Kodi, streaming, video games, this is a place where I want to share my impression about technology. Let me tell you, the PS4 is YAEP : Yet Anotther Expensive Paperweight.
The current gen console are totally connected devices. Before their release, a few years ago, people complained about the fact that those console had to be online all the time. Gaming company executives even stood down.
However, the online factor is still there. Let's say you want to play the PS4 on your couch with a friend of you. You lend me an extra controller and as soon as the controller is powered on, it'll ask you to select a local account on the PS4. Then, you'll be bugged to create / use a PSN profile, and so on. I really miss the time, on the PS3, where you could just turn on the controller and play. For Gosh's sake, it is a gaming console, we want to play it!
And of course, if you want to play online, you'll have to subscribe to the Playstation Network, which 50€ / year (in case you have forgotten, the PS3 was totally free, while the Xbox 360 was always a paying service).
Let's do some quick maths : PS3 and X360 (aka old generation) were released around 2006 and X360 just announced they were stopping production. PS3 might do the same pretty soon. The new generation was released 3 years ago. Which means it lasted about 7 years. Now let's say you will be using the PS4 during 5 years, it will cost you an extra 250€… That's about the price of the console. One console, for the price of two, nice move here, Sony!
After all those years, and coming from a "FAT PS3", as they were called, I was expecting a smaller console. Not really. The console, is a thinner, and probably a bit less large, however it is really deep, and all square-ish. However, it is indeed a less heavy than the "fat" version, but almost the same than the newer PS3. Anyways, you are not supposed to carry it around. Let's speak about another issue.
PC gaming has evolved a lot in the last years. We went from "retail" games to digital "licenses", it has pros and cons and I will not go into details now. Console gaming on the other side hasn't evolved that much! We still have retail games and now also have digital. However, digital games cost the same price than retail version, and guess what? You can't sell them back, and you could even lose them if the developer / editor / or anyone mentioned in EULA you didn't read decide so. Digital will also uses a good part of your console HDD, and even your internet quota (if you are capped).
You might think it is the same in PC world and that I am all against Sony. You are right, I am all against Sony today, but it is not the same in the PC world. PC gamers have istheranydeal.com and Steam sales (several times a year) ! A few days ago, when thinking about this article, I noticed that Darksiders 2 : Deathinitive Edition was on sale at Steam at 90%, while it was at the normal price on the PSN. The exact same day, you have the exact same game for 30€ on PSN or 3€ on PC… and it happens regularly.
The Steam version at 12€.
That's another 40% cheaper… and you don't even have to pay, in order to play online with Steam! Will talking about Rocket League, be sure to check the new Rocket Hoops mode coming soon.
After trying the PS4 for a week and a half, I made my decision. Back to Amazon. I'll stick with my PC.


Who we are and what we become, flows from what we see our parents do and believe in. Proud aren't we, to resemble them, and inherit from them? But is all inheritance a matter of pride? Sunfeast Farmlite recently launched a new digital film which asks these questions and helps you find the answer within.
Sunfeast Farmlite is a range of healthy biscuits by ITC Limited. These biscuits have no maida, no cholesterol, no trans-fat and is made from Aashirvaad Atta.


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Cardiovascular characteristics of patients initially diagnosed breast cancer
Zhaoying Dong1,
Fan Zhang2,
Qiaojuan Huang1,
Zhaojun Liu1,
Siyu Chen1,
Tao Xu3,
Jun Xiao3,
Changhong Zhang2 &
Xiaoli Zhou1
We aimed to explore the cardiovascular characteristics of patients who were initially diagnosed with breast cancer.
A total of 600 patients who were diagnosed with primary breast cancer were included in this retrospective study. The data of fasting blood glucose, total cholesterol, total triglyceride, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, lipoprotein (a) (LP (a)) and serum uric acid were collected. Univariate analysis was used to evaluate the cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) in patients with breast cancer. The arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk assessment was performed. Multivariate analysis was used to identify the factors that influenced axillary lymph node metastasis (ALNM).
Compared with the premenopausal group, the prevalence of overweight/obesity (47.6% vs. 35.2%), diabetes (12.8% vs. 4.3%) and hypertension (49.7% vs. 26.3%) were significantly increased in the postmenopausal group (p < 0.05). Comparisons of rural patients and urban patients showed that there were significant differences in the diagnostic age (49.94 ± 9.92 vs. 52.59 ± 11.13) in the rural patients was notably younger in comparison with the urban patients (p < 0.05). However, the number of menopausal patients (44.3% vs. 53.3%) in the rural group were decreased in comparison with the urban group (p < 0.05). In ASCVD risk stratification, the proportion of low-risk patients (56.4% vs. 90.8%), medium-risk patients (20.6% vs 0.3%) and high-risk patients (19.3% vs. 6.6%) were significantly different between the postmenopausal group and premenopausal group (p < 0.05). Residence (OR 0.735; 95% CI 0.516–1.046; p = 0.087), the number of children (OR 1.250; 95% CI 0.990–1.578; p = 0.061) and LP (a) of ≥ 500 mg/L (OR 0.603; 95% CI 0.342–1.063; p = 0.080) were independent influencing factors of ALNM.
Postmenopausal patients have more CVRFs and higher risks of ASCVD than premenopausal patients initially diagnosed with breast cancer. There was a correlation between CVRFs and ALNM in patients with breast cancer.
Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor among women worldwide. It is currently estimated that there are approximately 1.6 million new breast cancer cases worldwide in 2012 [1]. However, the incidence and mortality rates vary substantially, and the 5-year survival rate can reach 85% to 90% in the well-developed regions of the world [2]. It has been reported that patients with breast cancer have a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in comparison with the healthy controls [3]. The mortality rate of elderly breast cancer patients due to the complications of CVD and cerebrovascular disease is as high as 15.9%, which is higher than that due to the recurrence of breast cancer (15.1%) [4]. CVD has become the main cause of death in breast cancer patients [5]. Cancer and CVD have entered into a 'clinical overlap' era [6].
The patients with breast cancer who also have cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) are more likely to develop drug-related cardiovascular problems after chemotherapy with anthracycline [7]. Additionally, radiotherapy and chemotherapy significantly increased the incidence of CVD and mortality of patients with breast cancer [8]. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the cardiovascular status before treatment. At present, there are many problems in most studies on CVRFs of patients with breast cancer at home and abroad, such as a lack of clinical data and incomplete data acquisition. Therefore, it is difficult to comprehensively analyze CVRFs of patients with breast cancer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the CVRFs and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk assessment in patients initially diagnosed breast cancer in Southwest China.
Subjects and methods
A total of 600 patients diagnosed with breast cancer at the Breast Cancer Center in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University from January 2014 to December 2019 were included in this retrospective study. Depending on whether menopause had occurred when breast cancer was diagnosed, patients were divided into the premenopausal group (n = 304) and postmenopausal group (n = 296). According to whether there was axillary lymph node metastasis (ALNM), patients were divided into metastasis group and a non-metastasis group. Inclusion criteria: (1) female patients with primary breast cancer; (2) patients with clear histological type in pathological report; (3) patients with original medical record in which there were the descriptions of primary tumor, axillary lymph node and distant metastasis. (4) Patients did not receive neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Exclusion criteria: (1) patients with type I diabetes, nonessential hypertension; (2) patients with a history of malignant cancer at diagnosis or a history of hysterectomy; (3) male patients; (6) patients with distant metastasis at diagnosis; (4) patients with a history of severe hepatic and renal dysfunction; and (5) patients with abnormal thyroid function.
Routine examination data of patients diagnosed with primary breast cancer were collected, including general information, auxiliary inspection information, etc. Fasting blood glucose (FBG), total cholesterol (TC), total triglyceride (TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), lipoprotein (a) (LP (a)) and serum uric acid (SUA) were measured at the Medical Examination Center in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. Whether there was the presence of ALNM was collected from the pathological report in the pathology center.
Diagnostic criteria
Diabetes[9]: fasting glucose ≥ 7.0 mmol/L, randomized glucose ≥ 11.1 mmol/L, or oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) 2-h glucose ≥ 11.1 mmol/L. Hypertension [10]: Blood pressure ≥ 140/90 mmHg in the consultation room (blood pressure in the consultation room was repeatedly measured for three times). Hyperlipidemia [11]: TC ≥ 6.2 mmol/L, TG ≥ 2.3 mmol/L, HDL-C < 1 mmol/L or LDL-C ≥ 4.1 mmol/L. Hyperuricemia [12]: Fasting blood uric acid levels were observed twice on different days on a normal purine diet, and it is of > 420 µmol/L (7.06 mg/dL) without gout attack for Chinese adults. Body mass index [13]: The limit for overweight is BMI = 24 and that for obesity is BMI ≥ 28 for Chinese adults. LP (a) [14]: LP (a) of ≥ 500 mg/L is used as a powerful ASCVD risk threshold. Menopause [15]: If 12 months after the last menstrual period, there is still no menstrual period, the patient could be clinically diagnosed with menopause after the exclusion of the possibility of pregnancy. The ASCVD risk stratification is shown in Fig. 1.
ASCVD risk stratification
SPSS 26.0 statistical software was used for statistical analysis. For univariate analysis, graded variables and categorical variables were compared using chi-squared tests, and p < 0.05 indicated a significant difference. The continuous variable Age, a continuous variable, was normally distributed, and an independent sample test was used for analysis. Variables were represented as means ± standard deviation (SD). The remaining data were analyzed with descriptive statistics. Age, overweight/obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, LP (a), hyperuricemia, ALNM, the place of residence, and the number of children, menstrual status were analyzed by univariate logistic regression analysis to identify the factors affecting ALNM. Then, binary logistic regression analysis was performed to identify factors influencing ALNM in patients with breast cancer. The backward elimination was used to identify variables that were independent risk factors, and P < 0.1 was considered to indicate a significant difference.
The basic characteristics
Among the 600 patients with primary breast cancer, their age was (51.43 ± 10.68) years (ranging from 26 to 90 years). A total of 304 patients (50.67%) were premenopausal, and 296 (49.33%) were postmenopausal. A total of 338 patients (56.33%) lived in the city, and 262 (43.67%) lived in the country. Furthermore, 562 patients (93.67%) had a history of childbearing, and 38 (6.33%) had no history of childbearing. 248 patients (41.33%) were overweight or obese, and 51 (8.5%) had diabetes mellitus. There were 227 patients (37.83%) with hypertension, 116 (19.33%) with a combination of hyperlipidemia, and 65 (10.83%) with LP (a) ≥ 500 mg/L. Additionally, 68 patients (11.33%) were found to have hyperuricemia (Fig. 2).
The overall combination of CVRFs
Combination of CVRFs in premenopausal and postmenopausal patients with breast cancer in different living environments (city/country)
There were statistically significant increase in the prevalence of overweight/obesity, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension in the postmenopausal patients in comparison with the premenopausal patients (p < 0.05) (Table 1). Rural patients with breast cancer were first diagnosed at a younger age than those living in cities, and the number of rural postmenopausal patients with breast cancer was significantly lower than the number of urban patients (p < 0.05) (Table 2).
Table 1 Characteristics of patients with initial breast cancer [n(%)]
Table 2 Characteristics of urban and rural patients with initial breast cancer [n(%)]
ASCVD risk stratification of patients with breast cancer
A total of 18 patients (3%) had an extreme risk of ASCVD, 77 (12.83%) had a high risk of ASCVD, 62 (10.33%) had a moderate risk of ASCVD in the next 10 years, and 443 (73.84%) had a low risk (Fig. 3a). ASCVD risk stratification analysis in the premenopausal and postmenopausal patients with breast cancer showed that in the low-risk group, the number of premenopausal patients was significantly higher than the number of postmenopausal patients (p < 0.05). There were significant increase in the number of postmenopausal patients in the moderate-risk and high-risk groups than the number of premenopausal patients (p < 0.05) (Fig. 3b).
ASCVD risk stratification of patients with breast cancer. a ASCVD risk stratification analysis. b ASCVD risk stratification analysis in premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer patients
Correlation analysis of CVRFs and ALNM in patients with breast cancer
Univariate and multivariate analyses of ALNM in patients with breast cancer were shown in Table 3. Univariate logistic analysis showed that in addition to the place of residence, the number of children and LP (a) of ≥ 500 mg/L were significantly associated with ALNM (p < 0.1). Binary logistic regression analysis showed that the independent influencing factors for ALNM were the place of residence (p = 0.087), number of children (p = 0.061) and LP (a) ≥ 500 mg/L (p = 0.080). Further analysis showed that patients with breast cancer combined with LP (a) level of ≥ 500 mg/L were more likely to have ALNM than breast cancer patients with LP (a) levels < 500 mg/L op to 0.63 times. Patients living in rural areas were more likely to have ALNM than those living in cities up to 0.74 times. For each additional child, the risk of ALNM was 1.25 times higher.
Table 3 Multivariate analysis of factors related to axillary lymph node metastasis in patients with breast cancer
With the increasing incidence of breast cancer and the increasing long-term survival, CVD has become the leading cause of death in patients with breast cancer. Breast cancer and CVD have many common risk factors, and they affect each other. Additionally, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and endocrine therapy further affect the cardiovascular health of patients with breast cancer. Therefore, it is necessary to know the combination of CVRFs in patients with breast cancer diagnosed for the first time. The early management and intervention of CVD in breast cancer patients is beneficial.
CVD is increasingly recognized as an important factor affecting the survival rate and quality of life of patients with breast cancer [16, 17]. Patients with breast cancer have significantly higher risks of CVD than the healthy controls [18]. Among the 600 patients in our study, the proportion of adult female patients with T2DM is lower than that of female patients without T2DM [23]. This may be related to the exclusion of patients who had received medication for diabetes before the diagnosis of breast cancer. Additionally, oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) screening has not been performed on patients with normal fasting blood glucose (FBG) levels, and occult diabetes and prediabetes are often missed. However, the proportion of postmenopausal patients with breast cancer and T2DM is still higher than that of patients with DM in China, which is worthy of attention [19]. The prevalence of DM is increased with age. Patients with early T2DM will develop hyperinsulinemia due to insulin resistance. The insulin/insulin receptor (IR) signaling pathway plays an important role in breast cancer progression by stimulating the RAS/RAF/MAPK kinase/ERK cascade in breast tissues, which results in tumor cell proliferation, survival and migration [20, 21]. In our study, the prevalence of overweight/obesity in postmenopausal patients with breast cancer is significantly higher than that in the premenopausal patients. This is consistent with the findings of Marian L Neuhouser et al., they find that the presence of overweight or obesity increases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women [19]. Fat and inflammation promote the progression of breast cancer, and persistently high estrogen levels increase the risk of breast cancer. Overweight/obese and T2DM individuals have a large amount of fat accumulation, and adipose tissue can produce inflammatory factors and synthesize endogenous estrogen [22]. Therefore, special attention should be paid to active breast cancer screening in postmenopausal women with overweight/obesity and T2DM.
In the present study, the prevalence of hypertension in patients with breast cancer is 27.2%, which is higher than that in Chinese adult women [23]. Breast cancer and hypertension share a common pathophysiological pathway, which is due to that inflammation that induces the occurrence of cancer may also induce hypertension [24]. It may be linked to the blocking and altering of apoptosis by hypertension [25]. However, pathways involved in the relationship between hypertension and breast cancer are still unclear [26]. In our study, the prevalence of hypertension in postmenopausal patients with breast cancer is higher than that in premenopausal women, and the prevalence in China is also higher than other Asian countries (30.60%)[27]. Our results are consistent with the increasing prevalence of hypertension with increasing age, and it may also be related to high salt intake in Southwest China.
The 10-year ASCVD risk assessment form is used to predict the 10-year ASCVD risk of the healthy controls in China based on comprehensive indicators, such as age, DM, a history of ASCVD and blood lipid profiles [11]. Our results have showed that most patients with initially diagnosed breast cancer have a low risk of ASCVD. According to different menopausal statuses, there are more moderate-risk and high-risk patients among postmenopausal patients. In this prediction, age is a non-modifiable factor, and the ASCVD risk gradually increases with increasing age. At the same time, the subsequent treatment of cancer patients will further increase the burden on the cardiovascular system. Therefore, as the number of cancer patients increases, it may be more useful to establish predictive cardiovascular risk scores for cancer patients receiving treatment. Therefore, the risk of ASCVD in postmenopausal women should be evaluated when they are initially diagnosed breast cancer.
ALNM is the most common type of metastasis in breast cancer, and it is a major factor in assessing the prognosis. Our study has showed that the place of residence (rural), number of children (≥ 1) and LP (a) level (≥ 500 mg/L) may be risk factors for breast cancer ALNM. A survival study of 18,133 women with malignant tumors in southern China has showed that the prognosis of urban women with malignant tumors is better than that of rural women [28]. Women who had not been pregnant or given birth have a better prognosis than women who have been pregnant or given birth, and some important risk factors for breast cancer are related to fertility [29]. These findings are consistent with our research results. The causes of the poor prognosis in rural women may be related to the fact that they generally have more children, limited access to adequate medical resources and less opportunities to undergo early breast cancer screening. The data supporting the idea that an LP (a) level of ≥ 500 mg/L can increase the risk of ALNM to affect the prognosis of breast cancer patients are limited, and no conclusion can be drawn yet. In the present study, we have showed that patients with breast cancer combined with an LP (a) level of ≥ 500 mg/L may have a higher risk of ALNM. A study has investigated LP (a) levels in patients with breast cancer [30] and it has showed that there is a highly significant correlation between LP (a) level and development and progression of breast cancer. A prospective study [31] has suggested that LP (a) levels are positively correlated with the risks of breast cancer and myocardial infarction. LP (a) may play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. This is consistent with our findings in this study. The 2016 European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Atherosclerosis (EAS) Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidemia have indicated that people with LP (a) levels of ≥ 500 mg/L have a high risk for ASCVD. And LP (a) level is also strongly correlated with the severity of coronary artery disease. Therefore, attention should be paid to the LP (a) level in patients with breast cancer, which plays a very important role in the prognosis of breast cancer.
In conclusion, postmenopausal patients have more CVRFs and higher risks of ASCVD than premenopausal patients among patients initially diagnosed with breast cancer. There is a correlation between CVRFs and ALNM in patients with breast cancer.
The datasets used or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
FBG:
Fasting blood glucose
TC:
Total cholesterol
TG:
Total triglyceride
HDL-C:
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol
LDL-C:
Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
SUA:
Serum uric acid
CVRFs:
Cardiovascular risk factors
ASCVD:
Arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease
ALNM:
Axillary lymph node metastasis
OGTT:
Oral glucose tolerance test
Insulin receptor
European Society of Cardiology
EAS:
European Atherosclerosis
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Dr. Lingquan Kong and Dr. Shengchun Liu of the Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery are acknowledged for their useful suggestions and generous help.
Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 1 Youyi Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400000, China
Zhaoying Dong, Qiaojuan Huang, Zhaojun Liu, Siyu Chen & Xiaoli Zhou
School of Public Health and Management, Research Center for Medicine and Social Development, Collaborative Innovation of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400000, China
Fan Zhang & Changhong Zhang
Department of Endocrine and Breast Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400000, China
Tao Xu & Jun Xiao
Zhaoying Dong
Fan Zhang
Qiaojuan Huang
Zhaojun Liu
Siyu Chen
Tao Xu
Jun Xiao
Changhong Zhang
Xiaoli Zhou
We declare that all the listed authors have participated actively in the study and all meet the requirements of the authorship. Dr. ZYD and FZ designed the study and wrote the protocol, Dr. QJH and ZJL performed research/study, Dr. SYC and TX managed the literature searches and analyses, Dr. JX and CHZ undertook the statistical analysis, Dr. ZYD and XLZ wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Xiaoli Zhou.
This study is approved by the Ethics Committee of The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. Signed informed consent were also obtained from all participants.
Written consent were obtained.
Dong, Z., Zhang, F., Huang, Q. et al. Cardiovascular characteristics of patients initially diagnosed breast cancer. J Cardiothorac Surg 16, 231 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-021-01608-6
Received: 15 June 2021
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Nairobi county government in partnership with Brookside company will now provide free milk to all public ECDE centers in Nairobi a move geared to boost the health of the children.
Speaking during the launch, Nairobi governor Mike Mbuvi Sonko said 1700 pupils are expected to benefit from the program and they will be given a packet of milk twice a week.
In his speech Sonko asked those in charge to ensure the program benefits the children.
''We all know that most of our children are poor and this program will ensure they are of good health as well as boosting their learning standards ,'' he added.
The county government has also cancelled the process of hiring new ECDE teachers saying the process was a sham and it had to start afresh.
Sonko said the county government will employ additional two teachers per center and he will ensure those who have been doing the job without pay in the past will get first priority, before they source others from outside the system.
''I will ensure that those who have been suffering in the last regimes in these centers without employment get first priority before county we go for others,'' he stated.
He was speaking at Martin Luther Primary school Hamza Makadara today.


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Opening Day #1LinerWeds
Tomorrow is Opening Day in the Major Leagues. Most of you will recognize my one-liner (okay, it's four or five) as part of the speech Terence Mann (played by James Earl Jones) gives Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) toward the climax of the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, possibly one of the best baseball movies ever. It helps if you can think of Jones saying this, but why imagine? Here's the whole speech, from the movie.
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A Baseball #1LinerWeds
To explain: Bill Veeck held a number of jobs in baseball and was owner of the White Sox on two occasions, 1959-1961 and 1976-1981. When the American League was going to expand into the Los Angeles area in the early Sixties, Veeck and his business partner, Hank Greenberg, had wanted to own the franchise. The owner of the Los Angeles (formerly Brooklyn) Dodgers, Walter O'Malley, not wanting to have to compete against Veeck and his shenanigans, invoked his exclusive franchise rights for Southern California, meaning Veeck would have to seek O'Malley's blessing to put another baseball team in Los Angeles. It was clear O'Malley had no intention of giving it (he later agreed to Gene Autry owning the new Los Angeles franchise). Dale Carnegie, was of course the author of the book How To Win Friends And Influence People.
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Writer's Workshop: Baseball and Me
Today Mama Kat wants us to write a post based on the word "celebrate." I didn't know what I'd write about until I read Jenny Hansen's post from yesterday, when she talked about being a baseball fan. (Go read it: it's excellent, as is her blog.) She asked if we followed any sports and what our favorite teams are.
Do I follow sports? I follow baseball. That's pretty much it. I have three favorite teams: The Chicago White Sox, the Atlanta Braves, and whoever's playing the Chicago Cubs. I grew up a White Sox fan, even though I grew up in Rogers Park, about as far north in Chicago as you can get without being in Evanston. My grandfather, my uncle Jack and his cousin Chuck, all of whom lived or grew up on the South Side before moving north, were all White Sox fans, and managed to convert my father, who also grew up north, when Dad married into the family. So, I was also a White Sox fan, although my brother Jim (possibly Kip, though he claims he was a Cardinals fan) and nearly everyone I went to school with were Cub fans.
It's actually a good thing I was a Sox fan. My future father-in-law wasn't too sure about me, a North Sider, until Mary told him, "But he's a Sox fan, Daddy." He and I spent some happy times at Comiskey Park, drinking beer, smoking Camels, and watching the Sox play.
There was not much to celebrate in the mid-Sixties when I first decided I was a Sox fan. The Sox were good in those years, just not good enough to capture the American League pennant and play in the World Series. They made a real run for it in 1967, and were within one win in Washington of taking the flag, but dropped both ends of a doubleheader against the Senators (who are now the Texas Rangers) and finished the year in fourth. (The Senators finished in seventh, out of ten teams.) The following season, they finished in eighth, and it was downhill from there. Expansion in 1969 saw the Sox put into the AL West with the two expansion teams. Under normal circumstances, this would mean they'd finish no lower than fourth, but they ended the season in fifth. (We did take solace in the fact that the Cubs, who led the NL East most of the '69 season, had a terrible September and ended up sitting at home while the "Amazin'" New York Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series.)
Generally, being a Sox fan was an exercise in futility. Even in 1983, when they beat up on the AL West and a significant portion of the AL East, they reverted to form in the playoffs and lost three straight to the Orioles after winning the first game, leaving most of us to tear our hair out. By the time they won the AL West again in 1993, I had moved to Atlanta.
When I got to Atlanta, the Braves were awful. But, by then, I was used to cheering on awful teams, and they were actually a pretty interesting team to watch. Many of the players who would form the basis of the "worst to first" team of 1991 were getting their first taste of the major leagues, and they caught fire when they traded Dale Murphy to Philadelphia in 1990 and installed David Justice in right field. I knew they were onto something good when Uncle Jack said, "Those Braves have some guys that can tear the cover off the ball."
There was an almost constant celebration in Atlanta the next few years as they were division champs each year from 1991 through 2005 (except 1994, the year of the player strike) and went to the World Series in 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, and 1999, winning the Series in 1995. In '93 I was hoping that the White Sox and Braves would meet in the World Series, but it wasn't to be, as both teams lost in the playoffs. The Braves did that a lot, actually, always snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
But really, the year that stands out for me is 2005. Once again, the Braves won their division and the White Sox won theirs, and once again, the Braves lost in the first round of the playoffs. The White Sox kept going, though, winning the division series against the Red Sox in three straight, the league champonship series against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California four games to one (I forget what name they were using at the time, so I just put them all in), and sweeping the Houston Astros to become World Champions.
That was cause to celebrate. I had waited forty years for that one. And I thought about my grandfather, who had died several years before and was the only person I knew who remembered the last time the White Sox had won the World Series (1917), and my father-in-law, and my dad, and my friends and family members who had waited for that moment.
I've done my best to keep this short. Really, though, I could write a book. I just want to add one thing: I am happy for the Cubs on their World Series win, particularly Jason Heyward and David Ross, who played here in Atlanta and were fan favorites. Happy mostly because I don't have to hear about how many years they waited…
John Holton	Writer's Workshop	23 Comments July 13, 2017 4 Minutes
Monday's Music Moves Me: It's Baseball Time!
Okay, so the Super Bowl was played yesterday, and I understand the Atlanta Falcons managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Since I could care less about football, I didn't watch. To me, Super Bowl Sunday means only one thing:
Pitchers and catchers report in less than two weeks!
Like most baseball fans, I've been waiting for the start of the baseball season since the end of the last one. Here are a few songs to get you in the mood.
John Fogerty, "Centerfield" The title track from his 1985 album, this became an instant hit at ballparks everywhere as a song to play after the home team has taken the field.
The Harry Simeone Singers, "It's A Beautiful Day For A Ballgame" Joe Simpson, color commentator for Atlanta Braves baseball on Fox Sports South, thinks this is the best baseball song ever, and it is a good one. They used to play this before telecasts of Cubs games on WGN in the Sixties. I think it also made it into the first Major League movie.
Terry Cashman, "Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey, and the Duke)" More of a nostalgia song than a baseball one, this 1981 song catches the spirit of every baseball fan.
The Treniers, "Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)" I had never heard this one before today, but I saw "The Treniers" and had to include it.
"Hey Hey, Holy Mackerel" The Cubs were in the thick of the pennant race in 1969, and naturally they ended the season in second place behind the New York Mets. Every White Sox fan who lived on the North Side (like me) had to put up with a summer of hearing all about how the Cubs were going to win the World Series and be the Gods of Baseball, blah blah blah. This fight song was written during that period, and we heard it constantly. When the Cubs dropped out of first to stay, we got to sing it to them. The irony was delicious. "Hey Hey," incidentally, was what Hall of Fame announcer Jack Brickhouse (who did both Cubs and White Sox games in the Sixties) used to shout when one of the hometown teams hit a home run.
Captain Stubby and The Buccaneers, "Let's Go, Go-Go White Sox" This is the White Sox fight song, from 1959, when the Sox were in the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. They lost then, and it would be another 24 years before it became relevant again. Captain Stubby hosted a noontime kids' cartoon show in the late Fifties and early Sixties.
There are many other baseball songs. Do you have a favorite? Let me know in the comments. That's Monday's Music Moves Me for February 6, 2017.
Monday's Music Moves Me is sponsored by X-Mas Dolly, Callie, Cathy, and Stacy, so be sure and visit them, where you can also find the Linky for the other participants.
John Holton	Monday's Music Moves Me	37 Comments February 6, 2017 2 Minutes
#1LinerWeds from Twitter, and #JusJoJan about sacrifices
First the one-liner…
Another Christmas come and gone and, once again, I didn't get any myrrh. *Sigh*
Claude Bouchard (@ceebee308)
I saw this last week and thought it was perfect. According to the New Testament, myrrh was a gift from one of the Magi to the Baby Jesus, and it's used mainly to preserve a dead body. Wikipedia's article says that, to harvest myrrh from the Commiphora myrrha, a small, thorny tree, the tree is beaten and wounded repeatedly so the myrrh, an oleoresin, will bleed out. The significance is that it prefigures Jesus' suffering at the hands of the Romans when he is scourged. It's interesting to note that frankincense is harvested the same way, from a different tree, and the cuts made in the bark of the tree are called "stripes."
When you're a kid, though, myrrh is a total mystery. You understand gold, and frankincense is essentially incense, so you can figure that. But myrrh? All you can figure is it's fun to say. "Myrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh!"
I hear the word "sacrifice," and the first thing I think of is the baseball play in which a hitter either bunts or hits the ball into the air with the intention of moving one or more runners into scoring position or scoring a runner from third base. Typically the people who are called on to sacrifice are the weaker hitters in the lineup, such as pitchers or middle infielders who are valuable more for their fielding abilities than their hitting. In essence, the hitter is "giving himself up" to score a run for the team or to move a runner to second or third base, from which it's easier for the runner to score.
One of the real artists in sacrificing was Nellie Fox, who played for the Chicago White Sox from 1950 to 1963. He typically batted second behind Luis Aparicio, a very fast man who would get on base a lot and was a threat to steal a base anytime he was on. Nellie would come to bat with Luis on first and try to keep the ball away from the catcher, who could throw Luis out if he caught the ball, so he would bunt (let the ball bounce off his bat and drop on the ground, causing the other infielders to shift out of position to try and retrieve the ball and throw Nellie out), by which time Luis would be on second base, able to score on a hit by one of the better hitters coming up after Nellie. Nellie was fast enough that sometimes he would get on base as well, and was a good enough hitter that he could hit the ball into the outfield and get on base that way.
I realize that many of you (maybe even most) have no idea what I was talking about, so thanks for making the sacrifice and letting me ramble…
The prompt "sacrifice" for Just Jot It January (JJJ) was supplied by Me – Who Am I?, who would love it if you would stop by her blog. JJJ and One-Liner Wednesday are both sponsored by Linda Hill, who would likewise enjoy a visit.
John Holton	One-Liner Wednesday	11 Comments January 13, 2016 2 Minutes


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Freddie Prinze (* 22. Juni 1954 in New York City, New York; † 29. Januar 1977 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien; eigentlich Frederick Karl Pruetzel) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Bühnenkomiker. Einem breiten Publikum wurde er bekannt durch seine Haupt- bzw. Titelrolle als Chico in der US-Sitcom Die Zwei von der Tankstelle (Originaltitel: Chico and the Man).
Er ist der Vater des Schauspielers Freddie Prinze junior.

Biografie
Freddie Prinze wurde als Sohn einer Puertoricanerin in New York geboren. Die Herkunft seines Vaters, Edward Karl Pruetzel, ist nicht sicher belegt; es wird jedoch vermutet, dass dieser ungarischer Abstammung sei und 1934 aus Deutschland nach New York emigrierte. Sein Sohn, Freddie Prinze Jr., konstatiert die deutsche Abstammung seines Vaters.

Freddie Prinze wuchs in dem hispanisch geprägten Stadtviertel Washington Heights auf, wo er eine private Schule besuchte. Schon als Kind erhielt er Ballettunterricht und besuchte später die Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan. Dort entdeckt er sein Talent als Stand-Up-Komiker und verließ die High School im Abschlussjahr, um eine Karriere als Bühnenkomiker zu beginnen.

Nach mehreren erfolgreichen Auftritten in den New Yorker Clubs absolvierte Prinze als 19-Jähriger seinen ersten Fernsehauftritt in der Show von Jack Paar. Im Dezember 1973 folgte der erste von mehreren Auftritten in der Tonight Show. Dort wurde der Produzent James Komack auf Prinze aufmerksam, der ihn zum Hauptdarsteller der neuen Sitcom Die Zwei von der Tankstelle (Originaltitel Chico and the Man) machte.

Chico and the Man mit Prinze in der Titelrolle startete am 13. September 1974, wurde zu einem großen Erfolg und brachte ihm eine Golden-Globe-Nominierung im Jahr 1977 ein. Neben seiner Serienrolle spielte Prinze 1976 in dem Fernsehfilm The Million Dollar Rip-Off mit und trat als Gaststar in mehreren Shows auf.

1975 heiratete Prinze Katherine Cochran, 1976 kam ihr gemeinsamer Sohn Freddie Prinze junior zur Welt. Freddie Prinzes Drogenmissbrauch führte aber dazu, dass die Ehe nach nur zwei Jahren scheiterte. Von der Trennung schwer getroffen, fügte er sich offenbar unter Drogeneinfluss am 28. Januar 1977 in einem Hotelzimmer in Los Angeles eine Schussverletzung zu, der er einen Tag später erlag.

Filmografie
 1974–1977: Die Zwei von der Tankstelle (Chico and the Man)
 1976: The Million Dollar Rip-Off

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Maria Pruetzel: The Freddie Prinze Story. Master's Press, Kalamazoo, Mich. 1978. ISBN 0-89251-051-X

Weblinks

 Freddie Prinze: Too Much, Too Soon. Nachruf im Magazin Time, 7. Februar 1977 (englisch).

Filmschauspieler
Komiker
Geboren 1954
Gestorben 1977
US-Amerikaner
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Copa Airlines, with its low cost Wingo, are intent on having the monopoly of Hispano-America at all costs.
I read with curious interest the statements made by Mr. Pedro Hellbron, who manages the airline and cannot help but be amused by his complete arrogance concerning the building of the second terminal at Tocumen airport being just for Copa – let's not have one that wants all the airlines!
Copa is a company that deserves respect, as they all do, whether it is Volaris, Avianca, Viva Colombia, Tam, Gol, or Air Panama i.e. all the operators of that continent. Mr. Hellbron as head of Copa wants everything but everything in life is not possible.
It is worth high-lighting the feeder concept and its impressive hub in Tocumen, linking Hispano-America and the United States.
Copa reminds me of the '80s with Iberia cutting the distances. They were the owners of everything and everyone in the Spanish private sector had to face not only the inconveniences, the affronts and a long way round until common sense prevailed and things changed from fierce confrontation to "co-operation is better than confrontation".
I do not think that Copa's management currently posseses that common sense; to the contrary – its cruel and ferocious fight against anything that annoys or gets in its way is simply swept under the carpet.
They are mistaken at Copa as it is better to co-operate than to confront airlines that are inconveniencing them or in direct competition. In my opinion one should avoid upsetting the competition; that in some cases operates in secondary and tertiary airports. It is unbelievable how the arrogance of the monopoly wants competition eliminated, even when it is not direct.
Copa has my respect but not my understanding. I do not understand elimination policies but the creation of wealth for a continent like yours which many players are helping to create. If you eliminate the players the game is finished and they also end up turning in to clowns for what they are fighting for.
European operators in the search of El Dorado have an obsession with Copa, so they can operate in a feeder role and do not realise this airline will give them the seats they want on each flight. The big European operators are putting themselves in the hands of a company like Copa that can help them grow in the search of El Dorado or simply limit growth.
European operators should reflect on this issue and look for alternatives which exist and with their help, are achievable or they can grow in a more natural way.
To me personally if I were a director of a European airline I would not be happy to be in the hands on my long distance flights of a company that exercises a monopoly and destroys whatever stands in their way in Hispano-America or Europe.
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Control of gonadotropic hormone release in trout: Influence of synthetic LHRH and LHRH analogues in vivo and in vitro
L. W. Crim, D. M. Evans, D. H. Coy, A. V. Schally
Studies were conducted to determine the influence of some LHRH analogues on gonadotropic hormone (GtH) secretion in two species of trout. The observations indicated that synthetic LHRH and various stimulatory LHRH analogues are approximately equipotent in these fish. This is an unexpected result considering the superactive properties of these analogues demonstrated in mammals. An inhibitory LHRH analogue was also tested in the trout with the result that powerful inhibition of LHRH induced GtH release was obtained.
Published - Jan 12 1981
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Crim, L. W., Evans, D. M., Coy, D. H., & Schally, A. V. (1981). Control of gonadotropic hormone release in trout: Influence of synthetic LHRH and LHRH analogues in vivo and in vitro. Life Sciences, 28(2), 129-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3205(81)90544-0
Control of gonadotropic hormone release in trout : Influence of synthetic LHRH and LHRH analogues in vivo and in vitro. / Crim, L. W.; Evans, D. M.; Coy, D. H.; Schally, A. V.
In: Life Sciences, Vol. 28, No. 2, 12.01.1981, p. 129-135.
Crim, LW, Evans, DM, Coy, DH & Schally, AV 1981, 'Control of gonadotropic hormone release in trout: Influence of synthetic LHRH and LHRH analogues in vivo and in vitro', Life Sciences, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 129-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3205(81)90544-0
Crim LW, Evans DM, Coy DH, Schally AV. Control of gonadotropic hormone release in trout: Influence of synthetic LHRH and LHRH analogues in vivo and in vitro. Life Sciences. 1981 Jan 12;28(2):129-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3205(81)90544-0
Crim, L. W. ; Evans, D. M. ; Coy, D. H. ; Schally, A. V. / Control of gonadotropic hormone release in trout : Influence of synthetic LHRH and LHRH analogues in vivo and in vitro. In: Life Sciences. 1981 ; Vol. 28, No. 2. pp. 129-135.
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Rather well aged single malt Scotch whisky from the Arran distillery, bottled by Gleann Mór for the A Rare Find range. This was set aside to age by the island distillers in July 1996 and bottled without chill-filtration or additional colours in August 2015.
Rich brown sugar, maple syrup, plum sauce, dried fruits; prune, raisin, fig, sweet strawberry and blackcurrant (fruit cordial), saccharine sweetness, polished toffee and leather.
Nice, slightly overly sweet in places and lacked a little depth but very drinkable.


…and I'm sorry to say that it's a bit of a snooze, judging by the premiere episode, which I had the chance to watch in rough cut. More than a bit of a snooze, actually. FBI agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) travels to the small Maine seaside town of Haven to, she hopes, recapture a recently escaped convict who called the burg home, only to arrive just after he's found murdered on the beach. But she sticks around, of course, because… well, just because there wouldn't be a show if she turned around and left. Something strange and nagging is keeping her here, where she plays a low-key Mulder to the low-key Scully of local cop Nathan Wuornos (Lucas Bryant) in the face of some mildly weird goings-on. Fog rolling in? In Maine? Never!
I'll give Haven a couple more episodes: maybe it'll pick up. But I'm not thrilled that that's gonna feel like a chore, a duty, and not something I'll particularly be looking forward to. Maybe Syfy is preparing us for the moment this autumn when Friday night gets taken over by wrestling. Maybe Syfy will be all like, Hey, we could be showing you Haven — do you want that?


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Гусейн Гулу хан () — пятый и последний правитель Бакинского ханства.

Биография

Приход к власти
В 1792 году скончался бакинский хан Мухаммед-Кули-хан, после чего началась борьба за власть. По настоянию кубинского хана Шейх-Али-хана, сына Фатали-хана, бакинским ханом был провозглашён Мирза-Мухаммед-хан, племянник Мухаммад-Кули-хана и в то же время племянник Фатали-хана. Но он был ханом недолго. Недовольная им бакинская знать изгнала его из Баку и провозгласила ханом другого племянника Мухаммед-Кули-хана Хусейн-Кули-агу. Азербайджанский историк и писатель Аббас-Кули-ага Бакиханов, сын Мирза-Мухаммед-хана, в своём сочинении «Гюлистан-и Ирам» писал, что в 1206 году хиджры (1792 год) скончался «Мухаммад-Кули-хан Бакинский, щедрый, с большими способностям, но жестокий владетель. Племянник его, Хусейн-Кули-ага, сын Хаджи-Али-Кули-аги, по старанию своего зятя Касым-бека, сына Мансурхан-бека и других приверженных беков провозглашён ханов Бакинским». Таким образом, в 18 лет Хусейн-Кули-ага стал ханом. Новый хан лишил Мирзу-Мухаммед-хана половины доходов от нефтяных источников и соляных копей, назначенных ему прежним ханом, и Мирза-Мухаммед-хан со своей семьей возвратился в Кубу, к Шейх-Али-хану.

Принятие русского подданства

В 1790-х годах в Иране усиливается власть Ага-Мухаммед-хана Каджара, который отправил к ханам своих посланцев с требованием подчиниться его власти, угрожая войной в случае неповиновения. Видя усиление Ага-Мухаммед-хана, русское правительство после окончания русско-турецкой войны стало проводить активную политику в деле подчинения России азербайджанских ханств. В конце 1792 года Хусейн-Кули-хан начал переговоры с Россией по вопросу о переходе его в подданство России. Однако эти шаги хана вызвали недовольство Шейх-Али-хана, который задержал в Дербенте чиновника Хусейн-Кули-хана, ехавшего с прошением на имя императрицы Екатерины II, но посланец успел послать депеши генералу Гудовичу другим путём.

19 апреля 1793 года последовало высочайшее повеление о принятии Хусейн-Али-хана со своей областью в российское подданство. Но в июле 1793 года Шейх-Али-хан отправил Гудовичу своего чиновника с прошением о принятии его в российское подданство, упоминая среди подвластных ему земель и Баку. Таким образом, считая Баку своим владением, Шейх-Али-хан, который в это время уже считался подданным России, в середине 1794 года направился с войсками, чтобы взять город. Но узнав о нападении на Шекинское ханство, отправился на помощь, оставив Мирза-Мухаммед-хана с тысячным отрядом в 14 верстах от Баку, у нефтяных источников селения Балаханы.

Находясь недалеко от Баку, Мирза-Мухаммед-хан не пропускал в город никаких товаров и, захватив соляные озёра и нефтяные колодцы, лишил Хусейн-Кули-хана источников доходов. Так продолжалось вплоть до начала 1795 года, когда Хусейн-Кули-хан отправил к генералу Гудовичу в Астрахань посланца (Манаф-бека), в которой он жаловался на действия Шейх-Али-хана, просил о помощи и изъявил желание от себя и всех жителей города Баку вступить в вечное подданство России. Генерал Гудович написал Шейх-Али-хану, чтобы тот не разорял Баку и посоветовал ему «миролюбиво разделаться с Бакинским ханом». В том же 1795 году Хусейн-Кули-хан выступил из Баку с войском, разбил Мирза-Мухаммед-хана, а его самого с семейством привёз в Баку. Мустафа-хан ширванский взялся помирить Шейх-Али-хана и Хусейн-Кули-хана. Осенью 1795 года к Шейх-Али-хану вернулась из Баку его невеста Зиба-Ниса-Бегим (сестра Мирза-Мухаммед-хана), на которой он женился, а также тёща и шурин со всем семейством. С бакинским ханом был заключён мир на условии, что получаемые от Баку доходы будут делиться на три части: одну — бакинскому хану, другую — Шейх-Али-хану, третью — Мирзе-Мухаммед-хану. В декабре 1795 года последовало высочайшее повеление о принятии Хусейн-Кули-хана в российское подданство. Статьи документа о принятии его в русское подданство гласили следующее:

Желание бакинского хана принять российское подданство объясняется тем, что он, учитывая сложившуюся политическую обстановку — постоянную угрозу со стороны Ирана, Турции, России и дербентского хана, стремился найти надёжную защиту своим владениям и спасти их от разорения и грабежа.

Сдача Баку русским войскам

В конце 1795 года Ага-Мухаммед-хан Каджар начал свои походы в Закавказье. 12 сентября 1795 года он взял Тифлис, а вскоре направил 20 тысяч своего войска на Шемаху, которая была взята и разграблена. Ага Мухаммед отправил ко всем «адербайджанским» и дагестанским владетелями свой фирман:

Большая часть владельцев отказалась повиноваться шаху, за исключением Шейх-Али-хана, который опасаясь, что союз с Российской империей будет стоить ему власти в его ханстве, отправил богатые подарки правителю Ирана.

В ответ на действия Ага-Мухаммед-хана русское правительство начало стремиться к утверждению своей власти в Закавказье. Весной 1796 года по приказу Екатерины II был начат большой поход царских войск под командой графа Валериана Зубова в Закавказье. 10 мая был взят Дербент. 24 мая царские войска двинулись на Баку, и пройдя 20 верст, расположились у реки Рубас, куда к главнокомандующему прибыли посланцы Хусейн-Кули-хана, которые объявили, что хан со всеми своими подданными покоряется монаршей воле.

8 июня к бакинскому хану был послан офицер генерального штаба, который остановился лагерем на правом берегу реки Гильгиль, куда 13 июня прибыл Хусейн-Кули-хан и поднёс ключи от Баку. В тот же день для взятия Баку был послан генерал-майор Рахманов с 3 батальонами пехоты, 2 эскадронами конницы и 3 орудиями полевой артиллерии. Рахманов оккупировал Баку, а Каспийская флотилия вошла в Бакинскую бухту. В Баку разместился гарнизон российских войск. В начале 1797 года комендантом города был назначен князь Цицианов.

Вывод русских войск и дальнейшая политика
6 ноября 1796 года умерла императрица Екатерина II. Вступивший на престол Павел I приказал Зубову немедленно вернуться со всеми войсками в Россию. В декабре начался вывод войск, а последние части покинули Баку в марте 1797 года.

В свою очередь, будучи уже шахом, Ага-Мухаммед Каджар взял Шушу. Он два раза вызывал Хусейн-Кули-аха в Шушу, но тот не повиновался. Тогда шах прислал к нему из Шуши нарочного, доставившего его к своему государю. После упрёков и брани за сдачу города Баку русским войскам Ага-Мухаммед-шах приказал взять Хусейн-Кули-хана под стражу, грозя казнить его. Семейство и родственников хана велено было схватить и отослать в Тегеран, а также изготовить указ, согласно которому Баку переходил в управление Шейх-Али-хана, которого Ага-Мухаммед ещё в 1795 году назначил наибом всего Ширвана. Но на следующий день, 12 мая, шах был убит, а его войско в беспорядке покинуло Шушу.

После получения известия о смерти шаха Мирза Мухаммед-хан, находившийся тогда в Кубе, отправился в Баку для овладения ханством, но Хусейн-Кули-хан, запершись в крепости, приготовился удерживать свои права. После длительных переговоров ханство было разделено на две части: Хусейн-Кули-хан остался в Баку, а Мирза-Мухаммед-хан — в селении Маштага, где построил новую крепость.

После убийства Ага-Мухаммед-шаха Каджара его преемником стал его племянник Фетх-Али-шах. Хусейн-Кули-хан, опасаясь нашествия нового шаха, совместно с другими ханами отправил к шаху послов с поздравлениями, подарками и просьбой не оставлять их покровительство.

22 января 1800 года в Баку прибыл российский консул в Иране Скибиневский и потребовал от Хусейн-Кули-хана удовлетворения русских купцов, у которых была отнята большая сумма денег. Но когда хан отказался, капитан флота Мочаков по требованию консула 6 февраля подверг пушечному обстрелу с корабля «Кизляр» город Баку. Хусейн-Кули-хан признал себя виновным и удовлетворил требование купцов. а также уплатил старые долги по векселям и другим купцам. Кроме того, по требованию Скибиневского Хусейн-Кули-хан принял продиктованные консулом правила обращения с русскими купцами.

1 марта 1801 года на российский престол вступил Александр I. Посланец Хусейн-Кули-хана прибыл в Петербург чтобы поздравить императора со вступлением на престол и по другим делам. В 1803 году Хусейн-Кули-хан, поддерживаемый Мустафа-ханом ширванским, овладел крепостью Маштага, где осел Мирза-Мухаммед-хан.

Взятие Баку и упадок ханства
Ограбление подданными Хусейн-Кули-хана русских и дагестанских купцов с судов, выкинутых штормом на берег во владениях бакинского хана, послужило предлогом для активной подготовки России к захвату Баку. Царское правительство стремилось занять город Баку мирным путём. В результате переговоров Цицианова в начале 1803 года было достигнуто соглашение с посланцем бакинского хана Аллахверди-беком об уступке города Баку России. 24 апреля 1803 года Цицианов просил Воронцова отрядить в его распоряжение два полка (из Тамани и Крыма) для помещения гарнизона в Баку и занятия других пунктов, лежащих около города. Однако в 1804 году по настоянию бакинской и шемахинской знати соглашение с посланцем хана было расторгнуто Хусейн-Кули-ханом.

Деятельность генерального консула в Баку Скибиневского вызвала недовольство ханской власти, и в начале 1804 года Скибиневский был изгнан ханскими приверженцами из Баку, при этом было убито 7 его солдат.

В апреле 1803 года главнокомандующий на Кавказе генерал Цицианов представил императору Александру I проект занятия ряда крепостей и городов в Закавказье, в том числе и Баку. Проект получил одобрение, и в течение 1803—1805 гг. Россия захватила несколько ханств: Гянджинское, Карабахское, Шекинское и Шемахинское. В 1805 году в Бакинскую бухту вошла русская эскадра под начальством генерал-майора Завалишина и приступил к осаде города. Хусейн-Кули-хан отправил посланца к Завалишину, который в ответ заявил, что послан императором занять Баку и потребовал немедленной сдачи города. Хусейн-Кули-хан просил отсрочки для дачи ответа. 15 апреля, когда прошёл срок и город не сдался, Завалишин высадил на берег десант, но на помощь бакинскому хану подошли Шейх-Али-хан кубинский и Нух-бек дербендский с частью персидского войска. Потерпев после нескольких сражений поражение, русские сели на суда и отправились на остров Сары близ Ленкорани.

27 декабря 1805 года Цицианов сообщил Александру I, что сам идёт с войском на Баку, на помощь Завалишину. В начале февраля 1806 года Цицианов, идущий с большой армией, соединился в 2 верстах от Баку с десантными войсками генерал-майора Завалишина и начал переговоры с Хусейн-Кули-ханом о сдаче крепости русским. Русские войска остановились лагерем недалеко от крепости у Нахыр-булага. 8 февраля того же года Хусейн-Кули-хан в сопровождении своей свиты вышел из крепости для поднесения князю Цицианову городских ключей. В то самое время, как Цицианов принимал ключи, он и находившийся рядом с ним князь Эристов внезапно были убиты двумя лицами из свиты хана. Одного из них местные старожилы называли Ахмед-беком — знатным бакинцем. Тело Цицианова было изрублено на месте, а голова доставлена Фетх-Али шаху в Иран. Убийство произошло недалеко от Северных Шах-Аббасовских ворот. Узнав о смерти Цицианова, русская армия отступила. По словам Бакиханова Цицианов был убит двоюродным братом Хусейн-Кули-хана по матери Ибрагим-беком.

После убийства Цицианова все ханы, кроме Шамхала, выступили против русских и объявили себя независимыми. В это время в Ширван прибыл наследник персидского престола Аббас-Мирза, к которому в Ахсу явлились Шейх-Али-хан и Хусейн-Кули-хан. В мае 1806 года для захвата Баку, Кубы и Дербента был направлен генерал Глазенап с отрядом 2500 человек. 21 июня был взят Дербент, куда через месяц прибыл генерал Булгаков, который сначала отправился в Кубу, а оттуда в Баку с присоединившимся к нему Мирза-Мухаммед-ханом.

Приближаясь к Баку, Булгаков встретился у горы Беш-Бармак с приближённым Хусейн-Кули-хана Казем-беком, отправившегося по приказу хана со знамёнами и ключами от крепости. Булгаков обещал, что и хан и жители Баку не пострадают. Хусейн-Кули-хан, боясь наказания, бежал со свой семьей в Кубу, а оттуда в Ардебиль. Бакинское ханство было ликвидировано. Хусейн-Кули-хан, его семья и приближённые обосновались в селении Бары близ Ардебиля, где до сих пор некоторых жителей называют бакинцами.

В период войны между Персией и Россией за Закавказье (1826—1828) Хусейн-Кули-хан с отрядом персидских войск пытался выбить русский гарнизон из Баку, но потерпел поражение.

Хусейн-Кули-хан умер в Ардебиле в 1845 году. Его тело было отправлено в Кербела.

Семья
У Хусейн-Кули-хана было восемь жён: Зейнет-бикэ, Фатьма султан-бикэ, Фатьма-ханум, Хаджет-ханум, Бегистан-ханум, Хош-эндам-ханум, Зейни Шереф-ханум и Гюлистан-ханум.

От них у него было пять сыновей: Лютф-Али-хан, Искендер-хан, Нух-хан, Салман-хан и Муса-хан (от Гюлистан-ханум); и 17 дочерей: Фатьма-Султанет-бикэ, Бедр-Джехан-ханум, Сахиб-султан-бикэ, Хуршид-ханум, Умми-Селемэ-ханум, Саадет-бегим-ханум, Зейнеи-бегим-ханум, Шериф-ханум, Ашиэ-бегим-ханум, Чимназ-ханум, Тиле-бегим-ханум, Рухсарэ-бегим-ханум и пять дочерей, имена которых неизвестны.

Существующее ныне потомство по прямой мужской линии не известно.

Генеалогия

Примечания

Литература

 История Азербайджана. Краткий очерк. — Баку, 1941.
 Бутков П. Г. Материалы для новой истории Кавказа. Ч. 1—3. — , 1869.

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