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The King of Fighters Love Letter: KOF 94
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Wry Guy FGC News	March 19, 2010 13 Comments
It goes without saying that Capcom is the king of oldschool fighting games. I hardly think anyone really has the right to say the company doesn't deserve to be where it is either. Resident Evil, Mega Man, and Phoenix Wright are all things I love that Capcom has bestowed upon me, but strangely enough I don't really consider Street Fighter as much of a blessing. From a technical standpoint I regard many of the Street Fighter games as masterpieces, and I do ensure that I can play them competently.
That said, the games just don't quite jive with me. It's the characters, I think. It seems impossible for me to find Street Fighter characters that I have a serious interest in using for one reason or another. Because of this there's another company out there who holds the centerpiece to my fighting game love. As if you didn't know it was SNK. Shin Nihon Kikaku, otherwise translated as New Japan Project. I love SNK's games in their entirety. It's funny to think of how simple the company's name really is, yet there was a time when the name was fitting. There was a time when SNK was seen as a strong and innovative force in the games industry. Sad to say I wasn't among the people who was aware of this at the time.
The fact that myself and so many other people weren't there when SNK was at its peak is why I decided to write The King of Fighters Love Letter; a series that will chronicle the entire storyline of the KOF series of games and some of the general history of SNK. What's so great about learning about this series is the deeper you delve into it the more you realize that a huge part of SNK's history as a company is characterized by King of Fighters. Hopefully you'll find this extremely long ride a fun one.
SNK's career as Capcom's small, but only significant rival began with Fatal Fury for the Neogeo. While everyone attributes Fatal Fury as a Street Fighter II knockoff the games were both released the same year. Clearly videogames have never been something you can make overnight, thus they were in development at the same time. The story is that some of the original Street Fighter staff's staff had moved on to SNK, who then immediately began development on Fatal Fury. I'll bet a lot of people don't remember there was a game before Street Fighter II. Fatal Fury was just the beginning for SNK's career. It's too bad that so few people were watching them at the time. Because of this the King of Fighters XII is going to be many peoples' first real exposure to the SNK fighters. In some ways it was a good place for new fans of the series to start and in some ways it wasn't. As a fighting game it was very solidly built and SNK's extreme dedication really showed. Pixel art in this day and age is actually more expensive than 3D or hand drawn graphics, yet SNK decided to stay true to its roots and do it anyway. In a way it's really brilliant.
Hopefully King of Fighters XII's general lack of features won't stop potential new fans from taking notice of the sort of passion SNK puts into its work, even if at first glance that fact isn't apparent. Another reason I decided to make The King of Fighters Love Letter is because KOF XII is entirely lacking in a story mode. There's probably a lot of fresh faces out there who like the characters in King of Fighters XII, yet know nothing about them. It's not easy to find out either. If you lived in Japan that's one thing, but Western fans are hard pressed to find background information. By the end of this you'll know the history behind every single character in the King of Fighters series. Trust me, I'm serious about this project.
King of Fighters itself has an interesting history. It was one of the very first team based fighting games conceived. Likewise it's probably the only fighting game series out there which would release annually. Realistically most fighting game were just as prone to sequels as KOF, it's just that KOF had the brass balls to straight up admit how many there were. Another one of its strange quirks is that for eleven years the series stayed on the same gaming platform: The NeoGeo. It's actually kind of incredible how long the series lasted that way. Up until that point the series got by on recycled graphics and a very dedicated fanbase who appreciated the craftsmanship behind SNK games. King of Fighters XII was a huge deal for long time fans. They'd been staring at very similar graphics on the same arcade hardware from 1994 to 2003. Think about how many things have happened in that sort of timespan and how many videogame consoles have been released since then. From the later years of the original Nintendo Entertainment System up until the earlier days of Sony Playstation 2: the King of Fighters had been released every year on the same arcade unit.
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Going back to the beginning, King of Fighters basically started as a crossover project between the Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting game series. Various stories have flown around regarding the game's conception; though at this point it's hard to know if any of it is true. Because the fans responded so well to the main character of the Art of Fighting making a cameo in Fatal Fury Special, SNK supposedly wanted to develop a crossover beat 'em up. When Capcom made Final Fight though, SNK felt their thunder had been stolen. Deciding to do something new; SNK took various characters from Art of Fighting and Fatal Fury, created some new characters and cameo characters as well, and then tossed them all into a team based fighting game: The King of Fighters 1994. The concept was simple. You pick a team of 3 fighters and keep on fighting until someone had completely run out of team members. It was a one of a kind idea; at least back then it was. Many fighting games have been inspired to play around with team fights since then.
While the team angle was a trademark of King of Fighters, the series combined gameplay elements from its source material. The fighting game market was flooded at this point, but thanks to its mishmash of ideas KOF was fairly distinct. Among the game's features was the ability to charge your power meter for a Desperation Move and a fairly unique ability to step into the background to avoid attacks. Charging your super meter is an idea as old as the original Art of Fighting, and likewise shifting into the background is a concept that started with Fatal Fury from the very beginning of SNK's career in fighting games. With these old ideas and the team gameplay tossed in KOF 94 was regarded as a good game in its time, and garnered enough popularity to keep moving. While I'm not personally that attached to the original, I see it as the humble beginnings and owe it thanks for leading to other games.
I wouldn't say KOF actually began with a gripping storyline, nor even an entirely original one. The series started off as a Dream Match. Nearly every team in King of Fighters '94 is an homage to older SNK games. The original idea behind the series was to literally jam as many characters from old games as possible. The idea to give KOF a real storyline came a little later than 94. KOF is currently divided into three story arcs. King of Fighters 94 doesn't really have a place among any of those. There is at least a little story in KOF 94, though. The premise that brings all these characters together would become tradition: an invitation letter. The King of Fighters was a preexisting tournament dating back as far as Fatal Fury–however the invitations were being handed out by an unknown party who had nothing to do with the original King of Fighters tournaments. Letters were sent to the best fighters in the world with each one simply signed with the name "R."
Let's establish the history of every team. While KOF 94 itself doesn't have too much plot, the games that came before it set up a considerable back story. Before we begin covering the plot of the King of Fighters series in full, we need to cover what had happened to all the game's contestants prior to 1994 or at least what the inspiration behind these characters were. To avoid any confusion, we're going to introduce characters chronologically. The characters with the earliest history come first. Since King of Fighters is a Dream Match there are some storyline complications, but we are absolutely not going to concern ourselves with that right away. Let's get started.
Here we have the team with the oldest ties in all of the extended SNK universes' history, the Art of Fighting team. A native born Japanese martial artist now living in the United States, Takuma Sakazaki is the founder of Kyokugen Karate. Takuma was a prominent martial artist of his era, seeking to take his personal Kyokugen style and spread it around the world. Prior to KOF 94 a criminal syndicate in Southtown had taken notice of Takuma; possibly as a threat, and possibly as a tool. In events predating the original Art of Fighting game Takuma Sakazaki went missing while his wife died in a mysterious accident. More than likely these two events are connected. Perhaps in order to protect his family from further incident like those that befell his wife, Takuma left his home and began working under the syndicate's boss: Mr. Big. This effectively left his children Ryo Sakazaki and Yuri Sakazaki as orphans. From a young age Takuma's son Ryo Sakazaki continued to support and look after the Kyokugen Dojo in his father's stead while also taking care of his little sister Yuri Sakazaki along the way. Life continued for the Sakazaki family like this, with Ryo Sakazaki working to support the family and Takuma Sakzaki under Mr. Big's thumb. Eventually Takuma fled the syndicate, breaking whatever deals he had with Mr. Big before then. What exactly caused Takuma to break away from the syndicate is unknown, but there are several theories that he was asked to do something he could not possibly abide by.
In order to lure Takuma back to the syndicate, Mr. Big arranged for Takuma's daughter Yuri Sakazaki to be kidnapped and held as a hostage. No longer left with any choice, Takuma did as he was instructed. He was made to wear a Tengu mask and don the new persona of Mr. Karate. Oblivious to the circumstances revolving around Yuri's disappearance: both Ryo and his close friend Robert Garcia headed to to the infamous Southtown and rampaged across the seedy city. Beating information out of anyone they could in a search for new leads, eventually Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia found their way to Mr. Big and defeated him. Mr. Big then claimed that they would find Yuri being guarded by the mysterious Mr. Karate in a vacant dojo. In retaliation to Takuma's betrayal the Sakazaki family had been led into a trap where the heir and founder of the school would fight to the death. Possibly because Mr. Karate was going easy in the fight against his son and student he was nearly killed by Ryo and Robert; however Yuri was freed in time to reveal Mr. Karate's true identity as long missing head of the Sakazaki family. The Sakazaki family had just barely escaped the trap that had been placed beneath their feet and, and thus concluded the original Art of Fighting.
Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia are the heroes and main characters of the Art of Fighting series. Ryo Sakazaki is the natural born heir to the family school with a stern personality, likely bred from the responsibilities bestowed upon him early in life. Like his father he is native Japanese, however he left Japan at a very young age. In a very long running tradition, Ryo was perhaps the first SNK character to have an affinity with motorcycles. Robert Garcia on the other hand is an Italian student of the Kyokugen school and the son of Takuma Sakzaki's good friend, Albert Garcia. Robert's own heritage is a wealthy one as his father is a successful businessman. Robert Garcia happens to have a personal collection of expensive sports cars. In general Robert has a cocky and flashy sense of style , while Ryo is distinctively modest. After the tragedies related to Ryo's dead mother and missing father, Robert helped in looking after the Kyokugen school and often stayed as a member of the Sakazaki family.
Ryo and Robert are traditionally depicted as The Invincible Dragon and The Raging Tiger. In Chinese myth and artwork the dragon and tiger are portrayed as eternal enemies and equals, thus signifying Ryo and Robert's own relationship. Ryo in particular was depicted as a tenderhearted individual prior to his sister's kidnapping, with the awakening of the Dragon within him symbolizing his transformation into a fierce and wild fighter. Personally I always thought it made more sense for Ryo to be the Tiger, considering he always wears orange. Though close friends; there is always something for Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia to fight about. Most obvious among them: Money and Ryo's little sister. Yuri and Robert happen to have clear romantic intentions.
After discovering Takuma's real identity in Art of Fighting, a year would pass before the events of Art of Fighting 2. Many of the fighters from the first game began receiving invitation letters to the original King of Fighters tournament, held long before any other in the SNK timeline. While each fighter was offered great wealth and fame, upon completion of the tournament it was revealed that the original host of the tournament is Geese Howard: a former martial arts champion turned corrupt police commissioner. The King of Fighters tournament was an attempt by Geese to find strong fighters to work under him and his expanding criminal empire. Upon discovering that Mr. Big was nothing more than a pawn of Geese Howard's; the Sakazaki family took him head on and forced Geese Howard to flee Southtown.
Since claiming revenge on Geese Howard, Takuma Sakazaki often steps down from representing the Sakazaki Dojo because of his old age. Eventually he stepped down from fighting almost entirely and left running the Kyokugen Dojo to Ryo and Robert. At least, that's what he claims he's doing. Takuma always maintains authority over the school. Prior to the tournament Ryo, Robert, and Takuma were staying in Mexico as Takuma sought to build a Mexican branch of Kyokugen schools. They were indeed already in Mexico before the tournament even began. While Takuma proposed joining the three man tournament to put the team's training in Mexico to the test, Ryo and Robert went along with it thanks to the fact that Yuri Sakazaki had joined the tournament on another team. The Art of Fighting Team thus departed from Mexico to join The King of Fighters 94 tournament.
Technically Terry Bogard is the original hero of the SNK universe. Fatal Fury was made before Art of Fighting, however Art of Fighting was a prequel. Southtown was a city already infamous for its overflowing crime and corruption, and 10 years after Art of Fighting that much remained true. After being chased away to Japan by the Sakazaki family, Geese Howard arranged for the murder of his old colleague Jeff Bogard. Jeff Bogard was the successor to the Hakkyokuseiken fighting arts, one of the greatest fighters of the era, and very much so a threat to Geese's plans criminal exploits. Upon killing Jeff Bogard, Geese Howard then proceeded to skyrocket beyond his old position as a corrupt police commissioner to a full on crime lord. Geese returned and became the undisputed king of Southtown. With the kind of power he had, there was nobody to investigate or avenge Jeff Bogard's death. In the wake of Jeff Bogard's murder two children were left behind: Terry Bogard and Andy Bogard. Those two children could never forget what happened to their father and had spent those 10 years preparing to confront Geese Howard. Funnily enough, Geese didn't even know they existed. It was likely Geese Howard did not know much of Jeff Bogard's personal life.
Andy Bogard and Terry Bogard were taken in by Jeff Bogard's old master, Tung Fu Rue. The boys learned the same Hakkyokuseiken style that their father had mastered then parted ways from their hometown. From that point on Terry Bogard and Andy Bogard trained and grew separate from each other in order to exact revenge on Geese. While Andy Bogard left to learn the fighting arts in Japan, Terry became a wandering street fighter who traveled everywhere he could to find strong opponents. While Terry employs Hakkyokuseiken techniques to enhance his moves, by all means he's a mixed martial arts user.
In order to enact their revenge and get close to Geese Howard; Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard, and their friend Joe Higashi entered the King of Fighters tournament. After Art of Fighting Geese Howard had returned and reopened the KOF tournament on an annual basis. Terry fought his way through various opponents in the tournament including his own caretaker Tung Fu Rue. Eventually Terry persevered and became the first person to defeat the previous King of Fighters champion. Prior to Terry Bogard's arrival Geese's bodyguard Billy Kane would always remain the champion and essentially fix the ranks. Looking into Terry's background during the tournament, Geese learned Terry Bogard's identity as Jeff Bogard's son. Geese ordered that Terry be guided to him for a final confrontation on Geese Tower, the tallest building in Southtown. Geese appeared much different than when the Sakazaki family had fought him in Art of Fighting. Now donning distinctly Japanese attire; he had since trained under many martial artists and became far stronger. In the fight that ensued Terry delivering a finishing kick that sent Geese Howard hurtling off Geese Tower. Don't feel bad for Geese. If you lose the fight against him in Fatal Fury he kicks you off the building instead. With that, Jeff Bogard's murder had been avenged.
Andy Bogard and Joe Higashi are supporting cast to Terry, but together the trio are known as the Lone Wolves. No doubt this title is in part because of Geese Howard's old underground fighting title as "The Lone Wolf Killer." Andy Bogard is Terry's little brother and fellow Hakkyokuseiken user. Being the smaller one, Andy was often insecure about his stature compared to Terry. One day however he met Japanese martial arts master Hanzo Shiranui. Tiny man that he was, he proved to Andy that size wasn't everything in a fight. Hanzo took Andy to Japan to stay with the Shiranui family and learn Koppo, the eastern bone breaking martial art. Considering Andy Bogard spent his days on the other side of the world and Terry never stayed in one place, it's doubtful the two siblings had met each other since departing Southtown and returning during the King of Fighters tournament. Andy remains a strict and focused individual with interests revolving around training himself on a regular basis.
Joe Higashi was a native Japanese martial artist who became a Muay Thai Kickboxing champion in Thailand. He could be considered the comic relief of the team, as he's very enthusiastic and has a brash and childish attitude in the ring. Provoking people is his forte. He's always seeking to be the best and joined the Bogards because of the allure of fighting strong opponents in the King of Fighters tournament. The exact details regarding how he met the Bogards is one I don't know, but since then he remains a loyal friend to the them. He often trains in the jungle, remaining obscure and in solitude until he reappears and makes his mark in the Muay Thai world. Funnily enough his jungle training has led to his favorite food being Fried Alligator Bits. Though he spends much of his time in Thailand, his Japan headband shows off he's never forgotten his homeland. Joe's enthusiasm for fighting often plays a hand in the Lone Wolves' participation in any given tournament.
Opponents other than Geese Howard appear in the Fatal Fury series, but none of those stories are important right now. Fast forwarding to 1994: Terry continues to challenge himself and remains a man of the road; his lifestyle showcased in his love for basketball, videogames, and fast food. His wandering / training had led him to a resort in Italy where Andy and Joe had somehow tracked him down. Asking Terry if he wanted to participate in the latest King of Fighters they'd all received invitations for, the team joins largely in part because of their curiosity for who "R" could possibly be. It's not the first time curiosity has been a strong motivator for the Fatal Fury Team, but Joe's enthusiasm for a good fight also plays a heavy role.
Here we have the long running Women Fighters Team. Mai Shiranui is the granddaughter of Hanzo Shiranui, the man who took Andy Bogard to Japan. Mai Shiranui had been trained as a ninja of the Shiranui family since childhood, and she has a serious case of childhood puppy love for Andy Bogard. Mai Shiranui and Andy Bogard are clearly on dating terms, though it is implied that Andy's strict focus on training often leads to him not making any strong advances. For all intents and purposes Mai is the actual suitor in the relationship; she follows him wherever he goes. In Mai's mind she may as well already be married to Andy but his tendency to leave Japan often gets in the way. Mai Shiranui has a tendency to cling to Andy Bogard and it's often Mai's mission in any tournament she enters to bring Andy back to Japan with her. In just about any tournament you find Andy Bogard: Mai Shiranui is probably following close behind him somewhere.
Mai is most famous for her sex appeal. When she first appeared few fighting game characters wore such revealing clothing, but despite that she had a very distinct fighting style. She has a very open and cheerful personality, as well as no stealthy maneuvers to speak of. Mai Shiranui fits in the more mystical category of Japanese ninja. She takes pride in her homeland, often proclaiming "Japan's #1" before a match. In 1994 Mai was actually hoping that Andy would invite her to come along on his trip for once, considering King of Fighters had become a team tournament. Naturally that didn't happen, as Andy Bogard chose to go fight with his big brother and Joe Higashi instead. Feeling rejected, Mai by sheer dumb luck bumped into another girl in a very similar situation: Yuri Sakazaki. The two became immediate friends and decided to toss aside their previous expectations and work together instead.
Yuri Sakazaki is Ryo Sakazaki's kid sister. In other words she was the girl who was kidnapped in the original Art of Fighting. In the year that followed Art of Fighting Yuri had actually begun learning the Kyokugen Karate style from her father Takuma Sakazaki. Thanks to the fact that Ryo Sakzaki basically raised Yuri, Ryo hates the idea of her fighting and is extremely protective of her in general. Yuri would actually train in secret while pretending to be going to a fitness club. She entered the original King of Fighters tournament to show Ryo that she didn't need protecting anymore. Despite this Ryo continued to try and prevent her from fighting. Much of Yuri's motivation for entering any given tournament is to gain her "dumb" brother's approval, but she had almost given up hope on finding a team to join before meeting Mai Shiranui.
Like Mai, Yuri Sakazaki's a very cheerful and energetic individual. She's gained a reputation as a bit of a comedic character thanks to the fact that she's often imitating other fighting game characters. In general she seems to take a lot of pride in being a cute younger female fighter. She tends to be fairly confident if not casual as well. Long after putting up a ruse for her brother she still dresses more like she's going to the gym than a fight. Mai Shiranui and Yuri Sakzaki still needed a third team member, and thus Yuri suggested looking up an old friend named King.
King was actually one of the various antagonists in the first Art of Fighting game. When she first appeared she was the bouncer of Mr. Big's personal restaurant La Maison and a very enigmatic character to boot. She has no given full name and a misleading one put forth instead. Likewise in game manuals the game would explicitly refer to King as a male character. Though later on she would become a bit more feminine, you could have and were supposed to mistake King for a man earlier on. Defeating King with a special move was the only way to discover her real gender in her original appearance. Initially King was just another thug standing between Ryo Sakazaki and his sister, but eventually she would become Ryo's primary love interest. As King is not a woman who actively presents her femininity and Ryo Sakazaki isn't a very straightforward guy: in general they're shy around each other and other people take it upon themselves to further the relationship.
King is a woman of French descent who grew up learning Muay Thai in Thailand. This has actually led to something of a mock rivalry with Joe Higashi. It's rumored that she initially concealed her gender in order to enter all-male Kickboxing competitions and was expelled from the tournament scene upon her shirt being ripped off. While I can't confirm it this does make a good deal of sense, especially considering the only way you could initially discover King's gender was to burn off her clothing. After giving up working as a bouncer and supposedly trying to make a living as a consultant King returned to fighting and and joined the original King of Fighters tournament. Ever since the original Art of Fighting King had been fighting to raise funds. The reason was revealed to be her little brother Jan; whom could not walk.
At the end of the tournament Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia paid for little Jan's needed surgery, probably solidifying her friendship with the Kyokugen fighters. In 1994 Yuri Sakzaki and Mai Shiranui traveled to England looking for King at the bar she later established: Illusion. After cycling through so many jobs in her life, King seemed to have found something that suited her. Consider that one of her hobbies is collecting wine glasses and she's good at billiards. With that Team England and the Women Fighters Team was born.
It's at this point that we start hitting characters with significantly less back story. The 1994 Korea team as it is now was never initially intended. Initially it was supposed to be a group of three fugitives, but was later toned down to two fugitives and one man seeking to reform them. Kim Kaphwan would be that man. Kim is a Taekwondo master and a sort of National Sports Hero in Korea. There isn't too much to him in general. He's one of the more wholesome characters in the SNK universe, very much so living up to his status of a national role model. His is one of the more extreme cases of ethical characters however. He is what some would call a "justice" character, or rather someone who bestows upon himself the duty of fighting anyone he considers evil.
Despite being a popular character Kim traditionally has little impact on any given game's storyline. When he initially appeared in Fatal Fury 2 and even the Fatal Fury animated films he was simply a friendly aspiring martial artist seeking strong fighters. Kim is portrayed heavily as a loving father figure and family man, as he is one of the only SNK characters to have a wife and children. One night his sons Jae Hoon and Dong Hwan showed him a television broadcast of a gigantic escaped convict: Chang Koehan. Taking it upon himself to find and apprehend Chang, he ran from his house in the middle of the night and somehow stumbled upon a late night slasher as well. Noticing the power that both of them possessed, Kim apprehended both criminals and decided he would reform them and use their abilities for justice.
Chang Koehan and Choi Bounce are likewise relatively simple characters. While Chang is the escaped convict complete with ball and chain, Choi is basically a goofy version of a horror film villain. Choi initially looked so much like Freddy Kruegar that his design was changed just a month before the game's release. This much could been a coincidence, as it's possible they're slight tributes to Samurai Showdown characters Earthquake and Gen-an. Thanks to Kim's social status he's allowed to take the two of them into his custody, and they're basically at his mercy. Neither can really hope to overpower Kim, nor escape him and the beatings he gives them when they're out of line. The entire team has a slapstick comedy shtick. Chang and Choi are often displayed sympathetically in their game endings, wanting nothing more than escape Kim. Kim uses the King of Fighters tournament as a device in both teaching the two criminals Taekwondo and furthering their rehabilitation. While every team covered previously did some traveling to end up where they were, Team Korea is all native Korean fighters.
Originating from a military base in Brazil, the International Police have assigned a man named Heidern to investigate and shut down the organization behind the 1994 King of Fighters tournament. This military unit's exact purpose remains unclear. The only solid fact is that Heidern is the commander. The reason Heidern's unit in particular was chosen by Interpol seemed apparent. When handed the invitation letter which sparked his summoning: Heidern seemed to immediately know who the man named "R" sending out the letters was. Rugal Bernstein. Eight years prior Heidern suffered a heavy loss at Rugal's hands. In an impossible one man massacre Rugal killed Heidern's men in service, slaughtered his family, and finally robbed him of his right eye.
The reason Rugal and Heidern had clashed is never stated, however the most likely reason is related to a future King of Fighters villain. Rugal being a rich weapons smuggler though, Heidern's unit would have had plenty of reasons to come across Rugal eventually. Despite being deeply traumatized by the slaughter Rugal brought down on him Heidern accepted the mission readily and enlisted two of his top subordinates to join his team: Ralf Jones and Clark Still. Ralf and Clark like Heidern are experienced soldiers, though while nobody really knows where Heidern came from we at least know that Ralf and Clark are Americans. Heidern is a fairly distinct character with his tragic past, cold demeanor, and fighting style which uses concealed knives. Comparatively Ralf and Clark started out in the King of Fighters series being almost identical. This much is actually to be expected when you consider the fact they were inspired by an old SNK arcade classic called Ikari Warriors.
Ikari Warriors was a very central piece of SNK's history as their first truly successful game. Ralf and Clark were the player 1 and 2 characters from said historic Rambo-fueled game. Elaborate cameos you could call them. Ralf and Clark were initially supposed to be shirtless, this being yet another nod to the Ralf and Clark's old Ikari Warriors visage. This was later scrapped for what was considered a more modern look. As time would go on both Ralf and Clark would develop their own personalities and fighting styles. Ralf would become a hotheaded fighter with seemingly explosive attacks and Clark would be a cool headed grappler. They'd eventually come to play off each others' personalities, with Ralf often taking charge and Clark being around to put him in his place when need be. Both are trained in Heidern's style of assassination arts, and if nothing else we know the two of them have seen a lot of action.
Heidern himself is an original character without any established existence in prior games, but SNK seems to regard all of Ralf and Clark's skirmishes in the Ikari Warrior games as semi-canon. The characters are portrayed as having a lot of battlefield experience and one of Ralf's personal treasures is a medal given to him by the President of the United States as well. This is likely a nod to the original arcade version of Ikari Warriors III, otherwise just known as Ikari III. Your mission in said game is to rescue the President's daughter. Later on Ralf and Clark would become Metal Slug characters. Leaving straight from their military base, Team Brazil and the Ikari Warriors Team was born heavily from the burden of revenge.
Team Japan is the only teams in King of Fighters 94 to be completely original. No previous ties whatsoever. Leading the team is the new protagonist of the early King of Fighters series: Kyo Kusanagi. Kyo's the heir to one of the world's oldest martial arts styles that only those of his bloodline of capable of using. While the physical attacks can be accomplished by normal people, the ancient Kusanagi style includes various special attacks which utilize the family's unique ability to manipulate and shoot flames. He's one of the few SNK characters to have an inherent power; perhaps because he created with the intent of producing a character who could stand up to previous SNK heroes in a fight. Kyo's name was initially Syo and he was going to be a very different character during early development in KOF 94. The only game that I know of which lets you see Kyo's old prototype design is King of Fighters 2000, where Syo makes a cameo appearance.
Initially there isn't too much to Kyo's character. His most distinct traits are all his flame related attacks and his cocky attitude. One of his longer running traits was also that he would enter fights in his high school uniform. Despite still being in high school Kyo had already conquered many of Japan's national tournaments prior to 1994. Likewise he had met and bested some of Japan's biggest fighting stars such as Benimaru Nikaido and Goro Daimon. Goro was introduced to the series with the desire to create a Judo champion, and as such he's a previous Olympic Gold Medalist. Aside from his odd choice in foot ware and ridiculous physical strength, he is a rather plain character. Benimaru on the other hand is a mixed martial artist who practices a derivative of kickboxing known as shootboxing. Despite having a very flamboyant personality and sense of style, he considers himself quite the ladies man. His manner of speaking in particular has led some to question his sexual orientation, though. SNK's staff assures that Beniarmu's perfectly straight.
Strangely enough Benimaru is capable of manipulating lightning, yet he has no known inherent ability like Kyo does. His power is very much so a mystery. Later on Kyo's command of fire is explained, but Benimaru's is not. Considering King of Fighters takes a heavy influence from action anime, some things are likely to never be answered. Despite having only met just a year prior to 1994 in a national competition the three of them decided to band together upon receiving invitations to the King of Fighters tournament and formed Team Japan. Beyond KOF 94 they would become known as the Hero Team, often proving themselves to be the strongest contestants.
Here we have another team inspired by old SNK arcade classics. Athena Asamiya is the star player of this team and one of King of Fighters' most popular characters in general. Athena is a reference to the game Psycho Soldiers, though KOF seems to make no serious effort as regarding those games as canon to the KOF storyline. In Psycho Soldiers you played as a young school girl with psychic abilities who fought aliens or mutants… and I have no idea why. Like a lot of arcade games it didn't make a ton of sense.
Various small references to the game exist through Athena Asamiya's character. Psycho Soldiers was the first game to ever have a vocal soundtrack and as such its music carried over to be the theme song for the Psycho Soldiers team in most early King of Fighters games. Do keep in mind that there are English and Japanese versions of the original Psycho Soldiers song, but the Japanese version is typically regarded as the real one. Some of Athena's attacks such as the Shining Crystal Bit and Phoenix Arrow are references to Psycho Soldiers. The old Athena was protected by a shield of crystals in the game and could also transform into a Phoenix, for example. Like in Psycho Soldiers Athena has psychic or "psycho" powers that she uses in order to fight. The reason she is gifted with such powers is probably another reference. Before Psycho Soldiers came a game called Athena where you played as the Greek Goddess Athena going on adventures. In Psycho Soldiers the Goddess Athena supposedly was reborn in the future as a young girl with psychic powers. To fight aliens… or mutants… or something. It's an old arcade game, since when do those make sense? The basic idea of Athena Asamiya"s character is that she's a psychic who may be the reincarnation of Greek Goddess Athena. Don't put too much thought into it, Athena is basically just a character with a lot of history at SNK. She and Sei Kensou even make a cameo appearance in Crystalis.
Whether or not Athena in King of Fighters is actually the Greek Goddess reborn doesn't really have any bearing on the King of Fighters storyline. It's quite possible her powers simply exists as a homage to SNK's history. Sei Kensou was inspired by the player two character in Psycho Soldiers of the same name. He had almost identical powers and even less backstory. New to KOF was Chin Gentsai, the master of a Chinese temple and practitioner of Drunken Fist Kung Fu. Chin trains both Athena and Kensou in the Chinese mountains to use their psychic powers for the sake of the world. In order to put his disciples' fighting ability to the test he decides to accept the invitation to the King of Fighters tournament. He enters his team into the 1994 tournament in order to test his students' training.
Chin is another one of the less complex SNK characters. His creation was inspired by the desire to have a drunken kung-fu master, and beyond that he's basically just a goofy old man with a bit of a justice streak. While both Athena and Kensou are ill-defined characters initially, they would eventually go on to become fairly distinct similar to Ralf and Clark's situation. Athena would become a cheerful Japanese pop idol with a dedicated following. Kensou would grow to become her biggest follower and self-proclaimed love interest. In other words he's a really cocky fanboy. The entire team trains for a day that their powers may be needed to fight evil. Both Kensou and Chin are Chinese while Athena is Japanese. The exact circumstances of their meeting is unknown but leaving from the temple they establish Team China, or The Psycho Soldiers Team.
The United States King of Fighters team is very much so a joke team, but oh if they aren't rife with history. As fellow fighting game enthusiast Big Mex was so kind to point out: one of the team's most interesting traits is its outdated sense of eighties' fashion. I honestly can't tell if this team is a tribute or a parody to American culture from the eighties, but references are abound. While SNK had not developed all of them, the Neogeo in its earlier years housed a variety of sports games. Kyo Kusanagi and the Japan Team is the only entirely original team in King of Fighters 1994. Every other team was a nod toward previous SNK games and this team is no exception. Sports titles such as Street Hoop and Football Frenzy were clearly the basic inspiration for the creation of this exceptionally ridiculous group of fighters.
Heavy D is inspired by a real life rapper who went by the same name, however the King of Fighters Heavy D is a boxer. To avoid confusion: we're going to refer to them as IRL and KOF Heavy D. While KOF Heavy D's name seems to come from the fact that he's literally one of the largest characters in the series, the real life Heavy D's name is derived from the fact that he's chubby. There's no mistaking the relation. KOF Heavy D's hobby is listed as "listening to the New Jack Swing," the same sort of music that IRL Heavy D was known for.
The exact reason SNK chose a portly fusion rapper as the inspiration for a heavy weight boxer? Fuck if I know; they don't even look similar. My guess is that he was a popular singer among the SNK staff back when he made his splash in the eighties. Lucky Glauber on the other hand takes a little bit more from his source material. SNK has stated that the inspiration for Lucky was the black guy from Bruce Lee's film Game of Death. Do you know who that man was? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Kareem was a professional basketball player going on through the late eighties into the late nineties, and apparently he was pretty huge in his time. Apparently the fact that Kareem had studied under Bruce Lee at some point led to his involvement in the film, and thus you get Lucky Glauber: A martial artist basketball player. More people are probably familiar with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's appearance in the old eighties comedy Airplane.
In the King of Fighters series Heavy D is a heavyweight boxing champion whose career was cut short after he killed an opponent in the ring. Lucky Glauber is a former basketball star who quit the sport in order to become a martial artist. Since then he had gained the title of All-American Karate Champion. Both Heavy D and Lucky wished to find new challenges, and thus accepted their King of Fighters invitations. Needing a third member, Lucky suggested Brian Battler: A football MVP with no previous martial arts experience. Brian's own character design is supposedly one of the oldest in SNK's closet that never got any use before KOF. Since SNK has already left this on the record my guess is that he was initially a rejected World Heroes design. Johnny Maximum was the football character from that particular series.
Team USA or The Sports Team was a one time deal, only ever making an appearance again in non-story related games. There's a running in-joke among SNK's staff that Team USA never made subsequent appearances in other KOF games because stronger teams would beat them up and steal their invitations.
In all of the early King of Fighters games, Kyo Kusanagi's team would come out on top in the tournament. Upon winning one of Rugal Bernstein's secretaries would escort the team via helicopter to Rugal's base of operations: A battleship called the Black Noah. If the giant ship and pet panther don't tip of off: Rugal got some bank, yo. The King of Fighters tournament was an odd name for the world to see again. Very few people had any idea who Rugal was as a result. It's very possible that Rugal used the KOF name because of previous ties to Geese Howard. Rugal uses an imitation of Geese's Reppuken attack and mentions him by name in the Fatal Fury Team's ending. As both Geese and Rugal are crime lords, it's not too far fetched an idea.
Upon arriving on the Black Noah, Kyo's team find three things: Rugal sitting upon his throne, the collection of statues adorned around him, and Kyo Kusanagi's father Saisyu Kusanagi lying on the ground in a bloody mess. Saisyu had challenged Rugal prior to Kyo's arrival for reasons that aren't entirely solid, but they are likely tied to the source of Rugal's strength. Like Kyo, Saisyu is a member of the legendary Kusanagi clan with a command of flames. Being able to beat a Kusanagi isn't a small feat. Rugal reveals that the statues around him are actually the remains of all the fighters that had previously challenged him. He then states that Saisyu, Kyo, Benimaru, and Goro would soon become a part of his collection and a fight ensues.
The fight itself is notoriously difficult, but upon losing Rugal is left in disbelief. Kyo Kusanagi's team had proven victorious and stubbornly Rugal tries to take the team down with him. He pulls out a self-destruct switch which causes various sections of the Black Noah to explode, however the team escapes. Saisyu's escape is not confirmed. With that the first King of Fighters game reaches its conclusion with very little information contained with the endings. The series probably wasn't initially created with the intent of carrying on a storyline, but what tidbits do exist are that there: Rugal is confirmed to have some sort of affiliation with previous Fatal Fury villains like Geese Howard, and Heidern leaves the Black Noah satisfied with the vengeance his dead wife and daughter have received.
Next up comes The King of Fighters 95 where the story really begins with The Orochi Saga.
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Welch Award in Chemistry
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
For pioneering contributions to bioorganic chemistry and the development of bioorthogonal chemistry.
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Dr. Chi-Huey Wong
The Scripps Research Institute's Professor Chi-Huey Wong to be honored for advancements in chemical research
Dr. Steven L. McKnight
Dr. Steven L. McKnight is being honored for his original contributions that identified the regulatory regions of eukaryotic genes, gene specific transcription factors, and the role of low complexity sequences in proteins that form functional and reversible aggregates in phase-separated hydrogels.
Dr. Armand Paul Alivisatos
For fundamental contributions to nanochemistry, in particular, the synthesis and application of colloidal inorganic nanocrystals.
Dr. Charles M. Lieber
Charles M. Lieber – For pioneering contributions to nanochemistry, in particular, the synthesis and application of nanoscale wires.
Dr. Adriaan Bax
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
For contributions to transforming NMR spectroscopy for the study of the structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules.
Dr. John B. Goodenough
For innovative contributions to materials science and technology, in particular developing the cathode material for the lithium-ion rechargeable battery.
Richard H. Holm
For pioneering contributions to the role of metal ions in biology, especially the synthesis of Fe-S clusters and the establishment of the biomimetic approach in bioinorganic chemistry.
Stephen J. Lippard
For pioneering contributions to the role of metal ions in biology, especially the cisplatin mechanism of action, diiron methane monooxygenase, and zinc signaling in the brain.
Dr. Stephen C. Harrison
For outstanding contributions to the x-ray crystallography of viruses and protein nucleic aid complexes.
Robert G. Bergman
For pioneering work in alkane activation and mechanisms of organometallic reactions.
Louis E. Brus
For creating the field of colloidal quantum dots (semiconductor nanocrystals).
For his contributions to organic reaction design, in particular stereocontrol in carbon-carbon bond formation, which advanced the field of complex molecule synthesis.
John S. Waugh
For ground-breaking research in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Christopher T. Walsh
For pioneering work in biological chemistry.
JoAnne Stubbe
For fundamental research in biochemistry and enzymology.
Harry B. Gray
For definitive contributions to the field of inorganic chemistry.
Alexander Rich
For outstanding contributions to the understanding of the chemical and biochemical mechanisms in maintaining a living cell.
Noel S. Hush
For fundamental work on the theory of homogeneous and heterogeneous electron transfer and contributions in the area of molecular electronics.
William H. Miller
For pioneering development of the modern theory of chemical reaction dynamics and rates.
Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
For his consistent and highly effective use of basic chemical principles to bring to greater clarity chemical processes in complex biological systems.
George M. Whitesides
For the breadth and depth of his insight into chemical processes and his astute use of this understanding in approaching and solving many difficult problems in organic chemistry, biochemistry, biology, material science and surface science.
Allen J. Bard
For his major accomplishments in the field of electrochemistry and the effect of these on the discipline of chemistry itself.
Ronald Breslow
For his pioneering contributions to the field of biomimetic chemistry and catalysis by design.
Harden M. McConnell
For his thorough understanding of magnetic resonance and its use in achieving greater insight into chemical systems including reaction dynamics, magnetic resonance imaging and membrane phenomenon.
Roger D. Kornberg
For his seminal contributions in biological and structural chemistry: (1) the discovery, basic structure and function of nucleosome; (2) the discovery of the multiprotein Mediator of transcriptional regulation; and (3) the structures of the giant RNA polymerase II transcription initiation and elongation complexes.
Sir Alan R. Battersby
For his work which is well described as the biosynthesis of the pigments of life. It represents one of the major and most significant enterprises in contemporary chemistry and has transformed knowledge of the biosynthesis of such vital substances as vitamin B12.
A. Ian Scott
For his great contributions to organic chemistry and biochemistry, especially the elegant use of every physical and biological tool available to solve complex structural and mechanistic problems in natural product chemistry and biosynthesis, e.g., vitamin B12. He has provided concepts and methodologies which have been fruitful to many others.
Richard N. Zare
For his seminal contributions in the area of chemical reaction dynamics and in the general field of molecular spectroscopy.
Pierre Chambon
College de France
For his achievements in the field of nuclear receptors which have paved the way to a molecular understanding of vertebrate fundamental processes as well as their pathological disorders.
Ahmed H. Zewail
For his leadership and pioneering contribution to all phases of femtosecond chemistry.
Koji Nakanishi
For his major contribution to our greater understanding of and our capacity to use many of the bioactive compounds found in nature.
Robert H. Abeles
For his contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms of catalysis by enzymes and to the rational development of compounds that inactivate enzymes.
Jeremy R. Knowles
For his important contributions to mechanistic enzymology.
F. Albert Cotton
For his work leading to our current understanding of multiple bonds of metal-metal bonding of transition metal chemistry and for his major impact in the field of inorganic and structural chemistry by virtue of his own work and the numerous individuals who worked in his laboratory as students or postdoctoral fellows.
Jack Halpern
For his contributions to understanding reaction mechanisms not only of inorganic chemicals but of complex organometallic reactions systems as well; also for his contributions to understanding the field of homogeneous catalysis in solution.
Gilbert Stork
For his work in developing new methods in organic synthesis and as a mentor to leading synthetic chemists all over the world. He has profoundly influenced the way scientists think about natural product synthesis in general and stereochemical control in particular.
Richard E. Smalley
For his career contributions to physical chemistry, including his development and use of supersonic molecular beam techniques for the study of clusters, ions, and molecules.
Edwin G. Krebs
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington
For his part in showing that interconversion of phosphorylase between its active and inactive forms involved phosphorylation/ dephosphorylation, a process fundamental to the regulation of nearly every vital biological function.
Earl R. Stadtman
For his work in demonstrating that covalent interconvertible enzyme cascades provide the cell with a finely-tuned regulatory mechanism capable of integrating a vast amount of metabolic information, and that they have a remarkable potential for amplification signals and rates.
William von Eggers Doering
For his critical contribution into fundamental aspects of physical organic chemistry. Among his many other important contributions, his work on the carbenes was a pioneering effort which opened a broad field.
John D. Roberts
For his integration of molecular spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, kinetics and other aspects of physical chemistry with his talent for organic synthesis. In the application of these intertwined disciplines to the study of structure activities of organic molecules.
Norman R. Davidson
For his pioneering research contributions to the understanding of the structure and function of genetic materials, especially for his novel techniques which had a powerful influence in this field.
Richard B. Bernstein
For his pioneering research in chemical dynamics thereby providing a new understanding of how chemical reactions occur.
Harry G. Drickamer
For his research on the effects of pressure on optical, electrical magnetic and chemical properties of matter.
George C. Pimentel
For his contribution to the field of hydrogen bonding, matrix isolation, and chemical lasers.
Duilio Arigoni
Federal Institute of Technology
For his contributions of founding the field of bio-organic stereochemistry, which involves interaction of organic chemicals and enzymes.
Kenneth S. Pitzer
For his theory for the internal rotation of groups within molecules.
Henry Taube
For his contributions to the field of chemistry, particularly in inorganics.
Frank H. Westheimer
For his significant achievements in the field of bioorganic chemistry.
Paul D. Bartlett
For his original investigations of the mechanisms of organic reactions.
Karl Sune Detolf Bergstrom
Karolinska Institute
For his pioneering studies of the prostaglandins.
E. Bright Wilson
For his pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to molecular structure.
Neil Bartlett
For his synthesis of chemical compounds of noble gases and the consequent opening of broad new fields of research in inorganic chemistry.
Albert Eschenmoser
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
For his profound and highly creative contributions to synthetic chemistry.
Karl A. Folkers
For his basic research in the area of life sciences.
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In the richness of the river Neyyar, a little boy caught himself in the currents of poetry. Neyyar, may no longer be the old river that gave the boy the delight and a opportunity for the intrinsic journey to one's own self to find the verses that made him a poet. But the boy, renowned poet, V Madhusoodanan Nair, while traveling on a boat across the river Neyyar makes a journey to his childhood days explaining to the viewers how he become a poet. He narrates how seeds of poetry was sowed in his heart, when he used to hear his mother read out CV Ramanpillai's novel to her friends. Times as changed, so is Neyyar. Poet tells in this episode of 'Ee Vazhitharayil', about the change and also how Malayalam language has suffered over the years. Ee Vazhitharayil, Episode 106
Almost three and a half decades Peruvanam Kuttanmarar is an integral part of Thrissur Pooram, the king of festivals in Kerala. He is the 'melapramani' (rhythm master) of Ilangitharamelam for the past 16 years, which is the rhythm that enchants th


I'm speachless and very thrilled cause I've got the Gen Con 50 Art Show Original Art 1st Place award! The ceremony was on 17th Aug 2017 in Indianapolis. I've exhibited there my works as the part of Art Show, and for the first time originals from the Norse Mythology art book were exhibited.
The award was for the "Trolls" artwork from my personal project – Norse Mythology art book. So that make it more special, and means a lot to me!


Previously we showed you all the cover for this year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. This time around, Kate and ourselves are back to show you even more of what this issue has in store for you all. The video above exposes the lovely lady posing on the beach in nothing but body paint. Despite having no clothing on, the model has no problem flaunting what she has for all of the world to see. Press play to see what this American beauty has got to show off, you won't regret that you did.


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The World Affairs Institute was a lecture series organized by the Municipal University of Omaha and its successor the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The institute ran from academic year 1947/1948 through 1971/1972. It was originally directed by William E. Daugherty, a professor of government at the University of Omaha. The first year was presented as a 3-hour credit course entitled "Institute on World Affairs," offered jointly through the OU School of Adult Education and the Department of History and Government. Later institutes were sponsored by the College of Continuing Studies and other organizations both on and off campus, and attendance was open to a broader community. The institute featured a series of lectures on foreign affairs and policy issues. Speakers came from all over the world and included professors, journalists, diplomats, government officials, politicians, organizational directors, and authors.
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Penrhyn Bay Caravan Park is situated on the coast 1 mile from the village of Llanfwrog, 6 miles from Valley and 9 miles from the town of Holyhead.
The Park is large and spacious with Static caravans on one grassy field & a separate field for Touring Vans and Tents. The grounds are mostly level with some undulating areas but tarmac roads service most parts of the park & the park has outdoor electric lighting. Parking outside each unit is on grass.
Access to the beach is via a dirt track which is about 2.5 metres wide with a slope at the beach end.
There is level parking outside the reception & shop on a tarmacadam drive. A ramp for prams and wheelchairs provides access.
There are 2 toilet blocks, 1 shower block and a separate disabled toilet/shower unit which can be accessed with a wheel-chair and has a level parking area outside.
The patio area outside the swimming pool is fully accessible to wheelchairs, however, there are a couple of steps at the entrance to the pool. Access to the pool is by 2 separate ladders.
The Bus service runs a couple of times a day from Llanfwrog (1mile) and more frequently from the next village of Llanfachraeth (3 miles). The nearest train station is at Valley (6 miles) and the main station is at Holyhead (9miles) where the Port is situated for the Ferry boat to Ireland.
There is a good Mobile phone reception at Park for most networks.
We will make all reasonable provisions for people with disabilities to enjoy their stay with us. If a member of your party has a disability please telephone to check the suitability of our facilities for you.


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The smell of stinky shoes can be overwhelming and make you want to throw them away. There are a number of good ways to remove and prevent the odors. This is a guide about removing odors from stinky shoes.
Spraying with white vinegar also works.
I wipe out the insides of shoes with rubbing alcohol.
I buy the generic version of Lysol spray from the dollar store. I spray at night and let the shoes dry overnight. Sweet smelling in the morning.
I keep giving feedback about the chemicals in dryer sheets, which can be very dangerous. I suggest that you at least do not put your bare feet into any footwear that has had dryer sheets stored in them - always wear socks. If your feet sweat, you shouldn't use dryer sheets at all, as your feet will absorb these chemicals.
Please read my TF post from last November in response to folks who were sending suggestions for using dryer sheets on their pets. (Link below) It's no joke - these chemicals are dangerous.
I put rubbing alcohol on a cotton square and rub the insides of my shoes to disinfect them.
If you have someone who has sweaty feet all the time, here is a solution to get rid of the smell in their shoes. Throw shoes in the washer. Once dry, double bag them and put in the freezer overnight. This will kill the bacteria that causes the odour. Once thawed and dry, spray with vinegar, rubbing alcohol or Pinesol. Cover entire inside of shoe. Once dry, dust with powder. Works well.
1. I wash my feet daily - do it thoroughly (drying primarily).
2. I wear cedarsoles inside all of my shoes. Cedarsoles are chemical-free insoles made from natural cedarwood. The cedarwood has antibacterial features and eliminate any bad bacteria on my feet skin. So the smell has no more basis.
Use regular kosher salt or any salt. Just sprinkle in shoes after heavy use, then wear with socks or without. It will kill the odor. Repeat if necessary. If all else fails you need to just toss the shoe.
Sure, there are many things you can do to try and remedy the long-time battle of the "stinky shoe". You can mix various concoctions, sprinkle dust, make magic potions or whatever, but why not invest that valuable time somewhere else? Want to get rid of the stink? Stuff the shoes with newspaper. That's right. Newspaper. Shoes should be "stink-free" come morning!
Source: I'm the grandmother of the boy with the world's stinkiest shoes!
If you ever have a pair of shoes that don't smell very good then I have an easy solution for you! Just take some tea bags and place them in your shoes while not in use, in a day or two your shoes won't have any bad smell!
Dryer sheets are a great way to deodorize stinky shoes. Here is this tip in action.
To freshen up smelly training shoes/sneakers, put a sheet of fabric softener in them overnight.
Put your smelly sneakers in the washing machine with a half a cup of vinegar and some laundry detergent. Fill the washer with water and allow sneakers to soak for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes wash as usual. The sneakers will come out odor free and smelling as good as new.
To get the stink out of your tennis shoes use tea tree oil. Put the shoes in the washing machine. Set the water level to low. Add 2 teaspoons of tea tree oil.
What can you put in shoes to make them smell less? My grandson stays in his tennis shoes. I would like something that he could slip into his shoes at night, that would help get rid of the odor. Thanks.
I don't have smell troubles, but I put in Bounce Dryer Sheets every night into my shoes to keep them fresh. Works for me.
I bought my son a pair of leather Jordon's at the Finish Line 2 months ago. They smell like cat urine and we have no cats! I have washed them, let them dry, and stuffed them with newspaper. I also bought a new shoe deodorizer and the shoes still smell like cat urine, to the point the shoes make my house smell like cat urine. What do you suggest for me to resolve this problem? Thank you.
You should have taken them back and maybe you still can if they have not been worn much. They were probably made in China and it is probably the glue they used. Don't buy shoes made in China. You don't know what they are made of.
I would go to a farm supply or hardware store to buy a product designed to eliminate urine smell. Then I would apply the product, and allow the shoes to dry outside in the sun, while I treated the inside of the house.
The smell is not due to the shoes being made in China, it's from teenage boy (can happen with girls, too) sweaty feet. Trust me, I have 17 year old twin boys. Their shoes smell like cat urine as well. Bleh! I don't notice the smell until they get wet...usually.
I'm going to try the baking soda method I've heard about and maybe the freezing method as well. Regardless, I'll let you know if I find anything that works. Good luck!
I went to a watering hole and was wearing my water shoes. I then packed them in a plastic pack and promptly forgot about them. I opened the bag 2 days later and they smell horrible. Is there anything I can do to get rid of the smell? I'm willing to try anything to make them smell normal again!
I went to Arkansas and I got my Jordan's all wet. I threw them in the washer, but it seems that the odor of the inside is just worse now. It's part of the shoe, if that makes any sense. If anyone has a way to get rid of the odor please help me.
How do I remove odors from sneakers?
I have to wear athletic shoes for work, and I wash mine at least once a month in the washer, then set out to dry outside with the laces out, and tongues pulled back, which helps greatly.
Otherwise, you could try filling the insides with baking soda and leaving at least overnite, or trying an unused fabric softener sheet tucked down into the toe area.
I wouldn't have believed you could wash leather sneakers in the washing machine, but you can. I first tried it with a pair that I would have thrown out could I not clean them. I took the insoles out to wash separately. Dry everything in the sun and they're almost brand new. Use a higher end laundry soap for this dirty job and that will also help with deodorizing.
I've heard that you can stuff them with newpaper and set outside over night and that helps. It's not a permanent fix though you may have to do it once a week or so.
I purchased some sandals from JCPenney a few months ago. The brand is Yuu and it says they are made from "man made materials". After wearing them quite a bit they have become smelly and there is a dark imprint of my feet on them. How do I get rid of both the smell and the footprints?


Why use Peer Editing strategy?
Have students go over their writing and highlight (identify) the claim, evidence, reasoning and counter argument all in different color. If you are using a device have the students copy and paste their writing into a Google doc and they can highlight right on there. If they are using hard copies just try and use different colors so they can distinguish each component. Later on in the year you can have the other peer find all the components when you start put have the original writer highlight.
Have students switch with the other person and have the peer read through and see if they agree with all of the checked or highlighted components and make any comments or changes they feel are needed. Have them only focus on content of the writing first. Alternately, you can focus on a specific component, such as evidence or reasoning.
After editing, have them go back and focus conventions, such as basic proofreading to improve spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Once students complete editing they should share their feedback aloud and provide further context for the writer for their revisions.
Students practice their editing skills (See University of Chicago studies on the impact of peer editing on college and career readiness).
Students are able to make changes to their CERCA before finally submitting.
Using peers as a real audience of their writing helps students become aware of the importance of considering the audience in their writing.
This is a great strategy/lesson that could include all of the students in the classroom.
Modeling the firsts peer-editing session is strongly encouraged, so students understand the importance of positive feedback and the use of resources like the rubric to guide peer-to-peer revision.
While students are editing teachers can circulate to provide extra help to students who are working at different levels of readiness.


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Google, Samsung and Apple grabbed most of the headlines at CES 2019, which closes later today in Las Vegas. For communicators, though, the annual tech fest centers on spotting trends and learning about cutting-edge messaging platforms. Bell's social media manager David Wolpert reports on three trends he saw at CES that are relevant to communicators.
PR News' regular Roundtable feature asked senior communicators to discuss what they believe will be the toughest challenge in 2019. Perhaps concerned with the headlines of the day, many of them had trust and integrity issues on their minds. Others mentioned breaking through the clutter to get their narrative heard.
Veteran PR pro and former journalist Arthur Solomon offers the second of his two-part series about the valuable lessons communicators can learn from federal government communications. Pulled from 2018's headlines, the examples he uses offer lessons in ethics, crisis and other PR activities.


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What Cobra Kai Teaches Us about Empathy and Other-Awareness
Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and his star pupil, Miguel Diaz (Xolo Maridueña)
Self-awareness is a hot topic nowadays.
You can hardly open a business or psychology book without coming across numerous mentions of emotional intelligence, EQ or self-awareness.
The theory of objective self-awareness goes back to 1972, when it was published by Shelley Duval and Robert Wicklund. Daniel Goleman's definition of self-awareness, immortalized in his best-selling book Emotional Intelligence, simply puts it down to "knowing one's internal states, preference, resources, and intuitions."
I've written previously that we probably shouldn't trust our intuitions, because they are a byproduct of evolutionary programming, genetics, fetal conditions, infancy and upbringing, past experience, microbiome activity and our current environment.
Given this, there is immense value in being self-aware. Knowing that a feeling in our gut willing us not to do something we really need to — like make an important presentation in front of a large audience — is really just evolutionary programming which is trying to mitigate our chances of being ostracised from our tribe so that we can survive. Perhaps that made sense thousands of years ago — when we relied upon our tribes for survival — but no so much today.
With self-awareness, we are better able to navigate the world without always falling victim to involuntary reactions that serve to sabotage us, rather than serve us.
But what about Other-Awareness?
Once we understand this concept, it is easy to identify numerous reasons for our own behaviors, yet we often fall short of appreciating the extent to which these factors play a role in other people's behavior.
We often fall victim to the fundamental attribution error, a cognitive bias that suggests we unduly emphasize another's character for their failings, and over-emphasize our circumstances for our own. We are quick to categorize and write people off as the 'bad guys', because it helps us to feel morally righteous and make sense of our world — but the world, and it's people, are not black and white.
Self-awareness, without other awareness, can only do so much for someone in a world where we essentially need to collaborate with other people.
To best navigate the complexities of human relationships, one must also develop 'other-awareness', and gain an appreciation for the circumstances that shape someone else's decisions and behaviours, so that we can become more empathetic and tailor our responses and behavior with them accordingly — that's if we want to develop and maintain healthy relationships and optimize outcomes.
A Pop-Culture Case Study
The failings of the human mind to incorporate other-awareness in how we navigate the world was demonstrated beautifully in the most unlikely of places; The Karate Kid inspired Cobra Kai television series.
Fans of The Karate Kid, the iconic 1984 feature film, will remember Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio) as the skinny Italian kid from Newark, New Jersey who moved all the way to Reseda, Los Angeles, only to be subject to constant bullying and violent attacks from local karate champion, and apparent rich kid, Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), and his buddies from the notorious — yet ever so cool — Cobra Kai dojo.
LaRusso feels the wrath of the skeleton-costume adorned Cobra Kai
Everybody who watched The Karate Kid growing up remembers gloriously raising a fist to the air the first time they watched LaRusso deliver the match-winning crane kick to Lawrence's face, earning him the adulation of the crowd, the respect of his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, and the devotion of his girl, Ali Mills.
LaRusso earns his redemption using the now iconic crane kick
From the perspective of the one-eyed onlooker, justice had been served; that is if we look at it purely through the unempathetic lens of LaRusso.
The Cobra Kai television series picks up the lives of both Lawrence and LaRusso a good 35 years later.
In it, we learn that Lawrence, while he may have come across as a privileged bully, wasn't the one-dimensional character we thought he was.
The internet is full of 'Daniel is the Real Bully' memes which observe that:
Lawrence grew up with an abusive, neglectful stepfather
He sought out a father figure in the guise of his dojo's sensei, the Vietnam veteran John Kreese, who instilled in a young Lawrence values like "strike hard, strike first, no mercy"
LaRusso moved to town and quickly became a thorn in Lawrence's side, making moves on and ultimately stealing his girlfriend Ali away
LaRusso continued to antagonize Lawrence; during a school dance he went as far as threading a hose over a toilet cubicle to pour water on Lawrence who was essentially minding his own business rolling a joint
In many ways, LaRusso came across as the hot-tempered, arrogant trouble maker, and Lawrence was merely responding to his antagonisms
Knowing all of this, we begin to develop a certain empathy for Lawrence's attitude and behavior, and why he was the way he was in The Karate Kid. The entire Cobra Kai series revolves predominantly around his redemption arc, and ultimately leaves the viewer rooting, not for the 'balance' seeking LaRusso (who displays anything but during the series), but the blonde-haired Lawrence.
In fact, I went full 180 and found myself repping Cobra Kai at a recent keynote that I gave (below).
Subtly telling 200 business owners to strike hard and strike first
We also observe that with new experiences, Lawrence's character also begins to change for the better.
It's funny and scary how our perceptions of other people, and our behaviors towards them, can shift so dramatically once we apply a little other-awareness, or conversely and perhaps more commonly when we apply none at all.
Where might you be foregoing 'other-awareness' in your personal or professional relationships, and what might a perspective shift do for the strength of or outcomes of those relationships?
PS. #CobraKaiNeverDies 🐍
Steve Glaveski is the co-founder of Collective Campus, author of Employee to Entrepreneur and host of the Future Squared podcast. He's a chronic autodidact, and he's into everything from 80s metal and high-intensity workouts to attempting to surf and do standup comedy.


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Interview: Mr. 'Zero Problems' Mr. 'Zero Problems'...
Mr. 'Zero Problems'
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu sat down with Foreign Policy's managing editor Blake Hounshell in Doha, Qatar, this fall to discuss his side of the Iran-Brazil-Turkey triangle. Edited excerpts follow. $(document).ready(function() { $("#thinkers-nav").insertBefore("#tool-bar"); $("#thinkers-nav").show(); });
By Blake Hounshell
| November 28, 2010, 3:45 AM
Blake Hounshell: This year, one of the most dramatic events in world politics was when Turkey and Brazil joined up to cut a fuel-swap deal with Iran over its enriched uranium. And that was seen by many as a watershed moment: Here you have two rising powers taking matters into their own hands and trying to solve an important global problem. Obviously it hasn't succeeded yet. Why not? And what is your response to critics who say that Turkey and Brazil were naive in thinking that Iran was willing to do a serious deal?
Ahmet Davutoglu: First of all, "taking matters into their own hands" — this phrase should be clarified. Turkey and Brazil, both of these countries are members of the United Nations Security Council. When we were being elected to the Security Council, our commitment to the world community who elected us was that we will be working hard, we will be doing everything possible in order to make sure that there is no tension in international relations, that there will be no threat of war, and we will be working for diplomatic solutions. This was our commitment, both for Turkey and Brazil. So it was not something we decided. It was our commitment.
Secondly, we did not decide alone. This idea of a swap deal was discussed between the P5+1 [the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany] and Iran before our initiative. And former IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei developed this formulation and approached us to ask whether Turkey could work with both sides in order to store Iran's 3.5 percent enriched uranium in Turkey as a confidence-building [measure]. And we consulted with our allies. All of them agreed; Iran agreed; and so we started this initiative. And we worked very hard, together with Brazil, over eight months of hectic diplomacy from October to May. At the end of the day Iran accepted the swap deal, and we announced the agreement in Tehran.
And I always said this was not the success only of Turkey and Brazil, but this is the success of President Obama's policy of engagement and multilateralism. If there was no policy of engagement and multilateralism, this agreement would not have been possible.
BH: Do you think President Obama is moving away from engagement and trying to build new relationships in the world?
AD: I don't think President Obama has abandoned the policy of engagement. Even on the day when the U.N. sanctions were passed against Iran, President Obama declared that the diplomatic track is still on and they are ready to negotiate with Iran.
I always like Winston Churchill's phrase: It is not the end. It is not the beginning. It is the end of the beginning. All these processes are ends of the beginning.
BH: Who would you say has had the biggest impact on your thinking as an intellectual and as a foreign-policy practitioner?
AD: Of course as intellectuals there are many people who really had an influence on me. For example, Plato in his dialogues has interesting things to say about ideals and practice.
BH: A Turkish foreign minister citing a Greek thinker.
AD: Yes, of course! For us, he is not only a Greek thinker; he is our thinker, because if you read the works of Ottoman scholars of the 16th century, all of these Greek scholars were addressed as "our masters." So for us, they represent the history of all traditions, and theirs are the values of humanity.
And of course I'm influenced by many other leaders like Gandhi, as a practitioner and as a visionary trying to use unconventional new methods to achieve political objectives. In order to achieve peace, you have to be creative.
In 2003, when I became chief advisor [to the prime minister], in one of the first interviews I gave I said, "We have to have zero problems with our neighbors." Many people thought, "Typical utopian academic. How, given the reality of Turkey's relations with its neighbors, can you achieve this?" And, in the last eight years, under the leadership and political stability of Prime Minister Erdogan, it has been proven that it's not a utopian idea. It is a reality today; nobody expects any crisis between Turkey and any neighbor.
BH: Are you using your book, Strategic Depth, as a kind of handbook for your time as foreign minister?
AD: When I wrote Strategic Depth, I was not minister or chief advisor. It was published in 2001, when I was a professor at the university, and the purpose of this book was to reinterpret Turkish geography and history in the new situation of post-Cold War politics. To be frank, I did not imagine at that time that I would be asked to implement these theories. But because of the political change in Turkey, I was asked to help first as an advisor, then as a minister. And now that I am in this position, it is like a test for me.
BH: Are there things you've learned as a practitioner that maybe you'd gotten wrong in the book?
AD: Not wrong. In general, I'm really surprised by how well theory and practice match up. But in practice, you learn even more than you do from books sometimes.
I can give you an example. In 2005, we were trying to help the political process in Iraq. At that time, we were trying to convince Sunni insurgent groups to participate in the elections and become a political party rather than just a resistance. In the last meeting, after they complained, they criticized each other — five, six different groups — I made a speech.
I talked about Baghdad in the 10th century, 16thcentury, 18th century, and how it has been the center of civilizations: "Now, Baghdad is in such a situation that it is not a center of civilizational activity anymore. Even the streets are being divided; the houses are being divided between Sunnis and Shiites. Your ancestors gave you Baghdad, and now which type of Baghdad are you planning to give to your grandsons?"
One of the leaders, very old, his response was a lesson for me. After an emotional response to my speech, he said to his colleagues in a different competing group, "We have to listen to this gentleman because he speaks like a Baghdadi."
Empathy is important in politics. You learn that in order to solve a crisis or help a people, you have to behave as one of them.
Therefore, as a Turk, now I am European in Brussels, or Iraqi in Baghdad, Bosnian in Sarajevo, or Samarkandi in Central Asia. And these are not conflicting identities. If you want to contribute to regional and global peace, you have to speak from within. You should not impose. You should not dictate.
BH: Some people have criticized your conception of Turkey's foreign policy, saying that it's impossible to improve relations with one group of countries (for example, Syria and Iran) while maintaining good relations with, say, Israel and the United States. This year there's been enormous friction in the relationship between Turkey and Israel specifically. Do you agree with people who see a long-term difference in views about the region?
AD: I still argue and I still insist that it is possible to have good relations with different conflicting parties if you implement a policy of values and principles.
For example, from December 2002 until December 2008 — six years of the same Turkish government — we had good relations with Israel. And for two years we held confidential indirect negotiations between Israel and Syria, followed by open negotiations for one year. That same year, we had excellent relations with Syria and Israel. We had good relations with Iran and Israel. And we were very close to starting direct talks. We had almost agreed on everything, to start direct talks on Monday. On Saturday of that same week in December, Israel attacked Gaza.
And that attack created a big crisis in our region. Around 1,500 people were killed. Civilians. Children. Women. We are trying to implement a policy of peace in our region; we could not be silent.
Similarly, this year they attacked a civilian convoy, and they killed nine civilians, eight of them Turkish, one an American citizen. Now, who can tolerate an attack against a civilian convoy in international waters? In international waters! And this civilian convoy did not violate Israeli territory, did not harm any Israeli citizen or anything. So this was the reason.
It is possible to have zero problems if the other actors respect our values. It doesn't mean that we will be silent in order to have good relations with all parties.
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Hur mycket vet du om försäljning av sexuella tjänster?
Swedish laws about sexwork
SANS English
In short you can say that the Swedish sex-purchase law has increased the risks and violence sexworkers experience in Sweden, and that the law against procuring or pimping further more makes it impossible for sexworkers to work in a safe and secure environment.
Sweden criminalized the buying of sexual services January 1 1999. The sex-purchase law makes it a crime to buy a sexual service in Sweden. It is still completely legal to sell sexual services.
According to the law against procuring or "pimping" it is illegal to facilitate or in an undue way economically exploit a person who have brief sexual relations for money.
The purpose of both laws is to hinder the sale of sexual services.
On this page you can get information about the law against procuring or "pimping" and also information about the background and history to why Sweden criminalized sexworkers clients:
The Sextrade – the inquiry behind the sex-purchase law
The decision about the sex-purchase law
Please also read about the negative consequences the Swedish laws surrounding the sale of sexual services has brought to sexworkers in Sweden.
Procuring or "pimping"
A landlord is required to terminate the lease if the person is aware that the sale of sexual services is happening in his/hers property.
The law against procuring hinders sexworkers to:
hire the help of others.
work together.
work indoors in their own facility.
market their services in the press.
share their profits with a partner or husband.
The government 1993 appointed an investigation into prostitution that would look into if it was appropriate to criminalize prostitution. After weighing the different arguments against each other the lone investigator Inga-Britt Thörnell recommended that a criminalization of both the seller and the buyer was the appropriate action to take. The research resulted in a report from the department for social welfare called The Sextrade.
In it the sale of sexual services, sexworkers, and their clients are all described with words like gender buyer and sextrade victims, and other emotionally charged terms.
Even if the knowledge about sexworkers is limited to the visible prostitutes on the streets the report establishes that the female prostitutes:
often are alcohol- or drug addicts. The drug abuse is often a reason for the prostitution, and sometimes something they turn to cope with their situation.
has an increasing degree of psychological problems.
had a bad start to life, very early on been deprived of self respect and acquired a negative self image.
that the injuries and scars the women had thru earlier abuse is reinforced in the prostitution.
relatives and children are affected directly and indirectly from the harm the women experience in the sextrade.
often have been drifting towards prostitution for a very long time because of reasons that dates back a long time. Sometimes it is a question of gradual and step-by-step habituation to the sextrade. A lot of factors affect this process, among them sexclubs, and the pornography industry plays a major role.
The clients in the investigation is referred to as gender buyers and are supposed to be:
deviant in their attitudes towards sexuality and women.
they sometimes have serious psychological problems in their views of sexuality.
the contacts with the prostitutes mean a sexual fantasy without the demand for a relation, closeness and obligations, a contrast to genuine human relationships.
the sexbuyers problems are strengthened and aggravated in the sextrade and it is believed that many of the men require therapy.
the johns family is exposed to harm thru their actions, not at least they risk infection from sexual diseases transmitted from sexual intercourse.
In the inquiry they also write that:
it's hard to define the differences between homosexual sexual contacts and contacts for prostitution purposes and that prostitution is a relative frequent occurrence in the male homosexual culture.
the differences between the heterosexual and homosexual prostitution is that the homosexual prostitution can sometimes be a combination of business and sexual pleasure for the seller, which in practice never happens in the heterosexual prostitution.
prostitution is harmful for the public moral.
that men can purchase female bodies to satisfy their own sexual needs is a violation of the concept that all human beings have the same worth and the goal of equality between men and women.
the sextrade represent an unacceptable position and is an obstacle for the individuals development.
The report recommended a criminalization of both the buyer and the seller with the motivation that a criminalization would:
act as a normative function that prostitution is not socially acceptable.
the risk for arrest, investigation by the police and risk of a public trial would act as an abstaining factor for sexbuyers.
a criminalization would act as a abstaining effect for women to enter the prostitution market. The females would also get a stronger position when standing up against persuasions if they could say that it was illegal.
The report was sent out for referral and consideration. Only two organisations were in complete favour – the women forum foundation and the Stockholm police – of the proposal. 24 organisations were against a criminalization of the sextrade and 14 organisations favoured only criminalizing the buyer. The rest didn't have an opinion.
The sexworkers themselves did never get a chance to express their feelings about the proposal.
The government took up the issue of criminalizing prostitution in connection with their treatment of a report from the commission against violence towards women called "Women peace" that proposed a number of measures to raise the equality between men and women and to prevent violence against women.
The government did not think it was acceptable that men could buy sexual services from women in an equal society. They reached the conclusion that only to criminalize the buyer of sexual services. The government didn't think it was reasonable to criminalize the seller since they considered the sexworker the weakest part, a person that is being exploited by others who want to satisfy their own sexual desires.
Sweden criminalized the buying of sexual services January 1 1999.
Negativa konsekvenser av den svenska lagstiftningen kring försäljning av sexuella tjänster
Koppleri och övriga lagar
Horstigma
Sexköpslagen
Regard sexwork as any kind of work
Sexworking women – not synonymous with exploitation
Don't make the same mistake as Sweden
We know and they believe
Negative consequences
Upphovsrätt. Alla rättigheter förbehålles. Tema: Knight av Themeinwp


Create .m3u playlists with drag&drop of files and folders. For each folder a single .m3u file is created named after this folder. It will not replace already existing playlists of that name. The generated playlists do not contain EXTM3U information because a simple .m3u is nothing more than a text file with a list of file names per line. The initial tool for this task for me was a batch file ;-) As the generated playlists only include filenames without any path, as they are located along with the media files, they can be moved together with the files, for example for portable mp3 player usage.
Creates .m3u playlists for each folder.
Recursivly works on all included subfolders.
Creates .m3u playlist for dropped files.
Playlist named after folder name.
Preserves existing playlists (by the same name).
Playlists are sorted by filename.
Can be configured (a bit) in .ini file.
Drag files and folders onto compiled CreateM3U.exe (or a shortcut to it). This is limited, you can double click to open a window with an less limited drag and drop area instead.
where [*] are replaced with full paths (without ) and you are limited to nine files/folders to drop.
Better "About" box including help.
Is EXTM3U possible and useful?


I was freaking out as this week came to a conclusion, "I need another godless spiritual song?!" And then I found myself over at Target shopping for coffee and over the store speakers came, "Sometimes in our lives we all have pain…" Who better to be my savior than Bill Withers? But how could I have overlooked this song?! It is absolutely the perfect representation of the spirituality that I am thinking of.
According to Wikipedia, Withers wrote the song while in Los Angeles because he "found himself missing the strong community ethic of his hometown." This song fits in rather well with the Sermon on the Mount. I think this is why most Christians don't make a big deal out of the Sermon. They've been trained to think that Christianity is just a special pass into the joyous afterlife rather than the key to a joyous this life. I'm not saying that I'm right and they're wrong. I don't speak for their religion. But if that is all that Christianity is, it's a pathetic religion.
Of course, the brilliance of the song is that it is ultimately practical. He explicitly says, "Lean on me because I know that someday I will need to lean on you." It is also another part of spiritualism in that it is egalitarian and totally lacking in hubris. We are all together in this. Call me.
It certainly is in the spirit of the Sermon. How about the great Louis Armstrong singing What a Wonderful World. Music has such an ability to lift us up and give us hope. I can't imagine life without it.
Maybe it would be good to do a series on hope. Maybe for Obama's last week in office. But if a Republican wins in November, it's gonna be hard.
I love the song. Also, the Joey Ramone version. But I wasn't quite looking for that. I'm not sure this series ever really gelled. I'll probably take another try in a few months.
If a Republican wins there is no hope for this country. If people can't see through the shallowness of Trump and the rest, there is no hope. As for the music not jelling, it certainly did for me. Your presenting Brownie and Sonny and all the rest is awesome. Some music is pure entertainment and other music entertains while it inspires. Your doing great.
Oh, I liked the way that Brownie went. It was the spiritual week that didn't work so well for me. But if I had worked on over a month, I think I could have made it gel more. Next week will be kind of a rehash. But after that I'm planning to do some more interesting things. But thanks for the encouragement. I like doing it.


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Nóta o významu vnitřního fóra a nedotknutelnosti zpovědního tajemství (svátostné pečetě) je dokument Apoštolské penitenciárie z 1. července 2019, schválený k promulgaci 21. června 2019 papežem Františkem, který vysvětluje, že vnitřní fórum svátosti pokání je posvátné a že nedotknutelnost zpovědního tajemství v katolické církvi je absolutní, navzdory občanskému právu, jako věc dogmatu de fide a jako součást svobody vyznání a svobody svědomí. Cílem této nóty je posílit pocit důvěry lidí, kteří chodí ke zpovědi.

Vnitřní fórum
Při prezentaci Nóty papež František vysvětlil význam pojmu kanonického práva "vnitřní fórum":

A nad rámec textu bych rád dodal slovo k pojmu "vnitřní (interní) fórum". Nejedná se o triviální výraz: je uveden vážně. Interní fórum je interní fórum a nemůže jít "ven". A říkám to proto, že jsem si všiml, že některé skupiny v církvi, představitelé, nadřízení – řekněme to takto – obě věci směšují a berou si z vnitřního fóra, aby rozhodovali na vnějším, a naopak. Prosím, to je hřích! Je to hřích proti důstojnosti člověka, který důvěřuje knězi a který vyjadřuje svou situaci, aby prosil o odpuštění, a pak se toho využívá k organizování záležitostí pro nějakou skupinu nebo hnutí, možná – nevím, improvizuji – možná i pro novou kongregaci, nevím. Ale vnitřní fórum je vnitřní fórum. A je to posvátná věc. Chtěl jsem to říct, protože mě to znepokojuje.

Odezvy
Agentury Reuters, KATV, The Wall Street Journal, The Irish Times a CBS News byly mezi médii, která uvedla, že Vatikán selhává v boji proti sexuálnímu zneužívání ze strany duchovních, když neoslabuje pečeť zpovědního tajemství. Katolická tisková agentura (Catholic News Agency) dokument uvítala a označila jej za připomínku učení katolické církve.

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