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Best Strategy Games 2022
Want to play a new strategy game, but don't know which one? Here is a list of the absolute BEST ones to play now.
Strategy games come with a rich history, one that's filled with many long-running franchises that have stood the test of time.
However, for every established series, you'll find a new contender looking to throw their hat in the race by providing new challenges and satisfying gameplay.
Here, we'll be highlighting the best strategy games to play in 2022, including a mix of both strategy staples and recent releases.
Make sure to check back as we continue to update this list with new games and while you're here, consider reading through our other curated lists:
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Developer: Spiderling Studios
There aren't many physics-based strategy games outside of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, which functions more so as a parody of the genre. While T.A.B.S. uses overexaggerated physics for comedic effect, Besiege swings the pendulum in the complete opposite direction in order to make things feel as realistic as possible.
The game tasks you with clearing 54 single-player scenarios using an open-ended medieval siege engine. There's a lot of room for creativity since contraptions can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and be outfitted with all sorts of medieval weaponry ranging from cannons to giant flails.
An online mode also lets you battle against other players in custom arenas or team up against the AI.
Developer: Shiny Shoe
Monster Train is a deck-building roguelike that sees you using tactical strategies to defend yourself across three-vertical battlefields located on a moving train. Set in a world where hell has frozen over, you play as five monster clans on a mission to reclaim the underworld from the forces of heaven.
Each run has you guiding your train down alternate paths that offer unique rewards and challenges.
Combat is turn-based and features card-battling mechanics that allow you to mix and match minions and spells from each clan in order to win battles. Clans can also be leveled up over the course of the game, unlocking new cards for you to add to your deck.
There's a great deal of variety when it comes to deck combinations, random events, and even battling due to the game's three-tier design, totaling for a highly replayable strategy game.
Yes, Your Grace
Developer: Brave At Night
Platforms: PC, XB1, Switch
Yes, Your Grace is a medieval kingdom management RPG that forces you to make tough calls as your country's leader. The game is set in a fantasy world inspired by Slavic folklore and sees you taking on the role of King Eryk as he juggles his kingdom's resources and battles rivaling nations.
Each day, villagers will come to your throne looking for advice or solutions to their unique problems. While some of them are genuinely in need, others may have their own interests in mind. Since resources are extremely limited, it's up to you to decide who's being honest and who's looking for an easy payday.
Total War: Three Kingdoms
Developer: Creative Assembly
It seems like the Total War series has been dominating the real-time strategy PC scene for as long as we can remember.
And while Creative Assembly has released some lengthy entries in the past, such as Total War: Rome I & II, none are on the same level of scale and scope as 2019's Three Kingdoms, set during the Three Kingdoms period in China lasting from 220-280 AD.
In it, you play as one of eleven rivaling factions tasked with defeating the remaining ones to become China's new ruler. Improvements to the game's UI and enemy AI behavior make for more immersive RTS battles with less time spent in menus than on the actual battlefield.
Stoneshard
Developer: Ink Stains Games
Platforms: PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
For players who really want a challenge, Stoneshard offers an unforgiving open-world in the form of Aldor. This war-torn region consists of villages left in ruins, abandoned roads, and treacherous dungeons filled with monsters. However, enemies are only one of the many obstacles you'll encounter.
While exploring Aldor's environments, you'll be at the mercy of the game's survival mechanics, which see require you to treat bleeding wounds, relieve pain with alcohol and drugs, and monitor your character's mental health should they start to go insane.
A character development system allows you to experiment with over 100 different abilities free from any kind class or level restrictions.
Bad North
Developer: Plausible Concept
Bad North is a challenging RTS rogue-lite with some elements of tower defense. In it, you're tasked with defending a series of small islands from Viking invaders using an array of specialized units.
As you progress and win battles, commanders with unique traits and expertise will offer to join you in battle, providing an opportunity to diversify your units and devise new strategies.
While its charming, minimalist presentation may lead you to believe otherwise, Bad North is brutally difficult, with even the slightest slip-up having the potential to cause your downfall. Interestingly, the game provides you with some tools to give yourself some breathing room, such as save slots, adjustable difficulty, and the ability to replay levels.
Enabling each of these is entirely options but goes a long way towards removing the repetition associated with progressing in a rogue-lite.
SteamWorld Quest
Developer: Image & Form
Platform: PC, Switch
SteamWorld Quest is card-strategy RPG developed and published by Swedish developer Image & Form, best known for the SteamWorld series which Quest belongs to. In it, you guide a party of courageous heroes across a steampunk fantasy-inspired world as they set out to conquer a host of evil beings.
The game features turn-based card-battling mechanics and includes over 100 unique cards that can be used to deal damage, provide buffs/debuffs, and manipulate the order of attacks. There's a great deal of flexibility in terms of fleshing out your party and coming up with multiple strategies.
Developer: Subset Games
Platforms: PC, Switch
Into the Breach is a strategy game developed and published by Subset Games, and the second title to come from the studio, their first being 2012's FTL: Faster Than Light. The game is set in a far future where humanity is fighting against an army of monsters known collectively as the Vek.
Gameplay has you engaging in turn-based battles through the use of soldier-operated mechs that can be equipped with a variety of weapons and armor. Similar to FTL, the game is split up into sequences that take place across a number of islands, each with their own procedurally-generated mission scenarios.
Developer: Mega Crit
Platforms: PC, PS4, XB1, Switch, Android, iOS
Slay the Spire is a Roguelike card-strategy game developed by American studio MegaCrit and published by Humble Bundle. At the beginning of each playthrough, the game has you select from one of three predetermined characters, each with their own starting conditions that affect the quantity of health, gold, and cards players begin with.
The aim of the game is to make your way through several levels of a spire, with each level having a number of potential encounters determined by a branching path and culminating in a boss battle.
During each run you'll come across campfires that allow you to heal or upgrade cards, shopkeepers that offer cards you can buy, chests with random loot, and random choice-based encounters.
Developer: Firaxis
Platforms: PC, PS4, XB1
XCOM 2 is a turn-based tactics game and the sequel to the 2012 series reboot, XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Set 20 years after the events of Enemy Unknown, it sees you controlling an army of military rebels as they defend themselves from the aliens.
New for the sequel is the Avenger, a mobile base that's used to give out commands to squad members in battles and conduct research between missions, uncovering new gadgets, weapons, and technologies.
The game also includes customization tools that allow you to rename units, tweak certain soldier personality traits, and change the appearance of guns/armor.
An expansion called The War of the Chosen was released in 2017, adding new enemies, hero characters, and mission modifiers to the base game.
Platforms: PC, PS4, XB1, Switch, iOS
Civilization VI stands out among its predecessors for managing to build on the best parts of Civ V without losing focus of the series' core principles. As with other iterations, the player's goal is to lead their fledgling civilization from an early settlement through many millennia to become a world power and achieve one of many victory conditions.
Among Civ VI's changes is a shift in art style, resulting in leaders that appear more vibrant than in previous games, as well as the ability to "unstack" cities in order to reduce crowding on maps.
The game is highly regarded for its breadth of content and deep gameplay mechanics, with its latest Gathering Storm expansion adding in-game natural disasters as a new obstacle for players to tackle.
Developer: Mohawk Games
Coming from the mind of Soren Johnson, Lead Designer for Civilization IV, Offworld Trading Company is an economics-focused RTS that sees you competing against other corporations for control over Mars' resources following the planet's colonization.
Similar to Civ, the game lets you start out as one of many different leaders, or 'CEOs', each possessing their own distinct traits and abilities.
Navigating the game's player-driven market is can prove quite challenging, often forcing you to make tough calls on what resources to buy up and which to sell as prices are constantly in flux.
OTC boasts a robust single-player campaign with tons of replayability as well as a multiplayer mode that supports up to eight players.
Wargroove
Developer: Chucklefish
Wargroove is a turn-based tactics game developed and published by Chucklefish that heavily draws inspiration from the Advance Wars series. The 2D game takes place in a fantasy setting and sees players taking control of one of thirteen unique commanders, each with their own campaign, motivations, and personality.
Every commander also has a special move called a "Groove", which can be activated when a meter is completely filled. Every Groove is unique and alters the battlefield in different ways, making for some interesting battles.
Aside from a campaign mode, the game features the ability to craft custom maps, cutscenes, and scenarios using an in-game editor.
Jupiter Hell
Developer: ChaosForge
Jupiter Hell is an indie strategy game that harkens back to classic '90s shooters while incorporating elements of roguelikes and turn-based battlers.
The game takes place on one of Jupiter's moons and sees you controlling a stranded space marine as he wages war with an army of demonic enemies.
Each run sees you blasting your way through a variety of procedurally-generated military space bases and mining colonies brimming with enemies and loot.
Although the game is more action-focused than most strategy titles, enemies only advance when you do, giving you the option to stop and carefully plan out your next move.
Developer: Snapshot Games
Phoenix Point is a turn-based tactics game from the original creator of X-COM, which the game is a spiritual successor to. Set in the future during the year 2047, it sees you commanding an elite military force as the human race scrambles to defend earth from invading aliens.
Missions task you with defending military bases around the globe as hordes of aliens approach from all sides. While a majority of the battling takes place in the form of small-scale skirmishes, battles against giant suped-up bosses help spice things up and may even catch you and your team off guard.
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Poll Finds Vast Gaps in Basic Views on Gender, Race, Religion and Politics
Gary Langer, ABC News, October 28, 2013
An almost unfathomable gap divides public attitudes on basic issues involving gender, race, religion and politics in America, fueled by dramatic ideological and partisan divisions that offer the prospect of more of the bitter political battles that played out in Washington this month.
While these issues divide a variety of Americans, this poll, produced for ABC and Fusion by Langer Research Associates, finds that the gaps in nearly all cases are largest among partisan and ideological groups–so enormous and so fundamental that they seem to constitute visions of two distinctly different Americas.
• Forty-one percent overall think nonwhites have fewer opportunities than whites in society. Fifty-six percent of Democrats say so, as do 62 percent of liberal Democrats (more than the number of nonwhites themselves who say so, 51 percent). Among Republicans that dives to 25 percent.
• Just 23 percent overall say it would be a good thing if more nonwhites were elected to Congress; 73 percent instead say it makes no difference to them. Seeing this as a good thing peaks at 50 percent among liberal Democrats (far more, in this case, than the number of nonwhites themselves who say so, 29 percent). Among conservative Republicans, it's 5 percent.
• Support for legal status for undocumented immigrants, 51 percent overall, ranges from 77 percent among liberal Democrats to 32 percent among conservative Republicans. Views on this issue also show sharp differences among other groups–for example, nonwhites vs. whites, 70 vs. 43 percent; and adults younger than 40 vs. their elders, 61 vs. 47 percent.
Another result speaks to alienation more generally: Just 31 percent of Americans overall say "people like you" are well represented in Congress. It peaks among nonwhites and Democrats, but even then just at 47 and 43 percent, respectively–falling to 24 percent of whites and 27 percent of conservatives.
This ABC News/Fusion survey was produced to take a fresh look at some basic attitudes on gender, race and ethnicity, religion and politics, all fodder for the Fusion network, an ABC News/Univision joint venture to be launched Oct. 28. The network is to cover entertainment, lifestyles and news from the perspective of young, English-speaking Hispanics.
{snip} There are racial and ethnic differences in many of the attitudes measured in this survey, partly reflecting partisan predispositions. In ABC News/Washington Post poll data, 24 percent of whites call themselves Democrats and 30 percent are Republicans, while among nonwhites the gap is far wider–43 percent identify themselves as Democrats, vs. just 10 percent as Republicans.
Including people who describe themselves as independents but say they lean toward one of the two parties, the gap widens even further. Among whites, 42 percent are Democrats or lean that way; 48 percent are Republicans or Republican leaners. That compares to a 70-21 percent leaned Democrat vs. leaned Republican division among nonwhites.
Nonwhites, separately, are 11 points more apt than whites to describe themselves as liberals.
{snip} There are other differences among groups, albeit less consistently across issues. For example, support for legal status for undocumented immigrants is considerably higher among whites who've gone through college vs. those who have not, 53 vs. 37 percent. The less-educated group may feel a greater sense of economic vulnerability.
Similarly, 54 percent of nonwhites say it'd be good to elect more women, compared with 38 percent of whites. Interestingly, nonwhites are less apt to say it would be a good thing to elect more nonwhites to Congress (as noted above, 29 percent) than they are to say the same about women. Still fewer whites, 20 percent, see electing more nonwhites as a good thing.
Views on electing more women and nonwhites, it should be noted, don't necessarily translate into a sense that doing so would ease future budget disputes. A quarter of Americans think a more diverse Congress would make future negotiations easier (37 percent of liberals, vs. 10 percent of conservatives). Few think it would make things worse. But 66 percent think it'd make no difference either way.
Topics: Multiculturalism and Diversity, Race and Entertainment, Race and Politics
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La iglesia de Santiago Apóstol es una iglesia neogótica, templo parroquial de Sama de Langreo (Asturias).

Historia

El templo inmediatamente anterior se dedicaba a San Eulogio, similar al actual pero más sencillo y de menor altura, construido en el siglo XIX con motivo del crecimiento demográfico de la zona gracias a la industria. Antes de éste había una capilla en la que probablemente fue coronado el rey Aurelio como rezaron unas lápidas encontradas durante su demolición. Sin embargo el templo del siglo XIX fue dañado durante la Revolución de octubre de 1934 y dinamitado en la contienda civil en 1936. Tras el fin de la guerra se reconstruyó con la intervención del entonces arquitecto municipal, el prestigioso Francisco de Somolinos utilizando los cimientos de la anterior. Tras la reconstrucción se consagró a Santiago, apóstol en nombre del cual se celebran las fiestas patronales desde finales del siglo XIX, teniendo lugar la procesión cada 25 de julio. En el año 2010, y ante el deterioro del edificio, se realizó una rehabilitación gracias a la colaboración ciudadana, limpiando las fachadas y reponiendo los elementos más dañados (agujas, arbotantes, tejado...) finalizando la intervención en 2012.

Descripción
Tras la reconstrucción del templo, el resultado fue el de una iglesia de mayores dimensiones que la anterior y más esbelta, reconstruida en un estilo claramente neogoticista. El edificio se alza sobre un pódium al comienzo de la calle Dorado. Su fachada consta de una arcada formada por tres vanos apuntados. Desde el central se divisa la puerta de entrada con un tímpano y la Virgen de Covadonga. A cada lado de la fachada se alzan dos torres de aguja inspiradas en la Catedral de Oviedo. Entre ellas se dispone una balaustrada, un rosetón y la figura de Santiago para rematar la estructura con una cruz latina. Tanto las torres como los laterales se decoran con arcos apuntados, arbotantes y pináculos.  En el campanario de la torre derecha existen unos grabados traídos del Santuario del Carbayu que datan de 1630. En el interior se distinguen tres naves, finalizando la central en el altar mayor, donde se encuentra un elaborado retablo neobarroco de 1953.

En la entrada existía una inscripción en el que se leía Caídos por Dios y por España, la cual fue desfigurada en 2002 por un grupo de personas. Tras la reparación de la iglesia en 2010 esta inscripción fue eliminada.

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Referencias

Santiago Sama
Iglesias neogóticas de España
Iglesias de España de los años 1940
Edificios religiosos terminados en 1942
Langreo
Arquitectura de España de 1942
Sama

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*WHO ARE THE FIRED MINNEAPOLIS OFFICERS CHARGED AFTER GEORGE FLOYD'S KILLING?
On Wednesday, all four fired Minneapolis police officers present during the killing of George Floyd learned they would face prosecution for their alleged roles in his homicide. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that, two days after taking over the case, the initial third-degree murder charge filed against former cop Derek Chauvin would be amended to include second-degree unintentional murder. Chauvin also still faces a single manslaughter charge. Ellison further revealed the other three other officers who were at the scene, all of whom have lost their jobs, would be arrested. Here is what we know about the four accused men, the charges against them, and what roles authorities allege they played in the homicide.
Derek Michael Chauvin, 44
Chauvin, according to a probable cause statement is charged with second-degree murder. The allegations indicate prosecutors believe Chauvin committed third-degree felony assault against Floyd as he was arresting him. Chauvin can be seen in bystander-filmed video of the Memorial Day arrest putting his full weight on Floyd's neck — all while he was handcuffed and facedown on his stomach. Police alleged Floyd tried to use a counterfeit bill; he was unarmed at the time of his arrest. "Officer Chauvin's restraint of Mr. Floyd in this manner for a prolonged period was a substantial causal factor in Mr. Floyd losing consciousness, constituting substantial bodily harm, and Mr. Floyd's death as well," reads the probable cause statement. Chauvin, who'd been a Minneapolis officer for 19 years, is also charged with second-degree manslaughter for acting negligently and creating an unreasonable risk to Floyd. The Associated Press reports that Chauvin trained as a cook, and served in the Army as a military police officer prior to taking the police exam. Chauvin joined the department in 2001, and received 12 formal complaints. Only one of those incidents has been detailed publicly. In 2007, the AP reports, Chauvin was accused of pulling a woman from her car during a standard speeding stop. Investigators reportedly determined Chauvin used unnecessary force during the arrest, and he was reprimanded for not having the video camera in his squad car on during the stop. According to theStar-Tribune, Chauvin did receive commendations for bravery in both 2006 and 2008. In both cases, Chauvin disabled armed suspects with gunfire. Two more honors came in 2008 and 2009, for tackling a fleeing suspect and taking alleged gang members into custody while working an off-duty job at the same Minneapolis nightclub that employed Floyd. His wife filed for divorce shortly after his arrest, and she intends on legally changing her last name.If convicted on all three charges, he faces 75 years in prison.
Thomas Kiernan Lane, 37
Lane, one of the two officers who helped pin Floyd to the sidewalk, faces 50 years in prison after being charged Wednesday with aiding and abetting unintentional second-degree murder while committing a felony and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. The charges allege Lane "intentionally aided, advised, hired counseled, or conspired" with Chauvin and the other officers in "causing the death of a human being, George Floyd, without intent to effect the death of any person, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense." Lane, the Star-Tribune reports, joined the Minneapolis police department in early 2019, and had only officially become an officer six months ago. He had no complaints in his file during his short time on the force. Lane graduated from the University of Minnesota and did volunteer work tutoring Somali youth. Floyd was restrained and press to the pavement for nearly 9 minutes. For several minutes, Floyd can be heard on video groaning in pain. He repeatedly tells the officers he can't breathe, and at one point, he calls out to his mother for help. Witnesses begged the police to let up on Floyd. Instead, Chauvin adjusted his position as Floyd struggled to turn his head. J. Alexander
Kueng, 26
Like Lane, Kueng was charged with aiding and abetting unintentional second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. He faces 50 years in prison if convicted on both counts. Another recent recruit to the Minneapolis force, Kueng completed his year's probationary period just three months ago. His personnel file does not include any commendations or disciplinary actions during his short time on force, according to the AP. Kueng was a 2018 graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he worked part-time as part of the campus security force. Floyd's autopsy from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner determined he died of "cardiopulmonary arrest" — or heart failure — "complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression." The autopsy does not mention asphyxiation, which was listed as the cause of death in the independent autopsy the family commissioned that was performed by Dr. Michael Baden. Baden ruled Floyd died due to "asphyxiation from sustained pressure." The Hennepin County autopsy report states Floyd had fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cannabinoids in his system at the time of his death. None of those substances factored into his death, which was ruled a homicide. He had also tested positive for the coronavirus, which also did not factor in his death. The medical examiner's report further details blunt-force injuries Floyd had sustained to the skin of his head as well as his face and upper lip. His hands, shoulders, and elbows also shows signs of bruising, as did his wrists, from the compression caused by the handcuffs.
Tou Thao, 34
Authorities charged Thao with aiding and abetting unintentional second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. He, too, faces 50 years in prison if convicted on all counts. KARE reports Thao joined the Minneapolis police on a part-time basis in 2008, while he finished up community college. Before that, he worked as a security guard, a supermarket stocker and trainer at McDonald's. According to city records, six complaints were filed against Thao. The details of those complaints have never been made public by the department. However, a 2017 lawsuit filed in federal court shows he was accused of using excessive force in the 2014 arrest of a man. The suit accuses Thao and his partner of stopping the man as he was making his way to his girlfriend's house. The man claimed he was beaten by the officers, forcing him "to suffer broken teeth." The lawsuit was settled for $25,000.
*HOW MISINFORMATION SPREADS-VACCINE OPPONENTS ARE GAINING IN FACEBOOK "BATTLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS":
A first-of-its-kind analysis of more than 1300 Facebook pages with nearly 100 million followers has produced a network map that's alarming public health professionals. Antivaccine pages have fewer followers than pro-vaccine pages but are more numerous, faster growing, and increasingly more connected to undecided pages, the study finds. If the current trends continue, the researchers predict, antivaccine views will dominate online discussion in 10 years—a time when a future vaccine against COVID-19 may be critical to public health. "The reds are winning," says anthropologist Heidi Larson, who directs the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, referring to the color of antivaccine Facebook pages on the new paper's map. "They are covering a lot more ground with fewer of them." The online pages are "a battle for hearts and minds, and there was no map of that battlefield at the system level," says first author Neil Johnson, a data scientist at George Washington University who previously mapped the online behavior of hate groups and the Islamic State group. "We set out to take a look at that. And we were shocked."
For their study, Johnson and his colleagues first identified Facebook pages as pro- or antivaccine based on their content. They further identified engaged but undecided pages by their content or by the fact that the administrators of the pages had "liked," or been "liked" by, pro- or antivaccine pages. They found 124 pro-vaccine pages, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with a combined total of 6.9 million followers. They found 317 antivaccine pages, such as RAGE Against the Vaccines, with a total of 4.2 million followers. And they identified 885 pages, such as Breastfeeding Moms in KY, with 74.1 million followers. The researchers next counted each page's links to other vaccine-discussing pages, and those pages' links to still others, a method called snowball sampling. A software program turned the data into a map in which pages are represented as circular nodes, sized proportionally to their number of followers and represented as red (antivaccine), blue (pro-vaccine), or green (undecided). Highly connected nodes occupy more central places on the map.
*NEW STUDY SHOWS RIOTS MAKE AMERICA CONSERVATIVE:
Examining county-level voting patterns, the survey that black-led protests in which some violence occurs are associated with a statistically significant decline in Democratic vote-share in the 1964, 1968 and 1972 presidential elections. Black-led nonviolent protests, by contrast, exhibit a statistically significant positive relationship with county-level Democratic vote-share in the same period. Further, I find that in the 1968 presidential election exposure to violent protests caused a decline in Democratic vote-share. Examining counterfactual scenarios in the 1968 election, I estimate that fewer violent protests are associated with a substantially increased likelihood that the Democratic presidential nominee, Hubert Humphrey, would have beaten the Republican nominee, Richard Nixon. As African Americans were strongly identified with the Democratic party in this time period, my results suggest that, in at least some contexts, political violence by a subordinate group may contribute to a backlash among segments of the dominant group and encourage outcomes directly at odds with the preferences of the protestors.
*SCIENTIST DISCOVER SO-CALLED 'SKINNY GENE':
We all know that one person who can eat whatever they like and never gain a pound. Ice cream at 2 in the morning? Bring it on. A third, or fourth, slice of pizza? Sure, why not. For the rest of us, the genetic perks that these individuals enjoy can be frustrating to say the least. Now, a groundbreaking new international study appears to have zeroed in on the so-called "skinny gene" that help keep such individuals thin. Scientists from Austria, Canada, and Estonia say that lower, or deficient, levels of the gene Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) are significantly linked to skinniness and bodily resistance to weight gain. Why some people eat as much as they want and stay lean while others can't. In mice, genetic deletion of ALK resulted in thin animals with marked resistance to diet induced obesity while food intake was not changed. The researchers found that ALK in the hypothalamus controls energy expenditure via sympathetic control of adipose tissue lipolysis. Most research projects focusing on weight loss and gain search for genes that cause obesity.
This study is novel due to the fact that it focuses specifically for a gene linked to thinness instead. Using an Estonian population sample of more than 47,000 people, the study's authors performed a series of genome-wide association studies. By comparing especially thin people's genes to individuals of an average weight, they were able to pick out ALK. Up until now, ALK has really only been known for the role it plays in some cancers, as it tends to mutate in numerous forms of cancer. That being said, its physiological purpose has always remained a mystery. To test their theory that diminished levels of ALK are responsible for genetic skinniness, the research team performed an experiment in which they "deactivated" the ALK genes in a group of mice. To the researchers' surprise, those mice immediately became skinnier despite continuing with the same diets and activity levels.
*NEARLY HALF OF TWITTER ACCOUNTS DISCUSSING CORONAVIRUS ARE LIKELY BOTS:
Nearly half of the Twitter accounts sharing information about the novel coronavirus are likely bots, according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Researchers analyzed more than 200 million tweets discussing coronavirus or COVID-19 since January. They found that nearly half were sent by accounts that behave more like a convincing bot than an actual human. Of the top 50 influential retweeters, 82% were likely bots, the research showed. Out of the top 1,000 retweeters, 62% were likely bots. More than 100 types of inaccurate COVID-19 stories were identified by researchers, including misinformation about potential cures and conspiracy theories — such as hospitals being filled with mannequins or the coronavirus being linked to 5G towers. Researchers said bots are also dominating conversations about ending stay-at-home orders and "reopening America." The team said it was too early to point to specific entities that may be behind the bots "attempting to influence online conversation." "We do know that it looks like it's a propaganda machine, and it definitely matches the Russian and Chinese playbooks, but it would take a tremendous amount of resources to substantiate that," Kathleen Carley, a professor in the School for Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, said in a statement.
*OPEN LETTER FROM ACTRESS NICOLE BRANDON:
"WHAT CAN WE DO AS ACTORS TO SPREAD LOVE, ACCEPTANCE, RESPECT TO EACH OTHER & MAKE REAL CHANGE IN THE WORLD?"
My heart is breaking today. To watch the world, to watch people be divided instead of standing as one. One being, one humanity, one heart, one world, one love. I remember, I was on a date after 9/11, we were at dinner and my date asked me; if you were the President and 9/11 happened, what would be the very first thing you would do. I would cry, I answered. You would cry; he asked. Yes, I said. I would not vote for you; he said. Of course I told him, I would take steps towards unity and peace but first, the first thing I would do, is cry. Today is no different. Any caring being aches today from inside. No man or woman of any race or color should ever feel less than or compromised. How do we let that happen? In our world, under our care and watch.
I was reminded today of a Disney movie that changed my life, called the Color of Friendship. It was released in 2000 and takes place in 1977. The movie recounts the actual events and the flourishing friendship between two girls one from the United States and the other from apartheid South Africa. The film is based on the Dellums family who hosted a white South African teen as an exchange student. Their fears, the raw truths, the unfolding of dreams and their friendship is beautiful to watch. It's so heartfelt to watch these girls unlearn untruths and come together as best friends sharing teen years and learning from one another that friendship is not the color of your skin, or where you're from, friendship is a bond between people, who care and truly know how to love. Today I received an email that touched me so deeply from Erin Elizabeth Burns the entire email reminded me why I love her so much. This is an excerpt from her email. It pertains to all of us not just actors, may it move you as I was moved and may we all come together in peace harmony and love. There are resources listed here, use them, go to them, reach out and make a difference.
We can support films with a message.
We can educate ourselves.
We can donate to Anti-Racial organizations.
We can write scripts on these topics.
We can listen.
Resources that other leaders I respect have recommended:
Black Lives Matters
You are valued. You are loved. You are accepted here
Nothing can brighten a day more than peace, unity, oneness and love. I close this post with my favorite male dancer of all time. He has broken through every barrier of society, and old beliefs and archaic ideas. He is stunning in every way and his smile is the most radiant smile, he effervesces joy. Even in the darkest hour, he stands up tall and he himself is the beacon and light. I love you Christopher Charles McDaniel. Thank you for the beauty you bring to the world. Thank you all for sharing your own individual lights. Black Lives Matter. All Lives Matter and as Erin so poignantly said; You are valued. You are Loved. You are not only accepted here, you are here within my heart. Peace everyone – Be kind to one another, and ask; what would love do and Just Love.
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Before the pandemic, an estimated 5 to 7 percent of Americans were suffering from depression.
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I'M AN ADULT WHO IS CONSTANTLY MISTAKEN FOR A 12-YEAR OLD. THIS IS WHAT MY LIFE IS LIKE
I was at the airport, waiting for a TSA full-body scan, when the woman managing the line asked me, "Are you old enough to go in the scanner?" I stared at her face and wished I had the luxury to be surprised by her question. I was 30 years old. Full-body scans are a requirement for everyone once they've turned 12. I have always been small compared to my peers. As a child, I was consistently one of the shortest in my class, lagging behind the others when we ran laps in gym. I would get asked if I was one or two years younger than my age, which irritated me but only to a point. On good days, I'd imagine myself as Cinderella due to my uncommonly small shoe size. Once I became older, the perceived gap increased dramatically. My friends filled out while I remained spindly. I was given the freshman nickname "Itty-Bitty," and people began calling me "tiny" as a matter of course. As far as I know, I have no growth hormone deficiency or underlying condition other than being petite. But, I do have a confluence of genetic markers that signal youth: a round face, slight bone structure, minimal chest definition, and wide eyes. These are all features I can't change.
I also have relatives on both sides who hover around the 5-foot mark. My mother, too, is narrow in frame, and early in her marriage she was often mistaken for my father's daughter. Getting IDed is a matter of course for me: "That's really your age? Are you sure? Hahaha, you must get IDed all the time!" I've taken the advice of loved ones ― and nosy strangers ― and tried responding to comments like these with humor, but the people asking the questions have merely looked confused. I have attempted to improve my confidence and posture with little effect; it's hard to stand tall when I have to look up to speak to everyone, no matter how straight my spine. "You're so lucky," people tell me as they roll their eyes jealously whenever I mention getting IDed or mistaken for a preteen. I want to tell them that they'd change their minds if they were the ones who had heard infantilizing remarks for over three decades. Would they enjoy repeatedly being mistaken for a date's child or asked if they were old enough to sit in an airplane's exit row? (At least the minimum age for that is 15.)
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Ever since Elton John started on the road to superstardom, there have been authors writing books about his public and personal life. This page catalogs the various biographies and other related books written about Elton John. Some of the entries here are second printings or from different countries written in different languages, but all of them have unique cover designs. They are presented here in chronological order of year published. Some books still in print have links to purchase the book from Amazon.com.
Title: Five Years Of Fun
Author: Robert Hilburn
publisher: Boutwell Enterprises, Inc.
A fully-illustrated account of Elton's superstar status after only five years as a performer and recording artist. The book was issued as a souvenir edition at Doug Weston's Troubadour in Los Angeles, August 25-27, 1975. Several of the copies were personally autographed by Elton.
Title: The Mad And The Magnificent!
publisher: 16 Magazine
A pamphlet-sized booklet that could be ordered from a teen magazine. There is no publisher, author or year printed anywhere on the pages. The discography on the last page covers Elton's catalog through "Rock Of The Westies".
Title: Elton John
Author: Cathi Stein
publisher: Futura Publications Limited
ISBN: 0-8600-72010
[description text from back cover:]
Whether he is regarded as a phenominal performer or a piano-playing clown; an audacious character or a major pop star, no one can deny the impact Elton John has made on the rock music of today. He has come a long, long way from being tubby, shy Reg Dwight of Pinner. This is the triumphant story of how Elton John soared to superstardom. Of how from cutting his first LP just six years ago he has moved into a world peopled by pop kings, littered with fabulous mansions and dominated by millions of worshipping fans.
publisher: Popular Library
ISBN: 445-03052-150
"I don't want to be known as just a rock and roll gimmick act. With all the jumping around I do, one of these days I'm going to topple over and go straight through the piano," Elton told Circus Magazine.
Just a pudgy little lad from Middlesex, England, Elton soared to superstardom on a rocket powered piano. This is the touching inside story of his flight from obscurity to a world of mansions, madness and millions.
Title: Elton John A Biography
A short biography pamphlet originally offered through a magazine mail order. Includes a UK discography through the Blue Moves album.
publisher: Niro Dečje Novine
Country: Yugoslavia
The Cathi Stein biography was translated to Slovak in 1978.
Author: Paula Taylor
publisher: Creative Educational Society
A juvenile literature story book covering the life and career of Elton John from early childhood, including his days with Bluesology, his partnership with Bernie Taupin, and on to his superstar fame of the 1970s. Illustrations by John Keely.
Title: A Conversation With Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Author: Paul Gambaccini
publisher: Gage Publishing Limited
Elton John has never before spoken so frankly about himself. In this unusual and revealing book, he tells Paul Gambaccini of his not-so-easy rise to the top of the pop-music scene. He talks about his childhood, about studying at the Royal Academy, his first love, his work, and the famous personalities who inhabit his world. He tells, too, of his meeting with Bernard Taupin, who shares many inside anecdotes also about the music world and those who make it up.
Backing up the intriguing, full-length interviews are scores of exlusive photographs, many never before published. Also included is a discography of Elton John's albums.
Born in 1949, Paul Gambaccini attended Dartmouth College and Oxford University. He has managed a commercial radio station, edited for Rolling Stone, written for New Music Express, broadcast on UPI's Audio Network and interviewed such diverse personalities as Richard Nixon and Paul McCartney.
Title: Elton John and Bernie Taupin
publisher: Star Books
ISBN: 0-352-300582
"I said if I'm going to be a singer, I can't be Reg Dwight. So I pinched Elton Dean's name nad John Baldry's and said, 'Oh... Elton John, there you go'!" That's how the name happened. Here in his own words is how this phenomenon exploded upon the world's music scena and continued to develop and increase his following over a huge cross-section of the record-buting public.
Elton John has never spoken so frankly about himself. He tells of the hard road from tea-boy at a music publishers to the summit of his chosen profession. He reveals that he studied music at the Royal Academy... talks about his first love... and the way it ended. He tells, too, of his meeting with lyricist Bernie Taupin (the other half of the team who also has some no-punches-pulled things to say about the pop world).
The text, which includes a discography of Elton's singles and albums, is backed up by 16 pages of exclusive photographs.
Title: Elton John Showman
Author: Alan Radnor
publisher: Quill Books
binding: embossed softcover
[description text from foreword:]
He is the biggest music artist in the world at the moment - perhaps the biggest te world has ever seen. Fans will queue for hours in the chance of getting a seat for one of his concerts. Admirers call him the greatest influence on music since the Beatles. Other rate him higher - I know one fan who claims that not since Mozart started composing at the age of four, has the world seem such genius as that of Elton John.
He is also one of the most talked-about and written-about artist in the world. A book of press-cuttings would fill thousands of pages. Radio dee-jays praise him, damn him, try to interpret him.
One music writer said to me: "You can't classify Elton John. He's a freak. Something that happens in the music business once every so often.
It is his unpredictability that makes many call him an enigma, a puzzle, but the simple truth is that his inspiration comes of the moment. Also, as a showman, he enjoys himself enormously. He doesn't take himself too seriously, but he does create his music seriously. The showmanship, the clothes, the fooling about are all part of the frills - the cream on the cake of success.
Elton John is a freak, a phenomenon who cannot be slotted into any particular category. He is a phenomenon in the same way as Elvis Presley and the Beatles were phenomena. Their appeal was not to any easily identifiable audience, and their influence will remain long after they have stopped recording.
It is because of Elton John's wide range of music, his amazing diversity, that he has become an enigma, and erratic genius, producing albums which are always different, usually astounding.
He is a phenomenon of our time, who reflects and captures the whole spectrum of pop music over the past twenty years.
But even phenomena have roots and beginnings.
Title: The One Who Writes the Words for Elton John
Author: Bernie Taupin
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
ISBN: 394-40506-4
A complete collection of lyrics that Bernie had written as a partner with Elton John, during the period from 1968 to the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album. Fully illustrated including a cover design by Alan Aldridge.
Title: Reginald Dwight And Company
Author: Linda Jacobs
publisher: EMC Corporation
A junior high school scholastic book that covers Elton's life and musicianship during the early years of his career. Includes a brief foreword by Elton John. Issued in both hardback and softcover.
Author: Dick Tatham and Tony Jasper
publisher: Octobus Books Limited
ISBN: 0-7064-0548-X
[description text from overleaf:]
Elton John is one of the greatest superstars of all time, one of the most amazing live performers and a world-stature recording artist with sensational sales. Why? This book tells you the real story of how Elton Hercules John, the boy from an ordinary London suburb, became an ouststanding name in music not just in England, not just in the States but throughout the world. The multi-million record sales and frenzied receptions at concerts everywhere don't just happen. The story behind this unique and extraordinary genius and those who are associated with his fabulous success, like oustanding lyric-writer, Bernie Taupin, is amazing.
publisher: Phoebus Publishing Co
binding: magazine softcover
Elton John is a superstar. There can be no dispute about the fact. He is one of those rare performers who transcends mere stardom and soar into another stratum. The proof of his achievements are easily seen - the vast sales for each disc that hits the market, the queues for evert personal appearance, the scenes of hysteria that greet him and the attention he commands in the media. This book is about Elton Hercules John; it cronicles his extraordinary career from obscurity to global acclaim, it analyzes his potent charisma, it discusses his enormous musical talents. And it goes further, revealing in detail the men behind Elton. In these pages there are biographical portraits of his closest colleagues - Bernie Taupin, the perfect lyrical file to Elton's Music, Dee, Nigel, Davey and Ray, the men who bring his work so vividly to life.
This lavishly illustrated book shows you Elton John in all his moods, shows you the man and the superstar in every phase if his life and career, providing a unique insight to a rare and exceptional talent.


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The Real Meaning of Valentine's Day
09 Feb, 2016 · BY Don Tolman · 2 comments
Valentines Day – Is There A Deeper Meaning?
Ever wondered why on this one random day each year, people everywhere have a contest to see who can say "I love you" with the most flair?
Valentine's Day, celebrated every year on the 14th of February, has many varied customs that help remember 3 martyred Catholic saints (we are told) and allow couples to celebrate their love for one another…but, maybe...just maybe...it's time we took a look at the deeper history of this ancient celebrated day of the "love feast"!
It's interesting to realise that Valentine's Day, though now associated with chocolates, expensive gifts, roses (symbol of Eros or Sexual Love) and sweet cards for the romantically involved or for those who want to be, originally had a different name.
Christianity Meets the Pagans (meaning "country dwelling gardeners) of the Roman Empire: Lupercalia
The non-Christian Pagan's of the Roman Empire already had a romance-related celebration in mid-February: Lupercalia.
This holiday required that all of the houses (symbol of one's body) be purified, first by sweeping and then with a sprinkling of salt and spelt, a type of wheat.
This prepared the ancients for the celebration in honour of Faunus, the god of agriculture (seeds and fertility), and Romulus and Remus, the twin gods of Rome who are given credit for building Rome on one of the 7 Hills along the Tiber River (vale means to flow as does a river…valen means to attract…entine means comes of entice/enthuseos, hence, "Valentine"…to flow with the attraction of sexual excitement.)
The origins of our modern Valentines Day was that it was an attempt to "Christianize" the pagans.
The Christians took all of the Pagan Celebrations and rewrote them to fit their own names and events.
Easter bunnies, hiding, searching and finding the eggs.
Christmas Santa's, pine trees, etc.
During this time, pagan gardeners made offerings of fresh foods as gifts to Faunus as a Love Feast, meant for couples who were not expecting a child at the time, so they could then act as "eligible singles" to then choose a new romantic partner to have a baby with for the upcoming year through a lottery process.
This practice of union going for one year or until the birth of a baby was later seen as "unchristian" and "evil" and was later outlawed by the Church.
Valentine's Day and Romance
Romance (erotic people of Rome) and Valentine's Day are usually seen as being paired together, but the specific reason for this pairing goes back to a natural observation of "Nature"…
Even during medieval times, people in England and France observed and wrote that February 14th was the beginning of the mating season for birds.
Since animals were beginning to mate and pair off, people believed that there must be in nature itself a certain romantic aspect of the day.
The first Valentine cards began appearing around 1400 and were often exchanged among friends and lovers in all social classes.
What is believed to be the first Valentine card is on display in the British Museum, I got to see it myself in the late 1970′s.
Anciently they scratched an "I love You" into the skin and peelings of foods that looked like the heart, such as mangoes, tomatoes, capsicum (bell Peppers), etc.
Then they ate the food together in a "spirit of Love".
Today, Valentine's Day is one of the biggest card-purchasing holidays in many countries, with customers buying more cards for this occasion than every other day except Christmas.
Valentine's Day is often a day shrouded in red, pink, and white hearts, Cupids with Love arrows, chocolate, as it is believed to be an aphrodisiac, unicorns and romantic gestures.
Many of the ways in which the holiday is celebrated date back to ancient and medieval times and are still present in celebrations today.
Lupercalia: Wolf Festival a Celebration of Fertility
Lupercalia, sometimes called Februatio, was part fertility rite, part purification ritual, and part festival honouring the she-wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus.
In 375 BCE the Roman birth rate was still insufficient. They dedicated a temple to the Goddess Juno in her aspect as goddess of marriage, fertility, and childbirth.
The Romans claimed she had spoken from a bush during the taking of the Sabines saying, "The sacred goat must penetrate Italy's mothers."
The Lupercalia festival began on February 15th. The Luperci (wolf priests), sacrificed two male goats and a dog at the Lupercal (the cave where the she-wolf was said to have suckled Romulus and Remus).
The dog probably represented the wolves that the wolf god Lupercus was supposed to keep at bay as a protector of herds.
Two boys were then chosen to represent the legendary twins, and brought to the cave, where the priests anointed them on the forehead with the bloodied knives used in the sacrifice. The knives were immediately wiped on goatskins soaked in milk.
The boys would then join in the race of the Luperci, clad only in goatskin loin cloths. The Luperci used strips of the sacred goats' skin, called Februa, to whip women in the streets and purify them. In this way, the women were afforded fertility and protection in childbirth.
On the eve of Lupercalia, February 14th, boys drew the names of girls by lot, sometimes pairing them as friends for months, for a year, or even as spouses for a lifetime, there was Liberty and Freedom to choose.
St. Valentine's Feast Day
Pope Gelasius I outlawed the Lupercalia festival during his papacy c. 492 CE- 496 CE and replaced it in 496 CE when he decreed February 14th as "St. Valentine's Feast Day".
There were numerous early Christian martyrs named Valentine. One legend is that the Roman Emperor Claudius II ordered young men to remain single. He believed that bachelors were better soldiers.
Valentine, a priest, secretly married young Roman lovers and was sentenced to death for his defiance of the law.
In the 1969 revision of "The Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints" St. Valentine's Feast was removed from the calendar,( as I mentioned above).
Valentine's Day in Modern Times
Most people don't think of Romulus and Remus, Roman mythology, ancient festivals, or of the early Christian church when celebrating Valentine's Day.
Today, Valentine's Day is a celebration of romance and love in all its forms.
Children, family, friends, and lovers around the world exchange notes, cards, confections, flowers, and gifts with the special people in their lives.
Few of the original customs remain with us today, but much like the ancient Roman tradition on Lupercalia Eve, February 14th is still a day of choosing.
Men and women, young and old, in many places throughout the world will ask that special someone, "Will you be my Valentine?"
At the end of the day, in the 21st Century, Valentines is a day to remember that when people get together in a Spirit of Love, Caring and Kindness it is the Highest Good.
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Such an interesting cat you are Dammit✌??
Gerry Malling
How facinating! As usual your scholarship shows through your cowboy image. Ciao.
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Not my usual end of town, Mayfair. I am very much a creature of habit, particularly where drinking is concerned. I am a local kind of girl. And, more often than not, a solitary drinker. From choice, rather than necessity, let me add. No need to get the violins out just yet.
However, it is the call of companions, which brings me to Shepherd Market and Ye Grapes. It is a pub I've been in before. Normally pretty crowded, nevertheless it is usually possible to get a table with a little patience.
Truman's Blindside is a golden ale, 4.3% ABV. The pump branded with rugby imagery, it is a limited edition beer, running throughout February and March in celebration of the Six Nations Rugby Tournament.
It is an excellent beer for being sociable. It is smooth and very drinkable; tasty without being either over-needy of attention; not forever butting into the conversation. It is the kind of beer where you are chatting and drinking and chatting and drinking and chatting and… oh, it's finished. Whose round?
Normally I can take or leave the rugby season––it was lacrosse at the school I went to––but I would be happy for the Six Nations to last all year if it extended the run of Blindside.
Beery Sue scores in Shepherd Market.


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Dr. Phillips is a staff Neuroradiologist, Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, and Dr. Shah is an Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, The University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.
The sellar region is a relatively small area of valuable "real estate" in the basicranium. This region contains critical neurovascular structures that directly cause disease processes or that are involved in the pathology as a result of the compact surroundings. This article will review relevant anatomy and important pathologic processes that involve the sellar and parasellar regions.
Advances in imaging techniques have enabled visualization of vital neural and vascular structures involving the sellar and parasellar regions.
The primary component of the sella turcica is the sphenoid bone with a component from the basiocciput. Anteriorly, it is bounded by a bony ridge, the tuberculum sella, and posteriorly by the dorsum sella and the posterior clinoid processes. The anterior clinoid processes of the lesser wing of the sphenoid are lateral to the tuberculum sella and project posteriorly. The roof of the sphenoid sinuses form the floor of the sella, and their architecture affects the floor of the sella and its reaction to pathology. A dural extension defines the superior margin, the diaphragma sella. This lines the sella turcica, envelopes the pituitary gland and forms the incomplete superior border. Laterally, there are the venous sinusoids of the cavernous sinues and middle clinoid processes are variably present.
The hypothalamus and pituitary gland are connected by important neurovascular connections. Axons of supra-optic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus traverse the infundibular stalk and extend into the neurohypophysis. The secretary granules carrying vasopression and oxytocin appear as the "bright spot" of the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland on T1-weighted unenhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Releasing and inhibiting factors produced in the neurons in the hypothalamus are transported to the adenohypophysis via the tuberhypophyseal neural tract and the hypophyseal portal system. Bilateral cavernous sinuses extend from the petrous segment of the temporal bone to the orbit and contain cranial nerves III (oculomotor), IV (trochlear), V1 (ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve), V2 (maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve) and VI (abducens). The cavernous segment of the internal carotid arteries and their meningohypophyseal trunks travel through these paired duraperiosteal spaces. The most medial structures within the cavernous sinuses are the internal carotid artery and cranial nerve VI. The other forementioned cranial nerves travel along the lateral aspects. The mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve (V3) lies external to the cavernous sinus and exits through foramen ovale vertically oriented beneath Meckel's cave. Bilateral Meckel's caves are inferolateral to each of the cavernous sinuses.
Above the sellar region lies the suprasellar cistern. Several critical structures traverse this area, including the circle of Willis, optic nerves and optic chiasm, hypothalamus, pituitary infundibulum, and the infundibular and suprachiasmatic recesses of the third ventricle.
Computed tomography (CT) is useful in the delination of the osseous margins of the sella. It is particularly helpful in evaluating the bony changes related to pathologic processes. CT may be the only option in patients who cannot have an MRI examination (e.g. those with pacemakers, incompatible hardware and severe claustrophia). Thin section 0.625 mm axial spirally acquired images can be reformatted into sagittal and coronal images. The examination may be obtained without contrast for dedicated bony assessment.
MRI provides detailed information about the contents of the sellar and parasellar regions. It is the fundamental preoperative and postoperative imaging modality. Sagittal and coronal images with a small field of view in thin sections (≤3 mm) are obtained through the sella turcica to include the parasellar structures, including the suprasellar cistern, cavernous sinuses, Meckel's cave and hypothalamus. Post-gadolinium enhanced sequences are obtained with fat saturation to improve contrast between pathology and the basicranium.
Generating differential diagnoses can be difficult because of the complexity of the structures in the sellar and suprasellar region. Dividing this region into the pituitary fossa, cavernous sinuses and the suprasellar cisterns can be helpful. However, many disease processes can involve multiple components of the sellar and parasellar region and it can sometimes be difficult to delineate the origin of large neoplasms and extensive disease processes. Identification of normal structures, such as the pituitary gland, in relation to the pathology can be helpful to determine the etiology.
Rathke's cleft cysts are congential cystic lesions in the sellar region (25%), suprasellar region (5%) or both (70%), which are lined by cuboidal or columnar cells. The MR signal intensity and CT attenuation of these lesions is variable due to the amount of proteinaceous material within them. On occasion, they can show peripheral enhancement (Figure 2).
Pituitary hyperplasia can be a physiologic manifestation during pregnancy or lactation due to hypertrophy of prolactin cells. It can also occur in the setting of hypofunction of the thyroid gland, adrenal glands, or gonads as a result of the lack of negative feedback 4 (Figure 3). Nodular or diffuse pituitary hyperplasia can also be seen as a cause of Cushing's disease.
In pituitary apoplexy syndrome (Figure 4), patients present with ophthalmoplegia, headache, and visual loss due to pituitary infarction/hemorrhage. This may occur in the setting of massive hemorrhage or tumor necrosis. Acute hemorrhage will appear hypointense on T2-weighted images with T1 hyperintensity as the hemorrhagic products evolve. 5 There is usually no hemosiderin deposition associated with pituitary hemorrhage. In the postpartum setting, insufficiency of the hypophyseal portal system can result in infarction of the adenophysis, i.e. Sheehan's syndrome.
Craniopharyngiomas arise from remnants of Rathke's pouch along the path of the craniopharyngeal canal. Most involve both the intrasellar and suprasellar compartments (70%); 10% are intrasellar and 20% are suprasellar. They can be seen in children (peak at 5-10 years) and adults (fifth through seventh decades). Craniopharyngiomas can cause symptoms such as visual disturbances, endocrine abnormalities, motor deficits and increased intracranial pressure. The main histologic subtypes are adamantinomatous and squamous papillary. Adamantinomatous subtypes are more often encountered in the suprasellar region in children. They are predominantly cystic, lobulated calcifications and they are highly likely to recur. The squamous papillary subtype presents more frequently in adults. These craniopharyngiomas are predominantly solid, spherical and they occur in either the intrasellar or suprasellar regions. 10 Calcification is seen in 80% of lesions and is best delineated on CT. Cystic areas are observed in 85% of cases and can have a variable appearance on MRI depending on the degree of methemoglobin and/or high protein. Enhancement can be solid or nodular (Figure 8).
Meningiomas in this region originate from the tuberculum sella, anterior clinoid processes, diaphragma sellae, planum sphenoidale and upper clivus (Figure 9). They can cause osseous changes including hyperostosis and erosion. As meningiomas in other locations, they are isointense to slightly hypointense on T1-weighted imaging. They are isointense to slightly hyperintense on T2-weighted imaging and they enhance homogenously and intensely. The vascular supply to these lesions is from the carotid meningeal and ophthalmic arteries.
Neoplastic processes that can enlarge the stalk include lymphoma (Figure 11), metastases, germinoma and teratoma. Metastases (Figure 12) have been reported in 3% of patients with carcinoma, particularly breast or primary bronchogenic. 13 The hematogenous route is likely and additional intra-axial or extra-axial lesions may be a diagnostic clue. They may have a dumbbell morphology from invasion through the diaphragma sella.
Primary brain tumors such as medulloblastoma, pineoblastoma and germinoma, and lymphoma and leukemia may spread to the infundibular or suparsellar region via cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) seeding. Germinomas (Figure 13) are more commonly seen in the pediatric population, presenting with diabetes inspidus, hypopituitarism and optic chiasm compression. There may be coexistent pineal masses, and there may be subarachnoid spread.
Ectopic neurohypophysis can be caused by trauma or neoplastic processes, which disrupt the transport of hormones from the hypothalamus to the neurohypophysis. Congential ectopic neurohypophysis is associated with other midline abnormalties such as septo-optic dysplasia (Figure 14). The expected posterior pituitary bright spot is frequently located in the suprasellar region. This can lead to growth hormone deficiency. In the extreme manifestation of this abnormality, i.e. pituitary stalk interruption syndrome, there is also an absence or hypoplastic infundibular stalk and adenohypophysis 14 (Figure 15).
Lymphocytic hypophysitis (Figure 16) is an autoimmune disorder seen primarily in peripartum/postpartum females though it has also been reported in males and postmenopausal women. 15 On MRI, there is intense enhancement of a pituitary mass extending along the infundibulum to the floor of the hypothalamus. The posterior pituitary bright spot may be absent. The adenohypophysis and/or the neurohypohysis can be affected. 1 Dynamic MRI studies have shown that blood supply to the neurohypophysis is often compromised. Patients may present with visual field impairment and headache due to mass effect on adjacent structures. As the pituitary parenchyma is destroyed by the inflammatory process, partial or pan-hypopituitarism develops. 15 However, the condition is responsive to corticosteroid treatment and can spontaneously resolve.
Neurosarcoidosis (Figure 17) is an inflammatory granulomatous process, which has a predilection for the leptomeninges. 7 There can be involvement of the optic chiasm, hypothalamus, pituitary gland and infundibulum.
Pituitary abscesses can occur as sequelae of sepsis, extension of sinusitis, sphenoid osteomyelitis, cavernous sinus thrombophlebitis and meningitis. Infectious processes such as tuberculosis and fungal infection (Figure 18) may be spread in a hematogenous route or by direct extension. 16 This can lead to brainstem infarction due to arteritis of the perforating vessels, pseudo-aneurysm of traversing vessels or leptomeningeal dissemination. Postoperative sellar abscess is a potential complication of transphenoidal surgery for pituitary macroadenoma resection (Figure 19).
Arachnoid cysts can occur in the suprasellar compartment and account for 1% of intracranial masses. 1 These smoothly marginated lesions follow CSF imaging characteristics on CT and MRI. They may displace or compress the adjacent structures including the infundibulum, pituitary gland and third ventricle. (Figure 20).
Hamartoma of the tuber cinereum (Figure 21) is a developmental heterotopia, which presents in childhood as precocious puberty and seizures (i.e. characteristic gelastic seizures). Abnormalities of the corpus callosum and optic tracts can be seen in these patients. These suprasellar masses are isodense on CT, isotense on T1-weighted MRI, and hyperintense and nonenhancing on T2-weighted MRI.
Other lesions involving the suprasellar cistern include epidermoid (Figure 22), teratoma and lipoma. Epidermoids can be differentiated from arachnoid cysts on fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and diffusion-weighted imaging as they tend to appear slightly hazy on the first sequence and bright on the latter. Mucocele of the sphenoid sinuses can extend into the suprasellar cisterns. Chiasmatic and hypothalamic gliomas (Figure 23) are seen predominantly in the first decade of life and 20-50% of these patients have neurofibromatosis I. 1 These lesions may be difficult to distinguish from hypothalamic astrocytomas or gangliogliomas. They demonstrate variable enhancement and appear T1 hypointense and T2 hyperintense; this signal intensity can extend along the optic tracts.
Vascular lesions such as aneurysms and cavernous carotid fistula (Figure 24) and cavernous sinus thrombosis or thrombophlebitis can be seen in the cavernous sinus region. Aneurysms can produce mass effect on the intracavernous cranial nerves. Rupture of aneurysms of the cavernous segment of the internal carotid arteries can result in cavernous-carotid fistulas. Paramedian internal carotid aneurysms can mimic an intrasellar aneurysm and cause mass effect on the pituitary gland.
Meningiomas in this region can narrow the adjacent internal carotid artery. Schwannomas of the trigeminal nerve are more common than those originating from cranial nerves III, IV and VI.
Osteocartilagenous tumors (Figure 25) arising from the basicranium can extend into the cavernous sinus or suprasellar region.
The sellar and parasellar regions hold complex neurovascular structures. Understanding the anatomy can help in developing a differential diagnosis and in correlating the clinical manifestations.
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When arms are engraved, dots, hatching and cross-hatching is used to represent heraldic colours. The convention used today was published in 1638 by Sylvester Petra Sancta, an Italian Jesuit priest who produced two works on heraldry. We explain and illustrate the convention below and include in parenthesis the heraldic terms used.
On the right we illustrate the technique in use. All three images are displayed in this page at about actual size, depending on the resolution setting of your monitor.
The first illustration is a silver medal with Ian Grant's shield on one side and his crest on the other. The lower left image is a lozenge In heraldry a lozenge is a diamond-shaped charge (an object that can be placed on the shield) and is normally narrower than it is tall. It is particularly associated with women as a means to display their coats of arms.
In this instance Ian Grant's arms have been used, as for a lady, for illustration only.
Many arms will not fit into this shape and so the Lord Lyon has now sanctioned the use of an oval shape as an alternative to the lozenge. and the lower right is a tie pin showing the shield of the Heraldry Society of Scotland.
The background of the Ian Grant shield is hatched with regular vertical lines indicating that the blazon specifies "gules" (red) for the shield. In the crest the hoofs of the unicorn and the crown are also "coloured" but the unicorn itself is not; the hatchings you see there do not correspond with the Petra Sanct system: they take a different, irregular, form and are used to add character and depth to the engraving.
The shield on the tie pin comprises a saltire with a shield in the centre and thistles top centre and bottom centre. The small centre shield is hatched with vertical lines and so represents gules (red), the background of the saltre is azure (blue) and so is hatched with horizontal lines.


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In 2014 I started with the printing of my photography and illustrations and showing them on art galleries and museums. Now, with hundreds of archived designs that are not being printed on paper I decided to share them as "wearable art" and I believe that scarves are the perfect media to carry my designs.
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DELAGO DELUXE (AUS) (Bay 2008-Stud 2013). 7 wins-4 at 2-to 1200m, Scottsville Golden Horse Casino Sprint, Gr.1. Out of a half-sister to SW Duporth. Sire of Massagi, Scarecrow, All Sassitude, Casa de Lago, Derham Park, Aeecee Tianhu, Aqua Delago, Deladies Boy, Delago Thunder, Delude, Deluxe Rocker, In Clover, Miss Casier, Nickle, Rooibos Deluxe, Velago and of the placegetters Buckin' Beauty, De Lady Deluxe, Delchuzy, Dram of Delago, etc. His oldest progeny are 3YOs.
CREATE, by Shamardal. Raced twice. This is her first foal.
Marshal. 3 wins to 1200m, SCTC Access Insulation H., 3d BRC James Boags P.
Kafoo. 2 wins at 1200m in 2017-18, TTC D McKenna H.
Streetshavenoname. 5 wins to 1200m, A$149,501, to 2016-17, 2d MVRC Essendon Hyundai Santa Fe P.
Increase. Winner at 1300m in Aust.
Positron. 8 wins to 1500m, A$78,650, BTC Become a Member P., 3d QTC Bill Briscoe H.
Full Metal Jacket. 7 wins from 1200m to 2050m, A$99,072, SAJC Spring Gully Foods H., Sportingbet H., 2d SAJC Sportingbet H.
Lyricist. 3 wins from 1200m to 1600m, BRC Parklands Tavern H., 2d GCTC L&H Auslec H., Ipswich TC Farewell Stan Patch P., 3d BRC Kanga Couriers H.
Quick Witted. 3 wins at 1400m, 1800m, BRC XXXX Gold P., 2d BRC Makers Mark H., Hamilton Hotel P., 3d Ipswich TC City of Ipswich H.
DRUM (Marauding). 6 wins-2 at 2-to 1350m, A$314,100, VATC Oakleigh P., Gr.1, BATC Doomben Slipper S., L, VRC Scusa Mi Ristorante S., L, BATC Hotel Conrad H., QBBS Jackpot Bonus H., 2d Qld Tatt's RC Mercedes-Benz S., L, VRC Scobie Breasley Welter H., Kevin Murray H., 3d QTC Sires' Produce S., Gr.1, VRC WJT Clarke S., L, MVRC Suni-Toast H., 4th VATC Mercedes-Benz S., L.
ANAMBA (Shamardal). 2 wins-1 at 2-at 7f, Naas Owenstown Stud S., L, 2d Curragh Park S., Gr.3.
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admin.autodiscover()

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router.register(r'details', DetailViewSet)
router.register(r'masters', MasterViewSet)

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    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
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Herbie Hancock, Andra Day, Jacob Collier Salute International Jazz Day's 10th Anniversary
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"Our International Jazz Day community has displayed incredible resilience, creativity, ingenuity and compassion throughout the immense challenges of the past year," said Hancock in announcing the annual event. "While the global pandemic continues to make life difficult for so many around the world, the example of organizers from Nepal to Mexico to Cameroon inspires us to greet this historic 10th anniversary milestone with joy, courage and hope for the future of jazz."
Grammy Award-winning artist Hancock also serves as artistic director and John Beasley as musical director of the All-Star Global Concert, whose slate of jazz performers represents more than 20 countries. In addition to New York, performances will take place in Los Angeles, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, Cape Town, Moscow, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro, among other cities. The concert will be presented as a live webcast (5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT) via YouTube, Facebook, jazzday.com, UN Web TV, UNESCO and U.S. State Department outlets.
UNESCO, in partnership with the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, has orchestrated a series of performances, educational workshops/master classes, community service outreach, panel discussions and radio and television broadcasts during the day on April 30. Taking place in all 50 U.S. states and more than 190 countries, all of the events will follow recommended public health guidelines.
"UNESCO created International Jazz Day to share the values of a deeply meaningful musical genre," commented UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay. "Today we need jazz more than ever. We need its values, based on human dignity and the fight against racism and all forms of oppression. It is so much more than music. Jazz is the kind of bridge builder we need in the world today."
Launched in 2011 by UNESCO, International Jazz Day is held every year on April 30 in a different locale around the world. Cape Town, South Africa was the planned host city in 2020 until the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizers to shift to a virtual celebration for the first time in the event's history.
Toyota is the 2021 lead partner for International Jazz Day; transportation partner is United Airlines. A complete list of events, including the free virtual educational programs, can be found at www.jazzday.com or www.unesco.org/jazzday.


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What's that sound? It's the sound of a 1990s flashback! We're going back in time to a decade when Congress got stupid and shut the government down and when comic books were garishly colored and everything looked like a bad Image comic. And don't even get me started on fashion.
Speaking of government facilities that are probably shut down, here's a promotional comic book published by the National Maritime Center starring "Captain Nauticus And The Ocean Force." This special limited edition - only 20,000 were printed, get yours today! - stars what appears to be some sort of a undersea football player and his pet seal. I bet that seal is going to have some amazing adventures.
So let's see, we have this promo comic published by the National Maritime Center, I'm sure it's going to be filled with the wonders of the ocean, right?
Yessir, here we are in outer space. Nothing says "National Maritime Center" like the KKOOSH of a blaster-zoid impacting the left combobulator module of a Type Zarkulon astro-cruiser!
Since this is the 1990s we're of course going to have lots of badly-inked double-truck splash pages. Because comic books are a serious visual arts medium that stands alongside film and literature, zoom, pew pew, kkoosh, zablam.
But let's check in with our heroes, Captain Nauticus and his Ocean Force. I bet they're filled with a quiet dignity as befitting their station.
Wow, I lose that bet! What we've got here is drunk super hero cosplayers who snuck into the set of one of the 1990's many Star Trek TV shows. Pointing, shouting, engaging tractor beams, National Maritime Center ahoy!
Still waiting for the seal from the cover to show up. I bet that seal will be awesome!
One of the great things about the advances in printing technology is the ability of 1990s comics to expand their color palette into new and really disgusting areas of total ugliness. However, it's great that the comic book industry takes a back seat to nobody when it comes to hiring the visually impaired!!
Hang on to your glocks, Ocean Force! Those Austrian handguns aren't cheap!
Once through the black hole, our heroes find themselves near a strange solar system with a unique rainbow-colored orbital structure. According to the helpfully labeled picture, they're near planet Earth, which apparently has some new and exciting geographical changes.
Our outer-space heroes find themselves near the National Maritime Center, which apparently is a millions-year old Atlantean structure repurposed by the enterprising and thrifty National Maritime Center Design Board. That's just what we want in an educational comic sold at a research and learning facility, nonsense about Atlantis and superheroes that can "morph" into fish. Right?
And our underwater Super Friends take up residence underneath the National Maritime Center. Here's a handy comic book storytelling tip: why waste time with captions like "the next day..." or "the following morning..." when you can just color the background orange? Your readers will know it's the sunrise and not a giant explosion. Probably.
Now we get to what this comic book is really about - giant musclemen shoving their fists at the reader, splaying their limbs, gaping their jaws as they blast things with other things. 1990s!!!!
Now would also be a great time for that seal from the cover to make an appearance. Everybody loves seals.
On the trail of the evil Fathom, deep in the Marianas Trench. our heroes find a lost civilization and a cryo-tube and a really annoying haircut, which fits in with everybody else's haircuts so it's OK.
This comic- published by the National Maritime Center, remember- is an amazing educational opportunity to bring the wonders of the ocean to America's young people, and this opportunity is completely wasted in favor of PSHEW FSH ZAP KABOOM Star Wars dialog ripoff.
No, wait, there's some fish and shrimp and things. LEARNING!!!
The Ocean Force won't let a desperate mission interfere with their love of modern dance!
How you can tell this comic book is from the 1990s, part 67: repeated use of the word "morph".
Who is this kid again? Oh, that's right, we were never told who he is or what he was doing in the cryo-stasis-tube or why his head is freakishly huge. For a comic book published by an educational center, it's doing a terrible job at, you know, imparting information.
Oh my god, Fathom has the Crystal Of Atlantis, which allows him to shoot blaster rays and turn into a giant monster! Since everybody has been doing this all along, the Crystal Of Atlantis sadly fails to impress.
The Crystal Of Atlantis! As seen on the forehead of an ugly maggot-fish monster! Ask for yours today. Boy oh boy, the Ocean Force has been buried under rocks by the evil Fathom and our kid sidekick is about to be chomped in half! How will they get out of this one? I know - this is where the seal from the cover makes his amazing appearance and rescues them all!! Right?
Oh, uh, I guess not. Right here is where the comic ends, with an ad for a virtual reality attraction at the National Maritime Center. How you can tell this comic book is from the 1990s, part 68: "virtual reality". Remember how we were all going to wear giant goggles and Nintendo Power Gloves and "enter cyberspace"? Remember how everybody said "nope, no thanks" and went on about their business?
I know what YOU want, you want 4 more exciting issues of Captain Nauticus AND a season pass to Nauticus for only $19.95! AND you want your picture taken with a bunch of really excited kids and a cardboard standup of Captain Nauticus! AND you want your very own membership card in the Ocean Force! And that's great. But that's not what I want. What I want is to find out WHAT HAPPENED THAT SEAL. We were PROMISED A SEAL and we NEVER GOT ONE.
The National Maritime Center in Norfolk VA is still there! If you're in the area, check it out - it's the home of the Battleship Wisconsin (which includes a below-decks haunted house attraction), hands-on marine life aquariums, real artifacts recovered from the USS Monitor, The Shark Experience featuring Bamboo Sharks, Coral Catsharks, and a Shovelnose Guitarfish, and... absolutely no trace of Captain Nauticus and the Ocean Force. (and when in Athens GA visit Bizarro Wuxtry, who thoughtfully provided us with this and many other comics!!)
(SPOILER: The little kid is the seal.)


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I started by making two paper tubes that held the lenses and marked out where the lens bodies would sit within them.
I cut the tubes to how I thought they would best fit my face. I then taped paper scraps and trimmed as required until there were no gaps between the paper and my face (top piece of paper in the photo above). Once a good fit had been made I traced the outline onto a new piece of paper and cut it out, adding a 10mm overlap on one side for sewing. I found the best way to see if the tube was a good fit was to check in a mirror.
The tubes were then assembled as per the marking and checked against the lens bodies.
The lens bodies were then cut to size.
Using the paper template, the leather was marked and the required pieces cut out.
The leather was then sewn together.
And fitted to the lens bodies to ensure a correct fit.
While I could have used a glue of some description to attach all the parts together, I wanted to avoid it if at all possible. As the lens bodies were made of Aluminium, I came up with the idea of clamping the leather between the lens body and a brass strap.
The brass strap was cut to length, with an overlap, marked out and drilled for 3 bolts.
Using the drilled straps, the lens bodies were marked out and drilled.
The leather was then marked out and punched, using a hammer and nail.
All the parts laid out, ready for assembly.
The assembled lens cups, with everything held together properly.
A buckle was made from some 1/16″ brass rod, bent into a square.
Which was then soldered to hold it together.
Two links were also made from the same rod and some leather straps cut to attach to the lens cups.
Longer straps were added to the shorter ones, using the links, for the buckle and holes.
After attaching the buckle and punching in suitable holes into the longer straps, the fasteners were attached to the goggle using eyelets.
A piece of brass strap was folded along one edge to improve its stiffness and used to hold the eye cups together, in the correct position. 58mm circular polarizing lenses were added to the lens bodies as a finishing touch.
Having field tested the goggles at a masquerade ball I discovered that the brass strap was a poor way to hold the goggles together. The lenses would twist and throughout the night the nuts came undone on several of the screws.
In order to fix this problem I replaced the strap with some 1/8″ brass rod, which was soldered to the retaining straps using a butane torch. I did originally try to use a soldering iron but it was not sufficient to heat the brass parts, resulting in a poor joint. Additionally the single nuts were replaced with double nuts, to lock everything in place.
These goggles are now finished and stay together properly. The only thing I need to add are two 58mm UV filters and then they will also work as sunglasses. If I make another pair of goggles I will probably use dyed leather, as the un-dyed leather is picking up lots of dirt from general wear and tear.
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