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Letters to Sports: Turning blue over Dodgers decisions
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts looks over from the dugout.
(Alex Gallardo / Associated Press)
Aug. 29, 2021 4:30 AM PT
We like Dave Roberts, he is a really nice guy. However, some of his strategic moves are really perplexing. He has "toyed" with moving Cody Bellinger in the lineup long enough! Putting Cody in the 4 spot, 5 spot, 6 spot, and now the 8 spot has not worked. We are fighting for a playoff spot. Automatic outs are too big of a liability. Nobody plays defense that well! Let's give someone else a chance to help the Dodgers win a pennant.
Ed Sandell
Dave Roberts stated Max Muncy was scratched from the lineup not because of being hit in the back with a pitch but merely a product of playing seven days in a row, to which Cal Ripken replied … well you can guess what he would have replied!
David Hardison
I firmly believe that Little League pitchers can be much more effective than the current pasture of Dodger aimers. Get rid of Kershaw. He gets injured every year. May might not. Missed the entire year. Maybe they'll eke into the wild-card playoff. They won't win.
Steve Hilmer
Minocqua, Wis.
I never thought I would see the day that the Dodgers home uniforms would be a color other than their classic white. It looked like the Smurfs made a baseball movie. Later I tuned in to the Rams game and saw their uniforms. My initial thought was that the Dodgers game went into extra innings.
Mark Kaenel
Corvallis, Ore.
Court of Bauer
While I agree with Jessica Luther that we'll never fully know what happened with Trevor Bauer, I disagree with her assertion that our culture assumes the woman is always lying. Maybe 10, 20 years ago, but our current culture seems to always assume that the woman is telling the truth.
Since Bauer's accuser went public, Bauer has not been able to pitch. He has been vilified publicly. I have not seen much empathy expressed for him by anyone. We've read that his teammates don't want him back. Hardly an assumption of innocence on his part.
I'm not defending Bauer. What he is accused of is awful, but he has not been harassing or pursuing this woman since their last encounter, so there's no need for a restraining order. For Luther to claim that society has been taking Bauer's side in this situation is completely off base.
Keith Burrus
The refusal of the judge to grant a permanent restraining order against Trevor Bauer proves once again that our court system works in spite of the self-proclaimed Judge Plaschke and the like. The court in its wisdom found that Mr. Bauer stayed within the boundaries established by the alleged victim and justice has once again been served.
Barry Rubin
Kicking around UCLA
I realize that due to UCLA's mediocre (at best) football program, COVID, and a 19-mile trip to Pasadena the school is desperate to fill seats at the Rose Bowl. But whose idea was it to give high school kids free tickets just in time to take advantage of the resumption of beer sales?
If I were A.D. Jarmond, I would schedule a few games at Drake Stadium (the track stadium) where a real "home game" can be played and the kids can just walk out of their dorms to support the team. This would allow for a small but spirited crowd, no booze, and hopefully no boos.
So UCLA is paying about $10 million a year to its mediocre football coaching staff. In order to pay for this UCLA is going to start selling booze at the Rose Bowl. They are also worried about the poor showing an empty stadium would make when they play LSU so they are going to give free tickets to high school students to pump up attendance.
In a time of COVID and economic stress it seems UCLA's priorities are set more by its pocketbook than by science or academic purpose. UCLA does itself a dishonor by these acts.
Glen Mowrer
Alliance issues
The Pac-12, Big Ten, and ACC Alliance claims that a primary motivation for creating this collaboration is that it "cares about the welfare of the student-athlete." Right, just like OPEC's primary motivation is the welfare of its citizens. Best to follow Deep Throat's advice: "Follow the money."
Dave Sanderson
Ironically, I wanted to watch the Alliance announcement live to learn the genesis but it aired on the Pac-12 Network and I can't find the Pac-12 Network, which probably explains why the Alliance was formed in the first place.
Steve Ross
Dudley decision
Out of one side of his mouth, Bill Plaschke complained the Lakers were too old. From the other side of his mouth, he advocated for signing a 36-year-old who never played. So which is it, Bill? If [Jared] Dudley really wanted to stay, he could've become an assistant coach and filled the locker room with the same voice.
Geno Apicella
On point with Pacquiao
Dylan Hernandez nailed it on Manny Pacquiao. Other than Muhammad Ali, never has a fighter radiated as much joy to his fans as Manny. Ugás didn't so much beat him, as did Father Time, his ripe old age of 42 and resulting wobbly legs. Manny has the true heart of a champion and the love of his countrymen that quite likely could vault him to the presidency of the Philippines.
Well done, Manny. A career worth savoring for all boxing fans and a credit to the profession.
Marty Zweben
Branch-ing out
Cliff Branch's nomination as a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame by the Senior Committee is long overdue. Branch left an indelible mark on the game. He was also a genuinely nice person. I met him once at a Bay Area Safeway and we wound up talking like old friends. He even let me try on his Super Bowl XVIII ring.
Stephen A. Silver
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Three weeks in Varanasi felt like a long time. Even the people that lived there kept shaking their heads in disbelief when I told them I was staying for 21 days. "Three weeks!" they'd exclaim, "In Varanasi? Why?" But they smiled when they did so and I think they were pleased that I was sticking around, if only to prolong their chances to sell me a scarf, some beads, or a boat ride. Varanasi is a lot to take in. It's noisy and chaotic, the touts are aggressive, and if you spend your time exclusively along the river, as I did, you're flanked by two cremations sites that never stop sending the ashes of the elders and the prematurely dead, into the wind, and soon thereafter into my lungs. My respiratory system was grateful when we got back to Delhi and if you've ever been to Delhi, that's saying something.
One of the oldest living cities in the world, Varanasi sits under centuries upon centuries of character disguised as inches patina, dust, and grime. It's a lot. But it's glorious.
Despite the chaos, and the physical toll this trip took, including an unexpected bout with a kidney stone that I can tell you was not one of my favourite things ever, it's a magical place and magical places have never given up their treasures lightly. Day in and out I walked along the river looking for those rare moments of grace that occur at the place where light, line, and moment intersect. I used to go looking for the spirit of a place but I'm not sure it exists anymore. If it does, it's more like learning to see the place with my own spirit, finding my own vision. I'm no longer encumbered by the need to sum up the place, as though my few photographs could say all that needs to be said. Instead I'm just looking for little vignettes, little moments that together create a through-line that hint at my experience there.
It's really good to be home. We travel for so many reasons but sometimes I think I travel in part to re-calibrate my gratitude and appreciation for home. I've now got some solid time to do some diving, pursue some important projects with the kind of depth that can only be done with larger chunks of time, and take some time for my body and soul. This is the first time in years that I haven't been actively writing a book or doing workshops and I love the freedom that brings, if only to give me the energy to do both again in a year or two. My next projects include a coffee table book of my images from east Africa, called Pilgrims & Nomads, and the pursuit of my underwater work, and a new course about travel photography that I'm hoping to launch in the late summer or early fall, called The Traveling Lens.
Thanks for being there. I love knowing there's someone on the other end of these postcards that likes to see the world from a different perspective. The next work I show you will be from the next trip back to the Revillagigedo Archipelago, 300 miles off the coast of Mexico where I'll be for 3 weeks in April. Sharks, mantas, dolphins, and whatever mystery the ocean is willing to show me. In the mean time, here are a few of my images from my time along the Ganges River in Varanasi.
Thanks so much for sharing your photographs and stories about Varanasi. I really appreciate it so much and it inspires me to work harder on "Master Your Craft".
Have a great day and recharge your batteries.
Essas histórias ou contos de viagens, que você descreve, me anima muito, grato por esses momentos.
Thanks, Dr. Philip. I usually delete comments like this but yours seems legitimate and helpful and not at all dodgy. I'll keep this in case one of my readers or I have to sell a kidney in the future.
If I received postcards like this, whether in a blog or the mail, I would truly be as rapt as I am this moment. Thank you.
I always look forward to your post's,pictures and you tube blogs, thanks for sharing.
As always I love the way your words and photos touch us so deeply. Varanasi remains a bucket list location and one that I think would require a lot of time to even begin connecting with the history, traditions, and vibe. It must be like peeling the layers of an infinite onion – just when you think you have reached the center, yet even more layers exist to be found….
So glad you're getting a chance to recalibrate. Looking forward to your next course and seeing more amazing images!
David, the composition of these images seem different and turned up a notch…they show the curtain being drawn back just enough to give a glance of life on the other side. We get to experience the same view as if we were there looking over your shoulder. Thanks.
I was there 2 weeks too. That's weird. I don't like this town. Yet when I return to France, I miss Varanasi. What do I miss? The Ganges? No. Sadhus? No. The boats? No. The dead? No. I think that's my story about this town. I go to Varanasi to find the Varanasi of my imagination and I never manage to find it. The journey remains a confrontation between reality and imagination.
Varanasi as a cultural destination is really worth visiting, being one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on the planet. It still remains on my to-travel list, probably shorter than 3 weeks 🙂 Great photos btw!
I have been reading your postcards for years. Like many of your blog readers, we don't know each other but be assured there are always lots of readers waiting for the next one – you are part of our lives. . Thanks for sharing your vision, spirit and love. Keep doing ! G.
I'm grateful you mentioned the effect on your respiratory system; I will live through your postcard as my asthma wouldn't tolerate the real thing. ?
Thank you for always reminding me how important my creative side is to me.
I have only just discovered you. Thank you. Just what I needed…I wondered why I was losing interest/satisfaction with my photography, something was missing…it was me. I was so intent on being a good photographer that I lost my passion for a time. I think I just found it!
Amazing photography, I love Varanasi city..


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Asian Games: Day eight of competition
ALL THE NEWS, ACTION AND REACTION
By Nick Butler and Paul Osborne in Incheon
Click refresh for latest updates. All times stated are South Korean
BREAKING: Japanese swimmer Naoya Tomita sent home for stealing camera (see 11:07)
22:30 Sport is now officially over for the day here in Incheon which means, i'm afraid, that it is about time to wrap up our live blog for the evening.
There have been some shocks today on what has proved yet another busy day of sport, as we welcomed a host of new sports to the Games programme. The biggest shock of the day was perhaps Japan's early exit from the baseball following a defeat at the hands of Taiwan.
The Japanese are fighting tooth and nail to have the sport introduced at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, but they will surely be hoping for a better performance if that were to be the case in six years time.
The athletics has, as ever, started with a bang here, but could not have ended worse for Ruth Jebet of Bahrain after she was disqualified following her gold medal in the 3,000m steeplechase. The Kenyan-born runner was a huge distance clear of the field when she made the stumble, making the disqualification all the worse, I feel.
Join us again tomorrow at the usual 09:00 for another dose of Asian Games excitement, entertainment, tears and cheers as we cross the halfway mark and begin the final descent in this sporting bonanza.
To keep track of all the medals, be sure to check out our fully up-to-date medal table.
Until tomorrow, however, it is goodnight from us.
22:13 Action is wrapping up across all venues now as our day draws to a close. Eight athletes have just qualified to the final of the men's 400m final on the final athletics event of the evening with Bahrain's Abbas Abubakar Abbas the fastest qualifier, followed by Japan's Yuzo Kanemaru, Saudi Arabia's Yousef Masrahi, Japan's Nobuya Kato, South Korea's Park Bong-go, India's Kunhu Puthanpurakkal and Arokiarajiv, and South Korea's Seong Hyeok-je.
Ruth Jebet disqualified after winning gold in women's 3,000m steeplechase
22:01 Big news from the women's 3,000m steeplechase with the announcement that gold medalist Ruth Jebet of Bahrain has been disqualified for stepping out of bounds.
We mentioned it in conversation earlier when we saw the 17-year-old stumble around the bend, forcing her to stick a left foot over the rails and out of bounds. A tad harsh I think, however, as my colleague rightly points out "rules are rules" and Jebet has paid the ultimate price here.
As a result, China's Li Zhenzhu, India's Lalita Babar and Sudha Singh (oringally fourth) will be gold, silver and bronze medalists, respectively.
21:56 Interestingly, China have finished fourth in all five years baseball has been played at the Asian Games. They will be hoping to buck that trend in tomorrow's playoff final and finally put an end to the three-way dominance of baseball at the Asian Games which has seen no nation other than the "Big Three" - South Korea, Japan and Taiwan - medal in this event.
21:52 It's all over at the Munhak Baseball Stadium where South Korea have booked their spot in the final of the baseball competition.
This contest was decided in the fifth and sixth innings where South Korea powered to two then three runs, without reply by the Chinese team.
The result ensures a rematch of the final from the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou which saw the Korean team run out 9-3 victors. That win was a third for the South Koreans and denied back-to-back titles for Taiwan.
Tomorrow's final should be a good one then, with these two Asian baseball powerhouses facing off for a third time in the final. South Korea have won on each occasion, however.
21:47 Back on the track and Ruth Jebet has won the women's 3000m steeplechase.
The runner representing Bahrain clocks a Games record time of 9:31.36 to seal the gold. The time is some ways off the Asian continental record she set earlier this year in Zurich, howeve,r it is enough to fend of the challenges of China's Li Zhenzhu and India's Lalita Shivaji Babar who take silver and bronze with times of 9:35.23 and 9:35.37 respectively.
Jebet's time at the Diamond League meet in Zurich earlier this year of 9:20.55 was just 0.13 seconds outside the world junior record set by Ethiopia's Birtukan Adamu in 2011. At just 17-year-old, the runner looks to have a bright future ahead of her.
21:42 Meanwhile in the baseball, China look to be on the receiving end of a romping with no scores in the seventh and eighth innings leaving the score at 7-2 in favour of South Korea in their semi-final encounter.
The Olympic champions now need to restrict China to less than five runs in the ninth innings to ensure their passage into the final where they will meet Taiwan, following their shock victory over Japan earlier.
21:38 A Moroccan, an Ethiopian, and now by the looks of it, a Kenyan have taken gold on the track this evening as Ruth Jebet surges clear in the women's 3000m steeplechase.
The 17-year-old is miles ahead (not literally) of the field as she looks on course to seal the final athletics gold of the evening.
21:33 South Korea are closing in on the baseball final, they still lead the semi-final over China, but the final event on the track has begun, it's the women's 3,000m steeplechase. We've had a couple of African born Gulf runners triumphing already tonight. Will we have another?
Bahrain's Ruth Jebet switched allegiance from Kenya last February and, two months later, won the 3,000m and 5,000m double at the Kenyan High School Championships. But since then, she has won the world junior title and broken the Asian record, clocking 9:20.55 at a Diamond League race in Zurich.
21:25 Rio Watari has won the second successive women's wrestling title for Japan, always a dominant power in the sport. She defeats Xiluo Zhuoma of China in the women's 63kg freestyle competition. Tserenchimed Sukhee of Mongolia and Geetika Jakhar of India take the two bronzes.
21:20 The final event on the track, in a few moments time, will be the women's 3,000m steeplechase, but before then, we have the final wrestling event of the day to bring you up to date with.
Qatari wins gold in men's 5,000m
21:14 Gold for Mohamed Al Garni of Qatar in men's 5,000m. The Moroccan born athlete sprints clear brilliantly on the final lap to win in a time of 13:26.13. Alemu Bekele Gebre is second in a Bahrain 2-3, narrowly ahead of Albert Kibichii.
21:13 Around 100m to go in the 5,000m and Mohamad Al Garni of Qatar has broken clear!
21:08 A big moment in the baseball, meanwhile, as South Korea score twice in the fifth innings and three times in the sixth. They are 7-2 ahead over China and are on the cusp of making the final.
21:03 Gong Lijiao of China wins the women's shot put with an utterly dominant display. Her best mark is 19.06m, over a metre clear of anyone else. Leyla Rajabi,- competing wearing a hijab, for the record - is second after managing 17.80, with Guo Tianqian of China back in third.
20:58 A picture from the women's doubles badminton earlier, but we are keeping our attention on the track, where the athletes are out and on the startline for the men's 5,000m. The leading entry here is Bahrain's Alemu Bekele Gebre, eighth at the World Championships last year, but someone who has since posted an impressive record of 13:18:00m.
20:51 Back in the athletics and we've had the women's 400m heats and are now seeing the 10,000m medals ceremony as the United Arab Emirates National Anthem is played. The men's 5,000m is the next event on the track, but the women's shot put is also ongoing. China's Gong Lijiao, who originally finished fourth in the Olympics before being upgraded to bronze after the disqualification of Belarus's Nadezhda Ostapchuk.
20:46 Into the seventh innings in the baseball, meanwhile, and South Korea are 4-2 in front of China. The host nation are the heavy favourites but the Chinese are giving a good account of themselves here.
Wrestling and athletics medals action
20:39 Another gold medal to report in the wrestling as well. In a female event this time as Eri Tosaka of Japan claims victory in the women's under 48kg competition. After breaking into the formidable Japanese squad last year she has been virtually unbeatable, winning the 2013 and 2014 World Championship titles.
She beats Sun Yanan of China in the final, while the two bronze medals went to Tatyana Amanzhol of Kazakhstan and Vinesh of India.
20:28 Dilshod Nazarov of Tajikistan has won that gold in the men's hammer throw, with his best throw being 76.82m mark. China's Wang Shizhu and countryman Wan Yong got silver and bronze respectively. A very good day for Tajikistan today, with a bronze in wrestling as well. Nazarov, as we mentioned earlier, also defends the title he won four years ago in Guangzhou.
20:22 Speaking of table tennis, we have had our fair share of empty seats today at the Suwon Gymnasium, a surprise considering how popular the sport is here. Still, early stages I guess... A lot of one sided clashes in the team competitions today, but a good one just now in the women's event as 2010 world champions Singapore overcome Taiwan in a 3-1 thriller.
Women's doubles badminton gold for Indonesia
20:16 We were only saying earlier how surprising the lack of badminton success from Indonesians has been so far in the competition. They've made up for it there. I don't think there is any other Olympic sport in which the quality here is quite as high as the badminton competition. Table tennis perhaps, which is still to really get going...
20:12 Indonesia have wrapped up gold in the women's badminton doubles final as they run rampant against the Indian top seeds.
After taking the first set 21-15, Greysia Polii and Nitya Krishinda Maheswari were even more dominant in the second, recording a 21-9 win to secure the gold medal. The two bronze medals in the event were won by Malaysia and China.
First athletics gold goes to Ethiopian-born Emirati
20:04 Alia Mohammed Saeed Mohammed wins the women's 10,000m for the United Arab Emirates after bursting clear on the last lap.
The Ethiopian-born athlete runs a decent time as well, a personal best of 31:51.86, to finish ahead of Ding Changqin of China. Ayumi Hagiwara of Japan takes bronze, with the top three all under 32 minutes.
"I'm so happy. This is my best time. I am from the United Arab Emirates now. I don't miss Ethiopia."
- Alia Mohammed Saeed Mohammed reflects on her gold medal in the women's 10,000m.
19:59 There's been another gold in the wrestling where Bekzod Abdurakhmonov of Uzbekistan has defeated Oh Man-ho of South Korea 7-2 to win the gold medal in men's 70kg freestyle.
Takafumi Kojima adds a bronze for Japan as he beats Haiwei Ling of China in the opening bronze medal final, while Kyrgyztan's Elaman Dogdurbek Uulu silencing that North Korean fans with victory against Myongsong Jang in the other.
19:54 The four heats in the men's 100m were won by two athletes from Japan and two from Qatar. Ryota Yamagata, Kei Takase for the former and Samuel Francis and Femi Seun Ogunode for the latter. Ogunode's time of 10.14 was the most impressive, but Francis is the intriguing entrant.
Born in Nigeria, he received Qatari nationality in 2007 and promptly ran a time of 9.99, still the Asian record today. He's had a few injury ravaged years since, and was disqualified from the 100m in Guangzhou, so it will be interesting to see how he does here.
Ogunode also originally competed for Nigeria, the country of his birth, before deciding to move to Qatar in 2009 and gaining citizenship to compete for the Arab nation.
The biggest name in the Qatar team, and perhaps in any athletics team here, will be high jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim who, after leaping a mammoth 2.43 in Brussels last month, is aiming to break Cuban Javier Sotomayer's 21-year-old record, of 2.45, this week.
That final will be on Monday (September 29).
19:50 Indonesia have taken a commanding lead in the women's badminton doubles final as the pairing of Greysia Polii and Nitya Krishinda Maheswari secure a one set lead against Japan's Ayaka Takahashi and Misaki Matsutomo.
The Japanese are top seeds in the tournament but fell 15-21 in the opener to the seventh seeded Indonesians.
19:45 Not much in the baseball after three innings, South Korea lead, just, 2-1, after both teams score a run in the third. We have moved our television in the press centre off that match and onto the athletics now, but don't think we are that popular...
19:38 It looks like that North Korean support has paid off as Hakjin Jong lifts the first wrestling gold of the Games.
The North Korean seals the victory on points, recording eight technical points to Rassul Kaliyev's six for a 3-1 classification win.
Bronze medals were won by South Korea's Junsik Yun with his win against Tajikistan's Nikolay Noev, and Mongolia's Nom in Batbold, who beat Fum itaka Morishita of Japan.
19:34 Back to the hammer final and one of the best known Asian track and field stars in recent years, Koji Murofushi, competed in this event. The Japanese won gold at Athens 2004 and bronze eight years later in London, in addition to one world and two Asian Games titles. He's not here tonight but earlier this year was appointed Sports Director for Tokyo 2020.
A name we will continue to hear a lot of, I imagine, over the next six years.
19:28 Staying with the wrestling for a minute, and it's nice to see the North Koreans out in force to support Hakjin Jong in his gold medal final. There has been a lot of empty seats at the majority of stadiums here at these Asian Games so Jong will appreciate the added support, I'm sure.
19:24 The first wrestling finals are up and running at the Dowon Gymnasium. After a full day of action, the bronze and gold medal finallists will take to the mat for one last bout to determine who goes home with the medals here in Incheon.
The first gold medal final will be in the men's 57kg division where North Korea's Hakjin Jong up against Kazakhstan's Rassul Kaliyev. The two nation's are neck and neck for fourth in the overall medal table so this contest could prove decisive come the end of the Games.
Before that, however, we have the two bronze medal finals.
Day eight athletics action
19:20 The first gold medal in athletics will come in the men's hammer competition just getting underway, and the gold and silver medallists from Guangzhou 2010 are both here tonight.
Four years ago, Tajikistan's Dilshod Nazarov earned gold with a throw of 76.44m and is now looking to defend that medal.
He placed 10th at the 2012 London Olympics and his mark of 80.62m earlier this summer tops the Asian rankings once again.
The main challenge will come from Iranian Kaveh Mousavi, the Guangzhou runner-up who finished 22nd at London 2012, but after that failed doping test for a member of the Tajikistan football team earlier in the Games, a medal tonight would be a great moment.
19:12 Malaysia may have taken gold in the women's squash just a couple of hours ago, however, it is India who exact swift vengeance in the men's equivalent as they wrap up a 2-0 victory at the Yeorumul Squash Courts.
Sandhu Harinder Pal Singh got the ball rolling with a 3-1 victory over Iskandar Mohamad Azlan Bin before Saurav Ghosal edged an epic encounter with Ong Beng Hee 3-2 in a whopping 68 minutes to seal the Indian gold.
The Malaysian women made easier work of their gold medal final earlier, however, it'll make little difference to the Indian men's party this evening after this brilliant victory.
19:00 The most disappointing aspect, which only a cursory look around the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium will make abundantly clear, is the large number of empty seats. I would say the stadium is about 20 per cent full, although that might be being generous...
18:54 Five gold medals to be won in athletics tonight, in the men's 5,000m, the women's 3,000m steeplechase and 10,000m, the men's hammer and the women's shot. First up however it is the heats in the 400m and 100m.
18:45 We are going to turn our attention to the first day of athletics in a moment, but first a round-up from the squash, and, if you're wondering why we haven't provided an update for a while, it's because nothing has really changed. Saurav Ghosal and Ong Beng He are locked at 2-2 in a thrilling second match. If Ghosal wins then India take gold. But Ong is hanging strong at the moment...Time for another double flag methinks.
18:37 Back here, and the eyes of South Korea are firmly locked on the baseball now because, after the surprise loss against Japan earlier, the host nation are just beginning their clash with China in the second semi-final. The winner of this one will meet Taiwan in the final, with the loser up against Japan for bronze.
Budsabakorn remains out in front in golf
18:29 With all due respect to these Asian golfers, the eyes of the sport are probably not on Incheon but on Gleneagles for the Ryder Cup, a biennial, three-day clash between the best players from Europe and the United States. It is one of the most compelling rivalries in sport, and, incidentally, Europe hold the lead after the first day. I feel that, as a Scot and a golf fan, not to mention a keen golfer himself, International Olympic Committee vice-president Sir Craig Reedie will be among those with his eyes firmly locked on proceedings...
18:25 On the men's side, meanwhile, Pan Cheng Tsung shot a brilliant 65 today to stay out in front. Youm Eunho and Kim Namhun of South Korea lie second and third. Taiwan still lead the team competition as well, with South Korea and Thailand close behind.
18:20 A golfing update now before we start focusing on the athletics. Thailand's Sukapan Budsabakorn remains the leader on 13 under par, two ahead of the rest of the field. She shot a round of 68 today, with birdies on holes 13 and hole 14. Her performance is also helping the Thailand team lead the team category by a large margin as well. After the match she commented, "I feel good, I will try my best till the end."
While not having a good first round with a 71, South Korea's Park Gyeol caught up a shot with a 67 to end at 11 under for the competition, after the best round of the day. After two days in which she has performed superbly, could she have the momentum heading into the final day...?
Semi-final success for China and South Korea in badminton
18:10 It will be an all Chinese women's final, meanwhile, as reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui and 2011 world champion Wang Yihan both win their semi-finals today. Yoo Yeonseong
Lee Yongdae, meanwhile, become the first men's doubles finalists, after overcoming Malaysian opponents today. The main event tonight is the women's doubles final, where pairs from Japan and Indonesia.
18:02 If Nicol David is the heroine of Malaysian sport, then Lee Chong Wei is the hero. He has won his quarter-final clash in badminton today, but it wasn't easy. He was pushed to 21-17 in the final set against Nguyen Tien Minh of Vietnam before taking the win.
He is joined in the semi-finals by bitter rival Dan Lin of China, who won in two straight games today over Kenichi Tago of Japan. World champion Chen Long is also through after winning 2-0 against Son Wan-ho, while the final place is taken by Wei Nan of Hong Kong.
India take first blood in squash team event
17:52 India's Sandhu Harinder Pal Singh has drawn first blood and won the first rubber of that men's team squash final, after a 58 minute marathon match with Iskandar Mohamad Azlan Bin of Malaysia, 11-8,11-6,11-8,11-4.
17:44 So, 13 out of 24 gold medals have now been won today. There's a little bit of a void now at a time in the day when we would usually be talking weightlifting, or track cycling, or bowling.
Worry not, we have five athletics finals, one in badminton and four in wrestling to come later. And right now it is the men's team squash final, the final squash event of the Games.
South Korea looking to baseball for cricketing success
17:35 Speaking of cricket, the South Korean men's team are banking on on professional baseball stars to convert home runs into sixes and boundaries at the Twenty20 competition in the Asian Games.
As many as seven of the 11 men that played in their eight wicket defeat to Malaysia this morning came from baseball, which as I have learned the last few days, is a major passion here. Their cricket team, on the other hand, was assembled especially for the Games less than two years ago. Some took to the sport just six months ago. South Korea wanted cricket taken off the Games programme as it knew nothing about it. The Olympic Council of Asia had to step in apparently to remind the organisers that it was a popular sport across the continent.
So the organisers found a patch of land near the main stadium in Incheon for a cricket field, but the bigger worry was finding players. The domestic league features mainly expatriates from South Asia, but the Korean Cricket Association had to field local players to meet qualification rules and turned to baseball to help. Englishman Julien Fountain, who had previously coached for Pakistan and the West Indies, was taken on board to teach them new skills.
"The basic skills are the same, one only needs to harness baseball talent to cricket," Fountain, a former baseball player himself, told AFP. "These guys have picked up cricket fast. They have come on dramatically over the last year, it's just that they lack experience of the nuances of the game."
Fountain, who joined the squad in April, made the players watch Indian Premier League matches on their computer screens to give them a feel of big-time Twenty20 cricket and teach then quirky shots, including the switch hit and reverse sweeps. Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan, whose trademark scoop played over the wicket-keeper's head on bended knees, attracted plenty of attention. 'Dilscoop' soon became 'teugjong', the Korean word for scoop.
South Korea and Iran win individual compound archery titles
17:26 That is the fourth and final gold medal in compound archery today. Two went to South Korea and one each for India and Iran. There are no immediate plans to add compound event to the Olympic programme, but it is certainly a long-term aim, and it is hoped that compound events can be included at events such as the European Games in the more immediate future.
Personally I feel the recurve is a little more exciting, due to the bow which is a bit less advanced and because of the set-scoring system, which gives players more chance of fighting back. A bit of a shameless plug, but here is more information on the growth of archery, including its embracing of Hollywood! Archery focused on the big picture after innovative World Cup Final weekend
17:18 Esmaeil Ebadi of Iran holds on the win the compound archery gold medal. He beats Abhishek Verma of India 145-141, with the Indian never recovering from that poor start. He shot much better later on in the final, the trouble was, so did his opponent. It is simply so hard to make up a deficit at this level...
Paul Marton Dela Cruz of the Philippines took the bronze medal.
Malaysian success in hockey
17:10 It turns out one of the volunteers here in the Media Centre is a student from Malaysia, studying here in Incheon for a major in translation. That becomes apparent when the Malaysian hockey team score to take an excellent 4-1 lead over Japan. There is plenty of whooping shreaks of delight.
"You won in squash as well," I say. "Yes, but we knew that would happen," is the brusque response. "This is more unexpected." She adds, however, that Nicol David is one of the biggest sporting names in her home country, famed for her education and intelligence as well as for her squash. David is indeed an infinitely useful asset for the sport in its quest for Olympic inclusion.
A Twenty20 win with 103 balls to spare in cricket...
16:52 It's been a difficult couple of days for Nepal following the news that three of their team members have gone missing (see our article here). But they've put those worries behind them with a fairly spectacular win over Kuwait on the opening day of cricket action. Kuwait lost a wicket in the first over and from their thinfs got worse. Beidas Tareq and Bastaki Fahad top scoring with four as the team were 20 all out in 14 overs. And wait for this, Nepal took less than three overs to knock of the runs, winning with 103 balls to spare!
"Tomorrow match will not be as easy as today's gem," said Nepal player Paras Khadka afterwards. "We need to focus on our strengths rather than thinking about what our opponents can do or what they are really doing. So we hope we can focus on our strength and it will be fine."
16:48 India have had a good day today after a frustrating week, and they are going for more medals now in the individual men's archery final. But, oh no, a poor third leg and Abhishek Varma trails by five against Esmaeil Ebadi. He shot 26 out of 30 in that end which, to you and me, sounds fairly solid, but in top-level compound archery it is simply not good enough...It will be very hard for him to get back from there...
North Korean shooter reflects on motivation
"The key to the success I achieved today is that I did my best training in my country for a good performance in the Games with the ambition to send a very good, successful report to the respected and beloved Marshall Kim Jong-un, and good news to our people. All athletes train with the great ambition to send good news to the respected Marshall Kim Jong-un. That's the reason for my success. When I return home I will visit Kumsusan Memorial Palace to give my regards to the great leaders, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. I'm fully determined to be a faithful athlete for the beloved and respected Marshall Kim Jong-un, and to get more good results in upcoming international competitions." - Kim Ji-song, after winning 10m running target mixed gold, seems to have won the gold medal in the inter-North Korean "how many time can I mention my country's leader in a press conference" competition. He gets a couple of bonus points for mentioning historical leaders as well.
16:34 A fairly frantic period all of a sudden with gold medals being won everywhere. There are more to come as well, with the men's archery compound team final at the moment, and wrestling semi-finals also taking place...
Gold medals won in archery, shooting and squash
16:25 It was Choi Bomin who won that all South Korean archery final in the end. She beat Seok Jihyun in a match that came down to the very last arrow. She shot a 10, her opponent a nine, and it was enough for a 144-143 victory. And as we mentioned earlier, Trisha Deb of India took bronze...
16:20 That final gold medal to report in shooting now, as Kim Min-ji of South Korea manages a superb 19 points to capture the gold medal in the women's skeet individual event. China's Zhang Heng takes silver with an 18, following on from her team gold, while Thailand's Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit shot 14 points to take bronze.
16:16 Malaysia take the women's title in squash. Nicol David winning 11-7, 11-6, 11-3 over Dipika Pallikal of India to confirm the victory for the favourites after Delia Arnold's equally comfortable win earlier. Hong Kong and South Korea took the two bronze medals by virtue of their semi-final defeats.
16:10 Seok Jihyun leads Choi Bomin by one going into the final set of the all South Korean compound archery final, so we will squeeze in two other gold medals before updating you on that...
Taiwan shock Japan in baseball
16:06 And the shock result which was on the cards earlier has come to fruition. Taiwan have beaten Japan 10-4 to progress to the men's baseball final. The winner of the semifinal between China and South Korea, which is to be held at 18:30, lie in wait.
The host nation are heavily favoured to beat China, and, considering they walloped Taiwan in the group stage, will be fancying their chances. A South Korean victory would be great for the Games, a bit like a Russian ice hockey one would have been at Sochi 2014. But it will be tinged with a little bit of disappointment that they won't be able to do it in style, against their fiercest rivals.
Japan's long wait for an Asian Games baseball title continues. They won at Hiroshima 1994, the first time the sport was included on the programme, but have managed two silver and two bronze medals since. South Korea have won three out of the last four events, with Taiwan winning at Doha 2006.
Cycling time trial won by Kazakh as Kyrgyzstan rival wins fourth consecutive silver
15:57 Gold goes to Alexey Lutsenko of Kazakhstan. He wins comfortably in the end by the 32 seconds in the men's cycling time trial. Oh how sport is a cruel beast. Evgenii Vakker of Kyrgyzstan has now won silver medals at five of the last six Asian Games, and bronze in the other!
Bronze on this occasion goes to Hossein Askari of Iran, so it is good to see different nations winning medals.
15:54 We're going to have a flurry of gold medals in a moment. Trisha Deb of India takes compound archery bronze and the all South Korea final is underway, and Nicol David is 2-0 in the squash, meaning Malaysia are closing in on gold in the women's team final. And here comes the Kazakh...
15:49 And Vakker of Kyrgyztan takes the lead from the Iranian. Amazingly, the 40-year-old also took silver on the track in the individual pursuit at Hiroshima 1994, so 20 years ago! He's 18 seconds clear and only Alexey Lutsenko, of nearby Kazakhstan, can beat him...
15:45 A lot suddenly going on around the ground, from squash to shooting, archery to baseball, and cycling to beach volleyball. Only a few men are still to finish in the cycling time trial, and could we have an Iranian winner? Hossein Askari, bronze medallist four years ago, is leading in 51:19.77, after taking 50 seconds off the time set by Beppu.
But one of the men still out on the road is Evgenii Vakker of Kyrgyzstan. Remarkably, he has finished runner-up in this event at the last three Asian Games, on South Korean soil at Busan 2002, and then in Doha and then Guangzhou. Can he go one better here?
A major shock in baseball?
15:37 There are rumbles of baseball-themed excitement reverberating around the Media Centre, Incheon and the whole of South Korea, and they are not even playing. Their bitter rivals Japan are however, and not too well, in their semi-final. They conceded seven runs in the second innings and a further three in the third against Taiwan, so trail 10-3.
This would be a major, major shock.
Malaysia heading for gold in squash
15:30 As predicted by my colleague Paul, a comfortable start for Malaysia in the squash. Delia Odette Arnold, the world number 33, has overcome Anaka Alankamony, who sits 125 places below her opponent as the world number 158, by a scoreline of 11-9, 12-10, 11-2.
Don't worry India, you've only got to overcome probably the greatest player in the history of the sport to stay in this one... Singles champion and world number one Nicol David is up next against Rebecca Pallikal Dipika.
15:24 Best kit of the day? This is Ian Patrick Chipeco of the Philippines competing in the men's team bronze medal match earlier. They lose, unfortunately, to Iran.
15:17 Our second road cycling competition of the day is also underway, the men's individual time trial taking place over a distance of 42km's. Most of the biggest names are coming at the end, but a strong mantle has just been delivered by Fumiyuki Beppu of Japan. He stops the clock at 52:08.99.
Two more titles for China in shooting
15:14 And while we're on the subject of shooting. There is another gold medal to report. I'm not that surprised that China have won it again...Cao Yifei winning his third gold of the Games to take the individual 50m rifle 3 positions event ahead of team mate, Zhu Qinan, the 10m air rifle Olympic champion back at Athens 2004...
Singh Chain continues a good day for India by winning the bronze.
15:06 Individual semi-finals are also just beginning in the shooting. Zhang is the only member of that Chinese squad through to the last four, and she will be joined by one competitor apiece from South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan.
14:58 Gold for China, meanwhile, in shooting. I think we might have said that before... Zhang Heng, Li Bowen and Lin Piao Piao win the women's team skeet competition, with South Korea taking silver and Thailand the bronze.
14:50 Back in archery and we can now confirm it will be an all South Korean final in the women's event. Choi Bo-min of South Korea advanced to the gold medal match by defeating Huang I Jou of Taiwan with a score of 145-139. Choi will be competing against her team mate, Seok Ji-hyun in the finals.
Kazakhstan shock China in beach volleyball
14:42 A big win to report for Kazakhstan in beach volleyball as they beat the defending champions from China in this afternoon's men's semi-final, 21-16, 19-21, 15-11.
"Kazakhstan won the first set. China was in the lead at the start, but Kazakhstan turned the tables with a service ace from Alexey Sidorenko. Kazakhstan showed stable defense. China's errors accumulated to 20, twice as much as Kazakhstan's 10. But China started to show their strength from the second set. Even though Bao Jian made foul for catch ball, China gradually started to show better attacks and defense and won the second set with the score of 21-19.
The third set was nip and tuck. China began to show their usual powerful spikes. But it was hard to chase down Kazakhstan. Bao Jian received a yellow card for complaining about the judgment on his attacks. Also, even with China's attacks, Kazakhstan was unbreakable. Kazakhstan won the third match 15-11 and advances to final." - An Incheon 2014 update on the beach volleyball. They could be facing another Chinese pair in the final, as Chen Cheng and Li Jian are currently 1-1 with their Indonesian opponents in the other semi-final.
Malaysia facing India in women's team squash final
14:31 The women's squash team final has just begun Yeorumul Squash Courts where Malaysia will do battle with India.
The first match of the final has Delia Odette Arnold, the Malaysian world number 33, up against Anaka Alankamony, who sits 125 places below her opponent as the world number 158.
It looks to be a straight forward win on paper for the Malaysian who sits 2-0 on sets.
14:13 After an urgent phone call on Thursday evening, followed by an early morning flight on Friday, I (Paul) have made it here to South Korea to dive head-first into this Asian Games experience.
In typical insidethegames fashion (we don't hang about you know) I've headed straight to the workroom to crack on with our live blog and give Nick a much needed 30 minutes off. (I know a whole 30 minutes! I'm nice like that....)
Despite some difficulties logging into the nifty MyInfo system, a key tool for any reporter covering a major sporting event, I'm finally in and ready to bring you up-to-date with all the action underway at the minute.
Kicking-off in sepak takraw
13:48 It will be Thailand v South Korea, incidentally, in the men's team final after Thailand overcame Malaysia, despite this amazing shot below, while the host nation beat Indonesia. Both those semi-finals were held yesterday.
13:40 Myanmar defeated Indonesia 2-1 in the women's sepak takraw team semifinal earlier as they continue their bid for the third gold medal in the sport. They will face either Thailand and Vietnam later, who kick-off later. I use the phrase "kick-off" with a slight note of caution because it is a taboo description in our office, except in sports that are actually kicked-off to start.
Woe betide anyone who writes: "the boxing final kicked-off", for example. If there were unforgivable sins at insidethegames, that one would be right up there along with spelling the country Colombia as "Columbia" or the word programme as "program". "Columbia is a university in New York and program is a set of coded instruction for a computer, nothing else," we have all been told...
In this case, kick-off is permitted however because in sepak takraw the players do actually kick the ball, after a pass from a team mate, to start play. We can add it to our list, along with football, american football and rugby.
13:29 South Korea are leading the way in the team skeet qualification stakes at the moment while China are looking good in the rifle 3 positions individual final, with three more shooting results to bring you today.
13:23 A fairly monumental mismatch this morning in the women's team table tennis. The winners of countless of Asian Games table tennis events, China started their quest for gold with a match against Nepal. China has six of the world's top seven players and are ranked, unsurprisingly, at number one. Nepal are considered 108th.
And it took just 32 minutes for China to wrap up the win, with Zhu Yuling taking just nine minutes to defeat her opponent, Elina Maharjan.
South Korean wins cycling time trial opener
13:15 South Korea's Na Ah-reum wins the women's individual time trial to open the road cycling programme.
Na recorded a time of 37:54.43 seconds over the 28km route, a massive 52 seconds quicker than China's Li Wenjuan. Hong Kong's Jamie Wong Wan Yiu claimed bronze in a time of 38:57.65.
13:06 For those of you who followed our blogs from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, you may - or may not be - glad to hear that reporter Paul Osborne has just landed on South Korea soil. He is watching the women's volleyball at the airport. Having attended the World Championship Final in Poland last week, he is something of an expert on the sport, and he is impressed with the final point as South Korea beat Hong Kong. "Cracking final point," he purrs. "Hong Kong somehow defended a smash, kept it alive, knocked it back over the net only for South Korea to smash it straight back and win."
12:55 Elsewhere, we have a break now until the individual archery events later, while only qualification action in the shooting is ongoing at the moment, in the women's skeet event. Away from the medals, it is the first day of action in table tennis and canoe sprint today, with lots of heats and team preliminary matches ongoing throughout the day.
12:46 Another event taking place this afternoon is the women's cycling time trial, a 28km test against the clock on the Songdo Road Cycling Course. There are only 10 entrants here, a little disappointing that, but the World Championships are going on at the same time in Ponferrada, Spain, I guess. Li Wenjuan of China is our current leader with a time of 38:46.26.
All the riders have now exited the starting pen.
12:38 In the meantime, another gold medal has been won in shooting. China's trio of Zhu Qinan, Cao Yifei and Kang Hongwei win the men's 50m rifle 3 positions team event with a total of 3,502 points. South Korea take the silver medal with 3,484 points, edging the Japanese into third by a margin of three points.
Malaysian wushu player and a failed drugs test? Did he? Did he? So did he?
12:30 Basically, we eventually surmise that Yi Sophany, the Cambodian soft tennis player whose test was muted at the same time as the Malaysian wushu one before being confirmed the following day, did not request a B-sample. Jegathesan does confirm that no failed tests will be announced until after the B-sample process has been completed, which was not the case at the Commonwealth Games, where provisional suspensions were announced.
So a betting man would surmise the Malaysian wushu player has requested a B-sample and that process is ongoing. But in case I didn't make it clear below, nothing has yet been confirmed! I think Jegathesan's position is complicated by the fact he is a Malaysian himself (and the deputy President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia) so is taking a less direct role in order to preserve neutrality.
12:24 An impromptu round-table took place after the press conference, and a remarkable exchange takes place between Jegathesan and the Malaysian press corps.
They ask him about reports concerning an unnamed Malaysian wushu player who has failed a test. "We don't comment on cases until the process is finished," insists Jegathesan, a Malaysian himself. "So is a process currently ongoing? asks one journalist." "We don't comment on whether a process has begun until the process is completed," is the reply, leading the media corps to revert to the time honoured practice of asking the same question in a very slightly different way...
"So did the wushu player take the same substance as the Cambodian tennis player?" But Jegathesan is no fool. "What wushu player? "We are only talking about two failed tests so far".
Jegathesan is a fascinating character In 1966, he won three sprinting gold medals at the Bangkok Asian Games and was nick-named the "Flying Doctor" due to his simultaneous medical prowess. He also competed at three Olympic Games in the 1960s. And he has had a busy summer because he is also chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation Medical Commission. But as he is asked yet again about the wushu case, even he is showing signs of having had enough, asking for them to stop asking the same question, "I'm an innocent man!" he adds.
At this point, I decide to help him out by steering conversation on to the subject of methylhexaneamine, the substance Tajikistan footballer Khurshed Beknazarov registered the first positive test of the Games for... "Ah yes, that is the flavour of the month," he says before explaining how they are trying to raise awareness of the product...
12:15 A break in the action now to bring you up to date with the OCA press conference earlier with Dr. M. Jegathesan. He made some interesting comments about people who fail drugs tests, claiming they are always in one of three categories. 1) Ignorant or Innocent 2) The victim of what somebody else in their entourage has done, or 3) A hardcore drugs cheat.
The OCA, who are in charge of "Games-time" management, are conducting tests based on intelligence and information they are given, perception of risk, and an equal distribution across sports and countries. But it is "not just an occasion to catch and punish athletes but also an educational programme".
China and both Korea's on target in shooting and archery
11:58 At last. At long last. India take their second gold medal of Incheon 2014 to follow the one won by Jitu Rai a week, and 200 gold medals, ago! Where would India be without target sports? In fact, where would have been every morning of the Games?
11:51 India take the gold medal in the men's team compound archery! They hold on to win by two points, 227-225 after Iran beat Philippines for bronze. Abhishek Verma,
Sandeep Kumar and Rajat Chauhan the winning trio.
11:45 It's a 10-10-9 from both Indians in the third leg, while South Korea go 10-10-10 and 10-9-9. so the two-point lead remain. Listening to archery with South Korean commentary is fantastic, because the prose is punctuation with dramatic explosions of "10,10,10", or, as it comes across, "tin, tin, tin". An eruption of excitement every time a shot is fired, I really do think excited commentary adds to the spectacle of any sporting event, even if you don't have a clue what they are saying...
11:40 India, meanwhile, have taken a two point lead at the halfway point in the archery final! 169-167 but with 12 arrows still to come. The standard and the scoring competition in compound archery means that, once you are ahead, it's very hard for the other team to catch up, although I hope I don't come to regret those words...
The recurve event, with it's set-orientated system, is much more volatile, with more swings and roundabouts during the course of a match.
11:32 We can bring you the corresponding team result in the 10m running target event now. Zhai Yujia, Zheng Jie and Xie Durun take gold for China with a total of 1139-32x points. The North Korean team, including individual champion Kim Ji-song, takes silver, while bronze goes to Vietnam.
11:24 First shooting gold medal of the day has gone to North Korea! Amassing a total of 384 points, Kim Ji-song claimed the gold medal in the men's 10m running target mixed event at Ongnyeon International Shooting Range.
China's Zhai Yujia won the silver with 383 points and South Korea's Jeong You-jin took the bronze with 381 points.
11:16 We will bring you more reaction to that swimming story when we get it, and from the OCA anti-doping press conference, but lets get up to date with the sport first, with some reaction from the women's compound archery final...
"This is the first archery medal in the 17th Asian Games for Korea, so obviously I am very pleased. I had many thoughts preparing for this competition, but I feel great that the outcome was so good. I think about our coach, who passed away who I think would be very happy and proud of us. Also, I want to thank the Head of Korea Archery Association who had so great an interest in compound archery. Because of him we compound archers were able to compete."
- Choi Bo-min dedicates the women's compound medal to a former coach.
Former world swimming champion from Japan sent home for stealing camera
11:07 Some breaking news to report, as the head of the Japanese swimming team, Tsuyoshi Aoki, reveals that swimmer Naoya Tomita has been expelled from the team after stealing a camera from a South Korean photojournalist, prompting a police investigation and apologies from Japan.
"The swimmer stole a camera from a South Korean journalist that was left in the area," he told reporters a few moments ago. "CCTV revealed the swimmer had put the camera into his bag. The South Korean cameraman had reported it missing and CCTV revealed the culprit. He has confessed to stealing the camera but interrogation is still on. He has not been booked officially.
"He has been expelled from the team effective immediately. He will have to f
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Laidly Wyrm, The: Also known as The Laidly Worm of Bamborough. As legend suggests, a king's daughter is turned into a wyrm (dragon) by her stepmother, a foul and black-hearted witch. Only a kiss from the prince, Child Wynde, can break the spell and free the wyrm from her dreaded curse.
Letter of Marque: a virtual pirate's charter; Issued by the British government from the early 1700s to the late 1800s, Letters of Marque were official warrants granted to private parties that worked under strict instruction to search property, seize goods and destroy assets belonging to the country's enemies or those so reckless and naive as to break the law.
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Light of Chaldea
The great sage and adept, known by many generations of mortals as The Alchemist, studies in silent piety. He toils ceaselessly for years in the sanity of his cloistral solitude in his devout resolve to decipher the wisdom of the ancients and to unlock the greatest of the unrealised secrets.
And from the unedifying darkness of this mortal earth, there appeared at last a bright star illuminating the way. They knew him to be a great leader of souls and wanted him to share in their knowledge and sapience, and they bathed him in the Light of Chaldea.
By around 3,500 B.C. near the city of Uruk, an ancient, unknown, highly developed and sophisticated tribe from Mesopotamia had established many astonishing observations and theories in respect of the powers of the stars and the heavens. This tribe, who would later be known as the Chaldeans, were ultimately to become the most learned and respectful seet of the Quabbalists, and the fathers of astronomy and astrology.
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Loki: A jötunn (giant) of Norse mythology; shape shifting assistant to the gods, eventually punished for causing mischief and orchestrating the death of Balder, god of light and beauty. Bound with the innards of one of his sons, a snake dripped venom upon Loki from high above, causing him to writhe in pain.
Loups Garou / Werewolf
Loups Garou/Werewolf: Shapeshifting humans popular in mythology and folklore, also known as lycanthropes. Able to transform themselves into a wolf, or a human form with anthropomorphic, lupine features, these cursed individuals were most often subjected to a bite or scratch from another werewolf in order to gain their gifts. Blessed with heightened strength and senses and only able to shift on the rising of the full moon, werewolves remain dominant figures in the realms of Gothic horror for their savage demeanours. However, it remains to be seen as to whether they are truly evil creatures or, as some believe, the hounds of God sent down to do battle with witches and demons. Individuals with epilepsy were often thought to mistakenly have lycanthropy, and in medieval Europe, methods such as surgery and medicine were used to attempt to cure it. Some were even executed and their bodies cremated, the better to stop them from rising again as vampires. While crucifixes and holy water have no effect on the beasts, only silver weapons seem to cause the werewolf any harm, most commonly in the form of bullets.


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Experimental antibody treatment may protect against peanut allergy
Serena Gordon
Nov. 14 -- People with peanut allergy must be constantly vigilant to avoid a life-threatening allergic reaction. But researchers report that a new drug injection might offer at least temporary protection against the most severe reactions.
Just one shot of an experimental antibody treatment allowed people with severe peanut allergy to eat about one peanut's worth of peanut protein two weeks later, the study found.
The drug is like "a protective blanket" shielding people from accidental peanut exposure, said study senior author Dr. Kari Nadeau, director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University in California.
Peanut allergy affects an estimated 2.5 percent of American children, and that number has risen sharply over the past decade, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
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Children and adults with a peanut allergy are at risk of having a sudden and severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) that can be life-threatening if they consume even small amounts of peanuts.
The problem is that peanuts are in many foods, such as candy, cereal, baked goods, sauces, marinades and even in ice cream, according to the ACAAI.
That means people with peanut allergies have to be extra-careful about what they eat at home, and often have to limit the places they'll eat at away from home. For example, many Asian foods are made with peanuts or peanut sauces, and possibly fried in peanut oil.
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Besides avoiding foods with peanuts, the only current treatment for peanut allergy is oral immunotherapy. This treatment requires people to eat tiny bits of the food they're allergic to at their doctor's office. The amount of the offending food is increased over time. Treatment can take six months to a year, and they're at risk of an allergic reaction during the process, the study authors explained.
The drug tested in the trial works in a different way. Called etokimab, the drug interferes with the action of a substance called interleukin-33 (IL-33). IL-33 triggers a cascading response that causes an allergic reaction when exposed to an allergen, such as a peanut.
The researchers tested the new medication on 15 adults with a severe peanut allergy. They were given a single injection of etokimab. Another five people with severe peanut allergies received a placebo injection.
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Fifteen days later, they all consumed a small amount of peanut protein under medical supervision. They were given the food challenge again 45 days after the drug injection.
At 15 days, 73 percent of those treated were able to eat the equivalent of protein from one peanut. By day 45, just 57 percent who received the drug were able to pass the food challenges. People given the placebo couldn't tolerate the peanut protein at either time.
"We were surprised to see an effect that was so dramatic," Nadeau said.
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Because this was a small, phase 2 clinical trial, Nadeau said larger studies that include younger patients and patients from more than one medical center are still needed.
A lot of questions remain, too. For example, is there an additive effect after more than one shot? Will the drug last a different amount of time for different people? And does it work for other types of food allergies? Nadeau said in theory, it should work for other food allergies as well.
The new medication appeared to be well-tolerated, and no serious side effects were reported.
The drug has also shown promise in treating asthma, Nadeau said.
Dr. Noah Stern is chief of otolaryngology at DMC Harper University Hospital in Detroit. He said though the study is "exciting and important, it's really just a starting point." He was not involved with the research.
"Food allergies are becoming more and more common, so we need many tools to treat food allergies, and this study seems to show this drug might be a good tool for treating peanut allergy," Stern said. But he added that the study was small and the drug is not available outside of clinical trials.
Cost is another concern, he pointed out. Biologic drugs like this can cost thousands of dollars a month.
Results of the study were published Nov. 14 in the journal JCI Insight.
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This is the final post in a seven-part series on the catalysts for stock movements. It's based on a series of talks at TradeStation's Master Class learning sessions.
Companies are not just businesses. They're also corporate entities with financial structures that can be changed to impact stock price. Events like this fit under the category of strategic actions.
This is the seventh and last major catalyst of movement in the equity market. We'll define it as management altering a firm's corporate or capital structure — usually via divestiture, spinoff, buyback or acquisition.
Strategic actions have nothing to do with a company's core business. That makes them different from business transformation, which is when management looks to improve products or operations.
Let's start with divestitures because they've been in news recently. For example, General Electric (GE) rallied a month ago after selling its biotechnology division. And yesterday, Ascena Retail (ASNA) ripped on news it would unload the Maurices chain.
General Electric (GE), showing move after divestiture and 50-day moving average.
Second, shedding subsidiaries can let executives focus attention on their core business. That can improve profitability and sales.
Third, investors often demand higher multiples for "pure play" companies. To understand this, take a hypothetical example from grocery shopping. Imagine that a store forced you to buy rice and salsa together in a single package.
The bag of rice and jar of salsa may both have a $2 price. But forcing the shopper to purchase them together will reduce demand for both. An actively quoted market like Wall Street would instantly discount the combination below $4.
Money managers think about companies the same way. They want exposure to categories like "memory chips," "footwear" or "oncology." Each of those have their own price or valuation metrics. Forcing them all under the same roof muddies the water in the eyes of money managers.
That brings us to the second major kind of strategic actions, spinoffs. This is when a company splits off a business and gives it to existing shareholders as a new stock.
A recent example of this was Gap (GPS) deciding to separate its flagship brand from Old Navy. Eli Lilly (LLY) also finished spinning off Elanco Animal Health (ELAN) this month.
A spinoff is similar to a divestiture because it helps sharpen a company's focus. In that respect it can also solve the rice-and-salsa problem mentioned above, and encourage investors to pay more for the stand-alone company.
Spinoffs differ from divestitures because they directly change the stock structure and don't involve cash. They also have certain tax benefits.
Buybacks and dividends fall under strategic actions because they impact capital structure. Management can take spare cash, or even borrow money, and give it to shareholders.
They can buy back their own equity on the open market, reducing the share count. (Less stock in supply can mean higher prices.) Or, they can pay quarterly dividends. Alternately, a company may announce a one-time special dividend.
Finally, the biggest kind of strategic action is selling a company. This can take several forms: hiring investment banks, seeking "strategic alternatives" or breaking-news reports citing anonymous sources.
You need to know about strategic actions because they can overshadow all other aspects of a stock's performance. For example, say a company is spinning off a business that accounts for half its revenue. Such a huge change will produce a very different company when the transaction is finished.
That can make investors ignore other events that would normally matter, like quarterly results. Instead, the market will completely focus on timing and terms of the upcoming strategic event.
Alternately, people might be expecting a merger to occur (or not occur). It could be hung up on negotiations or regulatory approvals. Again, incremental news around the outcome will dominate price action.
This is important because we're looking to understand why stocks move. Fundamentals like earnings typically matter. But sometimes strategic events matter even more.
Hopefully you're starting to see how these seven key catalysts can fit together. A company may divest a business line (strategic action) and use the cash to pay down debt (credit event). The new company can then focus on lifting volumes or margins.
Or, a company may want to reinvent itself to keep up with the times. Consider an example like Corning (GLW). In the 1990s the glass maker divested its cookware operations and transformed itself into a fiber-optic maker. In the process it was responding to investor rotation into technology stocks during the dotcom boom.
In conclusion, there are limitless ways these seven catalysts may fit together to explain stock movement. Hopefully this series has allowed you to understand the basics so you can quickly identify the forces at work in the market.


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Darius Urbonas (* 26. Mai 1974 in Kėdainiai) ist ein litauischer Verwaltungsrechtler und Politiker, seit 2017 Vizeminister des Inneren.

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Nach dem Abitur  absolvierte Darius Urbonas 2000 das Bachelorstudium des Rechts an der Lietuvos teisės akademija und 2002 das Masterstudium des Rechts an der Lietuvos teisės universitetas in Vilnius.
Im Dezember 2007 promovierte er über quasi-Gerichte  (zum Thema Kvaziteisminių institucijų jurisdikcinė veikla, taikant administracines sankcijas) an der Mykolo Romerio universitetas.

1994–2002 war Darius Urbonas Inspektor und Leiter einer Stelle im Polizeikommissariat der Stadtgemeinde Kaunas.
2011–2014 arbeitete er als Jurist in der Anwaltskanzlei "Čerka ir partneriai". 2014–2016 war er Richter im Kreisgericht Kaunas. 2011–2015 lehrte er als Dozent an der  Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas und ab 2010 an der Mykolo Romerio universitetas. 2016 war er Berater am Policijos departamentas.
Seit 2017 ist er Vizeminister, Stellvertreter des Innenministers Eimutis Misiūnas im Kabinett Skvernelis.

Darius Urbonas ist verheiratet und hat zwei Söhne sowie eine Tochter.

Darius Urbonas spricht englisch und russisch.

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Coldplay goes to space with new song, Entertainment News & Top Stories
By Sterling K. Webb on	 June 30, 2021 Popular Songs
SINGAPORE – Members of British band Coldplay have been thinking a lot about space recently.
The popular quartet launched their new song, Higher Power, by showing a video of themselves performing it to French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who was aboard the International Space Station.
The music video for the song takes place on a fictional planet called Kaotica and shows the group around dancing aliens.
Sometimes it's easier to talk about what's going on on other planets than on Earth, says guitarist and band co-founder Jonny Buckland in a Zoom interview from London.
"You can use other planets to describe what's going on here in a perhaps simpler way," the 43-year-old adds.
Drummer Will Champion, 42, says the group, which also includes singer Chris Martin and bassist Guy Berryman, drew inspiration from science fiction movies and books.
"When you look up and can see the stars, you'll have a little perspective on the small size, and sort of finished, we're here on Earth, and that's a really useful perspective to be able to have," Champion said.
"We wanted to try and see how difficult it has apparently been to make life here on Earth, and by zooming out a little bit and getting that perspective it may be helpful to think of it that way."
Speaking to Pesquet, someone who floats above the planet, helped reinforce this point of view.
"Looking down, there are no boundaries," Buckland says. "Everyone's just together on a big spaceship flying through space."
Higher Power is the first song from the band's upcoming ninth album, the sequel to Everyday Life in 2019.
The track's synth-pop sound is a tribute to 1980s pop music, Champion says.
"We're 1980s kids, really. Those were our formative years. I grew up listening to a lot of 1980s pop music and so it's somewhere in there… It's like nursery rhymes. They are ingrained in our brains and ears, "he adds, citing groups such as A-ha and Duran Duran.
Formed in 1996, Coldplay is today one of the best-selling musical groups in the world. Their first three albums – Parachutes (2000), A Rush Of Blood To The Head (2002) and X&Y (2005) – catapulted them to stratospheric success.
With their music taking a more electronic direction in recent years, the band had to rethink their approach to their instruments.
"If you're looking for the most vulnerable members of a band when it comes to music in 2020, it's probably the drummer and guitarist," says Champion.
"Because a lot of the music we listen to these days (has) very little guitars, and most of the drums are electronic or programmed. So we definitely had to be a little more open to the use of our instruments in different ways. "
The group recently found themselves playing an unscheduled concert in New York City earlier this month (June) – their first in front of a large physical audience since the pandemic ended live concerts around the world.
"It was supposed to be kind of a two-song TV performance in front of a few hundred vaccinated people, but then it was in a park," Buckland said.
"So obviously a lot of other people came by, and then we suddenly realized we were playing a concert."
Coldplay launched their new song, Higher Power, by showing a video of themselves performing it to French astronaut Thomas Pesquet. PHOTO: WARNER MUSIC SINGAPORE
Champion adds: "It was amazing. We were supposed to do two songs, but we got carried away and so we played a lot more because we haven't played in front of people for so long. It was a nice reminder of this feeling."
Experiencing a pandemic allowed the members of the group to appreciate each other more.
"We're more thankful for what we're doing and for having each other," Buckland says.
Champion adds: "Something that we have always recognized, but which has been particularly important this past year, is to make the most of the time we spend together.
"I guess that's a really good metaphor for life itself, isn't it? We recognize that we don't have a ton of time so we want to make the most of it."
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Garrigues' poetry has appeared in Nimrod, Southwestern American Literature, Fish Drum, Conditions, the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, So to Speak, and others.
She has published three poetry chapbooks, taught poetry workshops and performed her work at venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including a one woman show at San Francisco's The Marsh.
the thing you must ask of the poem
(from Seeing Is Bright Between My Hands, Blue Amber Press, 1994. Originally published in Pudding Magazine)
Investigating the Witness
(from Sky Full of Holes, Lizard Blue Press, 2000, illustrations by Chris Wayan. Originally published in The Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal)
Center of the Dream
Originally published in Southwestern American Literature
(originally published in So to Speak, George Mason University, 2001)
A limited number of signed chapbooks are available for sale from the author.


We are a society that lives by standard expectations, norms and procedures. You want a job-you write a resume, read the paper, network, fax, call, and interview and with a combination of luck, timing, and talent, you are hired. If you recruit people for jobs-you utilize high tech methods, job fairs, networking, and selling-and voila, you have found the "perfect match". The hiring of a "welfare to work" population, does not fall within these norms, thus the course of events leading to the recruitment and hiring of individuals who are traditionally difficult to employ must change in order to be successful. Is it worth it to you? Think carefully before attempting recruiting because successful outcomes will follow only if you are willing to think and act in non-traditional ways. Don't bother making a one shot effort and say – "I tried". If you do you, as many other before you will feel a tremendous sense of frustration and perhaps even a sense of "I knew this wouldn't work". You certainly won't be alone with this feeling. Recipients of welfare may experience difficulty getting from one place to another. Often they have never left their limited neighborhoods – born raised, grown in the same ten block radius that is "home". They know the culture, the people the smell and feel of their own environment. To leave these surroundings to go to a conference or job fair is for many a monumental effort causing extreme anxiety – anxiety so great that they never want to repeat the experience, and so often, even when excited about possibilities, will never make it to an interview. This is just the travel – what about when they get to you? Here you are offering them the world on a silver platter – almost guaranteed employment. One minute they are living in a shelter, on public assistance, and here you are giving them a time and place and letting them know that pretty much all they have to do is show up! What a life transition! By now you must be certain that there is no way this is worth it – to seek to hire a person that can't even get from point A to point B without raising these major neurotic responses! BUT WAIT – remember all the good news, the rave reviews that these employees are getting, the dedication they show on the job, the loyalty they have to an employer who took a chance on them. So if you are ready to take another shot at this consider the following: * Go to the population – rent out a space in the neighborhood and hold a job fair, you can probably get free space from local community groups, churches, local business and not for profit organizations. * Don't just recruit – understand. Ask questions about how they came to hear about you, what are their goals, their aspirations, and their fears. This is not what you do? – take someone with you who can focus on these issues as they relate to employment – a trained employment counselor perhaps. This will make the next step easier and maybe they will make it to an interview. * Check your approach – are your expectations too high or too low? Did this come across when you met with the applicant? Take the time to explore their expectations and always ask – what is your motivation to work now? * Follow up after you set an appointment. Sometimes all it takes is a phone call to say – "Hi, it was really nice to have met you and I am excited about speaking to you further about possibilities in our company". Remember the chronically unemployed have integrated many of societies negative stereotypes about themselves. Just hearing encouragement in your voice can often make a tremendous difference. * Link up to job training programs in your area that can or may have already complied an initial applicant screening or employee training for you. That way, you are not interviewing random applicants. Consider this an opportunity to "piggy back" on someone else's work. These programs are ideal for holding mini job fairs. I would close by saying Good Luck – but it's more than that, it's good business sense!
Doreen D. Gibbs is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) experienced in developing programs to assist individuals with disabilities to return to work. She trains potential employers in the recruiting, training, placement and support of chronically underemployed and undeserved populations. As the founder of G & G Geriatric and Disability Care Management, Inc., she provides ongoing technical assistance to companies, and serves as a liaison between the for profit and for profit communities in the formation of successful partnerships.


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Necessary Evil, also referred to as Plane #91, was the name of Boeing B-29-45-MO Superfortress 44-86291 (Victor 91), participating in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

Assigned to the 393d Bomb Squadron, 509th Composite Group, it was used as a camera plane to photograph the explosion and effects of the bomb, and to carry scientific observers. At the time of the attack the plane was not named and was known only by its 393d Victor number. The mission was flown by crew B-10, with Captain George Marquardt as aircraft commander.

The crew regularly assigned to this airplane in turn flew on the Nagasaki mission on August 9, 1945, in another B-29; Big Stink, though without their aircraft commander, who was ill.

Aircraft history
Built at the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Plant at Omaha, Nebraska, Necessary Evil was accepted by the Army Air Forces on May 18, 1945, and flown to Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, by its assigned crew C-14 (1st Lt. Norman W. Ray, Aircraft Commander) in June. It departed Wendover for North Field, Tinian on June 27 and arrived on July 2. It was originally assigned the Victor (unit-assigned identification) number 11 but on August 1 was given the Circle-R tail markings of the 6th Bomb Group as a security measure and had its Victor changed to 91 to avoid misidentification with actual 6th BG aircraft. It was named and had its nose art painted after the Nagasaki mission.

In addition to the Hiroshima mission, Necessary Evil'''s operations history on Tinian included 10 training and practice missions, and three combat missions in which it dropped pumpkin bombs on industrial targets in Kobe, Kashiwazaki, and Koriyama, all flown by 1st Lt. Ray and crew C-14.

Colonel Paul Tibbets had chosen Necessary Evil, commanded by Captain George Marquardt, to lead a third atomic bomb drop against Japan. Secretary of War Henry Stimson stated following the bombing of Nagasaki, "These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another".
The primary target was the city of Koromo (current day Toyota). Toyota Motor Company was dedicated to truck production for the Imperial Japanese Army at this time making it the likely target. Stimson notes in his diary entry August 10, 1945 "[Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal] told me that they were planning another big attack by [Pacific Third Fleet Admiral William "Bull"] Halsey and he was afraid this would go on.". Colonel Tibbets under orders by General Curtis LeMay, dispatched Lt. Col. Classen, the deputy group commander, in the unnamed victor 94 and crew B-6 in Jabit III, together with their ground crews, to Wendover AAFB to stage for the possibility of transporting further Fat Man [Model 1561] bomb assemblies to Tinian. At Los Alamos, the second plutonium core for the third bomb had been fabricated and was ready for shipment from Mare Island Naval Shipyard to Tinian by special courier Lt. William A. King on a C-54 cargo aircraft of the 509th CG. These shipments were halted on August 14, 1945  by orders from Washington. "Kuromo" appears in a target log below Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Smithsonian Channel documentary The Men Who Brought The Dawn.

In December 1945 Necessary Evil returned to the United States with the 509th CG to Roswell Army Airfield, New Mexico. It was part of the Operation Crossroads task force from August 1946 until June 1949, when it was transferred to the 97th Bomb Group at Biggs Air Force Base, Texas. Necessary Evil was re-configured as a TB-29 trainer by the Oklahoma City Materiel Area at Tinker Air Force Base in April 1950. It was subsequently assigned to:
1st Tow Target Squadron, Biggs Air Force Base (September 1952),
1st Radar Calibration Squadron, Griffiss Air Force Base, New York (March 1953),
4713th Radar Evaluation Flight, Griffiss AFB (March 1954),
17th Tow Target Squadron, Yuma County Airport, Arizona (June 1955), and
4750th Air Defense Wing, Vincent Air Force Base, Arizona.Necessary Evil was dropped from the Air Force inventory in November 1956. It was transferred to the U.S. Navy and used as a target at the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, California.

Hiroshima mission crew
Crew B-10 (normally assigned to Up An' Atom)
Capt. George W. Marquardt, Aircraft Commander
2nd Lt. James M. Anderson, Co-Pilot
2nd Lt. Russell Gackenbach, Navigator
Capt. James W. Strudwick, Bombardier
T/Sgt. James R. Corliss, Flight Engineer
Sgt. Warren L. Coble, Radio Operator
Sgt. Joseph M. DiJulio, Radar Operator
Sgt. Melvin H. Bierman, Tail Gunner
Sgt. Anthony D. Capua, Jr., Assistant Engineer/Scanner
(Civilian) Prof. Bernard Waldman, Project Alberta, camera operator

Other aircraft named Necessary Evil
Two FB-111A strategic bombers of the USAF 509th Bomb Wing, serials 67-7194 and 68-0259, carried the name and original nose art of Necessary Evil on their nosewheel doors while based at Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire, in the 1970s and 1980s.

References

Further reading

 Campbell, Richard H., The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29s Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs'' (2005),
 509th CG Aircraft Page, MPHPA
 Wendover City History
 Historic Wendover Airfield
 Smithsonian Channel - The Men Who Brought the Dawn Retrieved May 15, 2017(Wayback Version)
 famous nose art of the B-29 Necessary Evil

Necessary Evil
Necessary Evil
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki


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If you had to grow up in a family with alcoholic parents then you understand what it is like to see your mom or dad consumed by their cravings to drink excessively. When you do not have a parent there to care for you, you are forced to give up your childhood in order to survive. In this post we are going to discuss some things that you can do to help yourself, and your alcoholic mom survive.
What's It Like Living With an Alcohol abuser Mother?
Alcohol abusers make terrible parents. When your mom is abusing alcohol, she really cannot be a mother in the way you need her to be. It's a really complicated situation charged with high emotions. Children and other loved ones will feel mistreated, unloved and hurt. Often, children of alcoholic mothers feel unnurtured, devalued, and abandoned. This puts a lot of emotional stress on the kids and can make them feel as if they do not even deserve to be cared for. This is not true and it is not fair. These children are casualties of war in this battle unless professional help is sought out. At Legacy Freedom, our alcohol and drug rehab Columbus OH facility can help your alcoholic mother get sober. Call us now to learn more about how our holistic programs work better than using drugs to treat a substance abuse problem.
Alcohol abuse is a disease. We classify this as a substance abuse issue just like any other drug problem. Alcohol abusers live a life of impairment with extreme compulsive behavior. Alcohol abuse affects everyone around the individual with the disease. Everyone will suffer. Alcohol abusers cannot be depended upon. They will not be the people you need them to be until they sober up and stop drinking.
Until they get help, it is your job to not enable them. Do not provide them with an outlet for drinking. Remember, you cannot control them; you can only control your own actions. This means not being naive to lies, not be naive to the situation and being completely honest with yourself and the alcoholic. It will be tough and if you find yourself in a situation where you need help, please call Legacy Freedom Treatment Centers.
At Legacy Freedom, we offer the best alcohol and drug rehab Columbus OH services for the city and the surrounding communities. If you need help with an alcoholic mother, or have parents, loved ones or friends with substance abuse problems, please call us today. We use the best holistic and alternative treatments to get your loved ones back to being sober. We want your loved ones to live their lives without substance problems holding them back. Our outpatient facility is ready to help them, whenever they are ready to finally help themselves. Take the first step in the right direction by calling Legacy Freedom today. Get them the help they deserve.


Vetch production reached 297,097 tonnes in 2016 in Ethiopia, according to Faostat. This is 6.31 % less than in the previous year.
Historically, vetch production in Ethiopia reached an all time high of 325,581 tonnes in 2012 and an all time low of 12,600 tonnes in 1975.
Ethiopia has been ranked 1st within the group of 35 countries we follow in terms of vetch production, 3 places above the position seen 10 years ago.


Even though it was quite some wait for Sikandar Kher to see his debut film arrive at theaters, now it is going to be 'two-much-too-soon' for the young man with two of his films arriving in a matter of a fortnight.
While WOODSTOCK VILLA has finally been confirmed for a 30th May release, his other film, SUMMER 2007, is also gearing up to hit the theaters on 13th June. While WOODSTOCK VILLA is a thriller, SUMMER 2007 belongs to drama genre.
The film is about five medical students from a capitation fee college in India who have only seen that part of India that boasts of luxuries like XBox and Formula 1 Racing. However, their life changes when they land up in one of the most deprived villages in Maharashtra due to a rural posting. The incidents which follow lead them to a soul-searching journey where each of them is required to go through a transformation and ultimately make a choice!
Apart from Sikandar Kher, the film stars Arjan Bajwa, Gul Panag, Divya Dutta and Uvika Chaudhary in the lead roles. SUMMER 2007 also has an interesting supporting cast which boasts of Ashutosh Rana, Sachin Khedekar, Vikram Gokhale and Prashant Narayanan.
Directed by debutant film maker Suhail Tatari SUMMER 2007 is produced by Atul Pandey and has music by Gourov Dasgupta.


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