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Francisco Dansilha ou Danzinha foi um pintor e arquitecto biscainho português do século XVI, que esteve ao serviço de D. Manuel I e de D. João III]. Em 1508, trabalhava nas fortificações de Almeida. Segundo Taborda, não há notícia das suas pinturas, mas é de crer que fosse um pintor notável, pois seria designado para obras régias, de colaboração com outros artistas. O Abade de Castro atribui a este artista, em colaboração com Duarte de Armas e Jorge Afonso, a pintura do tecto da Sala dos Brasões no Paço de Sintra, mas tal hipótese carece de base documental.

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Critters (1986) Retrospective
Posted: May 31, 2016 in FILM REVIEWS/COMMENTS
Tags: 1986, Critters, Horror, Nadine Van der Velde, Retrospective, review, scifi, Scott Grimes, Stephen Herek
*** This review may contain toothy grin and dart quill spoilers ***
A group of 'Crites' hijack a prison ship and escape to earth where they lay siege on a farmhouse attacking the family inside.
Director/writer Stephen Herek Critters is an ambitious creature sci-fi, along with fellow writers Domonic Muir and Don Keith Opper it juggles a lot of sci-fi elements despite a predominantly rural setting. There are intergalactic face-changing bounty hunters, alien creatures, spaceships and ray cannons. Herek and company in true 80's fashion spend little time in giving the creatures and bounty hunters a back story leaving it to the imagination. This works in its favour compared to the excessive exposition in many of today's films. Likewise, the Critters just happen to come across the farmhouse after chowing down on a bull. Interestingly at the time of Critters' VHS run I unjustly saw it as a rip off Gremlins, much like Munchies. Yes it cashed-in on its popularity but writers have since pointed out that it was written before Joe Dante's classic went into production and subsequently underwent rewrites to reduce the apparent (in the ether) similarities between the two films.
The escaped alien Crites with their sharp toothy grins and tranquilizing dart quills amusingly roll around like hedgehogs on speed. Encapsulating the sound of 1986, artist Che Zuro plays in the background among some other 80s bands with David Newman's score giving power to the action setups and menace to the Critter puppets. The encounter in the cellar where the father is attacked is quite effective, especially the preceding search and reveal by torchlight.
The Critters are amusing times, at one point they converse with subtitles, "They have weapons" says one, "So what?" replies another before getting blasted away. There's also scenes where a Critter encounters an E.T. (1982) doll – tearing it apart, a toilet hiding Critter (a likely homage to 1985's Ghoulies) and also a moment where one eats a cherry bomb may rouse a chuckle.
In the opening the commander of the prison hires two shape-changing bounty hunters to pursue the Crites/Critters to earth (maybe his inspired AVP Requiem's story-line). These hunters, with Space Marine like costumes get some humorous moments mainly because of mistaken identity by the small townspeople. Tim Curry-like actor Terrence Mann takes form of the rock band front man Johnny Steele, complete with a Bon Jovi hairdo. While the other takes on faces of a few locals notably Don Opper who plays a duel role of both the bounty hunter and the towns paranoid drunk Charlie McFadden.
McFadden a friend of young Brad Brown have a Miyagi and Daniel san Karate Kid bond which is older man young boy relationship that are seemingly avoided in films these days. Brad played by Scott Grimes (who latter would voice American Dad's Steve) is a stereotype 80s film kid experimenting with fire crackers, bickering with his sister and trying to bunk off school. Notable is Billy Green Bush's Jay Brown as an everyday farmer and his wife played by Dee Wallace Stone). Wallace is given very little to do, the character Helen Brown is purely functional and pretty much retreads her E.T. mother role, that said she does get to fire off a few shots at those Critters. Playing Brad's teenage sister April is fresh faced actress Nadine Van der Velde (who was 24 years old at the time) and incidentally appeared in the aforementioned copycat film Munchies. Actor Billy Zane sporting a little rats tail shows up as April's boyfriend, destined to be Critter fodder. For sale-ability appeal Blade Runner's acting veteran M. Emmet Walsh plays the pretty useless local Sheriff Harv.
There are a handful of stunts and although the optical effects have unsurprisingly dated the practical effects still hold up well. The impressive gooey face changing sequence is memorable and the Critters themselves are simple and effective from the rolling, to the firing quills with plenty of good old fashion blood on display after an attack. After the bounty hunters cause some mayhem in the church and a local bowling alley (the teams shirts echo a Ghostbusters logo design) they arrive at the farmhouse to capture the Critters. In the final act after the family house is invaded we have our heroes go about rescuing April from a giant kidnapping Critter. Herek gives us an obligatory end explosion, a chance for a special effect team to show off their fine miniature model skills, with moments for the editors to flex their skills. In addition, with some eggs laid in a barn there's the inevitable unashamed set up for a sequel (which came two years later in 1988).
Critters still has a charm about it thanks to the novel creature design and acting of likable Grimes'. Produced by New Line's Bob Shaye (A Nightmare on Elm St.) Critters is squarely aimed at its mid-teen target audience and despite some bumpy pacing Critters delivers enough laughs and playful alien set-ups to retain a lasting appeal long after the VHS was replaced by DVD and on-demand films.
Labyrinth (1986) Retrospective
Posted: December 3, 2015 in FILM REVIEWS/COMMENTS
Tags: 1986, Jim Henson, Labyrinth, Retrospective, review
Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, a selfish teenager summons Goblins to take her baby half brother. She is then given 13 hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue him from a Goblin King before he is lost forever.
Even though it was met with mixed reviews nearly thirty years later it still manages to charm and retain a cult following. As a boy I remember watching Jim Henson's feature in a darkened cinema, being scared by the Goblins in Toby's room and the Firey gang intimidating Sarah.
Under scrutiny, some of the wonderfully painted backdrops, CGI (at the time a pioneering) owl and matted Fireys' elements have dated but overall the film holds up extremely well. There's plenty of subtext – for example; Sarah's mother, Linda, a stage actor and her relationship with an unnamed man portrayed by David Bowie. There's also 'Easter eggs' including toys, figurines, books and games referencing the characters and set ups shown in the film.
Veteran performers Frank Oz and Dave Goelz operate various puppets in the film, along with a number of Henson's show and film regulars. The talents of the many puppeteers, animatronics, designers and voice work to name a few are outstanding in bringing the characters to life. This coupled with the finely crafted sets, costumes, hair and makeup add up to something quiet special. That's without mentioning the wonderful score by Trevor Jones, music by Bowie and choreography by (Star Trek Next Generation) Gates McFadden. Based on Dennis Lee and Jim Henson's story and although a couple of writers had a hand in the screenplay, its credited to Monty Python's Terry Jones, the finished product is magic.
It's much more fun than Flight of the Navigator of the same year and better than The Never Ending Story (1984). Henson retains the fantasy atmosphere of The Dark Crystal but makes Labyrinth far more family friendly to great effect, balancing the pace and darker elements successfully.
Legend [edit: late great] David Bowie is perfectly cast as crystal touting, owl shape shifting Jareth, who takes Toby on Sarah's wish and falls in love with her. Bowie has some great dialogue both humorous and serious. Like The Wizard of Oz adventure it refreshingly has a female lead, Sarah played by Jennifer Connelly, who's acting and interactions with the puppet characters really sell the magic and believability.
Sarah aided and hindered by an array of memorable characters from a Wiseman, Door Knockers, Helping Hands and The Worm, to the (creepy Dark Crystal-like) Junk Lady and Four Guards to name a few. She's mainly helped through the labyrinth by fairy exterminator Hoggle, Sir Didymus, Ambrosius (a.k.a Merlin Sarah's trusty dog) and Ludo a friendly Bigfoot like creature as she goes through the different environments including a maze, bog, forest, Goblin town and Oubliette to mention but a few.
The music numbers are well placed and fitting. Bowie's 'Magic Dance' with the complex puppetry is a joy and technical timing achievement and as a child what was once the boring masquerade ballrooms bit 'As the World Falls Down' plays, as adult is hauntingly dreamlike and wonderful executed. The catchy 'Chilly Down' song stands out and though not malicious, the Fireys are unintentionally dangerous, the track includes the voice of Red Dwarf's Danny John-Jules.
As the film draws to a close its topped off with an edited version of 'Undergorund' which also played in the opening as Sarah recites the play, The Labyrinth, possibly hoping to follow in her mothers footsteps. What's intriguing now is that you can interpret the film in different ways other than the narrative presented – that her coming of age adventure was real. As an alternative the whole adventure maybe just away for here to remember her lines, a dream or something more symbolic.
Overall, some of the elements have dated slightly but as a family piece of entertainment and fun you can't go wrong will Labyrinth. To the ingenious talent of late Henson's credit it has yet to be equalled or surpassed.
The Vindicator Flawed Nostalgic Sci-fi Grit
Tags: 1986, David Preston, Edith Rey, film review, Frankenstein, Jean-Claude Lord, movie review, Pam Grier, Richard Cox, robocop, sci-fi, science fiction, Terminator, The vindicator, The Wraith, vindicator
The Vindicator (1986)
A scientist working on a top secret experiment is killed in an explosion but the corporation that funds his experiments transforms him into a robot.
A resurrection science fiction film that despite being a B-low budget affair has a grander 80's film quality feel thanks to some gritty, raw and rough round the edges special effects.
Richard Cox and cult favourite Pam Grier are watchable and some performances are above average. However, they are counter balanced by some very shoddy supporting actors. Edith Rey and David Preston's dialogue is flawed, yet their story fairs better exploring some moral dilemmas.
Although it predates Robocop (1987) I remember the main draw to watch it was because of The Terminator (1984). That said, the Vindicator shares more with Frankenstein and The Wraith (1986).
Jean-Claude Lord's Vindicator was more appealing watch in the 1980's. It has some nice visual moments but little more. The certain charm it held in my mind since 1986 was really just warm nostalgia – as on revisiting The Vindicator it's not as entertaining or fast paced as I remembered it.
While fun at the time, in retrospect – for comparable curiosity only.

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Battelle Technology Wins Prestigious R&D 100 Award
Columbus, Ohio–(COMMERCIAL WIRE)–A revolutionary Battelle technology for converting coal-derived liquids and biomass-derived feedstocks into polyurethane (PU) foam was named a winner in the 2022 R&D 100 Awards in the Process/Prototype category.
In addition to the Battelle award, the national laboratories where Battelle plays a management and operations role combined for 23 awards and six honorable mentions. Known as the "Oscars of Innovation," the annual awards program for global R&D recognizes excellence in scientific and technological innovation with an emphasis on commercial-ready products, technologies and services that are expected to have enormous impact.
The carbon-to-polyurethane technology represents the ninth victory of the Battelle R&D 100 for Satya Chauhan, the principal investigator and co-inventor of the technology. It is the third R&D award for Battelle materials scientists Dan Garbark and Jeff Cafmeyer, who collaborated with Chauhan to lead the foam characterization work (Garbark is also a co-inventor). Battelle Technician Mark Davis was the process scaling lead for the project. Two patents related to the work were issued this year and a third is pending.
The applications for more environmentally friendly PU foam are vast, being widely used in the construction, furniture, aerospace and automotive industries for hundreds of uses ranging from insulation to sofa cushions. The annual market for these foams is approximately $80 billion. Currently, the vast majority of PU foams are made from petroleum-derived polyols. The new technology combines coal-derived liquids and biomass-derived feedstocks to create polyols.
"Oil sources are limited," Chauhan said. "This is an opportunity for the industry to reduce dependence on oil, especially imported oil, and reduce the carbon footprint of polyurethane foam."
Coal-derived liquids are considerably cheaper than petroleum, translating into significant cost savings for industries using polyurethane foam. The resulting foam is stiffer due to the aromatics in the carbon, which is an added benefit for many applications. Because the carbon is fixed in a long-lived product rather than burned, the process adds no carbon to the atmosphere. It is also possible to use liquid coal by-products from coke ovens (used in steelmaking), turning a waste product into a high-value commodity. The current process replaces up to 75 percent of petroleum-based polyols with a combination of polyols derived from coal and biomass.
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Q: About one to one relationship in Models in rails I have three models
class Vehicle < ActiveRecord::Base
 has_one:driver ,:through=>:vehicle_driver
end

class Vehicle_Driver < ActiveRecord::Base
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 belongs_to:driver
end

have only vehicle_id and driver_id
class Driver < ActiveRecord::Base
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I want to do is

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*register the vehicles independently

*register the Drivers independently

*then assign driver to vehicle such that only one driver can be assigned to one vehicle and vice versa
and further

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*if I assign driver to another vehicle its early relation must be deleted

Is this possible from above relationship ...?????
Any help will be appreciated..
Thanks In Advance

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*Why the intermediate class, it contradicts your requirements, so remove it.

*So just let both models Vehicle and Driver use has_one of the other. It generates a duplicate relationship that could lead to problems, if they are not pointing to each other. So the best is to have only one 'has_one'-relationship, and do @vehicle.find_by_driver to test if a driver already has a vehicle assigned to it.

*When you save a relationship, also update the other relation:
3a @vehicle.driver = @driver
3b @vehicle.driver.vehicle = @vehicle # to force make them point to each other.

*In the Vehicle model, add a method or scope to return a list of vehicles where driver is nil.
4a Vehicle.all.where(:driver.nil?) # from my head, just to give an idea
If you want to remove a relationship for a vehicle, do
5a @vehicle.driver.vehicle = nil
5b @vehicle.driver = nil
Hope this helps you in the right direction.


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Cavan Heritage Report Published Online
cavan | environment | press release Wednesday September 22, 2004 02:56 by Michael Lynch - Red Branch Heritage redbranch at oceanfree dot net
Important Heritage Sites Must Be Protected
Red Branch Heritage have decided to make the full text of their recent heritage report on sites in the Denn area of County Cavan available to the general public through the web in their continuing efforts to have these important archeological sites protected.
Cambridge University Air Photo of Dyke, Ardkill More, Before Quarry.
This Report has being drafted by The Red Branch Heritage group to highlight an important heritage area in mid County Cavan with a considerable amount of archaeological sites situated within this small catchment area.
It is the earnest wish of the authors that those who are appointed as custodians of such sites and with the implementation of the planning laws and guidelines will take account of the views of those who believe in the protection of our national treasure of historical sites.
For the purposes of this report we will refer to the area as the Denn Heritage Area, as by far the greater part of this area lies within the parish of Denn, with smaller parts located in neighboring Crosserlough and Lavey parishes.
The aim of Red Branch Heritage in drawing up this report is to encourage the full implementation of the spirit of the County Cavan Development Plan 2003-2009, in its firm commitment "to protect all listed archaeological items and sites from development that may prejudice their integrity and value" (page 30).
We also hope this report will lead to the Denn Heritage Area being designated a Special Policy Area, which would then afford this area protection from any development which would have a negative impact on archaeological sites within this catchment area or cause damage to the scenic value of the area, as has unfortunately already occurred.
We draw particular attention to the two most important sites in the Denn area, the Black Pigs Dyke or Race located at Ardkill More, on the parish boundary of Denn and Crosserlough, an ancient earthwork possibly built for defensive purposes two thousand years ago in the defense of the ancient province of Ulster and the much-neglected Banagher Burial and Ritual complex, which contains one of only two known passage tombs in County Cavan, both unfortunately damaged. Both these sites have suffered from neglect and damage and we will deal in more detail with these matters in this report.
Red Branch Heritage
Susan Hayes
Claire Dunleavy
John O'Reilly
The Black Pigs Dyke and Hilltop Enclosure
Ardkill More, Carrickaboy, Co. Cavan.
This site has during the past four decades suffered from the kind of destruction, which it had avoided during the previous centuries. Ironically the rocky terrain, which had probably saved it from damage in the past, became the cause of the large-scale destruction of more recent times, i.e., quarrying.
An illegal quarrying operation began at the lower levels of Ardkill More mountain during the nineteen seventies and rock continued to be extracted from the site for a number of years. We believe it was during this illegal quarrying operation that a substantial section of the linear earthworks were destroyed. It is to the eternal shame of the relevant authorities that this destruction was allowed to continue unchecked.
The quarry ceased operations for a short time, however during the nineteen nineties the quarry owners made an application to Cavan County Council to reopen quarrying works at the Ardkill More site. A number of local objections were submitted to the planning authority, however despite these local concerns, the illegal operations of previous years and the presence of a two thousand year old archeological monument on this western slope of the hill, the quarry was given planning approval. Cavan County Council has failed to give any explanation for this incredible decision.
As if this was not bad enough, during 2003, a purchase was made by the quarry owners of another large section of the western slope of the hillside and before long earthmoving machinery was clearing a roadway across a further stretch of Ardkill More. At present a considerable area has being cleared without planning approval, although as we write we understand an application for approval for this extension may be imminent.
In the County Cavan Development Plan 2003-2009 the council has clearly stated its commitment to protect such sites as Ardkill More, indeed earthworks are specifically mentioned (page 28) as items of Archaeological and Historic Importance.
We fear for the future of this site if the planning authorities do not act in a determined manner on such commitments.
The visual damage already caused to the scenic aspect of Ardkill More mountain is sad to view. A very real blight has being imposed on the local landscape. Indeed if one were to require a good example of how not to locate a quarry from a landscape and scenic aspect alone, one need travel no further than Ardkill More, Carrickaboy, County Cavan.
It is the earnest wish of the authors of this report that even at this stage some sense of respect and concern for this archeological site may lead to moves to preserve it from any further destruction. This site is County Cavan's only surviving visible section of the Black Pigs Dyke or Worm Ditch and deserves considerably more concern and attention than it has received over the past three decades.
It should be also noted that located on the summit of Ardkill More are the remains of a listed enclosure of unknown date. It is an unlikely location for a dwelling site as the site is totally exposed and barren. This leads one to speculate that this enclosure may have being related to the earthworks below. Possibly some form of lookout post or small encampment site or even a damaged cairn perhaps?
We have noted with disappointment that in the Archeological Inventory of County Cavan under the listing for The Black Pigs Dyke (Linear Earthworks ref. 180 Page 35) it appears the authors who visited the site during May 1992 failed to even defiantly locate the remains of the Dyke, confusing it with "a natural ravine". This entry does a great disservice to the site. Where were they looking? Any local could have easily showed its location. Although the terrain can be trying, especially during the summer months, as one has to contend with bramble, thick bracken and gorse, the authors of this report had no great difficulty locating the earthworks, with the sad exception of the quarry area.
Red Branch Heritage.
Banagher Burial and Ritual Complex
Banagher, Carrickaboy, Co. Cavan.
On an area of high ground near Slieve Glah mountain at Banagher are located a complex of burial and ritual sites of considerable importance. Like many such sites this one commands an extensive view.
Sadly this site has also suffered from damage. At present the complex contains, two barrows, two stone circles, an embanked enclosure or henge and two megalithic tombs. Sadly another megalithic tomb, which was recorded during a survey, carried out by de Valera and O'Nuallain in 1965 has since being destroyed. This destroyed monument was a court tomb and was destroyed since 1965 when it was surveyed. Duchas have erected a number of notices on concrete pillars at the site warning against causing damage to the surviving monuments. This is most welcome and is a system that should be extended to other sites. However Duchas is now largely defunct and has being incorporated into the National Monuments section of the Department of the Environment. Hopefully this will not have a negative impact on such protection for sites such as Banagher. It would also be welcome if such notices included information on the monuments themselves such as their history and approx. age etc. One of the two surviving tombs appears to be a passage tomb, one of only two known in County Cavan. A number of cists and several pots were found in the cairn. This cairn is 22m in diameter and 1m in height and round in outline. The cairn is now ruined and is surrounded by a stone circle of twelve stones, five now upright and the others prostrate. One of a number of prostrate stones beside the cairn is decorated with passage tomb art. (Photo Next Page) A short distance from this complex to the SW at Moher is located a lone standing stone. Many such burial sites throughout Ireland were rifled by treasure hunters in past centuries and suffered much damage. Even the Newgrange site in the Boyne valley Co. Meath suffered such vandalism. These so called treasure hunters were obviously not well informed on historical facts, as it appears they were looking for gold treasure at Stone Age sites.
It was quite common for Neolithic sites to be used later during the Bronze Age period as ceremonial and burial places. The original passage tombs and Megaliths would later be used for the burial of usually cremated remains during the Bronze Age period. The stone circles and henge's are a feature of the Bronze Age period as are the barrows. It shows that the later peoples showed continuing respect for the sacredness of these sites. Such evidence also exists at the Boyne Valley sites, where standing stones and henge's were later erected around such passage tombs as Newgrange and Knowth.
Why Banagher is not included in the Cavan Co. Council inventory of special sites when it is recognised, as a site of archeological importance even by the relevant government departments is quite extraordinary.
Church Remains, Graveyard, Holy Wells, & Barrow
Carrickaboy Glebe, Carrickaboy, Co. Cavan.
Near Denn Cross are a number of important items of Ecclesiastical Remains. Denn old graveyard is but one of many important pre-reformation church sites throughout Ireland.
This graveyard contains many gravestones dating from the 18th century. At the SE end of the churchyard are to be found the surviving lower portions of the original pre-reformation Denn Church. Davies the noted archeologist visited the site in 1948 and also recorded a broken slab with a ringed cross in low relief within the graveyard.
The Denn old graveyard is sadly neglected and overgrown for some time. It would be a rewarding undertaking by the local community to have a total cleanup of this ancient cemetery. Many of the ancestors of Denn people today lie within this burial ground. Davies also suggested that the pillar stone located at the Church of Ireland churchyard at Denn Glebe originated at the old Denn graveyard.
Davies writing for the Irish Tourist Survey in 1940 described two open springs on a hillside with " a little walling at the back". The springs or spring as it is today is located just outside the old graveyard to the SW. These two springs are marked on all OS maps as Holy Wells. They have now being amalgamated and are utilised as a large watering hole for cattle. We are concerned about the lack of awareness and neglect that can lead to this needless damage to these important local items of historical importance. Sadly in more recent times the respect and pride local communities used to have in their history and culture seems to have being eroded.
Sited east of the summit of the hill containing the holy well is to be found a barrow. This has being called locally 'The Saints Grave or Flags of Denn'. This barrow is a small circular raised area enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. No fosse. At centre is a low irregular grass covered mound of unknown significance.
Saint Dympna's Church, Holy Well, and other Lower Lavey sites.
Today only the foundations of St. Dympna's, also called St. Dabnet's Chapel survive, aligned N-S (int. dims. 13.2m N-S; 7.4m E-W). Within it is a low irregular – shaped cairn of large and small stones which is said to represent the 'Saint's Grave' (local information) and according to Davies (1948, 111-2) was formally enclosed by upright slabs, only two of which are still in situ at that time. He also noted an alter in the south corner which appeared to him to be of recent construction, and some small slabs set on edge and buried in turf outside the north wall of the church.
A total of nine architectural fragments including two stone heads, originally from the church, have being erected in its vicinity and act as stations.
A holy well is situated in the bed of the river immediately below the church. Water from this holy well is reputed to cure ailments, particularly mental illness. Davies commented in 1948 that the church is 'apparently pre-reformation; but it is not shown on any early map, nor did the townland belong to the church, so it may have been a private oratory.
In 1934 Very Rev. Henry Galligan, PP., had a monument to Saint Dympna erected along the river, depicting her martyrdom.
An annual Pattern was held at the Holy Well, which dated back to the 16th century. This religious event was revived by the above-mentioned Father Galligan during the nineteen thirties and was held on the 15th of August for a number of years. Saint Dympna was martyred in Belgium, reputedly by her jealous father. At least one group of visitors from Belgium has visited Lavey because of this connection with the saint.
There is also a local tradition that an ancient graveyard associated with the St. Dympna's church, which was situated 450m to NNE (local information) on low-lying ground close to a stream.
Davies recorded another early church site close the main Cavan-Dublin road during his visit to the area in 1948. The Lavey Sheela-na- gig figure was also discovered at this site.
The Lavey Sheela-na-gig is now on Display at the Cavan County Museum, Ballyjamesduff.
The origin of these figures is uncertain. Some theories suggest they represent Celtic fertility goddesses, while others claim they were erected on churches to warn the faithful against the sins of the flesh. Although most numerous in Ireland, they are also to be found throughout Britain and other parts of Western Europe.
The Denn catchment as we see is rich in archeological sites dating from the New Stone Age up to the eighteenth century. To have these sites recognised for their importance is the minimum that we would expect from the local authority. Further to this Cavan County Council must have this area declared an area of special historical and archeological importance and included as such in the County Development Plan. This is needed in order to protect these sites from damage or total destruction as has happened in the area already.
We are particularly concerned as to the future of the Black Pig's Dyke linear earthworks at Ardkill More Mountain. The local authority has a duty to preserve Cavans only surviving stretch of this monument from further damage. The destruction of the landscape at Ardkill More has being greatly worsened by the unauthorised removal of shrubbery and topsoil from the newly purchased section high on the western slopes of the mountain. The quarry site has now become a real eyesore and this extension must not be allowed to continue and the area of this latest unauthorised work should be re-landscaped with soil in order to bring about a renewal of growth. It is time to have a serious look at the long-term future of quarrying at Ardkill More. It is quite clear this site is totally unsuitable for quarrying with regard to its elevated location and the fact that an important archeological site lies in its immediate vicinity. The quarry owners might be encouraged to consider sourcing a more suitable quarry site and phasing out their operations at Ardkill More. An archeological excavation of both the linear earthworks and the site on the hill summit could help answer some of the many questions about the purpose of the earthworks and what was the enclosure on the barren summit used for. This is an important part of the local heritage and the heritage of County Cavan and Ulster.
The Banagher site is one of great importance. When our team including our archeological adviser Claire Dunleavy visited, this ancient complex of sites impressed them greatly. It is obvious that this elevated site was an important and sacred location of ritual and burial to the ancient peoples of the locality over a long period of time from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. A proper archeological excavation being carried out can gauge just how important Banagher is. Sadly this site seems to have being damaged in the distant past, most probably by treasure trove hunters. Most disturbing was to learn that further down the southeastern slopes of Banagher hill a court tomb has being completely destroyed in fairly recent times. To find that such an important archeological item could be just taken away almost defies belief and should be proof if proof were needed of the need to tighten up our laws and regulations with regard to causing damage to such sites.
There seems to be a number of small private quarries in evidence in the locality of the Banagher sites. We presume these are unauthorised operations. The danger with such private quarries is that as they are unregulated there is the possibility that historical remains on rocky terrain may be removed in order to proceed with this work. While Duchas have erected notices at the main sites on the hill summit, this is a system that should be applied to all archeological sites in order to clear up any doubt about their importance. There is no room for complacency about this issue if we are serious about protecting our heritage. That Banagher is omitted from Cavan County Councils Development plan seems to be an amazing oversight and one that should be quickly remedied.
The ancient churchyard at Carrickaboy Glebe is as stated in a state of neglect at present. Either the local parish or the local authority should carry out a regular cleanup of this important site. Indeed we noted that there are grave plots still in use in this cemetery and it is surely unfair to have the cemetery in such a state that access for relatives to their family plots is at present virtually impossible. Also many overseas visitors are interested in tracing their family history and their impressions on visiting Carrickaboy churchyard cannot be a favorable one. It is also a pity that the holy wells site nearby has being interfered with, as it seems likely these wells were connected to the ancient church of Denn.
The Lavey site thankfully still seems to be held in high regard in the locality. Hopefully this will continue. The Cusack family has being very good stewards of this site on their lands and have provided access to St. Dympnas well to those wishing to visit. This is an important site, a treasure to the parish of Lavey and one we trust they will continue to value. Maybe more could be done with regard to promoting the site and having the ruins of the old church surveyed by archeologists and having some restoration work carried out which would not interfere with character of the ruined church.
Finally we urge Cavan County Council to act without delay in the spirit of its stated commitments to protect such monuments, to bring these important sites into its list of special sites of archeological importance in the County Development Plan, and in doing so take an important step in protecting them from damage or destruction.
The Smaller of Two Stone Circles, Banagher
Stone with Neolithic Art, Banagher
Ruined Passage Tomb, Banagher
The Lavey Sile-na-Gig
The touch of Death.
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'Duchas have erected a number of notices on concrete pillars at the site warning against causing damage to the surviving monuments. This is most welcome and is a system that should be extended to other sites. However Duchas is now largely defunct and has being incorporated into the National Monuments section of the Department of the Environment. Hopefully this will not have a negative impact on such protection for sites such as Banagher. '
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Marathon participants and spectators can park in front of Nakumatt Mega. Entrance to this car park is from Bunyala Road just before Bunyala Roundabout. This car park has security guards.
Participants and spectators are permitted to park in in other areas close to Uhuru Park such as Milimani Road, Bishops Road, Ngong Road, Upper Hill Road, Ragati Road and Baricho Road. Please note that these areas are not officially guarded. Parking in all areas is at your own risk.
Please be considerate when parking. Do not obstruct the normal flow of traffic.
Comesa Car Park at KICC Entrance to this car park is only for limited Route access car sticker holders and must be accessed before 6 am.
Railway Club Entrance to this car park is for VIP pass holders only and must be accessed before 6 am. The Entrance to the car park is off Processional Way.


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The John O'Gaunt was first licensed back in 1835, having been created from three thatched cottages dating back to the 1700s. It takes its name from the 1st Duke of Lancaster, son of King Edward III, who held the manor of Sutton in the 14th Century.
You'll find the pub in the charming village of Sutton, deep in the beautiful heart of Bedfordshire and a stones throw from the picturesque packhorse bridge and ford which run across Potton Brook, a tributary of the River Ivel.
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We are closed all day on Mondays although we are open for lunch on Bank Holiday Mondays – after which we will be closed all the next day (the Tuesday).


Akihiko Kondo, 35, who teaches at a middle school in Tokyo, married Hatsune Miku, a virtual hologram of a teenage girl, earlier this month, Reuters reports.
The hologram, which takes the shape of a 16-year-old girl with long, turquoise ponytails, "is a singing voice synthesizer featured in over 100,000 songs," according to Crypton Future Media, the company behind the digital character.
I wonder if she has a sister?
Better yet - she has a TWIN!
Gotta admit - she is probably LOW - Maintenance.
Good for someone on a fixed income.
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The objective of this study is to assess the surface water quality under impacts of water infrastructure development in the Mekong River in An Giang province for a period of 2010-2014 by using Water Quality Index (WQI). There are seven parameters (Dissolved oxygen (DO), pH, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solid (TSS), nitrate, phosphate, and total Coliform) to be calculatedat 10 stations for three times a year (March, June, September). The values of WQI fall a range of 0 to 100, and areclassified into five levels (excellent, good, medium, bad, and very bad). The resultsshow that the average annual values of WQI rangedfrom 82to 68 at the Tien river and 65 to 80 at the Hau river.Water quality of these two rivers was thereforeclassified as "medium to good" leveland suitable for human uses.However, WQI in March, 2011 at MH5 station (Hau river)was assigned to "bad" level due to very high BOD and total Coliform values. Water quality at this station was bad and unsuitable for domestic water supply.


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Beijing: US Stance on THAAD, Taiwan Issue Hampers Bilateral Military Dialogue
Washington's stance on the deployment of the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea and the Taiwan issue as well as US military's actions in the South China Sea impede the development of military ties between the two nations, Fan Changlong, the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of China, said Thursday.
BEIJING (Sputnik) – The Chinese and US armed forces are gradually improving confidence-building mechanisms, however, the progress is undermined by Washington's position on Taiwan and the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea, told Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Commenting on the crisis over North Korea, Fan stressed that dialogue and consultations remain the only effective way to resolve the North Korean nuclear problem, adding that military actions were not considered.
"All the parties concerned should exercise restraint in order to avoid escalation of tensions on the [Korean] peninsula. We hope that the United States will work together with China to ensure that all the parties make joint efforts and play a positive role in resolving the DPRK's [North Korea's] nuclear problem as well as in maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula," Fan stated.
In June, China initiated a road map for the settlement of North Korean crisis, a so-called "double freeze" plan, which outlines a scenario where there is simultaneous cessation of North Korea's nuclear activity and US-South Korean military exercises. The initiative has been been supported by Russia but rejected by the United States.
Washington and Seoul jointly agreed to continue exerting pressure on North Korea, saying that the possible retaliatory measures would include the deployment of additional US strategic assets, including supplementary US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) units in South Korea, the measure opposed by Beijing.
The relations between the China and the United States have also been complicated by Washington's position on Taiwan, which Beijing has viewed as its breakaway province.
The United States, along with many other countries, does not recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation and officially sticks to the "One China" policy. Despite this, Washington has kept informal relations with the island nation after severing diplomatic ties with it in 1979. The issue of Taiwan in US-Chinese relations was raised again in December 2016 after then US President-elect Donald Trump had a phone call with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen.


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The aim of The Pony Club is to encourage young people to ride and enjoy all kinds of sport connected to horses and riding. It teaches young people the importance of proper care of their animals and aims to promote the highest ideals of sportsmanship, citizenship and loyalty. The Pony Club Centre membership is open to anyone under 21 years of age who either does not own a pony or cannot attend branch rallies due to lack of horse transport or other reason.
Membership will enable your child to take part in achievement badge work, (there are over 40 badges) and also pony club efficiency tests up to AH standard (including the riding and road safety test), progressive tests in riding and horsemanship and the opportunity to compete in rallies and competitions throughout the year. Membership also includes third party insurance.
Throughout the year we run various badge evenings and mornings at a cost of £10. This is where your children can work towards each individual badge at their own pace and receive structured help on the various topics covered within the Pony Club which involves far more than just horses!
Rallies and competitions will be run throughout the holidays with Pony Club Centre members receiving reduced lesson and entry fees. We also hold our annual four day residential Pony Club camp during the summer holidays which is always hugely popular! You also have the option to purchase Barguse Pony Club sweatshirts from the office so that all the badges can be sewn on.
So, if you think that your child would like the opportunity to meet new friends, improve their riding skills and have fun, ask in the office for an enrolment form.


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Mycotoxin Contamination in Brazilian Corn harvested in 2020
Author/s : Margaux Lecolinet, Global Marketing Manager Mycotoxins Management. Julia Dvorska, Global Scientific & Technical Manager Mycotoxin Management
Corn from the two 2020 harvests was found to have low to medium levels of five mycotoxins: AFB1, FB1, ZEA, DON and NIV (multiple mycotoxin contamination). The possible synergism, or additive effect of mycotoxins, also needs to be considered. Multiple mycotoxins at low to medium levels can have negative effects on animal health, reproduction and performance.
Based on the results of this survey, the 2020 Brazilian corn crop should not automatically be considered safe for inclusion in finished feed rations for all animal species. Special attention should be paid to the medium-level average concentration of FB1 (1275 μg/kg), which was found in 80% of the samples, with a maximum concentration of 16,614 μg/kg. According to the risk assessment table, the average DON and NIV level pose a low to medium risk to sensitive animals as piglets, sows, boars and horses. AFB1 was detected at an average of 6 μg/kg, which represents a medium risk for dairy cows. ZEA levels were low, indicating a low risk to animal health and performance.
In view of the detected mycotoxins and their levels, there is a greater probability of observing negative effects of the mycotoxin cocktail (FB1, AFB1, ZEA, DON and NIV) when rations are made of more than 50% corn.
The results of Adisseo's 2020 analysis of newly harvested corn in Brazil show that, in terms of mycotoxin contamination, the quality of this year's harvest is cause for concern. However, supplementing animal feed with Mycotoxin Management products is an effective strategy for preventing the negative effects of mycotoxins on animal health and performance.
The key outcomes are:
80% of the samples contaminated with #mycotoxins
Fumonisins have the highest occurence followed by Zearalenone, Aflatoxin B1, Nivalenol and Deoxynivalenol
Overall the level of contamination are low to medium
Multiple contamination could lead to observe negative effects on #AnimalHealth and performance when rations are made of more than 50% corn.
Mycotoxin contamination in newly harvested grain is a very important parameter to consider. That grain is used to feed the animals for the whole year, until the next harvest. As the saying goes, "knowing the enemy is half the battle won." In turn, if we know the level of contamination, we can think about the best use of the wheat: to which animal species can it be fed (avoiding the more sensitive species in cases of high contamination or decreasing the level of wheat in their diet) and which MycoMan Program product should be used to decrease the possible negative effects of contamination on animal performance and health. Read the complete harvest bulletin here
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Sheridan operates the buildings air handling system as per the Ontario Building Code and controls the system using the ASHRAE 55 standards governing commercial buildings air quality.
Sheridan's air handling systems are designed according to the air handling automation system whereas the control sensors installed on the system are designed to provide self-diagnostics and adjust the air controls accordingly. In general, if the return-air sensors detect that the return air from a room has a higher level of CO2 than is mandated by the ASHRAE standards, then the system self-adjusts to allow more fresh-air to be supplied to the air-handling system supplying the room with higher-than-mandated CO2 levels. This ensures that the CO2 levels are well within the acceptable standards for human occupancy.
Green cleaning products are used on campus to eliminate toxic substances and harmful fume discharges in the interior environment.
Designated smoking shelters are provided in certain locations around campus to ensure a smoke-free environment indoors. These shelters are located at a sufficient distance from building entrances.
Air that enters college buildings is filtered through a hospital-grade air filtration system that filters the air twice.
Implementation of living green walls is seen at the HMC and Davis campuses. The living wall acts as a natural bio filter that is fully integrated into the building's air handling system, designed to remove common indoor contaminants, and improve air quality and energy efficiency.


I found out last month that my four-year-old daughter has diabetes. For about two or three days, she hasn't had a fever, but she sounds like she has a cold. She sneezes a bit and coughs every now and then. Sometimes her nose is stuffed up. She says she's fine. She has no pain, but her bedtime blood sugar levels have been higher then usual. I check her sugar levels two or three times at night when she's sleeping. One of her endocrinologists tells me to check her only once at night. The other advised me to check her less but she said she knows I won't. Then again, they told me I didn't even have to check her at 3 a.m. that at the hospital they did that because her insulin was at it's peak! Here or there, her insulin was still be at it's peak. Three nights ago, I checked her at 3 a.m. and her sugar level was below 4 mmol/L [72 mg/dl]. Once, at 1 a.m., she was 3.8 mmol/L [68 mg/dl], so, imagine what would have happened it I had waited until 6:45 a.m.!
Right now, she isn't taking her NPH at night because 0.5 made her drop too fast. The doctor says she's in her "honeymoon stage." Isn't it better to be "safe than sorry?" Does it hurt anything to check her as often? Her doctor told me the other day that even if she doesn't take insulin at night, her sugar level could go down way down depending on how active she was that day. So, when do you think I should check her? Will she be safe if I check less?
Her doctor only wants me to call if her sugar level is over 17 mmol/L [306 mg/dl] with 0.6 or more blood ketones because everything is okay if she has little or no ketones.
I think that while there are lots of wrong ways to care for children with type 1 diabetes, there is NO SINGLE RIGHT WAY.
How often one checks glucose levels depends upon so many things, including type of insulin and the timing of insulin injections in relation to meals and exercise; other medications; concurrent illnesses, and many more.
It is EXTREMELY important that YOU (and eventually your child) understands how different insulins work: when they start to work and when they have their maximal (or "peak") effects and how long they generally stay in the system. NPH is an intermediate-acting insulin with an onset of action about two hours AFTER the dose, but a PEAKING effect about six to eight hours after the dose.
Regular insulin is a short-acting insulin with onset about 30 minutes after a dose and a PEAK about three to four hours after the dose. Rapid-acting insulins, such as Humalog or NovoLog, have onset within 15 minutes after the dose, but PEAK in about 90 minutes afterward.
Your own Diabetes Team should give you the advice and you should follow it. If you have questions, then you should feel comfortable in maintaining a dialogue; if you don't understand the reasons for any recommendations, then ASK!
Personally, I rarely ask for ROUTINE middle-of-the-night glucose checks at home. You need sleep, as does the patient. In the hospital, a couple of reasons to check middle-of-the-night include that one is learning just how sensitive the patient is to insulin. Plus, the night staff are awake anyway! During illness, or if the glucose is low at bedtime, it may be certainly appropriate to check 2 to 3 a.m. glucose levels.
Given your basic questions and that you are so new to this diagnosis, please DO NOT make insulin changes without the input from your diabetes team (the endocrinologist or their diabetes nurse specialists). HYPOglycemia can be devastating. Your child probably IS in the "diabetes honeymoon." If the half unit at bedtime made the glucose drop too quickly, then either the dose needs to be decreased OR it could be moved earlier in the evening. TALK with your diabetes team!
As for harm from checking too much, there is probably little physical harm, except sore fingers. But, maybe you are using alternative sites. There can be psychological harm to YOU, YOUR SPOUSE, and, perhaps, the CHILD. Think of your child as a KID FIRST and a "diabetic" SECOND. Focus your energies wisely. Your child should have a life (and a lifetime).
[Editor's comment: As a parent of an older teen with diabetes, I have found nighttime testing to be extremely helpful and important. CWD has run polls about nighttime testing and over one-third of respondents to our March 2006 poll indicated that they test every night.
It is particularly difficult to figure out why your child has a certain "wake-up" blood sugar if you have done no nighttime testing. Many parents find that the testing becomes even more critical as your child grows, eats meals elsewhere, participates in athletics, etc. With that said, if you find that nighttime testing makes it impossible for you to function as a worker or a parent, you have to have an alternate plan. That could include having someone else help with the testing or doing the nighttime testing less frequently, such as only on nights when she has eaten poorly, feels ill, has been out with friends/siblings, etc. Whatever you end up doing, you should not be judged a bad parent. You will do whatever you do to keep your child healthy.


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RC alum donates $15 million for new science center
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SALEM, Va. (AP) — A Roanoke College alumnus is donating $15 million to the Virginia school — its largest-ever cash donation. The gift from Massachusetts-based cybersecurity expert Shaun McConnon will go toward a new science center, the college said in a news release Friday. Every student takes at least three classes from the programs that will be housed in the center, according to the release. A third of all courses on campus will be taught there.
The 150,000-square-foot project will combine new construction and renovation of existing spaces. Its features — including a 140-seat auditorium, 35 research labs and 12 classrooms — will increase the square footage of classroom and study space by 300%.
The total cost and timeline for the center are currently unknown. The school has received $35 million for it, including McConnon's donation. The 1966 graduate majored in biology with a minor in chemistry and was on the track team. He has served on the school's board of trustees and said he previously gave the school $1.7 million. McConnon worked at Honeywell and Data General and Sun Microsystems before creating and selling high-tech security companies.


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Q: Laravel, consulta a base de datos con WHERE no se concatena con otros Versión de Laravel: 7
Buenas tardes, antes tenía una forma de filtrar mediante get, primero hace traía todos los registros de un modelo. Por ejemplo:
$ads = Ad::where('adtype_id', $b_tipo)->orderBy('date_created', 'DESC');

Esto me devuelve todo el query builder para todos los elementos donde adtype_id sea igual a 1 o 2.
Si hago un dd($ads->get()) todo bien, son los que coinciden, el problema es cuando luego quiero hacer añadir un where a la variable $ads (cosa que antes me funcionaba)
$ads = Ad::where('adtype_id', $b_tipo)->orderBy('date_created', 'DESC');

if($request->b){
    $ads = $ads->where('title', 'like', '%'.$request->b.'%')
               ->orWhere('description', 'like', '%'.$request->b.'%');
}

if($request->departamento){
    $ads = $ads->where('department_id', '=', $request->departamento);
}

 if($request->provincia){
    $ads = $ads->where('province_id', $request->provincia);
}
if($request->distrito){
    $ads = $ads->where('district_id', $request->distrito);
}

Lo hago de esta forma porque puede que tenga o no filtro por distrito, por titulo o por fecha.
El problema es que cuando hago la consulta de esta forma está ignorando los filtros anteriores (adtype_id), esto antes me funcionaba, no cambié versión de Laravel ni nada.
Al final del código tengo un paginate() por eso no hago el get en esas consultas, igual el problema como dije es cuando hago el where (ya le hice un dump)
También acepto sugerencias de cómo podría mejorar la función del filtro.

A: Lo que posiblemente esté haciendo que la consulta ignore las demás cláusulas where, es que tienes un orWhere en el ámbito global de la consulta. Me refiero a esta línea:
$ads = $ads->where('title', 'like', '%'.$request->b.'%')
    ->orWhere('description', 'like', '%'.$request->b.'%');

Eso va a hacer que independientemente de lo que pongas en otras cláusulas, la consulta te devuelva todos los registros que cumplan la condición orWhere.
Para resolverlo puedes agrupar esa cláusula orWhere. Puedes hacerlo así:
$ads = $ads->where(function($query) use ($request) {
    $query->where('title', 'like', '%'.$request->b.'%')
        ->orWhere('description', 'like', '%'.$request->b.'%');
});

Referencia: Parameter Grouping
Específicamente esta nota: "Siempre debe agrupar las llamadas orWhere para evitar comportamientos inesperados cuando se aplican ámbitos globales."

Como sugerencia, para no poner ifs  la consulta, puedes hacerlo de la "forma laravel" con Conditional Clauses.

En ocasiones, es posible que desee que se apliquen determinadas cláusulas de consulta a una consulta en función de otra condición. Por ejemplo, es posible que solo desee aplicar una instrucción where si un valor de entrada dado está presente en la solicitud HTTP entrante. Puede lograr esto usando el método when.

Por ejemplo:
$b = $request->b;
$departamento = $request->departamento;
$provincia = $request->provincia;
$distrito = $request->distrito;

$ads = Ad::where('adtype_id', $b_tipo)->orderBy('date_created', 'DESC')
    ->when($b, function ($query, $b) {
        return $query->where(function($q) use ($b) {
            $q->where('title', 'like', '%'.$b.'%')
                ->orWhere('description', 'like', '%'.$b.'%');
        });
    })
    ->when($departamento, function ($query, $departamento) {
        return $query->where('department_id', '=', $departamento);
    })
    ->when($provincia, function ($query, $provincia) {
        return $query->where('province_id', $provincia);
    })
    ->when($distrito, function ($query, $distrito) {
        return $query->where('district_id', $distrito);
    })
    ->paginate(10);


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Medical Mind Control [back] Medical study ploys
'The technique of infamy is to invent two lies and to get people to argue heatedly over which one of them is true.'--Ezra Pound
[Allopathic created and controlled system of dubious science that tests only (mostly useless) allopathic medicine while keeping out any competition. Monopoly medicine.]
See: Peer review
[2017 Feb] Forbes Leads Media Attack Against Turmeric's Health Benefits ''What Mr. Leminick is referring here to as "evidence," or the lack thereof, is the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, human clinical trial (RCT). The RCT has become the epistemiological holy grail of Scientism and the Medical Monotheism it informs. In this belief system, it doesn't matter if something has had cross-cultural validation as a healing agent, even after thousands of years of safe human use; nor does it matter if you personally have experienced (N-of-1) direct and measurable health benefits from consuming it. This is essentially a pyramidal control system: the RCT situated on top, and your first-hand experience and associated "anecdotal claims" on bottom, completely worthless. What's considered 'really real' is what has been externally validated through the RCT. Also worthless within this view are the thousands of cell (in vitro) and animal (in vivo) studies that exist indicating therapeutic properties may exist. This Scientism-based belief system is so powerful and all-consuming that sometimes I describe it as the 'Religion that devours all others.''
[2012 June] Skewed Results? Failure to Account for Clinical Trial Drop-Outs Can Lead to Erroneous Findings in Top Medical Journals Up to a third of clinical trials studied that found an intervention effective might, in fact, be wrong
[2010 Nov] Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science He charges that as much as 90 percent of the published medical information that doctors rely on is flawed......he worries that the field of medical research is so pervasively flawed, and so riddled with conflicts of interest, that it might be chronically resistant to change—or even to publicly admitting that there's a problem...80 percent of non-randomized studies (by far the most common type) turn out to be wrong, as do 25 percent of supposedly gold-standard randomized trials, and as much as 10 percent of the platinum-standard large randomized trials. The article spelled out his belief that researchers were frequently manipulating data analyses, chasing career-advancing findings rather than good science, and even using the peer-review process—in which journals ask researchers to help decide which studies to publish—to suppress opposing views.
......Of the 49 articles, 45 claimed to have uncovered effective interventions. Thirty-four of these claims had been retested, and 14 of these, or 41 percent, had been convincingly shown to be wrong or significantly exaggerated. If between a third and a half of the most acclaimed research in medicine was proving untrustworthy, the scope and impact of the problem were undeniable.
[Media March 2002] Dying medicine boss: 'Drug trials are pointless ... and unethical'
Why are Laetrile and many other substances used in alternative-cancer therapy not readily available in the U.S.? by G. Edward Griffin,
[2011] For the desperately ill, trials of new drugs offer one last hope. But as this terrifying story shows, if it all goes wrong, you could be on your own
Eighty-five percent of clinical trials are now commercially funded, and the odds are four to five times greater that the commercially funded trials will conclude that the sponsor's drug is the treatment of choice compared with non commercially funded trials of exactly the same drugs, according to a lecture given at Harvard Medical School in October by Dr. Catherine D. DeAngelis, the editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Those studies are then bundled into review articles (often sponsored by the drug maker); presented at continuing medical education courses that are funded directly or indirectly by the drug maker; supported by "key opinion leaders," recognized experts who happen to be getting paid by the drug maker; incorporated into guidelines -- the majority of expert authors having financial ties to one or more of the drug companies making a drug being considered in the guidelines; and, of course, touted by the drug reps lining up to get some face time with the doctors, who -- according to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America's research -- overwhelmingly find the information delivered by the reps up to date, useful and reliable."---JOHN ABRAMSON, M.D. 2009 Good for Business, Bad for Patients?
Whether a drug makes it to market simply only means that someone has had enough money to put it through, and pay the right politicians. That's all. It doesn't mean it works or it doesn't work....... we're very familiar with the people who developed the double-blind, placebo-controlled study. And we know what they know about medicine and science, and they all admit that they don't know anything about it. ......The problem with the placebo controlled, doubled-blind study is that you are using two human beings as controls against one another. There is no more out-bred species on Earth than two human beings. A person from the North Pole can procreate with a person from the South Pole, and can have an infant. There is no animal on Earth that is as out-bred as human beings, including two identical twins, they are not the same. Because, as soon as the zygote divides there are different positions, there's different antigens to which they are exposed. The bottom line is that these double-blind, placebo-controlled studies are run by people who don't know much about science. [1993 Interview with Dr. Alan Levin.] Modern Medicine and its Military Links
"Vera Hassner Sharav, president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection, has been warning about such powers for years. The companies design the drug trials," Sharav says. "They select the subjects. They maintain and interpret the data. They select which parts get published. They choose who will become the reviewers in the prestigious medical journals. And they pick 'key opinion leaders,' who they pay handsomely" to promote the drugs. "It's perfect," she concludes. "They have it made."----Merck Move Shows Industry Adrift
I wrote that 100 page book a couple of years ago about controlled clinical trials because I got so tired of hearing the medical profession talking about the controlled clinical trial as the gold standard for proving drugs. The idea of the controlled clinical trial as being the standard is based on a completely false supposition - that you can assemble homogeneous groups of patients. We in homeopathy know that this is not possible. In allopathy they'll take a group of people and arbitrarily designate them as a homogeneous group. Then they'll give their medicines and placebos and see how many get well and how many don't get well, etc. The procedure is vicious at its very root. You can't get a homogeneous group of people no matter how hard you try and the rest is just window dressing. The ultimate effect is to favor the large pharmaceutical manufacturers at the expense of the small pharmaceutical manufacturers. The controlled trials are very expensive. They cost between the 10s and 100s of millions of dollars so that no small manufacturer can afford this, so only the big companies can put the new drugs on the market. What it really does is support the idea of monopoly in business. Harris Coulter Interview
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) increasingly approves cancer drugs without requiring that they be shown to prolong life. Indeed, FDA's approval standards have now become so lenient that in most instances the manufacturer of a drug only has to demonstrate that in clinical trials the drug performs better than a placebo in order to be confident of a smooth passage through the approval process. .......some kinds of cancer treatment have become the standard of care without ever having been evaluated in clinical trials. Many forms of radiation treatment, for example, have simply been "grandfathered in," - i.e., accepted by default largely on the basis of having been around for a long time. ......in many instances the relative merits of different kinds of radiation treatment, the limits of its usefulness and the extent of its effectiveness have never been clearly established through clinical trials. This has led to a situation where on the one hand the treatment is almost universally available, yet on the other hand there is very little solid evidence comparing the effectiveness of radiation to various other treatment approaches. [March 2008] OVERCOMING THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF RADIATION TREATMENT FOR CANCER Ralph Moss
[Neat isn't it.] Why are Laetrile and many other substances used in alternative-cancer therapy not readily available in the U.S.? The short answer is that these substances are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The full answer, however, is a bit more complex. The reason they do not carry approval is that they have not undergone the extensive FDA testing that all new drugs must pass before being approved for common use. That's the law in the United States. This process takes years of research work, requires tens of thousands of pages of reports, and costs hundreds of millions of dollars. The only firms that can afford this are large pharmaceutical companies. Not even they will undertake such expense unless they can eventually make a profit through sales, and that means they must obtain a patent on the substance being tested. However, substances found in nature cannot be patented, only man-made chemicals and processes can. Since Laetrile and many other substances used in alternative-cancer treatments are found in nature, they cannot be patented. That means they will never be tested according to FDA protocol. Consequently, they will never be officially approved no matter how effective they may be. That is why you often hear it said that alternative cancer therapies are "unproven." That is a very misleading statement. They may not have been proven by FDA protocol, but many of them definitely have been proven as both safe and effective by actual clinical experience in the treatment of thousands of cancer patients. Unfortunately, until the laws are changed, the only officially approved substances we will ever have for the treatment of cancer in the United States are man-made, patented chemicals! G. Edward Griffin,
If you want to change it you change the law that establishes the need for double blind clinical studies in drugs. You eliminate the efficacy clause from the Harris amendment to the food and drug act, which Harris himself didn't even want. This was imposed by the FDA and the drug industry. This upped the ante and made a regulatory barrier. Now instead of it taking 1 million dollars to establish the safety of a drug, you now need 300 million dollars. So none of the small inventors, or the people with good ideas can ever hope to possibly hope to get their drugs approved. They put you in administrative limbo where the best you ever hope to get is this backburner simmering kind of thing, and I know of a number of good scientists who have got IND's (Investigative New Drug Applications) to test drugs, but when you try to market the drug they will put you out of business, and Dr Burzynski is the prime example. Brilliant scientist, wonderful results in cancer, validated by the NCI, and yet he is on the verge of federal indictment. Interview of Dr Ralph Moss, Ph.D.
System run by the medical cartel with the deceptive purposes of:
1. Using humans as guinea pigs to "test" one poison against another one.
"We have a multi-billion dollar industry that is killing people, right and left, just for financial gain. Their idea of research is to see whether two doses of this poison is better than three doses of that poison."—Glen Warner, M.D. oncologist.
2. Keeping out non-cartel members by making the system too expensive, so only the big Corporations can afford the ante.
"If you want to change it you change the law that establishes the need for double blind clinical studies in drugs. You eliminate the efficacy clause from the Harris amendment to the food and drug act, which Harris himself didn't even want. This was imposed by the FDA and the drug industry. This upped the ante and made a regulatory barrier. Now instead of it taking 1 million dollars to establish the safety of a drug, you now need 300 million dollars. So none of the small inventors, or the people with good ideas can ever hope to possibly hope to get their drugs approved. They put you in administrative limbo where the best you ever hope to get is this backburner simmering kind of thing, and I know of a number of good scientists who have got IND's (Investigative New Drug Applications) to test drugs, but when you try to market the drug they will put you out of business, and Dr Burzynski M.D. is the prime example. Brilliant scientist, wonderful results in cancer, validated by the NCI, and yet he is on the verge of federal indictment." Interview of Dr Ralph Moss, Ph.D.
The ultimate effect is to favor the large pharmaceutical manufacturers at the expense of the small pharmaceutical manufacturers. The controlled trials are very expensive. They cost between the 10s and 100s of millions of dollars so that no small manufacturer can afford this, so only the big companies can put the new drugs on the market. What it really does is support the idea of monopoly in business. Harris Coulter Interview
3. Any non-cartel medicine can then be, to the ignorant, safely ignored and rubbished as it hasn't been through clinical trials. No non-patentable medicine will ever be trialled for obvious reasons, and the likes of Burzynski can't afford to.
4. Useless medicine gets on the market by controlling agencies such as the FDA with deceptions such as tumour shrinkage:
"If you can shrink the tumour 50% or more for 28 days you have got the FDA's definition of an active drug. That is called a response rate, so you have a response..(but) when you look to see if there is any life prolongation from taking this treatment what you find is all kinds of hocus pocus and song and dance about the disease free survival, and this and that. In the end there is no proof that chemotherapy in the vast majority of cases actually extends life, and this is the GREAT LIE about chemotherapy, that somehow there is a correlation between shrinking a tumour and extending the life of the patient."---Interview of Dr Ralph Moss, Ph.D.
and is used again and again even when they have proved and know it doesn't work:
"What you are about to read will shock you. It is a story of oncologists lying to parents about the efficacy of their therapy and using coercive tactics such as threats of court orders to take children and submit them to treatments that they know are torturous and ineffective.......We were told, not asked, but told that we had 30 days from Alexander's surgeries to start chemo. We were told that chemo would offer Alexander a good chance of survival. We were told that he would be getting a new chemo protocol with "state-of-the-art" drugs. And we were warned that if we did not bring Alexander in for chemotherapy a court order would be forthcoming so that the oncologists could take him from us and administer these poisons without our approval. We were lied to and threatened so that oncologists could fill our son with deadly ineffective poisons that simply shortened his life and made his last days on earth a living hell.
The oncologists did what they were trained to without challenging the death that surrounds their treatments. The FDA took away Alexander's freedom to use a non-toxic and potentially life-saving therapy. The drug companies received their chemotherapy profits. Alexander lost his life. And we have to live with the knowledge that we never gave our son a fighting chance to survive his disease." No Rights for a Child Diagnosed with Cancer------Raphaele & Michael Horwin
As you can see also with these Chemotherapy quotes. Works in some way for 5% of patients but is given to 50%. Go figure. Now you can see why the medical cartel is the biggest killer on the planet.
The Controlled Clinical Trial by Harris Coulter


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Biografia
Agüero è nato nel barrio bonaerense di San Nicolás, nella cui squadra si formò prima di trasferirsi a vent'anni in Italia nelle file del .

L'anno successivo fu a , ancora per una stagione, e nel 2003 fu ingaggiato dal  con cui rimase quattro stagioni; fu in tale periodo che giunse anche l'esordio in nazionale italiana, nel corso del tour del 2005 nel Pacifico contro .

Nel 2007 lasciò l'Italia per trasferirsi nel club inglese dei , e fu incluso dal C.T. della nazionale italiana Pierre Berbizier tra i convocati alla Coppa del Mondo in Francia, in cui giocò tuttavia solo 30 minuti contro il  prima di infortunarsi ed essere costretto a saltare il resto della competizione.

Nel 2010 prese parte al progetto delle nuove franchise italiane in Celtic League firmando un contratto per la neoistituita formazione degli .
Una serie di infortuni tenne lontano dalla  Agüero che, nella stagione successiva, dopo il ritiro della licenza federale agli Aironi e il subentro al loro posto delle , fu ingaggiato da tale nuova franchise.
Dopo 3 anni alle Zebre e la fine del contratto, si presentò senza una squadra alle convocazioni per la  in Inghilterra e dopo la competizione fu ingaggiato a 34 anni dal , di nuovo in Inghilterra, fino a fine stagione.

A giugno 2016 si trasferì in seconda divisione francese ad Aix-en-Provence, nella cui squadra chiuse la carriera due anni più tardi, a luglio 2018, per assumere dalla stagione successiva l'incarico di allenatore della mischia della squadra Under-18 dello stesso club.

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