Other Aliases: Little Monster (for Mr. Pla).
Base Of Operations: The House, Barcelona; previously "Mysterious Jungles" cartoon series.
Height: 5' Weight: 100 lbs.
Lila is, in her own words, "an artist, and can see the details". Without discussion, the youngest of the Super 3 house is also the smartest, usually playing in her own world as both the adults and teenagers around her act puzzled or weird.
Lila loves reading, has an interest in everything related to Ancient Egyptian magic. She is herself a dabbler in the fabrication of small magical artifacts (potions and amulets, mainly with secondary effects).
She has a camera which enhances her perception of the world (showing how things and people really are) and a big hairy spider only she can speak with.
Let's have the theme song, since most of y'all don't speak Catalan.
Fleeing from an unknown menace, five cartoon characters fell into our world. They became humans, then took on the responsibility of defending the Dimensional Door. The gang also enlisted the help of fellow children and youngsters, having them watch their whereabouts at the house over the portal.
Lila arrived in our world through along with her father Pau.
Lila is the wisest person in the clubhouse. While the others play nonsense or don't notice what is really happening, Lila tends to make them understand, usually with a snappy or ironic remark. Only if you look deep into her heart you see the children inside, playful and pure.
She is absolutely delighted with vampires, mummies, werewolves and ghosts, among other monsters. Not only is she hard to scare, but she really believes most are peaceful or good-hearted.
Lila's monster obsession can be approached from two sides.
She has recently started a campaign in favour of reading. So she could also take it as a personal matter if somebody went around destroying books or using them as a corrupting weapon (like the Crime Bible).
Speak with animals works only with vermin (-2).
Expertise (Egyptian magic), Familiarity (Cartoons, Ethnology, Geography, Vermin), Gadget (Camera), Gift of gab, Headquarters (Confined: The House), Iron Nerves, Languages (egyptian hieroglyphs), Local Hero (Catalan children), Pet (Mildred, 146 HPs).
Club Super 3 (High), Pau (High), Patty Pla (Low).
Age (Young), Exile (Voluntary), MIA (spiders), MIA (monsters), Secret Identity.
Lila's camera [BODY 02, Empathy: 05, Matter Manipulation: 02, Recall: 06, Truesight: 05] Bonuses & Limitations: Empathy is Contingent on Truesight (-1), Matter Manipulation and Truesight are Contingent on Recall (-1), Matter Manipulation can only randomly change something photographed to fit Lila's perceptions of how things really are (-1) and it can affect organic matter (+3), Recall is visual, only (-1). HP cost: 51.
While under the poison of a strange scorpion sting, Lila transformed into a cold, ruthless version of herself, devoted only to make money and being overall evil. Only music written by Roc could take her out of that state for a while, but as the poison got hold of her a higher intensity was needed.
Expertise (Financial genius), Confined Headquarters (Mr. Pla's house), Iron Nerves.
Mr. Pla (Low), Financial world (Low), Castells Enterprises (Low).
Age (Young), Alter Ego (involuntary), Exile (Voluntary), CIA (ambition), SIH (child things), Secret Identity.
Shrinking reduces STR and weight (already noted, including movement powers reduction) and it's Always On (-3).
Age (Young), Distinct appearance, SIA (Lila).
Source of Character: Club Super 3 character portrayed by Ester Vàzquez.


IBM has been in design partnerships with its Power Systems server line throughout the history of the product. With the new Power Systems S812LC and S822LC server line, IBM is shifting gears and entering partnerships to create products for much more specific markets and these servers represent the first models in the new Power Systems LC server family. Here are 5 Things to Know that hopefully will help you keep clear which model does what. By the end of this blog, you should be able to know what LC model is pictured in the diagram below.
The product family - This can be a little confusing since the S812LC (8348) is currently a single model (21C), and the S822LC (8335) has two models (GCA and GTA) and all the models require 2U of rack space.
Virtualization - Since the service processor (BMC) and hardware abstraction layer (OpenPower Abstraction Layer) is unique to these models, the HMC cannot communicate with them. Management is done through a management interface that communicates with PowerKVM and PowerVC. Just keep in mind that the 8335-GTA only runs bare metal, which means a single OS, while the others can run multiple client operating systems per server.
GTA Uniqueness - The NVIDIA GPUs. This is the spot to watch as more and more traditional types of computing are including compression, encryption, and parallel processing work loads that run more effectively when offloaded to an accelerator. There is room for two of them under the cover.
Main features for each model - Let's not worry that the 8348 is a numerically greater number than the 8335. The S812LC is the little brother to the S822LC with only a single processor module and two of its PCIe Gen3 8x I/O card slots driven by a controller that handles other I/O chores. The other two slots are a PCIe Gen3 x 8x and a PCIe Gen3 x 16x slots that support CAPI. In the big brother S822LC, there are four CAPI enabled slots, one 8x and three 16x, and a fifth PCIe Gen3 8x slot that is driven by the PCI controller that shares other I/O chores.
OS Support - Currently supported operating systems are SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition 12 (Certification in January 2016 as a VM under PowerKVM on the S812LC only), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 bare metal and PowerKVM (Certification in December 2015) and Ubuntu Server 14.04.03 LTS LE and BE bare metal and PowerKVM. Note the exception in number 2 above regarding PowerKVM.


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I've been playing poker for more years than I really want to think about. I've played in home games, casinos, poker rooms, parties, even hospital rooms. I've played in tournaments and cash games, live and online. So when my friend and fellow poker player Lou Krieger started pushing me to go to a poker convention called BARGE, I couldn't imagine that there was anything I'd experience there that was substantially different.
Lou started cajoling me about going to BARGE back in 1997, when we were both playing regularly in limit hold 'em games at Hollywood Park. I had several friends that went every year. I finally got a little taste of what I might be missing when I attended ESCARGOT, a smaller version of BARGE held at Crystal Park in 1999. It consisted of about 60 people, all rabid poker players, who were there for one reason: to have fun playing poker.
From 1997 to 1999, I made a substantial part of my living playing poker. One of the unfortunate side effects of playing poker for a living is that the game loses most of its fun aspects - it's a living, not a game. ESCARGOT reminded me that poker can, in fact, be a lot of fun. But it was three more years before I attended BARGE and finally got what all the fuss was about.
I had started working for PokerStars in early 2002, and during the summer a friend mentioned that there was an opportunity to sponsor BARGE. BARGE consisted of about 200 poker players, a small audience, but clearly an influential one. I seized the opportunity. I didn't attend the entire event, but the organizers gave me a chance to speak a few times (I was giving away nice PokerStars swag). What I saw during the BARGE Main Event convinced me that I had to attend the next year.
There was a surprising number of well-known poker players who were part of this group. I recall seeing Andy Bloch, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Russ Rosenblum (fresh from his WSOP Main Event final table appearance that year), a few members of a group of crazy gamblers called the TiltBoys and other recognizable faces. As I watched these guys and the rest of the community play, I realized that I was watching world-class players playing a $100 event with just as much intensity as they played in the WSOP.
Shortly after the Main Event started, I heard some applause start, and eventually it became cheers and loud applause. I asked someone what that was about, and he told me that someone had just busted out. A BARGE tradition is to applaud players as they bust out, and it's done in an almost entirely sincere and respectful way. The first bustout seems to get substantially more applause, ostensibly because the rest of the group is relieved not to be out first.
As I walked around the tables, I noticed that many players had one or more trinkets on the table, and I'm not talking about card cappers. There were stuffed animals, CDs, DVDs, pieces of jewelry, shot glasses, goofy Las Vegas tourist items - and no common thread. I couldn't figure out what this was all about, so I asked, and learned about another BARGE tradition.
"Those are bustout gifts," another BARGEr patiently explained to me. "When a player busts out of the Main Event, he or she gives the bustout gift they've brought to the person who busted them." I found this charming, and oddly moving. It showed respect for the game and the other players, something sorely lacking in the games I was used to.
BARGE is held at Binion's in downtown Las Vegas. It's been moved around a few times, mostly because of the problems Binion's had in the mid-2000s, but it's been at Binion's consistently since 2007.
2003 was my first year as a real member of the BARGE community. The 'formal' part of BARGE consisted of a handful of tournaments, mostly games I knew - there was a Tournament of Champions format event (limit stud, limit hold 'em, limit Omaha High/Low), a California Lowball event, a video poker tournament, a few others that I don't recall and a No Limit Hold 'em "Main Event." None of the tournaments had buy-ins higher than $100; if I recall correctly, my total outlay for all of the tournaments I played was about $300.
You can play any of the three flops. If you play the top flop, you can play the top turn card; if you play the bottom flop, you can play the bottom turn card. If you play the middle flop, you can choose from either turn card, and in any case you use the single river card.
Over the years, many additional strange games have been added to the mix, some with obvious names (Second Best Hold 'em), some with entirely inscrutable names (Scrotum, which is played either N or N-2, Oklahoma). I was even involved in the creation of one of these games - Binglaha, which is Pot Limit Omaha, but whether you're playing high-only or high-low is determined by a die roll after the flop betting is complete.
In addition to the scheduled events, there is a wide range of unofficial, sometimes ad hoc events. There's a midnight $1 craps crawl. There's a breakfast at a classic Las Vegas place called The Egg and I. There's a sushi dinner, and an Ethiopian dinner. There's a Fun Run (although what's fun about running in 100 degree Las Vegas heat is beyond me). There's a cigar smoking/bourbon tasting event. And new things spring up all the time, shaped by the varying personalities of the group.
And there's a notable appearance of anarchy that I have always found particularly charming. There's no registration desk - you pick up your badge from the desk at the poker room. There are no opening or closing ceremonies. BARGE starts when people arrive, and ends when they leave. It's very well-organized, but the machinery is so well hidden from attendees that it appears to run itself.
Since 2003, while Sharon and I have been inconsistent about taking vacations, the one week we always take off is the first week in August. It is, without a doubt, the most fun I have playing poker all year. I can't recommend BARGE highly enough - many of my closest friends have come from this group, and while we may only see one another once a year, it's during a week of a game we love, playing for bragging rights and pure enjoyment.
And make sure to come find me. I'll be the bald guy playing Binglaha.


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I'm the worst. I couldn't keep my resolution for the year. Not even a week after proclaiming I would write 52 blog posts in 52 days straight, I stopped blogging and became preoccupied again. I really did try! I had the motivation, the determination, and the urge to prove myself wrong. What went wrong?! I think I just get too tired when I get home.
My time away hasn't been wasted. I did start writing again, but this time it was solely about TV shows. As of Monday, I started contributing to Entertainment Weekly's EW Community page. Two of my posts have already gone up: a piece exploring the relationship status of Revenge's Nolan Ross and Louise Ellis, and a recap of MTV's cyber drama Eye Candy. I love chatting about TV shows and I can't wait to cover more topics. Check them out and stay tuned for more to come!
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How good is Google?
Google is now more than a business: it is a cultural phenomenon. But where will it be in a few years?
BusinessNov 1st 2003 edition
IF THE ultimate measure of impact is to have one's name become a new verb in the world's main languages, Google has reason to be proud. When they founded the company five years ago, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, friends at Stanford University, chose a word play on "googol"—the number 1 followed by 100 zeros—because their ambition was to organise the information overload of the internet in a transparent and superior way. These days, singles "google" suitors before agreeing to a date, housewives "google" recipes before cooking, and patients "google" their ailments before visiting doctors. Dave Gorman, a comedian, even has a popular show, the "Googlewhack Adventure"—a Googlewhack being what happens when two words are entered into Google and it comes back with exactly one match.
As search engines go, in other words, Google has clearly been a runaway success. Not only is its own site the most popular for search on the web, but it also powers the search engines of major portals, such as Yahoo! and AOL. All told, 75% of referrals to websites now originate from Google's algorithms. That is power.
For some time now, Google's board (which includes two of Silicon Valley's best-known venture capitalists, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital) has been deliberating how to translate that power into money. They appear to have decided to bring Google to the stockmarket next spring. Bankers have been overheard estimating Google's value at $15 billion or more. That could make Google Silicon Valley's first hot IPO since the dotcom bust, and perhaps its biggest ever.
That alone is enough to have some sceptics whispering "Netscape". Now that the worst of the dotcom hangover is clearing, they wonder, will Google become one of the few valuable internet survivors, joining Amazon and above all eBay? Or will it simply be the next overhyped share sale to make its founders rich only to wither away miserably, either for lack of a sustainably profitable business model, or, like Netscape, because it finds itself in the path of that mighty wrecker, Microsoft?
The search for profits
Google, naturally, is determined to avoid Netscape's fate at all costs. This was why it made Eric Schmidt its chief executive in 2001. Mr Schmidt was 46 at the time—Messrs Brin and Page were in their twenties—and was the boss of Novell, a software firm decimated by Microsoft but given another lease of life under his leadership. He seemed suitably "adult" to turn Google into a money-making machine.
Mr Schmidt understood that the key to monetising all those customer searches (now 200m a day) was to place small, unobtrusive and highly relevant text advertisements alongside Google's search results. Advertisers like this system because they pay only if web surfers actually click on their links. And consumers either do not mind, or even learn to love these commercial links for their relevance, just as they appreciate the Yellow Pages.
Google did not pioneer this "paid search" advertising. That honour falls to Overture, a Californian firm bought this year by Yahoo! which still has about half of the $2 billion-or-so market. Nor did Google's founders readily embrace the concept. Mr Page was once heard to say at a trade show that commercial exploitation was "bastardising" the search industry. Mr Schmidt made the concept uncontroversial at Google, thereby helping paid search to become the fastest growing part of the advertising industry today.
The next step is to take this approach to advertising from the results pages of search engines and on to other web pages. Increasingly, web publishers—from hobby bloggers to small businesses—allow firms such as Google to crawl through the content of their pages and place relevant text advertisements in the right margin. Once page visitors click on the links, the webmasters share the revenues with Google. At a stroke, this so-called "contextual advertising" makes much of web publishing self-financing. This may result in better web content by making hitherto unprofitable online activities economically viable.
Meta Group, a consultancy, reckons that the market for paid search and other contextual advertising will grow to $5 billion by 2006. This is Google's main market opportunity (although it also gets some revenues from licensing its search technology). Currently, Google is thought to make annual profits of about $150m.
To be worth the rumoured $15 billion for longer than it takes a bubble to burst, it will need to raise its profitability substantially. That means matching such internet stars as eBay (market capitalisation $37 billion), but without the natural-monopoly advantages that have made eBay so dominant—the classic network effect of buyers and sellers knowing they do best by all trading in one place. For Google to stay permanently ahead of other search-engine technologies is almost impossible, since it takes so little—only a bright idea by another set of geeks—to lose the lead. In contrast to a portal such as Yahoo!, which also offers customers free e-mail and other services, a pure search engine is always but a click away from losing users.
Yahoo!, in fact, will probably be the first to attack. It now owns rival search technologies including AltaVista, AlltheWeb and Inktomi. With the contextual-advertising technology of Overture, Yahoo! now has under its own roof all the elements of the business model that made Google such a success. It cannot be long before Yahoo! turns from a lucrative customer of Google's into a powerful rival.
Even more frightening (especially to those who remember Netscape's fate in the browser wars), Microsoft smells blood. It is currently working on its own search algorithm, which it hopes to make public early next year, around the probable time of Google's share listing. Historically, Microsoft has been good at letting others (Apple, Netscape, Real) pioneer a technology before taking over, exploiting its dominance in desktop operating systems.
Google the new-age advertising agency makes money, but it is Google the search engine that builds the consumer brand which makes the ad agency powerful. Whenever users click on advertisements on Google's own site, Google gets all the revenues. Whenever users stray to other search engines, even ones where Google has placed sponsored links, Google has to share the revenues with the site owner. As the competition between Google, Overture and others heats up, Google's profit margins will fall.
This may already be happening. Craig Pisaris-Henderson, the chief executive of FindWhat.com, a smaller rival to Overture and Google in contextual advertising, reckons that Google's operating margins on sites other than its own must be much worse than FindWhat.com's (23%) or Overture's (12%) because it has been wooing advertisers away from Overture by being more generous to webmasters.
One thing that might help against Microsoft, says Danny Sullivan, the editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, an online consumer guide to the industry, is Google's image of "niceness"—at least by implicit comparison with the forces of darkness in Redmond. Scott Banister, a pioneer of paid-search technology (and now a founder of IronPort, an e-mail infrastructure firm), thinks that Google has already built sufficiently deep networks with advertisers to mount an effective resistance to Microsoft's impending assault.
Even so, Google is no sure thing—as those who hope to sell its shares are no doubt aware. John Doerr and Michael Moritz, for instance, between them also brought Netscape and Yahoo! to market, and may remember their lessons. With luck, Google's owners will remember to work out a viable strategy for Google beyond the point at which they cash out.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "How good is Google?"
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During the public process, especially the meetings in Districts 1 and 4, there was considerable interest expressed in a North Valley swimming pool. The spacial analysis of pool facilities and level of service analysis for aquatics in the North Valley confirmed this need. Although more people at meetings and in the surveys expressed a desire for a North Valley pool facility than any other proposed facility, there was no consensus on the location. The largest group of respondents indicated a general desire for a pool somewhere in the North Valley. However, many respondents indicated a preference that the pool that was once at Raymond G. Sanchez Community Center be replaced. A smaller group preferred a more Mid-Valley location that has yet to be identified. The City of Albuquerque will be adding a new competition pool at its North Domingo Baca Multi-Generational Center site, which may relieve the need for a North Valley pool to include competition components in addition to recreation uses. An outdoor leisure pool will also have a much lower construction operations and maintenance costs. A planning study will be undertaken that will include a facility site selection process, a cost-benefit analysis and a survey targeted to North Valley residents.


Gospel Connection: Once David finally became King he did something unprecedented. He reached out to Saul's family, even though Saul had tried to have him killed. Mephibosheth was the son of Jonathan, who was David's best friend and David had made a promise to Jonathan to always care for his family. By law, David owed Saul's family nothing, but David knew that God wanted him to show kindness to everyone, even if it seemed like they didn't deserve his kindness. Today preschoolers will learn that God wants them to be kind to everyone and will help them whenever it is hard.
Open your Bible to 2 Samuel 9.
Say, Once David became King he decided that He wanted to be kind to anyone who was related to Saul. He asked his servants if there was anyone from Saul's family that he could be kind to. His servant told him about a man named Mephibosheth who was Jonathan's son. Jonathan was Saul's son and he had been David's best friend. Even though Saul wasn't always nice to David, David knew that he should be kind to, Mephibosheth.
Mephibosheth was lame, which means he couldn't walk and he had lost all of his land. He was very afraid whenever he heard that King David wanted to talk to him!
But David knew that God wanted him to be kind. So whenever David met Mephibosheth he gave him all of his land back and invited him and his whole family to eat dinner with David every day. David was king so he didn't have to do these nice things for Mephibosheth but he did them because he knew that God wants us to be kind to everyone.
Mephibosheth was lame so the class will be asked to complete simple tasks around the classroom without using their legs. Pick one child at a time to try to complete each task. Ask the class to: close the door, put away their chair, put away their papers, etc.
Discuss how life must have been difficult for Mephibosheth. Ask them to share how they think David's kindness changed his life.
Write Mephibosheth on a large piece of paper with a little space between each letter. Then write each letter of his name on a post it note. Work together to match up each letter so that it spells Mephibosheth.
Say, Mephibosheth is a very unusual name but you were able to spell it by matching up the letters! In order to spell Mephibosheth's name you had to work together. God wants us to be kind to everyone and always work together.
Give every child a spoon and fork. Sit in a circle on the floor. Roll a small ball (ping pong size) across the circle. The object of the game is to use the silverware to hit the ball back and forth without letting it out of the circle.
Say, David was kind to Mephibosheth by letting him have dinner with his family every day. What can you do to be kind to others?
Let the kids play with a kitchen set. Encourage them to set up a table and be kind by sharing the toys and making food for each other to pretend to eat.
Say, David was kind to Mephibosheth by allowing him and his family to eat at his table. How can you be kind to your classmates while pretending to cook food and set the table.
Say, This week I want you to find ways to be kind to everyone around you. God wants us to be kind and will help us be kind to our friends. Who can you be kind to this week?
Let the kids share their answers and then close in prayer, asking God to help them.
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^ Trump's Impeachable Offense
So, Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to drop criminal investigation into Burisma (had the prosecutor fired) that would (almost certainly) have implicated his kid (and himself for using the power of his office) in a typical politically corrupt get rich(er) quick scheme.
Then, Trump had the audacity to pressure Ukraine to reopen the investigation as a campaign tactic, and according to the morons pushing this s**t through the House of Representatives, this is an impeachable offense. So, we have a scenario where one corrupt moron, that is Trump (and Republican minions) is up against another corrupt moron, that is Biden (and Democratic minions), in a USA elections season and there is absolutely nothing new under the sun in this circumstance of dirty tricks except the degraded mentalities exposed in present process.
"The Committee intends this hearing to serve as an opportunity to discuss the historical and constitutional basis of impeachment, as well as the Framers' intent and understanding of terms like 'high crimes and misdemeanors"
Now, a hearing is set to determine just what, if anything that has turned up, is impeachable according to the Constitution's framers intent and examination of precedent. Maybe we could have been spared all of this s**t if every ballot in the USA was required to have a 'none of the above' category and Americans were no longer bound to the 'hold your nose and vote' phenomenon in our several elections' exercise of civic duty.
But we haven't been spared.
Insofar as precedent, it should be argued on behalf of Trump's 'innocence' that, dirty tricks related to fascist-type behaviors are part & parcel of the American republic's electioneering since the beginning. In a historical context, what is going on today is little different to what was happening during the election of 1800 … one need only substitute France for Russia and the Alien and Sedition Acts for the Patriot Act, whip up public hysteria and wellah: Maria Butina would be a native of Paris.
Now, let's replace Donald Trump with Thomas Jefferson and watch "Shifty Schiff", Jerrold Nadler and Nancy Pelosi use Jefferson's erection like a pole vaulter's stick; over the election campaign season of 1800 revelation Jefferson had been in what amounted to a longtime rape relationship with his slave Sally Hemmings. Not going to impeach Trump over his many years association with Jeffery Epstein? Why not? Because that would drag in Bill Clinton? Well, they didn't impeach Jefferson…
Relevant to this, if 'Blow-job Bill' couldn't be convicted for putting his dick into skank Lewinsky's mouth, it certainly wasn't for lack of effort. Since we're dealing with matters of law and precedent, let me offer a tip to our neo-Roman senate in present circumstance; the great missed opportunity of 1999 was, no one of our senators had the creative genius to move for dismissal of charges "with prejudice" by pointing out that if 'servicing a cocksucker' were raised to level of a 'high misdemeanor', it should become exceedingly difficult to find anyone qualified to hold the office. Chief Justice Rehnquist would then have had opportunity to rule 'servicing a cocksucker', if not 'natural' law, is nevertheless so widespread as to determine 'servicing a cocksucker' must be part and parcel of the American social & political fabric; thereby forever cementing Congress' relationship to lobbyists. This should have spared us all the lying corporate voyeurism of 'Citizens United' having done exactly that.
The Logic Behind The American Vote – Some toilet paper is scented. Most toilet paper is flushed. It follows, some flushed toilet paper will smell good:
Then, the election season of 1860 should be examined, particularly the Republican nominating convention at Chicago. The Native American (Ojibwe) root word "chicag" in 'Chicago' translates variously (depending on context) as "foul", "stinks", "skunk", or "ass grease." It is this last among the other nominal American political pleasantries, which should give you all the picture of just what went on in the Chicago convention's bending over of William Seward when nominating Abraham Lincoln:
"Lincoln's men left no detail unattended … They printed hundreds of counterfeit tickets and distributed them to Lincoln supporters with instructions to show up early – in order to displace Seward's supporters … One thousand Seward men [delegates] marched behind a smartly uniformed brass band. They wound their way noisily through Chicago's streets, playing the song "Oh, Isn't He a Darling?" and finally arrived triumphantly in front of the Wigwam [convention center.] To their horror, they found that they could not get in: the Lincoln men, admitted with their counterfeit tickets, had taken their seats"
The preceding clearly wasn't an impeachable offense, of course, setting historical precedent for Hillary's dirty tricks in the 2016 election season concerning the Democratic National Committee's un-elected super-delegates sinking Bernie Sanders, which had been essentially the same behavior. It follows, in a classic misdirection, we can blame all of that Hillary s**t on Russia according to our lying corporate media and current Congress who no doubt would claim (in today's political climate) Russia had corrupted Andrew Johnson over a 'deal' for Alaska (Johnson's 1868 impeachable offense actually was his unforgivable Tennessee drawl.)
So, going to the illustration at the top, it would appear Trump's authentic 'impeachable offense' is an incomprehensible and false (Steele Dossier), but nevertheless alleged treasonous 'man love' for Russia and Russians whipped up in corporate media, never-mind the actual charges are Trump daring point out the very real Biden corruption, because Trump has already been tried and convicted in the public forum for his 'man love.'
And especially, never-mind Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, point man on the Ukraine-Biden-Bursima quid pro quo, had his New York City disaster headquarters located in World Trade Center Building 7, an imploded structure determined by independent university study NOT to have been brought down according to the official version of events:
"The principal conclusion of our study is that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that studied the collapse. The secondary conclusion of our study is that the collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building"
19 Arabs with box cutters didn't (actually couldn't) do that. Read at the university website and draw the correct conclusions for yourself:
http://ine.uaf.edu/wtc7
alternative link:
https://archive.li/YWlLy
Yo! Schiff! Nadler! Pelosi! What's up with that s**t?! No impeachable 'follow the money' trail associated with the 9/11 "high crimes" coverup? Erstwhile NYC Mayor Giuliani is Trump's personal attorney in play here.
Oh, and that can have nothing to do with Trump's previous personal attorney (off record) job description:
"Cohn's job was to run the little boys. Say you had an admiral, a general, a congressman, who did not want to go along with the program. Cohn's job was to set them up, then they would go along"
No impeachable scent to follow there. Never mind Trump personal attorney Roy Cohn's 'black book' was essentially the forerunner to Jeffrey Epstein's 'black book', sharing many names, suddenly recalling (again!) 'Blow-job Bill' (just won't go away) and his many trips on Epstein's jet. No Democratic impeachment effort should dare go there!
Well, this could go on but I've been preoccupied recently with chronicling my Native American experience and this is what I'll be returning to shortly (the Indian stuff) but meanwhile I can't help amalgamating a couple of Cree x an Ojibwe word (there IS a precedent at Rocky Boy's Chippewa-Cree Indian reservation) … winkches-winctagay-chicag* or roughly translated, nearly pidgin slang: 'this ass-grease looks and smells bad' which more or less covers the boys on either side of the controversy. But I just can't come up with adequately disgusting native language words in translation that describes Capitol Hill's 'Necromancy Nancy' Pelosi's many years' dead corpse, dressed & made up in anime style, not to mention 'law & order' Camela Harris! Why can't she bring this s**t up?
Camela's pretty eyes
* My apologies to any Cree language fluent reader here; for the non standard phonetic spelling (native humor excuses the content ; )
My, how quickly camels disappear into oblivion, it was something like two days after this satire posted, Camela Harris quit the race –
Tags 9-11, Blow-job Bill, Cree, debates, DNC, Giuliani, high crimes, Hillary, impeachment, Judiciary hearing, Kamala Harris, Nadler, primaries, Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, Trump
Categories corruption, crime, Morons, politics, satire, treason, Uncategorized
Nero Fiddles While Empire Implodes
This post also could be called 'double standards' or 'it takes a thief to catch a thief', 'a gallery of hypocrites', or perhaps best of all: 'Enough Americans are eating turkey and watching football while sucking up faux news to enable the hijacking of the republic (again)'
On the outskirts of empire, battles rage. Concerning Aleppo, the grand spigots of the empire's overseas holdings shriek of the 'human disaster' as Assad aligned forces eradicate the 'good' salafist extremists:
"Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Monday called weekend attacks by Syrian and Russian forces on Aleppo "horrifying""
But no such qualms are expressed when empire is eradicating the 'bad' salafist extremists in Mosul:
"The city has been a prison for its residents for more than two years under ISIS. Now, with the extremist group amassing people around its fighters, Mosul could tragically become a graveyard"
"IRBIL, Iraq: Doctors in the main hospital treating trauma victims from the battle for Mosul say they are overflowing with casualties, both civilians and soldiers"
'tragic' when it's civilians dying because of empire aligned forces going after the 'bad' salafists empire doesn't like and criminal when it's civilians dying as Assad goes after the 'good' ('moderate' extremists is the empire's preferred label) salafists aligned with empire.
Meanwhile, in the 'homeland' (was there ever a better moniker to describe the USA as Lord, and the rest of the world as vassal), palace intrigue plays out between Donald 'Roy Cohn made me' Trump, Hillary Frump (Guinness World Record for the biggest ass in politics, when taken literally), and America's newest jaded political streetwalker to break out on the scene in the big story, Jill 'won 1% of the vote but will recount for the Clinton frump on Soros dime' Stein.
Following on having dusted off sheepdog Bernie Sanders a-la George Bush (recalling 'boy' George sinking Ron Paul in past Republican primaries with Diebold computerized vote fraud) will Hillary's ([1] Colorado, [2] Virginia & [3] North Carolina & Florida, [4] New Hampshire, [5] California, [6] Pennsylvania, [7] New York stories about possible dead people voting; of the Pew Research estimate of nearly 2,000,000 dead but registered voters) 'dead but voting' ballots hold out to reverse 'the donald's' own computerized vote fraud; which had been strategically positioned to win the Electoral College as opposed to the (includes Hillary's dead) popular vote? As empire implodes, CIA's American Nero (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC) plays fiddle, or better said, distracts the people with games at the Coliseum (USC 45, Notre Dame 27), time to time pushing aside soaps.
Meanwhile, since we're not allowed to know about the Clinton historic ties to CIA organized crime (e.g. Contra drug trafficking), Americans are holding out for full disclosure on the more important issue:
A Most Unlikely Story (or Soros Chickens Come Home to Roost)
Vice, CIA & I.R. Baboon
Tags diebold, Hillary, Jill Stein, recount, Trump
Categories CIA, corruption, crime, politics, treason, war crimes
VICE, CIA, & I.R. Baboon
August 8, 2016 //
^ The CIA's voter intelligence assessment
A former CIA operative is running for president to stop Donald Trump
By [VICE News embedded, de facto CIA writer] Olivia Becker
August 8, 2016 | 4:33 pm
Anti-Trump Republicans have proved, yet again, that they are nothing if not determined [to elect Hillary]…
Vice News and the CIA should be sued for libeling the American voters intelligence (except they might win, perhaps the theme of a future satire.) Ok, this will be short and sweet. Per the VICE article title, the CIA guy (once CIA, always CIA) is running as an 'independent' Republican to stop Trump. Oh, except he's actually running to stop Hillary:
"McMullin's campaign could signal an effort by Republicans to stop Clinton from taking Utah in November. McMullin is a Utah native, a graduate of Brigham Young University, and a Mormon. Trump is polling badly in the Mormon-dominated state and many Republicans fear that they could lose a longtime stronghold altogether"
So, let's suppose "former CIA operative" Evan McMullin wins Utah to stop Hillary, er, that is Trump. Now, in the case of a McMullin victory, do the math; he can't give Utah's electoral votes to either candidate and come off as clean, so he drops the traditionally secure Utah Republican vote into an electoral void, helping Hillary. That being the case, shouldn't the article's title have read:
A former CIA operative is running for president to help Hillary
But the article is pitched as stopping Trump AND Hillary… stop Hillary winning Utah by offering a nominally Republican alternative to Trump so Utah's lily-white Mormon moral vote can be tossed into an electoral void, helping Hillary without admitting it is Republicans helping Hillary. And the voter is supposed into buy this. Actually, yeah, that could work to assuage the moral conscience of the Mormon religious right, because:
"You can't convince a chimpanzee to give you a banana with the promise it will get 20 more bananas in chimpanzee heaven. It won't do it. But humans will" -Behaviorist Yuval Noah Harari
But the really creepy portion of the article is somewhat off topic:
"…[McMullin] has served most recently as the Republican policy director for the House of Representatives, after working 11 years as a CIA operative"
Huh. Better go back and read THIS ONE again… (if you want into the expanded possibilities of the CIA efforts to elect Hillary…)
Related: If 'The Donald' Were a Real… (man?)
Tags 2016, CIA, election, Evan McMullin, Hillary, Republican, The Donald, Trump, Utah
Categories CIA, false flag, information operations, Morons, politics, propaganda, religion, transcendent warfare, treason
Farewell To The Black White-Man
Relating to the fact we're entering the 2016 elections cycle, it does NOT bode well to entertain the year and a half of upcoming political soap-opera en route to a preordained conclusion; your vote will not mean shit in an insiders' culture-club where the Generals at the Pentagon & NATO are pushing us into military confrontation with Russia, sociopaths a step above the more typical organized crime run the international financial system that controls your local bank, international narcotics traffickers control the 'special activities' division of, and select who will actually run the CIA, in a political era where it can be plausibly stated the Department of Defense counts your vote (its a 'software' issue) and the FBI will NOT investigate cabinet level crime, including their boss or the Attorney General's refusal to bring prosecutions concerning egregious violations of our foundational law at every department in all branches of government. This is what 'globalization' has accomplished folks.
However it might seem unlikely at first sight, what had brought on this particular diatribe is, Raul Castro stating "Obama is an honest man."
Alternatively, Obama stating "Hillary would be an excellent President."
Relating to Hillary Clinton, and I've posted up these four paragraphs before, here's a juicy tidbit not many are aware of, but comes with impeccable journalistic credentials. According to Mother Jones Magazine, in Hillary's own words, she is under the spiritual tutelage of Doug Coe:
"Coe, she writes, "is a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God."
And according to the excellent investigative reporting of Jeff Sharlet on 'The Family', the cult which sponsors the 'National Prayer Breakfast', Coe, in his own words, is no stranger to violence in politics:
"Doug Coe offered Pol Pot and Osama bin Laden as men whose commitment to their causes is to be emulated. Preaching on the meaning of Christ's words, he says, "You know Jesus said 'You got to put Him before mother-father-brother sister? Hitler, Lenin, Mao, that's what they taught the kids. Mao even had the kids killing their own mother and father. But it wasn't murder. It was for building the new nation. The new kingdom"
I'll add here, Obama isn't the only proven killer (recalling Obama's 'kill list Tuesdays' with CIA Director Brennan) to endorse the proven killer (Libya & Syria, particularly, and Arab Spring hit-jobs, generally) that is Hillary:
"Hillary Clinton is someone I've known for a long, long time. She's a patriot. I think she's doing a lot of the right things. She's very tough. … and she's got the right instincts" –Condoleezza Rice
Now, returning to Castro performing media fellatio on Obama, I would suppose Castro's "Obama is an honest man" rationale might have gone something like the following (behind closed doors.)
Castro: You know it was the United Fruit board of directors organized the CIA policy on Cuba since the days of Eisenhower, murdered Kennedy and attempted to blame us.
Obama: I don't deny it. But you know this cannot ever be acknowledged to the American public, as a matter of fact.
After the meeting, Castro states to the press "Obama is a honest man."
Whether or not President Castro grasps the inherent contradiction in his statement, that's geopolitics, folks.
In the meanwhile, it would appear a cold calculation has been adopted; Cuba could not be taken by coercion, and so will be taken instead by cultural and economic co-option.
Also what cannot ever be acknowledged to the public are just a few more salient facts; a religious cult consisting of generals and politicians embedded in NATO has gained control over the tactical nuclear weapons that likely will initiate erasing the Middle-East and Europe from the globe, 'globalization' has so integrated the military-industrial complex of the Western democracies to the economies of the world, if wars were to decline and weapons production dramatically slow, it would collapse the world's economic engine. Nature cannot sustain the 'sustained development' economic model in any case and environmental collapse will collapse civilization regardless .. and as the system stands, we only are provided with leadership desperate to keep together what cannot be held together regardless, national constitutions & the rule of law notwithstanding.
And so it is, the greatest bait and switch since the church marketed Jesus, the infamous Black White-Man that is Barack Obama, son of a White intelligence officer, mentored by the CIA, will step aside for a 70 years old criminal religious-conservative posing as a 'liberal' who in actuality follows a Bush family adviser-spiritual guru in love with Mao, Hitler and Pol Pot. And in what will be a carefully crafted 'heads I win, tails you lose' circumstance or 'fail-safe' electoral outcome, Hillary's likely opponent will be Jeb Bush (or some other 'family' man.)
^ The 'first family' within 'the family' ^
Deep State I Foundation article
Deep State II FBI complicity
Deep State III CIA narcotics trafficking
Deep State IV NATO & Gladio
Deep State V Economics & counter-insurgency
Deep State VI Opus Dei & Christian Dominion
Tags 2016 election cycle, barack obama, Doug Coe, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, NATO, Obama, Osama bin Laden, Raul Castro
Categories AIPAC, assassinations, CIA, corruption, counter intelligence, crime, narcotics trafficking, politics, propaganda, religion, social responsibility, transcendent warfare, treason


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The launch of Google Discovery Ads
Marta Granatir
Discovery was a big theme at this year's Google Marketing Live, the annual event where Google announces new ads products.
Discovery ad campaigns are native ads that appear in Google feeds, including the YouTube home feed, Gmail social and promotions tabs and Google Discover feed (Google has reported that 800 million people now use Discover a month).
Advertisers upload ad copy, a landing page and creative assets, which are formatted to fit in the size and format of the different placements. Google will then optimise the best performing combinations using machine learning.
The targeting is based on Google audiences: interest, in-market, affinity. Advertisers can also use custom intent audiences. Those audiences are generated based on signals spanning Google properties, including users' search activity, YouTube watch behaviour, visits to Google Display Network sites, and apps downloaded from the Play store.
Discovery ads will become available to advertisers later this year, worldwide. Our Google reps have hinted that there is more to come this year, with the inventory expanding to include much more. Advertisers should consider setting up in this space, in preparation for the expansion, as we believe that this will be a big opportunity in the years to come.
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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in Zarvanytsia: As an Orthodox I feel very comfortable here President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko arrived at the National Pilgrimage to Zarvanytsia in order to thank God for the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'-Ukraine and pray for peace in Ukraine together with one hundred thousand community of believers.
Glance of the future. Eyes of children, who lost their parents on East, were shown in Lviv July 11 in Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church of Lviv Archeparchy of UGCC was opened a photo exhibition called "View of the future" through the eyes of children.
Head of UGCC to President: We are for everything what unites orthodox, however with the provision of autocephaly there will be no change for UGCC Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church does not stay indifferent to what is going on among orthodox believers. We cheer for their divisions and welcome everything what might be done for their inner unification. It was an opinion formed by Head and Father of UGCC His Beatitude Sviatoslav during the all-national pilgrimage to the miraculous icon of Mother of God of...
The Head of the UGCC in Zarvanytsia: It was in the UGCC that for 1030 years the treasure of faith was passed down from one generation to another In the toughest times of trials, when our Ukraine was deprived of all its good, our grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not lose the treasure of faith. That is why our Church during these 1030 years was not only a defender, the soul of the Ukrainian people, was not only a state-owned Church, but also a state-building Church. This was emphasized by the...
Bishop Teodor leads the most numerous group of pilgrims to Zarvanytsia Bishop Teodor Martyniuk, Bishop-auxiliary of Ternopil-Zboriv headed the most numerous group of pilgrims, who moved from Ternopil's Cathedral to Zarvanytsia on July 13. Over 1000 pilgrims headed for this miraculous place to pray for peace in Ukraine. Within two days everyone will pass 54 km on foot, sticking to the route Ternopil – Strusiv – Zarvanytsia....
The UGCC is the Church of Volodymyr's Baptism, which is in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch and is the Church of her own right, His Beatitude Sviatoslav The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church - the Church of Volodymyr's Baptism, which was, is and will be the soul of the Ukrainian people ... Our unity with the Holy Father is not based on political gain or geopolitical situation. This is part of the faith of the Church of Prince Volodymyr ... We are not members of the Latin Patriarchate, as some say, we are building...
Church divisions you accept not merely with words but with actions too, - Head of UGCC congratulated bishop Ihor Isichenko on his bishop's anniversary Father and Head of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav congratulated with a Certificate Bishop Ihor (Isichenko), Archbishop of the Kharkiv-Poltava diocese of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, marking 25th anniversary of his episcopal ordination.
Youth from Subcarpathia visited Rome From June 29 till July 5 members of organization "Ukrainian youth for Christ" from Halych, as well as teachers, doctors and the rest of the faithful went on a pilgrimage to Rome. This kind of pilgrimage has been a dream of Fr. Volodymyr Kuziuk, a spiritual father of an organization and a priest of Nativity of Christ Cathedral, who, actually, put in a lot of...
Pilgrims from Slovakia visited "Zarvanytsia" shrine for the first time July 8-10 pilgrims from Slovakia made their first pilgrimage to Marian Spiritual Center "Zarvanytsia". Over 60 foreigners, headed by Fr. Joseph Fabishek from Choňkovce, the Košice Region got to this spirit-renewing destination.
Jesus Christ comes to this temple to preach to us about the gift of forgiveness of sins, the Head of the UGCC at the consecration of the church in Yuzhne The Lord has given us a special grace - He not only begs us to forgive ourselves and our neighbors, but also by His own example showed the power of this forgiveness. Moreover, the forgiveness of sins is the greatest treasure that we can receive as sinners.
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The Head of the UGCC: After meeting with the Pope, three dreams of the UGCC became closer to realization11 July
Head of the UGCC: Our Church has its faithful even among the Chinese14 July
"The war in Ukraine is a colonial war, aimed at restoring a system like the Soviet Union," Head of the UGCC11 July
If you know how to distinguish the truth from lies, then no false politician will receive your voice, Head of the UGCC to the youth in Zarvanytsia14 July
Head of the UGCC: Paul could fulfill his mission only in unity and communion with Peter14 July


We were so incredibly proud to come all the way from Geneva, Switzerland to march in Washington yesterday with our sisters in solidarity and jubilation. All of us who marched all over the world felt the joy and power that comes with solidarity and joint purpose. An absolutely amazing experience!
And on our way to New York for a week of organizing and making alliances.
The time has come for more women, more voices, more influence at the table.


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Dit is een lijst van burgemeesters van de Nederlandse gemeente Leudal in de provincie Limburg sinds haar stichting op 1 januari 2007.

Zie ook
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Baexem
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Buggenum
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Grathem
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Haelen
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Heythuysen
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Horn
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Hunsel
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Ittervoort
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Neeritter
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Nunhem
 Lijst van burgemeesters van Roggel en Neer

Leudal

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


To date, more than 90 individuals with FOXG1 mutations have been described, mostly within small case series.5,7 The disorder comprises a complex constellation of clinical features, including severe postnatal microcephaly, deficient social reciprocity, combined stereotypies and dyskinesias, epilepsy, poor sleep patterns, and unexplained episodes of crying.3 In parallel to these clinical criteria, the importance of brain MRI features has been emphasized.1,3,8 However, the spectrum of MRI features in FOXG1 syndrome is yet to be fully defined.
In light of these recent findings, the aim of this study was to provide a comprehensive overview of FOXG1-related clinical and imaging phenotypes by thorough analysis of a cohort of 45 clinically well-characterized patients with FOXG1 mutation and refine the phenotype-genotype correlation in FOXG1 syndrome.
We recruited patients with pathogenic or likely pathogenic FOXG1 mutations from different cohorts through a large national and international network. Genetic testing was performed by array comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) (5/45), Sanger sequencing (31/45), targeted panel high-throughput sequencing (4/45), and whole-exome sequencing (4/45).
The study was approved by the ethics committee of the University Hospital of Necker Enfants Malades, Paris, France and the relevant local institutional review boards. Parental written informed consent was obtained for all affected patients.
All patients were personally known to at least 1 of the co-authors and were reexamined for the purpose of the study. Five patients had been reported previously and were reassessed for the study.8,11,12 Standardized clinical information was recorded. Movement disorders were characterized in person by investigators and classified according to established criteria.13 Epileptic seizures were classified according to the recommendations of the Commission on Classification and Terminology of the International League Against Epilepsy.
In addition, for patients filmed, we obtained additional authorization for disclosure of any recognizable persons in videos.
The genetic testings were performed in accordance with the respective national ethics guidelines and approved by the local authorities in the participating study centers.
As the MRI studies were performed over a period of 10 years at many different imaging centers and on many different types of MR scanners, the imaging techniques that were used differed substantially, although a majority had at least axial and sagittal T1-weighted and axial T2-weighted and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequences. Imaging assessment was based on agreement between 2 investigators (N.B. and N.B.-B.) who reviewed the images. Each made initial evaluations independently, and any disagreements regarding the final conclusion were resolved by consensus.
All statistical analyses were performed in GraphPad Prism version 6.00. Data are described as mean ± SEM. Differences were evaluated using the 2-way analysis of variance with multiple comparison tests.
Our cohort totaled 45 patients with FOXG1 mutations, 22 males and 23 females ranging in age from 19 months to 42 years (median: 5.73 years) at the time of evaluation (table e-1 links.lww.com/NXG/A97).
A total of 37 FOXG1 different heterozygous mutations were identified, of which 18 are novel. They comprised 32 small intragenic mutations and 5 large deletions of the whole FOXG1 locus. All mutations were de novo, except 1 reported previously as a germinal mosaic.12 Point mutations were mostly frameshifts (14/32; 43.75%) and missense mutations (12/32; 37.5%), with a small number of nonsense (4/32; 12.5%) and in-frame mutations (2/32; 6.25%) (figure 1, A and B). Three recurrent mutations, c.460dupG, c.256dupC, and c.256delC, were identified.
Patients first came to medical attention at a median age of 3 months (birth to 20 months) because of developmental delay and microcephaly (15/45; 33.3%) or with lack of eye contact, or strabismus (16/45; 35.6%). Epileptic seizures or movement disorder were less common (4/45; <10%). In 5 cases (11.1%), brain anomalies were diagnosed prenatally.
At birth, a majority of patients had normal body measurements and low normal birth head size (38/43; 88.4%). Severe postnatal microcephaly (−4 to −6 SD) became apparent after the age of 1 month.
At the age of the last evaluation (median: 5 years; 19 months to 42 years), all patients had profound developmental delay, with permanent esotropia (38/42; 90.7%) (video 1 links.lww.com/NXG/A99). Hand use was severely limited to involuntary gross manipulation (13/44; 29.5%) (video 2 links.lww.com/NXG/A100). On examination, a complex movement disorder was the most prominent feature characterized by generalized hyperkinetic and dyskinetic movements that was present at rest and worsened with attempts to movement (videos 3 and video 4 links.lww.com/NXG/A101 and links.lww.com/NXG/A102), with orolingual dyskinesias (12/33; 36.4%) (video 5 links.lww.com/NXG/A103); 34 of 43 patients (79.1%) also showed hand stereotypies, consisting of hand pressing/wringing or hand mouthing (videos 6 and video 7 links.lww.com/NXG/A104, links.lww.com/NXG/A105), which are unusual in the context of dyskinetic movement disorders. Thirty-two of 44 patients (72.7%) had feeding difficulties associated with gastroesophageal reflux (videos 8 and video 9 links.lww.com/NXG/A106 and links.lww.com/NXG/A107). Sleep problems were frequent (27/42; 64.3%) and included multiple nocturnal awakenings or difficulties in falling asleep with irritability and inconsolable crying or inappropriate laughing (25/40; 62.5%). Seizures were documented in 77.8% (35/45) of patients and occurred at a mean age of 2.5 years (range: 2 days to 12 years). Generalized tonic or tonic-clonic seizures were the most frequent seizure type (21/35; 60%). Of the 35 patients, 17 (48.6%) developed refractory epilepsy with multiple seizure types and 5 (14.3%) experienced at least 1 episode of status epilepticus (table 1).
Because, FOXG1 mutations had been previously associated with congenital Rett variant, we examined the prevalence of congenital Rett-supportive manifestations. Overall, 2 of 21 females (9.5%) and 1 of 21 males (4.76%) fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for Rett syndrome14 (table e-2 links.lww.com/NXG/A98).
Patients with FOXG1 syndrome showed a variable degree of gyration, moderate-to-severe myelination delay or white matter loss (64.4%), and abnormal corpus callosum (95.6%). From our detailed review of these imaging studies, we were able to delineate 3 groups of severity of gyration defect that are most easily appreciated with multiple views in several planes, as shown in figures 2, A-L and 3, A-H.
The first gyral pattern, the most severe, consisted of pachygyria, with thickened cortex with frontal lobe predominance (12/45; 26.7%). This pattern was seen in the youngest patients (mean age 1.8 years) and was accentuated by the underdevelopment of the frontal lobes and the reduced volume of the subcortical white matter. In this group, myelination delay was prominent, ranging from severe (7/11; 63.6%) to moderately delayed (4/11; 36.4%). The most common corpus callosum anomaly was anterior hypogenesis, mostly affecting the genu and the rostrum (6/11; 54.5%) (figure 2, A-L). Sequential MRI performed during the first years of life showed that this pachygyric appearance can be overestimated between the ages of 12 and 24 months because of the immature myelination (figure 3, A-H). Delayed myelination improved with age, and no case of hypomyelination or dysmyelination was observed after the age of 5 years.
The second gyral pattern of intermediate severity met the subjective criteria of moderately simplified gyral pattern.15 This pattern was observed in 24.4% (11/45) of patients with mean age of 3.1 years. In this group, myelination was moderately to severely delayed. The corpus callosum showed a wide range of anomalies, including complete agenesis (5/11; 45.5%), global hypoplasia (3/11; 27.3%), and anterior hypogenesis (3/11; 27.3%).
The third gyral pattern, the least severe, consisted of mildly simplified to normal gyral pattern. These patients (22/45; 48.9%) were older than the 2 previous groups (mean age 6.1 years). White matter anomalies were mostly mild or absent (14/22; 63.6%), and the corpus callosum was hypogenetic in its anterior part in the majority of cases (14/22; 63.6%) (figure e-1 links.lww.com/NXG/A91).
To assess genotype-phenotype associations in FOXG1 syndrome, we investigated the correlation between the score of selected FOXG1 criteria in the whole cohort and 5 genetic subgroups (e-results) (table 2).
Patients with N-terminal mutations and FOXG1 deletions showed the highest global severity scores, while those with FBD frameshift and nonsense mutations showed the lowest global severity scores (p < 0.05). Patients with FBD missense and C-terminal domain mutations tended to have lower global severity scores, although the differences were not significant because of the small size of these groups (figure e-2A links.lww.com/NXG/A92).
When covariance analysis was performed in the whole cohort, we found significant positive covariance of gyral and myelination pattern scores, suggesting that whatever the type of FOXG1 mutation, the most severe cortical anomaly (i.e., pachygyria) is correlated with the most severe myelination delay, further reinforcing the fact that this cortical anomaly may be overestimated because of the abnormal myelination of the subcortical fibers. Further analyses showed significant and distinct covariance relationships in which the MRI pattern appeared the most relevant criteria in distinguishing the genetic groups (figures e-3 links.lww.com/NXG/A93 and e-4 links.lww.com/NXG/A94).
Interesting data also came from the analysis of patients with recurrent frameshift mutations c.460dupG and c.256dupC. Remarkably, among the patients with c.460dupG, we found significant differences in clinical and imaging presentations, demonstrating that genotype-phenotype correlation is not straightforward in FOXG1 syndrome. On MRI, this mutation resulted in a spectrum of corpus callosum anomalies, from complete agenesis to global hypoplasia (figure e-5 links.lww.com/NXG/A96). By contrast, the 3 patients with the c.256dupC had a more consistent phenotype.
A previous report suggested that FOXG1 syndrome could be classified as an epileptic-dyskinetic encephalopathy18 like ARX- and STXBP1-related encephalopathies. Our data show that epilepsy is not a consistent feature, unlike dyskinetic-hyperkinetic movements. Although epilepsy affected 79% of patients reported here, which is within the range of previous reports (from 57%7 to 86%5), it did not show a particular seizure pattern that could help the clinician to define a specific epilepsy syndrome.
Since the first report that FOXG1 mutations can be responsible for congenital Rett variant, a number of publications have emphasized the differences between these disorders.33 Here, by applying the congenital Rett variant criteria,14 we confirm that the majority of patients with the FOXG1 syndrome do not meet the criteria for congenital Rett variant. At all ages, FOXG1 syndrome is more severe with respect to ambulation, reciprocity, and receptive language and has more disordered sleep, compared with Rett syndrome, as well as lacking the regression observed in Rett syndrome. These findings further reinforce that FOXG1 disorder is clinically separable from Rett syndrome, with distinct clinical presentation and natural history. It is important that patients with FOXG1 disorder receive appropriate counseling about medical comorbidities and natural history related to their disorder, avoiding the confusion with Rett syndrome.
The number of reported FOXG1 mutations is now large enough to search for genotype-phenotype correlations in FOXG1 syndrome. We observed that patients carrying mutations in the N-terminal domain and large deletion of FOXG1, which are the most common mutation types, show the most severe presentation and MRI anomalies, while those carrying mutations in the FBD or C-terminal domain were less severely affected. In previous series, a milder phenotype was observed in patients with missense variants in the FBD conserved site.7 However, the differences were found in items related to sitting, walking, and functional hand use, which are commonly severely impaired in all FOXG1 mutation patients.7 Using covariance and cluster analyses, we highlighted relationships between gyral and myelination patterns in patients with FOXG1 disorder. However, identical hotspot mutations c.256dupC and c.406dupG can be associated with highly variable features, such as variable epilepsy severity or degree of corpus callosum anomalies, underlining the importance of being cautious about predicting phenotype on the basis of genotype in the context of genetic counseling. This suggests that factors beyond the primary mutation can influence disease severity, including genetic modifiers and epigenetic and environmental factors.
The complexity and the poor reproducibility of genotype-phenotype relationships in FOXG1 syndrome probably reflects the pleiotropic and nonredundant roles of Foxg1 in vertebrate brain development.
This study, one of the largest to date, provides evidence that FOXG1 mutations are responsible for a specific and recognizable neurodevelopmental disorder with a high degree of variability. We have expanded the phenotypic spectrum by defining 3 key brain imaging features of FOXG1 syndrome, noting that the degree of cortical abnormality is not correlated with the severity of the corpus callosum malformation. Moreover, our data confirm that mutations leading to the loss of the FBD domain, lead to the most severe clinical presentation of FOXG1 syndrome. The pathophysiology of such complex genotype-phenotype relationships reflects the pleiotropic and nonredundant roles of Foxg1 during development.
From the Imagine Institute (N.V., M.C., C. Maillard, A.B., N.B.-B.), INSERM UMR 1163, Paris Descartes University, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France; Pediatric Neurology APHP—Necker Enfants Malades Hospital (M.C., M.H., N.B.-B.), Paris, France; Pediatric Radiology (N.B.), APHP—Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France; Image—Imagine Institute (N.B.), INSERM UMR 1163, Paris Descartes University, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France; Department of Paediatric Clinical Epileptology (J.T.), Sleep Disorders and Functional Neurology, University Hospitals of Lyon (HCL), France; Service de Génétique médicale (E.S.), Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, IGMA, France; Pediatric Neurology (T.L.-S.), Wolfson Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israël; Wolfson Molecular Genetics Laboratory (D.L.), Wolfson Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israël; Neurometabolism Department (B.M.), Angers Hospital and University, France; Centre de Génétique et Centre de Référence Maladies Rares Anomalies du Développement (S.M., A.M.), CHU Dijon, France; South Australian Clinical Genetics Service (E.H.), SA Pathology (at Royal Adelaide Hospital), and School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Australia; Service de Génétique Médicale (B.I., M.N., M.V., B.C.), CHU Nantes, France; Département de Génétique et Centre de Référence Déficiences Intellectuelles de Causes Rares (D.H., C. Mignot), Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, APHP, Paris, France; GMGF (M.M.), INSERM UMR_S910, Aix-Marseille University, Pediatric Neurology Unit, Timone Children Hospital, Marseille, France; Department of Neonatal Medicine (S.R.), Rouen University Hospital, Haute-Normandie, France; Department of Medical Genetics (C. Michot), Reference Center for Skeletal Dysplasia, INSERM UMR 1163, Laboratory of Molecular and Physiopathological Bases of Osteochondrodysplasia, Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité University, AP-HP, Institut Imagine, and Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France; APHP (S.V.), GHUEP, Hôpital Trousseau, Neurologie Pédiatrique, Paris, France; GRC ConCer-LD (S.V.), Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ 06, Paris, France; Hôpital Nord Franche Comte (S.W.), CH HNFC—Site de Belfort, France; Pediatrics (A.D.), University of Basel Childrens' Hospital, Switzerland; CHU Rennes (S.O.), Service de Génétique Clinique, CNRS UMR6290, Université Rennes1, France; Service de Pédiatrie (L.L.), Centre Hospitalier de la Côte Basque, Bayonne, France; Department of Genetics (G.A.M.), Rouen University Hospital, France; Service de Génétique (A.S.), Hôpital Bretonneau, Tours, France; Service de Neurologie Pédiatrique (J.M.P.), Hôpital Pellegrin-Enfants, CHU de Bordeaux, France; Pédiatrie générale (I.C.), Hôpital de Lorient, France; Génétique Médicale—CHU Estaing CLERMONT-FERRAND (B.P., B.T.), France; Service de Neurologie Pédiatrique (F.R.), Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, CHRU de Montpellier, France; Equipe Génétique des Anomalies du Développement (C.P.), INSERM UMR1231, Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté, Dijon, France; Laboratoire de Génétique chromosomique moléculaire (C.P.), Plateau technique de Biologie, CHU, Dijon, France; Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics (T.B.), HUPC Paris Centre, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France; National Rare Disease Center—Centre de Référence "déficiences intellectuelles de causes rares" (M.-A.S.), Strasbourg University Hospital, France; and National Rare Disease Center—Centre de Référence "déficiences intellectuelles de causes rares" (N.B.-B.), AP-HP, Necker Enfants Malades, Paris, France.
N. Vegas, M. Cavallin, C. Maillard: study concept and design, analysis and acquisition of clinical and molecular data. N. Boddaert: analysis and acquisition of MRI data. J. Toulouse, E. Schaefer, T. Lerman-Sagie, D. Lev, B. Magalie, S. Moutton, E. Haan, B. Isidor, D. Heron, M. Milh, S. Rondeau, C. Michot, S. Valence, S. Wagner, M. Hully, C. Mignot, A. Masurel, A. Datta, S. Odent, M. Nizon, L. Lazaro, M. Vincent, B. Cogné, G.A. Marie, A. Stéphanie, J.M. Pedespan, I. Caubel, B. Pontier, B. Troude, F. Rivier, M.-A. Spitz: acquisition of data and follow-up of the patients. C. Philippe and T. Bienvenu: analysis molecular data. A. Bery and N. Bahi-Buisson: study supervision, concept and critical revision of manuscript for intellectual content.
Research reported in this publication was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-16-CE16-0011 MC, AB, NBB), the Fondation Maladies Rares, and DESIRE (grant agreement 602531). The project was also supported by the European Network on Brain Malformations (COST Action CA16118). The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
N. Vegas, M. Cavallin, C. Maillard, N. Boddaert, J. Toulouse, E. Schaefer report no disclosures. T. Lerman-Sagie has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Child Neurology, Harefuah, and the European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. D. Lev has received research support from the Sackler School of Medicine (Tel Aviv University). M. Barth and S. Moutton report no disclosures. E. Haan has received research support from the Lipedema Foundation (USA). B. Isidor and D. Heron report no disclosures. M. Milh has received speaker honoraria from Shire and Cyberonics. S. Rondeau, C. Michot, S. Valence, S. Wagner, M. Hully, C. Mignot, A. Masurel, A. Datta, S. Odent, M. Nizon, L. Lazaro, M. Vincent, B. Cogné, A.M. Guerrot, S. Arpin, J.M. Pedespan, I. Caubel, B. Pontier, B. Troude, F. Rivier, C. Philippe, T. Bienvenu, M. Spitz, and A. Bery report no disclosures. N. Bahi-Buisson has received research support from Agence Nationale de la recherche, Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, Fondation NRJ—Institut de France, and the EU-FP7 project GENECODYS. Full disclosure form information provided by the authors is available with the full text of this article at Neurology.org/NG.
The authors would like to thank the affected individuals and their families for participation in this study, as well as the clinicians in charge of these patients who may not be cited. The authors would like to sincerely thank Prof Alessandra Pierani for her critical reading of the manuscript and helpful comments on our findings.
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William D. Ruckelshaus in 1975. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times/TNS)
Nixon's nemesis, Ruckelshaus, dies
PATRICK OSTER
NEW YORK — William Ruckelshaus, the first head of the Environmental Protection Agency who later became a heroic figure for resisting President Richard Nixon's attempts to cover up the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 87.
He died Wednesday at his home in Seattle, according to his daughter Mary Ruckelshaus.
Named by Time magazine as one of the 10 best Cabinet officers of the 20th century, Ruckelshaus took charge of the newly created EPA in 1970 and made headlines for pushing through health-based standards for air pollutants and car emissions, and for banning the pesticide DDT.
In 1973, he became best known for defying Nixon's order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who had subpoenaed the White House for copies of tapes made of conversations in the Oval Office.
After Nixon had cleaned house in his administration following the resignations of his top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Ruckelshaus became acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which was probing charges of abuses of power at the heart of the Watergate matter. He quickly became deputy attorney general, the No. 2 post at the Justice Department, under the new attorney general, Elliot Richardson.
Following the 1973 ouster of Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew, based on evidence uncovered by the Justice Department, Richardson informed Ruckelshaus that Nixon wanted Cox fired in order to avoid turning over the incriminating tapes.
"I remember saying, 'Don't worry about it,'" Ruckelshaus said in a 2005 C-SPAN interview, recalling his response to his boss about the White House's plan. "They'll never do that. There would be too much of a public furor if they tried. Shows how little I knew."
Richardson formally refused to fire Cox and resigned on Oct. 20, 1973. Ruckelshaus did the same, leaving the job to Robert Bork, the solicitor general. Nixon's firing of Cox and the departures of Richardson and Ruckelshaus became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre."
"I couldn't have done anything else," Ruckelshaus said, according to a 1976 article in People magazine. "What the president was asking me to do was fundamentally wrong."
Ruckelshaus, who had been a legislator in Indiana before his Washington jobs, returned to his home state to practice law until 1975, when he moved his family to Seattle to become senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser Co.
President Ronald Reagan's chief of staff, James Baker, persuaded Ruckelshaus in 1983 to return to the EPA, which was in disarray following the tenure of Anne Burford. He helped the agency impose controls on hazardous waste, restore and protect Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia and remove the pesticide ethylene dibromide, also known as EDB, from use on U.S. farms.
William Doyle Ruckelshaus was born July 24, 1932, in Indianapolis to John K. Ruckelshaus, a lawyer who was chairman of the Platform Committee at five Republican national conventions, and Marion Doyle Ruckelshaus. He had an older brother, John, and a younger sister, Bonney.
Ruckelshaus earned a bachelor's degree at Princeton University in 1957 and a law degree at Harvard Law School three years later.
He was deputy attorney general in Indiana from 1960 to 1965 and became a member of the state's House of Representatives in 1967.
After leaving government in 1985, Ruckelshaus joined the Seattle law firm Perkins Coie before becoming chief executive officer of Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. in 1988. Then serving as its chairman for 11 years, he left to become a principal at Madrona Investment Group LLC, a private investment business in Seattle, and also a partner in Madrona Venture Group.
Interested in the environment since his time in state government, "Ruck," as his friends called him, was chairman of the World Resources Institute, a special envoy to the Pacific Salmon Treaty between the U.S. and Canada, and a member of the President's Council for Sustainable Development from 1993 to 1997.
His first wife died while giving birth, leaving him a widower with twin daughters, Cathy and Mary, to care for. In 1962, he married Jill Strickland, with whom he had three more children: Jennifer, William Jr. and Robin.
Jill Ruckelshaus was an adviser on women's rights to President Nixon and later a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and the National Women's Political Caucus.
She resigned her White House post after Ruckelshaus's resignation in the "Saturday Night Massacre."
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