Those who know about Warhammer 40,000 are very familiar with the concept of the "grim, dark future." For those who are unfamiliar, "40K" is a fictional world derived from table top miniature game. For those who think only Cheetos fingered, basement dwellers concern themselves with such a hobby: I can give you one good example of a person who does not fit your stereotype. Karl Richardson.
Back in all but forgotten year of 2003, a young greeting card artist on the "mean streets of Leicester" by the name of Karl Richardson was given an opportunity that many who wield a pencil for work would envy: sketch a series of comics which will be written by the illustrious author Dan Abnett.
Dan Abnett's biography staggers the mind. He has worked on Doctor Who, Thundercats, The Real Ghostbusters, Star Trek, Guardians of the Galaxy, Judge Dredd, Aquaman, Batman, Superman, Batman/Superman, ad infinitum. Some of his most regarded and bestselling works come out of Black Library; the publishing arm of miniature gaming behemoth Games Workshop.
Full disclosure: Games Workshop is my employer.
Lone Wolves, starts like so many of Abnett's works, with the protagonist already in the midst of tragedy. A stranded group of Imperial Guardsmen are left on a frozen world which has been lost to "The Great Devourer: the Tyranids. With no hope of evacuation and supplies running low, starvation is as much a foe as the xenos and the elements. What might a man do to his fellow man if he is hungry enough? Salvation from this frozen hell rest solely in the hands of the Son's of Russ, the Space Wolves.
Abnett uses the data log of Sergeant Poul Marlin as the story's narrator. The data log not only outlines the progression of time but also gives context to the dialog that follows each entry. This story telling convention, which at times can be a bit contrived, works well enough and drives home the fact that the person making these journal entries might not have survived the events that are being detailed.
Abnett has a reputation for killing off his protagonists at an almost equal rate as his antagonists. This gives Richardson plenty of opportunity to illustrate carnage from the individual scale up to the planetary scale. Richardson adeptly displays the cartoonish hyper-realism that Warhammer 40,000 often conveys. Using nothing but pencil and his knack for drawing stubble, Richardson somehow manages to make the spilling of entrails just as poignant as they would be if done full color using real blood. If an image can convey "tone," than Richardson art plays like Mozart. Lavish, yet simple. Bold, yet detailed. Gritty, yet exuberant.
But this wouldn't be a review if I didn't tell you, dear reader, whether or not you should buy this masterful work. If your new to the "40k" universe, this graphic novel gives you an insight and what lay ahead for you. If you are veteran of "The Long War," than it is a tome you must own. However, if you are strapped for cash, the $32.50 price tag may be a bit steep for what is essentially a reprinting of seven, twelve year old comics. If you have the money, and are desire to see space bugs eviscerated by space Vikings, than you can purchase Lone Wolves at The Black Library.


Cheeky Chompers was founded by Amy and Julie – two 'mumtrepreneurs' who started Cheeky Chompers while they were on maternity leave with thier first children.
The Neckerchew was born after lots of catch-ups with friends – where we witnessed countless dropped, dirty and lost teethers. Not to mention a gaggle of dribbling babies!
Sometimes the simplest ideas really are the best: if the teether won't stay put, why not attach it to the baby?
Over nine months of long nights Amy & Julie put that little thought into action. They designed their bibs, sourced the best fabrics and materials, tested everything for safety and quality – and even found a brilliant manufacturer!
After all that, Neckerchew finally hit the shelves in 2013. We hope your baby loves them as much as our babies do!


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Helen Holmes (9 de junho de 1893 – 8 de julho de 1950) foi uma atriz de cinema estadunidense da época do cinema mudo. Helen Holmes também atuou no teatro, e participou da direção, produção e roteiro de vários de seus filmes.

Biografia
Apesar de não haver nenhum registro oficial conhecido sobre sua naturalidade, Helen Holmes declarou em uma entrevista que nasceu em South Bend, Indiana, mas cresceu em Chicago, Illinois. Ela começou trabalhando como modelo fotográfico, e depois começou a atuar, estreando no teatro da Broadway em 1909. Nessa época, fez amizade com a estrela de cinema Mabel Normand. Helena se mudou para a Califórnia (pelo rio Colorado) aos dezessete anos de idade, para cuidar de seu irmão, que se encontrava com tuberculose.

Enquanto isso, sua amiga Mabel Normand, que se mudara para Hollywood em 1912 para trabalhar no Keystone Studios, de Mack Sennett, incentivou Holmes, após a morte do irmão, para tentar a indústria cinematográfica na Costa Oeste dos Estados Unidos.

Carreira

Holmes iniciou sua carreira no cinema em 1912, com a Keystone, em parte arranjada pela amiga Mabel Normand. Fez apenas algumas aparições em filmes da Keystone e, apesar de atraente, a sua falta de beleza fascinante a relegou a papéis secundários até o final de 1913, quando assinou com a Kalem Company, um novo estúdio de Hollywood.

O primeiro filme de Helen Holmes na Kalem foi dirigido por J. P. McGowan com quem iria desenvolver um relacionamento e se casar. Em seus dois primeiros anos na Kalem Studios, Holmes apareceu em mais de trinta filmes curtos, durante os quais sua capacidade atlética para fazer acrobacias fisicamente exigentes lhe deu a grande oportunidade.

Numa época em que o movimento pelo voto feminino foi muito noticiado, o concorrente da Kalem Studios, a Pathé, realizou um seriado de aventuras em março de 1914, intitulada The Perils of Pauline. Estrelando Pearl White como uma heroína corajosa e ousada, a série se tornou um sucesso de bilheteria para a Pathé.

Como resultado, a Kalem Studios aproveitou o efeito que a idéia desse tipo de filme causara sobre o público e em novembro de 1914 lançou seu próprio seriado de aventura denominado The Hazards of Helen.

Durante os episódios que Helen Holmes realizou, ela fez quase todas as suas cenas, mesmo as de perigo. Heroína independente, de raciocínio rápido e inventiva, como parte de suas façanhas perigosas Helen fez coisas tais como saltar sobre trens em fuga ou perseguir ladrões de trem. Embora, ocasionalmente, o enredo determinasse que Helen fosse resgatada por um belo herói do sexo masculino, na maioria dos episódios foi a própria destemida Helen que encontrou uma forma engenhosa para sair de sua situação extrema e enfrentou, sozinha, os bandidos, trazendo-os à justiça.

Requisitada para filmar "Night Operator at Buxton" (episódio 18 do seriado), Helen Holmes adoeceu e Anna Q. Nilsson a substituiu naquela ocasião. Após 26 episódios, Holmes e J.P. McGowan deixaram a companhia cinematográfica e o diretor James Davis colocou Elsie McLeod nos episódios 27 a 49, até que pudesse achar a substituta permanente para o papel de Helen. A heroína, no restante da série, foi interpretada por Rose Wenger Gibson, na época casada com Hoot Gibson. Rebatizada como "Helen Gibson" pela Kalem Company, ela também alcançou o status de celebridade.

The Hazards of Helen fez de Helen Holmes uma estrela e seu marido, o diretor J. P. McGowan, decidiu capitalizar sua fama e deixou a Kalem com a finalidade de trabalhar para Thomas H. Ince Productions e Universal Pictures.

Depois de alguns filmes, Holmes e McGowan formaram, ao lado de Samuel S. Hutchinson, a "Signal Film Corporation", para fazer seus próprios filmes de aventura. Entre o final de 1915 e início de 1917, fizeram uma dúzia de filmes juntos, com razoável sucesso, mas problemas financeiros e de distribuição terminaram a parceria de produção e Holmes não apareceu em outro filme até 1919, desta vez como a estrela da produção de outra Companhia Cinematográfica.

Em 1919 e 1920, Helen fez apenas um filme por ano e apenas dois em cada um dos próximos três anos. Entre 1924 e 1926, fez dezoito filmes de aventura mais curtos, mas sua popularidade começou a diminuir em um mercado já saturado com filmes femininos de cliffhanger. Holmes fez vários Westerns ao lado do ator Jack Hoxie nos anos 20.

Ao longo de sua carreira, Helen Holmes, ocasionalmente, voltou a atuar no teatro, e com o fim de seu casamento, em 1925, voltou ao palco, fazendo sua última aparição na Broadway em 1935. Ela se casou com o dublê Lloyd A. Saunders e, como resultado da popularidade dos filmes de Rin-Tin-Tin, os dois começaram a treinar animais para o uso em filmes.

Depois de se aposentar do cinema, Helen passou a administrar um pequeno negócio, uma casa de antiguidades em San Fernando. Ela tinha uma extensa coleção de bonecas raras.

Holmes Production Corporation
O seriado The Tiger Band, em 1920, foi o único da Holmes Production Corporation. Em 1920, Helen Holmes resolvera fundar a Helen Holmes Poduction Corporation, e assinou com  a Warner Brothers para a distribuição de seus filmes. A Warner, porém, tentou convencê-la a estrelar um filme, The Danger Trail, em 1920, para financiar suas produções. Quando Holmes fez seu primeiro seriado, The Tiger Band, em 1920, a Warner criou-lhe dificuldades financeiras, e o seriado teve uma distribuição pobre. Holmes não mais produziu, limitando-se a atuar.

Filmografia seleta

 1912, Kings Court (curta-metragem)
 1913, On His Wedding Day (curta-metragem, não-creditada)
 1913, Hide and Seek (curta-metragem)
  1914, The Hazards of Helen (seriado, episódios 1-48)
 1915, The Girl and the Game (seriado)
 1916, Lass of the Lumberlands (seriado)
 1917, The Railroad Raiders (seriado)
 1917, The Lost Express (1917) (seriado)
 1919, The Fatal Fortune (seriado)
 1920, The Tiger Band (seriado)
 1922, The Lone Hand
 1924, The Riddle Rider (seriado)
 1924, Battling Brewster (seriado)
 1926, The Open Switch

Morte
Lloyd morreu em 1946, e Helen morreu em 1950, como resultado da insuficiência cardíaca. Ela estava doente há cinco anos com uma doença cardíaca, e morreu aos 58 anos em Burbank, Califórnia, em sua casa, em 1401 West Olive Street. Os serviços fúnebres foram realizados na Capela Pierce Brothers Hollywood, no Santa Monica Blvd., 5959, em Los Angeles, Califórnia. Ela foi enterrada no Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, em Glendale, Califórnia.

Peças na Broadway
 This Our House, dezembro de 1935
 The Love Expert, setembro a outubro de 1929
 Adam's Apple, junho de 1929
 Dorian Gray, maio a junho de 1928
 The Devil Within, março a abril de 1925
 Keep It to Yourself, dezembro de 1918 a abril de 1919
 Success, janeiro a março de 1918
 The Natural Law, abril a junho de 1915
 The Confession, março a maio de 1911
 The City, dezembro de 1909 a junho de 1910
 Lincoln, fevereiro de 1909

Ver também
 Seriados
 The Hazards of Helen
 Filme mudo

Notas e referências

Referências bibliográficas
 The Los Angeles Times, Helen Holmes, Silent Film Actress, Dies, July 10, 1950, Page A3.
 The New York Times, Helen Holmes, July 10, 1950, Page 21.

Ligações externas

Helen Holmes girlish portrait 1910s
 Helen Holmes na Internet Broadway Database

Atores dos Estados Unidos
Mortes por insuficiência cardíaca
Norte-americanos de ascendência britânica
Cinema mudo
Sepultados no Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)

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Dave Cyst's occasional column of oddness from the news gatherers
Written by Mark Jorgenson. Published on May 19th 2011.
So, do I get my deposit back?
A landlord in Salford stabbed his lodger with a pitchfork over a dispute about missing insomnia medication before tying his legs together, dragging him around the streets and offering local children £10 apiece to beat him with crowbars.
Thankfully, Greg Dean miraculously escaped with only fractures and landlord John Shenton has been sentenced to five years. Got me thinking though, I rent a property from a private landlord so I dug out my tenancy agreement to have a detailed read which obviously I didn't bother when signing - who does?
It transpires that if I fail to keep my oven clean to an 'acceptable standard' then 'the tenant is liable to be administered with thumbscrews, or equivalent medieval torture, then paraded naked around the town square for public flogging'.
I'm going to speak to the Citizen's Advice Bureau and if you rent privately, I'd implore you to do the same.
The great deep pan robbery
Greater Manchester Police have revealed a spate of pizza delivery drivers being targeted by gangs, the latest occurring in Collyhurst. The crooks have thus far made away with a few pizzas, a handful of change and a Nissan Micra - which was later abandoned. Kept the pizzas, dumped the car.
Some crimes, whilst morally objectionable, you may be excused for understanding the lure of the huge bounty at stake (not a giant chocolate bar, though that may be understandable in itself.) Others, like this one, you can't help ponder the ludicrous thought process which preceded their dastardly deed.
I can only conclude that it's simply a crime of passion - a gaggle of wanton outlaws with an insatiable lust both for risk and stuffed crusts. It's a dangerous game though as Domino's won't deliver to Strangeways when they're caught, which is likely after being captured on CCTV.
Deutschland, Deutschland, uber Eccles
After being thumped at Old Trafford in their Champions League tie, German team FC Schalke suffered further indignity after some club training tracksuits were pinched from their hotel, The Marriott in Worsley. To make matters worse, it's reported that the thieves then masqueraded as part of the clubs set-up, talking to and posing for photographs with the team at their welcome party.
Presumably it was the accent which gave the game away; "Ey ar mate, course I play for Schalkoh" *hands down front of tracksuit*.
Also, I wouldn't want to lift the lid on a potentially burgeoning epidemic, Dave Cyst is no grass, but at the same game I also saw thousands of people in the crowd brazenly sporting shirts which looked dubiously similar to those worn by the Manchester United players.
Three arrests have been made but if my suspicions are correct, there are more to follow.
Prisoner escapes through, well, an escape hatch
Convicted armed robber John Paul Williams from Longsight has been captured by Greater Manchester after previously escaping through the skylight of the van transporting him between prisons.
Sterling police work the capture of a fugitive may be, but it's a touch self inflicted by the prison service I think. Thankfully I'm no expert in their workings, but it strikes me that if you put a sunroof, or to coin a better expression, an escape hatch in a vehicle transporting inmates then it's likely that they may seize that opportunity to try and escape. It's like giving someone about to face a firing squad the facility of a trapdoor; I reckon they might just use it?
Unless, of course, there was a window sticker on the under side reading 'prisoners are reminded not to escape through this hatch' and in which case I apologise unreservedly to HMPS.
The Plagues of Manchester
While loitering around Oxford Road shamelessly trying to be offered flyers for student nights to feel young again, Mr Cyst saw this Ford Focus completely covered in ice cubes.
How did this happen? Maybe it was simply a drunk with a bag of ice and a hatred for American hatchbacks? Or, an extremely localized downpour of large hail cuboids due to global warming?
Not to be sensationalist, but there may be a more sinister explanation. This could be beginning of a series of plagues to be exacted on Manchester by a wrathful God, like those that bothered Egypt in the book of Exodus. There were no piles of frogs or locust swarms nearby but they may yet to come.
If you have been oppressing the Israelites in your car then heed this warning.
Lady Bin Laden of Cheshire
In arguably the most bizarre story - stay with me on this - a man from Todmorden who is treasurer of biker group 'Satans Slaves' has revealed that his ex wife (dubbed as Spiderwoman due to her huge web tattoo), has become the late Osama Bin Laden's daughter-in-law, marrying his son Omar with the couple now living in Cheshire.
The new Mrs Bin Laden is former Cheshire Parish Councilor Jane Felix-Browne, described as an 'unorthodox character who enjoyed partying' and whose marriage to Mr Bin Laden is her sixth. I wonder if Osama approved of her, he had three wives simultaneously so couldn't be one to judge really. Particularly considering all the terror stuff too.
Between the 'Satans Slave' and son of the world's most famous terrorist she had two husbands and I'm fascinated at who they could have been. An accountant named Clive followed by Randolf the circus weasel-tamer?
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The Bob Ross: Art of Chill game is part of the impressive collection of games available at Target this fall. Many of these games are exclusive to that retailer, and the selection of games seems to be a combination of reprints from well known publishers (i.e. Vegas the Dice Game) while others are from relatively new entrants to the industry.
Forrest-Pruzan Creative is one of those new companies, and they have a number of different imprints. I'll admit that I'm a bit confused by them all – but I do believe that Prospero Hall is the name of the group that is responsible for the most strategic end of their games. Despite the smiling face of the well known painter on the box, the game held within the box is actually a pretty great resource management game.
In the game, players are artists that are competing to paint their own renditions of the painting that Bob Ross is painting as well. There are 15 double sided painting cards in the game, and one is randomly chosen to be placed on the easel in the center of the table. This is the painting that Bob is currently working on -–each painting has three different features on it (you know, fluffy clouds, happy little trees, almighty mountains, wondrous water or a charming cabin…). Each of these has a box on the card which shows which colors of paint are necessary to paint it as well as which sort of brush or tool is needed. There is a track at the bottom of the painting which shows the progress that Bob is making on his own work of art. There is a wooden token that stands on the easel ledge to show Bob's progress.
There is a scoreboard in the middle of the table which has the score track on it as well as room for the Chill cards. There are two other decks of cards: the art supply cards and the technique cards. Each of these is shuffled, and a display of 4 face up cards of each deck is placed on the table. Each player is also given a starting hand of three art supply cards. Each player is also given a personal palette board. This is split up into two sides – with spaces for three art supply cards on each side.
On a turn, the active player first rolls the die (and resolves the action of that die roll), and then the player takes 3 actions. Points can be scored throughout the turn, and the game ends immediately when a player gets to the end of the scoring track – with the first player to reach the end of the track being declared the winner.
On the die, there is a 50% chance that you roll a Bob Ross silhouette. If you do this, you first reveal the top card from the Chill deck and place it face up on the discard pile for that deck – and then read it aloud. This card might provide a one-time effect that is immediately triggered. Other cards will outline a bonus scoring opportunity that will remain in effect as long as this card is visible. Then, once the card has been read, you move the Bob token one space to the right on the easel. If Bob moves to cover a space with a painting feature silhouette on it, then Bob has painted that feature. If he moves to the rightmost space on the track, he finishes the final feature, and the painting is complete.
If you do not roll a Bob on the die, then you'll get to take an extra action. You might get a wild card to take any action of your choice (more on this in a second) OR you will be given the option for a specific action such as playing a paint onto your palette or drawing a random art supply card from the top of the deck.
Earn a Technique card – If you have a pair of cards in your hand which match one of the four face-up Technique cards, you can discard them and take the matching Technique card from the display. Immediately score 2 Chill points for this. Draw a new card for the display from the deck. You will score bonuses each time you paint a feature which uses the tool or paint seen on your Technique card.
Play then moves to the next player who first rolls the die and then takes his three actions.
A painting is finished when either Bob moves onto the last space on the track OR a player completes all three of the features on the painting – the game pauses briefly. The current painting is removed from the easel. A new one is chosen and put in place. All players remove the Feature tokens from the scoring columns on the board. Then the game resumes where it left off.
Again, the game ends immediately when a player makes it to the last space on the track. That player is the winner.
So, I didn't know what to expect from the game when I first read about it, but as with many of my friends, I was enchanted by the mere idea of a game using Bob Ross as a main thematic element. I'm happy to say that the game uses the theme well, but it's also a pretty good strategy game for the Eurogame crowd. As this game will have mass-market exposure, it could end up being a great gateway sort of game.
At its core, the game is a resource management game. You must collect the right cards (both paints and tools) and have them in the right places in order to paint the painting features. This takes a lot of planning – and is made more complicated by the fact that you cannot "un-mix" cards played to a side of your palette.
If that wasn't enough, there is also a bit of a race element to the painting. You are racing against the other players as there are bonus points available to the first two players to paint a particular feature. You're also racing against Bob – as there are bonus points to be had if you can paint a feature before Bob gets to it.
Of course, there is more to do than just painting – and it is a fairly viable strategy to race to pick up the Technique cards. Not only do they give you a 2 point bonus for each one collected, they can help add to your bonus scoring for painting features painted later in the game. As the supply of these is limited (only 11 total in the game) – you'll have to move on these quickly.
For these reasons, I think that most Eurogamers will find this a decent game, and something more to their liking than most of the stuff you'd usually find in a big box store. That being said, when I look at the game from the flipside, there are a few things that I wish the game had for the casual gamer.
Again, as I mentioned above, it's a solid gaming design. However, it's not really set up well (IMHO) for a novice gamer. First, the rules for scoring are somewhat convoluted. There is a base score and then up to four types of possible bonus scores. For a Eurogamer, it's pretty easy to remember this… but, when I've played with non-gamers, the scoring requires constant re-teaching. My beef with the game in this vein is that there is not a player aid OR this information isn't printed on the palette board for easy reference. Alternative, placing this on the central scoreboard would have been nice.
Likewise, there are six different actions to choose from each turn. Again, by the middle of the first game, my gamer friends did well remembering most of the options (though everyone seems to forget the wipe action)… This would be another situation where a reminder/recap on the palette or central board would have been super useful.
The artwork in the game appears to all be paintings from the show – they have Bob's signature on them. The colors of the paint can be a bit close to each other, but the game seems to help distinguish them (especially for color blind players) by having a slightly different shape to the smear of paint in each color. Each of the seven colors of paint also has a name, and the colors are sometimes referred to only by name – and I wish that there was a more uniform method of depicting the colors (i.e. both the paint color shape as well as the name) to avoid confusion.
Overall, the Bob Ross: Art of Chill game is a delightful find. It is a solid strategy game that I will hopefully be able to point anyone towards. As it should be widely available at a mass market store, it's easier to use as an example than something you have to order for an online specialty website. The game is simple enough to pick up for most folks, and while I think the scoring can be a bit convoluted for a non-gamer, it is this system which generates enough of a game to satisfy the more experienced crowd. Regardless of ability/experience, most people should be able to get into the Bob Ross theme. In fact, we've had fun putting a video of the show (from Youtube) in the background as "mood music".
Karen M: I just want to echo some of what Dale said. When I first heard about a board game based on Bob Ross my thought was something along the lines of "there is no way that is going to be good." And I am astonished and pleased that I was wrong! There is a real game in the box that is pretty fun to play. This is really a race game which is not my favorite type of game, but the theme and the fact that there are "chill" cards make it worth your while.
In the review, mentions are made to racing either the other players or the Bob token to completing the painting's features. I can't help but find such a gameplay element funny in a game with Bob Ross in it, much less the word "chill" in its title.


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Film: "Beshkempir: The Adopted Son"
Sponsored by CREEES Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
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Part of the Central Asian Film Series. All films shown with English subtitles. Free and open to the public. Introduction and Commentary by Alma Kunanbaeva, Stanford Anthropology Department.
Kyrgyz. 1998. Directed by Aktan Abdykalykov.
Shot in black and white and occasionally interspersed with color sequences, this film depicts the coming of age of an adopted boy in a rural village in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. It opens with his adoption ceremony presided over by 5 old women (Beshkempir literally means "five grandmothers") and continues through his adolescence and adulthood. This movie was the recepient of numerous international awards.
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The date was altered from July 30th. This may help to explain why the actual dates are out of sequence.
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Inmate sues to ensure methadone in prison - Albuquerque Journal
Inmate sues to ensure methadone in prison
By Elise Kaplan / Journal Staff Writer
Published: Monday, May 24th, 2021 at 6:06PM
Updated: Monday, May 24th, 2021 at 11:32PM
The Pete V. Domenici United States courthouse. (Roberto E. Rosales/Journal file)
A woman who has been using methadone to successfully curb a heroin addiction is suing the New Mexico Corrections Department to try to ensure that she can continue to receive the medication when she gets transferred to prison next month to serve her sentence.
The woman, identified in the lawsuit only as SB, said she had been addicted to opioids for the past 20 years, has had multiple friends and family members die from overdoses and has overdosed more than a dozen times. For the past two years, she has been taking methadone – a medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration to suppress cravings and treat symptoms of opioid withdrawal.
"She works on her recovery every day," the lawsuit says, adding that the treatment has helped her cope with losing her father to COVID-19 and trauma from being raped. "Methadone and counseling are her life-line. She wants to continue her doctor-prescribed treatment for OUD (opioid use disorder), to stay in recovery, and to stay off of illicit opioids. She wants to break the cycle of incarceration. If she needs to, she will continue this treatment for the rest of her life."
The lawsuit was filed in federal court on April 29 against Corrections Secretary Alisha Tafoya Lucero and Wensceslaus Asonganyi, the department's health services administrator. Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and the Law Office of Ryan J. Villa allege that the Corrections Department will not provide medication-assisted treatment to inmates, except for those who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
The suit asks for the Corrections Department to provide SB with medication-assisted treatment throughout her time in prison and for the court to declare that the department's denial of the medications "amounts to deliberate indifference to a serious medical need (and) is a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment." The attorneys filed an emergency motion Monday asking for a preliminary injunction requiring that the Corrections Department to provide the medication and that evidentiary hearings on the matter to be set.
A Corrections Department spokesman did not respond to questions about why prisons don't provide medication-assisted treatment.
"While the Department does not comment on active litigation, we are aware of the complaint," Eric Harrison wrote in an email. "This individual is not in NMCD custody."
The lawsuit compares opioid use disorder to other chronic conditions – such as diabetes and high blood pressure – that can be controlled with medication.
In a news release, attorney Kate Loewe said the Corrections Department's policy of denying the medication is "cruel, discriminatory, and dangerous."
"Opioid overdose deaths in New Mexico continue to rise and untreated OUD contributes to NMCD's recidivism rate. NMCD has a constitutional, legal, and moral duty to provide adequate medical care to our client," Loewe said.
The lawsuit alleges that because the Corrections Department doesn't provide methadone to most inmates, SB's defense attorneys asked that she be sent to the Metropolitan Detention Center first so she can slowly withdraw from methadone. She is now in MDC, awaiting transfer to prison on June 9, and she is already suffering from tapering down her dosage.
"Every day my dose drops, I am more and more scared that if NMCD does not continue me on methadone during my time there, I will not be able to control my addiction," SB said in a news release. "I'm afraid the cravings will be too big, and I will relapse, and could overdose, and die."
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Q: How to check if an id is already present in a firebase realtime database using react.js

I am working on an inventory project using React. Before pushing the data in progress.json I want to check if that data is already present in progress.json file to prevent duplication using the id provided to each dataset. As I am still learning React I am out of solutions for this problem.

export async function progressOrders (found){
    const loadedOrders = await fetchOrders('progress');
    let result;
    //for(const key in loadedOrders){
    //    result = loadedOrders.filter(() => {
    //        return loadedOrders[key].id === found.id
     //   });
    //};
    loadedOrders.map(() => {
        for(const key in loadedOrders){
            if(loadedOrders[key].id === found.id){
                return result = true;
            }else{
                return result = false;
            }
        }
        return result;
    });
    console.log(result);
    if(result === true){
        alert('Order already in progress state');
    }else{
        const response = await fetch(`${FIREBASE_DOMAIN}/progressOrders.json`,{
            method:"POST",
            headers:{
                "Content-Type": "application/json"
            },
            body: JSON.stringify({
                id: found.id,
                dryFruit: found.dryFruit,
                weight: found.weight,
                canteenName: found.canteenName,
                orderQuantity: found.orderQuantity,
                newOrderTime: found.newOrderTime
            })
        });
        if(!response){
            throw Error('Order not in progress');
        }else{
            alert('Order is in progress now.');
        };
    }

};

A: If you want to prevent duplication, always use the thing that needs to be unique as the key for that data in the database.
Where you now store:
progressOrders: {
  "somemeaninglesspushid": {
    ...
    "id": "orderIdThatMustBeUnique"
  }
}

Consider changing that to:
progressOrders: {
  "orderIdThatMustBeUnique": {
    ...
  }
}

With this data structure the order ID is by definition going to be unique inside of progressOrders, as keys are by definition unique with a JSON object.
This new data structure also ensures that there's no harm in writing the same order information multiple times. The result after the second (or any subsequent) write is the same as the result after the first write, a concept known as idempotency.

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'Scavenger' molecule may point to new atherosclerosis treatment
A small-molecule "scavenger" that reduces inflammation and formation of atherosclerotic plaque in blood vessels in mice potentially could lead to a new approach for treating atherosclerosis in humans, according to researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The scavenger molecule, called 2-HOBA, reversed the damaging impact of oxidative stress, a key contributor to atherosclerosis, in a mouse model of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), the researchers reported Aug. 14 in the journal Nature Communications.
FH is a common inherited form of high cholesterol in humans characterized by severely elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad" cholesterol) and by an increased risk for early cardiovascular events including heart attacks and stroke.
Recent studies have shown that the function of high-density lipoprotein (HDL, or "good" cholesterol) also is impaired in people with FH, and that HDL function is an independent predictor of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular events.
In the first study of its kind, the VUMC researchers found that 2-HOBA prevented the oxidative modification of both HDL and LDL, as well as other molecules, and significantly reduced the development of atherosclerosis in mice lacking the LDL receptor that have high cholesterol levels and other characteristics of human FH.
"Treatment of the high-cholesterol mice with 2-HOBA reduced modification of HDL, improving its function, and reduced plaque formation in the arteries by up to 60% without impacting blood cholesterol levels," said the paper's corresponding author, MacRae Linton, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Lipid Clinic and the Atherosclerosis Research Unit.
Although statins and LDL-lowering drugs can reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with cardiovascular disease, there remains a residual inflammatory risk for these and other cardiovascular events, highlighting the need for additional therapeutic approaches.
A key to improving treatment may be targeting highly reactive molecules called dicarbonyls, such as malondialdehyde and isolevuglandin, which modify LDL and HDL and impair their function.
Dicarbonyls rapidly bind to proteins forming adducts that impair protein function. Adduct formation has been linked to increased inflammation and immune cell activation, as well as plaque formation in arteries and cell death.
Dicarbonyls are produced through lipid peroxidation, a consequence of oxidative stress. Yet efforts to reduce oxidative stress with dietary anti-oxidants such as vitamins C and E have failed to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in most clinical trials.
Small-molecule scavengers that selectively react with—and disarm—dicarbonyls may offer a more targeted approach to blocking damage from oxidative stress.
2-HOBA is being investigated in clinical trials for its ability to protect against oxidative stress-associated hypertension, atrial arrhythmias and neurodegeneration. Phase I clinical trials have demonstrated its safety in humans.
"These studies allowed us to rigorously test our hypothesis that the scavenging activity of 2-HOBA is what provides protection," said Sean Davies, Ph.D., a senior author of the paper and associate professor of Pharmacology.
In the current study, 2-HOBA not only reduced disease but also reduced formation of protein adducts by dicarbonyls in HDL and LDL and in atherosclerotic lesions, Davies said. Instead, dicarbonyl adducts were detected in 2-HOBA scavenger molecules excreted in the animals' urine.
"Our studies raise the possibility that reactive dicarbonyl scavenging represents a new therapeutic approach to help reduce this residual risk for atherosclerotic CVD (cardiovascular disease) in humans," the researchers concluded.
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I think you'll get a sense about it after working in it in a number of years.
You are right in a sense.
In no sense should such a thing be allowed to happen again.
There is no sense in keeping calling me.
A gentle slap in the face brought him to his senses.
I finally came to my senses and apologized for my rudeness.
I hope you see sense before it's too late.


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Young men -- Japan -- Fiction.
"Originally published in Japanese as Shôwa kayô daizenshû"
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NoVgames and Enforce created a league where there would be merit assessment. A good project.
The matter did not concern him. But, poor fellow, in the last 13 months, he did nothing except create mods and scripts for harm me. Besides cheaters and liars, he and his partners are arrogant and ignorant.
1 - He changed the time to take a silo - reduced to 3 seconds; about 3 or 4 seconds go to the next silo. 5 silos. 3 points per silo. On 30 - 35 seconds we can get 15 points. Huaauuuu! The score per minute goes to the stratosphere. 15/0.5 = 30. Even the best of cheaters, with the best hack, will not be able to such performance.
But the numbers of this "extraordinary" performance are computed by EA Master Server and stats.com.
The consequence of this cheat can be observed in the rapid growth of numbers that indicate the performance of the player in 2142-stats.com. See in the attached images as the "skills" of this cheater have grown in the period in which the software changes were in effect.
2 - In the same period became operational, conveniently, a Conquest map. The plant preferred by those making stats padding. See the pictures.
Look in the stats.com the numbers of Schlampen's partners. And laugh a lot.
I want to dedicate this gravure, done by their peers, to you, Schlampenfine aka PSYCHO_BOB aka cancR aka psychopath.


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Adela Mohseni: 'Any People Who Are Not Aware of Their Rights Will Not Live in Peace'
By Unveiling Afghanistan, Contributor
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"I don't think there is a civil society in Afghanistan. There are many people from overseas who are working in Afghanistan, but they will leave as soon as there is some turbulence."
Aziz Rafiee: 'We Have Not Yet Diagnosed the Pathology of the Problems That Infect Afghanistan'
"The most important factor is the conservatism that prevails with respect to social issues. Lack of education and economic poverty are other factors. Women are consistently used as a means of labor in families."
Mohammad Ismail Qassemyar: 'Poverty and Unemployment Have Paralyzed the Lives of Most Afghans'
"The key to our success, as testified by history, is our national unity. We must protect our Islamic unity and brotherhood and adhere to it."
Massoud Hassanzada: 'The Biggest Challenge Facing Afghanistan Is Absence of True Progressive Forces to Combat Ignorance, Corruption and Fanaticism'
"Poverty, violence, ignorance, plunder, and deception are the fruits of the class society, based on profit-making at any cost."
Abdul Hamid Mobarez: 'Democracy Is the Choice of the People and It Is Up to Them to Protect It'
"Against such a backdrop of fundamental, structural changes, the Taliban will not be able to dominate Afghanistan again. The free people of Afghanistan would never allow that scenario to be repeated."
Wahida Samadi: 'The Taliban Will Never Really Change'
"My greatest fear is that after 10 years of efforts to promote women's rights, a group may take over the political power that does not believe in women's identity or even the fact that they are human beings."
Dr Saheb-Nazar Moradi: 'We Must Unite Against the Extremists to Defend the Achievements of the Past 10 Years'
"We are living in a society where political despotism, social and economic injustice, unbalanced culture and education and cultural and identity authoritarianism prevail."
Mahbuba Jamshidi: 'It Would Be a Tragedy for Women to Lose Their Legal Status and Rights in This Political Game'
"I only fear instability and insecurity. I fear that the insecurity may lead the political powers to strike some kind of bargain that trades away women's rights. It would be a tragedy for women to lose their legal status and rights in this political game."
Aziz Deldar: 'My Greatest Fear Is a Day When I May Not Be Able to Express What I Think'
"The courts should be one of the important sources for women to rely on in this country. Unfortunately, the courts are very corrupt and are permeated by a strongly misogynist attitude, which seeks to use gaps in the law to punish women."
Sonia Iqbal: 'We Have Not Planned for Economic Recession, But It Is Sitting on Our Doorstep'
"International statistics indicate that we will have around 400,000 to 500,000 unemployed people after the withdrawal of the international forces and a fall in foreign aid."
Bakht Mohammad Bakhtiar: 'We Will Return to the Dark Days of the Past If We Are Not Careful'
"My two daughters were forced out of education under the Taliban. We were forced to migrate to Pakistan and my family had to weave carpets with me to make a living. It was a hard work that we had to do in awful, unhealthy underground workshops."
Hasina Safi: 'One New Phenomenon Is the Men Who Believe in Women and Their Power'
"The traditional society is one of the biggest deterrent factors. Even educated members of society attempt to prevent women from working outside the home. Another factor is the extensive level of illiteracy, and general lack of skills, amongst women."
Rafi Behroozian: 'I Strongly Support the Media Revolution'
"Our society is not an intellectually independent one. It has not taken decisions for itself; others have always decided on its behalf. But nonetheless, I believe that the young generation of today will not be prepared to accept such a dark and evil scenario."
Professor Seifuddin Sayhoun: 'It Was a Woman Who Decided My Fate'
"My greatest fear is the extent to which people are disappointed and disenchanted with the present situation."
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"My greatest fear is that we may return to the pre-1992 dark days with the impending withdrawal of the international forces from Afghanistan."
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"The real question is: When we talk about reconciliation, are we talking about real political compromises? Or is it about negotiations and reconciliation for the survival and interests of the ruling establishment?"
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"The best development has been the growth of a democratic political atmosphere. We now have the elections, human rights laws and standards, democratic structures, civil society and institutions that can manifest a democratic rule."
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"Women want to uproot illiteracy, have a self-sufficient economy, and see the consolidation of women's struggles into a solid social movement."
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"My greatest fear is the fear for my own life. In this country, you cannot live two minutes without fearing suicide bombings and explosions."
Momina Yari: 'I Am Most Worried About the Lack of Security'
"In some educational institutions, women make up 50 percent of the student population. We have never had so many female students."
Seraj ul-Haq Fazl: "Educated Afghans will prevent a repetition of the past"
Sayed Ishaq Gailani: 'Our Only Demand Is Attention to Education'
"I worry about the outcome of the 2014 elections. I fear that we might witness a completely flawed election, wracked with rigging and fraud."
Sarvar Hosseini: 'Renovating the Education System Is a Great Achievement'
"One of the demands is social and political participation by women. Women want to actively and effectively participate in all fields and deem it as their right to do so. Women also seek their civil rights, for example, the right to choose their spouse, the right to education and the right to property."
Fakhera Mousavi: 'The Afghan Woman Rests in the Coma of her Predecessors'
"Educated women demand justice and equality at all levels of society. They demand a justice-based approach to the basic laws in force in Afghanistan. Above all, the new generation of women demand gender justice and the eradication of discrimination at all levels of society."
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"My two daughters are studying medicine and they wish to write poetry. My wish is that they achieve what they aspire for and will be able to treat the sick people in our country."
Nilab Mobarez: 'Women Are Often Deprived of Their Rights Because the Men in Their Family Do Not Feel Secure'
"Rather than trying to establish security, the men restrict women. The insecurity they feel might not even be real, but it creates some kind of psychological insecurity in women nonetheless."
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"Soda Springs" is the story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past.
Eden Jackson is returning to his hometown to pick up the pieces of the life he was forced to leave eight years earlier when he was sent to prison for manslaughter. This proves to be more difficult than expected as Eden is faced with a town not yet ready or willing to forgive.
During his absence his father died, sending his mother over the edge, and his ex-wife is now married to his long-time adversary. During his search he meets Shelly, a woman struggling with her own challenges yet able to accept Eden not for what people are saying but for the man she sees in front of her. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
An 'old friend,' a 'new love' and a rekindled passion for music open the path to his salvation. On this journey of redemption and self-acceptance, Eden Jackson's life affects many others along the way and affirms that often the only way to the light is through the darkness.
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Returning to a small town after being in prison for eight years is not easy for Eden Jackson as he tries to start over in Soda Springs. Some people find it hard to forgive and many want no part of Eden in their lives, while others don't care about the rumors. He is helping his mother and gets a job at a local feed store.
Forgiveness is sometimes hard, but especially so when it is yourself you are trying to forgive for past transgressions. Eden feels the hurt of not being there for his father when he passed away or his mother who needed him. So now that he is free to start over, there are a lot of things he has to overcome.
This is an inspirational story about starting a new future, forgiving the past you can't change, and moving forward without making the same mistakes. The film will entertain older children and adults, and therefore we award "Soda Springs" the Dove "Family-Approved" Seal for ages 12 and up.
Sex: Man and woman kissing in bar and making out in truck; couple kiss; young woman flirts with man.
Language: H-1.
Violence: Accident involving truck and car where two people died; scenes of people in accident with blood on their bodies; woman meets son at door with a gun; man takes mom's keys and car; policeman beats on man without cause; man threatens another; man blackmails police officer into helping him; young woman wrongly accuses man of attacking her; man punches another.
Drugs: Bar scenes with people drinking.
Nudity: Scene of man in shower but only head and shoulders shown; mild cleavage.
Other: Rude attitudes toward others; jealousy; wrongly accusing someone of something they did not do; taking the blame for someone else.
Company: CMD Distribution
Writer: Jay Pickett, Michael Feifer
Director: Michael Feifer
Industry Rating: Not Rated
Starring: Jay Pickett, Tom Skerritt, Victoria Pratt
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Amicus Brief in Support of Effort to Expand Domestic Violence Protections in South Carolina
Kevin A. Hall
COLUMBIA, S.C.—Equal protection under the law is a cherished American ideal. That's why South Carolina Equality Coalition, Inc. and Womble Carlyle are working to ensure state domestic violence laws apply to all South Carolinians.
Womble Carlyle attorneys Kevin Hall and Allen O'Rourke have filed a pro bono amicus brief in support of the South Carolina Equality Coalition's efforts to clarify language in the law so that more South Carolinians are protected, including unmarried same-sex and opposite-sex couples.
Recently, the South Carolina Supreme Court considered those laws, focusing on specific language in the statute that applied to unmarried couples who currently or previously lived together. The way the statute was written, extending the protections of domestic violence laws to "a male and female who are cohabiting or formerly cohabited," meant that opposite-sex unmarried couples would get the protections, but same-sex unmarried couples would not. Thus, the S.C. Supreme Court declared that this particular language of the statute violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
While that should be good news for equality advocates—and is, on some levels—the Court's remedy creates an even bigger set of problems. In the name of making things equal under the law for same-sex and opposite-sex couples, the Court struck the language regarding cohabitating couples entirely. So now the law treats same-sex and opposite-sex unmarried couples equally, but does so by withholding the domestic violence laws' protections from both groups.
Hall and O'Rourke argue that this is not what the law is intended to do. They and many others (including the South Carolina Attorney General) want to see domestic violence protections extended, not reduced.
Hall and O'Rourke write, "Unfortunately, the Court's choice of remedy —namely, achieving equality for same-sex couples by eliminating the domestic violence protections for similarly situated opposite-sex couples — casts a pall over this victory and leaves South Carolinians at even greater risk of lethal domestic violence. Jane Doe will continue to be denied the very protections that she has sought for so long and that have been withheld from her through official discrimination. Like the Attorney General, we respectfully urge this Court to refashion its remedy to preserve S.C. Code §§ 16-25-10(3)(d) and 20-4-20(b)(iv) while ensuring that same-sex couples are included."
As part of the firm's overall commitment to diversity and inclusion, Womble Carlyle supports the Human Rights Campaign, the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans. Since 2014, the Firm has earned a perfect score on the HRC's Corporate Equality Index, which grades hundreds of major U.S. companies on support of LGBTQ employees. Also, Womble Carlyle has supported the Charlotte Lesbian and Gay Fund's annual event, the Happening, for the past seven years. Through the pooled financial resources of individuals, corporations, and foundations, the Fund awards grants to organizations that support the LGBTQ community in Charlotte.
Click here to read the full amicus brief submitted to the South Carolina Supreme Court.
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25 U.S. Governors Show Support for Increased Biomedical Research Funding
Medical Research Coalition Applauds Additional Funding to Benefit Public Health and the Economy
WASHINGTON – United for Medical Research (UMR), a coalition of leading research institutions, patient and health advocates and private industry companies, applauds the support of a strong, bipartisan contingent of the nation's governors to make increased biomedical funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a priority in the FY2011 budget. The 25 governors voiced their commitment to the life sciences industry in a letter to Congress, asking them to meet the President's request for $32.2 billion.
The governors highlighted the NIH's ability to enable scientific talent and discoveries, leading to new treatments and cures for patients in need. The letter also highlighted the ability of biomedical research to serve as an economic engine in cities and states across the country, providing 350,000 jobs nationwide.
UMR appreciates this effort from state leadership across the country and will continue the drumbeat for strong, sustained funding for the NIH to improve both the lives of the countless patients who count on the results of biomedical research and the health of our national economy.
The text of the Governors' letter follows:
Dear Chairmen Conrad and Spratt and Ranking Members Gregg and Ryan:
We, the undersigned governors, thank you for your past support for biomedical research and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and ask you to craft a budget resolution that accommodates the President's $32.2 billion FY 2011 NIH budget request.
The greatest contribution NIH makes is to the health and well-being of Americans. Past federal investments in medical research, combined with those from the private sector, have led to improved health, better quality of life, and improved productivity for millions of patients and their families.
But NIH is also an important national, regional, and local economic engine. Together, our states received more than $19 billion from the NIH last year for promising research efforts. NIH funding directly supports 350,000 jobs across the U.S. In our states, we see firsthand the world class research institutions and scientific teams enabled by NIH, as well as the indirect job benefits of laboratories needing space, supplies, services, and equipment. We are also deeply aware that NIH-funded discoveries are the basis of new companies and even new industries in our communities.
NIH research is an instrumental part of the success of the U.S. life sciences industry and its 6 million high wage U.S. jobs. Moreover, follow-on life science research advances are now stimulating new jobs and new solutions in green energy, agriculture, the environment and industrial manufacturing. NIH funding enables the scientific talent and discoveries that are at the heart of this vast array of economic activity.
As you develop the Congressional Budget Resolution, we urge you to enable the 3.2% funding increase for NIH contained in the President's budget request.
Governor Jim Doyle, Wisconsin
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California
Governor Bob Riley, Alabama
Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., Colorado
Governor M. Jodi Rell, Connecticut
Governor Jack Markell, Delaware
Governor Pat Quinn, Illinois
Governor Chester J. Culver, Iowa
Governor Mark Parkinson, Kansas
Governor Steve L. Beshear, Kentucky
Governor Martin O'Malley, Maryland
Governor Deval Patrick, Massachusetts
Governor Chris Christie, New Jersey
Governor David A. Paterson, New York
Governor Bev Perdue, North Carolina
Governor Ted Strickland, Ohio
Governor Brad Henry, Oklahoma
Governor Theodore R. Kulongoski, Oregon
Governor Edward G. Rendell, Pennsylvania
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El riu Eume (en gallec: Río Eume) és un riu de Galícia. Neix a la Serra do Xistral a 880 m d'altitud, a la parròquia de la Balsa, a l'ajuntament (concello) de Muras (Província de Lugo). Té una llargada de 80 km. El seu curs inicial és ample i pla fins que, passada la vila d'as Pontes, forma un canó estret i profund (canón do Eume), en part inundat per l'embassament de l'Eume. A mesura que arriba a la desembocadura s'obre una vall fins a formar un ampli estuari que en la marea baixa forma una illa coneguda com a As Croas, d'on s'extreu molt de marisc i amb molta fauna. Finalment desemboca a la ria d'Ares, al golf Àrtabre, entre els ajuntaments de la província de la Corunya de Pontedeume i Cabanas.

La llegenda dels tres rius
Diu la llegenda que Déu va fer néixer tres rius a la Serra do Xistral i els va fer fluir en tres direccions diferents: L'Eume cap a ponent, el Landro cap al nord i el Masma cap a llevant. Deu va prometre oferir un home cada any al riu que abans arribés a la mar. Poc després del seu naixement els tres rius van pactar descansar una mica en el camí. Després del descans l'Eume es va adonar que els altres dos rius no complirien el pacte. Enrabiat per la traïció, va acccelerar la seva marxa provocant l'espectacular «canó de l'Eume» i aconseguí arribar el primer. Complint la seva promesa, Deu fa ofegar una persona cada any en les seves aigües.

Característiques
Flueix pels municipis d'Abadín, Muras, Vilalba, Xermade, As Pontes, A Capela, Monfero, Cabanas i Pontedeume.

En el seu curs troba dos embassaments, el de Ribeira, a As Pontes, i el d'Eume entre els municipis d'As Pontes i A Capela al nord i Monfero al sud.

L'any 2008 començà a desviar-se un gran percentatge de les seves aigües per a crear un nou llac cobrint una antiga zona minera a As Pontes.

El riu Maciñeira és el més llarg dels seus afluents (11 km).

El 30 de juliol de 1997 es va crear el Parc Natural de les Fragas do Eume (Reial Decret 211/96 de 2 de maig) amb una superfície de 9.126 Ha. Abasta els municipis de Cabanas, A Capela, Monfero i Pontedeume.

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Bibliografia
 Fragas do Eume. Parque natural. Xunta de Galicia. D.L. C-81/2003
 Geografía de Galicia (Tomo I). Dirección: Mª Pilar de Torres Luna. Ed. Faro de Vigo. D.L. V-3338.2000

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March 29, 2020 rowland
Government is reimbursing Lancashire Constabulary £1.28 million towards the cost of policing the Preston New Road fracking site. Last year Lancashire's Police and Crime Commissioner, Clive Grunshaw, made a Special Grant application to cover £1.5 million of costs in relation to Operation Manilla. The claim was reviewed and officials decided to award £1.28 million on the basis that the remaining costs (£220k) are met by Lancashire Constabulary.
Clive Grunshaw said: "I am grateful for the reimbursement from the Home Office, which is thanks to the ongoing lobbying of central government from not just myself, but from cross-party support from Lancashire MPs.
"This is positive news for Lancashire residents who should be reassured that the money is being returned and will now be used for the benefit of the wider police service in the County, especially in the current climate of uncertainty around Covid-19 (Coronavirus).
"The decision to frack in our county was borne in Whitehall after the judgement made by Lancashire County Council was overturned. The expectation on Lancashire Constabulary to cover the costs of this decision was not a fair deal, so I am pleased this has been recognised and additional costs for this operation are being met."
Home Office rules state Police and Crime Commissioners can only claim for additional costs of a police operation – these are any costs where officers are working beyond plain time, such as overtime and mutual aid from other forces.
Operation Manilla, the policing of the Preston New Road fracking site and protests, has cost Lancashire Constabulary almost £13 million since it began in January 2017. As police forces can only apply for Special Grant funding on additional costs, £8.43 million has been applied for in grants to date with the government awarding 85 per cent of this at £7.166 million.
Planners oppose oil test plans at Balcombe
Proposals to test the Balcombe oil well in West Sussex would compromise the protected landscape of the High Weald, council planners said today.
In a report opposing an application by Angus Energy, the planners recommended permission be refused.
They said the proposal for three years of testing would "establish a continued presence of industry which is not appropriate to the area".
Government's shale support fund underspent by £3.8m
A government fund to help English councils deal with shale gas planning applications appears to have paid out just 20% of what was available. A ministerial answer last week revealed that the shale support fund, which ran for five years until February 2020, paid nearly £1m to mineral planning authorities. But analysis by DrillOrDrop shows that the government allocated £4.8m to the fund during that period.
Cuadrilla breaches pollution rules again
In September 2019, the company received its third formal warning from the Environment Agency (EA) in just over a year. It had failed to monitor key substances in groundwater and failed to tell the EA about missing data. It was also accused of poor communication and supervision of the company carrying out the monitoring. In December 2019, the EA said Cuadrilla had breached a condition on methane monitoring.
Support for worldwide fracking ban
March 9, 2020 rowland
A group of environmental activists, public health professionals and campaigners are fighting fracking, climate change, petrochemicals and plastic pollution.
Activists from Mexico, Ireland and and Germany joined frontline residents and campaigners from Pennsylvania and New York in a meeting with Satya Tripathi, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Head of New York Office at UN Environment.
The group met with the United Nations to discuss the harms and threats of gas drilling and petrochemical expansion in their communities. They argued that we must stop further extraction to combat the global climate crisis.
The meeting was the result of an open letter sent to the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres last September.
That letter was organized by Food & Water Action, its European arm Food & Water Europe and the Breathe Project in Pittsburgh. It was signed by nearly 460 grassroots groups, faith communities, celebrities, activists and organizations, including actors Mark Ruffalo, Emma Thompson and Amber Heard, authors and activists Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, fashion icon Vivienne Westwood and her son Joe Corré as well as iconic children's singer Raffi.
The group stated that the "continued production, trade and use of fracked hydrocarbons for energy, petrochemicals and plastics torpedoes our global efforts to tackle climate change and violates basic human rights."
Campaigners appealed to the United Nations to consider the critical findings it has issued over the years. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESR) and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) have expressed concern that fracking will make it all but impossible to achieve emissions reductions targets outlined by the Paris Agreement, as well as the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on human rights.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) issued a "Global Alert" on fracking in 2012, and concluded that it may have adverse environmental impacts under any circumstances.
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Companies covered by the UK's apparent moratorium of fracking operations haven't exactly sent all their staff home for the rest of the year and put a pallet board over the holes they made, as any site works they can declare merely "exploratory" may continue apace – a loophole some MPs are now asking to have closed.
In response to a question from MPs, business minister Kwasi Kwarteng pointed out that the UK's specific definition of fracking is what's being used here, and that piece of legislation only covers the injection of water. Any exploratory work, drilling, or controversial use of acids may continue, leading opposition MPs – and the fracking haters across all parties – to call for the government's soft fracking suspension to be firmed up and made legally final, lest Cuadrilla start pumping thousands of gallons of tea into Lancashire rock.
Joe Corré from campaigner Talk Fracking said: "The fracking moratorium is and has always been an electioneering lie. The moratorium does not even consider the other associated fracking techniques like acidisation where they pump huge volumes of hydrochloric acid into the ground to dissolve the limestone and release the gas or oil."
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Posted on December 30, 2010 December 11, 2020 by Jinjirrie
Tracking Lamo
File:Lamo-Mitnick-Poulsen.png (2001) (by photographer Matthew Griffiths)
Glenn Greenwald: Email exchange with Wired's Kevin Poulsen (Jun 17, 2010)
Glenn Greenwald : The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks ( Jun 18, 2010)
Courtney Lambert: EXCLUSIVE: Former Hacker Lamo On Iraq Leaks (Jul 5, 2010)
Lamo: Blinded By Contempt (story tweeted by Lamo @6 #) (Jul 5, 2010)
Wired: Update: Ex-Hacker Denies Alleged WikiLeaker Gave Him Classified Documents (August 1, 2010)
Lamo: Wikileaks Whistle-blower Pushes for Assange Prosecution (Nov 28, 2010)
"Assange's hubris in presuming to mediate global diplomacy unilaterally cannot be allowed to stand," stated Lamo. "It is time for appropriate charges to be filed, and for Assange to be allowed to answer for them." Lamo added.
"Mr. Assange has abused international sovereignty enough, and he should now be extended a firm invitation and comfortable transport to a court competent to hear a case based on his alleged criminal acts."
Wired: U.S. Trying to Build Conspiracy Case Against WikiLeaks' Assange
FDL: Bradley Manning and the Convenient Memories of Adrian Lamo (Dec 23, 2010) – this blog has an excellent annotated history of events prior to publication)
Empty Wheel: When Did Adrian Lamo Start Working with Federal Investigators?
FDL: Bradley Manning/Wikileaks Timeline
FDL: Merged Manning-Lamo Chat Logs
FDL: FDL's Merged Version of Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Now Available (Dec 27, 2010)
WL Central: 2010-12-28 Wired Response to Glenn Greenwald (Dec 28, 2010)
Glenn Greenwald: The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired (Dec 27, 2010)
Wired (by Evan Hansen & Kevin Poulsen) : Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs (Dec 28, 2010)
Glenn Greenwald: Response to Wired's accusations (Dec 29, 2010)
Ultimately, what determines one's credibility is not the names you get called or the number of people who get angry when you criticize them. What matters is whether the things you say are well-supported and accurate, to correct them if they're not, and to subject yourself to the same accountability and transparency you demand of others.
On Wednesday 29th December 2010, @manuel_pineiro said:
@ggreenwald Since my #wikileaks comments are censored by @kpoulsen, I'll put it here. Furthermore, I've just finished setting up space on the web for me to help document more fully Wired's journalism malfeasance + more. Here is the comment I posted on Wired:
Is this supposed to convince anyone who is halfway paying attention?
It has been clear for some time that Threat Level has acted almost at the level of junior high school maturity, coming out with slam pieces about Wikileak's *HTML forms* during one of the most historic achievements in journalism's history while kpoulsen and rsingel snicker and giggle like children on their Twitter accounts.
I, too, wondered about Greenwald's assertions about whether manning allegedly discussed Assange or a secure server.
And, Kevin, you sure drew that out.
How about some other disclosures that have never been made on this website:
1- Adrian Lamo has been caught, repeatedly, lying to reporters by myself and others working on doing the volunteer legwork of finding out the ways and means that the public has been deceived by Wired.
2- What IS a chat log, Hacker Kingpin? I wonder if Glenn Greenwald even knows this — I doubt it. A "CHAT LOG" is an absurd way of making an ASCII TEXT FILE sound more important than it is. But the story doesn't sound anywhere near as sexy when you tell the truth, right? "Chat log" sounds official, like it is a confirmed chat that had to have been a chat between two internet peers. In reality, you couldn't have had anything more than a text file filled with dialogue that could have been WRITTEN BY ANYONE. Does AOL keep records of chat logs? Has Wired looked into it to confirm the ASCII text files handed over to them by a guy with absolutely no credibility whatsoever was telling the truth?
Kevin: in all your years as a hacker, did you ever run across the elite hacking tool known as vi? Isn't it true that vi is all anybody would need to produce an exact replica of the so-called "Chat Logs" you refer to all the time?
Kevin: why arent YOU suspicious of Lamo? That's the real clincher here. The biggest mistake you could make in attempting to smooth this over is your non-stop, absurd defense of the most indefensible source ever. Someone who is on videotape saying one thing one day to one reporter and saying another thing another day to another reporter. But he's stalwart and historically courageous to you! Julian Assange? No– he's a coward who has only faced off against the largest and most corrupt and most violent military/government industry to ever exist in human history. You whine for sympathy regarding your own pretrial detention while simultaneously joining in a mob attack on a man whose done nothing more than expose war crimes that your magazine and all other media outlets should have been covering, instead of blah blah Apple gadget this.
I don't know why I even bother writing this here since Wired has had a policy of censoring my comments ever since I embarrassed them so thoroughly on the very first article they ran on this story. You can go find it and watch the tone of the comments change after I stated what should have been obvious to anyone. Since then, my comments have been censored via prior restraint. Cowards.
Glenn Greenwald, many many months ago, gave you the answer to your so-called desire to "protect PFC Manning" and his privacy: agree on a third-party, have that person review the chat logs under obligation of confidentiality, and let that independent party determine if there is anything relevant in there. And let's go from there.
You have NO argument against that proposal which he made forever ago. NONE.
Furthermore, these refutations above ignore the most significant points raised by Glenn Greenwald and many others who are not even professional journalists … people like me who will continue following through on this and documenting it and detailing for all to see in perpetuity the manner in which Wired continues to spit in the face of its readership and everything that is noble about the tradition of journalism.
Glenn Greenwald: Wired's refusal to release or comment on the Manning chat logs (Dec 29, 2010)
Boing Boing: Wired.com: Lamo/Manning Wikileaks chat logs contain no unpublished references to Assange or private servers (Dec 29, 2010)
Kevin and Evan both independently verified that in the unpublished portions of the chat logs between Adrian Lamo and Bradly Manning there is no further reference to private FTP servers, and no further discussion about the relationship between Manning and Assange.
That's kind of a big deal, because the published portions of the logs do not support or back up the statements Adrian Lamo seems to have been making. And that would mean that his claims are based solely on opinion, not based on evidence in the chat logs.
IANAL, but this would not appear to be good news for anyone attempting or threatening to prosecute Julian Assange and/or Wikileaks.
What could have been a smoking gun now looks more like an empty water pistol.
HeyKevinPoulsen.com
Glenn Greenwald and Wired Magazine: "I see no reason to doubt Poulsen's integrity or good faith"
Guardian: Wired journalists deny cover-up over WikiLeaks boss and accused US soldier : Pair with access to transcript of comments by Bradley Manning deny they could help prosecution against Julian Assange (Dec 30, 2010)
Greenwald: Email/comment to Ryan Singel
Today's Wikileaks Links
Cuba puts WikiLeaks disclosures online in Spanish
WikiLeaks cables claim Vladimir Putin has secret wealth hidden abroad
CNN: Jessica Yellin's response to last night's Assange discussion
Fmr. US State Dept. official in Tehran Henry Precht on WikiLeaks – "Foreigners will be less forthcoming with our officers; the reports produced by those officers will be more restricted in circulation. It will be harder to conduct our business under those conditions."
The merger of journalists and government officials : Glenn Greenwald
Many Arab officials have close CIA links: Assange
My Parents Were Executed Under the Unconstitutional Espionage Act — Here's Why We Must Fight to Protect Julian Assange
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