recovery involves eating extraordinary quantities of food. Instead of marathons, I've been indulging in eat-a-thons.
And honestly, can you really blame me when there are cupcakes like these around?
We discovered Cynically Delicious at Bazaar Bizarre last weekend.
Their red velvet cupcakes, complete with hipster mustache, were a huge hit. (Although it seemed like anything with a mustache was the trend at the craft show -- everybody had something with a mustache on it -- T-shirts, tote bags, magnets. There was even a giant plush mustache as large as my torso.)
But the best cupcakes -- the ones I absolutely could not resist -- were the Crapcakes. That's right -- a rich, luscious chocolate cupcake decorated like poo, complete with marzipan fly.
Mmmm. Poo.


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NEW YORK NEW YORK – Those of you who have followed these pages for some time know that we're usually in Connecticut on weekends. Well not on this particular day. I drove back down to New York early this morning to attend a reunion at Columbia. A thoroughly enjoyable day. I spent a couple of hours in a tour of St. John the Divine, the massive, unfinished Episcopal cathedral here in Morningside Heights near the Columbia campus. Construction started in the late 19th Century on a Romanesque plan; around 1910 or so a new high gothic plan was developed so the structure is partly gothic and partly Romanesque. Pretty odd. Traditional building techniques were used – the construction is all masonry – there is no structural steel. This means that construction has been slow and expensive. Work stopped for after Pearl Harbor and was not restarted until the 1970. Work stopped again early in this Century when the Church decided that the money was better spent on its mission that this massive pile of stone.
On this day one year ago: Red star.