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From Murder Bumps to Brain Scans: New Ways to Excuse Crime
by Tina in Academicians on Crime,Tennessee,The Crime Experts
All this week, NPR is reporting on new genetic research to determine if some people have genes that make them kill people.
That is, if by "report" you mean shamelessly advocate and if by "genetic research" you mean paying expert witnesses to misrepresent academic findings in the courtroom.
Bradley Waldroup: Destined to Kill?
In the subtly-titled "Can Your Genes Make You Murder?" reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty answers: Why of course, yes, if it will get that poor man in the trailer park off from shooting his wife's best friend eight times and then hacking up his wife with a machete, and to heck with him being drunk and just deciding to do it!
When the police arrived at Bradley Waldroup's trailer home in the mountains of Tennessee, they found a war zone. There was blood on the walls, blood on the carpet, blood on the truck outside, even blood on the Bible that Waldroup had been reading before all hell broke loose.
Note the "all hell broke loose" sentence construction, as if it wasn't Waldroup doing something, but that something beyond his control was acting on him. Like genes. Or hell-ghosts.
Or maybe he became a zombie.
In other words, it took a mere one and a half sentences for Ms. Hagerty to start singing the defense attorney's refrain of diminished capacity.
Assistant District Attorney Drew Robinson says that on Oct. 16, 2006, Waldroup was waiting for his estranged wife to arrive with their four kids for the weekend. He had been drinking, and when his wife said she was leaving with her friend, Leslie Bradshaw, they began to fight. Soon, Waldroup had shot Bradshaw eight times and sliced her head open with a sharp object. When Waldroup was finished with her, he chased after his wife, Penny, with a machete, chopping off her finger and cutting her over and over.
Ordinarily, this would be a slam-dunk murder conviction. After all, it takes some time to pump eight bullets into an innocent woman and then tear around chopping up another one. But then, enter the "experts":
[Defense attorney Wylie] Richardson says he realized that the testimony at trial would be "very graphic." The defense team, he says, did not try to dismantle the graphic evidence but rather sought to "give a broader and fuller picture of what that was." How to do that? The answer, it turned out, lay in Bradley Waldroup's genes.
Wouldn't that be "the defense said the answer lay in Bradley Waldroup's genes"? No?
Immediately, Richardson went to forensic psychiatrist William Bernet of Vanderbilt University and asked him to give Waldroup a psychiatric evaluation. Bernet also took a blood sample and brought it to Vanderbilt's Molecular Genetics Laboratory. Since 2004, Bernet and laboratory director Cindy Vnencak-Jones have been analyzing the DNA of people like Waldroup. They've tested some 30 criminal defendants, most of whom were charged with murder.
They've tested a whole 30 defendants since 2004.
They were looking for a particular variant of the MAO-A gene — also known as the warrior gene because it has been associated with violence. Bernet says they found that Waldroup has the high-risk version of the gene.
Oh no. Not only does the killer have the Warrior Gene, he's got the High Risk Warrior Gene! And that's not all.
"His genetic makeup, combined with his history of child abuse, together created a vulnerability that he would be a violent adult," Bernet explains.
Remember when this used to be called phrenology?
You know, the discredited science of feeling people's heads for things like "murder bumps" and promiscuity centers?
Boy, those Victorians sure were crazy. And prejudiced, because, of course, phrenologists got busy fast dividing mankind into superior and inferior groupings by doing things like measuring people's foreheads and noses, and you know where that ended up.
Phrenology also made policing easier, because you could simply categorize people by their physical characteristics and not wait for them to actually do anything wrong before sending them to the poorhouse. Or Australia.
Thank goodness we're far more advanced than those Victorians. Now we have experts convincing jurors that people can't be held responsible for murders they actually did commit because their genes made them do it:
[Vanderbilt researcher William] Bernet cited scientific studies over the past decade that found that the combination of the high-risk gene and child abuse increases one's chances of being convicted of a violent offense by more than 400 percent. He notes that other studies have not found a connection between the MAO-A gene and violence — but he told the jury that he felt the genes and childhood abuse were a dangerous cocktail. "A person doesn't choose to have this particular gene or this particular genetic makeup," Bernet says. "A person doesn't choose to be abused as a child. So I think that should be taken into consideration when we're talking about criminal responsibility."
So, essentially, Bernet "feels" a non-proven connection between violence and a gene that non-murderers also possess ought to mitigate culpability for violent acts. Enough jurors bought this story:
[Juror] Debbie Beaty, says the science helped persuade her that Waldroup was not entirely in control of his actions. "Evidently it's just something that doesn't tick right," Beaty says. "Some people without this would react totally different than he would." And even though prosecutors tried to play down the genetic evidence, Beaty felt it was a major factor. "A diagnosis is a diagnosis, it's there," she says. "A bad gene is a bad gene."
Well, thank you, Dr. Beaty.
After 11 hours of deliberation, the jury convicted Waldroup of voluntary manslaughter — not murder — and attempted second-degree murder. Prosecutor Drew Robinson was stunned. "I was just flabbergasted. I did not know how to react to it," Robinson says. Nor did fellow prosecutor Cynthia Lecroy-Schemel. She worries that this sort of defense is the wave of the future. "Anything that defense attorneys can have to latch onto to save their client's life or to lessen their client's culpability, they will do it," Lecroy-Schemel says. Waldroup's attorney, Wylie Richardson, says she's right. "I would use it again" under the right circumstances, he says. "It seemed to work in this case."
It seemed to work in this case. There's a scientific standard we can all be proud of.
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Real Recidivism: The Numbers Aren't Good
by Tina in Academicians on Crime,Crime and Justice Blog,Recidivism,statistics,Tennessee
Whenever some academician tells the media that this program or that program has "reduced recidivism," or that "this group of offenders aren't likely to commit more crimes" there are three questions you should always ask:
how long were the offenders tracked after they got out of prison?
how were offenders selected for (or excluded from) study?
who paid the academician?
I have an especially hard time trusting studies that are designed to test one specific program or sentencing initiative. Such studies are usually designed by people who have a vested interest in proving the program a success — either the program directors themselves or some professor or consulting firm hired to evaluate their outcomes.
It's sort of like telling a bunch of ambitious eleventh graders to grade their own performance on the SAT's . . . based on effort.
Unfortunately, there is no graveyard where skewed studies go to die: they live on in debates about recidivism, sentencing, and crime. This is how myths like "sex offenders almost never re-offend" seep out into the conventional wisdom.
How do you cook the books on recidivism? You follow tiny pools of offenders. You pick offenders who have already shown initiative by enrolling in a program or being admitted into one — self-selecting, ideal participants. You use partial information: convictions instead of arrests; post-plea sentencing instead of pre-pleaded charges. Mostly, you follow offenders for very short periods of time after they are released, like, down the street to the first stoplight.
When you don't do these things, this is what the headline looks like:
Recidivism rate worse than statistics indicate, Memphis-area study finds
20 years of research discovers 81 percent of former inmates end up back behind bars
Jeff Smith had been free of drugs for four years. Two of those years were during a stay at the Shelby County Correction Center and two were while working at the Salvation Army after his release from jail.
It was at the Salvation Army that Smith, 54, says he felt "a sense of purpose for the first time in years." He was doing what he says he loves best — working as a carpenter and furniture refinisher. And he counseled other former inmates to try to keep them from repeating their mistakes.
Smith wishes he had followed his own advice. "I was tempted by the devil, and I failed," he says. Carpentry, counseling and church services at the Salvation Army weren't enough to break the "revolving-door" cycle that means, like Smith, up to 94 percent of former inmates will be rearrested and up to 81 percent will wind up behind bars again.
94% re-arrest rate. This is from a 20-year study that recorded every re-arrest and re-conviction, avoiding the "partial information" scheme. The study itself was conducted by people who have a program of their own to promote: they claim that their moral reconation therapy (MRT) resulted in a 25% decrease in recidivism:
About 94 percent of inmates receiving only standard counseling had been rearrested and 82 percent of them wound up back behind bars. Of those receiving MRT therapy, 81 percent had been rearrested and 61 percent again wound up behind bars. It was reduction of about 25 percent from the group that did not receive MRT therapy.
Well, OK. It's not that I think that there's no such thing as rehabilitation. Consequences and 12-steps and therapy do work. But I'd need to know a lot more about their selection process to buy the 25% claim.
Besides, when anti-incarceration activists claim that we save X amount of money by not incarcerating someone, that's just untrue. Most offenders receive significant social service dollars — housing, medical, food stamps — when they are out of prison as well, not to mention the price of policing them and the costs that arise every time they commit an additional crime, which 94% of them apparently will do. Offenders who return to abusing substances when they get out of prison are particularly costly as their health deteriorates and their habits drag down the families and neighborhoods around them. Innocent bystanders and misinformed taxpayers pay the tab either way.
Without acknowledging these costs, statements like this are, frankly, meaningless:
[T]he cost of housing an inmate like Smith is more than $24,000 a year, so cutting total costs by 25 percent would mean a huge savings.
Yet public policy debates rise and fall on questionable claims like these. The media needs to do a much better job of skeptically approaching all research claims. After all, if there is reliable research showing that everything policymakers have been believing is not only wrong, but staggeringly wrong, the debate needs to be re-calibrated:
Tennessee Department of Correction studies show recidivism rates of about 51 percent over a three-year period, and national studies show recidivism averages of roughly 65 percent over three years. But [Dr. Greg] Little and [Dr. Kenneth] Robinson say the numbers keep going up over time, and the numbers are higher because most studies don't count re-incarcerations that took place in other states or in courts other than the original case. For instance, an inmate released on state probation or parole is seldom counted as a recidivist if later jailed for a federal crime.
There is a very large difference between 51% recidivism and 94% recidivism. You don't need to throw out the rehabilitation baby with the research bathwater just because the research bathwater is hopelessly dirty, but you should wash the baby in clean water.
An Interesting Story From the Memphis Commercial Appeal: Not Minimizing Crime
by Tina in Crime and Justice Blog,media coverage of crime,Tennessee
If only journalists and politicians in Atlanta simply acknowledged the real price of crime, instead of arguing over numbers and criticizing the public for caring. Here is how the Memphis Commercial Appeal handles a "drop-in-crime-but-still-too-much-crime" story:
[P]olice crime stats show substantial drops in 2009, more than 16 percent below the same period in 2006.
But even below-average crime in Memphis, even on a "slow" week, still means hundreds of burglaries, hundreds of assaults, arrests for drugs and prostitution, broken car windows, stolen vehicles, sexual assaults and, on this night, an extraordinarily violent end for one man, the victim of a robbery in his apartment.
This is not sensationalizing crime: it is merely reporting it:
Murder and other violent crimes receive most of the attention in Memphis, the city's image plagued by an average of more than 160 murders per year since 2001. But the city's "true" crime problem — according to The Commercial Appeal's examination of a decade of MPD data and an intense week on the streets with officers — follows a less-sensational story line.
It is the slow drip of economic crime and household conflict that runs a steady flow of poison into neighborhoods from Whitehaven to Cordova, from Frayser to Hickory Hill.
It is civic death by a thousand paper cuts.
No foot-dragging, no snide references to "perceptions" of crime. Just reporting:
It is James Etta Moore, whose South Orleans home was burglarized five times in six months.
It's Moore discovering a prostitute having sex in her backyard.
It's 12-year-old Cornecia Crowley standing nearby as her dog, Cinnamon, is gunned down for barking at a passerby.
It is a fearful Robert Nelson as police arrive to investigate a break-in at a neighbor's home near Nutbush. Months earlier, the same neighbor was dragged from his porch, beaten and robbed.
"I sleep with one eye open, and that's not good," says Nelson, who has lived in the neighborhood most of his life. "On Friday nights, I barely sleep at all."
The reporters don't neglect the courts' role in keeping offenders out of jail and on the streets:
At the Mt. Moriah precinct, officers spend Monday morning celebrating the capture of an 18-year-old named Jermaine Cobb — known as "Moose" and with a penchant for taking computers and televisions.
"He turned 18 on the 15th of June, and he's been locked up three times already for burglary," Maj. Stan Eason said. "He's our biggest headache in the Oakhaven area, really for this precinct. We've been dealing with him since he was 15."
"Moose" was arrested July 13 for aggravated burglary and theft of property. He was released on July 15 on a $20,000 bond. He got locked up again July 27 for assault. He was released on July 28. He was arrested again July 30 for aggravated burglary, and they released him on Aug. 16 on a $30,000 bond. Then he was arrested, again, Aug. 20 for aggravated burglary.
"What's difficult for us is when we're talking to the victims we say, 'We can arrest them, but we can't keep them in,'" said Michael Rallings, the Mt. Moriah commander recently promoted to deputy chief. "It has to be extremely frustrating for them, but it's also very aggravating for us because we want them to stay in there also."
Everybody knows the courts are the problem. The cops catch 'em, at significant expense and significant risk, and the judges and prosecutors let 'em go. So when is somebody going to do something about it? Anything?
The affidavit shows that 32-year-old Jimmy Norman was caught in the 1800 block of Walker Avenue in a woman's 2009 Honda Accord. The driver's-side window had been broken out, there were pry marks on the window frame and the car had been ransacked.
It was the second time Norman had been arrested this year. Garrett explained that residents in the Annesdale-Snowden area had been having enormous problems in the spring with car break-ins, "so we spent a lot of money and we caught him but then he got a $1,000 bond."
That elicited groans and laughs throughout the room; it only takes $100 to spring someone on $1,000 bond.
To Garrett, Norman is the poster child for why the MPD can expect hundreds of reports per week and many thousands per year for the kind of crimes that may lack TV-news drama but degrade the quality of a city's life for everyone.
"We think he broke into several cars before we got him this time," Garrett said. "He resists arrest and then he ends up telling the officers, 'You do what you do, and I'll do what I do.' And he gets a $4,000 bond.
"That is killing us. It's pure killing us."
The article goes on to cover everything from the increase in home burglaries, to domestic violence, to gun crime, to the phenomenon of disorganized-yet-well-armed youth gangs.
It is part of a series that includes a discussion of city crime rankings and statistics, but nowhere is there the sort of dismissiveness of public concern that seems to color so much of the reporting (not to mention the politicking) on crime in Atlanta.
A Recommendation on Acknowledging Recidivism From Tennessee
by Tina in Crime and Justice Blog,failures to prosecute,Tennessee
More interesting crime coverage from The Tennessean, this time an editorial detailing the legislative proposals of the Tennessee Public Safety Commission, a coalition of police chiefs, sheriffs and district attorneys. Every state should take note of one of the get-tough-on-recidivists recommendations they're making:
[Another] proposal of the group is for requiring each home burglary committed in a 24-hour period to count as separate cases. They would be considered separate previous convictions. Prosecutors say many burglars are aware that hitting several homes in one 24-hour period is considered only one case. That should change.
It's not just burglaries committed within twenty-four hours of each other that get telescoped down to one charge. Look at recidivists' rap sheets. One of the great injustices perpetrated by our justice system is the near-automatic dismissal of multiple crimes whenever a defendant gets charged with one offense. Break into five homes, get caught, get charged and sentenced on one burglary count. The other four burglaries are quietly shelved. And if the defendant is a first offender, he may get away with all five charges.
The same is even true of violent crime. By choosing expediency over actually responding to crimes, the criminal justice system is essentially saying to victims: your victimization doesn't count. The person next to you; his victimization counts. The person on the other side: he is being ignored by the justice system, just like you.
There is no equal protection for crime victims.
This is the way it has been for so long that people who work within the criminal justice system would probably find the mere notion of demanding prosecution for every felony utterly risible. Not to mention impossible, since the courts have been calibrated (read: defunded, or starved) to have resources only to respond to a fraction of the crimes that are committed.
But why, precisely, should it be this way? Why, philosophically, shouldn't non-criminals — law abiding citizens — have the same rights and access to equal protection as people who commit crimes? Why shouldn't your burglary count in the same way as your neighbor's burglary?
The short answer, cavalierly thrown out by pro-criminal advocates, is that the justice system would "grind to a halt" if all felonies were prosecuted. Note that these are the same people who simultaneously say that our justice system is "far to harsh on defendants," and that "it is a great injustice that America has so many people behind bars," as if this is just something that happens spontaneously, with no relation to the fact that America has so many people who commit serious crimes.
Appeals courts are clogged with complaints by convicts that they have been treated unfairly, compared to other convicts. And every single one of those cases, however frivolous, must be addressed, a process that costs taxpayers vast amounts of money. Imagine if non-convicts had the right to do the same.
Perhaps somebody in the Georgia General Assembly should look into emulating the Tennessee Public Safety Commission's proposed recidivism legislation. If it had been on the books in Georgia (and properly enforced), it would have saved lives.


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Q: NestJS implement express POST call with callback I'm trying to implement NestJS in an existing server which handles voice conversation for Google Assistant. I'm moving from a setup that uses express to NestJS with Controller and Post decorators.
In the previous setup I used express to handle the routes and this would call a callback which takes incoming requests and creates the responses of the chatbot. That setup looked like this:
app.post("/google", this.googleController.callback);

Now I am trying to do the same using NestJS, but I am having trouble to implement the same structure.
@Controller("google")
export class GoogleController {

  public callback: IGoogleEndpoint;

  /**
   * Constructor
   */
  constructor() {
    this.callback = dialogflow();
    // setup callback
  };

  @Post()
  public Post(@Req() req: Request) {
    return this.callback(req.body);
  };

In the previous express setup, the callback would perform mappings on the incoming request, handle it and create a response for the chatbot. This is all done in that callback, because of this I am looking for a solution that would allow me to direct all incoming request directly into the callback.
Would it be possible to create something like this in NestJS?

A: What you could try doing is sending the req and res to the library's callback method, but the big difference here is how Nest controllers and Express route handlers manage routing. Nest takes control of setting up the normal (req, res, next) => {}) for the most part (like a traditional route handler), so that's what's currently being passed to callback in the Express app. A possible solution might be
@Controller("google")
export class GoogleController {

  public callback: IGoogleEndpoint;

  /**
   * Constructor
   */
  constructor() {
    this.callback = dialogflow();
    // setup callback
  };

  @Post()
  public Post(@Req() req: Request, @Res() res: Response) {
    return this.callback(req, res);
  };
}

Though, you still may need to figure out a way to provide a callback that is meaningful, so that when the library tries to use next(), it will still succeed in its call.

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Kyle Petty to help select Comcast Community Champion of the Year
By Brittany BurkeOct 3, 2015, 12:59 PM EDT
NASCAR on NBC's Kyle Petty will be among those who will help select the winner of the inaugural Comcast Community Champion of the Year Award.
The award, to be presented in November at the Xfinity/Camping World Truck Series banquet, recognizes those employed by teams in the Sprint Cup, Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series.
Matt Lederer, executive director of sports brand marketing for Comcast, said one person from each of the three series will be recognized. One of those three will be selected as the winner and will have $60,000 donated to the charity of their choice. The other two will have $30,000 donations made to the charity of their choice.
Petty will be joined on the panel by Comcast executives, a member of the NASCAR Foundation and NASCAR.com's Holly Cain.
"It's a huge honor for me,'' Petty said. "What Comcast is doing with the Community Champion of the Year, we hear so much about what drivers do, what team owners do. To take it to the next level and encompass all the team members and every one at each garage, there's so much those guys do away from the race track in their community.''

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الاسم: ا.د / عماد بساليوس بشير بساليوس
البريد الالكتروني: emad.basalious@pharma.cu.edu.eg
Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/E.-B.-Basalious/8593368?sort=pub-date
قائمة النشر - Publications Scientific Publications
International Scientific Publications (Scopus; 40)
1. Ramadan, A., Basalious, E., Abdallah, M., (2021), Industrial application of QbD and NIR chemometric models in quality improvement of Immediate release tablets,
Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal June 29(6): 516-526,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2021.04.012
2. Shaeer, O., Raheem, A. A., Elfeky, H., Seif, A., Abdel-Raheem, T. M., Elsegeiny, A., Soliman, M. S., Basalious, E. B., & Shaeer, K. (2021), Urethral instillation of chlorhexidine gel is an effective method of sterilisation, Arab journal of urology, 19(3), 419–422, https://doi.org/10.1080/2090598X.2021.1956832
3. Mohsen, K., Azzazy, H.M.E., Allam, N.K., Basalious, E.B., (2020), Intranasal lipid nanocapsules for systemic delivery of nimodipine into the brain: In vitro optimization and in vivo pharmacokinetic study, Material Science and Engineering: C 116, 111236,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2020.111236
4. Farrah, A.Y., Al-Mahallawi, A.M., Basalious, E.B., Nesseem, D.I., (2020), Investigating the Potential of Phosphatidylcholine-Based Nano-Sized Carriers in Boosting the Oto-Topical Delivery of Caroverine: in vitro Characterization, Stability Assessment and ex vivo Transport Studies, Int J Nanomedicine Nov 13;15:8921-8931,
https://doi.org/10.2147/IJN.S259172
https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA646496982&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=11782013&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Ea8413fe1
5. Yousry, C., Zikry, P.M., Basalious, E.B., El-Gazayerly, O.N., (2020), Self-nanoemulsifying System Optimization for Higher Terconazole Solubilization and Non-Irritant Ocular Administration, Adv Pharm Bull, 10(3), 389-398,
https://apb.tbzmed.ac.ir/Article/apb-28043
6. Abdel-Salam, F.S., Elkheshen, S.A., Mahmoud, A.A., Basalious, E.B., et. al. (2020), In-situ forming chitosan implant-loaded with raloxifene hydrochloride and bioactive glass nanoparticles for treatment of bone injuries: Formulation and biological evaluation in animal model, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 580, 119213,
7. Khattab, A., Mohamed, M., Basalious, E.B., (2020), Design of self-nanoemulsifying system to enhance absorption and bioavailability of poorly permeable Aliskiren hemi-fumarate, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology 57; 101646,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jddst.2020.101646
8. Ibrahim, M.M., Basalious, E.B., El-Nabarawi, M.A., (2020), Consolidated bile-based vesicles/self-nanoemulsifying system (CBBVs/SNES) asa solution for limitations of oral delivery of vesicular dispersions: In-vitro optimization and elucidation of ex-vivo intestinal transport mechanisms, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, Vol: 56(A), Page: 101489,
9. Yousry, C., Zikry, P.M., Salem, H.M., Basalious, E.B., et al. (2020), Integrated nanovesicular/self-nanoemulsifying system (INV/SNES) for enhanced dual ocular drug delivery: statistical optimization, in vitro and in vivo evaluation, Drug Deliv Transl Res. 10, 801,
10. ElShagea, H.N., ElKasabgy, N.A., Fahmy, R.H., Basalious, E.B., (2019), Freeze-Dried Self-Nanoemulsifying Self-Nanosuspension (SNESNS): a New Approach for the Preparation of a Highly Drug-Loaded Dosage Form, AAPS PharmSciTech 20(7):258,
http://balis.bibalex.org/AR/OPAC/Home/SearchOPAC?keyword=%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%8C%20%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86.&filterId=_1&filterValue=_El-Shagea%2C%20Hala%20Nehad%20Hassan%20Ali%2C
11. Boseila, A.A., Abdel-Reheem, A.Y., Basalious, E.B., (2019), Design of bile-based vesicles (BBVs) for hepatocytes specific delivery of Daclatasvir: Comparison of ex-vivo transenterocytic transport, in-vitro protein adsorption resistance and HepG2 cellular uptake of charged and beta-sitosterol decorated vesicles, PloS one 14(7):e0219752,
12. Elkasabgy, N.A., Abdel-Salam, F.S., Mahmoud, A.A., Basalious, E.B., et al., (2019), Long lasting in-situ forming implant loaded with raloxifene HCl: An injectable delivery system for treatment of bone injuries, International journal of pharmaceutics 571:118703,
13. Sweed, N.M., Basalious, E.B., Nour, S.A., (2019), Combined site-specific release retardant mini-matrix tablets (C-SSRRMT) for extended oral delivery of dexketoprofen trometamol: in vitro evaluation and single versus multiple doses pharmacokinetic study in human volunteers, Drug development and industrial pharmacy 45(11):1777-87,
14. Rezk, M.R., Basalious, E.B., & Badr, K.A., (2018), Novel determination of sofosbuvir and velpatasvir in human plasma by UPLC–MS/MS method: Application to a bioequivalence study,
Biomedical Chromatography, 32(11),
https://doi.org/10.1002/bmc.4347
15. Fouad, S.A., Shamma, R.N., Basalious, E.B., El-Nabarawi, M.M., & Tayel, S.A., (2018), Novel instantly-dispersible nanocarrier powder system (IDNPs) for intranasal delivery of dapoxetine hydrochloride: in-vitro optimization, ex-vivo permeation studies, and in-vivo evaluation, Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, 44(9), 1443–1450,
16. Abo Elela, M.M., ElKasabgy, N.A., Basalious, E.B., (2017), Bio-shielding In Situ Forming Gels (BSIFG) Loaded With Lipospheres for Depot Injection of Quetiapine Fumarate: In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation, AAPS PharmSciTech 18(8):2999-3010,
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1208/s12249-017-0789-y.pdf
17. Basalious, E.B., Abdallah, A.M., (2017), Phospholipid based self-nanoemulsifying self-nanosuspension (p-SNESNS) as a dual solubilization approach for development of formulation with diminished food effect: Fast/fed in vivo pharmacokinetics study in human,
European journal of pharmaceutical sciences: 109:244-52,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejps.2017.08.017
18. El-Setouh, D.A., Basalious, E.B., Abdelmalak, N.S., (2017), Effect of Different Meltable Binders on the Disintegration and Dissolution Behavior of Zolmitriptan Oromucosal Fast Melt Tablets, Journal of Pharmacy and Nutrition sciences 7: 13-23,
https://doi.org/10.6000/1927-5951.2017.07.01.3
19. Hanna, L.A., Basalious, E.B., ON, EL., (2017), Respirable controlled release polymeric colloid (RCRPC) of bosentan for the management of pulmonary hypertension: in vitro aerosolization, histological examination and in vivo pulmonary absorption, Drug delivery 24(1):188,
20. Rashed, H.M., Shamma, R.N., Basalious, E.B., (2016), Contribution of both olfactory and systemic pathways for brain targeting of nimodipine-loaded lipo-pluronics micelles: in vitro characterization and in vivo biodistribution study after intranasal and intravenous delivery, Drug delivery 24(1):181-7,
21. Rezk, M.R., Bendas, E.R., Basalious, E.B., et al. (2016), Quantification of sofosbuvir and ledipasvir in human plasma by UPLC-MS/MS method: Application to fasting and fed bioequivalence studies, J. of chromatography B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences 1028:63-70,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchromb.2016.06.004
22. Rezk, M.R., Bendas, E.R., Basalious, E.B., et al. (2016), Development and validation of sensitive and rapid UPLC-MS/MS method for quantitative determination of daclatasvir in human plasma: Application to a bioequivalence study, J. of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis 1028:61,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpba.2016.05.016
23. Rezk, M.R., Basalious, E.B., Amin, M.E., (2016), Novel and sensitive UPLC-MS/MS method for quantification of sofosbuvir in human plasma: application to a bioequivalence study, Biomedical chromatography BMC 30(9):1354-62,
24. Fouad, S.A., Shamma, R.N., Basalious, E.B., et al. (2016), Novel instantly-soluble transmucosal matrix (ISTM) using dual mechanism solubilizer for sublingual and nasal delivery of dapoxetine hydrochloride: In-vitro/in-vivo evaluation,
International journal of pharmaceutics 505(1-2):212-22,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2016.04.006
25. Bendas, E.R., Basalious, E.B., (2016), Rapidly disintegrating vagina retentive cream suppositories of progesterone: development, patient satisfaction and in vitro/in vivo studies,
Pharmaceutical development and technology 21(3):288-95,
26. Basalious, E.B., Shamma, R.N., (2015), Novel self-assembled nano-tubular mixed micelles of Pluronics P123, Pluronic F127 and phosphatidylcholine for oral delivery of nimodipine: In vitro characterization, ex vivo transport and in vivo pharmacokinetic studies,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2015.07.075.
27. El-Setouhy, D.A., Basalious, E.B., et al. (2015), Bioenhanced sublingual tablet of drug with limited permeability using novel surfactant binder and microencapsulated polysorbate: In vitro/in vivo evaluation, European J. of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics 94, 386-392,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2015.06.006.
28. Rezk, M.R., Basalious, E.B., Karim, I.A., (2015), Development of a sensitive UPLC-ESI-MS/MS method for quantification of sofosbuvir and its metabolite, GS-331007, in human plasma: Application to a bioequivalence study, J. of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis 114:97-104,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpba.2015.05.006.
29. El-Laithy, H.M., Basalious, E.B., et al. (2015), Novel self-nanoemulsifying self-nanosuspension (SNESNS) for enhancing oral bioavailability of diacerein: Simultaneous portal blood absorption and lymphatic delivery, International journal of pharmaceutics 490(1-2):146,
30. Basalious, E.B., Abdullah, A., Ibrahim, M., (2014), Utility of Mannitol and Citric Acid for Enhancing the Solubilizing and Taste Masking Properties of β-Cyclodextrin: Development of Fast-Dissolving Tablets Containing Extremely Bitter Drug, J Pharm Innov., 9, 309-320, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12247-014-9196-z
31. Fouad, S.A., Basalious, E.B., et al. (2013), Microemulsion and poloxamer microemulsion-based gel for sustained transdermal delivery of diclofenac epolamine using in-skin drug depot: in vitro/in vivo evaluation, International j. of pharmaceutics, 453(2): 569,
32. Basalious, E.B., El-Sebaie, W., El-Gazayerly, O., (2013), Rapidly absorbed orodispersible tablet containing molecularly dispersed felodipine for management of hypertensive crisis: development, optimization and in vitro/in vivo studies,
Pharmaceutical development and technology, 18(2): 407-416,
33. Shamma, R.N., Basalious, E.B., Shoukri, R., (2012), Development of novel sustained release matrix pellets of betahistine dihydrochloride: effect of lipophilic surfactants and co-surfactants, Pharmaceutical development and technology, 17(5): 583-593,
34. Basalious, E.B., El-Sebaie, W., El-Gazayerly, O., (2011), Application of pharmaceutical QbD for enhancement of the solubility and dissolution of a class II BCS drug using polymeric surfactants and crystallization inhibitors: development of controlled-release tablets,
AAPS PharmSciTech, 12(3): 799-810,
35. Shamma, R.N., Basalious, E.B., Shoukri, R.A., (2011), Development and optimization of a multiple-unit controlled release formulation of a freely water soluble drug for once-daily administration, International journal of pharmaceutics, 405(1-2): 102-112,
https://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=US201500124055
36. Aboelwafa, A.A., Basalious, E.B., (2010), Optimization and in vivo pharmacokinetic study of a novel controlled release venlafaxine hydrochloride three-layer tablet,
AAPS PharmSciTech, 11(3): 1026-1037,
37. Basalious, E.B., Shawky, N., Badr-Eldin, S.M., (2010), SNEDDS containing bioenhancers for improvement of dissolution and oral absorption of lacidipine. I: development and optimization, International journal of pharmaceutics, 391(1-2): 203-211,
38. Yehia, S.A., El-Gazayerly, O.N., Basalious, E.B., (2009), Fluconazole mucoadhesive buccal films: in vitro/in vivo performance, Current drug delivery, 6(1):17-27,
39. Yehia, S.A., El-Gazayerly, O.N., Basalious, E.B., (2008), Design and in vitro/in vivo evaluation of novel mucoadhesive buccal discs of an antifungal drug: relationship between swelling, erosion, and drug release, AAPS PharmSciTech, 9(4):1207-1217, https://doi.org/10.1208/s12249-008-9166-1
40. El-Samaligy, M.S., Yahia, S.A., Basalious, E.B., (2004), Formulation and evaluation of diclofenac sodium buccoadhesive discs, International journal of pharmaceutics, 286(1-2): 27,
International Scientific Publications (Non-Scopus; 3)
1. Sweed, N.M., Basalious, E.B., Nour, S.A., (2017), Sustained Release Multiple Unit Dosage Form for the Oral Day Delivery of Dexketoprofen Trometamol,
Open access J Pharm Res 1(3): 000114.
https://medwinpublishers.com/OAJPR/OAJPR16000114.pdf
2. Khowessah, O., Amin, M., Basalious, E.B., (2009), Development of ocular delivery systems containing aceclofenac nanoparticles. Part I: Optimization of nanoparticles formulations using full factorial design, J. Biomed. Sci., 31: 25-47.
3. El-Samaligy, M.S., Yahia, S.A., Basalious, E.B., (2001), Improved design for in-vitro measurement of adhesion parameters of bioadhesive pharmaceutical systems, Bull. Fac. Pharm.Cairo Univ., 39: 103-112.


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Watch: trailers for the Richard Fleischer retrospective at EIFF 2013
Niki Boyle
Edinburgh International Film Festival to screen six of the American director's films, including Soylent Green
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has started releasing the first few snippets of information about its 2013 programme. As well as featuring the world premiere of Karen Gillan romcom Not Another Happy Ending as its closing film (read what Gillan says about it in our interview), the festival will also be presenting a retrospective on American director Richard Fleischer.
Fleischer is the man behind some of the most enduring sci-fi and fantasy films to come out of Hollywood - his adaptations of the novels Make Room! Make Room! (as Soylent Green) and Jules Verne's Fantastic Voyage and 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea remain enduring genre staples (even if some of his later works, like Conan the Destroyer and Red Sonja, are perhaps less highly regarded). He was also a dab hand at the horror/thriller genre, as seen in the true life adaptations 10 Rillington Place and The Boston Strangler.
Below, we gather together the six Fleischer films screening at this year's EIFF.
Soylent Green trailer (dir: Richard Fleischer, 1973)
The Boston Strangler (1968) Trailer
FANTASTIC VOYAGE 1966 MOVIE TRAILER.
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) Official Trailer #1 - Joan Collins Movie HD
THE NARROW MARGIN TRAILER from 1952
The oldest continually running film festival in the world, the EIFF draws on its prestige to consistently present abundant programmes of new features, documentaries, retrospectives, shorts, panel discussions and educational workshops, with a few high profile premieres thrown in for good measure.
Various venues: Edinburgh
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Fri 19 Jun
…and 9 more dates until 28 Jun


MBA in Banking management is usually taken up by the aspirants who have interest in numbers. Read the article to know what it holds for you.
One of the highly designated, most professional and distinct career options in today's era is the Banking Management.
It may be elaborated as the branch of management which deals in the operations and activities related to the banks and banking sectors as a whole in the rapidly growing dynamic environment.
a. Indian Institute of Commerce and Trade, Lucknow.
b. National Institute of Bank Management, Pune.
c. Indian Institute of Banking and Finance, Mumbai.
d. School of Management Studies, Indira Gandhi Open University, New Delhi.
e. Chennai Business School, Chennai.
The students are selected on the basis of their academic records and the performances in the National level Entrance test scores of CAT/MAT/XAT/CMAT or the individual separate entrance test conducted by the colleges as well as their interview performance during the selection process.
• Well equipped in financial operations.
• Well versed in managerial functions.
• Must be dealing with business operations.
• Access to a broad knowledge of core managerial skills.
• Must be well equipped and updated with the banking terminologies, and banking functions.
The placements are generally in banks and financial institutions. Mostly private banks come for campus placements in the colleges and the initial packages that they offer is of around 3-4 lakhs per annum that gradually increases with an increase in the experience and moreover when the employee switches after gaining much of an experience in some other firm generally the salary hike is of about 30% to 40%. So, salary and earning is very apt in this field.
Banking management has become the root and the primary goal sector for many of the budding aspirants and students who are looking for jobs in the banking industry. It brings an individual more close to the Global economy and hence the youth who is more concerned about the economy of the nation automatically gets driven by the force of this field. So , career wise this is one of the great and fantastic options for the freshers who are aspiring a tremendous life in the field of commerce, accounts and Banking as a whole.


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Modern Mixed Material Facade Double Storey Home
Overlooking the water in an enviable position on the Mornington Peninsula, this striking home was created by Marklews Architect Design Services in 2013/14.
The location for the building is a very special one that's been in the same family for generations. With unobstructed views of the beach and ocean, the site demanded a distinctive, yet thoughtful building design to make the most of the location and aspect of this prized plot.
Marklews are a highly awarded boutique design and build agency who've been in business for 40 years. During that time they've gone from building 100 houses each year to just 10, each one a custom designed, one-off project with a high level of detail. Based in Victoria, Marklews have been awarded HIA Home Builder of the Year in their home state five times and have received the national HIA award twice. The team were recently awarded HIA Residential Building Designer of the Year for the second time, a singular achievement in the Australian building and construction industry.
A PRACTICAL BRIEF FOR A BEAUTIFUL LOCATION.
Builder Brian Marklew had worked with the owners on three previous design and build projects and began drawing up plans for the new home in 2013. Having partnered exclusively with the same architect for over four years, and with clients who had a good understanding of architectural principles, the design phase went smoothly.
"The owners are in their 70's, have a strong comprehension of design and make good, logical decisions based on a clear reading of architectural plans," says Marklew. "Their overall brief was to create a new home they could live in comfortably now and in the future, friendly to the elderly and environmentally friendly, as much as their budget could permit."
The two-storey floor plan was developed to maximise views from the upper level, with most of the couple's main living spaces – master suite, living, dining, kitchen and study – located upstairs. The kitchen features a large butler's pantry to give them plenty of space for home preserving, one of the family's longstanding cooking traditions.
Bearing in mind future issues around in-house care and mobility, the lower level offers a self-contained area, including bedroom, living room and kitchenette, as well as a lift for easy access from the garage to the upper floor.
BALANCING MODERN AND HISTORIC DESIGN CONCEPTS.
Featuring the characteristic clean lines and bold colours of contemporary architecture, the home perfectly complements the historic charm of its seaside setting. The Marklews team used strong horizontal lines as an integral part of the original design concepts, echoing the style of weatherboard cottages and beach huts nearby. Scyon Stria was a natural choice for cladding large areas of the exterior walls, delivering clean, parallel lines that give the appearance of a wider space.
"The owners were very open to new ideas for details and finishes," says Marklew. "We've used Scyon Matrix in accent areas and a combination of large concrete blocks and Scyon Stria for the majority of the structure. This package draws inspiration from local mid 19th century architecture. It's contemporary but not modish and will sit there comfortably alongside historic homes for the next four or five decades."
Colour matters. Plans were submitted to council early in 2013, but approval took nine months because neighbours objected to the proposed colour of the Scyon Stria.
"For the past four or five years, we've worked on a number of really striking houses using Scyon Stria in vertical and horizontal finishes," says Marklew. "Colour and texture are a really important part of each design and Stria offers a good choice of options."
The original Stria colour submitted with the planning permits was a red hue, chosen as a similar colour to the cliffs that form a dramatic backdrop across the road from the property. Forced to either reconsider or risk delaying the project even more, the owners chose a bold blue colour, Dulux Franklin River RB84. With planning approval finally in place, construction started early in 2014, with turnkey handover completed just in time for Christmas 2014.
With its prominent location and daring use of colour, the home collects compliments from many visitors to the location, even those who are just passing by on their way to the beach.
Home size: house and garage 356 sqm, deck 28 sqm
Time to completion: 11 months
External paint colours: Dulux Franklin River RB84 (Scyon Stria)
Builder: Marklews Architect Design Services
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James McAvoy ("Wanted," "X-Men First Class") is in negotiations to star with "Sherlock" actor Benedict Cumberbatch in Bill Condon's untitled WikiLeaks movie at DreamWorks.
Cumberbatch is set to play WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, while McAvoy is in talks to play German tech guru Daniel Domscheit-Berg who became the spokesperson for the organization. Joel Kinnaman ("The Killing") was previously linked to the role McAvoy is taking.
After becoming Assange's right-hand man, Domscheit-Berg left the organisation due to his belief that Assange failed to display journalistic integrity. The film is based on the book he wrote about the site and his working relationship with Assange.
Josh Singer is adapting the script while Steve Golin, Michael Sugar and Bard Dorros will produce. Shooting aims to begin next year depending upon Cumberbatch and McAvoy's schedules.


Dinner time again. Last dinner of the year. We will be taking November and December off so as to not compete with the holidays.
Time: 5:45 (happy hour ends at 6) or whenever work and traffic allow you to get there. We are usually there for at least 1.5 hours.
All are welcome. This is not a club event of any nature. It is merely an opportunity and reason to have dinner out with like minded people.
Reservations will be under my name and BMW Motorcycles.
Monthly dinner time again folks!! Hope to see you there.
When, this Wednesday, March 15th.
Time, 5:45 (happy hour ends at 6) or whenever work and traffic allow you to get there. We are usually there for at least 1.5 hours.
Monthly dinner time again folks!! Hope to see you there. Still at the same place, but will discuss trying to find a new place just to change things up a bit.
Basically NW Bethany and NW Laidlaw. I might suggest using Bethany and not 143/Kaiser to get there. I think that route gets busy. Don't know though, Bethany may be a crappy route too. Its Portland after all.
September meet up? I'm visiting Portland for the next two weeks, on my 2002 RT, and would love to connect with some bimmer folks. Just rode from New Orleans. Need some tech advice/help as well. But mostly just want to meet some people as I'm considering a move here!
Where has the year gone and most importantly, how did the prime riding season disappear so quickly? This Wednesday's dinner will be our last dinner for the year. With the weather not cooperating, with holidays coming up, its just easier to stay home for the next two months rather than venturing out fighting the dark, wet nights and the Prius crowded and dangerous streets of Portland.
Dinner this time will be at a new place, just to try it out. We all ride for the adventure and the unknown yes, let's live on the wild side and go somewhere new.
When: Wednesday, October 18, 2017.
There are multiple locations, please go to the correct one!
Ok sports fans, its time to get the dinners going again. We took a few more months off longer than planned, but given the goofy weather, maybe not a bad thing. Besides, maybe it will finally get nice and we can actually ride vs drive to dinner. I have looked around to try to find a place that was not too far out, too close in, too far off the highway, too small, too large etc etc. Best I could come up with for now is the Si Senor off of Cedar Hills and Barnes. So let's try there and see what happens.
When: Wednesday, March 21, 2018.
Don't tell anyone, but its time for dinner again and it might be kind of nice! Still a few days off, but let's hope.
For May 16, 2018. We currently are not going to a regular place and last month's turn out was rather low. We had a great time chatting, but still a dismal turn out. This month I have to work on Wednesday evening so NO DINNER this month. Next month we hope to pick back up and will either be going to the new Bargarten (think Gustav's but with a "beer tent-ish feel) or to the BG Food Cartel (food carts with indoor seating). If you have a preference or experience at either location, please let me know. I have been to Bargarten and think it would work for the group, but they do not split checks. I have no experience with the food carts, looks like a pretty good selection of eats though. Let me know what you all think. See you next month.
Sorry folks, once again this month a prior commitment is on the same night as the dinner. I was hoping to have it this time at the Bargarten in Beaverton :2905 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005. Now this is not my gig entirely, so it can go one without me, but as sometimes I am the only one that shows up, and maybe one other person, I hesitate to have it if I can't be there. So, this is not an official unofficial dinner, but if you want to show up and see if anyone else does, please do. Our regular time is 6pm-ish. Go by, give it a try (I have been twice and enjoyed it both times) and see if any other BMWs show up.
Keep your fingers crossed for next month!
Chief Joseph is done and the National is now done, must be July and a busy schedule is still busy, but there is time free on Wednesday for dinner! And Wednesday looks to be the coolest day of the week, so let's get our bikes out and ride to eat.
Let's try Bargarten, in Beaverton. I think they should be able to accommodate us and the food has been good there in the past.
I have a reservation for 6pm under my name. Hopefully this will give people time to fight traffic and make it to the location.


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La ville de Hastings est le siège du comté d'Adams, dans l'État du Nebraska, aux États-Unis. Sa population s'élevait à  lors du recensement , estimée à  .

La ville se trouve au sud de la rivière Platte, à  au sud de l'Interstate 80. C'est un nœud ferroviaire.

Démographie

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La boisson Kool-Aid a été inventée à Hastings. La ville est célèbre pour sa fontaine Fisher Fountain et pour avoir abrité le plus gros dépôt de munitions de la marine américaine pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. C'est le siège de l'université Hastings College.

Personnalités liées à la ville
 Neal Hefti, compositeur, est né à Hastings ;
 Sandy Dennis, actrice, est née à Hastings ;
 Sheila Hicks, artiste, est née à Hastings.

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Liens externes

Ville dans le Nebraska
Comté d'Adams (Nebraska)
Siège de comté dans le Nebraska
Ville universitaire aux États-Unis

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A mannequin was found lifeless in front of a hospital
Arzu 1 year ago 2 min read
A model was found dead in Los Angeles last Saturday by her designer friend in a life-threatening condition. People report that the two women were dropped off at two different hospitals.
Read more: Yemen: Female model beauty sentenced to 5 years in prison by rebels
ABC7 reports that Christy Giles, 24, and her friend, designer Hilda Marcela Cabrels-Arzola, went to a party with friends last Friday.
According to the toxicology report, heroin was found in Ms Cabrels-Arsola's body.
According to John Silliers, Ms. Giles' husband, this is not something both women deliberately take for granted.
The GoFundMe account states that Ms Giles was found lifeless on the sidewalk outside the hospital on Saturday.
According to Ms Giles' family, the three men, dressed in black and wearing masks, drove Ms Giles out of the hospital, removed the license plates and drove off.
Mrs. According to Cabrales-Arzola, he was dropped off at another hospital. She is currently in critical condition. According to ABC7, he is "on life support with no brain function and no chance of recovery".
According to the organizers GoFundMe, Carly Amos and Mr. Chilliers, "not unique" to both women.
"We have received a significant number of messages from other women who have shared similar stories since Saturday, but the only difference between them and Christy and Hilda is that they survived."
Mrs. Giles is survived by her husband, John Silliers, who was in San Francisco at the time of the crime.
"It breaks my heart," he says.
That evening Mrs. Mr Giles said he had received texts he had exchanged and had texted Ms. Cabrales-Arzola at 5:30 a.m. "Let's get out of here." Siliers pointed to ABC7.
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According to information stored in their iCloud account, Ms. Giles will not see or respond to his messages after that.
Funds raised through the GoFundMe campaign will go "on purpose to investigate the cases of Christie and Hilda."
"In addition, funding will go to the protection of any other woman who has been or may be affected by a similar situation."
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this thread is for everyone who hates bug abusers and think its about time something should be done about it !
I think a ban should be put into place for anyone who abuses the game like this.
i cant stress how much i hate this guy right now.
if you fell something should be done about it then speak up.
I feel like doing this: Everybody who builds impossible to pass crosswalls, gets a warning. Three warnings is a ban.
Trouble is, Hanky, whenever people do this sort of thing an argument starts up about whether something is "bug abuse" or a "tactic". Bug abuse is already a permanent ban but no-one seems to agree what amounts to abuse.
Anything that software does that it's not meant to (like allowing crossed walls, river jumping etc) is, by definition, a bug. My suggestion would be that as soon as something like that is identified ANYBODY seen using it has their account reset.
All armies die and all towns are either removed from the map or, if they were captured, returned to the previous owner with all their peasants (as if they'd never been taken by the cheat). The point of that is that it could have an effect on the rest of their KD - say PKS took over Legacy's core but then I wa*beep* for cheating, any towns I had in that area would suddenly be Legacy again in among PKS towns. So it could harm the whole KD if they let a member cheat.
They then have to start again with 50 L1 in their lifeguards etc. If they get caught for bug abuse again their account is deleted.
IP banning is a problem because a lot of users will be on dynamic IPs, also it's easy enough to get round an IP block with proxies.
But knowing that all your work this era can get wiped out, and your KD suffer, for one bug abuse should discourage a lot.
This is just to far to be tactics, unless anyone has a city within the walls the only way to get to Ritz, is either extreme west (Strait through SiN) or extreme East.
i thought it was made clear that any walls that completely block passage are to be deleted and are classed as illegal, so if theyre not allowed then they must be a bug, right?
Alright Since I support Hanky (and he is my KD leader) I say ban him and TEAR DOWN THOSE WALLS!!!
Ban the bad speller. 1 cross wall is bad. A couple more means he is in the wrong game.
Build a cage around his armoury with 4 different members. So each member gets 1 warning, but not deleted. But then, 2 wrongs don't make 1 right.
I think when this era ends we should have a thread where people vote on the different things such as cross wall, river jump etc. To decide whether the majority see it as a bug.
If its voted as a bug abuse, then any people who use the abuse will be deleted if their is screenshot evidence of them doing so.
Any1 can screen shot anything.
Just press Alt + Print Screen.
Host your image there, then copy the url at the bottom of the newly loaded page and it will link to the screenshot.
To show it on this forum just click the 'Add Image' button which is on the end of the 'Bold', 'Italic' etc row of buttons above your reply.
This means there will be no disputing over what is tactics and what is abuse. If you think its abuse, vote it as abuse in the thread.
Then a list is drawn up with the new era updates of all bug abuses. Players will be warned doing this will result in deletion of their account. Then if u attempt it, any1 can screenshot you doing it and your account goes bye bye.
Sounds like a plan, Mr A. the way things are going, no-one can agree what's a bug and what isn't. Some even seem to think that certain acts are "tactics" when they use them, but bugs when others do! Getting a defiunite answer on each would certainly help any confusion.
Moving army has caused an exception 0x1a4f5379qwertyuiop in really_important_module.dll. Your armies are now dead and your hard drive has been reformatted as a ZX Spectrum. You cannot report this error to Microsoft because we don't do Sinclairs. Have a nice day"
I agree with Aligreat Owning Banehollow on what he says. Only one thing they have to have a before image and after image for riverjumping(if its even possible anymore that is)same for wall jumping(i think its fair tryin to get past a crosswall thats in ur way that the enemy built) that way we dont jump the gun and ban someone who stopped and didnt do it.
It is not supposed to be in the game. END OF. It doesn't matter what it is or isn't, it's illegal and that's all anyone needs to know. It should be punished on use.
haha this is very funny. all those petitioners are enemies of ritz isnt it obvious already? hey if you want to get your lives spared you should fight till death and not do crazy things like these.
Err, I'm not an "enemy of ritz" Mr G. I'm not even on the same world, in fact. But cheating is cheating wherever it happens and it harms the game for everyone.
1) build a couple of 90k towns and then wall them in completely. Guaranteed core income that no-one can take from you.
3) go into the next arae, atke their production and wall it all off the same.
4) repeat from step 2.
And who would want to play that?
Wow Graciela your not very smart are you?
Half of those players aren't even on the same world.
Besides if you cheat and the blatantly say you'll cheat again I'd say you deserve to be banned.
lol you people are really stupid. you can get thought the wall but i'm not telling how.
You can get through it now because half of them are gone.
It is very easy to say such things when the walls are all gone because the Admin took them away!
Yeah everyone tried to get through but failed, the Admin then looked at the wall(having created the game) he saw that you couldn't get past the wall. Thus it's a fact and your just being a retard that can't spell.
lol you ppl aren't smart and i'm just putting words into short terms and even if the admin didn't you still can get threw by building a wall in the box and then create troops in there to take the city.
Your not very smart aren't aren't you? Beesides it would be to easy to stop the armory from being created, also I think that's impossible because there's something against doing that and taking the wall city wouldn't change anything it would still be an unpassable wall.
Well, I don´t know how high your IQ is, but all that empiric research you have to do to know that you "can get through by building a wall in the box and then creating troops in there to take the city (I kind of changed the words to make them readable)" would be unnecessary if people like you who write everything that comes into their minds just respected the rules and tried not to abuse bugs because it makes the in game experience way less pleasant. Capisci?
have petition ever done anything in the past. ? your all wasting your time because i wasnt the only one to create crosswall look at Lord Seloc.
Why does everyone have IQ's in the genius range and yet none of them have any grammer skills? Really we all know your just lying to yourself.
I was talking to Plague... besides I can speak Czeck but I live in America( I can't type it though so I'll give a point).
So what country are you from?
does it matter? wanna judge more people on thier grammer? aint got a life ?
The fact that your going like this like a retarded 3 year old tells me that you don't have a life. It's laughable at the way people will start insulting you the moment they can. Your just like one of those annoying people on Halo 3 that keep insulting me for killing me, look I have better things to do then trade insults with a 13 year old adolescent with no life.
11/14/2007 9:55:19 PM Why does everyone have IQ's in the genius range and yet none of them have any grammer skills? Really we all know your just lying to yourself.
CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?!!!!
Cool Picture Epyon, also Plague started to insult first Arahabaki, get your facts right and don't be biased. Besides I was just stating a fact, everyone says they're IQ is 130.
Could someone insult him for me with much smarter posts for me?
Using your genius logic I'll ask you a question. I can murder someone, but it's wrong. How come?
Mr.Might, somehow I have no difficulty believing that.
Why does everyone use that line to defend there actions?
By the same point I'll point out that why does Zeta delete those walls and why do we all look down on it, it's the players decision to figure out what's really wrong and right.


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In the last couple of years, we started to see a lot of leaks from video games. Sometimes these are intentional by the companies because it creates marketing and hype for the game. However, at other times companies do not take these very well. Companies and media outlets have an understanding about games and review copies. Generally, they will get a review copy and should not tamper with them. Sometimes these media outlets tamper with it, at other times someone leaks the information out directly from the source. There is an insane amount of leaks over the last few years. Fortnite recently took down several leakers. By the looks of it, Nintendo is about to do the same thing with a Pokemon Sword and Shield leak.
Nintendo cut ties with FNintendo a Portuguese website for leaking information from the game. Nintendo announced that they have given them a review copy. However, FNintendo posted the pics of an unreleased Pokemon from the game to their website. They stated that they will no longer be working with the website. As Pokemon Sword and Shield is one of the most popular games these leaks went viral around the internet and other websites also published them. Nintendo made a statement to VGC and "These Pokémon were leaked by a reviewer for the Portuguese website FNintendo, who had received an early copy of the game for review purposes,".
The website also released a statement and stated " We recognize it is impermissible to break embargo guidelines and we failed to handle the review materials with sufficient care. We fully respect Nintendo's decision to cancel the confidentiality agreement between our companies as a result of this breach of trust and accept that we will no longer receive products from Nintendo, nor will we be invited to attend their events. We want to apologize to Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. And to our readers for letting them down." This means that this website will be out of every event. Also will not receive a partnership from Nintendo anymore.
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The last of three former Enron energy traders who admitted to manipulating California's power market during the state's energy crisis in 2000-2001 will serve probation for two years, a California judge ruled Thursday.
The punishment for John Forney, who pleaded guilty in August 2004 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mirrors those of his former boss, Timothy Belden, and colleague, Jeffrey Richter. U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins in San Francisco also ordered Forney to pay a $4,000 fine.
Belden pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in October 2002, and in February 2003 Richter admitted to that crime and lying to the FBI. Both were sentenced in February to probation for two years. Belden and Richter each were fined $10,000.
The three were the only Enron traders charged with crimes stemming from schemes to manipulate California's vulnerable post-deregulation market that endured severe price spikes and rolling blackouts.
"The economic disruption was massive compared to the penalty," Robert McCullough, a Portland, Ore., energy economist and consultant who studied the Western power crisis, said of the punishments.
"They really have not sent a very strong signal" of deterrence to other traders, he added.
Belden and Richter each pleaded guilty upon being charged, while Forney faced 11 counts of fraud and conspiracy until he pleaded guilty more than a year after his arrest.
Forney designed some of the manipulation schemes, with names like "Death Star," "Get Shorty," and "Ricochet."
Voices of Enron traders expressing glee at the gaming emerged on audio tapes made public in 2004. Memorable comments included a trader joking about stealing from "those poor grandmothers" in California and "burn, baby, burn" when a fire shut down a power transmission line, allowing Enron to profit from increased demand.
On one tape, Forney said he wanted to be an "honest camper" and feared getting caught.
Neither Forney nor Richter testified in any Enron trials. Belden testified in last year's fraud and conspiracy trial of former Enron Chairman Ken Lay and former CEO Jeff Skilling. He said California's market was ripe for abuse, and that the company pocketed nearly $1 billion during the crisis.


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Born Today In 1891, Iconic Composer Cole Porter
Cole Porter was born today, June 9, in 1891. He was an American composer and songwriter. His Broadway shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and '30s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, Kiss Me, Kate. It won the first Tony Award for Best Musical.
Porter's other musicals include Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady, Anything Goes, Can-Can, and Silk Stockings. His numerous hit songs include "Night and Day", "Begin the Beguine", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "You're the Top". He also composed scores for films from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Born to Dance (1936), which featured the song "You'd Be So Easy to Love"; Rosalie (1937), which featured "In the Still of the Night"; High Society (1956), which included "True Love"; and Les Girls (1957).
Porter was born in Peru, Indiana, the only surviving child of a wealthy family. His father, Samuel Fenwick Porter, was a druggist by trade. His mother, Kate, was the indulged daughter of James Omar "J. O." Cole, "the richest man in Indiana," a coal and timber speculator who dominated the family. J. O. Cole built the couple a home on his Peru-area property, known as Westleigh Farms. After high school, Porter returned to the property only for occasional visits.
Porter's strong-willed mother doted on him and began his musical training at an early age. He learned the violin at age 6, the piano at 8, and wrote his first operetta (with help from his mother) at 10. She falsified his recorded birth year, changing it from 1891 to 1893 to make him appear more precocious. His father, who was a shy and unassertive man, played a lesser role in Porter's upbringing, although as an amateur poet, he may have influenced his son's gifts for rhyme and meter. Porter's father also had musical talent as a vocalist and pianist, but the father-son relationship was not close.
J. O. Cole wanted his grandson to become a lawyer, and with that career in mind, he sent him to Worcester Academy in Massachusetts in 1905. Porter brought an upright piano with him to school and found that music, and his ability to entertain, made it easy for him to make friends. Porter did well in school and rarely came home to visit. He became class valedictorian. Entering Yale University in 1909, Porter majored in English, minored in music, and also studied French. He was an early member of the Whiffenpoofs a cappella singing group.
Porter wrote 300 songs while at Yale, including student songs such as the football fight songs "Bulldog" and "Bingo Eli Yale" (aka "Bingo, That's The Lingo!") that are still played at Yale today. After graduating from Yale, Porter enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1913. He soon felt that he was not destined to be a lawyer, and, at the suggestion of the dean of the law school, Porter switched to Harvard's music faculty, where he studied harmony and counterpoint with Pietro Yon. Kate Porter did not object to this move, but it was kept secret from J. O. Cole.
In 1915, Porter's first song on Broadway, "Esmeralda," appeared in the revue Hands Up. The quick success was immediately followed by failure: his first Broadway production, in 1916, See America First, a "patriotic comic opera" modeled on Gilbert and Sullivan, with a book by T. Lawrason Riggs, was a flop, closing after two weeks. Porter spent the next year in New York City before going overseas during World War I.
In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, Porter moved to Paris to work with the Duryea Relief organization. Some writers have been skeptical about Porter's claim to have served in the French Foreign Legion, although the Legion lists Porter as one of its soldiers and displays his portrait at its museum in Aubagne. By some accounts, he served in North Africa and was transferred to the French Officers School at Fontainebleau, teaching gunnery to American soldiers. An obituary notice in The New York Times said that, while in the Legion, "he had a specially constructed portable piano made for him so that he could carry it on his back and entertain the troops in their bivouacs."
Porter maintained a luxury apartment in Paris, where he entertained lavishly. His parties were extravagant and scandalous, with "much gay and bisexual activity, Italian nobility, cross-dressing, international musicians and a large surplus of recreational drugs." In 1918, he met Linda Lee Thomas (with Porter at right), a rich, Louisville, Kentucky-born divorcée 8 years his senior. She was beautiful and well-connected socially; the couple shared mutual interests, including a love of travel, and she became Porter's confidant and companion. The couple married the following year. She was in no doubt aware of Porter's homosexuality, but it was mutually advantageous for them to marry. For Linda, it offered continued social status and a partner who was the antithesis of her abusive first husband. For Porter, it brought a respectable heterosexual front in an era when homosexuality was not publicly acknowledged.
They were, moreover, genuinely devoted to each other and remained married from December 19, 1919, until her death in 1954. Linda remained protective of her social position, and believing that classical music might be a more prestigious outlet than Broadway for her husband's talents, she tried to use her connections to find him suitable teachers, including Igor Stravinsky, but was unsuccessful. Finally, Porter enrolled at the Schola Cantorumin Paris where he studied orchestration and counterpoint with Vincent d'Indy. Meanwhile, Porter's first big hit was the song "Old-Fashioned Garden" from the revue Hitchy-Koo in 1919. In 1920, he contributed the music of several songs to the musical A Night Out.
In 1923, Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, and the Porters began living in rented palaces in Venice. He once hired the entire Ballets Russes to entertain his house guests, and for a party at Ca' Rezzonico, which he rented for $4,000 a month ($57,000 in current value), he hired 50 gondoliers to act as footmen and had a troupe of tight-rope walkers perform in a blaze of lights. In the midst of this extravagant lifestyle, Porter continued to write songs with encouragement from his wife.
At the age of 36, Porter had his first Broadway hit in 1928 with the musical Paris. In August 1928, Porter's work on the show was interrupted by the death of his father. He hurried back to Indiana to comfort his mother before returning to work. The songs for the show included "Let's Misbehave" and one of his best-known list songs, "Let's Do It." The show opened on Broadway on October 8, 1928. The Porters did not attend the first night because Porter was in Paris supervising another show for which he had been commissioned, La Revue, at a nightclub. This was also a success, and, in Citron's phrase, Porter was finally "accepted into the upper echelon of Broadway songwriters."
Porter's new fame brought him offers from Hollywood, but because his score for Paramount's The Battle of Paris was undistinguished, and its star, Gertrude Lawrence, was miscast, the film was not a success. Porter's last Broadway show of the 1920s was Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), for which he wrote 28 numbers, including "You Do Something to Me", "You've Got That Thing" and "The Tale of the Oyster". The show received mixed notices. Irving Berlin, who was an admirer and champion of Porter, took out a paid press advertisement calling the show "The best musical comedy I've heard in years.... One of the best collections of song numbers I have ever listened to". This saved the show, which ran for 254 performances, considered a successful run at the time.
The New Yorkers (1930) acquired instant notoriety for including a song about a streetwalker, "Love for Sale". The lyric was considered too explicit for radio at the time, though it was recorded and aired as an instrumental and rapidly became a standard. Porter often referred to it as his favorite of his songs. The New Yorkers also included the hit "I Happen to Like New York."
Next came Fred Astaire's last stage show, Gay Divorce (1932). It featured a hit that became Porter's best-known song, "Night and Day." Despite mixed press (some critics were reluctant to accept Astaire without his previous partner, his sister Adele), the show ran for a profitable 248 performances, and the rights to the film, re-titled The Gay Divorcee, were sold to RKO Pictures. Porter followed this with a West End show for Gertrude Lawrence, Nymph Errant (1933), which ran for 154 performances.
In 1934, producer Vinton Freedley came up with a new approach to producing musicals. Instead of commissioning book, music and lyrics and then casting the show, Freedley sought to create an ideal musical with stars and writers all engaged from the outset. The stars he wanted were Ethel Merman, William Gaxton and comedian Victor Moore. He planned a story about a shipwreck and a desert island, and for the book he turned to P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. For the songs, he decided on Porter. By telling each of these that he had already signed the others, Freedley gathered his ideal team together.
A drastic last-minute rewrite was necessitated by a major shipping accident, which dominated the news and made Bolton and Wodehouse's book seem tasteless. Nevertheless, the show, Anything Goes, was an immediate hit. Porter wrote what is thought by many to be his greatest score of this period. The New Yorker magazine said, "Mr. Porter is in class by himself," and Porter himself subsequently called it one of his two perfect shows, along with the later Kiss Me, Kate. Its songs include "I Get a Kick Out of You", "All Through the Night", "You're the Top" (one of his best-known list songs), and "Blow, Gabriel, Blow", as well as the title number.
The show ran for 420 performances in New York (a particularly long run in the 1930s) and 261 in London. Now at the height of his success, Porter was able to enjoy the opening night of his musicals; he would make a grand entrance and sit in front, apparently relishing the show as much as any audience member.
Anything Goes was the first of five Porter shows featuring Merman (right). He loved her loud, brassy voice and wrote many numbers that featured her strengths. Jubilee (1935), written with Moss Hart while on a cruise around the world, was not a major hit, running for only 169 performances, but it featured two songs that have since become standards, "Begin the Beguine" and "Just One of Those Things."
Red, Hot and Blue (1936), featuring Merman, Jimmy Durante and Bob Hope, ran for 183 performances and introduced "It's De-Lovely," "Down in the Depths (on the Ninetieth Floor)," and "Ridin' High."
Porter also wrote for Hollywood in the mid-1930s. His scores include those for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Born to Dance (1936), with James Stewart, featuring "You'd Be So Easy to Love" and "I've Got You Under My Skin," and Rosalie (1937), featuring "In the Still of the Night." Porter also composed the cowboy song "Don't Fence Me In" for Adios, Argentina, an unproduced movie, in 1934, but it did not become a hit until Roy Rogers sang it in the 1944 film Hollywood Canteen. Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, and other artists also popularized it in the 1940s.
The Porters moved to Hollywood in December 1935, but Porter's wife did not like the movie environment, and Porter's homosexual peccadillos, formerly very discreet, became less so; she retreated to their Paris house. When his film assignment on Rosalie was finished in 1937, Porter hastened to Paris to make his peace with Linda, but she remained cool. After a walking tour of Europe with his friends, Porter returned to New York in October 1937 without her. They were soon reunited by an accident suffered by Porter.
On October 24, 1937, Porter was riding with Countess Edith di Zoppola and Duke Fulco di Verdura at Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, New York, when his horse rolled on him and crushed his legs, leaving him substantially crippled and in constant pain for the rest of his life. Though doctors told Porter's wife and mother that his right leg would have to be amputated, and possibly the left one as well, he refused to have the procedure. Linda rushed from Paris to be with him, and supported him in his refusal of amputation. He remained in the hospital for 7 months and was then allowed to go home to his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He resumed work as soon as he could, finding it took his mind off his perpetual pain.
He returned to success with Leave It to Me! (1938); the show introduced Mary Martin, singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," and other numbers included "Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love" and "From Now On." Porter's last show of the 1930s was DuBarry Was a Lady (1939), a particularly risqué show, starring Merman and Bert Lahr. After a pre-Broadway tour, during which it ran into trouble with the Boston censors, it achieved 408 performances. The score included "But in the Morning, No" (which was banned from the airwaves), "Do I Love You?", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Katie Went to Haiti" and another of Porter's up-tempo list songs, "Friendship."
Meanwhile, as political unrest increased in Europe, Porter's wife closed their Paris house in 1939, and the following year, purchased a country home in the Berkshire mountains, near Williamstown, Massachusetts, which she decorated with elegant furnishings from their Paris home. Porter spent time in Hollywood, New York and their home in Williamstown.
Panama Hattie (1940) was Porter's longest-running hit so far, running in New York for 501 performances, despite the absence of any enduring Porter songs. It starred Merman, with Arthur Treacher and Betty Hutton. Let's Face It! (1941), starring Danny Kaye, had an even better run, with 547 performances in New York. This, too, lacked any numbers that became standards, and Porter always counted it among his lesser efforts. Something for the Boys (1943), starring Merman, ran for 422 performances, and Mexican Hayride (1944), starring Bobby Clark, with June Havoc, ran for 481 performances. These shows, too, are short of Porter standards.
Between Broadway musicals, Porter continued to write for Hollywood. His film scores of this period included You'll Never Get Rich (1941) and Something to Shout About (1943). He also cooperated in the making of the film Night and Day (1946), a largely fictional biography of Porter, with Cary Grant implausibly cast in the lead. The critics scoffed, but the film was a huge success, chiefly because of the wealth of vintage Porter numbers in it.
Porter made a conspicuous comeback, in 1948, with Kiss Me, Kate. It was by far his most successful show, running for 1,077 performances in New York and 400 in London. The production won the Tony Award for best musical (the first Tony awarded in that category), and Porter won for best composer and lyricist. The score includes "Another Op'nin', Another Show", "Wunderbar", "So In Love", "We Open in Venice", "Tom, Dick or Harry", "I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua", "Too Darn Hot", "Always True to You (in My Fashion)", and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare."
Porter's last original Broadway production, Silk Stockings (1955), featuring "All of You," was also successful, with a run of 477 performances. Porter wrote two more film scores and music for a television special before ending his Hollywood career. The film High Society (1956), starring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly, included Porter's last major hit song, "True Love." The film was later adapted as a stage musical of the same name. Porter also wrote numbers for the film Les Girls (1957), which starred Gene Kelly. His final score was for a CBS television color special, Aladdin (1958).
Porter's mother died in 1952, and his wife died from emphysema in 1954. By 1958, Porter's injuries caused a series of ulcers on his right leg. After 34 operations, it had to be amputated and replaced with an artificial limb. His friend Noël Coward visited him in the hospital and wrote in his diary, "The lines of ceaseless pain have been wiped from his face.... I am convinced that his whole life will cheer up and that his work will profit accordingly." In fact, Porter never wrote another song after the amputation and spent the remaining 6 years of his life in relative seclusion, seeing only intimate friends. He continued to live in the Waldorf Towers in New York in his memorabilia-filled apartment. On weekends he often visited an estate in the Berkshires, and he stayed in California during the summers.
Porter died of kidney failure on October 15, 1964, in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 73.
In 2014, Porter was honored with a plaque on the Legacy Walk in Chicago, which celebrates LGBT achievers.
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Japan coach Ivica Osim had his interpreter crying like a baby as he delivered a post-match rollicking following a 1-1 draw with Qatar in their Asian Cup opener. Celtic midfielder Shunsuka Nakamura revealed that Osim was not best pleased after his side conceded a late equaliser.
Nakamura said: " Osim was in a rage. He said he was a professional and prepared to put his life on the line and that we should do the same. He called us amateurs. His interpreter was in tears and couldn't translate most of it." [Via Reuters] Highlights of the game below.
Should get this guy to manage England.


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