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USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists are taking a fresh look at targeting cancer cells — without touching the patients' healthy cells
When USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center member Ann Mohrbacher, MD, began her career in immunology, the idea that physicians one day could fight cancer using the body's own immune system was still science fiction. Research at the time was focused on lupus, an autoimmune disease, rather than cancerous diseases like lymphomas — until researchers found that the immune system also can be directed to control cancer cells.
"I was one of the early investigators with Rituximab, the very first designed immunotherapy for cancer," says Mohrbacher, medical director of the Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant Program in the Blood Diseases Center at USC Norris. "I remember one of my colleagues saying, 'Oh my gosh, do you really think we're going to treat cancer with an antibody?'"
Mohrbacher, an associate professor of clinical medicine in the Jane Anne Nohl Division of Hematology and Center for the Study of Blood Diseases, says that once the trial showed results, it changed the way researchers looked at cancer research. "That turned out to be the most amazing drug of two decades and totally broke barriers — the first immunotherapy to successfully fight cancer," she says. By using the body's immune system to target cancer cells, physicians are learning how to treat patients who may not be responding to chemotherapy. Since those early days in research, Mohrbacher has continued her work in immunotherapy alongside colleagues in the Blood Diseases Center at USC Norris, where researchers are bringing leading-edge technology to the treatment and study of diseases of the blood.
Another approach to activating the body's own immune system to control cancer is by using viruses as a cancer treatment. A study that is being led by Kevin Kelly, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine in the Jane Anne Nohl Division of Hematology and Center for the Study of Blood Diseases, is examining the use of a form of the human reovisrus (Reolysin), a naturally occurring virus that preferentially targets and destroys cancer cells.
"Reolysin is being given in combination with standard myeloma treatments," Kelly says. "The objective is to determine the safety and effectiveness of the virus in combination with the standard chemotherapy in myeloma. We are studying the myeloma cells of each patient that is enrolled to identify the patients that will respond preferentially to the virus. We also are determining if Reolysin can re-educate the immune system to target and destroy myeloma."
By re-educating the immune system, physicians may be able to help patients who are no longer responding to standard treatment. "The trial is based on exciting research in the lab that shows that myeloma cells have high levels of the receptor for the virus," Kelly says. "We noticed that myeloma cells had a very high expression of receptors for the virus and in particular myeloma patients who had relapsed after standard treatment had an even higher expression of the Reolysin receptor. The Reolysin receptor may be an Achilles heel in the drug-resistant myeloma cell that we can take advantage of."
The study is one of several ongoing clinical trials that are looking to the future of cancer research. With lessons learned in clinical trials for combined immunotherapies and viral therapies, physicians may be able to move away from using chemotherapy for longterm remission and focus on using the body's immune system to deliver cancer-killing drugs. Those clinical trials and the patients participating in them are crucial to advancing the understanding of cancer and improving its treatment.
"In the end, we have to thank the patients who are brave enough to try a new treatment," notes Mohrbacher. "The courage of the patients to participate is what finally makes it all move forward."
For more information about clinical trials at USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, visit clinicaltrials.keckmedicine.org. To support research at USC Norris, please call (323) 865-0700 or email norrisdev@usc.edu.
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When I check the specialty restaurant offers for our January Koeningdam cruise, the CAC does not show a charge. The CAC listing also doesn't mention a la carte as the other restaurants indicate. Should I just book it now, while I can, and wait until I am on board to determine costs?
On our June Norway cruise, whenever we walked by there was always seating available in the CAC.
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I would wait. Are you talking about the classes, or eating there? When we were on Koningsdam in January of this year, the food in the evenings was like tapas, just snacks, which were a la carte, if I remember correctly. We enjoyed the fish tacos (and sangria)! :) I think I posted the menu in a thread "The King and I", but now I can't find it on my phone, so I must have deleted it.
Interesting - things keep changing!:) We're looking forward to seeing how they do it on the Nieuw Statendam. We enjoyed the changes to the Canaletto menu, too, recently. With the new "Daily Specials" we picked our days to eat there according to what we liked (loved the Swordfish Puttanesca)!
Eurodam's recent drydock replaced the CAC, in its entirety, with American Test Kitchen demos.
Ann, did they apply the 5* Mariner discount too? I'm on the Nieuw Statendam maiden voyage Dec. 5th.
I just rechecked the cruise planner and I was able to click on the a la carte menu.
We were on the Koningsdam for the March, 2018 transatlantic from FLL to Rome. The Culinary Arts Center consistently had the best and most varied food on the ship. Dinner was a set price of $15 (less 4* mariner discount). The CAC never seemed to be crowded. We would book a table on the day we wanted to dine, but several times we just walked in at about 7 PM.
Good to know that it is worth a visit. We will follow your advice and wait until we are on the ship to make arrangements for dinner.
I just spoke to HAL's Client Services people about the Culinary Arts Center because as of today it doesn't list a price or a sample menu on my computer. We are sailing on Koningsdam in November.
I was informed that the information wasn't there because the venue was "always changing." Now it's a sports bar type atmosphere with ala carte pricing and food like burgers, wings, and typical bar food.


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Upper Playground And Good Smile Co. Present: David Choe and James Jean "LA Secret Studio" (Tokyo, Japan)
October 20, 2010 Artists, California, Gallery, Japan, L.A., Los Angeles, Opening, Tokyo
David Choe
Good Smile Co. and Upper Playground Present:
"LA SECRET STUDIO"
Works by David Choe and James Jean
Tokyo, Japan [10/17/10] — Good Smile Co. with support from Upper Playground are pleased to present the work of two of contemporary art's finest talents, David Choe and James Jean in Tokyo, Japan. The show gets the name 'LA Secret Studio' from the large warehouse studio set up in Los Angeles by David Choe, James Jean and Good Smile Co. – under the idea that the artists would be able to create in the large studio without the constraints of space and distractions of the public. The show will feature a display of some of David and James' most famous works, clips from a documentary film, limited edition prints of their work, and a display of new pieces created in the LA Secret Studio which have never been publicly seen before.
The respective careers and backgrounds of David Choe and James Jean mirror the differences and similarities between their artist styles with an uncanny ability. Where David dropped out of art school at early age and fueled his artwork by the experiences he picked up as nomadic traveller, James worked diligently at the theory behind his craft to become known for his exquisite illustrations and won a multitude of awards for his commercial work. Artistically, Jean takes deliberate and almost ornate strokes in his work and creates with a refined intricacy, where Choe paints with violently wild lines of vivid colors which portray immediate emotions. But both paths and styles have led to very similar success with each of them becoming staples in the fine art world – and although each artist possesses a unique and immediately recognizable style, the undeniable genius behind both of their work has become inherently similar.
The exhibition will occur at Parco Factory (Shibuya Parco, Part 1, 6th Floor) in Tokyo, Japan on October 29th, 2010 and runs daily until November 14th, 2010.


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Point Ormond on the Elwood foreshore is a local landmark in the City of Port Phillip. It has a varied and fascinating history. Prior to colonisation the local indigenous population, the Bunurong, used Point Ormond as a site for social gatherings. In 1840 Point Ormond became the unlikely site of St. Kilda's first graveyard and Victoria's first quarantine station. In the early 1860s an abattoir was built in the vicinity and in the 1890s the point was mined for coal by two remarkable women under the direction of a spirit called 'Pat'.
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Liege calling for Martin
Ireland's Daniel Martin (Garmin-Sharp) enjoyed something of an annus mirablis last year, after claiming overall victory at the Volta a Catalunya, a Monument Classic win at Liege-Bastogne-Liege, and capturing a stage of the Tour de France.
At the 2014 La Flèche Wallonne, Martin proved that he will remain a threat whenever the road points skywards. Last year's highly successful campaign looks far from being a one-off.
Daniel Martin (left) had to be content with second place at La Fleche Wallonne but looks to have hit form in time to defend his Liege-Bastogne-Liege title on Sunday. pic: ©Sirotti
Cruelly delayed by a crash at the foot of the Mur, Daniel was forced to escape his own den of lions to keep Movistar's Alejandro Valverde in sight. While he failed to pass the Spaniard, their relative starting positions suggest that Martin may have had the beating of the Spaniard in a drag race.
More importantly, Martin's performance at Flèche confirms that he will arrive in Liege on Sunday in the best possible form to defend his title at La Doyenne – by anyone's estimation, the greater prize.
Martin comes from a distinguished line: his father is Neil Martin, his uncle, Stephen Roche; cousin Nicolas races in the colours of Tinkoff-Saxo. If Dan feels the pressure of such a proud heritage, he doesn't show it. A second Monument victory would take him a step closer to the exalted status of his uncle.
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A handful of different treatment options are available for patients with Kaposi sarcoma. Treatment options are largely determined by the type of Kaposi sarcoma, the overall health of the patient, and whether the disease is being diagnosed for the first time or if it has come back after initial treatments.
Kaposi sarcoma cells under a microscope. Creative commons image.
Radiation therapy targets cancer cells with high-energy doses of radiation to kill the cells or prevent them from reproducing.
Photon radiation therapy, which uses rays of high-energy light.
Radiation electron beam radiation, which uses rays made up of tiny particles called electrons.
Local excision, in which cancerous lesions are cut from the skin along with a small border of normal tissue.
Electrodesiccation and curettage, in which lesions are cut from the skin with a sharp, hook-shaped device called a curette, after which an electrode used to apply electricity to the area to stop the patient bleeding and kill remaining cancer cells in the surrounding skin.
Cryosurgery, in which lesions are frozen and then destroyed.
Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment that uses drug therapy to target cancer cells in the body. The drugs are designed to kill or damage cells with characteristics similar to cancer cells, while causing as little damage to normal cells as possible. Chemotherapy may be applied to the entire body or to specific regions.
Chemotherapy is given differently to patients with Kaposi sarcoma depending on where the cancerous lesions are located.
For local lesions in the mouth, chemotherapy drugs may be injected directly into the lesion.
For local lesions on the skin, a topical agent may be applied to the skin as a gel.
Liposomal chemotherapy uses very tiny fat particles, called liposomes, to hold and administer anticancer drugs in the body. Liposomal doxorubicin is used to treat Kaposi sarcoma. The fat particles attached to the lesions in larger numbers that in normal tissue, and slowly release their drug load.
In some cases, the patients immune system may be stimulated to attack cancer cells. Drugs or other substances—some made by the body, some developed in labs—are used to bolster, guide, or reinforce the body's natural tools to fight disease. Substances made by the body or made in a laboratory are used to boost, direct, or restore the body's natural defenses against cancer.
In the case of patients with Kaposi sarcoma, a biologic agent called Interferon alfa is used.
New drugs are being developed that target and attack specific types of cancer cells without interacting with normal cells. Two types of targeted treatment are currently under investigation for use in patients with Kaposi sarcoma: monoclonal antibody therapy and tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).
"Monoclonal antibody therapy is a cancer treatment that uses antibodies made in the laboratory from a single type of immune system cell. These antibodies can identify substances on cancer cells or normal substances that may help cancer cells grow. The antibodies attach to the substances and kill the cancer cells, block their growth, or keep them from spreading. Monoclonal antibodies are given by infusion. These may be used alone or to carry drugs, toxins, or radioactive material directly to cancer cells.
Clinical trials are the main process through which new cancer drugs are developed. As part of the cancer research process, these trials are completed to test the safety and effectiveness of new drugs to determine if they are better than existing treatment options.
In some cases, a clinical trial may be the best treatment choice. The standard treatments of today were, in many cases, refined and proven through evidence from clinical trials. Patients who decide to participate in clinical trials may be among the first to undergo a new treatment that may be more effective, and my still be eligible to receive standard treatment.
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FREE gTLD is the latest initiative of the dotFree Group. Supposedly, once after 2012 when new gTLDs come, .FREE will be among them, sponsored by dotFree Group.
While we don't honestly believe they will be able to acquire close to $200,000 needed for initial domain sponsorship investment (for the first year and $50,000+ every subsequent year), we agree their intention is good and a this service long awaited. We wish them best of luck!
Preregistrations of FREE domains are now open.
Ya. I registered stuff like google.free, youtube.free, stuff like that.
By now it's only a pre-register, but in the future they plan this to be available.
I found some informations on Internet that are saying that this is only a pishing site and that this is used to stole "bitcoins", that has the malware "Kelihos botnet" and some other things, so try by your own risk!
dotFree Group s.r.o. has seemingly disassembled by pointing the nameservers for their official website into oblivion. The dotfree.com website is down. Even dotfreegroup.com, their registration contact address, appears to be a "site for sale". With the last tweet made in early 2012, this wasn't too unexpected.
The future of the .free domain remains even more so uncertain.
It is a pity that they have no possibility to finish their very great business with domain -free-. I`ve pre-registrated some very super wow domains and hope I shall have them or with money or free soon in a little time. Such very cool domain must live and be in used. The name of domain is simple wow! Shall wait their site to open again. Thanks to them and all the best and investor with financial support.


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WILLIE PARK SR.
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He was the first professional to rise from the caddy ranks, won the inaugural British Open, and is regarded as one of the pioneers of professional golf. Willie Park Sr. was one of the greatest golfers of the 19th century. His story and the story of his brother, Mungo, and son, Willie, are an integral part of golf's heritage.
Park first appeared on the golfing scene in 1854, challenging Allan Robertson, the greatest player of his time, Tom Morris or Willie Dunn to a match with £100 at stake. George Morris, Tom's brother, accepted the offer instead and was beaten soundly, causing Robertson to say, "Willie frichtens us wi' his long driving." Brother Tom tried to win back the family honor over 36 holes and lost by five holes. This was the first of many matches between Park and Morris when "Challenge Matches" were far more popular than the Open Championship.
"And now I come to Willie as a putter. Here he was not merely good, not merely excellent, but brilliant. ...So deadly was he when within three or four yards of the hole." - A.H. Doleman
Although the game was typically the preserve of the wealthy due to the cost of hickory shafted clubs and 'featherie' golf balls, there was still opportunity for ordinary folk to enjoy the game. Park learned to play with one club, a curved stick, and with it became a long and straight driver and excellent putter. In a Golf Illustrated feature upon his death in 1903, A.H. Doleman wrote: "And now I come to Willie as a putter. Here he was not merely good, not merely excellent, but brilliant. …So deadly was he when within three or four yards of the hole."
Park was tall and lanky and played with a gambling style. Such was his flair for the game that Park often played matches using only one hand and standing on one leg. He reportedly lost only once. On another occasion, he accepted a challenge to play a round playing all his tee shots from a watch face. The watch was unscathed at the end.
In 1860, Park won the inaugural British Open, contested among the eight leading professional golfers of the day. They went around the 12 holes at Prestwick three times in one day. Playing with the gutta percha ball, which had just been invented three years earlier and flew a maximum of 190 yards, Park shot a 174.
Willie Park, Sr. is one of only two players (Young Tom Morris) to win both Open Championship prizes — the Challenge Belt and Claret Jug.
The original prize was a "Challenge Belt," a red Moroccan leather belt with silver clasps. He won again in 1863, 1866, and in 1875, he received the Claret Jug that still is awarded to the "Champion Golfer of the Year."
Indeed, the rivalry between Willie Park Sr. and Tom Morris Sr. kept the tournament alive through its formative years until the arrival of Young Tom Morris; in its first eight years Willie won three times and Old Tom won four. Moreover, in the same time frame, Willie was runner-up four times and Tom twice. It is small wonder that these two men were revered in Scotland and everywhere that golf was played.
Born in 1833 in Wallyford, near Musselburgh, Scotland, seven miles east of Edinburgh, Park was the most accomplished golfer among one of the game's foremost sporting families. Park's brother, Mungo, won the Open in 1874 when it was staged at Musselburgh for the first time. He partnered his brother in many challenge matches including the infamous one at North Berwick when Young Tom Morris received the sad news of his wife's imminent death.
Following in his father's footsteps, Wille Park Jr. became one of the most respected and successful golfers in the history of the game. In his widely-praised instructional book, Park Jr. wrote, "a man who can putt is a match for anyone." He made a name for himself designing courses too. Besides his best known course, the Old Course at Sunningdale, Park Jr. designed Olympia Fields Golf Club in Chicago, site of the 1928 and 2003 U.S. Opens.
The Park family is a golfing institution and its legacy in golf's history is renowned and revered.


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Magic Stories	 March 23, 2005
Can This Be True?
Matt Hollywood
The Melbourne Herald Sun reports today the magic equipment in Matt Hollywood's vehicle scared away would-be thieves.
There are two aspects of the story that seem incredible.
First, the magician reported the thieves did get two items: a car phone, and a "video camera which had some prized footage of the Siegfried and Roy circus tiger attack."
"When the coppers arrived to look things over, all sorts of odd things were happening. There were playing cards, coins and pens floating all around the car. But it seems what really scared the thieves off were the monstrous spider and the severed fingers they were confronted with when they opened the magic box."
Whatever!!
We're not smart but at least we're immature.
We are asked to believe Mr. Hollywood had a video camera containing video tape of Montecore's attack on Roy Horn on October 3rd 2003.
Do you remember, like we do, when the National Enquirer and the Weekly World News were offering top dollar to anyone with video tape or photographs of that horrible incident? Do you remember, as we do, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture Inspectors were going to subpoena Siegfried and Roy and their management, and if necessary, hold them in contempt in order to get the one video tape of the horrific act? And do you recall the Nevada legislature prepared a law to protect Siegfried and Roy from any such subpoena or any imprisonment by the U.S. Government.
Let's assume he really did have the video from that night. One would imagine he would have taken it from the camera in the ensuing 18 months. Maybe, he would have made a copy of the video just in case the original was destroyed or, say, stolen.
Mr. Hollywood took enormous risks by keeping the tape in his camera….
Mr. Hollywood took enormous risks by keeping the tape in his camera. If it was our camera, the event would have some birthday party recorded over the precious images.
It is also hard to believe Mr. Hollywood was at the October 3rd show, got the video camera into the theater, filmed the show and attack, and got the camera and tape out of the theater. He would have had to ignore local law enforcement pleas for any evidence that could assist their investigation. Remember, too, the police were working under the assumption that Roy was near death and had little chance to survive. Thanks to his strength and will, Roy did survive and has improved dramatically.
Don't even get us started on the rubber finger tips and spider on elastic cord being sufficient to scare away brazen car thieves.
You may draw your own conclusions but it seems to be an incredible story to gain publicity for a magician. We wouldn't care so much but for the reference to Roy's attack.
Finally, if you had exclusive video of, say, an UFO landing in a grassy marsh to abduct six or seven people for experiments on some far off planet, would you leave the video in your camera? More significantly, would you tell the thieves who just absconded with your treasure they did not just have a video camera, they had incredibly valuable video.
If Mr. Hollywood's story is true, his announcement that the camera had this special video moment only ensured the thieves would not tape over or destroy the tape.
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Dubai Chamber's Future Growth Forum Highlights Growth Prospects For Dubai's Economy
More than 500 members of Dubai's business community came together at the Dubai World Trade Center for the Future Growth Forum organized by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Monday, June 28, 2021.
By Entrepreneur Middle East Staff June 29, 2021
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More than 500 members of Dubai's business community came together at the Dubai World Trade Center for the Future Growth Forum organized by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Monday, June 28, 2021.
H.E. Hamad Buamim
The high-level event, which was initiated following the recent directives of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, to reduce government-related procedures for businesses by 30% over the next three months, identified and discussed prospects that could drive future economic growth in Dubai.
Besides representing 24 business sectors that are key contributors to Dubai's economy, the attendees for the forum included UAE ministers, government officials, business leaders, and representatives from multinational companies operating in the Emirate. Businesses represented included those operating in digital space and cybersecurity, food and beverage, retail, travel and tourism, vehicle manufacturing, healthcare education, aviation, gold and jewelry, logistics and maritime, and the industrial sector, among several others.
Following the first plenary session, participants took part in 24 breakout sessions, each tackling existing market challenges and opportunities, as well as recommendations for driving sustainable economic growth and reducing the cost of doing business in Dubai. The sector-focused discussions saw business representatives highlight the main areas where they would like to see the government improve its processes and procedures.
H.E. Reem Al Hashimy.
The Future Growth Forum, which was kicked off by an address from H.E. Hamad Buamim, President and CEO of Dubai Chamber, featured keynote speeches from H.E. Reem Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation and Director General of Expo 2020, and H.E. Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, and Chairman of Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy.
"We see this forum as a prime example of the seamless and close cooperation between public and private sector stakeholders in Dubai, which remains a key factor ensuring the Emirate's economic competitiveness," said Buamim. "At the same time, the meeting supports Dubai Chamber's efforts to advocate on behalf of business interests, identify existing challenges facing companies, and share their concerns with relevant government entities that can address them swiftly and effectively."
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In her address, Al Hashimy shared new details about the key features and advantages for businesses at the forthcoming Expo 2020 Dubai, and explained how the mega event will accelerate the recovery of Dubai's economy after the COVID-19 crisis, and draw the world's attention to the Emirate.
"The Expo Business Program has been designed to help reconnect the business world, in order to deliver real-world opportunities for future business growth," Al Hashimy said, highlighting the three Global Business Forums that will be organized at Expo 2020 Dubai in partnership with Dubai Chamber, which will focus on the economic outlook of the fast-growing regions of Africa, ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), and LATAM (Latin America). "To access more than 190 markets on all continents, to explore technological advancements while reconnecting with your peers at world-class business events, to engage with government leaders and partner with the wider UAE ecosystem: these are all unprecedented opportunities, all in one place, and all at one time."
H.E. Omar Al Olama.
Meanwhile, Al Olama highlighted the UAE's vision for a future centered on a digital economy. "One of the major factors that aided Dubai's response to the pandemic is its commitment to digitalization," he noted. "Whether it is the internet of things or the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Dubai has been at the forefront of adopting the latest technologies, which have benefited all sectors of the economy, from retail to logistics to trade."
The event concluded with remarks from H.E. Helal Saeed Al Marri, Director General of the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, who presented the key findings and top recommendations from the 24 breakout sessions.
Al Marri drew special attention to the huge opportunity outlined by participants to modernize and streamline government services by adopting cutting-edge digital solutions that can save businesses time and money, and further improve ease of doing business in Dubai.
H.E. Helal Al Marri
The findings from The Future Growth Forum are set to be analyzed by Dubai Chamber, and will then be formally communicated to the Dubai Government to help with policy formation and executive decision-making.
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In 2004 Australian developer KaWow! started working on a first-person shooter called The Unseelie, that mixed horror with adventure elements. The game told a storyline about an old haunted forest and a village trapped in time. It was planned to be published by Octagon in 2005, but sadly the project was cancelled for unknown reasons.
KaWow! were founded in 1997, helping other studios with the development of some games for PC and consoles, such as GORE: The Ultimate Soldier and other projects for television multimedia integration, LAN and Internet multiplayer first person games.
"In a chilly November evening, Damian Logan is driving his car on the countryside, crossing a dark Irish forest, when suddenly a child-like figure appears on the road. Trying to avoid an accident, Damian`s car gets out of control and crashing into a nearby tree.
Upon awakening he stumbles into an ancient forest, called "Tir-Na-Bràch-Marbh" – Land of the Eternal Death. Wandering lost deeper and deeper into the woodlands, he discovers stones, buried in the shape of a septagram, with a source of light shining from its center.
Walking towards it, the light is bright and dazzling, but suddenly dimming – plunging the forest in absolute blackness. Strange voices begin whispering from left and right, near and far….
As the story unfolds, we learn that Damian is trapped in a world between the living and the dead. The dark haunted forest has tangled and enclosed a 17th century Irish village, severing its contact with the rest of the world and stopping time from passing.
In order to escape and return home, the protagonist has to battle "The Unseelie" (pronounced "Un SHEE Lee"), an unblessed cursed fairy race, based on Celtic mythology.
To help during your quest you would be able to use an arsenal of roughly 30 different weapons, plus the possibility of crafting your own weapons from materials found in the game. By battling foes like Banshees, Goblins, Demons, Elementals and Ghosts, new experience points were collected to unlock skills and upgrade weapons.
"The Unseelie is a great game to work with because of the way it uniquely combines Celtic mythos with popular first-person gameplay," said Lloyd Melnick, Co-Founder of publisher Octagon.
Over the course of your journey, protagonist Damien would have gained access to a wide range of powers and attacks related to Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Wood, Metal and Spirit. Some monsters were resistant against physical attacks and could only be beaten with certain magic.
The adventure-aspect of the game focused on players using elemental powers to solve many puzzles on the way through the 7 levels of the three-dimensional environment, generated by their homemade AMP II engine, which offered real-time lighting, matrix shading, high-resolution textures and bump mapping.
"We used all of the visually stunning rendering techniques of our engine and combined them with the sinister forest setting of Celtic legend and some engaging game play design to make something that makes you want to play, but keeps you looking over your shoulder," explained Steve Woodgate, who was KaWoW! CEO until 2016 and is currently managing director of Coronum Pty Ltd.
It is unclear what happened to the studio. Since Mr. Woodgate left KaWoW! in 2016 we can assume they were active at least until that date, even though no other game seems to have been released since the cancellation of The Unseelie.
The company's old website (www.kawow.com) is unreachable, and what remains today are only screenshots, a few articles splattered across the web and a couple of videos showing in-game footage. This was probably from the beginning of the game, when Damien escapes his crashed vehicle and discovers a stone-circle with a beam of light in the middle, showing: "Some fairy tales were never meant to be told…".


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preterite January 6, 2020 March 19, 2020 Asides, Meta
I'm moving I've moved vitia.org to a new hosting provider, and I'll soon be changing changed the URL to integrate with my professional site at preterite.net. That means vitia.org will be mirrored at preterite.net for a while. This URL (vitia.org) should be good at least for the next few months, and I'll have more details as I get the move finalized. Please consider the blog vitia.org now defunct and reincarnated in updated form at preterite.net/blog/.
Short explanation: I started this weblog as a graduate student way back in the early social media days of 2003 (!), when fabulous beasts like the Invisible Adjunct and Culture Cat and the Happy Tutor roamed the green hills of Academic Blogistan. In those days of MySpace and Friendster and LiveJournal and Movable Type 2.6, my default mode was that of grad student critique-ish-ness. The blog's title, Vitia, indicated that splenetic mode in Latin, and its tagline translated the second declension neuter plural noun: "faults / sins / abuses."
I like to think I've mostly moved away from that splenetic mode, especially with sobriety and being a dad. Thomas Pynchon fans will recognize the reference to preterition, which for me intersects with praeteritio, the rhetorical device (like occultatio) associated with saying something by not saying it or explicitly "passing over" it, as well as with the notion of grace.
Maintenance and Upkeep
preterite March 25, 2019 March 26, 2019 Asides
The site's been down for a while because of some brute force attacks and such. And my writing's been down for a while because other stuff's been happening. So I went in and updated stuff under the hood, though I still haven't changed the look of the place — maybe that will come soon. But I've also realized the old domain and title — vitia, a Latin word that roughly means things like abuses, faults, sins, and such — no longer fits what I'd like to be doing here. It was from 2003, when I was in grad school, busy finding faults and being critical. So I'll be moving to another domain and merging material with my professional academic site around the end of 2019 or the start of 2020: preterite.net. No changes at the moment, though, other than an attempt (not quite a promise) to get back into writing more regularly.
preterite March 31, 2011 Afghanistan, Asides
Some of the folks on the team compensate for being away from home and family by eating. Food gets fetishized. Not so much the food at the KBR dining facilities, although there are the quirks there, the exotic things some eat when away from home: chunks of blue cheese by the salad bar, sliced boiled beef tongue for lunchmeat, Nutella. But the true fetishizing happens in spending money on food. There's a real Thai restaurant on base, staffed and run by Thai nationals who got the contract and rotate over here for six months or a year like the AAFES and KBR workers, and a Turkish restaurant operating under the same circumstances (the Thai place is better), and a pizza and sandwich shop, and a tiny, smoky two-picnic-table kebab shack that's mouth-wateringly excellent on the other side of the runway. Guys will spend fourteen Euros for dinner or four Euros for lunch, sometimes two or three times a week. "It's my only luxury," one of them says. "It's the only thing that gives me pleasure here, besides Skyping with my wife."
Or folks compensate by going to the gym. It's open 24 hours, and there's usually a wait for the treadmills. Everybody reads, of course. There are swap bookshelves everywhere, weirdly diverse (or not so weirdly; as diverse, perhaps, as the military itself): there are the usual titles you'd expect, Tom Clancy and Dan Brown, and Mack Bolan The Executioner, whose novels I had never encountered until I saw one of the series on a bookshelf at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California in 1993, and who I never saw after I got out of the Army until I came here, but there's also a copy of The Book of Mormon on the same shelf as an old library-bound hardcover of The Hite Report, and a while back I spotted Charles Stross's The Atrocity Archives a couple shelves down from Grace Paley.
And the pirated DVD shop at the bazaar does booming business. Every DVD is $2, lots of them of movies that are still in the theaters (I've watched Black Swan and The Adjustment Bureau while I've been here), although many are DVDs of the movies being shown in movie theaters, so you sort of get the whole experience. Since we're prohibited from taking them home to the U.S., some folks buy one or two or three a week and just leave them on the swap shelf, which makes for a sizable library. From what I've seen, I'm anticipating that The Hangover and The Losers will get picked up a lot more often than Inland Empire and Enter the Void, but you never know.
My habits are pretty much what you'd expect.
I'll cop to being selfish: I'm not going to leave any of my scholarly books on the swap shelf. (I am planning on leaving my Afghan books behind, though, and Chronic City is very far from the Jonathan Lethem I know and like.) There are two seasons of The Wire on those hard drives on the left, as well as about 260 GB of my music collection, mostly ripped from CDs just before I left. And while it sounds OK on the Bowers & Wilkins 600s at home, the Sony earbuds I brought with me weren't cutting it, so I ordered the pair of Etymotics there on the keyboard. They go much deeper into your ear than other earphones, so they're a initially little uncomfortable. We'll see how well I get used to them tonight as I give them a test drive and take a look at Zombie Economics.
Warren Zevon, "The Hula Hula Boys"
Metric, "Satellite Mind"
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Match Box Blues"
Outkast, "The Way You Move"
The Clash, "Straight to Hell"
David Bowie, "Modern Love"
Morphine, "Honey White"
Dengue Fever, "Sui Bong"
Emmylou Harris, "Walls of Time"
Greg Kihn, "Breakup Song"
Joan Jett, "I Wanna Be Your Dog"
Depeche Mode, "Stripped"
Lupe Fiasco, "The Coolest"
M.I.A., "Jimmy"
Beck, "Farewell Ride"
Melvins, "At a Crawl"
My Brightest Diamond, "Feeling Good"
Rachid Taha, "Kelma"
The Grass Roots, "Midnight Confessions"
Firewater, "Borneo"
Sisters of Mercy, "This Corrosion"
Steve Earle, "Copperhead Road"
Natacha Atlas, "I Put a Spell on You"
Talking Heads, "Girlfriend Is Better"
Neko Case, "Furnace Room Lullaby"
Jurassic 5, "What's Golden"
Led Zeppelin, "Over the Hills and Far Away"
preterite October 21, 2009 May 14, 2021 Asides, Music
I'm enjoying listening to the Dead Kennedy's "Halloween" tonight, especially the following bits:
So it's Halloween
And you feel like dancin'
And you feel like shinin'
And you feel like letting loose
Whatcha gonna be
Babe, you better know
And you better plan
Better plan all day
Better plan all week
Better plan all month
Better plan all year
Why not every day
Are you so afraid
What will people say
After Halloween
Because your role is planned for you
There's nothing you can do
But stop and think it through
But what will the boss say to you
And what will your girlfriend say to you
And the people out on the street they might glare at you
And whaddaya know you're pretty self-conscious too
I'm celebrating my 40th birthday this year on Halloween (I was born on November 1), and I'm excited about it, but it's also kind of a big milestone that's got me looking back.
I first heard the Dead Kennedys when I was 9th grade — can that be right? Yes, that's got to be right — and man, they were scary, and they were cool as hell. There was a mix tape that made the rounds and got duplicated and reduplicated, with Black Flag, Government Issue, Black Market Baby, and the Dead Kennedys, and it was garbled and hissy and recorded from a vinyl LP so there was a brief scratch and skip in "Trust Your Mechanic" that I still miss every time I hear the version I have now, and the climactic fantasy moments from "Riot" and "Forest Fire" were the first times I realized that music could do that energizing, subversive stuff, and the ominous bass melodies for "Holiday in Cambodia" and "I Am the Owl" were like nothing I'd ever hear until Primus, and I'll still contend that the opening guitar riff for "Government Flu" is one of the best and most underrated in all of rock 'n roll, up there with Suicidal Tendencies' "The Miracle." So yeah: back then, at a virginal 13, this was wicked-scary, dangerous, very cool stuff, as tinny and hissy as it was on that Maxell Gold cassette.
And I still like it, thinking back on my skinny nerdy self 27 years later, not as skinny but still plenty nerdy, gone from spiky hair to mullet to bleached mullet to fat mohawk to long hair to spiky again and then to the crew cut and finally to the shaved head: not really punk now, no.
But I guess I was punk once.
Meth Lab; Fusion
preterite July 27, 2009 Asides
This weekend's brief respite from the steadily quickening pace of helping to facilitate the department's Arriving Faculty Workshop and preparing to administer the fall semester's first-year composition course was a trip into the city to take in a gallery exhibition and a meal, and for L. to meet her friend.
The exhibition was Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe's "Black Acid Co-op," and it was remarkable. The NY Times slide show gives a taste, and the accompanying review's characterizations of the installation as "an immense, labor-intensive, maniacally contrived walk-through environment" and a "warren of some dozen rooms, interiors, and passageways [that] includes a burned-out home amphetamine lab [and] a red-carpeted gallery of pseudo-artworks" are apt. The word I would have chosen, I told L., was "methodical": there was a remarkable and consistent phenomenological attention to the most minute details of the experience of the space.
One walks into a dark wicker-lined room strewn with paper trash. A book of polaroids lies in a corner of the concrete floor. There are thermal-printer astrological charts with attached polaroids pinned to the walls. And there is an uneven hole in the wall, the first of many, leading to a brightly, badly fluorescent-lit space, exposed wires hanging from the light fixtures, a scabrous analogue of run-down strip-mall commercialism.
The wigs are clotted with paint and cement. The hole beckons.
There are multiple paths. Inward, toward the heart, they all lead through iterations of meth labs.
In deeper, one climbs into an open refrigerator and out the back.
Silvan Idyll, Part 2
preterite June 26, 2009 Asides
Lauralea and I went for a short, hilly run this morning — net change in elevation of 350 feet, repeated several times over 2.5 miles — and then went to Lost River State Park for a hike up Big Ridge (elevation 3200-3300 feet) on White Oak Trail. On the way, we passed groves of trees that looked almost exactly the way I imagine the edges of (nerd alert) Lothlórien looking.
Montani Semper Liberi
I'm typing this on the deck of a log cabin deep in the woods of the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia, somewhere near the town of Mathias and Lost River State Park, 15 miles from the nearest store or filling station, further from any cell phone coverage, and even further from any work obligations for the next two weeks or so. My companion and I set out from New York yesterday morning, cats and bags and groceries in the back, traveling south and west first by interstate and then by state and local route and finally by dirt road, until we got here, somewhere around
Returning to Catullus
preterite March 16, 2009 Asides
I returned from CCCC in San Francisco on the redeye Sunday morning, tired not only from the flight but from that sustained intellectual engagement, my mind happily worn out and smooshed and pushed by all the presentations I went to. It was an odd conference for me: I saw some good panels, about which I'll post my notes soon, and some bad ones, about which I won't, except to say that Spencer and I both stayed at one just to see how amazing it would get. What was odd, though, was the number of young-but-getting-established scholars whose reputation and work I know and admire who seemed to be reiterating somewhat old and accepted claims, and the number of new scholars who seemed unaware of the recent body of scholarship on emerging topics: in both cases, I found myself frequently feeling a strong sense of academic d
Lonely Ike
preterite March 2, 2009 Asides
preterite January 12, 2009 Academia, Asides, Cats
For me, there are some seriously rotten things happening now, and some genuinely hopeful things as well — both in far more extreme degree than in a long time — and I can't really talk about either of them except in the tiniest of metonymies.
Full moon, shining bright and pale across the ice. Tink and Zeugma, prospective mousers, spending the night away from home, and this cold house wind-rattled and empty except for me.
I feel, in Strand's words,
Moonhandled
And weird. The shivers
Wash over
Me, shaking my bones, my loose ends
Loosen,
And I lie sleeping with one eye open,
but that's where I have to cut the quotation. I know what I hope, and it's not for nothing.
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AH Tech Talk: Is This The End Of The Road For BlackBerry OS?
By Kishalaya Kundu November 05, 2015, 5:15pm
Data analysis and market research firm Strategy Analytics has just published it's latest report regarding the worldwide smartphone market dynamics in the third quarter of this calendar year, titled, "Global Smartphone OS Market Share by Region: Q3 2015". According to the report, the global smartphone market grew 10 percent in Q3, 2015, on a year-on-year basis. While most of the findings of the report are along expected lines, including the growth of Android and iOS at the expense of Windows, BlackBerry and Firefox, the one interesting aspect that has caught the eye of many is the growing traction for the fledgling mobile operating platform - Tizen. The OS is currently only being promoted by Samsung Electronics, as the company makes its 'Gear' range of smartwatches based on it, but almost all its smartphones over the past several years have been based on Android, ever since the company ditched its Bada operating system several years ago, in favor of the world's most popular mobile operating platform.
While Samsung executives were smart enough to know which way the wind was blowing, and decided to go with the flow rather than trying to swim against the tide, other companies like Nokia and BlackBerry steadfastly held onto their dying operating systems - Symbian and BB OS respectively - rather than try and accept the inevitable. Nokia of course, chose to ditch Symbian and embraced the Windows Mobile platform back in 2011 (known as Windows Phone back then), once it realized the Symbian era was all but over; a decision resulting in the mobile division of the company losing money for years before it was finally sold off to Microsoft for a pittance. BlackBerry meanwhile, took even longer to see the writing on the wall, and it was only a few days back that the company unveiled its very first Android-powered handset, called the BlackBerry Priv.
While the Canadian smartphone company refuses to publicly acknowledge that its native, home-grown operating system BB OS might be on its last legs, BlackBerry's ferociously dedicated and loyal user base have been deserting it by the droves for years now, and if the latest report from Strategy Analytics is anything to go by, the BlackBerry operating system has now, for the first time ever, slid down below Tizen as a smartphone operating system. Tizen of course, isn't even being pushed that hard by Samsung, and the company has thus far released only a couple of entry-level smartphones in India over the past couple of years, like the Samsung Z last year, with a follow-up called Samsung Z1 this year, neither of which managed to make a meaningful impact seeing as the company didn't even market the devices in any way whatsoever. According to Strategy Analytics though, it is now this fledgling mobile platform that has more users than BlackBerry's native operating system. Coupled with the fact that the company is now investing its time money and energy in a rival mobile platform, it's leading many to wonder aloud whether it is time for the Canadian company to give its in-house smartphone operating system a dignified burial rather than going through the ignominy faced by Symbian.
For the uninitiated, Tizen is a Linux kernel-based open-source operating system within the non-profit Linux Foundation, and is governed by a Technical Steering Group (TSG) that includes the likes of Intel, Huawei, Panasonic, Vodafone, Sprint, Orange and the like, alongside Samsung. While the platform has a long way to go as a smartphone OS, it does have a respectable market share in the wearables segment, thanks to the 'Gear' range of smartwatches from Samsung, all of which, bar one, come with the OS pre-installed. Tizen already has some popular and well-known apps and services available on it, including Facebook, VLC Media Player and MixRadio. However, in an effort to attract even more developers to the platform, Samsung is also choosing not to charge developers a percentage of their app revenues. Google and Apple typically charge developers around 30 percent of their revenues for purchases made through their respective app stores. It remains to be seen how Tizen fares as a platform over the next year or two, but BlackBerry better hope that the Priv is able to bring back some of its lost customers, otherwise it might well be a one-step too far for the once-revered Canadian smartphone company.
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Bruce Prichard On What Made The Hulk Hogan Vs. Randy Savage Feud So Great
By Aaron Varble | September 01, 2018
Hulk Hogan and "Macho Man" Randy Savage's feud saw two fan favorites in a heated rivalry that is still ranked among the most memorable in WWE history. Bruce Prichard was there during that time and saw the intensity first-hand.
Prichard recently sat down with CBS' In This Corner where he discussed the beauty of Hogan vs Savage. Their story was simple, yet it was executed in a way that brought the fans in and captured them in the logic of their feud.
"The beauty of it was that we had time to tell a story, and we had time to let it develop to tell its story to see it slowly as they would in real life," Prichard said. "Things don't happen immediately in life. It takes time for it to seep in; that was the beauty of the story where you started way back almost a year ahead of time and you told a very simplistic story that either some people got and some people didn't, but when you go back and you show them along the way and you had the viewpoint from two very different people involved in it, then you go, hey, now I get it, now I see it. It was beautiful, and when you have time to tell a story that is best."
Savage confronted Hogan in a real and passionate way as The Mega Powers collided. The jealousy over Elizabeth's treatment was something Savage became known for backstage. He wanted to be on the road with his wife, and he was extremely protective of her which is why this feud had such a realistic aspect to it.
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Prichard said the beauty of The Mega Powers colliding meant blurring the line between reality and fiction. It seemed real to Hogan and Savage as well while the two battled on their way to WrestleMania V.
"We will never know. That is the beauty of it as well," Prichard replied. "It was real to them as well. If you feel it and believe it, that becomes the difference a lot of times with the talent today that wants to 'play' a wrestler or 'play' a part versus living the part. Actually being what you are portraying."
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The USAFL have announced that AFL club Essendon will host their national squad during the International Cup. Canada have previously reached agreement with the Sydney Swans and New Zealand with the Melbourne Demons.
In due course, information about the travel arrangement will be announced to those wishing to travel with the team. We are looking into developing a 'Supporters Package', where we buy bulk airline and hotel numbers and thus the price per head should become cheaper than it would be for individuals buying for themselves. Those interested in flying with the team please contact president@usfooty.com for further information."
Check out the Revolution's website for more information in coming weeks (note that at time of writing the 2005 squad has not yet been listed).


PITTSBURGH (AP) Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Martavis Bryant is facing a one-year suspension from the NFL for violating the league's substance abuse policy for the second time.
Bryant's agent, Thomas Santanello, confirmed the potential discipline in email to The Associated Press on Saturday night and said Bryant has filed an appeal. The suspension was first reported by DKPittsburghsports.com.
Bryant caught 50 passes for 765 yards and six touchdowns and was dynamic in the playoffs. He made an acrobatic scoring grab in a wild-card win over Cincinnati and hauled in nine passes for 154 yards in a loss to Denver in the divisional round, serving as quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's top target with All-Pro Antonio Brown out with a concussion.
The Steelers had no comment on Bryant's situation. The NFL typically does not announce any punishment for substance abuse violations until the appeals process is complete.
Pittsburgh took the raw 6-foot-4 Bryant in the fourth round of the 2014 draft. His arrival on the active roster in Week 7 of his rookie season ignited an 8-2 surge that lifted the Steelers to the AFC North title. Any forward momentum took a hit, however, when he ran afoul of the league's substance abuse guidelines. He stressed he learned from the suspension and ''moved past it'' yet Steelers chairman Art Rooney II remained pragmatic when talking about the talented but enigmatic receiver shortly after the 2015 season ended.
The Steelers are counting on Bryant to round out an offense that already includes Roethlisberger, Brown, running back Le'Veon Bell and tight end Ladarius Green, who signed as a free agent on Thursday. Pittsburgh also re-signed receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey to a three-year deal last week and still has Markus Wheaton and Sammie Coates in the fold.


Arriving on Paros on May 4th (weather permitting) is a very special expedition from the island of Hvar in Croatia. Modern Stari Grad (ancient Faros) on Hvar is the oldest town in Croatia and was founded and colonised by Greeks from Paros in 385/4 BC.
Schedule of events - May 2003.
Venus Art Gallery, Jan Mulder, Erika Harbort, Britt Spillers, Eleni Gemeliari, Elizabeth Carson, IPAC, Alicia Stallings Poetry Reading, Japanese Modern Dance, World Dance Music, Concert Review: Eddit Guthman & Friends.
DIKEMES (The International Center for Hellenic & Mediterranean Studies) has been conducting its highly-acclaimed summer Modern Greek language programmes on Paros for the past seven years. In cooperation with Paros Life, they are once again offering a special price of 700 euros to Paros' permanent residents. Readers also have the chance to win a free place on the summer course of their choice.
Lawyer Jiannis Andreopoulos outlines the role of the Paros Court and the procedure for recovery of debts.
The Ferry Boat by Nigel Mowat-Napier.
Liz Westerhof reviews Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés' book "Women Who Run With the Wolves."
The International Women's Organization of Paros will be holding its 2003 Annual General Meeting at the Pandrossos Hotel in Paroikia on Wednesday 28th May at 6pm.
Nehama Weininger describes how to create a compost pile.
Lornie Caplan reports on the very successful PAWS Bazaar. Animal welfare contact information.
A Mesage from Vassilis Giakoumis, Global Action Day for Greek Animals, April Fool 2003.


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Корё-сара́м ( корё-ин,  корё-сарам) — самоназвание большей части этнических корейцев на постсоветском пространстве.

Слово Корё относится к названию Корейского государства с 918 по 1392 года н. э., а слово сарам означает «человек», «народ». Корё-сарам — потомки корейцев, исконно проживавших или переселившихся в 1860-х годах на российский Дальний Восток. К корё-сарам также иногда причисляют и сахалинских корейцев.

Корейские переселенцы говорили в основном на северо-восточном (хамгёнском) диалекте, который немного отличается от литературного корейского языка. На основе хамгёнского диалекта образовался собственный диалект советских корейцев. В дальнейшем, в результате ликвидации корейских национально-культурных учреждений и аккультурации в Узбекистане и Казахстане, большинство корё-сарам стали русскоязычными.

В СССР советские корейцы занимали первое место по количеству героев социалистического труда на 1000 человек (человек, удостоившихся звания «Герой социалистического труда СССР») — этого звания были удостоены 206 корё-сарам.

Среди известных корё-сарам можно выделить певца Виктора Цоя, поэта Юлия Кима, писателя Анатолия Кима, предпринимателя Бориса Кима, гимнастку Нелли Ким, певицу Аниту Цой, боксёра Костю Цзю .

История корё-сарам

Территориальная экспансия России привела к тому, что в 1860 году империя Цин уступила Российской империи Приморье. B 1861 году появилась российско-корейская граница. Она сразу же получила важное стратегическое значение, так как стык границ России и Кореи изолировал Цинский Китай от доступа к акватории Японского моря. Первая 761 корейская семья численностью 5 310 человек перешла реку Туманную с целью занять свободные земли в этом углу маньчжурского Китая, однако в одночасье оказались в России по условиям Пекинского договора. Миграция корейцев в Россию продолжалась до начала 1930-х годов. Её не остановила даже революция. Стимулом к миграции корейцев в Россию служила нехватка земли в Корее, благосклонное отношение российских чиновников, а также оккупация Кореи Японией в 1905 году.

К 1917 году в России проживало около 100 тысяч корейцев, причём в Приморском крае они составляли почти треть всего населения (в Посьетском районе — до 90 %). Корейцы компактно проживали на территории современного Приморского края задолго до появления первых русских колонистов, однако большинство корейцев переселялись в Приморский край во второй половине XIX века. Переселенцы стремились получить подданство Российской империи.

Многие корейцы участвовали в Гражданской войне, когда из них сформировались красные партизанские отряды. В марте 1921 года был создан Корейский революционный военный совет, который возглавил Нестор Каландаришвили. Каландаришвили, однако, не стал тогда командовать всеми корейскими партизанами. В марте 1921 года в Дальневосточной военной республике съезд партизан избрал Корейский военный совет. Подчиненный Корейскому военному совету Объединенный сахалинский партизанский отряд во главе с Ильёй Харитоновичем Паком отказался подчиниться Корейскому революционному военному совету. Народно-революционная армия пыталась разоружить партизан и в результате Амурского инцидента погибло от 118 до 400 партизан (многие утонули в Зее).

В ноябре 1921 года Коминтерн создал комиссию по расследованию Амурского инцидента. По итогам расследования, задержанные корейцы были помилованы.

Депортация
Корейцы первыми в СССР подверглись сталинской депортации по национальному признаку. В 1937 году на основании постановления Совнаркома СССР 172 тысячи корейцев депортировали в Казахскую ССР и Узбекскую ССР под предлогом «пресечения проникновения японского шпионажа в Дальневосточный край». Депортация происходила грузовыми поездами, 11 тысяч человек умерли в пути.

До депортации 1937 года в Приморье было 2 национальных корейских района и 77 национальных корейских сельсоветов, около 400 корейских школ, корейский педагогический техникум, корейский пединститут во Владивостоке, корейский театр, издавалось 6 журналов и 7 газет на корейском языке.

1 апреля 1993 года постановлением Верховного Совета Российской Федерации были признаны незаконными акты, принятые начиная с 1937 года в отношении советских корейцев, и, по сути, корейцы были реабилитированы как жертвы политических репрессий.

По данным переписи 1959 года, в Узбекистане проживало 44,1 % всех советских корейцев, в Казахстане — 23,6 %. По состоянию на 2013 год, в Узбекистане проживало .

После распада СССР корейцы из Среднеазиатских республик преимущественно мигрировали в Россию и Украину. Председатель секции корейской литературы Союза писателей Узбекистана Угай Дегук обращался к Генеральному секретарю, Председателю Верховного Совета СССР Горбачёву по вопросу создания в Приморском крае Корейской автономной республики в 1990 г.

Численность

Численность в СССР

Численность в России

Доля корейцев по районам и городам России
(указаны муниципальные образования, где по переписи 2010 года доля корейцев в численности населения превышает 5 %):

Кухня корё сарам

Традиционная кухня корё-сарам, основываясь на кухне северных регионов Кореи, за время пребывания корейцев в Российской империи и СССР претерпела значительные метаморфозы, адаптировавшись к наличию и отсутствию определённых ингредиентов. В результате появился ряд блюд, не имеющих аналогов в кухне Северной и Южной Корей, например, морков-ча; некоторые русские блюда также готовятся и употребляются корейцами своеобразно, к примеру, в борщ кладётся варёный рис — паби. Современные корё-сарам, даже те, которые проживают за пределами Средней Азии, зачастую включают в свой ежедневный рацион некоторые блюда среднеазиатской кухни (прежде всего плов и манты).

Язык
Корё-сарам говорили на корё мар (среднеазиатский диалект корейского языка), основанном на юкчинском диалекте и впитавшем влияние русского. Также корё-сарам говорят на языках местного населения: узбекском, русском, казахском и так далее.

См. также
 Северные корейцы в России
 Японская репатриация Южного Сахалина и Курильских островов
 Российские немцы
 Японцы в России

Примечания

Литература

 Корейцы в СССР: материалы советской печати в 1918—1937 гг. / Отв. ред. Ю. В. Ванин, сост. Ю. В. Ванин, Б. Б. Пак, Б. Д. Пак. Москва, Институт востоковедения РАН. 2004
 Бугай Н. Ф. Корейцы в Союзе ССР — России: XX-й век. Москва, ИНСАН. 2004
 Российские корейцы в борьбе за независимость Кореи 1910—1945: Фотопортреты / Под ред. В. Ф. Ли (Ли У Хе). Москва, Российская ассоциация «Потомки борцов за независимость Кореи», Государственный институт истории Республики Корея, Посольство Республики Корея в России. 2004
 Ким Сын Хва. Очерки по истории советских корейцев. Алма-Ата, Наука. 1965
 Ло Ен Дон. Проблема российских корейцев: история и перспективы решения. Москва, АРГО. 1995
 ПОСТАНОВЛЕНИЕ о реабилитации советских корейцев

Ссылки
 Записки о корейцах. Сайт «Корё сарам»
 Информационный портал корейцев СНГ АРИРАН.РУ
 Корееведение на сайте «Максима Мошкова»
 Корейцы в Энциклопедическом словаре Брокгауза и Ефрона
 Ким Ге Ро. Рассвет на закате. Воспоминания и размышления советского корейца

История Кореи
Народы России

Корейцы в России


The frequency of U.S. federal and state securities class actions (SCA) have been increasing markedly in recent years. At the time of writing, there have already been 372 suits filed so far.
There are several drivers of this growth, but principal among them is the shift of venue of merger objection lawsuits – lawsuits filed by dissatisfied shareholders of a company that is soon to be or has recently been acquired by another company – from the State Court of Delaware to Federal Courts, mainly the Second and Third circuit.
This shift began about three years ago, after several Delaware judges voiced their disinclination to rule in favor of plaintiffs in these cases. Actions started being filed in Second and Third circuit courts, which have, thus far, been seen as more open to such claims.
It is now fair to say that there is a high chance that mergers and acquisitions involving U.S.-traded entity will result in a federal security class action being filed.
While the vast majority – more than 90% – of these claims are dismissed, there is still a hefty price tag attached to defending these actions. And these claims can hit D&O programs.
Even if we take merger objection suits out of the equation, the number of what we might call "core" SCA filings is still at heightened levels – about 55% higher than the ten-year-average.
And it isn't just domestic issuers that are on the hook for these claims. While just 17.1% of companies listed on U.S. exchanges are registered outside of the U.S., they accounted for 25.5% of SCA activity in 2017.
Another driver of the record number of SCAs has been the emergence of second and third tier of U.S. plaintiff law firms. This trend began after the global financial crisis of 2007, when the major "white shoe" firms – those in the top tier – became heavily occupied with large cases, creating a bottleneck. This created an opportunity for new entrants to litigate some of the cases their more established counterparts were unable to take on.
In the intervening years, those financial crisis-related cases have begun to dry up. Nature abhors a vacuum, and these emergent law firms now compete for a smaller pool of strong cases, while working hard to put together class actions whenever there is a fall in stock price or a hint of a misstatement in company disclosures.
The effect of this has been two-fold. Not only has it led to a higher frequency of class actions, but also a higher rate of dismissal – because of a deterioration in the underlying strength of the cases being brought. In the first half of 2018, more than two-thirds (67%) of cases were dismissed, compared with 46% in the whole of 2017.
If we delve deeper, we begin to see the effect that this trend has had on smaller companies with U.S. listings.
While plaintiff firms used to focus on those larger companies that might be deemed to have "deeper pockets," the need for law firms to maintain a pipeline of cases means there has been a rise in actions against small or micro-cap companies. A significant number of these cases are dismissed. But the prevailing soft market conditions have meant that self-insured retentions have been eroded to the point that defence costs, even in cases where claims are dismissed, fall upon the D&O program.
At the same time, U.S. defence attorney rates are rising, which again means that cases that might previously have been expected to have been contained within self-retention levels are busting through to the D&O program.
Of course, this leads underwriters and brokers to question both pricing and retention levels. It affects the overall health of the D&O market and is something clients must be aware of too.
On top of this, a recent judgement is also affecting the D&O landscape and the underlying risk for directors and officers.
Earlier this year, in the case of Cyan Inc. vs Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cases alleging breaches of sections 11 and 12 (a) of the 1933 Securities Act cannot be removed from the jurisdiction of state courts. Previously, these cases could be brought in either federal or state courts, but defence attorneys frequently succeeded in moving them to federal courts, often by consolidating complaints.
Federal court judges have many years' experience of dealing with these cases, but their state court counterparts more often than not do not. This could have implications for the D&O market. State court judges might be more inclined to hear cases that the federal judiciary would likely have dismissed, for example. Or they could award significantly higher damage awards than the federal courts. It's not yet certain how this will all turn out. But it's possible that there may be extra pressure on defendants to settle claims – that might otherwise be expected to be dismissed – early. Or defendants may find themselves bearing the costs of going though discovery.
Anecdotally, the outcome for defendants is less favourable in state court, and there is a lower dismissal rate – this is particularly true of California state court cases.
Clients with U.S. listings will be keeping an eye on all of these developments. And as we head towards what might be a tipping point in the D&O pricing cycle, brokers and underwriters must ensure they are prepared for any changes in the D&O marketplace.


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Sheriff Jacob Bell was shot and killed while attempting to arrest an escapee from the Massillon State Hospital.
He and a deputy arrived at a home to take the suspect into custody but the man began to run. Sheriff Bell chased after him and was about to catch him when the man suddenly turned and shot the sheriff in the chest with a 16-gauge shotgun at a distance of less than three feet. Sheriff Bell was able to walk into the residence but died within an hour. The suspect was located by a posse and shot and killed.
Sheriff Bell had served with the Holmes County Sheriff's Department for almost four years. He was survived by his wife.
NEVER FORGET! On behalf of the Westerville, Ohio Division of Police, we honor the dedicated service and ultimate sacrifice of Sheriff Jacob Bell of the Holmes County Sheriff's Department, Ohio and the additional 54 American Peace Officers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice on this date in history.


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