Medusa: AIMEE MOORE: DOES ALL THE MEDIA ATTENTION GLORIFY ANOREXIA & BULIMIA?
Following the news yesterday that Aimee Moore had been admitted to Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario, for tube feeding, the following article appeared in the Globe and Mail.
Glorifying illness - or helping out?
It is a private moment played out in bedrooms each day: a young woman standing in the mirror, checking herself out.
Except in this case, the reflection was of a skeletal 60-pound woman named Aimee Moore, poking the spots on her concave stomach where she wanted to lose weight. And instead of being private, those images were broadcast to the world.
This week, less than five months after appearing on the Dr. Phil show, the 28-year-old Stratford, Ont., woman who suffers from anorexia and bulimia was admitted to a Mississauga hospital where she will be fed through a tube and treated to heal her damaged digestive system - an update that has already been published in several Ontario newspapers.
Like others who have suffered from an eating disorder, Ms. Moore has sought media exposure in a bid to find the help she desperately needs and steer others away from the illness that has consumed her life for 16 years. "She and her mother are working to try and help other people," her father, Dave Moore, said yesterday from his home in Stratford.
But some experts say that that exposure, in some cases, can be a catalyst for the disease - and holding a mirror up to the horror may do more to perpetuate the illness than prevent it.
"I don't see the advantage for the patient," says Hany Bissada, director of Ottawa's Regional Centre for the Treatment of Eating Disorders. "Television [thrives on] shock effect. That's good for Dr. Phil. But it doesn't do anything for the patient. In some twisted way, it glorifies her illness."
Ms. Moore was 14 the first time she was hospitalized for her eating disorder. By 18, her story became public after her mother, Pat Moore, who had founded an eating disorder support group, shared their struggle at a public forum. Ms. Moore later told a Kitchener-Waterloo Record reporter: "I feel a lot more free now."
But on Feb. 25, Ms. Moore appeared on Dr. Phil weighing 60 pounds. She described herself as fat, evil and hopeless. Cameras filmed her vomiting into a garbage can, then gulping down food in the middle of the night. She described how she would eat vomit to induce gagging.
Ms. Moore had reached out to the show, not the other way around.
"If I don't get help soon I don't think I'm going to survive," Ms. Moore wrote in an e-mail to a producer. She had tried several other treatment clinics in Ontario and the United States without success.
Since the show aired, Ms. Moore's progress has been chronicled in several front-page stories in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Some outlined the intimate details of her life: the diagnoses of mental illness, the hasty marriage that failed, the childhood abuse by a stranger, which her mother said led to her daughter's eating disorder.
Mr. Moore said he didn't find the show sensational. "It's what goes on," he said. "I have to live with it all the time."
Anne Elliott, program director of Sheena's Place, a Toronto eating disorder clinic, says in some cases, media exposure can raise awareness and encourage people who are struggling to seek help.
But after viewing a clip from the Dr. Phil show, she said people may take the wrong message because Ms. Moore's case is so extreme. "I'd be worried that people would see that and say, 'Well, I don't look like that so I don't have a disorder,' " she said.
Without the root causes of eating disorders being shown, she added, people may adopt a "blame the victim" attitude. "She's suffering from a serious illness... ," Ms. Elliott said. "I would worry that people would see her and say, 'Well, she just needs to eat.' It is about eating, but it's not that simple," Ms. Elliott said.
Dr. Bissada, a psychiatrist, said that those with eating disorders may be afraid that if they get better, they'll be forgotten by relatives and friends. In some cases, Dr. Bissada said, media exposure can fuel that desperate need for attention. In others, they are seeking treatment, which can be a positive outcome.
In April, Ms. Moore returned to Ontario after seven weeks at Magnolia Creek, an Alabama treatment centre where she'd been treated free of charge since appearing on the Dr. Phil show. She needed medical help because she now has a stomach condition that makes it extremely painful to take in food.
Ms. Moore will likely be at Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga for at least a month, Mr. Moore said. His wife has rented a place nearby and plans to visit every day.
Once Ms. Moore's stomach improves, she has been invited to return to the Alabama clinic for free treatment. "She wants to go back there," Mr. Moore said. "But she has to get herself stabilized and functioning again."
Does media attention raise awareness and help prevent eating disorders or glorify and perpetuate them?
I think in lots of cases the media attention on eating disorders glrofies them. It's always about the shock factor - it's always emaciated anorexics in the stories, never normal/overweight bulimics or compulsive overeaters. As a person with an eating disorder seeing Aimee doesn't make me more likely to get help - i look at her and see that my life is so much better, and therefore in some ways i'm not deserving of treatment - i'm not that sick and i'm not gonna die of my illness.
The main thing about cases like Aimee is now people all over the world know her as "the anorexic", and as soon as she recovers even a little bit she's going to be losing her identity and the attention and interest in her life. That's a big problem for all people recovering from EDs - trying to find something to replace them with - a new identity, new interests, new ways of spending their time. But for Aimee it's gonna be a hell of a lot worse.
Josie, thanks so much for taking the time to comment.
By blogging about EDs am I glorifying them? I have wrestled with this for a long time.
Thank you so much for posting this blog. I was searching for pro ana websites, because I was considering that lifestyle, when I came across your site. It made me realize how dangerous anorexia and bulimia really can be. You are truly making a positive difference in the world, and you have probably saved many, many lives through this blog.
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I agree that Aimee has a very difficult road ahead of her...once the media attention dies down, what then?
Again, many thanks, Josie, for your comments.
I read this article this morning. I'm not sure what the right answer is to this, I only have my opinion. I think information is crucial,that being educated about something is extremely important. Not only for those with EDs but for everyone.
I agree that the media sometimes glorifies eating disorders. In my opinion educating is different than sensationalizing. You're educating with your blogging and you've helped, Medusa. The comments you've received prove that.
I see what you're saying, Josie. It's sad that an ED becomes an identity when there's so much more to who we are. I wish it were different.
Hopefully, Aimee will learn in recovery that who she is, is not defined by her ED and the lack of attention brought on by her battle will not be an issue.
MrsM, thank you so much for your very astute comments and kind words.
And for those who have not read MrsMenopausal's blog, Weighing the Facts, please click on the link in her comment. Her well-respected blog is full of excellent resource information on eating disorders, body image, etc.
medusa - as MrsM says, your blog is more educational than sensational - your aim is to educate and discuss as opposed to being a freakshow on paper which people are buying into (as is the case of magazines!).
That anonymous comment highlights the importance of the effect the media has in the portrayal of eating disorders - if they weren't glamorised and sensationalised, the 'pro-ana lifestyle' wouldn't be such a big deal. Pro-ana will always exist online for as long as there's anorexics online (because pro-ana is a reflection of how it feels to have the illness in the early stages - how the mind skews itself to make it seem like the behaviour is justified and okay), but i can see pro-ana as being something that 'normal' healthy people should stay well away from, before it's too late!
It's that fine line between education and sensationalism that has always concerned me and I try to be ever conscious of stepping over that line.
Again, many thanks for your comments. I truly appreciate hearing your perspective on eating disorders and pro-ana.
I know my granddaughter's condition deteriorated drastically before we had an inkling of the problem. She had well-developed digestive problems, as well as racing heart and other grim indicators, before we started getting answers. Some, we didn't like. (It's all in her head - that makes her stomach hurt that much? Noooo.) To the best of our knowledge, she never visited or read pro-ana sites. Now that it's out in the open, she doesn't feel so isolated and is recovering slowly, very slowly. Medusa, your site has alternately horrified me and given me hope. KUTGW.
With the love and support of your family, I am confident your granddaughter will recover. She has made such amazing progress to date, and I'm sure that now that her illness is out in the open, she will continue to make slow but steady progress in regaining her health.
Yes, coming from someone with an eating disorder.
As do your posts about glamourous models and beautiful women killing themselves. You don't realise that you're doing it but by making those posts, with things like "how many more models have to die", you're perpetrating the myth that the life of someone visually beautiful means more than that of someone not.
"As do your posts about glamourous models and beautiful women killing themselves. You don't realise that you're doing it but by making those posts, with things like "how many more models have to die", you're perpetrating the myth that the life of someone visually beautiful means more than that of someone not."
Seaneen, thank you for your comment.
It is certainly not my intention to convey that "the life of someone visually beautiful means more than that of someone not."
From my perspective, those blog posts show that even those who are "visually beautiful," who seemingly have a much easier time making their way through life because of their looks, can also be wracked with self-doubt, eating disorders, depression, suicidal thoughts, etc.
I, in no way, mean to diminish the lives of those who are not thought of as being "visually beautiful." My blog posts focus not only on the beautiful.
Eating disorders are not selective...they strike both the beautiful and those who may be considered by others to not be beautiful.
Again, thanks, Seaneen, for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate hearing your perspective and opinions.
Of course not! If it wasn't for you and your blog, I probably would binge and vomit today, as I did regularly for about 10 years now (and almost everyday for about 3 years).
I came across your site on July 1, 2009, following a link (from antyproana.blox.pl) to "bulimia kills" post. Of course I always knew that I am bulimic, I actually pushed myself into it deliberately when I was 15 and a little depressed (and slightly overweight), which is quite common for growing up fase. I don't really know how could I be stupid enough to think, that becoming bulimic would give me "the advantage of having a problem that I would be able to define instead of this annoying feeling of saddness for no particular reason", but that's exactly what I thought. I wanted an identity, an easy answer to my uncertainty, and I considered losing weight as a bonus effect.
Of course, I thought I could always stop. Then it came to me, that it is not that easy to stop binge eating and then feeling guilty and purging, that it is actually impossible to stop, that I have no controll whatsoever. And then I convinced myself, that I'm not like the other bulimics, I'm not going to face the consequences, my face doesn't look swollen, my teeth are quite okay, I drink a lot of water to avoid dehydration - and all that kind of unbelievably stupid stuff.
It took me 30 seconds to decide that I am stopping this madness immediately. I didn't want to push myself too far, so I set a limit - I am going to try to avoid bingeing, and even if I binge - I won't vomit, to the end of July. Just for start. Because I wanted the goal to be realistic. And that was my present for my 25th birthday (July 4) - what I gave myself was the comforting feeling, of actually going to grow up, stop being a total idiot and start taking care of myself.
God knows what could've happened if i didn't read your post.
P.S. Are you familiar with the concept of normal eating (www.normaleating.com)? It has been a huge help to me in case of binge-eating for the last 31 days, because it gave me the tools to start recovering from compulsive eating, by realising the problem and approaching it.
Thanks so much for your comment. I am thrilled you are now on the road to recovery! That first step is hard, but you did it.
I hadn't heard of normaleating.com. I will definitely check it out. Thanks for the link.
And thank you SO much for your kind words I appreciate them so much.
Sending positive, healing thoughts your way.
I don´t know whether the positive or the negative effects of all those media attention have more weight. It depends who watch this and I hope it´s more eye opening than gloryfying.
However, if someone with an ED really thinks it could help him/her to make the own story public then they should have the possibility to. It´s on us to see the truth behind anorexia/bulimia ecc.
Anybody who thinks not to deserve help because she/he maybe is much healthier: It´s not on you to deserve(!) help. You NEED it. That´s all. All that´s important then.
2Medusa whenever I'm in need for a reality check because like many ED sufferers, I still have the idealised image of my ED behaviors in my head, most of which occured in the very early stages of deleloping my ED. Which were false senses of happiness & control anyway.
Thank you so much for your comments. I appreciate them so much.
I agree with Seaneen. I'm a person with food issues, anorexia and bulimia. I have been in and out of rehabs most of my life, at least 35 years wasted on this disease. Almost 100% of the time the girls in rehab have never heard of Pro Ana or Pro Mia. People like us with ED usually suffer in silence (not the attention seeking behavior that the girls who frequent "pro ED" sites have). You can bash me for this comment all you want but I'm speaking the truth. In these rehabs they do not let you on the internet. I have never been in one that let woman surf the web, so if anyone says they are in rehab and they are playing on Facebook at the same time, they are most likely seeking attention, I've met quite a few of those girls. Show me a rehab they lets ED patients on the web and I'll give you a million dollars and most real ED suffers don't wear it on their sleeves like a badge or something. Most of the girls on youtube sporting ED video's might be too thin but not really on the brink of death but yeah when I was in my worst near death weight of 71 pounds, I frequented YOUR blog all day. I came here for my best tricks and to just look at the photos all day. You are a terrific woman with a huge heart and I know you mean well but this blog is an anorexics playground.
It's tricky, but I think that sometimes ignorance is the best protection against these kids of problem. I developed bulimia as a teenager after reading a book about a bulimic. I wanted to loose weight and it seemed like a good idea. Thankfully about 2 years later I got a job in Yellowstone, and being in nature healed my soul to the point where I recovered from bulimia permanently with no relapse for over 15 year. I thank God for that.


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Q: How to replace specific integer number with a character in python using regex? I tried to replace a specific number like 22 in my string with a string like "Hi there", but it also replace float numbers like 22.14 in my string (Hi there.14).
  import re
  my_string = "22 and 22.14"
  re.sub(r'\b22\b', "Hi there", my_string)

A: You can use this regex, which will not let it match decimal values by using positive lookahead to ensure it only matches if 22 is followed by a space or end of input.
\b22(?= |$)

Demo
If you want 22 to be matched at the end of line ending with a . then you can use this regex,
\b22(?!\.\d)

Demo where line ends with 22.

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Cotton is woven into the warp of American history. The first mass consumer commodity, cotton has remained central to our economy since the 1700's. It's credited with bringing commercial ascendancy to New York City, fostering trade worldwide, initiating the Industrial Revolution, fueling slavery and sparking the Civil War. However it's been manipulated by human hands, the plant itself - dating back 7,000 years - is essential to our existence.
America is now the third largest producer of cotton in the world - and our country's third largest cash crop. Growing up in Texas, I remember field trips to nearby cotton farms, plucking the boll straight from the bur, indistinguishable from a store-bought cotton ball. 20 years later, in my search for sustainable fabrics, I was led right back to these farms in Lubbock, TX, growing GOTS certified organic cotton.
If the conversation about organic vs. conventional seems like a 90's throwback, then fashion is still medieval in comparison to the food industry. Food and fashion have the same environmental, social and personal impact. We've learned how important it is to eat organically, for the planet's health and for our health, and yet our closets don't reflect those values. Education is the first step towards awareness and change. Below I'll speak to the differences between conventional and organic cotton so you may come to your own conclusions about implementing sustainability in the wardrobe!
- Conventionally grown GMO cotton is in the 4 most toxic crops in the world. It accounts for 25% of the world's insecticide use, more than any other crop - just one T-shirt takes 1/3 lb. of pesticides. In the US alone, more than 10,000 farmers die each year from chemical-related cancers. These pesticides seep into soil and waterways, polluting our ecosystem, killing wildlife and circling back to our food sources, creating disease and developmental disabilities.
- Organically grown cotton adopts an entirely different approach to pest management by establishing a diverse and balanced farm ecosystem. Strategies include crop rotation which prevents rapid pest increase associated with monoculture farming, promotion of the natural enemies of cotton pests, trap crops which divert pests, and natural pesticides like neem extract and chrysanthemum.
- Cotton requires intensive water irrigation. In mono-crop culture like conventional cotton farming, soil is depleted and incapable of retaining moisture. Water pollution is also a serious side-effect of conventional farming and it's inherent chemicals.
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- Organic cotton is processed without harsh chlorine and chemicals, using natural oils and starches instead, resulting in safe, hypo-allergenic products for skin and increased fiber longevity. Organic cotton is picked by hand, preserving the integrity of the fiber, resulting in softer, more durable products.
Overall, organic cotton farming reduces global warming, energy demand, pollution, erosion, water consumption, carcinogenic chemicals, and is always non-GMO. Yet currently, less than 1% of our cotton is grown organically. It takes more time, skill and hands-on labor to produce organic cotton, and is therefore slightly more expensive for consumers.
Cotton's entanglement in human history gives it a complex narrative, but in it's pure state, it's one of our closes allies. May we learn to steward it with more wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all!
"Let me hear it for the cotton fields..."


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Did Madness Make Us Masters of the Universe?
"Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."
Moshe Dayan, Israeli Defence Minister
It often feels like the world has gone mad: this month, so many Texans believed that a routine army drill in their state was a bid by President Obama to occupy them that the governor had to alert the National Guard; in the Middle East, Isis has reintroduced slavery and throws suspected gay men off the top of apartment blocks: North Korea this week executed a defence chief with an anti-aircraft gun because he nodded off in a speech by the Dear Leader: Floyd Mayweather was paid more than $100 million for an hour-long boxing match while thousands of refugees drown trying to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe, where the lucky ones crawl, starving and ignored, past sunbathing tourists on Italian beaches. A robot known as Random Darknet Shopper that was confiscated by Swiss police for purchasing ecstasy pills online was cleared of charges. Just Google "Florida news" and you'll see how crazy the world really is.
Recently, I've been reading a lot about evolutionary psychology, and it seems quite a few scientist believe that we Homo Sapiens are, as a species, in fact insane. Not only that, it may have given us the competitive advantage over other species of humans, in the same way that so many successful businessmen seem to be sociopaths who simply see the rest of us as sheep to be fleeced. The fact that we appear to have genocided our brother species of Neanderthals, Homo Erectus and Denisovans would seem to back up the theory.
In his book "Sapiens," the historian Yuval Noah Harari points to the Cognitive Revolution, some 70,000 years ago, as the period in which we became so successfully mad. Humans could already speak to each other and make tools, as their Neanderthal brethren probably could too, but at that point some random evolutionary mutation in our brains – most likely in our pre-frontal cortex – allowed us start to believe in things that didn't exist.
"Imagined realities," Harari calls them – spirits, gods, totems, things that allowed small bands of hunter-gatherers to share belief systems that eventually led them beyond the narrow confines of kinship groups and allowed total strangers to trust each other, because they shared a belief in a higher – albeit imaginary – power watching over them.
In her book The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert meets a Swedish scientist called Svante Pääbo, who has worked on sequencing the Neanderthal genome. One of the differences he points out between our Homo Sapiens ancestors and the Neanderthals (aside from the fact the latter had bigger brains than us) is that our forebears seem to have taken crazy leaps of faith that must have seemed suicidal to the Neanderthals, such as sailing off in tiny boats across vast, unchartered oceans in the hopes that there would be an island our there they could settle: how many must have drowned or starved, simply lost to history? The same way people nowadays leap off a mountain in a wingsuit – despite the fact that there is a terrible death rate in the sport – and say they do it for fun, to push the boundaries and test their limits. When a private space company offered volunteers a one-way trip to settle Mars, almost a quarter of a million people applied.
It is borderline insane, but we can't help admiring their insanity. Pääbo, described as the "father of paleogenetics" said that he is looking out for a "madness gene," some chromosome that our ancestors had that allowed them, and us, to believe in such useful invented realities as gods, money, insurance policies, nations and corporations – things that don't actually exist in a physical state, but which our belief in allows us to transcend our fears, to die for a cause so that our fellow believers (who are quite likely genetically related) might inherit the land.
Imagine if this way: there is an ancient valley that needs to be crossed to get to new and fertile hunting grounds, but it is full of sabre-tooth tigers and quick sand. The Neanderthals, with their bigger brains but lack of craziness, would quite rightly say it was not worth the risk. The homo sapiens, with their irrational, shamanic belief in spirits and the power of cave drawings to protect them, set out to cross it. All but one pair are killed: the survivors will see themselves as blessed by the spirits, and not only take control of the new land, but have renewed faith in their guiding spirits. The dead will be seen as martyrs, or perhaps sinners who were denied salvation.
The crazy will inherit the Earth. And so we did, it seems.
"If we one day we will know that some freak mutation made the human insanity and exploration thing possible, it will be amazing to think that it was this little inversion on this chromosome that made all this happen and changed the whole ecosystem of the planet and made us dominate everything," Pääbo says.
Once our mutated brains started churning out ideas, these ideas in turn became subject to evolutionary pressures. Memes – the intellectual version of genes – that were successful managed to get their human hosts to survive in larger and larger numbers, even if the individuals were not necessarily any better off. An example offered by Harari is of celibate priests, whose voluntary withdrawal from sexual reproduction goes against every human extinct, yet whose dedication to an idea – god, or the Catholic church – allows that idea to thrive, fixing the faith in ever larger numbers of minds and allowing them to conquer new worlds, brothers in arms against the heathens, ready to sacrifice themselves for a higher cause. And it works – as Mark Pagel write in Wired for Culture, in war a group of men that fights together stands a statistically much better chance of survival than a more rational group that breaks and runs to save themselves. When the crazy jihadists come over the hill, you want Richard the Lionheart at your side, not Richard Dawkins.
There are a million books on madness, but almost none of sanity. I've only found one, Going Sane, which struggles to define what sanity might be. After all, particular groups might be described as insane – cults, nations, dictators, Nazis and ideologues – but surely we as a species can't be?
But history is written by the victors, and victors rarely describe themselves as insane: the Nazis attempted a genocide against the Jews because Nazis were evil and insane; yet just a century or so earlier, the British carried out a successful genocide of the indigenous Tasmanians, sometimes even hunting them like they were foxes on their country estates. There was a widespread practise among American doctors in the ante-bellum South to carry out experiment on live slaves, without using anaesthetics, decades before Dr Mengele got his hands on Auschwitz's twins. You won't see that in Gone With the Wind, although 12 Years A Slave shows quite well that the South was a just a series of privately owned concentration camps.
Insanity, like morality, is often a question of consensus: as the old saying goes, if one man thinks he's the son of a god who impregnated a virgin, he's mad and should be locked up: if he can convince 10 people, they're a cult and should be treated with caution. If a million people can be persuaded, they're a religion and get tax breaks from the state.
Our imagined realities have allowed us to live in vast communities that now dominate every part of the planet, and are threatening another mass wave of extinctions. Can we overcome our collective insanities, or have we benefited from them so long that we really are incurably insane? Is a limited dose of insanity a rational choice, even?
For there are huge benefits: among Harari's "imagined realties" are the systems that allow so many of us to live free from immediate danger of death, with wealth and diets unimaginable to even the royalty of the past, while developing the incredible scientific knowledge that has allowed us to realise that we are quite likely the beneficiaries of an ancient "madness gene."
Or, as Kolbert wryly puts it, "the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome."


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The 5 Jersey-est N.J. Hall of Fame nominees -- and the 5 least
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Eddie Murphy, left, Derek Jeter, center, and Joe Pesci, all nominated to the New Jersey Hall of Fame this year -- but who's the Jersey-est of them all?
(Murphy, Chris Pizzello/AP photo; Jeter, Bill Perlman/The Star-Ledger; Pesci, Warner Home Video)
When it comes to the New Jersey Hall of Fame, you can debate the timing of Joe Piscopo vs. Joe Pesci and "Jersey Joe" Walcott vs. James "Pride of New Jersey" Braddock -- Piscopo and Jersey Joe have been inducted into the Hall, while Pesci and Braddock are nominees for the 2015 class, which were revealed last week.
But can we all agree that Michael Douglas, inducted in 2012, has no business being there?
The actor and producer, talented as he is, is a New Jerseyan only by dint of birth: His parents Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill were temporarily living with Dill's sister, then married to J. Seward Johnson Sr. of the Johnson & Johnson family, when his mother gave birth. Michael Douglas lived in New Jersey for a matter of weeks.
But that's enough to be considered for the Hall of Fame, which has few hard-and-fast rules: Nominees must have been born in New Jersey, or have lived in New Jersey for at least five years. No sitting politicians can be inducted, hence the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg's first nomination this year.
The Hall of Fame's nominating committee develops the list, and each year some previous nominees drop off, new ones are added, and others make a comeback. The Newark-born Aaron Burr, who became Thomas Jefferson's vice president but killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel on the Weehawken bluffs in 1804, was a regular on the list but failed to make the cut last year or this year. Lawrenceville's Jon Stewart makes his first appearance as a nominee this year, while William Livingston, New Jersey's first governor, was mysteriously absent.
After the list is released, the public votes on the nominees. There's no set number of inductees each year.
This year, in an attempt to avert a Douglas-style coronation, we looked at the 50 nominees and judged them not on their fame or their fortune or their contributions to American society, but their intrinsic Jersey-ness: How long did they live here? How much did they contribute to their community and their state specifically? Did they raise New Jersey's profile in any meaningful way? Or are they more associated with some other place, namely the one across the Hudson?
Here are our picks for the five most Jersey-centric nominees:
Late U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg has been nominated to the N.J. Hall of Fame this year.
1. Love or hate his politics, the influential Lautenberg served the state for five terms in the U.S. Senate. A Paterson native, he was a strong supporter of Amtrak, helped raise the national drinking age, lobbied for tighter airport security, opposed a move by a Dubai-based company to buy management rights to New York and New Jersey ports, and pushed for another commuter rail tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan.
2. Yes, he writes for The New Yorker, but John McPhee is a lifelong Princeton resident and Princeton University professor whose non-fiction works have included an opus on New Jersey's Pine Barrens, a prescient biography of Princeton basketball star Bill Bradley (before the New York Knicks and U.S. Senate), and about the Delaware River shad.
3. The Camden-born parking lot and billboard magnate Lewis Katz was also a lawyer and philanthropist who gave generously to his hometown and opened a charter school there. A former owner of both the New Jersey Nets and the New Jersey Devils, the Cherry Hill resident died in 2014 in a plane crash leaving Massachusetts for Atlantic City.
4. Newark native Victor Parsonnet made his name as a groundbreaking cardiac surgeon at Newark Beth Israel Hospital (founded by his grandfathers), but his other love is music. The Whitehouse Station resident served as the chairman of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for 17 years, and was an early supporter of NJPAC.
5. Frankie Valli is already in the New Jersey Hall of Fame, but would there be the Four Seasons without Joe Pesci? Yes, that Joe Pesci. The Newark native introduced Valli and Tommy DeVito to young singer and songwriter Bob Gaudio, and music history was made. Of course, Pesci went on to have a stellar Hollywood career, notably "Goodfellas," in which he played a wiseguy named ... Tommy DeVito. He has a home in Lavallette and raises money for St. Barnabas Medical Center.
And our least five least Jersey:
5. Born in Pequannock Township, Derek Jeter was 4 -- barely eligible for T-Ball -- when he and his family left for Michigan, where the future Yankee grew up (although he did spent summers with his grandparents and extended family in West Milford).
4. Eddie Murphy is a New York native who moved to an enormous mansion on Englewood's East Hill at the height of his fame in 1985, and yes, he did live there for many years. But he sold the mansion to Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz in 2012. So expect to see the "Empire State of Mind" singer on the list in a few years.
Fran Lebowitz, the writer and social critic, is also up for the New Jersey Hall of Fame this year.
3. Humorist and social critic Fran Lebowitz was born and raised in Morristown -- she claims she was kicked out of high school for "nonspecific surliness" and moved to New York soon after -- but she is undeniably one of the Big Apple's cultural treasures.
2. The Georgia-born Rosey Grier, a former New York Giant and Los Angeles Ram and later a television personality, moved to New Jersey with his family before high school and played for Abraham Clark High School in Roselle. Then he left for Penn State and the NFL and Hollywood.
1. James Fenimore Cooper, the 19th century writer most famous for "The Last of the Mohicans," who born in Burlington but lived in New Jersey for all of one year -- his family moved to upstate New York. He spent most of his life in New York City and his ancestral home in Cooperstown.
N.J. Hall of Fame snubs
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Vicki Hyman may be reached at vhyman@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @vickihy. Find NJ.com/Entertainment on Facebook.


One of their main responsibilities of any driver is ensure that all passengers has safety belts even if the vehicles has air bags. Children under age 16 has especial seat car belts and are in charge of anyone is driving, if you want more about that see more information in the section Driving Safety passengers. No matter where child is sitting in the car. All children less than 6 years old must use the appropriate restrained while they riding in any car, truck or van. Maybe Children through age three must be secured in a separate carrier or a vehicle manufacturer's integrated child safety seat.
All passengers under age 18 must be belted. Safety belt use is significantly higher in states with standard enforcement compared to those with secondary enforcement laws. Research shows that when adults buckle up, children get buckled up too. Standard enforcement is important not only for raising adult safety belt use, but also for increasing the number of children who are protected by occupant restraints.
Any person which is travelling with a kid under 16 years old is responsible for his safety. For all children in this range there are types of restraints from a rear-facing car belt, a forward-facing car belt until a booster seat. But if the child has reached the height and weight determined by the manufacturer vehicle, he could be prepared to use a seat belt.
Air bags must be used along with lap and shoulder safety belts. All children through the age of 12 should ride buckled up in the back seat. Child safety seats should never be installed in the front seat of a vehicle with a passenger-side air bag. Drivers should sit as far away from the steering wheel as possible at least 10 to 12. Hold the steering wheel from the sides so that arms do not come between the air bag cover and the chest. Aim the module toward the chest, not the face. Front passenger seats should be pushed back from the air bag, and passengers should avoid leaning toward the dashboard.


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Food Basics in Dunnville opening hours
Dunnville is one of the shops of Food Basics that have a place at 107 Bridge St., N1A 2G9. Our website provides detailed information about the opening and closing hours today, the address, services and more. The shop serves customers landing from neighbouring areas, for example,
Royal Bank of Canada,RBC in Dunnville - about 0.1 miles away,
Virgin Mobile in Dunnville - about 0.1 miles away,
The Source in Dunnville - about 0.1 miles away,
Food Basics in Dunnville is typically open on Monday: 08:00-22:00, Tuesday: 08:00-22:00, Wednesday: 08:00-22:00, Thursday: 08:00-22:00, Friday: 08:00-22:00, Saturday: 08:00-22:00. Its Sunday opening hours are: 08:00-20:00. The store provides services including:
Food Basics* offers an in-stock guarantee for all items in its current flyer. If we are temporarily out-of-stock on an advertised item in our current flyer, a Rain Check will be issued with 10% off the advertised price of the item redeemable within 14 days from the date of issue. Rain Checks are not issued if the ad in the flyer states, "While Quantities Last", "Special Buy" or "No Rain Checks", or on in-store cooked BBQ Chicken and Hot Pizza, Independent Third Party Vendors, "Simply Seafood" and "Our Butcher Shop by Nasso Talho".
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CIBC in Dunnville - about 0.1 miles away,
TD Canada Trust in Dunnville - about 0.1 miles away,
Sears in Dunnville - about 0.1 miles away,
McDonalds in Dunnville - about 0.4 miles away,
Subway in Dunnville - about 0.8 miles away,
Canada Post in Lowbanks - about 8.0 miles away,
Canada Post in Wellandport - about 9.9 miles away,
RONA in Wainfleet - about 12.2 miles away,
Select ratingGive Food Basics 1/5Give Food Basics 2/5Give Food Basics 3/5Give Food Basics 4/5Give Food Basics 5/5
Nearest stores of Food Basics
Food Basics in Port Colborne, 124 Clarence St. (18.3 miles)
Food Basics in Welland, 325 Thorold Rd (18.7 miles)
Food Basics in Grimsby, 63 Main St W (20.3 miles)
Food Basics in Ancaster, 71 Wilson St W (28.8 miles)
Food Basics in Simcoe, 150 West St. (35.4 miles)
Food Basics in Milton, 500 Laurier Avenue (43.7 miles)
Food Basics in Georgetown, 235 Guelph St (53.6 miles)
Food Basics in Toronto, 853 Jane St (53.9 miles)
Food Basics in Etobicoke, 1735 Kipling Ave. (54.8 miles)


…today is the greatest day we know as Christians, the Resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ. Churches will be full and families will gather to have dinner and maybe a Easter egg hunt with the kids. It is a wonderful day to celebrate life. As I write this at 6am, I feel a somewhat different than what I just described. Our beloved CATS lost a tough emotional loss last night which I admit caused me to be up this early. I feel heartbroken for the coaches, players and all of BBN because we all wanted that perfect season and to hang #9 in Rupp. I tried to console Conner last night as he took the loss harder than any of us in the Thomas house. He too is emotionally invested In our CATS (at least Jenn and I are doing something right…lol). But as Jesus teaches us it is through dying that we rise…the Pascal Mystery! Wildcat BB has had its ups and downs in my 40+ years here, but it has never been more alive than it is now. The 2014-15 team would never accomplished what it did if we hadn't lost to U CONN in the final last year…many would have went to the NBA. So today I choose to not hang my head and sulk in defeat but to live in the Resurrection of our Savior…it is Him who gives life and makes enjoying college BB possible! Thank you Lord for giving us this UK team to enjoy this year and bless each and every player as they ponder their future. Help us all to learn the lessons they taught us about being unselfish, helping your brother and servant leadership…the world would be a better place if we could all do as our Wildcat BB team has done! One final thought: Cal once said, "We are not a college BB team, WE ARE COLLEGE BB!" I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter Sunday! GO CATS and GO JESUS!!!


Here's the procedure to follow if you want to upgrade your mobile device OS from Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows 10 Mobile.
Upgrade is not performed through system updates. Instead Upgrade Advisor App is required.
Not all Windows Phone 8.1 devices can be upgraded to W10. For an up-to-date listing check here.
Official documentation from Microsoft on how to upgrade is available at here.
On your device download and install the Upgrade Advisor App via Windows Store.
Once the app is installed execute it. When you open the app, it checks your phone and lets you know if it's eligible to install the upgrade, if an update is required before you can install the upgrade, or if your phone can't be upgraded.
If your device can be upgraded to W10 Mobile then run the upgrade. It will take up to more then 1 hour for the upgrade to complete (depending on connection speed, device performance, …). App will download W10 and then setup it.
Once upgrade is complete you'll probably need to download W10 updates (500+ MB).


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There are many causes of hip pain. Some of the more common causes are listed below. If the patient is suffering from chronic hip pain, it is best to consult a doctor to understand its cause and chart the way forward.
There are over 100 types of arthritis. Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis of the hip are amongst the most common causes of hip pain. Arthritis, caused by the deterioration and gradual breakdown of the cushion lining the hip, leads to painful swelling and inflammation of the hip joint. In addition to feeling pain, arthritis patients usually feel stiffness and have reduced range of motion at the hip.
Hip fractures are very common among adults aged over 65. Vision loss and deteriorating balance may cause an accidental fall leading to a fracture. At this age, the bones tend to weaken, causing the hip to fracture even more easily.
Hip avascular necrosis (AVN) is common in India. Studies suggest that Asians have a genetic disposition towards hip AVN. It is a disease which is caused by reduced blood flow to the hip bone, leading to the death of surrounding cells and tissue, ultimately causing the collapse of the hip. Hip AVN is often caused by taking un-prescribed steroidal medications or drinking alcohol heavily.
Bone cancer or cancer that spreads to the bone often causes hip pain.
**The treatment for hip pain varies from patient to patient and case to case. If a patient is suffering from chronic moderate to severe hip pain, it may be advisable to visit a licensed medical practitioner so that he/she can diagnose the cause and prescribe a treatment plan accordingly.


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Jeremy Wade Shockley is an award winning photojournalist and self-taught photographer who has been exploring foreign lands and cultures from an early age. He first picked up a camera while serving an architectural internship in the Colonial city of Cuenca, Ecuador. This immediately developed into a passion for documenting the world around him.
Jeremy returned to the United States in order to finish a degree in architecture at the University of Colorado. Shortly thereafter, he embarked on a two year Peace Corps assignment in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho.
In addition to continuing his work in Latin America and Africa, Jeremy has been documenting the American West for more than a decade. In recent years, he has turned his lens toward Northern New Mexico, expanding on his experience growing up in the Southwest.
Authenticity is at the core of Jeremy's personal work as a journalist and photographer.
He worked on staff as a photojournalist for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe from 2008-2013. Returning to accept his current position as Editor-in-Chief of The Southern Ute Drum newspaper in 2017, a bi-weekly publication covering issues of tribal sovereignty, language, natural resources and cultural preservation.
Jeremy has garnered numerous awards from The Society of Professional Journalists, The Native American Journalism Association and the Colorado Press Association for his photography and reporting. His images appear in publications including The New York Times, WorldView Magazine, New Mexico Magazine, Outside and High Country News. He is also published by National Geographic, the Associated Press, The Guardian and Burn Magazine. His work has been recognized in numerous juried photography exhibitions, and is included in museum collections throughout Colorado.
Jeremy calls the mountains outside of Durango, Colorado as his home.
https://www.jeremywadeshockley.com
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Dear Mark: Are not slot machines programmed to pay off a particular percentage of money bet, and then after a jackpot has been hit the machine will tighten up and not pay out a jackpot until one has not been hit for a long time? Rachael S.
Part of your question gets a yes, Rachael, in that a slot machine is programmed to pay off a particular percentage. However, a jackpot is equally as likely to be hit on any given spin, regardless of the length of time played or past results. We can't amend the laws of probability, which dictate that the longer the machine is played, the closer it will come to its target payoff. But every spin is completely random.
Dear Mark: Someone recently sent you a question, which referred to "tight" video poker machines. Do the casinos program a video poker machine in a way that limits good hands? I was under the impression that video poker was the same as playing five-card draw with a deck of cards, with the deck being continually shuffled. I understood that the casinos made their money mainly by improper play and tighter pay schedules. Am I correct in my assumptions? Daniel N.
You are dead on, Daniel. It is poor play by patrons and ignored pay tables that return far less than true odds that allow the casino operators to sleep easy. Insomnia can occur when players play correctly and seek out the best pay schedules available.
Dear Mark: If, as you claim, the don't pass is a slightly better bet than the pass line, how come so few people bet on it? Calvin S.
There are a couple of reasons, Calvin, probably the biggest being that most players don't even know that the don't pass wager is a slightly better bet. Also, those who place their wagers on the pass line do so because they enjoy the camaraderie of rooting for the shooter to make his or her point, and not for the house winning when the seven appears.
It is certainly more fun to go with the crowd than against it, and for what? — the minuscule difference of a 1.40% casino advantage on the don't pass versus 1.41% on the pass line bet.
Dear Mark: After the point was established, I made (by mistake) a second pass line bet. The seven rolled before the point and I lost both wagers. Is this fair, even if the dealer realized what I was doing? A.A.
The dealer isn't employed by the casino to mentor player competence.
What you did is legal, that is, making a pass line bet at any time. Obviously, you now realize that you should never make a pass line bet or add to it after a point is established, since once a point is thrown the odds of winning drop significantly depending on that point.
The dealer would have slapped your wrist had you reached in and tried to snag your second pass line bet because once a point has been established, that wager is considered a contract wager, and must stay in place, win or lose.
Contrarily, on the don't side, you can, but you should never remove a don't pass bet after a point is made since there are more ways for a seven to appear than for any point number. This is why you cannot add to a don't pass bet after an established point, because it would favor the player.


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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the 1996 Federal law that restricts access to individuals' private medical information. HIPAA requires organizations to provide patients with a notice explaining their rights and how the provider may use their health information. The notice informs patients of their rights to: inspect the medical record; request changes to the record; view of list of disclosures of their record; and request confidential communications. These notices are given to every patient throughout the hospital and are available for review in waiting areas.
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My brother died in a wreck after his car was hit by a tractor-trailer. He is unmarried and has no children. Can I file a lawsuit?
Yes, if you are named the executor in his will or you apply to the court and get named as the administrator of his estate.
The damages you recover in the case will go to your parents if they are still alive. If they are not alive, the damages would be divided equally between your siblings.
To learm more about wrongful death damages read this article.


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Craig Bellamy - 'We are top of the ladder because of our players work ethic'
Jonathan Healy NRL.com reporter
Fri 16 Aug 2019, 11:22 AM
The war of words between the Storm and the Rabbitohs has continued, with veteran Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy returning fire over recent accusations of dirty tactics directed at his side.
The Rabbitohs weren't happy with the way the Storm went about their business during their 10-point loss to the league leaders in Gosford on Sunday, with football boss Shane Richardson querying the wrestling tactics and the special treatment afforded to Melbourne skipper Cameron Smith during the clash.
Richardson also wondered whether the Storm played "within the spirit of the game" and Bellamy has taken umbrage, responding to those claims by taking aim at the Rabbitohs and their recent record with the NRL Judiciary.
"They (the Rabbitohs) have had a couple of guys at the judiciary the last couple of weeks and I don't know whether that is in the spirit of the game either," Bellamy said at AAMI Park on Friday morning.
"I had a bit of a chat to the referees boss a couple of days ago ... he has got no problems with where we are at and if he has got no problems, they are the guys we have to please."
Bellamy said any claims against the tactics employed by his side were unfounded and merely a ploy to disparage the work ethic of his playing group.
"It always seems to come up at this time of year," the Storm coach noted.
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"It's like all we do at training is plan to take shortcuts or plan to exploit rules when this group is probably the hardest-working group I have ever worked with here at the Storm and I have been here 18 years.
"These young guys work really hard and that's why where we are on the ladder.
"We are not doing anything wrong, so we are going to continue to do what we are doing."
While the recent spat is sure to be reignited if the Storm do match up against the Rabbitohs again during the post-season, the league leaders will be putting all their efforts into quelling another premiership aspirant when they host the Raiders on Saturday.
Bellamy will take on former Raiders teammate and close friend Ricky Stuart when the two teams meet in Melbourne and the Storm coach knows his side will need to be at their best if they are to maintain their six-point buffer at the top of the ladder and move one step closer to clinching the minor premiership.
The Raiders were beaten 22-18 by the Roosters in Canberra last week, but Bellamy expects the Green Machine to arrive in Melbourne trying to prove they are a premiership threat.
Bellamy said he had watched many of the Raiders' recent matches and he had especially been taken with the efforts of hooker Josh Hodgson to successfully strip the ball when other tacklers drop off.
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Hodgson has 11 of the Raiders' 23 successful one-on-one strips this season and Bellamy has urged his players to be on high alert when the veteran is around.
"Hodgson is an expert at it and a couple of the other English boys are pretty good at it too," Bellamy said.
"They have had a whole heap more than anybody else so it's a thing they obviously practice and are good at.
"It's in the rules so we just need to be aware of it tomorrow when the sneaky No.9 comes in and wraps his arms around the ball."
Bellamy said Kiwi fullback Jahrome Hughes (back) and young gun Ryan Papenhuyzen (foot) only had to get through training on Friday to make their return from injury against the Raiders.
The duo missed out on the victory over the Rabbitohs but have trained well this week in the lead-up to Saturday's clash.
NRL Ladder Predictor: Who makes the top eight?
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After eight months of preparation, MIWC Associate Vitaly Bolgar led the 13th Annual All-Ukrainian Youth Congress last month near Odessa, Ukraine.
More than 1,200 young people traveled to the event, which was held on the Black Sea, despite a continuing violent conflict between Ukraine and Russia playing out in Eastern Ukraine.
Bolgar said, "God really blessed this event. We had great weather and an outpouring of His grace."
Choirs, instrumental groups and vocal ensembles from all across Ukraine participated, including 600 student musicians.
Bolgar thanked God especially for MIWC supporters whose financial assistance enabled him and his family to travel to Odessa.
Ukraine ministry outreach opportunities, like this youth event, continue even though fighting and bloodshed mar the Eastern border of the country.
MIWC's Ukrainian associates are working tirelessly to spread Biblical worship training across Ukraine, while conscious of the ever present possibility of danger faced by their families.
To show support and bless their ministry activities financially, please visit MIWC's support page to donate.


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The ceremony of consecrating religious edifices to the sacred purposes for which they are intended, by mystic rites, has been transmitted to us from the remotest antiquity. "History," says Dudley, "both ancient and modern, tells us that extraordinary rites, called rites of consecration or dedication, have been performed by people of all ages and nations, on the occasion of the first application of altars and temples, or places, to religious uses." Thus, Moses consecrated the tabernacle, Solomon the first Temple, and the returned exiles from Babylon the second. Among the Pagans, ceremonies of the most magnificent nature were often used in setting apart their gorgeous temples to the purpose of worship. A Masonic Lodge is, in imitation of these ancient examples, consecrated with mystic ceremonies to the sacred purposes for which it had been constructed."


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NBC News employee dies from coronavirus
MEGAN... THERE'S A NEW VIRAL POST CIRCULATING ON SOCIAL MEDIA CLAIMING COVID-19 IS NO WORSE THAN OTHER OUTBREAKS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN "EVERY ELECTION" YEAR. THIS SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGE SUGGESTS THE NEW OUTBREAK IS BEING HYPED TO HU PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. OUR PARTNERS AT FACEBOOK-DOT-ORG SAY THIS IS MISLEADING AND NOT TRUE. THIS VIRAL IMAGE ON A WHITEBOARD CLAIMS OUTBREAKS OCCURRED IN EVERY ELECTION YEAR SINCE 2004. BUT, THE DATES ARE NOT CORRECT. THOSE DISEASES WERE NOT WIDELY FELT IN THE U.S. IN ELECTION YEARS. THE POSTS ALSO CLAIMS THAT THE "CURE RATE" FOR PEOPLE UNDER 50 INFECTED WITH COVID-19 IS 99.7%, WHICH WOULD EQUATE TO A DEATH RATE OF 0.3%. BUT THE DATA TO CONFIRM OR DEBU THIS STATISTIC DOESN'T EXIST AT THIS TIME. FACEBOOK HAS SINCE FLAGGED THIS MESSAGE SAYING IT'S FALSE... MEGAN... BACK TO YOU. JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY IS
A technician who worked at NBC News' New York headquarters has died after testing positive for coronavirus, the network said on Friday.Larry Edgeworth worked in NBC's fifth-floor equipment room, but for many of his 25 years was an audio technician that traveled on stories around the world, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack said.He suffered from other health issues that put him in danger, Lack said. Health officials say that while the vast majority of people recover from coronavirus, people who are elderly or who have underlying medical conditions are most vulnerable to serious illness.NBC had said Wednesday that a staff member had tested positive but did not reveal the name for privacy reasons. Edgeworth died Thursday."I want to remind you that it's more important now than ever that you take care of yourself," Lack said in a memo to NBC staff.
A technician who worked at NBC News' New York headquarters has died after testing positive for coronavirus, the network said on Friday.
Larry Edgeworth worked in NBC's fifth-floor equipment room, but for many of his 25 years was an audio technician that traveled on stories around the world, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack said.
He suffered from other health issues that put him in danger, Lack said. Health officials say that while the vast majority of people recover from coronavirus, people who are elderly or who have underlying medical conditions are most vulnerable to serious illness.
NBC had said Wednesday that a staff member had tested positive but did not reveal the name for privacy reasons. Edgeworth died Thursday.
"I want to remind you that it's more important now than ever that you take care of yourself," Lack said in a memo to NBC staff.


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TamCoblyn
Chess rating: 1772
Give chess goodie
Sat Jul 8 2017 6:17AM | edited: 6:34:06 | MsgID: 19775647
As K once said "where is the fun if you don't make mistakes!?"
Personally find that more appealing and has a longer lasting effect than used an engine to do the reverberations.
Taotaomonas
Fri Jul 7 2017 10:36PM | edited: 10:43:04 | MsgID: 19775642
Computer Says!!
Wish I could find the punk equivalent of CC analysis and just human,
mistakes etc for a while
LeHorla
Chess goodies: 1 Thu Jul 6 2017 7:01PM | MsgID: 19775625
39...Qa3 does indeed look great. But the computer gives the crushing variation 39...c4! 40. Qf3 Qa3! 41. Rf1 (rook still under attack, so seems forced) QxQ 42. RxQ Bxd5 43. Kg2 c3 etc...
You'll be forgiven for missing this. Pretty tough to find although you were on the right track with Qa3.
Thu Jul 6 2017 3:42PM | MsgID: 19775623
39. Qa3 was a great move and put you back on top.
45. I think you should have swapped Q's followed by Pxe6
Judging by the competent play both sides the two pawns would have likely got you through with the remaining limited firepower you each had
Benrubs
Thu Jul 6 2017 6:02AM | MsgID: 19775604
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[Event "www.ChessWorld.net server game"]
[Site "www.ChessWorld.net "]
[Date "2017.7.6 "]
[Round "NA"]
[White "TheDisciple"]
[Black "Benrubs"]
[Board "10645719"]
1. Ng1-f3 Ng8-f6 2. g2-g3 d7-d5 3. Bf1-g2 Nb8-c6 4. O-O e7-e5 5. d2-d3 h7-h6 6. b2-b3 Bf8-d6 7. Bc1-b2 Bc8-e6 8. Nb1-d2 O-O 9. c2-c4 dxc4 10. bxc4 Nf6-d7 11. Nd2-e4 Bd6-e7 12. Qd1-b3 b7-b6 13. d3-d4 exd4 14. Nf3xd4 Nc6xd4 15. Bb2xd4 c7-c5 16. Bd4-e3 Ra8-b8 17. Be3-f4 b6-b5 18. Bf4xb8 Qd8xb8 19. Qb3xb5 Qb8-e5 20. Ra1-d1 Rf8-b8 21. Qb5-a4 Qe5-c7 22. Ne4-d2 Rb8-b4 23. Qa4-c2 Nd7-b6 24. Rd1-b1 Rb4xb1 25. Rf1xb1 Qc7-e5 26. e2-e3 Be6-f5 27. e3-e4 Bf5-e6 28. Qc2-d3 Be7-f6 29. Bg2-f1 Qe5-c7 30. f2-f4 Bf6-d4 31. Kg1-h1 Qc7-c6 32. Bf1-g2 Qc6-a4 33. Qd3-b3 Qa4-a6 34. Rb1-c1 g7-g6 35. e4-e5 Be6-d7 36. Nd2-e4 Kg8-g7 37. Ne4-d6 Bd7-e6 38. Bg2-d5 Nb6xd5 39. cxd5 Qa6-a3 40. dxe6 Qa3xc1 41. Kh1-g2 Qc1-g1 42. Kg2-f3 Qg1-h1 43. Kf3-e2 Qh1xh2 44. Ke2-d3 Qh2xg3 45. Kd3-c4 Qg3xf4 46. e6-e7 Bd4xe5 47. Kc4-b5 Qf4-f1 48. Nd6-c4 a7-a6 49. Kb5-a4 1-0
[[[1. Ng1f3 Ng8f6 2. g2g3 d7d5 3. Bf1g2 Nb8c6 4. O-O e7e5 5. d2d3 h7h6 6. b2b3 Bf8d6 7. Bc1b2 Bc8e6 8. Nb1d2 O-O 9. c2c4 dxc4 10. bxc4 Nf6d7 11. Nd2e4 Bd6e7 12. Qd1b3 b7b6 13. d3d4 exd4 14. Nf3xd4 Nc6xd4 15. Bb2xd4 c7c5 16. Bd4e3 Ra8b8 17. Be3f4 b6b5 18. Bf4xb8 Qd8xb8 19. Qb3xb5 Qb8e5 20. Ra1d1 Rf8b8 21. Qb5a4 Qe5c7 22. Ne4d2 Rb8b4 23. Qa4c2 Nd7b6 24. Rd1b1 Rb4xb1 25. Rf1xb1 Qc7e5 26. e2e3 Be6f5 27. e3e4 Bf5e6 28. Qc2d3 Be7f6 29. Bg2f1 Qe5c7 30. f2f4 Bf6d4 31. Kh1 Qc7c6 32. Bf1g2 Qc6a4 33. Qd3b3 Qa4a6 34. Rb1c1 g7g6 35. e4e5 Be6d7 36. Nd2e4 Kg7 37. Ne4d6 Bd7e6 38. Bg2d5 Nb6xd5 39. cxd5 Qa6a3 40. dxe6 Qa3xc1 41. Kg2 Qc1g1 42. Kf3 Qg1h1 43. Ke2 Qh1xh2 44. Kd3 Qh2xg3 45. Kc4 Qg3xf4 46. e6e7 Bd4xe5 47. Kb5 Qf4f1 48. Nd6c4 a7a6 49. Ka4 ]]]
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