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namespace boost { namespace spirit { namespace lex
{
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    //  token_set
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    template <typename TokenSet>
    class token_set
      : public TokenSet,
        public proto::extends<
            typename make_terminal_holder<
                token_set<TokenSet>*, token_set<TokenSet>
            >::type,
            token_set<TokenSet>
        >
    {
    protected:
        typedef typename TokenSet::char_type char_type;
        typedef typename TokenSet::string_type string_type;

    private:
        // avoid warnings about using 'this' in constructor
        token_set& this_() { return *this; }

        typedef token_set self_type;
        typedef TokenSet base_token_set;

        // initialize proto base class
        typedef terminal_holder<token_set*, token_set> terminal_holder_;
        typedef typename proto::terminal<terminal_holder_>::type tag;
        typedef proto::extends<tag, token_set> base_type;

        tag make_tag()
        {
            tag xpr = {{ this }};
            return xpr;
        }

    public:
        typedef typename TokenSet::id_type id_type;

        // Qi interface: metafunction calculating parser return type
        template <typename Component, typename Context, typename Iterator>
        struct attribute
        {
            //  the return value of a token set contains the matched token id,
            //  and the corresponding pair of iterators
            typedef typename Iterator::base_iterator_type iterator_type;
            typedef
                fusion::vector<id_type, iterator_range<iterator_type> >
            type;
        };

    private:
        // Qi interface: parse functionality
        template <typename Iterator, typename Context, typename Skipper,
            typename Attribute>
        bool parse(Iterator& first, Iterator const& last,
            Context& context, Skipper const& skipper, Attribute& attr) const
        {
            qi::skip(first, last, skipper);   // always do a pre-skip

            if (first != last) {
                typedef typename
                    boost::detail::iterator_traits<Iterator>::value_type
                token_type;

                //  If the following assertion fires you probably forgot to
                //  associate this token set definition with a lexer instance.
                BOOST_ASSERT(~0 != token_state);

                token_type &t = *first;
                if (token_is_valid(t) && token_state == t.state()) {
                // any of the token definitions matched
                    qi::detail::assign_to(t, attr);
                    ++first;
                    return true;
                }
            }
            return false;
        }
        friend struct terminal_director;

        static std::string what()
        {
            return "token_set";
        }

        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        // Lex interface: collect token definitions and put it into the
        // provided lexer def
        template <typename LexerDef, typename String>
        void collect(LexerDef& lexdef, String const& state)
        {
            token_state = lexdef.add_state(state.c_str());
            lexdef.add_token (state.c_str(), *this);
        }

        // allow to use the tokset.add("regex1", id1)("regex2", id2);
        // syntax
        struct adder
        {
            adder(token_set& def_)
            : def(def_)
            {}

            adder const&
            operator()(char_type c, id_type token_id = id_type()) const
            {
                if (0 == token_id)
                    token_id = static_cast<std::size_t>(c);
                def.add_token (def.initial_state().c_str(),
                    lex::detail::escape(c), token_id);
                return *this;
            }
            adder const&
            operator()(string_type const& s, id_type token_id = id_type()) const
            {
                if (0 == token_id)
                    token_id = next_id<id_type>::get();
                def.add_token (def.initial_state().c_str(), s, token_id);
                return *this;
            }
            template <typename Attribute>
            adder const&
            operator()(token_def<Attribute, char_type, id_type>& tokdef,
                id_type token_id = id_type()) const
            {
                // make sure we have a token id
                if (0 == token_id) {
                    if (0 == tokdef.id()) {
                        token_id = next_id<id_type>::get();
                        tokdef.id(token_id);
                    }
                    else {
                        token_id = tokdef.id();
                    }
                }
                else {
                // the following assertion makes sure, that the token_def
                // instance has not been assigned a different id earlier
                    BOOST_ASSERT(0 == tokdef.id() || token_id == tokdef.id());
                    tokdef.id(token_id);
                }

                def.add_token (def.initial_state().c_str(), tokdef.definition(),
                    token_id);
                return *this;
            }
            template <typename TokenSet_>
            adder const&
            operator()(token_set<TokenSet_> const& tokset) const
            {
                def.add_token (def.initial_state().c_str(), tokset);
                return *this;
            }

            token_set& def;
        };
        friend struct adder;

        // allow to use lexer.self.add_pattern("pattern1", "regex1")(...);
        // syntax
        struct pattern_adder
        {
            pattern_adder(token_set& def_)
            : def(def_)
            {}

            pattern_adder const&
            operator()(string_type const& p, string_type const& s) const
            {
                def.add_pattern (def.state.c_str(), p, s);
                return *this;
            }

            token_set& def;
        };
        friend struct pattern_adder;

    public:
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        template <typename Expr>
        void define(Expr const& xpr)
        {
            typedef typename
                result_of::as_component<lex::domain, Expr>::type
            component;
            typedef typename component::director director;

            component c = spirit::as_component(lex::domain(), xpr);
            director::collect(c, *this, base_token_set::initial_state());
        }

        token_set()
          : base_type(make_tag()), add(this_()), add_pattern(this_()),
            token_state(~0)
        {}

        // allow to assign a token definition expression
        template <typename Expr>
        token_set& operator= (Expr const& xpr)
        {
            typedef
                spirit::traits::is_component<lex::domain, Expr>
            is_component;

            // report invalid expression error as early as possible
            BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_MSG(
                is_component::value,
                xpr_is_not_convertible_to_a_token_definition, ());

            this->clear();
            define(xpr);
            return *this;
        }

        adder add;
        pattern_adder add_pattern;

    private:
        std::size_t token_state;
    };

    // allow to assign a token definition expression
    template <typename TokenSet, typename Expr>
    inline token_set<TokenSet>&
    operator+= (token_set<TokenSet>& tokset, Expr& xpr)
    {
        typedef
            spirit::traits::is_component<lex::domain, Expr>
        is_component;

        // report invalid expression error as early as possible
        BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_MSG(
            is_component::value,
            xpr_is_not_convertible_to_a_token_definition, ());

        tokset.define(xpr);
        return tokset;
    }
    template <typename TokenSet, typename Expr>
    inline token_set<TokenSet>&
    operator+= (token_set<TokenSet>& tokset, Expr const& xpr)
    {
        typedef
            spirit::traits::is_component<lex::domain, Expr>
        is_component;

        // report invalid expression error as early as possible
        BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_MSG(
            is_component::value,
            xpr_is_not_convertible_to_a_token_definition, ());

        tokset.define(xpr);
        return tokset;
    }

}}}

#endif


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Going full frontal at Windells is this week's Monday Cover skater and honorary member of Team Rep-ing, Brice Niebuhr. Talk about style, Brice has it on lock. Check out a few more pics of Brice shredding the gnar at Windells after the turn.
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For the past few days, I've been mulling over the issues of health care and global warming (or climate change, if you prefer) in the context of who opposes the issues. It seems that almost every person who opposes (meaningful) health care reform and who denies global warming is either very conservative and/or very religious (usually both)… and I've been trying to figure out the correlation, if there is one.
A friend suggested that it's because both demographics tend to just follow the "party line," whether it be delivered from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck or from Republican politicians like John Boehner and Sarah Palin. I think that may be true in some instances, by why did those people start denying climate change in the first place?
I've seen climate change deniers cherry pick evidence, offer irrelevant evidence (it snowed early this year!), distort existing evidence, make up evidence, cite faulty studies, and quote scientists in unrelated fields of study… all in an attempt to discredit scientific studies showing that our planet is, indeed, warming, that it is doing so at a far more rapid rate than historical trends would indicate, and that human carbon emissions are very likely having a significant impact on the warming.
I've seen people use the same types of tactics in an effort to stop any meaningful health care reform, too. I've seen accusations of fascism. I've seen absurdities about "rationed" health care and "death squads." I've seen outright lies. I've seen alarmist cries of socialism (as if there aren't tons of government run programs that fall into that category already).
That connection seems obvious to me.
What seems less obvious is what I've been mulling over in the past couple days and I'd love to hear feedback on this.
In the demographic in question, most (not all) are right-wing conservatives and very religious people (frequently, the two go hand-in-hand). I've made the claim before that religions (monotheistic religions in particular) are narcissistic by their very nature. Thinking of human beings as a "special creation" of a loving, caring god is the epitome of self-aggrandizing conceit.
Providing affordable health care to everyone in the country (or the world, for that matter) is an altruistic endeavor. For those of us who have good health insurance coverage, wanting to provide coverage for those who cannot afford it or who cannot obtain it puts the focus on something other than ourselves.
Mitigating global warming is something that is good for the entire world, not just our country. Looking at the big picture (again, outside our own self-interests) indicates that taking care of the issue now, regardless of costs involved, will benefit the entire world in the long run. It may cost our country some money. It may cost us money personally. But if we don't consider just ourselves… if we consider that we're part of a larger, global community… it seems that the proper course of action is to deal with the problem now.
In both cases, the solutions require us to think of the bigger picture… to think of the well-being of others… to consider the impact on the world, not just ourselves and not just our country. With the religious mindset that a god is watching over us and protecting us because we are very special to him (on a personal or a national level), there's no need to do that… nor a reason to. Indeed, US Representative John Shimkus (R-IL) says just that.
The earth will end only when God declares its time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.
I've heard someone (who is very religious) say that he struggles with the idea of paying for other peoples' health care because he already donates 10% of his income to the church, so he's already doing his part (it wasn't that cut and dry, but that was the gist of it). I can understand that viewpoint, but it falls directly in the middle of the "I'm special because of my religion" mindset. Why does the altruism end outside the chapel doors? In addition, what makes inside the chapel doors more deserving of financial support?
I also understand the position that the government is notorious for its inefficiency with our tax money. There's really no argument there, but that's no excuse for neglecting people. That's no excuse for refusing to clean up after ourselves. That's no excuse for ignoring global environmental problems. That's no excuse for being dishonest, deceitful, and disingenuous about the issues. That's no excuse for falling back on the claim of divine right.


This tale quite possibly influences elements of Arthurian legend, such as a love triangle. (Well, it's French). The movie came out while I was in high school and my interest in Arthurian legend and Irish legends were already growing, though the marketing touted it as "before Romeo and Juliet." Lots of recognizable faces. James Franco is the titular Tristan and Sophia Myles (she would later be Renette aka Madame de Pompador in Doctor Who) is Isolde. They're joined by Rufus Sewell (Count Adhemar in A Knight's Tale) as Marke, Mark Strong (Godfrey in Robin Hood and Lord Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes) as Wictred, Henry Cavill (Charles Brandon in The Tudors series and Clark Kent/Superman in the latest DC movies) as Mellot, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (if his name isn't familiar, his face is; he's in Game of Thrones, The Maze Runner, and Nanny McPhee) as the young Tristan.
The scene is set, telling us that Britain in the Dark Ages after the Roman Empire left is divided amongst its tribes, leaving it vulnerable to Irish incursion. The Irish king fears Britain uniting. The scenery is gorgeous as the film opens, showing a young Tristan and his father, preparing for a tribe meeting. They are betrayed and both of Tristan's parents are killed. He's saved by Marke, who loses a hand. On the other side of the sea, young Isolde buries her mother and already doesn't trust her father.
Nine years later, both are young adults. Tristan faithfully serves Marke and they are hoping to work out a treaty once again with the other tribes. He is friend with Marke's nephew, Mellot and they have discovered a secret tunnel that comes up in the castle's keep. In Ireland, the Irish king Donnchadh agrees to give his daughter, Isolde to the warrior Morholt in reward for his loyalty; she will be his bride once he returns from Britain. Morholt leads Irish soldiers in collecting tribute. Tristan confronts Marke; they must do something to rescue the young people that were taken as slaves. Marke agrees, but they must be smart and act together. Tristan leads a group in their rescue, but he receives a cut when fighting Morholt. He kills the Irish leader, but passes out a few minutes later; the blade was poisoned (we already know what befalls the victims from Morholt showing it to Isolde. She counters that there is an antidote.) Mellot lays his friend to rest in a boat, set to sea then lit with flaming arrows.
The boat comes ashore near Isolde as she prepares to run away from her father and Morholt. Isolde chooses to save the young man. The young couple eventually falls in love…Until Tristan's boat is found and Donnchadh begins searching for the slayer of Morhot (his sword had been found with the boat); Tristan must flee, but Isolde cannot follow. Tristan returns to Marke's warm welcome and informed that Donnchadh has been scheming. He has set a tournament, with his daughter's hand in marriage as the prize, along with a healthy dowry; it is an effort to divide the tribes. Marke hopes that if he wins, he will hold the support of the other tribes. Tristan volunteers to fight for him. (Isolde had told him her name was Bragnae to keep her identity secret; he does not know she is the king's daughter).
Tristan ultimately wins the tournament (after a vicious fight with Wictred, the main opponent to Marke's treaty) and Isolde gladly says she will be his, but is disappointed to learn Tristan won her for Marke. Marke is a kind husband, but Isolde is still in love with Tristan. At first, Tristan insists that they cannot have anything to do with each other and avoids his adoptive father and new bride. But Isolde pleads and he eventually agrees to secret meetings. Marke manages to get the other barons to sign his treaty and he will be crowned king. He names Tristan his second, passing over his nephew, Mellot. Which does not endear Mellot to Tristan, who has also been favored as a leader. Wictred, who has begun to notice the attention Tristan pays Isolde, suggests to Donnchadh that the coronation would be a good time to attack. Marke even begins to suspect that Isolde may not be entirely faithful and asks Tristan. Tristan assures his adoptive father that his wife is loyal and tries to break it off with Isolde, burning their meeting place. She still insists that they love each other and must be together somehow.
The coronation arrives and the men ride out, as an old tradition. Wictred leads them to Tristan and Isolde. The barons abandon Marke and he's forced to arrest the young couple. Isolde comes clean. Just as the Irish are at the castle's gates, Marke lets them go. Tristan has Isolde get in the boat, then pushes it away. He stays and helps fight. Mellot, hoping that Wictred will show him more respect, shows the traitor the secret tunnel. He's cut down for his trouble and realizes his error. Tristan uses the same tunnel to sneak behind the Irish, rallying Marke and his men with his timely arrival. Another fight with Wictred, Wictred landing mortal blows, but Wictred falls to Tristan's sword first. Marke confronts the barons: "there is no middle ground! Slay us, or slay him [Donnachdh]." Fights break out among the opposition. Tristan has Marke take him to the river and Isolde brought. The movie ends with Tristan's death; Isolde apparently buried him then disappeared. Their love did not bring down a kingdom, like they feared. Legend says that Marke was victorious and reigned in peace until the end of his days.
For being so excited for this movie in high school, it's fallen on my list. I see the definite influence for the Lancelot-Guinevere-Arthur triangle (which is about my least favorite aspect of Arthurian legend). The movie drags. I connect more with the emotions of Marke than either Tristan or Isolde. It took me several viewings for me to completely understand the storyline. It's a dark film; as in, there aren't many sunny scenes. Those that are sunny have a layer of clouds. At the end of this last viewing, I found myself craving a return to Musketeers.
In 2009, Great Lakes Medieval Faire's theme was the court of Arthur. It was probably the second year I had gone and I remember hearing all the characters on cast and happen to mention "I wonder if they have Tristan and Isolde?"…within hearing of Merlin. Merlin brought the woman playing Isolde over to me. (A few years later, they did Romeo and Juliet and being early to the dance, I was ensured a partner: Puck. I had a wonderful time and that was when I decided I wanted to be on cast someday). It's funny to watch some of the older videos; because now I recognize people. Oh, hey, I know Morholt (who shouts "For Ireland!" at the end of the match. Arthur says he owns that too…no you don't). I actually know Puck. And Mordred. And Guinevere.
Some familiar faces are featured in this slightly modernized version of Dumas' tale. Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson) stars as D'Artagnan at the age he was originally written, Matthew Macfadyen (we just covered him in Russell Crowe's Robin Hood) is Athos, Luke Evans (he'll go on to be Bard in the Hobbit trilogy) is Aramis, Mads Mikkelsen (we'll see him in King Arthur [and we'll see Ray Stevenson, who plays Porthos in that movie as well], he was the bad guy in Casino Royale and Doctor Strange, and was the father in Rogue One) is Rochefort, James Corden is Plantchet, and Orlando Bloom is Buckingham. Matthew Macfadyen voices the opening narration overlaid little figures depicting that at the dawn of the seventeenth century, after the assassination of his father, young Louis XIII took the throne, surrounded by enemies, most particularly Cardinal Richelieu. The Cardinal plotted to seize power; all of Europe was a powder keg, ready to explode into a war that would engulf the whole continent. Only a few men could prevent the coming apocalypse: the Three Musketeers.
The film actually opens in Venice, highlighting the skills of each Musketeer. Athos is a ninja in the water, aided by Milady. Aramis is standing on a roof a la Assassin's Creed [all I know are the video game trailers] and flies down on his prey. Porthos is the big bruiser, the bait to catch their opponent. They retrieve three keys to open Leonardo da Vinci's fault, on a mission to find plans. Being da Vinci, there is a further booby trap; Milady takes it out by sliding and bending backwards underneath the ammunition (um, how do you do that in a corset?) When the guards arrive, they break out of the vault by blowing a hole in one of the canals, flooding everything. The four cheer their victory, but are interrupted when Buckingham enters, Milady having poisoned their cups. She claims that it's nothing personal, just good business (where have we heard that before?) Buckingham had a better offer. He looks at the plans; they're for a war machine, a flying ship.
One year later, father and son are sparing. The father has one thing left to teach his son; his adversary may not always be as noble as D'Artagnan. He and his wife wish their son well and send him off to Paris. On the way, D'Artagnan encounters a man in red with an eye patch who will not apologize after insulting D'Artagnan's horse. D'Artagnan challenges the man to a duel, but when he turns around, sword drawn, Rochefort shoots him – proving his father's point. His shot grazes the young man's arm, but Rochefort is intent on finishing the job, until a carriage stops. Milady comments that the young man is too pretty to kill. They leave him; they have business in Paris.
D'Artagnan makes his way to Paris as well. He spots Rochefort in the crowd and chases after him, running into Athos. They set a duel. He runs into Porthos next, and another duel. He misses Rochefort and finds Aramis next to his horse, issuing a citation. Young D'Artagnan argues with Aramis and sets another duel. At the palace, Milady visits the Cardinal. She informs him that Buckingham has built the war machine and is coming to visit Paris. Louis stops in and asks what Buckingham is wearing, so he'll be fashionable.
(L to R) LOGAN LERMAN, LUKE EVANS, RAY STEVENSON (back to camera) and MATTHEW MACFADYEN star in THE THREE MUSKETEERS. Ph: Rolf Konow, SMPSP © 2011 Constantin Film Produktion GmbH, NEF Productions, S.A.S., and New Legacy Film Ltd. All rights reserved.
D'Artagnan is waiting for his opponents and when they introduce themselves, realizes that they are the famous three Musketeers. He's still willing to fight them, but the Cardinal's guards show up. They outnumber the Musketeers, but when D'Artagnan spots Rochefort, he steps into the fight. He handles himself well, but the other three decide to join, due to the number of opponents. The crowd cheers. In the midst of the spectacular fight, D'Artagnan stops to flirt with a pretty girl. She inquires whether he is always this cocky. Only on Tuesday, he responds, or whenever there are beautiful women. He and the Musketeers are victorious; the three older men have forgotten what it feels like. Constance cautions D'Artagnan that people are not as simple in Paris, then leaves. D'Artagnan informs the Musketeers that Rochefort had tried to kill him, that's why he was fighting. Any enemy of Rochefort is a friend of the Musketeers. They call the young man reckless, arrogant, and impetuous. He shall stay with them.
At the Musketeers' home, D'Artagnan meets Plantchet, their servant. He is also a little disappointed to discover that his idols are not as heroic as he imagined. They're obsolete. They're warriors with no war to fight. Athos doesn't believe in much anymore (the result of Milady's betrayal). They need a great cause to fight for again. They are summoned to the palace to be reprimanded for their actions. Louis is actually quite impressed by their fight; even Anne compliments them for dueling for against forty, as she was told by Constance. She asks her husband to not be too harsh with the Musketeers, after all, boys will be boys. Louis rewards them for their courage, a purse of gold and new clothes. When the Cardinal asks for harsher punishment, Anne speaks up for Louis; the Musketeers are his guard. Louis does ask them to stop fighting, or there will be none of the Cardinal's guards left.
Richelieu plots with Milady to create a scandal. They'll plant love letters from Buckingham in Queen Anne's drawers and steal her prized diamond necklace and plant with Buckingham. Buckingham will be humiliated, King Louis will be outraged, the queen will be executed and war will be declared between England and France. In France's time of need, the Cardinal will assume the throne.
Buckingham arrives in Paris in his airship, insults the king, implies that he intimately knows the queen, and insults the Musketeers. He speaks to Cardinal regarding peace between England and France while Milady breaks into the queen's chambers (in a action sequence that is more modern than historically likely) to plant the letters and steal the diamonds (which are guarded by a maze of wires, of course revealed using powder. Again…how do you do that twirl in a corset?) Outside, D'Artagnan speaks to Constance; she keeps turning him down. Louis asks for advice from the young man; the young king is unsure how to speak to his beautiful wife. D'Artagnan counsels the monarch to speak from his heart and show that he cares. Once her mission is complete, Milady reports to Richelieu; she is to accompany Buckingham back to the Tower of London with the diamonds. But she wants an insurance policy, both parties know the other can turn on them. The Cardinal writes a letter, giving his permission for whatever actions are necessary.
One of Anne's ladies finds the letters and takes them to the king. The Cardinal counsels the monarch to throw a party and ask Anne to wear the diamonds to test whether the letters are real or not. Constance discovers the diamonds missing; the queen goes to the Cardinal (who is in the midst of fencing, skilled where other Cardinals are not), who lies, they both know, but she wanted to see it. Constance goes to D'Artagnan. When he needs a little further convincing to agree to the insane circumstances, she kisses him. He asks who is with him; the three agree. Rochefort calls for them outside, intent to burn the house down. They ride out.
The guards are waiting at the port of Calais. Constance volunteers to be the distraction; she can help here. On the ride to England, the four plot how they will enter the Tower of London. Milady knows they're on their way; she surmises what the Musketeers will do to Buckingham. The Musketeers know that she knows, so they must do the unexpected. D'Artagnan is their wildcard. He gets caught, but his task is to stall Buckingham. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis arrive with Buckingham's war balloon and blows the wall apart. D'Artagnan leaps to join his friends. They pick up Milady on the way, thanks to Plantchat. She has the diamonds; she would not trust them anywhere else. Athos forces her to hand over the diamonds and is ready to shoot her. She drops off the ship.
But their adventure isn't over yet. The Cardinal had commissioned another war machine built, much larger than Buckingham's. This one is captained by Rochefort, and he has Constance as his prisoner. Athos urges D'Artagnan to save the girl; at the end of the day, duty to country will not keep you warm at night. France will take care of itself. They'll do an exchange, the diamonds for Constance. But Rochefort takes D'Artagnan prisoner. The Musketeers fire on the other airship, which gives D'Artagnan the opportunity to take the diamonds. He doesn't get far. Another explosion knocks him out, allowing Rochefort to take the diamonds again. The Cardinal's ship lands on Notre Dame and when it seems to be rising again, the Musketeers crash their ship into it. D'Artagnan gets up and chases after Rochefort. They duel intensely on Notre Dame, Rochefort landing several strikes on D'Artagnan, but when Rochefort was getting cocky, D'Artagnan catches his sword and stabs the villain. The diamonds are back in his possession.
They limp the airship back to the palace, crashing into the gardens. The Cardinal is ready to arrest them, but Louis comes out. They spin the tale of Rochefort being a traitor and give credit to the Cardinal, so he can't speak out against them without revealing his intentions. Anne emerges, wearing the diamonds and all is right in Louis's world. He intends to make more changes and thanks D'Artagnan for his help. Richelieu tries to recruit the Musketeers, but they're happy with their jobs. D'Artagnan and Constance kiss and he salutes with the Musketeers.
The film closes on Milady on Buckingham's ship; they had fished her out of the channel. He has an entire armada behind him and a fleet of airships, bound for France to retrieve what is his. And vengeance on Athos.
It's a slightly modern take on the classic tale. The fights are wonderful, as to be expected with a Musketeer film. As pointed out, several aspects are unlikely for that time period (like that whole sequence in the beginning and in da Vinci's vault). D'Artagnan is filled with youthful impetuosity, true to character. Anne and Louis are a happier couple, and younger. Orlando seemed to enjoy playing the bad guy. Mikkelson was devious as he tends to be. I did enjoy his duel with D'Artagnan.
The Musketeer tale holds a special place in my heart; it was the storyline of my local faire the year I was on cast. I was a humble peasant (well, wise woman…translation, witch). Our D'Artagnan was excellent and will probably always be my favorite. Energetic and youthful and he threw himself completely into the action. Watching the duels reminded me of some of the matches at the chess game; like grabbing a sword. Kids, not recommended. (In our case, it was the Duke of Buckingham who did the stunt).
I do like this version; high energy and full of adventure, like a swashbuckling movie should be.
If you have any questions about faire, let me know! It's full of wonderful people and I have lots of good memories!


I've been trying for a long time to get our home care and personal care products as natural as possible in order to get toxins out of our home and off of our bodies.
I make my own eye makeup remover, window cleaner, shower cleaner, hairspray, body wash, and more. But ridding our home of conventional deodorant has been a little more difficult.
When I was a teen, I used those standard store brands that smelled great and had antiperspirants built in.
Antiperspirants stop you from sweating and deodorants mask your body odor. What's wrong with that?
Your body is sweating in order to cool you down, and with that, toxins are being removed in the sweat. Some say that no toxins are removed in sweat, but this article claims otherwise.
Plus other ingredients in antiperspirants and deodorants are simply not good for you.
I was convinced of all of this sooner than my husband was, but finally I got him to stop using antiperspirants.
But what he switched to was a deodorant with triclosan in it.
Also not a good thing.
I wanted to be more natural, but I didn't want to stink–and neither did my husband.
At certain points in our marriage, we were on a very tight budget, and when we saw the stuff he liked on clearance, we stocked up. And it's hard for me to throw things away–even when they're toxic :).
We tried a few natural products over the years, but not many. The crystal deodorants, and this "Easiest" Homemade Deodorant, that really is sort of ridiculous. My DIY version worked pretty well, but sometimes it stung. I actually don't remember what I was using all those years while I tried to get my husband off of his toxic pit product. Maybe I was just going au naturale and hoping I didn't smell too bad :).
I thought about making my own deodorant, but I kept reading reports about people having staining issues and wasn't keen at all on having stains under my arms and couldn't find a recipe that looked promising enough for me to take a run at a DIY deodorant. Well, after awhile I did try making a baking soda based roll on and it worked pretty well (I'll share the recipe at some point), but it wasn't quite enough on the more stinky days for sure.
I'd seen Primal Pit Paste around the internet, and it seemed to be quite popular so I was pleased when they contacted me to review their product.
And I'm happily using it still today. And so are many other Primal folks – you can read their testimonials here.
Kaolin clay – for odor-absorbing. In the Happy Stick version only for those sensitive to baking soda.
You use the stick as you would any stick deodorant, and use just about a pea-sized amount of the paste for each underarm. You can apply with a stick or your finger.
I personally started with the Primal Stick but needed to move to the strong Paste in the summer months, though I haven't been perspiring that much lately. Just not sure why. I have sensitive skin, but the Pit Paste Strong didn't irritate my underarms at all.
My husband has mainly used the Primal Stick and has been really pleased. I was really surprised about this because I considered his "stink" issues to be more significant than mine, but he hasn't even had to use the Strong version. I bet there's an interesting reason for that…..curious, huh?
And so thankfully, I ended up donating the rest of our "discounted triclosan deodorant" to a charity. I just couldn't throw it out :). I know, it was hard to think that I was giving someone else these toxins, but I figure they were likely going to buy it anyway.
1. Decide if you want a stick or jar. I like the glass jar but prefer the stick for ease of use. If you want the strong version you will be using the jar.
2. Pick your deodorant strength. It's best to start with Regular strength. I did that in the summer and ended up needing the strong, though I didn't consider myself to be very "stinky". Now, as the weather gets cooler, I am using the regular and am very happy with it. If you have sensitive skin, you might with to try the the Light option with less baking soda, of the Happy Pits with kaolin clay.
3. Do you have sensitive skin? The baking soda can irritate extremely sensitive underarms, so that's why Primal Pit Paste offers the Happy Pits stick here. It contains a blend of mango butter, shea butter, arrowroot powder, beeswax, magnesium, essential oils and kaolin clay. The kaolin and magnesium helps control odor without irritating the skin.
4. Have more questions? Check out their great FAQ section here.
Need a Baking Soda Free Deodorant?
These days, a lot of people are finding out that they can't use deodorants that have baking soda in them. Contrary to what many natural people say, getting a rash under your arm when using a natural deodorant isn't a sign that you are detoxing. It means that you shouldn't be using that product.
Miessence is a fantastic company that has super clean, mostly organic products that are top notch.
I mentioned them in this post about probiotics–they have several fabulous fermented superfood products.
They have 2 deodorant roll-ons. One is baking soda based and the other is milk of magnesia based. We like both of them. Actually, my husband has become sensitive to baking soda so he uses the Milk of Magnesia one and it works well for him.
NYR Organic is a company with stellar sustainability and organic ethics. They have a spray deodorant that works well for me in spring, fall, and winter, but in the summer I need to either use a different deodorant or apply NYR's Tea Tree Body Powder on top of the spray.
Have you found a natural deodorant that you like?
Thank you so much for introducing us to this and for the coupon code. I just ordered my first order today.
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I'm working on verifying the winners. One so far didn't follow directions. Thanks!
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10 Songs About Elvis
Elvis.
Just that first name alone conjures up so much imagery, so much cultural currency, so much good feeling for generations of people. Born in Tupelo, MS and raised in Memphis TN, Elvis was an eighteen year old who recorded a single at Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio for his mum one day in 1953 on the occasion of her birthday as a gift to her; "My Happiness/That's When The Heartaches Begin". Who did he sound like? Well, he didn't sound like nobody. From there, the landscape of popular music, and the barriers that existed between musical genres at the time, would be changed forever. From the cramped studios at Sun Records, to Hollywood movie sets, to Las Vegas residencies, to global satellite transmissions from Hawaiian stages, Elvis weathered all those changes besides.
What also changed was the man himself of course. By the end, he was no longer the earnest American boy with a singular talent for musical interpretation of anything thrown at him. He had become transformed into something more; a cultural avatar of almost religious stature. Those who came after him, carrying legendary mythologies of their own, all held him in the highest esteem. Even to his peers, he was The King; a messianic figure who stood above all of the trends, and enjoying the seemingly unconditional love of the masses up until his death at the young age of 42 on August 16, 1977; thirty-eight years and a day from today in the year that would have had him celebrate his eightieth birthday.
Since his passing, the mythology surrounding Elvis has endured in the imaginations and the works of many. Here are ten songs about Elvis, or at least ones that touch on his cultural importance. Some are down to earth and humourous. Some are profane. Others are almost Biblical in their veneration of that boy from Tupelo who made good. Overall, the range of songwriting styles and musical textures shows that even though he's gone (or is he?), Elvis' musical and cultural reach remains extensive even today.
1. "Elvis Presley Blues" Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch and her musical partner David Rawlings are two of the most recognized modern purveyors of "old time" music traditions in the twenty-first century, expertly evoking mythical southern landscapes in their work. Why not add Elvis and his legend to that ancient tapestry? In some ways, he was a part of it already. After all, Elvis was a southerner with a powerful story of his own behind him. This song taken from Welch's 2001 Time (The Revelator) album traces his legend from the beginning, just a boy who combs his hair, wearing a shirt his mother made, to one who could command the forces of nature and funnel it into each performance.
Along with it is the tragedy of the central figure, so exceptional, so gifted, that isolation is the price he pays to get to where he is, and to get western culture to where it is while he's at it. This can be the story of anyone who attains fame. Yet the figure of Elvis is in a class by itself, being as he is the classic example of how lonely the reign of a king can be. It's a classic folk music tale of a good man who carries his doom around with him, ultimately undone by a flawed world from which his own basic goodness could not protect him.
2. "Black Velvet" Alannah Myles
The classic hero of literary myth is easily superimposed onto the rock n roll myth, embodied quite handily in the person of Elvis Presley. His story of becoming is one that would bind generations of people together in various ways and with various cultural pulleys behind it; rags to riches fantasies, country to city divides that are finally bridged, and working class boys who get to shake the President's hand (even if it is Nixon). Elvis' is a truly American story.
That's what this song by Alannah Myles tapped into so well, an international hit single taken from her 1989 debut record telling the story of Elvis without naming him, and without having to. In some ways, this song mirrors Gillian Welch's in another musical field. But, the tone here is less about Elvis as a down to earth and relatable folk hero, and more the object of a "new religion that'll bring you to your knees". This is the idealized Elvis, the one who stands as representative of the best of us. What better a figure to reference by Myles, who was then just starting out on the same path of her subject matter, with a number one record in her future? Yet, like Elvis himself, fame is often gone in a flash, seeming to happen so soon after is was achieved. With this story, that sense of the ephemeral is hard to avoid. But in the retelling of the myth, Elvis lives again.
3. "Calling Elvis" Dire Straits
For many, the line between Elvis and the divine is a pretty blurry one. This may be particularly true now that he's gone, even more so than when he was alive. Even now, if you look hard enough in the right secondhand shops and dollar stores, you can find busts of Elvis, and even Catholicized images of The King, the latter being replete with divine halos of holy light. The phrase "Elvis has left the building" was widely popularized by the superb 1970 documentary Elvis: That's The Way It Is when it was simply an announcement to fans that he wasn't around for autographs. It's interesting in this light, as Elvis' legend had grown to almost Christ-like proportions. It's almost an expression of existential angst, applied to anything that was once cherished, and is now gone — or perhaps never was there in the way we thought it was in the first place.
That's what this 1991 hit song by Dire Straits from their album On Every Street always communicated to me. The song depicts a desparate Elvis fan, trying to communicate with his deity, singing the hymns of his backcatalog in order to summon him. But it's also the cry of a lonely human race, wondering what's out there, what it all means down here on earth, and suspecting the answer might be harder to bear than we are prepared for. Here, the act of reaching out to what is hoped for, embodied in an absent Elvis, is strangely comforting. Because, reaching out and being hopeful is such a human thing to do. If we are alone in the universe after all, then at least we are alone together.
4. "Tupelo Mississippi Flash" Jerry Reed
Even when he was alive and walking among us, Elvis' unlikely tale of gaining fame out of poverty still took on a sheen of the mythical. This story-song and top twenty hit in the fall of 1967 by guitar picker Jerry Reed gives us a sense of Elvis' stature while he was still around. Reed, who is the sole figure on this list who knew Elvis personally and even played on Elvis's take on Reed's own "Guitar Man" single, spins a tale of a Tupelo MS son who is an equally unlikely a candidate for fame, but gains it anyway to the initial chagrin of the narrator. This adds even more dimension to the idea of Elvis as a cultural avatar; here he becomes a mid-century archetype that can take on multiple incarnations, and still be recognized.
The song also evokes some of the good-natured professional jealousy that existed between Elvis and his peers during his heyday. There is a certain affectionate acknowledgement here that even if Elvis' talent and his fame were on a scale beyond many of his peers, that the joke was always on those who underestimated it. Here, the figure of Elvis is less Christ-like, and more like that of an older brother or cousin that our grandparents always favoured, infuriatingly more successful than we are, yet drawing none of our contempt and all of our love at the same time.
5. "Tupelo" Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
When Elvis first showed up on the scene, not everyone was thrilled. He was thought to be a vector to the corruption of American youth. His bodily gyrations were thought to be lewd, even pornographic. And of course, he sang R&B tunes arranged for a country combo that had social implications that pointed to (wait for it) the mixing of the races. This was looked upon as anti-social by many, and even anti-Christian. We've all seen the outcropping of this down through the years, with rock 'n' roll music in its various forms put in the sights of parent's groups, churches, and even in court rooms.
So, if in some instances on this list, Elvis is framed as a sort of Christ-figure, then Nick Cave's song taken from 1985's The Firstborn Is Dead, frames things in a slightly different light; Elvis as an Anti-Christ figure. This song is written as if taken from The Book Of Revelation, full of Biblical doom and last-days-style portent. Beneath the surface of hellfire preaching and lurid and exaggerated eschatological landscapes lies a wry criticism of the initial objections to Elvis (and by extension, rock 'n' roll itself) as some kind of moral threat to the souls of the innocent. His objectors were in fact right in one respect though; that time was running out for the carefully controlled world as it stood in 1950s America. It could not contain what was to come without being transformed.
6. "House Of Cards" Steve Forbert
Moving from his mythical birth as depicted in Nick Cave's song, and to his death, this song by fellow Mississippian Steve Forbert traces the feelings experienced by the narrator on the news of Elvis' passing. It calls into question the nature of fame itself, how a simple "hillbilly singer" can attain such heights, bringing out the best and the worst in those that his example touches, with our adoration of the man mixed with our appetite to consume him. Yet in this song, that complex relationship we have with our heroes goes even further. It's also about the world that they help to create just by being in it, fragile though that world may be.
That's what Elvis represents for many; a world that makes a certain kind of internal sense, culturally speaking. As such, this song is not only one of mourning for a man who has died. It's also a song of mourning for that version of the world that he helped to define. It was a world that seemed so sure, so immutable, yet was ultimately revealed to be a house of cards, always ready to fall. As long as cultural icons may last beyond death, it is sobering to reflect that even our world as we understand it today is even now on its way to passing out of memory as new worlds rise up in its place, for good or ill.
7. "Elvis Is Dead" The Forgotten Rebels
Having said all that, there are those who welcome the passing of icons and the worlds they help define to make way for new mythologies and new paradigms. Because after all, today's revolutionary force is tomorrow's staid establishment. And generally speaking, a rhinestoned, corseted, and otherwise Vegas-ed Elvis became something of a repellent cartoon for many by the end, an insult to the lithe, pompadoured, and pelvis-shaking badass of the past. The business of being an icon is tricky in that respect, sometimes turning out to be a representation of the very things that they originally went up against.
All of that is at the heart of The Forgotten Rebels' 1979 tune taken from their full-length In Love With The System that poked holes in the legend. Sure, it's pretty crass, rude, and irreverent of the passing of the King. At it's heart though, it's about what we heard in the Steve Forbert song above about how Elvis' death sparked all manner of cultural grave robbing, cheapening his true legacy as an artist, and reducing it to a crass industry instead. Even if the lyrics are pretty shocking to your average Elvis fan, I think the key ingredient to be found in them isn't really disdain of the man himself or his work necessarily. It's disappointment in what we turned him into.
8. "There's A Guy Who Works Down The Chip Shop Who Swears He's Elvis" Kirsty MacColl
One of my favourite headlines in The Onion was the historic news story of the death of Elvis in August 1977 found in the book Our Dumb Century: "Elvis Is Dead: Is Elvis Alive?" It seems when you have a messianic aura around a certain mythical story, then it follows that tales of cheating death with shades of The Resurrection can't be too far behind. Thematically at least, our culture has remained consistent on this score when it comes to Elvis and his death. Even if we want to believe our love of the man and his work is strong enough to overcome death itself, that doesn't make it true.
That's the joke at the center of Kirsty MacColl's 1981 hit single from her album Desparate Character about the veracity of a lover's resolve as compared to the titular guy who works in the chip shop and his claims of King-hood. This makes for a great little country rock song that the King himself would be proud of. And it also reinforces the idea that legends themselves can easily become a part of the vernacular, and even a part of urban legend. MacColl's song puts this in a lighthearted context. But, the repeating patterns of human storytelling about venerated figures achieving immortality in our culture remains. In some ways, they hold a truth, too; that icons are icons because we all agree that they are, and that their stories should continue to be told. That's the kind of immortality one can really count on.
9. "Real Good Looking Boy" The Who
For an entire generation of musicians and music fans, Elvis provided the template on which to base their own personas. Elvis really was a good-looking boy by anyone's standards. If you wanted to build up a persona for yourself as a kid in the austere 1950s, particularly in areas where knowing your place and not getting ideas above your station were key values, then Elvis was a great place to start, since his story was all about breaking those kinds of rules. The defiance of those accepted structures in post-war Britain were the key motivations for what would feed the British Invasion, during which time The Who would be among the bands to lead the charge.
Like an awful lot of Pete Townshend's songs, this one released as a single in 2004 deals with identity, perception, and the struggles to understand and come to terms with their relationship. Here on this song, the narrator falls short of the Elvis ideal to which he aspires. But in the end, he gets what Elvis arguably did not get while perched on his rock 'n' roll throne; connection, intimacy, and real acceptance from another. Because Elvis was also "The King", his own glory made him unapproachable, making it difficult for others to see the man behind the icon. Once again, the loneliness of his journey is alluded to here. And in the end, the narrator is grateful not to be viewed as Elvis was; as an object of beauty and envy, but never being able to truly reach out to others, and be seen for the man he wanted to be.
10. "Elvis Is Everywhere" Mojo Nixon
To round out the list, Mojo Nixon's tune from his 1987 record Bo-Day-Shus!!! about the omnipresent nature of Elvis is perhaps both a reflection of over-the-top Elvis worship by crazed and often delusional fans, and the tendency to make gods out of celebrities with all of the absurdities that follow. But, this song is no po-faced commentary on any of that. There's definitely the spirit of affection that we saw in the Jerry Reed tune here, balanced with the irony also found in hefty measure in The Forgotten Rebels song as well.
This is kind of the lighter side of Elvis' fame and impact that serves as a counterweight to some of the other songs on this list that focused on how lonely he must have been to be treated as more than just an artist, and rather as the kind of unattainable ideal that we heard in The Who song. Overall, this tune is a humourous acknowledgment of the influence that Elvis had on global culture, which is ultimately positive. Despite the deeper implications of his rise to fame in the end, and all the nuttiness it inspired later among fans and conspiracy theorists, in this song more Elvis is better than less!
The famous quote from Lester Bangs, written after the death of Elvis Presley on August 16, 1977 was mostly true when it comes to rock fandom: "We will never again agree on anything the way we agreed about Elvis." It's a pretty sweeping statement, and very arguable in retrospect, especially when we consider how many black artists, on whose work and influence that much of Elvis' career was based, were unjustly left behind when it came to the fruits of their labour, and to what they contributed to the development of rock music, a lot of the time before Elvis came along. But for many, Elvis represented an ideal world in which all of people could celebrate a single common factor without hesitation and with our full hearts, whether young, old, black, white, male, female, and everything in between. That must have been a big burden for one man to bear, whether one venerates him as an icon, or vilifies him as a symbol for cultural imperialism.
Either way, walking into Sun Records in the summer of 1953 as an eighteen-year old looking to make a birthday present for his mother by singing on a self-made record, he could not have been able to predict what would happen to him from there, and what the cultural implications would be even beyond his own death. Despite the loneliness and pain that can be found in his story mixed with unprecedented glory and fame that made him what he was, ultimately we can still celebrate Elvis with pure hearts beyond all of that. We can remember him as that earnest and talented boy born into humble circumstances in Tupelo who viewed making music as a gift to be given, both to those who make it, and for those who continue to listen even today.
Perhaps it is this that we really can all agree on; that music really is a gift. And that Elvis Presley gave more than most.
As an unofficial eleventh song on this list, let's hear from David, Nigel, and Derek, with a barbershop raga version of "Heartbreak Hotel".
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9 thoughts on "10 Songs About Elvis"
boppinsblog says:
The King would have been proud of that post.
(wait for it …)
Thengu. Thenguvermuch … 🙂
Geoff Moore says:
Elvis was both an influence & a muse, not a shabby affirmation at all. Maybe these two are too obvious: John Fogerty's Big Train from Memphis & John Hiatt's Riding with the King.
Thanks for adding those tunes, Geoff. The more the merrier (ten is always just a start to the list …). I should also add Kate Bush's "King Of The Mountain", which I've already written about here.
I had no idea "Black Velvet" was about Elvis.
Yes! And co-written by someone we who grew up in the video age in Canada know well; Christopher Ward.
Yes, I did know that.
dykewriter says:
there were a lot of novelty elvis songs in the 1950s – Janis Martin had My Boy Elvis – and his ex-girlfriend Anita Wood had this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvpTRJ3Y7FA
Ryna Safitri says:
STING about ELVIS ..
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Legal Aspects of Medicines Consumption
The Sources of Legal Regulation Concerning the Liability for Causing Health Damages to Medicines Consumer
Medicines Consumption
di Alexandru Znagovan
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In this paper is presented a study of juridical aspects of medicines consumption through the lens of consumer protection rights, the sources of law regulations concerning le-gal liability for causing health damages to medicines consumer who is the final recipient and the main subject of social relations in the healthcare field through pharmaceutical activity. Health damages to medicines consumer can be brought in a purely pharmaceutical way through drugs that are counterfeit, falsified or nonconforming. It can be concluded that in Republic of Moldova drugs consumer protection does not have a standing legal support and needs adjusting to European standards for this purpose.
1. Purpose of this paper
2. Materials and methods
To analyse legislation in Republic of Moldova which concerns legal liability to damages that can cause health or life damages to medicines consumer in order to propose legislative changes and initiatives.
Constitution of the Republic of Moldova and the subordinate legislation. Main methods used are: synthesis, logical legal deduction, content analysis and comparative analysis.
Legal relations which were a subject to examination, show that different sources of law represent a system of different determined external forms, which include norms that gene-rally regulate social relations that are important to the whole society, concerning citezens' health protection and its main link – legislation concerning medical assistance through pharmaceutical activity.
Traditionally one of the main forms (sources) for law expression are the laws that can be special or general, normative acts, where the key position is occupied by The Supreme Law which is The Constitution. Other law sources might be generally recogni-zed principles of international law and international treaties (title I, article 8, Constitution of Republic of Moldova), international law norms [1] and the subordinate legislative acts (nor-mative acts of central public administrations (APC), local administrations (APL), at district or municipal level, within the limits of their competence).
Analysing the specific features of these legal regulation legislative acts of social relations in the healthcare field through phar- maceutical activity, can be noticed the lack of medicines consumer term and legal liability norms in cases of patient's health or life damage. This happens at a stage when the society is set to have the best quality service and assistance across all branches of this system (public health protection).
Constitution of the Republic of Moldova. One of the fundamental rights of a Republic of Moldova citezen is the right to health protection.
Art.1 par. (3) of the Constitution states that Republic of Moldova is a democratic State in which the dignity of people, their rights and freedoms, the free development of human personality, justice and political pluralism represent supreme values that shall be guaranteed. In the Constitution of Republic of Moldova art.16 par.(1) and art. 36 guarantee these rights, respect and protection of a person constitute the foremost duty of the State.
Art. 36 from RM Constitution states that:
1) The right to health protection is guaranteed,
2) The minimum health insurance provided by the State shall be free of charge,
3) The structure of the national health security system and the means aimed at protecting the physical and mental health of the individual shall be provided for by organic law. As it is generally known human health depends on numerous factors. In RM Constitution there are listed the factors and the means specific to health protection as well as citizen categories with specific guaranteed rights.
Art. 37 states "every individual has the right to live in an ecologically safe and healthy environment, to consume healthy food and to use harmless household appliances"; also, "Private individuals and legal entities are liable for the damages caused to a person's health and property due to ecological infringements."
Art. 47 states "The State shall be bound to take actions in order that every person has a decent standard of living that would ensure him/her and his/her family members health protection and welfare including food, clothing, shelter, medical care, as well as necessary social services. All citizens have the right to be insured in case of: unemployment, disease, disability, widowhood, old age or other situations where, due to causes beyond one's control, one loses the source or means of obtaining the necessities of life".
Art. 50 states "The mother and the child shall enjoy special assistance and protection; children and young people shall enjoy a special form of assistance in the pursuit of their rights, etc.".
Art. 51 states "Persons with special needs (disabilities) shall enjoy special protection from the whole of society, the state shall ensure normal conditions for medical treatment and rehabilitation, education, training and social integration for them. No one can be subject to forced medical treatment unless for the cases set by the law." [3]
The Civil Code of the Republic of Moldova no. 1107 of June 06.2002 (31 modifications) includes legal norms about obligations, general notion of contracts by the means of gradual transition from a centralized national health system to a different system based on a contract with The National Health Insurance Company while medical services can be provided by private medical organizations with entrepreneur status. The most relevant for this study are the following parts: chapter XI "Entrepreneurship and Offer of Services", the third section "Offer of Services", art. 970-979; Chapter XXVI "Insurance" art. 1301-1330; Chapter XXXIV "Obligations born from causing damages" art.1398-1431. [2]
Republic of Moldova law of May 25, 1993 No. 1456 - XII, "regarding pharmaceutical activity" republished in Official Monitor of Republic of Moldova no. 59-61/200 of 15.04.2005 defines for the first time basic legal terms related to pharmaceutical field "pharmaceutical activity, authorization, expertise, approval, registration, unauthorized drug, producer price, purchase price, delivery price from the local manufacturer"; as well as "authorization methods of pharmaceutical activity, medicines and medical items quality control, guaranteed medicines provision to population, demographic norms for opening a pharmacy (a pharmacy can be opened at a population density of 3000-4000 people), etc.".
Through article no. 18, par. (4) modified in law no. 63 of 06.04.17, MO155-161/19.05.17 art. 257 states that Medicines and Medical Devices Agency in Republic of Moldova suspends or interdicts the manufacturing, import and marketing of medicines, drugs and para-pharmaceu-tical products that do not meet the requirements in Pharmacopoeia or any other normative and technical documentation approved by Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection as well as in cases when there were established harmful effects on human health. [6]
Republic of Moldova law no. 411-XIII of March 28, 1995 No. 411-XIII "About health protection" appeared in the first few years after the independence proclamation and contains pioneer law principles in the healthcare field such as:
a) decentralized administration of preventive, curative, sanitary prophylactic and anti-epidemic units also pharmaceutical units or units of any other nature;
b) the responsibility carried by central and local public administration authorities, economic entities and decision making factors in national policy promotion ensuring population health;
c) responsibility of medical and sanitary organizations and units for the whole volume of accessible, opportune, high quality sanitary and medical services, also in terms of the quality of professional training and improving the qualification of medical and pharmaceutical staff;
d) the usage of modern medical practice including modern technologies and scientific achievements in the medical activity of these units;
e) defence of employee rights and control over the exercise of professional obligations;
f) prophylactic orientation in ensuring health to the whole population in all spheres of vital activity;
g) the diversity of medical assistance (provided by the state, by insurance or in a private manner);
h) free and accessible medical assistance in national medical institutions, transition to provision of these services by general practitioners, according to a national program in set volume and limits;
i) a patient's freedom to choose their current practitioner and curative unit (with the suggestion for this to be completed with pharmacist and pharmacy). In relation to the research topic the only liability for damages caused to a citizen's (consumer's, patient's) health, there is only one specification j) the responsibility of each person for his or her own health. [9]
National Health Policy approved by Governmental Decision no. 886 of August 6, 2007 states that "population health represents an objective of primary importance in national policy of every State; health represents the most treasured value and an indispensable component ofs social development and prosperity and establishes as a priority in efforts made by the Government and by civil society in order to continue to strengthen each person's health throughout their lives especially during the most risky periods of life health-wise, such as: beginning of life, adolescence and old age as well as rectification of economic and social situation in the country." National Health Policy have as a purpose adjusting the legal framework to European Union rigors and standards as well as elaboration of new normative acts for the implementation of National Health Policy and of an Action Plan for Republic of Moldova and European Union. Researched legislative acts highlight the emphasis put by the state on declaring guarantees to citizens and some facilities offered do special (separate) categories of citizens in the healthcare field. There can be attested some decentralization elements of national medical assistance by public and local authorities and municipal entities. It's specific to this time and to this document that mentioned state guarantees are not going to be seen as concrete and tangible tasks for involved subjects but as recognized legitimate citizen rights. [11]
National Medicines Policy approved by Governmental Decision no. 1352 of October 3, 2002 presents the development of the health system in Republic of Moldova which implies providing healthcare to all citizens basing on the principle of equality. A medicine is an important element in prophylaxis, diagnosis and treatment of various diseases. Coordinated development of the pharmaceutical sector, especially in cases related to social importance which is one of the most prioritized problems in healthcare. This policy was intended to serve as a base for elaborating new development programs in pharmaceutical field in Republic of Moldova (development, testing, authorization, manufacturing, distribution and rational use of medicines) as well as new legislation in the in the domain of medicines and the pharmaceutical field. National Medicines Policy is a huge component of national health policy but does not acknowledge the legal liability for causing health or life damages to medicines consumer. [12]
Republic of Moldova Law No.105-XV of March 13, 2003 "on Consumer Protection" Includes basic terms which are directly related to healthcare – consumer, manufacturer, provider, fake product (counterfeit), quality, validity, safety of products, services and works. Articles 7, 8, 9, 16 of the Law mentioned above determines the obligations of the manufacturer, executor and seller while article no.6 establishes specific stipulations which concern protection of consumer's life, health, heredity and security and through this process guarantee the right to safety of the mentioned goods, products, services and works.
This Law regulates in detail complete, accurate and precise information provided to a consumer, both about the manufacturer (executor or seller) as well as about goods, products, provided services and works. Taking in consideration the presumption that the consumer lacks special knowledge, article no. 21 of this Law requires a specific training for the consumer, that should be provided through establishing consumers' information systems concerning their rights by implementing necessary measures for protecting their rights such as organizing seminars, publishing special editorials on the particular topics and by other undertaken measures by bodies responsible for the consumers protection, and by non-governmental organisations, as well as by the means of mass media and other interested organizations. [4]
Republic of Moldova law No. 263-XVI of October 27, 2005 "on patients' rights and responsibilities" includes an article dedicated to the liabilities in case of violation of patient rights.
According to article 18 of this law "(1) The liability for the violation of a patient's right to health care is carried by public central and local administrations and authorities of healthcare system at all levels and in case of violation of individual rights stipulated in the following law the liability is carried by the providers of the health services. (2) Those responsible for violation of a patient's rights stated in this law are liable in accordance with the law." On one hand this article refers to the in-force legislation which refers to the compensation for the damage caused (including the CCRM). On the other hand, it proclaims the principle of responsibility for damaging actions (inactions). Also, it is very important that in this law, there is no mention the possibility of unfavorable results or risks such as: damages caused to a citizen's health and especially as a result of medicines consumption or even worse, the death of a person. [5]
Republic of Moldova Law No. 1585-XIII of 27 February 1998 "on compulsory medical insurance" sets legal, economic and organizational grounds for compulsory medical insurance provided to Republic of Moldova citizens. The main objective is to intensify the interest and responsibility of the citizens, state, companies, institutions and organizations on healthcare field in new economic conditions. The law guarantees their constitutional right to medical care. According to the terms of the law insured persons (by medical and sanitary institutions which have a contract with The National Health Insurance Company) have the right for medical care corresponding to the volume (different types of medical care) and to the quality stipulated in the insurance contract and the list of medical services established by the Single program of compulsory medical insurance approved by Order of the Government of the Republic of Moldova No. 1387 of December 10, 2007 "about approval of the single program of compulsory medical insurance". Realizing the importance, complexity and the up to date goals linked to healthcare protection, the Government established starting with 2013 a top priority activity program entitled "European integration: Freedom, Democracy, Welfare" – "increasing the performance of all the providers of medical services by application of the minimum quality standards", the main goal being the service quality improving.
Also, in this Law can be found actual monitoring, evaluation and quality control instruments and mechanisms for provided medical and pharmaceutical services quality (periodic estimation of recipients' satisfaction rate about: the quality of the services, the prices, the way of according these services, waiting time and other aspects) are directed to diminish dissatisfaction degree and health or life damages reported to proposed goals though according to some authors there are attempts in this direction. [10]
Republic of Moldova Law No. 382-XIV, of 6 May 1999 "On the circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors" modified on 28.07.2016, states the following basic terms: drugs, psychotropic substances, precursors, circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, analogues of narcotics and psychotropic substances (analog), ethnobotanical products, etc., determines the classification of psychotropic, narcotic substances and precursors which are subject to control on Republic of Moldova territory. The list (lists) and the ways they can be modified and completed can be determined and approved by the RM Government. This Law with its modifications and additions, determines the directions and principles of state policy in the field of narcotic and psychotropic substances trafficking and in fighting their illegal circulation. [8]
Republic of Moldova Law of December 17, 1997 No. 1409 "regarding drugs" sets the legal base for activities of those who takes part in medicines circulation, determines the state organizations that implement the practice of applying this law and the distribution of executive power in the medicines circulation field.
The Law regulates the relations that appear together with elaboration, preparation, manufacturing, preclinical and clinical studies of drugs, quality control, efficacy, safety, drug commercialization and other activities in the drug circulation field.
This Law describes the following terms: medicines (drugs products), drug substance (active substance), medicinal product, radioactive, preclinical drug studies, clinical trials of the drug, international common denomination (DCI), counterfeit drug, a drug's registration certificate, official representative, manufacturers price registration, National catalogue of drugs manufacturer's suggested retail price, original drug (innovative or new chemical entity), generic drug.
The law sets state regulatory methods which appeared in the drug circulation area. The most important for the science and medical practice are the norms of chapter III "Drug development". For the first time there are set regulatory stipulations for drug development, preclinical and clinical trials for drugs. It was attempted to protect patient rights in a corresponding way for those who takes part in clinical trials for drugs (article 12). Even though this law is a part of "purely" pharmaceutical legislation, it does not contain any stipulations about fixing health or life damages that can occur after administrating drugs and also doesn't refer to any other normative act. The practice of applying such a norm can help identify the strengths and weaknesses in regulating these legal relations. [7]
This way, after analyzing the in force legal norms concerning pharmaceutical activity as a part of healthcare, through the lens of legal liabilities for citizen's (patient's, medicines consu-mer's) health or life damages presented in them, we can mention a total absence of the phar-maceutical and medical responsibility as a a specific legal liability because the mechanism of compensating the health or life damage of the citizens is first of all determined by Republic of Moldova administrative and civil legislation.
Besides that, the state mechanism is adjusted only to detect, investigate and solve cases related to violations and infringements assigned to the four types of legal liability: criminal, contraventional, civil and disciplinary, not diminishing but on the contrary, emphasizing once again the importance of ethical, moral responsibility, solemnly declared by swearing in Hippocrates' Oath.
The study of legal aspects of medicines consumption, the sources of legal regulations concerning legal liability to damages that can cause health damages to medicines consumer, allows us to notice that in a short period of time, legal acts that concern health protection, pharmaceutical activity, the drug itself are set to become more specific, because as for now they lack the right definitions and concepts which lead in more difficult cases when there is need to protect the citizens' legal rights and interests in different institutions including court.
Their indisputable value lays in determining the rights and obligations of all participants of social and legal relations in according of medical care (doctor-pharmacist-medicines consumer, etc.). It's crucial to review pharmaceutical legislation in Republic of Moldova in order to reason and adopt new legal norms which would actually determine in a certain way the liabilities for provoking harm that appears following a medicine consumption and cause health damages. In our opinion time has come to raise the issue of drafting a new Code – the right template for the systematization of legislation which concerns this noble activity field, first of all in the light of citizen's health protection.
1. The Charter of the United Nations signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the United Nations Conference; Vienna Declaration on Human Rights, 1993; Declaration on the Use of Scientific and Technological Progress in the Interests of Peace and for the Benefit of Mankind 1975; Declaration on Ethics and the Human Genome Project Valencia, 1990; Declaration on Therapeutic Abortion Oslo, 1983; Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted by European Council on 04.11.1950; World Medical Association Declaration Geneva, 1948; International Code of Medical Ethics, etc.
2. The Civil Code of the Republic of Moldova no. 1107 of June 06.2002, published: 22.06.2002 in Official Monitor no. 82-86 art no: 661.
3. Constitution of the Republic of Moldova. of July 29, 1994, published: 12.08.1994 in Official Monitor no. 1.
4. Law of Republic of Moldova No. 105-XV of March 13, 2003 "on Consumer Protection", published: 27.06.2003 in Official Monitor no. 126-131, art no: 507.
5. Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 263-XVI of October 27, 2005 "on patients' rights and responsibilities", published: 30.12.2005 in Official Monitor no.176-181, art no: 867.
6. Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 1456-XII, of May 25, 1993 "regarding pharmaceutical activity", published: 15.04.2005 in Official Monitor no.59-61, art no: 200.
7. Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 1409 of December 17, 1997"regarding drugs", published: 11.06.1998 in Official Monitor no.52-53, art no: 368.
8. Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 382-XIV, of 6 May 1999 "On the circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors", published: 15.07.1999 in Official Monitor no. 73-77, art no: 339.
9. Law of the Republic of Moldova No.411-XIII of March 28, 1995 "on health protection", Published: 22.06.1995 in Official Monitor no.34, art no: 373.
10. Law of the Republic of Moldova No. 1585-XIII of 27 February 1998 "on compulsory medical insurance", published: 30.04.1998 in Official Monitor no. 38-39, art no: 280.
11. Governmental Decision no. 886 of August 6, 2007 on "National Health Policy", published: 17.08.2007 in Official Monitor no. 127-130, art no: 931.
12. Governmental Decision no. 1352 of October 3, 2002, on "National Medicines Policy" published: 07.11.2002 in Official Monitor no. 149 art no: 1161.
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Black Earth es una villa ubicada en el condado de Dane en el estado estadounidense de Wisconsin. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 1.338 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 597,92 personas por km².

Geografía
Black Earth se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Black Earth tiene una superficie total de 2.24 km², de la cual 2.21 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (1.27%) 0.03 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 1.338 personas residiendo en Black Earth. La densidad de población era de 597,92 hab./km². De los 1.338 habitantes, Black Earth estaba compuesto por el 96.71% blancos, el 0.3% eran afroamericanos, el 0.45% eran amerindios, el 1.42% eran asiáticos, el 0% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 0.15% eran de otras razas y el 0.97% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 1.27% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Articles Tibi's Book
Raluca Pancu / October 4, 2018
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"We put down a chair and a hospital bed at the Galateca Gallery and vowed that we would not get up from the chair until we collected 100,000 text messages at 2 Euros each."
In only 23 days, the campaign Together for MagicHOME, initiated by Melania Medeleanu and Vlad Voiculescu, reached its target. More than 100,000 people contributed to building a home where families of child cancer patients will be able to live free of charge during the treatment process. Based on the success of the initial MagicHOME campaign, another €1,800,000 has been raised and construction of the building is almost complete.
"We have been helping families of children with cancer since 2007. This was the first time we tried crowdfunding. It was amazing to see how much people want to help and be a part of things that are bigger than themselves," says Vlad Voiculescu.
The 2018 campaign Together for MagicHOME demonstrated that the solidarity of thousands of people is an extremely effective force for change.
PressOne sat down to talk to Melania Medeleanu and Vlad Voiculescu about their passion for cancer care in Romania.
So how did your passion for cancer care get started?
Vlad Voiculescu: It began in 2007 when a 28-year-old friend of mine was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma 3 weeks after her wedding. Even though this cancer could be effectively cured with an inexpensive chemotherapy (ABVD), the local hospitals did not have this medicine. I did some research and discovered that the World Health Organization has a list of essential, inexpensive cancer medicines. Sadly, the Romanian State health system does not have many of these essential medicines.
I went to a pharmacy in Vienna where I was working to buy three of the chemicals in ABVD. The Bleomycin cost €25, the Vinblastine cost €12 and the Dacarbazine cost €7. The drugs that would save my friend's life cost less than €50 a treatment. I purchased enough medicines for her treatment, packed them in a backpack and brought them to her in Romania.
In a few years, we had a network of more than 400 Romanians filling up their backpacks with inexpensive cancer medicines and bringing them home to help cancer patients. Since we started, we have distributed these medicines to over 2,500 cancer patients.
The most painful part of this work was seeing children with cancer. In 2010, I saw the film about "The Hole in Wall Gang Camp" started by Paul Newman. I cried like crazy as I saw kids with cancer smiling and having fun. So I used my savings to start buying land in the village I grew up in with the dream of creating a similar summer camp in Romania. I managed to buy the land on the hill where I had so much fun playing as a child.
In 2014, Melania and I started our first camp on this land. We provided medicine and lots of fun for 31 kids. We called it MagiCAMP. MagiCAMP has doubled in size every year. After the Colectiv fire in 2015, we started ConnectivCAMP for child burn victims in 2016. In 2017, we added a BlueCAMP for children whose siblings have died of cancer. In the summer of 2018, we had a total of 272 children at our camps.
At the end of last year, PressOne made 10 nominations for Person of the Year IN 2017 and you two got the most votes. How did you react to receiving this title?
Melania Medeleanu: With a mixture of surprise and joy. I felt extremely honored because I looked at the other nominees that were chosen and any of them easily deserved this title.
If I consider Tibi Uşeriu, Carmen Uscatu or Oana Gheorghiu, or the other nominees, I would say that we are doing much less than what they are doing.
Do you feel that people have certain expectations from you?
Melania Medeleanu: Yes (they both laugh). With every day that passes, I get the feeling that when people gain confidence in you, they also begin to demand more and more of you. This is a natural process. What we really desire, beyond meeting their expectations, is to have them join us.
Vlad Voiculescu: To join us, or any of the other nominees. There are many people who are doing a lot of good in our country. If everyone contributes a little, it can make a world of difference. We just need a little bit more trust in one another.
Summer Camp at MagiCAMP.
What did launching the MagicHOME program mean to you?
Melania Medeleanu: First of all, it gave us the confirmation that there was a great need for such a project.
Vlad Voiculescu: For me, it's an old cause of frustration (both laugh). It is easy to incubate ideas, but they linger for years because we are afraid to try things that have never been done.
Melania Medeleanu: It also meant a lot that so many wonderful people and organizations like JazzCommunication, Rogalski Damaschin, and the Galateca Gallery, worked together to develop the approach.
Tell us about the crowdfunding campaign
Melania Medeleanu: The idea was very simple. We put an empty chair beside an empty hospital bed belonging to a sick child and said that chair would be occupied until we had raised 200,000 Euros. We had no idea how long we would be sitting in the chair!
There were many people who thought we were complete fools. They asked us "Where are you going to find people who are willing to sit in that chair?"
Maybe the success of this campaign came from the fact that people understood that 2 Euros per month is not a lot. The excuse of not having enough money quickly faded away. It also only took just 30 seconds to send a text message with the word MAGIC to 8844, so the barriers to giving were removed.
"Some wrote prayers, others shared their stories."
Vlad Voiculescu: The people who came and sat in the chair were absolutely extraordinary. Everybody had a story and everyone wrote in the little notebook that was placed beside the bed.
Many things just happened organically, without us having thought of them. The notebook, the teddy bears that gathered there on the bed. Some brought icons, others wrote prayers and others shared their own stories.
The stories were heart wrenching. We collected some of them to publish in the future but in the meanwhile, each person posted something on the campaign's Facebook account and left a piece of their story there.
What left a lasting impression on you during the 23 campaign days in the chair?
Vlad Voiculescu: For me, it was the stories of those who came and sat in the chair. That's for sure.
Melania Medeleanu: And all the objects the volunteers left there. At first, they left a book here and there in case someone wanted to read. Then they began leaving icons and teddy bears.
At the end of the campaign, we needed many boxes to gather up all the objects that had been left on the bed. There was no space left in the room. It was a room full of love.
Vlad Voiculescu: We're going to build a storage shed beside MagicHOME where we can leave things for MagicBOX, a program which collects parcels of goods for poor children.
The Galateca Gallery Photo Source: Facebook
So tell us about MagicHOME
Vlad Voiculescu: It will be a home for families to live for as long as their children are in Bucharest for cancer treatment. Any family that has a child diagnosed with cancer and is coming for treatment in Bucharest can call us. We will help with transportation and accommodations and can provide absolutely everything they need.
We also have a meeting room in the house where parents and children can arrange sessions with psychologists or simply hang around and talk to one another.
After the success of our first crowdfunding campaign, we raised another €1,800,000 and MagicHOME is almost complete.
In another interview, you mentioned that your biggest donor is an institution in Switzerland. What do your plans look like for the upcoming years?
Vlad Voiculescu: In Switzerland, if a person becomes rich and wants to leave their fortune behind, they do not leave a car or a family house, but rather a sum of money. They leave the money with this type of institution called a Stiftung. A Stiftung is a foundation with a set of guidelines established by the donor about how the money must be spent after they die. Each donor defines these rules according to their own values so that their family members can thrive and become better people.
We were contacted by a 60-year old Swiss woman whose grandmother was originally from Romania and left an impressive fortune in her Stiftung. Her grandmother's stipulation was that this fortune would be used to support two projects in Romania. MagicCAMP is one of the two projects chosen in Romania.
They told us from the beginning that they are not interested in making a one-time donation. They are interested in partially funding a sustainable project that has other sources of funding. They want to ensure that the project will be able to last for countless years.
This is why our crowdfunding is so important. Donors want to support the things that Romanians are supporting and believe in.
How has this work changed you?
Melania Medeleanu: You redefine the meaning of a problem.
Vlad Voiculescu: What happens to all the volunteers that sit in the chair for MagicHOME or come to MagicCAMP, even if it's only for a few days, is that it turns their world upside down.
After that, our priorities change and our fears slowly disappear. You realize that the problems we face are mostly related to trivial matters. It requires a little reset to put things in perspective and become grateful for what we have.
#Traiascacapra vecinului
The Magnificent Sulimans
Auntie Mia
Volunteer grandparents
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