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After about two to seven days of following the keto diet, you go into something called ketosis, or the state your body enters when it doesn't have enough carbs for your cells to use for energy. That's when you start making ketones, or organic compounds that your bod then uses in place of those missing carbs. At this point, your body also starts burning fat for more energy, says Beth Warren, R.D., founder of Beth Warren Nutrition and author of Living A Real Life With Real Food.
Kristin Parker is an American temporarily living in South Korea. Her role with Team Diet Doctor is customer service. If you have a question or a comment on our social media platforms, website or our Facebook group, she will likely be the one to answer you back! Kristin cooks for a family of four, including two hungry teenage sons. Her keto meal plan yields generous servings of substantial, hearty meals that they all like.
Make sure that you don't get hungry by eating small portions throughout the day at regular intervals. Between your meals, eat a 150-calorie snack to keep your metabolism burning and to stave off hunger. Be sure that you don't eat a fattening snack such as sweets or crisps. When you're hungry, your body conserves calories and slows down your metabolic processes.
A survey in 2005 of 88 paediatric neurologists in the US found that 36% regularly prescribed the diet after three or more drugs had failed, 24% occasionally prescribed the diet as a last resort, 24% had only prescribed the diet in a few rare cases, and 16% had never prescribed the diet. Several possible explanations exist for this gap between evidence and clinical practice.[34] One major factor may be the lack of adequately trained dietitians who are needed to administer a ketogenic diet programme.[31]
Another difference between older and newer studies is that the type of patients treated with the ketogenic diet has changed over time. When first developed and used, the ketogenic diet was not a treatment of last resort; in contrast, the children in modern studies have already tried and failed a number of anticonvulsant drugs, so may be assumed to have more difficult-to-treat epilepsy. Early and modern studies also differ because the treatment protocol has changed. In older protocols, the diet was initiated with a prolonged fast, designed to lose 5–10% body weight, and heavily restricted the calorie intake. Concerns over child health and growth led to a relaxation of the diet's restrictions.[19] Fluid restriction was once a feature of the diet, but this led to increased risk of constipation and kidney stones, and is no longer considered beneficial.[18]
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Be choosy about carbs. You can decide which ones you eat, and how much. Look for those that are low on the glycemic index (for instance, asparagus is lower on the glycemic index than a potato) or lower in carbs per serving than others. Whole grains are better choices than processed items, because processing removes key nutrients such as fiber, iron, and B vitamins. They may be added back, such as in "enriched" bread.
The ketogenic diet is not a benign, holistic, or natural treatment for epilepsy; as with any serious medical therapy, complications may result.[28] These are generally less severe and less frequent than with anticonvulsant medication or surgery.[28] Common but easily treatable short-term side effects include constipation, low-grade acidosis, and hypoglycaemia if an initial fast is undertaken. Raised levels of lipids in the blood affect up to 60% of children[38] and cholesterol levels may increase by around 30%.[28] This can be treated by changes to the fat content of the diet, such as from saturated fats towards polyunsaturated fats, and if persistent, by lowering the ketogenic ratio.[38] Supplements are necessary to counter the dietary deficiency of many micronutrients.[18]
Pretty soon results start to show and success snowballs in to more success. I started to experiment with recipes. Making my own spice blends (taco seasoning, chili seasoning,Cajun seasoning, etc) making dressings (BBQ sauce, thousand island) and trying to cook more. Mostly slow cooker recipes like crack chicken or chili or Mississippi roast. This is kinda fun!
In the mid-1990s, Hollywood producer Jim Abrahams, whose son's severe epilepsy was effectively controlled by the diet, created the Charlie Foundation to promote it. Publicity included an appearance on NBC's Dateline programme and ...First Do No Harm (1997), a made-for-television film starring Meryl Streep. The foundation sponsored a multicentre research study, the results of which—announced in 1996—marked the beginning of renewed scientific interest in the diet.[1]
Write down everything you eat this week. People who keep food diaries, according to a study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, lose an average of 6 pounds (2.75 kg) more than people who don't keep a record of everything that they eat.[10] So force yourself to write down the good, the bad and the ugly. Keep these tips in mind:
It is possible to combine the results of several small studies to produce evidence that is stronger than that available from each study alone—a statistical method known as meta-analysis. One of four such analyses, conducted in 2006, looked at 19 studies on a total of 1,084 patients.[23] It concluded that a third achieved an excellent reduction in seizure frequency and half the patients achieved a good reduction.[18]
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat difficult-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Normally, the carbohydrates contained in food are converted into glucose, which is then transported around the body and is particularly important in fueling brain function. However, if little carbohydrate remains in the diet, the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies. The ketone bodies pass into the brain and replace glucose as an energy source. An elevated level of ketone bodies in the blood, a state known as ketosis, leads to a reduction in the frequency of epileptic seizures.[1] Around half of children and young people with epilepsy who have tried some form of this diet saw the number of seizures drop by at least half, and the effect persists even after discontinuing the diet.[2] Some evidence indicates that adults with epilepsy may benefit from the diet, and that a less strict regimen, such as a modified Atkins diet, is similarly effective.[1] Potential side effects may include constipation, high cholesterol, growth slowing, acidosis, and kidney stones.[3]
Implementing the diet can present difficulties for caregivers and the patient due to the time commitment involved in measuring and planning meals. Since any unplanned eating can potentially break the nutritional balance required, some people find the discipline needed to maintain the diet challenging and unpleasant. Some people terminate the diet or switch to a less demanding diet, like the modified Atkins diet or the low-glycaemic index treatment diet, because they find the difficulties too great.[42]
So now that I'm here everyone likes to ask me when I'm going to stop, and I say what do you mean? Why would I stop doing something that makes me feel so wonderful everyday, gives me energy and focus and go back to the way of eating that got me into this predicament to begin with. If I never lose another pound I will still be happy for the rest of my life a Keto practitioner.
In terms of weight loss, you may be interested in trying the ketogenic diet because you've heard that it can make a big impact right away. And that's true. "Ketogenic diets will cause you to lose weight within the first week," says Mattinson. She explains that your body will first use up all of its glycogen stores (the storage form of carbohydrate). With depleted glycogen, you'll drop water weight. While it can be motivating to see the number on the scale go down (often dramatically), do keep in mind that most of this is water loss initially.


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This biography, written by J. R. Tye, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1998.
Reginald George James Berry (known as James) was born on 20 June 1906 in London, England, the second child of James Willie Berry, a clerk, and his wife, Amy Blanche Clarissa Wakefield. After the death of his father in 1911, James was sent to board at Russell Hill School from 1913 until 1922. He won prizes for art and his talent was fostered by an aunt, Lilian Berry, who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts. At 16 he became an insurance clerk, but finding the work uncongenial he emigrated to New Zealand on the Ionic arriving in February 1925. Subsequently he paid off his assisted passage as a farm cadet in Gisborne. A slight youth, five feet three inches tall, he worked exhausting 12-hour days, and played weekend cricket and tennis.
After two years in Gisborne Berry began working as a commercial artist with the Goldberg Advertising Agency in Wellington. He saved sufficient to buy a section, and to marry Miriel Frances Hewitt, a secretary, at St Jude's Anglican Church, Lyall Bay, on 3 February 1932. They were to have five daughters and one son. In 1932 Berry left the Goldberg Agency and took on freelance work, including the design of advertising layouts for the New Zealand Radio Record and New Zealand Dairy Exporter. From 1935 until 1942 he was staff artist at the Dominion, and during this time produced the popular historical booklet New Zealand in review (1940), which went to several editions. He was drafted to Mayer and Kean, engravers, on war work from 1942 until May 1944. Thereafter he was self-employed, designing book covers, illustrations, bookplates and, increasingly, stamps, coins and medals.
Berry's delicate designs were largely created for competitions. His first successful design for a health stamp in 1933 led to a regular commission for this series for 25 years. Further stamp designs were sought by New Zealand, Western Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, and once by Bermuda. Berry produced nine of the twelve designs for the 1940 centennial stamp issue, and the entire peace issue of 1946. He went on to design the notable series of lighthouse stamps for the Government Insurance Department issues, the first of which appeared in 1947. While they enjoyed popular approval, his designs were described as trite and mundane by some New Zealand critics. However, in 1948 he was described in the American journal Weekly Philatelic Gossip as 'the greatest postage stamp designer in the world'.
His first medal design, a commemorative piece for the New Zealand Aero Club, appeared in 1935. The previous year Berry had joined the New Zealand Numismatic Society, which recommended his design for the reverse of their Waitangi-Bledisloe Medal, and for the Waitangi Crown, both of which were issued in 1935. The crown was part of a new series that replaced British coinage in New Zealand.
In 1950 Berry was invited to Tonga to advise on the philatelic commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Friendship with Great Britain, and Queen Salote's birthday. Stimulated by this trip he promptly decided to become a commercial traveller around New Zealand, so that he could pursue his interest in landscape painting, but a massive heart attack in 1962 curtailed these activities. Later, he optimistically embarked on ill-starred ventures such as bookselling, dealing in coins, and speculation in real estate.
In 1964 New Zealand decided to change to decimal currency; designs were invited, and Berry offered four sets, featuring New Zealand flora and fauna. There was overwhelming public support for Berry's designs in a nationwide newspaper poll, and one set was selected in 1966. It was subsequently approved by the Royal Mint and issued in 1967. Berry was sent to the Royal Mint to acquire further skills and this experience was of lasting benefit. Having gained in confidence, he competed for the British decimal designs but was unsuccessful. However, his prestige in New Zealand was such that the Dominion Sunday Times declared him to be '1966 Man of the Year', and in 1968 he was appointed an OBE.
In 1978 Berry was made an honorary member of the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand. Membership of the New Zealand Ex Libris Society and of the Friends of the Turnbull Library catered for his interests in books, but his first allegiance lay with the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand (formerly the New Zealand Numismatic Society), of which he was variously secretary, vice president, president and fellow.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s James Cook's discoveries in the South Pacific were commemorated in stamps, coins, plaques and statues. Berry was called on to produce so many designs that he became an expert on the explorer. From 1971 there were frequent invitations to the Franklin Mint in Pennsylvania and in 1972 one to the Royal Australia Mint in Canberra. The Australian visit resulted in his largest commission: 60 silver-on-gold medallions for the Medallic History of Australia. The task took him over five years, but he found time in 1973 to deliver the Sutherland Lecture to the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand in the form of a practical demonstration on 'The art production of coins and medals', and to arrange an exhibition of his work in the National Museum in 1975–76. Berry also received further commissions from Britain: for medallions of Oliver Cromwell and Winston Churchill, from the Cook Islands for additions to its decimal coinage, and from New Zealand for a series of commemorative dollars. He was granted the rare honour of incorporating his version of the Queen's head on four of these dollar coins.
In his last years Berry travelled frequently. He mounted a retrospective exhibition in New Zealand House, London, in 1977; subsequently his landscape painting took him to Ireland, which because of tax concessions to artists was a more attractive domicile than New Zealand. In 1978 he prepared an exhibition of his own landscapes in Dublin, and in 1979 designed his last medal, for the papal visit. He then paid final visits to relatives and friends in England before returning to Auckland. There, on 6 November 1979, he boarded the plane for Wellington, and immediately suffered a fatal heart attack. Three days later a crowded funeral was held in Wellington's Anglican cathedral. He was survived by his wife and children. During his lifetime, Berry completed more than 1,000 designs for stamps, coins and medals. His talents received one final accolade: the gold medal of the Accademia Italiana dell'Arte e del Lavoro in 1980.


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95 Ghanaian nurses arrive in Barbados
About 95 nurses from Ghana were shuttled off a chartered flight into the Grantley Adams International Airport on Thursday. The 95 Ghanaian nurses arrived via Azores Airlines.
The chartered flight was scheduled to arrive at 5.50 pm. Prior to the arrival, originally it was communicated that the cohort of nurses would arrive earlier this week.
The nurses went straight into the Gate 14 area after sanitizing their hands and going through the thermal scanning.
The direct flight to Barbados came out of Accra, Ghana. The Ghanaian nurses are initially on a two-year contract. Sharing this was Nursing Officer Lorraine Atopley.
Speaking on behalf of the contingent from Ghana, she said: "Thank you very much for welcoming us and greetings from her President Nana Akufo-Addo and all the human resources personnel from the Ministry of Health (in Ghana), greetings from them."
Of the 95 nurses, it is almost a 50-50 split with 49 women and 46 men signing on to assist with healthcare locally.
She said that the team of nurses hopes to have "good interactions" with the patients "for the next two or more years."
When she added "or more," there was laughter and cheers from her colleagues and Barbados' Minister of Health Lt Col Jeffrey Bostic, Minister of Tourism Senator Lisa Cummins along with other officials from both their ministries.
Atopley also added: "We promise to work hard to deliver good service to everyone and be at peace with everyone."
Bostic told the media: "These nurses will be working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as well as the primary healthcare sector, that is the Geriatric Hospitals and polyclinics."
He said that they have arrived at a very opportune time with the global COVID-19 pandemic unfolding.
"But that is not the only thing that we have to deal with as a Ministry of Health, we have the remainder of the healthcare sector to take care of even though we are fighting this battle and your presence here today and certainly when you start to work in a couple weeks time would enhance our capacity to deliver the quality of healthcare services that we have been doing for years, and that we will continue to do, and even though we have to divert some of our efforts to fighting COVID, we are now in a better position to deal with the remainder of the healthcare system in Barbados.
"And we are very happy for you."
Asked about COVID-19 pre-testing, Atopley said: "We had the testing done for us, so we know we are all safe, but coming here we are going to continue testing just to be safe [. . .]
"We are going to be safe while we are here."
The cohort of nurses from Ghana is a continuation of relations between Ghana and Barbados since mid-June 2019 when Ghana's President Nano Akufo-Addo visited the island. On June 14, when he landed at the Grantley Adams International Airport he received a 21-gun salute and was met by Prime Minister Mia Mottley and a welcoming party of government officials.
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I use a UITableView to display the data (topic 1 & topic 2 rows), but I don't know if displaying content below each row like the following image is possible with an UITableView.

Anyone know a way to resolve this?
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Arman Tsarukyan: "I Want To Knock Him Out and I Want To Get My $50K"
Armenian-Russian Standout Looks To Level Up In First UFC Main Event Saturday
By Gavin Porter, on Twitter: @PorterUFCnews • Jun. 23, 2022
Arman Tsarukyan is ready to show that it's time for people to recognize him as a true contender in the lightweight division.
The 25-year-old ripped off a five-fight win streak since coming up short in his debut against Islam Makhachev over three years ago. In that time, Tsarukyan cemented himself as a major prospect at 155 pounds, and with back-to-back finishes over Christos Giagos and Joel Alvarez, he believes he proved that he was ready for the next level.
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Reaching the next rung up the ladder secured Tsarukyan his first UFC main event and his highest ranked opponent to date - Mateusz Gamrot.
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Tsarukyan views himself as the next generation of lightweight talent and believes a dominant victory over Gamrot inside the UFC APEX this weekend will showcase that he is on a collision course with greatness.
"I want to show everybody that the young generation is coming and that a young guy like me can beat everybody in this division," Tsarukyan told UFC.com. "They've got to watch my fight to understand that I'm the best in this division and I'm the youngest contender for this title. I want to get this title as soon as possible."
When Tsarukyan made it into the UFC, he dreamed of being featured in a main event and now that it's here, it's been even better than he expected.
"It feels special. In my last fights, I didn't have a lot of interviews like I do now. Now everyone is focused on me, and I like this," Tsarukyan said. "People started talking about me after my debut and now I have a good win streak and I beat everybody after [my debut]. I deserve it to be in the main event."
Tsarukyan couldn't be more right. He's been a dominant force in his last six fights, and he showed flashes of brilliance in his Fight of the Night loss to Makhachev. With two finishes already in the first half of 2022, he's rising quickly, and the main event spotlight was certainly the next logical step for him.
Finding a willing opponent, however, wasn't an easy task. Tsarukyan would have signed a contract to face any ranked lightweight on the roster, but there seemed to be a lack of options for him.
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"Because everybody is scared of me, of my techniques, of my skills. I can do everything during the fight and that's why. They don't know what they can do during the fight," Tsarukyan said. "My conditioning is good, I'm strong, I'm sharp, and my skills are good. That's why they know they are going to lose."
That's where Gamrot came into play. The American Top Team product was looking for a scrap in the Top 15 when he ran into the same difficulties that Tsarukyan had encountered. The lack of options eventually led to him being offered Tsarukyan and here we are.
Arman Tsarukyan poses for a photo in Las Vegas, NV. (Photo by Harrison Green/ Zuffa LLC)
"Nobody wanted to fight with us," Tsarukyan said. "He doesn't choose the opponent, and I'm the same way. We just fight with each other because we are both two of the best in the lightweight division."
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Tsarukyan sees quite a few similarities between him and Gamrot, from their wrestling backgrounds to how they approach a fight. Since they are both so similar, Tsarukyan sees this fight as an opportunity to show off his Fight IQ and prove that he can beat "Gamer" at his own game.
"He's a tough opponent and we almost have a similar style," Tsarukyan said. "He's in the Top 15 and I'm in the Top 15; this fight is going to show who's the beast in this lightweight division and who's going to be a contender after this fight."
I have to beat him in order to get into that Top 5."
But just beating Gamrot by decision wouldn't meet Tsarukyan's lofty self-imposed expectations. He wants this performance to make the type of statement that puts him on the short list of fighters vying for a shot at the vacant lightweight belt.
And puts an extra $50,000 in his bank account.
"This fight is very important for me because I want to win this fight, I want to knock him out and I want to get my $50K then leave," Tsarukyan said. "When I knock him out, everybody will have to talk about me. They have to put me in the Top 5 and they have to give me a tough opponent because I don't want to wait a [long time] to get the title."
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All due respect, Anonymous, if anyone isn't receiving support, it is because they aren't fulfilling their end of the partnership by asking for it. Anyone can have their news appear here, and many people post their own blurbs. The Clickers look around for news, but they are humans and unpaid and do their best. But the ultimate responsibility for someone who wishes to receive support is to ask for it by placing a blurb via the submission form.
Anon, Lolli does an AMAZING job here (for no $ I might add), and the clickers are volunteers and (I gather from Lolli's occasional need for them) come and go. If you are the one missing support, I'm incredibly sorry, and I encourage you (if no one is reading your blog) to submit something for yourself. Then you'll get some people to click over. If you're seeing someone else suffering, please write Lolli at her posted email and tell her, and she'll put it up here. It's that easy.
Might be worth putting on the LFCA.
Anon ... the support I received through this site literally saved my sanity and spiritual health during a really f*cked up time.
If it's you that needs support, I urge you to submit your own call to arms.
Lollipop you rock. I see no cliques.
Thank you so much for the support I recieved Monday and Tuesday - it was such a wonderful surprise and I am so grateful. What a wonderful site...I had no idea!


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COVID-19: The latest from The World
What we know about the new, novel coronavirus: A timeline
The number of cases and deaths from the novel coronavirus has shown little sign of slowing — total cases have now surpassed 20,000 — spurring the United States to evacuate some of its citizens from China, issue a travel warning and impose quarantines and a partial travel ban.
February 06, 2020 · 4:30 PM EST
By Elana Gordon
and The World staff
People wearing face masks walk along a street, as China is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing, Feb. 5, 2020.
Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
What is known about a novel coronavirus that began in China late last year, and is spreading globally, is evolving daily.
In December, 27 mysterious pneumonia cases were reported in Wuhan, China, but that figure has since surged to over 20,000 throughout the country, with dozens more cropping up everywhere from the United Arab Emirates to the United States.
The name "coronavirus" comes from its corona-like shape under a microscope, which resembles that of the sun's or a crown, according to Dr. Stanley Perlman, a virologist at the University of Iowa. The virus is in the same family as some common cold coronaviruses including SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome).
Researchers are still trying to answer key questions about the respiratory illness, such as how easily it spreads and how severe it is. (Early on, it appeared that those who are elderly or have underlying health conditions were the most susceptible).
Related: From cruise liners to supply chains, China coronavirus hurts
But as scientists race to get ahead of the coronavirus spread, agencies like the World Health Organization warn of another problem: an "infodemic," or "an overabundance of information," which can make it hard to determine fact from fiction.
WHO is continually updating its resource page with the latest facts about coronavirus, advice for the public and details about its spread. In the US, the Centers for Disease Control has updates on the virus. Johns Hopkins University is also compiling daily reports and has a tracker map.
Here is a timeline of events beginning with the earliest reports of the virus at the bottom, below.
Funeral parlor staff members in protective suits help a colleague with disinfection after they transferred a body at a hospital, following the outbreak of a new coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, Jan. 30, 2020.
China Daily via Reuters
Feb. 5, 2020: Data suggests virus infections underreported, exaggerating fatality rate
Fatalities from the coronavirus epidemic are overwhelmingly concentrated in central China's Wuhan city, which accounts for over 73% of deaths despite having only one-third the number of confirmed infections.
In Wuhan, the epicenter of the disease, one person has died for every 23 infections reported. That number drops to one on 50 nationally, and outside mainland China, one death has been recorded per 114 confirmed cases.
Experts say the discrepancy is mainly due to underreporting of milder virus cases in Wuhan and other parts of Hubei province that are grappling with shortages in testing equipment and beds.
"In an outbreak you really have to interpret fatality rates with a very skeptical eye, because often it's only the very severe cases that are coming to people's attention," said Amesh Adalja, an expert in pandemic preparedness at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore.
Related: What we know about the new coronavirus outbreak and how to respond
"It's very hard to say those numbers represent anything like the true burden of infection," said Adalja, who estimates current fatality rates are likely below 1%.
As of Tuesday, 24,551 cases have been confirmed globally. A 1% fatality rate would put total cases at over 49,000, based on the current death toll of 492.
Feb. 4, 2020: Number of reported cases tops 20,000
China has reported more than 20,000 cases of the virus. According to Johns Hopkins, 27 additional countries, so far, have also identified cases. Thailand, Singapore and Japan top the list. All but two of the 427 deaths reported so far have been in China. One of the deaths was in the Philippines and the other was in Hong Kong.
Epidemiologists like Harvard's Dr. Michael Mina caution that a dramatic jump in cases may not be synonymous with how contagious or fast the disease is spreading in recent days, nor may it be an accurate reflection of how many people have actually contracted the virus.
"There has been a lot of fearmongering in this outbreak, mostly because of social media and the rapid dissemination of both good and false information," Mina, an infectious disease specialist at Harvard's T.H Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital, told The World. "I think one of the important things is to find reliable resources."
Feb. 3, 2020: Cases top 17,000
By Feb. 3, WHO reported 1,7391 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The total number of confirmed deaths reached 361. All but 153 cases and one death were reported in China.
Feb. 2, 2020: US-China travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines take effect
At 5 p.m., Eastern time, two new policies, which Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced under the US health emergency, officially took effect. First, Americans returning from China's Hubei province, the region at the center of the outbreak, are subject to up to two weeks of a mandatory quarantine.
Related: When will there be a coronavirus vaccine? 5 questions answered.
Second, "other than immediate family of US citizens and permanent residents," foreign nationals who have been to China in the last two weeks are barred from entering the United States. Secretary Azar stated earlier this was to "minimize the risk of the spread of the coronavirus in the United States."
The next day, China's foreign ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, said the US actions "could only create and spread fear," instead of providing much needed assistance.
Could this be a sign of growing China-US tensions?
"If the Chinese continue to blame the United States and make the United States in effect responsible for exacerbating the crisis, that's not going to help trust between Washington and Beiijing," Nicholas Burns, a former US ambassador to NATO and a professor of diplomacy at Harvard later told The World.
"As we take these temporary measures to restrict travel and the ability to bring Chinese imports into the United States, will that lead to a further decoupling of Chinese and American companies? … Depending on how long this crisis lasts and the severity of the crisis, it could be a major loss of power and influence for China."
The Philippines reported the death of a 44-year-old resident from Wuhan, making it the first overseas death from the virus. "The patient was a close contact of the first patient confirmed in the Philippines," the WHO reported, and was believed to have underlying health conditions.
Related: What to call this new coronavirus? Some cautionary tales.
Hong Kong hospital workers began a strike to demand a complete border closure with mainland China.
Feb. 1, 2020: More border closures to those who have been to China
Following the US emergency announcement, other countries, including Australia, similarly enacted policies denying entry to all foreign visitors who have been to mainland China in the last two weeks, and are advising citizens not to go to China.
Japan declared the coronavirus a "special infectious disease" and among other control measures, established restrictions on foreigners who have been to Hubei province, the area hardest hit by the outbreak, from entering the country.
But places in Southeast Asia, like Cambodia and Thailand, did not follow suit. The situation has prompted a mix of economic and health concerns among Thailand's tourism industry.
Jan. 31, 2020: US public health emergency declared
US Health and Human Services Secretary, Alex Azar, who chairs the president's special coronavirus taskforce, declared the novel coronavirus a public health emergency in the United States, while stressing that the risk of infection for Americans remains low.
In doing so, he stated that "any US citizen returning to the US who has been in the rest of mainland China within the previous 14 days will undergo proactive entry health screening at a select number of ports of entry and up to 14 days of monitored self-quarantine to ensure they have not contracted the virus and do not pose a public health risk."
Americans returning from China's Hubei province, the region at the center of the outbreak, are now subject to up to two weeks of an involuntary quarantine. Additionally, "other than immediate family of US citizens and permanent residents," foreign nationals who have been to China in the last two weeks are barred from entering the United States. Azar earlier stated this was to "minimize the risk of the spread of the coronavirus in the United States."
Related: What's life like for residents of Wuhan?
As a result, the first 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan were put under federal quarantine at a military base in southern California until mid-February. The government hasn't issued such a mandatory quarantine order in more than 50 years, the last time being for a person suspected of having smallpox in the 1960s.
Flights stopped
The private airline industry also reacted with United, American and Delta announcing they were stopping flights to mainland China.
Singapore, a popular tourist destination for China, announced a bar on foreign visitors who had been to China in the past two weeks, and a halt on visas issued to people with Chinese passports.
Jan. 30, 2020: WHO declares a Public Health Emergency Of International Concern
Following the second convening in a week of a special WHO emergency committee on coronavirus, WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). This marked the sixth time that WHO has made such a declaration.
"Our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems, which are ill-prepared to deal with it," Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the WHO said. The group also discouraged countries from limiting trade and movement to China.
This type of designation is reserved for an event that is "extraordinary," with the hope that such a designation can galvanize more global coordination and funding.
First human-to-human transmission in the US
The CDC declared the first case of human-to-human transmission in the US — the spouse of a woman who had been infected in Wuhan.
"Based on what we know now, we still believe the immediate risk to the American public is low," stated Robert Redford, director of the CDC.
Travel advisory elevated
The US state department issued a travel alert, elevating to a level 4, advising Americans not travel to China.
Russia also imposed more restrictions, including keeping part of its border closed.
A woman wearing a mask checks her mobile phone in Shanghai, Jan. 29, 2020.
Aly Song/Reuters
Jan. 29, 2020: Companies close production in China
Many global companies began halting production in China. Others also called for employees in China to work from home and cease nonessential business travel in the first week of February.
Jan. 28, 2020: Australian scientists re-create virus
Scientists in Australia announced they've re-created the novel coronavirus in the lab in hopes of quickening the development of a vaccine.
Jan. 27, 2020: China extends holiday
Chinese authorities extended the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival holiday to Feb. 2 to help curb the spread of the virus. The holiday typically lasts until Jan. 30.
Border closing
Mongolia announced the closure of its border with China.
Passengers arrive at LAX from Shanghai, China, after a positive case of the coronavirus was announced in the Orange County suburb of Los Angeles, Jan. 26, 2020.
Ringo Chiu/Reuters
Jan. 25, 2020: Chinese Lunar New Year festivities called off
China called off celebrations for one of the biggest festivals in the world, encouraging people to avoid gatherings. By this point, a total of 1,297 cases and 41 deaths were confirmed in the mainland. A total of 23 cases were identified outside of China in nine countries.
Jan. 23, 2020: WHO emergency committee decides not to declare a global emergency
The WHO's emergency committee convened for two days due to "divergent views" on recommendations. Ultimately, the committee decided that the current outbreak had not risen to the level of a global health emergency, referring to China's recent containment measures. But the situation was still considered a public health emergency in China.
The US, meanwhile, ordered the departure of all nonemergency US personnel and their family members from Wuhan.
China imposes lockdown in Wuhan
The Chinese central government enacted a lockdown at 10 a.m. in Wuhan, located in Hubei province, where the virus is believed to have originated. Wuhan, with 11 million residents, is China's seventh-largest city. The announcement of the lockdown was made just hours earlier, at 2 a.m. China also closed public transit systems in other nearby cities in Hubei.
People wearing masks walk through an underground passage to the subway in Beijing, Jan. 21, 2020.
Jason Lee/Reuters
Jan. 21, 2020: First case reported in the US
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case of the novel coronavirus in the United States, raising its China travel advisory alert from level 1 to 2. The person infected was reported to be a 35-year-old man in Snohomish County, Washington. He had returned from visiting family in Wuhan. He had a fever and cough and sought care at an urgent care clinic.
Jan. 20, 2020: Human-to-human transmission becomes clear
The number of confirmed cases in China included 15 health workers, according to WHO's Western Pacific Office, making it clear there is some human-to-human transmission.
Tourist line up in a health control at the arrival section at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok, Jan. 19, 2020.
Jorge Silva/Reuters
Jan. 13, 2020: First case outside China reported in Thailand
Thailand's Ministry of Public Health reported the first confirmed case of the virus outside of China. The patient was a 61-year-old woman from Wuhan.
Jan. 12, 2020: Chinese scientists share genetic sequence of virus
Scientists in China shared a new tool to track the virus — its genetic sequence, which can be used to develop diagnostic tests for treatment. China, meanwhile, reported 41 confirmed cases of the virus.
Jan. 7, 2020: China officially identifies new virus
Chinese authorities identified the new type of coronavirus (and began referring to it by its technical shorthand, 2019-nCoV), which had never been found in humans before, and isolated it for the first time.
Jan. 1, 2020: China closes Wuhan seafood market
The market was "highly suggested" to be associated with the outbreak, according to details WHO reviewed on Jan. 12 from the National Health Commission in China. "According to the preliminary epidemiological investigation, most cases worked at or were handlers and frequent visitors to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market," WHO wrote.
Dec. 31, 2019: Wuhan notes 27 pneumonia cases
The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission filed a report to WHO's China country office, noting 27 pneumonia cases of an "unknown cause."
Dec. 8, 2019: Earliest report of symptoms of new virus
"Symptom onset of the 41 confirmed nCoV cases ranges from 8 December 2019 to 2 January 2020," according to WHO.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Romania is full of every type of architecture.
From the baroque buildings of Cluj-Napoca to the mansions of the Roma which house farm animals on the ground floor and from the German-influenced town of Brașov to buildings in Bucharest expected to fall in an earthquake, you can find anything in Romania.
Cluj (pronounced Klu-zh) is a city filled with culture, arts and unique architecture. Lacking the Communist influences that Bucharest has, the buildings of Cluj are mainly baroque and gothic. Of course, there are modern buildings but the older buildings stand out.
The Lucian Blaga National Theatre was built in the early 1900s when Cluj was part of the Kingdom of Hungary.
It was designed by Austrian architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer, who designed theaters, opera houses and palaces across Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Iuliu Maniu Street runs from the popular Unirii Square. The buildings along the street are made up of unique architectural styles and are perfectly symmetrical, giving the street the common name of Strada Oglindă, or Mirror Street.
The buildings look simple from a distance, but with closer inspection, you can see the fine detail and its exact mirror on the opposite side of the street.
The Roma people (commonly called Gypsies, although Gypsy is often considered derogatory) live a very unique lifestyle.
Their caravans have been replaced with ostentatious mansions but they still live side by side with their farm animals. As I understand it, their cows, sheep and chickens live on the ground floor of their mansions and the upper floors are for the human inhabitants.
The mountain town of Brașov (pronounced Bra-shahv) feels more like a small ski town in Germany than a town in Transylvania. With its clean streets, outdoor activities (very popular for skiing in the winter) and fresh mountain air, this could be anywhere in Germany.
Brașov once had a German population of 40% (now it's less than 1%) so it makes sense. Still to this day, you can find locals who speak German.
The old town in Brașov is very well kept and frequented by tourists. It's beautiful to visit, but I recommend getting out of the city and exploring the forest.
I highly recommend hiking Canionul Șapte Scări, Seven Stairs Canyon, near Brașov. Here is my blog post on the hike.
While there is beautiful architecture in Romania's capital, the Communist buildings in Bucharest certainly put a damper on things.
The big, looming buildings are an eyesore and look dirty and dingy next to the variety of quaint and modern buildings.
But there is a more important group of buildings in Bucharest – the 'red dot buildings'.
It's not too often you get to stay in a 'red dot building' in Romania. Not that you would want to.
The red dot warns that in an earthquake, the building is likely to fall.
My CouchSurfing hosts in Bucharest lived in one (yes, people do live in them) and I slept here a few nights with no worries. I think they waited to point out the dot until my last day.
Check out my other posts on Romania.
Some great shots… I love the fact they actually have the red dots in buildings. I thought it was just a term to describe unsafe buildings!!
Architecture is really unique. The night shot of Lucian Blaga National Theater is gorgeous!


A former mistress of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman told jurors in his U.S. trial on Thursday she was "traumatized" after a harrowing 2014 escape from one of his safehouses with Mexican marines in hot pursuit.
She said she followed Guzman, who was completely naked, through a tunnel leading away from the house, feeling water against her legs. When a prosecutor asked her how long she was there, she guessed more than an hour - "enough to traumatise me."


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In the wake of the military's badly botched putsch, as of July 21st Turkey finds itself once again living under a formal State of Emergency (SOE). This should not come as a big surprise to many citizens, because according to Dr. Zafer Üskül, a law professor and founding member of the Turkish Human Rights Organization, as of 2001 during "40 of its 78 years the Republic of Turkey had, in some form or another, been under extraordinary rule," (Wikipedia). Prominent among them, of course, being the military coups of 1960, 1971 and 1980.
With the SOE regime, Turkey saw the emptying of villages. It started at Anilmis and Boyunyaka villages of Sirnak, continued with Diyarbakir's Kelekci and would be repeated thousands of times.
Some villages were emptied for allegedly supporting the PKK, while others were abandoned under PKK pressure or for refusing to join the government-sponsored village guards. Villages were set on fire to prevent their residents' return. According to a report by a parliamentary investigation committee in 1998, 905 villages and 2,523 rural settlements were emptied and 378,335 people were uprooted until that point. Civil society groups say the numbers are far greater.
This State of Emergency only ended in late 2002, after 15 years.
Bozarslan's article was published in Al-Monitor, an independent online newspaper that reports on the Middle East. At this tense moment in Turkish politics, it is unlikely we will see many such opinion pieces that openly or indirectly criticize the post-coup actions undertaken by Erdoğan's administration. One key reason: Like the army, judiciary and academia, the media is currently a prime target for purges. Just in the last few days, the Turkish authorities have "ordered the shutdown of 45 newspapers, three news agencies, 16 television channels, 15 magazines and 29 publishers in a decree that was published in the government's official gazette on Wednesday," according to the New York Times. Arrest warrants have been issued for 47 journalists employed at Zaman newspaper, and 17 journalists have been charged with membership of a terror group.
Intriguingly, the Daily Sabah has published an article in which Hasan Bülent Kahraman, a professor of political and art philosophy at Kadir Has University, talks about how writers have dealt with modern Turkey's tumultuous political history.
The novel takes place in the southern Turkish city of Adana in the early 1970s following a military coup on March 12 of 1971 which sought to restore order in the country after a period of economic instability and political violence. As they await interrogation, the protagonists Oya and Mustafa reflect on the recent developments in their lives that led them to the dinner at Mustafa's uncle's house that night. Unable to establish a solid case against them, the police are ordered to set them free just before dawn.
This Kafkaesque political parable, first published in Turkey in 1984, evokes the fear and paralysis of will that grip ordinary citizens in a modern police state. Karasu's dystopia is a tyranny where squads of "nightworkers" randomly shoot or beat victims to death. The plot concerns a nameless, open-minded writer whose ex-schoolmate (known simply as "N"), now the head of a repressive state agency, orders him to attend a symposium abroad. The writer learns in advance that he is to be shot — though not killed — at the conference for propaganda purposes. Sevinc, the agent assigned to set him up, becomes his homosexual lover; another agent, Sevim, N's former wife, develops a conscience and turns up dead on the writer's doorstep. In postmodern footnotes, Karasu periodically interrupts the narrative to further the plot while commenting on its artifice.
Believe it or not, this doesn't take place in Pamuk's beloved Istanbul. See the review, Headscarves to Die For.
The story of a young female lecturer of Turkish literature who struggles as a woman and a mother to stake out her own claims to life. Following the military coup of 1980, martial law was established in Turkey with the aim of putting an end to the widespread social strife that had arisen as adherents of political movements turned to violence, and universities became hotbeds of protests and dissent. The narrator refuses to compromise her intellectual integrity and dedication to teaching, encouraging her students to think critically and debate. In the anti-Leftist environment of the time, she finds herself driven from her post in Izmir and reappointed to the far-flung Black Sea coast, where she is "exiled" for her supposed Leftist beliefs.
Curfew is set in Turkey on a June evening in 1980, a time of revolutionary conflict, a military coup, martial law, and curfew. Seven people — lovers, friends, relatives — are gathered in different parts of Turkey: Ankara, Istanbul, and the Anatolian town of Eskisehir. Throughout the evening, the characters play out their shared history, their disagreements, and their hopes.
Award-winning movie by the same name as the novel (Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar), which has not appeared in English as far as I know. Although the author was not an "activist," she was interrogated because of certain questions she posed in her Ph D thesis, and sentenced to four years of incarceration. It is based on her real-life prison memoirs, but centers on a child who is brought up in prison.


The Chayandinskoye oil and gas condensate field is located in the Lensk district of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Russia. The onshore field, also known as the Chayanda field, is being developed by Gazprom.
The onshore oil and gas field development forms a key part of the $38bn project to build the Yakutia gas production centre, along with the Yakutia-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline. The integrated project is expected to create 15,000 construction jobs.
The first oil production from the Chayandinskoye field was achieved in 2015 and gas production is expected to start in late-2018. The field development cost is estimated to be $13.66bn.
The Chayandinskoye field was identified as a strategic asset for Russia's Eastern Gas Programme, which was initiated in September 2007.
The programme envisages an integrated system for production, transportation and supply of gas in Eastern Siberia and the Far East while exploring the export potential to Asia-Pacific countries.
Eastern Russia accounts for 60% of the Russian Federation's total geographical area. The region has an estimated gas resource of 52.4 trillion cubic metres, but only 7.3% of the onshore area has been explored so far.
Gazprom was appointed by the federal government to execute the Eastern Gas Program that includes new production centres in Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Yakutia, Sakhalin and Kamchatka in Eastern Russia, along with associated pipelines and processing plants.
Gazprom received the research and exploitation licence for the Chayandinskoye field in April 2008.
Gas reserves at the Chayandinskoye field were increased by 251.3 billion cubic metres with the geological exploration carried out in the field between 2010 and 2011. The final investment decision on the field development and the Yakutia-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok gas pipeline was adopted in October 2012.
"Eastern Russia accounts for 60% of the Russian Federation's total geographical area."
Discovered in 1989, the Chayandinskoye oil and gas field is hosted towards the south of the Siberian platform within the Nepa arch. The field belongs to the Nepa-Botuobinsky oil and gas area, which contains rich hydrocarbons reserves.
The recoverable gas reserves of the field are estimated to be 1.4 trillion cubic metres, while the recoverable liquid hydrocarbons reserves are estimated to be 87 million tonnes.
The gas from the Chayandinskoye field comprises 86% methane and up to 8%nitrogen. The oil rims of the reservoir contain heavy oil, tar and paraffin. The gas field also contains 1,400 million cubic metres of helium reserves.
More than half of the field's reserves are classified as proven. The complete geological exploration of the field was completed by 2015. Drilling of more than 20 exploration wells and the 3D seismic surveys for 3,700km² of area have been conducted.
More than 300 gas and 140 oil wells are planned to be drilled as part of the Chayandinskoye field development. The production complex will involve four pre-treatment units, one comprehensive gas treatment unit and one oil treatment unit. The field will be operated with three booster compressor stations.
"Gazprom received the research and exploitation licence for the Chayandinskoye field in April 2008."
The Chayandinskoye field is expected to produce up to 1.9 million tonnes of oil a year.
The helium content of the Chayandinskoye gas will be conveyed to the helium plant in Belogorsk with the use of membrane technology for helium separation.
A memorandum of understanding has been signed, in this regard, with Matheson, which will not only buy helium from the field but also provide Gazprom with the knowledge and expertise for helium production. Linde has also signed an agreement to buy helium from the Belogorsk plant.
Gas produced from the Chayandinskoye field will be conveyed through the Yakutia-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline. The 3,200km new gas pipeline will run parallel to the existing Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline. The new pipeline, with a diameter of 1.42m and working pressure of 9.8 megapascals (MPa), will have an annual throughput of 61 billion cubic metres.
The $24.47bn pipeline project is expected to be operational by 2017.
An 800km gas pipeline between Irkutsk and Yakutia has also been planned to join the Yakutia-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline, to convey the gas from Kovykta field, which will be developed in the next phase.
A liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Vladivostok is planned to be built for gas exports from Eastern Russia.


1. Every practitioner with a DEA registration number shall register with the PDMP.
2. A. When a practitioner determines that reported drugs will be prescribed to a patient for a period to exceed 12 weeks, the practitioner shall request a PDMP report for that patient and, at a minimum, at least semi-annually thereafter.
H. Having a law enforcement or health professional express concern about the patient's use of drugs.
L. Has a history of drug abuse dependency.
4. A practitioner shall document the receipt and assessment of PDMP reports made under this rule.


Before you role-play an Undead Variant in Mysts of Eyr, you must first submit an Undead Standard Agreement Form.
Vampires are a special type of undead and are considered to be cursed Humans. See the Vampire webpage for details and guidelines.
The Isle of Eyr is seething with necromantic magic and dark souls who live on long after death. Whether good, neutral, or evil, the undead are everywhere. Many types of Undead have been found roaming Eyr. Restless spirits such as ghosts, ghouls terrorizing folks, or liches find their path to extend their life and avoid death. Many of these creatures lived once, but now they are under the mercy of timeless immortality or have taken the path to unnatural immortality. Throughout Eyr, some, if not most prove to be an inconvenience to the living. The living fear most of the undead. The intentions of most undead creatures blighting the living. Through hatred or sheer misery. Although, very few are restless and seek guidance to move on with their unfinished life. It has been said a few specific undead creatures only come out at night.
Undead can be found in various locations throughout Eyr. Such as ruins, burial plots, or in general roaming around wreaking havoc. Some even haunt the location where they perished. Overall, the undead create discomforts for all the living. As for the living creatures of Eyr, beware the the undead. You may one day, find yourself amongst their numbers.
Alignment: All undead are at minimum neutral alignment but almost always of evil alignment. In Eyr, there are two exceptions who fall into the good alignment category: Arch-liches and Baelnorn. If you play an undead, and want to be 'good' aligned, those are your two options. You will not be permitted to play a lawful good dracolich or a chaotic good mummy, for example. This is intended to keep our lore on the island consistent and sensible, and we wish you luck in your undead adventures!
Exluded Races: Some races just cannot become undead. Those are: Demons, Celestials, and Hellhounds.
No Sexual Reproduction: Undead cannot become pregnant, or impregnate others.
Purposeful personal reanimation: This is where a living creature willingly undergoes the transformation to undeath with the aid of a necromancer. In most cases the creature will already be evil, but this is not always the case. The most common reasons a creature seeks undeath are: fear of dying of old age, fear of dying from a wound, and power.
Created as Minion: This is where an intelligent creature creates undead creatures to serve their own ends. Undead are often used as guards and soldiers. Evil spellcasters often create hordes of undead to do their bidding.
Atrocity calls to unlife: This is where a creature commits an evil, heinous act and is transformed into an undead creature. Not every such act results in undead creation and it is completely random. It's common enough for evil creatures to become undead this way, but anyone who commits an evil-enough act can become undead because of it.
Unfinished Business: This is where a creature dies or is killed with an important deed left undone. Not every creature with such a need results in them becoming undead and it is completely random. Any intelligent creature, of any alignment can become undead in this way and most often in the form of an incorporeal undead.
The Dark Curse: This is where the evil forces simply create undead at random. This can happen to any creature, anywhere and at anytime.
Death by wounds caused by another undead: Some forms of undead will cause their victim to become one of their type by causing a mortal wound. This is most common in ghouls and zombies. This can affect a creature of any alignment.
Death effects (such as necrotizing curses).
Darkvision up to 60 feet: All undead can see in pure darkness up to 60 feet (20 meters / chat range in SL).
Resistance to Non-Lethal Damage: Unless lethal wounds are inflicted, the undead can keep on going. They do not experience pain the way a living being would, and will pursue a target relentlessly while being hacked at or set on fire. Lethal wounding would be defined as decapitation, destruction of a Lich Phylactery, or destruction spells cast by clerics / necromancers.
Resurrection: Undead can be raised, again and again - giving them the moniker "The Risen". All undead possess the ability to rise again, even after lethal destruction, with the aid of a necromancer. (The only exception is the spell Undeath to Death - a powerful necromancy spell to permanently destroy undead - player consent required.) Lethal wounds such as decapitation can be repaired by the necromancer (such as Regenerate the Dead spell) and undead players may bring their characters back after 3 days (72 hours) plus a roleplay scene with a necromancer to repair damage and re-resurrect.
Necromantic Magic: A double-edged sword for the undead, Necromancers can be both a boon or a bane for Undead. An undead in the presence of a necromancer can be buffed with regeneration, resurrection, and other helpful spells.
Holy Magic: Divine spellcasters are the bane of the undead and holy magics of all kind that draw on the powers of the divine gods of neutral or good alignment will affect the undead tremendously. No undead creature is immune to these spells, nor resistant, and will need to employ clever tactics to avoid being driven off or destroyed by clerics.
Sunlight & Bright Lights: All undead have a natural aversion to sunlight and are drawn to the dark caves and underworld of Eyr known as Ebon Reach. Sunlight is insufferable and distressing to the undead, who avoid it at all costs, preferring to cloak themselves heavily, stay in dark locations, and come out at night. Bright flashes of light have the ability to stun, even drive off the undead.
Necromantic Magic: A double-edged sword for the undead, Necromancers can be both a boon or a bane for Undead, who often become their puppets in conflict. A powerful necromancer can cast spells that can control the minds of undead, ward them from an area, or even destroy them permanently (such as using the spell Undeath to Death). Incorporeal undead are also affected by necromantic magic with no exception.
No Sexual Reproduction: Sorry! Undead cannot become pregnant, or impregnate others.
Skeletal undead are all subtypes of Liches who were powerful spellcasters in life. The process of achieving lichdom requires that the spellcaster constructs a powerful magical artifact, called a phylactery, in which the lich will store its life essence. All players must either rezz their Phylactery on sim or wear it on their avatar, where it is potentially able to be found, damaged, or destroyed. To fail to do so qualifies as powergaming. Phylacteries can be a variety of objects, transformed into magical vessels, and common examples would be a ring, a pendant, or a metal box. The lich imparts their life essence into the Phylactery allowing them to reassemble and rise again and again, unaided. If decapitated, a Lich must stop dead in their tracks and is entirely incapacitated for 24 hours, after which it may reassemble and rise again as long as the Phylactery is intact. If the Phylactery is damaged in any way, resurrection is delayed to 72 hours, and if it is destroyed, the Lich is destroyed -- permanently.
Liches are by default the most evil form of undead, and any race can become a lich. They are spellcasters of great power. Generally, liches are necromancers, wizards, or sorcerers looking for a way to extend their life unnaturally. Such a path is done by placing their soul into a phylactery. Always malign in nature, liches cause great fear and are the embodiment of evil. Liches are generally gaunt and skeletal with withered flesh stretched tight across horribly visible bones. A horrifying and unspeakably evil ritual must take place to achieve the state of Lichdom. It should be time consuming and intensive.
Archlich are a type of lich that are neutral or good aligned, but never evil. In Eyr,any race can become an archlich. The method to becoming an archlich is nearly identical to becoming a Lich. The archlich retains all of the memories, personality, and abilities that it possessed in life - but it has a virtual eternity to hone its skills and inevitably becomes very powerful. An archlich is capable of sustaining tremendous physical damage, and is immune to disease, poison, fatigue and other effects that affect only the living.
Baelnorns are an Elven form of lich that have sworn duty beyond death. One of the few types of undead that are good aligned, and the only type of undead who do not possess an unholy aura. Baelnorns store their souls in a phylactery. Baelnorns retain their personality, mental state, and magical abilities of their former living selves, and the majority of baelnorns are spellcasters. Unlike their Lich counterpart, the ritual to place their soul into a phylactery is different. The ritual to achieve this has been said to be virtuously good in nature and pure of heart.
A more than powerful form of undead, a dracolich is a type of undead that has tied their soul to a phylactery. Essentially, freeing itself from death. Dracolich are a type of lich and requires a ritual similar to becoming a general lich. They carry a fear aura and more terrifying than an average dragon. Usually dracoliches retain their original forms before they dedicated their essence to a phylactery.
All corporeal undead have the ability to create more undead through a mortal wound (such as a bite, or in the case of the Mummy, a necrotizing curse through touch). They are defined as corporeal because they have flesh on their bones and some corporeal may even appear living for the most part, often mistaken for lepers. You must gain OOC consent of other players before attempting to turn their character undead. Neglecting to do so will result in a failed attempt.
Ghouls and ghasts are monstrous, undead humanoids that smell pungently of carrion. It has been said these type of undead were created by feasting on the flesh of the living. They appear to have emaciated and putrid grey skin. Their stench is distinguishably foul and supernaturally nauseating. The bite from a ghoul or ghast may inflict a terrible yet treatable disease.
A wight is an undead creature given a semblance of life through sheer violence and hatred. They could drain the life energy out of victims by touch, turning them into new wights upon death. Wights appear as weird and twisted reflections of the forms they had in life. These type of undead hate life and are bound to show their hatred upon the living. What may have been once good in their former lives is now filled with violence and hatred.
A juju zombie is an exceptionally powerful type of zombie. Created by potent magics, they are stronger, faster, and more cunning than the basic shambling corpse. Juju zombies are for the most part, intellectual walking corpses and a darker, stranger shadow of their former selves. Unlike a normal zombie, juju zombies retain their consciousness and former personality but behave strangely, often afflicted with violent mood swings, bouts of apathy or aggression, seemingly vacant and devoid of spirit to their fellow living associates. Eventually the awareness of their undead state can drive them to behave erratically and cruelly once the reality of their existence sets in.
With their unpredictable personalities in mind, these creatures are deadly, and a single bite can infect the living and create more zombies. Juju zombies are the worst of the worst and make lives miserable.
Through magic, juju zombies will remain at the level of decay they were in at the time they were created. Bodily damage is permanent and will not heal unless they seek the aid of a necromancer specializing in fleshcraft.
A mummy is an undead creature, usually of lawful evil alignment, created from a preserved corpse that have been animated by the dark gods. These horrid creatures are often marked with symbols of the dire gods they serve.The creation of a mummy is a long and gruesome process, involving separating the internal organs of the prepared body. The body is then wrapped in expensive linens and anointed with sacred oils. Often stink of carrion, the herbs and powders used to create a mummy give off a sharp, pungent odor like that of a spice cabinet.
Mummies are granted great strength. They also carry a virulent curse that acts as a disease. This affliction – known as mummy rot – causes the flesh of its victims to rot away, leaving gruesome scars and disfiguring the unfortunate soul before finally expiring from the wasting disease. If it should claim the victim's life, itwill raise it into an undead shambling corpse.
Incorporeal undead have no physical bodies, which is a great advantage against physical harm. Despite the advantage, there is great disadvantage as incorporeal undead cannot directly interact within the physical world and will move through objects. Incorporeal undead, while unable to grapple or physically strike an opponent, their body can pass through and drain away a portion of a living target's life force. Incorporeal can be banished, driven off, and warded from locations, and even planes of existence, but are very difficult to destroy.
A spirit of a deceased humanoid. Ghosts are incorporeal by nature and once lived a normal life with the living. Stuck in a crossroads between the Material Plane and Astral Plane, severing this connection will remove -- but not kill them. Ghosts retain some memories of their previous life, haunting locals or places of significance where the once living humanoid died. Sometimes death can determine how they behave as a ghost. Ghosts either torment or carry out some form of repetitive unfinished business. The incorporeal beings can be controlled by liches, sorcerers, or wizards.
A form of incorporeal undead that resembles nothing more than their namesake. These wraith-like creatures exist to slay living beings, which they hate and desire to feed upon. Any living creature slain by a shadow rises as a shadow soon afterwards. Shadows always travel in groups, hiding from the sun in caves or ruins where no sunlight may exist. These incorporeal creatures more or less appear humanoid.
Spectres (also spelled specters) are undead, incorporeal creatures that resemble ghosts. Their hatred is focused towards the living. Spectres despise the light and are powerless in sunlight. Spectres appear humanoid, with a mostly transparent and faintly luminous form, appearing much as they did when they were alive.
A wraith is an undead creature born or created of evil and darkness, despising light and all living things. Wraiths are powerless in natural sunlight, appearing as a sinister, spectral figure robed in darkness. Wraiths mostly appear at night when there is no light. They have no visual features or appendages, except for their glowing red eyes. Wraiths are very similar to Spectres.


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DJ and producer Hugo Cantarra, most known for being the pioneer for the fusion between the electronic music and charity for kids around the world with his label KIDS Records Foundation which is giving all profits from music to UNICEF to help disadvantaged kids of the planet. Now he makes a huge step in his career and debuts on Steve Angello label, SIZE, with the single "Dream On".
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Wall Street Journal: "Scary 1929 market chart gains traction. If market follows the same script, trouble lies directly ahead."
February 12, 2014 By joelcrosenberg in Epicenter
(Washington, D.C.) — I hope there is nothing to this. But I thought I ought to share it with you anyway.
"There are eerie parallels between the stock market's recent behavior and how it behaved right before the 1929 crash," says a columnist writing for the Wall Street Journal's Market Watch. "That at least is the conclusion reached by a frightening chart that has been making the rounds on Wall Street. The chart superimposes the market's recent performance on top of a plot of its gyrations in 1928 and 1929. The picture isn't pretty. And it's not as easy as you might think to wriggle out from underneath the bearish significance of this chart."
"I should know, because I quoted a number of this chart's skeptics in a column I wrote in early December," notes Wall Street analyst Mark Hulburt. "Yet the market over the last two months has continued to more or less closely follow the 1928-29 pattern outlined in that two-months-ago chart. If this correlation continues, the market faces a particularly rough period later this month and in early March. (See chart, courtesy of Tom McClellan of the McClellan Market Report; he in turn gives credit to Tom DeMark, a noted technical analyst who is the founder and CEO of DeMark Analytics.)"
"One of the biggest objections I heard two months ago was that the chart is a shameless exercise in after-the-fact retrofitting of the recent data to some past price pattern," Hulburt notes. "But that objection has lost much of its force. The chart was first publicized in late November of last year, and the correlation since then certainly appears to be just as close as it was before. To be sure, as McClellan acknowledged: 'Every pattern analog I have ever studied breaks correlation eventually, and often at the point when I am most counting on it to continue working. So there is no guarantee that the market has to continue following through with every step of the 1929 pattern. But between now and May 2014, there is plenty of reason for caution.' Tom Demark added in interview that he first drew parallels with the 1928-1929 period well before last November. 'Originally, I drew it for entertainment purposes only,' he said—but no longer: 'Now it's evolved into something more serious.'"….
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FL GOVERNOR DeSantis Signs Bill Banning Sanctuary Cities Into Law
Kate Steinle is smiling down on Governor DeSantis and his commitment to putting American citizens before illegal aliens in Florida. 32-year-old Kate Steinle of San Fransisco was murdered by an illegal alien when she was walking with her father and a family friend on Pier 14 in San Francisco. The suspect, Garcia Zarate, who was an illegal alien, argued that the murder was an accident, saying that the gun accidentally went off after he found it wrapped in a cloth under a park bench. Zarate was protected from being deported because he lived in a sanctuary city. The seven-time felon who murdered Steinle was acquitted of the 2015 murder and assault, was sentenced to time served for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
While he was running for governor in Florida, Ron DeSantis promised to ban sanctuary cities in his state. Florida's new governor has followed through on his promise.
Washington Free Beacon reports – In an aggressive attempt to enforce immigration law, Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law banning sanctuary cities in the state. The law requires state agencies and law enforcement entities to support federal law enforcement when addressing illegal immigration in the state.
Sanctuary cities restrict cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, meaning that they can serve as safe havens for illegal immigrants looking to avoid deportation. Over the course of his tenure, the Trump administration has targeted sanctuary cities with funding cuts for refusing to work with federal agencies such as Immigration Customs and Enforcement.
There are currently no sanctuary cities in Florida, meaning the law bans any future defiance of federal immigration law from Florida's municipalities.
The law was one of the Republican governor's major campaign promises, the Miami Herald reported. It will go into effect in October.
The law also provides for "an exception to reporting requirements for crime victims or witnesses," according to its text. If an illegal immigrant is a witness or a victim of a crime, he or she would not be deported for reporting it.


Abstract : List of specifications for UST_1 : vacuum vessel ; number of coils, coil shape and structure ; properties of the magnetic confinement: plasma size, ripple, Iota, magnetic well, % of trapped particles; heating, Te and other details are shown.
The final choice was a modular two field periods (m=2) stellarator.
A few optimizations are done in the case m=3 but SimPIMF gave mediocre results. Because some compact stellartors like QPS and MHH2 are m=2 devices and aditionally because SimPIMF could easily obtain low ripple results and low proportion of trapped particles for the option m=2 and not for the case m=3, the alternative m=2 was chosen.
The specifications of the device are shown in the next table. The data comes from several pages in this web.
Ref. = Reference to understand the concept cited. I some cases the particular calculation in the refernce is not the same as here.
calcul. = calculated or calculation.
Shape Circular, poloidally & tor.
0.8 ; 1.1 , A) Calcul.
The process in  is repeated for 12 and 8 coils and some other calculations are done for the optimum case. Some concepts used here are described in .
A low value of ripple in the calculation with 8 modular coils was impossible to obtain. The magnetic ripple due to the separation of coils cannot be reduced significantly on this particular winding surface and this specific method of optimization. However Farrokh Najmabadi considered an alternative with 8 modular coils for MHH2 . Here the best averaged ripple is 25% and the maximum plasma diameter (on X+ axis) is only 3.0cm. The 8 coils alternative was rejected.
All calculations are vacuum calculations without plasma pressure effect.
Torsion is 1.3333 in all cases.
Similar parameters also give good confinement, therefore the result could still be slightly improved.
Graph 1 is the representation of the best coils which are denoted as "2m12C-15120811" . The plasma displayed in the vessel is the surface created by the trajectory of one electron at a middle location in the plasma. More simulations can be seen in  for the case of 16 modular coils.
SimPIMF v2.2 adds a module to obtain Iota profiles and magnetic well profiles. It was used for a first test to know if the low ripple configuration has, at least, a magnetic well and an acceptable Iota profile. Graphs and more results will appear in a next page.
21 for the calculation of plasma size and averaged ripple. 200 KSteps.
The Iota profile in vacuum has an inverted configuration, with small shear, similar to W7-AS with Beta = 0.7% . It is not clear if this is a satisfactory feature for the confinement. Moreover the new code needs further test.
Iota axis = No Data ; Ripple = 2.1%.
The specific volume on the last closed surface is 7.44 . On the magnetic axis it is 8.13 . This implies stable confinement . Magnetic well depth at last closed surface = 7.4% . Some difficults still remain in the complete understanding of this concept, more when some incoherence has been found in different books and publications. Besides the code needs a better test.
Graphs and more results will appear in a next page.
The method is explained in  and other pages.
1000 electrons are simulated , 200KSteps. It lasted 23 minutes.
The particles are thrown randomly in a toroidal volume of a particular radius.
Radius = 5 mm . This case is calculted only to compare with the results in  . % of trapped particles = 19% . Less than in the studied classical stellarators.
A condition already stated in  is still considered now. As a result, low voltage and high currents are sought but the copper wire becomes too thick to be wound. Moreover, the precision of the magnetic field decreases when the number of turns reduces. This happens due to the difficulty in compensating the crossover effects and the perturbation at the end of the wire in the winding pack. This perturbation can be perfectly simulated with SimPIMF but has not been done yet.
A middle point is taken. A conductor of 3mm in diameter is chosen and ordered.
Two main options seem to be the best.
1) 12 coils in series. It results a little excessive resistance for normal batteries. The perfect match of impedance for maximum power is not achieved. However this is the more equilibrated method since the current is always the same in any coil. 6 batteries are necessary and max 78V will be in the system. 24Kw are dissipated in the coils. Increment of adiabatic coils in a pulse of 1sec = 40ºK.
Only one battery is considered for the magnetic field mapping.
2) 4 identical coils in series . 3 groups of coils in parallel . This option has a perfect match (considering the lower internal resistance in ) and require only 3 batteries. 13V will be the maximum voltage in the system. A similar option is chosen in W7-X but the power supplies are extremely perfect there.
Because the cost of the power supplies for the coils is the major limiting factor in UST_1 (and in other stellarators) this issue will be considered only after some results were achieved with batteries. The use of supercondensers, idea proposed by J.A. , CIEMAT, have not been analysed or tested yet.
Some months are considered to develop, order, assembly, built and start all the systems.
 "Optimization of modular coils by means of SimPIMF v2.1"
 "Energy confinement time and estimation of the heating system in UST_1"
 "1200A test Pulse and set-up of Data Acquisition"
 "First run of the diffusion pump. History of the vacuum progress"
 "Optimization of UST_1 for m=3, 4 and 5 periods. Minimization of trapped particles and ripple"