Copy of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen collated September 30, 1789 and accepted by King Louis XVI.
or in French Declaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen, was adopted by the National Constituent Assembly during the French Revolution on August 26, 1789, and reaffirmed by the constitution of 1958.
It follows the English translation of the Declaration.
The representatives of the French people, formed into a National Assembly, considering ignorance, forgetfulness or contempt of the rights of man to be the only causes of public misfortunes and the corruption of Governments, have resolved to set forth, in a solemn Declaration, the natural, unalienable and sacred rights of man, to the end that this Declaration, constantly present to all members of the body politic, may remind them unceasingly of their rights and their duties; to the end that the acts of the legislative power and those of the executive power, since they may be continually compared with the aim of every political institution, may thereby be the more respected; to the end that the demands of the citizens, founded henceforth on simple and uncontestable principles, may always be directed toward the maintenance of the Constitution and the happiness of all.
In consequence whereof, the National Assembly recognizes and declares, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good.
The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are Liberty, Property, Safety and Resistance to Oppression.
The source of all sovereignty lies essentially in the Nation. No corporate body, no individual may exercise any authority that does not expressly emanate from it.
The Law has the right to forbid only those actions that are injurious to society. Nothing that is not forbidden by Law may be hindered, and no one may be compelled to do what the Law does not ordain.
The Law is the expression of the general will. All citizens have the right to take part, personally or through their representatives, in its making. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. All citizens, being equal in its eyes, shall be equally eligible to all high offices, public positions and employments, according to their ability, and without other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.
No man may be accused, arrested or detained except in the cases determined by the Law, and following the procedure that it has prescribed. Those who solicit, expedite, carry out, or cause to be carried out arbitrary orders must be punished; but any citizen summoned or apprehended by virtue of the Law, must give instant obedience; resistance makes him guilty.
The Law must prescribe only the punishments that are strictly and evidently necessary; and no one may be punished except by virtue of a Law drawn up and promulgated before the offense is committed, and legally applied.
As every man is presumed innocent until he has been declared guilty, if it should be considered necessary to arrest him, any undue harshness that is not required to secure his person must be severely curbed by Law.
No one may be disturbed on account of his opinions, even religious ones, as long as the manifestation of such opinions does not interfere with the established Law and Order.
The free communication of ideas and of opinions is one of the most precious rights of man. Any citizen may therefore speak, write and publish freely, except what is tantamount to the abuse of this liberty in the cases determined by Law.
To guarantee the Rights of Man and of the Citizen a public force is necessary; this force is therefore established for the benefit of all, and not for the particular use of those to whom it is entrusted.
For the maintenance of the public force, and for administrative expenses, a general tax is indispensable; it must be equally distributed among all citizens, in proportion to their ability to pay.
All citizens have the right to ascertain, by themselves, or through their representatives, the need for a public tax, to consent to it freely, to watch over its use, and to determine its proportion, basis, collection and duration.
Society has the right to ask a public official for an accounting of his administration.
Any society in which no provision is made for guaranteeing rights or for the separation of powers, has no Constitution.
Since the right to Property is inviolable and sacred, no one may be deprived thereof, unless public necessity, legally ascertained, obviously requires it, and just and prior indemnity has been paid.


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Hennessy [] (Энси, Хэннесси) — один из  известнейших французских коньячных домов. Вместе с французским производителем шампанских вин Moët & Chandon входит в состав французского холдинга Louis Vuitton — Moët Hennessy.

История
Коньячный дом Hennessy был основан в 1765 году капитаном Ричардом Хеннесси — якобитом, служившим в ирландском батальоне армии короля Франции Людовика XV. После полученного в 1745 году ранения он был списан из армии и поселился в городке Коньяк департамента Шаранта. В 1794 году начались поставки коньяка Hennessy в Северную Америку.

В 1817 году принц Уэльский, будущий король Великобритании Георг IV заказал у Хеннесси «very superior old pale cognac». Сокращение , использовавшееся в названии созданного Hennessy V.S.O.P., получило широкое распространение при классификации коньяков, бренди и арманьяков. В 1818 году по заказу вдовствующей императрицы Марии Фёдоровны первая партия Хеннесси была поставлена в Россию, а в 1859 — в Китай. В 1856 году была представлена новая лицевая этикетка коньяка с маркой Jas HENNESSY & C°, использовавшей в качестве эмблемы дома — герб Хеннесси, известный как Bras Armé — рука, держащая алебарду.

В 1865 году Моррис Хеннесси — правнук Ричарда — предложил классификацию коньяков, которая использует от трёх до пяти звёздочек для указания на минимальную выдержку использованных при изготовлении напитка коньячных спиртов. Классификация получила широкое распространение и в несколько изменённой форме (во многих странах звёздочки заменены литерами) при сохранении общего принципа применяется по сегодняшний день. В течение XIX века и большей части XX века дом Хеннесси производил коньяк с тремя звёздочками (позже — VS), с четырьмя (в 1817, позже — VSOP) и пятью (в 1870, позже — XO).

В 1971 году Hennessy объединился с Moët & Chandon — крупнейшим производителем шампанского, а в 1987 году они вошли в состав холдинга LVMH Moët Hennessy — Louis Vuitton, специализирующегося на производстве предметов роскоши и элитных напитков. В 1979 году был представлен новый коньяк классической гаммы — Hennesy Paradies, а в 1991 — Richard Hennesy. В 2011 году, базируясь на созданном в 1818 году для Александра I коньяке, мастер ассамбляжа Ян Фийю создал Hennesy Imperial.

Гамма коньяков

Классическая гамма
 Hennessy V.S. (Very Special) — создан в 1865 году Морисом Хеннесси, правнуком основателя Ричарда Хеннеси, как первый коньяк с указанием возраста в виде трёх звёзд на лицевой этикетке бутылки. В ассамбляж входит более 40 коньячных спиртов возрастом от 2 до 7 лет;
 Hennessy V.S.O.P. Privilege (Very Superior Old Pale) — создан в 1817 году по заказу будущего короля Англии Георга IV, как «a very superior old pale eau-de-vie». В ассамбляж входит более 60 коньячных спиртов возрастом от 6 до 12 лет;
 Hennessy X.O. (Extra Old) — создан в 1870 году Морисом Хеннесси для своих друзей, как первый коньяк с указанием возраста eXtra Оld cognac на лицевой этикетке бутылки. В ассамбляж входит более 100 коньячных спиртов, возрастом от 7 до 30 лет. В 1947 году для коньяка была создана специальная бутылка, украшенная орнаментом из виноградной лозы;
 Hennessy Paradis — создан в 1979 году «мастером ассамбляжа» Морисом Фийю из уникальных коньячных спиртов, отобранных ещё его дедом. В ассамбляж входит более 100 коньячных спиртов возрастом от 15 до 100 лет;
 Hennessy Richard — создан в 1996 году «мастером ассамбляжа» Яном Фийю в честь Ричарда Хеннесси. В ассамбляж входит более 100 уникальных коньячных спиртов, в том числе и произведенных из винограда сорта Фоль Бланш, урожаев 1800 и 1830—1860 годов;

Особые коньяки
 Hennessy Library — создан как напоминание об отношении семьи Хеннесси к своим коньякам, как к антикварным книгам. Относится к промежуточной категории между V.S.O.P. и X.O.; в ассамбляж входит 40 коньячных спиртов;
 Hennessy Private Reserve — создан в 1873 году «мастером ассамбляжа» Эмилем Фийю, по заказу Мориса Хеннесси, из 14-ти коньячных спиртов с «цветочным» характером;
 Hennessy Private Reserve 1865 — создан в 1865 году в ознаменование 100-летней годовщины основания Хеннесси. В ассамбляж входят 11 коньячных спиртов с «цветочным» характером. Переиздан в 2005 году;
 Hennessy Timeless — создан в 1999 году в ознаменование наступления 2000 года. В ассамбляж входят 11 уникальных коньячных спиртов XX века, урожаев 1900, 1918, 1929, 1939, 1947, 1953, 1959, 1961, 1970, 1983 и 1990 годов. Хрустальный графин выполнен известным французским дизайнером компании Baccarat Томасом Бастидом. Всего произведено 2000 пронумерованных графинов;
 Hennessy Ellipse — в ассамбляж входят семь лучших коньячных спиртов, отобранных семью поколениями Фийю — «мастерами ассамбляжа» Дома. Уникальность коньяка и в содержании алкоголя — 43,5 %, тогда как в классических коньяках Hennessy всего 40 %. Хрустальный графин выполнен также известным французским дизайнером компании Baccarat Томасом Бастидом. Всего произведено 3000 пронумерованных графинов.
 Hennessy Mathusalem — эксклюзивный коллекционный коньяк (всего 300 экземпляров) в 6-литровой бутылке, помещенной в дорожный чемодан из натуральной кожи.
 Hennessy 888 — специальный подарочный набор в честь открытия летней Олимпиады в Пекине, которое состоялось 8 августа 2008 года (8/08/08). В набор входит бутылка Hennessy XO и 2 бокала из хрусталя Baccarat.
 Hennessy 44 Limited Edition — коньяк, посвященный инаугурации 44 президента США Барака Обамы. На этикетке бутылки присутствует печать с датой инаугурации — 20 января 2009 года.

«Мастера ассамбляжа» Дома
 Жан Фийю 1800—1838
 Кристоф Фийю 1838—1859
 Эмиль Фийю 1859—1890
 Альфред Фийю 1890—1941
 Ремон Фийю 1941—1958
 Морис Фийю 1958—1991
 Янн Фийю 1991—2017
 Рино Фийю 2017 — настоящее время

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 Hennessy.ru  — официальный русскоязычный сайт коньячного дома Хеннесси
 Hennessy.com  — официальный сайт Хеннесси
 LVMH  — официальный сайт холдинга Louis Vuitton — Moët Hennessy

Производители алкогольных напитков Франции
Торговые марки Франции
Коньяк
Торговые марки алкогольных напитков
LVMH

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Der Vermisstenfall Rebecca Reusch behandelt das Verschwinden der damals 15-jährigen Schülerin Rebecca "Becci" Reusch (* 21. September 2003) aus Berlin-Rudow im Berliner Bezirk Neukölln am 18. Februar 2019.

Die Ermittler gehen inzwischen von einem Tötungsdelikt aus. Eine Leiche wurde bislang jedoch nicht gefunden.

Chronologie
Den Abend des 17. Februar 2019 verbrachte Rebecca Reusch bei ihrer älteren Schwester Jessica in Berlin-Britz. Von dort wollte sie am Montagmorgen direkt zur Schule aufbrechen. Mit im Haus wohnte neben Jessicas kleiner Tochter auch ihr Mann Florian, der an diesem Abend geschäftlich auf einer Feier war und erst in den frühen Morgenstunden nach Hause kam. Rebecca verbrachte die Nacht auf dem Sofa im Wohnzimmer, Jessica schlief im Schlafzimmer im ersten Stock. Am Morgen des 18. Februar verließ Jessica mit ihrer Tochter gegen 7:00 Uhr das Haus, um zur Arbeit zu fahren. Sie gibt an, am Morgen nicht noch einmal nach Rebecca gesehen zu haben.

Eine Freundin von Rebecca sagte aus, am Morgen des 18. Februar ein Snapchat-Foto von Rebecca erhalten zu haben. Auf diesem soll sie einen Kapuzenpullover der Band BTS, eine rosa Plüschjacke, zerrissene Jeans und schwarze Sneaker getragen und in einem Flur gestanden haben. Ermittlungen ergaben, dass Rebeccas Handy sich zuletzt um 7:46 in das WLAN ihrer Schwester eingeloggt hatte. Das Foto müsste demnach zwischen 7:00 und 7:46 Uhr entstanden sein. Da Snapchat-Fotos nach dem Öffnen jedoch automatisch gelöscht werden, ist der genaue Aufnahmezeitpunkt unbekannt.

Um 7:15 Uhr versuchte Rebeccas Mutter Brigitte Reusch ihre Tochter anzurufen, erreichte aber nur die Mailbox. Um 8:25 Uhr rief Brigitte Reusch erneut bei ihrer Tochter an, erreichte aber auch hier nur die Mailbox. Als sie daraufhin Florian anrief, drückte dieser sie weg. Einen Rückruf von Florian kurze Zeit später verpasste Rebeccas Mutter, rief dann aber nochmal an. Am Telefon teilte ihr Schwiegersohn ihr mit, dass Rebecca nicht mehr im Haus sei. Um 8:42 Uhr schrieb Brigitte Reusch Rebecca dann eine WhatsApp-Nachricht. Diese wurde zugestellt, jedoch nicht mehr gelesen.

Zu Schulbeginn erschien Rebecca nicht zum Unterricht. Als sie auch am Nachmittag nicht auftauchte, meldeten Rebeccas Eltern ihre Tochter als vermisst.

Auch einige persönliche Gegenstände von Rebecca schienen verschwunden zu sein, darunter die Kleidungsstücke, die sie auf dem Snapchat-Foto am Morgen trug, ihr Schulrucksack, eine Tasche, ihr Geldbeutel, ihr Handy und eine rosafarbene Polaroid-Kamera. Außerdem fehlte eine lilafarbene Decke aus dem Haushalt von Jessica und Florian.

Ermittlungen

Der Schwager
Rebeccas Schwager Florian rückte früh in den Fokus der Ermittlungen, da er der Einzige war, der nachweislich am Morgen noch mit Rebecca im Haus war. Auch widersprechen seine Aussagen teilweise den Ermittlungsergebnissen der Polizei. So gab er an, am Morgen geschlafen zu haben, obwohl nachgewiesen werden konnte, dass er im Internet unterwegs war.

Im Rahmen der Ermittlungen wurden auch die Kennzeichen-Erkennungs-Systeme an Autobahnen in der Umgebung ausgewertet. Hierauf ist zu sehen, wie Florian sowohl am Vormittag des 18. Februar als auch am späten Abend des 19. Februar auf der A12 Richtung Frankfurt (Oder) fuhr. Die Autobahn führt weiter nach Polen. Zum Grund seiner Fahrten machte er keine Angaben. Für Spekulationen sorgte Rebeccas Vater Bernd Reusch, als er in einem Interview zu diesen Aufsehen erregenden Fahrten seines Schwiegersohns Stellung nahm. "Die ganze Nummer hängt mit einer anderen Sache zusammen, die ich aber nicht sagen darf", gab er gegenüber RTL an. In den Medien wurde daraufhin vielfach spekuliert, ob die Fahrten nach Polen mit Drogengeschäften in Verbindung zu bringen seien. Auch Aussagen von Florians Schwester in einem Interview deuteten darauf hin, Belege dafür gibt es jedoch keine.

Florian wurde im Februar und März 2019 zweimal festgenommen, jedoch beide Male nach kurzer Zeit aus Mangel an Beweisen wieder freigelassen.

Ein Zeuge gab an, am 18. Februar einen himbeerroten Renault Twingo, wie ihn Florian und Jessica besaßen, in einem Waldstück nahe Kummersdorf an der A12 gesehen zu haben. Die Aussage von Reiterinnen, die dort gegen Mittag einen auffälligen Mann gesehen hatten, stützte diese Angabe. Das Waldstück wurde daraufhin durchsucht, es konnten jedoch keine relevanten Spuren gefunden werden. Weitere Wälder und Seen im Umkreis der A12 wurden im März und April 2019 intensiv durchsucht, doch auch hier konnten keine weiteren Hinweise auf Rebeccas Verbleib gefunden werden.

Die Ermittler gehen fest davon aus, dass Rebecca das Haus ihrer Schwester nicht mehr lebend verlassen hat. Ihr Schwager Florian gilt als Hauptverdächtiger, genügend Beweise für seine Schuld gibt es jedoch nicht.

Internetbekanntschaft
Ein weiterer Verdacht fiel auf eine Internetbekanntschaft mit dem Namen Max, einem Jungen in Rebeccas Alter. Es wurde vermutet, dass Rebecca sich am 18. Februar heimlich mit ihm getroffen haben könnte. Der Verdacht gegen ihn erhärtete sich kurzzeitig, da er kurz nach Bekanntwerden des Falles seine Social-Media-Profile löschte. Die Polizei ging der Spur nach, konnte Max jedoch schlussendlich als Verdächtigen ausschließen.

Weitere Hinweise
Eine Nachbarin von Jessica sagte aus, Rebecca sei ihr am späten Vormittag des 18. Februar 2019 auf der Straße entgegengekommen. Sie habe sich gewundert, da das Mädchen eine Decke dabei gehabt habe, obwohl es am Tag zuvor geregnet habe und der Boden noch feucht und daher nicht für ein Picknick oder ähnliches geeignet gewesen wäre. Bei ihrer Begegnung hätte Rebecca ein grimmiges Gesicht gemacht. Die Wetteraufzeichnungen vom 17. Februar widersprechen dieser Aussage, da es an diesem Tag völlig trocken gewesen sei, so ein Meteorologe der Berliner Wetterkarte e.V.

Zeuginnen gaben an, Rebecca noch im Laufe des 18. Februar 2019 an einer Bushaltestelle in der Nähe sowie in einem Bus der Linie 171 gesehen zu haben. Nach Auswertung der Überwachungskameras konnten diese Aussagen jedoch nicht bestätigt werden.

Ein Zeuge berichtete außerdem, Rebecca Reusch am 4. April 2019 in Krakau gesehen zu haben.

Mediale Aufmerksamkeit
Der Fall stieß in Deutschland auf ein großes Medienecho und löste eine Vielzahl an Spekulationen aus.

Am 6. März 2019 wurde der Fall in der Sendung Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst vorgestellt. Dort wurden auch Fotos von Rebeccas Schwager Florian gezeigt.

Die Journalistinnen Miriam Arndts und Lena Niethammer veröffentlichten von Ende 2020 bis Anfang 2021 einen mehrteiligen Podcast mit dem Namen Im Dunkeln – Der Fall Rebecca Reusch, in dem sie weitere Zeugen zu Wort kommen ließen und verschiedenen Spuren noch einmal investigativ nachgingen.

Am 2. Dezember 2021 lief auf dem Sender RTL eine zweistündige Dokumentation RTL Extra Spezial über den Fall Rebecca Reusch.

Kritik an den Ermittlungen

 Das in den ersten Tagen nach dem Verschwinden von den Behörden veröffentlichte Fahndungsfoto von Rebecca wurde vielfach kritisiert, da das Mädchen aufgrund verwendeter Filter auf dem Bild nur schlecht zu erkennen sei. Auch Rebeccas Mutter erklärte in einem Interview, dass dieses Foto ihrer Tochter wenig ähnlich sähe, sie zu Beginn der Fahndung jedoch kein aktuelles Foto von Rebecca zur Hand gehabt hätte, woraufhin die Polizei ein Foto von Rebeccas Instagram-Account verwendete.

 Im Gegensatz zur Polizei stand Rebeccas Familie von Anfang an hinter Rebeccas Schwager. Sie äußerten mehrfach, dass sie von seiner Unschuld überzeugt seien und kritisierten, dass die Ermittler die Möglichkeit, dass Rebecca noch leben könnte, völlig außer Acht ließen. Auch einige Zeugen werfen der Polizei vor, ihren Hinweisen nicht genug nachzugehen und sich zu sehr auf die Theorie zu stützen, dass Rebecca das Haus niemals verlassen habe.
 Florians Anwältin kritisierte die Veröffentlichung von Fotos ihres Mandanten und seine "Vorverurteilung", die "im drastischen Widerspruch zur Unschuldsvermutung und dem damit verbundenen Grundsatz eines fairen Verfahrens" stünden, während er bereits in Untersuchungshaft saß.

Einzelnachweise

Ereignis 2019


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Kenmerken
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Voorkomen
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Helotiaceae
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Charlotte looks to make steady improvement
The second year under Ron Sanchez should be a step forward
November 6, 2019 Shawn Krest Article, College Basketball, Sports
Charlotte coach Ron Sanchez, in his second season with the 49ers, will expect more from reserve guard Brandon Younger this season. (Marco Garcia / AP Photo)
Charlotte's second-year coach, Ron Sanchez, honed his craft for decades as an assistant to Tony Bennett. So it's only natural that the 49ers' improvement would be slow and methodical.
Sanchez took over a team that had finished the previous season 6-23 and 2-16 in Conference USA. On paper, the team didn't take a major step forward, going 8-21 last season. Charlotte improved to five conference wins, but the 49ers still finished second to last and weren't allowed to participate in the CUSA postseason tournament.
Still, there were signs of progress that didn't necessarily translate to wins and losses.
Charlotte gave up 68.7 points per game last year, which was 11 points lower than its 2017-18 average, as Sanchez began installing the defensive schemes that have made Virginia one of the toughest teams in the nation to face.
The team also returns a solid core this season to help accelerate the progress.
Leading rebounder Milos Supica is one of three starters and six key contributors to return this season. The forward averaged 4.7 rebounds and 7.5 points while hitting 52.5 percent from the field as a sophomore.
Supica is joined by sophomore guard Malik Martin, who averaged 9.4 points and 4.1 boards last year, and Cooper Robb (6.8 points, 3.9 rebounds). Reserves Brandon Younger and Bo Blight are also expected to take on expanded roles this season.
The team will also get a boost from Jordan Shepherd, who sat out all of last season after transferring from Oklahoma. The former Sooners point guard learned the system in practice and should be ready to step in. Shepherd scored 16 points with five assists in an exhibition game against Georgia.
Another addition who never really left is Luka Vasic, who missed all of last season with a knee injury.
Tyler Bertram will make his college debut after redshirting last season. He will give the 49ers an outside threat after setting his high school's record for 3-point shooting. Bertram scored eight against the Bulldogs.
The 49ers also add a pair of grad transfers in Amidou Bamba, a forward from Coastal Carolina, and guard Drew Edwards from Providence.
Sanchez signed a five-man freshman class that includes Brice Williams, son of Charlotte basketball legend Henry.
Guard Jahmir Young also shows promise. He put up 14 points in the Georgia exhibition.
More importantly for the 49ers was the 15-0 run that the team went on against the Bulldogs, showing a flash of just how potent Sanchez's defense can be once the team gets it down pat. Charlotte forced 18 turnovers in the game, scoring 26 points off of them.
"We have a lot of new guys," Sanchez said after the Georgia game, which the Bulldogs pulled out in the second half. "To be under the lights against an opponent of that caliber was great for us. Overall, I think that there are some things we need to improve on. There were things we did well. We'll watch the film. We'll learn. We'll grow."
Slow and steady. Sanchez wouldn't have it any other way.
Amidou Bamba
Bo Blight
Brandon Younger
Brice Williams
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Charlotte basketball
Drew Edwards
Jahmir Young
Jordan Shepherd
Luka Vasic
Malik Martin
Milos Supica
Ron Sanchez
Tyler Bertram
UNC Charlotte basketball
UNCC 49ers
UNCC basketball
NC Central looks to keep eye of the tiger
Dooley builds ECU on the fly with transfers
November 10, 2018 Brett Friedlander Article
Rivalry week Part 1 among the state's ACC school got off to a surprising and dramatic start Thursday night with Wake Forest's late rally to beat NC State in Raleigh. Today, another underdog will try […]
College Basketball Roundup: Charlotte holds on in OT to top Western Kentucky
January 2, 2021 The Associated Press Article, College Basketball, Sports
CHARLOTTE — Jahmir Young scored five of his 24 points in overtime to lead Charlotte to a 75-71 win over Western Kentucky on Saturday. Milos Supica made a pair of free throws with 3:07 remaining […]
49ers can't stop Illini's Brown, drop 24-14 decision on road
October 2, 2021 The Associated Press Article, College Football, Sports
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Chase Brown rushed for 257 yards and two touchdowns and Illinois beat Charlotte 24-14 on Saturday. It stands as the fourth best single-game rushing performance in Illinois history. His 80-yard scoring run […]

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Hour One, "GRINGO's CURVE" is a book about the Mexican Revolution massacre of American Asarco workers on a train in January, 1916. Author Christopher Lance is our studio guest to explain this tragic part of our area history.
Hour two, another author has a new book called "WALKING JUAREZ" about his time there with a camera, as he also reported on news events for various national news companies. He is Bruce Berman, and he took a lot of Juarez pictures of life on the border, and that is the book he now has to explain.


This event has been cancelled. Please visit the adidas XC Challenge website for more information.
The 2018 adidas Cross Country Challenge is set for September 14th-15th at the WakeMed Soccer Park Cross Country Course.
College races will take place on Friday afternoon/early evening, and High School races are scheduled for Saturday morning.
No charge for spectator entry, but there is a $10 charge for parking at the facility.


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Lunt: "We Need To Mix Things Up And Make Better Decisions"
Assistant manager says Rotherham's knowledge on the pitch won them the three points at the weekend.
Kenny Lunt says lessons will be learnt from Saturday's home defeat to table toppers Rotherham United, especially when it comes to playing the conditions better. Paul Warne's experienced Millers used the windy conditions more to their advantage with their leading marksman, Michael Smith, scoring in each half.
Crewe's chances of getting something from a difficult fixture was hardly helped by Scott Robertson's dismal for two bookable offences. Crewe were trailing 1-0 at the time and then duly conceded an avoidable second goal from the resultant free-kick.
Lunt, who was on press duties, with manager David Artell working on more potential transfer targets, said: "The focus has to quickly turn to Gillingham but that doesn't mean we haven't reflected on the performance against Rotherham.
"They played the conditions better than us in both halves and they may have been down to their experience and knowhow. They played the second half better than we did in the first half and that was probably the difference in difficult conditions. It is something we have to learn from.
"I thought defensively we were relatively good against the team that are top of this league. They didn't have too many shots on target and have ended up winning 2-0. We had a couple of half chances but didn't do enough, especially in that second half when we had the wind advantage.
"We have got to get back to keeping clean-sheets and creating and scoring goals again. We haven't done that enough in the last two appearances against Cambridge and Rotherham.
The club's assistant added: "It is about decision making and understanding what is needed at what time in the game. We have spoken to them about it and the need to mix it up a little. We were too long against Cambridge and then too short against Rotherham and we need to mix that up. Rotherham played as far away from their goal as possible on Saturday because of the conditions and we played into their hands with that."


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Saunders: Joe Biden backtracked on the wrong thing
Biden could have shown his moderate cred by sticking with the Hyde Amendment, not siding with racists.
OpinionColumnist
By Debra J. Saunders
Syndicated columnist
Joe Biden backtracked on the wrong old thing.
Earlier this month, the former vice president abandoned his decadeslong support for the Hyde Amendment, a middle-ground measure that bans federal funding for most abortions. It was a reversal that showed Biden could be pushed into a progressive corner that demands choice for women who want abortions and denies it to those who do not want to bankroll a procedure that goes against their deeply held beliefs.
"I do not think it is good public policy, and I wish we never had a Hyde Amendment, but it is the law of the land right now," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last week. No lie. Her own House passed a budget that included the Hyde Amendment without a single Republican vote; because they want the measure to pass the Senate. Thus, Biden's position change puts him to the left of House Democrats.
So now, lest he walk back too many of his longtime planks and turn his entrance into the Democratic primary into a full-blown apology tour, Biden, 76, stuck with his rhetoric at a high-ticket fundraiser Tuesday night in New York. There, he waxed about the good old days in the Senate when the august body got things done.
In that spirit, he praised two racist segregationist senators — the late James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia — because "at least there was some civility" and commitment to get things done.
On the one hand, Democratic presidential hopefuls who pounced on Biden reflect the expectation in the progressive left that every politician enter the arena as pure as a virgin, untainted by the assumptions prevalent in the communities and eras in which they grew up; unless he or she grew up in a commune. In their world view, there is no such thing as people evolving. There are only good people (themselves) and bad people (those who disagree with them).
Hence, they are happy to turn reflecting the values of America in the 1970s and 1980s into a capital offense for public officeholders. That's no way to win at the ballot box.
When Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, suggested Biden should apologize, Biden responded, "Apologize for what?" And: "There's not a racist bone in my body." (He sounded a lot like President Trump saying he's "the least racist person you've ever met.") Biden added: "I've been involved in civil rights my whole career. Period, period, period."
The Washington Post undercut that claim Friday with a story about Biden's alliance with Eastland when Biden was a freshman senator who opposed court-ordered desegregation and busing.
On the issue of busing, I happen to agree with Biden. I saw busing fail the black students who were bused to my white suburban public school district in the 1960s. It was a well-intended but cruelly ineffective policy that put adolescents in buses for hours every day so that they could attend classes for which they were unprepared, through no fault of their own.
I don't think Biden could voice a like viewpoint in this 2020 primary.
That said, then-Sen. Barack Obama surely was aware of Biden's warts, and still he chose the Delaware Democrat to be his running mate. To the casual voter, a Democrat tossing out the racist charge against the vice president to the country's first African American president has to appear completely over-the-top.
Here's another odd element in Biden talking fondly of hardcore Southern Democratic segregationists as great examples of civil legislators. The problem in politics today, Biden said, is, "You look at the other side and you're the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don't talk to each other anymore." If his point is that he can work across the aisle, Biden should have named actual Republicans, not Eastland and Talmadge, who were Democrats.
Instead, Biden spoke as if his brain had airbrushed the D's after the senators' names. Likewise, MSNBC's Kasie Hunt described Biden's favorable remarks about "two former Republican colleagues." She later corrected the record.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand offered she didn't think Biden "should be bragging about working on a bipartisan basis with segregationists." But it wasn't bipartisan. It was one party working with itself; like all of Washington today.
Email Debra J. Saunders at dsaunders@reviewjournal.com. Follow her on Twitter @DebraJSaunders.
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A preventive treatment has finally arrived that could change the life of many migraine sufferers. Around 2 percent of the global population experiences chronic migraine, which puts the condition among the top 10 causes of disability in the world. The new drug, Aimovig, is intended to help sufferers block the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) fragments from infusing the brain.
The new medication comes in the form of an auto-injector device, resembling the insulin pen used by diabetics. The first drug in a new class designed to reduce migraine frequency, it consists of a substance called erenumab-aooe. This blocks the CGRP amino acid peptide or protein, which plays a strong role in pain transmission and can trigger migraines. Aimovig is an antibody similar to those manufactured by our immune systems to attack viruses and intruders.
Patients who experience migraines appear to naturally manufacture too much CGRP, while non-sufferers not only produce less but also have no reaction to the protein. The role CGRP plays in migraines was identified in the 1980s, and since then scientists have been working on ways to reduce its effect on sufferers. Migraine doctors prescribe Aimovig for patients who qualify for the drug by experiencing four migraine days or more per month. The patients inject themselves once each month, which blocks the transmission of signals between the nerves by CGRP and prevents the dilation of blood vessels caused by the protein fragments. Antibodies survive fairly long in the body, which makes it possible to use a monthly dose and enjoy a lasting effect for several weeks.
Few miracle cures exist for any condition, and migraine is no exception. Most participants in the Aimovig trials found they had fewer headaches and the ones they experienced were both less intense and lasted for a shorter period. Before finalizing its approval, the FDA reviewed the results of three patient studies, which showed test subjects typically reduced their monthly migraine days by between one and three per month over a six-month period. In one dramatic recovery, a patient typically experienced migraine on 27 days per month with single attacks sometimes lasting up to five days. She now develops headaches on only one to two days per month with the most severe attack lasting for five hours.
No treatments are completely free of risks and side effects, and while previous generations of CGRP inhibitors have proved toxic to patients' livers, the new drug appears to cause few side effects beyond those experienced by test subjects taking placebos. Mild reactions include pain and redness at the site of the injection, and some nasal congestion in the days following the shot.
Risks are yet largely unknown because the drug has not been tested in patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding, and neither have scientists been able to determine the effects of long-term usage. Concerns include the potential to cause high blood pressure as well as a possible lasting effect on other areas impacted by CGRP, such as the kidneys, pancreas, bones, and adrenal glands.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Aimovig on condition that the manufacturers conduct post-marketing surveillance on an ongoing basis, to watch for liver toxicity, heart attack, and stroke. As with other migraine treatments, Aimovig works better for some patients than for others. One of the primary benefits, however, is that it's created specifically as a preventive migraine drug, while most other drugs available are generated by repurposing existing drugs.
Aimovig isn't inexpensive, but surprisingly at around $600 per month, it isn't a much higher cost than other migraine drugs presently. The manufacturers offer a two-month free trial period for new patients, after which they can move onto a $5 co-pay program. Most insurance companies cover the drug for patients who experience at least four migraines a month.
This new drug might not be the answer to every migraine patient's condition, but it certainly appears to have promise for many. It's certainly worth a try, and if your insurance company is prepared to cover a portion of the cost it's an affordable option when combined with the co-pay program. Speak with your migraine doctor to find out if it's worth trying Aimovig in your situation.


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HH Princess Maria Amor Torres DD
By Team Abraxas
Abraxas Lifestyle sat down with Princess Maria when she was in the capital recently.
Tell us about the Global Officials of Dignity Awards.
The awards will be held from 5th to the 7th of August at the United Nations. Simply called the G.O.D awards, it's a humanitarian award where we honour royalties, dignitaries and diplomats on their humanitarian contributions and we tag it as a search for the greatest humanitarians of the world. It's an annual event at the U.N. and it's also incorporated with my TV show called "The Travelling Princess" which is a travel and humanitarian show. So in conjunction with the event, the aim of "The Travelling Princess", who is me, is to search for the greatest humanitarians of the world. I come to visit the country, meet possible honourees, and I collaborate with them and their humanitarian works and we feature their lifestyle, their humanitarian works and then we decide later on together with the committee of the G.O.D awards to honour them at the U.N.
When did you start this charity work?
My involvement with philanthropy started when I was in the Philippines. I now live in the United States. So at an early age I was already doing civic community services. But I only put up my own organisation in the Philippines in 2003. It's called Katawang Pinoy meaning Filipino body. It was more inclined towards health and fitness doing the promotion of the interests of the health enthusiast. Then I moved to the United States where I continued my advocacy in health and fitness.
Why did you shift from the Philippines to the United States?
It's a long story, but to make it short, it was because of love. I followed my love over there (laughs). He's an American. The relationship didn't flourish but I did. I stayed put and continued with my dreams. I always wanted to explore different countries and thrive on what I know and what I believe in. In this case I wanted to make an impact on women, on empowering them. So I started my own fitness company called Exotifit. It's a dance format for women and men, but it's mostly for women. I created groups of dancers, and soon after I was producing beauty pageants and I had beauty pageants for women over the age of 40 to empower them. It was very successful; we had our groups performing for free in order to raise funds for the needy. So they were all over Hollywood and in the limelight, so they're empowered. And then we decided to make the cause a bolder one. Not only focussing on health and wellness, but also on education, human rights, world peace, green environment, eradication of poverty and of course empowerment. So since 2011, our organisation called We Care For Humanity was established in Los Angeles.
You are the founder?
Yes, I am the founder and the President of We Care for Humanity. Since 2011 we have established different chapters all over the world. We have chapters in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nigeria, The Philippines, Morocco, and of course one in India. I hope to establish in European countries too and more in Africa – that's one of the reasons why I travel; to meet the right people in each country who have the passion for helping humanity.
Who gave you the title "The Travelling Princess"?
"The Travelling Princess" is given to me by the spirits of Lumad in Quezon Province, Philippines via the Tribal Government of the Philippines. They baptised me as "Bae Insalilay" (The Travelling Princess) in a ritual done by their spiritual leader. I didn't realise at that time that the name they gave me would be my life and destiny.
Do you think having a royal background is helping you in accomplishing your goal of charity?
Absolutely, having a title or even a dignitary background would help a lot in accomplishing your humanitarian missions. Most of our goodwill ambassadors are the ones who are in the limelight most of the time, or who have the influence and the power to make things easier. So yes of course it does.
Did you face any challenges?
The challenge for me is when people always stereotype all royals as rich and famous. They think at the snap of our fingers we get everything in a flash like what they see in movies. We're just normal human beings and we also have all sorts of problems. The royal title for me just helps me reach my goals but it doesn't define me as a human being.
Other than charity work, what are your other interests?
I'm also an entrepreneur. I supply oven liners in the U.S. shops. Oven liners are what you put at the bottom of your oven so that you don't have to scrub your oven again.
I am also into fashion. I studied Fashion Design and merchandising in Los Angeles and now it's high time for me to start a fashion line. I plan to start with Kaftans and Jackets. One of the reasons I came to Mumbai recently was to meet a clothing manufacturer to do "The Travelling Princess" fashion line. Of course, there will be jewellery and fashion accessories too.
What is your priority?
My priority is charity. The good thing about charity is that I get to meet a lot of people from different walks of life. Most of them are in the business arena, which is my secondary priority so I can accumulate the funds I need to help more people. I plan for all my private business to generate income to set aside a portion for charity.
Do you have any favourite Indian designers?
In the U.S I am friends with Rohini Bedi and I've worn her pieces. Rohini is into Indian designs and I've always been fascinated with saris and lehengas. I love those.
Have you ever worn them?
Oh many times! When I was here last December on an official visit I was honoured by the governor of West Bengal and won an award. I wore a sari and many times I have attended functions wearing saris. I would love to meet Indian designers. For our event at the U.N, I'm looking for an Indian designer and would love to showcase their line.
What is royalty according to you?
Royalty is not a status of one's living. It's a status of leadership, one's having humanitarian attributes and the history one creates. Royalty is a combination of humanitarian, dignitary and diplomatic attributes infused with elegance and finesse being passed on to your descendants.
Royalties are history makers whose legacies live on through their off springs who carry their bloodline.
Though anybody can be a history maker, not everybody can
be royalty.
Since you are from a royal family, do you think you are constantly under scrutiny?
Yes. That's one of the things you have to deal with, for being a royalty. Aside from the responsibilities, it is the scrutiny.
What about privacy?
Well I don't think I'm as royal as Queen Elizabeth or as famous as Angelina Jolie (laughs), so I still have privacy. Although sometimes I feel like my life is in public anyway since we have many followers and supporters around the world who are always in contact with me. The social media certainly brings this public life more alive.
Do you get criticism as well?
Oh yes. They check my background and if you're already helping other people, they still scrutinise, and say something about you. Of course I know that not everyone will like you; you cannot please everybody. And that's fine.
Doesn't it hurt you at times?
It hurts my ego yes, but that doesn't break my spirit. Criticisms only make me stronger and give me a mirror to reflect, and to do better the next time. I always treat them positively. They can criticise me all they want but my mission in life is more important than what they think of me, for at the end of the day it is what I do for others that counts.
Do you have any dreams?
Oh yeah, I dream of a better world. Not for me, but for everyone else. If you meant dream for myself, then there's nothing material that I would dream for myself at this point. I won't dream of being richer or more beautiful, absolutely not (laughs), I'm happy and grateful for what I have now.
I just dream that my organisation, We Care For Humanity will be even bigger and doing even better humanitarian works, and helping a lot of people. I dream for the G.O.D Awards to be really honouring great people around the world who help other people. I dream for my businesses to take off successfully so that I can continue to help other people. Nothing really for me, I wish to lose weight though (laughs).
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Any good-quality (free!) Welsh TTS out there?
I'm looking for a Welsh TTS for a project I'm working on. It needs to be of certain quality, and it needs to be free!
www.ivona.com has nice Welsh TTS. But the website changed recently. I don't know how you can get it now. Not sure if it is still free.
As far as I remember, it was free.
http://soundoftext.com/ I've used that for a Memrise course. I haven't tested Welsh but it's there. For some languages it's ok and for others it's horrible.
It sounds very robotic compared to the Ivona voices.
Info on the website says that it is an Amazon subsidiary company. Perhaps this is a recent change?
Not sure. I was aware of that but I don't know since how long it has been there.
Ivona is not free. You can buy a personal licence for $45 per language or select from a group of different options. Commercial licenses are likely to be much more expensive. Licesnses are sold by a small group of Ivona partners.
There is a youtube video explaining how to obtain all Ivona TTS languages for free but that is likely to by piracy so I will not give details.
You did used to be able to download the two Welsh voices for free, though (think I still have them on my computer). Not sure whether that's still the case - it may have been when the voices were in beta.
It used to be free to use the www.ivona.com homepage to speak up to a paragraph of text - certainly enough for any Duo phrases.
By delving around the new Ivona site you can end up at an Amazon AWS page where you can sign up for an AWS account and use the 'Amazon Polly' TTS service (presumably incorporating Ivona's technology) for up to a year for free with some large limit on how many characters you can enter per month. I didn't get any further because they wanted some payment credentials even to use the free service.
Perhaps someone knows of a way to use the free Polly service for the free year without giving them your credit card number etc...?
www.lumenvox.com/products/tts/ has two Welsh voices (the female of which sounds very similar, if not identical, to Ivona's) and the capacity to try them out with custom text.
It sounds identical to Ivona, and has at least one identical fault - if you type in y sêr, the female voice has the same fault of saying sêr with what sounds like lleuad overlying it. As with Ivona, the male voice says y sêr correctly.
It seems to need Adobe Flash, which Ivona doesn't, so didn't work on an iPhone and I had to turn to Windows to try it out. It didn't work on a Mac which didn't have Flash installed.
I need one which downloads the TTS as an MP3 file.
You could get in contact with the Canolfan Bedwyr at Bangor University and discuss your project with them. They work with Welsh language technology for a wide range of applications and may be able to advise.
They do have a TTS demo on their web-site. From the information on the site, this may be based on the 'Festival' TTS software, which seems to be easily available.
otsogutxi, I noticed that you are level 25 in German, but you haven't started Welsh.
They said that they are using it for a project. Whether it's for learning the language or not, was not specified.
Are there any Welsh people here?


Having insurance is critical, especially if you are involved in a car accident in California.
Any driver operating a vehicle on the California road is obligated to have car insurance. California Insurance code section 11580.1(b) requires that driver must carry liability insurance.
A lot of the time you will see or hear this type of coverage described as "liability only" and/or as 15/30 coverage and/or 15,000/30,000 coverage. Again, these policy limits are a required minimum, the least you must insured.
Let us put this in perspective and a real life situation. Person A driving down the street, and because he is not paying attention, Person A rear ends Person B. Person B sustains an injury and has be ambulanced to a local hospital and be treated there for her injuries. If Person A carries liability insurance as the law requires, Person B can recover up to $15,000 for his injuries. Person B can also recover up to $5,000 for her damaged car.
If Person B had a passenger in her car that also sustained injuries or died, that person can also recover up to $15,000 for medical expenses, for a maximum of $30,000. Now if there are three people in Person B's vehicle, because liability carries only a $30,000 max it would have be split between Person B and two of his passengers. The split does not have to be in equal parts, but rather the split depends on the extent of the injury of each person and their medical bills. If Person B suffered merely superficial injuries, but her passengers suffered catastrophic injuries, those passengers will receive the bigger part of the $30,000 settlement.
Again, these policy limits are a required minimum, the least you must insured. If you have a signification number of personal assets and properties you can chose to carry a higher policy limit to protect you from personal liability.
Failure to carry insurance does not release you from liability, from being financially responsible for the damage that you cause to the person's vehicle as well as their health.
If you were injured in an auto accident due to the negligence of another, regardless of the nature of the underlying accident, it is important to contact an experienced auto accident lawyer in Sacramento to discuss your legal options. The Weinberger Law Firm has the resources and expertise to aggressively litigate your case in court, fighting to get you just compensation for your injury. Call (916) 357-6789 today for a free consultation regarding your personal injury case.


What are you researching for your PhD and what motivates you to study this area?
My research is looking at how working practices, particularly the rise and use of flexible initiatives, might influence the demand for commuting in the future. The project aims to intervene in the commute using a policy focus, to assess what participants feel might be required to ultimately discourage private car use. Using social practice theory allows the study to break down the commute, working practices and household responsibilities into their individual elements and dimensions to investigate key contributors to commute demand and examine which might be important in the future.
Commuting fascinates me and intervening in it to reduce private car use interests me. Commuting is associated with a multitude of problems and issues and so reducing the demand, or increasing sustainable mode use may alleviate or solve some of these problems. My undergraduate dissertation first prompted me to think about this through the analysis of a travel plan at a multi-national company, and the scale of private car use surprised me; given that the organisation was located on a newly constructed business park with excellent public transport accessibility. The dissertation, therefore, sparked my interest in how to reduce private car use and how one could intervene in the commute further.
Why did you decide to study at ITS?
Principally, it was to work with Professor Greg Marsden at a world-renowned research institute. I was keen to continue my research from undergraduate level and was offered the chance to do a Masters at the University of Salford under my then supervisor. However, I decided to contact Greg and explore the possibility of joining a PhD straight away. It was, therefore, the pull of working with a leading researcher in a leading research institute and environment that attracted me to study at ITS.
What did you do before you were a PhD student?
I did a BA in Geography at the University of Salford.
Quite simply: challenging, rewarding and fun. It was quite relaxed in the first couple of weeks as you begin to find your feet, but that honeymoon period (so-to-speak) soon drifts away and proper work starts. The amount of work and intensity are two things not to be underestimated and can be quite surprising at times. Having said that, there would be no point in doing a PhD if you weren't challenged, so it is best to just enjoy it!
Officially, I believe that you and your supervisors are expected to meet on at least 10 occasions a year. I have had no trouble at all when it comes to seeing my supervisors (even with one of them being the director of the Institute), thus support is never far. I would say the majority of staff run an open-door policy in which you can just knock on to see if they are in and they are more than welcome to chat, which is excellent. Most PhD students also advocate this – if ever you want to chat to a PhD student!
There is excellent support when it comes to facilities, libraries and training. Every PhD student currently is assigned a workspace and computer and the access to resources from the library is vast. The training opportunities are incredible, with courses available on practically everything you might encounter or use during your research – definitely one of the most important aspects of the support you can receive.
The PhD cohort within ITS is usually quite lively and tries to organise various social events that aim for everyone to get to know one another. The PhD students also run their own writing group, and soon to be a reading group, which offers advice and aims at improving the writing skills of all that attend.
How are you financing your studies?
My fees are being paid by ITS through the AD May Scholarship. I am therefore finding my own maintenance.
What do you aim to do once you've completed your PhD?
Continue with research into a Post-Doc and then move into lecturing and becoming an academic.
Do you have any advice for prospective PhD students?
It may be clichéd, but you get out what you put in. I am one of 4 PhD representatives and our role is principally an intermediary between the PhD cohort and staff within the department, faculty and school to pass on any suggestions, thoughts, feelings or any else that arises from students' studies.
These roles have helped me become more immersed in the experience of being a PhD student and I would suggest, especially in your first year, to get involved in anything and everything is organised by the department and fellow students to become a more integrated part of the department.
Furthermore, I would suggest applying for demonstrating and fieldwork positions. These positions offer unprecedented experience, and in particular reference to the fieldwork, offer great opportunities for teamwork, responsibility and creativity.


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The thought of having parasitic worms residing in your gut alone is enough to make you squirm and come scampering for a treatment to drive them out. Well, there's something more terrifying than that: having worms in your brain that no known drug can remove. As if that's not scary enough, you may find yourself facing such sickening dilemma simply by eating something that you may already be consuming on a regular basis.
So what is this food that may cause worms to invade your brain and reside in it? It's pork.
Although the worms being talked about are tapeworms that tend to live in the bowels of infected people, they are like no other tapeworms scientists have known all along. That's because rather than simply nesting in the gut throughout their lives, these worms under the spotlight can invade various other parts of your body — the brain included!
It was back in 2013 when UK doctors first discovered these unique breeds of tapeworms. The strange capacity of these parasites to nest in the brain was observed in an infected man. That's not all: the worm they discovered, in fact, had even moved from one side of the brain to the other.
The man, as it turned out, had just returned from a trip to China that time. In the said country, a parasite that's really common is known as Spirometra erinaceieuropaei. Prior to the discovery of the tapeworm in his brain, the man had complained of headaches and various other symptoms 4 years earlier. After the treatment, he returned to the medical facility (Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge) complaining of a host of additional symptoms. It turned out that the then concealed worm in his brain had began to disturb other areas of the organ, causing weakness in the legs and even seizures.
Through additional diagnostic tests, doctors in Addenbrookes Hospital found out that the man was suffering from Sparganosis — a parasitic infection caused by a tapeworm belonging to the Spirometra class. It was believed that the man accidentally consumed contaminated water while he was in China.
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The worm was removed immediately from the brain through surgical means. Needless to say, the doctors were baffled. If there's one thing they're sure of, that's the kind of worm removed from the man's brain had a very complex life cycle.
Going back to pork, experts say that the tapeworm you should be very scared of is the kind found in pork. That's because it's the only one of its kind that's known to have the capacity to potentially invade the brain. So how do you get infected by pork tapeworm? By consuming pork that is undercooked. This results in what's known as taeniasis — a parasitic disease wherein there's tapeworm residing in the gut of the infected individual.
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Getting infected by pork tapeworm may also happen if you come into contact with the feces of an infected pig or even human. Infection with pork tapeworm is known to cause epilepsy.
Pork tapeworm infection can actually be treated by antihelmintics — drugs formulated to destroy parasitic worms. There are various antihelmintics, and the one that's best for the infection is the kind that targets the pork tapeworm itself. But just like in the case of the man talked about earlier, tapeworm that had invaded the brain cannot be destroyed by any antihelmintic drug on the planet, but only by having it surgically taken out of the brain.
Experts warn that international travel and importing and exporting of food considerably increase anyone's risk of suffering from an infection. In the future as these potential causative factors further boom, the experts add, it is possible for someone to suffer from it even by staying put.
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The purpose of signal extrapolation is to estimate unknown signal parts from known samples. This task is especially important for error concealment in image and video communication. For obtaining a high quality reconstruction, assumptions have to be made about the underlying signal in order to solve this underdetermined problem. Among existent reconstruction algorithms, frequency selective extrapolation (FSE) achieves high performance by assuming that image signals can be sparsely represented in the frequency domain. However, FSE does not take into account the low-pass behaviour of natural images. In this paper, we propose a modified FSE that takes this prior knowledge into account for the modelling, yielding significant PSNR gains. © 2014 IEEE.
Koloda, J., Seiler, J., Kaup, A., Sanchez, V., & Peinado, A. (2014). Frequency selective extrapolation with residual filtering for image error concealment. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014 (pp. 1995-1999). Florence, IT: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
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I made a shot, stopped with a key, then used it again and got a full attack without reloading the used gun. Moreover, I need to reload only one gun for further full attacks.
I don't know if it is intended, but Powder Burns procs with successful Swift Flurry. I would not say it is game-breaking, just want to be sure it is as designed and I am not exploiting a glitch.
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Fremont, CA, October 10, 2011 –The MSF (MultiService Forum) announced today the successful completion of the first ever MSF VoLTE (Voice over Long Term Evolution) Interoperability Event, backed by the GSMA. The event was conducted in two host sites in Dusseldorf, Germany and Beijing, China.
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Dimiti also wrote a suicide note in French.
If Valentina is dead, which we cannot presume, it is almost certainly from diving.
Christina's Facebook account described the dangerous mixtures of drinks and alcohol she was taking.
Luke believed in yolo- you only live once. Pictures on his facebook showed him living life to the full and dangerously.
You claimed that there is not a grain of evidence to suggest murder in any of these cases.
Having your hands tied behind your back when hanged is a grain of evidence to suggest murder, a note can be forced.
Going missing is not evidence of murder, I accept that, but it is unusual that she hasn't turned up.
Having a head wound and bruises all over your body before drowning in a pool is a grain of evidence to suggest murder, living life to the fullest does nothing to negate that.
Christina may have posted on facebook that she had taken Tramadol, but there actually is a grain of evidence to suggest murder that you choose to miss out, and that is that she was with someone the night before she was found dead, and that person didn't leave until the morning, the resort had the CCTV, that is how they know that he stayed the night, but then they lost the footage.
Its odd that you choose to gloss over these cases by missing out crucial parts such as the hands being tied, the lost tapes, and the head wound, and instead keep reinforcing your belief that there isn't a grain of evidence, in any Western country there would have been proper investigations, there would have been autopsies, the footage wouldn't have mysteriously gone missing, but here where there things happen you use that to bolster your claim that there was never any evidence.
Did the authorities suggest it could be a snake bite before or after seeing the photo ?
I am not the one claiming 'a bloody roll call of victims' as The Sun is.
Unfortunately suicide by hanging with the hands loosely tied behind the back is not that uncommon. Enclosed a link from Turkey-sad and gruesome stuff.
I think it is almost certain Valentina Novozhyonova died drowning. Her mother mentioned her love of freediving. Unfortunately coming from central Russia she had only dived in a swimming pool before going to Koh Tao.
In the last days of her life Christina complained how unwell she was feeling. She was drinking alcohol, quite a lot if I remember her facebook posts right, and mixing pills.
Did Luke Miller dive into the pool from a nearby ledge drunk? There were no witnesses so it is impossible to say.
Parents never want to believe their own child died due to his or her own recklessness. It's perhaps too much to bear.
Other potential scenarios do not translate to their being no single grain of evidence to suggest murder, in most countries they would have been investigated and there would have been autopsies, you are happy with facebook posts, which says something about you not the cases.
All these deaths were gone over in great detail and argued through at the time.
No they weren't, you made that up.
They made claims about what substance killed one of them without doing a toxicology report, scrolling though someones facebook feed is not going over the case in great detail.
They surmised that another had drowned and put it down to misadventure whilst ignoring that he had bruises all over his body and a head wound, immediately reaching the easiest to solve conclusion is not going over the case in great detail.
Another had the CCTV looked at, a man seen entering in the night and leaving in the morning, and then the CCTV footage was lost and no explanation was offered and that was just accepted. Ignoring the clear tampering of evidence is not going over the case in great detail.
I was there in 1995 and 2000 it was fantastic but now I went back in 2010 and wow its dangerous. Such a shame lovely island ruined by greed.
I meant they were gone over in great detail at the time on Thai Visa at the time.
A man entering the room and leaving in the morning. He could have been a causal lover, a traveller, a Thai or a Burmese worker .Perhaps she had died in the night and he didn't want to get involved.
Were there any injuries to the body? No Was she feeling unwell? Yes. Was she mixing alcohol and drugs? Yes.
Yes, I already made clear that other possible scenarios do not equate to their being not a grain of evidence to suggest murder, the missing tape is the point, not that fact that there was a man in her room, the fact that the CCTV tape with the evidence of the man being in her room mysteriously vanished and the investigation team accepted that and closed the case.
The Mirror is carrying the story now.
It is indeed alarming when shadowy figures behind the riddle of 'Death Island' are exposed.
And if you read the Samui Times coverage, what is at play here is a rift between the family in Germany and the estranged legal Thai wife, who is also in Germany, and is in control of the legal situation in Thailand.
Reading the comments below that article, Adam Murphy, a close friend of the owner of Samui Times, comes across as almost deranged.


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'Ask Midland' helps to return lost, stolen bikes
Facebook group saves the day!
Ashley Schafer, Ashley.Schafer@hearstnp.com
Published 5:00 am EDT, Friday, August 2, 2019
A Midland resident's post about her daughter's stolen bike has a happy ending.
Looking for a lost or stolen bike? Need a ride across town? Just Ask Midland!
With more than 16,000 members in the public Facebook group, "Ask Midland" has become an online hub for sharing thoughts, recommendations and experiences related to all things Midland.
Most recently, there have been an abundance of posts made about lost or stolen bicycles in the area.
"I hope the person that took my son's bike this past weekend needed it a lot more than my 9-year-old did," stated one post.
The woman explained what the bike looked like and reported it had been taken near the Loons Baseball Stadium. The post was shared more than a dozen times.
Unfortunately, this woman is not the only one to post about a stolen bike on the page. However, every now and then, these unfortunate situations turn into acts of kindness, and the compassion within the Midland community is made evident.
One resident, Kristina Munro posted just last week how her daughter's brand-new bike had been taken from the side of her house. The post described the bike, included a picture, and explained that her daughter had saved up her own money to purchase the bike.
The post received more than 110 comments, more than 430 shares and 260 reactions/likes.
Munro then updated the post, which read: "We had a very amazing and kind, local business lady drop my daughter off a brand new bike this afternoon, I can't express how truly blown away and grateful I am for everyone's generosity. Just one more reason I do truly love living in Midland."
Another woman, Rachel Studebaker had a similar experience recently. She posted about her son's bike that was stolen from their garage, urging anyone who saw the bike to let her know.
"I know this is a long shot, but my son is devastated and obviously we are a little upset/concerned," she said in the post.
Studebaker told the Midland Daily News that she had joined "Ask Midland" just to ask about the bike, after the Facebook group was recommended to her.
"I truly did not expect anything to come of it, but I'm like if I don't do anything, I'll feel bad that I didn't do anything," she said.
So, when she received several messages from strangers a few days later alerting her that her son's bike had been spotted on the side of the road, Studebaker said she was ecstatic. They went to pick up the bike, and sure enough, it was her son's.
She said she couldn't believe that so many people remembered her post and took the time to reach out to her. In addition, Studebaker said she had strangers offer to replace the bike or help pay for a new one.
"I'm so proud to live in this community when all these people are actually willing to help others," she said.
She added, "Through this amazing group of people, my tragedy turned into gratefulness."