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By Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos
GREAT WEDNESDAY
On Holy and Great Wednesday, the Divine Fathers decreed that we should commemorate the harlot who anointed the Lord with myrrh, because this took place shortly before His saving Passion.
The woman who applied myrrh to the body of Christ
Anticipated the myrrh and aloes of Nikodemos.
Synaxarion
As the Lord was going up to Jerusalem, He came to the house of Simon the leper, where a woman who was a harlot approached Him and poured precious myrrh upon His head. This episode is placed here, in order that, according to the word of the Savior, her act of fervent devotion might be proclaimed everywhere. What moved her to come to Simon's house? Because she saw His compassion and the fact that He kept company with all people, and especially now, when she noticed that He had entered the house of a leper, with whom, being unclean, it was forbidden by the Law to associate.
The woman reckoned that, just as He had put up with Simon's leprosy, so also He would tolerate the disease of her soul. Thus, as Christ was reclining at supper, she poured on His head myrrh that was worth three hundred denarii. The Disciples, and Judas in particular, rebuked her for this. But Christ came to her defense, lest they thwart her good intention. He then alluded to His entombment, deterring Judas from betraying Him and deeming the woman worthy of honor, saying that her good deed would be proclaimed throughout the world.
It should be known that some are of the opinion that one and the same woman is mentioned by all of the Evangelists; but such is not the case. As the Divine Chrysostomos says, the same woman is cited by three of the Evangelists, and she is thus called a harlot. It is not she who is mentioned by Saint John, but another woman, admirable and of chaste life, Mary the sister of Lazarus, whom Christ would not have loved had she been a harlot.
Of these women, Mary performed the act of pouring out myrrh six days before the Passover, at her house in Bethany, while the Lord was reclining at supper. She poured out the myrrh on His beautiful feet and wiped them with her hair, showing Him exceeding honor and offering the myrrh as to God. For she knew very well that at sacrifices olive oil was offered to God, that priests were anointed with myrrh, and that Jacob of old had anointed a pillar with oil and dedicated it to God. Thus, she offered the myrrh to Christ, honoring her teacher as God in return for the resuscitation of her brother. For this reason, she is not promised any reward. On that occasion, Judas alone, being a lover of money, murmured against her.
The other woman, that is, the harlot, two days before the Passover, when Christ was still in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, likewise reclining at supper, poured very costly myrrh upon His head, as Saints Matthew and Mark recount. The Disciples were indignant at this harlot, being fully aware how earnest Christ was with regard to almsgiving. This woman was given the recompense of having her good deed proclaimed throughout the world. Some commentators, therefore, say that one woman was mentioned by the four Evangelists, whereas St. John the Golden-tongued says that there were two women.
There are others who maintain that there were three women. Two of them were the aforementioned—that is, the harlot and Mary, the sister of Lazarus—when the Lord's Passion was drawing near. The third was another, who performed such a deed prior to these—or rather, being the first of them—around the middle of the Gospel narrative; she was a harlot and a sinner. She poured out myrrh only on Christ's feet and in the house not of Simon the leper, but of Simon the Pharisee. On that occasion, only the Pharisee was scandalized. Upon her the Savior bestowed the recompense of the remission of her sins. Only the Divine Luke tells about her, around the middle of his Gospel, as we have said. In fact, after the account of this harlot, he immediately adds the following: "And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God" (Luke 8:1). From this it is evident that the event in question did not occur during the time of the Passion.
It seems, therefore, from the time, from those who entertained the Lord, from the location, from the persons involved, and from the houses, and also from the manner in which the myrrh was poured out, that there were three women, two of them harlots, and third Mary the sister of Lazarus, who was conspicuous for her virtuous life. As well, it seems that one house was that of Simon the Pharisee, the other that of Simon the leper, situated in Bethany, the third being that of Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus, in the same city of Bethany.
Hence, it may be inferred from these considerations that two suppers were given for Christ, both of them in Bethany. One took place six days before the Passover, in the house of Lazarus, when Lazarus also ate with Christ, as the Son of Thunder relates: "Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair" (John 12:1-3). The other supper was held for Christ two days before the Passover, when He was still in Bethany, at the house of Simon the leper, at which time the harlot went up to Him and poured out the precious myrrh. This is confirmed by Saint Matthew's narrative, in which Christ says to His Disciples: "Ye know that after two days is the feast of the Passover" (Matthew 26:2). A little further on, the same Evangelist adds: "Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, there came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at table" (Matthew 26:6-7). Saint Mark concurs with this account, for he says: "After two days was the feast of the Passover, and of unleavened bread... And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head" (Mark 14:1, 3).
From this it is clear that they are incorrect who maintain and assert that one and the same woman is mentioned by the four Evangelists as having anointed the Lord with myrrh; who suppose that Simon the Pharisee and Simon the leper are one and the same person—some of them interpreting Simon the leper as being the father of Lazarus and his sisters, Mary and Martha; and who opine that one and the same supper took place in one and the same house, in Bethany, and that Simon prepared and furnished the upper room in which the Mystical Supper was held. For these two suppers were given for Christ in Bethany, outside Jerusalem, six days and two days, respectively, before the Jewish Passover, as we have said, when the women offered myrrh to Christ in different ways. The Mystical Supper and the furnished upper room were prepared within the city of Jerusalem one day before the Jewish Passover and the Passion of Christ. Some say that this Supper was held in the house of an unknown man, others that it took place in the house of Christ's Disciple and bosom friend John, in holy Sion, where the Disciples were hiding for fear of the Jews and where the touching by Saint Thomas occurred after the Resurrection, as did the Descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, along with other ineffable and mystical events.
For this reason, it seems to me that the account given by Saint John Chrysostomos is truer and more precise, that is, that there were two women about whom the Evangelists wrote. One, as we have said, was the woman mentioned by three of the Evangelists, who was a harlot and a sinner and who poured myrrh on Christ's head. The other was the woman mentioned by Saint John, Mary the sister of Lazarus, who applied myrrh solely to Christ's Divine feet by pouring it on them. There were two suppers in Bethany, the Mystical Supper being separate from these. This is evident from the fact that, after the narrative of the harlot, the Savior sends His Disciples into the city to make ready the Passover, as Saint Matthew says: "Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at thy house with my disciples" (Matthew 26:18). Again, St. Mark says: "And...there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.... And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us" (Mark 14:13, 15). The Disciples went, and found it to be just as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover, that is, the Jewish Passover, which was at the doors and which Christ came and celebrated with the Disciples, as the Divine Chrysostomos says. Then, after the Mystical Supper had taken place, the Divine Washing of the feet having been performed in the meantime, Christ reclined once again and instituted our Passover on the same table, as Saint John the Golden-tongued explains.
The Divine John, and also Saint Mark, the Holy Evangelists, add in their accounts the type of the myrrh, calling it "spikenard, very costly." It is customary to call spikenard that which is unadulterated and trustworthy in purity. Perhaps this was also an appellation of the best and prime kind of myrrh. Saint Mark adds that the woman broke the alabaster flask in her eagerness, since its neck was narrow. This is a glass vessel, as St. Epiphanios says, made without any handle, which is called a bikion. Myron was compounded of many other kinds of fragrances, and from the following in particular: myrrh, cassia, iris, calamus, and oil.
Yea, O Christ God, free us from the flood of passions and have mercy on us, for Thou alone art holy and lovest mankind. Amen.
Doxastikon of Saint Kassiani
Sensing Thy divinity, O Lord, a woman of many sins
takes it upon herself to become a myrrh-bearer,
And in deep mourning brings before Thee fragrant oil
in anticipation of Thy burial; crying:
"Woe to me! For night is unto me, oestrus of lechery,
a dark and moonless eros of sin.
Receive the wellsprings of my tears,
O Thou who gatherest the waters of the oceans into clouds.
Bend to me, to the sorrows of my heart,
O Thou who bendedst down the heavens in Thy ineffable self-emptying.
I will kiss Thine immaculate feet
and dry them with the locks of my hair;
Those very feet whose sound Eve heard at dusk in Paradise
and hid herself in fear.
Who shall reckon the multitude of my sins,
or the abysses of Thy judgment, O Saviour of my soul?
Do not ignore Thy handmaiden,
O Thou whose mercy is endless."
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We spent the morning paying a visit to the largest church in Iceland, Hallgrimskirkja. There was an option to go to the top of the church for a birds-eye-view of Reykjavík, and obviously I went and did that since I'm obsessed with aerial views. The views were stunning and the church itself was also incredible and looked so modern in comparison to typical English churches.
Although it was still morning we couldn't help but be temped by Braud & Co bakery a few minutes walk away from Hallgrimskirkja. Firstly, the actual building doesn't represent a typical bakery and secondly, they have the most incredible cinnamon buns and cakes – they were to die for!
Followed by a little retail therapy wandering in and out of all the souvenir stores looking for the cheapest postcards. There are two main shopping streets in Reykjavík, Bankistraeti and Laugavegur with authentic stores selling wool clothing, quaint cafés or chain stores such as Joe & The Juice and Tiger.
In order to escape the cold we stopped off at Frederiksen Ale House, before heading to try one of the traditional Icelandic Hot Dogs at Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur (sorry, it didn't last long enough to take a picture of!).
Walking back along the coast we stopped for pictures at the Solfar Sun Voyager sculpture that represents a Viking Long-Ship, or a Scorpion as I keep referring it to.
To end the day we visited the hyped up Phallological Museum. If i'm being completely honest, it wasn't as I expected from a museum. Having cost 1400ISK (just under £10) for a tiny exhibition filling only one room, it seems a bit on the pricey side.
The evening then consisted of having dinner and finally getting some rest before another long day of sight-seeing. Overall, this free day was a complete success and we managed to see the sights that Reykjavík has to offer and damn, they were beautiful.


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African Court Convicts Captain of Renegade Ship in Illegal Fishing Case
October 12, 2015 — WASHINGTON — A São Tomé and Príncipe court on Monday convicted the captain of a fishing ship, the Thunder, and two crew members on several charges tied to illegal fishing, a prosecutor in the case said. The verdict was the culmination of a dramatic, 10,000-mile chase from Antarctica to the Gulf of Guinea.
The Thunder, which had been on Interpol's most-wanted list, was spotted last year poaching fish in Antarctic waters and was chased by an environmental group, Sea Shepherd, for more than 110 days until it sank in early April off São Tomé and Príncipe, a West African island state. Prosecutors from São Tomé and Príncipe and Sea Shepherd officials speculated that the Thunder's captain had sunk the ship on purpose to dispose of evidence.
"This isn't just a victory for our country," said Frederique Samba Viegas D'Abreu, the attorney general of São Tomé and Príncipe. "It's a victory for the oceans and against these international crime syndicates that have operated for too long above the law.
The chase highlighted the lack of policing on the high seas and the rarity of bringing well-documented maritime scofflaws to justice. Documents seized from the Thunder shortly before it sank were sent to Germany and prompted investigations across Europe whose scope includes companies in Spain, where the ship's owners are said to be based, according to Interpol officials.
Read the full story at The New York Times
Spain Proposes Big Fines for Alleged Antarctic Fish Poachers
June 23, 2015 — MADRID — Authorities in Spain have accused a company there of running a lucrative international operation that illegally captured vast amounts of an Antarctic fish prized in top restaurants.
The Spanish government proposes fining the company as much as 11.4 million euros ($12.9 million) for alleged poaching of the Antarctic toothfish, a delicacy marketed in North America as Chilean sea bass.
A government statement said the operation was concealed behind a labyrinthine system of foreign front companies, with fishing boats flying the flags of African and Asian countries to mask ownership.
Spain did not name the companies, but New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully told The Associated Press in an interview they were all linked to Vidal Armadores SA, which was fined 150,000 euros in 2010 for illegal fishing near Antarctica.
The Spanish government declined comment when asked why it did not name Vidal or the front companies it allegedly used.
'You can fish' our turbines wind energy developer Atlantic Shores tells N.J. fishermen
Lund's Fisheries expands with new executive hires

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If that was what you were referring to?


Within a week, the 'revolutionary' HIV drug dolutegravir has gone from being highly regarded to being the subject of international warnings. Health-e News reports that recent data from a Botswana study linking it to birth defects has seen the World Health Organisation, European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration, unanimously issuing warnings statements.
Heralded as a breakthrough for the fight against HIV, and just as the country is embarking on a massive shift in its HIV treatment strategy based on this drug, the news has caused global panic. What does this mean for the biggest HIV treatment on earth, and for the women who make up the majority of its users? While some fear this news could destabilise South Africa's remarkable progress in the fight against HIV, others caution against sounding the alarm bells too soon.
The report says dolutegravir is not just a new HIV drug, it has been described as a breakthrough weapon in the global fight against HIV. The low cost and comparatively mild side-effect profile have made it an attractive option for treatment programmes, especially in developing countries where savings on drugs can make it possible for significantly more people to be treated.
The possible link between neural birth defects which could impact the development of the brain and spine and dolutegravir was recently discovered in an ongoing observational study in Botswana, which switched its first-line HIV regimen to the drug in 2016. The study found four cases of neural tube defects in 426 women who have become pregnant while taking the drug.
While Professor Francois Venter from the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute said this is not yet statistically significant, and could potentially be related to other factors, it prompted the EMA to issue a direct warning stating that: "Dolutegravir HIV medicines should not be prescribed to women seeking to become pregnant".
The report says the WHO and FDA were more tempered in their guidance urging health care professionals to make women aware of these potential risks but not directing that it should stop being prescribed to women who might fall pregnant. They also noted that pregnant women on dolutegravir should not be switched hastily to different regimens as there is an increased risk of transmitting the virus to the baby.
But, despite the public concern globally, very little has been said about the impact of this news on the country most affected, not to mention being set to be responsible for a massive portion of the drug's future market. South Africa has the largest HIV treatment programme in the world: 4.2m receiving antiretrovirals and, as promised by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his state of the nation address, this will be increased by 2m people by 2020.
The report says dolutegravir has been described as the main reason this goal is attainable. The National Department of Health had already planned to introduce a dolutegravir-based first line regimen to replace the existing regimen, hoping to switch the majority of patients starting from last month. But the introduction has been put on hold due to registration delays with the newly-formed South African Health Regulatory Products Authority which replaced the Medicines Control Council.
According to a 2017 paper published in the South African Medical Journal, a dolutegravir-based regimen could translate into initial cost-savings of 20% of the country's annual ARV budget. When volumes are met, when the majority of patients have been switched to the regimen, cost-savings could reach 50%. Venter said this is largely due to the price of the raw materials used to manufacture the drug. "The benefits of the drug are huge and it would be a tragedy if these results are confirmed and we lose it as a treatment option for many women," he said.
HIV expert and technical advisor to the Department of Health, Dr Michelle Moorhouse said, to make matters worse, the drug has some other significant benefits for women. "It is a very tricky situation as dolutegravir is a great drug, and for those women who are using effective contraception, then it remains a great option," she is quoted in the report as saying.
Many other existing HIV drugs interact with common forms of contraception, making treatment more difficult for many women. But as the health department has already made concrete plans to embark on a completely dolutegravir-based regimen, Dr Yogan Pillay, the deputy director general for HIV, said in the report that they are "following this very closely". "Next week we will convene a meeting of experts to discuss our options based on the World Health Organisation guidelines," he said.
He said the department is concerned about the financial impact of changing the dolutegravir guidelines, but that the first priority was the clinical well-being of patients adding that a possible option is to continue with the current regimen for women of reproductive age and offer the dolutegravir regimen to others.
But, said Venter, that this is problematic because women already make up about 70% of the total patients on HIV treatment in South Africa and it is ethically questionable to offer them a sub-standard option compared to men. "One thing I am angry about is that no-one funds drug studies on pregnant women," he said. He said that "every now and again we get a signal from women that something is wrong" only after the drug has been approved and is in use instead conducting prior research which would identify "possible risks so we are able to prepare for that beforehand".
"Governments, drug companies and funders haven't invested in these studies and the argument is often that is unethical to test in pregnant women, but I argue the opposite. It's unethical not to do this research." He said the Botswana case is a "massive experiment on pregnant women without the safety and monitoring we have in normal clinical studies".
Moorhouse, also from the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, cautioned against alarmist reactions to the warnings, the report said. "I have to say this is an early signal, which we need to take seriously, but we have seen similar signals before with other drugs, which over time turned out not to be the problem we anticipated," she said.
There are a number of other studies underway which could clear up the link and potentially clear dolutegravir's association with this serious potential side-effect – as well as clear the way for South Africa to more easily reach its treatment targets. "Until we better understand this signal from these ongoing studies, we have to exercise caution in using dolutegravir in women who are pregnant or desiring a pregnancy," said Moorhouse.
"We simply need to introduce the necessary precautions as outlined in the various regulatory and other documents, while we wait for the clearer picture to emerge for the ongoing studies and data analyses," she said. But she said the benefits of the drug, including the fact that it has shown no development of resistance in any patients, should not be overshadowed by this "signal".
"I really do want to caution against panic," she said. And while the idea of the drug as a panacea might be losing favour, she said in the report that "dolutegravir should not be heralded as a pariah".
The British HIV Association (BHIVA) has issued a statement on the potential safety signal in infants born to women conceiving on dolutegravir (on behalf of the BHIVA HIV in Pregnancy Guidelines Committee).
The statement reads: "A preliminary unscheduled analysis of an ongoing birth surveillance study in Botswana has reported an increased risk of neural tube defects amongst infants of women who become pregnant whilst taking dolutegravir (DTG)-based regimens. The study reported 4 cases of neural tube defects out of 426 infants born to women who were on DTG-based regimens at the time of conception.
"This rate of approx. 0.9% compares to a 0.1% of neural tube defects amongst infants born to women taking non DTG-based regimens at the time of conception.
"We are awaiting prospective data on 600 women from Botswana and 400 in Brazil who were on DTG-based regimens at conception and have ongoing pregnancies. Of note there have been no reported neural tube defects in infants born to a further 2000 women in the Botswana study who started DTG during pregnancy, including in first trimester.
"In light of these preliminary findings the BHIVA HIV in Pregnancy Guidelines Writing group makes the following recommendations: all women wishing to conceive should be started on folic acid 5mg OD regardless of their cART regimen; all women commencing DTG should have a negative pregnancy test prior to initiation and ongoing method of contraception documented; we advise a review of all patient records of women aged up to 50yo on DTG with regards to conception plans, documented method of contraception and current pregnancy status; and we recommend that women at risk of pregnancy be contacted by their clinic to discuss the DTG safety report, which should be clearly documented, and the woman seen in person if pregnant.
"Note that these findings are very preliminary and advice may change. For safety data on antiretrovirals please refer to the Antiviral Pregnancy Registry (www.apregistry.com) or seek advice from an expert colleague.


Faber & Faber are proud to announce All Gates Open, the definitive story of the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: Can. It consists of two books and previously unseen art and photos.
The hardback edition of All Gates Open is available now to pre-order. The limited edition will be available to pre-order from Thursday 5 April from www.faber.co.uk.


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Having completed an Into Officiating or C Award course most umpires need to be mentored before taking their test.
Mentoring has been created by England Netball to give umpires the feedback, support and on-going training they require in order to pass their umpiring test at a good pass and at the first opportunity.
A multi stage fitness test is now only required for umpires taking their B Award and above.
The Fitness Test is organised by Norfolk County Netball and needs to be taken within 6 weeks prior to taking the practical test.


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'Starry Night' is one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings.
This Arts and Crafts quiz is called 'Famous Artists 1' and it has been written by teachers to help you if you are studying the subject at middle school. Playing educational quizzes is a fabulous way to learn if you are in the 6th, 7th or 8th grade - aged 11 to 14.
Matisse was a modern French artist who loved using unusual color combinations. His group was called what?
The Impressionists painted in an unusual but beautiful way. Which one of these was a famous Impressionist?
A famous Impressionist produced a painting called 'Le Café'. What was his name?
Who painted 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'?
A modern Dutch artist painted using black lines and blocks of colors. What was his name?
Georges Seurat was a French painter who had a particular style. He painted with which of these techniques?
This style was called pointilism. From a distance, the dots can't be seen!
Which 15th Century artist is famous for painting the Mona Lisa?
He also painted 'The Last Supper' and designed many things too!
Michelangelo was an artist and sculptor. What was one of his most famous pieces of work?
J.M. W. Turner was a landscape painter who painted in oils and watercolors. He often painted what?


I've always wanted to be able to comment my TSC code. Now you can.
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Comments begin with a // and continue to the end of the line.
Normally, you can only put comments after <END and stuff. This editor lets you put comments anywhere.
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Having successfully held events over the last couple of years, Camera World are set to to hold what will be London's biggest camera show on 29th October 2016. The show is free to enter.
In addition to brands from across the photography business, Fujifilm will be present with their latests products including the new Fujifilm X-T2.
Paul SandersThere will be professional photographers running various events in addition to Fujifilm's seminar "Architectural Abstracts & Landscapes with the Fujifilm X-Series" delivered by Paul Sanders. Paul will be discussing the tricks and tips to capturing unique architectural and landscape shots. He'll explain the best practices, hints and ideas about how to look beyond the traditional to get the exceptionally unique perspective pictures.
To book your place on Paul Sanders seminar, please visit this link….
Camera world will also have a second hand shop and show offers on the day.
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Dia 19 de agosto – quarta-feira – vou à Universidade Católica em Taguatinga, para participar do evento “Encontro Regional de Informática do Centro-Oeste I“, fui convidado para participar com uma palestra. Irei falar sobre “Gerenciamento de Memória pela Maquina Virtual Java.

Pretendo mostrar como funciona a alocação de memória e a limpeza automática (vulgo Garbage Collector), seus algoritmos e algumas boas práticas para o programador exercer um bom trabalho.

O evento será na Universidade Católica, Campus Taguatinga, Auditório Central do Prédio São João Batista de La Salle. O horário é 21h.

O evento conta com outras palestras sobre os temas: processamento de imagens, Datawarehouse e OLAP, processamento de sinais, Cloud Computing, Gestão de Segurança, Computação de Alto Desempenho, Computação Invisível.

Os minicursos também fazem parte do evento: Data Mining, PlayStation 3 em computação de alto desempenho, Ruby on Rails, Criptografia, Linux.

_Update:_

A palestra está [disponível para olhar ou copiar](http://www.slideshare.net/claudius/gerenciamento-de-memria-pela-jvm-1888672).

  Gerenciamento de Memória pela JVM

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Survival horror fans, listen up: There is a new game out that you need to play. Even though you have probably heard that the first games in the Clock Tower series were steaming piles, don\'t cast Clock Tower 3 aside just yet. It packs unique gameplay elements that make it very different from other survival horror games, plus it has a fantastic story told through Hollywood-quality cinema sequences. If you\'re tired of blasting zombies and have taken more trips through the hellhole that is the town of Silent Hill than you\'d care to mention, give Clock Tower 3 a chance. You won\'t regret it.
The story in Clock Tower 3 follows a young girl named Alyssa Hamilton after she receives a letter from her mother telling her to go into hiding and to not return home no matter what. As any teenager would do, Alyssa returns home from boarding school to find out what is wrong and is thrust into an adventure where she finds herself traveling to different time periods in London in order to discover her family history, stopping every so often to confront a deranged serial killer. That is the most basic description of the story, but rest assured, there are plenty of twists and interesting things to see.
What sets Clock Tower 3 apart from other games in the genre is the gameplay itself. First of all, Clock Tower 3 uses a Fear Gauge instead of the standard health bar. When Alyssa is calm, she can run and hide and do things normally and it takes a few hits from a killer to actually do her in. When she becomes afraid, she stumbles around and becomes hard to control. If Alyssa\'s Fear Gauge is completely full then it only takes one shot from a serial killer before its game over. The Fear Gauge is a great idea and actually does a pretty good job of showing not only how afraid Alyssa is, but how scared I am while I\'m playing it.
The second difference is that there are only two different types of enemies. Roaming each level are the ghosts of recently deceased people that are in limbo because they lost a sentimental item that you have to return to their body so that they can be at peace. These ghosts are more annoying than anything else and can\'t really do too much damage to you. The other enemy in each level is the serial killer. There are six of them in the game and they tend to pop out when you least expect it. These guys are the bosses of each level and can only be defeated once you have solved all of the level\'s puzzles, but they will appear several times during a level and scare the crap out of you.
Dealing with the serial killers is no easy task. You can\'t fight back until you have solved all of the puzzles in the level, so when you are confronted by a killer before then your only choice is to run and hide. There are several points in each level that serve as hiding spots that allow you to elude the killer for a little while. It is pretty weird when a killer can be hot on your heels only to become suddenly confused when you duck into hiding even though he saw you do it. This isn\'t realistic, but it didn\'t ruin the experience for me. Once you have completed the puzzles in a level and can finally start fighting the level\'s boss, and the gameplay changes a little bit. The fear meter is replaced by a standard health gauge and Alyssa is given a special bow and arrows that you have to charge up in order to do maximum damage. You can\'t move while the arrow is charging and you can\'t change your aim either, but once you figure out the pattern that the killers all use it is fairly smooth sailing.
Unlike earlier Clock Tower games that used a point and click interface, CT3 uses the standard third person perspective and fixed camera angles that other survival horror games use. Most of the time the camera angles are just fine and traveling from room to room won\'t be much or a problem for veterans of this type of game. It is a fun experience and is very different from the other games in the genre, but it could have been better. It is entirely worth it, though, as the story and accompanying cinema sequences are enough to warrant struggling through any shortcomings in the gameplay. The game will only take you about five or six hours to complete, but like I said, it is worth it if you\'re a fan of survival horror games.
Clock Tower 3 is also one of the scariest and most disturbing games I have played. It has its share of jump-out-and-say-boo moments, but it is also frightening due to its extreme realism. CT3 features some of the most realistic depictions of murder that have ever appeared in a video game. The blood looks like blood and when a killers axe hacks into the body of one of his victims, it looks entirely realistic. Another thing that makes Clock Tower 3 scarier than other games is that there isn\'t really any escaping from the killers. Sure you can hide, but eventually they\'ll find you. You can\'t just run to the nearest doorway and load the nearest room to escape (ala Resident Evil) because your enemy will just crash through and keep coming at you. The murderer is hungry for blood and when he isn\'t attacking you he is making you watch him kill someone else. This is disturbing stuff, but is very cool to watch all the same.
Graphically, Clock Tower 3 looks very good. The environments are suitably dirty and gritty and look like you\'d imagine London would look in the different time periods. The character models are nicely detailed and the animation is very smooth. The way Alyssa walks or stumbles when she is frightened is very realistic and it is something that you will notice since it is so different from what we usually see in this genre. When Alyssa\'s fear gauge is full, a motion blur effect appears on screen and it goes a long way towards making the game even scarier. Like I said above, the gore is awesome looking and completes a great visual package.
The cinema sequences are simply amazing to watch as they seem more like a movie rather than a video game. The lighting, camera work, and pacing of each scene is head and shoulders above just about everything else in not only the survival horror genre, but in video games in general. I know I keep saying this, but this game is worth playing through just to experience the story.
The sound in Clock Tower 3 is every bit as good. The voice acting is perfect and the voices of the six killers will make your skin crawl. There isn\'t much music in the game but what is there is well suited to the action on screen. The sound effects are everything you\'d expect and things like cans rattling on the street or glass breaking as you stroll down an otherwise silent alleyway will make you jump every time.
If you are one of those people that complain and say things like \"I like games, not interactive movies\" you might not like CT3 too much. All I have to say to you is that maybe, just maybe, games can actually try and feature a compelling narrative and that not all games have to be 100% action. Grow up, learn some patience, and realize that having lots of different types of games around is a good thing. And don\'t say you haven\'t been warned.
Overall, Clock Tower 3 is a lot better than I expected it to be and fans of survival horror games definitely need to give it a chance. I\'m a huge fan or horror movies, so the blood and guts in CT3 didn\'t bother me too much, but if you are squeamish you might not want to play it. It really is that disturbing. The game can be pretty difficult, especially on the later levels, but it isn\'t anything too impossible to overcome. It will only take about five or six hours to complete your first time through, though, so Clock Tower 3 is a game you should rent before you decide to buy it. CT3 is an excellent game that makes the future of the series look very bright indeed.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
French film poster
Curt Siodmak
The Valley of Fear
by Arthur Conan Doyle
(uncredited)
Artur Brauner
Hans Söhnker
Ivan Desny
Wolfgang Lukschy
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Thorley Walters
Richard Angst
Ira Oberberg
Martin Slavin
CCC Filmkunst
Critérion Films
Incei Film
30 November 1962 (West Germany)
3 May 1963 (Italy)
20 May 1964 (France)
March 1968 (United Kingdom)
198,324 admissions (France)[1]
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (German: Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes[2]) is a 1962 mystery film directed by Terence Fisher. It is a West German-French-Italian international co-production. The film starred Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes and Thorley Walters as Dr. Watson. Curt Siodmak wrote the screenplay, based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The film's plot has Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson attempting to recover a stolen necklace, formerly worn by Cleopatra, from Professor Moriarty. Holmes tries to convince the police that the professor is a criminal, but they are disbelieving.
Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes
Thorley Walters as Dr. Watson
Senta Berger as Ellen Blackburn
Hans Söhnker as Prof. Moriarty
Hans Nielsen as Inspector Cooper
Ivan Desny as Paul King
Leon Askin as Charles, the chauffeur
Wolfgang Lukschy as Peter Blackburn
Edith Schultze-Westrum as Mrs. Hudson
Bernard Lajarrige as Inspector French[3]
One-time Universal screenwriter Curt Siodmak (The Wolf Man) wrote the screenplay, based on the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was intended to be an adaptation of Doyle's final Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear, but only minor elements of this story remained.[4][5]
West German producer Artur Brauner originally conceived the film as the first of a German film series. The producers' contact with the Arthur Conan Doyle estate led to the estate vetoing their original schemes to set the film in the present day such as the Edgar Wallace German film series and have Dr. Watson played by German comedian Heinz Erhardt. Many scenes of the film had to be reshot due to the Doyle estate not approving the dailies. Director Terence Fisher wrote memos to Brauner complaining the film was too static and not cinematic enough, leading to many rewrites by various uncredited screenwriters.[6]
Filming took place in July and August 1962 in Ireland, London and the Spandau Studios in Berlin.[3]
Lee donned a false nose[7] to play the famous detective for the first time. (He later reprised the role on TV, in 1991's Incident at Victoria Falls and 1992's Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady). Lee and the rest of the cast were dubbed.[4] Although Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace was originally filmed in English, the English language audio track was recorded post-production by different actors, mainly American.[7] The film has a jazz score by Martin Slavin.[7]
Thorley Walters again played Dr. Watson in The Best House in London (1969), The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975), and Silver Blaze (1977).[7]
The film's German premiere was on 30 November 1962. The Italian version was released on 3 May 1963 and the French one (Sherlock Holmes et le collier de la mort) on 20 May 1964.[3] Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace was not released to theatres in the United Kingdom until March 1968, and it went directly to television in the United States.[4]
Fisher and Lee were not happy with the film. Fisher called it "a film well worth left alone"[8] and Lee said of it, "I think it was a pity, this film, in more ways than one. We should never have made it in Germany with German actors, although we had a British art director and a British director. It was a hodge podge of stories put together by the German producers, who ruined it. My portrayal of Holmes is, I think, one of the best things I've ever done because I tried to play him really as he was written, as a very intolerant, argumentative, difficult man, and I looked extraordinarily like him with the make-up. Everyone who's seen it said I was as like Holmes as any actor they've ever seen both in appearance and interpretation."[4]
Segnalazione Cinematografiche criticised the film for reducing the tale to banalities and for being a sloppy adaption with modest performances by director and actors.[9] However, the German Lexikon des internationalen Films called it "an amusing detective game" set at the turn of the century that came quite close to recreating "the strange attraction" of Conan Doyle's Holmes adventures.[10]
The Monthly Film Bulletin said of the film that "apart from some startling anachronisms the period detail was on the whole nicely done",[11] but Marjorie Bilbow of Cinema and T.V. Today said, "As a story woven around an unknown detective it would have been forgiveable, but classic characters demand more accurate handling than this."[11] A more recent review from George R. Reis of DVDdrive-in.com called the film "an enjoyable little mystery" and Lee "a wonderful Holmes".[12]
Charles Prepolec of the Holmes fan website BakerStreetDozen.com wrote, "There are some amusingly broad characters that add an element of humour, including a sadly Nigel Bruce-like performance from Thorley Walters. Comedic turns abound in a pub sequence with Holmes in his thug disguise. There are some well played scenes between Lee and Hans Söhnker, played out on a bench that echo the fantastic exchange between Holmes and Moriarty recorded in The Final Problem. Great stuff, but unfortunately not frequent enough in this film."[13]
Retromedia Entertainment released Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace on DVD in 2005. In 2006, Alpha Video released a double feature DVD including Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace and the 1931 film The Speckled Band, starring Raymond Massey. In 2021 the film was released on Blu-Ray by Severin Films in the collection "The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee".
^ Box office information for Terence Fisher films in France at Box office Story
^ Barnes, Alan (2002). Sherlock Holmes on Screen. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. p. 168. ISBN 1-903111-04-8.
^ a b c "Filmportal: Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes". Retrieved 18 March 2013.
^ a b c d Davies, David Stuart (1978). Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes'. Bramhall House. p. 130. ISBN 0-517-23279-0.
^ Bunson, Matthew (1997). Encyclopedia Sherlockiana: an A-to-Z guide to the world of the great detective. Macmillan. p. 237. ISBN 0-02-861679-0.
^ Bergfelder, Tim (2005). International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books. pp. 130–131. ISBN 978-1-57181-539-2.
^ a b c d Barnes, Alan (2002). Sherlock Holmes on Screen. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. p. 171. ISBN 1-903111-04-8.
^ Davies, David Stuart (1978). Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes'. Bramhall House. pp. 129-130. ISBN 0-517-23279-0.
^ Segnalazione Cinematografiche. Volume 54, 1963
^ Katholisches Institut für Medieninformation (ed.) (1991). Lexikon des internationalen Films, Band 7 (German). Rowohlt. p. 3436. ISBN 3499163225. ((cite book)): |last= has generic name (help)
^ a b Davies, David Stuart (1978). Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes'. Bramhall House. p. 132. ISBN 0-517-23279-0.
^ Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace review – dvddrive-in.com
^ Sherlock Holmes and Christopher Lee: An Overview
Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes at IMDb
Screen adaptations of Sherlock Holmes
Theatrical films
Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery (1908)
Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes (1910)
Éclair film series (1912–1913)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
Detektiv Braun (1914)
A Study in Scarlet (1914 British film)
A Study in Scarlet (1914 US film)
The Valley of Fear (1916)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929)
Stoll series
The Dying Detective (1921)
The Devil's Foot (1921)
The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921)
The Sign of Four (1923)
Wontner series
The Sleeping Cardinal (1931)
The Missing Rembrandt (1932)
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
Silver Blaze (1937)
Rathbone–Bruce
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Voice of Terror (1942)
Secret Weapon (1942)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
The Spider Woman (1943)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
The House of Fear (1945)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Dressed to Kill (1946)
Downey Jr. series
A Game of Shadows (2011)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929)
The Limejuice Mystery (1930)
The Speckled Band (1931)
Lelíček ve službách Sherlocka Holmese (1932)
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
The Grey Lady (1937)
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937)
Deduce, You Say! (1956)
The Deadly Necklace (1962)
A Study in Terror (1965)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Murder by Decree (1979)
The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Without a Clue (1988)
Zero Effect (1998)
A Samba for Sherlock (2001)
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
Mr. Holmes (2015)
The Empire of Corpses (2015)
Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
Holmes & Watson (2018)
Television/Streaming
Television/Streaming films
Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet (1983)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983)
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four (1983)
Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear (1983)
Vasily Livanov
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)
The Treasures of Agra (1983)
The Twentieth Century Approaches (1986)
The Leading Lady (1991)
Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)
Matt Frewer
The Royal Scandal (2001)
The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002)
Ian Hart
(as Watson)
The Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)
Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
Other television and
The Three Garridebs (1937)
The Man Who Disappeared (1951)
The Longing of Sherlock Holmes (1972)
Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (1974)
The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976)
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)
The Masks of Death (1984)
Hands of a Murderer (1990)
The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
The Hound of London (1993)
Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
Sherlock Holmes (2010) (DTV)
Sherlock Holmes (1965–1968)
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979–1980)
Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)
The Baker Street Boys (1983)
Sherlock Hound (1984–1985)
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997–2000)
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999–2001)
Sherlock (2010–2017)
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes (2010–2016)
Aria the Scarlet Ammo (2011)
Elementary (2012–2019)
Miss Sherlock (2018)
Sherlock: Untold Stories (2019)
Case File nº221: Kabukicho (2019–2020)
Moriarty the Patriot (2020–2021)
Sherlock in Russia (2020)
The Irregulars (2021)
Lupin the 3rd Part 6 (2021–2022)
Actors by role
Inspector Lestrade
Mycroft Holmes
Mrs. Hudson
Professor Moriarty
Films directed by Terence Fisher
A Song for Tomorrow (1948)
Colonel Bogey (1948)
To the Public Danger (1948)
Portrait from Life (1948)
Marry Me! (1949)
The Astonished Heart (1950)
So Long at the Fair (1950)
Home to Danger (1951)
The Last Page (1952)
Wings of Danger (1952)
Stolen Face (1952)
Distant Trumpet (1952)
Four Sided Triangle (1953)
Spaceways (1953)
Blood Orange (1953)
Face the Music (1954)
Murder by Proxy (1954)
A Stranger Came Home (1954)
Final Appointment (1954)
Mask of Dust (1954)
Children Galore (1955)
Stolen Assignment (1955)
The Flaw (1955)
The Gelignite Gang (1956)
The Last Man to Hang (1956)
Kill Me Tomorrow (1957)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
The Stranglers of Bombay (1960)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
The Horror of It All (1963)
The Gorgon (1964)
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Island of Terror (1966)
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Night of the Big Heat (1967)
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Works by Curt Siodmak
Donovan's Brain (1942)
People on Sunday (1930)
Le Bal (1931)
F.P.1 (1932)
Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
It's a Bet (1935)
The Loves of Madame Dubarry (1935)
The Tunnel (1935)
Abdul the Damned (1935, uncredited)
Non-Stop New York (1937)
Her Jungle Love (1938)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
The Ape (1940)
Pacific Blackout (1941)
The Wolf Man (1941)
Invisible Agent (1942)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
The Climax (1944)
Frisco Sal (1945)
Shady Lady (1945)
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
The Magnetic Monster (1953)
Riders to the Stars (1954)
Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
Son of Dracula (1943)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
Berlin Express (1948)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1957)
Love Slaves of the Amazons (1958)
The Devil's Messenger (1961, uncredited)
Films with screenplays by Curt Siodmak
1960s mystery films
German mystery films
West German films
French mystery films
Italian mystery films
Sherlock Holmes films
Constantin Film films
Films set in London
Films shot at Spandau Studios
English-language German films
1960s Italian films
1960s French films
1960s German films


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Home > News > Immigration > Immigration – what's next?
Immigration is never far from the headlines and there has been a lot of uncertainty for many people living in Devon and Cornwall. Immigration solicitor Lisa Mulholland has helped hundreds of people navigate the complicated Home Office application process. Here she looks ahead to some changes coming up in immigration law.
The Immigration Health Surcharge allows anyone in the UK on a work, study or family visa for longer than six months to access NHS services in the same way as UK citizens.
The surcharge is paid as part of a visa application process. It is about to double from £200 per year of the visa to £400 per year of the visa. This change is applicable to all applicants who make UK visa applications from December 2018 onwards.
For the vast majority of applicants, the surcharge is set to increase from £500 to £1,000. Given that this is in addition to the visa application fees which are in excess of £1,000 per applicant, it is a costly process to remain living in the UK with your British family member.
It is even more important that you get the applications right as if applicants don't, they are then required to resubmit or appeal and the Home Office retain the application fees.
The EU Settlement Scheme will enable EU citizens resident in the UK and their family members to obtain the UK immigration status they will require in order to live and work in the UK after the end of the planned Brexit implementation period on 31 December 2020.
A pilot is underway to provide the Home Office with the opportunity to see how the scheme will work when it is rolled out, and hopefully iron out any issues before the full launch.
The second phase of the pilot EU Settlement Scheme will be run from 1 November 2018 until 21 December 2018.
From 15 November 2018, staff in the higher education sector across the UK, and some vulnerable individuals being supported by five local authorities and seven civil society organisations in England will be eligible. From 29 November 2018, staff in the health and social care sectors across the UK will be eligible.
The entire scheme will be implemented on a phased basis and will be fully open by 30 March 2019.
Navigating the immigration process can be daunting and often the support of an experienced immigration lawyer can help.
Lisa Mulholland is a solicitor in the immigration team at Stephens Scown LLP. The team is unique in the region as it advises both individuals and businesses on all aspects of UK immigration law. To contact Lisa, please call 01392 210 700 and e-mail Immigration@stephens-scown.co.uk or visit www.stephens-scown.co.uk.
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Cured Meats Could Aggravate Asthma
Posted by Unknown on 12/23/2016 03:58:00 am in ASTHMA | Comments : 0
Consistently eating cured meats, for example, ham and salami may disturb asthma, scientists report.
Taking a gander at near 1,000 individuals with the respiratory infection, French analysts found that the individuals who ate the most prepared and cured meats were 76 percent more prone to see their asthma side effects decline after some time contrasted with the individuals who ate the minimum.
These manifestations incorporate inconvenience breathing, mid-section snugness and shortness of breath, as indicated by the report.
Cured meats are high in chemicals called nitrites to keep them from ruining. These meats have been connected to a higher danger of other interminable illnesses, including malignancy, coronary illness, sort 2 diabetes and endless obstructive aspiratory sickness (COPD). Likewise, they were as of late delegated cancer-causing, or tumor bringing about, by the World Health Organization (WHO), said the review's lead analyst, Dr. Zhen Li.
"Be that as it may, there remains a hole in regards to the spread of learning about the damages of handled meat from the exploration group to general society," said Li, who is with Inserm Paul Brousse Hospital in Villejuif, France.
Li forewarned that this review can't demonstrate that eating cured meats aggravates asthma, just that an affiliation exists.
Still, "general wellbeing systems are justified to lessen cured and prepared meat consumption," Li said.
Asthma influences 235 million individuals around the world, as indicated by the WHO. Normal triggers include: indoor allergens, for example, tidy bugs and pet dander; outside allergens, for example, dust; tobacco smoke; and concoction aggravations in the working environment.
Dr. Len Horovitz is a pneumonic master at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
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"While no firm conclusion can be drawn [from this study], there gives off an impression of being a connection of declining asthma side effects and prepared and cured meat," said Horovitz, who wasn't required in the exploration.
"One would need to ponder whether salt or additives utilized as a part of handling meats may be in charge of this wonder," he said.
For the review, Li and partners gathered information on more than 2,000 individuals who partook in a French review that followed the strength of individuals with asthma and their nearby relatives for over 20 years.
Li's group centered around 971 individuals for whom finish dietary, weight, asthma side effect scores and statistic information were acquired until 2011-2013.
Eating regimen was measured utilizing sustenance recurrence surveys. The scientists got some information about utilization of cured meats, for example, ham, hotdog and salami. Utilization was named low for one or less servings a week; medium for one to four servings; and high for at least four.
The examiners looked at reactions at two time focuses: 2003-2007 and 2011-2013.
In the later era, asthma side effects had declined over the earlier year for 20 percent of the review members.
Among the individuals who ate one or less servings of prepared or cured meat, 14 percent reported more regrettable asthma side effects. Among those eating one to four servings a week, 20 percent said their asthma indications had intensified.
In the gathering eating at least four week by week servings, 22 percent reported compounding asthma, the discoveries appeared.
In the wake of considering smoking, general physical action, age, sex and instruction, the scientists figured that individuals who ate the most cured meats were 76 percent more inclined to have exacerbating asthma side effects, contrasted and the individuals who ate the slightest.
Being overweight or corpulent, which has been connected to intensifying asthma, represented just 14 percent of this affiliation, recommending that handled meat may have an autonomous part in asthma side effects, Li said.
Be that as it may, there were confinements to the review. For one, the dietary information and asthma side effects were reviewed by the members, and memory may not be precise. The outcomes could likewise be influenced by smoking or other breathing issues brought about by perpetual lung malady, which has asthma-like indications, Li said.
One specialist said he as of now prompts every one of his patients - with and without asthma - to eat less prepared meats.
"Be that as it may, I don't state eating less prepared meats will improve your asthma," said Dr. Alan Mensch. He is senior VP for restorative issues at Northwell Health's Plainview and Syosset Hospitals in New York.
Eating a considerable measure of cured and prepared meat might be an indication of other undesirable propensities, for example, smoking, Mensch noted.
"On the off chance that you toss dietary alert to the wind, you may do it with everything else," he said.
The report was distributed online Dec. 20 in the diary Thorax.
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Why aren't women getting ahead?
Is the problem that women don't ask? Or are they asking, but still not being rewarded? Are men just more willing to engage in ridiculous self-aggrandizing behavior to get ahead?
In a world where women have made up nearly half of law school classes for a generation, but are still a small minority of law firm partners, judges, law school deans, etc., these are questions worth asking.
And, even if it annoys some people, I'm going to ask them.
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If you flipped the study around and asked about which gender spends more time parenting, it would be incredibly skewed toward women. Whether that's by choice (of both men and women) or by cultural imperative, who knows. But its still dramatically the case, and it means that women face work/life challenges significantly more than men.
Until men are as involved/invested in family as women are, the work success numbers will continue to heavily favor men. Another way of putting this is that men are more stigmatized than women for taking parenting leave, flex time, etc. This won't change until men demand that it changes.
Feminism has been far more successful in changing our ideas about women's roles than in changing our ideas about men's roles.
Agreed that's a huge issue. I wonder if that's changing somewhat with Gen Y? I see more of an emphasis on work-life balance all around, but who knows if that will result in real change.
One of the things I found most interesting was the comparison of the percentage of 7th-year associates to the percentage of partners/of counsel/etc. It doesn't seem like hugely disproportionate numbers of women are taking themselves out of contention (given that they're still around in the 7th year), but something happens after that.
I would think that would be around the time that a lot of women (and men) are starting families. That could explain much of it. I'd be interested to see how it compares to other demanding professions.
As for Gen Y (or the Millennials or whatever we're calling the kids these days), it's an interesting question. Here's a purely unscientific, anecdotal answer: I asked a group of my (college) students yesterday two questions: First, how many of them expected to have kids at some point? Almost all raised their hands. Second, how many expected to share parenting equally with their future spouse? All of the women but only one or two of the men raised their hands.
Wow, that's pretty revealing. Definitely work to be done!
New slogan needed: You CAN'T have it all. You need to prioritize and then act. Sometimes kids won't be in the picture. Other times, career won't be in the picture.


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Index to C-SPAN Video Recordings
The internet is bringing increased transparancy to the workings of the US Congress as C-SPAN is now publishing an index of its House and Senate floor proceedings -- The C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle. According to the site, "the video recordings are matched with the text of the Congressional Record as soon as the Record is available. It only includes members who appeared on the floor to deliver or insert their remarks. The text included is what the member submitted. Each appearance has a video link where users can watch and listen to the actual statements."
The site states that available coverage includes the 108th (2003-2004), 109th (2005-2006), and 110th (2007-present) Congresses. It seems that the 107th (2001-2002) and 106th (1999-2000) Congresses were added in late 2007. Apparently, C-SPAN is in the early stages of populating their content as not all the video is available online yet. Earlier Congresses are expected to be added as the video is digitized and indexed at the rate of two Congresses per year.
Source: beSpacific, dated February 26, 2008
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Student Day Against the Death Penalty
As part of a nationwide day educating and protesting capital punishment sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild, the BLS chapters of the National Lawyers Guild and ACLU held an event on Thursday, February 28 at the Law School. More information on the work of the National Lawyers Guild and the Student Day Against the Death Penalty on March 1, 2008 is available at the website of the NLG.
The BLS occasion featured a screening of the 2005 Court TV film, The Exonerated, Guilty until Proven Innocent which was directed by Bob Balaban and starred Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo, Aidan Quinn and Susan Sarandon. The movie dramatizes the stories of six people who had been wrongfully convicted of murder, but were later exonerated and freed after spending years on death row. The trailer for the film is posted below.
Bobby Quackenbush, a 2L member of the National Lawyers Guild talks about the film and discusses how the BLS chapter of the NLG under the supervision of Professor Nathaniel Berman works on projects in areas of international human rights, legal issues related to unemployment, labor, affirmative action, veteran rights and law student organizing.
Episode 016 - Conversation with BLS 2L Bobby Quackenbush.mp3
See http://brooklaw.edu/studentorg/#NLG for contact information.
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US Supreme Court Permissive Standard for Age Discrimination Suits
In a case from the Southern District of New York, Fed Ex couriers over the age of 40 sued their employer under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) alleging discriminatory employment practices in programs tying their compensation and continued employment to certain performance benchmarks favoring younger couriers and disfavoring older ones. Prior to suing, the employees filed with the EEOC an affidavit that described the problem and an "intake questionnaire" asking the EEOC to "please force Federal Express to end their age discrimination plan" instead of filing a formal "charge". The employer moved to dismiss the complaint based on the ADEA's exhaustion requirements in §626(d) which provides that employees must first file a discrimination charge with the EEOC and wait 60 days before filing a lawsuit to allow the commission time to resolve the matter with the employer. The District Court dismissed the complaint based on the pre-suit notification language of the ADEA. The Second Circuit partially reversed at 440 F. 3d 558. The Supreme Court granted certiorari and issued its decision in Federal Express Corp. v. Holowecki yesterday.
In a 7-to-2 decision, the majority ruled against the employer's strict exhaustion arguments and in favor of the employees who, with the support of the EEOC, advocated a more permissive standard. Justice Kennedy stated:
"If a filing is to be deemed a charge it must be reasonably construed as a request for the agency to take remedial action to protect the employee's rights or otherwise settle a dispute between the employer and the employee".
If the litigants had been represented by counsel, one wonders whether the ruling would have had a different outcome as the Court noted that under its
"...permissive standard a wide range of documents might be classified as charges. But this result is consistent with the design and purpose of the ADEA. Even in the formal litigation context, pro se litigants are held to a lesser pleading standard than other parties."
The ruling is in marked contrast with last year's Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. where the court ruled 5 to 4 that employees complaining about discrimination in pay forfeited their right to sue if they did not file a formal complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission within 180 days of a manager's discriminatory pay decision. The different outcomes result from the language in the relevant statutes. Both Title VII and the ADA expressly require the filing of a verified charge, the ADEA does not and lower courts have permitted ADEA claims to proceed upon the filing of an Intake Questionnaire, letter or other unverified document.
In a strong dissent, Justice Thomas criticized the malleability of the Court's decision stating:
"Today the Court decides that a "charge" of age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) is whatever the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says it is…..Today's decision does nothing—absolutely nothing—to solve the problem that under the EEOC's current processes no one can tell, ex ante, whether a particular filing is or is not a charge."
Source: Jurist Legal News and Research dated February 27, 2007
US Supreme Court on Retroactive Effect of New Rules in State Courts
In an important ruling on criminal procedure involving federalism and the retroactive application of Supreme Court decisions in state court criminal cases, the Supreme Court decided in Danforth v. Minnesota that state courts are free to function independently of the federal courts in following the retroactive effect of those rights. In reversing the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision in the case, the US Supreme Court wrote:
New constitutional rules announced by this Court that place certain kinds of primary individual conduct beyond the power of the States to proscribe, as well as watershed" rules of criminal procedure, must be applied in all future trials, all cases pending on direct review, and all federal habeas corpus proceedings. All other new rules of criminal procedure must be applied in future trials and in cases pending on direct review, but may not provide the basis for a federal collateral attack on a state-court conviction. This is the substance of the "Teague rule" described by Justice O'Connor in her plurality opinion in Teague v. Lane, 489 U. S. 288 (1989). The question in this case is whether Teague constrains the authority of state courts to give broader effect to new rules of criminal procedure than is required by that opinion. We have never suggested that it does, and now hold that it does not.
The Danforth case was an appeal of a Minnesota conviction for sexual abuse of a six-year-old boy based on videotaped testimony. At the trial, the victim was found incompetent to testify in court and told his story on videotape. After Danforth's conviction and unsuccessful appeals, the Supreme Court ruled in Crawford v. Washington that pre-recorded testimony without the possibility of cross-examination is unconstitutional. Danforth filed a second habeas petition, seeking to have the Crawford decision applied retroactively to his case.
Reversing the Minnesota high court by a 7-2 vote, the US Supreme Court said that state courts are not bound by the same limits that apply to federal courts. A state "should be equally free to give its citizens the benefit of our rule in any fashion that does not offend federal law," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the court. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy dissented. In a ringing endorsement of federalism, the Supreme Court, having laid down a rule on retroactivity for federal cases in Teague, has ruled that state courts are free to devise their own procedural rules even when they are more generous than federal standards.
Episode 015 - Conversation with Professor Christopher Serkin
Episode 015 - Conversation with Professor Christopher Serkin.mp3
In this podcast, we hear Professor Christopher Serkin explain the theories which he explores in his latest addition to legal scholarship in an article entitled Existing Uses: Retroactive Land Use Regulations and the Takings Clause. The article is a preliminary draft that is currently under revision and is expected to be published soon. Since joining the BLS faculty in 2005, Professor Serkin has continued his significant contributions to legal scholarship focusing on property, land use and local government. A list of selected works of Professor Serkin is available here.
More Eminent Domain News in Brooklyn
As gentrification in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn continues, affordable housing advocates are seeking to acquire a 15-acre plant site in Williamsburg owned by the Pfizer Corporation. Pfizer was involved in the landmark 2005 US Supreme Court case Kelo v. City of New London that has been much criticized for permitting eminent domain abuses.
According to a report in Friday's Wall Street Journal Health Blog by Jacob Goldstein, Pfizer is trying to sell its property to a private developer. However, New York Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D–Williamsburg), the chairman of the Assembly's housing committee and Joseph Lentol (D–Greenpoint) plan to introduce a bill to taken the Pfizer property by eminent domain in order to build affordable housing on the site. Details of the story are found in a January 26 article in the Brooklyn Paper.
Episode 014 - Conversation with Professor Amy Gajda
Episode 014 - Conversation with Professor Amy Gajda.mp3
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Amy Gajda joins the faculty at Brooklyn Law School this spring from the University of Illinois - College of Law, where she is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Law. While she is with BLS, Professor Gajda is teaching Mass Media and First Amendment and The Law of Higher Education. In today's conversation, we discuss Prof. Gajda's law review article What if Samuel D. Warren Hadn't Married a Senator's Daughter?: Uncovering the Press Coverage that Led to The Right to Privacy. The article discusses the impetus for the famous law review article The Right to Privacy by Samuel D. Warren and Louis Brandeis in 4 Harvard Law Review 193 (1890) available in HeinOnline. Publication of Prof. Gajda's article is expected in an upcoming edition of the Michigan State Law Review.
2nd Circuit Rules on Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards Project
In a major setback for opponents of the Atlantic Yards development project in downtown Brooklyn, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a complaint challenging eminent domain action on the grounds that it violated the Public Use Clause of the Fifth Amendment. See the NY Times article reporting the decision. The Court ruled in Goldstein v. Pataki that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the project's public benefit was a "pretext" to benefit Bruce Ratner, the private developer behind the project.
The plaintiffs challenged the condemnation as a private taking in violation of the Fifth Amendment and alleged that the "public uses" the state agencies advanced for the project were pretexts to benefit Bruce Ratner whose company first proposed it and who serves as the Project's primary developer. The "pretext" argument was based on the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. City of New London decided in 2005. The Court of Appeals rejected the "pretext" claim stating:
"We do not read Kelo's reference to "pretext" as demanding, as the appellants would apparently have it, a full judicial inquiry into the subjective motivation of every official who supported the Project, an exercise as fraught with conceptual and practical difficulties as with state-sovereignty and separation-of-power concerns. Beyond being conclusory, the claim that the "decision to take Plaintiffs' properties serves only one purpose" defies both logic and experience.
"At the end of the day, we are left with the distinct impression that the lawsuit is animated by concerns about the wisdom of the Atlantic Yards Project and its effect on the community. While we can well understand why the affected property owners would take this opportunity to air their complaints, such matters of policy are the province of the elected branches, not this Court."
In the two years since the Kelo decision, many states have introduced eminent domain reform legislation in response to overwhelming public disapproval of the ruling. The effectiveness of those legislative efforts is questioned in a well researched article entitled The Limits of Backlash: Assessing the Political Response to Kelo by Ilya Somin. The article suggests that widespread political ignorance may contribute to the ineffectiveness of most eminent domain reforms. The plaintiffs challenging the Atlantic Yards development project are far from politically ignorant. Unless the Supreme Court takes their case and overrules Kelo, their struggle against eminent domain in this case seems over.
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The phrase "New balls, please" must have a whole new meaning for Frenchman Marc Gicquel, who went on to win his match at the ATP Halle tournament despite receiving a serve travelling at 208 kilometres per hour in the testicles.
The 30-year-old was in the second set of his match against German Benjamin Becker when he was fooled by the serve - which scored a bulls-eye straight into his delicate area.
With the speed-gun showing the serve was 208 km/h, the game was stopped for ten minutes while the Frenchman had ice applied discreetly, well, as discreetly as possible, in front of 8,000 people.
In a show of support, Becker went over to his fallen opponent to pass on his deepest sympathy.


We will begin our celebration with a tour of the Central Tower, visiting the Memoribilia room with a lunch provided by Coney Island and Sammy's Pizza. We would like to walk downtown to visit the Vietnam Memorial after that. Evening activities will be of your own choosing.
We will meet in the Memoribilia room at 1:00 pm. Hope to see many of you there. Bring some type of marker to put your name in the tower area. It is really difficult to find your original name as there are thousands of signatures up there.
The main evening event will be hosted at Ridgeview Country Club. This includes a dinner, program, and music. Our main objective,however, is to visit classmates with whom you haven't seen for many years.
We are hoping that classmates will also take advantage of other activities earlier in the day; golf, pizza train, Enger Tower, etc.
We have rented the Park Point Beach House at the end of Park Point for a Sunday picnic. Bring your own "Subway" ( or whatever) to eat. We will provide pop and water. We have not hired a police officer for this event so alcoholic beverages will not be allowed. We will meet around 11:00 a.m.
We will have our choice of Coneys or Sammy's Pizza for lunch before touring the school, tower and Memoribilia Room.
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I love that the ME TOO phase is giving women to courage to come forward. Women need to find the power they have seemed to lost. Or have been to scared to show.
I agree with these women's decision to talk about their suppressed life experience to expose the evil people. Well done to them!
Patricia similar messages in my book poems, Splendor from Ashes soon. Thanks for the warm response.
It's insane to see how a hashtag can open your eyes. So many women are silent about this and through the hashtag they were able to share their true feelings. They were able to come out and express the violence and assault they faced. It's sad and we have a long way to go before we can change this type of behavior.
What a great post! Thanks for sharing! I'll read more about this soon.
What upsets me most is that some people are "off limits" to the rebuke we have for Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey. And this is the reason so many don't speak out until they have cover.
Sexual harassment has been in the spotlight lately. Hopefully this will help put an end to it!
I love that the #metoo hashtag got started. I think it was great to see such a strong voice from these women.
I love your style of writing and on such an important and relevant topic! Thank you for shedding light on such an important issue that so many women have had to endure.
It's about time to raise awareness of this issue. It's good to know that the voice of women is now loud and has power.
I love how social media has given us access to a platform that can take a thought, idea or cause and bring a spotlight like no other. This is a perfect example of how powerful that can be.


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Taxback international says VAT reclaim on business travel and expense is particularly slow, complex and cumbersome when done manually.